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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 rictor so Smell.

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Just watching as so many well good
Sunday morning. And by the way,

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this is going to be a good
We are looking forward to talking to

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you today on guarden Line about whatever
kind of questions you might have for guarding

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plants, indoor plants, outdoor plants, edible plants, look at them plants.

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It's just so many different kinds of
wonderful things you can do. You

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know, if you are if you
are interested in taking up gardening is a

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hobby. There are so many ways
to go about it. Some people are

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just lawn rangers. They're the weekend
warriors, and their goal is to have

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the perfect emerald green carpet and every
square inch of their lawn that they can.

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That is the goal. Okay,
that's good, go for it.

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If you are interested in vegetables,
maybe you want to change the way you're

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eating. Maybe you would like to
grow things and so your produce you know

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where it came from, came from
your yard, or fruits and all kinds

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of thing. People get into that. I mean, of course they do.

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It's a wonderful it's fun thing to
do. I think everybody ought to

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grow a few vegetables, even if
you have to do it in a container

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on the back patio. Maybe you're
into our gardening and that is really something

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that pleases you, or you just
love color. You want to paint,

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like rim Brandt, your landscape with
beautiful colors and carry it through the seasons

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and learn more about what plants maybe
bloom in the fall or other things.

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That's a whole new world to gardening. For a lot of people, it's

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house plants. You know, they
don't have room for a garden. Maybe

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you live in a high rise apartment
or condos, some sort of thing like

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that where you just you know,
you don't have a back forty, but

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you really are into house plants.
Maybe you have a balcony. You put

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some things on well, COVID broad
house plants back to the forefront. They

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were definitely on a backshelf, in
a back closet for the whole town.

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I've been in horticultures pretty much.
I mean, there's a couple times where

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houseplants had a little resurgence, but
boy, now they are a front and

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center and all these new and rare
you can't live without at once or out

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there to mess with. Maybe you
would like to create a fairy garden.

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What's a fairy garden? Well,
you could do it as a little scene

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at the base of a tree,
you know, where you sort of create

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like you would a mulch bed,
but you just create a little bed where

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you build a little miniature garden and
you can buy all the supplies for it.

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I know, I was out at
well Act and Channing Forest and the

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Channing Gardens both visiting them. They
have these little scenes that they've created,

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like that's summon containers and that's cool. That's a whole other little you know.

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It's like people that create, you
know, have a big tabletop and

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they create maybe a battle of whatever
scene where you know, you have a

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little toy soldiers and they just with
the bushes and all the trees. I

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mean, they just recreate. That's
a hobby for them. Well, this

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is this would be example of a
hobby. Maybe you like water gardening,

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you like fish, and you would
like to create bring in lily pads and

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all the other great water gardening plants. You see what I'm saying. I

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mean, there are so many ways
to get involved with plants and gardening,

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but they all have one thing in
common, and that is that when you

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interact with plants, you are gonna
change your health and as well as your

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mental health, your physical and your
mental health. There is a piece of

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mind, there is a release,
and there is a stack of reef search

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on all the benefits of interacting gardening. But even of course, going beyond

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interacting with nature a walk in the
woods kind of thing. Gardening is a

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great hobby. And I hope if
you are listening and you haven't dove in

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yet, you're just kind of listening
to see what kind of crazy music is

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it going to play today or or
whatever, well, I hope you'll consider

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it because there is a type of
gardening for everybody. If you are interested

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in retiring, and maybe you're looking
for a place where you can retire and

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just enjoy life but not go out
to pasture, but stay the active adult

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that you are, well, that
would be a Dell web community. You

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know, they're designed for active adults
age fifty five and better. Down in

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Fullsher, two miles from downtown Fulsher
on Highway or on FM three fifty nine.

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Is a new dell Web community going
in now. This dell Weeb community

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has a community garden in it that
I'm helping them with. And so you

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get all the benefits of the beauty
and the quality in a dell Weeb community,

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plus the opportunity to have a community
garden to visit with other gardeners,

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grow some fresh produce for yourself our
flowers if you wish, go to doeweb

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dot com slash Houston for more information
or just call them two eight one four

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five nine zero six zero nine.
I'm going to go to the phones now

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and we are going to head to
the heights and talk to answer. Hello

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Nancy, Hi, how are you? Good morning? Good morning. I

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have a question. I have a
question regarding we'd beat complete. Yes,

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I've gone to two different places.
One said it's okay to apply it now

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and another place said it's too hot
to apply it. What do you think?

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I think the tiebreaker? I think
it is too hot. But here's

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who your tiebreaker is. Is that
that's the label because if it's on there,

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if you read through it, it'll
say something like don't use when temperatures

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are above eighty five when you're Saint
Augustine lawn, or maybe it'll say in

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the up of the upper eighties or
something. But once we pass ninety,

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most things are off the table.
The one product that can go above ninety

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is called celsius, like the temperature
celsius, but it's a less common product.

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For sure, we'd beat or completes
a great product. I would just

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hold off plan on this fall when
temps dropped down a little bit. If

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you need to use it on some
newly sprouted annual broad leafs, you know,

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cool season broad leaves, or next
spring as you're coming out of the

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winter time, right before all those
weeds take off and really become a problem.

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Those are the times that are best
to use it. Okay, what's

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funny you should mention celsius because I
actually got some applied some on when wet

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Thursday. Okay. And then it's
the person i'd went to Southwest spuratilizer and

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they said if it's above eighty five, you shouldn't apply that either. And

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then I applied it with a Guardian
sprayer, and I noticed the spray was

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like really was quite wide instead of
like direct on the I've got something called

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spurt trying to get rid of and
um so then I'm like, oh my

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gosh, I'm probably killing all my
lawn. So I went and sprayed it

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all off, or tried to,
and then it did. Brain. So,

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did you think that the celsius you
have to apply it directly to the

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weed? Right? You have to
get it on the web? You know,

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garden sprayers or I think they're okay. If you're putting out nutrient,

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or if you're putting out insecticides or
maybe even a fun decide for weed control,

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that that can be a bit of
a challenge, especially if you're trying

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to go around your lawn and not
get into the flower beds and other things.

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So I usually go with a little
different kind of applicator sprayer. But

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anyway, Nancy, even on the
celsius, just read the label and it'll

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it'll tell you, it'll guide you
in that. Now, do you say,

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since it rained and I did water
it down the celsius, it probably

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neutralized itself. And you know,
I think I think you're going to be

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okay. I wouldn't worry about it, but just wait and see, because

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there's definitely nothing you can do either
way right now. But I'm just predict

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right that I think it's gonna be
okay. All right, and okay,

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thanks so much, you bet hey, thank you. I appreciate the call.

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We are going to break our phone
number seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two ktrh right by with my

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tail in the end. Okay,
good Sunday morning. You're listening to garden

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line. Hey, let's talk about
gardening our phone number seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four.
If you are in the Kingwood area,

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and I mean by area, I
mean anywhere northeast of town especially, but

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you want to drive from across town, that's a good thing too, because

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Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's Gardens are
worth a drive to check out. Here.

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We have a lot of garden travelers, you know, they know all

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the great nurseries they love to visit, and you know, just kind of

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hang out like that for a lot
of folks. Let's go to the nursery

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in your neighborhood, well, in
your Kingwood area. This is the nursery

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in the neighborhood or nurseries. You're
lucky you got two of them. Warren

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Southern Gardens is on North Park Drive. Kingwood Garden Centers on Stone Hollow.

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Both are open seven days a week, so they're open this afternoon if you'd

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like to go out there. I
open this morning. The thing that I

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find really encouraging when I go into
a quality garden center, and this describes

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these two, is you walk in
and you see the kinds of fertilizers and

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the kinds of soils that you need
to use on your plants, and so

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you're not just there to buy plant, you get the whole nine yards.

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They have beautiful containers, they have
the soul that goes in the containers,

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and they have staff that knows what
they're talking about, so they'll direct you

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in the right way. If you've
got Microlife and Nelson plant food, the

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little plastic jars, you can refill
them at both Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood

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Garden Centers. Save a little money
and avoid buying more plastic to go end

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up eventually out in a landfill somewhere. The plants they have are just gorgeous.

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I mean they are beautiful and all
over the board. So I hope

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you'll give them a check. They
are one of the garden centers that I

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would say as a destination place for
anyone here in the Greater Houston area that's

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a Warren's Garden Center. We are
gonna be talking about a number of things

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today. I'm gonna spend some time
the next I'll see the eight o'clock hour.

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We're gonna talk with a specialist and
when it comes to insecticide and insect

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management, and that would be Scott
McGrath McGraph pest control. If you've got

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some questions on pests around your house, or it could be issues up in

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the attic, you know, rats
or squirrels up in the eye. I

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mean anything that is bugging you at
the house that has more than two legs,

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Like you can't count on four legs. Less they do eliminate those two

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things that are bugging you, Scott
McGrath is going to be the person that

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can help you out. So I
hope you'll you'll give us a call and

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I'll tell you more about it as
we go a little bit further into the

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program. For those of you that
live up in the Magnolia area, I'm

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talking about the Grand Parkway Highway to
forty nine up in that area. Spring

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Creek Feed. Just just write that
down. That's your hometown feed store.

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Spring Creek feeds a beautiful place to
walk in. You're greeted. The staff

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is so friendly, they're courteous.
They've got all the quality products for whether

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you're feeding pets or feeding livestock,
they have it all there. Maybe you

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would like a delivery there is a
delivery service also available through Spring Creek.

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They carry the fertilizers who talk about
selection of herbicides, fungicides and pesticides.

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It's just minutes from Graham Parkway in
Highway two forty nine. It's located in

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Magnolia. On FM twenty nine seventy
eight. Check out Spring Creek Feed and

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I think you'll be impressed. It's
a wonderful place, wonderful selection, and

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wonderful staff. That's about as much
as you can want in any kind of

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a business. This morning, I
was thinking driving over to the studio,

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thinking a little bit about some of
the issues that have come over the past

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week in the phones and in the
emails. I do it as a horticulture

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extension agent, certainly do it here
on the radio, and people right now

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are concerned about trees and trees dying. It seems that in some areas,

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certain kinds of trees are just here
and there turning brown randomly. And I

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always kind of sit back and sigh
on those general why's my tree dying questions,

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because sometimes it's simple, it's easy. It's like, here's the answer,

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or here's what to do. But
most of the time it's not.

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Usually it's related to a bunch of
factors that all come together and take down

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that tree. It could be a
drought that weakened the tree, and now

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a disease it's moving in. Or
then we had a freeze that killed tissues

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in the tree and so now a
canker is moving in. Or it's just

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one thing ast another, and as
the patient that be in the tree gets

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weakened, it's more susceptible for things
to take it out, and it's often

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frustrating. I had a call a
few weeks ago, and it was a

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bunch of postalk trees. Those are
common in the postoke belt that goes across

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Texas, and they were they had
three in the front yard, two look

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perfectly fine, in one just they
said overnight. Actually probably took about a

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week to notice it, but it
just turned brown. The whole thing turned

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brown, And why that one?
Why not? The other two don't have

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an answer to that. Every tree, unless it is a variety, has

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a variety name, every like crape
myrtles have variety names. Every tree is

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a seedling that's come from you know, planning an oak seed in the ground,

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an oak acorn in the ground to
grow that tree. Maybe the scrolls

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did it, maybe you did it, but that's maybe the garden sent or

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the nursery that grew it did it. But so they're all genetically different again,

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excluding something that would be a clone
that would be grafted or budded onto

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a plant, And so that just
adds more variation in what's going on.

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What can we do. What we
can do is before the fact, Before

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the fact is when we would take
care of, you know, those kinds

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of issues that might crop up later
by preventing the stress. So for example,

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if it goes a long time without
raining and it's very hot and at

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least two weeks, then I would
definitely give them a good soaking of water.

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You don't have to water your trees
every day, in fact, don't

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do that, just periodically good soaking
in the hot, hot weather as much

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as you can give a young tree
a big mulch bed where it's not competing

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with grass that's going to grow faster. You just want to avoid keeping the

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weed eater in the lawn more away
from the tender bark of young trees.

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That's another thing you want to avoid
over applying some types of herbicides, especially

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right before a gully washer rain,
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use in your grass, but they're
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and woody vines, and so you
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carefully according to the label. We
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see with our trees. If you're
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some fall planting, I think you
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twelve six. The has to grow
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product. The way I use it
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watering can, and then I would
water in my transplants with it. I

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like to water in transplants with a
fertilize. There's got a good amount of

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phosphorus in it that helps with you
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the many things that the roots need. The Hastego six twelve six has that,

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but it also has humic acid.
It's got Medina soil activator, and

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it's got seaweed extracts in It's it's
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to use it as a folery application, you can do that as well.

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I just typically for me, it's
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you know, marigold or some flour
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a shrub or a perennial that you
put in the ground. Just water it

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in, well, do it again
a week later, and do it again

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a week after that, so three
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getting it started. Now you can
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but by that time we're hoping that
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It's gonna build up your biological activity. It's going to promote both blooming

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and fruiting, and it's a it's
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so you're not going to burn your
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twelve six. I talking about different
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different things that they're calling about.
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that I've been getting a lot of
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right, and the summer issues that
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of people. You know, if
in past years you've been hit hard by

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let's say the side web worm,
you know, just eight ever leaf off

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your grass. Grass bounces back,
but boy does it ever look bad for

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a while. Then you're kind of
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year? And ever moth that flies
by a suspect right, Well, it's

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a very unique moth, the web
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of them for them to do their
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of population, they can be quite
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on them, know what I'm looking
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notice them, you need to go
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there are treatments that some people will
put down that are very persistent that they'll

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just put down to cover a long
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to be watching for chinch bugs.
We're starting to see chinch bugs and they

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are the ones that start near a
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and bleed their way out into the
lawn. Those are all things that we

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need to be concerned about and we
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that we might want to be aware
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but at least aware of, is
that our roofs are the most one of

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the most expensive things that we take
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quality roofer is not just everywhere around
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people that put the business cards in
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through. I want to tell you
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We're gonna take a little break here, our phone number seven one three two

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Y'all the cream in my cally, y'all

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the salt in my stewl you will
all we be. I'd be lost without

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you. Good Sunday morning. You
are listening to garden Line and we're here

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to talk gardening with you. Hey, our phone number. Write this down

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seven one three two one two five
eight seven four, give us a call,

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and whatever horticulturally you're interested in,
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I've got to limit myself to something
I know a tiny bit about, rather

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than venturing on and pontificating about all
the other things in life. Although I

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myself do that myself, but I
won't subject you to it. You know,

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the secret of a successful garden begins
in the soil. But it also

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begins with quality plants. When when
we choose plants that are healthy, well

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grown, but that are also adapted
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it easy to succeed. I mean
it just the plants are gonna be adjusted

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to the climate, to the heat, the cold, to the rainfall,

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to the soils. Those are the
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success. You know, you can
go to great links to grow something that

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doesn't belong here, you know.
So like if you if you wanted to

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grow a lilac and you built a
little greenhouse, and you air conditioned to

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the greenhouse so you could take it
down below freezing in the winter. You

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get the idea of what I'm saying. I mean, you could grow it

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here, but you stick a lilac
in the landscape, and well, you

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know, the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Plants will show up in

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cars with lights spinning on top,
arrest you and take you to the plant

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jail. I mean, that's that
is cruel and unusual punishment for plants.

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Pick things that are adapted and they'll
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You know, Native plants do extremely
well because they're from the region that

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you're growing in, and so that
that is one of the key to success.

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Why not take it all the difficulties
that you can out of growing and

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just start right, get the soa
right, get good plants, and then

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take care of them right. And
that's why we're here to advise you along

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the way on that. We love
feed stores here on Garden Line and one

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of my favorite feed stores, and
we have a lot of good favorite feed

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stores here in the Greater Houston area. But it's up way north, up

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in Grimes County. Grimes County is
where Navasota is. Grimes County Feed and

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Farm. They're in Carlos, Texas
on State Highway thirty. So if you

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come out of Brian College Station and
head down highway, you'll get to them.

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If you want to just go this
way, go two miles west of

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FM two forty four on State Highway
thirty. That's how you get there.

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So those of you who live in
some of the neighborhoods up in that area,

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this is your feed store. This
is for your pet supplies, this

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is for your fertilizers, this is
for your garden pest management supplies. Places

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like king Oaks and Merewood for example. They've got all the fertilizers that we

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talk about here, and they have
of course garden seeds and tools and sprayers.

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They have quality dog and cat food
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if you have a pond, a
farm pond, they do fish stocking twice

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a quarter. They bring in fish
that they also carry the fish food.

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By the way, Grimes County Feed
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for that whole region up there.
So if you're listening anywhere up in that

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area, that would be places like
beat Eyes, and Iola, and Ron's

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Pray. I love to sell all
these names, Anderson and Shiro for example.

