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Katie r h. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip rictor it's crazy a trim just watch him as many things to Superzy not a sun Well, good morning and welcome to garden Line. Glad you're listening. Congratulations, you're an early bird. You got your eyes open. Maybe a cup of coffee or something else to get you fired up and go in this

morning. We're ready to go. Let's let's talk about gardening. What do you want to what do you want to talk about? By the way, look out the window. If your neighbors like gorn On, go bang on the door, tell them they're missing garden Line, they will so appreciate that. And plus you have a more beautiful yard next door eventually, at least we hope. So. I've heard rumors that just playing garden Line around your houseplants causes them to thrive. Now that's just that's just me, But I

could be wrong anyway. All right, enough fun enough funniness of that sort. What do we want to talk about today? I want to talk a little bit about turf, and I want to talk a little bit about some flowers. I'd like to cover a few vegetables and a couple of herb things. But this show is a call in show. So what's your question? What kind of plants do you need identified? What kind of issues do you need diagnose? Maybe some suggestions for a good plant to go in a certain

spot, something you haven't tried before. Here's how you get a hold of me, just dolls seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four and we can talk about the things that interest you. Had a really good time out at M and D Supply Ace in clear Lake yesterday. Wow, thanks for everybody that came out. That was a blast. I hope that you guys had as much fun

as I did. I think we did. We've got a lot of folks come in with samples and questions and pictures to look at this and that and the other, and it was just good. I appreciate the folks at M and D Ace Supply and clear Lake there for hosting us. The store was really in beautiful shab me. Just after I got through, I hung around for another thirty minutes, just kind of walking through and looking at all things I had, and even picked up a couple of things that I needed.

When I get back to the house, I've got some things I need to take care of this weekend as well. I want to remind you or tell you that next Saturday, that is the thirteenth of April, I will be at Enchanted Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area eleven thirty am to one thirty pm Chanted Forest. If you've never been to Enchanted Forest, I don't care where you live around the great here scenario, here's your excuse to come down

and let's do that. We do the things we always do. We talk, I give it advice, do diagnosis, do identifications, make suggestions for plants, whatever whatever is that you need, or just come and meet. And I always like to meet the folks that are listening to the show. And I guess it allows you to put a face with a with a sound over the radio as well. But that's in Chanted Forest this coming Saturday,

April thirteenth, from eleven thirty to one thirty pm. They'll have a they always have, like a food truck or I think this one's a donut truck, which I love that idea that'll be out there, and it'll give you a chance to see that place. And Jenny Forest is an amazing, amazing place to go visit and shop if you are interested in butterflies and things like that, if you're iNeST in pollinators. You got to see the some of the selection of plants that they keep out there. But you'll be surprised when

you go. It'll be it will be one of those oh my gosh, I didn't know they had all this. Well I do, so hope you come out and see us out there. This is a season to get your trees planted before summer gets here. We've been saying plant trees since last I don't know last fall really, But any time that you get a chance to put in a quality tree, you were setting your landscape up for success, and for your home, you're setting it up for long term value. And

here's what I mean by this. A quality tree enhances the beauty of your home. It makes it more enjoyable. A quality shade tree takes that blasting Southeast Texas hot summer sun and it just softens it up a little bit where we can actually be outside and enjoy it. I've got a beautiful cypress in my backyard. That the shade is just wonderful when it comes to summertime. Well, in order to get to shade, you got to get it planted soon. They say the best time to plant a tree is forty years ago.

The second best time is today. Well, today is here. You want to get that tree planted. You want to select a quality tree. There are a number of places where you can get a tree that will fit your area, but do some investigating before number one. Go to a place that only sells stuff that belongs here, that'll grow here. And Verdant Tree Farm is an example of a place like that. Verdon Tree Farm has several

locations around the Greater Houston area. I don't know if you've ever been to any of them, but there's one down in Pearland, there's one out on West Barker, Cyprus and West Houston. There's one in the Heights at Yale Street. And Verdant Tree Farm is going to make sure your tree gets planted right, and that is very very important. I have seen a lot of tree planting jobs that were botched. The people didn't know what they were doing.

One of the most common things that happens when people are planting a tree and they don't know what they're doing. Is they put things like gravel in the bottom of the hole. If gravel caused a clay hole to drain, then an aquarium wouldn't hold water. If you think of it that way, Just putting gravel in the bottom of an aquarium make the water drain out, No, because the water's being held by the glass of the aquarium. If you got a clay hole that's hold in water, putting gravel on the bottom

doesn't do anything. It doesn't do anything. Don't do that. The folks at Verdant know how to plant a tree. You can go their website verdanttreefarm dot com. I like the fact that you can go there. They'll advise you to on which tree you might want which does well for you. They have a long large list of cold hardy trees, drought resistant types of species. They have palms. Verdant Treefarm dot com. That's the website. Go pick your tree out, they'll tag it, they'll bring it to you and

they'll plant it right so that you have success. Very very important. You know, a tree is a bike part of the landscape. You need to get those planted today. And by the way, when you plant a tree, you need to get you one of those three sixty tree stabilizers. It's like an arm that grabs a tree and grabs a steak and it allows the tree to move, which is important. You know, to use those guy wires and honker a tree down where it can't move it all. It strengthens

a tree to move in the wind a little bit. So three sixty tree stabilizers are going to allow that movement. And they last and last and last, and you just put a post close to the tree and hook up that little arm to grab the tree and there you go. You're ready to go set it where we'll move a little bit. You can find these at Southwest Fertilizer, RCW Nursery down in Alvin, at Orges Head and Gardens, Buchanans and the Heights Arburgate and Tomball Plants for all seasons Highway two forty nine.

They all carry you the three sixty tree stabilizer. But when you put a young tree in, I mean, if it's not a huge giant tree, get one of those to grab onto it and make sure that it is kept stable. And if you do that right, and it's planted right, which Verdant will do. By the way, you were going to have success. You're not gonna have to keep it staked for years. I mean, just a few months or six months maybe of good, good staking and it'll be

good to go. Well, we're gonna take a little break. Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back. Welcome back to the garden line. I guess our music is all things eclipse today, or at least a lot of stuff about the eclipse. I just was thinking during the break that if you want an eclipse every summer day in your backyard patio, the way to do it is to plant a

tree. I don't know. That just occurred to me. And we sure do want something to block the sun when it gets really, really hot. Here. We are now officially in big time lawn season. We've been taking care of our lawns since back in February, putting down things to prevent weeds from coming up and whatnot. But now it's warming up enough where the grass is growing, and when the grass is actively growing, then we began, of course the mowing schedule. But we also need to be putting down nutrients

to help support that growth. Now, a lawn will grow without being fertilized. It'll live without being fertilized, but it will not be an attractive dark green color, and it also will not be dense. It'll be thin, and so you're forever fighting weeds. So why do we fertilize. Were fertilize to keep our lawns healthier, But we fertilize also to build density. And the whole reason you have that beautiful outdoor green carpet is the beauty of it.

It also, did you know that your lawn contributes significantly to lowering the ambient air temperatures around you. You compare a lawn to like an asphalt parking lot. That's there's something in the big city called the heat island effect, right where all the parking lots and buildings and stuff that are absorbing and radiating heat. It makes a significant difference. Well around your home. A lawn is like having a big, black, green air conditioner all over the place,

because that is exactly what it does. It literally cools the air around you, the reflective heat especially, and plus it's just fun fun to have a lawn to get out there and walk on to enjoy, for the kids to play on. Well, if you want to have that kind of lawn nitrofoss superturf, it is nineteen four to ten. That's the three numbers on the bag. Nineteen four ten. It's the silver bag. Let's make it easy. The silver bag nitrofass superturf will provide a gradual release of nitrogen over

the next two maybe three months. Really it is. It doesn't contain a herbicide in it. It's strictly a lawn fertilizer. And when you put it down, it also has some iron. I was looking at a picture someone sent me some pictures or actually brought some to the event M and dastn a Clare Lake yesterday, and the lawn had these yellowing areas, and I was telling them that is iron deficiency. And you put on a superturf has like four percent iron in it to promote that good green color as well. So

it's just a win way to go about it. Follow follow the instructions on how to apply it, but go ahead and get it down watered in. Just a little bit of water moving into the soil and you're off to the races. Now you can find nitrofoss products in a lot of different places. They're widely available here in the Greater Houston area. You can find them at the Arbor Gate up in Tombole. You can find them at Kingwood at the Ace Hardware there in Kingwood as well, and Shades of Texas which is on

Genoa Red Bluff in south east Houston. Yep, all of those places, Carrie nitofoss products. We are talking about lawns today because this is a time of year when we do want to make sure that we're getting our lawns off to a good, quick, early start. We've done things like prevent weeds. It seems like every day somebody asked me about weeds in the lawn, How to deal with weeds in the law, What to do about weeds in

the lawn. And it's more complicated than that. There are a lot of good products out that will kill a weed or prevent a weed, and the key is your time and choosing the product that's going to work on the weed that you have. For example, using a broad leaf herbicide, it works on broad leaf weeds, but it doesn't work on grass seaweeds. If you have a grass only herbicide. It's not going to work on broad leaf weed. So you need to choose the right one and find the right timing.

And that's one of the things you can call here to garden Line and we can help you with. Especially when I see pictures that is really helpful. Someone brought me pictures yesterday. We looked at it and it's like, oh, okay, you've got this weed, and then we could actually talk more intelligently about what to do successfully with that weed. A lot of our cool season weeds are about to go out. They've done their thing. They sprouted

in the fall. I always compare cool season lawn weeds to blue bonnets because everybody understands the blue bonnet life schedule. You don't see blue bonnets in the summer. They sprout in the fall, they sit there through the winter, growing dist a little bit, and spring they take off growing. They bloom, set seed, fling the seed everywhere, and they're gone. That's what your cool season weed are doing. And we're at the point where they're about

to be gone. Chickweed and hendbed and carpet weed, cleavers, velcroed, all of those weeds are on their way out. So anything you can do to get the weed seeds out of there is a good idea hand pulling. I know you don't hear that hand pulling is helpful in mowing very low with a bagger to capture as much seed as you can. Don't rich. It's the one time when I say don't return the clippings is when you have a

lawn full of weed seeds. But that will help too. While you're at it, it's time to spruce up the flower beds, and that means bringing in some color, some color that will look good in spring if you can plant things that'll do well in summer. There are so many color options that we have. I was just checking out plant frall seasons yesterday and the shipments

of color that they've gotten in are amazing. I mean, I think they were saying that basically people got to get over here and haul these out because you don't have enough room for everything. And I believe it. I mean, it was just carts and carts of color coming through there, beautiful beautiful

plants. Everything you can imagine, you know, Salvia's and all the annuals and perennials and ornamentals, grasses and it's just a lot, a lot of beautiful color, and that's what you would expect for Plants for All Seasons. You know when you walk in there, people love to go, and they love to go because you walk in and you're greeted by friendly, knowledgeable people, and you walk out into the garden center and you see everything you need.

Right in front of the store are all the bags of mulch and composts and things. And right inside the building there you've got all the fertilizers that I recommend on garden line. And that's the brown stuff, right, and you've got to go home with some brown stuff. But when you go home with the green stuff, so you can have success. So grab some of their composts and bags of soiled product, grab the fertilizer when you get all those plants, and you're going to go home and have success. Plants for

All Seasons is easy to get to. It's on two forty nine Tomball Parkway, just north of Luetta, right there on the side of Tomball Parkway. You can go to the website Plants for All Seasons dot com, or you can call them two eight one, three seven six sixteen forty six. If you've got a green thumb, You got to go there because this is the place for green thumbs. If you got a brown thumb, you absolutely have to go there because they are the folks that help turn it green. Remember

there's no such thing as brown thumbs, just uninformed thumbs. Go to plants for all seasons and they will help inform that thumb and put the right plants in your hands so you can have success. You are listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skiperrector. If you'd like to give us call today, our number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was out in my garden

this past week and just looking over some things. I've got some sweet peas growing. Oh my gosh, they're producing like crazy. We planted too many, but that's okay. I love fresh sugar snap type peas, and boy, they are producing like crazy. But while I was out looking at some of the plants, the bees were just all over them, and I was

just thinking about that free pollination service that I'm getting. And if you're growing things like cucumbers and watermelons and cantalopes and squash, you have to have good pollination, and honey bees will do that. Native bees will do that. Have you ever thought about keeping honey bees having a hive in the backyard. The folks that these supply on and Dayton can help get you set up. They have training classes that are going on all through spring. The next training

class that they're having is on the thirteenth of April. Then there's one on the twenty seventh of April, and there's a couple in May after that. You can go learn even if you decide not to do bees, it'll be fascinating and you'll get to do the hands on and everything. And I can tell you this, it's addictive. When you get out there and start doing it. It's like, oh wow, this is easier than I thought. It's simpler, and it's fun. It's just it's an agricultural endeavor. It

really is, because you're raising livestock basically. When you've got bees out there and you get honey, that's the cool part too. If you just want to go learn about bees, take the kids, the garden club, the church group, whatever you got, and go out to the bee supply and just go to one of their interactive honey tours. They will teach you all about things about bees that are just mind blowing. You actually get to sample

a whole bunch of different kinds of honey. They'll even let you go to the They have an observation hive inside the building that is really cool where you can watch the bees work. All of that at thebsupply dot com. That's the website. Check it out vbsupply dot com. I planted a load last week, and boy was that ever an endeavor because I did a lot, a lot. I think at eleven pallets of grass, and everything for me is an ex you know, because I'm when I'm on guard line answering your

questions, I'm not just pulling answers out of the air. It's like I've grown that plant, or I've studied that plant, or I know somebody and we you know, we've worked together on fire beds or something they're doing, and I have familiarity with it. So for me, I've got like four different grasses now in different sections of the property, and so that was a lot of work getting it all down, But oh my gosh, it looks so good. If you're planting a lawn, you need to make sure and

water it regularly when you plant it. I saw some pictures yesterday at M and Dace down in Clear Lake from folks that came in of lawns that were struggling, and they clearly it was dropped damage and they'd been planted, you know, a week or more ago, but they just didn't get watered in really good. And when that grass comes in, it's got you know, like three quarters of an inch of root on the grass. That's it because it was sliced off to get that soil that comes with the grass with the

and now you plant it and that's all the root it has. So you can't just think normal watering is adequate. You water eye water twice a day in the morning and in the evening just a little bit. Or you water once really good, but it's better to keep that top part a little moist, keep some water on it. And I do that for about a week, and then I go to about every once a day maybe for about a week, and by then you're in good shape and it's ready to go.

