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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 ktr
H Garden Line with Skip Richter, So

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just watch him as Woody Well,
good morning on a good Sunday morning,

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looking at darkness outside, by the
lights coming. It's going to be a

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beautiful day and a good day to
get outside for gardening. You're listening to

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garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and our phone number you

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want to write this down seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. I'm was trying to

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get some houseplant care done yesterday after
the show, trying to do some you

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know, general kind of trimming up
on some things and watering. Notice that

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I've got a couple of containers.
You know, we always tell you make

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sure a container has drainage holes so
that you don't over water it well and

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very inevitable. I fall in love
with a container that doesn't have drainage holes.

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So you can do that. You
just have to be real careful that

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you don't keep it too wet.
I usually throw a little bit of charcoal

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in the bottom of a container because
it sort of they say, sweetens the

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water. It helps a little bit
with the souring of the soil and things

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like that from saggy wet conditions.
You still overwater, for sure, But

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I always have to stick a finger
down in a poddlettle bit or a pencil.

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I don't know if you've ever heard
about that, but you can check

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the moisture down in your soil by
taking a sharpened pencil. And it's important

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that it is freshly sharpened, not
you know, the oil your hands getting

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on that sharpened wood surface, but
it needs to be freshly sharpened, and

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stick it down in the soil and
pull it out. And number one,

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if it's really wet, you can
see the fact that the wood has gotten

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wet. But even if not that
wet, you see soil sticking to the

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sides of the pencil. It's kind
of like those of you who know how

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to bake a cake know that you
can stick a toothpick down and some types

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of cakes and pull it out and
see if it's ready or not by whether

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you know, batter or whatever from
the cake is coming out of there.

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But you can do the same thing
with a pencil. It's just another other

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little tip, I guess. But
I do have some containers that don't have

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good drainage, and so I always
have to do that. But man,

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I love those containers. But anyway, it was just kind of grimming and

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checking on them, make sure everything's
doing good. I have some ivy that

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is is trailing very long. It's
actually a pothos ivy, real standard basic

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plant, but a good one for
good reasons. There's a reason you see

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it everywhere. And so as it
gets along, I'll just take the vines

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and kind of lay them back over
the hanging basket and let them drape back

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down again. It creates this really
large clump a ball of leaves up at

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the hanging basket, and then you
have a few few trailing down. So

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it just just general messing around,
you know. That's that's why I always

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say it's a good day for gardening, because even if it were raining outside

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today, I've got plenty of the
house to do. In fact, I've

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got some seeds I need to start
to that I want to plan out in

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the garden, and so it'd be
a good time to get out and do

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that. But on a day this
nice, we just need to get out

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and get going. In fact,
I'm going to jump out to the calls

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a little early today. I have
some of the comments as we go along,

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but let's start by going out to
Cyprus and we're going to talk to

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Joyce. A good morning, Joyce, Yeah, good morning. I thought

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I have three gallon high discus plants
that I got from Mother's day, okay,

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and I was going to lead them
in the containers that they come in.

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But will they get root bones?
Should I be replanting them? You

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don't need to worry about that for
a good while. Okay, they'll be

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fine. You know if they as
they grow, I mean if they double

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in size or something from what you
purchased, then just you can pull them

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out of the container, kind of
tease away the roots that are packed around

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the sides of the pot and put
them in some fresh soil and a bigger

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container. But I don't think this
quick after buying them. You need to

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do that. Now the container you
got them in, was it the old

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black nursery pot or what was?
Yes, sir, okay, that's what

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you And they're probably maybe three feet
tall, and I think I think plants

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fall seasons, says they were three
gallon containers. Three gallons. Oh yeah,

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good, Well, by the way, that's a that's a great place

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to get to get plants. Would
I would do one or two things if

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you don't like the look of the
black pot, which I don't either,

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but then you could move them into
a prettier container if you want to do

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that. But something that I'll do
is, if you can find a container

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you like the way it looks,
just slip the black pot down in that

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container. In other words, don't
add soil and replant it that way.

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When you're ready to bump it up, you can pull the black pot out

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and then you don't have to dig
it out or try to get it out

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of the container. You know,
some container sort of curve in at the

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top instead of being unless say somewhat
V shaped, or the top is whiter

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than the bottom, and it's hard
to get a plant out of that because

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it doesn't slip out because you've got
that curved in lid at the top,

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so or edge at the top.
So that's what I'll often do, And

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then I'll throw some moss or something
around the top, just so no one

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knows it's not planted in that pot. I do that with house plants and

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with other things too. And I
was talking earlier about if you overwater,

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well, if you have a container
that's like that doesn't have a hole in

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it, that's another advantage because you
can just lift the pot up and see

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is there too much water in there, and set it back down again.

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But just a few tis. There's
no one way. I'm sorry, and

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go ahead. I was going to
say. What I did is we just

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had you know, some of the
turk are quite looking pots, and set

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them inside that. But when I
do transplant them, then what size container

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would I go to? You want
to go up one size, so whatever

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sizer, and now you know,
if you can get a two inches maybe

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three inches at the most up at
the top, if it's a three gallon

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already, then you know you're you're
going to get a much larger container than

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if it was just like a little
six inch pot. But I would move

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up kind of one size, give
yourself a little bit hand to grow.

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They're going to always be a little
route bound, and that's okay. You

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just want to watch because those things
want to be in the sun and when

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it gets hot, they're pumping a
lot of water, So having a little

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more volume is probably better for them. So you're saying, so I should

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put them in a bigger pot when
it gets one, Well you can,

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you can as it warms up,
but I would you know, there's not

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a This isn't a black and white
issue at all. I mean, if

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you want to just set them in
something for now, they're going to be

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fine the pot they came in.
They are not overgrown in that pot yet.

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They will be okay within a few
months, but for right now,

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you can just go with that.
I feel like you're going to be making

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that bump soon. That's why I
was saying, set them down in another

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kind of pot for now, just
so you have something pretty around them rather

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than the black pot. Yeah exactly, Yeah, all right, well,

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thank you so much. Oh and
then the potting soul should I use it?

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But I think you talked about half
was it happy frog? It kind

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of helps contain water they have in
the past here I've talked about jungle Land

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recently is from nitrofoss and it's it's
got a it's got a blend of Canadian

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blonde peete with four different ages of
four different types of decomposed organic matter in

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it and then it has a microrhizal
fungine. I really like that about it.

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And so when you put that,
when you put that in your container,

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uh, it's gonna drain well,
but it's also going to hold moisture

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adequately, and that's important. So
you can get jungle land all over the

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place. I mean, you know
everywhere nitrofoss is sold. I think you

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said that you you were at plants
for all seasons. Well, they'll they'll

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have jungle land, I'm sure there. And if they don't, they'll have

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they'll they'll have an aquioma for you. But I would I would just if

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that's where you shop, then just
go back there and talk to them.

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But jungle lands in a lot of
different places. One last thought is make

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sure that is if the drainage hole
for the pot is on the bottom and

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it's sitting on concrete or something that's
fine, or a deck, if it's

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sitting just on a clay soil,
you might want to get those little things

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that lift the pot up a little
bit, because it you don't get good

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drainage when the pot essentially is sealing
itself to the surface of a clay soil.

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Do you know what I'm saying?
Yes I do, and yes that

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he is sitting on a place a
little That's something I would have never thought

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of. Yeah, give it a
little, give it a little bit of

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boost, not much, just a
little bit. All right, Well,

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thank you, thank you for that
call, Joyce, appreciate thank you.

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We're going to take a break,
Harry. We'll come back to you as

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soon as we get back from break. And if you'd like to call in

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four, let's go. Let's

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go way, good morning on a
good Sunday morning for gardening. We are

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dark outside now, but it won't
be that way long. In fact,

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if you want, if he looks
over at the neighbor's house and the light

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troff, go ahead and bang on
the door and tell them they're missing garden

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line. They will. They will
thank you later, not today for sure,

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but maybe later. We're going to
head out to the Galleria area now

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and talk to Harry. Good morning, Harry, good morning. I'll enjoy

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your show. You're doing a great
job. And by the way, five

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h seven four is ktrh ktrh very
good right, that's what it stands for

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KTRH five H seven four. All
right, I was wondering about potting soil

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for herbs like regano and time and
things like that. Yeah. We you

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know, we are fortunate here to
be blessed with a lot of different,

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good quality kinds of potting soil.
And you're not going to go wrong,

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you know, with any of the
group. I was talking about jungle land

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from night frosts a minute ago.
Uh. The Heirloom Soils has an urban

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veggie mix, by the way,
that would be excellent for that, and

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I would also consider that one.
Uh. And then the Nature's Way provides

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a very quality potting soil as well. But I think you're going to find

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that that Airline soil um veggie and
herb mix is it's going to be widely

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available for you. And that's that's
one thing to consider. If you go

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to h You see you're in a
galleria area right. Uh, there's an

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there go ahead, which which which
nurse ree do you recommend? Police?

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Well, if close to you,
there's an Al's Handy Hardware. It's an

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ACE hardware store. It's on Alden
Mail Route just a little south of you.

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Uh, and uh, just if
you go on and do um Ace

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Hardware dot com. You can do
a store locator and ACE Hardware carries all

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the products that we talk about here. They carry the soils, they carry

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the fertilizers, a wide variety of
of stuff. When you go in there,

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you're gonna you're gonna see what I'm
talking about. But Al's Handy Hardware

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is on Alden mail route and that's
probably the closest one to you. But

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just just go to Ace Hardware dot
Com. They're gonna have the heirloom soils

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there. How do you spell that
again, please airloom or yeah, it's

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yeah, it's it's spelled like family
heirlooms, like h E I R l

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O okla. And but ask them
for the Magian Herb mix in the Ace

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Hardware. Yeah, and the Ace
Hardware is Ace Hardware dot Com. And

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you just look for the store locator. And this store is just south of

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greens Point on that that's a little
far away, but that's that's one closer.

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Yeah, there's a lot of color. By the ways, this is

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a tax free weekend for trees or
something. Somebody said, yes, it's

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tax free weekend for trees, any
any plants. And also for anything that's

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think of as water savings. So
for example, mulch or putting compost in

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your soil, you know, to
increase the rooting zone and therefore it can

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get the more water, uh drip
irrigation. Go ahead, Yeah, I

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keep up the good work. Really
enjoy listening to your show. All right,

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well, thank you appreciate that call, Harry. You take care,

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Yes, sir, Now you know
you're gonna find You're gonna find ACE Hardware's

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easiest way to get down to it. I mean, you got friends and

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to ACE hardware dot com. They can

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been the challenge, because you know, for me to send you out on

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while goose Chase is trying to find
something, well, that's not fun for

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you and not something I certainly want
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slash Houston. Dellweb dot com slash
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two bees in it and you can
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nine zero six zero nine. I'm
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you know, coming together out there. That is going to be cool.

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A good community garden makes for a
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you know how much fun it is
to get out and hang out with

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other gardeners and talk at Gardeners are
the nicest, friendliest people you could meet.

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We're listening to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter and our

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phone number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

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if you are interested in doing some vegetable

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gardening this week. We're in the
hot summer weather, on the verge of

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the hot summer weather, and so
it's time to be planning things like okra

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and let's see sweet potatoes, black
eyed peas, all the southern peas,

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Southern peas like black eyed peas,
purple holes, crowder peas, zipper cream

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peas, all of those kinds of
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talking about some greens yesterday that are
summer greens are from parts of the world

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that are hot, sultry, and
humid in the summer. Welcome to Southeast

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Texas, and so they do really
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things we can be planning now.
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garden from the spring garden. If
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you to try gardening this year,
and you can start this summer if you

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want, but sometime this year get
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You could do it in a raised
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or buy. You could do it
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suggest let's start with a container and
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how things go. With a very
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going to grow, you can take
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twice a day. And so for
tomatoes that would be at least ten gallons

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for tomatoes to do well. If
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five, preferably about ten for those
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reason is they need a large volume
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the more soil you have, the
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more water will be available to the
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that container. That goes true for
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should, you should give it a
try. There's a lot of help online

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and for crying out loud, we're
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You can give us a call and
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step. More more than happy to
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been considering growing herbs, I know
we were just talking about herbs a moment

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ago with Harry. You really ought
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super easy, and they too can
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there's nothing wrong with combining ornamentals with
edibles, and so why not have a

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tall ornamental grass coming out of a
container with some oregano or time spilling over

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the sides. Just an idea something
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Lamark and we're going to talk to
Beverley this morning. Hello Beverly, right,

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yes, I'm sorry to Boddy that
I have a question on dollar weed

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grass. All right, I don't
know the best thing to get rid of

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it. Okay, Well, first
of all, Beverley, there is no

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bother at all. That's why we're
here, So thank you for calling.

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Dollar weed can be controlled with broad
leaf weed killers. That are we call

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them post emergent because we spray them
on weeds that are already there, as

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opposed to things we put down to
prevent the seeds from germinating and coming up,

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so you can find there's a number
of different ones out there. I'll

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try I'll just try to make it
simple instead of sending you to seven hundred

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different products. The Bonide has a
weed beater Ultra that's pretty good. There's

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also a product called Celsius, like
Fahrenheit and Celsius. It's Celsius that weed

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beater ultra. When it gets up
in the upper eighties, at some point

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there, you're going to start to
stress your Saint Augustine. So if you

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can find a little bit milder day
would I would use that. The Celsius

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you can go a little bit warmer, probably up to about ninety two.

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It may go higher, but that's
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And both of those will do a
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Okay, So Celsius it's a mean
buy from Helle. Where do you get

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back? Yes, you're gonna find
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You're going to find it in feed
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down south in the Lamarck area.
You got two options. One is to

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find an Ace Hardware near you.
They do a really good job of carrying

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a lot of products and down in
the Lamarck area. Just just go online

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if you still got your pin out, go online to acet Hardware dot com

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and then you have to select do
the store locate or click on that and

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it'll it'll take you right to the
nearest one too. I think that's the

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easiest way that I can get you. Thank you, sir, you have

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a good day, you too.
Thank you so much for the call.

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I appreciate that. Well we are. We're rolling here this morning. The

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first hour is halfway done, and
these mornings sometimes go so fast. That's

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a good thing at least. I
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fun. Hermit's Rock says time it's
fun when you're having flies. And with

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that dad joke, I will turn
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Alright, we've still got some amber
alerts to be aware of. I've got

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to details coming up. Well,
good morning on a good Sunday morning for

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gardening. We are going to be
talking with you about your questions until ten

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am this morning, so we invite
you to give us a call at seven

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one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four two one two KTRH two ways

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to go about dialing that you know. This weekend, the Memorial Day weekend

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is the Lawn and Garden tax holiday
where water saving products are exempt from taxes.

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So this is a good time to
get out there and buy plants,

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to buy compost, to buy soil, to buy a tree hugger sprinkler for

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planting your new tree. It's a
good time to get out and do all

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of those kinds of things. And
more drip irrigation, This would be a

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great time to do that. Maybe
you need a hose end timer so that

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you don't forget and let the water
run all night. And the kids have

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a little river going down the curb
to play in at your expense, this

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is a good weekend for in that. And I was at Buchanans yesterday and

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was looking at the native plants that
they carry, and they have a lot

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of native plants, and of course
this is a great time to buy native

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plants. They have a good selection. They even have a table that's devoted

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to plants just here in Harris County
that are native here, not only here,

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but plants that you will find in
their native habitat here in Harris County.

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And then have a wide variety of
other natives, just all kinds,

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lots of really good options. If
you want a little butterfly garden on some

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milkweed, make your little monarchs happy. It's a it's a great time to

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be out at Buchanans and Native plants
if you want to find them there on

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East eleventh Street and the Heights.
And if you want to just go online,

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it's buchanan Plants dot com. They've
got a great newsletter. They've got

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a good presence on Facebook and Instagram
if you want to kind of keep up

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with them, see see what's going
on and he's sales coming up or anything

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like that and just get some inspiration. Always love visiting out at Buchanans.

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You know the fertilizing for summer,
now is the time to get that done.

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And when you fertilize, you should
follow that with an application of azamite.

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Azamite is a mineral source for trace
elements. Now, the nitrogen,

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phosphorus, and potassium on the fertilizer
bag, the big three, they're important

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in large numbers. That's why they're
the three numbers on every fertilizer bag.

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The micronutrients, the trace minerals or
many of those are also essential for plant

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growth. They're just needed in small
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or trace. Not less important,
just less volume. So azamite puts those

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out. When you put that on
your lawn, you are going to be

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adding that kind of mineral to your
lawn. And it's just it's good for

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your lawn. Your trees has roots
underneath there and they're going to benefit from

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it as well. I use azomite
in the garden ten pounds per thousand square

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feet. And here's why. I
want my vegetables to have every nutrient that

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my body could possibly need, which
may be nutrients that a plant doesn't necessarily

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need. That's why I love to
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also think about putting out that that
asamite. And for those of you

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who live in the southwest part of
town, I need to get back there.

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It's been a it's been a just
a bit since I've been out a

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Southwest fertilizer. But they're a Houston
lawn and garden tradition since nineteen fifty five.

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I go in there, you know, as a horticulture educator if you

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will, just to see what are
the newest products, because they're going to

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have them there. They have wide
variety of products, probably the greatest selection

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of products here in the city.
They have all the fertilizers we talk about,

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you know, the soils and mulchas
and things like that. They're going

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to have an organic selection like no
other. So if you're an organic gardener,

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just because we say they have all
these chemicals, well the organic products

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can be chemicals too. That includes
a large a large volume, but they

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have those there. You'll find what
you need to have your organic garden there.

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They have their own Southwest Gold A
fifteen five ten slow release fertilizer would

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be a good time to apply something
like that. But if you have any

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questions, bring Maybe you're at the
house and you got a weed or a

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bug or something going on, just
put it in a bag and take it

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in. When you go, Bob
and his team will diagnose it and they

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will give you the right product.
They will they know what they're talking about.

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They'll give you the right product and
take you to it. They're in

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the corner of Bissonette and Renwick in
Southwest Houston. You can go to Southwest

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Fertilizer dot Com to find out more
information. Such a good day to get

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outside with the weather we're having,
it's it's just pleasant. And I always

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say frontload your gardening work into the
spring and maybe backloaded into the fall.

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Summer is a tough time. Now, I still love guardening in the summer.

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I just go out early in the
morning. You know, you can

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break a sweat in the summer going
out early in the morning walking across your

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yard. But that's the time to
get the work done in the summertime.

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So now you know you need to
build soil, you need to plant grass,

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you need to fill in the blank. Now's the time to get those

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big projects done, because of course
here comes the summer won't be that far

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away. And if you have been
looking at your landscape and it just you

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know, it's you like it.
You've gone and bought the most wonderful plants

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and all these great nurseries and brought
them home and you planted them, and

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but you look at it and it's
just like you know that I don't know,

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that's just not I'm not a designer. What you need to go to

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Peerscapes call the folks at peer Escapes, Jason Garritty and his team will come

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in. They will do a design
for you. It can be something small,

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it could be something large. I
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drainage, irrigation and on and on
down the line. Or just be

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a redesign maybe of those beds in
front of the house. They are professional

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at designing and they're professional at installation. Their employees are trained, they're certified,

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they have their licenses. I do
what to find out more, just

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go to piercescapes dot com, pe
a, r ce sca pees, spell

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that one out peerscapes dot com or
give him a call to eight one three

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You want to get your lawn and your

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garden, your landscape and everything's set
up to be a show place. Another

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idea, and I need this.
My back patio has been neglected. They

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say the cobbler's kids go barefoot.
Well, I need a good design for

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something like that, you know,
for some beds around it. Reconsidering some

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of the arrangements of things I have
and changing the pots up, putting in

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an irrigation system for my containers.
If you have container plants and I love

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containers. You need an irrigation system
to go with them, because to go

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out every day, in some cases
twice a day if it's a smaller container

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in the sun and water them,
it just well in my house is not

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going to happen. It just won't
happen if there are too many days where

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I'm just not even there to do
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which would be a good thing to
buy this weekend, by the way,

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a drip irrigation system with a hose
end timer. It comes on when

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you tell it to. I want
to water Monday, Wednesday and Friday,

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and I want to water at seven
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or whatever. It'll come on and
do that. Of course, with containers

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you need to water every day pretty
much, but this is a good weekend

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to buy that too, by the
way. That is water saving. But

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you can take an area that's a
patio, for example, and really beautify

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it with containers. One of the
things I like about containers is they make

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you look good. And here's what
I mean. If I have a container

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that is started, maybe the plants
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heading into the heat of summer.
Maybe you can just pick it up,

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move it around the side of the
garage. I call that the plant hospital,

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and bring another one in with freshly
planted plants and instantly it looks good

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while you take the old one and
kind of rework it and get it going

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to come back out again. Containers
are easy and they're fun to work with,

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and for folks that don't have a
lot of space, containers allow you

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to grow things in a sunny spot. Maybe you don't have a sunny spot

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for a garden bed, but with
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on a sunny spot and look looks
really really good. So consider containers.

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I mean, there's everything from I mean,

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if you just want to grow some
vegetables out in the back forty and

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not worry about them, and you
can get a big old black pot and

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put it out there, nurse your
pot and grow in them. And then

406
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if you want something nice, you
can have the most beautiful vase or urn

407
00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:33.319
type container that it is a show
stopper. And I would encourage you to

408
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consider this summer when you're planting,
especially this week now as we're getting ready

409
00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:42.559
to head into the heat, and
most importantly to day because it's the last

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day of the Memorial Weekend tax holiday. Adding a container. Hey, you're

411
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listening to garden Line. Give us
a call seven one three two one two

412
00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:56.519
fifty eight seventy four and Josh will
get you on the board. Sweet pea,

413
00:28:57.680 --> 00:29:07.799
pablum, I don't know what and
don Louisa, can I keep bump

414
00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:14.319
coming? Is he singing to his
vegetables? At least that's how the way

415
00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:18.279
I'd like to look at it.
You're listening to garden Line our phone number

416
00:29:18.279 --> 00:29:22.119
seven one three two two fifty eight
seventy four. We're going to head straight

417
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out to Richmond now and talk to
Marcy. Good morning Marcy, Good morning,

418
00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:33.200
Skip, Thanks for taking my call. You back, Um. You

419
00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:38.400
were just talking about containers and growing
vegetables and plants and containers. I have

420
00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:44.480
several containers that basically are from last
year that have soil, and I mean

421
00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:47.920
they were it was good soil when
I planted in them, but they're empty

422
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.559
right now. Would that be a
situation where I would use aisamite or would

423
00:29:52.559 --> 00:29:56.799
I just use something my micro life
to kind of re energize the soil before

424
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I plant well, okay, both, we'll do something. Aismite is is

425
00:30:00.319 --> 00:30:03.640
purely the trace minerals, okay,
and so that is why you would use

426
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that. I might use them both. Actually, microlife is an organic product,

427
00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:14.240
meaning the material in that fertilizer was
once alive and is now available to

428
00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:18.279
spread as a fertilizer. They they've
gotten, they've made it into a fertilizer,

429
00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:22.680
and so when you put it out, microbes release it. But because

430
00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:26.279
it was once alive, all the
micros that a plant had to have to

431
00:30:26.359 --> 00:30:30.079
be alive are now in that fertilizer. Also, you know, it's like

432
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you walk out and pick a leaf
off your tree. When you look at

433
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that leaf, if it didn't have
all the micros that needed it wouldn't have

434
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successfully made that leaf. And if
it's low, may be the like with

435
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pecans, for example, if they
don't have zinc, the leaves are small

436
00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:48.880
and kind of rounded, and so
plants have to have all the micros as

437
00:30:48.920 --> 00:30:52.799
well. So I would probably do
them both in a container if you got

438
00:30:52.839 --> 00:30:56.519
them that. There's certainly nothing wrong
with that, Okay. I just kind

439
00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:00.759
of scatter it around and mix it
in the soil little bit. Yeah,

440
00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:03.920
I would mix it in the soil. I think that they do a little

441
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:06.279
bit better when you mix them in. I mean you can throw stuff like

442
00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:08.440
that on the surface, that's fine, but get it down and get it

443
00:31:08.519 --> 00:31:12.119
down in the root zone and in
the container. You have that that privilege

444
00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:15.279
to do that. On a lawn. You can't really roto tail the lawn

445
00:31:15.319 --> 00:31:19.599
to get things down underneath. I
just don't want to waste the soil.

