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Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip rictor It's crazy Trim just watch him as well that so many got supt Basic gas Club back again, not a salad glass. So hey, good morning, welcome to garden Line. We're glad to have you with us today. Got a early early Saturday. Congratulations for those of you who are up and at him, maybe with a cup of coffee or tea or whatever wakes you up

in the morning. I always enjoy the first thing being able to visit with people that are interested in gardening, talk about gardening, maybe kind of quiet first thing in the morning sometimes, so it gives me a chance to talk about a few things that I am interested in specifically. For example, I'd like to be the first to acknowledge that yesterday we didn't have a show. Yesterday, so here one day late was a National ag Day celebrating our bountiful

food supply. You know, over the decades here in America, the development of agriculture has really changed the face of society in so many ways. In fact, including around the world because of the innovations that were developed here. Beginning years ago, our leaders in Congress President had the wisdom to set up a system of research, evaluation, and education to get the information from the university to the people. That was basically it. Things like hybrid corn,

things like how to prepare and protect the soil. Certainly after the dust bolt, we learned one there, but so many innovations. Abraham Lincoln was one of the ones that signed in to practice or to law, the act that created the Agrolife Extension Service and every other extension service. First of all, every university has a lang Grant institution. I mean every state has a lang Grant university, a Lagrant institution, and that created a university. Then they

created research and extension to reach out from those universities. The eighteen seventy institutions as well were created during as that time evolved through the years. So for example, a place like here in Texas is Texas and m Oklahoma State, New Mexico State, Louisiana, LSU all through the country. Every eight has one up in New York it's Cornell University and Rutgers in New Jersey, and a lot of places you heard of, of course, are those lang grane

universities. The extension service is in every state. It's a little different in every state, but there's research and extension. What does research do well? It finds out the newest, the latest, how to protect the environment, how to increase yields for farmers, but for those of us gardeners, things that are useful to us as well. I was just visiting with someone about some turf grass research this past week and what are turf researchers working on.

They're working on grasses that do better with less water. That is a huge thing, right, We certainly know that after last summer, and new varieties

are coming out all the time, new ways. I remember when I was fairly young in my extension career, the Don't Bag It program was created and that basically was an educational outreach of extension to teach people, hey, you don't have to beg clippings and put them at the curbside and have them end up in a landfill somewhere, and why that's important to return the clippings and

how that helps your grain. It's a win win, It helps your grass and it also avoids just adding more garbage trucks around town to get everything to the hole in the ground somewhere. And those kind of innovations have changed America when it comes to food supply. Though. Back in the day where a farmer could support eight people with what he was able to grow, now we're looking at farmers supporting way over forty people with what they're able to grow.

The innovations and things, and I think that's something to be grateful for because food supply affects everything. Certainly it affects our health, our well being. We don't have to deal with issues like famine here in the US and in countries that have there's constantly work being done. Why you can't control weather, you can control a lot of other things that help avoid famine. And I'll tell you this, one of the biggest things to cause peace to happen is

to provide food for people when people are starving. Trouble naturally and logically follows. And the innovations that have occurred not just in America but here beginning with our lan Grant universities, the research and then the extension taking the university of the people. That's what we call Agrolfe extension. And in every state that same thing happening that has changed the world. In fact, the first extension

agent was here in Texas, a guy named seman Nap. He would take and load up his information and wagons and go out to the farmers, gather all the farmers in a whole region together. They he would pass out some new type of corn, for example, there's more productive, or say hey, why don't you do to row cotton out in West Texas because that'll absorb more of the be able to take up more soul and moistue. You don't

have to irrigate it. All kinds of innovations. If farmers try it, and when you try it and you see it, it changes how you think. You know. A lot of us are skeptical. But siemen Napp says, what a man hears, he may or may not believe. What he sees, he may or may not believe. But what he does himself, he cannot help but believe. And that's a little adjusted quote from him there. But what a concept, what a simple idea that changed the world.

So happy, bountiful and beautiful food supply day as of yesterday. So we're just wishing it to you a daylight you know in our lawns our summer weeds, our warm season weeds are germinating, and if you are going to prevent those, product like barricade from nitrofoss is a good way to do it because when you put barricade down and get it in the soil, it forms a barricade over the soil surface, so that thin lon you got everywhere sunlight hits

the soil your plants of weed, and barricade shuts it down. I don't care if it's a grassy weed or broadleaf weed. If you get it down before the weed is up and established, barricade prevents that. And that's why timely application is important. And barricade is sold a lot of different places. You know, night fass is widely available here in the Greater Houst scen Aarreia.

You can find barricade in places like Enchanted Forest down in the Richmond Rosenberg area, Growers Outlet up in Willis, for example, or RCW Nursery which is where Highway two forty nine Tomball Parkway comes into belt Way eight. Barricade is widely available. But remember when you put it down, you need about a half inch of rain. Now be careful, you say, well, it's going to rain later. Well, if it rains too much, that's not a good thing. You don't want to wash any kind of product off

the ground into the drainage areas. You don't want to wash it just way down in the roots. That the goal is to just moisten it enough to get it in the sole surface. But that is very important, and barricade will provide that kind of help for your lawn as a result. Let's take a little break here. I've kind of done a little monologue to kick things off. If you'd like to give us a call, our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back.

Welcome back to garden Line. It is early, it is dark outside, and we got some rain forecasts for the weekend. We know that, but that is no reason not to get out and get those plants and supply. So you're ready to go when this is over with, I hope you'll get out. One great place to do that would be plants for all seasons. You know, they're located so easy to get to. They're located right there on two forty nine Tombo Parkway, just north of Luetta, So they're

right on two forty nine. And Plants for All Seasons been around since nineteen seventy three, and the Flowery family has really prided themselves in providing the best plants that are very well adapted to here and the kind of products you need to have success. And then on top of all of that, and this may be one of the most important things to have educated staff that know how

to help you and how to direct you. It's not just like, here's a plant, and you know there's some places you go and you don't want to go back and ask them for advice. At least you shouldn't because they don't know what they're talking about. Plants for All Seasons does, and they can guide you to products, they can help diagnose things, bring them a sample or a picture, they can do that. But you know, when you go in there, you're always going to get the plants that you need.

Do you want a container full of color? Yeah, they can set you up on that. You still looking at some transplants for your vegetables, it's time. Absolutely, tomatoes and peppers and eggplant and all kinds of other things. They've got all of that. They've got the fertilizers that I talk about on garden Line. They got the soils that we talk about, and you know how important it is to get the brown stuff fixed before you put

in the green stuff. They can do that plants for all seasons dot Com two eight, one, three, seven, six, sixteen forty six. And today it would be a good day to go buy there and pick up those kind of supplies so that you can have success enjoy that success with your plants. You know. For example, a good example of a product to

always have on hand would be Medina's has to Grow six twelve six. Now, there are a lot of Medina products out there, and I could sit and talk about every single one of them and why they're helpful for your your plants, for your success in gardening, whether it's vegetables or flowers or herbs or whatever. I like. The has to Grow six twelve six as a watering end product. Now you can use it as a foliar spray. You

can use a lot of things. But for me, you get it, you put it, follow the label, put it in a little watering can mix it up with water, and when you put that plant in the ground, whether it's a tomato or a petunia or herb, or a rose bush or a shrub or anything. You just water it in with that and I'll come back about a week later and that again, and about a week later and do that again. And those three watering. I mean, you can do more. You can keep going, but I usually do about three that

By then that's three weeks and the plant has established roots. It's got everything those new roots need to grow, things like seaweed extracts, things like humic acid, things like Medina so ele activator, and it's ready to go. And Medina products are widely available. You're going to find them, but look for has to grow six twelve six. If you're going to do any planting, and my gosh, it's spring, you've got to be doing some planting.

This is the gardening season everybody gets excited about. Of course, I add faull to it. I think falls are a great great season. Two. But you know here in Houston, you can grow things any month out of the year. Well, do you have some questions about some things going on in your landscape or some things you're planning on doing. Give me a call seven to one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three to fifty eight seventy four. It's always a little quiet first thing in the

morning. I think some of you wake up like I do. And that she got one eye at half open and then the other about an hour later, the other eye hits half masked as she slowly crawl into consciousness. I know I did that this morning. I have to get up early so I'm ready to go when it's time for the show. But it's one of my favorite things to do is talk with gardeners and help gardeners to have success. Now you've heard me say this before, but if you think you have a

brown thumb, you don't. And if you want to say you have a brown thumb, then I'll just come back and say, well, what you have is an uninformed thumb. Because the reason Grandma could plan everything and it just seemed to grow wasn't because she had magic. It's Grandma just knew how to do things. And the more you learn, the more you the more your plants become beautiful and bountiful. How about that your knowledge makes your thumb

green? That that is really really true when you look at six I hear people all the time talk about I did this, I did that to my plants, And as I'm hearing it, I'm going, Okay, well you may have gotten buy with it, but that is not good for the plants. You know, they like fertilizing the triple thirteen all the time, year after year in your lawns. Don't do that. I can tell you why. Probably don't want to listen to me drone on about the chemistry of the

soil. But grass does not take up roots in a one one one ratio. It just doesn't. It's not how it takes it up. So you know, yeah, use it once or twice or three times or whatever, but it's not the best way to go. And we help you understand things like that. That is important. And always I talk about the soil because it is the so We get excited about flowers and foliage and fruit and vegetables and all of that. It's all about the soil. If you want bountiful

tomatoes, make the soil right before you plant. You on a beautiful lawn e month after month, continue to work toward improving that so well. The folks at Ciena Molts they absolutely can help you do that. I mean, the quality of products they have is second to none. Whether it's just compost, or whether it is a bed mix like a rose soil for example, whether it is Moltz to go on the top so you're not pulling weeds when

the temperatures one hundred degrees outside and that's coming someday. Cienamlts dot com. They're down in just north of Road Sharon, near where Highway six and two eighty eight come together on FM five twenty one. So if you live in Meridian or Riverstone or Sandy Point, Pomona Fresno, Iowa Colony, all of those areas out near Bresspin State Park, this is your local place and they'll deliver within twenty miles of the location. If you need a bulk order,

they can get you fixed uff on that. If you're going to do some landscaping and need some rock, maybe Riverstone for a drainway, or maybe some flat stones for creating a patio, Siena Moltz can get you fixed up. They have the products. Oh let's see, here's time for the phones. How about that. Let's go to southwest Houstern. We're going to talk to Jeff. Hello Jeff, good morning, Skip. You're not alone out there. We're up it's it's a great day. I'm glad you brought up has

to grow. But I wanted to mention first that, you know, the older I get, the smarter Grandma was. I've come to realize, okay, and it's it's more and more true every day I have some hass to grow that I've had for over a year. Is it's still good. Yes, it's been sitting in the you know, in the garage. It's not it's overly heated. They're overly cool. It's good. Go for it. You shake it up, hurt, I will. I just planted a bunch

of stuff. So I'm going to take your three week advice. Yeah, yeah, I wouldn't recommend, you know, keeping products like that for years and years, but there's no problem using that at all. Very good, thank you, and so all I had. All right, Jeff, thanks man south West Houston. All right, take care, appreciate your call. Yep, that is true. It does does very very well. It does well. Let's see, we're going to go now out to the Cypress area and talk to Jay. Hello Jay, Hello, good morning. So I

have two distinct questions for you. The first one relates to garden beds and bring vegetables for spring summer. I recently received a Facebook closet of a friend which stated tomatoes hate cucumbers and the purpose of the post was to say that certain vegetables enjoy going next to each other and certain do not. And I was skeptical of it, but I was curious to know if you had the

advice on that particular topics. That's a good question. There is something to different kinds of vegetable grouping, But a lot of stuff you hear out there is just hearsay that's been being spread around without any research to back it up at all. So if you don't do it, do it. But as far as me saying yeah, that works, I can't. But there are examples of where it can work. It can work in different ways too. It may be that one plant helps repel pests off another plant, or draws

pests away from the other plant. It can be that the interactions the volatiles that go up in the air affect what insects are drawn in or not. And it can have that kind of effect as well, like maybe drawing in some beneficial insects or some predators. But in general it's broad I've looked and looked for research and I found a lot of stuff, but it's really here

and there and the whole idea of all these combinations. I would look at that skeptically, not to say nothing, there's no truth in it, would just be very skeptical about that. For example, one time we were looking at how to control squash vine borne We read that if you plant tansy around

the squash plants, the vine bors will be repelled. We tried a trial where we actually replicated it, and we found there we had plants where the tansy had so overgrown the squash you had to pull the tansy apart to find the squash plant. And the squash plant had a vine boor in it, so the vine borer was doing a better job finding the squash than I was among the tansy. So that's just an example one that didn't work. But a lot of things get spread around and so be skeptical, but don't just

assume there's no truth to any of it. All right, Yeah, that makes sense. I had one more question, if you have time, sure, completely unrelated. I'm interested in growing a pineapple, and I've seen the number of videos on how to buy a pineapple in the store, pull off the crown, it out just right, and then plant it and grow a

pineapple plant from it. And I was curious to all these videos that I've seen are from people in Florida, like zone ten, and I believe that there's a possibility that one could grow a fruiting pineapple plant here where we are, and which I believe is still nine. But I was curious to know if you've heard of any success stories. Yeah, there is. So what you do is you take the top out, get all the fleshy stuff. When you cut the top off, you're left with a little pineapple and stuff

right there around the base of Yeah, shut off. Get that off. You don't have to let it dry much. Just go ahead and put it down into potting mix and get it started. It will root pretty quickly, and once it's established, I would keep it in a container for a while because if you're going to enter the cool season, you're going to have to

protect it here. It gets a little too cold for it here. But after it's established a decent sized plant, you can take an apple, set it in the top of the pineapple, and cover the whole thing with a like a dry cleaner bag. And what that does is it traps the ethylene the apple is giving off, and it initiates the bloom process in the pineapple.

