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Katie r H Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.

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It's so crazy, Trim, just
watch him as so many things supt

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day. Well, good morning,
good Saturday morning. It is good to

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be back behind the microphone. I
hope you enjoyed the shows that we had

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during the holidays. There were some
really, really good guests. I actually

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was in another place but listened in
just to kind of hear here again what

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those folks have to say. It's
a lot of good, lot of good

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information. But it's good to be
back live with you again, and we

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hope you will join us today with
some phone calls as well. We always

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like to talk to you because this
is about your questions. The Garden Line

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is about how can we help you
have a more beautiful garden and a more

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bountiful landscape, or maybe I should
say that vice versa too bountiful garden and

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beautiful landscape, or all of the
above. Anyway, you can give us

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a call seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four seven to one

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three two one two kt r H
and we will get right into it when

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you come up with the kind of
things that you want to talk about.

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I've got some things. I got
a lot of things that I'd like to

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visit about today, a lot of
different topics, things that are timely that

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hopefully not only are things to do
right now, but things to be thinking

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about to get ready because I tell
you that the winter is We are here

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in winter, or what we call
winter in this part of the world,

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but spring is coming, and when
it comes, it hits like a eighteen

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wheeler. I mean, all of
a sudden. The days are beautiful,

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things are happening. Garden centers just
overloaded with all kinds of new plant material

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coming in, and we want to
be ready for that. There's already some

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great opportunities out those visiting some garden
centers earlier and just really impressed with the

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stock of things that are available out
there. We are entering the primetime for

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planting bear root plants. So if
you were purchasing a bear root, whether

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it's a fruit tree or a rosebush
or anything bear root, the time we

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do that is in January, and
try to get that done by early February

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if we can, but later it
gets You can steal plant a little later

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into February, of course, but
you know, it's just it's like anything

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we've been talking about on garden Line. The sooner we get something in,

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the more time we give it to
establish, start to grow some new roots.

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And with a bear route, that's
especially important before that hot weather comes

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in the demands are put on the
plant, the better off we are.

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So bear rood season is upon us. But it's also container season. It's

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always container grown plant season because you
can plant container plants twelve months out of

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a year. Some months more challenging
than others, such as July and August,

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for example, a little bit more
challenging. It's touch and go,

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but you can do it. You
can do it any month of the year

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here and have success, and that's
what we want you to have. So

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we think of January and February is
of course what we call winter. It's

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the rose season. You plant roses
any month of the year, but we

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associate rose planting with Valentine's Day just
because, yeah, that makes sense.

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The two go together. However,
you can plant roses now, go ahead

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and get them done. Get your
roses, get them planted. Find out

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what kind of rows you want,
and don't demand that a bush be loaded

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with blooms and be gorgeous when you
buy it. I know that's what tempts

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us. I mean, that's true. You're buying a little, tiny flowering

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annual plant for example. You know
you want to pick the ones that have

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the most blooms on them. Well, that's fine, it is prettier now

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sitting there in the garden center.
But what you need to have success is

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leaves. Because if you were to
buy let me just do this, if

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we were to pick, let's pick
on a fly, let's say a viola,

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which is a good cool season of
annual flower. If you were to

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get a plant that was full of
foliage and no blooms, and a plant

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that is so many blooms on it
you can't see the foliage, and we

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put those out, what is going
to happen. Well, the one that

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doesn't have any blooms on it,
that is all in its vegetative state,

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that maybe just a few blooms on
it, it's going to hit the ground

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running, capturing sunlight, making carbohydrates, and it's going to be a bigger,

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stronger plant that can have more blooms
one that is loaded with blooms will

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still be fine. It'll grow and
do well. But don't I think the

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temptation to try to pick things that
already look like we ultimately want them to

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look is probably misguided. That's how
I look at it. So just think

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of those blooms as babies, and
now this plant is having to support all

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these babies, make new babies,
and you know, whether they go to

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seed or fruits or whatever, they
do well. When it comes to roses,

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the same thing is true. Just
get you a good, strong,

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healthy plant. Know the variety you
want going on. Look at the bloom,

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this is what it's going to look
like. That's good. Then purchase

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that plant and take care of it, and you will achieve what you were

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hoping to achieve in terms of a
beautiful plant. That's kind of my tip

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for you. I guess when it
comes to buying plants, we have a

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lot of natural tendencies that probably lead
us not toward failure at all, but

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toward maybe away from the top performance
that we could have. I used to

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talk about this all the time with
bear root trees. You know a lot

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of people will purchase fruit trees like
fruit and pecan things like that bear root

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and they get this giant They want
the biggest tree they can find, and

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it's not an advantage to do that. Get a moderate sized tree, take

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care of it, and it'll be
just as good as the bigger one.

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In fact, when it comes to
containers, let's say you have a given

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size of container. Maybe I'm just
going to use five gallons as an example,

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but a five gallons of container,
three, ten gallon, whatever you

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want. And you look at two
trees and one of them is really big

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and one of them is medium size, it's probably better to get the medium

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size one. And the reason is
they both have the same root system,

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but one of them has a whole
lot of top and it may sit there

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for a little bit longer getting its
root system established to support that big top

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and take off with growth. Now, this isn't a black and white thing

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where you know, if you plant
a big tree, it won't grow.

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In a little tree, it will
grow. I'm not saying that, be

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real clear about that. I'm just
saying that, don't think you're buying trees

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by the board foot. When you're
comparing trees from one container size to the

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same container size, Okay, so
twenty five gallon versus a five gallon,

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Yes, twenty five gallons ahead.
Start there, no question. But when

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you go out and purchase things,
learn how to take care of your plants

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and then get them in the ground
properly, and you're going to have success.

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That's just the way it works.
It's not that difficult. And with

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our great mom and pop garden centers, our local garden centers that we have

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all over the greater Houston area,
they're going to be able to not only

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carry the products that really belong here, and not everything for sale in Houston

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should be planted in Houston. I'll
just say it that way. But when

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you go to a dependable place that
knows what they're talking about, that takes

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care of their customers, where not
only quality plants, but also education is

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important, you're going to have success
because they're going to die. Jean,

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help you help you do that.
Hey, we're going to take a break

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for a little bit. Here our
phone number seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. Gift Josh
call. When we come back, you'll

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be our first up. Good Saturday
morning, Welcome to Garden Line. We're

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glad you're listening this morning, and
boy, do we have a lot to

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talk about today. We I know
we're sitting here in the what we would

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call the middle of winter, at
least what passes for winter in this area.

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But it is time to get really
busy with a lot of things for

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that beautiful garden. We're gonna build
the beautiful landscape. We're going to build

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and develop, and now's the time
to do it. We're going to start

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off by going to the phones,
our phone number seven one three two one

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two five eight seven four. We
went out to Tumbaull talk to David.

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Hello, David, good morning,
sir. Morning. Hey, I've got

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a I think I have a mole
problem. And I'm getting these little mounds

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of dirt on the ground and when
I take a little handheld gardening tool and

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rake the dirt. Aside, I
don't see a tunnel. I don't know

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where the dirt's coming from. And
I've been told it's a mole, so

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I checked. And then the solution
for him is they want to give me

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this little spot treatment type stuff.
Is there a product if it is a

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mole that like a twenty five pound
bag granule that I can spread through the

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whole yard. Take care of the
whole problem. No, how big are

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the mountains, I would say some
of them are probably eight inches in diameter.

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Oh so it's just like somebody piled
dirt up on top of the ground.

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Yeah, it's like I get these
little potl likes. Somebody took a

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shovel of dirt and just pumped it
in there. And I'm going and when

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you rake them back, I'm looking
for a hole and I can't find a

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hole. Well, I think you're
talking about pocket gophers. That's that's my

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Is your soil a little on the
sandy side, Oh yeah, it's very

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sandy. Okay, I think you're
talking about pock pocket gophers. And I

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tell you what I'm gonna do.
I'm not a wildlife expert, but if

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you will go, I'm gonna give
you a Website's real easy. It's Agralife

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L e A R n agra life, learn dot t A m U dot

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e d U. That's Texas and
and University dot ed US for education.

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So agrolife, learn dot tammu dot
ed U. Type in the word gopher

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and there's a free publication on pocket
gophers, and it'll talk about them,

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what to do about them, how
to handle them, and whatnot. But

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yeah, putting an insecticide out is
not They're not They're eating grubs or things

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like. You know. That's a
strategy for certain things where we we kill

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the thing that we kill the food
source for what's bringing the credits in.

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But not with pocket gophers. Huh, I'm gonna go caddy shack on it.

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Man. You see that movie.
I have seen that movie. I

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have seen that movie. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure Dynamite's not the best way

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to go on this line. I'm
not gonna do that. That just that

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just came to mind when you said
gopher. Yeah, well anyway, there

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you go. But I've never you
would think you would be able to see

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them, though if it was a
gober, it'd be like a squirrel or

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something. Yeah, they don't.
I never see them. They don't present

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themselves much. I mean, you
know that if you're in the right place

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the right time, you'll see one. But yeah, that's I think that's

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what you're doing on check out that
publication. Moles do not create mounds of

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dirt. They push up told a
little bit of a raised tommy. But

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yeah, I don't even see a
hole or nothing, all right, but

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I'll give that try. Thank you, sir, Yes, sir, good

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luck with that. Thanks for call
David. Appreciate that. Our phone number

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is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
If you have any kind of a winter

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garden, I'm talking about vegetables,
I'm talking about flowers, you know,

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any kind of beds. I want
to see about a product that you probably

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haven't thought about for using in those
areas in the cool season, and that

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is Microlife's Ultimate. That's a blue
bag. It's a fertilizer. Now when

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you see the big bags of fertilizer, you think, okay, I put

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that on my lawn. Yeah,
you can put it in your lawn,

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but you can also use it in
your cool season garden. You got broccoli,

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lettuce, spinach, things like that, growing Microlife Ultimate is excellent for

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that. If you've got flowers like
pansies and violas and alyssam and snap dragons

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and all the cool season things,
it's great for that. And as we

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support the roots with good nutrient additions, we can support growth, and when

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you support growth, you get more
blooms. That's how it works. Light

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shines on leaves, The leaves make
carbohydrates, the carbohydrates make blooms and fruit

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end roots in the case of a
vegetable garden like carrots and radishes and turnips

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and whatnot, and so good nutrition
in the soil is important. And that's

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what Microlife Ultimate does. It's an
eight four six fertilizer. It's really easy

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to use. You're not going to
burn your plants with it, but uh,

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you know it's gate for lawns.
But if I were you, I

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do it for me. Put some
in your vegetable garden, put some in

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your flower beds. It's good for
when you're planting trees. Again, you're

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not going to burn roots with that. Microlife Ultimate. Consider that you can

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find Microlife products all over the place, of course, but you can go

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to Microlifefertilizer dot org, dot org, dot com, and when you do

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that, you can find the places
where you can get your microlife products throughout

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the Greater Houston area and beyond.
Really really easy to find at Microlifefertilizer dot

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Com. I was talking earlier about
this is the time when we're planting,

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and when you plant things, don't
feel like that the plant with the most

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blooms or the woody ornamental with the
most wood woody growth above ground is necessarily

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the best plant to plant. Just
pick a good, healthy plant, get

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in the ground at the right time. Now, if you're planting trees and

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shrubs, when you put them out
of the container, it's a round container

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almost always, and you're going to
have roots going in a circle around the

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circle. Cut those roots. I
use a box cutter knife myself. Those

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are the little utility knives that you
push the blade out about an inch and

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you can slice through the root vertically
from top to bottom, three places,

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all the way around the root alter
for and so that those roots going in

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a circle are cut. Now,
don't worry that you're ruining your root system.

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You are not. In fact,
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establishment is delayed. It's really difficult
for the plants to get established. But

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when you cut it, what you're
going to find is within two weeks there

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are going to be new roots growing
from the end of every root you cut,

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and those roots are going to go
out and establish, and you're going

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to be way way ahead, So
don't be afraid to do that. Make

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sure you do that right. Also, when you plant a tree or a

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shrub, a rosebush, a maybe
you want a red oak tree in your

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yard, any kind of woody ornamental, set it at the same level it

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was growing in the container. Or
even better yet, is to say find

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the top most root, especially on
trees, because sometimes as trees get moved

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from one container to another, getting
bigger and bigger containers. As that tree

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grows, it gets set a little
deeper and soil gets piled on top,

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so where that soil is may not
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and so I usually just dig down
when you find the topmost root, put

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that right at the soil level and
it'll be fine. That works just fine.

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You put a little inch below the
soil if you want. But the

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bottom line is don't plant them too
deep, and make sure drainage is good

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and if it's not, then build
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These kinds of things, you know, taking care of the root system

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if it's circling before you plant it, setting them at the right level,

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and all the other aspects that go
into proper planting for these plants, they

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end up giving you the benefits for
years and years to come. And one

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of the things that I really hate
to see is someone who spends a lot

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of money on a really quality plant, brings it home and plants it and

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doesn't do those things I just said. And then two or three years from

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now they're calling me and saying,
hey, my tree is just not growing.

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was probably it probably started back at
planting time, the problem that they had.

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We want you to have success,
and we don't want I mean,

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because at that point, what am
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dig it up and cut roots and
probably not. It just kind of where

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it is. So anyway, take
take some time to think about it and

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make sure that when you do these
things, we take those simple small steps.

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It's really easy to do, really
easy to do. And when you

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do that kind of thing, you're
going to have much much more success.

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And that's the whole reason we're doing
these things. We want beauty, we

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want shade, we want fruit and
production and so on. Say, by

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the way, if you want success, another good way to do it is

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to purchase plants from a place that
knows what they're talking about, and that

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is Ana Plants and Produce up there
in the Lake Conroe area. If you

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live out in Montgomery, they're right
on the edge of town on one oh

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five. They've been growing year after
year after year, and they have every

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kind of plant that you can imagine. They always are in good stock.

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They make sure that the plants they
have are in top quality health. They've

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got staff that knows what they're talking
about. With A and A Plants and

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Produce, you know that you're not
going to be led wrong, and that

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is very, very important. They
carry all the products I talk about on

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garden Line, you know, all
the fertilizers and whatnot. They have a

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wide selection of pest and disease these
management products seven days a week, nine

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to five, so it's always a
good time to head out to A and

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A Plants and Produce. I'm going
to continue on this morning as we go

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talking about some of the different aspects
of success at this point in the season.

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One thing I do want to tell
you is when you see plants or

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seeds coming in someplace, don't delay, go ahead and get them. Don't

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especially with the seeds. You can
always let the seed packets sit there for

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a little while if you need to. But these things sell out, and

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some of the best variety, some
of the new stuff that's kind of hard

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to find, you may run into
a lack a certainly less selection of and

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so go ahead and do your shopping
early. Let's you know, sometimes I'll

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it's a little early to plant tomatoes. But I got to tell you,

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sometimes I will get my plants a
little bit too early, and I'll just

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bring them home and bump them up
into a bigger size container, repot them

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in a little bit larger container and
just keep them growing, give them plenty

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of sunlight and whatnot. And by
the time it is time to plant them

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out and you don't have to worry
about the freeze and whatnot. You got

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a much stronger, better root system
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So just some food for thought there. Hey, we're going to take

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a break. It's time to bring
Nikki back in for the news. Our

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phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Well,

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I wound up a little early there, I guess Nick. Maybe welcome

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back. How is your your New
Year's and your holiday, and since I

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last saw you, I will never
want I stayed out of trouble. Good

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to my knowledge. I did not
get an I haven't heard anything. No,

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no, it's it wasn't on the
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had a great time. I did
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Excellent, excellent. Good to have
you. I'm ready. I'm raring

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to go, though. There's a
lot to go and do in gardens.

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So here we go. By the
way, what's happened with the news.

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I think it's your turn. Yes, we're going to talk about some football.

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Welcome back to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter. Glad

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you are listening and ready to talk
gardening. If you're interested and would like

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to give us a call, our
phone number is seven one three two one

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two five eight seven four. Give
me a call seven one three two one

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two kt r H and we will
will talk about that. You know,

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the folks at Medina have a wide
variety of products, a very extensive product

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line, and I just appreciate the
fact that when you look at some of

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the Medina products, the way the
way they're designed, if you will,

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the way they're created is by looking
at what nature does. That is how

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they do it, and that's true
with for example, their humate humic acid.

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What is humus? What is humic
acid? When when organic matter decomposes

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at some point we call it compost, and as it keeps going and breaking

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down to its final state, we
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is very important in plant soil relationships. It helps with nutrient uptake. It

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has an activity in chelating some of
the trace minerals as well, making them

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available so they don't tie up.
Maybe you got a high peach, so

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you got some iron problems. Humans
can help with that. It improves with

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the moisture retention, and it just
has a wide variety of things it does

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because nature invented humus, but Medina
has created hummate humic acid, and it

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comes in quart jars gallon jars.
I mean, you can buy it much

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larger containers. You can use it
in transplanting. You can use it when

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you're getting your seeds starting. You
can use on your vegetables, used on

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your flowers, use it on your
indoor plants as well. It's just something

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that nature came up with and Medina
has now made available to you. You

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can find Medina products a lot of
places around the Greater Houston area talking about

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things to be doing this time of
the year. It is a prime time

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for planting cool seasoned vegetables. Do
you want some broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower,

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col Robbie collareds? What am I
kale? There's another one I didn't

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I left out. We be planning
carrots. We can be planning even radishes,

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you know, if you're ready to
cover them up. She we have

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a real coal spell. You can
plant those this time of year. Cool

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season peas. Talking with one of
my daughters during the holidays and she was

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wanting to grow some sugar snap peas, and I love sugar snap peas.

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I very seldom make it to the
kitchen with my sugar snap so I think

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there I refer to them as gardener
snack food. They don't produce super super

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heavy, and so you need a
pretty good sized row if you want to

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get a quantity of those peas at
any given point in time. But usually

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I'm just walking through and I find
a few and they're sweet and good,

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and I just snack on them while
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so not a lot makes it back
to the kitchen. But this is a

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time to plant those kinds of things. It is also the time to get

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your soil ready for the warm seasoned
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So mixing compost in the soil.
Maybe you've got a garden area and

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it's just sort of fallow, there's
nothing growing in it right now, and

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you're not going to plant a cool
season crop. Take advantage of that time

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to mix some composts into the soil. Build up a raised bed if you

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don't already have a raised bed,
so that you're able to plant when it's

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time to plant. Because here's what's
going to happen. We're going to be

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looking at that plot, looking at
that plot for the weeks and weeks to

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come, and all of a sudden
it's like I got to go plant tomatoes.

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It is time now, and here
comes the rain, and for days

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on end, I mean, it
just turns into a swamp because it rains

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and rains and rains. If you'd
prepared your soil ahead of time, then

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when that day comes rain or shine, you're able to go out there and

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put those plants in the ground.
You're ready to go. You don't get

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delayed. A ninety year old gardener, mister Alden Colston up in Conroe,

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Texas. I used to go out
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Garden in Conroe, and mister Colston
used to say he had several things he

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said that I'll never forget, but
one of them was you can always add

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water, but you can't take it
away. And that's a good point.

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When soil is soggy wet, Yeah, got a problem. Yeah, there's

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long term solutions for drainage and whatnot, but why not get your soil ready

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and if a raised bed is needed, which it usually is, build it

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up and then you're ready to go. Just a little tip. I said,

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there's things we do right now,
and there's things we do now to

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get ready for things we're going to
do later, and soil prep is one

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of those things. Anytime you can
get in the garden and work the soil

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is a good time to get it
done. And just remember that when the

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soil is super soggy wet, if
it's a clay, don't be trying to

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rototil and spade and everything else.
It destroys soil structure to work it when

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it's too wet. Certainly, when
it's too dry, it's like with clay,

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it's like you know, concrete almost
sometimes, but when it's an adequate

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moist content, it breaks apart and
ice and works well. That's a good

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time to do it. I know
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soil prep in the fall so they're
ready to go when spring comes. That's

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also a good idea. I would
highly recommend that as well. If you're

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interest in herbs, now is still
a great time to plant herbs. And

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again, this is another example.
You know, you may see an herb

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and it's winter time and it's just
not growing a whole lot. Maybe it's

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in a container to garden center and
it looks good, but it's just not

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you know, super lush and fast
growing. That's okay, plant it,

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get those roots going because when the
weather warms up enough, it's going to

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hit the ground running. It's going
to do super super well. Anytime you're

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looking for supplies for your garden,
for your lawn, for your shrubs,

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trees, vegetables, flowers, everything, Ace Hardware stores is going to have

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that. You know, we got
forty of them now in the Greater Houston

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area. So all the way from
Beaumont through Houston, we've got Ace Hardware

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stores near you. And ACE carries
your lawn fertilizers. It carries your fertilizers

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for all your plants. It carries
the things that you need to kill bugs

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and diseases and weeds and all of
that. Do you need some tools?

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Do you need you know, what
do you need for your garden? Ace

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is going to have it. Ace
is a place for all of that.

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Now, it's easy to find your
local Ace Hardware store. Just go to

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acehardware dot com, go to their
store locator, and you can find the

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not the the Ace Hardware store,
but the Ace Hardware stores near you.

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Because there's so many of them.
That's really easy to find a good local

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Ace Hardware store for whatever you need. You're listening to garden Line. I'm

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your host, Skip Richter, and
our phone number is seven to one three

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two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four. Hey, just around
the corner. January thirteenth, that's a

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Saturday that is just around the corner, isn't it? Next Saturday? At

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the antiq ros Iporium the Texas gardener
folks are putting on the Texas Tomato Lover's

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Conference. Now, this is a
big shindig. They're going to have a

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number of different excellent speakers there.
There'll be a program on growing tomatoes for

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the young family, mastering container grown
tomatoes, the best varieties for twenty twenty

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four, eight steps to grafting success, dealing with diseases in tomatoes by the

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head of the State Plant Lab.
By the way, I'll be giving a

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talk on the ten Commandments of Tomatoes
Success. Now, the program starts at

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eight in the morning and it goes
through three point thirty. So how on

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earth can I be there while I'm
late in the day when I'm giving my

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talk. I'll be heading over there
right after the show. But I know

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these speakers. You will not be
disappointed. It is excellent. If you

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want more information, here's a phone
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get a light breakfast, you get
lunch with that, and you get a

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whole lot of speakers and a lot
of giveaway goodies. I was talking to

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Jay from Texas Gardener the other day
and oh my gosh, their goodie package

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are giving away. That's worth the
price of admission. We're going to take

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a break again the phone number seven
one three two one two five eight seven

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four, and when we come back, Frank, you will be the first

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up. Well, good Saturday morning, Welcome to garden Line. We're glad

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you're listening this morning, talking all
kinds of things gardening, and boy,

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is this ever an important time to
be talking about gardening. If you want

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to do anything with success this winter
and spring season, please keep listening and

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hang in there because, in fact, always listen to guard Line with a

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piece of paper and a pen or
pencil in hand, because we're throwing out

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emails and phone numbers and websites and
all kinds of tips that you may want

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to jot down. If you miss
the show, you can always listen to

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us on our podcast of the iHeartRadio. It's easy to find garden Line and

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listen to past shows that way as
well. We're going to head now out

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to Deer Park and talk to Frank. Hello, Frank, good morning,

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Skip. I I needed to get
an email addressed I have a sago that

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died because of the freezes over the
last couple of years, and my front

417
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yard is mainly mulched. I do
have a tree formed crate myrtle, and

418
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kind of one of your ideas about
something that I could use to replace that

419
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did Oh well, I mean,
you know it's wide open. Uh yeah,

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you know. I guess if you
wanted to show me a picture of

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the area, we could do that. But it really, you know,

422
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Frank, I always compare this to
someone handing me their credit card and saying,

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go to the mall and buy me
some clothes. You know, I

424
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don't know if you're a J Crue
guy or Dillard's or what styles you wear,

425
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so it's kind of hard to do. But what you know, do

426
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you want flowers? Do you is
it in sun or shade? Do you

427
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want? How big do you want
it to be? I thought about something

428
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like, what's it the bird of
Paradise? I think the Are you talking

429
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about the what's called redbird of Paradise
that's big orange and yellow flowers? Are

430
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you talking about the tropical one?
I don't know how to describe the blooms,

431
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but they're very, very unique.
Really, well, I need something

432
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to think on a freeze you know, unless we get super cold. Yeah,

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both of those can freeze back.
But why don't I email you the

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photos and you could all right,
yeah, let's send me a couple.