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Those are your hometown feed store towns
for Grimes County Feed. Say hi

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to Chris and the team when you're
in there. They're a great group,

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and like all the feed stores we
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provide personal service and quality products as
well. I was taking care of a

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houseplant that I have the other day
and noticed that I was getting like a

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white crusty material on top of the
soil. You may have seen that before,

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but when you use if you use
a salt based fertilizer, that happens

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a lot, but they're sometimes just
the water quality. In some areas,

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you end up as the soil evaporates
from the surface, it leaves whatever was

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dissolved in the water behind, and
you may end up with a white,

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crusty kind of material on top.
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it in mind, because I wasn't
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just reminded me of the fact that
occasionally it's not a bad idea to just

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drench our container plants with a lot
of water. Hopefully in fact, you

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have to have good drainage so it
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But to kind of wash some of
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if that is becoming a concern a
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put mine in the kitchen sink and
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good drenching there and they turn out
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and things, I I really think
a lot of Microlife's fertilizers that are liquid

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products. Of course, the dry
products are great too, but the liquid

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products we're talking about, like the
orange label and the blue label. I

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love to talk about the colors because
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I can say the long name out
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it's the color that makes it easy
to find. So Microlife Biomatrix that's an

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orange label. It's a seven one
three fertilizer. Got plenty of nitrogen in

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it to boost the foliage growth of
your houseplants, and that's what you exactly

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want to do with your houseplants.
It's got beneficial microbes in it, which

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is just going to be a benefit
to the roots. And then for outdoors,

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the Ocean Harvest that's a blue label. Okay. It's a fish based

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fertilizer, A four two three.
It does great on pretty much anything that

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you've got outdoors. It doesn't burn. If you want to dilute it down

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and do a foliar spray, a
little folior feeding, you can do that

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as well. If you're looking for
Microlife or if you want to learn more

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about these two products and others,
Microlife Fertilizer dot com. There you can

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find where you can purchase your Microlife
products, and you can also learn a

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lot about the specifics of these and
these two liquids, the orange label Blue

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Biomatrix, the blue label ocean harvest. Those are outstanding products if you want

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to have good success with your plants, very slow natural way of feeding in

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the In the big picture of fruit
tree growing, I guess one of the

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most important things to keep in mind
is that fruit trees have to have good

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sunlight to do well. We have
a few fruit species that if you've got

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some bright dapple shade mostly sun,
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Blueberries will do okay in that.
I found that it's interest us pretty okay

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with that. That doesn't mean either
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of shade. It just means they
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full sun is important at least six
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as carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are made in
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move things or plant things in the
shade, you just don't get the carbohydrates,

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you don't get the fruit production.
That's true tomatoes, a lot of

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other things. The other thing it's
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rains a lot here. Have you
noticed that when it rains, it pours,

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and we have a lot of clay
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to put them up on a raised
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so when there's excess water it drains
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two days after a rain and there's
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that you planted. That would be
bad news for sure. So good drainage

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is really really important. And then
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is one of the things I a
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and I'll tell you one reason it
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from break. I'll leave you wondering
what is the what is the reason that

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people plant the wrong varieties? Here
our phone number seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. We'll
be right back. I saw miles of

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jacks all the stars up in the
sky. I saw miles and miles jass

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good Sunday morning. It is a
good Sunday morning, and we're having fun

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talking about all things plants. We
had a few calls on the line here

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we're gonna go to in just one
second. But I just want to remind

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you that when it comes to success
with plants, getting good advice is really

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important. That's why we point you
to companies, to independent garden centers for

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example, that can really provide you
that kind of accurate information. Really important

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to do that, and I hope
that's one reason you listen to garden Line

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as well. Well, let's head
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and talk to Jobby this morning.
Hello Jobby, Hello, Skip enjoy listening

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to your program Saturday and Sunday every
weekend. Well, thank you. I

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got a question about cloning my determinate
slice or celebrity. Can I do that?

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Then? Would it producing the fall
you wanted to do? What to

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it? I missed the word take
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can. Actually, if I'm not
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hundred percent positive. But I believe
sub celebrity is um what not indeterminate?

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It's um determinate. It's I was
gonna say, semidetermined. Is it not

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semideterminate? Well it just says determined
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is. Celebrity. Here's what I
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year, we've got foliage diseases often
on our plants. We can have spider

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mites that are beginning to build up
on our plants. So I take a

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cutting off the top maybe let's say
six inch cutting, remove the bottom couple

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of leaves on it, and then
put it down and just a sinkle water

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and just slosh it around vigorously a
few times. That could wash off spider

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00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:26.759
mites, a lot of them,
you know, Just kind of get it

407
00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:29.720
all cleaned up a little bit there, and then you can put it in

408
00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:32.759
just water, just a glass of
water, or if you want to put

409
00:30:32.799 --> 00:30:34.920
it in a little container with some
moist soil for it to root, that's

410
00:30:34.960 --> 00:30:38.119
fine. And once it get some
roots on it, it's ready to go

411
00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:42.079
back out outside. Just give it
a little bit of a break from the

412
00:30:42.119 --> 00:30:47.759
full brunt of thee hundred degrees sun. You know, you if it's that

413
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:48.960
way when you try to go out
there and planet it, if that's the

414
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:52.480
weather we're having, and it'll get
off to a good start. I think

415
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:56.720
that's the easiest way to do it, if you're rooting it. The alternative

416
00:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.960
jobby would be if you've got your
celebrity, and you can bend a branch

417
00:31:00.079 --> 00:31:06.200
down and put about eight inches back, put a little soil over the stem,

418
00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:08.400
pin it down so it doesn't move. It'll root right where you have

419
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.680
it. And then you just cut
it loose from the mother plant and dig

420
00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:15.000
up the mother plane and get rid
of it. I have heard that this

421
00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:18.480
plant is not got but just a
few leaves left on it. Okay,

422
00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:26.559
So okay, the leaves won't come
back anywhere else, willie. You may

423
00:31:26.559 --> 00:31:30.720
get some shoots where there was a
leaf at the base of a leaf,

424
00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:34.319
you will have a bud for making
a new shoot on a tomato. And

425
00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:37.720
sometimes that could happen, like if
you cut it back. But I find

426
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.720
that in this kind of stressful weather, you cut a tomato back pretty hard

427
00:31:41.720 --> 00:31:45.759
and it may just flat die,
especially if you, you know, get

428
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:49.559
down way past the leaves. Well, I made a mistake and put them

429
00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.720
in containers that were too small for
this the heat we've been having it.

430
00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:57.519
Yeah, so I guess I really, Well, that's how we Yeah,

431
00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:01.000
that's how we learn. I'd say
ten gallons. If it's a celebrity tomato,

432
00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:05.240
I wouldn't go less than ten gallons
on it. Oh yeah, Well,

433
00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:07.079
I guess it's a little three gallon
thing is just not quite up to

434
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:12.119
the ask. Well, you just
you just didn't set a lawn chair beside

435
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:15.240
it and water it every hour through
the day and it would have been fine.

436
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:19.359
I think it seemed like it needed. So yeah, thank you,

437
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:23.160
Joe, thank you. I appreciate
back. You. Take care. Oh

438
00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:29.200
my gosh, let's go to Mike
and Lake Jackson. Mike, how are

439
00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:31.960
you today and how can we help? Yeah? Going skip hope. You

440
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.839
had a what you were talking about
past thirtier hun in the program, and

441
00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:44.240
I had a dative the country came
up volunteer and it was growing the nicest,

442
00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:47.640
pretty straightest trunk until the squirrel's get
to it and they pretty well to

443
00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:52.119
shoot all the bark off of all
the limbs. So it was about four

444
00:32:52.160 --> 00:32:58.039
inches in diameter at the base and
I cut it off about refit up,

445
00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:05.000
but I didn't finish the job.
Well, I got two good sized beams

446
00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:08.319
that are coming out of just below
where I cut it off, about two

447
00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:15.799
inches in diameter. Well, okay, earlier I had crafted on some stock

448
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:20.799
from a tree that came from a
red Dad's place, and they're doing really

449
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:28.440
well, okay, and so I
used electrician tape to hold them in place.

450
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:30.680
And if they're busting out the tape, good, Yeah, I was.

451
00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:36.880
I was wondering, when do you
start trimming back some of the naighty

452
00:33:36.920 --> 00:33:42.559
branches and how long does it take
these things to really yea develop. I

453
00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:46.039
would take everything below the graft off. How how long are the shoots on

454
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:51.400
the graft you did? Oh,
one of them is about two and a

455
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:54.319
half feet yeah, another one it's
not quite so big. Yeah, but

456
00:33:54.920 --> 00:33:58.960
yes, for them all together,
yeah, I would take I would take

457
00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.440
all those off. You you have
one other option that I might recommend,

458
00:34:01.480 --> 00:34:05.359
Mike, and that would be to
tip all of them, cut four inches

459
00:34:05.400 --> 00:34:08.159
out of the tips of every growing
shoot on the rootstock. We're gonna call

460
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:15.039
it the root stock, and that
stops them from getting energy and vigor to

461
00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:20.119
you know, take energy that should
go into your graft, but it leaves

462
00:34:20.119 --> 00:34:23.199
the leaves on them to keep supplying
the roots system, to keep that root

463
00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:27.360
system strong. Because if you took
every leaf off and you just had the

464
00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:30.119
graft, that's a pretty big shock
knocking the tree back like that. So

465
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:34.559
I would do that. You could
take them off one at a time,

466
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:37.239
in the next few months, or
you could just wait until winter then to

467
00:34:37.280 --> 00:34:39.840
take them all off. But if
you just leave them all now, those

468
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:44.639
root stock shoots are going to really
have the upper hand. And and you

469
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:46.719
want that energy that would go into
them to go into your graft. Okay,

470
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:50.960
Yeah, I'd heard that if you're
trimming back too much, that it

471
00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:57.840
puts too much energy into the graft. And yeah, they don't form right,

472
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:02.079
But you got it. And then
he kept real quick questions. When

473
00:35:02.159 --> 00:35:06.639
you see a reet coming out the
tree, you know, like they'll get

474
00:35:06.880 --> 00:35:12.480
big, does each root supply a
certain part of the tree or together?

475
00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:16.159
Yes? In general, just think
of it like highways of tubing that go

476
00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:20.199
from the end of a route all
the way up to some end of a

477
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:22.880
branch leaf area at the top.
So in general that's true, yes,

478
00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:30.320
okay. And in Buln every year
there's patches that just after you know,

479
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:35.599
the springtime, they just start getting
dull, same places every year. And

480
00:35:35.639 --> 00:35:39.400
I've used everything you've talked about that
seems to help. Well, Mike,

481
00:35:39.719 --> 00:35:43.199
I'm gonna I want to put you
on hold. Could you send me some

482
00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.639
pictures of that. Josh will give
you a way to send them to me.

483
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.960
Let me see the whole area what
it looks like, and then get

484
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:52.119
as close as you can so I
can see the leaves and what's going on

485
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:55.400
there, and that would that would
be helpful. I appreciate your call.

486
00:35:55.440 --> 00:36:00.239
We're gonna they're gonna move on,
but I'd be glad to help if I

487
00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:04.760
have those photos to help. You
know, the folks at Verdant Tree Farm

488
00:36:04.920 --> 00:36:07.400
are having their Christmas in July sale. Now, the Christmas in July sale

489
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:13.599
means ten to fifty percent off of
the tree purchase itself if you purchase it

490
00:36:13.639 --> 00:36:16.519
with an install that's not off the
install cost, but off the tree itself.

491
00:36:16.519 --> 00:36:22.079
But that is a huge discount,
an excellent opportunity to get a quality

492
00:36:22.159 --> 00:36:25.519
tree, which is what Verdant produces. They've got a location out on Barker,

493
00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:30.440
Cyprus, west side of town,
down south in Paarland on West Broadway

494
00:36:30.480 --> 00:36:35.320
and in the heights at Yale and
I ten. Verdant Tree Farm has those

495
00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:37.719
kind of quality trees. And you
know, I can't can't imagine buying a

496
00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:44.079
tree without also buying a tree hugger
sprinkler. Tree hugger sprinklers you put them

497
00:36:44.119 --> 00:36:46.199
around the base of that new tree. Where all the root system is.

498
00:36:46.440 --> 00:36:50.760
You just turn them on a little
bit in water, that original rich cylinder

499
00:36:50.800 --> 00:36:54.039
that's in the ground, and when
you do that kind of thing, you

500
00:36:54.280 --> 00:36:58.679
end up with a tree that not
only survives, but thrives. You can

501
00:36:58.679 --> 00:37:02.440
go to a tree hugg sprinklers dot
com to find a retailer near you tree

502
00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:07.199
Hugger Sprinklers dot com. But look
at that as an insurance policy on that

503
00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:13.400
quality tree that you purchase that has
just been planted. Well, you've been

504
00:37:13.679 --> 00:37:15.920
listening to garden Line this morning,
and we're gonna be listening to guarden Line

505
00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:20.159
for another couple hours. Let's see
what is at seven, eight nine.

506
00:37:20.239 --> 00:37:22.840
Yeah, we have three hours left
on this. I want to remind you

507
00:37:22.880 --> 00:37:27.480
that in the eight o'clock hour,
Scott McGrath with McGrath Pest Control is going

508
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:30.599
to come in. So if you
have any questions termites, or roaches,

509
00:37:31.159 --> 00:37:36.280
fire ants, even chinch bug,
I mean anything that is a pest,

510
00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:40.119
rats and squirrels in the attic.
Scott is an expert on all these things

511
00:37:40.280 --> 00:37:43.440
and we're going to pick his brain. So I hope you'll give us a

512
00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:47.360
call and you can ask a question
about how do you manage this what can

513
00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:52.280
be done about it? As you
know, anything you have, Scott McGrath,

514
00:37:52.440 --> 00:37:55.079
that will be in the eight o'clock
hour, so please stick around and

515
00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:59.920
please be ready with a few questions
for that. In the meantime, we're

516
00:38:00.039 --> 00:38:04.960
heading to break our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

517
00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:16.400
four. KTRH Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

518
00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:35.440
advertised on this program. Welcome to
KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictors just watching

519
00:38:34.039 --> 00:38:45.480
as well. Good Sunday morning,
beautiful day outside. I hope you're enjoying

520
00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:47.440
yourself, maybe getting a cup of
coffee in your hand to kind of get

521
00:38:47.480 --> 00:38:52.039
your eyes to open up and joined
the rest of the world. Today.

522
00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:57.280
We are talking gardening today. That's
what we do every time on Saturdays and

523
00:38:57.280 --> 00:39:00.719
on Sundays here on garden Line,
and it's a Colin show. You're welcome

524
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:02.920
to give us a call if you
have a question. Seven one three two

525
00:39:04.000 --> 00:39:08.440
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Seven one three two one two fifty eight

526
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:15.559
seventy four. I always enjoy visiting
great garden centers and if you're looking for

527
00:39:15.639 --> 00:39:17.840
a place this afternoon, I mean
go out and kind of do a visit

528
00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:22.480
and check out some garden centers.
I would suggest you give a consideration to

529
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:25.000
Enchanted Gardens that's out in Richmond.
If you're Richmond area and you head north

530
00:39:25.079 --> 00:39:30.000
kind of toward Katie direction, that's
where Enchanted Gardens is. They're on FM

531
00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:34.880
three fifty nine on the Katie Fulsher
side of Richmond. You can go to

532
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:40.400
Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com, Enchanted
Gardens Richmond dot com and find out about

533
00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:45.280
enchanted gardens. I'll tell you this, it is a sea of color as

534
00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:49.239
far as the eye can see.
Beauty color, herbs, vegetables, antique

535
00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:52.840
roses, rose, hybrid roses,
Yeah, just ever kind of plant you

536
00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:59.559
can imagine. They have some beautiful
bee bomb in the Jacob klined bbomb deep

537
00:39:59.639 --> 00:40:04.360
red, beautiful, Oh gosh.
It is a magnet for butterflies, for

538
00:40:04.480 --> 00:40:08.400
hummingbirds. And the petals are great
for decorating a garnish on salads. By

539
00:40:08.400 --> 00:40:14.920
the way, I'm doing an article
in Texas Gardener magazine next issue on ornamentables,

540
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:17.119
ornamentals that you can eat, and
this would be an example of that.

