How to Pick a Spot For Your Plants

will take it from there. If you if your question relates, let's say your question is something I really would need to see a picture about, like I got this weed, and well, we can't describe weeds on the air very well or accurately, so send me a picture. All you have to do is call Alejandro and get an email to send it, and then following sending me the picture,

give me a call. That is the easiest way, the fastest, and I guess from what you would be very interested in the most accurate way for me to help you with a question that you might have. I can try to imagine what you're describing. But you know, maybe we get it right, maybe we don't, but if I see a picture, we can we can definitely nail it and

get it just exactly right. The folks that you're around Houston are really specialists, you know, when it comes to corroeration, compost, stop dressing, and I render to a lot of people that will send me pictures and the lawn is just not doing well. I mean, it's thin, it's dead in areas. Maybe it's struggling in some areas, and I can see sometimes I can see, you know, where the foot traffic has gone across it, and those paths are compacted, and it's just struggling.

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Katie and talking to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, welcome to Guardline.

be used. Especially if you got a thin turf and you're struggling with weeds, you're trying to keep them out of there, you can do the second one that is not a requirement. Hopefully by then your lawn is looking good and it's filling in and it's not as needed, but in a lot of lawns, that second application carries it on further into the summer because things like grasper and there's some other warm season weeds that may germinate every month on through the summer.

going to go about sixteen weeks, about four months. And if you put down a good rate, a recommended rate, the proper rate for it, it will carry you through. Now, something I often say is, are you if you return your clippings, then you get even an extended release, because when you put on fertilizer and grow grass clippings and then chop those up, put them back down in the lawn,

don't catch them in a bagger. Well that they begin to release their nutrients in our hot, warm, summer moist environment down there in the turf, and by doing that you get additional recycling of those nutrients. So that also carries you on further. Not everybody bags, and so that's another reason why on the schedules in the middle there, I'll put a second application of the slow release to carry on through summer. So those are all optional, and

I realize everybody's in a different situation. But this Night five superturf is an is a very good product designed for our southern turf grass is designed for our soils here and it works. It's the bottom line. You're going to find it in places like plants and things in Brenham. You go out to Baytown, you'll find it at Fisher's Hardware there if you're done in Clute Lake Hardware and Clute on Dixie Drive carries night FoST products as well. I'm going to take a little break here and we

will be back with your calls. If you would like to give me a call, it's seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four or seven one three two one two kt r H Well good Sunday morning. Good to have you guys with us this morning. We are looking forward to answering questions all morning and talking to gardeners. That's what we do here online. We try to help you have a more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process. That is

the important part. Enjoy it, have more fun, right all right? Well all you got to do seven one three two one two ktr h and you will be live here. Don't be afraid to call. I talk to people all the time. By the way, I had a good time yesterday out at the Ace Hardware Store Hardware City Ace on Memorial Drive. We had a lot of folks come through. Good to visit with everybody. Uh and uh. You know, when we're out at those events and we get to visit, a lot of times people will go, yeah, I don't

call in because I don't know. I don't want to call in and be on the air and stuff. And it's come on, man, Look, if you've listened to Gardenline for one show, you know I don't bite. I used to say this all the time. I probably ought to say that more again, but I used to say, there's no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid answers. So the pressure's on me, not you, okay, And that's true.

I mean if you were a brand new rookie gardener, or a rookie at growing some new thing, maybe a garden before, but you never grew catalia orkins before, you know, or whatever you call about, it's okay, that is all right, don't worry about it. We don't treat questions like their stupid questions. We try to help you with them. And so just give me a call because other people will have that question too. There are a lot of people, the vast majority of people listen to Garden Line. I

mean vast majority never call in. They just listen because they like the listening here and do stuff. Well, you're welcome to call in. So anyway, that's my two cents worth on that. One of the things I just really enjoy here on guard Line is our feed store sponsors, and it's because I grew up going to feed stores

and it's just a great memory. You know, you walk into a feed store and you smell the smell of that feed, and to me, that is just a I don't know, that's like Grandma's chocolate, cookies, bacon, bacon in the kitchen as you're a kid growing up or whatever your old factory sent related memories are. But I love feed stores and League City Feed is that kind of feedstore. It has been around for over forty years now, is built in an Okra patch and the third generation of

Thunderbergs are now running the store Wes and Madison. You'll see them there when you go. The number if you only get MC call is two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. They're open Monday through Saturday, nine to six and six o'clock. That way, you can swing by after work and grab some things. Closed on Sundays. But League City Feed is located in League City. It's on Highway three, a few blocks south of Highway ninety six,

so it's really easy to get to. As you head south from Highway ninety six, it'll be on the left down Highway three just a little bit. And all of those communities in the greater League City area, this is your hometown feed store. This is old time service where they carry the bags out for you and they have the stuff you're looking for, premium pet foods and the things to control pests in your garden, diseases in your garden,

to prevent or control weeds in your garden. You hear me talk about nitrophoss and asmide and microlife and heirloom soils and nilson plant all of that. League City Feed. So you want to have a beautiful garden and a bountiful garden, League City Feeds the place to go, tell them, we said him skipped from Garden Line said high when you stop by there, Uh, the East Madison has a I hope, I hope still. I had a little Dalmatian called Roorschak, and I always thought that was the best

name for a dog in the world. I mean, a Dalmation named Roorshak. Remember the Rorshak test where you look at an ink blot and they say what do you see when you see this spot? So you study the dog, I guess, and tell them what do you see? Good name for a Dalmatian? All right? I love dogs. We got a couple of them ourself, and we sure do love those dogs. If you have not been to Plants for all seasons, that's the garden center that's up on Highway two forty nine Tombull Parkway, just north of Luetta.

So it's on Tomball Parkway, but it's just about a block north of Luetta on the right hand side there if you're going north. It's an incredible place. If you're a green thumb, well you probably already know about it. And if you have a brown thumb, or you think you do, then go in there and they will help your thumb turn green because you know what turns the thumb green. I tell you all the time on garden Line, it is information. When you educate your thumb, your thumb

turns green. That's kind of how that works, if you want to talk brown and green thumbs. This is a full service retail garden center. It's been family owned and operated since nineteen seventy three. These folks are true lawn and garden experts. They are. You can take them pictures, you can take them samples of plants and they'll identify them. They'll points you to the right product if that's what's needed. Even just go into an area and go, hey, look

at that patio. I want to put a container on it, and what would be some good plants for a container in this picture to go in this on this patio, and they can do that. They can direct you through it and take the time to walk you through select the plants. They have some great containers there as well. So as they say, get your green on at Plants for All Seasons and they can help you do just that.

Plants for All Seasons dot com is the website. The phone number if you'd like to give them a call to eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven six one six four six. You're listening to Gardenline and I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you have a bountiful and beautiful place and it's not that difficult. You just follow a few simple principles. Think like a plant. How about that? That would be my advice. Think like a plant. So if

you were a plant, what would you want? And that's how you have success with plants. So, for example, you are an azalea or you are a tomato plant. Okay, we're going to interview in azalea. What do you want? Well, I like light, but I don't want to be in the blazing sun all day. That's just too much. Okay, we'll provide that. I like moisture consistently, but I don't want to be in a swamp and I cannot get too dry for too long. That's what I want, all right.

We can provide that. I'm really from forested regions where the soil is rich and organic y and just wonderful soil, and it's acidic, not highph soil. All right, we can provide you that, and you start doing that for the plant, not asalia is going to be as happy as a clam, as they say. I don't know why they say that. Why would a clam be happy? Anyway, that's how you do it. But the tomato plant, same interview. I want to be in the sun. The more sun, the better.

You put me in less than six hours of sun, and you will not get as much production from me. Okay, we'll provide that, and on and on down the line. That's how you have successive plants. What does a plant want? Give them that? And as we were saying about the thumbs, the more you know what a plant wants and the more you provide it, the more people walk on around and go, well, you must have a green thumb. Well I have an informed thumb. Let's head out to the phones.

We're gonna go all the way up to Willis Texas and talk to Ann. Hello, Anne, how are you today? Good?

So it's a judgment call as to whether you want to treat it or not. And I can't see it, so it's hard for me to give that. But that's why I would suggest you go talk to them too, because you can take them a picture right there. I believe I lost I lost my collar there, all right. Well anyway, yeah, Growers Outlet for any of you up there around the lake area around certainly Conroe and Willis and New Waverley and that whole region up there, even

the Woodlands Grows Outlet. You got to go check it out. It's Growers Outlet in Willis, Dot com Growers Outlet and Willis dot Com. It's on Hyset Highway seventy five south of Willis, north of Conrad, Okay. And you can go online to that website Growers Outlet and Willis dot com and you can see they list their availability on the web and they put the prices as well on the web, which is very unusual for a company to do that. But when you go in, you're going to see a

lot of cool things. It's a full service garden center. Well, it looks like we're getting pretty close here to another little break in the action. As someone was asking me about Piercescapes of it in, I just wanted to comment

about them. Piercecapes does anything you need done pretty much around the landscape, whether it's a design from the beginning from the ground up, whether it's some renovations, if the irrigation needs work, if you want lighting, if you need drainage, and you should know it by now after the rain we have Go to their website Puerscapes dot com and see their work and you will be sold on it as I was. Or call them two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. I'm gonna take a break and

we'll be right back. All right, there we go. There used to be a time before, probably almost all of our time listening to this when singing cowboys little things. Some of you may remember that. I remember it just as watching all movies that was in the day where you knew who to shoot at out in the West because they either wore a black or a white hat. If the guy on the other side of the big rock across the canyon had on a black hat and was shooting at you, that man, he was a bad guy.

