What To Do When It Rains A Lot

But whatever kind of planet is, we'll be happy to help you with it. If it's past diseases and weeds you're trying to control, we can talk about those two. The main thing is, let's figure out how to make gardening more fun for you, how to make your garden more beautiful, your landscape more beautiful. How to make your flower beds and your vegetables and your herbs and fruit trees more productive. That's the goal, and then definitely have

fun in the process. Sometimes it just comes down to the nuts and bolts, like Okay, is this tree gonna make it or not? What should I do? Cut it down or leave it or whatever. But a lot of time it's more about creating beauty and fun. So here's a suggestion I'd have for you back this afternoon, be a good day to get out and do a little

of this. As you drive around town, look at what you see in other yards and go to neighborhoods you don't usually go to, you know, just check some different things out and notice what you like, just to you know, is that I like that color, I like that shrub. I don't know what it is. Take a picture of it. You can send it to me. We'll talk on the air, and we'll talk about what kind it is and what other things might go with it. Notice the things that

you like. Maybe it's just one little thing. I was driving by a yard the other day and they had an arrangement of containers that was really pretty different size and types containers. The way they had them grouped together is kind of close to the front door, and it just looked good, and I just thought, well, that's a good idea. I like that to find things like that that you might like to do at your house and then begin to build something that is of interest to you.

That's kind of what we're aiming for. That's what we're going after this morning. Of course, everybody asks questions about the lawns, how to have a beautiful lawn, how to keep it beautiful? Well, when it comes to summertime, the primary thing your lawn is needing is some nitrogen in small amounts over time, just provided little doses of nitrogen.

a good product, eleven percent nitrogen. It's an organic type product, so you're going to find it in a lot of places like other nitofoss products, and it makes a good little quick boost. I think it's an excellent product. Plus it smells really good. You're going to find it at places like Chended Forest and a Richmond Rosenberg, maybe Court Hardware on South Maine in Stafford, or m and D Cyprus up on Luetta. Let's do this. We got an early bird this morning on the phone, so we're going

to head to tom Ball and talk to Mel. Hello, Mel, welcome to garden Line.

a little bit. And but they once they get out there and get moving in the breeze and stuff, they should stiffen up and be fine. This isn't a boxwood ailment that that we're seeing here. But if you know, if you want them a little tighter, you can always trim them a little bit and get them to hedge and form more shoots and and that'll that'll make them a little stockier. But it just looks like the branches are a little lanky for the diameter of the branch.

roof getting crushed. You need to have a professional come out and look at that. An affordable tree service Martin Spoon Moore's company. They have been doing this for a very very long time. Family has been in the business, I believe over fifty five years now in the greater Houston area. And just give them a call and have them come out and look at what you need. They

do consultations, they do trimming and pruning. And by the way, with storm season upon us, it's good to make sure your trees are in the strongest, most resilient condition they can be in when it comes to weathering the strong winds that come here. When we have our summer storms, you can. You can call them at seven one three six nine nine two six six three. If you call your you're probably going to talk to Martin's mom. It's a family business, and uh just tell her you heard

about on Guardline. Guardline customers are their priority, so make sure and tell them that they do stay busy because they do good work. But Affordable Tree Service seven to one three six nine nine two six six three. Whether it's a consultation, whether it is pruning, deep feeding, pest is ease control, or even just stump grinding, they can

do it all. And if you are going to do anything around that tree in the way of construction, for sure, for sure, before you mess with the soil or put concrete over the roots, or dig a trench or anything like that, have Affordable Tree come out, take a look and advise you, because once the damage is done, there's much less that's in your power to control than what you can do before the damage is done. All right, Affordable Tree seven to one three six nine nine two

six six three. I'm gonna take a little break. We'll be right back, all right, folks, It is all right. It's gonna be a good day too. By the way. I hope you will enjoy it and get out there. We've got some cloudy weather coming next week, hopefully get a little bit of rain, depending on what part of the listening area you are in. Of it now, it would be a good time. If you're going to put out a fertilizer on your lawn, this would be a good time to get that down, get it watered in really well.

that's good. One thing about for lightning for a rain is look at the prediction and wait until you're real close, because you know how the weather changes his mind as we get closer and the weather does what it does. Then make sure you're not going to get like two inches of rain or something a gully washer. You wouldn't want that right right after you fertilize, but a little bit of rain coming in would help save you having to water it in. If not, just watered in about

half inch of water and it works real. While superturf is a silver bag, it's easy to find. It's all over the place. You're going to find it in a chanted gardens down there in Richmond Rosenberg area. Maybe you are in the Cypress area. If you've been to Langham Creek Ace Hardware. I was there just the other day FM five twenty nine on FM five twenty nine, just buying Copperfield down in Katie Katy. Ace Hardware on Pinoak another good place where you're going to find nitro fosh

products like the silver bag of super turf. The the thing about our lawns that we want to remember is we want to keep them gradually growing with some vigor. And that is the key. People. You know, I always tell you that if a teaspoon is good, that doesn't mean a tablespoon is better. And certainly that's true when it comes to herticides weed killers in the lawn. You gotta be careful with that. And it's true with insecticides and fungicides as well, but it's also true with fertilizers.

You know, if I saw a picture one time, I wish I could show you a picture on the radio. Maybe I'll post it to Facebook. That would be a good idea. I think I'll try doing that. But it was three basically crocs of water that had nutrient in them, and they had a little like a little lid on the crock with a hole in the lid, and they stuck grass roots down through the hole. So imagine these crocks of water, and the grass was growing in the three crocs, and on the left hand side, the grass

was not very green. It looked like it was really hungry. In the middle it looked good, and on the right hand side it was deep emerald green and flopping over. Those were the not enough nitrogen, the right amount of nitrogen, and the too much nitrogen. And then when they lifted the lid and you looked at the roots, the grass with not enough nitrogen had a really good root system because it was searching, hunting for nutrient. The one in

the middle had a very healthy root system. The right amount of nitrogen this kind of like the story of the Goldilocks and the three bears. And then the one on the right that had so much nitrogen and had that deep emerald green flopping over fast growth rate, meaning you get to momo mo trying to keep up. It had a less root system than any of the others now in summertime, a small root system. That's not very resilient for your long grass plants. Right, So you want

a good one. Middle one is the right one. That's the thing about a teaspoons good. That doesn't mean a tablespoons better. You can make your lawn greener, you can make it grow faster, but a good amount of nitrogen, like they recommend on the bag. Read the bag. It amounts to about a pound of nitrogen per thousand square feet of lawn. That gives you the prettiest lawn and the most resilient, healthy, deep rooted, drought resilient. You know, grubs to a few roots, the grass isn't gonna die.

I mean, it's got a good root system. It's fine. That's what we're going for. So think about that when you fertilize. Just remember, just because you have a whole bag of fertilizer doesn't mean you need to use it all on a certain spot. Look at the rate that you need to put out, all right, I hope that makes sense. Hey, in chen It Forest one of my favorite garden centers to go to down in Richmond Rosenberg area. I love it for many reasons. Number one, the selection

of plants is unbelievable. The folks that work there very friendly and help you know what they're talking about. But when you walk in, there's all beautiful shade trees and you just love wandering around in the cool of the shade, even on a good hot day. It's a nice place to go and visit. And they carry plants that thrive here in our climate. That is what they're all about. They make sure that when they carry something you're going to have success with it. They go for that. Okay,

so we're talking about plants like pollinators. They really specialize in more types of butterfly, larval food sources and adult food sources, and you're going to see almost anywhere. They carry shrubs and trees that are very well adapted to area. Things like the native wax myrtle, a real wonderful southern sable makes it an excellent, excellent plant. And another thing that they do is they make sure that they take care of the brown stuff as well as the green stuff.

You know, when you go home from the ingented forest, you can go home with a good organic based flower for or maybe a slow relief fertilizer for some native plants, or a lawn that you're doing. Maybe it's a compost based amendment for an herb garden you're going to put in. They know that healthy soil makes stronger plants, and so they're going to sell you the plants that are going to thrive here, tell you how to take care of them, and then provide you with that foundation that you need

no matter what it is that you're going after. You're looking to bring in hummingbirds, you're looking to bring in butterflies, you're looking for a great shade tree that'll be resilient and just get more valuable over time. Enchanted Forest stunt in Richmond, Rosenberg. By the way, they're on FM twenty seven fifty nine. But what you really need to do is just write down this website Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, t X dot com. You're

listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter seven to one three two one two KTRH. That's our number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give me a call. We'll talk about the things that are of most interest to you. I was visiting with Ian at Nature's Way Resources that's up in Tumble Tumble,

the Conroe area. If you're going up Interstate forty five from Houston to Conroe, about where fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left, before you get to the river up there on forty five, you turn right instead and go across the railroad tracks and that's Sherbrooke Circle, the first thing street you hit, and that's where Nature's Way is. And they have got every kind of product that you

would need. You know, from when John Ferguson founded the place back ages ago, they have been all about creating that foundation for plants the way nature does. That's why I say Nature's Way. And Nature knows how to take organic matter and make the soul better and better year after year. And when you go to Nature's Way, you pick up products that do the same thing. You know, you can't wait eighty years for you know, a forest

to slowly build your soil in the yard. You want to get there fast, and so you buy their compost. You buy their products for azalias and camellias and acid loving plants. You buy their products that are for vegetables and herbs and fruit trees and so on. They've got it all, from composts to various kinds of mulches. I just got a nice composted double ground melts that I really really like from there. But I want tell you about a deal that you need to take advantage of,

and that is the fungal compost overstock sale. Now I've been talking about fungal Friday's a lot where they have a discount on Friday. This is bigger than that. Listen to this. Fungal composts, first of all, is a wood top product based compo. Not pallettes and ground up pallets and stuff like a lot of cheap junk you see on the market that they try to sell you. This is a ground hardwood type of product with other materials. But it's a it's called fungal base because that that

fungus is what is able to break down wood. That that basically is what it's about. You see a bunch of wood chips and little kind of like a little white strands going through there. That's fungi. That's what they do in nature. But when you turn these products into a fungo compost, it is outstanding. I mean, you screen it down far enough and you can need to use it to top restaurer lawn if you wanted to. But fifteen dollars a cubic yard now through May. You got

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got about a week left in this one. But I would, if ever me, I would just say overstock at your house on it, because you are going to use this through the course of the whole year. I mean you may go in and build some beds now, but you're gonna be topping off beds. You're gonna be doing a lot of things over the course of the year. Even the top dressing I mentioned. Get you some good quality fungal compost from Nature's Way Resources for this incredible price

Nature'sway Resources dot Com. All right, that was my best effort at getting you to hear that and to consider it, because there are very few things you can do for your lawn, for your garden, for your vegetables, for shrub beds, flower beds. Then start off with great, great soil, and they know how to build good soilo at Nature's Way.