541
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:22.880
A beautiful flower garden plant that also
the petals are used in your cuisine,

542
00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:27.239
or they can be making a tea
or something along those lines. Anyway,

543
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:31.679
back to enchanted gardens, they have
a super selection of a variety of

544
00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:36.360
plants. If you're doing a little
container maybe let's say you want to plant

545
00:40:36.400 --> 00:40:40.320
a summer tough color container. Well, person is about as tough as you

546
00:40:40.360 --> 00:40:45.239
can get. I mean, that
is an extremely beautiful, extremely floriferous,

547
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:50.800
tough plant. Another plant that I
really like, or the soree vincas if

548
00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:54.599
you know vinca, or we also
call it Madagascar periwinkle, and just imagine

549
00:40:54.599 --> 00:40:59.719
a miniature version of that. That's
soree. Great for filling it around the

550
00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:04.239
side of a container as you have
something taller in the center. That's also

551
00:41:04.280 --> 00:41:08.079
available out in Channa Gardens out in
Richmond. Maybe a good day to plan.

552
00:41:08.119 --> 00:41:10.199
In fact, I know it is
a good day to plan to visit

553
00:41:10.559 --> 00:41:15.960
out to check them out. You're
listening to garden Line. Our number is

554
00:41:15.000 --> 00:41:21.280
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one

555
00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:27.400
two fifty eight seventy four. If
you've ever thought about keeping bees, if

556
00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:30.079
you've ever you thought, you know, I'd love to have some bees in

557
00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:32.039
the backyard. Can I do that. Well, yes you can. There

558
00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:36.239
are guidelines to it, but yes
you can. You need to know about

559
00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:39.840
the B Supply out in Dayton.
The B Supply out in Dayton is the

560
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:45.599
prime B supply store in this whole
state. Now. Actually they have locations

561
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:51.639
a couple other locations around the state, but they have everything you could need

562
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.199
to. Number one, learn about
bees. Number two, get equipped to

563
00:41:54.239 --> 00:41:59.599
take care of bees, and then
have that support day after day, week

564
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:04.159
after month after month as you're getting
the feel of what it is to keep

565
00:42:04.199 --> 00:42:07.880
bees and how to do that.
The beginner classes once a month during this

566
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:13.559
warm season out in Dayton. The
beginner class is super super quality classes.

567
00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:16.320
They also have free honey tours out
there at the B Supply once a month

568
00:42:16.360 --> 00:42:21.000
also, and you can just bring
your group out there. If you've got

569
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:22.559
a good sized group, call them
ahead of time. Maybe you would even

570
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:28.039
need to schedule a special day for
that, but groups can come out when

571
00:42:28.079 --> 00:42:31.800
they have their tours and just learn
amazing things about bees. Go to the

572
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:37.320
B Supply dot com the B Supply
dot com and you can find out more

573
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:40.079
from that. Well, we're going
to head out to Galveston and talk to

574
00:42:40.119 --> 00:42:45.719
Bill. Hello, Bill, Hi, Rick, Hi. My question is

575
00:42:45.719 --> 00:42:51.480
that you skip me if you get
the photos I sent you yesterday, Yes,

576
00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.760
the citrus tree, grape fruit I
believe it was, Yes, Yeah,

577
00:42:55.800 --> 00:43:00.760
I did. And there's a lot
going on on that tree. The

578
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:05.480
cold, you know, initially killed
a lot of limbs, but there's still

579
00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:09.880
damage from the cold that the tree
is just not recovering from. There's places

580
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:16.119
on the trunk that probably had a
crack in them, and the tissues and

581
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:21.400
the cankers have gotten inside that,
and that's what you said. One of

582
00:43:21.400 --> 00:43:24.840
your pictures had the bleeding along the
trunk that underneath there, if you were

583
00:43:24.880 --> 00:43:29.039
to scrape back with a knife,
there'd be a lot of brown streaked tissues

584
00:43:29.039 --> 00:43:35.360
that are basically dying underneath that area. And the other thing overall, it

585
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:38.920
just it looks okay in terms of
the leaves, but though some of the

586
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:44.320
leaves are really showing that they're just
not getting a good supply from the roots.

587
00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:50.800
And part of that could be because
the pathway where water and nutrients come

588
00:43:50.880 --> 00:43:54.440
up through the roots through the trunk
out the branches to the leaves somewhere along

589
00:43:54.480 --> 00:43:58.960
that's being disrupted, and it could
be the cankers that I'm talking about that

590
00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:01.800
are doing that, and that's why
when the demands go up, you may

591
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:07.159
see a whole branch collapse. It's
like it was hanging on, but now

592
00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:10.519
the demands so high that it can't
it can't pump enough water to those leaves,

593
00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:14.280
and so you lose that branch.
What do you do. There's not

594
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:19.639
a canker spray, So you just
try to keep it as healthy as you

595
00:44:19.679 --> 00:44:23.119
can with water, fertilizer as needed. But you wait and you hope.

596
00:44:23.559 --> 00:44:30.159
But I think the long term potential
for that tree is somewhat limited, and

597
00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:34.360
so I wouldn't put money on that
we can get this tree back going again.

598
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:37.639
If you don't want to give up
on it for now, that's fine.

599
00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:42.320
But there's just a lot going on
in those photos. So you can't

600
00:44:42.320 --> 00:44:45.039
do it about cankers. There's not
a spray for the canker, No,

601
00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:49.440
there isn't. It's a it's a
it's kind of like having a cut on

602
00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:53.639
your arm that got infected and then
putting a little member mathiolate mercur comb.

603
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:57.800
Those things you just put over the
top. That are what rubbing alcohol over

604
00:44:57.840 --> 00:45:00.679
the top to just kill everything.
It doesn't get down down there in your

605
00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:04.239
arm and deal with the problem.
And that's how cankers are. They're running

606
00:45:04.280 --> 00:45:08.519
inside the tissues of the tree trunk
or the branch, and the sprays we

607
00:45:08.559 --> 00:45:13.199
put on superficially just don't do it. And there's not a systemic that moves

608
00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:15.559
up there and does a very good
job of that either. So cankers or

609
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:21.360
bugs, oh no, canker is
a disease. It's a disease. Think

610
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:25.320
of it as a disease underneath the
bark and the living tissues of the floum

611
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:30.199
and cambium that are underneath the bark
that do all the transporting of everything through

612
00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:34.480
the plant. Okay, So if
I so, if I end up taking

613
00:45:34.519 --> 00:45:38.239
that, you're digging that thing up
with the cankers still being with the be

614
00:45:38.360 --> 00:45:43.440
in the ground or no, they're
those kind of things are ubiquitous. You

615
00:45:43.480 --> 00:45:45.960
know. Again to use the cut
on your arm analogy. If you have

616
00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:50.239
a cut in your arm, it's
not because you have diseases in you or

617
00:45:50.320 --> 00:45:53.199
around you. It's because they're in
the environment. And you know, bacteria

618
00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:58.239
and things can get in that fresh
cut and cause infection. And that's how

619
00:45:58.239 --> 00:46:01.079
a canker works too. So you
could plant real close just move over a

620
00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:05.519
little bit to get away from the
old stump location, and you could just

621
00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:08.039
replant a new tree if you want
to do that. Well, I was

622
00:46:08.039 --> 00:46:13.239
thinking about having somebody come in and
dig up the stump and the whole thing.

623
00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:17.039
That'd be fine, that'd be a
good way to do it. Yeah,

624
00:46:17.039 --> 00:46:20.760
So it's it's kind of a flip
of the coin, flip of the

625
00:46:20.800 --> 00:46:23.199
coins your tree. Do you want
to try to give it a chance or

626
00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:25.480
do you want to pull it out? But either way, I don't think

627
00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:29.400
there's a black and white answer on
that one. Bill. Hey, thanks

628
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:30.880
for those pictures, and thank you
for the call. I'm gonna have to

629
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run to a break our phone number
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630
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seven four. Don't let the sound
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631
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You are listening to garden Line and
we are talking about whatever you're interested

632
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in. Here a phone number seven
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633
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634
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I want to live in? What
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635
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to live in? I would suggest
you take a good hard look at the

636
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dellweb community, which is down in
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637
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on FM three fifty nine. Now
you know Dell weeb bills homes for active

638
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adults age fifty five and better.
They've got those lifestyle programs that are designed

639
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around you. And that's what makes
it more than just a house. I

640
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mean, it's a community. And
speaking of community, they're putting in a

641
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community garden at this location that I
am helping them with. And so I

642
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hope you would check out that new
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645
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you can find out a lot more
that way as well. That just sounds

646
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like a win win when it comes
to you know, just a if you're

647
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a gardener and you just get all
the benefits of all of that and a

648
00:48:08.639 --> 00:48:14.599
community garden. Man, I can't
wait to see that that dream fully finished

649
00:48:14.599 --> 00:48:17.159
and realized. A lot of people
are going to really enjoy that. It's

650
00:48:17.199 --> 00:48:22.280
time if you have not done a
summer fertilization to get one out. We

651
00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:27.639
want to put something down that is
slow release that gradually releases. What kind

652
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:32.000
of product does that well, A
product designed to reduce the release and spread

653
00:48:32.039 --> 00:48:36.679
it out over time, and that
would be for example, Slow and Easy

654
00:48:36.960 --> 00:48:39.920
from Nelson Plant Food. Slow and
Easy. It's a twenty two two ten

655
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:45.039
ratio, awesome ratio, lots of
nitrogen in it, but you don't get

656
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:50.480
a flush of growth because it gradually
releases that nitrogen overtime, so thatch development

657
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:57.440
doesn't become a problem. Water consumption
doesn't become a problem because over and fertilizing

658
00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.800
at one time with nitrogen causes time
growth at the expense of root growth.

659
00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:05.280
Slow and Easy has all that fixed. They've got it taken care of for

660
00:49:05.360 --> 00:49:07.679
you. It'll be the last fertilization
you need to do until the fall.

661
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Nelson Plant Food awesome lines of fertilizers, Color Star, Nutral Star, Turf

662
00:49:13.559 --> 00:49:16.320
Star, Nature Star, Slow and
Easy, and the Turf Star line is

663
00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:21.840
the one that I would be putting
on right now. Let's go out to

664
00:49:22.079 --> 00:49:25.000
Memorial and we're going to talk to
Cheryl Good or Sharon. How are you

665
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:30.559
this morning, Cheryl, I'm good, Thank you. Listen. I've enjoyed

666
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:37.760
your show yesterday and you were talking
about trying to keep oxygen to the roots

667
00:49:37.159 --> 00:49:43.000
during this hot weather. Yes,
and about mulch, and I've got to

668
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:47.559
like plants in the ground are doing
pretty good, but I'm having wilt with

669
00:49:47.679 --> 00:49:52.159
the ones that are in pots.
Yes, I wondered if there any kind

670
00:49:52.199 --> 00:50:00.320
of mulch that he can put in
a seven or eight gallant container that would

671
00:50:00.239 --> 00:50:05.599
Sharon, you could do that,
but I wouldn't bother. I wouldn't bother

672
00:50:05.679 --> 00:50:09.280
in a container with trying to mulch
them. What the problem in the container

673
00:50:09.360 --> 00:50:15.199
is one of several things. The
plant is big compared to the size of

674
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:17.480
the container. In other words,
the container needs to be larger. And

675
00:50:17.599 --> 00:50:22.119
you know, when it's the degrees
all day here, and I mean it

676
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:25.519
is pumping water all day, it
didn't take long to pump that container dry,

677
00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:29.880
especially if it's terra cotta, it's
also wicking things out of the side.

678
00:50:32.480 --> 00:50:37.360
You just you know, whatever plant
you're growing, I mean, you

679
00:50:37.360 --> 00:50:39.440
can't go through all the possible plants
here, but think about how big that

680
00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:44.960
plant is and choose a container that
is large enough for it. Really for

681
00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:49.440
summertime. I just don't plant in
anything smaller than a five gallon container,

682
00:50:49.440 --> 00:50:52.679
and that would be small plants bigger
containers, or even better, I've got

683
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:55.599
some that are like two thirds of
the size of a whiskey barrel on my

684
00:50:55.639 --> 00:50:59.920
back patio. I can give them
a good watering and I don't have to

685
00:51:00.119 --> 00:51:04.239
worry about if I miss a day
even they'll be okay, there's just enough

686
00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:07.880
moisture and all that soil. But
now if that plant in the container was

687
00:51:07.920 --> 00:51:12.199
a six foot high citrus tree,
well that's too small of a container.

688
00:51:12.239 --> 00:51:15.440
You get the idea, right,
Yeah, I get it. Yeah,

689
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:21.480
so water more often in the meantime. Okay, well I can't. There's

690
00:51:21.559 --> 00:51:24.840
no way I can put them in
a bigger pot now, yes, so

691
00:51:24.960 --> 00:51:29.920
I'll think about it, you know, during the winter. But anyway,

692
00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:34.880
I guess I'll just but I think
maybe just go ahead and try to water.

693
00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:37.679
I'm real good in the morning.
And then yes, water until you

694
00:51:37.719 --> 00:51:42.119
see a little bit coming out of
the drainage hole in the morning. And

695
00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:45.159
then at the end of the day, when you know it starts to get

696
00:51:45.159 --> 00:51:47.039
a little break in the heat where
you feel like you can walk outside again,

697
00:51:47.360 --> 00:51:51.119
you know, maybe six o'clock or
seven o'clock, give them do the

698
00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:53.519
same thing again, give them a
good soaking and they'll be fine, or

699
00:51:53.559 --> 00:51:55.199
you could do it a little earlier, and if you want to do it

700
00:51:55.280 --> 00:51:59.800
five o'clock, that's just fine too. Oh okay, okay, good,

701
00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:02.320
that's that's good. Thank you so
much. And the other thing I was

702
00:52:02.360 --> 00:52:07.440
going to ask about, it's like
fall tomatoes. We have a greenhouse where

703
00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:12.360
we can bring them in when it
gets cold, and we had such a

704
00:52:12.440 --> 00:52:17.559
good crop this summer in pots on
the deck, So when would be the

705
00:52:17.599 --> 00:52:27.679
best time to go ahead and start
that with transplants? You're I'm sorry,

706
00:52:27.760 --> 00:52:30.039
I'm not I guess I missed something
that you said on that you're wanting to

707
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:37.039
start tomato transplants for putting in the
house of the winter. Yeah. Well,

708
00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:40.519
yeah, just just un chill they
ripe and up. But I don't

709
00:52:40.559 --> 00:52:44.760
need them in the greenhouse right now. I just wanted to get them started

710
00:52:44.800 --> 00:52:50.079
outside. And then the fastest way
to start is to take a cutting off

711
00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:53.360
the plants. You have, take
that cutting about six eight inches long.

712
00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:59.760
Six inches is enough, slash it
in the sink of water to just wash

713
00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:02.119
off fall, the spider mites or
anything tiny thing that may be on there,

714
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:06.199
and then put it either in a
glass of water where it'll root or

715
00:53:06.239 --> 00:53:07.639
you can put it in some very
moist soil. You want it in a

716
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:13.480
bright area but not direct sun,
and it'll form roots. Within a week.

717
00:53:13.519 --> 00:53:16.400
You're going to see roots on that
thing. And well, unfortunately my

718
00:53:16.519 --> 00:53:22.599
husband already has removed them from the
primitive alight, all right, and get

719
00:53:22.639 --> 00:53:27.079
some seeds starting mix, get some
tomato seeds of the variety you want,

720
00:53:27.440 --> 00:53:30.920
and plant them today. I mean, whatever you want to plant them,

721
00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:35.559
it's okay. Yeah, don't delay. If you're starting from seed, don't

722
00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:37.800
delay because it takes six to six
to eight weeks just to get a really

723
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:45.119
good sized transplant and kind of a
shady place or very bright shade, very

724
00:53:45.119 --> 00:53:50.239
bright maybe a little morning sun to
get it going. But you really need

725
00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:52.639
to watch those things that they don't
dry out. So I'll put a tray

726
00:53:52.719 --> 00:53:58.000
that doesn't drain underneath them where I
can put some water in that tray that's

727
00:53:58.039 --> 00:54:00.239
about a quarter inch up on the
pots and it just wicks right up in

728
00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:04.599
the pots for you, and that
won't be over watering them. But they

729
00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:07.039
also won't dry out that way if
you forget the water for a day.

730
00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:13.800
Okay, Well, thank you very
very much. I appreciate the call.

731
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one of my favorite things to do
on you know, weekend days,

751
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is to get out and visit our
local mom and pop garden centers. And

752
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if you are at all a gardener, you get so inspired when you go

753
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to one of those quality garden centers. And an example of what I am

754
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talking about, a prime example would
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755
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756
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757
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758
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you're there, look at their one
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759
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760
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761
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762
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very high quality. Anything that you're
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be a great choice for that.
They also have the Organic Soil Complete,

764
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which is a mixture. It's got
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765
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And then speaking of expanded shale, the

766
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Organic Compost Complete has compost quality compost, two different types blended together, incredible

767
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beneficial MicroB diversity in that, and
it also has shale. What's the deal

768
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with shale? Well, in a
clay soil, shale, unlike compost,

769
00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:07.039
doesn't just essentially oxidize away. It
sticks around for a long time. So

770
00:57:07.199 --> 00:57:09.599
we always want to add compost star
plants. That improves the soil. But

771
00:57:09.679 --> 00:57:15.039
let's say you're planting a rosebush or
something and it's in a clay soil,

772
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and you want to make sure the
internal drainage is good. Adding the shale

773
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in there helps improve that. And
that's what I think is such a great

774
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idea for ArBB gates soil and compost
as they put the shale into both of

775
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those products, and just over time, as you mix that in the soil,

776
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that clay soil gets better and better
with its aeration and internal drainage.

