You Can't Fail at Gardening

are in a hospital healing. The difference between looking out a window at plants and looking out a window at a parking lot. Measurable difference and rate of healing is that amazing. I mean, I could go on and on and on with all the benefits. But we gardeners already know this. You know, when you're out there in the garden, especially this morning, you're gonna hear the birds singing, you're

gonna be out and about doing some things. It's just it's just wonderful, whether you're doing a lot of exercise or whether you're just puttering around the garden, which is legit. I love to putter around my garden. It's it's I don't know, it's therapeutic. It's helpful in many many ways. So you're in the right place. Welcome to Garden Line. Nice to have you with us today. If you'd like to give me a call, we're here to answer your

gardening question. Seven one three two one two kt r H seven to one three two one two k t RH. I was fertilizing my yard just this past week. Actually, I say yard, one of my yards. I've I divided my yard up. I have four different sections of turf in my landscape, and I have four different turfs in each section. I know that's weird, but it's what I like to do. It allows me to try different things

out and learn about turf. So when you give me a call and you ask me about a particular turf or what about this or that or the other, it's not like, well, I read a book somewhere that you're supposed to know. I'm doing it to my own yard trying. When I talk talk about a fertilizer, it's because I've used it and because it works. I don't just like, Okay, so and so wants me to talk about their fertile I'll talk about their Furtilzer. No, it is a matter of what does it work. And one that works, I'll

tell you this for sure, is Nitrofoss's Superturf. Superturf is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer, so that is about a four to one two ratio. Three one two and four one two ratios are very very appropriate for turf. If you were to cut grass clippings, healthy grass clippings off and send them to a lab and say what's in them, They're going to tell you there's a lot of nitrogen, very little phosphorus, and a medium amount of potassium. That's what turf takes up, so why not put that

down now. Nitrofoss Superturf nineteen four ten is slow released, so for four months it's going to be gradually releasing that nineteen percent nitrogen to your turf so you get

nice even growth. You're going to find this product as well as other nit foss products it places like en sheended forest down on FM twenty seven fifty nine in the Richmond Rosenberg area at Ace Hardware Single Ranch on Mason Road, Aspass up in the Woodlands on Kirkandall and certainly the Arborgate on FM twenty nine twenty and Tombaal

carries some of the nitrofoss products as well. Say I was fertilizing my lawn and when you put out nutrient, you want to put it out in two different directions, and I use north south and east west as just examples. It doesn't matter which way there you're going. But when you cross hatch your application like that, it smooths it out.

Have you ever seen someone with a striped yard. They went through the yard with a spreader and maybe the spreader overlapped, so some strips through the lawn got twice as much fertilizer, as other strips through the lawn did because of the overlap or lack of overlap. Well, you can avoid that by going about half of your product one direction, then go half your product the other. It is all always better to under apply and then to come back and touch it up. So I've done this before.

Don't tell anybody, it's just Jimmy listening red. But please don't spread this around. I have gone out, build up my hopper, set it like I thought it needed to be set, and took off across the yard, and three fourths of the way across the yard, I'm out a fertilizer. Uh oh, so now what we'll load it up and end up overfertilizing the rest just to make it look even. But then you have the stripes also from that. Well, what I'll do is figure out, you know what I

probably need. I'm going to go about under half rate one direction, and then you can look and go, you know what, I'm putting out too much and you drop it down in the other direction. You go at the appropriate rate, or maybe I'm not putting out enough. That's okay, go over the other one the other way, and then just if you have to make a third pass, you know what, to diagnose them. Just do it and that

just smooths things out. That way, you don't mess up because if you have extra leftover and you didn't set it putting out fast enough, that's okay. It just means you can make a nice, more even application. So just a tip there. That's true with fertilizer, It's certainly true with weed control, and it certainly is true when you're dealing with insects and diseases as well. Coverage is key. Coverage is critical. That's just a little tip for you there.

The folks at Spring Creek Feed up and humble, they just continue to prevent to bring in and last time I was there, the product line that they have for your lawn and garden is amazing. You're going to find well, you know, if you're doing lawn fertilizing, maybe you do like a nitropost product. They've got them. They've got Nelson Turf Star line, they've got the Microlife line as well. All there at Spring Creek Feed they also have things

to control weeds and insects and diseases. When you go into Spring Creek, you will be greeted by friendly courteous staff, just like you would expect or hope when you go in to any kind of a business. If you're an FFA kiddo or four H kiddo, they have discounts as well as for folks that are military and senior citizens, a special deliver, they will deliver and they'll special order to both. In fact, at Spring Creek Feed. They're located

in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. You can't miss them as you're kind of heading up in north direction twenty ninety seventy eight on the left hand side there is Spring Creek Feed and just minutes away from Grand park Way and Highway to forty nine. Well, I'm gonna take a little break here and we will be back with your questions again if you'd like to be first up this morning. Seven to one three two one two kt r H. Seven to one three two one

two k t r H. Alright, we're back. Welcome back to the garden Line. Good to have you with us today. We've got plenty to talk about. It is spring. Let me say it this way. If it is April and you are not interested in garden two things. One, check your pulse, make sure you're still alive. Number two, If you have a pulse, then you're not a gardener. I'm telling you everybody who is has one drop of gardening blood in them anywhere. Boy, I hope you do. It's

such a great hobby. Spring is like everybody's a gardener. Now. I understand we get to July and August and I'm gonna have to talk into it some of you at least at that time. But Spring, gosh, this is the fun time. This is the easy time. You put things in the ground and they just want to grow and it's just everything. Everybody's happy, all right, So this is it.

I was just talking a minute ago about fertilizing the lawn and what I forgot to mention to you is it's not just the macro nutrients that our turf needs. Turf needs, you know, about twenty different nutrients in order to grow turf grass plants. So you pick a grass blade, look at it, hold up, look at it. In that grass plate is boron? Did you know that? And have

you ever seen boron on a fertilizer label before? It's a big three that you primarily see on fertilizer labels, but boron and zinc and iron, and manganese and molybthanum, and there's a lot of things that grass has to have to grow. That's why we put do a trace mineral supplement, and we put on one called azmite. Asimite is mined out of the ground up in Utah and it is sold as a mineral supplement for micronutrients. It doesn't make the grass turn green and grow fast like

nitrogen does. No, I bet it's needed. It's required. Asumite is put down at a very low rate, about a forty four pound bag will cover about six to twelve thousand square feet. By the way, I use it in vegetable gardens two ten pounds per thousand in a vegetable garden, and it works. Azimite Texas dot com. That's a website if you want to learn more about it. But I'll just tell you this. You go to feed stores, garden centers, ace hardware stores, Southwest fertilizer places like that, you're going

to find azamite. And it is something you do not mix in the same fertilization application because the particle sizes are different. You just do your fertilizing, then turn around, load up with as mite and do it again with the a's mite. You don't have to do it on the same day. You can do as mite any day of the year. You want to do as mite, okay, but since you're out there and you got the machine out running across the lawn, go ahead and do it

as mite. It works. That concept of micronutrients for some folks is a little hard hard to follow. And you say, well, is it a fertilizer. Well, yes, it's a fertilizer because it is nutrient elements the grass has to have. But it's not like the Big three that you put on. That's kind of the difference. I think that's where the confusion occurs. Our bodies are the same way. You know, you need a lot of protein, you do in order to do well. There's a lot of things in your

diet you need. But then there are these things like tiny little micronutrients that you need too. There's nutrients, micronutrients, there's vitamins and things like vitamin D. Well, you don't need much of that, but you do need it. And those are the things that we must not forget both in our diet and then the diet of our lawns as well. I was touching base with the folks at

pest Pros yesterday, just reaching out. We're having some conversations kind of some more coming up here about things going on out in the landscape and out around the house. And you know, pest Pros is our pest control service here on Garden Line. They cover a wide area. They'll go all the way from Baytown across the Kadie and from Texas City down south all the way up into the woodlands, and they take care of the pests that

you have. It doesn't matter what it is. The number one concern of us is termites because they damage our homes to great financial significant damage. They can stop them with very safe men. They know how to do this effectively, and they know how to do it in the safest manner possible. And with their termite treatment, it's like a ten year guarantee treatment. It is a special technology goes in little trench around the house and termites cannot get across that trench or if they do, they die. And

it's in the ground, so it's safe. It's not something sprayed up on things that your dogs are gonna eat or whatever like that. It is an outstanding new technology that really works. Now, if you have fire ants, if you have mosquitoes, they if you have cockroaches in the house, you know, if you've got silverfish crawling around, whatever kinds

of treatments you have, pest Bros Can do it. And that includes things like wild varmts, you know, those possums and the roof rats or whatever kind of rats crawling around outside. They can handle all of those things. All you got to do is head to the website thepestbros dot com b ros d pestbros dot com, all right, and you can also give them a call if you like to get a quote. Two eight one two o six forty six seventy two eight one two oh six forty six seventy Make sure when you call them you

ask about their mosquito control buckets. Just say it that way. That's the simplest way to put it. Let them tell you what this stuff does. It is amazing. I've got them at my house and that's a goolest new safe again, safer technology. That's what we're all about. That pest Bro's house fascinating. I keep checking my buckets all the time, looking at you know, looking for a little larvae animus.

They make the mosquitoes lay, make them, they entice them to lay their eggs in those buckets, and those mosquitoes are never going to hatch. Plus when the mama mosquito flies away, she takes a substance that will prevent mosquitos in other areas from hatching as well. Super say, pets, pets and birds and other things. No worries about that. Well, I was looking online at I always check our garden center and see, you know, what are they getting in,

what's going on there, what's happening there? And something is always going on at a Plants for All seasons. That's up on Tomball Parkway, which is FM two forty nine. It's just north of Luetta Road right there on FM two forty nine. Okay, not on Luetta on FM two forty nine. If you have a brown thumb and you'd like to see it turned green, well you need to

go to Plants for All seasons. Those of you have a green thumb probably already been there, and that's part of the reason why it's green, because the color of our thumb is all about good information and good plants.

