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Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's sho Crazy trim. Just watch him as many sets not a sun glass gas. Good morning, Good morning on a great day for gardening. You are listening to garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Rictor. We're here today help you have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That's kind

of the goal. You know, we say the cereal I say this here a lot on Guardline that there's no such thing as a brown thumb. My point is that it's not the thumb that's the problem. There's just an If we're gonna blame it on our thumbs, let's just say there's uninformed thumbs. Okay, Because anybody can grow things if you just learn about what that particular plant needs and you provide it. It's as simple as that. That's why we talk a lot about places where you can get good quality plants that want

to live here. You know, I know you have tried things before that didn't want to live here. Sit There are stores around the region that sell things that should not be planted here. I mean, if you go to Colorado for a vacation, don't bring back a blue spruce tree, a little

baby blue spruce, and maybe a blue Colorado columbine. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Plants is setting up way stations at the border between Texas and New Mexico, just so that when you come across, they can confiscate those things and send those poor plants back to where they came from, where they can be happy. Good plants. That's number one. Good products to help enhance growth, from fertilizers to soils, and you know how important soil

is. We walk you through that, We help you with the specifics. There are things that go wrong. You know. Sometimes you may hear talk or read articles that make it sound like, well, you just do this and everything's going to be fine. Well, there are things we do that are important, but sometimes nature gets in the way. You know, we can do all the kinds of things we want to create the perfect environment, but then all of a sudden, here comes soid web worms when summer to

attack our lawns, and that just you can't plan for it. You just respond to it. But we help you with that. That's why I have schedules on my website Gardening with Skip dot com schedules where you go by the way. They're free. You can download them, print them out, and I recommend you do. It tells you when to fertilize, what to use, how to deal with pasts, how to deal with insects specifically, how to deal with diseases in your lawn, how to control weeds in your lawn.

We do all those kind of things to help you out in those ways. Let's head up to begin with up to Tom Ball and talk to Mel. Hello, Mel, good morning. Hey, been runing against Kip listen, Yeah, on your schedule along the line. I guess maybe I should go there to see this. So I've had I got so sick and tired of these stupid weeds, you know. Yeah, And so Tuesday, Tuesday and Wednesday I put down some weed stop and uh not wearing any underneath trees

or anything like that. And I know that stuff didn't seem to help me a whole lot. My problem is, and my question is, I know this is about the time to put down some pre emergent too, but now is it wasteful or you said, all right, to still put down my pre emergent on top of all that other stuff. Well, now would be the time. We're getting close to the time here where we do are our pre emergent if you did one a little bit later. Yeah, we've been

doing the second application since really toward the end of April. But oh, I thought that goes into May. Well it doesn't know. We've been doing it since toward the end of April. It goes through May and goes through June as well. There's not a specific time you have to put it on.

It's just that if you apply it in early to mid February, which is prime time for getting those down, then after about sixty days ninety days somewhere in that region, it's wearing out enough to where you probably could do a second application. Things like graspers and crabgrass and whatnot can still sprout later on. They don't only sprout in the early spring, and so I have

it on there for that. I just always encourage people to be careful because you know, you got weeds, and so I'm going to double dose on this stuff and really kill the weeds. And that's where we get into problems with your grass. All right, So but you know I could still it's all right if I still go ahead and put down my pre emergent, even though I put that stuff other stuff down. Yes, if you have not put down a pre emergent since back in February, you can do it again

now, okay, so it's still safe to do that. Yeah, all right, I've got some weeds that it just doesn't want to kill. So well, now, if you know, again, the pre mergent only stops weeds that you don't see yet, and if you've got existing weeds, that's called post emergent, which I'm sure you know. The post emergent information is on my schedule too, if you choose to go that direction. All right, appreciate it, all right, mil thanks, appreciate the call. Let's

see if we can move along here. We've got kind of people hopping on by the way. We're talking about things to do on the lawn. Azamite is a micronutrients source that we put down. You'll find it almost schedule, and there's not a specific time when you would apply azamite. You can do it at anytime. Think of it as a bank account, like when when is a good time to put a deposit in your bank account. Well, anytime you got some money, put it in there. Uh. And that's

kind of how azemite is. It's not like nitrogen where you put it down at certain times to promote more rapid green growth. It is a bank account of the trace minerals that every plant needs in order to survive. They are not needed in large amounts, but they are absolutely essential. That's what makes them essential nutrients. It's about twenty different nutrients by the way, that that

plants do need for one or another process. You can go to azmite Texas dot com and find out more information, or just wherever you go shopping. Pretty much, if I'm talking about a place here on garden Line, I don't care if it's a garden center or a feed store, Southwest fertilizer, ace hardware store. They've oh they carry. It's easy, easy to find in the region. We go out now to Beaumont and talk to Dan. Hello. Dan, Hey, good morning, good morning. I'm running into

a little issue. I've got tomato plants. Yeah, I called you up last week and I was concerning the rotting from the inside. Will. I was at my garden this last week and I noticed these little red bugs running around. Now they look like a big, huge army ants, but they're they're red and they have black legs, six legs, and I'm trying to figure out what they are and how to get rid of them. And I'm thinking, those are what's eating my tomato from the inside. Okay, they're

on the they're they're on your tomatoes. I yes, there are two things that can fit that description. One is a past the leaf footed bug. In its nymph stage when they're very young, they are kind of an orange red color and they have black, long black legs. There's also a beneficial called the assassin bug, and certain species of assassin bugs have the same coloring.

The difference between the two, just from a standback and look at them without really studying them closely, is bad bugs tend to hang out in herds when they're young. You'll just see a whole cluster of them, kind of on a tomato. Good bugs tend to disperse, and you tend to see those individually because they're predators and they know they're out hunting. Some types of good bugs even eat each other, so that's if you're seeing more than one

of them on a tomato. That's probably the leaf footed bug, a bad bug, and you can go online, you can send me a picture. I can identify it for you too. But those you need to deal with now when they're young like that, they don't have wings, they can't fly away, and it's really you to manage them. You can take sometimes I'll just take it like a little pale of soapy water and swat them into it. Sometimes I'll just vacuum them off with a little handback. You don't have

to spray them, but at this stage they're most susceptible to sprays. Once they get they turn dark colored and then they're flying around there. It's it's a much much harder to control them. What if I put down like this chemical that we put on our animals like horses and stuff, it's oh good night, I forget the name of it. Now. Well, you as long as it's labeled for tomatoes, you can do that. Just remember that there are good bugs out there too, so make sure we are dealing with

a pass before you do that. Right. Well, I'm thinking these guys are a pass because they were in they were in kind of a herded flour. Okay, yeah, well so yeah, you can do that, just just be cautious in what you use and follow the label carefully. Dan, I'm gonna have to run. I've gone, I've bumped past a break here. But good luck with those bugs, and I wish I do, wish you well. We'll be right back. What two three Nicistic, Welcome back

to Gardenline. Good to have you with us today. We are talking about all kinds of things today. Looking at the board, we got a lot of topics up there. If you're planning on putting out a container of flowers or vegetables, number one, congratulations. More people need to do that. We do not grow enough things and containers on our patio. We have beautiful containers. We can grow anything in a container. You can grow in the

ground pretty much. I mean, you know, within reason, you're not going to grow a big shade tree, of course, but if you get a big enough container, you grow anything. So what do you do in a container though? You put a quality mix. And what makes a soil mix quality? Well, a number of things, but two key things are it needs to hold water, so the water doesn't just run straight through and out and you got drought immediately. It needs to drain well though, you

don't want a mucky swamp in that container. And so jungle Land it was created to provide just that. It's got several different types of decomposed organic matter, it's got the microhizo fungi in there, and it will enhance your plants. And just look for something called jungle Land flour and vegetable planting soil to do just that for your plants. Now where do you get it? Well, lots of different places. Jungle Land's widely available. Plants for all seasons.

Has it on two forty nine, All spas ace up in the woodlands has it. You can find jungle landed plants and things in brennam A. Jungle Land is a quality mix that does what you need to do so your plants look good, so you have success. We're going to go to Paul now on the southeast side. Hey Paul, Hey, yep, how are you? I'm good, sir, Welcome to Guardline. How can we help? Yes, sir, I've got a burgundy poem that I've passed numerous people bathroom, They all draw a blank. This is plant I don't know,

ten fifteen years old. Used to when I first planet it of course a year or two it produced at the wazoom and did real well, and I had other golf variety clumbs next to it. I lost the two gulfs to the boars, but the burgher did is done well. And then about four or five years ago it just quit producing. Still looks good, still going healthy. But I've got one limb at about chest Hide. This plant now it's fifteen foot call at least, I've cut it back to the three times.

But I've got one planet about chest Hide that produces like crazy, one limb. That's it. Have you ever seen anything like that? No? There, I mean what I would like to tell you is that's impossible. But obviously it's happening at your house, so I don't pictures of it just for this reason. Yeah, well here here's the thing. And then this year I've got two plums on the other side on the north side, tree way apat two a tree Okay, but it's still just this one limb on

the south side. Yeah, it is the trend. Is it the full sun? Oh yeah, lots of sun. Okay, Well, bergun to yourself fruitful so that it's not a poll it's not a lack of pollinator uh, the blues do have to be pollinated. Something has to move the pollen from the miss Let me tell you this, for I forget, I'm old man, that one limb is always flowers first the one lamb, and I mean it's got a ton of bloons on them. And then about two weeks later, of course, the pedals drop and stuff like that, and then

the rest of the tree explodes with the same flower. Okay, do the plums look identical to the plums on the rest of the tree and the ones that are on the other side now this time are up high and they're still green. Because it's like I said this, the rest of the trees too, a couple of weeks behind then through the whole process. Okay, but I think I think in the same thing it might becoming maybe the rootstock mating or something something. If it's a good edible plum, it's not the rootstock.

In fact, most plums are drafted onto peach rootstock. But I would let me, let's do this. I'm going to put you on hold, and I have h callum uh get give you an email address, and would you send me photos of what you're seeing. One of one or two things has happened. Either they double grafted the tree, which is very unlikely, or there's been a genetic sport, which means that sometimes implants and we have a lot of varieties that are because of this, and various kinds of plants,

flowers and fruit. But it changes genetically and suddenly that branch starts producing something a little different, and that that happens a lot, and that probably is what's happened on that branch. Why the rest of the tree isn't producing good son self fruitful? I don't I can't tell you why that is unless I mean, I guess you know if you spray it with insecticide every spring. But that let me put you on hold. Would you give him you would you get my email and send me some photos? All right? I

think that's that's the next step. I don't think we're get any further with it here, but I think I think what I said is what's going on. But let's see if we can figure out how to solve this and get plumbs again. Thank you, Paul. I appreciate that call very much. Talking about fruit trees and stuff. Anytime you're planning a tree, especially your landscape, trees that young tree has a small cylinder of a root ball.

It's what came out of the pot, and that's not well stabilized. Once the tree roots are out there and established well, it takes two or three seasons to get good, strong root systems going. By the time you hit that point, it's very stable. The wind's not going to blow it over very easily, and it's not going to wobble around up until that point. That's why we steak trees often early on, and tree stabilizer three sixty.

Tree stabilizer is a plastic arm that holds that tree very strong. Instead of having to go buy wire, cut up garden hose and make those guy wires to trip over in your lawn, you just hammer steak in near the tree, I mean you know, foot and a half or so from the tree. You attach the stabilizer to the steak in the tree, and it's made to attach to a t post too. You can get them like that and

it holds it just fine. If you've got a lot of wind blowing different directions, you can use two of them, one kind of let's just say north south, one east west, so no matter which way it goes, you got a strong arm holding onto that tree, but it holds loosely, so there's a little bit of movement which is important for strengthening the development and

the stability of that tree. Three sixty tree stabilizers. You're going to find them at Southwest Fertilizer, Jorges Hidden Gardens and Alvin Plans for All Seasons, Buchanan's Nursery, RCW Nursery, and at the Arbor Gate, which is where I'll be today at eleven thirty. After the show, I'm going to head up there to the Arbor Gate and I will be answering gardening questions. I'll tell you a little bit more about that a little later. Let's go up

now to Conroe and we're going to talk to Lee. Hello, Lee, Good morning, yep, good morning. I've got a couple of spots in my Saint Augustine grass that have got some small areas of bluish gray. I don't know if it's some kind of mold or fungus or what it is. And then in some similar bushes, and I don't know what kind of bushes they are, there's several petals that seem to have a similar coating on them.

I've done some I've taken a couple of close up pictures that a picture is worth a thousand words that I'd like to maybe send in if I could. Then you take a look at them and too that that's the best thing. Yeah, that's the best thing. Especially when we see a problem and it's on different species of plants, that's not a common occurrence for it to be the same cause. But it may not be the same thing on the bushes the grass, but they're in the same where it is in the grass

as bushes right now? The same okay, well, similar nearby area. And did you describe it like I hear bluish colored coats, well, kind of on the grass, kind of a bluish bluish gray on several and two or three different areas, taking pictures of okay, two areas in the grass and a couple of a couple of the on on the petals. So so they sorry to interrupt you. In the grass. Lead is this is this like a coating on the on the grass blades itself? Yes, it is.