446
00:31:19.599 --> 00:31:22.880
I don't know what else to do
with it really, well, no,

447
00:31:22.119 --> 00:31:25.880
you can. You can reuse it. The only time we don't reuse it

448
00:31:25.960 --> 00:31:29.440
is when it maybe you've got a
nematodes in it by coming in with a

449
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.559
plant or something, or if a
disease, a root rot disease killed the

450
00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:37.400
plant. They're actually they're actually ways
to past your eyes. Potting soil probably

451
00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.279
more trouble than anybody wants to go
through. But that that kind of soil

452
00:31:41.319 --> 00:31:45.640
I would throw away. But just
the whole soil, I just add to

453
00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:48.559
it, freshen it up, put
some good quality soil in there, and

454
00:31:48.880 --> 00:31:52.160
you can just keep going. And
you can also throw it in your garden

455
00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:55.720
and road or till it end if
you want. I mean, it's it's

456
00:31:55.720 --> 00:31:59.480
it was potting mix. By the
way, you're fortunate to be out in

457
00:31:59.559 --> 00:32:02.519
Richmond and be near the Enchanted Forest
and Enchanted Gardens. If I were you,

458
00:32:02.559 --> 00:32:07.039
I would if I'm going, Oh
are you which one are you going

459
00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:10.640
to today? I'm going to Gardens
Gardens. Yeah. Oh, they're they're

460
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:16.319
They're both amazing. I love,
love, love to go out to those

461
00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:21.000
places and just see. I don't
know, just when you walk out,

462
00:32:21.119 --> 00:32:23.759
isn't it inspiring? Both of them. You walk out and you're just look

463
00:32:23.799 --> 00:32:27.640
and it's like, oh my gosh, so many plants, so little time.

464
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:30.440
I know. I'm so lucky because
I do live in between both of

465
00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:34.519
them, so I can go to
either one. Yeah, and they each

466
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:38.759
had their own unique uniqueness. Uh. Yeah, I was. Chanted Gardens

467
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:45.000
had a display of bougainville Is that
just looked like a million bucks and that

468
00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:49.240
would be a good one to bring
home for now that we're going into hot

469
00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:53.440
weather. Yeah, good for you. You're a fortunate lady to live so

470
00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:58.240
close to two great garden centers.
I am, well, thank you so

471
00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:00.559
much. Thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Yeah, the

472
00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:07.319
Enchanted Forest has a lot of the
Salvia nemerosa and it's a it's a Salvia

473
00:33:07.400 --> 00:33:09.920
nemerosa. It's a type of salvia
which is in the mid family. The

474
00:33:09.960 --> 00:33:15.799
stays really low and the foliage is
I don't know, maybe six inches or

475
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:19.160
so high. It could be a
little higher than that, and then the

476
00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:22.440
bloom stalks come above it, so
it's kind of it. It is just

477
00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:24.799
stunning in the colors. Oh my
gosh, purple and pink and blue,

478
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:29.759
light, sky blue and white and
everything. You use that as a border

479
00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:34.799
plant in a sunny area and it
will it'll be amazing in many ways.

480
00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:38.720
It kind of reminds me of the
angelonia or summer they call it summer snap

481
00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:43.680
dragon in that it has a little
spiky flowers and is down low. But

482
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:49.039
number one plant group for me is
Salvia's. I just love salvias and got

483
00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:52.000
a lot of plants. I love
that. I really love the salvias.

484
00:33:52.000 --> 00:33:55.319
Pretty cool, pretty cool stuff.
Salvia nemerosa. So we're when you're out

485
00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:58.920
shopping, I know they having a
chanted forest. I'm sure they having a

486
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.599
chanted gardens. And I would suspect
a lot of our our garden centers in

487
00:34:01.640 --> 00:34:05.640
different parts of town where you are
going to have that. Just ask them

488
00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:10.559
for the salvia and nemorosa. It's
a really beautiful little little sage. You

489
00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:16.440
know, Salvia's are there's such a
wide genera of plants. We have salvias

490
00:34:16.440 --> 00:34:22.360
a get really tall, like the
Salvia garonitica, dark dark purple, dark

491
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:27.119
blue, light blue, comes in
a light blue form. Argentine skies.

492
00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:32.039
We've got the salvia's like mystic spires
that generally speaking are about waiste high.

493
00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:35.599
They can get a little larger in
that in time, but in general they're

494
00:34:35.599 --> 00:34:39.559
pretty compact. Actually you'll notice them
from kneehigh to waiste high a lot just

495
00:34:39.559 --> 00:34:43.199
just beautiful. Then, you know, Salvia's are one of those plants at

496
00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:47.280
bloom on the new growth, the
ends of the new growth. So nice

497
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:52.159
to do when you're when you're out
shopping. This weekend for garden centers are

498
00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:55.400
at garden centers. When I say
this weekend, I guess I mean today.

499
00:34:55.880 --> 00:35:00.000
It is the tax free weekend.
So all of our major garden centers

500
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:05.480
are Ace hardware stores. Of the
feed stores we talk about, they all

501
00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:09.159
carry the tree hugger sprinkler. And
if you have any plans to plant any

502
00:35:09.199 --> 00:35:13.039
plant, or if you have a
tree that maybe was planted a few months

503
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.880
ago, or a couple of years
ago. Tree Hugger sprinklers water right where

504
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:21.079
they need the water and so you're
not wasting water. It is a water

505
00:35:21.119 --> 00:35:24.039
saving device and it would be another
example of a tax free device. You

506
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:28.679
can go to tree Hugger Sprinklers dot
com if you want to learn more about

507
00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:31.760
them. They come in three sizes, the seven inch, the eleven inch,

508
00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:36.840
and the fifteen inch. I have
all three. Actually I like the

509
00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.559
seven inch when it's a small tree
and I'm just planting it, maybe a

510
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:44.719
rosebush. It's awesome for rosebushes too. You could put them around them,

511
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:46.079
turn on the water just a little
bit because you just want to wet that

512
00:35:46.159 --> 00:35:49.800
area, and then as plants get
bigger, you can turn it on higher

513
00:35:49.800 --> 00:35:53.760
and higher and it'll wet a large
circular area. I love those things.

514
00:35:54.480 --> 00:35:58.760
Yesterday I was out at Wildbirds out
at clear Lake. Had a great time

515
00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:01.639
out there. By the way,
Wilbirds at clear Lake that's there. This

516
00:36:01.719 --> 00:36:06.360
is still part of their grand opening
and today they're going to do the drawing

517
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:13.840
for the advanced pole system for the
easy squirrelproofing devices that they have. There's

518
00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:17.159
advanced pole system and a couple of
others. The eliminator eliminator bird feeder.

519
00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:22.000
That is another good one. And
somebody's going to win a twenty pound bag

520
00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:28.840
of their no Mess bird seed blend
each month for the next twelve months.

521
00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:32.159
So if you haven't, the drawing
is on Monday. It's tomorrow, So

522
00:36:32.280 --> 00:36:36.360
get in there, get your name
in the pot. Who knows you might

523
00:36:36.360 --> 00:36:39.159
get lucky and win this one.
And in the meantime, going to wahbirds

524
00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:43.119
is cool no matter where you live. And now I was out at at

525
00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:47.599
the one at good night. I
can't even say clear Lake, clear Lake

526
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:52.559
yesterday, but they're wahbirds all over
town, seven of them. As a

527
00:36:52.559 --> 00:36:59.559
matter of fact. Just go to
WBU dot com. That's wu BU dot

528
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:04.280
com and if you would put a
forward slash after that and then the word

529
00:37:04.320 --> 00:37:09.280
Houston WBU dot com forward slash Houston. And by the way, this is

530
00:37:09.360 --> 00:37:14.480
a little bit far ahead announced,
but hey, we plan our schedules ahead.

531
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:16.800
On Saturday, June tenth, two
saturdays from yesterday, I'm going to

532
00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:20.800
be at the wild Birds in Kingwood. I'll be out there for a couple

533
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:23.079
of hours. I'll talk a lot
about that next weekend. But if you

534
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:27.960
would live in the Kingwood area,
Porter, New Caney, Humble anywhere,

535
00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:31.840
Humble, anywhere up there. Just
to consider Saturday, the tenth of June

536
00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:35.679
as a day to come out.
Let's meet, let's talk, and let's

537
00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:39.039
let you see some really cool stuff
that the wild birds folks have on there.

538
00:37:39.079 --> 00:37:44.920
I really really was inspired. Yesterday
they had a this is funny,

539
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:49.639
but they had a little cork thing
that you put in your wine bottle and

540
00:37:49.719 --> 00:37:52.920
it looks like a bird and when
you pour wine, at chirps at you.

541
00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:57.239
So that's a conversation piece. I
don't know why I picked that out

542
00:37:57.280 --> 00:37:59.679
of all the things they have at
the store, I guess that was the

543
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:04.480
one amused me, amused me the
most. And if you're not, if

544
00:38:04.519 --> 00:38:07.280
you're not into birds, you need
to think about it. Do you know

545
00:38:07.320 --> 00:38:12.960
that gardening is a number one hobby
and guess what's number two? Bird watching?

546
00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:15.880
Bird feeding? You know, just
the whole bird world. And when

547
00:38:15.920 --> 00:38:22.719
you purchase quality products bird houses,
bird feeders, and especially quality bird feed

548
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:24.880
not the cheap stuff that half of
it gets kicked on the ground and not

549
00:38:24.960 --> 00:38:30.159
eating because the birds don't like those
round, red baby looking seeds. But

550
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:35.960
the quality stuff that is a no
mess. It just the birds number one,

551
00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:37.880
get the exact kinds of seeds that
they like. Each one has a

552
00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:44.079
different type. But it's just it's
a blessing to watch. Time about sitting

553
00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:46.039
on our patio, you know,
I just sit out there, just watch

554
00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:51.039
the feeder and see what's going on. My kids bought me a little bird

555
00:38:51.079 --> 00:38:52.679
feeder with a camera and gave it
to me for Christmas, and so I

556
00:38:52.719 --> 00:38:57.440
get a little email every time a
bird comes to the feeder. I can

557
00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:00.119
set it up that way. It's
how I have set it up, and

558
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:02.079
it's kind of cool just be able
to watch it takes pictures and know this

559
00:39:02.159 --> 00:39:07.239
is a little video of it as
well. But birdwatching is something that's grown

560
00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:14.000
on me the over the past few
years. And I just think consider combining

561
00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:19.320
the two biggest hobbies in America,
uh, the gardening and bird watching,

562
00:39:19.360 --> 00:39:22.400
and put them together and one sit
on on a patio and just really enjoy

563
00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:29.480
the beautiful birds and the antics that
are for birds on them. We'll be

564
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:31.559
back in a little bit seven one
three, two, one, two fifty

565
00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:35.760
eight seventy four. Get on the
board. We'll talk to you first.

566
00:39:37.960 --> 00:39:43.559
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

567
00:39:43.559 --> 00:40:08.119
this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden
Line with Skip Ricord. Just watching as

568
00:40:08.119 --> 00:40:13.239
well. Good Sunday morning, on
a good day to talk about gardening.

569
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:15.559
Good day this afternoon. Get out
there and do a little bit of gardening

570
00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:20.880
out in the yard. Maybe the
landscape needs a little sprucing up. Get

571
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:23.280
that lawn mode for the weekends over
if you need to do that. You

572
00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:25.559
know, the more often you mow
the lawn, the prettier it is.

573
00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:30.039
If you let it get tall,
cut it way back, it's stressful to

574
00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:34.400
the grass and you lack the density. And when you lack density, sunlight

575
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:37.400
hits the soil, and when sunlight
hits the soil, nature plants of weed.

576
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:40.880
That's just kind of hot works out
there, unfortunately. So we try

577
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:45.199
to keep our lawns as dense as
we can, keep our flower beds mulched.

578
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:50.159
By the way, this is the
tax free weekend for water conserving products

579
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:54.159
that that and plants. You plants
tax free, the anything that helps conserve

580
00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:59.119
water like compost and mulch, like
drip irrigation, tree hugger, sprinklers,

581
00:40:59.320 --> 00:41:05.199
those are all on a tax free
status for this weekend which ends today of

582
00:41:05.239 --> 00:41:08.800
course, so if you if you
haven't been out and you know, tried

583
00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:12.760
to chop for some of those things
before, I think you should at the

584
00:41:12.840 --> 00:41:16.119
very least get a hose end timer
that would you know, allow you to

585
00:41:16.239 --> 00:41:21.159
set it and forget it, check
on it periodically. But it just it

586
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:25.360
just makes sense, you know,
when to waste drinking water is a shame.

587
00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:28.960
And I mean you pay for water, you say, many of the

588
00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:31.280
water systems you pay for it as
a water and that's what helps set the

589
00:41:31.280 --> 00:41:35.320
sewer rate too. Even though it's
not going through the sewer, it's going

590
00:41:35.320 --> 00:41:38.199
on your lawn. Still you use
the water, so it's it affects your

591
00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:44.400
sewer cost rate in many communities as
well. So just another reason not to

592
00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:49.360
waste the water that's out there.
We're going to go out now and talk

593
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:55.519
to Elizabeth in Westbury. Hello,
Elizabeth, good morning morning, Thank you,

594
00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:05.519
Thank you so much. Um Yard
developed that black fungus grass on it.

595
00:42:06.119 --> 00:42:10.840
Yes, and unfortunately I did spray
it with some fungicide, which I

596
00:42:10.840 --> 00:42:19.280
found out you probably shouldn't. Yes, But my question is they everything said

597
00:42:20.000 --> 00:42:23.280
you just leave it alone. But
my big question is I have a dog.

598
00:42:24.920 --> 00:42:29.559
What if she gets it on her? Paws. It won't hurt her

599
00:42:29.599 --> 00:42:34.239
at all, not one bit.
The black stuff is just some spores from

600
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.320
the fungus that are up there.
It's producing those. And you're right,

601
00:42:37.480 --> 00:42:42.840
it's not it's not a disease of
the grass. What you're looking at is

602
00:42:43.199 --> 00:42:46.960
something that lives on the grass.
And it'll go away. You can take,

603
00:42:47.679 --> 00:42:50.559
you know, Elizabeth, if you
don't like the looks of it,

604
00:42:50.639 --> 00:42:52.000
or you don't want your dog having
it on the pause, just get a

605
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:58.119
water hose and set it to blast
and just blast it right off. You

606
00:42:58.119 --> 00:43:04.440
can wash it right off there.
It tends to won't that spread the spores?

607
00:43:05.039 --> 00:43:08.960
Well, here's the thing, it's
not gonna It's not gonna matter because

608
00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:16.440
the the spores are already out there. A lot of our fungal problems are

609
00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:21.719
to be used to the fancy word
ubiquitous. They're everywhere, and so it's

610
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:22.719
kind of like, can think about
it this way, Elizabeth, if you

611
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:25.920
were to take a little spray of
water, a little mist of water,

612
00:43:27.320 --> 00:43:30.199
and let's say the side of your
house you just constantly were missing it with

613
00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:36.239
water, suddenly algae would appear,
right uh. And it's not like the

614
00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:38.000
algae where did the algae come from. Well, it's everywhere. It's just

615
00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:43.000
you created conditions for it to grow. And that's what happens with these things

616
00:43:43.039 --> 00:43:46.119
that pop up and go away,
and especially the things that are sacrifices.

617
00:43:46.159 --> 00:43:50.280
They are not parasites of the plant. I just don't worry about them.

618
00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:54.400
It's just part of nature. So
it's it's not going to hurt the dog.

619
00:43:54.519 --> 00:43:57.280
It is not going to hurt your
dog. It's not going to hurt

620
00:43:57.280 --> 00:44:00.679
anything. But if you if you
want just take a water hole and blasted

621
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:06.840
off, you can do that and
dog won't track it around. My second

622
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:10.199
question is that I have a pecan
tree. It's an old tree. It's

623
00:44:10.239 --> 00:44:16.239
probably been years long as this house. And last year it did not produce

624
00:44:16.519 --> 00:44:23.440
one single nut. Okay? Did
it produce in other year's they had?

625
00:44:23.639 --> 00:44:31.639
Yes, okay. So pecans are
one of the plants that can do what's

626
00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:37.039
called alternate bearing, and it because
they ripen so late in the year,

627
00:44:37.239 --> 00:44:43.360
you know they're a fall harvest.
They're putting all their carbohydrates into making those

628
00:44:43.400 --> 00:44:49.119
pecan kernels and they don't have enough
carbohydrates to set a bunch of buds for

629
00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:52.400
the following year. And so when
you have a heavy crop year, it's

630
00:44:52.440 --> 00:44:57.320
almost always followed by a very light
crop year. There are other things that

631
00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:00.400
can cause them to not produce well
in a particular year. But if you're

632
00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:04.519
looking on the tree and you're just
not seeing pecans anywhere, it's some sort

633
00:45:04.559 --> 00:45:07.599
of an alternate bearing thing going on, most likely because you know, the

634
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:13.719
neighborhood didn't change overnight where there's now
no longer other trees to send pollen through

635
00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:16.599
the air to your pecon. It's
just a matter of that's the nature of

636
00:45:16.639 --> 00:45:24.039
the beast. Now. I never
gave it any fertilizer or anything, and

637
00:45:24.360 --> 00:45:29.119
probably the only water it kits is
when we get rain, and I don't

638
00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:37.519
water the tree. Okay, somebody
said maybe it needed some zinc if pecans

639
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:40.679
generally need zinc on high pH soils. But you can tell because instead of

640
00:45:40.760 --> 00:45:44.880
normal shaped leaves, as the leaves
are coming out, they'll be they call

641
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:47.679
a mouse eared, but kind of
picture a mouse's ear and then picture a

642
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:52.639
pecan leaf and it looks more like
a mouse's ear than a normal pecan leaf.

643
00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:55.559
That's a zinc deficiency symptom. I
don't know. There's not a real

644
00:45:55.760 --> 00:46:00.760
great practical way to put a zinc
on your tree. In this situation,

645
00:46:00.880 --> 00:46:04.360
we can we can go deeper into
it, but just for the sake of

646
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.280
simplicity, you just need to give
it a good soaking when when we go

647
00:46:07.320 --> 00:46:12.440
into hot, dry weather like we
had last summer, a good soaking every

648
00:46:12.480 --> 00:46:15.360
couple of weeks, every couple of
weeks only, and not every day,

649
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:17.920
not every you know, just every
couple of weeks a good soaking. And

650
00:46:17.960 --> 00:46:22.159
then if you're fertilizing your lawn,
that's probably going to be enough for that

651
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:27.800
large it's a large pecondry. Yes, yeah, I think that would be

652
00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:30.719
enough. You can give a little
extra for the tree if you want.

653
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:32.960
You can have somebody come in and
do a deep root feeding and put some

654
00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:37.760
nutrient down in the soil too,
But I think for now I would focus

655
00:46:37.800 --> 00:46:40.119
on taking care of the lawn with
fertilizer that'll help the pecan, and then

656
00:46:40.159 --> 00:46:47.079
watering as a rescue, watering during
hot, dry summer conditions. I do

657
00:46:47.320 --> 00:46:53.159
you there's a green probe people to
fertilize and treat my yard. Oh well,

658
00:46:53.199 --> 00:47:00.840
then you're you're set up. And
actually what had happen with the squirrels

659
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:07.280
last year did not get the cons
so we're not the nit tree. And

660
00:47:07.679 --> 00:47:10.199
thank you so much, Skip.
I really appreciate it, and I was

661
00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:15.159
so concerned about that black grass and
my dog. All right, well you

662
00:47:15.199 --> 00:47:19.039
can you can rest well, thanks
for the call. You know, it

663
00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:22.800
is lawn fertilizing season, and nitrofoss
In eighteen four ten is a good one

664
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:29.360
to apply. I mean it's a
fertilizer that releases slowly, so gradually,

665
00:47:29.360 --> 00:47:32.079
over time you get the nutrients that
your lawn needs released, so you're not

666
00:47:32.119 --> 00:47:37.840
gonna have to fertilize again until fall
if you use nitro foss Super Turf nineteen

667
00:47:37.880 --> 00:47:40.840
four ten. That's in the silver
bags, by the way. And where

668
00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:45.079
do you find nitro foss Well,
pretty much ever where you live. Kan

669
00:47:45.159 --> 00:47:47.440
Emma, Ace Hardware and Kingwood has
it a task of seed as all the

670
00:47:47.480 --> 00:47:51.599
Ace Hardwares are going to have it. You're gonna find it in places like

671
00:47:51.920 --> 00:47:54.559
Shades of Texas up in the woodlands. You're going to find it at enchanted

672
00:47:54.639 --> 00:48:00.480
gardens and chanted forest under Richmond Rosenberg
nitro Foss Super Turf nineteen four ten.

673
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:15.599
Tell us why you had to pad
away for so long? Tell us why

674
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:21.280
you had to p Well, good
morning on a good Sunday morning. Oh

675
00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:23.679
the sun is out, it's coming
up. Got a little sunshine on the

676
00:48:24.360 --> 00:48:29.960
on the skyscrapers of Houston. See
it beautiful, beautiful day coming. You're

677
00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:31.880
listening to garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Richter, and we are

678
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:36.599
here to answer your gardening questions.
Our phone number seven one three, two

679
00:48:36.639 --> 00:48:40.760
and two fifty eight seventy four or
two and two kat r eight if you'd

680
00:48:40.840 --> 00:48:45.320
rather spell it out. We're going
to head out to Spring Branch now and

681
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:50.000
talk to Judy. Well, good
morning, Judy. Hi there, um.

682
00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:53.559
I bought a peach tree yesterday and
I know they are better planet in

683
00:48:53.599 --> 00:48:58.280
the spring, but I want to
do it now. What advice can you

684
00:48:58.320 --> 00:49:00.639
give me? So slip it out
of the hot Make sure the hole is

685
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:05.599
as deep as the soil and the
container, so like if you were to

686
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:07.840
pull it out of the pot and
set it on the sidewalk or whatever.

687
00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:13.840
And how tall is that column cylinder
of soil. Make the hole about that

688
00:49:13.920 --> 00:49:17.920
deep. You don't want to dig
a lot deeper because then it'll it'll settle.

689
00:49:19.199 --> 00:49:23.079
And we want to plant at the
exact same level that the soil is

690
00:49:23.199 --> 00:49:27.800
on the trunk. So when you
finish planting. There shouldn't be more soil

691
00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:30.159
around the trunk than there was when
it was in the container. Okay,

692
00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:37.679
okay, Well, initially you know
you're gonna you're gonna dig your hole and

693
00:49:37.199 --> 00:49:42.400
use the soil from the hole to
go back in the hole. If your

694
00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:45.639
soil is a heavy clay, it
actually would be good to bring in some

695
00:49:45.800 --> 00:49:49.559
quality mix to create a little bit
of a raised bed for it. But

696
00:49:49.639 --> 00:49:52.079
it needs good drainage, it needs
good sunlight. If you want to have

697
00:49:52.400 --> 00:49:55.880
peaches, I want to have a
living tree that's productive for you. So

698
00:49:57.159 --> 00:50:00.360
those are probably the two most important
things, as good sunlight and good good

699
00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:06.599
drainage. How much should I water
a new tree every week? So that

700
00:50:06.719 --> 00:50:09.239
tree in the garden center is probably
getting watered every day, right, and

701
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:14.400
sometimes more than that depending on how
big it is. But so when you

702
00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:17.480
put it in the hole, it
all the roots are in that cylinder still,

703
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:21.519
and it can pump that dry in
a day, and you may have

704
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:24.400
moist soil around it, but it's
not wicking in to the old to that

705
00:50:24.519 --> 00:50:30.199
container soil fast enough, so you
have to do small waterings. That's why

706
00:50:30.199 --> 00:50:32.159
I like that tree hunter sprinkler,
because you can get the little seven inch

707
00:50:32.199 --> 00:50:35.000
one, put it on there and
turn it on a little bit, and

708
00:50:35.000 --> 00:50:38.800
you just wet that area and help
it get roots into the soil around it.

709
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:44.800
And then gradually you're wetting a larger
and larger area. But if you

710
00:50:44.840 --> 00:50:49.199
can give it about a month of
making sure that that area at least stays

711
00:50:49.199 --> 00:50:52.960
wet, then you'll be helping it
get some roots in it so it's a

712
00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:55.599
little more resilient. This first summer
is the critical one for your new tree.

713
00:50:57.639 --> 00:51:00.800
Okay, well that's good advice.
Thank you so much. All right,

714
00:51:00.840 --> 00:51:05.360
thank you. I appreciate that very
much. If you're looking for a

715
00:51:05.400 --> 00:51:09.639
quality soil mix, Nature's Way Resources
is that if you're fortunate enough to live

716
00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:15.639
up north forty five up toward Conroad
direction, just south of Conro is Nature's

717
00:51:15.639 --> 00:51:21.079
Way Resources right where fourteen eighty eight
comes in, just across on the east

718
00:51:21.079 --> 00:51:23.719
side of forty five. Now,
they have every kind of soil mix you

719
00:51:23.719 --> 00:51:28.079
can talk about. I mean that
they have roast soil, leafmol composts,

720
00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:30.039
and so on. They also have
a two acre nursery and garden center.

