Sunny Weekends in the Spring

Katie r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's the crazy Gashrim. Just watch him as so many good thanks to sept busy gases and gassing not a sun glass gas so Beamon sweet. Welcome to garden Line. Good morning. I am glad you're listening today. We've got a lot of things to talk about. It is going to be a wonderful weekend for gardening. You know, we went through the rain, some

of you got a lot of rain last few days. Things are cleared up. Now it's time to get back outside, time to enjoy the weather. It's going to be a good day today. As a matter of fact, while I'm thinking about it, I am going to be at the Scifair Home and Garden Show today. That will be after, of course, after the Garden Line. Sha'll get there about twelve o'clock. Be there, I don't

know, probably until two o'clock or so. I'll be giving a little presentation on some things you need to be aware of for gardening, some tips answering your gardening questions and certainly doing a diagnosis, identification, whatever you need. In other words, bring me a sample and a bag. Just zip it up and bring it in. Let's take a look at it or samples. And also on your phone photos you've got a picture of a plant, picture of an area we can help you with. We'd be glad to do that.

By the way, The sy Fair Home and Garden Show is at the Berry Center on Barker Cypress Road. They get this. Parking is free, admission is free. I don't think you're going to talk them down on that price. Free parking, free admission. Just come on in, enjoy the home and Garden show and certainly stop by and say hello. Today I'm going to be giving away some Nelson plant food samples as well, so I hope you can make it. Hope you can join us today. Tell you what,

let's just start off by going straight out to the phones. If you would like to give me a call. Our number is seven to one three two one two kt R H seven one three two one two kt RH. We're going to go to tom Ball this morning and start off with Mel. Good morning, Mel, Hey, good morning man. That was quick. Appreciate it. Listen, uh, about a year and a half ago we planned some baby jim boxwoods and now they're about, oh, I think eighteen

inches tall. Problem is, we noticed our whenever our sprinter system hits them or range, like this past weekend, they just kind of explode. It's like somebody dropped a ball right in middle of them, and the they just you know, like I said, they just lay down. I mean, uh, what in the world could that be? Are you saying like the branches are pushed outward and down? Yeah, the branches are pushed. The branches are pushed outward. I mean, I don't know if they I've just

got to talking about grubs after all, too. But I don't know what the deal is. Why on earth they can't withstand any type of pressure on them? That's weird. Yeah, how big were these plants? How tall? Yeah? Well they're about eighteen inch they're about eighteen inches tall now. And this is the first this is the first year we noticed that. This is the first year that's happened. Yeah, I've never heard of that before. But just thinking logically, have you looked down to see how many plants

are coming out of the ground? Uh, you know that we're in that pot? Was it just one trunk one stem or were there more than one stem in those? Oh no, they were doing more of these. Yeah, plane of these in the ground right away. There's more than one. I mean they were they were oh golly, let's see, probably about ten inches tall when we bought them, something like that. I think it was

a three million bucket. Well, here's what happens. Sometimes instead of being one plant in the pot, they'll stick two or three or more plants in the pot, and they're not fully rooted in, and so each individual plant, not being well rooted in, can sag outward under the weight of water, wind or something like that. That's a little bit of a long shot,

but that's the only thing that describes it. Boxwood's normally pretty brittle, and so rather than just you know, sagging outward, those branches will snap, like if kids drop a basketball in them or something like that. They break fairly easily as far as the roots are some goods. You know, we lost all our pagonias last year too, and I got, of course, I got all kinds of cruiters out here. You know, we've got raccoons and carmondillas and all that digging around, and the grubs I mean and

mobles. Now, I want to get an early start on those grubs. Is there any way possible to do that. I've been doing some research on it that says to you know, I guess one of the best ways is nem all but said like to put that down starting only in July. The thing is, I've been walking around in my flower bed for the last several weeks. I noticed these little white moss coming up of the ground, these little white malls and things, and I thought, that's a sign of grubs

already. Well, let me let me just all that that you said you had read. Don't believe any of that. That is incorrect. So grubs, grubs. Grubs come from a little brown beetle that typically occurs. You see him flying around in May here and tune and if you go online, I don't know if you have a pen or pencil handy. If not, grab one. My website is gardening with Skip dot com, Gardening with Skip

dot com and on. There is a lawn pest, disease and weed management schedule and when you look at it, what you'll see is in June we begin treating for grubs. That's the time, the best time because you want the beatles to have finished laying their eggs at least for the most part before you treat. Otherwise you're treating too early. It does no good at all to treat between now and June. Now, the second treatment, if you're needed, is in July or August, and those are for grubs that were

missed in the first treatment or eggs that were laid a little later. You can do that. That's a separate treatment though. And if you look on the schedule, it tells you the products that you can use for the grubs. And I won't read them all out right now, but it's all printed on the schedule. In June, there is one product that we use, one specific ingredient. Rather you can find it in more than one brand.

And then in July and August we have to switch to a different one because the grubs are deeper and the second product or to on the list, moves down in the soil further to reach the grubs that are getting older and heading downward due to the hot weather. Okay, so just get that schedule. It'll tell you exactly what to use, exactly when to do it. Okay, real quick on that one too. I already got mulch down. Then do I have to scrape hold the mult away or what now? No,

you're only treating in the lawn with those. Don't worry about them in the flower bed. It's not a bit they are. I was afraid they're in the flower bay because all the critters digging around, and well they're everywhere. The critters are digging for a lot of things. I'm about to hit a hard break here and I have to run. Yeah, but the plants of

your flowerbed, by and large or not target of grubs. They love grass plants, grassy plants, and so I mean you could treat your flower beds at that time, but generally we don't worry about needing to do that. Hey, thank you very much for the call. Mail you take care. I appreciate it. We're going to run to a break right here. Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back

to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Our phone number, if you'd like to give me a call seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I think one of the top five questions I'm getting right now, and this is both. You know, people email questions when I go out and do an event like being out today at the Cipher Home and Garden show after the show, or just phone calls to garden line is about lawn weeds, lawn weeds, lawn beats. Why is my lawn

full of weeds? What can I do to kill them all? And one of the main reasons we have weeds in our lawn is because it is two dead gum weak. When a lawn is thick and den and lush, sunlight is blocked from reaching the soil and a little weed seed trying to get started cannot because it can't get the energy it needs from the sun. So the number one weed controls technique is to grow good lawn. That's why I have

my lawn care schedule on Gardening with Skip dot com at that website. Gardening with Skip dot go on tells you how to have a good lawn when your law gets thin and last summer hammered our lawns. A lot of lawns. Maybe they were killed, maybe sections were killed. Maybe the lawns survived, but it thinned out. Here comes sunlight, Here comes weeds. Wherever sunlight hits the soil. Nature plants a weed, and that's why if you're seeing a lot of winter weeds in your lawn and the big weed, the ones

you see that are bigger, now, those are cool season weeds. They sprouted last fall. That is a sign that you've got some thinness in there. And with the weeds, it's even getting thinner because they're shading out the grass as well. So what do you do well. Barricade is a product that's a pre emergent, and we pre mean before right, so before the weeds emerge. Warm season weeds are germanying. Now you need to get a barricade application down, watered in half inch of water. You got to get

it into the soil. Don't just put the granules out. Get them into the soil and all the warm season weeds it will prevent. Just make a note that next fall in October. Primarily you want to do the same thing for the cool season weeds. Had you done it last fall and gotten a good application, even application out, what you're seeing now, you wouldn't be seeing now. Barricades available in a lot of different places. You can get it at h or D and D feed up in Tomball they have barricade.

If you go out to Angleton to Lake Hardware, if you go to Baytown to Fisher's Hardware, all those are places where you can get barricade by nitrofoss and get ahead of those weed issues. We're going to run now out to paar Land and visit with Mark. Hello, Mark Good, Thanks for take

them a kungo. Yes, sir, I have a three and a half gallon meer lemon that I just purchased, and I want to transplant that either into a bigger pot or into the ground that it's loaded with fruit now and blooms, and I'm trying to do it in a way it's not going to throw all that off. Is there a suggestion you can give me on that.

Well, the first thing is you won't want to hear it. But we encourage people to not let their citrus fruit for the first two or three years, wait until the third year maybe, And the reason is a lot of energy goes into that fruit and that plant will be the same size close to it at the end of the season because it's supported all that fruit. Now, I know it's hard to not because you have a bloom, You've got a lemon. My gosh, I want to taste it this year,

So I'll just give you that information. You do as you choose. But if you'll get the fruit off there, you can fertilize water and really get it growing. In a couple of years. You've got a nice plant that's strong. It wasn't trying to raise a whole bunch of fruit when it was still a baby, so that that would be one thing. Now as far as transplanting it a good quality soil, a well drained mix. Did you say it was in a container. I didn't catch that. It is.

Yes, it's just small, three and a half gallon, But I mean you're going to want to move it to another container or I'd like to get it in the ground. But I'm my first concern was saving the truth. But then that's not really the best way to do it, and I guess I can. I'd rather do it around. Yeah, it's not the best way, but I understand the temptation to do that. I just I can give you the facts. You do as you choose. It's your plant, putting it in the ground. You want to get a good quality mix.

You want to mix. It's got a lot of organic matter, blend it all through the soil and then dig the hole in plant. Don't dig a hole and put compost in the hole. You amend the soil in as wide of an area as you can and then dig the home in it and then begin fertilizing it on a regular basis. And there's a lot of quality fertilizers out there for for fruits, for vegetables. You could even use a lawn fertilizer on it, just not something with weed control. Okay, very good,

thanks, well, good luck with it. Thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Yes, yeah, it's a It is a is a difficult thing. And I've I've felt I felt this myself. You know, you get a plant and it's got ballooms, and gosh you for crying out loud, you have me to pull them all off for a couple of years. I want lemons soon and or same is true with satsuma oranges or regular oranges or limes or whatever. It's just the nature of the beast. Uh. And so just think of it as a baby plant and trying to

support a bunch of fruit is tough, and I understand that. But anyway, that's just that's just the way it is. Same is true with peaches and play you know, the first couple of years, pull them all off and get that tree up and strong. I'll tell you this. Then think of it this way. If you were to look at the first five years of your fruit tree's life and you were to say how much total fruit can I get by year five? You're going to have way more fruit if you

pull off the fruit the first two years. Then if you leave a few fruit, I mean, it won't even be close. Because think of it this way. Your fruit tree is it's like a Christmas tree. You can hang ornaments. How many ornaments can you hang on a two foot Christmas tree? How many can you hang on an eight foot Christmas tree? A lot more, right, fruit or ornaments. So the bigger you get your plant, the better off it'll be. All right. That's enough of that,

But it is a difficult thing. I feel your pain is just the just the way it is out there in nature. Have you been do in Chenet Gardens, id and Richmond? It is an unbelievable It's an unbelievable place that people come from a long distance to go to. It's that kind of a destination spot. And they have everything you can imagine. I mean I could sit here and just spend the whole show naming all the things that you can get, like vegetables and herbs and fruit and roses and on and on and

on down the line. Excellent selection they got staff knows what they're talking about, which is very important, very very important. It's one of those local independent garden centers that we love so much here on garden Line. For example, their salvia collection. Salvia is one of the best genera of plants that the areas for this area, and they have an unmatched salvia collection out there,

lots and lots available. The new did you know the Proven Winners has their annual plant of the year and this year twenty twenty four, the annual plant of the year is Supertunia Vista Jasberry. Beast to Supertuni you just say, I want to see the one with bubblecum, bubblegum, pink ballooms.

I could almost say that there is one called bubble gum too, by the way, but Supertunia Vista Jasburry loads up with blooms, unbelievable in a hanging basket, unbelievable in a container unbelievable in a bed where it'll spread out and it will just be gorgeous. And they have that at in Chenni Gardens out of Richmond, Hey. They're on FM three point fifty nine, which is

on the Katie Folscher side of Richmond. The website write this down, this is where all the facts are Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com in Chennigardens Richmond dot com. They're open Monday through Saturday eight to five. On Sundays from ten am to four pm. It's always a good time to go out there. And while you're on the website, go ahead and sign up for the newsletter. Really cool, lots of good, good information they're on their newsletter.

You're listening to garden Line. If you'd like to be on an ask a question, it's really easy. You just dial seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. For those of you that lived down in League City, you've got an excellent, excellent feed store down there, and we love feed stores on guarden

Line and U League City Feed. You know the Thunderbergs. They I guess their grandfather actually created it over forty years ago in what used to be an Ochre patch. I think anything that begins in an ochre patch has got to be good. I love okre Wes and Madison. They you know, they are managing the place and you walk in and it's that typical old time feed store that you would expect. I just love walking in a feed store. I love the smells and everything else in a feed store. But they've got

every fertilizer I recommend. They've got the soil blends that I recommend. They have the insect a side fund to side herbicides for weeks. They have it all right there. They have been carrying these product for a long time. They give you the old fashioned service of carrying out to the car for you. Do you want a high quality pet food for your dogs or cats, well, of course they've got that too. Backyard chickens. They can get

you set up for that as well. League City Feed is on Highway three, just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six in League City, Highway three, a few blocks south the ninety six two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. That's it. Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. Monday through Saturday nine to six, and they're closed on Sunday. League City Feed. Tell them we said, hi, guardline when you run by there.

I was getting my still working on getting my lawn in. I you know, I told you before that last summer, I went away for two weeks and every problem that occur could occur occurred while I was gone. When the cat's away, the mice will play. Chinch Bugs came in like I've never had them before. In the lawn take our root rot rampant. The drought. It was hot and it was dry, and my irrigation system did not come on. That's a whole nother story. So you put those three

together and you have got the Mohave desert in the front yard. And that's basically what happened. And I'm replacing the lawns dam busy with that. We're really looking forward to getting some new grasses established and everything. A lot of you have struggled with lawns and also your whole landscape. Maybe you lost some shrubs, maybe you have some plants that were just too wimpy for the area.

