WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.200 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:19.679 advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor so just 3 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:36.200 watching a good morning, Good Saturday morning. You're glad you're listening to garden 4 00:00:36.240 --> 00:00:40.840 Line. Looking forward to talking to you about whatever is of interest to you 5 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:46.520 regarding gardening. Maybe got some questions things we can help with. Well, 6 00:00:46.520 --> 00:00:52.039 that's why we're here. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four 7 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:56.359 seven one three two one two kat r H. Give us a call and 8 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:02.039 let's see what is of interest to you. Well, I guess the news 9 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:06.040 of the week is it's going to get hot. It is absolutely blazing. 10 00:01:06.599 --> 00:01:10.799 So you know, when it's that hot, it's during the daytime, you 11 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:12.439 just kind of don't want to be out there in the blazing sun. Right, 12 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:18.319 So I get that, But that doesn't mean gardening stops. There's a 13 00:01:18.359 --> 00:01:21.920 lot going on. If we are given our plants the water they need to 14 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.159 keep going. There's plenty happening out in the landscape, from the flowers to 15 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.359 the vegetables, to the landscape plants around the beds, the lawn and trees. 16 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:36.400 Our plants are able if we if we chosen wisely, they're able to 17 00:01:36.439 --> 00:01:41.560 survive in the kind of temperatures and the conditions climate in general that we have 18 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:46.760 here in the Greater Houston area. That you know, the the choice of 19 00:01:46.840 --> 00:01:53.079 plants is so important, and that that is just we learn, we get 20 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:55.760 to relearn. I don't know if you're like me, but there's things that 21 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:00.040 I used to know that I tend to kind of forget and maybe think I 22 00:02:00.079 --> 00:02:02.719 can get away with them. But no, No, When we plant things 23 00:02:02.719 --> 00:02:07.239 that are adapted, they do well and they get better. When we plant 24 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:10.879 things that are not adapted, we end up having problems and it's a it's 25 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.800 wasted money, it's a disappointment. But that's not necessary. We have so 26 00:02:15.840 --> 00:02:19.319 many great plants that'll do wear here well here Now. I know in the 27 00:02:19.400 --> 00:02:23.960 summer, a lot of Texans galivant off to Colorado to enjoy a vacation. 28 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:29.520 Well, don't bring those kind of Columbines. Don't bring blue spruce little trees 29 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:32.639 that they'll sell you and don't bring that back. There ought to be a 30 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.919 you know how that you go through customs and they check all your bags and 31 00:02:37.960 --> 00:02:40.919 everything. They ought to have a custom somewhere up in the Panhandle of Texas. 32 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.800 As people come back from Colorado and they rummage through your car and if 33 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:50.120 you have any any blue spruce or Colorado columbines, you know, they take 34 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:53.000 away. Yeah, I've known a lot of people wouldn't like that, but 35 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:57.439 the plants would love to be sent back to Colorado where they're from or where 36 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.599 they enjoy growing. And you know, we plant the things that want to 37 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:04.120 be planted here, and I'm gonna talk about some of those plants this morning. 38 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:08.280 First thing I want to do, though, I want to head out. 39 00:03:08.319 --> 00:03:13.039 We're going to go to Kingwood and talk to Angelo this morning. Good 40 00:03:13.039 --> 00:03:15.280 morning Angelo, How are you today, sir? I'm well, thanks. 41 00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:20.639 Okay, Hey, I got some really really big hilapinos at the store the 42 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:24.120 other day and I'm saving the seeds to turn around and plant this fall. 43 00:03:24.560 --> 00:03:28.520 I just want to know if you could tell me sort of the way you 44 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.800 go about saving them, how long before you could actually plant them in? 45 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:37.039 Just basically, what can I do with these plants a sort of seeds to 46 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:40.680 save them to plant in about August? Okay, I'm happy to go of 47 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:46.400 that. First. I want to say that when you buy produce from the 48 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:51.680 store or if you have a quality plant. Like let's say it's a wonderful 49 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.879 variety of peach at the house, a wonderful variety of tomato. Chances are 50 00:03:54.599 --> 00:04:00.280 their hybrids. And hybrids mean it's a mix of genetics. So when you 51 00:04:00.319 --> 00:04:02.840 plant the seed. The analogy I use is it's kind of like kids. 52 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:05.439 I mean, look at all the kids in a family and then look at 53 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:09.800 the mom and the dad, and there's not an identical match. Usually, 54 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:14.000 although when they I found that when they get in big trouble genetically, they're 55 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:19.680 usually attributed to me. Yeah, yeah, seriously. So you'll have good 56 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:23.000 you'll have a great alpen you come out of it. But it may not 57 00:04:23.079 --> 00:04:25.639 be as big as the ones you know, the chat in the store. 58 00:04:25.680 --> 00:04:30.759 It may not be as disease resistant or whatever the particular characteristic is. But 59 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.360 saving seeds is fun. So you want to you want to take the seeds 60 00:04:33.360 --> 00:04:38.519 out and dry them, put them on a paper towel or you know it's 61 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:41.959 a cardboard or whatever, just let them fully dry it. I'd say, 62 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:46.040 give them probably a couple of weeks, and I often put mine in the 63 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:49.560 garage, even though it's kind of really hot in the garage. That's okay. 64 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:54.720 They'll dry. Once they're dry, then you want to package them up 65 00:04:54.759 --> 00:04:59.480 and put them in a airtight container. You can use glass jars. I 66 00:04:59.639 --> 00:05:04.959 often use those locked down rubber sealed food containers like you would put your soup 67 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:10.720 in when dinner's left over. Correct, right, Yeah, but you don't 68 00:05:10.720 --> 00:05:13.759 want to have air If you have a little packet, one of those dessicate 69 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:19.160 packets that comes in you know, supplements or come when you buy electronics, 70 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:23.480 save those little pockets because you can throw those in there and that will also 71 00:05:23.519 --> 00:05:26.839 take moisture out of the air and put them in the refrigerator and they will 72 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:29.680 store as long as you need them to store. You can put them in 73 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:31.879 the freezer too, But either way, once they're dry, they can go 74 00:05:31.959 --> 00:05:35.759 either place. So how long would that take? After a couple of weeks 75 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:42.000 on the paper towel and then put them in say like a baby jar or 76 00:05:42.040 --> 00:05:45.879 a mason jar and here tight, how long before you can actually turn around 77 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:49.040 and plant those back into the garden? I was opening this August. Now, 78 00:05:49.079 --> 00:05:54.439 once you've stored them whatever, the next day if you want, you 79 00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:58.160 know, I mean, they don't have to store in cold to be planted. 80 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:01.480 It's cold, is just to hold them at the viability that they are 81 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:06.480 going into storage until whenever you want to take them out, whether it's tomorrow, 82 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:12.319 three months from now, two years from now. So you're basically what 83 00:06:12.399 --> 00:06:15.519 you're saying, I'm thinking maybe until August first or something from if I had 84 00:06:15.680 --> 00:06:19.759 started them the other day, just as your Yeah, so you're asking me 85 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:25.519 when can you plant them? Yeah, for fall and everything? Well I 86 00:06:25.560 --> 00:06:28.600 got you, Okay, Well, if you just want to know when when 87 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:31.560 should I plant the peppers? You can plant them anytime you want them. 88 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:35.279 You can plant them in the summer. They're not going to produce until the 89 00:06:35.399 --> 00:06:40.959 weather cools a bit in the fall. But I would I wouldn't delay Angelo, 90 00:06:41.000 --> 00:06:44.600 I would get them in the ground soon. Get get you if you 91 00:06:44.680 --> 00:06:46.879 want to start them as a transplant first and then move them out into the 92 00:06:46.920 --> 00:06:51.560 garden, because the goal is to grow the biggest pepper plant you can. 93 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:59.879 And so you know, if you waited until July to plant them your plan, 94 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:01.560 it's not going to be quite as large in fall as it would be 95 00:07:01.639 --> 00:07:06.040 now if you waited until August that that's actually too late to plant from seed 96 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:10.399 to pepper. So I would want that soon. Yeah, it's just so 97 00:07:10.439 --> 00:07:12.920 hard to keep up with them with this seat. You're like, you don't 98 00:07:12.920 --> 00:07:15.519 want to overwater, but you know you gotta do something. Yeah, yeah, 99 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:18.040 it is. And I mean, I don't know how big your garden 100 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.959 is, how many plants you want to grow, but you could you could 101 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:26.480 put them in a container that's maybe in good morning sun, a little bit 102 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:30.079 late late day shade, especially when we're going through this one hundred degrees. 103 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.680 Okay, Well, thank you, because I've been trying to do a lot 104 00:07:32.680 --> 00:07:36.120 of that saving the pepper season. I've been successful and I've had dud so 105 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:40.720 I'm just trying to sort of get it down to a science. But I 106 00:07:40.759 --> 00:07:42.959 thank you very much for your information. All Right, thank you, sir. 107 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:46.639 I apprect you take care of it. Yeah, I want to. 108 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:49.879 I want to tell you if you've got a if you've got a lawn that 109 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:55.319 has not been fertilized yet this summer, you need to consider going ahead and 110 00:07:55.399 --> 00:08:01.519 putting down nitro Fist Super Turf nineteen four ten. That is a slow release 111 00:08:01.759 --> 00:08:07.279 fertilizer. It will gradually release, so it doesn't increase the mowing like you 112 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:11.199 know a quick release fertilizer would. It doesn't lead to disease and insect problems 113 00:08:11.199 --> 00:08:15.600 like like a chinch bugs. Like a fertilizer that just creates a lot of 114 00:08:15.639 --> 00:08:20.879 fast, succulent new growth, but it will feed your lawn for three months. 115 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:26.480 Are more out going into the summertime. Nitro file superturf nineteen four tens 116 00:08:26.560 --> 00:08:30.120 one of them. Many nitro FoST products. And where do you find nitro 117 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.279 foss, Well, where do you shop? I mean it's pretty much everywhere 118 00:08:33.320 --> 00:08:35.759 you would see specifically. You know, if you're going to the Ace hardware 119 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.720 stores, you're going to find nitro foss. If you're out at Arbogate, 120 00:08:39.759 --> 00:08:43.799 You're going to find nitro foss, Fisher's Hardware. Down in South Houston, 121 00:08:43.080 --> 00:08:50.360 growers out linen Willis. Wherever you find nitro FoST products, look for nineteen 122 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:54.120 four ten. That is a fertilizer that takes you through summer and keeps your 123 00:08:54.159 --> 00:08:58.120 grass healthy and beautiful at the same time. We're gonna take a break. 124 00:08:58.200 --> 00:09:01.759 Our phone numbers seven one, three, two, one, two, fifty 125 00:09:01.840 --> 00:09:03.399 eight, seventy four, and Bob, you'll be first when we come back. 126 00:09:22.679 --> 00:09:26.039 Well, good morning. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, 127 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:28.919 Skip Rictor. We're here to asker your gardening questions were visiting with you 128 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:35.519 about whatever kinds of things or horticulturally of interest to you. Let's start by 129 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:41.879 heading out to Bob in clear Lake. Hello, Bob, Yep, I've 130 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:48.200 got a problem. I've got a situation developing that I'm not exactly sure how 131 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:52.919 what the outcome might be. Happened a few months ago, we have a 132 00:09:52.919 --> 00:09:56.480 lot of thirty foot pine tree that's got struck by lightning. The lightning started 133 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:01.559 at the top and kind of worked its way down this side, uh, 134 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:03.720 and there was a sable palm at the base, and it blew it out. 135 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:11.360 Um. Now I've noticed that one side of the tree, the limbs 136 00:10:11.360 --> 00:10:15.480 aren't are dying, and I'm wondering if the lightning would just you know, 137 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:20.039 take part of the pine tree out, but not the whole pine tree if 138 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:22.039 uh, you know, if I have to remove it, it's probably a 139 00:10:22.080 --> 00:10:24.759 thirty footer, So I mean, it's not going to be a cheap, 140 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:28.840 you know, a cheap venture to take care of that. I was just 141 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:31.960 wondering what you might think, should I take it out now? Should I 142 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:37.840 plan on doing this, or should I wait to see what's if the tree 143 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:41.120 actually dies? Yeah? That's a good that's a good question. Here's the 144 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:45.559 here's the challenge of entering. You know, I can't see exactly the extent 145 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.480 of injury. Let me ask you a couple of questions. When you follow 146 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:52.200 the lightning strike down the trunk, it is it going straight or is it 147 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.679 kind of barber pole spiraling around as it goes down? It was straight straight, 148 00:10:56.799 --> 00:11:03.240 Okay, well, yeah, it was usually pines lightning as kind of 149 00:11:03.240 --> 00:11:07.519 the death sentence, and it may not. It often kills them quickly. 150 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:15.639 Sometimes they survive. But then you have this large gaping wound that's going down 151 00:11:15.679 --> 00:11:20.399 through bark tissues that aren't designed to callous and heel as fast as if you 152 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:22.879 cut a limb off on a tree, And so you end up with this 153 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:30.360 gap and it doesn't close very fast, and the water and decay gets into 154 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:35.840 the interior wood and pine lumber rots readily, very readily. Yeah, and 155 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.879 so there's a long term Yeah, there's not a future in it. That 156 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.960 one decision about taking it down is once it starts the bark, it dies, 157 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:46.039 bark starts to fall off. It's hard to climb that tree, and 158 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:50.480 so people that are taking it down, it's a it's a hazard for them. 159 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:52.639 So it's better to get done sooner than later if you're going to do 160 00:11:52.720 --> 00:12:01.519 it. But the bark hasn't fallen off anywhere. Was surrounded by azaleas, 161 00:12:01.120 --> 00:12:05.799 so we're feeding the azaleas and watering them. So the pine trees, we 162 00:12:05.879 --> 00:12:09.399 always figured it was pretty healthy. Yeah, well, so you know it's 163 00:12:11.200 --> 00:12:13.720 I can't I don't have the crystal ball to tell you for sure on it. 164 00:12:13.799 --> 00:12:18.879 I can just tell you most of the time, there's the long term 165 00:12:18.919 --> 00:12:22.919 prognosis is not good. The short term may not be not good. But 166 00:12:24.279 --> 00:12:26.200 your pine tree could prove me wrong and it could go on living for years. 167 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:31.799 But wherever you have exposed in or bark down the line, it's when 168 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:37.440 rot starts then you got real potential for hazard there. Well yeah, well 169 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.399 when it first happened, it went up there with some seal had a guy 170 00:12:41.639 --> 00:12:43.480 us and he kind of came over and we sprayed it. He had some 171 00:12:43.559 --> 00:12:48.279 kind of celant that he sprayed all as far as we could go up Okay, 172 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:52.039 so I mean we did do that. Yeah, and all of a 173 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.679 sudden I noticed that there's a couple of the leaves, you know, I 174 00:12:54.679 --> 00:12:58.720 mean, our branches aren't aren't producing any any needles or anything. I mean, 175 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:01.679 they're dead. Well, I I'd give it a little bit of time 176 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:05.840 and watch and if you lose a good section of the crown, you know, 177 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:09.399 I just I know, you hate to take down a tree. I 178 00:13:09.440 --> 00:13:13.879 know it's expense and it's a nice tree you got, But I think just 179 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:18.960 facing reality if you don't see, if it's a very minor amount that's lost 180 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:20.759 and you want to hang on a while, that that's fine. But otherwise 181 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:26.559 I think i'd bite the bullet plan on taking it out. Yeah, Okay, 182 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:30.360 there are pines out there with minor strikes, but it sounds like when 183 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:33.559 you started describing it that that wasn't a minor strike. Yeah, it's probably 184 00:13:33.600 --> 00:13:35.720 a thirty foot tree. You know. When it came all the way down, 185 00:13:35.799 --> 00:13:39.240 I mean it was I was standing in the kitchen looking out the window 186 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:43.320 and saw it happen. Wow, And I mean it was a shocking thing. 187 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.440 You know. I took a step back a whoa. I know, 188 00:13:46.799 --> 00:13:52.240 it literally explode, it explodes. It blew the stagle palm right out of 189 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.279 the ground. Yeah, and this is you know, it's hard to say 190 00:13:56.320 --> 00:13:58.480 this is a fun, cool fact when you're talking about somebody losing a tree. 191 00:13:58.519 --> 00:14:03.200 But you think about popcorn. When you make popcorn, you turn the 192 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:07.679 moisture in the popcorn kernel instantly into a gas and it explodes. And that's 193 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.200 what lightning does to the moisture in the bark of the cambium and bark of 194 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:16.240 the tree. It instantly vapors it, and it's basically like popcorn. It 195 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:20.159 blow literally explodes off it did. Okay, all right, all right, 196 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:24.639 well thanks for advice. Oh and by the way, can I make one 197 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:28.360 comment about your previous collar about the peppers? Sure we use that fox farm 198 00:14:28.399 --> 00:14:33.440 beaky ballooms on ours. Okay, I just dig a hole with my hand 199 00:14:33.480 --> 00:14:35.960 and shoved the season and they grow like crazy. Sound like you got a 200 00:14:35.960 --> 00:14:39.080 green thumb. Hey, Bob, Thanks, I appreciate that call very much. 201 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:43.440 You know, we're talking about the peppers, and it reminded me this 202 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:46.240 weekend. I saw, well it's been going on for a few weeks, 203 00:14:46.240 --> 00:14:52.759 but Buchanan's has a pepper sale. A little four inch plants one dollar each. 204 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.000 I mean, that is a great deal. And listen, now's the 205 00:14:56.080 --> 00:15:00.279 time to plat peppers. I know it's one hundred degrees. We plan in 206 00:15:00.279 --> 00:15:03.000 the spring but if you'll plant them now, take care of them. When 207 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:07.360 we get to fall, you will have a much bigger pepper plant than if 208 00:15:07.360 --> 00:15:09.080 you wait till later in the summer to plant. And at a buck apiece, 209 00:15:09.200 --> 00:15:11.919 you can't beat that. And while you're out there, you know it's 210 00:15:11.200 --> 00:15:15.639 Father's Day weekend. They've got gift cards for Dad. That would be an 211 00:15:15.720 --> 00:15:18.440 awesome gift. Dad can go in buy whatever he wants. There's a really 212 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:24.919 nice tool selection at Buchanans to quality tools, all kinds of options that would 213 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:28.799 be a good selection too. I mean, Buchanans. You know it's worth 214 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.440 just for the plants to go there, but oh my gosh, there's so 215 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:37.080 many other reasons now to check out Buchanans this weekend. They're at Eleventh Street 216 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.919 in the Heights. You can go to online to Bucannons Plants dot com. 217 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:45.120 While you're there, sign up for the newsletter. They tell you all these 218 00:15:45.200 --> 00:15:50.120 kind of things going on, and also there's good educational material on their newsletter 219 00:15:50.159 --> 00:15:54.039 that you can learn from. Let's see, I believe we got a little 220 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:56.440 bit of time here. I'm going to go out and talk to Sandy in 221 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:02.799 Cyprus. Hello Sandy, I skip Thanks for taking my call. Good morning. 222 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:07.360 I have a question. I'm going to start with my Okra. Um. 223 00:16:07.159 --> 00:16:12.200 I talked to you a lot about my Okra. Yeah, it's in 224 00:16:12.240 --> 00:16:18.360 a big pot, and I've got fourth four that are in there. But 225 00:16:18.440 --> 00:16:22.799 my question is, I get these little bitty, tiny, tiny black spots 226 00:16:23.200 --> 00:16:27.000 on the back side of the league, Okay, not so much on the 227 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:32.679 front side. So I put neme oil on it, on both the front 228 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:37.559 and the back side. But the next morning they come back. So now 229 00:16:37.559 --> 00:16:41.399 that they're getting bigger, I'm not seeing them as much. But um, 230 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.759 should I once I spray them with nem oil, should I be wiping them 231 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:51.399 down? No? I don't think so, and I would hold off now 232 00:16:51.440 --> 00:16:53.600 on the neme oil. Any kind of oil when the temperature gets really hot, 233 00:16:55.320 --> 00:16:57.639 can burn plants, even oils that are made to spray on plants. 