Okay, that's probably a little mold that can form on grass. It is not a disease of grass. The only way it hurts grass is it shades the light from getting to that blade. But you can just take a water hose and blast it off if you want. It comes and goes uh and it's a natural thing out there, and they just think of it as a slimy mold climbing up on it. And then it goes through this stage where it produces spores and that's when you see that gray look to it on

there. But let me I'm gonna put you on hold. Callum will pick up and give you my email address so you can send me some good pictures. Make sure they're in sharp focus of whatever plants you're talking about, and I'll be happy to take a look at them. Okay, I will do. And I appreciate your tending guidance once to see what I'm all right trying to words. The picture is worth a thousand worse. There you go. That's true. Thanks a lot ly. I appreciate that call very much.

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things up in summer. They've got that. Pretty much. Anything you can imagine you would need as for a plant or as a plant, then Chanty Garden's gonna have it. They really do a good job of having good stock. They have knowledgeable staff Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com in Chenna Gardens Richmond dot com. They are on the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond, so you just

head out FM three fifty nine. That's where you'll find them. Enchanted Gardens in Richmond, Quality quality Place. Hey, welcome back to the Guardline. Good to have you with us today on a great day for gardening. Really looking forward to getting out and getting some good gardening kinds of things done.

The be Supply in Dayton, you've heard me talk about it before. It's kind of like, you know, there's places where only people that are interested in a particular kind of thing would go to buy this particular product or whatever. I see the be Supply as almost a combination of several things. First of all, the be Supply is for people that want to get into bee keeping. They will walk you through. I was talking somebody just the other

day, and they're from away from here. I mean, I believe they're up in Brian or someplace like that, Brian, Texas, And I was just in look, just call the bee Supply. They had a question. I said, they'll help you, even though you're not out there buying something at the time. They will help you because they that's what they do. They want people to have success. But the be Supply is also a place

where you can call. Maybe you don't want to have to keep bees, but you want to have bees maybe for an agricultural exemption, Yes, bees count for that. They can do a be rental program. If you have five to twenty acres and you're within fifty miles of Dayton, Texas. They come out, they set up the bees, they manage the bees for you. Just go to the website and all the details of what's involved in that

is there. They have be classes, but they also for folks that I'm not going to keep bees, well, okay, go there and just learn about bees. Take your garden club, your master gardener group, your friends, and definitely take your kids. They'll get to see the observation hive going. You'll learn the fascinating world of beest and you get to taste several different types of honey and it's just a wonderful event. It's an outing, it's an experience. So no matter who you are, the b Supply is a

place you need to go. It's thebesupply dot com, thebsupply dot com. It's where you'll find out everything you need to know. We are now going to head to Jersey Village and talk to Dale. Dale. Thanks for being a patient on whole person there, I appreciate that, no problem, good morning, and thank you for you too. My question is I have some patches of what I believe is Dallas grass in my lawnlan being Saint Augustine and just and there's another one which I can't I don't know what it is.

I hope I can probably send you some pictures of those. We can, just because those probably secondly right. But for the first one, which is to Dallas grass, just your thoughts on the best way of treating it such that if it's a herveside or whatever, something that yes, I can eventually pull laid back some sat on at the spots where it comes out, so you take it from here, okay. So Saint Augustine is your lawn, yes, okay. So there's not a way to kill grass in grass by

and large, yeah, without killing your grass. So your options on something like Dallas. It's a perennial, so we can't wait it out and use pre emergence to get ahead of it. So you can use a wiper type of an applicator to apply something that kills grass to it without getting it on

your desirable lawn grass. So instead of spraying, you're essentially letting Dallas grass leaves come up above the lawn, which they'll do, and you're wiping it on those leaves or dabbing it onto the center of the Dallas grass clump.

You can also just targeted spray just that spot. And I've seen people take you know, little pump up sprayers and a like pop soft drink bottle, the two liter bottles or a milk jug and attach them so that it's like a shield over the end of your sprayer and you just set it down on that weed and give it one squirt and it doesn't let the spray go out

everywhere on your lawn. It just targets it right there. And that way you're gonna have some dead spots, but at least you're able to, let's say, surgically remove those Dallas grass clumps and then let the Saint Augustine crawl back in. Those would be your two options on that. Like you said, wipe. What's an example of those. You can find online wiper type of applicators. They look in different ways. I've got to get this put

online. You can build a wiper applicator yourself using a grabber tool, like one of those little things you's got like a pistol grip and you reach out and get a jar off a shelf way up high, and it like grabs a jar and you pull it down. Or you can use it to pick up trash those kind of things. But you could spin. Yeah, you put spongers, go ahead. Yeah, when you say this, this is something to put it on, not the actual chemical. What chemical do you

recommend? You could use a grass only killer. There's a couple of substances that are grass only killers. Or you could use a general killer like a glacyssate, which is the roundup as a brand everybody knows, but there's a lot of brands of it. But either way is fine. But either way you're using something that will cure your lawn if you get it on the lawn.

And as far as once that is done and I'm successful, is there a timeline I need to wait for me to if I want to put down some sod, because there's a section it's pretty big, so I wouldn't leave the I wouldn't leave it for like the existence and august seed to then spread back in. I would probably put some sod. Okay, well, so if you're going to do that, I would just dig it out. I you know, I would. However, you don't go about it hoe or

dig or whatever. Just get it out of there and then put the sod down, because you're going to have to in order to put the sad down, you're gonna have to get all that dead grass out anyway, any weeds and stuff. So you might be best off just you don't have to dig deep, but just get that, get those plants out of there, and then put your sad down. So it's a little more labor, but you're gonna have You can't lay sod on a bunch of dead multi organic material,

you know. Okay, yep, And like I mentioned, email if I can probably send you pictures of all right, I'm putting you on hold right now and and Calum we'll get online and he'll take care of that. I appreciate your call. Soil is the most important thing we do for our garden plants. It is the most important thing. It's a foundation. Would you build your house on sand and have a flood come wash your foundation out? Of course you wouldn't. Foundations are critical. They set the stage for everything.

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website, nature's Way Resources dot com. They're up almost to Conro, Texas on it off Interstate forty five. If you'd like to give them a call. The numbers nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety talking about the importance of soil and that foundation. Microlife fertilizers are nature's way of feeding the soil. We're taking organic materials, we're putting them into the soil. They're chocolal of nutrients. The microbes

go nuts because I mean that's like feeding them their favorite foods. They break those down. They take the nutrients in microlife and release it to your plants. That's how nature works and microlife fertilizer. That the one that most people are familiar with is a green bag. The green bag is we typically use it for lawns. It's a six two four. They also have up fertilizers just living some yesterday for acidic plants, acid loving plants. Now that particular

one is in a ink bag. There are purple bag that is the microlife humates plus concentrated compost in a bag. Something you can do on a regular basis to your lawn to continue to improve the soil, to improve in time. As you do this, the soil structure improves. The microbial activity stays high in the soil because microbes love these products. That's how that works. Go to Microlife fertilizer dot com to find out more information about them. We're

gonna have to take a break here. I will be right back our number seven one three, two, one two, five eight seven four. When I come back, Steve and Sandy and Ralph, you will be the first ones up. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. I am going to make a B line for Sandy and Cyprus. Sandy, I think you get the award for the most patient person on hold on Garden Line, at least in the history of my time on this show.

Here. Thank you for being suppatient. Thank you, good morning. I have a couple of questions. One is there's mushrooms, small itty bitty mushrooms in my soil? Am I overwatering in? Is that good for the soil

or is that bad? And the other question I have is how do I get rid of I found a green powder pillar crawling out of the soil in my blueberries, so I'm wondering if they're in my other and that they're all entertainers and they're crawling out, So I'm wondering if they're in my other plant, because when he crawled out, you know they can just move across to the next pot, right right. Well, first of all, the mushrooms it is. It is a rare thing for a mushroom to be the sign

of a disease. There are a few oak root rot for example, will pop up, but in general, when you see mushrooms, it's just decomposer fungi turning organic matter back into soil. So I would consider them a good thing and nothing to worry about. So that that is the case. Caterpillars.

There are a lot of caterpillars out right now. I pulled out a few plants the other day and some flower things I was replacing, and when I went back to the soil, there were inch worms just you know, going all over the place, and they had been in those plants and I hadn't even noticed it. So I don't get really alarmed just a few caterpillars. If you're seeing a lack of foliage on your plants, like there's the blueberries, the leaves are being eaten off or something, well then yeah,

throw some BT or spinosa out there and spray them. Otherwise, don't don't sweat it. It's not a not a big concern. Okay. One more thing, how do I know when to harvest my Brussels sprouts? Well, you know, you would like them to reach what would be the normal size, Like when you buy Brussels sprouts in the store, the you know the size they would be. Sometimes they don't quite make it that far, and it depends on growing conditions and when they were planted and whatnot. But if

you can get them up to that size, that's fine. They don't ripen if you will, so you could you could eat a Brussels sprout from the time it's the size of an English pee up to the time it's its normal size. So I would just kind of give them a little time to get the most size you can out of them. Sometimes it helps to cut the tops out of the plant. We're about to get out of Brussels sprout season, and you know how when you tip a plant, the buds along the

stem brake and you get new shoots that come up from from pruning. When you cut the top out of your Brussels sprout, it it stimulates some of the side bud development and you can go ahead and maybe get a little bit of a bump on it that way, because we're summer's right around the corner here, and it's good to get them to go ahead and produce for you. Okay, thank you very much. A great day. All right, Andy, if you get a chance, come on up to Arburgate in Tomball.

You're not too far away. We're gonna be out there this afternoon. They're having one heck of a shindig with peach, Bellini's and all the above stuff you would expect from Arburgate. Thanks for the call. Thank you so much. I have a great day, all right. Bye bye. Yeah, we're gonna have a really good time out there. Let's see, we're gonna go now to Steve and Southwest Houston. Hello Steve, Oh, good morning, thanks for taking me call. First question I am is what time

are you going to be at Arborgate. I am gonna hit Arbor Gate at eleven thirty and I'll be there till one thirty today, a couple of hours. Yeah. I mean, I'm giving away a lot of stuff. I'm giving away four super Grow Ready to Spray. That's a new product I'm so excited about from Medina. Three hast Grow Courts, Hastro Grow lawn seaweed samples. We're gonna give Arbor Gay Is given away one bag every thirty minutes of their that that one two three easy system. The organic soil, they're gonna

be given that away. We're gonna be giving away forest tree stabilizers. There's free peach billinis frozen there. I mean, just come hang out. Okay, Well, my primary question has to do with a grassy yard in Conro area. Obviously, we've been a bit of rain in Conro lately, and this lawn is sloped in two different directions, but one south and west, and it's beginning to show signs that it's eroding. It's not big ditches or

anything like that, but small amounts. And I'm wondering about, Well, first of all, we'll deal with some upstream type of situation like gutters on the house, that type of thing. And yeah, what would you recommend for for this mild type of erosion as far as going back into the grassy lawn right type of a sand or top soil or just what's your idea?

Yeah, if you can find a decent quality top soil, sometimes that's hard to come by, but if you can find that a sandy loam type of top soil, that would be the best to top dress it with in small amounts. You know, if you put three inches down. You buried your Saint Augustine and that's not coming through. But just me you know a little bit on let make sure the grass blades are sticking through. Do it a little at a time and you can bring that level up. Some people will

mix a little bit of compost with that. Just remember compost decomposes away. And so if you if you have three inches of compost two years from now, you're going to have a half inch of composts. You see what I'm saying it it disappears. So if you're trying to raise the level, it's better to have the bulk of it be a sandy loam type top soil top.

So okay, yeah, because it had been my intention to before it started to get too too hot, to use some pumppost on the law, and I did that last fall and caught it just before rains and it settled out really nice. But okay, maybe I need something a little bulkier and bigger for all right, Well, good luck with that. I hope that works for you. Well. I appreciate Steve very much that call. For those of you who haven't been to plants for all seasons, you need to

get by there and check it out. They're on two forty nine high Way two forty nine, but it's called Tomball Parkway. They're just north of Lueta Now. They've been around since nineteen seventy three. And if you're looking for a place that knows what they're talking about, that carries plants that grow here and will advise you on them, that you can go in and ask questions and have knowledgeable staff. All of that and more is Plants for All Seasons

Plants for All Seasons dot com. That's their website two eight, one, three, seven six, sixteen forty six. When you go and to Plants all Seasons, you know you're setting yourself up for success because you get the right plants, you got the right products, and you got people that know how to help you. Gardeners, expert gardeners, people that have been doing this a very long time. Well, we're putting the first hour in the books here. That went fast. It seems like that they say time flies

when you're having fun. From the frog says times fun when you're having it flies. We'll be right back. Don't forget today. I'm going to be a harbor gate up in Tomball. Now, what are we gonna do there. We're gonna answer your gardening questions, bring in samples, bring in pictures, just come in to talk. I'll be kind of giving some general Q and A with a group of folks out there at Arborgate, they always put on a good show. Bring your mom, Bring your mom. There's a

Mother's Day special at Arburgate on the brick house rows. This is a disease resistant rose and it has a type of bloom that's open in the center so these pollinators can get in there. And it's just a it's an awesome, awesome road frozen peach. Bellini's giving away all kinds of stuff today today, left and right, come on see me Arbaga eleven thirty to one thing.

Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skimp Richard. It's just watch him as Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter is good to have you with us. We are here for the ride today. We're gonna be talking about a lot of things. This is a season to get that lawn in top shape. That is one thing a lot of people love is a beautiful, beautiful carpet of green grass out there. You know, grass has a lot of good functions. Actually, it helps prevent a rose.

