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Kat 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 Skimp Richter's trim. Just watch him as tell us so many things to see boys back again not a sign. Well, good Sunday morning. Welcome to Garden Line. We are glad you're listening today. I hope you got a cup of coffee or tea or something to kind of open one or preferably both eyes by this time. We're here to do a little bit of garden talk with you

today. What are your questions, what are you interested in? What are the topics that I guess that drive you when it comes to gardening. You know, we have some gardeners that are into herbs, and gardeners that are into flowers and trees and shrubs, and almost everybody, it seems like these days, is a lawn ranger. You got to have that beautiful lawn turf, Well, we can help you with that too, got issues with trees. That's what we're here for. Basically, it's a call in show,

So I'll try to do my job. You do your seven one three two one two K t R eight seven one three two one two k t r H. So what are we gonna talk about? First of all, you need to look out the door, look out the window or your neighbor's lights on. If they're not, go bang on the door. Tell them they're missing garden line. For crying out loud, get up, you're missing garden

line. They will rise up this morning and call you blessed. They may call you something else this morning, but eventually they will be very grateful that you turned them on the garden line. Oh boy, I can hear the yelling from across town right now. All right, well, what are we going to talk about? First? I want to talk a little bit about turf some of the issues that we see in lawns this time of the year. Now you've heard me talk about my schedules that are online. They are

free to download at gardeningwiskip dot com. One of them is the lawn Care Schedule, and it tells you about mowing, watering, fertilizing, air raiding, tells you what to do when Some of the products that I would suggest you consider because they are top notch products. Whether you're gardening organically or synthetically, there are options there on the schedule for you. The second schedule is the lawn pest, disease and weed management schedule. So that's basically I call

that the what goes wrong schedule? When do chinchbugs show up? When do grubs? When should we treat for grubs? When do we look for sod webworms? If you've got large patch or brown patch or take all root rod or gray leaf spot, when do you expect to see those? When do you prevent weeds with a pre emergent? When do you kill that are already up that you're having to deal with? And what are the examples of products and timing and everything that's you use. It's all on there. It's really

makes it really easy to do. It's color coded. I suggest you print one out and have it and when you go get fertilizer, just take it with you and just point at the one you're looking for and the people at the store can take you right to it. I think that's helpful. We are on the cusp of the official summer month of June. Actually May,

in my book, starts the summer season. If you don't believe me, just hang outside this week a little bit, and we're still in May, but in June is when we begin to keep our eyes out for chinchbugs and soid web worms. Now, it's early for chinchbugs to occur in June, they can, though they can. Typically chinchbugs are worse as we get later in the summer when we get into August, even early September, that we can have some pretty serious chinchbug problems going on, and then they as we

get into September, they kind of paper off quite a bit. But just because they're on the schedule doesn't mean you have to treat every year. You just watch for them, learn what they look like. I'll have some stuff online to help you with that help identify them. But I'm just kind of heads up we're entering that season and sideweb worms typically come later in the summer. But again, you know, nature does what nature wants to do, so we just have to keep our eyes open for it. Grubs Grubs are

another issue. Now. Grubs we begin treating in June, and I'm going to explain real briefly why that is. It's do you remember the things we call jumbugs flying around by the back porch light. You see him flying around in the evening June bugs, little brown beetles, brown black beetles, well, those particular beetles are mating and they lay eggs and the eggs hatch out into tiny little grubs, tiny grubs, and then the grubs go down below

the surface just a little bit and they feed there. And then as the weather heats up and the grubs get bigger, they go through what's called in stars. They become a bigger and a bigger and a bigger grub. As they go down, they move down a little lower because they're so hot up on top and there's good, dependable moisture down below, but they're feeding on our roots. Well. Once they move down, it's harder to get a pesticide to them because they're down in the soil deeper. So what we do

is we treat for them in June. June is the time to put out your treatment for grubs, and that catches the young, small, more susceptible grubs right there at the surface. It's the best time to catch them if you've got an ongoing grub problem. And then later on, if you look at my schedule, there's a treatment for July and August. It doesn't have to be both months, but one of those months you can treat for older grubs, but that's a different product. We use one that moves down in

the soil a little bit better to reach those that are down below. So I'm just explaining to you what's on the schedule. Print it out and take a look at it. It's a gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot Com. We're going to go to the phones now and we're going to head to Friends would and talk to Kathy. Good morning, Kathy, good morning, Thank you for taking my call. I have a citrus tree and during the last freeze, I had protected it as best I could,

and it kind of froze, but it kind of didn't. It was grafted originally, and now it's reverted back to two different plants. So the bottom of this little tree, it now has one leaves and the top has different leaves. Have you ever heard of that happening. What's happened is your rootstock sprouted and you also got a sprout from above the graft. One of those should be a lot thornier than the other. Have you noticed that I haven't really. Okay, well, the bottom looks a little It just to me

looks like two different plants. Okay, Well, is the one that's originating lower on the plant or the leaves much smaller on it? No, they're that's the bushier part of it. Wow. Okay, we're gonna have to take a look at these leaves because I'm I'm what you're saying is kind of backwards from what should be happening. So I'm obviously not following exactly what you're

describing on the plant. Could I get you to send me some pictures of what you're seeing, because sure, And just to briefly tell you, the bottom leaves are more pointy and the top are more rounded. It's like two different plants and the same plant. Okay, well, let me let me see some pictures of them and take a look. And you are you out there with the plant right now? I hear? Okay, yes, and

you don't notice thorniness on either either one? Let me see, okay, well, yes there are there are, yes, yes, there are thorns on okay, both of them. Okay, what kind of citrus was it before? Oh gosh, I don't know. Okay, you're tying both arms behind my back, Kathy and having me trying to box here, So let me. That's good. I'm not gonna give you a hard time, but I'm tempted to now seriously send me some pictures of it. Let me take

a look and I'll see what I can figure out from it. Also, I'm want to see the bottom of the trunk where those shoots are coming out, if you would, Okay, okay, thank you so much. You bet. I'm gonna put you on hold, and we are, they're pretty sure will pick up and give you my email address. All right, we'll take it. We'll take it from there. Yeah. I I was thinking that probably we had a rootstock that it sprouted, and you know, as a result, we need to get rid of that because it's never going to

bear anything worth eating. Yeah, so anyway, we'll see see take a look at those pictures. Pictures worth a thousand words. By the way, regarding email and stuff, we've got how many million people here in the greater Houston area, let's just say a lot, and so I can't just open up wide open to answer all emails that would come in as it is, with kind of restricting it down to callers. I stay pretty busy on the emails, but I just physically just not a time wise not able to answer

all the emails. But if you have a question and want to send a photo and then call on the show where we can talk on the show, that's helpful because you know, on questions, I'm imagining what I see may not be what you're seeing, and so a photo is very helpful. And I don't mind if he's setting them sending them ahead of time. Just know that I'll answer when I talk to you on the air, because just again, time wise wish I could, but spent thirty six years doing that,

and right now I've just got too many irons in the fire. You're listening to Gardenline, We're glad you are. By the way, our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you have turf, if you have a lawn and you haven't put your summer fertilization down, it is time. Let's get that done. When we get to summer, we usually like to switch to a slow release fertilizer. And the reason is grass grows fast

in the summer with water. If you've got adequate moisture, don't have to be soggy, but it has to be moist enough to grow. It'll grow real fast, and we don't want a flush of growth where you're mowing, mowing, mowing, and the other thing that happens when you overdo nitrogen at one point in time, you end up with top growth at the expense of

root growth, and that's a problem. In the summer. The grass isn't as resilient, it's not as drought tolerant, it's not as able to take some grub damage to the roots because it has less roots to begin with. When we do slow release, we get gradual feeding, and that is what nitrophosts super turf is designed to do. Nitrovas superturf is a silver bag. It's the nineteen four ten ratio for a product fertilizer. Nineteen percent nitrogen,

four percent phosphorus, ten percent potassium. That ratio, we say that was about a four to one two or roughly that is kind of the ratio that we aim for three one two four one two. When we're feeding our turf, it'll gradually feed over time. In fact, it'll carry you for the next three or four months. When you do a good application of Nitrofoss Superturf. Now, the nitrofive Superturf product's widely available. You're going to find it

at a lot of different places. We find it often at our ACE hardware stores. You know, almost every ACE hardware that I've ever been in, to my knowledge, is carried Nitrofoss products, So they're very easy to find

and get it from your local ACE hardware store. Nitrofis superturf. Get it down now, and you probably don't need to fertilize again until we get into the spring season, unless you just have a very unusual situation where your lawn is an extra need due to very poor soil or something along those lines.

Ace Hardware I mentioned, and ACE Hardware is a great place to get anything you need to keep your lawn healthy and looking good, or your garden, your vegetables, your herbs, your flowers, your shrubs, your trees. Ace hardware stores carry all the fertilizers you hear me talk about on Guarden Line.

They carry products to control pests, diseases, and weeds. When you read my weed pest in Disease Lawn Schedule, well, you'll see a lot of products listed on there for various issues and you're going to find them at your ACE Hardware store. That is a nice thing. They also have everything you need for that outdoor enjoyment. You know, we were sitting outside the other day and here come the mosquitos, and I just remind me of think. Go to ACE, get your mosquito dunks. Go to ACE, get

your fogging machine if you need one. I mean, whatever you're going to do to make that outdoor enjoyable. How about a new barbecue pit or a string of lights to you know, create that ambiance in the evenings out there on the patio. ACE will get you set up with all that. And with forty stores all over the Houston area, it's easy to find one near you. Just go to Acehardware dot com and look for the store locator and there you are. Makes it about as easy as you can make it.

Each Ace Hardware, by the way, too, is independently owned. I like that because it each time you go into one, it's not just a cookie cutter of the other store. Each one has its own personality, its own kind of features and product, maybe some new product offerings that the owner has gotten interested in. But I'll tell you this, when you go in, you will look and say, this is not my grandfather's hardware store. That is for sure. They have everything you expect from hardware, but oh

my gosh, so so much more. You are listening to Gardenline our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're going to take a little break. We'll be right back salt. Don't you thank you for so much? Thanks, Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us this morning. We are talking gardening today. Got a lot of things we need to talk about. One thing is incredibly hot weather coming for this time of the year, really for anytime a year, but especially

for this early in the summer. That's okay. We can deal with that. When you know, it reminds us the importance of picking plants that want to grow here and parts of the world that are hot, sultry saunas are typically a good place to get plants for the Houston area. You know, there's a lot of parts of some parts of the Mid East, some parts of Africa are all places where you pull a plant from over there. Something like Okra, for example, Oka came from that part of the world,

and it's real happy here because this is home. I mean, you know, hot, humid. Yeah, we can do that. When we pick plants that are like that, you're more likely to have success. When you get something wimpy that wants to be up north in an air conditioned house or something you're not gonna you're gonna melt it down here. And our good garden centers carry a lot of those kind of plants. And then you hear me all the time talk about soil soil, so I got to prepare the soil.

When you get the soil right where it can hold water, but it also drains well, because the worst thing in the world is a hot, boiling, hot, sultry swamp for the roots, they do not like that. But when you prepare the soil right and you put the right plants in, well, they're just happy. They're happy here, and it makes you look like a green thumb gardener because you're doing it right. We will go out to Jersey Village now and talk to Michelle morning. Michelle, good morning,

thanks for taking my cold skiffs. You back. My two houses away and I'm in townhouses, so it's you know, small property. The dab has a giant cypress tree, and I was wondering, how far do cypress tree roots grow? How far can they extend? Out far? I have some that I have an I say, unfortunately, I have three cypress in the house we purchased a while back, and their roots, their knees go everywhere, and I find them all around the other side of the house from

where the tree is. They go around basically around the house. I've seen cypress go two yards down the street and you know, you see a cypress need coming up at a driveway and there's no cypress. The two neighbors down has a cypress. So in other words, they can go pretty far. Now, it's not normal that you're going to have a big root problem that far away. I'm just saying that the capability is there for most trees. About two and a half times the height of the tree is how far roots

can extend. That's a general trees. Yeah, this tree is well over the two story homes. Yeah. Yeah. The knees are those roots where they've grown upward. Yeah. It's like imagine a little spaghetti sized root going a couple of inches under the ground, maybe three inches on the ground, and then all of a sudden it starts to swell, and it's it starts growing upward like a little knuckle or not on the root, and it pushes

up out of the soil. That's the knee. So if you want to get rid of them, you just kind of picture what I just described. And if you take a grubbing hoe and you swing down on the tree side of the knee, and then you swing down on the away from the tree side of the knee, you typically chop the root in both places and that knee comes right up. Some people try to saw them off and do all that kind of stuff, and that that's a lot more work than just a

good strong swing with a grubbing hoe on each side. I actually dug up nine feet of it, you're my hero. That was worse. Will those knees grow up into other trees? No? Like, what do you mean grow up? And like I didn't know if like a secondary tree, you would come out from it and start to grow up. No, no, no, no, no, they're not able to do that. They're not one of those species of trees that can that can root sprout like that.

But they could do a lot of foundations, you know, It's correct, not so much that, yeah, they're they're the biggest thing with roots and foundation damage. And this is a misconception because we see them lift sidewalks and we see them live driveways, but the big foundation on your house, they're not going to really lift it. What they do, though, is a proliferator on the sides of the foundation, and they suck all the water out.

So when our clay soil is wet, it swells, and then when it goes dry and roots make it grow dry much faster in the summer, then it shrinks up. And that shifting of shrink and swell, wet and dry is what causes the foundation problems for our plants. So tree roots are causing it, or they're contributing to it, but it's not underneath the foundation like a cypress knee is lifting your house up? Okay us questions? All

right? Randy used to promote the root wall pro and I have the honor of speaking with Gary Anderson, who owned that company a long time ago. But I haven't heard anything. I can't see no find them. Are you familiar with them? I'm not, and I don't know if they're still around or not. But there are underground, there are companies that will create an underground wall for you to stop the root growth. And that's that's quite an ordeal to put one in, but those can be very helpful. Well,

thank you so much for your time in answering the questions. All right, good luck with that. Have fun with your cypress. There are great trees in many regards. Yeah, and I can tell you how many cypress needles for our leaves fall each spring because my golden retrievers bring each of them in on their tail every time they go in and out of the house. And the feathers or the feathers on the hind. Yeah, yeah, so you can see I've been dealing with cyprus for a little while. You thanks for

the call, Michelle, Bye bye, take care. Warrens and Kingwood Garden Center out in Kingwood are a great place to go and find color. I was out there about a week ago and just amazed by the beauty that they had. They have hibiscus that is just out of this world. I mean, gorgeous, gorgeous plumerias jumping jacks and the plumerias are just beautiful that they

have out there. I was very impressed with some of the lantanas that they had now I know you're probably familiar with the lantanas, but wow, they had some outstanding color. We have a lot of new lantanas, the Lantana Cameras, the Genus and and it's now a Texas Superstar Texas and m Agrilife has designated it a Superstar. Those are plants that have performed all over the state and done outstanding with little to no care, and Lantana fits into that

category. So if you're looking now with the new breeding, some that are real short. They got them all out there Warren Southern Gardens. I mean, I know we were. We were just out there shopping the other day. Beautiful, beautiful place. Warren's and Kingwood Garden Center both out in Kingwood, a great place to shop. It just really really will set your place

apart. There's no reason you shouldn't have color and beauty in the summer, and you go out to Warrens in Kingwood Garden Center, you're gonna find it. That is true. Well, we're hitting up on a break for Nicki and the news. I know you've been waiting for me to shut up seeing here Nicki in here telling the news again, So I'm going to do that.

