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morning and ready to talk all kinds of things. Gardening is a good day to be inside learning about gardening and perhaps doing some seed starting, also doing some rooting of cuttings. If you've never tried rooting cuttings before, you want to try that. It is a lot of fun. Some plants they make you look good because they want to root so bad. You know, Colius is that way, Tomato shoots or that way, and rosemary Rosemary actually is

a very easy plant to root from cuttings. Others a little more of a challenge, but hey, you got to get out there and try something. I think you'll find that the more you learn about gardening, the more of the gardening techniques that you become more proficient at, the more fun it is all around. Just to enjoy being out and doing some gardening kinds of things, indoors and outdoors. Terrariums another good thing. You know, we're talking about looking

at some rainy weather, some drizzly actually drizzly weather. It's more of a more of a constant annoying mist that we're talking about here. Not a gully washer for sure. But we can continue to garden. And so many of our garden centers too, they they have such nice indoor areas, maybe covered areas with house plants, or their indoor shops and things. It's just a good day to get out and you don't have to fight the crowds. That's a good thing too. So maybe you want to get out

and do some of that. Tomorrow is going to be a great day. We're going to have some excellent weather and a good chance to in the afternoon get out and enjoy gardening as well. You're listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two ktr H seven one three two one two KTRH. Feel free to give me a call. We'll talk about the things that are of interest to you. You know, probably, oh gosh, about fifty years ago, Nitrofoss introduced their red bag,

the Imperial fifteen five to ten. Imperial is a lawn fertilizer that is a quick release. You put it down, you watered in or rain water sit in by the way, This would be great with this little missing rain we got coming along. To put a little Nitrofoss down as soon as you can ahead of it or just watered in later. Fifteen five to ten is a three one

two racio fertilizer. Now, that's that is what researchers in turf science at Texas A and M and other universities throughout the South have proven is the best general ratio for lawns. Because if you were to take grass clippings, send them to a lab and say what's in them, They're going to tell you there is a three one two ratio of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Well fifteen five ten is a three one two ratio of those three elements as well. Now, if you look at my schedule,

if they are optional, early greenup application is now. Now's the time to be able to do that. You get it down, it goes into the ground, it goes into the root system, the plant takes it up, and you get a greener grass plant earlier on. It's not going to cause grass that's still cold to start growing actively, but it can give you an early greenup, and a lot of folks like that. Let's get that lawn looking

good as soon as we can. Our main fertilization season is coming as we get further into spring and into the summertime for sure. But Nitrofoss Imperial the red bag is the one you need to look for for putting down that early greenup. You're going to find Nitrofoss products in a lot of different places. They're widely available here in the Greater Houston area. For example, you're going to find them at Bearings Hardware both on Bisonet and the one on Westheimer. Head out to Rosenberg and M and

d Ace has Nitrofoss products. Ace Hardware City and Memorial and Plants for all seasons on Highway too forty nine. Just a few examples of the dozens of places you're going to find nitrofoss here in the Greater Houston area. I was out in I had a little bit of a trip yesterday, went all the way out to Fredericksburg and was talking to some folks from a few counties out there about some different aspects of gardening. And it's always interesting when you go out and visit with people

about gardening the questions that come up. There's all the standard questions that you expect you're going to get, you know, the things like how do I get rid of fire ants? Or in that country out there, it's how do I stop year from attacking my gardens because boy deer appreciate the fact that you plant a salad bull for them. But there's always unusual questions too. People, you know, they have different things. Sometimes it's a plant that is not

a common plant that they're trying to grow. Sometimes it is a particular thing that they heard are red online and they're wanting to know is this really true? Does that really work well? The bottom line to those kinds of things is usually beware. I find that in fact gardeners. Let me just put this me. Remember the ones that friends don't like friends drive drunk, don't let friends drive drunk. Right, okay, how about friends don't let friends garden based on social media.

That's a good one. Friends don't let friends garden based on social media because there is so much nonsense out there. I saw a picture the other day and it was a cluster of tomatoes and they were nion primary color, purple blue, red, of course, orange yellow, But the colors were just so artificial and they were all in the same cluster. That's insane. That doesn't happen. It doesn't happen in nature. Don't believe it. Social media is full of

none sense. There's this one account that actually follow because it's like what are they gonna do next? And it is just it's just lies, absolute lies, you know, selling you this plants that know it is not a plant like that, or you know, maybe it's a it's an apple tree that has five different colors of apples on the same tree and it's not been grafted a bunch of times. It's just one branch has all those colors

and you can buy them from them as seeds. You can't plant apple seeds unless you want to wait what fifteen years to see your first apple. And when you do, it is not going to be an apple that produces all that kind of colors. It's just a lie, just a lie. B T. Barnum said it, right, buy or beware. There's a sucker born every minute. All right, well, don't be that sucker. We're going to help you by giving you a few more tips and to help you have

success with your garden. Just hang around. I'll be right back, alrighty, welcome back, Welcome to garden Line. I mean your host, Skip Rictorum, if you'd like to give me a call this morning and ask a gardening question. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Heirloom Soils is one of the premiere soil making companies in the entire region.

I mean they they do quality work, they make quality mixes, and they have pretty much everything you can imagine that you would need. For example, do you want a soil for roses? Do you want a soil for vegetables and herbs? Do you want a soiled for your fruit trees? Do you want a soil for acid loving plants like blueberries and zelias. They've got all of that, and on and on and on more. They have a cactus and succulent soil. They have indoor potting sauce, outdoor potting sauce. You can

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But anyway, hairloom soil is a place now go go to your local garden centers, your feed stores, your Southwest Fertilizer, your Ace hardware store. You're going to find heirloom soil products in a lot of different places by the bag,

which is very very convenient. I was talking earlier about you know, some of the things that you read on social media, and it just I have a combination I laugh and I get mad at the same time because I see it and I realize that they're lying to people and they are they're basically making money off of you not having success. And it just one of the things that it makes me sad is Gardener's saying, I can't grow anything everything I touch it eyes, I have

a brown thumb, all of those kinds of things. I want you to look at your radio. That means, look at me. You do not have a brown thumb. I promise you do not have a brown thumb. You have an uninformed thumb. And when your thumb gets smarter and knows what plants want, it starts turning green. If you want to talk colors, that's how that works. You do not have a brown thumb. We can do this. Just keep listening to the guard line call and ask questions. Learn, learn, Learn.

There's a lot of good opportunities to learn, and the more you learn, the better it gets and you can really have good success. So, for example, let me give you a little quick tip here that I think will help you with your plants, especially the acid loving plants, but really any kinds of shrubs that you're putting into an area that tends to be wet. If you cannot get rid of water in an area, you can build a bed on top of the ground to grow in.

And so someone asked me recently, you know, I want to plant a blueberry, but I can't dig three feet deep to make the hole. Well, you never want to dig deeper than the root ball the root cylinder in the pot to plant a plant. But yes, if you sink a plant down in the ground and it is soggy area, that root system is going to stay soggy,

and it's not good. But I'm going to use a kind of a crazy example just to create a mental picture for you as to how you have success with this, and that is set your camellia, your blueberry, your zealia, your guardena whatever, set it on top of the ground, and then bring in the bed mix and fill in around it. That's how you plant it. In other words, now, what you're really going to do is you're going to put in the bed mix and make a bed and

then plant in that hole. But the concept is my plant is actually sitting on top of that soggy soil situation and growing in a high quality bed mix, and you will have success. You can go out to central Texas on a limestone outcropping and put a nice acidic mix on top of the ground and grow blueberry in it if you got the water quality to do it, or an azelle or something else. But fix your drainage. One way is just set your plants on top of

the ground and put the bed around them. Again, that's that's backwards of what we're doing, but that gives you the visual concept, the cutaway vision. It works and it helps. And don't subject plants that don't want to be in a soggy swamp to those conditions or they'll get root rots and they'll die. And it's easy to avoid that. You are listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two k t RIH. Give us

a call. Let's help you have success. I love it when we can help somebody enjoy gardening and maybe learn a new kind of gardening, learn a new way to

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the lawns. I've been away. I've been traveling a lot and just haven't had time to, you know, get out there and take care of my lawns like I need to. And I've got a few broad leaf weeds that have popped up in some areas. I guess the grass was then because wherever sunlight hits the soil and nature plants a weed, and I have to get out and deal with those. I need to have got still some the old dead grass up on the top, and I'm not for too long now. I could do it this week.

I may wait a little bit longer on it, but I'm going to do a lower mowing to clean out all the dead and let the fresh new growth come in. I like to wait, really to do that until the weather's warmed enough that the grass is going to take off growing. And the reason is if you scop it off, then the sunlight hits the soil and suddenly weed seeds start coming and your grass is still cold to begin actively rapidly growing. And so I usually wait for that first mowing until you know, I know the grass is

ready to kind of get going. If you have weeds in your lawn, you do want to capture the clippings that first mowing, because clover and hand bit and chick weed and all the winter weeds, if they're going to seed, you want to get all those out of there because you don't you do not want to let them go to seed. So if you're waiting longer, you're going to start seeing them blooming and setting seed, and don't let them do that. Don't let them put those seeds in

your yard. Let's head out to the phones here, we're going to talk to Pam. Pam Central Texas. Hey, Pam, how you doing. Welcome to guard Line.

anymore because they want okay. So I was looking online to find out, you know, how I could get rid of them, because I've been dealing with it for this would be the third year now, and my husband and I go out there in the early spring and we start pulling it and pulling it and pulling it, and it's still last year, it's still I couldn't plant a plant. Tried to plant then this underneath it and stuff, excuse me, and I still couldn't get anything to grow. Besides, it

was only in the area. So I was looking online and even Texas A and M said had a big write up about doing herb side the some sort, but it didn't tell me what herbicide to use. Can you help me with that?

