You're Never Finished Gardening

Katie r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's crazy, Yes, Trim just watch him as well us so many give a teas the suppotasys back again not a sound good morning, good Saturday morning on a great day for gardening, boyet today is it's gonna be a good one to get out and about. I'm your host, Skip Richter,

and you're listening to garden Line. We are a call in show. That means if you have a question about gardening and would like to call in and ask, we'd be happy to help you with that. The phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four one three two one two five eight seven four. I got some work done in the garden this week. Finally found some time to get out there and do a little bit of this, that and the other. We've got a number of projects started. You

know, one thing about gardening is you never finish. And I think that's a good thing. I mean, you could decide, well I'm done. That's that's all I'm gonna do. But I'm just saying you've got color changes. There's always a new season coming, there's new vegetables, and there's new

flowers to plant, just lots of things going on. And I think it's good to look at your landscape as an evolving palette, you know, because what we do is we paint with plants, right, and you can just set it up and try to get it to last as long as you want. I mean that's possible. But in reality, the most beautiful landscapes, and I think as a gardener, the most fun is when you're changing some things out periodically. You know, don't be afraid to pull out shrubs and

put new shrubs in. Shrubs get too big, sometimes they overgrow, or a new variety comes out, a new species comes out that you just think will more enhance the property look better. They'll be afraid to do that. Certainly, we do that with flowers and shrubs and vegetables. I mean, you know that's common, but why not consider some re vamping on your landscape on one thing I think everybody needs to do more of, and that is

container color. Container gardening outside, whether you're growing vegetables or flowers, a quality container not only can be productive it can be beautiful. You move them in and out. It's a way to get almost instant bizazz to a space, whether it's a patio or coming up the front walk. However you want to do it. Hanging baskets, it's another way. By the way, if you're doing that, you can fill those containers with jungle Land, a

product distributed by Nitrophos. Jungle Land is a quality swim mix. It drains well, but it also holds moisture, so it allows you to not have to water so often, but also to make sure you don't have that soggy, gummy, gunky wet condition that's so hard on plant roots. Jungle Land is designed for that with Canadian blonde pete and organic matters. Got microhizo fungi in it to help with the root system. And you're going to find jungle

Land by the way. I'm talking about the flour and vegetable planting version. There's also an indoor version, but you're going to find it at Bearings Hardware on Bissonette and Westheimer out in Richmond, at Plantation Ace Hardware. You'll find it there as well as Hiding and Feed up on Stubner Airline. We're going to jump right into the phones this morning and go to Hockeley and talk to Ruthie. Hello, Ruthy, do we have a Ruthie today? All right,

I think it would. Let's see here. I'm going to put Ruthie back on hold that all right, just one second, we'll get your hare Ruthie. There we go. I heard of Ruthie. Oh oh, oh good, I hear you. Now. I recently found a Peggy Martin rose growing wild in one of our unimproved pastures on our ranch. So I took up a couple of branches that had just started rooting. I cut off another branch. I need your thoughts on how to help it root and will it

survive. A couple of ways to go about it. You can take cuttings and root the cuttings you need to deplement a rooting hormone. You need short little cuttings, maybe four to six inches long at the most six that you take the leaves off the bottom third or half of the cutting and dip it in the rooting hormone and put it in a moist medium with a cover over it to keep air from escaping, kind of a greenhouse like cover. It could be saran wrap, or it could be a upside down Mason jar.

Whatever works for you. Okay, that works. What's better since it's growing in your pasture. Or would be to take a branch from it, bend it down toward the ground, and then bend the branch so that it cracks not breaks off. But it's more like your elbow. You know, your arm is attached to your shoulder. Your elbow moves, but it's still attached. And put that belt, put that elbow under the soil, or put it on a prong out there. Do something to hold it down. It

could be a coat hanger, pin in the ground. It could be a big rock setting on it. Keep it moist. You're going have to go out there about every two ny days and wet that area, and after a while it will root. And that's a higher person success. By the way, realthy, that is not a Peggy Martin. That's something else, because if it came from a seed from you know, pollination, unless someone took a Peggy Martin and planted it out there, that is some other kind of

rose. But it may look a lot like Peggy Martin. Yeah, it looks exactly like Peggy Martin. We used to have some rent houses out there, so I'm thinking that somebody planted it. I don't know anyway, I just it's beautiful. I want to get it to root, and so this helps. There you go, Okay, good luck with that. Perfect Thank you so much. You bet, thanks a lot, good ie, appreciate it. Well, let's see here a little bit of information there. It

is kind of interesting. I want to just mention a couple of other things we I was in ace Heart Restored the other day looking at some of the materials that they had on hand. I bought a actually this is not really related to gardening, but I bought one of those little things you hook to your garden hose and spray off the sidewalk. You know, it's kind of like a powerwasher, but on a garden hose end. If you can, try to put those two together. And was just cleaning off the side sidewalk.

We'd had a bunch of soil delivered, and I'd been moving it around doing some things and just cleaning it all off. But while I was in there, I just again noticed how much product they carry. When you're thinking about things like fertilizers and pesticides, we control insect disease, all of that kind of thing. When you're looking at all of the different things you need to go with your gardening, it's there. It's at ACE. ACE is the place for that. And right now, ACE is a place to go

in and get your fire ant control. You need to start with a fire ant bait. ACE is going to have more than one brand a fire ant bait that work well. The fire ant bait is put out a very low rate all over your property. And then a couple of weeks later, any mounds that have not been shut down, you know you kick the top off and no ants come out, that means you did it well. Any mounds you missed, just use a mound drench and acessos as well for you.

They've got mosquito control and boys at ever time to get on the mosquitos in the yard. Ace is a place for anything you need. It's easy to find. Go to Acehardware dot com and you'll find with their store locator. They're on the Acehardware dot Com website over forty store forty stores here actually in the Greater Houston area, making it easy for you to find one that's really

really close to you. We're gonna take a little break. We'll be right back our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, this is going to be a day to get outside, get some stuff done. It is always a good day for gardening. I've said this before. If you listen to guard Line, you've probably heard me say that even on a rainy day, sleading hail outside everything all the above, well,

you can still garden inside. You can start transplants for outdoors. You can root cuttings. We're just talking to Ruthy about rooting some cuttings on a rose a minute ago. You can start seeds for example. You can take care of your houseplants. You can divide them, you can repot them. That there's always something to be doing when you like to grow things, and boys are ever always something to grow. So many plants, so little time.

That's one of the things I tell you. Those of us that are plant collectors were dangerous because if there's a plant we don't have, we got to have it, and we already filled our yard up. I mean, for crying out loud, the place looks like a bomb went off in a garden center and everything rooted where it landed. That's what a plant collector's yard looks like. I'm sorry, it just is Hey, it's your yard, do

what you want. And then you got the folks that are the you know, they're into the beauty and the design, and they may even hire somebody to come out and lay it out and make it all beautiful and gorgeous. And yeah, that's wonderful your own little botanical garden, however you want to go about it. Speaking of a botanical garden, if you want to create one, you need to drive over to Plants for All Seasons. I was by there, oh gosh, about a week ago, and it is amazing

the color that they have right now. I mean, the place is just from the time you walk in, you are just walking past rows and layers of flowers, you know, roses on standards and all kinds of things, vines, you know that Lamanda's amanda villas, and you've got things like tropical

aubiscus. You've got a beautiful annual flower for containers for beds, You've got vegetables and herbs, and just go by and you see what I'm talking about and if you've been there before, you know they always keep stocked up plants for all seasons. That's the garden Center if you haven't been there. If you're going north toward Tomball on Highway two forty nine, we call it Tomball

Parkway. When you get to Luetta, you exit Luetta and go right across the Luetta stay on the feeder road and it's right there on the right hand side, easy to find, easy to get in and out, and always there. You're going to find two, well, several things, but two very important things. Is a great selection of plants that want to grow here and staff that know what they're talking about, and they can direct you to the plant that fits the situation you need a plant for. Is it shady,

is it sunny, is it well drained or not? Do you want color or are you looking for produce? They can point you to the right things plants for all seasons. The website just go by their plants for all seasons. Dot Com two eight, one, three, seven, six, sixteen forty six makes it easy when you go someplace and they've got what you're needing. They've got exactly what you're looking for. I think that's important. And I've talked about these kind of things before here on Guardline that you know,

you can go a lot of places and buy plants. You can, they may or may not be four here. It drives me nuts to go into places that sell plants that absolutely won't grow here. They just won't. They not a long term it's a long term disappointment. Or to go into places where people don't know what they're talking about. They just absolutely don't. And I mean I'm not knocking the people. I mean they for crying out loud. They were They're just looking for a job, to someplace to work

right, and good for them. But when you're going in wanting knowledge about what does this pest control product do? Or what will kill our ants? Or how do I prevent a weed? Or what is a good fertilizer and how do I use it? And on and on and on, when do you print this plant? All that kind of stuff. Our independent garden centers

are mom and pot nurseries. That's the way to go. And I'm telling you, in the long term, it is much more economical to go to a place that knows what they're talking about, where you get the right plant and you do it once and you have success than it is to do this, you know, shopping around with people that just don't know what they're doing, places that just don't know what they're selling, and so on. Anyway, I gripe about that a lot, but it's a soapbox for me.

And there is a great value in having a local business that's been here a while that knows what they're talking about. I mentioned earlier. You know Ace Hardware having mosquito control products, and you know, mosquito dunks is one of those products that mesquite to dunks or the little formed a little like mini donuts if you will, that you put out there in water and they release a mosquito disease. Is that cool or what? Now, this disease won't hurt

birds, It won't hurt the family cat or dog. It is just something that gets mosquitoes. And it's a form of BT actually different than the caterpillar form. But it will release that and it will last for a month or more. And one dunk covers one hundred square feet of water surface. They also have a little granular form of it as well, mosquito bits. But the dunk as it dissolves, it's releasing that bacterium, and it's making sure you're not a skeeter breeder at your place. By the way, you should

check underneath your pots, those little catch basins. Dump those out the bird baths, blast the water out, get some fresh water in there, because mosquito larva can transform really fast. If you've got gutters that are sagging and they tend to hole water. It does not take much water at all. I mean a mosquito literally a little thumbleful of water, especially once it's got some decaying organic matter in it. They really love that. They can go

through their life cycle in there. So you need to watch for that. Holes in trees and other things watch out for that. But mosquito dunks is the safest, simplest product in the world to use. Just use it and help avoid being a skeeter breeder. Once they're flying around, then we're having to get other kinds of pesticides to spray them and kill them and whatnot.

Why not just shut them down at the source. With mosquito dunks widely available every independent nursery that I've been talking about, the feed stores that I've been talking about, and ace hardware stores, they're going to have the mosquito dunks Mosquito season. Boy, is that ever? Is that ever? A fun

time in the south right? You know, they discovery We've already had some reports around different parks of Texas here colluding the mosquito capital of the world down southeast Texas of certain kinds of human diseases that have been discovered already mosquitoes. You know, everybody knows about things like malaria, you know when they built the Panama Canal and we're dealing with that. There's West Nile virus and several

other different kinds of human diseases that are vectored by mosquitos. You do not need those things put in their mouth parts in you so garden line quiz, what is the first and most important step if you're gonna have success with plants? The answer is, I'll go ahead and give you the answer. The soil, the soil, the soil, the soil, brown stuff, then green stuff. That is the simple abc of success with gardening. Brown stuff

and then green stuff. Yes you need fertilizer, Yes you need sunlight and drainage and all that, but you start with the soil and heirloom soils has created blend designed for success with whatever you're going to want to grow. For example, they're veggie and herb mix one hundred and nineteen dollars a cubic yard. You can go buy it and bulk up at the border location. You

can have them deliver it to you. You can have them deliver it and not just dump it on the driveway, but bring one of their supersacks in. It's a cubic yard in a sack. They set on your driveway, nice and neat and clean. They have a fruit berry and citrus mix, they have a leaf, more composts. They have a wide variety of different options. They also have them in bags and they're widely available in bags. There's lots of different places carry heirloom soils now far and wide, even beyond

the Greater Houston area. Airloom soils is quality soils so that you can have success with your plants. When the roots hit the ground and they're growing in an airloom soil mix, they're going to proliferate. And if the roots are happy, the drainage is good, the water holding capacity is there, that plant's going to be set up for success. And it all starts with a quality earline blend in the soil. Don't buy a plant, take it home

and PLoP it down into an unprepared plot. That's my Peter Piper. Don't PLoP a plant into an unprepared plot. Get a quality mix like an airlom soil, put it in the ground. Give that plant a chance to have success. I see so many I see it at shopping centers, you know, a garden center rather where someone is buying a flat of plants. And I've seen this so many times play out because they call me later, they go home, they walk around the yard going where am I going to plant

these things? And then they finally just sort of scratch back the weeds and till the soil just a bit or spade it, and then put the plants in. And by the time we hit summer, there's already weeds and they're getting tired of it and mowing over the whole thing because they didn't have success.

And that's why we need a cooling off period for purchasing plants. Know, any of you who work for a garden center probably are not going to be favor of this law, But just from a plant survival standpoint of society for the prevention of cruelty to plants feels this way. You know, you go buy a plant and the cashier says, did you prepare your soil first? And it's like, no, I'm going to take this flat and set it down here behind me, and you come back when your soil is ready

and you can purchase these plants. Well, it would end up creating a mess, but it would sure be good for the plants and for our goals of having produce and beauty and whatnot in the garden and the landscape. Too many people don't prepare. Too many, don't you know. A quality turf fertilizer like sweet Green. Sweet Green, by the way, is from nitrofost

nice. Sweet Green is a product made based on molasses and microbes. So microbes are part of the factory that makes the Sweet Green, and a product like Sweet Green gives your lawn a good boost of nitrogen that also stimulates biological activity. When you put anything like a molasses, a sugar based, a carbohydrate based product onto the soil, microbes are stimulated, especially the beneficial bacteria that are out there in the soil, and Sweet Green does that. Sweet

Green is eleven percent nitrogen. That is a lot for an organic, natural type of nitrogen. You're going to be able to find it at an enchanted forest done in Richmond. If you're up in Willis, go to Growers Outlet. They've got sweet Green there. And if you're anywhere around the Houston area, RCW Nurseries, which is on Tomball Parkway where it comes into belt Way eight, they've got Sweet Green there. And by the way, I'm going

to be there today. I'm going to be at RCW Nurseries after the show from eleven thirty to one thirty, and I'm going to tell you more about it as we go through the show. But let me just say this, they are having an unbelievable event. I mean, we're talking about barbecue stuff that drink there. They are going to have percent off of roses and Japanese maples, Fi techs, the Cajun hibiscus, one of my favorite hibiscus, and even citrus trees. There's a lot of other giveaways. I'm gonna be

giving away some asmit and some tree stabilizers while I'm there. But anyway, while you're there, pick up your sweet Green. They're going to have sweet Green of course available because one of the places that carries sweet green. Well, there you go. That is that is what you need to be doing today. I hope you're sitting there and making your calendar for what you're going to do this afternoon. It needs to start with coming by to see me

at RCW Nursery. By the way, when you're there, you can register for a one hundred dollars gift certificate. So in addition to us just given stuff away all day and twenty percent off all these plants, one hundred dollars gift certificate. Oh my gosh, I know what I would do with them. Well, this could work out really well. You could do any immediate gardening work that you have to get done, do that early, and then go see you and then the rain will be coming. So it's all planning.