It also cools the air. Did you know that you can Actually there's a BTU number. You know high AC units have BTUs. There's a BTU number for the amount of cooling that turf does per thousand square feet because compare it to you know, the reason we have this thing called the heat island effect in cities is because asphalt and concrete and things like that hardescapes. They're absorbing heat and it's literally warmer in Houston than it is outside in the countryside

for that reason. Now, turf benefits our homes that way. So there's a lot of good things that turf can do in addition to just being beautiful and a nice recreational area around your house if you don't have a dense lawn. Nitroposs has put together a product. They had it for a while now. It's a silver bag. It's nineteen four to ten. Half the nineteen percent nitrogen is slow release, So about ten percent or about ten percent of

that night of the product is a slow release nitrogen. About nine or ten percent is a release. It's a little faster than that. So what you're gonna get is you're gonna get an even feed over time, and that is very important going through summer. You want your grass to be fed gradually over time. That's how you end up with the best grass plant, the most

resilient grass plant. Superterf will do that. It also has four percent iron to help with that nice, beautiful uniform color that we're trying to achieve with our lawns. Where do you get Nitrofoss super Turf, Well, pretty much everywhere. Bearing's Hardware on Bissinet and on West Teimer has it. Plantation Ace Hardware out there in the Richmond Rosenberg area has it as well as does Hidenen Feed, which is on Stubner Airline. Easy to find Nitrofoss nineteen four ten,

the silver Bag. I'm going to head out now to talk to Ralph's see here if I can there, we go, Good morning, Ralph, how can we help today? Skip? Good morning? Good morning? I sent you an email with a couple pictures. Yes, sir, I don't know if you have that. I do and I looked at it and this is in your lawn grass. It looks like is that correct? That's correct? Sir? Well, yeah, very you have two very common perennial weeds, and they're not super super easy to get rid of. The first one

with the little tiny yellow flowers is called horse herb now horse herb. I have seen people spray it with roundup and it didn't kill it. That's impressive for a weed. Native enthusiasts love horse herb as a groundcover in bright shade areas. It's a native plant here in the area, but when it's in your lawn, people aren't excited about it. But you're gonna have to use a post emergent broad leaf weed control product on it. There are a number

of different ones out there that can be used and sprayed. You're just gonna have to stay with it in order to get to get some success in control of it. Some of the best our hardest on your Saint Augustine, though unfortunately I got you. I did do I'm up to date on the schedule. I'm not going to list everything, but okay, if it's on there, I've done it. Okay, good, I'm I do need to do the second of the pre emergent okay, but that won't do anything to the

items that I sent you the picture of. No, they won't. And at your lawn. Well, I'm just seeing the areas with the weeds, but things look pretty dense, and so if you if you don't have an ongoing annual weed problem, the second pre emergent is definitely an optional one for you. So just just think about that. But yes, we're at the time where if you want to extend the pre emergen coverage, this would be the time people do that. The horser would have to be sprayed with a

post emergent. The second one is called dollar weed, and it's called that because they look like all silver dollars. They remight be of umbrellas. You know, they've got the little stem in the back like an umbrella and what's around. Yeah, yeah, and dollar weed. There are a number of different things that will control dollar weed. It's it's pretty easy easy to get

a hold of if you're out in Katie. If you'll go to the Katie Hardware on Pinoak, they have a number of excellent products that will work really well. Okay, will it? Since I am about to do the pre emergent, can I follow up a week or so later with the post emerging again, you can do them both at the same time. The pre emergent is going to be a granule that you put on and then water in, and then after you've watered it in, you can just turn right around or

before you can spray with the post emergent onto the weed leaves themselves. And I mentioned the katie on Pinoke. There's also one on Mason Road. If you're out single ranch direction out there in DA, that's where I go. Yeah, they're gonna they're going to carry those for you. And I've got some things. You say you have the schedule, so I assume you also have the pest control schedule pest disease and weed, and that has the things

that I would suggest you try for the post emergent. Broad leave, got it, yep, That's what I used before. But for the post you recommend liquid as opposed to granule, I'd prefer that, and it's it's easier for me. It's easier to get it on the leaves, you know, because you can direct it right to where the leaves weeds are. People that have spotty weed problems. It's much easier to do with the spray. You

know, with the granule, you're essentially covering the whole lawn. You got to get the weeds wet so the granules stick to the leaves for best results. And uh so granules are fine. It's just I prefer to have the spray so I can target it where I want beautiful. I'll get those today after I cut the grass. Follow the label carefully. Ralph, and you you ought to be in good shape. Appreciate your help, sir, you bet, Thank you. Appreciate your call. Thank you. Take care.

Have you been down to Hoges Hidden Gardens? Those of you who live down south? When I when I say down south, they're in Alvin, Texas. They're on Elizabeth in Alvin, Texas, just south of Highway six. But communities like Alvin and Santa Fe and Dickinson. I'll goa Arcadia, Alta Loma or or what's the other hillcrest? That's enough. Hojores Hidden Gardens is just a hop, skipping or jump away. They have got the three sixty tree stabilizer for example, that I talk about. But they have a wide

variety of different conseplants right now. They have a they recently got a new shipment of citrus trees and that includes satsumas, which is about this cold hearty of an orange you're going to get. It's a satsuma type orange. They have oranges, they have limes, they have lemons, and they have the very popular Peggy Martin roses and three gallon sizes and a Mother's Day special on roses still going on. So here's you know, kind of last call here,

folks. Guess what tomorrow is Mother's Day? So if you're down in the Alvin area, stop in talk to the folks at rahe Siding Gardens. Horay and his wife have really done a great job, just continuing to build that place and add more and it just looks great. But anyway, go buy there, Say hi Tori and grab you one of those three gallon Peggy Martin roses or one of the other things many other things that Hoy carries down there. Let's see here. I'm gonna now head to uh No, actually

I wanted to. I want to take a break. It's time. I don't have enough time for another call. We'll be right back our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to the Guarden Line. Good to have you with us today. We are doing our best to guide you to success. You know, gardening is I think the best hobby there is, and I can give you a lot of reasons why. From argument number one, it's fun number two, you get exercise number

three. There are very few things that give you the mental benefits of getting out with plants in the garden. And I've got a stack, a foot high stack on my desk of research projects to prove it. We just keep learning more and more about it. So how do we have success? Because you know, we don't want to stress ourselves looking at plants at struggle. We don't want to use words like I got a brown thumb. You don't have a brown thumb. You have an uninformed thumb, and we're here to

inform your thumb. Now, we just had some storms come through here recently, and in those storms we lost some big tree lambs. I'm talking with folks out at Affordable Tree. They know all about storms and the effect on trees and what you do to your trees to help protect them against storms. Last summer was brutal. Maybe you lost a tree, maybe you lost branches, a limbs of a tree. Call Martin Spoon Moore, have him come out take a look at them. Because when those things come down. There's

a reason they call them widow makers. They can do significant damage to people and to property. You're in your neighbor's fence, for example, being a good example of that. Martin will come out and you do some selective pruning.

This isn't the big time to do all your print. We do that primarily in the winter, but you can prune all year round, and selective pruning right now is important, taking out dead areas, making those trees safer in heavy winds, setting them up for the best they can do when it comes to storm readiness. Martin spoon More has been doing this for a very long time here. I trust him to do the job right. That's why

he is our recare sponsor here on guarden Line. Give him a call seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one three six ninety nine twenty six sixty three, or go to the website afftree Service dot com. Aff tree Service dot com. Martin charges about I think it's one hundred and fifty bucks to come out to the property and do the consultation. If you have him do the work, that one fifty just goes right into your price.

So but it's just a way to you know, not have to run all over town people saying, well I want you to look at this. Yeah, never mind, you know, they just wanted free advice. Hate that. But anyway, Martin does a good job. And when he does it, you know that your trees are in good hands. That's very, very important. We're going to now go out to Laporte and talk to Elmer. Hey, Elmer, Hey, Hi, how you doing it that. I'm a limber radio. Real quick. I've got a big problem. I've

got three big oldfruit trees, and those buggers. They yield a lot of fruit. Lemon tree and orange tree and a grapefruit tree. The problem I'm having is every time they mature on the exterior. I can't explain it. On the exterior of the fruit, it gets like a very rough dride. It looks a cancerous type thing on it. Now, the fruit is very sweet, I mean they're very juicy, but I mean they just don't look like the way they do at the store, you know what I mean.

Yeah, And I don't know what the heck that is. It's just an ugly looking thing on the exterior, and it looks very dry and ugly. Yeah, I know, it's talking about omer. You don't need to worry about it. Bottom line is it is a cosmetic damage on the outside. You don't eat the outside, turn off the lights, close your eyes, and enjoy your orangees. I guess there's one way to look at it. I'm joking, but seriously, you kidding me? Yeah, no, seriously.

There are some different things that can affect the skin of ceterus. There there is actually little mites that chew on the skin and cause that's what it looks damaging to it. Sometimes you get a bird. There are birds that do little tiny pecks all over it and it gets all just crusty and bad looking. There's a lot of different things that can do that. But the bottom line is, as you said, the inside tastes just the same. So I I nothing is worth worrying about in spraying for if you're still let

me ask you, let me ask you something crazy. Does it make sense at auto for me to throw something over it like a very very How can I explain bean screen or something like that screen? I mean no, you know, I mean you've put a burden that over and keep the birds off. But that's not needed. You can You're not going to have anything like that. If it were mites doing it, a type of mite that does that it, the screen wouldn't help on that. Uh No, I wouldn't.

I wouldn't. I wouldn't worry about it. Right now, they're the size of about a wall or peanut. They look beautiful, but I already know when they get to the size about a baseball, they don't look terrible. Yeah. Well, you know, if you get to that stage and you want to send me a close up photo of the fruit, and then I can get more specific with what is causing the cosmetic damage and we could

discuss things I don't know. You know, you could put like a horticultural oil spray over it and that would help deal with like the mites, for example. But we need to know exactly what's causing it. But again, it's cosmetic, you know, so don't don't don't see Yeah, it don't look like the ones at the store. Man. All right now, we are we doing bragging rights in the neighborhood here? Is that? What's going on on this? No? No, you know what. I'm proud of

my fruit. I'm gonna tell you why. Because the cost of food has gone skyrockets. You know, my limitree yields so much lemons, I don't know what to do with themselves. I just throw them white and my grapeful tree. Forget that that thing's about thirty feet tall. I didn't do they would grow that tall and they fall on the ground small. To be honest with you, but if the price of fruit today, I'm fine with the way they are. You know what I mean. I got you. I

got you. Sounds like you're doing everything right. Uh, Like I said, you hit that stage of season. Send me a picture. We'll look at it. But I would i would say ninety eight percent of the time. I'm gonna tell somebody, don't worry about it. Don't worry, turn off the close your eyes, and enjoy your situess. And one last thing. During the summertime, is it appropriate water those trees three times? Excuse me, once twice or three times a week? I really don't know what

the schedule is on water. You should not have to water a citrus more than once a week. In fact, you probably don't need to water it every week. These things have a good root system, and you know if it if it's one hundred and five degrees, you know, for two weeks and no rain. Yeah, you know they're gonna need some water. But in general, we weigh over water our plants. Just I guess that's what

that's what I guess. That's why every time I come out and I see that great for crear, another branch is coming out right, yeah that yeah, you're all right, man, Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciate it. All right, take care. If you live up in the Magnolia area, just kind of northeast of tom Ball a little bit that direction, Spring Creek Feed Center is your hometown feed center Magnolia on Highway FM twenty nine eight, twenty nine seventy eight. They're right there on the side of the

road. I love going by their beautiful place. For example, you walk in. I had a posted something to Facebook the other day just what it looks like when you walk in. I mean it it is just makes you want to run around and start shopping. And of course it's a feedstore. They got all the feed for your animals, your pets and whatnot, high

quality feed. But they have a lot of bling in there too. And then when it comes to your garden, if I talk about a fertilizer, it's at Spring Creek Feed Center. If you need to control insects, diseases, or weeds, it's at Spring Creek Feed Center. They cover that friendly, courteous staff. One of the best things about shopping there too. I should mention that they even do special orders and delivery, so check them out.

Spring Creek Feed is conveniently located in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. Our phone number if you would like to give us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was in Spray Creek Feed a couple of weeks ago, I believe it was. I have trouble going back in time going how long ago was that? But anyway, it was really recently how about that? And they had a good stock of Microlife fertilizer in as well as there

are other fertilizers, you know. I was looking at the Microlife and they had the humates plus the purple bag. That is the numbers are zero zero four. You're not putting it down to just put all these nutrients on your lawn, although when you add it you are getting nutrients, but you're getting concentrated compost in a bag. Think of it this way. You got a bunch of grass, clippings and leaves. That's called organic matter. It decomposes,

that's called compost. The compost continues to decompose as far as it will decomposed. That's called humus. And Humates plus is a concentrated compost product. Concentrated compost in a bag. It is got microwhizl fungi that have been added, as well as a lot of essential microbes. It will help improve your turf by helping improve your soil by helping enhance the microbial activity in the soil. It can help with these claysoils we're dealing with here. It's something that

I would suggest just on a regular basis. You know, each year, do some concentrated compost in a bag, the purple bag Microlife Humates plus. When you're out doing your fertilize, that's a good time to do it. Same time as well, and yeah, you can get that sprint Creek Feet and a whole lot of other places around the Greater Houston area. Makes it easy to find, very easy to find. Have you ever noticed that sometimes those landscape beds around the house don't look so good and you're like driving up

and looking at them like, oh man, that's not good. I got to get out there. I gotta pull weeds. I need to put some mulch down, I need to need to need to well. Pierscapes can do that for you. Pierscapes Number one, they do beautiful designs. I mean, if you want stone rockways, if you need any kind of a special feature like landscape lighting, if you need to improve drainage, even if you

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We're gonna go now out to Matagorda and talk to Jesse. Hey, Jesse, good morning. How are you? I'm well, sir. How can we help today? Well? A couple of years ago we bought a Texas mountain Laurel, at a nursery there in Houston. It is beautiful blue blooms or blue flowers on it, and we planned it and she's doing wonderful, nice green leaves growing taller. But I don't know if it's too windy

or because we haven't got those beautiful blue flowers. I don't know if it's just too windy out here and they're blowing the blooms off early we water it. Maybe we water it too much. Can you give me some advice? Okay? Does the tree itself, as far as the greenery and stuff, does it look good? It does? Sometimes it looks like something's maybe chewing on it, because a branch or two will start to bear, and then these pods come out but then more leaves, so okay, it's yeah.

