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a good time. We were out there with a lot of different folks from different groups and it was I don't know, it's kind of an opportunity is to visit with some of our sponsors were sitting over there across from us. There are next to us. Actually there's a microlife was there and folks from Medina were also there. That was nice to getting to kind of reconnect with some of the folks that are sponsors of our show. Visit with them about their products and things. Had a

lot of people that came by. That was especially nice. Also, Heirloom Soils was out there, got to visit with Louis. So thanks to everybody that came out. But I can tell you this based on the question. It's like malan, malan, malon. That is the big thing that people are interested in. And within that category weeds. Weeds. Weeds are the ones

that I was hearing the most of it. That's because all those school season weeds have now burst into their top growth of the whole their whole cool season period, setting their seeds. They've been blooming and setting seeds and they're flinging them everywhere, and those weeds look huge, and it's like the blue bonnet. You know, bluebonnets sprouted last fall on the roadsides, but you didn't see them. They were there in November and December, January, we didn't see them.

And all of a sudden, as the weather warms up in the days get a little bit longer, here comes a lot of growth and blooms. Of course we enjoy those now, but right after the blooms, they're going to be popping those seed pods. They literally do pop and flinging them everywhere, and then next year we get more blue bonnets. The same thing happens in your lawn with chickweed and clover, and let's see what else carpet weed. Another one that we deal with is cleavers. That's one

that feels like belcrow sticks to you. It's also called the crow weed. So at this point in the season, I would highly recommend you consider just pulling them up by hand as much as you can. Even if they break off. They are annual weeds. They're not going to have time to re sprout and grow and set seeds and all that. Just get them out of there for now,

and be careful to doing it. Have a bucket, put them in there with all those hundreds and hundreds of weed seeds that are on them, because otherwise, even if you sprayed it and killed it, which it's harder to do at this stage, but even if you did, you're gonna be leaving the seeds behind. Those seats are not going to be killed because they've already formed in some cases now those that haven't. Of course, you could prevent that, but anyway, that seems to be a concern of a

lot of people. And I know everybody varies in their tolerance to weeds. So you may be the kind of person that if there's one weed anywhere on your property, it's like a neon sign at midnight. I mean, it just shows up and it bugsy, can't stand it. And then on the other spectrum, there are people that just go moh them, they're green. It all looks green. Just mow the weed, don't worry about it. Okay, Well, you're

probably somewhere in between those two. But that's your yard, as we like to say, I use that term a lot of visiting with family members. Well I think this, but that's your yard, meaning I can't tell you what to do. But you know what I've noticed about family members, they can tell you what to do. Doesn't mean you have to listen, but they can tail with some of your gone. Boy, I hear that. Jungle and is a product that Nitrofos provides all over this area, and it

basically it is simply a very good container mix. So whether you have a houseplant inside, if you do grab their jungle l and water saving potting soil. If you have an outdoor container, you're doing jungle and flour and vegetable potting soil. Make sure your containers have drainage holes so extra water can get out, because jungle land will drain well and it will hold on to some moisture, so you're not watering it twice a day every day.

It's just a good product. You're going to find it places like Bearings Hardware on Bissinet, Bearings Hardware on Westtheimer, Enchanted Forest, Chanted Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area on FM twenty seven fifty nine. Places you can find that jungle in if you're interested in visiting this morning about any question you might have. Now it's a good time to call. It's always quiet first thing Sunday morning

before it picks up a little bit. So seven one three two one two k t RH seven to one three two one two k t r h GI me call. Well, we'll talk about the things like that I was telling you about Enchanted for us. I always like to go out there because it's different every time I go. I mean, it's the same place, the same you know, quality plans, the same layout and whatnot, but the product line is always evolving through the year. You know, you've got your standards.

That would be something like, for example, the trees and shrubs and whatnot that are always there, but the color changes as we go through the seasons, and they're always on top of things. Are right now, there's just lots of beautiful, beautiful summer color, for example, kalladiums. Kalladiums like warm weather, and we're getting to the warm weather. And if you want to brighten up a shady area, kaladiums

are a great way to do it. They are. In fact, here's just a principle of kind of landscaping that you might think about. There's no rules out there, but here's one. When you go into shady areas, it's harder to see dark colors, So something like a purple, a deep purple in a shade area, it's going to kind of just disappear into the darkness. But white jumps out like runway lights.

It just really shows up. So if you're going to go with a pink, lighter pinks show up better than darker reds and pinks, And in dark areas, you can really draw the eye into there with that light colored materials, and kaladiums are a great one. Of course, they got them out there. They've got a lot of I think, Oh, they have an excellent supply of Chinese French tree. And if you've never seen a Chinese fringe, go too Enchanted Forest. There's one bloom and now it looks awesome. I love that.

It's my favorite spring blooming tree. And of course they got a lot of this, They got a lot of everything. The desert roses are in a little succulent called Lithops that I think is really cool. Looks like came from another planet to me. And there are always a place to get plants for your butterfly, attracting both the larval food sources and the adult food sources. By the way, they are on FM twenty seven fifty nine the website

Enchanted Forest, Richmond, t X dot com. Do yourseff a favor to day and run out there and check that place out. I'll be right back. Remember when there were groups of four or five people that sang together and permonized way back, Hey, welcome to Gardener. We're easing the into the music this morning. I know you know, if I were to play something loud and obnoxious might cause you to spill your cup of coffee. We're not going

to do that to you this morning. I was mentioning earlier the fact that everybody has questions about their yard right now, and weeds are the probably the number one topic that I'm hearing overall. I mentioned that the cool season weeds are going to seed, and so you got to get them out of there with the seeds if

you can. I understand if you can, if you've got a whole yard full of weeds and you can't pull them, but just remember, every time you pull a weed up, that's one weed, but you're probably pulling up one hundred seed. And so you know that's the decision to make. There's a way to do it, or harsh somebody to do it. As far as the weeds for summer, they are beginning to sprout as well they have been, and barricade is

a product you put down that stops them from sprouting. Now, Barricade doesn't kill the weeds that you see in your yard right now, the ones that are big and blooming and everything else. It prevents the ones that haven't come up yet. And so that's happening for our summer weeds. So things like cribgrass and grasspur and all the summer weeds we deal with Barricade's a product that we would suggest you put down ahead of those weeds germinating in

order to shut them down. Now, ten pound bags going to cover about five thousand square feet, so it goes a long way. And whether the weeds are broadly for grassy, it's got a very broad spectrum of weed control. So the vast majority of weeds you could possibly have in your yard that are coming from seed, barricade's going to be effective against those weeds. Now, you got to get it down. You gotta water it in. It takes about a half inch of water, maybe a third of it.

It's just enough to get it to the soil surface and moved into the soil. And you're going to find barricade at places like Plantation, Ace Hardware out on FM three fifty nine down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, Court Hardware on South Maine in the Stafford area, and M and D Cypress up there on Luetta. These places carry nitroposs products which are available all over the place, easy, easy to find. Yesterday it was done at Siena Mulch and we had a good time with everybody that came

out there. Thank you for that and your questions gave me a lot of products. The three sixty tree stabilizer is a very popular one. That was for sure, and some other products from different sponsors and things, but people had a good time ave it had to be that did come down and give the secret password brown stuff before green stuff, so that way that guaranteed you a three sixty tree stabilizer when you showed up for that one.

So I'm looking at this week and trying to figure out, you know, what do I want to do out in the garden, because you know, when you're when you're a gardener, or we just enjoyed taking care of your lawn whatever, there's always things you can do. I mean, there's never like nothing to do out there, either replenishing molts or mowing or edging, or getting the flower beds soils prepared for planting, pulling old things out, putting new things in

and by the way, landscapes. Landscapes are not made to be permanent. They just aren't. I mean, it would be nice if they were, but the truth is they evolved and they grew up. I was looking at a picture of the house I grew up in years ago, and the shrubs were over the eaves I mean they had been little, nice shrubs, but now they were just taking over the front of the house. It's trying to pull those out and put new ones in, or cut them

way back and let them come back. But by the time a shrub hits that stage, there's probably a better shrub you could purchase to put in in that spot. So don't be afraid to change out your landscape. In some ways, I guess it's kind of like painting the inside of your house, or changing the curtains, or rearranging or ripple, you know, redoing some furniture. There's always different layouts. Of course, the out in the landscape, it becomes a thing of plants just grow and they just kind of

overgrow their area and things. So choose dwarf plants when you can to keep them more manageable. But don't be afraid to change things out. It could be that you bought them and it just isn't doing well. That's okay, change it out. It could be the use to get tired of it. You don't want to look at that anymore. Maybe you want a new flower bed. Maybe there's two

trees you're tired of mowing in circles. Around and you're going to make a nice oval flowerbed to go around each one, or whatever shape you want it to be. Always be looking at ways to change things out. It keeps it interesting, It makes it more beautiful, and it's okay. Don't feel like when you plant things it just always

has to stay like that. It doesn't. And if you're fighting against shrubs, trying to keep them from encroaching on the sidewalks and all that kind of thing, maybe it's time to consider replacing those and coming up with something kind of different. Just a thought, just something to be considering. Anyway. So I was thinking about my week and I realized we moved into this house a few years ago, and I just haven't done much going forward in the landscape

as much as I've done going backwards. What I mean is there are a lot of plants that were either unsightly, or they were located in an area where I just didn't want them, or they were not performing very well, and so we would pull those out. It doesn't bother me to kill a plant, and so got them out of there and someone relocating that's another thing we do. And then getting the flower beds they're already I've gotten the soil in them, right, I've gotten good and mulching

on them. And you would say, well, why do you mulch when you don't even have plants in because of weeds? You know, you go out there and you clean up a bed and you get it all looking nice, and you walk away and leave that soil bear, and two weeks later the weeds are everwhere, and it's very discouraging. So when you get the soil right, cover it with a good thick layer of malt, and then just pull the mulch back when you want a plant. That's why

