What Kind of Soil Do I Have?

and it rained, and it rained and it rained. It just seems like every time I just if I get soil moist or dry enough to be able to, you know, actually actually get something done, well, here comes another rainstorm. I want to talk a little bit about preparing soil. I talk all the time about how important it is. You know, we got to prepare our soil, We got to take care of our soil. And that's true, certainly true. But we have different types of soil. You have different

types of soil. In your various yards and gardens. If you're dealing with soil that was there when you got there, meaning the soil from that site before even the house was built, the soil from that site, you either have a sand, a silt, or a clay type of soil. Sand is granules like sugar gran There are various sizes of sand, but basically they drain really well. They're like just imagine a shattered windshield on a car. You know, it breaks up into those little tiny squares, little chunks

of glass. That's what sand amounts to. If you look at it under a microscope and it water goes through it and nutrients go through it, it gets droughty really fast after you water. It doesn't hold water very well, and you have to fertilize periodically pretty frequently actually to get the same effects. Does that means sounds bad?

there's silt. Silt is in between the two. Silt is a very tiny particle, it's not but it's in between sand and clay, a little closer to clay than the sand in size, and it holds moisture very well and it drains okay, but it can be a little bit tight. And then there's clay, which everybody knows what clay is, basically our Houston black clays that occur along the Texas Gulf Upper Texas Gulf Coast especially. They don't drain well and they don't take in water well. Does that make

clay bad? Not necessarily. Clay soil holds a lot of moisture and if it's prepared properly, it can actually be a good soil for years. In this along the Gulf coast, this was a big fig production area and eight hundreds of acres of fig trees growing in this clay soil that then turned into rice paddies. In many cases the rice paddies a whole water very well, but it makes

a good crop for having that kind of clay. There are the things that can grow in clay too, So the bottom line is the those are textures of soil okay, send silk clay and as you mix them together, and no soil typically is just one. Well I shouldn't say no. Most soils are not just one. They're a mix of the two or three. Rather and a loam. The word loam is not a I'm nerding out here on you, but just bear with me. I think it's worth knowing this.

The word loam means a mix of the three. Okay, And if you get send silk clay mixed together, that's a loam. And loam would be almost the ideal soil for many, many, many different kinds of things. But you can't change your texture. You can't take sand and grind it up in smaller particles to make it a silt or a clay or whatever. If you have what you have,

unless you buy and bring in something different. What you can do is you can add organic matter to it, and if it's a heavy clay, you can add expanded shale to it. Expanded shale. Remember those little la I don't see them muchymore. I'm sure they still are, but on barbecue pits. On the bottom of barbecue pits are really like Swiss cheese holes in the rock. A lava rock. Well, if you were to take expanded shell and look at it under our microscope, it kind of look like that.

Lots of pits and holes all in it. And it's basically a clay that has been super fired in a very hot, steamy oven to expand and get all these little holes in it. Why does that matter, Well, all those little holes are places where moisture can attach, where nutrients can attach to. Its increases the surface area of the particles, and microbes live in on the surface of those as well. So it's a good thing, expanded jale. So what do you do. You take your soil you

have and you amend it. Now, there are a few things where one product is a miracle cure for everything, but in the case of soil, composts comes pretty close to that. If you have a sandy soil and it drains too well, compost additions are like adding little tiny sponges into that broken glass of sand. You know that little tiny water runs right through. Now you got little tiny microscopic sponges everywhere in there that are holding moisture

and holding nutrients. So compost helps the sand. If you're on the other end of the spectrum, and you have a clay and water won't go in the clay very fast. By the way, did you know our Houston black clay soils take in water at about an eighth of an inch an hour, all things being equally. You just take the soil, no roots, no organic matter in it, just the soil, and about an eighth of an inch an hour. That ain't very good. I mean, in other words, they

just sit there. Water just sits on them pretty much. You add compost to that, and now that massive clay gets broken into little chunks are groups of clay particles. So the description you know, with sand and compost, I said it was like broken glass with any sponges in it. With clay in compost, it's like instead of a mass clay, now you have like a bowl of popcorn where the clay particles are clumped together with the compost. And now there's airspace in between them, and so that does take

in water faster, and it does drain internally better. So the compost is a miracle cure for all kinds of soil, really, But when the soil is wet, you don't want to work it less with it. It would be like taking well, what would be a good example for that, Like rice crispies or something, and you wet them and then you start mashing on them. Okay, it just becomes a gou, a thick goo. It destroys the structure of clay based soils, which many, many, many of our soils have a lot

of clay in them. So what do you do. Well, you wait until it's moist but not wet, but not dry. If it's dry, it's concrete, you can hardly break it up. If it's wet, got gooey, you ruin the structure. It's why we don't walk on our garden beds too. Well, there's just a soil one oh one in our first little segment here. How about I give you a phone number and we start talking. Seven one three two one two k t RHIW right back, little Zach Brown, first

thing this morning. Good to have you back with us. Look, if you're looking in your lawn and you're seeing the little spots all over your Saint Augustine leaves, or if you're standing back looking at the lawn and it just like looks like parts of it are kind of yellowing and just sort of browning and going away. It may well be a gray leaf spot. That is a disease that loves moisture, and boy have we had moisture lately. It loves warm temperatures, and boy have we had warm

temperatures lately. Gray leaf spot is something that tends to go away as the weather really heats up hot and gets drier in the summer. But it's with us now and I'm seeing quite a bit of it around in the area of lawns. The way to deal with it is eagle turf funderside from the folks at nitrofoss. Eagle turf fungicide contains michael butte neil. That is a systemic. It works on a lot of different diseases, not just gray leaf spot, but it's excellent for gray leaf spot.

Eagle turf fungicide from Nitrophis. You're gonna find it at places like Ingented Forest down there in the Richmond Rosenberg area, the Ace Hardware, Sinkle Ranch or perhaps Ospas Ace up in the woodlands, all places that carry nitrofos products. We're gonna head out now to the phones and Terry, you are the early bird of the day. Welcome to garden Line.

clay soil makes that clay structure destroy. It destroys the clay structure and it just becomes a massive clay be good for building a farm pond, but not growing a yard. And gypsum knocks the sodium off the soil particles, so it can wash away and you can regain good structure. And that's why they look at gypsum as loosening a clay soil. But if it's just clay and it's not clay with a lot of sodium, gypsum doesn't really help

the clay much, if any at all. So it's a good thing if the problem is clay with a lot of sodium in it, and if it's not, then then it's not probably worth messing with. I would. I would then look more toward organic matter or maybe expanded shale in a long term flower beds as a solution.

People that have water softeners they use sodium to soften the water to help but clean better, wash your clothes better, and things like that. So if you have a water softener and you irrigate with that water, then you're putting sodium out in the soil. But a soil test you can go to what there's there's a website. It's real easy.

It's soil Testing. Is the name of the website, soil Testing, and then the address is dot t A m U, dot E ed U text A and M Statewide Soil Testing Lab, Soil Testing dot TAMU, dot ed U, and then you can know exactly what all your nutrients, including sodium are.

kind of eat foundation gap. So any suggestions on what to do to make that it's the real d you know, kind of snotty clay with some streaks of gree in it.

last a little bit longer. That way. Expanded shale is not cheap, but if you can get it down at about three inches deep even and mix it in as deeply as you can, it'll give you a very good long term benefit to the clay. I like to use expanded shell and compost together because they each have their benefits.

But they did some studies up in Dallas, which also has a black clay like we have here, and they found that putting three inches of expanded shale down just did wonders and making that clay better air rated, taking water better, drain better, and all that. So I would say, if you need to excavate a little out of the beds to be able to do that, go ahead and do that. If you can just add three inches of the shale in without bringing it up too high, then I would do that.

that's probably the single best investment. And if it were a veg garden or a flower If it was a vegeta garden or a flower bed, you can just add compost every time you rework the soil. If it's something that's going to have roses or shrubs where you're not going to pull up the plants and rework the soil, that's where the expanded show gives you the longer term I think is probably a better choice.