I don't know how long it is. I'd have to go back and look, but maybe you leave it there a week or two and then take it out and then after a period of time it will start to send up a bloomstalk. And again you want to have a nice, good sized plant. And then it just it takes a while. I don't know how many months. It's like a year to get a good pineapple to develop. Maybe a little longer. Yeah, and just follow that, follow the stuff you're

reading online. But that's how you do it. The key is to initiate bloom with that apple. Okay, hey, Jay, I'm gonna have But I hope that is helpful. Thank you very much, it sure is, Thank you so much. Yeah, I appreciate your call a lot. You know, while while you're out there taking care of your lawns and gardens and things, this is a time to be doing fertilizing, and Microlife has some outstanding products for that. The green Bag the six two four is an outstanding

lawn fertilizer. Works very very well of us in my lawn. They also have the humates plus. That's the purple bag, and it has a little bit of nutrient in it. It's got four percent potassium. But you're not putting it on for that. You're putting it on for the microbes that are in it, and for the fact that humus is basically concentrated compost in a bag. So the whole process that nature goes through drops leaves on the ground,

rotsham into composts, keeps decaying and decomposing away into humus. That's microlife, humantes plus humus in a bag. You just do it when you're doing your fertilize. Also do an application of the microlife and you'll see results. It'll build your soil over time. It was time to turn the microphone over to Nikki for the news, and here we go. Give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to garden

Line. Glad to have you listening this morning. And hey, all those folks up around Carlos, Texas, who knows where that is? Well, I'll tell you this, Carlos, Texas, I call it God's Country. Is beautiful up there. That's where Grin's County Feed and Farm is. So if you are in Brian College Station, Navasota, or if you're out and all the little small communities out east of there like Iola and beat Eyes and Rones, Perrie, Shiro, Richards Anderson, maybe the subdivisions King Oak and

mere Wood. Well there you go. You've got a hometown feed store right in your backyard. They carry the products that I talk about, the fertilizers, night foss and microlife and Nelson's for example, They've got Medina products there. You can get your tree huger, sprinkler there, you can get your landscape pride souls there. They just have a wide variety of all kinds of thanks plus all the things you need for your pet food, for your ag

supplies. Do you need pond supplies, They've got them. They even bring in fish periodically in fish stocking. Just give them a call, check them out, go buy and visit. It's on State Highway thirty and Carlos, Texas, Grimes County Feet Grimes County Feed and Farm. The roy family has been just the place. First of all, the family's been in the community for a long time and they live lives of service there. They support their community, but they have just really created a nice feed so I enjoy going

in all the time. I enjoy visiting with them, and I'm tell you this, they will treat their customers right. That is absolutely the case. You see, We're going to go out and now to Mike and Nevisota. Mike, thanks for waiting. Good to have you on garden Line. How can we help, Yes, sir, appreciate, appreciate the show and appreciate you. Just get a quick thing the I have a small vineyard, uh, basically just a little bit over a quarter acre, about forty vines that

are down on the ground for about three years now. But I have some of the vines that don't throw, and I was just wondering why that might be. Are these blocked dubas vines or what kind of grade for you growing up Cabernier sau Migno. It's a challenging one to deal with. Here. Let me do this. I'm going to refer you if you will talk to the folks in the horticulture department at A and M. They have a specialist, a couple of folks that that may be able to help you there.

Fran Uh and Justin Fran and Justin uh Co and talk to either one of those. That is their specialty. And I've been to field days they've done out there in Grimes County, uh for for rapes out there, and they can probably guide you on it better them. Not fruiting could be due to several different things, but I would I will refer you to them if you go to the if you do a search for Aggie Horticulture for that website,

you can get the phone number and find out about those those folks. I would ask them that question because they're going to walk in through a series of questions, you know, like what is your disease control program? What is the bigger like on the vines, and a lot of things like that. Okay, sure, sure, yeah right, I'll give you a much better answer by referring you to them on that they specialize in its commercial rape. All right, excellent, Well, I do appreciate it, appreciate you,

Thank you. I appreciate your call very much, much appreciated. Let's see, we're going to go now to pair Land and talk to Pat. Hello, Pat, A, good morning. My question My question is is I buy them every year and it doesn't matter if I get a hanging basket or if I plant it, it dies. And I was raised in Corpus where they were just everywhere, and I would like to know. I do see some people able to have just really gorgeous spoken villas. Yes, I'd like

to know if you have advice on that. Well, they don't have that many problems. You know, certainly when we have winter cold, especially in a container plant, you're going to have trouble there. You got to protect and bring them in or whatever. They also don't like soggy conditions. And although they're dropping tolerant in a container, it can go too dry too too fast, and so you do need a moisture to have health and vigor in the vines. And I okay, it's going to be one of those things,

either too wet or to dry. Most likely they like lots of sun, but that's not going to kill the plant. It'll make it weak and spin lee to not get enough light. Uh yeah, I think I would look at also fertilizing. There are some really nice Boogainvillia foods, for example, out there on the market, and probably we didn't have to say Boogainvillia food on it. Uh, to be fine to use on booga and villias,

just a good you know, a good quality fertilizer. We'll provide them, but I would, I would look at some of those kinds of things. Have you When you say they die, is there any pattern to them dying? I mean, in other words, do the leaves turn yellow? Did they just dry up? Yeah? I've had both of those situations. Yeah, final, but I try every year because they're so gorgeous. Okay, Well, when you're out, when you're out chopping around, look for

nitrocass makes something called Boogainvillia fertilizer. It's a twenty six ten. Those are the Cree numbers, twenty six twenty six ten, and that'll give you like four months of release. Just follow the label and how much to put on there, and that will make sure you have a vigor from a nutrient standpoint, and then just watch the soul moisture a little bit. Other than that, I don't know what else would just black kill them? All righty,

I'll try again, thank you. Oh yeah, you gotta try again right now. Vegas are loaded up. I was at checking out RCW NURSIP. My gosh, they have a loaded amount of Boogo and villias out there, and it just all our garden centers really are loading up on those days. This is the time they are, aren't they. Thanks for the call, Brenda or Pat, thank you. That's okay, bye, all right, bye bye. Oh gosh, listen, it's time to make sure your trees

are taking care of. Summer is coming. If you planted a tree in the last year, it's still in those first few years that are touching go and you need to provide good care. If you have an established tree, training them right is very important. I've look at my wife was talking to me about a tree the other day and it's like we were talking about the branching on it, and it was just my comment was, yes, people plan them and they don't train them early, and now they're old and you've

got these structural issues because they weren't taken care of from the beginning. Affordable tree service they can do that Martin. Martin can come out and do a consultation cost one hundred fifty bucks, but if you hire him to then do the work, that one hundred and fifty goes into the cost of what you're getting done, so you're not out the one fifty, but have him take a look. If you're going to do anything around trees, you have to

have a good, knowledgeable person out there to guide you. And we have way too many people that have a pickup and a chainsaw and think they're a tree service and not. You drive around town, you see the results of that kind of damage and it's for life on a tree. Seven three, six, nine nine twenty six sixty three is how you reach Martin Either here Joe will answered, the owners answer the phone. There afftree service dot com.

He stays busy. Tell him your garden line listener. That moves you up in the list and call now because he books out a little bit of a distance because he does good work. And that's what happens. When you do a good job, people call you and ask for help. I'm gonna have to take a little quick break here, but we will be back, Brenda. You will be first up when we come back. The number is seven one three two one two kt R H. Yes, indeed, hey, I was I mentioned Narcy W. Wallerger. You know. RCW Nurseries

is at Beltway eight uh and Tamball Parkway. RCW Nursery dot com. That's a website. Boy are they ever stocked up. They have some beautiful Peggy Martin roses on Trellis's right now, so you kind of have a little instant display right there. It looks really good ornamental peaches like the flowering peppermint peach. Have you ever seen peppermint peach. It looks like peppermint candy with the pink and the white all mixed up in it. They got beautiful spireas.

That's the one of the things that announces spring. It's beautiful spyrias with the white blooms, cascading blooms. I mentioned that they had the booga bee as. Boy do they ever. It's easy easy at RCW, easy to get to right there, Tamba Park right two forty nine and belt Way eight, easy to find, easy to get to RCW nurseries dot com. Go check them out. It is loaded with color there. We're going to head to Woodville now and talk to Brenda. Hello, Brenda, good morning, good

morning. We moved here a few years ago and our yard is basically just wheat. Well it's sandy soil and it's basically just weeds. We have not been able to get any grass to grow at all because we do have moles, but anyhead, we don't know really where to start anymore. Okay, Well, look at your grass and look for grass in and among the weeds.

If you've got grass about, let's say there's a living grass about a foot apart, it'll cover back over when we get the weeds under control and start taking care of it again, you can get it to cover back. If it's bigger areas than that, you probably need to either look at putting some sad pieces in here and there, or residing sections, or if not, the whole thing. Those are kind of the options to start. After that, I want you to go online and look at my lawn care schedule.

It's at gardening with Skip dot com and it tells you gardening with Skip, Gardening with Skip, that's me dot com. Okay, And I've got a schedule for lawn care which is proper fertilizing, mowing, aerting, watering, those things. It tells you what to do when, what the products are organic and synthetic. And then I have the lawn pest, disease and weed management schedule. These are free for downloading. They are multicolored, real easy to follow. And that second one tells you, of course, what

goes wrong with the lawn, how do you kill weeds? What do you use when? How do you prevent the seeds from establishing? And when? How do you kill weeds that are already growing? And when? And so your question is, you know, one hundred questions in one because there's one hundred different things going on there. But with those schedules, I think you can take care of it. And if you have any other questions, just call me back and I would be happy to go into detail on any specifics

that you might have. Okay, thank you very much, Thank you, Brenda. Good luck getting that back in shape again. Do you need a feed store up there in the Magnolia area. I'm talking about FM twenty nine seventy eight those of you who live up in that region. Just they're really just close to Grand Parkway in Highway to forty nine. Well that's Spring Creek Feed Center. Spring Creek Feed is a wonderful store a visit, beautiful inside, great people, the way they treat you there, friendly and they carry

all the fertilizers I talk about. If you have weeds, diseases or past they've got the products that work on them. They have a nice little garden center on the outside of the store that they've really expanded this year. I

was very impressed with all the changes that they'd brought on. Hey, if you're for h r FFA raising livestock, if you for a former military or senior citizen, there's discounts for that, and they'll even special order too, by the way, so if they don't have it, they probably can get it at Spring Creek Feet Again. They're on in Magnolia on twenty nine seventy eight. Real easy to find, easy to get to, and just a

pleasant place to shop. Always like going by and visiting them there. I've been talking about the different kinds of fertilizers and whatnot that you might be needing to put on your lawn. Nitropos Imperial is their immediate release fertilizer that we use for spring green up, and I talked about earlier my schedule. If you look at my schedule, it has the spring green up time as going from maybe late February up until toward the end of March. Mid March to

late March is a good time to be doing still the spring greenup. What that does is it gives immediate nutrients out there so the grass can take it up and get greener. And that's what Imperial does. It's a fifteen to five to ten And here's the easy one. It's in a red bag, red bag nitrofoss red bag fifteen five to ten Imperial for quick greenup. That will provide that greenup as the temperature warms and grass begins growing faster and it's

slowly waken up. We still got, in Saint Augustine's opinion, it's still a little on the cool side out there. So when that happens, we'll be talking about things like slow and release fertilizers, which you can use them, but it just takes the longer to release the nutrients. Right now, the spring greenup is fine or the slow release, either the way you want to go. Red bag Imperial spring greenup from nitrofoss. Where do you get

nitrofoss? Everywhere? I mean night foss products are available in places like all spas, ace hardware up in the Woodlands area, plants for all seasons, just talking about them earlier on Highway to forty nine, or plants and things up in Brenham all have those nitrofoss products. I wanted to been meaning to kind of give a shout out for a Joge down in Jorges Hidden Gardens. He's down in Alvin is one of our newer sponsors on garden Line. I

was like going down visiting with Jorge He. I think they have a some sort of a spring meetup going on down there. He and dest I believe have one going on today down there. But Joorges Hidden Gardens is a place that just every time you go, it's expanding and there's more that's going on. They've got lots of vegetables right now. They have perennials like salvi and

lantana, for example, and Mexican heather. Mexican heather. I use it to line my driveway between the driveway and whatever else is growing in the bed right beside it. Mexican Heather's excellent for that. Honey Bees love it. Speaking of pollinators and things, milkweed, he's got milkweed on it. He's got fruit trees that are really at an age where you're going to see in

the next year to fruit on those on those plants. He's got grapes if you ever thought about putting grapes out, and lots of different kinds of berries all at Jorges Hidden Gardens. And again if you haven't been there before, JORGEE is down there in Alvin on Elizabeth Street, just south the Highway six in Alvin on Elizabeth Street. That is how you find it. And he's going to have things like the three sixty tree stabilizer that we talk about here.