You pick up plant that wants to grow here, you plant it right and take care of it right, and Plants for All Seasons helps you do that and the plant grows and everybody goes you got a green thumb, Well, just have an informed thumb, because I went to a place that is a full service garden center, family owner and operated since nineteen seventy three, and they are true lawn and garden experts. I mean you can take them

a picture or a sample or whatever. You know, here's my neighbor, he's got this plan over there in the yard. Or I was driving by a house and I saw this, What is it? Does it grow here? And they'll they'll tell you. They'll they will tell you exactly how to grow. If you have an issue you're dealing with things, help you with that. To solve an insect or disease or weed problem, whatever you have, you can get your green on there Plants for All Seasons, Plants for All Seasons

dot com. If you're want to give them a call two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight one three seven six one six four six the my front bed. Don't tell anybody that because I wouldn't want the word to get out, but I had not trimmed back my perennials in front of my house. I just haven't. I keep walking by going, Yeah, I got to get around to that. Actually, I'm thinking I'm gonna do a little video on that for our Facebook account.

We have a garden line Facebook account and Instagram account too, by the way, and I was post a little videos on what's happening. I did one on fertilizing a week or so ago. Anyway, I'm walking by it and I'm not doing it, and it needs to get done. I need to get those trimmed back. But I'm waiting till I can get a camera set up and do a little video showing you what we do and why on it. And so that's a task that needs to get done.

I've got some maults replenishing that I just finished. If you have mults your flower beds, and boy, I hope you have. If not, you're going to spend a lot of time weeding and fussing and being disappointed in all the weeds. A good thick maultz blocks light, and when you block light, weed seeds can't get a start. That's how it works. So what you gotta do is you need to keep that mault thick enough to block the light. People. So how deep do you malt? Well, I usually say

about three inches or so four inches. Maybe it just depends on what you're using though. If you were using a very fine textured malts, you know, compost level kind of texture, very fine texture, well, it doesn't take much to block the light. But if you're using something big and chunky, well, you know, it doesn't make a solid covering unless you make it pretty deep because a light goes past those chunks in between them and makes it to the ground. So you have to put a little

bit deeper. So it's not a great answer to it. Three inches is just a general guide. But whenever you do mulch, and I've had people call here and say, do I need to get that old mulch out of there, as if the old mulch is a bad thing, And the answer is absolutely not. Old mulch is a good thing. Think about this, Think about how the forest was designed to work. I mean, really the perfect place to grow

a tree. Right in the forest. We have soil that gets better and better every year in the forest because the trees drop organic matter on the ground and it rots and it becomes soil. And now does someone go through there and rake up all the old leaves at the end of the year and put so the fresh new fall leaves can fall on dirt. No, they drop on top of the old stuff, and the old stuff just decomposes faster because it's staying moist and it can

decompose faster, and that it gets better and better. So when you've got mulch and it's getting thin and you're thinking, oh darn, my mault is, then I gotta put a new multch down on there. Well, yeah, okay, that's work. It takes all the time to do it, Yeah, but not much. But that old multch is decomposing away and making your soil better and better and better and better. Leave the old maults. Put fresh mult on top to maintain the depth you need to maintain. But that old

maltch isn't gone. It's now become good stuff for the plants themselves. Before it was just dry organic matter sitting on the surface to block the light. That's kind of what it accomplished. It blocks the light. It moderates the soil temperature because it's a shading of the soil, and it helps hold in some moisture as well, because again the evaporation from the soil surface is decreased because you got the mulch on there, so it has a lot of good benefit. But when it decomposes, then you get

the good stuff released down into the soil. All right, I hope I made sense of that. But anyway, Yeah, don't remove your old mult that is important. Hey, if you like to give us a call seven to one three two one two.

it dissolves in. The microbes go crazy. And when they go crazy, yeah, they're taking some of it up, and then as they do their a little quick life cycle, they don't live forever. It releases that nutrient back into the soice part of the cycle of the soil. And sweet green you're gonna find at a lot of different places.

You go to a place like in Channa Gardens down the Richmond Rosenberg area, or maybe Hiding and Feed on Studenter Airline, Fisher's Hardware on Southomore down in Pasadena, just some examples of places where you're going to find sweet green and other quality products. If you put it down, you want to, like any fertilizer, you will water it in. You want to dissolve away, move into the soil and get that good stuff down in to give your plants a boost. And it's a great one to get a

good boost and get that lawn growing. The weather we're having now is perfect for lawns. I mean, our lawn southern turf grasses can take it really really hot, but they are kicking into high gear. And a good nutrient application right now, be very helpful. All Right, I'm gonna take a little break here. When we come back, we're going to start with Ronald and Lake Jackson. Look forward to talking to you. Then stick around. Hey, welcome back, well,

welcome back to arbor Gate. As visiting with Jason over at Pearscapes the other day and we're just talking about some different kinds of things going on and how the spring's going with them, and boy, they're having a great spring. By the way, Piercescapes is our garden Line preferred landscaper. They work an area about forty five minutes from Tomball in all directions, so you know, with north, south, east west,

whichever direction you're going. Piercecapes is a prime quality company, I mean, and go to their website Piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes dot com. Take a look at the work they do. It's unbelievable. They do landscape, of course, they do irrigation work, they do lighting and drainage, a lot of things. I'm telling you you ought to check them out for just their maintenance. They do a quarterly maintenance four times a year.

They come by. They spruce up your beds, you know, put new multch down if you want to have a color change, like take all those flowers out and put the new flowers the next season in that. They can do that. Just make sure everything's in work in order. You know, the irrigation's got to be in work in order for things to do good. It's a general care any kind of pruning, trimming, things that might be done, and it just keeps your landscape beds looking good year round.

It's only come by four times a year to do that, but it is a it is an excellent service. You can go to Piercescapes dot com and find out more or just give them a call. Two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. Let's head now out to Lake Jackson and we're going to talk to Ronald. Hello, Ronald, welcome to garden Line.

you in that area. Some of the best trees for that area are deciduous trees. There's some lots of lots of good things. The red oaks, the Schumart and I mean the I see this is in Lake Jackson. I would probably do a nuttall. If I was doing a red oak in that area. Oh gosh, let me think here, evergreen tree that size I met, think about that one a little bit. I'd probably try to talk you into a tree that's more that's deciduous. That may he has

some attractive features. The the Chinese elm has beautiful bark that's kind of a rusty coloring gray as it flakes off, and it's a it's a very attractive pattern. So even in winter time it looks pretty good. My brain is drawing a blank here. I'm gonna have to back up a little bit. Try to think of a good evergreens. See the pines not a good tree for that area. Certainly cedars there. You know, you can do a cedar type tree there, but that's not the most attractive for

a spot like that. But that would be evergreen, a juniper type ceed a type tree.

Glass Slipper and Cupid's Sweetheart. Those are two brand new roses that they have released. They'll be open, by the way today from nine to five point thirty, close tomorrow. Easter Sunday, April twentieth, coming up that Earth Day. Kids activities are coming up. The Rose and Herb conferences coming up, by the way. The Rosen Herb Conference is on April twenty six from ten am to three pm and tomorrow the tickets close for that. So this is a whole

day of educational seminars and workshops and more. But you don't delay, I mean, go ahead today. If you're gonna do it, go ahead to day and get your tickets. Say close tomorrow Rose and Herb Conference April twenty sixth, and then on May tenth. If you're planning ahead for your mom, they're gonna have a Mother's Day tea and luncheon.

They have a wonderful little luncheon, a medley of like things like finger sandwiches, fresh salads, fruits, vegetables, a variety of hummus types of dips, and then some real cool desserts too as well. They'd be a nice thing to do for mom, with some special teas as well. Now you need to go to the website Antique Roseanmporium dot com Antique Roseanmporium dot com and oh you can give them a call ninety seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight nine seven nine eighty three six fifty eight.

You need to make sure and register. You can go see things going on on their website, but always register and always follow them, you know, get information from the sign up to get information from Antiqurosen parm so you can find out about these things. But main thing is just get out there. They're still blooming up a storm out there. It's just beautiful place, really beautiful. This would be kind of thing you grab some friends and family, throw them in the car and go, hey, we're going

to have an outing. And you get out there and you just really enjoy yourself. I promise you you will. You will love that place. Well, I need to take a little break here again for some business and when we come back, we'll come back for your calls. Here's the number seven one three two one two KTRH. We got regulars in the water. And if you are dealing with mosquitos, if you well, if you're living the Greater Houston area, you're dealing with mosquitos. It's just how things

are down here. Mosquito dunks is a product you just should have on hand. The mosquita dunks are little like mini donuts, like those little white, little Debbie donuts, you know, about that size, but they're hard and crumbly, and you toss them in water and they float for about it lasts about a month, and they release enough of the disease of mosquitoes. Only mosquitoes doesn't kill other insects or family pet or birds or anything like that. It's very unique.

They release it this substance in the water. It's a type of bt actually, not the caterpillar type, but it kills mosquito larvae. And so when the for about a month that maybe hundred square foot of area will be covered by it. You can break them up. You want to crack them up and put them in little places, you know, maybe the catch basin, under a watering container to hold the water. You know, mosquitos breed, and that old mosquitoes need is a teaspoon or a bottle cap

really of water to complete a life cycle. So you got to take care of these things.

them at a lot of our garden centers. A lot of our mom about been a garden centers carry these as well. So just grab some have them on hand. You're going to need them. And you know, if your neighbor won't take care of their areas, just toss the mosquito dunk across the fence and land in that puddle of water that they have back there. Anyway, you get the idea. Hey, We're going to head now over to Dayton and talk to Kevin. Hey, Kevin, welcome to garden Line.

and I'm starting to notice some foliage. Probably about five percent of the plant is starting to get a little brown on the ends. It's kind of I've got blooms they haven't set yet. I was kind of worried about those. Is there possibly something I need to worry about or that I need to do as a solomon?

one or the other. And I would just if they're growing at a good pace, but they look they look pretty good overall, I would just hold on the fertilizer for now, not add anymore. Try to keep this sow moist but not soggy wet. And I think I think they're going to outgrow this based on what I'm hearing from you.

plant and then after that no more uh. And so that that kind of pruning, just snapping out those little sucker shoots coming out of the where the leaf attaches to the stem.

for the call. Appreciate that you are listening to Garden Line our phone number seven one three two one two k t R H. We're about to go away here for a little bit.