That's for sure. Our phone number if you'd like to give me a call seven one three two one two k t r H seven to one three two one two kt r H and we will be glad to visit with you about the things that are of interest to you. When it comes to your lawn. If you've got a lawn that is not that great, you know, some parts look okay, but then some parts are kind of spin ley. They just don't want to grow. You know, you've watered and you're fertilized, you're just not getting the

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they are specialists. Go to the website year Round Houston dot Com, contact them, have them come out and do a core aeration and a compost stop dressing and it will transform your lawn, especially areas that are compacted. I'm going to take a break and be right back. All right, we're back. Welcome back to guarden Line. Good to have you with us. Oh gosh, what do you want to talk about today? I've got a few things in mind

we can do that. It is important that you take advantage of the season we're in right now to get ready for summer. And that means getting your plants in the ground as soon as you can. The sooner you get a plan in the longer, it has to get roots established before we go into those extended, very hot periods of time, and that's very important now You can plant a plant any month of the year, you know,

you really can. But when you're looking at the blazing hot you know, late July, early August kind of time of the year, it's a challenge because you're trying to keep them adequately moist in the root system, and they're pumping water fast without overwatering them and making it soggy, which is bad for the plant. So it's more of a challenge. Then it's easier the sooner you get it done, and now be a good time to get out and

go visit some of our great garden centers. A lot of them have some really good deals going on right now. I mean, it's really amazing some of the opportunities, you know, to pick up some plants and change your change your landscape, turn it into something like you want. If you've never tried container growing, I would really encourage you to do that. Container growing. I just love it when you grow in containers. It's versatile, you know. Let me just give you one example. Geraniums.

Like geraniums and the spring, stick them out in full sun. They do fine, they're happy, they're beautiful. When it starts getting hot, I moved mine to a spot where they get good morning sun but then some afternoon shade, a break from the day, and they do a lot better in that situation. So this would be a good time. Remember this is tax free weekend on lawn and garden products that are going to save on watering. But that includes a lot of things. So it includes plants and trees,

you know, grasses, tropical kinds of plants. It includes soil and molten composts because soil prep saves unwatering. It includes there's a lot of other things that are related to watering, for example, So get out there and do that. A good place would be Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out there in Katy. You got to Katie turned north on Katie Fort Ben Road and you're just a little bit up the street there is Nelson Nursery and water Gardens.

They of course have beautiful water garden features. Oh my gosh, those are gorgeous. But they've got some wonderful plants, lots of wonderful plants. And right now they're having some sales on nursery stock that's twelve ninety nine and up, so take advantage of it. You're getting not only the tax free this weekend. So that's the different scene this weekend and shopping next weekend is you're getting a little extra savings on a lot of things right now. So there

you go. Twenty percent off plants that are twelve ninety nine and up. That doesn't include their aquatic plants, but it does all the others. Katie Fort ben Road, Nelson water Gardens Com, Nelsonwatergardens dot com. You should go check those out. I was I think I told you that yesterday. I was working on doing some pruning on a Vitex and I'm trying to Vitex is the most uncooperative plant with pruning that I think I've ever seen. But I'm

doing some things on it. I'm trying something out and if it ends up working, i'll tell you, but more about it later. But I want to I want to know that it works first. But I needed a product that does, uh you know, regulates growth. It's a natural plant hormone type product and and uh you know you I was thinking, well where do you get it? I thought, well, that's gonna be everywhere, and I went some places are

real close to me and couldn't couldn't find it. And so what do you do well you anytime I'm in a situation like that, if you call Southwest Fertilizer, well, they're going to have it. I mean, if it's a product that is, you know, just not snake all. I mean, it works, it's a good product, they're going to carry it. They If they don't have it, you don't need it.

It's kind of what it mounts to because that store is full of all of the things that are very hard to find, including the things that are easy to find everywhere. So if you're looking for a fertilizer, you're not going to find a huge or a huger a bigger selection than Southwest Fertilizer. If you're looking to control pests or diseases, or weeds or prevent weeds, they've got everything there. If you're looking for tools, they have a

ninety foot wall of quality tools. If you want to build my weed wiper, they got the grabber tool to build it with. If you need the kneeling bench I talk about all the time, the kneeling seat that they've got those there. It doesn't matter what it is. If you're trying to have a bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape, Southwest Fertilizer has got what you need, including experts. They can look at samples and pictures you bring in, identify

the situation and point you in the right direction. Friendly service, quality products, great selection. Southwest Fertilizer corner of Bissonet in Renwick, off West Houston. All right, let's head up to Tomball now and we're going to visit with David this morning. Hello David, and welcome to garden Line. Oh, good morning. I'm I'm a regular for you.

Parts that are not blooming are not blooming.

out at the ground. And the new shoots that are coming up that are the next year's primatecains. They're the ones that will bear fruit the following year. So if you've got a shoot that's not blooming by now, then that I don't know what happened, but it didn't set fruit last year for whatever reason. But it's that cycle that you got to look at. So I would just you know, you can tell the new shoots the primacains.

They're very fleshy. You can grab the ends with your finger and pinch the tips out of them because they're so soft. The thorns aren't hard on the end there yet, and I would I would look at check.

fleshy like they come out of the ground. But those that are coming out of the ground, thinking bless you, when they get up to about chest high, I would pinch them off or snip the tip out of them so that they branch more and each of those branches then can carry more blooms and fruit and let's see if you can get it back in shape that way. If you want to send me a picture of some things, and you know, hold something in your hand, take a picture of it and say is this what is this?

Right here? I can guide you a little bit more on it. But uh, that's what I would suggest is just watch that cycle, make sure and tip the primate canes as they come up, get some side branches on them, and the only other thing you need is lots of sunlight, you know, over the years. As a tree gets thicker and thicker and you have less light coming down on a BlackBerry, that your production is going to go down

from that too. So I don't know if I am going to go snip them off, go the parts that are not growing.

H give me a call, glad to do that. Bucknnon's Native Plants in the Heights is a place. Well, first of all, let me just I just want to ask you to do this. Will you please write down this website bu canons Plants dot com. You Cannons plants dot com. If you never go there, you at least need to be following the website because there is so much good information.

And I'm tell you this. You start following the website, you start seeing the deos find out about their gardener's Redemption point program or where you can get a as you spend money, you save money, that you will start going there. When you start seeing pictures of these features of native plants that they have, Oh my gosh, you're

going to start going there. Like the other day they featured inland Seots and it's a great groundcover that's it looks like little tiny oat plants sort of they grow in the shade and they fill in a nice shady area, very well, very pretty, make nice right arrangements too, by the way, but you may say I've got perfect spot for that. That's what I'm talking about. But the newsletter is incredibly helpful, incredibly useful. Follow them on social media

as well. They give you two do lists, they give you educational videos and it, trust me, you will love it. It is very very informative. Now head to the Buchanans Nati Plants. Check out the new checkout building that they have. It doesn't matter if it's raining or if it's blazing hot sunshine outside. You can stand in the shade, you can stay out of the rain and the checkout it is really really nice. And they went through a lot

last year, losing their checkout area twice in storms. That's not going to happen again now with the way they've got it set up. The houseplank greenhouse is looking as good as it ever does. I've never seen so many different kinds of beautiful indoor plants indoor and they can also be grown outdoor too, by the way, But when it comes to natives, nobody can match in the whole region Buchanans native plants. It's just an outstanding place, and

I love shopping there. Buchanans Plants dot com. That's the website, buchanans Plants dot com. They'll fix you up on plants that want to grow here. They'll advise you so you

can have success. That is so important with a great independent garden center like Buchenna's Native Plants is the quality of plants, the appropriate selection, the fact that they've got all the things you need to set the foundation in the soil with when you go home with your plants, go home with the products, and then the advice after the sale to help you continue to have success. All right, there, it is, that's important. Let's see, we're going to head

to Missouri now and talk to Frank Clark. Frank, are you in Missouri? Are you in Texas Missouri? Or Missouri Missouri?

product on that. There's also a publication on the website that is Herbicides for skips weed wiper. And so if you're going after a broad leaf kind of harder to control vining or weed like that, you use a product called triclope here. But that's written on the publications. You don't have to write that down while you're driving and remember it. But you put it on the sponges and

everywhere the passion vine pops up, you just reach. You don't have to bend over, you just grab it with those sponges and it squeezes some of the product onto the sponge, I mean onto the leaves, and it'll translocate

down and it'll kill it. You may have to do it once or twice because you're not going to get it all the first time, but it will get rid of it and you won't hurt the things around it because you're applying the product directly to the weeds of the passion, to the leaves of the passion.

