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during the one of the worst parts of it. Are I say worst when it's rain in the heaviest and husband for a while and uh, just looking in my yard, where's water gathering right now? Now? For water to puddle up during the rain is not an issue. It's the days following the rain that are the issue. You know, if you've got four days out, still got a puddle out there, well, that's not going to be an easy spot to grow. Most plants, there are a few that

take that. Button bush is a great native shrub, large shrub that can take saggy, wet conditions. Cannas can take so Saggi wet conditions. Cypress trees for sure can take Slaggi wet conditions, but most plants can't. So that's when we need to get out there and do some things to fix those spots. Very important, very important. If in the yard, I've noticed I mowed yesterday prior to the

rain arriving and got everything cut back. Boy, the lawns are they're happy, the temperatures are warming up, their growth continues to speed up. It'll get a little faster too as we go forward, but they're doing good. I'd fertilize my lawn earlier in the season and things are growing looking really good, and I hope yours are too. If not, this is a time to get down your summer fertilizations. Slow release for summer. That's what we talk about. And

why do we do slow release, well, several reasons. Number One, slow release fertilizers mean you fertilize once and it just keeps fertilizing for you over time. If you did a fast release before last night's rain, a lot of it may be on its way down the street because basically those dissolve and they release their nutrients quickly, which is good for the purposes that we use them for. But we're at the time now where you can do the

slow releases, and i'd recommend that now. If you're going to use a fast release going through summer, you need to do it in very small doses over time. So you're turning a fast release into a slow release by taking x amount that you would put on over the course of summer and applying it in a bunch of small doses. It takes extra time. You know, it's not the best of technologies, but it works. You can grow on that way. Slow release, on the other hand, gradually

feeds the soil for you. They're designed with different kinds of nitrogen that release over different periods of time, so you get that nice even feeding that avoids a flush of growth that means you got to mow more, that avoids excessive nitrogen release, that means you get top growth at the expense of root growth. And super turf is that is that kind of fertilizer. It's a nineteen four ten. It's from the Folks at Night and it works on all of our southern turf crisis in Augustine Bermuda Zeetsia.

It does well in our hot humids climate down in this region and it goes about four months out and so I would highly recommend it. In fact, today I just want to mention today, I'm going to be at the Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive from twelve to two and I'm going to be given away three bags of super Turf today. So come on out. Maybe he

will win some. I've got a lot of giveaways. I'll tell you more about that later, but I don't know that I've ever had this many different giveaways at one appearance, but we got a lot going on at Ace Hardware City. Anyway, nine to five. Super Turf. You're going to find it in a lot of different places. You're going to find it at Bearings Hardware on Bissinette and one on West Timer. You're going to find it in Shanne Forest down there in Richmond Rosenberg area, and many many other locations like

any Knight Foss product. We's head out now to Danbury. We're going to talk to Edward. Hello, Edward, welcome to garden.

a that's a kind of Califorfornia avocado. It's the kind you see in the grocery store, and they just don't have a cold heartiness that we would expect, you know that we would need, I guess for here, so you do a little extra protection on it. But anyway, as far as fertilizing the thing that was what your question was about, I would use You could do a fruit tree fertilizer and there's some of our our garden line. You know, companies that produce fertilizer will make a blend

just for fruit trees. Or you can just use a lawn fertilizer on it. And to do that, you want to walk up to the tree, and however, thick the trunk is not around the trunk, but across the trunk. Every inch one or two cups a fertile of lawn fertilizer. For most lawn fertilizers. If it's it's one or two cups sprint. If it's organic, you can double or triple that.

things that you need. But basically it's a we're looking for what are called Mexican avocados. Okay, all right, so the the kind like hosts is not a Mexican avocado. But let's see another one is Holland Wilma. There's one called Lula. There's a lot of other avocado that you know, you could grow, it's just not gonna be as hardy. And so what I would recommend you do is go to wherever you can you can find quality, quality garden center near you. Not not a big box store, not a you know, just a.

from Jory because he does carry some varieties that are hardy. Here.

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tomato plan or something. You know, you grow it and you throw it away and you plan new one next year. You could do that. Or the other is there's a company called Southern Bulb Company, Southern Bulb Company that sells throughout the area. I know that they sell bulbs in a number of our garden centers. I was at Arbigate that a while back and saw Southern Bulb bulbs there. There are some what we call species tulips. They look like really really skinny little tulips, but they're very pretty.

But they actually will naturalize here. They do pretty well. And then there's one that's larger that looks it is a tulip. It's called prey cox and they call it Texas tulip because it will naturalize here. But that is a very unique exception and it looks a little different than what you think of when you picture a Dutch tulip in your mind's eye. You can go see that online. It's Southern Bulb Company, Southern Boye.

and we're making flower beds and vegetable gardens. And when you need the fertilizers, the pest control, weed control, disease control, when you need the garden hose and the hand tools and all the things you do to have beauty, they've got that. And then for the relax and the enjoy you know, the barbecue pits, the string of lights, all the things that make outdoor living so pleasant. Ace has got you covered. You can go to ACE Hardwaretexas dot com.

Ace Hardware Texas dot com and find the ACE Hardware stores near you and they're all over Houston. Got a whole bunch of them here now if you would like to see one live and in person today, I'm gonna be at Memorial City Ace Hardware Ace Hardware City here in on Memorial Drive in the Houston Areio from twelfth to two today and I am going to be given away a lot of stuff. We have got some bags of azamide. We've got a super turf from Nitrophoss. We've

got heirloom soils. Oh my gosh, We've got the works potting soil. We've got their leaf mold compost. We've got hardwood molds. We've got shale expanded jail from them. Uh, it just goes on and on. I have got from Nelson plant Foods and color Star and then the Azalea plumerias and door indoor plants and bogonin veea versions of the jars of Nelson plant food products. There is a product that's a name, which is an insect control from Boni.

We're gonna be given away. You've got micro Life product I mean, oh, and then the three sixty tree stabilizers. I'm gonna have three of those as well to give the I mean show up and your chances of winning are pretty good. I'd always like to meet people at these appearances today from twelve to two at the Memorial location Memorial Drive location of Ace Hardware. It's Ace Hardware City. All right, let's head out to Beytown. Now we're going to talk to Bill. Hey, Bill, welcome to garden Line.

two three four fifty five ninety eight. I should ask if you had a pen handy first, yes, seven one three two three four five five nine eight B and B Turf Pros.

Bottom line is, you know, clay hole's water. That's why on farms, when you want to build a farm pond, you dig a hole in the ground and then you put in that hole, you line the pond itself with something called Bentonite clay, and it's a it's a clay that basically goes down there and seals and turns what might just be something that drains right out into something that holds water well, clay holes water. But a good company like B and B turf Pros they can they

can do that kind of thing for you. They have the technology, they understand the process of drainage and and it it. You know, some people try to do it yourself, depending on the job. That sometimes is difficult to do because you need the drainage to go downhill. Surprise, water drains downhill, and you need it to drop, you know, so many inches every so many feet in order for to truly drain out right to another location. Anyway, that's some of the how to are the details of it.

But you need a good quality team that knows how to do that to do that well. By the way, that kind that just reminds me that when you're choosing plants, always choose plants that fit the site. Sunny shady. There's different groups of plants. Plants that drain well, plants that don't drain well. Same kind of thing. Speaking of plants. Antigros Imporium Antigrosenporium been around since nineteen eighty three, and boy, they have so many cool things going on right now.

They have two new plant bundles groups of plants exclusively at Anti Grosmporium. One is called the Soft Cottage Bundle. The other is the Vibrant Cottage Bundle. And just ask their associates there when you're there. They are up in Independence, Texas and it's a great outing to get out and do. Here is the website. This is where you go. Everything you need to know is there. Antique Roseemporium dot com. The Antique Roseemporium dot com if you want to give

them a call. Ninety seven nine eight three, six fifty five forty eight. Thatts Some big events coming up on May seventeenth is the Beneficial Insects Seminar and Kids Activities, So there's gonna be a great program educational program on beneficial Insects, free seminar. At the same time in kiddos age three to ten can enjoy what they call Nature Nectar. It's a hand, hands on activity where they learn about pollinators.