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get you set up with some peace of mind. Those once in a lifetime storms keep happening, happening, don't they rough here last year. RCW Nurseries is the garden center there at Tumbull Parkway in belt wag eight and they have so many cool things.

selection of shrubs. We walk by and just intoxicated by the Confederate or star jasmine, those little white flowers they're blooming around town right now. Oh my gosh, they're awesome. They are awesome, really good shrub selection. They grow their own trees up in Plannersville at Williamson Tree Farm up there, and so you get a quality tree, and you get a tree species that wants to grow here, that's gonna do well here. That's what they that's what they're all about,

and they know how to do it. They know how to take care of things and provide you that. Nay, if you want to planet yourself, you can't. If you want them to come planet, they'll come professionally. Put that thing in and the right way. Especially those trees are too heavy for you to handle, you might want to have them come out and do it. It's r CW Nurseries dot com again Tomball Parkway and Beltway eight r c W Nurseries the other day and doing some planting.

I always have Medina products on hand, and I got this six twelve six, the Medina plant food has to grow six twelve six. It's got course those nutrients in it, the six twelve six. It's got Medina soil activator, it's got humate, humic acid, seaweed extracts. Basically, it's a concoction to help plants grow. Now, I think the number one used for it is when you're transplanting water those plants in with it, mix it in water, put it in the water, and can like I do, and do it

again twice more about a week apart. You can use this anytime of the year. It's not just for transplanting. You meant folier with it if you want foldier spray. But main thing is get it on hand so you have it. I do, and that way whenever I plant, I just reach for has to grow six twelve six plant food from Medina. I hear music, that means I quit talking. All right, folks, Well we're gonna take a little break here. When we come back. Angelo and Kingwood

you'll be our first up today. Guess where I'm going to be today, Warren Southern Garden in Kingwood. Come out and see me out there. All of you out in that direction, Kingwood and Humble and Porter and all the way all out there, come out and see me at Warren Southern Gardens. I'll be there from twelve thirty to two thirty. Twelve thirty to two thirty. They've got some great specials going on. I'll tell you about in a little bit. I don't care where you live. Coming out

to Warrens today. You need to see that place. It is awesome. All right, folks, we're back. Let's uh, let's get busy here. We got it's spring. It's spring, and there's so much to talk about. I mean, I could do a monologue for four hours on this show much less. The main reason we're here is that's to take your calls seven one three two one two ktr eight seven one three two one two k t r H. If you are looking for a place where you can walk in and any product you're gonna need for your garden

is going to be there. And I say product, I mean products to control weeds, products to control insects, products to control diseases. I mean fertilizers to provide that nutrient. I'm talking about fertilizer spreaders. I'm talking about tools. Southwest Fertilizer in Southwest Houston. That's it. But around since nineteen fifty five, seventieth the anniversary year. So congratulations to Southwest Fertilizer. And you don't stick around that long if you're not

doing a lot right, and boy they really are. If they don't have it, you don't need it. It's as simple as that. The largest selection of all kinds of things like that in the greater Houston area, including for those of you who organic gardeners, you're going, well, those

all sound like chemicals. Well, everything is a chemical. But if you want organic products, go to Southwest Fertilizer, the biggest selection of organic products in the entire region, right there at Southwest Fertilizer, or Abisa, Nutt and Runwick in Southwest Houston seven to one three six six six one seven four four, or go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com. But the main thing is just go check

it out. You'll see what I'm talking about. If you look on my schedule, you hear me say things on the radio about products or this or that. They're all there at Southwest Fertilizer. We're gonna head now out to Kingwood and talk to Angelo.

I've had orange trees and lemon trees in the past, and they all when they blew them at least got something. Yeah, but not one single lemon. And there were bees pollinating throughout the late winter. But I don't know what's going on there.

awesome place. Number one. They've got some of the best quality soil products you're gonna find anywhere, rose soil, leafmo compost, you know, special products for mulches, a number of options. So what do you want to grow? Azelia, blueberry, something likes acid loving soil. Tell them they'll point you to that one. You can buy it by the bulk. You can buy by the bag. You can go get it,

you can have them deliver it. You can swing by garden centers and find Nature's Way Resources bags there as well. Every Friday is Fungal Friday. That means fungal based compost. High quality compost by the Way is available at a lower price ten percent off bags the forty pound bags and if you want to do bulk twenty percent off of the bulk purchase itself. Nature's Way Resources dot Com. That's a website. It's new, they've revamped it. It's gorgeous.

Check it out Nature's Way Resources dot Com. We're going to go now out to know, we're not going to go out. Ruth and Hockley your first up. When we come back. I would have about ten seconds if I took your call right now, So we're not going to do that to you. Just remember, folks, come on out to Kingwood to Warren's Southern Gardens today twelve thirty to two thirty. I'm going to be there. I have some cool things. I'm gonna give a way too. By the way,

all right, welcome back to the garden Line. Good to have you with us. Hey, you hear me talk about Nelson plant Food all the time. They've got so many great products. Their Turf Star line is all kinds of things for turf, basically what it amounts to. They have a product called Bruce's Sprew. Bruces Sprew is a interesting product because you know, we talk about fast release and we talk about slow release. Well, Bruce's Brew is kind

of like all the above. It's kind of like both you do get a quick release from it, but not all the nutrients are quick release. Some of them will gradual release over time and it'll take a while for them to fully release their nutrients out. So you kind of get the best of both worlds in many ways. Bruce's sprew as this temperature now is warming up, it's going to give you a good quick greenup of your grass. And then as that nutrient release evens out over time,

you got a nice regulated growth rate. It really helps the roots to develop to sustain good root depth and resilience in summer heat. You know, we need a good root system. And when you over fertilize with nitrogen, when you overdo a nitrogen in one point in time, you know too much at once. You get top growth at the expense of root growth. But with Bruce's brew, you don't get that because it's going to gradually provide it

over time, that carbon based nitrogen in it. It's going to feed soil microbes, and you know, when you have healthy soil, you have healthy lawn. And when you have a healthy lawn, it's going to be less vulnerable to a lot of the pest and disease issues that Alan's a lawn can face here in the Greater Houston area. You're going to find Bruces Brew and other Nelsen products at many retailers across Ale across the whole Houston Greater Houston areia. I would highly recommend it. It works. I

know because I've tried it. We're going to go now out to Hockley and talk to Ruthie this morning. Hey Ruthie, welcome to garden Line.

fifty and put it in its new spot immediately. Don't let the roots dry out one bit, and get them moved over the new spot watered in really well. And then if you have a way of draping something over it to just give it a little bit of a break from sun for a little bit as it recovers. Okay, that would be hopeful. You don't want to you don't want to put it in deep shade. It needs sunlight

to produce carbohydrates to recover. But just a little bit of a break and after a couple of weeks you can kind of pull that shading off of it, or the break from the sun. That's what I recommend. Just keep it, keep it moist. When you dig it up, you'll see how big the root system you're moving is. And that's where all the water has to go for at least three or four weeks, uh, and then gradually

watering a bigger area. But it has only roots in that area, and it's got to produce new roots, which is within a couple of weeks it'll have a good root system starting its way back.

lives with that. When the saltwater subsided from Katrina, the darn thing came back and kept going and kept blooming. And the lady who had the place's name was Peggy Martin and that's why they named it that. And so that is a tough rose. Well, so I bring it to my house. I put it in the back near a little arbor area we have to sit under, and it grew. And then my two Golden Retrievers, Tax and Alley, they decided, you know what, why don't we chew that

off about a foot above the ground. And they did, and I walked out and I talked to them about it. That's a nice way to put it, and they looked at me as if they had remorse and out. I see, the first two years they did it twice. So at some point they did it again, and it's like, okay,

you guys are just incorrigible anyway. So I put this little ring of hardware cloth around it, you know, the little half inch square hardware cloth, and then they couldn't shoot through that, or at least they've decided not to try. And now it's up over the trellis and it looks just beautiful. I took a picture of it with the two guilty parties who have no shame Texanlly underneath it. So there you go. I love those dogs, but I'm

telling you they can try my patients. I thought when I was getting a golden retriever it was like bread for you know, retrieving birds for bird hunters or something. Well I don't know what it was bred for, but I know this. When I plant a plant in a flower bed, they will retrieve it and bring it to the back porch and set it there on the mat going in the back door, as if they accomplished me a favor, like, hey, skip, you forgot this plant while

you're out in the garden earlier. Yeah, Golden Retrievers. By the way, Also, since I'm tongue in cheek lamenting about goldens, we love those dogs. Whenever, there needs to be a Texas law that if you sell Golden Retriever puppies you have to give away a free Roomba vacuum cleaner to everyone who buys one, because we have two. Rumba type is not that brand, but Roomba type vacuum cleaners. They work every day every day. Try to keep up with

those Golden Retrievers. All right, there, you go, enough about that. If you've been to the Arbor Gate up in Tomball, if you haven't, you need to go. It is one of the premiere outstanding garden centers we have in our area. You go in first of all, they for those of you who haven't been in a while. They have a new parking lot in back and you take Tresher Road around the back. That's where you can park and get in. Trough easy to get in and out, very safe, very nice,

and you need to take advantage of it. It's the one I use all the time now. But anyway, Arburgate is the place you wander through and your jaws, jaws hanging open, you know, and if you're like me, there's a little droll coming out of the corner of your mouth because you're looking at all these awesome plants, beautiful spread out everywhere. It's just great. But I think despite all the beauty and all the just the fun of walking around and seeing everything they have, I think the

strong point of Arburgate there's two things. Number One, they bring in an incredibly wide selection all through the year of everything you might want to grow or didn't even know existed, that that becomes your new favorite plant. Number Two, the folks that work there, Beverly and Kennon down to the even the ladies at the checkout. Everyone is friendly and helpful and doesn't mind. They don't point it like, oh, go to the other side of the garden center. There's

one of those plants over there. They walk you to it, they take you to if you want. If you need help, like putting together a plant or something, they'll spend some time with you. They'll answer your questions. You can bring them questions and samples and pictures and things. It's service. It is friendly service, quality plants. And you know, I always say brown stuff before green stuff. Before you leave arbigate, grab the three the one two three completely easy system.

