Spring Is Here, Lets Plant!

Give me a call. We can talk about it. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, or if you like to die, buy letters seven one three two one two kt R. H Uh. There is a lot that you can do to have more success, and it's just a matter of starting to think like a plant. Maybe that'd be a good name for the show, thinking like a plant. Anyway, We're glad you're here. Hey, the folks at Nitrovis have got you covered for your early spring green up. You go to my schedule, you'll see

the early spring green up. That's an optional application, you know. It's if you want to see a greener early a earlier, do this and you will absolutely Well, they've got the nitro foss Imperial that's a fifteen to five to ten. This is a standard fertilizer ratio. It's a three one to two ratio. Lots of nitrogen, not much phosphorus, medium amount of potassium. If you take grass clippings and send them to the lab and say what's in this, that's what you're going to see. A three one two or

four one two or something like that ratio of nutrients. Now, nitrofax in perial also comes. It is not the only form that it takes. They also have a nitrofoss fifteen to five to ten that has the ingredient TRIMEC in it. That is a post emergent broad leaf wheed control. So if you're looking at your yard right now and you're wanting to do a green app and it's just like there's all these brown weeds, there are green weeds that are in my lawn, well, that would be an option.

You wet the lawn, you put it on it goes into the tissues, it kills the weeds, and then a couple of days after you apply it, go ahead and water it in. Get that fertilizer done in the soil. But that's kind of a two fur on that. And this is one of the times of the year and there's not a lot of them, or I'll say, put that combo on. Usually the time we put a herbicide and then we put a fertilizer on may not line up real good, especially with pre emergence in the spring.

But I'm telling you that this stuff will work to do what it's supposed to do. The imperil, by the way, is a red bag. It's the red bag and the one with a trimec is kind of a bluish blue at lighter bluish colored bag, So be careful with that because there's a purple bag also that's a different ingredient. So whatever you're going after, just make sure that you've

chosen the right product for your lawn. And when it comes to pretty much any kind of lawn, the either of these the Imperial, the red bag or the light blue bag would would be fine. We're going to head out and out a tumble and talk to Mel. Hello Mel, welcome to garden line.

have a product. You mix it, both of them, mixing water. You spray it on the broad leaf weeds. But take a good look make sure your weeds are broad leaf is supposed to grassy.

three options that you can use. So it's not like you have to go get this one spray for those weeds. There's a number of them out there. But the keys to the what you're asking them is broad leaf post emergent. I want to kill an existing broad leaf weed that and then they can point you at the right product that they care.

You know, the I talk about the three sixty tree stabilizer, it is an amazing I'm gonna say no, because it's you know, in the last five ten years something like well probably five years. The three sixty tree stabilizer. You attach it to a post, you attach it to your tree, and it holds it in place and in fact, I'm gonna try later today. I want to post a video and show you of a tree in a strong wind

with a stabilizer on it. It's amazing, you know. Now you can do one stabilizer or if you've got a bigger tree, you know, big jack canopy like a sail in the wind, you can do two. Do one east west, one north south. But they attached with a soft strap,

so they allow the tree to move. That's important. If you honker a tree down where it cannot budget all the trunk will not develop strength, nor the top brace roots at the top near the base of the trunk, they're not going to develop that strength that they will if they're allowed to bend and push and twist a little bit. So you want a little bit of movement, and it's designed to do exactly that. You're gonna find three sixty tree stabilizers at you know, just talking about

going out to Arburgate, Well they've got them there. You can go and if your shop at Buchanans or Jorgeshiden Gardens down South RCW Nursery, Ciena Molt, these are all places where you're going to find the three sixty tree stabilizer so whatever you're doing, if you planted a tree, even in the last year, I would go ahead and get something like that on it and make sure that it is held in the place and it can have

the best chance possible of establishing. Very well, I'm gonna have to take quick break here and when we come back, Paul in the Woodlands, you're going to be our first up. All right, we're back, folks. Hey, welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Enjoy getting to visit with you about the things that are most of interest to you in Jenny Gardens out there in Richmond Rosenberg area.

In fact, it's specifically it's on FM three point fifty nine north of Richmond between Katie you know, Katie Fullshire side of Richmond. Let's just do it that way, between Richmond and Katie Richmond and Katie in fullsher in there. All right, Well, anyway, bottom line is they've been arounted in nineteen ninety five. That is an unbelievable place. Unforgettable. I mean they I was there the other day for giving a talk and it just it's just always amazing.

I never go out there that it is just not chock full of everything that is seasonal that you need and the help you get there. They know what they're talking about. This is an independent gardens and it's a family owned garden center. And listen, these folks know and do you go in and you may not even know the right question, and they can help you. They'll walk you around, talk to you, help you. You're gonna find herbs and vegetables, you know, roses, a great selection of seed.

When I start talking about fertilizers and soils like Microlife, nitrofoss Nelson, Medina, Nature's Way, heirloom soil, they've got all of that there at Enchanted Gardens. You need to go to the website. It's Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. Enchanted Gardens, Richmond. And listen, we have got some great weather for most of this week. Oh man, today, it would be a good day to run out there check them out. It's just it's the kind of place where you're going to

take a friend with you because it's just fun. It's just flat fun to go and check out the incredible combo planters that they have. Maria there is always creating something new. In fact, you follow them on social media, you can actually watch her build things and get some real good inspiration again Enchanted Gardens, Richmond dot com. Let's go out to the woodlands. Now we're going to talk to Paul. Hey, Paul, Welcome to garden Line.

it's it's the wrong horticultural practice. Good enough, Thank you, all right, thanks for the call man. Take care all right. Hey, guess what I'm gonna be today up there at the Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show at the Lone Star Convention Center up on Airport Road and Conrad. I'll be there from twelve to two, given a little talk and giving away a lot of products from the folks at Nelson, the folks at Medina. So you know, come check me out if you got some time. Take care,

Thank you, all right, bye bye. Yeah, I'm really looking looking forward to that. We've got some great products, you know, folks at Nelson, they they've kind of got you covered on everything that you might need for any plant. You got a plant, you want it green or more productive, well, check out some of their products. You know, they've got the Nelson wheedon eater that is a product. There's not

your typical whedon feed. This has a growth regulator in it that slows the grass down a little bit, which means you mow less. That's important because when spring fully hits, that grass is taken off. If you have to sleep on your lawn more because they wake up every few minutes to mote again. Anyway, it all also has the post emergered products gonna knock out a wide range of weeds like chickweed and clover and dandulion, dollar weed, person lane spurges those little vining weeds that get out in

your grass. It takes care of it. That's a weedininator. And it will also feed a long time. So we're talking about you get some immediate release, but there's a number of kinds of nitrogen in it, so you're gonna end up getting feeding for you know, three or four months. You'll care. Let's just put this. It's gonna carry all the way up to the summer if you put out a full application of it. Also, you need to wet the weeds first. Anytime you're using a granular weed control,

you gotta wet the weeds. You want the granules to stick to the weeds. And then immediately while the weeds were wet, put that product out. Let us sit a couple of days and a couple days later, watered down and there you go, You're covered. Got it done. Another product from the folks that Nelson boy. You can find those things all over town. So uh yeah, that that is the case. I was trying out some of their

other product. I'll talk about those little later. Strang out some of the other products recently, and we're very impressed with the stuff they have now on guardline, I'm always saying brown stuff before green stuff, right, brown stuff before green stuff. That is basically a way of saying, get the soil right before you put the plants in. That's important. You got to do it that way. And it's so many people get inspired on a wim you know, warm

sunny day. Let's go buy some plants. Great idea, by the way, go do that, but buy some soil too. Come home, get the foundation right, and it's like deciding, you know, I want a house and starting to hammer tubat for us together before you pour concrete on the foundation. You don't do it that way, and if you do, you're setting yourself up for success. Unless you just already happen to have wonderful soil, which almost no one does.

So get the soil right, and heirloom soils. They are set up to sell you exactly what you need for exactly the planter you're ground. Are you going to plant fruit trees? Or how about vegetables and herbs by the way, there's a mix for that. How about roses, there's a mix for that. Really, any kind of shrubs and blooming plants. That rose product works excellent for now. You're going to find it in the bags all over the place. They

are widely available. You can also drive out to porter and pick up bulk, take your trailer or you pick up go out there and get you some, or call them up and have them deliver it. There's so many options with airloom. You can have them bring a load of it, put it on the driveway and I've done that many times myself, and they know you will bear it around where you need it. Or you can have them bring a supersack that's a giant sack that holds a cubic yard, a cubic yard and a sack. It

is neat and clean. I still have part of a sack on my driveway that I've been emptying, and I just keep getting sidetracked on other projects. But it's a neat, clean way to do it. It's all at Heirloom Soils Now. If you want to go out to the Porter area, it's on a US fifty nine access road out there in Porter. Here's a phone number if you'd like to call to talk about maybe a delivery or you know more detail you want about coming by to pick it up.

Two eight one three five four nineteen fifty two eight one three five four one nine five zero. Let's go out to Galveston now, and we're going to talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, Welcome to guard Line. Thank you.

that's for fertilizer. Now the barricade, we're talking about a notch above one quarter. So using that twenty notch example, that would be setting it on five or six, about a fourth of the way up. But I want to tell you something, that barricade is a very very fine

textured product compared to fertilizer. And I would recommend under applying going let's say east west and then see where you are and then go north south to fill back in with the other half, because you know you can always go back over it again, and every time you split it up and go over it, you're getting a more even spread, right that you don't have the stripes or whatever in other words, so with the barricade, go light and and then come back and fill in, because

a lot of folks I talk to, you know, they set it and they think they're good, and all of a sudden it's like I'm two thirds of the way through the yard and I just ran out of barricade. Well, that means you over applied it, and so that go

light on that one notch above one quarter. Okay, I appreciate it, all right, Sure you bet good luck with that, and don't forget to water it in the barricade especially, gotta water that in with just about a half inch of water to get it down in the soil because weeds can germinate, but not after you've watered the barricade in. Thanks Bill, I I do appreciate your call and take care of it. Jorges Hiding Gardens is down in the Alven area, and Horay always has some really cool stuff

coming in. He's got a lot of good free trees.