They'll be garden inspired crafts, there'll be a butterfly story, a lot of fun facts, and it culminates with a magical ladybug release in the gardens. And you've got to get tickets for it and you go to the website antique Rosimporium dot com and that's where you're going to find tickets for this event as well as a lot of other good information at the Antiquerose Importum, one of my favorite garden centers to visit. I'll be right back. Welcome back to Gardenline, folks. Good to have you with

us this morning. Yeah, I woke up with something in my throat this morning. Asmite is the trace mineral supplement I talk about all the time here on Garden Line. Asmite has those minerals that are needed not in large quantities, but that still are essential for plant growth. And I've said it this way before, but to explain that, like you need a lot of nitrogen for plants, just need

a lot of nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium. They use a lot of those, Okay, when it comes to things like zinc and molybdenum and boron, they don't use much at all. But if they don't have any, they die. They don't live. They cannot live without trace minerals, and so that's why we add a trace mineral supplement like azmite to our soils. You can find more information at ASMIT Texas dot com. And you can find azamite in many, many places all over the Greater Houston area, most of

our inpenit garden centers. You know, places like an Ace hardware store, like for example, feed stores and whatnot that we have all places you're gonna find asmite. And today, if you come out to Memorial City Ace Hardware that is on Memorial Drive. By the way, it's Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, I'm going to be given only four bags of acemite. Take it home, try it out.

How's a good time to put it on. If you're planning on doing any container gardening, and I was doing this just yesterday, planting some things in containers for my patio. I've been chipping away at that all spring now, just getting little jobs done. And I love containers. But you need a good quality soil. You need it to drain well, but you also need it whole oisture. You don't want the water to run right through like it was gravel

for example. On the other hand, you don't want it to be just mucky and boggy and no oxygen in the root system. And it takes a quality to do that. In jungle land is a quality soel. They're outdoor flower and vegetable planting soil is excellent for flowers and vegetables and herbs and whatever you want to grow outside in those containers. Consider jungle land. It works. Distributed by night foss. You're going to find it in places like the plantation.

Ace Hardware. They're out there on FM three point fifty nine they carry night foss products. M and D up in Cyprus on Luetta Road carries night foss products, as does the Ace Hardware and single ranch on Mason Road. Just three examples of the mini of places that carry nitrovoss products here. So what happens when it rains the soil swells. It swells, and when it gets dry, the soil shrinks. Did you know that our clay soils have

high what the soil scientists called shrink swell potential. That's why when you go out in the summer and it's hot and dry, there's cracks in the backyard so large you could lose a toddler or a little fufu dog right right drops right down in the ground right there in the backyard. Well that's an exaggeration, but you know what I'm talking about. Well, when you have a slab of concrete, whether it's a sidewalk, a driveway or a house that is set on top of that kind of soil,

and that soil is moving. It literally is moving. I mean it moves so much and it's so powerful it cracks slabs. And every summer is in Houston, when it gets hot and dry, you just see water lines breaking all the time. And it's because of that same soil as a powerful mover. Anyway, if you've got that, you need to call fix my Slab talk to try stick on that Fixed my Slab. He's been doing it twenty

three years now. The website is fixmislab dot com. The phone number two eight one two FI five forty nine forty nine. You know you know something's going on when you see a crack in the brick outside, or when you see cracks in the sheet rock, or when a door that used to not stick is now sticking. You know as you try to open it. That's a sign something is moving and you need to have him come in. Tell him your guardenline listener Free estimates for guarden line listeners.

And the reason I would send you to Tie is this resons he shows up on time, He fixes it right, and he charges a fair price. Now that's all you can ask for from anybody doing any kind of a service at your house. I's been around here again twenty three actually more than twenty three years now, uh, doing this business. He's a native Ustonian, a fifth generation Texan. Fixmislab dot com two eight one two FI five forty nine forty nine.

I've talked to Tie about jobs before on Foundations, and you know, we'll talk about it and what's going on and where the cracks are and what we're seeing and all that, and I'll say something like, you know what, at this point, that is not something you need to worry about. It just probably not and uh, And he'll tell you those kind of things and so it doesn't get better, but it does get worse. So be careful

with your slabs. 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 five eight seven to four makes it easy to give us a call. What do you want to talk about this morning? We have got a lot of topics. I'm uh, I don't know why. You know. I like Okra. I talk about Okra all the time here on guard Line. It's just one of my little horticultural obsessions. The way the way I put it is, it's the latest and a long

line of horticulture obsessions. Uh. And I actually have not planted over this year. I just have been busy running around doing all kinds of things with my horticulture activities and anyway, so I've got some beds that are ready. Now I need to get out there and get that planted. We are now entering the doorstep of the warm season. It is not hot here yet, but it will be. And so those things there are plants like tomatoes, for example, you know the way too long to plant your tomatoes.

And the tomato plants will grow, but they don't set well, especially the slicers. The little red cherry tomatoes or not. Doesn't have to be red. The cherry and grape type, the small fruit to tomatoes. Those set better in the heat than the large slicers do. And so as we hit this time of the year, the things that we're planting change a little bit and we start thinking about

the heat tolerant summer garden. I've got some malabar spinach coming up, and I don't like coli at malabar spinach because it's not spinach, but that's what people call it. I just call it malabar greens. But it just laughs at our summer heat. Amaranth is another one, amaranth. The farmers have it coming up wild, the wild types in the field they call it pig weed. But amaranth is edible. The greens are edible, and there's some nice large leaf

types that really do well in the summer. We have a lot of things that do well here in the summertime. If you are wanting to grow cantalope, honeydew, watermelons, all those different kinds of melons, they do well in the heat. If you're wanting to grow okra, as I mentioned, of course, southern peas do well in the heat. There are sweet potatoes that will be planting now to sweet potatoes do well in hot, hot weather. The squashes that take a long time to produce, we have to grow them through

heat because it take so long to produce. And that would include pumpkins, and that would include what we call winter squashes like acorn squash and butternut squash for example. Those do well now.

RCW Nurseries is loaded with beautiful plants right now. The summer color, the things that can take the heat, you know, things like gomprina, things like Avobulus. They got a type of a bobulist called blue. My mind, blue is in bou e because it is gorgeous blue. And this is a plant that grows low to the ground, has beautiful blue flower, takes the heat. You need to check it out. They have pentas right now and oh my gosh, pentas

called Egyptian starflower track. Butterflies like crazy. You got a bright shade or a morning sun afternoon shade kind of location. They love that. Lots of gorgeous lantanas. It's you know rcw oh. And they're shrubs. They you know, they specialize in shrubs and they sew man and trees too, by the way, so many options. They have something called the

emerald colonnade holly. Now what that is. It's a plant, but they've trimmed it up as a topiary, so you know, you got stem comes up and they have a little ball of foliage and the stem comes up in a bolla foliage for those formal settings, maybe by the front door. You can put them in a big pot if you want. Even they are gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. And then one of my favorite plants for summer is dipladini denia. Excuse me, Dipladinia. It is a beautiful red or white or pink flowers.

They they look, they look they I don't know how to describe them. They're just beautiful. You just have to see them. Five pedals and it's a it's a vine type plant, but these are particularly in more of a compacted type form. Never gets too hot. Set them out there on the patio by the pool wherever you want. Just give them good sunlight and they will thrive there. RCW, by the way, is the garden Center on Beltway eight and Tomball Parkway. Right at the corner of Beltway eight

and Tomball Parkway. You can go to RCW nurseries dot com for more information. We are going to go now to Rod in Houston. Hello, Rod, Welcome to garden Line. Hello, Hello, are you there? Yeah, Hey, thank you. How can we help today? I'm calling I'm.

It may be a different kind of grass, though, Rod, and so I'd like to make sure we've got the right grass. If you would like to take a picture of it and send it to me, I'll be happy to take a closer look. And it may be that we take a different approach based on what I see, But I'll just throw that out there. If you're interested, I can put you on hold as we're done here, and if you want to stick around, my producer will

give you an email. Just get up close. I would even pull some of it, take a picture in the yard, but pull some of it up and lay it on like a dark table surface or something where you can get in and take a real good close picture, because that helps me identify it than just a weed out there among the grass. It's kind of hard to identify sometimes that way, all right, sir, Okay, okay, all right, we'll be happy to continue this conversation. You take care,

get you there on hold. Yeah, well, pest brothers. Oh my gosh, you know I got there. There mosquito buckets at my house, and I was looking the other day and there are mosquito wriggulars all in there.

that kills mosquitoes. Can you think of a better thing to happen to mosquito other than swatting it between your hands than a fungus to take it down? And then whereverwhere she goes those little stagnant, tiny bits of water where mosquitoes can breed, she takes that with her and it will the product in the second product in there will can kill other kinds of mosquitoes anyway, pestpros. When I think of pest Bros, I think of modern technology that is safer and that is effective and that it lasts.

