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

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on this program. Welcome to KTRH
Garden Line with Scarre Rictor so Trim.

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Just watch him as so many goods. S. Well, good morning,

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good morning, and a good Saturday
morning to be listening to gardening stuff on

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the radio, but also getting outside
getting some gardening done. We got some

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rain coming in this weekend, so
we take advantage of whatever hours we have

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to get outside. But you know, when it rains, it's still a

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good day for gardening. Because we
have house plants. We can start seeds

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inside, we can start cuttings inside. And if you've never ever tried starting

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cuttings yourself, I think you should
give it a try. And I'll talk

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about that a little bit this morning. First of all, I want to

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give you our phone number seven one
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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four R. You can just

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type KTRH. I'll get you in
there. I first learned how to propagate

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plants many many years ago, and
I'm telling you it as a gardener,

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it opens up a whole new world. You know, you can you buy

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a lot of great plants by either
by transplants or by seeds. At a

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lot of good options out there.
But when you learn to gross some things

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your own, it expands the things
that you can grow. For example,

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you know, you go look at
any plant in a garden center, tomatoes,

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or it could be I don't know, zenias or whatever, sunflowers,

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and there are a lot of good
varieties available. But when you consider all

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the varieties are out there that are
available by seed that are just not going

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to be available locally, if you
want to try one of those out,

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you got to start it yourself.
That's just how you go. I mean,

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a garden center can never carry all
the varieties of all the plants that

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are available. That just would be
ridiculous. But you can start them yourself.

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And when you learn to germinate seed
and start your own transplants, it

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just opens up some new varieties you
haven't grown before. Now. The ones

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you can find locally available, of
course, are great, and those will

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always be our standards. But when
you really get into a particular plant,

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let's just make it sunflowers, for
example, there are hundreds of varieties and

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so many types. You know,
you've got the big sunflowers that you grow

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to grow the seeds. If you
like to eat sunflower seeds, you can

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grow them seeds yourself and roast them
and enjoy that. There are sunflowers that

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only get one foot or eighteen inches
two feet somewhere in there tall that are

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good little bedding plants, or that
are good container plants. Those kind come

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in many colors. Typically it's going
to be the traditional yellow sunflower, but

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then as you get up taller,
there are sunflowers of each height. There

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are sunflowers that have multiple stems,
where instead of one sunflower on top like

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we would expect with our edible sunflowers, there's all these stems going out and

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a lot of sunflowers on them,
of varying sizes depending on the variety.

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There's the traditional yellow, but then
there's every kind of shade from a rusty

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red to all the way through orange
into yellow, and different patterns in the

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folas. In other words, there's
a lot of different types. You know,

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maybe you want something that gets four
feet high. Maybe you want to

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grow one called the Mexican sunflower,
which is actually a different species, but

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the Mexican sunflower Tythonia is an orange
flower all about the size of a little

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bigger than a tennis ball. Maybe
that is really fun to grow, does

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really well here by the way,
swallowtail butterflies love it a lot. That's

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another another good butterfly plant. There
are sunflowers that you grow for looking at

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in the garden. Then there's those
you grow for cutting inside, and some

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of the ones for cutting inside.
Breeders have developed types that don't drop the

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little flower parts, the structures that
are used in pollination. I don't know

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if you've ever brought a sunflower inside
that you cut, but you look around

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on the table underneath it and there's
all this little sunflower debris sitting on the

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table. Well, there's some types
that don't do that, And so when

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you go to the store and buy
sunflowers, you're probably going to get those

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types because I don't know, people
just don't like to have the debris dropping

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down off the flower. Well,
you can grow those yourself too, it's

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just another option. So I just
picked one example of a plant to explain

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why you would want to learn to
start some of your own seed. Many

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of our garden centers do carry a
wide variety a variety of seeds that you

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can try out, and of course
there's only a bazillion others out there that

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you can order and find. But
I would encourage you to learn to start

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your own seeds. It's not that
difficult. There's a lot of good free

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information online on how to do that. The secret to success with seeds now,

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this time of year, we've got
good light outside, so you can

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start your seeds in a shaded outdoor
area where the temperatures are warm. The

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light is bright, but it's not
direct full sun baking down on them,

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and gradually, once they sprout up, move them into more and more sunlight,

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probably morning sun first and then finally
evening. Some people just start directly

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in the full sun, and that's
that's okay too, depending on what kind

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of plants you're trying to grow.
But you can start your own seed really

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easily outside. When we get to
the cooler times of the year, you

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know, maybe it's January February and
you're wanting to start some tomato plants for

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the spring garden, Well, you're
going to start those inside where you have

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more mild temperatures, and in that
case you're going to want a good quality

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source of light. And we'll probably
talk about that a lot when we get

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back to that time of year.
But a good quality source of light ensures

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that your seedlings are stocky and strong, and so you can put them by

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a window. People have done that
for years, but the seedlings lean toward

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the window because as bright as it
seems to be on that window sill,

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it is not really bright enough.
I mean, you can make one grow

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and you can turn it around each
day, so make it lean back the

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other way instead of just leaning one
way from the window. But it's better

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to have a good quality light when
you're starting them inside. And I'll discuss

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that at another time, but I
encourage you to give seeds starting a try.

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We can also talk a little bit
later about starting seeds in the garden,

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and I'm gonna I hope to do
that we get through some calls and

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things today, but starting seeds in
the garden, there's a few tips that

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I'd like to give you for success
with seeds outdoors. All right, first

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thing we're gonna do is I want
to talk to you a little bit about

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Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's Garden Center. Kingwood and Warren's Garden Center in Kingwood.

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Both of them are open seven days
a week now. If you live

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in Kingwood on Baltasca Seed to Porter
New Caney, anywhere out that direction north

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and east of Houston, this is
one of the go to garden centers that

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you need to check out. They've
got those Microlife and Nelson plant food filling

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stations, so if you want to
bring your plastic jugs back in and fill

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them up again, they can take
care of that. These garden centers have

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a beautiful supply of plants. They've
got all the bling you need to go

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with your plants, and they can
also do can help you with designing your

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mixed planting containers. There's full landscaping
services available for the surrounding area and some

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really beautiful gift shops too. It's
worth a stop. They are both of

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them. In fact, I would
plan a day where you can go out

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visit both of them and just see
what they have to offer. Super Garden

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Center's knowledgeable staff and really really well
worth a visit no matter where you live

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in the Greater Houston area. We're
hitting time for a break here, so

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I am going to take a break
and any when we come back we will

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get to you. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four. Good morning on
a good Saturday morning. When that music

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makes me think about going to the
beach, doesn't it. Hey, that's

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we're That season is here and I
look forward to getting down to Galveston sun

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this year and being them enjoy a
little bit of the waves and just all

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the other enjoyable things that you get
when you go down to Galveston to enjoy

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some time down in that area.
Do you know the fun fact here?

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May well, let me change that
not so fun fact. Did you know

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that Houston is the number one community
in the country when it comes to household

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pest problems. Now, don't run
outside shouting we're number one. We're number

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one. I mean, this is
not not great news. But I do

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have great news, and that is
that we have a company called McGrath Pest

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Control that specializes in just that.
Scott McGrath, the family's been going since

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nineteen seventy four in this business.
Still a family run company. This is

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a kind of company where the owner
is involved day to day. They cover

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the whole Houston area. They specialize
in all types of pest from the things

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you think of, like cockroaches,
for example, all the way through rodents,

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and that certainly is an issue in
our area. Now you can call

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them at two eight one four six
nine eighty two forty, or just go

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online McGrath pest control dot com McGrath
pest control dot com. You don't have

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to sign a contract and get this. When they say they're coming, they

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won't give you like a five hour
time block. They'll tell you the time

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and they show up. It's that
kind of old fashioned business and service with

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modern technology, the ability to shut
down a pest problem at your place so

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that you can show your home without
having to share it with a lot of

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six and four legged creatures other than
your pets. Of course, Hey,

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let's go to the let's go to
the phones. I'm going to head over

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and talk to any I believe in
Morton, Any or you in Morton?

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Yes, Morton, Texas? Morning, Yes, Horton, Texas. Oh

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Horton, Okay, got you grt
oh Wharton, I got you know there

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is a Horton, Texas and it
is west of Waco. You're almost in

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a New Mexico. If I thought, well, that's an interesting call for

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the for the show. How can
I help today? Yes, or have

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a mountain laurel? And last year
the twenty twenty five foot mountain laurel started

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dying one branch at a time,
so I had only about one tenth left

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this year and now it is dying. So my tree has bitten the dust.

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So is that the lifespan for a
mountain laurel. No, they can

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live longer than that. You got
a lot of good years out of it,

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for sure. But I know that
they don't have just a specific lifespan

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in our area. You know,
we're not their native range. They we

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get a little wet here, and
if it's a little twenty years, you

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must have it in a spot with
pretty good drainage. But that's one of

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the things that challenges mountain laurels is
if they get wet feet. They're not

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happy about that at all. I've
seen that, let's say, partial dieback

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that just progresses through the plant before. Sometimes we have associated it with untimely

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freezes when the plant wasn't ready,
but it can also be related to root

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issues, and that's that's most likely
what ended up happening to it. Oh

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well, it's it's sad. I
have propagated those seeds and have three more

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larger trees from it. So right
now they're doing fine, but I worry

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about it bite the dust too well. You know, all plants, whether

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they have a lifespan or whether you
know, just things catch up with them

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unexpectedly over time. Uh they do, they do come and go. But

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I Mountain Laurel is a beautiful plant. The fragrance of it. For the

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listeners that are listening to this call
don't know about Mountain Laurel. H If

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you've ever had the old super bubble
great bubblegum, you know that aroma,

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that's what Mountain Laurel smell like.
They're they're absolutely well. I just wanted

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to check on that. I'm relied
on that free for shade for my potted

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shade of plants, and so just
have to this has changed in the landscape.

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Yeah, it is. It's unfortunately
because they grow kind of slow and

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so it's not like you can,
you know, in two years, have

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one that's fifteen feet high already,
and I mean it's gonna take a while

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to get up there. But I'm
glad you started something from seed. Did

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you do anything special when you started
those seeds or do you just take a

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red seed and put it in the
ground. No, they just volunteered in

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the around the tree, and I
just jumped them up and reported and had

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scads of them that you routinely come
up. Yes, that's good, good,

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good for you. You should start
the Mountain Laurel Nursery over there in

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Wharton. I guess it sounds like
you've got them going. They have to,

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all right. I thank you for
the info, any, thank you

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for the call. I appreciate that. Bye bye. Our phone number is

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seven one three two one two five
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two fifty eight seventy four. I
was talking about starting seeds outdoors, and

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I want to give you a few
tips this morning on how to have success

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when you're starting seeds outdoors. So, first of all, we're entering the

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hot season of the year, and
that surface of the soil gets blistering hot,

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and so it's kind of hard for
seeds sometimes to get started when temperatures

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are so excessive. Down As you
go down lower in the soil, it

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gets cooler and cooler, but near
the surface it's pretty hot. So one

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of the things we try to do
is moderate that so little temperature when we're

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trying to get seeds started in the
heat. Now, seeds want things that

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are going to grow out in the
sun wants sunlight. But for the seeds

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starting, I usually will shade that
road just a little bit. You could

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make a little kind of a canopy
of shade cloth, or people have used

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burlap sacks, they've used I mean
I remember growing up, we would stick

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a license plate in the ground at
an angle to kind of on the west

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side to sort of shade the new
transplant or seedling for a little bit,

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or anything you can come up with. I mean there's a lot of it.

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Some people will break off a branch
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let it's almost like a little you
know, palm front hanging over it to

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protect a qui something much smaller in
the palm front. But give it a

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little bit of break from the heat, and that will help them get off

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to a good start. They're going
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They can handle that, but early
on, just that blistering hot sun.

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Here's the thing most people don't know, and that is that the preplant watering

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is the most important one. Now, if your soil is in any way

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getting close to dry, which in
the summer it often does. Before you

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go out to plant seed, maybe
the day before, I will usually soak

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the soil really well. In fact, sometimes I'll make up just a little

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shallow trench, very shallow, so
that it holds the water in there,

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and then I'll put water in that
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to go straight down, not run
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down in the soil. And then
a couple days later I'll go out and

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plant myself, cover them up at
the right level, and then water them

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again. And here's why this is
important. When that seedling sprouts, any

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seed, when it's sprouts, it's
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dying. If until it gets established, it dries out, that seedling dies.

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It has zero drought tolerance. So
when that root comes down and it

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moves down deeper and deeper and the
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insurance for that seedling surviving. Of
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and continue to water it and stuff, but if that soil is dry,

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it's hard to wet down deeply.
When soil is dry, you may have

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noticed that before. Some people go
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a thumb hoose and spray in the
soil and spray in the soil and it's

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puddling up and wet and running off, and they think they've watered. When

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you do that sometime, go back
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how deep you've wet it. I
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deep that it's actually been wet.
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do well in the heat and in
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for them. But the other thing
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seed planting depth. Usually we say
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four times the width of the seed
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Pretty much knows what that is,
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to be planted about an inch deep
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and that helps it to be a
little deeper in the ground. The surface

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doesn't dry out quite so fast.
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as a result. Using that width
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So if you bury a little seed
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an inch deep, it'll never see
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to plant them at the right depth. You want to make make sure that

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your surface is very fine textured soil, especially for small seeds, so you

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could sprinkle a little compost there,
a little screened compost. It just makes

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it really easy to get them at
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the seed and the soil. That's
that is something that you want to know.

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And by the way, when you're
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if you if you live down in
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of the Houston area, you need
to know about Cnamalt sells both mulches but

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also composts as well. You can
buy bulk, you can buy things in

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bags there, but you need a
good quality mix. And sometimes what I'll

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do is buy a compost and when
I'm doing seeds starting, I'll even run

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it through a little sieve to get
it even smaller, to get a real

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fine textured little compost and use that
on the surface. You don't have to

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put a lot of it, just
enough to get those seeds really taken care

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of. But if you're down in
that area, you need to check out

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Cnamulchamals dot com. You can go
to see them on five twenty one.

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They're near where Highway six and two
eighty eight come together. They're open Monday

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through Friday seven thirty to five thirty
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so they're open today. They carry
all the products too that we're talking about.

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By the way, So if you're
looking for our fertilizers we talk about

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here on garden Line and whatnot,
they're the place to go. And if

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you need quite a bit, you
can buy them bulk. They'll deliver within

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about twenty miles for a small fee. And so in addition to that,

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by the way, if you're looking
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other kinds of things, you're going
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But I just had to I don't
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of them. But you want to
get your seeds down in the ground,

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you want to get them to the
right depth, and you want to keep

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them continually moist as they're starting to
germinate. Now, a few seeds,

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this is just a few need light
to germinate. An example would be let

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us and carrots also do well planted
right up near the surface where sunlight can

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hit them. If you want to
get nerdy, it's the red rays of

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the sun that help those seeds germinate. Most seeds you want to bury them

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to germinate them, but some need
lights. So read the packet so you

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don't make a mistake in how deep
you plant them. Those others we just

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press on the surface, but then
it's a little extra hard to keep them

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at the right moisture because they draw
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those are a few tips to get
you going on your seeds. If whether

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you're starting vegetables or flowers or even
herbs, you can have success, and

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I encourage you to try it out. Seed packets aren't very expensive, so

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even if it takes a few times
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trade, it's simple to do well. I think we're gonna take a break

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and go to the news. Our
phone number if you'd like to give Josh

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a call and get on the boards
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seventy four in a green fihouse soul. You go to Houston, be quiet,

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look good morning on a good Saturday
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talking about expanding, Y'allso listening experience
with music. Josh's expanding mine with a

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little mama's and Papa's there. I've
heard that one before. Thank you for

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that. Well, you're listening to
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Skip Richter, and we are here
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you want to talk about. Maybe
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one two five eight seven four and
we are going to head to Seabrook here

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talk to Hannah this morning. Good
morning, Hannah, good morning. What's

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up. I just had a question. So, my folks and myself are

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from out of town. We moved
from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and I just

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had a question. What kind of
plants would you recommend down here to attract

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hummingbirds. There's a lot of good
ones, a lot of good ones that

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you can grow down here. Uh. A lot of the salvias are attractive

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to hunting hummingbirds. I know,
the Salvia garanitica um is one that I've

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grown and had really good success with
hummingbirds. But there's some others. We

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have some vines like trumpet honeysuckle is
a good one. It's a very tame

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honeysuckle vine with with coral red flowers
that does really really well here. Uh.

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And it's a spring bloomer, so
that's going to be very popular with

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them in the spring. Are they
like perennials or do they bloom all your

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thing? They're not all your The
honeysuckles the spring bloomer, and it's it's

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a print. It's a woody vine, a very tame woody vine. By

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the way. You know, we're
not Columbine country in terms of like the

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Colorado Columbine, but we have a
couple of native columbines that you can grow

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in bright, shady areas here and
they are attractive to hummingbirds. Now that's

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something that you would plant in the
fall and they would do their little blooming

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in late spring and then go away. So that would be a temporary that's

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where things like your salvia's would come
in and they would pick up. There

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is a really tall flower that's actually
native to parts of Texas, and it's

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called cardinal flower. Another name is
Lobelia mobilia, is attractive to hummingbirds.

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Monardas are also called bee balm.
Bee balm is a good one. It's

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a mint family plant. So there's
your warning that it does spread. Just

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be ready to kind of keep it
in bounds. It's not quite as bad

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as mint, but it you know
it is in that family, it spreads

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anyway. Those are those are really
popular lately. We've we've had a lot

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of interest here and agistasch agistasch is
called hummingbird mint. That's one of the

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names for it, and it does
well here. Just going to keep it

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if I might ask you one more
question. So my family's not quite used

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to like the clay soil we have
down here. Yes, So when you're

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planning something, what would you recommend
it's like a tree, like a lemon

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tree or anything like that. Like
you're dealing with digging into the clay soil.

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You absolutely have to fix your soul
first. That is number one key

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to success. I usually tell people
that by the time you've put a plant

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in the ground, you're eighty percent
to success or failure. And a good

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part of that was what you did
to the soil compost, compost compost.

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If it's going to be a bed, we might recommend one of the rose

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soils that's one of the blends sold
here in the Houston area. But it

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is important, very important to build
up a slightly raised bed to facilitate drainage

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if it's at all low lying,
because it does rain, it does rain

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a lot. I really hate to
waste too much of your time. What

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do you do when it gets the
freezing temperatures? So for for what for

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white like plants in general, or
yeah, like it, like outdoor plants

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that you have, like I know
we're supposed to wrap them in plastic.

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I think, well, yeah,
that's a That question is about ten questions

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in one, so I don't know
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it. But first well, first
of all, we don't have to worry

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about a lot of freezing temperature.
So you have moved to a nice,

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balmy climate and buy and large.
We do have our freezes. I love

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it. I love it down here. I definitely appreciate it. Yeah,

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we do have our we do have
our freezes, and so you know,

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we we do have to protect things
and because we're further south, we try

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to grow things that we're on the
northern end of you know, citras and

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people try to grow avocados here and
you can. But so it let's uh,

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we probably cover that one when we
get to it. There's a publication

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that I co authored, and if
you go to a website called agra life

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Learn. It's strange that I'm giving
this website in June, but if you

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go to agrilife Learn and type in
frost and freeze, then a publication will

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pop up that is taking care of
plants during frost and freezes. And I

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co wrote it with one of the
Horticulture Department specialists, and it tells you

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everything you need to know about protecting
and frost and freeze. I did want

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to throw in though, with the
hummingbirds. One other one is called firecracker

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plant, and it is a superplant
for hummingbirds. It does well in the

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heat here. It'll get you through
the summertime when the the you know,

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the temperatures are hot and things like
that, and so there's really you know,

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I'd probably keep going and going and
going on hummingbird plants, but there's

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a lot of other really good ones
what I would recommend you do since you're

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done in this area is go visit
a wild Birds Unlimited store. We have

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about seven of them in the Houston
area. You can go to deb That

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sounds like fun time. It is
beautiful and in fact, let's see you

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are in Seabrook. I'm gonna be
up in Kingwood, the Kingwood area,

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which is kind of north and east
on a little bit of Houston next Saturday,

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June tenth. I'll be there from
eleven thirty to one thirty answering gardening

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questions and stuff at that WAH Birds
store. But there's seven stores in the

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Greater Houston area and they're gonna have
all the things if you're interested in hummingbirds

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are gonna have all the things you
want, including like books on hummingbirds and

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other things. But birds are what
they're all about, and it is it's

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a really cool place to visit too, So I would that's great man.

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Thank you so much for talking to
me today. I hope you have a

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wonderful day and too well. Thank
you thanks for the call. Welcome,

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Welcome to the Greater Houston area.
We look forward to talking to you again

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sometime. Thank you. Hannah thank
you, sir. We are going to

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go to break now and our phone
number seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four Josh will get you
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have a piece of property, maybe
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about you day and night. It's
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love. Well. Good morning on
a good Saturday morning for gardening. You're

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listening to garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Richter, and we're here

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to talk to you about things that
you're interested in. You know, not

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too long ago, I was visiting
with the folks out at dell Weeb.

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By the way, Dell Web you
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they've been building communities for active adults
age fifty five and better for over

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seventy years. They've got a new
community going in about two miles from downtown

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Fullshure on FM three fifty nine.
And like all Dell Web communities, it's

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got those inspired designs and the lifestyle
programs that are designed around you. But

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here's what makes me especially excited about
this one. In addition to all the

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things that they offer, I'm working
with them to create a community garden on

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site for the residents there. So
here's an opportunity to live in a state

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of the art community with all the
amenities you look for. Plus, if

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you're a gardener, wow, community
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of. Now, if you want
more information, go to dellweb dot com

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slash Houston. That's d E.
L W e BB dellweb dot com,

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slash Houston, or call him at
two eight one four five nine zero six

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zero nine. I'm going to head
out to northwest Houston now and we are

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going to visit with Dennis. Good
morning, Dennis, Good morning. I've

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harvested some blue bonnet seeds and I
need to know when the best time to

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plan that I do is mother nature
and sew them now? Or do I

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wait till October? Or that's a
good question that sew them also? Do

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I just I was just going to
mix it with that sandy soul that I

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have out in the country, and
so it that way or do I rake

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it in? I just don't know
which best route? Do not do it

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directly? Yeah, that's a good
question. So let me just ask when

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we say you have seeds, are
we talking about a little handful of seeds

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or how many? How much do
you have? What's a quantity roughly then

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good gallon or more? Okay,
there we go, all right, So

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I'm not going to suggest that you
pick up each seed and file a little

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little corner off the off the seed. Uh. What what people will do

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when they have that many seeds is
blue bonnets are made to live in Texas,

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which means it may not rain next
year or the next year, so

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they don't let their seeds all germinate
in one year. They slowly drag it

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out and they have a tough seed
coat so depending on the weather. That

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way, its protects them against the
vicissitudes of Texas weather. If you will,

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and as a result, you can
plant them all out and they will

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come out slowly over time. If
you want to higher percent germination, maybe

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you're going to put some in a
four inch pot and start them is a

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bedding plant or something. I would
use sandpaper or something to scratch, rub

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those around on it, scratch those
seeds to get that surface coat broken down

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just a little bit. Some moisture
can move in, but with a gallon

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of seeds, I wouldn't worry about
that. Some people go to great links

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like the equivalent of a rock tumbler
with sand in it and running those seeds

435
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through that. I don't think that's
worth messing with. I would just make

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sure you rake up the area really
good, get a lot of the debris

437
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off the surface. Because you want
the blue bonnets seeds when you scatter them

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to go down to the soil surface, and then if you have a way

439
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of raking them in whatever, that
would mean just scratching the soil a little

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bit to get good contact between the
seed and the soil. As the seed

441
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falls down in that scratched up surface, that's better. But again in nature

442
00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:52.279
that doesn't happen, so don't worry
about it. I would plant them probably

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in September. They should start sprouting
sometime maybe in October. When we get

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a little bit of rain it colls
off just a little bit. You should

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see some little tiny plants coming up
that'll sit there over winter and then bloom

446
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next year. All right, So
plan them in September. And I know

447
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now they just pop open and spread
on their own, so I don't plan

448
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them now. They do, Yeah, they do. Yes, that's right,

449
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all right, you bet. Thank
you very much for the calls.