Well, Mount Laurel sets its blooms in the late summer and fall for the spring bloom show, and so stresses during that time could affect effective bloom set. Mount Laurel is tough, it is. I mean it grows out of a crack and the rock west of Austin in the hill country. I mean you'll find it native in places like that. The biggest issue we would run into with Mount Laurel here is going to be when we don't give it good drainage, when the roots get a little on the soggy side. They don't

like that at all at all. And so you just need to make sure that it drains well. That's the number one thing in your control. Okay. And what would you suggest as far as a watering schedule for her? You've had it more than one year in the ground. You should never have to water Mountain Laurel here, Okay, I'm serious, you really, it's that well established because it grows in the wild west of Austin where it rains twenty three inches a year. Hey, I got to run. We're hard

up against a break, Jesse, But good luck with that. All right, we'll be right back. Hey, welcome back to the Garden Line. Good to have you with us today. We are talking about lots of different things related to gardening. Where's turf is always the elephant in the room. That is the number one thing that makes phone ring at your county agro Life

Extension office and at Garden Line as well. After thirty six years of doing Agrolife Extension horticulture work, I tell you turf is the king and trees are right behind it. And then if it comes to vegetables, tomatoes are the number one question that we get. And we used to say the three things that make our phone ring or the three t's trees, turf, tomatoes, And boy, that holds true. It definitely does hold true. If you are looking for a quality blend of soil less mix, a quality blend of

media. We say soil less mix because it's not soil. It's a special blend that's called composted potting soils. You know we talk about potting soils. Well, what about for your indoor plants? What would be a good blend for indoor Well, jungle land with water saving crystals would be a good blend

for indoor. It's got little crystal structures in it that absorb water, and it's almost like think of a like a gelatin like imagine little tiny chunks of jello, very small chunks of jello, and they absorb many times their weight in water. So when you forget to water your plants and that potting mix gets a little dry, those crystals hold onto the water and are able to say, okay, plant, just you know, here's a little bit of water to get you by. They will eventually remember to water you. For

crying out loud, it's happened at my house too. I bet it has it yours. Jungle Land with water saving crystals, that's the stuff you need. You can find jungle land with water saving crystals at a lot of different places, for example in Chanted Forest down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area. Growers outlet up in willis Or RCW Nursery where Tomball Parkway FM two forty nine comes into bout Way eight all carry nitrofoss products. Nit fross widely widely available

here in the Greater Houston area. Speaking of RCW, RCW is the kind of garden center where you walk in and if there's something you don't see that you want that you don't see there, They can get it for you. They really do their best to do that and they're very successful at it. But I'll tell you this, when you walk in, you're going to see what you're looking for. You know, tomatoes in vegetable plants, and when it comes to herb plants, I'm not saying right now necessary tomatoes, but

you know what I'm saying. Through the season, when it comes to perennials, when it comes to annual flowers, when it comes to beautiful hanging baskets, definitely, when it comes to roses, like pages and pages of the roses, they can get their RCW Nursery and then they grow their own trees. They grow their own trees up to Plantersville, and they grow trees that belong here, species that will thrive here in our area. That's what they do. I call them to get it, got it nursery because if they

don't have it, they will get it. They absolutely can do that. Now you're going to find the fertilizers I talk about on guarden Line at r CW Nurseries, and you're going to find a lot of cool landscape plank, metal art, little metal arches and things things to enhance and beautify that landscape. Go to RCW Nursery. They're at Tomball Parkway where it comes into a eight. It's easy to get to. The website are CW Nurseries dot com. RCW Nurseries dot com. I always like to go in and visit.

Uh, there I was. Last time I was over there. My jaw was just hitting the ground at the bougainvilleas that they had. They had the standards by a standard. We mean, and we do this with roses and bougainvillias and other things. Uh, but where you train the trunk up a little steak and then you have this this head or this it billows out at the top. So think of a rosebush. We'll think of a rose standard,

just like a little rose tree, a mini rose tree. They have Booga Villa standards out there that were showstoppers, just unbelievable, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful stuff. Hey. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Got an open board all of a sudden here. That's interesting. Not a common occurrence. Uh, if you'd like to give us a call. It be an easy way to get on. Some folks had to really hold

the day. We had a rush for the phones early on. And so now if you don't want to have to wait a little while, it'ud be a good time. Medina has a new product that I am really excited about, and that is super Grow Plush. You've heard me talk about it a lot. Sixteen zero two. Those are the three numbers, sixteen zero two. It is a very unique product in that you hook it up to a garden hose and it takes about I don't know ten minutes to spray your whole

lawn covers about four thousand square feet one of their low court bottles. It's got nitrogen in of course the immediately released form. It's a quick acting green up, but it also has iron in a slower release form. There's a percentage of that iron that is going to release a little bit more slowly. And it has things that are very important for giving your lawn green, like iron that's keylated in it. It has that, it's got seaweed extract.

It's just a good product all around. It makes sense. It got molasses and humic acid in it as well, so you can use it any time of the season. You're not going to burn your lawn with it. And by the way, this you know, we talk about it for lawns, but I've seen some awesome pictures of a tomato patch where they were using it as just a foldier feed and I put it on the ground in the patch. A good fertilizer, high quality stuff and guess what you want a shot

at it? Well, I'm going to be giving away four quarts of it today out at Arburgate. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty, and Medina is providing four quarts of that, three quarts of a hash to Grow, three quarts of hashtra Grow lawn, three of their seaweed. I got a lot of different kinds of samples out there. Appreciate the folks at Medina providing those. This is your chance to come put your hands on some of it and get you a free sample or in this case, a free

giveaway Medina super Grow Plus. It's part of the hastro Gro line of Medina Hastrogro number of good quality products. Supergirl Plus that's the one, that's the new one, that's the one I'm really excited about right now, we're going to go out to spring Bronze. Hey, hurt, Oh, hey you're here, you're live? Yes? Oh h yes, ma'am, I catch you off guard. Boy, that was quick. I just said we had an open line, So there you go. Oh sure, uh I we

celebrated money today early because they're going out of town. Well, anyway, I got a call lily. Oh it's beautiful. They're about ten stems in this part. I imagine that's too many for one thing. Uh, and I need to know about that. But where are the LEAs? Were two of them actually all leo yo gold yellow? Are they supposed to do that? It's probably an older leaf. Kali lilies want even the moist soil. They don't want to dry out, but and they'll turn yellow if they get

too dry. But they also want good drainage, and so make sure the pot has holes in it that drain away because if it gets soggy wet, you can get some root rot type issues in there that can cause that as well. All right, now, I feel like ten stems is too much for this five inch pot. How soon should I separate them? Well, I mean you could do it whenever you want, but you could bump into a little bigger pot. That would be another option if you want to do

that. People put them in the ground, if you've got a real good spot, that gives them what they want. Bright light, but not just blazing hot sun, but bright light and then good drainage and lots of organic all right, all right, well, thank you very much. All right, heard it, Thank you. I appreciate your call very much. Well, we're hitting a break here. When we come back, we will get to you out there that are holding Lee and Avida and Patrick and Laura Loretta.

Boy, the phone's lit up again. We'll be right back. Come on, hey, welcome back to the Guardline. Good to have you with us today. Absolutely good to talk with you about what kinds of things we can do to help. I want to go now to Lee and Conroe. Lee, I got your photos and that is a slime mold. That is the stuff we were talking about on your grass, and it looks like it's

gotten on those plants as well. The one on the plants looks a little bit like powdery mildew, but it looks a lot more like slime molds. So bottom line, get your hose with strong last of water and just blasted away. Nothing to worry about on the lawn and on the plants. Yeah, I don't, I don't. There's no disease that looks like that other than powdery mildew. And it doesn't quite look like powdery mil do to me.

Well, I appreciate you looking at both those, both the bush and the grass blades, and I will get some pressure, puts the pressure nozzle on my hose on the on both of them, and yeah, see if we can. And I guess the good news is it doesn't doesn't sound like it needs any application of no not at all. Okay, Well that's good news, and I thank you very much again for your you're reviewing them and feedback. Okay, so lee on the plants, not the grass plant,

but on the other plants you sent picture of. If the blasting away doesn't make it go away, then I would shift over to treating for powdery mildew. And there are a number of different fungicide type options for controlling that. I think it's going to be okay without it. Okay, okay, if I if I, if I find that it doesn't on the plant, and I went I went to your website and powder and mildew whether there be uh yeah, there there are a couple of options. There's standard synthetic fungicides.

Name oil, any kind of a horticultural oil will control powdery mildew as well. You just want to follow, okay, And you just said name oil and I've got a trigger court trigger of name oil on him, all right, kyn off, and it doesn't do it from the yeah names normally we use it for insects, but the any oil product is going to work on powdery mildew as a as a temporary control. All right, thank you,

sir. I appreciate that call very much. People often will ask where can I who can help me with aeration and compost top dressing because that's a heck of a job to do it yourself. I mean you can, but it's a heck of a job. Well if you if you live down in the south and especially toward the south and west direction. B and B Turf Pros is the company that you want to contact. B and B Customer satisfaction is their number one priority, it really is, and they do high quality work.

They use quality products. They only use products in companies that I trust. Here on guardline you're going to find if you're in sugar Land or Missouri City, come out west direction. They can service that area. If you're down in Ciena and or Cola and Iowa Colony and Manville, Fresno down south, they're going to service that area about as far east as pear Land because they've got heavy duty equipment, beautiful, beautiful equipment that does an excellent job

in the air rating and in the compost top dressing. Give them a call seven to one three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two three four five five nine eight, or here's the website b B Turfpros dot com. B B Turfpros dot com. They go above and beyond to make a personal connection and make sure you're happy with the work they do. And I can just tell you will be because of the kind of work that I have seen that they do. We're going to go now to Patrick and Katie.

Hello, Patrick, Hey, how are you doing? I'm good sir. How can we help fantastic? I've got a gardener we get is a kinny planet in a couple of cucumber plants, and they've been doing great so far, but now it looks like some of the next batch of cucumbers coming up. They're starting to look a little they're not shaped properly. They're string

to bend over. Yes, and it looks like also on the main stalk, it looks like, I don't know, we're kind of guessing at Scot's vine bore or something because it seems like there's some damage and maybe some little eggs or something that got laid in there. Okay, so well, let's start with the Let's start with the fruit there, Patrick, that is due

to incomplete pollination. Seeds release hormones that make the fruit grow normally. And if you have pollination in some seeds but not in others, you're going to end up with a fruit of fruit that bends or twists or you know what I'm saying. It's not going to be normal, and it could be due to a lack of bees. It could be due to weather conditions as temperatures heat up. Typically we often see a lot of the fruit where the tips don't pollinate as well as the rest of the cucumber, for example, But

that's not something you really can control. As far as the insect, I'd almost need to see a picture to be able to be sure what we're dealing with. I suspect it's not a big problem on yours. It doesn't sound like a common problem that you're describing. Okay, okay. And then the zucchini has been doing great, but all of a sudden, it looks like there's a lot more ants, uh that they are just kind of running up on it. And and the last one we had, you know, before

it reached full size, it started to get mushy. And yeah, rainy weather is a problem on our squash. When the balloom falls off, we often get infection through the belly button end of the squash. Uh, something is going on. And those just try to keep them picked as much as you can. They produce so much that if you keep picking them and getting the old stuff out of there, you cut down on some of the reinfection that can occur. But I think that's that's probably the thing that's most in

your in your control on those. But well, that's awesome, sounds easy enough, Yes, sir, thank you. I appreciate your call very much. Good good to visit with you. We're gonna now head out to porter and talk to Avida. Hello Avita, Hello, I have a house plant if they call it a ZZ plant. Yes, I've had it for several months. It's doing great. I have it next to a window. I

water it only when it's dry. But here recently in the last week, my branches are falling now, and I'm wondering what could I do to take care of the plant. You don't mean falling off, you mean drooping down, drooping down? Yeah, yeah, it does that and mine does that too. And I don't know if as new growth comes up that the older growth kind of bends down because it's still looking for light, or if that's just but it's not associated with any problem on the ZZ plant. They can

spread out like that. I would think probably the lighting environment might have an effect. It does on how plants orient their growth, but in general, it's not a problem that I would worry about. Okay, So just let them fall and I'm trying to I'm trying to kind of kind of lean them up against the other plants to support them. But they're there now. I have Now I have two branches that are just you know, falling down,

right. And ZZ is a it's a great plan. It's it's super easy to grow, uh, and it may be that maybe if it gets a little on the dryer side, it would tend to sag down and then it doesn't bounce back up. I don't know why they end up like that, but I'm just telling you. I've got zz's that are doing great. But that's just part of the deal that I've experienced with them as well. But it doesn't lead to problem. I wouldn't cut them off. I just just leave them alone. No, no, you could. I mean, there's

no no problem at all. If you want to cut one off it's too low. I've done that before, where there's like one hanging out way off to one side and just blunch the plant. I'll just cut it off back at the base. You can do that. There's not a problem with that. Okay, all ready, thank you, all right, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Appreciate your call very much. Warrens and Kingwood Garden Center out in Kingwood, they are excellent nurseries for the folks that are

out there in that region. There's always something going on out of Warren's Garden Center. There are always new plants coming in. I mean, it's going to be a great place to get your heirloom soils products. For example, It's going to be a great place to get annuals and perennials. If you want beautiful, beautiful color, that's a place to go. They absolutely get you set up with the things that you need to have success. That's what

they do, that's what they specialize in. And so when you go out to Warren's Southern Gardens, just tell them you heard about it on Guardenline and that you're interested in seeing some of the color that they have. They have an elephant ear that has a hot pink stripe through a purplish green leaf. Now just imagine that you figure out what that might look like. Easy.