And you're thinking, well, that's too much nitrogen. No, because it applies it really slow, and it does it over a long long time. It's a super long lasting. You fertilize slow and Easy. Now you're not going to be fertilizing your long again until fall. Fertilization time, it covers it. Trust me on this one. And with twenty two percent nitrogen, you're not putting out much of it. You know, a little forty pound bag's gonna cover five thousand square feet.

So it goes a long way, and it really works. It's designed with several different kinds of nitrogen in it. It has some sulfur in it to help balance the soul pH uh, and it just it works.

let's get you on the board. Give Alejandro a call at seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two and two ktr H. You can bear first up when we come back after the break. Uh, I'm gonna be talking about some other things going on around the area that you need to know about. And then I've got a couple of little topics that I would like to visit about that I think are very timely.

After spending thirty five years plus answering gardening questions, I kind of know what is gonna be the questions of the season pretty much. I'm going to head the few of those off here and come back from break. All right, gardener's welcome back. Glad to have you with us this morning. It's gonna be a good days starting off to be

a nice, beautiful Sunday. As a matter of fact, in my yard and garden, i'd have to introduce myself if I went out there today, because it's been a while since I've had time to get out and really get some stuff done. We've done some traveling. I kind of went through a little bit of an illness and you know, just didn't feel like getting out and getting any work done. And it's waiting on me.

I think that would be a good idea. But first of all, what do you do when it rains and you can't mow your lawn and then it gets too tall? You know, I always say return the clippings because they're so valuable. They contain nutrients, their nature's on slow release, fertilizer and all of those things. Well, when you can't mow and then you get in there, if you mow, you're left with a hayfield, all these dry grass clippings

laying drying up on top of the lawn. So what you got to do is you got to collect those. You collect them, but use them as mulch. Put them as about a one inch layer around beds. You can you can mix them into the soil. If you've got a garden and you're going to rot totail or something, don't be afraid to rototil a bunch of them in. They will decompose underground and they'll release all those nutrients. The microbes will love them. It's good for the soil,

so you can do that. Another thing you could do, this would be Option B, would be to mow high and then come in and mow a second time a little bit lower, and you kind of do a double mowing. I know that means going over the yard twice, but you're able to return the clippings that way, chop them up a little bit better. A good mulching mower should do a good job of it if they're not too tall. Avoid mowing the grass when it's wet, though. It just gets clumping underneath the housing of the motor or of

the mower and it doesn't turn out very well. So I always avoid mowing when it's wet until it dries out to do that. But clippings are valuable, so don't let them get away from your lawn. That is part of the cycle of nature. They did a study one time. This is a separate topic here, but they did a study one time at Texas A and m UP in Dallas, and they found the turf researchers up there found that if you take the clippings and you send them to a lab and say what's in these nutrient wise, what

are the nutrients? Will you find out that there's a three one two or a four to one two ratio of nutrients and the clippings, Okay, now the middle number doesn't go away. Phosphorus sticks in the soil, and you don't lose much phosphorus at all from in nature as it rains and all the different things happen. Nitrogen is very volatile. It'll wash away in certain forms of nitrogen. It'll volatilize into the air as a gas in certain forms of nitrogen, and so you always need to add nitrogen.

Potassium's kind of in between the two. It can leach away, and so you do need to add it, but it's not it doesn't stick around as much as phosphorus does. But so that's what's in the clippings. And then what they did is they looked at how many times do we mow the lawn, how much clippings did we capture from a thousand square foot a lawn, let's say, and what was the nutrient content of them? And so what you end up with is how many pounds of nutrients

did the lawnmower put out with clippings? So at the end of the year. What they found is the lawnmower put out more fertilizer than the fertilizer spreader. Now, you don't get one hundred percent of those nutrients back, like you when you put clippings back on the lawn. You don't get one hundred percent of the nitrogen back, but you get some of it and some other parts of it. You get a lot of it back. But think about that.

You know, if you fertilize your lawn two or three times a year, maybe just to throw a couple numbers out there, and then you were to look at your lawnmower. Your lawnmowers putting out more nutrients than your fertilizer spreader is So does that mean you don't fertilize if you return clippings, No, it doesn't. You still need to fertilize because of the volatility, and you don't get anywhere near one hundred percent return of the nutrients. But doesn't it

make sense to not throw away clippings. The way I like to tell people is if you bag and put your clippings in the weekly trash pickup, you are renting fertilizer because you buy a bag one of these great fertilizers I talk about. You grow grass clippings with a good portion of those nutrients. You cut those clippings off that are full of nutrients. You put them in a bag and you pay somebody to haul it away. That's called renting fertilizer. Recycle it. Do what nature does. Nobody

bags the forest, nobody bags the meadows. Nature recycles naturally, and you can too in your lawn. And don't worry about clippings and thatch that just caused by overfertilizing, which creates a lot of runner growth. Runners are very slow to break down. And when you just get runners crawling over runners crawling over runners because you're watering too much and you're fertilizing too much, then you get that in a Saint Augustine lawn I'm talking about here. Clippings decompose rapidly.

It's like dropping a lettuce leaf on the ground. They just rode away. They're not resistant to decomposition hardly at all. So return your clippings, fertilize moderately, water it moderately, and you be in good shape. All right, let's go Paralleland. Now we're going to talk to Beta. I believe am I saying that right?

you can see the difference. Female blooms have a little baby cucumber at the bottom. Male blooms don't. Uh, and just get ready to make pickles. Sounds like you're about to be in the business.

sprinklers can rescue your trees from that kind of stress. Now, if you've got a brand new tree, you put a little tree hugger sprinkler around the base, barely turn it on and water that root ball. Makes it easy to put the water right where the water needs to go. As that tree grows, you turn up the sprinkler more I mean. And they come in three sizes seven inch, eleven inch, and fifteen inch. So you may have a

tree that's ten years old, fifteen years old. You put that tree hugger around the base and crank it up during a stress time and you can supplement water that tree right where the water needs to go, within the branch spread of the tree. Primarily, that's where we target our saturation zone and it works. Rosarians love the product because you can put it around rosebush and do the same thing. Take care of those plants. You're going to find them all over the place, of course. Southwest Fertilizer

has them. Ace Hardware and Fullshire, the Taska Seed of the k and m As, Katie Ash Hardware, Sinkle Ranch Are. You're going to find them at D and D feed up in Tomball Spring Creek feed Center, League City feed in League City both in channed forest and in channed gardens carry them. Nelson Water Gardener and Katie RCW where fourteen excuse me where Tomball Parkway comes into beouta Warren Southern Garden and Kingwood Garden Center. Out in Kingwood the

arbor gate. I's got them up there as well. Easy to find them. They work. You need to have one hanging on the shelf in the garage. You are going to use it every year. I guarantee you that TreeHugger sprinkler. Let's go to Chapel Hill. Now we're going to talk to Gene. Hello, Jean, welcome to garden Line.

all directions water in real good. Two months later I would do that again, and two months later this I would do that again. So that would be what are we now? We're in made? You know what, I'm going to shorten that up again. If we're going to do it now, let's do it again June, at the end of June, and then about mid August, and do the three applications of one one cup only at those times. Starting next year, we want to write this one down

but look at the trunk diameter of the tree. And for every inch of trunk diameter, or you can say about a thumb with depending on your thumb, you give it one or two cups of fertilizer. So let's say that tree reaches the size where it's trunk is like a Coca Cola can. We're going to say that's about three inches across, so it would get three to six cups when you fertilize. And you can fertilize in spring and then in uh midsummer again.

So they have their strengths and weaknesses. But this is kind of an unusual weed in terms of it's not typically a question I get here, and so maybe that if that didn't work, we would switch you to a different one. But you know, in general, barricade is going to cover a wide range of grass and broad leaf weeds to prevent the sage from germinating. So follow the label, don't overdo it, Okay, I.

and it's like, oh my gosh, there's stuff everywhere. Beautiful ideas too. I mean, if you just go there for ideas, it's worth the trip. But I trust me on this, and when you get there, you're gonna have to go home with some really good plants. They have everything from beautiful ornamental pottery to you know, birdhouses and windshimes and every kind of thing you can think to enhance your landscape.

The gift shops awesome. It is just it's cool. They got a really nice selection of desert roses in that are. If you haven't seen a desert rose, go go go to in Chenna Garden. Say I want to see your desert roses. They are unbelievable. It's not a rose bush, it's a succulent type plant. It's a wonderful, beautiful thing, wonderful color. Just I don't know what else to say.

fertilizer and soak it into biochar. But I've never heard of anybody go into that trouble, and I can't see a reason why you would have to do it that way. I would just mix it in the soil, add the nutrients you want, and it's going to provide that extra boost for the soil. Areas where people use that, they get really good results.

microbes go to work on. Microlife also contains billions and billions of different kinds of beneficial microbes along with a yukka, which is a natural wedding agent from the yucca plant, and it works well. You can use it for your lawns. I use it for a lot of things, not just lawns. But the green bag, the six' two four is the standard one we think of when we think Of microlife lawn.