234 00:16:59.000 --> 00:17:00.759 We don't use those, you know, when it's one hundred degrees and the 235 00:17:00.799 --> 00:17:04.359 sun is baking down, So I would hold off. I don't know what 236 00:17:04.400 --> 00:17:08.519 the spots are based on your description, for sure, but they don't sound 237 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:14.519 like any major Okra disease that you would worry about. And Okra produces plenty 238 00:17:14.519 --> 00:17:18.480 of leaves, so I mean if you lost if you lost half the leaves 239 00:17:18.480 --> 00:17:22.519 on your okra plant, it would still produce okra very very well. So 240 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:26.799 some spots here and there on okra I wouldn't worry about. What about the 241 00:17:26.920 --> 00:17:33.319 little bity tiny tiny They look like little ants to me. Yeah, well, 242 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:37.119 ants go up and down plants all the time, and they have different 243 00:17:37.160 --> 00:17:41.079 reasons. Fire Ants will get up on okra just to kind of chew into 244 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:45.079 a pod and get the moisture and some of the oils that maybe you're up 245 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.920 in there. Uh so that is not a good thing. I mean, 246 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:51.680 you don't you don't want them up there, but that would just mean you 247 00:17:51.720 --> 00:17:56.759 want to control fire nts in general around the garden. Really tiny, Yeah, 248 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:00.640 I wouldn't worry about them. They're probably taking care of aphids, the 249 00:18:02.400 --> 00:18:07.240 ants, certain kinds of ants will Basically they're like dairy farmers and the apids 250 00:18:07.319 --> 00:18:11.839 or the cows, and they protect them and they they use their antennas to 251 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:15.200 get the aphids to produce some sugary substance for the ants to feed on. 252 00:18:17.039 --> 00:18:21.119 So again, not a real big deal. If afids are bad enough, 253 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:23.799 which I've never seen on an ochrah them that bad, then you could treat 254 00:18:23.839 --> 00:18:26.559 the apids, but I wouldn't worry about it, okay, okay. And 255 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:32.000 then I asked you about my weed and I sent pictures, and then you 256 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:34.440 asked if you could. You responded and said, to you, celsius. 257 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:41.720 But um, it's like really really hot. Is it okay to use celsius 258 00:18:41.799 --> 00:18:48.359 in this kind of weather? I would hold off. I know I've talked 259 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.720 to turf specialists and they use celsius on through the summer. But when we 260 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:55.839 get up in the upper nineties, I wouldn't do it. You know, 261 00:18:55.880 --> 00:19:00.000 if you want to when when we get out of this heat dome that we're 262 00:19:00.039 --> 00:19:03.799 in right now and it drops down into what normal temperatures would be, then 263 00:19:03.839 --> 00:19:07.079 I would probably use some you know, real late in the day or maybe 264 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:11.640 early in the morning where you're staying out of the hottest time of day. 265 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:17.039 I think that would be fine. I just wouldn't. I wouldn't do it 266 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:22.039 like right now. Yeah, And just out of curiosity, you had asked 267 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:26.640 to use my pictures that I think you yes, I'm just curious to see 268 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:32.920 what you would be using them for. Is it for posting them? Yeah? 269 00:19:32.960 --> 00:19:36.559 I do, well, I don't know. I do educational programs all 270 00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:38.440 the time, and so sometimes I get a picture of a weed and it's 271 00:19:38.440 --> 00:19:41.000 like, oh, that's a good I could use that and maybe what I'm 272 00:19:41.000 --> 00:19:45.359 doing a talk on weeds or something like that. Are putting a post. 273 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:48.079 I mean, I never use anybody's name on them. It just just yeah, 274 00:19:48.400 --> 00:19:52.839 that's having a good picture. Yeah that's it. Thank you so much, 275 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:56.440 Ski, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that call very much. 276 00:19:56.000 --> 00:19:59.640 If you'd like to get on the air with me, it's seven one 277 00:19:59.720 --> 00:20:03.920 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 278 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.440 eight seventy four. Hey, you guys know about ACE Hardware. I talk 279 00:20:07.480 --> 00:20:11.200 about them all the time. If you want to find your ACE locally, 280 00:20:11.519 --> 00:20:15.920 Ace Hardware dot Com, find the store locator button, click on it and 281 00:20:17.240 --> 00:20:19.880 you'll see all thirty nine in the Greater Houston area there is an ACE near 282 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:23.480 you. They carry the products, the fertilizers we talk about. They've got 283 00:20:23.519 --> 00:20:27.279 folks that know what they're talking about, that are friendly. They help you 284 00:20:29.359 --> 00:20:33.319 everything. When you go into ACE to buy fertilizer or to buy the products 285 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:36.759 that I'm talking about, check the whole store out. You will be you'll 286 00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:41.200 be a really amazed and impressed. Ace Hardware has everything and especially if you 287 00:20:41.240 --> 00:20:47.200 are a summer griller, check out the largest grilling selection on the market, 288 00:20:47.359 --> 00:21:08.359 Weber Trager, Big Green Egg, and more. Ace Hardware dot Com. 289 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:12.279 All right, all right, you picked me up going there in the music 290 00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:17.440 I love. I love the music that we come up with here on Guarden. 291 00:21:17.559 --> 00:21:22.480 Obviously its songs. I like songs. Josh likes and expands my musical 292 00:21:22.519 --> 00:21:23.799 tastes as well. I hope we do years too. We kind of have 293 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:27.119 a little fun with that. You know, if you have a landscape that 294 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:32.799 is good, but it's not great, it's not what you would like it 295 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:34.839 to be, you need to give Pierscapes a call because now is a good 296 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:40.599 time to get with them and to start a process of getting some renovations done. 297 00:21:40.839 --> 00:21:42.039 Maybe it's a new landscape you want to put in, Maybe you want 298 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:45.319 to renovate an old one. Maybe all you need is some hardscape, or 299 00:21:45.319 --> 00:21:49.079 you gotta drainage problem you need fixed. They can do all the above and 300 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:53.480 way way more. You can get a hold of them at Piercescapes dot com 301 00:21:53.519 --> 00:21:57.240 to learn more or give him a call. Seven excuse me, two eight, 302 00:21:57.319 --> 00:22:02.720 one three, seven zero five oh six oz two eight one three seven 303 00:22:02.799 --> 00:22:07.160 h five oh six oh pere escapes, peer escapes, landscapes for any kind 304 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:10.720 of landscape work that you need done. They know what they're doing. They've 305 00:22:10.759 --> 00:22:15.000 got trained tenured employees. I believe that at least ten years. You know, 306 00:22:15.039 --> 00:22:18.519 the longest tenured employees maybe twenty six years. I mean, these folks, 307 00:22:19.400 --> 00:22:22.960 they know what they're talking about, and they do quality work and you 308 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:27.599 will be amazed at what they can turn your landscape into. I want to 309 00:22:27.680 --> 00:22:33.079 head out to northwest Houston and talk to Ralph this morning. Good morning, 310 00:22:33.160 --> 00:22:37.720 Ralph, Good morning, good man. I have a storm come through my 311 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:44.960 place here and my big old Pocondrey tall tone and it took one of the 312 00:22:45.039 --> 00:22:52.480 whole big old land off and it was in the side of the main trunk. 313 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:55.920 And yeah, I don't have some money to look at it, but 314 00:22:56.359 --> 00:22:59.759 it's y'all. I guess I have to do it. But it watched up 315 00:22:59.839 --> 00:23:04.519 my garden too. I have that thing long with my big old garden back 316 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:11.440 here. But they have a thing. But the plants not doing any good? 317 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:17.319 Do you have? I guess my pot tomato plants stay this. But 318 00:23:17.799 --> 00:23:22.559 I just think what happens but yeah, I didn't even this whirl Foods storm 319 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:27.599 really hit him a ard. Well, you know there's gonna have time. 320 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:33.559 I mean it's hopefully give give the plants good care and you get that, 321 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:36.519 you get them going again. I don't know, did they you know, 322 00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:38.759 if the light change, like the pecan was shading them part day and now 323 00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:44.000 it's not, or any kind of any kind of change like that. Sometimes 324 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:47.200 plants aren't real happy with it. But I would just make sure in the 325 00:23:47.240 --> 00:23:51.440 summer heat you keeps us all moist but not saggy wet. A little fertilizer 326 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:53.559 if you haven't fertilized the walls always a good thing. Gives them some vigor 327 00:23:55.240 --> 00:23:57.200 and boost. But just know that when it's one hundred degrees, a lot 328 00:23:57.240 --> 00:24:00.279 of plants are just gonna kind of sit there, gonna move slow until we 329 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:07.640 get past this slow. Yeah, but a watering plants, I just just 330 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:11.599 good terrible this year. Man wanted to give me enough rain, But I've 331 00:24:11.599 --> 00:24:17.799 been watering and I got a new way of watering on holding water. Okay, 332 00:24:18.079 --> 00:24:21.039 I appreciate your program very much. Well, thank you, Ralph. 333 00:24:21.079 --> 00:24:23.720 I appreciate your call very much. If you'd like to be on guarden line 334 00:24:23.720 --> 00:24:29.759 seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one 335 00:24:29.799 --> 00:24:32.400 two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, do you have a little piece of 336 00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:36.319 land and you would like to have some equipment to help you take care of 337 00:24:36.359 --> 00:24:41.039 it. Well, here's I've got the deal for you. Cauboda tractor and 338 00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:45.960 Landsdown Moody. What a combination. We've got Landsdown Moody locations all through the 339 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:51.920 area. They have a deal on the Texas edition Cauboda L twenty five oh 340 00:24:52.000 --> 00:24:56.200 one. That's a tractor with hydrostatic transmission. It is tricked out. You 341 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:00.200 can add whatever you want, a front end loader. Maybe you want a 342 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:03.079 rotary cutter or a box blade to move some things around. Put it all 343 00:25:03.079 --> 00:25:07.759 together because you've got a deal going on right now until June thirtieth. June 344 00:25:07.920 --> 00:25:15.480 thirtieth's that's when it's over for seven years, eighty four months, zero down, 345 00:25:15.200 --> 00:25:22.039 zero interest. What's better than the combination of Lansdown and Kubota tractors. 346 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:25.880 Go to LM tractor dot com to find out more about it, or better 347 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:29.640 yet, find the Lansdown near you and go take a little test drive. 348 00:25:29.720 --> 00:25:33.000 I think you will be very very impressed. You're listening to garden Line. 349 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:37.359 If you'd like to talk on the radio with me seven one three two one 350 00:25:37.440 --> 00:25:41.880 two fifty eight seventy four. If you're a little shy about talking, you 351 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.240 know, on the radio, Well it's just you and me. No one 352 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:47.799 else has gotten up yet, so it'll just be you and me. Don't 353 00:25:47.799 --> 00:25:49.599 worry about it. We'll have some fun here. I'll be happy to answer 354 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:53.440 your questions. There's no such thing as a stupid question. They're just stupid 355 00:25:53.480 --> 00:25:56.400 answers. I know you're thinking, yeah, I've heard stupid questions in my 356 00:25:56.480 --> 00:26:00.440 life. Well, I'll worry about the stupid answers. Don't worry about the 357 00:26:00.519 --> 00:26:03.000 question. Somebody else will have the questions you have. By the way, 358 00:26:03.039 --> 00:26:06.799 I mean really, you may be a brand new gardener and your question is 359 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:11.200 does a green side go up or down when I planted? There's probably somebody 360 00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:15.720 out there who's wondering the same thing. You know. If you're gonna if 361 00:26:15.759 --> 00:26:19.960 you are gonna plant any anything, anytime, you gotta start with the soil 362 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:26.640 first. Your success is made are broken by the time the plant goes in 363 00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:30.839 the ground, and that means selecting the sites, making good drainage, selecting 364 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:36.559 the soil. And if you live down south of Houston, anywhere in that 365 00:26:36.680 --> 00:26:41.400 general Rose Sharon area. We're talking about Iowa Colony, Sandy Point, like 366 00:26:41.519 --> 00:26:45.000 Olympia, Meridian, Manville, you know, anywhere near Brasspin State Park. 367 00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:51.519 Sienna Malch is your go to place. Sienna Malch has all the supplies you 368 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:55.160 would need. We're talking the fertilizers that we talk about. They carry them 369 00:26:55.200 --> 00:26:59.720 all in stock there. Sienna Malch is going to also have the compost, 370 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:02.400 it's gonna have the mulches, it's going to have them in bulk, it's 371 00:27:02.440 --> 00:27:07.559 going to have them in bags. And their rock selection is unbelievable. I 372 00:27:07.559 --> 00:27:11.000 don't always talk about their rocks, but oh my gosh, from the all 373 00:27:11.079 --> 00:27:15.400 the different kinds of gravel. I mean we're talking, you know about like 374 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:21.039 fifteen types of gravel, from decomposed granite to p gravel, to river stones 375 00:27:21.160 --> 00:27:26.519 to volcanic rock marble, all that they've got it, They've got it there. 376 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.160 They have all kinds of stones for you as well. If you're talking 377 00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:34.000 about flagstones, just I didn't know there were so many kinds of flagstones until 378 00:27:34.039 --> 00:27:40.519 I went out to Siena Mulch and checked out the amazing selections that they have, 379 00:27:40.680 --> 00:27:42.079 and it's like, if you would like to do a walkway, maybe 380 00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:45.680 you want to create a patio, create one of those porous patios where you've 381 00:27:45.680 --> 00:27:51.880 got some decomposed granite or something in between the flagstones and moisture can move down 382 00:27:51.920 --> 00:27:55.400 through them into the soil. Siena Mulch is your place. I mean they 383 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:57.599 just go out and check it out. Go online, Go online to Siena 384 00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:03.720 Mulch dot com and you'll see what I'm talking about. Really really cool products, 385 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.519 nice selection. It's getting really hot in the summer, and we need 386 00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:11.480 to remember when we're taking care of our plants, we need to give them 387 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:15.039 a good soaking, but then let the soil dry out a little bit. 388 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:22.960 Don't overwater when it's one hundred degrees you can't overwater or it's deadly to the 389 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.759 plants. They need oxygen in the soil, and so you need to water 390 00:28:26.839 --> 00:28:30.200 the right amount. And when it comes to your lawn, the best way 391 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:33.519 I know to do that is the water my Yard app. The water my 392 00:28:33.680 --> 00:28:38.960 Yard app is free. You go to water my yard dot org dot com, 393 00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:42.920 water my yard dot org. You can get it on the Apple App 394 00:28:42.960 --> 00:28:45.960 Store, on Google play. Here's how it works. You sign up, 395 00:28:47.079 --> 00:28:49.559 You tell them roughly you know where you live, and they find the weather 396 00:28:49.599 --> 00:28:55.200 station near you and they look at solar radiation, humidity, wind speed, 397 00:28:55.519 --> 00:29:00.759 temperatures, all of that stuff. It crunches it out through no own factors 398 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:07.240 in a formula and says, Saint Augustine grass has used this much water in 399 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.759 the last what week or two weeks or three days or whatever you want, 400 00:29:11.839 --> 00:29:14.480 And it tells you you'll get an email if you sign up for it, 401 00:29:14.759 --> 00:29:17.640 a free email. It says, hey, your lawn is used a half 402 00:29:17.640 --> 00:29:19.319 inch of water this week, or your loan as used it needs an inch 403 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:22.880 of water now, And it guides you in hot of water so you don't 404 00:29:22.920 --> 00:29:29.200 waste your money, and most importantly, you don't overdo it because Houston lawns 405 00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:33.480 get way overwatered. They just do. They're miswatered all the time. Water 406 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:38.039 my Yard app will help avoid that. And I can't think of a better 407 00:29:38.440 --> 00:29:41.799 and being free, Oh my gosh, it's a win win wind. Hey, 408 00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:45.359 we're gonna take a break seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 409 00:29:45.359 --> 00:29:48.640 four. Give Josh a call, Who'll get you on the board. You'll 410 00:29:48.680 --> 00:30:03.559 be first up good Saturday morning on a great day for gardening. I know 411 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.079 it's hot outside, but not now, it's going to be later. But 412 00:30:07.400 --> 00:30:11.440 even when it's hot outside, there's gardening to do inside. Right, We've 413 00:30:11.440 --> 00:30:15.000 been talking about things this morning that relate to your yard, your garden, 414 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:18.200 and we're gonna keep doing that. If you'd like to get on the phone, 415 00:30:18.240 --> 00:30:23.079 it's seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You probably 416 00:30:23.079 --> 00:30:26.680 have heard of Dell Web. Dell Webb has been building communities for active adults 417 00:30:26.720 --> 00:30:30.880 age fifty five and better for over seventy years. I mean the state of 418 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.880 the art type communities. We're talking about inspired designs. And one of the 419 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:38.359 best things about Dell Webb or the lifestyle programs built around you, Well, 420 00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:41.599 there's a new Dell Web community coming in down near Fulsher in fact, two 421 00:30:41.880 --> 00:30:48.000 less than two miles from downtown fulsher on FM three fifty nine. The thing 422 00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:52.480 I'm excited about about this community is a new community garden, and I'm helping 423 00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.720 them with getting that design and set up. So not only do you have 424 00:30:56.200 --> 00:31:00.960 state of the art community, but you've got a community garden where you can 425 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:04.200 go and enjoy, you know, the fellowship time we have with other gardeners 426 00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:07.200 as we visit where you've got a little piece of land that you're not plowing 427 00:31:07.279 --> 00:31:10.440 up the backyard to put in a garden. If you don't want to do 428 00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:12.799 that, Dellweb Community Garden. If you want to know more about the Dellweb 429 00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:18.000 difference, go to dellweb dot com, slash Houston or call to eight one 430 00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:23.400 four or five nine zero six zero nine. Let's head out to East Houston 431 00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:26.079 and we're going to talk to Carol this morning. Good morning, Carol, 432 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:32.759 Good morning. Hell ye, I'm well, thank you good. It's good. 433 00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:37.559 Listen. I have a real pretty confederate rose plant that I have several 434 00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:45.599 people wanting cuttings from. What's the best way to propagate those? I haven't 435 00:31:45.599 --> 00:31:48.960 ever done it myself. I had people come take cuttings off of it, 436 00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:52.920 but I want to try to do it myself. Well, you can take 437 00:31:52.960 --> 00:31:56.079 cuttings. You can deplement a rooting hormone which you can buy at a garden 438 00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:00.440 center and put them in a moist, very well drained material. I mean 439 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:05.039 it could be prolide, or it could be a mix of prolide and pete, 440 00:32:05.480 --> 00:32:08.119 you know, potting soil. Type material keep them moist. I would 441 00:32:08.160 --> 00:32:13.920 put a little tint over the cuttings and like a little piece of plastic and 442 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:17.079 get them out of the direct sun, but in good light, and it'll 443 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:21.519 take a while, but they'll root. Another option is do something called an 444 00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:24.319 air layer. It's where you take a ring of bark off and you put 445 00:32:24.400 --> 00:32:29.920 soil or potting soil around that covered with plastic and cover the plastic with foil 446 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.279 to reflect out the heat and it'll root in there while it's still attached to 447 00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:37.279 the mother plant. And that gives a higher percentage of rooting because you still 448 00:32:37.319 --> 00:32:42.400 have that flow of water and nutrients go into the cutting. There are other 449 00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:46.200 ways to go about it, but you know the confederate rows. If you 450 00:32:46.279 --> 00:32:51.119 have one that's producing seeds, those seeds can be you can grow them from 451 00:32:51.160 --> 00:32:57.319 seed to Okay, is it just in the flower itself? Yeah, after 452 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.400 that, not all of them, I've noticed, not all of them or 453 00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:04.599 will produce seeds. But if after the blooms, there should be a little 454 00:33:04.599 --> 00:33:07.200 bit more pod there and it should have all seeds that are about the size 455 00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:16.119 of ochra seeds or you know, maybe an inch cross. Yeah, you 456 00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:20.000 want to let them dry. I usually let mine dry on the plant just 457 00:33:20.079 --> 00:33:22.960 out there, and once they're clearly dry, then go ahead and harvest and 458 00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:27.200 maybe spread them out inside, give them a few days just to fully make 459 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:30.680 sure there are fully dry. They don't have any maybe rain or moisture still 460 00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:34.000 in the pod, but that will be fine. Yeah. There, It's 461 00:33:34.039 --> 00:33:38.240 an easy plant to propagate. Okay, Okay, Well, this one has 462 00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:43.920 been through all kinds of things. It's been through chee free news, it's 463 00:33:43.960 --> 00:33:49.200 been seeing cows getting out, and it just keeps coming back. Yeah. 464 00:33:50.200 --> 00:33:54.440 That's a great, great plant. Have fun. Okay, thank you, 465 00:33:54.480 --> 00:33:59.000 sir, appreciate it all right, thank you, bye bye. Yeah, 466 00:33:59.119 --> 00:34:02.359 Confederate Confederate rose some of you are going Confederate rows your picture of rosebush. 467 00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:06.480 You know it's it's actually in the mallow family. It's in the same family 468 00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:12.239 as okra and cotton and hibiscus, and it's really closely related to hibiscus. 469 00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:16.000 But it's a perennial. It's a perennial plant. It gets quite tall compared 470 00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:20.239 to most of the modern bread, you know, dinner plate sized. Southern 471 00:34:20.360 --> 00:34:25.719 Hibiscus really really easy to grow and it I like it because the blooms, 472 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:30.239 let's see, they start out. I always get it confused. They start 473 00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:32.400 out, Yeah, they start out whitish, and then they turned toward pink 474 00:34:32.440 --> 00:34:37.239 and almost a burgundy wine color as they age through the course of a of 475 00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:42.519 a day or two. Uh. It's really really nice plant. Famous old 476 00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:46.159 Southern plant, one of those heirloom Southern plants to grow you can. You 477 00:34:46.199 --> 00:34:51.840 can find plants all over the place, but if you live in the Kingwood 478 00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:54.800 area, you are rich with garden centers. You've got Warren Southern Gardens and 479 00:34:54.840 --> 00:34:59.960 you've got Kingwood Garden Center. Warrens is on North Park Drive, Kingwood Garden 480 00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:02.960 Centers on Stonehallow Drive. They're open seven days a week. So here we 481 00:35:04.000 --> 00:35:07.840 are it's Father's day time to find something for Dad. You're going to find 482 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:13.320 it there. Nice gift shops. They have incredible supply of plants, lots 483 00:35:13.559 --> 00:35:16.639 lots of good options for the plants that you may want to try. I 484 00:35:16.760 --> 00:35:22.000 know right now they've got the warrants. Has some Primark Freedom blackberries that is 485 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:28.719 a thornless BlackBerry, and Primark Freedom was developed in Arkansas. But it does 486 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:32.679 better here really than it does up there. It is a plant that, 487 00:35:32.840 --> 00:35:38.880 unlike most blackberries, it can produce on the current years canes growth as well 488 00:35:38.920 --> 00:35:45.480 as after winter when they come back out the second year. Now that's normal 489 00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:47.639 for blackberries to go through the winter and then the second year you get fruit. 