They are on Elizabeth Street, so kind of to the south and east. I had to get the map in my brain here south and east of Alvin on south the Highway six, just south of the Highway six. So those of you listening in Arcadia, Arcadia, you know places like Dickinson and Hillcrest, Algoa, Santa Fe, all that area. This is your backyard garden center. And they do have that three sixty tree stabilizer too, so you need to check that out. If you're looking for flowers, Jorges got

those as well. And roses. He has a really nice little artie trellist Peggy Martin. Roses I think are just a great way to get a good fast head start on those. And that's Hoores Hidden Gardens. I'm going to be there coming up in the future. I'm going to go down there In fact, let's see you next weekend. I'll be heading down to Horaes Hidden Gardens. All right, let's go up the tumbball and talk to David. Hey, David, welcome to garden Line.

keep the bugs off my tomatoes. What can I buy in bulk form to just be the least expensive that will work as far as a spray that I can mix up in a spray bottle like a gallon and just keep it and spray it on a weekly basis. And then the last question you just raise when you toe that guy the water a half an inch if you have a sprinkler system, how do you measure a half an inch from on your sprinkler system.

wise to get half an inch. So that could be straight sided tuna, fish cans, cat food cans, a bean can or rain gauge if you got those, and just put them out there, and then you'll know once you do that, once you'll know, okay, my system puts water out at x inches per x minutes, you know kind of thing, and then you know exactly how long you water to do at half inch or an inch or whatever you're trying to do. Hey, David, hang on, I'm going to go and we'll be right back to continue

your questions. Thanks for the call. All right, welcome back the guard Line. We are glad to have you with us. You know, one of the most important things you can do for your lawn when it is struggling, and I'm talking about soil compaction with these heavy clay soils, is to get it errated and put a compost top dressing down. That is important and here's why. What it does is it takes a heavy clay soil that doesn't allow oxygen in,

that doesn't absorb water very fast. And by creating these holes and putting that compost on top, also, you end up getting oxygen down in the soil. You get that organic matter down in the soil, and it helps root system to thrive. And remember just rounds up over green stuff. You're taking care of your grass is soil, your your lawns soil. And by doing that, your lawn's gonna thrive now year round. Houston. These guys are specialist when it comes to core air rating. That's easy for me to

say core aer rating and compost top dressing. You can do it yourself, but oh my gosh, it's cumbersome. You got pilesive compost on the driveway. You gotta clean up. Rent a machine, go get it, clean it up, take it back and those machines aren't as good as the ones the year round does. They do a better job doing a core aeration, popping those cores out of the ground. They only use top quality quality compost. No smell. Okay. Now they serve the area around Richmond Rosenberg and then

inside the Beltway. You know as you go inside the whole Beltway that this is your company for that. It's year round Houston dot Com. Here's a phone number eight three to two eight eight four fifty three thirty five eight three two eight eight five for fifty three thirty five year round Houston dot com. I'm going to go back now and talk to David. And David, you were asking about the tomatoes, and let me let me hit that one. If your tomatoes have stopped growing, one something

in this list has happened. They don't. They're not getting enough light to provide the energy to fuel growth. The soil is getting too dry or staying too wet, soggy, wet, the temperatures where they're growing or cooler than a tomato wants. Those are all things that slow growth on a little

tender seedling. Usually it's the way we're watering that I find does that or maybe the cell that they're in is just doesn't have enough soil and the root system has filled it, and therefore the tomatoes kind of limited by that. If you can figure out which of those it might be with yours, that would be important. If you're not getting response from that anyway, I would probably get you use some Microlife orange label. It's called Biomatrix

Microlife bio Matrix. It's a six two four liquid and when you when you use that, uh, it's got the seven percent nitrogen, one percent phosphorus, three percent potassium. So it's a good nitrogen boost for the plants. And I can burn them, which is why I like it in your situation for those seedlings. You don't want to use a salt based fertilizer where you could burn the little seedlings with that. But the biomatrix that'll give it the nutrient boost and they should take off from that.

just watching for them as they hatch out there. They don't have wings, and you can just knock them into a pail of water. They're real easy to control. Then the other thing is the caterpillars they get, you know, they can eat the leaves, they can get in the fruit. And for those I would use I would buy bt Bacillus thurin gensis. It's a it's an insecticide you can put it. I don't know it. You know, it comes in different volumes, but you shouldn't be having to spray

your tomatoes that much. Do you have like a whole lot of plants.

instinct bugs. And they're going to have products like that from the various folks, whether it's Boneye or Monterey or Fertile Loam or High Yield, all those companies have products for that, and that that's the route I would go. But depending on what you use, you're probably not gonna need to spray it more than once a week. That should be more more than enough.

thanks for the call. I gotta run, but good luck with getting that all under control. Yeah, we're talking about microlife Biomatrix. They also have something called Ocean Harvest, which is a blue label that's a four to two three and the four to two three is a fish based product and it is another one that will provide you an extra little extra boost of nitrogen there as well as not burning your plants, and that that is important when you're dealing with especially with the tender new plants.

Oh my gosh, if you could see my garage right now, I'm about to call a realtor out and I have to clean it up. But ACE has got that. Do you need shelving? Do you need boxes? Shoving units. I'm talking about. Do you need cleaning supplies? Those storage tots, I say boxes, storage totes are a great way. That's how I'm organizing all my stuff. And then with lawn

and garden season. Here you're gonna find expert advice and you're gonna find a lot a lot of products from fertilizers to we control, to pest control, disease control and tools. They've got you covered there at your ACE Hardware stores. Go to ACE Hardware dot Com and find go to the store locator, find the one nearest you, Find the one nearest you, and they'll get you all fixed up. Let's head out now to Walker County and we're going to talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, welcome to Guardline.

Do you want a bush? Do you want it more upright, you know, with growth or and you just do it repeatedly through the season, and hibiscus can handle that. I will typically prune mine. Some people like to print it all at once, and that's fine. Sometimes I'm going in and I just take a tall shoot and I take it back, and that way, I've got other shoots that are still blooming. I haven't. You know, when you prune back, they have to regrow and then set buds to bloom.

So I kind of like to do it a little at a time, so I always have blooms on the plant. But that'd be the approach i'd take, all right, Bob, during the year. Hey, Bob, I'm sorry, Bob, I'm sorry to interrupt you. They're telling me I'm way past break. Hang on, we'll finish when we come right back. All righty, welcome back, glad you're with us. Hey, RCW Nurseries. RCW Nurseries. That's the garden center there Tumball Parkway, which is two

forty nine and belt Way eight. It's really easy to get to there if you don't go to the website. It's RCW Nurseries dot com. But I'm telling you they have stocked up on all kinds of things for the spring you're gonna find. I was checking out their herbs selection. It is extensive, vegetables, nice selection of vegetables, really good. And then when it comes to cool color, they've got all of that. Of course, they really are always going

to have a great stock of shrubs and trees. And you know, whether you're looking for a plant in azalea or to plant a rose, yes, you can still plant a rose even though it's March first, a plane of rose any month of the year. They have a great selection of those. And you know, with RCW you know. Oh, here's another idea. How about camellias. You know, in the winter time it's hard to find things that bloom. But there's two kinds of comedias, says Sankwa in Japonica. One

on blooms more in December. One I'm more in the February January time. They're really great. They're awesome, and they've got a really nice selection with fifteen percent on up there Azalea's and they're camellias right now at RCW. You need to get out there and check it out. They are. It's a fun place. I love walking through there, and they treat you right when you go into RCW Nurseries. They're experts at.

dry out. All of those things affect how fast it's going to come back into bloom. So there's going to be a pretty big range there.

of their nutri star products. Comes in little jars, so it's you know, it just takes little tablespoon sprinkle Summer around each plant watered in and it'll get you about three months of feed on those of Plumerius. So I would I would go with the Nelson Nutri Star Plumeria food. Yeah, that would be the one. And sounds like you got

some good things there, Thank you very much. Yeah, hey, Bob, I'm going to be up at the Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show in Conroe up on Airport Road today, be giving away some products, like I'll have some plumeria on hand. You show up and and uh, you might get a simple of some of that stuff to try yourself. I'd love to see you. If you got any other questions, put them in a zip lock bag, bring me a weed and we'll figure that out too. Thanks for your call, man,

I really appreciate it. Thanks, take care all righty Hey, uh talking about medina a while ago. Medina has to grow six twelve six plant food. Is it is a great I'm going to use the word concoction because it has got it's got the six twelve six that's that's the levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in a plant food. It's got Medina soil activator to stimulate the biological activity. It's got humate humic acid. We know that humis umic acids and things help improve soil structure. And as the

soil gets better, your nutrient update gets better. And then it's got seaweed extracts in it, and you can use it for a folio application. In fact, this is a this mix could be used drenching in a new plant to help it get that root system going. That high phosphorus in it, the six twelve six, it would work great for that. You could use it as a folier feed it. Just use it however you want. You're not

going to burn your plants with it. It's one of many Medina products that you're going to find out at your local garden centers, your feed stores, You're going to find it at ACE hardware stores. Those kinds of products are they work, they do, and products by Medina. And if you come up those of you listening anywhere up toward Montgomery County, I'm going to be giving away some Medina product is some really cool hosen spray product and some other things for your lawn and your other plants.