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In addition to replacing my lawn, I'm revamping a couple of flower beds too. By the way, those flower beds had one that the drainage is just horrible in and I just installed a subsurface drain like a French drain in that bed so all the water that runs into it, the excess runs out. My next step is to take some of the clay out, add a lot of high quality composts. Yes, I actually do what I tell you to do at home. It's not a do as I say, not as I do, it's a do as I do. But anyway, I'm going

to revamp it. Put it in top quality soil. And when I do that, I've done the brown stuff, oh with some fertilizer, so when I put the green stuff in it will succeed. And that's the key if you want success. Fix up the soil first and then get quality plants and they'll do really well. Nikky, we're about to turn the magic microphone over you. I'm just imagining what it must be like to live next door to

you, you know, trying to keep up with the neighbors. And well, there's two things to keep in mind, and they come back against each other. One of them is I know a lot about plants. Number two is the cobblers. Kids go barefoot. Have you ever heard that? Yes, I'm on the radio, running around doing things, and you've got appearances everywhere. Do you have the time? They do everything you need to do. I leave for two weeks and come home and like the front yard is

the ma hobby desert. Yeah, that those both work. Oh well, all right, it's all yours. Welcome back to guard Line. Did to have you with us today. We've got a lot to talk about because it is spring and weird gardeners. That's kind of how that works. And if you're not a gardener, let's see if we can change that. There is not a better hobby out there. It is relaxing, it is fresh air,

it is a chance to enjoy beauty. One of the coolest things about gardening, as far as I'm concerned, is the gratification that comes quickly from what you do. And here's what I mean. Some of you have had jobs like I have had in my life, where you hammer away all day and at the end of the day you wonder, what actually did I accomplish today? It just seems I know it was busy all day, but I don't know what I got done. When you go home with gardening, I

don't care if it's weeding a flower bed or planting some flowers. You stand up after an hour of it, thirty minutes of it, you look and you see the results of your labor, and that is I find that to be very encouraging. You can make a difference, you can see the difference, and that is a cool thing. That's psychological benefits, but oh my goodness, just being able to get out in nature and enjoy that and make

your place more beautiful, make your garden more bountiful. Have fresh vegetables that you grew fifteen hundred miles fresher than what you're going to buy in the store. That is worth the price of admission in and of itself. RCW is the nursery that's up there where two foroy nine Tambol Parkway comes into about way eight, and they've got things like herbs and perennials and shrubs and all the kinds of things you need to transform your landscape. One of the things that

I find just amazing is their rose selection and rosarians. They know RCW Nursery. RCW has a huge selection, over two hundred different rows varieties out there, So think about that. Did you know there were even two hundred. Yeah, there's more than two hundred, two hundred rose varieties out there. You can get from them, varieties with every color. You can imagine not just rosecolored roses, but every other color that there is, and striped pedals

and blotched. By the way, here's a reason to go ten percent off all their roses through the rest of March. We're getting toward the end of March here, so don't delay. They have the largest selection in Houston. If you're thinking about planting a rose, RCW Nursery ten percent off all roses through the rest of March. Their website r CW nurseries dot com. It is easy to get there. It is easy to get what you need, and they're going to have the supply. And of course the people that know

what they're talking about, they can guide you the products you need. When you're going to plant the roads, you know, what do you do, how do you fertilize them? What do you put to help them get started and rooted in and do well? All of that at RCW Nurseries. You can also give them a call two eight one four four zero fifty one sixty one two eight one four four zero five one six one. I was talking about my flower beds that I'm revamping and putting some new things in, and

one of the steps is getting that organic matter down into the soil. You know, when you have a clay soil, that clay is tight. It does not allow water in very fast at all. Typical Houston black clay without organic matter and roots and things in it is going to take in water at about an eighth of an inch an hour. An eighth of an inch an hour. Now when we had organic matter, when we have plants with roots and things, that goes up a little bit faster. But that's a slow,

slow rate. So what do you do. You add expanded shale that lasts a long time and you put it in the soil. You got to put a lot of it in there, several inches over the surface. Work it in and that helps keep that clay open. You add organic matter, composted organic matter, and that helps keep the clay open as well. And that's what I'm going to do. Well, compost it. Organic matter is what Nature's way is all about. They're up in Tumbole, they're up toward

Conro. You're up. If you're going up forty five toward Conro, right where fourteen eighty eight come in. You just turn right, go across the railroad tracks and you are at Nature's way. They have a bunch of roses that are ready to burst into bloom out there. They have a nice little plant nursery where you can get a lot of natives and other kinds of things. Right now, I want to tell you about their leaf mold compost. Now, leaf mol compost is the best thing you can use for top dressing

a lawn. So when you're looking at me, you know I was saying, our lawns are thin where sunlight hits the soil. Nature plants a weed. Well, top dressing is just another way that we help that. Number one, it's a thin layer of organic matter on the surface, so you could call it a malts, but it's a very fine textured, not chunky stuff, not stuff you're your lawnmower is going to kick across the you know,

across the property. This is a very fine texture. It helps hold water and because it's so active with lots of microbes, it creates an environment where some of the diseases like brown patch for example, large patch when you get into rainy April and weather like that, we can see an increase in some of our summer diseases. And with the fine leaf more compost, you

are basically inoculating. Also, all those plant surfaces right there at the soil level with a lot of microbes, and it just becomes a hostile environment for some of the bad guys, the disease issues we want to get away from. It's a hostile environment for them to get established in, so Nature's way, give them a call to nine three six three two one sixty ninety nine three six three two one six nine nine zero. This a good weekend to run out there today, as a matter of fact, and get you some

of those kinds of products for top dressing your lawn. They have every other kind of composted material, from rose soils to vegetables and anything you're going to grow, they've got a soil for it out there in Nature's way. You're listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I was in the garden. Uh the uh, let's see is the last what day was it? I think it's on Thursday that I was most recently

out of my vegetable garden. And a lot of things are are blooming around the garden and I was just looking at the bees that were working the flowers, and it just reminds me that bees, as our pollinators, help us have more fruitful gardens. And here's why. Uh. And for most fruit Uh. When a flower is pollen, the seeds that what would become a seed is fertilized and it starts to grow in the fruit and the seed releases

hormones that make the fruit grow. That's why if you see a lopsided apple and you cut through it, you'll notice there's a dead seed on the side that's not growing because seeds release those hormones. So bees essentially make our gardens not only set fruit, but have larger, better fruit as a result. The bee supply can provide you with not only the bees to have a little backyard high Can you imagine making your own honey or well, I should say,

having bees that make honey for you. The bee supply can do that. They have training classes going on all the time. In fact, April thirteenth. On April thirteenth, by the way, they're doing a class today, but things a little late for that one April thirteenth, April twenty seventh. In the next two classes, and you don't have to go into bee keeping. Just go take the class. See if you like it. Learn about it. This you're gonna like it if you just want to learn about

bees. They have the honey tours where you take get all kinds of honey. They're in Dayton, Texas, Andy. You can go to the website and learn more. Thebsupply dot com. Thebsupply dot Com, I love love going there. I'm always amazed at the stuff they have, but most of all by their knowledge and listen. They are not a say you something and good luck. They you come back, you ask questions, give them a call I'm having this problem or what do I do? And and they absolutely

walk you through, step by step the whole process. They take the time because they want you to have success with the bee supply. Hey, I got to run for a break right here. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back. I had said earlier that wherever sunlight hits the soul nature plants of weed, and you're probably seeing that in your launch right now. If you look at my schedule at gardening with skip dot com, I've got two schedules. One is

to take care of your lawn. The others how to deal with all the issues that attack your lawn. And if you look at that, you'll see that we're in the spring greenup season. If you want to do an early greenup, you can do that with a product that releases right away, like for example, Nitrofoss has their Nitrofos fifteen five to ten that contains TRIMEC in it. Now, the fifteen five to ten releases immediately. It gets the nutrients faster lawn or green up. As the weather warms, the grass grows

faster and faster. Saint Augustine likes warm to hot weather, actually does very well. And it's still a little on the cool side for Saint Augustine, but it can take up those nutrients and it will get greener. Those cool season weeds that we've been talking about, you can kill them with a product that contains trimec. Or trimec is a combination of three different herbicides. It kills broadly f weeds. So you wet your lawn, you put out the

fifteen five ten with trimac. It sticks to the weeds because are wet. You may make sure do it right away when they're wet, it moves in after a couple of days watered in. That gets a fertilizer into the soil and then you're good to go. You can take it right from there. Now you can get this product at a tascaseda Ace. Yes, they have it down there Lake Hardware down in Clute Lake Jackson they've got it down there, and Jim's Hardware. And Montgomery has that as well. Fifteen five town

with the trimeac that works super super well. How many of you have backyard chickens. I suspect a number of you do. Backyard chickens is people love this idea, the idea of having you chickens run around to get fresh eggs. I mean you talk about fresh, we're talking about right out of the chicken fresh eggs. Well, you can do that. And one of the best places to get baby chicks is D and D feed up in Tomball.

And here's why they get them in all the time. They just got a shipmente in just the other day, just the other day, and the next shipment is coming in on next Thursday, the twenty eighth, and then next Friday. Even more Now you probably have heard of one or two types of chickens. But let me just give you an idea what you're going to find at D and D feed By the way, D and D feed up in Tumble. Their phone number is two eight one three five one seventy one forty

four and they're on twenty nine to twenty west outside of Tumble. Have you ever heard of an easter egger, an olive egger, A buckeye, a blue plymouth, a lavender orpington, a golden wyand dot, a silver wyand dot, a blue red wyand dot, A Brahma chicken. I thought that was a cow, blue Andalusian, Sicilian buttercup, black copper, Moran, Creole, Pendessenca. I don't even know, say the silver favol Have you

ever even heard of those? Will go to D and D and you'll see them all and they got the feed and everything else you need to take off success. It's chicken city a D and D. It's throw all the chicks hanging out. Okay, oh my gosh, that was that was unnecessary. We're gonna go to Jersey Village and talk to George. Good morning, George, Yeah, good morning. Skip. That gentleman that talks you about is

Meyer limit well, I got the same problem. I just got one from from Plants for All Seasons and it's got about tony lemons on it, and I don't know, I know when it's old enough to put the lembos on there. That's first question. Yeah, And second question is do I do the same thing? Tomato plants good? That's good. So let's take the first one. If you can pull them off for the two first two years,

that's good. Some people go a little longer or not. But if you at least the first two years, because those first two years, your job is to make as big of a tree as you can to hang lemons on that, that's what you're working on. You're giving it, you're giving it fertilizer, you're giving it water so it never holds back. You're mulching around it to keep the weeds away. And that that would be I suggestion on the lemon. You can enjoy the blooms and the fragrance, just don't

let them try to develop fruit. Tomatoes are not that way so much. You're tomatoes will set some early fruit. But whether you're using a staking system or a caging system, that plant is not a we're not talking about a tree that lives years and years. We're talking about a plant that comes up, produces its fruit, and it's done, so there's no need to remove early tomatoes. They're determinates. Well there's still number. Yes, they'll produce

over a longer time, but in our heat here even the endeterminates. If they're slicer type tomatoes, they tend to not set for very long once it starts to heat up. Okay, thank you, all right, George going to kill me well for taking a lemon off the tree. All right, Well, don't no one else to say, George. Yeah, I'm not gonna I'm not going to wade into the middle of that one, but I understand. All right, love your program, Thank you, sir, appreciate

that call a lot. Hey, what was the last time you had plants for all seasons? You know, plinch fall seasons is the first of all. Where are they They're right at Luetta and Tomboll Parkway. If you if you're heading let's say you're going north for Tomball on two forty nine Tomboll Parkway, you exit Luetta, cross over Luetta and they're right there. I mean, it's just within a block of Luetta going North. They have every kind

of plant you can imagine. They're gonna have all of the exciting new stuff, they're gonna have all the dependable stuff, and they're gonna have people that can direct you the right thing. You can take them a plant sample and a ziplock bag. What is this? What's wrong with this? Take them a picture. My neighbor's got these flowers last year. I want them? What are they? How do I get you? They'll set you up, they'll do that. Planch fell Season's knowledgeable staff. Look, they've been doing

this since nineteen seventy three. I think they may know a thing or two about gardening. They are true lawn and garden experts. You can go to the website Plants for All Seasons dot com. That's one way you can give them a call two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven six one six four six and Plants for All Seasons. You can get things there, your vegetables, and they have an excellent selection of seeds too, big old wall of seed. Packets and seeds are kind of fun

because it's fun to grow your own plants. Plus, with seeds you have a wide variety of options. You know, and any garden center is going to have X number of varieties of whatever. With seeds, you just open that up a little more and grow some things that aren't commonly available as transplants. Another good reason to want to do that the folks there the knowledge and the experience that that alone is worth the ADMISSI that's worth going for sure.

So I'll tell you about my lawn and about my flower beds and things I'm taking care of and doing. I have a neighbor who has a lawn that well, let's just say there are a few weeds in it because it got them last year. Now, when I look from a distance, it looks pretty and green. When you get up close, it's like, oh my gosh. It is probably eight hundred thousand different varieties of plants, all ninety zero point nine percent of them being weeds. And so what do you do

at this stage? Well, one thing you can do is put out turf Star Wheedonator. Turf Star Weedenator is by Nelson Plant Food, and Nelson's been making quality fertilizer for a long time. Weedenator is a product that has a slow release nitrogen in it, so when you put it out. It's not your spring green up fertilizer. It is a fertilizer for feeding over the next two or three months, at least two months, more like three months out in your lawn. But it has this post emergent weed control product in it.

So again, wet the leaves of the weeds so that the product sticks to the weeds. You don't have the water your lawn and wet the soil. Just get the weeds leaves wet, put out turch star weed and need a right away. It sticks to the leaves, it soaks in, it kills those weeds after about a day or two, just go ahead and water it. Then to move it down into the soil. You don't need to put an inch rain on, just a third of an inch, half an inch, whatever, just to get it down into the soil. And that's

where it will begin to unlock the nutrients that are in the product. Microbes are involved in some parts of this helping release those nutrients so that over time your grass is being fed gradually. And how does grass, if I can use the word eat, grass eats like you eat a little bit every day, oh every day through weeks. Well, you want a fertilizer that'll feed gradually over time. Urch starweed neater has got that kind of fertilizer inside of

it. It does really well out there. If you are looking at a landscape that really needs some help, you know, it's spring, everything should be looking great, and you're looking at it and going, oh my gosh, I've got die back on some plants. It needs pruning. I need to move some stuff around. I want to plant some flowers and things. Skip keeps saying brown stuff before green stuff. I needed brown stuff my landscape beds so that I can have success any plants and produce up in Montgomery number

one, they got all the plants you need for that. But they also have a landscape crew. So if you are listening and you live up around Lake Conroe, which is just down the street from them, they can come out their landscape crew and they can just totally revent your place. I mean they can. Those flower beds that are can become Wow. They can do that. They have the ability to come out and really turn things around. They got my lawn care schedule typically at the counter there if they haven't given

them all out. If I talk about a fertilizer, if I talk about them, they're going to have them there at Ana Plants. If we talk about composts, and you know saying leaf mold composts, while well, they've got that at Nature's I mean Nature's at A and A Plants and Produce. They have the heirloom soils, they have the Nature's Way, They've got microlife and Nelson and nitroposs. It's a great place to go, one stop shop and get it all done. And they're just on the east side of Montgomery.