Easy to find them out there in Kingwood, an awesome austome garden. Say wow, another one in the books, folks, I said, we had open lines, and if you're filled up, we're coming back and we will get to you. I see K and Steve out there. We will get to you. You'll be the first up a Loretta and Texas city. In fact, you, I believe are the very first stop when we come back at eleven o'clock today, I will be in Tomball, Texas at the arbor

Gate Nursery. Come see me drive around the back. You want to drive around the back on Treshal Road to park in that wonderful old weather parking lot back there. Makes it easy. We're going to be giving away all kinds of things. Arburgates providing some of their one two three system, the organic soil, I'll be given a battle road for thirty minutes, the true Stable visors and me Dina products. And there's a special on the brick house Rows.

Welcome to kt r H garden Line with Scape Richard. It's just watch him as the world. Welcome back to the garden Line, folks. Good to have you with us. We have got plenty, plenty more to talk about today. It is time to do your summer fertilizing of the lawn. If you haven't done it already, now some of you've done a pre I mean a slow release fertilizer. Well, if you done that, you're you're good for several months out that that's that's good. But if you have not,

you need to grab some Slow and Easy from Nelson. Nelson's Slow and Easy is a nice slow release fertilizer. It puts that release out three or four months. In fact, I would say if you do a Nelson, slow and easy right now, You don't need to fertilize again until we hit the fall. That it truly gives a long, gradual release. And why is that important? Well, Number one, you just fertilize once you're done.

But for the plant, when you push a plant with too much nitrogen at one time, it's not that the number is big on the bag, it should be big on the back. It's how much of that do you put out? And when you push it with too much at one time, you end up with top growth at the expensive root growth, literally less roots when you overdo the nitrogen on a lawn. But with a gradual release over

time, you get a good, deep, extensive root system. So when we hit a drought, hot dry conditions, you're going to be better off. Your plant's going to be more resilient. When a grub comes along and chumps a root or two, it's not the end of the world. The plant's got a big, extensive, robust root system. Slow and easy bills that. It also has an acidifying effect on soil, and it just is

a product that's really designed to create the perfect soil environment. The mechanism of its release helps feed the microbes in the soil, which then feed the plants and enrich the soil itself. Slow and Easy by Nelson Fertilizer. Very very good product, works very very well and you will be impressed with the gradual release. Always remember, too, when you're doing this, return those grass clippings. That's part of a complete lawn care system is to chop those clippings

up with a multi moor and put them back in the soil. Let's go out to Texas City now we're going to talk to Loretta. Hello, Loretta, Hello, Hi, thanks for waiting. Thank you well, thank you for taking my call. I too, to make a long story as short as I can. Two years ago, my son planted a lily garden for me, and there's lots of lilies in there, and I'm not real diversified

on him. There's a candi lily and a calally. Okay. The candle lilies, I think are the tall ones that have the flowers on top, and the cal lilies are the ones that had like the cup yes flower. Okay, I've got uh one of the catal lilies with the cup flower that has like a seed pod coming out of the flower. This is the first time I've ever seen that is Is that what it is? And can those seeds be harvested and planted? It's probably a bloom stalk coming up out of

the center of that. Uh, it's it's uh marbled. I I mean it looks like the inside of ah okay pomegran It's got the little seed pods like the inside of a pomegranate. But it's all green, all right, hmm, that's very well and it's not well. I guess you are seeing a pod then if it's following back behind a bloom, Uh, that's interesting. You don't get to see those a whole lot, at least when I've tried to do those before. You don't see it. But I know what

you're talking about on the pomegranite type thing. So hopefully the seeds inside are viable. Who knows whether they are or not. But if they are, you can harvest them and you can sprout them yourself. You just have to go online to read how to do that. There's got a lot of good information online about that. But as Cala's growing in mostly shade, mostly sun, or kind of a mix of the two. It's a mix of the two. We've had this tropical rainforest kind of yes weather pattern this year,

and uh, you know, everything's doing beautifully. Ah, but this is the first time I've ever seen this in this kind of flower. Well, it happens, it does happen. Yeah, so you are correct, and and what what you were seeing there? And yeah, I would try, just for fun, sprinkle sum on a little potting soil, and but go online first and read read what to do to successfully grow those. It sounds like you're doing a lot good. If you've got a happy cali lilies canna's,

you can. It's hard to make a canna unhappy. They are tough. Yeah. I've got the glady Ella's and the star lilies and the wow. Yeah, it's a beautiful lily garden. My goodness, what a kind thing your son did that. Yours of enjoyment, yours of enjoyment. Well, Lauretta, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Thank you you, Pat take care. Yeah, that is just as an example of another reason why we always want to consider plants as gifts. Such a good

idea. Let's go to Pairland talk to Kay. Hey k, good morning, Skiff, Thank you for taking my call. I have a question. It's again for a friend about fungus or mold naps. Okay, she has her plants. They're infesting them, and she has a seven or eight foot

bed of amarillis and she said they have killed completely killed the leaves. They're mushy and the bulbs are mushy, and they've invaded other plants and she's treated them some with she found well, she's researched or tried to research that hydrogen peroxide killed them, but she's afraid that the hydrogen peroxide may also kill natural beneficial insects or things in the soil. You yeah, I wouldn't. I mean, I've heard of people doing that. Fungus gnats are not that difficult

to get control of. This Is this in containers? You said, no, it's no, they're in the ground. The ground usually when we have if it is fungus nats, we have those because we're keeping the soil surface too wet, and that's one step is just let it dry a little bit. I don't know that it's fungus gnats. It could be something else, but there's a lot of little tiny gnat like insects that this could be. And it may be that the rot is not due to the things flying around,

the gnats flying around. It could be due to something else. So we kind of got a lot of possibilities in that question. I would there is a type of BT that will kill fungus gnats. And what it does is it kills the larvae and the soil, so you drench the soil surface and it larva just like it kills. There's a type that kills mosquito larva, and there's another type that kills caterpillar larva oil caterpillars are larva. But there's one that will kill fungus gnats. And so when you go you can

go to your you're down in the Pearland area. You know, you've got your ACE hardware down there on Main Street, and I would just go in and say I need a BT, not the caterpillar kind, but one that'll kill fungus gnats, and they probably have that on the shelf. Okay, we'll do, Thank you so very much. Have great day, you bet you take care, appreciate your call. We're going to take a little break here. We'll be right back our phone number seven one three two one two

fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to the Guardline. Good to have you with us today. As always, you are looking for a quality tree, a species that wants to grow here a proper planting of that tree, you need to call the folks at Burden Tree Farm Verden has three locations around Houston. There's one up in the Heights where Iten or Yale come together, it's one out barker Cypress on the west side, and down in Pearland. There

is also a Verdant Tree Farm down there the website Verdant Tree Farm. If you're looking for trees that are cold hardy, that are drought resistance, especially palms for example, a palm tree that can take the cold, they've got palms like that down there. They have a wide variety of things. Go to the website too, Verdant Treefarm dot com and look at there's a list of all the trees with descriptions of each one's really excellent information, as well

as all the palms. Also there they have trees all the way up to seven hundred gallons. So yeah, they ought to give you a free hammock with that, because it's time to hang a hamck in a tree that size just about one your warranty included with their installation of the tree. They know how to establish it, and there's never a better time to get the tree done than now. Because the best time to plant a tree is forty years

ago. Second best time is today. Don't delay. Those trees can be adding beauty and significant value to your landscape, and verdant tree farm trees will do just that because they're going to be well adapted, well planted, and they're going to last. I want to go out now to Deer Park and we're going to talk to Steve. Hello, Steve Hello, can you hear me? Yes, sir, I can I have a just one small question. I have a pretty good pile of finished composts and I was wondering can

I mix that with potting mix to kind of stretch the potting mix? Yeah? Absolutely, If it's a good quality compost, you can mix it and stretch your mix out, mix it with mix, mix it with soil, whatever you want to mix it with. What kind of ratio would I use or I don't want to use? Straight? Yeah, well, it just depends. I mean, let's say go conservative, not more than twenty five percent of compost initially, because you know, I don't know the condition of

your compost, the quality level of it and stuff. So yeah, I would say let's start with twenty five percent. Okay, well that's the only question I had this morning. Okay, good well, good luck with that, and congratulations on making composts. That that is a good, thank you, good thing to be doing. For sure, absolutely, for sure. Let's see, we're going to go now to James in Paarland. Hey, James, Hey, Jiffy. I called you a couple of weeks ago and

you gave me some information. I'm planning a garden and I get these little bugs that I can't see that are you know they're enjoying a good salad bar. Okay, but you mentioned a product and I went down to the local aid and I didn't write it down, but it started with an F and they were like, well, we got lots of things to start with. You do you remember what that was? I mean, I know you don't remember. The phone call is in frank is what I thought. I probably

recommended spinosaid it's sp spin no sad. Yeah, that's an organic product that kills things that eat leaves, caterpillars and beetles, for example. Spinosaid work. It works on other things too, but primarily leaf fet is that applied in the soil or is that a spray it? You gotta spray it on the leaves so that it'll soak into the leaf and then when something comes along and choose on it, it kills it. Will it wash away when it's being water or well to some degree, but as it soaks in, what's

what moves into the tissue doesn't wash away. But I wouldn't do any spray right for a rain Okay, So no rain, spray it on and then what give it twenty four hours before watering or yeah? Probably so there's not a black and white line on that one, but yeah, that'd be a good practice. Okay. And I have one other question for you for my wife. He has an orchid that she's been trying to get to bloom forever. It's green and healthy, but it doesn't flower. Is there something that

she could see that or something that she should be giving it? She looked online and done all the different tricks, but you know, is this healthy? But it is? Yeah? Is this one of those supermarket orchids that you see the called the moth orchid or calalea orchid. That's well, those are pretty easy. They need good sunlight and then they need to be occasionally repotted. And I can't go into detail on the air how to do it, but you're going to cut away the old stuff down at the bottom of

the old roots. You're going to repot it, and then you're going to do some fertilizing in very light doses. So think of it as mixing an extremely diluted fertilizer and water extremely diluted, right, and watering with it a few times to just support some growth. And if you have good sunlight for that orchand I don't mean direct sun I mean bright indirect light, then you're gonna be able to get that plan established so it produces the bud to be

able to do a bloom cycle. Again. That that's in a nutshell what you need to do. All right, Okay, we'll go and research it. And yeah, it says green, it looks healthy. It's just it's in a vibrant area in the house where we talk. All that that happens. It does happen a lot. I know what you're talking about. I've had that myself. Changed. Hey, thank you for the call. Sorry, I'm gonna I appreciate that call Ana Plants and Produces up there in Montgomery.