Albert when we come back, you will be our first up. And if you'd like to give us a call and get on the board seven one three two one two kt r H. Well, I'm all right a little let I'm mailing to Maligalty Jane yet us a jump a little record. I want my jockey welcome back to garden Line. Good have you with us today? We'll be too, man, I got it here. What do you want to talk about? We got a lot of things we can cover today on gardening. Are still in a primetime gardening season. A lot to get

done out there, a lot to enjoy out there in the garden. Sweet Green is a product by Nitrophoss. It's a fertilizer that is based on a molasses base with microbial activity, basically turning it into a fertilizer. This particular product makes microbes very happy because they like molasses. You know. That's why organic gardeners put molasses in the garden, because it stimulates all the beneficial microbes that work with your roots to help keep the grass happy and healthy. It's

eleven percent nitrogen and it's widely available. You're going to find sweet Green, for example, at places like enchanted forests, down in Richmond, Rosenberg Growers Outlet up in Willis and RCW Nursery on I forty five North. Now would be a great time to get some sweet green out. You can put a light dose out now and then split split, have the second light dose coming a little bit later for an even better slower feed. But remember it's not

just for lawns. You can use it in the garden or anywhere else you choose to use it. We're gonna go to Montgomery now and talk to Albert. Hello, Albert, hello, skip Happy Memorial Day, and do you as well? Thank you, sir. What I got is I got a shoe mar oak tree about fifteen feet twenty feet high. It's looking real good. The leaves are real green. They're looking good. But at the bottom, right where the trunk hits the dirt and all that, the bark is

turning like black or brown and peeling. Should I be concerned or I need to do anything? I don't think so that there is some natural flaking of bark on a shoe mart oak. What might be happening is maybe if you bumped it with a lawnmower, or there was some sort of a physical damage a weed eater. You could have lost some bark, and now it's peeling back and exposing the inner wood, and there's nothing for you to do about it other than don't do that again and just give it time for the callus

to form and to close back over that wound. It's one of the reasons I like to keep mulch around trees is to keep lawnmowers and weed eaters away. Now, if you didn't, if you didn't get up close to it and bump it with something, then I just wouldn't worry about it. If there's loose bark, go ahead and peel it out of the way, just so that inner wood can dry out after it gets wet from a rain or whatever. But it's just gonna take time and the plant healing to close it

over. Okay, good enough, all right, thank you, yes, sir, Thank you very much. Appreciate that call. Yeah, I was talking about that sweet green and being you can get at RCW Nursery. I was out at RCW yesterday and just visiting with them out there, checking some things out, a couple of things I needed to add to the garden. So I always have to go buy our good Mom and Pops visit them periodically to see what's going on. When I was out there, I was looking

at the sweet green that they had sitting around. And they have a number of different products that are heard about here on garden Line. That's kind of what they do. You're going to find a number of brands of fertilizer there. You're gonna find a lot of products for planting plants, but you're going to find a lot of great plants. Their selection on shrubs and roses and trees is outstanding. Lots of beautiful perennials, lots of hibiscus. It's still

a good time to be out there at RCW Nursery. They are the get it, got it nursery, meaning if they don't have it, they will try to find it and probably can if it's available on the market, and bring it in for you. You'll find a great selection of roses and because they grow their own trees, they're growing types that belong here. Remember what I said earlier about if it's happy in a sultry, hot sauna, it's

going to do well here. They know how to choose those cultivars, those species of plants, and that's what they bring in and that's what the that's what they grow, and that's what they sell to you. And they will take them out and plant them for you can hire them come out and establish that tree. And that is a good idea because when you plant it correctly, you're setting the stage for success, whether it's shade or flowers or whatever

else you want out of that tree. They're located at two forty nine and about way eight the website. Just write this down r CW nurseries dot com. RCW nurseries dot com. Let's go up to Centerville. Now we're going to talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, Hey, don't skip. Got a newly planted sawd Saint Augustine, not an acre? How soon can you apply a fertilizer? And what God almost always when you get turf in and plant it, that turf is coming with a charge of fertilizer that'll hold it

for at least a month, it'll be fine. And so I would say, you know it unless it's just really not looking, it doesn't have any good green color at all and stuff. I would wait a month before I start to fertilize it, so that gives it time to put roots in the ground. You know that brand new sad has about a three quarter inch root. That's where they slice the clay off to bring to create the sawd pieces. And there's no root to take up nutrients, so it needs time to

grow roots. And like I said, there's usually an adequate charge to get you through at least a month. Okay, good deal, and then any last minute recogndations for those that completely slack, and then plant the vestables in town. Any give vestables to lots of good ones right now. Lots of good ones. Yeah, talk to your Kenny Extension office or go to the Aggie Horticulture website and there's a lot of lists of vegetables there in the home

gardening section. But you can plant things like okra, sweet potatoes, Southern peas like black eye, purple whole crowder cream peas. Those can all be planted now. And then there's some greens that aren't real common malabar and amaranth, and some others that can take the heat very well. Even our storage squash we call them winter squash, things like a spaghetti squash or a pumpkin kind of things. We plant those in the summer because they takes them about

three months to develop. So those are a few of the things that could go in right now. You could also plant eggplant. Okay, awesome that I appreciate your help, all right, take care up there in Centerville. Yeah, appreciate that call. You know. The three sixty tree stabilizer is a product that I think really ought to be sold with every tree that's sold. And it's because it is an ingenious design, a brand new design on

the market. That it's like a little stiff arm about two thirds of length of your arm, and you put an iron post in the ground right beside the tree attached the stabilizer, and it has a soft strap where you can loosely attach it to the tree to hold the tree, but allows some movement. That is how you successfully get a tree established. You can put a couple of them one nor south, one east west if you want, but forget all the wires and the tripping and the trouble. This is fast,

it's easy and it lasts a long long time. You can find them at RCW. You can find them at Buchanans done in the Heights or Arborgate up in Tomball. Plants for all seasons on two forty nine Hoorges hidden gardens down in Alvin. Southwest Fertilizer down at Southwest Houston corner of Busin and Runwick. It's easy to find them, but you need to get one and have it on hand, because once you're done with that tree, you or a neighbor

or something's got a tree that needs stabilizing, that thing's gonna last. And tree stabilizer is the best way I know of to successfully establish that tree. And remember, our goal is how fast can I hang a hammock in this thing? So we want everything going right and moving fast, and that'll help you do that. We're going to take a little break here and I will be back our phone number seven one three two one two kt r H. Yeah that's not Simon and Garfuncle, but I had to play that this morning.

Just a memory of Randy Man is called the Lemonheads. I'm not making that up, Missus Robinson. By the Lemonheads. We do miss Randy and good friend and I know a lot of you have enjoyed him for a very long time here on KTR All right, welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. Microlife Fertilizers and that was plural fertilizers are an

excellent way to feed the soil. And you know when you're gardening in an organic system, when you're gardening with nature, the idea is you feed the soil, you build that bank account, you improve the soil, and then the plants naturally are going to thrive because the nutrients are going to be there. The soil structure is going to be improved. Things like the humans plus the purple bag zero zero four. That is something that helps with soil structure,

and you build it over time just like nature does. About once a year. Put that down. The fertilizer. The prime fertilizer for your lawn green bag six' two four Microlife six two four. I use that for a lot of things other than the lawn, but that is the one I would say is the number one thing people put on their lawns. They have an acidic fertilizer, things like blueberries and azalias and acid living plants, and

they have many many others. Go to Microlife fertilizer dot com and you'll learn about these fertilizers and the many places you can get them, and it's one of the most widely available fertilizers. You're going to find throughout this whole region. It's it's an excellent product. It works. I've used it myself and I think you will be pleased with the results as well. We're going to

go now out to Cynthia in spring. Hello Cynthia. Hi. Hi. So my question is I've bought a couple of bags of barricade and my gardener did not want to put the barricade in the soil with mulch on top of it where the flowers are. Okay, we kill flowers. Is that correct? Because I have another area that I'm going to put some boxwood down and some flowers well, and I want to control the weed desperately. Yeah. On any kind of a herbicide, pesticide, whatever, you look at the

label and it'll tell you where you can use it. Now. Barricade is a pre emergent means that it keeps the weed sea from getting established. So if you put it in your flower garden and then you threw zinnias and sunflowers and other seeds out there, they wouldn't come up because it does that. But if you have existing plants, it's not going to kill them. It's not going to kill them. It's not going to kill them, no, because it doesn't. It's not a post emergent like you would spray something on

a plant to kill the growing plant. It prevents the seeds from germinating and establishing. But check the label always on all these products. See what it's labeled for. Are there some things you can use in an edible garden or not used in an edible garden? You know? And the same is true with flowers and herbs and lawns and every other area. Just always check the label to be sure on things. But it's a pre emergent product. I don't have a label in front of me on the barricade as to what any

restrictions might be in a flower garden. But that's where you go for any kind of a question about use of a product like that barricade for sure. Okay, all right, well that's okay, Thank you so much, all right, you bet, Cynthia, thank you for king. I appreciate that Nature's Way Resources is an outstanding place to get mulch and composts and all the bed mixes, all those kinds of things. It's also a good place to get the native plants and many other types of plants. In fact, right

now through July first, so basically the whole month of June. Now through the month of June, they are offering thirty percent off most of their plants. Now it excludes the native sun perennials only, but the rest of them huge. They have a huge selection of Texas native pollinator plants and all of the thirty percent off except the native sun perennials. They have a twenty percent discount on composts. Now this includes also mulches and soil blends. Not just

composts, but mulches and soil blends. But to get that twenty percent discount, Okay, I need you to listen to me here. You have to tell them that you heard about it on Garden Line. When you go in there and talk to one of the employees there, just say I heard on Guardline you have a discount on compost and molt and soil, and whether you're going to buy it by the bag or by the bulk, that twenty percent discount applies. But you got to tell them it's not just like they're given

everybody that discount. It's Gardenline listeners get that discount. So tell them that when you go in Nature's Way Resources, and I forty five up north toward Conra, almost to Conro where fourteen eighty eight comes in from Magnoia from your left hand side when you're going north, you just turn right across the tracks and you're there at Nature's Way Resources. That is where a lot of great soil products were born, rose soil and leaf mold composts. How many times

have you heard Randy or me talk about those things? That is where they were originally created Nature's Way Resources. If you're interested in keeping bees or you would like to learn about bees, the bee Supply in Dayton is the best place that I've ever seen, and I mean that I've been. I've kept bees myself in the past, and we had a little a piece of acreage, and I've seen a lot of bee stores and a lot of places I've never seen the knowledge and the just shopping options that you have at the be

Supply. That place is fun to walk through. But I'll tell you what, if you're interested in learning about bees, they have bee keeping classes for beginners and they're really cool. You learn. They'll blow your mind in the classroom with all that they teach you, and then you go outside whether permitting and you get to do some hive inspections, kind of a hands on you know, you suit up and you go out there and do that. Classes

start at nine thirty, they go intil three thirty. It's an excellent They got some other classes coming up. I'll tell you more about later. They also have their be rental program. You got five to twenty acres and live within fifty miles of the Bee Supply and Dayton. Fifty miles of Dayton, they will come out and put bees on your property and you can use it

as an agricultural exemption that bees count as an agricultural product. Go to the website to find out more about that and how that works and what the detail the bsupply dot com thebesupply dot com. In the meantime, if you've got family, friends and definitely your kids and grandkids, take them out to the Bee Supply and look at the observation hive indoors where you get to walk around a little plexiglass box and watch the bees work. It is really really fun

and cool. Great great outing, great educational outing too. By the way, the Bee Supply, have you been to Buchanans and the Heights I was actually by the day and I love Buchanans. Number one. I think the Heights is just a fun area period here in Houston. But you're driving through and you just all of a sudden, there it is on eleven Street. As you're going down there, it's like whoa, it's just nestled right here

into the Heights. So many great plants, so much to see. By the way, don't forget this weekend is tax exempt products for saving water. That would include soakerhood that would god drip irrigation, water saving surfactants, purchases of mult rainwater collection systems that saves water, turf grass purchases, drip irrigation system plants, anything any product with a water sence logo. And that's this

weekend. It goes through Monday through tomorrow. But they've got that going on there at Buchanans, and it's just just a statewide thing that you can save on. So this weekend, make sure and make those purchases. Why you're at Buchanans, check out the native plants. Best selection in the whole region in native plants, hands down. It's amazing what all they carry there. It's really really nice. I always love shopping there and it's stuff you wouldn't

expect. You know, you may be thinking about Buchanans Native Plants, that's their name, but do you know they have one of the best house plants selections you're going to find anywhere. They sell fruit, they sell vegetables, herbs, flowers. If you have a shady area, what can I go in the shade that will bring color and beauty? They've got an area for that, beautiful gift shop. It's just a nice fun place to wander through

and enjoy. Buchanans Plants on eleven Street in the Heights. The websites Buchanansplants dot com and you need to sign up for the newsletter very informative and on the website there is a lot of good free information, both in video form and stuff you can print out that will help you have more success with your garden or learn about some plants that maybe you didn't know about that you now

can't live without. In that how it works with plants, so many plants, so little time, Well, I wish I felt that before you know, I'm a I'm a plant collector. Let me tell you the difference between a plant collector and a landscaped person. A landscaper starts with a design and then finds plants to put in it. A plant collector is shopping and they see plants they like, and they bring them home without a clue as to where they're going to go. I know, true confessions, don't tell anybody's

just shoeing me. Listen anyway, But when you go to a plant collector's yard, it looks like a bomb went off in a garden center and everything rooted where it landed. It's just this, Oh, here's a plant. I come home, I walk around, let's put it over there. Well, actually it's not quite that bad. I do design and plan, but

it is fun being a plant collector. And that is why it is so much fun to live in the Greater Houston area and have all these awesome garden centers with plants from all over the world that you haven't heard of even And it's all so many plants, so little time. That's a little lament.