435
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But but get take some time,
you know, you or any of the

436
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family, gather a little meeting or
whatever and decide kind of what do you

437
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what do you want of this area? Because I mean, really, I

438
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could recommend a rose bush or I
could recommend another saga, and those are

439
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so two different plants that with a
very different effect. So give it as

440
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much, give me as much guidance
as you can. I'm gonna put you

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on hold and Josh will pick up
and give you the email. Thank you,

442
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:08.759
thank you for great thank you.
Hey. By the way, on

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that sego, uh, you might
just check and make sure there's not a

444
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pupp emerging from the bottom, because
sometimes you'll see the top die, but

445
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then some life still comes back out
of the base of the plant. Just

446
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make sure unless you already know you
don't want the saga. All right,

447
00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:29.640
yeah sir, there's a lot of
pubs coming out, but it looks terrible,

448
00:31:29.799 --> 00:31:32.079
Okay, all right, sounds good, Hey, I'm gonna put you

449
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on hold. Thank you very much
for that call. H We have a

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I will say a new new spongor
here, but one that's returning back to

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a garden line. It's Landscaper's Pride, you know. Landscaper's Pride has been

452
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around since so I don't know,
two thousand and two, so over twenty

453
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years now that they've been around.
They're local, uh in the Southeast Texas

454
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region. They are a top quality
resource provider. They have twenty seven different

455
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bag products. You can also buy
bulk from them. If you want to

456
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find the stores where you can get
them, you can just go to a

457
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Landscaperspride dot com Landscaperspride dot com and
they have, for example, a forty

458
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pound potting soil. It's a very
budget family, fully customizable potting soil.

459
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It's got age, pine bark,
sand, blended organics. You can use

460
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it as is or you can amend
it and to fit the needs of your

461
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garden. I think it's an excellent
product to use for seed starting. And

462
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now's the time to get your tomato
plants and your pepper plants and your egg

463
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plant plants transplants started. So if
you would like to do some seed starting.

464
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The forty pound potting saw bag from
Landscapers Pride is a great product for

465
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doing just that. I'm going to
head out now to West Houston and we're

466
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going to talk to Dave. Hello, Dave, Hey, how are you

467
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doing this morning? Well, I'm
doing well. What's up. I'm glad

468
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to hear that. Yeah. I
just bought some land in Ohio, probably

469
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about three quarters of an acre,
okay, And of course I'm going to

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be able to get back and forth
to maintain the grass and everything. I

471
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was hoping if I could find out
what can I get as a good year

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round ground covers. Nothing I can
do right now, but I can I

473
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can start it in the spring,
so I'll be ready for next you know,

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for for for the next year.
Are you are you talking about to

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cover the whole three quarters acre?
Yes? Are you planning on building on

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the site or no? No,
I'm not. I'm not going to do

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anything on it. But I know
when I was a kid, we had

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a neighbor and they had groundcover around
around their tree. It almost looked like

479
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holly, like like a Japanese jasmine
or something. I wanted to do something

480
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like that where it looks good,
but it didn't really take a lot of

481
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maintenance. And I don't know what
what this guy had, but it also

482
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had the leaves were kind of sharp, that real pretty deep green, but

483
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they were kind of sharp and point
yet they not thorn, but just to

484
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leave themselves right. And I know
what's talking about. So Ohio's a little

485
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too far away for me to speak
with accuracy and authority on. But the

486
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Ohio State University has the extension service
in Ohio, and they have an excellence

487
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there. If you go online,
their online materials are excellent, absolutely excellent.

488
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And you have a county extension office
in your county up there, and

489
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I would call them and give them
what you're wanting to accomplish. You're going

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to have a range of options from
maybe more of a meadow like grass material

491
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that could cover that. That'd be
the least expensive way to cover three quarters

492
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of an acre to going with a
groundcover like you're talking about. And they

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have a lot of options up there
that we don't have. Of course the

494
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opposite, it's also true, but
I would rather you go there and get

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a better answer than I'm going to
be able to give you from down here.

496
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But Ohio State University Extension and if
you do Ohio State University Extension and

497
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then horticulture, you'll get it'll get
you to what you want. Thank you

498
00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:14.760
very much. All right, thank
you. I appreciate that call. Yeah,

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it's you know, someone once said, I don't know, it sounds

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like something Mark Twain would say,
but half of being smart is knowing what

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00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:25.559
you're dumb at. I'm dumb at
the best groundcovers for Ohio. I just

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00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.760
I just am. I'm not going
to try to cover that one. But

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00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:34.760
I appreciate the call very much.
That's that's our goal here, is to

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00:35:34.760 --> 00:35:37.480
put you in touch with the good
answers of what you're looking for. Hey,

505
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:42.480
in Chenny Gardens and in Richmond,
Boy, they are still going strong

506
00:35:42.519 --> 00:35:46.079
out there. Just they didn't miss
a beat all winter. And it's just

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00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:49.840
the kind of place if you've never
been, you got to go just to

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00:35:49.880 --> 00:35:52.920
see it. But it's on FM
three fifty nine on the Katie Fulsher side

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of Richmond, so heading north,
it's Highway three fifty nine, FM three

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fifty nine in any gardens Richmond dot
com. Hey, when you're out there,

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I want you to check out some
of the unbelievably cool stuff that they

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have. For example, they have
got some beautiful petunias. You'd ask them

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about the supertunias. They are loaded
up. They are going to be carrying

514
00:36:19.280 --> 00:36:22.559
all of the proven winner's line this
year, and they have been in the

515
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:28.400
past. But the proven Winners.
There's one called Supertunya Vista. I've never

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00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:30.800
grown it. It's a jazzberry is
the name of the variety. I've grown

517
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:35.440
the bubble garment. Oh my gosh, I've never seen somebody balloons off a

518
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:38.960
tuna in my life. But Channa
guards asking about their Jazsberry petunia when they're

519
00:36:38.960 --> 00:36:42.480
going to be getting those in.
They may already have some in, probably

520
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:45.679
not quite yet, but when they
do, you want to get those and

521
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:49.480
check them out. Also, the
pink profusion salvia. Those two are just

522
00:36:50.199 --> 00:36:53.480
they're unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable. You
know, we're talking about the Garden Line

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all the time about different things you
can do to have success, and one

524
00:36:57.559 --> 00:37:02.239
of the important things is to pick
plants earth designed to perform super super Well,

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Hey, we're gonna take a break
seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four. If you'd like
to give us. A call kat r

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H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

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this program. Welcome to kat r
H Garden Line with Skip Richt. It's

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so crazy, Trim, just watch
him as so many supsic well. Good

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Saturday morning. There is a glow
in the eastern sky. We're about to

531
00:37:46.280 --> 00:37:50.480
get some daylight here, and is
this ever going to be a good day

532
00:37:50.519 --> 00:37:52.880
to get outside and get some stuff
done. That's a little chilly side,

533
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:57.000
but hey, it's easy to bundle
up. You know. One thing I

534
00:37:57.039 --> 00:38:00.440
always say is I like the cool
season because I know how to get warm.

535
00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:06.000
But when it comes to summer and
it's eight hundred and fifty two degrees

536
00:38:06.039 --> 00:38:10.760
outside, you know at some point
that taking off more clothes does not help.

537
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:16.559
And you're just out there dealing with
it, right, So let's appreciate

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the good weather while we got it
and enjoy it. And boy, is

539
00:38:20.239 --> 00:38:22.599
this ever a good time? Remember
I was talking earlier you on a plant

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00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:27.639
woody ornamentals. Now is the time
to get it done, bear root especially.

541
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We have a little window in January
early February where we get bear root

542
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:35.840
things done. Containers all the time, but now is an excellent time.

543
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.920
I would say, don't delay,
get it done. And I realize there's

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00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:43.400
a thing called spring fever, and
I wish I could put it in a

545
00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:47.559
bottle and bottle it up and use
it at other times of the year,

546
00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:52.760
because there are other times of the
year that are important for doing things.

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00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:58.280
For example, right now, you
go outside and spring fever hasn't quite hit

548
00:38:58.360 --> 00:39:01.840
people yet. It will and when
they do there, I don't know.

549
00:39:01.840 --> 00:39:07.239
I think there's some substance, some
spore in the air that affects our brains

550
00:39:07.360 --> 00:39:12.199
and we start to lose our minds. That's where you see people that you

551
00:39:12.239 --> 00:39:15.320
know go buy a flat of plants
and then they come home and walk around

552
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:16.719
the yard wondering where to put them. Is like, whoa, well,

553
00:39:16.800 --> 00:39:21.920
wait a minute, we got to
prepare our soul first. That's where you

554
00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:24.800
see people buying things that don't belong
here and not going to do well here.

555
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:29.679
Spring fever can cause us to do
some crazy things. It can also

556
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:32.599
be the most fun time of the
year. But put that spring fever that

557
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:37.280
we bottled up and apply a little
bit right now. Because to go out

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00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:44.079
on a day like today and to
plant a shrub, a rose maybe you

559
00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:45.639
want to put in a hedge.
Maybe you want to put in a tree,

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00:39:45.639 --> 00:39:47.960
a flowering tree, a small flowering
tree, or a shade tree or

561
00:39:47.960 --> 00:39:52.840
anything. Now is a good time
we should be having the fever now,

562
00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:59.079
because I would say this, it
is better to plant a woody ornamental now,

563
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:01.519
then it will be in March and
April. Now does that mean you

564
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:05.800
can't plan them. No, of
course you can plan them twelve months out

565
00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:08.559
of the year. But the sooner
the better. So why not get going

566
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:12.360
and get that thing rolling right now? And we've got a lot of good

567
00:40:12.360 --> 00:40:16.239
plants. Our garden centers are loading
up all kinds of supplies and whatnot.

568
00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:20.719
Oh by the way, I was
talking a while ago before we went to

569
00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:30.800
break. We were discussing some of
the things going on out at Enchanted Gardens,

570
00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:36.360
and I forgot to tell you they
are having a talk next Saturday,

571
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:40.400
John Penderella, local citrus and fruit
tree expert John Penderella is going to be

572
00:40:40.440 --> 00:40:45.559
out there in China Gardens on January
thirteenth, everything you need to know about

573
00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:50.519
planting and growing fruit trees with the
citrus fruit expert John Penzarella. So that's

574
00:40:50.559 --> 00:40:54.679
at ten o'clock. All they're programs
on Saturdays, and Enchanted Gardens is ten

575
00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:59.639
am, and so right when garden
Line ends, they're kicking it off there

576
00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:01.880
January thirteenth, So you want you
want to hear about that one, especially

577
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:06.960
if you're interested in growing citrus,
which I hope you are, because that's

578
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:14.480
a fun plant to grow. I
was using my kneeling bench, and you

579
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:17.039
probably heard me brag on them a
lot. The kneeling bench. I think

580
00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:21.480
it'll change your gardening life. It's
a wonderful old tool allows you to sit

581
00:41:21.559 --> 00:41:25.440
down and also to kneel down and
most importantly, to get back up when

582
00:41:25.480 --> 00:41:30.039
you've been kneeling down. It's a
really great tool for gardening that they have

583
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:36.519
out of Southwest Fertilizer. Kneeling benches
are just one of those things that needs

584
00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:39.280
to catch on even more. Because
for me, if I were to say

585
00:41:39.519 --> 00:41:43.039
someone were to say, okay,
I'm taking every tool you have away and

586
00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:46.480
I'm only going to leave you with
four, let's say, kneeling bench would

587
00:41:46.480 --> 00:41:51.400
be on that list for sure.
But Southwest Fertilizer they don't just have kneeling

588
00:41:51.440 --> 00:41:53.199
benches. They have every kind of
tool. You can imagine an eighty foot

589
00:41:53.239 --> 00:41:59.119
wall of tools. They have every
product that you would need for your garden,

590
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:04.920
from fertilizers to herbicides, to insecticides, to fungicides, to soil amendment

591
00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:08.559
products. Yes, they have those
two. They have a selection of herbs

592
00:42:08.559 --> 00:42:12.519
and veggies in the spring. All
the time, they've got those things coming

593
00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:15.639
in and it's just the kind of
place where you go. It's a one

594
00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:20.039
stop shop. You know, Bob's
been doing this for a good long time.

595
00:42:20.079 --> 00:42:23.239
I think a Southwest Fertilizer has been
around since nineteen fifty five. You

596
00:42:23.280 --> 00:42:28.599
can go to their website Southwest Fertilizer
dot com. They're on the corner of

597
00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:32.559
Bissina and Renwick in south west Houston. So as you're getting ready for spring,

598
00:42:32.679 --> 00:42:37.119
as you're getting ready to prepare your
soil to plant plants, do all

599
00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:42.880
of that, make sure you include
Southwest Fertilizer in your stops because if they

600
00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:45.639
don't have it, you don't need
it. That's it's as simple simple as

601
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:51.920
that. So we're talking about things
to be doing now in the garden,

602
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:57.199
things to be taking care of.
I'm actually propagating a bunch of plants that

603
00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:00.840
I have that are houseplants. I've
got some vining type, some houseplants that

604
00:43:00.039 --> 00:43:04.719
just kind of got long and lanky, so cutting those stems up, getting

605
00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:07.199
everywhere there's a node, like if
you have a pathos, that's the most

606
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:13.000
one of the most common houseplants there
is. Everywhere there's a node that a

607
00:43:13.119 --> 00:43:15.440
node means you got a vine where
the leaf coming off. Where the leaf

608
00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:19.880
comes off, that's a node.
When you put a node in contact with

609
00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:23.760
the soil surface, it's going to
form roots and you can create more plants

610
00:43:23.760 --> 00:43:27.360
from them. And I've been doing
that, have plants to give away and

611
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:30.239
just I don't know, use elsewhere
around the house. It's real easy to

612
00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:35.039
do, and it's fun to do
too. And if you never tried plant

613
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:37.639
propagating, I encourage you to try
it because it is a lot of fun.

614
00:43:37.679 --> 00:43:40.639
Do you have a fig tree that
you want to propagate, it's dormant

615
00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:44.800
right now. You can cut some
branches off, you can put them.

616
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:51.239
I put mine in a plastic ziplock
type bag in the frigerator with something to

617
00:43:51.320 --> 00:43:54.480
kind of keep a little bit of
moisture in there, just barely moist peat

618
00:43:54.679 --> 00:43:59.199
or sand or even I've even used
paper towels and they're just check it.

619
00:43:59.559 --> 00:44:02.079
Don't let it get moldy on you. But you can do that. You

620
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:06.239
can stick them in the ground and
put a cover over them to hold in

621
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:09.840
moisture. You can put them in
a container to start them rooting with a

622
00:44:09.880 --> 00:44:14.920
cover to hold in moisture, and
they root so easily. And you can

623
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:19.519
make extra plants from your fig tree
as well as almost any plant there is

624
00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:22.719
out there. There's one way or
another that we can be propagated again,

625
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:24.639
and it's a lot of fun to
do, and there's a lot of good

626
00:44:24.639 --> 00:44:28.760
free information online. I need to
put some stuff on my website, which,

627
00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:30.840
by the way, I've been saying
after the holidays we're going to build

628
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:36.079
that website out more and we are
in the process of doing that. And

629
00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:39.119
one of the things I'm going to
be getting up pretty soon is information on

630
00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:45.599
how to start plants from seeds for
the spring. So, for example,

631
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:49.599
now's the time to start tomatoes.
What is the best way to do it,

632
00:44:49.679 --> 00:44:52.920
What kind of media do you grow
them in, what kind of containers

633
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:54.400
do you need, bottom heat,
what kind of light. I'm going to

634
00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:58.239
go into a lot of information.
I'll tell you when that's up. It's

635
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:00.159
going to be really soon. Right
now, I'm gonna take a break.

636
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:05.119
It's seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. If you'd like

637
00:45:05.159 --> 00:45:07.599
to give us a call, you
can be on guard Line. We can

638
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:12.360
answer the questions that you might have. All Right, I got a little

639
00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:15.199
Bowling for Soup there for you today. Oh wait, this week. Uh,

640
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:19.639
these holiday seasons, I was,
of course hanging out with my kiddos,

641
00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:22.480
and which are all old now they're
not kiddos anymore. But okay,

642
00:45:23.039 --> 00:45:27.960
my children, my grown children.
We were talking about music, and my

643
00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:31.239
gosh, I learned more about music
from my kids than any other way.

644
00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:37.639
But we were discussing the Bowling for
Soup and some other groups from a little

645
00:45:37.639 --> 00:45:39.599
while back. Uh, you're listening
to garden Line. I'm your host,

646
00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:43.840
Skip Richter, and we're here to
talk not just music. We're here to

647
00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:46.000
talk about all things gardening. So
if you want to give us a call,

648
00:45:46.239 --> 00:45:51.960
our phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four

649
00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:55.599
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. You know, the

650
00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:00.840
December, as we get into holiday
seasons. He gives me a chance to

651
00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:04.800
kind of have some folks on the
show to interview, to talk about topics.

652
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:08.880
They're very knowledgeable about and also to
talk about some really good causes.

653
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:15.239
And there are some really good causes
out there. I know Randy when he

654
00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:19.159
was host for twenty seven years I
believe twenty six twenty seven years here on

655
00:46:19.239 --> 00:46:22.079
Garden Line, he talked about Camp
Hope for example, and I had the

656
00:46:22.079 --> 00:46:29.440
folks from Camp Hope on what an
important program. It's a PTSD foundation for

657
00:46:29.519 --> 00:46:32.719
combat veterans here in the area and
such a good deal. And I noticed

658
00:46:34.360 --> 00:46:38.039
back in no just around the holidays, the folks at Plants for All Seasons

659
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:42.320
had done a haul out there.
They took a whole bunch of things,

660
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:45.840
like I don't know. They had
vegetables and herbs and flowers, you know,

661
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:50.199
and some mulches and soils and materials
like that that helped them have a

662
00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:53.000
more beautiful garden out at Camp Hope. And I appreciate that. You know,

663
00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:58.599
the Plants for All Seasons is a
family owned and operated garden center.

664
00:46:58.639 --> 00:47:04.119
It's been around since nineteen seven three. If you need education, they have

665
00:47:04.320 --> 00:47:08.159
that. If you need to get
plants that will do well here, they

666
00:47:08.239 --> 00:47:12.960
have that. If you need diagnostics, what's this bug, what's this plant?

667
00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:16.000
What's wrong with this plant? They
can do that there too. It's

668
00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:20.440
a professional place, right, I
mean, we're talking about not just to

669
00:47:20.480 --> 00:47:23.559
fly by night. We're talking about
an established, family operated garden center that

670
00:47:24.159 --> 00:47:29.239
really serves the people, and that's
why it's so popular. People love Plants

671
00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:31.960
for All Seasons. It's on Highway
two forty nine, just north and Louetta

672
00:47:32.079 --> 00:47:37.039
Road. You can you can go
to their website Plants for All Seasons dot

673
00:47:37.079 --> 00:47:40.199
com, or you can just call
them two eight one, three five six

674
00:47:40.679 --> 00:47:45.639
sixteen forty six. And I can
tell you this, they are already stocking

675
00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.639
up, getting ready because spring is
coming. They still have plenty of good

676
00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:53.079
cool season things. But any day
you go out to Plants for All Seasons,

677
00:47:53.079 --> 00:47:58.400
you're going to find a great supply. And again maybe I will say

678
00:47:58.519 --> 00:48:02.320
most important, knowledgeable staff to help, and I really mean that. I

679
00:48:02.320 --> 00:48:06.719
mean a lot of places can sell
you a plant, but is it a

680
00:48:06.760 --> 00:48:08.440
good plant? And do they know
what they're talking about and can they help

681
00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:12.400
you have success with it. That's
the kind of thing I'm talking about.

682
00:48:13.000 --> 00:48:15.480
We're going to head out now to
Spring and talk to Genie. Hello,

683
00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:21.360
Jeannie, Well, good morning,
Skip, good morning. I'm calling to

684
00:48:21.440 --> 00:48:25.960
ask you a question about a green
pepper plant that I planted earlier in the

685
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:31.280
autumn, and it was growing just
fine, and then it began to develop

686
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:40.039
crenulated leaves and some I guess brown
areas. The plant continued to live and

687
00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:45.599
even sort of in a tortured way, produce flowers, but no more green

688
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:52.000
peppers. And I just wondered,
what's wrong with that plant? Did you

689
00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:58.679
email me about this? I did, and I sent two pictures of the

690
00:48:58.719 --> 00:49:04.719
plant, the affected plant U And
the leaves are there. They when the

691
00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:09.760
new leaves grow in, they're smaller, sort of dwarfed, okay, kind

692
00:49:09.800 --> 00:49:15.239
of, they get little ridges in
them. Yeah, I'm trying to find

693
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:22.320
your email. Oh it was found
on December seventeenth. Yeah, can you

694
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:25.400
give me part of the email address? Genie's not popping up anything. Oh

695
00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:30.519
okay, well I'm on the air. Well, you don't have to give

696
00:49:30.519 --> 00:49:32.519
me the hole. I'll tell you
what I do remember seeing a pepper plant

697
00:49:32.800 --> 00:49:37.320
and some of the growth it was
like strappy and streaky and not well formed.

698
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:45.599
Exactly what that was, Genie is
broad mites? Broad mites? Yeah,

699
00:49:45.599 --> 00:49:50.119
I think I replied to you telling
you it was a type of mite.

700
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:54.239
If it's the one, I'm thinking
about Okay, I didn't get that

701
00:49:54.440 --> 00:50:01.199
answer, only the instructions to phone. Okay, but how would I treat

702
00:50:01.280 --> 00:50:05.039
for that? Well, broad mites
are a little bit of a problem.