So if you're in Montgomery heading toward light Conroe or toward Conro on one oh five, they're on the left on the north side of the road and just on the edge of town. I was like stopping by there. The bling, Oh that's another reason to go. I forgot to say that. The bling that they have for your landscape, chimineas and little structures, trellises to grow things on, and yard art. You gotta have a yard art and they hit your seven. I want to remind you today I'm going to

be at the sci Fair Home and Outdoor Living Show. I'll be there from twelve to two now. The show's going on today ten am. Starts right after garden Line goes till six pm today tomorrow from eleven to five pm at the Barry Center, the Barry Center on Barker Cypress Road. They or they have listened to this. It costs me nothing to park, It costs me nothing to give you. What do you got to lose? Come by and see me, bring me some plants, some pictures, let's meet, let's

talk about things. I'm looking forward to seeing you there, Laver today. Kat RH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skimp Richt. It's so trim. Just watch him as the world side. Welcome back to garden Line on what is going to be an outstanding Saturday? An outstanding Saturday for gardening. You know any day is a good day for gardening. Here's

what I mean. If it is hailing and snowing and raining and lightning everything going on at one time outside, I know that's impossible. You can steal garden inside. You can start seeds for transplants. You can take out of your houseplants, you can repot, you can do propagating a plant. Every day is a good day for it don't matter what's going on, Well, today happens to be a good day outside and that is fun. That's what we need for spring. I love it when we have sunny weekends in the

spring. It's got a rain. Get it done during the week. I got things to do outside, and I have been known to work on the garden in the rain too. Uh. Let's see what is uh Doctor Doolittle. Remember that that show, Doctor Doolittle. One of the songs was if the lyrics if you remain out in the rain, you'll think you're drinking pink champagne and you will spend your life praying for thunderstorms. I don't know where

that came from, but somebody wrote that. Hey, if you want to give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Uh. When when I think of a place, like if someone goes, where can I get and then fill in the blank, you know, where can I get this specific

uh insecticider, this specific herbicide er fung asider? Where can I get a good quality you know, a set of printers or saw or whatever it is, anything like that South was Fertilizer is the first thing that comes to mind, because Southwest has everything. In fact, if they don't have it, you don't need. That's how I like to put it, because that is true. I cannot think of anything I need for the garden care and whatnot. Then Southwest has. They even have a little shop in the back.

You know you need to get a little bit of engine repairs or do you need to purchase you know, some kind of a power equipment. They've got it all. They've got it all out there. Southwest Fertilizers. On the corner are Businet and Runwick and it's really easy to get to south West Houston. Of course, the website. You know, there's a lot of ways to go about talking about Southwest. One is, look, just go buy there and see you'll see what I'm talking about. If you hear me recommend

anything, they have it there. But if you want to just go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. You can find phone numbers, you can find where it's located in all of that corner of Businet and Runwick Southwest Fertilizer. But I can tell you this, We've been talking all day about you need to put on this, you need to put on that, you need to take care of the soil, you need you know, they even have a few little section as you come in of vegetables, flowers, some nice

little plants there. That just another reason to stop in at Southwest Fertilizer. But if you have a plant problem, take a sample or take a photo, a good sharp focused photo and take it in and let Bob or Aaron or one of the staff there take a look at it and they would be able to identify it and tell you what to do about it. That is important. A lot of product and money gets wasted because people use the wrong product for a particular problem, or maybe they were trying to spray something that

shouldn't be sprayed. You know. Can you imagine coming in and here's a picture of a lady beetle? What do I kill it with? Well, a, you don't kill it. That's a good thing to have around. So you need to know what you're talking about and when you can depend on someone like Southwest, that in and of itself, as we say, it's worth the price of admission because it is very very valuable. Gardening is a

learning process. It's a constant learning process. Thomas Jefferson was well known as someone who enjoyed agriculture and gardening and things like that, and he said, although I am an old man, I am a young gardener. That's one way he put it, because gardening keeps you young, and it's always a learning you always learn. I learned something. I've been doing this for over almost four decades now, actually gardening over four decades. But I still learn

something every single day. There's always something new out there to learn. Hey, let's head out to South Houston and we're going to talk to Parker. Hello Parker, good morning, skimp. I'm good. Here are you today? Well, I got a little project. I've taken some cuttings off of a seventy year old rose actually rosebush, two of them, and I want to remove the whole cane and transplant it. Is that possible? You? You took cuttings off of the rows, and you're wanting to cut the bush

back and then transplant it. Yeah, I'm gonna cut the bush completely back, dig it up, and move it. Yeah, don't Well why I wouldn't cut it completely back? Maybe even if you just leave like two feet of it or are you concerned about the thorns and stuff or what. Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's it's it's covered with thorns. I mean it's yeah there everywhere. Well, you know, you could you could trim up

all the low stuff so you don't have to work around it. I'll tell you one thing I've done for mine before is to get some twine and cut away all the low hanging ones that you you know are going to be in the way when you're trying to move it and plant and dig it. Uh. And with the twine go around the bush and pull it and pull all the canes up where they they're all pointing straight up and they're all together. That way, it's easy to work around it without losing blood. Yeah,

and yeah, I've done that before too. It makes it really easy to move a skip it. It's it's been cut back every year, you know, dramatically, you know. And it's it's probably a stump, I say a stump. It probably sticks up maybe a foot off the ground, and then the canes pop up of course, like you just said, but the main canes of this plant are probably an inch inch and a quarter in diameter. Oh wow, that's an old bush. Well, yeah, there are

seventy years old. Probably. Okay, well, you can cut it back. I'm just saying, you know, if you leave it a few leaves, it's a little less of a shock to it when you Okay, are you going to plant it right away after digging it? Maybe same day? Yes, yeah, that's good. Then watered in really good. Yeah, you can do that if I might. After digging it, I might, you know, put a little lace something over the top, just to give it a little bit of a break from the sun. It is stablishes,

but it's gonna be fine. It's not the best time in the world to move a plant, but it definitely isn't the worst either. That would be well, that's the only time I had before the building is the buildings are demolished, So yes, go for it. Yeah, go for it. Keep it moist, just keep the soule moist without keeping it soggy. And the cuttings the same way I've got. I'll probably have ten or twelve cuttings all plant. Yeah. I would well on the cutting too, that's a

whole nother question. And there's a lot of good information online on how to rose cuttings, and I would just look that up and follow it because it's gonna be a lot of details to what you want to have ten or twelve and hope I get one or two. That's the way you do it. That's a weak got it man. Thank you, Skip, Thank you Parker. I appreciate your call. We're going to take a break here our phone number seven one three two one two k t rh hell. You'll be first

up when we come back. Welcome back to the garden Line. Glad to have you with us today. Hey, if you're interested in gardening, I think you probably are interested for a number of reasons. Number one, you like things that are pretty. Maybe food. You want to have fresh food. You grew yourself. You know what was sprayed on the food, you know how it was handled. Maybe it is for the fresh air and for

the exercise. But I tell you a reason that ought to be on the list, and that is because of nature out there and wildlife like birds. For example, I took a bird feeder off of my stand. I've got one of the wabirds unlimited squirrel excluding feeders, which by the way, are

amazing. They work well, and I took it up the stand because I'm redoing the lawn, and so I had to pull the thing up and set it aside, and I set the feeder on a barbecue pit by a window on the back of my house, and I just was getting it out of the way. And yesterday morning I was looking out the window and there's a little bird come in and found the feeder over up against the house there on top of the barbecue pit, and it was still going at it. Wibirds

can help you have a wonderland for birds. I'm talking about the music of birds, Oh my gosh, so nice first thing in the morning. I'm talking about the beauty of birds, just watching them come in, and the benefits of birds. You birds eat a lot of insects, and right now they're raising young and nests and need high protein food, high protein, high fat food. For those birds nesting, super blend from wildbirds feeds them. That's what mine are eating right now, nesting super blend. It's got sunflower,

peanuts, dried meal worms. That is, caterpillars are important food. And those birds, by the way, are in your landscape taking caterpillars to feed their young. It's got tree nuts, that flower bark, butter bits. It's a high quality feed every food from wildbirds. When you buy a pound of food, you get a pound of bird food. You don't get a pound of birds scattered red bebes all over the ground. You get your

dollar's worth when you buy wilbirds food. That's how that works. There's a bunch of wildbirds, store six of them all over the gray house scenario. You can go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston. Remember the hummingbirds are coming through right now. We got the ruby throated hummingbirds at this time as they're passing through, going to be heading the north pretty soon. Get your bird feeders out. If you don't have one, go buy wilberds. Get

you a hummingbird feeder. Another really enjoyable part of gardening. I want to go now to Pearland and we're going to talk to al Hal. Excuse me, how are you doing? Hell? Hey, good morning, Skip doing just fine yourself. I'm well, thank you. Listen. I just had a question about a couple of trees. One I'm pretty sure of the redbud as far as being suitable for our area and using that and also an olive

tree. I can't remember the variety, but it starts with an a okay, all right, and just whether or not that would be worth worthwhile in this area. Yeah, Arbikinya is probably the variety. It's one of the most common olives sold around here. Olives. Olives are fine, they do well. The olives there there. I guess achilles heel is. When we have really cold weather, it can kill them back and they'll it'll kill them back to the ground and they re sprout out more as a bush typically.

But you're far enough south down there in Paarland where I don't know, maybe a little protection on a really really bad cold night forecast would be fine. But our Bikinia is a good olive and it's the one that most people plant in your area. Red buds are fine too. Red buds. There are several types of red buds. The one you see everywhere in people's yards is the Eastern red bud. It has a dull leaf, not glossy, very

soft leaf. There is a Texas red bud that has a stiffer think about it as a more leathery leaf with a little gloss to it, and are und underleaf. That little tip at the bottom that makes a red bud leaf look like a heart shape is less prominent, and Texas red bud is even tougher. I've seen those out west of Austin in poor soil in the full sun, and they do well. The eastern red bud, you need to

give it preferably a little late day shade. They kind of like being a semi understory plant, but a little morning sun is where they do best. So either way you're not going to go wrong. They will do well. Okay. As far as planting these, do you recommend mixing any material in with the soil as you plant the tree. Only if you're going to mix it into a large area. Don't dig a hole and put compost in it.

Instead, put three inches of compost over as large of an area as you can mix it in, and then dig the hole into the blended soil and use the blended soil back as you refill the hole that you don't that that would be the way to go. Not as important with olives, but it would be helpful with the olives as well, but especially the red buds. They're a forest. They want a forest floor environment, and that's kind

of what you're creating by putting all that compost in the soil. Oh. Okay, all right, all right, sir, well appreciate them, Thank you, all right, and you're fortunate, you know, by the way, you got Verdant Tree Farm down the street there down in Caroland on Broadway. That's for it. I'm going go ahead, good well, that you're doing the right thing. That they have a lot of good quality, good quality material. So thanks for the all right, thank you sir, all

right bye. For anybody that isn't familiar with Verdant, their website is Verdant a v E R d A n T. Verden means Green, Verdant Treefarm dot com Verden Treefarm dot com. They've got a place. They got a store down in Paarland on Broadway Street, just a few blocks away from Killing Steakhouse. There's also one up in the Heights where Yale and I ten come together, and one out in West Eastern on Barker Cypress. And they have

every size. I mean, they're known for their palms too. They excellent selection of palms, but every other kind of tree and large shrub you can imagine. The cool thing is you just show up, you walk through, and you pick out the tree you want, and then they tag it and they bring it and they plant it and they do it right. And when they plant it, they do it right, and that gives you the best

chance of success with your trees. And so it's good to so it's good to find places that have quality plants in quality service because that's what we need. We kind of we're real careful about the sponsors we bring on on guard Line. There are sponsors I won't have on guarden Line and don't need to name them, but companies that I'm not confident in their work. And so

we try to say with people who either I've used the product before. Every time you hear me talk about a fertilizer or a soil, I've used it, I've tried it out, I've grun things in it. I know what it does and I know that it works. But when it comes to garden centers, I've been there, I've seen the work that they do. When it comes to services, I've met with the people and I question ask them the important questions to make sure what we're dealing with here is somebody that's going

to give you good service. That is very very important to me because I want when you hear me say something on Guardland, I'm putting my reputation behind it, and I definitely don't want that to go south. I want you to have a good success and be very happy with the results that you got. That that's important to me. You know, we talked about spring green up and that is the season we're still in now. We're still in spring green up if you want to do that, but we're kind of moving in

to the summer season as well. Summer we don't recommend and a fast release fertilizer through the summer. We're recommending slow release fertilizers like Nitrofoss Superturf. That's Nitrofoss's silver bag Superturf and Superturf. It's like a nineteen four to ten ratio of nutrients that's packed with nutrients. Fifty percent of the nitrogen in it is slow release. It also has iron to promote uniform grass growth and really good

color. If you look in your yard and you see some areas that are kind of yellow eye right now, that's a lack of iron and super turf can help provide that we typically see that aren't efficiency, especially in the spring, a little bit cooler soil, a little bit rainier conditions. Grass is trying to get started Superturf nineteen four ten. It will carry you on through two or three months of release and good results from that. You can find

it at Kingwood Ace Hardware. Think Kingwood and Ace Hardware. They're going to have it. If you are down Genoa, Red Bluff kind of south and east part of Houston, Shades of Texas is going to have the super turf product there as well. It's not difficult to find. Go up to the Arburgate and Tomball you're going to find super Turf there also. I want to go out now to Cleveland, Texas, and we're going to talk to Ron. Hello, Ron Coim on a scap. Hey, I got an avocado

that's about three years old. It produced like one real small avocado last year. It's about eight foot paul and a ten gallon pot. How do I know when it's starting to get root bound and that I might need to transplant to a bigger pot. It is root bound. An eight foot plant or ten gallon pond is rootbound. So you want to pull it out. If you've got a lot of just the outside of just white roots and circles,

you can cut some of those. It'll be okay. Yeah, to do that, and go ahead and cut them and put them in the new pot, and it will establish much better. If you got a little dolly or something, you move the handtruck, move right, moving into it. Yeah, moving into a semi shade for a little while. If you cut a lot of roots, just give it a give it about two or three weeks to start getting new roots will begin growing within a couple of weeks for sure. Uh. And and that is what I would do for it, all

right. I'm thinking like a whiskey barrel size yes, uh from listening, ten gallons if you if you could go up to twenty five gallons, that would be good. Don't don't put it in a whiskey barrel because those right out too fast. Oh yeah, yeah, but something that like you said that size, yes, okay, twenty five gall or so all right, appreciate it, Thank you, and I'll bring you half the fruit that is

required. I'm glad the listeners are starting to figure that out. I don't have I can't grow and avocado at my house, so I need you to help help out with that, all right, you bet, all right? Thank you have fun out there in Cleveland, Ron. Thanks for the call. You by bye. That is funny. It is avocado. Oh gosh, they are so good. I mean that that's kind of like the hot

item and fruit right now. It's been for a while. You know, people that love avocados, avocado sandwiches, you know, the slices on them in salads. I don't know. I'm pretty sure that guacamole may just be one of the best food foods things that there is. I love wacamole, and you gotta have avocados to make a good quality wakamoly. Have you been up to the Anti rosen Porium this spring? Some of you came out to

see me when I was out there talking just a while back. Anti crozen Porium is it's just I would say stunning is a good way to put it. You know, they've had the rain that's coming in and the gardens that they have, they have a lot of display gardens. They look beautiful, absolutely beautiful. That's what's a fun place to go to. I mean, even if you weren't buying plants, it'd be worth going out there just to look at it. The roses are starting to bust out, and boy did

