Father's Day Talk with Ace Hardware!

cave and keep going. And then the agricultural birth where we begin to learn how to domesticate and provide food for ourselves. And in those times there was always a threat of famine, a threat of pestilence and disease and things. I was just reading a book. In fact, I am reading a book that is called Chemical Age, and basically it is about just throughout history, the advent of the arrival of chemicals and what things were like before them and so on. It's not a pro or anti organic

or anything like that. It just is what it is. Okay, And it goes back into things like the Irish potato femine and a little disease called phytopthera, a little disease organism wipes out the potato crop in Ireland and other places, but totally dependent society, totally dependent on that one very important staple and suddenly gone and we can't we don't know what did it, We don't know how to stop it or anything like that. And we're talking about not

not only or just millions of people. We've got death. We've got people. A huge part of the arrival of so many folks from Ireland in America was driven by things like that as well, anyway, And so we're looking at like death on a major scale, and then we discover a way to control by topter and this suddenly then we're not at the vicissitudes of nature where that disease organism comes in and wipes everything out. We looked. Book. Book goes into a lot of different things like that.

Very interesting, very interesting book. And it isn't to say that you know, now it's all better living through chemistry and all this is hunky dory, because it goes on to look at the problems that occur with the arrival of the chemical age and stuff. Anyway, very interesting book. But why did I wander all the way over there? I don't know. It's early in the moment morning. My

brain is doing what it does. But the real reason is I just was going to say, now, we grow things because we want to eat fresh stuff from our house. We want to know what was sprayed on our food. We want to enjoy getting out in the garden and having the pleasure of growing that tomato ourself holding it up. And it's like I did this. I agree with this, and there's a pleasure and fun in that. But if your garden fails, you're not going to starve to death.

And that is a nice development historically that we have such a food supply that is so integrated throughout the world that some of those things at least have gone down considerably in terms of the risk. But I find it very interesting. So there we go. That's a lot of philosophical for first thing on an early early Sunday morning.

But glad you're here with us. If you if you got a gardening question, or you'd like to visit about something gardening seven one three two one two k T r H seven one three two one two k t r H five. We have a some one of these days I want to sit down and just talk about So maybe I should scatter this through so it's not all it wants, but talk about interesting books that I've read recently and what I found fascinating about him. And boy,

have there ever been some really interesting books. Now I'm a nerd science nerd and whatnot, and certainly a gardening nerd in horticulture, but there's some really cool books out there that just give you a whole new perspective, very very interesting. All right, Well, let's uh, let's get to talking about some gardening. Uh. And now that the rain, at least where I am right now, seems to have let off a little bit, and I'm hoping that we

hold that for a little bit. Uh, it's time to you know, get out there and get that lawn mode. My my lawn is I pretty much could call someone to come in and bail it, and I could have a hay hay farm out of my yard. It's grown so big, but I'll catch up with it. So what do you do when the long gets too big? Well, first of all, I'm always saying don't bag it. Return the clippings. They're free food for your turf, and they are,

but when it gets this big, it's just too much. Now, if your lawn has just gotten a little too big, you can do a couple of things. You can do a double mowing on it, where you set them over high, you mo over the lawn, and then you drop it down, set it lower, and you mo over the lawn again, each time mulching the clippings. But it just helps break them up into a little bit smaller particles to fall down in there. Mine's at a point now where there's

no way around it. I'm gonna have dried clippings laying on top of the grass, so I'm going to bag them. And they are going into flower beds, they are going into compost piles, they are going into walkways and my garden, my walkways are all very thick with leaves that have been dropped there since last leaf season. I just continue to pole leaves up in the walkways and walk on them,

and they dry and it's wonderful stuff. Fact, if I were to dig down past the dry surface leaves right now, you would see a lot of nice chocolately crumbly decomposing away leaves, and I'll harvest those walkways and put those in my garden beds. And it's a way of composting without work, almost without work. You're not mixing layers and turning and all that kind of stuff, sticking at thermometer in it. You're just letting them call composts there in the walkway. I have a little screen that I put

on top of my wheelbarrow. It is a hardware cloth half inch hardware cloth screen, and it is on a two by four frame, So the two by four sit across the top of the wheelbarrow. The frame is about the size of the wheelbarrow. And when I'm shoveling out of walkway, I just put it in the screen, shake it a little bit. All the fine stuff falls down

through the screen. So if i need to amend some potting soil, I've got a little material for if I want to mix compost them to a bed, I can do that and then the undecomposed stuff goes right back in the walkways. I used to do that with wood chips,

you know. The power line companies and stuff come through and they shred up wo and sometimes they'll dump them in your driveway if you want, and those make a pretty good walkway, and then after a few years you can go in there and harvest that and get some really good fungal compost out of that. So anyway, there's a few things that we do, but for your turf,

go ahead and get that mode down. But remember that as often as you mow mo as often as you can, because the more often you mow, the smaller you chop things up. The smaller you chop them up, the faster they decompose, and the less visible they are. Clippings are not the reason we have thatch. The reason we have thatch is overwatering and overfertilizing and creating a lot of

runner growth. Runners are very slow to decomposed compared to clippings, and so you've got these little runners like a little snakes, crawling all over each each other in your lawn and you walk on it and it's all spongy. That's that uh. And so excessive mowing, excusing the excessive fertilization, excessive watering both can contribute to that, especially in some grasses like Sosia being especially bad about that and Bermuda grass all right, well,

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All RIGHT have i beaten that horse? TO death I guess i. PROBABLY have i was visiting with Folks At southwest fertilizer a, while BACK and i always go, in there and it's kind of my continuing. EDUCATION project i always try to continue. To learn and because, things change we get, new products we get, new developments research comes up with new information that we didn't, know before and so you got to stay on top. Of things it's

kind of like being a tree cutter out in. The forest, you know if you don't stop and sharpen the saw every now and then your things are not going to. Go good AND so i got to sharpen, my saw meaning learn. About things AND when i Go, Into southwest I'll look i'm just walk them down the Aiss and i'll look at. The products, what's new what do? They have and unfortunately sometimes it's like oh that company changed the, name again or the same name of a product has

three different ingredients in it depending on the formulation. You buy that drives. Me nuts, But anyway i'll go in there because they always have the. Latest things bob's always got, whatever's new, Whatever's latest he's going to have. It there AND so i mean THIS when i, Say this i'm never going to recommend, a product at least to, MY knowledge i can't imagine ever recommending a product that they

don't Have It southwest fertilizer just because they. Have it and it's NOT because i call them, and, say hey do you? Have this do you? Have this do you? Have this it's because they have everything that you. Would need if they don't, have it you don't. Need it THAT'S all i like to.

FROM there i mean it's it's a really. Nice thing you get a, quality TOOL and i, don't know it just makes it makes all your outdoor work a lot. More fun one of my favorite tools is the. Soil knife sometimes it's Called the hoary. Hoary knife it's A h O r i h O. R i It's a japanese soil knife sometimes another name. For it those. Are great they come with a little scabbard SOMETIMES and i use mine all the TIME when i go out to do.