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plants you just can't live without home
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795
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gardens. Well, you've been listening
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continue to listen. We'll be here
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Scott and ask your question. Hey, welcome to garden Line. We are

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here to answer gardening questions and let's
talk all kinds of things plants with you.

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

804
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I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and let's visit about the kind of questions

805
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you might have. You know,
I was talking about fertilizing earlier, the

806
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Microlife liquid products, and I just
also want to remind you that they have

807
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a great line of the bagged dry
granular products. It's easy to put them

808
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out, you know, with your
fertilizer spreaders. You know, Microlife is

809
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the number one selling organic fertilizer here
in the Houston area. And there's a

810
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good reason for it. I mean
it is. Not only does it have

811
01:00:17.320 --> 01:00:20.760
the three numbers on the bag by
the way, for your law and I

812
01:00:20.760 --> 01:00:25.239
would get the green bag that's a
six to four, but it has dozens

813
01:00:25.239 --> 01:00:30.119
and dozens of other nutrients as well, because your plant doesn't just need NPK,

814
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:36.559
it needs all the other secondary nutrients. It needs the micronutrients of what

815
01:00:36.559 --> 01:00:40.280
we call trace elements, and it
has them all in there. It also

816
01:00:40.440 --> 01:00:46.320
contains lots of beneficial microbes and organisms
and things that are important for the roots

817
01:00:46.360 --> 01:00:50.920
system and important for the soil quality. So I would recommend if you do

818
01:00:50.960 --> 01:00:52.840
the green bag, that you follow
it up with the Humates plus, which

819
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:58.079
is the purple bag. The purple
bag is the humans plus. Think of

820
01:00:58.119 --> 01:01:00.239
it as concentrated compost in a bag. I mean, if you were to

821
01:01:00.280 --> 01:01:06.599
take compost and just bring it right
down to the basic concentrated content, that

822
01:01:06.639 --> 01:01:10.280
would be the humates plus. So
it helps with the loosening soil and of

823
01:01:10.320 --> 01:01:15.239
course, adds so many nutrients and
minerals. Your lawn overtime just gets better

824
01:01:15.400 --> 01:01:19.440
and better and better. This isn't
just like I need a quick fix.

825
01:01:19.519 --> 01:01:22.000
This is like, how do I
start taking care of my lawn and make

826
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:27.119
it get better and better over time? Microlife safe for humans, say for

827
01:01:27.199 --> 01:01:31.000
animals, safe for the planet.
You can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com

828
01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:35.960
and find out where to get these
products or just read more about them.

829
01:01:36.039 --> 01:01:43.880
There's lots of locations where Microlife is
available in the Greater Houston area. Earlier,

830
01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:47.079
I was mentioning writing an article Texas
Gardner magazine. For those of you

831
01:01:47.079 --> 01:01:50.880
who don't know Texas Gardener, you
might not have heard. We had Jay

832
01:01:51.199 --> 01:01:53.360
White, the editor here on the
show a while back. In fact,

833
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:55.599
I'm gonna try to get him back
in towards the end of summer here.

834
01:01:55.599 --> 01:02:02.480
I believe we're gonna have him in
as well. But Texas Gardener is the

835
01:02:02.519 --> 01:02:09.079
only statewide independent gardening magazine that I
know of in the country. A lot

836
01:02:09.119 --> 01:02:14.679
of states have had gardening magazines that
went by the wayside. Texas Gardener has

837
01:02:14.719 --> 01:02:17.719
survived all these decades, and in
fact, if you've been watching it,

838
01:02:17.840 --> 01:02:22.320
lately it is just getting bigger and
better and stronger all the time. I

839
01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:28.000
mean the quality, the photography,
the layouts, I mean the stories.

840
01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:32.039
It's a gardening magazine by gardeners for
gardeners, and I know that because I

841
01:02:32.119 --> 01:02:35.960
know the people that write for it, and they know what they're talking about,

842
01:02:36.000 --> 01:02:38.519
and I write for it as a
matter of fact. And so if

843
01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:44.079
you're just looking for a good local
gardening magazine, you know you can have

844
01:02:44.119 --> 01:02:46.719
the fine gardening magazines those kinds of
things. Throw them on the on the

845
01:02:49.079 --> 01:02:52.440
what coffee table there to impress your
friends or whatever. Beautiful pictures, but

846
01:02:52.599 --> 01:02:55.519
don't don't do what they said in
them, because it was written in New

847
01:02:55.599 --> 01:03:00.639
Jersey, for crying out loud.
But Texas Gardener has written for Texas,

848
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:04.920
and we are fortunate to be the
only of the fifty states that I know

849
01:03:04.960 --> 01:03:07.199
of to have that kind of statewide
private magazine. I think somewhere up in

850
01:03:07.199 --> 01:03:12.840
the Northwest there's like a plant society
or something. Plant organization has a state

851
01:03:12.840 --> 01:03:16.840
wide magazine, but that's a different, different thing than an independent for profit

852
01:03:17.159 --> 01:03:22.239
magazine. Texas Gardners really really great
read. By the way, I'm going

853
01:03:22.280 --> 01:03:25.960
to be at an event that I
think you may be interested in the OBO.

854
01:03:27.000 --> 01:03:31.559
The Organic Horticulture Benefits of Alliance is
having an event called Let's Stock Gardening.

855
01:03:32.159 --> 01:03:37.239
They are going to be at the
Axelrad Beer Garden. That's at fifteen

856
01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:42.480
seventeen Alabama Street, Axelrad Beer Garden
and it is going to be on July

857
01:03:42.840 --> 01:03:46.519
thirteenth. Hey, that's just around
the corner right next Thursdy from five to

858
01:03:46.679 --> 01:03:51.360
eight pm. If you would like
to come, you'll get to I'll be

859
01:03:51.440 --> 01:03:53.920
there and meet me. You'll also
get to meet j White from Texas Gardener

860
01:03:53.960 --> 01:03:58.079
if you want to, and Destinok, our Texas Garden guy will be there

861
01:03:58.079 --> 01:04:00.320
as well. So lots of fun
opportunity. It used to interact with us.

862
01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:06.159
If you go online to OBA online, OHBA online, dot org,

863
01:04:06.639 --> 01:04:11.480
slash register, you can save your
spot. It's a free event. Free

864
01:04:11.480 --> 01:04:15.079
to go again July thirteenth, this
Thursday, five to eight pm at the

865
01:04:15.079 --> 01:04:19.800
axle Red Beer Garden. That ought
to be fun. Well, let's see

866
01:04:19.960 --> 01:04:27.039
we Earlier on I was discussing some
issues with trees, you know, the

867
01:04:27.079 --> 01:04:31.559
importance of picking the right species,
of planting them properly, and the tree

868
01:04:31.599 --> 01:04:36.639
issues that we run into around here. And you know the trees are their

869
01:04:36.800 --> 01:04:43.639
long term investments in the landscape.
I had an older gentleman I knew up

870
01:04:43.679 --> 01:04:47.639
in Willis, Texas. He showed
me one time a picture of an old

871
01:04:47.679 --> 01:04:50.679
house they had, and then he
showed a picture of the tree when they

872
01:04:50.679 --> 01:04:54.639
planted. This little tree looked like
a broomstick out there in the yard in

873
01:04:54.639 --> 01:04:57.599
front of the house. And then
he came back forty years later and showed

874
01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:00.639
me a picture and it was like
that tree was worth or in the house.

875
01:05:00.679 --> 01:05:03.360
I mean it, it was awesome. That's what we're going for.

876
01:05:03.599 --> 01:05:06.000
But if you want to have trees
that are like that, you need to

877
01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:10.280
have somebody to take care of them
that knows what they're doing. One bad

878
01:05:10.360 --> 01:05:15.840
printing job, one ill advised treatment
can cause problems for a tree. And

879
01:05:15.960 --> 01:05:19.639
the people that know what they're doing
are Affordable Tree Service, Martin Spoon Moore,

880
01:05:19.800 --> 01:05:24.800
his wife Joe. They are the
owners. They answer their own phones.

881
01:05:24.960 --> 01:05:28.719
If you dial seven one, three, six nine, twenty six sixty

882
01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:31.280
three, you're going to talk to
Martin or Joe. They are a professional.

883
01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:36.800
You can go online to Afftree Service
dot com find out more from that.

884
01:05:38.079 --> 01:05:41.320
But hey, the storm season,
the hurricane season is upon us,

885
01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:44.280
and do you have some limbs that
may need to be removed? Is something

886
01:05:44.679 --> 01:05:46.760
dead or broken up in the tree, Is it hanging over your house or

887
01:05:46.760 --> 01:05:50.000
over that power line? Drop?
Get it taken care of, and get

888
01:05:50.039 --> 01:05:54.559
it taken care of by a professional, because remember, a bad printing job

889
01:05:55.199 --> 01:06:00.159
is a permanent, ongoing problem for
your tree. These folks know what they're

890
01:06:00.199 --> 01:06:02.079
doing and they do everything else you
need for trees, deep root feeding,

891
01:06:02.719 --> 01:06:06.000
you know, just advising, consulting, you can harm to come out and

892
01:06:06.039 --> 01:06:11.920
do that. It is nice hiring
somebody and knowing that if they tell you

893
01:06:12.000 --> 01:06:15.400
something's needed, they're being honest and
it is needed and they know what they're

894
01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:20.280
talking about, so it is needed, and that's affordable tree service. I

895
01:06:23.239 --> 01:06:28.000
think I'm a broken record when it
comes to soil, and I'm not ashamed

896
01:06:28.039 --> 01:06:30.320
to be a broken record when it
comes to soil either. You know,

897
01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:36.199
we have so many different issues that
can happen with plants, but starting with

898
01:06:36.320 --> 01:06:41.079
quality soil and having a raised bed, a good mix and all that,

899
01:06:41.239 --> 01:06:44.320
it just gets you off on the
right foot. You are well on your

900
01:06:44.320 --> 01:06:46.920
way to success. I would say
you're eighty percent of your way to success

901
01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:50.000
when you plant the plant because you
either have a raise better you don't.

902
01:06:50.079 --> 01:06:54.039
Drainage is good or it's not.
It's shadi or it's sunny, and the

903
01:06:54.039 --> 01:06:58.199
plant's going to have an opinion about
that. But most importantly that soil is

904
01:06:58.199 --> 01:07:01.000
a good soil. We hope right. Well, Nature's Way resources, that's

905
01:07:01.039 --> 01:07:04.440
all they know how to do is
create good soil. They were the originators

906
01:07:04.480 --> 01:07:09.679
of the rose soil, the originators
of the leaf mold compost. By the

907
01:07:09.719 --> 01:07:13.320
way, on Fungal Fridays you can
get ten percent off their bag products and

908
01:07:13.440 --> 01:07:15.960
twenty percent off their bulk. They
have like two to three thousand yards of

909
01:07:16.000 --> 01:07:20.679
fungal composts out there, so they
have plenty of that and you cannot get

910
01:07:20.719 --> 01:07:26.920
a higher quality compost than a well
screened fungal compost made like a leaf mold

911
01:07:26.960 --> 01:07:30.880
compost for example. Now they also
have a two acre nursery, fruit trees,

912
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:34.599
native perennials, houseplants, seasonal plants, one of the best selections of

913
01:07:34.679 --> 01:07:40.000
native plants here in the Houston area. So there's just one stop shop.

914
01:07:40.039 --> 01:07:43.800
While you're out there, check out
that nursery while you're picking up your other

915
01:07:43.920 --> 01:07:48.639
supplies. A Nature's Way always takes
her time and They always produce a quality

916
01:07:48.679 --> 01:07:51.840
product. They don't rush it out
the door to make the cash register ring.

917
01:07:53.280 --> 01:07:57.159
They take their time so when you
get it, it is fully and

918
01:07:57.400 --> 01:08:00.320
well composted in the proper way.
Well, let's take a break. Our

919
01:08:00.320 --> 01:08:21.159
phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Good Sunday

920
01:08:21.199 --> 01:08:26.159
morning, on a beautiful day,
and as every day is a good day

921
01:08:26.199 --> 01:08:30.039
for gardening, we are here to
talk about the things that interest you when

922
01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:34.319
it comes to gardening. Our phone
number seven one three two one two five

923
01:08:34.520 --> 01:08:41.560
eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. I

924
01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:45.760
love to visit with gardeners. I
love to visit about gardening, and as

925
01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:49.800
you probably noticed, I try to
use the questions that we get as an

926
01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:57.039
opportunity to kind of instruct and teach
and help you get a concept of why

927
01:08:57.199 --> 01:09:00.640
things happen out there in the garden
and landscape. You know, I know.

928
01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:03.239
We we go straight to the what
is the problem, what I need

929
01:09:03.279 --> 01:09:05.199
to fix it? And where do
I get what I need to fix it?

930
01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:09.920
And that's that's the simple ABC's of
getting to the bottom of this.

931
01:09:10.359 --> 01:09:14.119
But it also helps a little bit
to know about why things are the way

932
01:09:14.159 --> 01:09:17.239
they are. And here's why that
helps. It's because when you know why

933
01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:21.520
something is happening, you're better able
to avoid it in the future or maybe

934
01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:27.279
to take steps to prevent it in
the future. There's a National Gardening host

935
01:09:27.399 --> 01:09:30.720
that says, I think, how
does he put it to know the why

936
01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:33.960
do but behind the how to?
I think that's how he says that.

937
01:09:34.000 --> 01:09:36.039
In other words, instead of just
how do you do it? Why do

938
01:09:36.079 --> 01:09:40.359
you do it that way? And
it makes you a better gardener overall learning

939
01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:44.479
those principles and I lean on those
kind of things all the time in horticulture.

940
01:09:44.520 --> 01:09:46.760
You know, basic things that I've
learned over the years, things that

941
01:09:46.800 --> 01:09:53.760
I were taught and getting my masters
in horticulture, the principles of how nutrients

942
01:09:53.800 --> 01:09:58.079
work, how diseases work, how
insects work, how plants work, and

943
01:09:58.159 --> 01:10:01.039
it just it just helps you to
get to the bottom of things overall.

944
01:10:01.279 --> 01:10:04.079
So I'll try not to bore you
with too much of the nerdy stuff,

945
01:10:04.399 --> 01:10:08.800
but maybe just drop a little bit
of it in here and there so you

946
01:10:08.800 --> 01:10:12.000
can become a better and better gardener, because you know, one of the

947
01:10:12.079 --> 01:10:16.840
things about gardeners is we're forever learners. I mean we are we it's you

948
01:10:17.039 --> 01:10:21.880
never finished learning about gardening. There's
always a new plant, always a new

949
01:10:21.920 --> 01:10:28.359
way to do something. It's just
new diseases and insects that arrive in the

950
01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:31.239
area, a new technique. It's
just garden. That's what makes one of

951
01:10:31.279 --> 01:10:36.159
the things that makes gardening fun.
We're forever learners. We're also forever optimists,

952
01:10:36.199 --> 01:10:40.479
and I hope you will be that
and not let a brown thumb that

953
01:10:40.520 --> 01:10:45.760
you think you have discourage you because
gardening. How many of you are old

954
01:10:45.840 --> 01:10:48.560
enough to remember etch a sketches?
Remember those things you you sort of had

955
01:10:48.600 --> 01:10:50.960
two knobs and you had to go
up and down or left and right,

956
01:10:51.039 --> 01:10:56.680
and you trying to draw a circle
on an etches sketches like But anyway,

957
01:10:57.199 --> 01:11:00.439
if you messed up, you just
turned it upside down and shook get and

958
01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:02.720
the whole picture went away and you
got to start over. We can do

959
01:11:02.760 --> 01:11:06.239
that in gardening. It's called changing
of the seasons. It's called using a

960
01:11:06.319 --> 01:11:11.319
Rhodo teller to get rid of the
thing that didn't work and start something new.