Oh boy, Hello, Genatry, Hey, welcome back to garden Line. And we do play a mix of music here. I know it's a gardening show, but I like to have some fun. I enjoy music. I enjoy a variety of things. We got, we got radio shows you can listen to that just play all the modern music all the time. But hey, let's mix it up a little bit. That's what we're doing, speaking and mixing it up a little bit. How about mixing it up with one of your calls seven one three two on two K t r H.

What do you want to talk about? Real happy, We're happy to visit about all kinds of things related to plants. Uh, microlife fertilizers. You hear me talk about them all the time. You see them everywhere you go. I mean feed stores, garden centers, good quality mom and pop garden centers, and certainly Ace hardware stores, a Southwest fertilizer. You get the idea there everywhere. Well, micro Grow Liquid AF is a

product for microlife. And I don't talk about this a lot, but I'm gonna right now and I want you to know about this. It is a product that has eight different beneficial microbes that dominate the soil situation and protect your plants. Did you know you know, people talk about microbes or bacteria, and you think, well with people when they say, well you got bacteria, that's like, oh that's a bad thing, right, that's a disease or whatever. Well,

bacteria can cause plant disease. But there are a lot of bacteria that are out there preventing plant disease. That's why the bad guys don't run wild. We're talking about the bacteria now that wear the white hats, okay, strapped to mices and Trachiderma and Bacillus. There's a lot of good forms of all of those. I was just looking at a product this morning that actually it's a fungicide and it has basically the ingredient is Bacillus subtless and that's one of the things that you find in micro

grow liquid. If there's a pile of research a mile high about the benefits of these bacteria and fighting disease, it's fighting disease naturally the way nature does. How does nature deal with certain diseases. Well, it has other microbes that defeat them or out out compete them on the plant's surface, or have other ways that they prevent problems. Well, that's exactly now microgrow liquid AF. We're not going to

call it a fungicide. What it basically is, though, is it's a pack of eight different quality bacteria that you need to have in your soils, and you need to have active and by doing that you are tilting that you are tilting the playing field, if you will, in favor of the good bacteria that protect your plants. Micro grow liquid AF all right, now, that is a kind of a purplish, violent colored label. I gotta somebody needs to teach me about colors, because I'm not real good

at describing colors. My wife finally taught me what Wedgewood Blue was in Dusty Rose. It took a long time though. Anyway, Violet, I'm gonna call it violet. Micro grow liquid afs by the gallon, it's by the court, and it works. And basically what you're doing is you're taking the bacteria that wear the white hats and putting them in the soil on the plant, so the bacteria that were the black hats going back to gene autry here so that they don't have the upper hand. That makes sense, all right,

I hope it does. I hope it does. It is true though, and boy are we ever learning a lot about how to deal with problems and plants by just taking a minute and looking at what nature does about it and going along with those those systems. It's through microlife. You're listening to garden Line. The phone number is seven one three two one two kt r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. And you were here to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape and be happy to do just that.

If you haven't been out to Kingwood Garden Center and Warren Southern Gardens, they're in Kingwood, and I don't know how you guys in Kingwood managed to get both of these gardens. But that's not fair because you got two of them. They're they're just excellent places to go visit Warrens Southern Gardens on North Park Drive and Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow, and each has its own I'll

say personality if you will. They're they're not cookie cutters of each other, but they're both well worth going to Kingwood Garden Center. The gift shop there, first of all, is just amazing. You ought to go see it. It's really cool for the gardener and even the non gardener on your list. They have a lot of nice things.

You know how it is with people, It's like, what do you get somebody that has everything, Well, you go to Kingwoo Garden Center gift shop and find something they definitely don't have because they got plenty of that there. Warrens has got a lot of good deals going on right now. First of all, the color at Warren's is amazing.

I was out there not too long ago, and it just you just stop and just turn on three hundred and sixty degrees around and everywhere you look there are lush, beautiful plants right now they've got their vinkas for twenty percent off. Vinca also called Madagascar periwinkle. I know that you're kind of going, what's that. Well, that's the name I prefer for Vinca. But anyway, we got other plants

named Vinca too. But it's the flowers typically red and white and pink and kind of a here we go again, maybe kind of a hot pink kind of color that just go through summer like crazy. It's part of their Sinko to Mayo sale. It's twenty percent off the vinkas. You can get them, you know, in gallum pots, four inch pots, hanging baskets. They do so well and it never gets too hot for venka. They are happy colors, beautiful color in the summertime. So go by there and

check them out. And why are you there? Look at all the other wonderful stuff they have, because they do have a lot.

they got products from Nelson Plant Food. In the jars they have the heirloom soils bags there all kinds of airloom soils and airloom Soluce has every kind of product you can imagine for every kind of plant you can imagine, and it's all quality stuff and you can pick it all up there at the same time. And this is important.

If you like to buy Microlife or Nelson Plant Food by the jar, the big screw top lid jars, the clear jars, you can take the empty jars back in there and you can get them filled at either Warren Southern Gardens or Kingwood Garden Center, either one. You can get them filled right there. So I would recommend that you do that. It's very economical not throwing plastic away in the environment, and it's just simple. I think we ought to have more things that we do by just

refilling them instead of buying a new package. I would do it. I don't know, maybe some people wouldn't, but I sure would I think it's a good idea in my landscape. This past week, I've been working on planting, getting a lot of stuff in the ground that I've been trying to get planted for a long time. I did some planting of some ginger type plants. The gingers. I love ginger. I just think it's so tropical, and I like the white butterfly, the hedicium and some of

the other butterflies. I planted two different butterfly gingers near the back porch where I can enjoy the fragrance of them coming out, and that just makes me happy to get those things going. So anyway, and if you're going to do any planting, also did some containers. Potted up a lime tree for a container. When you're doing a container, you want to get a good quality soil that drains well, and an example of that would be jungle Land distributed

by nitrofoss. Jungle Land is basically based on a blended Canadian blonde peat with four different sources of aged organic matter and micro rise of fungi. Microasa fungi connect to the roots of plants and they make those roots more efficient and more effective, and they protect the roots in different ways too, so you can't go wrong using the outdoor jungle land the flour and vegetable planting soil, or using the indoor jungle land, the one called water saving

potting soil. Either way, it's a good way to go. You're going to find nitrofoss products in many places like down in Angleton. You'll go to Lake Hardware in Angleton of Alasco. If you're an Alvin Stanton shopping Center, or North Taylor, or maybe the clear Lake area M and D Clear Lake, the Bay Area Boulevard, all places that carry nitrofos products. Time for me to take a little break here. We'll be back with your questions if you'd like to be first up down now seven one three

two one two KTRH. Hey, welcome back to garden Line, Volks, little Steve Miller band. I don't know if you've ever followed Steve Miller, but I'm telling you that band has lasted through the years. Definitely not a one shot wonder, but the very opposite of it, in a wide variety music as well. You're listening to garden Line and we

are here to help you with your gardening endeavors. If you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four or KTRH if you like dialing by letters, easier to remember that way. If you've got some furniture outside and it's not so good shape, you know, the worse for the wear. As they say that the weather is taking its toll, you need to know about Houston powder coders. If it's metal furniture, it could be wrought iron, cast iron, aluminum, patio furniture,

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see what they can do with it. Really nice stuff. Anyway, I was talking to one of my neighbors who's doing a little bit of fertilized getting ready to do a little bit of fertilizing here for summer, and we're talking about some different products and things, and we're talking about the schedule of the different kinds of product you can put down in the sense of an immediate release or

a slow release or whatever. And we discussed that they had tried the Sweet Green and really liked They just said it, I mean, everything just greened up so pretty, and of course it does. Sweet Green is an organic type fertilizer that has eleven percent nitrogen, which is a high nitrogen content, so you use a little bit less of it. And because you're always putting down about a pound of nitrogen actual nitrogen when you fertilize your lawnch so you get a concentrated fertilizer, you use less, you

get a less concentrated you use more. That's just how that works. And anyway, the Sweet Green dissolves away with the moisture and it releases the compounds that have nitrogen, and a bacteria grab onto it. Bacteria love sugary substances. That's why organic gardeners have used molasses for years. They know the benefits of that. Well, they get a hold of it. They go crazy. They release the nitrogen to

your plants, and the rest is all history. As I say, in other words, your place looks good, and you're going to find Sweet Green and other nitrofoss products all over town. You go down to the Sagemont area, M and D. Beamer on Beamer is going to have it. You go to Mount Bellevue Fisher Hardware on FM thirty one eighty. You head up to Dan Defeed and Tomball on twenty nine to twenty. You're going to find nitro fosh products, including this Sweet Green works really well. I wanted to

visit a little bit about selecting sites for plants. And the reason I bring this up is I've got a yard that is more shade than sun, which when I'm sitting out in the yard, I like that. But so many of the plants I want to grow needs sun. It takes sun to grow fruit, a lot of sun. It doesn't take a lot of sun to grow leaves. Some it needs sun. But fruit, yes, whether it's a peach or a tomato, it takes a lot of sun.