GARDEN work i just strap it on Because maybe i'm digging in the Ground and i'm trying to make a hole for SOMETHING and i. RUN across i did it just the. OTHER day i was Planting some confederate jasmine star JASMINE and i was trying to dig the hole and there's these tree roots and size of my little fingers going through. The, hole well that sol knife just cuts right. Through THEM and i didn't even have to get up off, the ground just, right there got, it

done got. It planted it's a great. Tool too but again it's going To Be southwest fertilizer Corner of Bissinett, and renwick so you ought to check. Them out very very good place for getting anything that. You, need also if you need to get. Something diagnosed, you know maybe it's like you got a weed and It's not saturday and you can't call garden line or email me. Or whatever just pull it, up stick get in the bag

and Go Into. Southwest fertilizer they're gonna look at it and they're going to tell you what to use to get control. Of it and so maybe it's something you, need identified, that is does you know bug or disease. Or something just go in and talk. To them they're really good at what. They do we're going to take

a little break here in just. A bit i do want to remind you that if you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two K t rh or for those of you who like THE numbers k seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two fifty eight. Seventy four let's talk about the things that are of interest. TO you i got a FEW things i want to visit about today on This lovely, sunday Morning This father's. Day,

Morning Again Happy father's day to all the dad's. Out there if you got a. Little minute you want to check my new, website OUT or i, say new it's anything less than a couple of. Years old it's new Gardening with skip. Dot com Gardening with skip. Dot com go check. It, Out well, good. Morning Gardeners Happy, father's. Day dads glad to have you with. Us today we are going to run out to the phones now and Go, To. SILSBY texas i believe we can Go to, silsby right

we're going to Talk. To, Cookie, Hello cookie Welcome. To regardline.

onto the torpedo. Grass herbicides it will translocate down and. Kill, it now on, My website Gardening, WITH skip i have a little sheet on there that shows you how to build a. Weed wiper it's. Really easy anybody can. Do this it's isn't like you got to be. Mechanically INCLINED and i. Have one it's made out of a. Grabber tool you just have to go onto the website to.

See it and it has sponges, on IT and i will just take a little whatever, you have squirt some of the herbicide on, the sponge and then you reach down in the grab. Or tool you don't have to. Stoop over you just squeeze it on the torpedo grass and kind of gently pull up and wipe it onto those torpedo grass shoots and it goes down in there and it. Kills, them now you're not gonna do it once and. Kill everything but every time it sticks its,

head up if, you don't, you know let. It expand it's like sprand round up on, bermuda grass it'll kill it right and and but we just have to use the wiper so we don't kill desirable grasses that are around the.

can use. On there but then you just reach down and wipe. IT on i use the wiper to control like poison ivy with you're using a different ingredient than you would for. Torpedo GRASS but i use it to control poison IVY because i can get in there and wipe it on the leaves without getting. It on maybe it's growing underneath the rose bush, or something and you're not going to cool your rose bush, That way so that that works. Pretty, Good yeah NOW well i should ask,

you first what what kind of grass? Do you what's your? Lawn grass my Grass Is. Saint Augustine, Saint, augxtine okay, all? Right.

That sheet if you are trying to kill, YOU know i, don't know woody weeds like poison ivy or hackberry coming up in the fence line, or things there's a product. For that and if you're trying to kill, just grasses there's products. For that so when you get those two, things downloaded you can you can win. This battle you just have to stay, with.

of metal flashing or it's better because out'll. Rust. Eventually uh maybe a really thick uh kind of a. Plastic material i'm not talking about just thin. SHEET plastic i mean something really thick, that lasts and you put it in the ground and then when the grass is trying to come through, there underneath it. Blocks them but that's that is time and expense and.

Orange label it's a seven to one to three comes in gallons. And quartz you mix it up and you're not going to burn plants. WITH it i use it on my houseplants because they're primarily foliage plants and that higher nitrogen level is exactly what. They need you can use it outside me ex sprayed on your yard if you. Wanted to biomatrix is a very high quality product and to go with it is the Blue Label. Ocean Harvest ocean harvest is a fish based for two three four

to two three ratio for. Aer fertilizer now, with that you want to use it outside because there is an odor to fish, Based products so don't spray your houseplants with it unless you have house cats and you want them to dig all the dirty out of. Your houseplants, But Seriously biomatrix orange labels seven to One Three Ocean harvest blue label four to. Two three they both work high quality products of the mini Products. From microlife take a, Little break i'll be. Right, back hey welcome Back. To

guardline good to have you. With us if you would like to give me. A call seven one three two one TWO ktr h seven one three two ONE TWO ktrh i was Visiting With dan Snyder from nitrofoss yesterday and we were just, talking about, you Know The flag day yesterday for those of you who somehow might have, missed that and we're just talking about the just the respect for, the flag the emblem of. Our country, You Know flag day began, a long long. Time ago it

actually happened in a couple. Of Phases The, WOODROW wilson. I Said, WOODROW wilson i believe was one of the ones who initially made a Proclamation that june fourteenth Will Be, flag day but then it was really codified in the

LAW by I Believe harry truman when he. Was president, but anyway Talking to dan about just through appreciation for, our military for the fact that we have folks that have put their life on the line for the whole time of this country really and just the fact that someone is willing to go out there and to stand in, the gap to be, out there to be a defender of the freedoms that. We enjoy and, basically, said hey but let's why don't you talk about night frost? PRODUCTS

tomorrow i don't you just talk? About THAT and i think that's a. Great IDEA and i. Appreciate, THAT dan i certainly hold that sentiment. As well the fact that we do enjoy so. Many things you know how it is we take things for granted when we're so familiar, with them we don't even really think about the cost, of them and the fact that there continue to be

people who. Do that and in addition to the people that do that the, soldiers themselves we're looking at the families that do that and the cost that has come to families for our servicemen and women who over the years have made the ultimate sacrifice. For us so thank you to everyone, out there not only those who are serving who have served in the, armed forces but to those as well who are families of those and been part of the sacrifice of not only, their time but

in some cases their lives. As well we're going to take a little trip Out to. Katie now we're gonna go Out to katy here and Visit. With, Hank, Hello hank Welcome To. Garden line you're.

I'm sorry tell me again when you planted the most Recent Grass? Friday. Friday OKAY what i generally recommend is just as a very, general guide twice, a day very lightly the, first week once a day the, second week and then going toward a twice a week and then once a. Week schedule after that grass has been in for, two weeks if it is not lacked, for water it

should be getting a good root. System down you can start backing off of that we've gotten so much rain that, you know we haven't had to water like, you normally but get it to continue to get it established, with water and then once it's been in about, a month then begin to very lightly fertilize it in some small doses or use a slow, release product you know like, the nitrofoss The Super turf solver bag and in that way it's going to get a small amount of fertilizer

all the way up into fall. Early fall What about madina anything like that to. Help, activate, Yes yes medina has a two PRODUCTS that i think you would would. Find helpful one is called Has To. Grow lawn Has To. Grow lawn it is a twelve four to eight hooks up to a, garden hose and so you can go over the. Whole lawn but it also being a hooked up to a, garden hose you can kind of give

a little extra boost to some areas that might. Need it, you know as, you're watered you're you're kind of squirting those areas just a little, bit more and so that. Works well medina also has One called superturf that is a sixteen. ZERO two i believe the third numbers too it's, mostly nitrogen and the same thing hooks to a garden hose and you can give it a. LITTLE boost i would just go easy on, the fertilizing, YOU know i was talking about with, the granulars the slow. Release granulars

you're going to wait until a month after you. Planted these you could do a, little sooner but go easy on them because, right now what the grass leads one or. The other don't. Do both and what the grass needs now is not to be pushed with a lot. Of nitrogen it needs to settle in and get a root. System going and that's why we hold off on fertilizing.

let it. Dry out that's that's, important thing, All, right hang good luck with, that, grass, yes, Sir, alrighty yeah there's, you know there's a lot of forms of nutrients. OUT there, i mean we we've got, dry granulars we've got the, immediate release we've got the, slow release and then we got the liquids that we can. Put on and nutrient. Is nutrient when, you know when that, plant root when that grassroot is in, the soil IT says i need.