Fertilizers Now Microlife humates. Plus that's like concentrated compost in a. Bag that's the purple, bag and you can do it at the same time you do the green. Bag just, remember whenever you're using two different products on your, lawn you apply them. Separately don't mix them together because the particle size is not the same and therefore they don't

spread evenly if you mix. Them, instead put out your, fertilizer then put out your your humates, plus and you can do humans plus as many times the years you want. To each time you do, it you're just adding more of that quality humus which is what nature makes into the soil to enhance the root system and improve the condition of the soil. Itself let's head out now to a tescassita and we're going to talk To. Jim good, Morning, Jim welcome to Garden.

helps prevent that crusting and erosion and. Stuff so it's. Fine any kind of a multi on the surface is going to have those same kind of characteristics if it's an organic meaning natural, product you, know, mate not rubber chips or something like.

end water savor putting. Soil what does that? Mean water, Savor it means it has crystals in it that absorb water and hold onto that. Water so even as the mix is drying, out the crystals in the mix are still holding onto. Water so your houseplants get by if you forget the water them a little, bit it kind of helps them along that. Way if both of them work,

well they're. EXCELLENT a good quality mix like Jungle land is going to hold water, adequately but it's also going to drain away the excessive, moisture so you don't have this, mucky, swampy soggy mess in the. Pot it drains well and it's a good quality particle. Size it's got different sources of aged organic, matter decomposed organic. Matter it's got microies of fungi in. It it's a good. Product you're going to find jungle land in a lot of places where

you buy nitrofost. Products you. Know Night fross can be found At Bearing's hardware On bissinet as well as The Bearings hardware On West, teimer The Plantation Ace hardware ON fm three point fifty nine nine In Richmond. Rosenberg they carry Jungle they carry the nitro frost products as. Well down there you are listening To. Guardline the phone number if you'd like to give me a call seven one three two to one two kt R. H let's go now To Deer park and we are going to visit

With jay this. Morning, Well, jay welcome To. Guardline good.

that about once a week for about three. Weeks you'll get the spider mics under control probably that, way without having to go by and mix up a pray just to treat a little small container rose like. That so just blast the. Underside Sometimes i'll set my hand on top of the leaf because a blast of water makes the, leaf you, know move out of the way of the.

Water it just kind of knocks it to the. Side so that way you can kind of have something behind the, leaf so you can really blast those surfaces and knock the spider mites. LOOSE i don't see signs of black. SPOT i don't see signs of powdery mildew on. THEM i can't make out what those critters are on the yellow. Rows some of them look like. Ants you know WHAT i can't too As i'm zooming. In that's ants and.

Aphids ants actually drink the sugar water that aphids, produce and so the best way to think about ants and aphids is aphids are dairy cows and ants are dairy. Farmers they will literally pick an aphod, up take it up on a, plant set it down, there and raise their little herds of. Aphids they use their antenna to stroke the aphids by and it puts out a little drop of sugar water in, response and they drink. It it's just like dairy. Kettle so that's not a good.

Thing the ants aren't hurting your, plants but the aphids are sucking juices and things. Out you might want to get something called insecticidal, soap and you could also use this on the spider mites, Too but insecticidal soap mixed in water and sprayed on the aphids will kill. Them it desiccates their bodies and they. Die follow the label, carefully do it early in the, morning for the sun is baking down on the plant and on the spider.

Mites you just have to spray the insecticidal soap on the undersides of the foliage where the spider mites are. Hiding so if you wanted to use the soap for both, problems you could do. That thank.

spray you probably wouldn't have to do it. AGAIN i would USUALLY i find that if you come back about a week later on, soap two applications of soap should be enough because we're not trying to eradicate every possible insect on the planet, Here we're just trying to get the outbreak numbers down very very. Low makes. SENSE i appreciate, It, yes,

sir thank you for the. Call appreciate that you got a question you'd like to ask me on guarden line well seven one three two one two, ktright that's the one that'll do.

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Everywhere it is really a cool process that, works and nobody does it better Than Houston Powder Coads Houston powdercoaters Dot com two eight, one six, seven six thirty eight eighty. EIGHT i was done At Ace hardware store yesterday and visiting with some folks picking up a, pit for, example a barbecue pit THAT i have that we're going to be doing some grilling.

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things off a little. Bit go To Ace. Hardware this is the. Weekend while you're in, there grab your lawn fertilizer products to control pass weeds and. Diseases Ace, hardware here's the website for MY Ace hardware stores in our garden line. Group Ace hardwaretexas dot. Com Ace Hardware texas dot. Com they'll get you off to a good. Start and trust, me when you walk into AN Ace hardware, stort you're going to see a lot of things that you didn't

even know they. Do it's a great. Place Acehardware texas Dot. Com all, Right i'll be right. Back all, right, folks welcome back on a Lovely sunday. Morning good to have you with us on Garden. Line i'd like to give me a. Call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two. Ktrh, hey it's time for your summer slow release fertilizer. Applications let's get that. Done if you haven't done it, yet now's the time to do. It Night fass superturf the

silver Bag Nitrovas superturf nineteen four to. Ten it's perfect for our southern turf Grasses Saint, Augustine, bermuda And. Zuezia it's perfect for our soils and our climate down here in this. Area it's designed to not just let all that nitrogen go at, once but over sixteen weeks to

gradually release it to feed your. Lawn the best way keep your mounding frequency down a little bit instead of just releasing all the nitrogen at once and having a Momomo to make a good deep resilient root system by releasing the nitrogen, slowly not too. Fast it's all there in the super. Turf all you gotta do is go get SOME m AND d In Rosenberg On. AVENUE i is a place that you can find. It you can go To Langham Creek ace ON fm five twenty, nine or maybe go To Aspa's ace up in The woodlands

and find nitropost products there as. Well let's set out now To tumball and we're going to talk To neil this. Morning Hello, neil welcome To. Dardenline.

sap in a tree is. Sugary it's got carbohydrates in, it and so whenever microbes get a hold of, carbohydrates they begin to proliferate and the it creates a kind of a wound that the tree is going to have to eventually close, over kind of wall off and close, over because in the meantime it is either going to have just this, wet slimy look to, it or may have a, white frothy look to. It sometimes when it's building up under the, bark it'll actually lift the bark

up away from the wood and it's. Fermenting it's basically a little insect beer, garden a beer joint on the side of the, tree because you'll see butterflies and wasps and other things sometimes begin to gather there when it's fermenting like. That that's why the white froth can. Occur so if you see that, development you know already then what's going. On it's not something that you. Treat there's

not some product you put on. It you couldn't get the product to the microbes in there anyway on, it but the tree and good health will wall it off and will then begin to close that area. Over so it's not a long term problem or a. Disease it's going to take over the whole. Tree an older tree will sometimes struggle with this for seasons and seasons because it just doesn't have the level of vigor of a young.

Tree your tree is, young AND i suspecting good health based on WHAT i can see in the picture of the way it's growing in the, TRUNK i think that it will be fine and not something you need even worry. About but that's what's going.

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going on for The Memorial day. Weekend you might heard me talk about this, yesterday BUT i was pretty excited WHEN i. Saw first of, all this is tax free weekend for products and plants and things that are saving. Water so you can go by there and they'll tell you all about. That but they have ten percent off crate myrtles and, roses crate myrtle trees and, roses and twenty percent off of their meddle yard art and that includes like little overhead arbor adventure trellis or things like

that or. Decorations ten percent off crate myrtles and, roses twenty percent off middle yard, art and It's Memorial day tax saver weekend for things that could serve. Water and that includes composts and plants and lots of other. Things and they can tell you all about that when you go by. Again it's where Bell way eight And highway two forty nine come, Together Tomia. Parkway easy to get TO Rc nursery, Today w'd be a great day to

get by and do. That someone send me some pictures the other day of their lawn and the lawn just looked like if the grass was dying back and when you get up close to. It and this is WHY i always, say send me a picture of the whole, thing and then send me a picture up really close and sharp. Focus and thank goodness they. DID i need well focused. Photos fuzzy photos get you fuzzy. Answers you don't want a fuzzy. Answer but, anyway they sent a close up one and it had spots all over the grass.

Blades that is gray leaf. Spot gray leaf spot loves these warm. Temperatures it really loves moisture if it rains pretty. Often if you irrigate too, often you increase gray leaf spot problems on Your Saint augustine lawn now in. Shade it's also bad if you're wondering what gray leaf spot it looks, like and you don't have. Any this is

kind of tongue in. Cheek go throw a piece of plywood over your lawn in one, spot leave it there for about a week and pick it, up and you will see gray leaf spot because you've created, shade you've created that, humidity you've kept it moist underneath, there and you'll see the spots. Appearing so it's very related to environmental. Conditions what do you do for? It, well if it's,

minor you don't need to do. Anything but if you can get ahead of it and it's gonna be a problem for, you just use eagle turf funderside from nitrofoss that Is Michael. Buttenil it's, systemic it moves in the, grass it gives longer term, protection and it's great for fungal diseases like gray leaf. Spot eagle turf like nitrofoss products in, general you're gonna find them at places Like Ace, Hardware Sinkle ranch On Mason, road hiding and feed On Stubner.