That is an organic food complete, which is an organic fertilizer with calcium two by the way, organic soil complete and Organic compost complete. Those are the three. The latter two have the expanded hiale in the mix, which our clay soils need. Now, those three are the bags that go in the back of the car when you bring home the plants, brown stuff before the green stuff. But if you want more than just bags of them, well, the organic Soil Complete and the Organic Compost Complete are

available in bulk. They can bring a giant sack out there and set it on the property, on the driveway or whatever, so you can have it. You don't want to eight hundred bags, we'll just buy it by the bulk and they will deliver it. They will deliver it. All you have to do is contact them, go to the website, give them a call and find out about how to do that. But the soil and the compost can be delivered in bulk, and you should consider that

because getting the soil right is so important. As wonderful as the plants are that they have, you got to get the soil right for any plant to have its best chance of success. And that's why we're buying plants is to have success. You are listening to garden Line. I am your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to help you have success. We want you to have a bountiful garden. We want you to have a beautiful landscape, and we want you to have more fun in the process.

That's Gardening is fun. It is a great, great hobby and you can have fun too as you do it. Sweet Green is a product produced by the folks at Nitrophoss. Sweet Green is gosh. It's a it's an organic product that has eleven percent nitrogen nutrient in it. Now that's a lot for an organic product. It dissolves away. It's by the way. It's a sweet basically a sugar molasses type base, and so it dissolves the way into the

soil and that carbon makes microbes go nuts. They love that stuff and they release that nutrient out of there and it makes your longo nuts. It makes it green. It's sweet green. That's why it has that name. You can put it down, water it in really good and watch the results and it will be it will be very fast and it will be very impressive from sweet Green. Now, sweet Green, being a nitrofoss product, is available to a

lot of different places. If you go to Plantation Ace Hardware out there on FM three fifty nine in Richmond, Rosenberg. If you go to Langham Creek Ase Hardbare by the way, that's one at Copperfield on FM five point twenty nine, Barker Cypress right in that area, or RCW Nursery Tambo Parkway. All places where you're going to get Nightcross products like the sweet Green it works, absolutely works. Let's see our

phone number. Ought to give you a phone number here seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H. Give us a call. By the way, Craig called earlier, and I think we got word back to him. But he was asking for an evergreen tree that could be used like in an entrance way to a church and uh kind of close to the church. Uh, and I was kind of drawing a blank on a good evergreen tree. We talked about a number of different things, but uh

uh someone had called in. Excuse me, I'm sorry, Ronald called got I get my name's crossed here Ronald called about that lake Jackson. Craig called in and he goes, hey, what about southern Magnoia is like, dah, yes, that's a good idea. Thanks for that reminder, Craig. Southern magnolia grows slow though, so it's not one that's gonna, you know,

be a big beautiful tree very fast. And they do get quite large, okay, but in time that with some you know, trimming of branches to protect them from rubbing against the roof of the of the church or the eaves or whatever. You don't want to get them too close. That would be a nice one that would get beautiful, beautiful blooms in the summertime and provide year round color.

The only thing about southern magnolia to keep in mind, Ronald, is the the thing casts a deep shade all year, and so it's hard to get things to grow under southern magnolia. Monkey grass, mondo grass will grow under a southern magnolia pretty well. That's something that you could do, but in general it's kind of hard to get you know, real good growth of other things show You may just end up with a nice bark multched area underneath there

that would probably be the way I would go. Hey, by the way, jungle Land from Nitroposs is a potting soil for indoors and for outdoors. The flour and vegetable planting soil is for outdoors. The water saber potting soil is for indoors. Someone was mentioning planning citric or something a minute ago in jungle Land and the stuff works being a night Foss product. Fishers Hardware down on South Broadway and Laporte and in Mott Bellevue, the Fishers on thirty one eighty, as well as the M and D

Beamer in Sagemont. We'll be right back, all right, Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us. You'd like to give me a call today, by the way, seven one three two one two KTRH seven one three two one two kt RH. We are here to help you have success in your garden. That's what we want to see. Gardening should be fun. You don't need to fail at gardening. In fact, I'm going to be so bold as to say this, and I hope, I hope

you hear this. You cannot fail at gardening. Now you go, well, wait a minute, if you saw the plants I've killed over. I know you can. You cannot have success in a particular season. But you only fail when you quit, when you give up trying, when you say I've got a brown thumb, first of all, you don't. Then you fail because you quit. But when it comes to gardening, every year is a new year. Listen, look at nature. There

are plants. They come up from seed in a year and then they die and they're gone, and then next year other seeds come up and it starts over, and it starts over. Perennials die to the ground and they come back. Nature has a cycle to it, and there is nothing wrong with replacing plants. If something doesn't do well, you don't like how it's doing, maybe it dies. Replace it. You can do that. They're thing called garden centers. They will help you do that. They will help you do that.

But try new things start over. Give us a call on garden Line. Go on to my website gardeningwi skip dot com. Find out where you know. If you look at the website, you'll find out everything from coal protection to plants, to how to get rid of that's edge to I mean, all the different things we deal with this garden. One by one. We're adding them there to

the website to help you have success. And once you learn what plants want, you just get better and better, and what you think is a brown thumb becomes greener and greener because you're giving plants what they want. That is really the bottom line to successful gardening is making plants happy, and we can help you do that. So don't give up. Give it a try. And a great way to do that is to go to places that sell good plants and then have good advice. Okay, places

that sell good plants and that have good advice. You're at if you're out in West Houston, Nelson Water Garden and Nursery out and Katie, that is the prime spot with that. Now, water gardens and nursery. Okay, that's what Nelson's is. Well, they've always been water gardens. I mean that they're nationally known for quality water gardens. If you've got this giant container and you go, oh, that would be pretty if water came out of the top and

went over the sides and recircle back. They invented that they can take your container and they can make it into something like that, or they can they can sell you a beautiful. Gosh, their pottery is so gorgeous. One of the kind stuff you can only get there. They can do that, and of course the water plants, you know, lolly pets and loaded all kinds of cool plants, and then the fish shamunkins and and the kois and whatnot.

By the way, take your kids out there. They'll give them a little bit of fish food and then go out in the back. There's a pond they have toward the back of the property. It's beautiful under shady areas. Kids can go back and feed the fish. And these koi come right out of They just kind of rise up out of the water with big old mouths wide open and you just drop the feet in and the kiddos will love that. But anyway, I'm digressing. By the way, today starting at nine am, they're going to have their

Easter egg hunt today going on out there. It's a nice family event. They always have things going on. But you also when you're out there, just look for some of the planets that they have. I don't care what kind of plant you're looking for. It could be a copper canyon daisy. It's one of my favorite. If you don't know Copper Canyon daisy. It's actually a type of marigold, not a daisy, but it has little yellow flowers and

it has strong pine slash cetrus scented foliage. So get your head around that pine and cetrus, very strong pine and ctrus scented foliage. Some people don't care for it. I love it, absolutely love it. They've got those. Do you need roses, do you need hadranges? Do you need herbs, do you need flowers? You name it, they've got it at Nelson Water Garden in nursery. By the way, they are on Katie Fort Ben Road. You turn north from I ten, go north just a little bit and they're

on the right hand side. Nelsonwatergardens dot Com. We are going to go now out and talk to Katie. Hello Katie, Welcome to garden Line.

As you said, it's a tree. The boxer's a dog, So you know, there you go if you go out and rents down areas like that very well with water and flesh out some of the ammonious salts and things that are that are there that's burning the grass. But you're not going to get out and do that all the time every time the dog goes over. So I think, yeah, it's it's that you could do that, but that's just

kind of the way the way that that is. So I think it's a situation where, you know, life gives you lemons, make lemonade, they say, I think turn turning that area into something just a little bit different. And he's not going to go that far away because he's trying to hit the tree, so it's going to always be kind of around the base. I would put anything that's you know, like real thick, chunky stuff, so he's afraid he doesn't like stepping on it. You know, let

him go and walk up to it. But but just a little bit of a ring them all. It's probably is the simplest thing that you can do.

get around to it. And it looked good, and and you know, I wish I had, but I just didn't get to it. So your lawn's going to be okay. But after six weeks, if you want to start in maybe a slow release product, something that will drag out over time. Do you do you use organic or synthetic?