Clear Lake City, Santa Fe, Dickinson, all those places. This is your hometown feed store. It's about a few blocks south of Highway ninety six on Highway three. They're in League City. Now, when you're drive by, you'll see it there. It's on the east side of the road and it's been around since I think they built it forty years ago. Believe in fact, it was over forty years ago that

their grandpa built that League City feed store. Now the third generations of Thunderbergs are running the store, and when you go to League City, they're going to carry all of the things that you need for your lawn in your garden. Now I'm talking about things like, for example, fire ant baits and fire ant individual mound treatments. They've got them there. You know you hear about nitrofoss bugout max, Well, that's a League City feed You hear about baits like

extinguished for example, or mound treatments like surrender. They're all there at League City Feed. And it is fire and season. By the way, if you don't know, you hear me talk about mosquito bits and mosquito dunks all the time for getting in water to prevent those mosquitoes from breeding. There. League City Feed has got those. We're looking all these different products for fertilizer, superturb from nitrophiles, they carry them. All micro life products, they got those there. The I

was just talking about heirloom soil. So they've got their roses in Bloomers blend and the veggie her mix and the berry mix. They carry all of this stuff and you just need to go buy there, and they're gonna have everything that you're looking for. Products from Nelson like they're weedin et or Azemie and other things. It's all at League City Feed, so one stop shop. It's easy. They're open till six during the week, including Saturday today,

closed on Sundays. And if you're looking for premium pet foods, you're gonna find premium pet food. It's like Taste of the Wild, awesome, very high quality pet food. They've got them there at League City Feed. For example, I was talking about those mosquito dunks. Now's the time to get

those things out there. If you've got standing water anywhere, put them in there, Like maybe you have a bird bath, or maybe maybe you've got a little area that just doesn't drain well and you hadn't gotten around to fixing the drainage there yet. But you've got a little puddle that lasts for a week or two after a rain, You better get some in there. You got some saggy gutters, Throw granules up in the gutters, a hollow area on a tree, you know where a limb used to be

and it trotted out. Throw some mosquito granules, or take a dunk and break it up and put it in there. You'd want to not be a as we say, Skeeter Breeder. By the way, League City Feed phone number eight two eight one three three two sixteen twelve two eight one three three two sixty twelve. That's League City Feed, just a few blocks south of ninety six on Highway three there in League City. I've got to pick up some dunks.

I've got a grate in my landscape in front where the water runs off the driveway and I didn't want it to just pull up in the bed there, so I put a little French strain where water can go through the rocks and go on and get out of there. But there's a grate that takes in some of it, and down at the bottom of that grate, they're standing water almost all the time because it gathers there and then the excess moves on out. Throw a few granules

in there periodically, you know, that's stuff last. I know, the little donuts of mosquita dunks last about a month.

those beds up in a raised there. I do have clay soils too, by the way, and so getting that getting that soil fixed is a good thing. I mentioned that, you know, sand and clay and everything has its pros and cons. But it don't think that, you know, we gripe about clay because of the things it does. It shrinks, its swells, it breaks up our sidewalks and foundations that you know. It heaves and it dries out too much, and it gets cracks in it, and it doesn't drain well,

doesn't take in water well and all that. But we fix those things. We can fix those things. And so clay has its pros too. And so when I start mending these beds, and when you do, you're gonna get soil that you can grow almost anything in it. And there again, I'm not an anti clay person because a well amended clay is a good soil for a lot

of different kinds of things. So just just remember that another tip that I would throw out there just for those of you interested in getting maybe taking your gardening up to a higher level. When you plant, think about what wants to be where you're planting it now. I know, as gardeners were always wanting to create, to grow something

that doesn't grow here. Right if you move from the Midwest, you're probably still trying to figure out how to grow lilacs in Forsythia because they were such a staple for your landscapes back home. But there's a certain amount of that that we can do. But we can't change can change the weather itself, right, I mean, we can't change the fact that it gets as cold as it gets or as hot as it gets, or rains as much or little than it does. But you can do a lot to amend the soil and to make a plant

at home. But also there's a case to be made for planting things that just want to grow in what you have there. We have many plants, and we're talking about claysoil. While ago clay soil and things that strung go along to grow in a clay soil. Well, we have a lot of plants that can tolerate a heavy clay soil that even thrive in heavy clay type saals. Look at the native plants that we have around us. They do well because they're from here. They, if you will,

they grew up here in this kind of clay. And you go to a place like Buchanans, for example, you're gonna find tons of native plants. And that's just what they do all the time. They have not just natives, So please understand this. Buchanans has every kind of plant. I'm talking about fruit trees and vegetables and herbs and house plants and tropical you know types of things. They have it all, but they focus and they make sure that they have every possible native that's on the market

that will do well for you here. That's how they do it. And they it doesn't matter what you're trying to grow or do you want to support pollinators? Do you want to attract hummingbirds? Do you need something for shade? Do you want something that blooms seasonally? Do you need an evergreen? You go in there and you tell them I need this. Do you have anything like that that's native. For example, red bay. Red bay is a native tree in the area, and it's leaves or used like you

would bay laurel. You know, when you use bay leaves like you're throwing a bay leaf in when you're making gumbo or something. Well, red bay is also a seasoning type of leaf. It's a little different flavor wise than bay laurel, but it is a seasoning leaf and it's a native so why not grow one of those. There are so many good native herbs people that are into flavors for cooking, like Mexican or regano. That's a different kind, very different than regular regano. It's just think of a

whole completely different plant. But you can do that. I talked last week. I was talking about inland CEOs and as a groundcover and a shade loving groundcover, a wax myrtle. You know if it gets soggy and wet and stays on the wet side, well, wax martle. In fact, did you know wax myrtle is a native herb. I've never used it as a nerve, but anyway, it's leaves can be used like use bay laurel leaves. Texas Star hibiscus. That's a native that we have along the Gulf Coast.

The funny thing about Texas Star is it has Texas in its name, but it's because the flowers look more like a star five petals. But it's not native to Texas specifically, but Louisiana in the Gulf Coast. It is kind of interesting anyway, whatever kind of native you're looking for, whatever you want, you're gonna find it there at Buchanans. And they do such a good job of bringing these plants in, making sure they're in top top quality, and so you get to go in and you shop and

explore yourself along. How about this, How about edible natives. Edible natives in the terms of like mulberry, for example, muscadine grapes, Mayhaw's mayhaw is another one, elderberry, prickly pear. I grew up in prickly pear country down south of San Antonio. And I'm telling you, the nopalas, the nopals, the the pads, the young tender pads before they get the thorns on them so much, they're very good edible. We'd use them, slice them up and use them in

scrambled eggs. That's how we used them. And then the tunas, the little fruit for paricular pair. Those are native Texas fruit. Agarita is another one. It's a native Texas fruit that grows in much of the state. Chili pekins. Boy, if you want a pepper, they'll set your mouth on fire. Chili pecin peppers. Let's see that. Barbados cherry is another one common per Simmons. There's a lot of native plants, and when you go to Buchanons you get to enjoy

all of these things. So what do you do, Well, you jump in your car and you go to eleven Street in the Heights, eleven Street in the Heights or better, Yeah, just start by going to the website Buchanans Plants dot com. Bu Canoes Plants dot com been hurt serving gardeners here

in the Easton area since nineteen eighty six. And I guarantee you when you go there, alle yourself some time, because you are going to really really enjoy shopping and seeing so many plants that you haven't even heard of maybe, and you're going to find some cool new things to create that beautiful landscape, to turn your landscape more native, to support songbirds and to support all of the things that you want to get out of your landscape, the enjoyment.

There be canons. They carry a wide variety of fertilizers too, you know, things like Microlife. If you're looking for a quality organic fertilizer, you're not going to find anything that is better than Microlife. It's an awesome fertilizer that provides the nutrients and the right ratios that plants want. That's important. Now there's a green bag that's our lawn fertilizer. But just train you and me. It's an everything fertilizer. I use it in vegetable gardens. I've used it in herb gardens.

I've even used it when I was in a pinch. I needed something I was mixing into a soil blend to plant some plants, and Microlife's not salt based, is not to burn plants. I just mixed some into the soil and plant them a plant. And because it's the nutrients, it's going to do well. That's a green bag. Then there's humates plus concentrated compost in a bag, the purple bag. You can do that anytime you want to do it and it will work. Microlife high quality products. You can

go to the website Microlifefertilizer dot com. I want you to learn about all the others. I don't have time talk about many of them here on the show, but there are a lot of great microlife products we need to be exploring our way through because they do work. If you haven't been a Southwest Fertilizer, you need to go because everything you need is there. That's the bottom line.

Southwest Fertilizer has been run for seventy years and everything for your garden, from tools to fertilizers, to pest control, disease control, weed control, and expert advice is all there at Southwest Fertilizer. If you're an organic gardener, the biggest organ next selection anywhere in the region is it Southwest Fertilizer. Whatever you need is there, that's the bottom line. Just remember this. If they don't have it, you don't need it.