Airline you'll find them at plants for all. Seasons there just north Of luetta On highway to forty nine works really, Well eagle turf funge. Side, alrighty looks like we're about to get some music going. Here that Means i'm at the top of the. Hour we'll be back next hour with your calls if you'd like to. Be we've got to open boards right. Now we've finished all the callers up. There if you'd like to be on the first, up

then it's first, come first serve on Garden. Line alejandro will get you on the boards and you'll be ready to go when we come up out of this. Break seven to one three two one two kt R h seven to one three two one two kt. Rh don't forget we have the Garden Line facebook. Page follow us On, facebook put and stuff up there all the, time lots of different information on local garden centers and some things

going on in the. Lawn you can also Find gardening With skip On instagram where we post some things there as. Well all, right, folks we're. Back Good sunday, morning on a Lovely sunday. Morning looking forward to getting a little outside time myself this. Afternoon be a good day for doing. That, hey be a good day to go Visit Moss. Nursery if you haven't been out To. Moss, WOW i don't know how you've missed, it but you gotta. GO i don't care where you. Live moss is down In. Seabrook

it's In, Seabrook. Texas, Okay so you can go on, There grab you some grab you some lunch over a chema boardwalk or something like. That just kind of make a day out of. It Ma's. Nursery WHEN i say make a day of, IT i mean. IT i mean it's eight acres to wander, through and every time you turn a corner you see something else. Cool jim IS i don't. Know he ought to just build a train track in front of the place so the train cars can come. In because that's about how many truckloads he

keeps getting out of plants all the. Time every TIME i turn, around it's, like, oh here's a whole. Truckload theer's, azelias and there's hanging, baskets there's boog and billias and just beautiful. Stuff his house plant greenhouse alone is worth the trip down to the. Nursery and then if you love, containers oh, my you're not going to find a more diverse collection of containers. Anywhere than What jim has down there At Moss, beautiful beautiful plants and whatever you're interested.

In someone the other day was asking me about, bonesye you, know getting involved in. Bonesie, Well jim had this. Spring at one point he'd brought in several hundred different bones eye, plants both mature plants and starter. Plants probably fifty to one hundred different kinds of bonzai from baby, plants even fifty year old. Ones that's just an. Example when you're, there check out the quirky t. Shirts gym. Designs he's got one called the eyeball plant and it's, yeah it's

kind of what you pictured WHEN i sent. That it's just Something jim. Designs he's hees a creative guy and he's always coming up with. Something this is a seventy year, old family operated eight acre garden. Center this isn't just another. Garden so this is an usual place where you're going to find everything you're looking, for and even if it's something, standard like you, KNOW i needed to make a, plan you, KNOW i wanted To zella. Bush of course they got all.

That they got so much. More and when it comes to bling for decorating your, landscape, oh, boy have, fun take some friends with, you make a day out of, it and enjoy it because it is a fun place to. Visit Maas nursery dot. Com Maas nursery dot com two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty. EIGHT i love going. There it is, cool been around a long. TIME i was visiting with somebody the other day who

was looking for inspiration for their. Landscapes youre just talking, about, well what CAN i do, here what CAN i do? There what would work? Here and earlier today on the SHOW i mentioned get out in the car and drive, around look and see see what you. Like you, know as you're out and about or as your going, PLACES i always try to avoid taking the standard Rout. Somewhere i'll cut through a neighborhood just to see what kinds of,

things and you'd be. SURPRISED i was going through one the other day and they had a really nice outdoor swing under a. Tree it was a very unique kind of, swing and when you drove, up it just made the landscape look so, inviting AND i Just i'd never thought about, that you, know putting a swing even in the front yard where you could sit out, There, well that may not be the thing for, you but it's an example

of What i'm talking. About another good way to get inspirations is to go To piercescape's Website piercescapes dot com p E a R C s C a p e s dot. Com Pierce caapes does pretty much everything you would need done in a. Landscape so it could be LIKE i got a brand new, HOUSE i need to design it from the top to, bottom the whole. LANDSCAPE i want it all done, Turnkey or it could BE

i just want to redo the front of my. House it just you drive by and you don't even notice the house because it's just not very remarkable the landscape out. There pierce can do all. That maybe you've thought about landscape. Lighting maybe you're dry around AS i was talking, about and you see a light of a house that's lit really beautifully at. Night it's very attractive and you can see that it's safer because nobody's going to hide in the bushes with the lights that they got set up

around the. House there, pathways you're not going to step on a snake because they're well lit. Pathways pierscapes has examples of all that they can fix your. Irrigation they can make sure the drainage is. Right you, know you get too much, water plant roots, drowned they can't get. Oxygen it's a. Problem pierscapes can fix. That they up

in The tomba. Area they serve forty five minutes away from that Whole tumbole, area so they cover a huge portion of the Greater houston area with the work that they. Do if you want a beautiful patio for, barbecuing, maybe if you want some stone, walkways if you want to create a tiered, landscape you, know we have several Levels

pierscapes can do at. All go to the Website piercescapes dot com pierce scapes dot com and peruse around and look at the work they, do or just give them a. Call two eight one three seven fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh fifty. Sixty they do awesome, work awesome, work and you, know there's a lot we can do to make our places more attractive and more. Enjoyable everybody

has their own. Tastes not one size doesn't fit. All sometimes people will call me and they'll, say, well what it would be a good plant to put in my flower? Bed And my response is usually something, like, well that's not giving me your credit card and saying go to the mall and buy me some. CLOTHES i don't know what you. LIKE i don't know what you, wear what kind of, colors what kind of. Styles that's how it is the. Plants when you're checking out, ideas you figure

out what you. Like and you could even take pictures like that into a place like the pair scapes. Designers you, know you can, say, WELL i re like these. PLANTS i want something that looks like, this OR i like. This it's more of a native. Look that's What i'm looking. For that's What i'm talking. About it's your. Place have, fun turn it into something, special and increase the value of your, property by the, way dramatically when you do good.

Landscaping so our barn swallows have babies in the nest right. Now they're out the front. Door they come there every year and we just leave. Them they build their little mud nest up underneath the eaves. There BUT i can look out the kitchen window and see them the way the houses, arrange and see little babies look like, that little smiling lips on their, beaks sitting up on the

edges of the nest as they. GROW i love. That but you, know when it comes to, BIRDS i JUST i have gotten more into birds THAN i THOUGHT i ever would. BE i just never was a bird. Person now my favorite thing in the morning is hearing the song of. Birds first thing in the. Morning we've got a cacophony of them around here and it's. Cool and it started WHEN i went To Wildbirds. Unlimited Wildbirds unlimited is the place where you learn everything you need to

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thing you do impressed. ME i was already impressed with everything That Tom hanks has put, out but the fact that he even wrote music for, THAT i was, like, man the guy is. Talented he's really. Talented, well welcome back To. Guardline good to have you with. Us you, know my mantra here On guardline seems to be the main one seems to be brown stuff before green, stuff which is just to, say prepare the soul. First so many, people you, know in, spring everybody's a, gardener even people

that aren't gardeners or. Gardeners in, spring it seems like you go to a, place you buy a, plant you come home with, it you don't know where to put. It you PLoP it down into an unprepared, plot and the poor plant, struggles it doesn't do. Well and we don't want you to feel bad because you feel like you can't grow. Things you can grow. Things the number one key to success is to start by preparing the soil, first And Siena mulch is a place to get that.

Done they're Southe houston Near highway six and two eighty. Eight it's ON fm five twenty, one just right down the website that's going to have everything you need to Know Sienna mulch dot. Com they're closed On, sunday but they're Open monday Through, friday seven thirty to five On, saturday seven thirty to. Two and it is a one stop shop because there you're going to find the compost organic matter products that are needed to improve soil to

make quality foundation for. Plants you're going to find mulches of all. Types, there you're going to find the nutrient additions that get the soul bank account where it needs to be for plant success From microlife And nelson's and medina and nitrofoss and asamite products from heirloom soils as. Well they deliver within about twenty miles for a small. Fee of, course they also carry things like sand and gravel and stone on. Pallets cienamulch is the one stop.

Shop when you leave there and you do what you do with their products to get that spot, right that plant is going to hit the ground. Running it's as simple as. That we're going to go now To magnolia and talk To mike this. Morning Hello, mike and welcome To Garden.

and didn't dig it. Out and my wife looked it up and it was a per simmon is what she found on her. Phone gittalle app that leaves and. Stuff we'll want to move it because they from which she, researched todink it pretty big AND i don't want it right now front. Yard we got a pretty good sized property and we want other trees. Around being that it's connected to that. Stub what's the best way to move? It you would think WHAT i mean to dig up that whole stub and replant it somewhere, else or CAN I.

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also watch your. Plants baths will wilt real quickly when they get too, dry and so they'll tell you and you can also once you get used to picking the pot, up you can tell when it's dry because it's so, light very. Lightweight and just just watch. THAT i think that's the best ADVICE i can give.

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good to have you back with us. Today, listen WHEN i try a patio plant this, year another one something you haven't grown. Before you get a big old, container you, know like a half whiskey barrel size or something you can grow miniature fruit, tree you, know for, example a lime or maybe a myer lemon something like. That if you are wanting, vegetables you can grow tomatoes as long as you have about ten. Gallons and, then by the, way it's late to be planted. Tomatoes Now i'm just

kind of talking in. General eggplant can still be planted out by the. Way out, there you can grow, flowers all kinds of beautiful flowers in, Containers so why not try. That all you need to just get your quality mix like jungle, land flour and vegetable planting. Soil make sure your container has good drainage, holes plant, it and keep it adequately. Moist the bigger the, container the less often you have to water because there's a bigger volume of.

Soil that's the bank account of moisture for that. Plant so don't make small. Containers make bigger containers and add the jungle, land and you are on your, well on your way to. Success you can get things like that At Ace hardware out On Sickle ranch On Mason. Road if you were looking for night FoST, products you're going to find them At Fisher's hardware In pasadena On southmore or maybe The Fisher's hardware In laporte On Broadway. Street

they all carry nitrofoss type products like the jungle. Land it's all about the, soil even if it's in a. Container it's all about brown stuff before green. Stuff all, right, now this is All i'm gonna call this a public service. Announcement, okay for gardeners out, there if you have been thinking about doing a major landscape, job and you just have kind of been holding off JUST i don't, know for whatever,

reason you need to hear What i'm about to. Say we're In Southern gardens is having a spring megasale that's gonna last just through the end of this, month the last Days may. Thirty, first don't wait till the last. Day but if you purchase one hundred dollars or, more it's twenty percent. Off so think of it this. Way you spend one hundred, dollars you only pay Eighty, okay if you want to go all out and spend three thousand or, more it's forty percent. Off so think of.