721
00:51:30.079 --> 00:51:34.840
One of the largest varieties of native
plants in the Houston area. You can

722
00:51:34.880 --> 00:51:37.880
buy fruit, trees, native perennials, houseplants, even seasonal vegetables. There

723
00:51:38.199 --> 00:51:44.239
at nature's way. So don't just
think soil, think soil and native plants

724
00:51:44.280 --> 00:51:50.280
and other non native plants as well. When you're talking about the opportunity to,

725
00:51:50.679 --> 00:51:57.039
you know, look at a historical
leader in this industry. That would

726
00:51:57.079 --> 00:52:00.679
be nature's way when we think about
you know, the original rad of the

727
00:52:00.760 --> 00:52:06.039
rose soil here approved by the Houston
Rose Society, the leaf mold compost leader.

728
00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:08.880
That's nature's way. And so I
hope you will give them a call,

729
00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:13.159
check them out, and while you're
there, get some plants too.

730
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:15.599
I'm going to go out to the
guard let's say it's going to League City

731
00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:20.400
and talk to John V. Good
morning, John V. Good Morrie Skip,

732
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:24.800
Good morning everybody. Yes, my
question is on basket flower. I

733
00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:30.800
received the seeds closed and closed at
an Earth Day event? What city of

734
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:36.280
Lake City? Okay, and so
it says plant from August November. And

735
00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:38.559
my mother also got the seeds that
she was very eager, so she actually

736
00:52:38.559 --> 00:52:42.960
already planted hers. And I can
see the little bit of a greener you've

737
00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:49.320
coming up already in the pot waiting
to plant. Blind to August. Yeah,

738
00:52:49.360 --> 00:52:52.519
I would. I think I'd wait. I'm what I'm wondering is if

739
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:58.320
we're truly talking about something called basket
flower, or if you're talking about something

740
00:52:58.360 --> 00:53:02.400
called love in a mist. That's
also it's the label on there. It

741
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:07.800
says basket flower. It looks as
a picture on the lay on the envelope,

742
00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:10.360
and it's purple, like a bloom
like purple, kind of white in

743
00:53:10.400 --> 00:53:16.280
the center. Um a little bit, but it's all like a purple looks

744
00:53:16.320 --> 00:53:21.360
like am okay, Yeah, that's
probably a basket flower. That's an American

745
00:53:21.440 --> 00:53:24.159
native wildflower. I would I would
wait, and I would do it in

746
00:53:24.199 --> 00:53:30.719
the fall. It would come up
now. But it really, like like

747
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:35.480
all of our fall biennials, they
sprout in the fall and they go through

748
00:53:35.480 --> 00:53:37.880
winter and then they come up and
really do their show, and you just

749
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:44.880
have a better result overall than trying
to plan them in the spring. Yes,

750
00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:47.679
sir, And so I'm going to
put them in a correct because I

751
00:53:47.800 --> 00:53:52.320
saw them. They're like a light, very like onion peels. They're very

752
00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:57.039
large and delicate. Yeah, well, yeah, you want to you want

753
00:53:57.039 --> 00:54:00.280
to make sure that they have plenty
of soil if you put them in a

754
00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:06.119
pot because this plant can get five
feet high, you know if you look

755
00:54:06.159 --> 00:54:09.800
at and going in the bar ditches
and stuff. So they don't expect yours

756
00:54:09.840 --> 00:54:14.239
to get that high in a container. I'm just saying the potential for the

757
00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:16.360
plant is there. Sometimes you'll see
them and they're only a foot and a

758
00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:22.159
half high, but in general,
just make sure it's a sizeable enough container.

759
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:25.119
Okay, how exciting. Thank you
so much, Skid, have a

760
00:54:25.159 --> 00:54:31.360
wonderful Sunday, you do. Thank
you for the copy. I've been talking

761
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:35.280
about Dell Webb this morning and yesterday
as well. I don't know if you

762
00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:38.559
know this, but they contact me
about helping them with their new Fullshire community.

763
00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:43.440
They're putting in a community garden on
the site for residents. I mean

764
00:54:43.519 --> 00:54:46.079
it's an awesome idea. You know. Dell Webb has been building these communities

765
00:54:46.119 --> 00:54:51.000
for active adults age fifty five and
better for over seventy years. They know

766
00:54:51.039 --> 00:54:53.760
what they're doing. The new community
is less than two miles from downtown Fullshire

767
00:54:54.079 --> 00:54:57.840
on three fifty nine. I think
you ought to check it out. Go

768
00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:02.480
to Dell Webb with two bees,
dellweb dot com, forward slash Houston for

769
00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:07.800
more information or just call them two
eight, one four five nine zero six

770
00:55:08.400 --> 00:55:14.079
zero nine. Let's go out to
Lakeside of States and we're going to talk

771
00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:17.760
to Maureene this morning. Good morning, Marine, Good morning. I've moved

772
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:23.079
forward with planting my ocra, doing
nice leats about two foot high. Some

773
00:55:23.280 --> 00:55:28.840
of the plants the seeds, and
so my question is, because I started

774
00:55:29.199 --> 00:55:34.840
from seed, and I also started
my watermelon from seed, I want to

775
00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:38.199
get them off to a good start. Now. Already I have the microoft

776
00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:45.239
which but they're in pellets. Yeah, Microsoft, I know what you're talking

777
00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:49.000
about. Yeah, that's okay,
Yes, I just couldn't get it out,

778
00:55:49.440 --> 00:55:54.960
okay. So what I also have
is liquid kelp or seaweeds. So

779
00:55:55.159 --> 00:56:00.400
because they started from just the seed, I want to make sure then I'm

780
00:56:00.400 --> 00:56:05.760
fertilizing them the appropriate So I was
thinking of using the kelp because into a

781
00:56:05.920 --> 00:56:09.960
liquid form and the plants could get
their nourishment quickly. Yes, what I

782
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:14.639
would do is I would put down
the microlife kind of scratch it into the

783
00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:19.639
sole surface around your ochra plants,
just follow the label, and then I

784
00:56:19.679 --> 00:56:23.079
would do the kelp as a spray
on top. The Microlife's gonna take a

785
00:56:23.119 --> 00:56:28.159
little while to kick in. It's
a slow release, but with the warming

786
00:56:28.199 --> 00:56:31.719
soil, that's going to start moving
pretty fast. But right now, the

787
00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:37.519
seaweed as just a or the kelp
as a top spray would benefit the plant.

788
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:40.920
You could also drench it on the
roots for a little faster results.

789
00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:45.119
But that way you're taking care of
them today for the next few days,

790
00:56:45.199 --> 00:56:47.880
you know, and you're also getting
something in the soil that's on its way

791
00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:53.400
to really giving them a boost a
fertilizer. Okay, and a part two,

792
00:56:53.480 --> 00:56:59.000
so to speak. On the watermelon, I did get very good results

793
00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:04.159
in one pot, in yucky results
in a second pot. So I looked

794
00:57:04.199 --> 00:57:08.440
at the soil and I think that
because they were pots, I might have

795
00:57:08.559 --> 00:57:15.360
put ozma coat on one and nothing
on the other. So it's kind of

796
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:19.440
a two part question, meaning I
will do the same thing you just told

797
00:57:19.480 --> 00:57:22.320
me to the oprah. If that
is correct from my watermelon seeds, Yeah,

798
00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:25.719
but they are in pots and they
are so I'm going to let them

799
00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:30.800
trail over the pot. I've run
out of garden rooms so that the landscape

800
00:57:30.920 --> 00:57:35.679
when he mows my lawn will not
have a problem. I have a very

801
00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:39.119
large patio and I was going to
let them trail and run. Is that

802
00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:45.880
okay? Yes, that's okay.
You need a really big pot for watermelon.

803
00:57:45.719 --> 00:57:50.519
It does not need to go through
a drought for half a day.

804
00:57:50.599 --> 00:57:53.800
Even so, when you water it
it's pump. They use a lot of

805
00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:58.679
water when they grow them in the
fields. And when you're watering it in

806
00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:00.400
the morning, you may water it
again in the afternoon. Just make sure

807
00:58:00.440 --> 00:58:06.199
that pot never dries out because it'll
abort flowers. You'll have something called blossom

808
00:58:06.280 --> 00:58:09.480
end rot on the which rots the
end of your watermelon fruit. So just

809
00:58:09.679 --> 00:58:15.920
that's number one thing to keep in
mind about. I have an automatic system.

810
00:58:16.039 --> 00:58:21.639
It's not a drip, it's an
actual I have lots of pots um

811
00:58:21.960 --> 00:58:25.599
so I should be letting it run
for about how many minutes to watch some

812
00:58:25.719 --> 00:58:31.679
of it drain out? Will that
be a good indicator? Watching watching some

813
00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:37.559
drain out is fine as long as
it's not running. Like the soil gets

814
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:39.280
a little dry and pulls away from
the side of a pot, and will

815
00:58:39.320 --> 00:58:42.559
you water and it just runs around
the side, do you know what I'm

816
00:58:42.559 --> 00:58:45.599
talking about? And runs off the
top down the side. Yes, that

817
00:58:45.599 --> 00:58:49.000
would be water coming out of the
pot, but that soiled and wet yet,

818
00:58:49.360 --> 00:58:52.360
so with drip, that's probably not
going to happen. But just you

819
00:58:52.360 --> 00:58:54.639
know, dig down with your fingers
a couple inches and make sure the soil

820
00:58:54.760 --> 00:59:00.199
is moist. Okay, okay,
thank you so much. Appreciate right,

821
00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:02.760
Maureen, thank you. I appreciate
that call. I don't know if you

822
00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:06.400
guys have heard of Star of Hope, but if you haven't, you need

823
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:10.400
to. I think we all consider
ourselves compassionate people. And you've probably been

824
00:59:10.440 --> 00:59:15.199
in that situation where you pull up
to a street corner someone's asking for money,

825
00:59:15.199 --> 00:59:17.239
and you know you want to help, but you got some questions about

826
00:59:17.440 --> 00:59:21.679
how that money might be used.
If you want to get the most from

827
00:59:21.719 --> 00:59:23.760
your dollar, give it to Star
of Hope. You can go to Star

828
00:59:23.840 --> 00:59:31.599
of Hope Mission dot org. It's
actually shmission dot org shmission dot org.

829
00:59:32.000 --> 00:59:37.079
They feed more than six thousand meals
a week. They have a men's center

830
00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:42.039
downtown. They have a Cornerstone Community
for women and family development. They can

831
00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:45.880
hold one hundred and eighty single women
in one hundred and thirty families. See

832
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:49.440
here's what's happens. People say I
want to turn my life around, they

833
00:59:49.519 --> 00:59:52.920
go to Star of Hope. They've
got the training they need. They have

834
00:59:52.000 --> 00:59:55.679
food, they have access to clothing, they have training for getting a job,

835
00:59:55.760 --> 00:59:59.280
and even the clothing to look good
and be able to go get a

836
00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:02.920
job to get back on their feet. Money well spent. Put your compassion

837
01:00:02.960 --> 01:00:19.199
to action by giving to Star of
Hope. Were good morning and a good

838
01:00:19.239 --> 01:00:22.320
Sunday morning. You're talking about guarding
getting ready to go. I tell you

839
01:00:22.400 --> 01:00:27.679
this afternoon, take advantage of it. We got a long week coming up

840
01:00:27.679 --> 01:00:30.000
ahead, and you get to get
out there and get ahead of things by

841
01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:34.119
just pushing things up a bit,
maybe just going out and getting into some

842
01:00:34.159 --> 01:00:37.239
new new plants. I guess you
know. I talk about people often ask

843
01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:39.480
me what's your favorite plant? And
I hate that question because all of them

844
01:00:39.519 --> 01:00:45.199
I like all of them. But
I've talked about earlier my favorite group of

845
01:00:45.239 --> 01:00:47.159
plants or Salvia's. If I had
to pick one, I would just say

846
01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:52.360
Salvias. All the other plants that
I love are saying, hey, what

847
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.079
about us, Well, you made
me pick one. But when I say

848
01:00:55.159 --> 01:01:01.079
favorite new plant, that's gonna be
the Cajun series of hibiscus. Now,

849
01:01:01.119 --> 01:01:07.159
the tropical hibiscus is just an outstanding
plan. You guys have seen him at

850
01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:09.360
garden centers and things. But I
was walking through our CW Nursery is a

851
01:01:09.360 --> 01:01:13.719
good while back and it was the
first time I'd encountered the Cajun hibiscus,

852
01:01:13.760 --> 01:01:16.760
which I don't know where I've been, but there they were colors like you

853
01:01:16.800 --> 01:01:21.960
cannot imagine. I mean, just
I can't describe. I'm color challenged already

854
01:01:21.960 --> 01:01:24.719
when it comes to descriptive words.
But you need to see them. You

855
01:01:24.760 --> 01:01:30.119
need to check them out, go
buy Rcwe haven't been there before. Cajun

856
01:01:30.199 --> 01:01:32.440
hibiscus, you know, they they've
hit our area and they're a really popular

857
01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:37.360
plan a lot of around town.
A lot of people have fallen in love

858
01:01:37.400 --> 01:01:40.599
with them. OURCW Nurseries dot Com
is a website. It's that's the nursery

859
01:01:40.639 --> 01:01:45.559
that's on Tomball Parkway Highway two forty
nine where it comes into Beltway eight.

860
01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:49.840
Check them out by the way.
This weekend, Remember for all our garden

861
01:01:49.880 --> 01:01:53.519
centers, this weekend is when we
have the tax free weekend for plants and

862
01:01:53.599 --> 01:02:00.280
water saving supplies. So that's a
reason to go to r C. The

863
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:04.800
hibiscus is another reason to go.
All the other plants or another reason to

864
01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:07.159
go, and on top of it, off, that's not enough. They

865
01:02:07.239 --> 01:02:10.679
got a fifteen percent sail on all
their fruit trees and fifteen percent on select

866
01:02:10.760 --> 01:02:14.400
other trees. And they have a
wide variety of other trees as well,

867
01:02:14.599 --> 01:02:17.440
not every other tree, but on
select ones. But how many reasons is

868
01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:22.719
that now piling up? To go
to OURCW nurseries. But when you go

869
01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:25.159
there, just say, hey,
skip said go see the Cajun hibiscus,

870
01:02:25.280 --> 01:02:30.880
and they will take you right to
them. We're you're listening to garden Line.

871
01:02:31.039 --> 01:02:35.239
We're here to answer your gardening questions. Our phone number is seven one

872
01:02:35.440 --> 01:02:42.000
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

873
01:02:42.079 --> 01:02:49.920
eight seventy four. In my home
garden, one thing that I really need

874
01:02:49.960 --> 01:02:54.840
to do is to add more compost
to the beds that you might have noticed

875
01:02:55.039 --> 01:02:59.119
that you build a bed and you
fill it with soil. We call it

876
01:02:59.239 --> 01:03:00.920
soil, but it's basically, you
know, like a rose mix or a

877
01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:06.400
vegetable and herb mix or something like
that. But then next year it's a

878
01:03:06.400 --> 01:03:07.679
little lower, and the next year
it's a little lower. Same thing happens

879
01:03:07.719 --> 01:03:12.559
in your containers because that organic matter
is oxidizing way, it's on its way

880
01:03:12.559 --> 01:03:14.880
to hum us think of it that
way, which is a good thing,

881
01:03:15.280 --> 01:03:16.679
but you have to add more and
fluff it up, and I need to

882
01:03:16.719 --> 01:03:20.880
I need to do that, and
I can't think of a better place,

883
01:03:21.039 --> 01:03:24.239
especially for those folks that are down
southwest Sandy Point or Cola, Iowa,

884
01:03:24.280 --> 01:03:30.159
Colony, Fresno, Quil Valley,
Sienna Plantation. That's CNA Mulch. Then

885
01:03:30.159 --> 01:03:36.239
you go on line to Sienna mulch
dot com, CNA mulch dot com and

886
01:03:36.320 --> 01:03:39.199
see what I'm talking about. They've
got the bulk soils, they've got the

887
01:03:39.239 --> 01:03:44.679
bag soils, they've got the mulches
that you need to put on the surface.

888
01:03:44.960 --> 01:03:46.760
By the way, uh, you
know, mulch is the number one

889
01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:51.519
way we fight weeds and the number
one way that we protect the soil.

890
01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:55.599
Keep the temperatures moderate during the summertime
really important. While you're out at Sienna,

891
01:03:55.639 --> 01:03:59.639
you can grab all the fertilizers who
talk about they have all of those

892
01:03:59.679 --> 01:04:02.039
as well. Now they're closed on
Sunday, but they they're open Monday through

893
01:04:02.079 --> 01:04:06.440
Friday seven thirty to five thirty and
on Saturday seven thirty to two thirty.

894
01:04:06.519 --> 01:04:12.079
They're on FM five twenty one near
Highway six and two eighty eight. Boy,

895
01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:15.039
that area is growing like crazy.
I guess you could say that about

896
01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:17.280
a lot of areas around Houston,
but a lot of new neighborhood's going in.

897
01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:20.320
And you are fortunate if you live
in that area to have a place

898
01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:24.800
like Sna Malch by the way,
for a small additional charge, they can

899
01:04:24.840 --> 01:04:28.440
also deliver and drop it off for
you, So Sena Malch check them out.

900
01:04:28.760 --> 01:04:30.559
But if your garden beds are settling
down like mine are, it's time

901
01:04:30.599 --> 01:04:34.000
to fluff them up a little bit, get some get some good material in

902
01:04:34.039 --> 01:04:39.599
there. And we are fortunate in
the Houston area to have so many options

903
01:04:39.960 --> 01:04:45.000
for really quality material our phone number
seven one three two one two five eight

904
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:55.039
seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. We are

905
01:04:55.199 --> 01:05:00.079
hitting the time when it's fixing to
get really hot and then the stress and

906
01:05:00.159 --> 01:05:02.199
the strain goes on our plants,
and we need our plants to be in

907
01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:06.559
the best health that they can.
If you've got a tree, tree roots

908
01:05:06.840 --> 01:05:12.320
reach widely out in all areas.
I think one time when I was going

909
01:05:12.639 --> 01:05:15.880
through school getting my degree and studying
fruits and nuts and things like that,

910
01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:19.079
they said that a pecan root can
go two and a half times the height

911
01:05:19.159 --> 01:05:23.320
of the tree in all directions.
So think about the size of a pecan

912
01:05:23.400 --> 01:05:27.719
tree. Now imagine two and a
half times that distance out. So there

913
01:05:27.719 --> 01:05:32.639
are roots everywhere, but the majority
of roots the concentration where if you've gotta

914
01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:38.000
you can't go to two houses down
and water your neighbor's yard to water your

915
01:05:38.000 --> 01:05:42.559
pecuntry. But if you can focus
on the area underneath the branch spread of

916
01:05:42.599 --> 01:05:45.480
the tree and maybe a little beyond
that and give it a good soaking.

917
01:05:45.599 --> 01:05:49.719
When we're going through drought, focus
you're feeding in that area. Now,

918
01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:55.840
to make things simple, just hire
Affordable Tree Service to come out. They

919
01:05:55.880 --> 01:05:59.000
are experts at taking care of your
trees. They'll come out and you can

920
01:05:59.000 --> 01:06:01.079
pay them to come out and of
a consultation. What needs to be trimmed

921
01:06:01.079 --> 01:06:03.920
back, what needs to come out, what is perfect just the way it

922
01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:06.280
is. And they won't oversell you. They're not going to do that.

923
01:06:06.599 --> 01:06:10.000
They're going to tell you if you
need something and tell you if you don't

924
01:06:10.039 --> 01:06:13.960
need it. You can go to
aff Tree Service dot com or you can

925
01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:18.840
give him a call seven one three
six nine nine two six sixty three.

926
01:06:18.880 --> 01:06:23.360
Now, either Martin or his wife
Joe are going to answer the phone.

927
01:06:23.440 --> 01:06:29.280
How many times you call a business
and the owner the owners Martin and Joe

928
01:06:29.440 --> 01:06:32.039
answer the phone. If Martin and
Joe don't answer, hang up. You've

929
01:06:32.079 --> 01:06:36.000
called the wrong place with affordable in
the name. But they specialize in all

930
01:06:36.079 --> 01:06:42.880
things from deep root feeding to fertilizing
to pruning, trimming up trees, getting

931
01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:47.760
ready for hurricane season. Afftree Service
dot com or you can call Affordable Tree

932
01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:55.960
at seven one three six nine nine
two six six three. I like to

933
01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:01.159
I like to spend time out working
with some of the flower beds and the

934
01:07:01.239 --> 01:07:04.519
herbs and things. In fact,
I got some plants that I need to

935
01:07:04.519 --> 01:07:10.360
take home and get planted. The
pleasure of it, you know, it's

936
01:07:10.400 --> 01:07:13.320
fun to go out to the nursery
and chop around and see those things.

937
01:07:13.360 --> 01:07:15.880
You get to buy a plant and
take it home. But it's also just

938
01:07:15.920 --> 01:07:17.679
a lot of fun, you know, to get out and plant them and

939
01:07:17.760 --> 01:07:21.719
pamper them along and take care of
them and celebrate when the next bloom pops

940
01:07:21.800 --> 01:07:26.599
up on those flowers. If you
need the supplies for all the kinds of

941
01:07:26.639 --> 01:07:30.679
things we're talking about, ACE Hardware
dot Com is the place to go find

942
01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:33.079
your local ACE Hardware. They're not
hard to find, thirty nine of them.

943
01:07:33.360 --> 01:07:36.599
They're gonna have every fertilizer I talk
about on garden Line. They're going

944
01:07:36.679 --> 01:07:43.199
to have a wide variety of pest
control management products. They've got herbicides and

945
01:07:43.280 --> 01:07:46.039
things like that. They've got an
awesome grilling section. If you are a

946
01:07:46.119 --> 01:07:50.199
weekend warrior with a web or Trigg
or Big Green Egg and more, they've

947
01:07:50.239 --> 01:07:55.199
got that. Their paint studio includes
Benjamin Moore paint. In other words,

948
01:07:55.239 --> 01:08:00.519
everything you would expect from a garden
center. Ace Hardware dot Com, Ace

949
01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:13.880
Hardware dot Com. Oh Mama,
pay my girl to be at all.

950
01:08:23.399 --> 01:08:28.800
He's a magic man. Good morning
on a good day for gardening, as

951
01:08:28.840 --> 01:08:31.600
all days are good day to talk
about gardening. We are here to answer

952
01:08:31.640 --> 01:08:35.199
your gardening questions. If you'd like
to give Josh a call seven one three

953
01:08:35.359 --> 01:08:40.159
two one two fifty eight seventy four, he will get you on the board

954
01:08:40.239 --> 01:08:44.039
and we can talk about whatever you're
interested in regarding gardening. Let's go out

955
01:08:44.079 --> 01:08:47.000
there now. We're gonna start in
northwest Houston and talk to Ralph. Good

956
01:08:47.000 --> 01:08:54.560
morning, Ralph. Hey, Ralph. I'm gonna put you on hold and

957
01:08:54.680 --> 01:08:58.119
see if we can get. I
can't here. Oh there you are,

958
01:08:58.319 --> 01:09:01.439
there, you are? How are
you doing? My vis is a garden

959
01:09:01.520 --> 01:09:05.119
and everything. You should have got
a good program here. You know.

960
01:09:06.279 --> 01:09:12.199
I'm fine about my country. I
got you got wat the works, I

961
01:09:12.319 --> 01:09:19.439
got very fruit trees and everything,
and I'm Gorden doing beautiful with your help.