That's the kind of place Southwest Fertilizer. It's a one stop shop. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Corner of Bissinut and Renwick. Corner of Bissinet and Renwick, Southwest Houston. Well, I'm gonna take a little break and we'll be back with your calls. Seven one three two one two KTRH. Good morning, Gardner's good morning on a great day to get outside and enjoy enjoy the outdoors. Uh, if you've been here for a summer, you know what summer's like here in the

Greater Houston area. And so we appreciate any cool conditions we can get, or any mild conditions that we get. We're still we're still doing pretty good. I'm not gonna complain. I learned a long time ago that wherever you live, there's something about the weather you might not like. And even you know, people talk about perfect weather like I don't know, Southern California doesn't rain that much, and just temperatures are so good that gets boring for me. I

like to have a little bit of change. And maybe some of you are going no, I'd rather be bored. Well, I seriously, I like a little bit of change in the weather, and boy, do we get that here, that is for sure. You're listening to garden Line and if you'd like to give me a call or ask a gardening question. Seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H R c W Nurseries is right there where belt Wag eight and Tomball Parkway come together. It's really

easy to get to. As a result of that, r CW is the kind of place where you go and you're going to find quality plants that were grown right. First of all, they are the plants that ought to be grown here and planted here, but they're they're done right. You know. They grow their own trees. They grow They have a tree farm up there in Plannersville area, Wimson Tree Farm where they do bring their own trees in

from there. By the way, they got a sale right now going on on crate myrtles ten percent off Crpe myrtles right now now. When you buy a crp myrtle anywhere including RCW, you want to get one that of course you want the flower color you want, but you also want the size that you want. Crpe myrtles are not sold with saws, and people plant big crape myrtles. I was driving through neighborhood yesterday with my wife just pointing out the Natches crape myrtle. Natches is one of

my favorite crape myrtles. It has white blooms and it has beautiful cinnamon colored exfoliating bark, and it was very popular, and they were all through this neighborhood. And I just made the point. I love that crpe myrtle. It's also powdery mildey resistant, by the way, but it gets like thirty feet tall. And so if you're going to put it at the corner of the house and you don't want it to reach the eaves, why not plant one instead? Do you know that crate myrtles will get three feet tall.

Crate myrtles that get five to seven feet tall, maybe ten, ten to twelve, fifteen feet tall. You can buy the size you want, So pick a crape myrtle that gets the size you want, the color you want, the size you want. Now I've got I've got a web page

out there somewhere. Somebody else put it up. But if you do a Google search or whatever you use to search, and you put in my name, Skip Richter, and then crape myrtle, Skip Richter, crpe myrtle, one of the things that pops up will be a chart and it shows you all the sizes of crape myrtles. It gives you a little picture of what the ballooms look like. It tells you whether they're powdery, mildew resistant or not, whether the bark is of interest. I think they even have

on their fall color. Some crapes do a really good job of making beautiful fall color. But that is an old list and there's lots of new ones that have come out since then. I need to redo it, but that's a major undertaking with all the new ones. But anyway, go look at it and just get some ideas and you'll kind of you may find a lot of them on there. You're gonna have trouble finding now because time's change.

But that will get you in the ballpark of thinking and looking and seeing what's available so that as you go hunting for a great murder, you can find a good one. And then just head over to RCW. RCW has outstanding quality plants because they grow on themselves. They really really look good when you're there. I want to ask you to try one thing this year from RCW, and that is their Cajun Hibiscus. Now, Cajun Hibiscus is a series, is not one plant. It's a bunch of

different plants. The blooms are gaudy and they're gorgeous. Absolutely, they should call them the the gg hibiscus, the gaudy, gorgeous hibiscus. Try one this year. I've got some. I got a big plastic It looks like a whiskey barrel but it's about two thirds that size and made a plastic. Okay, you know what the thing is I'm talking about. I've got one in there, and last year edge I bloomed and bloomed and bloomed, and the blooms are so pretty. They're so gorgeous, and in a container. You can put

it wherever you want it. Where have you got sunlight? You put an entrance to going in the front door, you're hushing, put it on the back patio, whatever, but gets you a casion. Hibiscus from r c W Nursries. Head on over there again the corner of Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway. R c W Nurseries. Check those out now for the lawns. If you would like to give your lawn a boost, something that you know gets it going,

gets it a good boost of nutrients and things. I'd like to recommend a couple of things for you to consider. First of all, medina has to grow lawn. Medina has to grow lawn. It is a three one two ratio fertilizer as a liquid that hooks to a garden hose. You look it up to a garden hose and you spray your lawn with it. It's fast, it's easy, and it'll give you a quick result, but it doesn't just go away fast. It lasts a while. Medina has to grow lawn is a great way to give your lawn

a boost. And the thing I like about the hose in sprayer for lawn is I've got an area in my backyard where the lawn is not doing as good, and I can go in there with my hose end and I can just do a little treatment to that area and just kind of green it up a little bit, okay, kind of feathered out, blended in really well. As opposed to a fertilizer drop spreader or or a whirlybird spreadder where it's kind of slinging the fertilizer, it's a little

harder to control. The application Medina has to grow for lawn. It's a twelve four to eight. It does super super well. Medina also has a sixteen percent nitrogen fertilizer that has zero phosphorus in it, which for many of our lawns is a very good product choice because most of our lawns have more than enough phosphorus. That's a middle number, more than enough of the phosphorus. So I would recommend that you give that a try. Try one of those

Medina products. They hook up to the host. They're faster or easy. You're in, you're out, You've done it, and it just looks good. I love those products. I started using some of the different Excuse me, I'm still fighting a cold that I was getting over for a while. But anyway, Hastra Grow Lawns is twelve four to eight formulated for the lawns. It does well. I started using the other one, the sixteen percent nitrogen Medina Supergrow Plus.

It's got a little kind of a green label on it, but super Grow plus and sixteen zero two are the numbers. If you want to give a boost. That is a great way to give a quick boost. And I know it says lawns. Don't tell anybody, but you can use it on anything you want. You can use that. I know people that will spray it on their tomatoes to get a little boost and vigor in their vegetable garden and spread it on the tomatoes and have and on the soil too. You can fold your feet it, you

can put in the soil. It works well. Medina hasht gro Lawn and Medina Supergrol Plus. Both of them hook up to a garden hose. Both of them will give your lawn a good boost. Both of them are widely available here in the Greater Houston area. So check those out, try them out. I want to hear try them out, and I'd like to hear how they do for you. And they don't call me the day after you apply them.

It takes a little longer than that. But I would like to hear how those things work for you, because I can tell you my experience with them has been outstanding. I know I'm talking about this a lot, but when Andy from Medina first told me that they were coming out with this sixteen percent no phosphorus fertilizer, I was really excited because I can just tell you there isn't a lawn out there that isn't going to benefit from it. And I've done a number of soil test studies on lawns.

I was in Austin for a number of years working as horticultures to with agrilife extension over there. And we did a study of two hundred lawns in northwest Austin in the Steelhouse Creek neighborhood, and we soil sampled every lawn and looked at the nutrient levels in those lawns

and that area. By and large, when you look at a lawn, you're going to find the phosphorus levels or adequate, which is why we generally recommend going with the low middle number on turf, just because in general that's true. I will say this, Uh, people call it all the time. You know, what's a good fertilizer for this or what should I put on that? Well, we see fertilizers with names on them, like this is a lawn fertilizer, this is a hibiscus fertilizer, This is a plumeria fertilizer, this

is a vegetable fertilizer. That's all good, that's a good start, But what any plant needs depends on what's already in the soil. So when you do a soil test, you find out what's in your soil, and it may be that you go with a different kind of fertilizer for that plant than the one with that plant's name on it, because your soil for that plant is a little bit different, so it's always good to have a soil test. You can go to Soil Testing dot t a m U, dot EDUT, dot tamudd you and there find out how

to get your sol tested. You can also go to my website gardening with Skip, Gardening with skip dot com. Write that down least bookmark that website. We are adding stuff to it all the time. There's a lot of good information out there, continuing to put stuff up. I've got several projects I'm working on to get up on the web right now. And it's all free. Can't beat that,

so anyway, check it out. There's a publication on testing your soil, how to do it and where to send your soil, which soil form to use when you go to soil Testing dot tamudd you. So it's trying to help you. A goal is for you to have a beautiful landscape, a bountiful garden, and more fun in the process. We'll take a break here, be right back. Good morning,

Good morning, gardeners. Good to have you with us this morning. Hey, you are listening to garden Line and our whole purpose here in addition to having fun, by the way, is for you to have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape and enjoy the process. You can give me a call at seven one three two one two ktr H seven one three two one two ktr H be glad to visit with you about the things that

are of most interest to you. For those of you who live down south of Houston, your hometown garden center down there is Ores Hidden Gardens or Hayes Hidden Gardens. It's an Alvin address. Actually, it's located on Elizabeth Road. Elizabeth Road in Alvin. If you're in Alvin, you just head down Highway six towards Santa Fe and it's off to the right. It's kind of in between the two cities, Alvin and Santa Fe. But off to the right Elizabeth Road is the address. Now, why would I tell you

to go there? Well, any of you from any of those communities like Santa Fe, hillc Us, Algoa, Arcadia, Alta Loma, you know, all Alvin, of course, all those places, you're going to find an amazing array of things at jorghesid and Gardens. Right now, right now, he has got some red buds that are amazing. There's one called Hearts of Fire. Hearts of Fire, and it's what you would think. It's got red and orange, peach colored and green tones all in the leaf. It is gorgeous even when it's not blooming.