they have displays of roses. The color unbelievable. Hey, on March twenty third, which guess what day is today, they're having a ladybug release for kiddos at four pm today, four pm out there ladybug whose kids will get to kind of learn about ladybugs and release them out there on March thirtieth. Next Saturday is the Easter egg hunt in the gardens. It starts at eleven

fifteen and it's broken down by aid group. I don't like that. I liked competing against the little ones because I can outrun them, you know, But anyway they break them down by age group. Hey, you know, they're the place for anti croses, just so many. But they're also the place for perennials, ornamental grasses, lots and lots of kinds of plants, and the blue bonnets are blooming. They're waiting for you. Here's your idea for some to do this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon. Run out to the antiq

rosen Porum and brun them. Maybe grab some bluebell while you're on the way out there. Isn't it amazing that ladybugs fascinate us? They do. They are very fascinating. Absolutely Well, Nikki, I'm gonna turn the mic over to you. I think you got some news. I got it. Welcome back to the garden line. The sun is glowing on the horizon. We are look at that sky. It is wide open, going to be a beautiful blue sky today. Good day for gardening, Good day to get out

and get some things done in the garden. I've been talking about fertilizing and the importance of making sure your plants have adequate nutrition. When it comes to the lawns. We on my schedule we have the spring green up, which is an early fertilization, and then we have the ongoing fertilization through the summer. And when you look at a fertilizer bag, you see three numbers. They are always the same three macro nutrients and the same order nitrogen, phosphorus,

potassium. So when you take a fertilizer like Microlife, for example, the green bag six two four six percent nitrogen, two percent phosphorus, four percent potassium. But what it doesn't tell you in the bag or the minor nucrients, the trace minerals that are out there. And with Microlife you get over seventy different compounds including nutrients and minerals, all all of this in one bag and plus billions and billions of the beneficial microbes that are part of how

our plants rive. It's what makes plants, roots systems succeed. Microbes and roots grow in a close association with each other. And the soil needs to have a good drainage. It needs to be moist, it needs to be well aerated, which good drainage allows good aeration, and that is exactly what causes your plants to thrive, in this case, your lawn grass plants. So Microlife fertilizers are going to give you everything that was in the plant material

that went in to make it in the first place. It's an organic fertilizer. So when you're doing your spring lawn fertilization with Microlife, just know that you're putting out more than sixty four. You're putting out a lot more. You also should consider doing the purple bag. That is the humates plus humts are concentrated compost. It's when you you know, you start with leaves and

grass clippings, you end up a compost. You keep going, you end up with humus the final stage, and that final stage helps bilsoil structure over time as you apply that it again, is another thing that's helpful for microbial activity in the soil, and that's the purple bag humates plus. So I say consider them as a tandem, the green bag the purple bag. Put them together. Do your spring fertilization, and we can also be doing some

in the summer with this. But with Microlife. If you're going to have that kind of additional benefit that I was just talking about, you can go to microlifefertilizer dot com. Find out more about it. Microlife fertilizer dot com. You'll tell you where you can get Microlife. They're very, very widely available product. You're listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty

eight seventy four. The folks out in Enchanted Forest that's down in Richmond, h They have created a wonderland. I love going out there. I love the I mean even the buildings, just the look, the feel of the whole place, the big beautiful shade trees to walk under uh and just enjoy the new vegetable and herb areas that they've created. And boy do they ever have extensive selection of vegetables, extensive selection of herbs. Enchanted Forest, Richmond

is it's one of those places that you just love to visit. They are located on FM twenty seven fifty nine, So if you're in Richmond heading towards sugar Land, this is off to the right, off to the right Highway fifty nine or sixty nine FM twenty seven fifty nine. When you go to Enchanted Forest, what you find, Number one, they got really cool landscape

bling too out there. But what you're going to find in those plants that you're looking for, great house plants selection, great perennial selection, great trees. Do you need foliage like colius and other things, Oh yes, they absolutely have that. Do you need fruit trees, Yes they have that. Do you want to have a pollinator garden? Oh my gosh. They have

one of the best selections of plants to attract butterflies. And it just the plants that feed the butterfly adults and the plants that feed the butterfly larva. You can find it all there, beautiful things things that go through summer just blazing. Some great like angelonia at Enchanted Forest. I encourage you to visit check them out. It is always fun to go and it is always a place where you're going to learn something because of staff there, Danny Klay,

the whole group very knowledgeable. They can point you in the right direction and send you home with the things you need for success. That is very important, very important. You're listening to Garden Line our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Are you wanting to do some containers this year? Maybe color, maybe vegetables, maybe herbs, And you should be wanting to do containers.

And here's why containers are versatile. Maybe your spot is a little shady for a vegetable garden. With containers, you can just put the container where there is the amount of sunlight that that plant wants. Maybe you want instant color. Maybe you want to go out front where you redn't have room for a flower bed or something, but you want some color coming down the front walk or coming up the steps, so on the front porch or back patio.

Containers do all of that. And jungle Land is a product distributed by Nitrofoss that is made for container culture. They've got the jungle Land flour and vegetable planting soil, which is good for as it says, flowers and vegetables. Go ahead and throw herbs in there. It's great for herbs as well. Then their indoor jungle land is called water saving potting soil because it has

these low crystals and whole moisture. So if you get to water, the roots have a source of a little extra moisture carrying them forward further than they would otherwise be able to do. Now you're going to find nitrofoss products wide variety, lots of different places, easy to They're all over town. That's I just should say they're all over town. But katie As Hardware for example, Ace Hardware City done in Memorial, a Memorial Drive, those have it,

Stanton Shopping Center down in a Alven. They've got the nitrofoss products down there, easy to find them. In jungle land will allow you to have that success. You want good drainage, but you want it to hold water. That's jungle land, brown stuff before green stuff. Right, What does that mean? It means that when you create an environment for roots to thrive, your plants are going to be successful. So it could be the jungle land you put in a pot. It could be the blends we put in

our soils to grow roses, to grow flowers, to grow vegetables. You just create the scene. There's a a phrase from Field of Dreams. If you build it, they will come. Well, if you build the right soil, they meaning flowers and vegetables will come. The plants will thrive. When you make a plant struggle, it may stay alive, but it won't thrive. You won't have the bounty of flowers. You won't have the bounty of vegetables, you won't have the general beauty of the plant. But it's

so easy to do the soil first. Just always remember that I say this tongue in cheek, but there ought to be a lawn Texas that you can't buy a flour or a vegetable without also buying a bag of soil. That now I know, I know, this is the land of you can have my gun when you pull my cold dead fingers off the trigger. So we're not going to get that law passed, But for the plant's sake and for your ultimate success, it would be a good one to have fix the soil.

Fix the soil it once the plants are in We can still do a few things, but not near as much as when we fix the soil to begin with. And it always be building your soil. Your soil is a bank account, so like in your lawn. Asmite mineral nutrients, trace minerals, micronutrients. It's a mind product from Utah. It is, it has those compounds in it. You don't put a lot of it out. A forty four pound bag will cover like six to twelve thousand square feet of yr

lawn. You don't want to overdo micros. You just need a little of them, but you need them. They're essential. Fix your soil, build the bank account. When that grass plant is growing and three days from now it leaves some zinc and some manganese and some whatever, you got to have it in the sole bank account and the grass can take off. And that's what micro life or micro life, that's what Azamite does. Asimite Texas dot com. That's a website if you want to go learn more about it.

We're gonna take a little break here our phone number seven one three two one two KTRH. When we come back, we will talk to Judy and James to begin with, Welcome back to Guardenline. We're going to run right to the phones and start off in League City with Judy. Hello, Judy, Hi, har are you? I'm well? I'm well, how can we help? Well? Last weekend I had called and you gave me some good

advice on planting new side. But I've been trying to find someplace near Lake City that sells high quality sandy loam with and I haven't been able to do that. Do you have any recommendations? Oh boy, I don't. I don't know off the top of my head who would have that down in the League City area. Well, I go ahead. I did call Moss Nursery and they have their own brand of what they sell to plant side, and it sounded like it was mainly sand and it had some other components in it,

and I'm just not sure about it. Well, is that by the bag that they're selling it? I think? So? Oh okay, okay, Well, how big is an area are you wanting to cover? Well? I have an area that I need to fill in that's kind of washed out. I need to build it back up, and I guess it's about twenty by ten, and then I have some other sporadic areas. Yeah. Well, I tell you that this is a little distance and you'd have to find a way to get it to you. But see an a mulch which

is due west of you, you're a little outside. I think they delivered twenty mile radius. But they have absolute top quality ballinds. I would not hesitate with anything they sell being a top quality. I've been out there looked at it a number of times. They deliver twenty miles. You might give them a call, and I'm sure they have suggestions like there's a you can hire this trucker to bring it to you or whatever. But if you're doing

it, if you're doing a yard, that's a lot. Yeah, you know you you need to be able to, you know, purchase cubic yards, many many cubic yards, depending on how big your yard is. Right right, I'd probably talk to Siena. I think I think that is where i'd begin. They may also if they if they just you know, you can't work something out there, they might be able to suggest some other source that they trust a little further east than they normally deliver. Okay, okay,

that sounds good. I'll do that. Yeah, yeah, that's okay. Are you still there? Yes? Oh, Okay, well, yeah, just just give them a call. I was trying to find the number right here and I can't a finger on it. If I if I find it in the second, I'll say it on the air. Okay, good to you all ready, thank you, Yes, yes, yes, now's the time. Take care of your trees before summer, the spring storms and

summer and all that get here. Trees need to be prune properly. And if they weren't prune properly a quality our brisk can come in and they can work on it to try to improve on the situation. But listen, when a butcher job is done by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about, you've ruined your trees and there they're never going to be what they could have been. Affordable tree service. They know what they're doing. Martin spoon Moore

has been doing this for a long time. He's got the experience and he's got the reputation in the industry. Don't just trust your long guy, some guy that sticks a business card in your mailbox, r on your door to take down a tree. Call Martin get on his list for a consultation. Consultation costs one hundred and fifty bucks because he can't run around just talking to everybody has a tree question. One hundred and fifty bucks to come out.

But if you end up hiring him to do work, you've already paid one hundred and fifty dollars toward that work. It just carries right over. You don't get charged additionally, only it goes toward whatever cost to whatever kind of level of services you're having him do. Affordable Tree is easy to get a hold of. The website is aff Tree Service dot com. Aff Tree Service

dot com. The phone number seven one three six twenty six sixty three seven one three six nine nine two six six three either Martin Or's wife Joe will answer the phone. That is how they run things around there, the owner themselves, They answer the phone and they work with you to make sure you have success without hesitation. I would recommend Affordable Tree Service for sure. We're going to go now out to James in Paarland. Hello James, good morning,

sir. How are you. I'm well, I'm well, what's up? Well? I had a question and my wife came in with her question, so I better ask hers first. That is a wise man. That is a wise man. So she had this beautiful dwarf red but tree that we lost in the freeze, and she wants to get another one, but she wants to put it in the container, and was wondering do they do well in the container? And what size containers did she put it in?

Well, we don't normally see them in containers. Uh. If as big a container as you could possibly put it in would be the way to start. They're just they're they. Any plant can be grown in a container, provided that it's given lots of soil for the container, a large container, and that you give it constant soul, moisture consistent. And what happens is in a container or a tree like a red bud, it's gonna pump that

sort of drop regularly, tree gets stressed and have problems with it. So in general I just don't recommend it, but it is possible to at least keep on going. Okay, that's good information. Uh. And the other question I have is in my guarden when I every year when I do my guard, about halfway through the season, I start to get these little I don't know, bugs or something on the plant. Do you recommend something to treat that to prevent that it's not gonna hurt the hardest or something that's you

know, organic in nature. I would need to see the bugs to know what to tell you. The answer is going to be yes. We have a lot of good options that are either organic or very very low tox synthetics that can be used. But I just need to see a picture of the pests. You can emo me a picture if you have one, and then I can direct you to the product that's going to work with the least toxicity. Well, that's one of the things is I don't really ever see them.

I just see where they're eating the plant, okay, and and are their little holes or what's the symptom looking? Yeah, they're a little holes all throughout. It kind of looks like Swiss tea, especially on like the cucumber and stuff like that. That we're going with that green leave, Okay, that's ninety percent of the time that's going to be a little beetle, a tiny beetle that is very shy, and you don't they don't want to come out when you see them. You get a product with spinosid if you

have a pen and spi sad spray the foliage with it. You're probably going to need to do it about once a week for a little while to break that cycle. But that we'll do it. And that's about as safe as you're going to get. Okay, And should you do that early on in the season as they start coming or the first sign of holes, go ahead and do it. Then you shouldn't have to be spraying it all season long. But okay, earlier you catch a problem, the easier it is,

with the least spraying to control it. All right. Well, yeah, once they start growing and it starts looking good, they know they're there, that's right. Well you made it. You plant a salad bar for them. Hey, James, thank you, Thank you for call very much and good luck. We're dealing with those. I appreciate that. While ago I was talking with I guess gud and we're looking at and tell them go to Cienamalts or give them a call. Here. Here's the here's the address.

F it's FM five twenty one just north of Roast Sharon, Texas. Here is the phone number for CENAMALTI ready, everybody ready to write this? Oh gosh, through the phone out there. Okay, I'm gonna have to come back to the phone. What's going on with me? Day? On this I set it on the wrong set it on the wrong spot. Ciena Multch on FM five twenty one, just north of Road scher And by the way. Next next week, on the thirtieth, I'm going to be there from ten am to two pm. Ten am to two pm. They're going to

have one heck of a shin dig It's called their spring Fling. They did this last year. I went to it. I love love going out to Ciena Malted number one. They got great products, but also they're just good folks. Good to get out there. And when they do a spring fling, they're going to have a food truck. I'll be given away a lot of different kinds of products and fertilizers and things. Here's the phone number. Finally got my hand on it. Two eight one four three one twenty one

thirty two eight one four to three one twenty one thirty. Just give them a call or go to the website Cienna multch dot com makes it really really easy. Let's see here. I have got to I'm gonna real quick. I'm gonna, yeah, don't have time to get these two calls. Jerry and Troy. I'm gonna have to hold you over to the next hour to be able to have the time to get to you. I just wanted to let you know that hang on just a second. You'll be the first up

when we come back. I'm going to go to a break here. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I want to remind you that I'm going to be at Siphier at the Home and Outdoor Living show today after the show. Now, that's at the Berry Center, free parking, free admission. Come see me. I'm going to be giving away some free Nilson plant food products. I'm going to be answering your gardening questions to give

a little bit of talk on success in spring gardening. We'll get you going on that and uh, if you have any questions, if you have any samples, bring me pictures, bring me the samples and wet plastic bag. We'll identify things, we'll diagnose things. We'll get you off to a good start. Katie r. H. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip Richard. It's so crazy trip. Just watch him as there

are so many good things to seep out. Crazy gas not a sign gas you welcome back to the garden Line. Welcome back. Good to have you with us today. What are you gonna talk about? If you have a question like some assistance having a more bountiful garden, more beautiful landscape, give me a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seven seven three two one two five eight seven four Airloom Soils is an expert at providing enhancements for

your soil so you can have success with your plants. It's as simple as that. Do you want to put in a vegetable garden. We'll give them a call. Tell them you need their veggie and herb mix. You can buy it by the bag, but you can also buy it by the bulk. They'll even deliver it. They can load it up and dump it on

the site. They can bring a supersack. What is that. It's a giant sack that holds a cubic yard of soil, in this case veggie and herb mix one hundred nineteen dollars in bulk and then of course there's a charge for delivery. You got to drive all over town carry and stuff. But that's a great deal, a really great deal, and it's a way to go from no garden to a garden. Heck, if you had the plants and seed ready by the end of the day, you can have a whole

nine yard set up and growing right there at your place. It is. It is easy to find airloom soils. They're widely available all over town. That's one of the reasons that they are so darn popular. You know, the stuff works, you can find it, It's easy to get. What more could you ask for? I mean, really, really, as simple as that. I've grown in airloom sols for a number of years now.