Some nitrate, YOU know i need. Some nitrate and so it doesn't care whether it came from a slow, release granule a fast, release granule a. Liquid product it just needs. That compound it just needs, that molecule if, you will and to bring it in and to feed. The grass and so the advantages of granules is they tend to be a little less expensive per pound. Of, nutrient okay the advantages of the liquids is you get a little, faster results and you can tailor the direction of it

a little. Bit BETTER and i just described that Talking. To tank you know you can you can spray over there are a little more where you need a little bit more, that maybe uh and or if you're just going out in the yard and you got one area you're trying to kick, into gear you can just go out there or spray that one area with the liquid on the hose end and give a boost. To that hopefully that makes a little bit. Of, sense well our first hours in. THE books i went fast. This morning

kind of quiet, out there any? Mighty awake you'd like to give me? A call seven one three two one two k T r h seven one THREE two u two k T. R h Hop your, father's. Day, everybuddy hey go check out. MY website i keep referring to IT and i keep talking to people that never check that out gardeningwi skip. Dot com all These things i'm pointing to. Are there put them up there to help you have success in, your garden in. Your, landscape well, good,

Morning gardeners, good morning and welcome To. Garden line we are glad to have you. With us i'm, Your Host, skip richer and we're here to answer your. Gardening questions we want to help you have success in. Your, GARDEN well i like to put, it is we want you to have a bountiful and a beautiful garden, and landscape and we want you to have fun while you're. Doing it let's take the frustration out of gardening and replace it.

With fun gardening is an enjoyable activity and it. Can be all it involves is a. Couple things first, of all understanding how to think like. A plant what does a? Plant want and if you give a plant what, it wants it's going to. Be happy things like sunlight. Or shade some plants don't want. Full sun things like adequate, soil moisture things like proper sol pH and nutrient levels in. The soil those are all examples of things that plants

want to have success and we can help them. With that when we run into problems like some chomping pest crawling around spoiling, the show we can. Fix it when we're dealing with things like diseases or weeds, or whatever there's ways to. Manage all, you know almost everything starts from a. Cultural standpoint so if you've Listened to guardline, very long you know that, for me it's not just there's,

a weed here's how to. Kill it it's let's back up a. Little bit if you have lawns that are constantly plagued, with weeds we need to fix the lawn and then deal with the weeds that don't go away because we fix. The lawn so HERE'S what. I mean, wherever nature, excuse me wherever sunlight hits, the soil nature plants. A weed so your lawn, gets thin your lawn becomes weedy because there's sunlight hitting the soil for weeds to sprout. And grow you mow water. And fertilize THAT'S why i did,

that schedule the lawn care. Schedule online you mow water, and, fertilize right and your lawn gets denser. And denser and as it, gets dense most weeds are not going to be a problem because those that germinate from seed can't get a good start in, a, good dense. Healthy lawn now you may have a few here, and there but not not like you do when the. Launch struggles so what about the weeds that are perennial that can live in. A, lawn yes we have those things like basket Grass and virginia,

button weed and dollar weed is another. Good one maybe dove weed is. Another one but those are the dove weed and the basket grass are being caused by a lawn that's too. Thin primarily but the others even if you get a good dessil and you're gonna have the wheat and we can deal, with those. That's okay it's just we don't start with HOW do i? Kill it kind. Of spray that's true of insects and diseases. As well many times our insect and disease problems are caused by environment.

Environmental factors if you get a, rose bush, let's say and you plant them too, close together, they're crowded there's poor, air circulation you overdo the, nitrogen fertilizer your sprinklers, come on and what the? Foliage instead of just wetting the soil Like, dripper again will those, three, things crowding over doing, the nitrogen and excessive wedding of the foliage create disease problems?

On roses the first step is to culturally fix. Those things do, it right and then you're going to have some. Disease problems but then a little spray here and there

can be done. If needed if you get the right kind, of roasion pretty much don't have to spray, at all but anyway you get the idea that's the approach to all these things, is culturally let's get things right and then we have much fewer problems that we have to deal with and maybe mix up a SPRAY for i was visiting with some of the Folks That pierce scapes the other day and they're doing some projects Out that i'm trying to get the weather to COOPERATE so i can go out and go to the site on one of,

their projects just take some pictures. And things if you haven't seen, pierscapes work the easiest way to do it is to go Online to pierceescapes dot com piercescapes. Dot com look at what. They do it. Is unbelievable now you're going to see a lot of taj mahals in. THOSE pictures i mean they're really castles. Of HOMES but i don't care what you are living. In That pierce scapes can do things to make your outdoors gorgeous and a pleasure to. Be in maybe it's. Hard scapes maybe it's.

Outdoor lighting maybe it's redesigning some beds so that they are, just beautiful or maybe it's taking care of your. Beds quarterly do you know they'll come out. Every quarter you can sign up with them to come out for. Quarterly maintenance do they replenish, The malts they take care of any weeds that are. In there they make sure the irrigation is. Working right they do any trimming that's necessary and as agreed upon. With you maybe they do some.

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hormone that tells the plant now don't send. Up, shoots now this is not what you need to do because normally when, you prune it causes a plant to. Re sprout, you know just like you pron off, a branch the end of that branch is going to sprout several new shoots. Coming out sucker stopper helps. Prevent that and you can buy at a number of. Different places you are not

super Close To. SOUTHWEST fertilizer I know bob has it There on Businet, and runwick but you may find it at A local ace, hardware store but just call and. Check first sure not running all over, the place but a sucker stopper or there's probably another brand that is the. Same equivalent that sucker stopper is the Only one i've, Ever gotten so it's the it's the name that comes.

number of brands that you. Can buy one of the ingredients STARTS, with seth the boy's NAME s E, t h and then there's more. After that the other one starts with FLU as F L U. A z but go to the go to, the website look, at it and, in fact you should print that out because if you have other kinds, of weeds it'll it'll tell you what to use. For them now that these are over. The top, in fact one, Of them fertilom's brand of one of

those Is called fertilom Over the Top. Grass killer but that that there are many other brands and you just spray them and they kill. The grass they don't kill the, broad leaf and in, this case your clover like groundcover is a. Broad, Leaf.

don't think that's. THE case i wanted to see if you could tell anything or we might put.