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Hey, you know, speaking speaking
of the fall and getting some rains,

451
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you know, when fall comes,
welcome to Houston. Here comes the hurricane

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season. Well, actually it comes
along before fall. This is sort of

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your your warning and recommendation that if
you need any limbs removed. If you

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00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.680
need your roof lines cleared. If
you've got some dead trees you're worried about

455
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:51.240
breaking in a storm, don't take
time get those down. That's a liability.

456
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:53.839
Limbs over your roof for your neighbor's
roof, and so on. Power

457
00:33:53.839 --> 00:33:58.759
lines. There's another good one.
Now's the time to call Affordable Tree Service.

458
00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:01.839
Now you've heard me talk about Affordable
Tree for a long time. Affordable

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00:34:01.839 --> 00:34:07.840
Tree Service. It's Afftree Service dot
com. They are professionals. Call seven

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00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:14.199
one three six nine nine twenty six
sixty three. Martin or his wife Joe

461
00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:16.199
will answer. If they don't hang
up, you've called the wrong place with

462
00:34:16.320 --> 00:34:20.920
Affordable in the name. They serve
our entire area. By the way,

463
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:23.320
when you call them, tell them
that you listened to garden Line, heard

464
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:28.559
about him on garden Line, So
that is that is the service you need

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00:34:28.599 --> 00:34:32.199
to talk to get those trees taken
care of before it's too late. Down

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00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:37.159
in southwest Houston, we've got a
we have a place called Southwest Fertilizer,

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and I've had some callers today that
it's been here for a short time.

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You need to know about Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizer is the go to place

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for all the kinds of products that
you might need. They're down on the

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corner of a Bissonette and Renwick.
You can go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com

471
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:58.199
to find out more. But if
you need herbicides and secticides, fungicides,

472
00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:01.239
if you want organic versions of those
products, Southwest is a place to go

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00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:05.400
to. They carry all the products
we talk about here on garden Line,

474
00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:08.320
and that is very very important to
be able to go to one place and

475
00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:12.800
get all the things that you're looking
for for your garden. They know what

476
00:35:12.840 --> 00:35:15.480
they're talking about. They can help
you with your plant problems. They are

477
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:20.840
the way to really know that you're
getting the products you need, the advice

478
00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:23.760
you need to be able to accomplish
the things you're trying to accomplish in your

479
00:35:23.840 --> 00:35:30.280
landscape. I was talking about starting
seeds outdoors and something else you might want

480
00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:32.679
to consider right now. This is
a great time for starting basil that basil

481
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:37.599
seeds. By the way, basil
loves hot weather and we have a lot

482
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of good kinds of basil. Someone
was calling about hunting birds while ago,

483
00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:45.480
and a lot of times people are
curious about how do I attract beneficial insects,

484
00:35:45.599 --> 00:35:47.920
or how do I attract bees and
good pollinators, some of the native

485
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:52.039
bees and honey bees and others.
One of the basils is called African blue

486
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basil. Now, all basils are
going to have flowers that are going to

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00:35:55.199 --> 00:36:00.719
attract things, but African blue is
just like a magnet, especially when it

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00:36:00.760 --> 00:36:05.199
comes to bees. And so when
you're out shopping at your garden center,

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look for African blue basils. I've
I've grown them in my garden for years.

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I've got some more I planted this
year. It's just really a really

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00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:19.599
quality quality basil. I don't so
much grow that one for culinary There's some

492
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.480
others that I like better culinary wise, But if you're looking for a bush

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00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:28.360
that just blooms and blooms all day, I mean all summer, that's one

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00:36:28.400 --> 00:36:30.920
to go with. It just gets
better and better and better, and I

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00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:35.000
you know, I African blue is
one of my favorite basils. I don't

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go through any year without it.
And when you're when you're growing basil,

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you want to give them a quality
soil with good good drainage and a moderate

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00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:45.880
amount of fertilizer. And one of
the ways I like to fertilize my basils

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00:36:45.000 --> 00:36:51.079
and all my herbs is with Microlife
fertilizer. Microlife has that green bag which

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00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:55.599
is a six two four, and
it is slowly releasing the nutrients, so

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00:36:55.639 --> 00:37:00.880
it feeds exactly like the plant wants
to be. It's nutrients and it goes

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00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:05.960
well right through the summer. It's
our main fertilizer. When it comes to

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00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:09.440
an organic fertilizer for your lawns,
Microlife is a six two four. In

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00:37:09.480 --> 00:37:14.079
the green bag, you can add
Humates Plus, which is the purple bag.

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00:37:14.119 --> 00:37:19.400
It's like composted or concentrated composts in
that bag. So I put them

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00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.599
both on together. I first apply
the Microlife six two four and then I

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00:37:22.760 --> 00:37:27.760
do the Humates plus. And when
you do that combination, your lawn is

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00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:30.400
going to be good to go.
If you're looking for Microlife number one,

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00:37:30.440 --> 00:37:36.679
it's available everywhere, but you can
go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer

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00:37:36.719 --> 00:37:40.440
dot com and find out where you
can get Microlife fertilizers. And by the

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00:37:40.480 --> 00:37:44.559
way, there's many, many more
than the two I mentioned. Find out

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00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:47.480
where you can get them in your
area, your lawns, your gardens,

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00:37:47.480 --> 00:37:52.960
your plants, will thank you for
it. Quality quality mix. Well,

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I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we are here on garden Line today.

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We're about to head to a break, but if you'd like to call

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and get on the board, give
Josh a call at seven one three two

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00:38:02.360 --> 00:38:07.639
one two five eight seven four.
But all you need to do is tell

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00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:09.679
him your name, where you live, and just a word or two about

519
00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:14.800
your question. Don't start explaining to
Josh what your question is. He doesn't

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00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:17.840
want to hear that. He doesn't
need to. He even tells me he

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00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:22.440
knows nothing. No, just tell
him, you know, like I'm Joe,

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00:38:22.639 --> 00:38:27.719
I'm from whatever city and i just
have a question about hummingbirds or a

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00:38:27.800 --> 00:38:30.159
question about herbs or something like that. He'll get you on the board and

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00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:34.239
that way he can get onto the
other calls as well. We're looking forward

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00:38:34.280 --> 00:38:37.519
to coming back the next hour visiting
with you about things that you're interested in.

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If you have any kinds of questions
regarding anything regarding plants, that's why

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00:38:44.159 --> 00:38:46.519
we're here. We want to guide
you to have success. We have people

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00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:51.400
call in today that have moved in
from other areas of the country. When

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00:38:51.440 --> 00:38:53.920
you come here from another area,
it's a whole new world of gardening.

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00:38:54.360 --> 00:38:58.000
But we're here to help you get
off to the right feed. I don't

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00:38:58.000 --> 00:39:01.480
want anyone to think that they have
a brown thumb. I don't want anyone

532
00:39:01.519 --> 00:39:06.159
to think that I tried gardening and
it didn't work. It does work.

533
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:09.400
This is one of the best places
in the country to grow things. Yes,

534
00:39:09.480 --> 00:39:13.760
we have some challenges. A lot
of places have challenges. Our soul

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00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:16.960
can be a challenge and other things, but we can overcome all of that.

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00:39:17.079 --> 00:39:20.639
We know how to do it.
Give us a call and let us

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00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:25.480
help you have success. KTRH Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

538
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:32.719
products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip

539
00:39:32.840 --> 00:40:01.800
Rictord. Just watch him as pleas
ticket, not a sig. Well,

540
00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:06.880
good morning, it is a good
Saturday morning looking out there. We're gonna

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00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:09.480
rank coming this weekend, but boy, now's the time. This would be

542
00:40:09.519 --> 00:40:13.480
a good day to get out,
get some things done, Go visit some

543
00:40:13.599 --> 00:40:16.760
of our great garden centers here in
the Greater Houston area. Kind of get

544
00:40:16.800 --> 00:40:21.960
off to a good head start.
Enjoy yourselves. I love being out in

545
00:40:22.039 --> 00:40:24.840
this time of the year, enjoying
the weather, and just being able to

546
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:30.679
get outside. It's just something therapeutic
to getting outside and enjoying yourself. Let's

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00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:34.760
head out to Cleveland and we're gonna
talk to Ron this morning. Good morning,

548
00:40:34.840 --> 00:40:42.880
Ron, good morning. How can
we help you today? After by

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00:40:43.039 --> 00:40:52.920
checks bloom, you can cut them
booms off that promote more blooms. I'm

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00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:54.880
sorry, was that was that a
question? Do you were asking? Or

551
00:40:55.719 --> 00:41:00.679
yeah? Yeah, I'm not sure
if if that's what I heard you say,

552
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:04.480
cutting the blooms off after they're done, that it makes the vitex I

553
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:08.280
see, yes, yes, absolutely, In fact, you want to do

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00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:12.960
it really soon after they bloom.
Now I realize sometimes it's easier to get

555
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.599
out there and just share the whole
plant back and then get a fresh new

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00:41:15.679 --> 00:41:20.039
crop. That's that's faster and easier
I get out whenever I think about it

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00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:22.719
when I drive up. I got
a Vitex in the front yard beside the

558
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:27.119
house, and I just often we'll
go over there and just snip off blooms

559
00:41:27.239 --> 00:41:30.719
that are spent because they put their
energy into those seeds. And if you

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00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:35.639
cut back, cut those blooms out. At each set of leaves going down

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00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:38.360
that stem, there's two more shoots
that'll come out, they'll have blooms on

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them. So every time you do
that and invigorate new shoots coming out at

563
00:41:43.960 --> 00:41:45.320
the terminal end of each one,
you're gonna have more blooms. So you

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00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:49.840
can keep your vitex going and beautiful
for a long time while at the same

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00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:53.599
time keeping it from having having all
the unsightly dead bloom heads and seeds on

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00:41:53.719 --> 00:42:00.239
it. Yeah, it's I've got
three of them alongside my driveway. I'm

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00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:05.079
a property there, and they've been
they really bright and now they're just starting

568
00:42:05.119 --> 00:42:07.760
to lose that brightness. So I
thought I heard you say that last week,

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So all right, I appreciate it. I'm gonna get out there today.

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00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:14.920
Yeah, good enjoy that. That's
a beautiful plant and one of the

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00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:21.280
rare opportunities for blue color and the
hot weather around here. Appreciate appreciate that.

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00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:23.480
Call run, thank you, thank
you. All right, We're going

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to head out of the heights and
talk to Sean. Hello, Sean,

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00:42:28.920 --> 00:42:31.039
Hey, good morning, Skip,
good morning. Enjoy your show. Thank

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you. So we lost our week
being my wife from our front lawn of

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00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:45.480
scorched last year. We had our
neighbor's gardener come in and replace our side

577
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:52.000
in the front yard, and that
person has kind of disappeared. That's another

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00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:57.719
story. But we this real fundamental
question, how do we maintain the new

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side? Saint Augustine? All right, have you fertilized this year yet?

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00:43:04.599 --> 00:43:09.440
Yes, a little bit? Okay, what type of fertilizer? What should

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we start with? We're a offics. Okay, Well, in general,

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00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:16.920
you want to have a fertilizer that
has a high first number, a low

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00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:22.199
middle number, and a medium third
number. Okay, I like three think

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00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:27.400
think of four one and a two
something along those lines. Now, at

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this point in the season, we're
about to enter the long stretch of summer,

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so I would recommend that you look
for a fertilizer that's going to give

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00:43:34.480 --> 00:43:38.719
you a gradual release over time.
Okay. And because if you don't want

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00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:42.880
to get a flush of growth and
have to mow a lot and then you

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00:43:42.960 --> 00:43:46.119
know the fertilizer's gone because it was
immediately available, now it's gone. You

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00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:51.119
want something that gradually feeds your plants
over time, so as you go through,

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00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:54.440
you just do better and better.
You know, it just keep keeps

592
00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:59.000
getting better as you go through.
So what I you know, there's a

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00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:00.960
number of great products out there.
One of them that I really like a

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00:44:01.039 --> 00:44:06.599
lot is it's a Nelson's plant food
and it is they're slow and easy.

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It's going to have a twenty two. It's going to be the first number

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00:44:08.559 --> 00:44:13.639
twenty two. And when you put
slow and easy out, what's going to

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00:44:13.719 --> 00:44:17.800
happen is it's going to gradually release
those nutrients over time. So that's a

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00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:22.159
twenty two two ten is to be
specific. So you use about five pounds

599
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:27.960
of that per thousand square feet.
Just put it out now, and you're

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not going to need to fertilize again
until we hit into the fall season.

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00:44:30.920 --> 00:44:37.840
Oh great, that'll give you that, that'll give you the food. Secondary

602
00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:42.239
question, you mentioned mowing. How
long before we were told to let it

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00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:45.840
kind of take root for a period
of time before mowing. Yeah, I

604
00:44:47.960 --> 00:44:52.039
would say by the time probably it's
been in about two weeks. If it's

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been watered in really well, it's
going to have good roots going down and

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00:44:55.639 --> 00:44:58.960
you're probably going to be able to
get out there and mow it at that

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00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:01.599
time. You know, all things
being equal to a couple of weeks ought

608
00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:05.679
to be where you can begin to
mow. But just kind of watch the

609
00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:07.960
grass. How it's growing, it's
going to kind of sit there for just

610
00:45:07.039 --> 00:45:10.599
a little bit. And once it
starts getting roots down and it looks like

611
00:45:10.719 --> 00:45:15.239
it's time to need mowing, that's
the time I would go out and start

612
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:22.480
the mowing. Okay. And thirdly, so we were the old side removed

613
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:27.840
and bagged and put in industrial bags
that we're about two hundred pounds piece and

614
00:45:28.480 --> 00:45:32.880
left. Do you know where we
can dispose of the old side. It's

615
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:39.559
debris, it's old magnolia roots and
uh, okay, well we're having we're

616
00:45:39.599 --> 00:45:43.599
struggling trying to get rid of this. Yeah. So it's more than just

617
00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:49.239
the side with some soil, it's
actually roots from trees as well in the

618
00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:52.679
bags. Yeah a little bit.
Remember we had a magnolia out there.

619
00:45:52.800 --> 00:46:00.400
That can imagine what yeah, yeah, well, yes, that's depending on

620
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:04.320
you know, what your trash services
and will do. I mean, you

621
00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:06.920
could divvy it out and do it
that way. If it were mine,

622
00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:10.679
I would take it and use it
as an opportunity to make some compost.

623
00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:14.519
And even if you just had a
heap in the back somewhere where it was

624
00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:16.119
out of sight, uh, you
know, because you want to get those

625
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:22.159
roots out of there. You separate
those out and dispose of them. But

626
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:25.280
that's a lot of good stuff that
will make a quality saw mix that you

627
00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:30.159
can use in your beds and even
top dress along with if you screened it

628
00:46:30.239 --> 00:46:32.719
down far enough. But there's nothing
to put it out there if anybody,

629
00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:37.079
if anybody wants it, I got
like a ton, Okay, all right,

630
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:42.039
I just I just need to Okay, yeah, well I would.

631
00:46:42.079 --> 00:46:45.119
I would, you know, contact
people that come and pick up pick up

632
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:50.079
the trash and stuff too. But
other than other than using it yourself,

633
00:46:50.159 --> 00:46:53.239
I think you're just gonna have to
divvy it out. Very good. Hey,

634
00:46:53.440 --> 00:46:55.480
thank you, sir, appreciate it, all right, thank you.

635
00:46:55.599 --> 00:47:00.840
I appreciate that call very much,
Sean. Thank you. If you if

636
00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:07.719
you are anywhere near the area where
Tomball Parkway to forty nine comes into Beltway

637
00:47:07.800 --> 00:47:10.519
eight and you haven't been to r
CW Nurseries, you need to check them

638
00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:15.519
out. Go to RCW nurseries dot
com. They are the nursery that if

639
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:17.119
they don't have it, they'll get
it for you. And they have they

640
00:47:17.239 --> 00:47:22.000
have it. They've got all the
fertilizers we talk about absolute well of the

641
00:47:22.119 --> 00:47:27.639
largest selection roses in town and super
selection of trees fifteen gallons up to two

642
00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:31.079
hundred gallons. They grow the trees
themselves out in Plantersville at their farm and

643
00:47:31.280 --> 00:47:35.719
they will bring them, they will
plan them for you. They know what

644
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:39.880
they're talking about. A quality service
and quality products and knowledgeable people. The

645
00:47:39.960 --> 00:47:45.840
Williamson family has been doing RCW since
back in nineteen seventy nine. RCW Nurseries

646
00:47:45.880 --> 00:47:51.960
dot com. That is RCW nurseries
dot com. You will enjoy your visit

647
00:47:52.039 --> 00:47:52.920
to there. And by the way, when you're there, ask them to

648
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:58.400
show you their Cajun hibiscus. Wow, beautiful, beautiful. Hey, we're

649
00:47:58.400 --> 00:48:00.360
gonna take a take a break right
now. Our phone number is seven one

650
00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:06.280
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four and Cheryl, we will come to

651
00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:07.840
you first. If you want to
get on the board, just give Josh

652
00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:27.880
your call. Well, good morning, this is a good Saturday morning.

653
00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:30.000
I have a little bit of sunshine
at the tree tops out there, and

654
00:48:30.159 --> 00:48:35.000
it really looks like a good day
to be outside being a gardener and visiting

655
00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:38.960
garden centers. I um, you
know the spring the folks at Spring Creek

656
00:48:39.039 --> 00:48:43.559
Feed they're they're up in Magnolia,
by the way, on FM twenty nine

657
00:48:43.760 --> 00:48:45.280
seventy eight. If you live anywhere
up near that area, you need to

658
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:50.920
check them out. They are When
I walked in there, I was just

659
00:48:51.039 --> 00:48:54.400
surprised when I first walked in then
who it was. The friendly, courtious

660
00:48:54.440 --> 00:48:58.400
staff that greets you. I mean, just what you would expect from a

661
00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:01.679
quality feed store. Gonna have all
the products that you would expect, you

662
00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:06.760
know, all the pet foods and
all the livestock food and wildlife food and

663
00:49:06.800 --> 00:49:09.320
all that kind of thing. But
they also have the fertilizers that we talk

664
00:49:09.360 --> 00:49:14.079
about. They have a wide variety
of herbicides, fungicides, pesticides. If

665
00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:17.159
you need supplies for the pond,
for example, they're going to have that.

666
00:49:17.639 --> 00:49:22.960
And nephew are with FA for h
military or a senior citizen their discounts

667
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:27.840
for you. At Spring Creek Feed. They'll also special order products. If

668
00:49:27.880 --> 00:49:30.360
they don't have it, talk to
them about it. I bet they can

669
00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:34.480
get it for you. They're in
Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight,

670
00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:38.000
just minutes from Graham Parkway and Highway
to forty nine. If you haven't been

671
00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:40.679
to Spring Creek Feed, you need
to check them out. And if you

672
00:49:40.719 --> 00:49:45.559
have been you know what I'm talking
about, really really fun, cool place

673
00:49:45.639 --> 00:49:49.440
to be. We're going to head
out to a task acita and we're gonna

674
00:49:49.440 --> 00:49:53.400
talk to Cheryl this morning. Good
morning Cheryl, Sorry, good morning Gift.

675
00:49:53.840 --> 00:50:00.760
I just have a quick question about
dollarweed in my grass and now that

676
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:06.199
it's over ninety degrees, Um,
what can I use on it? Yeah,

677
00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:08.000
now that it's gotten hot, we're
kind of running out of options.

678
00:50:08.440 --> 00:50:14.320
Um, you know, once it
gets when it gets to the mid eighties,

679
00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:16.760
it's kind of like, well,
you know, let we're probably okay,

680
00:50:16.960 --> 00:50:21.159
but we're on the edge. And
then upper eighties is like okay.

681
00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:23.920
But when it's when it's hitting nineties, we worry about a little bit more.

682
00:50:24.119 --> 00:50:28.920
If you can find a time of
day where the temperatures drop down to

683
00:50:29.039 --> 00:50:32.199
get to get a product on it, you're probably still okay. I would

684
00:50:32.239 --> 00:50:35.679
say, you know, if we
if we have a temp day that goes

685
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:38.639
up just to the upper eighties or
barely bumps ninety, and let that temperature

686
00:50:38.719 --> 00:50:42.360
drop down in the evening and then
put it down or do it really early

687
00:50:42.440 --> 00:50:45.280
in the morning. First thing kit
will take a while. You know,

688
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:46.639
if the high is going to be
ninety for the day, well, it's

689
00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:51.119
not gonna be ninety yet even noon. Probably it's it's gonna take a little

690
00:50:51.119 --> 00:50:53.519
longer than that to reach that high. So you could still use a product

691
00:50:53.639 --> 00:51:00.239
like Bonide. We'd beat her ultra. When temperatures get up high, something

692
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:05.480
that's a little more difficult to locate
is called celsius, like the temperature fahrenheit

693
00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:09.119
and celsius. Celsius can be used
when temperatures get a little higher, and

694
00:51:09.119 --> 00:51:12.280
they're not going to hurt your saint. It's not going to hurt your saint,

695
00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:15.000
Augustine. You're gonna have trouble finding
it. What I'd recommend is you're

696
00:51:15.119 --> 00:51:19.599
you're over in the Taska Ceda area, so you've got a tascased to ace

697
00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:22.960
there on Timber Forest Drive and Humble. I would go buy there and talk

698
00:51:23.039 --> 00:51:27.199
to them. They are going to
have a wide variety of products and there's

699
00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:30.480
a good chance that they may carry
that celsius. So check them out first

700
00:51:31.280 --> 00:51:36.440
see if they have it. It
is not not inexpensive, but you can

701
00:51:36.519 --> 00:51:38.599
buy it in a very small packet. It's almost like a card with a

702
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:43.360
little plastic blister pack over it.
You know, you get a small amount.

703
00:51:43.559 --> 00:51:46.320
It's enough to get by and go
ahead and do it sooner rather than

704
00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:51.239
later. But I think you would
be just fine using that at this point

705
00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:53.440
in time. I don't know if
you're familiar with the tascaseda ACE or not,

706
00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:58.199
but they they're gonna be about the
CONSI good. Good to know.

707
00:51:58.400 --> 00:52:01.840
Okay, thanks, yep, appreciate
it. Good weekend, and good luck

708
00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:07.639
with the dollar weed. Yeah.
ACE Hardware they are a great go to

709
00:52:07.719 --> 00:52:10.840
your place, you know what.
Thirty nine of them around the Easton area,

710
00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:15.480
so it's not hard to find one
near you. They by the way,

711
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:17.840
they carry the products we talk about, So if you're talking about fertilizers,

712
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:22.199
they're going to have them. If
you're talking about pesticides, herbicides,

713
00:52:22.440 --> 00:52:27.280
fungicides, those kinds of things,
they're going to have them. ACE Hardware

714
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:30.000
is unbelievable. If you haven't been
into one lately, you need to go.

715
00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:34.039
You can go to ACE hardware dot
com. Go to ACE hardware dot

716
00:52:34.079 --> 00:52:38.239
com, click on their store locator
and they will direct you to the store

717
00:52:38.480 --> 00:52:42.280
nearest you you can find. Maybe
you have more than one option close to

718
00:52:42.400 --> 00:52:45.360
you where you live because there's so
many of them around. While you're there,

719
00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:49.920
sign up for their ACE hardware Rewards
program. I belong to it.

720
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:52.599
You can earn money back on your
purchase, so as you purchase products,

721
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:58.000
you get money back on that over
time, and it just makes economical sense

722
00:52:58.159 --> 00:53:01.559
to take advantage of that. You're
listening to garden Line. We're here to

723
00:53:01.679 --> 00:53:06.159
talk to you about whatever you're interested
in today, regarden gardening. Our phone

724
00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:10.679
number is seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

725
00:53:10.840 --> 00:53:17.920
two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you have if you live anywhere

726
00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:22.440
on the southwest side of town and
have not been to Enchanted Gardens, you

727
00:53:22.559 --> 00:53:28.360
need to check them out. You
can go online. Here's a website Enchanted

728
00:53:28.760 --> 00:53:32.480
Gardens Richmond dot com. Now this
is the Enchanted Gardens that if you're at

729
00:53:32.599 --> 00:53:37.719
Richmond. It's up toward Katie Direction, north of Richmond. Okay. It's

730
00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:43.119
a show place, and I mean
they have people that drive from halfway across

731
00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:46.760
the state literally to come to this
place to purchase products, to purchase plants.