It's all good. You got it. You gotta get it in order. Nicky's got to figure it out right there. Well, I'm gonna take a break and hand the microphone over to NICKI our phone number if you'd like to give Josh callin. Get on the board seven one three two one two k t R H. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with us today. We are here to talk about gardening. Here is the number. You'll need to write this down so you can give us a call.

Seven one three two one two k t R eight seven one three two one two k t R. H Uh. Dandy Feed Up in Tomball is kind of a one stop shop for a lot of things. Of course you are a feed store. They're gonna have quality livestock feed, quality pet food for example, very very high quality lines of pet food. They're gonna have everything else you need for your garden and landscape. Uh. The fertilizers you hear me talking about here, they've got those. They've got those. They

carry plants. There's a lot of beautiful little plants they bring in seasonal out front, different kinds of things. If you need pest disease and weed management products, they've got that. And it's just easy to swing in and out there on twenty nine to twenty just west Tomball, head out that way. Uh. They always are getting shipments of new I say always, especially during

this season spring season. Shipments of chicks coming in all the time. If you need If you and I have backyard chickens and you want a selection of dozens of different breeds of all kinds of things, they've got that there at D and D feed includes, of course the feed and the little setups that you need to get started. Here's a phone number, give them a call to eight one three five one seventy one forty four two eight one three five

one seven one four four. We are now going to head out to Livingston and talk to Dwayne. Hello, Dwayne, good morning morning. I'm having a problem with the leaves just spraying off my plants as fast as they I thought I had a problem with beer and put cages on them, and they're still disappearing as fast as they grow. What kind of plant? Fruit? Trees? Oh? Really? Yes? And you've actually lost my trees died last year because of it, and so I planted new trees and the same

things happening again this year. And I'm like, oh my god, what's the problem. So you've looked over them and you don't see any caterpillars hiding under leaves or anywhere around there. I can't find anything. People have even suggested going out there with the flashlight at night. Some of the stuff is nocturnal, and yes, I don't see anything then, and I'm like,

what the heck is going on? So that was my next suggestion. You know, there's also leafcutter ants that will work at night and you go to bed and the trees got leaves on it, you wake up in the morning, they're all gone. That leaf cutters can do that, but there typically you should see trails along the ground where they're carrying those leaves off to their their mound somewhere and they car they can go some distance. Yeah, the mound's not going to be right around that plant. Uh So I would I

would go back out at night try that again. But again you should notice in the ground there's just some little pathways, you know, as they kind of go back and forth through there, you can kind of see a little bit of a trail where they're doing their work. But h I that's what I would suggest, depending on what you find doing. You know, if it was a caterpillar or a beetle feeding, we would use certain kinds of

pesticides to spray on the on the plant. If it is a leaf cut around, then you're going to go to a certain kind of bait to try to control those bait. Really Okay, somebody has suggested some mile die on and it seems to have helped, But now the leaves are wilton and call another problems. I think, Okay, well, we got to figure out what's do it first. And if you got them caged and deer can't get there, then it's going to be a bug of some kind. Yes,

and my best guess is leaf cutter Aunt. But I would go out and look over those plants, turn leaves over, look around a lot of times. Caterpillars are the same color as the undersides of the leaves, and they're kind of hard to find. But if you don't find any caterpillars or beetles and you go out at night with a flashlight, you ought to be finding something because they got to be eating sometime of the day, and I bet

it's at night. Okay, I'll check it out. Yeah, and if you do, if you do end up finding the leaf cutter Aunt, just let me know and we'll we'll come up with a good solution for you on that. Yeah, I'll call you back on that one. The other quick question I had is a plant in some pecan trees and I had mixed some

store bought manure in the dirt and they don't seem to be sprouting. And someone told me that they could kill the roots if you put if you put anything in the ground that's too potent, like dry granular salt based fertilizer or straight manure kinds of stuff that can burn roots. But just a moderate amount is okay mixed in with the soil. But generally we don't put anything in the planting hole. We just added to the surface and let rain take take

the nutrients down into the soil. Yeah, I guess I missed up on that one. Yeah, it's okay, okay, I appreciate them, all right, sir, Good luck, Thank you, Yes, sir, you take the day you as well. You as well those of you up in the Montgomery area. Your hometown garden center is right there on the east edge of town on one oh five is a NA Plants and Produce. Now an A has been there a long time. I mean the family has has been

right there in that location, formerly called it Flora's Produce out there. Uh. And it's just the kind of garden center you go in and you're always going to find something going on. I tell you another thing I really like about A and E. They are so involved in the community. Every time you turn around, they're doing some kind of program for kids. They're going to some school and doing something. They just are very active in their community,

and I think that that is really admirable. The other thing is if you need any kind of a work done out there in the Lake Conroe area, in one of those neighborhoods like April Sound and Walden and on and on, we'll give them a call. Find out about the landscape crew coming out and doing some clean up around the house. Doing a little bit of work

around the house. They can do that. When you're at Ana, you're going to find every fertilizer I talk about, and I mean nitrofoss and Nelson and microlife, and you're going to find airloom soils in nature's way, leaf mole compost, both the fine and the course types of it. Ana stays stocked up and it's just the kind of place you go to grab what you

need to get the work done. Today'd be a good time to go out and get that done because we've got some rain coming up here at least they predict a little bit, So go ahead and get your supplies so you're ready to go. You can get that law and fertilized, get those beds worked on and definitely get some plants to really turn your place around. Go out now to Cypress and we're going to talk to Ed. Hello, Ed,

good morning morning. I've got a couple of river birch trees that were planted about two years ago, okay, and last year they're leafed out by now, and they look really good. They're about ten to twelfth with tall and this year. You know, they come in groups of three trunks, and on one of them two the trunks are leafed out, and then one is not, and then on the other only one of the trunks is okay. You know, different things can cause a river birch or any country like that

to have a die back. Certainly last summer was brutal on them, and it could have taken them down to a point where they just went ahead and you lost that trunk. But what I would do before you give up on it, give it a little more time, Ed, but also go up there with your thumbnail or pocket knife and scrape back the outer bark on some smaller branches. See if it looks kind of a creamy to light green healthy color underneath or right under the bark, or if it is just paper sack

brown, pecan brown. You know, that means that branch is dead. And so just work your way from the outer part of the tree down in toward the trunk and see if you find any life in it. But I would give them a little more time. They may still come back. But there's also a good chance that for some reason, at least part of that trunk has been killed back. So I'll just work myself down and then cut it at the point where it looks like it's still light, right where dead

is dead, and so you might as well take dead out. But just when you find life, uh, that tells you where to prune. Another thing you can do is just give it another few weeks and you should see some sprouting somewhere if there's life in it. And when you do, that tells you back where to prune. Back to Okay, because on one of them, the one that only has one trunk, yeah, where it's actually leaped out on the smaller branches, uh, there's some sprouts coming out,

you know, closer to the ground. Yeah, trump, Yeah, And you can do that. You can take out the tree if you have to take out a trunk and use some of those sprouts. One or two maybe uh to uh make new trunks coming up from that area, but that that would be a strategy. But that's gonna be a little further down the road before you make that kind of a decision. But I wish you, I wish you luck with it, and thank you, Ed. I appreciate appreciate

your call very much. Thank you. We're gonna take a little break here. Seven one three two one two k t r H is the number. Welcome back to guard Line. Good to have you with us today. Hey, we are glad listening. Gardening is a fun hobby, and I think another fun thing is getting to visit with other gardeners. I enjoy. I enjoy listening to gardening. Yeah. I do listen to gardening radio shows and TV shows too, by the way, and I enjoy visiting with gardeners.

You always learn something that is just true. You never gardener keeps you young. Thomas Jefferson said, though I am an old man, I am, but a young gardener. Good man, good smart. That was a smart thing to say, because I'm telling you this, it is I think the best hobby in the world. I just really, of course enjoy it. And it's not just because I do this on the radio. I do this on the radio and I've became a County Agrolfe Extension Horticultures for thirty six year

career because I love it. I love doing gardening. I love interacting with plants and people. Gardeners are good folks. They just are a lot of fun being around gardeners. We're talking about river birches a minute to go with the ed And you know, if you're looking for quality trees, any kind of a tree that you want to plant, Verdant Tree Farm has got you covered. The folks at Verdant they have a wide selection of the kind of trees you want to grow here, things that do well. It's the largest

tree farm inside the Houston area. The Greater Houston are here. Verdant Tree Farm has palm trees, they have deciduous trees and evergreen trees, large shrubs, certain kinds of hollies for example, that you might want. They can get you fixed up on all of that. Now, there's three locations. There's the West Houston location out on barker Cypress, the Broadway Street location down in pair Land, and the location in the Heights where Yellownite ten come together.

So whether it's cold hardy trees you're looking for, drought resistant trees you're looking for, do you need some help, a little bit of in office consultation, little design consultation. They can work with you on that. They're happy to you pick out your tree, they tag it. You get to pick the one by the way you want, They tag it, they bring to your house, they plant it, and if they plant it, they

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Hello, Sally, good morning. I have I have Ammarillis bulbs that have the strong stalk with the flowers blooming flowers at the end. Can I move those to another bed right now? You know, if you have to go ahead and do it if you can, wait a little while, let the blooms be done, and let those leaves have some sunlight for a while to kind of replenish the reserves. That would be better and avoiding having them

get out of sink on their bloom cycle. But but yes, either way, wait if you can, and you mean, wait till the blooms die, or wait till the stalk gets mushy and well to the to the blooms die back, and then give them, give them a few weeks after that if you can. But it comes down to, you know, like if it were in my house and say, you know what, I can redo that later in the year, Well then wait and do it in the fall, you know. But if you need to get it moved now for whatever

reason, go ahead and do it it. Just like I said, when you catch a bulb and you haven't given it a chance post bloom to replenish its reserves, it has to kind of get back in line and you know, recover from that before it can go back into blooming. Right, But I won't, but I won't kill the bulb. You will not kill the bulb. No, okay, all right, thank you, all right,

thanks you for the call. Appreciate that very very much. When you're thinking about soil blends and all kinds of different options and some really unique options. Landscapers supply, you know, they've always been local, the Landscaper's supply, Landscapers. What am I saying? Landscaper's Pride, My gosh, where'd that come from? Landscaper's Pride is always local. They always have top quality resources.

They've got twenty seven different bag products. It's kind of a one stop shop with them because and you just need to go to a Landscaperspride dot com to see what I'm talking about. But they have got the premium potting soil mix, a very high quality mix for indoor or outdoor plants. It's got color Star fertilizer to give it three months of feeding. So you buy the mix, you've already got the fertilizer in it. You're ready to go for

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the right product for what you need. We're going to head now out to Meadow Place and talk to Jim. Hello Jim Hello, skip quick question. I followed all the schedule this year. I got two applications of barricade. Then I put down the sweet green and Asa mic and after the sweet Green, I had an outbreak of cocker burs. Well, I treated them all with weed beater, knocked them all down. I got about, like I said, about ten brown spots in the yard where I treated. My question

is just wait for the Saint Augustine, which is doing great. Yeah, to come back put the nineteen four to ten down after they came out and after I treated them, And I'm just wondering what a little has to grow for law or something helped those brown spots recover. Well, I mean you can't you can do that. The nineteen four ten is going to give you a very long drawn out even feeding over time. So you're set up for about three months, four months maybe with all that you've been doing in there

for that. If you wanted to use a has to grow for lawn, you could do that as well to get a real fast boost to those plants, just to get a little quicker boost out of it than the slow release would do. But in general you don't have to do both. But there's nothing wrong if you want to do that for the purposes you just described to me. Well, about how long would it take for the spots to recover? There's there's Saint Augustine left in the areas where I knocked the cockle burs

out. Yeah. As a general guide, assuming everything's in good shape, I would say that if you've got Saint Augustine spriggs that are a fourth foot apart, that'll cover over by the time we get into midsummer, you should be covered over by the way on the hast grow lawn. That is a good fertilizer to use. But Medina has a new one and it's called has

to Grow super Grow Plus. It's a sixteen zero two and it also hooks up to your hose end and you just water your lawn with it, apply it that way and eighteen percent of the nitrogen is slow release, but it also has you know, the immediate release, so you could go either way, the has to Grow lawn for a little bit faster release or the has to Supergrow Plus. That's a lot of words, isn't it. Okay, Well, appreciate the appreciate that comments. All right, you take care,

Thank you very much. You bet good luck with that. What was the last time you were out to Enchanted Forest out in Richmond. If you've never been, you need to go by the way. I suspect you've been. But in Jenny Forest, Richmond, I was out there just a few weeks ago. They are just one of those destination nurseries. You walk in and you just look up and you go, oh my gosh, it's gonna be fun, and it is. It absolutely is. They have the widest selection

of all kinds of things. When I was out there last time, all their butterfly attracting plants they were everywhere, and oh my gosh it was there were monarch caterpillars on them. There was gopherdillary caterpillars out there on the passion vines and pipevines, swallowtails on the pipeline. It just it's just a great place to go. And if you want a butterfly garden, they have really got you covered. They even give you a caterpillar take home with the plant

if they got one there on the plants. Where is this place? Well? And Jennet Forest is on FM twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, So if you're in Richmond Rosenberg that direction and you're heading up towards sugar Land, it's off to the right, Okay, it's down south of Highway fifty nine and Jenna Forest. Richmond always has things going on. Every time you turn around, there is something happening. There's a program out there on an introduction

to herbalism. Someone from the Houston Botanic Guards going to be out there talking about how to use herbs in just in lives in general. They always have food trucks going on. You just need to go go to the website. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Jenniforce, Richard, TX dot com. We're going to cut that off here for today or for this hour.