Just show up today. That's on Airport Road at the Lone Star Convention Center and I'll be there from twelve to two. I'm gonna give a talk on spring gardening tips first and then just answer gardening questions. You get some baggies, bring me some weeds. Whatever you have a question about, we'll identify them and we will help you with either a diagnosis, identification, and certainly with what do you do about it? How do you control it?

their passionate. Boy, they are passionate about birds. How do you walk into wabirds? Ask any question you want, any question you want, and they're going to be able to answer it, like what is the best food for this, or what's the difference between this and this? And how do you attract that or how do you use this kind of product? They know what they're talking about. There's six stores. There's one in clear like when in Cyprus.

When in Houston down on bel Air Boulevard, one on Memorial Drive on the west side of Houston, and go out to Kingwood on Kingwood Drive. There's one down in Paarland on Broadway. All while birds stores. Right now, you need to be putting out the Nesting super Blend. Nesting super Blend. It gives the birds the protein and calcium they need because they are going to be raising young and it's very important. Put away the winter blend. You can still use it that I've been talking about, but

it's time to switch over now. Nesting super Blend works in all types of feed and it is the kind of thing that let's just put it this way. It will help your birds succeed. And we need to do that because you've heard before about songbirds being endangered in some areas for many reasons, especially as we sprawl around taking over the neighborhoods. Nesting super Blend to bring the birds to your house. I heard one yesterday morning singing, oh my gosh, that was a pop variety of all

birds that's for sure. So if you're looking for an organic fertilizer for your lawn, Sweet Green by Nitrofoss that is one that'll do it. I'm going to take a little break here, but i want to come back. I want to tell you more about Sweet Green. When I do, it really does work and it is an eleven percent organic. So I hang around. Time for me to take a quick break for the top of the hour. Boy, this it's spring. Spring is sprung on guard line. That is for sure. It has happened. I will be at the

Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show. Come on out today twelve to one. That is a great show. I always like going to it because there's so much going on there. But I'm going to be giving a talk on spring tips for success and then just basically answering your questions. So on the air, I just have a

short time. I can, you know, answer people who get to the next person and think what planning at two hours, I'll be there plenty of times, sit around, talk answer your questions, and I promise you we'll have fun and I'm gonna be giving away Nelson products and Medina products.

that I'm asking people? Let me be clear. I'm talking about the things that you have in your lawn that you want to get rid of. We're not going to go to that other place right now, so I can I can't identify the other That's not what I'm asking you to do. So let's keep it clean here, folks on guarden Line. All right, thanks for listening. I'm your host, Skip Richtor. We're having a good time. If you want

to give me a call. Seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. I was telling you about sweet green from nitrofoss before a break. Sweet green from nitrophise. It's a really cool product. It is. You take a molasses base, you dot, the microbes do some work on it and basically turns it into an ale seven percent nitrogen levens zero type fertilizer. That it works. I put it on your lawn, you water it in really good. By the way, it smells great. You know, you know

what molasses smells. That has that fresh sweet smell to it. That's why they call it sweet green. And the reason they call it green is eleven percent nitrogen will green up your lawn. You want to early green up, you want to use it. You can use it any time of the year. And by the way, I know it's for lawns, but if you want to give a boost of nitrogen to anything, it'll work for that. Sweet green is one of those products that it's just versatile. It

really is versatile. It reacts with water, It has organic compounds and things in it. It just really stimulates the microbial activity of the swell. Also, organic gardeners have known for a long time that you know, molasses stimulates microbial activity. That is important. Now, sweet green, where do you get sweet green? Will you get it at places like Ace Hardware City down on Memorial Drive, Plants for all seasons

two forty nine. How about Bearing's Hardware, Bisinet, Bearings Hardware, Westheimer. Those are all places that carry nitrofoss products, so go check them out. I had been out in my yard doing some early cleanup, getting things ready to go. I say early clean up, early cleanup for my summer plantings

and things, and boy, the weeds are already starting. I looking out the other day and seeing them there, and you know, you gotta shut things down if you're gonna if you're gonna take a product like barricade, for example, and do it as a pre emergent, get it done soon because the warm season weeds this week is going to be I think we're going to see a lot of sprouting going on this week. And the sooner you get that down and watered in, the more you shut

things down, and that that is important to remember. Well, I wanted to I want to talk a little bit about planting trees and shrubs. The sooner you get that done, the better. And I just want to emphasize that, you know, you spend some money when you buy a tree or a shrub. They're not cheap, but it's a light you know, it's a long term I say, lifetime plant that's in your landscape. Very valuable, so do it right. You want to cut the circling roots that come out of the pot.

There's always going to be some roots circling around the pot. Just cut those, it's okay. Get them planted as soon as possible, to give them time to establish and to do well. That is important, okay. And then put a quality product into the soil to help them get established. You know, I was talking earlier about the Medina product the has to grow six twelve six. That is an example of that. Get them off to a good start,

keep them well watered. Remember that root system. It came out of the pot as a cylinder of soil and roots. It went into the ground as a cylinder of soil and roots, and it takes time for those roots to start each way out where it becomes a resilient plant. In the meantime, you got a water where the roots are. That's really important to do and one of the best ways to do that is to use the watering device that goes around your tree or shrub hooks up to a hose and you just water it, wet it in

really good. And I think that's an amazing device. The last time, let's see when was I, oh, for a rose bush. A rose bush is just a good example of something that you would want to do like that. It helps establish that plant. You can turn it on just a little bit if you want to turn it on just a little bit. And once you have the little trickling going on, it's wetting the base of that plant. It's wetting the roots right where the root zone is.

That is important. You want to be able to get that root zone wet and when you do, it's going to keep it live and stretching the roots out. And you just turn the water up a little bit, turn it a little bit more, a little bit more, and you wet a larger and larger area and it just makes it easy. It's called a tree hugger because it hugs the base of the plant, and it's a tree

hugger sprinkler. They're green. They come in seven inch and all the way up to eleven in its three different sizes, and so if you have a tree, maybe you have a tree that's I don't know, been in the ground ten years, but it's you know, a certain size, and we go into this summer and you need to give it good. Soakings tree hugger is the best way to do it because you can water that rescue water around the base of the tree and have success. That is why I think a lot about that tree hugger sprinkler.

I was talking to somebody the other day about Antique rosen Porium and there's any never been out there before. Well, I told them, you got to go. It's a must visit destination.

about the Wildfire METERI is gonna be there. They're gonna have someone there with craft beers and all kinds of cool stuff. But you got to go to Antique Roseemporium dot com Antique Rosenporium dot com to find out more about it, get your tickets. You got to do it because on tomorrow, that's March second, Tomorrow Sunday, tickets closed, so go ahead and grab them, but go check it out. The annual Spring Celebration follows out in the next two day two days after it, March eighth and ninth. Lots

of speakers, workshops, vendors, food traits. It's fun. I've been to it for it is fun. And also you've got to get those tickets now. The Spring Break Kids Workshops are March tenth through thirteen. It's part of their Children in the Garden program. Hands on workshops start at ten am every day. Again, tickets on the website. Visit the Rose Imporium in person out there north of Brenham. Give them a call ninety seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight or go to Antique Roseemporium dot com

and remember their roses. But they are so much more native plants, flowers, trees. It's it's cool, all righty Well, I gotta take a little break here. When I come back, I'm going to be talking to Ron in Cleveland. Looking forward to talking to you Ron glad you're with us today. You'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two KTR eight seven one three two one two k t r H. Ciena Molts south of Houston is your one stop shop for all the things that

are the foundation for success in your garden. Round stuff before green stuff, Ciena Molts. It's got you covered. And why do I say that, Well, it's because you can get your compost to put in the soil to improve the soil. You can get your bed mixes to just put on the ground or in a raised bed and fill it up and grow in it like the veggie and Herbix for example. They've got that like a rose soil. They got that you can buy bulk. You can buy some things by the bag too, and they have really

nice mulches, a wide variety of quality mulches. Now part of the brown stuff is the nutrients in the soil products from microlife products from Turf's Nelson's turf Star line. They also have the little Nelson food jars plant food jars, you know the ones where you just screw top lids. They got products from medina and nitrophiles and azamite and heirloom soils, Sienna multch They are on FM five point twenty one near Highway six and two eighty eight south

of Houston. Sienna Maltz dot com. Write that down, Sienna Maltz dot com toy, how to get there, get phone numbers, get lots more good information, And I promise you when you go in there, you're going to be greeted by happy, enthusiastic people that are there to help you. It is fun. I mean, it is the pleasure to go in and just visit with the folks at c NMOS. We're gonna go now out to Cleveland and talk to Ron. Hello, Ron, Welcome to guard Line.