I think the way you ought to do it. I'm going to be planning some more orchard trees this week. Get those going. Every time I see it like a fruit tree, maybe it's a satsuma orange or a peach or whatever the free tree is, I think, you know, oh, I would love to grow that. I'm going to plant that. And then you plant it and you sit there looking at this little stick in the ground or however big it is, and it's like, okay, I got to wait

for fruit now. So in order to be able to enjoy fruit, the time to plant that fruit tree is today. In fact, there's an old thing that the best time to plant a tree is forty years ago. That's a landscape tree. The second best time is today. And that goes true with fruit trees, not forty years ago. But the best time to plant a fruit tree is about four years ago, and the second best time is today.

So why don't you get out there. Our garden centers have a lot of beautiful, beautiful fruit trees of all types. Just to remember, fruit needs sunlight. That is the number one thing that goes wrong when I over the years of almost forty years now i'm doing this. The thing I see, the mistake I see made most is lack

of sunlight. If there were a second one, it would be probably a tie just in terms of the amount of times I see the problem, and that is either lack of good drainage or lack of a pollinator variety for fruit that needs a pollinator. Not all does, some do. But you plant one apple tree, for example, they need pollinators. You plant one apple tree and it immediately becomes a member of the lonely Hearts club. It's got to have another variety there for pollination. So something to keep in mind.

Southwest fertilizer, I talk about all the time, because I know of no place anywhere, and I mean that, I mean anywhere around this whole region that has the selection that they do at Southwest Fertilizer. If they don't have it, you don't need it. It's as simple as that. Every fertilizer I talk about on guarden line, every product on my schedules is a Southwest fertilizer, and then some many

many more. So are you looking for things from Azamite, things from Nature's Way resources, heirloom soils, Medina products, microlife, Nilsen's turf Star, nitrofost, just on and on down the line. They're all there. And if you have a very unusual weed that's difficult to control with most products, they're going to have something at Southwest Fertilizer that will will get control of it. Quality products, they have expert advice. Of course,

you get that old fashioned service. They've been around since nineteen fifty five. This is our seventieth anniversary year now Southwest Fertilizer dot com. That's the website seven to one three six sixty six one seven four to four. If you want to give them a call, and if you just want to drive out there, that suggest you do that. I enjoy walking through there and just seeing all the tools and products that they have. Corner of Businet and Renwick.

Corner of Businet and Renwick, Southwest Fertilizer. Of course, in Southwest Houston, people drive a long way to go there too. I you know, it's their selection is so good that someone may come from the other side of town because as they know, when they get there it's going to be a one stop shop. They're going to get what they want. That makes sense to me too. I was talking yesterday with someone about they were looking for a

little rose fertilizer. They had one rose bush and they were looking for a fertilizer for it, and I was saying, well, why don't you just get Nelson's Nutra Star rose food and because it's perfect for that. Now, there are a lot of different products on the market for a lot of different kinds of plants. One thing I like about Nilsen Plant Foods, fertilizer, jars Is, and that's the nutri Star line that I'm talking about, is that there is a Nutra Star for pretty much everything you'd want to grow.

So it may be that you want to grow camellias. I'm excused. Yeah, so you would want an acid loving plant. Maybe you are interested in going plume arias. There's a nutral star plumeria. Maybe it's let's see boogin vellas. There's a neutral star for booga and villas, and then for fruit trees, and then for vegetables, and then on and on down the line. There is a neutrastar product for every plant you want to grow. And sometimes it may be,

you know an acid loving plant. Well maybe it doesn't save a Genia sweet spire, or say you know some particular acid loving plant on the label, but it's for that too. And so when you go in and get a jar of Nelson plant food, the vegetable garden outstanding one. Talked to someone yesterday about their vegetable garden one. Five different sources of nitrogen that evenly release out over a period of time, the azalea and acid loving plants. It doesn't matter which one you get, it's going to be

a quality fertilizer. And there's about a dozen places around town now where you can take that old jar when it's empty back in and refill it. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, Nelson plant food, quality foods. Just use some myself the other day. All right here, Well, I don't quite have enough time to run to a call, but we are going to be. Let's see when I come back. I tell you we'll go to Angela and Katie and Ryan and Cleveland. You'll hang on. You'll be

our first two up when we come back. I want to let you know that next Saturday, April fifth, from twelve thirty to two thirty, I'm going to be at Warren's Southern Gardens out in Kingwood. Warrens Southern Gardens out in Kingwood, and I hope you'll come out and see me. We're going to be doing some giveaways there. And you hear me talk about Warrens all the time. It's our

standing place, and come on out and see me. I want you to look at that place, see the kinds of color and plants and pots and everything that they have. We'll be doing a lot of diagnosis and identification. So maybe your neighbor has a flower and you will know what it is so you can get some well, take a picture of it and bring it to me, or take samples of things in your yard. All those weeds we're worried about. Right now, bring me some samples in a bag. We'll look at those. I would say the

doctor's in, but I don't have my doctorate. I guess I could say I'm not a doctor. I just play one on the radio. I don't know if that works or not, but anyway, i'd be glad to diagnose and help you find solutions to those problems out at Warren's next Saturday, right after lunch. All right, time for me to take a break. We'll come back with your calls in just a moment. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to the guard Line. Good to have you with us. We're going to run out to the phones now and head

to Katie and talk to Angela this morning. Hello Angela, Welcome to garden Line.

with a pest side, even on organic pests. I just don't generally like to do that. But there are some products that work indoors. I used to spray the growth regulators like pre corps, and you could put those and what happens is if the fleas drop off a dog or lay eggs or whatever, and then they try to develop the larva, they never grow up, and so it's not like a poison to kill the flea. It's more of a shuts them down at whatever life stage and

they never go any further. And that works pretty good too, But I talk to your vet on that one. I think that would probably work better. There are some general insecticides that you can put all through the yard that people use and they get down in the thatch and control the fleas that are out there. But I tell you that that stuff you you, the pills you give to the dog, that is the single best thing we've had. That's me.

When I bathed one of them yesterday, the blood from her rear end area that came off from our getting eaten with fleas, I just I'm like, Okay, I gotta do something. I also read fear if I put cear chips in my landscaping ground trees, would that do anything?

got a dog. I don't want anything. You know, it's going to be hurting them and things. But the pest Bros. Is a group that will come out to Katie. They go out that far west and they can they can take care of this for.

like that, Like the termites. They I always always talking about their mosquito bucket system. That's very new very innovative and very low talks, very effective compared to you know, constantly fogging all the time trying to keep them out. You can go to their website. It's the pest bros dot com the pest b r os dot com for all that kind of pest control. And they do cover from Katie all the way across the Bay Town, from up in the Woodlands, all the way down Texas City area.

So pretty much you hear about boys just about there, they're covering your area. We're gonna go now out to Cleveland and talk to Ryan. Hey, Ryan, Hello, sir, how are you well? Thank you good? I have a question.

in now. So if you got a little water pond, if you're thinking about getting a water feature in your landscape, you need go check them out. Nelson water Gardens and Nursery or Nursery and water Gardens actually is the way we say it to eight one three, nine to one forty seven sixty nine two eight one three nine one four seven sixty nine. They got their Easter egg hunt coming up on Saturday, April nineteenth. I know that's way out there, but I think you ought to prepare for that.

Kiddos can come out from nine to ten and enjoy themselves. They have a real nice little thing for the kids out there for the Easter hunt and then the sip and stroll, which is always fun out there Saturday, April twenty fifth from five to seven, so it's a late day. You get out. They have some refreshment there for you. You can walk around, enjoy the sound of water, and just have a good time. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens.