Texas dot com. I've got a lot of good Ace Hardware stores here in the Houston area, and that's how you find them when you are looking for anything for your lawn, for your garden, for success with those outdoor living areas. That's the place you're going to find it. You can find it in places like All Seasons Ace Hardware, which is on Interstate forty five up in Willis. You go out to Kingwood to k and m Ace Hardware and Kingwood Drive, go down to let's say, Chalmers, Ace

and Galveston on Broadway. Those are just examples of the many Ace Hardware stores you're going to find it. Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. I'm gonna take a little break when we come back, Chris from the Woodlands. You'll be first. Alrighty folks, we don't quite have any sun out there yet, but we're gonna. We're gonna. We will be soaking and God to have you back with us. Hey or Hayes Hidden Gardens. Have you been there? If you're down south of Houston, you need to go by there. They are

out in Alvin. Actually specifically they are if you're in Alvin and you're heading down six towards Santa Fe you end up turning to the right to go out just off the road there a little bit. That's what it's called hidden gardens, I guess. But they have stunning Peggy Martin roses still in full bloom. They look good. People keep talking about Peggy Martin. I was just talking about Peggy Martin a minute ago. Or Hayes Hidden Gardens has got it. They've got lots of good seasonal color plants,

things like Vinka's and Angelonia. By the way, Angelonia is one of the best summer color plants we can have, and there's so many color options. They also have Vitex. Vitex is a beautiful shrub slash tree, mainly shrub that is awesome for the summertime blue flowers. If you share it back after they bloom, don't let it go to seed, it just makes it bloom more. And it's a great plant. Got one in my own yard. I love by text now or he's got plenty of He's got plenty of

other shrubs too. By the way, Hey, he's opened today from eight to four and tomorrow he's closed it's Easter. But swing out there to where he's Hidden Gardens on Elizabeth Street in Alvin, Texas. All right, Elizabeth Street, alrighty well, I am going to head to the phones here real quick. We're going to go to Chris in the Woodlands. Hey, Chris, welcome to garden Line.

am I going to do? It's got to be bad. No, No, if you were to make a pie chart of all the insects, the vast majority, almost the whole pie, is going to be things that are either beneficial or of no consequence to whatever plant you're seeing this bug on. Okay, a few pests for any particular plant are out there that we're concerned about, but it is a fraction of what's out there. So the first thing you think about when you see something with six legs crawling around on

a plant is it's not a problem. The second thing is it could be. We can look into it, but probably not. Probably not. That's the best way to look at it. I was talking with the folks that B and B turf pros this week, and you know, BnB is a family owned operation. BnB provides honest quality work. You know, you want to do a compost top dressing, you want to do aer ration, They got you covered. And by the way, this is important, don't make a note of this. Don't zone out on me. Here. Free

aerration with purchase of compost top dressing through May. Just through May. So we we got them out a month and so or so left in this. But if you purchase compost top dressing, they'll just do aeration for free during that time. Now, remember this compost top dressing and aeration as a process. You hear me talk about this a lot, but it's an expensive thing for the company

to get out and do. They got a haul equipment to your site, They got to bring in composts to your site, and they can't just run all over every place. That's why our suppliers here on Garden Line cover a certain area. BnB covers the air from Sugarland and Missouri City on the north of the west side up down Highway six and all the way across over to Alvin and Friendswood and Dickinson and League City, you know, past Pairlin and Manvel and all of that. That's the region

that they cover. Now, if you are going to do this free aeration, there is a minimum of eight hundred and ninety five dollars for top dress that you're going to provide. Okay, so you get the cop dress done, they do the free aeration and aeration. It does cost to get it out there, but it is one of the single best things you can do to a lawn. Prices start around five hundred dollars for small yards for compost,

top dressing and aeration. But they're they're bringing expensive equipment out and they're bringing cores of soil out of the soil, dropping them on the surface and When that happens, then they top dress and it falls down in those holes and it gets oxygen into the soil and that is what invigorates a lawn so much. Again, it's one of the most things. Yes, it's important to water. Yes it's important to fertilize and mow and all those are important.

But if you're looking at an area that's struggling, maybe it's chinchbugs or drought from the past, or some cold injury, or compost or compaction rather from foot traffic, or just a heavy equal a soil kind of thing. Aeration and compost stop dressing is important. They do it to golf courses. If you want to have top quality turf, aeration and top dressing is a way to do it. And that's important.

By the way. The website BB no end, BB Turfpros dot com, Bbturfpros dot com seven one three two three four fifty five ninety eight seven one three, two, three, four, five five nine eight. Let's go now out to Friendswood and we're going to talk to Mark. Hey, Mark, welcome to garden Line.

these specifically, and one by looking at a photo. I've just seen enough of this stuff that I think that's what you're looking at. Take all and large patch are both on my lawn care schedule. If you go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com, you can find my lawn care schedule lawn disease and weed schedule. That's the one and just take a look at it, and it tells you when they occur, and what to do about them, when to apply it, and what to apply

and all of that. At this point, something like aeration would be helpful making sure the lawn gets adequate moisture when we get hot and dry here. That's very important. And a modern amount of fertilization, a modern amount of typical what's on my schedules to apply. That would be the amount that you would put down. But other than that, you know, what I'm seeing is just the signs I think of those diseases. And so that's one you're just

gonna have to deal with according to this schedule. All right, thanks long, all right, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you can turn this around. It is

it is. Let me let me make one other suggestion. Okay, are you there, Yes, Okay, there's a product called Disease x e X. Disease e X and go to your local ACE hardware store and just tell them you're looking for disease e X and that is what you're going to use for especially the tape called root rock, which is the one that does kill the grass, but it'll also work on other diseases. I would get it down and water down asap, and then you're gonna do it

again this fall, but that's on the schedule. All right, all right, thank you, Thank you, Ben, appreciate your calling very much. All right, we're gonna take a break. Hey, today Warren Southern Gardens twelve thirty to two thirty King would be there by Square.

would stop the flow. Right if you were to go up to the bark, and if you had a canker on the bark that was killing tissues that are translocating water and nutrients up and down the tree, that would cause that. If you had a disease that was plugging it.

I can't tell you what's causing it, but the fact that most of it seems to be on shoots that are toward the street compared to shoots that are in other directions kind of makes me think maybe something on that side of the root system happened, or maybe something on that side of the trunk somewhere along the way has killed tissues. But in the photo it's not evident what is causing it. But I can just tell you that's what happened. The growth came out and immediately collapsed

and dried and withered. Yeah, and that is an unusual thing. My gut on it is that there's not a good future for this tree. There's not a magical thing I can tell you. Spray on it and it'll make all this go away. If it stopped, If it stopped now and the tree recovered, you know, you would still have the tree, but it'd be very lopsided and it would look look kind of bad. I don't see these branches with the dead leaves coming back to life. But if you want to give it a little more time and

wait and see, that's fine. The tree needs quite a bit of pruning anyway, and after this it'll need some additional pruning.

cankers or something is happening there. It could be that in the pruning a disease was introduced into the wounds because you did quite a bit of pruning on that tree and introduced that was there before the pruning.

It could be in that location or it could be nearby. Uh, so that you end up getting back in business, getting a nice tree like you see throughout the neighborhood, a nice, big, beautiful spreading tree going and don't put off the inevitable.

something going on out there. They have a lot of quality plans. Here's the website that I would suggest that you go to and subscribe to their newsletter, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. When you go there, you're going to find a lot of amazing things. They you know, this place, it's just a leader in the industry. You know, what, what do you need? Do you want a plumeria, Well, they've got some beautiful ones in.

Do you want roses? Maybe some roses that are called standards where you have a trunk and then the little rosebush kind of at the top of the trunk, or the same with boogabys. By the way, they have Booga Beya standards there as well. Herbs they got them, pollinator plants, they got them. Plants to attract butterflies or hummingbirds, they got them. And they have expert service with very friendly, educated, helpful employees there. That is very important. And this independent

garden center has absolutely all that. Lindermann family has been doing this since nineteen ninety five. Again FM three point fifty nine, Katie fulsher side of Richmond Chented Gardens Richmond dot com. Let's go now to need Vue and we're going to talk to Vernon. Hey, Vernon, welcome to garden Line.

shrink literally again. That's why you drive downtown some areas around Houston and neighborhoods and it's like you're going across the rocky mountains. I mean the streets or heaving and buckling and everything. Water lines crack every summer because of that shrink and swell. It's a mess and it does the same kind of damage to our landscape, driveways, our walkways, and our homes. The home foundation Fix my slab foundation

Repair is the place to call. They can come in, they will assess it, They will make sure and give you an accurate assessment of what's going on. Is something needed or not, and if so, what is it? And the thing I like about Ty Strickland and Fix my Slab Fundation Repair is that first of all, they'll do free estimates for gardenline listeners. Don't forget that. Tell them your guardenline listener. But they are committed to being on time, to fixing it right, and to charging you a fair price.

And that is so important in any kind of service that you have done. Fix my slab foundation repair. If you see cracks in the brick, in the sheet rock inside, or sticking doors inside, those are all signs of a problem. They do driveways too, by the way, those are all signs of a problem. And don't be an ostrich. Put your head in the sand. It's not gonna get better, it only gets worse. So call them, have them come

in and take a look at it. Fix myslab dot com two eight one two five forty nine forty nine. We're gonna now head out to Paul in Montgomery. Hey, Paul, welcome in the morning.

I'd raise the bed up, bring some soil in. Also, it could be an extreme issue with some nutrient problem, although that description you're giving is a little extreme for it to just be a nutrient kind of thing we're dealing with there. And then there's always the possibility of like a root disease something killing roots. And you know, whether it's water drowning roots or whether it's disease killing roots, you end up with can end up with some of us.

The more response I would bring in a fresh BEDMX, get some bags or bulk or whatever and build it

up a little bit. I would also even before you do that, I would send a sample into the soil test lab text A and M. There's a publication on my website, which is Gardening with Skip dot com that's on soil testing and it tells you where to send it and how to take it and all that and the main the main bottom line is it's soil testing dot TAMU dot E d U t A m U soil testing dot dot T A m U dot E d U. Use the urban soil test form that means gardening, Urban means garden, uh and send a soil sample in

because what it'll tell you, Paul is I mean, yeah, is whether maybe some nutrient is we had a whack or the pH could be way out of whack.

whatever reason. Sometimes it's just rainy, cloudy weather. Sometimes it's the bees, something killed them, they're not around or whatever. So if that's happening, then you're left with taking a little artist paintbrush and doing the pollination yourself. But yeah, you've got some weird things going on there. Have you checked for culture geist around the place.

not gonna bring them in. But like they crawl across the neighbor's yard to get to yours, all right, Hey, I got to run. Good luck with those mysteries, all right, thank you very much. That is really interesting, very strange, very strange. Night to five Superturf is a product. I was talking about it earlier. It is a nineteen four to ten fertilizer that is slow release over four months. You put nine to five super turf down. Now you

don't return, you do return your clippings. Don't remove your clippings, and that combo will feed you all the way up until I start talking about fall fertilization to the end of the year. I mean, it really will. It lasts a long time, and recycling those clippings, those two will do the trick. Now, you're gonna find nine five Superturf at places like the Plans for All Seasons on Luetta Road.