You know, red buds bloom in the spring, but all the rest of the year. What are you looking at? Green? Right? Well, with Hearts of Fire, you get all these other colors in there. There's other kinds of spectacular Eastern red buds. They have weeping red buds where the stem comes up, the trunk comes up and the branches hang pendently down from them. Very unique feature in the landscape. And then of course they have one called Merlow that's a beautiful

like the wine color of the foliage, very beautiful. If you're looking for vegetables like peppers, for example, or he's got those. If you're looking for fruit trees right now, he's got avocados still that actually have fruit on them. They carry citrus, they carry blueberries, all kinds of things. And when it comes to shrubs and trees, Jorges got you covered on that too, great myrtles, multi stem He's got the you know, everything from small live oaks that

you want to get started in your yard. You know, the best time to plant a tree is forty years ago. Second best time is today. Well there you go. Rayes got you covered on all of that rages hidden gardens, go check them out again. Elizabeth Street in Alvin, just out the Highway six. We're going to head out to the phones now and we're going to visit with Norm if I can get the right button here. Hey, Norm, welcome to garden Line.

And before we hang up today, be sure and get your three m sticky pad and make a little bit of a note a weed walker, and we'd what do you call it, wiper? Come together. We can't wipe the weeds without a weed walker.

you learn how to walk. And I'm thinking out, But I've asked people that my contact that are in the machine shop what they call them guys that create stuff and build stuff, to.

There's also a rolling seat that some people use. But your point is well taken. I think it's a matter of getting good solid pathways first of all installed that give you a little more stability. That's important. But I hear your challenge and let me think about that a little bit and see if we can figure out maybe some other tips. I know there's a lot of great tools that are ergonomic that I help. You know, sometimes folks are dealing with things like an arthritis or some

other limitations. But let me think about that. Uh, I've got a whole line of folks that are lined up here that I need to get to. But I appreciate your kind words and your call and I will give this some thought. I think that it is a good point, because the last thing on Earth we need to do is slow down our gardening when life's limitations come along. But I thank you, Norman. And do you have any of those sticky pads?

tree trimmed for the summer? Do I just have a guy come in there and take out that one branch so that they're anymore.

rather give you a better answer. So if you would email me those, you can call back, we can talk about it. I'll reply to that, and we can even finish a conversation today if you'd like.

have what is called a high shrink swell potential. What does that all mean, Well, it just means us, when they get dry, this shrink, when they get wet, they swell and so in the summer, when it's hot and dry, you got cracks in the backyard so deep you could lose a toddler down the things, or a small foo foo dog. And then it rains and they swell up and that moves sidewalks, driveways, breaks water pipes underground for the city, and it causes foundation problems for your home

and fix my slab. Foundation Repair is the expert company that I would suggest you give a call if you have any questions about where things are. I mean, they can do things like, you know, re level your driveway if you've got issues with cracks in the driveway. Ty Strickland's been doing this for twenty three years. And so you got to crack in the sheet rock indoors. Typically you'll see those sometimes in the ceiling, but or the walls in general, but maybe over in a corner by

a window on the outside. Same thing on the brick. Cracks in the brick going down on the outside is a sign something is moving. Don't be an Ostrich, don't put your head in the sand. You need to have him look at it. This is an honest fellow, native Houstonian,

fifth generation Texan. He knows what he's doing, been doing this for twenty three plus years now, and he'll come out and take a look, you know, tell you if you need work and if you do what's needed, or if I'll tell you now for right now, you're it's good. Just let's let's let's watch it. Let's see how it goes. Tell him your guardline listener Free free estimates for Guardline listeners fixmyslab dot com. Easy to Remember Fix myslab dot com com two eight one two five five forty nine

two eight one two five forty nine forty nine. We're going to go now out to the galleria and talk to Forrest. Hello, Forrest, Welcome to garden Line.

the shade cloth would probably be a mistake. But in general it helps a little. It just remember it doesn't change the ambient air temperature. So when it's ninety, it's ninety. When it's you know, seventy eight degrees at night, it's seventy eight degrees at night, even at the shade cloth, and those are the things that tend to make our tomatoes slower cease production when it gets hot.

type tomatoes. Cherry tomatoes grape tomatoes because they set well even in hotter weather, and that way you at least get tomato flavor carrying you on a little further into the season. Okay, well, I appreciate it. Thank you, sir. You bet, thanks for being patient waiting on the call. I know we've had a line here, so good to talk to you. Let's now go to a task ASDA and talk to Jill. Hey, Jim, welcome to garden line.

in this kind of pot. They just don't. People don't know to ask for that, and so it's not worth it for the growers or for the garden centers to try to carry the higher dollar tree, And that, unfortunately, is the situation we're in. For the most part. You can get by with a circling tree if it doesn't spend too much time in the pot. Now, if you know, if it sits there for an extra year or two, well then you're going to have major problems in the You know, before you buy it, When you get them home,

you slide them out and you cut the roots. I cut mine in three or four places vertically. I'll use a little box cutter knife to cut small roots, or I'll use hand prunters to cut bigger roots, but cut them. Within two weeks they will be branching out new roots. Just like if you cut a branch, you get re sprouting from behind where you cut. When you cut a root,

you get re sprouting from behind where you cut. So before they go in the ground, any circling roots should be cut on a plant that is going to get big and live a long time. Not so important for a little perennial plant or you know, some small little shrub maybe, But if it if that root getting bigger over time and the trunk getting bigger over time are likely to come together, which they would on a big tree like a live oat, for example, then you need to be they need to be cut. You mentioned the

term root washing. Root washing is the extra step that you can go And here this is the fastest version that I that I can give you. But if you if you were growing a tree and you had it in a gallum pot and the roots went out and made a circle, what's a gallumpot about five inches six inches across maybe the top that that'd be like, let's say a five inch circle, and then you move that tree to a five gallum pot and keep growing it out.

Now that circle from the one gallon is inside and it can't be seen because you put it in a bigger pot with more soil. Root Washing is where you blast off all the growing mix so you can see inside and remove all of the different things that might be a problem. Do the surgery if you will, the root cutting all through good forestry folks from Texan and Forest Service told me about this a long time ago.

We did a demonstration for some for a class I did, and it works, but it's a lot of trouble and most people are not going to want to go to that. But if you have concerns on a bigger tree that you may have some interior buried problems, root washing would be the way to get around that. Thank you so much and have a great day, all right, Thank you sir.

Appreciate your call. Yep, And you're a lot of you listening are going, oh my gosh, I didn't even know I was supposed to worry about all that, will you know? It's it's it's a matter of degrees, and some trees are prone to that. Bread for pairs, they grow so fast and they can quickly get into girdling problems. I wish I could show you pictures on the radio. I can show you some pear trees in general that have come into the extension office. It just took pictures of

its amazing. Also, living Christmas trees that is a problem in general. A living Christmas tree is going to be a problem. They don't like having their roots cut. Pine type species, those kinds of plants don't really care for having the roots cut. They have to grow, grow, grow them so they can sheare them so they can make a little miniature Christmas tree so you'll buy it. Well, that tree spent just by the nature of how a

living Christmas trees has to be grown. It spent too much time in the pot, and so then you put it in your landscape. It grows for a while and then you start It depends on the species. But about eight years down the line is when you really see the things start to go south. Anyway. Something to think about wild Birds Unlimited is the place to go for anything you're looking for for birds, anything that you're looking for for birds. Do you need bird housing, do you

need bird seed? Nothing compares to wild Birds Unlimited. Bird seed blends right now, the blend to use is Nesting Super Blend because we're still in nesting season for birds and it helps with the development of the birds. Now you can buy it loose, you buy it in seed cylinders, but just buy it nesting super blended. Wild Birds Unlimited. They're six stores in the Greater Houston area Kingwood, Clear Lake, Pearland, Houston on bel Air, Houston on Memorial and then Cypress

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on the outside of the sunflower kernels. While birds I'm limited. I gotta take a break here, Steven der Park here first. When we come back. Hey, welcome back, Welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you with us. Hey, I just want to say some this is important that you hear this today because time is essentially up. Nature's Way Resources is having the final day of their fungal compost overstock sale fifteen dollars a yard. I don't I don't have to even produce it for fifteen dollars yarp.