703
00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:09.559
Number one, peppers are not perennials
here, so you're going to plant new

704
00:50:09.599 --> 00:50:13.920
peppers next year, and you may
not have broad mites next year. They

705
00:50:13.920 --> 00:50:15.840
may not. They don't just attack
peppers, they attack on the plants.

706
00:50:16.199 --> 00:50:21.559
They can cause fruit to be scarred
and have a kind of brown, scruffy

707
00:50:21.679 --> 00:50:25.440
surface to them, but they also
cause damage to the blooms and damage to

708
00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:30.320
the growth trying to come out.
And so things that control mites would be

709
00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:34.480
things like in sex tidal soap.
Some horticultural oil sprays can be helpful,

710
00:50:35.159 --> 00:50:37.360
but you don't want to use those
in the super hot, hot weather.

711
00:50:38.119 --> 00:50:43.719
But that, yeah, that's it. There's not a real good, you

712
00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:45.920
know, like a poison that you
would put out. Those products work more

713
00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:51.800
by coating the mites. And the
problem with controlling them is the mites are

714
00:50:51.840 --> 00:50:55.440
tiny and they hide in nooks and
crannies, and so it's almost impossible to

715
00:50:55.559 --> 00:51:00.199
get your sprays into the right spot. Right. Yeah, contact, the

716
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:05.239
contact control does not function well,
well, it's hard to get good.

717
00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:09.039
Yea, but oh yeah, that
will help. But pull those out,

718
00:51:09.079 --> 00:51:13.440
get them out of there, and
next year when you put peppers in,

719
00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:15.960
you may not have the problem.
And then again they could come back again.

720
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:19.119
They may have come with the plants, they may not have they may

721
00:51:19.280 --> 00:51:22.440
come you know, I sort of
suspect they're right about that. Yeah,

722
00:51:22.639 --> 00:51:25.360
okay, So the other question I
had real quick, if you have a

723
00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:32.079
moment, is I have been loving
the results of seating my lawn with rye

724
00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:37.800
grass in October, and I have
a beautiful lawn now and the rye grass

725
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:44.400
actually flourishes far longer and even past
the spring into the summer, and I

726
00:51:44.480 --> 00:51:46.920
love the look. I do have
a weed issue, though, and I

727
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:53.519
wanted to know if I apply a
pre emergent such as barricade, will I

728
00:51:53.679 --> 00:51:59.559
frustrate or stop the germination of the
rye seats, which kind of seems to

729
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:04.079
go on continuously. No, it
won't. Barricade will be broken down by

730
00:52:04.119 --> 00:52:08.400
the time next fall arrives and rye
grass would be planted or received or whatever.

731
00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:13.960
One. What do you recommend I
applied barricade since I am currently enjoying

732
00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:16.599
a beautiful green lawn. Yeah,
so we put our pre emergence out here

733
00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:22.960
sometime between mid January and the end
of February. You want to be ahead

734
00:52:22.199 --> 00:52:28.440
of the weed germination. And not
all weeds germinated exactly the same time,

735
00:52:28.519 --> 00:52:30.559
so if you wait a little too
long, you may control some weeds,

736
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:34.280
but not all of them because you
miss the boat on some. So I

737
00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:38.000
would say probably the end of this
month early next month would be primetime to

738
00:52:38.039 --> 00:52:42.519
get those out. You could go
a little later into February and it would

739
00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:46.320
be just fine. Those products last
for a while before they break down and

740
00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:51.599
no longer are doing what they do. One thing to remember though, about

741
00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:54.800
the rye grass you mentioned. You
use the term weed rye grass to Saint

742
00:52:54.800 --> 00:53:00.400
Augustine as a weed. So as
the Saint Augustine is trying to wake up

743
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:05.079
in the spring as the weather warms
up, my grass is growing like gangbusters

744
00:53:05.079 --> 00:53:09.679
still, and so it's like you
put weeds all through your lawn to compete

745
00:53:09.719 --> 00:53:15.119
with your grass for sunlight, water
and nutrients. So that's okay. We

746
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:21.559
do go through that transitioning to a
winter cover lawn and so on. But

747
00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:25.320
I would recommend when you do get
ready to mow, and I'd say probably

748
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:30.679
by the time, oh man around
here, sometime in March, late March.

749
00:53:31.199 --> 00:53:37.559
I would go ahead and mow really
low, and then do your fertilizing

750
00:53:37.519 --> 00:53:43.239
according to the schedule that I have
online, and try to knock that rye

751
00:53:43.239 --> 00:53:46.159
grass back and let the Saint Augustine
get some sunlight, because Saint Augustine's good

752
00:53:46.159 --> 00:53:51.360
at growing low and flat rye grass
sumants to come straight up. And so

753
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:55.679
get that light to your Saint Augustine
so that you don't stress it. What

754
00:53:55.800 --> 00:54:00.119
good advice. I will do that. Thank you so much. Skip all

755
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:04.000
right, Jeannie, thank you for
the call. You're welcome, Bye bye,

756
00:54:05.400 --> 00:54:08.480
all right. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two five

757
00:54:08.559 --> 00:54:15.280
eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. I

758
00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:17.199
was over the holidays. I had
a lot of time to putter around the

759
00:54:17.239 --> 00:54:22.519
house and yard and got a few
things done, got my garden cleaned up,

760
00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:25.760
my vegetable garden cleaned up. I
still had okra stalks left over from

761
00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:30.679
last year for some okra breeding that
I was doing out there. I got

762
00:54:30.679 --> 00:54:34.199
that all cleaned up, and uh
taking care of the plants that are up

763
00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:37.360
and growing now. I got a
nice little set of strawberries coming on already

764
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:42.360
starting to produce fruit, just beginning
the blooms, little tiny fruits had formed

765
00:54:42.360 --> 00:54:46.480
before I uh, by the end
last week. But anyway, while I

766
00:54:46.519 --> 00:54:50.719
was outside, I was looking at
my bird feeders and just thinking, you

767
00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:55.480
know, it's time to get restocked
on my seed because I'm running low on

768
00:54:55.800 --> 00:55:00.800
a couple of things. While Birds
Unlimited has the Winter Super and that's the

769
00:55:00.840 --> 00:55:04.559
one I like the most for the
winter time. And the reason is it's

770
00:55:04.599 --> 00:55:08.760
really loaded with the fats and proteins
that the birds need at this time of

771
00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:14.519
the year. And the Winter Super
Blend at Wildbirds is a high quality feed.

772
00:55:14.559 --> 00:55:17.639
It's not going to have a lot
of waste, and you're just you're

773
00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:21.559
going to get the most bang for
your buck to buy cheap bird seed that's

774
00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:24.239
full of those little red bebes.
Just know this, the birds kick the

775
00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:27.960
red bebes on the ground. They
don't like to eat them. They would

776
00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:31.440
rather not eat that. And so
when you buy a quality blend from Wildbirds,

777
00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:36.360
well you see what I'm talking about. Also, bluebirds are going to

778
00:55:36.400 --> 00:55:39.000
start looking now for their nest boxes. So if you want to have bluebirds,

779
00:55:39.079 --> 00:55:42.880
or if you have bluebirds and you
want to keep them going. Get

780
00:55:42.880 --> 00:55:45.480
a box up now, and if
you go buy wild Birds you can find

781
00:55:45.519 --> 00:55:49.880
out more about bird houses, bird
feeders, bird seeds. They've got it

782
00:55:49.960 --> 00:55:52.639
all. Purple Martins are going to
start returning in February. So would you

783
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:57.280
love to have purple Martins. Pick
out a spot, get a nice Purple

784
00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:00.280
Martin pole up there in the sky
and if you build it, they will

785
00:56:00.280 --> 00:56:04.960
come. And that's how it works. And Wildbirds folks can help you find

786
00:56:05.159 --> 00:56:10.679
exactly the products and give you the
advice on how to use them that you

787
00:56:10.800 --> 00:56:15.360
need. Got six wild Birds stores
around the greater Houston area. Just go

788
00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:21.280
to WBU dot com forward slash Houston
find the stores near you. Well,

789
00:56:21.559 --> 00:56:24.199
here we are again, time for
another nicky break. Nicky is you know

790
00:56:24.239 --> 00:56:28.039
news is happening all the time,
and it is We can rest and that

791
00:56:28.119 --> 00:56:31.079
your finger is on the pulse of
everything that's happening news wise that we need

792
00:56:31.119 --> 00:56:35.920
to know. And most importantly we
have to thank Joe because he's on top

793
00:56:35.960 --> 00:56:38.639
of the traffic and we keep having
problems. So we'll update that. How

794
00:56:38.639 --> 00:56:43.920
can we have traffic problems? This
is Houston, I know, yes,

795
00:56:43.960 --> 00:56:45.440
on a weekend. All right,
folks will be right back seven one three

796
00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:52.480
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to the Garden Line.

797
00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:55.840
Glad to have you listening today.
Our phone number is seven one three two

798
00:56:57.079 --> 00:57:04.159
one two five eight seven four.
Having won three eight seventy four, Let's

799
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:07.239
head out to the phones now and
we're going to go to Cypress and talk

800
00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:09.920
to Joe. Good morning, Joe, Yes, sir, how are you.

801
00:57:10.159 --> 00:57:15.400
I'm well, Thanks, got a
question, a few questions for you.

802
00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:21.599
I'm a new homeowner buyer in the
Cypress area and the whole area.

803
00:57:21.800 --> 00:57:30.480
The subdivision I'm in is Permuta grass. I have been I've hired a company

804
00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:35.960
to come out to do all the
fertilizing for me every month of things that

805
00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:40.320
need if to put down. Okay, the grass has been doing better this

806
00:57:40.519 --> 00:57:45.039
year, this past year than the
past two years. But my question is

807
00:57:46.000 --> 00:57:51.559
I did have it top dressed and
aerate it last year. I'm getting some

808
00:57:51.719 --> 00:57:58.199
areas that it just still doesn't look
right. It looks it's like thinned out.

809
00:57:59.199 --> 00:58:00.119
I've asked the company and me and
they, you know, they told

810
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:01.840
me, hey, you just got
to give it some time. Give it

811
00:58:01.880 --> 00:58:06.599
some time, it'll it'll fill in. It's not doing that. Is there

812
00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:12.679
another company that you could recommend it
can give me a second opinion. I

813
00:58:12.719 --> 00:58:20.559
don't know if I'm I'm not sure
if I'm have larger expectations and like what

814
00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:23.679
what what I'm trying to achieve.
I'd like a more tighter like a golf

815
00:58:23.719 --> 00:58:30.000
course. Look, I am moaning
with a real mower, with the McClain

816
00:58:30.119 --> 00:58:34.280
mower, so I can go as
low as I need to go. I'm

817
00:58:34.320 --> 00:58:38.719
backed that off because I thought maybe
I was going too low. So it's

818
00:58:38.840 --> 00:58:45.559
just, uh, it's not filling
in in certain areas the way that I

819
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:52.199
would like it to. I guess, Okay, do you have any information

820
00:58:52.280 --> 00:58:55.039
that you could, you know,
provide me or someone else. Well,

821
00:58:55.079 --> 00:58:59.199
let's let's let's talk about a little
bit. As far as companies. I

822
00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:06.760
don't keep up with all the lawn
care companies that serve whatever particular areas I

823
00:59:06.760 --> 00:59:10.800
would. One thing I'd recommend you
do is go online to my website where

824
00:59:10.800 --> 00:59:15.320
I have a free online lawn care
schedule. Post it, and that at

825
00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:19.559
least will get you and the idea
of when things ought to be happening now.

826
00:59:19.639 --> 00:59:22.159
Some companies know what they're doing and
they do a good job. Some

827
00:59:22.199 --> 00:59:25.199
of them say they know what they're
doing, but they don't. And that's

828
00:59:25.280 --> 00:59:29.760
just how it is with any business, right. So if you go to

829
00:59:29.800 --> 00:59:35.880
that schedule, it's at gardening with
Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip dot

830
00:59:35.920 --> 00:59:38.360
com, you can find the lawn
care schedule. There's also a past disease

831
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:42.679
and weed management schedule that tells you
when you need to have a pre emerging

832
00:59:42.760 --> 00:59:45.639
out in that lawn if you're going
to do that, for example, And

833
00:59:45.679 --> 00:59:49.679
it gives you lists of products.
And I know the companies they are probably

834
00:59:49.760 --> 00:59:52.239
going to have the own. They're
already kind of sold out to one product.

835
00:59:52.239 --> 00:59:54.159
That's what they're going to use,
that's what they like, and that

836
00:59:54.360 --> 00:59:59.039
that's fine. But anyway, those
those lists at least will kind of help

837
00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:02.679
you. It would be helpful to
know what variety of bermuda grass you have.

838
01:00:04.639 --> 01:00:09.159
It's probably a semi dwarf. That
would be the kind that's used on

839
01:00:09.280 --> 01:00:15.159
golf fairways and football fields. Not
the kind of God. Not to interrupt

840
01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:19.840
you, is it zeusha? Is
that the way you pronounce it is that

841
01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:23.400
a type Zuysia is a different species. So we're here in the south,

842
01:00:23.519 --> 01:00:28.960
in this area, we have Saint
Augustine Zusia and Bermuda grass. Those are

843
01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:35.679
the three primary long grasses that we
bermuda. Yeah, I'm not even sure

844
01:00:35.719 --> 01:00:40.400
what it is. Is it Zeusha
or is it the Bermuda? Well,

845
01:00:44.960 --> 01:00:47.159
you know, I can't tell you. What I could do is I can

846
01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:52.199
put you on hold uh and if
you'll take a picture of it up close,

847
01:00:52.480 --> 01:00:55.079
put your fingers or a tensil or
something in the picture so I can

848
01:00:55.159 --> 01:00:59.800
get a good view of it.
Let me see the lawn and then get

849
01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:04.840
real close with something that shows me
exactly how big the grass blades are in

850
01:01:04.920 --> 01:01:08.000
terms of width and whatnot. I
can tell you whether it's always your Bermuda

851
01:01:08.000 --> 01:01:12.199
grass if you can get up real
close and show them kind of partly part

852
01:01:12.280 --> 01:01:15.360
the grass bag. It kind of
doesn't matter though in relation to your question,

853
01:01:15.639 --> 01:01:20.119
because both of them are going to
benefit from a real type mower.

854
01:01:20.760 --> 01:01:23.599
The shorter the shorter you mow,
the more often you have to mow.

855
01:01:24.519 --> 01:01:30.239
Because our goal and cutting the lawn
is to cut one third of the grass

856
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:36.000
blade off when we mow. So
if you to use an extreme, if

857
01:01:36.039 --> 01:01:38.639
you were letting it be at three
inches, you would cut it to two

858
01:01:38.679 --> 01:01:42.880
inches. That's one third. But
if you said it at one inch,

859
01:01:43.039 --> 01:01:45.639
you're going to cut it to two
thirds of an inch, you know what

860
01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:49.199
I'm saying. And so how long
does it take to only grow two thirds

861
01:01:49.199 --> 01:01:52.639
of an inch? Not very long, And so so you mow more often,

862
01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:57.280
and bozoisia and bermuda look best when
they're mode right. In fact,

863
01:01:57.320 --> 01:02:01.360
the three most important lawn care practices
are are mowing, watering, and fertilizing,

864
01:02:01.880 --> 01:02:07.400
And I would say of those three
as important. Water and fertilizer,

865
01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:12.119
those are very very important. But
I think mowing is where most people don't

866
01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:16.119
do a good job, and a
sharp mowing regularly will do more for making

867
01:02:16.199 --> 01:02:21.000
a dense, beautiful lawn than just
about anything you can do, Yes,

868
01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:24.440
sir, Okay, yeah, I'm
doing that. I'm one to two times

869
01:02:24.440 --> 01:02:28.079
a week. I'm hitting it.
You know, it's a very small yard.

870
01:02:28.239 --> 01:02:31.679
Yeah, so I don't have an
issue doing that. It's just I

871
01:02:31.719 --> 01:02:37.119
wanted to fill in a little bit
more. Yeah, it has at times,

872
01:02:37.119 --> 01:02:40.920
and then it gets it looks like
it gets stressed or weak around like

873
01:02:40.920 --> 01:02:46.480
the sidewalk areas. So I've heard
of like heat from the concrete that possibly

874
01:02:46.480 --> 01:02:53.159
does that. So yeah, you
know these unfortunately we're kind of dealing with

875
01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:58.679
a lot of generalities, and so
it's hard to be real accurate and specific.

876
01:02:59.519 --> 01:03:01.440
I would say, let's focus on
number one, let's figure out what

877
01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:06.440
kind of grass you have. Number
three, Let's make sure you're you're taking

878
01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:10.559
care of it according to the schedule
that is designed to coincide with the grasses

879
01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:15.280
development through the year, and we
development through the year. Uh. And

880
01:03:15.320 --> 01:03:19.360
then if you run into issues,
you can take pictures, send them to

881
01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:22.840
me, and then call in the
guarden line them. Because of volume and

882
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:27.880
time constraints, I'm not able to
type out answers to questions people say.

883
01:03:28.559 --> 01:03:34.599
I mean, I'm out numbered here
six million to one in the house scenario.

884
01:03:34.920 --> 01:03:37.320
But if you if you send me
a picture and then call in,

885
01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:40.639
that gives me a better chance of
giving you an accurate answer because I've seen

886
01:03:40.679 --> 01:03:45.760
it. Okay, and then you
want me to send it to the email

887
01:03:45.800 --> 01:03:49.000
address. Yeah, I'll put you
well, I'm gonna put you on hold,

888
01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:51.679
and Josh will give you an email
to send it to. Okay,

889
01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:57.079
Okay, all right, all right, and I do appreciate your Yeah,

890
01:03:57.320 --> 01:04:00.000
do that and we'll take it from
there. Just know that both of those

891
01:04:00.039 --> 01:04:04.559
grasses Bermuda and Zoezia. In fact, all the three of the grasses are

892
01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:09.800
there's one half asleep right now,
So no matter what you do, you're

893
01:04:09.800 --> 01:04:14.480
not going to see immediate results.
Right. One last question as far as

894
01:04:14.519 --> 01:04:19.239
top dressing or ariating. If I
top dressed last year, is it okay

895
01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:26.000
to do it again this year an
area? And if I use it like

896
01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:30.039
a compost last year, can I
just use sand this year to get it

897
01:04:30.440 --> 01:04:33.840
totally levels while I'm trying to achieve
Yes, sand would be better. A

898
01:04:34.000 --> 01:04:42.360
sand or a very quality loamy soil
would be best for leveling because the top

899
01:04:42.440 --> 01:04:45.880
dress, the quality compost top dress, which is good, it decopius a

900
01:04:45.920 --> 01:04:51.199
way, so it doesn't really stay
as a long term leveling agent. But

901
01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:55.239
the sand or, I would say, a quality loamy soil if you can

902
01:04:55.320 --> 01:04:59.119
find it, would okay, Okay, Hey, I got to run right,

903
01:04:59.280 --> 01:05:00.599
run for I'll put you on hold, Joe. Just hang on and

904
01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:05.320
Josh will pick up our phone number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

905
01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:11.440
seventy four. I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden line. Boy,

906
01:05:11.519 --> 01:05:14.639
is it a beautiful day? Look
outside right now, don't quite listen

907
01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:17.119
to the radio, just just look
out the window. It is gorgeous,

908
01:05:17.840 --> 01:05:23.599
absolutely perfect day to get outside and
do some of the things we're talking about

909
01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:26.039
right now. In fact, if
you don't want to go outside, there's

910
01:05:26.079 --> 01:05:29.840
things you can do inside. Now's
the time to start tomato plants and pepper

911
01:05:29.880 --> 01:05:33.440
plants and eggplant plants. You can
grow them out. I grow mine.

912
01:05:33.519 --> 01:05:38.920
I actually start pretty early on them
because I'll grow them out and when you

913
01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:42.320
know, most people would put them
out in the little six pack size or

914
01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:45.599
maybe a four inch pot size,
I'll grow mine up to even a bigger

915
01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:48.159
pot than that. Just keep bumping
them up into a bigger container and they

916
01:05:48.199 --> 01:05:51.599
may have fruit on them by the
time they get planted out, when it's

917
01:05:51.639 --> 01:05:56.079
safe to go outside and plant them. It gives you a head start.

918
01:05:56.440 --> 01:05:59.960
Why is that important? Well,
number one, Most importantly, it gives

919
01:06:00.079 --> 01:06:03.039
you're bragging rights. It's all your
gardening friends to have the fresh, first

920
01:06:03.159 --> 01:06:06.880
fresh tomato of the season. Okay, maybe that's not number one, but

921
01:06:06.920 --> 01:06:12.880
that's one of them. But more
importantly, we have a short season here

922
01:06:13.360 --> 01:06:15.559
now we have a long growing season
twelve months out of the year. We're

923
01:06:15.599 --> 01:06:21.280
growing stuff in the Southeast Texas region. But when it comes to tomatoes,

924
01:06:21.840 --> 01:06:26.719
there is the last average frost date, and that's about when we try to

925
01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:30.760
plant, just to be on the
average a good time to plant. But

926
01:06:30.800 --> 01:06:33.719
then summer comes and once temperatures in
the daytime are in the nineties and the

927
01:06:33.920 --> 01:06:39.400
night times are up above seventy two
or so, even as you get up

928
01:06:39.440 --> 01:06:43.800
there, it begins then to not
set fruit. The tomato plant does not

929
01:06:43.920 --> 01:06:46.840
set fruit as well, especially the
large slicer types. So when that kind

930
01:06:46.880 --> 01:06:53.239
of thing happens, you are that's
the end of your large slice or tomato

931
01:06:53.320 --> 01:06:57.079
season. So there's a start and
to finish, and those aren't that far

932
01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:00.679
apart. And if you grow varieties
take a long long time, like brandywine,

933
01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:05.000
for example, it's hard to get
them in with a good crop before

934
01:07:05.039 --> 01:07:10.719
they stop producing. By starting with
a larger plant and getting as early of

935
01:07:10.719 --> 01:07:14.599
a start as you can, even
with some coal protection, you increase the

936
01:07:14.639 --> 01:07:18.360
productive time that your tomato patch can
have, or your tomato plant can have.

937
01:07:18.880 --> 01:07:23.199
And so that's one reason why we
like I like to start early and

938
01:07:21.880 --> 01:07:26.400
even have a little bit bigger plant
as we go. And if you don't

939
01:07:26.400 --> 01:07:30.159
grow your own just you can buy
tomato plants. Typically they're for sale too

940
01:07:30.199 --> 01:07:33.320
early to take them out and plant
them. But you know, unless you're

941
01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:36.480
a gambler, but buy them,
bump them up, put them in a

942
01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:40.840
bigger pot, keep growing, keep
going until it is time to get them

943
01:07:40.840 --> 01:07:45.239
out there. Just something something to
think about, you know. I was

944
01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:51.239
looking at some landscape jobs that were
done around the Houston area and some of

945
01:07:51.280 --> 01:07:58.679
the materials that just really transform a
landscape. And I'm talking about hard scapes

946
01:07:58.760 --> 01:08:03.519
and drainways, like a rock riverbed
to drain away excess water. You can

947
01:08:03.599 --> 01:08:09.000
turn that into a beautiful landscape feature
by planting plants that like to grow in

948
01:08:09.039 --> 01:08:12.800
areas that tend to stay a little
wet at times. How about flagstone for

949
01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:15.800
a pathway. One of the changes
I'm going to make in my landscape this

950
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:21.279
year is putting out kind of a
flagstone patio area with some decomposed granite.