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KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Scamp Richter's so trim and just watch him as so many good things to sid Welcome back to the garden Line. Good morning, good Sunday morning. I hope you're having a good Sunday morning. We uh, we got a lot of things to cover today,

there's always something to cover regardening. You know, there's only ten bazillion plants out there, and we try to grow them all right, and we especially like to grow things that don't want to be here, isn't it always is?

Have you ever have you ever hauled a blue spruce tree back from a Colorado summer vacation or one of those little blue columbines back there from The Society for the Prevention of Plant has now has established check centers at the border between Texas and New Mexico that when you try to come across the border, they're going to take it away from you, and they're gonna arrest you and they're

gonna throw you in jail. Not really, but if the plants had their way, they would, because that plant's going to die a slow death. Maybe you lived in the Midwest and you love Forcythia. I love Forcythia. It's beautiful. You can bring it all the way down here and kill it, just along with the lilacs too, by the way, you can bring them down here and kill or hostas. Hostas are kind of iffy. Some people get by with them. We do, okay, we can make them

go, but you know what I'm saying. We always want to stretch a plant out of its zone, and so when we do that, we run into the kind of challenges. But hey, that's okay. We love growing different kinds of things. And when we have plants, we always want to make them. We're want to develop them into something they didn't originally start off to be. For example, a yellow African violet. There was a pursuit

for years. Can we come up with a yellow African violet? Its name is violet, its name is not yellow, it's not an African yellow, it's an African violet. But people worked on it. And you know, when we do things like that, we usually find some way to achieve them. But it comes at a cost in terms of the vigor and health and stuff like that of the plant. But that's part of the fun of gardening being able to do that. Part of the fun of gardening, too is

having good blooms. Nelson's has a number of different fertilizer products. They've got their Turf Star line, which I talk about all the time on guard Line. They also have the Nutris Star line, and this is think of it

as for color plants. So the Nutristar Booginvilla food. If you have boom villas, this is an outstanding food, but it also is good for other flowering vines like mandavilla or maybe a cross vine, you know the tandruine, beauty crosswine, Virginia, creeper, things like wisteria, things like passion flower, trumpet vine, honeysuckle, carolina, jussamine, all of it. Bougainvilla

by nutri Star. Just when you see boog and villa, think vine and that is the good the things you can put it on, they really this product really provides those nutrients to support good strong growth, and a good strong plant is more able to resist pests and diseases, and it just benefits in many ways. There's a nutri Star Crpe myrtle. Someone was calling yesterday. In fact, I had two calls yesterday about my crate myrtle is not blooming

and things well. Good nutrition is a big part of that nutri Star Crpe myrtle. It says Crpe myrtle on the label, but think flowering tree because it's good for all of those. There's not like a fertilizer that has to just be used on crate myrtle Nutri star CRP myrtle is good for your Mexican plums, your mimosas, which by the way, are blooming now. They look beautiful out there. For your red budge, your Texas Mountain Laurel, your Vitex, your desert willow, all of those kinds of blooming plants.

Nutri star CRP myrtle. Buy Nelson plant Food one of many quality Nelson plant food products out there to help you have success. You know, when we plant these things, we want them to look good. We want them to bloom. That's why we bought them. Good care and good feeding is one of the ways that we get there. Let's go out to the woodlands now and talk to Dinna. Hello, Donna, is it Dina or Dinna Dina?

Good morning, Good morning. I have some cannas and I noticed last night that I've had this once before and haven't had it for a while. But the leaves just roll up and there's almost like if I unroll it, there's something inside, but I can't find an actual bug. Okay, that is called the Kenna leaf roller. It's a little caterpillar and the mama butterfly lays it on the plant and it grabs the leaves, and caterpillars have the

ability to produce silk. That's how we get silkworm silk stocking. And they take the silk and before the leaf unfurls, it wraps it and ties it together with silk strands and so it never unfurls. And then they eat on the inside. And when you see one of these leaves, it's not unfurling, and you kind of break it open. You see the big old fat caterpillar in there, and you see a lot of caterpillar poop from eating your

cann of leaves. And so to control them, you want to use BT sprays or spindosid sprays, but you need to do it pretty regularly to be able to get ahead of those to shut them down, because once they're inside rolled up like that, it's kind of hard to it's kind of hard to get a spray down in there to control them. But that would be an option. Okay, well, thank you very much. I appreciate it.

And also DANAE or Dana. One other thing is you can when you see a stalk like that that's all messed up, just cut it off down near the ground and it'll put the cannons will put up new stalks, but get that old material out of there in case there's any pupated larvae in there. They're not just going to now turn into an adult and keep doing that to your cannons. Great, all right, thanks, thank you very much. Yes, I appreciate the call very much. Pierscapes is our go to landscaper

here on garden Line, and there's a number of reasons for it. Number one, they do just about everything. Go online to their website and you'll see what I'm talking about. They are designers extraordinaiy beautiful, beautiful work. The website, by the way, is pierscapes dot com. But when you're there, you'll notice they also do things like irrigation work. They do things like hardscapes, a water feature. They do things like landscape lighting. Maybe

you've got a saggy area, remember all that ring we just had. You got a little farm pond in the back that you didn't intend to have. They can turn that area into an area that drains well. They have a way they know how to do that. They also do quarterly maintenance. So maybe you don't want new creations and designs and beds. I hope you do, but if you don't, harm for quarterly maintenance. Every quarter they come out. They change the color in your beds. It's called seasonal color changes.

They put in umulch, they weed, they fertilize, they check the irrigation system, do any trimming that's necessary. That's all part of their quarterly maintenance program with Puerscapes peerscapes dot com. Here's the phone number two eight one three seven O five zero six zero Puerscapes. We're gonna now head out to k in Paarland. Hello. Okay, good morning, Skip. Thank you for taking my call. You bet. I have a quick question and I

think the answer is yes. But I want to be sure that mosquito dunks are safe for turtles as well as fish and other They are safe for everything. They don't hurt any they don't hurt other insects even like a lady beetle or a family cat or any and they're very safe. Yeah, it's a disease of mosquito larvae. Yeah, that's what I thought. I just wanted to be sure. I read everything two or three times on the labels, and yeah, I didn't say any things specifically right, actually about even dogs

and cats, you know, kind of general stuff. But I heard you mentioned that it was safe, very safe. Day. Yeah, I thought them in bird baths because the birds drink it doesn't hurt them at all. Thanks for asking, though, that's a good question. I appreciate that.

K. Yeah, mosquito dunks are widely available. They're little donuts. There's also a granular product that they make, sum Responsible Solutions makes, But the little donut just floats in water and it covers like one hundred square feet of water surface, and it lasts about a month, and it releases a disease of mosquito larvae in You can't get more organic, you can't get more safe

than mosquito dunks, and you also can't get more effective. And you're going to find them at you know, all our garden centers carry them, no ares, hardware stores carry them, feed stores carry them. SOUTHUS Fertilizer carries them. Mosquito dunks. You just don't need to go through summer in Houston without mosquito dunks. I'll tell you that for sure. Well, Hey, we're gonna take a little break here and I will be right back. Our

phone number is seven one three two one two kt rh. Call up the producer, get on the boards, and let's talk to you about your questions. Jerry and Fulscher you'll be our first up. You come on like a dream, like your sixteen Oh yeah, hey, that song has a special significance today. We just lost the fellow that wrote it, a couple of brothers, Sherman brothers. Richard Sherman passed away. I believe he was about ninety five. He brought for a lot of you, especially those who are

a little bit older. Your childhood has made much much happier by the Sherman brothers writing not only this song, but who remembers TDTD bang bang Remember that one spoonful of Sugar from Mary Poppins, How about the Jungle Book? I want to be Like You? Who want to be like you? Yep? They wrote that to Winnie the Pooh from It's a Small World, Oh my gosh, on and on and on, so many Disney songs and others. Those guys put together a lot of happiness for kids through the years. So

just remembering Richard Sherman in the passing welcome back to garden line. Yeah, in addition to gardening, we play around with music. This is a little bit here. I I hope you appreciate that. Landscaper's Pride is a company that has put together a collection of products for the soil that will help your plants thrive. That is an outstanding and widely available, which is very convenient, widely available collection. For example, they have things like mulches, pine

bark multch, hardwood maltch, the black velvet malt. It's not dyed mult it's naturally dark black velvety mult excellent when our plants need mults, and they need it now. Molt keeps weeds down and temperatures heat up. Mulch has a huge effect on sol temperature, which has a huge effect on roots success and so Landscaper's Pride take your pick of the mulches. There's twenty seven different

Landscaper's Pride products, things like Gardener's Magic Soil. It's an organic pine based blend contains humus, green pine, composted rice holes and a chicken pellet fertilizer in there that lasts up to three months feeding your plants. All at Landscaper's Pride. Go to Landscaperspride dot com to find out where to get them, and they are widely available, and learn more about these really awesome products. Because remember on guardline, what do we say brown stuff before green stuff?

You get the soil fixed, right, and then the beautiful green vegetables, herbs, flowers, lawns, whatever the plant is is going to thrive because you took care of the brown stuff first. Let's go out to Jerry now in full shre Hello, Jerry, ask you I have a watering problem because my yard has such a steep slope to it. It goes out about twenty thirty feet and then it just takes a dive down toward the creek. Because of that, the water runs off fast. And I've read your schedule about

cycle and sol process. But the issue there is the forty five minutes that you mentioned to I guess cycle between yes, and I guess. The next question about all of that would be do I need a different type of sprink or sprayhead for that area? The type I have this is a rotating type that shoots out a long ways and so it just doesn't get the water there in that area that it needs to. Okay, so can you clear me up on that? Yeah, Now, the rotating tape you're talking about is

that a stream of water that kind of slowly drifts across the lawn. Okay, that's coold. Well yeah, it's it's not slow enough and it goes out too far. You really, okay, it just property. Okay, Well you probably need you know, unless you're a real good to it yourself for you probably need an irrigation company to come in and take a look at that. But that's called a rotor, and it's better than the pop up

spray heads. Pop up spray heads like you see people using flower beds and stuff, they put out water really fast and so it runs off too darn fast. The rotors put out water slower. But then there's another one called a multi stream rotor, and instead of one stream, imagine like little fingers of water. They're drifting across in the same way, and it's like they appear on the left hand side and they drift across, and on the right

hand side they just disappear. But the key is to get the sprinkler head set so that water's the right area and that that is something where an irrigation company should be able to come in and fix that, or maybe you can just go replace the head and make it work. But yeah, the less you put on at one time, the longer you can run it before you

you have to cycle off and let it soak. Uh, And so yeah, you'd like to be on cycle and soak once or twice, you know, rather than five times trying to squirt a little bit and then wait and squirt a little bit and then wait that that's not very efficient. Yeah, well, ken again, like a running bird system, can it be set to cycle like that or you just have to manually do that? Every every system is different rainbird Netaphim Hunter. I'm trying to think of all the brands.

There's a lot of brands out there, and if you if you spend a little more on the irrigation clock, you get a lot more features. Some of them will even water according to the amount of evaporation that's been occurring out in the environment, you know, so they they kind of control it for you. But any of them should be able to be set for multiple run times in a day. Okay, uh, next question real quick.

But that area that I'm talking about, I'll have the problem with water of course, now I know it needs probably residing in an area of say twenty by twenty to reside that area with Saint Augustine. Do I need to first, I guess, clear all that area of whatever weeds are in there. Yes, and then I need to put down a topsoil before start putting the reside down. You don't have to put down a top soil, but you do want to level it out so your your lawn level is acceptable and any

holes are filled in. And we call that kill till and fill. Kill means if you got something in there you don't want to grow in in your lawn, you better get rid of it now, like bermuda grass and Saint Augustine or some other nasty weed. First you get rid of those, and then you can loosen the soil up. You don't have to go very deep, but just loosen it up a little, filling any low areas that you

have, and then go ahead with your sodding. When you saw it, though, and I don't know if I put this on the schedule, I probably probably need to do something else just for long planting. But you want to water it about twice a day for the first week, especially when we're getting in this hot weather. That little thin piece of sod has almost no soil and no root on it, and so by the end I put it in a lawn this spring, Jerry, and I was watering it before I

finished lay in the whole lawn. I mean, in other words, I laid for about you know, twenty feet long, and then I turned the water on over there while I kept laying. And because it dries out fast, and so twice a day the first week, once a day the second week, and then back and on off. You got to get those roots down without stress. It's not that the grass will all die. It's just that it'll set it back so far that it's it's a shame. Yeah, okay, very good. Skip, Well, I appreciate that, and I'll

follow through it. Your suggestions, all right, good, well, I wish you, I wish you well. Just just stay with it and you're you're gonna find you know, you've got pretty good success. Don't don't don't don't sweat it. It's not sometimes as hard as we make it. Uh, you know, we try to go for ideal, but it'll be fine just even without that. Okay, I guess one last question. Do you put a little fertiliser on that new sad right away? Or you just no

give it about a month. Give it about a month and then begin get you've got my schedule, go back to the schedule and that's where you go from there. Give it a month though, Yeah, all right, okay, thanks so much, all right, Jerry, thanks a lot. I appreciate your call. The arbor Gate in Tomball is a great place to visit. You are going to find everything you're looking for. You are, I

mean herbs and year round fruit trees at the Arborgate. You can buy fruit trees year round at the Arborgate. Wonderful rose selection, outstanding, outstanding rose selection, shrubs and tree there's so much there it allow yourself some time. You need to be able to wander through that wonderful gardens and look at all the plants and the garden blaying I call it. That decorates our place. Places. They have the beautiful gift shops you need to spend some time in,

but always go home with their one two three completely easy system. That's a soil for anything with roots. That is a compost that you can mix in to the soil. And there is a food that's an organic food for anything with roots. So basically what you're buying is you're buying a quality food that's a fertilizer. You're buying a quality soil with some expanded shale in it, which is important for clay soils. You're buying compost with expanded shale in

it. All one, two three bags, real simple. It's the brown stuff, take it home when you take home the green stuff, the beautiful plants that Arbigate sells, and you're going to have success. Very knowledgeable staff, a fun place to shop. And don't forget that new parking lot on the backside off Trisheal Road. It makes it so so easy to get. Then we're gonna head out now to Spring Branch and talk to Herta. Hello, good morning, Thank you for being there. Foss. My questions about

when they were removing the trees that had fallen. Uh, they used a big old tractor and they skin took a chunk of rock off of the bottom. Okay, do I need to paint that or protect that with something? No, no, it's it didn't do them any good. But that the tree will start to call us and close that over in time, but there's no way to speed it up. Just just yeah, nothing for you to have to do on that, Okay, taken question. A giant oak was upreaded. Uh, but anyway, they left a big Okay, it's about

six deep, about at least two heat and diameter. Okay, uh like some mouth break stump, no sink again, but for now, no I heard. I've got about thirty seconds. So here's a quick answer. Don't put anything organic in it. It'll rot and sink down. You want to put soil in it, because that'll stay stable. You may have to mound it, mound it up a little bit, because it always settles when you fill a hole with soil. So make it a little higher, like a

picture mound, and it'll settle down to the level. But don't put anything that will rot and shrink down even further. Thank you, Thank you for the cast s right to have to run, but we got to obey the clock around here too. All right, give us a call seven one three two one two K t R H. Will be right back. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with us. We love feed stores here on Garden Line. And for those of you down in League City,

you're fortunate because you have League City Feed down there. The Thunderbergs have been running that store for over forty years now began down in an okra patch. Just you know. It's located on Highway three, just a few south, a few blocks south of ninety six in League City. So for those of you that are in Baycliffe, for clear Lake City, El Comino, Real, Webster, Dickenson, Santa Fe, San Leon, Lamark, all those areas, this is your hometown feed store. And they give you the old

time service that you expect from an old time feed store. And we're talking about carrying the bags out for you and treating you right in there. They have all the fertilizers you hear me talk about on garden Line, and many many products for dealing with pests, dealing with weeds, dealing with diseases of your plants, quality pet food, quality horse supplies. You know, even if you've got backyard chickens, they can get you set up with what you

need to take care of them as well. League City Feed will help you have a beautiful lawn and a beautiful landscape, a beautiful garden, a productive garden. They're open money through Saturday, nine am to six pm, closed on Sunday, so any day during the week through Saturday you swing by after work grab what you need. Here's a phone number you want to write it down. Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve League City Feed. I'm going to go to Jersey Village now and talk to Chris. Hello, Chris,