961
01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:14.760
It's always a fresh palette, and
that is one of the things that

962
01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:20.039
I enjoy so much about gardening.
Hey, if you guys have any kinds

963
01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:26.199
of pest questions you. I hope
we'll stick around for the eight o'clock hour

964
01:11:26.319 --> 01:11:30.880
just around the corner, and we're
gonna have Scott McGrath Pest Control on here

965
01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:33.920
now. McGrath Pest Control. They've
been in business since what nineteen seventy four,

966
01:11:33.960 --> 01:11:38.000
I believe like over forty eight years. For sure, it is still

967
01:11:38.039 --> 01:11:43.840
a family run business. It is
a business that the owner is intimately involved

968
01:11:43.880 --> 01:11:46.359
with. You know, it's still
family run. They serve the whole Houston

969
01:11:46.399 --> 01:11:50.680
area, Greater Houston area, and
they when they tell you something, you

970
01:11:50.720 --> 01:11:55.479
can take it as gold, like
here's a problem you have. They're not

971
01:11:55.720 --> 01:11:58.840
just making something up. Here's what
we need to do for it. They're

972
01:11:58.880 --> 01:12:01.640
telling you what act really needs to
be done. It's you need to be

973
01:12:01.720 --> 01:12:05.479
able to trust your service companies.
And that's what I like about McGrath pass

974
01:12:05.520 --> 01:12:10.319
Control. You don't have to sign
a contract. You call them. They

975
01:12:10.359 --> 01:12:13.760
may advise you and say, hey, next whatever month you ought to consider

976
01:12:13.840 --> 01:12:16.239
having this done. But you don't
sign a contract with them. You call

977
01:12:16.319 --> 01:12:20.439
them when you need them. They
schedule a time and they show up at

978
01:12:20.479 --> 01:12:24.640
that time. You don't have to
block half your day waiting and by the

979
01:12:24.640 --> 01:12:28.199
way, wondering, as with many
service companies, are they going to even

980
01:12:28.239 --> 01:12:30.439
show up? They set a time
and they do show up. Super highly

981
01:12:30.560 --> 01:12:35.840
rated company. I just I think
McGrath is the way I would put it.

982
01:12:35.840 --> 01:12:41.640
It's old time customer service with today's
technology. So stick around for eight

983
01:12:41.640 --> 01:12:45.199
o'clock our we're gonna have Scott on
and we're gonna pick his brains on bugs.

984
01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:49.560
And if you have any questions about
insects, pass rodents and things,

985
01:12:50.319 --> 01:12:54.199
write that question down, give us
a call an eight o'clock hour and we

986
01:12:54.279 --> 01:12:57.680
will get right to it. Speaking
of getting right to it, I think

987
01:12:57.720 --> 01:13:00.880
we ought to head out to north
Shore now and to Diana. Hello Diana,

988
01:13:00.960 --> 01:13:06.439
thanks for waiting. Hi, no
problem. I have a beautiful pecan

989
01:13:06.520 --> 01:13:12.079
tree. It's probably six year or
seventy feet tall, very well established.

990
01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:17.880
About eight years back, I had
it pruned because of a storm and since

991
01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:24.680
then it has not produced any pecans. And the pecans are the paper shell

992
01:13:24.760 --> 01:13:29.439
type. I don't know the name
of the tree. Yeah, that's taking

993
01:13:29.560 --> 01:13:33.800
good health. Well, that's very
interesting. I don't know why pruning now.

994
01:13:33.840 --> 01:13:40.800
I could see excessive pruning and a
lot of igorish regrowth, maybe you're

995
01:13:40.960 --> 01:13:44.640
you're not getting much of a production
for lo Wante kind of settles in a

996
01:13:44.640 --> 01:13:51.520
little bit. But pecans. The
reason pecans don't produce is a lack of

997
01:13:51.640 --> 01:13:59.720
pollination. That's the main reason.
And so you know, I'm just sitting

998
01:13:59.760 --> 01:14:02.560
here and here I am grabbing at
straws. Going back to those horticultural principles.

999
01:14:02.600 --> 01:14:08.079
If the pecans either come in one
of two types type A type B

1000
01:14:08.199 --> 01:14:11.279
we call them. They have fancy
words attached to them, but basically they

1001
01:14:11.319 --> 01:14:16.039
mean does it produce receptive nutlets first
or does it produce pollen first. They

1002
01:14:16.720 --> 01:14:20.079
don't do those at the same time
on a tree typically, So if you

1003
01:14:20.159 --> 01:14:26.079
have one that's produces nutlets first and
your neighbor has one that produces pollen first,

1004
01:14:26.399 --> 01:14:30.159
then they take care of each other. Those trees make sure pollen nation

1005
01:14:30.439 --> 01:14:33.279
and pecans set happens. So if
a neighbor had a tree and there are

1006
01:14:33.279 --> 01:14:38.119
no other pecans anywhere nearby and that
tree was taken, well, that could

1007
01:14:38.119 --> 01:14:41.439
be a reason that yours might stop
producing. That's a long shot, right,

1008
01:14:41.760 --> 01:14:45.319
but that is something that could happen. Pecans also alternate bear, so

1009
01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:47.720
if they were a really heavy crop
one season, they will not have a

1010
01:14:47.720 --> 01:14:53.239
crop at all, hardly the next
season. And but you're talking about more

1011
01:14:53.279 --> 01:14:56.920
than just a year out. So
all I know to think is it just

1012
01:14:56.960 --> 01:15:00.960
needs to grow a little more and
settle in. Maybe there's not it's not

1013
01:15:00.039 --> 01:15:04.520
because it's lacking a nutrient in the
soil. There's no spray that you spram

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01:15:04.520 --> 01:15:11.079
pecans. It makes them produce.
They just need good sunlight and they should

1015
01:15:11.119 --> 01:15:14.800
do okay, So do the leaves
and everything look okay on it. Yes,

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01:15:15.239 --> 01:15:18.079
it's a beautiful tree. Well,
you know, you may need to

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01:15:18.079 --> 01:15:20.199
go out and talk to it.
You may need to go out and talk

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01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:25.479
to it. I have done that. I've done the plant's stakes. Now

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01:15:25.520 --> 01:15:31.119
I want to This is a true
story. My Pecan culture professor, doctor

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01:15:31.199 --> 01:15:34.239
Story at Texas A and M.
Told this story. There's an old timer

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01:15:34.560 --> 01:15:38.520
and whenever a tree didn't produce,
he would go out there with a hatchet

1022
01:15:38.560 --> 01:15:42.039
and he'd walk around the tree,
hitting it in the trunk with that hatchet,

1023
01:15:42.439 --> 01:15:46.399
and it just kind of fussing and
cussing and telling the tree, if

1024
01:15:46.439 --> 01:15:49.520
you do not produce next year,
I'm coming back and I'm cutting you down.

1025
01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:53.880
I'm gonna finish the job. And
next year it produced like crazy.

1026
01:15:53.960 --> 01:15:57.920
Well a, it's that alternate bearing
was already happening. But also when you

1027
01:15:58.000 --> 01:16:00.319
hit it with a hatchet, you're
backing. You're cutting the tissues that take

1028
01:16:00.359 --> 01:16:03.680
carbohydrates down to the roots and you're
backing them up and so you get a

1029
01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:10.000
better nuts set from now. But
he thought it was his threatening talking to

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01:16:10.159 --> 01:16:14.840
But I wouldn't recommend that. But
you know whatever, give it a try.

1031
01:16:15.479 --> 01:16:20.960
You've had good luck. I hope
that tree produces for you fun stuff,

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01:16:21.079 --> 01:16:27.880
right, fun stuff. If you
are interested in the birding world,

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01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:30.199
wild Birds Unlimited as a place you
need to go. And I used to

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01:16:30.239 --> 01:16:34.119
not be a birding person until I
walked in to a wild Bird's Unlimited,

1035
01:16:34.520 --> 01:16:39.680
bottle of feeder, bottle of bird
house, bought some of their quality feeds

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01:16:39.680 --> 01:16:43.359
that they have and began getting into
it. And like I said before,

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01:16:43.640 --> 01:16:46.560
guarding is a multi century experience.
So that means we see beauty with our

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01:16:46.560 --> 01:16:51.279
eyes, we smell fragrance with our
nose, and we hear wonderful things with

1039
01:16:51.319 --> 01:16:57.279
our ears and birds songs, our
songbirds wonderful. You need to go to

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01:16:57.319 --> 01:17:00.960
wild Bird right now because our bluebirds, cardinals, chickens and rims are all

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01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:04.239
in their nesting season and get the
nesting super blunt. It's perfect for summer

1042
01:17:04.239 --> 01:17:08.880
feeding all the way through August.
That would be a great one for birds,

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01:17:08.960 --> 01:17:12.039
especially as a lot of them are
going to be going through molting later

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You're going to find the wild birds
all around near you, Katie Kingwood Cyper's

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Parlam bel Air, West Houston.
That also clearly, Hey you're listening to

1047
01:17:28.720 --> 01:17:31.640
Guardline. We are gonna go to
our top of the hour break for news

1048
01:17:31.640 --> 01:17:35.479
and more. And I just want
to remind you Scott McGraths coming up next

1049
01:17:35.600 --> 01:17:40.479
hour. So what are your questions? You got some about termites, You

1050
01:17:40.560 --> 01:17:44.720
got pantry pests. You know,
there's those little critters that get into the

1051
01:17:44.760 --> 01:17:47.239
flower and the other things you have
stored in the pantry. Maybe silver fish

1052
01:17:47.279 --> 01:17:53.039
are eating up your books inside,
on and on and on. No limit

1053
01:17:53.119 --> 01:17:56.600
to the number of insects. Oh
my gosh, that I forget about cockroaches.

1054
01:17:56.760 --> 01:18:00.560
We are the cockroach capital of the
world right here in the Houston,

1055
01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:02.800
Texas area. Scott will tell you
about how to deal with them. Let

1056
01:18:02.880 --> 01:18:06.239
us talk about some of the things
that you might be interested in when it

1057
01:18:06.239 --> 01:18:11.159
comes to pest. But it would
be best if you guys had some questions

1058
01:18:11.159 --> 01:18:14.359
that are of interest to you,
because someone else will have those same kinds

1059
01:18:14.359 --> 01:18:25.399
of questions. Hang around, We'll
be right back. KATRH Garden Line does

1060
01:18:25.439 --> 01:18:30.319
not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

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01:18:30.399 --> 01:18:56.119
to KTRH Garden Line with skip rictor
just watching as so many. Well,

1062
01:18:56.159 --> 01:19:00.279
good morning, good Sunday morning.
We are glad you're listening. Had a

1063
01:19:00.279 --> 01:19:04.479
great time with Scott McGrath talking insects. The last hour we're our lines will

1064
01:19:04.479 --> 01:19:08.680
be open for things that you might
be interested in talking about this hour.

1065
01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:14.960
Just give us a call seven one
three two one to fifty eight seventy four.

1066
01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:19.079
By the way, if you were
out and about today, I would

1067
01:19:19.239 --> 01:19:25.479
suggest first of all that you consider
grabbing some azmite to take home put on

1068
01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:28.760
your lawn if you haven't done that
before. And here's why. Now.

1069
01:19:28.800 --> 01:19:33.199
Fertilizers have a lot of nutrients in
them. As amite specifically is a mind

1070
01:19:33.359 --> 01:19:40.800
products. It's a crushed mineral product
that it has all of the trace elements

1071
01:19:40.840 --> 01:19:44.439
that plants need and more trace elements
that we need. Maybe a plant doesn't

1072
01:19:44.439 --> 01:19:46.159
need it, but in our bodies, the processes and our bodies, we

1073
01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:49.880
need it well. Asamite is the
product for that, and you need to

1074
01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:53.960
do it about once a year.
If you haven't done one, you can

1075
01:19:54.000 --> 01:19:57.479
put it down, follow the label, follow the instructions. It'll tell you

1076
01:19:57.479 --> 01:20:00.119
you know about forty four pound bag. I believe is about six to twelve

1077
01:20:00.159 --> 01:20:02.760
thousand square feet, depending on just
how much you're going to put out.

1078
01:20:03.000 --> 01:20:06.319
I use it in my vegetable garden
because I like to make sure that the

1079
01:20:06.319 --> 01:20:12.159
produce I'm producing is loaded with all
the nutrients that my body might need.

1080
01:20:12.399 --> 01:20:16.560
But you can go online to azamite
Texas dot com asamite Texas dot com and

1081
01:20:16.640 --> 01:20:21.119
find out more information. That way, I think you will find that azamite

1082
01:20:21.279 --> 01:20:26.960
may be one of the missing links
because if a plant is lacking any nutrient,

1083
01:20:27.119 --> 01:20:31.920
no matter how minuscule the quantity that's
needed, if it's lacking at that

1084
01:20:32.000 --> 01:20:36.640
limits plant growth. So plants need
plenty of nutrients to grow and do well.

1085
01:20:36.880 --> 01:20:41.840
Let's head out to Cold Springs this
morning and we are going to talk

1086
01:20:42.000 --> 01:20:46.479
to Sandra. Hello, Sandra,
good morning, good morning. I have

1087
01:20:46.720 --> 01:20:57.199
been inundated with caterpillars also, I
guess referred to as worms on my tomato

1088
01:20:57.319 --> 01:21:04.960
plants that I can't identify. It
had an orange head and it feeds in

1089
01:21:05.000 --> 01:21:12.520
the daytime. And most of them
that I have researched were uh, nocturnal

1090
01:21:13.279 --> 01:21:20.079
okay. And I use hay for
mulch in my vegetable garden and that was

1091
01:21:20.159 --> 01:21:27.239
the only change. But it was
fresh hay, and it was good hay.

1092
01:21:27.399 --> 01:21:32.199
It's not we day and uh,
and that's when the worms started.

1093
01:21:33.239 --> 01:21:38.640
Um. I've been able to control
them by picking them off, thousands of

1094
01:21:38.720 --> 01:21:45.880
them and I used d e just
around the stem of the tomato plant.

1095
01:21:47.239 --> 01:21:54.399
But they and I've I've got them
under control now. But I've never had

1096
01:21:54.439 --> 01:22:00.359
them before. I want to identify
them for sure. And um, and

1097
01:22:01.119 --> 01:22:06.640
wonder if they possibly came in with
a oh, well probably not. I

1098
01:22:06.640 --> 01:22:11.399
mean it could be, but I
wouldn't I wouldn't look to that as the

1099
01:22:12.039 --> 01:22:21.000
real issue. There are they feeding
on foliage or on tomato fruits? Are

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01:22:21.039 --> 01:22:25.680
you there, Sander? Yes,
I said, oh, both, okay,

1101
01:22:25.680 --> 01:22:29.680
excuse me, yes, yes,
Well that is unusual. We have

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01:22:29.680 --> 01:22:31.960
a number of caterpillars that eat tomatoes. We've got the hornworms, which this

1103
01:22:32.039 --> 01:22:38.640
is not a hornworm, but hornworms
the foliage. We've got tomato pinworms that

1104
01:22:38.720 --> 01:22:42.960
are a little tiny hole a small
larva feeding. Typically they go in right

1105
01:22:43.000 --> 01:22:47.359
where the tomato attaches to the vine. We've got, uh, the corn

1106
01:22:47.359 --> 01:22:53.000
ear worm. It's also called the
um Oh my gosh, it has about

1107
01:22:53.000 --> 01:22:56.359
three or four names. But it's
a tomato fruit worm kind of insect that

1108
01:22:56.399 --> 01:23:00.520
gets into the fruit, creates a
bigger hole. But what's You're just suscribing

1109
01:23:00.680 --> 01:23:03.199
the color and everything doesn't ring a
bell. Let's do this if you will

1110
01:23:03.239 --> 01:23:09.399
take some close up pictures as close
as you can get, and make most

1111
01:23:09.439 --> 01:23:13.159
importantly, make sure it's in really
sharp focus, and email them to me.

1112
01:23:13.239 --> 01:23:15.840
I will take a look, and
let's go about it that way rather

1113
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:18.319
than me just guessing. I'm gonna
put you on hold and Josh will pick

1114
01:23:18.399 --> 01:23:23.159
up the call and he will get
you away to send me those photos of

1115
01:23:23.199 --> 01:23:29.359
the insect. Great, and one
more thing. They stand on a stem

1116
01:23:29.439 --> 01:23:35.920
or a leaf and drill a hole
in the bottom of a tomato hanging on

1117
01:23:36.920 --> 01:23:43.119
a stem above it. I gotta
see it. Let me see some pictures.

1118
01:23:43.359 --> 01:23:45.640
I've got him, Okay, got
him all right, well, okay,

1119
01:23:45.720 --> 01:23:49.000
great, thank you you, bat. I appreciate that call very much.

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01:23:51.399 --> 01:23:56.479
You know, the the great garden
centers we have around here, I

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01:23:56.560 --> 01:24:00.159
brag on them all the time because, whether you realize it or not,

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01:24:00.479 --> 01:24:05.199
you are really, really fortunate to
have the garden centers that we have in

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01:24:05.239 --> 01:24:09.960
the Greater Houston area. I mean, it's just it's truly, truly amazing.

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01:24:10.119 --> 01:24:14.880
They are absolutely outstanding. Buchanans is
one of those kind of garden centers.