You gotta walk through the store to get into the nursery, and that's a good thing because their house plants are gorgeous. It's some of them beautiful, just gorgeous house plants that they have there, very very nice. And I like that too. Remember we garden inside our house as well. We're gonna head Oh nope, I gotta break dad. Gum it, Matt. We almost made it to you. We're gonna get to you. First thing, when we come right back from a break here, I just want to remind you that next Saturday I

will be at Warren Southern Gardens. That is April fifth, from twelve thirty to two thirty, just after lunch, Warren Southern Gardens in Kingwood. All right, time for a break. I'll be right back. All right, we're back. Welcome back to garden Line. Hey, if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna head out now to Cypress. First thing this segment and talk to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to garden Line.

a little on a pepper. Look for little things that are either kind of a greenish color or yellowish green color, or maybe even darker color than that. If you see that, just blast them off with water, or you can spray them with insecticidal soap. But either way that that generally keeps them in control. Okay, the splotches I need to see. There are a number o the splotches tan or black or do they have yellow rings around them or can you describe it to me? And also the size of the splotches.

is the way things work. So when you take a picture that's in sharp focus and send it to me, I can look at it and then you follow up with a call. I'm not able to answer emails in general, just because there's way too many to be able to. It's all out of whatever do. But I will be happy to send it to me. I'll hold on to them. Then when you call, we can talk about it. But anyway, I want to make a couple of points. Number one, sharp focus. Get If you send me a fuzzy picture,

I will give you a fuzzy answer. You want a good, accurate answer, right. Sharp focus is so important and sometimes our cameras get fooled. You know, you hold a leaf up and you take a picture of it, and it focuses on the landscape behind the leaf you're holding up instead of the leaf you're holding up. So check your pictures, make sure they're in sharp focus, because I don't want to waste your time on having to go out and take another picture and stuff so we can get to

the bottom of it. The other thing is if you will attach them to the email rather than embed them in the email. So the attached ones, I click on the attachment and that picture opens up and I can zoom in, I can move around. It's easy. The embedded ones. If it's a big picture, I can open that email up as big as my whole computer screen, and I'm still scrolling around trying to find, you know, get the big picture, and to go to the trouble of trying

to save it then and open it. I just I'm not able to do that in the time when we're going on the show here. So anyway attach rather than embed. Embedding is just like pasting it into the text. Don't do that. Don't do that. Okay, hopefully that will help. Visiting with Luis from Heirloom Soils yesterday out there at Siena Mulch and we're talking about some of the products and things that they had. They donated a couple of

products is giveaways there. I appreciate them doing that. Someone asked me about their veggie and herb mix, and they were saying, no, well, is this just for vegetables. No, no, it's not. It's a good plant bedding. What I'm gonna trying to say, I guess betting plant or garden bed situation. It's a good mix period, and I've even used it in larger containers. I think it works well for that. But the veggie nerb mix, yes, if you have a flower bed, get some of that. It'll do good. They'll

grow well in that. You know, it's primarily focused on vegetable and herb gardens. But that's a very very sotle mix. So they also have a leaf mol compost available and you can get it. Let's say you were going to do some compost out nursing yourself. It's a little work to do that, but you can. Or you just wanted a high quality compost put in the soil, get their leaf mold compost. Heirloom Soils will sell you the product in several different ways, making it so convenient for you.

So number one, a lot of places you go carry the bags of heirloom soil. So that's one way right there. You can drive out to Porter, Texas where the warrens, rock and mulches, and that's where the heirloom soil products are, and you can pick them up bulk, maybe have them dump it in your pickup or on a trailer, or you can call them and say, hey, deliver me a bulk put on the driveway and we're going to haul it around use it everywhere we need it. Or this

is even better, a one cubic yard super sack. It holds a whole cubic yard of you fill in the blank. It could be leaf mold compost, it could be veggie and herb mix. It could be you know, things like hardwood malt or pine bark malt or I mean they sell a lot of things by the supersack. And now you need three sacks minimum for a delivery because to just bring one sack and go across the timbuck, I just the expense of getting it there is too high.

So one keep guard supersacks available that way as well. And so many different products from them. We could spend probably half a show just going into all the different products, listing the products that they have and talking about them, just a little bit about each one. Anyway, airloomsoils dot Com go to Airloomsoils dot com. They got a good calculator there on the website, makes it easy for you

to know exactly how much that you need. And you can read about each of these products, from their potting soils for containers, to the bed mixes and many many other things that they offer. It's good stuff. They don't they don't sell you junk. When you buy a product from them, it's going to be a quality product. And I know that because I've used them. I've used them myself. That's I love their products that they produce. You're listening

to Guardline. Our phone number is seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kt r H. You can give us a call. We can talk about the things that you are most interested in. As someone was asking me for a product, what was a good natural product that I can use to FOLLI er feed my plants and uh or what is a product that you know I can drench into the soil to feed my plants and things. And we're

we're discussing some of the microlife liquids. There's a lot of good microlife liquid products out there on the market available to you. One of them is Ocean Harvest. Ocean Harvest has a blue label, comes in a quart, comes in a gallon. It's a four to two three fertilizer. It's fish based, uh and that is a high quality organic product because it's not going to burn your plants, and it does have a good nutrient content. And you can drench it on the soil, you can sprayed on

the foliage. It works good both ways. Ocean Harvest blue label. Now you can also get their seaweed product. That's another good one. It's a green label. There's a lot of products from Microlife. You go to Microlifefertilizer dot com find out about them. This is one of the most wide spread brands in the Greater Houston area and way way beyond that too, by the way, and every time I've tried one, and I've tried a lot of them, they work well. I can't believe the first hour is over.

That went fast, all right, Well, we need to kick it into gear for the second hour. We'll be right back for that. Just another reminder if you're up northwest, or actually if you're anywhere and haven't been to Warren Southern Gardens, come on out on next Saturday, that's April fifth, from twelve thirty to two thirty, So grab a sandwich. You can need it there in front of me. If you want, show up at twelve thirty. We're gonna help

you with your plant questions. Have a lot of time to eye to eye, talk and visit, and we'll be doing some fun, cool giveaways as well.

but just just for a second. You don't have a brown thumb. You don't have a brown thumb. People say that some people have a green thumb and therefore everything they do in the garden it just works. And someone has a brown thumb and everything they do they just kill the plant and it doesn't work. You don't have a brown thumb. Now you may have an uninformed thumb. Because people like Granny that could just grow anything in her garden, Well, Granny was just giving plants what they wanted.

That's the bottom line. She was giving plants what they wanted. So when you provide a plant the things that it wants, you have got that green thumb looking garden and you can do that. That's why we're here on garden Line to inform your thumb. So bring your thumb to the radio with you and we will talk to your thumb along with you. And it's as simple as that. Plants like light, plants like drainage. Plants need water, plants need nutrients. It needs to be a plant that wants to grow here.

It needs to be the season for that plant. There are a lot of things like that, but it's not your thumb that's the problem. But if you want to think that way, well, bring your thumb to garden Line. We'll talk to it and we'll get it informed, and you will see results. It's as simple as that. So just a little encouragement there from garden Line to you. All right, folks, if you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two k t RH just

give me a call. We'll talk about the things that are interest to you. If you will see some really cool stuff, some cool plants and things. I always like going by Plants for all seasons. Plants for all seasons is the garden center right there on Tomball Parkway FM two forty nine. If you're heading up toward Tomball exit Luetta, across over Luetta and it's right there, right on two

forty nine, easy, easy to find. Plants for all seasons is the kind of place that is going to have the plants that grow here, that do well here, because listen, the floweries have been around it. That's at that location since nineteen seventy three, are just real close to right there. Nineteen seventy three. That's a long time ago. Do the math. I mean that garden center and that family has been gardening in this area and helping gardeners in this area. So when you go in for advice. You bring them

a picture, you bring them a plant sample. You just go in and say, hey, I want to create a beautiful container on the outside of the patio there, but I don't know how to do it. Well. They'll take you around, they'll help you find select some plants that are appealing to you, tell you how to combine them. They have some great containers. I've got a couple of great containers I got there, and plants for All Seasons that just are outstanding, and so it's as simple as that.

You can go to the website Plants for All Seasons dot com, or you can give them a call two eight one three seven six one six four six. Check out the new indoor store that they have there where they have all kinds of quality tools and seeds and a lot of other fun stuff, including products to help solve problems that you may run across in your landscape. Right there, Plants for All Seasons. I am going to be this coming week. I've got some containers that I

need to finish. We planted a combo container last week with some beautiful cascading those petunias, the supertunias. If you haven't ever had supertunias. You need to check them out. They're popular. They're widely available now. But they have smaller flowers, but more and I mean those things will bloom so much you can't hardly see a leaf. It's just wall to wall color on the plant. I don't know how he gets un light and survived, but they do. They

sure do supertunias. Anyway, our dogs decided that that soil needed to be explored, and so there's a hole in them and I put the well back in. I was gone yesterday down it's the animals got back at the end of the day, looked at the container and there's holes bigger, and so I'm gonna have to have a word with my Golden Retrievers, Ellie and Tax. They are gardening dogs. And I don't know if you know this, but dogs. You go to the AKC American Kennel Club

and you see dogs by groups. You know, there's hunting dogs, there's sporting dogs. You know all the different kinds of groups of dogs that they have. Well, Golden Retrievers are supposed to be a hunting type dog and that they go out and they retrieve, you know, you shoot a duck and they go get the duck and bring it back or whatever. Anyway, that's their name, Golden Retriever. My goldens don't know that they know they're retrievers, but they

think they're plant retrievers. When Ellie was a little puppy, I went out and planted some four inch pots of echination in a back bed, and Ellie was there with me. She hangs out with me all the time. And I went inside drink water, came back out a little bit later, and she's sitting there at the back door with a four inch pot of echination that she had brought back