In fact, they're on the east side of Montgomery on Highway one oh five. Now, if you've been to Ana Plants and Produce, you know that you've got a wide variety of all kinds of plants. I mean, if you're looking for turning your place into a beautiful place, Ana Plants is going to have it. What they also have is every fertilizer I talk about. I'm talking about all the different brands and products I talk about. They're

there. I'm talking out all the soils there there as well. Uh you get they they pretty much they make it where you get to have your pick of what you're looking for, A and a you just know you're gonna get what you need. You know. Ana Plants and Produce. They're open seven days a week for crying out loud, I mean seven days a week, nine to five. All the fertilizers, take your pick, all the soils, take your pick, Lots of beautiful plants. Always things going on there

at Ana Plants and Produce on the east side of Montgomery. You can go to We'll go to the phone just give me a call nine three six, five nine seven fifty seventy nine three six, five ninety seven five zero seven zero. We're gonna go to Rufus in Cove, Texas. Hey, Rufus, got a Rufous there? All right, I'm gonna put you back on hold. We're gonna go to Susan in League City. Hello, Susan, good line, skiff. How are you? I'm well, how can we

help? Thanks for helping with my question. Okay, I have a butternut

squash that has a mystery that I hope you can help me with. I've been watching it growing and flowers coming out, and male and female flowers, and what I can figure out is I never see the male and the playing female flowers open at the same time, so I have no idea how they poppinate, and the flowers keep falling off the Finally I got frustrated and I went out there and took matters into my own hand, and I open up a clothes male flower, took the stepmen, and I use that to geminate

the open female flower, and so far that's the only one that the food will start growing. Okay, I can't figure that out. Well, normally the way those things sprawl around the butternuts, and they they're going to have open male and female. I don't know if some are hidden on or leaves, maybe you're not seeing them. But I've never had a situation where you would have a male flower one day and then and no females, and then

the next day females and no males. That that's very unusual. But what you've done is the thing you got to do, and that is take matters into your own hands to do that cross pollination. It might be a reason to have more than one plant just so you have more blooms, so the percent chance of having some of both open on a given day is higher. But other than that, I think you've done all you can do. There's no way to make the plant behave differently. All right, well i'll have

to that. I'll see if I can get another one. Well, hopefully they'll still set fruit. I mean we're still you know, those squash. You've got quite a bit of season left, so hopefully that will turn around. Hey, thank you very much, Susan. I appreciate your call. If you're down south of town and you are looking for quality products to help set the foundation for success in your garden. See in a mulch is the place you need to go. Now, what do we always say on Guardline,

brown stuff before green stuff? Right? Ciena Malts specializes in everything you need for the brown stuff, for the foundation, for the soil, so that when you put the green stuff in vegetables, plants, treat shrubs, they're going to do success successfully. So for example, do you need composts, do you need rose soil? Do you need any kind of a blend to grow plants in? Do you need maltch to go on the surface. Do you need fertilizers? Cienamultch carries all the fertilizers I talk about on Guardline

and then some. I mean, they really have a good selection. When you drive off from Cienamulch or if you're within twenty miles, they'll deliver your bulk supply. Then when you leave you have what's needed for plant success. Now just take it home, make good soil and get good plants and you're off to the races. For example, they carry that super By nitrofoss the silver bag nineteen four ten fertilizer. Half of the nineteen is slow release.

That is a good thing. That's how you want to feed plants gradually over time. It's got four percent iron for excellent color and green up. If you've not done a slow release this summer, go ahead and do it. Just head out to SI Animals gets you some of that nineteen four to ten and put it down on your lawn at the recommended rate. You can find it on my chart that I do online. It tells you when to fertilize and whatnot. And Nitrofos super Turf nineteen four ten silver bag. That's one

that will give you beautiful results. We're going to go now to Cyprus and talk to Clay. Hello, Clay, good morning. I've got a question. I've got some tomatoes that are doing really well, fruits coming out. But I noticed cavity in one of the one of the tomatoes. Something's been eat eating at it. And I did notice some beetle looking things, ugly ugly things kind of orange and black stripes. Okay, and it was is

that what beating the tomatoes? It could have been, but I suspect the whole the cavity was done by a caterpillar and maybe the beetle is just in there. Now, that is my my best guess on that. Typically that's a good guess because I did see a caterpillar. All right, well, I'm up against a hard break, but caterpillars, BT and spinosa are your two best options on tomatoes to shut down those caterpillars. And again the beetle, I wouldn't I wouldn't sweat it. But Clay sry to be in a

hurry day. We gotta we gotta take a break. All right, We'll be right back seven one, three, two, fifty eight, seventy four and come back to guarden line. Good to have you with us today. If you have not been out to RCW Nurseries recently, you need to get out there. RCW has got a wonderful deal going on for mom this weekend,

in fact, Saturday to day and Sunday from ten to two. So when guard line's over, they're going to kick off out there from ten to two, they're going to be doing a thing where for ten bucks you get a pot, a paint and a succulent plant and you get to sit down with them a little project, put it together. You paint up. The pot is a beautiful little I'm just looking at some of the designs that they have really cool and then you plant your cucculent and it makes a nice little

gift for mom. This would be a good one for maybe kids to go out and do to give to mom or to give to grandmam. That would be another good idea RCW. Just something they got going on this weekend, both today and tomorrow. Out there. RCW is going to have an excellent selection of anything that you're looking for, and they're going to have the product to go with it too. You know, if I talk about a fertilizer

on there, they're going to have it. If you're going to be planting a tree, for example, like one of their trees that they have, they've got a little schedule for you, you know with they use like a microlife every three to four months. They tell you with each size of container how much that you put out and win. They've got the root activator that you can use once a month during that first year, because you know, the goal of the first year is to get that tree root system established.

That is the number one goal for success, not just survival, but for fast growth and success. Rcw's got it. R CW Nursery. They are the garden center right there where Tombo Parkway. Highway two forty nine comes into beltwegh eight makes it easy. We're going to go now to Rufus, and Oh, Rufus, I've already talked to you today. I just saw you hanging out there on the board, So excuse me. We're going to go to Joshua here in Houston. There we go, Hey josh Higo morning.

Thank you for taking my call. Yes, sir, last year, we uh we got three apple trees. There's a couple of other ones, but I got two anna apples and a golden apple. And the frieze last year took kind of took most of the growth up top, and I believe they're grafted trees and the I had to cut two of them down. Most a lot of it died, but they lasted. They're they're green. I got no buds or anything on them. But the one apple tree, which I

thought was dead this year, it's got quite a bit of fruit. But uh, as far as I know, they were one year olds when I got them. I know they grafted, and I don't know much about the age on grafting trees. But producing the fruit this early at one year is that? Is that? Okay? And and also my cutting down those trees.

I did a little looking online and it looks like there's a certain point where I guess that used some kind of a dormit tree or something, and they graft good tree onto it. If I cut all the what was grafted, that is that tree pretty much going to be non fruit bearing now. Yeah, so apples are grafted under rootstocks that do not produce good apples. The rootstocks don't. The reason they graft them some there's certain soil conditions that

they do. It a graph for that, but also primarily it's to control the size of the tree, because an apple tree just gets way too big otherwise. And so everything above the graft is that is, the anna or the Dorset golden or whatever variety they have, is above the graph. If you cut that all away, and you cut it down where all that's left is a rootstock, then you're not going to have trees. You would have to regraft yourself or just dig it out better yet and buy a new tree.

But so don't don't cut the above the graft union completely off right. I don't think I did. But it's just got big leaves now, and there's no I don't see any kind of goods. Yeah, made me question if I had gone I could still see the joint. But I mean, I guess I could take and graft on from the good and apple free to the either one of those two. I know you need a golden and you need you to tie, you could you could do that if you do.

If you go online, you can learn how to do what's called a tea bud and that's done during the growing season and just have to study it and read it and figure it out. It's not easy, but it's doable. Or during the dormance season you can use what's called a whip graft. Those are the two easiest grafts probably for you. I would in general, though,

seriously consider just getting a new tree that's ready to go. And unless you just want to play around, you know, with the hands on stuff, but you're going to be way ahead of things to just get a new tree and put it in in terms of getting it. And now, how long does it take for edible fruit from a fairly young tree that three to so many years, even if it's another third year, you should be getting a decent amount of apples. But then it becomes how big is the tree,

you know, think of it like a Christmas tree. The bigger the tree, the more ornaments you can hang on it. Well, the bigger apple tree, the more apples you can hang on it. So that is that's the real determiner of yield. Then at that point I appreciate it. Thanks very much. All right, Josh, thanks a lot. I appreciate it. Appreciate your call very much. We're going to go now to Katie

and talk to Ray. Hello, Ray, good morning, Skip, good morning, and happy Mother's Day to all those moms in a listening area. I just had a quick question. I mowed a lawn. I put the imperial down the silver bag. How long should I wait to mow it. I'm afraid it's gonna suck up those pellets and spread them all over the place. Oh, I see more than that, more than I did. Hello, it's growing. The grass is growing. I'm just afraid to cut it. Well, are you using a bagger or something? Or no? No?

No, turning everything. I don't worry about. You mow right after you fertilize if you want. Don't worry about Oh, okay, okay, yeah, another question I have. I have a cabbage and it's growing. I have three of them. Two of them are close to the ground on on on on containers and the other one, the third one, is growing like it's trying to reach for the sky. So whenever the cabbage grows in it, will it be too heavy where it breaks the stem of the of the plant? Or no, if it's on a stalk, it's not a

cabbage. Can you take a picture and send it to me by email. I don't know what we're talking about here, but cabbage just sets right down on the above the ground. Okay, yeah, so let me let me put you on hold and kay yeah, Callum will give you my email address. Thanks a lot, I appreciate that. Hey, if you need a good Mother's Day gift, idea why birds has got you covered. I'm telling you your mom may not be a gardener, but she will appreciate a beautiful

bird feeder like their eco turff. It's made out of recycled milk jugs. But you don't know that. When you look at it, it looks like it's made out of wood or something. Real beautiful, But what a cool deal. A really nice feeder, one of the best or the best. Actually hummingbird feeder I know of is the high perch feeder, and they have those at mothers for Mother's Day gifting at Wildbird's or you know, you can also buy you one for yourself too. I love mine. They also have

the Eliminator scroll proof feeder. They've got The Joy of Bird Feeding, a book by the founder of Wildbirds Unlimited that is just really fun and it answers all kinds of common questions things you might run into feeding birds. Wildbird's Unlimited has got you covered. There's six of them all around the Greater Houston area. Go to WBU dot com forward Slash Houston WBU dot com forward Slash Houston. I'm telling you it is a can't miss place for your Mother's Day gifting.

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lot of different places. You're going to find it in Lake Hardware done in Angleton, Fisher's Hardware over in Baytown, or d and de Feed up in Tombole all carry nitrofoss products. We are running up right up against a break here, Rufus. You will be my first up when I come right back. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four and we'll be right back in just a moment. Hey, welcome back to the Guardline. I'm your host, skip Rictor're good to have you with us

today. Any plan you to talk about. Listen to Buchanans Buchanan's Nursery. They're in the Heights. They're on Eleventh Street. You've probably been there. If you haven't, well you got you gotta go. I mean, it's one of those places everybody needs to check out because it's so cool. Buchanans native plants. They specialize in native plants. But don't let that fool you.

I mean, first of all, if I know no place that carries the selection of natives that the Buchanans does, they just it's unbelievable what they have there. If you're trying to put in a let's say, a garden for pollinators, that's a big deal right now. Well, they're going to have things like Texas rock rose, Salvia, greggy ie, Brasis penstem. And by the way, I was up in North Carolina at the Let's see Ralston Arboretum in Raleigh, and I saw brass penstem growing up there. I

want to go, Hey, that's our plants from down here. Frog fruit, Greg golden rod, purple cone flower. That's a good one for butterflies too, by the way, turks cap blanket flower, gregsmithsflower on and Buchanan's got all of that. That is what they specialize in. But they have much much more houseplants vegetables. If you're looking for herbs, they have an excellent selection for mom. By the way, houseplant wouldn't be a bad idea.

You know, they have stuff that is just amazingly beautiful. Mom will not have seen the plant before because the selection is you know, it's not just apotheos ivy, which hay, nothing wrong with that, but it's way beyond that. Some really beautiful and exotic options on plants all available there at Buchanans, So you need to go check them out. They are definitely worth the stop eleven Street in the Heights Buchannansplants dot Com. We are going to

go now to Rufus in Cove, Texas. Hey, Rufus, can you hear me now? Yes, sir, I can. All right, I'm growing purple peace. And an old man tell me what it's all the little shooters that's running off. They might runners that connect one road to another row saying dead had them. And I'm out here doing that, and I'll see a little holes of about tea plant. Turn out, I got little holes of a tomato plants. So what's a little bug that's like a little hole?

Are you saying? Pea plant like southern peas? Yes, purple? Okay, Well, if there are holes, individual little holes like babie holes in a pea leaf, that southern pea leaf, that's probably a beetle that did that. But caterpillars and beetles both chew leaves, as do grasshoppers, for example. But a spinosid spray would be the one that I would use. It's the least toxic. It also works very well on chewing insects. However, that said, a few holes, in fact, quite a few

holes is not a problem. They took bean plants and a research trial one time rufus and they had to pull forty percent of the leaves off before they saw a significant reduction and yield. So a few holes is nothing. We don't we don't provacating tomatoes. Well, it could be the same insect, it could be a different one. There's a lot of beetles and there's a lot of caterpillars out there, but the same is true with tomatoes. It's not. You know, you could lose probably a fourth of the leaf area

on a plant and still be okay producing a good crop of tomatoes. Well, I used seven dust. It's been raining so much. I hadn't put any in and had been out guard about five days. Okay, Well that I was putting seven dust down first. Okay, Well that's what I follow the holes. Yeah, seven dust should control what eats the holes, beetles and cattle, right all right? Now, the other part about the little shooters on the purplele piece, is that true? Just go ahead and cut

them off because they're not going to provocate enough fruit. Yeah, I'm not fully understanding what it is you're describing there, but uh, all right, when your plant grows, it grows up, makes a nice bush and it puts on the flies. All of a sudden, you'll see this little runner shooter come out. Okay, yeah, he'll run across the road and he'll climb up on my plant. No, then they'll put peas all over here, but it'll be two months down the road. Yeah, yeah, that's

that's true. But some people just they'll even trell us certain kinds of peas and let them just keep growing and producing. It's up to you. There's not a right or wrong on that one. You can pick what you way about it. Just chopping them off what dead Heading them off did not gonna hurt me. No, it won't hurt them, but it'll just mean you get one crop and you're done. That's what I'm hoping for. All right, Rufe, good luck with that. I appreciate your call, Thank you

very much. ACE Hardware stores are all over the greater Houston area. There's forty stores here in the Houston area that are ACE Hardware's. ACE is the place for a lot of things. But you know, when it comes to stuff for maybe mom. For example, for mom, they have beautiful gifts. I mean the jewelry like a kinders, you know, types of jewelry, purses, all kinds of indoor decorations and beautiful things. ACE is a

place for gifts as well. I know you already know. It's a place for your lawn and garden and the fertilizers and pesticides and everything else you might need we control, but it's also a place for some wonderful gifts. You need to go check out. Each Ace Hardware store is independently owned, so they don't all have exactly the same things in them, but so many of them have really added just this beautiful indoor living and gifting and things like that

that you got to go check them out. Go to ACE Hardware dot com, Acehardware dot Com, do the store locator, find which of the forty stores are nearest you. I'm going to head out now to let's see, We're gonna go to Missouri City and talk to Steve. Hello, Steve, Hello, sir, how you doing today. I'm good, I'm good.