to now that is a fairly small container for. A hibiscus you can grow hibiscus in that, size container but it's a little on the, smaller side so it's a. Little easier it looks like you got a fairly chunky mix, in There unless i'm looking at mulch on, the surface and the soil level is a little low in. The container all of this adds up to it's easier for it to get stressed and maybe to abort a bloom

or to have other issues. Like that so more, soil volume meaning a, bigger container meaning a more, full container will help. Avoid that that may be. A factor. Nutrient wise everything looks good on, your PLANTS so i would just have you tell me about your fertilizing. Of them come on And. Wife, nelson oh here. We go we're getting the experts. In here.

playing a part. In, this overall they look, pretty HEALTHY just i. Don't know i'd give them some time if you've given Them the nelson fertilizer and you keep them, adequately moist watering as often as you need to to keep the. Soil moist they ought to perk out. Of this are they in lots? Of? Sun yes? Full, Sun, okay well sounds like you're doing. Everything right there's no symptom in the pictures other than a little bit of a malformation, of growth which sometimes viruses can. Do that

there's no cure. For viruses sometimes it's. Insect feeding the insects inject a toxin and it causes the growth to. Be malformed instead of a normal, flat leaf it buckles like a, spinach leaf or it twists or something. Like THAT and i see a little bit of that. In THERE but i don't know what's in your power at. This point based on the Photos that. I'M seeing, i think if ever, IN mind i would just wait and

see continue to make sure it gets. Adequate water so what you're telling me is the blooms hit the STAGE that i see they're all curled up and they haven't. Opened yet but they never. Open, correct yeah well let's partecular One doesn't that is. Very, interesting well.

roots take, it up that might work. Pretty good there are some systemic insecticides you are, up there, you know in, that region you can, you know plants for all seasons, for example is going to have some things, like that and just tell them you need something to go up in the hibiscus plant itself and you drench it in the soil and then they're going to move up in the plumbing of the plant and so things that are

sucking juices out of the plant get. The poison so it's not something you're putting on the leaves or on. The blooms you're putting it in. The roots and why don't you? Try that that would be the ONE thing i think if we're dealing with some sort of piercing sucking insect that's causing these problems and causing the. BLOOMS problems i think that would be your.

Tiny knotch you just pull it and friction holds it closed and the tomato grows. Inside There and i'm told by gardeners that that keeps the birds from. Pecking, them now if you got an acre, of tomatoes that's, not practical but for one or two or three or, four plants you can put those on on the tomatoes and. Try THAT and i From what i'm hearing, from people those.

Works well but you can, BUY them, I mean i. Don't know probably one hundred of them is not that, much money, you know so just chop around a. Little bit see, See hey and if you, DO that i want to hear from you how, that works how that's working. FOR you i always like to hear from people that are. Trying things we'll try right.

they've got a lot of, organic products lots of. Organic, products there a good selection of all the fertilizers you hear me talk about, on guardline a good selection, of soils, you know brown stuff before. Green stuff before you can get to the, cash register you got to walk into the area where there are things, like fertilizers which builds the nutrient content. Bank account they're going to have plenty of mixes for potting soils and amending beds and mulches

and things plants for. All seasons it's just North of Luetta on highway to Forty Nine. Tombo parkway it's easy to get to seven to one three three seven six sixteen forty six seven one three three seven six sixteen. Forty six take a little break here in, A second Bonnie, and angleton you're going to be our first up when we come back, From break so just hang on tackle.

Your question for the rest, of you go grab a cup of coffee and maybe check out gardening with skip dot com so you can see THESE things i keep. Referring to, all righty, welcome back welcome back to. Garden line good to heave you. With, us hey if you want to have beautiful blooms on whatever, You're Growing Nelson plant food has a product that is. It's amazing it's Called. Color start, in fact it is so popular people that

are ordering it from out. OF state i mean they're shipping the things out of state that somebody call recently and it, WAS like i got a sample of this and. IT'S great i need a palette, of it. YOU know, i mean they really really like. This stuff and there's a reason Why color star has been around a. Long time but. It works it. Brings color it could be a. Flower bed maybe you got some angelonia out there, right now MAYBE some i, don't know petunias or whatever's growing in.

Your beds you want them to keep blooming and have good vigor. And health color straw will. Do it and the, reason is in order for a plant to, produce blooms it's got to, have leaves and it's got to have sunlight on the leaves and that produces carbohydrates which makes it bloom and bloom. And bloom so if you let a plant bloom, itself out and our modern flowers that

bloom themselves, to, death practically just give it. A boost you can share Back YOUR what i like to Do is i've got some, some petunias, some Supertunias and i'll share, them back put a Little color star, around them watered in real good and get a fresh, new booth boost of, vegetative growth and then here comes a whole bunch. More blooms And color star doesn't just WORK on, i mean, it's, perennials, annuals yes but it's it's shrubs and all kinds of

things that. Have blooms color. Shars excellent It's. From nelson you can find it all over. The place you can buy it by, the jar and you just need to have it on hand because you're always going to be wanting to use it for continuing bloom and beauty on. Your plants we're going to go Now to Bonnie. And Engleton, hey bonnie welcome To. Garden line, good.

Are resilient if they lose, their foliage they. CAN relief, i mean it's not good, for them but you know they can. Do it it's not going to kill the tree if you catch it. Early enough you can use sprays to control the leaf. Feeding pests but the older the, caterpillars get the less effective the spraying is going, to

be especially with some of our. Organic SPRAYS so i could suggest some things if you have the spray capacity to be able to cover maybe eighty percent of the canopy of the, pecan tree or we could, just wait let nature run its course and the leaves will come back out again. On it with you losing that much of, THE leaves i THINK we're i think we're a little bit late to accomplish a whole lot with, a.

I don't. I'm, Great okay well this will be work well and this will be recorded so you can listen

to today's show tomorrow after it. Gets posted but if you if you have if you can find something that contains a, zoxy strobin it begins with a z o x a. Xoxy strobin if you can find something That's called BELTON b a Y l E T o n OR pro peconaso PRO picon a z P r O p I c O n A z O L. E, uh anyway any of those three will work if you if you're not remembering any, of those go into a place that sells a good supply of chemicals AND say i need a. Systemic,

fungicide uh and that that's probably gonna point you in the. Right direction, all right, well much, All right just remember if you got a lot. Of, rush yeah, just remember if you've got a lot, of rush you got to cut all those old leaves out, of there because otherwise you're you're you're leaving the you're leaving the typhoid mary in, the room and everybody's gonna. Get sick, all right, all right, Thank, you bonnie appreciate that.

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and boy had they ever got? You covered really got. You covered while, you there sign up FOR The ash rewards and receive discounts and special offers ONLY for, ice Customers aceh. REWARDS customers I Joined ash rewards years ago when we Lived in cyprus and still belong and it is a good deal to be. Part, of hey you're already, shopping there go ahead and sign up for. The, rewards well it looks like time for me. To run take a quick. Break here when we, Come back john In,

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The ground they're, taking up they're taken up by the plant and they do a good job of fighting. That, disease normally we don't apply. Granules now if you look at, My schedule October and november is when we took for take all. Root rot but it wouldn't hurt to treat now if you want to go ahead and. Try that the bottom line is it's, losing roots so you need to make sure it never. Dries out that doesn't mean soggy wet all. The time it just means it has.