732
00:53:47.079 --> 00:53:52.679
They're open Monday through Saturday eight am
to five thirty Sunday ten am to

733
00:53:52.800 --> 00:53:57.199
four thirty pm. It's one of
those independent garden centers that we brag on

734
00:53:57.400 --> 00:53:59.920
all the time. They're going to
have all the products that we talk about,

735
00:54:00.039 --> 00:54:02.760
the different fertilizers and the soils and
things like that. They're gonna have

736
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:07.679
all kinds of things that I call
it bling. It's the whimsical gardener,

737
00:54:07.000 --> 00:54:10.840
chimes, fountains, all that other
kind of stuff to add to your plants.

738
00:54:12.400 --> 00:54:15.920
We're talking today about hummingbird plants and
pollinator attracting plants. They've got that

739
00:54:16.159 --> 00:54:20.800
and then some. If you haven't
been, I've got a great idea for

740
00:54:20.880 --> 00:54:23.679
you this afternoon. You ought to
go check them out. Trust me,

741
00:54:24.039 --> 00:54:27.760
you will be glad you did.
You will be as impressed as I was

742
00:54:28.000 --> 00:54:31.000
within Chanted Gardens out in the Richmond
area. I want to head out to

743
00:54:31.159 --> 00:54:35.400
North Houston. Now we're going to
talk to Mark. Good morning Mark,

744
00:54:37.239 --> 00:54:40.800
Good morning Skip, and thank you
for taking a call. Yes, sir,

745
00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:49.079
I've got I have a newly planted
about maybe six weeks ago at Washington

746
00:54:49.199 --> 00:54:52.440
Naval Orange Tree. It was a
small tree about three feet tall. We

747
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:59.800
planted it in a whiskey barrel half
whiskey barrel, and we lined the b

748
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:02.480
Some of the drilled four drainage holes
half inch holes in the bottom of the

749
00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:06.320
are maybe just five or six in
the bottom of the barrel, lined the

750
00:55:06.360 --> 00:55:12.320
bottom with gravel, and then added
to what was labeled potting soil, and

751
00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:15.559
planted the tree in this it's fairly
dense, though it's not like any potting

752
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:22.480
soil I'm familiar with. We've now
got the tree has after a heavy rain,

753
00:55:22.760 --> 00:55:25.599
and then continuing from that time on, the leaves are yellowing from the

754
00:55:25.719 --> 00:55:32.000
veins, and now it's starting to
look less and less healthy. We held

755
00:55:32.079 --> 00:55:36.199
off on the watering after the rains, just maybe let it dry out.

756
00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:39.199
And we're a little unsure about how
to proceed now if the soil needs to

757
00:55:39.239 --> 00:55:43.440
be replaced, because maybe it's not
me it's too wet, don't know.

758
00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:49.920
Looking for some direction. When you
say, let's go back to the leaf

759
00:55:50.119 --> 00:55:53.239
symptom, is it the veins that
are yellow or is the veins greener and

760
00:55:53.320 --> 00:55:59.559
the in between the veins are yellower? The veins are yellow. Huh,

761
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:05.599
that's very interesting. Uh didn't use
any kind of a weed killer or any

762
00:56:05.679 --> 00:56:07.760
product like that. You wouldn't have
a reason to do to do it in

763
00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:10.679
the pot, but I just want
to make extra sure there was nothing like

764
00:56:10.840 --> 00:56:16.119
that applied around them. No.
Well there, now, did you say

765
00:56:16.159 --> 00:56:21.519
that I did apply to some weed
killer nearby, but with a with a

766
00:56:21.599 --> 00:56:25.239
sprayer, but down below the level
them down at the ground level in a

767
00:56:25.440 --> 00:56:30.440
bed not far from it. But
certainly nothing intentionally applied, and I don't

768
00:56:30.440 --> 00:56:34.360
think anything even drifted over to Okay, that's good. Well, we're gonna

769
00:56:34.400 --> 00:56:37.039
we're gonna assume that's not the problem. It could be transplant shock. That

770
00:56:37.239 --> 00:56:40.920
is certainly possible. You know,
anytime you move a plant sometimes roots can

771
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:45.679
get broken, uh some you know, maybe it took it out of the

772
00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:47.119
pot and it's out there for a
minute and the outside dried out a little

773
00:56:47.159 --> 00:56:50.559
bit. I mean, we could, we could kind of go to great

774
00:56:50.599 --> 00:56:53.480
links trying to come up with some
possibility, but I think for now,

775
00:56:54.639 --> 00:56:58.920
Um, if you have questions about
the soil, if you think, well,

776
00:56:58.960 --> 00:57:02.000
maybe that was just a cheap soil
and you would want to replace it,

777
00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:07.920
I think that's fine. At the
same time, seeing that plant in

778
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:10.000
the condition it's in and now you're
gonna pull it out and put other soil

779
00:57:10.079 --> 00:57:14.599
in again, I think I would
be inclined to let's wait and watch,

780
00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:20.159
get you a good quality fertilizer to
put on it, scratch it into the

781
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:23.480
surface, water it in well,
don't overdo it, go easy on it.

782
00:57:24.320 --> 00:57:29.360
And there's a number of products that
you can use as soluble that you

783
00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:31.559
water with. There's others that are
slow release that you put in. I

784
00:57:31.639 --> 00:57:36.119
would go with the slow release,
so you're extra careful not to burn it,

785
00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:39.280
and just give it a little bit
more time if you feel like it's

786
00:57:39.320 --> 00:57:43.199
stressed and you want to move it
out of full sun and just give it

787
00:57:43.320 --> 00:57:45.159
some morning sun for a while,
just for a week or two, and

788
00:57:45.280 --> 00:57:47.960
then move it into more full sun. That's fine. By the way,

789
00:57:49.000 --> 00:57:51.920
in that half whiskey barrel, it's
going to weigh outlive the whiskey barrel.

790
00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:54.679
That thing will ride out before,
so you need to be thinking about a

791
00:57:54.760 --> 00:57:58.159
few years down the line. You're
gonna need to pull it ei there and

792
00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:00.840
either go in the ground with it
or into some other kind of large container.

793
00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:06.679
Okay, yep, I kind of
had that feeling that my experience with

794
00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:08.880
whiskey barrels is that they last a
while but not forever. Yeah, that's

795
00:58:08.920 --> 00:58:12.360
true. That's true. They're not
treated and hey, by the way,

796
00:58:12.559 --> 00:58:19.480
on that particular plant, make sure
that you keep it moist. A whiskey

797
00:58:19.559 --> 00:58:22.800
barrel, it's a small plant now, but as it gets larger, it's

798
00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:25.280
going to pump that whiskey barrel dry
really quick on a summer day, so

799
00:58:25.519 --> 00:58:30.360
you may end up looking at watering
even twice a day once it gets some

800
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:32.360
size on it. A year or
two or three or four down the line.

801
00:58:34.480 --> 00:58:37.960
Okay, at this point, the
soil is staying extremely moist. We

802
00:58:38.079 --> 00:58:44.480
can see the water drain out the
bottom, but it stays several inches I

803
00:58:44.519 --> 00:58:49.320
mean close to the top and shortly
right below the surface. It stays moist

804
00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:52.119
for an extended period. That's why
I was afraid maybe it was getting too

805
00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:54.800
stayed too with well, watch watch
for that. I would dig down about

806
00:58:54.840 --> 00:58:59.599
two inches and feel the soil maybe
three inches and feel the soil. And

807
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:02.440
what I said about needing to water
twice today, that's that's when that tree

808
00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:06.360
is big and the roots that fill
the bucket. Not right now for sure,

809
00:59:06.599 --> 00:59:08.159
So be careful because, yeah,
SAGGI, wet soil can cause some

810
00:59:08.280 --> 00:59:13.639
problems for the plan. You definitely
want to avoid that. Okay, very

811
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:16.320
good. We'll take it easy on
it and try some of the some of

812
00:59:16.360 --> 00:59:20.719
the things you suggested, and give
it some time before we take any more

813
00:59:20.840 --> 00:59:24.239
drastic measures. I appreciate your time. All right, I appreciate that.

814
00:59:24.360 --> 00:59:29.280
Thank you very much for the call. Mark you're listening to garden Line.

815
00:59:29.280 --> 00:59:30.679
We're about to take a break,
but if you'd like to get on the

816
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:35.880
board, give Josh a call seven
one three two one to fifty eight seventy

817
00:59:35.960 --> 00:59:37.800
four. All you need to do
is tell him your name, where you

818
00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:42.079
live, and just a word or
two about your question. Don't start asking

819
00:59:42.159 --> 00:59:45.960
him questions. He's not he's not
here for that. He's got other calls

820
00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:47.519
to get to. Just you know, here's here's who I am, Here's

821
00:59:47.559 --> 00:59:52.400
where I live, and I want
to ask about nut grass or fire,

822
00:59:52.480 --> 01:00:14.840
answer whatever your question is, and
he'll take care of them. All right,

823
01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:19.519
Good morning on a good Saturday morning. That's some nice weather. And

824
01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:22.119
then telling you this is gonna be
a day to get out get some things

825
01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:24.280
done. We got some rain coming
up here before the weekend's over with,

826
01:00:24.639 --> 01:00:28.880
but not right now. It's a
good time to be out there. You

827
01:00:28.960 --> 01:00:30.360
know what, I wanted to remind
you guys that I'm going to be at

828
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:37.039
wa Bird's Unlimited out in Kingwood.
That is next Saturday, a week from

829
01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:39.519
today, June tenth, So I'll
be there for two hours, eleven thirty

830
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:43.519
to one thirty. I hope you'll
come out to see me. I'll be

831
01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:45.639
answering your gardening questions. If you
got some samples you want to bring in,

832
01:00:45.880 --> 01:00:50.280
You got some pictures on your phone, make sure they're in good sharp

833
01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:52.320
focus. And if it's something I
need to see up close, make sure

834
01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:57.320
and get as close as you can
and take a well focused photo. Maybe

835
01:00:57.320 --> 01:00:59.800
it's a bug, a spot on
a leaf, or something where I need

836
01:00:59.840 --> 01:01:01.800
to kind of zoom in a little
bit. Well, give me a good

837
01:01:01.840 --> 01:01:06.519
picture and we'll help in any way
we can. You know Wabbird's Unlimited.

838
01:01:06.599 --> 01:01:09.840
They're seven stores now around the Greater
Houston area. I mean that that is,

839
01:01:10.800 --> 01:01:15.000
you know, pretty much any part
of town you need to find a

840
01:01:15.039 --> 01:01:16.360
wall birds in, you're going to
find one pretty close to you there.

841
01:01:16.719 --> 01:01:21.519
And Wibird's Unlimited has all the kinds
of supplies you need. We're talking about

842
01:01:21.519 --> 01:01:24.840
the food products for the birds,
you know, the bird seeds and dried

843
01:01:25.400 --> 01:01:30.760
worms and things like that that your
birds need. They can tell you what

844
01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:35.519
kind of fertilizer or fertilizer, what
kind of feed the birds need for this

845
01:01:35.679 --> 01:01:37.159
time of year, and for the
type of birds are trying to attract.

846
01:01:37.679 --> 01:01:42.920
Now. One thing that they do
is they sell bird seed that is waste

847
01:01:43.039 --> 01:01:47.119
free. If you've bought cheap bird
seed before you know a small part of

848
01:01:47.159 --> 01:01:50.320
it the birds you are gonna eat
and the rest gonna get kicked on the

849
01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:53.960
ground. They don't like those little
red beebies. Most birds don't and they

850
01:01:54.039 --> 01:01:58.639
just get ignored. And so why
not buy a feed that's going to be

851
01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:00.519
a clean, waste free feed that
the birch are can eat it up.

852
01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:04.840
Wall Birds can set you up with
that. You can find them in Katie,

853
01:02:04.960 --> 01:02:08.519
Kingwood, Cypress, Pearland, bel
Air, West Houston, clear Lake.

854
01:02:09.239 --> 01:02:15.559
Just go to w BU dot com
forward slash Houston to find the wall

855
01:02:15.599 --> 01:02:19.960
birds near you. And next Saturday, June tenth, come see me at

856
01:02:20.000 --> 01:02:22.920
the one out in Kingwood. We're
gonna head of the phones now our phone

857
01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:28.119
number seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four, and we're gonna

858
01:02:28.159 --> 01:02:31.960
head out to Crosby and talk to
Barbara. Hello, Barbara, Okay,

859
01:02:32.039 --> 01:02:36.760
Skip. The humidity has been so
nice and low this year. It's been

860
01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:40.039
delightful. But that's all over here
in Crosby. It is muggy this morning.

861
01:02:40.239 --> 01:02:45.440
Oh well, oh well, welcome, Welcome to Southeast Texas, South

862
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:49.519
beat Texas. That's right. I'm
trying to establish a dogwood tree. I

863
01:02:49.639 --> 01:02:52.519
know how hard they are. I've
tried and tried, but hope springs eternal.

864
01:02:53.079 --> 01:02:58.000
I planted it and obviously, right
off the bat it was getting too

865
01:02:58.079 --> 01:03:01.880
much fun. So I've moved it
back in to the shape I'm it leashed

866
01:03:01.920 --> 01:03:06.400
out. It was all real nice, but now it's leaves or drooping.

867
01:03:06.519 --> 01:03:10.320
It's wild and bad. Okay.
Is there something special it needs? Okay?

868
01:03:10.639 --> 01:03:14.320
So if the leaves are drooping,
something's wrong in the roots. That

869
01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:17.039
could be that it was transplanted,
which means a lot of roots are lost

870
01:03:17.119 --> 01:03:21.239
in that process. It could be
that it's too dry. It could be

871
01:03:21.320 --> 01:03:24.079
this too wet, and so either
any of those things. Can you have

872
01:03:24.159 --> 01:03:28.079
to go out and dig down figure
out what's happening. Of those three,

873
01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:30.519
you want to keep it moderately moist. Dogwoods are a challenge, you know.

874
01:03:30.559 --> 01:03:35.400
I had a friend, a horticulture
friend of mine from Mississippi, and

875
01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:39.920
he made a recommendation once that I
trust the guy. I've not hunted this

876
01:03:40.000 --> 01:03:43.519
one down, but he said,
if you'll go to where dogwoods are in

877
01:03:43.599 --> 01:03:45.760
the woods and dig up just a
little bit of soil in the duff the

878
01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:50.800
forest floor duff around there and bring
it in and mix it in. When

879
01:03:50.840 --> 01:03:54.519
you're planting your dogwood, you will
bring in some of the microizal fungi that

880
01:03:54.599 --> 01:04:00.480
associate with dogwoods and they will do
much better and establishing. Now right off

881
01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:04.199
the bat, your trees having problems
and wilting, well, it's not going

882
01:04:04.239 --> 01:04:08.559
to be that fast of a result. It's in order for the tree to

883
01:04:08.719 --> 01:04:13.360
establish and to really do well longer
term. You might want to consider that

884
01:04:13.519 --> 01:04:15.679
if you can go out and find
one in that kind of situation, someone

885
01:04:16.000 --> 01:04:19.880
lets you trape through the property or
maybe do it on the roadside or whatever.

886
01:04:21.360 --> 01:04:25.440
I might help a little bit.
But otherwise just watch that salt moisture.

887
01:04:25.480 --> 01:04:28.800
That's about all I know to tell
you, and at this stage of

888
01:04:28.840 --> 01:04:32.440
the game. But maybe I'll make
a trip up to northeast Texas, but

889
01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:35.800
might be worth it. All right, Well, good luck with that dog

890
01:04:35.840 --> 01:04:39.239
with their challenge. But oh my
gosh, you're beautiful. So if you

891
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:42.840
can keep it going, good good
for you. And also we didn't talk

892
01:04:42.880 --> 01:04:45.119
about this, but make sure you
get it mulched really well. If you

893
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:50.639
haven't already. All right, we
are now going to head out to Seabrook

894
01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:56.199
and talk to Albert. Hello,
Albert, I think for having me.

895
01:04:56.239 --> 01:05:00.440
I appreciate it. I was calling
it. I I have seen augustin grass,

896
01:05:00.639 --> 01:05:04.800
and I've noticed maybe about Wednesday,
I had some Thursday, I had

897
01:05:04.840 --> 01:05:11.400
some yellowing on the one little spot
maybe about a little circular, almost circular,

898
01:05:11.400 --> 01:05:14.719
about twelve inches in diameter. And
I noticed this morning I have another

899
01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:18.920
spot forming on the other side of
my sidewalk. The grass isn't completely dead,

900
01:05:19.039 --> 01:05:25.119
it's just like the tips seem burnt
almost or yellowing. And I just

901
01:05:25.199 --> 01:05:30.159
don't know what to I don't want
my whole lawn to get ugly. So

902
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:32.559
the first out, have you have
you When you say tips, you're talking

903
01:05:32.559 --> 01:05:36.039
about the leaves, tips of the
leaves, Yes, sir, yes,

904
01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:41.920
sir. Have you used any weed
control product on it this spring? So?

905
01:05:42.320 --> 01:05:44.639
I, uh, this is before
I started listening to the show,

906
01:05:44.760 --> 01:05:47.239
because now I know microlif's the way. But I used the weed and feed

907
01:05:47.280 --> 01:05:51.280
the Scotts weeding feed in the early
spring and the end of spring my lawn

908
01:05:51.400 --> 01:05:55.599
was doing great. But now it's
it's just those two little spots. Okay,

909
01:05:55.719 --> 01:06:01.400
so well, I can get what
it is, but it's just a

910
01:06:01.519 --> 01:06:05.599
guess, and so I try not
to do that but to stay with what

911
01:06:05.760 --> 01:06:11.039
I know. But there's a disease
called take all root rot that a kills

912
01:06:11.159 --> 01:06:16.079
roots and that kind of yellowing symptom, spotty patches, general areas, no

913
01:06:16.239 --> 01:06:19.679
pattern to it. That's kind of
typical of take all root rot. So

914
01:06:19.760 --> 01:06:25.079
you may be dealing with that now. To have a sample looked at would

915
01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:29.920
be the best best way to do
it. But in light or in lieu

916
01:06:29.960 --> 01:06:32.280
of like sending a sample up to
the lab at Techa and M and having

917
01:06:32.360 --> 01:06:36.719
them and analyze it for what disease
might be present, you might want to

918
01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:43.679
consider just doing an application of a
fungicide to the lawn to see if you

919
01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:46.480
can shut that thing down right now. The alternative of that would be to

920
01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:51.119
supply some key lated iron, an
iron product to the lawn to help make

921
01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:58.239
up for some of the root loss
inability to uptake iron better. Those seem

922
01:06:58.320 --> 01:07:01.559
to help a little bit too,
But those that's what I would be your

923
01:07:01.599 --> 01:07:03.880
options. If it was me,
i'd take a sample and send it up

924
01:07:03.880 --> 01:07:10.360
to the lab. If you don't
want to do that, then I would

925
01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:15.760
consider doing a treatment with something called
azoxystrobin. It's a z o x y

926
01:07:16.199 --> 01:07:23.599
azoxy s t r O b I
N strobin azoxy stroban. Follow the label

927
01:07:23.719 --> 01:07:27.639
very carefully and don't delay. Go
ahead and get that done early as possible

928
01:07:27.679 --> 01:07:30.400
in this process. Other than that, you're kind of in a weight and

929
01:07:30.519 --> 01:07:34.239
watch to see if this is going
to go away. Sometimes yellowing just goes

930
01:07:34.320 --> 01:07:38.679
away as a weather warms up.
But that's kind of where I see you

931
01:07:38.760 --> 01:07:43.440
are right now, Albert oh Man. All right, then, well I

932
01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:45.239
appreciate you, thank you so much, so I greatly appreciate it. You

933
01:07:45.360 --> 01:07:48.920
bet, you bet, you take
care, you know. Talking about lawns.

934
01:07:49.079 --> 01:07:54.079
This spring, I used a Hestergrow
twelve four seven on a portion of

935
01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:57.800
one of my lawn areas, and
it's one that you hook up to a

936
01:07:57.880 --> 01:08:00.400
little quart bottle and you just spray
it on the lawn. It takes about

937
01:08:00.400 --> 01:08:04.039
ten minutes to do the lawn.
But the twelve four seven is a good

938
01:08:04.159 --> 01:08:09.400
ratio of nutrients and it's got Medinas
oil activator, it's got natural food supplements

939
01:08:09.440 --> 01:08:12.679
in it, it's got humate liquid
humus in it, so it's going to

940
01:08:12.760 --> 01:08:15.760
give you a really quick response.
Now you can do that about four times

941
01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:20.720
through the growing season if you return
your clippings and get the supplement from that

942
01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:26.880
and does really well. I enjoy
doing the hashtragrow, and it just for

943
01:08:27.039 --> 01:08:30.560
a good quick quick green up,
a good quick fix to get going on

944
01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:34.640
it, and then returning the clippings
after that to kind of keeping things keeping

945
01:08:34.720 --> 01:08:38.640
things going along. Well, we're
gonna take a break right now. Our

946
01:08:38.680 --> 01:08:43.000
phone numbers seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh

947
01:08:43.039 --> 01:08:45.720
a call and we will be right
back. Trish in Liverpool, Mike and

948
01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:48.960
Willis and Jim and meadow Springs.
You'll be the first we get to when

949
01:08:49.000 --> 01:09:03.039
we come back. Stupid big stop
me, Josh. I think we're running

950
01:09:03.079 --> 01:09:08.399
a sock hoop this morning. I
love all these things sound fifty cent to

951
01:09:08.560 --> 01:09:11.680
the gun. It's kind of cool. If you're listening to Garden Line,

952
01:09:12.239 --> 01:09:15.279
I'm your host, Skip Richter and
our phone number seven one three two one

953
01:09:15.359 --> 01:09:17.600
two fifty eight seventy four. You
know, before we went to break,

954
01:09:17.640 --> 01:09:23.279
I was talking about the hast grow
twelve four eight and it it just reminded

955
01:09:23.319 --> 01:09:28.000
me. I always talk about azamite
when I talk about fertilizing because when you

956
01:09:28.119 --> 01:09:31.159
fertilize your lawn, that's a good
time to also add azamite to your lawn.

957
01:09:31.199 --> 01:09:38.319
Azamite is a crushed mineral substance that
has all of the trace elements that

958
01:09:38.399 --> 01:09:42.560
are needed by plants in the material
itself, so you don't mix it with

959
01:09:42.640 --> 01:09:45.600
your fertilizer. I like to do
the fertilizing and then follow that with an

960
01:09:45.640 --> 01:09:48.399
application of asamite because the particle size
is different between the two, and that

961
01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:53.600
way you get your fertilizer setting just
right. I use asomite also, by

962
01:09:53.640 --> 01:09:56.600
the way, in my vegetable garden, and that is because I want all

963
01:09:56.640 --> 01:10:00.720
of the nutrients that are necessary for
my health to be present produce that I

964
01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:04.319
eat, and azamite is another way
that you can help accomplish that. Go

965
01:10:04.399 --> 01:10:10.159
to azamite Texas dot com if you
like more information. But azamite is one

966
01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:15.039
of those supplements that I think is
very important in maintaining the quality of soil

967
01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:18.520
nutrition that we need to have healthy
plants and in a garden case, healthy

968
01:10:18.560 --> 01:10:24.119
people. When I head out to
Liverpool and visit with Trish now well,

969
01:10:24.159 --> 01:10:30.319
hello Trish, good morning morning.
I have a problem with my uh not

970
01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:33.880
all of them but my tomatoes,
okay, there, I've been finding some.