What's up? Well? So I've got what I think too. I think it's like an American ELM, but I've got the gross the little stems, the little shooters are shooting out and clusters on this thing, and I can't keep up with them. Is there anything I can do to stop those from growing out? Are you talking about coming out of the ground. No, they're actually coming out of the trunk of the tree in spot. Oh oh okay, No, I mean, well, there's a there's a product called

Florrel. It's a growth regulator. But I don't know anybody who sprays tree sprouts on a trunk of a like an elm like that with it. Typically we just will go in and cut those off, but try not to leave stubs when you cut them off. I mean, when they're really young, you can just break them off, but just get them as close as you can. But if you want to do something to shut that down a little bit, you can use something called Florrell. It's a growth regulator. There's

another one called sucker stopper, sucker sucker stop like that. Yeah, that makes sense, doesn't it. But just go go go do that. I've never sprayed for that kind of thing, but I know what you're talking about. It's annoying. Okay, all right, the second question, is that possible or yeah, very very very quickly, very quick. I have a sago that's got a whole bunch of other sagos popping up underneath. It. Okay, it looks really pretty that way as opposed to just having the big

stock and the pop at the top. Yeah. Is that safe for it to be that way? Or should I be cleaning it? No? Perfectly, perfectly okay. Most people like the look of a single trunk. But in nature, segos grow clumps, and that's what you got going there. Those are called pups at the bottom. That are they're coming in around mom to fill in and make a clump. Okay, okay, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Yes, sir, thank you. I appreciate

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hour coming up on the Saturday edition of garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to answer your gardening questions. Feel free to give us a call and if you would like seven one three two one two five eight seven four listen today. After the show, I'll be at Arburgate Garden Center, Arburgate nursery at eleven thirty and I'll be there till one thirty

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thing, and let me show it to you because it's cool. They're gonna be doing a special, a Mother's Day special on the brick House Rows. Listen, when you give your mom a rose bush as a gift, year after year after year, when those blooms appear, it's just like a dividend on your gift. A remembrance too, By the way, I have plants that I still remember who gave me that plant, and I just think plants are a great gift. They're gonna have frozen peach bellinis. Yep, you

got to try those out there. Are awesome, awesome. Uh do you see what I'm I'm saying. We're gonna have a good time out. Please don't miss this park in the back their new parking lot off Trishall Road in the back. It's easy to get to. So here's all you need to know. Arburgate is out twenty nine to twenty. It's west of Highway two forty nine out of Tomball to the west on twenty nine to twenty. When

you get out there, be looking to the left. Trishall Road leaves the twenty nine to twenty before Arburgate, swings around behind it and the parking lot comes back in after Arburgate. If you miss it when you see Arburgate, just keep going. It's gonna be the next place to turn and you can come around behind good good parking. So please do that. Please come join me today. I would love to visit with you. I always like to talk to folks that listen to Garden Line. Where you're gonna go Now to

Greg in League City. Hello, Greg. Good morning, Skip, and thank you for taking my call this morning. Yes, sir, I have a couple of black diamond craig myrtles in my backyard, very pretty plants, but they have some type of white powdery substance on some of the leaves and those wondering if you could point me in the right direction about it. Yeah, yeah, that is powdery mildew and it is a problem on the crape myrtle. In general. There's some varieties that are resistant, but in this

case you got one snot. So what you can do. There's a couple approaches to powdery mildew. First of all, it likes humidity. Most diseases like it when the leaves get wet, but powdery mildew likes a dry leaf but high high humidity and welcome to Houston. So it's a problem here. Now, you can use on an organic end oil type sprays. Horticultural oils

including neem oil will suppress the powdery mildew that you spray it on. It'll kill it because it's a surface fungal strand you can use their synthetics like Belaton Frigs semple that would would also move into the leaf and control it. There's a number of ways to deal with it, but it's just one of the things that tends to come and go with the weather. Especially it likes milder temperatures. When it gets really hot, I don't see as much of it

unless there's just a lot of lower spraying that's increasing the humidity. Got it, got it? Well, thank you very much. I really appreciate it, all right, good luck, Yes, you bet. I appreciate that call very much. Nitrophos the silver bag what is it called. It's called superturf. Why because it makes super turf. It is a nineteen four ten fertilizer. Half the nitrogen and a slow release form iron added on to make that deep, beautiful green that we're looking for. You know, iron deficiency

is very common. My neighbor I was looking at my neighbor shoard the other day and there's a lot of little iron deficient areas. A little supplement like that would be very helpful to use. And super turf silver bag nineteen four ten. It's easy to find. They have it all over the place. You can find in a lot of places. You go to a Southwest fertilizer, for example, Bob's got Itchurse. Southwest Fertilizer. Bob's got everything he does. I mean every fertilizer I talk about, and then some every pest

control, every disease control, every weed control. Bob and Aaron and his team, Josh, the team there. They are experts. They know how to identify, they know how to diagnose, they know how to point you to a product that's gonna work. So if you're looking for a one stop shop, I mean, you can take your lawn more bleeds are lawnmower equipment, your power equipment in there for repairs. I mean they sell quality power equipment too. By the way, they eighty foot wallle of tools. There's

another one. I mean, you just walk in there and you're gonna find plenty of things. Fertilizer spreader for your fertilizer. They're gonna have products for fireant control for example, and whatnot. Southwest Fertilizers on the corner Abysinet and Run in Southwest Houston. So it's easy to get to Southwest Fertilizer in Southwest Houston. You can go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com and while you're

in there, you're gonna find pretty much anything you could possibly need. I like to say that if if a Southwest fertilizer doesn't have it, you probably don't need it. Let's go now to Spring talk to Matt. Hello, Matt, oh hi, good morning. Thanks for your time and I enjoy the show. Thank you very briefly. I hope to visit your time at Arbor Gate. You too here by night. Yeah, and I apologize. I was kind of in the middle of when you were speaking of something called

Nelson slow and something slow and easy. That's right and easy? Yeah, yes, sir, I'm right now finishing off complete Saint Augustine thought on our front lawn. Okay, it's only in the been laid down a week now. Okay, I was causing not to fertilize it for a couple week and then cut it. And your team comment about once you use this product or recommended not to worry to fall, right, if I heard correctly, Yeah,

and I don't hope you don't mind the listeners. The keep Maltz company up there at nineteen sixty is just going wild with a good All right, well let's say let me let me jump in there, Matt. Nelson slow and easy is a good gradual release. The company that grow grass, they put a fertilizer on it before they sell it to you, and so you should be good for a month or more just in what is already in the

grass. But after about a month after you've put it down, put down the slow and Easy and the next time you fertilize will be in the fall. And if you go online to my website, gardeningwith Skip dot com, find my fertilizer schedule, it'll tell you when to fall fertilized and it'll give you all your options, including Nelson's Slow and Easy. I'm up against a hard break and I got a run, but good luck with that. Congratulations on your new lawn. I hope you will you have it with you?

What's that? Do you have a book out? I do, but I'm not. I'm not gonna have it with me today, but I'll talk about that more later. All right, We're going to take a break here seven one three, two, one two five eight seven four. Welcome back to Guardline. Good have you with us today. We are gonna head straight out to the phones and talk to Joel from Conro. Hey, Joel, Hey, good morning, thanks for kaking my call. How are you doing it.

I'm well, sir, I'm well sir. How can we help calling about leaf cutter ants up here and trying to see what the best way to control that is. Well, there is a concoction that you're going to put together, and John, what I'm gonna need to do is give get you to send me your email and I will send you the instructions for doing that. You're going to buy two different products mixing together and a bucket, let

them sit for a couple of weeks, and then put it out. And it seems to be as good as we can do to control those leaf cutters. But rather than going through the whole nine yards on the on the air, I'm just gonna put you on hold and Callum will get give you my email. Okay, perfect, Thank you so much. Every great day. You bet, you bet have a good day, yeah, leaf utter.

Leaf cutters are tough because they don't typically want to eat the baits and the poisons we would put out, unlike fant for example, would would do. Uh. And so it's a bigger challenge to get them because what they eat is a fungus. They cut the leaves off your plants. Shame on them. For doing that, and they take it to a big cavern underground that they made and they stick them in there and grow fungus on them and eat the fungus. Is that cool? So you can think of leaf cutters as

farmers because that's kind of what they are. And Yeah, I had a peach orchard a while back up in Willis many years ago, and one night I came out and two trees were defoliated overnight by leaf cutter ants. They found them, they told the family. Everybody showed up and I mean literally stripped them bare overnight. Wow, they're a mess, that is for sure. Have you been to enchanted Forests down in Richmond Enchanted Forest is it's an

enchanting place. I always love to go to Enchanted Forest because they always have things going on down there. They always have an excellent selection of plants. They're doing a little thing where you know, you can make and take a succulent arrangement for mom there. Of course, there's tons of game for mom down in that area of whether mom likes flowers or maybe she wants a new Vitex tree in the yard, something beautiful like that. Chenny Forest has quality

plants. They've got quality staff that can help you, that greets you, that points you to what you need. And if you're thinking about a butterfly garden, that'd be a good one for mom. By the way, they have all the plants for the adults to attract the adult butterflies and all the plants for the larvae to feed and create adult butterflies. You need to do both when you're planning a butterfly garden. And Enchanted Forest and Richmond they're going

to have that for you. They are on FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, Texas. The website Enchanted Forest Richmond TX dot com and Chanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. We're going to go now to Chris in Conroe. Hello, Chris, Hello, how are you today? I planted some sant augustine grass about six weeks ago and immediately fertilized it. Now I'm not supposed to now and it's kind of dormant. What can I do to make it grow better? Seeing augustine dormant now that's unusual. I don't know why

it's done into growth. I guess did it have a weed control product in it? Yes? It did? Okay, well, it may have been that You're just gonna have to wait that one out. It will start growing again, but for right now, let's not mess with it. It's not a lack of nutrients right now that that's causing that. So let's just wait it out. Uh, and it should start to grow again. Uh, I don't know, you know, to the degree that it was set back will vary the time that when you start to get back to normal again.

But uh, at this point, there's no product to fix the situation. Just just make sure it has water when it head and rained for a while and it's warm. Don't need a watered a lot. But it'll bounce back here in a wall. All right. Well, I appreciate it very much. Thank you very much, you bet, Chris, thanks for the call. Sorry to hear about that. I know that is no fun, right, no fun at all. Have you been Have you been to Nelson Water Garden out in Katie, Texas. They're out there in Katie, Texas.

You just turn north off iten on Katie Fort Ben Road and it's just a stone throw up the road there. Nelson Water Garden has an outstanding selection, outstanding selection of plants. It's really Nelson Nursery and water Garden. I always say Nelson Water Garden because I mean they are nationally literally, they are nationally famous for their water garden work. They created that disappearing fountain that comes out of a beautiful tall container. If you've never seen the you just gotta go.

You run out there to Nelson Water Gardening, Katie, and consider this an outing, consider this a destination, because that is exactly what it is. They got a Mother's Day sale going on, that's right, mother Day sale, twenty five percent off azaleas and roses and magnolias and krepe myrtles in the garden center. Oh the hibiscus. They have got beautiful hibiscus, beautiful herbs as well, and even an herb bold gift. You know, it's like all ready planted for mom right there. Uh, it's it's what you

would expect out of an outstanding nursery and garden center. But when you see the water features, the kinds of fountains and kinds of waterfalls they can create, you're gonna want to have them come out and do that for you. And if you're doing yourself or they'll they'll advise you on how to do it yourself. But I'm telling you the work they do is it's amazing. It absolutely is. Nelson Water Garden and Nursery, Nelsonwatergardens dot com, Nelson Watergardens

dot com. That is what you need to know. And I'm telling you any any time that you have a chance to just get out of the house, grab a friend or two, take the kids, take the family, take the friends, maybe get your garden club together to go. You need to do some horticultural tourism around the greater Houston area. There are outstanding places. I've noticed that people around Houston they kind of live in their little part of Houston, whether it's downtown or way out west or north or whatever,

and they don't tend to venture around. It is worth a drive to go see our garden centers that are north, south, east, west, central, wherever you are, there is something that other big cities would die to have. And I mean that I've been San Antonio, in Dallas and Fort Worth and Austin. Yes they have good garden centers, but not like here. Not the quantity, not the quality level that you will find here in the Greater Houston area. Something to note, something you definitely want to for

example, for example, over in Seabrook. The excuse me in Seabrook. Moss Nurserymaas. By the way, I always times forget to give websites and things like that, and I think it's worth going to check out websites. It's Moss Nursery dot com. Maas Nursery dot com. I was there yesterday, as a matter of fact. I always try to swing by there as much as I can, and they people were coming out with hadranga trees. What is a hydranga tree, Well, it is a stand we call a

standard. I explained that yesterday. Think of a trunk and then up at about three four inch three or four feet high, you just have this top which has all the foliage and all the beautiful blooms. Very unique, very cool. They have elephantears, gorgeous elephantears, not just green but deep burgundies, pink stripe, and the leaf just all kinds of stuff for sun and for shade. They have that. They were so loaded with hanging baskets still

that they're stunning beautiful cactus succulents they've got them. I wandered through the houseplant greenhouse. I have to do that every time I go there. Because they have an ex intensive selection of beautiful house plants. They have a butterfly and hummingbird attracting plants. Do you want a garden that attracts butterflies and hummingbirds? Just go to Moss Nursery and Seabrook Moss Nursery. They are They've been around

seventy years. Did you know that seventy year old family operated eight acres of wonderfulness on Toddville Road down in Seabrook. I want to head now to Let's go to NEF in clear Lake. Hello, Nef, Hey, good morning, Good morning. How are you doing, Skiff? I'm good? What's up with NEF today? Hey? So, I'm just listening to the last few callers about the Saint Augustine side. I had some contractors come out early in the year and they had tore up the lawn and then I had to

reside it. But I've always followed the Randy Lemons schedule for years. Have one of the best lawns in the neighborhood. But aside from that, the callers that you just got to be patient and just water it. Water it water, don't overwater it, but just water it in good and it will. It took about four weeks, and there was times that I thought like, oh my gosh, it's not grabbing, you know, and there's pieces

of it, you know, that were just yellow and yellow. But now after the last few rainfalls, it's all green and and looks like like brand new grass. There. You got to be got to be patient, follow and exactly exactly. Well, hey, it's a loyal listener and uh, and I just want to give that advice to the callers. Thanks, you have a great weekend. Thanks for being a longtime listener to guarden Line. I appreciate that you take care of and I wish you well uh this weekend.