490 00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:52.000 Primark freedom. You get fruit this year and you get fruit next year. 491 00:35:52.079 --> 00:35:54.000 Pretty amazing plant. Of course, they have every other kind of plant 492 00:35:54.039 --> 00:35:58.599 you can imagine. They got citrus trees and while you're there, pick up 493 00:35:58.679 --> 00:36:01.320 some of the fruit berry and a trust mix from heirloom that they that they 494 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:06.599 carry. You're not going to do better than Warren's Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden 495 00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:12.639 Center out in that area. Really fun places to visit. We've been talking 496 00:36:12.639 --> 00:36:16.719 about all kinds of things plant wise this morning, and we hope to talk 497 00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:23.960 about a lot more. The opportunities to have success with plants here are just 498 00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:30.920 unbelievably what what's the word, uh, bountiful. There's a good one. 499 00:36:31.400 --> 00:36:36.400 We've got garden centers in the Greater Houston area like nowhere else in the state. 500 00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:38.119 I mean that that I've been around the stuff. I know the garden 501 00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:43.440 centers around Texas, and I'm telling you that this is the truth. We 502 00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:50.159 really have great options here. We have fertilizer products, here from our area 503 00:36:50.280 --> 00:36:52.800 that do so well. You know. A good example of that is Nelson 504 00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:58.400 Plant Food. Nelson has the Color Star line and the jugs that just absolutely 505 00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:05.519 will set your landscape ablaze with color that a million different options for different blends 506 00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:07.920 of fertilizers in the Color Star line. They also have the Turf Star line. 507 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:12.119 And that's what we're getting into this summer where we look at slow and 508 00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:15.039 easy twenty two two ten. If you haven't fertilized yet, you need to 509 00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:19.639 put it out for a gradual feed through the rest of the year. Hey, 510 00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:22.280 we're gonna take a break seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 511 00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:27.840 four. Give Josh a call. We'll be back shortly. By the way, 512 00:37:29.480 --> 00:37:31.440 when if you haven't given us a call yet, I would like some 513 00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:35.320 folks that have never called before to call today. And if you've called before, 514 00:37:35.360 --> 00:37:37.679 of course call back. We love to talk to folks. But if 515 00:37:37.679 --> 00:37:39.960 you never called before, why don't you give us a call today. Let's 516 00:37:39.960 --> 00:37:44.519 talk to you. I'd like to visit with some new gardeners. If you 517 00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:49.360 have any kinds of questions regarding blooms in the summer. That would be a 518 00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:52.280 really good topic today. It's about to be one hundred degrees and well about 519 00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:57.239 to be and we're in it. What do you do for blooms when it's 520 00:37:57.280 --> 00:38:00.400 too blazing hot for most things? To all those things that were happy in 521 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:04.760 spring, a lot of those are whimps and they're heading out when we get 522 00:38:04.760 --> 00:38:07.559 into the brutal heat of summer, which, by the way, this is 523 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:09.960 I object. This is way too early to be going through a week one 524 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.360 hundred degree temperatures. But anyway, it is what it is. Let's talk 525 00:38:14.400 --> 00:38:16.639 about some of those things when we come back. Look forward to visiting with 526 00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:24.840 you. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy. KTRH Garden Line 527 00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:30.039 does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. 528 00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:52.800 Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor just watching a good morning on a 529 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:59.199 good Saturday morning. Ys, got some light outside, let's be a good 530 00:38:59.199 --> 00:39:01.639 time to be had not get a little bit garden work done while you're hopefully 531 00:39:01.639 --> 00:39:05.599 you carry us with you, got a little portable radio or listen on your 532 00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:08.480 phone. We are going to be talking about more things to do this morning 533 00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:14.239 on gardening. I just enjoy visiting with gardeners, and we're going to start 534 00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:17.639 right off this segment doing just that. Let's head out to Lake Conro and 535 00:39:17.679 --> 00:39:22.039 we're going to visit with jo Anne. Good morning, Joanne. Yes, 536 00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:27.239 for some reason, you're cutting in and out, but I can I can 537 00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:31.280 hear you just slightly. Okay, is that better? Yeah? Good see, 538 00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:37.760 good morning. I have a huge bag of pete moss. I'm not 539 00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:42.440 sure why, but I have it, and I want to disperse it. 540 00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:47.239 And I'm wondering where can I put it in my yard where it won't do 541 00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:52.199 too much damage and maybe even do some good. I don't have a lot 542 00:39:52.239 --> 00:39:55.239 of plants. I just have more or less a past your type of yard. 543 00:39:57.199 --> 00:39:59.599 Okay, well, I mean it's not going to do damage anywhere. 544 00:39:59.599 --> 00:40:04.480 You can read it out very a thin layer over your Saint Augustine. It 545 00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:08.320 actually, in some areas has been shown to suppress take all root rot. 546 00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:13.480 When you get a layer of it over the Saint Augustine, maybe about a 547 00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:15.519 half inch thick, and then watered in. Really well, that would be 548 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:19.960 fine. I'd be used for it. Do you have any plant? Go 549 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.480 ahead, I did put some. I have a tomato plant in a pot. 550 00:40:25.000 --> 00:40:29.559 I did put a layer of it on top, and it makes the 551 00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:31.639 plant look dry all the time. Of course, so I'm watering it. 552 00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:36.239 Maybe I'm watering it too much. I would I would not use it in 553 00:40:36.280 --> 00:40:38.000 the pots. Pete. I don't want to go into details on it, 554 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:44.880 but Pete moss has some physical characteristics that I just find problematic in containers. 555 00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:47.800 And I know all our blends have always had peat in them, but in 556 00:40:47.840 --> 00:40:52.079 general, just putting straight peat or something like that in there, it's not 557 00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:55.320 not really a good thing. It. Once it gets dry, it's really 558 00:40:55.320 --> 00:41:00.039 hard to wet again. The water just rolls over the top. It's basically 559 00:41:00.320 --> 00:41:05.519 just a top layer. But I can scoop it out, Yeah, scoop 560 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:07.519 it out, use it somewhere else, or mix it in, uh, 561 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:13.079 you know, as a small portion of a bigger potting sail blend that you 562 00:41:13.159 --> 00:41:15.320 have. You can do that. But yeah, and I can just spread 563 00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:20.880 it around the lawn without any problem. If you have any planet that likes 564 00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:22.840 acidic, you may not. But if you got blueberries, if you've got 565 00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:29.000 a zo, well I have Lantana. Well, Lantana doesn't care about the 566 00:41:29.039 --> 00:41:31.079 acidic. It'll be fine. But a little Pete moss isn't gonna hurt anything. 567 00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:36.400 Just go ahead and use it wherever you want, right, Okay, 568 00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:37.760 thank you. You're lucky. By the way, you're up in the Lake 569 00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:43.239 Conra area. You got an a plants in your backyard. Oh yeah, 570 00:41:43.280 --> 00:41:49.199 they're really really good. I was just I followed them on social media and 571 00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.039 everything. I was noticing they were sponsoring one of the local sports teams up 572 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:57.880 there, the kids teams, you know they do, and yeah, it's 573 00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:00.800 it's I like it. I like a a garden center that is part of 574 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:06.280 the community. You know, that's not just here some they've been a long 575 00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:09.039 time. They have pottery, plants, trees, you name it. They 576 00:42:09.079 --> 00:42:14.360 do actually over thirty years. I saw I saw Kathy the other day, 577 00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:16.320 the owner. She took over from her parents, Adam and Alice Ford, 578 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:21.840 and uh, it just it's just one of those places I love to go 579 00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:25.760 to. But hey, they're crowded. All their parking lot is full every 580 00:42:25.840 --> 00:42:29.119 day. Well it should be. I mean, you know, the one 581 00:42:29.159 --> 00:42:35.079 oh five is a busy street and they're on the side of I know, 582 00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:37.760 I know, I was over there. I don't know, it's a few 583 00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:43.000 weeks ago and it just uh yeah, it's a popular but for good reason. 584 00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:45.840 Once you walk in there and wander through three acres of cool stuff, 585 00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:49.920 you uh understand why the parking lots for Hey, thank you Joanna for the 586 00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:53.760 call. I appreciate that very much. Okay, nice you bet you take 587 00:42:53.800 --> 00:43:00.840 care. If you are looking for a summer fertilizer, if you're looking for 588 00:43:00.920 --> 00:43:07.840 summer pest control, nitro Foss has got you covered there Summer Essentials program. 589 00:43:07.079 --> 00:43:13.360 It includes the you know, nineteen percent nitrogen fertilizer in the silver bag that 590 00:43:13.360 --> 00:43:16.800 I talked about earlier. But it also includes a Bugout Max, which is 591 00:43:17.039 --> 00:43:22.079 a good choice for insect problems. Bugout Max will help avoid whatever kind of 592 00:43:22.079 --> 00:43:25.440 insects or you're dealing with in your soil. It'll work for that. They've 593 00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:30.320 also got the Nitrofoss Fiant Killer, and everybody's got fiance. In fact, 594 00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.679 just yesterday I was walking through my yard and there was a mound. Now, 595 00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:37.039 how could fiance be allowed in the mound of the guy that hosts garden 596 00:43:37.079 --> 00:43:39.760 line. Well, I think they get together and go let's just go shame 597 00:43:39.840 --> 00:43:45.239 him. We're gonna land and pop up mounds everywhere. Seriously, Nitrofoss Fiant 598 00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:49.760 Killer works quick and it prevents the queen from escaping. It kills the colony. 599 00:43:50.039 --> 00:43:53.159 Those two products like all nitrofoss. Wherever you find nitro foss sold in 600 00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:59.920 chenned Forest and gardens down in Richmond, Rosenberg Bearings hardware, you know they're 601 00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:04.159 one on West Timer went over on Bissonette. I go up to I'll spash 602 00:44:04.280 --> 00:44:07.840 Ace hardware in the woodlands and a lot of use hardware. Look for the 603 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:12.639 Nitrofos, Summer Essentials, bug Out Max and Fiant Killer. We're going to 604 00:44:12.719 --> 00:44:19.360 head over and talk to Jerry now in Spring. Hello Jerry high Skip. 605 00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:22.639 First of all, I really really enjoy your show. I think it's just 606 00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:27.559 great. Anyway, I'm made E one. I still do our lawn, 607 00:44:28.239 --> 00:44:34.159 you know, Moine trimming, edging. I use Randy's organic schedule. Our 608 00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:40.679 beds, though, I've kind of gone downhill with freezing problems. We've lost 609 00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:45.679 a number of plans. We have seven beds and I've gotten some bids for 610 00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:52.280 redoing them and it's kind of pricey. My wife and I are thinking, 611 00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:55.800 is this really stupid to be thinking about doing this as we're going into the 612 00:44:55.880 --> 00:45:00.800 hottest time of the year. Well, it is a challenging time to plant 613 00:45:01.159 --> 00:45:05.079 in the summer. But you can do it. You just have to think 614 00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:07.480 of that plant, even though it's in the ground. Think of it as 615 00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:13.000 like you you set the pot down in the ground and dug a home. 616 00:45:13.039 --> 00:45:15.559 Put the pot in the ground. That's where all the roots still are, 617 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:20.119 and they're going to be there for a while. And there's no problem planting 618 00:45:20.320 --> 00:45:22.559 if you treat that plant just like it would be at the nursery. And 619 00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:25.199 what are they water in it once or twice a day for sure at the 620 00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:30.039 nursery. So in the ground, you got to water that little area once 621 00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:34.480 or twice a day because it just a little bit. You don't want to 622 00:45:34.599 --> 00:45:38.079 drowned it. But it gradually gets roots out. So just like that plant 623 00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:40.639 could live in the nursery all summer, it can live in the ground at 624 00:45:40.679 --> 00:45:45.760 your house all summer. But you just have to realize the roots are all 625 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:50.440 in a little cylinder for a good while as they slowly venture out a higher 626 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:54.039 and higher percentage of roots or in your soil now, and so you have 627 00:45:54.199 --> 00:45:58.480 to go from that treating it like it's sitting in a pot on top of 628 00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:04.199 the ground still to recognizing that it's getting established. So you're gradually tapering off 629 00:46:04.239 --> 00:46:07.679 to what we would consider normal watering. But yeah, you can do it 630 00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:10.440 now, or you could spend this time building your soil, building up raised 631 00:46:10.480 --> 00:46:15.559 beds, purchasing a mix, doing the kinds of things to get ready and 632 00:46:15.679 --> 00:46:19.199 plant for a fall planting later in the season. So both both options are 633 00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:27.000 viable. Okay, Given a choice, it would be better to wait. 634 00:46:28.440 --> 00:46:32.039 From strictly how easy it is it to take care of a plant, it's 635 00:46:32.079 --> 00:46:37.960 easier to do a fall planting. Yeah. From a standpoint of hey, 636 00:46:37.079 --> 00:46:39.920 I don't want to wait till fall to get started. I want to start 637 00:46:39.960 --> 00:46:44.760 turning the landscape around. You can do it now, just keeping in mind 638 00:46:44.840 --> 00:46:47.639 what I mentioned. Okay, okay, okay, well that sounds good. 639 00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:52.639 All right, Thank you, Skip. I surely appreciate everything that you do. 640 00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:54.400 Well. I appreciate the call. Thank you, Thank you very very 641 00:46:54.480 --> 00:46:58.760 much. If you'd like to get on with us, our phone number seven 642 00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.440 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, and Stephen, you'll be 643 00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:20.960 first when we come back. Good morning, you're listening to garden Line on 644 00:47:21.039 --> 00:47:22.400 a good day to talk about gardening. Good day to get out and get 645 00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:27.840 a little work done. This morning, Father's Day weekend. Good time to 646 00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:30.239 get out to some garden centers and find some gifts for Dad as well. 647 00:47:30.519 --> 00:47:36.599 You know, a minute ago I was talking with um let's see who's oh 648 00:47:36.760 --> 00:47:40.280 Jerry about summer planting, and I should have mentioned thus. Then after during 649 00:47:40.320 --> 00:47:43.480 break, I thought, you know, I should have told Jerry about this. 650 00:47:44.119 --> 00:47:46.880 Medina has a product call has to Grow. It's a six twelve six 651 00:47:47.360 --> 00:47:51.880 fertilizer. It's got high in the phosphorus and when you were putting in a 652 00:47:51.960 --> 00:47:53.679 new plant, you mix it in water. I mean you can, you 653 00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:57.039 can do it. There's a hose in version where you can just spray, 654 00:47:57.280 --> 00:48:00.199 you know, as you a large area where you can just buy the court 655 00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:05.800 bottle. It's got a measuring cup in it. And whenever you do transplanting, 656 00:48:06.000 --> 00:48:09.599 you need to use a product like Medina has to Grow six to six. 657 00:48:10.000 --> 00:48:15.239 You drench the plant in when you plant, you come back later a 658 00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:16.440 week later, and do it again a week later, and do it again. 659 00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:21.079 Just just continue to provide that what it's got in it. It's got 660 00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:24.360 the nitrogen and phosphorus potassium, but it also has a Medina soil activator to 661 00:48:24.440 --> 00:48:32.320 stimulate biological activity and humate humic acid and seaweed extracts all combined in one product. 662 00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:37.639 It doesn't have that salt build up issue that you're going to have with 663 00:48:37.760 --> 00:48:43.320 some types of fertilizers. It is excellent to use for transplants, so good 664 00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:45.800 to use all in all kinds of ways and places, but especially when you're 665 00:48:45.800 --> 00:48:49.320 putting a new plant in the ground like that, give it a boost with 666 00:48:49.760 --> 00:48:54.559 has to grow six two six by medinas. Let's head out to We're going 667 00:48:54.599 --> 00:49:00.199 to go to Stephen and let's see Steve in Houston. How are you doing 668 00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:05.320 this morning? Stephen? Doing good? How are you well? Thank you? 669 00:49:06.639 --> 00:49:12.199 So I got a question about preparing the soils for planting trees. I've 670 00:49:12.239 --> 00:49:19.320 got heavy clay soil, and I was just I'm not sure if I needed 671 00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.360 doing if I could do something now in preparation for planting these trees next to 672 00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:25.920 all? Yeah, good good, I don't worry about it. Just when, 673 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:31.039 because we're gonna plant tigny gallant trees. Okay, what kind of uh 674 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:37.039 just real briefly, what species are you looking at planting? Probably love these 675 00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:44.800 five boats, probably some other data type trees for the area we're going to 676 00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:50.320 planting. Okay, larger trees so I would not Yeah, I would not 677 00:49:50.480 --> 00:49:53.599 bother with the Soil Amendment on that. Uh, definitely. You don't want 678 00:49:53.599 --> 00:49:58.000 to put like a compost in the potting in the hole you dig. For 679 00:49:58.159 --> 00:50:02.039 example, those trees are huge and eventually they're going to have roots that reach 680 00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:07.679 two neighbors down on each side, all over the place. So to amend 681 00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:10.119 a little area really doesn't do any good. And in fact, when you 682 00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:15.159 dig it in a clay soil, that becomes an underground bathtub, you know. 683 00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:16.000 I mean, if you dig a hole in clay, that's what that's 684 00:50:16.039 --> 00:50:21.440 called a farm pond. It's a hole in clay and they and it holds 685 00:50:21.480 --> 00:50:23.119 water, and so you fill it with organic matter, and now you've got 686 00:50:23.239 --> 00:50:28.920 decomposing organic matter anaerobically when you get when it rains too much or whatever, 687 00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:31.000 and that's not good. They've got to live in the soil you have. 688 00:50:31.519 --> 00:50:35.599 So I mean, if you want to take a large area, you know, 689 00:50:35.760 --> 00:50:38.000 ten foot across and amend it a little bit, rototil it in as 690 00:50:38.039 --> 00:50:43.519 deep as you can, you can do that initially, but ultimately it's digging 691 00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:46.480 a hole that's no deeper than the root ball. Because you don't want the 692 00:50:46.559 --> 00:50:51.719 hole to settle after you plant, but wider than the root ball and make 693 00:50:51.800 --> 00:50:54.440 it an ugly hole, not a nice slick round hole like a terra cotta 694 00:50:54.519 --> 00:50:59.440 pot. You want a hole that's that you know your shovel is taking chunks 695 00:50:59.480 --> 00:51:01.760 out of this side and it's kind of irregular. And then use the soil 696 00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:07.159 you dug out to replant to put the plant back in. Check for roots 697 00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:09.519 going around in a circle on that tree when you when it comes out of 698 00:51:09.559 --> 00:51:13.880 the pot, or whoever's planting it for you, anything going in a circle, 699 00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:15.239 you need to cut it here and there and it will. It will 700 00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:21.320 recover. It will send out new roots within just a few weeks, all 701 00:51:21.400 --> 00:51:28.440 right, and its stock. Uh to throw in the break down that way, 702 00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:31.559 No, it lives. Won't do that. If if it's a sodic 703 00:51:32.800 --> 00:51:36.840 gypsum is what you're thinking, Yeah, uh, if it's a sodic clay, 704 00:51:36.960 --> 00:51:39.559 gypsum can help. But for this situation you're looking at, I wouldn't 705 00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:47.840 I wouldn't bother with that. I would just okay. Well, if you 706 00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:53.400 have a high sodium content, gypsum knocks the sodium off the soil molecules and 707 00:51:53.559 --> 00:51:59.639 allows that soil to develop a better structure. Gyp sodium destroys the structure, 708 00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:06.119 so that would be one thing. Gypsum is calcium sulfate, and so that 709 00:52:06.239 --> 00:52:12.840 if you need calcium, well then gypsum could help. No. Expanded shale 710 00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:15.599 is like think of it as kitty litter that's been fired hot hot hot. 711 00:52:17.400 --> 00:52:21.679 Yeah, that's that's more of a think of it as a rock that just 712 00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:25.079 stays like that in the soil, but as porous and it holds moisture nutrients, 713 00:52:25.119 --> 00:52:29.559 and if you put enough of it, it makes the soiled drain internally 714 00:52:29.679 --> 00:52:35.079 better. But again I go back to you mentioned native plants. When you 715 00:52:35.239 --> 00:52:38.599 plant a plant, a plant that wants to be here, they're already growing 716 00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:45.239 out in the wild in this soil and so that yeah, so that yeah, 717 00:52:45.599 --> 00:52:50.800 Okay, appreciate it. Thank you, Stephen. Appreciate that call very 718 00:52:50.920 --> 00:52:55.159 much. Hey, if you have not considered backyard birding, you really need 719 00:52:55.239 --> 00:53:01.000 to. I was out at Wabbirds Unlimited in Kingwood just recently and had a 720 00:53:01.079 --> 00:53:06.239 great time out there. There are wah Birds unlimiteds all over this area. 721 00:53:06.400 --> 00:53:07.840 There's seven of them. You can there's one in Kingwood, there's one in 722 00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:12.920 Katie, there's one in Cyprus, one in pair Land down South and Belair 723 00:53:13.039 --> 00:53:16.000 in West Houston, and there's now one in clear Lake as well. Wilbirds 724 00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:21.920 Unlimited have everything you would need and they have quality products. They have the 725 00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:25.840 kinds of bird seed that birds eat. A lot of cheap bird seed you 726 00:53:25.960 --> 00:53:30.599 see, is a lot of things birds just kick out on the ground. 