971
01:10:35.159 --> 01:10:39.600
They look just fine, you know, from where I can see them,

972
01:10:39.680 --> 01:10:44.199
But then when I go to pick
them on the opposite side, it's

973
01:10:44.279 --> 01:10:47.479
just completely rotten. It's not blossom
and rot, because I know what that

974
01:10:47.640 --> 01:10:53.640
looks like. But it's on the
same spot of the tomato as blossom.

975
01:10:53.720 --> 01:10:58.600
And right now it's the it's on
the side of the tomato Sidekay, yes,

976
01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:01.800
and it's stink. Yeah, you've
got some sort of a fruit rot.

977
01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:05.600
Now, I would look real closely
on tomatoes as that first starts.

978
01:11:06.039 --> 01:11:11.039
You might see a little hole where
a tiny caterpillar has chewed in, and

979
01:11:11.119 --> 01:11:14.880
then the rot has followed that hole. So if that's the case, we're

980
01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:17.199
talking about an insect problem. If
it's not the case, we're talking about

981
01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:24.720
a disease problem. Generally we wouldn't
spray for most rots of the fruit just

982
01:11:24.920 --> 01:11:30.319
because well, you're not going to
have as good as success trying to control

983
01:11:30.439 --> 01:11:33.079
that kind of thing with sprays,
because usually they're brought on by in a

984
01:11:33.119 --> 01:11:36.720
case of blossom indrod, a calcium
deficiency. In the case of a worm,

985
01:11:36.840 --> 01:11:42.319
it's the physical wound. In the
case of sunburn that you know that

986
01:11:42.439 --> 01:11:45.000
can also lead to rots as well. But I would take a close look,

987
01:11:45.079 --> 01:11:48.479
maybe even cut one of those open
and kind of dig around inside and

988
01:11:48.560 --> 01:11:53.079
see if you see some sort of
little worm in there that's also feeding on

989
01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:55.319
the inside. If that's the case, you're going to need some sort of

990
01:11:55.359 --> 01:12:00.760
a spray like BT or spinosid that
helps, right, Well, I do

991
01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:03.560
have the BT sprain. I did
use that, okay a few weeks ago

992
01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:12.920
because of those small little black okay, well they get up under the leads

993
01:12:13.239 --> 01:12:16.119
and stuff. Yes, well,
remember, but if I could get if

994
01:12:16.159 --> 01:12:19.640
I could get past the stink,
I'll cut that tomato open. But it

995
01:12:19.720 --> 01:12:23.960
smells horrible. I'll just get your
clothes pin, put on your nose and

996
01:12:24.079 --> 01:12:26.960
go after it. Let's get in
there. We got to do an autopsy.

997
01:12:27.439 --> 01:12:29.800
Got to do an autopsy and the
tomato. Good luck with that,

998
01:12:29.920 --> 01:12:31.880
Trish. I appreciate the call.
Thank you very much, Thank you,

999
01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:38.479
sir. You bet you bet,
you know you If you have heard of

1000
01:12:38.560 --> 01:12:41.800
del Web before, you know what
I'm talking about when I say they are

1001
01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:45.960
the premier community for active adults age
fifty five and better. They have that

1002
01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:51.039
design of the community is beautiful,
the walking trails, just the lifestyle program

1003
01:12:51.159 --> 01:12:55.399
is the best part of the whole
thing. I'm getting to work with them

1004
01:12:55.560 --> 01:12:58.399
on a new community they're creating.
When I say I'm getting to work with

1005
01:12:58.479 --> 01:13:01.439
them, it's to help put a
community garden into the new Dell Web community

1006
01:13:01.520 --> 01:13:06.960
going in two miles from downtown Full
Share on FM three fifty nine. So

1007
01:13:08.119 --> 01:13:11.159
if you're a gardener, I mean, there's reason enough to move to a

1008
01:13:11.199 --> 01:13:14.680
Dell Web community. But if you're
a gardener, here's yet another good reason

1009
01:13:14.760 --> 01:13:17.560
to do it. Go to dellweb
dot com, slash Houston or give him

1010
01:13:17.560 --> 01:13:23.199
a call two eight one four or
five nine six Z nine and find out

1011
01:13:23.239 --> 01:13:27.439
about the Dell Web difference for yourself. We're going to head out now and

1012
01:13:27.680 --> 01:13:31.359
go to Willis to talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Hey, Hi,

1013
01:13:31.399 --> 01:13:35.159
I'll do it. I'm well,
how are you well. I've got

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01:13:35.279 --> 01:13:42.359
about fifty blueberry plants and a bunch
of fruit trees. We're right in the

1015
01:13:42.399 --> 01:13:49.640
middle of harvest of the blueberries.
I've been hearing about pruning the blueberries after

1016
01:13:50.279 --> 01:13:58.159
harvests in the summertime. What are
your recommendations about fertilizing after the harvest and

1017
01:13:58.399 --> 01:14:02.079
pruning the blueberries. I'm like,
how aggressive should you get well, I

1018
01:14:02.159 --> 01:14:06.279
wouldn't. I wouldn't prune them.
I'm not sure what the what the person

1019
01:14:06.359 --> 01:14:10.159
whoever said that, what the purpose
of that would be. But I don't

1020
01:14:10.199 --> 01:14:14.640
prune the blueberries after harvest in the
wintertime, if you've got older plants,

1021
01:14:14.920 --> 01:14:18.039
you'll take out the oldest a couple
of the oldest canes, the oldest shoots

1022
01:14:18.119 --> 01:14:21.319
or trunks coming out of the ground, so you get fresh new ones coming

1023
01:14:21.399 --> 01:14:25.199
up. The old ones tend to
become less productive you take them out all

1024
01:14:25.239 --> 01:14:28.399
the way at the ground, though, But I don't see a need.

1025
01:14:28.479 --> 01:14:30.000
I mean, if you want to
do that after harvest, that's fine,

1026
01:14:30.840 --> 01:14:34.600
but generally I do that in the
winter time. As far as fertilizing,

1027
01:14:34.680 --> 01:14:41.000
get a good fertilizer for acidc loving
plants, sprite it at the rate recommended

1028
01:14:41.079 --> 01:14:44.760
on the label, and watered and
really well, and then make sure you

1029
01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:48.800
maintain a moist soil. Blueberries don't
have a root system that's tolerant of drought,

1030
01:14:49.279 --> 01:14:54.359
so a little little nutrient, a
little an adequate water on an ongoing

1031
01:14:54.439 --> 01:14:59.079
basis gets that bigger up. Because
as we get into midsummer, late summer,

1032
01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:02.279
they're setting the buds for next year's
blueberry crop. And so you don't.

1033
01:15:02.600 --> 01:15:05.680
You don't at that time want to
be pushing a whole lot of new

1034
01:15:05.720 --> 01:15:10.119
growth. You want to have already
pushed growth that is hitting a point where

1035
01:15:10.119 --> 01:15:15.560
it's ready to set buds by then
well they well last year they shot up

1036
01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:21.319
to seven eight feet long with new
growth. Okay, So this year I

1037
01:15:23.039 --> 01:15:29.279
cut him back. It's you know, about to five feet tall. Okay.

1038
01:15:29.640 --> 01:15:33.680
Um, And I'm very aggressive with
water. I heard that the guy

1039
01:15:34.520 --> 01:15:38.960
I think last week and or whatever
said he was losing those blueberries before they

1040
01:15:39.000 --> 01:15:43.920
got right because my guess he wasn't
water enough. But yeah, today,

1041
01:15:44.039 --> 01:15:45.479
well it sounds like number one,
you are taking good care of him,

1042
01:15:45.479 --> 01:15:48.239
and number two sounds like a rabbit
eye blueberry if it's getting that big.

1043
01:15:48.399 --> 01:15:53.800
Is that right? Yeah, we've
got the premier and the rabbit eye.

1044
01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:59.319
But uh yeah, okay, Well
I would hope I would hold off mic

1045
01:15:59.399 --> 01:16:01.520
on that fertile in a little bit
then, because if you're getting that kind

1046
01:16:01.560 --> 01:16:04.920
of vigor, you're not needing to
add a whole lot of extra to it.

1047
01:16:05.079 --> 01:16:09.279
So I'm gonna have to run to
take a break here. But I

1048
01:16:09.399 --> 01:16:12.279
think that ought to get you off
on the right on the right foot.

1049
01:16:12.479 --> 01:16:14.880
If you want to cut them back
some, that's fine. There's going to

1050
01:16:14.960 --> 01:16:17.479
be some sprouting done, but just
get that done sooner rather than later so

1051
01:16:17.600 --> 01:16:20.920
you have time to set those bloom
buds for next year. And by the

1052
01:16:20.960 --> 01:16:25.399
way, Mike, thank you so
much for that call. If you have

1053
01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:28.680
not been to Plants for all seasons, if you're let's say you're a green

1054
01:16:28.760 --> 01:16:30.760
thumb gardener, you take pride in
your lawn and garden, you need to

1055
01:16:30.800 --> 01:16:34.079
go to Plants for all seasons.
If you if you have a brown thumb

1056
01:16:34.239 --> 01:16:36.840
and you want to turn it green, you need to go to Plants for

1057
01:16:36.920 --> 01:16:41.600
all seasons. And here's why.
They're a full service retail garden center.

1058
01:16:41.640 --> 01:16:45.920
It's been family owned since nineteen seventy
three. I mean plants for all seasons.

1059
01:16:46.000 --> 01:16:48.880
Dot com is where you go to
learn more about them. They're on

1060
01:16:49.039 --> 01:16:54.399
two forty nine up toward Tomball direction, right where Louetta comes in. But

1061
01:16:54.520 --> 01:16:59.000
on two forty nine. They've got
the quality staff, the knowledgeable folks.

1062
01:16:59.079 --> 01:17:02.600
You've taken plans for a sample or
pictures for a sample, they'll direct you

1063
01:17:02.720 --> 01:17:06.880
the right one. They will not
sell you plants that won't grow here.

1064
01:17:08.000 --> 01:17:12.800
They will tell you how to make
your plants do well. It's a promise

1065
01:17:12.920 --> 01:17:16.520
of success. That is money well
spent at plants for all seasons. And

1066
01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:19.840
when you see all that they have. I was out there just last weekend

1067
01:17:19.880 --> 01:17:24.520
actually getting some pottery and a couple
of plants that they had. I mean,

1068
01:17:24.640 --> 01:17:29.960
it is a wonderland of beauty and
color plants for all seasons. We

1069
01:17:30.119 --> 01:17:33.520
are heading to a break. The
phone number is seven one three two one

1070
01:17:33.680 --> 01:17:38.600
two five eight seven four. If
you would like to give me a call,

1071
01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:42.560
Josh will get you on the board. Jim o'da meadow springs. Didn't

1072
01:17:42.600 --> 01:17:45.399
quite make it to you this hour, but you will be first up when

1073
01:17:45.479 --> 01:17:48.239
we come back after break. Thank
you for listening to garden Line. Look

1074
01:17:48.279 --> 01:17:54.520
forward to visiting with you about whatever
is interesting to you regarding gardens. Maybe

1075
01:17:54.600 --> 01:17:59.800
some questions, some diagnosis, recommendations
for success with plants. That's why we're

1076
01:17:59.840 --> 01:18:02.079
here. If you think you have
a brown thumb, you don't. I

1077
01:18:02.199 --> 01:18:08.199
promise you your thumb's just uninformed.
And on garden Line, we can educate

1078
01:18:08.279 --> 01:18:16.000
that thumb and you will see it
turned greener and greener. KTRH. Garden

1079
01:18:16.039 --> 01:18:20.000
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

1080
01:18:21.840 --> 01:18:35.840
Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with
skip Rictord. Just watch him as

1081
01:18:48.880 --> 01:18:59.399
clumped back not a s well,
good morning on a great Saturday morning for

1082
01:18:59.479 --> 01:19:01.920
a garden. By the way,
we got some rain coming and they start

1083
01:19:01.960 --> 01:19:06.239
tomorrow at some point then Mony Tuesday, Wednesday thirty. It looks like some

1084
01:19:06.399 --> 01:19:10.760
rainy days coming here. Today is
a day to get out there and get

1085
01:19:10.800 --> 01:19:13.640
it done. You may have some
time tomorrow as well, but don't delay.

1086
01:19:14.039 --> 01:19:16.199
Make sure and take care of that
getting it done. If you happen

1087
01:19:16.239 --> 01:19:21.079
to live up in the Lake Conro
area or Montgomery or Conro, we're talking

1088
01:19:21.119 --> 01:19:26.399
about on Highway one oh five,
the place that you need to go your

1089
01:19:26.520 --> 01:19:30.079
neighborhood garden centers A and A Plants
and Produce. They're in Montgomery, just

1090
01:19:30.279 --> 01:19:33.479
on the east side of Montgomery on
one oh five, So anyone up in

1091
01:19:33.560 --> 01:19:38.960
that general region you need check out
ANA Plants. They've got the kinds of

1092
01:19:39.039 --> 01:19:41.760
products we talk about all the time
here. You're gonna be able to find

1093
01:19:41.840 --> 01:19:45.920
them at Ana awesome selection of color
plants, of fruit plants, of vegetable

1094
01:19:46.000 --> 01:19:49.319
plants, of you know, just
any kind of plant you can imagine three

1095
01:19:49.359 --> 01:19:54.000
acres to wander around and check it
out, seven days a week, nine

1096
01:19:54.039 --> 01:19:58.840
to five pm. They got knowledgeable
staff and all the extra things that make

1097
01:19:58.960 --> 01:20:02.279
our gardens and lens CAP's beautiful,
like yard art, statuary, gazebos,

1098
01:20:02.359 --> 01:20:06.880
Topiari's furniture for the deck. They've
got it all right there, a and

1099
01:20:08.000 --> 01:20:12.279
a plants and produce in Montgomery's place. You should check out in Today be

1100
01:20:12.359 --> 01:20:16.399
a great day to get that done. I'm gonna head out to the phones

1101
01:20:16.439 --> 01:20:21.239
here. We're gonna talk to Jim
and Meadow Springs. Hello Jim. Hello,

1102
01:20:21.359 --> 01:20:30.479
Skip a couple of quick questions.
I use some weed beater ultra concentrate

1103
01:20:30.680 --> 01:20:33.680
to kill some weeds in the yard. I mixed it up wrong, and

1104
01:20:33.880 --> 01:20:41.600
now I have all five or six
spots of dead grass. I'm removing the

1105
01:20:41.720 --> 01:20:45.359
dead grass and looking for our best
way for a recovery of those areas in

1106
01:20:45.520 --> 01:20:50.800
the yard. Okay, it's pretty
much going to be time that is needed

1107
01:20:51.159 --> 01:20:57.239
for your yard, Jim. The
fact that it was a broad leaf post

1108
01:20:57.279 --> 01:21:00.840
emergent weed killer means that when you
get the grass out and everything, give

1109
01:21:00.880 --> 01:21:02.800
it, you know, give it
a week or two, you can go

1110
01:21:02.800 --> 01:21:06.199
ahead and plant new grass. It
should be just fine going in. It's

1111
01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:13.199
not like your soil is ruined or
something in that area. But just just

1112
01:21:13.319 --> 01:21:15.279
give it. I'd give it a
couple of weeks. You just you know,

1113
01:21:15.359 --> 01:21:17.000
get get some water on it and
everything, and then and then put

1114
01:21:17.079 --> 01:21:20.560
the new new grass in. But
it's good to get that old stuff out

1115
01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:25.680
because it still has you know,
the ingredients that helped kill the weeds in

1116
01:21:25.800 --> 01:21:32.520
that old grass material. Okay,
second question. I have a truckolor barricaded

1117
01:21:32.680 --> 01:21:39.920
ginger that survived the freeze. It
was a nice twelve eighteen inch high plant.

1118
01:21:41.119 --> 01:21:45.159
It got burned back and I cut
it back and it's recovered. It's

1119
01:21:45.159 --> 01:21:48.760
a healthy plant. It's only about
eight ten inches tall, and I can't

1120
01:21:48.800 --> 01:21:53.199
seem to get it to flourish.
I don't know what to put on it

1121
01:21:53.279 --> 01:21:57.239
to help it help it grow better. I'm assuming that it's in a partial

1122
01:21:57.319 --> 01:22:01.960
sun or a bright shade location.
It's in a partial sun. It gets

1123
01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:10.479
about all four four hours afternoon sun. It's in a raise bed outside.

1124
01:22:12.600 --> 01:22:15.479
Yes, yeah, you may.
You may be talking talking about a plant

1125
01:22:15.479 --> 01:22:19.600
called trialstar too. It's very similar
to what you're describing when you said the

1126
01:22:19.840 --> 01:22:24.600
three color that that kind of makes
me think of Trialstar, which looks a

1127
01:22:24.680 --> 01:22:30.439
lot like the green and yellow variegated
alpinea type ginger. But I would it

1128
01:22:30.560 --> 01:22:33.520
likes a high organic matter, so
also compost is always a good thing to

1129
01:22:33.600 --> 01:22:39.840
be adding to the surface. You
want to fertilize it moderately but over time,

1130
01:22:39.960 --> 01:22:43.640
so you can use a very gradual, slow release fertilizer around it.

1131
01:22:44.479 --> 01:22:46.880
It's not a plant you're growing for
the blooms, so just anything it's got

1132
01:22:46.960 --> 01:22:50.479
some good nitrogen content to get to
invigorate it, get a little bit of

1133
01:22:50.560 --> 01:22:55.720
vigor, and then adequate slow moisture, which I think is what you know

1134
01:22:55.920 --> 01:22:59.560
to do already. Those would be
the secrets to kind of getting it going

1135
01:22:59.640 --> 01:23:03.560
again. Once it has warm temperatures, sole moisture, moderate nutrition, good

1136
01:23:03.640 --> 01:23:09.199
drainage, it should just start growing. Well. I've used some has to

1137
01:23:09.279 --> 01:23:15.560
Grow on it and color Star and
sail Activator, and like I said,

1138
01:23:15.600 --> 01:23:19.119
the plants healthy. It just doesn't
seem to want to grow very much.

1139
01:23:19.800 --> 01:23:23.800
Well, I'd give it a little
more time. We're getting into some warm

1140
01:23:23.880 --> 01:23:27.399
or weather, but I would give
a little more time and let's let's let's

1141
01:23:27.399 --> 01:23:30.560
see if it improves. I don't
know to tell you to do anything else.

1142
01:23:30.680 --> 01:23:34.520
It sounds like what you've done are
the right things to do. Just

1143
01:23:34.680 --> 01:23:38.920
maybe a little more boost of nitrogen. A few more weeks from now,

1144
01:23:39.039 --> 01:23:41.520
maybe two or three weeks from now, you might give it a little bit

1145
01:23:41.600 --> 01:23:45.079
more. But in the meantime,
let's just hold back and let the weather

1146
01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:47.279
warm up. I think it's going
to get better. You've pretty much done

1147
01:23:47.319 --> 01:23:50.600
what you need to do. Okay, all right, thanks for the help.

1148
01:23:50.800 --> 01:23:57.359
All right, Jim, thank you. I want to talk about a

1149
01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:00.800
product or actually a product line that
you need to be aware of, and

1150
01:24:00.920 --> 01:24:04.840
that is Heirloom Soils. Heirloom Soils
of Texas. They're at in Porter,

1151
01:24:05.359 --> 01:24:10.640
but their bag products are available all
over the place. They have roast soil,

1152
01:24:10.760 --> 01:24:14.520
they've got leafmole composts, they've got
a vegetable and herb mix. They've

1153
01:24:14.560 --> 01:24:16.359
got on and on and on down
the line, pretty much everything. A

1154
01:24:16.439 --> 01:24:23.079
podding sail for indoor plants as well. Heirloom Soils of Texas dot Com is

1155
01:24:23.119 --> 01:24:26.359
where you go to find out more
about what they have. They also have

1156
01:24:26.479 --> 01:24:30.359
a one cubic yard supersack they deliver
and set on your driveway, and that's

1157
01:24:30.439 --> 01:24:34.279
one qbicard to big giant sacks.
Very convenient to go about it that way.

1158
01:24:34.319 --> 01:24:36.960
You can go out there and get
it yourself on a flatbed trailer,

1159
01:24:38.199 --> 01:24:40.399
or you can buy it by the
bag. If you don't know how much

1160
01:24:40.399 --> 01:24:45.560
you need, go to Airloom Sails
of Texas and check out their online cubic

1161
01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:48.880
yard calculator. You put the dimensions
of how deep, how wide, how

1162
01:24:48.960 --> 01:24:54.439
long you need it whatever it tells
you exactly how many qbkyards you need,

1163
01:24:54.560 --> 01:24:59.319
even down to the how many,
how many five gallon buckets or wheelbarrowloads or

1164
01:24:59.359 --> 01:25:03.439
in a QUB heirloom. Soils of
Texas dot com is a really, really

1165
01:25:03.560 --> 01:25:12.399
good opportunity to buy a really good
quality product. I was looking at some

1166
01:25:13.439 --> 01:25:15.680
sales that were going on these past
few weekends and things, and it just

1167
01:25:15.880 --> 01:25:19.319
reminded me. You know, we
are in palm planting season, and if

1168
01:25:19.399 --> 01:25:26.079
you are thinking about putting a palm
tree in your landscape, you should do

1169
01:25:26.119 --> 01:25:29.479
it now. Palms like to be
planted in the summer. They you know,

1170
01:25:29.520 --> 01:25:31.439
a lot of times we talk about
fall and winter planting. Course,

1171
01:25:31.640 --> 01:25:35.119
we can plant trees year round,
but for palm trees now, they want

1172
01:25:35.159 --> 01:25:39.920
to be planted when it's warm and
with palms you get this instant tree.

1173
01:25:40.119 --> 01:25:44.840
And the place to go for your
palms is verdamt Tree Farm Verdunt Tree Farm.

1174
01:25:45.520 --> 01:25:48.319
You can go to online to Verdunt
Treefarm dot com. But they have

1175
01:25:48.439 --> 01:25:54.560
a number of different locations in the
Greater Houston area. The old location out

1176
01:25:54.600 --> 01:25:59.399
original location out on Barker Cyprus is
one you probably familiar with. In West

1177
01:25:59.439 --> 01:26:01.880
Houston, you can go down to
pair Land on West Broadway, there's another

1178
01:26:02.039 --> 01:26:06.920
Verdant Tree Farm location there and even
up in the Heights three thirty seven Yale

1179
01:26:06.960 --> 01:26:12.239
Street, right where it comes into
ten Verdant Tree Farm location. Now they

1180
01:26:12.279 --> 01:26:15.760
sell way more than just palms,
but they have trees all the way up

1181
01:26:15.760 --> 01:26:19.800
to seven hundred gallons. Ten percent
discount for military and first responders, and

1182
01:26:19.920 --> 01:26:26.319
they do offer a one year warranty
included with the installation. We're going to

1183
01:26:26.399 --> 01:26:29.079
take a break right now. Give
us a call seven one three two one

1184
01:26:29.199 --> 01:26:32.399
two five eight seven four and we
will get to you right when we come

1185
01:26:32.439 --> 01:26:39.159
back from break. To the east
to the west. But see the Gavin

1186
01:26:39.399 --> 01:26:49.239
I love well. Good morning.
You're listening to the garden Line on a

1187
01:26:49.319 --> 01:26:54.560
great day for gardening. We are
looking forward to visiting with you. But

1188
01:26:54.840 --> 01:26:59.439
right now I am going to tell
you about a place that you need to

1189
01:26:59.560 --> 01:27:01.359
visit, and that is the Bee
Supply. Now you're probably thinking, I'm

1190
01:27:01.359 --> 01:27:05.239
not a beekeeper. Well, if
you're interested in becoming a beekeeper, you

1191
01:27:05.319 --> 01:27:09.479
need to go to the B Supply. If you're interested in learning about the

1192
01:27:09.640 --> 01:27:12.560
fascinating world of bees, you should
go to the B Supply. These guys

1193
01:27:13.119 --> 01:27:16.000
they have beginner classes twice a month
out there in Dayton at the B Supply.