I use that kind of fertilizer in a lot of different places, and all of those with the roses, you want to have nitrogen to really encourage growth because growth is where the blooms form, the terminal ends of new growth. You named a lot of different plants, and I think if I were to just say one fertilizer, I would I would probably do that. Okay, that's like a.

going to kill your shrubs. But again, that's outside the label, and I never recommend things that are outside the label. So officially, that is not a place that.

the pupa stage. That's cool. Then it has this mosquito fungal disease and the mosquito carries it around and it slowly kills. And by the way, that mosquito goes to other watering spots, like that leaky gutter you got that holds water and stuff. When they lay an egg up in there, they're going to infect that water with this product. And it doesn't hurt anything. It's not gonna hurt ladybugs, not gonna hurt a family pattern. That is what makes

it so cool. Pest Brothers covers our whole Houston area all the way from the Woodlands down to Texas City, from Katie across the Baytown. You have issues with termites, other household pass fire ants in the yard. I mentioned mosquitoes, wild varmits, they know how to treat them effectively in the safest manner. You can give them a call for a quote. Two eight one two o six forty six seventy. Go to the website the pest brosbros dot Com two eight one two o six forty six seventy. We're going

to go now to sugar Land and talk to Elizabeth. Hello, Elizabeth, Welcome to garden Line.

in the soil. But getting a little bit in a new bed where you're going to plant them, mix some bone meal in and then just continue with your micro life six.

many different kinds of plants and stuff. They've got the standard meat and potatoes, you know that people don't want to go get and buy. But they've got stuff you haven't seen before. They've got stuff you haven't tried before, and they're always getting new things in. And go and talk to Beverly or Kennonan or any of the folks that are there on site. The nice thing about Arbigate they walk you around, they'll talk to you, they'll help you with things like you're going, well, I want some

flowers to do a container, I want something for this area. Well, come over here and they'll talk to you and they'll help you. They are very knowledgeable, and I'm telling you that is so important to have that when you're shopping for plants. Remember they got the parking lot in the back that is off Trichel Road. It's a little loop that goes around behind Arburgate. Go back there and park.

It's safe. It's easy access, all weather access too, by the way, and while you're there, pick up the organic food complete that is an organic food, a fertilizer if you will, the organic soil complete, and the organic compost complete. Those three bags are the whole deal. Both the soil and the compost have expanded shale in them, so that holds our heavy clays open even longer than the organic

matter sticks around. They really did an ingenious job coming up with these three bags to put together because again membership, says Browns who I'm talking about myself and the third person, that's weird brown stuff before green stuff. Right, three bags organic food, organic soil, organic compost complete, that is the brown stuff. And then go get those plants and they you know, good healthy plants, and go home and have some fun. By the way, can you imagine a better

week than this week to get out there. Oh, I love this weather that we're having. Let's head out to spring and we're going to talk to Trey. Oh, Trey.

lot of people like to get that early green. And then once we get into April, we're switching over to more gradual release fertilizers to carry us on through summer. And it is on the schedule at Gardening with Skip dot com.

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folks that go to a five star review. You can go to QUALITYTX dot com, qualitytx dot com or dial them up seven one three, Quality, seven to one three, Quality, quality products, quality service for equality life. Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to help you. Help you have a downafa garden and a beautiful landscape and more fun in the process. And how do you have fun? You have fun by having success. How do you have success? Well, you start with the soil.

You get the soil right and years ago, years ago, John Ferguson and Nature's Way Resources set out to create a product that would work the way nature works. That's that's called Nature's Way. And now that place has grown into a two acre a nursery for example. It's they've got every soil product you can imagine. I mean, I really mean that, and a lot of soil products were born there, like ros and leaf mo compost. That's where that's where it began at Nature's Way. But it doesn't

matter what do you need leaf mo composts? Do you need fungal compost? Do you know they have a fungal compost sale every Friday, ten dollars off bags, twenty dollars off bulk fungo based compost, which, by the way, you can also use as a compost top dressing. High quality organic product at Nature's Way. You can go to the website Nature's Way Resources dot com Nature's Way Resources dot com find out more about them and whether you go

find their products by the bag. You know some garden center they widely available like that, or maybe for example, you want to order bulk or go pick up bulk they can handle all of those different things. They got you covered. Now I want to tell you about something coming up on March ninth. It's a week away. March ninth, from nine to two is the Spring Garden Festival at Nature's Way. I've been to this more than once. It's

an awe some thing. There's children's activities, there's gardening education talks there that they always have some sort of cool drink to try as you walk around. There's vendors to see. It is just a fun, great day at Nature's Way Resource. Go to Nature's Way Resources dot com. Nature's Way Resources. You haven't been there before. It's on Sherbrooke Circle up toward conro So, just off forty five on the east side, across the railroad tracks, right there where fourteen eighty eight

comes in. Check out the Spring Garden Festival coming up March ninth, ninety two at Nature'sway Resources dot Com. We're gonna head out to Copperfield now and talk to Pamela. Hey, Pamela, welcome to Garden Line. Already. I'm gonna put Pamela on hold. Maybe we can get her back and we'll come back to her in just a little bit. If you want inspiration. If you want to dream what your place could look like, you need to go to this website pierce Scapes dot com p E A r C E S C A

p E S piercescapes dot com. There are a preferred garden line landscaper and when you go there you'll see why I don't care what you need. It's your one stop shop for all things landscaping. Do you need spring freshening up? Do you want to completely revamp? Do you want to see hardscape put in your beautiful patio area? Do you want to do landscape lighting? Do you have areas that need drainage improvement? Is your irrigation system not

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out once a quarter. They'll, you know, clean up the beds, get the weeds out if they're weeds in there, put molts, fresh mults down, check the irrigation system, do any trading and shrubbing you know, and if plant we need to replace our annual color plants through the course of the year. They do that too as part of that quarterly maintenance system piercescapes dot com. Here's a phone number if you'd

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There is a thing called garden mesh fabric. Garden mesh fabric, so think of something as soft as a bedsheet, but like a window screen for your house. That's a general idea of what we're talking about. You put it over your plants and bugs can't get in. So, whether you're an organic gardener or not, I mean, why spray if you don't have to You can put it over plants and keep the pass out. So if you're growing let's say tomatoes, and you want to keep out the stink bugs,

you can do that. Tomatoes don't need bees to pollinate them just when moving it. Or should you shake the cage every morning or something, Well, however it goes about it, you can just put this over them and avoid that need to spray and boy, it's hard to control stink bugs anyway, and leave footed bugs. You can use it over your squash, just have to pick it up and do the pollination yourself, or leave it on long enough for the squash to get ready for that first female

bloom to open, and then take it off. And yeah, the vine bores will find it, but you'll get a good little yield before they find it. Lay eggs, eggs, hatch out and hit a point where they're taking out the squash mines. Mesh fabric is a good tip that I think will work for you. Let's go back to Copperfield talk to Pamela. Hey, Pamela, welcome Reguard line.

in it. You have to wet the lawn, just wet it a little bit, and when you when you wet the lawn, immediately spread that fertilizer so that it sticks to the wet leaves of the weeds. That's how it works, and you're going to find that it does work. It's real easy to do. There's a Cypress a hardware there on Jones Road. I don't know just exactly the area you're in, but M and D on Luetta is another one close by to you, right up in that area. Oh oh, you said Copperfield, didn't you. I'm sorry? What

am I thinking? Langham Creek is on five twenty nine, just right there, Barker Cypress five twenty nine, Langham Creek's a great one. They just redid that store too, by the way.

That would be like the barricade type product, So make sure you get the right one for what you're dealing with. Moss Nursery down in on Toddville Road in Seabrook is not just another garden center. It is a seventy year old family operated eight acre wonderland to wander through as lounging as someone the other day. I matter our experiences walking through there, and they, first of all, what do you need? I mean, do you want little boneseye starter plants?

I got hundreds of those. Do you need some junipers? They have three or four varieties, Azelia's redbuds, Magnolia's hawthorns, hollies, Brazilian rain trees. You don't see those available everywhere. Use Laura pedlam, which is called Chinese witch hazel ball cypress loves to be here. And Portula Carria portulka, not porta laca. Portula caria. It's like it looks sort of like perce lane, but as a little woody, shrubby small plant. That was

a nice eloquent description. Portula Caria, go into massy. I want to see this Porcula caria. Lots of hanging basket. Hundreds and hundreds of hanging baskets. Tadville Road, Seabrook, Texas mos Nursery dot Com two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. I'll be right back, good already born. We're back brand, Welcome back to garden line.

shrubs and everything else, I'm thinking about mine. I've got some containers that are waiting on me to plant my spring flowers in my warm season flowers, and I can't wait to get out and do that. In fact, I've got several things I want to pot up out there. And by the way, if you're looking for a quality potting MiGs, a jungle Land by Nitroposs is a good one. They have two different products. One is for indoor plants. It's called jungle Land water saving potting soil. I'm talking

right now in my yard. I want to put some outdoor containers and the jungle land flour and vegetable potting soil. Jungle Land flour and vegetable potting soil from nitrophis it works. You're going to find that. The reason I say it works is because a potting soil you want to hoole moisture so you don't have the water it every day, but you want it to drain well so it doesn't get soggy and you lead to root rot. And jungle Land is designed to do just at all size mic

arizel fungi in it that really help. They work with the plant roots. That's what micarizel do, mic hizal fungi do. And it's got four different sources of aged organic matter age bark. Basically, where do you find it, Well, you're gonna find it night frost products in Chenni Forest down to Richmond Rosenberg is going to have it. And if you go to let's say Katie Ace Hardware, Katie Hardware Ace, They're going to have it, as does the Ace and Sinkle Ranch all spas ace in the woodlands another place

you're going to find these night frost prods ducks. The phone number if you'd like to give me call seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three two one two KTRH. I was looking at some pictures the other day in communication with Houston Powder Coats and some outdoor furniture they did was just unbelievable. It's one of these metal outdoor round tables, you know, with the little little slots or kind of a diamond pattern on the top and all the metal chairs that go around it,

and they had recoated it. It was a beautiful green color. They can coat anything metal out there in your yard, you know, cast iron, wrought iron, aluminum, patio furniture, and they do the whole thing. They don't just coat it. I mean, if it needs new bolts, they put stainless steel to replace those old rusty bolts. If the little plastic caps on the legs, you know, they keep it from scratching on the on the patio, they'll replace those. If it needs little wells here and there, that's also

part of the services that they can do. All you have to do is this take a picture of your furniture and send an email with your picture and say I need a quote, a quick quote, and they'll give you one. Sales at Houstoncoders dot com. Sales at Houston coders dot com. And if you don't go to the website see examples Houston Powdercoders dot com. Hundreds of colors in stock. If it is metal and you want it to look better, you need to go check out what

they do, and you'll go. You'll start walking run the yard like I have going ooh, I need to get that done. I hadn't even thought about it, but I need to get that done. Much better than trying to paint that stuff. Let's go out to Spring and we're going to talk to Jerry. Hey, Jerry, welcome to garden Line.

could address this. What he said his understanding was it was kind of a blend of chemical and organic, But I don't know, I wonder if you could address this.

may not be in another one. Bruce's Brew is a product from Nelson Plant Food and it is a product that is it leans more toward an immediate release, but it also has slow release, so it'll it'll give you something right now, but then it gradually releases as the forms of nitrogen in it start to kick in. There are different ways you can make nitrogen product. Some of them are ready right now, some of them it may take months and they're still releasing, still becoming available to

the plants. And Brusus Brew is a blend like that, so it's an immediate release but also a gradual feed at the same time, and it's it's a lawn fertilizer for for your lawn.