962
01:09:19.680 --> 01:09:28.359
Well knowledge, well and well,
it just took watering thing. It's

963
01:09:28.359 --> 01:09:32.399
just hard to get to without the
uh you know, this rain has gotten

964
01:09:32.399 --> 01:09:36.760
me all messed up. I got
to know more about water. And I'll

965
01:09:36.800 --> 01:09:40.840
tell you, man, is it
staying too wet in your garden or what's

966
01:09:40.840 --> 01:09:45.359
going on? Oh, I've got
to get the rain. Okay, Yeah,

967
01:09:45.640 --> 01:09:49.039
you know, I don't know whether
it's just to keep a watering and

968
01:09:49.439 --> 01:09:54.239
yeah, I guess I just keep
a watering. You just have to,

969
01:09:54.560 --> 01:09:57.079
you know, check your soil.
See how it's doing. A big tree

970
01:09:57.159 --> 01:10:00.199
like a pecountry, it's got roots
in a lot of places. And I

971
01:10:00.199 --> 01:10:03.279
can tell you this. Pecans are
not struggling for water anywhere around the Eastern

972
01:10:03.319 --> 01:10:09.760
area right now. We've we've had
enough over you know the last few months

973
01:10:09.880 --> 01:10:14.199
that they're they're okay. A good
soaking never hurts a Pecan, though,

974
01:10:14.279 --> 01:10:15.920
so you know, get the sprinklers, drag them out there and turn them

975
01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:18.760
on, and or if you got
an automatic system, just give it a

976
01:10:18.760 --> 01:10:25.119
good soaking took you keep going,
keep doing it. I got my may

977
01:10:25.239 --> 01:10:30.560
hold, and I got my pigs
and my pocons and my tears. You

978
01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:34.039
know, Oh, you got a
full time job, Ralph, you got

979
01:10:34.079 --> 01:10:40.960
a full time job, mute.
But it is a great this year and

980
01:10:41.079 --> 01:10:44.920
everything. But you know, it's
just it's just good. It is a

981
01:10:44.960 --> 01:10:48.479
great hobby. But you know,
and and uh, you're so much too,

982
01:10:48.920 --> 01:10:53.399
so knowledgeable, and I really appreciate
it. Well, Ralph, I

983
01:10:53.399 --> 01:10:56.600
I think you appreciate the call.
And yeah, gardening is a great hobby.

984
01:10:56.640 --> 01:10:59.800
I mean, we stay busy and
sometimes we have things to fuss about.

985
01:10:59.840 --> 01:11:01.560
We we need something to fuss about, so usually it's the weather.

986
01:11:02.520 --> 01:11:08.079
But anyway, I ta we're going
to go out to Kingwood now and talk

987
01:11:08.119 --> 01:11:13.079
to Joe. Good morning Joe,
Good morning Skip. I'd appreciate your advice

988
01:11:13.359 --> 01:11:18.439
on when to put out the grub
killer, trying to keep the feral hogs

989
01:11:18.479 --> 01:11:25.439
away mainly, and then also the
armadillos. Is it when the you start

990
01:11:25.479 --> 01:11:30.279
seeing dead June bugs on your driveway
is that too late and you'd put it

991
01:11:30.279 --> 01:11:34.319
out when you start seeing the armadillos
digging up in your beds or were is

992
01:11:34.359 --> 01:11:40.600
the right time to put it out? Well? The armadillo, the armadillo

993
01:11:40.840 --> 01:11:43.359
is it could be a sign of
grubs. It could be a sign a

994
01:11:43.399 --> 01:11:45.199
lot of other things too. There's
other things they dig up, like earthworms

995
01:11:45.239 --> 01:11:51.359
and feed on. So it doesn't
necessarily mean that it is. You know

996
01:11:51.479 --> 01:11:56.159
that you have grubs, but that
is that can be a sign as far

997
01:11:56.199 --> 01:11:59.640
as grub killers are concerned. When
the things come out that we call jim

998
01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:02.680
bugs, they really should be calling
them may bugs around here right then,

999
01:12:02.720 --> 01:12:06.479
when those come out, that's a
sign that they're going to be out there

1000
01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:12.520
laying eggs. And what happens is
the eggs hatch, and after the eggs

1001
01:12:12.560 --> 01:12:15.960
hatch, the larva feed near the
surface for a while and when it starts

1002
01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:19.239
to get hot, they go down
deep. And when they go down deep,

1003
01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:28.079
we're not going to be able to
get a successful treatment of insecticide down

1004
01:12:28.079 --> 01:12:32.159
to reach those grubs. So here's
here's what's here's what's happening that we want

1005
01:12:32.199 --> 01:12:35.479
them to hatch out. We want
to get as many hatched out as we

1006
01:12:35.560 --> 01:12:41.960
can, and then we want to
apply our product before they go down deep.

1007
01:12:42.079 --> 01:12:44.680
So that's that's kind of the signs
of it what we're looking at.

1008
01:12:45.560 --> 01:12:49.680
I would say that I wait until
you know those those mating flights that you're

1009
01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:55.279
seeing around you see the bugs out
there flying around your your lights at night

1010
01:12:55.359 --> 01:12:59.399
and stuff, then go ahead and
put the application down. That should be

1011
01:12:59.439 --> 01:13:04.159
sometime in June. Some products last
longer than others. Some insecticides just you

1012
01:13:04.199 --> 01:13:08.439
know, go right into the plant
they do their stuff, or into the

1013
01:13:08.479 --> 01:13:12.359
soil and they do their stuff and
that's it. Others stick around a little

1014
01:13:12.359 --> 01:13:16.159
bit. A meta cloprid is a
grub control one of many products for grub

1015
01:13:16.199 --> 01:13:20.960
control that sticks around a little bit
longer in the plant. But this would

1016
01:13:20.960 --> 01:13:24.880
be the time to stop them if
you've if you've had a problem with those

1017
01:13:24.880 --> 01:13:30.640
over the years. So when you
start seeing them dead on the driveway,

1018
01:13:30.880 --> 01:13:32.840
wait a little bit, or is
that about the right time to start putting

1019
01:13:32.840 --> 01:13:39.079
them just a little bit when you
know the very first ones again, we

1020
01:13:39.199 --> 01:13:41.760
want them to get all their eggs
laid. You don't want a treat,

1021
01:13:41.920 --> 01:13:44.880
especially with a product that's not going
to stick around. You don't want a

1022
01:13:44.880 --> 01:13:47.720
treat and then there's still June bugs
out there flying around and laying eggs.

1023
01:13:48.359 --> 01:13:51.119
We'd like to get that egg lay
and done. So that's why I usually

1024
01:13:51.159 --> 01:13:57.279
say toward the end of June,
mid mid to late June is usually a

1025
01:13:57.319 --> 01:14:00.760
pretty good time to do that.
Now, every years different, so using

1026
01:14:00.760 --> 01:14:04.119
the calendar to predict insects as a
little iffy for the years. Yeah,

1027
01:14:04.159 --> 01:14:12.600
and then product another one in addition, tomate a clop dialogue dialogues is another

1028
01:14:12.640 --> 01:14:15.880
one. I think. I don't
know. Dialox isn't as common of insects

1029
01:14:15.880 --> 01:14:18.359
sight and I don't know the label, but if it's labeled for use on

1030
01:14:18.439 --> 01:14:23.560
the lawn for grubs, that would
be fine. Yeah. Yeah, it's

1031
01:14:23.720 --> 01:14:28.520
by advanced drug killer pluses. Okay, Yeah, sounds like it sounds like

1032
01:14:28.560 --> 01:14:30.760
it'll work. Yeah, okay,
skip. Thank you for your help.

1033
01:14:30.920 --> 01:14:34.399
All right, thank you. I
appreciate that call. Let's go to pair

1034
01:14:34.479 --> 01:14:39.199
Land. We're going to talk to
Don. Good morning, Don, Good

1035
01:14:39.279 --> 01:14:42.560
morning, how are you. I'm
well? Thank you, that's good.

1036
01:14:42.680 --> 01:14:47.640
That's good. I planted a rose
busher last week in the lawn in my

1037
01:14:47.960 --> 01:14:51.520
flower would bed, and I was
wondering, how long do I need to

1038
01:14:51.520 --> 01:14:58.640
wait before I put off my rose
food on me. Usually I give plants,

1039
01:14:58.720 --> 01:15:00.319
you know, at least a couple
of weeks to get settled in and

1040
01:15:00.359 --> 01:15:04.520
start growing. There's no rush,
but there's also no harm being done to

1041
01:15:04.560 --> 01:15:08.520
go ahead and put it out.
You're gonna put the rose food out in

1042
01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:13.479
a wider area than just that little
cylinder of soil that you had when you

1043
01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:15.720
got the plant out of the pot, right, So you're gonna go a

1044
01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:18.800
little wider than that in the area
you treat, and those nutrients will be

1045
01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:23.399
down in the soil and as the
rose starts to send its roots out that

1046
01:15:23.439 --> 01:15:27.319
they'll be available to it. You
might start with a little light application now,

1047
01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:30.800
maybe three weeks later, do another
light application, just kind of gradually

1048
01:15:30.840 --> 01:15:38.479
feed it over time and encourage good, good rapid growth. Okay, Yeah,

1049
01:15:38.479 --> 01:15:42.720
and don't don't forget the watering if
it turns dry that Oh oh no,

1050
01:15:42.760 --> 01:15:47.560
I've been water in an area the
other day. Yeah. And yes,

1051
01:15:47.680 --> 01:15:55.159
and also before to fertalize out,
should I water the plant first,

1052
01:15:55.319 --> 01:15:59.199
then put the food out? No, you put the you put you put

1053
01:15:59.199 --> 01:16:02.439
the food out and wash it in
with an irrigation that are scratched into the

1054
01:16:02.479 --> 01:16:05.479
soil surface. If you're if you're
able to do that, if you have

1055
01:16:05.520 --> 01:16:11.239
a bed around it like that.
But just remember that that cylinder dries out

1056
01:16:11.399 --> 01:16:14.720
fast. When I say cylinder,
I mean the soil that the rose came

1057
01:16:14.760 --> 01:16:16.920
with. That dries out fast because
all the roots are there, They pump

1058
01:16:16.920 --> 01:16:20.039
all the water out quick. So
make sure and keep that moist. Don't

1059
01:16:20.079 --> 01:16:24.520
overdo it, but keep that moist. And once the rose gets roots in

1060
01:16:24.560 --> 01:16:27.640
the soil around it, then you
don't have to worry about that. Okay,

1061
01:16:27.880 --> 01:16:30.439
all right, all right, thank
you, all right, mo hey,

1062
01:16:30.479 --> 01:16:32.479
thanks for the call. Appreciate that
very much. We're going to run

1063
01:16:32.520 --> 01:16:39.199
out to spring and talk to mo
Hello, mo Hi, me. My

1064
01:16:39.319 --> 01:16:44.760
neighbors are going around about plants.
Okay. He went to alberghee by all

1065
01:16:44.840 --> 01:16:47.680
kinds of cheese, nice throwing them
out in the damn street, and I

1066
01:16:47.760 --> 01:16:54.359
pull most of them back in on
my property. Sounds like the hell you

1067
01:16:54.439 --> 01:16:59.800
got some? Are they still alive? Yeah? Uh summer peace cheese.

1068
01:17:00.279 --> 01:17:06.039
It says piece trees, lemon trees, apple trees. And one says,

1069
01:17:06.159 --> 01:17:11.159
uh pair, oh my god.
Okay, Well get him in the ground

1070
01:17:11.159 --> 01:17:14.279
as quick as you can. It's
gonna be touching. Go if they were

1071
01:17:14.319 --> 01:17:15.479
pulled out of the ground. It's
gonna be a little touching go as to

1072
01:17:15.520 --> 01:17:23.399
whether they know they're in buckets.
They were thrown out in buckets. Yeah,

1073
01:17:23.439 --> 01:17:27.199
he wouldn't bought buckets of trees.
And then he didn't his wife didn't

1074
01:17:27.239 --> 01:17:30.720
like them, so okay, and
she didn't even like the tomato plants he

1075
01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:33.079
bought, so I got those.
All right, Well go for him,

1076
01:17:33.159 --> 01:17:35.680
I mean, take care, just
make sure and add him to your Christmas

1077
01:17:35.760 --> 01:17:41.680
list for all those nice free plants. Yeah, I say. And then

1078
01:17:41.680 --> 01:17:49.119
he threw at this this uh ten
fort something back of Stephanid goes on the

1079
01:17:49.119 --> 01:17:55.800
ground. It's in a silver bag. Okay, oh nineteen two. Wow,

1080
01:17:55.920 --> 01:17:59.720
it's a nitrified silver bag. That's
that's like gold. Hang on to

1081
01:17:59.840 --> 01:18:02.880
that. Hey, we're gonna we're
gonna winder. He through seven of those

1082
01:18:02.920 --> 01:18:09.279
bags away. Oh my gosh.
All right, well don't I don't have

1083
01:18:09.319 --> 01:18:11.920
any I don't have any words on
that one. Hey, I gotta go.

1084
01:18:11.960 --> 01:18:15.399
We're going. Yeah, I'm gonna
save it and you can tell me

1085
01:18:15.479 --> 01:18:18.960
later on how to put it out. All right, Mo, we gotta

1086
01:18:18.960 --> 01:18:21.319
go to break. Thanks for the
call. I appreciate that. Sounds like

1087
01:18:21.359 --> 01:18:26.359
you went into a gold mine.
Well, you're listening to garden Line.

1088
01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:30.359
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here every Saturday from six to

1089
01:18:30.520 --> 01:18:32.760
ten and every Sunday for six to
ten, eight hours of garden Line each

1090
01:18:32.800 --> 01:18:35.479
weekend. There's no excuse to not
be able to listen to some of that,

1091
01:18:35.600 --> 01:18:41.279
right if you want to give us
a call seven one three two one

1092
01:18:41.399 --> 01:18:45.880
two fifty eight seventy four, or
you can say it this way two one

1093
01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:48.760
two ktr H Josh will get you
on the boards and when we come back

1094
01:18:48.840 --> 01:18:53.920
from our break, you will be
the first ones up. In the meantime,

1095
01:18:53.960 --> 01:18:56.079
I just want to remind you two
weeks from now, I'm gonna be

1096
01:18:56.119 --> 01:19:00.800
out at the wild Birds Unlimited in
Kingwood. That's Saturday, June tenth.

1097
01:19:00.199 --> 01:19:03.840
Saturday June tenth. I'll talk about
it more next weekend, either from eleven

1098
01:19:03.920 --> 01:19:08.039
thirty to one thirty, So I
hope you'll kind of schedule your weekend around

1099
01:19:08.039 --> 01:19:10.880
being able to come by and see
me. And when you do, you're

1100
01:19:10.880 --> 01:19:15.479
gonna see why we talk so highly
of Walberg's Unlimbeth on this show a major

1101
01:19:15.640 --> 01:19:25.359
storm. KTRH. Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

1102
01:19:25.399 --> 01:19:40.800
services advertised on this program. Welcome
to KTRH Garden Line with Scarre Rictord.

1103
01:19:41.319 --> 01:19:55.640
Just watch him as well. Good
morning, great day outside, nice Sunday

1104
01:19:55.640 --> 01:20:00.880
morning out. This is the last
day of this weekend, meaning it's the

1105
01:20:00.960 --> 01:20:06.840
last day of that opportunity to avoid
paying your state tax on the water saving

1106
01:20:08.439 --> 01:20:15.439
plants, soils, composts, devices
like treher or sprinklers, drip irrigation hose,

1107
01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:17.800
end timer and on on and on. So this is the time you

1108
01:20:17.800 --> 01:20:19.520
want to get out there. It's
kind of like having a little bit of

1109
01:20:19.520 --> 01:20:23.720
a sale. You don't have to
pay that extra what is an eight point

1110
01:20:23.800 --> 01:20:27.520
something percent or whatever that is.
Uh, we're going to head out first

1111
01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:30.840
to Spring Branch this morning and we're
going to start with David. Hello David,

1112
01:20:32.199 --> 01:20:36.039
good morning. So os mister Rictor
on each your help. I have

1113
01:20:36.279 --> 01:20:43.439
a u it just overnight came out. It was like a my para tree

1114
01:20:43.560 --> 01:20:46.920
has a web web worms. I
got just worms. I don't know what

1115
01:20:46.960 --> 01:20:50.720
they're called. Where they have a
web surrounding the part of the outer branch

1116
01:20:50.760 --> 01:20:54.880
that they're in. There's about two
spots in my para trees and it's full

1117
01:20:54.920 --> 01:20:58.359
of paris. Okay, you know
what yeah, but I should do.

1118
01:20:58.439 --> 01:21:02.920
Yeah, I've been seeing those breakout. I saw some on some wild mulberry

1119
01:21:03.039 --> 01:21:08.239
that the birds had planted and they
were starting to cover up with those.

1120
01:21:08.920 --> 01:21:12.439
You got a couple of options.
Peartree. How big is it? First

1121
01:21:12.439 --> 01:21:15.439
of all, it's probably like about
twelve years old, and it's probably like

1122
01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:20.079
around tall. Okay, way way
too high to reach, that's for sure.

1123
01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:24.760
Uh. You know, when you
break up the webs wasp which are

1124
01:21:24.920 --> 01:21:28.960
their number one food is caterpillars,
they will start going in there and they'll

1125
01:21:29.000 --> 01:21:32.279
find them and they will start hauling
them away. But what I would suggest

1126
01:21:32.319 --> 01:21:36.199
gets some kind of a long pole
if you can are a very hard stream

1127
01:21:36.239 --> 01:21:41.039
of water to break up as much
of the webbing as you can and then

1128
01:21:41.159 --> 01:21:46.159
spray it with either a product containing
BT which is a wormed a caterpillar disease,

1129
01:21:46.960 --> 01:21:53.880
or a product containing spinosaid, which
is an organic fermented product that's made

1130
01:21:53.920 --> 01:21:58.079
from soil microbes. So both of
those are organic products, and they both

1131
01:21:58.079 --> 01:22:01.159
of them work very well against caterpillar
is feeding on your plant. And by

1132
01:22:01.199 --> 01:22:04.000
the way, I can reach the
web one on me like a ry ten

1133
01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:10.000
feet tall, but I will I'll
tell you if you're not squeamish and they're

1134
01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:13.319
down that low. I probably just
reach up in there and strip the webs

1135
01:22:13.319 --> 01:22:17.119
out by hand and then squirt the
squirt the leaves are feeding on because both

1136
01:22:17.119 --> 01:22:20.159
of those products, they need to
eat the product, So spray it on

1137
01:22:20.199 --> 01:22:25.199
the leaves and that that'll do it. BT, you're probably gonna need to

1138
01:22:25.199 --> 01:22:28.680
spray it about every three days for
a little while, just if in your

1139
01:22:28.720 --> 01:22:31.199
new ones hatch out and so on, Spinosa. It soaks into the tissue

1140
01:22:31.199 --> 01:22:34.560
and it lasts a little bit longer, so that that's kind of part of

1141
01:22:34.560 --> 01:22:39.319
the decision. I guess, okay, I certainly will. All right,

1142
01:22:40.119 --> 01:22:43.000
Well, thank you so much.
I appreciate your call. I hope that

1143
01:22:43.239 --> 01:22:48.720
is very very helpful for you.
Let's head now out to Austin County and

1144
01:22:48.760 --> 01:22:54.199
we're gonna talk to Doris this morning. Good morning, Doris, good morning.

1145
01:22:54.239 --> 01:22:59.079
How are you. I'm doing well? Thank you good. I have

1146
01:22:59.319 --> 01:23:04.159
to tomato bushes that have huge meatoes
on them, but they don't seem to

1147
01:23:04.239 --> 01:23:10.199
want to ripen. Okay, well, they will just give them some time.

1148
01:23:10.920 --> 01:23:13.920
Once they hit they hit a mature
stage. But they're still green,

1149
01:23:14.000 --> 01:23:17.600
but they've hit the maturity stage.
And after that they start that ripening process.

1150
01:23:17.680 --> 01:23:20.880
If they're all the way to the
mature stage, you can pick them,

1151
01:23:20.880 --> 01:23:24.159
bring them inside, set them on
the counter, and they will finish

1152
01:23:24.279 --> 01:23:27.439
ripening. And some people do that
when they're worried about mocking birds, and

1153
01:23:27.479 --> 01:23:31.159
some are squirrels coming in and ruining
the show. But otherwise, just leave

1154
01:23:31.199 --> 01:23:34.520
them on the on the plant.
They will ripen. They won't just stay

1155
01:23:34.560 --> 01:23:39.800
green forever. Unless it's one of
the very very few varieties that actually is

1156
01:23:39.840 --> 01:23:45.960
a green tomato. I don't think
it is. Yeah, I don't think

1157
01:23:45.000 --> 01:23:48.960
so either, And I don't know
why they even have those. Well that

1158
01:23:49.439 --> 01:23:53.319
that would be confusing, wouldn't it. Yeah, just be a little patient

1159
01:23:53.359 --> 01:23:55.960
with it, you know, if
I knew, I knew that it was

1160
01:23:56.119 --> 01:23:59.680
mature. You know, when you
say full size, it's getting close to

1161
01:23:59.720 --> 01:24:02.840
them, sure there, but when
very big, okay, well, when

1162
01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:06.600
it starts to blush a little bit, if you want again for the birds

1163
01:24:06.600 --> 01:24:10.159
and squirrels, you can go ahead
and bring it in, let it ripen

1164
01:24:10.239 --> 01:24:13.119
on the counter, and they will
taste a very good, very very good.

1165
01:24:13.479 --> 01:24:16.479
Okay, thank you so very much, you bet, and thank you

1166
01:24:16.560 --> 01:24:23.000
for the call too. If you
have not tried the arbor gates one two

1167
01:24:23.199 --> 01:24:29.079
three punch the one two three completely
easy system. It's an organic system.

1168
01:24:29.159 --> 01:24:31.920
So what they give you is they
have a food that feeds anything with roots,

1169
01:24:32.279 --> 01:24:35.079
and that would be the four four
three. It is going to have

1170
01:24:36.239 --> 01:24:39.960
organic matter. It's got to have
all the nutrients, the trace minerals,

1171
01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:44.000
the main ones we look for as
well the main nutrients, a slow release,

1172
01:24:44.159 --> 01:24:47.680
it's a quality product. The second
would be the organic soil complete.

1173
01:24:47.960 --> 01:24:55.199
Now that is made with certainly with
composts and also large particle sand and expanded

1174
01:24:55.239 --> 01:24:58.239
shale. So when you work that
into a bed, the organic matter is

1175
01:24:58.279 --> 01:25:01.479
going to continue to decompose and head
toward humus, but you have that shale

1176
01:25:01.520 --> 01:25:05.000
component that you've added in which is
helping to hold the soil, keep it

1177
01:25:05.039 --> 01:25:10.279
open. And then finally, the
organic compost complete, high quality. It's

1178
01:25:10.359 --> 01:25:15.399
two different types of composts blended together
right before they bag it, so it's

1179
01:25:15.399 --> 01:25:19.520
got a lot of beneficial microbe diversity
in it. It's well balanced too,

1180
01:25:19.560 --> 01:25:25.680
with the micronutrients macronutrients you need like
nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, but also

1181
01:25:25.720 --> 01:25:30.840
the micronutrients that you need. So
the organic one two three completely easy Blend

1182
01:25:30.840 --> 01:25:33.560
from Arbourgate. You can go to
Arbourgate dot com and learn more about it

1183
01:25:33.640 --> 01:25:41.720
and learn more about Arburgate Garden Center
as well. I want to talk about

1184
01:25:41.720 --> 01:25:45.000
a place that is important to me. I mean it's a it's a personal

1185
01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:48.479
thing, and that's Star of Hope
Mission. My wife and I volunteered for

1186
01:25:48.560 --> 01:25:53.479
Star way back years ago when we
lived in the in the Houston area,

1187
01:25:53.560 --> 01:25:59.760
and it's it makes a difference in
people's lives. We see homeless people around

1188
01:26:00.039 --> 01:26:01.520
on all the time and how do
how do you help? How do you

1189
01:26:01.560 --> 01:26:05.159
put that compassion to work? Well, you do it through Star of Hope.

1190
01:26:05.279 --> 01:26:11.880
Now write down this email Shmission dot
org. When you give to Star

1191
01:26:11.920 --> 01:26:15.039
of Hope, just two dollars and
eighty cents is a meal that's like a

1192
01:26:15.079 --> 01:26:18.880
cup of coffee. They serve more
than six thousand of those meals a week.

1193
01:26:19.279 --> 01:26:23.520
But people that move in with Star
of Hope, they have one year

1194
01:26:23.880 --> 01:26:27.039
to go through the trainings for education, how to get a job, how

1195
01:26:27.079 --> 01:26:30.439
to deal with substance abuse. It
doesn't cost them a penny. They even

1196
01:26:30.479 --> 01:26:33.640
provide clothing for them and help them
go out and get a job. You

1197
01:26:33.680 --> 01:26:38.399
know, if you fall on hard
times, maybe you want to get a

1198
01:26:38.439 --> 01:26:40.319
job, but you don't have a
car to get around to do it,

1199
01:26:40.439 --> 01:26:45.640
or to show up regularly to work. Star of Hope changes lives. It's

1200
01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:48.520
money well spent. It makes a
difference. Put your compassion to work.