That you want to put in a, trellis you want to put in the have a metal. Arbor you want to add some beautiful pottery to the. Landscape you want bags and bags of soil products and multz products and fertilizer, products and you're looking for plants that are annual, color for perennial, color for, shrubs for, trees for. Vines i'm talking about the whole nine. Yards you spend three, thousand you pay eighteen. Hundred that is a huge. Savings, now, yeah you could do that slowly over, time but this

is just an opportunity right. HERE i, mean if you wanted to pull the trigger on it, THIS i have not seen a sale like this. Before it's the largest sale ever and for me at least here on Guard. Line but if you want to see a major revamp of all kinds of, things and if you've ever been out to One Southern, gardens if you haven't been out, there you need to. Go but if you ever, been you know how beautiful that place is and what kind

of selection that they. Offer it's On North Park drive out there In but, again this is only good for this. Month so What i'd, suggest why not this afternoon run By Warren Southern, gardens take a look at what they have and just kind of think through. This you, know is this? Something is this the? Time because you can do it in small pieces over, time like all of us. Do but if you want to really save, money here's your. Chance got another week left Spring, Megasale Warren Southern, Gardens

Kingwood Garden. Center all, right there you. Go your that was your idea thought for the. Day you consider it your, money your, yard your, money your. Yard. Right we always in our household we say that's not my, yard meaning that that's my neighbor's. Business that's not. Mine it's not my. Yard it doesn't just mean, yard it means in. General that is. True, Hey medina. Products people have been Using medina products SINCE i don't, know at least back in

the nineteen. Fifties there's so many of, them you. Know it started off with things like the Simple medina hash to. Grow that's one of the simple basics Of. Medina there's The Medina. Plus there's The medina hash to grow six twelve six. PLANT i talked about that a lot this spring in terms of how valuable that is to getting that higher phosphorus number in the ground for. Transplanting medina soil activator is a standard and people have used it for years on all kinds of plants from the many

benefits that it. Provides now we got The Medina. Plus it's been around a long time too. Now but it increases, blooming it increases the foliage, development promotes fruit. Set you can also use it as you're transplanting because it's got The medina sool activator plus over forty trace elements and natural growth promoting substances like cytokinins that comes from a seaweed extract component in The medina plus you, know magnesium

and iron and z and. Uh how about. This here's a mouthful para aminobenzoic acid that is a natural substance rival flav and thyme and bioten nicotinic, acid all kinds of trace elements in. It it's a good concoction and it. Works and anybody that's used media products can tell you they are a wonderful way to give your plants that

extra boost for them to have. Success and with them being so widely available all across the whole listing, area you, know ace hardware, stores feed, stores home mom and, pop independent garden centers are going to carry things like This Southwest fertilizer and other place you're going to Find medina products easy to find. Them you need to have some on hand because anytime you're wanting to get out there and give your plants a. Boost these products are excellent for.

That you're listening to Garden line the phone number seven one three two one two k t R h seven one three two one two kt R h give me a. Call Pest brothers is the company THAT i would send you to pretty much in this Greater houston. AREA i mean they cover all the way From Texas city in the south up to The woodlands Up interstate forty, five From baytown on the east all the way west To katy. Area and when we say pest, control we're talking about.

Everything we're talking about termites and other household. Pests they've got a system of termites that lasts for ten years and it's a little trench drug around the. House so it's just a little area they're putting this. In termites try to go through there and they can't get to the, house and it works and it lasts ten. Years if you're concerned about your, pets you want a treat. Pest you want it to be, effected but you want long term results without worries how to do it in the savings.

Manner Pest. Bros knows how to do. That they deal with fire ants in the. LAWN i talk about all the, time the mosquito buckets that they have that are so. Wonderful really enjoying, mine by the. Way and then the wild. Varmints, yeah the rats outdoor rats and the possums and everything. Else someone, SAYS i me a picture today of damage to a roof by. Squirrels oh my. God you, know chewing varmits can be a problem out. There they know

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little break. Here we'll be back shortly with your. Calls if you'd like to be first up seven one three two one two k t R. H all, right, folks we're back welcome back To. Guardline good to have you with. Us i'm gonna give you another reminder this morning about nine to five Super Turf soup nineteen four to ten silver bag From. Nitrofoss think of it as your summer cover. Fertilization you put that, down, now return your clippings in the process over the coming months of, mowing and you're

good to go all the way to. Fall nitrofis super turf silver bags easy to. Find you're gonna find it a lot of different. Places for, example you'll find it AT d And defeat up there In, Tomball. Texas you'll find A Fisher's hardware down On Mott bellvue in Mont bellvue ON fm thirty one eighty and if you are done in The clearlake, AREA m AND d Clear lake On Bar Area. Boulevard all places that you find quality products like superturf from the folks At. Nitrofoss let's go

out now To houston to talk To. David, Hello, david welcome to Garden. Line, Hello thank.

ones that would have, it The Moss. Nursery do you need a need a phone number or something from? Them, NO i can find their phone. Number, yeah Because i've BEEN i, WOULD i, would uh. Huh, Yeah i've been.

it and uh, it it looks. Interesting But i'll tell you, This i've been doing this over thirty five years AND i have never had a call On Harvey lemon or heard anybody talk about growing them. Here so when something has not been, done you kind of wonder. Why there's usually a reason. Why BUT i would start With moss AND i would see what they can what they can. Do there's also a wholesale place Called Brasa Citrus. NURSERY i don't have their contact information in front of, me

but they they do not sell to. Individuals they don't sell, individuals but if you were to call, them they are all about centrus and they might have information on it that may be helpful to. You BUT i would start with the retail source and that would be in your. Area Moss nursery done at Seabrook, okay, okay all, right well good luck and you win the. Stump you win the. Stump the chump challenge for, Today, david you stumped me

on that. One thanks a. Lot YEAH o get, Out bye, bye all, right bye, bye all, right hey, folks got time for another. Call if you would like seven one three two one two k t R. H whoever's fastest with the, fingers we will visit with. You, listen when it, rains you have all these little, places most of which you don't even know about or water. Standing could be in a sagging, Gutter it could be underneath the pot

of your. Plants that little catch, basin could be that old bird bath sitting out there that you just don't you. Know knock the water out and get fresh water in it all the. Time, mosquitos they don't need much, time they don't need much. Water in, fact a bottle cap of water is enough for a mosquito to reproduce lay. Eggs have. Larva have a brand new adult mosquita to

ruin your outdoor. Gathering mosquito dunks or small based donuts a float on standing, water one dunk the both, size a little Little debbie white powdery donuts you know talk about? Anyway do'nut there covers one hundred square feet and last for about thirty days or. More you can break them up if you want to make them into little, granules or you can purchase them in a granule form, too

and put them in little small. Spaces if you got a hollow, tree you, know maybe the branch is cut off and there's a place where walk can get, in they're gonna be mosquitos breeding done in. There throw them up in there to treat that. Water they're proof for use in organic. Production they. Work it is not a poison that will hurt other. Things it will not hurt birds or, pets, surfish or anything. Else it is a

disease of. Mosquitos mosquito dunks are widely available in our independent garden centers and our feed stores and our ace hardware stores And Southwest. Fertilizer they're easy to find and they. Work you should just have them on hand because we get in these rainy spells and you can break the life cycle that. Way but you gotta find out where the water is and either pour it out or put some mosquito dunks in. There it's a natural way to

manage this problem. Pest nothing is more frustrating to me than a little mosquito making that little high pitched sound flying around your head and you're swatting yourself in the head trying to knock the mosquito that's somewhere back there flying. Around, heye, mosquitos but mosquita. Dunks it's a good, thing good thing to happen to. Them, well you're listening to guardline we've

got we're running toward the end of this. Hour we've got one more hour coming up here, too by the, Way so if you got some questions or, calls feel free to give us a call at seven one three two to one two k T rh seven to, one three two to one two k t r H u if you've got some questions about your lawn or your GUARD i got a couple of items That i'm going to talk about when we come, back a couple of things THAT i think you'll be interested, in uh in the way of what are some, tips like how do

you and then we'll fill in the blank from. There one thing i'd like you to think, about, though before music starts telling me to quit talking, here is vines and the fact that we don't use vines enough in our. Landscapes now we have vines that will take off and run like a kindergarten on the first day of. SCHOOL i, mean you just have to be careful with them because they're so. Aggressive we have other vines that are very, tame you. Know the blue butterfly pea is a very,

tame little annual vine that we can. Plant vines are great for. Arbors if you've got an overhead, structure putting a vine on it gives you a, nice, soft natural shade that you can sit under and. Enjoy maybe it's a grape vine and you get fruit out of the deal on top of it. All or maybe it's a flowering. Rose you know, what a beautiful climbing rose. Vine that's a wonderful idea for a trellish or an. Arbor maybe

it's the west side of your. House maybe you have a brick wall or that's heats up at the end of the day when the sun bakes on that. BRICK i want you to do. Something go out today at about eight o'clock a, night and go put your hand on that wall and feel how hot it is that. Brick it's like a brick. Off it absorbs the heat and then it radiates that heat outward and inward into your,

house making your air condition a work. Overtime simply putting a, vine either on the wall or on a structure that's it's a trellisit SIT's out from the, wall can make a big difference in the temperature and you're electric bill as. Well vines make good. Walls someone often, SAYS i got a neighbor AND i don't want to look at fill in the blank across the, fence and they want a real quick. Cover, well we can recommend a row of, shrubs and that could work very, well but it takes.