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01:24:14.880 --> 01:24:17.880
They're done in the heights. And
you know, Buchannan specializes in native

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01:24:17.920 --> 01:24:21.119
plants. I mean, if you're
looking for native plants, great source.

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01:24:21.439 --> 01:24:27.760
They even have a table that's just
Harris County area natives. You know,

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01:24:28.000 --> 01:24:32.119
we could have a Texas native plant
that's native and El Paso, but these

1129
01:24:32.159 --> 01:24:36.000
are they have plants that are native
in this region and native specifically in this

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01:24:36.039 --> 01:24:42.600
Harris County area. Great opportunities for
really quality plants there. Now, if

1131
01:24:42.600 --> 01:24:45.479
you need flowers, if you need
shade plants, any other kind of plant,

1132
01:24:45.520 --> 01:24:48.920
they've got it. Outstanding selection of
houseplants, by the way, which

1133
01:24:48.920 --> 01:24:53.920
this is definitely houseplants season. When
the hot weather tends to drive us indoors

1134
01:24:53.920 --> 01:24:58.199
a little bit, But go to
Buchanan's Plants dot com and you'll see what

1135
01:24:58.279 --> 01:25:02.079
I'm talking about. While you're there, sign up for their newsletter because that

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01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:05.960
is very helpful, very informative.
Check them out on Facebook, check them

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01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:10.119
out on Instagram. You can get
constant updates. By the way, I

1138
01:25:10.119 --> 01:25:14.800
saw just recently an update. They
have the Vego garden beds. You know

1139
01:25:14.840 --> 01:25:17.960
I brag on those all the time. Well, Buchanan's Plants one of the

1140
01:25:17.960 --> 01:25:24.560
places you can get Vego garden beds
in this area. Let's now go to

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01:25:25.760 --> 01:25:28.239
I'll tell you what, Kevin,
I'm gonna have to hold on. Our

1142
01:25:28.279 --> 01:25:30.920
time is a little bit too short, but you will be first up when

1143
01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:36.119
we come back from a break.
If you are dealing with a lawn that

1144
01:25:36.359 --> 01:25:42.800
just is not looking its best,
you need to consider a Nitrofoss application of

1145
01:25:43.359 --> 01:25:47.880
super Turf nineteen four ten. That's
the Silver Bags silver Bag super Turf nineteen

1146
01:25:47.960 --> 01:25:54.039
four ten. Gradual release over time
cuts down on thatch. Therefore, make

1147
01:25:54.079 --> 01:25:58.960
sure the plant has a good root
system therefore, and it just supports gradual,

1148
01:25:59.479 --> 01:26:03.159
healthy growth. You're gonna find nitro
Foss Super Turf nineteen four ten at

1149
01:26:03.199 --> 01:26:08.199
All has hardware stores all the lot
of the garden centers. We talk about

1150
01:26:08.239 --> 01:26:12.079
the mom and pops here are going
to have that places like plants for all

1151
01:26:12.119 --> 01:26:15.359
seasons out there on Lutta or our
c W nursery. Lots of places you

1152
01:26:15.399 --> 01:26:19.199
can get nitrofoss. But look for
the silver bag for nitrofoss super turf.

1153
01:26:19.640 --> 01:26:23.920
We're going to take a break our
phone number seven one three two one two

1154
01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:27.840
fifty eight seventy four. We will
get to you Kevin. First thing when

1155
01:26:27.880 --> 01:26:35.159
we come back from breaking my dreams
to Skip crew about the places that I'm

1156
01:26:35.319 --> 01:26:44.439
not to see a speren du you
think I'd ever get there? He just

1157
01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:50.239
stands there for mom back in me. Well, good Sunday morning. If

1158
01:26:50.399 --> 01:26:54.800
you're listening to Garden Line, I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and we're

1159
01:26:54.800 --> 01:26:57.960
here to answer your gardening questions.
All you have to do is give us

1160
01:26:57.960 --> 01:27:02.319
a call seven one three two one
to five eight seven four. Listen.

1161
01:27:02.359 --> 01:27:06.960
If you live in the Houston area
with our shrinking swelling soils, what does

1162
01:27:06.960 --> 01:27:11.039
that mean? What it means?
When the clay gets wet, it swells,

1163
01:27:11.079 --> 01:27:15.000
When it gets dry, it shrinks. We get cracks in the soil,

1164
01:27:15.119 --> 01:27:16.840
big cracks. You can look out
in the ground as you walk through

1165
01:27:16.840 --> 01:27:21.119
the yard. But worse than that, we get cracks and foundations sidewalks,

1166
01:27:21.239 --> 01:27:25.439
driveways. What do you do?
Well, what you do is you call

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01:27:25.479 --> 01:27:30.359
Tai Strickland at Fix my Slab Foundation
Repair, or you can just go on

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01:27:30.439 --> 01:27:34.279
line Fix my Slab dot Com the
phone number two eight one two five five

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01:27:34.680 --> 01:27:39.000
forty nine forty nine. They've been
doing this for twenty three years. It's

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01:27:39.000 --> 01:27:44.199
a local small business with a foundation
experience. You want. Maybe your doors

1171
01:27:44.239 --> 01:27:46.039
are sticking, you see a crack
in the brick outside, or maybe a

1172
01:27:46.079 --> 01:27:49.279
sheet rock inside, you need to
have someone come in and look at it

1173
01:27:49.880 --> 01:27:56.159
because foundation repairs are better best caught
early and dealt with properly by somebody who

1174
01:27:56.159 --> 01:27:59.359
knows what they're doing. They'll do
free estimates. Just tell me your gardenline

1175
01:27:59.399 --> 01:28:01.640
listener. You get a free estimate
from them. They're committed to a fair

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01:28:01.640 --> 01:28:05.199
price, they show up on time, and they fix it right. Fix

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Let's head out now we're going to
talk to Kevin this morning. Good morning,

1179
01:28:15.319 --> 01:28:17.680
Kevin, Hey, good morning.
Now are you I'm well? Thank

1180
01:28:17.720 --> 01:28:24.960
you? So I've got some issues
going on with the front of my lawn.

1181
01:28:27.039 --> 01:28:32.720
I've got patches that are just dead. And I'm pretty adamant about taking

1182
01:28:32.760 --> 01:28:35.439
care of my lawn. I use
a real mower, I keep it real

1183
01:28:35.479 --> 01:28:42.920
short, I follow Randy's schedule to
a t. And I'm not sure.

1184
01:28:43.399 --> 01:28:46.399
I'm just really not sure what's going
on. Okay, I've got some pictures,

1185
01:28:46.479 --> 01:28:49.800
but yeah, let's talk. Let's
talk about it first and see.

1186
01:28:50.199 --> 01:28:54.239
First of all, what type of
grass is it? Bermuda zois here or

1187
01:28:54.279 --> 01:28:58.880
Saint Augustine zoysia grass? Okay,
good? And you're mowing it low and

1188
01:28:58.960 --> 01:29:02.239
short. The spots that you're seeing
the areas, are they next to a

1189
01:29:02.399 --> 01:29:08.039
driveway, a sidewalk, curb,
masonry structure, or are they just out

1190
01:29:08.039 --> 01:29:15.880
in the middle of the yard a
little bit of both there between the road

1191
01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:20.279
and and in between the road and
the sidewalk. I've got a couple of

1192
01:29:20.319 --> 01:29:28.359
big patches, but then up towards
the flower bed, I've got another patch.

1193
01:29:29.359 --> 01:29:34.159
So it's I don't know if it's
spreading because I've got green in between,

1194
01:29:34.359 --> 01:29:40.319
but it's it's you know, it's
just very confusing on what's going on.

1195
01:29:40.720 --> 01:29:45.920
Yeah, okay, well, um, the spots do they are they

1196
01:29:46.399 --> 01:29:51.000
very kind of neat and tidy,
like it's a dark it's a dead spot,

1197
01:29:51.039 --> 01:29:55.079
but then it turns green right outside
that or do they just sort of

1198
01:29:55.119 --> 01:30:00.880
blend into the grass going from dead
to healthy? No, the first one,

1199
01:30:00.359 --> 01:30:05.479
okay, the first one, Yeah, this is it could be a

1200
01:30:05.479 --> 01:30:12.079
disease related issue, probably not insect
related, but but it got me.

1201
01:30:12.199 --> 01:30:15.319
Yeah, I didn't see any insects
around there. I was. Yeah.

1202
01:30:15.399 --> 01:30:17.000
And if you know what chinch bugs
are, you get on your hands and

1203
01:30:17.039 --> 01:30:20.640
knees right between the healthy and the
dead in that sick grade, well,

1204
01:30:20.640 --> 01:30:24.680
you're gonna find a lot of them. So if you can eliminate that,

1205
01:30:24.680 --> 01:30:30.119
that's good. That's one step I
tell you from a photo. It is

1206
01:30:30.199 --> 01:30:34.840
very difficult diagnosing a lot of the
lawn diseases accurately. The next step for

1207
01:30:34.920 --> 01:30:39.560
you on that would be to go
to that zone between healthy and dead and

1208
01:30:39.960 --> 01:30:44.199
to take a sample there, put
in a zip closing bag and mail it

1209
01:30:44.239 --> 01:30:46.880
to the state Plant Clinic up at
Texas A and M. It's it's easy

1210
01:30:46.920 --> 01:30:53.520
to get the address. It's Plant
Clinic dot TAMU dot edu. If you

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go there Plant Clinic dot TAMU dot
edu. You can get the submission forum.

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01:30:58.640 --> 01:31:00.479
It tells you how to take the
sample. That's the real way,

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01:31:00.479 --> 01:31:03.520
because they're going to go down in
there with a microscope, grow a culture

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01:31:03.560 --> 01:31:08.199
out the fungus and a Petri dish
and really be able to identify it accurately

1215
01:31:08.279 --> 01:31:11.479
for you. I can get my
best guests looking at a photo. But

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01:31:11.640 --> 01:31:14.399
I tell you, I may send
you out for a fungicide when you need

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01:31:14.399 --> 01:31:16.840
an insecticide or vice versa, and
I just I hate to do that.

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01:31:17.279 --> 01:31:20.199
But if you'd like to try a
photo, I'll put you on hold and

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01:31:20.319 --> 01:31:26.079
Josh can get a picture just or
get you the email address. Just know

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01:31:26.239 --> 01:31:29.479
that I think a sample it's probably
a better way to go based on what

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01:31:29.520 --> 01:31:33.159
you're describing. Okay, what what
was that? Or what was that?

1222
01:31:33.279 --> 01:31:41.359
Website again? The Plant Plant Clinic
one word dot T A m u as

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01:31:41.399 --> 01:31:46.279
in Texas A and M University dot
E d u as in education. Okay,

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01:31:46.319 --> 01:31:48.960
okay, and yeah, I would
like to send you the pictures and

1225
01:31:50.600 --> 01:31:54.479
ballparking for me. All righty,
you got it. I'm gonna put you

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01:31:54.520 --> 01:31:57.359
on hold. Scott will pick that
up and we'll be ready to go from

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01:31:57.399 --> 01:32:00.760
there. Scott, I've been talking
to Scott McGrath, All morning, I

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01:32:00.840 --> 01:32:05.279
call Josh Scott. Okay, well
it's the last hour of the second day

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01:32:05.279 --> 01:32:10.960
of the weekend, so that makes
sense, right. Hey, if you're

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01:32:11.000 --> 01:32:15.840
interested in having solar panels in your
house, let me suggest something else you

1231
01:32:15.920 --> 01:32:18.960
might want to consider, and that's
solar shingles. Did you know that Brinkman

1232
01:32:19.079 --> 01:32:25.720
Roofing sells shingles. They're not above
your roof, they are your roof.

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01:32:26.079 --> 01:32:30.880
They protect your home while creating electricity. You know, Brinkman's been around fifty

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01:32:30.960 --> 01:32:38.039
years. Everything they do they give
twenty five years fully warranted because they use

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01:32:38.159 --> 01:32:42.319
quality materials and they do a quality
job. They know what they're doing,

1236
01:32:42.319 --> 01:32:45.800
and you need somebody that knows what
they're doing. Their full service. If

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01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:48.920
it's residential, if it's commercial,
if you need shingles, if you need

1238
01:32:48.960 --> 01:32:55.560
tile, if you want one of
those nice custom manufactured standing seam metal roofs

1239
01:32:55.600 --> 01:32:59.359
built right there on site to fit
your home perfectly, they can do it.

1240
01:33:00.159 --> 01:33:02.479
And you don't stay in business for
fifty years without doing it right.

1241
01:33:02.640 --> 01:33:09.079
That's why they won in twenty twenty
two the Better Business Bureau Pinnacle Award win

1242
01:33:09.319 --> 01:33:15.159
winner Brinkman Quality dot Com. That's
Brinkman with two ends at the end quality

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01:33:15.239 --> 01:33:20.840
one word Brinkman Quality dot com two
eight one four eight zero seven six six

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01:33:21.199 --> 01:33:26.960
three. You know, one of
the things I enjoy about garden Line is

1245
01:33:27.199 --> 01:33:30.359
getting a visit with gardeners, and
another one is just, you know,

1246
01:33:30.439 --> 01:33:32.399
getting to explore all things new.
You never know when the phone rings,

1247
01:33:32.920 --> 01:33:35.880
what kind of question it might be. Kind of keeps you on your toes

1248
01:33:35.960 --> 01:33:41.279
as a result of that, so
but that makes it, that makes it

1249
01:33:41.359 --> 01:33:45.239
fun. I've been visiting with a
lot of different folks today and also talking

1250
01:33:45.399 --> 01:33:51.640
with Scott about insects and things that
related to insects. We just got through

1251
01:33:51.680 --> 01:33:57.880
talking of Kevin about the lawn issue. And you know, sometimes it's a

1252
01:33:57.920 --> 01:34:01.119
mystery when you look at a lawn
and you see browning. There's clues we

1253
01:34:01.199 --> 01:34:04.840
look for that help me go that's
probably chinch bugs are well, that may

1254
01:34:04.920 --> 01:34:11.279
be sod web worms, or no, that's one of the Razactonia fungi,

1255
01:34:11.439 --> 01:34:15.079
or maybe take all patch. And
it interesting how many things like to eat

1256
01:34:15.119 --> 01:34:19.079
our lawns. But we try to
do our best job at getting to the

1257
01:34:19.119 --> 01:34:24.399
bottom of it. Because nobody wants
to go out and spend money in order

1258
01:34:24.760 --> 01:34:29.760
to treat a lawn when you're buying
the wrong products. So that's a waste

1259
01:34:29.800 --> 01:34:33.640
of money, that's a waste of
time. Good diagnosis is so very very

1260
01:34:33.680 --> 01:34:38.760
important, and when you do get
a diagnosis and you need a product,

1261
01:34:38.880 --> 01:34:41.359
you need to be able to go
someplace where you're going to find what you

1262
01:34:41.439 --> 01:34:44.800
need. And no matter where you
live in the Greater Houston area, I

1263
01:34:44.840 --> 01:34:48.079
would suggest considering an ACE Hardware.
There's thirty nine of them, and their

1264
01:34:48.119 --> 01:34:54.439
selection of insecticides, fungicides, herbicides
is excellent. I'm always amazed when I

1265
01:34:54.439 --> 01:34:58.319
go in there at the range of
products. When I mentioned a fertilizer on

1266
01:34:58.359 --> 01:35:01.920
Guardline, they're going to carry it
in ACE Hardware. They also have you

1267
01:35:01.960 --> 01:35:05.119
know, you can buy bags of
mulches and composts and things there as well.