He's got that as well. He got plenty of good stock of that and fertilizers and other things. Those of you done in that area, you really need to swing by there and check it out. I think you, I think you'd be very impressed. You're listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven two to one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four if you'd like to give us a call. I was visiting with someone, actually exchanging email with someone from ACE Hardware the

other day and just talking about what's going on there? What are you guys doing right now? And he reminded me, well, it's raining outside, so we've got we've got all kinds of supplies for that. You know, ACE is a place for everything that you need, and I mean that especially your lawn, your garden, but your patio, your home, They've got that as well. Do you need a pair of goloshes today, or rubber boots, rain boots, They've got those. Do you need a poncho a

rain gear, They've got that. See that's what I'm talking about when I talk about ACE. I just spend the whole show naming all the stuff that they have, you know, from small engine type things to indoor plumbing and

wiring and everything you would expect from a hardware store. But then you get into the indoor decorating, the outdoor ring of lights to make that ambiance in your patio, they've got it. And right now, the fertilizers you need, if you hear me talk about them on garden Line, they're going to be at your ACE Hardware store and you need to go by there and pick them up because they have an excellent supply. They're always getting a bunch in

an ACE Hardware. So where's your store, Acehardware dot Com. Go there, Acehardware dot Com. When you go there, what you're going to find is a store locator. You may scroll down to the bottom to find it, but store locator will tell you where all the forty stores are, and you're going to find some that are really really close to you. I always love going in and shopping. It. It is because you never know. Everyone's independently owned. They're each different, so they're no too, they're exactly

alike. But they all are going to have the basic supplies you would expect because they are the place to go, and they all are going to have everything you need for your lawn and your garden. You need a wilburrow, do you need garden hoses? Do you need sprinklers? Go there. In fact, if you go outside and say out loud, I'm going to ace hardware, and all your plants will start greening up because they know you're going

to bring them some good things. Okay, maybe that's a stretch, just a little bit, but I like you, by the way, too, I have heard I'm not saying. I'm just saying that if you play garden line on the radio or on your phone with a speaker on around plants, they start turning greener. I'm just hadn't been tested with research, but that's what people tell me. I'll leave it at that. That is funny. I tell a good thing to do on a rainy days go to the be

Supply. Be Supply out in Dayton has got every kind of supply you would need for taking your honey bees. But they also have a couple of things that you really need to think about, and one is if you've even thought about keeping bees, the be Supply has classes. They have class that are going on all through the spring. The next one is March twenty third. Couple weeks later on April thirteenth, there's one. On April twenty seventh,

there's one. They also had b tours for those of you who maybe aren't wanting to keep bees but just want to learn about bees or simple honey. Wow. I sampled their honey one time. It was unbelievable. And by the way, the website is thebsupply dot com vbsupply dot com. I love going by and simpling honey. Did you know that like orange honey and wildflower honey and BlackBerry honey are all unique in their flavor. Have you ever tried cream honey? Oh my gosh, I got to I can't talk about this

in the studio. It makes me on a run home, heat up a morning biscuit with some butter and cream honey. Oh my, gosh, that's like crack. I mean that is good stuff, not responsible for addictions to cream, honey, to supply. Gonna be taking a break here. Our phone number is seven one three seventy four. Hey, I'm going to be a Buchanan's Native Plants today. I'm going to tell you more about that when

I come back, but plan on after the show. Coming by Katie r H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor. Its crazy here Trim. Just watch him as well. Man. It takes the sea blotzy gas closing not a sign gas sun. Welcome back to Garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Still dark outside. It's a good time to plotting and planning your activities this week. I'm replanting

grass. I've talked about that for a couple of weeks now. That is what's coming up for me this coming week. Get past this low rainfall here. Good time to get that in the ground and get it taken care of. That is an important thing to make sure that we get done. Now. If you already got a lawn and you're struggling with weed problems, and if you got a lawn, weeds tend to go along with it, especially when the lawn gets thin. What you're seeing right now in your lawn,

that's broad leaf weeds. Broad leaf weeds. They're winter weeds from the cool season. Okay, the clover, the hembit, the chickweed, the cleavers or a velcrow plant some people call. All of those weeds are from cool season. You can shut them down with a post emergent product that contains trimac and nelson or nitroposs rather nitrous fertilizers. Has put together a fifteen to five ten. Now there, Imperial is the red bag fifteen five ten. This

is something different. It's a bluish bag and it has a trimech ingredient that kills broadly weeds. So when the weeds are damp, let this rain get over it. Don't put it on now, you don't want it to wash off. Don't let the rain wash it off. When it stops raining,

go out and dampen the weed. Just dampen them and spread it like a fertilizer, and the granule stick to the moist weeds and then give it a day or two to kind of fully move into that weed and then go ahead and a little just enough to wash it to the sill surface, just a little bit of irrigation on that. And what that does is it soaks in and it kills the broadleaf weeds. It doesn't hurt your vawn, especially in the temperatures we're having right now. It's got that fifteen five to ten quick

release analysis. This would be in place of your spring green up. This is in itself a spring green up product. It just has that broadlyaf weed control in it as well, and it worked very very well on that and can shut those down. And you can get it everywhere you get nitropuss products, and as I always say, they're super super widely of it. It's not hard to find nitropuss anywhere. Go to Katie Hardware, for example, Katie Ace Hardware. They've got it there, Ace Hardware up in Memorial or

in the Memorial Driver. Yes, they have it. They have it also Stanton Shopping Center in Alvin they've also got Nitropuss products like this Nitrofuss fifteen five to ten with the trimec as a post emergent in it. Let's head out to the heights and we're gonna talk to Ray. Hello, Ray, hie yip. How are you doing, Todick? I'm good, sir. How can we help? I just want to know if third laser gets old. My yard's not very big, and I got a big bag of furd lasser

and it's you know, just getting older and older. Yeah, just use it, Go ahead and use it. It'll be fine. You hadn't gotten all wet or anything, right, it's still dry fur leisure. No, it's been in the road yep. Other thing, I got a little area between my driveway and the street. It's about about two foot wide. It's real hot and sometime can't can't keep the grass growing there. So what else can I put there beside the grass? Well, you could go with a

you could go with a groundcover that is drought resistant. That would be in one option. There's things like seedom, for example, that are very drought resistant. Are you not able to water it at all? Is that? Well? Well, it got tortured last couple of summers. Yeah, even with water, and you know it just and and it's so hot, the sidewalk so hot, in the streets so hot. Yeah, and then between it's just every year. It makes th most of the summer, but it

seems like every summer he gets it. Yeah, but but it you don't have to walk on this area, right, No, okay, no, yeah. So there's there's a lot of different groundcovers that will will take that. There's something called frog fruit that's a groundcover that's a native and it spreads on the ground horizontally. You're gonna have to edge it to keep it off the sidewalking things. It's it's a very low growing native plant that's very tough. It would like some moisture if you want to look its best. It

needs a little bit of moisture. But it's a it's a pretty tough plant. It grows out in nature where you know, nature here doesn't know is water it as often as most plants would want. So that'd be an example of that. I mean, there's there's just a lot of different low growing plants that you could put in there, but I'd quit trying the lawn in that area and go with a low growing groundcolor. Well, a good deal, all right, day, Thanks for the call. I appreciate that you.

I appreciate that very much. I'm going to be at Buchanan's Plants today. By the way, a Buchanan plant is in the Heights, I say Cannon's plants, Bukenan's native plants. That's the proper name for it, because that's what they specialize in, is native plants. Now I said specialized. While they're going to have every kind of native you can imagine. I mean they even specify them down to this is one that's native in the Houston area

or just native to this part of Texas or Texas itself. They're gonna have all of those kinds of things. But they also are going to have every other kind of plants you need. You got a shady area that you are trying to, you know, get some color or some beauty in b Cannan's plants as a whole section just for that whatever kind of plant, fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, annual flowers, perennial flowers, ornamental grasses, houseplants, you name it. They're on East Eleventh Street in the Heights,

and it's always a fun time to go out to Buchanans. Even on a rainy day like today. You're going to have you know, they got their house plant area and the selection of houseplants is unbelievable out there, and that's a completely covered greenhouse area, just really easy to get in and get out. Buchanansplants dot Com. That's the website. I hope you'll come see me. I'm going to be there from eleven am to one pm today, So after the radio show I'm on head over there, make a beeline for Buchanans.

Come out and see me. Hey, you got some problems, Bring me pictures, bring me samples, put them in a zip bag and bring them in. Let's take a look at them. I always like to meet folks that are listening to garden Line, and I would love to meet you today. We'll find a nice dry spot out there in the greenhouse where we can hang out and really really happy to help you find success by pointing you to the right product or the right plants, or even making just some suggestions

for those areas. Like we were just talking a moment ago about you know what do we do in this area where it's dry and grass won't grow. I'll tell you, and I can tell you this. Buchanans is going to have four or five different good options for every kind of area, just like that, so make a note today after the show, come on over during the hour before and after lunch. I'll be right there for two hours answering gardening questions. We're going to head out now. Let's see. I tell

you what, no inn in League City. You're gonna be the first up when we come back. I'm up against a break and we'll be right back. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back the guard Line. Hey, good to have you with us today. We are talking about things to do this time of the year, and there is plenty to get done this time of the year. Now it's a little wet outside, I know that, but you need to write down

some information. And if you live down in the south and a little bit to the west area and you need compost top dressing done, you need air ration done, and you need somebody, need somebody that's going to do it right, B and B turf Pros, that's the one. That's the one you need to call. The phone number. Always listen to guard Line with a pen in your hand. Here it comes seven to one to three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two t two, three,

four, fifty five ninety eight B and B Turfpros dot com. So where do they serve, Well, they serve sugar Land, they serve Missouri City. Uh. They go as far east as Pearland, down Fresno and along Highway six like Ciena and our Cola and Iowa Colony and Menville, all those communities are served by B and B turf Pros. BnB does it right. They've got the equipment to spread the compost. They've got the equipment to do

a good job aerating your soil. And when you are dealing with clay soil, especially with the compaction and the fact that you don't get oxygen on the root system as well, aeration with compost top dressing is one of the best things you can do to improve your sod, to improve your lawn, to make the grass plant healthy. BnB turf prosbnbturf pros dot com or seven to one three two, three, four, five, five nine eight For all of you down in that region, you need to give them a call.

We're gonna head out now to Robert in Jersey Village. Hello, Robert, Hello there, how you doing this morning? I'm good, sir, How are you today, I'm doing fantastic. I got a quick question for you, Hm. I got this product called bio Advance and it's a three and one weeding feed. Is that a good Is that? Is that a good product? You know? Uh? To put down right now? Do you have it in front of you? You haven't had it? Uh? I

do not, sir? Okay, let me let me see I can find what's in bio advant I think is that a well, let's see, I think that it used to be called wortho uh uh, let's see. I'm I'm gonna have to look. I'm gonna have to look look that up again. It would not be First of all, I'll tell you that it would not be one of the ones that in general I recommend. Okay, now are you are you talking about does it have a fertilizer in it or is it just the insect disease and Mike, No, it does have the fertilizer

in there too. Okay, Yeah, it's a weighting feed. Yeah. Oh gosh, I'm trying to find there's BioAdvance. Everything I'm finding is just the insect trying to find. Yeah, it's a Bioadvanced three and one weeding feed. Okay, it's always hard to find there we go. I found it for Southern lawns. So that is going to not tell me what's in it? Isn't that nice of them to not tell me what I need to know? I okay here, First of all, the fertilizer wise, it's

it's okay. The the ratio and everything is okay. It's got a lot of nitrogen in it and a little bit of potassium, so that that part is okay. It's just not one of the ones that I generally recommend, and so I'm not finding the ingredient and I'm still looking for it. That would be the way I could tell you if it's a control your weeds or not. And it looks like I find it, okay, clicked my way into the answer I'm looking for. Uh, I came up an oxygen.

Yeah, it'll it'll control some weeds in a post emergent way, some weeds in a post emergent way. If I were you, though I would I would probably at this point in time, I would just use the UH Nitrofoss's the one that has fifteen five to ten with the trimac in it. I think you're going to probably be more pleased with that. Okay, okay,

one other question. I'm going to make it quick and easy. I have some you know, cause I know last year we had the drought and my backyard, you know, Saint Augustine grass and it was nice and thick, and of course the drought kind of killed a lot of grass and I got patches. I got patches. You know. Is there any way that I can I know they don't make a Saint Augustine's seed. What is the best way for me to you know, to uh get those patches back together?

Uh your lawn iss Saint august team, now, just I want to be sure I'm right about that? Is that correct? Yes, sir, Yes, sir. So I would say that I would just plug in with some Saint Augustine. And if you've got living grass, it's within a foot of another patch of a little spot of living grass, it'll close over with good long care through the summer. Areas longer than a foot apart, further than a foot apart, that's where I would put in a little You could put

a whole side piece. You could cut it up and the strips and put them in to make it golo further or you could just resawd sections. But that's probably your best way to go about it, Okay. And when I do that, I go ahead and put dirt over that, and you know, for the lines correct put the patches. You don't put it over it, but you you just set those patches down in the scratch up this so

a little bit. Set the patches down in there, and then make sure and water it regularly a couple of times a day when it's not raining, uh, for the right week, and then about about once a day for another week. All right it sir, hey, thank you for the information. All right, Robert, thank you. I appreciate appreciate your call. I have a good day you as well. Take care. Those of you down in the Richmond Rosenberg area who haven't been to in Channey Forest need to

go. In fact, if you are anywhere in the general listening area, you need to go check out in Channet Forest. It is an amazing, amazing gardens. They just got some foliage color in that is outstanding, and that includes colius and it also includes the koaladiums, which you know, we used to think of colius and kladiums as shade plants. And they are great color in the shade. You know, blooms are hard to come by,

but these two plants will give you color in the shade. But both of them, kalladiums and colius have some forms that are just outstanding for the sun. Is why they take the full brun of the sun. What else do you need? Blue days of Obulus, they got it. Wishbone flower, the bloomer in bright shade, Pentas, butterfly, magnet, Angelonius. I'm gonna talk about those later today. Impatience for the shade. I'm saving Angeloonia because I want to talk about that for a little bit this Saturday today,

March sixteenth, ten am. Right after the show ends, John Panzarella, the Citrus Expert, is gonna be talking about citrus and avocado ad Enchanted Forest, Where is it? FM twenty seven fifty nine If you're in If you're in Richmond, heading to our sugar Land way off to the right, FM twenty seven fifty nine, just go to Enchanted Forest Richmond dot or excuse me, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. It's always a good day to be out there. Love going there. Let's go

to League City. Now we're going to talk to Annie. Hello, Ann, how are you great? To talk to you? I have actually a segue on your last call. I do have frog fruit as a little turn. It's to a lawn. I have had plants though that are growing, and I measured it about ten to fourteen inches tall, So I'm thinking it's a weed interspersed with the fruit. So what can I put down to kill that without killing the frog fruit? And then I have one second question that

you're right that is not frog fruit. Frog fruit stays I would say about four inches or so at the most high. What you would need to do is have a wiper type applicator like a sponge, with a product that would kill whatever kind of weed you're dealing with. It could be a general product like a glyphosate round up being an example of that, but whatever will kill weeds in general. Post emergent wiped on the taller weed without getting it on

the frog fruit. That's the approach you would use. You know what I've done, And as I've gotten those little tools you used to grab a jar office shelf, they've got a little pistol grip and on the other end they're about three feet long and they squeeze and grab a jar or something. You know what I'm talking about, Yes, I do. I'll put two sponges on there. Take a kitchen sponge, a little small kitchen sponge, standard sponge, cut it in half and you can glue them on. Bolt them

on. However, you don't get them on, and then you squirt the sponge with the product and you just reach down and wipe. Just squeeze it on the bad plant and it moves down and kills it without getting it on your frog fruit. That's about the only way I can suggest, once the two are intertwined. Okay, Then the second question, again, it's a pretty quick one. I'm recovering a garden bit that's well a produce bid. It's going to be edible fruit, and I've dug it out and dug it

out, and I'm still getting grass grown in there. It's foul on now I don't have food in there yet, So any suggestions on what I can do? Do you know what kind of grass? Off hand, it looks like some nutgrass which I've been pulling out, but it also looks like it might be Sant augustine growing through well Saint Augustine, And when you cover it up, it dies. It can't punch through something, it can't crawl out of the ground like bermuda. Bermuda is the worst. Are you pretty sure

it's not bermuda? Well, it may be bermuda then, because it's definitely coming up. That's one where again you have to get a post emergent product. There's two approaches to the bermuda. One is to use a grass only weed killer. And there's a number of brands out there. If you go to an ACE hardware store and tell them I need a grass only weed killer, they can point you to one. You know, it may have a name like grass be Gone or getter. I mean, there's all these names,

but they just go grass. You can use that, or you can use the Glyphos Saint product. That's the round, right, Yeah, go ahead. It's going to be for food though, So that's what I'm wondering about. That it's label for use. It's label for use in the garden food gardens. In fact, you if you sprayed it and got it on the soil, I'm within like a week, you can plant seeds and it won't hurt them. They'll come right up. They'll be fine. But one

of those two approaches. So other than that, you're doing the hand digging, and whether it's nuts edge or bermuda, you got to get ever sprig of it. And once you get things planted, it's hard to dig it all out without killing the plant you got. Thank you, Thank you so much. Ski. Yeah, you're wise to get deal with it while it's still follow Make sure I got rid of some this past week, and I'll

wait about a week or two after I think I got it all. Maybe water the ground if it's dry, and then watch for re sprouts because there'll be some you missed, and then you can go back out and get those. Okay, thank you, all right, Dan, thank you very much. Sorry you're in that situation. But I can feel your pain. I guarantee you I've been there. Do you love birds? I do. Birds add color, they add movement, they add songs. I love sitting out

early in the morning and listening to birds sing. First thing. They I don't know what it is, but they wake up talking. I'm not a morning person. I've lived with mourning people before, and I'm telling you birds are mourning people. They wake up singing and going crazy. While birds unlimited is your store for everything that you need for birds. Do you need bird feeders? Do you need bird seed? By the way, listen, there's a lot of cheap bird seed out there. And by cheap I mean not

quality. I don't mean inexpensive, because when you buy a bird seed that is fifty to seventy percent, the little red bebes at birds are basically not going to want to eat that is not even money. The way, what the bird gets to eat out of that bag is not much, so you're paying more for it. Wibirds has quality feed. This is nesting season.

