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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter

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Trim. Just watch him as well. Good morning, Good Sunday morning.

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You look outside, it's very dark, and if your neighbors lights aren't on,

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go bang on the door. Tell
them they're missing guard line and they'll

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be so happy they'll rise up and
call you. Bless it. It is

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going to be a good day for
gardening. We have ordered one whole full

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day of sunshine and I believe it's
going to be delivered here. I don't

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know, about an hour or so. We will be outside doing all kinds

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of gardening. I myself this afternoon
have a list of things that I want

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to get done, including inside the
house plants. I've got a number of

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things I'm growing and need to be
bumped up. I've got some couple of

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house plants that just need to move
to the next size container, a little

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trimming and pruning. There's always something
fun to do, you know. That's

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one one cool thing about gardening is
I mean, if it could be pouring

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down rain outside and you're inside,
there's a lot that you can be doing

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to enhance your garden, both indoors
and outdoors, and that is I think

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a wonderful thing we are looking for
today to talking to you about the questions

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that you might have regarding your garden, your landscape, your lawn. I

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know we'll be talking about lawns quite
a bit today. If you would like

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to give me a call, the
number is seven to one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four seven to
one three two to one two kt r

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H. It's always good to talk
to you and hear the different kinds of

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questions that we have. You know, I've been doing this kind of thing

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for over thirty five years now.
It started with an agrolife extension career as

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a horticulturist a number of different counties
around. Started in Montgomery County. As

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a matter of fact, shout out
to those of you up there in Montgomery

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County. I'll be up at the
Home Garden show there later this spring.

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And then headed over to Travis County
in Austin about fifteen years over there,

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spent about ten years here in the
Houston area in the Harris County office,

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and it finished my career in college
station. Now retired from Agrolife Extension,

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continuing to do radio and really loving
it. And the fun thing is,

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you never but someone asked me one
time, you know, aren't you afraid

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of what people are going to ask? Like you wouldn't know it? And

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it's like, well, you know, someone once said is probably I don't

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know. It sounds like a Will
Rogers maybe, or Mark Twain or something.

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I said. Have of being smart
is knowing what you're dumb at.

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And I'm dumb it a lot figured
out a long time ago, and that

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sure takes the pressure off. It's
of course, over the years, I've

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learned a lot a lot of things, but there's always something new. Every

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time I turn around in plants,
there is something new, and that is

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kind of kind of cool. I
remember a couple of years ago I discovered

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the African blue basil, and that
was actually about five years ago and I

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had never grown it before. And
African blue is a magnet for pollinators.

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And I love basils. I grow
a lot of basils. I prefer some

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of the more culinary genoes types and
whatnot, making that pesto and things,

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but African blue is beautiful. I
mean, you can also use it in

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seasoning. It's got a very different
flavor. But the blooms are a magnet

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for honey bees and some of the
other beneficial insects, and so I always

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have one. I like to put
it in a corner of a garden and

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just let it go crazy. And
just especially when we get into hard times.

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You know it's summer, it's hot, bees are looking for nourishment.

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It'll be covered up, they'll be
very covered up. And Buchanans plants.

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I was just seeing something the other
day. I get the newsletter they send

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out. They've got African blue basil
featured in there. And once it really

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warms up, you know, if
you get one a little early, just

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keep it inside, give it some
light, and keep it growing. I

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was talking about that with tomatoes and
whatnot the other day. That is an

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awesome, awesome plant. While I'm
talking about Buchanans, they have a lot

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of other things. The boog and
villias are just gorgeous that they have.

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They've got some hibiscus in that are
really just showstoper beautiful. And you know,

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if you've never been in there.
Their gift shop, you ought to

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check that out too. They've got
a lot of beautiful things, things for

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the home, even things for the
kids, like they have a whole section

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of children's books in the bungalow on
plants. So you got a small child,

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you got a grandchild that you would
like to give a gift to.

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You know, the gift of gardening
is for life when it comes to kids.

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I as a child worked in our
garden and got to watch things grow,

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and you know, I guess the
rest is history. As they say,

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it is a wonderful thing to do. But Buchannan's always got plenty of

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stuff going on. They're on Eleventh
Street in the Heights, by the way.

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They also have a lot of great
programs going on there. It's an

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educational place. It's a place where
you follow their website and you can learn

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a lot about gardening. You go
in and talk to their staff and you

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can learn a lot about gardening and
they'll match you up to the plant you

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need. Do you have shade,
do you have sun? What do you

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need? They can fix you up
on that because they have a wide selection

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really of everything. Got some great
strawberries that have come in Channeler Quinault and

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ever sweet. I love Chandler.
That's one of my favorite strawberries that there

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is, and Quinault's an older variety, it's also a good one. I've

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not grown ever sweet. I guess
that's something I need to try this year.

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But strawberries are just fun to grow
too. So I would encourage you

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to swing by Buchanans. Be a
great day for it. I'll tell you

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this. This day of sunshine is
just it gets some gardening to enjoy yourself

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outside. You know, gardening.
I like to say, gardening is not

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work. Gardening is fun and even
walking, even if you break a sweat,

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you know you're doing some chores.
It's good for you. It's just

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a it's a filler upper. It's
a filler upper day. And we were

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made to garden. I'm convinced of
that. Uh you know we You've never

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heard any of the cubicle of Eden. Right, it was a garden for

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crying out loud and and I think
gardening is probably the best therapy that there

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is. I'm biased, but that
doesn't mean i'm wrong. That's true.

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Right while you're out in the garden
too, enjoy yourself with attracting birds to

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your landscape. That I talk about
this a lot because Gardening is more than

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just creating and looking at colors and
beauty. It is that that's huge.

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Gardening is producing food. It's producing
spices for indoor cooking and for enhancing the

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flavor and more fresh food and more
health as a result of that. It

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is for the sounds of gardening,
like the sound or running water, the

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sound of birds. Those are important
aspects. It's movement in the garden,

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swaying grasses and all of the movement
that's there. It is also the visual

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of different textures, the fine lines
of grasses, the broad lines of something

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like an elephanty or the broad leaves
of an elephanty. It's all of that

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and above and while birds is really
the place that I would say you just

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you have to go to if you
want anything related to birds. They carry

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top quality seed. They absolutely have
seed where you buy a pound of seed

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from all birds and you're getting a
pound of stuff that a bird's going to

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eat, stuff they're kicking off on
the ground, which a lot of cheapbird

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seed. That's that's what it amounts
to. And I would say cheap bird

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seed is too expensive. I would
because the bird seeds you're getting out for

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the birds you're getting a fraction of
the bag you bought, and so that's

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one thing I like about Wilbert.
I also like the fact that they keep

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us up to date on everything going
on, like right now. I was

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talking to one of the wild Birds
store managers the other day and we were

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talking about it's time for bluebirds to
come in and find a box a house.

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If you want to put one up. If you want bluebirds, those

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beautiful birds, you should go ahead
and do that. The SAME's true with

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purple Martins. Get that done now. I'm gonna take a little break.

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We'll be right back with your questions
and some more thoughts. Seven one three

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two one two KTRH. Welcome back
to garden Line. Glad you're with us

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this morning. I hope you've got
you a cup of coffee and at least

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one eye open this hour of the
morning. We're going to head over the

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phones right now, and first thing
is talk to Paul in the Woodlands.

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Hello, Paul, Hello, good
morning. I'm well sir, Thank you

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good. I wanted to talk to
you about hydroponic gardens and get your opinion

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of I got one for my birthday, one of these towers. Yes,

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and I'm going to try it,
so I wanted to get some tips from

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you and what's the best way to
do it, and what you would plant

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and what you wouldn't plant in one
okay, Well, first of all,

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those kits usually come with some pretty
good instructions on getting everything set up and

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also on getting you know your plants
started. It's easiest to grow leafy greens

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in the system that the key is
light, and they come with lighting.

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Sometimes I think some additional lighting can
be helpful, but they do come with

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lighting. I hope yours did.
If not, we need we need you

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to get some lights for it.
Did it? No, kid not come

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with lights? Okay then, but
I do have it outside? Oh okay,

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well then you're all good. You
don't have to worry about lights.

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The leafy greens are the easiest and
fastest to grow, so things like lettuce

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for example, or if you like
some of the sea I call them seasoning

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greens. But something like a regula
would be an example of that. Cilantro

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would be a green that can be
used in seasoning as well, seasoning soups

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and whatnot. But leafy greens are
the easiest. As you move into fruiting,

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plants. You want to make sure
that you are growing things that are

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somewhat compact. So you wouldn't want
a tomato that vines from you across the

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neighbors properties. You want one that's
pretty compact or grow and I would provide

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it. Again, make sure it's
in a spot that gets good sunlight.

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Followed the nutrients. Did it come
with nutrients or does it have you buy

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additional nutrients? Now, it does
come with two different callon jugs that you're

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supposed to combine in the tank.
Yeah, good, stick with that.

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That is a blend of nutrients and
the right ratio. And people often will

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go, well, I'm just going
to go buy some of that soluble liquid

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plant food that you water your plants
with, and that is going to not

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be as good of a solution for
providing plants everything they need as the solutions

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that they sell you or include with
your kit. Make sure they watch the

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water level when you're outside. Those
leaves are transpiring water. There's some evaporating

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out of the unit, not much, but a little bit, and with

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the warm warming weather, it will
use up water and you do not want

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it to go dry because those roots
are totally dependent on you for all the

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water and nutrients they need. Gotcha. Gotcha. So you wouldn't recommend you

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think I should stay away from plants
like the tomatoes, the peppers, the

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no. I don't think you should
stay away from them. It just I

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think you should find more compact types. Like a bush type cucumber doesn't have

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vines that go as long. They're
they're more compact. And like eggplant,

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there are some type that they promote
them as good container eggplants because of the

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stature and productivity of the bush.
And tomatoes the same thing. If you

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can find a variety called tumbling tom
that would be outstanding in a unit like

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that. It's very compact, It
naturally drapes down, hangs downward, and

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produces a lot of tomatoes. I
would do those kind of tumbling tom It's

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not very widely available. You will
occasionally find it, but any other kind

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there's another patio choice is another one
that would be good for that patio choice.

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But anyway, just where you know
where you do your shopping, being

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up there in the Woodlands area,
you're not too far away from A and

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A plants to head up that way. There's also a lot a lot of

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places down south of you to take
advantage of. I would grow some basil

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in it too, Wait until the
web warms up to put it out there.

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Basil does not like fifty something degrees, but basil would be a good

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one to grow in there as well. All right, okay, all right,

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thank you, Good luck with it. When you get it going,

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send me a picture of it.
Pardon yoh yeah, of course that's a

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standard on garden line. My advice
is free, but I do expect to

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be paid in produce and flowers.
So yeah, that's it. Thank you,

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Thank you, Paul, appreciate that
very much. Yeah, let's head

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out now to Conroe and talk to
Michael. Hello, Michael, Hey,

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how's it going, Bud? I'm
good, sir. All right, I

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got a front yard, was staying
Ougustine. I just bought this house four

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years ago, and it got hit
with chance buds and then got hit with

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least milk. So I'm thinking that's
killing all these clovers in their ear and

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going with bermuda. Okay, uh, And I was you can figure out

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what's the best way to go about
it, all right, Well, you

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can do that. The thing to
remember about bermuda is it does not understand

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where you expect the yard to end
and the flower bed to begin. It

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tends to invade whatever's nearby, so
you have to deal with that. If

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you want a pretty bermuda lawn,
it needs lots of sun, not shade,

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and it needs to be mode frequently
at a lower level. That's what

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makes it pretty long. You know. The extreme of that is a golf

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course green, which is literally mode
every day, and that's why a golf

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course green looks like a golf course
green. That and the fact that it's

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a different kind of bermuda then you're
going to put in your yard. But

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regular mowing with a good sharp blade
is important. And yeah, bermuda makes

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a beautiful lawn if it provides.
I should kill the clover all first and

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then stuff here in this seated Yeah, now the clover is really not a

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perennial. I'd be more concerned about
the clover going to seed. And then

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you've got the clover seeds coming up
next fall in your bermuda lawn. So

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if you're going to set it,
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before it goes to seed, and
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fast. Okay, all right,
all right, all right, appreciate it.

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Good luck with that. Yeah,
I appreciate your calling. Thank you

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a lot. If you live up
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a top quality feed store, well
D and D Feed is it. I

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love stopping by to visit with Jeff
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D Feed because they always have something
new going on. Right now, they

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are loaded up with micro life fertilizers, They got plants coming in and there

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they are for that area. They
are your one stop shop for all things

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back your chickens. I mean,
do you need feeders, do you need

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you know, all the supplies you
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they got the feed for it,
and they get shipments in all the time.

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long ago. They I think the

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next one is Thursday, the twenty
second, So this Thursday they're getting over

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a dozen different kinds of chicks in
at D and D Feed and you can

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get everything you need to get set
up there. You may want to go

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buy get your supplies, get them
home, get them set up and everything

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like that, because when the chicks
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early because they are a popular ode
and people know to go there to get

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their chickens. Now, if you
need anything like the potatoes and onions and

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things we put in our gardens,
the transplants, the fruit citrus trees,

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they're going to get those in.
If you need airloom soils, they have

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a wide variety of airloom soils that'll
help you have success. So give them

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a call. It's two eight,
one, three five, one seventy one

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forty four. Or just go up
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They are west of tom Ball on
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out that way, be looking off
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to D and DE Feed. I
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their seeds and supplies for gardening.
They go beyond just you know, some

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of the fertilizers and soils that I
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they're going to help you take control
of. We've had some questions come in

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about weeds and lawns. I think
I had a couple more coming up here.

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I just want to remind you that
the folks at Nelson Fertilizer, Dean

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and his team have created a product
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does two things. It gives nutrition, but it gives nutrition over a long

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time, and it also has a
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So if you have broad leaf weeds
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those kinds of weeds, and they're
going crazy right now because here comes

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spring, that's what that's when they
grow set seeds that plague you for weeds

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for next year. Turf star weedonator, you dampen the weed. You have

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the water the lawn with an inch
of water. Just dampen the lawn and

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then immediately put it out. The
granules stick to the weeds. They kill

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the weeds, They move into the
weeds, that is, to kill them.

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Wait about a day or two and
then water your lawn to move the

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fertilizer down into the soil. The
product will have already moved into the weeds.

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Now move the fertilizer into the soil. It's as simple as that.

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And it is such a slow release
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of release from that product. And
so if you do that, you have

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fertilized your lawn. At the same
time. Let's see here, I'm going

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to go out to Deer Park and
talk to Joe. Hey, Joe,

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good morning, sir, good morning. Glad to hear that I got a

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problem with clover and my lawn.
Okay, tell me how I get rid

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of it? Yeah? What would
be that product that Nelson's puts out Nutristar

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Genesis Genesis. I'm talking about another
product that they have there, the nutri

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Star turf Star Weedenator, turf Star
Weedenator. And did you hear how I

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describe putting it out making sure the
weeds are damp first? I did?

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Yeah, I would try that.
Trouble finding that? Okay? And in

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the Deer Park area, let's see. I think you should try your local

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Ace hardware stores out there. I
have found that they tend to carry those.

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It's a fairly new product, so
you may have to look just a

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little bit for it. I'm going
to see if I can find out where

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you would get it out there in
the in that particular area. Can you

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tell me from Deer Park, Well, let me just give you one.

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Try the deer Park Lumber Ace Hardware
that's on Center Street and Deer Park.

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Thank you try it? Okay,
all right, Well, let me I'm

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going to do a little legwork on
this and see if I can find out

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where where to get that out in
that area. The alternative to that,

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and they will have this at the
Deer Park case is a spray that's for

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broad leaf weeds. Uh. And
it's a post emergent spray for broad leaf

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weeds. And just explain to them
I need to kill the weeds that are

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already growing in my lawn that are
broad leaves and they can provide you a

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spray that will do that. Hey, Joe, I got to run take

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a break here. Thank you very
much for your call. I appreciate that

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you're listening to garden Line seven one
three two one two kt RH. Welcome

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back to garden Line. Glad you're
listening to us today. I was working

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on trying to find a source for
that Nelson product. You might try fish

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or shard out in Baytown. They
do carry some Nelson products. You have

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to call around. I'm gonna keep
working on that and if I can find

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that for you, Joe, I
will I will let you know. We're

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going to head right now out to
Judy Incline. Hello, Judy, good

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morning. I know used so many
expertise. Well, I have two off

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full three questions. Number one,
I have a page mendering that is going

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to have for so many flowers.
But the pot a kind of small regional

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one three quotes. So can I
tans plan to a little bigger pot when

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is booming? This is my first
question. Yeah, yes you can.

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You want to be a little gentle
with it, not to shock it.

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Do you know you don't want to
damage roots or let the exposure its dry

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out. Go ahead, and when
you pull it out of a pot,

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get it in the next one and
you're right, the next size up,

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go up to a little larger pot. Don't make it a pot that's like

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three times as big as the one
you pulled it out of. Just go

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up a spot because I think you're
wanting to not have to move a super

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super heavy pot and you want to
keep that a little bit compact the plant.

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Is that right? Yeah? Thank
you? I think one. Yeah,

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I'm an old lady. Number two, I have a I have a

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caf of pear. It has it's
called a five bright disease. You know,

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the black collar leaves forever for so
many years. Okay, and so

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weird and I'm headed the one They
say it won't not survived, but actually

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it didn't have so many flowers.
And one year you even got a twenty

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flute. For the last year has
so many flowers, only got to three

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fruit left over. But little still
mommle, still not walking? Wow?

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Can I keep? Oh? Should
I cut out? Well? Under your

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teeth pair? The fire blight is
a bacteril disease and as you know,

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it turns the leaves of chocolate brown. You want to go below where the

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brown on the stem is about six
inches and you want to print it out

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there and then get some lies all
spray disinfectant spray and spray your prunters and

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then make the next cut. And
what you're trying to avoid with the spray

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is spreading the bacteria to new cuts
as you make the pruning. There is

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there are sprays that have an antibiotic
that can be used to control fireblight.