727 00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:32.960 They're not going to eat it. And with wa Birds Unlimited, when you 728 00:53:34.119 --> 00:53:37.960 get one of their quality feeds, the birds are gonna eat everything you put 729 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:43.480 in the in the feeder. And the feeders they have are amazing. I 730 00:53:43.639 --> 00:53:45.559 just I'm the happy owner of a new bird feeder. I'll tell you about 731 00:53:45.559 --> 00:53:52.960 that more another time, but that the birdhouses just every kind of supply you 732 00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:57.960 can imagine. Wild Birds Unlimited. I mean, it is really an amazing 733 00:53:58.039 --> 00:54:04.079 place. Go online, check them out itbu dot Com, Forward Slash Houston. 734 00:54:05.719 --> 00:54:08.679 Let's head out to clear Lake and we're gonna visit with Mario. Hello 735 00:54:08.719 --> 00:54:14.960 Will Mario, Hey, Skip, how are you well? Thanks? Thanks 736 00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:19.880 thanks for taking my call. I have some tiny boxwoods in the front of 737 00:54:20.079 --> 00:54:24.880 my house that we're really damaged by the freeze. And it's kind of strange 738 00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:31.679 because what I'm seeing is that sometimes the dead parts are in the middle of 739 00:54:31.800 --> 00:54:38.280 the plant and the outside seem to be fine. And then in other cases 740 00:54:39.000 --> 00:54:45.320 it's the outside has been damaged and parts of other parts of the outside are 741 00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:51.199 okay. So my question is do I replace those things or can I get 742 00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:55.559 them back to fairly close to the shape they originally were in. You probably 743 00:54:55.679 --> 00:54:59.280 can get them back. There's one or two things that's happened, and maybe 744 00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:01.559 the freeze. And if that's the case, when you follow that dead branch 745 00:55:01.719 --> 00:55:07.000 down, look a look at the branch itself as it goes down to wherever 746 00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:10.159 it connects with living branches. You know, branches that have green leaves on 747 00:55:10.239 --> 00:55:15.639 them. Look for splits, vertical splits, and the by vertical, I 748 00:55:15.719 --> 00:55:21.119 mean along the direction of the branch splits in the bark. That would be 749 00:55:21.159 --> 00:55:24.559 a free sign. There's also diseases that can also cause splits, but they're 750 00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:29.880 cankers that are sunken areas, and those can get diseases, and they can 751 00:55:29.960 --> 00:55:34.199 also get physical damage. Boxwood and the little dwarf yopas are very brittle, 752 00:55:34.280 --> 00:55:37.480 both of them. And you know, kids playing basketball and a ball bounces 753 00:55:37.519 --> 00:55:40.559 over there and lands in the shrub can crack a branch and then you get 754 00:55:40.599 --> 00:55:44.920 a dead spot, even though you don't you don't see that, that's what's 755 00:55:44.960 --> 00:55:47.159 happened when it initially happens. So it's gonna be one of those things. 756 00:55:47.480 --> 00:55:53.000 Just follow it back and cut it off just where it connects to living branches 757 00:55:53.039 --> 00:55:57.960 that are bearing leaves and that boxwood will fill back in. Give it a 758 00:55:58.000 --> 00:56:00.039 little bit of fertilizer to you know, to give it a boost, and 759 00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:06.960 it'll it'll be just fine. Great, that's good news. What kind of 760 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:10.320 fertilizer do you recommend for those thoughts? You know, I would use it's 761 00:56:10.360 --> 00:56:14.880 a foliage plant. Basically a shrub is a foliage plant, and so I 762 00:56:14.920 --> 00:56:20.280 would You could just use a fertilizer that is for like growing your lawn that 763 00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:24.400 would work well. There are some specific tree fertilizers that a number of manufacturers 764 00:56:24.480 --> 00:56:29.840 here that we talk about make, but just a good quality lawn fertilizer would 765 00:56:29.880 --> 00:56:32.280 work just well. So if you know, if you like a Microlife type 766 00:56:32.320 --> 00:56:36.039 fertilizer, that would work well. If you want to get one of the 767 00:56:36.119 --> 00:56:38.599 tree and shrub fertilizer, Microlife does have one like that. I would just 768 00:56:38.760 --> 00:56:44.280 use the six two four the lawn fertilizer put it underneath air, scratch it 769 00:56:44.360 --> 00:56:46.760 into soil watered in. Well, uh and that'll that'll give you a number 770 00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:51.360 of weeks of coverage. It won't burn the plants. I mean, if 771 00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:53.480 you overdid it, it would still not burn the plants. That's one thing 772 00:56:53.559 --> 00:57:00.360 I like about that. Well, and I'm sorry part about the name of 773 00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:04.440 the brand. Well, I said that Microlife was a good example. It's 774 00:57:04.440 --> 00:57:08.840 an organic fertilizer. And the it's the green bag, green bag six two 775 00:57:09.039 --> 00:57:14.760 four, the green bag six two four. With that fertilizer, you're gonna 776 00:57:15.039 --> 00:57:17.039 it's gonna cover a lot of kinds of plants. It's got that you know, 777 00:57:17.199 --> 00:57:22.079 higher nitrogen number, and so that's gonna be just just fine. Well, 778 00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:24.960 thank you so much. I really appreciate you. Great job too, 779 00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:29.119 Thank you. I appreciate that, Mario. Good luck with your plants out 780 00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:32.599 there. Yeah, the micro I was using some some Microlife on the lawn 781 00:57:32.679 --> 00:57:35.559 earlier this year. And by the way, if you're if you're doing it 782 00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:37.599 on your lawn, if you haven't summer fertilized, this is a time to 783 00:57:37.679 --> 00:57:43.639 do the Microlife fertilizer. You can put it down. I would also add 784 00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:49.639 the humates plus that would be like concentrated compost in a bag. So that's 785 00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:52.480 the purple bag by the way, so green bag and then purple bag, 786 00:57:52.639 --> 00:57:59.039 both on your lawn in the summer weeks of good gradual, slow release feeding 787 00:57:59.239 --> 00:58:02.920 and you will watch the improvements in your lawn. But also what you won't 788 00:58:02.960 --> 00:58:08.480 see as improvements in that surface of the soil as that organic materials go down 789 00:58:08.639 --> 00:58:13.920 and break down with biological activity and just make the lawn better and better. 790 00:58:14.000 --> 00:58:15.760 If you can find microlife all over, by the way, if you go 791 00:58:15.880 --> 00:58:20.760 to Microlife Fertilizer dot com, Microlife Fertiliser dot com, just check it out. 792 00:58:20.880 --> 00:58:23.639 You'll find out all the places that you can purchase it pretty much all 793 00:58:23.639 --> 00:58:29.480 the garden centers, the feed stores, the ace hardware stores that we talk 794 00:58:29.480 --> 00:58:35.719 about here, they're gonna they're gonna carry that. So we're visiting about, 795 00:58:36.039 --> 00:58:38.400 you know, different things this morning. And something I was thinking about the 796 00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:43.920 other day is there is a magazine here in Texas that are right for You 797 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:46.679 may have heard a commercial for it on the on the station. It's Texas 798 00:58:46.760 --> 00:58:51.880 Gardener, and Texas Gardner is a unique magazine and I'm biased. I've written 799 00:58:51.920 --> 00:58:58.199 for him for decades it's an awesome magazine. It's the only magazine that is 800 00:58:58.960 --> 00:59:04.400 for texas As gardeners. In fact, across the country, state gardening magazines 801 00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:08.559 have gone by the wayside, and Texas Gardener stands almost alone in that regard. 802 00:59:09.440 --> 00:59:15.360 It has the local information that you need for here in Texas. It's 803 00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:19.719 it's written for Texas gardeners. Buy Texas Gardeners. I know almost all the 804 00:59:19.840 --> 00:59:22.519 writers of it, and they are people that know what they're talking about, 805 00:59:22.559 --> 00:59:27.719 and so it's good and local information. Now you know those pretty tabletop magazines 806 00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:30.960 of you know that go across the country, they're fine, But when you 807 00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:32.480 want to know about Texas, you need you need to read a place like 808 00:59:32.559 --> 00:59:37.280 Texas Gardner. By the way, if you locally, our garden centers Arbigate 809 00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:42.239 Plants for All Seasons in Channed Gardens in Channed Forest, Ana, CNA Maltz, 810 00:59:42.400 --> 00:59:45.480 and Warren's Garden Center all have copies of Texas Gardner Magazine. You can 811 00:59:45.559 --> 00:59:49.760 pick up right from the garden center. Buy one, check it out and 812 00:59:50.000 --> 01:00:08.280 see what I'm talking about. To be well in the sunside a good Saturday 813 01:00:08.360 --> 01:00:14.119 morning on the day before Father's Day. Nice stay, nice time right now. 814 01:00:14.199 --> 01:00:16.199 To be outside, get a little work done for the day, heats 815 01:00:16.239 --> 01:00:20.360 up a little bit, and after that it'd be a good time to visit 816 01:00:20.400 --> 01:00:23.079 a garden center, gets some supplies and planters and gifts for dads. By 817 01:00:23.119 --> 01:00:28.119 the way, maybe working indoors on some of the plantings. There's a lot 818 01:00:28.159 --> 01:00:30.519 of a lot of gardening things we can do. I mean, that's a 819 01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:32.480 nice thing about gardening. You know you'd think it's weather related. Well, 820 01:00:32.599 --> 01:00:36.559 not necessarily. I mean, what do we do in the middle of winter. 821 01:00:36.719 --> 01:00:39.679 We plant siege for growing out in the spring, garden and so on. 822 01:00:40.000 --> 01:00:44.440 Lots of things to do. Hey, you know I've you've heard me. 823 01:00:44.480 --> 01:00:49.840 I'm a broken record about soil. When you plan a plant, you 824 01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:55.519 are either sentenced to failure already or you are set up for success. Eighty 825 01:00:55.599 --> 01:01:00.079 percent of the way to success right there. And it's because you've picked to 826 01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:02.519 site that drains well. You've picticites at sunny or shady plants. You're gonna 827 01:01:02.519 --> 01:01:07.599 have an opinion about that. And you've prepared the soil. You have raised 828 01:01:07.639 --> 01:01:12.880 beds for drainage, you have organic matter for expanding the root zone area and 829 01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:15.280 making it a much more efficient area for roots to take up water. And 830 01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:19.239 nutrients. And I can't think of a better way to do that than with 831 01:01:19.480 --> 01:01:22.159 the heirloom soils. Now, Heirloom Soils of Texas. Write that down. 832 01:01:22.280 --> 01:01:27.840 Airloom Soils of Texas dot com. Check out the different products that they have 833 01:01:27.960 --> 01:01:32.519 to offer. They've got a veggiean herb mix excellent for containerized growing if you 834 01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:37.159 want to make large raised beds, if you want to just improve the soil 835 01:01:37.239 --> 01:01:39.920 that you have in your garden, veggiean herb mix. There is a leafmo 836 01:01:40.079 --> 01:01:45.920 compost. There's an expanded shale and compost blend that's good for in a large 837 01:01:45.000 --> 01:01:51.639 area, deeply amending your clay with to improve the drainage on that clay soil. 838 01:01:51.920 --> 01:01:54.840 And I could just go on and on with all the different kinds of 839 01:01:54.920 --> 01:02:00.280 things from indoor the works, indoor potting soil, cactus succulent soil, on 840 01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:04.719 and on airloom soils. Hey, if you need to know how much soil 841 01:02:04.800 --> 01:02:07.559 you need for a project, go to Airloom Soils of Texas dot com and 842 01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:13.159 look at their compost calculator. It will amaze you. You will be able 843 01:02:13.239 --> 01:02:16.039 to nail down exactly how many qubic yards you need, how many wheelbarrows. 844 01:02:16.079 --> 01:02:20.400 You need? How many five gallon buckets are in a qubic yard. That's 845 01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:22.920 a quiz question. Well, if you go to airlom soils dot com calculator, 846 01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:27.159 you'll be able to answer that question. We would have a prize or 847 01:02:27.280 --> 01:02:30.360 give it away anybody who goes there and first one to call with the answer. 848 01:02:30.599 --> 01:02:32.960 That'd be a good idea. We're gonna try that sometime when you're listening 849 01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:37.960 to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five 850 01:02:38.239 --> 01:02:43.960 eight seven four. Give us a call seven one three two one to fifty 851 01:02:44.079 --> 01:02:51.480 eight seventy four. I love I love getting out and visiting garden centers and 852 01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:54.599 one of the my favorite garden centers to go to is RCW Nurseries. RCW 853 01:02:54.880 --> 01:02:59.920 is the garden center that's where Tumba Parkway Haby two forty nine comes into Belt 854 01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:05.239 eight and rw has got pretty much everything you need. And if they don't 855 01:03:05.280 --> 01:03:07.199 have it, they can get it. Just ask them. They'll do their 856 01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:09.880 best to find it and bring it in. So if you need herbs, 857 01:03:10.039 --> 01:03:16.760 perennials, annual shrubs, native trees that their tree selection is outstanding fifteen gallons 858 01:03:16.880 --> 01:03:20.639 up to two hundred gallons and they can come out and plant them for you 859 01:03:20.719 --> 01:03:23.800 and do it right. They also have a great selection of roses. But 860 01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:29.360 right now the summer color is a blaze. I mean, the plants that 861 01:03:29.480 --> 01:03:31.840 can take the weather we're having right now. You're going to find them at 862 01:03:31.920 --> 01:03:37.599 RCW Nurseries again RCW Nurseries dot Com. Check it out. And while you're 863 01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:43.400 there again Father's Day, good time to buy something for Dad. I know 864 01:03:43.840 --> 01:03:47.039 you can find a plant that Dad will love there at the RCW Nurseries. 865 01:03:47.519 --> 01:03:51.480 Before we went to break, I was talking about Texas Gardner Magazine and I 866 01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:55.639 love that magazine because I can think of no other well around the country. 867 01:03:55.719 --> 01:04:01.480 There's not a commercial magazine for a state that really covers it, and that 868 01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:05.679 as people that know about that state writing and doing that kind of thing. 869 01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:12.400 And j Jay White and Sally they're friends of mine and I've known them a 870 01:04:12.440 --> 01:04:15.400 long time. They're just good folks and you're going to find Jay. Jay 871 01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:19.519 and I are both speaking at an Obapalooza event coming up. I'll tell you 872 01:04:19.599 --> 01:04:23.480 more about that as a good little bit closer to it, but we crossed 873 01:04:23.519 --> 01:04:27.119 paths a lot. I'm going to be speaking at a Tomato conference Jay is 874 01:04:27.119 --> 01:04:30.400 going to be doing later this summer. But it just a wealth of information, 875 01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:35.920 good information and so and this this isn't an ad for for a Texas 876 01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:40.559 gardener. It's just something I really believe in. I mean, if you 877 01:04:40.760 --> 01:04:44.840 want good quality information, you need to seek that out and that's what we 878 01:04:44.920 --> 01:04:49.000 try to have here on garden Line. There's a lot of gardening misinformation out 879 01:04:49.039 --> 01:04:53.559 there. There's a lot of self proclaimed experts, just like when it comes 880 01:04:53.599 --> 01:04:57.079 to your health, there's a lot of people telling you everything you need to 881 01:04:57.159 --> 01:05:01.800 do and they don't necessarily know what they're talking about. When you find good 882 01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:05.760 quality information, it gets you off to a good start. You're not wasting 883 01:05:05.840 --> 01:05:13.000 your time and your money because somebody who was self proclaimed expert said that it'll 884 01:05:13.079 --> 01:05:15.079 work, when in many cases it does. In fact, I cringe every 885 01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:18.280 time I look on social media. Let's head out to the phones. We're 886 01:05:18.280 --> 01:05:21.639 gonna go to Katie now and we're gonna talk to John. Hello, John, 887 01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:27.679 very good morning morning. So one thing me and my kids have been 888 01:05:27.719 --> 01:05:30.480 doing for the last few years is get off the screens and get on the 889 01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:34.239 garden. We started planning a whole bunch of cucumbers, different types, straight 890 01:05:34.280 --> 01:05:41.079 aids, purpless little bush varieties. And for first three or so years everything 891 01:05:41.119 --> 01:05:45.280 worked out great, beautiful sweet cucumbers. And then last year, I don't 892 01:05:45.320 --> 01:05:49.639 know what it was, but all the cucumbers just started tasting bitter and nasty. 893 01:05:49.760 --> 01:05:55.599 It didn't matter if they're small or big. Thoughts on that that's a 894 01:05:55.719 --> 01:06:00.800 heat related thing. They do get better also as they get old. You 895 01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:03.719 know, if you go past that real tender, succulent stage and they start 896 01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:09.079 to the skin toughens a little bit, you may get some bitterness there. 897 01:06:09.440 --> 01:06:13.480 But it's especially related to heat, and varieties aren't all the same. Some 898 01:06:13.639 --> 01:06:16.679 are a little more prone to it than others, but in general that's why 899 01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:21.119 we don't see cucumber harvests through the heat of summer. It's a spring and 900 01:06:21.199 --> 01:06:27.199 a fall crop for us. Gotcha, we started playing of corn completely gay 901 01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:31.039 up on the cucumbers because they were gross. Okay, any words on how 902 01:06:31.079 --> 01:06:36.400 many different types of varieties to put into garden beds. With corn, you 903 01:06:36.559 --> 01:06:42.000 don't need more than one variety. It pollinates itself, and in fact, 904 01:06:42.599 --> 01:06:45.440 if you do it, there there's groups of corn. Well, first of 905 01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:49.480 all, I'll just real quickly, there's there's a kind of corn that we 906 01:06:49.639 --> 01:06:54.159 grind up for corn meal. Then there's the kind of corn we use for 907 01:06:54.239 --> 01:06:57.280 popcorn. Then there's a kind of corn we call sweetcorn that we eat, 908 01:06:57.880 --> 01:07:02.519 and sweet corn there's different groups. They're super sweet, there's sugar enhanced versions, 909 01:07:03.639 --> 01:07:08.400 the EH versions, and then there's just regular sweetcorn. And you don't 910 01:07:08.480 --> 01:07:12.199 want those to pollinate each other. So you wouldn't put a super sweet with 911 01:07:12.599 --> 01:07:16.079 a regular type of sweetcorn. But when you plan them, plant one variety 912 01:07:16.639 --> 01:07:21.800 and make it at least four rows wide. Because it's wind pollinated. The 913 01:07:21.920 --> 01:07:27.280 pollen falls from the tassels and falls onto the silks of the ears, and 914 01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:30.159 that's what makes a full ear full of kernels. And so if you just 915 01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:34.119 have one skinny row and the wind's blowing sideways, you're not going to get 916 01:07:34.119 --> 01:07:38.119 the pollination you need. So plant them in blocks as best you can. 917 01:07:38.280 --> 01:07:41.960 Yeah, we have garden beds with some of them have four different varieties. 918 01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:45.960 Because first you're trying it already starting to get some ears pop up. Yeah, 919 01:07:45.000 --> 01:07:47.920 I just want to get some additional tips for next year. Yeah, 920 01:07:48.039 --> 01:07:51.519 that's what I would do, absolutely. And you can go online to Aggy 921 01:07:51.639 --> 01:07:58.079 Horticulture website and go to the vegetable section. There's a whole free PDF page 922 01:07:58.119 --> 01:08:00.400 you can look at it on the screen or print it out on on how 923 01:08:00.440 --> 01:08:02.119 to grow corn. I would recommend that, Hey, John, thank you 924 01:08:02.239 --> 01:08:04.800 for the call. We're gonna have to head to break. Kevin, you'll 925 01:08:04.800 --> 01:08:09.320 be first up, but if you'd like to be up, dial seven one 926 01:08:09.480 --> 01:08:13.840 three two one two fifty eight seventy four and Josh will get shown the board 927 01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:24.439 the gold to show you never did ten. They furnished off an apartment with 928 01:08:24.640 --> 01:08:30.479 a two room, a robust The cooler reader was crammed with TV dinners than 929 01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:36.079 jin j. Good morning. If you're listening to garden Line and we are 930 01:08:36.159 --> 01:08:41.039 talking about all kinds of things gardening this morning, if you'd like to give 931 01:08:41.119 --> 01:08:45.079 us a call, the number is seven one three two one two fifty eight 932 01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:50.319 seventy four. Let's head out now to Katie and talk to Kevin. Good 933 01:08:50.399 --> 01:08:58.439 morning, Kevin, good morning. What's up? I have a large a 934 01:08:58.600 --> 01:09:03.880 country in my backyard. A couple of weeks ago I noticed this white I 935 01:09:03.960 --> 01:09:10.880 wouldn't say residue, but the bark is turned white in areas and it seems 936 01:09:10.920 --> 01:09:15.119 like the bark is maybe pulling away from the tree. A bit okay, 937 01:09:15.119 --> 01:09:20.920 Yeah, I just kind of wondering what would be the first step. Can 938 01:09:21.000 --> 01:09:25.319 you get to the area a ladder or whatever. Can you reach where the 939 01:09:25.399 --> 01:09:30.239 area is um? Yes, it actually starts close to the base. It 940 01:09:30.399 --> 01:09:35.840 runs up about eight foot and then some of the larger branches I've noticed not 941 01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:40.560 as much, but yes, I can reach the areas most of them. 942 01:09:40.960 --> 01:09:43.239 Well, it could be it could be a couple of things, but it 943 01:09:43.680 --> 01:09:45.760 may be that the bark is dead underneath there. And but if you can 944 01:09:45.840 --> 01:09:49.600 reach the area, kind of pull away the outer loose bark and just see 945 01:09:49.840 --> 01:09:56.560 is the whole the whole thick bark coming off and so there's like inner pecan 946 01:09:56.760 --> 01:10:01.399 wood underneath it exposed now or is it is it just the outer bark flaking 947 01:10:01.439 --> 01:10:04.399 off? That something is growing on the outer bark, Because there are some 948 01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:10.680 different things from lichens to fungia to you name it that can grow on bark, 949 01:10:10.920 --> 01:10:15.359 the outer dead bark, But that's of no concern. If if it's 950 01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:21.000 a sign that the cambium and the living tissues there were killed and now you've 951 01:10:21.039 --> 01:10:25.159 just got a thick dead bark all the way down to the wood of the 952 01:10:25.279 --> 01:10:30.000 interior, then you want to clean all that away and give make sure the 953 01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:32.720 tree has adequate water as we go into the heat of summer, and do 954 01:10:32.800 --> 01:10:36.319 a little fertilization for it to get a little bit of vigor going, because 955 01:10:36.439 --> 01:10:41.079 you want it to be able to form that callous that that closes its way 956 01:10:41.159 --> 01:10:48.479 across and covers over that interior wood. So I would say that the bark, 957 01:10:49.680 --> 01:10:54.359 the whole piece pulls off and it's just like somebody painted it like a 958 01:10:54.800 --> 01:11:00.279 lightning Okay, underneath it's dark, but I've only pulled light one or two 959 01:11:00.359 --> 01:11:03.880 pieces away, so I don't I don't know pulling the hole all of that 960 01:11:04.079 --> 01:11:09.720 off. Are you saying pull it off or yeah, I am if it's 961 01:11:09.840 --> 01:11:15.159 dead. If it's dead, you know pecauns, they typically kind of flake 962 01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:18.000 the bark a little bit, uh, depending on the edge of the tree. 963 01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:23.960 But if you do not have living bark that's covering over that wood, 964 01:11:24.079 --> 01:11:28.479 you want to get the dead bark off so that that wood can dry out 965 01:11:28.760 --> 01:11:32.079 after it rains. You're not holding moisture back there because that just increases the 966 01:11:32.199 --> 01:11:38.199 incidence of interior decay, which eventually u creates a hazard tree over a long 967 01:11:38.319 --> 01:11:43.560 time. So you are go ahead. It does look damn like the people 968 01:11:43.560 --> 01:11:46.560 when I pulled a couple of pieces I pulled off it, it looks very 969 01:11:46.720 --> 01:11:50.720 dark. And yeah, so as you as you pull that off, you 970 01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:54.359 know, as you look to the left and the right on that area, 971 01:11:54.960 --> 01:11:58.800 uh, somewhere you should see callis starting to come in like a little lava 972 01:11:58.880 --> 01:12:01.119 flow. If you will, you know it is. It's moving in a 973 01:12:01.279 --> 01:12:06.880 raised callus. That tissue will keep creeping across until the left side and the 974 01:12:08.000 --> 01:12:11.560 right side come together. And now the bark has the interior wood has been 975 01:12:11.600 --> 01:12:16.720 covered up. And so that that's what you want to happen. Um. 976 01:12:17.039 --> 01:12:25.159 Now, one area is probably fifteen inches wide, bob six feet tall. 977 01:12:25.600 --> 01:12:29.439 Okay, so that's okamp, pull that whole area off like that. Yeah, 978 01:12:29.680 --> 01:12:30.880 I mean, if it's dead, it's not going to come back to 979 01:12:31.000 --> 01:12:35.119 life. And all that barks by is increasing decay. So I don't care 980 01:12:35.199 --> 01:12:39.319 how big it is. What it is is uh. And so you're not 981 01:12:39.359 --> 01:12:43.000 going to hurt anything by taking dead bark off, just like clipping your fingernails 982 01:12:43.039 --> 01:12:47.560 doesn't hurt anything. Right, So the dead bark is just dead tissue that's 983 01:12:47.680 --> 01:12:51.800 no longer part of helping the plant. In fact, is now hurting it 984 01:12:53.159 --> 01:12:58.239 by holding that moisture behind it. Okay, all right, sounds good. 985 01:12:58.319 --> 01:13:00.000 Thank you you, Bet Kevin, thank you for the call. I appreciate 986 01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:03.520 that. You know, speaking of trees, if you need a quality tree, 987 01:13:03.680 --> 01:13:09.600 you need to call Verdant Tree Farm Verdant Tree Farm dot com. Maybe 988 01:13:09.600 --> 01:13:12.880 I should say Verdant. I don't know Verdon. I always say Verdant, 989 01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:15.960 but Verdon means green. Well, they have green trees. You're gonna get 990 01:13:16.000 --> 01:13:18.760 trees all the way up to seven hundred gallons. If you want palm trees, 991 01:13:18.800 --> 01:13:21.760 they specialize in those, but they have all kinds of other types of 992 01:13:21.840 --> 01:13:27.560 trees. Verdant Tree Farm is now in three locations, which is nice. 993 01:13:27.680 --> 01:13:30.359 They've got the location the original out there on bark or Cypress on the west 994 01:13:30.439 --> 01:13:33.960 side. Down in parallel on West Broadway they have a location. And now 995 01:13:34.079 --> 01:13:39.600 in the Heights where Yale Street and I ten come together, another location of 996 01:13:39.680 --> 01:13:42.119 Verdant. You can go in, you can sit down, you can get 997 01:13:42.159 --> 01:13:45.520 a consultation. Here's a picture in my yard. What will go here? 998 01:13:45.640 --> 01:13:48.159 What's a good choice? All that kind of stuff. They'll come out, 999 01:13:48.319 --> 01:13:51.800 they'll plant it, they'll plant it right, and you'll set yourself up for 1000 01:13:51.920 --> 01:13:55.960 long term success. What do they say? The best time to plant a 1001 01:13:56.000 --> 01:13:59.800 tree was fifty years ago. The next best time is today. Don't delay. 