It's time to go to a little break for the news. I just want to remind you this afternoon or this morning actually after the show, from eleven thirty to one thirty, I'm going to be at r CW Nurseries that's up there where Tamaa Parkway comes into Beltwegh eight. It's really easy to get to r c W Nursries. I'm going to be giving away four bags, four forty four pound bags of as Andi. I'm going to give them away four of those three sixty three stabilizers. Just come by and look at one.

You just need to see what I keep trying to describe them to you on the air. Come look at one. They're going to be given. We're going to be getting four of those away. Twenty percent off Roses, Japanese Maples by Techs, Cajun, Hibiscus, Citrus. Register to win a one hundred dollars gift certificate and a lot more. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with scip Rictre. It's so trim, just watching as so

many things. The supers not a side. Alrighty, we're back here on Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. What are we going to talk about today? You tell me that's what this is about. This is a call in show. You get to decide what we're going to talk about today. But so do I. I've got a few things I want to I want to visit about. I was looking through some of the past products that I've used and different things that I've done, and stuff you know in

the art. I always experiment with the folks that want to be a garden line retailer. I take the products, try them out, see how they're working, get experience with them. Because if I'm going to sit here and tell you that something works, well, I gotta know that it works, you know, I need there's a different way. I mean, I can look at research that has been done that shows something works. I can look at my own experiences with it, try it out, get a feel for

it. I'm doing that with a bunch of different products right now and just seeing how they do. Because I'm not gonna put my name on it in terms of saying I recommend this if I don't think that it is, if I don't know that it's going to do well for you, I also talk to other people that I trust, your friends and others who I know will take a good, appropriate look at something and make sure that it does work.

You know, it's important when we're evaluating things that we evaluate them with a clear, open mind, and we do it in a way that helps us compare apples to apples rather than apples to oranges, as they say. So for example, if you went out and you had three tomato plants, and this year you decided, you know what, I'm gonna let me say, I'm gonna take some vanilla extract and I'm going to squirt it on this one plant, but on the other two and that plant that year produced more

than the other two, or maybe it died. Are you going to blame the vanilla extract on that? Well, most people would, but that's not a replicated trial. I mean, there are enough variations doing nothing to those three plants. You're going to see variations in how they perform and how they produce and so on. You need to do it in ways that help you really evaluate is the product I'm looking at or the home remedy in that case

I'm looking at is that is what causes the difference. And that has always been my approach, coming from a horticulture background TEXA, A and M University and all my time with a Your Life extension dealing with researchers and whatnot. It's let's look at things and make sure they're going to work. Let's make sure that the product itself does what it says it's going to do. And

that is very important because listen, your gardening dollars are not unlimited. You earn the and you need to apply them to a product that's going to give you the goals you want. Whether it's more bountiful flowers, whether it's more bountiful produce, whether it's a more beautiful lawn or landscape. That is all very important. And so that's just a little bit of a soap box there,

but I think that that is important to keep in mind. I'm going to head out now to the Woodlands and we're going to talk to Mike. Hello, Mike A good morning, Skip. I have a couple of questions. One is about my lawn. Get a lot of poe antigraphs every year, and it seems like it just keeps, you know, every year it's worse and worse. But I've been putting out the barricade and things like that

twice a year and it just doesn't seem to go away at all. What I'm wondering, too, is when it's going to die back, because I'm getting ready to fertilize, and I'm just wondering if I'm going to be fertilizing the Poeanna. No, it's it's on its way out pretty quick. Here. It's already done its seeds, which is going to mean you've got even more of it next year. As a result, I think the key on controlling it. Barricade is a good pre emergent for broad leaf and grassy weeds.

Timing is very critical on all of these things, and that's why I put my two schedules online at gardening with Skip dot com. Have you seen the lawn pest disease and weed management schedule that's up there? Yes, Yeah, I have both fertilization and the other one. Good good. Yeah, that in what you'll see is the pre emergence in the fall. That's an October maybe early November thing. Some weeds you can apply things a little bit later, but for Poanna, I would get out in probably first week or

two of October to just make sure you get ahead of it. And you may have to do a reapplication later. It just depends on when that problem is shown up. Generally, we don't have to reapply for that. One other thing though, Mike, is we are starting to see resistance in a lot of different products to the poa Ana resistance, and so it could be that could be it. I don't want you you know, I don't want to jump to SAand oh it's resistant to barricade. I'm just saying that golf

courses deal with that. It is a bane of golf courses and they have access to a lot more products than you and I do, and they have to really, you know, work at it to avoid developing that resistance. And so that may be what's going on. If you're doing the timing right, if you're watering it in to move it into the soil before the poeanic can germinate, and it's still germinating, then you probably need to switch to a different product. Okay, well I'm getting ready to fertilize today with the

silver bag of microfoss and putting, putting, putting out the barricade. Also, yeah, okay, well another barricade now you want to go. Have you done it already this year? I did it early or like in February. I think, yeah, I'd see I would hold off until maybe next month to do it. That stuff lasts you're going to get. You should get sixty days out of the barricade pretty easily, maybe even ninety. And it just depends on how much you put out and the weather conditions and things.

But I just want to be real careful not to overdo a pre emergent herbicide in your lawn. You know, you wanted to use the right amount at the right rate, but don't you know, you get them too close together and you can run into some issues with that. So but yeah, I thought it was I thought it was on the schedule for for this month to do. Yeah, And here's the problem. Here's the problem on that

schedule. If you look, I've got this wide from mid January through February for doing a pre emergent, and then I've got a wide band from about mid April through the end of June for doing it again. But it kind of depends the reason there's that band there. Like you if you didn't put the first one out until let's say the end of February, well, then you wouldn't do the next one in mid April. You see what I'm saying. Those are too close together. So where in the first band do you

apply it? You apply it that then again in the second band. That way, That's what I'm trying to say. So okay, all right, yeah, I can hold up on that. But the sixth the Silver Bag nineteen four ten, that's an excellent choice. Okay, good, all right. My next question was about a magnolia tree that I have. It was planted we bought a new house and it was planted by the builder. Which

it's been going real well, okay, very tall and looking. It looked good for many years, but now it seems like it's losing a lot of lead and I'm seeing some some bare branch. Yeah, I know, I've had it fertilized. Yeah, I know what you're saying, Like, Hey, Mike, I'm sorry, I've got to go to a break, but let's pick that up. This is your story on the Magnolia is a familiar one, and we'll let's talk about that right after the break. Thank you

for be impatient on this, and we'll be right back. Welcome back to Guardenline. Good to have you with us. Hey, we're going to go straight back to visit with Mike about Uh let's see, what were we switching over to Mike. A Magnolia tree. Okay, man, Yeah, you know, last summer the heat and the drought was unbelievable on Magnolia's. I've never seen the amount of magnolia loss we had that we did last summer. Uh, entire trees gone, sections of trees gone. In some cases.

Uh. Sometimes it's minor and the tree recovers and you're okay. Sometimes it's so disfiguring that you kind of go, ok well, I have life there, but is that going to be an acceptable tree when I get through printing all the dead out? And that's that's the tough call at this point. So, well's got moisture, We've been getting some rain, so we're kind of out of the woods. It's just a matter of the tree being able to get back on its feet. Though again it's this isn't a particular disease

or insect causing what you're describing. Okay, yeah, it's just losing a lot, a lot of leaves. Yep. Yeah, well now you say losing, uh, it's still leaves that are out are dropping now, yes, okay, there is a Yeah, there is a spring drop that happens on magnolias, and that's where older leaves fall off as new growth comes on. Are you seeing new shoots and new leaves coming on or is or is that not happening? I believe I am. It's even blooming some. I'm

getting some big white ballooms on it. Okay, yeah, that's what made me think it was, you know, probably healthy. Yeah, but well, the amount of leaves that are coming off is just more than I've seen, yeah, in the past. Sometimes when a plant gets weakened, it leads to other issues coming in. And now maybe a secondary issue has come in and is affecting it. But there's not something that I can tell you go spray this, go fertilize with that or anything. Just adequate soil moisture

for now, moderate amount of fertilizer is fine. Just use a lawn fertilizer that does not have a weed control in it, like that nineteen four ten super turf that you're talking about. That that would be a good one to put out because it's going to gradually feed that tree over time. You can

take your thumb and about waist high. How thick is the trunk if it's you know whatever, the number of inches thick that the trunk is, that's how many cups of that fertilizer to put out for if you're using the nineteen four ten. Okay, okay, I'll keep an eye on it and see. Yeah, I'll keep an eye on it and see how it's doing. But I see more and more dead branches, and you know, places where

there's no leaves on it anymore where there used to be. Well, take a thumbnail on the small branches or a little knife blade as they get a little larger, straight back, just the surface and look underneath it it on me, creamy white or light green. If it's not, that branch is not coming back to life. So go ahead and take it out. Yeah, most of them are too high to work. Yeah, okay to them all right, let's give it a little more time. I think hopefully I'll

do that all right, Thank you, Mike, appreciate that call. Yeah, that's super curved from nitrofoss is excellent as a lawn fertilizer, but it's just a good fertilizer. It's got half the nitrogen in that slow release form, so you know, you put it out and you get a gully washer rain, it's not all gone. I mean, the particles don't just dissolve away like you know salt or sugar, wood and water and just wash away. They're going to be there and that product is going to be continuing to

feed your lawn over time, including with a little bit of iron. A four percent iron I think is what they put in there. That helps with the greening as well. And you can find this product and many night Fosh products. It plants for all seasons. On two forty nine. You're going to find about in Brenham if you're out that way at plants and things in that direction. Ospose As up in the Woodlands also carries night Fosh products like

the silver bag the super turf. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two, five, eight, seven four. For those of you anywhere around the Heights, you already know about Buchanan's plants. Buchanans has been one of our destination garden centers for a very long time in the Heights. The description to me as you

drive up there, it's on Eleventh Street. You drive in and it's like, I think of a term bungalow, you know where you have a little house that's kind of secluded in, And I think this is like a bungalow of a center where you walk in and it's like you've entered another world, and you know, the beautiful shade trees and things, and just so many kinds of plants. They buchan As native plants. They specialize in native plants.

That is what they absolutely are most known for. But listen, by the way, they're having an Earth Day weekend sale thirty percent off all their Texas native trees. They're all the native Texas trees thirty percent off. They absolutely have the best selection you're going to find. I mean, I you know, the roughly dogwood for example, that's not when you see a lot some of the native types of the a sycamore and the pine for example,

and then red oaks and just many, many many options there. At Buchanans you can also find shade plants. Gosh, their collection of kalladiums right now is unbelievable. You want to brighten the shade, that'll do it for you for sure. If I talk about a fertilizer on garden Line, they're going to have it there. If I talk about a soil type of a soil blend on Gardenline, they're going to have those there as well. It just it's your one stop shop. Go to Buchanansplants dot com Buchanans Plants dot com

and check them out. You're going to find everything you need to have success, as well as very knowledgeable staff that will guide you to exactly the plant to fit the situation that you need. Love that about them, love that about them. You're listening to Gardenline. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four and that makes it real easy. Give us a call. Let's

talk about what you are interested in. If you're doing containers outdoors or indoors. Jungle Land is a soil blend that absolutely provides. It's the key components of success in a container, and that is it needs to drain away the excess water, but it also needs to hold water well, not just drain

everything away. And jungle land, whether it's the outdoor vegetable and flour planting soil or the indoor potting soil that has water saving crystals in it, the jungle land water saving potting soil for indoor plants, both of them work very very well. I like the crystals inside because you know how it is, you got a plant off er on the corner and you forget the water and next thing you know, it's kind of wilting. Well, this kind of

helps make it a little more forgiving. Let's say the soil's got your back when you forget the water for a little bit. You can get jungle land and other types of nitrophus products at many places. For example, up in Kingwood at the ACEH Hardware Store, they've got it there. Up in Tombol at the arbor Gate Shades of Texas, out in southeaston on Genoa Red Bluff, all examples of places where you can find your jungle land product. I

am re potting some things that I have at the house right now. We've got a number of plants that are kind of on hold, waiting on me to get a bid ready for them, and so some of them I'm having to bump up a little bit because I don't know, they just go dry every day before I can get water to them again, because a big plant

and a small container and that's not a good combination. So they're probably at home right now, going to get off the radio and get home and take care of us for crying out loud, or we're going to start telling people what we look like at your house when you don't take care of us. If you live down in League City, your hometown feed store is a League City feed. League City Feed has been around for over forty years. The

Thunderbergs have run that. I think we're on the third generation of Thunderbergs now running it. You know, Wes and Madison and they just really a family deal there at League City Feed. It's that hometown feed store where you find every product you're gonna need. And that includes all the fertilizers I talk about. It includes all the things you need for pest disease and weak control. It includes premium pet food. It includes things for your backyard chickens you need.