to me. She had retrieved it. So I need to call AKC and I'm going to suggest that within the dog groups that they have a gardening dog group a Golden Retriever. Now, I also need to find a good pet trainer. And I don't want them to teach them not to dig in my garden. I want to teach them how to dig up weeds and bring weeds back, how to discern between the two. Wouldn't that be good? If that works out, I will have puppies for sale for two thousand dollars apiece before too long, And I'll

let you know here on garden line. I love those dogs, I don't love what they do in my garden, that's for sure. Ellie the Golden Retriever. All right, I have a picture. I need to put this on Facebook. I have a picture. I was out gathering leaves in the final leaf harvest of the year. By the way, I probably know this, but the final leaf harvest of the year is uh, the when the live oaks shed all their leaves and come off and everybody's putting their leaves

out to the curb. They're so nice they do that for me, and I go buy and pick the leaves up, bring them home, use them in my gardens. I have lots of places for leavest me maybe talk about sometimes the different ways you use leaves in a garden. But they're in the car with me, looking out the door,

having a good time. They're excited about me bringing home leaves because while I think those leaves are going to be put in my garden, they think those leaves are going to be scattered to Kingdom come when they play in them. I have a feeling they may be more right than I am about what actually ends up happening to those leaves in the garden. Well, all right, enough about my dogs, but they are I think some of you can probably relate to some of the issues of

having dogs. They're in the garden. Let's take a little break. I'll be back with your calls in just a moment. Seven three two one two, Kat.

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it dissolves away. It goes into the soil, I mean, and immediately in first few days you're getting a whole lot of take up already going on into your grass plants. By the night Foss Imperial now fifteen five to ten is the three one two ratio that was developed at Langra universities across the South by doing turf research and looking at what what does grass take up? You know, let's take grass plants, take ampart and look at what

they take up, and then let's fertilize accordingly. And that that's why we have that three one two ratio today and four one to also by the way, so it's the same formula even though it was created many years ago. It's the same formula and the same old red orange bag and it still works. Of course, that hasn't changed at all. It's a long established, tried and true product

night Foss Imperial. So if you want to give a quick boost to your plans or your lawn and you would like to see a quick green up and results. Do that now if you've used night Foss Imperial, wait about six weeks after that before you start your summer slower release. And I'll talk about some of those products

a little bit later. But night Foss Imperial is available at places like M and D and Cyprus on Luetta Road, the M and D down in Rosenberg on Avenue I Auspawls Ace up in the Woodlands, just three examples of places that carry nitro foss products. I was talking with some of the folks yesterday at c Animals and they were saying, well, I did I did my Imperial about three weeks ago or something I believe it was, and I said, well, give it another three weeks. Let's you

know it's gonna last. I mean, even though it's immediately available, it's not like next week you got to do it again. No, it'll last. And so wait a little bit, but then move into the slow releases. That's important. You're going to find night Fuss and products available at most of your ACE Hardware stores. Really, you know, Ace Hardware Texas carries everything. I mean they do. In fact, if you use that

website Ace Hardware Texas. You'll find the stores that are part of our local Houston group here Ace Hardwaretexas dot com and you'll get the map, find the ones near you, and when you go there, you're going to get the products you're looking for for your lawn and garden. You know, I'm talking about fertilizers and talking about pest and weed and disease control. We're talking about tools for your garden as well. You know, we all need quality tools to

take care of the things. And then there is the other things that are offered to make your outdoor living so wonderful. The barbecue pits and the strings of lights and all the different stuff that you have in your outdoor settings where you just want to go and enjoy the move. Had some family over and yesterday evening we were outside enjoying just that wonderful ambiance and setting of the back patio with family and that sort of makes expands your home into outdoor living areas.

little phone call in and head out to talk to Ricky. Hey, Ricky, welcome to garden Line.

You can put a fertilizer that has a post emergent in it, But with those little leaves in there, I think I don't think your your control effectiveness is going to be as good as it would be if you if you spray liquid on them. Plus now you would also be buying fertilizer for two acres so or high very much you, So, yeah, I would, I would do the spray. Do you have a little tractor with a boom on the back or anything like that.

got out there all over the place. I mean, you walk through the Arborgate, the gift shops are amazing, and yes there's more than one. And of course the plants. When you go to the Arborgate, you're getting the most outstanding options of plants that you're gonna find any place.

It also has calcium too, by the way, it's an organic food. And then a soil and a compost that works on all your applications. The soil and the compost both contain expanded shale, which really is important in our clay soils here in the Greater Houston area. Very very easy, completely organic, completely easy. And they can deliver that soil and compost to you in bulk too, by the way, So I mean if you want you don't want to buy eight hundred bags, you know, talk to them about

the bulk delivery. They can bring it right out to you. And that's through the whole region here. They deliver pretty far with those products as well. Arburgate is on twenty nine to twenty west of Tomball. You'll see it on the left hand side. Look for Treshel Road before or after Arborgate and it's a loop that goes around behind Arburgate and go in that backway so you can use that new parking lot. Very safe, very easy access. It's

gonna go out here now to Cypress and talk to Melanie. Hey, Melanie, welcome to guarden Line.

kill everything before putting fresh soil in. But ninety nine point nine percent of the time you don't need to replace it.

bumping the end here. You need to get it out quick. But and it needs to be wet. How big of a property is that? Can you irrigate it?

really stick to it. And that's not going to get everyone out, but they've got a lot of them out. And the more and the more you fertilize and water, the worse the graspper, I mean, the less grassper problems you have. They like a very drowdy, sandy, poor soil, and as you get to water and the fertilizing and things, they don't thrive in that, like your lawn will thrive in that so just a few tips there. I think you're on the right track though, Melanie.

If you'll bring that back, I will call it even. Hey, thanks for the called, Melodie, I got to run. I could save you five.

silver bag. And the garden centers and the Ace Hardware stores and the you know, feed stores and all the places you go for these things.

Turf's designed to fertilize gradually for you. Now you're going to find superturf at places like the Ace Hardware and Sinkle Ranch and also Katie. Ace Hardware too. By the way, on Penoak, you're going to find it at Ace Hardware CITYO Memorial Drive as well. Lots of places carry Night to Foss products. Let's head out now to Houston and talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, welcome to Guardline.

and that is Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. That's easy to remember. What's the website for Growers Outlet in Willis. Yes, that's kindly who's on first Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. Now, when you go on the website, you're going to see all the plants, say carry, and they list what's in stock, and they list the price of them as well, which is not normally done by garden centers, but they do that.

They've got veggies and bedding plants and perennials and beautiful firm baskets and beautify hanging baskets of things like verbina or petunias and those kinds of things. Of course, they have fruit and they've got a their complete garden center. You can even get your microlife and night Foss and Medina products there as well. Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. Go check it out. Let's go to West Houston. Now we're going to talk to Steve Hey. Steve, welcome to garden Line.

I've go ahead and get it down water. It makes you watered in because it doesn't start working until you water it in.

that particular one. There's several weed beaters out there on the market, and if.

it to moderate soil temperatures and so on. But yeah, any good mult you like the look of is a good mulch to use.

It does. It's a carbon chain, it's a sugar kind of thing, and that by stimulating the microbes, you are going to improve the zone around the roots in that way. In addition to the fact that you're getting eleven percent nitrogen in the product to put down. Now you just watered in, it dissolves, way goes down in the soil and it does its work. Sweet Green from night Foss is available a variety of places, plants for all seasons. On two forty nine, you know, right there add Luetta.

Right at Luetta in two forty nine you go out to RCW Nursery. They carry night to FoST products, DND feed and tomol. There you go, there's another one that carries night Foss products like the Sweet Green, so easy to find in the Greater Houston area. That smells good. I jokingly say, you put it in the back of your car, you're going to want to make another trip

around Loop six ten just because it smells so good. Well, I don't think that there's anything on earth that can make me want to make another trip around or even one trip around Loop six ten, But I guess it's better than driving through the gallery maybe. Anyway, that's that's a fact. Someone was asking me about the top dressing

and they're up. They're kind of up north and west of the Houston in the Houston area, and green Pro is the place that I send people for their green Pro is a expert in providing compost top dressing and also a core aeration of the soil. They know how to do that. They've got the equipment that does it right now. You can run equipment. You can have them dump the lead more compost or whatever in your yards. Have somebody do it. But it's a lot of work. You got to clean up the equipment and get it

back to go get it in the first place. It's a mess, but it's easy when you just call green Pro, they come in, they do the work. They know how to do that. When you do compost top dressing and corroation, you're feeding the soil biology. It really helps our clay soils to do that, to alleviate compaction, to improve the soil's internal drainage, to help it capture more water when it does rain and soak in because it water tends

to run right off the top of a clay. If your lawn is recovering from things like take all or brown patch or gingerbugs or drought or whatever, correation in compost top dressing is good.

it works. They do about a forty five mile area from Magnolia so Spring, Cyprus or Woodlands Conroe, Willis Magnolia over to Montgomery and you know, down down to it ten. So basically it's the Interstate forty five, Interstate ten Northwest quadrant. Greenprotexas dot com, greenpro Texas dot com. If you want to give them a call eight three to two, three five one zero zero three to two. Let's head out now to Clute, Clute, and we're going to talk to Trevor. Hey, Trevor, welcome to regardline.

the drought and all kinds of things. You water pretty frequently initially to help it get established, and then you ought to be able to back off and not water as often. Your goal with that bamboo, though, is to get it as healthy as you can, because I don't know if they told you this, but the first year bamboo basically just sits there. The second year it begins to grow pretty good, and then the third year you're really in business with the bamboo having the vigor. So

treat it like grass. That means keep the soil moderately moist. So if you water three times a week. You're probably only going to put about a maybe a half inch or so of water down when you water, and that'll be enough. You can, you can. It just depends on the temperature, you know. And like the last month we've had, you wouldn't water three times a week, and when you get into July, you know you're gonna need to water more.