Time with a vine on something like a livestock panel that is very long lasting in the, environment doesn't just rust. Away you can put that on a post and by planning a vine on, it you can get a really quick cover screen. Easily remember that the closer you put a wall to where you, sit the taller the screen visually will. Be here's WHAT i. Mean you sitting on your patio and you look across and you got let's say you have a six foot privacy fence and there's

something sticking up ten feet on the other side of the. Fence, well if you put a vine trellis right by the, fence it's gonna have to be ten feet high to block the view if you put it by where you set, something even five or six feet high will be enough because your angle of, sight your line of sight is different, There so kind of be creative and think about. That

where would a vine be nice to block a? VIEW i have some vines that are fragrant flowered, vines AND i like to put them near the outdoor sitting area so when the summer breeze is whaffed through, THEM i get to enjoy the fragrance of those. Vines lots of good reasons to have, vines from shade to blocking a, view to, fragrance to beautiful visual, flowers to even more ideas than. That consider having a vine in your. Landscape

where would one be nice to? Add if you're just looking for, FLOWERS a perennial vine or an annual vine could be just fine for that that they grow, fast AND i just think we need more. Vines that's one of the under planted plants that we have in our. Landscapes all, right there's some ideas for you to think. ABOUT i need to fuel up with one more cup of coffee to go this last hour today and we'll be back taking your calls here on Guarden line seven one three two one two kt R h when you

get a. Chance, heck maybe now's a good. Time go check out my website gardening With skip dot. Com gardening With skip Dot. COM i have publications on there That i've. Added in, FACT i have some new things that have not been up a really long time that you might find are very helpful for your gardens and your landscapes as. Well so go check that. Out gardening With skip Dot. Com welcome back to Guarden, line. Folks, hey we're in our last hour of the, day which means the last

hour of the. Weekend those of you new to Garden, line welcome you found. Us tell your neighbors and friends about Garden. Line we got people that call from all over the place here and we're happy to help you have. Success IS i like to put, IT i want you to have a beautiful garden. LANDSCAPE i want you to have a bountiful garden and, landscape AND i want you to have more fun in the. Process and that's what we try to do here on Garden, line help you

to have. Success that's the bottom. Line one of the things that is important for people to understand in success with, plants one of the foundational things is to take care of the soil and get the soil right. Now once plants are, in you can still do things to improve the nutrient content and, whatnot but it's easiest to do that as you're preparing to. Plant getting the soil worked in some organic, matter maybe expanded shale and a heavy clay,

soil that will help a lot go a long. Way as a matter of, fact for, IT i tell you that the people At Heirloom soils have got you covered on all of. That Heirloom soils is a top quality purveyor of the kinds of products that create the most effective plant promoting foundation for plant growth that you can, have and that includes composts of many. Kinds they have Leap mo, composts they. Have you, know they specialize in taking organic matter and turning it into rocket fuel for,

plants things that enhance your plant. Growth they do. That for, example you can buy an expanded shale from. Them expanded shell holds that clay soil open. It you put enough of it in, there it's going to create a, porous lightweight air space that will enhance plant growth in a heavy heavy massive clay. Soil they make a compost and shale mix At Heirloom soils that you can also. Use for that, compost we'll decompose a way over. Time the expanded shehale has much more of a structural integrity to

hold that space. Open so it's a really good combo that they do. There just know this With Heirloom, soils whether you go to a garden center or a feed store or on a hardware store ourself as fertilizer, someplace and you buy their products by the, bag or whether you call them and have them deliver it either by a dump onto the driveway or under your, property or buy a supersack it's a qbicyard that they, deliver or if you go out there and get, it you can

go out to porter and pick it up. Yourself save that transportation, costs which with any kind of bulk sold, things that's a considerable. Cost you can do it any way you. Want just do it and use their quality products because they. Work airloomsoils Dot com is the website airloomsoils Dot. Com start. There there's a great calculator by the way to tell you how much product you need to. Do whatever you're trying to do in, home your home,

garden and in your home landscape as. Well always, remember when we're preparing our, soil what we're really doing is two. Things number, one we're creating a soil structure that drains, well but it holds moisture, adequately but it drains. Well and number, two we're adding nutrients that help support the plant by creating a bank account of those. Nutrients that's the one reason why azemite is so. Popular it's a

trace mineral. Supplement azamite is put down in small. Amounts you don't need a lot of trace, minerals but they are. Essential plants cannot grow without trace. Minerals, okay so asimite put, down you put on your. Lawn you can do it on a regular, basis more than once a year if you want. To i'd start with the soil test to know for sure if you need it more than once a year or. Not but whatever you do putting it, down you can do it when you're, fertilize you can

do it in between. Fertilizations it doesn't. Matter just include that azamite is part of your annual soil nutrient bank. Account maintenance. System and when you do all of, that whatever plants you're trying to grow is going to have better. Success that's just the way nature. Works it, works it works really. Well let's head to the west side Of houston now and we're going to visit With. Rob, Hello, Rob welcome to Garden. Line, Hey, hey how you, doing?

that like bacteria and actinomy seats and other. Things when it comes to the tough stuff to break, down like, wood the lignan and wood, products that's hard to break, down but fungi can do it and they get in. There and there's a bazillion different kinds of fungi that do, this but a number of them have these white fungal, strands and all that means is nature is turning that mulch back into, soil high, quality composty. Soil so that's a good. Thing don't worry about it at. All you're

good to. Go, yeah all, right, brother that's. GOOD i sure appreciate.

mound and it shuts them. Down so let's say you got A Memorial day party coming up tomorrow and you don't have time for a bait to work between now and. Tomorrow but you can Use Nitrofoss Fiant killer and put it on the, mound follow the label instructions on how to do, it and it'll shut them down and family friends can come over and not be crawled on by all those fire ants in the. Math it's a good way to shut things down quick and it. Works and

Nightro fosh products are available all over the. Place you can find them A Stanton Shopping center And alvin On North. Taylor go on To engleton and you'll find them At Lake hardware And. Velasco and include The Lake hardware On Dixie drive carry the Night fosh products as. Well we're going to head now To, Victoria texas and talk To aaron hello erin.

Them this, year just the volunteer four o'clocks came back and they were doing good until about a week, ago And i'm starting to.

virus that you need to be dealing. With so four o'clocks you got to dig out the tuber underground to get rid of. Them you can bring some seeds in plant new, ones but as long as you've got a virus infected four, o'clock it's like being locked in a room with a person with the. Flu you're going to get it. Too you want to get those out of.

i like to use The. Biomatrix it is an orange. Label it is a seven to one three organic liquid fertilizer that will provide that extra boost of, nitrogen especially important for, houseplants which are mostly mostly foliage plants that were growing. Indoors you can use it outdoors. Too that is not just an indoor. Fertilizer it's just that with the boost of, nitrogen it's good for foliage. Development Microlife Ocean harvest is a blue. Label it is a four

to two. Three this one is a fish based, product and SO i use it primarily outside because it has a little bit of the fish odor to. It but organic gardeners have long known that fish of motion and seaweed are key elements when it comes to folier. Feeding liquid fertilizing the plants that they have And Microlife Ocean Harvest blue label or orange. Label either one comes in a, quart comes in a, gallon and they. Work they give you good quick results and they. WORK i always have

them on. Hand i've got some right now sitting. There did a little bit of work with them the other. Day wanting to get plants a little bit of boost from the folks At. Microlife go To microlifefertilizer dot com to find out more about the products they carry and all the many places where you can Find microlife products here in The Greater houston. Area we're going to go now To Walnut bend and talk To. Donna, Hello, donna welcome to Garden.

it's a matter of digging them. Up it's a matter of putting a good thick mulch over them to try to shade the light out if it's coming from a. Seed but it's probably not coming from a, seed SO i think it'll push up through. Molts just find ANYWAY i would, say, uh you, know you can use a product that let me ask you this, first in the flower bed other than the asiatic, lilies do you have some desirable plants all around? There in and amongst all.

triclopeer type. Product either of those is applied to the sponge of the weed, wiper and you just reach down and squeeze that sponge onto the daylily flower and you put the product only on the daylily flower that you grabbed with the sponges and uh and that doesn't hurt the other plants around, it but it translocates down and kills. Them i've got one of my weed wipers hanging on the wall in the, garage and WHENEVER i have problem weeds AND i don't want to kill plants around those,

WEEDS i use the wiper to put it on. There if you go to my Website gardening With skip Dot Com gardening With skip Dot, Com skip's weedwiper is on, there as well as a list of products for use on the weed, wiper depending on the kind of weed you're going.

yeah that plant's over there across the. Nursery they walk you over to, it they talk about how to plant. It you, go, well what goes good with? This and they'll give you ideas for. That and it's just a, fun happy place to.

deliver them to your. House but when you go To, arburgate you're going to see all these plants and you just got to go get out there and enjoy. It this, weekend remember it's tax free. WEEKEND i need to talk about that in just a little. Bit HERE i want to give you some more details about tax free. Weekend But arburgate is the kind of place that you're going to want to take friends with you when you shop, too because even non plant people will think it is

beautiful and very very interesting and fun to go. To arburgate is west Of tombull on twenty nine to twenty just about a mile and a half west Of tombull on the left hand. Side as you're going out of town, today it would be a really good day to go out and visit the Arbor. Gate let's go now to Foot bend and we're going to talk To. Myra Hello, mara welcome to Garden line and how you. Doing skip.

vine or foul play by somebody or. SOMETHING i don't know, anything, Uh, mara never in forty years heard of anything that would just cut off a section of vine and take it, away get rid of, it right kind of?

t R. H all, right, folks we're. Back we got a half hour Garden line left today and we got plenty to talk. About so hang on if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one two k t R. H we're going to go To Southwest houston and talk To. David first thing, Here Hello, david and welcome to Garden.

it that's for. Sure you're just going to need to be able to water it regularly in order to not let it go dry and stress at the end of every day in the, summer because even a big, pot that trumpet vine is going to get big and it's gonna pump it dry pretty. Quick so that's only. Drawback but it's certainly worth giving it a.