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find out how I get there. But the main thing is, don't let this deal go by. It is an awesome one you don't want to miss. We're going to head out to Steve in Deer Park. Now, Hey Steve, welcome to garden Line.

I know you use seven. I think I see some seven dust looks like on the surface of some of the tomatoes, and that'll kill the heck out of a caterpillar, But not after the caterpillars inside, you know, they it's more of a venom from getting in. So that is what it is. The cracking tomatoes crack typically in two common ways. One in addition to just splitting. When they grow real fast after a rain, you get little round cracks that go like in a circle around the stem

attachment area the top of the tomato. And then you get these radio cracks, which is what you see, and it looks like you just took a little knife and just split the tomato from the stem, you know, across the shoulder a little bit. That is very variety specific. Some varieties are bad about that, others are not so bad. Anything we do that evens out the growth helps with

all kinds of cracking and splitting of the tomatoes. And so sometimes what will happen is the tomato will grow and it'll be real dry, and it's not growing very much, but the cells are still dividing. Then you get this gully washer rain and the roots take up all this water and it tries to fill up all those cells and it swells faster than the skin can accommodate it, and you get the splits from that. So evening out

the watering is helpful for the splitting. But this shoulder cracking like you see, is going to be more variety specific, and it just there's just not a thing to do about that other than try a different variety if you don't. If you don't like it. It's mostly catic though general, Yeah, go ahead.

After a couple of days, it's no longer killing what's out there, so you pray in it all the time, trying to get ahead of the caterpillars. The spinosid lasts longer, and then some people will actually bag their tomatoes, you know, if you just have a tomato plant or two, those little organza bags with the draw string, they'll slip them over there and just pull them, pull them over them,

and you keep everything out. You keep the bird pecks out, you keep you know, the caterpillars and stink bugs away, so that that's more detailed. But those are very inexpensive little bags. Again, if you had, you know, twenty tomato plants, that would be too tedious. But just a few. It's an option.

need bulbs? Oh? By the way, guess what they just got in A bunch of bulbs from Southern Bulb Company h And they've got some of the great bulbs for summer. There's a lot of awesome options for bulbs for summer, and they're starting to carry some of the gingers. And ginger is one of my favorite plants. And a Southern Bulb Company is an outstanding producer of bulbs, and Arborgate carries their bulbs. So go by there, say I want to see these ginger bulbs. Skip was talking about the hedicium,

the white butterfly ginger, one of my favorite ones. There's a lot of other types that are there. When you go to Arburgate. Grab the one two three system. The food complete, the soil complete, and the compost complete. All three organic, All three work, and all three help you get the brown stuff. Right, so the green stuff you bought at Arburgate goes in and hits the ground running.

You can also buy those by the bulk by the way at Arburgate, just about a mile and a half west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty there in the Tombault area. Let's go now to Wharton and we're going to talk to Angie Ajie. I got a little bit of time here. Let's see if we can squeeze a call in with you.

but it's not going to kill your Peggy Martin. If you wanted to spray, then then you could use a fung aside to stop it.

it is. It's got big old fat rubbery tires. It's for going on the beach with it, and it's like a walker for the beach kind of deal. It would be good for a garden, but runs about a loving hundred bucks. So that's some expensive tomatoes. But anyway, those of you who are injured, well and check that. I'm not recommending the product, doing anything about it, just public service. Had that conversation and caller, Thanks appreciate you sending me

that information. Larry. All right, let's see here. Well, I wanted to tell you talk about ACE hardware stores just for a moment. ACE is. Every time I go into an ACE, I'm just reminded of how awesome of a place they are. And I really you gotta go in one to see. I can sit here and describe it and tell you about all this stuff. But they have everything.

They have everything you need and all the fertilizers. I'm talking about, all the products to control pasts and weeds and diseases, and the tools that you might need, and on and on to all the things that make outdoor living, including the barbecue pits. One of these days, I'm gonna tell you about my barbecue pit that I got at ACE recently. Oh, we're loving thing, just turning outside into a whole new, wonderful living area for us. But ACE Hardware stores are all over the area. You can go

to ACE Hardware Texas. Don't forget Texas. Acehardware Texas dot com. That's my garden line ACE Hardware Store group. Acehardware Texas dot com. There's an ACE in League City, for example, on West League City Parkway. There's an ACE in Katie on Pinoak. There's an ACE down on Mason Road in Richmond, Plantation, ACE K and m A. Tascasita is in Humble Texas, Fullshare, Ace down in Fullshore, Texas on three fifty nine, j and Our's Ace Hardware in Porter, Texas, and Bay City

Ace Hardware. Those are just a few of many, many, many Ace Hardware stores here in the area. Go to Acehardware Texas dot com, find the one near you, and go check it out. You'll be glad you did. Let's see, We're going to go now to Malin in Houston. If I can find the right button.

They get Really they have a lot of issues when they stay too wet. That's why they like hydrot dry, dusty, hot, dry, dusty surfaces. So every time you give them a bath, it's like you're causing fungal diseases of their body or other issues. So just physically knocking them off getting them wet like that once a week more than enough to

keep them. You do that about three times and you've got them in check enough to get by the next step would be to put an insecticidal soap or a horticultural oil in a spray and spray upward from under the leaf. Both the blasting, the soap and the oil require you to get the mites wet in order to kill them. So if you have one leaf that is above another and the spray doesn't get on the leaf

that's the spray is blocked from. They will not be controlled because soap and oil aren't poisons, they're physical killers. So coverage is critical. Do them early, early in the morning, when it's the coolest time of the day so it dries off before the hot bake, the hot baking sun would come out, because soaps and oils can both damage plants in hot weather with sun baking down on them. But I use blasts of water myself. Some plants it's just a little impractical to get a blast to work

on them. You just can't get it to really blast the leaf well. And in that case, the soaps and oil sprays would be your best bet. And they're both super super low toxic. Don't don't don't use copper anymore. That won't work at all.

We've generally have gotten away from those because when you use those kind of things, you often kill the beneficials that are keeping the spider mites somewhat in check, and then you have worse problems. But there are i'll call them spidermight poison type products that you could also use.

night foss products like that super turf. All right, well, music means I gotta quit talking, and I will. We will be back though, if you'd like to give me a call, be one of the first up seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H. I want to remind you again about the website. I still talk to a lot of people that have ever been there. Gardening with skip dot com. Gardening with skip dot com.

Look at what's up there. My schedules are up there, you can print them out, and there's lots more time for me to grab another cup of coffee. Talk to you in a minute. All right, folks, Hey, we're back. Welcome back to guarden Line. Glad you're with us today, looking forward to hoping you have a successful and more

enjoyable gardening experience. If you like to give me a call seven one three two one two k t r H. By the way, I just saw, uh, Angie, I we had somehow you slipped through the cracks on my calls and I wouldn't getting back to you. So if you like to give me a call back, be happy to visit with you a little bit more. And in fact, as I say that, there we go. All right, Hey, Angie, that's funny. Sorry about that. I just stuck you on a shelf and forgot you were there. My apologies.

They're both caterpillar killers, and you would just have to spray ahead of time and when they chew in, they get the product and it kills them. I think Spino said would work better for this situation. To be honest, if it were mine, I probably would just tolerate a little damage unless it just got really bad.

you would have. They could even make suggestions, you know, like oh, I want to do a container, but it's only going to get about a third of a day sun, and I want it this and I want that. And they'll just walk around with you, pick out some plants and say put these together. They would look really nice. You can give them a call two eight, one, three seven six sixteen forty six, or go to Plants for

All Seasons dot com. Whatever you do, and if you take pride in your landscape and in your garden and in your lawn, you need to visit plants for all seasons. On two forty nine, they will help turn what you think maybe a brown thumb into something green. Let's go to Netherland now and talk to Randy. Hello, Randy, welcome to guard Line.

problem with tomatoes. Okay, I appreciate it all right, Renny, you take care, Thanks, thank you, appreciate appreciate that very much. Heirloom soils, when you think of heirloom soils. You think of quality products, and you think of selection. And when I say that, I mean do you need something for roses and other bloomers. Do you need some them for vegetables and herbs? Do you need something for fruit trees? Do you need a nice quality screened compost leaf mold

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make it harder on yourself by using cheap junk. Get a quality product like airloom soil that's made right so that it does work, so you can have success. Let's go now out to let's see here, go to Fairfield and we're going to talk to Marty. Hello, Marty, welcome to garden Line.