Hey, how you doing. I'm good, sir, How are you? I'm fine? A quick question, actually two. First one, you know a wheeding feed the front yard, that's fine, no problem. But the backyard. I've got two dogs and they tell me that the wheeding feed is oxic to them. Is there anything that I can put back there to

kill weeds that doesn't affect at all? Well? Yeah, I would prefer that you would use a law, a fertilizer for fertilizing, and then when you need to control weeds, you just use a specific product to control the specific weeds that are the problem. First of all, putting those combos together sometimes it works, but sometimes the particular product to control weeds in that fertilizer

may not be the best product for the weed that you have. So so we we always want to start with what are what are the weeds that you're dealing with? Do you know offhand what they are? Just I got some dollar weeds, I got some dandelions, okay, and I got some I got some guys that are they're not thorns, but they're thorny like because I've stepped on them. Yeah, okay, all right, So those are all existing weeds that are perennials. The thorny one could be an an annual,

could be a perennial. So what you're going to want to do is get a product. There are a couple of products if you go online to my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com on post emergent weed control, I've got three things listed there. One of them is celsius, like the temperature fahrenheit and celsius, but this one is celsius, not fahrenheit, but celsius. And then there's a bone eye weed beater ultra and a fertil om weed free

zone. Now the celsius warmer conditions within reason are not a problem to use celsius, but the other two you need to use them very early in the morning when it's as cool as it's going to be for the day, so that they dry up before the weather gets up into the mid to upper eighties, because it can stress your lawn at that time. But you mix them up in water according to the label and just spot spray. I mean,

if you've got weeds all over the lawn, spray the whole lawn. But as much as you can just spray the weeds saves a little bit and that that will not come back. I got one more quick question. Okay, when I was a kid over in Garden Oaks, right, we had a climbing vine that had coral colored little buds. Okay, do you know what that is, because I'd like to put it in that sounds like coral vine,

which is a sweet potato type perennial underground in the summertime. It grows long, long, vigorous vines and they have clusters of coral shaped flowers that almost look like buds because they're little, almost roundish little flowers as opposed to what you think of it. And that's called coral vine, and it's it's available local garden centers and nurseries. You can get it. Just know that when it takes off running, it runs like a kindergartener on the first day

of school. I mean it runs, damn. Okay, Okay, my neighbor it on my backyard. I put it on my back fence. Yeah, they're Indian people, very sweet people. Yeah, and it was growing all over everywhere and I loved it. And for some reason, you know, they cut it out. Okay, all right, go get you, go, get you some pope. Yeah, corabine pollinators love it. Hey, Chris, thanks for the call and good luck with that. Yeah. I think you'll enjoy it. You bet appreciate it. Bye bye. And

the storm we just had told us another thing. In addition to power goes out, we got to take care of our trees because we saw a lot of damage from the wind from trees. And hurricane season is arriving here in June through November. You need to do the selective pruning, and you need somebody that knows what they're doing. Don't trust your pruning to some guy that owns a pick up, a chainsaw and a business has a business card to

stick in your door. Call Martin spoon Moore, Martin spoon More at Affordable Tree Service. It's seven to one three six nine twenty six sixty three. We'll say that again, seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. I cannot stress enough the importance of proper tree care coming into a storm season. These limbs maybe your your trees made it through the one we just had. Sometimes they do and then the next storm comes through and I don't

know why, but that's the one that takes the limbs out. They can damage homes, they can damage cars and other value of our property, and then hurt people. You want to have somebody look through, get the dead wood cleaned out, do any kind of a maintenance pruning that's needed. Martin will come out on a consultation. Charges one hundred and fifty bucks to come out. He tells you what he sees and what he suggests needs to be done. If you hire him to do it, that one fifty just goes

right into the price. So give him a call, have him come out and take a look. Listen, he stays busy. Tell him you're from garden Line. That helps you get up to the front of the line. He takes care of his garden Line customers. And just call Martin. That's the bottom line. Don't delay. If you on a website, aff tree service dot com a ff tree service dot com. I was talking earlier about the importance of doing our summer fertilization now and nitroposs superturf. That's a silver

bag. That's an excellent product for summer fertilizing your lawn. It gradually releases the nitrogen over time to create even growth, so you're not you know, having just excessive amounts of mowing trying to keep up with the overfertilization and then you know there's not food for later on. It gradually releases that over time. Nitrophssuperturf is a quality product designed specifically for our southern turf grasses like Saint

Augustine, a Bermuda and Suisa here in our hot and humid climate. You're going to find it at Ktace Hardware. You're going to find it at Ace Hardware City, a Memorial Drive. You're going to find it at Stanton Shopping Center down in Alvin, and many other places. Nitrofossuperturf. Another place you're going to find it is in Channi Gardens. You know, in Channi Gardens is down there in the Kadiefoolscher area. It's on It's actually in Richmond,

but on the Katie Fulsher side of Richmond. I said that backwards in Channigardens. Richmond dot com is a website. Now when you go if you've never been, go today. I mean, go see it. It is an amazing place. Just I would say Acres seems like it when you walk through there because there's so many beautiful displays and pottery and everything. They carry all

the fertilizers and the soil products that we talk about on Guardenline. But what you're going to find down there is beautiful color for your plants, dependable shrubs, and knowledgeable staff that can you go describe what you have, take them a picture, say what can I do for this bed? They will show you some of the best options to have success with it. That's the kind of service you get it in Chenni Gardens, Richmond in Chennigardens Richmond dot com

on FM three point fifty nine on the Katie Folscher side of Richmond. We're going to take a little break here and I will be right back if you'd like to get on the board seven one three two one two kat r h Gifts give us Welcome back to the garden Line, good to Heaven with us today. Kind of had to make that up to Paul Simon since I did a different Missus Robinson earlier today. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us. Hey, D and D Feed and Tomball is your hometown

feed store. They're out there on the west side of Tomball on twenty nine to twenty. As you go out west and D and D Feed carries the fertilizers that you hear me talk about here on Guardline, you're gonna find things there like the age leaf mole composts. We talk about, the heirloom soils, rose soil, their fruit berry citrus soil, their veggie and herb mixed by the bag. They have plants out front that changed through the seasons.

It's always a good time to go buy D and D Feed. You're going to go in there and find all the quality feeds that you need, but you're also going to find products to help control weeds, to help deal with diseases, to help deal with insects, both organic and synthetic products. They're at D and D Feed again west of Tomball. Just head out twenty nine to twenty. You'll see them on the left hand side. D and D

Feed is an outstanding place to shop. They continue to expand that shore store to add new content, new product and it's always a good place to go in. I always enjoy going to D and D Feed, one of our favorite hometown feed stores. Sit out to Pairland now and we're going to talk to David. Hello, David, good morning. How are you doing. I'm well, thanks. I have a question on my front yard. There's a section that every year it starts getting these little lime green kind of marbling

of sections. It's not the whole part that it just a part there. You had a collar yesterday that requested photos had the same thing. So I've sent you a photo of the long view and then a close up of the blade itself, and I've done leaf more compost on it and to usual fertilizing from the schedule and such. But each year I have that and it's currently going on now. So I need some help. David, you sent me

a photo I did. Oh boy, I'm not seeing it here. Uh all right, describe for me one more time the what you're seeing in terms of the color. Okay, yards, nice grain, but there are sections that it has lighter appearances, more of a lime color. Yeah, and then you know it's not as I said, it's not the whole thing. Right. I pulled up a blade and did a enlargement and it has kind of a streaking. Okay to it? Okay, I got you. Yeah, that is iron deficiency and it's caused by one of several things. Number

One, it could be a lack of iron in the soil. That's unlikely but possible. It could be that the iron that's there is tied up. That's more likely due to high pH or high phosphorus levels. And it could also be take all root rot, which kills roots, and when you lose roots, you lose the ability to take up that iron, which can also

show up as a yellowing. Initially, I would suggest you consider putting a keylated iron product down on it. Thekelated iron is an iron that doesn't tie up, is readily into the soil, and so that is the one reason I like it. Another thing, have you fertilized? When was the last time you put the fertilizer down? I would say late March, beginning of April. And was it a slow release? Yes? It was the silver bag, Oh, silper bag. Okay, Well, that has some iron

in it, about four percent iron. That's nitrofiss superturf. It's an excellent product. I would go ahead and add some additional keylated iron to it. You can find that, you know, wherever you do your gardening shopping in your area, it's ACE. Yeah, well you should be able to find keylated iron at ACE. Just just go in and ask them for it. Be careful not keep any iron product off your sidewalks and driveway because iron stains

concrete rusty. That whether you leave a nail sitting on the driveway or whatever, it's going to turn rusty, right, and so iron products will do the same thing, So be careful with that. But I would try that. And the other thing I would consider if the soil is really tight, heavy clay and doesn't have good aeration, doing some aerration can help with some compost. Top dressing gets oxygen down in the soil, it gets organic matter down in the soil, and that that will also help it in general.

A couple of go ahead. I've done a couple of applications of the leaf mod compost. Sound sounds like you're on the right track. Yeah. I would just say, you know, other than doing the keylated iron, I think you've kind of done what you can do. Other than just punching some good aeration holds in to pop a plug out onto the surface, You're you know you're kind of in the area where BnB turf pros services down there, and they they you know, that would be something to consider. I think

you're on the eastern end of their area in pair Land there. So if you want to do that as an investment, that certainly would be helpful. But I think it may grow itself out of it too, especially with a little bit of an added iron product applied judiciously. With the same time that when this turns yellowish, it dies off at the same time. Is that now that's starting to sound like take take off root rot. That is starting

to sound like take all root rot. If you pull a runner up and you look at it and the rut, the roots are not of fresh, creamy white, healthy color, but they're brown, even out toward the end of the runner where it should have fresh new roots. Uh, then that's take all root rot. Go to my schedule online. It's at gardening with Skip dot com. Look at take all root Rot on the disease line and it'll tell you what to use and give you more information on that. Okay,

excellent, Okay, good luck with that. Thanks a lot, get thank you appreciate your call very much. Yeah. Ace Hardware they do have it. You're going to get kelated arm, You're going to get at Ace Hardware pretty much everything you need. Their motto is ACE is a place. You know, when when we had floods, ACE was the place where you go and you get bleach and you get dehumidifiers and fans and rubber gloves,

and when we have storm damage. ACE is a place where you're going to get a generator, little gas power generator to get things going, or a chainsaw or things you need. Ace's place where you get your lawn in order, where you get your gardens in order, where you fertilize, where you control paths, where you beautify the patio. ACE is the place for all of that. And just go to online to Acehardware dot com find the store

locator. There's forty stores in the greater Houston area. Pretty easy to find one or two or three that are close to you, and they will get you set up because they are committed to carry the fertilizers and products we talk about here on garden Line. We are coming up close to a break here, but I'm gonna v I'm gonna see if we can get some done here. We may have to carry you across the other side of break. Okay. When I had my dead pine tree cut down and they ground up the

stump, they left a little bit of this stuff. It's about five feet around and maybe about four four or five inches deep. It's mostly dirt and pines, right or I guess anyway, So I wanted to know what should I do with that? Should I box it up and throw it away, or should I use it in a compost heap or what? That's good stuff? You can you can, you know, if you had a way to kind of screen it out a little bit, maybe just with a rate, kind of pull out the chunks and stuff. That makes a good mulch for

your beds. You can use that as a mulch. The soil itself should go back in the hole. But if you put a lot of that mix of soil and woodchips, it's going to rot, and that's going to sink down. So what you thought was filled in and a level will all of a sudden become a depression out in the yard. So try to get as much of the woodchip out of there as you can. Okay, So just leave it there and then I mean, you know, clean it up,

take out the woodchips, and yeah, leave it in place. You just want it to be level, right, yeah, yeah, And I would suggest even mounding it up a little bit like a picture's mound, you know, just a little bit of a rise, and that way when it sinks, it ends up level. Because I mean you go out in the yard, you dig a hole, and you put the same soul right back in and come back in a month or two and all of a sudden, now you got a depression. Well what happened? I don't know. It just

the way it works. Oh well, okay, So I could just leave it there and kind of leave it alone. Yeah, leave it alone. Put a flower bed there, put a let your long grow back over it, whatever you want to do. Oh okay, I'll leave it there. Then it's you know, not bothering anything. Really scatter, scatter a little high nitrogen lawn fertilizer on the area, mix it in, water it in really good, and that nitrogen will help speed up that wood decomposition. Oh

okay, that sounds like a good idea. All right. I hope it is. Well. Thanks a lot, because I've been worried about it, you know, maybe hurting the the front yard or something, So no problem. Okay, thank you, thanks for colvee appreciate that very much. Hey, we're going to take a little break here and we will come look forward to visiting with you with your questions on the other side. Seven one three

two one two k t R H Greg and Teresa your first stop. Kt r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt R H Garden Line with Skip Richter's Shoes, crazy trim. Just watch him as many sun Welcome back to guard Lines. Got a nice little Sunday going on outside here. Sure appreciate those clouds. Weather starts to heat up, it goind nice to have a few clouds

in the sky, that is for sure. We are going to talk about the things that interest you at seven one three two one two kt R seven one and three two in two kt R eighteen was the last time you were up at Plants for All Seasons? You know, that's the garden center that's right where lu Weetta comes into Tomball Parkway FM two forty nine. Plants for

All Seasons has been around a long time since nineteen seventy three. The Flowerty Family has been in operation out or near that location since nineteen seventy three. That is amazing because in all those years they have built a reputation for being a place that has quality plants and quality advice and people love it. They have a very strong following for a very good reason. You need to go

by there and find out why. When you walk in there where you have a question, maybe you pull a bag out of your pocket with a leaf in it or a bug in it, and you need help identifying if you want advice on the best plants, how to put things together. Maybe you want to create a beautiful mixed plant. Or they have gorgeous pottery. I've got some of their pottery. It's just outstanding, beautiful pottery. They can help you with that. They help turn brown thumbscreen, let's just put it

that way. And they do that by providing good quality, accurate, locally accurate information plants for all seasons. Dot com that's the website, the phone number two eight one, three, seven six, sixteen forty six. You know, you get through shopping, you head back towards the register to get your business taken care of, and you load up on the fertilizers. All

the guardline fertilizers are there. You load up on the soil bags and products that you need, because you know, don't go home with plants without the stuff, the brown stuff as I like to call it, that makes the green stuff thrive. Good information, good plants, good soil products equals success. And that's what we're out for. And that's what they want you to be out for. They want you to have success, and that's why they

provide education and selection and advice and assistance in that way. We're going to now head out to Rosenberg and talk to Teresa. Hello, Teresa, good morning, Skip. Thank you for taking my call. And I want to say right off, I have enjoyed your so thoroughly well. Thank you, folks. That's what a twenty dollars bill will buy you. I slipped her a twenty dollar bill last week and she promised to speak speak that way. My question is, Skip, I would like to have a yard, a

backyard where the grass is lush. Okay, you can sit on it, children can play and they won't hurt themselves. There you go. What's a good kind of grass? Well, Saint Augustine is the standard around. That's what most people have. It's a nice soft grass and it does well. It's very shade tolerant. So if you've got trees, it helps you have turf in areas where bermuda grass, for example, wouldn't grow, I would not do bermuda. Bermuda. No, it's a wonderful it's a wonderful grass.

