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around here. Trees, turf, and tomatoes, the three t's. We'll have a lot of other kinds of questions though as well. All you gotta do if you're interested in asking a question is you can reach out to me. Seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two kt r H. I was driving through some neighborhoods the other day. I have a habit of not liking to take and take the oh, I don't know, beaten path or whatever. You know, if I'm going across town, if I'm in a hurry, yeah I get on a

freeway or whatever. But wherever I can, I like to kind of cut through a neighborhood, just see what's going on, see a lot of houses, a lot of plants, a lot of ideas, and I enjoy doing that. I was looking at a landscape that was just gorgeous as I was driving by. I caught my eye from the side and I looked at it, just stopped and looked at it. And when I first saw it, I thought this. I kind of thought, well, what is it about that landscape that makes it so attractive? And it was the layout.

It was the layout and the design and where they had put plants and things. It just overall topped a bottom looked good. And I don't know if you've ever felt this way, but sometimes we buy things, we bring them home, we plant them. There are babies, there are plants, get them in the ground, and you know, we enjoy them. They look good and everything, but we always feel like, yeah, you know, I just don't quite know how to do this. And I've had people ask me before you how do

you know where to put a plant? Of course the answers of it needs sunlight, it needs drainage and all that that applies. But esthetically, where do you put a plant? That is one of the things that I so appreciate about Peerscapes is they they know go to their website, go to pierscapes dot com, look at what they do. That's the bottom line, and when you look at it, it's like, Okay, I see that, I get it, and there is something to landscape design. Now listen, it's your yard.

You can do whatever you want, you planet where you want. Like I like, I often say, it's between you and the hoa as to where you put things and how

you do it. But if you want to have that nice curb appeal, if you want your house value to increase, if you want someday you're going to maybe sell it or you know, move on to some other house, you want it to be as valuable as it can be and as attractive as it can be, not just to get more money for the house, but to have it move faster when it hits the market and that kind of eye catching appeal. That's what they do so well.

And I you know, I'm a plant person. I know plants, But when it comes to design, yeah, not so much. I mean, you could go and get me, I don't know, Rembrandts, canvases and painting and paints and brushes and everything. Set them in front of me, and I'll promise you it ain't gonna look like it's gonna look like two monkeys fell in paint and started wrestling on a piece of paper. I mean, that's my painting style. You got to get somebody knows what they're doing and in order to have

that show place kind of look. And this is what they do, Chris. They do other things. They do landscape irrigation, they do, drainage areas, They do hard escapes. They do landscape lighting, lots of other things, but Pierce Capes isn't. They're professionals and they know how to do it right. You can give them a call to eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three seven o five zero six zero, but mainly go to that website piercescapes

dot com. You'll get some ideas there, just like I do when I'm driving around town looking at cool landscapes. I won't take I almost steal that. Not the landscape, I almost steel the idea. I won't take it home, and I'm going to try some of that in my yard. That's how I enjoyed you. I don't know if you're a peruser of landscapes or not. Pet anyway, it's a fun thing to do. You learn a lot too.

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and so on. A lot of damage can be done by a tree that was improperly pruned over time and is now structurally weak. So just it's an ongoing thing to keep your trees as healthy and strong as you can. And that's that's what affordable tree service is all about. Seven one three six nine nine two six six three. Uh I uh am gonna be planting in my garden today. I've got a few things I'm putting out in the

vegetable garden. I've been kind of focusing on my landscape a lot lately, and so the vegetable garden has kind of been ignored. But one thing I did that I'm glad I did, and I learned to do this a long time ago, is whenever you pull out a crop, you know you let's say you grew spin and lettuce and carrots, or something in a bed this past cool season, and it time to get all that harvested out for warm season planting. In between the time I pull the crop out and I plant the new thing, I always

mulch the soil surface well. And right now I'm taking grass clippings from my yard, and I don't put them thick, because they get all gooey if you put them real thick. But fresh grass clippings a couple of inches deep is just fine. And they just sit out there and they dry and they cover the soil surface. And I do that with leaves, I do that with other things. When it's time to plant. What I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go out there and there are very few weeds

in those beds. Had I not mulch ahead of time, it would have been a chia pet of weeds out there. And so what I'll do is I'll pull that mulch back and either set in the transplants or plant the row seeds or whatever I'm going to do. But it makes it so much easier because listen, when there's fire ants around, which they are when it's one hundred degrees, which it will be in the summer, you don't want to be out there pulling weeds so you can put in a garden. You want to get that stuff done

ahead of time. And it's really easy to do if you just keep the soil surface moltt. Wherever sunlight hits the soil, nature plants a weed. That's true in your lawns, and that's true in your gardens as well. All right, just keep that in mind. Keep it malts. Make it easier on yourself. Don't make it so hard to try to try to keep everything nice and clean. I'm going to take a little break here. We'll be back in a moment if you'd like to be will it first

up today? Seven one three two one two KTRH. All right, folks, welcome back, Welcome back to the garden. Iine, Hey, you got a question, give me a call seven one three two one two KTRH. Be happy to help with that. I posted something to Facebook just a few days ago. My daughter sent me a picture of a little fiddlely figed shed. She showed it to me one time. I was over there, and he's like, man, that thing looked bad.

It was like it was closer to yellow than it was to green, literally, and it wasn't doing good, and I thought, oh gosh, I've been overwatered. Its roots are rotting and it's a goner. Anyway, it wasn't apparently, I guess it wasn't a root rot But I gave her a little sample of Medina products. There's a lot of Medina products out there, but the six twelve six it's the Medina has to grow plant food six twelve six.

And the little sample bottle makes two gallons. And so she mixed up one and watered it in with it, and it's back in May. I believe she did this, and then she mixed it up again and watered it again with it. A little bit later and a lot of about a month is when she sent me the picture this of it again. She had the before and after, and it was dramatic, dramatic if there was a new growth coming ont the top of it. Now it is happy, but that doesn't surprise me. Medina products, there are a

lot of different products. They've got their their humate. It is just well, it's called humade humic acid. Basically, it's what it is, and it just wonders for soil in terms of helping with the soil structure inside humus is part of what nature does to improve soil's physical properties. There's a lot of benefits for microbial activity, for nutrient exchange and other things in human at umic acid. It's a liquid you can use that. You can use that at any time you want to use it on anything,

you want to use it. It works well. They also have a product I like a lot called Medina Plus.