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you've got a big. Yard it gonna cost. More they have to travel a further distance and haul of the equipment and all the, mulches composts and. Everything it's gonna cost a little bit. More but Through. May you got one week left of, this so you need to call them. Now free aerration with the purchase of top. Dressing so you hire them to come out and top, dress but while they're, there they'll also do the aeration first for

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i wrote it. Up it's several, pages but you need to read it and learn about that weed because you need that knowledge to know how to go about killing. It and there are products that are listed on the publication that basically a product called, sedgehammer and there's some other name brands of the same ingredient as, sedgehammer But sedgehammer two is the sedgehammer rather is the one that

you're looking. FOR i also have on my website something called skip'sweed, wiper and it's a real simple little tool you, build very easy to. Build you'll see it when you look at the. Publication AND i use it in my. Flowerbeds for. NUTSEDGE i had a bed that was full of nuts. EDGE i worked at it last. Year every time it has three to five, leaves you have to wipe it again with the, product AND i got all of it but a few sprigs That i'm now taking care of this. Year so if you don't let nutsedge

come up for, air you can. Win but if you, wait like if you waited until now to start on, it you have eight times the number of nutsedge tubers as you did this at the end of. Winter so that's why you have to be. Diligent and the publications and the tool that applies. It it's easy to do and you can win this. War but you got to download, those read, them and follow them. Carefully and that's the bottom line on. Nutsedge.

or twice here and. There it's going to be you. Decide, okay this, year no nutsedge in my bed is going to get more than five leaves on it BEFORE i put this back on it. Again and you can. Win but just read. It that's WHY i made the publications because there's too much to explain fully over the.

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feeding out of. It you can find it all over the, place and like some of the Nutri star, Products Color star you can go to about a dozen places around town where you can refill your empty. Jars and it saves a little money on buying it in saves throwing that plastic. Away Nelson Plant food Color star a, quality quality product that will help you have more bloom and healthier plants on all your blooming, flowers, annuals, perennials, shrubs.

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itself against those who would have other. Plans you, know when you really think about those kinds of sacrifices that were, made you, know you watch the movies and the shows where you, know war and bout shows and things like, that and you know it's a depiction of. It but only those who have lived through those experiences really understand what it's like to be there in that moment and to be able to find a way to do what they, do to provide our, freedom to protect our, country to

get through it. Themselves that is a that is an incredible sacrifice and for some the ultimate. Sacrifice by the, WAY i want to remind you that tonight In. Sugarland tonight in Sugar, land it begins at seven five, pm seven oh five pm at The Sugarland Town. Square there's a patriotic concert honoring the fallen heroes this Memorl ofdly. Weekend they'll be a brass, band The grammy winning, singers a number of different, things, dancers, singers a chorus at

thirty member chorus leading in this. Tribute for, example The bill And Kim nash have a very stirring and heartwarming tribute to those who gave their lives for our. Country Sugar, sugarstar Sugar land resident And Texas Radio hall Of fame Member Scott arthur will be mceeing the, event And, scott a friend of mine and someone that we've talked to here live On guardline, before will be there to m

see the. Event it's just a very special. Event it's, free by the, way it doesn't cost, anything BUT i would suggest you bring your own launch here again tonight at The Sugarlandtown square seven oh five. Pm it's got more information Contact scott at seven one three eight two four sixty one twenty six AND i hope you have a, wonderful Wonderful Memorial day. Weekend i'm not ending the show, NOW i just want to make sure and say this

BEFORE i run out of. Time at the. END uh and a thanks especially to all folks who served in our armed forces and continue to serve and our armed forces or our. Country you, know one of the things we think about on a moral day weekend is getting the barbecue pits out and enjoying cooking out and being with family and gathering and all of. That AND Ace.

Hardware it's just the. Place and WHEN i think about outdoor, LIVING i think ABOUT Ace hardware WHEN i think about you, know barbecuing and just enjoying being in the, outdoors creating the, ambiance creating this, setting all of the little things that you need to create that perfect. Setting, Well ace is the. Place they've got a wide variety of. Pits by the, way they have the pellet. Pits they have things like The Big Green, egg both the pellet types From trigger And.

Rectec they got The Big Green. Egg, There weber. Pits they have many other supplies they go with all of, this and a number of those are on an incredible super sale right. Now AND i wouldn't delay. That this would be a perfect. Time do you grab you one this afternoon and be ready to go tomorrow or this

afternoon for some great barbecue out. There why you're At Ace, hardware pick up your, fertilizers pick up the products to help your lawn be beautiful and, healthy to create a more productive, garden to make sure that your place is just as beautiful as you want it to. BE ace specializes in. That and if you want to find your Local Ace hardware stores that are part of my garden line group, Here Ace hardwaretexes dot, Com Ace hardwaretexas dot.

Com find the ones near. You let's see. Here we don't have a call sitting out, there So i'll tell you What i'm GONNA i want to talk a little bit about an event coming up and it's Called. Obapalooza and you're, thinking what what did you just? Say, well oba ohba is The Organic Horticulture Benefits. Alliance Organic Horticulture Benefits. Alliance i've worked with them for a number of years. Now, Uh and it is just a this event is it's an.

Annual it's a fourth annual by the. Way it is just a great full day of organic, gardening sustainable, living and really ecological inspiration for, anybody whether you're in the landscape, industry whether you're just you, know a home, resident a gardener. Interested Joe lample is going to come. Speak joe is one of The he's one of my favorite horticultures across the. Country, Really joe just does an excellent job with his own

programs that are national. Programs, now by the, way there'll be eight other organic expert led breakout sessions going on through the. Day i'll be giving a talk there as. Well AT Oba. Palooza this Is, Saturday august. TWELFTH i know that's a little bit ahead of, time but these things they fill up and if you're, interested it goes from eight am to four. Pm eight am to four Pm, Saturday august twelfth at The United way Of Greater houston

that's kind of north Central houston ON Wa drive FIFTY Wah. Drive, now if you're AN oba, member it's one hundred dollars for the. Tickets if you're a non, member it's one twenty. Five but everybody that comes is going to Get you get a really nice uh mid morning snack, break you get an afternoon, one and you get a really good healthy meal as a. RESULT i love the the it's just the way they cater these things is. Awesome AND i promise you this you will learn a lot and

meet a lot of really cool. People if you want more information or to, register go TO oba online dot org slash. Register i'll say that, AGAIN ohba online dot org slash register all right. Now if you are A oba member and you register to do, this you will get a free copy of their new organic lifestyle booklet THAT ova has put, out and it's a really good. ONE i think you will enjoy that as. Well but, anyway that Is, Saturday. August i'll be there myself eight am to four. Pm hope that you can make it

and join. Us love to see you. There so we are in the tax free. Weekend what does that? Mean what are we talking? About, well The state Of texas is Waving texas state taxes this weekend on products that help conserve water that make it more efficient to utilize our water. Supplies, so for, example plants and trees and grasses all qualify for. This soil compost and mulch all qualifies for. THIS a rain barrel or some other alternative rain collection system qualifies for. This you buy a soaper

hose or drip irrigation equipment that qualifies for. This things that help you save. Water and when you go to your garden, center you're a hardware. Store when you go To Southwest, fertilizer when you, go you, know to the feet stores you hear me talk about on Guarden, line they understand what the water saving weekend's. About they can help guide you in. This but this would be a great weekend to take advantage of that make your. Purchases and it's only. Now all that's left now is today

and tomorrow for the water saving weekend from The. Texas it's The Texas Comproller State Controller's office that is actually the source of the information and everything you need to know on, This so take advantage of it this. Weekend you, know you don't have to plan them this weekend to just get the, supplies get them, there get them ready to go so that when it is, time you're ready to go on. It all, Right, well it's been a

busy day here on Garden. Line a few more Things i'd like to have gotten to and talked, about but we are where we are on, time about to put this one in the. BOOKS i want to remind you that you can listen to past shows on Garden line at THE ktr. Website go find the Guarden line page on ktrch, website or if you go to my. Website

i've said it about eight hundred times, today gardeningwithskip dot. Com, right there is a listen to Garden line button right in the big middle of the, page beneath the banner with my picture in, it and you can listen to Garden line. Live you can listen to pass, shows or you can download The iHeartMedia. APP i love that one little red heart on a white, square and you can listen to Garden line pass shows and live on The iHeartMedia. App and so if you miss something you want to

go back and, listen you can do. THAT i know people that listen to Garden line on their. Phones they don't sit by a, radio they listen on the. Phones, well there you, go there's another way to listen to Garden. Line in the, meantime do check out my. Website go through. THERE i put some new things up THAT i think that you will find. Interesting for, example there's a publication Called Great, Gardens begin With Great, soil and it's all

about getting that soil. Right there's one on herbicide products for my weed, wiper very helpful. Information there's another one on lawn carolina one good And nut Saidge an in, depth look THAT i was just talking about a moment ago