behind that. And there's there's a lot of different products that work on that as far as a post emergent killer. I'm hitting a hard break here, Pam where I've got to go to the to the news and I will. I'll put you on hold. If you want to hang around, we can continue the discussion. We can come back. If not, do you just need to get a post emergent out there. Yeah, okay, thank you, take care. All right, folks, A little quick break here and I'll be right back with your calls

if you'd like to get on the board. Seven one three two one two ktr H. All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. A little laid back morning going on here. I can give me a call Talk Gardening seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H. Boy, I tell you if Plants for All Seasons has gotten in a bunch of things for your edible garden. Of course,

they've got every kind of plant you can imagine. You know, shrubs, roses, I don't know, flowers, perennials, ornamental grasses, on and on and on and on. They have an awesome selection of seeds, one of the best selections of seeds I've seen in town. And it's just just a whole wall on them in their nice new renovated sales area. They're indoor sales area. It's really cool. I'm pretty it has a lot of good stuff in it too. You ought to go check

that out. They got in some onions. They still got in some potatoes out there, and it's time to plant both of those, for sure. You can choose from several different types of white, yellow, and red onions. Little bundles are ready to go. Don't delay get those in, start fertilizing them. They need to hit the ground, run and never look back. The faster you grow an onion, the bigger that bulb can be. When the day length is long enough to cause them to make bulbs. So you

can eat little bulbs, you can eat big bulbs. They taste the same, but if you want more yield out of it, hurry up. Get them in plants for all seasons. Has them. They also have a nice selection of herbs, and this is a time to get herbs planted. Really, year round is the time to get herbs planted. They have many options for you. Why not create either. If you don't want to do a formal herb garden, why not just plant herbs among your other plants or regano

and time make nice groundcovers in beds. I will often put herbs at the ends of my vegetable rows in a vegetable bed, or hanging over the sides of the bed. You know, maybe you have tomatoes growing in a bed. Why not some herbs hanging over the side, like a regano growing right over the side. Put some basil at the end of the road. It's a little early for basil now, but put some basil at the end of the row, and you got your whole garden ready to go there, I mean, you're ready for pestos and bosta

sauces and all kinds of things. When you put all that together, go to Plants for All Seasons. Check out what they have, and you know when you go there, you're gonna get good advice. They've been family owned and operated since nineteen seventy three. They're right there just north of Luetta on the Feeder Road beside Tomball Parkway, FM two forty nine. Plants for All Seasons dot com if you link at McCall two eight one, three seven six,

sixteen forty six and they will take care of you there. Excellent, excellent service. I was visiting with somebody the other day and they were looking for someone to do some particular kinds of work in the yard. I was telling them they're out there in an area that a year round Houston services, and I said, you can go to these guys.

They definitely do good work. You know, when it comes to things like aeration, for example, compost top dressing, those are two of the best benefit options that you can do on your lawn. It's important to water, it's important to mo it's important to fertilize and all of that, but compost top dressing and aeration, if you've got a compacted soil or if you have a clay soil. Either way, it helps get oxygen back in the soil, and year

round Houston knows how to do it. They're specialists when it comes to compost, top dressing and aeration in your lawn. Now you can do it yourself. It's cumbersome. You're running equipment, you're cleaning up the equipment, you're hauling it back and dumping all the compost in your driveway. Just call them and let them come out and take care of the whole thing. They've got equipment that does a way better job of air rating than what you'll rent from the

rental store. They serve inside the Beltway around Houston, inside the Beltway and out in the Richmond Rosenberg area. They also work out in that area too. All you have to do is go to the website year round Houston dot com, year round Houston dot com, or give them a call eight three to two eight eight four fifty three thirty five eight three two eight eight four fifty three thirty five year round Houston dot com for those of you inside the Beltway and out in the Richmond

Rosenberg area. I saw a lawn not too long ago, Well it was last year, actually not too many years ago that had been air rated, and it just you know, when it first is done, it's like you have all this little pausa soil on top of the surface. That's a good thing because that is those little plugs that they drop on the surface as they pull them out of the ground. When they melt in irrigation and rain and stuff, they just sort of dissolve and spread out.

And if you have a thatch problem, that is the single best way to get rid of thatch is a good aerration and compost top dressing over the top. It will speed the decomposition of that thatch up a lot. And you just can't believe the difference that it makes. It really does make a difference. You're listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to answer your gardening questions and just give me a call. Let's

figure out how we can help you. Seven one three two one two k t rh i UH stopped by Houston Power Coders a little while back and was looking at some of the jobs that they had gotten in and boy, they they have a extensive area, a shop area with many different kinds of bends where they can bring equipment and or bring furniture in from your yard

and powder coated. Powder coating is better than painting. So if you've got some old furniture out there that's kind of getting rusty, maybe the bolts holding it together or resting. Maybe it's you know, it's nice cast iron. Maybe it is a wrought iron table, maybe it's a luminum patio furniture. Whatever you've got, have them take a look at it. You can get a quote from them. All you do is email a picture of what you got to Sales at Houstoncoaters dot com. Sales at Houstoncoders dot com. See

I need to quote quote on this. They'll tell you they'll paint it. They'll put new hardware on it, you know, the bolts and nuts and bolts and washers and everything that holds everything together. And they use stainless steel for that so it doesn't rerust. They put plastic feed and end caps on. You know, I have you the tubular furniture where the ends are open, so they pop a plastic cap on there. They can do stairs, they can do

rails along and maybe a portrail. Do you have a light pole, you know in the yard, like or a lampole, a little oil gas lamp, or a light pole. They can do anything that's mottled pretty much out there. And if you're down at the coast and you got that salt spray kind of issue, they have special coating techniques

that they do that help that as well. You just got to give them a call to eight one six seven, six thirty eight eighty eight to eight one three seven six excuse me, six seven, six thirty eight eighty I'm gonna say that one more time. Two eight one six seven, six thirty eight eighty eight. Check out the website houstonpowdercoders dot com. Get some new life, oh in over one hundred colors, So whatever color you want something to be, they can make it that. It's amazing kind of cool.

I think you're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rictor. We're here to answer your gardening questions and we'll be talking about a variety of different things from edibles to beautiful flowers and lawns and whatnot as we get through the show this morning. We're here from six to ten on Saturdays and Sundays, so we look forward to visiting with you and helping you have success with

what you're doing. For those of you up in the Magnolia area, you've got Spring Creek Feed your hometown feed store. They're conveniently located in Mignoya on FM twenty nine seventy eight, so basically just minutes away from both Graham Parkway and Highway to forty nine. And they carry a full line of fertilizers like what you hear me talk about, the turf Star from Nelson, the Microlife, the nitrophoss. They have

things to control weeds, pests, and diseases. I love to walk in because you're greeted by friendly staff and it's a really cool store too. You walk in, you go, wait, wait a minute, this a feed store, because there's so much cool stuff in here. Well, yes it is, and much much more. They have a delivery service. They can special order if you need them to. That's Spring Creek Feed on FM twenty nine seventy eight and Magnolia. Check

them out. When you drive up, you'll know it. It's this big, beautiful, old time feed store facade that just looks great. Well, it looks to me like we're hitting time for me to take another break. I'll be right back. Folks, Hey, when was the last time that you took a trip out to Anti rosing for him? If you've never been to that place, you need to go. I love to go. And boy, when spring comes, oh my gosh, it's just

it's incredible. But you know, spring is when the blue bonnets are out and you get to drive through that country out that direction. You know, they're north of Brenham by the way up in Independence. The blue bonnets are just gorgeous. And of course the roses. I mean, that is prime time for roses and things. But it's always a good time to go out and visit the Antique Rose Imporium. The spring's almost here, as these days get warmer and our gardens kind of come alive, lots of beautiful,

vibrant boobs. There's not a better time to get out and explore the rose and Porium. Do you know they offer both free self guided tours and paid guided tours led by their owner, Jim Keater, So you can just wander the enchanting paths through the whole place yourself, at your own pace. Take a self guided tour, Look at the lush gardens, look at they have some cool historic structures. And they even have a little handy downloadable pamphlet so

you can self guide yourself across learning about everything. Or you can go on a tour that Gym leads and those are more in depth. They dive deeper into the history and horticulture behind all these landscapes. You got a lot of insights that Jim has it shares with you on the decades of care and cultivation that have basically shaped that place into the floor paradise that it is

right now. I always love to visit there. If you want to find out anything else about the Anti Grosmporium, you know the phone numbers, the how to get there, the what roses they have. Go to Antique Roseanmporium dot com. You need to follow them on social media because there's always things going on. Get on their email list Antique Roseanmporium dot com. They have events, they have workshops seasonally. They got some things coming up right now. But you've got to get out there and just check on it.

Ars Anti Grosenporum. By the way, did I have to tell you that February is for roses. February definitely is for roses, and it would be a good time to get out there and to check them out. They got something coming up called the Garden Party. It's March seventh, eighth, the ninth. Is just basically we're on it right now. You ought to give them a call see if they still have space out there. Some of the events are like really cool, really cool events where there's dinners and

other kinds of special things. But when you're out there, when you're calling them, rather going to visit the website, check out about that Spring celebration, the Garden Party, the Artisan Market. It's kind of drinks, desserts, music, and a lot lot more out there. It's a very special event in our lawns. I was talking to somebody the other day and they were asking about sweet Green. That's a

product that nitroposs cells. Sweet green is basically it's like a molasses based product that, through microbial activity on the molasses, is turned into an eleven zero zero fertilizer. One of the highest analysis for an organic plant food in that nitrogen category is really a big number for an organic product. It smells sweet too. I mean, well, imagine open up a jar of molasses and smell as kind of what it smells like Sweet green is available all over the place.

It's easy to find, not at all difficult, and it dissolves, you know, you put a little water on it, it dissolves away. And microbes love sugary carbon molasses types of materials that really stimulates their growth. And therefore the soil is better and the plants are happier. And sweet green is easy to find all over the place. For example, you got to Enchanted Forest and Richmond they got it there.

You're going to find it down at Ace Sinkle Ranch and the allspa ace up in the woodlands as well, and arbigate nurseries carry nitrofoss products in general as well. And the bottom line is just get out there and enjoy. And if you I jokingly say that when you throw sweet green in the back of your car and you head home, it smells so good you just want to make another trip around the loop before you go. That must be a good smell. They want to drive Loop

six ten for another lap. Nitropiz sweet green. The stuff works, It does for sure. I was talking with someone who was heading out to Nature's Way the other day and they were going to get some of the native plants. I don't know if you know this, But Nature's Way, you know, we think of them as soil because that's where gosh, that's the grandfather of the soil places in the Greater Houston area. It's been around a long time. John Ferguson years ago started that place, and his son

Ian now runs a place. Same tradition, same quality products, same quality care and making composts. But did you know that they sell native plants? In fact, they sell more than just native plants. They have a lot of different kinds of plants. But they are excellent source for many kinds of natives for here in the Greater Houston area. For those of you haven't been there, it's up on

Interstate forty five toward Conro. If you're going north on forty five, you exit fourteen eighty eight, which is the road that goes off to Montgomery. But instead of turning left, you're going to turn right across the railroad tracks and you're there at Nature's Way. You can go to uh you can give them a call, you can go by there. I just like to tell people, Hey, go to the website and check it out. You're gonna find a lot of information on the many different products that they carry.