1268
01:35:05.399 --> 01:35:10.199
When you go into ACE, you
have friendly, helpful associates that know

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01:35:10.479 --> 01:35:12.960
what they're talking about and they can
direct you. By the way, when

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01:35:13.000 --> 01:35:15.479
you go into ACE, you need
to join the rewards program where you can

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01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:21.479
earn money back on your purchase.
I belong to that myself, and cumulatively

1272
01:35:21.760 --> 01:35:26.279
it's just a really good deal.
As you do your purchases and what you're

1273
01:35:26.319 --> 01:35:28.479
going to find when you get in
there, maybe you went in to buy

1274
01:35:28.520 --> 01:35:31.359
a bag of fertilizer or something.
You're going to find there's only eight hundred

1275
01:35:31.359 --> 01:35:35.319
thousand other things that you've been looking
for, and here they are all in

1276
01:35:35.359 --> 01:35:42.640
one place. That is ACE Hardware. Our phone number seven one three two

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01:35:42.640 --> 01:35:45.399
one two fifty eight seventy four.
If you give a Josh a call,

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01:35:45.760 --> 01:35:49.319
he'll get you on the boards and
we can talk to you about the things

1279
01:35:49.359 --> 01:35:55.399
that are of interest to you.
When I come back and in a bid

1280
01:35:55.520 --> 01:36:01.319
here, I'm gonna spend a little
bit of time talking about the vegetable garden

1281
01:36:01.439 --> 01:36:06.239
and doing some transitions out in the
vegetable garden. If anyone is a vegetable

1282
01:36:06.239 --> 01:36:10.039
garden or wants to be, I
think that might be interesting. We'll talking

1283
01:36:10.039 --> 01:36:13.520
about some of the vegetables that do
well for heat, some of the ways

1284
01:36:13.600 --> 01:36:16.760
we care for our vegetable garden in
the summertime, and some of the pests

1285
01:36:17.079 --> 01:36:23.079
that you might be looking for out
there as well. It's really interesting when

1286
01:36:23.159 --> 01:36:27.800
you get out in the gardens and
you watch nature interacting. You know,

1287
01:36:27.880 --> 01:36:30.239
it's one thing. You know,
you go out there's a tomato plant,

1288
01:36:30.399 --> 01:36:32.119
fertilize it. I pick a tomato. But when you go out and you

1289
01:36:32.239 --> 01:36:36.880
look at everything that's going on in
the garden, it is really a very

1290
01:36:38.000 --> 01:36:44.840
interrelated, complex world of insects,
plants and interactions that they have. And

1291
01:36:45.399 --> 01:36:48.079
I just find it to be a
really fascinating thing. And this may sound

1292
01:36:48.119 --> 01:36:53.039
weird, but I can enjoy sitting
down in the garden, get a cup

1293
01:36:53.039 --> 01:36:56.319
of coffee in the morning and just
a little stool, sit out there a

1294
01:36:56.319 --> 01:37:00.000
minute and watch and look at what
you're observing. I've learned more that way

1295
01:37:00.399 --> 01:37:03.800
then, and a lot of books
that I've read about gardening, and it's

1296
01:37:03.840 --> 01:37:08.600
because you get to see the things
coming by. I love to do that.

1297
01:37:08.640 --> 01:37:12.600
In fact, I will often see
a p s that I don't know

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01:37:12.600 --> 01:37:16.680
what it is. One time,
it was some caterpillars that were on some

1299
01:37:16.840 --> 01:37:20.840
kale and they had a unique striping. I wasn't familiar with that caterpillar.

1300
01:37:20.880 --> 01:37:24.119
So what did I do? Well? I picked some of the leaves with

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01:37:24.199 --> 01:37:27.359
the caterpillars on it, put them
in a vase, brought them inside a

1302
01:37:27.359 --> 01:37:31.560
little short vase, and put them
inside one of those salad mixed boxes.

1303
01:37:31.600 --> 01:37:34.800
You know how if you go to
the grocery store, those clear plastic containers.

1304
01:37:35.119 --> 01:37:39.720
You can buy spring Max, you
can buy kale or spinach or whatever.

1305
01:37:40.000 --> 01:37:42.760
When you're done with those, you
can set them on end. That

1306
01:37:42.800 --> 01:37:45.600
means they have a little door.
You can put your vase in there with

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01:37:45.680 --> 01:37:47.279
the insects and watch them grow up. If you have kids, that's a

1308
01:37:47.319 --> 01:37:51.079
really cool thing for the kids to
watch. Maybe it's a butterfly go through

1309
01:37:51.119 --> 01:37:56.399
the caterpillar chrysalis an adult stage,
or in my case, it was like,

1310
01:37:56.680 --> 01:37:59.079
what the heck is the name of
this caterpillar and what's it going to

1311
01:37:59.159 --> 01:38:00.600
turn into? Because I want to
see what his pupil looks like. I

1312
01:38:00.640 --> 01:38:04.960
want to see don't moths look like
just kind of having fun out there in

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01:38:05.000 --> 01:38:09.159
the garden. I know it's weird, but Nikki, I love that.

1314
01:38:09.359 --> 01:38:15.680
I'll own weird. I love all
things gardening and so and all things of

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01:38:15.800 --> 01:38:18.319
nature, all things of nature.
Man, Nature is cool. It is

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01:38:18.600 --> 01:38:21.680
and nature wins, by the way. That's another thing that we've learned.

1317
01:38:21.720 --> 01:38:26.359
If you've ever seen a stop sign
engulfed and eaten by a tree as the

1318
01:38:26.359 --> 01:38:30.840
bart grows around it, you learned
that that nature wins. We just hold

1319
01:38:30.840 --> 01:38:32.960
back the forces and try to create
this thing we called a garden and a

1320
01:38:33.039 --> 01:38:38.880
landscape, move away for five years
and come back. Nature wins. That's

1321
01:38:38.920 --> 01:38:45.119
cool. Hey, let's hear about
the news. Downtown Walking says is passing

1322
01:38:55.680 --> 01:39:05.119
away. Good Sunday morning. You
are listening to Garden Line and we are

1323
01:39:05.399 --> 01:39:10.800
entering into the second half of our
last hour this morning. We're gonna answer

1324
01:39:10.840 --> 01:39:13.920
your gardening questions. So if you
got one, give us a call seven

1325
01:39:13.960 --> 01:39:16.840
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. In other words, what

1326
01:39:16.880 --> 01:39:19.359
do you want to talk about?
Hey? I want to tell you that

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01:39:19.800 --> 01:39:27.479
this Thursday, July thirteenth, five
to eight pm, the Organic Horticulture Benefits

1328
01:39:27.479 --> 01:39:32.359
Alliance is having a get together Let's
talk gardening at Axel Red Beer Garden Axel

1329
01:39:32.399 --> 01:39:38.199
Red Beer Gardens on Alabama Street here
in Houston. And again that's this Thursday,

1330
01:39:38.560 --> 01:39:42.239
July thirteenth, from five to eight
pm. Now'll be there. Jay

1331
01:39:42.279 --> 01:39:45.119
White from Texas Gardener will be there, and Destin Noak as well will be

1332
01:39:45.159 --> 01:39:48.479
there. Get shifts to visit with
us and just have a good time talking

1333
01:39:48.520 --> 01:39:53.720
about gardening. If you want to
register for this, it's free, by

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01:39:53.720 --> 01:39:57.000
the way, but to save your
spot, I would recommend going online to

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01:39:57.239 --> 01:40:05.319
OBA Online, OHBA online dot org, forward slash Register, Oba online dot

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01:40:05.439 --> 01:40:11.159
org, forward slash Register Thursday,
July thirteen, five to apm Axel Red

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01:40:11.159 --> 01:40:14.439
Beer Garden on Alabama Street. I
hope you can join us. It's gonna

1338
01:40:14.439 --> 01:40:16.399
be a good time just having some
fun there by the way coming up.

1339
01:40:16.960 --> 01:40:21.319
This is kind of a almost a
precursor to the Oba Palooza event that is

1340
01:40:21.319 --> 01:40:26.560
going to be on Saturday, August
fifth. Now that's a little further out,

1341
01:40:26.640 --> 01:40:30.000
but make a point to put that
on your calendar. Saturday August fifth,

1342
01:40:30.159 --> 01:40:34.479
Oba Palooza. What is Oba Palooza. Well, Oba Palooza has ten

1343
01:40:34.560 --> 01:40:40.680
amazing speakers on the topics of organic
gardening. You can again go to Oba

1344
01:40:41.000 --> 01:40:45.920
online dot org, forward slash register, Oba online dot org, forward slash

1345
01:40:46.000 --> 01:40:49.520
Register. I'll be there. I'll
be speaking, giving a keynote address Aris

1346
01:40:49.520 --> 01:40:54.399
well Jay. It'll be at the
United Way of Greater Houston on WA Drive,

1347
01:40:54.640 --> 01:40:57.279
you know, kind of in the
big middle of town there. Tickets

1348
01:40:57.319 --> 01:41:00.560
are for members fifty dollars for non
uberse seventy five. But keep in mind

1349
01:41:00.600 --> 01:41:06.000
this is a loaded day of lots
of really really great talks. This is

1350
01:41:06.119 --> 01:41:10.319
all day fair, lots to learn
and a lot of fun too. I

1351
01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:13.800
always have a good time hanging out
at those events, getting to meet some

1352
01:41:13.840 --> 01:41:17.439
of the folks that listen to Garden
Line, getting to make acquaintances with old

1353
01:41:17.439 --> 01:41:21.159
friends I hadn't seen a while before. So two different activities. But first,

1354
01:41:21.479 --> 01:41:25.920
this Thursday, July thirteenth, five
to eight pm, I hope you

1355
01:41:25.920 --> 01:41:28.720
can come out to the actual Red
Beer Garden and have a good time with

1356
01:41:28.800 --> 01:41:30.520
us. We are going to be
having a blast, that is for sure.

1357
01:41:31.359 --> 01:41:34.920
If you'd like to give us a
call and ask your questions. It's

1358
01:41:35.039 --> 01:41:41.359
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

1359
01:41:41.479 --> 01:41:46.359
two fifty eight seventy four. I
was talking about before the break, saying

1360
01:41:46.359 --> 01:41:49.760
I'd like to talk a little bit
about summer vegetable gardening. When it's in

1361
01:41:49.840 --> 01:41:55.560
the summertime, a lot of our
spring produce that was doing so well when

1362
01:41:55.560 --> 01:41:59.520
the weather was mild, it just
shuts down. Trying to get a big

1363
01:41:59.600 --> 01:42:02.279
slice or tomato to set fruit,
you know, trying to get your cucumbers,

1364
01:42:02.279 --> 01:42:05.760
and even the squashes, the summer
squashes and things, they just don't

1365
01:42:05.800 --> 01:42:10.359
do as well this time of the
year. But we have plants that do.

1366
01:42:10.680 --> 01:42:14.560
We have plants that love the heat. Okrah loves the heat. Southern

1367
01:42:14.640 --> 01:42:17.680
peas. What are Southern peas well? It is the black eyed pea,

1368
01:42:17.760 --> 01:42:23.359
the purple hull pea, the crowder
pea, the zipper cream pea. Lots

1369
01:42:23.359 --> 01:42:26.840
of great delicious Southern pieces. By
the way, if you've eaten black eyed

1370
01:42:26.880 --> 01:42:29.760
peas out of a can, you
have never eaten black eyed piece. I

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01:42:29.800 --> 01:42:35.239
know a very few vegetables that is
so dramatic between canned and fresh, or

1372
01:42:35.279 --> 01:42:41.159
between you know, cooked and frozen
and fresh, super super good fresh.

1373
01:42:41.239 --> 01:42:45.279
You gotta you gotta try that.
Then there's a lot of other vegetables vegetables

1374
01:42:45.319 --> 01:42:49.520
from places that are hot and humid
that love that weather. Well, welcome

1375
01:42:49.600 --> 01:42:56.840
to Houston and summer right. Vegetable
am rat that would be a leafy type

1376
01:42:56.840 --> 01:43:00.239
of amrath that we grow for the
leaves that'll do well here, you know

1377
01:43:00.239 --> 01:43:05.439
we're talking about. Purslain is a
beautiful hanging basket plant flowering and flowering.

1378
01:43:05.800 --> 01:43:12.079
There is an edible vegetable type of
purslain. There are a number of different

1379
01:43:12.159 --> 01:43:16.359
varieties, gold gilber, red gruner
you know as a numb mithra as another

1380
01:43:16.399 --> 01:43:20.520
one that I mean, they're basically
they're weeds, so they grow like weeds.

1381
01:43:20.760 --> 01:43:25.439
You put them in a container and
you can grow a lot of vegetables.

1382
01:43:25.479 --> 01:43:29.159
By the way, did you know
that purslain is super high in all

1383
01:43:29.199 --> 01:43:32.079
of the omegas that we so need
in our bodies. It's crunchy, it's

1384
01:43:32.159 --> 01:43:35.880
good in a salad, it's good
cooked. I even will throw some into

1385
01:43:35.880 --> 01:43:39.279
a smoothie. You don't even know
they're in there when you get done with

1386
01:43:39.319 --> 01:43:42.800
it, and you've just added nutrition
to your diet. So those are all

1387
01:43:42.840 --> 01:43:45.359
summer plants. We have other summer
plants we can be doing. If you've

1388
01:43:45.399 --> 01:43:50.199
got a bare area in the garden
you're not doing anything with, consider doing

1389
01:43:50.239 --> 01:43:57.039
a solarization on it. Now,
what is solarization, Well, you put

1390
01:43:57.159 --> 01:44:01.479
clear plastic over the soil after you've
prepared the soil, and you leave it

1391
01:44:01.520 --> 01:44:05.279
for about four to six weeks.
Then when it's time for fall planting,

1392
01:44:05.760 --> 01:44:11.439
you plant right in that spot.
So the first step is prepare your soil.

1393
01:44:11.479 --> 01:44:14.359
If you're building a raised bed,
get it built. If you're putting

1394
01:44:14.359 --> 01:44:17.600
in fertilizers or putting in anything composes
into the soil, get that done.

1395
01:44:17.640 --> 01:44:21.399
Because when you're done solarizing, you
don't want a spade or rototill the soil,

1396
01:44:21.640 --> 01:44:26.640
you'll just bring fresh weed seeds to
the surface. Solarizing kills everything in

1397
01:44:26.680 --> 01:44:29.399
the top four inches of soil,
all the bad stuff, you know,

1398
01:44:29.479 --> 01:44:33.680
weed seeds and insect larvae and things
like that. But it didn't work real

1399
01:44:33.760 --> 01:44:36.760
deep into the soil because you know, it just can't affect the soil that

1400
01:44:36.880 --> 01:44:42.279
deep. But it works well,
and you do need clear plastic. And

1401
01:44:42.359 --> 01:44:45.800
why it wouldn't it make sense that
black plastic would get hotter than clear plastic.

1402
01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:49.239
Well, yes, the plastic,
if it's black, absorbs all the

1403
01:44:49.279 --> 01:44:55.319
sun's rays and almost nothing goes down
in the soil. But with clear plastic,

1404
01:44:55.720 --> 01:44:59.159
like that windshield on your car.
You know how it is in the

1405
01:44:59.199 --> 01:45:01.239
summer. You park your car,
you close the car, you walk away,

1406
01:45:01.279 --> 01:45:04.520
you come back, and it is
only like between eight hundred and nine

1407
01:45:04.600 --> 01:45:10.119
hundred degrees inside the car when you
get in, right, sun shining through

1408
01:45:10.199 --> 01:45:15.119
clear material to heat up the interior
really sends the temperature up. That's why

1409
01:45:15.239 --> 01:45:19.720
solarizing works, and that's why we
use clear plastic. Cover the edges with

1410
01:45:19.800 --> 01:45:25.319
soil or bricks or anything to hold
the area in and just get everything ready

1411
01:45:25.359 --> 01:45:27.680
first. Again, you're not gonna
want to mess with a soil. When

1412
01:45:27.680 --> 01:45:30.840
you're done with this, give it
four to six weeks of good hot weather

1413
01:45:30.279 --> 01:45:34.600
and it will do a lot toward
cutting down on some of the problems that

1414
01:45:34.760 --> 01:45:39.880
may be present there in your soil. So that's another summer activity. If

1415
01:45:39.880 --> 01:45:44.319
you're getting ready and you're thinking about
maybe the fall garden things that are coming

1416
01:45:44.399 --> 01:45:47.199
up, now's the time to again
get your soul tested. What do you

1417
01:45:47.239 --> 01:45:49.640
need? Do you have plenty of
phosphorus or do you need some? Do

1418
01:45:49.640 --> 01:45:54.039
you have plenty of magnesium or do
you need some? A soil test is

1419
01:45:54.039 --> 01:45:59.760
a way to find that out.
Go to Soil Testing Soil Testing dot tam

1420
01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:05.800
dot edu. That's the state soil
testing lab, soil Testing dot TAMU dot

1421
01:46:05.960 --> 01:46:12.119
edu. Click on the regular soil
farm that says it's for urban soil samples.

1422
01:46:12.159 --> 01:46:15.439
Now that's not because you're in a
big city Houston. It's because you

1423
01:46:15.560 --> 01:46:18.680
have a garden or a lawn or
rosebeds or you know, vegetables and so

1424
01:46:18.760 --> 01:46:23.279
on. That's the urban test as
opposed to the farm test, which is

1425
01:46:23.319 --> 01:46:26.720
going to be you know, grass
pastures for cattle and things like that,

1426
01:46:26.880 --> 01:46:30.000
cotton and so on. Soil testing, get your soul tested, then you

1427
01:46:30.000 --> 01:46:32.720
don't know how to fertilize. Let's
take a break. We'll be right back

1428
01:46:32.720 --> 01:46:36.479
for our last segment. Our number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1429
01:46:36.640 --> 01:46:40.319
seventy four. There is your last
chance to get on this weekend. If

1430
01:46:40.359 --> 01:46:43.119
you have a question and we can
visit about it, be happy to do

1431
01:46:43.159 --> 01:46:47.760
that. A rollover will be told
in and tells you gods get a new

1432
01:46:49.760 --> 01:46:54.000
I got the rock and newmania.
I need to shout a rhythm and blue.