hardware stores, all kinds of places. We can find that whole line, whole line of Medina products. At work. Anyway, I thought that before and after picture was kind of cool, so I just since you are sent it out there on our Facebook page. If you don't follow garden Line Facebook, you ought to. We post stuff all the time up there. And if you also, if you want to follow a garden line with Skip, it's called Garden Line with Skip the that's an Instagram account that we put some things

up on as well. Facebook's a little more active for me, but anyway, we do both. Let's see, I was talking about planting in the vegetable garden. That is something that I definitely need to need to get out and do. My garden has sat fallow for too long, and you know, he said, well, what does that mean too long? Well, I've been busy. I just covered in doing other things. Like I said, I've been taking care of my landscape. I've got some lawn issues that I've been having to

deal with, and I don't know. One of my zoisias is having a little bit of a struggle. I know it's in a low shade environment. It's got little bit of some disease looking patches in it, and I'm having to get to the bottom of that and figure out what's going on with that, what's the cause of it. Part of the problem with my lawns is the fact that I've got two Golden retrievers weigh about one hundred

pounds each. And those monsters, let's just say, when they go out there and start running, when they turn a corner, it pushes up a hill with their paws the size of a mole hill, because you know, they just trump the heck out of the thing. And then they like to kill the grass by going to the bathroom in certain spots. So anyway, you probably have dealt with that kind of thing. We can we can't have dogs in lawns coexist, and that's kind of what I'm working on

in that. Well, tell you what, let's go out to the phones here. I'm going to head to Spring now and we're going to talk to Bonnie this morning. Well, hello, Bonnie, welcome to garden Line High Skip.

of the leafs. Once in a while there's a leaf that is yellow and just falls off. So what's going on.

water that causes a city mold to grow. But those are a little bit larger city looking patches as opposed to a little, tiny, small black spot. You can use an insecticide. You could use an insecticide on them to control things like that caterpillar and and other things that might show up. And that might be good. I know

that that. You know, the climatic conditions that things are going through from fluctuations and so moisture content and whatnot can also cause issues with the getting them to go from the bud to the blooms successfully without dropping dropping those off. So watch out for fertilizing. They do want fertilizer, but excess is a lot of lush foliage at the expense of blooms, So watch that. Try to keep the water as even as you can. Too much or too little can cause that bud drop. And so that some

of that's in your control. Irrigation. The rain is not in your control unless you move the plant where you have control of water. They like well drained soil. Certainly temperatures can cause problems, but I wouldn't. That's not the issue we're having right now with your with your hibiscus. But that's something else that can cause a bloom drop type problem.

should know. I did a big chart on powdery mildew, great myrtle varieties and powdery mildew. Uh, you know, success in terms of resistance rather to it. So you need to make sure and choose from the ones that are actually Bash's party. Pink does show good, good to excellent powdery mildew resistance, so it shouldn't be getting that. When you say white are you are you talking about like, do you know what powdery mildy looks like? Is that what you're seeing? Or you just something white?

I saw a Taylor Swift in concert. I know, I know, before she was famous. She was a backup singer to Brad Paisley, and we were over in New Bronfels, Texas, and I who Taylor Swift was. I guess not many people did at that time, but anyway, I thought that was cool. That's my claim. That's the closest I got to a claim to fame. That is that I went to a Brad Paisley concert. All right, let's go back here. We're gonna go. If I can find the right button,

there we go, Bonnie. In spring, we were talking about powdery mildew. Powdery mildew if that is what it is, which you know, there's possibilities. It could be that your plant actually isn't a bashing party pink. It may be another pink variety that was sold as that. That's unlikely, but that's possible. That would be a reason why it might have powdery mildew. It could also be that what we're thinking is powdery mil do something else, but for

powdery mildew. There are products out there that'll work. Nem Oil works pretty good if the plant's not too big to spray, but nemo coats the leaf and it prevents it for a while, so you would have to spray it regularly in order to control it. I just don't think people are willing to do that much spraying with For the pottery mildew, there are systemics that will shut

it down for longer. Why don't we do this? Why don't you if you want to take a picture of it, I'm going to put you on hold and my producer will give you an email. Send me some close up, really well focused pictures of what you think is pottery mildew, and that way I can comment on it and we can be sure instead of me.

works well. Bug Out Max from nitrofoss is available in a lot of different places. If you go to Enchinned Gardens out in Richmond Rosenberg on FM three point fifty nine, you're gonna find bug out Max. If you go to Hiding and Feed on stupidor Airline, or if you go to Plants Fell Seasons on two forty nine, they carry nitrofoss products at all these places. And so there's just an idea for you. Let's let's now go to the woodlands and we're going to talk to Huey. Hey, Huey, Welcome to Guardline.

animals tunneling underneath can do that. I'm assuming you're knowing though, that it's not something digging down from the top, right, It's just you're just walking on normal looking ground, but it's soft and sinks correct. Yeah, okay, it's gonna be one of those things. And you know that's getting outside my gardening expertise to go any further than that on it. But I have encountered that before for the reasons I

just mentioned, I've you know that has caused it. I would just say, get you a good quality kind of a top soil or sandy loamy top soil, Sprinkle it over those areas and bring that bring that soil level back up, and then your grass should crawl back in over that and be just fine.

you get the water for a couple of days. Okay.

hearty happened. Everybody knows about the tropical hibiscus down here. Those are the gaudy ones that come and ever color under the sun. I mean, they're amazing beautiful. Hardy hibiscus typically are going to be red, white, pink, or splashed or streaked versions of those three colors. That's their colors. But the blooms are huge. I mean, they're like we call them dinner plate hibiscus because they're that big. The ballooms can be that big on them. Moss has got

a great selection. A lot of the new ones coming out from breeders now are pretty exciting.

Impatients are a great little plant to choose while you're there. If you are into house plants or succulents, they have an unbelievable supply. I mean they've they've got, you know, like cactie, the barrel type cactie, the very upright right tall types of cactie. They've got the trailing succuments, the string of you fill in the blank. Moss is just the place you go to find everything, the standard you know, the standard things, vegetables, herbs, flower bedflowers, you know those

kind of things. They've got lots of that. But the unusual. I love to go see some of the pottery that they have. There's some wall planters that are just beautiful, like one of them almost it was like a lady's face, but the head is kind of hollowed out up there. It's a ceramic talavera type, you know, with that Mexican pottery, bright color patterns on it, and you plant in the top and you just let something trail out of the top of it, you know, like diicondra or silver ponyfoot

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a lot of fun to go visit. By the way, it's on Toddville Road, Seabrook, Texas. Moss nursery dot com. Moss is spelled m aas two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. I'm gonna take a little break here and we'll be back with our last segment of this hour. Already, welcome back to Guardline. Good have you with us this morning. If you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two ktr

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Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape. That is at least my goal wants you to have success with that, and part of that is taking care of your plants, making sure you're fertilizing them, making sure that they're getting the nutrients that they need. Sometimes people forget and don't fertilize like they should because, yeah, there's not on the top of the list. The plants alive,

it's green, it looks good. Well, when we're pushing a plant, let's say, to bloom a lot. Nelson Plant Food has a neutral star line. There's a Nutra star for bugavillia's, there's one for blum areas. Of course, there's one for vegetable gardens and so on. There's a Nutra star for everything.