And the website is easy to remember because it's the name of the company, Nature's Way Resources dot com. Nature's Way Resources dot com. It is spring, it is time to plant brown stuff before green stuff. Don't put plants in until you fix the soil. Nature's Way has a lot of different ways that you can fix the soil that work. You are listening to garden Line phone number here.

Seven one three two one two. Kind of a quiet day this morning on the phones here on garden Line, but we will be happy to take your call if you call, and maybe a little bit later, we're going about to hit break here pretty quick, and you just get on hold. We can make sure you're one of the first ones up when we come back from our top of the hour break that we're going to be

looking at in just a little bit here. I love garden centers, and I keep telling you folks that listen to garden Line that we are fortunate in the greater Houston area to have so many awesome garden centers. I don't care if you live north, south, east, West, or Central, you have an outstanding garden center near you. And for those of you, I would say more of the Central area,

especially although people drive there from all over. Buchanan's Native Plants on Eleventh Street is your local garden center right there, and Buchanans is just it's a wonderland of plants. They specialize in natives. They will have the most select the largest selection of natives in the whole region. And not just natives like Texas Natives, but natives like they have a table that's just say. These natives are right here in Harris County. Natives. You know, they're Houston Natives, and

that's kind of cool. Of course, they got vegetable plants. They've got great plants for shade. Their Housepoint greenhouse is just unbelievable. It's just outstanding. On Saturdays in the spring, the spring starts in February, by the way, here Saturdays in the spring, they have talks out there at the event. They have wheat, they have events out there at Buchanans Native Plants. It's just a good place to go. Go to the website. Go to the website. You really need

to do that. Buchanansplants dot com. Buchanansplants dot com. Check it out. Sign up for the newsletter. It is awesome. You get a lot of good information. When you go to the website, you're not just like, Okay, what are they selling me today? It's how to do stuff, how to prepare for a freeze, the garden to do checklist for February, for example. You know, you see what I'm saying, lot how to stuff that is very very helpful. Buchanan's Native plants. Go by and see them. It is a

fun place to visit. I always like going in there because I always learned something. You know, I've been doing horticulture. Well, I've been doing horticulture my whole life. I've been doing it professionally for thirty six years now. And you would think that I've seen every plant that there is and heard every question that there is, and that's not the case. There's always something new. Some native now is making it

to the market that we used to not have. Some new variety of tomato is out that is the best thing since slice bread. I don't know why they say that to me. The slice bread isn't as cool as a new tomato. We ought to say this is the best thing since a new tomato. Anyway, There's always something new out there to learn, and that's my gardening so much fun, just absolutely love it. Hey, guess what is going to be happening today. I'm going to be heading

out to All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis. All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis. I'm going to be there from twelve noon to two pm. So grab you an early lunch and come on out. I'll be answering your gardening questions. Bring me pictures from your property that you want to ask questions about, bring me samples of plants. Shove a bug and a bag and bring him in and I'll make him confess his name and we'll figure out what to do about him. Same with diseases. Come on out there.

I'm going to be giving away products from Nelson Plant Food and from the good folks at Medina. We've got a lot of good products to be given away out there. I even have a few Texas Gardener magazines on hand. If you haven't subscribed to that, that is an awesome magazine. If you need to subscribe, let me get a copy in your hand. Come on out again, All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis.

that the birds are not interested in eating. You know, you get some cheap bird feed, and that's what it is, cheap bird feed. And if you lose, if the birds don't eat half of what's in the sack, was that cheap bird feed? No, you paid twice as much for it. Wild Birds Unlimited has quality seed. Now they're going to have things like you can buy what's called a no mess blend, where even like the little sunflower shells are already taken off the kernels, so there's absolutely nothing on

the ground when you get through. But when they put something in a bag, they make sure that it's what birds are interested in eating. For example, their new product Cardinal Confetti Blend. It is awesome if you love redbirds, if you love the cardinals and bringing them in, Oh my gosh. They love safflower and black OL's sunflower and

sunflower chips. They love the bark butter bits that are in it, the peanut haves, the dried mealworms, the striped sunflower, something called nutrisaff It is a concoction that is just rocket fuel for your cardinals and they'll love it. While you're at Wilbirds Unlimited, pick up a Cardinal tube feeder. You don't have to have that to feed the Confetti Blend, but it's a cool feeder. Good evening Cardinal feeder is another one that they have there, and they're going to

be carrying this year round. This isn't just a spring thing at Wildbirds Unlimited. Now there's six Wildbirds Unlimited stores here in the Greater Houston area. Just go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston. You can find the store near you. When you walk in there, no matter what your bird question is, they're going to be able to help you. They're going to be able to point you in the right direction. And I warn you it's addictive because it happened to me. I love my warbird feeders

from Warbirds Unlimited. They are just outstanding. I have one that the squirrels can't get into. I love listening to the squirrel's cuss about that the outside. But they have so many cool feeders. And if you talk to my birds, they can tell you that they like them a lot. They like that feed a lot. They haven't started pecking on the windows yet, going hey, it's time to fill that thing up again, but they love that stuff. All right, folks, stop by Wildbird's Unlimited. You will enjoy it just like

I have. We're going to head out now to j D n fullsher Hey, JD. Welcome to Garden Line Hobby Skip. How you been doing I'm good, sir. How are you.

But I want to try something a little bit different because because I don't get any blooms about right.

soot grows on. So the soot is just an after effect of what the insects doing the systemic insecticides will go up in the plant, and so when they drink from the sap of the plant, they're getting the product that way. They're not a surface sprayed product. They're drenched on the soil product that works good. The only drawback on systemics is when they're there during the time when blooms are on the plant. You can hurt bees that way, and so that's why we tend to avoid those when

we can. In the spring, the bark scale, tiny baby crawlers come out from the little mother scale have produced and they crawl out all all over to create new spots you know, where they're feeding. They honker down and feed and have that protective covering over them. During that crawler stage. Are very susceptible, and that's going to be sometime in your area. That's going to be sometime in either late March or April that we typically see the crawlers,

depending on how fast the year warms up. You can use a double sided sticky tape, put it around the branches and just check it every couple days. Just look at it and see if you see little tiny reddish bugs that are in There's that tells you it's time, and at that point you can treat them with oil sprays and any kind of insects said really is going to be effective against them. Then when they're in the

scale stage, it's just hard to control them. We can use oils, but they're just not as effective as with other scales. So that's the challenge with those particular insects.

but that's when to put the drench down. It moves up in the plant at that time, and then when the spring scale hunker down season comes, that's that's when you'll you'll get them by putting the poison in the plumbing of the plant.

back to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richtor, and we're here to help you have success. Listen, there is nothing that makes a patio more beautiful than gorgeous potted plants just putting all around the patty. I was talking to somebody the other day about how to set up a little drip irrigation system where there's a little sprinkler thing in each of your plant pots, and so it is on a timer. It comes on, it just does all the watering for you. And when you get a

lot of containers, that's a challenge. I'll tell you. One of the secrets to success with those containers is quality soil. It browns up before green stuff, even in a container. It's true. Nothing makes a patty more more enjoyable, and nothing is going to help you have beautiful plants more than a quality makes it drains well. It holds moisture, but it drains excess moisture away. I don't care if

you're growing flowers or if you're growing vegetables. And jungle land from nitrophoss is an example of that kind of soil mix, that kind of potting saut that kind of container mix. It's specifically blended with Canadian blond peat. It's got four different sources of a kind of an aged, decomposed bark. It's got micro rise of fungi in it also, and that you know, works with the plant roots to ensure that the plants are healthy for long lasting, beautiful,

vibrant color. Now, if you want indoor plants, if you want something for them, there's a jungle land with water saving crystals, and it's called jungle land water saving potting soil. So these low crystals soak up with water and then when you forget, I know you don't forget, but if you were to forget to water, you've got a little extra reserve there of moisture to hold your plants because they can't yell at you and go, hey, we're dying in here. But the crystals hold them over until you

get back to water in them. And you're going to find jungle land like other Microsoft Microsoft, Oh my god, Nitrofoss products at places like Ingenda Gardens down to Richmond, rosenber On I forty five hiding and feed up hiding on Stupor Airline actually north. Uh, you're gonna find it a Fisher's Harder. Both the one in Pasadena, the one in the Port, the one in Bellevue, and the one in Baytown all places to get quality products from Nitrofoss,

not Microlife. You're not gonna get any of that for Microlife. No excuse me from Microsoft. I can't even talk this morning. Got good quality products out there, Oh my gosh, oh boy, All right, well, let's let me quit talking. I'm gonna put a collar up here, Elizabeth and Oak Forest, can you help make some sense. I'm having trouble today.

So it's loan, but that work here in Sell nine, what would you recommend?

Sometimes it looks good. Sometimes you know you'll have areas that don't, and so you're not going to have that evenness across there that you might be looking for. There are other plants that do super well. If you want something that you almost can ignore and it looks pretty good. There is a groundcover called a frog fruit. Frog fruit, Oh yeah, yeah. It has little tiny white flowers on sticks, but it's spreads, it gets thick, and it it basically

is a weed. It's a native plant that grows in our area, and I've I've seen it making beautiful groundcovers and you're not gonna have to water it a lot, which is nicely so I was.

and it helps hold the clay open. But only if you use enough of it. You know, just putting a little bit of shale in doesn't accomplish much. Putting two or three inches in makes a lot of difference on it. But that would get that would get costly, so you may want to price that out.

with them right now. It looks so good. They have a good array of different kinds of apples, peaches, plums that are low chill, that are able to survive and produce well in an area that doesn't get a whole lot of chilling like they do further up north. So certain varieties, but they know which ones to bring in. So when they say you have variety down, there's a variet it's going to grow well in your area. And when you're there, you can also pick up your citrus.