That's how they work. Talk to them about their tomat or tomato termite control systems. They've got some really cool modern technology. Is that is the least environmental impact that you're going to have from anything, and it works for like ten years. Amazing. Dpestbros dot com, dpest b r os dot com two eight one two o six forty six seventy heading out to spring. Now we're going to talk to Trey. Hello, Trey, welcome to Gardenline.

don't see anything that looks like a problem there. I do see some residue on the leaves, or is that are you overhead watering them with a sprinkler or.

and you know those plants are established. It's got the phosphorus and everything to get them established and for them to do well. There are a couple of products. Two products for the lawn that don't want to talk about. One of us called has to Grow Lawn. You hook it up to a garden hose. Has to Grow Lawn is a twelve four eight fertilizer, so that's a three one two ratio. Like we always recommend, twelve four eight fertilizer.

Far turf that is and has to Grow lawn is simple to use and it works and you're going to get a nice quick greenup. Another one is super Grow Plus. It's also a has to Grow super Grow Plus. It's a sixteen zero two. It's more nitrogen, no phosphorus, a little bit of potassium. When you want to give anything a boost of nitrogen. I can't think of a better way to do it than has to Grow Supergrow Plus from Medina sixteen zero two hooks up to a garden hose. You can buy it by the gallon too, by the way,

but it really works. Use it on your tomato plants, use it on your lawn, use it on anything you want to give a good quick boost to and it'll work. Where are we here looking? I always kind of lose track of my time here just a little bit. Heirloom Soils is a company that has quality mixes period. I don't care what you're doing. Like, for example, today I'm going to be giving away the works indoor potting soil, leaf mold compost, Oh my gosh, great for the lawn,

and all kinds of uses, hardwood malts. They sell shale too there By the way, Heirloom Soil products are available by the bag all over Houston and also by bulk. You can go to Heirloomsoils dot com Heirloomsoils dot com and find them. I have never tried an airloom soils product that didn't work very very well. All right, And if you want to win one, come out to them to Ace Hardware City a memorial and we will get you involved in that drawing and you may win one

as well. I'm looking forward to that. By the way, I'll be there from twelve to two twelfth to two today, so grab you a bite to eat. Head out there. And let's talk those of you who it seems like everybody's got a weed problem in they're going pull them up, put them in a bag, bring them to me. I'll put them under a hot lamp and make them confess their name, and then we'll figure out what to do for them. Got any bugs, got any pictures of your landscape you'd like to What could I plant there? What's

wrong with this plant? We'll help with that too.

if you will, the fruit of our labors. Okay, Now, when you go out and you plant things and they don't do well and they die, people say I've got a brown thumb.

the kt h's website. You can also listen to us on the iHeart Media app. Get you the little iHeart mediapp it's red and white. Got a little white heart there and it's red and white actually, and you find garden Line and you listen that way. You could be right now, it's getting daylight out there. You could be going outside right now and have your phone in your pocket and be listening to guarden Line while you get some early morning tasks done. Maybe it's just walk through

the garden with a cup of coffee. You got your phone, take a picture, send it to me, and then follow it up with a phone call and we'll talk about It'll be like live from your garden. On garden Line, that's good. I was talking earlier with someone who's looking for some drainage work and that said B and B turf Pros did it done in their area. B and B Turf Pros is a family owned service that I just I'm very enthusiastic about recommending these folks. They provide

honest and quality work. It's the bottom line, because customers say, satisfaction and high quality work and certainly quality products is at the center of all they do. They only use products from companies that I trust here on Guardenline, for example, cnamlts Top Quality leaf more compost for compost top dressing from Cnamlts. Now they do, they'll do fertilization, they'll do aeration,

they'll do compost top dressing. Just give them a call seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three two three four five five ninety eight or BB no end in the website BB Turfpros dot com. BB Turfpros dot com. Prices for compost, top dressing and cororations start around five hundred dollars, depending on your yard size and the distance that needs to be traveled. But through the month of May, and we are in May, folks,

we are officially in May. Free aeration with purchase of top dressing. So here's the deal. You you buy a compost top dressing service from them and they'll come out and they'll do aeration for free. That's how that works. It's just the month of May, okay. So wherever wherever you live, from sugar Land and Missouri City, all the way across the southeast side of Houston, down to League City in Dickinson, and certainly down to Albn as well, Apparentland that they serve that area. So give them a

call to eight. Excuse me seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight. We're going to go now out to Tumbull and talk to David. Hey, David, welcome to the garden Line. Good, good morning, sir.

it's already so wet out there. But turn on the water watered in with about a third of an inch of irrigation, and that'll get it down in the soil where it'll spread out and form a barricade over the soil surface, preventing the weed seeds from coming through.

that protection on through the summertime. But when you run into weeds, you know, you can also take a picture of them, email them to me, and it may be that we would take a different approach depending on the weed and the stage that that weed is in of life.

provide birds what they need most this season. It's called Nesting Super Blend and it's only available Wallbird's Unlimited Nesting super Blend. It's got things like peanuts, dried meal worms. Boy birds love those sunflower chips, bark butter bits, and on and on. It's also got extra protein and calcium. The calcium helps egg formation, eggshell formation that is, and

a skeletal development for their nesting birds. For your nesting birds, you can purchase Nesting Super Blend from wild Birds Unlimited loose and seed bags, or you can buy it in little compacted seed cylinders if they have to peck the

seeds out to get it. Whatever you do, look for it at any of the six Wildbirds Unlimited stores here in the Greater Houston area, and that includes adding Kingwood on Kingwood Drive, down in clear Lake on El Dorado Boulevard, in Paarland, on East Broadway, up in Cypress on Barker Cypress, or in Houston on the West Side. There is a Memorial Drive store, and then down south in Houston there's a bel Air store and while you're there, pick up

their high perch hummingbird feeder. It's my favorite nectar feeder for hummingbirds and it's available at Wildbird's Unlimited. I'm gonna have to run take a break, Darryl and Angleton, you will be our first up when we come back. Hey, good to have you with us. Welcome back to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have a bountiful, beautiful, enjoyable garden. That's what we

like to do. If you have indoor house plants that you haven't potted up in a while or bumped up to a larger pot, you may consider that. You know, once a houseplant gets let's say bigger than three times the size of the pot, like if a pot were I'll make up a number. Let's say it's eight inches wide. Once that plant is twenty four inches wide, that's three times. That's about a time to consider repotting it. Now, that's a very generic statement. There's a lot of different kinds

of plants. It doesn't apply to all exactly, but just give you a rough idea. When plants get root bound, need to bump them up to a beare pot. And if you're going to do that, you need a quality product like jungle Land indoor water saving potting soil. The

water saving means there's crystals in it. It holds that water so that when you forget the water, I know you don't, but when your neighbor forgets the water, it holds onto the water, so the plants have access to moisture for a little bit longer to kind of carry them into that. It's quality product. It drains well, but it does hold that moisture. And you're going to find jungle Land product or jungle Land nitro fastproduct. I like

the jungle in. You're going to find it in places like, for example, Memorial Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, where I will be today. I'll be there today from twelve to two at Ace Hardware City and we are going to be providing a number of giveaways and answering your gardening questions and having a really good time. I hope you'll come by and do that. If you're up in

the Woodlands. Night FoST products can be found at Ospas Ace on Kirkandall Road and in the Katie area Katie Hardware Ace on Pinoak another example of where you can find night FoST products. Let's head out to Engleton now we're going to visit with Darryl. Hey, Daryl, welcome to guard Line.