1002 01:13:59.880 --> 01:14:02.159 The sooner you get a quality tree in the ground and you take care 1003 01:14:02.199 --> 01:14:04.880 of it. The sooner you're going to be able to hang a hammock in 1004 01:14:04.960 --> 01:14:09.640 it and enjoy it for years and years to come. You plant the right 1005 01:14:09.720 --> 01:14:15.000 kind of tree and you enjoy it for a very very long time. You 1006 01:14:15.119 --> 01:14:21.039 know. Pulty's has been building homes for seniors, for people fifty five and 1007 01:14:21.199 --> 01:14:26.880 better active adults for over seventy years. Now, two miles from downtown full 1008 01:14:26.880 --> 01:14:30.239 Shore on FM three fifty nine is the newest pulty community and this one has 1009 01:14:30.319 --> 01:14:33.920 a community garden that I'm helping them set up. So if you're a gardener, 1010 01:14:34.000 --> 01:14:38.319 I mean it's a win win, right, Pulti's inspired designs that air 1011 01:14:38.399 --> 01:14:43.279 lifestyle programs and now a place to garden. Go to dellweb dot com slash 1012 01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:46.560 Houston for more information or give m a call to eight one four five nine 1013 01:14:47.119 --> 01:14:57.680 zero six zero nine Pulty. I can't wait to see that fully developed now 1014 01:14:57.800 --> 01:15:03.199 community garden out there that is going to really really cool and fun. I 1015 01:15:03.399 --> 01:15:08.479 was communicating with the folks out at the B Supply which is out in Dayton, 1016 01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:13.399 and I've talked about them before. That is a place that is if 1017 01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:15.520 you're if you're wanting to be a beekeeper, If you are a beekeeper, 1018 01:15:16.000 --> 01:15:23.199 you need to go there to get your supplies. Their storefront is absolutely amazing 1019 01:15:23.279 --> 01:15:27.439 the amount of supplies they have. But most importantly, they will walk you 1020 01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:31.760 through how to get into beekeeping or they'll help you deal with issues you might 1021 01:15:31.840 --> 01:15:34.800 have. They have hives on site. They can take you out and show 1022 01:15:34.880 --> 01:15:39.680 you things hands on. They have classes now once a month, the beginner 1023 01:15:39.760 --> 01:15:43.840 classes at the B Supplier once a month out in Dayton. Go to the 1024 01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:48.119 B Supply dot com the B Supply dot com to find out more. If 1025 01:15:48.159 --> 01:15:53.720 you'd like a tour, I highly recommend any group go out for a tour. 1026 01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:57.720 It is just fascinating. They'll give you a short presentation about bees and 1027 01:15:58.079 --> 01:16:00.159 the different bees in the hive and how that work. You'll get to walk 1028 01:16:00.239 --> 01:16:04.319 out and see a frame of bees taken from one of the hives, weather 1029 01:16:04.399 --> 01:16:09.319 permitting, You'll get to taste like six different kinds of honey. If you 1030 01:16:09.439 --> 01:16:13.199 have a homeschool group, a church group, Pacific organization, a garden club, 1031 01:16:13.279 --> 01:16:16.720 any group of kids, Scouts for example, be supply dot com. 1032 01:16:16.880 --> 01:16:20.680 Those classes are those honey tours are free. I mean that's a win win. 1033 01:16:21.439 --> 01:16:25.319 When you go ask to see what, you don't have to ask. 1034 01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:30.079 It's the biggest thing in the room, the second largest indoor b observation hive 1035 01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:32.800 in the world. Okay, we are going to head out to a break, 1036 01:16:33.199 --> 01:16:38.520 Josh, we'll get you on board seven one three two one two five 1037 01:16:38.760 --> 01:16:43.680 eight seven four seven one three two one two ktrh go ahead and give them 1038 01:16:43.680 --> 01:16:46.439 a call so you can be first up. After we had to break. 1039 01:16:46.640 --> 01:16:49.840 We've got a lot more things to talk about, a lot more your calls 1040 01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:55.840 to get to today. Looking outside, I just you know of what we 1041 01:16:55.920 --> 01:17:00.640 got two more hours of gardenline this morning, and I have got a lot 1042 01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:03.720 of garden type stuff I'm going to get active with today, especially stopping in 1043 01:17:03.880 --> 01:17:10.000 to visit some garden centers. Remember it's Father's Day. Great time to buy 1044 01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:13.399 again if you've got a dad that is a gardener. Oh my goodness, 1045 01:17:13.840 --> 01:17:15.960 go to some of our garden centers. Check out the things they have for 1046 01:17:16.039 --> 01:17:20.560 Father's Day. So I'm gonna have discounts you can buy a coupon for dad, 1047 01:17:20.640 --> 01:17:24.600 you can buy tools for dad, all kinds of cool stuff. If 1048 01:17:24.600 --> 01:17:28.039 you're dad in a gardener, but he's a lawn ranger, you know, 1049 01:17:28.199 --> 01:17:30.319 the guy that has to have the best lawn on the block. Go visit 1050 01:17:30.560 --> 01:17:38.359 for Father's Day. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products 1051 01:17:38.479 --> 01:17:45.560 or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor 1052 01:17:54.279 --> 01:18:13.079 just watching Good Morning on a good Morning the Gardening for talking about gardening. 1053 01:18:13.640 --> 01:18:16.199 For're asking questions about gardening. I'm your host, Skip Richter. We are 1054 01:18:16.359 --> 01:18:20.840 here to answer your gardening questions on garden Line. Thanks for listening our phone 1055 01:18:20.920 --> 01:18:27.359 number seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two 1056 01:18:27.479 --> 01:18:33.840 one two fifty eight seventy four. We've got a lot of different topics we 1057 01:18:33.880 --> 01:18:39.159 can talk about today. And earlier I mentioned talking about some summer color flowers, 1058 01:18:39.239 --> 01:18:43.079 and there are so many good flowers that do well in summer. You 1059 01:18:43.159 --> 01:18:47.359 know, the biggest and gaudiest things in the box may well be the hibiscus. 1060 01:18:47.479 --> 01:18:51.159 The tropical types of hibiscus. They've got the darker green, smaller, 1061 01:18:51.279 --> 01:18:57.800 shinier leaves and the flowers that just they have the colors that are just all 1062 01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:00.199 over the place, I mean really beautiful. They're not cold hearty, but 1063 01:19:00.319 --> 01:19:04.159 they are gorgeous, and they fine here in the summer heat. And then 1064 01:19:04.199 --> 01:19:09.840 we got the perennial hibiscus, the southern mallows that have the big dinner plate 1065 01:19:09.920 --> 01:19:14.159 sized blooms almost always in a like a red, a pink, white, 1066 01:19:14.319 --> 01:19:19.239 or some swirly mixture of the above. Specaly, sometimes those just take our 1067 01:19:19.279 --> 01:19:24.680 heat just fine. Too. We got our native, the Texas star hibiscus. 1068 01:19:24.800 --> 01:19:28.319 It's native to the Gulf Coast. Fun fact, it's called Texas star. 1069 01:19:28.520 --> 01:19:30.479 It's native to the Gulf Coast, but it's not native to Texas. 1070 01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:34.520 I don't know how that happened, but anyway, we'll take it. Beautiful, 1071 01:19:34.560 --> 01:19:40.720 beautiful little hibiscus plant we considered a regional native. It's certainly, what 1072 01:19:40.840 --> 01:19:43.640 do they say, not from Texas, but I got here as fast as 1073 01:19:43.680 --> 01:19:47.079 I could. We'll count it that way. Texas wants you anyway, as 1074 01:19:47.399 --> 01:19:51.640 Randy Travis would put it. So, the hibiscus are just some of those 1075 01:19:51.760 --> 01:19:56.920 plants that you need them in your landscape. Give them good sun you can 1076 01:19:57.000 --> 01:20:00.840 put especially the tropical types people grow them in large can tainers because then you 1077 01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:04.159 can roll them into the garage when winter finally comes and bring them back out 1078 01:20:04.159 --> 01:20:08.880 again, keep them going year after year, or I don't know, if 1079 01:20:08.920 --> 01:20:11.319 we don't have too cool of weather, you can just cover them upon and 1080 01:20:11.359 --> 01:20:14.800 get by that way. But a good time to be picking those out and 1081 01:20:14.920 --> 01:20:18.960 getting those out, because just because it's summer doesn't mean our landscapes have to 1082 01:20:19.119 --> 01:20:24.159 turn into a sea of green. And you know what I'm talking about. 1083 01:20:24.279 --> 01:20:27.800 You know, go through late June, July, in August, and you 1084 01:20:27.920 --> 01:20:30.560 look into landscapes and it's like green grass, green ground cover, green shrubs, 1085 01:20:30.640 --> 01:20:34.199 green trees, and where's the color. There's not a lot compared to 1086 01:20:34.279 --> 01:20:38.680 spring. But there's no need for it to be a sea of green. 1087 01:20:38.800 --> 01:20:43.199 We have a lot of great color plants that we can grow here in this 1088 01:20:43.479 --> 01:20:47.079 area that do superbly well through the heat of the summer. Well, I'm 1089 01:20:47.079 --> 01:20:50.319 gonna quit talking a minute. We're going to go out to the woodlands and 1090 01:20:50.520 --> 01:20:56.319 we're gonna start off talking with Andy. Hello. Andy, Yes, sir, 1091 01:20:56.520 --> 01:21:00.399 thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir, I've got a burr 1092 01:21:00.439 --> 01:21:03.199 oak tree. It's maybe fifteen years old, so it's not huge, maybe 1093 01:21:03.359 --> 01:21:10.800 thirty feet tall, And the leaves this spring are like dying from the inside 1094 01:21:10.920 --> 01:21:15.279 out and like they're really dried out. And you know that it's been getting 1095 01:21:15.319 --> 01:21:18.720 plenty of water, So I don't think it's because it's you know, been 1096 01:21:18.760 --> 01:21:23.000 too hot. But I don't know if this is a fungus or a virus 1097 01:21:23.239 --> 01:21:26.640 or oak wilt. I don't know if you have any ideas what it might 1098 01:21:26.720 --> 01:21:30.000 be. Well, let me ask you a couple of diagnostic questions. When 1099 01:21:30.039 --> 01:21:31.439 you say from the inside out, do you mean the leaves on the inside 1100 01:21:31.439 --> 01:21:35.159 of the tree are dying and gradually working their way to the leaves on the 1101 01:21:35.199 --> 01:21:41.399 outside, or do you mean in the leaf itself the browning starts interior? 1102 01:21:42.800 --> 01:21:45.079 Which way? Yeah, in them in the leaf itself. Okay. And 1103 01:21:45.920 --> 01:21:50.159 it doesn't really seem how do I say, it's not like to a specific 1104 01:21:50.279 --> 01:21:55.159 area. It seems like it's like all over the tree, and some leaves 1105 01:21:55.199 --> 01:21:58.039 look really healthy and there's a lot of new green growth. Yeah, so 1106 01:21:58.199 --> 01:22:00.039 I think the tree is healthy. It's just a lot of the leaves are 1107 01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:03.439 starting to die. Okay. Well, I'm going to give you an answer, 1108 01:22:03.640 --> 01:22:08.039 and then if you would like, I'll put you on hold when we're 1109 01:22:08.079 --> 01:22:13.479 done here, and you can tell get with Josh and let him help you 1110 01:22:13.640 --> 01:22:16.359 get a photo to me. If you can go up and take some photos 1111 01:22:16.439 --> 01:22:20.439 of leaves up close and sharp focus, show me the top sides and the 1112 01:22:20.479 --> 01:22:24.359 bottom sides as close as you can get, you know, the whole leaf 1113 01:22:24.399 --> 01:22:27.680 in the picture, if possible. I'll be glad to take a look, 1114 01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:31.479 because it could be more than one thing. Is are the veins dying or 1115 01:22:31.720 --> 01:22:36.399 is the area between the veins dying? Yeah, the whole center of the 1116 01:22:36.520 --> 01:22:41.119 leaf, okay, and it's like like dry as paper. I mean it's 1117 01:22:41.199 --> 01:22:46.119 like parched. Okay. There are some scorch type diseases. There are bacteria 1118 01:22:46.239 --> 01:22:53.760 that can plug the plumbing of the leaf. There are just with the heat 1119 01:22:53.800 --> 01:22:58.680 and everything, the demands are high, and so if the flow of water 1120 01:22:58.920 --> 01:23:01.720 through that leaf is not adequate, it starts you start to see that kind 1121 01:23:01.760 --> 01:23:05.439 of browning and collapse. So different things can cause that. There's also some 1122 01:23:05.920 --> 01:23:10.640 some insects on little caterpillars and soft lives and things that can chew on the 1123 01:23:11.199 --> 01:23:15.119 leaves and create the brown areas in them. So let's let's take a look 1124 01:23:15.119 --> 01:23:18.800 at a picture. Andy number one, I'm not worried about it. Based 1125 01:23:18.840 --> 01:23:21.399 on what you've said, I think your tree is gonna be fine. I 1126 01:23:21.439 --> 01:23:25.720 don't think a treatment is needed, but just to be sure, I'm gonna 1127 01:23:25.720 --> 01:23:30.479 put you on hold and let Josh help you with getting some photos to me, 1128 01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:33.039 and that way I can give you a real accurate, for sure diagnosis. 1129 01:23:33.119 --> 01:23:39.000 Okay, okay, thank you very much for that call. I appreciate 1130 01:23:39.119 --> 01:23:43.319 that. Hey, if you've not been to plants for all seasons, you've 1131 01:23:43.359 --> 01:23:45.880 gotta go. If you've been, you know what I'm talking about. Green 1132 01:23:45.960 --> 01:23:50.000 thumbs that take pride in their lawn and garden. They know about plants for 1133 01:23:50.039 --> 01:23:54.159 all seasons, and they love to visit plants for all seasons. But if 1134 01:23:54.159 --> 01:23:57.199 you're a brown thumb and you want to turn that thumb green, you need 1135 01:23:57.279 --> 01:24:01.000 to visit plants for all seasons. They've got educated folks that know what they're 1136 01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:04.640 talking about, experienced. When you bring a problem in, they take a 1137 01:24:04.760 --> 01:24:08.840 look at it, they tell you what's wrong. If anything's wrong, I 1138 01:24:08.920 --> 01:24:11.600 mean it may be that now it's fine, you don't need anything, or 1139 01:24:11.680 --> 01:24:14.199 if you need a product, they know which one to take you to to 1140 01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:17.800 solve the problem. They have education, they have awesome selection of plants. 1141 01:24:17.880 --> 01:24:21.840 I mean Father's Day weekend, from the gift shop to the plants outside. 1142 01:24:23.279 --> 01:24:28.239 Plants for all seasons is the true lawn and garden experts. They can help 1143 01:24:28.319 --> 01:24:32.119 you with the planting, with custom potting. Bring them a picture in if 1144 01:24:32.199 --> 01:24:34.880 you want to. You know your neighbor's got a flower, take a picture 1145 01:24:34.920 --> 01:24:38.399 of it and go into plants say what is is? I gotta have one. 1146 01:24:38.840 --> 01:24:42.840 Plants for all seasons dot com. Plants for all Seasons dot com. 1147 01:24:43.279 --> 01:24:46.560 They're at Highway two forty nine, Tumball Parkway and Louetta, right there in 1148 01:24:46.640 --> 01:24:51.960 the corner. That's the place two eight one three seven six one six four 1149 01:24:53.279 --> 01:24:56.279 six. I love going into that place. Just a couple of weeks ago, 1150 01:24:56.279 --> 01:24:59.319 I was in there, just amazed at the different things that they have. 1151 01:25:00.399 --> 01:25:03.560 Let's heart out to Baytown and we're gonna talk now to Glenn. Hello, 1152 01:25:03.760 --> 01:25:08.880 Glenn, good morning, Good morning. I have a simple question. 1153 01:25:08.920 --> 01:25:14.720 It's not about plants. I have an outside patio that's uncovered. I have 1154 01:25:14.880 --> 01:25:18.600 a thin layer of Burt mulch that's already on the top of landscape fabric. 1155 01:25:19.199 --> 01:25:25.239 It's deteriorating, and I want to replace it with cedar mulch to cut back 1156 01:25:25.279 --> 01:25:28.920 on the mosquitos here in Baytown. And I want to know if I could 1157 01:25:28.960 --> 01:25:32.079 put that over the top of that the thin layer that's already there, or 1158 01:25:32.199 --> 01:25:35.319 do I need to move all that off. You don't need to remove it. 1159 01:25:36.119 --> 01:25:39.319 You can just put it on top if you want. I'm not a 1160 01:25:39.359 --> 01:25:44.079 big landscape fabric fan. Initially it works pretty good and looks good, and 1161 01:25:44.159 --> 01:25:47.159 then you start to get dirt and decomposing things on top, and weed seeds 1162 01:25:47.199 --> 01:25:50.079 start to come up on top of it, and then you just gotta this 1163 01:25:50.239 --> 01:25:54.960 check now. So this might be a good time to pull the fabric out, 1164 01:25:55.439 --> 01:25:59.199 put that mult that was on the fabric back because it'll decompose and build 1165 01:25:59.239 --> 01:26:02.119 your soil and then throw the new malts on top of that. Okay, 1166 01:26:02.199 --> 01:26:06.199 I did it, and the other I have a yard of George of flower 1167 01:26:06.279 --> 01:26:12.199 bits and I did put landscape fabric down before. And I don't like it, 1168 01:26:12.840 --> 01:26:15.239 okay, because, like you say, it decomposes in the weeds grew 1169 01:26:15.319 --> 01:26:18.159 anyway. Yeah, yeah, they do. I was told that the cedar 1170 01:26:18.279 --> 01:26:23.920 molts would last much longer than the bark mault. Yeah, and it would 1171 01:26:23.960 --> 01:26:28.520 help with insects. It will especially for a while. You know, as 1172 01:26:28.560 --> 01:26:30.319 it ages to a point, you're not going to have that as much of 1173 01:26:30.399 --> 01:26:34.159 that benefit. But initially, yeah, and it's very true that it does 1174 01:26:34.279 --> 01:26:39.239 last longer. Cedar decomposes flour. That's why they put cedar fence posts down 1175 01:26:39.479 --> 01:26:43.399 in the farm. It's a lot more expensive, but it's I'm pretty rich 1176 01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:45.680 worth it. Yeah, I get it. That's that's true. All right. 1177 01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:50.279 Well, okay, so I did go ahead put it over the Yeah, 1178 01:26:50.439 --> 01:26:53.960 yeah, that's right. That's right over the top, and you're good 1179 01:26:54.000 --> 01:26:56.399 to go. Hey, I got to take a break. Give us a 1180 01:26:56.399 --> 01:27:00.840 call. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Josh gets 1181 01:27:00.920 --> 01:27:02.720 you on the board. We'll talk to you right away when we come back 1182 01:27:02.760 --> 01:27:26.840 from break. Good morning, A little sunshine coming out now, see it 1183 01:27:26.960 --> 01:27:30.439 across the tree tops outside. That's it. You know, I sat the 1184 01:27:30.479 --> 01:27:33.800 city. We got some beautiful trees and I'm looking at pine trees. I'm 1185 01:27:33.840 --> 01:27:38.359 looking at oak trees and maple trees, all kinds of trees blowing in the 1186 01:27:38.479 --> 01:27:41.920 little bit of a breeze going on out there. And you know, when 1187 01:27:41.960 --> 01:27:45.640 I see that this morning, I was looking thinking about that we live in 1188 01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:50.479 a place where there's these things called hurricanes that come from summer into fall, 1189 01:27:51.399 --> 01:27:56.840 and they can take their toll on our trees. I mean, if you've 1190 01:27:56.880 --> 01:27:59.680 been here very long, you know what I'm of course what I'm talking about. 1191 01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:01.920 This is a good time to have somebody come out and look at your 1192 01:28:01.960 --> 01:28:05.000 trees and any kind of work that needs to be done, you need to 1193 01:28:05.039 --> 01:28:09.640 get that done. So if you've got broken limbs, if you've got limbs 1194 01:28:09.760 --> 01:28:14.680 that have died, or limbs that are split, or any kind of stuff 1195 01:28:14.720 --> 01:28:17.000 that needs to be pruned and taken care of, and you need to hire 1196 01:28:17.079 --> 01:28:20.520 someone that knows what they're talking about. The guys that put their business card 1197 01:28:20.560 --> 01:28:26.000 in your door, just throw those away. Call Affordable Tree. Now why 1198 01:28:26.039 --> 01:28:28.600 do we talk about affordable Tree, Well, because they know what they're talking 1199 01:28:28.640 --> 01:28:32.439 about. Martin and Joe. The family has been in this business for a 1200 01:28:32.520 --> 01:28:36.880 long time. I mean they absolutely know what's going on. Like fifty two 1201 01:28:38.000 --> 01:28:41.640 years I think the family has been doing this. You can go to aff 1202 01:28:42.439 --> 01:28:45.439 Tree Service dot com or give him a call seven one three six ninety nine 1203 01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:50.399 twenty six sixty three. Martin Spoon Moore his wife Joe are going to answer 1204 01:28:50.439 --> 01:28:54.159 the phones. If they don't, you call the wrong place of Affordable in 1205 01:28:54.199 --> 01:28:58.399 the name, hang up, find the number, call back again. If 1206 01:28:58.479 --> 01:29:01.239 you need power lines clean cleared out, if maybe a tree's hanging a branch 1207 01:29:01.319 --> 01:29:04.239 over your roof or over your neighbor's fence, or some other thing like that, 1208 01:29:04.880 --> 01:29:06.960 they'll tell you if it needs to be done. They're not going to 1209 01:29:08.039 --> 01:29:11.520 sell you service as they don't. They're not the two jerks under chainsaw tree 1210 01:29:11.600 --> 01:29:15.640 service that drives down the street and turns your trees into hat racks and ruins 1211 01:29:15.720 --> 01:29:18.039 them for the rest of their life. This is the most valuable parts of 1212 01:29:18.119 --> 01:29:23.520 your landscape. Plants. There's the trees on your property. Don't let anybody 1213 01:29:23.640 --> 01:29:27.439 touch those trees. It doesn't know what they're doing. An Affordable Tree Service 1214 01:29:27.640 --> 01:29:32.720 or people that know what they're doing. I'm telling you very beautiful, valuable 1215 01:29:32.800 --> 01:29:35.479 trees. They can take care of them. Everything you need, deep roof 1216 01:29:35.520 --> 01:29:39.840 feeding, on and on and on down the line they do it. Tell 1217 01:29:39.920 --> 01:29:44.199 them you're a gardenline customer because they stay busy, but gardenline customers grow the 1218 01:29:44.239 --> 01:29:46.760 front of the line. So tell them you hurt on guardline and they will 1219 01:29:46.920 --> 01:29:50.920 make sure that you get taken care of. At Affordable Tree service. We 1220 01:29:51.000 --> 01:29:55.920 want to go out to north Shore and we're gonna talk to Donnie. Good 1221 01:29:56.000 --> 01:30:00.479 morning, Donnie, Hey, good morning, Josh. I picked up something 1222 01:30:00.560 --> 01:30:09.119 that I think I've pronounced it right, Ferty Loan men shelated multi nutrient liquid 1223 01:30:09.159 --> 01:30:16.079 irons. You purchased a liquid iron? Yeah to Uh did you get the 1224 01:30:16.159 --> 01:30:23.439 first names I pronounced? If I pronounced them, say it again, Bertie 1225 01:30:23.760 --> 01:30:30.359 Loan Me, okay, yeah, okay, Uh. To help stimulate my 1226 01:30:30.840 --> 01:30:39.359 petunias root because they seem like they're suffering in this heat along with not maybe 1227 01:30:39.439 --> 01:30:44.199 getting enough water in a timely manner. So I've just wanted to go with 1228 01:30:44.399 --> 01:30:51.920 you on how to apply that, uh well in the soil. Any kind 1229 01:30:51.920 --> 01:30:56.720 of an iron supplement is fine if you have iron deficiency. If your new 1230 01:30:56.840 --> 01:31:00.159 growth is yellow, it's pale, it's not green, the new growth the 1231 01:31:00.279 --> 01:31:03.840 ends of the shoots, then the iron would help. But if you're trying 1232 01:31:03.880 --> 01:31:09.159 to stimulate the root system on those plants, I would get something called has 1233 01:31:09.239 --> 01:31:13.920 to Grow six twelve six that has got a lot of phosphorus in it, 1234 01:31:14.000 --> 01:31:18.600 which helps with the root stimulation. It's got the nitrogen phosphorus and potassium, 1235 01:31:18.960 --> 01:31:24.880 and it's got medinas will activator with the biological activity and humate humic acid. 1236 01:31:24.960 --> 01:31:30.079 It's got sea seaweed seaweed extract in it too, So that concoction you mix 1237 01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:33.279 it up, put in a watering can drench over your new plants that you 1238 01:31:33.399 --> 01:31:36.880 put in. That's going to be the thing that better sets them up. 1239 01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:42.239 Now, the iron is fine to treat just iron deficiency. But for the 1240 01:31:42.880 --> 01:31:46.920 getting a new plant going, the medina has to grow six twelve six is 1241 01:31:46.960 --> 01:31:49.319 the one I would look for. That's what I would recommend for you, 1242 01:31:49.439 --> 01:31:55.960 Donnie. Okay, what about the transplant. And I got a couple of 1243 01:31:57.079 --> 01:32:02.479 new pocon tree that popped up in my flower beds. Okay, I want 1244 01:32:02.520 --> 01:32:06.279 to transplant them from Harit's counting down in the Missouri county, all right, 1245 01:32:06.600 --> 01:32:10.600 So what you want to do is wait till fall. When the leaves fall 1246 01:32:10.680 --> 01:32:14.439 off those trees or turning yellow, you know they're about to turn loose. 