1201
01:26:48.760 --> 01:26:56.920
Go to Star of Hope Shmission dot
org. We're gonna take a break it

1202
01:26:57.039 --> 01:27:00.159
is. Let's see. I give
you a phone number. We've got some

1203
01:27:00.199 --> 01:27:02.600
room on the boards if you'd like
to call in seven one three two one

1204
01:27:02.680 --> 01:27:06.439
two fifty eight seventy four. Josh
will get you on the board, and

1205
01:27:06.560 --> 01:27:11.000
Carolyn and Spring Branch we will be
with you first thing when we come back

1206
01:27:13.520 --> 01:27:33.800
of the seas. Good morning on
a great day for gardening. This is

1207
01:27:33.840 --> 01:27:39.720
called Chamber of Commerce. Weather that
we're enjoying out there. So I hope

1208
01:27:39.760 --> 01:27:42.720
you have a little opportunity this afternoon
get out and do a little bit of

1209
01:27:42.760 --> 01:27:46.720
gardening yourself. That's it's the most
therapeutic thing that I can think of.

1210
01:27:46.800 --> 01:27:50.399
And that's that's not just my opinion. I mean, there's so much research

1211
01:27:50.640 --> 01:27:57.079
to talk about the benefits of gardening
on our health. Certainly physical benefits you're

1212
01:27:57.119 --> 01:28:03.640
getting out, staying active and so
on, got incredible benefits for mental benefits

1213
01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:09.960
as well, for example, fighting
depression with kids ADHD. They're actually looked

1214
01:28:09.960 --> 01:28:14.479
at kids exposure to plants and being
out in nature and things like that.

1215
01:28:15.199 --> 01:28:20.800
Done research studies and found that being
around plants and that way hasn't an impact

1216
01:28:21.039 --> 01:28:26.920
on the ADHD or add that a
child would have. So gosh, how

1217
01:28:26.920 --> 01:28:29.920
many reasons do we need to get
out and have a good time in the

1218
01:28:29.960 --> 01:28:32.760
garden. Let's head out to spring
Branch. First thing here and we are

1219
01:28:32.800 --> 01:28:38.159
going to visit with Carolyn this morning. Good morning, Carolyn, Good morning.

1220
01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:43.840
So Hi, step I just wanted
to thank you. I was listening

1221
01:28:43.880 --> 01:28:47.199
to Central Texas Gardener on Channel eight
yesterday morning and you were on there and

1222
01:28:47.279 --> 01:28:53.880
you were talking about the beneficial insects
and you were talking about how the apids

1223
01:28:53.960 --> 01:29:00.079
of the insects eat them as wait, the eggs of insects the larva.

1224
01:29:00.199 --> 01:29:04.520
I think, yeah, I'll get
it right in a minute. Yeah,

1225
01:29:04.119 --> 01:29:08.840
yeah, Anyway, it was really
good and I especially like the idea of,

1226
01:29:09.880 --> 01:29:15.239
uh, putting tops of plants around
your garden that attract these you know,

1227
01:29:15.720 --> 01:29:18.279
good intakes right that they can you
know, have lots of time to

1228
01:29:18.359 --> 01:29:21.560
make little ones and eat the apits, right, Yeah, that's true.

1229
01:29:21.760 --> 01:29:26.800
Yeah, Angela Agender, I think
it calls out an insectory garden. I've

1230
01:29:26.840 --> 01:29:30.279
seen some really cool stuff she's put
on the web about that and when you

1231
01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:33.079
when you, if you build it, they will come. How about that.

1232
01:29:33.239 --> 01:29:35.560
That's a good way to put it. I didn't know. I didn't

1233
01:29:35.560 --> 01:29:40.640
know Central Texas Gardener was running those. That's a for those around here who

1234
01:29:40.720 --> 01:29:45.239
don't aren't familiar that that is a
TV show on the public TV in Austin,

1235
01:29:45.319 --> 01:29:48.760
Texas. But it comes on a
thirty in the morning Saturday mornings.

1236
01:29:49.880 --> 01:29:54.439
Interesting, Okay, I recorded.
I guess, I guess I've become a

1237
01:29:54.520 --> 01:30:00.399
rerun so whatever that whatever, goo, I appreciate. I appreciate the call.

1238
01:30:00.560 --> 01:30:03.560
Thank you so much. Really,
you're welcome and a good day you

1239
01:30:03.680 --> 01:30:08.680
bet bye bye bye. You take
care. If you are looking for a

1240
01:30:08.880 --> 01:30:14.039
quality soil mix, you're you're you
don't need to look further than Heirloom Soils

1241
01:30:14.239 --> 01:30:17.680
of Texas. And by the way, that's the website Airloom Soils of Texas

1242
01:30:17.760 --> 01:30:20.479
dot com. I don't care what
kind of soil you need. Do you

1243
01:30:20.600 --> 01:30:26.159
need a ROAs soil? Do you
need a vegetable vegetable and herb Blend.

1244
01:30:26.199 --> 01:30:29.359
I was talking about that earlier.
Do you need a potting mix to go

1245
01:30:29.439 --> 01:30:31.640
into containers? They've got it all. Now. You can go online to

1246
01:30:31.720 --> 01:30:36.439
Airloom Soils of Texas dot com.
They've got an Heirloom Soils qubic yard calculator

1247
01:30:36.840 --> 01:30:42.359
where you can you can say things
like, okay, how many wheelbarrows is

1248
01:30:42.399 --> 01:30:45.520
in a qubic yard? You know? Or I've got x inches or feet

1249
01:30:45.600 --> 01:30:50.000
by x inches or feet by and
how much composts do I need? And

1250
01:30:50.520 --> 01:30:54.119
boom, it tells you right then, right then, and there. They've

1251
01:30:54.119 --> 01:30:57.439
got those super sacks. They can
bring certain ones of their mixes right out

1252
01:30:57.520 --> 01:31:00.640
to you in a big bag,
set it on the on the driveway,

1253
01:31:00.640 --> 01:31:02.760
and it holds a cubic yard.
And that's a super clean and easy way

1254
01:31:02.800 --> 01:31:05.359
to go about it. But airlin
Sels of Texas you're not going to go

1255
01:31:05.479 --> 01:31:11.399
wrong. Super quality, super quality. We're going to head out to a

1256
01:31:11.520 --> 01:31:15.399
tes casita right now and talk to
Carol. Hello, Carol, Hello,

1257
01:31:15.600 --> 01:31:20.880
good morning, good morning. I
have a question about no SEM mosquitoes.

1258
01:31:21.079 --> 01:31:28.079
Do you have any solutions to get
right of them? Well, I'm I

1259
01:31:28.119 --> 01:31:30.560
always think of no sms as something
you see that you get down on the

1260
01:31:30.680 --> 01:31:35.960
coast in some areas that now,
the mosquitoes themselves are quite a problem,

1261
01:31:36.520 --> 01:31:41.840
and these are not These are not
regular mosquito. Okay, these are little,

1262
01:31:41.880 --> 01:31:45.359
tiny biting bugs. Oh. I
don't have a solution for them.

1263
01:31:45.439 --> 01:31:47.520
Maybe somebody has an idea on that. But you know, they're not on

1264
01:31:47.640 --> 01:31:50.760
your plants where you spray your plants, or at least you don't know where

1265
01:31:50.800 --> 01:31:56.439
they are when they're resting on plants
somewhere. I guess do the repellents not

1266
01:31:56.560 --> 01:32:01.560
work? The mosquito repellents? Last
year I was told to put bathron on

1267
01:32:01.760 --> 01:32:09.039
my lawn, which I did.
It didn't help a bit. Try everything

1268
01:32:09.119 --> 01:32:11.880
I've read about and heard about,
but I can't find anything, and they

1269
01:32:11.960 --> 01:32:16.520
just take they take me over when
I go outside. Yeah, I'm gonna

1270
01:32:16.520 --> 01:32:19.359
look into that a little bit.
That's outside the horticulture world, so I

1271
01:32:19.439 --> 01:32:23.800
am definitely no expert on that at
all, But I'll see if I can

1272
01:32:23.880 --> 01:32:29.479
find anything. But yeah, the
bifan thrin is a good persistent insecticide in

1273
01:32:29.520 --> 01:32:32.199
the lawn, but I doubt that
no cms are coming from there. Maybe

1274
01:32:32.399 --> 01:32:36.279
wrong about that. I've been told
they're real bad about Azellua bushes and I

1275
01:32:36.359 --> 01:32:40.279
have a lot of azala bushes.
Okay, Well I'll look into it,

1276
01:32:40.359 --> 01:32:42.840
Carol, thank you for the call. Sorry, we can give you a

1277
01:32:42.920 --> 01:32:45.159
good solution on that. But I'll
see if I can find that. Okay,

1278
01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:47.079
I have one of the quick questions. Have a lot of high biscus

1279
01:32:47.199 --> 01:32:50.880
plants, and I have one.
The foliage is gorgeous, but it will

1280
01:32:51.039 --> 01:32:55.560
not bloom. I feed it just
like I do all my others, but

1281
01:32:55.920 --> 01:33:00.640
no blooms. Well, be careful
that you're not overdoing the night hitrogen on

1282
01:33:00.760 --> 01:33:03.279
it. You need a good balanced
food and you know the hibiscus food.

1283
01:33:03.359 --> 01:33:09.000
And yesterday I was giving out some
of the Nelson products out at wild Birds

1284
01:33:09.039 --> 01:33:13.840
and they have a really nice quality
of hibiscus food. But when you look

1285
01:33:13.880 --> 01:33:16.479
at the numbers, it's not like
overdoing the nitrogen on it. That would

1286
01:33:16.520 --> 01:33:20.680
be one thing. Good sunlight,
of course, is important. Lots of

1287
01:33:20.800 --> 01:33:26.600
sunlight is important. I don't know
what else would keep it from blooming.

1288
01:33:26.680 --> 01:33:31.640
Maybe we got some hibiscus experts that
could call in and give us a thought

1289
01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:34.920
on that one. But anyway you
get the idea of it, Just be

1290
01:33:35.039 --> 01:33:40.640
patient and watch that high nitrogen.
All right. Thank you for your help.

1291
01:33:40.680 --> 01:33:43.039
All right, Carol, thank you
so much for the call. You're

1292
01:33:43.039 --> 01:33:45.640
listening to garden line. All right, let's see, I'm your host,

1293
01:33:45.680 --> 01:33:49.520
Skip Richter in our number seven one
three, two, one two five eight

1294
01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:57.039
seven four two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Perhaps you used a pre

1295
01:33:57.159 --> 01:34:00.680
emergent herbicide in the spring, which
is a good idea for all the warm

1296
01:34:00.720 --> 01:34:04.800
season weeds, but those don't last
forever, and so we hit this season

1297
01:34:04.960 --> 01:34:10.720
and it's time to consider a second
application as a follow up. So as

1298
01:34:11.159 --> 01:34:15.119
those products break down in the soil, which they will, then you do

1299
01:34:15.279 --> 01:34:24.520
another application to continue that protection against
weed seed germination on into the summertime,

1300
01:34:24.760 --> 01:34:28.359
and that would be a product called
barricade. Barricade is a nitro foss product.

1301
01:34:28.720 --> 01:34:30.760
It controls both broad leaf and grassy
weeds, but it's not going to

1302
01:34:30.920 --> 01:34:33.960
kill the weeds you already have growing
in your lawn. What it's going to

1303
01:34:34.039 --> 01:34:39.319
do is prevent any weed seeds from
germinating. So if you're still struggling to

1304
01:34:39.439 --> 01:34:43.000
get that lawn back dense again where
it chokes out most of those weeds,

1305
01:34:43.960 --> 01:34:47.279
this is a time where in the
meantime, using a barricade a product will

1306
01:34:47.319 --> 01:34:50.640
work. You can find it at
Plants and Things and Brunham DND Feed and

1307
01:34:50.680 --> 01:34:55.359
Tamba has barricade and K and M
a side in Kingwood another place where you

1308
01:34:55.439 --> 01:35:01.960
can find barricade from nitrofoss. If
you happen to live up in the area

1309
01:35:02.399 --> 01:35:09.319
around Magnolia, Tomballs Magnolia area up
that way, Spring Creek Feed is a

1310
01:35:09.640 --> 01:35:15.199
wonderful opportunity to go and find the
products we talk about and friendly staff,

1311
01:35:15.359 --> 01:35:17.840
courteous staff, and all of the
other things that you might need, like

1312
01:35:17.960 --> 01:35:21.920
your pet foods, your livestock foods, wildlife feed. They even have a

1313
01:35:23.039 --> 01:35:28.359
grooming center. You can go to
Spring Creek Feed. They're located in Magnolia

1314
01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:33.880
on FM twenty nine seventy eight.
So up in Magnolia FM twenty nine seventy

1315
01:35:33.920 --> 01:35:38.760
eight Spring Creek Feed and you can
buy all of that kind of stuff.

1316
01:35:38.760 --> 01:35:41.640
If you happen to be in FA
or four h or if you're a military,

1317
01:35:41.920 --> 01:35:45.199
if you're a senior citizen, there's
discounts for all of it, all

1318
01:35:45.279 --> 01:35:48.680
of you and if you don't see
what you need, they will special order

1319
01:35:48.880 --> 01:35:53.680
products for you. So the things
we talk about on garden Line or there

1320
01:35:54.039 --> 01:35:57.600
and anything you need just ask them
and they will try to special order it

1321
01:35:57.720 --> 01:36:00.560
for you as well. I think
we'll head back out to the phone right

1322
01:36:00.640 --> 01:36:04.800
now, and we are going to
go to Baytown and talk to Robert.

1323
01:36:05.000 --> 01:36:10.760
Hello, Robert. Okay, I
have his wife. Oh, we have

1324
01:36:10.920 --> 01:36:16.960
hello, Robert's wife. Okay.
We have a spot in the front garden

1325
01:36:18.119 --> 01:36:26.399
that okay, rob us here.
We have a funglish problem. We had

1326
01:36:26.600 --> 01:36:32.000
a satsuma, it was infected by
it. We cut it down, and

1327
01:36:32.239 --> 01:36:41.079
now we planted a peach tree and
sure enough he got it again. What

1328
01:36:41.279 --> 01:36:45.600
can we do well, ma'am,
that's a little too generic for me to

1329
01:36:45.640 --> 01:36:49.039
be able to tell you, because
I'm still not clear there. I cannot

1330
01:36:49.119 --> 01:36:54.720
think of a disease that attacks satsuma's
and peaches, so you may have more

1331
01:36:54.760 --> 01:36:58.760
than one thing going on. Could
you take some pictures of that tree from

1332
01:36:58.800 --> 01:37:01.039
a distance so I can see the
whole tree, and then close up of

1333
01:37:01.279 --> 01:37:04.720
leaves or anything that when you say
you have a fungus on it, show

1334
01:37:04.800 --> 01:37:09.439
me a good, well focused picture
that I can put you on hold and

1335
01:37:09.600 --> 01:37:12.479
Josh can get you an email where
you can send that in and I'll be

1336
01:37:12.560 --> 01:37:15.880
happy to take a look. Okay, hold on Herebert he can tell you

1337
01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:19.119
a little bit more. Okay,
Um, we know we have brown rock

1338
01:37:19.239 --> 01:37:24.000
because when the when the pies did
come, only as they started rick on,

1339
01:37:24.079 --> 01:37:32.520
they started rock with yes with fungicide, and the bark has some splits

1340
01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:40.319
in it. Okay, yeah,
the splits in the bark could be natural

1341
01:37:40.399 --> 01:37:44.199
as the tree gets older. But
if they're on the southwest side of the

1342
01:37:44.319 --> 01:37:48.439
tree and they're very deep fissures in
the bark down even to the inner wood,

1343
01:37:48.640 --> 01:37:54.960
that is damage from cold in the
wintertime. It strikes the southwest side

1344
01:37:54.960 --> 01:37:57.479
of the tree. So as far
as the brown rock, you have to

1345
01:37:57.560 --> 01:38:00.239
spray preventively your fungicide. Don't wait
too you see it, You just have

1346
01:38:00.399 --> 01:38:03.279
to be out there ahead of it, because it will ruin the show and

1347
01:38:03.720 --> 01:38:09.760
most importantly any rotten fruit. Pick
it up. If anything is left dried

1348
01:38:09.880 --> 01:38:14.159
hanging on the tree, that mummy
is full of spores to infect again later.

1349
01:38:14.520 --> 01:38:19.039
So cut those out, do that
sanitation and lower your problems with the

1350
01:38:19.119 --> 01:38:21.800
brown Right, you want to eradicate
it, but at least you won't be

1351
01:38:21.880 --> 01:38:27.560
as bad. It won't be as
bad if we get that email worse pictures.

1352
01:38:27.720 --> 01:38:29.479
All right, I'm gonna put you
on hole right now. Hang on

1353
01:38:29.680 --> 01:38:32.840
and let's see we will get Josh
to take care of that. Um,

1354
01:38:33.039 --> 01:38:36.439
let's see, we're going to head
out to League City and talk to Barbara.

1355
01:38:38.000 --> 01:38:41.800
Hello, Barbara, good morning,
Yip, so good to hear your

1356
01:38:41.880 --> 01:38:45.880
voice. Question. I came home
after being gone for a few weeks,

1357
01:38:45.000 --> 01:38:51.079
and my tomato plants are covered in
holes, tiny holes. They look like

1358
01:38:51.199 --> 01:38:57.720
pincushions. Okay, okay, and
I can't find any critters on it.

1359
01:38:58.079 --> 01:39:00.479
All right. The holes are too
small to be snails. They're all the

1360
01:39:00.520 --> 01:39:02.880
way up to the top. I
know exactly what you're talking about. That's

1361
01:39:02.920 --> 01:39:08.199
a little beetle doing that. And
if there's still enough foliage left to say,

1362
01:39:08.640 --> 01:39:14.439
find a product with spinosaid. It's
SPI n O s A D.

1363
01:39:15.119 --> 01:39:17.600
It soaks into the tissues, so
you know, day or two after you

1364
01:39:17.680 --> 01:39:20.560
spray, a beetle shows up and
eats a leaf and it kills it.

1365
01:39:20.800 --> 01:39:24.800
But I'm having to head to break
here. We got about a minute left.

1366
01:39:24.920 --> 01:39:27.880
But did that. I just got
a pen. Could you spell that

1367
01:39:27.960 --> 01:39:33.880
again for me? You bet?
SPI n O s A D spinosa Okay,

1368
01:39:35.239 --> 01:39:39.920
great, thank you you're my hero. Well, hey, well that

1369
01:39:40.079 --> 01:39:42.520
was easy, Thank you very much. I appreciate the call. There,

1370
01:39:42.600 --> 01:39:45.159
Barbara, you're listening to the Garden
Line. I'm your host, Skip Ricter,

1371
01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:49.520
and the phone number is seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy

1372
01:39:49.560 --> 01:39:51.880
four. We're going to head to
news now, but if you will give

1373
01:39:53.000 --> 01:39:55.840
Josh a call, he'll get you
on the boards. Nikki, did you

1374
01:39:55.960 --> 01:40:00.199
know that spinosa is made by fermenting
a soil? Micro isn't that interesting?

1375
01:40:00.359 --> 01:40:04.359
That is fascinating. And see you
start talking about a little beetle and my

1376
01:40:04.520 --> 01:40:09.880
mind goes right to ringo. Yeah, that's funny. I'm kind of a

1377
01:40:09.960 --> 01:40:14.520
horticultural Cliff Claven. Also, they
found it on the islands in the Caribbean

1378
01:40:14.600 --> 01:40:18.119
and brewery waste or no sugarcane something
waste. So yeah, and here we

1379
01:40:18.199 --> 01:40:33.960
are with a wonderful organic product.
Wow. Sometimes you want to go all

1380
01:40:34.039 --> 01:40:36.920
right, gosh, I get it, Cliff Claven. Those of you who

1381
01:40:36.960 --> 01:40:42.840
have never watched Cheers, you missed
a lot number one. Cliff Claven,

1382
01:40:43.039 --> 01:40:45.199
he's a no at all. He
knows everything. Well, let's put it

1383
01:40:45.279 --> 01:40:48.039
this way. He thinks he knows
everything. But thank you for the music.

1384
01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:54.039
Oh gosh, best Meilvan Ever.
You're listening to Garden line. I'm

1385
01:40:54.039 --> 01:40:57.600
your host, Skipwrecter, not Cliff
Claven, although I could at times be

1386
01:40:57.640 --> 01:41:02.840
a horticultural Cliff Clayvin some one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven

1387
01:41:02.920 --> 01:41:08.720
one three two one two five eight
seven four. Let's head to northwest Houston

1388
01:41:08.840 --> 01:41:13.399
and we're going to talk to Paula. Hello, Paula, good morning.

1389
01:41:13.920 --> 01:41:17.479
I have an answer for that lady
who's plagued with mosquitoes. She said,

1390
01:41:17.520 --> 01:41:24.119
she may not plagued with no seems
a little different creature, but oh I

1391
01:41:24.239 --> 01:41:28.680
thought mosquitoes. Yeah, well,
what's your mosquito? Oh I'm sorry,

1392
01:41:28.680 --> 01:41:30.880
I'm just understood. That's okay.
We kind of bounced around with both of

1393
01:41:30.920 --> 01:41:36.680
those. What's your mosquito remedy?
Well, I'm retired, so I Gordon

1394
01:41:36.760 --> 01:41:41.079
every day. In fact, I'm
standing out here in my yard right now.

1395
01:41:41.079 --> 01:41:45.159
I've been dead hitting flowers and like
I said, she may not want

1396
01:41:45.199 --> 01:41:48.680
to hear it's this, but I'm
literally covered from head to toe. I've

1397
01:41:48.720 --> 01:41:54.000
got a sunhet on, I've got
a mosquito net under the sunhet. I've

1398
01:41:54.039 --> 01:41:59.039
got a T shirt on. I've
got a light weight long sleep men shirt

1399
01:41:59.119 --> 01:42:04.319
over that. I've got lightweight,
long pants, which and I'm wearing socks

1400
01:42:04.760 --> 01:42:11.079
and with my Gordon clogs clogs.
It's so funny because I see the mosquitoes

1401
01:42:11.199 --> 01:42:14.840
like buzzing around my head. Yeah, of course they can't get to me

1402
01:42:14.840 --> 01:42:17.239
because I got the mosquito net on, which is I think ninety nine cents

1403
01:42:17.239 --> 01:42:20.279
at wal Mart or something, so
it's back of a deal. Well,

1404
01:42:20.479 --> 01:42:24.600
very good. Sounds like you're you're
bundled up. Well that's good. Protect

1405
01:42:24.640 --> 01:42:29.720
you that lu stuff. Protect your
skin too, which you know the effect

1406
01:42:29.760 --> 01:42:31.760
of the sun's rays at up over
time, so it's always a good idea

1407
01:42:31.800 --> 01:42:36.479
to protect your And then in the
summertime, I have um coal packs that

1408
01:42:36.640 --> 01:42:40.840
I put I've got one that goes
underneath my hat, and then I've got

1409
01:42:41.319 --> 01:42:45.880
that goes around my neck, so
it all works. You sound like I'm

1410
01:42:45.920 --> 01:42:49.119
picturing like a polatoon of army people
getting ready to go to battle, and

1411
01:42:49.239 --> 01:42:54.399
you're just heading outside the garden.
I know, but it's a battle with

1412
01:42:54.520 --> 01:42:58.119
these mosquitoes, right yeah, all
right, well, hey, thanks for

1413
01:42:58.319 --> 01:43:00.560
okay, thanks for that tip,
Paul, I appreciate shot the call.

1414
01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:03.920
Yeah, the phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four

1415
01:43:04.319 --> 01:43:09.720
and by the way, I,
Carol, I've during break I kind of

1416
01:43:09.840 --> 01:43:13.640
checked this out, and I always
go to research based websites. This is

1417
01:43:13.840 --> 01:43:18.680
information I found was from the University
of Florida Extension and they basically there's not

1418
01:43:18.760 --> 01:43:24.520
a lot you can do for no
sums. They do say that DEET should

1419
01:43:24.600 --> 01:43:30.319
be helpful, but they don't really
throw all their eggs into one basket on

1420
01:43:30.479 --> 01:43:35.640
the DEET either. I think probably, you know, other than just nuke

1421
01:43:35.720 --> 01:43:39.039
in the yard all the time,
which is not really going to help.

1422
01:43:39.640 --> 01:43:43.720
I don't think there seems to be
a really good noseum control out here.