On any kind of product, the label is designed to give you success without problems. Okay, put it down according to the label, watered in with a half inch of water. It goes into the soil surface, where it sticks, it holds, it doesn't wash through it. It's designed a hold of the soil. Holds better than a lot of other pre mergers. There are other premergents on the market. The barricade that ingredient, and it does a better job of sticking up there in the top soil and not washing away. And when

a weed tries to sprout, it shuts it down. But listen, this week, there are weeds going to be sprouting in your lawn. There are where the temperatures are perfect for that. Get out there, get it down. You could wait, put it on next week or the week after, but every day you wait, there may be some weeds that are already up and growing, and this is to prevent them from sprouting. So get your barricade down soon. It's gonna

last sixty days. Depending on the conditions, it could be longer or shorter, but it's going to last a while. But get it down now as soon as you can. Barricade And where do you get it, Well, you get barricaded in chanted gardens down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area, hiding and feed on Stubner Airline, Fisher's Hardware, the thrim Pasadena, laport My, Bellevue, so the one on Southmore in Pasadena Broadway Street, Laporte, the one what is oh, it's FM

thirty one eighty in Bellevue. And then finally Town there's a Fisher's Hardware down there on Alexander. Go get your products, get them down. It's time to do that. You are listening to Guardenline. The phone number here is seven one three two one two fifty four fifty eight seventy four. I can't even remember my number. Seven one three two one two ktr eight. Let's see, we're going to go out to sugar Land and Jill, I'm up against the top of the arbor. Let's see if we can help you here.

good luck with that ohen. You know, on garden Line, our advice is free, but I do ask for half of the produce you get from my advice, so all they need is half your set are dropped off at the station.

Dandy feed and Tamal. I know they have it up there. M and D Cypress up in the cypress area on Louisa. They carry nitrofoss products there too. And sweet Green is the kind of product that gives you that nice release for a nice green up and stimulation of the microbes in the soil. What marking you ask for it works well. I believe I'm about out of time here, have you hearing music about now? Probably? Anyway, if you want to go to my website, you're going to find my schedules

on there and a lot of other great information. It's gardening with skip dot com. Gardening with skip dot com. You'll find the lawnface schedule. You'll find the pest disease and weed management schedule. They are all there. You will also find information on how to pasteurize growing media. Okay, question sometimes I got old media's okay to use it and leave plant. No, if you want to be sure, do it yourself. Information on controlling woody needs in the landscape.

You know those vines poison ivy hack, where are you coming up in the fencil? Information on dealing with nematodes It's all on the website, all right. So I have to show. Today, I'm jumping in the car and heading to the Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show. I'll beat it from twelve to two. It is at the Lone Stark Convention Center on Airport Road and hundred. I'm going to be giving away Nelson and the Dina products. Come on and see me.

need by just taking care of them. Start off, there's one, two three. I need to come up with a I'm going to come up with something like this, But anyway, you need to pick the right plant you need to put it in the right place. You need to make sure that it is taking care of properly, and you can have success. And it's simple. It really isn't that difficult. It isn't and you don't learn it all in one day. But maybe you're trying a new Maybe you've never grown

a pulumara before. You want to grow a plumaria, all right, you learn about it. There's a Easton has a great Plumeria Society where you can learn more about that since I picked that plant, for example. But once you know what a plumeria wants, you might as well, just you know, start making Hawaiian lays. Those strings of flowers. You know that they go around the neck. Those are plumeria flowers. Make your own at home because you know how to

grow them. You give a plumeria what it wants, You give a rose what it wants, You give a peach tree what it wants, you give a tomato what it wants, You give your lawn what it wants, and you're going to have success. It really it's not rocket science. In fact, if you know if you are a rocket scientist, then you know exactly that it isn't rocket sciente either, in other words, if you know, if you know what you're doing,

it's not hard. It is not hard to do. That certainly is true gardening, because gardening is not rocket science. All right, Hey, people are hearing me sell all these product names, you know, like there's this fertilizer, or there's that disease control or insect control or weed control or whatever. I start talking about a tool or something like that, and it's like, where can I get that? Where can I get that in my area? Well, I'll tell you this Southwist Fertilizer is a place that is going to

have everything that I talk about. And I know people that drive it. Just I drive over there. It's a distance from me, but I drive over there because I know when I go in, Bob and his team are going to have what we need and I'm gonna be able to point me in the right direction. I like to go over and visit because there's always new things coming out, and we go over there and visit about it,

and here's this new product from this company. And you know, those companies don't notify me when they have a new product coming out. I have to go out and I have to look at it. I have to try it out. I have to see how it works. I have to look at the research on it and things. Bob's got him, He's got all that there. Now, this is a seventieth anniversary year of Southist Fertlish. Can you believe that been a run since nineteen fifty five? And they carry everything

that I endure here on Guardline. So go by, stop ins out those fertilizers. Say hey, happy seventy birthday. Say that to Bob, but tell him you understand that's not his birthday, that's the store's birthday. And so congratulations, man. We appreciate the work that they do there, because I'll tell you this, when you drive, if you go across town to get there, you're going to go in and you're going to find what you need. Every fertilizer I talk about, every product I talk about, and the advice

you know you walk in. Let's say you walk in today and you got this little weed and you're showing it to them and they say, well, that is a here's what you need to do to prevent it, or here's what you need to do to kill the existing weed. And if you if you bring it in, it's an existing weed of course, and they got you covered. And listen, if you're organic going, I don't use all those chemicals.

They have the biggest organic selection in the city. And let me expand that in the Houston area, the whole Houston area, Greater Houston area. They have tools, They have everything that you need. They even have a little lawn equipment, sales and service shop in the back. They can sharpen your blades and to all kinds of things back there. Listen, it's quality products and expert advice and old fashioned service.

All three of those are Southwest Fertilizer, Southwest Fertilizer, dot Com, corner of Bissinet and Runwick seven one three six sixty six one seven four four. Simple as that they have things like, oh, Nitrofoss nitropos products. Yeah, nit fass Imperial, the fifteen to five to ten, the reddish orange bag. Do you know that Nitrofoss Imperial UH is the verse century ago? Oh, not a century, half century, fifty years ago. That UH research Texas A and M research throughut the

Langa Universities of the of the Gulf Coast. You know a lot of places are doing turf research. LSU, Mississippi State Florida. Uh, you know, all the way up all through the They long ago realized that a three one two four one two kind of ratio is an excellent ratio for turf. It just is, and that is why Nitropuss Imperial was created fifty years ago fifteen five ten, the Red Orange bag, Red Orange Bag fifteen five to ten, still the same formula because it works. Why change it.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And it does work. It's it's the spring green up product that we talk about here on garden Line. If you go to my schedule gardening with Skip dot com, look at my schedule for the lawns and the spring green Up night Foss Imperial Lawn Furtizure fifteen five to ten, it's right there. It does really work. It's nutrient rich. It'll help get that lawn greening up earlier. And then as we get into summer, we'll start putting on slower release things, where

right now we own something that goes fast. And where are you going to get things like that? Well, for example, Court Hardware and Stafford they carry night Foss products. Katie Ace Hardware on Pinoak they carry Nitroposs products. Plants for all seasons. On Luetta carries nitroposs products. If you're done in Alvin, how about Stanton Shopping Center over on North Taylor. They've got the products there as well. Makes it easy, makes it easy. Let's see. Well we're already coming up

almost on our first break. That's amazing. I was checking out Buchannan's Plants recently and I just love going in there. Buchanan's Native Plants has They always have the coolest stuff when it comes to natives. Nobody can touch them in the whole region. Like right now, they're talking about the Maximilian sunflower. That it is a tall stem that it blooms in August through November, just up and down the

stem covered with yellow flowers. It's a perennial. But once you got it, they have a good selection of beautiful flowering house plants. You're not going to find a better selection. Their greenhouse for houseplants is amazing. Anything you want to know, you're gonna find out there because they are experts. Their people are trained, they know what they're doing. And you walk in and you say, I want a native tree,

not too big, what can I plant? And they're just gonna start rattling it off Eastern Red Butt, Texas Mountain Laurel, Mexican plumb Mexican Buckeye, and on and on down the line, and they'll take you right over to the table and show you. They even have a table for just Houston area native plants. That's pretty cool. Well, Buchanan's Plants on Eleventh Street in the Heights. Here's the website, Buchanan's Plants dot Com. Start there, Buchanan's Plants dot Com. I have

to take a little break. When I come back, we're going to talk to Greg and somebody else who's calling you in right now. See it a bit. Hey, welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you with us. Listen, if you had signed up for Warren Southern Garden Information newsletter email blasts and things, you would know this. You would know there was one sent out just yesterday. I believe ten percent off barcode applications on purchase of one

hundred dollars or more. And they have their March Matteness Special five bags, get the six bag free, all kinds of tips like That's what I'm talking about. That's why I was telling you sign up for these newsletters. Man, sign up. It's cool stuff. When you go there, you're going to see just trailerfuls of all kinds of beautiful flowers. The spring flowers in that place are stunning. Really. When it comes to fruit trees, do you need blueberries, Do

you need citrus? Do you need deciduous fruit, They've got a great selection of those as well. I just love going out there because every time you go, you're going to see everything you went for. You know, you go in thinking, oh, I need some fertilizer, I need some of this, I need some of that, I need a citrus tree. Whatever you're in there for. I need a house plan well, and then you get there and you see something like indigo blueberries tomatoes. Yeah, it's a tomato.