1247 01:32:15.000 --> 01:32:18.359 That's a good time. So let's just say November. Then dig them up. 1248 01:32:18.600 --> 01:32:21.239 You want to go down. They've got a tap root. If they're 1249 01:32:21.239 --> 01:32:24.720 a seedling that popped up in your bed, they have a tap root, 1250 01:32:25.159 --> 01:32:28.039 and you want to go down and get that root and dig it up. 1251 01:32:28.479 --> 01:32:30.159 You can shake the soil off of it, you know, if it's too 1252 01:32:30.239 --> 01:32:33.359 hard to get the soil and the roots all down there. But you just 1253 01:32:33.520 --> 01:32:38.960 want to wet it and then pack it with anything that will hold the moisture. 1254 01:32:38.960 --> 01:32:42.000 I mean it could be sawdust that's wet. Anything just to kind of 1255 01:32:42.039 --> 01:32:45.239 hold the moisture around them. Put a plastic around it, maybe a trash 1256 01:32:45.319 --> 01:32:48.439 bag. And then get them down to where you're going to plant them and 1257 01:32:49.119 --> 01:32:51.920 put them in the ground right away and water them in really well. Put 1258 01:32:51.960 --> 01:32:55.600 them at the same level they were growing. You can see the soil lion 1259 01:32:55.680 --> 01:32:58.720 on the trunk where it was going into the soil and the flower bed. 1260 01:32:59.279 --> 01:33:02.079 That's how planted in the new spot, watered in really well. Don't put 1261 01:33:02.159 --> 01:33:06.000 potting soil in, don't put fertilizer in. Just use the soil you dug 1262 01:33:06.039 --> 01:33:09.840 out of the hole, put it back in and settle it in with a 1263 01:33:09.920 --> 01:33:15.239 good watering and they'll take right off growing for you. Oh okay, and 1264 01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:18.640 you know that hastergro just mentioned. I would water them in with that. 1265 01:33:18.840 --> 01:33:27.239 I would use that as the solution to water them in, so that won't 1266 01:33:27.399 --> 01:33:30.840 hurt. But it's not the best solution. No, it's it's adding iron 1267 01:33:30.960 --> 01:33:35.039 and if iron is needed that that's helpful. But if iron is not needed 1268 01:33:35.600 --> 01:33:40.640 and you've already got let's say high iron levels, then adding more iron is 1269 01:33:40.720 --> 01:33:46.439 not not helpful. Okay, okay, alrighty, all right, Donny, 1270 01:33:46.800 --> 01:33:51.920 Hey, thanks for the call. Appreciate that our phone number seven one three 1271 01:33:53.039 --> 01:33:57.680 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two and two fifty eight 1272 01:33:58.159 --> 01:34:03.760 seventy four. Hey, if you live up in Magnolia on FM twenty nine 1273 01:34:03.920 --> 01:34:10.640 seventy eight that area, Okay, that Spring Creek Feed is your neighborhood feed 1274 01:34:10.720 --> 01:34:14.600 store. They're just minutes from Grand Parkway and Highway to forty nine. When 1275 01:34:14.640 --> 01:34:17.119 you drive up, I mean it is. The place just looks impressive driving 1276 01:34:17.239 --> 01:34:20.760 up. You walk in the door, and friendly courtious staff greet you there. 1277 01:34:20.840 --> 01:34:24.640 That's what you'd expect from a feed store. They're gonna have all the 1278 01:34:24.760 --> 01:34:28.399 things that feed stores have, livestock feed, wildlife feed, and so on. 1279 01:34:28.760 --> 01:34:31.439 They also have a grooming center for your pets and then pet food quality 1280 01:34:31.479 --> 01:34:36.159 pet foods Victor prena. They have a frequent buyer program, so if you 1281 01:34:36.640 --> 01:34:41.800 continually buy pet foods there, you're going to be able to save some money 1282 01:34:41.920 --> 01:34:45.000 on the pet foods as well. They carry the products we talk about, 1283 01:34:45.560 --> 01:34:48.720 all the fertilizer products. You here. If you need lawn and garden and 1284 01:34:48.800 --> 01:34:53.119 pond supply, if you need herbicides, fungicides, pets sides, they've got 1285 01:34:53.199 --> 01:34:58.319 it all. They're on in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. That's 1286 01:34:58.359 --> 01:35:01.359 Spring Creek Feed. Check it out. You will be very impressed. Hey, 1287 01:35:01.399 --> 01:35:05.000 if you're into backyard chickens too, they got all the supplies you need 1288 01:35:05.119 --> 01:35:10.520 for that as well. Spring Creek Feed. Last time I went in there, 1289 01:35:10.560 --> 01:35:12.960 I was just kind of perusing the store. I was like, to 1290 01:35:13.039 --> 01:35:14.840 do that, and you walk through a store, see what they have, 1291 01:35:15.039 --> 01:35:18.079 what do they carry, what's missing and stuff those kind of things. That's 1292 01:35:18.359 --> 01:35:20.720 how I go into a store, just kind of checking out what they have. 1293 01:35:21.239 --> 01:35:25.800 And I just really really enjoyed and I was impressed. You know, 1294 01:35:25.880 --> 01:35:28.159 every time I turned a corner, it's like, oh, they have that 1295 01:35:28.239 --> 01:35:30.960 too, they have that too. That's kind of cool stuff. Enjoyed doing 1296 01:35:31.039 --> 01:35:36.479 that. If you are thinking about purchasing a new home, maybe it's kind 1297 01:35:36.520 --> 01:35:41.600 of hitting retirement age or getting close to that, you need to consider a 1298 01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:44.960 Dell Web community. And we have a Dell Web community here, a new 1299 01:35:45.000 --> 01:35:48.359 one going in in full shuret less than two miles from FM three fifty nine. 1300 01:35:48.840 --> 01:35:54.760 Now, all Doe Web communities are just amazing places. They're designed for 1301 01:35:54.800 --> 01:35:59.279 adults age fifty five and better. They've got the lifestyle programs that are designed 1302 01:35:59.319 --> 01:36:01.680 around you. So it's not just a house, it's not just a piece 1303 01:36:01.720 --> 01:36:05.600 of property. You're part of a community. And speaking of community, this 1304 01:36:05.800 --> 01:36:10.960 one out in fullsher They're going to have a community garden and I'm helping them 1305 01:36:11.279 --> 01:36:14.800 with the design and creation of that. So if you want to find out 1306 01:36:14.800 --> 01:36:19.279 about this Dellweb difference, go to dellweb dot com, slash Houston or call 1307 01:36:19.479 --> 01:36:26.399 to eight one four to five nine zero six zero nine and find out about 1308 01:36:26.520 --> 01:36:30.000 Dellweb. And if you're a gardener, I mean, I mean this is 1309 01:36:30.119 --> 01:36:34.840 like this is like Mecca, right, I mean you get all the Dellweb 1310 01:36:34.920 --> 01:36:40.119 offers plus a community garden so you're not plowing up the back forty plus you 1311 01:36:40.199 --> 01:36:43.840 have a place where you can gather with other gardeners and visit and just have 1312 01:36:43.960 --> 01:36:47.000 a good time. Well, let's head out to Orange and we're going to 1313 01:36:47.079 --> 01:36:51.359 talk to Kenneth this morning. Hello, Kenneth, good morning. I've had 1314 01:36:51.399 --> 01:36:57.720 a question. I've got some potted avocado trees and they're in a big pod. 1315 01:36:57.840 --> 01:37:03.279 They're about twenty gallon pods, and I'm wondering later on in the fall, 1316 01:37:03.640 --> 01:37:08.279 is it okay to trine the tops of those a little bit so they 1317 01:37:08.319 --> 01:37:13.279 don't grow quite as tall Kenneth about five foot Now, yeah, you can 1318 01:37:13.359 --> 01:37:15.560 trim them however you want, but i'd do that now so they regrow. 1319 01:37:15.840 --> 01:37:19.000 I wouldn't trim them, certainly, not after about the first of August. 1320 01:37:19.079 --> 01:37:25.520 And here's why it. Trimming stimulates new growth and tender new growth going into 1321 01:37:25.840 --> 01:37:29.319 fall. When we have a good early hard freeze, that's a problem for 1322 01:37:29.399 --> 01:37:33.720 avocados. So get that trimming done asap so that you can put the prunters 1323 01:37:33.760 --> 01:37:38.079 away for now, and then they'll they'll harden off and be ready for fall. 1324 01:37:38.159 --> 01:37:41.399 All right, okay, Well, would it be okay to trim them 1325 01:37:41.479 --> 01:37:45.279 in the spring, then yes, you could also do that. That's fine. 1326 01:37:45.319 --> 01:37:47.359 So I'm worried about they're going to get too tall for me to store 1327 01:37:47.479 --> 01:37:51.479 over the winter. Well, yeah, that's that's perfectly okay. You can 1328 01:37:51.560 --> 01:37:57.279 do that, absolutely just avocados aren't a deciduous plant, so we don't have 1329 01:37:57.399 --> 01:38:00.680 to prune them in the winter time. But I would I would follow that 1330 01:38:00.079 --> 01:38:02.920 so you don't set them up. And I'm gonna have to take a break. 1331 01:38:02.960 --> 01:38:08.560 It's time to go to break seven one three two one two fifty eight 1332 01:38:08.800 --> 01:38:11.800 seventy four. If you want to get get with Josh and get on the 1333 01:38:11.840 --> 01:38:15.600 boards, Jesse up in college station. You'll be the first we come to 1334 01:38:15.800 --> 01:38:21.720 when we come back. Nikki, or what kind of exciting news do you 1335 01:38:21.800 --> 01:38:25.079 have today? It's kind of gotten weird a little bit too, that has 1336 01:38:25.119 --> 01:38:27.800 gotten a little bit weird. But what I'm wondering is if we should move 1337 01:38:28.000 --> 01:38:32.199 Christmas to July. How about we do it in Christmas and in July. 1338 01:38:32.439 --> 01:38:36.119 I like that we can do both of them. But yeah, it's holidays 1339 01:38:36.199 --> 01:38:40.760 when the weather is better. That's a theme that we're going to talk about. 1340 01:38:40.880 --> 01:39:00.560 All right, good morning, good Saturday morning, on a good day, 1341 01:39:00.640 --> 01:39:04.600 to talk about gardening, to go out and garden, to visit a 1342 01:39:04.720 --> 01:39:10.640 garden center, all that kind of stuff. I have an idea for you 1343 01:39:10.680 --> 01:39:15.079 if you Nick. He was talking about Father's Day and the news about lots 1344 01:39:15.119 --> 01:39:18.680 of expenditures there's lots of money flowing the stand Father's Day. What are you 1345 01:39:18.720 --> 01:39:21.800 gonna do for dad? You got any ideas well? I do? I 1346 01:39:21.880 --> 01:39:25.760 have an idea. Does your dad a griller? Does he like to get 1347 01:39:25.800 --> 01:39:29.159 out? Is he you know, the flip the burgers on the grill, 1348 01:39:29.359 --> 01:39:31.279 or maybe go all the way, you know, just to get a big 1349 01:39:31.399 --> 01:39:38.840 green egg and do this slow roast on something whatever. Wherever in there, 1350 01:39:39.680 --> 01:39:43.239 Ace Hardware can get you fixed up. I cannot think of a better place 1351 01:39:43.279 --> 01:39:45.079 to get a Father's Day give than ACE Hardware. And it's because, I 1352 01:39:45.159 --> 01:39:47.960 mean, what does he need? Does he need tools? They've got him 1353 01:39:48.000 --> 01:39:51.600 there. Does he need a grill, a webber grill, a brig green 1354 01:39:51.640 --> 01:39:56.039 egg grill, trager grill. Does he need the supplies for the gri? 1355 01:39:56.119 --> 01:39:58.880 I mean there's a basil, maybe a meat thermometer, you know, to 1356 01:39:59.359 --> 01:40:04.840 get that just right outdoor patio, furniture, cooler's disc, lawn equipment, 1357 01:40:05.399 --> 01:40:10.239 everything plus with ACE. While you're there, I mean, you can get 1358 01:40:10.359 --> 01:40:13.399 the fertilizers that you need that we talk about. They've got them there. 1359 01:40:13.880 --> 01:40:23.119 The selection of pest and disease and insect management weed management products wide variety of 1360 01:40:23.199 --> 01:40:27.279 those wide variety of all that stuff. It. ACE is just the place. 1361 01:40:27.359 --> 01:40:30.319 Now, Where's ACE Everywhere? It's everywhere thirty nine in the greater Houston 1362 01:40:30.399 --> 01:40:34.119 area. Ace hard Go to ACE Hardware dot com. Ace Hardware dot Com 1363 01:40:34.640 --> 01:40:39.039 find the nearest ACE near you and go. If you haven't been in an 1364 01:40:39.079 --> 01:40:44.319 ACE in a long time, you don't know ACE because it is an amazing 1365 01:40:44.760 --> 01:40:47.720 everything you need place. So check out an ACE Hardware near you. Go 1366 01:40:47.800 --> 01:40:51.239 to ACE hardware dot com. Find one of those thirty nine ACE Hardware's you're 1367 01:40:51.239 --> 01:40:56.600 in the Houston area, and I promise there is a long list of things 1368 01:40:56.640 --> 01:41:00.680 that your dad would love from ACE Hardware. Well, let's head up to 1369 01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:03.920 College Station, Texas and we're going to talk to Jesse. Hello, Jesse, 1370 01:41:05.159 --> 01:41:11.560 Hey, skip listen. I bought about five of the plants called sun 1371 01:41:11.680 --> 01:41:15.800 patients or clusters of them. Yeah, planted them all the same soil and 1372 01:41:15.039 --> 01:41:18.039 all in pots, and they're all the same environment, and all of a 1373 01:41:18.079 --> 01:41:23.640 sudden, overnight one of them just died. Okay, so I separated out 1374 01:41:23.680 --> 01:41:26.079 of from the rest of them. But what do I need to be cautious 1375 01:41:26.079 --> 01:41:28.800 about? So whatever it is doesn't go to all of them. Yeah, 1376 01:41:28.880 --> 01:41:34.520 something's wrong in the roots system. Typically we would associate that with overwatering a 1377 01:41:34.680 --> 01:41:39.640 soggy, wet root system. It could also be caused by underwatering, but 1378 01:41:39.800 --> 01:41:42.479 you would have noticed, you know, it's kind of wilty one day and 1379 01:41:42.600 --> 01:41:45.159 you water it and it perks back up, and so for it to have 1380 01:41:45.359 --> 01:41:49.319 died, something shut down the system. And when you lose roots, that's 1381 01:41:49.359 --> 01:41:55.359 what happened. So I would consider a root rot. Maybe if you've got 1382 01:41:55.439 --> 01:41:59.560 one that looks like it's about to do that, you may want to sacrifice 1383 01:41:59.600 --> 01:42:01.279 that one and go ahead and dig it up and look at the roots. 1384 01:42:01.760 --> 01:42:05.399 And if the roots look a lot worse than the top does, that that's 1385 01:42:05.439 --> 01:42:09.680 a root, right, that's where it's starting. So if you know it 1386 01:42:10.199 --> 01:42:13.199 after it's kind of all died, it's like the top looks bad and the 1387 01:42:13.279 --> 01:42:15.960 roots look bad, and it's kind of hard to tell what came first, 1388 01:42:16.159 --> 01:42:20.199 right, But I think that's what you're looking at, is some big problem 1389 01:42:20.279 --> 01:42:24.960 in the root system. Okay, because these are out in the sun, 1390 01:42:25.039 --> 01:42:27.640 and so i've been this hot weather, I've been careful of the water them, 1391 01:42:27.640 --> 01:42:30.960 and I actually have I guess I may have overwatered that one, and 1392 01:42:30.000 --> 01:42:32.520 I'll be cautious about that, you know it. I don't need to be 1393 01:42:32.600 --> 01:42:35.279 to dig it out in there and looking for some kind of disease or quitter 1394 01:42:35.359 --> 01:42:39.479 that I did Forbiden. Okay, no, I think. I mean, 1395 01:42:39.760 --> 01:42:44.279 there are things that you on the roots, but you're describing a complete collapse 1396 01:42:44.319 --> 01:42:48.039 of the plant very quickly, and that sounds more like a root rot of 1397 01:42:48.199 --> 01:42:51.600 some kind. Now, maybe that one didn't get over what Maybe it's just 1398 01:42:51.720 --> 01:42:55.920 the spot, the way the soil is right there. Who knows. Some 1399 01:42:56.159 --> 01:42:59.560 patients, you know, in patients are for the shade, but some patients 1400 01:42:59.640 --> 01:43:01.600 take a lot of sun. We're putting them to the test. I mean, 1401 01:43:01.640 --> 01:43:03.920 you guys, college station, what do you got a week of over 1402 01:43:04.000 --> 01:43:08.399 a week of over one hundred degrees or right at it? Uh? And 1403 01:43:09.199 --> 01:43:13.560 we'll find out how sun patient they are. They could, they could, 1404 01:43:14.000 --> 01:43:17.079 they can take it. But that'd be my suggestion, doesn't he? Thank 1405 01:43:17.079 --> 01:43:19.560 you? All right? That's a great plant, by the way, good 1406 01:43:19.680 --> 01:43:26.840 choice. Let's head to Jersey Village now we are going to talk to Bob. 1407 01:43:27.000 --> 01:43:34.600 Hello, Bob, Hello, what's up? How do you keep squirrels 1408 01:43:34.680 --> 01:43:43.760 from stealing your tomatoes? Well? Um, you know you you live in 1409 01:43:43.840 --> 01:43:48.119 Jersey Village and I have a feeling they frown on ballistic measures in Jersey Village. 1410 01:43:48.800 --> 01:43:53.600 But squirrels are just their marauders and they, you know, they do 1411 01:43:53.720 --> 01:43:58.840 all kinds of mischief like that. That the I don't know if it would 1412 01:43:58.880 --> 01:44:02.840 work to use them the little bags, the Organza bags on tomatoes, if 1413 01:44:02.880 --> 01:44:06.600 you don't have many plants and you slip the bags over and has a drawstring. 1414 01:44:08.159 --> 01:44:11.399 I've never tried those on squirrels. It might work. That would be 1415 01:44:11.479 --> 01:44:14.680 something worth trying. If anyone's tried them and knows, I'd appreciate a call 1416 01:44:14.760 --> 01:44:17.640 about that. The only other thing is just to literally cage them out of 1417 01:44:17.680 --> 01:44:21.119 there, which is that's a lot of trouble. That's a lot of hassle. 1418 01:44:23.159 --> 01:44:28.560 The there are hot pepper oil sprays that you can use. They use 1419 01:44:28.640 --> 01:44:31.319 them on bird's seed to keep the squirrels out of them. Maybe if you 1420 01:44:31.720 --> 01:44:36.119 sprayed a few tomatoes with those, and the squirrels got a taste of that, 1421 01:44:36.359 --> 01:44:40.640 they would decide this isn't for me, although they've already gotten to taste 1422 01:44:40.680 --> 01:44:44.199 of not having that. But let them let them get their little lips burned 1423 01:44:44.279 --> 01:44:46.720 on a few tomatoes, and then when you harvest those yourself, take them 1424 01:44:46.760 --> 01:44:50.319 inside, use a little dish, you know, dish soap at the at 1425 01:44:50.359 --> 01:44:55.239 the sink to wash that oil off so that you know, you don't have 1426 01:44:55.359 --> 01:44:59.279 hot tomatoes. But that would be the only other thing I can think of 1427 01:44:59.479 --> 01:45:04.399 as an attempt on keeping those little marauders out of there. Okay, I 1428 01:45:04.560 --> 01:45:09.359 was thinking, you know, live traps and on them way away, but 1429 01:45:10.319 --> 01:45:13.199 you can, you can, Yeah, you can relocate. It's kind of 1430 01:45:13.279 --> 01:45:16.800 hard to get They're smart. Squirrels are smart. And uh if if you 1431 01:45:16.960 --> 01:45:20.560 got them into a live trap and could catch them number one, that would 1432 01:45:20.600 --> 01:45:24.680 be the most freaked out squirrel you've ever seen in your life when you try 1433 01:45:24.720 --> 01:45:27.479 to put that in the back of the truck and take it somewhere. But 1434 01:45:27.720 --> 01:45:30.239 I don't think it's going to be efficient enough. They're just too darn many 1435 01:45:30.319 --> 01:45:35.439 of them. You just can't trap them all out of there. I will 1436 01:45:35.600 --> 01:45:41.359 try to hot a little spray and uh, yeah, and see what we 1437 01:45:41.520 --> 01:45:44.520 come up with. Yeah, some some other kind of covering. You know 1438 01:45:44.800 --> 01:45:48.119 that if I were to describe trying to fence the squirrels out of your tomatoes, 1439 01:45:48.840 --> 01:45:51.079 you know, your eyes would droll back in your head, thinking I'm 1440 01:45:51.079 --> 01:45:57.479 gonna do all that, but somehow we got it. We gotta that's right, 1441 01:45:57.760 --> 01:46:02.000 we gotta. You know, if you've got a good maybe a jack 1442 01:46:02.119 --> 01:46:06.199 Russell terrier that you could hire to sit out in the gardens and terrorize the 1443 01:46:06.279 --> 01:46:11.039 squirrels, I think that would be an option, but I doubt you're going 1444 01:46:11.119 --> 01:46:15.159 to come up with that. Yeah, my world dog is team twelve years 1445 01:46:15.199 --> 01:46:20.880 old or chase squirrels? All right, Well, mine still have illusions of 1446 01:46:21.000 --> 01:46:25.800 grandeur. When opened the door, they bust out and go in all directions. 1447 01:46:25.840 --> 01:46:29.199 Two dogs go in all directions looking for squirrels because that's their most exciting 1448 01:46:29.279 --> 01:46:31.279 thing. They have no chance of ever catching one for the rest of their 1449 01:46:31.359 --> 01:46:35.319 lives, but they still love the sport of it. Bob, thank you 1450 01:46:35.399 --> 01:46:40.279 for that call. All right, thank you. I appreciate that. I 1451 01:46:40.359 --> 01:46:45.680 appreciate that. If you're planting any kind of tree or shrub, If you 1452 01:46:45.880 --> 01:46:49.960 planted any kind of tree or shrub in the last six months and you don't 1453 01:46:50.000 --> 01:46:54.199 have a tree harder sprinkler, get one. Put it around the tree because 1454 01:46:54.199 --> 01:46:59.079 it allows you to water where the roots are. This first summer is the 1455 01:46:59.279 --> 01:47:02.079 maker break summer for a brand new woody ornamental. Trying to get roots in 1456 01:47:02.159 --> 01:47:05.720 the ground where it can tolerate this weather. Tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com. 1457 01:47:05.920 --> 01:47:09.680 You can find a retailer closer to you. But I can tell you this. 1458 01:47:09.960 --> 01:47:12.760 The garden centers we talk about, the feed stores, we talk about, 1459 01:47:13.079 --> 01:47:15.600 the ace hardware stores. We talk about they're gonna have tree hugger sprinklers. 1460 01:47:15.920 --> 01:47:19.960 Tree hugger sprinklers. Save that tree and make it not only live but 1461 01:47:20.119 --> 01:47:24.880 grow fast. Hey, our phone number seven one three two one two fifty 1462 01:47:24.960 --> 01:47:27.720 eight seventy four. Give Josh a call. You'll be first when we come 1463 01:47:27.760 --> 01:47:45.359 back from break. Welcome back, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your 1464 01:47:45.399 --> 01:47:49.520 host, Skip Richter, and you are listening to a gardening show that's all 1465 01:47:49.560 --> 01:47:54.159 about what you care about. I mean, you got a question, let's 1466 01:47:54.239 --> 01:47:59.000 talk about it. Maybe it's a suggestions for planting an area, identifying a 1467 01:47:59.119 --> 01:48:03.000 disease or in act, or coming up with advice on how to have success 1468 01:48:03.079 --> 01:48:06.119 with a particular kind of plant. That's what we're here for. Our phone 1469 01:48:06.159 --> 01:48:12.199 number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three 1470 01:48:12.279 --> 01:48:18.439 two one two fifty eight seventy four. When we talk about gardening, I 1471 01:48:19.279 --> 01:48:25.279 am a broken record. Proudly so by the way, about soil. Get 1472 01:48:25.319 --> 01:48:28.720 the soil right, you get the plants right. You want beauty, you 1473 01:48:28.800 --> 01:48:31.720 want bounty. It begins with soil. Spend money on the brown stuff before 1474 01:48:31.760 --> 01:48:34.439 spend money on the green stuff. You get what I'm saying. I can 1475 01:48:34.479 --> 01:48:39.239 say it a hundred different ways. But for you to have success, you 1476 01:48:39.319 --> 01:48:42.239 got to have the soil right, and you got to add the nutrients that 1477 01:48:42.359 --> 01:48:45.439 the plants need, and you got of course water. You gotta have a 1478 01:48:45.479 --> 01:48:47.760 good drainage and all of that. But before the seed or the plant goes 1479 01:48:47.840 --> 01:48:54.479 in, you've already determined you've sentenced that plant to failure or you've set it 1480 01:48:54.560 --> 01:48:58.399 up for success when you take care of the soil and Nature's Way, which 1481 01:48:58.520 --> 01:49:01.279 is Nature's Way. If you haven't been out there, it's on Highway Interstate 1482 01:49:01.359 --> 01:49:05.279 forty five north up just south of Conrow where fourteen eighty eight comes in. 1483 01:49:05.800 --> 01:49:09.439 Okay, Nature's Way. You can buy the bulk product there, but you 1484 01:49:09.520 --> 01:49:13.720 can also buy their bags. They bag their materials and they sell them there. 1485 01:49:13.840 --> 01:49:16.640 They sell them in other places as well. Nature's Way is open Monday 1486 01:49:16.680 --> 01:49:20.800 through Friday eight to five and Saturdays from eight to two. That would be 1487 01:49:20.920 --> 01:49:27.119 today closed on Sundays, but they have one of the largest selections in native 1488 01:49:27.159 --> 01:49:30.600 plants. So not only have quality soils, but you can buy native plants 1489 01:49:30.640 --> 01:49:32.479 and their two acre garden center and nursery. Not just natives, they have 1490 01:49:32.560 --> 01:49:36.800 fruit trees and houseplants, seasonal vegetables, and on and on every Friday, 1491 01:49:36.880 --> 01:49:42.439 they have Fungal Friday, ten percent off bag products, twenty percent off bulk. 1492 01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:46.840 Now they're rose soil. They they're the originator of rose soil and leaf 1493 01:49:46.920 --> 01:49:51.840 mold compost and they have a great stock on hand right now. So if 1494 01:49:51.920 --> 01:49:56.479 you're wanting to improve your soiled if you're wanting to improve your lawn with a 1495 01:49:56.560 --> 01:50:00.560 top dressing, a leafmo compost, Nature's Way is al you need to go. 1496 01:50:00.680 --> 01:50:02.079 They know what they're doing, They've always knows what they're doing. They're 1497 01:50:02.079 --> 01:50:08.399 a leader in this whole area. Success in the soil means success with your 1498 01:50:08.439 --> 01:50:11.720 plants. Let's go out to Friendswood. We're going to talk to Sue this 1499 01:50:11.920 --> 01:50:15.680 morning. Good morning, Sue, good morning, how are you well. 1500 01:50:15.800 --> 01:50:20.520 Thanks. I'm want to clarify I think I heard you say last weekend that 1501 01:50:21.159 --> 01:50:26.479 when your tomato plants stop producing fruit, if you just take care of and 1502 01:50:26.600 --> 01:50:30.560 tend those plants that later in the year they will start producing again. I 1503 01:50:30.640 --> 01:50:34.680 just want to make sure I didn't miss here. I probably didn't say that 1504 01:50:34.760 --> 01:50:39.520 about tomatoes, but that's true. If you can get the vines through summer 1505 01:50:39.720 --> 01:50:43.399 and have some good health to them, they can start again in the fall. 1506 01:50:43.479 --> 01:50:46.399 But when I said that, I was probably talking about peppers and eggplants. 1507 01:50:47.239 --> 01:50:53.119 That's possible. One My best pepper crops every year are in the fall 1508 01:50:53.399 --> 01:50:56.560 because I have a bigger pepper bush to hang more peppers on. So but 1509 01:50:56.720 --> 01:51:00.880 tomatoes that can be the case too. There's some other tips for renovating your 1510 01:51:00.960 --> 01:51:03.239 tomato patch to get it ready for fall. But okay, well, I'm 1511 01:51:03.279 --> 01:51:06.119 going to try that because my plants are about to give up the ghosts. 1512 01:51:06.199 --> 01:51:09.880 It's been wonderful, but I'm thinking, you know, if I can just 1513 01:51:10.000 --> 01:51:14.119 baby these a little bit longer and have more tomatoes later on, I'm going 1514 01:51:14.199 --> 01:51:15.720 to do that. And I listen to you on the weekends when I have 1515 01:51:15.840 --> 01:51:19.039 to work, so I may have just caught the tail end of what you 1516 01:51:19.119 --> 01:51:23.560 were saying, but I thought it was worth a try to see if maybe 1517 01:51:24.239 --> 01:51:27.720 maybe I could just hang on to them and get more tomatoes later. Well, 1518 01:51:27.800 --> 01:51:30.000 here's what I would do. Some people cut theirs bike and get fresh 1519 01:51:30.079 --> 01:51:34.880 new growth on them. I think the best way on your tomatoes is let 1520 01:51:34.920 --> 01:51:39.039 them go a little longer, make sure, you know, blast them with 1521 01:51:39.159 --> 01:51:42.880 some water. If there's any spider mites that are giving them trouble and stuff. 1522 01:51:43.319 --> 01:51:47.119 But by time we get maybe into July, take those INDs. You 1523 01:51:47.159 --> 01:51:49.520 can either cut the ends off, bring them inside, put them in a 1524 01:51:49.600 --> 01:51:51.880 jar of water and get it roots on them. Or you can put the 1525 01:51:53.039 --> 01:51:58.199 tomato down to the soil, cover the maybe oh eight ten inches back from 1526 01:51:58.239 --> 01:52:00.399 the end of the shoote cover it with well and keep it wet and it 1527 01:52:00.479 --> 01:52:04.279 will root there. And then well, I have I have them in containers. 