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Two eight one three three two one six one two two eight one three three two one six one two. I know I was in League City the other day visiting with Madison, and I noticed that they have a really good stock of micro life right now. You know that includes the humans plus sets a zero receiver for the purple bag that we put out to help with the soil. It's concentrated compost in a bag. It's the humus, the final decomposition stage of organic matter. And that's why we say concentrated compost in a

bag. They've got the green bag, the six two four, that's the one you need to be putting on your lawns now if you haven't fertilized already. Microlife six two four organic source of nutrients for your lawn. It just stocked full of microbial activity in the product itself, but it also feeds the microbes, because microbes are what takes the nutrient in a microlife product and unlocks it and releases it to the growing plants, to the soil itself. Microlife

products are widely available here. You can go to the website Microlife Fertilizer dot com and find out where to get it. But I can just say this, it's pretty much everywhere if I talk about it, you know, feed stores and ACE hardware stores and Southwest Fertilizer and just all the garden centers, and think MICROLFE fertilizer. Super easy to find, widely available, and it works. And I can say that because I've used it on my own lawn

and I know that it works. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I want to remind you I'm going to be at RCW Nursery today after the show eleven thirty to one thirty and you do not want to miss this. Listen. This is first of all, it's an appearance where you can bring samples, you can bring pictures of things you want identify, that you want diagnosed. We'll do that. But I'm going to be giving away

four bags of azimite. I'm going to be giving away four of the three sixty tree stabilizers. They're having a sale. This is incredible, this is significant. Their metal size, their yard art, their roses, they're Japanese Maples, Cajun, Hibescas, Citrus, Vitechs, all twenty percent off. They're going to be doing giveaways. They're going to give away a one hundred dollars gift certificate. Now. RCW Nurseries dot com is a website. This

is the garden Center. That's where two forty nine comes into belt Wag eight. I two forty nine comes into belt Wait eight. Come out and see me to dad. Love to meet you. I'd love to talk. I'll help you find some plants. I mean, if you look at you walk up and say I need a plant for this or that, we'll point you to the right one and get you set up. And what a great sale they're having it's time for Nikki in the news. Seven one three two one

two kt r H. I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with us today. What do we want to talk about? Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I want to tell you something I've talked about Peerscapes for a while now and the unbelievable design that they can do. If you go to the website puerscapes dot com you will see what I'm talking about. They can do anything. I mean, do you need outdoor lighting? Do you need hard scapes

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you're talking to them, you think about this. They do a really cool quality maintenance package that you can call them up and you can kind of design it for what you need. But basically they're going to come out there, are going to do seasonal color changes in the bed. Do you want to do two a year, four a year? I mean they do. You tell them they're going to put mults down, fresh molts, keep those weeds down, They're going to fertilize, They're going to do any weeding that's necessary.

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We're going to go now out to Katie and talk to Doug. Hello, Doug, good morning. Quick question for you, sir. I'm sure you've addressed this in the past. I've got a large areas in the backyard out here in the Kadi I'm in the Kadi area where what used to be grass evolved. The grass blades just kind of term, kind of a hay looking color, and we're laid down and when you rake that up, there's nothing left but dirt, no runners, no living runners. Well, what's what?

No no living runners? What's there? It just looks like, you know, dead stuff got you? Okay, Uh, it could be different things. Are these areas irregular or is there some shape to them? To the to the bear areas, Yes, I'd say it's. Looking at it, there's there's somewhat irregular, but but there, but there. It's not a bunch of small areas. There's like one big, large area and it seems like it might be slowly expanding. All right, so a couple of

things. Chinch bugs will kill grass and they can give that effect. They typically those areas are going to start off adjacent to some sort of masonry, whether it's concrete or curbs or sidewalks or rock or something like that. In the sun, you may have take our root rot. That's another thing. And then drought. Drought itself can be damaging. You just need to get that diagnosed in order to be able to know what to do so you don't

waste money on product and time. I know Katie's not super close by, but I'm going to be at RCW Nurseries today from one thirty or from eleven thirty to one thirty. If you could take some samples of the zone between healthy and dead. So go in to the edge where the grass is in between healthy and dead and get a four by four inch plug, slip it in a ziplock, get some a little bit of soil with the roots, and if you could do that in maybe two or three places, bring it

in. I've got a little pocket lens that I can look at it with and I can tell you if it's got to take our root rot on it or not, and then we can prescribe the product you need for that. Well, that the large area in the back, it's it's not adjacent to any any concrete, Okay, it's it most likely take all would be what does that? But there are a number of things that can kill grass, like drought, like compacted soil, and like misuse of certain kinds of herbicides.

And you know, so just in general, there's too many possibilities for me to say, go buy this product and spray it just yet. But I'm happy to diagnose it for free for you. And and okay, in what hours are you going to be at arthy, I'll be at RCW from eleven thirty to one thirty. Okay, well, I'll definitely try and make it by that. Yeah, and you get there early so you can get you some barbecue there. It's gonna be a good time out there. So, yes, sir, I appreciate that, all right, Doug, thank

you, Yes, you take care. Our trees are very valuable parts of our landscape. You know, when you look at the value of a quality shade tree to a home, it's huge. And it's not just the dollar value. It's the fact that like if you're going to sell a home. What are the first houses to go? The ones people drive up and they go, wow, that that's cool. And a shade tree is part of the wow. It's like, look at that shade on the roof to help

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the money back essentially. But don't trust your lawn to or to your lawn, your tree to some guy that takes care of the lawn or some guy that sticks a business card in your mailbox or on your door. You need someone that knows what they're talking about, whether it's tree pruning, deep root feeding, any kind of thing, consulting on you know, how do I take care of this tree better? Martin is the guy a ff tree service dot com. That's the way to get hold of him. We're gonna go

now to the galley and talk to Ron. Hello Ron, Good morning Ron. I've got a question. I'm trying to find a wood groundcover plants. Where would be the resource to that would deal GALLEYA trying to think of the closer you. You're not too terribly far away from Buchanans. They probably have wideal you up there. I would I would expect that they do. I

know most of our good Garden centers are going to carry it. I would do a quick call to be sure, because you know, even if someone has something they could have gotten cleaned out yesterday, you know by somebody that bought a bunch of it, so just make sure that it's that you have it around. RCW Nursery probably has it. You want to give them a call, and I'm going to be up there at eleven thirty to one thirty today and that is not a far drive from the Galleria area, so those

would be a couple of options for you. Okay, very good, Thank you very much. Thanks the help. Yep. Maybe one thing about Wadlia. It is an enthusiastic grower, so just remember that you have things called this is the border to the bed. Wadilia does not recognize that, so you're going to be trimming it as it takes off to keep it in bounce, kind of like that Asian jasmine. Right, Thank you very much. All right, Ron, thanks for the call. Wouldn't it be nice if

plants just understood what we where we want them to stop. I get questions a lot of times, and you know where people ask for a plant for a certain purpose, and by the time they get through asking the question, they've eliminated every plant, Like I want it to grow fast, and then I wanted to stop growing right where I wanted to grow. I wanted to bloom all year, twelve months out the year I went to be Evergreen. I wanted to blah blah blah. And you know it's like, oh my

gosh, but we do is a great groundcover. It just is an enthusiastic groundcover. Let's take a little break. We'll be right back. Seven to one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to Guardenline. Good have you with us today? Hey, Moss nursery is loaded with plants. The other nursery down in Seabrook, you've been there before probably if you haven't, you you got to go eight acres eight acres of wonderfulness in wandering. That's that's I guess one way I would put it. You go down to Toddville Road

and Seabrook. You get out of the car and just plan on space and in some time. Because it is a tropical paradise down there. They're gonna have elephant ears. You had ten to twelve different kinds of elephant ears. They're gonna have five to six kinds of bananas. Yes, there are that many and more kinds of bananas that you can grow. Bird of paradise, you know, the orange and the blue one, really cool tropical they've got that too. You want to shady. You got a shady air and you

want a really cool tropical for some greenery into there. The legular area that think of it isn't as a terrestrial lily pad, meaning not in the water, but up on ground. These big old lily pad things come up and they're big round leaves on top. Some of them have a little spots on them. It's cool, it's beautiful and takes deep deep shade. They've got that gingers my favorite of all the tropical reblooming perennials. Oh love that.

Moss Nursery and just another garden center. It's been around for seventy years. It is a family operated eight acre source of whatever you need. I love going to Moss recently. I was just looking at all of the blooming cactiet. Listen. They have got cactus, all kinds of cactus. It's blooming right now, buds and blooms, and they are just gorgeous. You need to go by there and check it out again. They're on Toddville Road, done in Seabrook area. Go to Mos Nursery. You see what I'm talking

about. Let's it out now to Beaumont. We're going to talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, Yes, sir, I've been battling stinging grass for several years and had it under control, and things like this spring, I've got a huge amount of it. I was wondering how to control it. When you say stinging grass, is it more of a kind of a broad leaf plant, Yes, sir, it's said I've got the hairy fringe on

it. We always just called stinging grass or stinging netle. Okay, there's several plants that could fit that bill, but they all are controlled by broad leaf post emergent weed killers. So you get your product that's designed to kill broadly feeds after they're up, and follow the label. Spray it. Do it in the morning when the temperatures are cooler. A lot of these products, once we get up in the upper eighties, they start stressing the grass,

especially in the nineties. So just do it early in the morning, and do it sooner rather than later, Brian, because the weather's only going to get hotter and hotter as we go forward. Here sounds good, thank you, yes, sir. Uh huh. You take care. You're gonna have an You got an ace hardware too, out there by the way out in the Beaumont area. That will get you set up on those kind of things. All right, all right, thank you, I enjoy your show.

Thank you. I appreciate that you take care. See in a Maltz down south of Houston is the source for quality soil materials, member brown stuff, for green stuff. Ciena malt has roast soil, They've got leaf mol composts. They have a variety of different kinds of products, including mulches. They've got every fertilizer I talk about on garden line, they have them there at Cienamulch. So when you leave Ciena Maltch, you are ready to set

your plants up for success. They deliver within about twenty miles of their location, which is kind of nice. I mean, that is nice bill have them drop it off out there for a delivery fee, of course. But Ciana Maltch is just north of Roach Sharon. They're off on FM five twenty one. That's kind of close to where Highway six and Highway two eighty eight

come together. The website just go here Cienamultch dot com Cinmultch dot com Monday through Friday seven thirty to five Today Saturdays seven thirty to two closed on Sunday, so make sure and get by there and get everything you need so that whether you pick it up yourself or whether you have them deliver it, whether you buy it by the back or by the boat, they are going to make sure that your plants are happy when you bring them home and plant them.

That is Cienamulch. You can count on that list in the guarden line. We're about to take a little break here in a bit, but we are looking forward to your calls and if you want to give us a call seven one three two P one two fifty eight seventy four. That is our phone number, feel free to do that. I'm stucking to the folks at the Bee Supply and they have a cool thing. First of all, you

know the bee Supplies out in Dayton. They've got the beginning bee keeping classes that go from like ninety eight to thirty in the morning till three point thirty where you get hands on experience plus lots of in classroom knowledge. They've got a lot of of the classes coming up. They got one on honey extracting, how to pull the honey soopers and uncap them and spin that honey out. I have you ever wondered how we got honey from a beehive. Well,

they can tell you that. They also have a b rental program for customers with five to twenty acres now within a fifteen mile fifteen fifteen mile radius of Dayton, Texas, you can have them come out and put bees on your place. That's right, that put the bees out there. They take care of the bees for you. I mean, whoa is that a deal? You can even get the egg text benefits from that as well. Also this just in. They have leaf cutter bees where you can buy them.

Now, what are leaf cutter bees? These are bees that are solitary bees. They have a little leaf cutter bee home that you can buy, the little collection of about one hundred leaf cutter bee cocoons. You put them out and they are excellent pollinators. They work and whether that honey bees don't even want to work out, I mean they're really hard working. They pollinate. A good leaf cutter being pollinate the equivalent almost twenty honey bees. Is that

amazing. You don't have to feed them, you don't have to supplement them like you're taking care of a honeybee hive. They're not that aggressive. They're only going to sting you if you grab them and mess with them and jostle

them around or something. They're just excellent, they really really are. And if you have a home garden landscape and you would like to bring in a cool kind of bee, you need to consider the leaf cutter bees and they can get you set up with that at thebesupply dot com the b Supply dbsupply dot Com out in Dayton, Texas. I was so excited when they told me they had leafcutter bees because that is a that is a super cool thing

for home pollination for folks that don't want to get into tending bees. And of course you don't get the honey out of the deal, but they sure do work hard for you when it comes to quality materials for your soil. For those of you who have not been up to Nature's Way up almost to Conro, it's up a highway forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes in. You just turn right and go across the tracks and you're there Nature's Way resources.

You know, Nature's Way has been a leader for a very long time. When it comes to who first created rose sooil, When it comes to who first created leaf more composts. That's Nature's Way. John Ferguson has been doing this for a long time. He and his son Ian now running the place quality types of native plants as well. So when you go up to Nature's Way, you need a very empty car, pickup and trailer, all of the above because you're going to bring home a lot of things from bags

to bulk. You can have them deliver it. It's really easy. Here's the phone number nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety. Don't forget that. Every Friday is Fungal Friday. There's a sale ten percent off bagged fungo product, twenty percent off bulk, and they have plenty of it on hand. You can have them deliver it to your house if you'd like to do that. And you know, with Nature's Way you are getting a high quality, high quality compost, not junk that's been rushed through and has issues.

No, this is going to be a very high quality compost that your plants are going to hit the ground running. They're going to do really, really well with. I want to remind you that today from eleven thirty to one thirty, I'm going to be at r CW nursery. That's the nursery where Tomol Parkway almost went blank. There Tambo Parkway, which is FM two forty nine. It comes into belt WAA. It's really easy to get to RCW Nursery. I'm going to be giving away things like the three sixty tree

stabilizer. By the way, they carry those there at RCW Nursery. I'll be given away four of those today. So if you have not seen this little gadget, you need to come by. Let me show you what it looks like, that three sixty tree stabilizer. You just put a steak in a metal steak right close to the tree and put on the stabilizer. It allows a little bit of movement, which is ness important to do that. Not much though you can do. If you've got a larger tree, you

can do multiple ones on it that you're trying to establish. If you are having win coming from all different directions, you can do two of the tree stabilizers, one nor south, one east west, for example, so that they support it every which way. It's a quality product that lasts a long time. You don't have to buy cables, you don't have to cut up garden hose to go around the branches. You don't have steaks to trip over in the ground. It's it's fast, it's easy, and it really really

works. The first time I saw this thing, I thought, Man, this this is cool stuff. It is three sixty tree stabilizer. Come out and see me by the way out there at RCW. They're going to have barbecue and stuff to drink out there too. All kinds of a shinda going on. I'll answer your gardening questions, identify things, but you got to come out and see all the things on sale. This is a great time. If you've thought about planning a rose bush, today's the day to buy

it twenty percent off. If you've thought about putting in some citrus, today's the data buy twenty percent off out there or she did it. That includes Japanese maples and bitechs, and that wonderful cajun hibiscus. I cannot begin to describe the color of cajun hibiscus. There are several versions of it out there. They are stunningly beautiful. They'll be giving away a lot of other giveaways, including that one hundred dollars gift certificate. Oh my gosh, turn me

loose one hundred dollars gift certificate. I didn't have a lot of fun. I hope you join us out there. Eleven thirty to one thirty. Kt r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Scip Richard. It's so crazy just watch him as world say not a sid Hey, welcome back to Garden Line. Glad to have you back with us. Looking forward to talking to you about the things that are of most interest to you.