It takes sun to grow flowers, and some things like hibiscus, they really need a lot of sun to do well. Most salvias need quite a bit of sun to do well, and in order for that to happen, you got to have a spot that gets I would like to see six hours of sun, and I've got a lot of spots that don't quite get that. So what do you do well other than cut down a tree, which ain't going to happen. Because we love our trees. Here, we

find the sunniest spot that we can. And so I've got also the option of putting some fruit in that's a little more tolerant of shade. Doesn't want to be in shade, but it can put up with some Blueberries can take a little more shade. They do great. And if you're a blueberry grower, you better put it in full sun if you want to make money on it. But if you're homegrower and you got some bright shade, they'll do better, but better than like a peach tree

or something would in the same spot. Big trees will put up with some bright shade as well, And sometimes you just have to compromise and do the best you can. And that's kind of where we are right now. So I'm planning this back bed that goes all way across the back of my property and some areas. What I did is, and I suggest you consider this. I went out and I took pictures of the bed almost every

hour from the morning through the afternoon. So it took me about four days to do it because I would forget, so I'd have to set a time er, oh tomorrow at nine am, and I take a picture two pm or whatever. And I look at all those pictures, and I see the pattern of the sun, and I can say that spot right there is the sunniest spot in that whole row. And over here that is it almost

never gets sun over there. And you pick your plants accordingly to fit those areas rather than just go out and plant it because you like that spot right there. You got to make the plants happy. Remember the thing about having a green thumb is you just know what a plant wants. And you know this stuff a lot. You know, you know a lot of these things. So I'm me telling you, but that is a very important concept to keep in mind. You make the plants happy,

the plants will make you happy. Okay, all right, I'm I'm a post that our social media here. Let's head out to Clear Lake Texas, and we're going to talk to Sarah. Hello, Sarah, welcome to Guardenline morning.

So either you're going to need to transition the bed to other types of worm seasoned flowers that don't get that, or you buy a type of a vinca called Cora co o r a. It's a series. There's trailing coras, there's upright coras, but the Cora vinca series is resistant to fight top there unless you've developed a a type in your in your beds that even cora gets attacked by. But that that's the way to keep getting growing vincas. To use the cora or so And if it's.

products available in jars. They're clear plastic jars, the big fat wide lid, and there's the color Star line, their most famous line. Been around for a long time. I'll leave over forty years now, sold all over not just Texas, but the whole country. Really, it's an amazing product and it works anything with color that you're going to grow. You're gonna grow with annual flowers or any kind of plant like that, perennials, shrubs and trees and other things.

You can use it on a lot of different things. It's got fast acting effects, so it immediately gives you that, but it also has slow release, so it's going to feed for about three to four months as well. It's not just a one and done. Some organic nutrient sources that really enrich the soil. That's the color Star plus. Then there's the nutri Star line, which is jars for

specific kinds of plants. There's a nutri Star for vegetables, there's one for hibiscus and flowering tropicals for example, and that would be a good one for this season right now. If you enjoy hibiscus, aboon and villias and flowering tropicals, plumerias. There's nutra star for all of those products or all of those plants, and you can find it. It's all

over the place. It's easy to find Nelson by the jar and there are about a dozen places around town where you can take your jars in when you're emptying them and refill them. It's a little more economical and it avoids putting that plastic in the environment. Just makes good sense, which makes sense that Nelson would provide something like that. Let's dad out here to the phones. We are going to go to Bill and Kingwood. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line. Good morning, Good morning.

very difficult disease to manage. So if it were mine, as shocking as this is, I'd pick every leaf off that I see it on, including the leaves on the ground, because it's difficult. It even comes in by seeds. It may have been on the seed that were planted to make this plant, but anyway, then get a copper spray something with copper and get menko zeb Bone eye makes a type of men kazeb and the colination of those two m A n co zeb zs and zebra menkseebb by bon eye, and it's being bon eyed.

you sure you're using good fresh seed. I would plant the peppers in another location in your garden beds. Try to avoid that exact spot because there are any kind of remnants it can be around, and then when we get splashy, rainy weather, it just goes everywhere. So anyway, after you do your spraying, if you see any leaves

with spots, hopefully new leaves will be coming out. You want to spray those, make sure they're they're coated with the spray to protect them, and then pick off any other leaves that you see, and that's going to get the best we can try to get those. I believe jalapenos to a ripe state. Okay, second is what about so.

to get good coverage on it. They eat it, they get sick, they die. That's the safest, lowest talks option for controlling the categoris out there. But that that's a caterpillar. It could be a tomato fruit worm is a likely one, but there are others that could do that.

been around since nineteen fifty five, seventy years. Seventy years that place has been in business, and there's a reason for that. When you go by, you'll know those of you came out to see me. When I was at Southwest Fertilizer, I comments about, you know this place has everything. Well, yes it does, tools and products and fertilized. I mean, everything you need it's there, including good advice. You bring a sample or a photo in and they can help you.

You know, if you'd haul this pepper with bactrail spot on the leaves in, they would have looked at it and they'd have told you what to put on it. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com seven to one three six sixty six one seven four four seven one three six six six one seven four four. I'm gonna take a break. When we come back, Dwayne and Katie and John and Webster be our first two up. All right, welcome back to your guard Line. I'm your host, Skip Rickord. Good

to have you with us. I know we got those people out there that are lurking on the outsides, on the edge. Don't want to call in. That's okay. You're welcome too. Glad you're listening this morning. I hope you're having a good Sunday morning. Feel free to call in if you like. It's like what the water's worms, take your toe in the water. It's good. Come on, let's do this. Let's head out to Katie. First thing here, we're going to go talk to Duane. Hello, Dwayne, and welcome to Guardline.

down there. Actually maybe a fly larva in this case, I can't tell exactly, but that is a extremely minor issue for the tree. That tree produces so much leaf area, and your trees are in such good health, beautiful leaves that I wouldn't worry about it at all. It's you know, it's just a little bit of a cosmetic freckle. That's a mount on those trees, so don't worry about it. But that's what it is. Kind of interesting, a little creature.

And did you notice them late when you looked at the spots, could you see the little larva inside there?

contribution they've made to that industry. For example, in the water gardens, they invented the disappearing fountain, you know, the big beautiful urn ceramic urn where the water's coming over the sides and recirculating. They designed that, and if you want to do one, they can set one up for you, or they can just see the pieces of barts and tell you how to put it together. And go home do it yourself if you want to do that. And that is true of a lot of things there. You know,

the folks know what they're talking about, but don't. I want to get past the water garden just for a minute here and talk about the nursery the garden center. They have a wonderful garden center full of all kinds of flowers. First of all, when you walk in the building, right up front, you will see some of the prettiest little house plants you've ever seen, and really not some common houseplants, but some very uncommon, very uncommon houseplants that

are there in beautiful shape. I mean, you could walk right out of there with a plant and give it as a gift. Drive somewhere and give it as a gift. It's ready to go. It's beautiful. You go out in the back, you see flowers, You see annuals and perennials, you see herbs and vegetables and just all kinds of bedding plants. You got shrubs, you got trees, you got fruit. It just if it oh in watercourse water plants as well. It's a great place to visit. Nelson Water Garden and

Nursery is a destination. You need to take your friends and y'all need to just sit out there and visit and enjoy the south of Water. It'll make you want to do a water feature at your house there on Katie Fort Ben Road, just north of it Katie Freeway out in Katie. Nelson Watergardens dot com. That's the website, Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Let's head down to Webster now and we're going to visit with John. Hello, John, welcome to garden Line morning.

that one. You know, I hate to send you out there to nuke your peppers every other day trying to kill anything that might show up, because a lot of things that show up you don't want to kill. I think I would. I would give them a little time, and I think they'll start setting better. You should have

some pollinator activity around them. If you're not seeing any bees at all coming around, that might be a concern and you can't change that, and you can't go out and recruit bee, but that would be helpful if you had an increase in the pollinator activity. A lot of times I'll see peppers do some aboarding and then they'll start setting on their own. And so I think I'd be patient on this one and not jump to spray in chances are that most of the time it seems

to fix itself. Now, the other thing is the leaf miner, and the leaf miner does such minor damage that it just isn't worth worrying about it really isn't the a little bit of a trail that they make. You know, they start off if you look real carefully, one into the trail is like a little thread, and then it gets bigger as it goes through the leaf. That's because the little critter eating eating that tunnel is getting eating and getting bigger, and so the critter is always at

the big end of the tunnel. They drop out, they go to the soil, pup eate and fly back again. But the amount of solar panel that that insect imaged is so minor. The leaf is still producing a lot of carbohydrates to fuel the plant, and it's just not worth treating for those leaf miners. I've seen some pretty bad cases, but it's rare. Usually it's a little cosmetic and not costing you any pepper production.