You're going to find it at Fisher's Hardware on thirty one eighty done in my bellvue, the M and D clear Lake on Bay Area Boulevard, and Stanton's Shopping Center on North Taylor down there in Alvin. Let's head over to Missouri City now and talk to Lauren. Hello, Lauren, Hey, good morning, Skip.

The earlier you spray in the life cycle of the insect, the better off you are. So if it's young caterpillars, it's very effective. If the caterpillars are old and about to turn into moths, then it's not as effective, so catch them early. The spring generation is usually a light one the fall late summer. The fall generation is usually very heavy one, but nature can throw us a curve in a year it chooses.

But the Easter Bunny will be out till ten thirty. So even thirty minutes after garden Line's over, you can go get a picture with the kiddos with the Easter bunny out there. Now, the Cash Barn, What am I talking about? Well, I tell you our heart goes out to begins. Over this past year, twice they've lost their checkout area to storms, just destroyed their checkout era twice. So they decided we're putting up a nice strong structure to avoid that problem. And it is beautiful. It ain't

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percent off. Celebrate Earthday coming up April twenty second. They also, by the way, you can go to the perennial section on their website, which you always need to go to Buchanan's Native Plants dot com. That website is awesome. You need to sign up for the newsletter while you're on there too, by the way, and when you're there, check out the perennial section for all the different perennials that

They have thirty percent off rain barrels too. So if you've been thinking about getting a rainbarrow to have to save on your water bill and conserve some water and provide your plants the best kind of water, well you can do that if you can, as sneed plants. But go see the new cashpoarn. It is beautiful. You ever heard weird al Yankovi version of that song? It's pretty funny. I won't go into it here, but just go to your music app and check it out. Weird ow yank

of it. All Right, Hey, we're gonna I want to talk a little bit about a year round Houston. I was out visiting with them on a site where they were doing some cor aeration and compost stop dressing this past week. And these guys are specialist you know when it comes to cor aeration in compost top dressing. Yeah, you can do it yourself. You can go run a machine and bring it home. You gotta dump the junk on your driveway, the composter and driveway to spread it out.

It's a mess, and then you got to clean the machine, get it back and all of that. Or you can just hire them to come out and do it. They work. That whole area inside the Beltway is what we talked about with year Round Houston here on garden Line, and the website is the name year round Houston dot Com. Here's a phone number eight three to two eight eight four fifty three thirty five. I took some video out there.

We were looking at a site one of the customers that they have, and I'll post it to Facebook this week. I think that'd be a good thing. I'd like you to see how that works. But it is one of the single most important things you do to have success with your landscape, especially your lawn. Specifically, it gets oxygen into the soil. They pop the low cores out of the soil, drop them on the surface, cover it with

compost and it filters down into the holes. Holds that those holes open that the compost decomposes further releases nutrients. It's just it's like a spa day for your lawn. It really is year Round Houston dot Com. They can do it if you're inside the Beltway. Give them a call. Year Round Houston dot Com. Eight three to two, eight eight four fifty three thirty five eight three two eighty eight four fifty three thirty five all right, we're gonna

go to Montgomery now and talk to Jim. Hey Jim, welcome to Guarden Line.

land on that plant. But having a citronella on the in the patio, on your little table there isn't going to keep them out of the patio. They'll they'll fly all around anyway. So there's not a there's not a good effective way to do it with plants. But so technically, is there a plant that repels them, Yes, from that plant, but will it work in a sitting area? Not one bet, Not one bet at all.

And then when the mosquito leaves the bucket, wherever that mosquito goes, it carries with it a substance. That number one is a fungus that kills the mosquito in seven days. But also when they go land in another water spot, maybe your neighbor has a bird bath they're not cleaning out when they land in that other mosquitoes can't breed in that site. It's really unusual and cool and it's very safe. I won't hurt birds and plants and things, but if you have pestpers come out, that is a

That system is the way to go. We're talking about the centranella kind of plants. But this other way is it'll work all right.

so you can know right up front. So all of you over there in Conrad and Willis the woodlands, even as I'm saying over toward Montgomery direction, Grows out in Willis a great place. They carry fertilizers from Microlife and Nitrofoss. They carry products from Medina and the pest control products. They have beautiful hanging baskets and flowers and vegetables and herbs and fruit and everything you can need. Growers Outlet in Willis just minutes away from forty five, just south

of Willis on Highway seventy five. Well, where are we here? We are looking at yah I got a little bit time. I'm going to go to Susan in Sugarland. Hey Susan, Welcome to garden Line.

no sun, but decent light, it'll grow there. And so you can say, well I like it because it's a good tough drought resilient groundcover, or you can say I want to get rid of it, in which case you either go to Great Links or call your realtor and move. That would be another way.

gotten in. They're always getting in new things, whether it's roses or whether it's beautiful salvia's. You need blueberry bushes. You want some colorful foliage, you know, like the Cuban gold Duranta has beautiful golden foliage. You got what is the thing we plant underneath the trees? Kaladiums there couldn't even come to mind. They are loaded with kaladiums. They've got the Chinese a witch hazel with the purplish burgundy. Beautiful, beautiful. You need to come out today and you need to

see the boogablias that they have the standards. They are so beautiful, they really are. I mean, it's just breath thinking it's like, do those things have leaves on them? Because there's so many blims you can't even see the leaves. Plumerias. Have you ever thought about growing to pulumeria the Hawaiian layflower. They've got those there. When you go to Warrensted and Gardens,

you find the products that you're looking for. And I'm going to be out there from twelve thirty to two thirty today, and I hope you come out and see me. I'm going to have some Texas Gardener magazines on hand. If you've never seen Texas Gardener, you need to come out and see that magazine. It is really good. I'll be giving those way as long as supplies last. Have some copies of my schedule out there. You can bring me samples of plants or pictures of plants if you

want them identified or diagnosed or whatever. Let's spend some time together. I love to meet people that listen to Garden Line, and when you come out to one of these appearances, I have time to sit, visit and kind of go more in depth than I can here on the air.

go ahead and do that. I had some the other day. I turn them on the side and kind of you know, squeeze the pot a littleit and then slid them out to the side. By the way, that's how you remove a houseplant from the pot, turn it upside down or turn it on its side. And if you see a whole bunch of roots going around in a circle, that plant is pot bound. You need to move it up

to the next size pot, okay. And when you do that, get you a quality potting soil like jungle land jungle lands water saving potting soil specifically, I'm talking now, not about the outdoor one, but the indoor one. Jungle land water saving potting soil. It's got crystals in it, so if you forget to water those crystals whole moisture for longer than the soil itself does, and it provides a little extra boost of water for those plants until you

remember to water them again. But repotting them with a good quality mix it drains well but yet holds moisture like jungle Land is a way to go. You're going to find night foss products like jungle in many different places. A Stanton Shopping Center down and Alvin Lake hard Hardware in Engleton on Velasco as well as Lake Hardware Clute on Dixie Drive all places to carry nitrofoss products. Let's go to Tomball real quick here we're going to talk to Keith. Hey Keith, welcome to garden Line.

the main one. But just be watching for that and at the first sign be ready to do a little spray of that foliage to protect it, because without good healthy leaves, you can't have a sweet melon on the vine.

so you got to water it there. And then as it grows, you know, over the weeks to come, the roots are moving out in the soil, and over the months to come, they're moving out in the soil, and you water a larger and larger area primarily underneath the branch bread of the tree, primarily. Okay, TreeHugger lets, you do that. You hook it up to a hose, you

put it around the trunk. It comes in three sizes seven inch, eleven inch, fifteen inch, and you when it's a brand new plant, you just barely turn it on where it's not really spraying out. It's just sort of trickling out of the thing. That water's that root cylinder at the base. As your trees gets bigger, you turn it on more where it's you can water a huge circle when you crank it up all the way. So maybe you've got a tree that's been in the ground

five years. This summer, we're going to be one hundred degrees without rain. At some point on your spree, your tree hugger and you rescue that tree and you keep it healthy and growing, and you're going to find these products that places like Kingwood and Warren's Garden Center where I will be today at Warren's. Come on out and

get you one there. RCW Nursery, Arborgate, Nelson Water Gardens out in Katie down in Richmond both Enchanted and in Chanted Gardens and in Chanted Forest have Themnia Defeed and Tomball League City Feed down in League City Spring Creek Feed Center up toward Magnoia direction Southwest Fertilizer and then many Ace hardware stores like the one in Fullshire and a Tascaseda and K and m Ace in Casseda, the Katie Ace Hardware Sinkle Ranch. You see what I'm talking about.

They're widely available. You just need to get one and you need to keep it because you're gonna need it. Maybe next year. You plant a rose bush. I know it says tree hugger. It's for a rose hugger too. You can put it around a shrub or a tree and save that plant, or at least help keep it growing rapidly when we go into hot, hot weather. Keep that in mind. Visiting with Jim Moss the other day down at Moss Nursery in Seabrook, Texas. And first of all, for those of you who haven't been to Moss, you

may go, I don't live in Seabrook. Well, if you did, you've already been to Moss. But if you don't, it is a destination. You know, you need to do horticulture tourism during the week or on the weekends. What I mean by that is, you know, go down the boardwalk on Keema, you know, check it out, have some fun down there. But swing by Moss Nursery, all right, or just go to Moss Nursery. It is eight acres crammed

full of gorgeous plants. There are flowering things everywhere, all kinds of flowering shrubs, you know, from azaleas to those beautiful deciduous magnolias that were blooming early early in the spring, first bloomer of the spring, by the way, to roses, you name it. You want hanging baskets, they're galore, hanging baskets galore. Down at Moss Nursery. Do you need bones eye,

you know, new hobby there or a gorgeous houseplant. They have one of the most outstanding houseplants selections anywhere, and more and more and more and more stuff. And when you're in there, be sure to check out the quirky t shirts that Jim Moss has designed and created, like the eyeball plant. You just got to see it. I can't describe it. But Moss is not just another garden center. It's a seventy year old, family operated eight acre source

of everything that you could need. It's on Toddville Road in Seabrook, Texas two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight two eight one four seven four twenty four eighty eight. When you're down there, you can find a lot of quality products to you know, Microlife fertilizer's an example of the of one of those prob I was telling somebody to put some six to four down the other day. I would suggest, when you can find Microlife, get their orange label and get their blue label bottle.