Augustine as well. And the trials I've seen across the southeast US Celsius has been as good against the Virginia button weed about anything that's over the counter in the garden centers. So I thought would be the one I would go with.

do it in the morning. Temperatures are cool, uh, and it has plenty of time to dry out before the sun gets hot. I think you'd be okay with any of those right now.

kind of makes it fun. Hey, D and D Feed and Tombole awesome, awesome feed store. Of course, it's a feed store. You get all the livestock feeds and things you want, but you also get some really high quality foods too. They have a number of different brands to choose from, and dnd feed is a one stop shop when it comes to things for your garden and your

lawn also. For example, you're going to find fertilizers from Nitrofoss and Microlife, Nelson turf Star, and from Medina and General Nelson plant foods in the jars as well as Microlife in the jars too. You're going to find soils from heirloom soils for example. Dand Feed carries things that you can't find everywhere when it comes to certain products for treating weeds or diseases or insects in your lawns,

in your gardens, shrubs, trees, whatever. You got, dand Feed's going to have the supplies that you need to have success. You're dealing with the pests and roadents outdoors. They've got you covered. You need Mosquita dunks and other Mosquita product control products. They've got you covered. D and D feed three miles west of two forty nine on FM twenty nine in Toombol two eight one three five one seven one forty four two eight one three five one seventy

one forty four. We're going to run out now to cypress and talk to John. Hello, John, Welcome to garden Line.

done that extra work. Yeah. Second, you want the soil well, this may have been even first, but you want the soil to be moderately moist, not soggy, guey, wet, and definitely not hard heart dry, so that you get the most out of your aeration and then get your product. If you can find a core aerator, one that pulls cores out of the soil rather than just squeezing a hole into the soil, then do a core aerator. It's better to do that. Go over the lawn left right,

north south east west. If you will do two different ways, make good aeration through the lawn, and then spread your leaf more compost roughly about a third of an inch thick something like that is plenty to put out there on it and rake it around and it'll it'll go down in the hole. So you do their. You do the aeration first, you do the leaf moll compost second. And you can buy it by the bag. You can buy it by the bulk. You can have them to deliver it. You know, if you need a whole QBICR

of it. If you go to airloom Soils website airloomsoils dot com there's a calculator and you can say, Okay, my yard is this big and I want to put it this deep, and it'll tell you exactly how much you need. Then you know if a book delivery is needed or not. And you can also go pick it up if you happen to have a trailer or truck. But however you want to go.

right rate. Follow my skin schedule in terms of the products to use for this time of the year. Sure, and you should be good to go. Water it in real good when you're done. Okay.

They have been basically they have been a leader when it comes to all things water garden across the country now for years. They are awesome. But what you're gonna find when you go to Nelson is not just water garden stuff. You're going to find plants from house plants to beautiful little They have a little thing called a sand dollar cactus and you just got to go look at them. They're cute. They're a little dark, dark gray green with kind of white silvery spots on them. They

have little pretty low ballooms on them. Really cool. When you're there, you're going to find plants for you know, vegetables and herbs and shrubs and trees and flowers, and certainly water garden plants do really really well. So Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery and Katie on Fort Ben Road. You just turn north on Katie Fort Benroad. It's just a little bit up on the right hand side. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. Let's go now to Pinehurst, Texas and we're

going to talk to Marcus. Hello, Marcus, Hi, thanks for taking my call.

It's just that it's difficult to get things to grow under a magnolia, and so you know, when you train it up because of the density of shade year round, it's kind of difficult. And sometimes people just let them go all the way to the ground. That's purely aesthetic. Your choice.

branch at the trunk. But you're not gonna there's not a right or wrong on this. You're gonna be okay, just go with your ascetic preferences. Let me say wife's aesthetic preferences.

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like more than brown patches going on. To me, it looks almost like it might be take all root rot. As I you know, I can only get so close in the photo, but as I'm zooming in and taking a look at them, there are just some signs that more is going on. There's also some signs of a little bit of gray leaf spot and a little bit

of Saint Augustine decline virus. Okay, So if you go up to those spots when you're out there in the yard and you see some grass blades, and when you pick them, the green has all these little tiny thin splotches of not green, kind of tannish yellowish looking in them. That's gray leaf that is Saint Augustine declined virus, and I think that's what you're dealing with. So the fact that there's some seed heads in there, I think it's an older type of Saint Augustine maybe, but that's what

I'm seeing. So my best guess, shooting just from pictures, is that you've got an older type of Saint Augustine that is weakened by the virus. There's no cure for that. Lots of loans have had it over the decades here in the Greater Houston area. It's just a matter of plugging in, either revamping the lawn holy or just plugging in some healthier Saint Augustine's that are resistant to the

virus to get away from that. The other the take all is a root killing disease, and it's showing up is some yellowing on your turf and some decline of the growth in your turf. I would say that if you go to my website and go to my lawn pest Disease and we'd management schedule there is it tells you about brown patch, it tells you about take all root rot. When you would apply things for those I would seriously consider doing a take all root rot app

location this October in your lawn. And finally, the gray leaf spot is the spots on the leaves that have very ten centers and purplish borders. I see a lot of that in those areas. And there's a fungicide product by nitrofoss called Eagle a g l E and Eagle will control a number of diseases, but also that gray leaf spot. So I think I would do an Eagle application. I might consider some compost top dressing in some of those areas, uh, and then just moderate fertilization on through the summer.

would do some aerration corroration. I would do a compost stop dressing, and then I would be ready this fall to do a take all root rot application and then that fungicide eagle. I think I would do that and let's see if we can bring it back before we do the more drastic thing of resotting areas perfect.

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That beautiful purple blue blossoms just go on into summer. It's a great pollinator attractor too. Has a nice fragrance too, by the way, they've got those there. Now you need to know about this public service announcement. Today Today at Eningended Forest Gended Forest in Richmond Rosenberg area two thirty to four to thirty is the Tomato Tasting Contest. Don't miss this. You got a tomato on a haul out there? Check in is it two thirty okay? Starts at three

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the phones. Now go to sugar Land and talk to Samuel. Hello Samuel, welcome to garden Line.

and you got to put it down before the crabgrass germinates. Now, if you get a good pull pulling of your crabgrass out, then you could do a barricade even now watered in with a half inch of water, and then future seeds that would come up, it'll stop those for about sixty days or more in your lawn, so that that would be an option for you.

for you, Samuel. But my schedule is available at gardening with Skip dot com, and if you send the photos, I'm going to put you on hold. If you want to stick around, my producer will pick up and tell you how to send me some photos so we make sure we're talking about the same grass. But thank you very much, I do appreciate that call. Speaking of lawns, Nelson Plant Food has outstanding products for the lawns. We've talked about a number of different things that they carry,

super quality products I won't call weedinator. Wheedenator is a herbicide that kills existing weeds. We usually talk about that in the springtime. They do have the Slow and Easy, which is a summer fertilization product that lasts for four months or more. You put Slow and Easy down from Nelson now and you're not going to fertilize again until

the fall fertilization. It is that slow. It has several different kinds of nitrogen in it, and each one releases at a little different pace, and so you get this nice even feeding with Nelson Slow and Easy, Slow and easy, easy to remember, easy to apply, and you will love the way your lawn looks when you use it. It is a super quality product based on turf research science that knows exactly what grass needs, what it needs, and what ratios and how to apply it. Nelson's Plant Food,

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that we talk about here on Guardline. They cover from Texas City all the way up to the Woodlands up Interstate forty five. They go from Baytown on the east all the way to Katie on the west. They can fix termit situations. They can fix fire ins and mosquitos and wild varmints and whatever you're going after. The Pestbros dot Com Dpestbros dot com two eight one, two oh six forty six seventy two eight one two oh six four six seven zero. This week I posted something about

my mosquito bucket system. I reposted what the mosquito buckets are all about. And this next week I'm going to give an update from my yard on how the mosquito buckets I have from pest Bros. Have been working. So stay tuned for that. Follow us on Facebook, by the way, garden Line on Facebook, or you can follow me also on Instagram. Gardening with Skip on Instagram. Our garden Line with skip. Excuse me, garden Line with Skip on Instagram.