Birds need something like Walbird's Superblend. It's got sunflower chips, peanuts, dried meal worms, all and on and on, all the things they need to raise high protein is high protein, high fat food for raising a nest full of young Go to WBU dot com, forward slash Houston, WBU dot com forward slash Houston and you can find the six stores from Waldbirds here in the Houston area. It's time for Nicki and the news. I'll be right back at seven one three two one two kt RH. Welcome back to the garden

Line. We're glad to have you with us this morning. On a day's got a little bit of rain forecast for us today, but we're not worried about that. Heck, we live in southeast Texas. It rains. That's a good thing. People somewhere else are wishing they had rain. I was talking to some of the the turf on the turf growers down in the Gulf Coast and just talking about you know, when it rains a lot, it's

hard to get a machine in the fields to do the harvesting. But at the same time, when you got hundreds of acres of turf and you're trying to keep it alive and you're watering and watering and watering it, that's expensive too. So it is good to get a little bit of rain in to keep everything going and moving. And boy, the turf is just really waking up well right now. Lots of good, good, healthy growth coming on it. And that is important because I'm going to be I'll be planting some

this next week, hopefully if the rain allows me to. For those of you that are struggling with the lawn, consider patching some in. I you know, as a general guide, I usually say, well, if you got living grass about ever foot and you take care of it right this summer. By midsummer, you can get that to close over pretty good for most grasses. However, if it's struggling with diseases, if you're not watering it and all kinds of too many weeds that are choking it out, well,

then no it's not going to cover in time. Bigger areas than that, you ought to consider either plugging some in, which is a lot of labor, but it makes the turf go further. You can do a little plugging here and there all through the season if you want, or you just come in and your reside sections. That's the faster, easier way to make it have success. And we can talk more about how to do that sometimes,

but yeah, faster, easier, easier way to go about it. By the way, for your lawns, we talk about the spring green up that is that is the optional fertilization. We have each spring on our on my lawn Care scheduled at gardening with Skip dot com. There as we get into April, we start talking about slow release fertilizers and so you know, plants don't have this hard black and white line about today you can use this tomorrow

you can't. I mean, it's a it's a gradual thing. If you did an early spring greenup, then you're good for about three or four weeks, I'll say four weeks to get you on into the slow release time when we would apply the summer slow releases. They gradually feed over time because by then the grass is growing fast. You can also put a slow release on now you can do that if you want. You're not going to get the immediate greenup from it, but it will feed your lawn over several months.

And Nitrofoss makes one of those. It is called Superturf. That's a good name for it, Superturf. It's in a silver bag. The Superturf is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer, so it's basically essentially a four to one two ratio of nutrients, a four to one two ratio, and it releases that nitrogen because half the nitrogen in Superturf is slow release. It also has iron that really promotes nice, good green color. In the spring season.

When this was a little cooler and we get a lot of rains and stuff, you'll see some yellowing in your grass and that's a temporary iron deficiency. And super Turf nineteen four ten. The silver bag from nitrofoss can help fix that. That can help remedy that specific situation. Now, where do you get it? Well, how about going to Shades of Texas in the Woodlands. They have it there, Enchanted Gardens down in Richmond Rosenberg, Yep,

they have it down there as well. And you can find it at Fisheryardware both the Southmore location in South Euston and the Laporte location which is on Broadway Street down in Laporte. We're going to go back to the phones now and we're going to talk with Carolyn. Hello, Carolyn, good morning, Good morning. I have a question about my Swiss yard. It's one that I have had a whole winter. It's still producing. But will it continue throughout the summer? I would do I need to replace it? It will,

it will keep going. Charred is amazing. It can't take the coldest of cold, but a little protection you get it through a winter and yours obviously made it. And then in the summer I have I've done different things that I thought would have killed the charred with the heat, and it kept going. One year I had so much. Don't tell anybody, it's just hearing

me. Talking right now. I hope no one's listening. I had so much crabgrass in my vegetable garden that I took a weed eater to take charred and crabgrass to the ground so that I could mulch it and kill the crab grass. Those old charred stumps re sprouted in May and kept growing all through the summer. That's stump. I mean. So I don't recommend that as a practice, but I'm telling you charred is tougher than you think. It has to have water though, but it'll keep going for you. Oh well,

that's wonderful that I won't have to replace it. There you go, yeah, great, Thank you you bet Carolyn, and enjoy that charge. That's a good vegetable that's not grown enough. You take care of it. It's very helpful. It is all sorts of good nutrients. It is very good. That's all kinds of fresh greens are. Hey, thanks to the call. I appreciate that. I appreciate you calling. Yep, you can.

It's amazing how resilient charred can be. But with anything, you know, when we talk about things surviving through summer, it is always with the caveat that you're going to keep it adequately moist, because that's important. Those of you up in Montgomery, your hometown garden center is an A Plant and Produce. They're on the east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five. And now I say those of you in Montgomery, I mean Lake Conroe,

even Conroe, that whole region up there. You've got ana plant and produce and they always have things coming in their supply of plants. Is It's just it's always being renewed, always something fresh, always something coming in. Do you need color, They've got it. Do you want vegetables, They've got it. Do you need maybe a flowering tree, Yeah, they have it. They have it today. They got someone that is coming out today to talk about raising worms to make castings. Isn't that amazing? Yes you can

do. I've done that before too, by the way, But out of A and A you just know that you're going to get good quality materials. If I talk about a fertilizer, A and A is going to have it. They have my schedule there at the counter. They told me they were printing some of those up to have on hand. A and A Plants and Produce just on the east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five. So, by the way, their landscape crews will go out there and do some

early cleanup of the homes around the Lake Conroy area. Do you want somebody to come out and kind of spruce it up and get things looking good. Give a NA a call, have one of their landscape crews come out and do that. We are now going to go to League and talk to GD Hello, gd Hi, good morning. Yeah. I have a question about what is the best soil preparation to replant Saint Augustine's sod and should the soil be tilled. We have a lot of clay soil here and I'm also trying

to build up certain areas to support better drainage. Okay, so what I would do, this is what I am doing at my yard. I've got a heavy clay soil and it's sticky as all get out. I'm putting a couple inches of a sandy loam soil, high quality soil, not just sand, but a sandy loam soil, something that if you can get something that's close to a top soil, a couple inches of that down and then rototilling it end of the surface. Now, when the clay is gouey wet Rototilling

is not a good practice. But if it just drives out a little bit, rototil it into the surface couple of inches, just to mix those two so you don't have heart just a heavy clay going right from something like sand, sitting on top of it. Little rototilling in and then lay your side down. And when you lay the side, you want to press it into contact with the soil so there's no air gap underneath it. And you need to water it in right away, not thirty minutes later. Just go ahead

once it gets laid. What I'm gonna do in my yard is I'll lay a section, I'll turn on the turn on the water a little, move a sprinkler around on it, and then lay another section and move that sprinkler and move it, and then eventually you can turn on your home system.

But home systems often are very inefficient, and new sod is going to especially when the temperature rises up, it's going to need water a couple times a day, or morning and the afternoon, and then after a few days of that, a week or maybe less of that, you can go to once a day. The same thing. You're not trying to create a swamp. But you're trying to that sad gud has a one half inch thin layer of soil on it and that's all the roots that it has when it comes in.

So you need to keep that alive until it can get roots in the ground. That's why the light, frequent watering. Okay, I've got to run, got to run for a break. If i'm If you need to hang on, you're welcome to do that, but I appreciate your call. Our phone number is seven one three two two fifty eight seventy four Man Raindy day in Texas. Welcome to garden line. Good to have you back right now. So you hear me say the same thing over and over again,

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go ahead and do it? Do you have current weeds that you're seeing everywhere? Do you have a problem with weeds right now? Well? Yes, I put down the barricade a couple of weeks ago, and I actually spot treated weeds, but I mean I've got them, so okay. Well, if you were saying you mentioned the weed Nator and Nelson Weedenator is an excellent product to kill weeds are existing in your lung already. What you need to do, though, is you need to apply it when the weeds are wet.

The surface is wet. The soil doesn't have to be wet. The leaf surface of the weeds needs to be wet. So if we know we're done with rain right at the end, you can go in there and put a little weedenator down. It'll stick to the weeds and it'll soak in. After about a couple a day or two, go ahead and water it into the ground to get the fertilizer down in the ground. After that, it's

a slow release. It works very very well, and it's going to give you like a couple of several two or three months probably of release of nutrients. It's it's very slow, but it gives you some early and then as the soil warms up, it unlocks more and more of that nutrient that's in the product. But don't worry about doing it before aeration. No, I wouldn't. I would. You could do it before, but don't do it like the day before. You need to let it undisturbed for about a day.

Then you could do your aeration and follow with a little bit of water to kind of wash it down. Yeah, gotcha, perfect, Good luck with that. Appreciate that very much. Glad to have your call. If you are looking to have a beautiful, just a gorgeous flower pot on the patio, maybe you're going to grow vegetables, maybe you're gonna grow flowers. Jungle Land distributed by Nitroposs. Jungle Land is a quality soil mix for containers.

It's designed for that it's called jungle Land flour and vegetable planting soil. Now there's also an indoor version called jungle Land water saving potting Salt's got the little crystals at whole moisture and release it to roots as the soil begins to get dry. These products are available everywhere you get nitrofoss products is all over the place. For example, King of Ace Hardware has got those. The arbor Gate up in Tomball, the shades of Green or shades of Texas excuse

me, Shades of Texas on Genoa Red Bluff down in South Houston. Those are all places you can get jungle and other nitroph nitrofoss product. I'm having trouble talking today. Other night fross products available there as well. Let's run out to Jersey Village now we're going to talk to George. Hey, George,

h good morning Skip. I have a few questions for you. I remember you talking about instead of watering on a specific schedule, just to go about four inches down and look at the soil and grab a handfle see what it feels like. Oh, I avoid going down on my knees. Is any chance I get so? How about a moisture meter? Those things any good? Are there one that you could recommend? The second thing is my

wife, as was agent. You see wonders hopping. They don't get any bigger, beautiful flowers, but they're only about go two to three feet in diameter. And the other question, as tomatoes, she says, if you pinch off the flowers, the first flower just better. And any place where a where a brass come out of the main stems, she says, there are suckers that grow it right when those two come together, to pinch those

out too. So all right, what do you think, George? I'm gonna answer half that, and after we come back from the hour break, which is coming pretty quick here, I'll try to Well, maybe i'll get them all answered. We'll just see see how far I can get. Let's start with the meters. I'm sorry, say it again, the meter. Yeah, the meters. Those are moderately accurate for moisture. They're okay, they're not great. If you don't want to get down and feel the soil,

you can use one. But by the time you've been over to do the meter, you can almost be down. Hey, you need to get one of those kneeling benches. That's what I use because if I go up and down a lot, I'll pay for it the next day. So I have one of those kneeling folding kneeling benches are excellent. Yeah, and they got little handles. It makes it easy to get back up again. Anyway.