1194
01:27:16.600 --> 01:27:20.640
By the way, go to the
b Supply dot com to learn more

1195
01:27:21.560 --> 01:27:27.359
those I've been out there. I
could just spend almost a day out there.

1196
01:27:27.439 --> 01:27:31.079
All the products that they have.
They've got the second largest observation indoor

1197
01:27:31.319 --> 01:27:36.199
observational hive in the world, big
plexiglass box up high. You can walk

1198
01:27:36.279 --> 01:27:42.039
up there some steps and see the
bees working really really cool. If you're

1199
01:27:42.039 --> 01:27:45.039
interested in learning, take one of
their honey tours. They do them about

1200
01:27:45.119 --> 01:27:47.399
once a month out there at the
Bee Supply. You can go through learn

1201
01:27:47.520 --> 01:27:50.840
all about bees. It's great for
kids, by the way, fascinating for

1202
01:27:50.960 --> 01:27:55.920
kids. Take six different kinds of
honey. Have you ever had orange honey?

1203
01:27:56.279 --> 01:27:59.600
Have you orange blossom honey. You
ever had creamed honey? There,

1204
01:27:59.600 --> 01:28:03.600
it's all out there thebe Supply dot
com. It is well worth a trip

1205
01:28:03.680 --> 01:28:09.319
out to Dayton. You will be
fascinated and you'll come back going wow,

1206
01:28:09.520 --> 01:28:14.359
I had no idea how cool bees
were and all of the intricacies of what

1207
01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:17.239
goes on in a bee high.
We're now going to head and talk to

1208
01:28:17.840 --> 01:28:21.880
Paula this morning, and Paula,
welcome to the show. Thanks for calling

1209
01:28:21.960 --> 01:28:27.000
in now. If you have not
been to the Arburgate recently, you need

1210
01:28:27.079 --> 01:28:30.880
to check them out. I was
there not too long ago. And you

1211
01:28:31.000 --> 01:28:34.560
can never go to the Arbourgate at
a time where there's not a lot of

1212
01:28:34.640 --> 01:28:39.239
cool plants and things to look at. You can go to the Arburgate dot

1213
01:28:39.319 --> 01:28:45.560
com Arborgate dot com and they've got
there one two three, completely easy system.

1214
01:28:45.600 --> 01:28:46.600
And I want to tell you about
that. It's a food that feeds

1215
01:28:46.640 --> 01:28:51.600
anything with roots. It's a soil
for any application, and a compost that

1216
01:28:51.760 --> 01:28:57.520
improves the soil. It's all one
hundred percent organic. Their compost is blended

1217
01:28:57.600 --> 01:29:03.319
with two different types of composts within
credible beneficial microbe diversity in the product.

1218
01:29:03.720 --> 01:29:08.239
They're well, it's well blended.
He's got the macro and nutrients. The

1219
01:29:08.319 --> 01:29:13.840
micronutrients have a shell component in it
to improve drainage. They're organic plant food.

1220
01:29:13.960 --> 01:29:17.399
It's a four four three plus ten
percent calcium. It is an organic

1221
01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:24.720
food that has a slow release form
of nitrogen and it just absolutely whatever you're

1222
01:29:24.720 --> 01:29:27.479
gonna put it on, it is
going to thrive from that. That is

1223
01:29:27.560 --> 01:29:32.119
the arbor gates part of that one
two three, completely easy system. So

1224
01:29:32.319 --> 01:29:35.159
while you're out there, pick up
some of that. But also, by

1225
01:29:35.199 --> 01:29:39.279
the way, I remember, today's
a great day to get outside and do

1226
01:29:39.439 --> 01:29:42.520
some things. Be a great day
to go out and visit the arbor gate.

1227
01:29:42.920 --> 01:29:45.520
Let's head back out now and we
are going to talk to Paula.

1228
01:29:45.640 --> 01:29:49.239
Hello, Paula, it's a good
morning, skip, good morning. Tell

1229
01:29:49.640 --> 01:29:54.439
I believe you know a thing or
two about plumerias, don't you. Oh?

1230
01:29:54.600 --> 01:29:57.760
Yes, I do. It's it's
like my passion, is it?

1231
01:29:58.199 --> 01:30:01.720
And what would you like to know? Well, you know, people call

1232
01:30:01.800 --> 01:30:04.960
me about plumarius all the time,
and I am not a plumaria expert,

1233
01:30:05.840 --> 01:30:12.439
but they for those who are flamiliar
with fleury is it's the Hawaiian layflower,

1234
01:30:12.560 --> 01:30:16.159
right and you can grow Plumarius here
in Houston, and there are a lot

1235
01:30:16.199 --> 01:30:19.680
of enthusiasts. I think you're part
of the Plumarius Society. First of all,

1236
01:30:19.760 --> 01:30:24.600
tell us just a little bit about
the Plumaria Society. Oh okay,

1237
01:30:25.159 --> 01:30:29.800
Yes, the society is located here
in Houston. It's the Plumari Society of

1238
01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:36.560
America. And we meet five times
per year in January, March, May,

1239
01:30:39.199 --> 01:30:43.840
July, and October. Okay,
down at the Sherry Floors Garden Center

1240
01:30:44.079 --> 01:30:47.920
in Herman Park. Okay, wow, and uh yeah, we have we

1241
01:30:48.079 --> 01:30:55.119
have one full events for our members
and we're open to the public. So

1242
01:30:55.720 --> 01:30:58.760
it's you know, you don't have
to be a member to come to our

1243
01:30:58.920 --> 01:31:03.720
meetings or to our events like our
upcoming Plumarious sales. Okay, So can

1244
01:31:03.760 --> 01:31:08.039
you give like a website or something
where people could go to, you know,

1245
01:31:08.479 --> 01:31:11.680
tomorrow when they remember we talked about
it, but they can't remember when

1246
01:31:11.760 --> 01:31:18.600
and where and all that. Sure, it's called www dot v Plumeria Society

1247
01:31:18.920 --> 01:31:24.439
dot org. Okay, that's one
word. So I'm thinking that if the

1248
01:31:24.640 --> 01:31:29.319
Plumerious Society of America is located in
Houston, we might be able to grow

1249
01:31:29.399 --> 01:31:32.399
Plumarious here. So I've had Oh
yeah, I've had people call me before

1250
01:31:32.760 --> 01:31:36.079
you know about the plumarius. One
of the questions I had this year that's

1251
01:31:36.119 --> 01:31:40.720
coming in more than once is I
have plumeria. Is they're there, but

1252
01:31:40.840 --> 01:31:45.439
they're just not blooming? And maybe
is it too early for them to expect

1253
01:31:45.520 --> 01:31:47.479
that? Or do you have any
thoughts on things they might want to look

1254
01:31:47.560 --> 01:31:53.960
into or check out? Yes,
so, um, we had a really

1255
01:31:54.079 --> 01:32:00.720
wet and cold and rainy spring,
so they are waking up out of dormancy

1256
01:32:00.840 --> 01:32:06.920
more slowly than they do in years
past. But you will get to marry

1257
01:32:06.920 --> 01:32:12.039
a blooms as long as you provide
it with at least six full hours of

1258
01:32:12.199 --> 01:32:18.720
sunlight. And you need a fast
draining good soil is rose soil. And

1259
01:32:19.119 --> 01:32:26.720
you need to be fertilizing because they
like to be fed. And you'll also

1260
01:32:27.479 --> 01:32:30.600
people forget to Mary's are trees,
so you have to be patient with them.

1261
01:32:31.000 --> 01:32:35.720
They will grow into a giant tree
if you let it, but usually

1262
01:32:36.359 --> 01:32:42.279
I never get them to grow that
big because I like to store them in

1263
01:32:42.319 --> 01:32:46.800
the winter in my garage, so
I keep them purposely small so that I

1264
01:32:46.880 --> 01:32:51.880
can move them. Okay, so
how do you keep it Plumaria small?

1265
01:32:51.920 --> 01:32:57.600
Because they sort of take off like
a telephone pole straight up right. That's

1266
01:32:57.720 --> 01:33:04.119
right, So you have to you
have to use your discretion when you buy

1267
01:33:04.159 --> 01:33:09.319
a plumeria. Some are known to
be tall growers and fast growers. Some

1268
01:33:09.520 --> 01:33:14.279
are dwarf, some are more compact
than others. But what I do if

1269
01:33:14.319 --> 01:33:17.399
I have a tall plumeria and I
want it to be shorter, I let

1270
01:33:17.479 --> 01:33:24.079
it grow to produce a nice small, multi tipped branch, and then I

1271
01:33:24.239 --> 01:33:28.600
make a cutting of that branch,
and then I will start that plant over

1272
01:33:29.159 --> 01:33:33.000
as a mini tree. So I
have a lot of mini trees in my

1273
01:33:33.199 --> 01:33:39.039
yard that have been started over.
Okay, so no plumeria for a lot

1274
01:33:39.119 --> 01:33:42.000
of people. When you talk about
rooting cuttings, you know, their eyes

1275
01:33:42.119 --> 01:33:45.319
roll back in their head and they
think that's too hard. But plumerias are

1276
01:33:45.399 --> 01:33:48.039
really easy to root from cuttings.
Can you give us kind of a real

1277
01:33:48.119 --> 01:33:51.920
quick tip on if you have a
plumaria, or maybe someone you know has

1278
01:33:51.920 --> 01:33:55.600
a plumeria and they're willing to give
you a cutting from it, how do

1279
01:33:55.680 --> 01:34:00.600
you go about making a new plant? Okay, so when you make it

1280
01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:03.800
cutting, you first of all need
to make a long enough cutting, and

1281
01:34:04.000 --> 01:34:10.000
it should be taken in dark gray
wood, not in the green growth area.

1282
01:34:10.479 --> 01:34:14.680
Green cuttings tend to not root as
well. And then you let it

1283
01:34:14.800 --> 01:34:18.119
callous at the bottom. I make
a flat cut, and by the way,

1284
01:34:18.359 --> 01:34:25.359
you always sterilize your cutting implements before
you cut into a plant, and

1285
01:34:25.880 --> 01:34:30.079
so you let it callous for maybe
a week, and then you can plant

1286
01:34:30.119 --> 01:34:34.840
it in a one gallon pot with
a mixture of roll soil and perlite.

1287
01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:41.880
And don't plant it in too much
soil, because when a plant has no

1288
01:34:42.119 --> 01:34:45.359
roots, it can't take up all
the water it gets. If it's a

1289
01:34:45.520 --> 01:34:47.720
rain rainy season, that's a good
point. And so you want to starve

1290
01:34:47.840 --> 01:34:53.319
it for water so that it sends
out roots looking for water. Okay.

1291
01:34:56.319 --> 01:34:58.840
So yeah, a lot of people
think, oh yeah, I keep water

1292
01:34:58.920 --> 01:35:02.279
and keep watering, but the general
rule is if you have no leaves,

1293
01:35:02.439 --> 01:35:06.479
don't give it water, okay,
So just be patient with it and it

1294
01:35:06.680 --> 01:35:12.680
loves. Someone was talking earlier about
how hot and sultry Houston can be.

1295
01:35:13.079 --> 01:35:16.720
That's plumeria heaven. I believe it
really is. And I've got lots of

1296
01:35:17.279 --> 01:35:23.840
lots of plumerias in pots around my
pool, and they love the reflected um

1297
01:35:24.600 --> 01:35:28.600
sunlight. From the pool, and
I also have them planted in my ground,

1298
01:35:28.840 --> 01:35:31.640
you know, in raised beds.
Nice nice. Now in the wintertime,

1299
01:35:31.960 --> 01:35:35.720
plumerias aren't going to take a hard
freeze. So what are some options

1300
01:35:35.960 --> 01:35:42.319
for getting a plumeria through the winter
here? Okay? So if you live

1301
01:35:42.520 --> 01:35:48.159
in Galveston, you have different growing
and dormancy situations that we do up in

1302
01:35:48.319 --> 01:35:54.520
Conro. So you have to watch
the weather forecast, okay, and make

1303
01:35:54.600 --> 01:35:59.359
sure that it doesn't go below forty
at night. If it's starting to look

1304
01:35:59.399 --> 01:36:02.600
like it's going below forty at night, you need to move that plant into

1305
01:36:02.760 --> 01:36:11.479
a situation where it's either a covered
greenhouse or a garage or whatever. You

1306
01:36:11.600 --> 01:36:18.199
have to protect it from the elements. Okay, Okay, So forty degrees,

1307
01:36:18.279 --> 01:36:20.920
it doesn't have to freezy. When
it gets to forty, it's time

1308
01:36:21.000 --> 01:36:25.000
to move it inside. Now.
I remember years ago when I was up

1309
01:36:25.039 --> 01:36:28.600
in Conro. I remember going into
someone's garage and they had plumarius. But

1310
01:36:28.720 --> 01:36:32.359
the soul shaking off, the roots
hanging upside down in the garage. Is

1311
01:36:32.399 --> 01:36:36.760
that as unconventional as it sounds,
or is that a legit? That is

1312
01:36:38.079 --> 01:36:41.840
some people choose to do it that
way. If I have plants that are

1313
01:36:41.880 --> 01:36:44.960
big and they have a big root
system, and I dug them out of

1314
01:36:45.000 --> 01:36:48.520
the ground. I shake. This
is what my method is, and it

1315
01:36:48.640 --> 01:36:54.760
works really well. You take a
black plastic trash bag and wrap the root

1316
01:36:54.840 --> 01:37:00.560
ball in the black plastic trash bag
and tie it down near it the bottom

1317
01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:04.640
of the stem or the trunk with
some green stretchy tape. Okay. And

1318
01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:10.079
then I take that giant tree and
I will put it in my garage in

1319
01:37:10.239 --> 01:37:16.159
tall cardboard boxes like appliance boxes or
something that will enable you to stack them

1320
01:37:16.239 --> 01:37:20.920
in there. And I have that
cardboard box laid on top of a carpet

1321
01:37:21.000 --> 01:37:26.840
runnant. So the floor of the
garage is a killer for plumeria roots.

1322
01:37:27.199 --> 01:37:30.760
So I've got two layers of protection
there. I've got the carpet, I've

1323
01:37:30.800 --> 01:37:34.239
got the cardboard, and then I've
got the plastic. Oh and that's because

1324
01:37:34.279 --> 01:37:40.600
of the cold, the cold.
Yeah, okay, yeah, very interesting.

1325
01:37:41.119 --> 01:37:45.439
That is that is very interesting.
Well, I know plumarias are not

1326
01:37:45.520 --> 01:37:49.720
that you know. They may be
mystify people like how on Earth could I

1327
01:37:49.760 --> 01:37:53.880
get that to grow? But in
the wintertime you're not watering them at all?

1328
01:37:55.000 --> 01:37:58.199
No, No, because think about
it, when you're asleep, you

1329
01:37:58.279 --> 01:38:01.359
don't drink water. There you go. Your plumarias are asleep, and they

1330
01:38:01.560 --> 01:38:08.239
they're dormant. And when I here's
a tip that I can give you about

1331
01:38:08.760 --> 01:38:14.079
preparing them for dormancy. A lot
of times I will cut the leaves off,

1332
01:38:15.119 --> 01:38:18.640
which will hasten their dormancy. Okay, And I leave a little one

1333
01:38:18.680 --> 01:38:24.079
inch stub of the leaf stem and
that usually falls off in about a week.

1334
01:38:24.840 --> 01:38:29.920
And when the plumaria doesn't have the
leaves carry on photosynthesis, it just

1335
01:38:30.079 --> 01:38:32.600
sort of is told, Okay,
well, I guess it's time to go

1336
01:38:32.680 --> 01:38:36.119
to sleep. And a lot of
people say, oh, well, you

1337
01:38:36.199 --> 01:38:39.960
know it's not going to get that
cold. You know, I've lived in

1338
01:38:40.039 --> 01:38:44.079
Houston for ten years and it's never
gotten that cold. Well, we've been

1339
01:38:44.159 --> 01:38:49.319
surprised in the last three years so
many times with surprise breezes like twenty twenty.

1340
01:38:49.960 --> 01:38:56.039
You don't ever want to risk leaving
your plant outdoors during the cold,

1341
01:38:56.239 --> 01:38:59.159
You just don't. That's a good
that's a good point. Paula. We

1342
01:38:59.239 --> 01:39:01.479
get about forty five seconds here,
but can you tell us I think you

1343
01:39:01.600 --> 01:39:06.279
guys have a Plumeria Society plantel coming
up on June tenth, tell us a

1344
01:39:06.319 --> 01:39:12.560
little more about Yes we do.
Okay. It's at the Bay Area Community

1345
01:39:12.680 --> 01:39:18.000
Center in Seabrook and the address is
five thousand and two Nasa Road, and

1346
01:39:18.159 --> 01:39:21.800
the hours are nine to one and
it's a free event. And there will

1347
01:39:21.800 --> 01:39:28.239
be hundreds of plumaris in the room
blooming, and you can also sniff the

1348
01:39:28.319 --> 01:39:31.720
blooms and ask questions of the vendors. There will be about twenty five to

1349
01:39:31.920 --> 01:39:36.720
thirty different vendors. All right,
it's an excellent opportunity and it'd be a

1350
01:39:36.800 --> 01:39:40.880
great father's sake here. Hey,
that's a great idea. Thank you so

1351
01:39:41.039 --> 01:39:43.399
much, Paula. We got to
run to commercial, but it's so good

1352
01:39:43.399 --> 01:39:45.239
to talk to you, and thank
you for all that great information. Bay

1353
01:39:45.279 --> 01:40:38.760
Area Community Center on June tenth,
from nine to one. And my mom

1354
01:40:39.039 --> 01:40:42.720
to treat me wrong, Come and
love me. Dat it all my love?

1355
01:40:42.920 --> 01:40:57.119
All right? All right? See
the girl with the domraine, she

1356
01:40:57.399 --> 01:41:01.439
don't find and shit that day?
All right? Now? Hey, hey,

1357
01:41:03.439 --> 01:41:14.039
hey, hey, tell your mama, tell you paul I'm gonna send

1358
01:41:14.119 --> 01:41:17.720
you back there. I get some
more. Yes, you don't do right,

1359
01:41:19.560 --> 01:41:44.640
don't do right? All play one
when you see me in misery,

1360
01:41:45.880 --> 01:41:53.439
come on be and see you by
me night. Hey, hey, oh

1361
01:41:53.640 --> 01:42:01.800
bla see the girl. I would
direct that song. She can do the

1362
01:42:01.960 --> 01:42:14.680
bullet on my long Ye what I
say? All right? I tell what

1363
01:42:14.880 --> 01:42:21.840
I say every one I said that
time. Tell what I say? What

1364
01:42:23.039 --> 01:42:30.319
I say? That done? I
say what I say. And I want

1365
01:42:30.359 --> 01:42:41.840
to know. I want. I
want to do. I want and I

1366
01:42:42.039 --> 01:42:46.359
want to do. Said I want
to do. Yeah, I ain't.

1367
01:42:50.960 --> 01:43:02.880
I can't wait. All right,
Well, you are listening to Garden Line

1368
01:43:03.279 --> 01:43:08.640
and we are here to answer your
gardening questions dealing with a few gremlins that

1369
01:43:08.720 --> 01:43:13.239
we got going on this morning.
Let's see, I wanted to mention something

1370
01:43:13.359 --> 01:43:17.680
while we were here getting off on
a new segment that by the way,

1371
01:43:17.760 --> 01:43:21.159
we are here till ten am this
morning. It is in the middle of

1372
01:43:21.239 --> 01:43:25.880
the big eight to nine segment right
now, but we'll be going on till

1373
01:43:25.960 --> 01:43:28.560
ten to answer your gardening call.
So if you would like to give us

1374
01:43:28.720 --> 01:43:32.000
a call, we would be happy
to take your call at seven one three,

1375
01:43:32.319 --> 01:43:38.960
two one two five eight seven four. I want to talk a little

1376
01:43:39.000 --> 01:43:43.880
bit about a scholarship that I've talked
about before that is in Randy's memory,

1377
01:43:44.760 --> 01:43:46.960
you know, Randy Lemon was the
host of garden Line for over twenty five

1378
01:43:47.079 --> 01:43:51.159
years. Guarden Line has been on
since back in the nineteen fifties. Actually

1379
01:43:51.239 --> 01:43:55.279
the name of the show has changed
a little bit, but back in the

1380
01:43:55.880 --> 01:43:59.479
John burrowed about starting with Due Compton, John Burrow, Bill Zac, all

1381
01:43:59.520 --> 01:44:03.439
those and then Randy took over and
he was here many years and made garden

1382
01:44:03.479 --> 01:44:08.199
Line really what it is today.
And many of you remember Randy Finally,

1383
01:44:08.239 --> 01:44:11.760
as I do, and there's a
scholarship that's been set up. It's the

1384
01:44:11.920 --> 01:44:16.720
Randy Lemon eighty four Memorial Scholarship.
Now, this scholarship is a permanently endowed

1385
01:44:17.159 --> 01:44:25.439
horticulture scholarship at Texas A and M
to help with training for future horticulture students.

1386
01:44:25.479 --> 01:44:28.880
And I cannot think of anything that
Randy would be more proud of than

1387
01:44:28.960 --> 01:44:31.800
to know that he has he has
that legacy at Texas A and M,

1388
01:44:31.840 --> 01:44:34.359
where Randy and I both attended.
In fact, we live in the dorm

1389
01:44:34.399 --> 01:44:40.479
together back early in our careers up
at the university. That scholarship was sent

1390
01:44:40.560 --> 01:44:44.279
up by Dean Nelson. And if
you want to give to it, if

1391
01:44:44.359 --> 01:44:46.479
you would consider giving to it,
and I would ask that you would you

1392
01:44:46.600 --> 01:44:56.920
go to give dot am slash Randy
Lemon. Give dot am slash Randy Lemon

1393
01:44:57.600 --> 01:45:00.239
and if you will go there,
you can follow just follow the instructions on

1394
01:45:00.319 --> 01:45:03.840
the screen and you were able to
give toward that scholarship, you know,

1395
01:45:04.000 --> 01:45:09.359
along those lines. I just want
to thank out it. At Brookwood Community,

1396
01:45:10.199 --> 01:45:17.039
there is a special nuttall oak that
has been planted at the Brookwood Community

1397
01:45:17.199 --> 01:45:21.600
in honor of Randy. The nuttall
oak is one of the red oaks that

1398
01:45:21.680 --> 01:45:26.359
we recommend here. It's a very
well adapted tree and I can't think of

1399
01:45:26.399 --> 01:45:30.600
a better choice of a tree to
put out at Brookwood and membrance of a

1400
01:45:30.760 --> 01:45:35.720
Randy Lemon, our CW Nurseries donated
and I appreciate them for doing that donation

1401
01:45:36.239 --> 01:45:41.359
of the nutall oak. And I
believe Arburgade has also put a bench out

1402
01:45:41.439 --> 01:45:45.680
there just kind of a place where
those of you who really loved and enjoyed

1403
01:45:45.800 --> 01:45:50.199
Randy can go and just have that
fond remembrance of our friend out at the

1404
01:45:50.279 --> 01:45:55.359
Brookwood Community. But if you haven't
had a chance to donate toward that scholarship,

1405
01:45:55.600 --> 01:46:03.520
I would ask that you consider doing
that today. One of my favorite

1406
01:46:04.039 --> 01:46:09.600
ways to garden is in raised beds, and one of the best ways I

1407
01:46:09.800 --> 01:46:14.520
know of to have a raised bed
is to choose a Vego bed. Vego

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01:46:14.680 --> 01:46:20.800
is a modular metal raised bed.
Oh it's it's absolutely rust It's coated to

1409
01:46:20.880 --> 01:46:25.760
have no rust, no corrosion.
I mean it's i'll call it a fullproof

1410
01:46:25.840 --> 01:46:30.880
bed. It is a metal bed
that then is coated in a safe paint

1411
01:46:30.319 --> 01:46:34.399
certified by USDA. Now Vego beds
you can get them at different heights eleven

1412
01:46:34.479 --> 01:46:39.039
inches, seventeen inches, and even
higher than that. They are perfect for

1413
01:46:39.199 --> 01:46:42.680
organic gardening because if you don't want
to use treated lumber and things like that,

1414
01:46:43.239 --> 01:46:45.960
Vego is your choice. But even
if you're not an organic gardener,

1415
01:46:45.279 --> 01:46:49.000
you need to check out veg.
Vego is a company right here in Houston.