some tools and things that are special. They just have an excellent selection. If you want a beautiful yard, if you want a bow, a full landscape and garden. Ace is a place they've got the products. They are loaded up on. All the fertilizers. You hear me talk about all these fertilizers all the time for your lawn. Well, ACE has got them, and a good selection of things

to manage insects and diseases and pests. And they have got a sale going on with barbecue equipment right now and a select types of barbeque pits, select brands and things, and it is time for that. If you unless you just got a new barbecue pit recently, you need to go check out some of the brands at ACE Hardware. I mean at ACE you're going to find things like Big Green Egg. You're going to find trigger grills, the

pellet grills for example. You're gonna find Weber and other brands as well, many other great brands there, and equipment to turn that outdoor living space into something special. You know, you get you a nice little porch or patio or an area underneath the big beautiful spreading tree for shade. We do love our shade around here once we get to May, especially all the way to at October. But Ace will turn that outdoor living area into something special. Now,

there are Ace Hardware stores all over. You can go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com. Ace Hardware Texas dot com. That's the website and you can find Ace Hardware stores. I don't care where you live. If you are over and Humble, we've got a K and m Ace over there. You know. If you're up in Porter, you got Jnr's Ace up there. If you are a Spring Cyprus, there is Spring Ace. And if you are in League City, Kilgore Ace. And if you are on Highway six North,

there's Hamilton Ace. You know, you go to the Katie area, you got Plantation Ace Hardware. Just these are just examples. You've got a lot more what I'm saying, But I'm just saying that there's Ace Hardware's everywhere. And if you go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com you can find your local Ace Hardware store and go check it out. They have wonderful gifts for indoors as well at Ace Hardware. It's always fun to visit. I do enjoy that you're

listening to garden Line. If you got some gardening questions that we could help you with, feel free to give me a call. All you have to do is call seven to one three two one two katrh or if you like numbers, fifty eight seventy four, fifty eight seventy four. I was checking my mosquito buckets. I'm kind of obsessing over these mosquito buckets. I check them all the time to see, you know, if they got larv in them,

they got larv in them. Normally you walk out in your landscape and you see mosquito wrigglers, larva, you know, wiggling around in water, and it's like, I got a problem, gotta pour out that water. And well not when you got a mosquito bucket. Mosquito buckets something you get from Pest to Brothers. Pest Brothers is a complete pest control service that covers the greater Houston area from the Woodlands all the way down to Texas City, you know, from out West and Katie all the way across to Baytown

and they do the whole thing. Tomato, tomatoes, termites, termites. They've got some incredible state of the art products for termites. They pest Brothers. No hast knows how to do things that are effective, that really work, but how to do them in the safest manner and how to get the longest term results without the worries. And they have a new termite system that's like a ten year system and it's just a little trench they dig around the base of the base of the house. Ask them about it.

The pestbros dot com b r O s thepestbros dot com two eight one two o six forty six seventy two eight one two o six forty six seventy Why are you there saying? What is this mosquito bucket that kick skip keeps rambling about. Well, they'll tell you about it, but I'll tell you this. When a mosquito comes to that bucket, not only is that mosquito history, the larvae lays in the buck That's why I'm excited to see lore their history, and that mosquito is going to carry

mosquito controlled things to other spots. You didn't treat you, don't. You have the nuclear yard with a fogger. All these little spots that we got now because of the rain, we had those spots in my yard and my neighbor's yard. By the way, my mosquitos are making sure all those little water spots mosquitos aren't gonna be raised in them as well. Pretty cool system, Pretty cool system. Uh yeah.

I was looking at some of the roses at RCW the other day when I was there, and r CW is just a there's just a one stop shop for roses. I mean, all the rosarians in used to know about it. You know, what's six pages I think of roses that they get in in February and they still have roses. There lots of good roses in that place. When you go to RCW. Now it's heating up and you still plant roses. By the way, it's still good to plant. They've got shrubs and trees and all kinds of things.

But those hot weather flowers, you know, the hibiscus, they have wonderful line. They have perennial hibiscus, and they've got the tropical types that Cajun series that I like so much. We were talking earlier about Madagascar periwinkle also called vinka. They've got that as well, and other things that thrive in the heat. And they got good advice and good products to go with it. RCW Nursery is where Beltway eight and Highway two forty nine Tombo Parkway come together.

I'll be right back, all right. How many of you remember the Archies? So when I was a kid, there was a cereal called super sugar cress, super Sugarcoats, I believe that was what it was called, something like that anyway, And at one time they actually printed into the back of the box a record, a grooved record. Yeah, and you cut out the cardboard record from the back of the box, and this song, triv Sure was the one that they played by the Archies. Isn't that crazy? All right?

Well some of you are going, what's a record player? All right? Brad in Spring, welcome to garden Line. It is good to have you with us.

the best chance. The number one thing those plants that your house bread need to do is get a root system out there. You know, with that they were in that little confined pot, and now we need a root system that takes off and when it does, the top growth will follow and it can happen. And so that I would do that. They need lots of sunlight. So if they're in quite a bit of shade, they're not

going to perform as well. And so the good sunlight, you know, other than cutting down a tree, where they are is where they are, and so I would think those two tips would be good. You might watch them. There's a few little pests that will suck the juice out of lentana leaves. You see these little tiny, little white tan speckles all through the leaf. That's indication that that's happening. You get enough of those, and it takes away some of the plant's ability to capture sunlight and

support good growth. So if you start to see that, you might might need to do a treatment for that.

the bag. You know, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. Those are needed in large amounts. We put them out to make the plant grow and thrive and get big. Azonite is a trace mineral supplement. It is essential that plants have trace minerals, but they only need a little that's why they're called trace. Are also called micro nutrients because they're just needed and micro amounts, but they're essential and so you can do aszmite. They asked me the question, well, when do you do asmite? Well,

anytime of the year. Most people do it when they fertilize, because you're already fertilizing. You got the spreader out there, you just finish your fertilizing, come back, change the setting because asmite is a very small particle and you just need a little bit and then you put out your asmite. But you could put azmite out in January, you can put it out in July. I mean, it doesn't matter when you put it out. It's just easiest to go ahead and do it when you do your fertilizing, and

that that makes it easiest to remember. Now you find more information on it if you want it asmite Texas dot com. And where are you going to find it? Pretty much everywhere, feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest fertile all of these are places that typically will carry asmite. I'm going to head up to Tomball now and we're going to talk to David. Hello, David.

welcome back. Hey. I was talking to somebody a minute ago about Medina recommending, you know, getting a lantana established and fast and getting it growing fast and on its way. Well, Medina has to grow six twelve six plot food. It is one of the many products from Medina that is very very effective. It works, and I use it myself. If I'm in a plant of plant, you want to mix it up, I put mine in the water and can and I just plant the plant and drench it

really good, wet that area. Sometimes I'll set the plant in the whole drench the whole hole, and then fill in soil and drench it again, and then a week later do it and a week later, do it again. So three times a good soaking about a week part week, ten days or so apart, and you get your plants off to a good start. And you're going to find

Medina has to Grow six twelve six all over the place. Now, they have other products from Medina that work very well, and I don't have time talking about all of them that they have, but you can go to Medina agg and you can find out more about these good product. One that I really like is Medina has to Grow for lawns. It's a twelve four to eight formulation. It's got that three to one to two ratio. You hook it up to a garden hose and go over your lawn.

Maybe your lawn has some spots that aren't doing so good and you want to just kind of treat those areas. It's real easy with the end of a garden hose to just water those areas, you know what I'm saying, rather than have a spreader with granular where you're trying to just cover those areas and you can just kind of give them an extra boost with that, or you can do the whole lawn. I mean, it's good for

the whole lawn. But I'm just saying one of the advantage of that hose in with Medina has to grow lawn food six twelve six is that you can do some spot extra treatments if you need to give a little boost to those areas. Let's go out to Richmond, Texas now and we're gonna talk to Alex. Hello Alex, welcome to garden Line.

and so that's a separate thing. But the caterpillars that are worth eating in a lawn or pretty much just the army worm typically the fall one here late season army worm mostly and the sod webworm, which occurs some years and other years you don't see them hardly at all.

T h R I N Thren by fen thrin. Nitrofoss has it by fen thren product that you can put down on your line to granule, and then the spinosaid, typically is going to be something that you spray onto the turf, but the spino said doesn't last forever, and so doing it ahead of time and then having the caterpillars really show up in masks later you would have to do it again.

and take care of them. Lawn is resilient. A little caterpillar damage here and there isn't gonna be a deal. You just don't want them to defoliate the whole thing, and so jump in early on that. But I'm gonna, I would say, eighty five percent chance this is not going to become a problem in your lawn, but it might. Just keep an eye on it. All right, all right, Skip, I appreciate it, sir.

forty nine in Luetta right where they come together. Uh, you're gonna find it d and de feed up in tomball Fisher's Hardware on Southmore down in Pasadena, as well as the one on Broadway and Laport. Many places carry nitrophoss products likes the super turf. Let's see, We're gonna go down to Spring and talk to Fred. Hey, Fred, Welcome to garden line, Good bonning, mourning help.

root tips. And if you go to my schedule for lawn pest disease and weed management, I've got take all listed there in the disease row across the January through December schedule, and it tells you what to use and when to use it. So that would be the first

thought that I yeah. The second possibility would be if something was done in those areas that added a lot of phosphorus or raised the pH like And this isn't likely, but you know, if you had dumped lime or in that area, or if you'd put some extra hyphosphorus fertilizers just thrown it out in those areas, that would do it. And and that is very unlikely that you anyone would do that. So I think the takeoll root rot is

going to be your culprit. But if you go to gardening with Skip dot Com gardening with skip my Scouts on the page download.

see if it improves. I think it will. And then you if you get a little bit of shredded shredded peat moss, not the sphagnum, the you know, big long strings of peat moss, but the shredded up and you put it about an half inch deep over those areas, I think you're going to see green up and that'll carry you into the fall season. When you would apply the product for take all root rot, I think you'll

see a results. And I would like to hear back from you if you do one or both of those, as to how that's looking on your long care of take all. Okay, so on the law, not long care, but long pest disease and weed management. It's the second schedule that's on there, Pest disease and weed management. Go across to October on the disease row. All right, hey,

the music says, I gotta quit talking. Good luck with that, but do send me a picture if you do, either the pete moss or that fertile on micronutrient alrighty, welcome back, Welcome back, on a beautiful Sunday morning. I hope you have some plans this afternoon to go visit a garden center, pick up some of the wonderfulness that's available this time of the year to make your place beautiful and bountiful

and everything you want it to be. There's all kinds of plants out there and all kinds of things for every situation where you're trying to grow to have success. So get out there and have a good time. Okay, that would be nice. Hey, Nature's Way resources visiting with Ian the other day, Ian who now runs the place there. You know John Ferguson a lot of y'all know John. He started Nature's Way many years ago based on the principle of how do we cooperate with nature do things

the way nature does to make plants successful. And if anybody knew that brown stuff comes before green stuff, it was John Ferguson. You take care of the soil and the plants do good. That's what that means. Brown stuff before green stuff. And he created all these things that were born at Nature's weall, you know, rose oil and leaf more compost just examples of things born in Nature's Way. Well intront in the place now and him, him and the whole he and the whole team out there in

Nature's Way continues that tradition and the products. I was out visiting. We looked some products and things. It just as good as it always was. And uh, you know, I've tried a number of Nature's Way products and they just work. Now. Everybody knows about rose oil. Roaset soil is famous.