But as we go month by month, it's getting more of a root system, and you ought to be able to get by with twice a week and then eventually once a week. It's fine. Fertilize it like you would have grass, because it is a grass and your goal is to get it healthy and growing. So that that would be my advice on that one.

of rosarians. And I would say it's a place you go for your trees because they grow their own trees up in Plannersville. They grow the kinds that want to grow here. They grow them in a way that is gonna help that be a successful tree. And they also have the three sixty tree stabilizers on hand, so get one of those when you when you go get your tree. But whatever you do, just go out and check it out. Lots of beautiful color, lots of beautiful plants, and it's

just a great place. It's a shop RCW nurseries dot com. You need to go see those folks. Alrighty music means stop talking, go get a cup of coffee. I think I will do just both of them. I want to remind you that next Saturday, from twelve thirty to two thirty, right after lunch, i'llbeit Warrens Southern Gardens in Kingwood. All of you in that region, I hope you'll come by. I love I love to meet the people that listen to the Garden Line and also you know here on

the on the radio. I've been just a few minutes with you because I got to move on to another call or other things. But when we do these appearances, it's a time to sit eye to eye and talk and also take pictures. We down at Cinamulch the other day or yesterday, bring me some samples, bring me pictures. Will help solve the problems and help your place look good. And I'll be giving away some really cool things as well. I'll tell you more about that later, but really cool gift and giveaways.

fresh air and all of that. So you shouldn't have to go out there or be afraid to go out in the garden for what you might see. Meaning, ugh, I think I killed another plant. We can help you with that. We can help you with that, but don't be afraid. I'm officially giving you permission to kill plants. Okay, now what does that mean? That just means don't sweat it. Sometimes things don't work. Planes die. One of the best horticultures in the country. Guy named jac Ralston North Carolina.

He said, to be a good horticulturist, you got to kill a lot of plants. And that's true. That's how we learn. We learn from our mistakes and the mistakes of others. But the case of a garden, it either involves a very ugly desi or a plant dying. When we talk about the mistakes of others. I have a talk I do called seem like a good idea at the time. It's a presentation I do for groups and stuff, and basically it's just a bunch of pictures of things that someone created or did, and at the time it

made sense. And then you see kind of that it wasn't a good idea, and it's it's fun. We're having fun. But it give yourself, give you some permission. You can you can always redo it. Nothing in the garden has to be permanent. All right, there you go. Well, Peerscapes is our preferred garden line provider here and the reason is because of the work they do. Puerscapes does stunningly beautiful work. If you will just do and if you hear nothing else I'm saying about them, just hear this.

Peerscapes dot Com peerscapes dot com. Look at the work they do outstanding landscape lighting. Do you have a drainage problem in an area, they can do the subservice drain and they can fix it so plants will thrive there instead of drowned there. They also do a quarterly maintenance. They can come out and spruce up the beds, you know, put some refresh mulch in, replace the color when it needs that, check the irrigation system, do any trimming that's

part of the quarterly maintenance program. If you have them do that. Maybe you want to create a beautiful outdoor, hardescape area or a hard scape pathway in the garden, they can do all of that. You just got to go to the website pierscapes dot com. There you will see examples of what they can do. Now the phone number two eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three seven zero five zero six zero.

your furniture and they do. By the way, it's not just furniture. It's wrought iron, it's cast iron, it's aluminum, patio furniture, it's any kind of metal out there. They're going to be able to put a beautiful coating on it. But they also do finishing and repair. So for example, maybe a little a couple of well wells need to be made on it, you know, to put it back together. Maybe it needs a new sling fabric or vinyl straps on some of the furniture. Maybe the old hardware bolts

and things are rusty. They'll replace those with stainless steel. They'll put new plastic feed and endcaps on things. Whatever you have, they know how to do it. Take a picture, go to email it to sales at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales at Houstoncoders dot com. They'll give you a quick quote. They do pick up and delivery in the Greater Houston area and you can follow them on social media to

see examples of their work. Houston Powdercoders dot com, Houston powder coads dot com two eight one six seven, six thirty eight eighty eight. Let's set up to college station. Now we're going to talk to Andy. Hey, Andy, welcome to garden Line.

you don't see Saint Augustine football fields. You see Bermuda football fields. But the Bermuda also though, you get chiggers in it and you go rolling around in the grass and uh, you know, it's kind of itchy. And so that that is one thing I'm not fond of Bermuda for the other thing is Bermuda grass. In order to look its best, you got to mow it frequently. And it's a great turf grass. Nothing's wrong with the turf grass, I mean in terms of just being outstanding, but you

need to mow it regularly. That's why golf courses look so good in football fields and things. They are mowing those things very very frequently, so you can go either way. That and zoys is another good grass. You ought to consider that one as well. It's an outstanding grass. If you go you're up there in College Station, the Aggie Turf has a website. It's Aggie Turf dot t a m U dot ed u Aggie Turf dot t a m U dot ed u dot. At the bottom left, it'll be the turf varieties and or turf types and

they'll be saying it'll list them all. If you click on Bermuda, it'll give you a long list of bermuda seed varieties. Bermuda is one of the grasses we can plant from seed. It's not easy to do because you're dealing with a little tiny seedlings there and you get a gully washer rain all the seeds off to one spot, but you can do it. And all the varieties that they would recommend are listed there. You can go shopping for one of those. And being in the area you're in,

you go up to producer's co op. They're going to have some grass seeds up there probably for you.

That's good. Just a reminder that our warm season weeds have been germinating now for a couple of several weeks.

never see the weed. It's working invisibly.

does that. Now you're gonna find barricade and other nitrofost products it places like Fisher Shardbrow in Southomore down in Pasadena, or the Fisher Shardburn La Port and Broadway are the one. There's three of them down there. Actually there's another one. Let me just tell you about a four melt. Bellevue has a fishures on FM thirty one eighty and Baytown has one. See it's on twelve hundred Alexander down there in the Baytown area. Many places to get night foster

products here in the Greater Houston area. If you are into native plants, or if you want to be, you know, like you've heard about natives, you'd like to try some different native plants, You're not going to find a better place than Buchanans native plants. They're specialists in that. Now, don't think that that's all they have. They have got every kind of plant you can imagine that you find it in any garden center. I mean, they have a wide variety, and they have things that you don't find

anywhere else. They are extremely good at bringing in things that work, that are new and that are cool. And part of the new cool are those natives that we just haven't had on the market before, and Buchanans gets them and they bring them in. And they have natives for shade, they have natives for sunny areas. They certainly do. If you want natives that attract butterflies or that attract hummingbirds. If you're looking for natives that are fly powering vines

or flowering tree. Do you see what I'm saying, they have them there. If you're in the Houston area and you want a native that is from Houston that he grows right there at your agree there before we lived there, right, and they've got that. If you want just a general Texas natives from outside the Houston area. But they do real well here. They have those. Have I made my point Eleventh Street in the Heights. Buchanansplants dot Com. Go

to the website, sign up for the newsletter. Awesome, awesome newsletter and good information on there, but most of all, just get out there and enjoy a trip out to Bugannon's plants. It's a wonderful place. We're going to go down now to Angleton and we're going to talk to Bonnie next. Hey, Bonnie, welcome to garden Line.

It just naturally grows that way. People often will take them and they'll they may even use like a tree stabilizer three sixty tree stableized are to hold them in place so that trunk goes upright, uh and then begins to branch out up at the top. But there's not a right way to trim those they it's just the growth habit of the plant and what you aesthetically want to look at, what your goal is for it?

number one selling organic fertilizer in Houston. It doesn't burn your lawn, doesn't burn other plants. And by the way, I use it for things other than the one, because it's good for a lot of different things. You can use it on. Put it on Azelia's although Microlife has an acid loving plant food as well, flowers, back digetable. I've use it in vegetable gardens all number of times, tree shrubs, roses containers. I mean, it's not going to burn.