It's red inside. On the outside it's a dark, dark, dark color. Indigo blueberries tomato. That's just one of the things that you didn't expect till you walk in, and when you do, there you go. They got plenty of onion sets and leakus eat potatoes. They've got lots and lots of seed. Warren's Southern Garden that's the one on North Park Drive, and not too far away nearby is the Kingwood Garden Center that's on Stone Hollow. Now, I can't talk about all of them, got calls waiting up here,

but anyway, both of them seven days a week. They are outstanding garden centers that have beautiful plants in excellent health and the staff that can help you when you go there. We're going to head out now and talk to Greg. Hello, Greg, Welcome to garden Line.

my trees, my figs in a multi trunk system. You know, we have several, maybe five different trunks coming up, and that way, when one gets older, cracked or whatever, you can just cut it off at the ground and new ones come in and replace it. There's not a one way you have to do it, but the trunk you describe needs to come out as low as you can cut it off. And you already got some new shoots coming up there that are willing to step in and replace it.

And when you cut a whole shoot out at the base, you you come back to that pickable level.

you do, but do that before midsummer. For sure. I would do it in the spring, after the blooms if possible. That gives it plenty of time to regrow. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna tell you.

I appreciate, appreciate your call, Yes, sir very much. If you are wanting to do a compost top dressing and or a core aeration and you live down in the area that let's say we start on at the northwest end at Sugarland, Missouri City, and then we swing down Highway six, you know, through Fresno's Ciena Arcola, Manville, Iowa colony and then over as far as Paarland. That region, the south southwest region there is where B and B turf Pros does their magic. And they really do this.

A family owned business. They are all about customer satisfaction and as a result, they know they got to use quality products. They only use products I recommend here on Guardline. For example, their Leith Moore compost comes from Ciena Maltz, So that tells you something right there. They do high quality work. They absolutely make sure they want to make a personal connection with you. They want you to be satisfied.

This isn't just a blow and go a make sure we get this right and go to Bbturfpros dot com No end in their BB Turfpros dot com and look at the work they do. Look at the equipment that they have. You can't rent equipment like that. They do it right and when you do that, you will see a benefit to your lawn because you're bringing oxygen in

the soil. You're basically taking care of the soil, the brown stuff that makes the green stuff in this case your lawn thrive by core air raiding and then getting that compost top dressing down and it's it works magic. It really does work. We're going to go now out to Jersey Village and talk to George. Hello, George, Welcome to garden Line.

your blooms. So basically, a garden mesh fabric, it's like a soft as a bed sheet, a little tiny squares like a window screen, and you just lay it over the plant and the vine bore Mama, she comes and lands on that. She can't get to the squash to lay the egg. Can you leave it on, George until the first female blooms start to open, you know, because the first be male blooms and bees don't have to get to that. When the female bloom opens. You have

two options. One is you can lift it up each day and go in there with a little artist brush and just quick, quickly takes two seconds pollen nature open female blooms. Or you can take the whole cover off and then the vine borer will find it. But by the time they actually cause the vine to collapse, at least you'll get somewhat of a yield out of those plants. So those are the two options I recommend.

of regulate the growth. Do you get good root development when you you know, when you give a gradual feed to a grass like that, you're going to get a balanced growth, good root development, and as a result, your grass is going to be able to handle a thing like drought or maybe a little bit of a chomp here and there from a grub or something else. You get a good robust root system. It's a carbon based nitrogen source. It feeds the soil of microbes and that

is very important. And you know, when you have healthy soil, you got healthy grass that's less vulnerable to best and diseases. That's Bruce's Brew from the folks at Nelson's Nelson Fertilizer Quality Products. Let's go out to Katie and we're going to talk to Ken. Hello, Ken, welcome to garden Line.

that that would be a good one for that. Just with the Bruces Brew, I'd probably put it out at about I don't know, five to seven pounds per thousand square feet, and those little seedlings, but let the seedlings sprout, get up and not just be a seedling, but start to make a little plant and then put the fertilizer down and it'll into high gear. But remember, the most important thing is light frequent waterings to help those seedlings not dry out while they're trying to establish.

the store. Color color, color everywhere then, and also vegetables and also herbs, any kind of bedding, nursery plants that you're looking for, they've got it. By the way, you might want to write this on your calendar. But coming up, there's an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, April nineteenth from nine to ten, and on the twenty six, a week later Saturday, there's a sip and stroll. This is the adult deal, right, You get a little sip and you get the stroll. There'll be some music. It's just a

fun time and listen, it's therapy. You gotta go do this because here's why there is so much water splashing all around you that it's like you can't pay for that kind of therapy. And you can do that in your own backyard. The folks that Nelson's can help you create a water garden, a water feature, a waterfall, or a disappearing fountain coming out of a big urn, or they can just come out and do it for you. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Head out to Katie on ten turn

north on Katie Fort ben Road. It's just a little piece up there on the right. I'm gonna head out now to sugar Land. We're gonna talk to Michael. Hey, Michael, welcome to garden Line.

All right, so or the other combination with the barricade.

the blue bag is for that. So you're you're going after two sets of weeds with those two products, one that's already there and one that's about to be there.

they've got the best of the best out there. There'll be children's activities that children are certainly welcome to come out. They even have a player you kind of a sandbox, giant a giant sandbox. They have coloring and scavenger hut and stuff for the kids. This is all next week December, excuse me, December Wow. March ninth. March ninth, from nine to two in the morning. And where is Nature's Way? Go up forty five north right where fourteen eighty eight

comes in from Magnolia. You instead of going left to Magnolia you turn right across the tracks in that Sherbrooke circle and you're there. It really is cool. And while you're there, pick up rus soil, pick up their leaf more composts, make an order to have them deliver it if you would like to, uh, just visit with them and you will find that they're very knowledgeable and you tell them what you want to grow and they'll put the right products in your hand. You're gonna have more

than one option. Probably they'll put the right products in your hand. It all starts with the soil, broad stuff before green stuff. Remember that in Nature's way, it's built around making the soil right. Because John Ferguson when he created the place long ago that when you get things right, when you follow nature's way of doing things, you're gonna have plant success. And now I and his son running the place, same tradition, same quality products, same quality service.

It's just not skipping a beat at Nature's way. Let's see, we're going to go now to talk to Tom somewhere in East Texas. Hey, Hey, Tom, how are you welcome to guard Line?

what I see in the pictures. Now, that could be that you got something else going on. There could be grubs there, There could be you know, maybe last year you had some chinch bugs or something. But right now, uh, right now, we're we're I wouldn't treat that at this point. I would go ahead and give the lawn care according to my schedule, and I would say, let's just move on. If you want to use a fungicide for it, you

can do that. That's fine. Uh, But if it were mine, I think I would just I would just move on. That's old damage and spraining. It won't make those spots of green. Warm weather, we'll make those spots green.

I've got to run Folks Rooster and Brunham. Will you'll be first up when we come back. We're just gonna jump right back in andams. You're hopping on garden line today. Hey, listen. Micro Life has a product. It's a purple bag. It's called Humates Plus. It's a zero zero four fertilizer, but it's not a fertilizer. I mean, it's got the potassium in it, but I don't want you to think of it as a fertilizer. There are other products you used to fertilizer on, like they're six two four, But this

is concentrated compost in a bag. When you take leaves and break them down, it makes composts. Did you know compost keeps breaking down until it becomes humous. Humus bills, soil quality, It really substances like humic and fulvic acids and things. It just improves yourself and Microlife hu makes plus. The purple bag can be used whenever you want to use it. I would say, if you're going to fertilize, go ahead and do your fertilizer six six two four,

and then do the purple bag. You makes plus. You're not over fertilizing. By doing that, you put that down, you water it in, and you're going to do that once. You can do it many times as you want a year, but at least a couple times a year if you're trying to bring a lawn back from just a really difficult clay soil that it's struggling with. He makes plus works very well and it's one of the quality products mini quality products you find from Microlife Microlife Fertilizer dot com.

That's the website if you want to learn more about it. We're going to head out to Brunham now and talk to Rooster. Hey, Rooster, what's up?