It's called Fungal Fridays. Ten percent off bags, twenty percent off bulk. You can go pick stuff up at Nature's Way, which is located on Interstate forty five North, just before you get to Conro. Just before you get up to Conro, fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left, that goes off to Magnolia. You turn right and go across the railroad tracks and that's you're going to get to Sherbrook Circle right there across the tracks and you'll see Nature's

Way resources. Now you can do that. You can go to stores where they sell their bags, and you can find them around town. A lot of high quality stuff and available by the bag in town, or you can call them have it delivered for a reasonable fee. You know, it costs money to hold bulk products. I don't care what kind of bulk product you're dealing with. You try to get it delivered somewhere, and there's a signific that an expense for the company trying to get it to you.

It just regulations and all kinds of things, but it's worth it. You buy a book, you get it delivered, and you know If you're going to just do a few bags here and there, that's fine. But if you're going to create a bed for growing things, if you're going to top dress the whole lawn, if you're gonna whatever like that, you need to do the You need to do the bulk route of it. Nature's Way Resources dot Com is a website, and here's the phone number.

Nine three six two seven three twelve hundred nine three six two seven three twelve hundred. My wife and I were sitting outside on the back patio yesterday just watching birds coming to our feeder, and we had some interesting things going on. First of all, we had some beautiful redbirds, male and female redbirds were coming. A few other species of birds were coming to the feeder. And then I looked over in my vegetable garden and I saw a robin. And I have to tell you what this robin was doing.

By the way, I have a apb out on that robin right now. It will be arrested and brought to justice. But anyway, the robin was eating my cherry tomatoes, just picking them off my cherry tomato plants. Well, you know, I get enough of them. I'm not too worried about that, so we sat and kind of chuckled and watched this marauding vandal bird steal my cherry tomatoes. Anyway, it just

reminds me. You know, if you love birds, or if you want to learn more about birds, wild Birds Unlimited is the place to go.

perfect blend for right now. It's called Nesting Super Blend. It's only available at Wildbirds Unlimited. Nesting Superblend has got all kinds of stuff that birds salivate overs. I mean, we're talking about dried mule worms and peanuts and sunflower chips and save flower tree nuts, bark butter bit. It's got that extra protein and it's got the calcium that's needed during this nesting season, and they are nesting right now.

So when you're forming shells to lay eggs, when you're creating a skeletal structure for bird, it takes calcium to do that and the protein that is so important. You can buy Nesting super Blend and loose seed bags. You can buy it in the little compacted seed cylinders that the bird has to peck the seeds out of. You buy it either way, but the main thing is just buy it now. You're going to find Nesting super Blend at any of the six Wildbirds Unlimited stores here in

the Greater Houston area. That includes the Kingwood Store in Kingwood Drive, the clear Lake Store on El Dorado, the Pearland Store on East Broadway, if you are in Cypress area on Barker Cypress, if you are in the south central area of Houston, well there's one on bel Air and there's one on Memorial Drive on the West side as well. That's six six Wildbirds Unlimited stores. Why are you there? Pick up the Wildbirds Unlimited high perch hummingbird feeder.

Yesterday is the first hummingbird I've seen at my feeder, and maybe it's just because I was sitting out at the right time. But I loved that feeder. It really really works makes it easier to see the hummingbirds too. All right, let's do this. We are going to head out to Meadows Place and talk to Jim. Hello Jim, Welcome to garden Line.

doing different? I'm a little disappointed that the plants are doing well. They're producing tomatoes, but the tomatoes are very small. They're not growing very big as I think they should. So am I doing something wrong? Or do I need to change what I'm doing?

look good. The stuff you're putting downs, I'll find. For the tomatoes, I just wait and give a little bit more time. But maybe taking out some more of those little sucker shoots that come out everywhere tomato produces a leaf, it also puts a shoot right there, and that may help a little bit. But those would be the two tips that I would give you.

I'm going to be at Arbrogate next Saturday. This will be the last appearance that I do for the whole spring season next Saturday, so it's like last call, folks, come on out and see me. I will be there on Saturday. I'll give you even the date of it, Saturday, May tenth. I'll be there from twelve to answering your

gardening questions. They got some great giveaways. They're going to have a peach ballini machine right next to me, so you got to come see me to get a bellini unless they're planning on moving at ors up it anyway, that is a fun place to go and they have lots of good stuff. By the way, on May seventeenth, that's the Saturday after this Tropical Dazzlers talk with Angela Chandler.

And Angela is an expert on all kinds of things plants, and she brings a class that just it just goes into all those bold, almost gaudy, beautiful things that we can grow here in summer. There's tropical, you know, allocacious and colocacious, he may say, elephant ears on plants, kalladiums, and dance of soma. The zanthosoma especially pretty too. If you love showy plants that really thrive in the hot, humid climate in the Houstern area, this is your class.

Now you've got a register. You got a register for the class. It's ten dollars per person and only forty people. There's only room for forty, so don't mess around. Give them a call two eight one three five one eighty eight fifty one two eight one three five one eight eight five one for the class two saturdays from this weekend, so May seventeenth, next Saturday, they tenth, I'll be at Arburgate. Come on out and see me. You got to see the stuff that they have. The selection is incredible and

bring people with you on this. If you've got a non gardener friend. They will love the gift shops and they will find a plant that they will become a gardener. When they go to Arburgate, they'll get excited all the different products that are carried, all the different plants that are carried, and you know, here's here's probably the best. I don't know. It's hard to say the best thing

when there's so many good things. But one of the very best things at Arburgate is you show up and people that know what they're talking about greet you, and they take time even to help you shop if you need that, if you want somebody to you know, put together. You say, I need a group of plants to go in a flower bed, and I want I kind of like these colors, and what would be good going into summer? What can I do right now? They'll take in there, show you that it's not like you're on your own.

Remember to park in the back. It's off Trischel Road, goes around behind Arburgate. There's a parking lot back, perfect place to park, lots of space, easy safe access. It's the only way to go. The main thing is right now, oh wait, right on on your calendar. Next Saturday the tenth, the tenth of May, I'll be there at Arburgate for the final appearance that I'll do this whole spring. Come on out to see me. It is a plus plus. Let's just put this way. Everybody who shows up, I'll

buy you a pink a peach Bellini. Not that I'm having to buy them, they're free. Come on out, let's have some fun at Arborgate. That's not hard to do. You are listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. We are here to help you have a successful garden. The way I like to put it is a more bountiful garden, more beautiful landscape, and more fun in the process, because gardening should be fun, and it can be fun when you take care of your plants, when you do

the things that plants want you to do. If you have not been recently to an Ace hardware store, you've not been to an Ace hardware store. This is not your grandfather's hardware store. Yeah, it has all the stuff grandpa's hardware store had, you know, things for lighting and things for electricity, and things for plumbing and all of that like a hardware store. Right, tools, but Ace, oh gosh, the tool lines that they have are amazing and I'm I am a big fan of power tools and I

love those things. And Ace's got an excellent selection of all of the you know, we're talking about top brands, main top brand, but when it comes to your yard and your garden, fertilizers a good selection. If you're organic, if you're synthetic, it doesn't matter. Ace has got products for that, controlling pasts and diseases and weeds, all the things that want to mess up your plans out in

the garden. They got this stuff for that. They got quality tools, garden hoses, you know, I mean the garden sprinklers. And then one of my favorite parts, and I've just gotten to become more of an outdoor living person, is yours go. I think I love to go out on the patio and set and we got a string of those lights. I call them beer garden lights, but they're basically there's little strings of a not so bright lights that glow and create that ambiance. It is so nice

out there when you have that. And right now they got their barbecue pits on a special deal. There's certain certain varieties I sound like a plant person. There are certain brands of barbecue pits that have really good specials on them. And ACE carries all the big brands, the ones you can't live without. They're there at Ace harborre Go to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. That's the website you need to know. Ace Hardware Texas. Don't forget to

put the Texas in there dot com. So, for example, if you're done in Deer Park, we got deer Park Lumber Ace Hardware on Center Street. If you were in Orange, Texas, Hey, shout out to all you folks out there in Orange Child's Building Supply on Sixteenth Street. Maybe you're up in Crosby at Crosby Ace Hardware on FM twenty one. Or how about this Cyprus Ace Hardware on Jones Road. There's another one. I mean, there's a lot of great Ace Hardware stores out there, and you can find yours by

going to ACE Hardware Texas dot com. We're gonna head up to Conroe now and we're going to talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to Garden Line. Do we have a bill? All right? I'n put Bill back on hold and I'll come back to your bill. We'll try to get you back online.