It makes beautiful lawns. But when you talk about children rolling around in it, bermuda grass harbors chiggers. Do you remember chiggers as a kid rolling around and you're itching and everything. Saint Augustine doesn't do that, and so for the little kids rolling around in it, I wouldn't do the bermuda. I mean it as far as what is the grass. It gives you the densest, most beautiful lawn if you really mow it often and take care of it. It's bermuda. Yes, that's why golfer screens or bermuda, not

Saint Augustine. But for most home lawn situations being able to go in the shade and stuff, I would lean towards Saint Augustine or Sousia. There are some really wonderful zuisias, as one called palisades, that is very soft leaved zeusia. It is the if you haven't seen Zeluysia before. The Palisades is about a third as wide as a Saint Augustine blade, so it's not as skinny as Bermuda grass, but it's closer to Bermuda than Saint Augustine. Palisades

is very dependable. It's fairly shade tolerant, you know, not like Saint Augustine. I get plenty of sun back there. I don't okay. Palisades is a good one. Saint Augustine's a good one. Palisades has got some decent drought tolerance as well. But either way you're gonna do fine. And then just following my schedule, Theresa, that's mow water fertilized. The most important thing we do to have a beautiful density is mowing. The more often

you mow, the denser the grass. The fertilizing is very important for vigor and density also, and then watering on a good soaking, not often, but a good soaking. Those three put together, mow water, fertilizers really the secret. It's no secret to a beautiful law. One more question, skip, can I do this by seed? I would not. I would do it. No, I wouldn't. There's no Saint Augustine's seed. Yeah,

yeah, that's right. No, there's no Saint Augustine's seeds. There are some semi dwarf bermudas by seed, and I think there's some zouzias by seed. It's hard to find the seed trying to get seedlings started, little spinly seedling started with weeds and weed seeds and everything else around. It's more of a challenge to do it. So you could do it with semidwarf bermudas

or I think some zoisias. If you go to the Aggie Turf website Aggie Turf, and it will give you a listing of Zoisia varieties, and I'm pretty sure there's a section in there of the seeded varieties that you could use. I don't know anybody that does that, but technically, technically it could be done. I would do sod even and if it was a cost, I would sod a certain section and then next year I would take the next section out, you know, just continue to build your lawn out a little

bit over time. That would be a good suggestion. Skips, thank you, thank you, thank you, and have a wonderful day, all right, Teresa, Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Bye bye you bet bye bye. Microlife fertilizers are outstanding ways to provide an organic source of nutrients to your lawn. But not just nutrients. It's the six two four bag, the green bag that's six percent nitrogen, two percent phosphorus, four

percent potassium. It's not just that it's some microbial content that's also in them. It's the fact that it is organic matter that you're putting out and so think of it as a composed type material in that you're putting organic material out there onto the soil that will decompose in time and release the nutrients. Microlife's humts. Plus the purple bag that is concentrated IM posting a bag again chuck full of all kinds of microbial activity. But it also is just helping with

the clay soil, helping loosen that clay soil gradually over time. You know, the thicker and denser the turf grows, the better the root system, the more the soil opens up, and it just gets better. And that's the organic way. That is how nature works, and that is how microlife fertilizers are designed to work as well. Microlifefertilizer dot com. That's the website if you'd like to go there and learn more about it, find out where

to get it. We're gonna take a little break here. Our phone number is seven one three two one two kt r H. When we come back, Greg and George and Charlie you'll be first up. I know you've heard that worn out lime that love. Welcome back to the line. Those were good to have you with us. We're ready to go here we go all right. If you want to make the brown stuff good, so the green stuff is happening, we got to do that by putting down some quality,

organic better in the soil. That's what nature does slowly over time. You walk out to a forest and you dig down in the soil and you're gonna find very rich soil because years of leaves and parrot poop landing on the jungle floor have created a nice organic, rich, rich material. Well, we can save you the eighty years it takes to achieve that in nature by just going out and getting you some quality airloom soil. Airloom soil comes in fruit

berry and citrus mix. They've got their veggie and herb mix. They've got a mix for succulentce and cacti. They have a mix called the Works. It's a potting soil mix. They've got the roses and Bloomers blend. We used to call it rose oil, now Roses and Bloomers blend. They've got that as well there at Heirloom Soil Expanded shale, very important for our heavy clays. They have that also right there at Airlom Soils. Makes it really really easy to do. By the way, right now at Airloom Soils they

have fifty percent off clearance sale. It's an overstock it's going to go on really from now all the way to June second, June second, So don't put this off. You need to get done while supplies last. When they run out, they run out. But you can get it at Airloom Soilst, Warrens Rock and Most. It's out there in Porter on US fifty nine on the right hand side, you're going up toward Porter and they've got the cacti and second they've got the works seven dollars each for the half cubic foot

of the works and the cacti and succulent mix seven dollars each. While supplies last, and then for you know, they have so many soils, it's just kind of hard to know where to begin. If you go down to the eight quartz size, that's a small size, which for most people. For the works potting soil, that's a good size because I mean, you just don't need that much potting soil typically at any one given time. Or their cacti and succulent miss instead of spending ten bucks on them, you're gonna

spend five bucks on each of those bags. So fifty percent off of both of those products are all those products, that's cacti and succulent and the works putting soiled in different sized bags. So take advantage of that. Don't delay. This is good stuff. When it's gone, it's gone. But as long as it will hold up, this is going to go on until June the second. In airloom soils, you can find those in most garden centers, lots of places here in the greater Houston area. Let's go now to

Katie and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, thanks for patiently waiting, Fie. Good morning, Skiff. I have some cobwebs in my trees. For the trees is about thirty to forty feet in the air. I send some pictures. I don't know what they are, and I don't know what I can do about them. Okay, I'm gonna pull your pictures up. Okay, I see that that is webworms. That is called the fall webworm, and I know it's not fall. But they have a spring population most

years that's not too bad. And then when we get to late summer and early fall, they have a heavy duty population that can totally to foliate a tree in some years. At this point in time, if you want to try to control them, you got a couple of options. Blasting water up through the webs to tear up the webs as best you can. If you have a device that will send that strong of a stream up that high, that's helpful. Paper wasps or their number one predator, and paper wasp will

get in there and start hauling them out. The spray that controls them is either BT or spinosid spinosid s p I n osa d spin no said or BT, either of those ingredients. When you first have to break the webs up with either a long stick or a strong blast of water, because the web keeps the spray from getting inside where the worms are feeding. You spray those products on the leaves, they eat it, and it's a disease of webworm caterpillars that kills them. Doesn't hurt any of the good guys out there,

you know the beneficials that are helping you. Okay, these are about thirty to forty feet in the air. I don't have a water stream that's that strong or anything else. Is there someone that you can recommend they can do that? You can talk to Affordable Tree Martin Spoon Moore. I don't know, you know that with the storms and stuff we've had, I'm sure he's pretty pretty booked up, but it'd be worth giving him a call, Affordable Tree Service. Would you like his phone number? Yes? Please?

Huh seven one three six nine twenty six sixty three. Just talk to him and see if he's able to get out and do the spray, and if whether he does or not at this point in time, or whether you do anything about it or not. At this point in time, when we get to late summer, be watching and at the first sign of those webs, that's the time to get out there, because they can go from none to a covered up tree pretty fast. Those caterpillars are hungry. Yeah, I've

got about fifteen webs already in the tree. Yeah. Yeah, Well, you know they'll eat the leaves off. The trees will grow leaves back, so it's not going to kill your tree. It just will look horrible for a while. And if they're bad enough, which, like I keep saying, the fall, the late summer fall application or infestation is usually worse there. You get enough defoliation that going into winter it kind of weakens the tree. Okay, thank you, all right, good luck with that. Thank

you very much. I appreciate appreciate your call very much. And Chaney Forest is a wonderful place to visit. It's down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. It's on FM twenty seven to fifty nine Richmond, Texas. So if you're in Richmond heading towards sugar Land direction, it's off to the right twenty seven to fifty nine. They always have things going on there. By the way, this weekend is that tax free weekend on water can serving products.

Now in Chenni Forest will not be open on Labor Day tomorrow, which is part of that weekend tax free, So you need to get it done today. Plants trees, grasses, soil, compost, mults. All of that

tax free this weekend. A soaker hose, a drip irrigation hose, a moisture control for a sprinkler, an irrigation system, a rain barrel, an alternative rain and moisture collection system, a permial ground cover that allows water to go through and reach the underground basins and oxfords and whatnot, water saving surfactants. All of that is tax free this weekend. But get out there and do it today, because today's the last day out in Channy Forest where you're

gonna be able to do that. While you're out there, you're going to find vegetables and herbs, and their collection of succulents is outstanding. If you're into butterfly gardens like none other. Plants for the adult butterflies, plants for the larval food sources. They are loaded up out there, and it is such a pleasant place to stroll through and just enjoy. It is as the name implies, it is an enchanting place to go in Chenny Gardens that in

Richmond. We're going to go to Jersey Village now and talk to George. Hello, George, Yeah, good morning, Skip. I was pleased. And surprise, here hear you on Sunday morning. So nice. So all right, I was out at the plant for all seasons. Yes, say, that's to become my nursery of choice, thanks to you. And I was interested. I learned a couple of things. I was shopping for a bog and v I learned how to pronounce it. There's one thing. And then the lady said I was going to put in the ground. So he

says, they prefer to be root bound. So what do you say about that? Is that true? Yeah, that's true. You know, you get them in a container, their rootbound, they just seem to perform better in the ground. Their roots bred out, They get all happy, they get luxurious, they grow all over the place, and you don't get the same amount of blooming as you do. Okay, all right, Can I use that you know, that little jar you pass out the people that come

to your presentation? Can I use that fertilizer form? Oh gosh, I give a lot of different things away. There is a boom and Villia food that Nelson makes. There's a boog and villion food that micro on micro ka macapas man. My real question for calling in was about my my sweet potatoes. They put out runners going everywhere, right, and then h at wherever those little joints when the leaves are popping up, that's where it's digs into the ground and puts the roots down, right, Is that where it grows

sweet potatoes too? Down there from the very base of where the vines come out of the ground. All the sweet potatoes form up there around the base. Okay, yeah, not out down the long route. Then there's suddenly a sweet potato. It's all around that. They'll all be at the base of the plant, not out where the runners are. Is that right, correct? They will root out there and you will get some little finger sized swollen roots, but not anything you're going to want to take home and try

to bake it. Okay, good to know, And you know, I wish I had a pickup truck when I went out there. I'll see you because they always going to buy. Yeah, there's no room for my car there. You go. All right, Well, good luck with that, Good luck with the potadium. Yes, sir, you take care. Appreciate that. Call. One of my favorite new products that's out on the market right now, and it is brand new pretty much Medina supergrol Plus. Now Medina makes a has to grow line, the regular has to grow, the

has to grow lawn. This is a has to grow super grow plus. That's the name supergrow Plus. It's a sixteen zero two fertilizer. It's a little court bottle hooks up to your garden hose. It has got the sixteen percent nitrogen two percent potassium in it. About a fifth of that nitrogen is even slow release, so you get a little gradual feed. It's got iron

in a keylated form. Someone was calling earlier we were talking about, you know, the lack of good color and talking about putting an iron keylate on. I would try some of this supergrow Plus and see how that works on. It is just a hose in covers about four thousand square feet, takes you about ten minutes to do your lawn. It's got molasses in it, it's go humic acid in it. It just is something that is going to

make your microbes happy and therefore gonna make your plants really really happy. To including seaweed extracts in this Medina has to Grow supergrow Plus sixteen oh two. You're gonna find it a lot of places they've got it out in the market now and it's easy to find and I would highly recommend you use it. And why you got it hooked up to the garden nose. If you run out a lawn, go hit your tomatoes, go at your vegetable garden, your flower beds. I mean, you can use it on a lot of

things and it works. It does work. We're going to now go to Charlie at West University. Hello, Charlie, Hi, please recommend me of grass for a shady area about eight percent shade. Oh, Saint Augustine's is gonna be as close as you're going to get. It's not gonna be happy in that much shade. If you can get it. Yeah, if you can brighten the shade, If you can brighten it, then maybe you can

get by there. But I think what you're going to find is it's going to be barely hanging on and you're not gonna have the density that you want. Maybe you ought to consider a different groundcover, something like a jugo, which is a groundcover for shady areas. Lorioty monkey grass. What do you say a juka a juga? Yeah, it's a little it's called carpet bugle or a juga. It's a it's a little groundcover. Broad leaf groundcover has little tiny blooms on it. Mondo grass or monkey grass. There's a dwarf

type. Now you got to buy a lot of them because it doesn't spread fast, but it makes a really nice, low dense lan and it can take more shade than just about anything. So I think you're gonna have to come up with a different strategy in there, but Saint Augustine Palmetto, Saint Augustine's about the best you're going to do. Okay, all right, thank you, thank you, Thanks Charlie, appreciate the call very much. We want to take a little b here for Nicky in the news and we'll be

right back at seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's see Brian and Logan. You'll be the first two up. Heye, every wine. Welcome back to the guarden line. Heavy good, heavy back. We're gonna get right back on it here. Listen. If you're dealing with pests in the lawn, Nitrofis has a product called bug Out. Bug Out is very effective, works against over one hundred and thirty different kinds of insects.