951
01:08:21.800 --> 01:08:26.479
Probably use decomposed granite in between the
stones. There's other things you can use.

952
01:08:27.159 --> 01:08:30.760
And Ciena Moltch has that now I
know. The name is Ciena Maultch

953
01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:32.359
and Body. They ever have molts. In fact, they had a lot

954
01:08:32.359 --> 01:08:35.159
of stuff you probably didn't know they
have. They have ever fertilizer I talk

955
01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:40.079
about on Guardline. They've got gardening
tools, They've got gardening supplies, they

956
01:08:40.119 --> 01:08:43.840
have molts, they do have compost. Of course, they deliver within about

957
01:08:43.840 --> 01:08:47.960
twenty miles of their area. They're
on FM five twenty one north of Roch.

958
01:08:47.960 --> 01:08:51.560
Sharon Ciena. Multch dot com is
a website. But boy, they

959
01:08:51.560 --> 01:08:57.640
have rock. They have flagstone,
all kinds of rock for decoration and for

960
01:08:57.720 --> 01:09:01.359
creating those beautiful outdoor hardscape. They've
got it all at Siena Mulch. Just

961
01:09:01.439 --> 01:09:05.520
go to Siena Mulch dot com,
find out more about them, and start

962
01:09:05.560 --> 01:09:11.039
planning that beautiful upgrade to your landscape. We're going to head out now to

963
01:09:11.239 --> 01:09:15.800
Marty and Fairfield. Hello Marty,
morning skit, Happy new year, welcome

964
01:09:15.840 --> 01:09:19.000
back. We've missed you. I
missed be in here. How are you

965
01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:25.720
doing? Oh I'm fine. Hey, I have my dollar weed. I've

966
01:09:25.840 --> 01:09:30.119
been doing all the barricade and everything, and it has come back this winter

967
01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:36.560
at in a vengeance. And I
I've read online what you you know,

968
01:09:36.680 --> 01:09:41.600
what you recommended and stuff like that. But should I just leave it?

969
01:09:41.720 --> 01:09:46.680
Love is stay green and dissipate on
its own. I guess I'm tired of

970
01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:53.239
fighting it. Well, everybody has
a different tolerance for weeds. Some people

971
01:09:53.479 --> 01:09:57.640
don't care. They mow and ignore
them and they still have green weeds.

972
01:09:57.640 --> 01:10:00.680
Are green lawns green, so hey, I'm not worried about that, right,

973
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:03.840
So that's one approach. The other
person on the end of the spectrum.

974
01:10:04.079 --> 01:10:09.560
Rather they've got to have like no
weed anywhere inside in my lawn.

975
01:10:09.800 --> 01:10:13.880
Well, that comes at a cost
of doing some weed control. There are

976
01:10:14.000 --> 01:10:15.840
things that will control dollar weed.
You just have to stay with it.

977
01:10:16.239 --> 01:10:21.000
But first step if you're wanting to
reduce your dollar weed is to reduce the

978
01:10:21.039 --> 01:10:28.199
amount of excess soul moisture. If
the area stays wet, dollar weed proliferates.

979
01:10:28.279 --> 01:10:30.760
If it gets a little on the
dry side, your grass is still

980
01:10:30.800 --> 01:10:34.600
okay, but the dollar weed won't
proliferate, and it's easier to fight it.

981
01:10:38.039 --> 01:10:42.920
Okay, Well I'm back, I've
yeah, Okay, I understand that

982
01:10:42.960 --> 01:10:48.039
part of it, and I am
going to be very diligent about cutting back

983
01:10:48.079 --> 01:10:53.000
on the watering because I had a
lot of that other grass that grows in

984
01:10:53.039 --> 01:10:57.520
the wet area. But I didn't
know if I thought. I had used

985
01:10:57.600 --> 01:11:03.279
image last year and it did really
well, but it has come back just

986
01:11:04.479 --> 01:11:09.760
I mean, I don't even see
the grass. Yeah, wow, okay,

987
01:11:09.760 --> 01:11:13.680
well that's serious. Well there's a
couple of products that I think you

988
01:11:14.199 --> 01:11:17.000
might want to consider. There's actually
three different ones. I'll just throw them

989
01:11:17.000 --> 01:11:19.840
out there. One is Celsius.
That's a little harder to find, but

990
01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:26.920
it does work pretty well. Celsius
like the temperature. Bonnight has one called

991
01:11:27.000 --> 01:11:31.640
weed Beater Ultra. Weed Beater Ultra
that works well on post emergent control of

992
01:11:31.680 --> 01:11:35.800
weeds, including dollar weed. And
then Fertilum has their weed Free Zone.

993
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:41.000
Those are three examples. Now,
you're up in the Fairfield area, so

994
01:11:41.119 --> 01:11:44.399
you're a little bit of a distance
to go down to Southwest Fertilizer. But

995
01:11:44.399 --> 01:11:46.920
if you're ever gonna head down that
way, Bob is going to have every

996
01:11:46.920 --> 01:11:51.840
one of these and more, and
he can he can provide provide those for

997
01:11:51.920 --> 01:11:55.520
you. But you're gonna be able
to find those in a number of different

998
01:11:55.560 --> 01:11:58.600
areas and up in the up in
your area. You know, you're not

999
01:11:58.720 --> 01:12:01.520
that far away from some great nurseries
that will carry those as well. Yeah,

1000
01:12:01.560 --> 01:12:05.359
and I know the arbor Gate has
several of them. So okay,

1001
01:12:05.680 --> 01:12:11.359
all right, Well, I just
I didn't know why it just the barricade,

1002
01:12:11.439 --> 01:12:14.960
nothing seems to be working. The
image did work on it, and

1003
01:12:15.000 --> 01:12:18.560
it didn't ruin the ground. Yeah, the grass it looked really pretty this

1004
01:12:18.640 --> 01:12:21.960
summer, but it's now it's just
really for a little bit. Well,

1005
01:12:23.000 --> 01:12:27.239
apparently you knocked it back but didn't
kill it. And so you just have

1006
01:12:27.319 --> 01:12:30.640
to do the cultural things first.
Let it dry out, and then the

1007
01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:34.560
more you can do to dollar weed
before it gets hot, the better your

1008
01:12:34.560 --> 01:12:40.439
options are. Okay, so as
it begins to warm up, but before

1009
01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:44.720
the temperatures get above eighty five degree
and the upper upper eighties, for example,

1010
01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:48.239
try to get most of your dollar
weed controlled done by then, and

1011
01:12:48.279 --> 01:12:53.079
then you can do the image and
whatnot. But yeah, I think that'd

1012
01:12:53.079 --> 01:12:56.520
be the key to success. Okay, oh okay, all right, great,

1013
01:12:56.560 --> 01:12:59.760
thank you so much. All right, thank you. I appreciate appreciate

1014
01:12:59.760 --> 01:13:04.880
your very much very much. So
let's see here we are. We're going

1015
01:13:04.960 --> 01:13:09.600
to have to take a break here
pretty quick. Sandy and Cyprus and Hurta.

1016
01:13:09.760 --> 01:13:12.560
We're going to come to you first
when we come back. If you'd

1017
01:13:12.600 --> 01:13:15.920
like to be on guardline, ask
a question. The phone number is seven

1018
01:13:15.960 --> 01:13:21.560
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Let's see, oh I

1019
01:13:21.600 --> 01:13:27.039
got a couple of seconds left that
I can talk here. I do want

1020
01:13:27.039 --> 01:13:30.119
to mention if you haven't gone online
and found my lawn care schedule and my

1021
01:13:30.239 --> 01:13:35.720
lawn pest disease and WEAD management schedule, you should do that. Here's the

1022
01:13:35.760 --> 01:13:45.000
website gardening with Skip that's me gardeningwiskip
dot com. On that site you're going

1023
01:13:45.079 --> 01:13:48.800
to find both lawn schedules. The
lawn care schedule which is mowing, watering,

1024
01:13:48.840 --> 01:13:54.000
and fertilizing. So if you're wondering
when do I fertilize and what do

1025
01:13:54.079 --> 01:13:58.319
I use, it's on the schedule. If you're wondering about any kind of

1026
01:13:58.359 --> 01:14:00.920
information on better mowinger, I said, mow, water, fertilized is the

1027
01:14:00.960 --> 01:14:04.600
three most important things you do to
your lawn, and I would say mowing

1028
01:14:04.720 --> 01:14:09.680
may be the single most important thing
you do to your lawn if you want

1029
01:14:09.680 --> 01:14:12.680
to have a dense, beautiful,
healthy lawn. It's always good to water

1030
01:14:12.760 --> 01:14:15.319
when we need it. Of course, it's essential when you have to have

1031
01:14:15.399 --> 01:14:19.600
it. Fertilizing helps promote growth and
density. Mowing though, that's where most

1032
01:14:19.640 --> 01:14:25.359
people they get off on their mowing
schedule. And what about diseases and insects

1033
01:14:25.359 --> 01:14:28.119
and weeds. Well, that's on
the other schedule, and the products you

1034
01:14:28.159 --> 01:14:33.520
need both organic and synthetic for both
of these schedules. Katie r H Garden

1035
01:14:33.520 --> 01:14:40.600
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

1036
01:14:40.640 --> 01:14:46.000
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line
with Skip Richter. It's so crazy

1037
01:14:53.199 --> 01:15:04.399
just watch him as the things to
Welcome back to garden Line. We're glad

1038
01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:09.760
you're listening today talking to all kinds
of things gardening. I was talking earlier

1039
01:15:09.760 --> 01:15:15.039
about the importance of getting your woody
ornamentals planted soon. I know roses are

1040
01:15:15.159 --> 01:15:17.720
for Valentine's Day, right, Well, you can plan them now. It

1041
01:15:17.760 --> 01:15:20.439
e can be better to plant them
now than to wait until Valentine's Day.

1042
01:15:20.479 --> 01:15:24.039
Both are okay. You can plan
a rose twelve months out of the year.

1043
01:15:24.399 --> 01:15:27.159
Why do I get it done?
When it comes to trees, for

1044
01:15:27.199 --> 01:15:31.520
example, RCW Nursery up there,
they're the nursery where about Way eight comes

1045
01:15:31.560 --> 01:15:36.880
into Highway two forty nine tom Ball
Parkway. Rcw's got fifteen percent off select

1046
01:15:36.880 --> 01:15:41.600
trees this January through the January season, and boy do they ever have a

1047
01:15:41.640 --> 01:15:45.479
good selection. When you're there,
ask them to tell you about their white

1048
01:15:45.479 --> 01:15:50.119
oak that has unbelievable fall color.
Fall color is hard to come by in

1049
01:15:50.159 --> 01:15:53.960
the Greater Houston area, but they've
got to treat they'll do it. They

1050
01:15:53.960 --> 01:15:58.199
also have beautiful camellias and for those
of you have never tried growing camellias,

1051
01:15:58.319 --> 01:16:02.840
oh my gosh, they are just
gorgeous. The Japonicas and the Sanquas both

1052
01:16:02.880 --> 01:16:08.399
are just excellent, excellent plants.
And RCW can get you set up on

1053
01:16:08.439 --> 01:16:11.359
that as well as tell you how
to plant it or come plant it for

1054
01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:15.359
you. They will do that at
RCW Nursery. Again. They're Tombaw Parkway

1055
01:16:15.520 --> 01:16:21.199
and Beltway eight RCW Nurseries dot com. Just go to the website and check

1056
01:16:21.239 --> 01:16:26.199
it out and then make plans to
stop buy. This would be a good

1057
01:16:26.199 --> 01:16:30.880
weekend to plant a woody ornamental from
RCW Nursery. We're going to head now

1058
01:16:30.079 --> 01:16:33.399
back to the phones. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

1059
01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:38.600
five eight seven four. We're going
to go to Cyprus and talk to Sandy.

1060
01:16:39.079 --> 01:16:43.960
Hello, Sandy, good morning,
Good good morning. I had I

1061
01:16:44.000 --> 01:16:49.039
had a question about for our area
if I wanted to glint tomatoes from feed

1062
01:16:49.920 --> 01:16:58.680
on what you recommend and I want
to do and determine it tomydays, Okayer,

1063
01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:02.640
Okay, that's fine. As far
as recommending, I would do it

1064
01:17:02.640 --> 01:17:06.520
at start them as soon as you
can. There are a lot of good

1065
01:17:06.520 --> 01:17:13.039
tomato varieties. A lot one that
just has always done well for me is

1066
01:17:13.079 --> 01:17:17.399
called celebrity. Now, celebrity is
not fully indeterminate. It is a called

1067
01:17:17.520 --> 01:17:24.039
semi determinant, but it's very productive
and it does really well. If you

1068
01:17:24.199 --> 01:17:30.239
want a tomato that's a smaller fruited
type, I like the grape tomatoes.

1069
01:17:30.399 --> 01:17:34.119
They basically are like cherry tomatoes,
but they're shaped like an oblong, like

1070
01:17:34.159 --> 01:17:40.279
a shape like a watermelon, a
normal type of watermelon, kind of oblong.

1071
01:17:41.079 --> 01:17:45.439
And grapes are very productive and they
tend to be tend to be more

1072
01:17:45.439 --> 01:17:49.039
indeterminate as well. Both of those
are good. And you know, there's

1073
01:17:49.079 --> 01:17:51.520
so many varieties. I mean,
I could name names, but then you'd

1074
01:17:51.520 --> 01:17:55.159
have to go try to find the
seed for that one. And there's just

1075
01:17:55.199 --> 01:17:58.640
a lot of good ones. Sandy, if you're looking at tomatoes trying to

1076
01:17:58.680 --> 01:18:00.279
decide should you give it a try, and you don't know the variety.

1077
01:18:00.760 --> 01:18:06.319
If the days to harvest is let's
say seventy two days, or less.

1078
01:18:06.960 --> 01:18:12.199
That's probably a good one for planting
here. Okay, okay, And then

1079
01:18:12.479 --> 01:18:19.520
about what about egg cllant in a
container? What do you recommit? What

1080
01:18:19.680 --> 01:18:26.039
kind of you talking about varieties again? Now? Yeah, okay. Whether

1081
01:18:26.159 --> 01:18:31.560
the standard eggplants are the big,
giant fruited ones like black Beauty, you

1082
01:18:31.600 --> 01:18:35.560
know, would be that type of
eggplant. A lot of people are interested

1083
01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:42.760
these days in ones that are shaped
more like a cucumber and ones that are

1084
01:18:42.800 --> 01:18:46.000
even more narrow than that. And
there are a number of good varieties out

1085
01:18:46.039 --> 01:18:50.039
there if you're going to grow them
from seed, if you can find one

1086
01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:55.279
called oh my gosh, I just
went blank. It's a kind of a

1087
01:18:55.319 --> 01:19:01.199
handsol Gretel story time names. Oh
my gosh, there's two varieties. I'll

1088
01:19:01.199 --> 01:19:03.960
have to hunt them down and think
of them. But when you see the

1089
01:19:04.039 --> 01:19:08.800
name and it sort of reminds you
of, you know, one of those

1090
01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:13.359
fairy tale type in fact, fairy
tale maybe the name of one. I've

1091
01:19:13.479 --> 01:19:16.399
had really good success with those.
They stay somewhat compact, so in a

1092
01:19:16.439 --> 01:19:24.399
container you can still have really good
production with them. So I need to

1093
01:19:24.439 --> 01:19:28.319
find I can't believe I can't think
of a name of them. But anyway,

1094
01:19:28.319 --> 01:19:30.880
those two would do good. I'll
say it on the air here.

1095
01:19:30.399 --> 01:19:34.239
When we have another break, I
go hunt that down. Okay, there

1096
01:19:34.279 --> 01:19:40.159
was one more thing that you said
to plant from seed right now? Tomatoes,

1097
01:19:40.640 --> 01:19:45.359
egg plant, and something else.
Peppers peppers would be good for now.

1098
01:19:45.680 --> 01:19:47.239
And you can plant a lot of
things from seed now, it's just

1099
01:19:47.239 --> 01:19:53.479
that tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers. To get a decent sized transplant,

1100
01:19:53.520 --> 01:19:58.199
you need about six weeks. Eight
weeks is better. And then if you're

1101
01:19:58.239 --> 01:20:00.279
going to do like I said and
bump them up to bigger containers, you

1102
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:03.600
can even grow for longer than eight
weeks. But if we can get them

1103
01:20:03.600 --> 01:20:09.399
at least six weeks, that's good. Other things you can grow for transplant

1104
01:20:09.640 --> 01:20:13.039
tend to be things. Most of
them tend to be things that are not

1105
01:20:13.279 --> 01:20:16.760
best grown as transplants, but are
often direct seated, so we can't leave

1106
01:20:16.800 --> 01:20:21.640
them in a transplant cell as long. For example, a cucumber or a

1107
01:20:21.760 --> 01:20:26.840
yellow squash or a zucchini squash.
You wouldn't want to try to grow those

1108
01:20:26.920 --> 01:20:30.920
for six weeks waiting for the time
to put them out when frost is passed,

1109
01:20:31.720 --> 01:20:36.680
so we give those about three or
four weeks at the most. Okay,

1110
01:20:36.920 --> 01:20:41.800
thank you very much. All right, thank you appreciate that. All

1111
01:20:41.880 --> 01:20:49.520
right, bye bye, appreciate that
call. Let's see here, we were

1112
01:20:49.560 --> 01:20:53.359
going to go to Hurda. I
think we lost herd of their so let

1113
01:20:53.359 --> 01:20:58.920
me go back in to talking about
some of the things that we would be

1114
01:20:58.960 --> 01:21:02.560
doing this time of the year.
Soil prep is always in order. It's

1115
01:21:02.760 --> 01:21:06.119
always in order. If you've not
had your soil tested, whether it's a

1116
01:21:06.199 --> 01:21:11.239
lawn or a vegetable garden or a
flower bed or whatever, get it done.

1117
01:21:11.359 --> 01:21:13.800
The sooner you get it done,
the better. You can go online

1118
01:21:13.880 --> 01:21:17.880
to Soil Testing dot t A,
m U, dot e ed U.

1119
01:21:18.319 --> 01:21:23.600
Now, if you go to my
lawn care schedule, at the bottom is

1120
01:21:23.640 --> 01:21:28.079
a hyperlink. You click on it
and it takes you right to the form

1121
01:21:28.520 --> 01:21:31.279
at Soil Testing dot TIMU dot edu
that you want to use. You want

1122
01:21:31.319 --> 01:21:35.720
to use the Urban soil test form
for your lawn, for your flower beds,

1123
01:21:35.840 --> 01:21:40.039
for your vegetable gardens, for your
herb gardens, for your trees and

1124
01:21:40.079 --> 01:21:46.039
shrubs. Use the one called urban
because it's designed for horticulture, not agronomy,

1125
01:21:46.680 --> 01:21:50.000
you know, farm fields, and
so that's that's the one you want

1126
01:21:50.039 --> 01:21:54.359
to use. Get it done now, because that allows you when the results

1127
01:21:54.520 --> 01:22:00.319
to come in to rototil or spade
in any amendment you might need. Maybe

1128
01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:03.520
your phosphorus is way low, maybe
it's too high, maybe you need potassium

1129
01:22:03.560 --> 01:22:08.319
or magnesium or whatever. This soul
test will tell you that and you can

1130
01:22:08.319 --> 01:22:12.159
get it right before you plant,
and then after that you pick up with

1131
01:22:12.279 --> 01:22:16.000
fertilizing is needed to supply the plants. So that's just a little tip on

1132
01:22:16.159 --> 01:22:20.399
getting ahead on the season. There, we're gonna head now out. Let's

1133
01:22:20.439 --> 01:22:24.520
see. I'll tell you what I'm
gonna have to hold on one second on

1134
01:22:24.600 --> 01:22:28.079
that. I'm gonna have to go
to a break here. But Hurda,

1135
01:22:28.159 --> 01:22:30.039
when we come back, you will
be first, and Doug you'll be second,

1136
01:22:30.520 --> 01:22:33.800
and then I uh, if you'd
like to call us seven one three

1137
01:22:33.840 --> 01:22:41.640
two one two fifty eight seventy four, welcome back to garden Line. Who

1138
01:22:41.720 --> 01:22:45.760
can tell me what movie that song
was from? Anybody? If you think

1139
01:22:45.800 --> 01:22:47.800
about it, give me a call. Let me know that one of my

1140
01:22:47.920 --> 01:22:53.159
one of my favorite movies. We're
gonna head now out to Spring Branch and

1141
01:22:53.199 --> 01:22:58.279
talk to Herda. Hello, Herda, good morning, happy, you're much

1142
01:22:58.359 --> 01:23:00.600
more lately, all right, we'll
take it. What can we do for

1143
01:23:00.680 --> 01:23:11.039
you today? I have a Christmas
cactus. I guess the pots like three

1144
01:23:11.119 --> 01:23:15.520
or four inches in diameter at the
top. But is it okay to bring

1145
01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:18.159
it in the house. It's blooming
now? Oh yeah, sure it is.

1146
01:23:18.319 --> 01:23:24.039
Now Okay, I'll try to put
it in a west window where it

1147
01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:28.279
gets a little more sunlight. Now
do I have to put that in a

1148
01:23:28.399 --> 01:23:32.359
larger pot? Well, if you
want it to grow, it's better to

1149
01:23:32.359 --> 01:23:35.520
give it a little more space.
That three to four inch pot's pretty small.

1150
01:23:35.720 --> 01:23:39.239
I don't know how the plant is, but let's look at let's look

1151
01:23:39.239 --> 01:23:41.239
at it this way. If you
look at the plant, and if you

1152
01:23:41.239 --> 01:23:45.039
look at the pot and the pot
is about a third the size of the

1153
01:23:45.079 --> 01:23:48.000
plant or less, then you definitely
need to repot it and bump it up.

1154
01:23:48.600 --> 01:23:51.439
Okay, Okay, there's not a
black and white line there. You

1155
01:23:51.520 --> 01:23:55.079
have to repot it at a certain
time. I'm just saying, if you've

1156
01:23:55.119 --> 01:24:00.359
got a plant that's you know,
bigger, that much bigger than pot,

1157
01:24:00.439 --> 01:24:08.479
you definitely need to pot it up, okay now. And almost any plant

1158
01:24:08.560 --> 01:24:15.079
takes ultraviolet light, correct, Yes, uh huh. If I use an

1159
01:24:15.159 --> 01:24:19.560
ultraviolet light, you know one of
those. Now, are you talking about

1160
01:24:19.600 --> 01:24:23.319
ultra violet? Are you talking about
a black light or are you talking about

1161
01:24:23.760 --> 01:24:27.239
fluorescent light? Yeah, black light's
not going to help the plant mote.