1416
01:46:49.039 --> 01:46:53.159
They're local, and they're the original
in the United States. They are

1417
01:46:53.239 --> 01:46:58.359
the original modular metal bed company.
You can go to vegogarden dot com.

1418
01:46:59.039 --> 01:47:03.079
Several of our dependent garden centers we
talk about on garden Line do carry the

1419
01:47:03.239 --> 01:47:08.680
Vego garden beds as well. I
think you will be very impressed. This

1420
01:47:08.880 --> 01:47:13.159
is something that's going to weigh out
last any other kind of wooden bed materials

1421
01:47:13.239 --> 01:47:16.640
that you might put out there,
they stay cool in the summertime, very

1422
01:47:16.720 --> 01:47:19.439
space efficient. You can get them
in a long oval bed. You can

1423
01:47:19.479 --> 01:47:23.640
make a C shaped bed, a
square bed, however you want to design

1424
01:47:23.720 --> 01:47:29.319
them. It's a modular metal bed
and I have seen nothing on the market

1425
01:47:29.479 --> 01:47:33.720
in all my years that is the
quality and just the practical, makes sense,

1426
01:47:34.119 --> 01:47:40.199
very effective style of a Vego garden
bed. We're gonna take a break

1427
01:47:40.279 --> 01:47:42.760
right now. If you'd like to
get on the board, give Josh a

1428
01:47:42.800 --> 01:47:59.319
call seven one, three, two
and two fifty eight seventy four. Half

1429
01:47:59.359 --> 01:48:04.399
the loves and well, good morning, Saturday morning, Good day for gardening.

1430
01:48:04.479 --> 01:48:08.000
By the way, we've got some
rainy weather coming up this next week,

1431
01:48:08.159 --> 01:48:10.760
and now it would be a good
day to get all that kind of

1432
01:48:10.800 --> 01:48:14.720
good stuff you need done, including
fertilizing your lawn. If you have not

1433
01:48:14.840 --> 01:48:19.079
fertilized for summer yet, now is
a good time to put on the Nitrofoss

1434
01:48:19.479 --> 01:48:26.920
Summer Essentials program. Specifically at this
point, the Nitrofoss Summer Turf nineteen four

1435
01:48:27.000 --> 01:48:32.239
ten Super Turf nineteen four ten is
a product that will gradually feed your lawn

1436
01:48:32.319 --> 01:48:38.640
over summer. It was formulated specifically
for our hot and humid Southeast Texas climates.

1437
01:48:39.239 --> 01:48:43.359
By releasing gradually, you're going to
reduce your mowing bop to twenty five

1438
01:48:43.439 --> 01:48:45.800
percent. It's going to spread it
out over time gradually like a little lawn

1439
01:48:45.920 --> 01:48:50.359
wants to take up nutrients. It'll
also help you avoid that brown patch problem

1440
01:48:50.399 --> 01:48:55.000
that comes in the fall when we
get that flush of green that we want

1441
01:48:55.039 --> 01:48:57.840
to avoid. Well, this is
a way to do it. It's part

1442
01:48:57.920 --> 01:49:02.399
of that overall Nitrofoss Summer Essentials program. Now you're gonna find Nitrofis Super Turf

1443
01:49:02.560 --> 01:49:05.960
nineteen four ten all over the place, and that would include places like the

1444
01:49:06.039 --> 01:49:13.800
Arburgaton, Tomball or Shades of Green
and Down Shades of Texas down in South

1445
01:49:14.159 --> 01:49:17.000
South Houston area and Angleton at Lake
Hardware, both the Lake Hardware and Angleton

1446
01:49:17.079 --> 01:49:21.600
and include nitrofis Is available over the
place. And where you find Nitrofos,

1447
01:49:21.760 --> 01:49:28.319
look for the silver bag that is
the nineteen four ten and your lawn will

1448
01:49:28.319 --> 01:49:31.279
be set to go all the way
until fall. Let's head out and we

1449
01:49:31.399 --> 01:49:34.279
are gonna go to let's see where
should we start. We're gonna go out

1450
01:49:34.319 --> 01:49:39.960
to Baytown and talk to Marie.
Hello Marie, good morning, sir.

1451
01:49:40.640 --> 01:49:44.039
How are you this morning. I'm
good. How are you? I'm well?

1452
01:49:44.199 --> 01:49:48.239
What can we talk about today?
Okay? I have a red shoemart

1453
01:49:48.279 --> 01:49:54.359
oak. It's around thirty feet high, had it since the home was built,

1454
01:49:54.880 --> 01:49:58.399
and it must have been three or
four years old. Winter we had

1455
01:49:58.439 --> 01:50:04.039
it put in and I'm afraid it
has oak leaf wilt. I have talked

1456
01:50:04.079 --> 01:50:09.640
to Moss Nursery, who recommended an
arborist. Haven't been able to get in

1457
01:50:09.760 --> 01:50:15.960
touch with her yet. The tree
is beautiful when it comes out in April,

1458
01:50:16.079 --> 01:50:21.680
and it's beautiful, beautiful till the
end of May. But now if

1459
01:50:21.720 --> 01:50:28.319
you cut it into six pieces,
it's like a sixth of that tree that

1460
01:50:28.720 --> 01:50:32.319
the leaves are starting to turn brown, Okay, and they will fall off.

1461
01:50:33.319 --> 01:50:36.520
This has happened. This has happened. This is a third year.

1462
01:50:36.680 --> 01:50:43.720
This has happened. I got suspicious
last year, and I'm wondering, is

1463
01:50:43.760 --> 01:50:46.439
there any way I can save this
tree? Like I said, symmetrically,

1464
01:50:46.640 --> 01:50:51.079
it's a beautiful tree and I would
like to keep it. I would like

1465
01:50:51.199 --> 01:50:54.920
to do everything I can to keep
it. All right, Marie, Well,

1466
01:50:54.920 --> 01:50:57.119
first I'm gonna put your mind at
ease. You do not have oak

1467
01:50:57.199 --> 01:51:01.119
wilt. That is not something else
is going on. I would if I

1468
01:51:01.199 --> 01:51:03.920
were you, I would consider calling
someone who knows what they're doing, and

1469
01:51:04.039 --> 01:51:06.680
that would be a place like Affordable
Tree Service. I don't know if you've

1470
01:51:06.680 --> 01:51:11.600
ever used them before, but you
can go to aff tree Service dot com.

1471
01:51:12.199 --> 01:51:15.000
They're gonna if they come out and
they'll do consultations, and i'll tell

1472
01:51:15.000 --> 01:51:17.319
you one thing that I like about
them. They're not going to sell you

1473
01:51:17.399 --> 01:51:20.079
something you don't need, so they
may look at it. I don't know

1474
01:51:20.199 --> 01:51:26.039
what they're gonna see. Maybe the
branch that's affected has some issues going on

1475
01:51:26.279 --> 01:51:30.479
that's preventing the flow of water and
nutrients out that branch. Maybe something's happened

1476
01:51:30.520 --> 01:51:35.319
to the roots system on that side
of the tree. Oftentimes the roots on

1477
01:51:35.479 --> 01:51:39.960
one side of the tree feed that
same side of the tree. Sometimes the

1478
01:51:40.039 --> 01:51:44.119
trunk twists and it changes a little
bit, but overall they're gonna be able

1479
01:51:44.119 --> 01:51:45.279
to look at it. And I
can't see it right now, so I

1480
01:51:45.319 --> 01:51:49.680
can't tell you exactly why it's doing
that, but a good quality service would

1481
01:51:49.720 --> 01:51:53.680
look at it. And Schumard's a
nice, beautiful oak, very beautiful,

1482
01:51:54.039 --> 01:51:57.399
and you want to go ahead as
you know you've gotten on it. Already,

1483
01:51:57.439 --> 01:52:00.560
and you need to stay on it
and try to get this solid before

1484
01:52:00.680 --> 01:52:03.359
you lose that section of the tree, because that certainly would be not good.

1485
01:52:03.479 --> 01:52:10.439
Right right, right, Well that's
good news because but this goes from

1486
01:52:10.560 --> 01:52:15.119
the lower part of the branches all
the way to the top in one section

1487
01:52:15.680 --> 01:52:20.000
and then it moves over. Last
year it did this too, Like I

1488
01:52:20.159 --> 01:52:25.640
said, so yes, I will, I will, I will get in

1489
01:52:25.760 --> 01:52:29.960
touch with him. Yeah. So
the area that had it last year came

1490
01:52:30.039 --> 01:52:34.880
out again this year and then it
happened again. It has happened again.

1491
01:52:35.000 --> 01:52:40.880
The tree it turned. The leaves
begin to turn a putrid yellow and then

1492
01:52:40.960 --> 01:52:44.880
they end up turning brown and then
they fall. Okay, well, this

1493
01:52:45.079 --> 01:52:49.159
is going to be a job for
Sherlock Holmes and Martin Spoon more with Affordable

1494
01:52:49.199 --> 01:52:54.560
Tree is that when it comes to
trees harmed to come out and do a

1495
01:52:54.640 --> 01:52:57.279
consultation, take a look at it. It's going to be something going on.

1496
01:52:57.560 --> 01:53:00.319
In my opinion, it's something going
on on the roots on that side

1497
01:53:00.359 --> 01:53:02.720
of the tree. But when he
gets there he may see something different altogether

1498
01:53:02.880 --> 01:53:05.960
once he's on site. All right, Oh, thank you so very much,

1499
01:53:06.279 --> 01:53:11.439
all right, thank you, Maria. I appreciate that. I want

1500
01:53:11.479 --> 01:53:15.800
to talk about something that I mentioned
earlier that if you are at all thinking

1501
01:53:15.880 --> 01:53:21.000
about moving to a new community,
you need to consider this. The folks

1502
01:53:21.039 --> 01:53:25.960
of dell Web, they've been doing
communities for adults fifty five and better for

1503
01:53:26.159 --> 01:53:30.039
a long long time. They create
the communities that have the inspired designs,

1504
01:53:30.119 --> 01:53:35.600
beautiful walking paths. I mean,
it's just it's pristine, and the accouterments

1505
01:53:35.680 --> 01:53:41.399
that they offer, the programs that
they offer, the lifestyle design programs that

1506
01:53:41.560 --> 01:53:45.439
are specifically made for you. It
makes it a place that's just a wonderful

1507
01:53:45.479 --> 01:53:49.079
place to live. They're doing a
new community out there in Full Shre about

1508
01:53:49.079 --> 01:53:54.520
two miles from downtown Fullshre on FM
three fifty nine. They've called me to

1509
01:53:54.680 --> 01:53:59.279
help them with their new community garden
that they're putting on in that site.

1510
01:53:59.359 --> 01:54:01.119
So if you're a er, here's
just got another reason to be in a

1511
01:54:01.159 --> 01:54:05.520
community like that. Go to Delweb
Houston dot com for more information or give

1512
01:54:05.560 --> 01:54:11.760
him a call to eight one four
or five nine six oh nine and you

1513
01:54:11.840 --> 01:54:15.079
can find out about that Delweb difference
for yourself. I'm going to head out

1514
01:54:15.119 --> 01:54:20.239
to Parland and we are going to
talk to well out in paraland hello,

1515
01:54:20.359 --> 01:54:25.079
Will how are you this morning?
I am doing great, Thank you,

1516
01:54:25.199 --> 01:54:29.319
sir, Yes, sir, I
am calling about. I have I transplanted

1517
01:54:29.479 --> 01:54:36.840
six magnolia trees three years ago and
they are now about between six and I

1518
01:54:36.960 --> 01:54:44.159
mean eight and ten and twelve foot
call. And when I transplanted on the

1519
01:54:45.000 --> 01:54:49.000
bottom branch, some of the lower
ones are down low, and I've got

1520
01:54:49.079 --> 01:54:56.560
a five foot mulch bed around each
one of the trees, and so the

1521
01:54:56.640 --> 01:55:00.680
bottom branches are just a little bit
in the mulch, and I'm wanting to

1522
01:55:00.800 --> 01:55:05.399
cut those back and so uh so
I don't have low leaves on the bottom

1523
01:55:05.439 --> 01:55:10.039
as it rolls up, and now
I'd like to have about two foot of

1524
01:55:10.119 --> 01:55:13.680
trunk or something on the bottom.
But so told me to be careful to

1525
01:55:13.720 --> 01:55:16.079
cut those back, queen. And
how should I cut those back? Well,

1526
01:55:16.159 --> 01:55:18.399
you could cut them back now,
are you wait till wintertime? If

1527
01:55:18.439 --> 01:55:20.399
you're want to do that, it's
up to you. But I would take

1528
01:55:20.439 --> 01:55:24.119
them back all the way to where
they attached to the trunk. Don't leave

1529
01:55:24.119 --> 01:55:29.359
a stub cutting back close to the
trunk and that'll do it. Magnolia's is

1530
01:55:29.520 --> 01:55:31.159
pretty simple tree to handle that way. And if you want to give it

1531
01:55:31.199 --> 01:55:34.439
a couple of feet a trunk,
you can certainly do that, no problem.

1532
01:55:34.600 --> 01:55:38.760
Do I need to put anything over
the cut places? Absolutely not.

1533
01:55:38.960 --> 01:55:42.680
Just leave it. Just just leave
it. If it's in the mulch,

1534
01:55:43.800 --> 01:55:45.720
yes, in fact, pull the
must back. But I mean you don't

1535
01:55:45.760 --> 01:55:49.960
want you don't want to. I
can't quite picture what you're seeing there,

1536
01:55:50.039 --> 01:55:56.239
but I don't have any mulch palled
up above where you know the soil line

1537
01:55:56.279 --> 01:55:58.600
of the tree is when you're at
the base of the tree. Don't have

1538
01:55:58.640 --> 01:56:01.119
that low volcano cone like some people
do. Right, okay, okay,

1539
01:56:01.800 --> 01:56:03.680
all right, appreciate it. Thanks, Sorry, having a good day,

1540
01:56:03.880 --> 01:56:08.920
you bet, thank you. I
appreciate. I appreciate that call very much.

1541
01:56:09.600 --> 01:56:13.039
You're listening to Guardenline and we are
here to answer your gardening questions.

1542
01:56:13.560 --> 01:56:15.800
We hope you will give us a
call. We can talk to you next

1543
01:56:15.840 --> 01:56:17.800
hour. Josh, you'll get you
on the board. Doll seven one three,

1544
01:56:18.079 --> 01:56:23.760
two, one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two

1545
01:56:24.199 --> 01:56:28.359
fifty eight seventy four or two unto
KTRH. That makes it even simpler.

1546
01:56:28.680 --> 01:56:30.279
Remember, tell jus your name,
where you live, and just a word

1547
01:56:30.399 --> 01:56:32.800
or two about your question, just
so I can kind of get a basic

1548
01:56:32.920 --> 01:56:35.920
idea what we're going to talk about. Don't go into details, you know,

1549
01:56:35.960 --> 01:56:39.720
don't start explaining to him. He's
gonna he's not gonna help you with

1550
01:56:39.800 --> 01:56:43.000
that. He's taking the calls and
getting him on the board. So if

1551
01:56:43.039 --> 01:56:45.439
you will do that, we'll look
forward to talking to you. Bill.

1552
01:56:45.840 --> 01:56:47.720
We are going to come to you
first when we come back from break.

1553
01:56:47.840 --> 01:56:53.079
Thank you for being patient hanging on
with us in the meantime. We look

1554
01:56:53.079 --> 01:56:57.399
forward to seeing you again as we
enter our last hour starting at nine o'clock

1555
01:56:57.600 --> 01:57:21.279
this morning. Kt r H Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

1556
01:57:21.319 --> 01:57:28.760
products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line

1557
01:57:29.039 --> 01:57:54.000
with Skip Ricter Wat Trim, just
watching as you tell us so many back

1558
01:57:54.039 --> 01:58:05.720
ticket not a sience. Good morning
on a beautiful Saturday morning. We I

1559
01:58:05.880 --> 01:58:10.079
keep learning us today that this is
our good sunny day. Got a little

1560
01:58:10.079 --> 01:58:13.840
bit of sunshine tomorrow, but especially
today to get out there and get gardening

1561
01:58:13.920 --> 01:58:16.439
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talking about all kinds of things on garden

1575
01:59:14.479 --> 01:59:16.520
line today, all kinds of topics
and whatnot. We've got Bill out here

1576
01:59:16.880 --> 01:59:20.560
in Conro and we're gonna go talk
to Bill and see what's up in Conro.

1577
01:59:20.760 --> 01:59:28.079
Hello, Bill, let's skip hey
today. I'm it was kind of

1578
01:59:28.159 --> 01:59:31.079
a shoot first name. Later I
put some mulch down, And I got

1579
01:59:31.119 --> 01:59:33.880
a bunch of questions now that I've
done it, think, is it going

1580
01:59:33.960 --> 01:59:39.359
to change the pH of the soil? Do I need a soil additive?

1581
01:59:39.720 --> 01:59:43.279
Is it going to promote fungus?
Do I need to change my watering?

1582
01:59:43.560 --> 01:59:45.840
No? No? In fact,
well, in fact, the mulch helps

1583
01:59:45.880 --> 01:59:50.039
hold the moisture into the soil.
So you know, you might water less

1584
01:59:50.119 --> 01:59:54.520
and if you didn't have mulch,
but just you just want to make sure

1585
01:59:55.199 --> 01:59:59.039
keep the soil adequately moist you know. As far as fungus promoting, no,

1586
01:59:59.279 --> 02:00:02.039
not at all. You will find
occasionally over time, as organic meta

1587
02:00:02.119 --> 02:00:05.399
decomposes, there will be some types
of fungi that grow in it. But

1588
02:00:05.479 --> 02:00:10.479
they're not they're not plant diseases.
There just what is part of nature that

1589
02:00:10.640 --> 02:00:15.399
helps tree trunks turn back into soil, and so that that is not a

1590
02:00:15.479 --> 02:00:17.159
concern at all. In fact,
I look at it as is actually a

1591
02:00:17.239 --> 02:00:23.399
good thing. Okay, good,
How about pH? Does it change pH?

1592
02:00:24.239 --> 02:00:28.840
No? Mulch on the surface for
buy and large design. No,

1593
02:00:29.039 --> 02:00:33.159
Because it's it's interacting with the soul
surface. The microbes there will break that

1594
02:00:33.359 --> 02:00:36.279
mulch down and release it back into
the soil. Now, if you were

1595
02:00:36.359 --> 02:00:41.000
to if you were to take a
mult that was super high pH or super

1596
02:00:41.079 --> 02:00:45.079
low pH and mix it in as
a soil amendment, which is different than

1597
02:00:45.199 --> 02:00:47.319
mulch. Mulch is a blanket on
the surface. Well then yeah, you

1598
02:00:47.520 --> 02:00:53.439
you probably could see some changes in
certain nutrient content and pH whatnot. But

1599
02:00:53.640 --> 02:00:58.199
no, mulch absolutely is it is
the only way to go when it comes

1600
02:00:58.239 --> 02:01:00.880
to protecting our soul because wherever light
hits the soil, nature plants a weed,

1601
02:01:01.279 --> 02:01:04.560
and malt is your ways. Exactly
what I'm doing, all right,

1602
02:01:04.920 --> 02:01:09.760
So one last question, what do
you what's your take on died mulch.

1603
02:01:09.840 --> 02:01:12.920
I tried to. I avoided it, but I was. There's a lot

1604
02:01:13.000 --> 02:01:15.039
of it out there. I would
avoid it, like the plague number one,

1605
02:01:15.439 --> 02:01:18.800
just esthetically. I just think it's
ugly. I mean, you might

1606
02:01:18.840 --> 02:01:24.520
as well stick pink flamingos and you
know the little cutouts of a lady in

1607
02:01:24.640 --> 02:01:28.119
r bloomers been over in the garden, Remember those little gaudy things people put

1608
02:01:28.199 --> 02:01:30.760
out there. Yeah, you might
as well stick that out there. That's

1609
02:01:30.760 --> 02:01:33.640
about how beautiful it is. And
it you know, the DIA material does

1610
02:01:34.159 --> 02:01:39.960
no good to plants whatsoever. Yeah, all right, thanks all right,

1611
02:01:40.000 --> 02:01:43.720
Bill, Hey, thank you for
the question. I appreciate that if you

1612
02:01:43.840 --> 02:01:45.640
live in the Heights area, if
you live anywhere in the Houston area,

1613
02:01:45.840 --> 02:01:49.840
you need to check out Buchanan to
Native Plants. They are on Eleventh Street

1614
02:01:49.960 --> 02:01:53.640
in the Heights. And if you
haven't been to Buchanans, my goodness,

1615
02:01:53.800 --> 02:01:57.479
go today. You can go to
buchanan Plants dot com. By the way,

1616
02:01:57.520 --> 02:02:01.359
when you're there, sign up for
their newsletter because it is inspirational.

1617
02:02:01.479 --> 02:02:04.640
Not only do you find out what's
going on at Buchanans, but you find

1618
02:02:04.680 --> 02:02:06.760
out what to be doing that time
of the year. I mean, they

1619
02:02:06.840 --> 02:02:11.920
have a lot of really good advice. They carry the products that we talk

1620
02:02:11.920 --> 02:02:15.960
about, the fertilizers, the soils
and things like that. Super super supply

1621
02:02:16.319 --> 02:02:23.079
of all kinds of plant material are
available at Buchanons Plants. I think right

1622
02:02:23.119 --> 02:02:26.640
now they've got a summer sale going
on. They have a thing called their

1623
02:02:26.720 --> 02:02:29.479
Bungalow Summer Sale. By the way, they are a great gift shop and

1624
02:02:29.479 --> 02:02:31.720
they've got a lot of items that
are for sale of there. They have

1625
02:02:31.960 --> 02:02:36.760
a specialty in really native plants.
I mean, they have excellent supply of

1626
02:02:36.840 --> 02:02:40.600
that, and by the way.
Right now, all pepper plants, all

1627
02:02:40.640 --> 02:02:43.720
four inch pepper plants, are on
sale for a dollar each. Now you

1628
02:02:43.800 --> 02:02:45.720
may think, while summer's coming,
you get those peppers in the ground.

1629
02:02:45.840 --> 02:02:49.159
Now keep them going through summer,
and by the time you got a good

1630
02:02:49.199 --> 02:02:53.319
sized pepper bush in the fall,
it is going to be like Christmas tree

1631
02:02:53.359 --> 02:02:58.000
ornaments, peppers hanging all over those
plants. Fall is the best pepper season.

1632
02:02:58.359 --> 02:03:02.520
Get them started now at a deal
of a dollar apiece. Buchanan's Native

1633
02:03:02.600 --> 02:03:10.960
Plants buchanan Plants dot Com. We
talked about a lot of different things today.

1634
02:03:11.079 --> 02:03:13.520
You know, I just keep thinking
about all the different topics that we

1635
02:03:13.600 --> 02:03:19.560
could be going on too. I
mentioned that now summertime is an important time

1636
02:03:19.640 --> 02:03:24.640
for fertilizing, for taking care of
things, for making sure that our plants,

1637
02:03:24.720 --> 02:03:27.520
you know, of course have adequate
water and whatnot. But maybe you're

1638
02:03:27.520 --> 02:03:30.920
looking at your landscape and you're thinking, you know, I pick good flowers,

1639
02:03:30.000 --> 02:03:33.439
I put them out, they look
good, but something's missing in the

1640
02:03:33.560 --> 02:03:38.239
landscape. Well, I would suggest
that it's time for some professional help.