1433
01:46:55.920 --> 01:46:59.119
I called the rolling off the ride
of thinking down at a rhythm review.

1434
01:47:00.399 --> 01:47:03.880
I see a dancing across the room
that just gets you the hip hop

1435
01:47:04.000 --> 01:47:08.640
bebop ready to go, doesn't it. You're listening to garden Line. I'm

1436
01:47:08.680 --> 01:47:11.840
your host, Skip Richter, and
we're here to talk gardening our phone number

1437
01:47:11.840 --> 01:47:15.479
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. As we enter our

1438
01:47:15.560 --> 01:47:18.279
last segment, and we're gonna go
straight to the phones and talk to Nate

1439
01:47:18.439 --> 01:47:26.840
in Columbus. Hello Nate, Hello, Hey, you're on What can we

1440
01:47:26.920 --> 01:47:35.880
do for you? Nati there?
All right? I think I have putting

1441
01:47:35.920 --> 01:47:40.359
Nate on hold. We didn't connect
right there, so maybe Josh you can

1442
01:47:40.359 --> 01:47:44.159
get him back so I want to
I want to talk to you a little

1443
01:47:44.159 --> 01:47:47.560
bit about I'll talk a little bit
to those of you who are interested in

1444
01:47:47.840 --> 01:47:53.000
a retirement. Maybe you're looking for
where can I move, what kind of

1445
01:47:53.399 --> 01:47:55.520
what kind of area? Don't want
to live in? What kind of house?

1446
01:47:55.600 --> 01:47:59.680
And all that. I would suggest
you really seriously consider Dell Web.

1447
01:47:59.720 --> 01:48:03.880
You can online to Dellweb dot com
slash Houston to find out about that company.

1448
01:48:04.479 --> 01:48:08.520
If anybody who's been around for a
while knows, Dell Webb has been

1449
01:48:08.640 --> 01:48:13.720
building communities for active adults age fifty
five and better for over seventy years.

1450
01:48:14.119 --> 01:48:17.439
The newest community is out there at
Fullshire on FM three fifty nine, about

1451
01:48:17.439 --> 01:48:23.039
two miles from downtown Fullsher. Dell
Web homes or beautiful homes, are quality

1452
01:48:23.079 --> 01:48:28.399
homes, but the communities have lifestyle
programs built around you. They're beautiful.

1453
01:48:28.560 --> 01:48:30.640
But people that want to stay active, they want to just you know,

1454
01:48:30.880 --> 01:48:35.680
keep going. That is absolutely what
Dell Web communities are all about. The

1455
01:48:35.800 --> 01:48:40.800
newest community at Fullsher has contacted me
to help them with a community garden they're

1456
01:48:40.840 --> 01:48:44.159
putting on site for residents. If
you're a listener to garden line, I

1457
01:48:44.239 --> 01:48:47.239
mean, great house, great community
and a community garden all in one.

1458
01:48:47.760 --> 01:48:50.840
It is well worth checking out.
Call them at two eight one four five

1459
01:48:51.000 --> 01:48:56.920
nine zero six zero nine to get
a little more information and to discover that

1460
01:48:57.199 --> 01:49:02.279
Dell web difference. Well I believe
we lost snake there, so all right,

1461
01:49:02.359 --> 01:49:06.119
Well let's continue on. I was
talking about the vegetable garden and the

1462
01:49:06.239 --> 01:49:11.560
heat of summer and getting ready for
the spring, about getting soil ready,

1463
01:49:11.640 --> 01:49:15.359
doing a sol task to doing solarizing. If you got an ongoing problem,

1464
01:49:15.199 --> 01:49:21.479
if you have an infestation of a
noxious weeds like bermudo grass into your vegetable

1465
01:49:21.479 --> 01:49:26.199
garden, that is a challenge and
it is best to get that taken care

1466
01:49:26.279 --> 01:49:29.920
of. But when you don't have
a crop in the garden, if you're

1467
01:49:29.960 --> 01:49:32.079
going to spray it, if you're
going to dig it up, whatever you're

1468
01:49:32.119 --> 01:49:34.680
going to do to get it out
of there, just get on it and

1469
01:49:35.000 --> 01:49:39.640
get that done. Use the early
morning hours when it's a little bit cooler

1470
01:49:39.680 --> 01:49:43.720
to get some of that kind of
work done, because it is important to

1471
01:49:44.000 --> 01:49:47.039
not have to deal with bermudo grass
in and among your vegetables. That is

1472
01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:49.680
just a it's very difficult to deal
when you're not coming to spray it.

1473
01:49:49.720 --> 01:49:53.640
When it's in and among the food
crops you're growing. By the way,

1474
01:49:53.800 --> 01:49:57.680
if you want to kill bermuda grass
with a spray, the bermuda grass needs

1475
01:49:57.720 --> 01:50:00.520
to be actively growing. If it
is the little winter and it's just kind

1476
01:50:00.520 --> 01:50:04.960
of an adormancy, those products won't
kill it. If it's in a summer

1477
01:50:05.039 --> 01:50:10.119
heat, drought, stress and it's
not growing, those products are not going

1478
01:50:10.159 --> 01:50:13.560
to work very well. So even
if it means going out there and water

1479
01:50:13.640 --> 01:50:16.560
in your bermudograss to get it growing, give it a few days and then

1480
01:50:16.680 --> 01:50:20.239
sprite, that's a better way to
go about it if you want really good,

1481
01:50:20.720 --> 01:50:25.079
good results. Now we're going to
go back and talk to Nate again.

1482
01:50:25.560 --> 01:50:29.560
Nate, how's it going this morning, and how can we help it's

1483
01:50:29.600 --> 01:50:35.479
going good? See if you had
any recommendations on artichoke in our climate.

1484
01:50:36.399 --> 01:50:41.159
You know you can grow artichokes very
well in our climate. They are have

1485
01:50:41.279 --> 01:50:44.000
a little bit of cool tolerance and
they're not going to take a super hard

1486
01:50:44.039 --> 01:50:48.079
freeze, but they work pretty well. You can start you can actually buy

1487
01:50:48.159 --> 01:50:51.560
seeds and start them from seed.
A lot of people will grow their own

1488
01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:56.840
transplants, and you want to put
those transplants in the ground as it starts

1489
01:50:56.920 --> 01:51:00.479
to cool off just a little bit
in the fall, and get them growing,

1490
01:51:00.760 --> 01:51:02.800
get them growing fast, and they
will go through winter. You may

1491
01:51:02.880 --> 01:51:05.600
have to throw a cover over them
if we have one of those, you

1492
01:51:05.680 --> 01:51:10.119
know, good hard freezes, but
then when they come out in spring,

1493
01:51:10.399 --> 01:51:14.159
they will take off and bloom,
which is basically we're eating the bloom buds

1494
01:51:14.199 --> 01:51:16.720
when we eat a heart of choke, and they do really well. Occasionally

1495
01:51:16.800 --> 01:51:20.640
you can find garden centers that have
them, I guess, I don't know

1496
01:51:20.720 --> 01:51:25.319
if root or crown of the plant. I guess for sale. You know,

1497
01:51:25.399 --> 01:51:27.960
almost like you would buy bare root
plants in the winter, you would

1498
01:51:27.960 --> 01:51:30.760
buy these crowns to plant them,
get you a little bit of a head

1499
01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:34.520
start overseating. But I just like
to start my own transplants and go from

1500
01:51:34.560 --> 01:51:42.600
there. You're there, Nate,
Okay, I'm here yet. Okay,

1501
01:51:42.920 --> 01:51:45.560
Yeah, So just remember they like
cooler weather. They don't like the blazing

1502
01:51:45.640 --> 01:51:50.119
heat of summer, but a hard
freeze can nip them. But here we

1503
01:51:50.279 --> 01:51:55.520
basically grow them from fall through spring. That's their main season, or maybe

1504
01:51:55.600 --> 01:51:59.479
early summer. Okay, well,
what should I be doing with them?

1505
01:51:59.600 --> 01:52:01.279
Right now? I've got three of
them that are still alive that made it

1506
01:52:01.399 --> 01:52:06.359
through the kind of sort of hard
freeze we had. Well, yeah,

1507
01:52:08.479 --> 01:52:13.560
and they're looking okay, they're looking
okay, they're hanging on. Okay.

1508
01:52:13.880 --> 01:52:17.039
Well, I would go out and
say congratulations, y'all are amazing. First

1509
01:52:17.479 --> 01:52:21.520
to them. If you talk to
your plants, Uh, just just adequate

1510
01:52:21.600 --> 01:52:27.119
water, but not too much.
Don't don't make them swampy, saggy around

1511
01:52:27.159 --> 01:52:30.279
the roots. They need water,
of course, but they have a very

1512
01:52:30.399 --> 01:52:33.560
extensive root system. You know,
it's a it's a good Artichokes are good

1513
01:52:33.600 --> 01:52:38.800
sized plants, and and so you
water a large area, keep them adequately

1514
01:52:38.920 --> 01:52:42.960
moist, and they may well hang
on and keep going. I've had some

1515
01:52:43.159 --> 01:52:45.800
go through summer before. And if
you can get them to do that,

1516
01:52:46.000 --> 01:52:51.159
well, all the better. I
mean, that's fine. All right,

1517
01:52:51.560 --> 01:52:55.439
thank you appreciated. Hey, thanks
for the call, Nate. I appreciate

1518
01:52:55.560 --> 01:53:00.199
that. We're gonna head out now
to southwest Houston and talk to Carolyn.

1519
01:53:00.359 --> 01:53:06.239
Hello, Carolyn, good morning.
I'm enjoying you. We're pretty weekend and

1520
01:53:06.439 --> 01:53:12.800
today I would like to know when
do I know who to harvest my eggplant?

1521
01:53:13.680 --> 01:53:17.039
This is my first time to grow
eggplants, so I'm not familiar with,

1522
01:53:17.199 --> 01:53:21.800
well, congratulations and good for you. That is a great plant.

1523
01:53:23.000 --> 01:53:26.199
The easy to grow, and lots
of different ways you can use them.

1524
01:53:26.239 --> 01:53:30.159
I grew up not eating eggplant,
and when I started to discover all the

1525
01:53:30.239 --> 01:53:34.359
different ways other than fried eggplant that
you could make, it just made me

1526
01:53:34.439 --> 01:53:39.239
a big fan of those things.
So here's the thing with eggplant eggplant.

1527
01:53:39.560 --> 01:53:43.720
The fruit grow in size, and
assuming they have adequate water, they're gonna

1528
01:53:43.800 --> 01:53:47.680
move pretty quickly from small to medium
to larger size, whatever large is for

1529
01:53:47.840 --> 01:53:53.560
that variety. Some make the big
giant. They're like black beauty. They're

1530
01:53:53.720 --> 01:53:57.279
they're almost like a black beauty.
Okay, let's gonna make a little melon

1531
01:53:57.359 --> 01:54:02.000
sized oval plant fruit, and you
want to pick them while they're still glossy

1532
01:54:02.119 --> 01:54:08.279
and while the skin is still punctures
to the touch. If they get too

1533
01:54:08.399 --> 01:54:12.720
old, they lose that gloss on
the skin and they're not as shiny,

1534
01:54:12.880 --> 01:54:15.199
and that's a sign that it's gone
too far and the quality is going to

1535
01:54:15.239 --> 01:54:17.199
be down. The skin is going
to be as tough as leather, but

1536
01:54:17.279 --> 01:54:21.600
the quality will start to go down
at that point. So I guess if

1537
01:54:21.640 --> 01:54:25.760
you know about how big they're supposed
to be, let them get close to

1538
01:54:25.880 --> 01:54:28.600
that size, but then go ahead
and get them picked, and I would

1539
01:54:28.640 --> 01:54:30.600
experiment you're gonna have more than one
fruit on the plant, and you can

1540
01:54:30.680 --> 01:54:32.880
kind of test them out and get
a fuel for it. So the next

1541
01:54:32.960 --> 01:54:36.399
time you grow eggplant, if you
grow that variety, you know exactly what

1542
01:54:36.600 --> 01:54:42.840
to do. Oh wonderful, Yeah, go ahead, No, go ahead,

1543
01:54:42.840 --> 01:54:46.680
I'm sorry. No, Well,
my favorite seed catalog is from Baker

1544
01:54:46.800 --> 01:54:50.920
Creek. Oh yeah, and they
have a Chinese broccoli. Yes, it

1545
01:54:51.279 --> 01:54:57.000
sounds wonderful. Yes, can I
plant that here? Now? You can't

1546
01:54:57.119 --> 01:55:00.159
do I make to wait? No, No, you would plant it in

1547
01:55:00.520 --> 01:55:03.159
the fall. I would plant it
probably if you're gonna do if you're gonna

1548
01:55:03.159 --> 01:55:06.359
do transplants, you're gonna grow your
own transplants. This is what I would

1549
01:55:06.399 --> 01:55:12.640
recommend. You can start those indoors
and then move them out to a bright,

1550
01:55:12.920 --> 01:55:16.079
well lit spot, but not the
blazing hot sun to grow them out

1551
01:55:16.199 --> 01:55:18.880
until you can set them out.
I would put them out in late September

1552
01:55:19.039 --> 01:55:23.119
probably. You could probably do it
a little earlier than that if you gave

1553
01:55:23.199 --> 01:55:27.039
them a little shade protection. But
they're a cool season plant, and September

1554
01:55:27.159 --> 01:55:30.279
is still pretty blazing hot for them, but anytime September even October, be

1555
01:55:30.359 --> 01:55:35.279
okay to get your broccolio. They
are Are they in the coal family,

1556
01:55:35.640 --> 01:55:41.119
Yes, they are, cold crop, they're they're in there with cabbage,

1557
01:55:41.319 --> 01:55:45.720
kale, collards, colerabbie, all
of those kind of things. Wonderful,

1558
01:55:45.800 --> 01:55:48.800
All right, Carolin, Well,
good luck with that. I appreciate your

1559
01:55:48.880 --> 01:55:51.680
called. Good luck with you.
Thank you, Bronie, you bet,

1560
01:55:53.000 --> 01:55:56.800
thank you. Yeah. By the
way, you've been listening to garden Line.

1561
01:55:56.960 --> 01:56:00.359
I'm your host, Skip Ricter.
We're here every Saturday, and we're

1562
01:56:00.439 --> 01:56:04.640
here every Sunday as well, from
six am to ten am. Now,

1563
01:56:04.720 --> 01:56:09.199
maybe you missed a show and you
want to listen, Well, get your

1564
01:56:09.239 --> 01:56:12.960
podcast out and go look for garden
Line. You can listen to past shows

1565
01:56:13.039 --> 01:56:16.159
that way. You can also listen, by the way, if you're heading

1566
01:56:16.199 --> 01:56:19.119
to another city and it's too far
from the radio saying no, you can

1567
01:56:19.199 --> 01:56:21.960
listen online. I mean, you
gotta have your garden Line fix with a

1568
01:56:23.000 --> 01:56:27.960
weekend, right, that assures you
that's all's well in your gardens world.

1569
01:56:28.520 --> 01:56:30.960
All right, Well, we're having
a little bit of fun today, but

1570
01:56:30.239 --> 01:56:36.479
you know they you know the routine
garden Line six to ten Saturday and Sunday.

1571
01:56:36.680 --> 01:56:40.079
We're glad to visit with you.
I just want to remind you about

1572
01:56:40.159 --> 01:56:44.520
that event coming up at Axel Rad
Beer Garden this Thursday, July thirteen,

1573
01:56:45.000 --> 01:56:47.479
five to eight pm. It is
a free event. I'll be out there.

1574
01:56:47.960 --> 01:56:51.119
Jay from Texas Garden will be out
there. Destin No will be out

1575
01:56:51.159 --> 01:56:57.319
there. All you need to do
is go online and register. That way

1576
01:56:57.640 --> 01:57:02.359
you'll know that you've got space and
just OBA online OHBA online dot org,

1577
01:57:02.920 --> 01:57:09.000
slash register. It's free. I
mean, we're gonna have some fun out

1578
01:57:09.039 --> 01:57:12.159
there, so I hope you can
join us. That's just a precursor to

1579
01:57:12.239 --> 01:57:15.399
the big event I was talking about
coming up in August, and I'll talk

1580
01:57:15.399 --> 01:57:18.279
about more about that later as we
get a little bit closer to it as

1581
01:57:18.319 --> 01:57:21.920
well. Hey, thanks for being
a listener to Garden Line. We really

1582
01:57:23.000 --> 01:57:25.640
appreciate it. You make the show
so much more fun.