They'll lay them typically on the stem down at the ground or on a petiole, which is long stalks that the leaves are on. Uh and then they bore in. So you either are treating the stem so that when they try to chew through it, it kills them because you have a pesticide on that stem. Or you are splitting the vine where you see the sawdust coming out and using your knife point to go in there and

kill that that worm, splitting it lengthwise. You know it's a wound, but the vine generally can can survive that splitting, but not the chewing of the caterpillar on my squash. What I'll do, Steve, Steve, I'm sorry, Darryl, is to

put a garden mesh fabric over the plants. It's like a very soft windows screen kind of thing, you know, a little checkerboard of squares that the bugs can't get through, and you could lay it over to the ground, put something on it so it doesn't blow off, and you leave it on there until the first female squash open. Typically on squash, you get a few male ballooms open and then you start to get the fruit blooms the

female blooms. When that happens, you got two options. You can either lift it up, go out in the mornings, lift it up and do a little hand pollinating yourself. Or you can just take it off, at which point the vine borers are going to find it. But by the time they find it and then lay eggs, and the eggs hatch and on you get a decent little yield to squash before it takes the vine down. So those are kind of the options. If you're gonna spray,

you want to spray late in the day. You want to direct your spray to the vines themselves, give them a good coating with an secticide that's gonna be persisting there on the surface. Avoid spraying when the blooms are open, because we've got bees out, and if you get spray in the blooms, you're gonna kill your important pollinator that's helping you have squash. All right, Not easy, but it's it's an option. You bet, thanks a lot, appreciate appreciate

your call, Darryl very much. Nelson Plant Food has so many great products, but they have these these canisters or jars. They're clear with a big, big wide screw top lid, and they come as part of the Nutris Star line. They come in everything you can imagine. You know, there's one for hibiscus and flowering tropicals. You know, there is one for azaleas, there's one for areas, there's one for indoor plants. There's one for bougainvillias and vegetables and on

and on uh and they work. That's as simple as that they work. There's about a dozen places around town where you can get those jars refilled, which is an economical way to go about it. Nelson also has Color Star, their most famous of all their products. I mean it's sold all over the country. Literally, people find out about it and they want it shipped out to them across

the country. And there's a reason. It's good stuff. By the way, I'm going to be given away several jars of the Color Star or maybe some Azalea plumeria indoor plant boogabee. I've got a lot of those that I'll have on hand today out at Memorial Drive. Ace Hardware store it's called Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive, will be there from twelve to two, So come out and check it out. You're going to find these Nelson plant

foods all over town. They're widely available and like I said, they work, and I know that because I've used them. Let's set up the Deer Park now we're going to talk to Steve. Hey, Steve, welcome to garden Line.

just north of Luetta on Highway to forty nine. I was in there the other day looking at all the color and oh my gosh. They the place is loaded up and it really looks good. Lots of lots of good color plants, lots of good plants for ground covers, the herbs that they have, the hanging basket plants that they have. I mean, it's just really, really beautiful. There is a number of different kinds of plants. There's always a new plant coming out every year, dozens of new plants.

There's right now, there's one. It's a type of portolaco or personallyane kind of plant. It's called color Blasts double and it is. It's amazing. The blooms. I don't know how to describe them. It's almost like they look like it's not many roses, but they just have a whole lot of petals all bunched together in gorgeous hot hot colors, beautiful colors. So you ought to go out there and check them out. Why are you there? Go ahead and check out some of the other plants that they have.

They have excellent bedding plants.

On Tamaa Park, we had with two forty nine just north of Lueta two eight, one three, seven, six one six four six two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six. When it comes to our trees, you know, trees get our attention when we have a storm and all the trees come crashing down like happened twice last year. And it doesn't have to be a hurricane. It can be any kind of summer storm. As we learned again last year. Martinspo Moore's company, Affordable Tree. This is a

family business. They've been doing it a long time. They've been sponsors a garden line for a very long time. Martin knows this stuff, you know, he's been doing this for gosh. I actually he's third generation, a third generation that I know of, to be part of our garden line team. Here, Affordable Tree Service comes out, They look at what the situation is. They give you an honest,

accurate assessment. Let you know what's going on when you call him, and here's the number seven to one, three, six, nine, nine, two six sixty three. Probably this is a family business. So you're probably going to talk to Martin's mom. Tell her you heard about us on Guardenline. Guardline customers are their number one priority. I'm gonna get that phone number again seven one three six ninety nine two six six three. Whether you need consult consultations on your trees, maybe you're

going to have some construction done, Oh my gosh. Pre construction care is very important. Do not let anybody come out to your place and do trenching or construction or anything that affects the root system of a tree without calling Affordable Tree first. They do also do deep root feeding and pest and disease control. They can do stump grinding. Certainly, they do pruning and getting your trees pruned properly prior

to their arrival of the next storm is important. Affordable Tree Service seven one three six ninety nine two six sixty three. You're listening to garden Line, We're here to help you have success in what you're doing on your gardening. So yeah, I do is give me a call seven one three two one two KTRH. So a lot of people will send a photo and then call. I'm not able just by sheer numbers. I'm just not able to answer all the emails by typing out answers and sometimes

it's more in depth the answer. And so if you can send me a photo and follow it with a call, especially if it's like, what's this weed on or what kind of flower is this? Or what's wrong with this plant? I get a lot of those. A good sharp photo, and let me just coach you a little bit on this so that I can help you, because if I get a fuzzy photo, you'll get a fuzzy answer, and we don't want either to happen. Take a picture of

the plant overall, and then go in up close. Now you know if it's a bug or if it's a tiny weed in the lawn. Get as close as you can, and before you send it to me, look and make sure it's in sharp focus, and you can blow it up really good. Don't downsize the photo if you get up close like that. Sometimes it helps to pull up a weed and set it on the table on a dark surface and take a picture of that because I

can see it better. Get pictures sometimes the weeds that are all woven into the grass, and I can hardly make out what the weed is because it's too far away. When you send it to me, attach it to the photo. I attach it to the email. Don't embed it in the text. If you can get it attached, it's much easier for me to open and zoom in while I'm trying to do three things at once. I don't walk into your gum at the same time very well. So if you can attach it, it also helps. But sharp

focus is the number one thing. And you can call my producer and he will give you the details on how to do that. I'm'll take a little break and we'll be right back after the half hour break here with your questions. Hey, welcome to Garden Line. Glad to have you with us. You've heard me talk about Sweet Green before. It's a unique fertilizer. Nitrofoss really did their homework in creating this. This is eleven percent nitrogen, which

a really high nitrogen content for an organic fertilizer. You put it out there, it melts away into the soil and the beneficial bacteria and other microbes they just love it. They like carbon. They need carbon, right and when you provide them that, they're gonna do well, and that is sweet It really rejuvenates and just encourages them to take off and do very very very well. Sweet Green is available in a lot of places around town. You're gonna find it in spots like court hardware, on South Maine

down there in Stafford. You go to M and D out in Rosenberg on Avenue I. They're going to carry night Foss products out there, Enchanted Gardens on FM three fifty nine out in the Richmond Rosenberg area, and Hiding and feed Stuben Airline. I don't think I said that one on I forty five North. Places you can get quality products from night Foss, like sweet Green. And by

the way, it's time to get that done. If you haven't for Lizer lawn in the last six weeks and you haven't used the slow release yet, it'd be a good time to do the Sweet Green. Let's head out to Steve in Deer Park. Hey, Steve, you know I'm still not getting your email and don't I don't know what's going on, but let's try to answer your question without me actually looking at the picture. Give me a description again. I think you said there was yellow or brown tips on the grass blades.

I'll get another opinion when I actually see it. Sometimes things that that get described on the air and things that get formed in my mind or are two different, two different things. Okay, so there's there. Yeah, there's a number. There's a number of different issues that can occur on on limes and other types of citrus, and there are some it could be like a bacterial type of spot. There's a disease called greasy spot that can affect citrus leaves and it's kind of a black colored oration. There

are it's a possibility. You said it's not on the leaf, it's in the leaf.

and good sharp takers. Okay, all right, Ellen, thanks a lot, appreciate. I appreciate that a lot. Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens just out there, and Katie Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens is it's a destination garden center, is the bottom line. If you've never been out there, you gotta go. If you have, you know what I'm talking about. Their nursery is outstanding, all kinds of beautiful plants they got a really nice select of adranges right now, some beautiful beautiful

day lilies. Oh and all just asiatic lilies too. Those are the kinds that are up on long, tall stalks. Got a whole bunch of bloom buds at the top that open up, just gorgeous, gorgeous bloom. But now while you're out there, you gotta see their water features. There's so many cool water features and the sound of water is you need it in your garden. I say that because I need it in mind. I so enjoy our water features outside. It's just nice, it's lovely, and you

need to go check that out. Of course, they have everything you need coluding fish, including the plants that go into a water garden. So go out and check them out. Nelson Water Gardens and Nursery. By the way, they're located on Katie Fort Ben Road, just north of the Katie Freeway. You turn north on Katie Fort Ben Roads. It's just a hop, skipping and jump down the street on the right hand side. Open Monday through Saturday nine to six

and Sundays from eleven am to four pm. We're going to now go to Steve and Deer Park.

and you're going to see gray leaf spot. And you can use a funge aside to shut it down, but I would recommend instead that you just mow it, ignore it at this point, and avoid any extra watering, don't push it with too much nitrogen. But if you need to go to a fungicide, there are good lawn fungicides that can help shut this disease down. I'm running real short on time, but that would be the bottom line for it. Nitrophos has a product that's a disease control

product that comes in the bag. There's one that's totally like a total disease control type product that works very well. I'm gonna have to run, folks, So we're coming close here to a break. If you have got standing water, you will have mosquitoes. And mosquito dunks are a great solution. You got a little spot that's got some water in it, Maybe it's a catch basin under a plant. You can't remember to turn them over and dump it out all the time. Well, put some Mosquita dunk granules in there.