1423
01:43:43.800 --> 01:43:46.119
And I've again been perusing all these
things trying to figure them out for those

1424
01:43:46.159 --> 01:43:49.079
of you who don't know what they
are, which I was only vaguely familiar

1425
01:43:49.119 --> 01:43:54.520
with them. They're basically a little
like a little tiny flying midge. A

1426
01:43:54.640 --> 01:44:01.800
midge is something when we say tiny, imagine let's see what would be this

1427
01:44:02.000 --> 01:44:06.439
tiny almost the size of like a
poppy seed. But we're you know,

1428
01:44:06.520 --> 01:44:10.800
but the size of the end of
a pencil, the lead, the width

1429
01:44:10.880 --> 01:44:13.119
of that. That's about how big
these things are. And that's why there

1430
01:44:13.159 --> 01:44:15.680
are no SEMs. You can't see
them. Kind of gross. I could

1431
01:44:15.720 --> 01:44:19.760
read to you what they do and
why they cause a problem. But I

1432
01:44:19.840 --> 01:44:23.960
don't know, lunch is coming up
for too long and I don't want to

1433
01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:27.560
do that to you. Yeah,
we need a good no sum remedy.

1434
01:44:27.600 --> 01:44:34.439
It sounds like if you are,
if you're interested in finding out better ways

1435
01:44:34.800 --> 01:44:41.159
to have success with your shrubs and
your trees, maybe you're doing a hedge.

1436
01:44:41.680 --> 01:44:44.600
I want to give a couple of
little tidbits of advice that I think

1437
01:44:44.760 --> 01:44:46.920
may be hopeful for you. If
you want a hedge to be a screen.

1438
01:44:47.079 --> 01:44:49.800
Number one, you want to be
an evergreen so that it's also a

1439
01:44:49.920 --> 01:44:56.199
screen in the summertime, as I
mean in the wintertime as well as in

1440
01:44:56.279 --> 01:44:59.920
the summertime. When those hedges,
you want to get them up high enough

1441
01:45:00.359 --> 01:45:04.680
wherever you sit or stand or whatever, you don't see what it is across

1442
01:45:04.720 --> 01:45:09.279
the hedge that you don't want to
see, or vice versa people seeing in

1443
01:45:10.039 --> 01:45:13.720
You know, maybe you got the
neighbor who's got the car up on blocks

1444
01:45:13.760 --> 01:45:17.800
in the backyard or likes to sunbathe
in his speedo and his speedo years were

1445
01:45:17.800 --> 01:45:21.560
about three decades ago. Well,
you know, you need to get some

1446
01:45:21.960 --> 01:45:25.359
type of a good hedge, but
just high enough. It doesn't have to

1447
01:45:25.359 --> 01:45:28.560
be twenty feet high unless you're trying
to block a two story building or something

1448
01:45:29.039 --> 01:45:31.680
or the view of it, but
high enough to do that. You always

1449
01:45:31.720 --> 01:45:36.279
want to keep the hedge where all
parts of the hedge get sunlight top to

1450
01:45:36.399 --> 01:45:42.680
bottom. So depending on the orientation
of the hedge and the traveling of the

1451
01:45:42.760 --> 01:45:45.439
sun through the sky, just think
keep that in mind. I always say

1452
01:45:45.520 --> 01:45:50.760
keep the top of the hedge a
little narrower than the base because all these

1453
01:45:50.840 --> 01:45:56.880
hedge plants try to grow top heavy. The top wants to expand out and

1454
01:45:56.960 --> 01:46:00.960
then you end up with an umbrella
of foliage and down below it's all bare.

1455
01:46:01.359 --> 01:46:04.399
And once you lose the foliage down
low, it is very hard to

1456
01:46:04.439 --> 01:46:09.960
get it back short of just cutting
the hedge way way back and kind of

1457
01:46:10.039 --> 01:46:14.000
starting over on rebuilding it. So
always keep the top narrower, so most

1458
01:46:14.000 --> 01:46:15.520
of your pruning is going to be
up at the higher parts of the hedge.

1459
01:46:15.560 --> 01:46:18.880
It's not going to be as much
to do down low. But where

1460
01:46:18.960 --> 01:46:21.920
it gets good sunlight, you get
good growth, you get good density.

1461
01:46:23.239 --> 01:46:27.560
So that's just a tip. If
you're interested in having a success with a

1462
01:46:27.680 --> 01:46:31.800
hedge, you know when you're when
you're planting trees and taking care of trees,

1463
01:46:32.279 --> 01:46:38.159
the first season is critical. Number
one. Planting correctly is critical.

1464
01:46:38.239 --> 01:46:40.720
And I'm not going to go into
all of that right now, but that

1465
01:46:40.840 --> 01:46:45.399
first summer season is a tough one
because that tree had it grown in the

1466
01:46:45.560 --> 01:46:48.680
spot where you've now planted that tree, had it come up from a seed

1467
01:46:48.720 --> 01:46:53.560
and grown there, there'd be roots
all over the place, reaching way out

1468
01:46:53.600 --> 01:46:57.880
in all directions. But now you've
bought it with this little cylinder of roots

1469
01:46:57.920 --> 01:47:00.680
all wrapped around and you put it
in the ground, so it takes time

1470
01:47:00.720 --> 01:47:03.640
for those roots to get out.
First critical summer is really important. You

1471
01:47:03.720 --> 01:47:10.159
know. I talked about using a
sprinkler that goes around the tree and that

1472
01:47:10.359 --> 01:47:14.560
provides and call them tree huggers,
provides water right there. It can provide

1473
01:47:14.600 --> 01:47:16.000
water right there at the base,
or water or a bigger area. You

1474
01:47:16.039 --> 01:47:19.119
can also put a little berm of
soil around a tree, a little wider

1475
01:47:19.199 --> 01:47:24.199
than the root ball, just for
the early on, making sure that you

1476
01:47:24.239 --> 01:47:26.920
know, you fill the berm up
and it allsokes straight down in there.

1477
01:47:27.000 --> 01:47:31.000
That's also a good strategy because you
got to keep that dried. It pumps

1478
01:47:31.079 --> 01:47:36.119
dry really fast. Once roots start
to get in. Then regular watering is

1479
01:47:36.199 --> 01:47:41.640
the secret through the rest of that
first year, making sure you support those

1480
01:47:41.760 --> 01:47:45.239
roots. So it's one thing that
keeps the tree alive, it's another thing

1481
01:47:45.279 --> 01:47:47.159
to get it growing. And if
it's a shade tree or a tree like

1482
01:47:47.279 --> 01:47:50.039
that in your yard, you want
it to be big enough to hang a

1483
01:47:50.119 --> 01:47:55.520
hammock in as fast as possible,
So that means good early growth. And

1484
01:47:56.279 --> 01:48:00.199
it's important to fertilize, but I
think people don't realize that, and it

1485
01:48:00.279 --> 01:48:04.720
comes to supporting fast growth, watering
probably plays a bigger role than fertilizing,

1486
01:48:04.800 --> 01:48:11.279
as important as fertilizing is, and
so adequate watering is really important if you

1487
01:48:11.319 --> 01:48:14.199
want to do that. Hey,
you're listening to garden Line. We're about

1488
01:48:14.199 --> 01:48:17.119
to take a break our phone number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1489
01:48:17.479 --> 01:48:21.000
seventy four. If you want to
give Josh Cook, get on the boards,

1490
01:48:21.079 --> 01:48:23.960
and those of you who are on
the board right now, we'll be

1491
01:48:24.039 --> 01:48:39.720
getting back to you first when we
come back from break. Look they do

1492
01:48:40.079 --> 01:48:51.119
look ye good, A good Sunday
morning. I hope you are enjoying the

1493
01:48:51.199 --> 01:48:56.840
day as much as I am.
Already suns out Guy's blue really looks good

1494
01:48:56.880 --> 01:48:59.880
out there. Good day to get
out and do some gardening. It's also

1495
01:49:00.039 --> 01:49:02.359
good day to call into garden Line
the phone number seven one three two one

1496
01:49:02.479 --> 01:49:06.720
two fifty eight seventy four. And
we are going to head out to Katie

1497
01:49:06.800 --> 01:49:11.640
now and talk to John. Hello. John, Hey, how are you

1498
01:49:11.720 --> 01:49:15.439
doing. I'm well, thank you. So a few years ago a bird

1499
01:49:15.520 --> 01:49:20.680
deposited mulberry seed. Mulberry tree is
growing about four feet away from my house

1500
01:49:21.439 --> 01:49:28.760
and the utilities man, and I'm
wanting to cut it down because it's it's

1501
01:49:28.800 --> 01:49:31.359
getting fairly tall. Wife says,
not so much. Keep it. Let

1502
01:49:31.399 --> 01:49:35.840
the birds eat the berries. What's
your thoughts? All right? John,

1503
01:49:35.920 --> 01:49:40.600
I gotta tell you a gardening advice
on garden Line is free. Marriage advice

1504
01:49:40.720 --> 01:49:43.760
is one hundred dollars an hour.
So I don't know if you want to

1505
01:49:43.840 --> 01:49:45.319
go. I don't know if I
want to wade into the big middle of

1506
01:49:45.359 --> 01:49:49.560
that. Seriously, I'm not a
fan of mulberries because of the reason.

1507
01:49:49.640 --> 01:49:53.439
You you know, birds eat the
seed and they drop them everywhere, and

1508
01:49:53.560 --> 01:49:56.680
they come up in the fence lines
and everywhere the bird stops, you know,

1509
01:49:56.760 --> 01:50:00.800
they just land on something and with
one quick flick the tail, they've

1510
01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:05.039
planted and fertilized a mulberry seed,
so I would I wouldn't keep them,

1511
01:50:05.399 --> 01:50:10.720
but everybody, it's your yard.
You're you're in your wife's yard, and

1512
01:50:11.279 --> 01:50:13.680
so it's up to you guys as
to whether you want to keep it or

1513
01:50:13.720 --> 01:50:15.960
not. But just know that you're
just gonna have more of that going on.

1514
01:50:15.439 --> 01:50:18.760
Mulberries can be a little messy and
the birds end up getting most of

1515
01:50:18.840 --> 01:50:21.880
them. I've had a mulberry tree. My neighbor had it across the fence

1516
01:50:21.920 --> 01:50:25.600
in the backyard and it would load
up and I always thought, yeah,

1517
01:50:25.640 --> 01:50:28.039
the branch is hanging over this way, I may have me a mulberry.

1518
01:50:28.079 --> 01:50:30.920
But the birds came in and cleaned
them out. So the one reason you'd

1519
01:50:30.960 --> 01:50:33.880
have it seems like the birds are
kind of taking that away from us.

1520
01:50:35.920 --> 01:50:41.319
I don't know if that helped.
One question I did have is regards to

1521
01:50:42.079 --> 01:50:47.359
regards to the root system and the
utilities, meant, is there any possibility

1522
01:50:47.359 --> 01:50:51.039
of damage there or being really close
to the foundation for house as well?

1523
01:50:51.800 --> 01:50:58.439
You said it was four feet away. Correct, It's not gonna damage your

1524
01:50:58.479 --> 01:51:01.920
foundation like it would damage going underneath
the sidewalk and lifting it up. But

1525
01:51:02.039 --> 01:51:05.720
what it will do is there'll be
a proliferation of mulberry roots there around the

1526
01:51:05.760 --> 01:51:10.000
house, because that's a cool,
moist area, especially if you don't have

1527
01:51:10.079 --> 01:51:13.800
gutters in the house. But it's
still and they pump the soil dry and

1528
01:51:13.960 --> 01:51:16.279
so our soils shrink and swell,
and that's how we get a damage to

1529
01:51:16.359 --> 01:51:20.680
the foundation. And the tree roots
there are part of the problem there.

1530
01:51:21.119 --> 01:51:25.000
I think four feet from the house
is way too close. You're gonna have

1531
01:51:25.079 --> 01:51:30.399
limbs rubbing the eaves, rubbing the
shingles and so on. Yeah, if

1532
01:51:30.439 --> 01:51:33.079
ever mine, I would get rid
of it. Okay, appreciate it,

1533
01:51:33.239 --> 01:51:40.640
all right, thank you for appreciate
that. If you live up in the

1534
01:51:41.359 --> 01:51:45.920
Montgomery area. By the way,
this is the weekend where we have tax

1535
01:51:46.159 --> 01:51:50.000
free purchases on plants, soil products, and so on. So if you're

1536
01:51:50.079 --> 01:51:54.159
up in that area, the place
you need to head right now is A

1537
01:51:54.359 --> 01:51:57.880
and A Plants and produce. A
and A Plants is on the east side

1538
01:51:57.880 --> 01:52:01.720
of Montgomery, so all of Lake
conra Conro itself and up and down Highway

1539
01:52:01.760 --> 01:52:06.159
forty five. Even A and A
Plants is going to be an awesome source.

1540
01:52:06.239 --> 01:52:10.119
They've got all the kinds of things
we talk about on garden line,

1541
01:52:10.159 --> 01:52:15.880
the fertilizers, the mulches and composts
and things like that, awesome selection of

1542
01:52:15.960 --> 01:52:19.399
plants, lots and lots of plants. And one of my favorite things at

1543
01:52:19.479 --> 01:52:23.920
A and A is the bling that
comes with it, you know, the

1544
01:52:24.079 --> 01:52:27.680
chiminy, the metal art, the
flags to put out in the yard,

1545
01:52:27.760 --> 01:52:30.880
all the different decorations, the patio
furniture and so on. So why are

1546
01:52:30.920 --> 01:52:34.359
you there pick up some of that
as well, But don't forget Today is

1547
01:52:34.399 --> 01:52:38.279
the last day for tax free so
if you're up in the A and A

1548
01:52:38.359 --> 01:52:41.439
area, you need to check them
out. This is your chance to make

1549
01:52:41.520 --> 01:52:46.520
those kinds of purchases that help save
soil moisture, helps save water, additional

1550
01:52:46.640 --> 01:52:51.239
watering because they're more efficient. That
would be including composts and including malts and

1551
01:52:51.319 --> 01:52:56.119
so on. A and A plants
and produce up there in the Montgomery just

1552
01:52:56.239 --> 01:53:00.159
on the east side of Montgomery on
Highway forty five, let's head over to

1553
01:53:00.279 --> 01:53:04.279
Kingwood and we're gonna talk to Kenneth. Hello, Kenneth, good morning,

1554
01:53:04.359 --> 01:53:09.199
How are you doing. I'm well, thank you all right? I see

1555
01:53:09.239 --> 01:53:13.319
what I did? I just had
or area. They didn't put down any

1556
01:53:13.399 --> 01:53:16.319
composts. Okay, is it that's
assary quick down or is it just a

1557
01:53:16.399 --> 01:53:23.199
good idea? Well, those are
two practices that are both helpful. So

1558
01:53:24.439 --> 01:53:30.319
if if you if you were to
put a just an error, let's say

1559
01:53:30.359 --> 01:53:32.720
you just do the aeration, that
is beneficial. If you just did the

1560
01:53:32.760 --> 01:53:36.119
compost, that would be beneficial.
But when you do them both, now

1561
01:53:36.199 --> 01:53:40.239
you have the oxygen down in the
soil and you're getting some of that organic

1562
01:53:40.359 --> 01:53:43.640
matter down in those holes, so
that helps hold the hold open. That

1563
01:53:43.960 --> 01:53:47.960
still helps with the oxygen, but
it's like you're you're mixing slowly over time

1564
01:53:48.439 --> 01:53:55.279
organic materials down into enrich your soil. So to put them together is better

1565
01:53:55.399 --> 01:54:01.119
than either alone, but either alone
is still good. Now I've got plays

1566
01:54:01.159 --> 01:54:06.239
all down below, we've got a
little the top. Okay, yeah,

1567
01:54:08.239 --> 01:54:11.800
but would you get into the clay? Yeah, yeah, that's it's hard.

1568
01:54:12.199 --> 01:54:14.199
It may be hard to get down
that. You know, a narration

1569
01:54:14.319 --> 01:54:16.760
is probably gonna go about four inches
deep, and so that that may not

1570
01:54:16.880 --> 01:54:20.359
be deep enough to get into the
clay. But still it's improving the soil

1571
01:54:20.520 --> 01:54:24.159
that you have. And we always
talk about adding compost to the soil.

1572
01:54:24.239 --> 01:54:28.319
Well, this is this is how
you do it in an existing in an

1573
01:54:28.399 --> 01:54:32.319
existing place. Hey, Kenneth,
I appreciate the question very much. Thank

1574
01:54:32.359 --> 01:54:34.720
you, and don't forget. I'm
going to be out there at while Bird's

1575
01:54:34.760 --> 01:54:39.920
unlimited Kingwood on Saturday, June tenth, two saturdays from yesterday. We'll talk

1576
01:54:39.920 --> 01:54:45.600
about that more next weekend if you
If you need to do some lawn fertilizing

1577
01:54:45.840 --> 01:54:50.640
for the summer, something's gonna last
all summer. Nelson Plant Food Slow and

1578
01:54:50.720 --> 01:54:58.079
Easy twenty two two ten excellent ratio
for the summertime it gradually releases. I

1579
01:54:58.159 --> 01:55:00.640
won't nerd out on the chemistry of
why that is, but just know that

1580
01:55:00.720 --> 01:55:06.159
it gradually releases those nutrients over time
twelve weeks or so, maybe even longer.

1581
01:55:06.680 --> 01:55:09.520
That it is going to feed your
along all the way to fall,

1582
01:55:09.760 --> 01:55:13.479
so you're good until fall, especially
when you return your clippings, which everybody

1583
01:55:13.520 --> 01:55:16.439
should do as well. If you'd
like something that's a faster release, Bruce's

1584
01:55:16.520 --> 01:55:20.880
Brew eighteen forty nine, that's fine, Just don't overdo those in the summer.

1585
01:55:20.920 --> 01:55:26.640
You don't want to push a lot
of nitrogen at one time because it

1586
01:55:26.920 --> 01:55:30.560
just makes for more mowing. But
Bruce's Brew probably overall is one of my

1587
01:55:30.640 --> 01:55:33.960
favorite, the turf star line that
Nelson's has. I hope you'll check it

1588
01:55:34.039 --> 01:55:36.199
out. They're available a lot of
places. By the way, I just

1589
01:55:36.239 --> 01:55:40.680
talked about Ana, they carry Nelson's. It's a place you can get it

1590
01:55:40.840 --> 01:55:43.920
right there, as well as many
of our sponsors of the show that we

1591
01:55:44.000 --> 01:55:46.640
talk about. We are fortunate to
live in a place where there are so

1592
01:55:47.279 --> 01:55:53.399
many great garden centers this Houston.
You go north, southeast, west,

1593
01:55:53.520 --> 01:55:57.640
all over the plate Central, there's
a garden center near you. I mean,

1594
01:55:57.720 --> 01:56:00.199
we got Ace Hardwares all over for
supplies, and we got feed Stars

1595
01:56:00.199 --> 01:56:04.880
all over that I have great supplies
as well. It's just it's really a

1596
01:56:05.000 --> 01:56:10.720
good place. I've lived in cities
before that maybe there was one notable garden

1597
01:56:10.800 --> 01:56:15.279
center not here. We got a
lot of notable garden centers, So I

1598
01:56:15.359 --> 01:56:18.520
hope you'll take advantage of that.
Just remember I'm a broken record on this,

1599
01:56:18.720 --> 01:56:23.960
but today's the last day for the
tax free weekend for plants, for

1600
01:56:24.119 --> 01:56:28.960
compost, for Mulcha's, for water
saving devices, a hos in timer,

1601
01:56:30.000 --> 01:56:33.800
a drip irrigation system, tree hugger, sprinklers, you know, anything that's

1602
01:56:33.840 --> 01:56:38.000
going to be part of the growing
and watering or your plants that will help.

1603
01:56:38.800 --> 01:56:41.840
This is the weekend to save the
tax money off of those, so

1604
01:56:42.279 --> 01:56:45.720
I hope you take advantage of that. Well, you're listening to garden Line.

1605
01:56:45.720 --> 01:56:47.880
We're going to be back for our
last hour in just a moment.

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

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Josh, you'll get you on

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01:56:58.960 --> 01:57:02.560
the boards and we will look forward
to talking to you about what your question

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01:57:02.800 --> 01:57:18.560
is regarding gardening. KTRH Garden Line
does not necessarily endorse any of the products

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01:57:18.640 --> 01:57:26.600
or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Director,

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01:57:26.960 --> 01:57:48.520
so just watch him as well.
Good Sunday morning to you on a

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01:57:48.760 --> 01:57:54.840
beautiful day. Man, is beautiful
outside this afternoon. Good time to get

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01:57:54.880 --> 01:58:00.199
out there and do some gardening.
And remember that plants this weekend end,

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01:58:00.479 --> 01:58:05.520
soil and compost and other water saving
devices are all tax free. And if

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01:58:05.560 --> 01:58:12.279
you'd like to add onto that already
great news, I want to suggest that

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01:58:12.359 --> 01:58:16.479
you consider purchasing a tree today from
Verdant Tree Farm. And here's why they're

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01:58:16.520 --> 01:58:20.840
having a Memorial Day sale twenty five
percent off limited time only. It ends

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01:58:21.159 --> 01:58:26.680
on May twenty ninth, that's tomorrow, twenty five percent off on all trees

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01:58:26.840 --> 01:58:30.199
and all palms, and boys,
summers are great time to plant a palm

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01:58:30.239 --> 01:58:33.479
tree, I mean actually palm trees. It's better to plant them in the

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01:58:33.520 --> 01:58:38.039
summer than it is even in the
winter. And the folks at Verdant they've

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01:58:38.079 --> 01:58:43.159
got all kinds of palms, the
Madule palm, Sylvester, the Florida sable,

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01:58:43.279 --> 01:58:46.239
the Mule palm, which is a
really unique hybrid palm, Canary Island

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01:58:46.359 --> 01:58:49.600
windmill, you name it. They
are the palm source and they have a

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01:58:49.640 --> 01:58:55.279
lot of other kinds of trees,
but palms are a specialty with those folks.

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01:58:55.920 --> 01:59:00.239
If you can find the Verdant farm, the original one was out on

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01:59:00.439 --> 01:59:03.399
Barker, Cyprus on the west side. Down in pair Land, they have

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01:59:03.560 --> 01:59:08.840
one on West Broadway fifty nine or
nine West Broadway, and then in the

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01:59:08.920 --> 01:59:13.479
heights kind of a center of town
three thirty seven Yell Street at ten,

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01:59:13.840 --> 01:59:17.600
lots of places. Just go on
line to Verdant Tree Farm dot com and

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01:59:17.760 --> 01:59:21.399
you can find where the nearest windou
is and exactly how to get there and

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01:59:21.479 --> 01:59:25.600
maybe learn a little bit more about
some of this. This deal going on

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01:59:26.199 --> 01:59:29.560
that is a twenty five percent off
is huge. That is a huge,

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01:59:29.760 --> 01:59:35.800
huge sale, pretty cool stuff.
I was in the garden the other day

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01:59:35.960 --> 01:59:43.239
doing a little bit of work on
some of my experiments. Now I want

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01:59:43.279 --> 01:59:46.760
to say out loud, real crystal
clear here, I'm not recommending that you

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01:59:46.880 --> 01:59:50.199
plant what I'm about to tell you, but I know you everybays wondering what

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01:59:50.279 --> 01:59:55.119
on earth are you gonna say.
I have been working to come up with

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01:59:55.239 --> 02:00:00.000
a way to grow rhubarb down here
now years ago. Now you probably know

1640
02:00:00.119 --> 02:00:03.640
I'm not from the Midwest that didn't
grow up eating rhubarb or whatever part of

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02:00:03.680 --> 02:00:10.159
the country that rhubarb typically grows in. But a number of years ago I

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02:00:10.199 --> 02:00:14.680
did a little experiment where we started
rhubarb from seed in the fall. I

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02:00:14.800 --> 02:00:18.800
actually planted it in August and little
containers where we could keep it moderately cool,

1644
02:00:19.520 --> 02:00:23.840
and then we put it out in
the garden late September October, I

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02:00:23.960 --> 02:00:27.479
believe, and it grew all winter, and then in the spring we got

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02:00:27.560 --> 02:00:30.880
a good harvest from it. Now, if we have a very bitter cold,

1647
02:00:30.960 --> 02:00:34.319
it will freeze rubar back, but
it's by and large moderately hardy,

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02:00:35.119 --> 02:00:39.720
but we took it through and in
the spring, big tall, beautiful stalks.