Those are liquids. Biomatrix is the orange label, it's a seven to one three. Ocean Harvest is a blue label it's a four to two three. Both of them are great. I use Biomatrix, the orange one in door and outdoor, I use Ocean Harvest the blue one outdoor. Micro Life products are per sale everywhere, but try those out. That's a great way to liquid feed your plants with a natural plant food that will make them do well. And I say that because I've used them and I've seen

the results. For Microlife, you can go to Microlife for lizer dot com find out more about their other products. I wish, I wish i'd, you know, I could just take a whole show just talking about all the products that are available for microm I love that stuff. I hate the sound of music when I'm doing this show because it means I got a quit talking about things I like talking about things like talking to gardeners. If you want to get on the phone and be the

first up or one of the first s up. Next hour seven one three two one two k t r H seven one three two one two k t r H. Don't go away. We'll be right back for our last hour today. Alrighty, we're back. Hey, welcome back to the garden. I'm good to have you with us. Looking forward to visiting with you about the questions that you might have so you can have success in your garden and in your landscape. You know, one of the ways that we have success in our gardens is by taking care of

the soil. And that means adding compost to organic matter. It means building up raised beds, It means getting special bed mixes that are designed for the kind of plants you're going to grow. You know, a woodland acidic mix for azaleas and camellias, for blueberries, many other kinds of even roses like that, kind of soil specific blends for roses, speaking of roses, specific blends for fruit trees. All of

that's available to Nature's Way resources. Nature's Way also, and I don't talk about this enough, they have a two acre actually I think it's bigger in two acres now, nursery area that is just chalk full of fruit trees and natives and houseplants and vegetables and one of the largest varieties of native plants you're going to find in

this area. Now, remember every Friday is fungal based Friday, which means they have their high quality organic fungal based soils which are excellent for growing all kinds of things. Ten percent off of the bags and twenty percent off of the bulk. Those bags are forty pounds, by the way, twenty percent off of the bulk. Now you can have you can go get stuff from Nature's Way like bags in bulk, if you have a little trailer or truck, or you can call them and have them deliver it

to your place. Are you A lot of garden centers will carry their bags as well. Nature'sway Resources dot Com. That's the website. You need to go there. You need to check them out. And by the way, jnr's Ace Hardware is one of the newest retailers. J and R by the Way is Importer was up there earlier in the year. They're one of the newest retailers for Nature's Way products. Jnr's carrying their fine leaf moll composts, their double ground malts, their rose soil, their Garden and Flower

bed Mix, the blueberry mix, the citrus mix. All there, Nature's Way Resources products, quality products available all over the er Houston area. Let's head out to Pasadena and we're going to talk to John this morning. Hello John, welcome to Guardline. Oh well, how are you, good sir, How can we help?

all that balloons. I don't know if I need to do that or not.

little time, make sure it doesn't lack for water. That confined root system that came out of the container is still pretty much confined to that container. And just give it regular waterings without keeping it too wet. And make sure it gets good sunlight. That's another important thing. And you should be getting growth. Soon as it warms up,

that tree's gonna be more interested and growing. We've got some cool snaps this spring that have slowed some things down, So I think you're gonna be all right.

they are into this big time. They can anything if it holds still. But from your home gardening standpoint, we talk about our outdoor patio furniture. We talk about any kind of metal outside, whether it's a decorative art on the walls, whether it is of course the patio furniture aluminum or cast iron or wrought iron, anything like that. You have a railing on a porch, you have a light pole, metal light pole out in the landscape not

looking so good. Take it to them. Powder coating is better than painting, and boy, can they ever do a good job. Over one hundred colors that they can put down a lot of colors. And if your furniture equipment needs some help, you know, maybe it needs some a little bit of welding to take care of something, or maybe it needs a sling fabric, or the vinyl straps are placed, or maybe the bolts in hardware is all rusty. They can put stainless steel back in there, put new

plastic feet and the caps on it. That free pickup and delivery in the Houston area. You can't beat that. Take a picture of what you got and email it to this place. Sales at houstoncoders dot com. Sales at Houston cooders dot com. They'll give you a quick a quick reply with a quote and go check them out on the website Houston Powder Cooders dot com, Houston powder Coders dot com. Let's go up to Magnolia. Now we're going to talk to Ken. Hello, Ken, welcome to garden Line morning.

You won't spread it that way. Good sunlight, good moisture, moderate fertilizer, and warm weather and that that Pepperoni kick back into gear if it starts happening again, though, Ken, would you take a picture of it up close and good sharp focus and email it to me and then follow up with a call and uh, well, when I actually see it, I can give you a more specific answer than I can just you know, with that description.

it's blooming on the bush. It's better than looking at a tag. And they are the source. I mean, any rosarian in the Houstonnario knows about RCW Nursery. By the way, when you're there, you're gonna find nitrofoss and Microlife and Nelson turf Star and a lot of other great products to make sure you have success. They are the place to go when it comes to any kind of shrubs and trees and why not. From ornamentals to shade trees. They grow on themselves and they look really really good.

Some people I was talking to you there, they just go back over and over again for things from marcyw because they told me is that every time they come out and play something, every time I buy something here, it grows. And there you go. There's a testimony. That's what you want to hear. R CW Nurseries dot Com. There on the corner where Tama Parkway comes in with Beltway eight easy to get to. The main thing is

just go out there and check them out. And this weekend it would be a good time to do that. Time for me to take a quick break. I'll be back with Melanie from Yoakum. All right, we're back, folks. Let's do this. We've got a lot of garden line to do here and a short time to do it. Our last hour of the show. Looking forward to visiting with you about the kinds of questions that you might have. Wild Birds Unlimited. I want to talk a little bit about this store. It is my favorite place to get

anything related to birds. I mean, they know what they're talking about. We're in nesting season right now for many of our songbirds and the folks at Wildbirds have designated are just designated designed the perfect blend of seeds to provide birds what they need most the season. It's called Nesting super Blend and it's only available at Wildbirds Unlimited. Nesting super Blend has got sunflower chips and peanuts and

dried mealworms, bark butter bits, sy flower tree nuts. It's so in other words, it's providing that extra protein that birds need. And it also has calcium too, by the way, to support eggshell formation and skeletal development for nesting birds. You can buy it loose and sea bags, or you can buy it as cylinders a little compress centers look like little fat candles sitting up there that the birds have to peck the seeds out of. It works in any kind of feeder. Now you can look for Nesting

super Blend. That's the one to look for right now at any of the six Wildbirds Unlimited stores in the Greater Houston area. That includes Kingwood, Kingwood Drive, clear Lake, Eldorado Drive in Paarland, on East Broadway, in Houston on bel Air and also in Houston on Memorial Drive and then up in Cypress on Barker, cypress Ohen. While you're there, pick up a wild Bird's Unlimited hy hyperch hummingbird feeder. Just just go look at it. It's my favorite nectar

feeder for hummingbirds. And they also have this stuff that helps extend that quality sugary water you put in to not go bad so fast, and it just to ask him about that's any little stuff you put in here that keeps the water, you know, from that sugar sugar water and warm temperatures, you know a few days and you probably need to change it out. But with this nectar defender, a yet little more time out of it, and they have that at wild Birds Unlimited. Let's go

to Melanie now out in Yokum. Hello, Melanie, how are things out in Yokum.

bearer of bad news. You just need to pull it up and put a new can and to have success. Okay, Well I had four of.

do fertilize them lightly periodically. I would say a cup of fertilizer, like a lawn type fertilizer would be just fine for those and sprinkle it in a big circle and do that about every four weeks through the summer season and you will get really good fast growth. Stop fertilizing by the time you get to August.

different herbs that they grow. And I mean we're talking about, like I don't know, something like nine or more types of base alone, plus every herb you can imagine, and some you've probably never heard of that are there at Enchanted Forest. And Enchanted Forest is on FM twenty seven fifty nine. That's if you're heading toward sugar Land from Richmond. It's off to the right down that direction, okay, FM

twenty seven fifty nine. But they have fruit trees, they have roses, they have any kind of plant that attracts butterflies, whether it attracts the adults to the blooms or the larval to the foliage, they have them. In fact, when you buy one of those plants, it probably already has a caterpillar on it, because all the butterflies know to hang out there and they lay their eggs there and so you get like us, what do they call it sourdough starter when you want to do sourdough, Well, it's

like a butterfly garden starter. If you want to take a caterpillar home, they'll provide you with one if you like. It's really cool. Enchanted forest, beautiful trees and shrubs too. I'm always bragging about that spring blooming Chinese fringe tree that I love so much, and they've got those there, much much, much much more, of course, flowers, of course, hanging baskets, of course, vegetables, and on and on and on. Enchanted forest and excellent advice, people that know what they're

talking about. Go by and talk to Danny, Danny or Clay or any of the people there. They're gonna be able to help you. Yes, I said Danny twice on purpose, kind of like my brother Daryl, my other brother Daryl. Remember that Bob Newhart show. Anyway, there's two Dannys there, enchented forest, expert advice, friendly service and unbelievable selection, and a place that you just love to go hang out.