We post things periodically say pretty regularly that will help you have a beautiful and bountiful garden. I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. Hey, by a hour today, No time for you to give us a call if you got a question. Seven one three two one two kt r H seven one three two one two k t r H Houston powder coders. You've heard me talk about them before. They are the biggest powder coder in this region. Six acre operation, over seventy five employees. I mean,

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and they will last decades and decades and decade. Your grandkids will enjoy the tree. So that's the way you want to go. Get a good quality species and take care of it with watering and fertilizing. Watering is more important than fertilizing. Fertilizing is also important. Shoe mard would be one if your soil is good, decent, kind of a loamy type soil. If it's a clay. If it's a little bit maybe questionable drainage, definitely shift over to

nuttall oak. Nuttall will grow in any kind of soil, but it's just a little more tolerant of poor drainage than the schue mart Is so nttal. Can never remember how many ls it has, but anyway, nuttall. Another good one that you see around is Chinese elm. It is this one. You probably ought to go online and do a search for it so you can see what I'm talking about. But as little small leaves, it's got a

very open, tall, large habit. But the bark is kind of a cinnamon and gray mix of splotchy, exfoliating bark. It's a very attractive bark, so even in winter it looks good. But that one grows pretty fast. You see it used a lot in parking lots, islands and things where the conditions are horrible for trees. It's very tolerant of a ye rows of conditions. But that would be another good one, you know. There there's just so many different kinds of trees, Jim. I like cypress trees a lot.

I think they make a big, beautiful, long live tree. But if your soils a little soggy, they send the knees up. And so if you've got clay soils and it may stay a little on the wet side for periods of time, you would want to get one called a month of Zuma cypress. He doesn't want money month of Zuma and they get huge in time. They're a nice treat, a little bit less cold hearty than regular cypress. But down you're in Whartons, so you know, it's not like you're calling me from Huntsville.

will do three things for a tree. You can save a lot of money on the tree initially and get that small tree to catch up with the bigger one pretty quick. One is get rid of all grass in as large of an area around the tree as you can. For some people that they can only stand it three feet out from the trunk. But if you with that tree, you would like grass no closer than the branch spread of the tree. And the more of a mulched area, the more of a forest floor you give it, the

faster it's going to grow. Plus it keeps along more and wheat eat away. Second, give it a good soaking, get you a tree hugger sprinkler, and following the recommendations on watering it, you can water a small area with a tree hugger, and when it's a fifteen year old tree, you're still rescue. Watering it in summer to keep the growth rate as fast as you can. You're not just

keeping it alive, you're keeping it growing. And then finally, every spring gets you a lawn fertilizer without weed controlling it, just fertilizer, and for every intra trunk diameter give it a cup or two a synthetic fertilizer. Or three times that much for if it's organic fertilizer.

up front, not a flowering. Yes, yes, yeah, well that's what i'd recommend.

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perennial rosemall beautiful plants. You need to check them out. They by the way, when you go out to Kingwood, Warrens is on North Park and Kingwood is Kingwood Garden Center is on Stone Hollow Drive. Let's run out to the phones. Now we're going to head to College station and talk to Jesse this morning. Hello Jesse, and welcome to garden y Well. I good to talk to you.

the area. I've had my county extension agent come out and he actually pulled up some sprigs and brought him back to his office and looked at him with a microscope and says, I don't know what's causing this yellowing. I've noticed some other yellowing patches and other yards in my neighborhood. I was wondering if you had any idea what could be causing this. It's been going on for a year in just one particular area of my yard.

and as close as you can get. Send me some photos. In good sharp focus. I'll take a look at them and we can take it from there. It still could be take a root rot. It may be that that's there. It could be that that section has a higher pH or maybe a bunch of phosphors got applied, or something

that is tying up iron. It could be great leaf spot, which is going on a lot right now in the area, including College Station, and so let me just look at a photo, so we don't waste your time and money sending you out after a product that isn't the one that fixes what you have. Okay, I appreciate it. I'll say them the lot, all right, I'll put you on all one hundred pickup just second here and we'll take care of that. ACE Hardware ACE is the place. Here's

what you need to know. Acehardwaretexas dot com. ACE Hardware Texas dot com. Don't forget the word Texas. Acehardware Texas dot com. That's my greater Houston area ACE Hardware Group. And there are so many stores and when you go there, you can find your store real close to you. And when you go to ACE, you're going to find everything you need for success with your lawn. You know, I'm just visiting, you know, with just seeing College station about

his lawn. I'll tell you this whenever I get through looking at the pictures and come up with here's what it is, here's what you do. The answer is going to be waiting at Ace Hardware store for somebody to pick up, for them to apply and to have success. It's as simple as that. Guess what I'm going to be doing this afternoon. By the way, I'm heading outside. I got a brown, brand new bouncing Baby rec Tech barbecue grill from Ace Hardware, and we are going to

be doing some fun stuff on it. These You know, Ace has all the top brands, you know, Traeger pillet grills, Rectech Pellet grills, the Big Green Egg. Oh my gosh, there's a cult following for Big Green Egg and Weber and on and on. I mean, there are many brands, quality, many kinds of accessories you need to unit. You always have to ask accessories to do your barbecue.

pine needles. They make a good multch, but they don't block the light as well as other types of mulch, and I think I would consider putting a little thicker layer of mulch and something that blocks the light a little bit better. That would work in keeping weed seeds down. Now, if it's a perennial weed, you know nutsedge and bermuda

grass and a lot of them. Okay, well, then go on my website gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot com and look for a publication called an in Depth Look at Nutsedge or nuts edge an in Depth Look and read that and it'll tell you what to do for nuts edge. It's a a little more involved than I can get in on the air, but it's not hard to do, and you can do it. I have a little weed wiper that I made that

makes it real easy to use. You don't have to have a weed wiper to control ntsage, but that is probably it. If you would like to send me a picture of the weed up close in good sharp focus, I'll identify it and then tell you what to do. We can also take that approach. Okay, okay, well.

feed store. Of course, there's that kind of thing, but staring straight ahead, there's all kinds of beautiful things for the home, for indoors, decorations and whatnot. Really cool nice store. Spring Creek Feed Center on twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway two forty nine, just northeast of the Tombaugh area. They carry fertilizers like Nelson's and Microlife and nitrofoss. They carry pest, weed and disease control products. If you are a military or a

senior citizen, then discounts are available to you. They special order and they also will deliver upon request at Spring Creek Feed Center. I recommend you check them out by the way spring creekfeed dot com. That's the actual website if you want to go there and check out the things that they have going on there. They also have plants by the way, low plant section out front. That's

really nice Spring Creek Feed. I was looking. I always check follow my own sponsors on social media and just see what's going on, what's happening, what's happening there in Chennet Gardens out in Richmond Rosenberg. You know, I don't even need really to look at social media because there's always stuff going on there and I can just tell you what is the season, well, I can tell you what they have there because they have everything you need

for whatever season you're in. Now, this is kind of cool. But on Saturday, June seventh, that's next Saturday, at ten am, they are doing a little class on ferry gardens. And if you've never seen a ferry garden, just think of a miniature garden with figurines in it. So you go to the base of a tree, for example, and around that tree you have light, a little mossy like mulch area down there, and then you have all these figurines.

It's all a little miniature and it's like a little miniature scene as if you walked upon a little faery neighborhood in your garden. You can do that in containers too, by the way, And in Chened Gardens Chenny Gardens, Richmond, Rosenberg. They're on FM three point fifty nine on the northeast side of Richmond, the Katie Fullsher side of Richmond F three nine. The websites in Chenni Gardens Richmond dot com. Follow them on social media, check out the things that

they have. Very interesting, very cool. I saw recently they had kind of come up with a plan for a red, white and blue flag planting So imagine a planting bed that looked like the American flag. Yeah, they got they got the plants to do that with. Isn't that cool? But that's just like them to be creative like that. They carry all the products you need, they have, they have folks that greet you, that help you, that know what they're talking about. And Chenny Gardens on the Katie

Foster side of Richmond. I love I always love visiting, you know. We one of these days we need to do a garden line garden tour, like an All Saturday or something tour where we just go around and look at all these places. Would that be fun? Would you like that? Get a big bus go around. We'd have to pull trailers behind the bus for all your plants, though. Anyway, you get the idea. I'll take a little break here. We'll be back in just a moment with your calls.