What is of interest to you, by the way, what kinds of gardening questions might you have? That's what we're here for. We're here to answer your gardening questions to make sure that, as best we can, we help you to have success. What does that mean? That means a beautiful lawn, That means a beautiful landscape, That means a bountiful garden of flowers and vegetables and herbs. What does interest you? You know? One cool thing about gardening. It's not a one size fits all, that is for sure.

I know people that they just grow orchids. They grow the indoors, they grow them little enclosures they've created that is all they're into, or bones Eye bonees Eye is another example, by the way, if you are interested in bones Eye. Visiting with Ken the other day we found out Ken Casino. That is, by the way, that is quality feed. You've heard me talk about them in the past. Well, Ken is a Bonesye expert, and he was telling us about the upcoming Bonesye on the Bayu twenty twenty

four. That is the Bonesie Club's international event. It's on March, and I see you not March. It's on April twenty fifth through twenty eighth. Bonesye on the Bayou. It's an international Bonesye Convention. It'll be at the Marriott Hotel at West Chase Marriott hot Houston, West Chase on Briar Park Drive in Houston again April twenty fifth through twenty eight. Now, the best days to take it in is going to be on Friday the twenty sixth and Saturday,

April twenty seventh. Those are the two key days, twenty sixth and twenty seventh. You're going to find nearly one hundred different bones Eye tree displays right there. There is going to be a ton of information. You can purchase Bonesye materials and supplies and everything else. It's just gonna be a great deal. It is a celebration of Bones Eye in every way, shape and form. You're going to see expert demonstrations, there's gonna be hands on workshops.

So if you've ever thought about getting involved in Bonesie, here is the best time of the that I've ever seen. Really. The Houston Boneseye Society they're the host of this and there's going to be so much going on. So I would encourage you write this date down. This is April the twenty sixth and twenty seventh. Those are the two days that you want to know

about it. If you like more information, you can give Ken a call at eight three two four eight three sixty thirty six eight three two four eight three six zero three six. And there is a lot more information we could say about it, but just know this, if you want more information, give Kenn a call and find out. He's also available over there at the Quality Feed Store on Luzon Street are in Houston. He is He is quite the Bones Eye enthusiast and he can get you all set up everything you need

to know. And if you've ever thought about it, here's your chance. I think you will find it fun warning warning bones eye. Like any kind of plant collecting thing can sure be addictive, but what a wonderful addiction that that is. Hey. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. It is time to put down your Nitroposs superturf. The silver bag makes it

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products, very widely available. You're going to find it in shades of Texas. Up in the woodlands. It's easy to find. You go down in Chanted Gardens down in Richmond Rosenberg area and you can find Nitrofoss products here as well as well as down South Houston on Southmore Fishers Hardware. There's another Fisher's Hardware and Laporte on Broadway Street. All these places carry the Nitrofoss Super Turf

another nitrofs products as well. I was this past week doing some planning for a garden bed that I'm doing out front where I want some color, but I also want to bring in some hummingbirds. Hummingbirds are just a really cool addition. All kinds of birds are a really cool addition. But by planting certain kinds of Salvia's, especially the Salvia garnittick of the black and blue, and there's other varieties or cultivars of that, it just does so well.

But when you do those kind of plantings, whether it's berries or blooms or whatever, you're going to bring birds in. And when you bring birds in, it just adds to the beauty of the landscape, makes it really a nice, nice place to want to be. You know the folks that Wildbird's Unlimited, they are the experts when it comes to all kinds of things birds. Do you need bird feeders? For example, here's an ideal Mother's Day's coming up. I cannot think of a better, can't fail Mother's Day gift

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is called the Eliminator Scroll of bird feeder those that's a catalog. It is really cool. A book like the Joy of bird Feeding, or some other type of feeder, like the cylindrical feeder. We call it the flying Bistro. You put this whole cylinder of food in it. Mom will love that, she will. I've purchased those kinds of things as gifts before and they are awesome. Mother's Day's coming up. Don't delay. Hey, go to Wildbirds. How do you find one? WBU dot com forward slash Houston.

WBU dot com forward slash Houston. You can find all the wildbirds near you. They've got one in Cyprus and Memorial Lot in ben bel Air. There is in Pairland over up in Kingwood. And clear Lake as well. Easy to find wildbirds wbu dot com, Forward Slash Houston. Don't delay Mother's Day coming and you are. I promise you're going to find some really nice gifts for mom at Wilberds. I'm going to go now to Cyprus and we're going

to talk to Cindy. Hello, Cindy, Hi. Hi. So my question is I've been told that you have been endorsing Weedonator, a weed and feed product, And one I'm just wondering is it too late to put it on? And two why are you recommending a weed and feed when you always

have recommended not using them? Well, you know, in general, my my number one preference is that you fertilize when it's time to fertilize, and you when you have a weed problem, you pick a product that fits that weed to use to control it. The thing I like about the weedinator is it instead of thinking of it as just a weed and feed, it's like

a weed now and later. So early on we were talking about weed Enator when our broad leaf weeds were younger, more susceptible, and we were putting it down then knowing that the nutrient was going to really be released gradually over a very long time, so it wasn't like you're getting all the dump of the product of nutrient at the same time you're trying to control the weed. I think that at this point in time, it's probably better to just shift

over to a fertilizer product. You know, the same folks that make the weed enater Nelson Nelson plant food has the slow and easy, and I would be doing that rather than weedinator now. And if you've got weed problems, then let's specifically recommend a product for those particular weeds. Okay, well, I do have weeds, but it's a large section that never got watered last year when a sprinkler was destroyed, so it's it would almost have to be

a kill a whole large area to get rid of the weeds. Okay, well, uh yeah, you know, to each his own and how you want to go about it. But yeah, yeah, it's a as long as you got weeds, it's harder for grass to get established. But a lot of people take the slower approach and sounds like maybe this would be the one that fits your situation better, Cindy, and that is to grow yourself out of the weed problem with proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing using a

slow release like that Nelson's. I would do the slow and easy now or you could do the Bruce's brew now too. Either one, but uh and going back to weed nat or just to clarify, I looked it up online. It says it's got a growth regulator, a pre emergent, and a post emergent. Yeah, so it sounds like something I could consider for next year. But so it's early spring March. Cindy, I'm up against a real hard break here. If you I'm going to put you on hold.

If you want to hang on, go ahead and we'll come back to it. We're going to take a little break. We'll be right back. Well, we're back to Guardline. I'm your host, Skip Richter. Good to have you with us. Our phone number is seven one three two on two KTRH. You know, Cindy brings up a good question, and that is, what about when we have combination products that control weeds and that fertilize and things. You know, there's no it's not a black and white world out

there when it comes to gardening in general. My preference is to use quality fertilizers. At the right time and to use the right weed control products for whatever the issue is at the right time. There's times when we prevent weeds, and sometimes there are combo products that have a fertilizer and a weed prevention in them. If the time to fertilize and prevent weeds overlaps, then use

those products. That's fine. Otherwise you may have to go separate. The same is true with products that have fertilizer and that have post emergent weed control kill existing weeds. When those times overlap, you can use the combination products, and when they don't, you shouldn't. You should use a quality fertilizer. And in these brands that produce those combos, they also produce just the

individual fertilizers as well, so you can go either way. I like to take it a little bit kind of a higher level question and say what is the weed that you have that's plaguing your ground. That's why I like to do these things like at RCW today, where people can bring me their weeds, thank you very much, in a ziploc bag. We can look at them and I can talk about the strategy for those because you know, we've got cool season weeds and warm season weeds, annual weeds and perennial weeds.

Annuals come from seed perennials primarily, or problem because they come back from plants that live a year after year after year, and we can prescribe the right thing for them. So there's a place in time for everything. But just carte blanche, just to always be com combining things is not a good idea.

You're not going to hear me talking about using a post emergent fertilizer combo at this point the year because it's getting a little bit warm for those things, and I don't want people using them at a time when it's stressful of the turf grass. Those are used at a time when it's not as stressful. Hopefully that's not confusing. Just know that, like anything, the devil's always in the details, and so I will try to guide you as best

I can according to your wishes. Some people want organic, some people want synthetic. That's why my lawn care schedule online at gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip dot Com, it has both organic and synthetic options when it comes to fertilizers and also when it comes to pest disease and weed management. Now we talked about Slow and Easy. That's Nelson's gradual release product, and

it will feed for a very long time. If you do Slow and Easy now, your next fertilization is probably going to be in the fall that you actually do it again. I mean it does. It does feed for a very very long time. They also have Bruce's Brew. Now, Bruce's Brew is a I'll say it's a fast release because about you know, it's got a good amount of nitrogen for a quick green up that's going to come out. But it also has some slow release in it, so it's not just

all of it immediately available. It's not as slow as Slow and Easy. But it's a good combination and for people for whatever reasons, if you want, you could use a Bruce's Brew application now, you could do about half of it now, and then you could do about half of it a little bit later and spread it out over time. There's no one way to skin a cat. But both of those products are excellent. They're both part of that turf Star line, the bruce Is Brew and the Slow and Easy.

Both of them are a good blend of nutrients and both of them will give you very good results. And I like the slow and easy especially because of the way it releases slowly. You get good even slow growth over time, so you get a good root system on the plants, not just all top growth real fast. And it's even beneficial by acidifying the soil somewhat. It

is an acidifying fertilizer. It you know, one application doesn't turn your soil from high pH to acid, but it moves it in that direction gradually over time as you use it. Quality products from Nelson Nelson Plant Food. Let's go out to southeast Houston and we're going to talk to Leo. Leo, thanks for patiently hanging on there. Good morning, Skip. How are you

doing. I'm well, sir, Thank you great. I've been real loyal with the nitrofills fertilizer and I use the pre emergent one this year, but I think with the freeze that occurred last winter, I have sat augustine grass. However, I'm having patches of what appears to be a centipede grass, and I'm trying to get rid of it because it sounds like it looks like it's trying to dominate and take over my Saint augustine grass. How do I get rid of it? Have you ever planned it? Centipede in the yard?

Never? And it's what's a little nuts to me? Is I understand around hurricane seasons or birds and so forth. Perhaps may have planted it just third items appere on the lawn. Yeah, and I try to pull off and obviously use pre emergence or use of the image products. But yeah, trying to get rid of it, and it's just just well growing high wife Leo, I really I don't think it's centipede, but let's just say it

could be. Centipede does not like a lot of fertilizer. Uh, And so as you use a higher nitrogen fertilizer like we do for our Saint Augustine, it gives Saint Augustine the upper hand over centipede. It's centipede is kind of a Shartrouche green rather than the emerald greens you can get with Saint Augustine. So I would I would say, if it's centipede, just fertilize it well, continue, continue to take good care of it like that, and

the Saint Augustine should have the upper hand on that. I don't know a herbicide that will kill centipede, but not Saint Augustine. I'm thinking, what about out the side of vitegarth, well, anything like that. Any not apple cider that's not strong enough. But vinegar products will burn green growth of anything you spray them on. So you have dead spots in your Saint Augustine if you spray the vinegar on it. Yeah, the paint Augustine is under

on the bottom layer, and it's very healthy along the entire yart. I just have patches of it and just frustrating because I can't get rid of it. Out of it. So this this something. Put this stuff you're calling centipede sticks up above the Saint Augustine. It does, Okay, then that is not centipede. That's some other weed. Boy. The only approach to that I can suggest to you is there are wiper applicators. They could be sponges. There's all kinds of devices made for that. One looks like a

hockey stick. I make my own homemade ones with the little those grabber tools, putting sponges on the end. But you can then wipe that on the taller grass and not spray it so that it gets on the your Saint Augustine, but you wipe it onto the taller grass, and if you stay diligent with that, you can get rid of weeds that stay up above the Saint Augustine, that come up higher faster than the Saint Augustine. That's correct. That's what's so frustrating. And I'm thinking, yeah, okay, yeah right,

you bet Leo, thank you, take care you as well. Uh yeah, I uh. It's always a challenge controlling grasses and grasses. We got to get a little bit on the creative side when we do that. Hey, the antique rosen pium up there in Independence, Texas is a destination. It would be worth going just to see the place. I really mean it. But they have roses and roses and roses. They grow them in

two gallon containers. They're all thirty bucks twenty nine to ninety five. Uh, And it's a it's a high quality a rose because they do grow it a little bit larger container and it just makes for a more robust plant. Now they've got their nurse nursery, their display gardens, which again that alone is worth the price or dry up there, they're just loaded with all kinds of blooms. The pollinators are going crazy out there because they always have ballooms

at it antiq Rose Imperium. I took a bunch of pictures of some hoverflies or surfit flies, which is a beneficial a while back up there, just because they always got them. They have lots of new offerings in the nursery. There's herbs and flowers, fruit trees, lots of native species and of course roses. That is important to know now today at ten am. Of course that's going on right now. They were having their beekeeping one on one class. But they've always got stuff going on out there, so you need

to Here's what you need to do. You need to write down the website Antique Rowsanporium dot com, Antique Rosanmporium dot com. You need to write down the phone number nine seven nine eight three six fifty five forty eight. They'll host a garden tour. They'll if you want to bring in a master gardener group, if you want to bring in a homeschool group with kids learning about plants. They will do lunch and learns. They can do gardencraft workshops during

the week and on Sundays during the spring. It's really cool. You can go email them if you want at events at Wereroses dot com to get more information. Don't just drive out there by yourself. Take your friends with you, because again, this is like going to a botanical garden. I mean it is just fun and cool and a great, great place to go. I was thinking, we're going to hopefully be having a little bit of rain here coming later in the day to day. Whatever it rains and the soil

gets wet, the soil swells. Whenever it gets dry, it shrinks, and that wrecks havoc on foundations, driveways, sidewalks, you name it. Ty Strickland, fix my slab foundation repair. That's all you need to know. Fixmslab dot com. As a website, Ty can get in there. Tell them you are a garden line listener. If you see a crack in the sheet rock or cracking the brick, if you have any kind of issues