But by pushing them along with that fertilizer at the right rate and good blends like Nelson knows how to make, you encourage leaf growth, which captures sunlight, which makes carbohydrates which is required to make a bloom or a fruit or whatever you're growing that plant for. But you need to follow the schedule on their labels and fertilize them periodically and keep them in a healthy state, not overfertilizing,

but not underfertilizing either. If you see people that, if you see a place and it's just like blooms everywhere, they're fertilizing those plants and Nelson Plant Food is an outstanding product for that and their Nutral Star line comes in something for just about every kind of plant that you might have. That is true. I am going to have a guess later today from a Houston powder Coats. Houston Powder Coaters is the largest powder coat in this region.

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of the hour. Here you got a question you would like to visit about, and that would be a good time. Got an open board and on call on one hundred seven three two one two kat r H. I'll get you up there on the board and we will visit with you about the kind of gardening questions you have. When we come back, I want to remind you my

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a question to visit about. Seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. Let's head out to the phones and we're going to go to Spring Branch and talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, welcome to garden Line.

that doesn't side is disrupting the float. It could be a number of things, borers or a possibility because they essentially cut the plumbing tubes that are carrying the water up to the top. It could be a canker, a disease, a wound, something along those lines. Now occasionally it's it's in the soil to a degree, an individual root. You could follow its flow path all the way up to a leaf. Okay, a little tiny root up all the

way up to a leaf. So if you were to go on one side of your tree and cut all the roots, you would see a section of that tree wilt immediately because it had lost all its supply of water for the taking to survive the next pot day. Now, it's not necessarily right above that what you cut. Sometimes the trunk twists a little bit, and you know, the flow isn't necessarily just straight up, but generally it is.

So I would look at the soil too, and say, what has happened on the side where, in your case, three fourth of it where you're seeing all of that wilting on the branches, and just consider that. It could be a trench that was dug. I don't know, it could be other things, but something unknown at this point is affecting the plumbing, and it has happened pretty darn quick. If you're seeing that, that's Has this been going on for months or is this just a new thing?

things tend not to be just temporary. Now, if for some reason that the three is sixty five years old, that's the thing that is kind of makes me not very hopeful for it. You know, if an area got dry well, the roots that supply that area could start to wilt and new water and they come back. I don't think that's the case with your tree. So that's leaving us with physically damaged plumbing. You know again, birrors, cankers, whatever, root rots, whatever, and that doesn't fix itself quick enough

to save those branches. The demands are high, and the temperature is hot, and it's going to get hotter. So I would say unlikely, but definitely don't give up on it just yet.

somewhat like you're you're describing there. But you know, bottom line is uh, you know it. There's no control of that that okay.

up the cond trees and it flat kills them. I've seen orchards with sections, you know, huge areas that were like a like someone through a fire on the ground and it's burning outward, you know, from there, and you watching the trees decline in a pattern like that. And so there's not a there's not a good solution to it, especially at this stage where three pours of the trees gone, and if it is cotton root rot there, it will

not bounce back. But if you could acidify soil, you can help stave that off if you you know, cotton cotton root rot likes high pH soils, and so if if you were it's very hard to acidify a huge volume of soil deep and wide and everything. But if if soil could be acidified, it would stave off a cotton root rot proliferating like that. So in case of your yard, that's not a solution, it's too late for that. But that that is about the only thing that we

can effectively do. We don't have a fungicide that we just spray on the soil and it fixes it.

and will not help save the tree. So but I'm really up against a heartbreak here, So thank you for the call and sorry to be the bear bed news Jim. I got to run, folks, I'll be right back. All right, we're back, folks, We're back. Let's talk gardening. We're going to head straight out to Texas City and talk to Alan hey Ellen, welcome to guard Line.

iron in the soil. It's because roots have died most likely now. Roots can die from droughty conditions, they can die from soul compaction, they can die from take all root rot, which is a disease of the soil. So the causes are so widespread that it's hard to give just a quick answer to that's where a photo when you get home. If you're seeing the yellowing kind of erratic through the yard, like it's not just real clean cut here, not there, and so on. It's more just yeah, erratic,

no pattern to it. That is probably take all root rot. Grab a grass blade and pick it a yellow grass blade, and hold up the light and see if it looks like green and yellow stripes going down the grass blade, like railroad tracks running up and down the grass blade. If you see that, then that is an iron deficiency and something's wrong in the roots. If there are a couple of steps you can take. Boy, I hate to prescribe stuff when we haven't even yet determined for sure

what the cause is. But in your situation, kind of being in the mind here, you've got a couple hours and you got to get back out again. I would get a product from Fertilo that is a iron and other micro nutrients spray. It's a bottle. It comes a little bottle, little gray bottle, and it'll say iron and other micro nutrients is what's in it. And then I would get a hose en sprayer and folier. Spray the

grass with that, Spray the whole grass with that. I would also get a product this is on my schedule, But for all the rest of you listening, I would answer this a little differently in a different situation. So I just don't don't assume this is my answer to every every take all problem. But if you wanted to get a product that is that contains a zoxy stroban a z O x Y S t R O B I n uh. And you go to you you're in

sugar Land, you need go over to Southwest Fertilizer. Oh, Texas City, Okay, Oh, I'm sorry, I'm looking at the well an Ace Hardware store over there might have it. You may find it there. But a zoxystrobin is the ingredient that you need to find and you want to sprinkle it out. Here's the order of everything. I'm sorry to confuse you. I'm bouncing around here. To cut out

the ozoxystrobin granules. It'll be granules. You want to water it in according to the label, and then hose in spray the foliage of your grass because you're bypassing the roots to get these micro nutrients into the grass plant. So those that's what's within your power right now. In a nutshell, longer term, we need to see pictures. We need to know for sure what's going on. What you're

describing doesn't sound like chinchabugs to me. It could be, but they tend to start like near a curve, a driveway, a sidewalk, something rock masonry, and they gradually move out into the lawn. So closest to that concrete in the sun, it's the deadist and then as you go out it's yellow, and then as you go further out it's healthy green. That would be change gags, and that's a whole different thing. And all of these are on my schedule online at

gardening with Skip dot com. So if you need to can't remember that as Oxystruben Later gardening with skip dot com find my lawn, pest, disease and weed management schedule and it'll tell you what to do, all right, ter fact, mister fact.