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02:00:40.159 --> 02:00:43.479
When summer came, they started to
rot and fall apart. And I

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02:00:43.560 --> 02:00:45.600
mean that all the soil. This
was at an organic farm in Austin that

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02:00:45.680 --> 02:00:50.079
I used to work with. And
so if you think about it, when

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02:00:50.119 --> 02:00:56.119
strawberries you're ripening here, which is
what February now, not February unless you

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02:00:56.119 --> 02:01:00.199
got him undercover, March, April, maybe going into the early part to

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02:01:00.279 --> 02:01:03.760
May. That's when the rhubarb was
available. So if you've ever heard of

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02:01:03.800 --> 02:01:09.720
strawberry rhubarb pie, then you know
what I'm talking about. And you can

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02:01:09.800 --> 02:01:14.600
grow it here. It's just a
overwinter biennial. It would be like you're

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02:01:14.640 --> 02:01:16.960
planting a broccoli plant. You plant
it in the fall, and of course

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02:01:17.039 --> 02:01:20.800
well that you're harvesting before the even
the Christmas time, but you get the

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02:01:20.920 --> 02:01:25.880
idea. It's a cool season plant. So what I'm doing this summer is

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02:01:26.079 --> 02:01:30.159
I'm trying seedlings. I found a
source of some people that collect rubarb seeds,

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02:01:30.880 --> 02:01:34.199
different strains from different parts of the
country, and so I just bought

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02:01:34.279 --> 02:01:38.880
the seeds, put them out.
We're watching them to see how long they're

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02:01:38.880 --> 02:01:41.079
going to hold up. I planted
them way way too late. In fact,

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02:01:41.119 --> 02:01:43.680
it was spring before I got out
there. I mean late winter before

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02:01:43.720 --> 02:01:45.520
I got out there and plant them. But they look good. Now I'm

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02:01:45.560 --> 02:01:48.359
going to watch them and see if
any of them hold up. And if

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02:01:48.399 --> 02:01:51.239
they do, hey, we're saving
seed from that. And we're gonna try

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02:01:51.279 --> 02:01:57.560
it again. Now, don't get
your chops set for the great New Texas

1669
02:01:57.720 --> 02:02:00.800
version of rhubarb. If we ever
developed up it, it would be a

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02:02:00.880 --> 02:02:06.600
long time coming. And I suspect
that genetically there probably isn't a heat tolerant

1671
02:02:06.800 --> 02:02:11.640
enough rhubarb in the gene pool to
grow down here. But we're going to

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02:02:11.680 --> 02:02:15.760
try it. But if you miss
rhubarb, you're a transplant from somewhere else

1673
02:02:15.800 --> 02:02:19.600
and you just miss rhubarb. You
can grow rhubarb in Texas in that winter

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02:02:20.359 --> 02:02:27.680
fall through spring technique that I just
was talking about a minute ago. If

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02:02:27.720 --> 02:02:30.399
you happen to live out in Kingwood, you are rich with garden centers.

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02:02:30.600 --> 02:02:34.800
You've got Warren Southern Gardens on North
Park Drive. You've got Kingwood Garden Center

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02:02:34.880 --> 02:02:39.560
on Stone Hollow Drive. Both of
them are open seven days a week.

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02:02:39.640 --> 02:02:43.479
And here goes my broken record again. Today this is the last day of

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02:02:43.720 --> 02:02:48.680
tax free purchases for plants, for
compost or for soil. Now they carry

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02:02:49.000 --> 02:02:53.920
everything, and both of these garden
centers they carry everything. We talk about

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02:02:53.960 --> 02:02:59.239
regarding fertilizers. They have they have
a filling station for the Nelson plant food

1682
02:02:59.239 --> 02:03:01.239
in microlife jugs, so so if
you buy one of those in the little

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02:03:01.279 --> 02:03:04.760
plastic canisters, you can take those
in and refill them. It's a little

1684
02:03:04.800 --> 02:03:10.159
bit less expensive and you avoid adding
more plastic to the waste stream, which

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02:03:10.399 --> 02:03:14.399
we have heard and heard how we
don't want to be doing that. They're

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02:03:14.439 --> 02:03:17.159
going to carry every kind of plant
that you can imagine, herbs and veggies

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02:03:17.199 --> 02:03:19.560
and citrus fruit. And by the
way, now is a great time to

1688
02:03:19.600 --> 02:03:24.920
get out there and plant some citrus
roses and annuals and perennials and so on.

1689
02:03:25.359 --> 02:03:28.359
They're really good at designing. And
I was at at Warren's a good

1690
02:03:28.359 --> 02:03:33.239
while back, and I was just
really impressed with the planters that they had

1691
02:03:33.279 --> 02:03:39.119
created a beautiful container, maybe a
tall vaselight container, and they had plants

1692
02:03:39.119 --> 02:03:42.720
spilling over the sides and going up
through the middle. It's just that design

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02:03:42.960 --> 02:03:45.319
element. So you can go you
can go there and just purchase those,

1694
02:03:45.560 --> 02:03:49.239
or you can go there and kind
of look and go okay, okay,

1695
02:03:49.239 --> 02:03:51.720
I see what they did there,
take a picture of it, buy some

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02:03:51.840 --> 02:03:54.840
plants, and go home and do
it yourself. I mean, if you're

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02:03:54.840 --> 02:03:58.119
a do it yourselfer, which most
gardeners aren't, you can also do it

1698
02:03:58.279 --> 02:04:00.520
that way. But take advantage this
weekend. Now's a good time to go

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02:04:00.560 --> 02:04:05.720
out and purchase Warren's Southern Gardens on
North Park, Kingwood Garden Center on Stonehallow

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02:04:05.800 --> 02:04:11.760
Drive. Those are really really fun
places to go. See good gift shops

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02:04:11.800 --> 02:04:15.680
too. By the way, if
I was talking about the rue barb and

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02:04:16.079 --> 02:04:19.479
rue barb in the vegetable garden,
we always want to try to grow things

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02:04:19.520 --> 02:04:23.640
that aren't from here, right.
I don't know how many times people have

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02:04:23.720 --> 02:04:28.640
attempted things like for scythia or lilac
bushes because maybe they grew up in a

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02:04:28.720 --> 02:04:32.159
place where those plants were prevalent and
did so well and they have those memories.

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02:04:32.680 --> 02:04:35.319
I always tell people if they want
a lilac, the best thing they

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02:04:35.359 --> 02:04:39.920
can do is plant a crape myrtle
and spray with perfume. That'll get that'll

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02:04:39.960 --> 02:04:42.840
get you pretty close. I'm sorry, but that's as close as we can

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02:04:42.920 --> 02:04:47.279
get to a Lilac there is.
Our phone number is seven one three two

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02:04:47.359 --> 02:04:54.640
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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02:04:54.680 --> 02:05:13.640
four. Well, good Sunday morning, beautiful weather, Chamber of Commentation.

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02:05:14.159 --> 02:05:16.479
May leaders should cook calling it back
start coming gardening weather, because that's really

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02:05:16.520 --> 02:05:23.239
what it means. Do you live
up north toward Navasota, that whole region

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02:05:23.520 --> 02:05:28.039
we're talking about collistation in Brian Navasota, all the small towns out in the

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02:05:28.119 --> 02:05:30.840
countryside, beautiful to drive through by
the way, if you'd like to do

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02:05:30.000 --> 02:05:34.279
that one afternoon. But we're talking
about Ron's Prairie, Richards Anderson, beat

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02:05:34.359 --> 02:05:38.560
Eyes. Iola. Doesn't sound like
fun, it is, it really is.

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02:05:39.039 --> 02:05:43.359
You're fortunate to have a place called
Grimes County Feeding Farm Riot out there,

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02:05:43.439 --> 02:05:47.479
two miles west of FM two forty
four on State Highway thirty. Now,

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02:05:47.680 --> 02:05:54.359
the folks at Grimes County Feed have
done an excellent job of stocking up

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02:05:54.560 --> 02:05:57.479
on these fertilizers that we talk about. They have a lot of other supplies

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02:05:57.520 --> 02:06:00.279
there as well. But earlier I
was talking about out slow and easy,

1723
02:06:00.720 --> 02:06:04.039
you know from Nelson's. They've got
that out there. They've got the products

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02:06:04.119 --> 02:06:10.279
like the barricade from nitro files and
then they have also some microlife fertilizer and

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02:06:11.000 --> 02:06:13.760
now I say some, it's quite
a bit of it in stock. They

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02:06:13.880 --> 02:06:16.159
keep all that in stock. It's
everything you would expect of a feed store,

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02:06:16.239 --> 02:06:20.920
all the supplies that we know feed
stores carry, like quality dogging cat

1728
02:06:21.039 --> 02:06:27.079
foods, but even things like pond
supplies, maybe an aquatic herbicide or fish

1729
02:06:27.159 --> 02:06:30.399
food or fish stocking. They're involved
with fish stocking twice each quarter. So

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02:06:30.760 --> 02:06:35.560
check out Grimes County Feed again.
They're on Highway thirty two miles west of

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02:06:35.800 --> 02:06:44.520
FM two forty four. Mentioning the
Microlife, I wanted to just talk about

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02:06:44.560 --> 02:06:47.520
that just for a little bit.
I have been. I've used Microlife in

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02:06:47.640 --> 02:06:53.000
my yard for a number of years
now. It's a product I love.

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02:06:53.159 --> 02:06:57.039
The release of it is gradual over
time, which you would expect from a

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02:06:57.079 --> 02:07:00.359
slow released product. Right now,
I would say the combination to keep in

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02:07:00.479 --> 02:07:03.399
mind would be the six two four, which is the green bag, and

1737
02:07:03.520 --> 02:07:10.399
the Humates plus which is the purple
bag for fur to Humates plus is concentrated

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02:07:10.560 --> 02:07:14.279
compost in a bag. Because that's
about what it amounts to. You get

1739
02:07:14.319 --> 02:07:16.479
all the nutrients you get. The
six two four doesn't just have nitrogen,

1740
02:07:16.479 --> 02:07:21.199
phosphorus and potassium. It's an organic
furtlizer. It's got beneficial microbes, It's

1741
02:07:21.239 --> 02:07:27.079
got all of the trace elements that
we need so much to put back into

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02:07:27.199 --> 02:07:30.199
our soil. If you want to
find microlife pretty much ever where you hear

1743
02:07:30.279 --> 02:07:33.439
us talk about here on guarden Line, but you can go online to Microlife

1744
02:07:33.720 --> 02:07:39.920
Fertilizer dot com and they'll take you
right to it. I go back to

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02:07:40.000 --> 02:07:42.079
the phones now, by the way, the number if you'd like to call

1746
02:07:42.199 --> 02:07:45.079
seven one, three, two and
two fifty eight seventy four, and we

1747
02:07:45.239 --> 02:07:49.039
are going to go to bel Air
and visit with Carolyn. Hello, Carolyn,

1748
02:07:49.920 --> 02:07:53.920
good morning. How are you doing. I'm well today, thank you.

1749
02:07:55.319 --> 02:08:00.560
I have an east facing house.
It's not a big house right now.

1750
02:08:01.359 --> 02:08:07.600
I would like to add some pretty
foliage, but especially some color.

1751
02:08:09.000 --> 02:08:13.159
But there's one hang up. I
cannot get out and do a lot of

1752
02:08:13.279 --> 02:08:18.800
maintenance. Okay, you know,
I'm just not able to. I want

1753
02:08:18.880 --> 02:08:26.600
to know something about lantana that's been
recommended to me and something that doesn't grow

1754
02:08:26.800 --> 02:08:31.000
very tall, because I have japonica
next to the wall of the house and

1755
02:08:31.159 --> 02:08:35.680
I keep it at about three and
a half feet, okay, So I

1756
02:08:35.800 --> 02:08:41.119
want something that would be in front
of that that would not be taller than

1757
02:08:41.199 --> 02:08:46.560
that. I'd like something around two
two and a half feet. Okay.

1758
02:08:46.600 --> 02:08:50.279
Well, lantenna would be a good
choice, but you got to make sure

1759
02:08:50.560 --> 02:08:54.720
when you go out and buy your
lantenna that you're getting a dwarf type.

1760
02:08:54.399 --> 02:08:58.760
Lantana can get you know, shoulder
high some types of it, but there

1761
02:08:58.800 --> 02:09:01.560
are are some types that hardly get
a foot high. I mean they're very

1762
02:09:01.640 --> 02:09:07.840
small, and so you would purchase
them. They bloom a lot and if

1763
02:09:07.000 --> 02:09:13.199
do you think it may be about
six hours of sun there, probably okay,

1764
02:09:13.319 --> 02:09:16.159
then I think lantenna would do maybe
not quite that much, maybe not

1765
02:09:16.319 --> 02:09:20.039
quite okay, Well, lantenna would
be a good choice. Goussion. You

1766
02:09:20.039 --> 02:09:22.920
know, there's so many there's so
many plants that I just don't know where

1767
02:09:22.960 --> 02:09:28.319
to begin in terms of recommending them. I think that the perennial hibiscus would

1768
02:09:28.319 --> 02:09:31.520
look pretty good there. Now it's
just going to be a summer bloomer and

1769
02:09:31.680 --> 02:09:35.880
not carry you on. But there's
some very compact types of it as well.

1770
02:09:35.000 --> 02:09:39.880
And once again, if you bought
a perennial hibiscus, make sure and

1771
02:09:39.960 --> 02:09:41.840
gets one that's very tall. In
fact, it maybe a little tall for

1772
02:09:41.960 --> 02:09:46.359
what you were describing in that area. I may, I may pull back,

1773
02:09:46.399 --> 02:09:50.159
but I just love that. I
love that plant. A lot I

1774
02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:58.399
had one years ago that had yelt
bright yellow bloom with a deep orange throat.

1775
02:09:58.680 --> 02:10:01.760
Okay, well with the size of
a dinner plate. Oh my gosh,

1776
02:10:03.079 --> 02:10:07.359
Well that's amazing that that is very
unusual to have that color combination in

1777
02:10:07.479 --> 02:10:11.680
that size on a plant. Lots
of good, lots of good opportunities to

1778
02:10:13.159 --> 02:10:16.520
find different things to go in the
area. Certainly there's a lot of annuals.

1779
02:10:16.560 --> 02:10:24.159
I love Angelonia. I was talking
about the Salvia nemu rosa meadow sage

1780
02:10:24.239 --> 02:10:26.760
is what it's called beautiful plants.
They're only going to get the spikes on

1781
02:10:26.800 --> 02:10:30.079
those are only going to get about
a foot part and a half high,

1782
02:10:30.760 --> 02:10:35.520
and it does a good job and
it'll stick around for you. The anything

1783
02:10:35.680 --> 02:10:39.760
that's that's a perennial. You were
mentioning not being out to just work all

1784
02:10:39.800 --> 02:10:43.000
the time in the garden. Uh, your plan at once you're kind of

1785
02:10:43.079 --> 02:10:45.640
done with it, maybe occasionally you
would share it back a little bit to

1786
02:10:45.720 --> 02:10:48.159
get some more blooms, but those
will be a couple of options. But

1787
02:10:48.399 --> 02:10:52.640
good on good, I'm sorry interrupted, No, go ahead say it again.

1788
02:10:54.760 --> 02:11:00.880
Did you say salvia Salvia nemor rosa? Just in fact, you could

1789
02:11:01.000 --> 02:11:05.159
tell them Salvia namerosa or you could
just say where's your meadow sage and they

1790
02:11:05.640 --> 02:11:11.159
could take you to it and it
lots of color options and it's really beautiful.

1791
02:11:11.159 --> 02:11:13.279
I've been very impressed with that plant. But you know, picking you

1792
02:11:13.399 --> 02:11:18.479
one plant or two plants for a
spot is like you sent me to the

1793
02:11:18.760 --> 02:11:22.479
mall with a credit card and say
buy me some clothes. You know I

1794
02:11:22.560 --> 02:11:24.399
would be I would be at a
loss to know what to get, right.

1795
02:11:24.760 --> 02:11:28.680
So the same thing is true when
it's that wide open on plants.

1796
02:11:28.800 --> 02:11:33.000
But go to a good quality garden
center one of our mom and pops we

1797
02:11:33.079 --> 02:11:37.199
talk about, they are going to
have ten good options for that area,

1798
02:11:37.279 --> 02:11:43.159
if not more. Okay, the
Southwest Fertilizer carry plants. They do carry

1799
02:11:43.199 --> 02:11:50.560
some plants out front. Southwest Fertilizer
has as you as you come in to

1800
02:11:50.720 --> 02:11:54.439
the store through the chain that kind
of fencing. There's some plants that are

1801
02:11:54.479 --> 02:11:58.359
seasonal that are behind there. And
I think you can find something there too.

1802
02:11:58.399 --> 02:12:01.239
You might check out see if they
have some of them. I remember

1803
02:12:01.319 --> 02:12:05.520
seeing some there too. Okay,
okay, So I appreciate there your information

1804
02:12:05.640 --> 02:12:07.920
so much. Thank you. All
right, thank you for the call,

1805
02:12:09.039 --> 02:12:11.680
Carolyn. I appreciate that. Let's
head out now and we're going to talk

1806
02:12:11.720 --> 02:12:18.359
to Mike. Good morning, Mike, good morning. Real quick, about

1807
02:12:18.439 --> 02:12:20.600
five years ago, had a couple
of pine trees about fifteen feet apart,

1808
02:12:20.720 --> 02:12:26.680
taking out ground down the stumps.
Now we're starting to get depressions where they

1809
02:12:26.840 --> 02:12:30.399
used to be, and I think
it's the roots. I dug up some

1810
02:12:30.560 --> 02:12:33.680
dirt and I dug out some roots
that were paper They were thick, like

1811
02:12:33.840 --> 02:12:35.640
eight inch roots, but they were
paper thin and full of water. So

1812
02:12:35.760 --> 02:12:41.279
I had a feeling they're smart to
last. What's the smartest way to do

1813
02:12:41.359 --> 02:12:45.520
it besides just pouring dirt in it? Well, yeah, there, that's

1814
02:12:45.640 --> 02:12:50.319
kind of the way to do it. You don't use a compost or malt,

1815
02:12:50.560 --> 02:12:54.960
because those are going to go the
same direction that your roots went when

1816
02:12:56.039 --> 02:12:58.920
the plant was dead. Now you
got organic matter that's just going to go

1817
02:12:58.000 --> 02:13:03.560
away as it imposes. So use
something with some stability to it, and

1818
02:13:03.640 --> 02:13:07.640
that would be a soil, a
top soil type product, and top soil

1819
02:13:07.680 --> 02:13:11.560
or field dirt. Well, when
I hear the word field dirt, uh,

1820
02:13:11.920 --> 02:13:16.239
my warning signals go up because a
lot of stuff gets sold that's not

1821
02:13:16.560 --> 02:13:22.039
quality because it's just used to create
a mound to put a house pad on

1822
02:13:22.239 --> 02:13:24.840
or something. So just look at
it, take a look and feel it.

1823
02:13:24.960 --> 02:13:28.720
You know, is this a quality
dirt or is this just a bunch

1824
02:13:28.760 --> 02:13:31.560
of clay. If it's red,
don't don't get that. Don't get the

1825
02:13:31.720 --> 02:13:37.439
red field dirt kind of stuff.
Because I dug down about three or four

1826
02:13:37.520 --> 02:13:41.840
feet and I had some big o
eight inch roots going straight down still.

1827
02:13:41.119 --> 02:13:43.960
Oh yeah, I just wasn't gonna
dig. I wasn't gonna dig to China.

1828
02:13:45.119 --> 02:13:46.199
Well, you don't have to worry
about those going straight down. If

1829
02:13:46.239 --> 02:13:48.640
you've dug down a little bit like
that, that's good. Yeah. Pine

1830
02:13:48.680 --> 02:13:52.560
trees have a tap root and they
can a big tap root that goes down

1831
02:13:52.640 --> 02:13:58.119
in the ground helps anchor them.
Hopefully that'll get you off to a good

1832
02:13:58.159 --> 02:14:01.520
start there, Mike. Okay,
Yeah, I just I was hoping there

1833
02:14:01.600 --> 02:14:05.760
was a smarter way and I had, you know, I was just hoping

1834
02:14:05.880 --> 02:14:07.159
anyway, Thank you very much.
I listened to you all the time.

1835
02:14:07.720 --> 02:14:11.640
Well, I appreciate you listening.
Thank you very much. If you want

1836
02:14:11.680 --> 02:14:16.039
to give a quick green up to
your lawn, you ought to consider the

1837
02:14:16.119 --> 02:14:20.560
hash to grow twelve for eight.
That's a beautiful ratio. Twelve four eight.

1838
02:14:20.720 --> 02:14:24.119
That's the one where I was talking
about a three one two kind of

1839
02:14:24.239 --> 02:14:28.399
ratio is excellent. Now this is
a this is a lawn food supplement and

1840
02:14:28.479 --> 02:14:33.199
it's got the Medina soil activator in
it, and it's got the humate liquid

1841
02:14:33.279 --> 02:14:35.159
humus in it as well. You
hook it up to hos in sprayer to

1842
02:14:35.199 --> 02:14:37.760
a little quart sized jar. You
can buy bigger ones, but I use

1843
02:14:37.840 --> 02:14:41.239
the quart size and you just spray
it on the lawn. It takes about

1844
02:14:41.279 --> 02:14:45.399
ten minutes to treat an average lawn. But because you're putting them out on

1845
02:14:45.399 --> 02:14:48.640
a liquid there, you're going to
get a quicker response. It's going to

1846
02:14:48.720 --> 02:14:54.159
be a very nice quick response.
It'll stimulate the soil organisms that happens when

1847
02:14:54.239 --> 02:14:56.399
we add things like a humus to
the soil. I'd say do it about

1848
02:14:56.399 --> 02:15:00.319
four times per growing season. But
if you just want to get a quick

1849
02:15:00.359 --> 02:15:03.760
start right now, your lawn's kind
of struggling has to grow twelve for eight

1850
02:15:05.159 --> 02:15:09.920
lawn food from Medina Act products.
It would be a good choice. I'm

1851
02:15:09.920 --> 02:15:13.520
gonna go out and we'll talk to
Paul and Missouri City. Now, Paul,

1852
02:15:13.560 --> 02:15:16.319
are you going to put me on
the spot? Well, no,

1853
02:15:16.640 --> 02:15:20.079
this is an easy one for you. Okay. Um, yeah, good

1854
02:15:20.119 --> 02:15:24.000
morning, skip, good morning.
Yeah. I have a I think what's

1855
02:15:24.039 --> 02:15:31.319
called a cannus plant that has large
leaves and flour on topic. I've seen

1856
02:15:31.399 --> 02:15:35.760
it in red, yellow, and
orange. But um, you know,

1857
02:15:35.840 --> 02:15:39.279
they tend to spread as they grow, and and I want to I want

1858
02:15:39.319 --> 02:15:43.840
to put them in the front,
but I want to build a barricade.

1859
02:15:43.880 --> 02:15:48.680
I want to stop the prolific spread
of them. Okay, So, how

1860
02:15:50.000 --> 02:15:52.920
I guess my question is how deep
do I need to go down to keep

1861
02:15:52.960 --> 02:15:58.319
that root system, you know,
within a barricade. That's a good question.

1862
02:15:58.199 --> 02:16:01.800
Most of the time when I see
canter roots there in the top six

1863
02:16:01.920 --> 02:16:07.039
inches of soil. Now, I
don't think they're going to go deeper than

1864
02:16:07.119 --> 02:16:09.479
that. I guess I could be
wrong. But you know another what I

1865
02:16:09.600 --> 02:16:13.560
do with my can is is I
just take a sharpshooter shovel and every couple

1866
02:16:13.600 --> 02:16:16.640
of years, as they're getting too
big. I just go in there and

1867
02:16:16.960 --> 02:16:18.640
you know, cut a circle as
to here's where I want you to be,

1868
02:16:18.760 --> 02:16:20.880
and this pull the others out.
And that's a lot of work,

1869
02:16:22.000 --> 02:16:26.039
I know. So I understand the
desire for a barrier, but I don't

1870
02:16:26.079 --> 02:16:30.399
know if you went down about ten
inches, surely that's deep enough. Yeah,

1871
02:16:30.640 --> 02:16:35.159
okay, well, yeah, I
understand the thing about to shovel them

1872
02:16:35.479 --> 02:16:39.200
with my lousy Look, I've got
some underground irrigation piping under the hair,

1873
02:16:39.719 --> 02:16:46.760
and I hate to, hate to
hate to you don't get Yeah, well,

1874
02:16:46.799 --> 02:16:48.920
how how are you going to do
a barrier with that irrigation pipe around?