like that, he'll show up on time. I'll give you a fair price and he'll fix it, right, Ty Strickland, That's how he does business. Fixmislab dot com two eight one two FI five forty nine forty nine. We're going to get out of here for the news. If you want to give us a call seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to Gardenline. Good to have you with us today. What are we going to talk about? You tell me seven one three two one two five eight seven

four. If you are looking for a natural fertilizer with a very high concentration of nitrogen, Sweet Green from nitrofoss is that fertilizer. It's eleven percent nitrogen. Now this is based on a molasses base, so it's going to make microbes very happy in your soil. Uh. The the molasses is one of the things in organic systems we often add to the soil to increase microbial activity. Sweet Green is you take molasses, you turn some microbes loose on it

to create this wonderful product, Sweet Green eleven nitrogen widely available. You put it out on the soil, you water it, it dissolves into the soil. By the way, it smells great. In fact, if you're bringing a bag home from shopping, you just kind of want to make an extra trip around town just to enjoy the smell while you're driving. Who on earth would ever drive more miles than they have to in Houston? I don't know. Maybe Sweet Green will do that for you. Oh gosh, okay,

that's crazy. Where do you get it? Kingwood? That's hardware out there in Kingwood on Kingwood Drive. They've got it Arbigate up and Tomball carries it. Shades of Texas out on Genoa, Red Bluff carries the Sweet Green, one of the quality products from Nitrofoss Fertilizers. Let's head out now to sugar Land. If I can find the right button, We're going to talk to Paddy. Hello, Patty, Hello, Skip, good morning morning. Yesterday my lemon tree, which is about two years old now, it was looking

great. I mean it was putting out some little flowers and and so yesterday I noticed these little white spots. I'm one about five leaves, okay, And I didn't I didn't know what it was. I was gonna call you today. And today it's worse, and I think it's powdery mildew. It looks bad. And it's on half the tree. Is it on the top end or is it on the underside too, No, it's not on the underside. I see no evidence of any kind of bugs. That's what I

looked for first. And I thought this is so weird. It just looks like somebody had spray paint on one side of the tree. Have you have you done any spraying around the tree? Is the tree near the eaves of your house? Yes? Have you have you sprayed wasp nests up under there or anything like that? No? Okay, hmmm, well, Patty, I hate to make a guess without being sure. This is an unusual thing. I'm trying to figure out. Why is it on one side but not

the other? Could could you take a picture of it of the tree, and then a couple of photos of the leaves up close as close as you can get but still have really good sharp focus and send those to me. Let me take a look at them so that I'm sure before I send you out to buy this, that or the other and put it on the tree. It may not even be necessary at all, So let me take a

look at that. If you, let's say you're in Sugarland, you're a little ways away from RCW Nursery today, you could bring some leaves up up to and I can take a look at them today while I'm up there. But that's if that's more of a drive than you want, then I'll put you on hold. You can just take the pictures and send them to me. How about that? Absolutely good? All right, here you go, Josh, we'll pick it up. He will give you the information you need.

Yeah, that is unusual, you know. I have, in many decades now of doing this kind of thing, I have often found that when I hear a description and then I see a sample, oftentimes what I pictured in my mind's eye is not what I'm seeing when I look at the sample. So I always want to be a little careful there to make sure that I've got the right problem before we start trying to solve it. As Mite

fertilizer is a product that you put on for trace minerals. Now I called it a fertilizer, and I know oftentimes I say, don't think of this as a fertilizer. Well, it's nutrients that go on the ground, So do it however you want. But trace minerals are required by plants in tiny amounts, but they're essential and as mite provides trace minerals to your turf. Asmite products are easy to find. They're available in a lot of different areas.

I'm going to be given away four bags of azimite at RCW Nursery today so there's a good start. Come out and see me maybe a win one. As mite can be combined with composts as you're mixing it into the soil. I mean, there's a lot of different ways to use it. Typically we apply it to our lawns at a very very low rate. It takes one of those forty four pound bags will cover six to twelve thousand square feet long area. Now, it's not the kind of fertilizer that makes your grass

just take off growing in green. That's like nitrogen, that's the big three nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium in those This is a tracemental supplement, so you don't need much of it, but it is beneficial to building the bank account. You know, our goal on plants is not to have them on an iv where we have to feed them every day to keep them alive. Our goal on plants is to build a bank account of nutrients in the soil that's

balanced, that's in the right amounts. So any time of any day that plant route wants to take up a nutrient, it's there and it's available. That's why we do this. Asmite Texas dot com is a website that'll help direct you to more formation. We're going to go now to Cookdale, Tennessee and talk to bout Bob. Is that Cookdale or Cookville, cook Veal, cook Veil? Okay, Okay, Natal on the black Doe, my sister has papias and bengos. He's raised it in a pot and it's supposed to

be about thirty six degrees to No. She's kind of worried that they won't survive unless he puts them back in the green house. Well, they won't like it at all. I don't think it'll kill them. But if at that temperature, you can get a frost, and frost does kill tissues, so that's a severe burnback. So are these they're in pots? Can you lay the pots over and like just throw a tarp over them or something? They probably could, yes, So that'd be another option. You know,

you're at a marginal temperature there. If you could put a tarp over them and kind of weigh it down. Just the warmth of the soil, you know, keeps them from getting to thirty six degrees or whatever it's going to get to tonight. It's a little easier maybe than moving them in the greenhouse. If not, if you can move men i'd move men, just to be careful, because it's not a matter of will they survive, it's a matter of will they suffer damage. And that's a gamble I wouldn't take.

Okay, all right, Bob, did you used to live down in Houston or what makes you a garden line listener in Tennessee? Oh? Yes, I used to live here. I retired about a week ago and moving up this direction now. Used to listen to you all the time. Well, I'm glad you do. Keep doing it. Yeah, Tennessee Radio, here you go. It makes it easy. Anybody can listen. And you got a lot of big old wholesale nurseries up in Tennessee, mcmhnville, some of

those parts of town, I mean the state. They've got huge nurseries. A ship all over the country. Oh yeah, that Storil down there, McMahon was a little bit for those routes. And so they make a lot of nursers down there. Yeah, they do, they do. But that'd be my suggestion. And good luck. And by the way, congratulations, anybody can grow mango or papaya northe Houston is doing something there you go, yes, sir, thank you. I appreciate the call. Good good to

have you with us. Uh Arburgate Nursery up in tom Ball. I was out there just oh gosh, less than a week ago. Uh, just admiring the parking lot. In fact, Uh, that is one of the coolest new things going on at Arburgate. Now you've been to Arburgate, you know that any month of the year you go there, there is the wide selection of everything that you'd want. Uh. They've also got their special uh home blend of It's called one two three completely easy system. It's an organic

food A four four three plus calcium. It is an organic soil with expanded shaiale. It's an organic compost with or expanded shale. Remember brown stuff before green stuff. Don't go from Arbor Gate without one of those one each of that one two three blend to make sure when you put the plant in the ground, it's gonna do well. Check out the new parking lot Trasher Road. It goes or it's a loop, goes round behind Arbor Gate. It's

easy to get to. The parking lot is awesome. I mean it can be pouring rain and that parking lot just literally drinks the water because it absorbs it is that cool or what I mean, it just it's the best new

thing to happen out there at Arburgate in a long time. While you're out there, you're gonna find every plant you can imagine, and then some and staff that are knowledgeable that don't sell you stuff that doesn't grow here, that do sew you things that fit exactly what you tell them you want out of a plant. We're going to take a little break for another news break our

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even trying to get the pedals out there. They're a goneer that song. It is impossible for me to not tap my foot or start dance and run the studio when I hear footloose, you're listening to garden Line and other than rambling about music, we answer gardening questions. Our phone number is seven one three two one two k t rh So. Secrets to success is quality soil, right, that's the blend. That's the secret. That's what's important.

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soil before you start putting the plat roots in the ground. We're going to go now to mop Bellvue and talk to Duane. Hello, Dwayne, I didn't Morris scop. Thanks for taking the call. Hey, I had a question about my flower bed. It looks like overt night. There's something that's growing in it and it's yellow, about the size of a small saucer and about a half inch to one inch tall. Okay, And I was wondering if you could tell what that is. Yes, that is a decomposer fungi.

It grows on the mulch because it's decomposing organic matter. It is not a disease of plants. You can if you don't like it, take a little shovel scoop it up. It's only surface deep, and throw it out. If you don't want to just break it up, or if you want to ignore it, it doesn't matter. It's it's not a problem at all. It's part of why the forest is not a mile deep in tree trunks because all the trees fell in the forest, different kinds of fungal decomposers have

taken them out. And that's just one of many. Yeah, we see it here with rain and weather changes and stuff. If you often get that popping up, that's one of several that appear in our our mulches and flower beds. Okay, so it's nothing to worry about. Okay, Well I appreciate it. You bet, take a picture of it and tell tell your friends that you have a very unusual fungal growth and they all have to come over and see it. Sell tickets, sell tickets. I know my wife

was paranoid when she saw it this morning. So all right, well it's all, it's all good. We're good to go. Thank you, Joane. Okay, thank you, you bet. Bye bye. That is true. Let's head out now to northwest Houston. Talk to Steve. Hello Steve, good morning, sir. Yes, I have a mole and a squirrel problem. The squirrels are going through my wife's plants and potted plants and she's driving me nuts about it. What can I get to stop him from doing

that? Well, that's a good question. Squirrels are a pill. I don't know a good squirrel repellent that you putt im potted plants and things. Oh boy, you might want to. Well here's the problem, you know, I've used where squirrels are digging and messing around, I put a little hardware cloth over it. But if I tell you go out there and buy hardware cloth and cut a circle to put in the top of every plotted plant, that's not practical, you know, to do that. They you know,

when they're eating stuff, we put hot pepper oil on it. I don't think the digging is going to really help on that. I could ask you to go out and buy a miniature fox terrier and turn him loose out there to terrorize him, but that's that's an added expense you don't need, so you kind of you know all. I know. I do have one thing I can do for you. I can bring up some of my best squirrel recipes because with dumplings and other things like that. But that's why I

hesitate, Steve. None of those answers were going to be acceptable. Somebody had mentioned that putting moss balls, and that's a good that is a good idea. I know we do that and it keeps cats, especially because that mothball is a strong smell that they hate. You could try that. Try a few of them, just put them around the pot, maybe put one in the pot, put in a little tray in there. I don't know if you put a whole bunch of them and then it rains on it,

I don't know the effect of that on the plant. So be a little careful with that. Maybe put them in a tray, but that may work. If it does, I hope you give me a call because I've never heard that for squirrels, but we have used it for other plants that or other pests that have sensitive noses. Okay, now how about moles moles? Are you talking about moles or are we talking about gophers. Do you have a little raised mounds of dirt around or just tunnels? Yes? Okay,

the gophers you need to go to. I'm gonna give you a website. Do you have a pencil handy? Yeah? Ahead, Agra Life A g R I L I F E learn l E A r N dot dot t A m U dot e ed U Texas and m University Agrolife learn dot TAMU dot edu type in gophers. You can also do molds, but I think what you have as gophers. If there's mounted dirt, it will give you the ways to trap on if there's any kind of a poisoning or anything. It'll get you set up on that sounds good. Have bus day, Thank

you you too, Thank you very much. If you're looking for a quality organic fertilizer, Microlife's got you covered. You know. Microlife has a wide variety of all kinds of different fertilizers. Of course, right now, the elephant in the room is the big green bag. The green bag of Microlife sixty four is a standard for lawn fertilization. It works super well. I use it on things that aren't launch too, by the way. It works

very very well. It's got billions of beneficial microbes in it. Absolutely safe. You're not going to burn your plants with microlof organic fertilize. There's not a salt based thing. Even if you over apply it in what you don't want to do, You're not gonna burn your plants. It's got over one hundred plus. It's got minerals, stimulators, of vitamins, all kinds of things in it. One hundred percent slow release, not gonna burn. It works on all kinds of things. You can use it on your lawn,

of course. You can use it on ornamentals, on perennials and flowers, and vegetables about twenty pounds per thousand square feet. And you're gonna repeat it about every say quarterly, about every quarter. You can go a little less often than that, but I think quarterly is a good rate to do. While you're at it, put out the purple bag the Humanates plus zero four, which is concentrated compost in a bag. That is excellent because what it

does is it helps build the soil over time. Every time you put it out, you're putting that humous material, which helps with soul structure, certainly stimulates the microbial activity that's out there already going on in your lawns. Works super well. Well, we're heading out another hour here. Gosh, this morning's going fast. Often they do that. They say time flies when you're having fun. By the way, coming at the frog says times fun when

you're having flies. But that's that's just I don't know why that went through my head. I'm gonna be at RCW Nursery at eleven thirty this morning, and I'll be there till one thirty. And what am I gonna do. I'm gonna answer gardening questions. I'm gonna meet people that listen to garden I and I'd love to meet you. If you live anywhere in the Houston area, come on out to RCW today. Let's meet. If you want some help with your landscape, bring me pictures, bring me samples for identification,

for diagnosis. I'm gonna be given away stuff. I'm gonna giving away four bags of azamite. I'm gonna be giving away four tree stabilizers. But when you come, come with an empty car. ARCW is having a crazy sale. By the way, they're gonna have barbecue and drinks too. There. They're gonna have roses, Japanese maples, citrus trees, cajuns by text, all on sale. Twenty percent off their metal signs. If you haven't seen their yard art medals, Oh my gosh, cool cool stuff. Make room

in the car. You're going to want to go home with it. Maybe you'll win a one hundred dollars gift certificate. Yes, they are given one hundred dollars gift certificate away today and then a lot of other giveaways going on. It's going to be fun. It's always fun out at RCW Nursery. You don't know where they are. That's the garden Center where to forty nine Tombo Parkway comes into belt Way eight RCW Nurseries dot Com. Hope you'll come

out today. Let's help you have a beautiful on and a bountiful landscape. Hope to see. The KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Director. It's so crazy Trim. Just watch him as the world maps. Hey, welcome back to the Garden Line. We got a lot to talk about today, so we're going to jump right into this. Got about an

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Listen. If you haven't fertilized your lawn, get it done. Now it the grass is growing faster and faster with each degree that warms up. And it is warming up a little bit, and we're not complaining yet, but we will later. Not yet, but the grass has grown faster. So get that nutrient down. When you do it, I would recommend going with a slow release product. And that is exactly what nitrophoss has created in Superturf. Nitrophos Superturf, the silver bag has proven itself here in the Greater