So here we are on the verge of chinchbug season, not too far behind that we're gonna be seeing possibly hopefully that won't happen this year, but some years are horrible, and that is the sod web worms. Bug out works on both of those. Bug out works on grubs. In June is the time we do our first application for grubs out there in the lawn and landscape, chinchbugs in your lawn. I mentioned, well, how about ants? How about fleas and ticks? Do you know that fleas actually have larva

that're out in the thatch of your grass. That's why when the dogg or cat goes out and comes back in, you're just you know, transferring their hitching a ride. It's kind of like their little subway service in and out of the house. You deal with them in the lawn, you deal with them on the pet and that's how you get ahead of the filea problem. Bug Out MAX by Nitrofoss. It's one of those products that is easy to

find because it's the Knight Foss products widely available. So for example, plans Fell seasons on two forty nine Kingwood Ace hardware, a Taskeasita Ace Hardware, the arbrogate up in Tomball, Dan Defeed up INtime. All those are places where you're going to find nitrofoss, bug Out Max, where you're going to find night foss products. We're going to head out now to Richmond, Texas and talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, good morning, Skip. How are you? I'm good, sir. How can we hey a question on

honeybees? I've always lived on land for my near neighbor was no more than tourist three hundred yards away, or no closer than tourist three hundred yards Yes. Uh, what would you say about Richmond? I love right on Richmond Parkway, So my property butts up to the Parkway and I've only got a quarter acer Like, can you have honey Bees? Is that what I mean? I'm not actually in Richmond, I'm in four Been County, so, but but the question is can you have run Honeybees in that location? Is

that what you're asking? Well, I'm asking if even if it's allowed? Oh okay, yeah, am I too close? Yeah? Well here's what I would do. I would call the be supply out in Dayton and ask them they stay up to date on all the rules, the short answer is yes, you can have honey bees in town. Uh, but there are certain regulations on how much or how close or whatever, and I don't keep I don't keep up with all the details on that. But let me give

you. Let me give you a phone number and talk talk, talk to Paul or someone out at the b supply nine seven seven six o seven three nine. I'll say that again, nine three six seven seven six o seven three nine. Talk to them and they can direct you to the specifics of what the law reads. And uh. Yeah. So the short answer is

probably yes. But the devil's always in the details. You know, if you got bees piled a mile high and all wall to wall across the edges of the property next to somebody's house, there's probably some issues there where you can't. Oh, I don't want to one or two supers at the most. Well, anyway, I'm going to bet a ninety eight percent chance that's not gonna be a problem. But call the best pot talk to them.

They're the experts. Okay, Okay, one other question. Yes, so my tomatoes, my cherries are doing great, but I've got German, Johnson's and better Boys, and boy, they just aren't producing this year. Okay, any thoughts, Well, we're not quite in hot weather yet, but cherry set better in hot weather than the slicers do. So I would expect this going into June and July and August, the cherries to be the ones that's set. Uh. German johnsay, is a little slower to come in

to ripening. Uh, it's days to harvest, if you will. And so sometimes with those as we get into the summer, but about the time they start setting, it's starting to get a little bit warm. So did you say celebrity was the other one? German John's no better? Better boy, better boy? Okay, yeah, better boy. Again, it's a good tomato. It had been around a long time. Uh are you getting blooms and the blooms aren't setting or are they not even bright? And and

I've started pollinating them with a with a model paint brush. Okay, good, good, Yeah. So the tomatoes pollinate not with bees carrying pollen from one to the other, but by something shake in the bloom and the pollen falls within the bloom and it pollinates itself. And so that's why, uh, you know, honey bees buzzing them and things that buzzing does it in

a greenhouse. They'll have them on wires and they used to use like a little electric toothbrush and just go and touch the clusters and just vibrate those clusters and it would it would pollinate them, or hitting the wires and shaking them. Wind usually does it outside, but who knows, maybe weather conditions. I don't know what all could have been involved, but something along the lines of that. Those older varieties like Better Boy too, sometimes when you overdo

the nitrogen on them, they don't set as well on the blooms. So we're sort of throwing a bunch of things out there. There are possibilities to think about. But yeah, that that's what I would say. Something in there is what's going on? If not more than one thing. Yeah, I'm afraid I may have put out a little bit too much triple thirteen. But oh well, okayleve and learn, all right. Well, thank you Sirkay, you bet that's part of part of the garden. You know,

one year tomatoes thrive the next year. What the heck is going on? But that's that is in the garden. Thank you, Thank you, Brian, appreciate the call very much. Moss nursery is done in Richmond. It's on it's in Richmond, it's in Seabrook. My head's still in Richmond right now, Seabrook, Texas out on Toddville Road. You've not seen a nursery like Moss Nursery. You haven't. I don't care where you've been. It is so unique. First of all, it's been a family operated nursery.

It's seventy year old nursery. Can you imagine that eight acres to wander through. It's tree filled and every time you turn a corner, it's like you're walking through the jungle. You know, there'd be some ethnic wood carved mask or some stone figure. You know, it's like you've walked into an inca pyramid kind of setting or what. It's just always interesting there. And plants, Oh my goodness, they are so loaded with plants, beautiful tropical plants,

gorgeous hanging baskets. If you're looking for everything from vegetables to flowers to trees, to show up their houseplant greenhouse is outstanding. Worth the price admission right there, just to go in and see that place. And there is no price of admission, by the way, intelligent helpful, friendly staff. You go in there and it's just you're talking to gardeners like yourself, people that they've got their hands in the dirt and they know what they're talking about.

Moss Nursery, cactus and succulents. It's outstanding. In fact, I just named the plant and they've got it at Moss and it looks good and they got a good deal on it too. Moss Nursery down in Seabrook on Toddville Road. You need to go by there and check it out. If you haven't, it's well worth a trip down you. It's a place like none other. That's just the best way I can describe it. I want to go now out to Logan in Katie, Texas. Hey Logan, Hey, how's it going. I'm well, sir. How can we help?

I'm looking to get air rates now. I know everybody does core aeration. I saw a new thing on TikTok liquid aeration. Have you heard anything about it? Does it work? I've heard about it. It can help, but it's not like cororation help liquideration. There are places that they use a surfactant so that instead of water sort of getting caught up and not soaking in really well. They say surfactants make water wetter, it likes it soaks in better, and that can help. In some types of clay soil, it

can help a little bit. There's also sometimes there's some groups that will put a slurry of a humus type material out there and they will inject that down into the soil to create space and to add that humus to the soil, which helps over time. But I haven't seen the specific ad that you're seeing, but i'd have to see exactly what their claim is as to whether I believe it or not. Okay, And do you think it is too late in the season to air rate or oh no, it's never too late.

No, you can air rate as often as you want, whenever you want. Uh. But typically because true cor oration, it's an expensive process because you're bringing out heavy equipment, quality quality mix. If it's a company that knows what they're doing, and they're they're running that equipment out and they're you

know, putting all the top dressings on it and stuff. But it actually physically creates the whole down into the soil and adds the compost on top, and you get oxygen and you get root growth, and it basically is doing what nature does by getting or gang matter down to the soil. But you're cheating, you're doing it real fast. Yes, all right, all right, well thank you, all right, thank you very much. Appreciate that.

You bet you take care. All right, We're gonna have to run to a break for the news here seven one three two one two ktrh. When we come back, Brett and Logan, you'll be the first two up. And hey, where did we go? Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden Line. That's a good summer song, Morrison. You need to You need to enjoy yourself in the summertime out in the gardens. You need to have some good music going on. Remember you can listen to the Garden

Line on your phone by using I Heartmedia. You out there getting work done. While we're talking about getting work done here on the Garden Line. You hear me brag about Southwest fertilizer all the time because Southwest fertilizer carries everything you need. If they don't have it, you don't need it. It's as simple as that. If I talk about a fertilizer, it's a Southwest fertilizer.

If I talk about a soul product. If I talk about controlling weeds or pests, or diseases or insects, they have it all the tools. They have everything you need to make your garden a more beautiful and more bountiful place. They've got it to Southwest Fertilizer. They're on the corner of bess Nutt and Renwick in south West Houston. You can go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. When you go in there, talk to Bob, talk to Aaron, any of the staff that's there, and ask him about the

kneeling bench that they have. That's one of my favorite new tools that I've gotten in the last few years is a kneeling bench. It folds up so you can carry it around easy, put it away easy. You can set it up one way and sit on it. You can flip it over the other way and kneel on it. But those legs that you were sitting on now become handles so you can get up and down. I don't know, but if you're north of forty years old, that is a really cool thing

to have when you're up and down a bunch. They've got it. A Southwest fertilize. They also have Nitrofis Superturf for example, that is a silver bag Superturf. Superturf is the nineteen four ten fertilizer that has four percent eyes

that also helps with good green color. It's a slow release, so when you put it down, it's going to give you several months of release and a gradual feeding that gives even growth, so you're not going through crazy mowing season, you know, just trying to keep up with the growing lawn and

you get a good lawn root system, which is important. And by giving a slow release, you spread out the growth and you have a better root system on your lawn by Nitrofoss, one of the many quality products available there from Nitrofoss. We're going to go now to the heights. I had forgotten Nancy. You're out there on waiting, on hold. We're going to come to you first. I think you've waited the longest. Good morning, Come in. I spoke it to yesterday. My question yesterday, and then my

husband wanted me to ask something else. But for yesterday it was about trimming my lore peedlum or Chinese cringe. It's not a tree, it's more like a hedge in the front, and it's getting real wild, and I want to know whether or not I can him off the top of it and guide of it and make it look a little neater. Yeah, you can, you can. You can do the trimming. Sometimes I trim a little further than you really want to trim because it's going to regrow, and that allows

you to shape it. You know, like if you want it exactly X feet high and you cut it off there, well it's going to get higher than that, you know, and so maybe come back a little further and then as it fills back in, you can do some shaping and end up with whatever the desired shape you're going for it is. But yes, that's fine, find it, do that, Okay, great, So it's not who I can do it in the summer. Now, it's not not going

to be a problem. No, it's not a problem. Typically we try to do most of our pruning on plants in the toward the end of winter, but this one, it is not a problem. Just do it, spread it out over time. You know, if you're going to do a lot of pruning, don't do it all at once, but spread it out a little bit over time. Okay, all right, great, thanks so much, thanks to the car. I appreciate, appreciate that a lot ana

Plants and produce up there in Montgomery. That is your go to nursery if you've up, if you're in Montgomery, Conro, even the Lake Conroe area, this is your hometown garden center. And they carry an unbelievable selection of plants. They got knowledgeable staff. They usually keep my schedules there on the counter for you just to pick up there. But I'd suggest you print one up and take it with you because when you get there, you're going to

find every product I talk about. I'm talking about Nature's way, I'm talking about airloom sols, microlife, Nelson's nitroposs for example. Out at Ana Plants and Produce. By the way, their hours are also excellent, number one seven days a week, but the hours nine to five, seven days a week, knowledgeable staff. You just swing by there and it's all waiting for

you there. Take it back home. They have a landscape crew too that'll come out and if you live out at the Lake Conroy area, they can come out and do some really nice work for you if you need some assistance with that. But They carry Nelson's, the Nelson's line, the Turf Star line, Bruce's Brew which gives you a good quick green up but has two different kinds of slow release that gradually add on to the end of that pretty well. They carry the Slow and Easy, which is front forward with the

slow release. In other words, it will give you at least four months of feeding out there a little bit now, but a gradual release over time that will take you all the way up into the fall fertilization. That's two of the excellent products in the turf Star line available from Nelson Plant Food, and you can get a both out there at A and A Plants and Produce in Montgomery. We're going to go now to Spring Branch and talk to Brett. Hello Brett, Hello, good morning. So the big storm I lost

a couple of really big trees and I want to replace them. I was thinking about a red oak, a couple of red oaks. I wanted something that was fairly fast growing and low maintenance. What are your thoughts on that. Red Oaks a pretty fast growing tree. You know the super fast trees we say grow fast, die young, But red oak is one that gives you a really good growth rate. And it is a very nice, long lived tree if you train it right, take care of it, you know,

create a good structure as you're building that. It is an excellent choice. Is your area well drained or does it tend to stay a little soggy wet after rains. No, it's pretty well drying. Okay. You could probably use a Schumart oak or a nut tall oak. Either one would do well in that area. Stumart, Schumard s h U M A r D. If it's a good quality, well, very well drained soil, Schumart

will do well. Nutall will do well in that soil. But it'll also do well in a little bit of a clay heavy clay, little on the two wet side sometimes and you teach and you t t A L L. I believe I'm trying to spell it. Okay, where would I where's a good place to buy trees? I've not bought a tree. Well, I would try Vertin tree Farm. They're not too far from you. There there's a verdant tree farm. There's one out west Barker Cypress. There's one in

the Heights where eleventh Street comes into it. Ten and not eleventh Yale. I'm sorry, Yale comes into it ten north southeast. Would you recommend those trees over the red oaks? Those are both red oaks, those are both types of h wow. Yeah, I was just continuing what you were asking about. Yeah, and Na, let me give you. Let me give you a website for Verdant. It's Verdant Treefarm dot com Verdant v E R