1641
02:03:38.319 --> 02:03:40.880
And I would do this myself.
I mean, I'm a plant person,

1642
02:03:41.199 --> 02:03:45.920
but I'm not a landscape designer.
Peerscapes is They're you're one stop for everything

1643
02:03:46.079 --> 02:03:50.000
for the landscape, new gardens,
rock borders, walkways. If you've got

1644
02:03:50.119 --> 02:03:56.479
drainage issues, welcome to Southeast Texas. They can fix that. Peerscapes can

1645
02:03:56.600 --> 02:04:00.359
design what you need to make your
landscape awesome. Maybe it's some lighting,

1646
02:04:00.520 --> 02:04:08.039
some seasonal lighting options peerscapes dot com, peerscapes dot com, or just go

1647
02:04:08.479 --> 02:04:14.560
give him a call two eight one
three seven zero five zero six zero.

1648
02:04:14.800 --> 02:04:21.399
Let the folks at Peerscapes turn your
landscape from cute attractive to wow, awesome,

1649
02:04:21.760 --> 02:04:28.560
unbelievable, unbelievable. I was visiting
with folks at Peerscapes a good while

1650
02:04:28.600 --> 02:04:31.359
back and talking to some of the
designers and their skill, their expertise.

1651
02:04:31.439 --> 02:04:34.720
They understand this area, they understand
what works. Right of course, they

1652
02:04:34.760 --> 02:04:39.520
have that design I you know that
you would want a landscape designer to have,

1653
02:04:40.079 --> 02:04:43.520
but they understand what it is to
landscape and garden here and they can

1654
02:04:43.600 --> 02:04:48.239
create that kind of beautiful thing.
Earlier, we were talking to someone about

1655
02:04:49.079 --> 02:04:53.079
a tree issue. If I've had
a couple of tree questions today, we

1656
02:04:53.159 --> 02:04:59.239
had the dogwood tree question, and
just recently I think we're talking Maria,

1657
02:04:59.479 --> 02:05:03.039
Maria the Town about a Schumart oak
tree. If you're going to plant a

1658
02:05:03.119 --> 02:05:08.239
tree, whether you're getting a nice
palm tree from Verdant Tree Farm or wherever

1659
02:05:08.279 --> 02:05:11.680
you're getting a tree, you need
to get a tree hugger sprinkler when you

1660
02:05:11.760 --> 02:05:15.079
plant it. And here's why.
The first summer is make or break for

1661
02:05:15.159 --> 02:05:17.680
a brand new tree comes out of
a container. The roots are all in

1662
02:05:17.800 --> 02:05:21.680
that cylinder and you put it in
the ground and it's a big tree,

1663
02:05:23.159 --> 02:05:26.720
but all of the water and nutrients
can only come from where the roots are,

1664
02:05:27.159 --> 02:05:30.760
and it's that cylinder. With a
tree hugger sprinkler, you can give

1665
02:05:30.800 --> 02:05:33.640
it water right there and then as
a tree grows, you can turn it

1666
02:05:33.760 --> 02:05:39.880
up to where you get larger and
larger areas. But tree hugger sprinklers are

1667
02:05:40.000 --> 02:05:44.279
investment for the woody ornamentals, including
roses in your landscape. Go to tree

1668
02:05:44.359 --> 02:05:47.880
Hugger Sprinkler dot com and you can
find a retailer near you. We're gonna

1669
02:05:47.920 --> 02:05:51.079
take a break right now. Give
Josh you call at seven one three two

1670
02:05:51.159 --> 02:05:56.159
one two fifty eight seventy four and
we will be talking to you. As

1671
02:05:56.359 --> 02:06:01.960
with Terry and Jim. You'll be
the first stop. Come all fish pine

1672
02:06:02.399 --> 02:06:13.520
filius to night. I'm gonna see
Mama Chasm. Well, good morning on

1673
02:06:13.800 --> 02:06:16.960
a great, good, good Saturday. Pay for gardening. For talking about

1674
02:06:17.000 --> 02:06:20.439
gardening. You know, earlier I
was talking about the nitro file Super Turf

1675
02:06:21.000 --> 02:06:27.600
nineteen four ten being a great fertilizer
to carry you through your lawn summer fertilizations.

1676
02:06:27.840 --> 02:06:32.119
I wanta tell you about some other
part of that summer essentials product line

1677
02:06:32.119 --> 02:06:35.560
that Nitro five s asked. One
of the things, is there bugout Max.

1678
02:06:35.720 --> 02:06:41.800
Now, Bugout Max is a top
choice for managing all kinds of insect

1679
02:06:41.840 --> 02:06:44.960
problems. In fact, it kills
up to one hundred and thirty different species

1680
02:06:45.000 --> 02:06:47.079
of insects. So all the different
pests that are going to invest your lawn,

1681
02:06:47.479 --> 02:06:50.760
the advanced formula of Bugout Max is
going to take care of them.

1682
02:06:51.119 --> 02:06:55.800
And then there are these insects call
firing killers. We've had some folks calling

1683
02:06:55.880 --> 02:06:59.920
today that moved here from elsewhere.
Well, I have good news and bad.

1684
02:07:00.399 --> 02:07:02.039
Good news is welcome to Houston.
You can grow anything here. Bad

1685
02:07:02.119 --> 02:07:04.880
news is I got to talk to
you about this thing called fire ants.

1686
02:07:05.840 --> 02:07:10.720
But nitro fis fire at killer works
quickly it kills the colony. It takes

1687
02:07:10.720 --> 02:07:15.239
out the queen to prevent new colonies
from coming in and spoiling the show,

1688
02:07:15.319 --> 02:07:18.079
for ruining that picnic or just that
barefoot walk through the garden. You know

1689
02:07:18.159 --> 02:07:25.239
what I'm talking about. Nitrofoss fire
at Killer and nitrofoss Bugout Max two parts

1690
02:07:25.319 --> 02:07:29.520
of that nitrofoss summer essential system.
And you're gonna find nitro foss all over

1691
02:07:29.640 --> 02:07:30.920
the place. Now, if you
go up to D and D up in

1692
02:07:30.960 --> 02:07:34.479
Tomball, they're gonna have nitro foss
products up there. If you get a

1693
02:07:34.560 --> 02:07:41.079
plantation ace hardware down to Richmond Rosenberg
or maybe enchanted forests and enchanted gardens out

1694
02:07:41.119 --> 02:07:44.119
in that area, they're all going
to have nitro foss. Wherever you shop

1695
02:07:44.760 --> 02:07:48.479
for quality products, you're gonna find
the whole line of nitro foss products as

1696
02:07:48.520 --> 02:07:53.279
well. Of course. Well let's
head out now, We're going to go

1697
02:07:53.560 --> 02:07:59.159
to Montgomery and talk to Terry.
Hello, Terry, good morning, Thanks

1698
02:07:59.199 --> 02:08:05.760
for taking Micha. I. Yeah, I transplanted to crape myrtles this last

1699
02:08:05.800 --> 02:08:09.359
winter. They were stuck in the
northeast corner of my backyard and they were

1700
02:08:09.439 --> 02:08:15.840
just shrouded and they're about twenty well, once about twenty feet tall and the

1701
02:08:15.920 --> 02:08:20.960
others about sixteen feet tall. I
transplanted them and they're growing. They have

1702
02:08:22.159 --> 02:08:26.560
leaves on them, they're not flowering, and I think they've got a lot

1703
02:08:26.640 --> 02:08:33.279
of suckers came out from the bottom. And my question regards those and am

1704
02:08:33.319 --> 02:08:39.159
I watering too much or am I
not watering enough? Well, you said

1705
02:08:39.199 --> 02:08:43.800
winter. Do you know about what
months you did that transplanting. Oh,

1706
02:08:43.000 --> 02:08:50.560
we did it when it was coldest, probably late January early February. They

1707
02:08:50.600 --> 02:08:56.439
were completely dormant and we dug them
up and transplanted them or to a nice

1708
02:08:56.079 --> 02:09:01.960
sunny spot in the backyard. Okay, well, they still are in quite

1709
02:09:01.960 --> 02:09:05.840
a transplant shock season or in hell
because that they lost a whole lot of

1710
02:09:05.920 --> 02:09:09.359
roots. The vast majority of the
roots were lost in the transplanting. So

1711
02:09:09.479 --> 02:09:13.079
they're re establishing. So the fact
that you've got green on the branches is

1712
02:09:13.119 --> 02:09:16.239
a good thing. I would take
out the suckers that are coming up around

1713
02:09:16.279 --> 02:09:20.079
the base if your branches are green, if they if you, I mean,

1714
02:09:20.119 --> 02:09:24.439
if you're seeing green growth up on
the existing trunks and branches, I

1715
02:09:24.479 --> 02:09:26.479
would take all the suckers out,
and then I would just give them some

1716
02:09:26.600 --> 02:09:31.239
time, let them settle down,
let them get their roots going. They're

1717
02:09:31.319 --> 02:09:33.399
smart, they know that they've got
to get a good root system before they

1718
02:09:33.479 --> 02:09:37.319
start to trap trying to push out
new growth, a whole lot of it.

1719
02:09:37.680 --> 02:09:43.560
Okay, do you think that I
should scrim them down a little bit,

1720
02:09:43.800 --> 02:09:48.039
try and get rid of a little
bit of their lankiness, or should

1721
02:09:48.079 --> 02:09:52.119
I just leave them alone? I
would leave them alone. Let's get a

1722
02:09:52.199 --> 02:09:56.079
lot of foliage on those things over
the course of the summer. Let's restrengthen

1723
02:09:56.199 --> 02:10:00.520
them a lot of carbohydrate production from
all that foliage. Let's get I'm strong,

1724
02:10:00.800 --> 02:10:03.520
and then we can talk about maybe
if you want to change the height

1725
02:10:03.600 --> 02:10:05.560
of them or something at a later
date, we can do that. But

1726
02:10:05.720 --> 02:10:09.880
let's not jump in right now and
add insult to injury with that move.

1727
02:10:11.000 --> 02:10:16.680
Okay, okay, okay. And
I can't change this right now because we're

1728
02:10:16.760 --> 02:10:22.359
in summer. But the two trees
are pretty close together. They're about three

1729
02:10:22.439 --> 02:10:28.000
feet apart. Okay, that's okay, that's a little too close for big

1730
02:10:28.079 --> 02:10:31.520
Craig Merlas. You said sixteen and
twenty feet right, Yeah, they're about

1731
02:10:31.600 --> 02:10:37.520
sixteen and twenty feet tall, but
they're quite thin. Well, I would

1732
02:10:37.560 --> 02:10:39.079
put them further apart than that,
you know, I haven't at least twelve

1733
02:10:39.279 --> 02:10:43.359
All right, well, I want
to think about doing that at the end

1734
02:10:43.399 --> 02:10:48.000
of this year. Maybe one of
them sounds good. Thank you so much

1735
02:10:48.079 --> 02:10:52.079
for your time, and I will
get rid of those suckers, you bet,

1736
02:10:52.399 --> 02:10:54.560
Thank you very much. I appreciate
the call. You take care okay

1737
02:10:54.640 --> 02:10:58.119
by now? All right, bye
bye, you know, call them from

1738
02:10:58.199 --> 02:11:03.439
up in the Montgomery reminded me of
Nature's Way, which is Nature's Way Resources

1739
02:11:03.520 --> 02:11:09.199
and thirty five just south of Conro
It is on about where what is at

1740
02:11:09.239 --> 02:11:13.359
fourteen eighty eight comes in Nature's Way
Resources. That's always been a leader in

1741
02:11:13.560 --> 02:11:18.520
soul products. When we talk about
who came up with the rose soil,

1742
02:11:18.560 --> 02:11:22.720
the leaf mole compost, that happened
at Nature's Way, they are the leader

1743
02:11:22.760 --> 02:11:26.840
in that. Now Nature's Way has
a thing called Fungal Fridays. I think

1744
02:11:26.880 --> 02:11:30.159
that's a funny name, Fungal Fridays, but it's a good thing. Ten

1745
02:11:30.239 --> 02:11:33.560
percent off their bag products, twenty
percent off their bulk you can have them

1746
02:11:33.960 --> 02:11:39.600
deliver to you those kind of quality
products. They've also got the largest variety

1747
02:11:39.640 --> 02:11:43.880
of native plants in the Houston area
two acres Nursery and garden center, fruit

1748
02:11:43.920 --> 02:11:48.199
trees, native perennials, even seasonal
vegetables and house plants at times out there.

1749
02:11:48.279 --> 02:11:50.439
But when it comes to native plants, when you're at Nature's Way,

1750
02:11:50.520 --> 02:11:52.399
you just kind of get it all
get you. The soil gets you,

1751
02:11:52.479 --> 02:11:56.720
the malts get you, the plants
all in one stop now, by the

1752
02:11:56.760 --> 02:12:00.199
way, beginning this weekend their summer
hours or Monday through Friday from a to

1753
02:12:00.279 --> 02:12:05.319
five and Saturdays today from eight to
two. They're closed on Sundays. So

1754
02:12:05.479 --> 02:12:07.840
if you want to get out there
and get some products or give them a

1755
02:12:07.880 --> 02:12:09.880
call and get lined up to get
a delivery, you need to do so

1756
02:12:11.079 --> 02:12:16.520
today before two o'clock Saturdays from eight
to two pm at Nature's Way Resources.

1757
02:12:16.359 --> 02:12:20.760
I want to head out to Montgomery
again now and we're going to talk to

1758
02:12:20.880 --> 02:12:26.359
Jim. Hello, Jim, Hey, Skip. I was wondering. I'm

1759
02:12:26.399 --> 02:12:31.520
trying to find some large lava rocks. I've seen the moss rocks. I

1760
02:12:31.560 --> 02:12:33.720
can get those. I've got a
bunch of those, but I'm building a

1761
02:12:35.319 --> 02:12:39.000
fire pit and some other stuff,
fountain and all that, and I want

1762
02:12:39.039 --> 02:12:43.840
to use some of those charcoal colored
lava rock the big ones and maybe even

1763
02:12:43.920 --> 02:12:48.840
some gray ones. I've found a
couple I've had I've kept for years,

1764
02:12:48.960 --> 02:12:54.079
but all I can ever find in
Large is the moss rock, and I

1765
02:12:54.119 --> 02:13:00.560
don't want to use that for what
I'm doing. Yes, if you have

1766
02:13:00.640 --> 02:13:05.119
a bender or something that sells the
large you know, like head size or

1767
02:13:05.199 --> 02:13:11.840
bigger of the lava rock, Okay, if are you able to go get

1768
02:13:11.880 --> 02:13:15.319
them or are you gonna have to
have somebody deliver it? Well, it

1769
02:13:15.439 --> 02:13:20.359
depends on you, know how much
it is. I live in Montgomery,

1770
02:13:20.439 --> 02:13:26.119
but I'm really closer to I'm between
Magnolia and Dobbin. I'm just kind of

1771
02:13:26.159 --> 02:13:33.439
like called fourteen eighty six, and
so it's about twenty five miles from Nature's

1772
02:13:33.520 --> 02:13:37.600
Way and eleven miles from A and
A. Yeah, I believe. I

1773
02:13:37.680 --> 02:13:39.159
believe they have some stone in Nature's
Way. The last time I was out

1774
02:13:39.159 --> 02:13:41.439
there, I believe. So I
don't know, you know, as you

1775
02:13:41.600 --> 02:13:45.760
describe the stone. I'm not a
stone expert, so I can't tell you

1776
02:13:46.279 --> 02:13:48.680
they have that one that you're looking
for there, But you might try that,

1777
02:13:48.760 --> 02:13:52.039
But I tell you what you're really
you are really close to Anna.

1778
02:13:52.199 --> 02:13:54.960
I would go over there. I
know they have some stone there. But

1779
02:13:54.520 --> 02:13:58.319
if they don't have what you're looking
for, ask them who would they recommend

1780
02:13:58.600 --> 02:14:01.520
in that area, Because when you're
talking about something as heavy as rock,

1781
02:14:01.800 --> 02:14:05.159
trying to get that delivered it can
be a little pricey, you know,

1782
02:14:05.239 --> 02:14:09.800
hauling at a distance and whatnot.
So I would start with them there and

1783
02:14:09.960 --> 02:14:13.600
just ask A and A who in
the area would they send you to,

1784
02:14:13.720 --> 02:14:16.880
because they're going to be aware of
some places that I'm probably not aware of

1785
02:14:16.359 --> 02:14:22.760
up in the area. That's where
I would run. Okay, because like

1786
02:14:22.079 --> 02:14:26.119
like you said that the Labba rock
doesn't seem to be as heavy as a

1787
02:14:26.239 --> 02:14:28.479
monster rock. Monster rock is very
heavy. It's very dense. Yes,

1788
02:14:28.800 --> 02:14:35.079
But I also comment that lady about
the dogwoods, he needs to make sure

1789
02:14:35.159 --> 02:14:37.760
that's understory. It's an understory tree. I've got several of them growing on

1790
02:14:37.880 --> 02:14:41.960
my property. I got five acres
here, and these are just wild ones

1791
02:14:43.039 --> 02:14:48.600
and they all grow up underneath the
other trees. That's true. And they

1792
02:14:48.520 --> 02:14:52.279
yeah, dogwoods happy real well,
that's right. A dogwood's happy places being

1793
02:14:52.359 --> 02:14:56.439
on the edge of the forest with
its face stuck out there to get some

1794
02:14:56.560 --> 02:14:58.840
sunlight and the droots back in the
nice forest floor. Duff. That's that's

1795
02:15:00.000 --> 02:15:03.560
dogwood. So you good point,
well made, all right, Jim,

1796
02:15:05.000 --> 02:15:07.640
thank you for the calling. Yes, sir, good luck finding that material.

1797
02:15:09.119 --> 02:15:11.439
Heading all the way up to Montgomery. And while we're heading north,

1798
02:15:11.479 --> 02:15:13.319
why don't we go a little further
north Carlos, Texas. Do you all

1799
02:15:13.359 --> 02:15:18.039
know where that is? Well,
Grimes County Feeding Farm. It's just to

1800
02:15:18.159 --> 02:15:20.399
the east of Navasota. So if
you're in the Brian College Station area.

1801
02:15:20.439 --> 02:15:24.279
I've talked to so many people from
Brian Collos Station that listen to this show.

1802
02:15:24.800 --> 02:15:28.439
Carlos is just down Highway thirty from
you. It's about two miles west

1803
02:15:28.520 --> 02:15:31.720
of FM two forty four and Grimes
County Feeding Farm. They carry the product

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02:15:31.800 --> 02:15:35.399
lines we're talking about. So if
you need the fertilizers, the nitrofiles,

1805
02:15:35.439 --> 02:15:39.239
the high Yield, the microlife,
the turf Star, Nelson's and Medina and

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02:15:39.760 --> 02:15:43.319
Landscapers, Pride, tree Hugger sprinklers
too. By the way there, you're

1807
02:15:43.359 --> 02:15:48.239
gonna get everything from a feed store
that you would expect. Quality dog foods

1808
02:15:48.359 --> 02:15:52.279
like Victor Star Pro cat foods,
food for other pets, livestock feed,

1809
02:15:52.800 --> 02:15:58.359
pest and rodent control supply. They
got those mosquito dunks and hey, here

1810
02:15:58.439 --> 02:16:00.960
comes the rain. You go ahead
and I am now, because you're gonna

1811
02:16:00.960 --> 02:16:05.840
want to toss them out wherever they're
standing. Water to help control those mosquitoes.

1812
02:16:05.079 --> 02:16:09.079
Aquatic herbicide for your pond, fish
food for your pond, and they

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02:16:09.119 --> 02:16:13.920
even have fish stocking twice a quarter
through the Grimes County Feed and Farm Now

1814
02:16:15.000 --> 02:16:20.239
again, that is on fifty two
sixty four State Highway thirty, about two

1815
02:16:20.319 --> 02:16:26.319
miles west of FM two forty four. I love Grimes Candy, Feed and

1816
02:16:26.520 --> 02:16:28.520
Farm. By the way, they
got real cool cool shirts too, if

1817
02:16:28.560 --> 02:16:33.239
you want you a really nice shirt. The Grimes Candy shirts I think are

1818
02:16:33.280 --> 02:16:41.239
really well designed, really attractive.
We talk about the importance of a quality

1819
02:16:41.559 --> 02:16:46.079
roof, and you've probably seen the
solar panels that are out there on roofs

1820
02:16:46.159 --> 02:16:52.000
and you might find those a little
unattractive. Well, Brinkman's roofing has timberline

1821
02:16:52.440 --> 02:16:56.200
solar shingles, so they're not above
the roof, they don't sit on your

1822
02:16:56.280 --> 02:16:58.920
roof, they are the roof and
they're fully warranted for twenty five years.

1823
02:17:00.120 --> 02:17:03.959
Brinkman. They've been providing service to
the Houstonary for fifty years. This isn't

1824
02:17:03.000 --> 02:17:07.760
a fly by night. Don't trust
the companies at knock on your door claiming

1825
02:17:07.879 --> 02:17:09.680
that you have storm damage and trying
to get you to fill a claim.

1826
02:17:11.239 --> 02:17:16.239
Have a professional like Brinkman looked at
the roof so they can assess it and

1827
02:17:16.399 --> 02:17:20.239
tell you what you really do or
don't need. They custom manufacture metal seam

1828
02:17:20.360 --> 02:17:26.399
roofing as well. Go to Brinkman
Quality. Brinkman has two N B ri

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02:17:26.799 --> 02:17:31.920
n k M A n N quality
dot com or column two eight one four

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02:17:33.040 --> 02:17:37.879
eight zero seven six six three two
eight one four eight zero seven six six

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02:17:39.040 --> 02:17:45.000
three, whether it's commercial or residential. Brinkman stands behind their workmanship for leaks

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02:17:45.079 --> 02:17:50.399
up to twenty five years. Brinkman
Roofing. Well, Nikki, we are

1833
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we're just talking about all kinds of
things gardening this morning, and what would

1834
02:17:54.920 --> 02:17:58.239
you expect from garden low Who would
have thought that? Wow, I've noticed

1835
02:17:58.280 --> 02:18:01.079
that you just haven't had any gardening
news in a while. So do I

1836
02:18:01.159 --> 02:18:05.479
need to make up some gardening news? So we can you know something breaking?

1837
02:18:05.879 --> 02:18:09.799
No, because it's like fishing today. Fishing Yeah, okay, Well

1838
02:18:11.120 --> 02:18:15.159
I can I can tie anything back
to gardening? When the settler, when

1839
02:18:15.479 --> 02:18:18.639
the pilgrims came across the Native Americans
told him you drop a fish into a

1840
02:18:18.719 --> 02:18:22.920
hole and then plant corn on it, and the fish becomes corn fertilizer.

1841
02:18:22.040 --> 02:18:26.200
So there we want from fishing the
gardening. I'll get out of your way.

1842
02:18:28.559 --> 02:18:46.719
The Red Blue Jean Queen all the
team. She just the bull Bufalula.

1843
02:18:46.879 --> 02:18:50.760
I haven't heard that one in a
lot. You're listening to the garden

1844
02:18:50.799 --> 02:18:54.520
line. I'm your host, Skip
Richter, and our phone number is seven

1845
02:18:54.680 --> 02:19:01.440
won three actions before my time seven
one three two one two fifth seventy four

1846
02:19:01.600 --> 02:19:05.079
seven one three two and two kat
r H. We are going to head

1847
02:19:05.120 --> 02:19:09.920
out now to pair Land and talk
to k. Hello. Okay, good

1848
02:19:09.959 --> 02:19:13.559
morning, Good morning, Skip.
Sorry, tell me anything but late for

1849
02:19:13.639 --> 02:19:18.719
dinner. How can we help you
today? Yeah, thanks for taking my

1850
02:19:18.840 --> 02:19:22.520
call. And it was nice to
meet you last week then at the Birds

1851
02:19:22.840 --> 02:19:26.879
Birds Center. Well that was a
great time. I appreciate you and all

1852
02:19:26.920 --> 02:19:30.920
the other folks that came out.
That was a blast. That was good.

1853
02:19:31.319 --> 02:19:35.959
Okay. My question is i have
a great big bed that's gotten out

1854
02:19:35.000 --> 02:19:39.879
of control and I'm getting it back
in condition and weeding and everything. Enough

1855
02:19:39.959 --> 02:19:48.799
come across, uh some little volunteer
seedlings crape myrtles anywhere from five or six

1856
02:19:48.920 --> 02:19:56.639
inches up to two feet tall,
and a couple of little small oak shoots.