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It's a very small amounts you mix
in water and you have to follow the

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label very carefully. And if you're
up in the Klein area, L's Handy

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Hardware is an ace store up there
on Aldine Mail Route that little north of

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you. That would be a possibility
for trying to, you know, shut

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down the fire blight. I think
they might carry that over on Champions Spring

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Cypress road Ace Hardware of Champions is
also in your area, and tell them

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you need the antibiotic spray for fire
blight a disease that and follow the because

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you're going to want to spray it
in the spring as the new growth and

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the ballooms come out. That's when
fireblight does most of its damage. Oh

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okay, thank you so much.
Do need to kill you? Thank you?

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Love your program? Well, thank
you, thank you. And by

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the way, you're not an old
lady. When you're a gardener, you're

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forever young, all right, you
take care of Jennie. Yeah, I'm

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not an old guy. Come on, man. If you live in the

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Tumbol area, all the way down
into Houston, you pass by RCW all

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the time when you're going down two
forty nine or belt Way eight, you

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go right past it every time you
go around that side of Houston. RCW

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has got a wide variety of things. I mean, you can always get

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what you want there if you're going
to plant something. They even have the

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fertilizers. I recommend they have other
products to help you have success when you

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plant. They grow their own trees. And so if you're looking at planting

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a tree, by the way,
do that right now, because the hotter

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it gets, the harder it is
to get a new tree established. It

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can be done, but why not
make it easier on yourself by getting it

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done now. They have trees that
grow well here and they can complant them,

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but they can also sell you the
tree for you to plant. I

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would recommend if the container is very
large, you don't attempt at yourself,

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because let's just say, your chiropractor
will have to find another way to put

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their kids through college. RCW has
roses, a list of roses a mile

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long, and we are in the
big middle of the season where we are

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doing all things roses. We're pruning
and we're planting. And a rose bush

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is just a beautiful gift that just
says thank you year after year after year

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in your own yard. Imagine you're
able to walk out and see beautiful roses

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growing, to cut roses and to
bring them inside and enjoy the fragrance and

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enjoy the beauty. That way,
RCW can get you set up on all

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that stuff. They absolutely know what
they're talking about they can advise you well

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again, they're at the intersection of
tom El Parkway, which is two forty

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nine and belt Way eight. Go
to their website. Check it out there.

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R CW Nurseries dot com. RCW
Nurseries dot com. Need to get

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back out there and say hello to
David. It's not what I want to

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go up to the tree farm that
they have and take a look at how

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they grow these things. It's it's
kind of cool, you know, being

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able to purchase from people that are
local, that know what grows here,

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and that even grow their own trees, and that that is a that is

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a plus plus win win for sure. You're listening to Guardenline. Our phone

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number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. I've talked about ACE Hardware about

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four or five times, trying to
help somebody find a product this morning.

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Acehardware dot Com is the website and
if you go to Acehardware dot com,

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they have a store locator and you
get this little map and the map has

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red dots all over the Greater Uson
there's forty stores in the in the Greater

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Houston are ACE Hardware Group, and
they're going to carry everything you need.

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You know, do you need a
fertilizer, Have you heard a brand on

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guarden line that you'd like to get
that? They're going to have it that

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they work to carry that. Do
you need stuff for insects, for diseases,

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for weed prevention, Yes, they
carry those as well. ACE Hardware

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is just the place to go to
get pretty much anything you need. Make

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sure when you go though, go
ahead and sign up for their ACE Rewards

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program. You earn money back on
your purchases. That way, I belong

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myself. Every time you go into
an ACE and make a purchase, you're

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earning money back, So I mean
it's a win win again. Why not

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why not join that? ACE Hardware
is going to be a place to where

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you get wonderful indoor and outdoor.
The decorations for indoors, the outdoor.

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Oh gosh, it's barbecue season right
on the doorsto. I almost went out

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on barbecue last weekend. This is
the time to get going on that and

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man a man alive. They can
get you set up with some really cool

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sweet let's just say sweet barbecue pits. We're talking about things like Big Green

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Egg and Treeger and others, Weber
and others as well. So you need

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to go visit local ace. Today. We're gonna take a little break here.

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

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phone number if you'd like to give
me a call seven one three two one

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two K T R H. Welcome
back to garden Line. Glad to have

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you today. Hey, we are
going to talk about whatever you're interested in.

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If you'd like to give us a
call seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four. I'll tell
you what I'm interested in. I'm interested

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in trying to convince everybody listening to
garden Line that brown stuff comes before green

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stuff. And what that means for
those of you haven't heard me say that

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the eight hundred thousand times I've said
it so far, is that if you

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want to have success with plants,
I don't care if it's seeds, transplants,

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annuals, perennials, vegetables, roses, trees, lawns. Getting the

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soil right eight prior to planting is
very important. It is It is the

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most one of the top three most
important things we do, but it comes

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first. We can't control sunlight except
for choosing where to plant a plant,

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but we can control soil drainage.
We can control the aeration in the soil

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by taking a heavy clay and loosening
it up. And every product you need

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for that. For the brown stuff, you're gonna find at Ciena Mulch.

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Ciena Mulch has the soil mixes.
It's got the compost, it's got the

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bed mix They've got the bed mixes. They have them by bag. They

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have stuff by a bulk for sure. They deliver within twenty miles of Ciena

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Maltch, which by the way is
on FM five point twenty one just north

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of Roach Sharing down south of Houston. You can go to the website Sienna

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Mulch dot com Cienamultch dot com.
Now they're closed on Sunday, but they

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will be open Monday through Friday from
seven thirty to five and on Saturday seven

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00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:56.799
thirty to two pm. It's really
easy to get the stuff they need.

407
00:29:56.839 --> 00:30:00.119
They also have the fertilizers they talk
about on gardland. That's part of the

408
00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:04.680
brown stuff. It's the soil.
It's giving the plants a foundation for success.

409
00:30:06.079 --> 00:30:11.039
And I know it's exciting to talk
about vegetables and flowers and whatnot,

410
00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:15.440
but you need to get excited about
the brown stuff because that is really the

411
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.839
secret sauce to success with your plants. And Ciena Molts can get you fixed

412
00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.599
up at that. With that,
it's Sienna Maltz dot com. Give them

413
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.200
a call see what I'm talking about. Will you will be glad you did.

414
00:30:26.680 --> 00:30:30.920
I'm going to head out now to
Katie and we're going to talk to

415
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:34.519
Matt. Hello, Matt, Hey, thanks for taking the call out.

416
00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:38.519
I just wanted to know if it
was time to put applications on for the

417
00:30:38.559 --> 00:30:41.759
grass to green it up or is
it too early or do I need to

418
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:48.400
wait or fertilizer? Uh no,
you can now is when we put the

419
00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:53.279
green up on that that's the early
greenup. It's not a fertilization that's going

420
00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:57.519
to make your grass grow. It's
a fertilization that's going to green your grass

421
00:30:57.680 --> 00:31:02.559
and as it warms up, have
the energy to take off growing even better.

422
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:04.960
Perfect and so yeah, because that
needs to go on now. Yeah,

423
00:31:04.960 --> 00:31:08.599
when it when it's we're a little
chili still and Saint Augustine is not

424
00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:14.160
really wanting to take off and grow
for today. But but the early application

425
00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:18.680
will do that. And Nitrophoss Imperial
is an example of that kind of an

426
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.119
application. It's a fifteen to five
to ten. That's it's their red bag

427
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:26.880
that makes it really easy for you
to find. And you've you've got tayor

428
00:31:27.640 --> 00:31:33.240
out in out in your area.
It's really really easy easy to find it.

429
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:36.240
The Ace Hardware stores carry it,
for example. So the Ace Hardware

430
00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:41.920
it's sink Sinkle Ranch, Ace Harbor
on Mason Road they've got and exactly where

431
00:31:41.920 --> 00:31:44.839
that is. You want to follow
it one more put it on at the

432
00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:45.880
right put it on the right rate, and go ahead and water it in.

433
00:31:47.640 --> 00:31:51.799
Uh. And then later on we'll
talk about your warm season summer fertilizing

434
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:55.000
and stuff. But this is the
first thing of the season. Perfect.

435
00:31:55.319 --> 00:31:57.359
And I've got one more quick question
if you have time. Yes, it's

436
00:31:57.720 --> 00:32:02.680
we bought some crimson and clover from
that Wild Seed Farms in Fredericksburg, Texas.

437
00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:07.079
Yes, the whole pack of these
seeds. And it tells you the

438
00:32:07.160 --> 00:32:10.720
ground is supposed to be a certain
temperature, you know, but it doesn't

439
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:15.400
say really what time to plant.
That's when it's going to bloom. Is

440
00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:19.480
it too early to plant these?
Typically we would plant clover in the fall.

441
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:25.039
Now they would come up. I
don't think you're going to get what

442
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:29.839
you're looking for for it, Okay, wait maybe until next year, though.

443
00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:32.720
I would take that pack of seed
and put it in something air tight,

444
00:32:34.880 --> 00:32:37.160
is apot bag, a jar or
whatever. Put it in the frigerator.

445
00:32:38.119 --> 00:32:40.960
You can put them in the freezer, but either way, just store

446
00:32:42.039 --> 00:32:46.880
them so that they don't use viability
between now and the next fall. Perfect.

447
00:32:46.960 --> 00:32:52.039
Thanks for the answers. Appreciate it
all right, Matt, appreciate appreciate

448
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.279
that call. Thank you very much. Let's see, I wanted to tell

449
00:32:54.319 --> 00:33:01.200
you the Arbigate in Bryant, Brian. Oh my gosh. Arborgate up in

450
00:33:01.279 --> 00:33:06.920
Tomball, just west of Houston on
twenty nine and twenty. That is one

451
00:33:06.920 --> 00:33:10.160
of those destination garden centers that you
just have to see. I can describe

452
00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:14.319
it to you, but just go
look. You'll see what I'm talking about.

453
00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:16.839
Those of you who know the Arborgate, I bet you are excited about

454
00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:20.920
the new parking lot they just put
in. It goes Trisha Road makes a

455
00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:24.279
loop from twenty nine to twenty behind
Arburgate, and back to twenty nine twenty,

456
00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:28.480
So either east or west, just
look for Trisha Road, get on

457
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:30.119
it and'll take you to the back
parking lot. Oh my gosh, it

458
00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:35.640
is so nice because now you know
if it rains, you're not walking through

459
00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:37.440
mud. You get right in there. They got wagons at the entrance where

460
00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:42.240
you can grab a wagon and just
take off shopping. Makes it easy easy.

461
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:45.839
When you get to the arbor gate, then you're going to find all

462
00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:49.319
the things you're looking for. Do
you want vegetables, do you want herbs?

463
00:33:49.359 --> 00:33:52.039
Do you want flowers? Do you
want shrubs, trees, roses?

464
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:54.200
I mean they have everything, fruit
tree, They have fruit trees twelve months

465
00:33:54.240 --> 00:33:58.039
of the year out there at the
arbor Gate. And while you're there,

466
00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:02.119
pick up their one two three system
that is the organic food complete, organic

467
00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:07.360
soil complete, and organic compost complete. With those three bags, you've got

468
00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:13.039
the magic stuff to make the brown
stuff, the foundation that all your plants

469
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:16.480
need to succeed. I want to
head if I can. Now I've got

470
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:21.280
so many I want to get calls
and talk about different things. Let's just

471
00:34:21.320 --> 00:34:23.199
go ahead and go out to Wharton
and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike,

472
00:34:24.519 --> 00:34:31.280
Hey, listen, what's your opinion
on hydros Mike, your connection is

473
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:36.760
pretty rough, but I'm able to
I think get it. Hydroponics is fine

474
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:39.880
if if you want to grow in
a place where you couldn't otherwise grow a

475
00:34:39.920 --> 00:34:45.000
plant, it would be fine.
So you could grow with lights and hydroponics.

476
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:47.239
You could grow stuff in a closet
in your house. Not that I'd

477
00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:52.519
recommend that, but you could do
that. The challenges of it is you've

478
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:54.920
got to have a good solution so
that has the right ratio of nutrients,

479
00:34:55.400 --> 00:34:59.880
and you have to have you have
to create adequate light if you if it's

480
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:04.719
not a unit that's already sitting outside, I like to grow in the soil,

481
00:35:04.960 --> 00:35:08.719
that's my preference. But I would
definitely put in a hydroponic unit just

482
00:35:08.880 --> 00:35:14.079
for the curiosity and the fun of
it and to try it out. A

483
00:35:14.159 --> 00:35:16.119
lot of our vegetables that you buy
in the grocery store, especially during the

484
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:22.119
winter season, are grown hydroponically somewhere
and brought in. Well, that sounds

485
00:35:22.159 --> 00:35:25.400
good. I think I'll try it
all right, Well, do your homework,

486
00:35:25.480 --> 00:35:30.159
do a little investigating. You know
what, if it sounds too good

487
00:35:30.199 --> 00:35:34.840
to be true, it probably is, So be be a little skeptical about

488
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:38.480
it, but find a good unit
and that look at the ratings and whatnot.

489
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:43.079
There's a lot of tabletop units that
are very small. They work okay.

490
00:35:43.320 --> 00:35:47.239
My daughter has one that sits on
the countertop and it works okay.

491
00:35:49.000 --> 00:35:52.320
But if you're really wanting to grow
more vegetables, you probably need one of

492
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:54.599
the towers where that drips the water
at the top and it goes through all

493
00:35:54.599 --> 00:35:59.440
the root systems on the way down. All right, thanks a lot,

494
00:35:59.519 --> 00:36:01.519
all right, thank you, I
appreciate I appreciate your call a lot.

495
00:36:05.679 --> 00:36:12.199
I was thinking yesterday when I get
back to the house today and actually do

496
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:16.119
some of my own gardening, I'm
one of the things that I'm really looking

497
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:21.960
forward to doing is getting some fruit
trees planted. And I have a bed

498
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:24.599
that I'm going to be putting together
that's a little bit raised because I've got

499
00:36:24.679 --> 00:36:30.719
a very heavy clay soil on one
side of my house and it just grass

500
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:34.960
struggles there and it just a it's
not a great great place, but has

501
00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:37.920
good sunlight. And putting in a
little bit of a raised bed, so

502
00:36:37.039 --> 00:36:43.519
though those plants have root systems is
important. Fruit trees need good drainage of

503
00:36:43.639 --> 00:36:47.480
the soil. If your area stays
soggy wet and there's no oxygen done in

504
00:36:47.519 --> 00:36:51.880
the root system because of the heavy
clay and the excess water, you're not

505
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:54.679
going to grow fruit successfully. And
so bringing up a raised bed, even

506
00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:58.719
if you bring it up just like
twelve inches you know, a foot high,

507
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:04.920
and provide that amount of soil for
it, you can have success.

508
00:37:05.039 --> 00:37:07.119
And that's one of the things I'm
going to be constructing because this is a

509
00:37:07.239 --> 00:37:13.719
prime time to plant fruit trees.
Oh my goodness, the apples, pears,

510
00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:20.000
certainly, peaches and plums. Another
one that gets neglected is per simmons.

511
00:37:20.039 --> 00:37:23.639
Per Simmons really are a great fruit. They do very well, and

512
00:37:23.719 --> 00:37:28.559
they're one of the ones you can
grow really easily without a lot of spraying,

513
00:37:29.199 --> 00:37:32.239
which is a plus. If you
live in an area that doesn't have

514
00:37:32.320 --> 00:37:36.679
acidic soil, you can put in
a bed like that on the ground and

515
00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.360
grow blueberries to the cows come home. They will absolutely thrive in that special

516
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:45.400
soil that you have. So consider
planting some fruit trees this year. Just

517
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:52.599
check into things, make sure that
perhaps it needs a pollinator. Peaches don't

518
00:37:52.840 --> 00:37:58.239
plums generally do. Pears generally do
better blueberries do better, but some of

519
00:37:58.320 --> 00:38:01.599
them don't require it to do some
investigating like that. Apple is another one.

520
00:38:01.719 --> 00:38:06.599
We to pollinated because we want you
to have success, and so go

521
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.280
get the soil ready first. Get
you a good quality plant, and our

522
00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:15.079
garden centers are stocked up with them
right now, and bring those home follow

523
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:19.599
the instructions. If you go to
the Aggie Horticulture website and click on the

524
00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:24.360
fruit section, there's a free online
publication on every fruit you can imagine growing,

525
00:38:24.480 --> 00:38:29.199
even things like avocado. They're kind
of outside the box. Go check

526
00:38:29.280 --> 00:38:32.360
those out and follow that carefully,
because when you start right, you're much

527
00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:36.239
more likely to end up with success. Hey, we'll be right back.

528
00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:45.400
KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

529
00:38:45.440 --> 00:39:00.320
this program. Welcome to kt RH
Garden Line with skip rict. It's just

530
00:39:00.599 --> 00:39:21.440
watch him as the world not a
sign. Welcome back to the guarden Line,

531
00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:24.639
folks. We're glad you're listening.
Look to the eastern sky and here

532
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:29.960
we go, here comes the sun. That'd be a good song to play

533
00:39:30.280 --> 00:39:34.639
because the sun is coming up and
that means we're going to have look at

534
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:37.199
the sky too. Then how many
clouds up there. We're going to have

535
00:39:37.320 --> 00:39:42.400
sunshine today. This afternoon will be
a great time to get out and do

536
00:39:42.800 --> 00:39:45.199
some gardening. Pick up your supplies
and be ready to go. Those of

537
00:39:45.280 --> 00:39:49.039
you up in the Montgomery area,
But you've got A and A Plants and

538
00:39:49.119 --> 00:39:52.519
Produce right there on the east side
of town. Uh, if you're in

539
00:39:52.159 --> 00:39:55.880
anywhere around the Lake Conroy area,
this is your backyard nursery. Really,

540
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:00.719
that whole that whole region up there, there's a there's a lot of folks

541
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:04.679
that go to A and A Plants
because they know that Ana Plants and Produce

542
00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:07.800
is going to have what they need
when you show up. Do you need

543
00:40:07.920 --> 00:40:09.599
vegetables, do you need herbs?
Do you need flowers? Do you need

544
00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:14.440
some really cool bling for the landscape? Boy, they have that for sure.

545
00:40:15.199 --> 00:40:17.239
They have a landscape crew that'll clean
up your houses. And are not

546
00:40:17.360 --> 00:40:22.559
your houses your landscape your home landscapes
up there in the Lake Conro area.