how these diseases are. So I wouldn't worry about people walking across the lawn being the problem. Okay, Well then I win in Okay, So, oh hey, I don't want any part of that. You know, you know, gardening advice is free. Well on god, yeah, she's probably listening. She's probably listening. Make yourself a comfortable place on the couch for tonight after talking like that about Yeah no, seriously, Well, a gardening advice is free. Marriage advice is three hundred dollars an hour. So how do you.

around since nineteen fifty five. And you don't do that without taking care of your customers, doing it right, and make it sure when they walk in there they don't go, well, we don't got any of that. You might try down the street. No, Southwest Fertilizer is the down the street place that you go for everything. Seven to one three six sixty six one seven four four. Gosh, boy, that call went went south. Uh Michael and Sugarland. Welcome to garden Line.

to see a picture to do that. As far as the webworms are concerned, they fluctuate your ear depending on various conditions. Their number one enemy is paper wasps, the ones that build the nest under your house. They eat caterpillars all day long, and so you break up webs and they have a chance to get in. Now, if this is a big, big tree like you're described, and you can't break up the webs up there, so you're

left with spraying. And if you catch it early on, early before the whole tree is covered in webs and has no leaves on it, and you spray the foliage, but once or twice a week, depending on which product you use. Organic products like BT you're gonna have to spraym a couple times a week, something like spinosid maybe once a week, and then there are other products that

will last even longer than that. But if you can get the spray up to the foliage when the webworms start to come in and chew on it, it'll kill them. But you can't get the sprays inside the webs. That's why we want to do it early when the first little sign of a web is occurring, because there's gonna be other webworms hatching out that you don't from the ground. You don't see them yet and because they haven't built that web yet, so that's the only way to avoid it.

The other thing is do what nature does and that's put up with a little bit of defoliation here and there. The trees have are resilient, they'll bounce back. But if you ain't pretty so those are your options. Thank you, guys.

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or something. You know, you get the idea. Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery out there in Katie, Texas can make that happen. They are specialists in that. Maybe you don't want to go all that way and you just want a big, beautiful ceramic glazed pottery urn with water spilling over the side. It's called a disappearing fountain. They invented it, and it recycles back and comes up back through the middle of the big beautiful glazed pottery and birds love it.

Benefics of insects I like that too, by the way, But you have the sound of water as you're sitting out in the patio. They can make that happen. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens, Katie Fort Benroe, just north of the Katie Freeway out there in Katie. Nelson Watergardens dot Com go check them out. Pretty cool stuff. Every time I go out there, I just want to loiter and listen to water. I really mean that. I love the sound of water. I got a little fountain in my backyard,

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be a good time. We got open mines seven to one three two one two kt r H seven to one three two one two kt r H. I don't talk about container gardening enough in my opinion, and the reason is I don't see enough container gardening going on out there. A lot of people, you know, they just maybe tried containers and not had success. Well, I want to give you a few tips, a few tips so

that you can have success with containers. Containers are great for growing vegetables, for growing herbs, for growing flowers, for beauty. One of the tips I would suggest is get a large container. Don't just put I know you watch TV in some gardening show filmed in New Jersey or northern California or someplace where they don't have the summers we

have here. You need a large container to hold a volume of soil, which holds a volume of water and nutrients, so you're not water in that container three times a day trying to keep the plant out of drought stress. A large container. Get a quality soil blend to put inside the container. You get a quality soil blend, you put it in that container. A quality blend holds water and nutrients well, but it also drains well. It doesn't let itself become a soggy, mucky mess. It drains the

excess out. And by the way, a quality container has drained a tools in the bottom too. And then you put the right kinds of plants in. If it's large enough container, you can do multiple plants. And there is nothing more beautiful then a large container with something tall coming up out of the center. You've got some things filling in around the sides, and then you have some things draping over a little vining, you know, pennant draping

plant coming over the side. That is gorgeous. And you go to a good garden center and they can help you find They can help you pull a selection of plants that go together. You know, they need to either be in the sun or the shade, depending on where the container is going to be. And so your plant choice needs to match that a large quality container, invest in one. I know they can be expensive, but cheap

containers don't last, they don't look good. So once a year, just once a year if that, get a nice container to add a glazed pottery to add to your outdoor living area, and I'm telling you you will enjoy it for decades. They last, quality soil to go in them, and then the right grouping of plants for the location. You can have containers beautifying your shade. You can have

containers beautifying the sunny spots, but have some Now. One additional thing that I would add if you want to make it easier for yourself, a little drip irrigation system. It could be something you hook to the garden hose with a little timer on it that goes along and has a tube that goes in each of your containers, whether they're hanging baskets underneath an arbor, or whether they're container sitting out on the patio, that comes on and

waters them all for you. If you get too many containers, you spend a lot of your day run around water in them all. You don't need to do that. A little drip system makes it essentially fool proof. So those are some tips, but we need more containers. They are so versatile, they're so beautiful, they're so useful. We should be trying more of them. If you are looking for renovating your deck, making it pretty, keeping it in good shape, all of those kinds of things, ACE Hardware has got

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area looks like. They both looked the same, So I just want to hit not any ideas of how to treat that.

the room over on that side. Check the trunk of the dead branches, follow them down to where they attached to living branches, and see if you notice any borer holes, sawdust, or any other sign of that going on. That would be the next step to looking at it. Overall, the root system looks good. I would throw a lot of multch over it, though it helps cut on on weeds and Japanese maple loves to be in a forest floor environment. Decomposing rotting leaves and organic matter on the surface. Those

are all in your power. A little boost of fertilizer wouldn't hurt. You could certainly do that. And the only other symptom I see is the tip burn on the leaves, and that just means water and nutrients aren't making it fully up there to supply the demands of the plant. When you see the tips of margins burning, So that's my quick answer. If you want to delve into it any further, I'm gonna have to take a little break here, but we can come back and can you. But that's pretty much just I think of.