They've got some really nice satsumas. Satsumas are about as cold hearty as citrus can get. You know, there are there's actually kum quats that are a little heartier. But if you want a mandarin type orange and you want something hardy, you're not going to do better than a good satsuma. They've got the soils, they've got the tools, they've got the fertilizers and everything else you need to have success. The way I would say is to creature,

create your own garden. Of eaton, get it eat I n all right, I know you're rolling in the all out there, all right, but anyway, that's true. Vegetables, herbs, fruit trees, and while you're out there, check out the flowers, check out the shrubs. Grab you one of those beautiful flowering shrubs that they carry. They have crepe myrtle types out there. They also have my favorite spring flowering tree,

which is Chinese fringe tree. Those are just beautiful and they don't get too big, so they fit a lot of local lots. You're gonna find them out on FM twenty seven fifty nine if you're heading from Richmond towards sugar Land. They're off to the right on twenty seven to fifty nine. That's Enchanted Forest. And I would recommend also when you're wanting to find out more about them, that you just go out to the web or go onto the website and check them out there. It is

easy to find. Here's the web address Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Check out their upcoming events this spring out there, and bottom line is just go get yourself out there and enjoy it. Tomorrow afternoon's going to be nice, perfect day. Go ahead and plant it tomorrow afternoon. Head out there, enchanted forest and Richmond. I get questions all the time about lawn nutrients and things, and one of the things people ask

me about is trace minerals. What does that mean? Tracem or micro nutrients? What's the difference? There is no difference. Trace minerals or micronutrients are the same thing. Azimite is the product that we talk about on Gardenline. I talk about in girdline that has the trace minerals in it. It is mined out of the ground as a supplement that is ground up and made into a form that you can spread on your lawn, just like you spread

fertilizers other fertilizers on the lawn. This has the tiny trace nutrients that are essential for a plant to grow, but are needed in small amounts. That's why forty four pound bag of azimite's going to cover six to twelve thousand square to your lawn. Now you can go to ASMIT Texas and find out more about it. But I'll tell you this pretty much the places you hear me talk about on garden Line, from feed stores to these hardware stores to garden centers and so on are going

to have as amite. Now's a good time to put it out. In fact, anytime is a good time to put out asamite because it does work very, very very well, and you don't have to tie it to a growing season like we do with our nitrogen based fertilizers. Okay, the ones with the three numbers on the bag, those follow my schedule. Follow my schedule. It tells you when to put them on. And now's the early spring green

up optional application. Once we get into April mode the lawns a couple of times, that's when we're going to be putting down starting our summer series of applications on the lawn. As amite. Anytime of the year. You can do it now, you know, you can do it when you fertilize. Just don't put the same product two products in the same hopper, you know, fertile and then as might think of it that way because a particle size is different, and that way you get it out nice

and evenly. Something that is important to do now now. Now asap is barricade by nitrofoss. Barricade is a pre emergent herbicide. You gotta get it down before the warm season weeds start germinating, and they are going to be germinating. We get through this coal spell and they're gonna be popping up. Get some down. I'd get it down this weekend. Barricade pre Emergent, a ten pound bag covers five thousand square feet. You water it in with about a half inch of water and then you walk away and it

takes you. You'll never see the weeds because it doesn't let them show up. You're gonna find it at Plantation Ace out there in Richmond Rosenberg at Langham Creek Ace on FM five twenty nine. You're gonna find it at RCW Nurser. You're going to find it at Lake Hardware, both the one in Angkleton and the one include All right, time for me to take a little bit of break

here for some news and weather. And I don't know what all they're going to tell us here in just a minute, but I'll be back if you'd like to give me a callby first up seven one three two one two kt RH. All right, folks, welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Really looking forward to visiting with you. About your gardening questions. We're going to go straight out to Houston here and talk to Mike. Good morning Mike, and welcome to garden Line.

in a bigger pot? On one is it is a tear drop pot where the face is bigger than the neck. So okay, what about killing the tree if I try to dig it out there as a post? Yeah, so your your suggestion is helput.

the way around in a circle. But if you could get it out of there somehow, uh, it would give it a better longer term option, and then you can move it too a bigger pot, and and then that way always get you know, get a pot that has straight sides or more of a V shape than a capital A shaped as you have, and that way you can always bump it out if you want. All right, good luck.

Sound Point Aquarius. UH Growers Outlet and Willis carries fertilizers that you hear me talk about like microlife, like nitrofoss like medina for example. UH and they have an excellent stock of all kinds of plants from veggies and bedding plants to perennials and ferns, nice shrubbery, lots of shrubbery, lots of trees as well. They even have big baskets, giant fern baskets that are just outstanding. Now. You can go to their website Growers Outlet in Willis. Don't forget

the word in Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. They're on Highway seventy one in Willis, just a few months away from Interstate forty five, and you can go to the website and you can see plants and you can see what they have in stock. They update every Wednesday evening. They update their veggie list online, so there's no guessing. Go check them out, but do go buy there. They have a great gift shop, locally sourced honey and pickled food and jellies and jams and bath and beauty products.

It's kind of a cool place when you walk around in there. Check out that greenhouse where they do grow a lot of their own stuff in there, and it is really nice. This is a special place Growers Outlet in Willis for all of you up in that area. This is really convenient Growers Outlet Willis dot Com. We're going to go to Port Arthur now and talk to Allen. Hey, Allen, welcome to garden Line.

of that away. And so you'd rather not do that, And I would wait and let my irrigation, which I'm in control of, do it. But from what I'm seeing in the weather, looks like maybe you could go ahead and get it down and let that dissolve it into the soil because it's going to start warming up a little next week and the grass will begin taking it up and getting greener as a result. Okay, very good. Then I'm going to get out there right now.

And here's the deal. Our soils that are clay, especially, they shrink and they swell, they get wet, they get bigger, they get dry, they shrink up, and that's why you see cracks in the ground, by the way in a clay soil, because it shrinks up. Well, if it's a sidewalk or driveway, it creates a mass. If it's a foundation of your home, it can crack the whole foundation. And you notice it because you walk around the house and you see bricks that have cracks in them. Especially

look underneath the windows. That's one of the main places you see this. Like the corners of the windows going down toward the foundation, you see cracks there. Not the only place, but that's one of the places. Go inside you see sheet rock cracks, or maybe a door that wasn't sticking before starts to stick after some rain and the ground swells up, or after a dry spell and the ground shrinks up. That door is sticking and it used to not all signs you may have some movement.

You need to have it looked at. Tye will do it. Listen. I recommend him without question, because he does it right. He shows up when he says he's going to show up. He gives you a fair price, and he fixes it right. And if it doesn't need to be done, he'll tell you. He goes, no, this is movement, but this isn't too much movement. You're okay, let's just keep an eye on it. He'll shoot straight with you on that. Tell him you're

a guarden Line listener. Get a free estimate fix my dot com fixmislab dot com two eight one two fi five forty nine forty nine two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. You are listening to garden Line and I am your host, Skiprechtor, who at this moment are slightly distracted by something going on in the room. Seven one three two one two k t r h seven one three two one two k t r h uh.

Microlife Fertilizer has It's been around for over thirty five years and it is a favorite of landscape professionals and gardeners. It is the number one selling organic fertilizer here in the Houston area the Greater Houston area actually sold in a wide wide range of areas. Microlife works. It is a product that is a quality made product that releases

through microbial activity in the soil. Most Microlife products are chock full of their own microbes as well, but that activity you get those products moist and the microbes go to work and they release the nutrients at a gradual pace for your plants the way nature does. That's how nature does.

going to have success with it. With Microlife products now, Microlifefertilizer dot Com is a website. You can go there find out where to get it. But I can tell you this, it's about as widely available as any fertilizer you're gonna find here in the greater use scenario. I've been using it myself for over eight years now, and I find I've tried a lot of different ones. I'm working my way through their long list, extensive list of quality products, and every time I try one, I find

that it does very, very well. Right now would be a good time to put out their humates. Plus, also, that's a purple bag and that has think of it this way, concentrated compost in a bag. That's what he makes amounts to you put that out. I would do it on an annual basis. Get it out there, get it and you put it on more than once a year if you want. But as it works its way into the soil, it's going to get better and better and better. Time for me to take a quick break

when I come back. Kyle and Austin, you're gonna be our first up. He remembers that. All right, folks, welcome back to guarden Line. So glad you're with us today. We've got a lot of things to talk about and we're going to go right to the phone. Chare in just a second. I did want to mention to you that if you don't have a tree hugger sprinkler, you need to get one. Put in the garage, have it on hand because you're gonna need it. Treehagger sprinklers are cool.

They have a little hinge and think of it as a circle that wraps around the tree trunk because it has a little hinge on it and it sprinkles as big of an area as you want. If you turn it on a little bit, it would be good for putting out I say tree, It would be good for putting on a rose bush. Maybe you plant it a rose bush this spring and you want to give it a little bit of water right there where the root ball is around the base. You just turn it on

a little bit. That treeharker comes in a seven inch size diameter, an eleven inch and a fifteen inch size. And if you really crank it up. I mean, you may have a tree that's fifteen years old and we get into a summer drought one hundred degrees for one hundred days with no rain. That kind of thing. You crank that thing up and rescue your tree. And not only do you keep a plant from dying, but you help it to thrive so it gets bigger faster. In the case of a rose, you get nice, healthy rose bush,

lots of blooms. In the case of a tree, you can hang a hammock in it sooner. You know what I'm saying. That's what I mean Tree huggersprinklers dot com. That's where you find a retailer near you or I can just save you some time. You're going to find

him at the arbor Gate. You're gonna find him at Nelson Water Gardens at RCW and Warren's Garden Center and Kingwood Garden Center out there in Kingwood, down in Richmond, Rosenberg and Chany Gardens and Channey Forests, D and D Feed and Supply in Tomball Spring Creek feed Center, League City feed down in League City, Southwest Fertilizer, and lots of Ace hardware stores like Single Ranch and Katie Ace and K and m Ace Hardware out in a Tascasita and fullsher Ace Hardware as well. All some of the

many places where you can find tree hugger sprinklers. You need one, hang it in the garage. You're gonna want to pull it out for shrubs for trees, especially as we start getting into hotter weather and you're wanting to make sure that the water gets put in the right spot. We're gonna go now to Austin and talk to Kyle. Hello, Kyle, welcome to Garden Line.

that are there are just really desiccated dead. There's not a lot of green. I've followed your advice and gotten a bag of pre emergent that I'm going to put down after this rain passes today, and I'm curious what your thoughts are on best ways to manage this garden that hasn't been a garden, it's been an overgrown brush patch.

get any way. You can get mulch out there, and you know, grass clippings, leaves from people's yards, spend Hey, whatever kinds of mult you can get out over the garden would help prevent most of your weed problems if the brush starts to come back. There's a publication on my website and it's called Herbicides to use with Skips

weed wiper, And basically what it amounts to. One of the items on there is for brushy weeds, and it tells you the product to get and all you do is you cut the weed off, the brush off and you dab that product directly on the fresh cut and it moves down in the plant and kills it. That's the best way. You don't need to spray and get that spray all over the place where you're going to hurt something. Just dab the fresh cut. But it's all on my website, so I'll just refer you to that.