D A N T as in green treefarm dot com. When you go there, Brett, you're gonna be able to look up those trees and read about each one. They've got a listing of palms and a listing of trees, and I would start online by doing a little online learning and shopping, then go in and sit down with them and show them the area and describe what you're looking for. Sounds good, Okay, Well, thank you for your help. I really appreciate it. Yeah, you bet, Brett. Good

luck with that good quality trees. After that storm, I'll tell you we we lost a lot of trees in the Greater Houston area and it's a good time to start preparing to get one out. You know. Verdon nice thing about them is they offer that what we call true turnkey service. You go out there, you pick that the actual tree you want. You walk through all these red oaks and say I want that one, and they tag it and they bring it and they install it for you, and you get a

one year warranty when they do the installation. And you need to have them do that because they have some big trees that you know, unless you have a lot of very very good equipment. They've got trees up to seven hundred gallons in size, which is crazy. That's nice, but Verdin's always a good place to get that kind of thing. By the way, I mentioned the one in Barker Cypress and on at Yale in the Heights area. I tend they also have one done in Perilant on Broadway Street for those of you

listening that are down in that area. Well, I'm just sitting there looking at the clock, going, I don't know, it seems to be running too fast today. Because here we are, here, we are another break. We will be back. I wanted to talk about a couple of things. One thing you need to put on your calendar for tonight. The Exchange Club of Sugarland is presenting a Night to Remember honoring our fallen heroes. And this is going to be quite an event. They're gonna have Grammy Award wringing

singers, a brass band, a thirty member chorus, and dancers. It's just a big tribute to folks. It's a good good thing for Memorial Day, right a night to our honor our fallen heroes. It's free, it's open to the public. Bring some canned food and donate them because the East Fort beIN County Human Needs Ministry is going to be collecting canned food as well. That is tonight Sunday, seven five pm at the Sugarland Town Square right

in front of the City Hall facade. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertise on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Guarden Line with Scamp Richter. It's crazy trip. Just watch him as us many good thanks to septs. Not a sign welcome back, Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us. Well, we got another hour to do today before we shut things down until next weekend. Get your gardening advice in. Let us help as best we can, and the kinds

of questions you might have. For example, here's a till how about getting a hold of some sweet Green, which is eleven percent nitrogen organic product from Nitrofox. It is a the molasses based product between molasses with microbe activity working on it. We have a very nice, fresh smelling, wonderfully smelling product that will make your microbes very happy in the soil. They love sugar based products. They need carbon, They need a source of carbon. Microbes don't

make their own carbon. Plants do that. They take carbon out of the air and turn them into plant parts. Well, when it comes to microbes, they need plant parts to feed on. But they also just need good sources of carbon, and sweet green is one of those. Now, sweet Green is being a nit fross product, is widely available. You're going to not have trouble finding it in the Greater Houston area. Nitrofoss products like sweet Green are widely widely available. You're going to find a bit our ace hardware

stores all over the Greater Houston area. That's just one example of the kinds of places where you can find it. But Nitrofoss Sweet Green is a product that is going to dissolve away into the soil again, make the microbes happy, and make the soil happy, and make the turf happy. That's kind of how that all works. Nitrofis sweet, green, good quality product. Hey, have you been out to the Nelson Water Garden and Nursery that is in Katie, Texas. Think of it as your West Houston garden center and

think of it also as a destination garden center. It is inspiring to walk through. Now. We know the Nelsons have been a leader in water gardens nationally for a long long time. When it comes to creating a water feature, whether it's a waterfall or one of those disappearing fountains or the beautiful glazed pottery with the water spilling over the side and returning back through again, they invented that. Well, they've got all that, but their garden center's outstanding

that the plants they have, the selection they have is great. You need to go see it and take your friends with you because, trust me, it's fun to walk through because it is so inspiring out there. Now on Memorial Day weekend, you know, this is a tax free weekend for water saving things, so plants, trees, grasses, malt, soil, composts, underlayment, groundcover materials, those are all tax free this weekend. But

in addition, to that. They're at Nelson Water Garden and Nursery and Katie they're having a twenty percent off all plants sale and a ten percent off all their bagged goods and fertilizers sale. So there's the brown stuff that helps the green stuff to thrive. Katie Fort Benroad. Just go out to Katie. Turn right, turn north on Katie Fort Ben Road. It's a stone's throwaway right up there, and trust me, you will love this place. Nelsonwatergardens

dot Com your West Houston area destination garden center. We're going to have now back to the phones. If this individual being myself can figure out how to click on the right box, there we go. Kathy and Conroe, how can we help today? Yes, I had a big tree years now and it's yet to produce figs. Really, do you know? Do you know

what kind it's supposed to be? No, they were here when I they were here when I moved in. A fig that doesn't produce this fig seem like I read somewhere that that kind of tree was cursed and dug up and shriveled away. But I mean it's growing beautifully, it's gotten huge, but not one single fig. Wow, I'm gonna have to chalk that up. And it's in full sun, I assume, yes, Okay, I'm gonna have to chalk that up. If something's wrong, I don't know what kind

of fig it is. I don't know what's going on. Does it die to the ground ever winner an regro or does it just stay huge and it leaves, it loses its leaves and then it comes back, Kathy, I can't think of a reason for that, but I have a second So then I planted a second fig tree and I and I don't have any figs on that one either. M I'm not have to work. I'm gonna have to

work on that. Here's what I want to do. I'm going to put you on hold, and I want you to get my email from the producer, and I want you to send me some pictures of these figs. I want to see the whole bush, okay, and then I want to see maybe up close, the leaves, the ends of the shoots, the shape of the leaves. Not all fig leaves or shaped the same. And let me look at this and look into it and see if I can identify anything going on on there, and I will get back to you. Via emails.

Was I supposed to use a certain kind of fertilizer? No, no figs or figs grow just abandoned almost they, you know, as long as they have moisture. There used to be a huge fig industry here on the Gulf coast and our black clay soils that then became rice patties. But they they they shouldn't be that hard. I don't know why this thing is in producing, but I'll look into it. But let me hang on. Don't

go away. My producers go to pick up and I have sent him the email my email address, so that he can provide that to you, and let's take it from there. Okay, thank you so very much. I appreciate it. I'm happy to do that, no problem at all. You know, we talk about the importance of brown stuff, of taking care of the soil, and I just can't stress that enough. It's easy to get excited about a tomato plant because you can taste of tomatoes when you're taking the

plan home. You can already imagine that you buy a little rose bush and you can just picture the bush covered with blooms, and we get excited about that. But what about the brown stuff? What about the nutrient and the soil. What about the organic matter in the soil. What about building up a raised bed or putting in a box for a garden for better, better drainage even than that. Ciena Malts down south of Houston. Ciena Malts they are near Roch Sharon, just north of Roach Sharon. On FM five twenty

one, they get you set up on the brown stuff. Now they're closed on Sunday, but they're open Monday through Friday thirty to five and on Saturday from seven thirty to two pm. So any of you down there in these neighborhoods like Brasspin State Park area, sun Creek Estates, quil Valley, Manville, Meridian, First Colony, Pomona or Cola Sweetwater Ciana Plantation, this is

your backyard. Green Brown's tough source. When you go in there, you're going to find native hardwood mulches, double ground mulches, two inch screen materials, beautiful dark chocolate colors, not dyed, beautiful color, not dye. Smells wonderful. They've got it in bulk, They've got stuff in bags, and they carry every fertilizer I talk about on garden Line at cienamulch. It is your brown stuff place. You go there, you bring that home or

have them delivered. They deliver within about twenty miles for a fee. Have them delivered to you. They're on FM five twenty one near Highway twenty or Highway six and two eighty eight cnmultch dot com. When you bring their stuff home and then you put a plant in it, it's like you took the plant to Disneyland. It's gonna be happy and everyone's gonna say you have a green thumb, But what you really got is the secret sauce, the brown stuff in the ground. First, we're gonna head out. Now, let's

see. Well, actually I got to take a break. Keep having breaks today. I gotta pay these bills. Fred and Joyce, you'll be the first two up when we come back. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four And welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. A lot to talk about. Still, Hey, Wahbird's Unlimited. You need to go into a Wabird's Unlimited store. I'm telling you you maybe you've never thought, yeah, I'm not a bird watcher. Okay,

that's fine. I mean if you are, you've probably already been in a wild bird store. But if you're just a backyard gardener, you know, I used to not be the into birds. I just wasn't against that. I just hadn't really thought about it much. I was into gardening and stuff. I just year by year by year get more and more interested. Yeah, the end of the day, I got up early in the morning and I let the dogs outside, and the songs of the birds, I mean,

it was a cacophony. They were announcing the day. They're probably yelling at me to get out there and give them some more feet. Wabirds Unlimited as quality feed, and I love their blends. When you buy Wibirds Unlimited bird seed and you buy a pound of it, you getting a pound of stuff that goes into the bird. That is how it works. They have the complete hullless blends. For example, so sunflowers they put the seed in,

not the whole hole. Now they also have the blends that have the holes in them, but they don't have those little red beebes that the birds kick out because they don't want to eat it. Nesting Super Blend, that's a very important one for the birds. It gives them the nutrients, the compounds, the proteins and things that they need right now. During this season, we got a number of birds that are nesting around our house. Some

little swallows, barn swallows moved in. We always love those things watching their antics. But whether it's hummingbirds or whether any kind of chickadee you are interested in, out there, Wilbirds Unlimited will get you set up feeders houses in incredible books. They have a book called The Joy Bird Feeding by the founder of Wallbirds. It's really good. My favorite feeder they've got is the Eliminator.

It is the Cadillac squirrel proof bird feeder, And I mean squirrel proof and squirrels are smart, but that is my favorite feeder that's out there. Go check it out. Just say I want to see the skip talks about the Cadillac out here. I want to see it. Well, that's it and the parts. It's a lifetime feeder, it really is. I mean it can be anything that ever needs to be replaced and stuff. They can get that done on it. It's a good feeder. Wabirds Unlimited quality materials

and it is just such a good hobby. You know the birds are out there then they're catching bugs for you in your garden. They're doing that, You're enjoying their songs, you're enjoying their beauty. Why not go buy wild birds? Maybe a bird bath that would be a good one. To add another good thing, a little bit more for the birds in the garden. Let's go to Kingwood. We're going to go talk to Fred. Now.

Hello, Fred, Hi, Skip, thanks for taking my call. And we're having a memorable Memorial Day and we wish that for you and all your listeners. Thank you so much. I have two questions on my Saint Augustine turf. One is is there any advantage I bought a Honda mower a year and a half ago that will go all the way up to four inches. I prefer the look of the lawn at three and a half inches. Is

there any value in going all the way up to four inches? And my lawn guy uses my mower and I can have it set any place I want. Tell me the kind of grass Saint Augustine, But do you know the variety off hand or just Saint Augustine. Saint Augustine, that's okay, that's all right. Most Saint Augustine at four I think it looks a little too

high at four. Now, if it were in a shady area where you're trying to capture as much of that low light as possible, then mowing and higher is better because the grass blades are solar panels, and so when the solar energy is down in the shade, having a bigger solar panel helps a little bit, and so taller heights help with that. But three and a half inches is a pretty good standard height to go. That would be a good heights to keep doing the thing, because I like the look of it

better at three and a half. Yeah, I would think you would, yes, absolutely, yeah. And the second question was I put wheed Nator Nelson's weed Enater on on March first. I've been using only Microlive six two four for the last seven eight nine years, and I plan to continue using that. I put the wheed nat on to help with some of the weed control and it seemed to work. But when do I need to get the Microlife six two four out this month or early next month? Or do I

have time? Uh, you did the weed Nator band, you could do the you could start the sixty four now, you could do that. Now just do some moderate applications. Do it now and doing about oh I don't know, six to eight weeks later, do it again. Just kind of watch your lawn, see how it looks, and return the clippings in the meantime. Well, that's what I'm doing with this mow where I bought I multimo Good. That's good. You're recycling the store bought fertilizer that you put.

You're keeping those nutrients on the property. That's the way to do it. How long should the weed nator last? Can I wait till late June? Or should I just go ahead and get it on now because I'm also going to put the azemite on the same time. What weeds are you dealing with? Well, I had a variety of weeds, and most of them were the wild strawberries, and so that's why I use the Nelson's weed Nator, and it really seemed to take care of those. Okay, Well,

I mean you could. You could apply it again. You just have to get the weeds wet before you put it down, right, Yeah, But I don't want to use it again. I want to use the six two four. Oh okay, Well, I guess I'm not following. I didn't follow your question. But yes, you can use the six two four for your nutrients and stuff and then that would be just fine. Is it a slow release or no. It is an organic so it has to break down

microbial lely to release the nutrients. It's not the ones we generally refer to as slow release or things that are designed forms of nitrogen that just can't release until either microbial activity attacks them or other other things caused that nutrient over time to release. So ok, thank you so much for your health. It's slowish release the slowish okay, slowish okay. And and the lawn is really lush. I have the lawn. Yeah, that's what nature does. Nature

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How are you? I have some question about blue bonnet seeds. I've been growing blue bonnets to my garden for quite a few years and I want to share the seas, so I've taken off my plants with friends, and what's the best way I read online. It says to put them in the freezer overnight and then put them in a dish the next day and put boiling water on them, which is kind of wild. Okay, well, I don't know about the freezer being than you. I don't know about the freezer

being a big help. The boiling water is to soften the hard seed coat. Blue bonnets, by design, have this nice hard seed coat, so they don't all sprout one year and that ends up being a drought year and they all die. They gradually it decomposes away and then what some of the seed sprouts this year, some sprouts next year, and so on. So the hot water boiling water won't kill them because by the time it's soaking in there, the water's already cooling off, but it being hot it makes it

soaking faster and soften that extra se outside seed coat. If you want to speed things up, people do all kinds of different things, from putting them in sulfuric acid, which is crazy for the home end to do that, but to using sandpaper, you know, rubbing them in sandpaper just to kind

of wear some of that coat off. There's a lot of things people can do I think the hot water treatment is a pretty good way to go, just to get it soaking in. But then you need to immediately plant them, get them in the ground, scratched them in and keep them moist so they go ahead and sprout. Okay, Now that's not now, that's that's his fall. Okay, but they should put them into the fall, not

now. Right now. Nature throws the seeds out right now. The blue bonnets that bloomed in spring, they've cast their seed, most all of them have, and so uh that those seeds sit there all year waiting for fall. So yes, you could plant them now. Most people just wait because they're not going to do anything between now and fall. And sometime in late September, go ahead and put the blue bonnet seeds out and then fall takes it from there. Okay, great, because the mind receed. I find

them coming up strange places. Yeah, I guess the animals that are you know, pick up the seeds off and they can fling seed a long way. The blue bonnet pod looks like a little green bean pod, but it turns brown on and the sutures that hold the two halves of the pod together, they are when they break loose, that pod has a spiral twist that it wants to form, and so you know a barber poles spiral that when

that pod breaks, it twists. It's like put your two hands together like a praying hand, and then then break away the backside of your hand, twist them around. That flings the seeds out, and that spiral twist just flings those seeds along pretty far distance. But that's another natural dispersal, dispersal method designed into the pod that makes it work so well. Hence our wonderful state flower everywhere we're fascinating. I just love them, Yeah, I just

love them. Well, you're supposed to. If you if you said you didn't, their authorities would come make you leave the state. They would. They would hold they would escort you to the Red River or someplace and say, good luck. You have to lie navy fast. Thank you so much, sir. Appreciate you, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, I mean, I'm pretty sure if you're born in Texas, when you see bluebonnets, tears streamed down your cheeks, your hand goes over

your heart and you run through the field singing, Texas are Texas? Oh? Do that? Right now. Zare Texas. By the way, that's the state song, not that other one. Yeah, yeah, okay, I'm just saying, hey, Nicky's here, time for a break. I just want to remind you though, real quick. NITROPHI super Turf, the silver bag. That is a quality slow release fertilizer. It's got four percent iron in it. Nineteen four ten. Those are the magic three numbers on

the bag. Put it down now. If you haven't done your summer fertilizing, it's all my schedule. Put it down now. Let it grad your release your southern lawn. It's designed for our southern lawns, and you will see good density, beautiful color, and success in your lawn. We'll be right back. Welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line. Good to be back with you. We've got some garden talking left Dennis today. If

you've got some garden questions, give us a call. It's seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. The Anti grows in Porium is one of those places that you just have to go visit. You just have to see it. I can describe it to you. I can tell you that it's a trip back in time. I can tell you that the antiqu roses are just gorgeous and they have a selection like none other. I can tell you that the roses are

high quality. They grow them in two gallum pots, so you get a very robust, good, strong rose. Uh. They do well. The varieties and cultivars that is that they carry are outstanding. I can tell you that when you go there, you will enjoy strolling through the gardens. That they have display garden that is just like none other. It is wonderful. It's just an enchanted place. I can tell you this too, that on June fifteenth, they're going to be having the Father's Day event in the gardens.