1857
02:19:56.120 --> 02:20:01.159
Okay, I went to my garden
center yes day and got UM roots

1858
02:20:01.239 --> 02:20:11.280
Stimulator riv organic roots stimulator, and
it recommends using um fertilizer with it.

1859
02:20:11.399 --> 02:20:15.879
And I have medina has to grow. Can I just mix that with the

1860
02:20:16.040 --> 02:20:20.159
roots stimulator in the water, Yes, you could. And how long should

1861
02:20:20.239 --> 02:20:26.120
I leave the roots? You know, leave the plants in the liquid?

1862
02:20:26.520 --> 02:20:30.079
Oh, just soakm in it for
a few minutes and then and then pull

1863
02:20:30.159 --> 02:20:33.040
them out a few minutes. That
all right? When you when you dig

1864
02:20:33.079 --> 02:20:35.959
them up, get as much of
the root system as you can. Soak

1865
02:20:35.959 --> 02:20:39.399
them down in that. Just make
sure you mix the products according to the

1866
02:20:39.520 --> 02:20:43.399
label, not too strong. And
then after you're done planting, you can

1867
02:20:43.479 --> 02:20:46.280
water them back in with it.
Now, let me let me say something

1868
02:20:46.280 --> 02:20:50.920
about the digging up crape myrtle seedlings. When they develop crepe myrtles, they

1869
02:20:50.040 --> 02:20:56.200
go through ten thousand plants that they
have specifically bred, choosing two different parents

1870
02:20:56.639 --> 02:21:01.079
to create a great crape myrtle,
and ten doesn't planted. Maybe one of

1871
02:21:01.120 --> 02:21:03.959
them makes it as a variety.
So what that tells me is even when

1872
02:21:05.040 --> 02:21:09.440
they intentionally breed a plant, most
of what they come up with is not

1873
02:21:11.079 --> 02:21:15.120
the best. And it may be
that it gets tall or short. It

1874
02:21:15.280 --> 02:21:18.440
may be that it's susceptible to powdery
mildew or not. You see what I'm

1875
02:21:18.479 --> 02:21:24.120
saying. It may be that the
color of them, that's right, I

1876
02:21:24.200 --> 02:21:28.000
mean it could Your yard may have
the most beautiful crape myrtles, and those

1877
02:21:28.040 --> 02:21:31.799
seedlings you make it lucky. They
may look pretty good. But you know,

1878
02:21:31.879 --> 02:21:33.280
if you just want to save a
plant and do it yourself, and

1879
02:21:33.440 --> 02:21:35.799
hey, this is mine, you
can you know, who knows. If

1880
02:21:35.840 --> 02:21:39.399
it turns out great, you can
call it the k crape myrtle. But

1881
02:21:39.000 --> 02:21:43.840
my suggestion is pick a crepe myrtle
by the size you want first, so

1882
02:21:43.920 --> 02:21:46.000
you don't have to butcher it every
year to keep it a certain height.

1883
02:21:46.399 --> 02:21:50.760
Make sure it's one that's a disease
resistant, and then pick the color that

1884
02:21:50.959 --> 02:21:56.040
you want, you know, just
kind of play, you know. And

1885
02:21:56.159 --> 02:22:01.319
I've already done three and I thought
they were gonna do I but they worked

1886
02:22:01.360 --> 02:22:05.280
back up and they're doing real good
now. They're very small, just about

1887
02:22:05.360 --> 02:22:09.040
six inches well, and I just
keep them in a pot but anyway,

1888
02:22:09.120 --> 02:22:11.959
well, I just wanted to get
your idea. Thank you so much.

1889
02:22:13.079 --> 02:22:15.559
I appreciate it, you bet,
And that's how you do it, I

1890
02:22:15.600 --> 02:22:18.719
mean you you you will have success
with these. They're they're pretty forgiving and

1891
02:22:18.840 --> 02:22:22.200
so and by the way, thanks
for coming oaks. The oaks, same

1892
02:22:22.280 --> 02:22:26.959
thing, same thing. Most of
these things that are coming from seed have

1893
02:22:26.000 --> 02:22:30.239
a little bit of a tap root
and so you know, oh they do.

1894
02:22:30.680 --> 02:22:33.159
Rather than digging real wide, you
want to dig down. So the

1895
02:22:33.319 --> 02:22:37.879
more of the root you can get
going down, that's more important than going

1896
02:22:37.000 --> 02:22:41.079
wide. Okay, Well, even
with these little ones that I did,

1897
02:22:41.200 --> 02:22:43.399
I ended up just having to just
pull them up and that was just bare

1898
02:22:43.479 --> 02:22:46.600
root, you know. And I
just poked a hole in the dirt and

1899
02:22:48.440 --> 02:22:52.040
you know, got it firm around
it and thought hope for the best and

1900
02:22:52.200 --> 02:22:56.479
kept watering. Okay, thank you
so much. Yes, I did enjoy

1901
02:22:56.559 --> 02:22:58.319
the visit. Thanks, thank you
so much. It was good. Good

1902
02:22:58.360 --> 02:23:01.360
to get to visit with you out
there. By the way, I'm gonna

1903
02:23:01.399 --> 02:23:05.920
be now at the wild Birds Unlimited
in Kingwood next Saturday, a week from

1904
02:23:05.959 --> 02:23:09.600
today, eleven thirty one thirty.
I'll be out there. Please come and

1905
02:23:09.680 --> 02:23:13.000
see me. The wild birds unlimited
in Kingwood. I'll talk about that more

1906
02:23:13.040 --> 02:23:18.159
tomorrow and certainly next week as well. Let's head out to Spring and we're

1907
02:23:18.200 --> 02:23:22.760
gonna talk now to Anthony. Hello
Anthony, Good morning, Skip. How

1908
02:23:22.760 --> 02:23:26.520
are you doing well? Thank you. I have a question. I am

1909
02:23:26.639 --> 02:23:31.200
trying to grow an avocado tree,
and my guys planted it last year and

1910
02:23:31.239 --> 02:23:35.360
I actually got it growing. But
I'm looking for somewhere to get a graft

1911
02:23:35.680 --> 02:23:39.879
from a mature tree, okay,
and I have no clue. I've called

1912
02:23:39.879 --> 02:23:43.079
a few places and nobody can help
me. That is, do you have

1913
02:23:43.120 --> 02:23:48.319
any suggestions. I do not know
of a commercial source of graftwood. Now,

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02:23:48.399 --> 02:23:52.479
if you know somebody that's got an
avocado, you know you certainly could

1915
02:23:52.600 --> 02:23:58.200
you get a graft off of a
tree that is somewhere from your neighborhood or

1916
02:23:58.239 --> 02:24:01.479
family, friends or whatever. Uh
As far as where you would go to

1917
02:24:01.559 --> 02:24:07.600
get a graft, I'm just sitting
here trying to think of what a good

1918
02:24:07.680 --> 02:24:11.000
recommendation would be. I know there's
probably a bunch of people listening going,

1919
02:24:11.079 --> 02:24:13.559
Hey, I've got a Joey here, I've got a Wilmer, I've got

1920
02:24:13.719 --> 02:24:16.879
whatever. You're welcome take a shoot
off of it. But you know,

1921
02:24:16.920 --> 02:24:18.639
as far as just in for general
public, where do you go to get

1922
02:24:18.639 --> 02:24:22.959
avocado graphs? I don't know of
a good source for that. Maybe someone

1923
02:24:22.079 --> 02:24:26.479
listening does, and if you do, call us in the next ten minutes

1924
02:24:26.559 --> 02:24:31.479
here so we can we can hear
about that. But that's okay, no

1925
02:24:31.319 --> 02:24:37.639
problem. I'm still fishing. I
guess, yeah, really quick. Another

1926
02:24:37.719 --> 02:24:41.799
question. I wanted to try and
grow some citrus plants this year, orange

1927
02:24:41.840 --> 02:24:45.479
and lemon a line, but I
want to keep them small. Any recommendations.

1928
02:24:45.520 --> 02:24:46.680
I want to be able to bring
them in when the weather gets really

1929
02:24:46.760 --> 02:24:50.479
cold. So the recommendations for what
kind of citrus or how to grow them?

1930
02:24:50.680 --> 02:24:54.840
What do you? I guess what
kind? What type? Mostly the

1931
02:24:54.920 --> 02:25:00.680
oranges? Okay, uh, yeah, I would I would consider doing it

1932
02:25:00.760 --> 02:25:05.159
at a container. And there are
some oranges that you can grow in a

1933
02:25:05.239 --> 02:25:09.719
container, but oranges typically get pretty
large, and so they kind of outgrow

1934
02:25:09.760 --> 02:25:13.440
a container pretty quick. And when
a plant's outgrown it, it's more touching

1935
02:25:13.520 --> 02:25:18.600
going keeping it watered and you know, keeping it producing some bigger so it

1936
02:25:18.680 --> 02:25:24.920
continues to fruit. But that certainly
could be done. I have tried satsuma's

1937
02:25:24.120 --> 02:25:30.000
successfully in containers before. They also
get larger than a container would normally be,

1938
02:25:30.200 --> 02:25:33.559
but you know, satsuma about eight
feet or at the most something like

1939
02:25:33.719 --> 02:25:37.879
that. In general, I've grown
them in something the size of a half

1940
02:25:37.920 --> 02:25:41.479
whiskey barrow. But don't use a
wooden whiskey barrowl because those rot out,

1941
02:25:41.639 --> 02:25:43.520
you know, the trio way out
last the pot. Now you've got a

1942
02:25:43.559 --> 02:25:48.280
problem of what how to move that
to a bigger container, So I would

1943
02:25:48.319 --> 02:25:50.840
try that certainly. The smaller things, you know, the myer lemon is

1944
02:25:50.959 --> 02:25:54.799
commonly grown in containers. The different
kinds of limes and stuff would just be

1945
02:25:54.840 --> 02:26:00.879
another opportunity. Okay, Yeah,
I had heard about these dwarfs orange trees,

1946
02:26:00.959 --> 02:26:03.159
but I don't know anything about merange
trees. So well, hang on

1947
02:26:03.280 --> 02:26:05.360
if you want to hang on till
after break. I need to take a

1948
02:26:05.399 --> 02:26:09.239
break right now, but I'll be
happy if you're gonna stick around. Make

1949
02:26:09.239 --> 02:26:11.520
a few more comments. You're listening
to garden Line, give us a call

1950
02:26:11.760 --> 02:26:20.639
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. You know you make

1951
02:26:20.719 --> 02:26:35.760
me run on? Who can tell
me what movie? You probably heard that

1952
02:26:35.840 --> 02:26:48.360
song animal, hous Animal. A
lot of toga parties said that is the

1953
02:26:48.440 --> 02:26:52.360
same track. You're listening to garden
Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter

1954
02:26:52.760 --> 02:26:56.639
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. If you'd like to

1955
02:26:56.680 --> 02:27:00.959
give us a call. Hey,
if you're thinking about moving, if you

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02:27:01.159 --> 02:27:07.520
are interested in in a community that
is one where you will find inspired designs,

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02:27:07.120 --> 02:27:11.840
maybe one that has lifestyle programs that
are designed around you, you need

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02:27:11.920 --> 02:27:16.079
to consider Dellweb. Now, Dellweb
has been doing communities for active adults age

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02:27:16.120 --> 02:27:18.440
fifty five and better for over seventy
years. They've got a new community going

1960
02:27:18.520 --> 02:27:24.239
in about two miles from downtown fulsher
on FM three fifty nine. Now,

1961
02:27:24.559 --> 02:27:28.840
this community is especially of interest to
me because they've contacted me to help them

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02:27:30.000 --> 02:27:33.200
create a community garden on site for
residents. And hey, this is garden

1963
02:27:33.280 --> 02:27:37.920
Line. If you're a gardener and
you're looking for a place that it has

1964
02:27:37.040 --> 02:27:43.280
the quality lifestyle programs and the designs, I encourage you to at least give

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02:27:43.319 --> 02:27:46.440
them a checkout. I think you
will be very impressed. Dellweb dot com

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slash Houston for more information, give
McCall at two eight one four five nine

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02:27:52.000 --> 02:27:58.239
six o nine. Check out this
new fullshre community and discover the Dellweb difference

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02:27:58.479 --> 02:28:01.079
for yourself. I know you will
be impressed with that. We're going to

1969
02:28:01.120 --> 02:28:07.600
head back over to Spring and continue
our conversation with Anthony. Anthony had a

1970
02:28:07.639 --> 02:28:11.000
couple of other thoughts when we're talking
about containers. One of the most popular

1971
02:28:11.079 --> 02:28:15.440
citrus and container is not just here, but all over the place is calm.

1972
02:28:15.920 --> 02:28:22.600
Calamondon is an acidic citrus fruit that
for years has been popular. Even

1973
02:28:22.680 --> 02:28:26.280
people in climates where you can't grow
citrus will grow these because they flush about

1974
02:28:26.319 --> 02:28:30.200
five times a year, meaning you
get a new group of blooms and a

1975
02:28:30.280 --> 02:28:33.079
new group of fruits, so there's
a lot going on through the year.

1976
02:28:33.120 --> 02:28:35.559
It's a real cool, cool citrus. To hot now it's hardy. It's

1977
02:28:35.559 --> 02:28:39.799
pretty hardy down to I think about
twenty degrees if I'm not mistaken. Of

1978
02:28:39.840 --> 02:28:43.920
course, that depends on how prepared
it is when that cold weather comes,

1979
02:28:43.079 --> 02:28:46.920
but calamondon will be kind of a
novelty to do that. Another one would

1980
02:28:48.040 --> 02:28:52.000
be the cum quats there. I
don't know if are you familiar with kumquats

1981
02:28:52.120 --> 02:28:56.559
or not. I've heard of them. I don't I'm not real familiar with

1982
02:28:56.760 --> 02:29:01.159
Okay, well, they're about the
size of your thumb. The fruit the

1983
02:29:01.319 --> 02:29:05.040
maiwa sa maiwa and nagami are the
two most common cultivars. One of them

1984
02:29:05.159 --> 02:29:09.200
is round, one of them's kind
of oblong. Kumquats probably are most used

1985
02:29:09.239 --> 02:29:13.840
in marmalade because the skin I think
is actually better than the fruit inside itself.

1986
02:29:15.239 --> 02:29:20.440
But they'll be they have that beautiful
citrus bloom fragrance that is worth part

1987
02:29:20.600 --> 02:29:24.360
centris for and then you know it
would be something that you would make kind

1988
02:29:24.360 --> 02:29:30.399
of a marmalade jelly type product out
of ivy eating them fresh eating. They're

1989
02:29:30.440 --> 02:29:33.799
not the best citrus in the world
for fresh eating, but they're very flavorful,

1990
02:29:33.879 --> 02:29:37.040
and like I said this, the
skin is just eating pop like or

1991
02:29:37.079 --> 02:29:39.239
grape in your mouth. They're really
really uh kind of yummy for that.

1992
02:29:39.360 --> 02:29:43.440
So that'd just be another couple of
ideas if you want to go with a

1993
02:29:43.520 --> 02:29:46.559
container, those two are going to
be even more suited to that. And

1994
02:29:46.719 --> 02:29:52.440
plus both of those have significant hardiness. The kumquat is hardier than even the

1995
02:29:52.520 --> 02:29:56.760
satsumas, which are one of our
hardiest of the mandarin types of orange.

1996
02:29:56.920 --> 02:30:00.799
Is it too late to get going
on any of those of plants. It's

1997
02:30:00.799 --> 02:30:03.440
already tune. I know. Oh
no, not at all, not at

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02:30:03.479 --> 02:30:07.120
all. You go to our garden
centers that you know carry products like this,

1999
02:30:07.319 --> 02:30:09.440
I know Europe in the spring area, so you're not gonna be far

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02:30:09.479 --> 02:30:13.280
away from plants for all seasons.
You know, you head out to Arbigate,

2001
02:30:13.319 --> 02:30:16.120
they're gonna have I think our CW
Nurseries also has those. Uh,

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it's gonna be very close to you. All of those kind of places are

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going to carry the citrus. Just
give him a call if you want a

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specific kind of citrus, call first
to make sure they still have those in

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02:30:26.600 --> 02:30:31.079
stock that have been bought out.
But those those kind of places carry citrus

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through the year for us. About
what size container would you recommend to be

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bringing in and out of the elements, like, I don't know, a

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fourteen inch or something. You could
start off small and do about a fourteen

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inch just to get going. A
lot of the containers you buy these in

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are going to be almost that size. But once if you can get up

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close to a half whiskey barrel size
again, go with something that's not all

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that would it's enough soil to where
the plants are just going to be less

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likely to go into stress from drought
or whatever. And uh what I do

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it just as a tip. You
know, people think, well, how

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can I carry something that size into
the garage. Well, you get a

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dolly or a hand truck, whatever
you want to call it. Slip the

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bottom under the edge of the pot, put a strap around the pot and

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to both sides of the dolly,
and you just lean back and I mean

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one hand moves the whole thing.
You don't even have to call your carprector

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when you're done. Yeah, I
got a dolly. That's what that was

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my plan. So I appreciate that. That's some good tips. All right,

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Well, thank you, yes,
sir, you as well, thanks

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for hanging on to through that break. I love citrus. I mean,

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there are a handful of plants out
there, and if as I name some,

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I'll forget some of the best ones. I'm sure that are out there

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as well. But there are a
handful of plants that just have that unbelievable

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fragrance, and citrus is one.
It is heavenly when citrus blooms waffed across

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the yard. That's why I like
them in pots, because you can put

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them on a patio where you sit
there and enjoy them. Another one,

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of course, is Gardenia. Oh
my goodness, gardenia fragrance, white butterfly

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ginger blooms in late summer and fall. Primarily the white butterfly, especially of

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02:32:13.159 --> 02:32:18.600
all the hidachims, has a great
fragrance. Just heavenly. There's another plant.

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02:32:18.680 --> 02:32:20.799
Oh, what's it called? What's
it called? Trying to remember the

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name. It's got a vanilla fragrance
to it. Now. The name of

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02:32:24.479 --> 02:32:30.120
it just jumped right out of my
head as I started. Aloysia vergatta,

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02:32:30.239 --> 02:32:33.719
Aloysia gush. You can't say the
name anyway. The genus is Alosia,

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and it has a vanilla fragrance.
It makes a big shrub, so this

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isn't gonna be a small plant.
Makes a big shrub, got little spikelike

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blooms that come out wonderful, wonderful
fragrance to those of vanilla like fragrance as

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well. I wanna just remind you
that when you're needing products, and we

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02:32:54.319 --> 02:32:58.120
talk about all these products on garden
Line all the time, one of the

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02:32:58.239 --> 02:33:01.319
simplest answers is to where do I
get if those? Is to go to

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an ace hardware store near you,
and there's thirty nine of them in the

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02:33:03.600 --> 02:33:07.639
Houston Greater Houston area, and so
there is one near you. Now you

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02:33:07.680 --> 02:33:11.239
can go to ACE Hardware dot Com. Go to there. You know,

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02:33:11.399 --> 02:33:16.440
they're a selector for locations, and
then you can find the one that's closest.

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02:33:16.479 --> 02:33:18.440
You got a map of the area
and zoom around find one or two

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02:33:18.479 --> 02:33:22.760
or three that are close to you. Ace Hardware carries all the products we

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02:33:22.840 --> 02:33:26.799
talk about and so fertilizers and soils
and things like that, but Ace Hardware

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02:33:26.920 --> 02:33:31.840
is so much more. You know, their grilling selection is like none other.

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02:33:31.239 --> 02:33:33.680
Do you like Webbard? Do you
like Tragger? Do you like Big

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02:33:33.760 --> 02:33:39.479
Green Egg? They've got it all. They've got power equipment for your yard,

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02:33:39.600 --> 02:33:41.040
the things you need. Maybe you
need a grilled, maybe you need

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02:33:41.120 --> 02:33:46.719
furniture for outdoors, you need decore
lighting, and then everything else that a

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02:33:46.799 --> 02:33:50.639
hardware store would have, you know, paint and plumbing and electrical supplies,

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02:33:50.520 --> 02:33:54.239
home supplies, I mean different appliance
of products, you know, like your

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02:33:54.639 --> 02:33:58.159
you know, croc pots and types
of things like that. They've got all

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02:33:58.280 --> 02:34:03.479
that kind of stuff at an ACE
Hardware store. You're gonna be really surprised.

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02:34:03.559 --> 02:34:09.159
And as far as gifts, un
amazing gift selection as well, all

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02:34:09.360 --> 02:34:13.559
kinds of things that would be very
suitable for a housewarming gift or for just

2061
02:34:13.680 --> 02:34:16.959
a gift for a friend or someone
in the family. Go to Ace Hardware

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02:34:16.000 --> 02:34:20.479
dot com and you'll find those thirty
nine Ace hardwarees in the area. Go

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02:34:20.680 --> 02:34:24.959
check them out. If you remember
the Ace Hardwares of old, you haven't

2064
02:34:24.959 --> 02:34:28.239
seen the new Ace Hardware. It
has a service that we've always expected from

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02:34:28.280 --> 02:34:33.120
Ace, but oh my goodness,
it has become so so much more Ace

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02:34:33.200 --> 02:34:39.000
Hardware. I love going in to
do shopping at Ace Hardware's. We've been

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02:34:39.040 --> 02:34:43.760
talking garden line all day here,
all kinds of plants. So we're gonna

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02:34:43.760 --> 02:34:46.319
be back tomorrow. By the way, we'll be here from six am to

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02:34:46.520 --> 02:34:52.399
ten am every Friday and every Saturday
as well. Now, if you miss

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02:34:52.440 --> 02:34:54.680
a show, or excuse me,
Friday and Saturday, what am I talking

2071
02:34:54.719 --> 02:34:58.120
about Saturday and Sunday. You know, you'd think I'd know the show that

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02:34:58.200 --> 02:35:03.040
I actually hope it's actually on the
air. But that's what happens to your

2073
02:35:03.079 --> 02:35:07.760
brain when you give more than twenty
thousand words in the morning Saturdays and Sundays

2074
02:35:07.840 --> 02:35:11.479
six am to ten am. If
you miss a show, or if you

2075
02:35:11.600 --> 02:35:15.040
heard a show, but what was
that thing? He said? Check us

2076
02:35:15.040 --> 02:35:18.959
out by podcast. We're available by
podcasts, part of the iHeart Media podcasts

2077
02:35:20.040 --> 02:35:22.959
that are out there. You can
listen to pass shows as well. Tell

2078
02:35:22.959 --> 02:35:26.959
your friends family about ACE Hardware,
Ace Hardware, about Garden Line, about

2079
02:35:28.000 --> 02:35:31.280
all the products that you hear about
here. When we promote something on the

2080
02:35:31.399 --> 02:35:37.399
show, it's because I've tried it, because I know the product, because

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02:35:37.399 --> 02:35:41.479
I believe in the product, and
so it's not just like someone shows up

2082
02:35:41.479 --> 02:35:43.360
with some money and says, hey, here do an ad. We check

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02:35:43.440 --> 02:35:46.959
things out, and I know Randy
always did that through the years. There

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02:35:48.000 --> 02:35:50.360
are a lot of times someone would
want to advertise on Garden Line. You'd

2085
02:35:50.399 --> 02:35:54.360
say, no, we're not going
to do that. That tradition is continuing

2086
02:35:54.479 --> 02:35:56.079
here. So if I'm going to
put my name on it, it's going

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02:35:56.120 --> 02:36:00.680
to be something I believe in,
whether it's a product, whether it's a

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02:36:00.840 --> 02:36:05.879
service, whether it's a store,
you name it. That we want to

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02:36:05.959 --> 02:36:07.639
be a place that you can trust. We want to be a place.

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02:36:07.959 --> 02:36:13.440
I really strive on the information that
we give being research based information. You

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02:36:13.520 --> 02:36:16.799
can go on social media and hear
all kinds of things about plants. Forget

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02:36:16.799 --> 02:36:18.520
about ninety eight percent of what you
hear