As far as the rest, again, multi is part of your best bet.

a lot of rich material that's decomposed away. And in the meantime, it's gonna keep those weeds down where the number of weeds you're having a sprayer are much much less. But whatever kind of free organic matter you can get and get out there on the ground in a thick layer of mulch, that is going to be your friend. And in a long time you're gonna have a much better soil when you get ready to garden. I'm sorry I have to have to run, but I do against

the clock here. Good luck with that. Thank you for the call. Call back anytime. Out in Kingwood. You got two garden centers. You got Warren Southern Gardens and you got Kingwood Garden Center. And they're both awesome. Warren's is on North Park, Kingwood's on Stone Hollow. They're both open seven days a week. They are the place to go

to get beauty for your landscape. They're the place to go to get cool Statuary, to get gorgeous pottery, to get advice on how to put together your own mixed planter. You know what you want of those planters have several different kinds of flowers and plants in it, and it's just billowing up and spilling out and looks good. These

places know what they're talking about. They're gonna carry the fertilizers that I talk about on Guardline, like Nitropossen and Nelson's in Microlife, and they're gonna have things like heirloom soils for example. They just have a wide variety of things and they sold serve that whole Northeast squadrant up there and that part of town. You got to go buy and check them out though, and go online and check them out there as well again. Warren Southern Gardens

on North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow. Those places are busting with the seams a good great plants right now, and you need to go see them all right, doing me for a little curve there. Hey, I'm gonna be today out at All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis All Seasons, Acehardware and Willis just go to aceharbare dot com buy in the store locator. If you don't know where All Seasons is, it'll take you right to it.

Make it easy to find it. I'm gonna be giving away Nelson plant food products and Medina products as well. I got a lot of them on hand to give away, So if you show up, there's a good chance you're gonna get one. We're gonna have some Texas Gardener magazines. You got to see that if you haven't seen it before. Bring me samples, bring me pictures, let's meet, let's talk. Let's solve your gardening problems face to face on their air. I don't have a lot of time, but it face

to face. We can talk on bay.

of curious. Can you can call and tell my producer email me the suggestions that you have. And I'm not in a hurry to do anything right now, but I'm just kind of curious what do the listeners think about that. We'll see, Well, you are listening to garden Line. I'm your hope host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a bountiful garden, a beautiful landscape, and definitely

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That stuff works. Now, if you've got weeds in your lawn right now, that in other words, you see the weeds now, that is a cool season weed. The warm season weeds. They are little tiny seeds trying to germinate and get going here this time of the year. Time to stop them before they do. But if you've got weeds growing now, turf Star Weedinator buy Nelson is a product that works, and it works in many ways. Listen to this kind of cool. First of all, it's got

a product in it to kill the weeds. I'm talking about chickweed, clover, dandelion, dollarweed, grasper, purslane, ragweedspurds, whatever the weeds are, it will kill them. You want to water your lawn just enough to wet the weeds. You're not trying to wet the soil. You just wet in the surface, and immediately you take your weedinator, which is a combination of fertilizer and a weed control, a post emergent broad

leaf weed control. You're taking it out there and you're applying it, and those granules stick to the wet weed surfaces and they soak in. After a couple of days, good and watered in. Move it down in the soil. That's fine. Get that nutrient down in there. It's going to work. And for about the first six weeks you're going to get a quick release a fertilizer to start

some growth. Get it going. As the soil warms up, a different kind of nitrogen in that product gets released, and in a late spring, a third kind of product is going to be released. So you're looking like months of feeding from this one application, and all the winter weeds that are about to go to seed, you shut them down now. Once they're blooming and setting seed, they're hard to kill. Don't delay. Do the weed inator right now. You can find it a lot of different places around town.

But timing is everything, so don't delay. Get that done. Let's run out to West Houston and we're going to talk now to Mike. Hey, Mike, welcome to garden Mine.

you know, just to protect them. Chances of us having just one of those in the teen's cold has diminished quite a bit. But I don't have a crystal ball, so we have to go by the averages. And if you want to be a little cautious, if you got a lot of dollars, you know, in all those plants, just hang onto a move mountain the sun, leave them out on the ground, make sure they get watered every day, and just give it a little bit more time. Head your bed a little bit if you want to go

about it that way. That's perfectly okay, Thank you so much. I appreciate it all right, Mike, you take care, appreciate, appreciate your call. You know that that is funny that he said that I was looking at Orgey, you know Jorges Hidden gardens down in the Alvin area. It's just south of Highway six on Elizabeth Street. That's out there. Well.

Horay posted to social media he had a living room full of plants and his wife's wanting to know one of these plants getting out of my living room because you know, we've had cold and Horay's got so many shipments in it is incredible. You see the place right now, I mean he really does. He's got all kinds of fruit trees if you're looking for apples and peaches, if you're looking for pears and plums. And I know he has blueberries, I know he has citrus trees. I know

he has blackberries out there. He just has everything, shrubs and trees, plenty of things. Horace Hidden Gardens. They are a great place. And please get Orge out of the doghouse by helping get those plants out of the living room. Go pick some of them up and take them home with you. Horace Hidden Gardens. Got some good Peggy Martin

roses out there again. They're on Elizabeth Street and Alvin, just south the highway six raz Hidden Gardens for all of you down in the Alvin, Santa Fe, Dickinson Hillcrest, Algoa Alta Loma, that whole region down there, Hidden Gardens. Time for me to take a break. We'll be back already.

Welcome back to garden Line. You'd like to give me a call talk gardening seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two on two k t r A A. It's gonna be raining today, a little bit misty, not messy rain, just eh, misty, messy rain, that kind of stuff. All right, what are you gonna do this afternoon? I have an idea. Grab you some lunch and then come on out, Come on up to Willis, come see me if you're up in that area. Lake Conroe, Uh Conroe itself, Willis New Waverley,

that whole region up there. Come on and see me. I'm gonna be at All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis, and guess what will be indoors. It will be warm, it will be dry, and we're gonna be having a good time. I'm gonna be giving away Nelson plant Food Products and Medina Plant Food Products. Have some Texas Gardener magazines on hand for those of you who have not subscribe to that yet. You need to, by the way,

and I'll be there answering your gardening questions. Take some pictures of the landscape, bring them to me, Bring some samples in if you want me to identify. And maybe you got a weed and it's like, what's this weed? And how do I kill it? Or can I eat it? I'll answer those questions however you want to, however you want to ask it. Come on out again. It is

All Seasons, Ace Hardware and Willis. And like any Ace Hardware store, you just go to Acehardware dot Com find the store locator and you can find all the stores in the Greater Houston area. Just pict your zip code in there or whatever, tell them where you live, or just look at the whole map for Houston. There's a lot of good ones that you can go to. But today all season Ace and willis from twelve noon to two pm. Looking forward to seeing you out there. Hope

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They have a mosquito control system that is state of the art, and it's not like they're going blasting mosquitos all over the place. They use these little bucket type bait stations that are put out. It's the industry's green standard for safe effective mosquito control. So these bait stations, they put out an odor that attracts mosquitos to them. The mosquitos go in and they land on this little

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people in the environment. Call Pestbros. Two eight one, two oh six forty six seventy and say I want to hear more about this mosquito control system because summer's coming, and if you live in Houston, I have a I don't even need a crystal ball. You're gonna have mosquitoes, That's all I'm saying. All Right, we're gonna run out here on the phones to a task asita and talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden line.

them about it. You know, you can do about an inch at a time or two inches maybe, and you can gradually sort of raise that level up and whatever is growing over it and you don't trip on the roots that way. So that would be an alternative to cutting a root off, but I would prefer to do the phill approach. But you can remove let's say a root a year and.

for early green up. If you this is an optional on my schedule, but if you want to see your long get green early on and now the cool weather like this is not going to it's not going to grow yet until it warms up, but it will green up, and that's why we call it the early greenup. And Nitrofoss Imperial is a quick release fertilizer gets us nutrients right down there into the soil for that grass to take up into Greenup and it is people have been

doing this for a very long time. Randy had heron on his schedules as a matter of fact as well. UH Nitrofoss Imperial fifteen five ten. And where do you get Nitroposs Imperial fifteen five to ten? Well, anywhere? UH Plantation Ace Hardware at Richmond Rosenberg. You're going to find it at Langham Creek Ace Hardware in the Cypress area on the five twenty nine RCW Nursery Lake Hardware done in Angleton Lake Hardware done in Clute too, by the way,

is a place that carries our Nitrofoss products. You are listening to garden Line the phone number seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two kt r h H swinging by Arburgate the other day. I'm just I am just so impressed with the amount of stuff that they have gotten in it. I mean the truckloads of all kinds of things. And if you've been to Arburgate, you know it's always that way.

Arbrogate is one of those destination garden centers. You know, you have family that comes in from out of town, you got to take them to Arbrogate. They've never seen anything like it. I mean, it is, it is just outstanding. Now Arbigate is going to be closing today at five pm. At five pm, just be aware of that. It's kind of cold out there. I'm kind of messy, and you know, people don't get enthusiastic about shopping on a day like this.