Houston area for many, many years now. Years ago, Extension University research throughout the South determined that many your scote determined that grass needs nutrients with a lot of nitrogen level, a low phosphorus level, and a medium amount of potassium. That's kind of how grass takes up nutrients. If you cut off grass clippings and send them to a lab and say analyzes what's the nutrients in them, You're going to see a three one two or a four to one

two ratio of nutrients in those clippings. Okay, So when you put on nitropos Superturf nineteen four ten, you've got a combination of nutrients. That's what grass takes up. It releases gradually half the nitrogen slowly over time. Half of that nineteen percent is going to release gradually over time. Then you've got iron in it to help with greening up areas that are a little on the yellowish side. It's a high quality product available all over the place. You

got to a task Asida the Ace Hardware there has got Nitrofoss superturf. You go. Let's say over to Katie the Ace Hardware and single Rant has got Nitrofoss Superturf. Go to Jim's Hardware up in Montgomery. They've got the nitrophos superturf in stock and ready to go for you. We're going to head straight to the phones now. Our first call is Steve from East Houston. Hello Steve, Hi, good morning. Osalis eradication in my lawn. Okay, how do I get rid of it? I've put down the pre emergent herbicide

twice a year and it just really that nothing really stops it. Oxalice is a pill. It casts its seeds far and wide. It is amazing. I've seen oxalis Steve on the ground in a greenhouse, throw seeds up in the pots on top of the tables. I mean it literally is and they come up everywhere. Pre Emergents are helpful, Yes, you can do that. You got to get them down ahead of the axalas sprouting and maintain that, but that will be helpful for them. But you can also use a

post emergent and just spray it after it's up. Normally, I would say grow a thicker densure lawn, and oxalis tends to just kind of go away when you notice exalice is when your lawn is a little on the thin side. Sunlight hits the soil. Though, seedlings can sprout and they can get established because they're getting sunlight, they're not being choked out of light by the

grass. So I would work your way toward the mow water fertilized. Part of my schedule online by the way, if you haven't seen it, it's at gardening with Skip dot com. It's a free schedule you can download, and then there's also a section a different schedule on that same website for dealing with weeds both pre emergent and post emergent. But my suggestions to you would be, if you want to treat what's there now, go ahead and do

that with a post emergent broad leaf. But mainly focus through the course of the season on getting that turf denser and denture. Okay, But the problem I find is when I put down the post emergent herbicides that I have to put a like kind of a sticker spread or a surf BacT and on it, and then it winds up killing the Saint Augustine. Also, okay, well, you want to use any kind of a post emergent, you want to do it before the temperature gets up above the upper eighties. So like

right now, I don't know what the temperature is going to be. Let's just say today was going to get up to eighty seven degrees or something. Well, if it is, then spray it this morning opposed to that, and do it sooner rather than waiting like until July trying to fight it at that time. The spreader sticker is fine. Those products are not going to hurt the Saint Augustine if the temperature is too high. But I tell you

what, I would switch to something called celsius. Celsius like the temperature fahrenheit and cia celsius is less damaging when the weather warms up a little bit than most of the other post emergent broad leaves, and so that would be one thing I would try to do. You just need to make sure you get good coverage. It sticks to the leaves. Oxalis does not have a particularly waxy leaf coating or anything for the product or wash off of so the surfactant

is as isn't as important as it is on some weeds. But surfactants always help. Oh okay, all right, and Celsius and I can pick that up at yeah Cannons or uh Ace Hardware something someplace like that. Absolutely, yeah, yeah you can, and uh, you know, go to Ace Hardware uh dot com and find the store locator to find the ones near you. I don't know exactly what part of East East Houston you're in, but you know there's an there's the Ace Hardware in Galena Park that's on Holland Street.

There's one out in the Cloverleaf area on Uvaldi. Uh So it's easy to find Ace Hardwar's. There's there's a number of them around that area. Sure. Yeah, I always wind up going west anyway, there's a lot more retails. Okay, okay, well in buchanan Buchanan's probably has it column first though. Before you head over there, I just haven't checked every garden center to check for every product, but but they may wait. And plus

it's a fun day to go to Buckinnon's on any day. Okay, all right, thanks, thanks for your health skipp you've got thank you, Thank you for that call. I appreciate that. If you've been out to in Channet Gardens out in Richmond, in Channi Gardens, and Richmond is always a wonderland right now. The thing that recently has really impressed me is their containers. Whether you get a big, ire, big wire basket with a cocoa

fiber in it and then all kinds of things planted in it. They have the hanging type, they have the kind that are freestanding, whether you get a big beautiful urn type container, the ceramic, the glaze, ceramic, and plant that. Oh my gosh. They have an unbelievable selection. It is super super cool to go out there. I love going out there. They've got Texas primrose. That's one I bet you haven't grown before. It's a yellow flowering perennial. They've got Texas go Columbine, Go Columbine reseeds.

And once you get established in a shady area, even a dry shade. It will do really, really well for you. It's a good day to go to in Chenny Gardens on any day. Here's the website in Chennigardens Richmond dot com. They're on the Katie Folscher side of Richmond. On FM three fifty nine. We'll be right back. Welcome back to the Guardline. Good to have you with us today. Oh my gosh, we have got so much to talk about. First of all, I want to talk about fire

ants. It is fire ant season and when we get these rains, they come up and they show us their little mounds of dirt and we know we got them. But do you know fire ants are there underground before they even boil to the surface. If you will, there's colonies that you can't see, and they're out foraging. They have workers, the guy to eat that workers going out and getting stuff. You always will start with the fire ant bait. Bait is number one. It gets most of the mounds for you.

After two weeks you'll know if they got them or not. Bait takes a little while to work, but it works right. Individual mound treatments follow that you hit the mounds that they missed. But I want to tell you something. If you just use individual mountain treatments, you're playing whack a mole with fire ants. You kill that mound because it popped up, and there's another one over there. You didn't know, so you didn't treat it.

Now it's up. Start with a bait, then go the mound treatments a couple of weeks later and ACE Hardware can get you fixed up on all that. They've got a number of different brands of fireant baits. By the way, they also have mosquito control products. Do you need those mosquito ducks to put in water to control them? Naturally? They have that. Do you need a fogger with some product to use to kill the mosquitoes around the property?

Spray those shrubs where they're hiding during the day so they can come out and spoil your garden party at night. Ace Hardware's got you covered on that. ACE is a place. Do you need the fertilizer I talk about.

Ace is the place dean pest control, disease control, weed control aces a place I just went over to. My daughter and her husband bought a new house recently, and I was just over there the other They got a little outdoor patio, and they got a little string of lights going over the top, and they were wondering if those things still work because they hadn't turned them

on yet. And I was just thinking, ACE is a place they're going to have that little we call them beer lights because it's like a little one of those little uh you know, outdoor settings where they got the lights and the little tables outside the anyway, Ace is the place for anything you need for lawn garden, and then some new barbecue pit would be nice too. By the way, let's go to Steve in the Heights. Hey Steve, what's up? Hey Steve? I have a you know, up a cond

tree that's probably maybe a year or so old. It's about four or five foot up. And I noticed the leaves were starting to crimple a couple of days ago, and I looked at it real close this morning. It's got a bunch of these little white things on it. There can't be any any any bigger than eight of an inch. But I hit it, you know, just to knock them off. But is there something I can use to

spray it where I won't kill the tree or anything. So when you say crimpled, you're talking about kind of like a crinkled looking leaf or is there? Yeah, the leaves started kind of like crinkling up a couple three or four days ago and I and I didn't really look at the stem that good. And then I looked at it this morning and it's got a bunch of these little white things and I think they move. I mean they're they're less than like a sixteen When you hit it, did the did they fly up

or around? Did you see a little It can really fly up. It just kind of fell down, Okay, but not all of them, but some of them? And is there something I can spray it? It could be aphids, But the white is the cast skins of aphis eph It's molt, just like a snake molts. And when when an aphed, whether it's a pink or a green or whatever color aphit it is when it sheds its skin. That skin is a little white debris. Excuse me the size you're

describing behind there could be other things going on. I would get probably uh some insexcidal soap and blast it upward from underneath the leaves so that you get the bottom surfaces of the leaves coated very well with it. Uh. And of course gravity is going to take care of the top part of the leaves as that spray falls back down. But just give a good coverage with soap, do it or in the morning for the sun's baking down and getting hot

on the leaves, and I think that'll do it. So you're sitting just like regular dish soap or something like, but made for use implants for insects, yeap dish soap. Some of those can burn, can have issues that burn your plants. Okay, So like buchanans or somebody would have something and I can just mix up in a little bottle and break it with that kill the tree. Buchanons is going to have it. Another thing you could do is you could take some leaves in there to bu Canons in a ziplock bag.

Don't take your pests to them, put it in a ziplock and you could you could just have them look at it and in case what I'm picturing and you're describing isn't the same thing. Uh, then they could help you with that too. Okay, Well, a good deal. Thank you so much. Yeah, you bet, thank you. I appreciate the call very much, that's for sure. Uh. Containers. You know, I keep talking about how important it is to have beautiful containers, whether you're growing flowers

or whether you're growing vetch. By the way, if you've never grown vegetables in a container, or you've only done it here and there, you ought to try some this year. Get you a big old container. Fill it up with jungle Land. Jungle Land is a product distributed by Nitrofoss. You want the one that's called the Flour and Vegetable Planting Soil. That's it.

Make sure your container has good drainage. Jungle Land will let the excess water go go out the bottom, but it'll hold onto water to help that plant because you know well, plants use a lot of water in a container. They have confined roots. So you need a big container so you hold more soil, and you need to water it adequately. Jungle Land will do that. It is you add a little good quality plant food to that container into the jungle Land soil, and you've got something that is going to go very

well. I'd use a slow release fertilizer. You could use anything you want, just as long as it's providing the nutrients for your plants. Now, jungle Land is made of four different sources of age compost material, including Canadian blonde peat and of the micro risal fungi that help your plans to thrive. If you're down in Angleton Lake Hardware's got it, if you're in Baytown, Fisher's Hardware has got it, or maybe up in Tambala at d and defeed

you're going to find the jungle and type nitropost products there as well. I want to head out now to bel Air and we're going to talk to Mary. Hello. Mary, Hi, how are you doing. I'm well, how are you good? Thank you, thank you for taking my call. My question is a few months ago, and I think it was a rebroadcast. You were reading off a list of the top I don't know, fifty or one hundred things you could do to help your trees. Yes, and

it was a fascinating list. And I looked everywhere on the website I couldn't find it. So I was wondering if you could tell me where to find that. I think what you're doing talking about it wasn't just trees. It was a fifty list of oh my gosh, what was it, fifty things of Josh, we were doing fifty something but yes, yeah, fifty best gardening practices I think, and it probably had three things in it. If you go to the website and look at past shows you can find it.

It's been a while since I did it. You can also do the iHeart podcast. If you've got the Heart media app, you can go back and listen to podcasts on that as well. But it's back there a while. I my price, Yeah, my producer is telling me December thirtieth, he believes is when we put that on. Okay, great, thank you so much. It was really good. I didn't get to listen to all of it, and so it was worth a call. I'm glad to hear that. You God great, Thank you so much. All right, thank you

very much. I appreciate, appreciate your co Thank you. Glad to have you as a listener, very much. Hey, I want to tell you about a new product that Medina has released. It is part of the has to Grow line. You know there's a number of different has to Grow products by Medina. This is called super Grow Plus super Grow Plus and here's the three numbers on it, sixteen zero two. Now it is formulated to promote good growth on your plants. Now Primarily it hooks up to a garden hose

by the way and you spray it. Primarily we use it on our lawns. If you've got a typically people buy it by the court. You can buy it by the gallon, but a court will cover about four thousand square feet about four thousand. It has zero phosphorus the middle number. And I want to tell you this. I did a study of years ago. This

was over in Austin, Texas, on a black clay soil. We got black clay soils here and in a neighborhood of two hundred homes that have been fertilized for years, those two hundred homes, there was not one home that needed phosphorus. Now that doesn't mean over here in Houston your yard doesn't need phosphorus. But I can tell you this. If you have a clay soil and it's been fertilized, the phosphorus is the one element that most sticks around.

It literally adheres to the soil particles just like you drop If you had a if your soil was magnets and you dropped iron filings on it, what would happen? They wouldn't even make it past the surface. They would tie right up to those magnets. That's kind of how phosphorus works. And I like this Medina product because we know we need low phosphilus. It doesn't have any in it, and I you have your soil tested to be sure.

But it works very very well. It's got about it's got sixteen percent nitrogen, but about about a fifth of that nitrogen is in a slow release form that gradually releases over time. So just another reason to use it. If you are looking for something to get you a good release and then continue to have some available nutrients in a hose in sprayer, this will do it. Now it also has iron in a chylated form. What does that mean?

That means the iron has bodyguard around it that doesn't let the soil lock it up and the plant roots come by and they can get it. That is the importance of key leaded iron. I'm really excited about the has to Grow Supergrow plus sixteen zero two as something that you can get out there. You can go over it real quick. It's got molasses, it's got humic acid in it. It's just a great concoction to help feed the soil and the plants. Now I know people that use it in a garden as well,

and you have no reason you can't do that. Spright on the fold, it's not gonna burn it, spread it down on the soil itself, just like you would in your lawn. You decide where you want to go with supergrow Plus. Primarily we think of it as a lawn fertilizer, but as we know, with a lot of fertilizers, that doesn't mean it only has to go on the lawn. Everywhere Medina is sold now supergrow plus is being

available. Glad they added that to the list. I think that's a good You know, some states now I have laws, some areas like the Chesapbeake Bay up in the DC direction, that Chesapeake Bay area, they have such an issue with phosphorus in the water and the effects it has on degrading water quality, aligal balloons, and other issues that they ban phosphorus from the fertilizers, you know, or maybe some areas you have to get a prescription literally

saying your soil needs phosphorus, and that way they can sell it to you. We're not that point in Texas here, but I think Medina is really getting ahead of the boat and recognizing the fact that a product like this will have a wide marketability, not just here but other places, but certainly something here. I've got a sample of it fixing to put it out on the lawn. You had to wait and get my lawn in this year. I wanted to use it earlier, but I'm waiting to get it in a little

bit later. But I've seen the results with other folks. I know it's going to do very, very well. Have you been to Warren's or Kingwood Garden Centers out there in Kingwood, Texas? If not, you need to go Warrens and Kingwood both. They just have everything that you need. I mean, do you need kalladium bulbs for shade color? Do you need bougainvillias? Do you need tropicals like hibiscus or oleander, passion vine a mandavilla? What a beautiful pink vine. Ecera another good one, lots of color.