The meters are okay, they're not the best. I usually say go down, dig down four inches and feel the soil because that's deep enough to where if there's moisture, you ought to feel it. You know, if you feel the top inch, well it could dry out. But they're still moisture done in the root zone. But anyway, you could go either way. Just know the meters aren't fully accurate usually unless you spend quite a bit. Okay, as far as let's see what was the azaleas, Yeah,

azalea's. Part of that is due to the genetics of the plant. Not all azaleas reach the same mature size, but a lot of it is due to growing conditions. Azalias want moist soil consistently. They want highly organic soil. They preferred a little on the acidic side. They need moisture, but they need good drainage too, so if the soil is compacted, if it gets on the dry side. That's all going to stunt them and slow down growth. So i'd get a big can get bigger. Pardon they can get

bigger? Then, yeah, they can unless it's just a variety that you know is just reaching the size that you have, but you ought to want to consider. Get you The Microlife makes a fertilizer for acid loving plants. It's in a kind of a pinkish red bag. Uh, and it will be good. It's good for azaleas, blueberries, camellias, gardens, all those plants. It's a naturally slow release organic product that is a good blend

of nutrients. And i'd recommend you grab you some of that, all right, some of that and do it. Do it now, do it again in midsummer, and do it again towards the end of summer. Okay, okay, all right now. Tomatoes, yes, tomatoes, taste the flowers off, the first growth flowers too. Tomatoes come in three types. Determinant they reach a certain size, set fruit and that's it. Indeterminant which is vine and vine and grow and gross and then semi determine, which is of

course in between. If you are going to steak your tomatoes, you want to remove all the suckers that come out where a leaf comes out, like you were referring to H and you that way you get larger, earlier fruit on your tomatoes. If you want to cage them, I still remove a couple of the early suckers to get them up and growing, and then maybe let them go to about three or four vines inside the cage, removing the other suckers because it just gets so wadded up with foliage if you don't remove

any suckers that, yeah, it's a problem. I wouldn't remove fruit though, you never need to remove fruit. Okay, all right, well, thank you, all right much, all right, good luck with that. Hey we got them all done. That's good. I appreciate that. Thanks a lot for that. Hey, we you're listening to garden Line, and I'm going to be here answering gardening Uessians all morning. In fact, i'll be here tomorrow as well. Today's a good day to get out, but

I'm going to get out. I'm going to be at Buchanan's Plants. Bugannon's is providing some cool stuff for giveaways. I don't know. I have about almost seven or eight different kinds of things. I'm going to be given away all kinds of things that you will find to be a real cool gift. If you would like, we will answer any gardening questions you have. Just show up there, bring me a sample, bring me a plant in a ziplock bag, or bring me photos. Get up close, make sure they're

in sharp focus. Let's figure it out together. You got a Problemary, you have trouble with plants just not performing. I promise you the Buchanans is going to have a plant or two, or three or six to that area that will do just well, and we can point you to those. But it made me come out. Let's do some of the giveaways. Let's have some fun with Q and A together. I'll even walk around a little bit and do some shopping with you. You've got time. Buchanan's Plants right after

the show today at eleven am to one pm. Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's Shoes, Crazy Gas Can Trim just watch him as many good things to seept Crazy INASMS Club not a Sundays Gas Sun Beam and welcome back to the Garden Line. Hey, it's good to have you with us. Glad you're listening today. Good morning to be inside listening to the radio. Right now, we're starting to get a

little glow in the sky, meaning the day is is coming. We're ready to get out and do things. I'm going to be out in the battle b it b Canna's Nursery today. I hope you'll come by and see me from eleven to one pm eleven am to one pm, answering your gardening questions and I don't know, just talking gardening in general. We'll even put up with a little bit of bragging. I know you grew the biggest tomato in the neighborhood last year. I'm a skeptic. Show me some pictures. We'll

take a look at that. Anyway, I love getting out and visiting with people that listen to Garden Line. It's always good to visit with the listeners out there. For those you got in Kingwood, you've got Warren's Garden Center out there. You've also got Kingwood Garden Center, right, both of those are out in that area, so it's real easy to go to Warren's Southern gardens and pick up whatever you need. Our Kingwood Garden Center just so darn

handy. A lot of people are jealous because you got two great nurseries just side by side right out there, and boy are they ever loaded. Color. Warren's got some fashion azalias in that are outstanding. In fact, you look at them and it's like does the plant have leaves or is it just solid blooms. I mean they're literally that thick. Do you want gaudy in your landscape? Go check out the beautiful hibiscus, the tropical hibiscus that they have. The colors, I can't describe them, you just have to go

see them there. Beautiful I mentioned earlier, Colius of her sun and shade. They've got that out there. It's just easy to find everything that you're looking for. And anytime you go to a garden center, you got to pick up salvia's and they have one called Rocking Deep Purple. It's a Salvia gar nittica type. Salvia attracts hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, you name it. I mean they are a magnet. And last thing, I mean, I could go all day here. They have some ten gallon bougainvillias that are

on a little trellis. It is just a wall of color. You have to go look at them. They're unbelievable. They also haven't trained as standards. What's that mean? That means we take a bunch of trunks of the boogavilia, put them all together like a little miniature tree, prune everything off, and then they have this beautiful rounded head full of blooms. All at Warren Garden Center, Kingwoo Garden Center Warren's Garden Center, two great places to

shop and find everything you need. We're going to go now to sugar Land. We're gonna talk to Greg. Hello, Greg, Hi, Skip. I have questions on azaleas and boogain beas. Okay, are those good summer plants as far as uh being able to survive the heat or hollows those plants do. Yeah, they both can take the heat. Azelias for the most part, wants shade. Bougainvillia's definitely want full sun. Azalea's bloom in the spring some repeat bloom, okay, but boogin mainly spring for azalias uh,

and then Bougainvillia's boog and villas they bloom on in through the season. Though. If you can keep them going. They may do it in waves, but you can you can have an extended bloom on those. And yeah, I'm thinking about pulling some shrubs that died during the freeze that I was thinking about just putting those plants, those flowers in that in that soil that after I pulled the shrubs out, just go back and I could do that suner

shade. Are you talking about suner shade? I'm talking about mostly sun. Okay, mostly son h Yeah, you could, you could do that. They're just a lot of good blooming shrubs for sun. I wouldn't put the azaleas in the sun. They are somewhat cold tender. I know you're down

in Sugarland, so you you know you're not far up north. I don't know that I would plant them as just a general shrub, but unless you can look, unless it's okay for everything to be barren in the winter time when the leaves fall off, but there are probably I would consider some of the good shrub roses for sun for blooms that go all through the season. Mm hmm, okay, well I have the knockout roses in the front, and so uh, the boog and vans will be okay. They're okay in

Sun. They're okay in Sun. Yeah. But you know, you're just down the street down there, you're just down the street from in Chenna Gardens. You ought to just run by there. H. They are going to have a wide variety of roses, and they're going to have a lot of other good blooming plants. And they're very knowledgeable there to China Gardens. They'll they'll be able to tell you, Okay, here's another example plant option, here's another one that they carry. They're going to have everything. So there,

have you been to in Chenna Gardens before? No, that's what that's right down south Rosenberg. Yeah, you had to head down south. It's it's if you're in Rosenberg going up toward fullsher north toward Katie that direction. They're on FN three point fifty nine. Just it's what you need to do. The website's easy. It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com and you can get a map to it and all that kind of stuff. They got all the fertile pass that I recommend, and more plants there I can imagine. By

the way, they're open. They're open till five o'clock and tomorrow from ten to four if you if you can get out and that's in charge an enchanted garden, Jenny Gardens, and they're going to have a lot. They have antique roses, hybrid roses, and then Bougainville is everything else. They're going to have it all right there. Okay, thank you so much, Thank you appreciate appreciate that call a lot. We're going to go now, let's

see. I'll tell you what I want to I want to mention. I mentioned this earlier, but if you've got existing weeds, that's cool season weeds. Warm season weeds have not had a chance yet to take off and grow and become big visible problems. Those are cool season weeds that you're seeing. Night Fuss makes a product that's a fifteen five to ten, which is your early greenup. It's the early greenup that is an optional application to do an early greenup. If you're going to do that, if you use a n

Foss fifteen five to ten with trimec. It's a broadly post emergent weed control. So here's what we need. We need to wet the leaves of the weeds in the grass just with a just a squirt of water just enough to get them wet. Don't do it before a gully washer rain. You need to wait till the rains through and then just wet the leak. Get them wet, put down the trimeac with the fifty five to ten. It's a nitrofoss product. Again, it's easy. It's easy to find. Night foss

products are available just pretty much everywhere. I mean, and this bag is easy. I like the color coding, but it's a bluish colored bag that is going to Just make sure it says trimec as the ingredient and then leave it about a day, let it soak into the leaf tissue of the weed, and then water it in to get the fertilizer into the ground. Just a tiny bit of water will do it. That product itself will kill those weeds that are existing and then provide the nutrients for your yard. And where

do you get nitrofosh products. Well, here's a few places. You can get them at Fisher's Hardware in Baytown. Down in Baytown, you can get them at Lake Hardware down in Angleton. You can get them at D and D Feed up in Tomball. We're going to take a little break. We'll be right back our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to the Garden Line. Good to have you with us

today. Got a lot to talk about. This is spring, as spring has sprung, as they say, and boy are we ever in the big middle of it with plants and all kinds of things. It's time to fertilize your lawn. I've been talking about that. Get down your earth spring green up if you want to do that. One the slower release products that we use through the summer that time is we're kind of up on the edge of

it. We've sort of got one foot in spring green up what foot and slowerly is going on with some of these products now, But either way you want to go, it's a good time to be doing that. Also, azamite azmite is a trace mineral element. What does that mean. It means there are nutrients that the plant doesn't need a lot of, but that are essential for plant living growth development, and so you may not need much of them, but you absolutely have to have them. They're essential. Asamite is

full of those trace minerals, those micro nutrients. You can go to Azamite Texas Dot com and find out more. It goes a long way because you're just using a little you're not putting it out at the quantity you would put out fertilizers. Now, this is something that like a forty four pound bag will cover six to twelve thousand square feet, So you want to make sure you're setting on your spreader is crank really down to not put very much out

and you can find out more about that. But azimite is an excellent product for doing that. You can do it anytime of the year. You won't do it now, be just as fine as any So get you some asmite and get out there and get going. Where do you get it, Well, it's widely available, as mite is widely available in fact, Southwest Fertilizer. Of course that's cheating. Southwest Fertilizer has everything, So saying it's available at Southwest is like, okay, what's new. I mean that everybody knows

that Southwest has all the fertilizers. I recommend you know, when we talk about nitropost when we talk about Nelson's, when we talk about the microlife fertilizers, when we talk about the Medina products, they got all of that and then some. They have everything you need. If you've got a pest, disease or weed, they can fix it. Bring a sample, walk in with a photo, show them what you got. Make sure it's a good crisp photo. Train staff very knowledgeable, you know, and Aaron for a

right hand man. Aaron knows exactly where to point you, and so do other folks working there at Southwest Fertilizer. It's good to walk in be treated right with knowledgeable answers. You know, you've been to these places where you ask a question. As you start asking it, you watch the eyes glaze over and you realize they have no idea. They're going to make something up. But they have no idea. That's not Southwest Fertilizer. You go in there, you get what you need. They've got it all. They got

the A'SM. I. They also, by the way, have the Nitrofuss super Turf. That's the nineteen four to ten. That is the silver bag. The silver bag very very important. The silver bag is what you need for slow release. Now, if you just did the fast release the Nitropuss Imperial, go ahead and get the silver bag. Hold off though, give it, you know, give that night Fuss Imperial about three or four weeks and then put the silver bag down. If you didn't do it, go

ahead and do the silver bag now. Tterfost super Turf is an excellent slowly products give you your nutrients over time. It's going to provide them gradually over time. And when you do that, you just put it down and you forget about it. It's going to feed your LNG gradually like you want. Knight Foss products are easy to find. They're available ever where. I keep telling you that where are some places. Well, let me give you a

few examples. You can get them at Kingwood Ace Hardware. You can get them up at the Arbor Gate. You can get them down in South Houston on Genoa Redblock at Shades of Texas. Lots of places to get the Knight Foss products. Let's now go out to West and we're going to talk to Jonas. Hello Jonas, Good morning, Skipp, Thanks for a gee my call. I have a couple of questions about my highbiscus plants. They're potted, have about eight of them, and I took care of them in the

winter and put them inside and they're fine, but they're very lanky. They have all these stems in them, many from the base, and they're not very bushy, and I don't know whether that's just a part of their genetics or not. And even though they're doing well, sometimes some of the leaves, even little ones after in yellow. Other leaves that are more mature have furled and have developed a brownish look to them with little holes in them.

Okay, And I basically don't know. How can I make them bush here if that is possible? And what fertilizer should I use? Yeah, good questions, Paul. You can with the with a hibiscus, that's not unusual coming out of wintertime, so I wouldn't I wouldn't worry about that at all. You're gonna I am yellow. The yellowing, Yeah, that could be a water too much, too little. That's kind of normal for them.

They wanted to warm up before they're really going to get going. I would get you some Nitrofoss makes a liquid, I mean not a liquid, a dry product. It's called Hibiscus fertilizer. It is a twelve three sixteen product and Nitrofoss sold all over the place, but their Hibiscus fertilizer, the twelve three sixteen I would fertilize them with that and watered in really well. And when you watered in, you're going to get a response as those nutrients are

released and as they pick up and they go with it. Now, if you want the water soluble version that you mix you know, the fertilizers you mix up in water and you water your plants with them, that would be their space city hibiscus, and it's an eighteen ten twenty eight. Wherever nitrophossis sold. Either of those Hibiscus work. One is for mixing up and using the solution to water your plants. The other is a dry fertilizer you do just like any other dry fertilizer. You put down as you water, it

releases. It's a twelve three sixteen, right, The one that is water soluble. Well, the one that's dry first of all is twelve three sixteen. The one that is water soluble is an eighteen ten twenty eight. It's a little higher in the potassium levels there. But both of those are going to work just fine. As far as pruning them, yeah, you can. You can trim them back. Don't let them put on too much growth before you trim them back. You don't waste that energy. But if you

trim them back, they'll sprout out just fine. Okay. And the fertilization should be a time of year or at any time. I would do it now, and then I would continue to do it. As the weather warms up. Growth is going to speed up, and you could if you do the dry version, you could do it every couple of months on it. If you want to use the soluble one, and just whenever you water once a week, apply a good application of that. That would be fine too, Okay, all right, Now, once in a while, I do

add coffee grounds to them. That's fine, that's fine. It's a little bit of cidifying. But that's okay. But I'm gonna have to not have to run Jonas. But thank you for that question. Good luck with those. Yeah, they're beautiful plants. You're you're fortunate to have some of those on hand. I wan't tell you about a garden center that some of you not been to. A lot of you have. It's well, really well known about folks that if you've ever been there, you know it's a destination.

So that's kind of a mystery. What am I talking about? Nelson Water Garden it's your West Houston garden center. Now what Nelson water Garden, I should say the nursery, Nelson Nursery, because really it is a full fledged nursery. Do you need tomatoes and herbs and flowers and the whole thing. It's a garden center, right, but water Gardens is where they got their start and they are a specialty I mean, I'm telling you, do you need specialty fish like koi and shabukin? Do you need beautiful lilies?

Do you know that they have got a bunch of tropical lilies. Those are the kinds that aren't winter hardy, and they've got a whole bunch of the hardy varieties too. The colors of the flowers are excellent. In fact, they're already starting to bloom out there. And the little containers that they have for water garden you can get them in a seven court pots just beautiful. They know what they're talking about. Do you need fish? Do you need

to feed your fish? Do you need I said they were a garden center. They got micro life six two four plenty of that and other products as well on hand. Now Nelson Water Gardens out in Katie. You head to Katie you just go north, just north of Iten, turn right about a Stone's throw up there on Katie Fort Ben Road, Katie Fort Ben Road, and you need to go, and you need to take friends because the way that place is set up, it's like you're walking through a water wonderland.