Less roots so let's make sure the soil stays moist to give it the. Best chance there is also a Product By fertile loam that is an iron supplement with. Other micronutrients it's iron and other micronutrients By fur lom and you can hose in spray that on your take all root rot and that helps bypass the fact that the roots aren't taking it up and gets those micros, in there and you're gonna deal with the problem. Of yellowing so now you got. To grass it's fighting a

disease but also can't get the nutrients. It needs so, we're gonna, you know we're gonna DO the iv here with that fertil on product and get it to. The leaves and those two things combined are your best approach for the take all at, this.

Hand side go check. It out take some friends with you because it is a really. Cool place bring your kids with you and ask the Folks at nelson if you can get a little bit of feed for. The fish and there's a big old giant koi out in the. Back pond the kids can go up and hand. Feed them the fish come right up out of the wide,

open mouths right up out of. The water kids will have a blast, doing that and you'll have a blast getting to enjoy just the, shopping experience not to mention all the cool fountains and plants that they Have At nelson Nursery And. Water gardens you can go to The website nelsonwatergardens. Dot com nelsonwatergardens. Dot com go check. That out it's. RERULY cool i always enjoy IT when i get to. Go there lots of lots of cool. Fun stuff.

You know that's a fun thing about our great independent garden centers Here is it's not, JUST oh i get a PLANT and i. Go home it is experiencing the joy of being able to shop and enjoy and learn and see and the. Knowledgeable folks and Boy does nelson ever have plenty of those kinds of knowledgeable folks to help. You Out moss nursery Done, in seabrook another grade. Destination nursery you go down There On toddville Road. In seabrook by, the way The Website moss nursery dot Com and moss

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Them out we're gonna take a little. Break here when we, Come back guy special guests. Coming in Someone From Ace hardware store is going to tell us a little bit About Their, Children's Network children's hospital, that is and the Things That ace hardware has been up to in terms of supporting that Old Deal Children's Texas Children's hospital fundraiser is just a. Wonderful thing and when you Shop, at Ace and i've done, this before you can just round

up and things and give. Toward that we're gonna hear about what that, is accomplishing why that is. So important AND then i want to pick his brain About Some father's day Things because i'm telling you as, a, father well just. Stick around you're gonna hear some. Cool stuff in, the meantime let's go get us a cup. Of coffee i'll be back bright eyed and. Bushy tails, all, right folks. Were back welcome back To. Garden line good to have you. With us listen, This hour i'm going to be visiting

with SOMEONE. From, ace specifically we Have Mister bill Murph FROM cyprus ace here on the line, with us AND if i can punch the, right button there. We Go, hey bill Welcome To garden.

how far we get. On this first, OF all i WANTED to i keep HEARING About Ace hardware stores work With A Texas, children's HOSPITAL and i know you guys do some Fundraising For Texas, children's HOSPITAL and i would like to just have you kind of tell us a little bit, about that let the listeners know what's, going on and maybe we'll get to how they can be part of. Supporting That.

children which is. Very impactful and we've been doing that since nineteen ninety one and over those years we've raised over two hundred and thirty million Dollars For Children's, meerical network which a big chunk of that Goes To Texas. Children's hospital there is one hundred and Fifty Four Children's americal network hospitals In The, united states so we do get a chunk. Of that, last year to give you, an example we raised almost a half million dollars Just

For texas children's Here, In. Houston wow and that was primarily done through. Numerous campaigns we do round up on an in my particular Store At Cyprus, aase hardware we do ground up three hundred and sixty five days, a year which allows you to ground up pennies at, a time allowing you to make a. Huge impact last year our round up numbers For ace as the whole we raised over set point two million dollars, so pennies and that just makes a.

the TIME but I remember i remember that back in. That, time yeah you could just check, it out just round it up a few a, few coins, Yeah.

lot of fun THINGS at ace to raise money. For children and, YOU know i can guarantee you every listener that's listening right now has been Affected By Texas, children's hospital whether it be, your kid a, neighbor's kid or someone else in. The family and thankfully we have that ability To Have texas children's right here in.

what now what are we going? To do and having that kind of expertise here just down the street from us In The greater houston area. Is amazing.

look how it. Adds up i'm stunned by, the number like seven million dollars, for example on something like that on a national. Ace basis and we're fortunate Here, in texas like, you said it's here in. Our town we get to have that extra access, to it which.

different doctors at. One visit it was you had to make, different appointments and, you know if you go From from cyprus,

to downtown that's not an. Easy, commute now fortunately they have other campuses, around now but then we were going back and forth downtown and one of the things that they were trying to do is raise enough money to be able to go in and open up a pedi accurate brain clinic and be able to see all the doctors at, one visit And doctor mescal was able to help us get in with several of the other doctors there, and coordinate and then we were able to raise enough

money to put together a clinic where my grandson has, auto encephalitis which is basically a disease that attacked your, own brain and they were able to shut it down and stop. That progression he's somewhat in. Remission Today thank God To texas children possible because they did save. His life so that's. Our why and you know when we started in nineteen, ninety one our kid for infants at the time were, well, YEAH inphants, I guess and we had no idea our why as to why we would

be doing what we're. Doing today there.

HOUR is i am Visiting With bill Murph From. Ace hardware, you know we Got Our ace hardware stores here In The greater houston area. And beyond and we're talking about one of the Fundraisers That ace hardware does For The Texas, children's hospital Specifically The. Miracle Network, so bill welcome back To. GARDEN line I think i stopped you in the middle of a thought because we had a hard. Break THERE but i don't know if you remember where, we were

but if you want to pick right up. From there, If not i'll come up with some other QUESTIONS that i got. Sitting. Here now.

done through, round up, through cookalls through different variations and. Vender, partnership uh and not a way when someone has the child that has a very rare disease or a. Burn injury they were able to go in and Go To texas children's and meet with, the team and, you know it's it's not like you have to go and make an, appointment here, appointment here and an. Appointment here they, go

in they and the team comes in and works. With you and that's a very very, huge step, you know in order for a team to be able to look at setting up a program, like that, you know you're about one hundred thousand dollars just to even start that. Thought process and through the roundup and through our great community that we, live in we were able to start that campaign within. A, year wow it's been a. Huge lifesaver and you know that it's crazy because we, go.

is now fourteen. Years old at fifteen, months old he was not able, to, walk talk couldn't even acknowledge his eyes were fixed and they were able to get. Him back now he, plays baseball he hits, home runs he's playing, center field he's, a pitcher he's now. Playing football all the things that we were told would never happen has happened now Because The Texas. Children's, hospital wow.

and the friends. And things they go, through this and it is it is beyond a blessing to have Tech as. Children's here but the thing that, Strikes, me bill is everybody listening, to them our voice right now can. Do something, you know you look at something like some major childhood disease or cancer or some, other issue and you're, just, going well WHAT can? I do, YOU know, I mean i got pocket, change here and that's exactly what you, just said is pocket change put seven million dollars into

something to. Help children and there's so many, other ways but you're kind of telling us that there's something important that we. Can do there's something significant that we can be a. Part of and that, feels good and it's good knowing. It's local it's good knowing the people you walk, into issue, you see the managers and employees, and stuff they're they're, your people you. Know it and then here's a simple little thing that you can do to be

part of something. Way BIGGER and i think. That's awesome that gets. Me, excited.

i'm going to just give you a WEBSITE if. I May Ace hardware foundation dot org also allows you to go in and. Do Donations drive the middle of the page is about to donate if you put in one of our local stores at one hundred percent of that money Goes To Texas. Children's, hospitals again the beauty of our program is is that we fund the foundation and that allows, the money one hundred percent of that money

to just cycle right Back Into Texas. Children's hospital we have no administrative pull off the top, of that and that's one of The things i'm extremely proud of for. OUR foundation i sit on the on the director board of the foundation and that's one of the important things to me is that there's nothing siphoned off of. The top one hundred percent of it goes.