Every single one of their many options I have had success with. You can go to their website if you like, it's Airloomsoils dot Comloom or excuse me, airloomsls of Texas dot com. And if you want to go out to the porter location Warren Rock and Maltch Porter location out there, you can pick it up. But I would just say look around. If there is a garden center or an ace hardware store somewhere near you. A lot of feed

stores will carry airloom soils as well. Makes it really easy, really easy to get a hold of them and get the products that you need so that you can have success. And again airloomsols of Texas dot Com. Let's let's head out to friends with We're gonna talk to Jerry. Hello, Jerry, thanks for holding. Hey, s I'm will sir. How can I help Well? A southern magnolia in the front yard gets Western sewing all after every

day. It's got some spots on the leaves and they're sporadic throughout the tree, anywhere from an inch diameter to irregular shapes larger larger than that, and it's very dry. I've got a photo if you need one to send you. But when then what we got here are the spots kind of a silvery grayish color. Yes, okay, yes, those are algon. They'll call it algal leaf spots as in algae. When magnolia leaves get older, they're cast off. They're evergreen trees, but the leaves don't live year to year

to year. They have a lifespan and in spring typically when the new growth comes in, the old leaves will be cast off. That's when we notice a lot of things, those old leaves that have been that are being cast off. It's like the tree is I don't know, pulling back the resources about to kick them off, and we start to see a lot of problems. It is not a disease that is going to threaten your tree. Typically, it's going to be on the oldest foliage, not the young new growth.

And so we just ignore it, all right. So no, no really specific remedy for that. Just keep the tree healthy. Yeah, well, no, no, no worry about it. There are a number of different kinds of plants that as the tree leaves get a little older and are about to cast off, they'll do that. We see that on some live oaks as well, not the same parts. Welcome. That answers the question if the tree is not looking good, it's for some other reason. Let

me put it that way. Last summer's drought flat killed a lot of southern magnolias. Others had huge brown section and some others that are struggling. You just look at them and the branches look like they're missing a whole lot of leaves, and it's just because the plan is struggling, right, Yeah, Between the freeze and the drought. This tree did drop a lot of leaves, yes, and had their spots, but it's still coming back well.

Good. Just to make sure it, you know, when we go into summer and it gets hot and quick training, just a good soaking every week or two. Just a good soaking. Yeah right, it sounds like a winner. Hey, Jerry, thank you, thank you, you take care. Yeah, that is true. Ace hardware stores have a motto and it's ACE is the place. You know, ACE is the place for and then you fill in the blank, and I think just leaving it is as Aces the place is a good way to go because ACE is the place for whatever

you want to fill in. It's a place for the outdoor living and the different from barbecue pits, strings of lights to on and on and on. ACE is a place. Ace is a place for a green lawn. Do you need fertilizer? They got it. If you hear me talk about a fertilizer, ACE has it. It's as simple as that. ACE is a place for fire ant control. With this rain, I bet you're starting to see some mounds of dirt appearing in the yard. That's the fire ants trying

to get up out of the wet gouey soil. ACE is a place for baits and ACE is the place for mound treatments for fire ants. ACE is a place for mosquito repellence out in the yard. ACE is a place for hoses and tools and anything you need to have a beautiful, bountiful home, garden and landscape. It's a place for indoors. It's a place of course, it's a hardware store. You know what do we think plumbing, electrical bathroom fixtures, light fixture. Yes, it's the place for all that.

But ACE is a place for inside and outside the house to have success. Just go to ACE. You know, there's what forty Ace Hardware stores here in the Greater Houston area. You go to Acehardware dot com and look for the store locator. You can find the ones that are closest to you. Makes it really easy, makes it really easy to do. For example, ACE is a place for nitrofoss fertilizers. They have a wide selection of nitropos, things like the fifteen five to ten with trimec. That's the one that's

the spring green up fertilizer with a broadly weed control in it. So here's how it works. You put it down. First of all, you wet the leaves. Then you immediately spread nitrofoss fifteen five to ten with trimec and it sticks to the leaves and it soaks into the tissue of the weeds. It doesn't hurt your grass, it hurts the weeds and it soaks in. Give it about a day or two and then watered in to get that nutrient in your soil. And that that does it. You take care of the

existing that's the cool season weeds you're looking at. Now, where are you going to find that, Well, you're gonna find it at Bearings A both the Bisonet and the Westheimer Bearing Hardware locations. You're going to find an enchanted forest out there in Richmond Roguesenberg or for those of the upen Willis Growers outlet carries nitrophoss fifteen five to ten with trimec as well as other nitrofoss products. We're going to take a little break right now our phone number seven one three

two point two fifty eight seventy four. Well, we do have sunrise. Welcome back to garden line. It looks beautiful out there today. I hope you're planning on getting outside and getting some gardening done. This is definitely a time that you can have a great head start on the season, so don't

don't delay anymore. It's time to get out there and make sure everything you're wanting to accomplish is set up right in the gardens and that that starts by taking care of the soil, taking care of getting the right kinds of plants that you have. For example, Landscaper's Pride. Landscaper's Pride has twenty seven different bagged and bulk products available. That's a lot. If you want to find out more about them and where to get them, just go to a

lendscapers Pride dot com. Lendscaperspride dot com. They've been doing this for over twenty years now. They always are providing the local, top quality resources that you want. It's just as simple as that. For example, they've got the Premium Potting Soil. It's a compost rich potting soil based on Sphagnum. It's got. What it does is it provides the drainage that you need, but it also has the nutrients and they use color stars slowly fertilizer. It

will feed up to three months. So when you get the potting soil. You're already set up with the nutrient release over three months that it needs. It's got the pearlide in it to keep it open and make sure that it drains well. Pod dirt is their organic certified, the OMRI certified organic soil for short term high potency growth on flowering plants. You know when you put a swell on a pot and you get your plants and you want to grow

fast and bloom fast and bloom big soon. And it's packed with nutrients, it's got worm castings, it's got sanded ver mickelit and more. So. You can also use pot dirt on your annual color beds, both building in a bed and doing the seasonal color changes. You pull out your winter flowers, you get ready to plant your spring, mix in pot dirt. That's how that works. They have a wide variety of soils at Landscapers Pride and just go to Landscaperspride dot com and you can find out where to get them

near you. And that's not hard to do. Let's go out to Sueni now and talk to Aaron. Hello, aeron good morning. I got a tree question for you. About two weeks ago I planted five small live oak trees. They're probably just under two inch, pretty close to two inch diameter. Whenever I planted on I utilize some I think it was Furtilm root stimulator, which had a little bit of fertilizer in itestion is is when do everything I look at now is about the time of year to fertilize young oak trees

at the same time that he's just being put in the ground. I didn't know if that was too early, if I needed to wait a certain amount to ensure they were established first. No, it's not too early. You can go ahead and fertilize them now. That's just fine. Just I would I would either use a fertilizer that's designed for trees that you can find those out there in the market. I know nitroposs makes one that's designed four trees itself. But I often will use a good quality long fertilizer and just use

that around my trees. If you will take your thumb and look at how wide is that trunk. You know, if let's say it's the size of a coke can, well that'd be about three inches or three thumbs across. You would put three to six cups of fertilizer. So for each thumb across the trunk, one or two cups of fertilizer per thumb. Does that make it simple and easy? I know, I think so. And I'm assuming

that's just kind of around the drip line of the canopy. You take the total amount you're talking about and kind of distributed around the drip line, well evenly spread all through that area, So not just a not just a ring, but evenly spread all through the area. Got you? And then just one follow up question to that watering, especially with young trees like this they're

reading I've done. I found a little bit kind of all over the place of is it something that I need to do pretty regularly, or if we're getting a little bit of rain like we are now, kind of stay away from them. Is there what's kind of the recommendational that the best answer to that, Aaron, is to keep the sul moist. So if it was a sandy soil, that's more often than a clay. If it's summer,

that's more often than now. If you see what I'm saying, it just I could tell you put down this much or water for this long every this many days, but that would only be right at a certain time of the year in certain locations. Right, So what I you can kind of tell by looking at how things are doing. But if it hasn't rained, how long did you say these have been in? Just two weeks? Two weeks?

I would say this first summer probably per tree, give them about about five gallons of water, and I would do it a couple of times a week once the weather the heat comes. So let's say may I come May hot. You can water occasionally now, but once we get into hot weather, about five gallons a couple of times a week. Now, if you dig down with the trowel and the soil is monky wet, then back off. Don't water anymore. But in general, that's a rough guide for you.

Okay, Well, I'm at I think you've answered my questions exactly what I was looking for. I sure appreciate it, all right, sir. Good luck with those trees. I do wish you well. By the way, when you put a new tree in, I should have mentioned this when it had aaron on the phone. You need to consider the three sixty tree stabilizer device. That think of it as a stiff arm that on one side

grabs the stake and on the other side grabs the tree. It's designed so that it fits perfectly on a t post if you want to drive one of those in, or you can put it over a fence post. I mean, it'll go either way. The side that holds a tree has a soft rubber strap and you can set it a little loose because you want the tree to move. That's important. Movement strengthens the trunk. So when you're talking about young trees that they are just planted and the wind's blowing and they're wiggling

around, that three sixty tree stabilizer will work really well for you. You can get them down at Jorges Hidden Gardens and Alvin, which isn't too terribly far away for Warren to head down to. I know, it's a little bit of a drive down the road there. They have them there. Southwest Fertilizer up in Southwest Houston, RCW, buchanans Arburgate plants for all seasons. All these places carry the three sixty tree stabilizer. Once you buy it,

it's gonna be good. It's gonna work well for you for many years. So anytime you want to plant a tree, you don't loan. It's a friend that's got one a new tree and needs some stabilization. That tree stabilizer will do the trick. You don't trip over wires. You don't have to worry about buying what fifty feet a wire and all the little sect cutting hoses and sections to go around the branch so the wire doesn't cut the branch. Just do a three sixty tree stabilizer. It makes it really, really easy

to do. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm going to head out to Spring Branch now and talk to Herda. Well, Hello, Herda, good morning. How are you doing. I'm doing well. It's good to hear from you. What's up today? Thank you? Well? I have a large chefeal error in the front and I wondered if I took one of the tips of it, maybe cut it back. Oh, I don't know, maybe a foot or more? Uh huh, and pot it are? Yeah, I think i'd put it

in a pot first, And will that live? Will that make another cheffleeer? All right, well, Herd, I need you to turn the radio down the background. We're getting a little interference there, but you can read a scheffler from cuttings. That's okay, But what I would recommend you do is something called an air layer and what you can go online and find out how to do it, but here's basically what you do. You get your bread wrapper, any kind of clear plastic that's that's soft, like a bread

wrapper. You get a double handful of potting soil or sphagnum moss, and you press it around the stem and wrap it above and below with that wrapper, so you've created a little plastic container that you have a twist tie or something above and a twist tie something below, and the plant will root into that area since it's outside. Take a little aluminum foil and wrap it around it so the sunlight doesn't shine in there, and overheat that soil like sunshine

through something clear will and just keep the soil moist. Check it over, oh every week or so. It's probably gonna be about two or three weeks, and you'll see some roots in there. That's when it's starting to pump the water dry faster. Once you've got roots, you can cut it off from the mother plant and you're potting up a plant. That's not just a cutting, but it already has a root start and it'll be much more successful, all right, But I just put that around the stem. Yes,

I don't cut it at all. Right, break off a couple of their leaves in the way, break them off and put it around the stem there with the cheff laar you. Sometimes they'll take a little knife and poke it in and wound the plant a little bit. But I don't think that's necessary with the schiff fla. But you can go look it up. There's a lot more instructions, but it basically is a wad of potting soil or sphagnum moss, wrapped in clear plastic and kept moist and with a little foil over

it to keep the sun out. All right, thank you very much, you too, thank you for the call. And good luck with that. Good luck with that. I was talking about arcie W Nursery earlier today. I don't know if you realize this, but ARCW has over two hundred varieties of roses. Over two hundred varieties of roses, you will see. I was looking at some some of their roses, and they have the kind that are like white and red. They look like peppermint candy. They've got that

kind of pattern in kind of a coral orange, tangerine looking roses. I mean, just use your imagination. RCW has two hundreds, so there's a lot of types. They are a great place to get trees too, And now's the time to plant trees. By the way, hurry up and get them in for the summer. Gets here RCW nurseries dot com. That's the website, RCW nurseries dot com. They are at Tomball Parkway, which is Highway two forty nine and belt Way eight, so it's really easy to get

to them. And when you're there, you're going to find all the fertilizers that I talk about here and all the products that you need to plant that rose or tree or whatever you purchase from them to have success from planting right at the first of the whole nine yards. You know you want to get that plant established well. So RCW will sell you things like a microlife fertilizer to put in there and take care of it. They'll sell you some root

activator to put in. They even have a little handy handout sheet that tells you how much to use and when to use. It makes it real easy, makes it kind of fool proof. You're listening to Guardenline. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. If you are wanting to do an early greenup on your lawn, you want something that's going to get those nutrients out there right away and get that lawn off to a good start. Well,

nitrofoss Imperial is what you need. It's a it's a red bag, a red bag, nitrofos Imperial. It's got three numbers fifteen, five ten. Why those three because years ago research in soul science at Texas A and M and other Southern universities found that a three one two ratio is the ideal ratio for grass plants to take up. And when nitrofoss imperial, you're getting a quick release, so you get that early greenup. That's what you're going

for. You want things to green up even before it's warm enough for the grass to grow fast. The early greenup will provide that green color. Where you're going to get that. Where you're going to get it at Katie Ace Hardware down in Katie that's on Pinoak Street, by the way. For those of you have been there. Ace Hardware a memorial Drive is going to have that. They call it Ace Hardware City, a Memorial Drive is going to have it. Stanton's Hardware down in Alvin they're going to have it as well.