You will see fountains, waterfalls, just you just need to go. Take my word for this one. Nelson Water Gardens out there in Katie. It is definitely definitely a destination, one of a kind place. You're listening to garden Line and we're here to answer gardening questions. Would you like to give us a call? Seven to one three two one two kt R eight seven to one three two one two kt R H Landscaper's Pride has one of the widest selections of stuff to make your plants thrive that you're going to find.

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I mean they the place began as an antique rose place and it is the go to place for that. Foreshore people get roses shipped all over the country from the antiq rosen Porium. And you can go because it's in your backyard and you can see the place the display gardens. But when you get there, you're going to find houseplants and herbs and flowers and fruit trees and

flowering trees and all kinds of native species there. On twenty third of March, just next weekend, ten am, they're going to have a beneficial insect presentation. Same day will be a children's activity at four pm and it'll be all about ladybugs. I'll even the kids will get to do a Ladybug release, so that'll be kind of fun and cool. March thirtieth is their Easter egg hunt coming up. They'll be posting a lot more stuff to social media,

so follow them on social media. The Antique rosen Phum. If you would like to accommodate or have them accommodate a tour, maybe even a presentation to your group. They can do lunch and learns. They can do gardencraft workshops during the week and on Sundays too during the spring. Go just email them events at Wereroses dot com, Events at real we are Roses dot com.

That's the email now if you want to call them nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight nine seven nine eight three six five five four eight Our best of all, just go to Antique Roseemporium dot com. Antique Roseanmporium dot com. Love that place, so excited to see it continuing on under new ownership and it just keeps getting better and better. I want to head out now to Comstead in Texas and we're going to talk to Jerry.

Hello, Jerry Yellow Jip. Actually I live in Belbo and that's where I'm calling you from day with a hailstorm. And I don't know if you've talked about it yet this morning, but I have a few trees in my yard and there are trees in town that literally have no leaves left on them. Okay, the hail took everything off the trees and just left the branches. Wow. Wow, is that going to cause an issue this summer because those

trees no longer have leaves with producing energy? Uh no, Well, it's gonna weaken the tree, but the tree will be fine if it was in good health going into the winter. In that hailstorm, the tree has plenty of carbohydrates to put on a new set of leaves. We just need you to not let any more hailstorms come through. That would be helpful, but

it'll put out new leaves. What you're gonna see, though, is on some of the branches on the up facing side, those hailstones, if they were that many, that much, they're gonna have damaged some of the barks. You're gonna have some wounds on the tree, but there's no action that you can take about that. Now. Again, with the tree having good health, it will quickly close over those undes. Spring is the best time for wound healing, so you should be okay, Well, I'll tell you

how much hell we had. I had literally a foot and a half of hal in my ditch. Good not what size? What size were half inch to one inch diameter? Man, that'll that'll do it. Yeah. And it looks like a tornado may have come through because some of the damage that's here. I don't they haven't confirmed that yet, but I mean we've got there's some mobile homes around here that are destroyed. Wow. Yeah, so it uh, it was pretty bad and it was only for I'll send you

a video if you want. It was only about two minutes. Yeah, but it just take down. Yeah, go ahead, if you don't mind me keeping it and using it, I'd be happy to. I'm gonna put you on hole when we're done here. And Josh, we'll give you an email you can you can send it to. Okay. Yeah, I need to call Dean Nilson because Nelson Fertilizers out there and see how they fared through that. That's uh okay up in front of town. It looked like it

came from the southwest to the northeast. Is what the path looks like now. Okay, So it would have missed him. But all right, yeah, all right, Jay, I'm gonna I'm gonna put you on hold and we'll please send or have Josh give you the the email. I'm sorry to hear about that. That is a mess, and I've been through those things before, and boy, can that ever do a lot of damage? Uh? You know, our landscapes is like every time you turn around, there's

something else. Last summer's drought and heat was brutal and a lot of people are struggling. I'm replacing a lawn because of it. When I left for two weeks, took two weeks in the heat of summer, full stress. My water didn't come on, and I don't know word got out to the insects and diseases because chinchbugs, for the first time ever, showed up like I had been invaded by hundreds of thousands of soldiers marching across the lawn.

Uh take all root right, hammered it as well, Peerscapes can fix out. So right now, look out the window. Do you see standing water by the end of the day, By the end of Sunday, maybe you will. What do you do about that? Plants don't like swamps, very few plants can live with suburged roots. Peer Scapes can fix that. They can come in and fix the drainage. Is your irrigation system on the blink when you turn it on, does it apply water evenly over the whole area?

They can fix that. Do you want to turn the backyard into a showplace? They specialize in that. It's easy, easy to get hold of them. Just go to their website piercescapes dot com, piercescapes dot com, or call them two eight one, three, seven oh fifty sixty. Whatever you need to fix what's broken or to turn what you got into a showplace, Peerscapes can do exactly that. And right now is a good time to

talk about that drainage issue because it's real clear where you have problem. Take pictures of it, by the way, take pictures right now when you see the problem, so you can show it to them and say this is where it is, this is what we need to fix, and they can do that. They're very good at that. By the way, We're gonna go to Missouri now and talk to Josh. Is this Missouri city or Missouri state, No, sir, it's Missouri state. I've been bringing garden line up

here for about twenty years. Now, go way to go? Hey, where are you in Missouri? South central? More on the kind of more on the west side though, I'm just north of Springfield. North of Springfield? Is that Ralla? No? Not Ralla? What? Actually? Strangely, I'm just outside of Houston, Missouri. Oh yes, I know. Isn't that amazing? I used to live in Mountain Grove, just an hour east of Springfield, and I went all through that region Neo Show and Springfield.

But anyway, enough talk about old times, Josh, how can I help? I'm trying to figure out a way to get it. Is some greenbrier, it seems to if anything I use on it, what have you tried? Uh? Fertile oam kills all. I've even tried the round up type products. No matter what I do, it just comes right back. I've used a really sticky stuff that's just four vines even you know, that suck down in the winter, but they just come back. Okay. Is this a more of a farm like size or is this a backyard or what

are we talking about? Either? I've got them in my yard, in my gardens and all around the poem too. I just can't seem to get a handle on it anywhere. So if you got big old vines coming out of the ground size of your thumb, those are going to be storage roots. You probably need to try to dig up because there are products that work, but when you have that much storage power in the ground, it's hard to knock them. It'll take several applications. But here's what you need to

get. You need to get a product that contains trimech TRII mec trimechr. That's the ingredient. Now it's put in lawn and garden stuff, but you want to get a good strong It may be called brush be gone, it may be called poison ivy killer, but the ingredient is trimech. Second, you need to get a little bit of diesel oil. Just a little bit of diesel oil. And then you need to go to a website that's a

Texas A and M website called brush Busters. And if you do a Google search for brush Busters and Greenbrier, you'll get a page that tells you how to mix it up and use it. The diesel is there to help it stick, and you have to get it on the new stems. You just get spray it or painted on the new stems and growth. It translocates down and it works pretty good. I got to run for a break here, but that's the solution, digging and or using that combo of a product,

and that that'll get done for you. Thank you for the call. I appreciate et that. For those of you who'll like to call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. Glad to have you today, boy Josh, great job on all these rain songs. It's a good day for rain songs, for sure, and there are a lot of them. You get to thinking about it. The first thing comes to my mind is bj Thomas, rain drops

keep falling on my head. By the way, that's one of the few times you hear me sing on the radio. There are a bunch of rain songs out there. That's it. Man. Hey, Uh, Soil Soil is first, right, Soil is important. How do we say it? I can say it ten different ways. Brown stuff before green stuff. Brown Stuff makes the green stuff happy. Start with the brown stuff, then do the green stuff. The success of the green stuff depends on the brown stuff.

Airlom Soils. They specialize in the brown stuff. Do you need a roset soil blend, They got it. Do you need a veggie and herb mix, They got it. Do you need a top quality leaf more compost, they have it. They have everything that I mean, a wide variety of product. Just go to the website. Go to the website, it's easy. You can go to Heirlooms Soils of Texas dot com Airloomsols off Texas

dot com. Find out everything you need. They got it in bulk, they got it in bags, And depending on where you live, you may not have to get your soul from the porter location. There is, for example, up in the Tumble area they have a place where you can get bulk there as well. But bags are widely available all over. But remember this, before you put the green stuff in the ground, make sure that

you've already created a bed that is going to make it. Make the plant happy and help it to thrive, help it to produce, help it to be beautiful. That's what airloomsl is all about. Simple as that. We're going to go out Tonederland and talk to Dora. Now, Hello, Dora, Hello, that can we help today I'm leading to find out how far to cut back the roots on live oak trees. We have three large live

oak trees twenty four feet from our driveway that's in our neighbor's yard. And I don't want to kill the trees, but I need to cut the boots back. We just had the driveway replaced twenty three thousand dollars and I can't afford to do that again. I need to cut those trees. Those mac half far do I need to cut up half posts and I cut them without killing the trees. Well, it's a percentage game. You know, a tree that's strong versus a tree that's weak. That's different. I'm sorry.

It's a percentage game, meaning that if the tree were strong, it could take more of that than a tree that's already struggling weak. The percentage of roots that you remove, Like if you remove thirty percent of the roots from a tree, then you got big problems. But a root here and there. What I would do is I would do this over the next three or four years. We would over the next three or four years, I would

cut the roots. I would cut one right now, just completely remove it, and I would do it about two feet away from that that driveway two feet away from the tree of the driveway, or or within at least within a foot of the driver go ahead and cut it back there. You can then next year cut another root, or this fall cut another route, and then just let's gradually take them off just to keep from totally shocking the tree.

It sounds like you're gonna have to remove quite a bit of root, So that what I was thinking about, just taking doing a trench down the driveway, say two feet away from the driveway, to find out where the roots off. How far away the tree tree from the driveway. How far is the tree from the driveway twenty four feet? Oh, that's pretty far out. Good. You could probably get away with that trend then and do that. You really need to cut them all as I go down the trench,

just cut all the down. If you can get out about a foot deep with a trench, that that will do. You might want to have an arborist come out and look at it, because I'm not picking. I'm not seeing it on site, so I may have a different opinion if I was there looking at it, me saying you, probably that's fine to go ahead, get it done soon. But an arborist might need to come out there. I don't think that affordable tree goes out that far, but they

might. You might consider giving him a call. I think that's probably so far that just his travel time is probably so if I trench that tree, I can go down that trench and cut those cut those branches, say half far away from my driveway? Can I do that? I would do it about a foot or two from the driveway. Okay, yeah, okay, that's what I'm needing to know they're going to. When they did the driveway, they covered all of that stuff up just with dirt, and so I

can't see the roots. We saw some of the roots because my husband kind of dug around to find some, gotcha. But they're all all right, So fifty eight feet of them. Yeah, oh my gosh. So Dora, I'm saying, I think you can do that, but I think you need to get an arborist to look and be sure that that's not too much of a root removal. Based on the dots from the tree, I think it's okay, but it is going to be a heck of a shock. That's a lot more roots than i'd like to cut. So you may want

to do. Well, there's three trees. Okay, there's three of them. Okay, well, same same answer, same answer on those, okay, okay, So do you have a number for that that fight for a four three tree? Yeah, I'll give you the number. I think you're too far out for them, but they can tell you that, and they can refer you to somebody. It's seven to one three six nine twenty six sixty three seven one three six nine nine two six six three talk to martiners

like Joe. Okay, thank you for the call. Good luck with that. Yeah, that's a you know, it is a percentage game, and so it's kind of hard to know for sure if you're doing any transplanting. And I have been doing transplanting of house plants for example. Uh. And I've been transplanting where I started some vegetables inside and moving them up to bigger pot. I'm about to be doing all my outdoor color planting. I've been

trying to get around to it with this yard project. What I use is Nutristar Genesis Transplant Mix that's by Nilsen Nelson Fertilizer nutri Star Genesis Transplant Mix. It's a six' one three fertilizer. It's got humates in it, it's got lots of endo and ectomycorrhizol fungi that helped the roots survive that process and thrive. And it has other nutrients in courage ensomatic production there in the plant. Basically, it's enhancing the biology of the soil. So here's what you

do. You get your soil that you're about to use to pot up the plant into bigger container. You mix in the nutri star genesis in that soil, and then you do your transplanting and so the material, the potting soil, the material, the growing mix that you're using already has the genesis in it. Then and you just go to town and you will find good success. I had great results when I was doing some peppers this spring, and I'm about to use it again for some flowers that were about to go put

out. It works really well. And where do you get products like that? Well. Ace Hardware Store carries a wide variety of products. You're going to find the fertilizers I recommend for your lawn at Ace Hardware. You're going to find everything you need for pest control, disease control, and weed control. Do you need Azamite. They're going to have it at Ace Hardware as

well. There's forty of them in the Greater Houston area. So yeah, even down there toward needer Land Way, you got head up around Beaumint. You got you in Ace Hardware store that is going to have everything you need for your lawn in your garden. Do you need a wheelbarrow? Do you need shovels? Do you need rakes right now? Do you need goloshes or rubber boots? Do you need a ponchoed? Are you out in these rainy weather? Hey, we like the garden and the rain. Right, neighbors

talk about you, but they talk about you anyway. Ace Hardware even has that they are the place to go. Ace is the place, and go to Ace Hardware dot com, find the store locator. You can find the ones nearest you, and there will be some nearest you, with forty of them in the Greater Houston area. Well, here we are. It's about time for a little break. I believe should be hearing some music here coming pretty quick here, we're ending the hour. I'm going to be at Buchanan's

Native Plants, Buchanans Native Plants, and I will be there today. After the show, I'm going to head that way and from eleven o'clock till one o'clock albeit at Buchnnans. You're going to find me at Buchanans where I can answer your gardening questions, where I can identify plants, where I can identify weeds, where I can recommend what do you do for that? Bring me some stuff and ziplock bags, bring me some photos to look at. Let's

talk about it. I always like to meet garden line listeners and today's a great day to do it. I mean, even if it starts raining, you can go into this huge greenhouse that they have full of house plants and it is just let me tell you this, ibrim is. You you go to Buchanans today, You're going to find a half dozen, a dozen or more houseplants that you don't have that you need to have. There's so many

cool ones. They always have something new coming in there. Of course, Ukenan's Native Plants is the place with the awesome native selection as well as the selection of tomatoes and peppers and earths and flowers and everything else you want up that kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or

services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip rictor it's weel crazy gaz Trim. Just watch you as so many good things to sup botzy gas back again, not a sad welcome back to the garden Line. Hey, it's good to have you today. Good morning to be sitting inside listening to the radio talking about gardening, because this afternoon. I know some folks melt if they get wet with a low rain, but I

don't, and I love getting out. And I know when you go to a garden center all day like this, that's not gonna be as crowded as it normally would be. And it gives you a chance to do shopping on your own, have a better selection actually, and kind of get staff to yourself in a sense, and that you can ask lots of questions, get some help. Our quality home mom and pop independent garden centers. They have staff that knows what they're talking about. They carry stuff that grows in Houston.