This is a great way to do it. And with medina you're not going to burn them like you would with the salt based fertilizer that could be mixed too strong. Yeah, I would. I would attest that Medina probably had a huge part in that and the success on them.

you are looking for something that is safe. The safest you can do. If you're looking for something that really works, you don't have to go around the yard blasting his sex side ever, trying to kill mosquitoes more. Just gonna fly in. This stuff works dpestbros dot com. All right, I'm gonna go to Spring now and talk to Trey.

the country. They think pine straw is pretty, and it's baled and sold in garden centers and other places. But I would just ask around your area and see if you know any of the garden centers are going to have it. Off the top of my head, I can't say if or where I've seen it around town.

water saving has crystals in it that absorb water. So when you forget, I know you don't forget, when your neighbor forgets the water, that soil crystals will have a little extra reserve to get those plants through until they remember to water again. Both of them are quality products. Both of them are available in a wide variety of places. You're going to find them in place like Ace Hardware, Cityo Memorial Drive plants for all seasons. You're gonna find

them at enchanted forests. You're gonna find them at a plantation. Ace Hardware, m and d Out there in Rosenberg has them as well. And you know, in fact, I could just go on, could I keep saying these Ace Hardware names. Ace Hardware is a company that has everything you need to have success outdoors. They just do fertilizers products to control pest, weeds and diseases. Right now, there's some good things going on we at Ace Hardware stores. They're still

having the twenty percent off their Mowen faucets. Oh actually, I think I went a little long on that and that was actually last month. Excuse me, sorry about that. They do have their stains and their seals. If you want to redo your deck, they've got you covered there. You know, they've got a really good paint selection at Ace Hardware. Go to acehardware dot com, find the store locator, find the stores near you. There are so many great our Ace Hardware stores. Let me give you a few.

Let me give you a few as an example, deer Park just east of Pasadena, Deer Park Lumber, Chalmers, Ace Hardware down in Galveston. For those of you over in Port Levaca, first of all, thanks for listening Port Levaca. Ace Hardware, Victoria Ace Hardware. Since we're hanging out in the Southwest right now, all of those are just examples of quality. Is hardware stores where you're gonna find everything indoors outdoors, that beautiful outdoor sitting area. Oh gosh, and

check out those barbecue pits. Oh my, I was drooling over a tray groove of it.

We'll talk about lawns and gardens and everything. Just kind of give you an overall, some ideas, some things you might not be aware of that you can do. And I'll be answering your question and so bring whatever questions you have. We'll have time then to really sit down and talk about it a little bit. Maybe you want to bring a sample in a bag of something that you would like me to identify, a bug or something

growing in the lawn, whatever you got. Maybe you want to bring a picture on your phone, show me an area of the lawn and or the landscape, and we can look at it, we can talk about it, what to do. It's all going to be there again. That's the Lone Star Convention Center on Airport Road on the north side of Conroe, Montgomery County Home and Outdoor Living Show.

I'm going to be giving away products from Nelson's and products from the Just a moment in fact, right before we went to break right there, we were talking about Medina. I'm going to be giving away Medina products as well. Up there, show up, maybe you win one. I've got quite a few to give away. Happy to do that.

need as well. But do you need something to kill a weed, an insect, a disease. They not only have the products, they have the knowledge to point you at the right one. Dandy Feed is three miles west of ivy two forty nine on twenty nine twenty in Tomball. I'm gonna give you a phone number two eight one three five one seventy one forty four. Two eight one three five one seventy one forty four. Alrighty, we're gonna

head out to Missouri City now and talk to Janey. Hello, Janey, welcome to garden Line.

with like an oregano. But that's one that'll get awfully tall if you don't keep it shared back. But it's another one that will spread horizontally if you're looking for.

they they're not They're not an evergreen. But those are two groundcovers that are pretty easy to grow too. But if you're looking for something that's evergreen, uh, then you know, then you would have to to switch. A monkey grass is not a bad one either. The dwarf monkey grass, it stays very small and low and it looks pretty good. Is a groundcover also, and it can take a ton of shade.

hope that helps out there. Good luck with it. Sounds like you've got a good project on your hands.

up against a hard break. But I appreciate your call very much. You bet good luck with that dandy feed and supply I was telling you about it before. It is it just is a great place and you need to go by and see it.

If you went three days ago, you need to go back because you wouldn't believe what they've got in the house splant selection is incredible. They have all the kalladiums in now, I mean a ton of kaladiums now. You don't want to delay whenever someplace has bulbs or corms or rhizomes or you know whatever in because it's gonna get picked over. And if you want the best selection, get there today. Enchanted Forest. It's easy to get to.

It's out on FM twenty seven to fifty nine. If you're in Richmond going towards sugar Land, it's off to the right FM twenty seven to fifty nine Enchanted Forest. And I love, I always love going there. Knowledgeable people, very knowledgeable people. They can help you, they can direct you, they can provide you with exactly what you need to have success. That is very very important. You need that when you go to a garden center. Now, if you're looking for the website, I would recommend you go there

for sure. Enchanted Forest, Richmond TX dot com. On the website, you can sign up for all kinds of things. You can find about their upcoming events, find out things like I just told you. You follow them on social media, for example, like on Facebook. They've got plenty of cool stuff there Oh, they also got in some Jack Daniels half whiskey barrels. What do you do? You're planning on them? Half whiskey bro They're really cool, real rustic planners. See

what would you plant one of those? I guess you could plant some old fashioned flowers? Did you get that bourbon old fat? Anyway? Whatever, plant whatever you want at the plants will be happy. I've grown whiskey barrels myself. They're really cool. At Encented Forest in Richmond. We're gonna run out Sugarland now and talk to Richard. Hey, Richard, welcome to garden line.

and those three don't quite go together. Being in a container is going to keep any cetr smaller, and satsuma compared to other ceptrus is less size of a tree, usually a little slower growing. But anyway, the same principle holds true.

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You're okay for now, you know, tell him me your guardline listener. Get a free estimate fixmislab dot com two eight one two five five forty nine four. I'm going to go now up to Cypress and we're going to talk to James. Hey, James, welcome to garden Line.

what's the King Ranch turf grass? For example, they're going to have certain cultivars of bermuda that they grow. You want a semi dwarf bermuda one that's kind of a golf course green height plant, not a golf course I'm sorry, golf course fairway. I said it backwards. The thing you see on golf course fairways and football fields. That's a semi dwarf, not a golf course green, and not a

big old coastal bermuda that gets tall. But there are a lot of good varieties of it, and a good turf provider will be able to put you in touch with a good variety.

The Thunderberg family has been doing this for forty years. It's an old time feed store. You're going to find the products that you need there. We're talking about nitrofoss azamite, microlife, heirloom soils, you know, Nelson Plant Food. They've got it all right there. Anything you need for your law and your garden. They also have good quality feed feed for maybe you got back your chickens. You need some feed for those feed for your pets, feed for other things.

League City Feed is easy to get to because it's on Highway three, just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six in League City. Now. They're open every day except Sunday, nine am to six pm nine am to six pm. Here's the phone number two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. League City Feed two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. It's a place where they still carry your bags out for you. That a kind of old fashioned service. All right, you're listening to garden Line.

I'm your host, Skip Ricker seven one three two one two KTRH. If you need to give us call, we'll be happy to help you with that. If you are doing any kind of potting up of plants jungle Land. Jungle Land from Nitrofoss has two products that work well. One is jungle Land Flour and Vegetable planting soil. It's a potting soil for outdoors in your containers. There's also a jungle Land water Saber potting soil for indoors that gives you a little extra water retention in case you

can get to water. Now you're going to find Nitrofoss products at a lot of places Bearings Hardware. Both the one on Bissonet and Westeimer have it, M and D out in Rosenberg they carry it a City Hardware memorial or Northwest Plants for all seasons. They carry night frost products there as well. Someone was asking me about was that place that you say had all the roses and RCW Nursries. I've been talking about them all spring. They have a huge selection of roaches, pages and pages and pages.

Find them on Facebook RCW Nursery. On Facebook you can go to the website it's RCW Nursries dot com. But on Facebook right top front center they've got they're twenty twenty five rows list there. And the Houston roadse Society. Those rosarians they know, they know RCW is a place where you can get those kind of roses. They are stocked on vegetables, they're stocked on color, they're stocked camellias.

Oh my gosh, I was telling you earlier. You need to plant a camellia if you want flowers in December and January. There's two kinds of commiteas. It'll do just that for you. It's really easy to do. They have advice that is accurate. They have people that know what they're talking about. That's what I mean when I recommend you check out RCW nurseres right now. Fifteen percent off azaleas. Fifteen percent off azaleas at RCW Nurseries. There's also fifteen

percent off their camellias. Don't delay. Now's the time to get it planted. RCW nurseries dot com. They're the garden center where Tombo Parkway, which is IA two forty nine comes into belt Way eight. Tombo Parkway a belt Way eight. In my own yard, was looking and I have some weeds, Yes, I know the garden line guy has weeds.

the seeds follow. And when the seeds follow, you're in trouble because next fall they'll sprout and you'll be up a creek as a result of that, And You don't want to mess around with that for sure, So time to get out and if you're hand pulling, now's the time definitely to get that done. Growers Outlet up in Willis is a great place to go. It's on It's on Highway seventy five, just minutes away from forty five. Here's the website. You need to write it down. Growers

Outlet in Willis. Don't forget the word in Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. They carry fertilizers like Microlife and and Medina so on. They serve that whole region from Lake Conroe down to Conro, up to Willis up to New Waverley. You get everything you want there and they put their stuff online. You can check availability at Growers Outlets in Willis dot com. Go check them out. I

was there the other day. Amazing. If you've got one drop of gardening blood in you, this is a week or as the song was playing, Walking on Sunshine, I'm telling you, if you could stay inside this week and I go outside and play in the dirt, there's something seriously wrong. We need to talk because this is a perfect week for gardening, A perfect week for gardening. Don't forget. You know, I've been talking about fertilizers all day. Asamite

is a micro nutrient supplement that you put down. We also say trace mineral, trace mineral, micronutrients, basically the same thing, and you put it down because those tiny amounts of libdenum and manganese and iron and zinc and boron and all, you know, all the micro nutrients, they all need to be supplemented. And this is a product that's mined out

of the ground in Utah. It's a natural product, comes out of the ground, made from volcanic ash and freshwater minerals basically, and it makes sure that the bank account in your soul has those things in it. And that's important because the grass every day that it's growing is taking up nutrients and it's taking up all of them. You can't make a grass blade without some obscure nutrient like boron, for example, and that's never on the fertilizer bag you see. You know, it's the big three numbers.