It's a good fertilizer that works. It contains billions of beneficial microbes. And you know, you can buy it by the jug or you can buy it by the bag. I usually buy it by the bag. You know, bulk is always more economical. But either way, it's a good product and it's widely available. Now, when you do that, consider also getting their concentrated compost in the bag. It's a Humus type price in a purple bag. Okay, hum

mates plus. So consider that one hu mats plus that is not put on to make your grass all green and grow fast. It's put on to improve soil and it's got some nutrient in it, but it's put on to improve your soil quality and texture because that's what humus does, the final decomposition. So when you take composts and you let it break down further and further, you're heading toward Humus and hum mats plus concentrated composts in

the bag. So green bag plus purple bag. Think of it that way for microlife easy to find all over town. You're listening to the guardline. We're here to help you have success. In your gardens. If you'd like to give us a call, I'll be happy to visit with you about the things that might be of interest to you. I was checking out in Chanted Gardens. That that is the garden center that is on the Katie Folscher side

of Richmond. So if you're in Richmond and you're heading up toward Katie Folscher, the actual road there on is an intersection there, it's FM three point fifty nine. Had to stop and think there for a second. I would suggest you first just go to the website and that way you see where they are, you find information out, phone numbers, whatever you need. Let's see the website is the name of the garden center, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.

In Chanted Gardens Richmond dot com mitteran since nineteen ninety five. And I'm telling you the folks there, they're enthusiastic, they're helpful, and no matter what you need, it's there. And if you want to do some creating on your own, they can help you with that. Like maybe I'm one of their nice metal wire hanging baskets that's cocoa core lined that you fill up and you plant all kinds of things. It could be one that hangs in the shade of

shade leving plants. It could be something that's in the sun with blooming, trailing plants coming out of it. I mean, the possibilities are endless. And they know about the brown stuff before green stuff because they carry microlife and nitrofoss and Nelson plant food and Medina soil products. You know, you hear me talk about Nature's Way and heirloom soil. They carry products from both of those. They're at intended gardens in Richmond. They're open Monday through Saturday eight to

five today ten am to four pm. So when I quit talking on garden line, they open the doors. They're at intended gardens, not because I quit talking on guardenline, but that just happens to fall to the same time. I'll promise you this, if you go with friends, family, take them out there. It is a wonderful place to visit. It's really nice, really nice place. Let's uh, let's head out to Conroe now, and we're going to talk to Dan.

to also purchase a surfactant. A surfactant is basically an additive to the spray that makes it stick to slick leaves and not roll off, so you get better results because of that. Okay, now you are not too far away from.

The sooner you apply it, the better. Mix it according to the label. Don't make it too strong, follow the label, and do it soon. If it's gonna rain, when you're gonna spray within the next let's say six hours, I would wait to spray until after the rain.

our conversation with Diane. So, Diane, you were asking about broadly options, and I'm just giving you a few here, you know, because there's there's a lot of them out there, but weed beater ultra uh or there are several weed beater products, but the spray is not the granule for what for what you're needing to do. Don't do the complete bag of granules.

be all right. So back back to the back to the product. First of all, that sprayer you got to stoop down to spray the ground, right.

if I can get that done. But he anyway, good, look, I just hit.

for listening to guard Line. You got the one on Navora Street there all seasons. ACE Hardware is the one that we were just talking about with Diane up in the Willis area, and then out in Kingwood we got Ka and m Ace Hardware, Don and Wharton, Wharton Feed and Ace Hardware. And I'm just listening to you. There's dozens of them, dozens of them, So go check out ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Any kind of product you hear me talking about needen, I would first start with

your East Hardware store locally. You're probably gonna find it there. You're listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have success in your garden. That's what we're looking for. And when it comes to summertime, our lawns really wake up and start to grow when it gets hot. Saint Augustine doesn't care about our heat. It does care about lack of moisture in the soil. And to the degree that nutrients are lacking, growth will

be lacking. So what do you do Well, you don't overfertilize with nitrogen because it's already wanting to grow, but you give it nitrogen because it supports growth. The reason alon is green is because of nitrogen and magnesium primarily, and the reason that a lawn is growing is because of nitrogen. So Nitropos has created a product called Nitropos Superturf. It's the Silver Bag Silver Bag now it's a nineteen four ten fertilizer that's four one two ratio, which is

excellent for turf. By releasing the nitrogen slowly, super turf gradually feeds your lawn over four months. And if it released it fast, you would mow more because you've overdone the nitrogen right. But it doesn't do that. It takes the It takes the thinking and doing work and does it for you. You put on super turf now and you enjoy it for four months, a beautiful law and don't have to worry about it again. Really, you know,

I mean you can. Some people are putting it on this month, some next month, and they're going to carry them all the way really into the when it's time to do fall fertilization. But anyway, superterf from night Foss available places like M and D Beamer Uh, it's in a Sagemont area. If you go to the Colar Lake area. You got the M and D on Bay Area Boulevard done and Alvin Stanton shopping Center on North Taylor. Well, these are all places where you can find nitro foss products.

Let me see give you the number again if you'd like to call. We've where are we now? Well, we got a little over an hour left here on guardline this morning.

and it is so unique. Eight acres on eight acres, and just you wander and every time you turn a corner, you know there's First of all, there's pottery.

buy little ones from them to get started. Are you can buy these monsters that are hanging by chains from the trees that are just stunning. But that's how they do things there. They have bones eye plants that they get in Over there, they have you know, little starters, probably fifty to one hundred different kinds of bones eye baby plants, and it's a great way to get started in a cool hobby like that. Do you want blooming trees like Chinese fringe? Are the deciduous magnolias that just

bloomed recently? Red buds? They've got those. Whatever you're looking for, and if you're looking for color for your landscape beds, everything from melyssam to zenias A to z it's all there at Moss Nursery on todd Brook Toddville Road in c Brook, Texas. Moss Nursery dot com. It's spelled m aa s Nursery dot com. Time for me to take a quick break. When we come back, Bridget and Don you'll be our first two up. Texas all right, every done, and then I gotta throw a little bit of yoldling music.

And I'm not gonna subject you to too much here, but don Walser, how many of you saw the movie Secondhand Lions. This is the theme song from that movie. If you haven't seen that movie, you need to see it. It's pretty cool. That's right, and he gets to yodling here on us. So where we're gonna move on? Listen. Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown garden center for those of you up in the Magnolia area on FM

twenty nine seventy eight. This is near Grand Parkway Highway to forty nine, kind of north and a little west of Tomball itself. They have a wide range of fertilizers that I talk about, from Nelson turf Stars to Microlife to nitrofoss. They carry products from pretty much all the manufacturers you hear me suggesting people use for the things they're looking for right now. They've got half whiskey barrels and whole whiskey barrel planners. They're really cool. From the

Jack Daniels whiskey barrel planners. That's kind of cool. You'll find some plants there as well. They carry those and again all the products you need with friendly service in Magnolia on FM twenty nine to seventy eight Spring Creek Feed Center. They have special options that can also allow you, for example, maybe they don't have something you need to special order, talk to them about that. They'll work with you on that. They do a really really good job

of that. They carry products. You know, I was talking to somebody about Medina the other day. Medina products. There's so many of them. I spin Hole show just talking about Medina. But the has to grow six twelve six. I was telling them you need to get that because you mix it in water, you drench it onto the plants when you plant them. Now you can use it as a foldier feed. But this is planning spring planting season, so I'm focusing on it in this way. Has to

grow six twelve six plant food hiphosphorus. You drench it on the plant to help that root system as it begins to go and take off. Do it a week later, do it a week after that, like three times a week or two apart, and that will give your plant the best chance to hit the ground run. And again it's from Medina, widely available, easy to find at most of the police places that you hear me talk about sponsoring this show, garden center, speed stores, that kind of thing,

Ace hardware stores. You're going to find Medina products. Let's head out to Spring and we're going to talk to Bridget. Hey, bridget Welcome to Gardline.

in Saint Augustine, So that bridget. That's the only way I can give you a good answer on.

inches across or fifteen inches across. You turn it on more and you can water a tree. It's been in a ground five years and it's big, and you're rescuing it from summer one hundred degrees with no rain for four weeks or whatever. Tree huggers are very useful. Hang them in the garage. You're gonna want them, You're gonna use them over and over again. You can go to tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com. Tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com. They absolutely it's just one of the coolest new products we've seen.

You can find them at Southwest Fertilizers, Sinkle Ranch ase kDas K and m A S and A Tascasita fulshere Ace and Channing Forest and Gardens done in in the Richmond Rosenberg area, Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's out there in Kingwood rcw Arborgate Nelson water Garden and nursery and Katie d and D Feeding tom All. I mean, I'm getting tired reading all these places. League City Feed and then I just talked about Spring Creek Feed Center. They have them there too. We're going to go back to

the phones now and talk to Don in Sugarland. Hey Don, good morning.

insect that spreads. There's citrus canker and then there's citrus greening, and both of them are reasons why you can't buy citrus in Montgomery and Fort Bend and Harris and several other counties in this area and carry them outside the county because they are trying to quarantine it and shut it down.

And there that is an issue that's you just don't want to get into but I would have to the stems stems as well and the branches. There is a I think the website is citrus greening dot com. Did they tell you about that website any chance?

with it. I don't think, all right, sir, they told us there was any cure for it, so yeah, whether no, there's not a curing it, And the sooner you get rid of a plant that has it, the better chance you have of being able to have citrus in the future.

a shame. It's a shame, but it is what it is. Unfortunately. Well, let's see Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center out in the Kingwood area are both open seven days a week, so you can go by today. Warren's is on North Park, Kingwood is on Stone Hollow. I'm going to be at Warren Southern Gardens next Saturday from twelve thirty to two thirty, so grab you some lunch or bring a sandwich and eat in front of me. We'll talk. Well, first of all,

you're going to enjoy shop in the garden center. They just have an outstanding selection of all kinds of things. I mean really really nice selection, whether it's flowers or fruit, or vegetables or you name it. Beautiful containers. I help you with the continent designing a container planting too. It's just they're both great garden centers to go to. I love the gift shop there at a Kingwood Garden Center. It's really outstanding. And they have a great plant selection too. Again.