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place to be. And until May twenty seventh, that is tomorrow, they're going to be offering seven dollars off select roses such fan favorites as you know Red Cascade that's a wonderful little deep red, small, small flowered rows, just loads up in flowers, quietness, all hope. There's some other good roses that they're offering for that, But the Anti rosen Perim is a kount

of place you really want to go. If you are interested in perhaps going out with a group and an event number one, I would highly recommend that you can go. And it's it's it's a wonderful, wonderful trip out in the country, not that far away from Houston, to just be there a little bit and it just makes a good day. It's always a good day out at the Antiqurosi period. They've been doing this since nineteen eighty three.

A wonderful destination for gardeners and for families and especially to bring the kids, let them be part of it. Here's the phone number ninety seven nine eight three six five y five four eight nine seven nine eight three six five y five for eight we're going to go now to let's see Joe in Plantersville.

Hello Joe, good morning. Hey. Want to have the question. I've got a lot of fruit trees and pekan trees, and mowing around them this time of the year is quite difficult because I is this the wrong time of the year to do some trimming and pruning? And when I do, whenever the right time is do I put any type of sab or antment or covering on the cut? All right? Those are good questions. Are these trees very young or are they already production age? Oh? Their production age?

Okay, So on pecan trees, you don't have much pruning to do right now. Do all your pruning when you get to the end of winter. Do the prunting for the trees, pop out new growth for spring for the peaches. For the peaches and fruit trees, any suckers which are upright shoots coming off the base of the trunk, or any water sprouts which are upright shoots coming off the spread out scaffolded branches, prune those anytime you have them.

So prune those now, remove those anything that is shading the inside of your peach tree. Peaches, basically we train them to a big open bowl shape, And so when branches come in and shade that out, those branches are preventing fruit budge from forming down in there, and fruit buds will be forming from midsummer on into early fall. Right through that region is when all the fruit setting occurs, especially late summer early fall for next year's crop.

So if you've got a bunch of shade now, you're not going to get the fruit bud set. So get those pruned out now, don't wait until winter, all right? Do I put anything on the running areas? No, No treatments needed at all for the prine cuts. Just make a good quality cut. Learn how to make a cut, so you know you print at the right spot and make a nice clean cut and it'll it'll be fine to heal without without paint. All sounds good. I thank you for your

information day you bet thanks a lot. I appreciate your call. Azamite is a micro nutrients supplement. I've talked about it before. We've talked a lot about fertilizer today, but azamite is the micro nutrients. It's not the big three numbers on the bag. That's what you put out to promote a lot of growth, especially the nitrogen and whatnot. Asmite is needed in tiny amounts. The micronutrients, the trace minerals are needed in tiny amounts, but they're

essential. So just because you don't need a lot doesn't mean it's not essential. For example, I'll pick one out of the air. Let's say you're talking about manganese or selenium or something. You don't need a lot of that, but if you could take every molecule of it out of the soil of plant could not live. That's called essential, But it's also called trace because it's small amounts. That's asamite. You put down asamite and it goes a

long way. A ten pound bag will cover your whole of a thousand square feet in your vegetable garden. A forty four pound bag will go six to twelve thousand square feet in your lawn. Just don't put it in the hopper with your fertilizer. But when you're done fertilizing, just follow up with azamite, or do it in the middle of the summer when you're not even fertilizing. Just want to put it out do it then. Asmite Texas dot com is where you can get more information. On it, and I would recommend

that you look into that and do that. We're gonna now go to Southwest Houston and talk to John. Hello, John, Hi, Escape, how are you doing today? Good sir? How can we help Loie L? D Well. I'm in Zone G in the Houston area, and I have a maple tree up front, and I notice a fine like a goose, like you know, like a mesh over some of the branches. It's not but does it fine mesh? Yes? What is that an insect? And well, how do I treat it? Yeah, that's a caterpillar that's feeding

on the branches, and it's out on the branches. It's not on the trunk right correct. Okay, that is a caterpillar and it's eating the leaves out there. Now, if you do nothing, the tree is gonna live. Usually early on in the season like this, they are not very bad. They may come back in the fall and be a lot more of them and cover more of the branches and take off more of the leaves. If

it's one thing, you can reach to knock the webs apart. Wasps will get in there and carry caterpillars away, or you can spray it, but you have to be able to get the spray inside the webbing. So if it's a big tree with webs really high and you can't reach them with a long pole or with a strong stream of water to break open the webs, then you just you're not able to treat for it. But if you can reach it, then you can spray those leaves and kill the caterpillars. Okay,

old on, That won't detect the tree, do you Now? It just weakens a little bit, but not much. Trees are able to lose their foliage and bounce back there. They're pretty resilient. Okay, Okay, thank you all right, Good luck, John, thanks for the call. Appreciate your call very very much. You've heard me talk about green Pro before. Green Pro is a company that comes out and they do core aeration for

you. Now what does that mean. That means you push a plug a machine into the ground and pull a plug of soil out and drop it on the surface. That creates this hole. That's important. It gets oxygen into the root zone. It breaks through compacted dense clays that don't drain well.

And then you follow that with a compost top dressing a very finely screened high quality compost and a lot of it washes down into those holes over time and it builds that soil structure and quality over time, so your lawn gets better. You've got a lawn that's struggling, you need to get some vigor in it. You need to get to fill in better, you need to get it to thrive. Water and nutrients are all important, but improving that structure

is also very important, and green Pro does that. Their website is greenpro dot net greenpro dot net. If you give them a call, they'll come out now. They service the northwest quadrant of Houston, so that includes if you live in Spring and Cypres and the woodlands in Conroe and willis Over, West Magnolia, Montgomery, down South I Katie, West Houston, Central Houston, and then up toward North Houston. That's their area Greenpro dot net.

This is a process. They bring out very nice, expensive equipment and some high quality materials and they do the job for you. It's not a cheap thing. It's an investment. But listen, when you're dealing with a lawn that's struggling, it's one of the most important investments that you can make. We're gonna take a little break here. I'll be back the number seven one three two point two kt r H and Charlie will be You'll be first up when we come back. Welcome back to guard Line. Hey, good have

you with us today. We had a little bit of time left. Here is our last segment of the day. Listen. If you're looking to have a picture perfect lawn. I mean I'm talking to talk of the town lawn, right, sweet green can help you achieve just that. You know,

it's one of the highest analysis of an organic plant food. Basically eleven percent nitrogen when it applies, has got that wonderful fragrance because it's made from a molasses base, smells very sweet, and the microbes are going to love the environment that it creates in the root system, providing that carbon that they need in order to thrive. When the soil is good, when microbes are happy,

your lawn's going to thrive. It's going to release those nutrients. They're going to make sure the nutrients get released for the soil, for the plant roots, and when you have that, you end up with a good dense lawn. Nitrophosky sweet green available many many places. You're going to find it done in Kingwood at the Ace Hardware store there. You're going to find it in Shades of Texas on Genoa Red Bluff down South Lake Hardware in Angleton.

You're going to find it at Fisher's Hardware in Clute, excuse me, Lake Hardware also Inclute, and Fisher's Hardware down in Baytown. There we go. That is many, several of the many places you're gonna find Sweet Green Night fash products. Easy to find those things. We're going to now head out. Let's see, we're going to go to Charlie in Friends would Charlie, how are you today? Good morning, skip fine, thank you, hope you're the same. My wife and I had a lot of fun in the

last couple of days going our second fight with the web works. A lot of fun being out there most of the afternoon wondering if you have a good preventive measure we can apply. It's the appropriate time next year so we don't have all this fun. Yeah. Well, you know, the moths come out and you never know exactly when they're going to show up, and they lay their eggs and so you don't know what's going on up there, and then next thing you know, one day you happen to glance up and see

all these webs? Will it if you glance up more often and catch them earlier, you can a little spray over the foliage, and then any of the webworms that are beginning to eat foliage you shut them down right then once the web's form, you got to break open the webs to get the spray in because you got to eat it on the foliage. The caterpillars are eating inside that webbing. So most people, the trees are too big to do

that. They don't have a long pole to break up the webs. They don't have a little spray or device that will shoot a stream that far to break them up, and we're left with just letting nature take its course. They have their natural enemies. The trees bounce back after webworm damage. It doesn't do them any good, but it doesn't kill them, and it's unsightly. So that's kind of the trade off that are hiring somebody to come in and do a spray over the whole tree. Is there anything you can sprail

the trunk? Do they just fly in? Yeah? They fly The true webworms fly in. There's a tent caterpillar that crawls up and down the trunk, and little herds. You'll see those as herds on the trunk. But they're webs tend to be in the crotches of branches where there's a V shape, you know, where a branch comes up and forks into two right in that crotch of the branch there, as they call it. That's where the tent caterpillar webbing occurs. But you're describing something that's more like a fall web

warm most likely. Okay, so there's really no really, no good preventive if you can't reach the limbs with your sprayer. No, no, not really, not really. I mean, I guess I've never heard anybody talking about putting a systemic insecticide in the soil to go way up in the trees. Might be worth looking into that. That's a that is a you know, like killing a bug with a hammer. It's a little bit of overkill.

But uh yeah, that and there's secondary issues with that sometimes, So I wouldn't generally recommend it, But that might be a possibility, but you'd have to do it way ahead of time because it takes time for that stuff to get up there in the trees. Alrighty skip well, thank you very much information and always enjoy hearing you every Saturday. Well, thank you, I appreciate nice nice to talk to you. You take care you by bye bye uh. Nitropous Speaking of bugs, Nitrovios has a product called bug Out

Max. Bug Out Max is an insecticide that it's quite persistent in the soil. You put it down now and it'll carry you through the summer months and in stopping things like chinchbugs which should be showing up here in the next couple of months. If sod webworms decide to rear their uglyhead, well, the Nitroposs Bugout Max will be around for them as well. Fleas and ticks for example, fire ants crawling around on the surface up there. It will get

to those and do a very very good job of it. So bottom line is you put it out, you water it in, and it takes care of things going from there. Within forty eight hours, it's pretty much done the total control of the insect that it's after. But again it sticks around through the season. Nitro Foss bug Out Max available plants and things up in Brenham, Jim's Hardware in Montgomery, Fisher's Hardware in Baytown for example, what's head now up to Andy and spring? Hello? Andy? Yeah, hi

Skip, thanks for taking the call. Yes, sir, I've got St. Augustine grass in my backyard in a corner. There's no sun to fall shade, so it's just dirt. Saint Augustine won't spread out into that area. Can I see that? For like with rye grass or something in the cool season? Yeah, in the cool season you can. You can plant that in late October early November and get it through the cool season. But then when it heats up, the ryet is going to kind of melt out

and turn yellow and shrivel away. It'll just be a temporary fix. You might want to get creative and think about, well, what else could be done with that area? You know. The simplest thing is to put a nice, good thick mulch over the surface and maybe plant a few things that will take the shade. Could be shrubs, it could be like riopy or Aztec grass or one of those kind of things. Or it could be a

groundcover you could plant in that area. So I think it may be a situation of you know, as they say, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. It may be like give up on the grass unless you can find a way to significantly increase the light intensity by doing some print. Well,

I appreciate the tip, Skip, thanks so much. All right, good luck with that, Andy. Yeah, that is a that is a challenge area when we hit that spot where we have a lawn, but it's just not you know, just not quite enough light to keep it going. Really good there, all right, we're gonna go now to Magnolia and we're gonna talk to Manty Monty if I can find the button. There we go. How are you today? Pretty good? How you doing, Skip?

I'm doing well? Thank you? Yeah good. I've got a lot of crepe myrtle pups coming up everywhere, and I can mow over them and mulch them, no problem with that. But now I got them growing in like the crotch of the tree, and I trimmed them out of there about two weeks ago, and now they're already two feet tall. I was wondering if there's something I can paint on there without making the rest of the tree sick or you're talking about stuff coming off the base of the trunk. Yes,

okay, I just dealt with some of those myself. And here's the thing. When a shoot comes out of the bottom of a tree like a crape myrtle, at the base of the shote, you don't see it, but there's a whole bunch of little buds that are hidden in there and their dormant, okay, And when you cut that shoot off, those buds sprout. So where you had one shoot, now you got a bunch of them coming

up. And so, yeah, you're fighting. You're fighting a losing battle if you can go right up against the trunk of the tree itself or the top of the root wherever it's coming out and literally almost like gouget out. I mean, just prune it as close as you can get to that.

I used to know a guy who used a crowbar and a hammer. He'd use that little hook on the end of a crow bar and he'd stick it up there on that thing, and he'd hit it with a hammer and gouge out that section and get all those buds away from the base and then spray it with a product called sucker stopper. Sucker stopper, it's a hopper, it's a hormone. Plants make their own hormones, some cause growth on some effect plants in other ways, but sucker stopper is a particular kind of hormone

that that kind of quiets down that tendency to want to re sprout. And it's not a one to layman forever it's fixed, but a start by getting rid of all the buds by you know, not just prning. If you leave little one in stubs, you're just sentencing yourself to a thousand more suckers and the coming. Okay, yeah, that's what I'm running into. Yeah, there you go. Well that hopefully that will help help for that's what I do with mine, all right, I sure do appreciate it, all

right, take care out there, Magnolia. Hi, all right, thank you, you bet, take care. Wow. Another one in the books there, Hey, don't forget. Tonight the Exchange Club the Sugarland presents a Night to Remember, honoring our fallen heroes. They're going to have quite an event. Grammy Singer, Grammy winning singers, brass band, a thirty member chorus. They are going to be at in sugar Land at the town Square in front of the City Hall facade. It's free, It's tonight, only

seven o five pm a night to remember our fallen heroes. I highly recommend you also take some canned food to donate the East Fort Bend Human Needs Ministry. It's gonna be collecting canned food as well. It just makes it a win win win event. Overall. I want to remind you too, it's coming out a long time from now, but June fifteenth, I'll be at wild Birds Unlimited in bel Air and I'll tell you more about that as we get closer.