Hurricane harvey and then we also HAVE The Ace, helpful fund which has helped our our employees when they're in times. Of need, YOU know i had an employee pass away and do our a hardware foundation or a help will find we were actually helped help her pay for the funeral expenses of her. Over husband so it's kind. Of cool, So yeah. I'm sorry back to where, you said make

a donation to Your Local Children's Americal. Network hospital when you click on there and you put in your name and, your address it will actually uh tag you to a store closest to your zip code and that allows it to go Directly Into Texas. Children's hospital.

what we're trying to determine. Right now so that'll be a. Fine thing we'll have to continue that at a.

listening we're talking about something that's easy. To do. It's simple. It's clear you're not giving to a dollar away and eighty percent goes to maintaining something and twenty percent goes to. The cause we're talking about one hundred, percent here and those are. ALL important i want. YOU know i know my listeners are compassionate and they care, about people and they want. To help and to be able to do something where you see a direct penny per penny help

for something that's SO tangible i think is. Really important really appreciate it us doing all.

number one group has one hundred and seventy. Eight stores we have thirty, four stores and personal were kicking.

you expressed your own experience There with texas children. AND things i think we probably have a lot of other listeners that have have gone through experiences of their own with unexpected problems with the kids that suddenly now were life changes on, A dime and whereas you had your plans and your life and how things, were going and suddenly all the priorities get thrown out the window and

it all focuses in on dealing. With this and it's so good to know that we have people here In the Houston Area Texas, children's hospital, for example that are ready to go and ready to work, on that and with contributions like you guys, have made such as the money that was donated recently to help make the whole, experience better there are for kids in terms of facilities and doctors being able to work together and coordinate. And

whatnot that is really that is really. COOL stuff i. Appreciate that i'm gonna can you hang on until we get through the bottom of the hour break and we talk. Some, More, SURE okay i. Appreciate that. Thank you we will be back with you. ON that i just want to, remind, you guys you're Listening To. Garden line we are not taking the general calls. Right now we will start that at eight at the nine. O'clock hour, all, right volks,

We're back we. Are back welcome Back. To guardline we are visiting this Hour With bill Murph From Cyprus, ice hardware and we've been talking ABOUT The ace hardware program With The Texas Children's, miracle Network The Texas children's hospital and all of the THINGS that ace has done and that you can do in. Small ways, you know they do a number of different fundraisers IN the, ace group both our local group certainly one of the most as he was, saying earlier one of the most perse store

generous groups in the. WHOLE country, i mean we look at NATIONALLY how ace stores. Are ranked our stores here are just readily performing and stepping up to. The plate but it's because you guys are stepping up. The plate it's because every time, you know you go in and, you, SAY hey i round Up For texas children's you know that every penny you rounded up is going, to that and it amounts to the millions when you LOOK At

ace hardware across our country contributing to these kind. Of causes so it's a. Big deal, but anyway We've got bill back right NOW and i wanted to go Back. To bill hey, You, There, bill, Yes sir, i'm here, Good. GOOD well I just i couldn't let you go without Talking About father's day. TO day, i mean we were in the big Middle Of father's day and one of my favorite Places For father's day Shopping is Ace. Hard restore, IN FACT i I My father's day this year is

Thanks To Ace. Hardware store my family all. Pitched In so i'd like to hear from you some ideas that you think, that are, you know especially things people may want to Consider. For dad, you know we still have. Time here we're gonna be going till ten. O'clock today so after the show or put it on in the radio in, the car run down To your Ace hard restore and we can make it a really. Special day so let's talk about that a. Little bit yeah.

and we've got some killer deals on grills. Right now, You know tragger has you can save up to two hundred dollars on some of the Grill with Trager wreck texas up to one hundred and fifty dollars on savings on the on the rec. Text grills so we've got some really. Neat, deals uh Even our. Blackstone, griddles uh we Have a burger press kit that comes along with it for free, Right now so for Timing For, father's day our any pizza ovens come with a wooden pizza peel.

For free that's a fifty. Dollars, VALUE so i mean you've got some good numbers out here that some good avings for our People For.

love cooking on my big. Green egg there they're. YOU know i always tell people the quality of a cook is how you can cook a. Chicken breast and if you if you cook a chicken breast on a big, green egg it's almost like a. Pressure cooker it holds some moisture in so when you when you slice the, chicken breast it should be moist, and tender, not dry but it's still being. Cooked completely so.

that come with an. Extra battery we have a, buy one get One free ego program, as well where you can buy a trimer and get a blower or blower and a turmer one way or. The other so and and you got. A battery, i'm sorry a free battery with that on.

power when the power. Goes out so we do have the a bolt uh, for generators and we carry a full line of generators at. Our store but you can also see the full line on a starter dot com or to A. Starterwork texas, i'm sorry Uh.

very impressed. With that, IN fact i SOMETHING that I that i tell people a lot when we're Talking about ace in the store is that when you go INTO An ace, hardware store you you're just not gonna if you haven't been In An ace hardware store, in ages you're not gonna. Believe it it's not your grandfather's. Hardware store does everything your grandfather's hardware, store had but stuff like you're gonna say a, Thousand, TIMES oh i didn't

know they had. That here, YOU know i know you guys, up there you've got the, fudge bar and you've got the little thing that carves what cutting boards. And things it's it's all kinds Of, department. Yeah, engraving yeah it's stuff. Like that and people just need to go to Their Local ace hardware store and you. Can, go folks please write This Down Ace hardware texas. Dot com GO To Ace hardware texas dot com and look at all the stores that are part OF My ace hardware group here

In The greater. Houston area AND when i, SAY greater i mean We're. Talking beaumont we're Talking about Victoria on rockport and everywhere through, this region and there's a LOT Of ace hardware stores and you need to go see one to see what we're. Talking, About well i'm gonna i have to go TO break i. Hate breaks i'm gonna have to go to. Break. Again bill i'm just getting wound up here and all excited the barbecue and started. It all we'll be right back if you get around

for one more, Brief segment i'd. Appreciate it, welcome. Back folks good to have you listening in the garden line On This Father's. Day sunday good to have you. With us we are Visiting With bill Murph From Cyprus ace

hardware and just talking about all kinds OF. Things ace we discussed earlier Today The Children's miracle network project and the donations that are MADE by ace and actually made by you to that and the impact that they Have On Texas children's hospital right here In the, houston area and therefore the impact they have on. People's lives and

you can be part of that by rounding your. Purchases up we're talking about pocket, change here just throwing a few more pennies to bring it up to an, even dollar and over the course of a year In The National Ice, hardware network seven million dollars raised. THAT way, i mean it's insignificant to us as we're, checking out very significant in the lives of children and. Their families and we're ALSO now i kind Of got bill, going here We're Doing father's day as. A father, i'm Biased

therefore i'm. Especially INTERESTED but i got to tell. You something there's a lot of moms out there that would like a. Barbecue pet there are a lot of moms out there that would like some good quality power equipment and other things. Like that, so hey it used to be a father's day to enjoy these kind. Of, things bill. Welcome back good to have you. With us let's continue on with some Ideas For father's day GIFTING From Ace.