They've got the super turf that I talk about on garden Line, nitrofive super turf. They've got the Nelson Slow and Easy n stock and listen, you need to go look at the salsa dancer hibiscus out there at Warren's salls a dancer, the leaves I don't even have the color vocabulary to describe them, but I'm just going to say pink with green with a little bit of yellowing in it, and then a very dark burgundy color. Even if the thing never bloomed, it would be a beautiful plant. But it also blooms.

Salsa dancer, hibiscus, go out to Warrens and say, I want to see your salsa dancer. While you're out there, pick up some of those quality fertilizers and other products. Time to turn it over to Nikki, will be right back. It's seven one three two one two KTRH. Welcome back to Guardline. Good heavy with us today. What are we going to talk about? Well, when you call, that helps determine it. That and the fact that I got things I just have to talk about every day.

One thing I have to talk about today is if you want to have a beautiful lawn, especially when you're dealing with a clay soil that's got some compaction, deep core aeration along with compost top dressing. We'll do the trick to helping that root system to thrive. Remember the brown stuff first, the root system roots need oxygen. Compacted clay does not let oxygen down into the root

system. So when you have the folks at Greenpro, for example, come out and do an aerration on your lawn and then follow that with the compost top dressing, you just open things up for the roots to thrive and therefore for the lawn to thrive. Now green Pro is up in the Magnolia area and their service area is pretty much, you know, kind of from north central let's say Interstate forty five to Interstate ten and that's a rough estimate.

Basically they go, oh about forty five minutes from the Montgomery or the Magnolia area, So Spring, Cyprus, the Woodlands, Conroe, Willis, Magnolia, Montgomery out west to Katie and West Houston to Central Houston, North Houston. That's your area. Here's what you need to do. Just go to the website greenpro dot net, greenpro dot net, have them come out take care of things. They've been doing this longer in anybody in the Houston area.

They really have. And grass benefits so much from this. This is an investment. It is not cheap to have it done, I'll tell you. I'll just tell you that. But it's cheaper than putting in a new lawn and after last summer, we need to give our lawns all the benefit that we can have. It's a lot less expensive than resodding. Greenpro dot net that's the website, and you want them because they have quality equipment that pops a plug out of the ground and then the finely screen compost that falls

into those holes and just makes a lot better. Just as simple as that. I'm going to go to port and that's just and talk to Jenet. Hello, Jenet, Hello, scrip, how are you. I'm well, ma'am? What's up today? Well? I just bought two cage and habiscuits and they're beautiful. Two of them were blooming and I went out there yesterday. You look at them and they had little bitty black bugs bugs all over the blooms and when I touched them, they just slowly crawls off. They

didn't fly or anything. And they're real small. Do you know what that is? And now I could treat it. Well, there's a lot of little black bugs out there in nature, but it could be there are types of aphids that are very dark colored like that. It could have been one of those. What I would do if they were on there with that description there. There's not a good bug that's a that fits that. I think

they're probably if it's I would get you some insecticidal soap. That's about the safest product you can buy in terms of human toxicity or anything, because we give our baths, our body of bath and soap every day. So just get some soap. Mix it accordial, the label not too strong, follow the label, and in the morning, early or on a cloudy day like today, just squirt them with it. And you got to squirt upward from

underneath because there's a lot of times they're under the leaves. Sometimes they are clustered around the buds. Soap is not a poison. You got to give them a bath in it, So spray accordingly. Okay, yeah, sure do, Thank you. You have a good gay, all right, and then send me a picture. I love cajun hibiscus. Oh god. They are eight inches across there, yellow with a red throat. Are Yeah. I'm gonna be at ARCW today and you know they've got cajun hibiscus. That's

part of that twenty percent off sales. So if you've never seen it, go online, look at a picture of them, or just come out to arcyw Today, let's get you fixed up with some of those one of the most beautiful biscuits I've ever seen. We're gonna go now to Tony and mont Bellevue. Hello, Tony, Oh, good morning. How you doing. I'm good, sir. What's up? I have a lot of oh pauls

mav okay holding under my fig trees. Need to know what I spray with, okay and not pork the fig trees is is this is this poison ivy? You know, like a really robust vine that has a little trunk on it or is it more just a whole bunch of it growing almost like a ground caffe. Oh but it's where's some ground cover? All right? So the products that work on it will also kill your fig So you need to

be careful with this. I if you you can get a product that contains triclop here tri clo p y R, but I don't want you to spray it. If possible, if you're really careful spraying it and you barely get a little bit on the poison ivy and you don't have missed and drift and stuff going up and getting on your fig trees, you can spray it. But you can't have any shoots coming out of the bottom of the fig that are green, because you're inevitably going to get some on it, and you

don't want to do that. I would use a wiper type of an applicator, and you can figure out a way to devise it yourself. But anything that you have that you could drag across there that has a triclop pere already soaked into it and just wipe it over the poison ivy and then take that thing straight to the trash and drop it in because it's gonna have poison ivy oil all over it too. But anything you can do to wipe it onto that poison ivy that will work, uh, to translocate down and kill the

poison ivy. But just remember it kills brush, and it kills fruit trees, and it kills shrubs and other trees if you get it on the green foliage or if you overapply it. You don't want to overapply it and don't do it right before it rains. So today we're gonna get a little bit of rain. Maybe later, let's get past this. Tomorrow is gonna be a better day for that. Uh. And and apply it, okay, Yes, track cloth Peer try cloth pier is the ingredient. You may you

go shopping, you know out there in Mont Bellevue. You're gonna maybe you're gonna go to a Ace hardware store or something, uh, you know somewhere. Yeah we got we got a fish. Yeah, you absolutely do, and so uh just yeah, just look for that. It may be called poison, ivy killer or brush killer or who knows what, but try clo peer is the ing all right, tony, good luck, all right, you bet boys. Ivy that is a that is a problem, that is

for sure. You know. The the folks at Nelson's have created just a couple of awesome blends for your summer lawn care, part of the Turf Star line, Bruce's Blue Brew and Bruce's Brew Is. It's the right ratio. It's a three to one to two ratio. It's it's going to feed your lawn quite a bit now, and it'll feed a little bit gradually over time. It's got a little bit of a slow release in it, although it's

primarily a fast release now. Slow and Easy, on the other hand, is primarily a slow release, and it'll feed for a very long time. Either way you go, you're not going to do wrong. I like the Slow and Easy it has. It has an acidifying effect on the soil, it's got a gradual release. It will help feed the microbes in the soil, and it also has the nutrient blend that is just an excellent way to create density over time in your lawn. And when you gradually feed a lawn

over time, you get good root growth and top growth. When you overdo the rogen too much at one time, you get top growth at the expense of root growth in the summer. So slow and Easy or the bruces Brew applied in the right way, it's going to provide exactly what your line needs to thrive. And that's just typical of the products from Nelson Plant Food, especially in this turf Star line that we're talking about right now. We're going to take a quick break. We will be back in just a moment.

If you'd like to get on the boards, we got an open board. You can actually get a head start by colling seven one three two one two kt r H. Welcome back to card Line. Good to have you with us today. What are we going to talk about? Well, we're gonna find out when we go to the phones, which we are going to do right now. We're going to talk to Lewis in Galveston. Hey, Lewis,

good morning, and Lewis or Louise, he's Lewis. Okay. So I have I have these boguindas of which, in fact, were featured in Coast magazine a couple of years ago because they were so bountiful and beautiful colors, salmon color, the reds at any rate, this past winter we had a freeze which I didn't consider to be a hard freeze, that kind of mild actually in comparison to the past. However, the bogan pe has suffered.

So the spring I cut them back a bit. I'm and I'm noticing that the branches in which when I go to bend, they don't snap, and that tells me there's still some green in there, some light. However, they're not flowering yet. They're flowering at the bottom. I can see the green coming up. So my question to you is should I be cutting them all the way down? Of these what branches appear to be brown and dead? But I'm just wondering if I leave them alone, will the flowering

catch up with those with the already growth. That's good. That's a good question, Louise Lewis. I can't. I can't take you for sure without looking at them and and handling on myself. But based on what you said, I give them a little more time to see if those come on out. My gut feeling is they're not going to come out and produce for you like you want them to. But I wouldn't give up on them just quite

yet. You give them a little bit more time, and then if you want to go in and you know, surgically remove those, go ahead and do that and cutting back how far down to the bottom or what are your thoughts? Hey, you know you can do that either way. There's not really a right or wrong on it. I mean, if you want to shear back and get more branching and stuff, you can, or you can just take them all out. But again I would scratch the bark a little

bit too and look underneath the surface. Maybe the color underneath that outer, that thin outer bark surface will help guide you as to whether or not it's going to make it. Is it a creamy, healthy white, light green, whatever, or is it a brown paper sack brown color indicating yeah, they may be a little supple, but they're basically dead, So okay, and do it. So I've noticed that like it's moist when you scratch back the bark, there's a little bit of like moist or wetness to it,

and it is a creamy white. Okay. I'm just wondering what's taking so long for it to pop? You know, I don't I don't know that. I mean, I could speculate as different things that might point to that, but bottom line is I'd give them a little more time, give them another two three weeks, and then cut them back if they haven't done something by then, thank you very much, appreciate it. They like warm weather, so I'm trying to give them a little time to be sleepy heads and

go ahead and wake up. Okay, sounds good, all right, Luis, thank you, appreciate, appreciate you. Cover. I'll tell you selfless fertilizer is a place you hear me talk about all the time, and it's because you know, someone walks out and says, I need such and such product, it's brand new, where can I get it? Or they'll go in and say I've got this really obscure thing. Do you know where I can find it, Well, I would just say, called Bob Southwest Fertilizer,

because if they don't have it, you don't need it. And if it exists on the market, they're going to have it. They specialize number one. If I talk about any product on guardline, they're gonna have it at Southwest Fertilizer. They are committed to that. If you hear about new things, you know recently you've heard me say Celsius as an example of a weed control product, Well, that's just not a real common product. There are places you can find it, but new stuff like that, Bob's already

going to have it. He just is. And so every fertilizer we talk about they've got. Do you need a little small engine repair, They got a shop in the back. You need something sharpened, they got a shop in the back. Do you want a quality tool? Eighty foot wall of tools eighty feet long. You just wander down the wall and I mean everything you would need is there. You hear me talk about those little grabber tools you grab off a shelf and I invert them into a weed wiper applicator with

sponges. Bob's got I think it has two different kinds of those on the shelf. They're at Southwest Fertilizer, corner of Bissinet and Renwick, Southwest Houston, worth of drive from wherever you are. Southwest Fertilizer dot Com highly recommend that always I go in there. You know, sometimes I actually go in there just to see what's new, because there'll be things the companies don't notify me. Hey, we hear you're on the radio. Here's a product we're

putting. I mean some do, but basically I got to go into the retailers and see what's on the market now, what's new, and I can know when I go to Southwest, I'm going to find the answer to that question. We're going to go to Clairelake now and talk to Emily. Hello, Emily, Hi, good morning, good morning. How are you well? Thank you? We'll good. I have a besa plant. It's about four feet tall, but it's gotten sticky and I'm looking into the leaves.

I see these little white bugs. And I've sprayed it with some insecticidal soap and rinsed it off, but it's still still not doing well. But they are they are bugs. They're not just little things kind of on the leaf, but they're actually crawling around. Well when I go rub it, they fly off. Oh okay, well then now we got white flies. Now we know a little more. That's good to know. You know, white flies. You can control them with certain insecticides. But it's a tricky thing.

And here's why. When you spray, you kill the things that eat white flies, and they have their pen they have their natural enemies out there, and so you kind of get on a treadmill where you're killing the white flies, but they bounce back faster than the things that we're eating, and so you end up then the whole job is yours, rather than having the help of the beneficials. I would I would try to hold off of that

as best you can. I know it's hard to look at, but insecticidal soap only works on what you get it on that you give it a bath with. So the white fly of the adults, it's not going to work on those, they fly away. The pupa look like little tiny scales stuck underneath the leaf. I mean tinier than a slowercase type zero and so or typed oh letter O. It's even smaller than zero. They're smaller than that and the soap can help on those, but the larval stage it works,

is best on those. So I think maybe living with it would be one thing to do and letting the beneficial insects rebalance nature for you there. Otherwise you could also switch to a horticultural oil, but you know, with basil you're wanting to eat the leaves and everything else, and so we don't want to put too much on there, even if it's safe like oil and soap, don't want any kind of flavor changes to that basil leaf. Okay, all right, sir, all right, thank you? Well, yes,

thank you very much. And how many basil plants do you have, Emily Roughly? Well, I just have the one, but it's a culstified you tall, holy cow. Yeah, I just take off the leaf when I'm cooking or something. Oh you took it through winter, then, yes, I did? Oh wow. Okay, well, congratulations on that. I think I would live with it, and you're still going to get basil out of it, and I think in time it's going to settle in. Otherwise, you can try getting out there doing the spring we talked about. But

I'll tell you a white flies are a little bit of a problem. When it comes to trying to spray your round on an adible plan. Yeah yeah, all right, sir, Well, I thank you for your time. All right, thank you, appreciate, appreciate the call. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. But I don't know. I think I think you're going to still have a good basil harvest from it. Anyway. Well, you're listening to garden line. We are about out of time today,

about put another one in the books. Before you go. I want to tell you if you've not been out to Nelson water Garden, you've got to get out there. It is amazing. Now this is Nelson water Garden, nursery and water garden, I should say. And I've bragged about the water gardens, about the fact they come out and they'll build one at your property, a little waterfall, or put up a beautiful container that spills over the sides and the fish and the water plants on it. I've talked about that

all the time. That is what they're the national known leader in. They really are. They've been doing this a long time. They aren't new to this game. They were water garden before water garden was cool, let me put it that way. But I won't tell you about the nursery. When you think of Nelson Nurshering Water Garden, you think about fruit trees. I'm talking about lemon trees, lime trees, mandarins, oranges, navels, Kalamandan's

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