It's easy to find that, not difficult at all. I just I'm going to take a little break here for the Nikky and the news. I just want to remind you today I'll be at the scy Fair Home and Garden Show sy Fair at the Berry Center on Barker Cypress Road. They're given free parking, They're giving free admission. Bring me samples, bring me pictures. Let's talk about what's wrong with your plants, or just talk about, Hey, here's this area over here. What would you plant in this area for

color or to make it look a little bit better. I'll there, I answer your gardening questions, give a little bit of talk. It's time for Nicky and the news. Our phone number seven one three two one two K t r H. I'll be right back. Welcome back to the garden line. There's a lot going on there in that song. Uh, we are glad to have you back. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one, three, two, one, two, five, eight seven four. Hey, well, was the last time

you were at Arburgate? Have you seen the new parking lot? Oh my gosh, it is the coolest thing ever. You just turned down. There's a little road called Trishel Road and it no matter which way you're coming at Arburgate, which is out on twenty nine to twenty west to Tombull, whichever way you're coming from easter or west, Trisher Road leaves twenty nine twenty and goes around behind Arburgate and then comes back into twenty nine twenty. So if

you didn't see it and you're passing Arburgate, just keep watching. It's on the arbor Gate side of course of twenty nine to twenty and you just turn there and go in the back parking lot. It is all weather. I don't care if it rains whatever. It's one of those parking lots that takes the water in and it drains through the lot and it's just a really cool technology that does that with these little pavers and the gravel and stuff in between

it. But you walk across it, it's a nice firm surface no matter how much it rains. Now, when you get to Arburgate. You know what you're gonna find. You're gonna find every kind of plant that you can imagine, including a lot you never even heard of that you need to try.

You're going to find people that know what they're talking about. Beverly and Kennon and the whole crew out there at Arburgate very knowledgeable, and their goal is to help you have success because they know that when you have success, you're gonna come back and you're gonna get more. Because Arbrogate is always it's like the trucks are coming in all the time bringing a whole new shipment. They have fruit trees year round. They have vegetables, they have herbs,

they have flowers, they have unbelievable garden blaying. I mean, you can turn your place into just whatever you dream. At Arburgate. They have the soil, they have the fertilizer. They have the one, two, three, completely simple easy system. It's a fertilizer, it is a compost, and it is a soil and all three are specifically designed for our gooey,

messy Houston black clays. Now you can use them in sand or anything else, but they are absolutely organic food, soil and compost for success at Arburgate, which is just west of Tomball. If you haven't been there before, you really need to go. In fact, i'd suggest to go ahead and go this afternoon because it's going to be a great day for that. Let's go out to Annawhak and we're going to talk to Gerald. Hello, Gerald, good morning, morning. Question. I've planted a three or four of

Florida King peaches last year and they're doing great. So I was wondering about the fungicide I need to put on them, and also when it starts for insects. If you planted them last year, we're not looking at a crop this year, really, and so you don't have to worry about treating for brown rot. There's really not a fungal disease that I would worry about on Florida King. Now, there are, there are a few things that can attack, but it's never It's not the kind of thing like every year you

gotta spray your peaches for these. But once you start producing then brown rot which decays the fruit, that would be something you might want to want to have something on hand to spray for. What was the other half the question? Can you remind me? Well the other thing is on my keyfer pears. You know, they bloomed a lot. They're only a two year old tree. They had a lot of balloons on them, but I didn't get very meany pears that actually the yield was pretty low. Yeah, yeah,

that the tree is just making sure it doesn't overload itself. And that's fine. By the fourth the year, your keepers should be producing very well. You'll get some more fruit this year than you did last year. Keeper's a good, old tough pair. It can put up with the issues we have with pairs here pretty well. All Right, The last last real quick question the Florida King believes or not. I've got one tree that must have twenty to twenty five peaches, and yeah it's I have a really really sandy loamy

soil. It's unreal, it's so much sand. But so they're really doing good. And that's why I was wondered, do I do I need to consider a fungicide for that tree or well, in that case you could, I would watch them and see how they're how they're doing. I don't like to just go out and spray because because it's time to spray, and especially something you're going to be eating like that. But it may be that you

want. If you're going to do that, the tree as the fruit on that tree gets to be, and it may or if it's a if it's that variety that's a pretty early one, it may already be golf ball sized fruit. What what what does that look like? Yeah, not quite that big, but that size. Yeah. So I would say probably in the next about two or three weeks from now, you definitely want to spray it once or twice about a week apart. Just the closer it gets to harvest,

the more the brown rot will attack. The little tiny hard green pear or peaches is not going to be bothered much by it. Okay, great, thank you very much. Let me let me offer one more thing about the Kiefer the Keifer. Generally with pears, we like a second variety for cross pollination. Keifer will do it okay without cross pollination, but in general having a second variety around is always good. Keifer's kind of somewhat the exception

to the rule there. What other brand would you recommend to put in there besides Keifer. Well, Keifer is a very hard, more of a canning pair, kind of a we say, gritty pairs have two types of cells in the fruit. There's a soft cell and then there's a they called it a grit cell. I like just eating them, and a lot of people do like they are, but they don't get soft and buttery like a bartlet pear you buy in the store would be. There are a number of good

varieties if you let's see you are out there in anaway. If if you can find one called Warrens, that's pretty good. If you can find one called tin te n n As in Tennessee that that one is pretty good. Let's see what else would be out there. And I'll tell you what. Let me do this. If you will go online to the Aggie Horticulture website Aggie Horticulture. You can find it with the Google search. There is a fruit section, and there is a whole publication free multicolor publication on pear trees.

And I'll tell you everything you want to know about pruning them, about the issues that they have, and about the varieties and things. I would look at that and they'll give you some more suggestions on there. Okay, wonderful, all right, thank you very much. All right, you take care. Thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much. Do you have some containers that you want to grow things, then maybe you want to grow herbs. Herbs are great in containers. By the way, Do

you want to grow some fruit, I mean fruit vegetable plants. Yesterday I planted two Jalopenia peppers and containers. Jungle land. That's what you need to know. Jungle land. That is jungle land, flour and vegetable planting soil. It drains well, but it holds moisture, it holds nutrients well. And whether you're planning flowers and you just want to set them on fire with color, or whether you're planning vegetables and you want it to be bountiful and

fruitful, jungle land flower and vegetables what you need. Also, they have the indoor jungle land water saving putting salts, got the low crystals in it that allow it to absorb and hold water. So after the soil part, if you will, is drying out, you still have those crystals that are holding water to carry a little further. You can find it jungle land up in shades of Texas, up in the woodlands. You're going to find it

at the number of places like Stanton Shopping Center down in Alvin. Enchanted Gardens out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area also has the jungle land products. It makes them real easy to find, not difficult at all. I am a little short on time to take the next call, so Helen and Lil you'll be the first two up when we come back. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two kt r H. Welcome back to garden Line.

Good to have you with us today. Hey, for those of you out in the Kingwood area, you know you've got Wars and Kingwood Garden Center out there right and they always have a stock of everything you need. The Bougainvillia selection is stunning. It is just a riot of color out there. And do you know this that garden center dropped their prices. They have dropped them down to a really cool low level. You need to check it out. I mean it is you get a lot more for your gardening dollar.

I'll tell you that for sure. They've got new house plants that have just come in. They've got a full stock now of vegetables and herbs. Again, you guys clean them out and they restock. They're ready to go. By the way, if you're going to plant a lot of vegetables. For example, you get a discounted price when you buy a flat of eighteen plants, but you don't have to buy eighteen tomatoes. You can mix and match any vegetables you have, but go ahead and buy a flat of eighteen and

it's just an additional discount on that. They've got Hollywood hibiscus in Manda Villa's just all kinds of hanging baskets that are absolutely stunning. And kalladiums. Yes here we are summer, warm season shade color that equals kalladiums. That's the plant you need. One's Garden Center, Kingwood Garden Center, both great places to go out there and visit. We're going to head out now to Alvin

and talk to Helen. Hello, Helen, good morning. I live here across the Alven High School, and ever since they paved the road, I've been flooding. Naturally, got it day before yesterday. So I built a like a flyer box across all nearly two hundred feet of frontage, and I've had boxwood there, but then I had trees grow up, and then anyway, we've had a pull. I would like to know what I can put there that will be evergreen and not freeze. I'd like to put in Laura

pedalum, but I don't see that our Laura pedalum blooms. I just came from Louisiana and their bushes of Laura pedlum were just full of little flowers. Really did look nice and it was the right color. But I from several people, I do not get good advice about Laura peddlum. They do bloom here, they do. They absolutely the right, Yeah, they do. And they come in different sizes. You can buy some that are more compact, a little bit more compact, you can buy something to get a little

taller. The standard Laura pedlum gets quite large over time. Something that would be nice. It would give you some color. Generally, I think of Laura peddlum as something that has a little break from the sun during part of the day. It doesn't have to though, aslutely I know this would have continuously. How about a southern wax myrtle. If you've got an area that can tend to get on the wet side, which is kind of what's happening

there now that they built the road. Southern wax myrtle is very tolerant of soggy conditions, and you can hedge it to make a very dense wall of foliage if you don't want to see the road or a little bit of a soundblock of it. But that southern wax myrtle would do really well. There Another plant that would do well if it's really wet is button bush. That makes a very large plant. And it's not evergreen though. Button bush. Yes, but button bush. You said you want it evergreen. It's not

evergreen. Oh no, it there has to be evergreen. Yes. I have holly in front of the bedroom, right in the front, okay, and it's very hardy, but you know, with people walking by from the high school. I don't want the thorns because it is dangerous even you know when we mow and so forth. Sure, lugly, but I just don't think that would be the right thing to go right up against the sidewalk. All right, Well, that I think I would go with the I'd go

the Southern Marx myrtle and just sare it to have better density. That's true of any shrub you plant there. What's the opinion on Laura Peddlum. I think Laura, pedlum would be okay, as long as it's not too soggy wet in the soil. If that's going to be an ongoing issue, I don't know. I don't lor pedlum is not going to want to be in a swampy condition. No, I have to water it personally to get it

wet. Okay, Well, then it would be fine. Just make sure you know that it's it's got a good a forest floor soil meaning lots of compost mixed into the bed, a real rich soil. Put a good mulch over the surface to keep the weeds away and everything, and then fertilize it gradually over time to get it to grow. Okay, And you mentioned jungle Land from Stantons for my containers. Yes, jungle Land was the one I

mentioned a minute ago. Okay, I'm just not familiar with that. Yeah, it's just all of the boys, the boys, Okay, Yeah, yeah, jungle Land is a Nitrofis distributed product, and so they'll they'll have it. Okay. I appreciate it, Thank you, Helen. Appreciate that call. Take care. Appreciate that very much. You know, our landscapes are really trying to recover right now. And your lawn it's been through heck last summer and now here comes spring and it's ready to grow and you won't

take care of it. And one of the best things we can do for our lawns when we have a compacted clay type soil, which we have a lot of people do, is to air rate and to do a compost top dressing. And when you air rate that punt you want to aerator. You need somebody professional who knows what they're doing, and that's green Pro. Green Pro has a kind of equipment that'll pop those little cores of soil out of the ground. It gets down deep enough to do that, provide aeration for

the root system and organic matter falls into that. Now green Pro will also come out and they will compost top dress with a fine textured, high quality compost. A lot of it will fall in the holes. So as you do this, you're improving the soil, which improves the plant success. It's as simple as that. Rather than having to reside your whole lawn is struggling along and not doing well, this is an investment to do. Have green

Pro come out and do aeration and compost top dressing. But it is an investment, a lot less expensive than sodding, for sure, and it'll help. They work about forty five miles forty five minutes away from the Magnolia area. So if you're in Cyprus or the Woodlands, if you're up in Conroe or Willis, or in Spring or out west toward Katie, West Houston, or maybe Central and North Houston, that's the area that greenpro covers. Just go to the website greenpro dot net, greenpro dot net. We're going to

go out to Katie. Now we're going to talk to Lil Hello, Lil good morning, Kif. Sorry, my spring allergies have really sprung up so rather wharse. I've got a number of issues going on. I've been trying to follow your advice and take care of the brown stuff first, and as everyone in Houston, we've had a ton of acorns that have dropped. Now I'm getting the beards, which is wonderful because i know it's almost over.

And I've been raking the lawn, taking off the acorns, removing them off the lawn in this area where the two giant oak trees laid out all these acorns. I also developed a little bit of a lot of the take all patch. Okay, So my yard is trying to recover and I'm scheduled to have areation done on Monday by professional good It's which is great, and we want to mow the lawn and break up. We want to follow your advice

first. Okay, Well, if you go ahead and get the aeration done, if you know you have take all, if that's been confirmed, you probably need to go ahead with a fungicide to treat it and to make it fast and easy for you as my time, as we're in a little short this hour, if you will go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com the lawn pest disease and weed management schedules there and it tells you exactly what times of the year to treat for take all root

rot, and then it gives you the fungicides that I would recommend by ingredients. Okay, so go ahead and doay, go ahead and do that treatment. Now. The most important treatment is going to be this October. You want to put the takeoff treatment on again in October, but go ahead and get it okay. Now, okay, well it's already done. How tall should we mow the lawn before the areation, no specific height. The taller your lawn is, the deeper rooted it is, and the better chance it

has to collect sunlight and develop good strength. So don't mow too short if you can short, is it Saint Augustine? Right? Yes it is. Should I use the clipping patcher or not? No, no return the clippings. That's organic matter that covers the surface too. If you can set that mowar at about three inches high, that would be pretty good for Saint Augustine. It can go a little a little higher in the shape. All right, I hear the I got to run, Sorry to have to run on

you there. You've been listening to guard Line. Wow, this hour went back too fast. Holy cow, it's already nine o'clock. At ten o'clock, this show's over, and I'm gonna jump in the car and head up to Cyprus, Texas to the Home and Garden Show, the SCIFAI Home and Garden Show. They have free parking, they have free admission. How do you beat that. I'll be there, given a talk. I will be there answering your gardening questions. Bring some samples, all of you that listen

anywhere up in that area. Let's just say the Northwest region. Come on out to Cipher Home and Garden Show. Bring me some pictures and bring samples and bags. We'll take a look at them, we'll diagnose them. I'm gonna be given away Nelson plant food free samples out there, so you definitely want to show up so you may be one of the lucky ones to receive one of those Nelson plant food samples. KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse

any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip directors just watching as the world God, there are so many good tastes. Welcome back to the Garden Line on a beautiful Saturday, a great day for gardening, a great day to get out and get some soil building products and get some plants to be able to enhance your gardens and your

landscapes. You know, it's it's real easy to take care of your lawn when you got products from nitrofoss available like Superturf super Turf, it's a no brainer. It's a slow release fertilizer. It's going to gradually feed your lawn over the next three months and it's got a great blend of nutrients and that nitrogen in there. Due to the chemistries of how it's designed, microbes get in, they release the nitrogen overtime, warm moist soil. It just keeps

releasing and it just feeds and feeds. That is the easy one too to pick out in the store because it's a silver bag, the silver bag nitrofoss superturf for your lawn. You're gonna have success with it. All it takes is about five pounds per thousand square feet as a good rate to put that out. You can put a little heavier if you want, but you just get it out there, get it on the ground, let it start releasing, and it gradually feeds your lawn like your lawn feeds or like it eats.