It'll work. You got standing water, Mosquita dunk granules looks like a little donut. You can break them up if you don't need as much. One doughnut covers one hundred square feet, lasts about a month. Really works well, and you're going to find it all over the place. Garden centers, feed stores, ace hardware store all carry these Mosquita dunk products. Time for me to take a little break now and I'll be right back. Ah beach boys, it can only mean one thing. It is summer. Summer is here, I know,

don't rush its skip it gets hot. Well, there we go. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us. We are here to help you have bounty beauty and good times out there in the garden. Everybody cares about their lawn Number one call I get relates to lawns. That's it. Of all the plants, nobody calls me about their Cole Robbie, but lawns that's number one. And how do you have a good lawn? Will you take care

of it? And there's a lot of things we do to take care of our lawn, but one of the single most important things when you're dealing with the lawn that is thin, that has compaction, that is struggling and trying to recover from all kinds of disease and insect and drought and things like that, is aeration followed by compost top dressing. Simple as that cororation pulls a plug out of the ground and drops it on the surface.

If you've got a thatch problem, that also helps thatch to decompose very rapidly by getting those plugs up on the surface in the thatch area. Then you put on the compost top dressing. A very fine, finely screened compost falls down in the holes, goes down to the surface. It helps the soil biology, It brings oxygen into the soil. It helps out lawn take water in at a better rate, and that is important too. The bottom line is it helps the lawn. Now, Greenpro, those are our folks that

service the area northwest quadrant of Houston. We're talking about Spring and Cyprus and the Woodlands and Conrad and Willis and Magnolia, Montgomery and down to Itan Katie, West Houston, Central Houston or north Do they cover a wide area? Basically? The northwest quadrant is the area that they primarily work. Greenpro Texas dot Com its website greenpro Texas dot com eight three two three five one zero zero three two eight three two three five one zero zero three two.

We're going to head now out to Laporte and talk to Matt. Hey, Matt, welcome to garden Line.

and it's just an ongoing thing. So really, what my question is that I want to produce a garden that's going to be more stable and it's going to last longer, and the plants won't die and grow and die and grow, and uh, you.

think you get better performance, the drainage is better. I don't know everything that might be contributing to your garden woes. It could be a lack of sunlight. It could be some droughty conditions. It could be a tight clay soil. I mean, there are a lot of factors face a garden to struggle.

that could be a factor. I would suggest putting in some sort of a box around it, whether you know, you go out and invest in like a veggo bed, or whether you build some structure yourself that or even just have a raised mound where you bring in quality soil and the side slope up so that your garden looks like you know, you go out to West Texas those mesas where the side slope up and then you have a flat top a mountain. You sort of do that as a garden bed without any side. You can

do it either way. Good quality saw mix, good nutrition and dependable moisture and decent sunlight. Those are all keys to success. Now, the mulches should keep down weed seeds if it's if it is a perennial weed like bermuda grass coming in there. Mulch isn't going to stop it at all. But if it's an annual, the mulching should stop the weed seeds. But I think we're looking at nutrition, drainage, maybe some other factors like that, based on what you told me. Okay, so you're suggesting a raised box.

Eleven inches h And then you fill it with a quality mix like heirloom soils of veggie and herb mix, and now you grow in that and and then you add your nutrients. You get a good fertilizer for for plants that uh uh, you know, vegetables and herbs and things like that, and and you do success Vego bed is the one I was trying to think of v E G O that. Now that's just one brand, and you know, some people make their own out of treated wood. Some people, you know, put bricks around this. I just

get you a good quality bed. But go look at a Vego and that that's kind of the thing I'm talking about. If you don't like the look of that, find some other way to box in a raised quality garden mix. I'm running out of time here, Matt, but I do wish you well. I hope that works out, and don't hesitate to call back if we can be of a further assistance to you. In Chendit Forest Garden Center is the kind of place where when you go there, you just are amazed. I was there recently and they're

just walking through. Oh my gosh, the amount of quality planting, the color that they had. They have a salvia list that goes on forever and ever. It's my favorite geness of plants. Ninety one varieties of salvia, and in Chenney for us, amazing a lot of them are hummingbird magnets. Now they've got all kinds of summer perennials. If you need any products to take care of your lawn. They've got it. You got to see their gift shop if you got some hard to shop for folks and CHENDI

for go see their gift shop. They are located if you're heading if let's say you're in Richmond Rosenberg heading towards sugar Land, they're off to the right. It's FM twenty seven fifty nine. But here's what you really need to know. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. We'll say that again. Go to the website. It's awesome, tells you everything. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Well, we ran out

of time. Jordan and Kingwood, you'll be first up if you can wait until we come back, and I'll be back to answer your gardening questions as well. All right, we're back, Welcome back to the garden line. Let's just do this. We're gonna jump right out there. Jordan, you've been patiently waiting for a while here. Let's go right out here and talk to Jordan in Kingwood. I'm good. How are you doing?

How long have you have? You had this tree?

So when people walk in there, I mean they may have a bug or a leaf or a picture or something and they put their eyes on it there at Southwest Fertilizer, Bob and his team they diagnose it. They get you to the right product to fix what you got. Friendly service, quality products and great selection. That's Southwest Fertilizer. They're on the corner of Businett and Renwick. I was there the other day and thanks for everybody that came out when we were at Southwest Fertilizer. We had a

really good time. And uh, it's always good to meet folks that are listeners to garden Line. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com seven to one three six sixty six one seven four four. Let's go now out to Baytown and we're going to talk to Glenn. Hello, Glenn, welcome to garden Line.

But since you got it cleared out, let's get a good thick multch down if you if you still, if you do, you happen to still take the printed copy of the newspaper.

how to build something. And you put the glaphysite on the sponge and torpedograss gets taller than the grass around it, and so you can wipe it on the torpedo grass without killing your grass. And if you like a printed copy of it, I'm gonna be at the Ace Hardware City on Memorial Drive. It's on the west side of Houston, so i'd be a little drive, but we're gonna be

given away a lot of stuff. I'm gonna have some print copies of my weed wiper, how to build it, and then the sheet that tells what to put on the weed wiper to kill various kinds of weeds. So you're welcome to stop buy and do that. I'm gonna have to go. I'm at a hard break. If you had a follow up question, just hang on, but I appreciate your call and we'll be back folks in just a moment, all right, Welcome back, folks. I was at warren Southern Gardens recently. They're the one on North Park

driving Kingwood. By the way, there's also Kingwood Garden Center on Stone Hollow Drive. Both of those places are open seven days a week. But I was out there at Warren's for an appearance and just walking through. It's just it's just fun and it's beautiful, and it's load. They are loaded with all kinds of things, everything you can imagine and want. By the way, this weekend May three

through fifth, they're having their Sinco to Mayo sale. And the interesting thing is the bigger the pot, the bigger the savings. You know, gallon pots three dollars off, forty five gallon pots forty five dollars off. I mean, it's just a ton of great stuff. When you go there, you're not going to believe the color and the savings and the options is I guess the best way to put it. So many plants. I don't even know where

to begin talking about it. By the way, both Warrens and Kingwood Garden Center have the refill stations for the Microlife and Neilson plant Food. Do you take your old jars of either of those and you can refill them right there. It makes it real easy to do. They also have an amazing selection of pottery. It is beautiful, really nice selection of garden tools. I was impressed with that when I was there too. And Kingwood Garden Center's gift shop is just it's just stunning. It's really really

cool stuff. So now, no matter what you're doing, no matter what you're planting, no matter what you're wanting, from the brown stuff meaning the soil products you know, to the fertilizers, to the plants themselves. We're in Southern Gardens the Kingwood Garden Center, Kingwood, Texas. You're fortunate to have those out there. Let's head out to Montgomery and we're going to talk to Larry. Hey, Larry, welcome to garden Line.