But take care of your lawns. If you're planting, you need to go through that schedule. Those of you who live up toward the conro direction or fortunate because you're in the backyard of nature's way resources. They really John Ferguson started that a long time ago, and he has developed some beautiful soil mixes. When we talk about rose soil, and you know the compost top dressings, the leaf mold compost top dressings, he helped develop those there on his

property. And you can also find there every kind of compost blend you might need for success with your plant. You can buy bulk, you can buy by the bag, you can have them deliver it if you want to do that, just call them at nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety Remember every Friday is Fungal Friday. Ten percent off bag fungo products, twenty percent off bulk. We're going

to take a little break. It's time for Nicky and the news. Our number if you'd like to call Josh and get on the board seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and hey, what do you want to talk about? Give us call seven one three two one two five eight seven four. We're talking plants today. I saw a lot of

pictures of weeds yesterday. I'm telling you, weeds, weeds, weeds when uh, whenever we have a lawn, we want to be beautiful and pretty. And we got a couple of options there. One is to deal with the weeds, prevent them. The other is to control them after they come up. It's easier to prevent them to control them after they come up. But either way you can go. You can do that, you can hand pull them, you can use products to control them. But everybody wants to,

you know, get those things out of the lawn. You just need to remember. And if you go to my schedule, and by the way, my gardening schedule is on gardening with Skip dot com. I say gardening schedule, my lawn schedule gardening with skip dot com. If you go there under the weed section, there's red letters and basically what they say is the number one step in controlling weeds is to have a dense, healthy lawn.

That's that's the gist of it. And so for you just to depend on products to kill weeds without building the lawn, you're you're like fighting an uphill battle. Both are very very important. We do need to control weeds, but we also need to make sure we build that lawn. And turf Star Weedonator is kind of a combo product like that. Nelson Nelson created this product.

It's part of their turf Star line, which is all the fertilizers for your lawn, but the Weedonator has a product it to help manage the broadly weeds that you may have in there. And so what they've done is they put that product into control the weeds that are there now, but they've also

got a slow release type of nitrogen that gradually feeds over time. So what happens is you put the Turfstar Weedinator down and that's dealing with the weeds, but over the next couple of months, you're getting that gradual release of nutrients. Three two or three months. That is, the soil warms and the microbes become more and more and more active. That available, the nitrogen that wasn't available starts to become available, and your lawn just continues to grow with

a nice even growth rate, which is which is kind of nice. That's important. Turf Star Weedenator is widely available. The folks at Nelson's have really created a wonderful line of nutrition for your lawn and nutrition for your plants. You know, they've got the Color Star line, They've got the Nature Star line of a nat organic type product. They just have a wide range of things that are available. But this Turf Star, the Turf Star line for

your lawn is very important in the weedon Eator. It does work. I was yesterday when I was on my way out to go to the appearance. We did. We. I always like to drive through neighborhoods, and so going through neighborhoods is my way of seeing what's going on. You know. I'll drive by and go, whoa, what is that blooming plant that looks new? And have to stop and check it out. But that's kind of the way I like to do, and I hate to take the beaten path.

I'll tell you what. I'm gonna take a break here and go to the phones. How about we go out ton Avasota and talk to Rodney? Hello, Rodney? Hello, how you doing. I'm well, sir, good, good good. I have a question. I take care of my cousin's ranch in Avasota. And are you familiar with the thistle? Yes? Oh, it's last year. I dug it up, put it in a

trailer on my four wheeler and run it to the other side. It's a small farm, run it to the other side to a burn pile, and I figured I would do that, try to get the seeds away, get rid of it or whatever. Well, this year it come up even worse. It starts in the same area and now it's spread. But where I burned it in the back, nothing came up over there, and it doesn't come up in the yard around the house. So this year I dug it up with a spade about four or five six inches and just laid it over

on the ground and left it laid there. Is there any I think last year I might have sprayed some of it with round up. Is there any other I mean, I know it's evasive, and the neighbors have it on there. They've got four or five hundred acres next door to us. And I don't know if it's if the wind is blowing the seeds and it's coming

over there. Probably, but I burned it last year. Now this year it's worse, and I don't know if carrying it back this is a twenty one acre place, is carrying it back to the back on a trailer. If that made it, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if well, yeah, there's some other products, the broad leaf weed control products that can control it. Which probably need to do is go over to Grimes County Feed. Have you ever been over there in Carlos Oh? Yeah,

yeah, that's where I get fished to stock upon with. Yeah. Isn't that cool? They do that? I think it's pretty often. But just go in there and talk to the roys and find out, you know what, what do you have on hand that will control thistle. They're going to have some sort of a you know, a two four D type broad leaf post emergent control. But you want to catch them early. Don't wait until they got the flower. Is this a thistle that has the white flowers on

top? Yes, and then it turns purple. Okay, yeah, you have a white ball and then it gets real. Some of them get pretty tall. Yeah, they do. They do well, you know that's the probably the best thing. And here's the deal. Once they produce seed, you're going to have to deal with those seed for a few years. You know, as the seed comes up, not all come up next year.

But if you get ahead of it. And every time we start to see those plants, those plants show up real well, even before they get tall, you can you can spot treat them and never let them produce seed, and you will catch up on it. But you just can't once they go to seed. Then you just sentenced yourself to a whole bunch of more thistles

to have to control. But run over to run over to grinds cunty feet and they can get you set up with something like that, okay, and then then spray them before it gets the white ball on it or whatever that. Yeah, at this point with the right ball, with the seed heads and stuff, just cutting the seed heads off although crazy tedious on twenty something

makers, that would at least prevent it. Once those things get seeds on them, Trying to spray the plant is not going to be as effective because number one, the products don't work as well when the when the plants are we say reproductive, they're bloomin and setting seeds. But also you've already got the seed and so at this point about all that's in your powers to get rid of those seeds, and unless you can devise a way to do that.

So the minute I see it coming up. I know what it looks like when it starts coming up, you know this time the spray it then right, yeah, just go through you know whatever. I don't know if you're out there working on a Saturday, whenever you find time to get that done and go through and just you know, this morning, I'm going to go through and sprail the thistles. I'll see, don't worry about trying to get every single one, and then next week go check them out. Some

of those products will work really fast. You'll see the effects pretty quick on the weed. Okay, yes, yes, sir, Hey, I appreciate your I appreciate your information. All right, Ronnie, thank you. I appreciate that. I appreciate that call. For those of you anywhere out there around Avinesota, Brian College Station, even or out in Carlos and Anderson and beat Eyes and Shiro all those communities, Grind's County Feed is your hometown feed

store. You know they are. They are just i mean just really close out there to Carlos and it's easy to get to, easy to find. They've always got the products on hand. By the way, any of y'all that got to see the Little Car Show they did. They had yesterday. They had their old truck, the flatbed truck. I say old, it's an old truck, but it looks good. They've really really restored it. Well. Anyway, you're going to find the fertilizers. I talk about it.

Grimes County feed too. It's just a great place to serve, a very large region up there, a beautiful countryside. I always like to go out and visit with the Roys. Good folks, very very active in their community too. If you are doing any kind of transplanting, and I hope you are, because it's time for that, you want to grab a hold of some Nelson's Nutristar Genesis transplant mix. Nutristar Genesis is a particularly effective product.

It's a six' one to three natural type of fertilizer. It's got beneficial bacteria endo and ectomiciza. And you here's what I do with it, and here's what you should do with it. Is I got this plant. Maybe I just bought a plant. I'm bringing it home. I'm gonna put it in a container. Maybe I grew my own ceilings. Maybe I got a rosebush and I'm put it in the ground. You take the soil that is going to be around this new plant, and you mix the genesis in that

and plant into it. So if I'm putting in a container, I got my potting soils for the container, the plant I mixed into that potting soil nutri Star genesis and then plant in it. I'm telling the results are dramatic. It really really works. Nutri Star genesis from Nelson's very very effective and really enhancing the biology of the soil. We're going to take a little break here. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven

four. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. We are looking forward to talking to you and answering your questions on gardening. How can we help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. That is the goal, you know. We get the opportunity to create eight gardens and greenery horticulture paradise around our house and whatever type we like. Some people are lawn rangers. They absolutely that is the deal wald of

Walter, beautiful, pristine, that makes them happy. Other people like cottage gardens. Cottage gardens. I kid people that like cottage gardens sometimes about saying, you know, that's just a term they define to excuse a mess. But because the cottage gardens are just kind of growing wild but under some type of control. You know, you have a little bit of management, but it just has a wilder look. Hey at your yard. Have fun. It's seeing you in the hoa. I guess, do what you want to

do. Some people are into vegetables. I mean they just want walda basically a farm out there in the back because they love to grow and eat healthy things. And so most people are kind of a mix of all of that. Would do what you want to do. But here's the deal. Have fun doing it. Absolutely, have fun. Don't worry about the rules. Yes, there are certain rules that you need to follow if you want success,

but don't worry about getting it just right. Nature is a unique thing in that you never know from one year to the next is going to be hotter, colder, rainier, drier. We did that. It just changes the vicissitudes of nature. If you will, are always out there throwing us a curve. But we're having fun and you're not going to fail at gardening. You can only give up. Don't give up. I mean really all

the time. Every year I have things that I learn because nature threw me a curve that I hadn't dealt with before, a plant hadn't grown before. That's okay, have fun doing it. I like to say that our gardens and landscapes are like etches. Sketches. Some of you are old enough to

remember those. But you t had two knobs, where one knob you drew left and right, and the other knob you drew up and down, And so trying to draw a circle with an edge of sketch, it's impossible, and inevitably you'd think you were going one way, and your brain misfired and you went the other, and now you got a mess. What do you do? You turn the edge of sketch upside down, You shake it, and you get to start all over again. In gardening, that's called a

rototiller. That's called a spading fork. It is okay to redo things, it's okay to change things. No landscape is permanent. No landscape really is permanent. We think, okay, I got this beautiful landscape, and that's how it's always going to be. No, those shrubs are going to get too large in time, A lot of them will. Or that tree that was just a broomstick when you planted it out there in the in the yard. Now is some giant spreading thing covering the whole landscape. And now we're

switching over to shade loving plants beneath it. Do you see what I'm saying? Landscapes evolve and so we're forever changing things and it's okay. It's okay to do that. This this is it's like your house. Do you ever change Maybe it's time to paint. Let's change the color, or let's go from carpet to hardwood floor or some vinyl floor, whatever, or vice versa. You can change things, and that's how it is in the landscape. That's what makes it fun. So don't worry about failing. You don't fail.

You just give up. If you plant something and it doesn't grow, that's okay. There's a famous horticulturist I want to I can't remember if it's J. C. Ralston who said this, but probably somebody like him. He said, to be a great horticulturist, you got to kill a lot of plants. That is true. If you saw all the plants over the years that I have not been successful with, you quit listening to garden line and go find something else. No, seriously, really it's okay. Give

it a try, try something new. Have fun. That's the bottom line. Have fun. Find the kind of gardening that makes you happy and go for it. Do that, but I always suggest you try some the new. Have you ever grown a vine on a trellis? Have you ever had an arbor over your patio? Why not try one of those? Those are kind of cool, that's really nice. There's roses that are wonderful for every kind of years, little dwarf types of roses, shrub types of roses,

cut flower types of roses, the vining, climber types of roses. Have fun. That is the most important thing, because gardening is fun as long as you don't worry about getting everything right. If somebody tells you you got to use the color wheel and pick colors that are on this side, that and the other, tertiary, all that kind of stuff, just tell them to go do something else and leave you alone that If you don't do that, that's fine and idiot. Yes, aesthetically it's pleasing. Plant the flowers

you like. Have fun. And one place you can go and get things like the flowers and whatnot is Jeges Hiding Gardens. He's got a bunch of roses in stock. Jorge is down in Alvin, Texas, Alvin, Texas, so it's just head down to Alvin. Jorges Hidden Gardens is going to be a great place to get citrusy. They've got setsuma oranges, They've got limes, they've got mired lemons if you like fruit. They've also got blueberries

and thornless blackberries and real cool thornless blackberries down there. Jorhe also has that three sixty tree stabilizer in stock down there, as well as some really cool fertilizer products. It's just a good place to go. And you know, just just check them out. See what you think. I think you're going to enjoy it. Every time I go down, every time I talk to them or see why, kind of follow them on social media too. I just see the things that they're up to. It's like they just keep growing

and getting better and better. Yesterday, being out at M and D Ace Hardware, I did kind of wander through the store. I always like to do that and all these Ace hardware because you know, each one is independently owned, so the each is going to be a little bit different. There's certainly standards that all aces are going to have. For example, all aces are going to be the place for un name it. If you want fertilizer. ACE is a place. Do you need pest control? Weed control?

Ace is the place do you need tools for your garden? Ace is the place and everything else. I was looking at some of the patio enhancements, like those strings of lights that you put out to create that ambiance out on the back patio for the evenings, you know, in summer evenings, for the safe time to go outside because the sun's not blazing down. ACE is a place fire ant control. They've got great selection of fire ant baits and

individual mountain treatments at ACE. They have mosquito control products at ACE. And we are in fire ant and mosquito season, so you do need to make sure that you're stocked up and ready to go. By the way, always start with a fire ant bait. That's first, and that suppresses our flat kills. Most of the ants in your yard baits are used at super low rates, so you're not just dumping tons of chemical on the yard. One of something like amro can cover an acre, and think about that an acre.