It's going to hold them and it holds them in a way that lets them move, which is important. Movement creates strong trunks. Movement creates good anchorage with those top roots that help anchor that tree in. These trees are gonna develop strong and they're need They're not gonna need the stabilizer forever, but when you need it, I got it, and they last forever. You're gonna find them at RCW

Nurseries at jorgesed and Gardens Don in Alvin. You can go to Siena Multch down the Siena area and find the three sixty tree stabilizers and the heights Buchanans on eleven street carries them and guess what the arborgate where I'm gonna be next Saturday. Come on and get your tree stabilizer three sixty Tree stabilizer out there. This is a great product. It just really it makes it easy. You don't got the wires to trip over. You're not cutting garden hose up into sections, so the wire didn't

cut into the tree. Just get you one, Get you one and you'll like it. All right. We're gonna go back out and try Bill again. Here, Hey Bill, are you there?

of everything. You'll find out what's going on there because there's weekends where you're gonna want to go out and hear somebody talk or whatever, or maybe they got a new kind of plan in which are always getting in. It is enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com entented Forest Richmond, TX dot com right now. They are loaded as als are, with pollinator plants and with plants, you know, to attract butterflies and hummingbirds and things like that. They have a

selection of Salvius. I think it's something like ninety salvius that they carry ninety Salvia variety. I believe it's ninety one. In fact, Salvi's my favorite genus of plants, and they are loaded with them. They're and enchanted forest herb selection, incredible vegetable selections, incredible flowers everything, and big beautiful giant pecan trees. Just the shade. It is so nice to walk around and shop under those kinds of trees. Really

really nice to be able to do that. I am coming up here on a heartbreak for the news, and when we come back we'll come back to your questions if you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two kt RH. In the meantime, don't forget. I'm going to be at arbor Gate Garden Center this next Saturday from twelfth to two, and I hope you can come out and see me. There you go. I just had to let that play a little bit. Nothing like homegrown tomatoes, you know, in the garden tomatoes or

the Queen of the garden. Nobody ever calls me about the Cole Robbie. We get a lot of questions about tomatoes. We're gonna go to one right now. We're gonna head out to Cyprus, Texas and talk to Matt. Matt, welcome to garden Line.

bugs based on their poop. I am not one of those. I know a little bit about it, but not much, but they look at it. Caterpillars have a very unique poop and that it often has ridges in it. And the most delicate way I can put this Sunday morning is you remember those Plato machines where you put plato in and you press the handle down and you could get star You could put a star hole in front of it, or a half moon crescent and it would

make that shape coming out. The back end of a caterpillar has similar mark, similar things, and they can look at that bug poop and they can tell you this is that kind of caterpillar or whatever. And they're used

in like crime scene identification. You know, a body is found in the woods and they find this little bug poop on it and they can look and they go, oh, well, that's this bug, and therefore that bug occurs at this time of the year in New England, and so this is anyway, all right, I'm going too far with it, but you get the idea. Your yours looks a little bit like caterpillar, but it's it's extremely soft. I would look for some other pieces that are a little bit firmer,

like little pellets. More so, to be sure on that one, I think you're dealing with a caterpillar that's feeding on it. It is possible that something else just came by and happened to stop on the leaf above it, or on that leaf, and that's why you have it. But I think that's a sign that you have some caterpillars. I see in the top right corner the.

build the nests under your eaves, that sting us. That is what they primarily eat is caterpillars, and they are flying through your garden all the time. And whoever poop this poop is probably paper wasp food right now if you're not finding a caterpillar on your plant, so I would not worry about it. If you're not seeing significant loss of foliage, I wouldn't think twice about it. Nature has a way of taking care of these things. Okay, yeah, one more question.

release the nutrients get the nutrients. Microes get a hold of it and they turn the nutrients loose from it to feed your plant. The nutrients primarily nitrogen that's in't that is Sweet Green from night. Sweet Green is widely available in the Greater Houston, Aario. You're going to find it at an ACE Hardware on Sincle Ranch as well

as ACE Hardware up there in the Woodlands. You go onto Hiding and Feed on Student or Airline or RCW Nursery on Tambo Parkway, and you are going to find nitro fross products like this, like this quality product Sweet Green. Let's head out now to Magnolia tech Is and talk to Jerry.

a way of keeping them in bounds. If you had a very young pecan tree and you had a severe philoxtra infestation, then I would say, okay, let's get out and start on a regular basis spraying it and try to break this up because it's taking away from the trees bigger on good growing, healthy pecan trees. Some philoxa here and there not worth it. They're not costing you anything on tree growth or production.

bifendren product labeled for use in landscape. But if it's bearing pecans, I wouldn't I wouldn't do anything on it.

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Thanks for listening in on this lovely Sunday morning. I hope you're having a good time looking forward this afternoon. Maybe get out and do a little bit of nursery visiting, if not a few chores about the landscape. You'd like to go that route, you know, the one of the I talk about the every day is a good day for gardening. And I say that because even if it's pouring rain outside like it was recently here, you can

still garden indoors. And what do I mean by that, Well, I mean there's all kinds of ways with garden indoors. You can grow orchids, you can you can start seeds, you can start cuttings for propagating plans. I mean, there's all that is something to do for gardening. Another thing is African violet. I remember when African violets were the things like, eh, but I had African violets, and then it kind of went out where people just weren't as enthusiastic.

But I'm seeing an interest in African violets now and I just noticed must nursery done in Seabrook got a whole bunch of them. In beautiful African violets. And they're easy to grow. Again, like any plant, you give them what they want and they grow. If you've tried to grow one and it didn't work, it's because you didn't give it what it wants. It's not that difficult to do. But swing by moss if you don't have one, and

they again, they're gorgeous. They got all the kinds of the purple and the pink and the reddish and the white and all that. And they're also fun to propagate. It is weird that some plants you can just break a leaf off and that leaf will root. And at the base of the leaf, an African violet leaf is like a spoon. You know, in your spoon, you got the little little metal rod or whatever that's holding it, and then you got the round spoon on the end.

That's like an African violet leaf. And if you put the petiole of the leaf that is the equivalent of the little handle of the spoon down into the ground so that the base of the leaf touches the soil. It will form babies right there. It will. It works, it's fun to do. So if you haven't tried Africa Votives, just go to Moss Nursery and while you're there you're going to find a lot of good stuff. They have so many cool types of pottery, and right now they've

got some of the small landscape fountains on sale. As a matter of fact, these would be jars. They look like a container, but then you go look at them as like there's a little hole in the top and the water circulates around. And it's easy to do. You just take them home, set them up. Not very difficult, not huge, easy to do. But go into the greenhouse when you're there, we're talking about indoor gardening. Of course, Moss has everything for outdoor gardening, but I'm just focusing

on indoors for this moment. They've got some beautiful Epiphylum orkid cactus and these are big. They have flat you would call them leaves, but that technically they're not a leaf, but beautiful hot pink blooms with a whole lot of pedals on them. They're just gorgeous begonias. The house, their house plant greenhouse has got one of the best selection of all kinds of plants for indoors or tropicals for using outdoors that you're going to find anywhere. They're excellent.

While you're there, stop in grab one of Jem's whimsicle shirts. Gem comes up with these these really fascinating designs and things. He has something called the eyeball Plan. If you haven't seen that, go say I need to see Gem's eyeball shirt eyeball plant shirt, and they'll show it to you there at mos nur Shoe. They're located in Seabrook, Texas. Seabrook, Texas uh and the website moss m aas nursery dot com. The phone number eight excuse me two eight one seven

four gosh, let's try that again. Two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. One more time two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. That's must nursery done in Seabrook, Texas. Eight acres of Wonderfulness. Take a friend and allow yourself some time, because there's a lot to see down there. Out west to Tomball is one of our favorite feed stores, D and D Feed and Supply. They're about three miles west of Highway

to forty nine on twenty nine to twenty. You just head out twenty nine to twenty about three miles look to the left, you'll see D and D Feed. D and D has got you covered on what you need for your law and your garden and your landscape. And I'm talking about fertilizer products from nitrofoss and from Microlife and Nelson turf Star and Medina products as well, and azamite as well. Uh, if you want the jars and

Elson plant food, they got that. Two they got soils from Heirloom Soils, and that is a really nice thing to have. Just drive up there, grab them and you're good. Dandy Feed the phone number is two eight one three

five one seventy one forty four. Now, if you're dealing with any kind of pest from rats running around outside, to bugs on your plants, to spider mites, to diseases on your plants, to weeds that you're preventing or weeds that you're killing because they are actively growing in your garden, D and D has a product for everything, and they can tell you how to use them and how to have success with them. Dandy Feed and Supply three miles west of Tombol and two forty nine. You need to

go check that place out. I love that place. I always like going in talking to Jeff and the team, the Dover family there. You know, they've been I guess they've been around since what nineteen eighty nine that they first opened up, and a big expanded store that they have now is really really nice for shopping and of course high quality pet feed too. When you're in there, I was looking over some of the products that Microlife carries and yeah, I don't know how to say it

other than just they have everything you need. That is probably the easiest way that I can put it. If you're looking for granule fertilizers, you know, like they're six to four, they've got it for your lawns, and I use that on everything. I mean, it really is good for everything. If you have acid loving plants, they have got a fertilizer product for acid loving plants, if you you know, like I said, I use the communities and blueberries and whatnot. They're fertilizers are not salt based, so

they're not going to burn your plants. You use a lot of it, that's not going to hurt your plants. Then they have their liquid product line. One of my favorite in the liquid line is the orange label, the excuse me, I can't talk right now, the micro Life orange label. So if you've not used that product before, it's called Biomatrix and it's a seven to one three, so it's an extra boost of nitrogen. So any of your foliage plants, especially or anything you're trying to give

a boost of nitrogen to. This is a good product. And all our house plants basically are foliage plants, almost all of them, so it works really good in the house. On houseplants, they've got their ocean harvest and their super seaweed. Now that our ocean harvest and super seaweed, that's essentially

what we would call fish emulsion and seaweed. You know, organic gardeners have long known you mix fish emulsion and seaweed together, and that's your organic equivalent of like a synthetic the emix and water turns the water blue or green or whatever. It's the equivalent of that kind of thing and it works. It absolutely works. So check them out. You're going to find Microlife products garden centers, feed stores, ace hardware stores Southwest for They're all over town. They're

easy to find and the products work. And I say that because I've used them, you know. I that's one thing that I try to say it here on guard Line, but I think sometimes people just think, oh, well, you know, they're just a sponsor. Now, I don't take sponsors if I don't believe in their product, and if the product doesn't work, if I haven't used it or seen research on it or something like that. So I'm telling you something.