I'm surprised you don't have to run customers off because you know, you go there and it's just it's just so enjoyable to wander around looking at plants and enjoying things. All right, that's a little bit tongue in cheek, but I really mean it when it's that kind of place in Chented Forest. We're gonna go up to Pinehurst now and talk to Greg. Hey, Greg, Welcome to guard Line.

or if I should wait a couple of weeks. I've just kind of I put down my early green up a month ago, so I'm kind of past that now.

it's okay. I would probably go ahead and do it sooner rather than later, and then get it watered in real good to get it into the soil so it can go to work for you.

and they will do well here. But just keep in mind that most of the time you're going to get spring blooms and then they don't bloom until next spring. That's the more common type of climbing rows.

Ace Hardware Texas dot Com. And they're gonna have everything you need, whether it's fertilizers, we control, pest control, disease control, or just outdoor living like those great barbecue pits from Traeger and Big Green Egg and Weber and all the accessories that go with them, including power equipment and pruning tools and hoses and sprinklers and hey, if you have a beautiful yard, Acehardware Texas dot Com, find the one near you. There are a lot of them here. It

makes it really easy pretty much anywhere you live. For example, maybe you are in the Copperfield area, you got Langham Creek right there on FM five twenty nine. Maybe you are down in Bay City, well, Bay City Ace on seventh Street. If you're in Port Lavaka or Rockport, you got Ace Hardware Stores Calhoun Plaza and Port Lavaca and Kirkandaal Excuse me, I said the wrong thing. State Highway thirty five in Rockport. All right, folks, I got to go be right back all right, I am back a

little Doobie Brothers for you this morning. Ciena mulch is a place I like to talk about. And here's why. Well, here's a bunch of whys. Number One, brown stuff before green stuff. Always start with the soil, and Ciena mulch has all the things you need to make the soil.

hardwood malts, a double ground mulch. Just if you need it for the soil or on top of the soil, they've got it. That includes nutrients like microlife fertilizers. Nelson turfs are in Nelson plant food jars too. By the way, products from Medina azumite. You hear me talk about azemite all the time. And then nitrofoss nitrofoss fertilizers they deliver within twenty miles of their location, which is near Sienna. It's Highway six and two eighty eight. The specific location

is FM five twenty one. But you have to remember all that. Just go to Siena mulch dot com, Ciena maltch dot com. All of you down south Pearland, Sweetwater, First Colony, Riverstone, Rose Sharing, Fresno, Quel Valley, Lake Olympia, Sandy Point, Arcola. I will get downe you keep going. Cianna Plantation, Pomona near Brasispen State Park, that whole region, siennamulch dot com. When you start there, you end up with success. That's how that works. We're going to head

out now to Tiki Island, Texas and talk to Jeff. Hey, Jeff, how are you doing today?

on which leaves you're seeing it on. I'm kind of thinking that it's making an adjustment to some cooler conditions and maybe a little bit of soil moisture uh involved in that, and that it's going to green up and be fine. If you want to be sure, you could you could give it a little bit of a e centrius fertilization uh to get it going again. You know, if I if you're looking at a plant, would you say it's the newest growth at the end of the leaves?

More so, are the oldest growth on the late on the shoot the oldest leaves or is it just everything the whole plant is yellow?

weather they're going to get better. But if you wanted to give them a light fertilization again, I think that would be fine to do right now, Just go go kind of light on it medium total.

and where they were raised. That you know, if it's confined, they may have some salts there present in that material as well, and so just go easy on that later. But first, let's fix this problem before we start adding complications to the scenario. We're looking at ten four.

You know, green Pros serves about a forty five minute area from the Tombaugh area, so they'll go up to Magnolia and Montgomery, they'll go over to Springs, to Cyprus, the woodlands, Conroe willis up in that area and down to it ten, you know, Katie West West, areas like that, Houston. They know what they're doing. That's the bottom line. They

got high quality equipment that does a job right. And when you do compost top dressing, after you've put down or after you've done aeration, you've got a combo there that is going to open up the soil. It's going to allow water to move into the soil better, it's going to get oxygen in the root system. And I

always say brown stuff before green stuff. And usually I'm talking about gardens and flower beds and things, but that's true of lawns too, and the bronze stuff the soil that lawn turf is rooting into needs oxygen, and it needs organic and it needs nutrients and compost stop dressing following a cororation will help do that. Greenprotexts dot com. Greenprotexts dot com. That's the website. Here's a phone number eight three two three five one zero zero three two

give them a call. Just keep in mind that this is a process. It involves a lot of expensive equipment and in some cases some distance. And so depending on the size of your yard, you're probably looking at starting around the five hundred range in there, and it goes up from there depending on how far they have to haul stuff and how much area they're having to cover.

But I'm telling you it is a single best thing you can do to a lawn to bring it back, especially when they's stressed, especially when you're dealing with sol compaction in things. Correoration and compost stop dressing from Greenpro. If you are looking to purchase some new houseplants, and I hope you are, it's it is a lot of fun to have beautiful loss plants. I love the colorful

foliage type. You always want to make sure get a quality mix that we kill more houseplants with overwatering than underwatering. And the primary reason is when you have a soggy soil, roots can't get oxygen. You need a sole blend that drains well, but it holds onto moisture. Right, Plants need moisture, but they don't want to be oversaturated in this soppy, mucky goo. Jungle Land jungle Land water saving potting soil

is a product that'll do just that. Now there's a jungle Land also for outdoors, for the containers you got out there on the patio, the flour and vegetable jungle land. Either way you go, you're going to have success. Now, jungle Land's available places. Actually, Nitrophoss in general is widely available through the Eastern area, but places like Brenham and Plants and things up in Brunham, Fisher's Hardware down on Alexander in Baytown, Lake Hardware on Dixie Drive include as

well as the Lake Hardware in Angleton on Velasco. I'll be right back, hey, welcome back to Guardline. You're with us today. We are glad you're with us.

They have leaf more compost. They've got pretty much every kind of a soil for growing any kind of thing that includes uphotting soil for indoor plants that includes a cactus and succulent, kind of a gritty, grainy, really well drained mix. They've got it. That's the bottom line. Now, Porter Texas is where the product bulk is available. If you want to go get it. You can also call them and say, hey, deliver to me. Dumb it on the driveway, bring me a bunch of yards of it.

I got a lot of work to do here. Or you can be neat and clean about it and have them bring a supersac out that's a cubic yard of product. That is neat. They set the sack on the driveway, and I've done it before. It is the neatest, cleanest way you can get sold delivered to your house, and then you can go pretty much all over the Greater Houston area and find airloom soil products available in garden

centers near you. Quality garden centers carry this stuff. And that includes feed stores, that includes you know the UH plot places where you would expect to find and shop for your quality gardening supplies. Now, Airloomsoils dot Com is the website. You need to go there because they have a calculator there that is awesome. It'll tell you, like, here's a quiz question of the day and a QB car to sol how many five gallon buckets is that? Their calculator can tell you that answer. I mean, it's

a it's a really cool thing. Plus, you'll see all their different products listed and I can tell you this, I'm working my way through them. I've done pretty much. Oh, I'd say three fourths of the airloom source products so far that I've tried and has not been a one of them that hasn't performed in an outstanding way. In fact, if you come out to see me today, I'll be in UH warrants at Warren Southern Gardens out in Kingwood, Texas,

and they have a lot of heirloom cell products on hand. There, and I would encourage you to come out and check them out. It's going to be a good day. We're gonna have a good time out there. Twelve thirty to two thirty. Come on out and see me and grab you some heirloom saws while you're out there. Let's go now to Lake Palestine and talk to Nancy. Hey, Nancy, welcome to Guardline.

two and just talk to them there. Uh, they'll they'll, they'll be able to help you out, all right.

famous product. Color Star is sold across the country. Really, I mean, I was talking to Dean the other day and some other company outside the country. You got a little sample of it and tried it, and they call they go, okay, ship it. We need a bunch of it here. This stuff works well. Colorstar also has a version called color Star Plus that includes a systemic fungicide as a preventative measure, gets inside of the plant and protects a lot of disease issues. So you can go

either way with Colorstar. Colorstar or Colorstar Plus. Either way has been going on for forty years now, and it is super popular because it works, it has fast acting effects, it gets it has a number of organic nutrients sources too that help enrich that soil. So whether you're using it on annuals or perennials or flowering shrubs or anything. It's going to do well. It's going to give a slow release for about three to four months. Also, the color star plus that's one you need to look for.

That and the regular color star in jars from Nelson Plant Food. We're going to go now to Joe and Galveston. Hey, Joe, got about a half a minute left. Let's see if we can help you quick question.

gonna have you're gonna have good results with it. You don't need to fertilize it a lot, just a little bit. It likes plenty of sunlight and it needs like any aloe, it's gonna want really good drainage for it to do its best.

I ought to be hearing some music pretty quick. I am on my way to Warren's Southern Gardens, warren Southern Guards. I hope that you will come out out and see me. I love going to Warrens. It is one of my favorite places to visit. And if you live let's say you don't live over there, you need something to go do today, come across town, come on see me at these appearances. We always have people that come from pretty far outside of the area. So why not be that you?

Why not you be the one to do that. Today You're going to find at One's some gorgeous points. I want to show you the boo and BEEAs that they have as standards out there, and then the color, oh my gosh, and the hanging baskets. Hey, are you into strings? You like strings? Come on out to Warrens. They got

some really good ones out there. By the way, today you buy one hundred dollars or more of stuff, and it's going to be fifteen percent off just today while we're out there, either from twelve thirty to two thirty today fifteen percent off purchases of one hundred dollars or more out at Warren's Southern Gardens. So leave some room in the car and the pickup because you're going to want to bring some stuff back. Trust me, I'm sorry,

this gardening is addictive. I've warned you before. When you get out there, you're going to see a lot of stuff, and you can't live it out. I do every time I go. Hey, bring me samples and questions you have. BE happy to visit with you.