1162
01:24:27.319 --> 01:24:30.800
That's I wouldn't bother with that,
all right. It would look pretty funky

1163
01:24:30.840 --> 01:24:33.920
and you could turn your living room
into a disco or something if you want

1164
01:24:33.920 --> 01:24:42.399
to know. Okay, I've got
too much to do anyway, Thank you

1165
01:24:42.520 --> 01:24:44.560
so much. All I had heard
it. Thank you for the call.

1166
01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:47.800
I appreciate it, appreciate that lot. You know, earlier I was talking

1167
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:51.600
about my long care schedule and the
different things that are on there. That's

1168
01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:59.000
at gardening with skip dot com UH
and the lawn fertilizer applications are basically based

1169
01:24:59.000 --> 01:25:01.960
on the nitrogen and the product and
the growth rate of the grass. That's

1170
01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:05.279
how that's part of how we set
that up. But there's also a trace

1171
01:25:05.399 --> 01:25:10.279
mineral supplement on there, and you
can do trace minerals. Those are like

1172
01:25:10.399 --> 01:25:15.640
micronutrients, they're essential to the plant, they're just not needed in large,

1173
01:25:15.760 --> 01:25:18.840
large quantities, and azemite is an
example of that. Now, the trace

1174
01:25:18.880 --> 01:25:24.319
mineral supplements on my schedule, it's
kind of like I pretty much have them

1175
01:25:24.319 --> 01:25:27.359
on there from I don't know,
March to the end of October. You

1176
01:25:27.399 --> 01:25:30.119
can do it anytime of the year. I mean, really, if you

1177
01:25:30.159 --> 01:25:32.399
wanted to do it now. It's
not like they're going to evaporate away or

1178
01:25:33.000 --> 01:25:36.199
volatilize into the air, you know, or wash away or anything. You

1179
01:25:36.199 --> 01:25:39.800
can get them down at any time
you want to do them, so now

1180
01:25:39.840 --> 01:25:42.800
would be a fine time. I
probably ought to just make that bar year

1181
01:25:42.880 --> 01:25:48.520
round because those things don't boost plant
growth. They supply plants with the nutrients

1182
01:25:48.720 --> 01:25:53.680
needed for growth. Your other fertilizers, the nitrogen's going to push them along

1183
01:25:53.680 --> 01:25:59.359
to grow anyway. Azimit dot com
or azmite Texas dot com asmite Texas dot

1184
01:25:59.359 --> 01:26:02.119
com find out more about it.
It's widely available in a lot of places,

1185
01:26:02.279 --> 01:26:06.039
and it's a good mix of those
trace elements that we need. We're

1186
01:26:06.039 --> 01:26:11.039
going to now head out to Katie
and talk to Doug. Hello, Doug,

1187
01:26:12.159 --> 01:26:17.680
good morning. I've got a strange
condition I've never experienced before. I've

1188
01:26:17.680 --> 01:26:20.960
been at this location since the early
nineties, but over the last couple of

1189
01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:27.920
weeks, I've noticed not large numbers, but maybe four or five six at

1190
01:26:27.920 --> 01:26:33.239
a time, worms crawling across the
patio. I've never seen them in the

1191
01:26:33.359 --> 01:26:39.239
yard or on any of the plants
I have. They're about inch and a

1192
01:26:39.319 --> 01:26:45.520
quarter long, kind of a brownish
dark gray, maybe three sixteenths to a

1193
01:26:45.600 --> 01:26:49.960
quarter inch in diameter. They don't
have feet, and they're definitely not earthworms.

1194
01:26:51.560 --> 01:26:55.279
I got no idea what is caused
of this. And I should also

1195
01:26:55.399 --> 01:27:00.359
say I've noticed over oh past maybe
month and a half, two months or

1196
01:27:00.399 --> 01:27:06.119
so there the backyard has been I
don't even know how to say this.

1197
01:27:06.199 --> 01:27:12.840
There's holes in the ground that are
it looks like somebody took a steak and

1198
01:27:13.039 --> 01:27:16.399
just rammed it into the ground at
about a thirty to forty five degree angle

1199
01:27:16.479 --> 01:27:21.720
from the horizontal. It doesn't look
like there's been any evidence of really digging,

1200
01:27:21.800 --> 01:27:27.119
but there's you know, a lot
of these holes in the back in

1201
01:27:27.199 --> 01:27:33.960
the backyard only, and unfortunately the
backyard grasses didn't do too well over the

1202
01:27:33.960 --> 01:27:38.920
summer, so it needs to be
taken care of. Let's take those in

1203
01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:44.000
reverse order. The holes are some
varmint and it might be you know,

1204
01:27:44.039 --> 01:27:46.079
there are a number of varmints that
will kind of stick their nose down in

1205
01:27:46.119 --> 01:27:48.920
the ground and look for something.
You'll skunkl dig down a little bit and

1206
01:27:48.920 --> 01:27:55.000
do that. Armadillas are one that
really will root with their nose down to

1207
01:27:55.079 --> 01:27:59.279
the ground. They're looking for grubs
or earthworms or any kind of little soft

1208
01:27:59.319 --> 01:28:01.319
food like that they can find.
It's going to be one of those.

1209
01:28:01.439 --> 01:28:08.239
I don't know that there's anything you
can do about it other than you know,

1210
01:28:09.039 --> 01:28:13.279
trapping and relocating critters like that,
but that's probably not worth it.

1211
01:28:13.640 --> 01:28:16.399
I think I wouldn't worry as far
as the caterpillars are concerned that you're seeing.

1212
01:28:16.920 --> 01:28:20.560
I wouldn't worry about those. They're
not one of the pests of your

1213
01:28:20.640 --> 01:28:27.199
lawn. That that is is not
a sodweb worm that you're describing, right,

1214
01:28:27.920 --> 01:28:30.439
It is not an army It could
be a fall army worm, but

1215
01:28:30.920 --> 01:28:36.079
I yeah, I guess it could
be that one. But there is seven

1216
01:28:36.199 --> 01:28:41.680
bazillion caterpillar species out there crawling all
over the place, and they tend to

1217
01:28:41.680 --> 01:28:44.479
come and go, and you know, we'll go through years and not see

1218
01:28:44.520 --> 01:28:46.399
something, and all of a sudden, then it's like an infestation of them.

1219
01:28:46.439 --> 01:28:51.239
And that's just part of that fluctuation
of nature that occurs over the years.

1220
01:28:51.720 --> 01:28:55.720
But I wouldn't worry. You don't
need to treat. Let me just

1221
01:28:55.760 --> 01:29:00.720
put it that way. You do
not need to treat for those That's easy.

1222
01:29:00.800 --> 01:29:03.159
You know what, though, let
me just make a point with your

1223
01:29:03.239 --> 01:29:10.039
question. Our wild birds, our
songbirds, they need caterpillars, especially when

1224
01:29:10.039 --> 01:29:14.920
we get into spring and they're they're
creating nests and feeding their young. The

1225
01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:17.960
little bird seed we put out is
good, but they need that high protein

1226
01:29:18.319 --> 01:29:23.840
of caterpillars that are out there,
and they're in your oak trees. They're

1227
01:29:23.840 --> 01:29:27.520
all over the place. You just
don't notice them. So when a caterpillar

1228
01:29:27.560 --> 01:29:31.159
isn't causing you trouble, it's probably
helping with the songbirds, which you know

1229
01:29:31.239 --> 01:29:40.159
oftentimes in our landscapes they struggle because
we we we don't have good food supplies

1230
01:29:40.199 --> 01:29:45.319
like they need. Well that that's
uh, maybe maybe they're I'm helping the

1231
01:29:45.319 --> 01:29:48.279
bird population. That's it. Tell
everybody who who you talk to that that

1232
01:29:48.319 --> 01:29:51.960
I have those caterpillars here on purpose. So okay, we'll do sir,

1233
01:29:53.279 --> 01:29:57.640
very much. Appreciate your guidance,
Doug, thank you. I appreciate appreciate

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01:29:57.640 --> 01:30:01.159
the call very much. H I
said, now is the time to be

1235
01:30:01.199 --> 01:30:06.920
getting ready for spring. Earlier several
times today when it comes to success with

1236
01:30:08.039 --> 01:30:14.359
plants, if you were to say
you can only give me one thing,

1237
01:30:15.079 --> 01:30:17.680
I'm only going to do one thing, and I want to have a beautiful

1238
01:30:17.720 --> 01:30:21.079
garden and a bountiful garden. I
want to have a beautiful landscape. I

1239
01:30:21.119 --> 01:30:25.039
want to have success with plants.
What is one thing. Don't tell me

1240
01:30:25.119 --> 01:30:28.079
water, don't tell me fertilize,
don't tell me all the things. I

1241
01:30:28.159 --> 01:30:32.279
just want one. That one would
be fix your soil, build your soil,

1242
01:30:32.439 --> 01:30:36.560
improve your soil and Nature's way resources. That's what they're all about.

1243
01:30:36.720 --> 01:30:41.800
When you get your soil right,
with composted organic matter, with the kinds

1244
01:30:41.800 --> 01:30:45.920
of nutrients the soil needs, with
the balance of nutrients and everything, your

1245
01:30:45.960 --> 01:30:49.119
plants are just gonna grow. And
yes we fertilize, yes we water,

1246
01:30:49.239 --> 01:30:54.439
Yes we have a lot of things
we do, but number one, absolutely

1247
01:30:54.479 --> 01:30:57.479
number number one in time. In
other words, you do this first.

1248
01:30:58.079 --> 01:31:00.199
Can't You can't rototill the soil,
go to plant in the ground right,

1249
01:31:00.640 --> 01:31:06.800
So get it right Nature's way nine
three six three two one sixty nine ninety.

1250
01:31:08.239 --> 01:31:12.239
They have bagged products, they have
bulk products, they have rose,

1251
01:31:12.319 --> 01:31:16.880
soil, leaf compost, They've got
everything you can imagine everything you can imagine

1252
01:31:16.920 --> 01:31:21.079
you need to create good soil.
At Nature's Way Resources, they're up on

1253
01:31:21.279 --> 01:31:26.319
Interstate forty five, up toward Conro, just about where fourteen eighty eight comes

1254
01:31:26.319 --> 01:31:30.079
in. Just cross over the railroad
tracks to the right if you're heading north,

1255
01:31:30.479 --> 01:31:33.279
and Nature's Way Resources is right there
and they can get you fixed up

1256
01:31:33.399 --> 01:31:40.479
nine three six three two one sixty
nine ninety. Soil is the most important

1257
01:31:40.479 --> 01:31:45.439
thing that we do in our garden. And you know I I talk about

1258
01:31:45.479 --> 01:31:47.520
it all the time, and it's
easy. If I were to tell you,

1259
01:31:47.560 --> 01:31:51.920
here's a plant that's got a red
bloom the size of the steering wheel

1260
01:31:51.920 --> 01:31:55.239
on your car on it, you
gotta have it. Everybody want to go

1261
01:31:55.239 --> 01:31:57.960
buy one. If I say I
want you to go buy a bag of

1262
01:31:58.039 --> 01:32:02.680
brown dirt, people would not get
excited. And I know dirt is not

1263
01:32:02.800 --> 01:32:06.199
the word we use for soil dirts, the stuff you sweep up off the

1264
01:32:06.279 --> 01:32:12.279
kitchen floor. Soil is what plants
grow in. But it may be hard

1265
01:32:12.279 --> 01:32:15.079
for you to get excited about the
soil, but you should because that is

1266
01:32:15.640 --> 01:32:19.960
the single most important thing that you
do. And I just I'm going to

1267
01:32:20.039 --> 01:32:24.840
leave that with a little dead airspace
because I want that to sink in.

1268
01:32:25.720 --> 01:32:29.319
If you go buy a plant,
put it in the ground and you're not

1269
01:32:29.439 --> 01:32:32.880
having success and you call, I'll
try to help you. But you wouldn't

1270
01:32:32.920 --> 01:32:38.199
have had to call if you had
first created the soil for that plant to

1271
01:32:38.279 --> 01:32:41.239
thrive in. It's as simple as
that. All Right, we're going to

1272
01:32:41.319 --> 01:32:44.680
go out now to Kingwood and we're
going to talk to Martha. Hello Martha,

1273
01:32:44.680 --> 01:32:49.000
and thanks for hanging on. Well, you're welcome and enjoying your program.

1274
01:32:50.000 --> 01:32:55.680
I have a question I have.
I planted two tomato plants in the

1275
01:32:55.720 --> 01:33:00.680
fall, and I put one of
them in a grow bag and the other

1276
01:33:00.720 --> 01:33:08.359
one's in the pot. I've got
about ten fifteen tomatoes on them, and

1277
01:33:10.000 --> 01:33:14.880
I want to know because it takes
longer for the tomatoes, of course this

1278
01:33:14.920 --> 01:33:17.399
time of the year to turn.
Yes, do you think it would be

1279
01:33:17.520 --> 01:33:25.960
worth me trimming some of the limbs
around them because I put them out?

1280
01:33:26.960 --> 01:33:30.640
Well, I have like a little
shed that I put them in at night

1281
01:33:30.680 --> 01:33:35.079
if it if it gets too low, but if it's in the forties,

1282
01:33:35.199 --> 01:33:40.600
I go ahead and leave them out. Okay, Martha, I've got about

1283
01:33:40.600 --> 01:33:43.359
forty seconds and I'm going to try
to answer you. If we need to

1284
01:33:43.399 --> 01:33:45.920
carry this over break, I'm more
than willing to do that. Trim in

1285
01:33:45.960 --> 01:33:49.720
a few branches so that you can
get the plant through the door and where

1286
01:33:49.760 --> 01:33:54.560
it needs to go, is okay
if you don't have to trim, I

1287
01:33:54.560 --> 01:33:58.800
wouldn't trim, but no, tomatoes
do move slow. But remember you can

1288
01:33:58.840 --> 01:34:00.880
pick a tomato when it's reach full
size and mature. I but it just

1289
01:34:00.920 --> 01:34:03.600
hadn't turned red yet, and you
can pick it and bring it in and

1290
01:34:03.640 --> 01:34:08.279
put her on the counter and it'll
ripen and taste just great. So that's

1291
01:34:08.279 --> 01:34:13.159
another option. Okay, Well,
I won't trim because I don't have to

1292
01:34:13.199 --> 01:34:16.039
trim it to get it in,
so I will just go ahead and let

1293
01:34:16.079 --> 01:34:18.920
it go as it is. Sound
like you're doing something right out there in

1294
01:34:19.000 --> 01:34:24.039
Kingwood. But hey, thanks for
calling. I appreciate appreciate that very much.

1295
01:34:24.199 --> 01:34:26.840
We're going to take a break.
It's time for news with Nikki and

1296
01:34:27.279 --> 01:34:30.119
my phone number if you want to
get on the board with Josh seven one

1297
01:34:30.159 --> 01:34:36.520
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Welcome back to garden Line.

1298
01:34:36.600 --> 01:34:41.239
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to answer your gardening questions.

1299
01:34:41.399 --> 01:34:44.479
If you'd like to give me a
call. It is seven one three

1300
01:34:44.800 --> 01:34:50.239
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two Kati rh

1301
01:34:50.439 --> 01:34:57.279
is the way that we get to
talk. You know. The the spring

1302
01:34:57.479 --> 01:35:00.079
gardening season is right around the corner, and the there's so many things we

1303
01:35:00.119 --> 01:35:02.680
can be doing right now. We
can be building our soul. Now.

1304
01:35:02.760 --> 01:35:08.840
We can be planting seeds to start, transplants to go out in the garden

1305
01:35:09.119 --> 01:35:14.439
later. That would include flowers,
that would include vegetables. You can start

1306
01:35:14.479 --> 01:35:17.039
some seeds, some herbs from seed. Basil as an example, don't start

1307
01:35:17.039 --> 01:35:20.359
basil just yet. It likes warm
weather and we are a long way from

1308
01:35:20.399 --> 01:35:25.680
the temperatures that basil wants to have. I would hold off on that one.

1309
01:35:26.319 --> 01:35:30.840
But you can also do all of
these things from transplants. You purchase

1310
01:35:30.880 --> 01:35:35.279
transplants from local garden center and get
started. And there's nothing wrong with purchasing

1311
01:35:35.319 --> 01:35:40.399
something, bumping it up, getting
it growing for when it is safe to

1312
01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:43.680
put it outside. You know it's
going to get it's gonna get cold again.

1313
01:35:44.439 --> 01:35:46.000
That just the way it goes.
We've had kind of a mild winter,

1314
01:35:46.800 --> 01:35:50.680
but it's gonna get cold again,
and when it does, we don't

1315
01:35:50.720 --> 01:35:56.199
want to have plants like a tomato
out there that's being subjected to frosty conditions,

1316
01:35:56.199 --> 01:35:59.199
they just don't do well. There
are some things you can do to

1317
01:35:59.279 --> 01:36:03.399
protect plants from the cold, and
I'll probably talk about this more, but

1318
01:36:03.520 --> 01:36:08.960
on my website Gardening with Skip dot
com, there is a publication, nine

1319
01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:13.039
page publication that I wrote with one
of the Texas A and M horticulture specialists

1320
01:36:13.479 --> 01:36:17.680
on protecting plants from frosts and freezes, and it has a lot of good

1321
01:36:17.680 --> 01:36:21.760
advice for those of you who want
to put out tomatoes a little bit early,

1322
01:36:21.920 --> 01:36:26.159
for example, or for those of
you who may have a plant that's

1323
01:36:26.239 --> 01:36:30.039
kind of marginal. You know it's
hardy here, but it can get killed

1324
01:36:30.039 --> 01:36:32.199
to the ground some years and you're
trying to protect it, or things like

1325
01:36:32.279 --> 01:36:35.880
citrus, Oh my gosh, you
know, citrus is wonderful to have and

1326
01:36:35.920 --> 01:36:40.239
you don't want to have die back
on it because of a freeze. So

1327
01:36:40.680 --> 01:36:45.760
that publication is for free to download
or look at online, and that is

1328
01:36:45.800 --> 01:36:48.720
at gardeningwith Skip dot com. I
would go ahead and take a look at

1329
01:36:48.760 --> 01:36:51.720
it, kind of get your head
set straight on what you're going to do,

1330
01:36:51.800 --> 01:36:55.439
what you need to do, what
kind of supplies you might need to

1331
01:36:55.479 --> 01:37:00.840
protect your plants. I'm going to
be putting some things out extra early this

1332
01:37:00.960 --> 01:37:04.119
season. I'm just kind of playing
around trying some different things, and in

1333
01:37:04.159 --> 01:37:10.079
my vegetable garden, I'm going to
use PVC hoops going down the row.

1334
01:37:10.600 --> 01:37:15.520
So imagine all these beds, you
know, long skinny bed mine are about

1335
01:37:15.560 --> 01:37:19.319
three feet three and a half feet
wide. I will take a section of

1336
01:37:19.359 --> 01:37:24.880
PVC and bend it and stick it
in the ground on each end and create

1337
01:37:24.920 --> 01:37:29.399
that hoop. I like to use
a rebar, you know, the little

1338
01:37:29.439 --> 01:37:32.520
sections of rebar that are used in
concrete. For example, if you take

1339
01:37:32.720 --> 01:37:40.920
about a three eights inch rebar half
inch rebar and you get a PBC pipe,

1340
01:37:40.920 --> 01:37:43.640
you just need to kind of match
the two make sure that the pipe

1341
01:37:43.640 --> 01:37:48.479
will go over the rebar. But
I use the half inch PVC pipe interior

1342
01:37:48.560 --> 01:37:54.520
diameter three eighths inch rebar and you
stick. You can buy these rebar sections

1343
01:37:54.520 --> 01:37:57.840
that are about a foot long,
and that's usually adequate, and you hammer

1344
01:37:57.880 --> 01:38:00.720
it into the ground, leave about
three inches sticking up, and you slide

1345
01:38:00.760 --> 01:38:04.600
the PVC over that rebar and then
you bend it and same thing on the

1346
01:38:04.640 --> 01:38:08.720
other side of the bed, and
so you create this little qunct hut,

1347
01:38:08.760 --> 01:38:14.239
these little sections of rebar I mean
of PVC hoops. I will tie a

1348
01:38:14.279 --> 01:38:17.760
long straight PVC to those. You
can use zip ties, I've used jute,

1349
01:38:17.840 --> 01:38:23.279
twine whatever. I'll put maybe two
of those on and that helps hold

1350
01:38:23.279 --> 01:38:27.640
the plastic up between the hoop sections, one at the top, maybe one

1351
01:38:27.680 --> 01:38:31.399
on each side, just off the
top. And when you put plastic over

1352
01:38:31.439 --> 01:38:35.119
that and seal the edges. And
by seal it, I mean I've used

1353
01:38:35.159 --> 01:38:39.960
soil. If you have soil access
there where you can put the plastic in

1354
01:38:40.039 --> 01:38:44.119
a little trench and cover it with
some soil. I've used bricks and rocks.

1355
01:38:44.199 --> 01:38:47.600
I've used water, you know,
jugs of water, anything to hold

1356
01:38:47.640 --> 01:38:51.840
it down, sandbags, anything to
hold it down so that when the wind

1357
01:38:51.840 --> 01:38:57.359
blows, the air can't blow up
underneath there. And I remember one year

1358
01:38:57.399 --> 01:39:00.840
I was in Lockhart, Texas,
halfway across state, and I had a

1359
01:39:00.840 --> 01:39:06.079
garden and planted tomatoes out really early
and we had a good hard freeze.

1360
01:39:06.079 --> 01:39:10.720
It was going to be like twenty
nine twenty eight degrees or something come through,

1361
01:39:10.760 --> 01:39:14.279
and I knew those tomatoes were in
trouble. We put that cover over

1362
01:39:14.319 --> 01:39:16.640
them. Before I put the plastic
on, I took jugs of water,

1363
01:39:16.760 --> 01:39:21.239
think of a milk jug filled with
water, and I set one on each

1364
01:39:21.319 --> 01:39:27.720
side of the plant, right up
against the plant. And water loses heat

1365
01:39:27.840 --> 01:39:32.720
more slowly than air. It cools
off more slowly. And typically in our

1366
01:39:32.760 --> 01:39:38.000
freezes that we have here in the
spring, it's not like it gets it

1367
01:39:38.039 --> 01:39:42.960
freezes for five days, right it
Typically it dips down and then by the

1368
01:39:43.039 --> 01:39:45.640
morning when the sun comes up,
it comes back above freezing again. So

1369
01:39:45.680 --> 01:39:49.119
it's not like you have to protect
for a long long time. But in

1370
01:39:49.159 --> 01:39:51.520
this case, I put the water
right up against them, I put the

1371
01:39:51.560 --> 01:39:55.920
cover over them, and I completely
sealed it. I mean air could not

1372
01:39:56.000 --> 01:39:58.600
come out of there. By the
way. Pull the multch back too.