Do I need to worry about it?

they're gonna be there. They're going to get access to moisture as the soil gets a little too much on the dry side. And it works well, it also drains well. Of course, it has to to be a quality soil. Jungle Land is available for many places. You're going to find nitrofoss products sold all over town. Places like plants for all seasons and the places like the D and D Feed up in Tomball or Fissure's Hardware done in

Pasadena on Southomore places that carry nitrofoss products. And there are a lot of great products and a lot of great places that carry those. The Nature's way resources is it. I was out visiting with Ian the other day, and we're just going over all the different products that they carry and what's going on with this, and what's going on with that. And you know, they've been inventing products that Nature's Way for decades now. That's where rose soil

was born. That's where leapmo composts was born, and others as well. If you want a quality mix to turn your plants into very happy campers, that's Nature's Way. Resources. Too many of us PLoP a poor old plant into an unprepared plot and that plant struggles. When you think about nature, what does nature do? Nature builds the soil slowly over time. You go to some Amazon rainforest and when pull back the trees and look at that soil,

it is the best stuff on earth. And trees made it that way with their leaves and a little parrot poop thrown into the process. Nature's Way. Resources knows how to take organic materials and turn them back into the best soil building products you can have. And they're good at that. By the way, every Friday is fungal based compost Friday. Fungal Friday, Fungal based composts or high quality. Nature's Way has them ten dollars off bags forty pounds bags twenty dollars off by the bulk. What a great

way to get them. By the way, you can buy Nature's Way products in bags, or you can buy them bulk you haven't delivered if you would like to do that way. Resources dot Com Nature's Way. Just remember that Nature's Way Resources dot Com if you want to call them nine three six two seven three twelve hundred nine three six two seven three twelve hundred. When I talk about products here on garden Line, I have a standard. Before I'm going to recommend a product number one, I

need to see research that shows it works. That that's one. That would be one way that I'm convinced this is a good product. The other way and the way I prefer is to do it myself, use it myself. And I have been working my way through microlife products for some time now because there are a lot of microlife

products out there. There's a granular bag, granule bags that would be things like the six two four green bag that we typically use on loans, but trust me, you use aren't anything you got it works well and I do. Then there are the the acidic Loving plant fertilizers. Microlife has a products a kind of a pinkish bag that is good for plants that like acid. That would be like a gardenya, or a azalea or a camellia. Even roses do really really well with that kind of fertilizer.

There is humts plus and I would suggest when you fertilize also follow it up with an application right then of humates plus. It is concentrated compost in a bag, in little granules, in a humus type form that is going to build your soil over time. Now I said the acidifier was a pink bag, it's actually kind of a reddish bag. The pink bag is their hybrid. But

they have products for all kinds of it. They have a citrus and fruit product that is available out there, and then all their liquids things like super Seaweed and Ocean Harvest. That's the seaweed and fishial motion combo that it's two different products but used together that organic gardeners have used for a long time. You can get the humans plus is a liquid.

easy to find and it works. And if you're looking for an organic approach to gardening, I can't see a better place to start with all of the mini options that they have. You're listening to garden Line. The phone number is seven one three two one two k t r H. Seven one three two one two k t r H. Give me a call and we will be happy to help you with the questions that you might have.

I had some folks that have been sending me some emails today and so you guys that are interested in sending in the photos and follow them up with a call, we'll be happy to visit with you as a result. So give me a call after you've sent me those photos that you're looking at. Those of you in Willis have a fairly new garden center up there and it's called Growers Outlet, and I say fairly new. It's been open a while, but Growers Outlet in Willis is on

seventy five, just south of the town of Willis. So all of you up there in Conroe, even in the woodlands up in Willis certainly, and then North and New Caney and that whole region up there, and then across over to the lake, you know, April Sound, Belt Water and all the communities out there, Republic, Grand Ranch, Seven

Coves and so on. Point Aquarius. This is your hometown garden center that is loaded with all kinds of plants everything you can imagine, from veggies and herbs to perennials and ferns to shrubs and trees and fruit and hanging baskets and color plants with the garden beds, they've got it all. In fact, a lot of their things, like the geraniums of urbina and other plants, they grow them in house. Some of the most beautiful macho firm baskets and other color baskets that you're ever going to see

anywhere at Growers Outlet. And here's the website. It's the name of the place, Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. Growers Outlet in Willis dot com. They list all their plants by availability on there, so you know if it's available or not at the nursery. And they provide their pricing online, which is really surprising that almost never happens, but they do it at Growers Outlet in Willis on Highway seventy five, just minutes away from Interstate forty five.

They're going to have products too, from like Nitrofas and Microlife I meaning by the way, they carry Superturf from Nitrofoss. Superturf is the nineteen four to ten product that gradually releases nutrients over four months. It is it is. You put it down now, you return your clippings, you never mow it, and you're going to find it at Grower's Outlet and Willis as well as many other places around town. I'll be giving away some today as well. We'll be

right back. All right, folks, we're back. Welcome to garden Line. Good to have you with us. Look forward to visiting with you about your questions. What do you want to know about? What do you want to talk about? You got a problem to solve in the garden or maybe just some suggestions for things to help you have success.

That's what we're here for. All you got to do is doll seven to one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H. Boy, the storms we had that storm I had a storm I was pretty significant last night. I mean a gully washed rain on us. And it always reminds me of last summer. You know, we had those two storms that came through and knocked down trees everywhere, shut down power for literally weeks, at least two weeks

in both those storms. In many places. Well, a generator helps, and a automatic standby generator by Generac especially helps because you can be sitting there in your chair before you have time to get out of the chair or the power's back on. I mean it just like instant it just power goes off, it kicks on. And so those quote once in a lifetime storms that come many times in a lifetime over and over again, well you don't

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Quality home products, quality products, quality service for a quality life. You only give them a call. Dolls seven one three quality for quality Home Products of Texas. Your source for Generac automatic standby generators, but more importantly, your source for a customer care. Let's head out to let's see, We're gonna go to Northwest Houston now and talk to Diana. Hello, Diana, Welcome to garden Line.

get it level. Just keep in mind that when you do that, the water that was gathering there is going to go somewhere else, So it may create a wet spot somewhere else by doing it that way, but just keep that in mind. Another option is to put a subsurface drain in. A subsurface drain takes that water and takes it off to another location where it drains away. And that's another way to turn a wet spot into a well drained spot.

So that's all. Yeah, that in the end of the place are your two options.

give them a call today. RCW Nurseries opened up in nineteen seventy nine, by the way, Williamson family, and they still run it. This place has stood the test of time because they take care of their customers and they have whatever you need, and you know it. I'm always amazed when I go in there at the quality plants that they have and at the range of plants that they have, the just from vines to shrubs to trees, to all the bedding plants and the color and roses

and things that you might want. They grow their own trees up there in Plantersville, so you know you're getting a tree that's grown right and that it's a species that belongs here because they know what grows here and they don't say you something that doesn't belong here. Our CW Nurseries. So come out and plant them for you too. You can plant them yourself. It's a small container. If you don't want to put your chiropractice kids through college,

then have RCW do the planting for you. RCW Nurseries dot Com. Time for me to take a little break here and we will be right back. We're going to head out to I think we're going to Pasadena. Now, let's see. Yeah, we're gonna go to Pasadena and talk to Mary when we come back. All right, welcome back to the garden line. Glad you're with us today. I talk all the time about the importance of soil preparation before planting, and I just if I just sat here for four hours on a garden line day and said

it's important to prepare the soil before you plant. It's important to pare the plant. It would be time well spent. You'd go nuts, but it would be time well spent. Ciena mulch is the place down south of Houston where you take care of the brown stuff before you plant the green stuff. They have everything. It's a one stop shop. I'm talking about composts. I'm talking about bed mixes like

the heirloom soils, veggie nerb mix. I'm talking about mulches to go on top of the ground, native hardwood mulchus, double ground mulchus, and on and on. I'm talking about blends like rose soil. I'm talking about everything you need, including the nutrients for the soil roots. I've got to have a good bank account of nutrients, microlife Nelson's Medina nitrofoss asamite. They've got it all. They've got it all.