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on for that. But Landscaperspride dot com is the website you need to go to to find out where to get the products because they're widely available. Well here I am talking myself right into the news break. Sorry about that, Jeff, it's all yours. Yeah, I need to set this guitar down. I'll just have a little fun there during break. All right, it was the Eagles. Welcome back to Gardline. Good to have you with us today. We are entering our last half hour of the day and after that

I won't be at Arburgate. I hope you will come see me today at Arburgate eleven thirty to one thirty, and they are throwing one heck of a Mom's Day weekend party, and you need to come out there. You need to be out there. In fact, when the show's over, I'm on jumping a car. I'll head that way. I hope you will join me. Last one, there's rotten Egg Drive safely. We are going to go straight to the phones this segment and we are going to go to Richmond.

Talk to Alan. Hello, Alan, how can we help today? Hey, I got a butterfly plant question for you. I got the I guess it's called the butterfly weed. Okay, yeah, with a nice tiny little yellow flowers. Well, I planted that a couple of weeks ago to hyday. I got the ugly green box in my backyard and that thing has grown over. It's probably like six feet tall. Now, what's the best way to trim that? I don't want to trim it too much, but you know what can be done with that? How tall is it? It's like

six foot tall? Now it's really grown. Well, I've got a couple of milk weeds next to it and they don't grow at all. And I also had a question about how to the best food for those. Well, I'm trying to figure out what plant you have that you're describing that six foot Uh. Well, I was at the Enchanted Gardens and I probably should have asked them out there, but it said it was called a butterfly weed, is what it was called. It's got the it was in their butterfly section,

and it's these tiny yellow flowers. Yeah. Yeah, I'm familiar with the butterfly weed. We call it tropical milk weed or Mexican milkweed. But six feet tall, that's a that's bigger than I've ever seen it. So I'm kind of wondering if we're talking about the same plant. But anyway, I've got I've got the name, the actual name of it is as salopius. You're of course, Uh, well, it's a Sclepias currasavaca, and that is the mexicmom tropical milk weed. I guess, uh, you just

must be grown things better at your house than I do at mine. But that's a that's an impressive result of it. I know they can get tall, But so are you wanting to know you threw me there initially? Are you wanting to know about cutting it back or what? Yeah? Okay, so you can cut them back. They will send up shoots from the base. They also reseed profusely when they do finally form their seeds that float around. If there's some people will do supports for tall upright plants like that.

You know, it comes up with just one single shoot coming straight up to the sky, and they will put kind of some sort of a support thing in. It could be a post with some things wrapped around it. When I say post, I mean, you know, not a fence post, but something to kind of hold it up. I don't you know. As far as getting them to branch, I don't think you're gonna. I've never tried that, tried cutting them and getting them to branch. But I knew

they will put out new stuff at the bottom. I should know that, but I've just never had to cut mine back. I don't do as good a job of growing them as you do. Hell, mine's up next to one of those transformer electrical boxes. So maybe it's it's tied into that thing and is just taking off. That's right to get the great power from. Well yeah, as far as as far as the milkweed next to it, what's a good plant food for that? Well? Uh, what kind of milk weed? Is it? One of the real low growing ones? Is

it the orange one or a pink? What colors it's got? It's the one with no color. It's just green with the green leaves, the green leaves, the green Uh. Probably it'll probably eventually have some some light kind of a creamy white looking bloom on it in time. Okay, you don't really need to fertilize those things. I mean, if if your soil just happened to be incredibly poor, which apparently it's not based on your other butterfly plant, uh, then maybe adding a little bit, but don't don't push

it, you there. Things grow in nature in the wild, depending on which specific type of asclepias or butterfly weed. You have, it should not need much in the way a fertilizer of any Okay, well, I appreciate it, Thank you. Well. I hope butterflies are listening because you need to have the rechimond to Allen's house. Sounds like a good place to have

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take a little break here. We're going to come back for our last little segment on Garden Line. I always hate to say this, but we do have an open field. I can't promise you when everybody else calls it, you'll be the first up. But it is blank right now. So give column a call. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, we're running out of time today. We gotta get

some talking done here. We've got a lot more to talk about. Let's just jump right in there and we're going to head out to Conroe and talk to Bob. Hey, Bob, Hey, good morning morning. I have a newly planted peach tree was planted back in early April, and it looks like it's dying lost all its leaves. Oh, some of the branches are green at the tip, but in the middle they look kind of brownish. Okay, and there is a little play in some of the leagues. Okay,

can I get it back. We'll see Bob. There's a lot of things that can kill a tree, So we're, you know, we're looking at a lot of possibilities. Usually with a peach, a new peach, you got to get them in. You got to keep the roots moist, but you got to keep the oxygen in the soil too. Peaches, when they are in anaerobic conditions, meaning the soil is water logged, the roots

can't get oxygen. The roots actually produce hydrogen cyanide. Of all things, they are one of the least tolerant of soggy conditions of all the things we can grow, So that is a possibility. Getting too dry, even for a minute earlier on could have been a possibility. But with the spring we've had, dry is unlikely because we've had plenty of rain to kind of keep it going here so far. So I'm more worried about the drainage being a

possibility there. As long as you can keep oxygen in the soil, get that excess drained away, but at the same time, don't let it go dry. The tree should bounce back, but it's going to be kind of a wait and see in the meantime. Okay, I went out this morning and grabbed a handful of the mulch, and it feels kind of it's still damp. Okay, you know, it's not really really overly wet, but you know if all the rain we've had, yeah, you know recently,

I can see that. Well, you know, it could be you need to dig down in the soil about four to six inches with a little hand trout and then feel the soil there and if it is not you know, if it is not damp, there water. But it's going to be damp there for a good while, so probably too much water is my best shoot from the hip of all the possible options for why is the tree dying? Okay, sir, all right, you have a good weekend. I appreciate

your information absolutely absolutely, Thank you very much. We're going to go now to Joe in Houston. Hey Joe, good morning, Good morning. Listen. I want to get some bonze eyes, not pot size, plant size, you know, like six h fet tolls. Where can I get that? But they're in a container you're talking about, Well, I'm going to plant them in the ground. Do you said? Bones eye? Though? Right? Cut like bonsai? Oh? Okay, a pine tree that's cut

like a bonzai or some other tree. That's cut to look like a Japanese I see. Uh, but I don't want these little things I see on people's porches. Yeah yeah, Now this is just something that's six eight eight ten tres. Okay, you know that's a tree. That is a good question depending on where you are, If it's not too far to drive down to Seabrook to Moss Nursery. They've got some things similar to that that might do. You know, I've never I've never with you know, being around

the garden center has kind of looked for that. Really, what you're talking about, the Japanese style garden. I mean you would you could buy regular junipers and train them to that kind of style. So there it's not just that it has to be a certain kind of plant only. But uh yeah, so I want all cut in the style already, and I would continue style. Uh, call Moss before you drive down. They just call them and ask them if they have some some of those kind of plants that have

been trained already into somewhat of a style. Now, there's a lot of places that will sell you junipers that are spiral junipers and the kind with like the limbs go out and there's a little pomp poms of foliage on the end, and those kind of I call them Doctor Seuss plants because they remind me of Doctor Seuss books. But that's what my quick answer would be to start with. I just got back from Vietnam and China. Oh yeah, they a couple of hundred. Pause, they had them all over the place.

They just wanted to get rid of them. Beautiful. Well they can get them out of the country. Any of our good full service garden centers we talk about here, they're going to have plants that suit that. Whether they have am already pre prune like that. You're just gonna have to call and ask. But hey, I need to run. I got a few more calls. I'm trying to get for the day goes away here. But good luck, good luck, you bet, you bet. Thanks a lot.

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back patio. They've got that it's Mother's Day tomorrow. ACE is a place for that as well. They have an extensive election of things, I mean all the way from like purses and jewelry to beautiful indoor decorations. Now, each ACE is independently owned and no tour exactly alike, So depending on where you go, you're going to have a range of options. I mean, I've seen ACE hard restores that do a little laser etching and cutting boards for you. I mean, who thought about that, right? But that's the

kind of place ACE is. Go to your local Ace, talk to them, find out what kinds of things they have. But you're going to find that a lot of them have some wonderful things, wonderful gifts for mom as well. Let's go to Kingwood and we're going to talk to Bill. Hello, Bill, good morning. I have a question about granted for symmetry native broodstock Japanese top And after several years in my backyard and good crops, all of a sudden, the trees and a serious state of decline, and wherever

the limbs meet the trunk. There seems to be a uh, some kind of disease that is creating a big problem. Yeah, there is fact and the proad group is called Crottrot. Yeah, so I don't know what it really It's a it's a type of canker there. There there was a precimine arch probably still around kind of northwest of Houston that it got into. And I mean it was extensive the damage that it had done in there. Uh, there's not a spray for it that you can't just it's think of it

as like an infection down in the tissues, you know. So it'd be like having an infected cut on your arm and just putting some little surface alcohol on it to kill the surface. It wouldn't get down in there and kill the disease. And and that I don't have an answer for you on that one. I is there a is there a tape of fungicide that will be absorbed by the planet and spread throughout the leaves, Not that I know of

that that fights that disease. That would require a little more investigating. The last time I look, it was kind of a it is what it is. There are certain kinds of disease situations where we just can't get the product in there and in a way that's going to be effective. You might want to do a little more searching online for that one, but it would take a systemic and I don't know one that moves in the way through that plant

that is labeled for per Simmons to control a disease like that. So I'm not hopeful, but I'm not saying you might not be able to find something. But I do know that, I know, I know, I'm not you sound like people I know. Yeah, Bill, thanks a lot, Thanks a lot. Hey, that was worth every penny you paid for it. Have a good weekend. Good luck getting ahead of that though, because I love per Simmons and I can imagine how that feels. All Right,

We're gonna go to Neederland and talk to Lisa. Hey, Lisa, we got just a short time, but let's see what we can do for you. Oh. Yes, our little neighborhood and Needlane. During the storm last week last Thursday, we had I'm in an old neighborhood, lots of trees down. One was my oak tree in the front yard, completely uprooted. That's my afternoon sun area. And I'm just wondering what I can replace or

what we can replace that with. It's not going to grow as huge as an oak tree, but still provides that afternoon shade you know that we need. Are you trying to shade a window or a wall or are you trying to go over the whole house and shade the roof? Well, no, just really one side of the house in the front, Okay, Well, there's a lot of good trees where the bedrooms are, kind of where the bedrooms are on this side. There are a lot of good trees. There's

a number of different oaks that grow pretty fast. The nut tall oak gets quite large in time, but it grows pretty fast. It would be a good one. You know. There are crape myrtles that get big niches crape myrtle, yes, I thought about. The natches will get thirty feet tall and the beautiful white blooms, beautiful cinnamon colored exfoliating bark, so that that would be another option. The Chinese elm drake is one variety, but Chinese

elm grows pretty fast casts a light shade can be really beautiful. So there are a number of good options out there. It just kind of guns on what you're looking for, but the ones I mentioned are all fast grow Okay, I appreciate your health. Thank you, all right, Lisa, Sorry, ran out of time on that. Hey, guess what happens now? You and I both jump in our cars. Last one, there's a rat and egg. We're heading to arbor Gate. We're gonna be giving away Medina

products. We're giving away tree stabilizers. We're giving away arbor Gates, Organic Soul Complete. There are one, two, three easy system. Every thirty minutes, we'll give the bag of that a way. We're gonna be given away enjoying frozen Bellini's. So come, bring your questions, bring your samples, let's talk. Always love to meet gardeners. Can't wait to see at Arborgate and be ready to buy mom a gift. In fact, bring her with you to get one of those wrick House roses.