But let me tell you this, Tomorrow afternoon is going to be awesome weather and Arburgate has got everything you need. Do you want to grow potatoes, They've got the potatoes. They even have a container that you can grow potatoes in. I mean, come up with your own if you want, plant them in the ground if you want, but go by there. Now's the time to get it done. Do you want beautiful color? How about some gorgeous echination? Echination

is also called cone flower. You know, the native types are white and purple, but now there's so many colors and butterflies love them. They make good cut flowers. I mean, it's it's just typical of Arburgate to find everything that you might need to have success with your garden, from houseplants to fruit trees which they carry year round, to the quality products for the soil. Their one two three easy system, completely easy. It's a fertilizer for anything with

roots and organic fertilizer. As a matter of fact, it is a compost or a soil based product. First of all, a soil based product for putting in your ground to create your beds, and then a compost to also mix into the soil to improve the soil. And both the soil and the compost have expanded shale added, which in our clay soils is essential. Remember what I say on

garden Line, brown stuff before green stuff. When you go home from Arbrogate, go home with those three bags or more and your plants so that you can create the foundation to make your plants happy. Arburgate is west of Tombal on twenty nine to twenty easy to get to. Make sure to take Trischel Road which swings around behind Arburgate like a little loop. Off twenty nine to twenty. Park in the back. Awesome all weather lot right there

behind Arburgate. We're gonna speaking of Tom Ball. We're gonna head out now to tom Ball and talk to John. Hey John, welcome to garden Line.

have to unfortunate, I'm gonna have to run here. But don't worry about using that one. Don't use don't use the actressne all right, all right, John, thank you? Yeah, yes, sir, appreciate that. Yeah. Ace Hardware stores are all over town with Ace Hardware. Everything you hear me talk about on Guardline. You're gonna find it Ace Hardware. ACE Hardware stores right now. This month. I have twenty percent off mon faucets this month. They have buy three air filters, get one free this month.

Take advantage of that. The President's sale on all kinds of paint and supplies has been going on at ACE Hardware now. No matter what you need, you need to first make sure you sign up for the ACEH Rewards Program because you get discounts and you get special offers only for ACE Rewards customers that are part of the ACEH Rewards Program. If they email them directly to you. I belong myself. It works. Ace Hardware dot Com. Find the store locator, find the stores near you. They are

all over this listening area. ACE Hardware the place for everything you need outside in your lawn and garden and landscape, but also a lot of things for indoors. Time for me to take a little quick break here. Don't forget today. I'm going to be up at ACE Hardware in Willis all seasons Ace from twelve noon to two pm. It will be dry inside, it will be warm inside. Come see me, let's talk gardening. I'll be right back.

sweet Green. It smells wonderful. You can find sweet green everywhere you find your nitrofoss products. You know places for example like Court Hardware down in Stafford, Katie Hardware, Ace out on Pinoak plants for all seasons. Luetta the Stanton shopping center down in Alvin, just some of the many places that carry Sweet Green by Nitrofoss. It's absolutely wonderful. I love the fragrance of it. I mean, it's weird to sit here and talk and go on and on

about a fragrance of a fertilizer. But it really is good. It really is nice. They've really done their homework, and organic sweet Green, that plant food is a great, great way to go now. I was talking earlier to somebody. We were discussing the nitrofos, the one the wheat and feed that has trimec and the wheaton feed that has atrozine in it, And the two bag colors are so close in my mind's eye, I couldn't picture the difference.

And I want to be real clear about this. The blue bag, the bright blue bag, that is the one that has trimec. The purple bag has atrozine. The call was about Bermuda grass, Slawns. You don't use atrozine on bermuda, but you can use trimech on bermuda. You can use trimec on Saint Augustine, Bermuda, centipede, Bhea's zoisia, a lot of things. But when it comes to the atrosine product. You don't hear me talk about that much. But no, no, no, on bermuda with that product only. But the trimeac product

kills broad leaf weeds. Aderzine prevent weeds from germinating or kill very young seedlings too, But the trimec that is the one for broad leaf post emergent. The blue bag, So no matter what kind of long you have, the blue bag will work as a post emergent. I hope that's not too confusing. But you know, when we start talking about products, and any product can be made used any you know, any matter of the product, you got to be careful and you've got to follow the label

and watch it because it matters. It matters, just like thinking medicine for your body. Maybe medicine that's making you healthier, but if you mistake it or if you take the wrong ones, I mean, that's a problem. And so don't just be indiscriminate, and please don't do the thing we guys often do where if a teaspoons good, a tablespoons better, you know it's a swatting a mosquito. I'm going to get a sixteen pound sedge hammer and kill it really did. Nah,

don't take that approach. That will come back to bite you. For those of you down in the Seabrook area, down south and east of the Houston area, Moss Nursery is your hometown garden center. Of course, you've lived down there, you probabarily know about Mosh, probably been there to Moss.

They in the spring. I mean that place is like it just lines of trucks, six to eight shipments day coming in literally just unloading all kinds of things, and right now they are stocked with vegetables and herbs and flowers. Of course, always you're gonna find beautiful hanging baskets at Moss Nursery. They always have beautiful hanging baskets. If you need fruit, trees, if you need shrubs, if you need anything.

I think one of the most fun parts about Moss is walking around the eight acre that's right, eight Acre Nursery, and every time you turn a corner you see something else cool you didn't expect to see. Maybe it's something unusual like a carved out wooden canoe, or maybe it is some sort of a sculpture, a garden concrete garden sculpture out there, or a different kind of little fountain that they've got splashing the water and creating that beautiful ambient.

This is a seventy year old family operated nursery in Seabrook on Toddville Road. For those of you who've never been out there, Hey, go down, get you some lunch in Kima, and go visit Moss Nursery. Make a nice outing of it. It's a great place. They got lots of a small cacti and succulents and wonderful tropical house plants in the houseplant greenhouse where I promise you it will be dry today inside the greenhouse. It's a nursery. It's not just another garden center. It is a destination place.

Moss Nursery dot com, Maas Nursery dot com two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight two eight one four seven four two four eight eight.

what products to use, when to apply them. The other is what goes wrong with your lawn schedule, and it's the weeds, the pests, and the diseases that attack lawns when they occur, and what to use. Both contain organic and synthetic options. So there's a lot of things on these schedules that help you time what you're gonna do right. For example, right now, if you're going to do a premergent, now's the time to do it, because if you wait until the weed drop too late, now's the time to

do it. Now. You get my schedules out and you look at all those products, all the organics, all the synthetics, and you go, where can I find everything on this schedule and everything that comes out of Skip's mouth on guarden line. Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer has been around since nineteen fifty five. Seventieth anniversary, Happy birthday, Southwest Fertilizer. Happy birth I will say, happy birthday, Bob. The congratulations on

the seventieth anniversary of Southwest Fertilizer. I'm going to hear about that the next time I go in there. Anyway, anything that comes out of my mouth's going to be in that store. They have everything you need. And if they don't have it, you don't need it, because they have everything you need. It doesn't matter if it's controlling bests controlling diseases. Do you need some tools, quality pruning tools? Well, do you think if you walked your way down on

ninety foot wall of tools you could find something? Yes, you can, and they're good ones. Do you need seed like seed packets? Do you need seed like the bulk seed? You know the old time bends used to see those like you feed stores in places. You have a bin and you get a little scoop and scoop out the seed and put it in an Envelope's very economical way to buy seed. Bob's got one of those bends there at Southwest Fertilizer, so you can do that there too.

Take them a sample, take them a picture, let them put their eyes on it, and they will tell you what it is and what you need to do. If you need to spray and they're going to have it, they'll walk you right over to it. It's friendly service, it's quality products, it's unbelievable selection. What else can you

ask for? Southwest Fertilizer dot Com if you'd like to give them a call seven one three six sixty six one seven four four seven one three one six sixty sixty six one seven four four Now Neilson Plant Food has a coup a number of products that are in jars OH clear jars of the screw top lead. One of the lines of products they have is called nutris Star, and there's a nutri Star for all kinds of plants from plumerias to hibiscus, to citrus fruit and avocado and

tree and shrub. Those last two I want to tell you about. Tree and shrub has five sources of nitrogen that feed for about three or four months, and they have the micronutrients in them. I don't care what kind of true or shrub you have. This stuff works. No nutri Star tree and shrub from Nelson. Now nutri Star citrus fruit and avocado. Anything that you're going to grow to eat fruit off of, put citrus fruit and avocado on it again about every three months. It's going to

provide all the nutrients that it needs. And you know, whether you're growing fruit tree and the landscape or fruit tree and a container, nutri Star citrus fruit and avocado really really works. And you know a lot of these jar products from Nelson. There's several places around town that will give you a refill state. So just like you're buying peanuts in the grocery store, you know, you put

a little handle and fill the bag. You can refill your Nelson products that way there at the stations, which is good for the environment, saves plastic and good for your pocket book as well. Time for me to take a break. We'll be right back. Hey, welcome to garden Line, folks. Good to have you with us. Thank you a little bit of pure prairie league there on this good Saturday morning. Good Saturday morning to be inside talking about gardening, learning

about gardening. Glad you're with us today. Listen, if you have indoor plants and you are looking for a quality product for the soil for those indoor plants, that would be jungle land. You know, when you have houseplants and a container, you want a soil that drains well. You do not want it to stay mucky, soggy, wet. Buddy, you do want it to hold water. You don't want to water just to run right out and not hold

any water. Jungle Land is a good quality soil like that, and they have an outdoor version called jungle Land Flour and Vegetable Potting Soil. I'm talking about the indoor version which is called jungle Land water saving potting soil. It has these little crystals in it and they get wet and swell up. They look like a little clear jello, a little tiny pieces of clear jello, and jungle Land by doing that allows your soil to dry out but still be a little bit of moisture there in case

you forgot to water. So it makes it, let's say more forgiving of a neglectful watering schedule. Jungle Land is just one of the many quality products you can get from Nitrofosh. You can find it in a wide variety of the retailers of Nitrofoss kinds of products. Places you know that carry their products include M and D hardware that would be on Beamer, Sagemont that MD clear Lake out in clear Lake, of course, plants and things up in Brennam carries Nitrofoss products and MD up in Cyprus

on Luetta. They also carry the nitrofoss types of products, quality products that work. You were listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two ktr H seven one three two one two KTRH Black to give us a call and you don't delay. We can get you on here before we take a break. I was at it in Chanick Gardens not too long ago, giving a talk out there on basically lazy gardening is

how to make gardening less work. And I had a really good time with all the folks that came out, and being out there just reminds me every time I go out, it reminds me again. This place is an expanse of everything you could need. This is another garden center destination. Family comes to town, take them out there. Tomorrow afternoon be a good time to get out too. It's gonna be good weather tomorrow to get out there doing Chenny Gardens. They are on the Katie fullsher Side

of Richmond on FM three point fifty nine. So uh, I would just do it this way. I would just go to the website because there you're gonna find out everything. You can sign up for the newsletter it's an awesome website. It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com has been around since nineteen ninety five, and it is truly an unforgettable garden center. Herbs and vegetables and native plants and roses and shrubs and trees and fruit

and hanging baskets and just succulents and beautiful. Gosh, their pottery selections unbelievable. Gift shops are unbelievable. I mean, it's just you name it. It's good. You hear me talk about fertilizers like Microlife, nitroposs, Nelson Medina, they got them. You hear me talk about soil, Major's Way heirloom so they carry that stuff. They just everything you need, brown stuff and green stuff. They got you covered out there at in Chanty Gardens, including some really nice fountains and

wim chimes and Whimsickle garden art. It's hard for me to say Whimsickle anyway, it's a fun play. You need to go if you haven't been, and you know, a little bit misty today, I understand that, but I'm telling you tomorrow afternoon, Oh gosh, you gotta get out there. Don't delay. Hey, you want first pick? By the way, I got a bunch of tomatoes in I saw the other day. Don't let them get all picked over. Get out and get your own there while you still have

a really good supply. We're going to head now up to Nederland and talk to Randy. Hello, Randy, welcome to garden Line.