They're not a chain. They get stuff shipped all over the country and kind of cookie cutter, one size almost fits all. No, they don't do that. They hire people that are gardeners that no gardening, that are experts in the field. And without dissing any specific companies and names and stuff. I've been into plenty of places where I walked in and decide to cure.

I always like to do this, ask somebody a question, just to see how they enter it in these places, and you come to find out that, yeah, they've been in a garden center for about a week. They were doing something totally unrelated to gardening before that. And I'm happy to have a job. But that's not who you go to for advice. That is not who you go to for advice. You got to know what you're talking about. And RCWI is an example of the kind of place that mom

and pop that knows what they're talking about. They've been growing stuff here for a long time. They even grow their own trees right up up in Plantersville at the farm. And so if they grow, if they sell you a tree, they know that it belongs here, that it grows here, that it thrives here. You can walk in and say, hey, I've got this situation, what would be a good tree for this spot, and they can tell you that. They can point you to the right plants, they

come out and plant them for you. The trees, they can come out and do that service, which you don't need to be breaking your back trying to do that. RCW, though, is way more than that. I mean, they have roses, they have boogainvillias, they have hibiscus. Go by and just ask them, say show me your Cajun hibiscus. And I don't know that I've seen a more beautiful tropical hibiscus than the Cajun groups of

hibiscus that they have, just absolutely beautiful. RCW Nursery is one that I often go to just to see what's going on in the trade right now, what is going on in fact at RCW right now today. As a matter of fact, they're going to have somebody from the Houston ROAs Society out there answering questions about growing roses because RCW is a place that specializes in roses. They'll be there from twelve to two pm today and the over two hundred rose

varieties to choose from. They're gonna have refreshments and snacks and all kinds of things. So even drawing for gifts and stuff. It's just a good place to go. And when you go there. You know you're getting good advice, accurate advice. Let's go out now to West Houston and we're going to talk to Carol this morning. Hello Carol, Oh, good morning Skip. I actually live in West University. Then, okay, anyway, I have

two tulip trees. One is doing very poorly and the other one is almost completely dead anyhow, And they've been here a long time, used to make just tons of tulips or Japanese magnolia. And so I need to cut one down and I'm gonna try to save the other one. But do you have a recommendation for saving the one that has a little bit of life? And then maybe what should I plant to replace the one that's almost completely dead? Can you think of anything, Carol, that's changed around this plant? Like

was it shady somewhat before now it's sunny or vice versa. Did you did you did the drainage change in the yard? You know, you know what I'm saying, what's different? Why did it used to do good? Now it's not. It's when I'm trying to figure out I don't. I don't know. It's very puzzling because I haven't changed anything. Okay, I've lived your twelve years and I have and I inherited that they were here, so

I don't know. Okay, well it's okay. Uh. You know, without any additional info or seeing the site, I'm having to give a best guess. So last summer, the heat was unusually brutal for unusually long and the drought was brutal, and it could be that the plant, just with the way its root system was set up, just wasn't able to get enough moisture to keep it going and it weakened it. Now, drought can kill a plant, but it can also weaken it that leads to other problems.

Those plants don't have, just real common problems that I would sayd this disease or that insect that's attacking them. I think I'm going to say that it's we need to improve the soil and we need to keep that soul moist going into the summer, and so using a fertilizer for acidic plants would be fine. If you want to use. Microlife has a nice one and a reddish

pink bag that is for acid loving plants. It's an organic product. You can spread it out, mix it in a little bit to just the soil surface around it multually well, pushing a spading fork into the ground around the plant in a lot of places and just pulling back on the handle and wiggling it a little bit. You know what I'm saying. You're sort of opening

a hole. You're not spading the ground up. You're just going vertically down in and cracking the soil open a little bit and then covering it with a good quality leaf mold compost as well as you've already put then the fertilizer down to move down into those holes and wash in. I think we can improve the soil a little bit. I think that we can ned that nutrient and then as we go into summer, just making sure a good soaking on an

infrequent basis is what's in your control to try to save that plant. It's not looking good, okay. And that microlife product is that the one that you applied as Zalea's Is it that one? Yeah? It's it's a pinkish, reddish, pinkish bag. Yeah. Uh. And and that would be that'd be the one that I would use, And I would look at the the plant and with for every inch of trunk diameter, I don't know, how bigger bigger cross it is? Uh? You know, is the trunk

the size of a Coca cola can? Is it the size of a golf ball? What size is it? Uh? For every inch across, give it about four cups of that acidifying microlife spread out all around underneath the branch out as far as the branches go. Okay, and then uh for the one that I mean there's just literally one branch living and it was massive. What replacement would you recommend? And it is close to the house, that's the other thing. So something that won't damage the foundation. Yeah, well

you could go back with that same plant. I'm actually I'm coming up against I'm at a break. Actually, I need to stop here, but I would do that. You could do an English dog wood, looks pretty good in those areas. Another one that you would do the same kind of soul treatments and stuff for that's a shrub. If it's in lots of sun. You could do a very dwarf crepe myrtle. There are some that only get about seven feet high you could do. So those would be some options that

I would think about. But I'm sorry I have to cut short here, but I do need to run, but thank you for the Thank you very much for the question. Our number is seven one three two one two kt RH and I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Good day to be talking about gardening and planning for gardening and getting all those kinds of things done. Hey, if you are wanting to pot up some plants and you want a quality mix to grow

them, end jungle Land, write that down jungle Land. Jungle Land is a product extremeuted by Nitrofoss that is an excellent blend for your indoor and outdoor plants. But it's two different products. One is jungle and flour and vegetable that is for outside flower and vegetable planting soil outdoors. Super drainage holds water adequately, holds nutrients well, and just really and ignites a really solid growth

and beautiful blooms for your container plants indoors. Jungle Land water saving potting soil. It's got the crystals, the little crystals that swell up with water and then that water's available even as the soil begins to dry out. That'll do it. It makes it easy to have success. I like to say it makes the soil more forgiving. Should the person in charge of caring for the plants forget to water. That's one way to look at it. Where do you find it? Go to Kingwood, Go to the Ace Hardware there.

Go to the Arbigate up in Tombol, they've got it. Go to Shades of Texas out on Genoa Red Bluff Road. They've got that jungle land as well as other nitropost products. Also. Let's go now out to the heights and we're gonna talk to Maria. Hello, Maria, Good morning Skip. I have some box with shrubs that are just kind of overgrown, and I really want to cut them down. Is that okay to do that? To Punam you bring them down shorder so they grow fuller. Yeah, it's okay.

When you cut them back enough, you're gonna end up cutting off all the green and they will re sprout, but they're gonna look horrible for a while. But sometimes when you got way too big, you need to go below where you want them to be to make your cuts, because as they re sprout and they get about six eight inches of growth, you're gonna cut the tips out of those and cause them to branch more and then they six eight inches of growth. You're gonna cut the tips out and get it to

branch more so you build that density back. It won't come back dense, it'll come back lanky, and with shearing you can rebuild them at the size you want. But to do that you got to start a little shorter. Okay, perfect, Thank you, Good luck with that. Thank you, you bet, you bet. If you have planted a tree, or if you're a gunna plant a tree, you need the three sixty Tree Stabilizer. What that is is think of it as a stiff arm that grabs onto a

post on one end and grabs onto the tree on the other. But on the tree end you've got a very flexible rubbery strap and you want to make it loose. Trees need to move a little bit. We're trying to keep them from blowing over right with the steak and strap. They need to move a little bit to develop trunk strength, and it's designed for that. It's an excellent design really for a product. The other end can grab anything from a fence post to one of those little metal t posts. It's designed to

hold onto all that really well. You can put two of them in at right angles to hold the wind from north, south, east, and west. The nice thing I like about them is those posts are really close to the trunk when you hammer a t post in and you don't have this long guywire going out there to trip over in all directions around the tree. And they last forever. And where do you get them well, or is hidden gardens. I was talking about Jorge Don and Alvin earlier. He's got them

Southwest fertilizer. Well, of course they got them. They carry everything plants for all seasons, Arborgate Buchanans where I'll be later today, RCW nurses. They all have three sixty tree stabilizers and I would not plant a tree without one. Since I got one, it's like okay, and I'm going to have it for years. They last forever, So it is an investment, and you spend some money on the tree. Right, they're not cheap. Trees are not cheap, so why not make sure that it gets off to

the best start. And that's the best way I know to do that when it comes to securing that tree early in its life when it's going to need that. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two five eight seven four seven, one, three, two, two, fifty eight seventy four. Give us a call and let's talk to you about what you need. Nature's Way resources. Hey, jo, have fun at the shindig. They head out there a weekend or two ago. I hear it was.

I hear it was a great time. It always is out there. I went last year to one and just really had a good time out it. Nature's Way. You know, Nature's Way is. They're kind of like the the grandfather of the Houston area soil yards in terms of they were doing composts before compost was cool and so widely available, before roast soil and leaf mold compost were household names. They were inventing the things. Okay, Nature's Way.

John his experience in soul science and microbes and how to make compost right, take your time, make it right, screen it down to the right size product. That's what they do. They have fungal Fridays. We're ten dollars off bag fungo products, twenty dollars off bulk. They do bulk deliveries. Also, they've got a nice little native nursery out there where you can

pick up plants when you're out and about. Here's the number. Write the phone number down nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety They're on Sherbrooke Circle, south of Conroe on forty five. For more information, go to the website Nature'sway Resources dot com Nature's Way Resources dot com. Let's go to Beaumont. Now we're going to talk to jam Hello, Jen, Hi, how are you? I'm good? How are you today? Oh? Not good. I have a lot

of weeds in my yard. I put down on microfossia. It was a weed and feed and it didn't kill all of them. I have something that looks like a geranium. Leaves look like a deramum I'm trying to kill now, okay, you already put the weed and feed down. I would get a product. There are several out there on the market. Bonnyd makes one called weed Beater, Ultra uh Fertilan makes one called weed free Zone. And you want to just mix them up in a little spray tank and don't spray

the whole yard. Just squirt the weeds that you have. You don't have to drench them, just have to barely get them wet and that will shut them down. Pretty quick. Weeds. Broad leaf weeds are now entering a reproductive phase where they're a little harder to kill, and so those products would be the best thing you could do in terms of getting rid of them right now. They're probably going to be going away on their own in time. Most of those are setting seeds, do blooming, setting seeds, and heading

out for summer. But that would be what I do, all right. One quick question. Can I move a Vye Techs tree right now? Yeah? Us, but do it immediately, cut the top back by about a third, get as much of the roots as you can. Have the whole already dug where you're moving it to so you can put it in, get soiled in water as you're filling the soil back end to settle the soil around

the roots. And if you want to be a little extra careful, if you have any kind of a shading material, you can throw it over the tree for a little while just to help it as it gets started, because you're entering about to enter a hot season and you need to get as much root growth as you can before then. I would use any kind of a root stimulator you want on it, putting some slow release fertilizers around the tree and watering them in really well too. I got to run to another call,

but thank you very much. I appreciate your question. Good luck with that move. My text is pretty tough. By the way, it is pretty tough. It's kind of hard to kill. Arbigate Nursery is always a fun place to go. It's another one of those destinations and you would not believe how far people drive to get to Arburgate just because it's the kind of place that is a showplace. People love to go there. Arborgate, for example, is going to be the place to get every kind of plant that

you would need. Do you need tomatoes, peppers, other vegetables, do you need herbs? Their selection is outstanding. Color shrubs, trees, spring blooming shrubs, spring blooming trees, fruit trees. I could just go on and on. Do you have shady areas that you need to figure out? What am I going to do in this area? They can help you with that. They Beverdy always keeps stocked up on everything that you would need for

your garden, the things to support your garden. The thing you need to know about Arburgate right now is they got a brand new parking lot and back. You just turn either before or after the nursery. As you're going down twenty nine to twenty turn down Trisher Road. It'll take you around the back of Arburgate and the parking is all weather. You will not get your feet wet today. Parking in the back of Arburgate and walking right in. It's a good heartscape path and man, it makes it so easy, so easy.

Let's go out to Katie now and we're going to talk to Dennis. Hello, Dennis, Hello, good morning to you question. I've got a couple of pineapple oranges and a grapefruit that got broomed back by the freeze and they're starting to grow back out above the graft. My question is at the top of the trees, they're brown, and I think that the wood is dead. Should I prune it back now or should I just wait to see if I get eventual growth from that browner wood. Yeah, if it's not

sprouting new growth, it probably isn't. But if you take your thumbnail or a little pocket knife and scrape the bark, if it's paper sacked brown underneath, it's dead. If it's cream to light light green, it's alive. And you may still get a sprout from it, but I think if you're

not seeing sprouts now, it's probably not alive. Okay. And I know the important part is it's above the graph, correct, Oh, absolutely, yes, yes, And the shoots below the graph will tend to be very thorny compared to the above growth, although there are some types of citrus that are a bit thorny. But yeah, look at the graph line. And if it's coming from below that, just when they're small, you can take your thumb and rub them right off. They just break right off real easily.