If you will gradually a little every day, that's nitrophos super turf does just that. I'm going to head out and now to the woodlands and talk to Bill. Hello Bill, Hello, Skip, good morning, Good morning. Hey. I'm just trying to determine if the adage better late than never applies. I know you're typically supposed to cut back the Craig Myrtles on Valentine's Day around that time, and I have not done it yet, and it's already got some leaves on it, and just trying to decide should I go

ahead and still do it or waste till next year. Yes, you can do that, go ahead and get it done a sap. Any pruning you need to do, don't do the butcher job everybody else does. Just cut a branch back to where it joins another side branch and you can you can lower the height of them that way without stubbing everything off like like okay, So even if it has the leaves on it the size of the walnuts, it's good to go, like I find to go. It's better if you

didn't, I guess I should say. I'll say it's okay to print now if you promise next year to print in the winter time. It is not. It's not going to kill your plant at all. It's just better to have it use that stored energy that it just used to push out those leaves to have it, yeah, not have that removed and now it has to do it again, but it'll be okay, okay, great. And the one last thing. The branches are real spindly, like thin is that normal.

It can be, especially under low light conditions, and some varieties the growth habit can vary between great myrtle varieties a little bit, but little twiggy stuff we usually trim away, especially the stuff smaller than a pencil, you know, if it's down in and among the plant, just preen that all out. But all right, sir, thank you, good luck with that.

Appreciate it, thank you, you bet, you bet. I was at Buchanan's Nursery, which is on eleven Street in the Heights, so those who haven't been there, and by the way, for those of you who haven't been there, you gotta go Buchanans, I said, Buchanan's Nursery. It's really called Buchan's Native Plants because that is the big thing that they do

that they focus on. That you can find native plants you're not gonna find anywhere else, like Kella loafus, which is sun drops, very low growing native perennial plant, buttery yellow blooms from spring into summer, very drought resistant, takes full sun, does not it only gets less than a foot high. Just a beautiful plant. But that's just an example. I mean,

Buchanans has a wide variety of other plants. By the way, Easter Egg Hunt is next Saturday the thirtieth at eight thirty am for kids ten and under. Now they're going to card this kid. Don't try to bring don't you go and say you're a kid at heart and expect to be part of the Easter egg hu. It's for kids ten and under Saturday the thirtieth, eight thirty am. They always have a good time with that is that is a

big event there. They've got boogainvillias and Mendovilla's in. If you've never grown a mandevilla and you want tropic color and beauty and red and white and pink on your patio or wherever they'll get you set up, you gotta try the Mandevilla's there gorgeous and of course things like jungle Jack's plumeria. Another reason to go to Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights area on Eleventh Street, easy to find. We're going to run now out to Randy in League City. Hello

Randy. All right, Hey, I have some potted pepper plants and I'm using spinosad to prevent leaf miners. Okay, but one thing I've noticed when I spray the spinosad on it, it tends to beat up and run off. Should I add a surfactant to the spino sad? And will it, you know, dilute the spino sad? No, theurfactant won't dilute it. You follow the label. Spinocid still gets mixed at the same rate per gallon

as does the surfactant. And yes, that will help it stick a little bit better, which is important if you want to try to control those Yeah, it seems to beat right off when I spray it. Yeah, pepper is a little bit of a glossy leaf. But yeah, put a little surfactan in there. That'll be an extra benefit. Anyone you recommend now, they're all pretty good. I mean people use everything. Surfactants basically amount to

like a few drops the dish soap. I mean they instead of the water standing up in a little like a ball or on the leaf and then rolling off, it flattens it out so you get better coverage and better sticking. And the same reason we put a soap with which is a surfactant, on our hands to get rid of grease is the same reason that you would use it on those plants to make it stick to the leaf better. Okay, thanks all right, Randy, good luck with that. Just remember half the

peppers you produce. We would love to have you drop off here at the station. That's all we ask. I mean, is that too much to ask? Free advice? Just half your produce sounds like? Sounds reasonable to me? Yes, it would to me. I'm getting the peppers. Nature's very resources. I'll just say they are the grandfather of soil products, quality soil products. Why do I mean that? Because John Ferguson years ago invented rose soil, invented leaf more compost. He knows how to do it.

He's a soil scientist, really is. And John knows how to create the quality compost for every need that you might have. Just go tell them, hey, I'm gonna grow blueberries or azaleas, or I'm gonna grow you know, herbs and vegetables or fly what do I need? Well, he'll get you fixed up with that. That is what they do. John and Ian have really continued to just grow that place. The roses are about to bust out into blooms. They have an excellent supply of leaf mold composts. They

make a very finely screened leaf mold compost. You put it over your lawn, you water it in and it helps protect the lawn. It does a number of things. Number one, it's biologically very active, and so you create a plant's surface with a lot of good microbes where it's difficult for a bad microbe like a brown patch, for example, funga to get established and to do the damage that they do. The product's not a fung aside.

It just out popped with good microbes. That is what Leithmoal compos does, and John makes it, and he makes a thousand different composts, I mean, really really lots of products. We're talking about things in bags that you can buy at a store and take home, or buy there and take home. We're talking about bulk that they can deliver or you can go get out a Nature's Way which is on Highway forty five north almost conro Up forty five on the right hand side. Phone number. You need to write this down

nine three six three two one sixty nine to ninety. I'll be right back. Two things that money can't buy true love and home grown tomatoes. That is foresure. Hey, if you're planting tomatoes, if you're planting rose, bushes, flowers, herbs, anything has to grow six twelve six. By Medina has to grow six twelve six. I use it myself always when I'm transplanting. Now you can use it as folier feed. You can use it

when a plant has been established for a while, that's fine. But a new plant in the ground, you got to get those roots going into the ground established so the plant can take off running. And I'll mix up the has to grow. Put it in a watering can. Water the new transplant in, do it again a week later, and again a week after that. That three three times over a period of two weeks has to grow six twelve six. We'll get that plant off to a good start. It's got

a lot of biological activity. It's got Medina soil activator, it's got humic acid, and it's got seaweed extracts, all the things that are going to help that root system get established. Medina has to grow widely available like all Medina products, and I wouldn't consider transplanting without a nice concoction of the Medina has to grow to get them off to a good start. We're gonna go

out to Kingwood now and we're going to talk to Bob. Hello, Bob Hello, My question is I got a raised garden bed I put together. It's one of those metal one skip that's yes, seventeen inches high, six foot long and two foot while okay, and so it's got an open bottom. Obviously it's a metal one I screwed together. So I have some Miracle Grow garden soil with compost costco hat on seal. Actually, let me back

up. That is about eighteen cubic feet that raised garden bed. And so then I have some of this stuff called or Beyond Pete Biofiber Professional Organics. So that stuff I already bought, but I ain't put the dirt in yet. So and then I even bought two bags of sand. So I just mentioned what I got. You tell me what I should do, and if I have to return any of that other stuff well which I put in there.

You know, if I were buying from scratch, i'd probably get a different product, like airlom soils Veggie and herb Blend is a really good one for that. What's that again, airloom soil Veggie and herb Blend. Veggie and herb Blend, that is a good one. For vegetables you can make at work with the stuff you have. I realize that's a lot of stuff to haul back, you know, and return. So I don't want to tell you have to go do that. But if you choose, I'm stubborn,

I wouldn't I wouldn't do I wouldn't mind doing it. I'm stubborn. Well, I like our local soils with people that we know that are making here locally, and so I don't know what's in some of the bags of this other stuff, and so that that's kind of what I'm saying. I'm not telling you you can't grow plants in it. Of course, that heirloom is that in bags? Are you talking going to a store, I mean a landscaping place and killing up big well, either one. Either one.

But the soil yard is in Porter, so it's just down the street from you and for you to get they could bring and dump some off, you know, in your driveway and you could shovel it around, or you could just go get a bunch of bags. But heirlooms sold in garden centers everywhere. So what's that place in Porter? What's the name of that one? Warren's Rock and mult it's on the right hand side as you exit going in.

I know them, yeah, warrant. Well I got stuff down those places before, and I'm thinking, well, you know there's going to be dead rats, tires and old trees in that stuff. You know, never, never in airloom soils will you have that kind of stuff. This is a high quality operation. I've been there myself. I've worked with them, talked to them for years. They don't do that. They the Veggiane nerd mix, whether you buy bulk or in bags, is going to be a good one. Okay. Now if I do go with the AIRLM, go

ahead, walk me through the layers. Put sand down first, kill the grass. What's underneath there first? Right? What kind of grass do you have? Saint Augustine. Well, there's a little bit of Saint Augustine back here, so can I just choke that out? Or you don't need to do anything. Saint Augustine. If you covered up with about even four to six inches of material, it's going to die underneath there. Okay, it would come through, so I would ignore. Just lay the bed, set

the bed down on the grass. Don't even worry about killing the grass, and don't mix anything. That is why the Veggie nerd mix is already mixed and made to be the only thing you put in that bed. It's all you need. You do not need sand. No pete, no pete, pete. Veggie and Orbis has better organic material than pete. Well, after talking to you, I might just take all that stuff back. I mean a big deal. Well, that's your yard. I'll leave you up.

I'll leave that up to you. But yeah, just make sure when you put it in there, you mound it up. I'll tell you what, do you have a pin or pencil handy? I'm right. All the stuff that we'rek fro go to the website Heirloom Soils of Texas dot com. There is a calculator there that will allow you to know exactly how much you need.

And I would give it enough to mound it up a little higher because any kind of a fresh new soil is going to settle, any kind is going to settle after you first put it in, So just have some extra on hand to top it off. Heirloom Soils of Texas website dot com. Look for that. Hey, real quick, if if I did chicking out and not do that, if I did decide to go with what I had, the Miracle Grow compost, and then I have stuff called just just for

It kicks biofiber professional organics. It's called Beyond Peak. You hear that. I don't know that product it's gonna be. There's several different things that could be coconut core. They also make a product where they take manure slurries like cattle manure, and they spin it out to get all the little fiber portions out of it, and they make a material out of that. I don't know that particular product, doesn't matter. Just mix them all together and that

would be another option. But go ahead, mixed that, mixed that Beyond Pete with that Miracle Grow and you could you could. I just you're talking about a concoction there that I don't know what is in all of those things, so it got rather than you know. I don't know how to advise you past that, but I do appreciate the call, and thank you very much in good luck getting that garden set up. I appreciate that you would

call about that. If you're dealing with weeds in your lawn, the reason you have them is because the long got thin last summer the heat and the drought denned out the lawn and sunlight hits the soil and here comes the weeds. Weed's eat are in your lawns. They're out there. They just don't have a chance to get started until they get some good sunlight. Barricade shuts that down. If you're going to do it, you don't want to delay any longer. It's warming up and warm season, weeds are going to be

germinating. You put the barricade down at the label rate. It doesn't take much. A ten pound bag will cover up to five thousand square feet about a third of an inch of water just to move the barricade down to the soil, and that's where it goes to work. And after it is in the soil, we call that incorporating it into the soil. After it's in the soil, a weed tries to germinate and it just can't get started. Barricade is available everywhere you find the products from Nitropos, which is everwhere,

right, So where do you find it? Well, how about going to Ashar where it's single ranch. How about heading out to taske asda Ace, how about going to Gym's Hardware I'm up up in Montgomery. All of those are going to carry this product. Makes it real, easy to find, easy to use, works well. Does it does its job? This wet conditions is causing our black clay soils to expand that's what clay soils, especially our Houston black clay does. Now what happens when it gets dry? It

shrinks. That's why you get those giant cracks. What does that do to a driveway? What does that do to a sidewalk? What does that do to a home foundation? I think you know the answer. You want somebody that knows what they're doing to come in and to assess it right, so they don't say something you don't need. Secondly to fix it right. And in the middle there I should say and be on time. That's fixed my slab. Ty Strickland with fix my slab. They show up on time,

they give you a fair price, and they fix it right. You can go to the website fix myslab dot com, fix myslab dot com, or you can call him two eight one two five five forty nine forty nine. Listen, if you got cracks in the brick on the outside, if you got splits in the sheet rock, cracks in the sheet rock on the inside, if you got a door that's sticking, those are all signs that something has shifted and you need to have them come out and take a look.

If you tell them you're a guardenline listener, the estimate that they do is for free. They don't charge you for that. But I'm telling you this. I've sat down at length and talked to Ty and grilled him on all the questions I had about foundation repair, and I was very impressed with the knowledge and having been around in the business now twenty three years, he's seen a foundation or two and he knows how to do it. He's a native,

he's Stonian. He's a fifth generation Texan. Ty Strickland. To fix my slab foundation repair, just go to the website fix myslab dot com or call him two eight one two FI five forty nine forty nine. They will get it you set up. I was talking earlier to someone who was telling me they'd heard me talk about jungle land potting soil. Well, what is that. Well, it's two things. It's the indoor soil which contains crystals

that hold water. It's a little polymer type crystal and as the soil dries out, that crystal hangs onto water better and the roots will grow right up against those crystals and they can draw from that water. When you forget the water. I know you never forget that, but some people do. But when you forget, it makes it more forgiving on the outside. Jungle Land flour and vegetable potting soil. Flour and vegetable potting soil that works on anything.

It should say flowers and vegetables and herbs, and you name it. If you want a boost of color, if you want to boost the productivity of your vegetable plants, jungle land will do just that. Now, where do you buy jungle land. You buy it Shades of Texas up in the Woodlands. You can buy it in chinned Gardens. Down in the Richmond Rosenberg.

You can buy it at either of the Fishers Hardware Southeastern or Report ones on Southmore Ones on Broadway Street. Fisher's Hardware they carry jungle land as well. Makes it easy easy to find and the stuff works. That is important. You know. I do talk about brown stuff before green stuff all the time because it does matter. It matters that you get the soil right, whether it's soil and a container or soil in a planting bed. You get that right, and it may every I think you have a green thumb.

And what you really did is you gave those plant roots what they want to grow and to thrive. That is an important important thing to remember. When was the last time that you were out at Nelson Water Garden? Nelson Water Gardens out there in Katie, boil Boy, now there. Water gardens is a specialty. I mean, do you want a coy pond? Do you want any kinds of exotic I can't even say it, lily pads? Thank you, Nikki. I need to remember the beautiful flowers, the tropical types,

the types that are cold hardy. They have those two. They've got the fish like koy and shabunkin. They've got a garden center. So do you want herbs? I bought herbs are one time. They got all kinds of plants there and the most my favorite thing there are the waterfalls and the disappearing fountains that come out of a container and you just go and see them. They are at in Katie. You go out to Katie, you go north on Katie Fort Ben Road, just a stones throwaway. You really need

to go. This is a showplace, this is a destination. It is so inspirational. Look at the water that they have at Nelson Water Gardens, look at the features. Wow. All I can say is wow. Well, I'm gonna turn it over to Nicky, who is going to give you some news that'll make you say wow. Is that it or oh my goodness, Oh my goodness. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardline.