grow fast enough, and the flowers aboard. In the summertime, the pollen doesn't shed right and get to where it needs to be, and the tomatoes aboard, and so blossom set is a way of getting the tomato to not abort that little blossom, but to hang on to it and to help it to establish and grow, and so it's kind of a way around some of those issues

that can happen with tomatoes in general. If you've got decent weather conditions and if your tomatoes are moving a little bit in the wind, you're going to get good Set in a greenhouse where there's no wind. They actually go in and shake the vines in different ways of doing that, but they shake the vines and cause that pollen to fall into the flower right where it can pollinate it. Tomatoes don't have to have a bee carrying

pollen from flower to flower. They just need the flower to be moved around and shaken.

all root rod in there. I can't tell from a picture alone, but it may be that you're needing to do a little bit of a treatment of that lawn. And on my schedule online at gardening with Skip dot com, I have take all root rod on there and the things to use and when to use them. So I would do that just as a precaution because I'm about eighty percent sure that you've got some take all in there.

If you can hang around at that time, don't forget today. Guess what noon, Willis be there or be squared. I'm going to be at the All Seasons Ace Hardware and Willis All Seasons Ace Hardware and Willis. We're going to be giving away some Nelson products. We're going to be given away some products from the fine folks at Medina as well. I'll have some Texas Gardener magazines on hand. If you haven't seen it, you've got to see that. Bring these samples, let's talk, let's meet, I'll have plenty

of time that is up there at all seasons. Ace Hardware and.

have success. For example, you get a new transplant, it's time to you know, people buying tomatoes and herbs and rose bushes and all kinds of things to put in the ground, and all that root system is sort of wound up in that little cylinder of soil that came with the container. That's the whole root system. You want those roots to quickly begin to spread out, go out, not not like a root unwinds. But I'm saying, send out new roots into the soil around it so that

it establishes quickly because summer's coming. It's hard to believe on a day like this, but summer's coming, and you want to give that plant the most time it has.

better nutrient uptake. That's got seaweed extracts in it. You can follow your feed with it too. By the way, but I'm talking about here, watering in a trenchplant with it. Just one of the ways you can use Medina has to grow six twelve six. That twelve percent phosphorus is for roots. That helps the roots established. I do it

when I plant a plant, I do it again. A week later, just get a watering can, mix it in according to label, water and in, and then a week later after that, So three times a week apart, I'm putting that Medina six twelve six a hash to go six twelve six. Plant food on the plant and getting it the best head start. That's one of the secrets to transplanting success. It's one of the things. You know, Each little thing we do that makes it a little better, a little better, a little easy for the plant, a

little more stimulating for the plant. Everything along those lines gets you where you're trying to get. And Medina products are always going to be an effective way to have a better, more beautiful garden. And guess what if you would like to try some Medina products. Show up today at All Seasons Ace Hardware and Willis twelve pm noon, Grab some lunch first, come up there twelve pm to two.

I have been guaranteed that it will be warm and it will not be raining inside inside All Seasons Ace Hardware. Bring me some samples and who knows, you might win one of the giveaways from Medina. Also some from Nelson too. While we're up there, looking forward to that. All right, I'm going to run down now to Houston and talk to Lisa. Hey, Lisa, welcome to garden Line. Oh thank you.

and the fertilization, they do aeration and things. If they can't do the like that, they would tell you who could. And they're going to be more familiar with the people right around their area right down there that you might want to reach out to. Those would be a couple of good ones and and and I'm sorry, go ahead, Lisa.

garden center. You know, you talk to a good garden center and they're going to be able to point you to good landscapers because they deal with them. And you talked about at Southwest Fertilizer over there, and ask them who they have found to be good for that area of town. All right, Well, thank you so much. All right, Lisa, thanks for the call. Appreciate that. See here all right, speaking of good advice, Oh my gosh, at Lisa, I should have mentioned this to you. Cienam malts for crying

out loud. That should have been the first ink in my mind. Santa Maltch is down south and south to a little bit southwest of Houston. They are near Highway six and two eighty eight on FM five point twenty one. They carry everything you need for the soil, everything composts, bed mixes, fertilizers. I'm talking about products from Microlife and Nilsen turf star Line, products from Medina, products from nitroposs azamite. You hear me bragging on those earlier. Today products from

heirloom soils like the veggie and herb mix. They have mulches, they have landscape stone, they have gravel, they have sand, they have palettes, they have the flat rock for creating patio. They have everything. Sienna Moltz dot com is the website Cienamultch dot com. Now you go into Ciana Maltch, Lisa, if you're still listening, going to Ceanamult and say, hey, what landscapers do you recommend that might serve my area?

And Cianama's a little south and west of you, but they may have some good ideas there too, because a lot of landscapers know to go to Ciena Maultch for high quality stuff. That's all they deal with in Sienna is high quality. And if you are a homeowner and you would like them to deliver, they deliver within about twenty miles for a fee of that area. Or you can just drive in, take your pickup, take your trailer, or just buy it by the bag. They have a

lot of products buy the bag as well. All righty well, I'm needing to take a quick break, Patricia, you'll be first when we come back. We're working our way towards you up the line. Hang on out there in Bellville. We'll be right back. We are back. We're going to be heading to your calls here and long. In a second time, when I think about RCW Nursery, I think about a family garden center. Has been around since nineteen seventy nine, opened by the Williamson family, still run by

the Williamson family. They raise their own trees up there in Plannersville. So when you go to RCW and you buy a tree or a shrub, there's a good chance they grew it themselves up there in the Plannersville area. So that means they picked a species that wants to grow here, so you're going to have success with it. They grew it in the right way, so it's ready to hit the ground running in your landscape. And they'll give you advice, you know, they'll tell you how to

plant it. They'll say you the products to go along, fee on a root stimulator whatever. They've got it all there, or they'll come out and do it. You know, if it's of some size, have them do it. Unless you just enjoy putting your chiropractors kids through college. Don't try to pick that thing up yourself, but they can come out and professionally plant it for you. Right now, it is rose season at RCW and that place is loaded with rcwnurseries dot com. That's the website you can get information.

You can get the roselist and see all the varieties they have. As I've been telling you for weeks. Now, the sooner you go by there, the better selection you're going to get. Because everybody knows euston rosarians know. RCW Nurseries got them all. They got all these roses there and they head there to get their roses. And so don't wait too long if you want to be able to pick all the different kinds of varieties that you might want to grow in your landscape at RCW nurseries

dot com. That is the nursery that's located where Beltway eight and Highway two forty nine we call Tomball Parkway where they come together. It's easy to get to and when you get there, you're going to find what you need. And if they don't have it, I'll bet you they can get it for you. We're going to go out to Belleville now and talk to Patricia. Hello, Patricia, welcome to garden Line. Right, thanks skip.

the air. But the problem with leaf cutters is they cut the leaves off, take them into their underground chamber, and stick them to the ceiling of the chamber, and then they eat the fungus that grows on the leaf cutter ants. Okay, so the putting a putting a poison out, it's not like they're it just doesn't work as well to try to do it that way. So what I would recommend is you can do a couple of things.

I have dusted the trails with orthene coming out of the leaf cutter mound, and if you do that, what you're gonna find is it cuts down on them because they have to they have to track through that orthene, and in tracking through the orthene, they end up grooming

themselves and getting the poison on them. That way, that is not a way to eradicate a mound, but it will suppress their activity so you don't lose two trees a night as they get out there and get working, get working on it, because they're really bad about that. But uh, I just the actual products is just escaping me. I'm gonna have to I'm have to hunt it down for you, but but we can give you some advice on that. I need to probably you know what I need to do. I need to just go ahead and

put that on my website. I will add something like that to the website. All right. I just found it talk long enoughter. I found it some If you do the andro ant block. They did some studies on Amro ant block. It's about fifty percent effective against the leaf cutter, not one hundred percent, but it's different than the Amro fire ant bait. But some people will take a mixture of Amro ant block and Extinguish fire ant bait andro Ant block and Extinguish fire ant bait, and they'll make

them fifty to fifty. They'll put them in a bucket and they'll let that bucket sip for several weeks, like three or four weeks, and in doing so, the products sort of infuse together, and when they put it out it is pretty effective. And a lot of our local pest control operators swear that that wre for them. So it's Amro ant block and Extinguish fire ant bait, two different products mixed together, set for three weeks or four and then put them out as a bait, and it

seems to work pretty well. Just make sure I always use fresh products with ants with any baits you choose. If the if the bait has been sitting there and kind of gone rancid, the inter are going to pick it up right.

a little bit to be at their most activity. So you got time to create this concoction. Yes, okay, all right, I'll give it a shot.

those there and you can you can them up. You can do it yourself. You want to go that route. But whatever the products is, whatever the plants you're growing, whatever the pest or disease you're dealing with, or the weeds, you're gonna find your products there at Ace Hardware. Now. Ace Hardware has twenty percent off their mon faucets this month, So if you've been thinking about replacing some faucets around the house's kitchen or bathroom, now's the time. Twenty percent

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all over the place, easy to find ACE. You're going to find Ace hardware City, a Memorial Drive. You're gonna find plants for all seasons on two forty nine. Then the Bearing Hardware on Business, the Bearing Hardware there on West Timer. Those are all places where you are going to find quality products, many mini quality products. But when you go to an ACE hardware store, you know that you're going to find everything that I just talked about.