Hardware store maybe some things people just don't normally. Think, about.

Do that, BUT anyway i, interrupted you so will you please continue with?

imagine thirty four. Different personalities so my store which, has, fudge truffles, ice cream a, gift section a, grill section and then a traditional hardware sure, to boot there's thirty four different personality so when you Go To, katie hardware it's completely different personality than. My store so it's kind of like a new adventure at every store you. Stop at and my WIFE and i do this all the time when. We're traveling we make a point to stop

at different a stores to see the. Different personality so it is thirty four. Different owners we've got some multi. Store owners but the key is is that most of your stores that you, shop into you can either talk to the, general manager you can talk to the owner of,

the store and you get help like there's. No tomorrow we have we have a bundance of people that have different varieties, of backgrounds so we can get you in and help you with what your problems are and get you the, right product hopefully on the.

know the folks that run. These stores they're truly mom and pop kinds of, stores because like, you said each of you gets to put your own personality and maybe even what fits the neighborhood that. You're in, you know the kinds of things that people there would be interested in and provide those. For them you're not locked into just having to sell. Certain things.

know most people don't REALIZE. That Ace when craftsman trying to jump away from The old, SEER stores ace was the first place they went to because we had the footprint across the nation and we're when we carry a full Line of craftsmen tools and power. Tools successories shop back for the wet. Drive aacks i'm sorry to me say shop, but uh the wet Driveacks. From craftsmen it's on sale right now for seventy. Nine dollars so there are some killer deals. Out there.

because when you, COME IN sa i need an. Air filter OH what's az do? You Need oh i'm. Not, sure well let's look on the app and see if you've purchased in. The past there. You go but we definitely offered offer that and it helps for you don't have to keep a receipt. With you we've got it on file if you've purchased it to the issue. Wards program, but again you're getting two percent back of everything.

folks there you are. No excuses now if you don't know what to, get dad you know where to go to. Find out thanks, A lot bill appreciate you having on so good to talk to. You again, all, Right Folks Happy. Father's day we'll be back at top of the nine. O'clock hour we're going to start taking calls again if you want to dial in seven one three two one two KAT R h, all righty welcome back to The, guarden, line folks On A father's, DAY morning A Nice Sunday father's.

DAY morning i hope you enjoyed our VISIT With. Ace hardware that was good to be able to kind of learn more about some of the SUPPORT That ace hardware stores do For Our Children's miracle network And Specifically Texas children's hospital here In The. Greater houstonario if you are dealing with pests in, the House and i'm not talking about, Two legged i'm talking about four legged and six legged and, everything else, fire, ants mosquitos, wild armts, you know rats

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don't know what. IT is i don't, know why but their irregularity of it kind of makes me think of something chemical or. Like that chemical could include dog urine if it were a little. Different shape i've had spots, Like, that MARTHA where i SET a i, don't know a piece of a bag or something on. The ground it had something and it was clear and the sunshine through and just kind of cook the grass and it looked.

Like that, but again we're burning the. Grass there, we're not, YOU know I don't you don't need to go out and buy a. Fund beside your lawn looks. Beautiful everywhere this is this one, little distinct. IRREGULAR spot i don't know what else would, Cause it so kind of pick, your brain try to try To play colombo a little bit on what could have happened, right there being in the. FRONT yard i doubt that it's a place where the dog went to, the bathroom but.

We've already i've kind of already talked. About that but that's my.

soil there's another one from the Folks. At heirloom you go, garden centers, feed stores. HARDWARE stores, i mean you're gonna, find airloom soilce products all. Over town any for those of you doing, bigger jobs maybe you want to do some top dressing with a leaf. Mo compost we can get a cubic yard supersack of leaf mo compos delivered to. Your, place now by, the way they ONLY deliver i think it's a three. SACK minimum i believe you just have

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give you all. The information it's the most economical way to get quality organic materials to, your place and that is through the either you picking it up or then bringing it to you in the boult time for me to take a little. Break here when we, come back we're going to Talk to Sean and Katie and Glenn. In, houston hey. We're back welcome To. Garden line i'm, Your Host. Skip rictor we're here to help you have a, beautiful garden a bountiful landscape garden and more fun in. The

process that's that's the goal of what. We're doing if you want your long to look its best and you live Inside, the beltway by, the way, Year round houston dot com is the specialist when it comes to corrodation and compost top dressing Inside the beltway Year round houston dot com eight three two eight eight four fifty three. Thirty five they use quality. Screen products they use a very. High grade they, come out they do, the aerration which

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i'm telling you the difference. Is dramatic, In fact i'm gonna post something To our facebook page Maybe the, instagram too that somebody sent me a picture the other day and they had done a couple things in their lawn and they had done the nitrophoss superturf and then they'd done a corroation and compost, stop dressing and oh, MY gosh, i mean it's Like Call, augusta national tell them to do the next golf tournament in these people's front yard

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barricade yeah, barricade, Yeah yeah and. The, barricade also you need about about a half inch of water to wash it off the granules and into, The surface so put them both out and then put about a half inch of water on and you're good. To, go yes you can do them both. THE same i wouldn't mix them in the same hop at the same time because particle

size is different and you want them to. Spread evenly so, spread one, come back reload the hopper with, the other spread it and then half inch of water and.

coffee table outside and everybody sitting around doesn't. Get mosquitoes the mosquitoes don't like the land on, that plant and if there's a little bit of something drifted in through, the air they may not. Like that but it doesn't work as well as it's promoted. To work but mosquitoes do like to hide, In foliage so if you got shrubs around, the house that's where they're going to spend

the day. Times hiding and so if you had a plant that they didn't like the, smell of they didn't want to land on, that plant then it would be beneficial in. That way but ultimately you're going to need to be using mosquito dunks to control. Stagnant areas and then the Folks at pestbro's have the mosquita buckets that you put around and those really make. A difference so just some kind of caveat there for the. Mosquito, plants okay,

very good, thank you, all, right sir thank you. Very much appreciate that we're going to go now to both. OF them i tell, you everybody it was raring to go when we got through here with, A guest Ellen In. Southwest houston welcome To.

Line uh and they can come out and, examine it see what's going on with, those holes if anything needs to, be done and, tell you, you know tell you what's going to take to get perfect and they cover.

to prevent new spots from. Breaking out and the high humidity and mild temperatures are what powdery, mildey loves and so you would need to. Do that there are also products that go into the plant and prevent, future infections but the knee oil is an organic option that. Will work you're just going to the first sign. Of it go ahead and spray the.