And when you leave Ciena Maltch, which is by the way on FM five point twenty one near Highway six and two eighty eight, when you drive off from there, or when you have them deliver it within about twenty miles for a small fee, they will deliver. You're set up to then go get all the beautiful plant or maybe you bought the plants and now they're sitting there. Don't plan them. Go to Sean Animals, get what you need, get this all right, and then plan them. Trust me,

it is the night and day difference. Siennamult dot com. Just write that down cienamultch dot com. That's all you need to know. All right. We're gonna go now out to Pasadena and talk to Mary. Hello, Mary, Welcome to garden Line. Good morning. The previous caller dollar weed. I have dollar weed problem.

but I don't Okay, we didn't say that it did anything. Okay, Well, what I would do is get something that has uh it has a name like trimech that is one name of a group of products. Boneyed a weed beater, weed beater, and fertilome has a weed free zone. Those are all examples. Read the label spray early in the morning while it's cool so it dries off before the day gets hot. And get a something called a surf factant. It helps

the spray stick to slick dollar weed leaves. Anytime a weed is kind of slippery, the google spray just runs off, So a surf factant. It's also called a spreader sticker. It's the same thing. But when you go to a good place that knows what they're talking about. They're gonna be able to provide that for you. And you've got some ace hardware stores in your area that can provide you know, that kind of product for you. Just it's a multi product for broad leaf weed control. All right,

thank you so much. Doing Earnie in the morning before it gets really really warm and when it's not gonna rain, Yes, and do it soon. Don't wait a month or two or three, because the hotter it gets, the more problems these things can cause to get into that situation. All right, Mary, thanks a lot. I appreciate I appreciate your call very much. Sweet Green from nitrofoss is a fertilizer that dissolves away very easily and moves down in the soil to feed

your plants. Now, it's made for lawns, but you can use sweet green on all kinds of things. It's a nitrogen source. It's a nitrogen source to give a boost to growth. And if you're trying to get a good quick boost for the plants that you're growing, including your lawn,

sweet green is perfect for that. You're can to find sweet green it places all over the Greater Houston area and places that carry nitofos products like Fisher's Hardware on Broadway Street and Laporte M and D. Beamer Sagemont area and Stanton Shopping Center on North Taylor down there in Alvin, all places that carry nitrofos products. Speaking of down that direction, someone had called me earlier today and I just I started to start talking to them about Moss Nursery because

you know they're done in Seabrook. Moss is on Toddville Road in Seabrook, and it is an outstanding nursery. It just is you go there and you wander through eight acres of gorgeous plants. Those of you who lived on there know what I'm talking about. You know, you drive off and you tell your your family, I'll be back in about an hour. Well three days later, you come back to the house because you got infatuated with plants

at Moss Nursery. And it's so easy to do all kinds of flowering shrubs and including azalias of course, hanging baskets, annual color plants, if you want a pretty flower bed from a Lissam designas they've got it all there. They have all kinds of unusual things things like bonseye and houseplants that you just don't see anywhere else. They're very unusual. One of the best selections of pottery you're gonna find anywhere. I mean, it is very extensive. Moss Nursery down in Seabrook,

Texas on Toddville Road. M Aasnursery dot Com, Mossnurcery dot com two eight one four seven, four eighty eight. Let's go now up to Cyprus and we're going to talk to Jake. Hey, Jake, Welcome to Guardline.

by applying anti fungus a couple times a year. I just didn't know if you had any thoughts on how I could maybe improve my improve my soil, and if I could, if I should just wait out the fungus this time and you just leave it a.

leaf spot to be more of a problem. And so we primarily deal with it from well back in April all the way up into July. Really we can see some of it. But the bottom line is you can go either way. You can let it take its course and ignore it and just mow and keep going, or you can spray it or treat it if you use the granular products, whatever you want to go about it. You can treat it and deal with it. There's not

a right or wrong on those. I tend to ignore it because it's not very bad in my yard because culturally I keep the conditions away that it likes as best I can. But boy, with all the rain we've been having, I would expect the little outbreak of it pretty quick here. That's that's great information.

They primary. We talk about them as focusing inside the Beltway, inside the Beltway of Houston. They do it right. They use top quality products. They they take all that messy you know, try to go rent something and have them done compost on the yard and then clean up the machinery and get it back and all of that. It's not easy to do for do it yourself, but they take care of it for you. You're round Houston dot com.

You're round Houston dot com. Eight three two eight eight four fifty three thirty five eight three two eight eight four fifty three thirty five. We're going to go now to Rick in League City. Rick, I gotta tell you, I just have a short time. We're going to be talking in the music, but if you need to, we can hang over and finish after the top of the break. But I want to get started with you here. How can we help?

Memorial Drive. It's called Ace Hardware City, and we are going to have a heck of a time there today. Come on out and see me. I'd love to help you with plant questions you might have. You know, on the air, I'd get to only visit with people for a short amount of time because I got other people to get to another business to attend to about out at these appearance is we can sit and talk eyed

eye for a little while, we solve some things. We get usually get a group of people out there and I'll just say out loud what I'm doing helping with a particular problem. So everybody kind of enjoys sitting around listening and learning and asking questions. And I'm going to be giving away a ton of cool stuff. And I mean that really, I don't think I've ever had this many different kinds of giveaways at one event. But we're going to be doing three different bags of super turf

from Nitrofoss. We'll be doing some Kneemax, which is an organic spray for certain kinds of pests that they have on hand there. We're going to be doing several bags of products from heirloom soils such as the work spotting soil, the leaf mold compost they make a high quality one hardwood maultch really really good product as well, and then their shale product. Some examples of a few of the

ones from airloom soils we're given away. Got some Nitrofoss products I mentioned the super turf, micro life products will be given away, four different bags of asamite as well, and then from Nelson plant food jars of the color Star, and then we'll have a few of the Azalea plumeria indoor plants and boogain villas and the three sixty tree stabilizers given some of those. I mean, like I said, a lot, but come on out, bring me samples, bring

me pictures on your phone. Let's get to the bottom of it, and you come see a really nice Ace Hardware store called Ace Hardware City right there on Memorial Drive in Houston, Texas. How do you find your Ace Hardware stores in Houston. You go to Acehardware Texas dot com. That's how you find them. In Channy Gardens on the Katie Fullshire side of Richmond, stop by the other day, visiting with Joy there and just kind of looking at

what all they had going on. And I'm telling you, the place it's just you gotta go, you gotta go, and you gotta take your friends. It's almost I could say, as far as I can see. You look and there's color, there are every kind of plant. One thing that I was really impressed with at Chanta Gardens, and I always have been, is they're iron containers for coconut core liners.

So I think of a wire basket made of iron and you put a liner in it that is like an entanglement of the stuff on the outside of a coconut that's called coconut core, and that those fibers, and then you fill it with potting soil and you grow in it. And they have ones that are on stands. They have one that hang from chains from underneath the tree limb or porch, patio whatever, they're beautiful, they have already planted, or if you want to make one, you could just go talk to them and say, hey, I

need something. It's going to go in full sun. I want it to be a combination of plants. I want to be beautiful. And they'll walk you through the process. So if they go get this, go get that, and they'll help you. Whether it's chimes or fountains or whimsical art for the garden, they've got it and their team is as enthusiastic as they come. Enchanted Gardens bring them photos and samples to get that expert advice. And while

you're there, you know, brown stuff before green stuff. Go home with some microlife or nitrofoss or Nelson plant food or medina. Go home with some nature's waste soil or some heirloom soils as well. They're open Monday through Saturday eight to five, Tomorrow Sundays ten to four. Intended Gardens on FM three point fifty nine. Here's the website Enchented Gardens Richmond dot com, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. We're

going to go now to Southwest Houston and talk to Laurel. Hello, Laurel, Welcome to Garden Line.

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let's go now to to southeast Houston. We're going to talk to Jill. Hello, Jill, Welcome to garden Line.

You heard me talking about them all day. By the way, I'm giving away some Neilson plant food jars today at Ace Hardware City on Memorial So come on out and see me. They've got jars. They got things like color Star, which is the number one fertilizer by the jar that they sell, ship it all over the country. Just talking to Dean the other day, some other person had gotten some samples of it and they loved it. They're a company that does landscapes, I guess, and they were like, okay,

ship it. We want we want, we want you to ship a bunch to us because it works. That is how it is nutristar, hibiscus and flowering tropicals another great one. Just come on out. I'll be giving away some not just the color Star, but I'm also going to be giving away some azelias and plumrius, some indoor plant food, and some Boogombellia plant food. At my appearance at Ashardworugh City out there a memorial drive Bruce's Brew that is

a hybrid type of a fertilizer. What I mean by that is it's it's a fast release and that it releases some immediately, but it's also a slow release and that it gradually releases the rest over time, so it's kind of a hybrid type. Bruce Is Bru is great for a quick green up of the lawn with a continued release over time to give a nice even growth, and it is a part of the turf Star line of Nelson plant foods available all over town. Let's head to West U and we are now going to talk

to Hank. Well, Hello Hank, and welcome to garden Line.

course screen if you mode it really low. If you had a little real type mower, and with that amount of grass, you could just have one of those little real type mowers that you push and it spins around. There's no motor on it, and you might regularly and it looks beautiful. It's a really nice, clean, neat look, makes good density with water and fertilizer, of course, uh, and that might be something kind of different to use,

but really any kind of grass could grow there. I just like the I like the look of that one.

do just fine. But if you mounded it slightly where the water drains off adequately, that would even be better. But not required.

twenty nine seventy eight up toward Magnolia direction. They're just minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway to forty nine. At Spring Creek Number one, you walk in friendly, courteous staff and one of the i'll say prettiest feed stores you ever go into, because they have a lot of stuff in the middle part of the store from home. Of course, you look left and you see all the feed you know, especially like quality pet food brands like

Victor and Purina and whatnot. You look to the right and that's the garden world over there all the products you need to control pests and weeds and diseases. The fertilizers from lines like Nelson, turf Star, like Microlife, like Nitrofoss. That's all there. Spring Creek Feed and Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. If you are military or senior citizens, there's a discount of that. They do special order as well, and they have a delivery service. Go check it out.