There's going to be success. But whether it's Aspa's ACE in the Woodlands, whether it's like Conroe, Ace Montgomery, Sinkle Ranch, Ace Sinkle Ranch out in Sincle Ranch, k and m Ace up in Kingwood or over in Kingwood, can m and a Taska Sita, there's an ACE down in Bay City. There's a Wharton Feed and Ace Hamilton's Hardware off Highway six near Bear Creek. All kinds of ACE hardware stores around the area. And when you go to an ACE Hardware store, you find what you're looking for. It's as

simple as that. You can go to ACE Hardware dot Com, find the store locator and find the ones that you're looking for. That's another way to go about it. You were listening to Guardenline. The phone number here is seven one three two one two k t RH. Let's head out to Conroe and we're going to talk to best. Hello Bess, Hello, Yeah, you're on garden Line.

just something we throw in there. But anyway, let me see what I can find for that palmetta. I know digging them up, but I don't think I'm on TALKI into digging up an acre a palmetto.

just try not to ever guess on gardener. So I'll find out and i'll come up. I'll come up with something for you. All right, Thank you a lot, appreciate your calling. Bye bye bye Stone the Jump. Hey, Microlife fertilizers have a wide variety of products that are great. You know, if you're looking for a liquid to not only add nutrients for your plants, but also add microbes for your plants, well, Microlife fertilizers of products that are going to do that. Microlife has a Biomatrix orange label.

That's a seven to one three. That high nitrogen liquid organic with the beneficial microbes is great for any kind of plant you're growing, especially for foliage like ass plants. That's what I use. Microlife has an Ocean Harvest that's a fish based product. It's a four two three fertilizer four to two three four percent nitrogen, two percent phosphorus, three percent potassium. Good for all your outdoor plants. You can use it to folder spray, not gonna burn your plant.

You can drench the soil with it. It's gonna do just fine. Microlife Ocean Harvest it's a blue label Biomatrix Orange, Ocean Harvests Blue. Both work. I would suggest the Biometrix for indoors and put the Ocean Harvest outdoors. It's a fish based product and so it has a little bit of a fish odor to it that dissipates in time. But I wouldn't use it on my house plants. I would use it on the outdoors. All right, Time for me to take a quick break. I will be right

back with your calls and don in champions. You will be our first up when we come back. All right, welcome back to the guarden line. Good to have you with us. Looking forward to helping you have a bountiful garden, beautiful landscape. By the way, if you want to you want to have a beautiful landscape, you need to know about beer scapes. I talk about them a lot because I am really impressed with the work they do. Go to the website pierscapes dot herescapes dot com. Look at it.

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We're going to go now out to Champions and talk to Don. Hey Don, welcome to garden Line.

now have to safeguard against those things. So what should I spray or what should I do to send those critters off?

But I would, I would, I would look closely and watch those leaves and if you it's either going to be a caterpillar, which the best sprays, or BT and spinosid for caterpillars, or beetles for beetles, spinosid and oh gosh, I just went black as a direct and a name name products that contain as a direct and or organic, and they control things that eat leaves, caterpillars, and beetles. Do you may have luck those? Uh, well, there's two types of name. There's name oil, which has very little

of that active ingredient in it. It acts like an oil. It just smothers. But neme is then on the label. But when you look at the ingredient, it says as a direct and it doesn't say neme oil, So that would be one. And then for grasshoppers, really, any kind of insecticide is gonna pretty well kill a grasshopper. There's a lot of products anything labeled for citrus, though you want to make sure it's label for cetrius. I like to stay with the organics when possible. I have not

tried as a directing on grasshoppers. It it may well work, I need to. I would need to check on that because, like I said, I you're the first time anyone's ever said grasshoppers reading their ceterus to me. So, uh, if if I believe you, I just, I just I would have to check on that. But those are the look at him and.

so that may be another option. Is this this watch and if you're not losing you know, forty percent of the leaves or something crazy like that, Uh, the citrus may just bounce back and be okay with it.

for their water garden work. Whether you want a full pond, whether you want a waterfall, whether you want a disappearing fountain coming out of one of those large ceramic containers. Where the water flows out and then just recirculates around. They invented that. They know how to do it. They can help you do it. I mean, if you're do it yourself, or they don't mind help telling you how to go about doing it, or they'll come out and just do it for you, which with their expertise, that's

the way. That's the way I would go. Do you need koi or shabunk and fish? Do you need Let's see what lily pads. Everybody knows about lily pads and water gardens. What about other kinds of water plants. They carry a wide variety of those as well. Now, don't forget it's Nelson Nursery and Water Garden. So you're going to find all kinds of beautiful plants, roses and fruit and perennials. You're going to find some beautiful herbs, some

beautiful vegetables as well. Nelson Water Gardens, Nursery and Watergardens, West Houston's full service local nursery two generations and Nelson's are out there waiting for you with their local expertise to get you some inspiration. Just go out and visit. They should they should charge admission for you to go sit there because it is therapy. It's cheaper than therapy to go out and just sit among the water features and listen and relax and enter another land. And I

love the sound of water in the garden. Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Go get inspired. All right, Time for me to take a little break, and when we come back, we will be back with your calls. We'll be talking to John and Katie and another John waiting out there for some questions. Wait, has got to get a little boogie here, hang one, look, there we go. That's what we're talking about. No dancing on the bar, folks. All right,

we're back. Welcome to Guardline. Good to have you with us, Looking forward to visiting with you. I was looking into that information on controlling the salt palmetto uh and and acreage and and whatnot, and ran across a couple of things.

they work in different ways on the palmetto. But that works well. So if you go to a place that has a wide variety of products, you know, like someplace like Southwest Spurtlizer, for example, you're gonna find products that say MSM M s MSM on the lab. I just tucked to bob there he can get you pointed at it and then triclope here. That's that's the one we use for poison ivy and brush control and things like that. Put those together and mix it make some according to label.

Put it together and spread it on those plants and those that seems to give you the best results. Sometimes you have to redo it again because oftentimes with a good tough plant like that, one application doesn't take care of it. But it works pretty good. So anyway, give those a try see how they work for you. Let's go out to Katie here, we're going to talk to John. Hey, John, welcome to garden line.

ground bud. It does not look anywhere near as good as the the other one to Mexicola, and it looked.

kind of dead root. Look. If it's the latter, you may need to pull it up, kind of cut away some of the outer soil, repot it up real fresh, and try to avoid any stresses to it while it gets a new root system going. I'm thinking the roots are going to be okay, but just check that in case as far as.

in the pot, but especially around it. They'll take it back and it'll kill the mound. If you need it fast. That's kind of different. Then you may have to get something like an orange oil that you drenched down through there, or some other insecticide that you literally drench the soil in the pot to be a quick kill on everything. And there's a lot of products out there that are like that. They're used for mound treatments, individual mound treatments.

Since it's an edible plant, that's why I like the fertilom. Come and get it, because it's labeled for even vegetable gardens things like that, whereas things like endro are not going to be labeled for use in a vegetable garden. But you could always put it around the pot and let the ants find it and bring it back in and that would be that would be an okay up location perfect.

little label? Watered in how much water? About a half inch? It moves it to the soil where it does its work. Nitro Foss barricade a ten pound bag covers five thousand square feet. And where do you find it? Well, everywhere. Nitrofoss products are sold everywhere. You're going to find them at Court Hardware, you know, down in Stafford you're going to find them in Katie Ace Hardware, Pinoak Street up

over there in Katy. You're going to find them in a chanted forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area on FM twenty seven to fifty nine. And you're going to find them at D and De Feed up in Tomboll FM twenty nine to twenty just west of town. Barricade works. But don't delayed. Now is the time to get it done.

not the kids their varmits anyway, wild varmits. They even have trapping services for larger things, you know, possums or raccoons coming through there. They know how to treat effectively. They know how to do it in the safest manner. You get long term control without all the worries about what kind of poison is out there? Is it going to kill the dog? No, talk to Pest Brothers. They know what they're doing. Call them for a quote two

eight one two oh six forty six seventy. Say that again two eight one two o six forty six seventy. Or go to the website the pest Bros b rosvpestbros dot com. You gotta ask them. I spent a lot of time talking about this earlier today, their mosquito control stations, the bait buckets that they put out. It is the coolest, safest, most effect active way to control mosquitos. And if you just moved here from somewhere else, get ready, they're mosquitos

around here. There are enough of them that are big enough to carry you across town. I mean they pick you up, just like little little little drones coming around. You gotta deal with mosquitos. And if you don't do it alone, Koppes Brothers they can do it. But ask them about that really cool mosquito bait station thing I told you all about it earlier. I'll tell you about it more later. Anyway, that's cool stuff. Let's head out to the phones. We got just a little bit of

time left. We're going to go to Missouri City and see if we can help Ray. Hey, Ray, welcome to garden Line.

weed seeds from getting established. Don't get those confused. If you go to a good Ace hardware store someplace you're going to buy those, they know what to tell you they'll sell you the right one for what you're going after. Now. The we donator is another product that works. But whether you use nitrofas with Trimec or Nelson's weedinator, you first turn on water enough to wet the weeds. Maybe you get a little of this misty rain. It'll do it for you. Then run out there with the spreader. Put

that dry product out. It sticks to the weeds. If it has at least a few hours, better a couple of days, then it can be watered in real good and go into the soil. So you get the nutrients out of those products. But they both work.

I'm going to be at All Seasons Ace Hardware and they guarantee me it will not be raining inside the store, and it will be warm inside the store, warm and dry. What can you ask for? We're going to be giving away Nelson plant food products and products from the folks at Medina, a lot of those give away. They've got some Texas Gardener magazines on hand. Look, grab some weeds, put them in a bag, bring them by. I'll identify and tell you what to do about them. And they

got all the products there. You know that ACE Hardware store is it's well stocked with the kinds of things you need to have success, and that includes microlife products and Nelson rescuing me the nitrophos with the one I'm trying to say no, a night Fox product, Asam products are going to be there too, Nature's Way resources. They've got the topsoil, the potting soil, the composts, the rosemix, the landscaper's pride, all of it's there at All Seasons.

ACE Hardware that is on I forty five North at the Freeway service Road exit inn willis easy to find or just go to Acehardware dot com find the store locator, say hey, where's Ace or excuse me. All Seasons Ace hardware you know on the radio. I have a short time to answer your questions. Come see me face to face today from twelve to two. They can talk and talk and talk. It's gonna have a good time. Hope you can make it. We'll be back on the air again tomorrow morning, six to ten am.