1528 01:52:04.359 --> 01:52:08.000 I have them in large containers. Okay, so I could move them 1529 01:52:08.039 --> 01:52:10.479 about if I need to. Well, and you could also, you know, 1530 01:52:10.640 --> 01:52:13.439 do what I'm saying too on that because typically by the end of the 1531 01:52:13.520 --> 01:52:17.079 summer, the early blight, the spider mites, you know, all the 1532 01:52:17.199 --> 01:52:20.840 issues that affect tomatoes are they're kind of a mess when we get into the 1533 01:52:20.880 --> 01:52:25.159 heat of summer, and so I like I'll cut the ends off of some 1534 01:52:25.720 --> 01:52:30.399 and take them and slash them real vigorously in some warm water that kind of 1535 01:52:30.479 --> 01:52:33.359 washes off mites and things, and then we hurt them and then when we 1536 01:52:33.479 --> 01:52:36.399 get to July, put them in a gallu pot, get them going, 1537 01:52:36.479 --> 01:52:41.199 and then plant them in your containers again for a fall crop and you save 1538 01:52:41.279 --> 01:52:45.359 your same tomatoes over you get away from the disease and away from the mites 1539 01:52:45.399 --> 01:52:50.640 and things that way. So that's that's just a timp Okay, I'm gonna 1540 01:52:50.640 --> 01:52:55.439 try that, all right. Good luck, Okay, Thank you and someone 1541 01:52:55.520 --> 01:52:59.079 I appreciate so much that the work that you do, the job you do 1542 01:52:59.199 --> 01:53:04.119 for us, because it's really great to listen to everybody bring their their comments 1543 01:53:04.439 --> 01:53:08.640 and things that they've tried or their questions. I really love your show. 1544 01:53:10.039 --> 01:53:13.039 Well, I appreciate that. Thank you very much. It's a lot of 1545 01:53:13.079 --> 01:53:15.279 fun for me too. It's a little scary when you're taking phone calls in 1546 01:53:15.359 --> 01:53:19.560 a large metropolitan urban area not knowing what the next question is going to be. 1547 01:53:20.119 --> 01:53:23.479 But that's that's a lot of fun. Thank you, see for the 1548 01:53:23.560 --> 01:53:27.119 call. Let's head out now to tom Ball and we're gonna talk to John. 1549 01:53:27.199 --> 01:53:30.319 Hello, John, good morning to Skip. How you doing. I'm 1550 01:53:30.359 --> 01:53:33.560 good, Thanks good, I've got a question. I'm a I'm a rookie 1551 01:53:33.680 --> 01:53:38.560 here with roses, So my question is what's the best way to feed them 1552 01:53:39.399 --> 01:53:46.239 and how often? And are you do you like Encore Azelius? I'm not 1553 01:53:46.359 --> 01:53:49.600 a big fan of Encore. There are people who love them here, Um, 1554 01:53:49.800 --> 01:53:54.479 they you know that. I will say, don't buy an Encore Azalia. 1555 01:53:54.800 --> 01:53:57.880 I just there's a lot of good Azalias out there, and uh, 1556 01:53:58.800 --> 01:54:01.600 while the Encore gives you the potential of reblooming, I find a lot of 1557 01:54:01.640 --> 01:54:06.680 times people they don't realize that effect. You know, they get some, 1558 01:54:08.079 --> 01:54:12.239 but it's not not maybe not what they hope. But I'm not saying don't 1559 01:54:12.279 --> 01:54:15.000 buy an Encore. I'm just saying I like Azalea's period and there's a lot 1560 01:54:15.079 --> 01:54:19.159 of other great azaleas out there, So that looks us something to think about. 1561 01:54:19.560 --> 01:54:23.600 As far as you said, what kind of food were you talking about 1562 01:54:23.760 --> 01:54:28.239 feeding, I'm just trying to figure out what to about some roses at Arburgate. 1563 01:54:28.319 --> 01:54:30.159 I'm trying to figure out what I should feed them with. Yeah, 1564 01:54:30.920 --> 01:54:34.720 yeah, very good. By the way, I love Arburgate. Uh yeah, 1565 01:54:34.760 --> 01:54:39.159 I would. Well, they have they have an organic food complete Uh, 1566 01:54:39.359 --> 01:54:42.680 it's the four four. I think it's a four four three. I 1567 01:54:42.800 --> 01:54:46.600 believe that's an organic food four fourth a L plus calcium I believe it has 1568 01:54:46.680 --> 01:54:50.079 in it. That would be a good choice. But there are a number 1569 01:54:50.119 --> 01:54:54.199 of you can buy things that are just rose food, you know from some 1570 01:54:54.319 --> 01:54:58.399 of the people we talk about are on Garden Line that just have like a 1571 01:54:58.520 --> 01:55:00.159 rose food, like they would have a Best Us Food or something else. 1572 01:55:00.239 --> 01:55:04.000 But I would I would consider their four four three. But thank you very 1573 01:55:04.039 --> 01:55:06.119 much. I'm gonna have to take a break here. We're about to head 1574 01:55:06.239 --> 01:55:11.039 to another break. But thank you so much John for the call. Yeah, 1575 01:55:11.199 --> 01:55:14.600 Arburgate, you go to Arbourgate dot com to find more about them. 1576 01:55:14.680 --> 01:55:18.039 There the Gardener's Garden Center up there in Tomball West on two forty west of 1577 01:55:18.119 --> 01:55:21.520 two forty nine on twenty nine twenty. They've got that food that I just 1578 01:55:21.640 --> 01:55:25.680 talked about. They've got an organic soil for all your soul needs. And 1579 01:55:25.720 --> 01:55:28.680 then they have a compost as well. It's part of their one two three 1580 01:55:28.800 --> 01:55:31.520 system. I can't think of a better place to get a Father's Day gift 1581 01:55:31.600 --> 01:55:36.359 as well. While you're out there shopping beautiful gift shops, beautiful plants, 1582 01:55:36.479 --> 01:55:40.760 a gaudy color they have fruit trees all the time, so you can get 1583 01:55:40.760 --> 01:55:45.439 a fruit tree right now at ARGU three, we've been listening to Guardenline. 1584 01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:48.239 We're here to answer your gardening questions, and I hope you give us a 1585 01:55:48.279 --> 01:55:51.720 call. We'll I take our little top of the hour break and go into 1586 01:55:51.760 --> 01:55:58.039 our last hour. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five 1587 01:55:58.239 --> 01:56:03.239 eight seven four seven one three two unto fifty seventy four R two unto ktr 1588 01:56:03.520 --> 01:56:06.840 H. If that makes it a little simpler, we are going to come 1589 01:56:06.880 --> 01:56:10.680 back and enter your gardening question. I'm gonna talk a little bit more about 1590 01:56:10.720 --> 01:56:15.800 summer color when I come back. Just because it's getting hot doesn't mean we 1591 01:56:16.000 --> 01:56:20.600 quit gardening. We have plants that are ablaze. I was talking about the 1592 01:56:21.560 --> 01:56:25.359 big Green Egg at Ace Hardware Store. I think we got plants. It 1593 01:56:25.399 --> 01:56:28.720 could probably sit on the green big green Egg for five minutes and still come 1594 01:56:28.840 --> 01:56:33.600 out blooming. We'll talk about those in a minute. KTRH Garden Line does 1595 01:56:33.640 --> 01:56:40.439 not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 1596 01:56:40.560 --> 01:57:00.479 to ktr H Garden Line with scip Rictord. Just watching a good born in 1597 01:57:01.560 --> 01:57:04.720 It's a great day to be talking about gardening. A good day to be 1598 01:57:04.800 --> 01:57:08.520 gardening. We'll get our work done. By the way, when summer comes, 1599 01:57:09.159 --> 01:57:13.359 we shift to working in the garden in the morning hours and in the 1600 01:57:13.560 --> 01:57:17.920 late day hours and stay away from those blazing hot midday hours. Take care 1601 01:57:17.960 --> 01:57:21.079 of our plants, get them set Upright now's a good time to get things 1602 01:57:21.199 --> 01:57:25.760 mulched. If you have not mulched, you need to. Here's why. 1603 01:57:26.600 --> 01:57:31.199 Mulch protects the soil surface from crusting and erosion. Right there is enough reason 1604 01:57:31.279 --> 01:57:36.439 to mulch. Mult slowly breaks down to feed the soil over time. Right 1605 01:57:36.520 --> 01:57:41.920 there, it's a good reason to mulch. Mulch moderates soil temperatures. It 1606 01:57:42.119 --> 01:57:46.600 gets blazing hot when the sun shines down on dark soil and during the daytime, 1607 01:57:47.039 --> 01:57:50.720 and roots can't survive up there. When you mulch, you've got roots 1608 01:57:50.840 --> 01:57:55.439 all the way up to the top in that nice moist area under the mult 1609 01:57:55.920 --> 01:57:59.640 there's a reason to mulch in and of itself. Do I need to go 1610 01:57:59.760 --> 01:58:03.720 on? I can. Wherever sunlight hits the soil nature plants of weed malts 1611 01:58:04.159 --> 01:58:10.560 blocks the light and prevents weed seeds from germinating. There's a good reason and 1612 01:58:10.720 --> 01:58:14.640 do you want to be pulling weeds or hoeing weeds, fighting fire ants and 1613 01:58:14.920 --> 01:58:18.199 so on when it's a hundred degrees outside and the weeds are choking out your 1614 01:58:18.239 --> 01:58:21.399 plants. Of course, not malts ahead of time, and you can avoid 1615 01:58:21.760 --> 01:58:25.920 most of those, the ones that are coming from seed at least another good 1616 01:58:26.000 --> 01:58:30.640 reason to malts. Those are free tips, just one of the many services 1617 01:58:30.680 --> 01:58:33.520 we offer. You're listening to garden line seven one three two one two fifty 1618 01:58:33.560 --> 01:58:38.199 eight seventy four. We're going to head out now to Fairfield and talk to 1619 01:58:38.279 --> 01:58:44.039 Marty. Hello, Marty high Skip. Sorry for redundancy here, but you 1620 01:58:44.319 --> 01:58:47.159 I was right in the middle of cutting my tomato plants back and that lady 1621 01:58:47.279 --> 01:58:51.239 called and I was like, oh, I hope I haven't done damage anyway, 1622 01:58:51.560 --> 01:58:58.039 I have two whole sides. I okay, they were too heavy. 1623 01:58:58.600 --> 01:59:03.000 We had a wonderful, wonderful crop this year with lots and lots of tomatoes, 1624 01:59:03.479 --> 01:59:08.439 and so I was cutting off the tops because they were falling over the 1625 01:59:08.640 --> 01:59:14.920 cages and the steaks and everything. So you said I could take those tops, 1626 01:59:15.039 --> 01:59:17.199 peel off the back. I'm thinking, peel off the bottom leaves, 1627 01:59:17.520 --> 01:59:20.359 stick them in some water and keep them for the summer. No, you 1628 01:59:20.479 --> 01:59:26.479 cut the tips of the shoots out the you know, the tomato grows and 1629 01:59:26.520 --> 01:59:30.239 the old leaves have spider mites and they got diseases on them, they're turning 1630 01:59:30.319 --> 01:59:32.720 yellow, whatever's going on. You take the growing shoot, cut about eight 1631 01:59:32.760 --> 01:59:36.840 inches out of the end of it and just our six inches and just put 1632 01:59:36.880 --> 01:59:41.680 it in some water inside or in a bright area, not in direct some 1633 01:59:41.800 --> 01:59:45.960 but a brighter it'll form roots and then you can repot it and go back 1634 01:59:45.000 --> 01:59:48.520 out pull the old plant out and replant its and this is going to be 1635 01:59:48.680 --> 01:59:51.000 you know, a period of time where he gets roots and all that. 1636 01:59:51.520 --> 01:59:55.800 But we're typically planting. If you want to try to have faultimate as you 1637 01:59:55.880 --> 02:00:00.399 need to get them in in midsummer so that they have time to grow and 1638 02:00:00.520 --> 02:00:03.520 then when the temperatures cool off and they can set fruit, they can do 1639 02:00:03.640 --> 02:00:09.279 that. Now. Just something I didn't mention earlier is our fall tomato season 1640 02:00:09.439 --> 02:00:12.960 is kind of a brief one because by the time it cools off enough to 1641 02:00:13.039 --> 02:00:16.760 where we're not having you know, almost eighty at night and the way up 1642 02:00:16.840 --> 02:00:21.239 in the nineties in the daytime where they can set better fruit. Well, 1643 02:00:21.399 --> 02:00:26.239 then the day links getting shorter the night. You're getting cooler, you know 1644 02:00:26.520 --> 02:00:29.439 it, and we still have a long season there. But that can be 1645 02:00:29.560 --> 02:00:30.920 done. The other thing that could be done, and I do this, 1646 02:00:31.399 --> 02:00:35.720 is you take a vine from the tomato and you just bring it down and 1647 02:00:36.159 --> 02:00:41.479 put it in a little pot beside your container, just like, let it 1648 02:00:41.560 --> 02:00:44.800 go under the soil and pin it down in the ground. Oh you're in 1649 02:00:44.840 --> 02:00:47.560 the ground. Light all in the ground. Then get you get your gallon 1650 02:00:47.640 --> 02:00:53.680 bucket or a gallon container and fill it almost full of soil. Have that 1651 02:00:53.840 --> 02:00:56.800 vine go down in the soil and then come back up. You can use 1652 02:00:56.840 --> 02:00:59.079 a bent coat hanger to hold it down, you can set a brick on 1653 02:00:59.159 --> 02:01:01.880 it, whatever you want. Keep it moist. It will root quickly down 1654 02:01:01.920 --> 02:01:05.840 there. A couple of weeks later, cut it off from mamma and take 1655 02:01:05.920 --> 02:01:10.159 care of that plant. Get rid of mom with all the spider mites and 1656 02:01:10.279 --> 02:01:13.479 diseases and all that. Just get it out of there. And so that'll 1657 02:01:13.520 --> 02:01:15.960 get us, you know, into sometime in June when you're doing this, 1658 02:01:15.079 --> 02:01:18.439 but you can replant it and get a fresh new start for fall. You 1659 02:01:18.520 --> 02:01:21.279 can wait a while to do that because you don't need to get it planted 1660 02:01:21.399 --> 02:01:25.319 right away. But there's more than one way to skin that cat. It's 1661 02:01:25.359 --> 02:01:29.159 just if you want to carry it tomato into fall. You'd like to get 1662 02:01:29.279 --> 02:01:33.119 rid of the old plant with all its problems and tomato so easily that it 1663 02:01:33.279 --> 02:01:36.880 makes it. It's an easy way to do that. Oh okay. So, 1664 02:01:38.399 --> 02:01:41.520 like the ones that I've already cut, they were about like five feet 1665 02:01:41.640 --> 02:01:45.159 long and they were hanging down and all of the grass. So I could 1666 02:01:45.199 --> 02:01:47.880 just cut the tips of those off that I've already cut, Oh yeah, 1667 02:01:47.960 --> 02:01:51.159 you could. And then on the ones that I haven't on the other side 1668 02:01:51.640 --> 02:01:56.479 that I haven't cut, I could just use do those vines and stick them 1669 02:01:56.479 --> 02:01:58.960 in the soil. Okay to do that. And if you do cut the 1670 02:01:59.039 --> 02:02:01.439 tips, out them in some water in the sink and just slash them real 1671 02:02:01.520 --> 02:02:05.159 vigorously because they're gonna have some spider mites and things on them, and I'll 1672 02:02:05.199 --> 02:02:08.920 just wash them off and that way you get a fresh, clean start. 1673 02:02:09.720 --> 02:02:12.640 Do I need to like strip the leaves at the bottom like I do with 1674 02:02:12.760 --> 02:02:15.439 my regular plants. I usually do, just because I'm gonna put it in 1675 02:02:15.520 --> 02:02:17.119 the ground or put it in water, you know. But I mean, 1676 02:02:17.159 --> 02:02:20.239 if you don't they're just gonna rot and die underground anyway, So it really 1677 02:02:20.279 --> 02:02:26.479 doesn't matter right now. Is there a special soil or amendment or anything else 1678 02:02:26.560 --> 02:02:29.960 that I need to know about to put in Okay, all right, great, 1679 02:02:30.039 --> 02:02:32.039 thank you. Any good quality growing soil. I mean you can root 1680 02:02:32.079 --> 02:02:35.119 them in water, you can put them in soil. They'll root in soil, 1681 02:02:35.119 --> 02:02:39.039 it's amazing. Oh that's fantastic. Yeah, don't let them be in 1682 02:02:39.079 --> 02:02:41.680 the full sun when you're trying to root them, because that's too much of 1683 02:02:41.720 --> 02:02:44.640 a demand before they have a root system to support it. I'll keep them, 1684 02:02:44.720 --> 02:02:45.880 yeah, I'll keep them on the porch. Okay, that's great, 1685 02:02:45.960 --> 02:02:50.720 Thank you so much. All right, Marty, take care. I wanna 1686 02:02:51.199 --> 02:02:55.800 I want to talk about a little bit mc graph past control. I was 1687 02:02:55.920 --> 02:02:59.640 visiting with Scott not too long ago about pest control. By the way, 1688 02:02:59.640 --> 02:03:02.600 I feeling if you want to get a hold of them McGrath McGr a T 1689 02:03:02.800 --> 02:03:09.439 eight McGrath pest control dot com. This business has been going on over forty 1690 02:03:09.520 --> 02:03:14.199 eight years. I mean still family run. It's run the old time way, 1691 02:03:14.319 --> 02:03:18.239 you know, where you didn't have to schedule some five hour window when 1692 02:03:18.279 --> 02:03:21.600 a service person was going to come out. They set the time that they're 1693 02:03:21.600 --> 02:03:24.199 going to be there, so you don't have to wait all day. You 1694 02:03:24.199 --> 02:03:27.640 don't have to shut your day down waiting on somebody to show up. Very 1695 02:03:27.760 --> 02:03:31.000 highly rated McGrath pest Control. They serve the entire Houston area. Are you 1696 02:03:31.159 --> 02:03:35.079 dealing with rodents? I mean that is an issue they deal with that. 1697 02:03:35.399 --> 02:03:39.840 Is it cockroaches? Is it indoor plants? Is it you know, stuff 1698 02:03:39.920 --> 02:03:44.159 in the pantry that's after your plants, silverfish, you know, getting into 1699 02:03:44.199 --> 02:03:48.600 your papers and things. McGrath covers it all they do at all. You 1700 02:03:48.640 --> 02:03:54.239 can give m a call two eight one four six nine eighty two forty two 1701 02:03:54.279 --> 02:03:59.279 eight one four sixty nine eighty two forty. The owner still is involved day 1702 02:03:59.319 --> 02:04:05.960 to day operations, accessible to the customers. They call Scott McGraph has They 1703 02:04:06.079 --> 02:04:11.920 have sustained a quality business and you don't do that over forty eight years without 1704 02:04:12.000 --> 02:04:15.479 taking care of your customers. That's the kind of company we talk about on 1705 02:04:15.600 --> 02:04:19.920 garden Line, and that is what McGraph pest Control amounts to. I'm talking 1706 02:04:19.920 --> 02:04:25.000 about summer color while ago and some of the talking about two kinds of hibiscus 1707 02:04:25.079 --> 02:04:29.359 that do real well. Another plant that can take the blazing heat and just 1708 02:04:29.720 --> 02:04:34.199 grins and enjoys. It is the Pride of Barbados. It's also called red 1709 02:04:34.279 --> 02:04:38.720 Bird of Paradise. It's different than the thing when we say bird of Paradise. 1710 02:04:38.760 --> 02:04:41.800 We're talking about pride to Barbados. I'll tell you a little bit more 1711 02:04:41.800 --> 02:04:45.159 about that after break. Right now, give us a call seven one three 1712 02:04:45.279 --> 02:04:47.319 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Josh, you'll get you on the 1713 02:04:47.399 --> 02:05:06.239 board and you'll be first up. Yeah, yeah, good morning. You're 1714 02:05:06.279 --> 02:05:12.319 listening to Garden Line on a beautiful Saturday morning. We're here to talk about 1715 02:05:12.359 --> 02:05:16.359 gardening. Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, 1716 02:05:16.479 --> 02:05:19.399 and we're going to head out to clover Leaf and talk to garden. 1717 02:05:19.720 --> 02:05:26.479 Hello, Garden, how are things way out east? It's hot? Well, 1718 02:05:27.159 --> 02:05:30.680 don't go west, it's hot there too. You know, you just 1719 02:05:30.840 --> 02:05:33.640 mentioned the prid of Barbados, and that was on my mind. That's my 1720 02:05:33.800 --> 02:05:45.079 question. I have a private Barbados and I have desert rose plants, and 1721 02:05:45.319 --> 02:05:50.600 I was wondering if I could use the same fertilizer on boath Yes you can, 1722 02:05:51.039 --> 02:05:55.520 you absolutely can, and you don't need a lot. Okay, you 1723 02:05:55.600 --> 02:05:59.079 don't need a whole lot, you know, with pridate Barbados, but just 1724 02:05:59.199 --> 02:06:01.119 a moderate a man out of you know, whatever kind of fertilizer you're going 1725 02:06:01.199 --> 02:06:03.920 to use on your desert roads, you can use them with probad of Barbados. 1726 02:06:04.920 --> 02:06:09.279 Okay, they're blooming right now. They're beautiful plants. Yes, they 1727 02:06:09.319 --> 02:06:13.279 are. Another question you a while back. I had bermuda grass in my 1728 02:06:13.399 --> 02:06:15.840 lawn and you told me I got to kill it. So I did, 1729 02:06:15.920 --> 02:06:21.600 and I put some side down, but I did it in staggered events. 1730 02:06:21.680 --> 02:06:26.239 They didn't all go down at the same time. Yes, And I have 1731 02:06:26.560 --> 02:06:31.239 the Medina has to grow lawng food. Okay, Can I use that right 1732 02:06:31.319 --> 02:06:34.079 now? Yes? You can. You want to get that grass growing so 1733 02:06:34.239 --> 02:06:38.399 that it fills in the gaps because weeds are going to come up where that 1734 02:06:38.560 --> 02:06:43.720 soil is bear and so you want to you want to do that. That 1735 02:06:43.880 --> 02:06:47.359 would probably be something that with that particular food, I would probably do it 1736 02:06:47.439 --> 02:06:51.439 now, and I probably do it again in about six weeks again next more 1737 02:06:51.479 --> 02:06:55.760 weeks, okay, because I had this other stuff too. It's a turf 1738 02:06:55.880 --> 02:07:01.279 builder lawn food. It's twenty nitrogen in like three on a third number zero 1739 02:07:01.399 --> 02:07:04.279 in the middle. Okay, does that have yeah, I know it's talking 1740 02:07:04.279 --> 02:07:08.840 about does that have a herbicide in it? Or is it just a fertilizer. 1741 02:07:09.399 --> 02:07:12.600 No, no, it's just a hose EN's prayer. Oh okay, 1742 02:07:12.960 --> 02:07:15.039 well, I mean you can use that. You got it already, go 1743 02:07:15.079 --> 02:07:16.399 ahead and use it up. I would in the future, you know, 1744 02:07:16.520 --> 02:07:19.520 purchase a little different kinds of things. But if you got it, go 1745 02:07:19.560 --> 02:07:23.640 ahead and use it. And because you want to get that grass growing, 1746 02:07:24.119 --> 02:07:28.600 if you give it plenty of moisture, adequate moisture, not water and three 1747 02:07:28.680 --> 02:07:31.760 times a week, but just adequate moisture and do that fertilizing, you're going 1748 02:07:31.800 --> 02:07:35.840 to get fast growth and get that thing to fill back in again. Kay, 1749 02:07:35.840 --> 02:07:39.600 that's good. I got a gallon of the medina has to grow. 1750 02:07:39.680 --> 02:07:43.279 So I just there, you gore, you mix it and that's gonna ask 1751 02:07:43.319 --> 02:07:45.880 me for a while, will And it's it's not a slow release. But 1752 02:07:46.079 --> 02:07:50.079 so what you do is you feed gradually in small amounts over time. You 1753 02:07:50.159 --> 02:07:54.000 know, you don't try to feed for the rest of the summer with one 1754 02:07:54.039 --> 02:07:57.680 application. You just do small amount we're using that temperature is not an issue, 1755 02:07:57.800 --> 02:08:01.199 is it. Nope, it's not it's not gonna burn, cycle burn, 1756 02:08:01.600 --> 02:08:05.720 follow the label. All right, that's good advice I got rid of. 1757 02:08:05.840 --> 02:08:07.960 But you to grass with the round up. And now I'm trying to 1758 02:08:07.800 --> 02:08:13.039 my home association says it has to grow there. Yeah, I know how 1759 02:08:13.479 --> 02:08:16.640 hias. Don't get me started on that, all right. Gordon, Hey, 1760 02:08:16.760 --> 02:08:18.680 thank you for the call. I appreciate your help man. Thank you 1761 02:08:20.039 --> 02:08:22.359 you bet, I appreciate that very much. Thank you. Thank you a 1762 02:08:22.479 --> 02:08:28.960 lot. You know that when we're talking about fertilizers and things. Anytime I'm 1763 02:08:28.000 --> 02:08:33.600 thinking about products, you know, fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and secticides, 1764 02:08:33.680 --> 02:08:37.560 fun just all that kind of stuff, Southwest Fertilizer it's the mecca. It's 1765 02:08:37.600 --> 02:08:41.520 the place to go where you're gonna find it all. If they don't have 1766 02:08:41.600 --> 02:08:45.359 it at Southwest Fertilizer, you don't need it. In other words, they 1767 02:08:45.439 --> 02:08:48.880 have everything you need. And then so they've got all the fertilizers we recommend 1768 02:08:48.960 --> 02:08:52.880 and talk about. They got their own Southwest Premium Gold fifteen five ten slower 1769 02:08:52.960 --> 02:08:58.720 lease. They have lots of good tools, multi composts, soil amendments. 1770 02:08:58.439 --> 02:09:03.079 If you need to get your you know, your power equipment, maybe you're 1771 02:09:03.159 --> 02:09:05.479 more blade sharpened or a little bit of repair done. They've got a shop 1772 02:09:05.520 --> 02:09:09.399 that can do that as well. You can go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com 1773 02:09:09.760 --> 02:09:13.079 to find out more about them. They're down in Southwest Houston at the corner 1774 02:09:13.199 --> 02:09:18.560 of Bissonette and Renwick. Bissonette and Renwick Southwest Fertilizer dot com. When you 1775 02:09:18.680 --> 02:09:22.399 walk in there, it is the one stop that has every kind of product 1776 02:09:22.520 --> 02:09:26.920 that you're gonna need. They also have expertise. They don't say stuff you 1777 02:09:26.000 --> 02:09:30.239 don't need. If you bring in a problem, they'll take a look at 1778 02:09:30.279 --> 02:09:33.520 it, diagnose it, and then they'll take you to the product that works 1779 02:09:33.640 --> 02:09:37.199 well for that particular problem. That's the kind of place that's worth going to. 1780 02:09:39.119 --> 02:09:43.279 Let's head out to Chapel Hill and we're gonna talk to Todd. Hello, 1781 02:09:43.600 --> 02:09:46.920 Todd, Hey, thanks for taking my call. I have up here 1782 02:09:46.960 --> 02:09:52.319 in Chapel Hill. We have a you know, pretty pretty black clay limestone 1783 02:09:52.399 --> 02:09:56.880 clay, just nasty soil, and I've been trying to grow some trees in 1784 02:09:56.960 --> 02:10:01.760 a few particular spots and they keep dying. I have bubble irrigation on them, 1785 02:10:01.239 --> 02:10:05.079 and I've just bought a soil pH meter and I'm getting ready to go 1786 02:10:05.119 --> 02:10:07.399 out and use it, but I'm really not sure what I'm looking for and 1787 02:10:07.479 --> 02:10:11.199 what ranges I'm looking for, and then when I do find my range, 1788 02:10:11.600 --> 02:10:13.720 to pick what type of trees that might go there. I know there's some 1789 02:10:13.840 --> 02:10:18.520 natives like cedar realms and pat berries and sycamore. I have a sycamore that's 1790 02:10:18.560 --> 02:10:22.800 growing real well. But I got planning some apple trees four or five years 1791 02:10:22.840 --> 02:10:24.640 ago, and they just, you know, they look a little bit better 1792 02:10:24.720 --> 02:10:28.199 than when I plan at them, and they're just not growing. And I 1793 02:10:28.319 --> 02:10:33.600 have a burrow. It's just not growing. Okay. You know, do 1794 02:10:33.720 --> 02:10:35.640 you think it's like a black clay, you say, or what kind of 1795 02:10:35.720 --> 02:10:39.199 soil are you? Well, they call it black clay, but I dig 1796 02:10:39.279 --> 02:10:43.920 in it and it's kind of yellow looking. Okay. Well, yeah, 1797 02:10:43.000 --> 02:10:46.720 having a sad berries across the property, yeah, you don't have a salt 1798 02:10:46.720 --> 02:10:50.079 test done, see what's in there already. But I would say on smaller 1799 02:10:50.159 --> 02:10:54.159 statured plants like an apple tree you're talking about, I would amend a very 1800 02:10:54.319 --> 02:10:58.319 large area with a quality mix, you know, an organic mix blend for 1801 02:10:58.479 --> 02:11:03.720 beds, for making beds, and not just a small area. But you 1802 02:11:03.760 --> 02:11:07.239 know, ten feet wide and plant that tree in there and give it a 1803 02:11:07.279 --> 02:11:09.279 little bit better soil, and if drainage is at all in question, make 1804 02:11:09.279 --> 02:11:13.239 sure it's a raise mounds so the surface drains away from the plant a little 1805 02:11:13.279 --> 02:11:16.880 bit. Didn't have to be a star steep slope, but just a little 1806 02:11:16.920 --> 02:11:20.720 bit of drainage. I would do that kind of thing, you know. 1807 02:11:20.800 --> 02:11:22.399 And then there's a lot of good native trees. I mean, I could 1808 02:11:22.439 --> 02:11:26.399 list you a hundred, but one you didn't mention is the Texas red oak. 1809 02:11:26.640 --> 02:11:31.199 There is a native Texas red oak common in the hill country that would 1810 02:11:31.199 --> 02:11:35.159 do very well out in Chapel Hill. That's another good one. Cedar elm 1811 02:11:35.279 --> 02:11:37.880 is a good one that that is one tough tree. But there's there's many 1812 02:11:37.960 --> 02:11:41.479 other options that you have out there. Okay, Well, I'm just trying 1813 02:11:41.479 --> 02:11:45.479 to go. I tried black walnuts and they died. And I tried to 1814 02:11:45.800 --> 02:11:48.439 a live oak in one of the area it died. Okay, It's like 1815 02:11:48.560 --> 02:11:52.279 everything's against me with this stupid soil. Yeah, the live oak. I 1816 02:11:52.359 --> 02:11:56.800 don't know why it died because they should grow there too. That's that's another 1817 02:11:56.880 --> 02:11:58.079 good one that you could try. But do it. So let's start with 1818 02:11:58.119 --> 02:12:01.920 a soil test. When you get the results, uh, you know, 1819 02:12:01.079 --> 02:12:05.039 let's talk about them and we can figure out where to go from here. 1820 02:12:05.720 --> 02:12:07.119 Okay, well, thank you very much. Yes, sir Todd, thank 1821 02:12:07.199 --> 02:12:11.680 you. I appreciate that call. Hey, if you're looking for another good 1822 02:12:11.760 --> 02:12:16.119 Father's Day option, you ought to consider the Trusted Lab dot com. The 1823 02:12:16.279 --> 02:12:20.720 Father's Day gift of CBD products from the Trusted Lab dot com will help dad 1824 02:12:20.880 --> 02:12:26.800 relax, sleep like a king. 