We're going to talk to Paul this morning. Hello Paul, welcome to garden Line.

the grass leaf attaches to the stem. How about that for identification. They're these little hairs or something called leaguals too. I'm not going to nerd out on you. I'll stop that. But anyway, trying to identify between's so many, many, many, many many kinds of grass out there. Grass is out there that it takes a little bit of time. Sometimes to figure out exactly which one it is. But most of the ones you're dealing with. If it's a sod a lawn grass, that's easy. I can just look at

it and tell you without getting close. If it is a weed, probably easy if you send me a good sharp picture where I can see the grass itself and its growth habit. If you you know the summertimes when I'm always on my schedule, it's all about slow release fertilizers, you know, fertilized now with something that's going to laugh for a long time and carry all the way to fall. That's simple, that's easy. You do it once you're done. But there's times when you want to just give your

grass a little quick boost. And Sweet Green is an organic plant food from Nitrofoss that does that. My neighbor puts them out. I think I mentioned this before. He puts them out this year, and we were talking across the fence the other day and he was like, man, that grass looks great. That stuff works. Yes, it does work. Sweet Green is an eleven percent nitrogen organic, one of the highest analyzes for an organic plant food. You're going

to find smells wonderful. That's part of the name sweet Grain, so you can put it in the back of your car. I jokingly say, when you buy a bag of it and throw it in your car, you can want to drive around loops six' ten an extra trip or two before you go, home just to enjoy the. Smell, okay that's, ridiculous but it makes a. Point put it, down water it, in and watch you turn. Green don't overdo. It you, know we don't want to create a lot of top

growth at the expensive root growth this time of. Year but you got some areas that are struggling that need a little. Boost this is a great way to give them that. Boost you can do Sweet green all through the summer if you, want and small applications over time where you're kind of, work you, know kind of feeding it in small amounts as you go. Through that's fine, too however you will go about. It it's a great

product that really does work this time of the. Year i'm Mainly i'll suggest it to somebody that needs to give their grass a little quick. Boost Night foss products are available at places you, know like Dand feed And. Tombal you go TO Rcw, nursery you're going to find nitrofoss. Products you go To Ace Hardware citi a Memorial, drive you're going to find nitro foss products there as. Well you are listening To, gardenline we're about to come to

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i would recommend bait treatments in. General there's a lot of baits on the. Market they each have their own way of, working specifically different chemicals that are in them that do, this but they are super low in. Toxicity and here is. Why if you had a very strong insecticide that when littlelap picked up the granule to take it. Home it killed. It, well they would never make it to the mound to kill the queen and all.

much but they're. Out you can throw a potato, chip anything oily protein and a tuna fish can, lid you, know a couple of freedom on the. Ground if they're out and, about they're going to find. It come back fifty minutes. Later if their ants all over it time to. TREAT i like to cut hot dogs up into little little, sections like a quarter. Inch and you know those wireflags that they, use like to mark an irrigation line or. Something you get one of those and stick it on

the hot dog and stick it in the. Ground that, way you can find your little hot dog out there in the middle of the yard and you come back to, it and, boy if their ants are out and about, foraging they'll be all over that hot. Dog it's funny how they line up. Too it's kind of. Cool. Anyway that means it's time to. Bait bait, baits suppress the mounds you don't even see. Yet so that is the

most environmentally sound way to do. It in, fact if you think about, it with a bait type of an, application you're going to be able to avoid mounds that are not currently visible and. Present just doing individual mound treatments only is playing whack a mole with fire. ANTS a mound pops, up you treat, it but what you don't see is a mound over there to the side that is forming underground but hasn't if you will boiled up to the surface sort, of you know with that

that pile of dirt coming up out of the. Ground, uh and and so individual mound treatments have their. Place you, know you need to do something. Fast you want to get rid of. Them you want To you got a party coming up tonight or tomorrow or it depends on which product you use for. It you can get rid of them, fast but the bait should be the foundation of what you. Do bottom. Line that's a Bottom and by the, way if you are one hundred percent ORGANIC u there is a bait called come And Get it

By Fertile home that is spinosid and organic. Insecticide it's spinosid, based spinosid. Based so there you. Go you even have something for. That all, right let's head out To. Magnolia now we're gonna go To magnolia and talk To. Ronnie good, Morning, Running welcome to Garden.

do that in my vegetable. GARDEN i just you, KNOW i work up the, SOIL i get my planting, ready and THEN i molted really, heavily AND i just don't find a pre. Emergent Plus i'm always moving soil, around digging, up you, know planting, seeds putting in, transplants and so that breaks that force, field that surface covering of the pre emergent that prevents wheat seeds from coming. Through and SO i just find THAT i would rather just use mulches to do, that but you might, It, yeah, good

a good thick. Multch and when a weed comes up and it's, young you, know just catching it. Early i'll do some just a little quick hampulling here and. There But i've GOT i have four beds right now that are that are, open and they are like three feet wide and twenty feet, long and there's probably four weeds Because i've just kept it. Covered every TIME i mow the grass and it's a little, TALL i take the clippings over there and shake them on the soil surface

down those. Beds so When i'm ready to, PLAN i can pull it back and go to. Town that's the best. Way and that's what nature. Does nature drops organic matter on the soil to block weed.

yeah we were talking about the different ingredients and. Stuff there are some ingredients that aren't so available on the home garden shelf that would be, available you, know commercially that people could use but, hey the WAY i look at this is probably most of the GARDENING i do you would costfi as organic. Gardening there are times WHEN i need to do something, different AND i will there are times for, Everything BUT i don't just treat things

organic or synthetic products WHEN i don't need. TO i try to avoid. That it cost, money takes. TIME i don't want to spend my saturdays mixing up smelly water to spray on plants to kill. Bugs i'd rather enjoy my garden out there at that. Time so there's a lot of things we can do culturally to manage pass the things we do to avoid pass resistant, varieties don't do things that help increase disease and pest. Problems and when it comes to a vegetable, garden my, gosh mulch

is so. Available you grow it at your. House by the, WAY i don't know your grass clippings are mult your leaves shredded and caught in a lawnmower bag or, mulch AND i just stockpile those things and use them all. Year and then there's wonderful store bat mulches. Too let's see, here we are now going to go To conroe and talk To. Jimmy, Hello, jimmy welcome to Garden.

Can you shouldn't need to do it more than once in a. Month it. WORKS i mean it goes down there and lasts and does its. JOB i generally would say once in a summer is all it should. Take but if you needed to reapply it later, sometime that's. Fine we have different times that we're. Applying for, example maybe you're doing an early treatment for grubs and then a month later you've got chinchbug showing, up and so you have to do it again for, That and so

that's kind of how often you might apply. It as far as your tree dropping, leaves red buds are not super long lived, trees and they do have issues that come. Up and AS i think you mentioned jerisels a few years in, there and so it's not unusual for a hot, weather, drought any kind of a root, damage things like that

to affect. It you see and. Browning if you see browning on the edges and tip of the, leaf that's a sign of a plumbing, problem meaning water is not getting to the leaf and that could be due to lack of water in the soil or something like a borer blocking cutting the tubes that flow that water up to the. Top it could be one of those. Things can you describe what the leaves look like that you were taken into the to the office for them to look.