Warren Southern Gardens on North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow serving that whole area, Kingwood Humble, A Taska Seed, a Porter Valley Ranch, cany. All you folks have some outstanding garden centers, and you're gonna find the stuff, the brown stuff before green stuff, Microlife, Nitrofoss, turf Star, Hairloom soils, Nelson plant Food, see what I'm talking about. They even have the Microlife and Nelson plant Food filling stations. So

you buy Microlife or Nelson and a jar. When the jar's empty, just go over to Warren's and Kigwood and you just pull a little handle and refill your jar. It's economical and you don't throw away plastic. All right, Well, that our's in the books, which means we got one more hour of garden line today. If you would like to call ahead and get on the boards with it, Oh, well you can be the first step seven one three two one two KTRH. I'm gonna go grab some coffee.

I'm coming a little bit incoherent here so to see if I can clean things up with another cup of coffee. I hope you haven't a good Sunday morning.

a trade. What does trace mineral mean? Does that mean?

couldn't grow, roses, couldn't grow vegetables. I mean, you can't grow plants without boron. And that's one of many. You know, there's like twenty roughly twenty different elements that plants need in order to survive. Now they don't need a lot of them, but they need them. They're essential. And that's azamite. That's what we're talking about. That's why we put it down. We put other regular fertilizers down because they have nitrogen makes the grass grow right and makes it green and go.

But that grass in order to grow in the bank account of your soil, you have to have the trace minerals also called micronutrients that support that growth. You can go to Azamite Texas dot com Azomite Texas dot Com find out more information about it. But I'll tell you this just when you hear me talk about retailers, garden center, speed stores, nurseries, Southwest Fertilizers, Ace Hardware stores, those places, you're probably going to find asmite wherever you go. I mean,

it's really widespread here in this area. Does well. Nitrophos is. Super turf is the fertilizer that is for summertime, and you in summertime begins. We'll just say that now if you've used the fast green up, wait six weeks after that to put down your super turf. If you haven't used the fast green up, put the super turf down now. You can do it now if you want. It's going to give you four weeks or four months of feeding

and it releases gradually. And you can walk into a store, look across the store and see the super Turf bags because they're all silver. It so easy. Only thing like that, it's really easy to find them. Went out, where do you get it? Well, go down to Ace Hardware or Lake hard excuse me, in Clute on Dixie Drive. You go to Branham to Fisher's Hardware, plants and things excuse me. Fishers in Baytown, plants and things in Brenham. There we go,

crossing them up. Just examples of the many places that carry Knight to Foster products here in the greater Houston area. All right, here, we're going to go now to Donna in Beaumont. Hello, Donna, Welcome to Garden Line.

is called the high perch hummingbird feeder. The top covers red and it's leakproof and proof. It's got a little ant moat so ants can't get in there to the nectar. But it's flat and so you can see the birds better. You know, with a hummingbird feeder, they go around the other side and you don't see them. But this one it's better viewing and it works easy. It's a nice, little beautiful feeder. But they have them at wild Birds Unlimited. Wild Birds Unlimited is the place really to get anything

you need for birds, including advice. Those folks know what they're talking about. You can get the wild Birds Unlimited eliminator feeder. That's a tall one. My favorite feeder I have for birds eat and because it keeps the squirrels out and it really works. Trust me. Trust me, you should hear the way the birds talk when the language they use are the birds the squirrels they can't get in and the language they use. Now, now's the time

for nesting. Super blend at Wabird's unlimited and it's set up to be four birds when they're building the nests, laying the young and raising the young. Very important to have calcium in the diet, high protein in the diet. It even has mealworms in it, which it's like crack for birds. They love that stuff.

many brand names. But it's s P I N like spin, and then the letter O and then sad like sad spin, oh sad, and spray them really good and that will control both caterpillars and beetles, and I think that will shut it down. But you need to get that done pretty quick where they do too much damage, because those young plants, as you know, can't support that much damage without really being set back.

would probably get some Spagnum Pete moss bales. They are like three cubic foot compacted square bail plastic wrapped things. You put one bail out per thousand square feet and it only is going to cover at about a third of an inch deep and watered in. That'll help for now. If you spray a product that's an iron supple and a zinc supplement on it, and there's some on the market. Fertilom has one that will help the grass now too,

I tell it, Bill, Jim. I want to spend a little more time with you on this, and I have to go to break. Just hang on. I'll pick you right back up when we come back.

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root Rot. We have two treatment times, primarily that we're focusing on it. One of them, perhaps the most important one, is in I October and then a repeat treatment in November. Going into the cool season. We can still make a treatment. Now it's not as effective, but you got to do something. So what I had suggested for Jim is get some spagnum peat moss, break it up, put it in a wheelbarrow.

You make little piles around the yard and then turn a I use a soil rake and turn it upside down where the times are pointing upward, and it's like you're playing shuffleboard. You know, you're scooting it back and forth and spreading it out as thin as you can. It's about a third of an inch, so three cubic three point eight cubic foot bail. That's three point eight cubic feet covers about a thousand square feet and then watered in. That's for now. Spraying the foliage with a

product that is going to contain micro nutrients. And Fertilom has one in a gray bottle. Ferdlum does and I can't remember the name of it, but it's going to contain iron and zinc and it's from Fertilom, So that would you can find that the disease kills roots, so by doing the folier spray, you'll notice yellowing when take All is attacking a lawn, and it's because the roots can't get the plants can't get ironed because the roots

are being killed. So it's kind of like you're using an IV to go around you know, when you can't feed the patient food, you're using the IV to get around it. And that is another step in it. The other thing that I wanted to mention is when you spray, if you look on the schedule, there are several products on there. The best ingredient is a zoxy stroban and it's on my schedule. And I think, Jim, you said you had the schedule.

roots as well. Now it's better to use it before the problem is as extensive as it is becoming your lawn because there's not a lot of roots there to take it up. But you go ahead and use it now. In the meantime, do extra care, you know, normally I say water once or twice a week. Just realize that grass and them it's roots. So when it gets hot and the sun is shining, it's gonna be more drowdy than a grass that does have roots would be. So even though the soils a little on the dry side,

it's struggling. And so keep it moist adequately moist, and then the peat moss, the using the micro nutrient products spray that you do. You're gonna have to do the spray for that uh and then then in fall, be ready to do it again in October and again in November, and you can turn it around. You may see some continued decline just because this disease has moved pretty aggressively into your lawn.

All right, We're gonna go now to Paarland and talk to Howard. Hey, Howard, welcome to guarden Line.

whatever full size is going to be. And that varies with varieties and whatnot, but you just harvest them at that time and that that's your best bet. Now, you also had an amarillis flower in your pictures. That's the red trump like blooms. Those are amarillas, and they're a great one to play.

and houseplants for example. They've got a lot of fresh new arrivals coming in. They have their two new exclusively Antique Rose and Porium Bread roses, and that's Glass Slipper and Cupid's Sweetheart. You just need to go out there and see them. Some good events coming up, by the way, definitely want to know about these. The buy one, get one rose sale is this weekend, which means it ends today. You buy one rose, you get the next rows thirty

percent off. It's valid for two gallon roses only, and it excludes the in person mystery roses, but any any of the roses that are in two gallon there thirty percent off the second one when you buy the first April, second, and ninth, or the Children's in the Gardens workshops coming up. Tickets are now live on the website. They start at ten am, ages three through ten. There's a Lady Beetle release come up. Here's what you need to do. You need to go to Antique Roseanmporium dot com and look

at their events Antique Rowsimporium dot com. There's a lot of good events coming up. Is a Rose and Herb conference on April twenty six. You got to get registered for it. Now you just need to go get your tickets, get registered and all of that, because this is the place you don't want to miss and there's not a better time than March and April's see Antique Rose and Porum. I mean, on the drive out there, the blue bonnets are singing to you. Is gorgeous out there on the

hillsides and he grows up for him. You need to go check them out. We're going to go talk to Bill now in Spring, Texas. Hey, Bill, Welcome to garden.

kind of a little side comment. Getting some soil right around the base of a dogwood digner the underneath the leaves, and just get a little bit of soil and put that in the planting hole where you're planting. And there are some things in the soil that are fungi that are beneficial for dogwoods, and it helps with establishment. You don't have to have that to plant a dogwood, but I've just noticed that that seems to help a little bit.