Okay, all right, thank you, you bet, good luck with that citrusism wonderful, wonderful plan. I've had some people telling me this past season, you know, they're just tired of struggling with citrus and stuff. Don't do that. Citrus is good to eat the blue. It's worth growing of citrus just for the blooms. I mean, they are so fragrant, so heavenly and wonderful. I love those things. Love it. If you have got weeds in your lawn and you have not done a fertilization, turf

star weed needer by Nelson's is one you need to think about. Turfstar Weedinator has a very unique broad leaf post emergent weed control product. Inside of it. You get the weeds. Leaves need to be wet, so look, turn on the sprinkler. Not enough to wet the soil, just enough to wet the leaves. Get your spreader for fertilizer. Get some turf Star weedinator and sprinkle it out there. It'll stick to the leaves because that's why we wet them first. Then give it a day or two and then water it

into the ground. And now you've got a slow release fertilizer. It's gonna last you for weeks and weeks and weeks, two or three months. Even excellent excellent product Turftar Weedenator from Nelson's as all Nelson's products, quality products that work. I'm going to take a break. It's time for the news and Nikki. Our number is seven one three two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us

today. What do you wanna talk about? You tell me give me a call seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two two fifty eight seventy four I just want to remind you I'm going to be at Buchanan's Nursery today and we've got some giveaways. Buchannans provide some really cool stuff. We can give you a number of things about ever fifteen minutes while I'm there. I will be there from eleven to one, eleven to one. Good time to get out, grab you some lunch before or

after. Come on by, bring me a sample, bring me a photo. Let's talk about what you want to do. Let's identify things that need to be managed. Let's identify some of the plants it might do well in a particular area. And Buchanan's gonna have plenty of on hand. They got a nice little greenhouse area there that is all covered up. It's a huge area, and I'll have a table in there. We'll be answering questions.

I may even, you know, not too long of line. I may even help walk you over to someplace and show you some plants that would work well for you. Or perhaps one of the very helpful staff at Buchanans would be available to do that, of course, as well as they always are. That's why we love to go to that place. Good good information, good assistance, if you have not put a premergent nervous side out and you are wanting to get one done this year, you need to get done right

away, right away. Barricade by nitrofoss is a product that prevents seeds of broad leaf weeds and grasses both from germinating and establishing a plant when they try to sprout and grow. Barricade is a barricade on the soil surface. It shuts them down. You apply it at the proper rate. Don't do it before a gully washer rain, don't do it twice as much as it says

on the label. Follow the label. And part of following the label is we move it into the soil surface with about a half inch of water when you turn on the sprinter and get about a half inch to get it down in the soil surface. That way, when a weed tries to sprout, it's there ready for it, and it takes off and it does its job up some down they cannot they cannot survive, They cannot grow with that kind

of product, the barricade product itself, and they're preventing the growth. It's much easier to prevent a weed than to kill one that's already existing and barricade will do that. So where do you get nitrofoss barricade? Well, how about going to a Tasca see to Ace Hardware. Yep, they've got it there Lake Hardware in Lake Jackson. It's called Lake Hardware Clute. They've got the barricade products for you to use there as well. You know it's easy

to find nitroposs product. How about Ace at Sincle Ranch. That's another one they even thought about at a Kadie direction Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch, Katie Ace Hardware. They barricade is widely available, as are all the nitrofoss products. We're going to head now to let's see where are we going. We're going to Clear Lake and talking to Mario. Hello, Mario, good job. I got I've got a question about the best way to fertilize my shrubs which

were hit pretty hard in the freeze and then the drought. So what what's the best formula compy, well, the combination of things, you know what I'm trying to say that with best Yeah, you got options, You've got options. Or Nitropos makes a tree and shrub fertilizer. It's a sixteen four eight fertilizer works really well. It's their green bag from Nitroposs, so that

works well. I'll tell you I use just regular turf fertilizer. Trees and shrubs were primarily growing them for the greenery, right the leaves and those most of them were not getting fruit and flowers from and so just a good lawn fertilizer will work as well on your shrubs. So if you put out, are these in flower beds or are these like growing in the lawn or what? Yeah, they're they're they're hedge that I have across the front of my flower beds. Okay, all right, well you can go either way and

both ways will work. You know, the Mitroposs products are easy to find, the green bag, tree and trup fertilizer. That'd probably be the first choice on those. But again they you know, the fertilizers we've been talking about for lawn care will work good on your shrubs as well. Okay, my wife purchased some Vigoro I believe it was thirteen thirteen thirteen. What do you think good? Is that gonna help? You think? If you got it already on hand, you can use it once, but get away from

the triple thirteen's and the twelve twenty four twelves and stuff. As an ongoing fertilizer. The middle number is higher than it needs to be on those. It's not going a hurting thing to use one or two or three times here and there, but over time it's going in the wrong direction. And so go ahead and here's what you got. It's fine, go ahead and use it. But in general, then let's go toward the kinds of things I'm

talking about here on guarden line. If you go to my website, Gardening with Skip dot com and look at the lawn care sheet, the fertilizers on there will work good for your trees and shrubs. Just don't use anything that has weed control in it on trees and trucks. Right, Okay, yeah, it's not all right, Well, thank you and lawn Weeds for fertilizing shrubs and trees. All right, well, thank you so much. You've always have been very helpful. Appreciate you all right, Mario, thanks for

the call. Appreciate that very much. When was the last time you were down at Moss Nursery. Moss Nurseries and Seabrook For those of you who haven't been down there, and that place it's a wonderland. I mean we're talking about you've never been, you need to go. And people drive a long way to get to Moss Nursery because it's worth it. It is that kind of a destination place. Uh. The trucks line up down the block.

I mean they are constantly getting deliveries. They are loaded with vegetables right now. They just got a shipment of some cactie in that is outstanding. I mean such a wide, nice variety of things. They've got one hundred and fifty Chinese fringe trees that are in bloom. Listen. That is my favorite spring blooming tree is Chinese fringe. It doesn't get huge like a big shade tree, so it fits a lot of modern lots. Moss is loaded up

with some stunning hanging baskets. They've got fruit trees. They've got I think they have in the last three, no, last five days, they've gotten three loads of tropical plants, and three loads of tropical plants, over one hundred staghorn ferns. Listen, go in the houseplant greenhouse and just you'll be stunned at what they have. But especially if you're interested in cacti. They have a heck of a selection. So where's Moss Nursery. It's done in

Seabrook on Toddville Road. Here's the website. Are you ready Mossmaas Nursery dot com. Moss Nursery dot com. Trust me, allow yourself some time because it takes time to see this unbelievably expensive place. We are going to head now to Jersey Village to talk to Courtney. I love Courtney. Good morning. This is Courtney and David on the phone. Hey, Courtney and David. We have loved our front yard too much. In the last two years.

With the drought and everything has killed our Saint Augustine. Right now we have mostly weeds and we don't know what to do to start over with Saint Augustine or pick another a species of grass, and we're just looking for some advice. Well, that's a good question. Any kind of grass needs water to stay alive and look good. You know, things like bermuda grass. They'll they'll go brown and look horrible and then they come back from their underground

rhizomes and they look okay. But if you want grass to look good, you gotta water it. That's the bottom line, Bermuda is very drought tolerant. He's okay on drought tolerant. Saint Augustine not as much, although when you get into shade, Saint Augustine's the best, and Zoysia is right there with it, real close to it. There's broadly types of Oisia and narrow leaf types of Louisia. I'm going to give you a short cut because I can't talk for an hour on this one, and there's over an hour worth

of talking to do. If you go to a website called Aggie Turf aggieturf dot com that is the website for the turf Department, and you click on turf grasses in the bottom left and it will explain every type of turf grass, what the pros and the cons are, and you can even see pictures of it. And that's what I would recommend that you do. Then just follow my schedule at Gardening with Skip dot com. It's a free download schedule Gardening with Skip dot com, and that'll tell you how to take care of

it. There's another schedule on the same website for dealing with the weeds and problems that are on there. But is your area mostly sunny or shady. We have a mixture of both, Okay, I would say Zeuyzier, Saint Augustine or probably the two to choose from. And I got to run to a break, right If you want to hang on around, I'll talk to you after break a little more about it. But I'm gonna have to run to a break. I'm gonna put you on hold for right now. Okay,

thank you? All right? You bet our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to guard line. What are we going to talk about today? You tell me our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four if you have. We talk about spring fertilizing in two different ways. One is you can do an early spring greenup, and that is an immediately available product by the time we get to about April.

First we start talking about the summer fertilizers, which are the slow release fertilizers over time. Now, if you did a spring greenup, let's say since the first of March, you're going to hold off a little bit on the summer fertilizer spring green up. It gives you about a month worth of fertilizing. But the slow release that is what we begin applying about the first of March or first of April. And if you're not going to do a spring

green up, you can actually start it now if you like. And Nitrophoss has one called Superturf. It's a silver bag. Think of it as your warm season gradual release fertilizer. It's a nineteen four to ten fertilizer that's a nitrogen low phosphorus, which is good for turf to have it lower, and then a medium amounto phosphorus. It's about half the nitrogen is in a slow

release form. It even has a little bit of iron to promote good color, good green color because early in the spring sometimes you get a little yellowing on our Saint Augustine. You may have noticed that in the past and it bounces back. Well. Super Turf can help with that. Now. Super Turf is a night Fross product, so it's available in a wide variety of places. It's easy to find super Turf. If you can go to Katie Ace Hardware, for example, they're gonna have Supertf fertilizer. You can go

to in Chenne Gardens or Enchented Forest down in Richmond Rosenberger. They'll both carry the super Turf fertilizers. You can go to Stanton Shopping Center down in Alvin. They're gonna have super turf. Maybe Kingwood Ace Hardware another place to get super turf as well as other nitrofoss products. I want to go now to Katie and we're gonna talk to Don. Hello, Don, Hey, good morning. I'm doing good today. How are you doing? I'm doing all

right. I had a question about my magnolia tree. Okay, is this yeah, you know, is this your evergreen magnolia or like the tulip magnolia that just blooms in the spring. You know, I thought it was it's it's I thought it was both. But it does have the it does have the bloom. Oh oh, I guess that's the big white blooms. Yes, that's okay, that's the other magnolia. All right, what's happening? Well, you know, we've had we've had them. They're probably uh twenty

thirty feet tall. They're really have been, you know, good good for our backyard. But they the last year or so they've just not been real full. Okay, like they had before, and they just look a little puny. All right, well, here's what you do. They like acidic soil fertilized with an acidic fertilizer. Microlife has one that is a pink bag. That's for azis and communes and it does good for those. Make sure the soil is loosened up a little bit and has good organic matter content.

Lots of composter over the top will be very helpful for that. And then adequately water with a good deep soaking drink. Drought. We lost magnolias and sections of magnolias last year due to the lack of water. So those those are the three steps that are in your control. Watering, fertilizing, adequate soil moisture, and that's everything you can do to try to give that tree its best chance to get back in vigor again. They are slow growing, but they are easy to keep going that way. All right, sir,

Hey, that sounds great. I'm going to ACE hardware. I'll get on it. Can't go wrong with ACE. Got some good ACE and the katy area too. Say hi for us at a garden line when you're out there. Appreciate it. We'll do yeah. Thank you so much. You take care. You take care. You're talking about trees. What do you do when trees die? Well? You replace them with another tree, a good tree that's going to do well. Sometimes people plant trash trees. That is

just a problem waiting to happen. You need a quality tree. Verdant Tree Farm gross quality trees. Not only is the species one that belongs here, but it's grown in a way that you've got a good, strong, healthy tree, and they grow them huge. Do you want to like the instant tree kind of thing? Seven hundred gallon containers they have those. They have a wide selection of palms, including very cold hearty palms too. The right

palm for really any budget that you might have. They you go there, you pick it out, they bring it, they plant it, they do it right, guide you on how to take care of it, and if they planted it, they give you a one year warranty. Verdant Treefarm dot com is a website. There's one out on Barker Cypress and West Houston, one in Central Town where Yale and Ten come together, and down in Pairland there's also a Verdant Tree Farm. Verdanttreefarm dot com. Don't delay the scenery.

Plant a tree now, the better it is and the better it'll do when summer comes around. I want to talk one more time about jungle land for containers. I talked about it earlier, and you when you put a plant and a container, all the water nutrients it gets have to come out of that container. So you need a top quality soil that doesn't stay too boggy, soggy wet, but it drains well. But it also holds moisture. Jungle land flour and vegetable planting soil for your outdoor planting. We'll do

that indoors. Go with jungle land water saving potting soils. Got the little crystals that whole water well. And it's distributed by nitroposs So where do you get it all over the place? Where do you get nitrofas, It's everywhere. Allspasees in the woodlands has nitropass products, plants for all seasons on two forty nine plants and things up in Brenham all good places to get that. Well. Let's head out now to Richmond and we're going to talk to Ruth.

Hello, Ruth, good morning morning. I'm so happy to get through to you. I have a rural setting on several acres, and I've been here for thirty years, but just let normal kind of take place. We have had areas near the house where we had Saint Augustine in small amounts, but my role is too on the back acres, especially to start some native grasses. And I know that occasionally you've talked about buying native plants and possibly native grasses, but I want to know how to get started and can I

do seed? And I want something specific for our area. Yeah, do you have a do you have a real sunny spot where you're wanting to grow it? Well? I have I have an area near the house that is near a large oak tree that I need to put something in because we previously had some flagstone that's been taken up and I do want to have something there. But in general, yes, it is going to be in sunny spots.

Okay, most of the native grasses are going to need it. There's a there's a mix that some local folks that put together called the Southeast Texas Native Seed Mix, and it's going to have Florida paspalam. It's going to have something called little blue stem not root bristle grass, and I I mean a dozen plus over a dozen different grasses in it, and so overall it does good. But it's going to be more of a meadow than a lawn. So you just need to know when you're going with native grasses in this

area, almost everything's going to get up pretty tall. Okay, okay, now when does this the larger area I'm talking about, would we normally use a shredder on attractor and shredder. Yeah, when I when you go with native grasses, do they need they need an occasional shredding or do you just let them go or you can go either way. They don't need shredding, but you can shred some that's fine. But just do a search. Go do a search online and put in to your search Southeast Texas Native Seed mix

and it'll be one of the ones that comes up. There's a company in Junction called Native American Seed and they sell mixes for each region of the state. You go to a Native American Seed and Junction, Texas, they can also sell you a mix for this region. And they have knowledgeable people on staff that will tell how to plan on how to care for them and stuff. Hey, Ruth, I hear the music I'm gonna have to run, but I hope that works well for you to get it done this spring when

they establish fastest, so don't delay much longer. All right, Thank you appreciate that call. Then, a busy day, about to head out to Buchanan's Native Plants and the Heights. We'll be given away all kinds of things there. They got a whole selection of cool stuff to give away. I'll be there from eleven to one and answering your guarding questions. Come on and see me. Let's a visit. Love to meet the listeners. This funny

ruth said, have trouble getting it through. My mom used to say that out all the time too, but I think she knows something different.