Trees they're happier with. IT i would, say right, now about all that's in your. Power if you've, done if you've done the when was the last time you used that nine, five, fifteen five to?

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thing that restricts its growth better in the. Ground if you can find a kind of a protected, spot you, know maybe on the south side of your house or something under the eaves or near the eaves or, whatever where it's a little protected from the coldest. Wind that, way maybe you'll get one of those trunks to survive through the winter and you can have a crop of

bananas the next. Year but typically what happens is they freeze back to the ground and then they come back, out but they don't they don't produce having been killed to the. Ground so putting it in that kind of a, location they need lots of. Sun the more, sun the, better. Man if you're putting it in the, GROUND i would get something Like Heirloom soil's got a veggie and herb mix that would be perfect for mixing into the. Soil

there's also A rose soils that you see heirloom. Calls there's rose and other flowering, plants but mix that into the bed to get a good high organic matter, content and then dig the hole and plant them in that.

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a picture of is called. Doveweed doveweed it's almost a, rubbery Little Saint augustine looking sort of weed that comes up and it's a. Challenge it's a challenge to get doveweed under. Control let's start with the. Nutsedge i'm gonna make it easier and just say go to my Website gardening With skip dot, com and there's a publication Called nutsedge an In Depth, look and it will go into the kinds of nutsedge we have and what you do

about them and how to do. It and the fast answer is you use a product Like sedgehammer that's one brand of the, ingredient but by publication gives you other, brands and you do it every time a nutsedge plant is up and has three to five, leaves and you never let it up for. Air you do. Not if you let it come up and have five leaves or more and keep, growing it's making daughter plants and you are probably have eight times the nut said you had if you had treated it. Earlier so that's the quick.

Version but read that publication At gardening With skip dot. Com it'll tell you what to do. Now the, doveweed on the other, hand is it's a. Sleepyhead it doesn't tend to come up until things really warm. Up so whereas other weeds are, sprouting you, know let's, see you're,

in you're, In. Katie other weeds are sprouting kind of maybe Late, february but mostly in Early march and Through, march doveweed sleeps until About may sometime and then begins to, sprout and so you you can go after it with pre. Emergence BUT i don't think you're going to have success on it with the barricade. ITSELF i have not tried barricade on that particular. Weed but right now you can use a product Called celsius on, it and it's very.

Effective it's not, cheap but you buy it in little packets that make one, gallon so that makes it more, economical and so a gallon goes a long way because you don't have to drench the. Weed you just have to get it wet with The celsius and using a, spreader sticker something to help it not roll off those slick dove weed leaves will make your control, better.

would recommend you go get. That you can print it out and it covers all the different insects and diseases and past you just hang it up in the. Garage you're ready to. Go, now what's happened is as The Saint augustine has gotten weak and, struggled you've got two different. Weeds let me see is it? TWO i see two different weeds in. It one of them is bermuda grass that's taking over and that's very hard to get rid.

for the home guard garden end of the. Market the other weed that's in there is is a sedge or kai linga type, weed and those are the ones that have the little it's like almost like a little ball on the end of a stalk with three leaves coming out right underneath. It that that is a sedge or, kilinga and those you can also. Control. Those they are easier to deal, with but you got to you gotta jump on, them and you gotta get busy to get that. Done.

NOW i, UH i was just talking about a product called sedge, hammer you, know for the nuts edge with the previous. Collar sedge hammer will suppress ki, linga but it won't outright kill. It you have. To you have to hit it a bunch of. Times but there is a product called image for nut. Sedge there's more than one thing called. Image. Image you want the one that

says image for. Nutsedge even though this is a nuts edge and it will kill kylinga, species follow the label, carefully but it's only going to kill that one type of grassy looking stice actually not a. Grasp it looks like. Graft, okay should SHOULD i dish that?

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Gardens richmond dot. Com see What i'm talking. About by the, way they're open today from ten to Four monday Through saturday eight to. Five let's they've shortened those hours a little bit for summer and to check. That sometimes our garden centers will shorten up a little, bit BUT i do know, this they'll be out there today and it would be a good time to go. Visit let's head out now to the. Phones we're going to go To houston and talk To. Dudley, Now Hello, Dudley good morning.

to kill. It and you're kind of out of luck on trying to kill. Those but the sprays of something containing by friend there and it's fairly, persistent and you get it on the. Bark make sure cover all the bark all, areas so anywhere beetle crawls or on that, surface it'll get to.

me leave you with a nice thought for the. Day it's a. QUOTE i love gardening quotes listens By Barbara. Kingsolver whatever lofty things you might accomplish, today you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the. Dirt, hey welcome. Back it's glad to have you with us on Garden line. Today thank you for listening. In we're gonna have some fun if you'd like to give me a call some point in this

in the. Morning we got about an hour left seven one three two one two k t R. H we're gonna go. Out we got some folks out there on the phones right, now so we're gonna head straight out to the phone's first thing and go To craig In. Beaumont Hello, Craig welcome to garden. Line oh, good more to skip. Moarning hey got a.

the plant somewhere along the. Way SO i would look for, HOLES i would look for. SAWDUST i would look for, sap gummy sap coming out of the plumb cut somewhere on the. Branches those are indications of the sap is an indication of a, Canker and any of those things will cause the wilting because it just shuts down the water supply to that. Leaf so it's gonna be something along those. Lines are you noticing it pretty evenly around the tree or is it just one branch? Primarily, no

it's the whole. Tree the whole tree not. Good, WELL i don't know the. SETTING i don't know you're, oil you, know if it's a low lying area or well drained or. Whatever BUT i would dig down about six. Clay, okay that could be part of. It how long has that tree been in the ground three, Months, okay so it still has a very confined root. System dig down around the root system with a trowel about six inches deep and feel the. Soil and if it is very, wet,

sticky that's probably the. Problem as far as what to do about. It at this, point you could try taking a spading fork and going straight in there and wiggling a little bit to get some, oxygen some air down into the root. System don't spade the soil, up but just push it, down pull back on the, fork rock it back and, forth and then pull it straight back. Up and. SEE i think that's probably too, little too, late but it's worth a. Try it's one thing that

might be in your. Power and then a longer term you may need to be looking at how to use subsurface drain that, area get some water away from. It and the most drastic of measures would be when we get into the wintertime Like, JANUARY, uh to dig the thing, up redo a bed in a nice raised bed of well drained soil mix and then reset it immediately while that tree is. Dormant. Uh and and so if we can keep it alive till then that would be what to. Do you can't do that, now but it's gonna be

one of those. THINGS i think if you get looking, close you may see some gummy sap around the base or on the main branches and things that could be a. Canker, okay, okay all, right thank you my. Friend sorry sorry to hear, that but good luck on getting behind that for. Sure i'm gonna go now to the woodlands and we're gonna talk To. Ian. Hello, Ian welcome to Garden. Line good, Morning.