So get a good one watered in well. If it's got circling roots, if you can kind of unwind them, that's good. If not, you need to cut them. But get them in a spot where they get morning sun and they get some afternoon shade. That's how they grow along the roadsides. And then also make sure the soil has lots of compost, the organic matter in it and good drainage. Make them think they're living in a forest by doing that to the soil. All right, thank you, skip, yes, sir,

thank you. I appreciate your call very much. Jungle land is the product from nitrofoss that is for containers. There's two jungle lands. There's the indoor with water saving crystals. I've talked about that before. The jungle n outdoor is called flour and vegetable potting soil. You put it in a container that has good drain coatrols in it, and it will drain away the excess water while holding enough to keep the plant going and not having to water so much. Because it does hold water well, I bet

it drains the access. That's kind of the combo there we're looking for. You're gonna find nitrofoss products at places like a Allspas Ace in the Woodlands. You're gonna find an ACE hardware, Cidium Memorial. You go to d and Defeed and Tumble, they carry nitrofoss products. And the MD Beamer on Sagemont another good place to find nitrofoss products. I'm gonna have to take a little break here for the news when I come back. Krista and Richmond, thanks

for being patient. If you can be a little more patient, you'll be my first up when we come back from our break. All right, folks, welcome back to Gardenline. Get ahead with us. We got a bunch of calls to jump into here. Just one second. Nelson Plant Food Bruce's Brew is their quickly available fertilizer from the folks at now some part of the turf Star line. Now, it's

not just like a regular immediate release fast release. It does release initially some good nutrient levels for your plants, but it also drags that release out a little bit so you get a continued feeding. Not as long as you know. The Nelson plant food your products slow and easy, but it is a good one to use and it's going to get you. I would say, you know, definitely get eight weeks out of that before you need to

go into the slow releases. It's an excellent product. It's got the ratios of nutrients that help grass do its best, and I like that delayed release of some of the nutrients is in it. It's carbon based nitrogen sources to feed the soil of microbes. And you know, when you have healthy soil, you have healthy grass. It's less vulnerable to pest and disease problems. And Nelson plant foods are

widely available throughout the greater Houston area. Here, let's go back to the phones now and we're going to go talk to Rick in Montgomery. Is that correct?

to fertilize it. I would use a lawn fertilizer, not something with weed controlled in it, just fertilizer, and I would use that at a rate of about a cup per inch of trunk diameter. Again starting about six weeks after you've planted the olive, and the more you keep grass away, the faster it's going to grow. The more you molt the soil around it and keep you know, keep the weed eater and lawn more away from damaging the bark and the grass from competing, the better your growth.

they could. They could. But anytime you have a plant like that, by the way, and this is true of olives too, et ceteras, when we're going to have a really cold spell and you don't feel like you can protect it adequately, you can mound about a foot high mound of soil around the trunk and get through that winter, and if it kills it back, it kills it back to that mound, and then when you pull the soil back away, you'll get reef sprouting and you haven't lost

the plane. You just lost the top growth on it. But I'm gonna have to run. Yeah, I got to run to another call. But good luck with that. Yeah, that one. I don't think I've ever had a call on curry leaf tree before. So that's cool, all right, folks. That that's a new one. I like them now. It makes me want to go out and buy one of those Nature's Way resources is the well, let's just put it this way. They're the grandfather of brown stuff before

green stuff in the greater Houston area. They've been doing this long before compost was cool. Okay. And so when you got to Nature's Way, which is on I forty five North, it's just to the right across the railroad tracks. When you get to where fourteen eighty eight comes in, you're going to find the those lines of products that cover everything from acid loving plants to fruit trees, to vegetables to mulches for the top of the so high quality multus for the top of the saw, many versions.

You can buy their products by the bag in many places. You can also go pick them up or you can have them delivered. Oh, either way, you want to go check out the new website. It's cool Nature's Way Resources dot Com or give them a call. Nine three six two seven three twelve hundred. Ninety three six two seven three twelve hundred. We're going to go now to Baytown and talk to Henry. Hey, Henry, welcome to garden Line.

picture's mound. Raise it up a little bit because it will sink down and then it'll be more level. But in your case, maybe most of the sinking's been done, Henry, I don't know. You have a feel for that, and so you may not have to pile it up too high. But yeah, just just make a mound over those areas.

down to Jorges Hidden Gardens. They're down in Alvin. Actually, if you are actually in the main part of Alvin, you're gonna get on Highway six and go south towards Santa Fe a little bit, and I would say about halfway Santa Fe, off to the right, you will come to Jorges Hidden Gardens. It's set off the road a little bit there, so just it's on Elizabeth Street. Elizabeth Street is the one that we're talking about.

again on Elizabeth Street, South of Highway six. Now while you're there, you can get the three sixty tree stabilizer. You know what I think about those, They are absolutely important to any kind of a new planting. They allow that tree to move a little bit and it's just good to use them. I'll just leave it at that. But he carries those at Horagez Hidden Gardens. While you're there, check out the flowers, beautiful vinkas or Madagascar periwinkles and

their beautiful roses. Got a lot of the Peggy Martin, for example, That is an outstanding rose that he carries there and even has them on little trellises. But there's way more than just one kind of rose there. He also has peaches, a lot of the varieties of peaches that are lower chill that need to be planted down south in that area. He carries those and so that's that is a great place to go for your fruit trees as well. So you just need to get out there.

Jorges Hidden Gardens on Elizabeth Street kind of in between Alvin and Santa Fe area, just south of Highway six. Go check him out.

dress and core aeration. And if you live south and west, I had to get a map in my head here south and west to Houston, like from sugar Land and Missouri City on the west end, all the way down across to Pearland and Manville and then includes all the up and down Highway six places like Fresno and Cia, Racola and Iowa Colony. BMB Turf Bros. Is a company I need to know about, and they do compost top dressing and they do core aeration. They are quality equipment

that does the job right. They only use quality, top quality leaf more compost from Ciena mos So that tells you right there, they're getting it from Siena. You're talking about good stuff there. They only use products that I recommend here on Guardenline. So it's as simple as that. I have no qualms about telling you BMB Turf Pros. Another reason I love BEMB Turf Pros is it's a family owned service that provides honest, quality work. They care

about making you happy. They want to ensure your satisfaction, and they make that personal connection. This isn't an you know, call the call center and whatever I mean. This is they want to personally make that connection because they know you'll come back because they do good work. And that's the kind of service folks. We love to have. BB turf Pros dot com. No end in the website. BB turf Pros dot com. Seven to one three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two three

four five five nine eight. Let's set up to Conroe. Now we're going to talk to Bill in Conroe. Hey Bill, Welcome to guard Line.

snowball going downhill when take all starts moving in. But I use a human example of you know, if you exercise and eat, write, and get a lot of sleep, and then the person right next to you doesn't do any of the above, and you both go to a party where someone may have a cold, you're less likely to come home sick than maybe they would be. And I don't know how good of a medical analogy that is, but the point is, keep your grass healthy and take

it all is not a problem. Let your grass gets stressed from drought or disease or using a broad leaf herbicide in hot weather, and take all will be there.

through this year in your lawn. Happy to do very much. All right, you take care. That's good. Speaking of lawn things, and I could have mentioned this, he said he'd liked Nitropos products. But Sweet Green is another one that's an eleven percent nitrogen product from Nitrofos that is a sugary based that dissolves away and it really supercharges the microbes in the soil. They love molasses type things. Even that

is an excellent product. You can put it down. It's not like a salt base that would be immediately released, but pretty quick that gets in the soil and microbes do their work on it and start the process of getting the actual nutrient. The grass takes up available sweet green from nitrofos. To find sweet green and other night fosh products, places like RCW Nursery plans for all seasons on Luetta. You go out to ACE Hardware on single Rants.

That's the one on on Mason Road Langham Creek, which is on five twenty nine Langham Creek Ace on the air edge of Copperfield, which by the way, they redid their store this past year and looks really good inside. And then go down to Stafford Courth hard round South Maine. It's going to carry night to frost products as well, makes it easy to find them widely available here in

this area. Well, what am I looking at here? I've got probably not enough time for another call, so we're going to close down the calls here on garden Line and I'll just go out with a few comments. First of all, I hope you have a good time in the in the garden this week. Enjoy yourself. Find something you've never grown before and grow it. Try something you've never tried before in the garden. I guarantee you this.

If you're listening to my voice, you need one more at least container of beautiful color plants to set this spring just ablaze with color and summer too. By the way, containers are versatile, fast and easy, and we don't use enough of them. And you can group containers together. Some people think, well, you know a container, put one container there.

Well you can do that, but you get three different containers of different heights with different kinds of plants growing in them, and it makes just this giant arrangement of beauty that can be on a patio, it can be on a porch. I saw one once going into a front door where it was real shady, real dark, and then overhang there and they had used the chartruse colored sweet potato mine coming out of it. They had impatience around it because they can put up with the shade.

They had a shade loving taller plant in there. It's gorgeous, so don't let any area go ugly, and you can put a beautiful container in it. There's the end of the day tip for you. We get out and go visit our garden centers. They are loaded right now, excellent time. And if you're going to plan a woody ornamental and

that includes a rose, get it done now. It has the best chance of establishing well and surviving when you don't plan it when it's so darn hot, So get it done now, give it some time to get roots in the ground. We want you to have success. Hey, gardening is fun, have a good time. We'll be back next weekend. Remember Gardeningwithskip dot com.