Seven one three two one two ktr H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. In the meantime, why not go check out my website gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot com. Look at what's up there, make yourself familiar with it, and get ready. There's a lot more stuff coming. We're just going to keep building it better and better. But it'd be good if you had a bookmark. That way, when you're listening to guard Line, I can just tell you, hey, go

check it now. I'll be right back. Okay, you get it, You get it, Megan Trainer, Oh my gosh, Hey, welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us. Seven one three two one two KTRH. That's the number you need if you want to give me a call. We'll talk about what you're interested in. As long as it's gardening that you're interested in. Be glad to help. When we get rain, guess what happens in yards all over the place, including years in mind, and that is fire ants.

They come boiling up out of the ground if you well, getting those little dirt mounds built up a little bit higher, and they spoiled the show. In fact, I can tell you a horror story. Years ago. I was in ruston Louisiana at a peach orchard, big peach orchard. I was doing a part of my master's work there in horticulture, and I was out pruning one day. No, it wasn't pruning, it was harvesting, actually doing some thinning of the peaches and whatnot, and all of a sudden I felt pain

from my belt down everywhere. And what I was standing in a fire at mound and they had all crawled up my legs, crawled up the pants actually, I guess, and I think they all went one, two, three, go, and they all just it was like everywhere pain shot. Let me just say this modesty gave way to self preservation, and yeah, it was. I'm glad that that was before the day where they filmed everything and put it on YouTube. But there's probably still talking about that in Rust and Louisiana.

I remember that time. That guy. Anyway, let's just say this, it was, it was. It was not pleasant. My relationship with fire ants is not a love hate relationship. It's well it is. I love to hate them. I just love hating fiants. The folks that nitrophass have a fire ant killer. It works well, it works fast. You know, we got baits, and I recommend you use baits. They're a good long term way to get controller on the yard.

But when you need to get out there and knock a mound out, you know, let's say this afternoon, you got a party going on, and tomorrow maybe you got a gathering going on. You need to deal with those fast and so getting fast results is important. And the Nitropos fire ant killer is an excellent choice for doing just at and spoiling the show. And right before you put it on the mound, I want you to look at the fire ants and go skip sent me hahaha, and then put it on the mound. That that will

make me feel better at least. Yeah, like I said, I was, I was. I was basically marred for life from that experience. Well, you are listening to the garden line if you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two Katie r Age seven one three two one two Kati your age by the way, Sorry about that vividmental image. Affordable Tree Service. If you need your trees taken care of, Affordable Tree Service, that is the one you need to call. Martin Spoon Moore's

company is a family owned operation. You've been hearing about Martin since what Randy was sitting in this chair for twenty six years doing garden Line. He talked about Affordable Tree Service as the go to place, and it still is. It still is. Uh, This family owned operation is the kind where everybody pitches in. And you give a phone call to Affordable Tree Service at seven one three sixt' nine nine two six sixty three, and probably you're going

to talk to Martin's mom. She usually answers the phone there seven one three six nine nine two six six three. Tell her you're you heard about him on guarden Line, because Guardenline customers are the top priority for them, So make sure and mention that to them now when you give them a call, they certainly can come out and prune. It's storm season and your tree's being properly pruned is very important. And it's not just like you prune them

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If you're going to have any kind of construction done around a tree, please call them first to come out and advise you. By the time you put a trench in the ground, you damage the roots. It's done. You can do things to help it recover as best you can. But it's way better than to let Affordable Tree come out. It's way better two. Let Affordable Tree come out and tell you where to put that trench or what you can do to help the tree in the process, and so on. They do deep roof feeding, They do pest

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they have one. It's kind of a specialty bait. They may not, but check them, check with your ace hardware store up there right off of forty five going north and see if they carry a leaf cutter ant bait. If not, you need to search for one because it's not the same as regular fire ant bait. It's a different bait. But that's one option. I had a farm west or to study, east of Willis on County Line Road,

and we had peach trees. And I came out one night and three trees that were fully leafed out were completely leafless overnight because they found them and they cleaned them out. We had a big colony. And what I did is I got some dust like ortheene dust ant must and I dusted every entrance to every mound. You know,

they have a whole colony of little holes. You can see where the active holes are, so that every fire ant that I mean, every leaf cutter ant that left the mound or came back to the mound walked through the dust and it kills that ant. It does not kill the mound. But if you do that and they can't come out without dying and tracking that stuff in, you will suppress them and you won't see them for

a while. They'll go away for a while and at that point that is where you you know, then it at least it's just keeping them from doing their damage as fast as you can. Now, I'm gonna do this, if you will. I'm gonna put you on hold, and I want you to give my producer your email, and I'm going to send you a concoction that pest control

operators have told me works. It's a combination of different products and I can't go into it all on the air, but I will send you a copy of this for you to give a shot to if you just promised to report to me how it does for you, because I'm told that it works pretty good and it gives a good long suppression of the leaf cutter aunt. But just hang on, put you on hold, and I'll see you.

gorgeous plants, just everything you can imagine. If you want to create a tropical paradise, boy did they ever have it. If you want to maybe do cactine succulents, they can got you set up. You're not com find a better selection of containers anywhere. I mean, the place is crawling with containers and every other kind of plant you can imagine. Jim Moss has made this family operation. I've been around seventy years, by the way, eight acre family operation, seventy years.

He's made it into a wonderland and it's a fun place to go, just wandering through and seeing all the things. If you cannot find a plant you like there, then you don't. You better check your pulse. You probably don't have one. Because Moss Nursery is set up with everything you need to have beauty and success. That's why people down there love it so much. That's why I have to have truckloads of plants coming in constantly, just keeping

the place well stocked because people love that thing. Doesn't matter betting plants, herbs, shrubs, vines, They've got it all they've got it all there now. If you don't have some fun, how about showing up on Saturday, June fourteenth from twelve to six pm. Twelve noon to six pm Saturday, June fourteenth, a couple of saturdays from now. They're gonna have Alex Moss, the Black Angels and light in the attic and it's just it's gonna be worth to have

a crawfish ball. It's all free. Crawfish boil for free. How do they do that? Anyway? It will be fun. Go check out Moss Nursery, have some fun. Look at the waters features and things that they have. Look at the beautiful oh asked to see their out There is a rows of Sharon. Some of the most gorgeous underplanted plants been around the South for a long time. Not as common as they used to be, but they should be, and they got them there at Moss Nursery on Toddville

Road in Seabrook, Texas. We're gonna head now up to the Woodlands and talk to Ken. Hello, Ken, Welcome to garden Line.

stringy and tall as much. I haven't had to mow it as frequently, I guess, and it has really spread with runners just you know, like incredibly filled in some areas that I was concerned about. And you know, I've used other products for spring, and my question is I've still got a half a bag of it left. Can I use it now and make another application for the summer or do I need to switch to something else now?

this time of the year. But if you wanted to get your fertilizer down and do the weed control at the same time, you could do that. I would wet the lawn and while the leaves are wet, the grass blades are wet, then I would put it out and then and then yeah, okay.

real careful, so I try to avoid it. That's why you always be talking about celsius, because it's more forgiving in terms of the temperature. Plus it works good on most weeds. But if you do it in the morning early, let it cool, well, that's cool, let it completely dry off then and then here comes the sun. It's supposed to be okay on those. Just be a little careful because some of the products are Saint Augustine, especially not just saying, especially, some of the broadly weak collar products

really really weaken it. They stress it. They cause it to yellow, to discolor a little bit, and and can even do more damage than that by weakening it and opening the door for some diseases. When we start pushing the edge of that of that rule.

it drains away the excess. It's got everything that plants need. Is a foundation for success. See animals is a place you get that done. You go there, you get your compost products. I don't care if you're putting in a vegetable bed or a herb bed and you want the veggie nerb mix from Heirloom Soils. They've got that. Maybe you're putting in some altheas I was just talking about the Rosa sharon and the Althea moss nursery. Well that's

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everything you need to know. We're gonna now go to Peter. Peter, are you in a town called Butcher, Texas?

that limb and to keep it from sagging more. Now that's not normally a homeowner type attempt, but you can

kind of picture how that would work. But a good cable with those eyebolts and good washers through the branch, so that you know it, That would be another option, and I'm not there to take a look at it and to be able to assess whether that would be suitable for the angles and the situation you got in those trees, but that would be probably the way if someone were wanting to go about not having to cut the branch off.

only killer several on the market. You can go my website gardening with skip dot com look for the publication herbicides for skipsweed wiper and there's a section for grass killers on there, and so the tree will love that. Trees want to live with a forest floor environment. So yes, as wide as you esthetically can stand, the tree will like that. Fantastic Thank you sir. You bet have a good day and we'll talk to you later. Appreciate your call.

All right, folks, Well that was fast. They're on a show. We'll be back tomorrow, by the way, look forward to visiting with you then.