You got a grain granule here or granule there. You don't dump baits on a mound, You just lightly scatter them. They work very very slowly because if the first ant that picked it up died, if they were that toxic, well they would never make it to the mound. So they do carry them to the mound where it affects a queen and all the rest of the mound, and so baits work really well. And this the most environmentally sound way I know to manage fireance is through primarily the use of bait and

then the mound treatments. If you miss a few, and you always miss a few, there's always some fire ants coming in and whatnot. Like that. I just want to remind you again that if you're dealing with the warm seasoned weeds which are coming up in our lawns, barricade can be used to move into the soil and form a barricade to stop grass and broad leaf weeds from getting established. But it's very important on using any that you do it

right. So how would that apply to barricade. That means follow the label. The amount you use on the label is the amount that works. You know, don't use enough it doesn't work. Use too much of any product and you can have secondary negative effects and you don't want to do that. Follow the label so it works right. Secondly, it's got to be watered in u for well. First, it's got to be. Secondly, it's

got to be spread evenly. You know, the control by barricade is going to be dependent on you putting a good even coverage out there because if you miss spots, well, weeds are going to come up there. That's not barricade's fault, that's yours. So even coverage and then watered in with about a half inch of water. It moves it into the surface where it ties up. It's designed to not just wash through the soil, but to tie up in the surface. That's where the weed seeds are germinating, and that

then prevents them. And it's going to give you easily sixty days ninety days of protection I would I would say for sure sixty of protection against those weeds coming up. So later in the summer, if you look at my schedule, we've got a second application that can come on later in the summer. Just because every product does break down. Microbes get a hold of them and they start taking them apart. But barricade works very effectively. Being a night

Frost product, it's going to be widely available. So where do you get barricade. Well, A task Asida Ace has Barricade Lake hardware in Clute on Dixie Drive. They've got Barricade Jibs hardware up in Montgomery on Liberty Liberty FM fourteen ninety seven, they've got barricade as well, makes it easy easy to find it. Oh my, well, I am gonna. I wanted to

remind you that next Saturday, I'm going to be an Enchanted Forest. Enchanted Forest out in Richmond, Texas. Now, if you've never been to Enchanted Forest, you got to go. They have, first of all, all the Easter decors forty percent off, So if you're looking to pick up some a really good deal on that, you need to check out there. Also, while you're out there, you need to check out their books for gardeners. They have book books, pet lovers, and the gift shop is just

I always enjoy going in to visit it. I'm always amused at the amount of pollinator and butterfly plants that they had Last year. They had caterpillars on some of the larval food source plants and you could get the plant. They'd give you a caterpillar to take home, so you could like import the butterflies into your yard. That's intended forest. Hey. They are on FM twenty seven fifty nine, twenty seven to fifty nine just outside Richmond Rosenberg. But

come see me next Saturday. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty, eleven thirty to one thirty at Enchanted Forest Nursery. When we're out there, you can bring me pictures. You can bring samples in a little ziplock bag if you want. Leave room in your car. When you get there, you're going to see what I'm talking about when I say they have a little of everything and it's fun. It is the kind of place you just want to wander and hang out. Well, come hang out with me next

Saturday, eleven thirty to one thirty Enchanted Forest down in Richmond Rosenberger. Look forward to seeing you. I always love to get out and do these appearances, get to meet some of the gardeners that listen to Garden Line. We're going to take a break. Here's the number seven one three two one two k t R H give josh a callum and get on the board. We can talk to you when we come back. Kat r H Garden Line does

not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's the crazy Trim. Just watch him as God. So many Spazya say, welcome back to the Garden Line. Good to have you. We're starting to get a little glow in the sky on this What's gonna be a nice Sunday. I love you. Know, some people worry about the weather all the time. I always are gonna rain, it's gonna be hot. I understand that. I understand

that, but I tell you it don't matter what the weather. There's something you can do gardening. You can get outside, you can do work outside. You can go into the garage and start seeds. I'm while back. I built a seed starting stand out of wood. That's something you do with it's raining or freezing outside. You can just go in and create something like that. If you are looking forward to having a beautiful color patio, well

how about potting up some plants. I mean, you can do containers in a garage even if it is raining outside and get them ready to go. Once you get them built, just take a dolly and wheel them out there and driveway or whatever. Let them get a little bit of rain, and

then move them to where they go. By the way. For those of you who are not familiar with this, when you have big containers, which you should have here in the southeast Texas area because it's so hot, we need lots of soil for our plants, and containers, not tiny containers. Bump them up a size. When you have a container like that, you can't pick it up, at least not without putting your chiropractors kids through college.

So what do you do. You get your little dolly, You slip the lip underneath the side of the container, and then you take a strap and from one side of the dolly you strap that thing right up tight against the dolly, and with your foot against the base and one hand, you can move a very heavy container to a new location and it doesn't require all the stooping and bending and lifting and anything like that. So containers are a

very versatile way to garden. Makes it really easy. And what I'm talking about containers, if you haven't been to moss and Nursery in a while. You need to go out there. It is amazing the stock that they have. It just every time I go to Moss, I'm just stunned. I mean that lately some of the roses they've gotten in is just gorgeous roses I've never seen before. It's just like wow, that is amazing. Colorful hanging baskets, do you know, like new guinea impatiens we talk about regular impatients,

New guinea impatients or more vibrant. In my opinion, they're more beautiful, and they have them been hanging baskets. They're at Moss so it's a shade loving plant. So a hanging basket typically is gonna hang by something that's creating shade, whether it's a porch or whether it's a limb on a tree or whatever. Try those out. Check them out, check out their house

plant house. It is excellent. One of my favorite bright shade plants is Persian shield and they have a good stock of those as well at Moss Nursery. They've got the combo pots, they've got azaleas, all kinds of shrubs, really trees if you want that summer. What are the two plants probably the scream summer, the loudest here, hibiscuits and Boogainville. Yep, they've got both of those. You can get them, native plants, plants for

butterflies. Listen, this is eight acres of a destination nursery. It's not just your average garden center. You need to go check out Moss Nursery. They are easy to find. I mean they're out there in Seabrook, Texas, and it just just set it on your map and go check them out. Moss Nursery is really really worth a wander, allow yourself some time, though it takes a while to wander through and see everything that they have there. I was doing my landscape renovent. I'm doing a landscape renovation. I

just finished the lawn. I'm about to do some hardscape work. I've got little patio over putting in on, trying to do some things like that, and I just have some plants that I want to move. Somebody planted one that wants to be about eight feet wide in a spot that's about three feet wide before we bought our house a couple of years ago, and that plant has to go. I need to renovate it. Maybe you've got plants that struggles with last summer's brutal heat or maybe the cold, the cold snaps you've

had over the last few years that have just been excessive. Why not call Jason at Pierscapes or to the team anybody on the team there. Jason and his team, they're professional designers. They know how to create a beautiful homescape for you. Whether it's a patio. Maybe you've got an area that's too low and soggy. They can put drainage in it to get that out of

there and make it where you can grow more different kinds of plants. Maybe you have an area where you need to move water from one area to another on the surface. How about a dry creek bed. You should see some of the ones that they designed with rock and stone. It just the way that when they get through it is like wow, it is amazing. While you're talking to Pierscapes, ask them about their quarterly maintenance for your beds,

your landscape beds. Landscape beds require maintenance and Pierscapes will come in. You can sign up for them, come trim, have them do weeding, have them fertilize, make sure that they are changing out seasonal color according to the number of times you would like to have it done, so there's always something beautiful going on in I bet, and of course molts of the beds. They'll even check the irrigation, make sure it's working right now. If it

requires repairs, that's a different thing. They can do that too. And by the way, I would suggest you have them right now check the irrigation as soon as you can get them out there, and they do stay busy. That's what happens when you're a good landscaper, You stay busy. Have them come out and check your irrigation efficiency because we're going to start running that water a lot as it heats up in the next few months, and our

systems are typically very inefficient. They need head realignment, they may need heads replaced because the coverage is inadequate. Talk to Peerscapes. They're professionals, they know how to do it, and they do a very good job of what they do. I would suggest, just as a start, go to the websit site piercescapes dot com. Check out the kind of work they do. You can give them a call two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty,

but listen please listen to me right now. You got a call now because it they they are booking out weeks or months I had depending on the size of the job. That's what happens when you're a good landscaper. So don't wait like, oh, next week can you come do No, they can't. They can't. But they're the ones you want to hire, So go

ahead and call them now. Even if you're going to hire the work done out into the summer, just go ahead and get on the line, get on their schedule, because they do the work that you want to have done. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. They if you give us a call here on guard and I we can answer the questions that you have. I was looking at some of the pictures that they had on

line and some of the jobs. It's just like, man, I gotta do that in my yard. We're going to take a little break here. Our phone number seven one three two one two KTRH. Give us a call and we'll talk to you when we come back. Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have you back with us. Today our phone number seven one

three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you live down south of Houston, you're fortunate when it comes to the brown stuff, the malt the foundation, the soils, the fertilizers that create that foundation for success because you have Ciena Multch right there in your backyard. Ciena Maltch is done in the Ciena area. I mean, so anybody who lives down you know, Bras's Ben State Park out there in Siena, Arcola, Sandy Point, Pomona, First Colony, on and on and on even Pearland. Uh. They deliver

by the way within twenty miles of their location. Their location is FM five twenty one, kind of close to where Highway six and two eighty eight are just north of ro Sharon. There's the website Sienna mulch dot com. They're open Monday through Friday from seven thirty to five and on Saturday from seven thirty to two pm. Closed on Sunday. But there you're going to find every kind of soil amendment that you might need to have success, including things like

mulches to go on top of the soil. The fertilizers that I talk about every single fertilizer you hear me talk about on guardenline is that's Ciena Maltch. They stalk at all. They also have a wonderful selection of gravel and sand and pebbles and riverstone and flat you know, the patio type rock, flagstone. That's the word I couldn't think of. Cienamultch. It's the place for

all of it. And you really need to check them out. Last time I was there, I'm just I'm always surprised at the quality and the amount of products that they stock. I'm going I head now to Pearland and we're going to talk to Greg. Hello. Greg, Hey, Skip, I heard your commercial for Moss Nursery and they are excellent. Jim Boss is a

great guy. Yes, and I bought and in fact I bought a Yucca Tompsoniana from them, and it's similar to a Yuka rostrata blue blue beet yuka and it's I need to get it in the ground, but it's about four and a half feet tall. The trunk is with about a three foot plume and it came in a wooden container about a two foot cube. And one thing I need to know is how big do I need to dig that hole.

I was planning on maybe thirty six inches by thirty six inches. But yeah, I'm worried about rot because I know those roots can't you know, handle water for a long time. And I just kind of wanted to see what you thought. Yeah, So just a hole a little bit bigger than the root ball on that particular plant, and it'll be fine. The thing about the rot is making sure the water drains away from the plant. So or is your soil of clay soil? It is. It is sandy,

it's sandier than I thought it would be. One of dug holes for some barrel cactus and stuff, so it's not as bad as I thought it would be. Yeah, Well, if you, if you ever have any doubt, went in doubt, build up a raised bed and get you a good you know, a good quality mix, a top sail type mix to bring in and do a raised bed. Normally we're putting all kinds of fancy composts

and things like that in. But this is a plant that is native basically to the western wing of Texas. You know that whole section from Odessa out Del Paso and down to Big Ben Park and so on. So there's not a lot of composts in the soil out there, so they don't have to have all that fancy soil to do well. Yeah, and that's the other thing. I bought airloom, cactus and succulent soil and the first ingredient. And I'm sure it's great. All their products I think are, but the

first ingredient was aged leaf mold compost. Yeah. Yeah, And I didn't know if that would be of course it's got perlite and all sorts of other well draining things in it, yes, And I didn't know if that would be okay or if I needed to mix in gravels. Well, you don't need to mix in gravel. It's a good soil. And if you're growing, like in containers cactus and succulents or even little beds, that's fine. This is a big plant and you know it's going to get what six twelve

feet high somewhere in there. Yeah, So I would create a little bit larger bed and probably use you know, just a quality If you can find a sandy loam type top soil, use that and mix it in with the cactus and succulent. And here's the thing with the organic materials, they're good, they work well. All organic matter decomposes away. It's just what it does. That's why. Yeah, that's why I pot on your patio. Three years later the soils like half full instead of full. Where did it

go? That's what happens. So I'm concerned about drainage and keeping that plant up. So if you make a bed and then the bed sinks down, you haven't gained a lot a few years down the line. So yes, is that's that blend. But make sure and have something that is just basically sandy loam is a base for it. And now sandy loam, if I if I bought something from landscaper's pride or or heirloom, what what would what? What would I be looking for in a bag to do? You know?

Uh, I you may need to have a bulk rather than bags. But call you know what, let me give you Let me give you another another number here just one second. There's a place out there. It's connected with airlom sooids. It's called Warrens Rock and Molt. It's out in Porter, Texas. And if you if you call Warrens, I'm gonna give you the number here in just a second. I don't have it off the top of my head. If you call Warrens and say, here's what I'm wanting

to do. I'm want a part of yuca. I need a quality sandy loam. You can also use expanded hiale in the mix. But the number out there and porter is two eight one three five four nineteen fifty two eight one three five four nineteen fifty. They also have a location in Humble, which is a little closer to you. But either way, just give them a call and tell them what you're looking for. They do have what they call top soil, and so you might want to kind of start with that,

but also include that that cactus material in it. That's good, you know, put some bags of that out there and include that in it as well. Okay, I thought I would try to have it for the I would kind of mound maybe six or eight inches to get it a little bit higher. Does that sound right? Yeah? I would actually probably say, you know, mounted ten or twelve inches, because it's going to settle.

You know, if you've ever if you've ever dug a trench and filled it in and then you come back later and it's sunken down below the level you had soil salt, even just regular soil dirt settles, and so you want to make sure when you're done, it's going to be six or eight inches high at least. So, yeah, what it came in in the pot, it looks like crushed concrete and sand primarily, Okay, And I guess I just try to leave that all intact when I get it, put it

in the ground. Does that sound right? Yeah, if you can. I mean, it doesn't hurt to mix it a little bit, you know, But yeah, that's basically good luck with that. Hey, thanks a bunch. I sure appreciate it, all right, Greg, you take care and I sent you an email, so just disregard it, okay, thank you. Bobby. Ana Plants and Produce up in Montgomery. They are continuant

to stock up on all kinds of beautiful things. You know. You always know you can go there and you can get the fertilizers we talk about, like nitrofoss and Nelson's and microlife like the heirloom soil product, Nature's Way, leaf mol composts. They've got all that out there. They do. If you live near the lake, their landscape crews can come out. They can do some bed work and things for you. Just call them and tell them what you have in mind, see what they can do. But that's what

they do. They run around Lake Conroe and that whole area up there, and they do really cool and effective and beautiful work on landscapes. Ana Plants and Produce is going to have a wide variety of products that you would want to have to have success in your garden and in your landscape. They just got in a big shipment of roses. It is. They are beautiful,

just really unusual flower forms. Looking at the flowers on the the ones that I saw, it's almost like the David Austin types of roses, you know, in just that flower form. But I don't know specifically the kinds of habit I'm telling you. They are very very pretty. But that's just like Ana Plants and Proudues. They're always going to get new things and very involved in the community. They have all kinds of activities for kids learning about gardening

and whatnot. Always active in the community up there in the Montgomery area, just on the east side of Montgomery at Ana Plants and Produce. I want to go now to Sunny in Cleveland. Hello, Sonny. Yes, sir, good morning. Are you got to say? I'm well, sir, So I have questions plants. One of them is a miniature ruse, and this time, you know, and of course they all come back. When

he came back, there are no leaves at all. And then I did fertilizer and now I see a lot of tooth like sellingate the buds, flowering buds, but no leaves. And then the other one has other bush is has a lot of black leaves or turning black. Okay, what type of I didn't catch the kind of rose you said it was. One was a minie rose and that I planted in the ground last year. It was being

good last year. Another one is, uh, you know, the one that the flowers like well, you know, forgot the term, you know, the a lot of flowering. Okay, okay, Well, just based