It's the results I've got from it. And I can tell you that about these micro Life products because I have music means I got to quit talking, and this particular music means. We got one hour left in garden Line today for the weekend. One hour left, So if you'd like to give us a call and talk about whatever's on your mind seven one three two one two kt H, we will entertain questions about lawn weeds for crying out loud. We even talked about bug poop this morning.

So I mean, it looks like nothing's inappropriate for garden line. I don't know about that. I'm gonna I'm gonna read that statement. There's a lot that's not going to talk about. We'll be right back already there. We've got some fun music coming up here in this segment. We'll we look forward to that. But this is in the music show. This is a garden line. We talk about gardening. What kind of plant questions do you have? What do you what do you wanna talk about? Maybe we can help

you have success. That certainly is what I would like to happen, along with having some fun in the process, but in order to really enjoy your landscape, you know what, what kinds of tips and things can we provide to help you have that kind of success. Gardening is supposed to be fun, and it is. It is a beautifying thing, Listen. I have often kidded different friends of mine that, including ministers, that I have the one I am in, the one profession that was created a design by God. How about

that for a high follutant statement. Yeah, that's right. Was it the cubicle of Eden or what is it the garden of Eden? You know what I'm saying? That's right. Let's see, I'm gonna make man. I'm gonna make him a gardener. That's it, all right, Well, the rest of you can figure that out, do it at what you want. We're having some fun here on garden line, but I really believe that we are designed to have a green thumb,

to get out and enjoy plants, to enjoy nature. And you know, there's so much psychological research to support the idea of interaction with nature with plants. I've said these things before, but patients in a hospital room that look out their window at a parking lot versus look out their window at nature, the healing rate measurably. In research has been different. Kids in a classroom that struggle with add ADHD and are trying to learn experiences with plants,

plants outside plants in their schooling life. It makes a difference, and they're learning Folks as they get older, struggling with dementia, people that are having trouble moving around. As they aid, there are so many benefits of gardening mentally, physically, psychologically. It really is significant and it matters. And I know, as I like to say, I know I'm biased, but that don't mean I'm wrong. In fact, in this case, I know I'm right because research has proved it out.

I am because any of us who garden, we know the feeling of going out and seeing the ability to create something beautiful in your homescape, to change, to change your lot in life to a place where you look and you enjoy. You eat fresh food that you grew yourself, so you know what has been sprayed on it or not sprayed on it. You've grown it yourself, and there's

a satisfaction there. The way I like to put it is, vegetables out of your garden are about fifteen hundred miles fresher than the ones you're going to buy in most cases. All Right, there's a little speech. Cinamulch south of Houston is the place you go to set things up for success. You start with the soil and you get it right, and then you put a plant in it that wants to grow here or in the spot where you're planting it, and you're set up for success. And Cena Mulch is

the place that is the foundation of success. And here's why I say that. They have mulches. They have composts, they have bed mixes for all kinds of plants, and they have the nutrients they go with them, so when you drive away from Siena, you have the makings of what it takes to create a wonderful place for plants to throw. That would include fertilizers from Microlife and Nielsen their turf Star line, as well as the jars, the plant food jars, Medina products, products from nitrofoss asamite I've

talked about that today and airloomsol products as well. They're all there and you can if you're within twenty miles they'll deliver for a small fee. I just go to Siennamultch dot com Ciena multch dot com. They're open Monday through Friday seven thirty to five, Saturday seven thirty to two, close today, close on Sundays Siennamoltz dot com. And I promise you this. They are the friendliest, most helpful folks that you're gonna find you will enjoy, I'll say, shopping

there at Cienamulch. We're going to head now out to Lakeside Estates and talk to Maureene this morning. Hello Maureen, and welcome to garden Line.

acidic soil. Rose soil is a little bit on the acidic side usually uh and the azalea types of soil, of course, those those are acidic. But it's not like an azalea or a blueberry or something where you just have to have really you know, more acidic conditions for it to thrive.

They A moderate amount is probably what you want. They're going to get pretty tall, so have you might want to have some way of supporting those bloomstalks, and there are different ways people do that, but if it's on the spot, I.

ever now and then we're glad you're here. If you'd like to give me a call, seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kat r Ah, let's talk about the things that interest you. Nelson Plant Food in their turf Star line, which is all their products for lawns, have something called Bruce's Brew. Bruce's Brew is a unique product. I could call it a hybrid, but in some ways that's inaccurate. But here's what it is. It's a fertilizer that is

both a fast release and a slow release. Okay, so there's some forms of nitrogen in it that are going to release right away for a good greenup, and then there's some forms of nitrogen that are going to take two or three months to do their release over time. And so when you put Bruceus Brew down, you're not only taking care of right now with a good boost, but you are taking care of a few months ahead

of you there as well. Bruce's Brew from Nelson's, part of the turf Star line, is available in a lot of places around town. It's easy to find and the stuff works. It is a high quality product designed with forms of nitrogen that not only feed the micro in the soil, but provide that nice even release over time to help you have a good result, a nice, beautiful dnse lawn. And that's what we're really out to achieve, right, I mean, that is our goal as we do that.

If you haven't been out to Enchanted Forest Garden Center, they're down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, specifically on the Katie Fulscher side of the Richmond Rosenberg area. So when you go out to Ingented Gardens Number One, jaw's gonna drop when you step out of the car and see that place. It is an expanse of all kinds of wonderful plants and pottery. I think the last time I was out there was just recently. They had some of their wire basket planters. And when I say basket, I

don't mean a thin basket. I mean a real heavy duty kind of metal wire structure that you line with like a cocoa cocoa core liner and fill it with potting soil and you can plan anything. Then they have some that stand, they're on stands and they're you know, a waist higher. They have some that hang on chains from underneath the trees there. It's an old rustic look that is so attractive. They got plenty of those. And Chris they have a lot of other kinds of containers.

When you go out there, you're going to find everything you need. They carry the fertilizer products, they carry the products for dealing with pests and diseases, and perhaps most importantly of all, they know their stuff. The Liniman family has been in business since what nineteen ninety five, I believe when the Antended Gardens Burst opened.

really beautiful you know. One of the cool kind of hot new plants is the blue butterfly pee. That's one people love. It's got the deep deep indigo blue flowers that when you dry them and steep them in tea, it turns the turns the water of bluish color depending on the pH you if you make it, I can't remember. I believe it's well anyway. One one acidic I think is blue and basic. I think it turns into a pink color. But anyway, it doesn't matter which is which.

It just does it all. And it's a cool plant. It's not one that you find in just ever place. They're a biscus selection, super super hot, all kinds of beautiful biscus, gorgeous cone flowers. I can just sit here and go on and on. Do you like succulents and cacti? You should see the collections that they have. They're really cool, really cool. All right, Well, there you go, uh Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the website. Go check it out.

While you're there, pick up fertilizers from Microlife, Nitroposs and Nelson plant Food, medina, soils from Nature's Way and Heirloom. So, I mean, they got everything you need. When you drive away from there, you got no excuse. You got the plants, you got the supplies to go with them, and you got the advice that you need. Now just go home and do it and you can enjoy and create that kind of miniature Eden right there at your place with

intented gardens and a Richmond. We had a lot of storms last year that really hammered trees, took them down, took out our power. It was horrible, just a lot of devastation. You know, there's a lot that a good tree service can do to protect a tree against a storm, creating a good structure that has the best chance of surviving. I mean, you know, you can't get a hurricane that knocks over anything, right, but there's a lot you can do with proper pruning and care. And Martin spoon Moore,

you know he started. I don't know how long ago Martin's been in the business, but the fan it's ow fifty four years in the tree business. Martin's a third generation, I believe Affordable Tree it's a family business. When you give them a call at seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three, you're probably going to talk to Martin's mom. Tell her you heard of us, heard about us on guardenline, because garden Line customers are their priority.