reddish honey. COLOR i don't, think hearing you describe, it that's what it. Is but if it's, that it's going to kill the tree and there's no fixing. It it's just. Done, now let's just say they're not associated necessarily with the. Tree they just happen to be right there at the, base working on some decomposing organic matter or. WHATNOT i think cutting the crape myrtle back all the dead limbs

back is an. Option uh do you have some limbs that are fully healthy and some of the trunks that are fully dead or or what's the what is?

base sprout to rebuild a good healthy. Tree, now if the root system is, dying you're not going to get good re, sprouting and that's just a sign that it's just. Declining cutting it back is not going to kill. It the lack of any good root system and health is they mean that it's already. Dying but a bunch of dead. Limbs you can't live with. That and it sounds like

most of the top looks pretty. Bad SO i, would if it were, mine give it one last shot by cutting it back to near the ground and hopefully getting some healthy news shoots that come out that we can rebuild a tree out. Of if, not then then pull it and go go back in with another one at some, point all, right, sir.

Roses roses are always a good. Flower rose red roses or the flower love and a. Guy, NOW i.

more weeks before you start to fertilize. It, probably let's say four weeks after you you put the sod, down begin to fertilize it with one of the fertilizers you hear me talking about all the time here on Guarden. LINE a good one right now would be the silver bag From, nitrofoss which is Super Turf nitrofos Super. Turf that, is it's got a gradual. Release so what it's gonna do is it's gonna give your fertile your long little bit of, fertilizer and then over, time over the next four.

Months it's going to keep fertilizing it and keep it, growing but in a nice gradual. Way that grass are like, GRASS i, guess and you could say is like us in one, sense and that is we eat a little bit every. Day you don't eat your home months of food in one. Day and so it's good to put a fertilizer down that gradually releases. It and super turf the sober bag from night to. Foss so we'll do. That you're going to find it to all kinds of

ace hardware. Stores you know that super turf is just widely available here in the greater your.

Bye all, right there you, Go Spring Creek Feed. CENTER i don't know if you live up in The Magnolia tomball, area but they are up there ON fm twenty, nine seventy eight northeast Of, tomball really close just minutes away From Graham parkway And highway to forty. Nine both they carry the full line of the. Fertilizers like you KNOW i mentioned. Nitroposts they carry The Nelson Turf star. Line they carry The microlife line as. Well if you need things to control, weeds either to prevent them or to

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Building you are listening to Garden. Line if you'd like to give me a phone call seven one three two one two k t R. H seven one three two one two k t R. H we'll be happy to visit with you about the kinds of gardening questions that you might. HAVE i have seemed to be receiving a lot of questions on turf turning yellow, lately and it's not just here on the, air but just in general

and driving around. Town i'm seeing that When Saint augustine, grass especially as it's kind of the predominant turf we deal with, here when it starts to turn. Yellow there are a couple of things you might. Notice if you get up, close you may see a grass blade and the whole blade is just uniformly. Yellow that could be due to a chemical. Damage it could be due to some other types of causes that may just disease or

whatever just causing that. Yellowing when you see streaks of green and yellow in the same and sometimes you have to pick the blade and kind of hold up to the sky and look at, it and you'll see those vertical. Streaks that's a lack of. Iron but the question is why is there a lack of. Iron maybe your soil doesn't have. Iron that's the least likely cause that your soil doesn't have. Iron maybe the iron is there but

it's not. Available that's a very likely. Cause high pH and hygh phosphorus can cause iron to tie up and not be available to the. Plant so that is why we recommend. You you know you hear me talk about the three one two four one two ratio. Fertilizers that one in the middle that's. Phosphorus we don't need to add a whole lot of. That and if you over the, years as your pH goes, up as your phosphorus goes, up you create a problem by by that and that

can cause a lack of iron in the. Plant when that, happens we have to use a keylated iron to fix. It and a keylated iron keylate comes from A latin word meaning. Claw so imagine there's an iron, Molecule, like make a fist with your left. Hand that's the iron. Molecule now take your right hand and grab your. Fist the keylate is the claw that right hand that's grabbed onto the iron and it protects it in the soil so the plant can get. It it lasts. Longer regular

iron ties up like the iron you already. Have it'll green up for a, while but it didn't last. Long kilada iron is a better way to, go and your good garden centers and feed, stores places Like Southwest Fertilized race hardware, starts they're gonna have keylated iron that you can. Use. Now sometimes in the spring we get a little bit of a yellowing and early green. Up when it's cool

and extra, wet we see a little bit of. That the final cause is one you don't want me to, say because it's it's the bad, one and that is take all root. Rot it kills. Iron the grass plant can only take up iron at the tips of its. Roots so when take all kills, roots we see the nutrient deficiency of iron deficiency because the grass is not able to take up the iron even that's there because of the loss of root system due to the. Disease

go to my. Schedule Skip's Pest disease And Weed management schedule talks about take all on that, one and you can see what to. Do but there's a little quick kind of a summary of iron in the turf and what you might be looking. For time for me take a little break here in just a, bit BUT i did want to get that out to. You by the, way my, website gardening With skip dot Com gardening With skip Dot com is where you will find all of these.

Things both of my schedules are. THERE i would recommend you prun them, out stick them in the, garage put them on the, refrigerator make a paper airplane with. It whatever you want to. Do just know that it'll be. Available you can carry it with you into the store when you're, Going, yeah there was something per take all and it's this thing right, here and you point at it and it says a, zoxystrobin and then the person in the store takes you over there and tells you

what to use for. It the same is true for the other. Side the other side isn't just fertilizing, though it's a lawn care. Schedule so that side is what do you do to help the long grow fast and do. Well so it has a row Across january To december for synthetic, fertilizing a row across for organic, fertilizing a row for core, aerrating a row for proper mowing that's very, important a row for, watering and then all the products at the bottom that you're going to need to do.