on that, it's kind of hard to know what's wrong. I'm wondering if something's going on in the soil, poor drainage, lack of light, uh for the rose, or in the soil poor drainage, or I guess it could be lack of moisture, but I doubt it's the lack of moisture right now, Uh, something's gone wrong, you know, Sonny, I think I probably need to see a picture of those to be able to help you more accurately with a With a photo, I probably can tell a little bit

more. I mean, you know, there's diseases, little leaves like black spike said, leaves returning kind of black, but just the lack of coming out. A rose should be putting on new growth now, and so if it hasn't put on any new growth, something's wrong down in the soil with that plant. Now, maybe it tried to put out foliage and they got diseased or something happened to it. I don't know, but let me take

a look at a picture. I'm going to put you on whole sunny and Josh will give you an email and if you'll send me some close up pictures in good sharp focus, we'll see what we can do. Appreciate it. Thank you so much, yes, sir, all right, Josh, we'll take care of that. Help that guy have some success with those roses. We got to fix that. Do you want a nice spring green up for your lawn. The folks in Medina have created a product called hastro Grow has

to grow twelve four eight. And it is a lawn food okay, a lawn food plus so has to grow twelve four liquid lawn food plus. You look it up to your garden hose. It makes it real convenient and easy to go over the garden. I'll go over the garden, go over the lawn with it. You could use it on a garden too, now that I'm thinking about it, that wouldn't be a bad idea. But it's made for the lawns and so it didn't take very long. I mean not ten

minutes and you got the whole lawn done. But it's got the lawn food supplements and that's the twelve four to eight wonderful ratio for turf. And it's got Medina soil activator in it. It also has humate liquid humus in it. It's just good for the lawn and it helps you have success. And now I encourage you to return your grass clippings when you mow. And if you do that, you're only going to do the has to go twelve four

eight about four times a year through the growing season that is. And if you're going to take the clippings off, well you just took away nutrients. So you're going to do it about every month in order to make up for those missing nutrients. But for an easy quick let's get out there. Let's put something on the lawn and get some results. Has to grow to twell. Four to eight lon food from Medina Agriculture products will really really work very

well. Well, you're listening to guard Line and we're here to answer your gardening questions. If you'd like to give us a call, we're about to take a low break for the news here. Just dial seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I just said dial, Nikki, and I when I said it, I thought that was back when you had the little round spain on the phone and you have to dial a phone. We don't dial anymore. We push them. Yeah, that's okay, Well that's

funny. No, I I don't, but I did get rid of my abaccus and bought a little henheld calculator. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with us today. Whatever we want to talk about, give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Long as it's related to

plants. We'll see if we can help you with that. Now, if you've got a spouse it will not get out and do the yard work for you, then I can't help with That's that's outside of the horticulture advice. But if I saw a story the other day, well gosh, where was it somewhere in some newsfeed thing, and it was talking about somebody that had their spouse. It was a guy and his wife had gotten really into gardening and become a master gardener, and now she wanted him to work out in

the yard because she just loved being out there in the yard. And he was like, hey, I've reached a point in life where I'm going to write a check and somebody else is going to go out and do that for me. It was just it was kind of interesting seeing the dynamic of how

that works. Oh well to each his own. I guess you are listening to Garden Line and our number seven three two and two kt r H. I keep saying that I think you should have more containers on your patio, and more containers in the driveway wherever you to put a container, because they're so versatile. I love containers, you know, years ago I did not

grow many things in containers. I don't know why I just didn't, But more and more now I'm always you know, I'll go somewhere to a garden center and I'll see a container and it's like, hmmm, I got to have that one. I could grow something in that. Well. When you have a container, you need a container that has good drainage toils. That's very important. You need the excess water to drain away. And then you need a quality mix. You know, quality mix means that it holds moisture.

You don't want it to be just like big chunky sand granules of water runs right through, but you want to hold some moisture. Butt you want it to drain adequately. You don't want it to stay mucky and soggy wet. Jungle Land is designed to do that. Jungle Land there are two versions.

There's an indoor and an outdoor version. The outdoor version is called flour and Vegetable Planting Soil, and it does drain well and it has like four different sources of decomposed organic matter, and it's got the micro hizal fungi that works with the plant roots to help them have success. And when you use the jungle land, put your plants in it, whether it's vegetables, whether it's flowers, you are just going to have more more productivity. It's going

to enhance the growth of the plant. That, along with some nutrient fertilization to keep it stimulated, can turn a container into really just a bountiful container, and a beautiful container lots of beautiful color coming outside jungle in. Now, where do you get jungle l in? Well, night fresh products are sold all over the place, so it's not hard to find it. You can go to Bearings Hardware, both the one on Bissinet and the one on

Westheimer. Our plantation Ase Hardware out there in Richmond Rosenberg is going to have jungle in and other nitroposs products as well. If if your lawn is struggling, and I guess saying if they just are. Most lawns right now are really struggling. We have things like heavy clay soils that are predominant here throughout the Gulf Coast region. And when a heavy clay soil gets compacted, it is hard for roots to get down and to effectively create that extensive root system

that helps the plant be healthier. In this case, the plant being a lawn, compaction is very difficult on them. So what do we do well, We airate, We punch holes in the ground. We pop soil cores out of the ground and leave them on the surface. Don't just squeeze a hole open, but pop those out and then follow that with a compost top dressing. Now, the folks at BnB turf Pros they are our go to aeration and compost top dressing company for those of you who live down south and

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three two three four five five nine eight. I want to go over to Gordon now in Cloverlea. Hello, Gordon, Hey, good them on skiff. How you doing. I'm good? How are you well? I'm fine. A couple of weeks back, I heard a man mentioned on your show something about the june bug thing. So my question is I have like thousands of these june bugs show up on my driveway and stuff. I have a

light that lights it up. So am I going to be concerned with grubworms after all the I mean thousands of them, I'll sweep them off my driveway with a broom. Uh yeah, you shaid. They're they're gonna they do their mating fly We call them jim are. They're really May bugs here. They come a little earlier than June. But May is a time when they're doing a lot of mating flights and they lay eggs on the surface and those eggs hatch into the grubs. Yes, and we have a window where we

can treat them. Have you been to my website Gardening with Skip dot Com by any chance? I have not, But I'll just put down some whedonator. Okay, so I didn't want to put down any bugginator because it also contains fer alz. It's not time. It's not time. So if you go to Gardening with Skip dot com the website, there is a lawn pest disease and weed management schedule and it's free. It's a pdf you just downloaded.

We look at it on your computer and if you look at it, it'll say June is the time when we first treat for grubs, and then as we get into July and August, the grubs go down deeper and we can treat again. Then if you're you know, if you feel like you didn't get them all the products you use it. Those two times are different, and they're on my schedule. So go to gardening liskip dot com get the lawn pest, Disease and weed management schedule and it'll tell you right when

you need to do that, and timing is important. Don't treat now. Okay. So one of the question is I just heard you mention somebody with aerration and compost the top dressing. Yes, huh. Is there anybody in my area channel view that you might recommend that would do something like that.

I do not know anyone that far over. You might you might talk to BB turf Pros and see if they're aware of a company that they would recommend over there, But I'm not connected to any company that serves that that area. So I just don't have a good suggestion for you. Okay, So what would I put on? As far as I got some spots when I planned my soide last year, that little holds the fill in Okay, so I use top soil to do that. Yeah, I would use a top

soil type mix of sandy loam soil mix. Hey, I'm up against a hard break here. If you want to hang on, you can talk a little more. But I'm gonna have to run to a commercial board. Uh well, I can hang on all right, all right, we'll be right back seven one, three, two, fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, if you live out in the Kingwood area, Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Centers,

both of them in that same area, wonderful places to go. And the shop they always have new things going on. They've got, for example, vinka, you know the Madagascar periwinkle, the vinka, the flowers that go through summer. How you can throw those things on a barbecue pit, close the lid, leave them five minutes and open it and I think they'd still be blooming and looking good. That is one tough plant. They've got

the upright types of standard types, and then the trailing types. You can put them over the side of a container or put them in a hanging basket. They've got the butterfly candy series of Boodleia Boudia also called butterfly bush. Boodleias are wonderful old plant. They get kind of big, but this butterfly candy stays about three feet high. It's got flowers. There's three types that they carry there. It's a raspberry, the coconut, and the grape.

So imagine the color of raspberry, the color white of a coconut, and then the purple of the grape. That that's the colors. They have. Butterfly magnets, absolute butterfly magnets. Do you need native milkweed? Do you need some of those? Encore or bluemuthon Azilia's the Hollywood hibiscus, the Eclipse adraja and by the way, they're having an eclipse adranga sale because we're having an eclipse right. Eclipseadrangas are five dollars off at Warren's at the Warrants only.

They also have by the way, you need to go check out their vanilla brandy Abelia. That is a where you know, back in the day, oh, we had one kind of abelia, glossy abelia. There was one kind. Now we got a lot of different cultivars and vanilla brandy has little white margins on the leaves and kind of reddish brown stems that are really attractive, really beautiful, And then in the fall when it cools off, the leaf margins turned kind of a pinkish color. It's just cool. Go

by and see it. Ask them to show you their vanilla brandy abilia. At the Warren's Garden Center, I was visiting with Gordon out here in clover Leaf. Gordon, I think you had a one more question on something about the lawn. Yeah, you said you to fill in some low spots topsoil or sandy loam. Yeah, sandy loam type top soil is usually a good

one rather than just using sand. Yeah, if you can find something for me, you can purchase their calling topsail, and you look at it and it looks decent to you, we'll go ahead and just fill in with that, Okay. The sandy loam is the same as topsoil basically. Well, the word topsoil can mean anything the people selling it to you want it to mean. Really, Unfortunately, it's not a lot of things sold as topsoil or just soil. But sandy loam is a good quality type of topsoil and

it works really, well, it's a bla. Where can I get that? By a bag? Around me? Because my nearest place to meet is Houston Garden Centers. They don't have it. The too Ace Hardware is one in Crosby and want you all the road? They don't have it. And you said, hang on just saying you said that. Where are you located again, Cloverly, It's right about Beltway eight and Wallaceville Road area. Yeah, you know Warren's Rock and mult is up there. There's one in Humble,

and one importer is not too terribly far away from you. That might be you may want to call them and find out where they where they stock their materials. Are you talking about needing like cubic yards of it or just a few bags. I don't have a means to carry bulk. I have to do bags, Okay, I would, I would probably, I would just talk to the folks at Warren's Rock and Maults. Do you need a number for the one in Humble? Yeah? I think I tried to visit

you there one day, but you were stuck in traffic. Okay, all right, I think you said there in Kingwood, right, Yeah, Well, but this is Humble a little south of Kingwood So two eight one eight five to two seventy four hundred two eight one eight five two seventy four hundred Gordon and good luck with that. Yeah, just ask them about that Monday. All right, all right, thank you for your help, Thanks for

the call. Appreciate that. Uh, if you have not done a fertilization in your lawn and you would like to get some quick results, uh, nitropous red bag, that's the Imperial Nitrofus Imperial Plant FT. It is a fifteen five to ten. It's a fifteen five ten fertilizer that releases those nutrients quickly. When you get it wet, they're going to go into solution and be available for the plant roots and you can get a nice quick greenoup with that. Now you want to put it out at a rate of about seven

pounds per thousand square feet. It works, It works very well. It's designed based on research by university across the South Langre Universities a turf scientist with that three one two ratio of nutrients. That works really well for our turf. And you're going to find it an enchanted forest, which I'm going to be at next Saturday. Next Saturday, be out enchanted forest out in Richmond Rosenberg area. You're going to find it up in Willis at Growers Outlet.

You can also find it at RCW Nursery, Tumbo Parkway and Beltway eight. Right there the Nitroposs Imperial, the red Bag fifteen five ten. You're listening to Guardenline. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight

seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If I could talk you into doing one thing that maybe you haven't done before, uh for your outdoor enjoyment this year, I think I would tell you take on some activities, get some products to bring birds to your landscape to be able to enjoy them more. I just find that to be really enjoyable. You know, you're out working. We garden, we plant flowers, we grow

vegetables. We do a lot of wonderful things out in the garden. But when you're sitting and just enjoying not just the view, but you're getting to hear the sound of birds or watch their antics with a bird bath, with bird feeders, with bird houses, wild birds unlimited. That is the place, the best place, and I mean this hands down the best place to

get everything to create that bird paradise out in the backyard. Our birds right now, they're still in their nesting season and nesting Superblend by wild Birds is a very well formulated It's a very well formulated bird food for that stage of the bird's annual life. They're raising young. They need that high protein of dried mealworms and sunflowers and peanuts and safflower tree nuts and others. It's all in there. They have a bird seed for each group of birds, for

each situation, and it's all no waste seed. They have quality feeders like the Scuroll proof feeder that I love so much, and many others too, by the way. They have houses from purple Martins and bluebirds and all the different things you would want for birds. Is it Walberds And they're just fun to go into. Six different stores, six different wallbird stores in the Houston

area. WBU Houston dot com. That's the website. Now, excuse me, WBU dot com Forward slash Houston. We'll say that one more time. WBU Walbert's unlimited. WBU dot com Forward slash Houston. That'll get you to the six stores that are in our area, so you can find the one nearest you. I would really encourage you to check it out, even if you just started with one little feeder. I've about to get a little feeder for my mother in law who wants to have some birds to see just outside

the window. We're gonna put a little little shepherd cruckhangers outside the window and hang a little bird feeder on it. And I know she's going to really enjoy that. I'm looking for getting that set up for her. We gave her a hummingbird feeder one time that it just beautiful and it's fun. Birds are cool. You'd add those to the landscape. A while back, I was up at the anti ros and Porium up in Independence, Texas. You

know where that is, what's north of Brenham. And I love going out there because when you go to the anti ros in Porium, it's like you go back in time and it's another one of those destination garden centers. Listen, they've been doing this since nineteen eighty three, growing the anti croses and selling them. People all over the country have purchased their anti crosies. They do ship, yes, by the way, and they grow them in like a three gallon bucket, which makes a better, more robust rose plant.

They have antig roses, but they have so much more. Do you need herbs, do you need perennials? Do you need native types of plants? They've got it all out there and always something going on. There's always a good reason to run out to antigrosen Porium. For example, Saturday, April thirteenth, from ten am to two Native Plant Partner Program is going to bring a tent out there to their nursery and display gardens at the antiqu Rosenborium.