547
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:24.960
You could ask them to come inside
and clean up the house. I'm pretty

548
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:29.559
sure they wouldn't need that. They
got my schedule at the counter. So

549
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:31.320
if you forget to bring your schedule, which you should take when you go

550
00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:35.960
shopping. They got them right there
at the counter for you. So do

551
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:39.559
you need nitroposter or Nelson's, do
you need microlife? Do you need airloom,

552
00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:43.639
soil, Nature's way, leaf more
complex? They've had all that right

553
00:40:43.760 --> 00:40:46.519
there at A Anda Plants and Produce. They've got seed potatoes and onion sets,

554
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:50.400
and fruit trees and citrus trees.
I mean, I could just go

555
00:40:50.519 --> 00:40:53.360
on and on and guess what next
Saturday. Please put this on your calendar

556
00:40:53.360 --> 00:40:58.400
if you live anywhere up in that
area, Saturday the twenty fourth, from

557
00:40:58.559 --> 00:41:01.199
twelve noon to two I'll be at
A and A Plants and Produce, and

558
00:41:01.280 --> 00:41:07.000
I'm going to be giving away eight
bags of turf Star Weedenator turf Star Weedenator

559
00:41:07.199 --> 00:41:10.039
eight bags, one over fifteen minutes. So that's another reason to come.

560
00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:15.559
Bring pictures are samples of plants,
of problems to identify, to diagnose,

561
00:41:15.719 --> 00:41:20.639
to make recommendations for Let's take a
look, let's talk, and let's get

562
00:41:20.679 --> 00:41:23.679
you headed in the right direction with
your garden. I want to head up

563
00:41:23.840 --> 00:41:29.880
now to Craig in Centerville. Hello
Craig, good morning, to tell you,

564
00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:32.920
how are you? And well?
Thank you? Yeah, got a

565
00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:37.360
quick question for you. My wife
and I bought five acres up in Centerville

566
00:41:37.760 --> 00:41:42.559
about a year ago and we had
it stand out. It was solid Yopon

567
00:41:42.800 --> 00:41:46.840
amongst all the they're oh, I'm
not sure that I've heard it called pen

568
00:41:46.920 --> 00:41:51.280
oaks. I've heard it called post
oaks. I'm not exactly sure what kind

569
00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:55.800
of All I know is they lose
in the Okay. The question is around

570
00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:59.880
that after we had it all root
brake and everything, well, Yopon,

571
00:42:00.039 --> 00:42:04.800
as you know, comes back with
a vengeance, and I've heard remedy works

572
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:08.559
really well at getting rid of that. My question is how concerned should that

573
00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:15.039
be any of that actually being on
the bark of an oak tree that it's

574
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:20.599
close to. I've heard some horror
stories about killing the tree with overspray,

575
00:42:20.760 --> 00:42:27.599
and what's your thoughts on that.
Yeah, remedy, that's one that you

576
00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:31.360
definitely don't want to get on or
near anything that is desirable for you,

577
00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:36.440
So I would be I'd be a
little extra careful with that. I think

578
00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:40.199
the label let me let me see, I think that the label me.

579
00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:46.719
I'm just trying to I believe the
label has an application that you put directly,

580
00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:51.679
you put it on the foliage,
but does it have a trunk treatment

581
00:42:51.800 --> 00:42:53.960
I'm not sure about that. That's
what I really need to be able to

582
00:42:54.000 --> 00:43:00.760
see it's true remedy. Yeah,
theyopond that's it's not with the brand I

583
00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:04.320
bought. It wasn't actually remedy.
But the open's all just coming back.

584
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.920
It's probably six st eight inches tall, and you know, got the leads

585
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:12.039
back on it just from coming back
to life. I've been root breaking,

586
00:43:12.400 --> 00:43:15.599
ground down and everything else. And
they said you can spray it on the

587
00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:19.880
leaves, or you can spray just
a trunk. So my fear is anything

588
00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:22.280
gets on these oak trees. Am
I gonna you know, am I gonna

589
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:25.320
kill them? Or should I just
stay away from them completely? Yeah?

590
00:43:25.559 --> 00:43:30.639
I was gonna mix it with water, and somebody suggested dish soap as a

591
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:35.199
factant, but I'd listen to whatever
you have to say. Yeah, I

592
00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:39.840
don't use the dish. Well,
you can spray the foliage, that's fine,

593
00:43:39.960 --> 00:43:45.559
just be careful the drift doesn't get
onto the desirable plant, So don't

594
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:49.840
spray when there's any wind at all, and follow the label carefully. If

595
00:43:50.119 --> 00:43:53.679
once you've dampened the foliage, stop
spraying. Don't you know you don't drench

596
00:43:53.800 --> 00:43:58.679
the plants with it? If you
want to use the bark treatment, i'd

597
00:43:58.760 --> 00:44:01.679
have to see the remedy label for
sure, but typically we will mix it

598
00:44:01.800 --> 00:44:07.400
with a little bit of diesel oil
and it's just something that's essentially painted onto

599
00:44:07.519 --> 00:44:10.760
the basal parts of the trunk.
And with painting, you could use a

600
00:44:10.840 --> 00:44:15.920
sprayer with a straight stream, not
a spray, and very low pressure,

601
00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:22.159
so it's it's not shooting out a
long distance. You're just putting the nozzle

602
00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:25.559
up against the base and just getting
that on the base and the oil,

603
00:44:25.679 --> 00:44:30.880
the diesel oil, that helps it
to stick and to soak in better.

604
00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:36.320
So either way would be fine.
I wouldn't worry about planting later on.

605
00:44:36.519 --> 00:44:40.039
This isn't like one of those color
pyrolid herbicides that are used in pastures for

606
00:44:40.119 --> 00:44:47.119
wood woody plants. It's not going
to stick around that long. Okay,

607
00:44:47.719 --> 00:44:51.840
well great, I just I've heard
the horror stories. I appreciate the advice.

608
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:53.960
Just yeah, do my best to
stay away from them. And like

609
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:58.159
I said, don't drink it,
just just damp it. Yeah, if

610
00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:01.480
you're spraying the leaves, no win
and just damp. And if you're spraying

611
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:07.039
the trunk, uh, then you're
just basically getting a little bit of that

612
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:09.519
product on the tender trunk tissues,
and it soaks in. Now, if

613
00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:13.559
it's a big, old, giant
tree with thick woody trunk sticking out,

614
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:15.400
it's not going to soak in there. But the young plants that have a

615
00:45:15.480 --> 00:45:20.800
thin trunk, like things like your
pond, it's going to soak in fine,

616
00:45:21.639 --> 00:45:25.880
perfect, perfect. Well. I
had a gun jib about going getting

617
00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:30.719
going on it because I heard the
horse first. But I feel a little

618
00:45:30.760 --> 00:45:34.000
more comfortable, thank And remember up
there in Centerville, are you listening on

619
00:45:34.079 --> 00:45:37.400
the radio, by the way,
or are you listening on the computer our

620
00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:42.519
phone. I was listening on my
radio. I was You've got a county

621
00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:45.239
extension office up there and an ag
agent, and he's better able to help

622
00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:51.360
with anything like a pasture type question, farm ponds, pastures, you know,

623
00:45:51.639 --> 00:45:53.360
the kind of question you asked me
today. Uh. That they would

624
00:45:53.400 --> 00:45:58.800
be a good source of that kind
of thing too. Where would where would

625
00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:06.199
I find those you're county agro Life
Extension service. I don't have the specific

626
00:46:06.320 --> 00:46:10.519
name of the fellow in that county, uh, but call your county basically

627
00:46:10.599 --> 00:46:14.440
your county government, and they can
tell you where the extension service is.

628
00:46:14.599 --> 00:46:19.320
Or pretty much most people up there
should know perfect all right, all right,

629
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.400
Craig, Yeah, keep listening.
If I end up with an answer

630
00:46:22.480 --> 00:46:27.000
to that, where are they,
I'll say it on the air. All

631
00:46:27.079 --> 00:46:30.239
right. I appreciate that call very
much. Uh. You know, brown

632
00:46:30.280 --> 00:46:34.519
stuff before green stuff. We talked
about that over and over and over again.

633
00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:37.360
I'm going to come back and I
want to talk to you about a

634
00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:40.719
line of products that will help you
with that brown stuff getting it right so

635
00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:45.840
your plans will thrive. Our phone
number seven one three two one two K

636
00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:51.480
t R H. And I'll be
right back. Welcome back, and boy

637
00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:53.719
is the sun on its way.
It's going to be a great day,

638
00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:57.719
an awesome day for guarding. I
hope you have plans this afternoon to get

639
00:46:57.760 --> 00:47:00.719
out and do that. By the
way, Craig, up in Centerville.

640
00:47:01.079 --> 00:47:05.800
Your agent, you're in Leon County, and your agent I should have thought

641
00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:07.599
of this as a friend of mine, Richard Parish. He is excellent.

642
00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:15.559
He is actually Richard Parish the extension
office up there in Leon County. He's

643
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:19.880
the ag agent that you have up
there. So that's in Centerville, Texas.

644
00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:22.400
They're on Main Street. In fact, i've been up there several times

645
00:47:22.480 --> 00:47:27.320
to give talks for the Master Gardener
group up there. But if the rest

646
00:47:27.360 --> 00:47:30.400
of you listening are interested in,
like how do I know, how do

647
00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:34.960
I find my extension office? How
do I find one? Because we've got

648
00:47:34.960 --> 00:47:37.440
a lot of counties that are covered
by garden Line and all you have to

649
00:47:37.519 --> 00:47:45.039
do is go to Counties plural dot
Agrolife dot org, Counties dot Agrolife dot

650
00:47:45.199 --> 00:47:47.920
org and if you live in one
of the two hundred and fifty four counties

651
00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:53.599
in Texas, your county extension agent
is aguents are right there available to you.

652
00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:58.519
That includes four h program for kids, that includes the Family and Community

653
00:47:58.599 --> 00:48:02.320
Health program, that in includes the
agriculture program and others as well. So

654
00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:06.679
I hope you take advantage of that. It's a it's definitely a good resource.

655
00:48:06.840 --> 00:48:09.440
Now I was talking about a product
line that I think you need to

656
00:48:09.480 --> 00:48:15.280
know about, and that's Landscaper's Pride. Landscaper's Pride has twenty seven different bag

657
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:19.360
products. Now you can also get
their products by bulk. You just need

658
00:48:19.440 --> 00:48:23.679
to go to the store locator Landscaperspride
dot com and you can find out exactly

659
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:29.280
where in your area you can get
Landscaper's Pride Products. This is this is

660
00:48:29.320 --> 00:48:34.280
a local East Texas company that has
top quality resource. They've been doing this

661
00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:38.079
for twenty years. So a premium
roadmix rose mix. That's an example for

662
00:48:38.159 --> 00:48:42.320
those who plant in roses, and
this is a time to get that done.

663
00:48:42.679 --> 00:48:45.639
A quality potting soil for all kinds
of potting. And I like the

664
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:47.920
fact that you can take it and
you can amend it one direction or the

665
00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:52.440
other. Maybe you want to grow
cactus and succulent. Put some gritting materials

666
00:48:52.440 --> 00:48:55.159
in there, like sand for example, or expanded shale, you know,

667
00:48:55.280 --> 00:49:00.159
to improve the drainage of it.
You can take the black velvet mults and

668
00:49:00.280 --> 00:49:05.159
have one of the most beautiful dark, naturally black, not an artificially diamultious

669
00:49:05.679 --> 00:49:08.599
that you can have. And it's
all from Landscaper's Pride. I'm gonna go

670
00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:13.079
now out to northwest Houston. We're
gonna talk to Ralph. Hey, Ralph

671
00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:19.280
good and more in there a good
good program. Yes, I'm up to

672
00:49:19.559 --> 00:49:22.639
Centerville. I love for Centerville.
I hunt up there, deer hound anyway,

673
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:25.679
I got my going all ready to
go, and I need I needed

674
00:49:25.960 --> 00:49:31.079
up medina plus right and put in
it. Yeah, if you're gonna medina

675
00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:35.639
plus when you're putting in transplants,
would be a good one to drench them

676
00:49:35.679 --> 00:49:42.159
in or spray as a folio feed. And what other kind of other side

677
00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:45.639
of glaze. Uh, well,
it depends. It depends on what's in

678
00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:52.519
your soil. But a good quality
blend I generally in gardens, I generally

679
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:54.960
use something with the three one two
ratio. I know that's the lawn fertilizer

680
00:49:55.079 --> 00:49:59.199
ratio, but it works pretty good
in gardens. So depending on whether you

681
00:49:59.280 --> 00:50:01.760
want to, you know, just
if you're wide open any fertilizers, if

682
00:50:01.760 --> 00:50:06.480
you just want an organic fertilizer,
there's plenty of options out there. I

683
00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:12.079
got all my trees, five diving
trees and fall and into my garden,

684
00:50:12.199 --> 00:50:15.480
So you want something, you know, that's all I would get a I

685
00:50:15.480 --> 00:50:21.039
would get a fertilizer that's got the
numbers in a three one two ratio.

686
00:50:21.840 --> 00:50:25.360
So an organic would be like micro
Life six two four. You know,

687
00:50:25.440 --> 00:50:30.760
a synthetic could be like nitrofoss Imperial
fifteen five ten. Uh those are all

688
00:50:30.920 --> 00:50:35.760
fertilizers in the three one two ratio. Many others, many other good fertilizers

689
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:38.400
on the market. But I would
go for that ratio. It's good for

690
00:50:38.519 --> 00:50:43.199
the trees and for most things in
the vegetable garden. It's fine. You

691
00:50:43.280 --> 00:50:46.920
want to be careful if you're growing
beans or peas not to overdo the nitrogen

692
00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:52.639
the first number beans and peas,
not too much nitrogen. But everything else

693
00:50:52.920 --> 00:50:58.760
go for it, all right,
all right, right, Well my neighborhood

694
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:07.800
hit groo. There you go,
there you go. Have a good afternoon,

695
00:51:07.320 --> 00:51:12.159
very good afternoon. I'm going to
go now to Needsville and talk to

696
00:51:12.280 --> 00:51:15.840
Steve. Hey, Steve, how
you skip love your show? Real quick?

697
00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:20.880
What I've got my front flower beds
and on the side of my home

698
00:51:21.840 --> 00:51:25.400
mixture of sun and shave. I
am looking for some type of a bush

699
00:51:25.920 --> 00:51:30.079
that I can plant. I have
tried numerous things, and last year I

700
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:35.639
thought I had the right thing,
which is the Japanese you They all started

701
00:51:35.679 --> 00:51:39.559
to turn brown on the edges and
eventually died, So I thought that would

702
00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:45.360
be a hearty one to put out
there. Yes, I'm thinking it might

703
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:50.159
be my soil. I'm going to
remove all this soil, and should I

704
00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:53.280
replace that with rose soil or like
a garden mixer? Doesn't matter? Well,

705
00:51:53.920 --> 00:51:57.920
Steve, I don't know if you
need to remove the soil. That

706
00:51:57.960 --> 00:52:01.320
wouldn't that would be the case if
you had some serious contaminant down in the

707
00:52:01.400 --> 00:52:06.960
soil, which it just takes might
okay, Well, it would be very

708
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:13.199
very unusual in a home landscape where
it floods. You know, well,

709
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:15.000
that's some contaminants in there. No, I don't. I don't think so.

710
00:52:15.239 --> 00:52:17.679
If I were you, I would
get a quality mix, like a

711
00:52:17.800 --> 00:52:22.320
rose soil. I would lay about
three or four inches of it down,

712
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:25.840
and I would spade or rototail or
however you can mix it with the soil

713
00:52:25.880 --> 00:52:30.400
you have, and then I would
bring in another you know, build it

714
00:52:30.559 --> 00:52:34.719
up with additional rose soil, probably
to about a ten inch height, because

715
00:52:34.800 --> 00:52:37.800
it is going to settle down.
And so first first you're spreading it out

716
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:40.760
over a wide area, not just
where the holes of the shrub are,

717
00:52:42.079 --> 00:52:45.679
but a wide area. You're mixing
it in that, and then you're putting

718
00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:49.039
more rows on top. And what
that does is you have a natural transition

719
00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:52.360
from the quality rose mix down into
the soil that you have. It's not

720
00:52:52.519 --> 00:52:55.960
like you're just laying rose mix right
on top of a soil that is not

721
00:52:57.079 --> 00:53:00.760
growing things. Well, the other
thing is to watch the watering it because

722
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:06.840
the browning you described, especially last
summer, oftentimes we're not getting enough water

723
00:53:06.960 --> 00:53:13.000
to where the roots are. Okay, well planet these before the major drought

724
00:53:13.119 --> 00:53:15.119
hit. Oh boy, okay,
well that's well, I'm thinking maybe it

725
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:19.039
was a fungus you know that came
in there from what I read up on.

726
00:53:20.440 --> 00:53:22.159
Well, it's unlikely, I'll just
say that. And there's a lot

727
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:25.639
of good shrubs to choose from.
I mean, you know, it's not

728
00:53:27.079 --> 00:53:30.800
it's not you know, just a
specific one. Do you want evergreen or

729
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:37.360
deciduous? You want flowering or just
just yeah, well, yo, pons

730
00:53:37.360 --> 00:53:38.800
are a good one. Southern wax
myrtle is a good one, but you

731
00:53:38.880 --> 00:53:42.760
do need to provide it water for
it to do good. It would it

732
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:47.119
would make a nice little shrub for
you. Think Southern wax merdle. There's

733
00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:52.239
one that's more compact than others.
Go with that one for your spot.

734
00:53:52.039 --> 00:53:57.039
But the the uh, the plants
you just had or just fine, the

735
00:53:57.159 --> 00:54:00.880
Japanese you uh, they do do
just find you just they just need some

736
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:05.199
so moisture to do well. You
might want to put a drip irrigation line

737
00:54:05.239 --> 00:54:07.800
over there. You can do it, even a do it yourself, or

738
00:54:07.960 --> 00:54:10.960
you know, buy some some drip
irrigation tubing and get your little hose end

739
00:54:12.079 --> 00:54:15.239
timer, set it on the hose
and you know they have kits that you

740
00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:19.480
can put togethers like tinker toys and
get that on there and then that way

741
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:21.320
you can say, hey, three
times a week, I want you to

742
00:54:21.360 --> 00:54:24.320
give a good soaking for this amount
of time and it just doesn't or you

743
00:54:24.360 --> 00:54:28.960
don't have to remember to do it, and then another real quick one,

744
00:54:29.039 --> 00:54:31.360
real quick on my back, paddy. Or it gets so hot in the

745
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:37.599
summertime? What do you recommend for
a hanging basket plant? If the sun

746
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:42.039
is going to be hammering it you
you might want to look at something like

747
00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:45.320
a uh, well it don't really
get a lot of sun. It's okay,

748
00:54:45.440 --> 00:54:52.000
heat from a metal roof, okay, yeah, oh boy, lots

749
00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:59.199
of different options probably, you know, if it doesn't get a lot of

750
00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:00.320
sun, that's a little bit of
a challenge. You're probably gonna want to

751
00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:06.519
go with a foliage type of plant
rather than something that that blooms, because

752
00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:10.559
most things that bloom need pretty good
sunlight. So what do you whatever?