1875
02:16:50.600 --> 02:16:54.959
Well, I mean the pipe is
fairly close to the foundation of the

1876
02:16:56.040 --> 02:16:58.600
house, so okay, so yeah, I'm clear. I'm really clear that,

1877
02:16:58.760 --> 02:17:05.239
but I just I've done it before. Okay, Well, that's all

1878
02:17:05.319 --> 02:17:07.639
right, that is what I would
do, and I think you'll find some

1879
02:17:07.719 --> 02:17:11.680
pretty good success with that keeping them
in bounce. All right, very good,

1880
02:17:11.760 --> 02:17:15.559
thank you. Hey, thanks for
the call, Paul. I appreciate

1881
02:17:15.719 --> 02:17:20.520
that you are listening to garden Line
and we're here to answer your gardening questions.

1882
02:17:20.760 --> 02:17:22.159
Our phone number. Write this down
so you can give us a call.

1883
02:17:22.239 --> 02:17:26.440
Hey, we've got thirty minutes left
in the whole weekend of garden Line,

1884
02:17:26.479 --> 02:17:28.799
So get ready to give us a
call. Seven one three two,

1885
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1886
02:17:33.600 --> 02:17:37.079
four. And by the way,
Nikki has walked in the room. I

1887
02:17:37.239 --> 02:17:41.360
forgot to tell you that somebody yesterday
talked about how big of a fan you

1888
02:17:41.479 --> 02:17:45.559
are. So I'm thinking we need
to make T shirts the Nikki Fan Club

1889
02:17:46.159 --> 02:17:50.760
that you've got your followers and adorers
out there, and so here we go.

1890
02:17:50.879 --> 02:17:52.600
You know they used to be Lemonhead. So why aren't there some Nicky

1891
02:17:52.680 --> 02:17:58.159
Fan Club shirt Nicki News Network.
No, No, this is my thinking.

1892
02:17:58.760 --> 02:18:01.840
I'm thinking since this is a three
day weekend. Yes, I'm storing

1893
02:18:01.879 --> 02:18:07.840
a petition that we have you work
on the Mondays of three day weekends.

1894
02:18:07.000 --> 02:18:11.159
Me. Yes, thank you for
that. Yes, did I ever do

1895
02:18:11.239 --> 02:18:15.440
anything mean to you or what?
No, it's because we love you,

1896
02:18:16.520 --> 02:18:20.760
because we on these holiday Mondays we
garden all right, Yes, that's true.

1897
02:18:20.879 --> 02:18:24.200
It is true. On holiday Mondays. Just replay the show from the

1898
02:18:24.280 --> 02:18:45.360
previous day on we're on podcast.
Okay, well, I know it's okay.

1899
02:18:45.479 --> 02:18:52.959
You can jump up and dance.
You're listening to Guardline on a good

1900
02:18:54.319 --> 02:18:58.680
Sunday morning for getting outside getting some
stuff done this afternoon. Hey, our

1901
02:18:58.719 --> 02:19:03.760
phone number is SEE two two fifty
eight seventy four. I wanted to talk

1902
02:19:03.799 --> 02:19:07.879
to you about the Dellweb community going
in at fullsher It's two miles outside of

1903
02:19:07.920 --> 02:19:13.280
Fullshre from downtown Fullshre two miles to
on FM three fifty nine. Now,

1904
02:19:13.559 --> 02:19:16.760
the reason I'm excited about this community
number one is Dellweb. I mean,

1905
02:19:16.959 --> 02:19:20.040
that's the quality of the inspired designs, the lifestyle programs that come with a

1906
02:19:20.120 --> 02:19:24.639
Dellweb community. The thing that excites
me as a gardener is I'm helping them

1907
02:19:24.760 --> 02:19:30.200
create a community garden on site for
residents. What a wonderful opportunity. You

1908
02:19:30.319 --> 02:19:33.920
live in a beautiful community with walking
trails and all of that good stuff and

1909
02:19:35.680 --> 02:19:39.879
have a community garden there that's for
you to use. Go to Dellweb dot

1910
02:19:39.959 --> 02:19:43.680
com slash Houston for more information.
D E. L W, E B

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02:19:45.319 --> 02:19:50.600
B dot com slash Houston or Callumn
two eight one four five nine zero six

1912
02:19:50.079 --> 02:19:54.959
o nine. Let's head out to
the phones here. I'm gonna talk to

1913
02:19:54.319 --> 02:20:00.319
Sharon out in stagecoach. Hey,
how you doing, Sharon? Great?

1914
02:20:00.520 --> 02:20:03.959
Thank you. I've tried a couple
of times to grow poppies and I think

1915
02:20:05.000 --> 02:20:07.440
I'm doing unless we're doing something wrong, is it any way to grow them

1916
02:20:07.520 --> 02:20:13.680
here? Well, Sharon, poppies. You should just throw the seeds out

1917
02:20:13.719 --> 02:20:18.000
there and you have poppies. I
mean, they reseed profusely themselves, so

1918
02:20:18.159 --> 02:20:20.520
even when you're not planting them,
if you've had one, they come up,

1919
02:20:20.520 --> 02:20:24.079
so they're pretty easy. But here's
what I would recommend. Get your

1920
02:20:24.120 --> 02:20:26.440
poppy seeds and just hold them into
them, keep them inside, don't let

1921
02:20:26.479 --> 02:20:31.639
them get hot outside in the garage
or something. And when we get to

1922
02:20:31.879 --> 02:20:37.000
about late September early October, go
ahead and throw those out on the ground

1923
02:20:37.799 --> 02:20:41.120
and they will come up. You
need to learn what they look like,

1924
02:20:41.360 --> 02:20:43.799
so you don't think they're a weed, because they look a lot like a

1925
02:20:43.920 --> 02:20:48.440
thistle somewhat coming up. But yeah, and they will come up. Just

1926
02:20:48.639 --> 02:20:52.840
you need good bear soil. You
need good seed to soil contact. Don't

1927
02:20:52.959 --> 02:20:56.840
bury them. They're a little tiny
seed, so basically you can rake the

1928
02:20:56.959 --> 02:21:00.239
soil, scatter them and then just
water them in and in that water it

1929
02:21:00.319 --> 02:21:05.280
sort of settles the soil in around
the seed really nicely. But do you

1930
02:21:05.360 --> 02:21:09.719
need to seed them. No,
I mean, I guess you could.

1931
02:21:09.799 --> 02:21:13.639
I have never fertilized poppies in my
life. Of course, they're in a

1932
02:21:13.840 --> 02:21:16.719
garden bed, so you expect this
all to be a little decent there.

1933
02:21:16.840 --> 02:21:20.520
But yeah, correct, Now what
kind of you try to grow? I

1934
02:21:20.680 --> 02:21:22.479
probably should have asked that to begin
with. Yeah, well, of course

1935
02:21:22.520 --> 02:21:26.520
I love the red ones. Okay, so that's that's where I want.

1936
02:21:26.760 --> 02:21:33.200
I have a strip that's like tinsotwat
and and thirty foot long. It's got

1937
02:21:33.360 --> 02:21:37.760
kind of like a wild flower garden, so that's where I want them.

1938
02:21:37.840 --> 02:21:41.559
But I would to get them.
I was wondering if I should do them

1939
02:21:41.600 --> 02:21:46.520
in pot you know, like in
seed bad things, and then transplant them.

1940
02:21:46.559 --> 02:21:48.920
I guess you can't do that.
Well, it is humanly possible,

1941
02:21:50.079 --> 02:21:52.879
but they don't like it. So
I would recommend just throw scatter the seed

1942
02:21:52.920 --> 02:21:56.680
out there where you want them to
grow. And since it's a wildflower area,

1943
02:21:56.920 --> 02:22:01.040
random is good. So I think
you'll have success if you'll do that.

1944
02:22:01.120 --> 02:22:03.120
Next year, you may have to
clear away a little debris on the

1945
02:22:03.200 --> 02:22:09.079
soil surface so they can get good
seed to soil contact. Okay, I'll

1946
02:22:09.239 --> 02:22:11.479
try it again, all right,
you call me. You call me back

1947
02:22:11.760 --> 02:22:13.959
the next spring if these things came
up and I want to hear all about

1948
02:22:15.079 --> 02:22:20.760
okay, all right, all right, thank you, bet bye bye goodness.

1949
02:22:22.200 --> 02:22:24.399
If you are interested in gardening and
you don't have a spot, you

1950
02:22:24.440 --> 02:22:26.719
don't have a garden, you're not
going to dig up the dirt and go

1951
02:22:26.799 --> 02:22:31.479
to all the trouble of all that
stuff. You need to consider getting yourself

1952
02:22:31.559 --> 02:22:35.879
a Vego garden modular metal bed.
Now. Vego garden beds come in different

1953
02:22:35.879 --> 02:22:39.120
sizes. You can get them down
eleven inches seventeen, they go they go

1954
02:22:39.280 --> 02:22:45.879
on up in size. They're they're
coated with a product that stops them from

1955
02:22:45.920 --> 02:22:50.319
resting and corroding, and then they're
coated again with a paint that is food

1956
02:22:50.360 --> 02:22:52.760
safe paint to use. They're completely
modular. So do you want an oval

1957
02:22:52.840 --> 02:22:56.680
bed? Do you want a square
bed? Do you want a bed shape

1958
02:22:56.719 --> 02:23:00.159
like an L or a C?
You pick it out, you can do

1959
02:23:00.239 --> 02:23:01.639
it. You can set one of
the Vegos. If you get the taller

1960
02:23:01.680 --> 02:23:05.440
sizes, you can set it down
on a concrete patio and grow in that.

1961
02:23:05.639 --> 02:23:09.520
Just fill it up with a good
quality mix. If you're an organic

1962
02:23:09.600 --> 02:23:13.239
gardener, it's especially nice because you
know I don't want to use the treated

1963
02:23:13.319 --> 02:23:16.520
wood. Well, here goes Vego. Now there's a lot of impostors out

1964
02:23:16.559 --> 02:23:22.799
there, but go to Vego vgogarden
dot com and you can learn all about

1965
02:23:22.840 --> 02:23:26.719
them. A lot of our local
independent nurseries and garden centers are starting to

1966
02:23:26.840 --> 02:23:31.719
carry the Vego garden beds as well, but I highly recommend them. If

1967
02:23:31.760 --> 02:23:35.399
I were to create a brand new
garden, I wouldn't think twice, it

1968
02:23:35.440 --> 02:23:39.879
would automatically I would put in a
Vego bed. They are attractive, they're

1969
02:23:39.959 --> 02:23:43.000
beautiful, they work really really well. I want to head out now to

1970
02:23:43.719 --> 02:23:48.719
Jersey Village and we're gonna talk to
Maybeth. Hello, Maybeth, Yeah,

1971
02:23:50.360 --> 02:23:58.120
good morning. I had black swallowtail
larva on a Dell plant twelve up.

1972
02:23:58.600 --> 02:24:01.159
Okay, what do I do?
Do you want to keep? Do you

1973
02:24:01.200 --> 02:24:05.680
want to eat dil? Or do
you want to have butterflies? The Dell

1974
02:24:07.120 --> 02:24:11.159
is not edible right now? I
mean it's fine to see, okay,

1975
02:24:11.600 --> 02:24:15.799
and so now I don't want a
deal. Well, they like dill.

1976
02:24:16.120 --> 02:24:20.239
They probably like fennel too. I
think I'm trying to think of what else

1977
02:24:20.559 --> 02:24:22.280
are you worried about them not having
to something to eat, not making it

1978
02:24:22.479 --> 02:24:28.079
to adult stage. I don't know
what to do with the farming is new

1979
02:24:28.200 --> 02:24:31.719
to me and so I don't know. Do I just leave them? Yeah,

1980
02:24:33.120 --> 02:24:35.239
yeah, just leave them. Watch
and enjoy. You'll see some little

1981
02:24:35.319 --> 02:24:41.000
crysalists appear as they get ready to
become a butterfly. You may not see

1982
02:24:41.079 --> 02:24:45.319
them on the deal plant. If
there's anything that's leaning against they may crawl

1983
02:24:45.440 --> 02:24:48.319
up on that and make their crystalists. But watch for them. They're really

1984
02:24:48.440 --> 02:24:54.200
cool, really cool to watch.
It's amazing. Well, it's a bad

1985
02:24:54.319 --> 02:25:00.799
descott a lot I've got adjacent to
it, like some tis and some sage

1986
02:25:01.159 --> 02:25:07.520
and basil and map that are all
in there together. So well, thank

1987
02:25:07.719 --> 02:25:09.600
you. Spread sounds like you're doing
a good job. If the bill,

1988
02:25:09.719 --> 02:25:13.719
if the dill seeds land around in
there, they will come up and spread.

1989
02:25:13.799 --> 02:25:18.000
In fact, I hate to say
this on the air, but I

1990
02:25:18.120 --> 02:25:20.719
have tried to start dill as transplants
before and I get them out in the

1991
02:25:20.760 --> 02:25:24.559
garden and they just seem to be
really unhappy with me. But when they

1992
02:25:24.639 --> 02:25:28.040
come up where they want to come
up, they're very happy. So just

1993
02:25:30.200 --> 02:25:31.639
let them do what they want and
weed out the ones you don't want.

1994
02:25:33.799 --> 02:25:37.959
Okay, this bed's so full that
I think they're probably going to fall to

1995
02:25:37.120 --> 02:25:41.479
the wayside instead of to the ground. I don't think they could reach get

1996
02:25:41.600 --> 02:25:46.000
down to the ground. If they
they'll blow off somewhere. We may have

1997
02:25:46.239 --> 02:25:52.399
dil Yeah, so next next spring, uh maybe Mathew, definitely need to

1998
02:25:52.440 --> 02:25:56.920
plant some cucumbers and you you're ready
to go for some pickles, that would

1999
02:25:56.959 --> 02:26:00.760
be true. So just let them
go and enjoy. Let them go and

2000
02:26:00.920 --> 02:26:05.120
enjoy. That's right. Appreciate that
call. That's funny. Yeah, deal

2001
02:26:05.319 --> 02:26:11.159
is boy? Does is it ever
willing to volunteer? That is for sure?

2002
02:26:11.719 --> 02:26:15.559
Oh my goodness. You're listening to
garden Line and we are here to

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answer your gardening questions. I enjoy
talking to gardeners. And our phone number

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if you want to give us a
call seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. Josh,

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we'll get you on the board.
We're gonna take a little break here

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in a moment, and we will
come back to answer your gardening questions.

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By the way, those of you
out in the general Kingwood area, Porter,

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New Caney, all those places,
I'm going to be two saturdays from

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yesterday, June tenth, at the
wild Birds Unlimited in Kingwood. Please come

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out and see me. I love
to meet you. So nice meeting the

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folks out at the clear Lake wild
Birds Unlimited. By the way, if

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you're still in clear Lake and you
haven't registered for the drawing, they're drawing

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tomorrow, so don't delay. We
bit barning. Wonderful day to be outside

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and enjoy the weather this afternoon.
Get outside, do some stuff in the

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yard or garden, just relax,
enjoy yourself, or get out to a

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garden center pick up some wonderful new
plants. Boy, this is a good

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time to do it. And again
here's the reminder. This is the last

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day of the tax free weekend for
plants, for compost, for mulch,

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for water saving devices. This is
the time. So it's like having an

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almost eight percent discount on what you're
what you're purchasing out there. Sounds like

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a good deal to me. Let's
head out to Groves and talk to Tony

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Well. Good morning, Tony Well, good morning to you, sir.

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Can you hear me? Okay?
I can okay? On the vegetable guards

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skip and first I appreciate what you
do on the vegetable garden, skip on

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the pathways in between each row.
What can I put in there that I'm

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able to walk through there? You
know, like maybe after a big I

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don't know range storm and I can't
get in it. What I get my

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all muddy? You know what I
mean? Okay, So what I do

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is I put leaves in And you
can put a lot of leaves. You

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feel, you know, you put
them in there, it's like it's full

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up when you walk on them.
As it stays moist it they sit down

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and then you add more and you
add more one time in a thirty five

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thirty five garden. I'm not kidding. I put three hundred bags of leaves

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in one season. Just wow.
And at the end of the season,

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now you have a trench full of
compost, which is kind of nice.

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You can move that up into the
bed if you If you don't want to

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go through that process, you can
just get wood chips, you know,

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the uh whatever access you have.
Some people use those tax free, tax

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free the grind up and blow them
into the back of the truck. Services

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you know, the tree grinders and
stuff. They'll they'll often dump chips for

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you but you know that's a little
bit more of an ordeal. But anyway,

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yeah, I just fill it with
organic matter that will create an all

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weather pathway. And you can't just
do leaves once. You gotta several times

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pile them and walk on them and
they sink down and then you will have

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a nice all weather pathway. Okay, Well, how about grass. It's

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not a good idea grass clippings.
Grass clippings you can only spread a little

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bit, like an inch or two
because they will start to get mucky and

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stink and they'll get slippery and your
fee can slide out from under you if

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you're sitting on something that's got thick
layer of grass clippings under it that are

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decaying, getting gooey. So just
be a little sparing with those, okay,

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Because my wife is the one that
told me to quit putting them in

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there because there was bringing in weeds
and uh, well, I mean yeah

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it could be. Yeah, if
you if you mow a weedy lawn,

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you're gonna have weed seeds in those
grass clippings, So that's true. Also,

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you don't want to use grass clippings
from a lawn that's been treated with

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a lot of herbicides because you do
some of those are a lot of persistent,

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a little bit persistent, right right, right, okay, all right,

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scamp. Well that answered my question, sir. I appreciate all what

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you do for Thank you so much. I appreciate appreciate your call. By

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the way, I want to mention
I was wrong about the tax free ends

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today. It's actually I believe good
for Monday as well, so you can

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go on line check that out.
But uh, maybe we get an extra

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day out of this deal. Uh
we uh. You know, I wanted

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to talk to you about the Bee
Supply. I've mentioned them before. I

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wish that I could convince you how
cool it is to learn about bees.

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Kids would be fascinated by it.
I'm fascinated by it as an adult.

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They do these honey bee tours out
there twice a month out in Dayton,

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and you get to walk around,
you get to learn about bees. There's

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a little presentation, and then you
get to taste all the different kinds of

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honey. It's pretty cool. Go
to the b Supply dot com. It's

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they have an excellent website. You
can learn about those tours. If you

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are a beekeeper or you want to
learn to be a beekeeper. They have

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classes. They have a beginner class
twice a month out there in Dayton where

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you get hands on and the good
thing about going to and purchasing from the

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B Supply is you can go back
a thousand times with your questions. I

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mean that, and they will patiently
help you and help you to have success

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because they want you to have success, and beekeeping is really a fun hobby.

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Check out the b Supply dot com. Let's go to West Katie.

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We're going to talk to Joe.
Good morning, Joe, Good morning,

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Skip, thanks for taking the call. Yes, I've got a small raised

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band. It's four foot by eight
foot. I've got three tomato plants that

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are tomatoes that are rappening. But
before they fully rappen, there's a small

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gnat that is eating chewing them up
and eating them from the bottom, mostly

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from the bottom up, but little
black gnats. My Google search says it's

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fungus gnats, but I don't I'm
not certain about that. Okay, do

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you have a suggestion on what they
use to persuade them from eating my tomatoes?

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02:32:28.280 --> 02:32:31.959
Okay, there, it's not fungus
nats most likely, unless you had

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a wound on your tomato, and
they were able to attract them in.

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When they smell the fungus gnats,
you know they they it's like fruit flies.

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They can smell and and be attracted
in. But I don't think it's

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fungus nats what I think may have
happened. They may just be there because

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they're hatching out in the soil.
They like a rich organic soil, which

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is what we typically plant in.
And you may have fungus nat larva they

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are hatching out, becoming adults and
sitting there, or it could be that

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there is some sort of a wound, but it's probably a different kind of

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gnat that you're seeing. Sometimes the
tomato will get blossom en drought where it

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decays on the end, and then
that will attract some little things in like

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that. But I can't think of
anything that is what you described that's located

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on the tomato where you described there
would be a primary attacker of your tomatoes.

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Oh okay, But if what would
be first course of action doing something

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about the soil? You keep it. Go ahead, because you're right,

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it is rich and all that end
with all the range you stayed Willie most

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for a period of time, so
that I mean I tried to initially some

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liquid seven and that did not okay, you know, gave relief for a

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few hours. That's about it.
That's interesting. Well, letting the top

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of the soil dry out is very
helpful with fungus nuts. There's also a

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form of BT that's what we buy
for caterpillars, but there's a form that's

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different. You can't use a caterpillar
BT. There's a fungus gnat type of

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BT. So go to where you
purchase your gardening supplies and ask them for

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the BT that's for fungus gnats,
not caterpillars, and you can spray the

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soil and shut them down that way
too. Okay, okay, all right,

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well, thank you, thank you
so much. All right, thank

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you. I appreciate appreciate that call
very much. Yeah, and by the

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way, out there in Katie,
oh my gosh, you have you have

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Ace Hardware stores nearby, and no
matter where you live in town, there

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is Ace hardware. So go to
Ace hardware dot com and on that site

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you can find a store locator and
you can find all the stores that are

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near you. I mean they this
place. We are fortunate at thirty nine.

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ACE Hardware is in the Greater Houston
area. I mean that is that

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is just absolutely amazing. I am
always uh, I always enjoy going into

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ACE. Just all the supplies they
have. I mean, anything you need

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for gardening that we're talking about here, like the fertilizers and and the pesticides

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and all other kind of things like
that, you're going to find those at

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an ACE Hardware. You know,
depending on where you are out in the

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Katie area. We got one on
pin Oak Road, you know, it's

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not too terribly far away. There
is a number of aces. There's one

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as you as you're going out to
Katie, a little south of town,

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there is a really nice ACE Hardware
out in um the guys you can't say

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02:35:30.520 --> 02:35:33.520
the name of the town, Rosenberg
area, thank you. It's down Plantation

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Ace Hardware. They've got some really
cool supply. That's I was at that

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one a while back and I was
really amazed at all that they had on

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02:35:41.680 --> 02:35:46.079
stock there. Super super great place
for buying all the things we talk about,

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as well as all the hardware stuff, you know, work gardeners where

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we're more interested and fertilizer that we
were in, light bulbs and plumbing parts

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and all those other things. Nice
thing about ACE two is when you go

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in, they greet you and they
know what they're talking about. I mean,

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I'd give my right arm for any
kind of place I'm shopping at to

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02:36:03.479 --> 02:36:09.040
actually have educated people to know what
they're talking about. I can tell when

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I walk into a garden center and
if I ask a question, I can

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02:36:11.920 --> 02:36:16.440
tell in the first few seconds by
looking in the person's eyes, Oh,

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02:36:16.840 --> 02:36:18.959
they're going to be scrambling around trying
to come up with an answer rather than

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02:36:20.040 --> 02:36:24.639
telling me what's actually the truth.
And they know that's that's just a shame.

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Not going to happen today though,
Well, you've been listening to Garden

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Line today. We are about to
head out. I want to wish you

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all a very very happy Memorial Day. What a wonderful holiday for remembering all

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of those people who sacrificed for us, some of them giving the ultimate sacrifice

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for us, for the freedoms we
enjoy. You know, we do take

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things for granted. That's just our
nature as human beings, and we definitely

2150
02:36:50.520 --> 02:36:54.520
do not want to take for granted
those who are willing to put their life

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02:36:54.559 --> 02:37:01.159
on the line for our freedoms.
For our liberty that we are so fortunate

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02:37:01.440 --> 02:37:07.719
to live in the land we live
in to have that kind of a group

2153
02:37:07.799 --> 02:37:11.360
of people and armed forces willing to
take care of us. I mean,

2154
02:37:11.440 --> 02:37:16.319
you can even stand that out to
people in law enforcement, people, firefighters

2155
02:37:16.360 --> 02:37:20.799
and other many many people that make
the freedoms we enjoy, the safety and

2156
02:37:22.000 --> 02:37:26.959
life we enjoy, the benefits we
enjoy possible. And that significance is not

2157
02:37:28.120 --> 02:37:30.920
lost on me, and I know
it's not lost on you either. In

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the meantime, we're going to be
back next Saturday. You're Saturday and Sunday

2159
02:37:33.399 --> 02:37:37.520
six am to ten am, So
we hope you listen in. If you

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02:37:37.559 --> 02:37:39.799
miss something today or missed yesterday,
you can listen to us on podcast.

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02:37:41.600 --> 02:37:45.879
Just take your podcast app I art
Media hopefully and you can get right to

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02:37:46.000 --> 02:37:48.680
garden Line and listen to us.
Meantime, I just hope you will have

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02:37:48.799 --> 02:37:52.120
a wonderful, successful gardening week.