And it's a collaboration between the Native Plant Society and local nurseries around the state. They're going to partner with that program the Tinker Garden. Guess what, that's a Children in the Garden program venture. You can get your kids ages two to eight signed up with that. It's a six week curriculum. It starts April nineteenth and twentieth at one pm. It goes to about mid May. So you just got to contact them for this. How do you contact

them? Here's a phone number nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight nine seven nine eight three six five five four eight, or the website Antique rosanmporium dot com. Write that down Antique roseanmporim dot com. Hey, the blue bonnets are blooming. Wonderful time take a little drive through the country. Doesn't take long to get there, I mean really doesn't. Little afternoon

venture today, why not run out the antick Rosevelt. I think you enjoy getting out and enjoy it seeing that I always due just a reminder again, I'm going to be at the Richmond excuse me hardon me, y goodness, all right, I'm going to be an enchanted forest out in Richmond. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. We're going to be out there. It's on FM twenty seven fifty nine twenty seven to fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond heading toward sugar Land, it's off to the right FM twenty seven

fifty nine. Next Saturday at eleven thirty, I'll be doing a springtime question and answer with everybody that shows up. KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with scip Richter's solease the gas trim. Just watch you as gas us. So many good things to superasy gassies and gas baby tables back again, not a sign glasses and gas sald bean between gas starting. Welcome back to

garden line. Good to have you with us this morning. What do you want to talk about IM regarding gardening? Give us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. It is time to be fertilizing your lawn. It's a good time to put out your Nitrophis superturf. That's the silver bag. It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer. It has half the nitrogen and a slow release

for them. It also has iron to help promote good greening. You get that out now and for two or three months, your lawn is going to have a release of nutrients to promote good, strong, even growth and improved turf density. And that is very important if you want to have a beautiful one and if you also want to have a lawn that's not plagued by weeds. Where can you find this, Well, I'll tell you where you can find it. You can find nitrofoss super turf at places like Shades of Texas

on Genoa Red Bluff, Fisher's Hardware. Both the one South Houston on Southomore and the one out in Laporte on Broadway Street is going to have it and you can find it at the Arbor Gate Arborgate. By the way, if you're at the arbor Gate, you have got to check out the new parking lot they have. It is really really nice. I mean you instead of having to park out front and then try to find a place on the road

or something. No that those days are gone turned down something called Trishel Road and it goes it leaves twenty nine to twenty and goes around behind Arburgate and comes back into twenty nine twenty. So if you're looking for Trashol and all of a sudden you're at Arburgate, we'll just keep going. The other side of Trishole is going to come in. Just keep watching for it. The parking lots behind Arburgate and it's an all weather surface that is it's just a

wonderful easy, easy, easy access. While you're at Arburgate, pick up their one two three completely easy system that is a food to feed anything with roots, that is a soil for any application, and a compost that will improve any soil that includes sand that includes clay. The one two three easy system. Both the soil and the compost, by the way, have expanded shale in them, which also helps a lot with improving drainage, and drainage

is very very important. Let's go now, we're going to head out to northwest Houston and talk to Frank. Hello, Frank, great, skip my bagyard. I don't know twenty about thirty and they load it with cut worms, I mean hundreds of them. Okay, all right. What you need to do is there's there's several products that will kill cutworms. Their standard synthetic insecticides that will kill cutworms. But I would get a product containing either BT

or spinosid. Either of those ingredients will kill cutworms. Now, BT is only going to last about a day, so you may have to reapply it later, but spinosid will last a little bit longer. And a planet sawd and each time I planet it sawed, it doesn't develop it. Well, that's probably there's two things going on here. When you say cutworms, you're seeing caterpillars eating the leaves of the grass, right, correct, Yeah,

So the sod itself should that's a separate issue. I mean, you watering it in and keeping it wet by watering a couple of times a day the first week, Yeah, to help it get established. Is it deep deep shade or is it full sun? No, it's okay. What kind of sad are you planting? I'm Saint Augustine. I don't know. When you say doesn't develop? Now, are you talking about this year you planted,

It's not. I have planted it twice over the last two years. Okay, And you know it start it's green up, and all of a sudden it start turning brown. Well, when launch turn brown, it's either a lack of water or the grass did not root in very well initially, or it could be a disease. Uh. And the disease, you know, if it's if it's summertime, it could be chinch bugs. If it's anytime of the year. Really, it could be taken a root rock that effects

the lown. There's just too many possibilities, you know, to diagnose it accurately. I think what we need to do is when it's happening, let's send me a picture. Let's take to look at what's going on and see if we can get specific about it. Okay, Well, if I get these horns with BT, you think they would get them? Await, yeah, it'll it'll kill them when they're actively feeding. Now if you if you wait too long and the worms get bigger and they're about to turn into moths,

well at that stage BT it doesn't work as well. So don't delay. So you could you could do You kind of have options here. You can do the BT, you can do the spinosa. Both of those have to be sprayed on the grass blades so the bugs eat them, so the caterpillars eat them. Or if you use the synthetic insecticide there's a lot of them out there that'll work just lawn. If it's labeled for long insects, it's going to work on grubs, I mean on cutworms. Oh okay,

you appreciate it all right, sir, you take care. Thanks for the call. Creciate that very much, very much. If you're going to fill a container on your patio or indoors, jungling and distributed by Nitrophoss, it's quality soil mix. It goes in the container for the indoor plant. They have jungle land water saving potting soil. It's got crystals in it. These

crystals absorb water and they swell up. It's almost like they become like little chunks of jello if you want to kind of picture that, the roots growing through the container can draw water from those crystals even after the soil begins to get a little too dry. So the crystals in the soil. The reason they're put there is to help extend the availability of water to those plants. Should you forget to water the plants. I know you never do that,

but some people do. Some people do. Where do you get jungle land and other nitrofoss products. Well, you can get plants for all seasons Tombol Parkway. You can go to allspas as up in the woodlands. They're going to have it up there, plants and things out in Brenham it's going to have it as well. It's easy, easy to find. We're going to go now to Drazoria and talk to Bob. Hello Bob, good morning, really too. I wonder why more people don't use a mulching kit on their

mowers, because you mentioned something about returning the clippings to the soil. Your thoughts on it, Uh, why they don't? It's just an extra thing that isn't kind of in the forefront of their minds. You know, when you mow, there's a lot of different ways to go about melting the clippings. One, you mow more often, so you're not cutting a big, long clipping off. You're just cutting a short clipping off. That's one thing. So anybody can do that. You can buy a multing blade that helps,

you know, I think that's the kit you're talking about. It helps recycle those clippings through the housing as you're mowing, chopping them up a little more, and then going all out. There's even mulching mowers that have a housing designed to recirculate those clippings as you're mowing to get them chopped up even better. So there's several ways to go about it. Yeah, I just

wonder why more people don't. And one other thing doesn't matter. But a couple of years ago, I was in the Dallas area listening to one of their garden shows up there, and I've never heard it mentioned down here that when people are using their broadcast spreader to wash that fertilizer off of the concrete, because it unless you get a good rain to soak it in. If you just have high humidity Dallas sometimes has high humidity. That fertilizer will help

attack and degrade your concrete. That's interesting. I'm not I'm not familiar with that degrading part. Hey, I got it. I'm gonna have to run take a little break here. Do you want to continue this discussion? Just hang on? Uh? If not, okay, thank you. I appreciate your call. Yeah, I'm sorry. I run a little along there on this. If I seven to one, three, two, fifty eight to seventy four, I'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardlinem. Good to

have you with us today. Hey, if you have ever tried sweet Green from Nitrofrosh, you ought to give it a try. It is an eleven percent nitrogen natural furlisure organic type furtilisure. It's based on molasses. Microbial activity turns it into a really, really valuable source of nitrogen and other nutrients for your lawn. Sweet green has a wonderful sweet smell. It's molasses based, so it's kind of fun driving around with it in the car with you.

It works well, and sweet Greens available wherever you get nitrofoss products, which is all over the place. You can get it. Plants for all seasons up there on Tomball Parkway. You can get sweet Green at Plants and Things and Brennam. You can go down to Lake Hardware in Angleton and find it down there as well. Sweet greens easy to find, as are all the nitrofosh products. I was talking with Bob out in Brazilia here and Bob we were talking about mulching and other things. Where do we drop off? I

lost track? All right, we're talking about and the alkalinity and the acidity of your concrete fertilizers. Go talk to your high school science teacher and you know, yeah lime lime with an acid on it. That doesn't work well, right, Yeah, and uh, for many years I have always gone followed my fertilizing by washing the fertilizer off of all my concrete. Yeah, and areas where I didn't over years it looked bad. But I'll just let you go with that. And I'm a big proponent of the mulching kids.

I'll let you get to your next color. Thank you for your time, Yeah, Hey, thank you, and hang around. I'm gonna make a few more comments about all that. Uh, there are other reasons that we want to get that fertilizer off if it has iron in it, iron products if you're going in to add an iron supplement to your lawn, or furlicures

than iron. When you get iron on concrete and it gets wet, you get a little rust spots or rust stains or rust streaks if there's enough of it on there, and so yo want to get it off for that reason. Another reason is when fertilizer washes off your driveway, it goes down into

the drain and it's going to end up in somebody of water somewhere. All land drains to somebody of water, and so when you're putting a nitrogen and especially also a phosphorus impact into the water solution that's running out into creeks and streams and in some parts of the state aquifers, it causes algal blooms. Algae takes off, which results in fish kills. It's an environmental degradation. And you paid for the fertilizer, So get your little blower and blow it

onto the lawn. When you get through fertilizing, A lot of spreaders have little fins that you drop to the side and it keeps the fertilizer from going in that direction. As you're going along the curb side or the driveway side. But always finish off with blowing that back end. You paid for it, Go ahead and use it to grow a green lawn rather than a green creek, if you know what I mean. Absolutely true the case the folks.

ACE Hardware always have what you need for your lawn and your garden and your lands, the whole nine yards, any month of the year, it doesn't matter. The ACE is the place right now. ACE is a place to get your lawn fertilizers. ACE is a place to get your weed control products, your pest control, your disease control products. ACE is a place to get fire ant the bait. Always start with a bait and then use the individual mound treatment products for any that escape. Give the bait a couple

of weeks to work and just make sure you know what you got. You're going to find that they work very well. Follow the label. Follow the label. It's mosquito season. They're already starting to show up. I saw what was the human disease? Oh my gosh, there's several mosquita diseases. There's nile viruses, malaria. I can't remember the one. They've already discovered

it in Texas somewhere that's already appearing this year. ACE will give you the things to control it, like the low granules that you put out that control them, Mista sitas or fogers or however you're going about it. ACE is the place for that and ACE Hardware. Just go online and type in ACE Hardware dot com and find the store locator and find one of the forty stores in the Greater Houston area that's close to you. I think that makes it

pretty pretty darn easy. Landscaper's Pride has a wide variety of products. Yeah, I was surprised as I began talking to them as time a couple of years ago, or maybe it's just a year year and a half ago, about some of the different products that they carry that I wouldn't aware that they carried twenty seven different bag products and they also sell bulk too. You can find their store their locations at Landscaperspride dot com meaning what stores carry landscapers Pride

products. Go to Landscaperspride dot com and you know it's all on there. You can find they've been around for twenty years. They're always local, their top quality resources and with Landscapers Pride. It's basically a one stop shop when you want something to grow your plants in that's going to really create beautiful, blooming, beautiful productivity. Premium potting soils, they've got it, for example, the product Premium potting soil, Spagnum based compost rich potting soil. It's

good for indoor and outdoor. Got pear light in it. They got some of the Color Store slow release fertilizer that feeds up to three months. And so you're going to get an expensive route development and really good success with that kind of a combination in one mix for your containers. And then they have many, many other products available. Just stick around you hear me talk about

them a lot because landscapers Pride products work. That is a fact. Let's see, We're going to go now up to Huntsville and talk to Wanda. Hello, Wanda, Hi, how are you. I'm well. I would like to know what lengths to cut and how to root them all very cutting. Oooh boy. Mulberry being a tree, a woody ornamental plant is a little more challenging to root. You need to use what they call semi hardwood

cuttings. That means something that's not hardwoody, but is a little more in a succulent state, so that's going to be some pretty new growth to do well. The problem with our trees is this, they start off as a seed and they're in a juvenile state, and the juvenile state roots easily. So if you had a little mulberry sapling in the flower bed that was three four feet high, it would be easy to root cuttings from. Once they get larger, the growth becomes mature, and mature wood is much more difficult

to root. And I think I would have to probably go online and do a little search for mulberry rooting, and then I'll tell you what. I'm going to give you a little formula here to type into your search engine to get more specific. Okay, it's you type in the word mulberry tree cutting, rooting and then and then this is the most important part. Site colon dot ed u s I t E colon dot e d U. What that

does is it tells Google or whoever your search engine is. It says, I want you to find me sites that have the words mulberry tree cutting and rooting all in them. But I only want you to look in websites that end in dot edu and a university research and educational extension type website and somebody across the country. You're going to find some extensive information that goes into the

depth of how do you root a mulberry cutting? And that auto that's the best suggestion that I can give you, just off the top of my head. All right, all right, want to thank you for the call. I appreciate that. If you love to use organic products in your landscape, and a whole lot of people do, and very very popular Microlife fertilizers. It's a wide range of fertilizers that they have at Microlife. They really fit the bill. The green bag six' two four that is a standard for

lawn fertilization. It works very well. It releases of nutrients slowly over time. Not that you don't get some immediately. You do get some pretty quick. But it's organic. So what has to happen is microbes grab those particles and they chew them up and they release the nutrients. That's a kind of fast version of how it works. Microlife Purple bag, the Humates plus that

is a soil enhancing product. Humate is concentrated compost in a bag and it helps build the soil quality and again support that microbial content in the soil. Now's the time to get these out. Now is the time they're on my schedule. If you go to gardening with Skip dot com, I'm gardening with Skip dot com. Look at my lawn care schedule. You'll find Microlife on

there and it needs to be applied. Now. You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com and find out all the stores the carry Microlife. It's one of the most widely available fertilizers in the Greater Houston area. We're going to go out now to Hockley and talk to Rusty. Hello, Rusty, Hello, how you do. I'm good, sir. Got a couple questions fire as in my vegetable garden? Okay, how to get how to get rid of my tride vinegar and water and borax? And that

just makes them mad. I think, yeah, don't don't do any of those anymore. Uh. What what I would recommend is you want to get a bait. Now, there's two ways to go about it. The only bait that I know of labeled for vegetable gardens, and there may be some I'm not aware of. Is called come and get it, Come and get it, let me get it by fertilan. It's a spinosa. It is the insecticide, and it's an organic insecticide in it. But it's a bait

and you can use that all around the vegetable garden. Don't dump it on mounds. Use it like a bit, just scatter it loosely. You want the workers to go out there and find it and bring it back to the mound. But come and get it to work pretty well. Some people. You can't use things like amdro and extinguish and other fire baits in the vegetable garden, but some people will put those around the garden in the yard, and you're going to have workers that are going out there and bringing some back.