753
00:55:10.599 --> 00:55:13.840
You like the looks? I mean, if you can put a fern there

754
00:55:13.880 --> 00:55:17.960
if you watered enough, it'll be
open and its smoother ings. Is it

755
00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:22.119
getting direct? Is not getting direct? Soun? No, then it's a

756
00:55:22.199 --> 00:55:27.280
lack of water. It's got to
be that then. But yes, the

757
00:55:27.400 --> 00:55:31.320
best luck I've had is something like
some of these garden centers, the thick

758
00:55:31.559 --> 00:55:36.719
waxy type leaves. Those seem to
do pretty good. I don't know the

759
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:42.039
name of them. Okay, Well
I would go I would go in one

760
00:55:42.079 --> 00:55:45.000
of the quality garden centers we talked
about, go by and visit them and

761
00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:47.840
describe to it so that they've got
on hand. I'll go out there forrest

762
00:55:47.920 --> 00:55:52.079
and see what they say. Well, yeah, I think they they definitely

763
00:55:52.159 --> 00:55:53.840
will know, and they'll have plenty
on hand for you too out there.

764
00:55:54.119 --> 00:55:59.199
Right. Thank you very much,
you bet, Thanks Steve. I appreciate

765
00:55:59.280 --> 00:56:02.400
the call. Hey, for those
of you who are out in the Kadi

766
00:56:02.559 --> 00:56:08.719
direction, or really those of them
anywhere around Nelson Water Garden. I had

767
00:56:08.800 --> 00:56:14.159
been going to Nelson since they we're
way out in Brookshire years and decades ago.

768
00:56:15.039 --> 00:56:16.719
But their new site, I say
new, they've been in in a

769
00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:22.480
long time. Just to my recent
visit to it was like whoa, it's

770
00:56:22.519 --> 00:56:29.119
a big, beautiful selection of the
most beautiful pottery that you can't get anywhere.

771
00:56:29.400 --> 00:56:34.119
They have special types of beautiful glazed
potteries, and they have a bazillion

772
00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:38.440
different kinds, and they're the ones
that created that disappearing container fountain. So

773
00:56:38.559 --> 00:56:43.039
you probably have seen these where it's
a big, giant, beautiful urn like

774
00:56:43.119 --> 00:56:46.119
pottery and the water's running out of
the top and it's running down, maybe

775
00:56:46.159 --> 00:56:50.079
it's spilling over the sides, and
it hits a bunch of gravel at the

776
00:56:50.119 --> 00:56:53.840
base and it disappears, but it's
going into a container underneath that pumps it

777
00:56:53.880 --> 00:56:58.519
back up through again. And when
you have the sound of water, it

778
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:04.679
is so relaxing. And there's nobody
that does this better than Nelson Water Gardens.

779
00:57:05.000 --> 00:57:09.119
They've they are nationally known for creating
beautiful water gardens. So if you

780
00:57:09.320 --> 00:57:14.840
like koy and other unusual types of
gorgeous fish, if you like lily pads

781
00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:19.039
and just all kinds of water garden
plants, they've been the leader for a

782
00:57:19.440 --> 00:57:22.960
very long time, and again they're
nationally known for this. Now they're out

783
00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:25.320
in Katy on Katie Fort Ben Road, just north of Katie Freeway, almost

784
00:57:25.719 --> 00:57:30.679
a stone's throw away, and all
of the things I mentioned you're gonna find

785
00:57:30.760 --> 00:57:35.159
there. So how do you want
to transform your front yard? Your backyard

786
00:57:35.679 --> 00:57:37.840
a bed a plat bed, Yes, you can put a disappearing fountain in

787
00:57:37.880 --> 00:57:42.800
a flatbed a plant bed. They
have it all there, and I'm just

788
00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:45.880
telling you you got to go see
it. This is a show place.

789
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:47.599
This is the kind of place where
people come visit you. You go,

790
00:57:47.760 --> 00:57:51.519
hey, I'm going to show you
something, and you drive out to Nelson

791
00:57:51.559 --> 00:57:53.760
Water Garden and Katie. Let them
see this place because they're going to wander

792
00:57:53.800 --> 00:57:57.920
around and go, what a paradise. I want one of these at home,

793
00:57:58.199 --> 00:58:00.960
and they can help you do that
simply that let's see here. I'm

794
00:58:01.000 --> 00:58:06.599
going to go to Clear Lake and
talk to Don. Hey, Don,

795
00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:10.960
I got about a minute. Uh
yeah, I think pretty quick. Ficus

796
00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:15.199
trees. I've tried two of them
inside the house and they both died.

797
00:58:15.280 --> 00:58:19.199
And I know the seasons coming up
in the spring. Here. What am

798
00:58:19.199 --> 00:58:22.960
I doing wrong? Is this the
the biddle leaf fig with the giant leaves

799
00:58:23.039 --> 00:58:28.320
or is this a little ficus that
you know has leaves that are the fourth

800
00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:31.800
the size of your hand, the
one but the little leaves, Okay,

801
00:58:32.039 --> 00:58:37.599
the big We've got to in finn
Yeah, ficus needs good sunlight, not

802
00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:40.440
direct sun, but really bright light
to do well. Otherwise it's spinley.

803
00:58:40.519 --> 00:58:44.920
It struggles and it doesn't do well. Also, it needs you to not

804
00:58:45.159 --> 00:58:46.920
change the light on it suddenly.
You know if you move it from a

805
00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:52.880
bright outdoor porch or patio to an
indoor vice versa, that it's gonna drop

806
00:58:52.960 --> 00:58:57.480
its leaves. It needs adequate water, but but but not drowned roots.

807
00:58:57.559 --> 00:59:00.440
We tend to kill more plants with
houseplants with too much water then when not

808
00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:05.760
enough. But if you give it
good light and give it so moisture,

809
00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:09.760
it should do well. I suspect
just guessing that maybe your light levels aren't

810
00:59:09.800 --> 00:59:17.000
quite high enough. Okay, and
do dirt make a get you, Yeah,

811
00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:22.440
get your good quality mix. Airloom
Soils makes a potting plant mix that

812
00:59:22.599 --> 00:59:25.679
will do very well for you.
And I would recommend you just you're going

813
00:59:25.719 --> 00:59:29.360
to find it in a lot of
places. It's called the works. But

814
00:59:29.639 --> 00:59:31.119
go by and get that. I'm
going to have to run. I'm sorry

815
00:59:31.159 --> 00:59:36.079
against a hard break, but I
think make sure that you do those things.

816
00:59:36.159 --> 00:59:37.679
I think you're going to have success. We're going to take a break

817
00:59:37.760 --> 00:59:43.360
for the news our phone number is
seven one three two point two KTRH.

818
00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:50.599
Welcome back to guard Line. We
are talking gardening because we are in primetime

819
00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:52.440
season for gardening. I hope you're
as excited as I am about it.

820
00:59:52.920 --> 00:59:57.079
It is time, It is time, certainly time. It's always time to

821
00:59:57.119 --> 01:00:00.719
get the soil ready. But before
you go planting this year, make sure

822
01:00:00.800 --> 01:00:04.400
you take care of the soil.
That means, I like to say brown

823
01:00:04.480 --> 01:00:09.000
stuff for green stuff, just to
make the mindset that before I get that

824
01:00:09.239 --> 01:00:14.559
wonderful plant that is going to just
be the most beautiful productive thing I've ever

825
01:00:14.639 --> 01:00:16.679
seen. Before I put it in
the ground, what am I putting it

826
01:00:16.800 --> 01:00:21.159
into? You know? Do I
have organic matter? Does it have good

827
01:00:21.320 --> 01:00:25.639
drainage and that's something we need to
create around here in most cases is better

828
01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:31.519
drainage. And does it have good
nutrient levels? And for example, Microlife

829
01:00:31.559 --> 01:00:37.360
fertilizers have a wide variety of products. They a number of different bags,

830
01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:42.599
beautiful colors, widely available everywhere you
can go Microlife Fertilizer dot com, Microlife

831
01:00:42.599 --> 01:00:46.360
Fertilizer dot com. You can find
the local Microlife places around you where you

832
01:00:46.480 --> 01:00:50.320
can do your shopping and get those
products. You can put them in the

833
01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:52.159
soil. They're not going to burn
the roots or not salt based. So

834
01:00:52.360 --> 01:00:55.719
the standard product is a six two
four that's a green bag. That's the

835
01:00:55.800 --> 01:01:00.000
one we think of as a lawn
fertilizer. I use it am I vegetans,

836
01:01:00.159 --> 01:01:02.440
gardens. I use it in other
places as well, and so don't

837
01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:07.280
just think it has to be on
lawns. It's a wide variety of things.

838
01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:10.079
But if you want something that's more
designed for cetrus or if you want,

839
01:01:10.199 --> 01:01:14.599
you know, something that's more designed
for particular things, they have those.

840
01:01:14.639 --> 01:01:17.440
They have one for azalias and acid
loving plants, for example. But

841
01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:21.920
it's time to get that in the
soil, so before you plant. In

842
01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:24.039
this case, with a product like
this, you can just mix it into

843
01:01:24.119 --> 01:01:28.320
the soil all through an area.
Don't just dump it in the bottom of

844
01:01:28.360 --> 01:01:30.760
a hole, but mix it into
an area, dig your hole, put

845
01:01:30.800 --> 01:01:34.519
the plant in, and take off
growing. It's as simple as that.

846
01:01:34.760 --> 01:01:37.360
If you drop it in a hole, it's not going to burn the roots.

847
01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:40.760
I just like to create a larger
volume of soil that's had a quality

848
01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:46.320
product like the microlife that's amended it. When you're putting in transplants, it

849
01:01:46.519 --> 01:01:50.679
is important to get those off to
a good start. A lot of people

850
01:01:51.480 --> 01:01:57.440
swear by the ocean harvest that's a
fish based fertilizer, and also they well,

851
01:01:57.480 --> 01:02:00.719
a microlife ocean harvest you can use
as a train, you can use

852
01:02:00.719 --> 01:02:04.639
it as a folier spray too.
It's not going to burn the plants.

853
01:02:05.320 --> 01:02:09.679
Microlife has a wide variety of both
dry, granular and folier products or products

854
01:02:09.679 --> 01:02:14.519
that you mix in water liquid products, and they're all going to do the

855
01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:19.599
same types of things, and that
is enhance the nutrient content, enhance the

856
01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:23.760
microbial activity of the soil. And
that is where the plants live. They

857
01:02:23.840 --> 01:02:29.239
live in their roots, and microbes
rule the world and make plants what they

858
01:02:29.320 --> 01:02:34.320
are. That I could spend a
whole show just talking about how important microbes

859
01:02:34.320 --> 01:02:37.679
are to your plant's success and the
roots. And that is why you want

860
01:02:37.719 --> 01:02:40.480
to take care of the plant.
That is why that foundation, the brown

861
01:02:40.559 --> 01:02:45.119
stuff is so important, and how
Microlife can help do that. I hope

862
01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:51.039
you will take that to heart and
consider that because it really is the key

863
01:02:51.119 --> 01:02:52.599
to success. You know, don't
tell me you have a brown thumb.

864
01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:57.079
I'll just tell you no, you've
got an uninformed thumb. And once you're

865
01:02:57.119 --> 01:03:00.320
informed, and you know how to
make plants happy. That thumb suddenly starts

866
01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:06.159
looking cond of green. Well,
let's head out to Sandy and Cyprus.

867
01:03:06.639 --> 01:03:09.280
Hey Sandy, Hi, good morning, Skip. How are you? I'm

868
01:03:09.320 --> 01:03:16.679
good? How are you good?
Good? I have a question I wanted

869
01:03:16.719 --> 01:03:23.320
to see about my like what the
lowest temperature outdoors? Forties, fifties?

870
01:03:24.639 --> 01:03:30.199
Like when do I put it out
my okras, my eggplant, tomatoes,

871
01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:35.719
bell peppers, pilipinias, all of
those, what's like the lowest temperature?

872
01:03:35.920 --> 01:03:39.559
Those are good questions. It's not
a black and white line as you would

873
01:03:39.599 --> 01:03:45.119
expect. It isn't. It's a
matter of where we get in the spring.

874
01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:49.440
Number one, we got to get
past the frosts, or we've got

875
01:03:49.519 --> 01:03:51.760
to be ready to cover them up. You want to go a little early.

876
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:54.119
I usually go too early because I'm
going to go out there and cover

877
01:03:54.239 --> 01:03:58.159
it. I just like to get
an early start. But for most people

878
01:03:58.320 --> 01:04:01.320
we say wait until the last frost
date. But even at the last frostate,

879
01:04:02.239 --> 01:04:05.159
then you've got some really cool nights
where we can be in the low

880
01:04:05.199 --> 01:04:09.679
fifties, the wind blowing, and
that doesn't make a tomato plant very happy

881
01:04:09.880 --> 01:04:13.880
or a pepper plant and definitely not
an okra plant, So we wait until

882
01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:17.440
it warms up a little bit more. If you can get your plants outside

883
01:04:17.599 --> 01:04:21.519
prior to planting them, and when
it's not going to be cold cold outside,

884
01:04:21.840 --> 01:04:25.960
just move them out a little bit, let them kind of get acclimated

885
01:04:26.079 --> 01:04:29.039
to that. If they've been grown
in a greenhouse, living the life of

886
01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:32.760
Riley and suddenly they're out in the
cold, windy night conditions, that's a

887
01:04:32.840 --> 01:04:36.599
shock. So you can gradually introduce
them. That would be another tip to

888
01:04:36.679 --> 01:04:40.840
help a little bit. And then
with the okra, it just needs to

889
01:04:40.920 --> 01:04:44.320
warm up a lot more. I
probably wouldn't plant my okra until about April

890
01:04:45.519 --> 01:04:48.000
April, ok and it could be
planted later than that too. Sometimes they

891
01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:51.239
don't get around to it until May
or June. But anyway, Oh wow,

892
01:04:51.400 --> 01:04:56.239
yeah, okre can take the heat. Yeah, okay, sounds great.

893
01:04:56.280 --> 01:04:58.639
Thank you so much. That a
great day. Thank you, Sandy.

894
01:04:58.719 --> 01:05:02.639
Thank you appreciate that call very much. Let's see where are we going

895
01:05:02.920 --> 01:05:10.159
to John in Spring Branch? Hello
John? Hello? Skip. Last year

896
01:05:10.239 --> 01:05:18.239
I planted green beans pole green beans
Kentucky wonder and I just got kind of

897
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:26.119
average production with that variety. Huh. So I was wondering what your favorite

898
01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:30.880
pole green bean was. Oh boy, Well, you know, if you're

899
01:05:30.880 --> 01:05:33.000
looking on a local seed rack,
you're just gonna have a few of the

900
01:05:33.079 --> 01:05:38.639
standards, which are fine. Uh. You know, the Kentucky Wonder pole

901
01:05:38.800 --> 01:05:44.400
is okay. There's a Blue Lake
pole that's okay. My favorite poles over

902
01:05:44.400 --> 01:05:47.960
the years. I like McCaslin mc
c A S L I n. You

903
01:05:48.000 --> 01:05:53.480
don't have to mail order that one. I like fort for tex pole is

904
01:05:53.559 --> 01:05:59.000
a pretty good one. If you
can find that. Okay, Rattle you

905
01:05:59.039 --> 01:06:01.679
can order that online or something.
Yeah, Rattlesnake has been a decent pole

906
01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:06.760
being for me. It's a little
long to heart to reaching harvest, and

907
01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:12.360
so I'd rather it be a little
faster if you can. Here's the thing.

908
01:06:12.480 --> 01:06:15.119
We plant our beans after it's warm
enough to plant them, and then

909
01:06:15.159 --> 01:06:19.199
we got summer that shows up and
really messes up production. And so you

910
01:06:19.320 --> 01:06:24.559
need a green bean that moves faster
to have the most production that you can.

911
01:06:25.880 --> 01:06:29.159
There there's a number of different good
poles out there. I would look

912
01:06:29.480 --> 01:06:31.639
when you're looking, if you're looking
at like an online catalog for seeds,

913
01:06:32.000 --> 01:06:38.639
I would look for a pole that's
going to be seventy days. Maybe in

914
01:06:38.800 --> 01:06:43.440
terms of how long it takes to
reach harvest, sixty five to seventy five

915
01:06:43.519 --> 01:06:46.840
would be kind of the sweet spot
if you can find that. Oh okay,

916
01:06:47.119 --> 01:06:53.199
yeah, And there's the there's the
typical roundish pole being like a green

917
01:06:53.239 --> 01:06:57.679
bean roundish, and then there's the
big flat ones. And the flat ones

918
01:06:57.800 --> 01:07:00.960
do very well. In fact,
I think the first one I said is

919
01:07:01.039 --> 01:07:08.559
a flat potted bean, and the
name A lot of the others are around

920
01:07:08.599 --> 01:07:11.119
it, and that's true. Your
bush beans, you know, there's there's

921
01:07:11.199 --> 01:07:15.679
the flat potted, and then they're
rounded potted. Do you have a favorite

922
01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:19.159
bush bean or something you like to
recommend? You know, I plant Contender

923
01:07:19.639 --> 01:07:24.800
for an old faithful. Contender has
been around a long time, and it's

924
01:07:24.800 --> 01:07:28.440
a good bean. There's a lot
of newer beans that are popular. Derby's

925
01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:31.840
a good bean. Oh gosh,
Blue Lake is one that's very famous.