Ground again and mulch won't stop that because it has the energy to push up through The mult so if you're dealing with this, first kind any good, THICK mulch i would probably put it about three inches the smaller the multch, particle size, the denser it blocks. The light, you know if you get, a big, chunky mulch you're gonna get some light in between those. Mulch pieces it kind of reaches. The ground but, a smaller finely ground

mulch is going to give you. Better coverage and if you have a, chunky malt you just have to make it. Thicker DEEPER maybe i have to be three inches or more to do it with a, chunkier mulch but THAT'S what i. Would do. That's organic and whenever you need, to plant just pull the mulch back. And plant don't get rid of the. Old mulch it's it's going to be composed and it's going to. Be fine you don't happen to take. A newspaper do you a print copy of? A?

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so you'll find some suggestions. On there once our temperatures get up in the upper eighties to the, low nineties a lot of the effective products a trimac kinds of products are one example of those combo products that work. So well but once we get up in those temperatures the, low nineties they can start to really weaken and Damage Or saint. Augustine lawn and if they're in a flower bed and there's any broad leaf in the, flower bed they'll kill, those too just like they kill. The weeds

so they have to be very careful how you. Apply those there's one Product, called celsius like the temperature celsius and when you, Apply, it yeah when you apply it comes in. Little packets it makes one gallon, of spray which is usually more than enough when you. Apply it it can even be in the low nineties and it's not going to hurt. Your LAWN and i like that.

About IT but i mentioned the herbicides for the. Weed wiper if you've got these weeds growing amongst, desirable plans you can make a little homemade weed WIPER like i show you how to, do online and you can apply the product directly to the. Weed leaves it's two sponges that you space and it comes together.

wind this. Show up you have time to run out and get Something At ace hardware store on earlier today talking about the eight billion things that dad would Love From. Ace hardware so not. Too late there, you've been you. Have been that is a public service we offer here From. Garden. Line, listen uh thanks.

served us really deserve our appreciation and thanks. And honor, you know you think about all the gifts we enjoy in, this country the freedoms that, we enjoy the things we take. For granted, You know i'm looking at the protests, going on, And hey i'm not getting, political here just hang. With Me but i'm looking at the protests, going on and there's a lot of strong feelings about that on both

sides of. THE deal i. GET that i, Get THAT but i want to tell you one thing nobody can disagree with is they get to do that because over the decades and more than decades now of, this country people have been willing to step in the gap and provide for us the protection and the freedoms that we.

Now ENJOY and i want to say thank you to everybody who has either served in the military or the families of the those who, have served and certainly in the case of those who've given the ultimate sacrifice for the things that we. Now enjoy, you know whether we agree or disagree about things in, this country whether we like or don't like things that are going on in, this country we do know that we have freedom and

we get to enjoy the life that. We live we get the privilege to be able to say we don't like something because of people who have paid those kinds. Of sacrifices and just on behalf, Of night foss myself and we just want to offer that appreciation out there and that recognition and just pausing a moment to remind ourselves again why it is that we get to do

the things that we do and enjoy the things. We enjoy certainly on This Nice father's day being a prime example for those of you who are Interested In plumerius plumeria Is the hawaiian. Lay, flower Okay the hawaiian you get off, the plane or at least the, tradition goes you get off, the plane they put this big necklace of flowers around your. Neck Right. That's Plumerius frid japanee is another name. For Them The plumrius Society Of america Here.

In houston they are going to have their show and Sale, Next saturday june twenty first DOWN On nasa road One, In. Seabrook texas just head DOWN To Nasa ray if you go down, forty five you, turn left, you know, going out well you have to exit the right anyway you get, the idea go over toward. The bay it's at The Clear Lake Bay Area. Community center it's right THERE On, nasa roadway easy, to Find Clear Lake Bay Area. Community center it's gonna be from nine am to, one pm

so you got four hours of. This now it's hosted By The pulmara Society Of. North america there will be showcasing a lot of the local, plumeria growers and there are a lot of. Them, here okay you can Join The pulmia society if you would like to do, that online you can go i mean on. Site there you can just join. Right there they're gonna have raffle tickets

for a chance to win some really highly sought. After plumrias you know how it is with A. Plant society you've got you've always got some things that are rare and new and cool and hard to, come by and that's the ones we got, to, Have right that's how we are as. Plant, people well if you're interested in, purchasing camellias learning, excuse, me Plumerius, purchasing plumerius Learning, about plumerius here's. Your Chance, Next saturday june, twenty first nine

am to, ONE Pm nasa, Road One Bay Area. Community center put that on. Your, CALENDAR now i know it's nine, to one but don't forget to listen To. Garden line if you're going to leave, before nine we will allow. An absentee just turn it on in. The car that's all. We. ASK anyway I. Love, plumerius, beautiful beautiful cool plant really. Unusual too that's a topic for a whole other. Day,

perhaps well you are listening To. Garden line i'm, Your Host, skip richter and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden and a. BEAUTIFUL landscape i want to remind you That when i'm no longer on, the air which starts in about a minutes from now, or less you can let all week listen to pass shows Of garden line on THE ktr. H website go Find, garden line

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but thanks for being. A listener check out. My website in, The meantime i've got a number of things that we've put, up there and still working on getting some other things up and posted onto. The site, for example if you were to go To the Gardening, with skip It's called gardeningwithskip. Dot com that's, the website and you look at all, the publications you will see all of the new things that we've. Put up the herbicide products for the, Weed

wiper I've already i've already told you. About that that's. Up there there's an article on. Nuts edge you got nutgrass in the garden and you really want to get rid, Of it i'll tell you how to. Do it, it's simple but you got to, be, diligent. Diligent diligent it's not a. One off you do not get rid of nuts edge, Without, Deciding okay i'm going into BATTLE and i ain't coming back until the, enemy's gone and that enemy. Is nutsedg it tells you how to. Do it you

got nematodes in, the garden got a publication. On that you've got, woody weeds maybe, poison ivy, maybe peppervine maybe hackberries coming up in the, fence, line whatever the woody weeds of your landscape are of a publication on how to, control them and. IT works i had, a, big old giant yopon that had sprouted volunteer, back THERE and i was clearing it OUT because i was gonna plant some flowers in. That AREA and i just, in fact that's the picture of my yopon stump and what we did.

To it and it has not. Come back it was fast cut. IT off i DID what i recommend in the publication. To it it's gone. Works well makes, it easy easy to do a publication on lawn caro one. Oh one another helpful one lawn care one oh one goes into the basics, of, mowing watering and fertilizing and weed control, and aerration and it just makes it, real simple makes it easy. To understand that is the secret to a successful lawn by the, way, mowing, watering fertilizing, weed.

Control aeration those kinds, of tips especially those. First, three, mow, water fertilize the more often you mow at a, good height don't Grasses Like saint augustine aren't made to be golf. Course greens you need to get that blade, up there mow, it regularly and then when, you water water deeply. And INFREQUENTLY now i know we've been. Getting rained nobody wants to talk. About watering. That's fine wait till. Next week it'll be time, again probably and then, fertilizing moderately and

we tell you what to, use today when to. Use it it makes it easy. To, do remember the best week control is, a, good dense. Healthy lawn that's something that you. Can. CONTROL well i hope you have a wonderful week out there in. The garden go visit some of. Our sponsors by, THE way i know you think sometimes, it's, like oh he's talking about that. Sponsor again every sponsor

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