But I think I would would go with the come and get it if your garden is of a decent size, because that way you know you're getting the baits there where they live. And if not, if it's just like a four foot wide bed, then just put any kind of fire bait all around the garden. I got you. Sound good. One more quick question, macubate of plants you're about to flip high? Okay? Trying too trying to bloom. I use this market life of them. Visit it'mo can at

fly Matt when to apply micro life to him? Yeah, I hope they're al If they're a flood high, I'm gonna do it too soon. No, no, do it now, do it now, and I probably do it again like four weeks later. Yeah, you want to keep those scoring yep about it? All right? Thank you sir? All right, thank you, Rusty. Appreciate. I appreciate you. Take care, appreciate that call. Uh. You know, Affordable Tree Service is a company that I trust and you should trust too. Martin Spoon Moore and his wife the owners.

They answer the phone, by the way, the phone number seven to one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. You can go to their website aff tree Service dot com. Hire Martin to come out and give you a consultation. Cost one hundred and fifty bucks. If you harm to do the work, it goes right into the cost of the work. He's a professional. He will not mess up your trees. Don't take chances on having your yard guy or some guy with business card he's stuck in your door.

Don't take chances on them on your valuable valuable trees. Call off Martin at Affordable Tree Service and get the job done right. He stays busy. Tell him your Guardenline listener for a head of the line service time for Nicky in the news. We'll be right back. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with us today. We are looking forward to talking to you about the things that interest you in gardening, and we're going to start off

by going straight out to Sandy and Cyprus. Hello Sandy, good morning morning. I have a question. I had planted some black, beauty and blue in my containers and they're doing good. I put a tomato cage around it. Was that should I have not done that to put a tomato cage around it? No, that's fine, that's fine. And then I've got lots of duelings on him, but lots of flowers and stuff on them. But there's no egg plant. Absolutely, Yeah, flowers are there for weeks.

Yeah that you know that happens from time to time. Eggplants not setting really well, and there are different possible causes for it. I find that usually they settle down and do just fine. Is it getting it's getting adequate sunlight? I assume yes, okay. Uh So, I think you're kind of doing what you can do, probably providing adequate moisture good for a good uh uh fertilization. You know, plenty of nutrientsfer it to do, but not

excessive amounts of fertilization. I think that that's pretty much the important thing, uh to. And I think it'll settle down. I've had flower drop and I kind of wonder sometimes, well, you know, where the bees not present, you know, some rainy weather, the honey bees didn't want to get out and do the work or something. But I think it'll settle down. It always has for me, at least. Well, I'm wondering because

I I fertilized it. Maybe I'm fertilizing it too much because I did it last Friday and the friday before, so I was fertilizing it once a week like I do. My okra into beltuppers in had opinions. But they're doing fine. Yeah, And you shouldn't have to fertilize anything that often unless you're just using a tiny amount of fertilizer when you do that. But either way,

just a moderate amount of fertilizer. Don't push them with too much with a lot of our nightshade family plants, that's peppers, tomatoes, eggplant or examples. When you push them with too much excessive nitrogen, you end up with some problems with fruiting fruit development. I think that possibly could be causing it. So let's just hold off. If you fertilize once a month, that's enough for a vegetable garden. Okay, all right, that's it. Thank you so very much. All right, thank you for the call.

I appreciate that, aye h. In Chenned Gardens out of Richmond is one of those show places. It's one of the destination places. And I've been out there. I think I said this before, but I've been out there, and there's people from Austin, Texas drove all the way over to a Chenni Gardens and Richmond because they love the place. They got to see the place. Remember, we were fortunate here to have incredible mom and pop independent

garden centers, and in Chenna Gardens is just exactly that. They're on three fifty nine just north of Richmond. If you're heading up toward Katie fulsher direction on FM three fifty nine. The website Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They are going to have every kind of plant you can imagine. They're gonna have knowledgeable staff, friendly staff to greet you, to

help you have success. No matter what you're wanting to grow, they can provide it and all the things that go with it, including the fertilizers I recommend on guardenline, including gorgeous, beautiful containers. Our gift shop is beautiful. It just fairy gardens. I mean, it just doesn't stop at Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Go check them out today, be a good day. They're open Sunday from ten am to four pm. So go check them

out this afternoon. You'll see what I'm talking about. Let's go to spring. Now we're going to talk to Cindy. Hello, Sindy, Hello, good morning. So did you get my pictures and in with the skinny pine tree? Let me see. I have to look and see. I don't see a picture. When did you send this Sunday exactly? Oh? Let me look this morning? No, no, last week, oh, last week. Okay, I'm looking as under your name, Sindy. Well, let's go ahead and I'm gonna keep looking and you describe the describe what your

you have to me March thirty first is when I sent it in. Okay, April, okay, April. At any rate, you would have to look at it. It definitely is visible on the needs. So it's like bearing from the base up to about half well about two quarters of the tree, well maybe half anyway, it's just dying and then then it's back to life at the very tip. It's very interesting. I've sprayed it with bungey

sides and it's been like this all year. So are you describing that the older needles have dropped off and the ends of the branches still have living needles. You said a pine tree, right, Well, I'm assuming it's a pine tree. It's straight like an arrow, and it definitely has pine needles, but it's ornamental. Ornamental. Okay, Well you're for some reason your

email did not did not come through it. Just resend it and what I'll do is I will take a look at it, and then i'll if I get it in the email, I'll take a look at and i'll comment on the air. But let me double check the email address skip biker at No, no, no, not that one. Let me I'm going to put you on hold, and uh, Josh, we'll get you an email here.

Okay, all right, we'll take care of that. Uh. If you are looking for one stop shopping for everything that you would need to take care of your plants, your gardens, your lawns, all of that, Southwest Fertilizer has got to be the ultimate place. Southwest Fertilizer is in southwest Houston. Of course, it's on the corner of Bissinette and Runwick. You ought to write down the email, excuse me, the email. You ought to write down the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com, Southwest Fertilizer dot com.

And here's the phone number seven one three six six six seventeen forty four. If I talk about a fertilizer, it's at Southwest Fertilizer, and they're going to have a lot, lot more. If I talk about a pest control, a disease control, a weed control, their selection is like none I've ever seen. And I don't mean in Houston, I mean anywhere. I've never seen a place that stocks as much stuff as Southwest Fertilizer. If you need tools, well you got an eighty foot wall of tools to choose from.

Do you need small engine repair, Yeah, they do that too. They have a good old fashioned one of those seed can racks where you go in and take a little scoops of seed out. They sell seed by the packet too. It's just anything you can think of. Do you need a fertilizer spreader. Do you need a spreader to put out fireing bait? Do you need fireing bait? They've got all of that at Southwest Fertilizer. It's

it's just the place you need to stop. Just count on it as being the source of anything you need to have a bountiful garden and a beautiful lens. They specialize in that. Bob and his team, Aaron and all of them very knowledgeable. They can help you. They can direct you to the things that you need. They will not send you to sell you something you don't need that doesn't work. They know what they're talking about. Its Southwest

Fertilizer. I highly recommend that. For example, barricade. You know have you put out barricade? This spring barricade is a product from nitrofoss. It goes down and then you spread it according to the label rate evenly through your lawn, watered in with a half inch of water. It soaks in and the soil ties it up. It doesn't wash away because the way it works is it's got to be there in the soil surface. So when a weed seed sprouts, it shuts it down. Barricade keeps you from ever seeing the

weed in the first place, and Bob carries it Southwest Fertilizer. A lot of places carry nitrofoss products. But that's just an example of one of the many products that you will find at Southwest Fertilizer. We're going to take a little break here. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good have you with us? Hey, here's the phone number like you're able us to call seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three

two one two fifty eight seventy four. Now have you been to Nelson water Garden out in Katie yet? I should say water garden, uh, nursery and water garden. You know they do have a nursery. Of course, I could just go on and on about the water garden part. I've never seen a more beautiful place, a more destination. Gotta go see it, inspirational place when it comes to water gardens and Nelson Water Garden. But then Nelson Nursery. Oh my goodness, they have a shrub. I don't talk

about this shrub more and I should. It's a brune Failsa. It's called Yesterday, Today, and tomorrow because the flowers change color over three days as they come out. It's real cool, old time Southern shrub. They've got it. They have things like yarrow plants. They got a good stock of salvia's and fire bush, the little compact types of fire bush and porterweed and

a bill. It's just it's a nursery. They have a nursery. But when you get out there and you see the water falls that they can build at your place, the disappearing fountains, like the little large container with water coming out that they if it wouldn't even have watered it, it'd be gorgeous to set out in the landscape. But it's got water circulating which brings in the birds and the sound of water, which is so peaceful. Nelson Watergarden

and nursery. That it's Katie Fort Benroad. So you got to Katie on Ien. Turn right on Katie Fort Benroad, just a cross over the oh stone's throw from Ien. You gotta go check it out again. It's a destination if you want the website Nelsonwatergardens dot com, if you want the email or the phone number two eight one thirty nine to one forty seven sixty nine. Let's go now out to Clear Lake and we're going to talk to Don. Hello, Don, Hi, how you doing. I'm well, sir.

What's up today? I got two things I've called in before. This is my third attempt at an indoor ficus tree, and it's already not going so well. So we bought it. We brought it home and immediately started dropping leaves. So it was in the house for about a week, and my wife went ahead and put it outside yesterday, thinking that maybe it's lack of humidity. Now we keep our house at about seventy to seventy five degrees, okay, and so, and then we didn't We didn't transplant it.

We thought, well, we'll just keep it in its pot for a month till it's stable until we transplant it. Is there anything here that I'm doing wrong? Well? First of all, Ficus. First of all, do you have the Fiddley fig or the ficus that has a smaller fig or smaller leaves on it. What kind of ficus do you have? The smaller leaves. The Fiddley fig is doing fine in the house. Okay, here's the thing about vicus. When you change the light intensity pretty significantly, they drop

leaves. They that's how they adjust to the new location. And so if it was growing in low light, now it's in highlight. If it's growing, especially growing in better light, and you bring it indoors where it's never as good as it is typically where the plants are being grown, they will often drop their leaves, but they'll relief. So if that happened pretty quick in the first few weeks of that plant being in your house, that's probably

what it is. Just continue to monitor the soul moisture, keep it adequately moist and it'll relief and you should be okay on it. So I should go ahead and bring it back into the house. Then, uh, where do you want it to be? Outside? Or inside? Longer term? Inside? Okay? Inside? Yeah, good, And go ahead and bring it back in. It will adjust to that. It's going to grow settle lot and go ahead, And is it a good idea? Just to keep it in it's container until it, you know, bounces out. Yeah,

I would. I would. If you want to repot it, you can do that. I mean, there's no problem repotting it. Now. Are you want to put in a bigger container or just a pretty yer container or what a bigger long term you can do that now, there's not a problem either way. It's just it's going to go through that reliefing and if you have decent light inside, it should be fine. They do like a light. Yeah, We've got this one now in a very bright room. So

okay, I think it's the best chance for we have. This is the third attempt, so I don't know. If this one doesn't make it, that might be done, but we'll see again. I got another question. Okay, we have a peacon tree that's been planted for about five years. It's about three and a half feet tall, and we're wanting to move it from one house to another house. Okay, is this a good idea and should be higher professional? And do you know one that is in the clear

Lake area? How tall is it? About three and a half feet tall and a half You could dig it yourself. Can you wait until fall to move it? No? Because what house is being sold next month? Okay? If you can dig down it. Is it? Oh boy, was it a seedling? Or did you buy it and plant it there? That they had bought it and planted it? Okay, if you can dig down it, mainly they have kind of a tap type root, and get a lot of that root, get some soil with it. You can't just physically.

The weight of soil is excessive, so it's hard to move much soil. But get it up and then wrap it up in like a burlap or something even a tarp kind of plastic around the base. Get it to the new location, set it at the exact same depth it was before, Settle the soil in around it, and then I would throw like a burlap or something over it just to give a little shade to the leaves for a little

while to help it kind of begin to put out new roots. And after a couple of weeks pull that off, and I think you can move it okay yourself at this time. As far as hiring somebody, that's a pretty small job. I don't know how successful you will be. You may have a landscaper that comes out and does it, but the value of that plant probably wouldn't equal the cost of having somebody move it. Wow, it's a sentimental thing. So that's gotcha, got you? Okay? Yeah? Yeah,

Well you know, you know you could call a landscaper. You could talk to Martin spoon more at an Affordable Tree and see what he would charge to come out to that location and do the move as well. Okay, And what's is how do I get a hold of him? You know? In just a second, I'm trying to grab the number. Get it here in front of me, Martin spoon Milk. Yeah. The website is aff Tree Service dot com. The phone number is seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. Yeah, that's it. Hey, I got a

run. We're bought up against a heart break here. But good luck with that. Wish you well, hope that does well. Uh you've heard me talk about nutri Star Genesis from Nelson's before. It's a six to one three natural fertilizer full of all kinds of microbial activity, bacteria and endo and ectomycorrhizal fungi. You put it in the soil you're going to transplant into. Uh So, if you're maybe you bought a plant, a little four inch pot or a gallon pot and you're going to move it to a bigger container.

Get that potting soul, put the nutri Star Genesis in it, follow the label watered in well, and you're going to see results. I've done it when I was bumping up some vegetable I was growing, I've done it. You can put it in like you're gonna plant roses. You can put it in the soil around roses too. Nutri Star Genesis works very well and it is a natural product, and so it's one that I think you are going to enjoy. Use. Comes in little canisters, little plastic containers with a

screw top lid. I keep it on hand because I'm always planting something. I mean, aren't you putting in new containers on the patio? Maybe putting in a bed and you got a bed and you want to plant a plant and get some nutrient around the roots as you do that. It's made for transplant. That's why they call it Genesis. Transplant mix works really well. You know, we love garden centers here on Garden Line and Spring Creek Feed Center is it's a place that you will enjoy going into. It's very beautiful.

I mean that what they have inside all kinds of things you know. Of course they got feed. Of course they have quality dog food, quality animal food. In general. Their garden section just continues to get a little bit bigger and better. They want a bit more plants this year that they have outside at Spring Creek Feed. And then if you hear me talk about a fertilizer, they're going to carry it. Do you need disease, insect and weed control, They've got it. So where is Spring Creek Feed?