926
01:07:31.840 --> 01:07:35.360
You're probably gonna find Blue Lake seeds
on a local seed track that does well

927
01:07:36.039 --> 01:07:41.119
and Contender as well. But Contender
is just one of those. It's kind

928
01:07:41.159 --> 01:07:45.400
of like celebrity tomate A. Every
year I've done trials, it's never been

929
01:07:45.519 --> 01:07:48.880
the winner of the trial, but
it's always up up near the top and

930
01:07:49.360 --> 01:07:53.840
it's dependable and that that is important. Hey, I got to run.

931
01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:57.280
We're out of time here, but
thank you for those questions and good luck

932
01:07:57.360 --> 01:08:00.800
with that. Our phone number is
seven one three two one fifty eight seventy

933
01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:04.199
four. Welcome back to garden Line. How you doing that. I'm running

934
01:08:04.199 --> 01:08:09.840
around the studio here. Hey,
we are going to talk about lawns just

935
01:08:09.920 --> 01:08:14.840
a little bit. And here's the
thing that I would like to just have

936
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:19.239
you aware of to day about your
lawn There's two things going on. There's

937
01:08:19.319 --> 01:08:24.319
weeds and there's new nutrient needs.
And as far as the weeds, we

938
01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:28.199
got cool season weeds that have gone
over the season and they're sitting there,

939
01:08:28.239 --> 01:08:31.520
they're growing and they're about to start
blooming and setting seed. If you don't

940
01:08:31.600 --> 01:08:34.439
want the seeds, you got to
shut them down now. And that's with

941
01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:39.800
something that kills broad leaf weeds after
they've begun to grow. If the second

942
01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:43.119
thing are the weeds that are warm
seasons that are germinating, and we've got

943
01:08:43.199 --> 01:08:45.680
to get down now. If you're
going to use a pre emergent herbicide,

944
01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:49.279
you got to get it down now. And the analogy is like a catcher's

945
01:08:49.399 --> 01:08:53.720
mit. Right in a baseball,
if you want to hit the baseball,

946
01:08:53.800 --> 01:08:57.039
you can't swing after the catcher has
it in the mit. You got to

947
01:08:57.119 --> 01:09:00.000
swing at the right time, and
the right time is now. If you

948
01:09:00.159 --> 01:09:02.880
wait and the weeds are up and
grow and it's too late for a pre

949
01:09:02.920 --> 01:09:08.920
emergent And that is why it is
so important to get something like nitroross barricade

950
01:09:08.960 --> 01:09:13.199
down. Get it down now.
You put it down, you put about

951
01:09:13.199 --> 01:09:15.840
a half inch of water in it. And when you do that, what

952
01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:18.560
you're going to have is a force
field on the surface of the soil because

953
01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:23.920
you've washed the granule product into the
soil surface. And when a weed tries

954
01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:27.479
to germinate and establish, it can't. It's as simple as that. And

955
01:09:27.600 --> 01:09:30.159
nitrofoss products are widely available. You
can get them at Lake Hardware, Clute

956
01:09:30.600 --> 01:09:33.840
Up, Indeed Defeat and Tomball,
for example. You can get them at

957
01:09:33.840 --> 01:09:39.319
Plants for All Season on Highway two
forty nine. They're widely available, easy

958
01:09:39.399 --> 01:09:45.000
to find. And the barricade products
specifically for broad leaf and grassy weeds to

959
01:09:45.199 --> 01:09:49.399
prevent germination. Now is the time
that you need to do that. As

960
01:09:49.439 --> 01:09:54.039
far as fertilizing, now's the time
to do the nutrients. So again the

961
01:09:54.159 --> 01:09:57.920
nitrofoss imperio, the fifteen to five
to ten red bag. Now's the time

962
01:09:58.079 --> 01:10:00.760
for the early greenup. Follow the
label. Put a little bit out there.

963
01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:04.079
It'll tell you how much water it
in and you'll get a green up.

964
01:10:04.239 --> 01:10:08.159
And then as the weather warms of
grass is going to have the nutrients

965
01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:10.800
and things. It's kind of the
energy and ready to go to kind of

966
01:10:10.840 --> 01:10:13.560
hit the ground running. That's kind
of what we're up to here. All

967
01:10:13.640 --> 01:10:15.359
right, Well, I hope that, hope that is helpful for you as

968
01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:18.039
we talk about it. I want
to head out to Katie now and talk

969
01:10:18.119 --> 01:10:24.199
to John. Hello, John,
Hello, Skip Actually calling from my daughter

970
01:10:24.319 --> 01:10:30.640
who has mint growing all over her
backyard. Okay, it's very aggressive and

971
01:10:30.760 --> 01:10:33.960
we've tried, I think everything that
you suggested. So I was wondering what

972
01:10:34.119 --> 01:10:40.039
a plan B would be. Okay, Well, if it was in a

973
01:10:40.119 --> 01:10:42.640
little spot, I'd say, just
get some spades, get out there and

974
01:10:42.680 --> 01:10:45.159
dig it up. You're going to
miss a few pieces when it shows up.

975
01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:46.479
Dig it up again. And you
know that repeated. We tried that

976
01:10:46.640 --> 01:10:50.279
last year. You can get it's
yeah, yeah, the piece that always

977
01:10:50.359 --> 01:10:55.399
leaves a few in the ground.
The next step would be to put a

978
01:10:55.520 --> 01:11:00.800
broad leaf herbicide on it that will
translocate down and kill the weed. You

979
01:11:00.760 --> 01:11:03.640
this is in grass, right,
it's in your lawn, yes, yes,

980
01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:10.039
yeah, yeah. Well, Nelson
Plant Food they've got a product.

981
01:11:10.039 --> 01:11:12.399
You know, I keep talking about
it here. You probably heard me talking

982
01:11:12.439 --> 01:11:15.640
about it. But the Nelson Plant
Food has something called weed in Atre and

983
01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:21.039
it's a fertilizer that's gradually released over
time. But it's also a post emergent

984
01:11:21.119 --> 01:11:26.760
weed control. So if you water
the lawn just enough to wet the leaves

985
01:11:26.840 --> 01:11:30.840
of that mint and then put this
out, the product gets on the leaves

986
01:11:30.880 --> 01:11:35.199
and sticks because the leaves are wet, and it translocates that product in to

987
01:11:35.359 --> 01:11:40.239
the mint and it's going to move
down. It's going to do serious damage

988
01:11:40.279 --> 01:11:44.520
if not kill it out right now, mint is so resilient with so much

989
01:11:44.680 --> 01:11:48.680
underground storage that one application of anything
is not going to do it. There's

990
01:11:48.800 --> 01:11:53.960
also products that you spray after the
fact. Bon Night has one called weed

991
01:11:54.039 --> 01:11:58.359
Beater Ultra. That's what we just
purchased. We haven't put it down.

992
01:11:58.560 --> 01:12:03.239
Okay, follow the label carefully it
don't overmix it, and and watch on

993
01:12:03.399 --> 01:12:09.399
that product, don't You can repeat
later with it. But once the weather

994
01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:12.520
warms up into the nineties, you
want to be real careful with broad leaf

995
01:12:12.640 --> 01:12:15.479
weed control and lawns because you can
damage your Saint Augustine. But I think

996
01:12:16.199 --> 01:12:20.199
that John, this is just going
to be a series of things and you're

997
01:12:20.680 --> 01:12:28.119
You've got a problem that is resilient. Two attempts to control it, but

998
01:12:28.279 --> 01:12:31.199
it can be controlled. It can
be controlled, all right, Good luck

999
01:12:31.239 --> 01:12:33.880
with that. Hey, when you
use the weed beater, ultra, get

1000
01:12:33.880 --> 01:12:39.399
a little bit of spreader and sticker. I don't know if you go there's

1001
01:12:39.439 --> 01:12:43.920
a Katas Hardware out there that you
can go to and ask them if they

1002
01:12:43.960 --> 01:12:46.359
have a spreader and sticker, follow
the label, mix it just to make

1003
01:12:46.399 --> 01:12:48.880
sure it sticks to that leaf.
Some types of ment have a little bit

1004
01:12:48.880 --> 01:12:53.840
of a glossiness to the leaf.
Okay, all right, all right,

1005
01:12:53.920 --> 01:13:00.319
thank you appreciate that call. I
was done in League City recently and swung

1006
01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:02.560
by a League City feed visiting with
West Thunderberg down there. You know his

1007
01:13:02.680 --> 01:13:08.039
family, his dad or grandfather actually
started it forty years ago in an ochre

1008
01:13:08.119 --> 01:13:12.119
patch League City feed and it's that
old time kind of feed store. I

1009
01:13:12.319 --> 01:13:15.319
love going in Toto the I just
love the way a feed store looks and

1010
01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:18.000
smells and everything else. I just
love it. And part of that old

1011
01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:21.199
time is they give you the old
time service, you know, they carry

1012
01:13:21.239 --> 01:13:26.520
the things to the car for you. But they have a selection of products

1013
01:13:26.560 --> 01:13:30.920
that is really amazing for feed stores. All the fertilizers, I'm talking about,

1014
01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:34.199
the soil type products, airloom,
soil type products. We're talking about

1015
01:13:34.600 --> 01:13:39.119
everything you need to control pass weeds
and diseases is all there. Of course,

1016
01:13:39.159 --> 01:13:41.880
they're a feed store. They got
quality feeds for your pets, for

1017
01:13:42.000 --> 01:13:45.800
other animals. They also your chicken
supplies. You know, backyard chickens are

1018
01:13:45.800 --> 01:13:49.079
popular. They can get you set
up on that. If you leave if

1019
01:13:49.119 --> 01:13:53.319
you live down in the League City
area, and I'm talking Lamark and Bay

1020
01:13:53.359 --> 01:13:56.720
Cliff and clear Lake City, I'll
come into real Santa Fe all that area.

1021
01:13:57.399 --> 01:14:01.479
They're just a few blocks south of
Highway ninety six on Highway three north

1022
01:14:01.479 --> 01:14:06.000
south Highway three, just a few
blocks south of Highway ninety six, and

1023
01:14:06.560 --> 01:14:11.680
you're going to find when you go
there that you'll be surprised at what they

1024
01:14:11.760 --> 01:14:15.520
have. And it's always good to
go buy and they treat you like family,

1025
01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:18.760
their League City Feed. Say hey
to Wes or if his sister Madison

1026
01:14:18.880 --> 01:14:24.399
is there, say hey to them. It's the kind of place that you

1027
01:14:24.560 --> 01:14:27.119
want to make a habit of going
to because by the way, they're open

1028
01:14:27.720 --> 01:14:30.119
every Monday through Saturday all the way
to six o'clock, closed on Sunday,

1029
01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:33.760
so after work you can swing by
there and grab whatever you need. League

1030
01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:40.079
City Feed. There you have it. We love our feed stores here on

1031
01:14:40.199 --> 01:14:45.319
guard Line, that is for sure. I've talking the other day about peer

1032
01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:51.560
scapes and pierscapes. I don't know
fully how to give you the clearest picture

1033
01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:56.600
of what they do, because what
they do is everything pretty much. Do

1034
01:14:56.720 --> 01:15:00.920
you need irrigation work done? You
know our system are typically inefficient. Maybe

1035
01:15:00.960 --> 01:15:03.359
you got a broken head. Do
you need some work? They can do

1036
01:15:03.439 --> 01:15:06.199
all that kind of thing. Do
you have a drainage problem? So now

1037
01:15:06.199 --> 01:15:09.600
instead of talking about adding water,
we're talking about how you get rid of

1038
01:15:09.640 --> 01:15:12.840
it. And that is a problem
when we have too much water getting rid

1039
01:15:12.880 --> 01:15:17.920
of that water and peerscapes can help
you with draining an area, creating an

1040
01:15:18.159 --> 01:15:24.039
underground drain system that will work to
drain that area for you. Do you

1041
01:15:24.119 --> 01:15:28.079
want a rock patio do you want
landscape lighting, do you need a water

1042
01:15:28.239 --> 01:15:31.039
feature? And stuck? They do
all of that and Peerscapes they've been doing

1043
01:15:31.079 --> 01:15:34.640
this a long time. They know
what they're doing. Their designers are excellent.

1044
01:15:35.000 --> 01:15:39.640
Maybe you want the full fledged taj
Mahal version. Maybe you just want

1045
01:15:39.720 --> 01:15:44.880
to take a more modest property and
do some outdoor beauty like that patio area

1046
01:15:44.960 --> 01:15:47.319
with nice lighting. They can do
all of that. What I would recommend

1047
01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:50.600
you do is go to their website, take a look at what they're capable

1048
01:15:50.720 --> 01:15:55.880
of and it's amazing. Peerscapes dot
com or give them a call at two

1049
01:15:55.920 --> 01:16:01.479
eight one three seven zero five zero
six zero Pure Scapes. I can recommend

1050
01:16:01.520 --> 01:16:05.319
them without hesitation. I've seen the
kind of work they do and it is

1051
01:16:05.600 --> 01:16:10.439
it is outstanding. We're going to
take a break here for the top of

1052
01:16:10.520 --> 01:16:13.960
the hour. In the news.
Oh I want to I did want to

1053
01:16:14.039 --> 01:16:17.399
mention one thing. Uh, you
guys have heard me talk about Southwest Fertilizer

1054
01:16:17.520 --> 01:16:21.399
before and bragging on them, and
what do we always say, if they

1055
01:16:21.439 --> 01:16:24.840
don't have it, you don't need
it, And that is so true.

1056
01:16:25.159 --> 01:16:29.840
Uh, checking with them recently,
the stock of supplies of every fertilizer we

1057
01:16:29.920 --> 01:16:33.640
talked about in every product you need
to control anything is amazing there. They

1058
01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:40.039
have the seed boxes where you just
scoop out seeds, the most economical way

1059
01:16:40.039 --> 01:16:43.000
you can buy seeds. And they
also have the seed packets. I mean,

1060
01:16:43.319 --> 01:16:45.439
just go by and see them there
at Bissonett and Runwick. You can

1061
01:16:45.520 --> 01:16:50.399
go to the website too, Southwest
Fertilizer dot com. That makes it really

1062
01:16:50.439 --> 01:16:55.600
easy Southwest Fertilizer dot com. Or
just drive over there. You've got to

1063
01:16:55.720 --> 01:16:59.920
see this place to recognize why we
say they got it all, because they

1064
01:17:00.119 --> 01:17:03.640
do have it all, including knowledgeable
people that will direct you to the product

1065
01:17:03.720 --> 01:17:05.960
that you need, and that is
critical. You can go a lot of

1066
01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:11.760
places and buystud people don't know what
they're talking about. Not Southwest. Well,

1067
01:17:11.800 --> 01:17:15.119
here we are putting another hour in
the books. I want to remind

1068
01:17:15.199 --> 01:17:18.199
you that next Saturday, twelve noon
to two pm, I'm going to be

1069
01:17:18.279 --> 01:17:24.760
at A and A Plants and Produce
up in Montgomery, Texas Highway one oh

1070
01:17:24.840 --> 01:17:28.439
five. So if you're up there
in the Lake Conroe area, or Conroe

1071
01:17:28.640 --> 01:17:32.600
or Montgomery or Willis or wherever you
are, come by and see us at

1072
01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:38.560
A and A Plants and produce.
Bring me samples of plants for diagnosis or

1073
01:17:38.720 --> 01:17:42.159
for identification. Maybe you got some
weeds you want to talk about. You

1074
01:17:42.199 --> 01:17:44.760
know, if you tell me what
I got weeds, what kills them?

1075
01:17:44.800 --> 01:17:46.439
Well, it would be helpful to
see the weed and we can do that.

1076
01:17:46.560 --> 01:17:48.760
We can identify them for you,
take a look at them, tell

1077
01:17:48.760 --> 01:17:53.560
you what to do. Got a
lot of options. Maybe you want some

1078
01:17:53.680 --> 01:17:57.079
suggestions for your landscape. We can
do that as well. Come see me

1079
01:17:57.279 --> 01:18:00.359
a and A plants and produce next
Saturday, twelve noon to two pm.

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01:18:10.600 --> 01:18:14.119
Katie r h. Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

1081
01:18:14.159 --> 01:18:18.960
services advertised on this program. Welcome
to Katie r H. Garden Line with

1082
01:18:19.239 --> 01:18:38.239
Skip Richter show the Crazy Trip.
Just watch him as many takes the supt

1083
01:18:38.319 --> 01:18:56.359
basic insolub not a sidred glass gas
sumon tweet. Hey, welcome back to

1084
01:18:56.399 --> 01:19:00.960
the Garden Line. Give us call
if you're interested in asking a question.

1085
01:19:00.199 --> 01:19:02.880
We'll be happy to help in every
way. We can help turn that brown

1086
01:19:03.039 --> 01:19:08.840
thumb green. That's what information does. Seven one three two one two fifty

1087
01:19:08.920 --> 01:19:14.119
eight seventy four seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. If

1088
01:19:14.159 --> 01:19:16.760
you have not been to moss nursery
recently. If you've never been, you

1089
01:19:17.039 --> 01:19:23.239
definitely need to go. This is
a landscape nursery, a landscaped nursery.

1090
01:19:23.279 --> 01:19:28.680
I'm talking about eight acres of wandering
through every kind of plant, all kinds

1091
01:19:28.720 --> 01:19:31.079
of blame. You see water gardens, you know, just flowing or some

1092
01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:35.800
water fountain feature just flowing along there. You see all kinds of cool stuff.

1093
01:19:35.880 --> 01:19:41.079
I'll go to walk by a carved
out wooden canoe, for example,

1094
01:19:41.199 --> 01:19:45.600
and just just eclectic stuff. It
is really cool. But the main reason

1095
01:19:45.640 --> 01:19:48.079
why you're going is because of the
plants that they have and the people that

1096
01:19:48.199 --> 01:19:53.239
will help you. They are gardeners
with years of experience in their gardens.

1097
01:19:53.399 --> 01:19:56.239
They will help you get it right
the first time. That's the goal.

1098
01:19:56.319 --> 01:20:00.439
Get it right the first time.
Soil property, taking care of water,

1099
01:20:00.840 --> 01:20:03.560
properly applied fertilizer in the right rates
at the right time. They can help

1100
01:20:03.600 --> 01:20:08.159
you with all that. Do you
like herbs, probably forty or fifty different

1101
01:20:08.239 --> 01:20:11.279
kinds of herbs. I think I
saw ten different kinds of mint down there.

1102
01:20:12.159 --> 01:20:14.720
Get those plants now and get them
in. It's time for that.