1373
01:39:59.000 --> 01:40:02.640
You want the sun to shine through, and this is clear plastic, by

1374
01:40:02.640 --> 01:40:06.119
the way, clear plastic. You
want the sun to shine through and warm

1375
01:40:06.119 --> 01:40:10.840
the soil. Think about your car. You go out today at about two

1376
01:40:10.840 --> 01:40:14.920
o'clock and get in your car,
and it's going to be significantly warm in

1377
01:40:15.000 --> 01:40:18.159
there compared to the outside air temperature
because the sun shines through the windshield and

1378
01:40:18.199 --> 01:40:23.680
heats up the interior of the car. That's how this plastic covered tunnel works.

1379
01:40:24.159 --> 01:40:28.159
Now, it heats up so well
that you actually have to open the

1380
01:40:28.319 --> 01:40:31.199
ends during the day to allow the
extra heat to escape, because it'll literally

1381
01:40:31.279 --> 01:40:35.079
cook them in there. If we
get a good, fairly warm sunny day.

1382
01:40:35.439 --> 01:40:39.079
But you build up that heat and
the soil, you close it down

1383
01:40:39.239 --> 01:40:43.439
maybe about four four or five o'clock
or so, just go ahead and close

1384
01:40:43.479 --> 01:40:46.680
it down, and then it'll go
through the evening time and I'm telling you

1385
01:40:46.840 --> 01:40:51.920
it can be a pretty significant freeze
and that'll get your plants through. Now,

1386
01:40:51.920 --> 01:40:57.720
you can also add heat underneath the
cover, that's possible, but without

1387
01:40:57.760 --> 01:41:02.079
even getting into all that, just
covering them and creating dead air space very

1388
01:41:02.119 --> 01:41:06.239
important. You don't want the warmth
of the soil rising up and just being

1389
01:41:06.279 --> 01:41:12.079
displaced by a slight breeze moving across
the bit. You want to create dead

1390
01:41:12.079 --> 01:41:15.720
air space and you want to have
warm soil. And that's how you do

1391
01:41:15.760 --> 01:41:19.439
it. It's really simple, easy
to do. Have you been out to

1392
01:41:19.520 --> 01:41:25.680
Enchanted Forest and Richmond. Enchanted Forest
is the Garden Center. It's on FM

1393
01:41:25.720 --> 01:41:29.439
twenty seven fifty nine. So if
you're in Richmond and you're going to head

1394
01:41:29.479 --> 01:41:33.399
up fifty nine toward Sugarland, direction. It's off to the right down that

1395
01:41:33.479 --> 01:41:40.439
way. FM twenty seven fifty nine
in Richmond. Enchanted Forest. Their website

1396
01:41:40.479 --> 01:41:43.560
is awesome. You need to go
check it out, very very good,

1397
01:41:43.640 --> 01:41:47.880
very up to date. Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX. Don't forget the

1398
01:41:47.960 --> 01:41:54.239
TX dot com and Chentedforest Richmond,
TX dot com. They've got all kinds

1399
01:41:54.279 --> 01:41:58.600
of things coming along in the greenhouse, just a load of plants and now

1400
01:41:58.640 --> 01:42:00.439
they have every kind of plant you
can match, any kind of plant you

1401
01:42:00.439 --> 01:42:06.199
would want, vegetables and herbs,
unbelievable selection, flowers, perennials. I

1402
01:42:06.399 --> 01:42:13.159
like their their selection of butterfly attracting
plants. They really do specialize in that

1403
01:42:13.319 --> 01:42:16.760
as well. And if you're looking
for anything to attract butterflies to your landscape,

1404
01:42:16.800 --> 01:42:21.399
either the adults or to feed the
larvas so you can have adult butterflies,

1405
01:42:21.960 --> 01:42:26.199
Intended Forest is going to have it, and so so much more.

1406
01:42:26.239 --> 01:42:29.239
Why there, pick up a copy
of Texas Gardener Magazine. They've got those

1407
01:42:29.279 --> 01:42:34.239
on the shelf right now. I
had an article in this issue on let's

1408
01:42:34.239 --> 01:42:41.439
see the movies called Ten Commandments of
Tomato success or something along along those lines.

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01:42:41.800 --> 01:42:45.840
But you can get that at Chended
Forest Richmond. Also, we're going

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01:42:45.880 --> 01:42:47.800
to take a break right now.
My phone number is seven one three two

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01:42:47.880 --> 01:42:55.319
one two five eight seven four.
Welcome back to garden Line. We are

1412
01:42:55.399 --> 01:42:59.039
glad you're listening and joining us today
on the air. I'm your host,

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01:42:59.079 --> 01:43:02.079
Skip Richter, and we're to answer
your gardening questions. If you'd like to

1414
01:43:02.079 --> 01:43:08.479
give us a call seven to one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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01:43:08.680 --> 01:43:13.239
That is our number seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

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01:43:13.720 --> 01:43:16.560
Let's go now to West Houston and
we're gonna talk to Jimmy. Hello,

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01:43:16.720 --> 01:43:19.680
Jimmy, Hey, good morning,
Skip. How are you doing today?

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01:43:19.760 --> 01:43:24.760
I'm well, thank you. I
do need some help. We bought

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01:43:24.760 --> 01:43:29.199
a house over in West Houston and
we're remodeling and behind our house is the

1420
01:43:29.359 --> 01:43:34.239
Barker Attics Reservoir. So it's got
this big blue storage tank in an operational

1421
01:43:34.279 --> 01:43:39.479
building there, and I need to
figure out what I can plant that'll become

1422
01:43:39.520 --> 01:43:44.560
a screen that can grow say twenty
five to thirty feet tall. But the

1423
01:43:44.600 --> 01:43:48.640
trick to it is also that there's
a easement back there ten foot there's power

1424
01:43:48.680 --> 01:43:53.880
lines that's actually on our property.
So between the fence and these power lines,

1425
01:43:53.920 --> 01:43:59.560
I have to plant something that would
grow tall and narrow. And I'm

1426
01:43:59.600 --> 01:44:02.199
just looking or some ideas that what
you might think could work in this zone

1427
01:44:02.439 --> 01:44:06.520
I'd looked at I don't quite pronounce
it American or borvite or something like that,

1428
01:44:08.279 --> 01:44:12.359
but it says aubraviting and it says
zone eight is where it ends.

1429
01:44:12.880 --> 01:44:15.079
So I don't know if that would
be a problem for us here. Yeah,

1430
01:44:15.520 --> 01:44:21.800
I wouldn't do that one here.
One option would be a Japanese u

1431
01:44:23.359 --> 01:44:30.239
yew is how that's spelled Japanese.
You it gets very upright, and as

1432
01:44:30.279 --> 01:44:32.680
you trim it, you make it
denser, like any shrub. That's the

1433
01:44:32.760 --> 01:44:38.479
case with any shrub. But you
can make a nice wall out of that

1434
01:44:38.479 --> 01:44:44.239
that is not excessively wide with some
trimming. The challenge is getting plants that

1435
01:44:44.279 --> 01:44:48.399
are evergreen so that they screen all
year, that are tall enough but are

1436
01:44:48.399 --> 01:44:54.119
not too wide. That's always the
challenge we run into, especially the smaller

1437
01:44:54.159 --> 01:44:57.239
the property is, the less you
can afford to give up in a wide

1438
01:44:57.399 --> 01:45:00.600
fat plant back there screen of the
view. But that would be a good

1439
01:45:00.600 --> 01:45:06.199
one. There are some other options, you know, for for something that

1440
01:45:06.279 --> 01:45:09.760
goes a little fast. I think
those would be the ones. One thing

1441
01:45:09.800 --> 01:45:13.800
I would encourage you, though,
Jimmy, to think about is how tall

1442
01:45:13.840 --> 01:45:16.159
does it really need to be?
And what I mean is like, think

1443
01:45:16.159 --> 01:45:19.399
about where you are going to see
what you don't want to see. Are

1444
01:45:19.439 --> 01:45:24.079
you standing up in your yard,
are you sitting down at a patio,

1445
01:45:24.119 --> 01:45:27.359
are you looking out the window of
the house. And if you do a

1446
01:45:27.439 --> 01:45:30.880
sight line from your eye to the
top of what you don't want to see,

1447
01:45:30.840 --> 01:45:34.199
that's how tall that plant is going
to need to be. So,

1448
01:45:34.359 --> 01:45:39.359
for example, if I was sitting
ten feet away from this shrub wall,

1449
01:45:39.520 --> 01:45:44.119
a six foot shrub might be more
than enough to block a view. But

1450
01:45:44.199 --> 01:45:47.239
as you get further away, or
maybe the neighbor's two story houses ten feet

1451
01:45:47.239 --> 01:45:50.000
from the property line, then you
need a really big shrub, you know,

1452
01:45:50.039 --> 01:45:54.000
to be able to hide it.
So think about that, and because

1453
01:45:54.119 --> 01:45:58.640
as you don't need as tall of
a shrub, your options are a little

1454
01:45:58.680 --> 01:46:02.840
bit better in most cases. Yeah, that is that's our challenge because this

1455
01:46:02.960 --> 01:46:06.840
property behind us, they have there's
cameras and there's a light they have on

1456
01:46:06.960 --> 01:46:11.159
all the time, and I'm trying
to block it and it actually I kind

1457
01:46:11.159 --> 01:46:14.720
of measured that out and it's probably
got to be I'd say a minimum of

1458
01:46:14.880 --> 01:46:18.199
between twenty and twenty five feet to
actually block all that, and if I

1459
01:46:18.199 --> 01:46:21.279
wanted to block the whole tower,
to have to be thirty five feet tall

1460
01:46:21.359 --> 01:46:25.439
to not be able to see it, because that's a really big big it's

1461
01:46:25.439 --> 01:46:30.520
actually a storage tank and it's it's
probably forty five feet tall or something like

1462
01:46:30.560 --> 01:46:34.439
that. Yeah, boy, I
tell you, And this is something that

1463
01:46:34.520 --> 01:46:38.079
size is not going to be in
the way of the power line because you

1464
01:46:38.079 --> 01:46:42.079
don't want the company for Internet for
you. That's that's why I want to

1465
01:46:42.159 --> 01:46:45.479
keep it narrow because the power line, yeah, you know up you know

1466
01:46:45.479 --> 01:46:47.720
how a telephone pole, you have
power lines that are running straight across.

1467
01:46:47.760 --> 01:46:51.359
Those are about ten foot off the
fence line, but then up top they

1468
01:46:51.359 --> 01:46:55.760
branch out, you know where things
run across, So we can't get We

1469
01:46:55.760 --> 01:46:59.119
couldn't get up in that thirty five
to forty foot range. It would definitely

1470
01:46:59.159 --> 01:47:02.079
be a problem, but we could
probably stay between twenty and twenty five if

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01:47:02.079 --> 01:47:09.399
it didn't grow too wide and be
okay. Yeah, yeah, that's that's

1472
01:47:09.399 --> 01:47:14.000
a challenge. All the needle type
scaly needled and needle type evergreens, they

1473
01:47:14.439 --> 01:47:18.439
can run into some problems there are
some very narrow arbor vidy slash juniper type

1474
01:47:18.479 --> 01:47:24.960
plants, but most of those just
don't do that well here, or they

1475
01:47:25.000 --> 01:47:29.560
won't reach the size that you need
to be able to do well. A

1476
01:47:29.680 --> 01:47:34.840
Japanese you is probably gonna have trouble
getting getting as tall as you want it

1477
01:47:34.880 --> 01:47:38.479
to be. I'd have to go
look at what its maximum can be.

1478
01:47:39.239 --> 01:47:41.600
Yeah, that's it. You've got
a bit of a challenge in your hand.

1479
01:47:41.600 --> 01:47:48.479
There's things like the there's a oh
gosh, sweet gums. There's a

1480
01:47:48.479 --> 01:47:54.680
sweet gum variety you see it around
town down in Houston area called slender silhouette

1481
01:47:54.840 --> 01:47:58.039
that is very narrow, but it's
desciduous, so in the winter time you've

1482
01:47:58.079 --> 01:48:03.720
got you've got no leaves to hide
it. There are some clumping bamboos that

1483
01:48:03.800 --> 01:48:09.000
don't run, they don't invade like
that, and they can get very tall

1484
01:48:09.039 --> 01:48:13.800
as well, but that takes a
long time to achieve the high I actually

1485
01:48:13.840 --> 01:48:17.000
removed bamboo, which is what was
back there. It was lined with bamboo,

1486
01:48:17.039 --> 01:48:21.880
and it looks so messy because it
would die out and it yeah,

1487
01:48:23.199 --> 01:48:26.359
fall over, and it just wasn't
a really good look. Do you think

1488
01:48:26.359 --> 01:48:30.680
the Italian cypress would work in our
area. I don't like them. They

1489
01:48:30.720 --> 01:48:34.359
will work for a while, and
then you'll get a foliage disease due to

1490
01:48:34.399 --> 01:48:41.279
our rainy weather, or you'll get
bagworms, or you'll get spider mites on

1491
01:48:41.319 --> 01:48:44.560
them, and they'll kill a section
of that beautiful, tall, skinny Italian

1492
01:48:44.560 --> 01:48:48.279
cypress and that section will never be
green again. They're not good at re

1493
01:48:48.399 --> 01:48:54.840
sprouting where they lost foliage, and
so I just find long term they're a

1494
01:48:54.920 --> 01:48:59.720
disappointment. But ideally structurally, yes, that's a perfect plant for that.

1495
01:49:00.279 --> 01:49:03.720
Uh, it's just going to end
up not holding up in my opinion.

1496
01:49:04.640 --> 01:49:08.720
Okay, yeah, we don't want
to do that. Yeah, yeah,

1497
01:49:08.800 --> 01:49:11.239
yeah, you got You've got a
challenge. I may have to do a

1498
01:49:11.239 --> 01:49:15.279
little researching on it and see if
I can find something else. There's probably

1499
01:49:15.319 --> 01:49:17.119
a plan. I'm just not thinking
that's out there. But that tall and

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01:49:17.159 --> 01:49:20.640
skinny, that's the that's the challenge. A little too tall for some of

1501
01:49:20.680 --> 01:49:26.239
our upright yo ponds. Uh,
And so I have to think about that

1502
01:49:26.279 --> 01:49:30.039
one. I'll check my phone sometimes
our garden centers that will listen in on

1503
01:49:30.079 --> 01:49:33.359
the show, will we'll text me, Hey, here's an idea if I

1504
01:49:33.399 --> 01:49:36.399
do get one I'll say it on
the air. Well skip if you do.

1505
01:49:36.520 --> 01:49:39.920
I do appreciate it, and I'll
love your show. All right,

1506
01:49:39.960 --> 01:49:43.199
thank you. I appreciate appreciate that
a lot, Jimmy, thank you,

1507
01:49:43.359 --> 01:49:45.800
thank you very much for the call. Well, we're gonna be going to

1508
01:49:45.840 --> 01:49:49.880
a break here. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two five

1509
01:49:50.039 --> 01:49:55.560
eight seven four. When we come
back, Ken, you will be first

1510
01:49:55.640 --> 01:50:00.279
up, and after that, whoever
would like to call in see here.

1511
01:50:00.319 --> 01:50:03.159
We've got a little bit of time
for me to just tell you about a

1512
01:50:03.159 --> 01:50:08.359
couple of things I did want to
mention. I've talked about the website and

1513
01:50:08.479 --> 01:50:11.800
the lawn care schedules that are on
there. Please go ahead and get those

1514
01:50:11.920 --> 01:50:16.239
printed out. There's no charger free, beautiful multicolored schedules, very easy to

1515
01:50:16.279 --> 01:50:20.239
read. If you're an organic gardener
and you want organic lawn care, if

1516
01:50:20.279 --> 01:50:26.079
you're synthetic, you don't care whether
it's organic or synthetic, there's those options

1517
01:50:26.119 --> 01:50:30.039
as well, and it just makes
it really really easy for you and it

1518
01:50:30.079 --> 01:50:35.119
directs you that information. I will
be adding some information on seed starting success.

1519
01:50:35.239 --> 01:50:39.920
It is time to do that,
and maybe if we have some time

1520
01:50:40.079 --> 01:50:44.159
in our last hour, which is
coming up. I will go into a

1521
01:50:44.239 --> 01:50:48.199
little bit of information on that as
well on the air. But if you

1522
01:50:48.520 --> 01:50:54.119
continue to watch that website, we're
changing constantly, and every time I see

1523
01:50:54.119 --> 01:50:57.479
a need for some information for gardeners
up there, I just go put it

1524
01:50:57.520 --> 01:51:00.199
on up and finally now have a
little bit time where I can get some

1525
01:51:00.399 --> 01:51:04.399
of that kind of thing done.
So really really looking forward to that.

1526
01:51:04.640 --> 01:51:09.640
Hey, we appreciate you being a
garden Line listener. Uh, you know,

1527
01:51:09.720 --> 01:51:13.720
this is a this is an area
where you can grow all kinds of

1528
01:51:13.760 --> 01:51:16.319
things if you just have the information. I like to say, there's no

1529
01:51:16.399 --> 01:51:21.199
such thing as a brown thumb.
There's uninformed thumbs, and we're here to

1530
01:51:21.359 --> 01:51:27.000
inform your thumb so that when you
know how to do things and you choose

1531
01:51:27.039 --> 01:51:30.199
the right plants and take care of
them right, everyone says, oh my

1532
01:51:30.199 --> 01:51:35.239
gosh, you have a thing of
thought. We'll be right back. Katie

1533
01:51:35.359 --> 01:51:39.399
r. H. Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

1534
01:51:39.439 --> 01:51:45.520
services advertised on this program. Welcome
to Katie r h. Garden Line with

1535
01:51:45.800 --> 01:52:01.399
Scape Ricter. It's crazy Trim.
Just watch him as world god Man.

1536
01:52:12.520 --> 01:52:17.560
Welcome back to garden Line on a
gorgeous Saturday Oh my gosh, this is

1537
01:52:18.600 --> 01:52:21.600
this is a day to be outside
doing some gardening. And if you don'tant

1538
01:52:21.600 --> 01:52:26.039
to go outside, well at least
get close to a window so you can

1539
01:52:26.199 --> 01:52:29.439
enjoy it from there. You do
some indoor gardening. There's things we can

1540
01:52:29.479 --> 01:52:34.000
be doing now to inside. But
you know, they say he who hesitates

1541
01:52:34.079 --> 01:52:39.319
is lost, and that's true when
it comes to gardening practices. And so

1542
01:52:39.520 --> 01:52:45.199
don't delay, don't wait, don't
wait until it's too late. Go ahead

1543
01:52:45.239 --> 01:52:46.840
and get out there, get the
soil ready, get the plants, start

1544
01:52:46.880 --> 01:52:50.439
planting things, start your seedlings.
Let's get going. It is time to

1545
01:52:50.439 --> 01:52:55.039
do that. We're going to start
now by heading out to Katie and talking

1546
01:52:55.039 --> 01:52:59.119
to Ken. Hello, Ken,
how are you doing? Can you hear

1547
01:52:59.119 --> 01:53:01.079
me? Okay, yes, there
I can. I'm well, thank you.

1548
01:53:02.000 --> 01:53:05.359
Okay. Well you helped me out
a lot last September to identify those

1549
01:53:05.399 --> 01:53:11.800
little chinch bugs and they were killing
the grass out there, okay, and

1550
01:53:11.920 --> 01:53:15.920
we got them stopped, but not
before they took out about a thirty by

1551
01:53:15.960 --> 01:53:20.000
thirty you know, thousand square foot
spot. And I'm planning here about the

1552
01:53:20.039 --> 01:53:25.920
first week of March to sad that
area up. But in the time between

1553
01:53:25.960 --> 01:53:30.119
then and now you can guess that
the weeds have kind of made an invasion,

1554
01:53:30.439 --> 01:53:35.920
right, What can I spray or
hit them with now that won't impede

1555
01:53:35.920 --> 01:53:40.720
the sod when I put it on
later. I'm just not thinking that the

1556
01:53:40.760 --> 01:53:43.359
pre emergents are going to do the
job, because you know, the dollar

1557
01:53:43.359 --> 01:53:46.520
weating, everything's all up already.
Yeah, And you and everybody listening hear

1558
01:53:46.600 --> 01:53:50.640
me carefully, do not put the
pre emergence out and then lay sod on

1559
01:53:50.680 --> 01:53:56.560
top of it. Pre Emergents are
made to stop roots of seeds from growing

1560
01:53:57.159 --> 01:54:00.520
little seedling roots. That's how they
work. It's one of the ways they

1561
01:54:00.560 --> 01:54:03.079
work. And so to put a
real strong dose of pre emergent and lay

1562
01:54:03.119 --> 01:54:05.600
your side on top of it,
you're gonna have trouble for the grass to

1563
01:54:05.640 --> 01:54:11.680
get roots down into the soil below. So definitely not a pre emergent now.

1564
01:54:11.760 --> 01:54:15.760
Once the grass is established and has
a root system, applying pre emergence

1565
01:54:15.760 --> 01:54:19.079
at the right rate at the right
time, that's okay, But don't do

1566
01:54:19.159 --> 01:54:23.159
that ahead of time. So the
post emergent is what you're going to want

1567
01:54:23.199 --> 01:54:27.880
to use. There's a couple of
kinds of categories of weeds you're dealing with

1568
01:54:27.920 --> 01:54:31.840
out there. One is the annual
weed that's going to go away anyway on

1569
01:54:31.920 --> 01:54:36.600
its own. That would be things
like chickweed and HND bed and clover and

1570
01:54:36.640 --> 01:54:42.479
whatnot. And then there are perennial
weeds that come back and just exist in

1571
01:54:42.520 --> 01:54:45.640
your lawn, and those are latter
category. That's the ones that are most

1572
01:54:45.680 --> 01:54:48.680
important to get rid of before you
put the lawn down. So just an

1573
01:54:48.720 --> 01:54:53.960
example, it's not bermuda grass season, but if you had bermuda grass as

1574
01:54:54.000 --> 01:54:57.640
a weed and you throw Saint Augustine
on top of that, it's going to

1575
01:54:57.680 --> 01:55:00.960
come right through. And now you've
got a mixed lawn and there's really not

1576
01:55:00.079 --> 01:55:04.960
a practical way to separate the two
out. So controlling those ahead of time

1577
01:55:05.079 --> 01:55:11.000
is important, and you would do
that with either a post emergent grass only

1578
01:55:11.159 --> 01:55:15.439
killer there's things that just kill grass, or something that's going to cover more

1579
01:55:15.520 --> 01:55:20.159
than one kind of weed, you
know, a broad leaf and grass type

1580
01:55:20.159 --> 01:55:25.359
post emergent weed killer, and that
would be things like the one everybody's heard

1581
01:55:25.399 --> 01:55:30.039
of and knows about and has its
controversies is round Up that kills both grasses

1582
01:55:30.039 --> 01:55:33.119
and broad leaves ahead of time.
Now, when you choose one of those.