You can't miss it. Big old, giant barn looking building. Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. That is Spring Creek Feed. Let's go now to clear Lake and we're going to talk to Mario. Hello, Mario, Hey, Skiff, how are you?

your foliage there. So always when you're doing a hedge, including yopon, keep the top a little more narrow than the base. Or you can some people do them like a little meatballs, little round buwling balls out there in the landscape. You can do that too. It's very tolerant of different kinds of shearing.

had all that. And every time you turn a corner it's, oh, I didn't know they had all that. It's a great place. And it's not just the standard hardware. You know, electrical and plumbing and lighting and fixtures and all that. Yeah, they have all that, but they have beautiful indoor decorations, homes, gift items, wonderful gift items. And then when you walk out the door, whether it's your lawn, your flowerbeds, your garden,

your path, they have something for everything. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. And if you're hearing me talk about fertilizers or hearing me talk about pest control products or weed control products, it's at your local Ace Hardware store. If you want to see one, come see me today at ACE Hardware City on Memorial on the West side East. I'll be there from twelve noon to two pm. We're going to be given away a ton of stuff more more different things than I ever given away at one of these appearances.

Really really cool. I'll even have some three sixty tree stabilizer stabilizers to give away for any of you planting a crape myrtle or some other kind of tree and you want to give good support to it. We'll have those there on hand. Lots of cool ACE Hardware stores, but you got to go to Ace Hardware Texas dot com and find the ones near you. We're going to go now to Katie and talk to John. Hello, John, Welcome to Guardenline.

If you can consistently do that, they might leave them alone, and then by the time you get to harvest time, you know it's gonna have worn off or you can wash it off, but I think the bag is probably the better way to go. But Johnna, you got a problem there. I can send you squirrel recipes though, if that would help.

If you want to give me a call, the number is seven to one three two one two k t r H. Seven to one three two one two k t r H. More than once that I've been talking about drainage issues and one of the ways we deal with wet areas is we put in a sub service drain, sometimes referred to as a French drain. Basically, it's a perforated pipe and gravel that drains the excess moisture away

to a lower location somewhere else now Piercecapes. That's one of the things they can do is landscape custom drainage. And with all the rain we just had, you need it. Probably you're probably looking at some boggy areas. Plants, by and large, very few plants can grow with their roots in soggy submerged conditions. They just can't. But you can fix that, and Pier Scapes can fix that. They also do landscaping, beautiful landscape design and installation using the best materials,

the best plants for here in our Houston area. They can do quality custom irrigation that is designed to incorporate whatever area you got in your landscape. And they do landscape irrigation maintenance as well. And typically irrigation system always

needs some maintenance. They can do that. By the way, They have a quarterly maintenance service that not just looks at irrigation, although it does that, but looks at remulching the beds to keep a good thick layer of mulch on, pulling any weeds out, doing any trimming that's necessary, you know, all the stuff you need. Once every quarter, once every three months, they come out and they do that. That's

part of the services that pier Scapes can offer. You give them a call to eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. But first I want you to go to their website and look at what they can do. Pierce Scapes dot com, p E A r CE Scapes s c A p E s Peerscapes dot com. You'll be very impressed. I know we're gonn head out to Tomball now and talk to Roger. Hello, Roger, welcome to garden Line.

some kind of groundcover, maybe put rocks down. I'm just looking for some suggestions on low cover that will kind of reduce the snakes and keep something in there so the dogs just don't get dirty when it kind of gets muddy.

the tree. Now, if you want to add some plants in, there are sedges that often do pretty well in quite a bit of shade. Not deep deep shade, but they many of the sedges can take less sunlight than your Saint Augustine or your turf grass. Would that would be a plant for, you know, a shady area like that. There are a lot of different plants. I mean, you could you could plant a number of different kinds of

ferns in an area like that. You could plant a juga, which is called carpet bugle in an area like that, and I could go on and on there. There are a lot of Some people will just fill the area with Aztec grass or loriopy as tech grass, is not a grass. It's more like a larriapy uh. And it doesn't get too tall. When you need to, you can moi it back to the almost the ground and come out fresh if you'd like to do that. But it makes a nice not too tall groundcover.

Tomill Parkway, you got plantural seasons. Both of those are going to have a great selection. In fact, you can just talk to them and they'll probably talk to you about some vining ground covers and some other options for an area like that.

out there. It goes in the soil. It slowly decomposes as microbial activity breaks the nutrients down to release to the plants. It's not going to burn anything. It's not a salt based fertilizer. And then you follow that up. I would do it with humates plus. That's a purple bag. It's concentrated compost in a bag. You do the sixty two four to get that lawn boosted and growing. You do the humanates plus to continually build the soil quality, to get that humus down in the soil to improve

microbial activity. To improve internal drainage and aeration and whatnot down in your soil, and both are available from Microlife. You can go to Microlifefertilizer dot com and see all the retailers they carry their products. I'm going to tell you this, it's kind of hard to walk into a place that's a Mom and Pope garden center and Ace hardware store, Southwest Fertilizer, or a feed store that doesn't carry micro Life products. Let's see here. We're going to

head out to League City now and talk to Ralph. Hello, Ralph, welcome to garden Line.

pruing a couple of feet off at the bottom. Number two, they really haven't fertilized them, and what should I use to fertilize them? And should let me?

that's fine. That's an option to let that skirt go all the way to the ground, because it's going to be It's difficult to get anything to grow under a magnolia anyway, So just letting their foliage go to the ground is one esthetic option. If you want to trim them up, you can do that. Then you're just gonna have to moult underneath them or put monkey grass underneath them, because that's about the only thing that will grow. But as far as blooming, I don't think you need it.

There sounds like they're growing pretty good for you. Because magnolias are somewhat slow growing. I don't think you need a fertilizer necessarily for them. If you want to use something too, something for acid loving plants. A number of products out there like that. But you can do a modern fertilization. But as they settle in, they ought to be they ought to be blooming if they're getting adequate sunlight to those areas of the plant. So maybe they

just need a little more time. If there's something you can do to brighten up the foliage in that area, you might want to try that. I don't know if that'd been printing some other trees or whatever. But yeah, they're they're a little personicity. But I'll just be patient with them.

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established trees and shrubs. You put it around the tree, and if it's a new tree, you just barely turn it on because you have a little small rootball there. It'll water it. As that tree grows, you turn it up more. It takes care of them, and it's a great way to rescue any tree during summer heat and drought. Go to tree hundred sprinklers dot com. You can find a retailer near you, or I can just tell you.

You're going to find them at DMB Feed. You're going to find them at Spring Creek, at League City, at Southwest Fertilizer. Ace Hardware is like sinkle ranch and katas a tescaseda ace fullsher ace. You're going to find them at the arbor Gate, Nelson Water Gardens, RCW Warren Southern Gardens in Keeywood out there in Kingwood, and you're going to find them at in Jenny Forest as well. I mean, it's a great product.

by and let's meet and let's do that. It works super super well. Now for those of you down in the Alvin area, you can get your three sixty trees stabilizer. By the way there at JORGEZ Hidden Gardens, I'm going to be given away several trees stabilizers today at my appearance down at Horaz which is on Elizabeth Street in Alvin. You're going to find an awesome selection of fruit and that include peaches that are low chill, and apples and plums and pears and avocados that is sen somebody there

yesterday for an avocado tree. They've got Peggy Martin roses and any kind of plant you're looking for. Really, it's an outstanding place.