1103
01:20:15.119 --> 01:20:17.760
Do you love fruit? Okay,
they got the standards. Apples peaches and

1104
01:20:17.840 --> 01:20:21.760
so on. But maybe you want
to get a little unusual something with you

1105
01:20:21.840 --> 01:20:25.920
don't have to protect it, but
you can grow it and they have it

1106
01:20:26.119 --> 01:20:30.640
like guava or papaya or dragon fruit
or how about an apology. Yeah,

1107
01:20:30.680 --> 01:20:34.079
the old opuncha type prickly bear in
an edible form, the leaf itself,

1108
01:20:34.159 --> 01:20:39.520
they're edible when they're young. Really
cool herbs and hanging baskets too, blackberries

1109
01:20:39.800 --> 01:20:43.000
without thorns. They've got it all. And gosh, you have to go

1110
01:20:43.119 --> 01:20:47.920
into the houseplant greenhouse if you love
houseplants, if you love succulents, you

1111
01:20:48.159 --> 01:20:54.199
are gonna you spend some time in
there because there's so much cool product all

1112
01:20:54.319 --> 01:20:58.079
there at Moss Nursery. Moss Nurseries
Done and Seabrooks are really easy to get

1113
01:20:58.119 --> 01:21:01.520
to. You can go to their
website Moss Nursery dot com on Toadville Road

1114
01:21:01.600 --> 01:21:06.279
in Seabrook. Mosnursery dot Com.
I always love to go because I always

1115
01:21:06.319 --> 01:21:11.680
see some cool stuff that I've seen
before. Let's now go to Cindy in

1116
01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:15.960
Bagnolia. Hello Cindy, Hi,
Skip, how are you this morning?

1117
01:21:15.159 --> 01:21:19.560
I'm great? How are you doing? Just fine? The question that I

1118
01:21:19.720 --> 01:21:24.880
have for you is when is the
best time to fertilize the roses. I've

1119
01:21:24.920 --> 01:21:29.600
got a lot of fresh growth.
I had on the black mold on it

1120
01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:33.279
last year and I was able to
fortunately be able to bring them back from

1121
01:21:33.319 --> 01:21:38.199
that and I've got a lot of
fresh growth now. I'm really happy with

1122
01:21:38.319 --> 01:21:41.560
that. So I'm trying to take
as good of a care of them as

1123
01:21:41.640 --> 01:21:45.479
I can. Right well, remember
when we fertilize, we're building the soil's

1124
01:21:45.560 --> 01:21:48.159
bank account of nutrients. Now the
nitrogen is going to give a quick boost

1125
01:21:48.199 --> 01:21:54.720
of growth if the plant is in
temperature conditions where I can grow. So

1126
01:21:54.920 --> 01:21:59.079
now it would be an excellent time
to fertilize roses. But I fertilize mine

1127
01:21:59.279 --> 01:22:02.880
more than once year. In fact, when they finish typically April is a

1128
01:22:02.920 --> 01:22:08.399
big rose bloom month for me.
When they finish blooming, that's the time

1129
01:22:08.600 --> 01:22:12.000
to give them another fertilization. Sometimes
you can share them back a little bit

1130
01:22:12.159 --> 01:22:15.359
to get some fresh new growth.
Toward the end of August, I'll often

1131
01:22:15.560 --> 01:22:20.359
do another shearing and a fertilization for
that great fall blooming season. So I

1132
01:22:20.399 --> 01:22:24.800
would say fertilize them as needed,
but not just once a year. But

1133
01:22:25.000 --> 01:22:28.399
now's a good time to start.
I'm glad that you tell me that,

1134
01:22:28.479 --> 01:22:32.720
because I wondered about the summertime,
but I was concerned that it would burn

1135
01:22:32.840 --> 01:22:38.920
the plants. So I'm glad that
you tell me so now April, in

1136
01:22:39.000 --> 01:22:44.640
August, April August, after the
bloom peak bloom cycle that occurs in the

1137
01:22:44.720 --> 01:22:47.560
spring, that would be a good
time. But remember you burn plants when

1138
01:22:47.600 --> 01:22:53.560
you use a salt based fertilizer and
over apply it, and especially without adequate

1139
01:22:53.840 --> 01:22:59.880
soil moisture. That combination of things
will burn. But fertilizing in general does

1140
01:23:00.199 --> 01:23:03.079
burn. It's either been over okay, I always water always water it in.

1141
01:23:03.319 --> 01:23:05.920
You was watered in really good,
and you always apply it at the

1142
01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:10.439
right rate, you know, don't
don't try to apply a whole year's with

1143
01:23:10.560 --> 01:23:14.119
the fertilizer at one time and watered
in. I mean, yeah, you

1144
01:23:14.159 --> 01:23:17.520
could burn with the salt based fertilizer
that way, but there should never be

1145
01:23:17.600 --> 01:23:20.880
a concern about burning. When you're
doing doing it at the right rate and

1146
01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:26.000
watering it in, well, you
should be good to go. Is there

1147
01:23:26.039 --> 01:23:30.039
a fertilizer you would suggest to use
for the roses? There are many great

1148
01:23:30.119 --> 01:23:33.640
fertilizers for the roses. Do you
prefer an organic or synthetic or how do

1149
01:23:33.720 --> 01:23:38.720
you how do you grow your your
thing? I really haven't had a preference

1150
01:23:38.800 --> 01:23:43.199
up to this point. Normally I
go to the garden center and I look

1151
01:23:43.279 --> 01:23:46.439
for one that specifically says roses.
Okay, well that's fine. I'll give

1152
01:23:46.439 --> 01:23:50.399
you a little tip though. There
are fertilizers that sell roses. Nitrofoss has

1153
01:23:50.439 --> 01:23:55.560
a rose fertilizer. Nelson Plant Food
has a rose fertilizer. But you can

1154
01:23:55.720 --> 01:24:00.239
use a fertilizer that is for your
lawn on your rosy and they want it's

1155
01:24:00.359 --> 01:24:04.920
not gonna the roses can't read.
They can't read the bag. So you

1156
01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:09.720
know, yes, go get a
rose fertilizer. But listen, you talk

1157
01:24:09.800 --> 01:24:12.880
to ten people, You're going to
get ten different answers on what their favorite

1158
01:24:12.920 --> 01:24:16.319
fertilizer is. And I'm just telling
you that we got a lot of great

1159
01:24:16.359 --> 01:24:19.960
options. Every every product that I'm
talking about here on Garden Line is a

1160
01:24:20.079 --> 01:24:24.079
line of products that is going to
be fine for your roses. They're going

1161
01:24:24.119 --> 01:24:27.199
to have something for your roses and
do just fine. You know. From

1162
01:24:27.239 --> 01:24:31.800
the organic Microlife would be another example
that's an organic product that works just great.

1163
01:24:31.840 --> 01:24:35.520
On roses too. I'm sorry,
what's that name again? Microlife line,

1164
01:24:35.880 --> 01:24:42.159
that's the organic line. That's an
organic line, and and the Nitrofosh

1165
01:24:42.199 --> 01:24:46.119
product. They have a specific little
rose care jar. It's the Houston Rose

1166
01:24:46.199 --> 01:24:50.600
Society has helped them design that specific
ROAs and you're not going to go wrong

1167
01:24:50.680 --> 01:24:56.319
with that, that's for sure.
Okay. Yeah, wonderful, Thank you

1168
01:24:56.439 --> 01:24:59.479
so much. Yeah, you bet, good luck with all those. Don't

1169
01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:02.079
forget the the Nelson's as well,
that's another great one for that. Let's

1170
01:25:02.119 --> 01:25:08.760
head tell you what. Let's go
to Mike in League City. Hey,

1171
01:25:08.840 --> 01:25:11.319
Mike, I've got about a minute. You think we can get it done?

1172
01:25:12.520 --> 01:25:15.399
Oh yeah, Lee County. I'm
sorry, okay, good morning,

1173
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:21.600
Hey hedges, red tip fatina if
I'm pronouncing it correctly in my area.

1174
01:25:23.359 --> 01:25:27.119
I just need to know what soil
preparation or is that a good hitge for

1175
01:25:27.199 --> 01:25:30.960
what I'm looking for. Red tips
are fine. They grow in almost any

1176
01:25:30.039 --> 01:25:33.359
kind of soil. Anytime you improve
it with organic matter, you're going to

1177
01:25:33.399 --> 01:25:38.279
make plants happier. So compost or
a rose soil, a bed mix,

1178
01:25:38.680 --> 01:25:43.119
whatever you have up there in Lee
County, well you can get a hold

1179
01:25:43.199 --> 01:25:45.079
of I would mix it into the
soil and improve it as best I can

1180
01:25:45.199 --> 01:25:50.000
with that. Also, the red
tips fell from favor because of a disease

1181
01:25:50.079 --> 01:25:56.079
called intimasporium leaf spot. So you
want to be careful about watering the foliage

1182
01:25:56.159 --> 01:26:00.640
a lot. Every time you wet
the foliage the chances those problems. But

1183
01:26:00.880 --> 01:26:02.640
for a long time it was a
great shrub and it's just fallen out of

1184
01:26:02.680 --> 01:26:08.720
favor because they were getting plagued with
that, and I think that was one

1185
01:26:08.760 --> 01:26:10.479
of the reasons. Hey, I
got to run. If you want to

1186
01:26:10.520 --> 01:26:13.640
continue the conversation, just hang on. We're going to take a little break.

1187
01:26:13.720 --> 01:26:18.239
Seven one three two one two k
t RH Welcome back to garden Line.

1188
01:26:18.560 --> 01:26:21.159
Let's talk gardening. What are you
interested in? Give us a call

1189
01:26:21.600 --> 01:26:29.239
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Last summer was dry.

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01:26:29.720 --> 01:26:32.399
There's no news there. When it's
dry, our soil shrink. And

1191
01:26:32.600 --> 01:26:36.039
now it's wet. We've been getting
good rains. When it's wet, our

1192
01:26:36.159 --> 01:26:44.239
soils swell. And that movement in
the soil is what rex havoc on sidewalks

1193
01:26:44.279 --> 01:26:47.439
and driveways and the foundation of your
home. If you look at the wall

1194
01:26:47.479 --> 01:26:50.920
of your house inside and you see
a crack in the sheet rock, something

1195
01:26:51.039 --> 01:26:56.399
moved. If you see cracks in
the brick outside, something moved, that's

1196
01:26:56.439 --> 01:27:00.399
the time you definitely want to give
Ty Strickland Fixed mice Lab Foundation Repair.

1197
01:27:00.760 --> 01:27:04.199
Give him a call. The phone
number is two eight one two five five

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01:27:04.840 --> 01:27:08.720
forty nine forty nine. Now,
you don't want to delay on this.

1199
01:27:08.840 --> 01:27:11.920
The problem is not going to get
better, but you need to have them

1200
01:27:12.000 --> 01:27:15.359
come out do an assessment. What
is there, what is a degree of

1201
01:27:15.479 --> 01:27:20.680
damage, and what is the appropriate
solution to fix that. And if you

1202
01:27:20.760 --> 01:27:24.640
tell them you're a guardline listener,
you're going to get a free estimate from

1203
01:27:24.720 --> 01:27:28.680
him. And Ty is very committed
to making sure that he gives you a

1204
01:27:28.800 --> 01:27:32.119
fair price. He's also making sure
that he's on time. When he tells

1205
01:27:32.159 --> 01:27:34.039
you he's going to be there,
he's going to be there. You can

1206
01:27:34.159 --> 01:27:39.520
you can trust this they show up
on time, and also that when they

1207
01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:42.640
fix it, it's fixed. They
did it, they did it right,

1208
01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:46.560
they know what they're doing. You
can go to fix myslab dot com or

1209
01:27:46.720 --> 01:27:51.560
call two eight one two five five
forty nine forty nine. If those doors

1210
01:27:51.600 --> 01:27:56.279
are sticking inside, by the way, that's another sign of movement. Don't

1211
01:27:56.359 --> 01:27:59.560
wait if you've got a problem,
let's go ahead and look at it.

1212
01:27:59.640 --> 01:28:02.199
Don't stick your ahead in the sand
like an Ostrich and just put it off

1213
01:28:02.239 --> 01:28:05.680
thinking it's going to get better.
Call Tie Strickling two eight one two fi

1214
01:28:05.840 --> 01:28:11.640
five forty nine forty nine so they
can fix it right and on time for

1215
01:28:11.880 --> 01:28:15.800
a fair price. You are listening
to garden Line. If you want to

1216
01:28:15.960 --> 01:28:19.479
talk about some topic that maybe is
most of interest to you, well too.

1217
01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:24.319
Eight you can give us a call
at seven one three two one two

1218
01:28:24.760 --> 01:28:30.880
fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two uh five eight seven four.

1219
01:28:30.039 --> 01:28:33.600
Or Some people like the daw buy
letter, so KTRH I probably should

1220
01:28:33.640 --> 01:28:36.199
just use KTRCH. I'm not a
letter dialing fan. I don't know.

1221
01:28:36.760 --> 01:28:40.880
I always find myself looking trying it. Okay, where's the K and so

1222
01:28:41.000 --> 01:28:44.479
on? I just like the numbers, but I know everybody's not that way.

1223
01:28:45.079 --> 01:28:47.600
All right, Hey, I want
to talk a little bit about tree

1224
01:28:47.680 --> 01:28:51.399
planting. Now is the time to
get that done. And making sure that

1225
01:28:51.600 --> 01:28:58.119
you plant your tree properly is very
important, and that's why a lot of

1226
01:28:58.199 --> 01:29:00.359
times I'll just say, look,
have the people you bought the tree from

1227
01:29:00.840 --> 01:29:04.359
plant it for you? And that's
one of the good things about Verdant Tree

1228
01:29:04.399 --> 01:29:08.600
Farm is Verdant Tree Farm. They
number one, they got trees that grow

1229
01:29:08.720 --> 01:29:12.399
well here. Number two. They're
very knowledgeable about it. They know if

1230
01:29:12.439 --> 01:29:15.000
you show them a picture here's my
home, what tree does good? They

1231
01:29:15.079 --> 01:29:17.920
can tell you the best options you
have. And they when it comes to

1232
01:29:18.000 --> 01:29:23.840
palms, they also have a very
very good selection of some hardy palms,

1233
01:29:23.960 --> 01:29:28.800
palms that went through the February twenty
one freeze where it killed a lot of

1234
01:29:28.880 --> 01:29:31.520
palm trees. Palms that went through
that. They've got those there. You

1235
01:29:31.720 --> 01:29:36.079
can go to the website Verdant Treefarm
dot com. They have locations down in

1236
01:29:36.159 --> 01:29:41.520
Paarland on Broadway. They've got a
location in the Heights where Yale and I

1237
01:29:41.640 --> 01:29:45.159
ten come together. Got one out
in West Houston on Barker Cyprus. They

1238
01:29:45.520 --> 01:29:48.800
will do it right. They'll come
out and they'll plant it for you correctly.

1239
01:29:48.920 --> 01:29:53.600
That is very very important. They'll
guide you in the early care the

1240
01:29:53.760 --> 01:29:59.199
sooner you plant, whether it's a
giant holly or you know bush or one

1241
01:29:59.239 --> 01:30:01.800
of these trees. Talking about the
better off it'll be this first summer.

1242
01:30:02.600 --> 01:30:08.000
By the way, at Verdant,
they also had that three sixty tree stabilizer

1243
01:30:08.039 --> 01:30:11.760
and stock. I saw those I
was by there. The three sixty tree

1244
01:30:11.800 --> 01:30:15.840
stabilizer is a really cool new invention. And when I say new, it

1245
01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:19.079
is very new on the market.
Just think of a plastic bar, but

1246
01:30:19.239 --> 01:30:24.800
a reinforced like can take any kind
of wind that might your tree might face.

1247
01:30:25.520 --> 01:30:29.119
Very strong bar with soft straps on
each on the ends, and so

1248
01:30:29.279 --> 01:30:32.039
you can attach it to a post
you're can attach it. It's designed where

1249
01:30:32.199 --> 01:30:35.680
even fit on a t post,
a metal tea post as well. The

1250
01:30:35.760 --> 01:30:42.920
other end that plastics, plastic strap, rubber strap, excuse me, gives

1251
01:30:43.359 --> 01:30:45.920
And so it's important that the tree
trunk be allowed to move. You do

1252
01:30:46.119 --> 01:30:49.720
not want to stake them down tight
where they can't move at all. Movement

1253
01:30:49.880 --> 01:30:57.239
strengthens the trunk. And three sixty
tree stabilizers designed to allow that movement,

1254
01:30:57.359 --> 01:31:00.239
but not too much. It gives
good security. You can put two of

1255
01:31:00.279 --> 01:31:03.119
them on a tree, you know, one kind of pointing east west and

1256
01:31:03.199 --> 01:31:06.560
the other point in north south,
so no matter which way the wind blows,

1257
01:31:06.680 --> 01:31:10.640
you've got good protection. You can
find them in a lot of places.

1258
01:31:11.479 --> 01:31:15.880
The just talking about Verbin Tree from
they've got them there. RCW carries

1259
01:31:15.920 --> 01:31:19.800
them plants for all seasons, Arborgate
Jorges Hidden Gardens down south of Houston,

1260
01:31:20.479 --> 01:31:26.000
Buchanans native plants, all these places, and I suspect there's going to be

1261
01:31:26.079 --> 01:31:30.119
some more because this product is going
to be popular because it works, and

1262
01:31:30.359 --> 01:31:33.920
once you buy it, once you
have it available for whenever you're going to

1263
01:31:33.960 --> 01:31:38.119
plant a tree, and that would
include like a multi trunk great myrtle as

1264
01:31:38.159 --> 01:31:43.239
well. Let's head out to League
City and talk to Lewis. Hello,

1265
01:31:43.359 --> 01:31:47.319
Lewis, how are you doing good? How are you? Okay? I'm

1266
01:31:47.359 --> 01:31:53.199
doing fine. So I got I
think it's king Ranch bluestem coming up in

1267
01:31:53.319 --> 01:31:57.279
my yard. I think it's been
blown through the neighborhood and you trying to

1268
01:31:57.279 --> 01:32:05.720
get rid of it without filling my
my grass. Okay, you can't kill

1269
01:32:05.760 --> 01:32:12.640
a grass and a grass in most
cases without killing both of them. King

1270
01:32:12.760 --> 01:32:15.399
Rinch bluestem is considered a grass.
Yes, it is a grass for sure.