It and it's all there At gardening With skip dot, com along with some other very helpful publications like controlling woody weeds in the landscape like poison ivy and controlling nuts. Edge, hey welcome. Back that's all This Brad paisley And Taylor swift going on. TODAY i don't know good to hear. Though, hey we're going to go out spring now and what we were see if you get my collar back on,

HERE i just lost. Somebody but if you would like to call in seven to one three two one two kt R h seven to one three two one two kt R. H Nitrophoss eagle is a fungicide that is a. Granule you put it down on the ground and you

water it in and it is ingredients called. Michael it's one of the systemic fungicides that there, is and so it moves up into the grass plant and so when gray leaf, spot which we've been having quite a bit of this spring or, summer rather when it tries to attack the, disease is there protecting the grass plant against. Infection from the. Disease diseases are better prevented than. Cured that's the bottom line in general on. Diseases so getting ahead of it with that systemic into the grass helps

fight that. Disease now it also works on not just gray leaf, spot but it works on it has some effect on take all root rot as well and other kinds of turf diseases that we deal. With so where are you going to find a product called tell me, again who is? Listening eagle eagle turf fungicide from Night? Fuss where are you going to find? It where Night fass is, sold which is all over the? Place Ace Hard Red Sinkle ranch has it On Mason, road And katie Aspos as up in The woodlands On kirkandall is

going to carry nito frost. Products Enchanted forest ON fm twenty seven fifty nine down In. Richmond rosenberg carries nitrofost products as, well so it's easy to. Find just, remember with, diseases it's better to prevent them than to cure. Them so if you wait until a plant is all disease, ridden you, know even affective, products it's a little late to get much benefit from. Them all, Right, Now we're going to go back out to the phones and talk

To bonnie And. Spring Hello, bonnie welcome to garden.

or other things in. It in the case of these, though most of the leaves don't show, It SO i don't know why you're seeing it on some leaves but not. Others but if you look at the leaves that have, it if you were to imagine spraying something on the leaf and then with gravity it sort of rolls, downward that's kind of the pattern that it has on. There so it's something probably coming out of the irrigation, system but nothing to be concerned. About, okay, no no need

to treat for. It your crepe myrtle looks, good overall. Beautiful you don't happen to know the name of that, variety do? You by any?

know wounding in the bark or other. Issues so give it a little bit of.

so that's the number one thing for weeds from. Seed, now if you've got weeds that are able to come back out of the ground and through them alt you know they're existing strong grass weed plants on the, right then to treat, Them, okay you're gonna need to treat them with some kind of a broad leaf herbicide to get rid of, those or hand dig them all. Out how big is this flower?

too far away from, you and you go in. There i've got broad leaf weeds and a flower. BED i need a spreader sticker to go with, it and they'll put both of them in your. Hands and then when they're sprayed with, that it, well it will kill, him but it will also kill desirable broad leaf, plants so you cannot get it on the foliage of your good. Plants if you want to do a weed, wiper if you go to my website gardening with skip dot, com a weed wiper can be. Built bob's also At Southwest.

Fertilizer he's also got the tool you make that with and that you apply the herbicide to the sponge and then you reach. Down you don't have to bend over there, there you, know just drop your arm by your side and it reaches all the way to the ground and you squeeze with the sponge on those weed leaves and it moves down in them and it kills, them and that avoids the. Spray that avoids the accidental. Damage but if you got a big bed full of tons of, weeds it takes a long time to do that that.

Way BUT i think talk To bob about, it and he. Can he. Can he can show you what to what to, have and it's not hard to make if you've got a pint canning jar lid and a piece of kitchen sponge and on on my publication online it's even what size little, bolt just to buy a little bolt at a at a at a hardware store and use that to attach. It but, Anyway bob will show you all that when you go To southwest.

little segment. Left we'll be off for a while. Now so if you'd like to if you got a question you'd like to, ask, well that'd be a good time to call. In seven one three two one two k T. R i probably got time for a couple more, calls so seven one three two one two KT. R you hear me give these adages all the, time like brown stuff before green stuff and. Whatnot, well it's because there's just some simple principles that help us have success with our.

Plants and one principle that is important to remember is don't wait when you start to see a, problem find out what it, is and act. Soon and here here's. Why like a, disease you start to see a little bit of a leaf spot on a, disease, right, well you end up waiting and next thing you, know the whole plant's got the spots on it and most of your leaf area has been compromised or. Killed and, now, yeah you could spread a fung, aside but to protect what it's almost all gone. Right the same is true

with insect. Feeding you, know a few caterpillars here are. There that's. Okay they're a little tiny things when they hatch. Out but they get big and they get, hungry and they molt and they get bigger and, fast and next thing you. Know you, know if you, wait let's say you have fall webworms in your pecan trees and you got little web nest up. There now's the time to get there and do something to stop. That if you're

going to do something about. It but if you wait until the whole tree is full of webs and has no, leaves well there's no need to. SPRAY i, mean you're. Done and they often say that the best fertilizer is the footprints of the. Gardener what that means is when you're in your garden and you're checking things and taking care of things and, whatnot that results in a really nice garden of very happy. PLANTS i would also say that the best pest and disease control is the footprints

of the. Gardener the sooners you get out, there the sooner you check. IT i was in my garden the other day looking at some, things AND i saw some aphids on a. Leaf, NOW i could go in with a squirt of insecticidal soap and just knock those out with something so. SAFE i take baths and soap, right they're very safe. PRODUCT i could knock it out real. Early IF i wait until the plant leaves are twisting up and there's a, sugary you do all over the, leaves and city mold is growing and. Whatnot that's a

little late to do. Anything but you know WHAT i. NOTICED i noticed some beneficial. INSECTS a lady beat a. LARVA a lady beet mom had, said, oh there's layfid's that's baby. Food meafood. Too by the, way this is what she, Says and so she lays some eggs THERE a larva hatches. Out Now i'm not gonna spray, anything because even insecticidal soap will kill that lady beat.

Pain dealing with things early on helps a. Lot so there you. Go that was. Readvice but for, gardening act, soon don't, wait and your options are and also from a pest control, standpoint the, safest most organic. Options you have full range of those early in a problem. Process as things get, older not so. Much for, EXAMPLE bt kills.

Caterpillars we know that works, Well but when a caterpillar is older and it's slowed, down it's, eating and it's getting ready to turn in a moth that will lay a lot more caterpillar, eggs, well then you're not going to get control WITH. Bt the younger the caterpillar, is the more voraciously feeding young, CATERPILLARS bt wipes them. Out as they get, older it's not as. Good another case in point of the sooner you do, things the more safe natural options you, have and the more effective it'll.

Be all, RIGHT i feel like i'm fussing at you. THERE i don't mean it that, way but it is an important thing to. Know maria In. Cyprus you're our next collar on guarden. Line how can we help the?

growth at the expense of bloom. Production so hopefully they'll turn around, awesome make you happy like you were when you bought. Them, yeah thank.

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