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I don't eat A really shaded area in Miley 1834 02:13:09.680 --> 02:13:13.680 in my backyard just I can't. I can't get nothing to grow there. 1835 02:13:13.760 --> 02:13:16.600 So I thought about maybe it's an Asian jazz or something like that, and 1836 02:13:16.840 --> 02:13:18.279 I was curious at what might be a good place to go pick it up 1837 02:13:18.279 --> 02:13:22.239 if that's close to meet here at Pareland. Yeah, Parland, you got 1838 02:13:22.680 --> 02:13:24.439 you got some nurseries down that direction. I mean, we have so many 1839 02:13:24.520 --> 02:13:28.479 nurses run down here that you're gonna find a lot of places that you can 1840 02:13:28.560 --> 02:13:31.600 get something like in Asian jasmine. I think kind of the closest to you 1841 02:13:31.680 --> 02:13:35.720 probably down there is over a moss nursery that's not too terribly far away, 1842 02:13:37.119 --> 02:13:41.920 but you're gonna find those kind of ground of Asian jasmine's really easy to find. 1843 02:13:41.319 --> 02:13:45.479 You just want to get good, okay planted. I would water it 1844 02:13:45.560 --> 02:13:48.800 in with you know, we were talking about the has to grow six twelve 1845 02:13:48.079 --> 02:13:52.359 six fertilizer. Yes, mix it and water. I'd water them in to 1846 02:13:52.439 --> 02:13:56.039 get those roots going, get them a good head start, and then continue 1847 02:13:56.119 --> 02:14:00.319 to feed it gradually with the nitrogen because the goal is to get vegetative growth 1848 02:14:00.439 --> 02:14:03.319 to fill in. It takes a while for Asian jasmine to fill in nicely 1849 02:14:03.479 --> 02:14:09.039 and so you want to boost a little in small amounts over time'll be good. 1850 02:14:09.199 --> 02:14:11.760 I'll do it all right, Mark, Thank you very much, Thank 1851 02:14:11.760 --> 02:14:16.640 you. I appreciate that call very much. If you live way up in 1852 02:14:16.680 --> 02:14:22.119 the Navasota direction, we're talking Carlos, Texas, they call it God's Country 1853 02:14:22.199 --> 02:14:26.319 up there, Rones, Prairie, Shirow, beat Eyes, Iola. Even 1854 02:14:26.359 --> 02:14:30.800 a college station in Brian area is close to Grimes County feed and farm. 1855 02:14:31.159 --> 02:14:35.880 Grimes County has the fertilizers you talk about, the nitrophiles, the turf star 1856 02:14:35.000 --> 02:14:39.880 line, the microlives, and the high yield products. It's just they have 1857 02:14:39.000 --> 02:14:43.000 all kinds of stuff there. They carry Medina, they carry Nelson's. They 1858 02:14:43.039 --> 02:14:46.800 also have those tree hugger sprinklers I was talking about a little bit earlier. 1859 02:14:46.239 --> 02:14:50.920 If you live in perhaps king Oaks or Murewood, wonderful nice neighborhoods up in 1860 02:14:52.000 --> 02:14:54.960 that area, Grimes County is your local supplier. Now. They have dog 1861 02:14:56.039 --> 02:14:58.159 and cat food. Of course, they've gout in livestock food. They have 1862 02:14:58.319 --> 02:15:03.479 pond supply lies. By the way. They do fish food and a fish 1863 02:15:03.560 --> 02:15:05.720 stocking twice the quarter out there, so you have a little pond. Call 1864 02:15:05.800 --> 02:15:09.840 the folks at Grimes County, asked Chris, Hey, when are the fish 1865 02:15:09.920 --> 02:15:11.640 coming in again? How do I get in on that? Everything? You 1866 02:15:11.760 --> 02:15:16.920 need Grimes County feed and farm, to take care of your property, take 1867 02:15:16.960 --> 02:15:20.640 care of your animals, and just really have a good time, good old 1868 02:15:20.680 --> 02:15:22.960 fashioned service as well. Well, let's see, we're gonna head out to 1869 02:15:24.079 --> 02:15:28.760 Spring Branch and tukta Hurta. Now, hello, Hurta, good morning. 1870 02:15:28.920 --> 02:15:37.640 Skip. My question is about my magnolia tree. My goodness, is at 1871 02:15:37.760 --> 02:15:43.920 least twenty five feet tall. I've had it topped two times by one third, 1872 02:15:45.520 --> 02:15:52.560 but my guesses it's the dryness. But under the bottom of the leaves 1873 02:15:52.640 --> 02:15:58.479 when I look up at it, they're beginning to turn yellow. Okay, 1874 02:15:58.880 --> 02:16:03.319 it's not all the tree, but still I'm getting concerned about it. Would 1875 02:16:03.359 --> 02:16:09.560 the team I get it. Yeah, Magnolias will cast their older leaves when 1876 02:16:09.600 --> 02:16:11.279 they get in a little bit of stress, or as the leaves just get 1877 02:16:11.359 --> 02:16:15.239 older. I mean, any leaf on an evergreen doesn't live forever. It 1878 02:16:15.359 --> 02:16:20.920 has a lifespan in and so while that's an evergreen tree, the older foliage 1879 02:16:20.960 --> 02:16:24.359 will drop. Now, Magnolias would love to be in the Southeastern United States 1880 02:16:24.439 --> 02:16:30.600 and parts of southeast Texas included, where they have acidic soil, lots of 1881 02:16:30.760 --> 02:16:33.159 organic matter, regular rainfall. They like all that. So to get them 1882 02:16:33.200 --> 02:16:37.200 to be happy where you are, you need to make sure the soil is 1883 02:16:37.280 --> 02:16:41.879 mulched, that it's adequately moist with the water, and a lot and just 1884 02:16:41.040 --> 02:16:45.000 a moderate amount of nutrition. You kind of want to make them feel at 1885 02:16:45.040 --> 02:16:48.840 home. So if we go through a period where it's really hot and it 1886 02:16:48.959 --> 02:16:54.159 hadn't rain for let's say two weeks, give that magnolia a good thorough deep 1887 02:16:54.239 --> 02:16:58.719 soaking all underneath the branch spread and a little bit beyond that. Okay, 1888 02:16:58.159 --> 02:17:03.639 okay, I have a second question, just real quick. I have a 1889 02:17:03.719 --> 02:17:09.280 little scort of an oak tree coming up in my yard. He's maybe seven 1890 02:17:09.399 --> 02:17:18.479 or eight inches tall. Now I have full grown oak and pine in my 1891 02:17:18.680 --> 02:17:22.639 front and backyard, but I want to save this little oak. I don't 1892 02:17:22.680 --> 02:17:26.840 want to mow him down. We'll be okay to put him in a gallon 1893 02:17:28.040 --> 02:17:31.239 can, yes, but I'm gonna I'm heading to break here, Hurda. 1894 02:17:31.280 --> 02:17:35.120 If you'll hang on, I'll answer that when we come back from break. 1895 02:17:35.200 --> 02:17:39.319 Okay, but joan hold, we are about to head to break the number 1896 02:17:39.440 --> 02:17:43.079 seven one, three, two, one two fifty eight seventy four. Give 1897 02:17:43.159 --> 02:18:07.479 Josh a call. You'll be first stop. Yeah, all right, good 1898 02:18:07.559 --> 02:18:09.120 morning, folks. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip 1899 02:18:09.239 --> 02:18:13.440 Richter, and we are entering or the last half of the last hour for 1900 02:18:13.559 --> 02:18:16.440 today. By the way, we'll be back tomorrow from six am to ten 1901 02:18:16.479 --> 02:18:20.639 am. Tell your family, your friends, it might have gardens. If 1902 02:18:20.639 --> 02:18:22.840 you got a neighbor that we'll take care of his yard, you might just 1903 02:18:22.959 --> 02:18:26.920 kind of drop a subtle hint that there's this thing called garden Line six am 1904 02:18:26.959 --> 02:18:31.079 to ten am every Friday, excuse me, Saturday and Sunday. Every Saturday 1905 02:18:31.120 --> 02:18:35.639 and Sunday, we're gonna head back out to Spring Branch and finish up here 1906 02:18:35.719 --> 02:18:39.120 with hurta, hurta. Here's what you need to do with that little oak 1907 02:18:39.239 --> 02:18:43.680 seedling. You need to wait until November when it's cooled off. There's no 1908 02:18:43.959 --> 02:18:48.200 stresses on the planet. All dig it up, get get whatever roots you 1909 02:18:48.280 --> 02:18:52.159 can, and if you want to plant it in a certain spot just right 1910 02:18:52.200 --> 02:18:54.680 away before the ridge dry out, planted in that spot at the same level 1911 02:18:54.719 --> 02:18:58.479 that it was growing before, watered in real good use a soil from the 1912 02:18:58.600 --> 02:19:01.799 whole that you dug to plant it. If you want to put it in 1913 02:19:01.879 --> 02:19:05.680 a container to hold onto it for a while, to give away or to 1914 02:19:05.760 --> 02:19:09.079 plant somewhere later, then put it in a container. Don't wrap the roots 1915 02:19:09.120 --> 02:19:13.239 around and the container. Just cut them off to fit the container and water 1916 02:19:13.319 --> 02:19:16.959 it in real well, and that'll give it the best head start on getting 1917 02:19:18.000 --> 02:19:22.200 ready for the next summertime when things you're going to be at a little tough 1918 02:19:22.319 --> 02:19:26.159 for a brand new plant. Thank you very much. I want to give 1919 02:19:26.239 --> 02:19:31.959 it away, you know, so I think, well I'll wait till November. 1920 02:19:31.319 --> 02:19:35.600 Thank you so much, Skip you bet, thank you. I appreciate 1921 02:19:35.840 --> 02:19:39.600 that call. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight 1922 02:19:39.799 --> 02:19:46.520 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Yeah. 1923 02:19:46.680 --> 02:19:50.920 Talks a lot today about different kinds of fertilizer providing those nutrients that's your plant 1924 02:19:50.000 --> 02:19:52.559 need, you know. Typically on a furlizer bag, you got the three 1925 02:19:52.639 --> 02:19:58.040 big numbers, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Always those three, always 1926 02:19:58.079 --> 02:20:01.159 in that order. If there's a fourth n it's going to be something like 1927 02:20:01.360 --> 02:20:05.920 solfur maybe or magnesium could be on there, but generally it's the big three. 1928 02:20:05.079 --> 02:20:09.520 Now with some fertilizers, they come with a lot of micronutrients as well, 1929 02:20:09.760 --> 02:20:13.600 because they maybe are from a plant base, an organic base, and 1930 02:20:13.799 --> 02:20:18.120 so that would provide the things that were already in that organic matter. But 1931 02:20:18.319 --> 02:20:20.000 for a lot of fertilizers, you're going for the big three. Why are 1932 02:20:20.040 --> 02:20:24.600 there only three on a label? Well, those are the three that plants 1933 02:20:24.719 --> 02:20:28.239 need the most of quantity. That's why they're on the label. So when 1934 02:20:28.360 --> 02:20:31.760 you want to add fertilizer, add nutrients, those are the three that we 1935 02:20:31.920 --> 02:20:35.239 need them most of. But they're not the only ones that are essential. 1936 02:20:37.280 --> 02:20:41.360 Fertilizers that plants only need a tiny, tiny, tiny little amount of can 1937 02:20:41.440 --> 02:20:46.159 be essential. So that if if you could go into your soil. Just 1938 02:20:46.280 --> 02:20:50.680 think about this a minute, if you could go in your soil and remove 1939 02:20:50.079 --> 02:20:56.280 every molecule of zinc from your soil, plants could not grow. They're essential. 1940 02:20:56.399 --> 02:20:58.559 They don't need much zink. We don't have zinc and every fertilizer, 1941 02:21:00.440 --> 02:21:05.719 but they have to have it to live. If you were to take manganese 1942 02:21:05.920 --> 02:21:09.799 and remove every bit from the soil, number when it's impossible to do remove 1943 02:21:09.879 --> 02:21:13.440 it like that, but if you did, plants could not grow. That's 1944 02:21:13.479 --> 02:21:18.120 why we call it an essential nutrient. It's essential. It's not a macro 1945 02:21:18.319 --> 02:21:22.879 nutrient we need a lot of, but it's an essential nutrient. You get 1946 02:21:22.920 --> 02:21:26.680 the idea. That's why we talk about azamite on this show. Azamite is 1947 02:21:26.680 --> 02:21:33.120 a mind product. It's mind out of the ground and it contains a lot 1948 02:21:33.360 --> 02:21:37.680 of different kinds of trace elements. So when we fertilize our lawns in the 1949 02:21:37.760 --> 02:21:41.159 spring, that's a good time to put out the azamite that you don't need 1950 02:21:41.319 --> 02:21:43.559 a lot of it, but you need it. You need that kind of 1951 02:21:43.799 --> 02:21:48.360 nutrient in the soil, especially, you know, when we're talking about soil 1952 02:21:48.440 --> 02:21:52.440 that maybe missing in one of the micros. The azamite ensures that you got 1953 02:21:52.559 --> 02:21:54.920 to supply there, you know, and to overdo it. You don't need 1954 02:21:54.000 --> 02:21:58.920 a ton of it, but you need it. Okay, azamite Texas dot 1955 02:21:58.959 --> 02:22:01.879 com. You can learn more information about it if you haven't done that, 1956 02:22:01.959 --> 02:22:05.760 you know. Wild lawns are a big place that asomite is used. I 1957 02:22:05.920 --> 02:22:11.000 use it my vegetable gardens because I need nutrients for my body sealth and I 1958 02:22:11.159 --> 02:22:16.639 want my produce to be packed with all the nutrients I need. Maybe the 1959 02:22:16.760 --> 02:22:20.079 plant doesn't need that particular nutrient, but maybe I do. Okay, you 1960 02:22:20.159 --> 02:22:24.040 get the idea. So I put it in the gardens ten pounds per thousand 1961 02:22:24.079 --> 02:22:28.879 square feet in the gardens for the same exact reason. But azamite is that's 1962 02:22:28.239 --> 02:22:33.760 the reason for azamite. That is what it does, that's why we need 1963 02:22:33.840 --> 02:22:35.120 it. And I think it helps to understand that. Sometimes I get a 1964 02:22:35.159 --> 02:22:39.879 little nerdy on horticultural stuff, telling you more than you need to know, 1965 02:22:39.399 --> 02:22:43.600 but beyond just hey, go buy this because Skip said go buy it. 1966 02:22:43.760 --> 02:22:46.440 Well, now you know why Skip said go by it and why you might 1967 02:22:46.559 --> 02:22:50.280 need that. Let's head out to League City and we're going to talk to 1968 02:22:50.399 --> 02:22:54.639 Suzanne. Hello, Susanne. Hi, I don't want to more you, 1969 02:22:56.239 --> 02:22:58.600 but I don't get to listen very often because I work on the weekend. 1970 02:23:00.239 --> 02:23:03.920 But what do I do about Virginia button weed? Well, first thing I 1971 02:23:03.959 --> 02:23:05.680 would do is call a realtor and tell them you need to move. They 1972 02:23:05.760 --> 02:23:11.520 need to find your new house. Side right there you go. I'm I'm 1973 02:23:11.639 --> 02:23:16.079 kidding, I'm kidding, but I'm kind of not. No. Really, 1974 02:23:16.239 --> 02:23:22.120 button weed is don't don't bother pulling it off. That's not going to help 1975 02:23:22.680 --> 02:23:26.239 button button wheat is very persistent. So when I talk about weed problems, 1976 02:23:26.280 --> 02:23:31.239 I like to start with cultural. So if you overwater, if the spot 1977 02:23:31.399 --> 02:23:35.959 is low and stays wet long time after a rain, button weed will love 1978 02:23:35.040 --> 02:23:39.680 it and we'll proliferate. So where it's in your control, don't over water. 1979 02:23:41.120 --> 02:23:43.520 A good soaking and let the ground dry out. Well, that's grass 1980 02:23:43.719 --> 02:23:48.120 is happy with that once a week, once you get your grass healthy and 1981 02:23:48.680 --> 02:23:52.879 weaned off the gardening hose. Once a week is enough. So don't encourage 1982 02:23:52.879 --> 02:23:56.760 the button weed. That's number one. Number two is you're gonna have to 1983 02:23:56.799 --> 02:24:01.760 spray it with a broad leaf post emergent weed control product. And now that 1984 02:24:01.879 --> 02:24:05.719 it's hot, I would use something called celsius, like fahrenheit and celsius. 1985 02:24:05.879 --> 02:24:13.440 The temperatures celsius, it won't damage the grass when it's when it's the temperatures 1986 02:24:13.479 --> 02:24:18.239 are in the let's say lower to mid nineties. Okay, I wouldn't do 1987 02:24:18.319 --> 02:24:20.840 it in a hundred degrees. I don't know that it hurt it, but 1988 02:24:20.959 --> 02:24:24.719 I just think that's asking a little too much of anything. But Celsius works 1989 02:24:24.760 --> 02:24:31.200 pretty well. But nothing kills buttonweed on one application. So typically next spring 1990 02:24:31.760 --> 02:24:35.440 you want to start earlier. And when you see the buttonweed, then go 1991 02:24:35.520 --> 02:24:39.360 ahead and spray it, and then it's going to be you know, four 1992 02:24:39.479 --> 02:24:43.280 weeks or so later. You may have to hit it again. But I'll 1993 02:24:43.680 --> 02:24:48.000 get those two or three applications if needed done before we get to the hot, 1994 02:24:48.040 --> 02:24:52.239 hot, hot weather. Oh my gosh, yes, yeah, ACE 1995 02:24:52.399 --> 02:24:56.920 is going to have it. They carry that. Let's see where are you. 1996 02:24:56.000 --> 02:25:01.440 You're in League City out You got you at ACES right right in your 1997 02:25:01.479 --> 02:25:03.920 back door, right there, right right, and you do there's the the 1998 02:25:05.559 --> 02:25:09.280 League City ACE hardware that it's real quick to you. That's where I'm not 1999 02:25:09.399 --> 02:25:13.440 too far down the road is Killgore's Clear Lake Lumber. They've got that's an 2000 02:25:13.479 --> 02:25:16.040 ACE that's going to have that kind of product. Good good, okay, 2001 02:25:16.239 --> 02:25:20.959 good product for that. Just remember button weed. You're it's not a one 2002 02:25:22.040 --> 02:25:26.280 and done. You got to stay with it, okay, alrighty well, 2003 02:25:26.920 --> 02:25:31.440 yes, I two years ago, I had a very serious infection and I 2004 02:25:31.559 --> 02:25:41.360 spent several hours pulling every single piece out by hand. And I didn't I 2005 02:25:41.479 --> 02:25:48.000 didn't do anything else about it except encouraged my lawn, okay. And it 2006 02:25:48.120 --> 02:25:52.200 didn't come back there, well, came back in another play. It just 2007 02:25:52.319 --> 02:25:56.479 It typically breaks off when you try to pull button weed though, But hey, 2008 02:25:56.520 --> 02:25:58.280 I hope that helps. I'm gonna have to head toward a break, 2009 02:25:58.600 --> 02:26:03.200 but thank you very much for that call. 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I'm going to take a 2019 02:26:41.719 --> 02:26:43.680 break now. If you want to give Josh a call seven one three two 2020 02:26:43.799 --> 02:26:48.079 one two fifty eight seventy four, you will be the second when we come 2021 02:26:48.159 --> 02:27:11.239 up. Deb I see out there, you'll be first. Nothing walking, 2022 02:27:13.079 --> 02:27:18.639 good morning. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Rictor 2023 02:27:18.719 --> 02:27:24.159 in our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 2024 02:27:24.399 --> 02:27:28.360 As we enter the last segment here for the day, we're going to head 2025 02:27:28.399 --> 02:27:33.440 out to the woodlands and talk to Deb. Hello, Deb, Hi, 2026 02:27:33.680 --> 02:27:37.239 scap how are you. I'm well? Thank you good? Hey. Listen, 2027 02:27:37.319 --> 02:27:43.760 I have son spider lilies. These giant spider lilies, or the leaves 2028 02:27:43.840 --> 02:27:48.399 get about three and a half four feet tall, and they are just looking 2029 02:27:48.120 --> 02:27:54.920 horrible. Really, and yes there is. The leaves are coming out yellow, 2030 02:27:54.159 --> 02:28:00.399 they're coming out shredded, They're coming out with holes in them. I 2031 02:28:00.520 --> 02:28:05.040 haven't been two different sections of sections in my backyard, and both sections are 2032 02:28:05.120 --> 02:28:11.399 looking the same. I don't believe that we've done anything different. These are 2033 02:28:11.159 --> 02:28:18.959 bulbs from someone who was sitting out their beds maybe fifteen to twenty years ago, 2034 02:28:20.399 --> 02:28:24.920 and they have been in the ground since I got them, and they 2035 02:28:26.000 --> 02:28:30.280 have always been fine. I've had beautiful rooms on them almost every year, 2036 02:28:31.079 --> 02:28:37.639 and in the last ten months they are looking pretty pathetic. So I've pulled 2037 02:28:37.799 --> 02:28:41.079 a couple of the bulbs out. They look to me like they have been 2038 02:28:41.399 --> 02:28:48.760 eaten and I can see little insects down inside there what looked like to be 2039 02:28:48.040 --> 02:28:56.920 black, kind of centipede looking little things, and I just don't know what 2040 02:28:56.040 --> 02:29:01.040 to do with them other than start all over again. Well, they've done 2041 02:29:01.079 --> 02:29:03.479 well for you in the past, though, right they have? Yes, 2042 02:29:05.079 --> 02:29:09.399 so, and I'm sorry my neighbors getting ready to fire up this blower, 2043 02:29:09.479 --> 02:29:11.959 so I'm going to walk a different part of the yard. That's fine. 2044 02:29:13.879 --> 02:29:18.600 So I just want to be sure. This is the white blooming spider low. 2045 02:29:18.719 --> 02:29:24.200 Ye, the white the very fine, yeah, delicate looking flower. 2046 02:29:24.399 --> 02:29:28.159 Yeah. That it blooms for like a day or so and then it's it's 2047 02:29:28.280 --> 02:29:31.600 kind of done. Those are tough as nails. That is a good place 2048 02:29:31.680 --> 02:29:35.360 they are. And yeah they have So you were saying the foliage though it 2049 02:29:35.399 --> 02:29:39.000 had been eaten, right, did I understand that? Yes, That's what 2050 02:29:39.159 --> 02:29:43.120 I noticed first, was the foliage. And it was like in the fall 2051 02:29:45.040 --> 02:29:50.120 where they were getting holes in them. They were still coming up, so 2052 02:29:50.360 --> 02:29:54.440 the foliage was coming up, but they have holes in them. Okay, 2053 02:29:54.840 --> 02:29:58.040 Well, you know that spider lilies are tough. I mean, they can 2054 02:29:58.159 --> 02:30:03.799 take a lot of foliage chewing and things like that. They're not they're They're 2055 02:30:03.840 --> 02:30:07.399 just I wouldn't generally worry about that. I guess you could have so much 2056 02:30:07.440 --> 02:30:11.399 foliage gone that you'd want to spray, But in general I wouldn't. I 2057 02:30:11.440 --> 02:30:15.239 wouldn't even bother without Look well here and there are a lot of those things 2058 02:30:15.360 --> 02:30:18.920 come and go too. Well they do yeah, well they need to go. 2059 02:30:20.319 --> 02:30:22.520 Yeah, okay. Well, I mean, if you want to treat 2060 02:30:22.639 --> 02:30:24.639 any kind of insecticide, probably is going to work pretty good. I say, 2061 02:30:24.639 --> 02:30:30.479 any kind any general purpose type insecticide would work, but I don't know, 2062 02:30:30.959 --> 02:30:33.799 It'd have to be a lot of damage where I'd worry about doing them. 2063 02:30:33.000 --> 02:30:35.639 They do want moist, They like moist. I mean they're growing a 2064 02:30:35.719 --> 02:30:39.920 swampy, growing a bar ditch and so yeah, while nobody taking care of 2065 02:30:41.040 --> 02:30:43.120 them, they just they just grow. So they're really they're real easy. 2066 02:30:43.760 --> 02:30:46.680 You know, if something's chewing on the bulbs. There are some soil born 2067 02:30:46.840 --> 02:30:52.760 insects and other arthropods wireworms or in the soil. They sort of look like 2068 02:30:52.840 --> 02:30:56.399 a centipede. I guess, uh, there are other things in the soil 2069 02:30:56.479 --> 02:31:01.600 that will chew on the bulb itself, but those spider lilies are so tough 2070 02:31:01.680 --> 02:31:05.760 it generally just doesn't bother them. So h. I guess you know, 2071 02:31:05.840 --> 02:31:09.159 if you're when you pull the bullb up, you're seeing the critters. They're 2072 02:31:09.200 --> 02:31:11.200 seeing chunks taken out of the bulb. Is that what you do? Right? 2073 02:31:11.559 --> 02:31:16.040 Yes, there's like little holes where they've you know, dug in deck 2074 02:31:16.120 --> 02:31:20.920 tunnels through the bulb and yeah, you know, and I'm thinking they're kind 2075 02:31:20.959 --> 02:31:24.920 of destroyed at that point. That's a time when I probably would get some 2076 02:31:24.040 --> 02:31:28.879 type of an insect side and just drench it around the plants, having god 2077 02:31:28.079 --> 02:31:33.040 in the soil and just knock those things all out. Just a general A 2078 02:31:33.159 --> 02:31:35.760 general purpose would be good. Uh, you know, a product with the 2079 02:31:35.799 --> 02:31:39.399 metal cloper and in it would actually soak in and do some good. We 2080 02:31:39.600 --> 02:31:45.520 generally avoid that whenever we have a bloom that some pollinator is going to go 2081 02:31:45.639 --> 02:31:50.520 to, because you know, it doesn't move through the plant. But there 2082 02:31:50.559 --> 02:31:54.840 are other things that you can drench down into the soil, just general again, 2083 02:31:54.959 --> 02:32:01.680 general purpose insecticides that are labeled for use in the garden. That typically 2084 02:32:01.840 --> 02:32:07.120 synthetic perrethroids would be used in that kind of thing. But if you feel 2085 02:32:07.159 --> 02:32:09.159 like you're getting enough damage where hey, I gotta do something, then that's 2086 02:32:09.200 --> 02:32:15.879 what I would do. Yeah, a few most I would say that I 2087 02:32:15.959 --> 02:32:18.040 pulled out. Look that way, they look pretty chewed up. Okay, 2088 02:32:18.959 --> 02:32:22.600 well, so the other question I have about them is do they do well 2089 02:32:22.680 --> 02:32:28.799 in pots? They can? And in fact, I've got some big old 2090 02:32:28.840 --> 02:32:33.360 iron kettles, you know, the old time cast iron things, giant, 2091 02:32:33.840 --> 02:32:37.079 and they don't have a drainage hole in those kind of pots, and you 2092 02:32:37.200 --> 02:32:41.079 can put spider lilies in there, and if if you overwater them, it 2093 02:32:41.159 --> 02:32:45.520 doesn't matter. I mean, they're they'll grow it standing water. So I 2094 02:32:45.559 --> 02:32:48.879 would, you know, consider a container like that. It doesn't have to 2095 02:32:48.920 --> 02:32:50.520 be a cast iron pot, just anything big. And if it drains, 2096 02:32:50.520 --> 02:32:54.159 well that's fine. You just have to worry about water them a little more 2097 02:32:54.200 --> 02:32:56.159 often. Okay, I might give that a shot with some of these I 2098 02:32:56.239 --> 02:33:01.399 pulled out that don't look so shoot up. But okay, well, I 2099 02:33:01.879 --> 02:33:03.600 you know, like I said, I've had them for years. They've been 2100 02:33:03.920 --> 02:33:09.239 sturdy as heck, and all of a sudden it's just like night and day. 2101 02:33:09.600 --> 02:33:13.040 So yeah, I get it. Yeah, all right, well, 2102 02:33:13.040 --> 02:33:15.280 good, okay, good luck with them, And thank you for the call, 2103 02:33:15.440 --> 02:33:18.000 DAB. I appreciate that. Appreciate that very much. Hey, if 2104 02:33:18.120 --> 02:33:24.719 you live anywhere southwest of the Houston area you need to know about enchanted gardens'd 2105 02:33:24.760 --> 02:33:26.239 in Richmond. If you're at in Richmond, you're head up toward Katie Way. 2106 02:33:26.600 --> 02:33:31.479 That's in Chenned gardens. 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