Well? Spring Creek? I ought to tell you Magnolia FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham Parkway in two forty nine. Magnolia FA twenty nine seventy eight, Spring Creek Feed Center. You need to go there. You're an f FA or for a traising animals, you're a senior citizen or military. They've had discounts for you. You've been listening to Guardline. I will come back. We got one more hour today before you have to

put this one in the books. Don't forget that next week I will be an Enchanted Forest Nursery and Richmond. That is on FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, Texas. If you're heading towards sugarland direction. Just turn right, go down, go down that direction. FM twenty seven to fifty nine. I'm going to be answering questions. You're going to do something we can springtime, Q and A. Your toughest questions, Let's bring them, bring

me your samples, bring me pictures. Let's fix that. Get a beautiful, beautiful landscape and a bountiful guard. Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Escape Rictor. It's crazy Trim. Just watch him as so many things to stay sire, Welcome back to the Garden Line. Good to have you with us today. What are we going to talk about this last hour of the garden Line weekend. That's right, we got

one hour left. If you got some gardening questions you'd like to give us a call and talk about, well, here's the number seven one three two one two k t RH just want to remind you it is time to put out your nitropass superturf. That's the silver bag. The silver bag nineteen four to ten. You put that on your lawn and what's going to happen well, you're going to get gradual feeding over two to three months. It's going to provide those nutrients. Behalf the nitrogen is in a slow release form,

so it doesn't just wash away or volatilize away. It gradually feeds that lawn over time, which is how turf takes up nutrients gradually over time. It's also got four percent iron for good dark green color. That's important. A lot of times iron gets tied up in our soils, and that supplemental iron is very helpful for leaviating some of that light green color that you see or even the yellowing that you see on your lawn. Where do you get nitrofos

super turf. Well, it's so widely available. I mean I could just say go everywhere. You know, all the hardware stores probably going to carry that. You're going to find it at the Arborgate up in Tumbule, you find them D and D feed up a tumble. You're gonna find it hiding feed over on Stuben or Airline. You're going to find it in Shades of Texas, Shade of Texas up in the Woodlands area. Just many, many

places where you can get this quality product. Don't delay go ahead and get it down because our grass is waking up and it's looking for some nutrient to support that fast early growth and good density. Important, have good density if you want to fight weeds. We're going to go out to Humboldt, Texas now and we're going to talk to Laurence. Hello, Lawrence, I'm good, sir. How can we help? So? I sent on some pictures of my roses. They're looking kind of unhealthy. I saw those. I

saw those. Yeah, m hm, I guess some of the leaves have a couple of brown spots. But yeah, let me let me go through them. Your brown spots is that's brown spot U or black spot on roses. Black spots a fungal disease. And a lot of the pictures everything's wet, and I know they're not wet constantly, but the more often you wet the foliage, the worst black spot is going to be. So if you can switch from sprinkler irrigation to a drip irrigation, that helps. Every time

it rains. You can't control that, but you can't control often you wet the foliage. Planting things so densely that the air didn't circulate well, that makes black spot worse. I saw that. I also saw on the roses a few holes in the leaves where something chomped on them. From what I can see from the photos, those are that's older damage. So I don't know that you have an active feeding insect. And from what I can see, it's also a minimal amount of damage that is not going to affect bloom

production on the roses. So if it were mine, I wouldn't grab anything to spray just yet. I don't think that's it. You got some other diseases in there. One calls SIRC spur leaf spot. It's a fungal spot. But then the other thing is a lot of your blooms are getting those brown tips on the edges, and that is a blight. That's a petal blight, and again it can be caused by wet conditions. What happens is the petal will if it's bad enough, it's like the petals tissues dye and

dry and the bloom can open. It's like it's sort of glued closed because of those hard dried petals. In the case, it's kind of minor, and it may also there may be some thrips involved in some of that. A couple of year, roses look a little bit like thrips, but I still think petal blight is the main thing. Again, it's a disease that is favored by wet, humid conditions. There are many fungicides for roses out there on the market. You may want to consider starting a spraying schedule for

these because they apparently are very susceptible to the black spot. Okay, so when it gets through raining, go out and spray. I don't spray before a rain because it washes it off, but when it gets through, it's like, Okay, they're wet, the disease is going to infect, and your spray shuts that down. Is there anything you recommended the rose from,

like ACE? Just they are a number of good products. You know, I could say one or two, but just go and look for when ACE ask them for a rose funge aside, they're going to have several that you can choose from. Some may have propoconazole in them, or there are several different fungicide chemistries that are pretty effective, but you want to get one. That's where roses are listed. So the particular diseases that attack roses are going to be controlled, Okay, thanks, yes, sir, thank you appreciate

that call very much. RCW talking about roses reminds me of RCW. Do you know that they have the largest election of roses in the whole area. I mean literally go to the website RCW Nurseries dot com look at the rose list. I think it's four pages single space. I mean it's two hundred plus roses that they can get there. It is always a good time to go visit RCW Nursery. You know, when you go to RCW, you're going to find all the different kinds of plants that you would be, you

know, wanting to growth, you'd be looking at. They got good information, they know what they're talking about. And when it comes to roses, you're just not going to find a better selection of the roses and that they have there. They grow their own trees out in Plantersville. So remember I said, today is the day to plant a tree. Got to get it going so we can have some summer shades soon. They'll plant it right.

First of all, they only grow things that do well here, and they plan them right, and then you take care of them right, and you're off to a good start to have a beautiful beautiful long term tree that adds the value of your house. Every fertilizer you hear me talking about is going to be there at RCW Nurseries for your lawn, for your other plants as well. They're at the corner where Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway FM two forty nine come together, so it's really easy to get to check them out.

You'll see what I'm talking about. I think that I believe they still have a discount going on their roses still this month, about ten percent a discount going on their roses. Don't quote me on that, but check that out. I'm pretty sure that's right. We're going to go out to Richmond now and talk to Marv. Hello, Marv, knock that dust off your crystal ball and plug it in, would you? Uh? Oh, what's up? It looks like it's going to rain this week for a few days,

and I have about forty six hundred square foot lawn. I saw in my garage I found a gallon bucket jahn can of bermudograss seed. I know it's forty years old, and I figured, oh, well, what this stuff looks like? So I cranked it open this morning and I'm telling you it looks like nice, brown, clean roasted peanuts. I have not looked at bermudigrass seed. I don't know if that's what bermudigrass seed looks like when you buy it now fresh or what. But it is nice and brown, just

like a good brown roasted peanut. I have no need for this stuff. So I'm wondering what if I just took this and spread it over that forty six hundred square foot area, and how much would I use or would I need to use at all? Because it might not happen about a ten or fifteen percent germination rate. Boy, I'll tell you that is a question that I cannot answer. I don't I don't have a crystal ball. I'd be surprised if forty yearlo bermuda grass seed still is viable. Number One, I

seriously doubt that it would come up. Number two, you got to be careful what you wish for. I don't know what kind of bermuda it is, but it may not be something you really want in your lawn even if it did come up, And so I might feeling will be to throw the thing away. And when you get what you want for your lawn, that's fresh and ready to go and plant that all right, Well, I was planting, it's grassy. I don't really take care of them out of the

country, or I really muwed, so I wouldn't that particular. I got you. Hey, I'm up against a heartbreak, marvel. I'm sure I got a run. But thanks very much, and I appreciate your humor and your call. We're going to take a break. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the guarden Line. Good to have you with us today. We are talking about all kinds of things that are timely really for the season. A lot about when it comes to, you know, taking care of

your lawns and whatnot. If there's anything you learned from Garden Line, I well, I hope you learn a lot of things. But one of the most important things for success was a secret of success with plants. The secret of success with plants is to make sure that when you put that plant in the ground, you've put it into plant root, heaven round stuff, soil fertilizer that is the key, and heirloom soils that's what they specialize in.

I've used a number of different products from heirloom soils over the years, and not one has let me down yet. They work very well. The veggie and herb mix. That's one I've got in a container. I've got it and mixed into a soil bed as well. It works well. Veggie nerd mix. They got a special right now and it's one hundred and nineteen bucks. It's a bulk price per cubic yard. They can deliver it. You can go there, they can load it up for you, or they can

put it in something called a supersack where they can deliver it. Or you can go there and have them put the supersack on your trailer. It's a cubic yard now. They've got the fruit berry and citrus mix. That's another good one. They've got the really high quality leaf mole compost blend as well. Heirloom soils is widely available. You're going to find them in just about every time I turn around at a garden center or ace hardware store. South

was all kinds of places I'm seeing heirloom soils. You can go to the website Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com Heirloomsoilsfoftexas dot com and you're gonna find all the places that you can get heirloom soil again. Widely available about the bag and it's easy to either go get it up in the porter direction, up in that part of the of the listening area, pick it up yourself, or call them up, have them bring it to your house, dump it on the driveway,

or set a supersac on your driveway. We're going to go now out to Conroe and talk to Jacob. Hello, Jacob, Hey, skip, nice to talk to you. I've got a Saint Augustine on that I recently had to resawd part of yes, and I've noticed that the parts that are getting the most sunlight, you know, the least amount of shade, are starting to kind of brown up a little. Okay, is that I'm looking for a fertilizer that's good for Saint Augustine, But that would that also be

like just a watering issue or yeah, it could be. How long ago was the lawn established. It's been a while. I put the no. I put the sawt down about a week ago, and I have been watering it twice a day. I'm wondering if maybe I just didn't put enough water on the sunny parts. It's possible. It's very touch and go when you

first put that sad out there. I mean, if you were to say, take a section of sod and set it on the driveway, and go ahead and plant the lawn and water the lawn, and then take that last section of sod that had sat in the sun for hours while you're planting the rest of it and put it in, it would be very hard to keep that thing alive because it dries out so much. It would bounce back eventually,

but it sure would look horrible for a while. So I think it could have been a period where the either the soil underneath the sod or the sod itself on the grass itself on top got too dry and I would just kind of be a little attentive to light frequent waterings to try to bring it back. I think it's going to be okay. That's my gut feeling. And once it's been in for a couple of weeks, you grab a piece of the sod, kind of tug on it a little, and you can

tell it's it's rooted in. I mean, it's not that you couldn't rip it up, but you know what I'm saying, it there's some resistance there. Then you can begin to fertilize, and my SKA, my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com tells you exactly the products to use, window plume and so on. Okay, and in the Conro area, where would you recommend to go get those products? Uh? Conro out at A and A Plants and Produce out west of Conroe. Montgomery is going to have them.

As you come in. Then there's gonna be some ACE hardware stores that carry those products as you come in toward the Houston area. I don't know the aces up in Conroe specifically. Well okay, I mean yeah, go ahead. You said A and H A and A Plants and Produce, and it's on the edge of Montgomery. Yeah, okay, all right, Well, thank you very much, you bet, you bet? You take care all right? Have you good luck with your lawn too. By the way,

let's see here, Oh he's talking about fertilizers Microlife. Fertilizers. Microlife has a wide variety of them. The one that's the fertilizer of the hour right now is the green bag, the six two four that is the standard for fertilizing your lawn. Now. They have fertilizers for their acidic loving plants in a kind of a pinkish red back pink bag. That would be things like azilias, camillias, guardenias, blueberries. That particular fertilizer works well for those.

They've got a fertilizer for just about everything at Microlife. You can go to microlifefertilizer dot com and find out all the products. Read a lot about them about all the microbial enhanced products that they have. Their products come literally teeming with life with beneficial microbes INDO and X micro rise a beneficial bacteria, all that kind of thing. And then the purple bag humtes plus. That's concentrated compost in a bag. You put it out and as it gets into

the soil, it improves soil structure and humates. It's the final decomposition of organic matter. And microbes just love to be in that kind of an environment and we'll thrive in it. All From Microlife. We're going to go now to Paarland and we're going to talk to Hal Hall. How are you today? I think you may have a question about that last product, Yes, sir, I do how you do it? Skip? I'm good? Hey, Yeah, listening to you over the years, are in Randy as well,

talking about inmates plus and also compost top dressing. Would it be fair to say that those are interchangeable. Well, there, I wouldn't say they're interchangeable. The humates plus is a concentration a compost. It would take a lot of of compost top dressing to decompose down into the volume of humates plus. You see what I'm saying. So it's just like you take a pile of leaves six feet high and you end up with three or four inches a

compost. When you're done right, you take three or four inches a compost and you end up with a fraction of that in humates. So that's one big difference between the two. Both products are excellent, the heu mats plus, especially for the soil improvement. The top dressing you could mix it in the soil too to improve the soil. It's just volume wise, is what

we're talking about there. Yeah. Well, the reason I ask is obviously spreading the hum mats plus is a lot easier than doing the compost top dress. And when you're doing it, yoursel I hear what you're saying, So in that sense, ILL sorry to cut you off. And in that sense,

the top dressing is doing some other things for you. You're putting a lot of microbes up there on the surface, around the soil, around the surface the plant runners and things, And anytime you create a real diverse microbial environment, it's a little more antagonistic towards some disease issues that you might have.

So there's a benefit there that would be with the top dressing. Also, it's a somewhat of a mulch in terms of shading the soil a little bit, and every light decrease at the soil level decreases your weed issues. Just from that. That's why we grow a dense, healthy law. But the compost top dressing contributes to that. I got you, I got you. So would it be fair to say that he makes plus maybe once a year use that yeah only yard, Yeah you could do that. I mean,

there's not a specific schedule. It's not like we're putting nitrogen out and we have a certain schedule because we want to always have active night available nitrogen for the plant. So whether you could do it five times a year and it wouldn't hurt anything, have just improved more faster. But you know, just from an economical standpoint, everything practicality standpoint, if you did it once a year, it would be beneficial. Yes, okay, all right,

thank you, Skip. I appreciate it. All right, Hell thanks for the call. Appreciate that very much. Let's see here, who's up next. We got Richard in West Houston. Hello Richard, Hey, good morning morning. I have a focal point three tiered water fountain that's about four feet in diameter the base bowl and yeah, it's pretty big, and the bottom bowl is about eight inches up against a nice red brick wall, and there's

overspray and hard water staining that I can't seem to get clean. I was wondering is there a planting that might be suitable to put behind the fountain that could shield the view of the stains. How much space do you have between the fountain and the wall. Well, the closest point is eight inches,

and then it's obviously you know, spans out. I've got foot space or floor space if you will, to plant, but I don't have much distance between the wall and the Yeah, you know, with that, about the only thing that comes to mind is to have some a little like a trellis back there against the wall and then plant some little tame vine on the trellis that doesn't just take over everything. I don't know as far as ahead go ahead, well as far as vines go what what could survive the just constant

flow of water? So oh boy, hmm. I'd have to think about that one a little bit. It seems like we're we're trying to force something here. I'm just wondering what other option might you have with that? Because you're going to have the water splashing. So does the soil stay pretty soggy from all that? It does? Pretty close to the fountain now, I have these large wide leaf irises about two or three feet away that are doing fine, but I don't have anything right next to it. Yeah, I

know they are pretty Is it wet? Is it somewhat sunny or well drained? We get we get some sun and some shade. We have a lot of trees behind the wall, but we do get some sun. Some roses prosper nearby that time. Well, Louisiana iris could grow there and it gets upright, those are going to get not waist high, but they're going to get up a little bit. I don't know if that would be high enough to accomplish what you want. Well, we have some nearby and they took

their growl coming back from the freeze. But yeah, they do get pretty big. That might be a problem, something somewhat controllable, and that fits in that situation that is unique, though. I would have to kind of ponder that one a little bit to try to forget what you might be. It's just the eight inch of space. That's just so ste's we wish that it had been installed a little bit further out. But it's a pretty big

fountain. I can't move. Just pick it up and carry it over to the all the end of me. Yeah, very much, all right, Richard, take care, appreciate the call. Wow, time for another break. Nikki walks in with the news, and that means I have to shut up. I kind of hate that Nick can keep talking to be talking. Our phone number is seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two k t r H. I'll just use this moment to remind you that next Saturday. Write this on your calendar. Next Saturday,