That's seven one three six ninety nine two six six three. Whether you need just a consultation or whether you want to have pruning done or deep root feeding, pest and disease controlled. If you've got stumps to grind and listen to this. If you're going to do any kind of construction around a tree that includes sidewalks and driveways, anything trenching for utility lines, call them first, have them come

out first and advise you. After the damage is done, they can help, but you've taken a lot of the good options off the table when you wait until after the damage has already been done. And call them ahead of time. Pre construction care with some consultation very very important, and they can do it at Affordable Tree Service. That's seven to one three six two six six three. We're going to head now out to Spring and talk to Ruth. Hello, Ruth, welcome to garden Mine.

that's all the roots are in that little rootball. So if the soil is moist around them, the root ball still can pump out the water and dry out and go into a drop stress because it hasn't you know, it hasn't got roots out around it in the soil. So it could happen from that. Different kinds of stresses can do it, you know. But if you just keep taking care of them, try to keep the soil evenly moist. Because too much water is bad, so idi wet no oxygen in the roots, that's bad, but not enough water

is bad. And so when you water for a while, make sure you're getting water right there in that root ball. Well and the soil around it a little bit too, but but mainly that rootball. Watch for that, and they should work out of it. I think they'll pick up. Unless the stress would were to lead to some sort of a root rod or something, well then they're going to go downhill and you can't stop that. But I think they'll be okay, I think they should.

saving planning soil. It's got crystals in it. They to me, they look like a little clear jello chunks, very tiny, very small, but they whole water much longer than the soil does. So when you forget the water, okay, you don't forget the water. When your neighbor forgets the water, and they their plants will have roots around those crystals and they can get a little bit extra out of that to carry them through until the plant owner remembers

to go back and water. Am in really good anyway, That is jungle land, water saving, potting, soil a. Youre going to find jungle land products or excuse me, nitrovoss products many different places. You go up to Cyprus to m and Dace or down maybe the Ace Hardware Copperfield on FM five twenty nine Langham Creek Ace Hardware, or go down to the Kadi area to both the Pinoak location Kdace Hardware and the Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch on Mason Road. All kinds of places where you're going to

find nitrofos products. Let's head out now to Seabrook and we're gonna talk to Lisa this morning. Hello, Lisa, good morning.

do boxwood. They just have a lot of They just are having more and more problems with a couple of diseases that affect them. You could do a orfeopon that would be an option to put in there. There's some there are some compact hollies that would do well in an area like that as well, if you just want a good green shrub, and of course there are many

other kinds of shrubs. But that you're right in the back door of Moss Nursery, So swing by there and they're going to have eight hundred options for you that they could recommend for an area. I'm assuming it gets it gets good son.

am glad you're around to be part of that. Thanks a lot for listening in. Uh, why don't we just let's see where are we here? Yeah, we're gonna go straight out here to Bay City and talk to Ross this morning. Hello Ross, and welcome to garden Mine.

is a little bitty. But as that trunk gets bigger and bigger, and as the root gets bigger and bigger, the two come together and then that root becomes a strangling item around the trunk. Then the trunk, as it grows out and the root gets bigger, it just chokes it in the root. It's like you put a band of metal around the trunk, and you know at some point it's going to be a problem. And it starts

not doing so good. It lacks, it's bigger, and you even start seeing die back where the shoot ends of shoots, you know, kind of die back. And the only way to check that for sure, to see if I'm right about that, is to go out and get you a strong blast of water and maybe even a little hand trowel and dig around the base of the plant, try to get down about six inches deep and go all

the way around it and look for that. If you find it and it's not too late, meaning it's not so embedded that you can't fix it, you can take a saw. You can take a hamorrhnaches or whatever, just to cut a root and set that trunk free to go to resume expanding outward and growing healthy. If it's too far along, it's probably you're probably not going to be able to save it. But that that's just a matter of taking a look and trying. That's most likely

what's happening. The only other thing would be to give it some nitrogen fertilizer, some lawn type fertilizer and water it in really good and kind of loosen up the soil. Put as big of a mult area around them as you can to keep the competition from grasses and we away. Uh, and also to keep the lawn mower in string trimor away because when they hit the bark they do damage. But that that's what based on what you said, I think that's what we're dealing with.

when it's already a large tree, is gonna snap it off. Okay. So that that's my two cents worth. That's about That's that's all I know to tell you on that check for the girdling roots and then give it fertilizer about one or two cups per inch of trunk diameter, one or two cups per inch of trunk diameter watered and really good. And that's about what's within your power. Ross. Hey, I got a run, but thank you very much. I do appreciate calling, and I wish you well and getting

that getting that work. And let me know if you do find some girdling roots that are embedded in the trunk like an inn a conda strangle in the thing.

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It's all there on the website. Plus you find out when they're having sales or when they're having events like that the big Easter event and everything out there. You get the you kind of get the early start on that kind of information. When you go to Buchanans, you get everything you need for success, including people that are very very well educated, friendly and accurate with the information they give you so you can have success. Buchanans, Native Plants,

Eleventh Street, and the Heights, simple as that. All right, I gotta take little Brek Carolyn Conroe your first up when we come back. All Right, The Wonders or if you watch the movie That Thing You Do by Tom Hanks, the Oneiders. That's a long story. You have to see the movie. By the way, Tom Hanks wrote the music for that movie is that amazing. I mean, it's like you went back to nineteen fifties. The guys. He is

way too talented, way too talented. I was visiting with Luis from Heirloom Soils yesterday out there at the Hardware City on Memorial the Ace Hardware Store, and we were talking about some of the product and these have such a line, such a broad line of products. I mean, what do you need, you know, do you need a potting soa. Do you need something for cactium's, cacti and succulentce Do you need a product that you would put out there as a landscape bed mix. Maybe you're gonna

grow veggies and herbs, maybe you're gonna grow roses. Each thing I'm saying is a different product that they carry, and it's a quality product. Expanded shield, mold, compost, expanded shell with compost, you know, and then mulches, mulches, multius mulches. If you want to take care of the brown stuff, which is what I constantly recommend you do here on Guardenline. You need to know about airloom soils and you need to take advantage of it. Go to the website. It

is awesome heirloomsoils dot com. There's a great calculator there for knowing how much to order. You can buy airloom soil stuff by the bag all over town and beyond down. I mean they extensive selection all over the place. Okay, you can buy it by the bulk. You can go get it at the porter location out there at Orange Rocket, Mulch and Porter, or you can have them deliver it to you and dump it on the driveway, or you can have them deliver it to you in the neat

clean one Qbyard Supersack. That's right. They just pick this big sack up, set it on your driveway. I've done that before myself. It is neat clean and easy. I love that way. Airloom soils great products, great options, great prices, and most of all, they work. And I tell you that because I use them, I know that they work. Let's go out to Conra now we're going to talk to Carol. Hello, Carol, Welcome to guard Line.

different products that have coconut core in them. It's a replacement for peat moss because peat moss is a mine product, and we do know there's not an unlimited supply of peat moss in the world, and so people have been moving away toward a more renewable product like coconut core because your coconuts grow, you got more core, and so it's one that we can use for that. It holds

water well, it drains. Okay, you probably would want to use something with it, like a pearlite or a vermiculite if you were going to make a potting mix from the coconut core, but it's up to you. Yes, it works, but however you want to go about it, it'll be fine. It's already been rinsed and washed, so it doesn't have the salt any kind of a salt content or anything in it, and it ought to be fine for whatever you're growing.

out there in the environment. And so we're kind of hitting a point now where putting it down may carry you on through most of the summer and then with the clipping decomposition, you're pretty good shaped there. I'll bet you can apply it a couple times during the summer. Usually I'll want to put it on sometime in April and then probably come back in a little later in the summer and do it again to carry into a fall. But it works, and you can find it in a

lot of places. You can find it done in Chenny Forest, in Chanet Gardens down to Richmond, Rosenberg area. If you are near Plantation Ace Hardware, same area on FM three point fifty nine, you're going to find night Foss products there, Court Hardware and Stafford on South Maine. Let's see oh Hiding and feed up on Interstate forty five North area on Steuben or Airline another place you're going to get night Foss products like that super turf and it really

does worry. It's easy to find two in the store. Just look for the silver bag Night to Foss Superturf silver bag. All right, let's do this. Let's go now in the Houston area. We're going to talk to Kbob. Hey, Kbob, what's up?

a true olive either. Uh So anyway, those are thoughts. I just watch out for them if it's truly a If you go online and do a Google search or however, you search for a Japanese privet and see if that looks like your plant. The only comment I'd have about it is be careful. Those get kind of invasive.

would lift a sidewalk or driveway. It's that the roots suck up all the moisture and so the ground is very wet after a rain with the rain coming off the roof, it's sopping wet. And then when it doesn't rain for a while, the roots are all through that area and they pump the little dry and that wetting and drying creates shrinking and swelling, and that's what does

the damage to the foundation. So if you've got a tree or shrub anywhere near the house, they're gonna put roots over there because there's a lot of good water that comes off the house. And so it's not just that they're planted near the house that you're going to have a root issue over there. And that would be the thing I would be concerned about, and not the size of the root. Thank you so much, Well, thank

you appreciate your final caller today. So congratulations. I wish we had a door prize, but so we tell it. Thanks a lot, Thanks a lot, Ky Bob, appreciate that. All right, folks, don't forget where am I going to be next Saturday for the final appearance of the Year, Arburgate, Arburgate, Tom Ball, you got to go Arbrogate anyway, I'm going to be there, and I'm told everybody tells me they're

going to have a peach Bellini machine. So I'm going to set it to the side a little bit so I don't get run over by you trampling me down trying to get to the peach Balini maschine. Joking aside, You got to come out Arbrogate looks beautiful right now. They have so many plants, as they always do. Bring your friends, let's make a day out of this. They got great gift shops. I'll tell you this, if you got a friend that's not into plants, you bring them

to Arbigate. We're gonna fix that because when they see the kinds of plants and the options, next thing you know, you've got a plant buddy. They're gonna be taking cuttings from your house. You gonna have to run them off.