1271
01:32:16.840 --> 01:32:20.279
What I would do if I had
that number one, I would assess

1272
01:32:20.359 --> 01:32:24.880
it. And if it's just widespread
all through the lawn, you may be

1273
01:32:25.079 --> 01:32:28.880
best to kill everything and start over
with the lawn. That's drastick. But

1274
01:32:29.600 --> 01:32:34.000
if you have extensive blue stem infestation. You're probably that that's one option you

1275
01:32:34.079 --> 01:32:38.600
probably need to think about. If
it's here and there, you can use

1276
01:32:38.760 --> 01:32:44.680
a dabber type sponge type applicator to
put either a grass killer or something that

1277
01:32:44.800 --> 01:32:47.000
kills grass and broadly so that would
be a glife and say type product,

1278
01:32:47.680 --> 01:32:53.039
dab it just right on the blue
stem, trying to avoid having contact with

1279
01:32:53.119 --> 01:32:58.880
the grass. There are also things
called wick applicators that you you could think

1280
01:32:58.960 --> 01:33:02.079
of a hockey stick with a sponge
or rope on it that has the product

1281
01:33:02.560 --> 01:33:08.199
and you go past over the top
of your lawn, but that king ranch

1282
01:33:08.279 --> 01:33:11.800
is going to stand up higher than
your lawn does. And you just wipe

1283
01:33:11.880 --> 01:33:14.520
the king ranch and it's not going
to be a one and done. You

1284
01:33:14.680 --> 01:33:17.920
just be ready to go back out
on every Saturday, every other Saturday for

1285
01:33:18.000 --> 01:33:23.159
a while and just more and more
getting rid of it and minimizing it down.

1286
01:33:23.439 --> 01:33:26.640
Or go with the just kill everything
right there have some dead spots and

1287
01:33:26.760 --> 01:33:30.720
let your grass fill back in.
Okay, all right. I want to

1288
01:33:30.720 --> 01:33:35.239
tell you though also in the meantime, lewis the more you create density in

1289
01:33:35.319 --> 01:33:39.319
your lawn, the less problems like
this are going to occur because if the

1290
01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:43.479
lawn is thin and last summer thinned
a lot of lawns, then that bare

1291
01:33:43.560 --> 01:33:45.640
spot a seed is going to come
up, and now you're fighting a weed.

1292
01:33:46.319 --> 01:33:50.359
So work on lawn density with mowing, watering, and fertilizing. Hey,

1293
01:33:50.359 --> 01:33:55.319
if you go online to my website, it's gardening with skip dot com.

1294
01:33:55.760 --> 01:34:00.279
My lawn care schedule is on there
and that that guide will help create

1295
01:34:00.319 --> 01:34:03.479
that density. So we're startifighting two
battles. We're killing the weed, but

1296
01:34:03.680 --> 01:34:08.520
we're also building the lawn, and
those two combined I think as your long

1297
01:34:08.640 --> 01:34:13.520
term solution. Okay, I have
followed that in the past. And what

1298
01:34:13.960 --> 01:34:18.640
when it really started to become prevalent
was after the freeze a few years ago.

1299
01:34:19.359 --> 01:34:24.359
Is one I noticed it? Okay, you know when it really came

1300
01:34:24.479 --> 01:34:28.279
up. Okay, well all right, yeah, good luck with it.

1301
01:34:29.239 --> 01:34:31.239
It is a booger. We wish
it had never been brought in, but

1302
01:34:31.399 --> 01:34:34.880
it's here. Yeah, okay,
well, thank you very much. All

1303
01:34:34.960 --> 01:34:40.560
right, thank you, I appreciate
your call. Yeah, King Grant kr

1304
01:34:40.640 --> 01:34:44.640
boost him not that great of a
cattle feed either. It was brought in

1305
01:34:44.800 --> 01:34:48.119
as something we might use for pastures, which it'll grow and make a pasture.

1306
01:34:48.560 --> 01:34:51.399
Not the most nutritious, the best
of grasses out there for it,

1307
01:34:51.520 --> 01:34:55.800
but boy, I tell you it
can be a weed, that's for sure.

1308
01:34:56.159 --> 01:35:00.520
All right. Quick quiz on garden
line. What is the formula for

1309
01:35:00.600 --> 01:35:03.920
success with plants? What comes first? Brown stuff? What comes second?

1310
01:35:04.000 --> 01:35:08.600
Green stuff? Right? You get
the soil right, And I don't care

1311
01:35:08.800 --> 01:35:12.640
if it's a planting bed that you're
doing roase soil in, or if it's

1312
01:35:12.680 --> 01:35:16.520
a potting soil for your house plants
or plants on the patio. Airloom Soils

1313
01:35:16.560 --> 01:35:19.479
has got you covered on each of
those. And they have a wide variety

1314
01:35:19.479 --> 01:35:24.000
of products. For example, the
works potting soil. You can buy that

1315
01:35:24.119 --> 01:35:26.840
in a lot of places. You
know they're going to have it. Plants

1316
01:35:26.840 --> 01:35:30.159
for all seasons. Nelson's Water Garden
I were just talking about earlier. They're

1317
01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:32.760
gonna have it there, Mid County, Feedniderland. Those of the listening,

1318
01:35:32.920 --> 01:35:38.720
shout out to Neederland, Huntsville farm
Supply. There's another shot out you're looking

1319
01:35:38.760 --> 01:35:41.319
at Kingwood Garden Center. Well,
yep, they're going to have it there.

1320
01:35:41.359 --> 01:35:44.159
A lot of places weren't. Southern
gardens too out in Kingwood has it,

1321
01:35:44.960 --> 01:35:48.479
but they have a wide variety of
products, and their products are made

1322
01:35:48.640 --> 01:35:54.640
right. You can go to Airloom
Soils of Texas and look at the list

1323
01:35:54.720 --> 01:35:58.960
of products and look at the places
that they carry them in eye telling you

1324
01:35:59.800 --> 01:36:04.039
that they are everywhere. It's not
hard to find heirloom soils. For example,

1325
01:36:04.079 --> 01:36:08.479
they're at Warre in Southern Gardens.
Were in Southern Gardens is a great

1326
01:36:08.560 --> 01:36:13.319
place to get your heirloom soil products. In fact, I counted the heirloom

1327
01:36:13.479 --> 01:36:16.840
list just recently and it was over
fifty five different places in the Houston area.

1328
01:36:16.840 --> 01:36:20.880
You can find Airloom Soils and Warren
Southern Garden. Sure, that's absolutely

1329
01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:26.119
one of them. Really really good
place. Now at Warren's you're gonna find

1330
01:36:26.159 --> 01:36:29.399
every kind of plant you're looking for, every kind of plant that you're looking

1331
01:36:29.479 --> 01:36:31.760
for. They have a wide variety. But right now they're having a leapier

1332
01:36:31.880 --> 01:36:38.920
sale. The rose soil, the
azamite ten pound asamite, the Nilson plant

1333
01:36:39.039 --> 01:36:43.960
food, and the Microlife plant food, those jars, all of that is

1334
01:36:44.079 --> 01:36:47.960
on an incredible leaf leapier sale.
And that's both that Kingwood Garden Center and

1335
01:36:48.079 --> 01:36:51.439
it Warns Southern Gardens. So you
need to go to both either or both

1336
01:36:51.479 --> 01:36:56.439
of those places, and see both
are excellent nurseries out there in the Kingwood

1337
01:36:56.479 --> 01:36:59.840
area. Yes, you are rich
with nurseries out in the Kingwood area.

1338
01:37:00.079 --> 01:37:03.439
Really really cool stuff. By the
way, my Skip special I was talking

1339
01:37:03.439 --> 01:37:08.000
about that last weekend. Today's the
last day of it. And what you

1340
01:37:08.119 --> 01:37:11.920
do is you walk into Warren or
Kingwin you say, hey, I want

1341
01:37:12.000 --> 01:37:15.119
the skip special. That means you
get three bags of airloom soils. One

1342
01:37:15.239 --> 01:37:18.079
cubic foot are larger, not a
little tiny bag, but a cubic foot

1343
01:37:18.079 --> 01:37:20.760
are larger, and you get one
free and you can mix and match.

1344
01:37:21.199 --> 01:37:27.079
You want a roase soil, you
want to you know, the quality mixes

1345
01:37:27.159 --> 01:37:30.920
that they make for veggie and herb
those are one of my favorite ones.

1346
01:37:30.479 --> 01:37:32.560
But you can do that. But
you just need to go out there and

1347
01:37:32.640 --> 01:37:39.039
look the incredible, incredible sale going
on on all those combination of products rose

1348
01:37:39.079 --> 01:37:43.279
oil, asimite, Neilson plant food, micro like plant food in the last

1349
01:37:43.319 --> 01:37:47.920
two in jar form. We are
Now let's see I want to go.

1350
01:37:49.119 --> 01:37:50.960
Yeah, we got a little bit
of time here. We're gonna go out

1351
01:37:51.039 --> 01:37:54.359
to Spring and we're gonna talk to
Rich. Hey, Rich, I got

1352
01:37:54.359 --> 01:37:59.399
about a minute or so let's see
what we can accomplish. Fine, good

1353
01:37:59.479 --> 01:38:03.039
morning. I have volunteered to take
care of the clubhouse for all the apps

1354
01:38:04.039 --> 01:38:09.840
for the lawn as well as I
help other neighbors in the neighborhood with their

1355
01:38:09.920 --> 01:38:15.479
lawns. So I'm looking to upgrade
from a hands prayer to a battery powered

1356
01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:20.199
backpack sprayer. Wondering if you have
any ideas. Boy, I am not

1357
01:38:21.439 --> 01:38:27.279
an expert on the new brands abouttery
prayer. Know some lines will sell you

1358
01:38:27.399 --> 01:38:30.600
the product in a jug with a
little battery powered sprayer, but that's not

1359
01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:35.840
for covering a big area like you're
having to deal with. I'm not sure

1360
01:38:36.239 --> 01:38:39.800
what to suggest you on that.
You might talk to one of your a

1361
01:38:39.960 --> 01:38:45.039
stores nearby and just see if they
have any kinds of a product like that,

1362
01:38:45.359 --> 01:38:48.319
or if they have some suggestions.
You might talk to the folks down

1363
01:38:48.399 --> 01:38:53.039
at Southwest Seed and Fertilizer. It's
a little distance from you, but just

1364
01:38:53.079 --> 01:38:58.279
give them a call, go to
Southwold Fertilizer dot com see what they have.

1365
01:39:00.119 --> 01:39:04.840
My gut feeling is I would think
i'd either prefer one of the little

1366
01:39:04.880 --> 01:39:09.439
pump up backpacks that you have,
the little lever that you you keep it

1367
01:39:09.920 --> 01:39:15.079
pumped, or perhaps there are the
battery I mean the engine powered ones.

1368
01:39:15.119 --> 01:39:16.520
You probably don't want to get into
the noise of that, but that'd be

1369
01:39:16.600 --> 01:39:20.079
the best I can suggest to you
on those ridges. Okay, appreciate it,

1370
01:39:20.159 --> 01:39:24.199
skip, thank you. It's a
very legit question and I just am

1371
01:39:24.279 --> 01:39:27.119
not an expert. So we're going
to take a little break. It is

1372
01:39:27.239 --> 01:39:29.920
time for the news, and so
we are going to give you the phone

1373
01:39:30.000 --> 01:39:31.439
number and leave it at that.
You can give us a call at seven

1374
01:39:31.520 --> 01:39:35.159
one three two one two k t
RH. Get on the board with Josh

1375
01:39:35.199 --> 01:39:40.840
and we'll talk to you when we
come back. All right, here we

1376
01:39:40.960 --> 01:39:45.319
go on Guarden line. We are
here to talk about the things that interest

1377
01:39:45.399 --> 01:39:46.520
you, and that's why I give
you a number where you can give me

1378
01:39:46.520 --> 01:39:50.159
a call if you would like to
ask questions. It is seven one three

1379
01:39:50.279 --> 01:39:56.119
two one two fifty eight seventy four
are KTRH if that's simpler for you to

1380
01:39:56.239 --> 01:40:01.039
do. I was discussing earlier the
importance of getting the pre emergent out.

1381
01:40:01.159 --> 01:40:05.560
Now, if you're going to use
a pre emergent to prevent the summer weeds,

1382
01:40:05.640 --> 01:40:09.680
we're talking about weeds. You don't
see the weeds you see now,

1383
01:40:10.319 --> 01:40:14.319
that would require a post emergent herbicide
application to do that. The weeds you

1384
01:40:14.479 --> 01:40:16.520
see now, that would be a
pre emergent. I mean, you don't

1385
01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:18.760
see now. I don't know how
I said that. The weed you see

1386
01:40:18.840 --> 01:40:23.640
now post emergent. The weeds you
haven't seen yet, that's a pre emergent.

1387
01:40:23.720 --> 01:40:26.880
And that's what barricade does. You
put it down at the proper rate.

1388
01:40:27.279 --> 01:40:30.359
Follow the label there. The label
is the law. There's a reason

1389
01:40:30.439 --> 01:40:34.720
there's a rate on the label.
Follow that and that will include incorporating it

1390
01:40:34.840 --> 01:40:38.840
into the soil surface. And that's
a fancy word for put about a half

1391
01:40:38.840 --> 01:40:44.520
inch of water down and that dissolves
antri the compounds. To put them in

1392
01:40:44.640 --> 01:40:47.880
the soil surface. When a weed
seed sprouts, it doesn't let it establish

1393
01:40:48.119 --> 01:40:51.119
a weed plant. It shuts it
down right there. It's really easy.

1394
01:40:51.199 --> 01:40:56.359
I mean, nitrofoss has made it
really easy with this Barricade product. And

1395
01:40:56.399 --> 01:41:02.399
if that's including grassy weeds like crabgrass
and graspur for example, that's also including

1396
01:41:02.479 --> 01:41:05.960
our broadleaf weeds that are warm seasons
that come up as well. So that

1397
01:41:06.079 --> 01:41:10.119
makes it kind of neat neat.
Where can you get this, well,

1398
01:41:10.279 --> 01:41:14.359
how about in Chene Gardens down there
in Richmond Rosenberg. How about Shades of

1399
01:41:14.399 --> 01:41:18.000
Texas. Shades of Texas is up
in the Woodlands. How about the Hiden

1400
01:41:18.119 --> 01:41:21.560
and Feed on Stubner Airline. Yep, they have it as well. There.

1401
01:41:21.880 --> 01:41:26.560
There's a lot of places that carry
these products, the Nitrofis products,

1402
01:41:26.600 --> 01:41:31.960
including the specific one you know,
the barricade. The barricade is the kind

1403
01:41:32.000 --> 01:41:38.640
of product. The reason that I
prefer a pre emergent over a post one

1404
01:41:38.720 --> 01:41:42.640
reason is that it's better to deal
with the weeds before they get started.

1405
01:41:42.720 --> 01:41:45.359
Once they get started, it the
weather warms up and you're trying to spray

1406
01:41:45.399 --> 01:41:50.199
a broad leaf in Saint Augustine and
it's ninety degrees, it's kind of touch

1407
01:41:50.239 --> 01:41:53.720
and go. We're dealing with those
kinds of things, so we just prevent

1408
01:41:53.800 --> 01:41:58.159
them, prevent them ahead of time. I mentioned having it down in Chane

1409
01:41:58.279 --> 01:42:00.560
Gardens, you know, in Chenne
Gardens in Richmond. If you've not been

1410
01:42:00.680 --> 01:42:04.720
down there, you've got to go. It is another one of those quality

1411
01:42:05.359 --> 01:42:10.319
we say, mom and pop independent
garden centers, not part of some big

1412
01:42:10.479 --> 01:42:15.000
national chain, especially national chains,
so you know, other things. They

1413
01:42:15.119 --> 01:42:19.520
focus on the fact that This is
a garden center. It's stuff for your

1414
01:42:19.560 --> 01:42:23.079
garden. It's gonna have the plants. Do you need roses? Oh my

1415
01:42:23.159 --> 01:42:27.119
gosh, what a selection they have
of roses. It's really outstanding. Fresh

1416
01:42:27.199 --> 01:42:30.560
herbs and vegetables. They are loaded
up and in stock with fresh herbs and

1417
01:42:30.640 --> 01:42:33.800
vegetables, even seeds. They're gonna
have seeds for that. Do you need

1418
01:42:33.960 --> 01:42:38.199
shrubs or trees? Do you not
really know what you need? Do you

1419
01:42:38.239 --> 01:42:40.600
know? I got to call earlier
a hand, need a shrub to go

1420
01:42:40.640 --> 01:42:43.760
over here on this side of my
house. You can do that and they'll

1421
01:42:43.800 --> 01:42:45.119
walk you over and say, well, here's some good option. They'll ask

1422
01:42:45.159 --> 01:42:47.880
you some questions like is it sunny
or is it shady? Do you want

1423
01:42:47.920 --> 01:42:53.560
flowers or do you want evergreen?
Whatever, and they'll point you at the

1424
01:42:53.640 --> 01:42:58.560
plant that they know grows here because
they are experts in that. And Enchined

1425
01:42:58.640 --> 01:43:05.399
Gardens in Richmond's the website Enchanted Gardens
Richmond dot com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot

1426
01:43:05.439 --> 01:43:09.479
com. They're on the Katie fullsher
side. So if you're in Richmond heading

1427
01:43:09.520 --> 01:43:14.239
toward Katie direction, they're on three
point fifty nine north of Richmond. It's

1428
01:43:14.279 --> 01:43:15.720
real easy to get to and you
need to get out there and buy by

1429
01:43:15.760 --> 01:43:19.640
the way, look out the window. Is it is this afternoon not going

1430
01:43:19.680 --> 01:43:25.359
to be a wonderful day of Chamber
of Commerce weather to get out and visit

1431
01:43:25.479 --> 01:43:29.359
your garden center. That is,
I don't know. That's the tip of

1432
01:43:29.439 --> 01:43:32.239
the day. It I can't imagine
being cooped up this afternoon. Let's go

1433
01:43:32.359 --> 01:43:35.840
to John over in Baytown. I'm
gonna quit talking and let you ask a

1434
01:43:35.960 --> 01:43:42.880
question. John. How about that? Yes, sir, this is I

1435
01:43:42.960 --> 01:43:47.079
got a new home and the saw
was laid back in November and there's like

1436
01:43:47.159 --> 01:43:50.239
a sad laid on top of its, like aud, I mean like a

1437
01:43:50.680 --> 01:43:55.920
black play or something like that.
Anyway, it Saul Brown, What no

1438
01:43:56.039 --> 01:43:59.279
lock can I do to bring the
saw back to life? Okay? Good,

1439
01:43:59.520 --> 01:44:02.319
good, good question. And yes, it definitely is laid on black

1440
01:44:02.359 --> 01:44:08.520
clay, likely down in that area. But the black clad, the grass

1441
01:44:08.560 --> 01:44:13.319
itself can grow in a black clay. The sod farms are on black clay

1442
01:44:13.439 --> 01:44:16.199
soils. When you buy side,
you get that little sliver of soil with

1443
01:44:16.319 --> 01:44:19.720
the grass, and that's a black
clay and it holds together real well,

1444
01:44:19.840 --> 01:44:23.640
so it's easy to move the sod
pieces if it was sand, it would

1445
01:44:23.680 --> 01:44:27.159
fall all apart. But that's just
a sign that grass can thrive on a

1446
01:44:27.199 --> 01:44:30.960
black clay soil. It needs nutrients, and it needs adequate watering, and

1447
01:44:30.119 --> 01:44:33.800
it does help to have aeration done
in the root system. So since this

1448
01:44:33.920 --> 01:44:39.920
has been in for a while,
you can do a core aeration, and

1449
01:44:40.159 --> 01:44:44.560
core aeration goes down in the soil
and it pulls a plug of soil out

1450
01:44:44.680 --> 01:44:47.840
and drops it on the surface.
I always kind of joke that it looks

1451
01:44:47.920 --> 01:44:53.199
like you had a small dog convention
on the lawn the day before, because

1452
01:44:53.239 --> 01:44:57.800
there's all these little doggie dropping looking
pieces of soil all over the place.