1583
01:55:33.199 --> 01:55:38.560
If you choose something like the glaphyse
eate, it's gonna it's going to

1584
01:55:38.640 --> 01:55:41.560
tie up in the soil and within
a couple of weeks you can go ahead

1585
01:55:41.560 --> 01:55:44.920
and lay that grass on it and
it'll be just fine, it won't hurt

1586
01:55:44.960 --> 01:55:49.439
it. But you don't want to
use something that's like a vegetation. Clear

1587
01:55:49.960 --> 01:55:53.880
is part of the name of it
something. In fact, if you have

1588
01:55:53.920 --> 01:55:58.319
any doubts and you see an ingredient
out there, call me on it and

1589
01:55:58.399 --> 01:56:01.760
I can tell you yes or no
on on using it, whether because some

1590
01:56:01.800 --> 01:56:06.319
things are just very persistent and they
will continue to work and cause damage.

1591
01:56:06.960 --> 01:56:12.159
Well, some of the Roundup products
advertise, you know this three month and

1592
01:56:12.239 --> 01:56:16.960
six month protection, right, And
that's kind of concerned me because, yeah,

1593
01:56:17.000 --> 01:56:21.960
here's the problem with us. Companies
are naming things in ways I really

1594
01:56:23.039 --> 01:56:27.520
wish they wouldn't name them. Roundup
used to be one ingredient, glaphys eate,

1595
01:56:28.079 --> 01:56:30.439
and it did what it did.
We know it did, we know

1596
01:56:30.479 --> 01:56:32.199
how it works, you know what
goes on with it, the glay.

1597
01:56:32.520 --> 01:56:38.279
Now you can buy round Up for
lawns and it is not there's no glaphysyate

1598
01:56:38.359 --> 01:56:40.760
in it at all, it just
has the name round up on it,

1599
01:56:40.800 --> 01:56:44.640
but it's different ingredients. The same
thing has happened with Image, which is

1600
01:56:44.680 --> 01:56:47.239
a nutgrass killer, the original one. Uh. And so you have to

1601
01:56:47.279 --> 01:56:50.880
look at the ingredient. That's the
key, because if it says round up

1602
01:56:50.880 --> 01:56:56.760
for three months, there's something other
than glaphysate in that. Okay. So

1603
01:56:56.880 --> 01:57:00.680
if if we're talking about that regular
white bottle round up, you know,

1604
01:57:00.920 --> 01:57:04.239
check in of course and make sure
they haven't snuck something into the white bottles.

1605
01:57:04.359 --> 01:57:08.600
Yeah, Now, where I want
to apply that just directly onto the

1606
01:57:08.600 --> 01:57:12.000
weeds that are there, or would
I be able to broadcast it a little

1607
01:57:12.039 --> 01:57:15.840
bit more over the weeds in the
area that may have weeds popping up in

1608
01:57:15.880 --> 01:57:18.680
it later. It won't do anything
to later. It only kills when you

1609
01:57:18.720 --> 01:57:23.279
get it on something green. Think
of it that way and so, and

1610
01:57:23.359 --> 01:57:27.199
it doesn't help to drench it.
Do not do that. Just barely wet

1611
01:57:27.239 --> 01:57:31.520
it if you use that. Now
there we were you. I'm gonna get

1612
01:57:31.600 --> 01:57:35.199
us away from the word round up. That is a brand, and there

1613
01:57:35.239 --> 01:57:40.479
are there are many types of life
essay that are not that brand. And

1614
01:57:40.520 --> 01:57:45.640
so you're not limited to just that
particular thing. You're not too far away

1615
01:57:45.640 --> 01:57:48.760
from Southwest Fertilizer abob down there,
Abyssinett and Renwick. They're going to have

1616
01:57:48.840 --> 01:57:56.119
a wide variety of weed control options
and they might could suggest some other things.

1617
01:57:56.159 --> 01:58:00.279
Like I said, if it's primarily
grassy weeds, there's two different ingredients

1618
01:58:00.479 --> 01:58:03.439
that are in different products, but
those both killed just grasses and not broad

1619
01:58:03.520 --> 01:58:06.920
leaves. So that's another one,
right. Hear what you're saying. Hear

1620
01:58:06.920 --> 01:58:11.199
what you're saying here. Yeah,
and Ken, let me just let me

1621
01:58:11.439 --> 01:58:14.600
let me loop back. Excuse me, let me look back one time to

1622
01:58:14.680 --> 01:58:16.760
what I was saying earlier, and
that is, if you're dealing with annual

1623
01:58:16.760 --> 01:58:19.479
weeds, you don't you don't need
to do that. I mean you could,

1624
01:58:20.479 --> 01:58:25.720
you know, a light rototelling and
leveling the ground so it's it's right

1625
01:58:25.840 --> 01:58:29.000
for laying grass. You get your
little holes filled in and things. Randy

1626
01:58:29.039 --> 01:58:32.239
used to call it the kill till
and phil. I believe I said that

1627
01:58:32.279 --> 01:58:36.920
in the right order, kill till
Phil. Anyway, Uh, you can

1628
01:58:36.960 --> 01:58:41.159
do that too. You can physically
just when you chop them off, they're

1629
01:58:42.039 --> 01:58:45.960
they're done. If it's an annual
weed, so there's no need to worry

1630
01:58:45.039 --> 01:58:50.000
about those, but you do want
to get any substantial amount of living plant

1631
01:58:50.039 --> 01:58:57.880
tissue off the surface so that you
can get the new sod to touch dirt.

1632
01:58:58.720 --> 01:59:01.000
Okay, very good. That helps
out a bunch. I appreciate it

1633
01:59:01.079 --> 01:59:04.359
all right, Ken, thank you
for the call. Appreciate your call very

1634
01:59:04.479 --> 01:59:09.399
very much. In all you know, all these all these kinds of things,

1635
01:59:09.399 --> 01:59:11.600
there's always more than one way to
skin a cat. And I know

1636
01:59:11.600 --> 01:59:15.159
everybody has different tolerances when it comes
to what kind of products you want to

1637
01:59:15.239 --> 01:59:16.880
use and so on. But we
try to guide you in a way that

1638
01:59:16.880 --> 01:59:24.600
that helps as best we can to
just avoid avoid an ongoing problem that you

1639
01:59:24.680 --> 01:59:27.399
might have, and I try to
try to answer the best I can in

1640
01:59:27.439 --> 01:59:30.600
that way for folks. Well,
it's time for another quick break. Here

1641
01:59:30.680 --> 01:59:33.960
our phone number seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. When

1642
01:59:34.000 --> 01:59:39.760
we come back, Christy and David, you will be the first two up.

1643
01:59:42.079 --> 01:59:44.840
Welcome back to guarden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and

1644
01:59:44.880 --> 01:59:50.079
we're here to answer your gardening questions
at seven one three two one two fifty

1645
01:59:50.119 --> 01:59:57.000
eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. If

1646
01:59:57.039 --> 02:00:00.279
you have not been to buchanis plants
in a while, you really need to

1647
02:00:00.319 --> 02:00:04.640
go Buchanans. It's one of those
garden centers where you can just pretty much

1648
02:00:04.680 --> 02:00:09.560
go every every month of the year
and there's always something new. There's always

1649
02:00:09.560 --> 02:00:13.640
something interesting. They specialize in natives, that's there, you know, that's

1650
02:00:13.760 --> 02:00:17.760
what they are most known for,
but every kind of plant you can imagine,

1651
02:00:17.760 --> 02:00:20.760
it's going to be at Buchanans Plants, fruit trees for example, in

1652
02:00:20.840 --> 02:00:25.600
herbs and vegetables and houseplants. My
gosh, they've got a great selection of

1653
02:00:25.640 --> 02:00:30.680
houseplants right now. They've got a
good stock of seeds from Native American seeds

1654
02:00:30.680 --> 02:00:34.199
of all kinds of annual flowering plants. If you want things that attract butterflies

1655
02:00:34.239 --> 02:00:40.239
and whatnot that are beautiful, milkweeds
and Indian blankets, just on and on,

1656
02:00:40.600 --> 02:00:44.720
nice mixes for the region. Buchanans
Plants has got those seeds available.

1657
02:00:44.840 --> 02:00:47.640
Of course, they got the plants
as well. There's always something going on

1658
02:00:47.880 --> 02:00:53.039
out at Buchanan's Plants. Your cool
season color you can still get it there,

1659
02:00:53.119 --> 02:00:57.560
and it's a good time to plant
cool season color right now. Stop

1660
02:00:57.600 --> 02:01:00.520
in when you're there. You'll find
the fertilizers that I recommend you'll find soil

1661
02:01:00.680 --> 02:01:04.720
amendments products to improve your soil.
Yeah, they know how important that is

1662
02:01:04.800 --> 02:01:11.840
too. But Buchanan's Plants in the
Heights on Eleventh Street, Buchanansplants dot Com

1663
02:01:11.960 --> 02:01:15.119
this place you need to go visit. We're going to now head out to

1664
02:01:15.279 --> 02:01:19.479
Keema and talk to Christy. Hello
Christy, Hi, good morning morning.

1665
02:01:21.159 --> 02:01:26.880
So I have live on about a
half an acre and like most people,

1666
02:01:27.000 --> 02:01:31.199
my lawn was my Saint Augustine lawn
was pretty much decimated in the drought,

1667
02:01:31.399 --> 02:01:36.720
okay, and I'm interested in replacing
with something, especially because I have two

1668
02:01:36.800 --> 02:01:41.960
dogs. It's really muddy out there, and I'm interested in this new native

1669
02:01:42.039 --> 02:01:47.039
seed mix for the Houston area.
I don't know if that's realistic. What

1670
02:01:47.039 --> 02:01:51.680
would you recommend to get some grass
going and control the mud. That's a

1671
02:01:51.680 --> 02:01:56.760
good question. The native seed mixes
when you start from seed, you start

1672
02:01:56.800 --> 02:02:00.520
off with little spinlely seedlings, and
if you can keep the dog off of

1673
02:02:00.760 --> 02:02:04.119
something like that for a while and
give those little tiny plants a chance to

1674
02:02:04.600 --> 02:02:10.439
establish well and grow into sturdy plants
with a root system, that might work

1675
02:02:10.479 --> 02:02:13.760
out for you. It depends on
how much shade you have, how much

1676
02:02:13.800 --> 02:02:18.199
sun you have and the drainage and
everything, so that the mix would be

1677
02:02:18.279 --> 02:02:25.520
appropriate for your area. As far
as wear in tear tolerance, Bermuda and

1678
02:02:25.600 --> 02:02:30.800
Zoysia are the two most wear in
tear tolerant grasses for the lawn in this

1679
02:02:30.920 --> 02:02:35.760
area. Now, when it comes
to dogs, there's almost no grass that

1680
02:02:35.880 --> 02:02:41.560
can really stand up to at least
losing certain areas. I know dogs like

1681
02:02:41.600 --> 02:02:44.520
to follow trails, you know,
along the fence or whatever, and they'll

1682
02:02:44.560 --> 02:02:47.119
wear a rut there and the grass
just it keeps trying to recover, but

1683
02:02:47.399 --> 02:02:53.199
you know the dogs don't let it. And so in saying Bermuda and zoysia,

1684
02:02:53.239 --> 02:02:56.920
I just want to say that in
certain situations they won't. I prefer

1685
02:02:56.960 --> 02:03:00.199
the zeusia because it'll do pretty well
in shade as well as sun. Bermuna

1686
02:03:00.319 --> 02:03:04.720
needs sun to do well, but
you got to mow it regularly in order

1687
02:03:04.760 --> 02:03:11.960
to keep a nice dense cover over
the soil. Okay, And do I

1688
02:03:12.039 --> 02:03:17.880
need you remove the Saint Austine or
can I seed over that? You don't

1689
02:03:17.920 --> 02:03:24.159
seed Zoysia. It's a sod And
with any sod, you want the sod

1690
02:03:24.319 --> 02:03:28.640
pieces that come in for the soil
on the bottom of that side piece to

1691
02:03:28.640 --> 02:03:31.640
touch the soil in your yard.
And so if you have Saint Augustine or

1692
02:03:31.680 --> 02:03:38.039
weeds or mulch laying on the surface, you're not going to get good sod

1693
02:03:38.319 --> 02:03:43.880
soil to sod contact and that's important
for establishing. So you would need to

1694
02:03:43.920 --> 02:03:46.399
get that Saint Augustine out of there
if you're going to try to do that.

1695
02:03:47.079 --> 02:03:50.119
The alternative is to stick with the
Saint Augustine, do the best you

1696
02:03:50.159 --> 02:03:56.880
can, kind of redirect the pity
pattern of little or maybe big feet that's

1697
02:03:56.880 --> 02:04:00.000
going over it, and give it
a chance to recover a little bit.

1698
02:04:00.479 --> 02:04:05.720
Okay, and are you familiar with
the new native grass seed I have.

1699
02:04:05.920 --> 02:04:11.159
I've never tried it. I've never
tried growing it. But where did you

1700
02:04:11.199 --> 02:04:16.359
get it or where did you see
it it? I'm a Texas Master Naturalist

1701
02:04:16.399 --> 02:04:24.720
and I was just sent an email
about this new native grass seed mix that

1702
02:04:25.199 --> 02:04:30.119
they've come out with, you know, to try it. It's supposed to

1703
02:04:30.199 --> 02:04:33.319
have a really deep root system and
therefore be good for our area as far

1704
02:04:33.359 --> 02:04:41.119
as drought and flooding, both yes, more water and also helping with drought

1705
02:04:41.920 --> 02:04:47.640
following. So if I were to
seed, can I seed over Saint Augustine,

1706
02:04:47.760 --> 02:04:50.520
you could, but you're going to
have a you're going to have a

1707
02:04:50.560 --> 02:04:55.520
blend that are going to be competing
Saint Augustine initially, is going to make

1708
02:04:55.560 --> 02:04:59.920
it hard for those low grass seedlings
to get started. But that that mix

1709
02:05:00.199 --> 02:05:03.000
that was found for down here,
it's it's got a number of grasses,

1710
02:05:03.399 --> 02:05:09.319
but they're more of a pasture kind
of grass. So you may not it

1711
02:05:09.439 --> 02:05:15.039
may not be as lawn acceptable for
most people. Uh, but if you're

1712
02:05:15.159 --> 02:05:18.960
if you can tolerate a little bit
of a mini meadow rather than a tight,

1713
02:05:19.159 --> 02:05:24.520
neatly neatly mode lawn, I think
that it will do pretty well.

1714
02:05:24.640 --> 02:05:27.880
There's more than one seed mix out
there like that. I think one of

1715
02:05:27.920 --> 02:05:30.840
them. Oh gosh, what was
the name of that group, the oh

1716
02:05:30.920 --> 02:05:33.960
Houston Wilderness had a Yeah, that's
the one I'm referring to. Okay,

1717
02:05:34.039 --> 02:05:39.920
yeah, that makes sense. So
anyway, it's it's got it's got a

1718
02:05:39.960 --> 02:05:43.079
mix. I mean, I don't
know. I think there's almost a dozen

1719
02:05:43.119 --> 02:05:46.119
different things that are going in there. But it's not just grasses. They've

1720
02:05:46.119 --> 02:05:49.600
got a wild sunflower or two that's
in there, and they got some I

1721
02:05:49.640 --> 02:05:53.840
can't remember what else, but some
other things. But just know that we're

1722
02:05:53.840 --> 02:05:58.600
talking about think more of like a
meadow than a lawn, so that when

1723
02:05:58.640 --> 02:06:02.000
you go after this you make sure
you're you know what you're getting. It's

1724
02:06:02.000 --> 02:06:05.880
a good mix. Yeah, I
mean it lives here native, so it's

1725
02:06:05.920 --> 02:06:10.000
you know, it can grow here. It's going to need I don't have

1726
02:06:10.159 --> 02:06:13.720
an I don't have an a tru
a okay, and I lived more in

1727
02:06:13.760 --> 02:06:16.800
a rural area on half an acre
or so that would be okay, yeah,

1728
02:06:16.840 --> 02:06:20.960
well okay. Uh so, And
if you've been associated with the master

1729
02:06:21.039 --> 02:06:24.760
Naturalists, you're familiar with these things, and so you can kind of look

1730
02:06:24.800 --> 02:06:29.359
into them yourself and see see what
they look like. All right, all

1731
02:06:29.439 --> 02:06:30.800
right, thank you, all right, thank you. I appreciate your call

1732
02:06:30.920 --> 02:06:35.399
very much. Let's see here.
We are now going to go to David.

1733
02:06:36.039 --> 02:06:41.399
David, it says San Francisco.
Is that right? It is here?

1734
02:06:41.439 --> 02:06:45.479
I want to happy New yek.
Yeah. It's funny. I used

1735
02:06:45.479 --> 02:06:49.159
to live in Colorado and I took
the Master Gardner course, and is a

1736
02:06:49.239 --> 02:06:55.439
master naturalist something different in Texas?
It is we have a thing called master

1737
02:06:55.600 --> 02:07:00.199
naturalist and as the name implies,
rather than being interested and manicured gardens,

1738
02:07:00.199 --> 02:07:04.960
and vegetables and all those kinds of
things and lawns. They're more interested in

1739
02:07:05.000 --> 02:07:11.920
the natural areas, the wall plants, the meadows, the regions, the

1740
02:07:12.000 --> 02:07:16.119
various regions of the state and what
grows well there and how to protect species

1741
02:07:16.159 --> 02:07:21.119
that might be endangered or on the
Yeah, it sounds like a great idea.

1742
02:07:21.359 --> 02:07:26.600
Yeah, I wonder if Colorado has
gotten into that yet. Yeah the

1743
02:07:27.239 --> 02:07:30.880
yeah, I don't know. Well, yeah, and it kind of leads

1744
02:07:30.960 --> 02:07:33.720
up. You had a previous caller, the guy that was talking about round

1745
02:07:33.800 --> 02:07:40.760
Up in gly fossate did He made
a weird little comment about people that are

1746
02:07:40.800 --> 02:07:45.239
adding things to it in a white
bottle. Are there bootleg round Up or

1747
02:07:45.359 --> 02:07:49.880
no bootleg life fossates going around?
Now? The round Up name was so

1748
02:07:50.039 --> 02:07:54.800
well known that they decided, well, let's just make it round up.

1749
02:07:55.239 --> 02:07:59.640
I use the example round Up for
lawns. It's a product produced by that

1750
02:07:59.720 --> 02:08:05.439
company, but it's not glify.
Say, it's what you would look at

1751
02:08:05.520 --> 02:08:09.600
as a broadly weed control product for
your lawn. It doesn't kill grass,

1752
02:08:09.840 --> 02:08:13.039
I mean it kills broadly for you. Well, yeah, that gets into

1753
02:08:13.399 --> 02:08:16.520
when I was out in Colorado,
and this is going on thirty years ago,

1754
02:08:16.720 --> 02:08:22.079
you had to be trained. You
know, I was out in Mason

1755
02:08:22.199 --> 02:08:28.119
County Grand Junction, which is a
huge fruit growing area of the state.

1756
02:08:28.680 --> 02:08:33.560
And the idea that people would go
out untrained in the use of round up.

1757
02:08:35.319 --> 02:08:39.039
You couldn't even buy it unless you
had a permit, and you had

1758
02:08:39.039 --> 02:08:43.880
to be trained in order to get
a permit, and it was extremely poisonous.

1759
02:08:43.000 --> 02:08:50.840
And the idea that somebody has taken
that name and been able to basically

1760
02:08:50.960 --> 02:08:56.439
cheapen it and you know, come
up with various versions of it when it

1761
02:08:56.560 --> 02:09:01.520
used to be an extremely I mean
it was touched non agent orange, the

1762
02:09:01.520 --> 02:09:07.520
original version of it. And the
idea that people would be able to cheapen

1763
02:09:07.600 --> 02:09:13.359
it and then market it is I'm
not sure what that original that you're referring

1764
02:09:13.399 --> 02:09:18.560
to is, but I won't get
into the glacate discussion today that there's nowhere

1765
02:09:18.560 --> 02:09:22.319
to go on that really, But
yeah, there are a lot of products.

1766
02:09:22.399 --> 02:09:24.399
There are a lot of products out
there, and a lot of parts

1767
02:09:24.399 --> 02:09:28.279
of the country that limit certain products. If you go to the East Coast,

1768
02:09:28.319 --> 02:09:33.039
Chesapeake Bay, those areas where they're
very concerned about runoff, you do

1769
02:09:33.159 --> 02:09:37.520
have to have a prescription for certain
kinds of products. To use in the

1770
02:09:37.600 --> 02:09:41.119
lawn because even a fertilizer can wash
off and cause damage to water bodies when

1771
02:09:41.159 --> 02:09:46.680
it's misused, over applied, you
know, so on sure, Yeah,

1772
02:09:46.720 --> 02:09:52.359
I was just reading about the yellow
legged frogs in California and they're almost extinct

1773
02:09:52.439 --> 02:09:56.319
because of runoff of you know,
people going swimming and they're in a mountain

1774
02:09:56.399 --> 02:10:01.880
pond and they have too much skin, you know, the lotion on their

1775
02:10:01.359 --> 02:10:07.640
body, especially the sunburned creams are
killing the frogs. And it's hey,

1776
02:10:07.720 --> 02:10:11.000
David, ready to cut in.
I'm on a run, short on time.

1777
02:10:11.000 --> 02:10:15.079
But I think you called about a
different question, right, Yeah.

1778
02:10:15.199 --> 02:10:18.159
Yeah, if say somebody had had
a I heard two previous collars, one

1779
02:10:18.199 --> 02:10:22.079
had a half acre and the other
guy had five acres, and if they

1780
02:10:22.119 --> 02:10:26.279
wanted to go from a lawn to
a garden, you know, food garden.

1781
02:10:26.800 --> 02:10:31.359
I mean I can smell another.
The drought continues right in Texas,

1782
02:10:31.399 --> 02:10:35.399
and if you grow a garden,
you're going to likely save one thousand dollars,

1783
02:10:35.439 --> 02:10:41.199
if not more. If somebody was
to turn part of the yard into

1784
02:10:41.239 --> 02:10:45.760
a garden, is there something that
they would like, For example, if

1785
02:10:45.800 --> 02:10:50.199
they used a lot of pesticides for
roses in one part of the garden.

1786
02:10:50.199 --> 02:10:54.079
They were going to rip them out
and put in, you know, tomatoes

1787
02:10:54.199 --> 02:10:58.960
or something. Should they prepare the
soil in a different way to make sure

1788
02:11:00.079 --> 02:11:03.159
they don't. So I've got about
thirty seconds, and I'm going to give

1789
02:11:03.199 --> 02:11:05.840
you a thirty second answer here.
The bottom line is all those products that

1790
02:11:05.920 --> 02:11:11.000
we use on our plants labeled for
roses and vegetables and whatnot, when you

1791
02:11:11.079 --> 02:11:13.479
mix up the soil and give it
some time, that stuff breaks down and

1792
02:11:13.520 --> 02:11:16.880
we don't worry about it. There
are products that are more persistent, but

1793
02:11:16.960 --> 02:11:20.119
they would be used more in right
of ways where they want to kill everything

1794
02:11:20.159 --> 02:11:24.600
and never let it grow back again. But we don't have to worry about

1795
02:11:24.600 --> 02:11:26.800
that so much. However, if
you want to put a garden in the

1796
02:11:26.920 --> 02:11:30.800
yard, I would say, just
just dig up the grass, or if

1797
02:11:30.840 --> 02:11:33.760
it's Saint Augustine, you just you
just throw soil on top of it and

1798
02:11:33.800 --> 02:11:35.760
it kills it. You don't even
have to kill it or anything like that.