Good to have you with us today. This is the time of year when we get our lawns set up for success this summer, and that starts with a quality fertilizer. And that would be, for example, a Microlife green bag that's a six two four. Microlife has a lot of fertilizers, but the example of the green bag is the one I think that would do the best for your lawn. The six percent nightgen, four percent phosphorus and excuse

me, let me try that again. Six percent nitrogen, two percent phosphorus, four percent potassium is a good start to get that lawn out and growing. It contains all the other nutrients as well because it's made with organic materials. So if it was once a plant and now it has been converted into a fertilizer product through a number of different ways, including the microbial activity. Well, there you go. You're ready to go and providing that plant not

just three numbers, but all the numbers that it needs. If you add to that the purple Microlife humates plus. What is humate, Well, you start with organic matter and you decompose it, and you have compost, and you let the compost go to its final and full stage. That's called humus. I like to refer to it as concentrated compost in a bag. When you put out the purple bag Microlife, you makes plus along with the green

bag the Microlife sixty four. You are slowly and gradually but a starting immediately building that lawn, providing the nutrients, improving the soil structure, and helping the turf roots to thrive, which means the turf itself can thrive and do much better with the better root system because the soil structure gets improved. Microlife's widely available. You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com find out just exactly where you can get it in your area. We're going to go now to

Tomball and talk to Ken. Hello. Ken, Hey, thanks for taking my call. Uh, I've got to kind of overrun by leaf cutter antswer like everywhere. Just wondering what your thoughts were on getting rid of those leaf cutter mm hmmm. Uh. There's not a single product that is very effective against leaf cutter ants. If you get andro ant block, it has to say ant block, not regular andro andro ant block. Okay, And oh

my gosh, the second extinguish fire ant control. And you mix those two together, put them in a bucket, let it sit for a week, and then apply it. Then that sound like a strange concoction, I'm telling you, Okay, sucked. A lot of gardencare people that really know Okay, they tell me that that works for them with the andro e block and extinguished fire bite extinguish bag. Okay, all right, and can I ask

another question? Yeah, let me ken, let me do this. After your question, I'm gonna put you on hold, Josh, We'll give you my email and I'll send you the instructions on that. I think that'd be okay. What's your last question? Right? Yeah? I was wondering what's the best kind of grape to crew in this Houston for free for fresh eating? Yes, Southern sensation, seedless cool. Could you put that in an email too, if you ask me the question when you email me, I'll

put that in the email. Okay, awesome, thank you, all right, thank you, Sarah, appreciate that. Shut the call out there. You know. Nutristar Genesis is a transplant mix put together by the Dean Nelson folks at Nelson Fertilizer. Nutristar Genesis is a six one three and it is a product that is loaded with beneficial bacteria indo and ectomycorrhizal fungi. That's the kind of fungus that lives with the root and makes the root much more efficient

at taking up nutrients. It also has humates in it, by the way, and other nutrients that just encourage the biology of the soil and therefore the success of the plant. But it's a transplant mix, so follow the label if you're going to bump something up to it. Like I just said earlier that I planted two pepper plants klopenias and containers. The soil that I put in the container to poduct those pepper plants had been mixed with the nutri Star

Genesis transplant mix from Nelson's. So that's how you use it. Anytime you're going to transplant something, you take the new mix you're going to use in the bigger container and you mix the nutri Star Genesis in that and you will see the results. I've seen outstanding results from it myself and the tests that

I did, and it's easy to find. Now some products are widely available, but i'd encourage you to give it a try if you're going to transplant anything, which any gardener is going to transplant everything through the year a lot. Let's go to Missouri City and talk to Kathleen. Hello, Kathleen, Hello, how are you. I'm good, I'm good. What's up? Yeah? I have two questions this morning. One is regarding the brown grass that we get in the wintertime with the Saint Augustine. In the last few

years, I've been raking. So my question is how much of that do I need to get out of the lawn in order to, you know, give it more air to make the grass grow. Okay, Kathleen, are we talking about the big brown circles that appear? Are you just talking about old grass that's been through winter? And there's some grass okay, been through the winter. I wouldn't worry about it. A lot. You can rake

it if you want, but I generally just my first mowing. I once the grass gets growing, I'll do that first mowing down a little bit lower, and then as a new, fresh, new growth comes out, it'll just kind of cover it up and look fine, and those things will just rot away. If you want to rake it out, you can do that, but that's going to expose a lot of soil to more sunlight, and therefore you may need to have a pre emergent herbicide to prevent the weeds that

will sprout in that kind of increased light. Okay, So it's not necessary to break it all out. Not necessary, No, not at all. Just a lower mowing will kind of get a lot of that out and then what comes out fresh will be fresh, new green grass. Okay, all right. Then my next question is what can you recommend for repairing roots in a lawn. Yes, I would if you can get sandy loam topsoil or

anything sold as a topsoil, not just sand. You don't want. This is a little valley of sand out there in the but a sandy loam topsoil, a loam top soil is what I would use. Some people will mix with it a little bit of a compost material. I know the folks at Airloom Soils if Luis has talked to me about that mixing in a little bit of compost with it, and that's fine too, But mainly if some of them already sell it in the bag that says it's topsoil and compost, I

don't think I've seen that. I don't think I've seen it as a blend. But if you just use organic matter like composts, that's great stuff, but it decomposes a way and you're left with the rut again. So that's why having some basis of a solid soil like a sandy loam or a topsoil in there will help keep the rut from becoming a rut again. All Right, thank you so much. All right, Kathleen, thank you. I

appreciate, appreciate your call a lot. Let's see here. You know, people have asked me before about different kinds of products, and where do you get this product? Where do you get that product? Ace Hardware Stores an easy answer because there's forty Ace Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area. So when you say go to ACE, I'm telling you to go to forty different places. In other words, where do you live. There's going to be an ACE not too far away. And ACE focuses on everything that you need

to have a beautiful lawned landscape. So all the fertilizers I recommend, you're going to get an ACE so blends like I'm talking about. You're going to get an ACE. Disease control, insect control, pest control, fire ant control. Now's the time to get a good quality fire ant mix to control fire ants. And that would be things like the extinguished and the and the amdro and the spino said, which is the organic version of come and get

it. ACE has that stuff. ACE has mosquito repellents. ACE has everything that you could possibly need. That's what they're in business doing is helping you have success in your landscape. We're going to take a little break. We'll be right back. Phone number in the meantime seven one three two one two KTRH is in. You'll be the first step. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. We're answering gardening questions and helping

you have success. I tell you one way to help you have success, just to tell you about places that are destination garden centers that have stuff you just don't get elsewhere. But more important than the stuff they carry. As important as that is is the quality and knowledge of the people that help you

there. That is important. That's how it is at Moss Nursery. Moss Nursery hires gardeners, they do. I was there a while back, and two different master gardeners from the Harris County Master Gardener Program it used to be in charge of we're actually working at Moss, and I mean those are highly trained folks, but they also have the personal experience of gardening that is important at Moss. Right now, you're going to find one of my favorite spring

trees, Chinese fringe tree, and another one Texas Mountain Laurel. Oh my gosh, the blooms, both of them fragrant, both of them beautiful. They've got asiatic lilies and fruit trees and vegetables and herbs and hanging baskets. They're new shipments of cactus and house plants. I tell you that place is always packed because the trucks are lined up, and I mean that in the morning, just lined up to just drop off more and more and more color

vegetables, herbs. Do you need Microlife fertilizer? They have a full stock of micro Life fertilizer and others as well. Beautiful pottery selection there. It's just when you go to Moss you're basically taking a wonderfully beautiful stroll through a wonderland of plants. And I literally mean that. It is just it's acres of just turning every corner and finding some new, cool surprise. So when you go, allow time. You need time to shop, but you need

time just to take it in and learn. And Moss Nursery is that that kind of place. It just a destination garden center. They're on Topville Road out there in Seabrook. Check out the website. It's Moss Maas Nursery dot com. Or you can give them a call. It two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. Let's see, we're going to go now out to Suzanne in League City. Hello Suzanne, Hi, There a quick

question. Last week you told me that it was okay to put this brown mossy stuff that's falling out of the oak trees in my compost pile, which I have done, but there is a layer of it in my grass. Okay, Should I leave it alone or try to break it up? There would have to be so much that it literally is shading your grass out, and that will well, it's not yeah, of course my grass is popping through. Yeah, don't worry about it. It'll decompose. That's what nature.

Okay, thank you so much. Save yourself the trouble. You can spend that time doing something fun. Right, all right, thank you sir. Good to talk with you. Let's go to Blaine up in Conroe. Hello, Blaine, Oh, how you doing, Bud? I'm well, sir, How can I help man? I'm u. I got some garlic and it kind of obergrew, and it was I never used it, so I figured it was sprouting. I put it in some soil and you know, let it do its thing well after you know, oh that it wasn't

really sprouting too much. So I was just wondering what can I do to to help it along so I can get some some kind of yield out of it. Normally we plant garlic in the fall, carry it through winter and then and the spring is when you get the bulb development fully and you harvest it, dry it and keep it until the next planting time. If it's getting late on you, what that garlic's gonna do. It's gonna try to bolt send up a bloomstalk, and when it does that, the storability goes

downhill. But also that you've kind of shut down your productivity for the year. So I just say, continue to provide it a moderate amount of nitrogen, adequate soul moisture when we go through a period when it doesn't rain, and just see what you can get out of it. But otherwise I think it'd be a regrouping probably and next next fall getting a head start with some good quality garlic. Okay, understood, I appreciate it, Bud. All right, well, good luck with that and give us a call back.

We can help with the gardening thing, all right, Thank you so much, Goad Bliss. Thank you Blaine. That is a fact your lawn needs nutrients. Now's the time it is waking up. We've done our spring greenups, some of you haven't, and you still can if you want, but we're about to hiner the time where our slow releases of summer are the only one I'm recommending. And so in this transition right now, why not get a head start on the slow release with super Turf. Super Turf is a

nitrophoss fertilizer. It's easy to find. It's a silver bag, the only one I know of in a silver bag out there on the market. Nitrovos Superturf nineteen four to ten. Fifty percent of the nitrogen's going to release gradually over time for SOFA. The next two or three months, you're going to be getting a release of your Superturf. It also has four percent iron. Now, one of the things when you look at your lawn you see some

kind of yellowish areas. That's ourn deficiency, especially in the spring right now, and Superturf will help address that as well. Like all nitrofoss products, you know, widely, widely available, easy to find Superturf. Shades of Texas up in the Woodlands they have Superturf. You go to Kingwood to the Ace Hardware Store, our task Asda, the Ace Hardware Store they've got Superturf as well. D and D Feed and Tomball has Superturf as well as many

many other locations, quality nurseries, quality feed stores. Easy to find Superturf. Let's go now to Katie and we're going to talk to Stephanie. Hello, Stephanie, Hey, good morning. Just a quick question. Is it still a good time to apply the bonn eyed weed Beater ultra on the yard for weeds that have popped up? Yes, it is too hot? Okay, No, it is. When the temperature is in the upper eighties consistently,

then it's getting a little warm. But even when it's ninety you can apply those products in the morning when it's not ninety and by the time they dry off and everything and the temperature heats up, you'll be okay. But yes, you're right about trying to get that done in the spring, okay. And it's okay to do like the entire yard or do I need to spot treat? Are weeds just like everywhere? Well, if they're everywhere, then you got to do it everywhere. Just got spray it everywhere. Just

remember you don't have to drench the weeds. It's just what you get on the leaves of the weed that matters. So anything dripping off the leaves is wasted. Spray okay, okay, I appreciate it. Thank you all right, Stephanie, thank you appreciate the call. That good to ask. You know, the part of the problem and dealing with things is getting the right product, something that's going to work. But another part of the problem is applying it correctly, the right time and at the right rate. And that

is something that I encourage you to call me about. Let's talk about that, because that is important. I try to remember to tell callers about this or that caveat regarding products, but I don't always remember, and I mean the call may go in a little different direction. But take something like iron. For example, iron will stain concrete with the rust color. Any white masonry kind of thing, you're going to see rust color whenever you have iron

on it. So somebody's using a quality iron product to treat an iron problem in their lawn. If they just scattered out there of the driveway, you have little little rest spots when it gets wet. That's just what iron does. And so that's a caveat. Need to remember that. A huge thing for people to remember is follow the label. And I can say this till the cows come home. I know people don't listen to me. They think, well, if a teaspoon's good, a tablespoon's better. It is not

listen. If you're selling a product if you're making a product, I don't care if it's a herbicide and insecticide, a fungicide. Wouldn't you want people to use more of it because you get to sell more. Yeah, you would. So why don't they put a tablespoon? Why do they put a teaspoon? I'm just using those as examples. Why wouldn't they say, oh, use a tablespoon because they're going to sell you more product they do. They don't because a teaspoon is a rate that works. A tablespoon is a

rate that does damage. And some products can do significant damage to our lawns, to our gardens when we miss apply them, as well as to our water quality supplies. You know, when you throw fertilizer quality for life, throw it out there and it gets on the driveway and you don't blow it off into the lawn or sweep it off into the lawn and it rains. Where does that go? It goes to creeks, It goes to rivers, to tributaries, It ends up in the Gulf of Mexico eventually, and it

degrades water quality. We get algal blooms, we get fish kills. There's just a lot of things that happen. You paid for that fertilizer. Get it on the lawn, not on the driveway. I realize an application, something's going to go over there. But when you're done, blow it back in, sweep it back in. That's just an example of misapplying a product, A good product that works, that you paid for, So don't misapply it. Apply it right, and apply it at the right time. Read

the label. The label says when it's in the upper eighties or nineties, don't use this. Don't use it. There's a reason it says that some of the products that are very good on controlling weeds, they are pretty damaging to Saint Augustine when it heats up. When that time of the year comes and I'm doing guard line, we'll talk about, well, switch to this product. Do you hear me say things like, we'll use this one because it's a little too hot to use the others, the ones that were perfectly

good for spring, maybe not for summer. So I'll try to guide you in that. But just remember there's a reason that there's a lane. Hey, we are done for today. I'll be back tomorrow morning, six am, bright and early. Hope you joined me in the meantime, I am on my way to the Sci Fi Home and Gardenship that is going to be at the Berry Center on Barker Ciphress Road. I'll be there today from twelve to two, give a little talk, and then here we go your questions.

Let's have some eye to eye time, face to face. This is your chance to sit down and you don't have to wait in line for a caller. Well, you met to wait in line for somebody's standing there. But the point is we get some eye to eye time. Bring me samples, bring me pictures. Let's figure out how to help you have a beautiful lawn and a bountiful landscape. Exactly what we can help you do. I just want to remind you one more time. Next Saturday, March thirtieth,

I'm going to be at Siena Mulch. But the second annual Spring Fling will be given away products I've given away Nelson and Heirloom and Medina. There're gonna be a lot of folks there and you don't want to miss it.