You see. Well, asmite provides that you can go to Azmite Texas dot com if you just want to find it. Ace hardware stores, the feed stores that we talk about, the garden centers. We talk about lots of places you're going to find it. Southwest Fertilizer or course ees that they have everything, but you just need to get it and you get it out. And now it would be a good time to go ahead and get that done.

Plants for all seasons is the Garden Center there on two forty nine on the way to Tomball Tomball Parkway. If you were going no, let me direct you this way. If you're going north toward Tomball from Houston direction, you exit Luetta Crossover Luetta and it's right there on to forty nine, right there past Lovetta and you need to go in. You need to check out their tool selection. They have a wonderful selection. I was in there the other day checking them over. Every single one. A quality brand.

We're talking about a tool that you buy and it lasts forever. It lasts forever they have it. Do you go in there and ask them any question and they can help you. For example, I've got pets. I want house plants that won't poison my pets. What do you got and they can tell you that. See what I mean. They know the answers to all kinds of things. They're loaded up now with plants. It's spring, So what kind of herbs do you want? We were talking earlier about

someone using our regano as a groundcover. Oh my god, they got a reguo. Do they have time?

do a search for Aggie horticulture. There is a fruit section, and there's a whole free publication multicolor on blueberries that goes into every aspect, Charlie, from the soils you put them in, to the way you fertilize them, to the way you prune them, to the varieties that do best. And here in our area, Charlie, you've got two options for blueberry varieties. One type is called the rabbit eye. It's called that because the immature berries are pink like

a like an albino rabbit eye. They turn blue. The other type is called Southern high bush. That's a bigger berry, and it's a little picky about water quality, so you're gonna want probably depending on your water quality in your area, you may need to consider some rain water for it. But if you've got decent quality, that's okay too. Southern high bush I like those a lot, but I like the rabbit eyes too. So the Southern high bush is a little more, a little dwarfer, a little compared to

rabbit eye. Doesn't get quite as large as rabbitie blueberries. So whether it's growing in a container or in the ground around your house, both of them will do well. And there's a lot of good a lot of good advice out there at Aggie horticulture dot com. That that's why I kind of recommending that.

I mean, you have so many Ace Hardware stores. It's not difficult at all to find one right there in the big middle of Friends, which You've got Ace Hardware on West Edgewood Drive right there. So that's probably the closest one to you. And they're going to have a quality fertilizer for fruit from the many different brands we talk about here, whether it's Microlife or Nitrofoss or Nelson, they're going to carry those kind of things.

just great now for the lawn. It's my on the schedule as my early green up fertilizer, and if you get my schedule at gardening with Skip dot com you'll see it right there. A lot of people print it out. They print both of the schedules. I like to do them front back, safe piece of paper and you just put them out in the garage and you always got them there ready to go when you're ready to fertilize. Night foss Imperial is the orange red bag, the orange red bag. And you're gonna find it at all kinds

of places because many places carry nitrofoss products. I mean, have you ever I don't. It's hard to go into a place that doesn't have nitrofoss. It just really is. For example, you're gonna find it at Lake hardwren Clute, Lake Hardwarn Angleton RCW Nursery carries these nitro frossprin Langham Creek Ace Hardware. We're talking about them earlier today on FM five point twenty nine right there in the big

middle of Copperfield. And then Plantation Ace out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area, just another place you can get night foss products. I'm gonna head now out to Andy and you are sure. Hey, Andy, welcome to guarden Line.

the show today. All right, folks, stem you're back. Welcome back to Gardenline. Good to have you with us, Good to have you with us. So listen, if you are looking for inspiration when it comes to birding, you're not going to do better than wild Birds Unlimited. When you go to a wild Bird's Unlimited, you get quality advice that it may be the most important thing of all because they will listen. These people are enthusiastic and they know their stuff. You will get quality food for the birds.

Now you're thinking, well, birds eat seed. Come on, man, now, a lot of seed is like over half fillers that birds are going to kick out to get to the stuff they want and it ends up on the ground. So is that is that inexpensive? If you're throwing away half of what you just bought. No, it's not wildbirds stuff. They even have one called then no mess, it's not one, it's several. No mess blends, no mess blends. There's not even shells on the sunflower. There's nothing, no mess, just

what birds want. Right now, you need to focus on nesting super blend from wild Birds unlimited nesting supervn It provides the protein they need, the calcium because we got birds that are nesting, they're laying eggs. They need they need that calcium obviously during an egg laying season, but

they need it more than just now. When you buy a nesting super blend, you are going to get stuff that at Those birds are excited about every granule in that packet, sunflower chips, peanuts, meal worms, bark, butter bits, safflower tree nuts, and as I said, calcium. Now, we're coming up on hummingbird season. If however, you I'd hurry up and go ahead and get the high perched feeder. It's not too far away. We're about a month out

before we see some humming birds coming through here. Well, and I just was reading some of my text other day. Some people had them stay all a few birds stay all winter, so there's that. The squirrel proof feeder is called the squirrel eliminator. Okay, the squirrel, the feeder, the eliminade. Just remember the word eliminator. It works, It really really works. I've got one. I love it, The birds love it, the squirrels hate it, which warms my heart. And then

finally I just got one the other day. The hopper feeder. This is the called the Eco Tough and it was designed by the owner of Wildbirds. It's got excellent drainage, keeps your seeds dry. Gosh, it's so frustrating when it rains on your seeds and they got throw them away because they're all soggy, wet and molded. The Eco Tough hopper feeder is another one. It's it's just one of the basic If someone's coming and going, hey, Skip, I

want to do birds, where should I start? I would Eco Tough hopper feeders just a great way to start. And don't forget that nesting super blend. All right, we are going to go out to Jim in Meadows Place. Hey Jim, Welcome to garden Line.

the Nelson product that is for vegetables. Okay, uh it it works well, it's going to give you a release over time, and I really I really like that because instead of all the fertilizer just washing right out and then you're done, you're going to get a feeding that lasts over time. And so it's one of the many products that's part of Nelson's Neutral Star line. So that that's the one I would suggest you use.

If you are a gardener, you got to be on the edge of your chair ready to go. So many things, vegetables and herb. What have you not grown before? Let's grow some this year. Let's just do it that way. Hey, I told you about Pest Brothers earlier. In fact, we talked about them two or three times today. They're a regional pest company. They serve the whole Houston area. When I say the whole Houston area, I'm talking about from Texas City all the way up to the Woodlands, from

Baytown all the way across the Kadie. And when I say pest control, I'm talking about the indoor things, you know, the termites and the other household pests. You know, if people are standing on the furniture screaming because the cockroach went across the floor, Well, called Pest Brothers. They'll put an end of that. And they do things effectively. They know how to do it effectively, and they know how to do it in the safest possible manner, so you

get long term results without worries. Now, out in the yard, we got fire ants, and we got wall environments roming around like mice and rats. They take care of all that stuff. And then they have that thing that people have been asking me about. That is their mosquito system. That is a bucket, that is a bait and it is so cool and let me see if I want to go into it, just a little bit right now. This is state of the art and Pest Brothers has it. So these bait stations are like the Green standard if

you want effective and safe mosquito control. So they attract the adult mosquitos. They have a smell that attracts them in. Once inside them, mosquitos pick up this fine powder because they have to land on a little screen. Then they pick up the powder. Okay, two different products cling to their bodies. They lay eggs, and one product is in the is going to drop into the water. It's going to kill the larvae and the pupa before they even

develop into adult mosquitos. So as I come over here, reproduce here, lay eggs right in here, and those eggs will never show up. That's good. Secondly, the adults carry those two products with them as they fly. When they land a little body of water, maybe it is a bird bath, maybe it is a saggy uh you know, gutter on your house and it's holding water and they're breeding in there. It gets in that product and it

works there in those areas too. This is safe. It will not hurt birds or pets or lady beetles or it's it's designed for mosquitoes. The other product is a fungus that infects the mosquito adults, resulting in their death. Now, I'm not a mosquito fan, and the thought of a mosquito dying from a fungal infection of its body is a I think that's a wonderful thing. I'm sorry, I think that's a wonderful thing. And again, it's safe. It's

just amazing. It's fascinating and the genius way to control mosquitoes because it's safe to people, pets, and the environment. And you get it at pest Brothers pest is. Here's the website, the pest Bros. Don't write out brothers in the website dpestbros dot com. That's the name of the place, Dpestpros dot com. You can call them two eight one, two oh six forty six seventy. All right, I'm about to jump in a car. Here, I'm going to head to the Montgomery County Home and Living Show, an outdoor

living show. It is at the Lone Start Convention Center on Airport Road on the north side of Conro I'll be there from twelve to two. I'm gonna give a talk on spring gardening tips. Come on out and see me giving away products from Medina and products from Nelson Fertilized. We were just talking about those a while ago, you know. Come on out there, and who knows, maybe you'll win one of those products. I'll answer your gardening questions. You can bring me samples if you like. You can bring

me photos if you like. Today's been a busy day and I've just had a short time with each caller to be able to help out there at the Home and Garden Show. I got time to sit down and visit with you, So come on out. Hope to see you then. Oh, by the way, it's free to get in and free parking.