1799
02:11:35.840 --> 02:11:37.720
I'm sorry, I got a run. We're on a hard break.

1800
02:11:39.479 --> 02:11:41.640
Thank you for your call. Appreciate
it, you bet. Our phone number

1801
02:11:41.720 --> 02:11:48.279
is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Welcome back to

1802
02:11:48.279 --> 02:11:52.800
the garden line. We are glad
you are listening in today, and what

1803
02:11:52.960 --> 02:11:56.720
a day it is outside, gorgeous
day to be getting ready for gardening.

1804
02:11:56.800 --> 02:12:01.199
So let's move that spring fever up. Don't wait until March for spring fever.

1805
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It's time to catch the fever now, because now is when we do

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the things that make sure when spring
comes we have a beautiful place, a

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02:12:09.199 --> 02:12:13.479
bountiful garden, and all the things
that we want to achieve outside. We're

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going to head now out to the
woodlands and talk to Chris. Hello,

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02:12:18.840 --> 02:12:24.439
Chris, good morning, Rick,
are rich? I'll call anything for dinner.

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02:12:24.479 --> 02:12:30.680
How can I help? Well,
I'm using frost sheets on some of

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02:12:30.720 --> 02:12:35.079
my plants the last couple of weeks, for not all day, but anyways,

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02:12:35.520 --> 02:12:39.600
and then I see we're going to
be getting some colder weather next week.

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02:12:41.399 --> 02:12:46.359
How much of a temperature will the
frost sheets help? And when do

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02:12:46.439 --> 02:12:52.640
I need to cover with extra If
it's truly sold as a frost cover,

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02:12:54.520 --> 02:12:58.680
it ought to give you about four
degrees three or four degrees of protection,

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02:12:58.319 --> 02:13:03.920
depending on the situation that you're using
it in and how how you apply it.

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02:13:05.239 --> 02:13:09.359
But they're not you know, they're
not like a blanket, but they

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02:13:09.399 --> 02:13:13.840
do hold some warmth thin to the
soil by preventing it from escaping, but

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02:13:13.880 --> 02:13:18.520
they are porous, so there can
be some loss of heat through there.

1820
02:13:20.479 --> 02:13:24.439
Okay, I've got a camellia that's
in full bud and I lost all of

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02:13:24.439 --> 02:13:30.720
them my camellia's buds last year with
the freeze that came at Christmas. Gotcha,

1822
02:13:30.760 --> 02:13:35.039
and I don't want I covered it
with the frost for a couple of

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02:13:35.119 --> 02:13:37.880
days, and now, you know, seeing what's going to happen next week

1824
02:13:39.039 --> 02:13:43.239
with the thirty degrees, they're saying, Okay, I just didn't know if

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02:13:43.239 --> 02:13:48.359
that's frost cloth is enough or if
I need to put a blanket on it.

1826
02:13:48.479 --> 02:13:50.479
Well, if it's a very very
light frost, it doesn't get very

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02:13:50.479 --> 02:13:56.439
cold and it's very brief. Just
having the cover over it slows the loss

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02:13:56.439 --> 02:14:01.680
of heat from the buds, which
is whether it's a leaf or whatever.

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02:14:01.720 --> 02:14:05.960
When you see frost forming on a
plant, what that tells you is that

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02:14:05.000 --> 02:14:09.760
plant lost the heat and its tissues
to a point where ice formed on the

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02:14:09.800 --> 02:14:15.720
surface. And so if you slow
the cooling down and by the time it

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02:14:15.920 --> 02:14:18.840
you know, would start to get
too cold, the sun's coming up and

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02:14:18.479 --> 02:14:22.960
you know the danger of frost has
passed. Those can work. Otherwise you

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02:14:24.000 --> 02:14:26.640
have to put some sort of heat
underneath the cover. It doesn't take a

1835
02:14:26.680 --> 02:14:31.520
lot of heat. It just takes
enough to prevent the temperature from dropping down

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02:14:31.960 --> 02:14:37.560
to freezing. Okay, you know
what I'm saying about. I mean,

1837
02:14:37.600 --> 02:14:41.520
it could be a couple of one
hundred and fifty watt light bulbs underneath the

1838
02:14:41.600 --> 02:14:45.000
cover, And yeah, that's not
going to make the whole thing warm,

1839
02:14:45.199 --> 02:14:48.079
but it'll keep it from If you
keep it above thirty five degrees, you've

1840
02:14:48.119 --> 02:14:52.720
accomplished what you're trying to do,
right, Okay, okay, all right,

1841
02:14:54.119 --> 02:14:56.840
thank you so much. All right, thank you. I appreciate I

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02:14:56.920 --> 02:15:03.720
appreciate it allight. Bye bye,
you bet take care. The uh I

1843
02:15:03.760 --> 02:15:07.600
was talking earlier about ACE hardware is
having kind of everything that you need,

1844
02:15:07.680 --> 02:15:13.960
and just you know, visiting with
Chris about the frost sheet reminded me Ace

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02:15:15.000 --> 02:15:18.920
hardware it goes beyond fertilizers. Yes, they have ever fertilizer I recommend.

1846
02:15:18.960 --> 02:15:22.920
Yes, they have all the products
you need for weeds, diseases and SCTs,

1847
02:15:22.960 --> 02:15:24.079
pests, all that kind of thing. They've got all that. Of

1848
02:15:24.119 --> 02:15:28.760
course, that's hands down. They've
got the tools, they've got the garden

1849
02:15:28.800 --> 02:15:33.119
hoses, they've got everything you can
imagine needing, including things like you know,

1850
02:15:33.199 --> 02:15:35.359
I need I need coal protection.
I need to be able to do

1851
02:15:35.439 --> 02:15:37.880
some things to help out the plant. Here. They're going to have supplies

1852
02:15:37.920 --> 02:15:41.039
of all sorts of things in an
ACE Hardware. You just need to go

1853
02:15:41.159 --> 02:15:46.239
check them out. And it's easy
to find one ACE Hardware dot com and

1854
02:15:46.439 --> 02:15:50.399
you can even do a forward slash
and do store dash locator if you want

1855
02:15:50.439 --> 02:15:52.880
to go all the way there,
or just go there and find their store

1856
02:15:52.920 --> 02:15:58.119
locator. There's an ACE Hardware near
you, and they're stocked up and they're

1857
02:15:58.159 --> 02:16:01.960
ready for spring. They've got the
things that you need, and that would

1858
02:16:01.000 --> 02:16:05.119
be a good place to start your
shopping for those types of things. We're

1859
02:16:05.119 --> 02:16:11.119
going to go now out to Ruth
in Spring. Hello, Ruth, good

1860
02:16:11.119 --> 02:16:15.720
morning. I thank you for taking
a call. Last week. You mentioned

1861
02:16:15.720 --> 02:16:22.239
something about a bug that doesn't fly
very far, and I am thinking we

1862
02:16:22.359 --> 02:16:26.720
have that. This bug is kind
of a thick bodied that three eighths of

1863
02:16:26.800 --> 02:16:31.079
an inch darky stray and I took
a picture of it and en marchment,

1864
02:16:31.200 --> 02:16:37.920
I can see little spots on its
wings on the edges of the wings,

1865
02:16:37.200 --> 02:16:45.840
and I it was mentioned something about
maybe it was a moth, And well,

1866
02:16:45.840 --> 02:16:48.799
I tell you, Ruth, I'm
not going to even be able to

1867
02:16:48.799 --> 02:16:52.760
come close to imagining what you're seeing. We got a couple of options.

1868
02:16:52.799 --> 02:16:56.840
First of all, last i've been
here for this is I was off the

1869
02:16:56.920 --> 02:17:03.040
last two weekends, so that would
have been a recording from previously record.

1870
02:17:03.200 --> 02:17:07.639
Yeah, I'm not remembering that conversation. But I can put you on hold

1871
02:17:07.680 --> 02:17:09.200
and if you can you get one
to find one of the bugs and take

1872
02:17:09.200 --> 02:17:13.200
a picture of it. Oh,
yes, I do have a photo.

1873
02:17:13.399 --> 02:17:16.479
Uh huh, Okay, if you've
got a good close up and in very

1874
02:17:16.520 --> 02:17:20.920
sharp focus, because I'm going to
have to zoom in really good to be

1875
02:17:22.000 --> 02:17:24.159
able to identify it. If you
can send me a photo two of that.

1876
02:17:24.399 --> 02:17:28.200
If the bug won't hold still for
you to get close, just put

1877
02:17:28.200 --> 02:17:31.000
it in a jar, put it
in the freezer, leave it there for

1878
02:17:31.040 --> 02:17:35.760
about fifteen minutes, and then pull
it out and before it starts warming up

1879
02:17:35.760 --> 02:17:39.360
and moving again, you have some
time to take a photo. Okay,

1880
02:17:39.360 --> 02:17:43.440
Well, I do have a fairly
good photo. Even when I enlarge it,

1881
02:17:43.440 --> 02:17:50.600
it stays and it stays in okay, focus, Okay, well,

1882
02:17:52.120 --> 02:17:54.159
that's fine. Just know that sometimes
it comes down to me looking at the

1883
02:17:54.200 --> 02:17:58.360
antenna on a bug and counting the
segments to get it identified. Sometimes it's

1884
02:17:58.719 --> 02:18:01.879
being able to look underneath at the
mouth parts or you know, from the

1885
02:18:01.920 --> 02:18:05.440
top side, from the sides,
and so extra photos don't hurt. But

1886
02:18:05.600 --> 02:18:09.280
I'm going to put you on hold. Josh will come on and get you

1887
02:18:09.319 --> 02:18:13.879
an email so you can send me
a picture and I'll see what I can

1888
02:18:13.920 --> 02:18:16.440
do and trying to identify that for
you. All right, all right,

1889
02:18:16.959 --> 02:18:18.159
very much. I appreciate it.
By the way, it may just be

1890
02:18:18.239 --> 02:18:22.959
slow moving because it's cold. I'm
slow moving out there right there. When

1891
02:18:22.000 --> 02:18:31.760
it's when it flies, it kind
of flies no more than than eighteen inches.

1892
02:18:31.040 --> 02:18:37.079
Okay, it comes all again.
It's very yeh uh it. Let

1893
02:18:37.159 --> 02:18:41.639
me get pretty close, okay to
take the picture. Okay, Well,

1894
02:18:41.959 --> 02:18:45.120
I'm going to make a yeah,
I'm going to make a guess up up

1895
02:18:45.120 --> 02:18:46.680
front that it's not gonna be something
to worry about. You know, we

1896
02:18:46.719 --> 02:18:52.040
only have a handful of insects on
any given plant that we have to be

1897
02:18:52.120 --> 02:18:56.319
concerned about, and that what you're
describing doesn't sound to me like a problem.

1898
02:18:56.360 --> 02:18:58.600
But I will sure take a look
at it, and then I won't

1899
02:18:58.639 --> 02:19:03.079
be guessed. I'll be saying what
I know. All right, Well we

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02:19:03.120 --> 02:19:07.120
always see yeah, we always see
one about everything. Okay, Well I

1901
02:19:07.159 --> 02:19:09.239
got a hold. I'm sorry,
I got to interrupt you. We got

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02:19:09.280 --> 02:19:11.040
to go to a break here.
I'm hard pressed against it. Our phone

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02:19:11.120 --> 02:19:18.559
number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back

1904
02:19:18.559 --> 02:19:20.879
to garden Line. We are glad
you're listening today. I'm your host,

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02:19:20.959 --> 02:19:24.959
Skip Richter. We are going to
make sure and try to provide you with

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02:19:26.040 --> 02:19:28.399
the information you need to turn a
brown thumb green. How about that?

1907
02:19:28.399 --> 02:19:33.360
That's the goal. At least,
I'm here to answer your gardening questions and

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02:19:33.399 --> 02:19:37.360
try to guide you to success.
You know, gardening is a wonderful hobby.

1909
02:19:37.440 --> 02:19:41.879
There's a ton of research. I
had doctor Charlie hall Uh as a

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02:19:41.920 --> 02:19:48.200
guest a while back, and just
talking about all the research of the soothing

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02:19:48.239 --> 02:19:52.120
effect of being in nature, being
around plants, et cetera, et cetera.

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Not to mention the physical. I
get up, I walk around,

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02:19:54.239 --> 02:19:56.959
I plant, I do things.
I breathe fresh air, I kept some

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02:19:58.040 --> 02:20:01.920
sunshine. You know, all the
garden package is a healthy one, and

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02:20:03.399 --> 02:20:05.760
when you learn how to do it
right, it is so pleasing. It

1916
02:20:05.840 --> 02:20:11.840
is such a sense of accomplishment.
And everybody's different. You may want the

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02:20:11.959 --> 02:20:16.520
Louis the fourteenth type, perfectly clipped
lawn, square hedges, everything at a

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02:20:16.600 --> 02:20:22.799
right angle. You know that kind
of engineer, look like an engineer lives

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02:20:22.879 --> 02:20:26.360
their landscape. Or you may want
to get all topiary and doctor Seuss with

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02:20:26.399 --> 02:20:28.639
how you bring things, or you
may want to let it grow wild.

1921
02:20:28.680 --> 02:20:31.040
I was just talking about some native
grass mixes a little bit earlier on.

1922
02:20:31.559 --> 02:20:35.239
You may be into native plants or
a more natural look. You may be

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02:20:35.280 --> 02:20:39.840
all about herbs and vegetables, or
you couldn't care less. You just want

1924
02:20:39.840 --> 02:20:43.559
to grow flowers. You see what
I'm saying. Gardening is for everybody,

1925
02:20:43.879 --> 02:20:46.200
even people that are cooped up in
the house and just have house plants.

1926
02:20:46.319 --> 02:20:50.920
Gardening is for them too, And
that's what we're here for, is to

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02:20:50.959 --> 02:20:56.200
try to help you find success and
more enjoyment. There are other benefits to

1928
02:20:56.280 --> 02:21:00.600
take care of your plants, and
successful gardening, for example, makes your

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02:21:00.719 --> 02:21:05.680
property more valuable. It absolutely does. There is a significant increase in the

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02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:09.559
value of a property and not just
the dollars that your house sells for,

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but how long it's on the market. When you have a beautiful, really

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02:21:13.520 --> 02:21:22.680
sharp looking, let's say, well
designed landscape plan, people drive up and

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02:21:22.840 --> 02:21:28.000
there's an instant first impression impact and
that any realtor can tell you that's important.

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That's very important in success with your
plant. So that's what we're here,

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02:21:31.360 --> 02:21:35.799
what we're doing about. Hey,
Nelson plant Food has a product called

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02:21:37.239 --> 02:21:41.680
turf Star Weedonator. It is a
blend of nutrients that will feed for about

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02:21:41.760 --> 02:21:46.319
six months, up to six months
at least. It'll carry you a good

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02:21:46.360 --> 02:21:50.440
while and it has mixed with it
something to kill the broad leaf weeds in

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02:21:50.479 --> 02:21:54.079
your lawn. Now, when you
apply it, and you need to think

1940
02:21:54.079 --> 02:21:56.879
about this, you got to get
it on the leaves of the weeds,

1941
02:21:56.959 --> 02:22:01.120
right. So the way we do
that is we watered just a little bit,

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02:22:01.280 --> 02:22:05.799
just enough to dampen the lawn and
the weeds and then make the application

1943
02:22:05.959 --> 02:22:09.319
so the little granules you're putting out
stick to the weeds. That's where they

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02:22:09.399 --> 02:22:11.399
go to work. And they do
that. And we have products that kill

1945
02:22:11.440 --> 02:22:15.760
broad leaf weeds and when you use
them when the weather's too hot, you

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02:22:15.799 --> 02:22:20.159
can have some problems for your lawn. So those weeds that went over winter,

1947
02:22:20.280 --> 02:22:24.719
maybe you didn't pre emergent prevent them
back in the fall when we were

1948
02:22:24.719 --> 02:22:31.000
talking about that. And now hindbit
and chickweed and dandelion and all those cool

1949
02:22:31.000 --> 02:22:35.799
season broad leafs are in your lawn. Don't wait until they have until they've

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02:22:35.799 --> 02:22:39.520
become large and they've got blooms and
seed. It's very difficult to kill them

1951
02:22:39.559 --> 02:22:43.879
then. But the turf Star Weed
needer will help you do that ahead of

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02:22:43.920 --> 02:22:46.719
time, and just follow the instructions
on it very closely, as with any

1953
02:22:46.760 --> 02:22:50.959
time you're using any kind of product. But it's just another one of the

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02:22:52.000 --> 02:22:56.239
many quality products that Nelson Plant Food
produces to help you have a more beautiful,

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02:22:56.319 --> 02:23:01.639
verdant lawn and have success with that. If you would like to give

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02:23:01.680 --> 02:23:03.799
us a call, we got a
little bit of time here left before the

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02:23:03.879 --> 02:23:09.879
end of the show today our phone
number seven one three two one two five

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eight seven four seven one three two
one two k t R H. I

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will be back by the way tomorrow
morning six am to ten am. So

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02:23:18.479 --> 02:23:20.959
tell your friends and family, Tell
the guy next door who won't take care

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02:23:20.959 --> 02:23:24.879
of his place about garden line.
I don't know. Maybe he'll listen in

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02:23:24.959 --> 02:23:28.799
and who knows, we'll hope for
the best. Right, that's true.

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02:23:30.120 --> 02:23:33.799
That is absolutely true. You know, I talk about Ace Hardware a lot,

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and it's because Ace Hardware has everything. I mean, I'm a home

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02:23:39.719 --> 02:23:41.879
and garden show, right, that's
I mean, a gardening show, that's

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02:23:41.920 --> 02:23:46.079
what we're about. But Ace Hardware
has things for your home. They have

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02:23:46.360 --> 02:23:50.719
They have all kinds of really cool
thing you know, barbecue pits, just

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02:23:50.159 --> 02:23:54.719
everything you can imagine that a hardware
store has plus one thousand things more.

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02:23:56.000 --> 02:23:58.200
But when it comes to having a
beautiful lawn, when it comes to having

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02:23:58.239 --> 02:24:03.079
a bountiful guard, a beautiful landscape, Ace Hardware has the products that you

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02:24:03.200 --> 02:24:07.799
need to achieve that. When you
hear me recommend a fertilizer, it's going

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02:24:07.879 --> 02:24:09.760
to be in Ace Hardware stores.
That's just the way it is. There's

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02:24:09.799 --> 02:24:13.760
forty stores, so there's going to
be one near you. Go to Acehardware

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02:24:13.799 --> 02:24:18.840
dot Com you can find your local
Ace Hardware stores and while you're in there,

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02:24:18.879 --> 02:24:20.600
you're going to find the tools that
you need and all the kinds of

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02:24:20.639 --> 02:24:26.280
supplies that you may need to have
success and a bountiful, beautiful and most

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02:24:26.440 --> 02:24:31.079
importantly of all, an enjoyable time
out there, enjoying your garden and in

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02:24:31.159 --> 02:24:35.440
your landscape. And it's all available
from your local ace hardware store. That

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02:24:35.719 --> 02:24:41.280
makes it kind of simple, one
stop shopping, easy to go, easy

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02:24:41.319 --> 02:24:45.200
to do. I'm going to be
doing. I had to leave for a

1981
02:24:45.200 --> 02:24:46.399
while. I was away from my
house plants for a couple of weeks,

1982
02:24:46.440 --> 02:24:50.680
and I came back and they were
still alive. I was impressed with that.

1983
02:24:50.639 --> 02:24:54.440
But what I did for a left
was I watered them really well and

1984
02:24:54.479 --> 02:24:58.040
even put a little water in the
basins underneath so some would wake up.

1985
02:24:58.399 --> 02:25:01.200
Because it was going to I knew
it's going to be about a week longer

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02:25:01.239 --> 02:25:05.440
than they should go without having another
watering. So we were able to pull

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02:25:05.479 --> 02:25:09.239
it off, and they look they
look pretty good at that. In that

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02:25:09.360 --> 02:25:11.799
case, I need to go clean
some stuff out I'm going to be doing.

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02:25:13.200 --> 02:25:15.959
I like Mexican hats. Do you
all know Mexican hats? A little

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02:25:16.000 --> 02:25:20.000
flowers. I'm may to be planning
some of those in my flower garden and

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be able to Uh, I'll talk
about that more later. We're right right

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02:25:24.920 --> 02:25:28.760
now. We're going to go to
Johnny and Orange. Hello, Johnny,

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02:25:31.120 --> 02:25:33.959
how's it going guy, it's going
good. I'm sorry, bo if you've

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02:25:33.200 --> 02:25:35.239
caught me at the end of the
show, but I'll see if I can

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help. I'd appreciate it. How
can I help? Oh, I'm sorry.

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Uh yeah, I live down in
Panama most of the time, and

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02:25:48.280 --> 02:25:52.559
i want to do a backyard garden, and I've had great luck with some

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02:25:52.600 --> 02:25:58.719
stuff like watermelons and cantloads and stuff. Can you what do you think I

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02:25:58.760 --> 02:26:01.520
could grow down there? Range of
seventy to ninety degrees more or less.

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02:26:01.719 --> 02:26:05.000
Yeah, and you got a dry
season and then you got the riding season.

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02:26:05.239 --> 02:26:07.920
Well, you can grow anything you
want to grow down there. You

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02:26:09.000 --> 02:26:11.559
pretty much. You just plan it
during the right season for what you're going

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02:26:11.639 --> 02:26:15.079
to grow. You know, when
it's gonna be in the nineties. I

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wouldn't try to grow broccoli at that
time, for example. But you can

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grow a lot of things. And
we have a lot of heat tolerant vegetables

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too, a lot of greens that
do well. And then there's there are

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greens from the whole Latin American area
that are popular in cuisine down in that

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region that also do real well here
that aren't common for our Texas gardens.

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For example, a few people growing
by. Yeah they have throw yes they

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have thilantro, but you can actually
find the cilantro to look. You can

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you grow Aztec sweet herbs. It's
a it's a sweetening kind of herb that

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does really well. Malabar spinach will
do well. The okra course will do

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great down there and do well.
You can grow tomatoes. You can grow

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pretty much anything you want to grow. You just have to deal with whatever.

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The My complex is my watermelons and
cantle. I was about the time

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they're getting ready. We had the
raining season and got too much rain and

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the plants died. Only a few
of those. The rest of them rotted.

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You know, keep working on it
and call me back if we can

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help with particular problems. Take pictures
of it, and you can always email

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them in and we can talk about
it on the air. After that,

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Hey, I got a guy.
Thank you so much for colling. Sorry

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we ran out of time today.
Hey guys, we'll be back next tomorrow

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morning at six am.