April thirteenth, Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty doing what we call springtime Q and a bring me your questions and samples and things to diagnose and pictures and all that, and we will figure it all out. We'll be right back where other than the guard line on KTRH, can you hear stories about cicadas with STDs and chickens that yodel. I'm I'm just saying this is a full service, and my gift to you

is to not make a comment about either one. My wife says that if I'm ever wondering should I say something or not, the enters always know because my gauge is to, let's just say, I tend to air on the side of you should have shut up, Skip, So I'm going to shut up on both of those topics right there. Thanks for listening to Gardland. I hope you're having fun, I assure him. Today we are going to

head right out to Deer Park and doctor Richard. Hello Richard, Hello Skip Richter, Yes, sir, I just want to ask you about butterflies. I had a very few that were hanging around full time during January and February and early March until about the time when the Purple Martins came in. And right now, right now, I have some plants with the yellow blossoms, but I don't have any butterflies. I haven't seen any butterflies in a few

weeks. Has anybody else called in just mention and are talking anything about the butterflies. I know they do migrate. Yeah, they do migrate. Okay, I'll be quiet and listen here. Yeah. No, you know what, I am not a butterfly expert, Richard, and so I have not heard from anybody about butterflies coming or going or whatever. I know we do have the migration, like you said, sometimes they hang around, though we get some that tend to hang around and not migrate around. But I think

this should be a fine butterfly year. I don't I don't see what you're noticing early on as being a sign of things to come for this year. Yes, sir, when I made a few, I mean just maybe three or four. They were the orange and the black monarchs. So but anyway, that's it. I just wanted to call and I ask, okay, okay, yeah, good, I appreciate that call. Yeah, both the monarch, the Queen, and the viceroy butterflies, they all look a lot ake. I always have to stop and go, Okay, what's the difference.

It's in the black lines in their wings and some of the white spots on the wings and things. But we're going to be okay, We're gonna have plenty of butterflies, definitely, for sure. Don't worry about that. Hey, when you're doing your lawn nutrient care, when you're building the bank account of nutrients in your soil, that's what we do when we fertilize. You will also to think about the trace minerals, and that is why we have azamite. Azamite is a naturally mined product mind up in Utah that is

loaded with trace mineral elements. Trace minerals are also essential minerals. Plants need to have a lot roughly around twenty or so different nutrient or element compounds in order to be successful in all the biological processes a plan has to do. So it's not just three NPK, the three numbers on the bag. It's about twenty and so they have to be there. Now, we don't have to always add every twenty. There may be present in your soil already a

soil test would tell you that. But by using azamite, by providing it as a supplement to your soil, You can do it any time of the year you want. If you got the fertilizer spread er out and you're fertilizing, just get the azamite out and follow that up with an azamite application. Or do it this summer or do it this fall. It doesn't matter what time of year you do it. But it is important that you make sure your soil has all the nutrients that a plant needs so that your plants can

have success. That's kind of what we're aiming for, right have success in the bank account of the soil. Very important. Let's head out to galve the stun and we're going to talk to Bill. Hello. Bill, Hi, I don't have a lot. I've got a clover patch, okay? And is that on purpose? No? Okay, I'm just checking. No way. The question I've got is this, The timing on the schedule is to fertilize. But should I fertilize when I've got clover or should I try

to treat the clover first end of her life? Clover is going to be well. The clover is going to be going away on its own when things heat up. You have options. If it were my yard and I had a little bit of clover, I would go pull them up while the soil is moist and soft. Clover has a tap root, and so it's you can take a big old patch of clover and pull it up pretty easily because

it's got that single tap root. If it's too much to do that, or just physical limitations or whatever, you can spray it with a broad leaf weed control product something that kills broad leaf weed's post emergent and kill it there. But if it's already gone to bloom and seed and you already have the seeds on it, then you're killing something that's about to die anyway, and

you're left with the seeds anyway. And so that's where clover is so low that trying to mow it and get the seeds out is often difficult to do. But if you can get the seeds out, that would be my first up because that is stuff you're going to be dealing with next year. So that's kind of the trade off there as far as next year. That clover will germinate in October and November, so you want to put a pre emergent down before the clover germinates, and that way next spring you won't be in

this same spot. So, so would would the barricade work for that? Barricade will work for that? Yeah, that's that's a If you go to online to gardening with skip my website, there is a test, pest, disease and weed management schedule that's free to download or look at, and it tells you exactly when to apply and what to apply. Okay, So do I go ahead then fertilized? Yeah? I would, Yeah, I would, Actually, I would. Don't worry about that, be just fine to

go ahead and fertilize. Okay, thank you Skip all right, Bill, thank you appreciate the call. M hm. That's interesting. The goomes clover lagoome. It even produces not nodules on the roots that have extra nitrogen in them. You know, I tell you bacteria rule the world, right I say that all the time. And here's just another example of it. There are bacteria that live in the soil that can get nitrogen from the air in the soil and feed it to the plant. Plants cannot take nitrogen out of

the air. Right now, take a deep breath. You just breed, then about seventy eight percent nitrogen. I know it's oxygen your body once, but you just breed. Then about seventy eight percent nitrogen. Now that is of no use to a plant. It can't take the end to molecule in the air and use it. They're bacteria that can, and they convert it to plant food nitrogen. Is that amazing? Or what that's called? Lagomes? It's a little nodules on the roots of beans and peas and mesquite tree

roots and clover and vetch and what else. I mean, there's a lot of lagomes in the world. Cool stuff. Let's go out to Laporte and talk to Greg. Hello, Greg, Hey, more escape. How you doing. I'm well sir. How can we help today? Yes, I'm redoing my landscaping beds in the backyard from all these freezes we've had in the past, and I'm adding top soil right now. It's a fifty to fifty mix I got from a yard. It's called a flower flower bed mix.

Okay, And I'm fixing the bees, start planning new plants, uh, landscaping plants, assortments. Uh. What can I add to that soil that will help the plants thrive better? You know? Okay, I mean months and whatnot. You use the phrase fifty to fifty mix. It's fifty percent top soil and fifty percent what sand I guess? Oh sand, okay, all right, right, you want to you want to add organic matter,

you want to add compost to it. You can use straight you can use straight compost, or you can buy a bed mix like a rose soil mix. That's a good one. But I would get probably if you can get three or four inches of that down and mix it in to the soil you're putting down. I think that will it will really enhance it a lot. Well, I heard you talking about the he mates. Yeah, bags, would that be something that would be good? That's good? Well, yeah, it'd be good. You know, it's it's you know, to use

a volume of humates mixing into the soil. Uh. You know that comes with the price tag attached to it, as opposed to sprinkling it out on your lawn like fertilizer. You don't put three inches of fertilizer out there on the law. So I would yes, you could certainly use that, but I would just get a good quality organic compost mix and mix it into the soil. Again, just a compost or something called rose soil would be really

good. Even though you're not maybe going to grow roses in it. It's good for group, right, I'm you know, it's an assortment of plants. Okay, all right, okay. Uh, when I take these plants out of the buckets and start them in the ground, do I, Hey, hey, Greg, Greg, I'm sorry to have to stop you. Uh, my producers telling me we are way past a break here. Just hang on. I'll come back to you when we come back from break. All right, we'll be right back. All right, Welcome back to garden

Line. We love to have you listening in because we love to talk to you about what's going on in your landscape. How do we help you to have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That's what we're trying to do. We're gonna go back to Greg and the port. Hey Greg, we kind of got cut short there by the break. But where were we? Yes, sir, let's find that's no problem, Yes, sir.

A quick question, Uh, when I take these plants out of the out of the plastic buckets, do I loose it up their root system there a little bit too? Yes? Huh, that's a good idea. What are you what kind of things are you planting, Oh, like hostas and you know those type of plant Okay, yeah, yeah, listen it up

just a little bit. The root system. If it's kind of a woody ornamental thing like a shrub or a rose bush or a tree, you want to cut those roots around the outside of that root cylinder that comes out of the pot, because typically roots go in a circle, they don't unwind underground, and you know, it's one thing for a perennial where the root systems

are just a little different. But with a shrub, if you do a vert take a box cutter knife and just do a one inch deep just slice vertically about three places around it. Everywhere you cut a root, it's going to within two weeks you're going to have fresh white roots going out into the swell and it'll establish faster and better. Oh okay on this rows, well, these are mainly perennials, soas more of a the weedy type stuff,

you know. Yeah, well, just just loosen it up a little bit on the outside, some of those roots out with your fingers a little bit and it'll be fine. Okay, I'll run down the bottles and give me some of that roa so here they have good rows. So all right, sir, all right, well you take care, thanks for the call. Appreciate that a lot. When was the last time you went to Buchanan's Plants. Buchanan's Plants in the Heights, they're on Eleventh Street. That is a

place that people love to go to. I was down in clear Lake yesterday at the M and Dashart. We're talking to somebody, and somebody from way down there was talking to me about how much they loved to drive up to Buchanan's Plants and the Heights north of downtown. YEP, that's right. Buchanans has a following, and there's a reason. Buchanan's Native Plants is their accurate

full name. And they specialize in natives. So if you want natives to Texas natives, specifically the Houston area, they can get you fixed up. Do you want a polline or garden that's composed of natives, they can do that. Buchanans Plants has a wide variety. Their their houseplant greenhouse is outstanding. Their section for fruit trees, for shade loving plants. It's just good.

And when you go there, you're going to be very inspired to grow a lot of different kinds of things because they have stuff that you just haven't heard of before. That's what Buchanans does. I go into Buchanans and it's like, Okay, there's a new one I did not know that was on the market. That's the kind of place Buchanans is. Buchanans Plants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot com. See, I'm gonna go out to Parland. Now we're going to talk to k Hello. Okay, Hey, good morning

Skip. I have a question about planting in a pot that has no brain eage in it. And it's a kind of in my estimation to me, it's all expensive. It's about ten inches tall as a ceramic pot. And I'm planning from my daughter gave me. I came across this mother of a thousand babies and she brought me some babies to plant, and it's going to get big, and so I wanted something kind of heavy and big to put it in. Okay, So is there anything I'm put in the bottom of

it to kind of keep it the roots off of the bottom. No, don't worry about the rich being a little bit. Does the pot have drainage holes at all? Well, that's what I'm saying. It doesn't have drainage holes, and that's what I and I don't want to drill it. I'm afraid it might crack the whole thing or you know something. Yeah, there's ways to drill pots. I can't go into it on there. I'm not

an extra. Yeah no, people talking about that. But what I would do is I would put some rocks in the bottom and then put the container of soil inside that pot. That would be what I would suggest. That way, people won't know you've got two containers because you can put a little okay, well they're just they're just they're just brawl playing, you know there, okay things because they come off and just like a little bitty Yes they

are. So if it were mind, I would take the nice pot you like, and I would set a pot an o ugly plastic pot that's just a little bit smaller inside it. Fill it full of a good quality mix, and by setting it on the little rocks let's say, yeah, you know, rocks the side for a quarter or a golf ball, even something

to hold it up off the bottom. Then you're okay. If you don't do that, you can put some what a charcoal down in the bottom, and that kind of helps a little bit with the soil getting all sour and soggy done in there. It didn't control the moisture, but I would just I would double pot it, and it's so much easier that way. You can grab that outside pot and pull it out, you know, if you

did over water. But it just makes it a little more forgiving. And then yeah, I've done that with some other things, you know too, So I didn't even think about that. It's not about waddening up some plastic bags real tight. Yeah, well I'll get I'll even get get Spanish moss, you know, and put it on the top so it's pretty. But that hides the fact that you got an ugly pot hiding in your neighbors. Yeah, don't let neighbors and family come around be poking around on your pots

and griping about. Leave you alone. Yes, thank you so much, love your show. Take care, have a wonderful day. Ye okay, thank you very much. I appreciate that I've talked to you about Sweegen fertilizer before Sweet Green. That's from Nitroposs. It is an eleven percent nitrogen, very high for an organic nitrogen source. It's basically a molasses base with microbial activity that basically turns it into a fertilizer. That's an over set implification of

it, but that's what we got. So what does that mean. That means when you smell it, you will like what you smell if you like the smell of molasses, because that's kind of what it smells like to me. Sweet Green is a good fertilizer of a natural source that you can put out on your lawn and you can really cause it to do what nitrogen does to a lawn. That's stimulation of growth, that's greener color. That's an excellent option for spring, and you can use it. It's not one that's

going to last forever. It's not like nitrofoss is super turf that's a very slow release. Sweet green is quite different. But for those of you who want a natural source of fertilizer and a good high, high level of nitrogen, this is a product that'll do that. And where do you get sweet Green? Well pretty much everywhere. I mean, you know, nitropus, if it's an ace hardware storeage there, if it's a garden center, it's

probably there. If it's a feed store. It's probably there places like the ace at at Sinco Ranch or Shades of Texas up in the Woodlands, or Hiding and Feed on Stubner Airline, or I don't know, let's go, let's find it out. How about Stanton Shopping Center down in Alvin, yep. All of those kind of places carry nitrophoss products, including sweet cream. We're I'm not closing the show quite yet, but it's coming pretty quick here. We are really glad you listened today. I hope that it was a

helpful day for you. I did want to kind of close with a couple of extra thoughts about taking care of your lawn, having a beautiful lawn, a beautiful landscape, and everything like that, and then we'll put it in the books until next week next Saturday. We're herever Saturday and Sunday from six am until ten am. Both days. You can listen to the podcast as

well. So just as a closing thought here as we go through, just remember that the secret to success with plants is to give them a good soil, To choose plants that want to grow where you're going to grow them, to fertilize them moderately, and to water them adequately. When it comes to pests and diseases, a very strong, healthy plant is often less susceptible to pests and diseases. You can even make plants more susceptible by overfertilizing. Doing

do that, a healthy plant is less susceptible. And we would rather avoid problems than have to treat for problems. That's why we say grow a dense, healthy lawd It's important when you do all of that, take care of them. The last thing is keep an eye on them. The more often you check them, the earlier you catch problems. The earlier you catch problems, the more good, safe, low tox options you have for getting them under control. Hey, thanks for listening.