1453
01:44:58.560 --> 01:45:02.399
You can follow that with a compost
top dressing of a quality screened leap more

1454
01:45:02.520 --> 01:45:08.199
compost or small particles. They fall
down in the holes. Your water moves

1455
01:45:08.279 --> 01:45:12.640
down in and soaks in the soil
better, and your nutrients can also move

1456
01:45:12.680 --> 01:45:15.079
down. But most importantly, oxygen
can get down in the root system.

1457
01:45:15.359 --> 01:45:19.920
And green Pro is a company that
does that. They work more north.

1458
01:45:20.079 --> 01:45:25.279
You're way down south. Green Pro
tends to stay north, but you may

1459
01:45:25.439 --> 01:45:28.840
check around down there, talk to
your garden centers and say, who do

1460
01:45:28.920 --> 01:45:33.560
you know down here that does a
good job of deep time core aeration,

1461
01:45:34.359 --> 01:45:38.720
not just a roller that pushes holes
in the soil, but one that pops

1462
01:45:38.800 --> 01:45:42.239
the plugs out, and that is
what I would recommend you do. You

1463
01:45:42.319 --> 01:45:44.880
may want to wait on it a
little bit, let the grass kind of

1464
01:45:44.960 --> 01:45:49.079
get going, but cororation with compost
top dressing is the best thing you can

1465
01:45:49.159 --> 01:45:55.800
do for that longny type of fertilizer
on now, you absolutely should put fertilizer

1466
01:45:55.880 --> 01:46:00.279
also. Now that's the nutrient levels, and so we would recommend a lawn

1467
01:46:00.359 --> 01:46:03.439
type fertilizer, and we want to
put it out. You can do an

1468
01:46:03.520 --> 01:46:09.199
early green up right now of an
immediately available fertilizer. If you look at

1469
01:46:09.239 --> 01:46:14.319
my schedule online at Gardeningwithskip dot com. You can look at it on your

1470
01:46:14.319 --> 01:46:15.680
computer. You can print it out
and have a copy of it and carry

1471
01:46:15.720 --> 01:46:18.159
with you and say, hey,
point to the fertilizer on there when you

1472
01:46:18.279 --> 01:46:24.039
go into shop. So I need
some of this, but they that schedule

1473
01:46:24.119 --> 01:46:28.479
will guide you on the various ones
you put. The early spring greenup is

1474
01:46:28.600 --> 01:46:33.159
now the once you've mowed the lawn
twice. When we get into let's say

1475
01:46:33.319 --> 01:46:38.439
early April in your area, maybe
late March, you can go ahead and

1476
01:46:38.520 --> 01:46:42.680
put down a longer release fertilizer that
will carry you on through the summer.

1477
01:46:45.720 --> 01:46:47.000
Thank you. Yeah, do you
do you have? If you do,

1478
01:46:47.039 --> 01:46:50.000
you have places that you know down
in Baytown that you go. I know

1479
01:46:50.119 --> 01:46:55.840
you've got a lot of really well
I would I would go to one of

1480
01:46:55.880 --> 01:47:01.239
your your ACE hardware stores down there. They got a Yeah, they carry

1481
01:47:01.279 --> 01:47:04.680
the ones I recommend. That's why
I'm saying that. All right, thank

1482
01:47:04.720 --> 01:47:10.359
you, Yes, sir, thank
you very much. Appreciate that. Yeah.

1483
01:47:10.439 --> 01:47:15.800
Greenpro is a company that if you
live let's say north of Itan maybe

1484
01:47:15.880 --> 01:47:19.239
Central Houston and North especially, you
know as you get up the street a

1485
01:47:19.279 --> 01:47:24.000
little bit we're talking, Well,
they like to not go more than about

1486
01:47:24.039 --> 01:47:28.239
forty five miles from Magnolia in any
direction, so they can go north and

1487
01:47:28.439 --> 01:47:31.039
they can take care of this.
They do such a good job. They've

1488
01:47:31.079 --> 01:47:35.520
got the equipment that does deep time
aerrations. So those of you, for

1489
01:47:35.640 --> 01:47:41.000
example, Conrad Willis, the Woodlands, Cyprus, Texas, Spring Texas,

1490
01:47:41.399 --> 01:47:45.000
Magnolia, Montgomery, even out to
Katie West, Houston, Central Houston,

1491
01:47:45.039 --> 01:47:47.880
North Houston. They go to all
those areas and they can do the proper

1492
01:47:48.039 --> 01:47:53.600
kind of aerration because they have the
right equipment to both airrate and to spread

1493
01:47:53.760 --> 01:47:57.760
an even supply of a quality mulch
on top of your soil. And you

1494
01:47:57.920 --> 01:48:01.319
need to give them a call to
a one three five, one forty seven

1495
01:48:01.479 --> 01:48:08.800
thirty three or greenpro dot net,
greenpro dot net. Simple as that,

1496
01:48:09.039 --> 01:48:11.399
We're gonna take a little break here. It is time for that. And

1497
01:48:11.479 --> 01:48:13.840
when we come back, K,
you'll be the first up for the rest

1498
01:48:13.920 --> 01:48:15.960
of you. Seven to one three
two one two K t R H.

1499
01:48:20.039 --> 01:48:26.399
Wellcome back to garden line. A
little bit of nice harmony going on there.

1500
01:48:26.439 --> 01:48:28.760
I wish I had a bass voice
like that guy boy, I'll tell

1501
01:48:28.760 --> 01:48:32.199
you what that is. Kind of
cool stuff. Here we go. Hey

1502
01:48:32.479 --> 01:48:36.520
K in Parland, how are you
this morning? And I'm good? And

1503
01:48:36.720 --> 01:48:41.039
how are you? Y'all say,
I hear you're good. I'm doing wonderful.

1504
01:48:41.119 --> 01:48:44.000
I'm at spring. I'm a gardener
for crying out loud. In fact,

1505
01:48:44.079 --> 01:48:45.760
I was hoping I could just have
Josh play music and I could get

1506
01:48:45.800 --> 01:48:48.039
out of here and go play in
the garden because I'm ready to roll.

1507
01:48:48.119 --> 01:48:50.840
You had to go boogie in the
garden, that's it. I don't think

1508
01:48:50.920 --> 01:48:54.159
that would go over well, but
you know, I could do that.

1509
01:48:55.119 --> 01:49:00.119
What's up? Okay to the gentleman
who was looking for a spryer, I

1510
01:49:00.319 --> 01:49:11.199
have a five gallon rechargeable electric sprayer
and I went online. It's called It's

1511
01:49:11.279 --> 01:49:16.239
a Country Way. But when it
came it was in the packaging of Rural

1512
01:49:16.760 --> 01:49:23.640
King, and I went online and
it's under both and the Rural King has

1513
01:49:23.760 --> 01:49:28.039
a backpack. I'm not sure about
it, but he might contact down and

1514
01:49:28.359 --> 01:49:31.239
they might give him a hint.
How do you like it? How does

1515
01:49:31.279 --> 01:49:39.880
it hold a charge? I've used
it once, I've had it for quite

1516
01:49:39.880 --> 01:49:43.319
a while, but it gets pretty
heavy. Course you don't have to put

1517
01:49:43.399 --> 01:49:47.680
five gallons of liquid in it,
but it's a little little inconvenient. I

1518
01:49:47.720 --> 01:49:51.039
thought, oh my gosh, that's
awesome. It's electric. You just plug

1519
01:49:51.119 --> 01:49:55.800
it in and charge it and you
know, and you go wherever. But

1520
01:49:56.720 --> 01:50:00.399
rolling a heavy item like that,
I'm over eighty of the years years old.

1521
01:50:00.960 --> 01:50:04.199
It's hard on graphs, and I
don't have a lot of walkway around

1522
01:50:04.319 --> 01:50:10.159
my house, so it's a little
inconvenient for me. All right, Well,

1523
01:50:10.199 --> 01:50:13.840
hey, Kay, I appreciate that. And so if Rich if you're

1524
01:50:13.920 --> 01:50:17.479
listening, Kay just gave you some
information on one that she's tried. Hey

1525
01:50:17.560 --> 01:50:23.479
kay, thank you very much.
Okay, you take care. I was

1526
01:50:23.520 --> 01:50:26.239
talking about tree planting. This is
the time, get it done, get

1527
01:50:26.279 --> 01:50:30.239
it done. It is also the
time to get any tree work done of

1528
01:50:30.560 --> 01:50:33.279
pruning, Like maybe your tree needs
a lot of pruning, maybe it just

1529
01:50:33.359 --> 01:50:35.880
needs a little bit hopefully just a
little bit. When you take care of

1530
01:50:35.960 --> 01:50:39.920
them right, they don't need a
lot at any one time. Well,

1531
01:50:39.960 --> 01:50:44.159
Affordable Tree Service I'm talking about Martin
Spoon Moore, He's the one you need

1532
01:50:44.239 --> 01:50:46.439
to call. Martin's been doing this
for thirty years. He knows how to

1533
01:50:46.479 --> 01:50:50.880
take care of trees. He will
give you an honest estimate of what's needed

1534
01:50:50.920 --> 01:50:54.399
if it's not needed. He's not
going to tell you have to do something

1535
01:50:54.439 --> 01:50:58.239
you need to do something you don't
need to do. But proper pruning is

1536
01:50:58.359 --> 01:51:01.000
critical. People that don't know it
they're doing can ruin a tree for life,

1537
01:51:01.479 --> 01:51:06.319
and one day that tree goes from
potential to it's just a mess,

1538
01:51:06.439 --> 01:51:10.520
and it's it's going to always be
weak wooded. You're gonna have issues and

1539
01:51:10.600 --> 01:51:14.720
storms and whatnot. Hire somebody that
knows what they're doing. That's Martin.

1540
01:51:15.000 --> 01:51:18.239
You can go to Afftree Service dot
com. Aff Tree service, or you

1541
01:51:18.279 --> 01:51:21.399
can just give him a call his
phone number. Write this down seven one,

1542
01:51:21.560 --> 01:51:27.399
three, six, nine nine twenty
six sixty three. Now he stays

1543
01:51:27.479 --> 01:51:30.640
busy, so don't delay in giving
him a call. And also when you

1544
01:51:30.800 --> 01:51:33.279
call, tell him you're a garden
line listener, so you can go to

1545
01:51:33.439 --> 01:51:38.399
the front of that line and make
sure that he's able to get out to

1546
01:51:38.479 --> 01:51:41.000
your place. Take a good look
at it, because we're in a big

1547
01:51:41.119 --> 01:51:44.239
time to get a lot of work
done. Now he'll work all through the

1548
01:51:44.319 --> 01:51:50.079
year taking care of trees, but
proper care is critical for long term success,

1549
01:51:50.199 --> 01:51:54.279
for your tree to be strong and
for it to be beautiful, storm

1550
01:51:54.359 --> 01:51:57.800
resistant, and if you're doing anything
around your tree, have him come out

1551
01:51:57.920 --> 01:52:00.840
and look first. If it's a
trench or a driveway or something being poured

1552
01:52:00.920 --> 01:52:04.800
over the over part of the root
system, you need to let him advise

1553
01:52:04.880 --> 01:52:11.039
you on that, so again you
don't just cause problems that have a long

1554
01:52:11.199 --> 01:52:16.159
term a long term problem for you
and for that tree. Let's go out

1555
01:52:16.279 --> 01:52:20.399
to Spring Brands and we're going to
talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon,

1556
01:52:21.119 --> 01:52:27.159
Hi, how you doing. I'm
well, thank you good. I'm about

1557
01:52:27.239 --> 01:52:31.000
to fertilize my lawn and I have
weeds. Okay, and every year I've

1558
01:52:31.079 --> 01:52:36.960
always used the nitrophile swede and feed
with trimac. Okay, does that work

1559
01:52:38.079 --> 01:52:44.560
the same as that new Nelson plant
food. Both of them go after existing

1560
01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:50.119
especially broad leaf weeds. Yes,
that will also control those. And again,

1561
01:52:50.520 --> 01:52:55.199
if you're going to use a product
like that, you need to make

1562
01:52:55.279 --> 01:53:00.720
sure that the weeds are caught at
an early stage, which get it done

1563
01:53:00.840 --> 01:53:04.399
quickly, don't delay, because once
the weeds start blooming and setting seed,

1564
01:53:04.520 --> 01:53:13.960
then the effectiveness of our broadly post
emergence goes down. Okay, Okay,

1565
01:53:14.000 --> 01:53:15.680
well, I appreciate the good advice. Well, good, good for you,

1566
01:53:15.800 --> 01:53:20.319
and that's also going to have basically
the equivalent. There are a couple

1567
01:53:20.399 --> 01:53:25.560
of nitrofoss products that have we we
control things like that in them, but

1568
01:53:25.680 --> 01:53:29.600
one of them basically is the equivalent
of the fifteen five to ten the Imperial

1569
01:53:29.680 --> 01:53:33.960
fertilizer. It just also has that
broad leaf post emergent in it. Okay,

1570
01:53:33.960 --> 01:53:38.520
because you mentioned Imperial now, but
that's if you don't have weeds,

1571
01:53:39.159 --> 01:53:43.159
right. Imperial is a fifteen five
ten fertilizer, and the one you're asking

1572
01:53:43.199 --> 01:53:47.399
me about is a product that has
fifteen five ten fertilizer plus the weed control

1573
01:53:47.479 --> 01:53:49.880
in it. Yeah, I'm not
saying yeah. I want to be real

1574
01:53:49.960 --> 01:53:54.840
clear. Imperial does not control weeds, but it's just fertilizer. But the

1575
01:53:54.920 --> 01:53:57.880
other is fertilizer and it has a
post a. Right, Okay, well,

1576
01:53:58.199 --> 01:54:00.880
thank you so much. All right, you take it. Thank thank

1577
01:54:00.920 --> 01:54:03.840
you, appreciate your call. Have
you been to the ANTIQ rose in Porium

1578
01:54:03.920 --> 01:54:09.560
before? I always look forward.
I went out and gave a talk out

1579
01:54:09.640 --> 01:54:14.760
there earlier in the season. We
had a Tomato conference Texas Gardener held out

1580
01:54:14.800 --> 01:54:18.000
there, and in fact, I'm
going back again in March, not pretty

1581
01:54:18.039 --> 01:54:20.640
early in March. I'm gonna be
back out there for another talk that I'm

1582
01:54:20.680 --> 01:54:24.720
doing. I'll tell you more about
that later. But antiqu rose in porium

1583
01:54:25.239 --> 01:54:29.359
is not just roses. They are
roses, but they are so much more.

1584
01:54:29.720 --> 01:54:33.479
Right now, they've got Gerbert daisies. Those are gorgeous. The galvinia's

1585
01:54:33.600 --> 01:54:38.600
and all the gerbers are just beautiful
Dahlias. They've got those. I bet

1586
01:54:38.640 --> 01:54:42.439
you've never grown one of those before. Boogainvillias. They got ferns and shade

1587
01:54:42.479 --> 01:54:45.720
loving plants, a wonderful selection of
perennials if you like natives. How about

1588
01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:50.079
some native perennals like purple cone flower, white lantana, pink skull cap,

1589
01:54:50.279 --> 01:54:56.960
coral, honeysuckle, yarrow, Salvius
one of the best genera of plants areas

1590
01:54:57.119 --> 01:55:00.199
or Salvius for Texas. Here,
make your pollinators with those. Now.

1591
01:55:00.319 --> 01:55:03.640
They're going to have their spring celebration
March ninth and tenth. That is when

1592
01:55:03.680 --> 01:55:06.720
I'm going to be out there.
I've got artists and market speakers. You

1593
01:55:06.800 --> 01:55:10.640
need to plan to go out at
that time. It's going to be busy

1594
01:55:10.760 --> 01:55:15.760
out there because it's spring and people
love to go out in the spring to

1595
01:55:15.840 --> 01:55:17.840
the ANTIQ Rose Imporium. You need
to bring a group with you too when

1596
01:55:17.840 --> 01:55:23.119
you go. I'm telling you this
is a destination Antique Rosanmporium dot com.

1597
01:55:23.439 --> 01:55:27.159
That's the website if you want to
give them a call. Nine seven nine

1598
01:55:27.359 --> 01:55:32.359
eight three six five five four eight
nine seven nine eight three six fifty five

1599
01:55:32.800 --> 01:55:36.640
forty eight. Trust me on this
one. That is a place that you

1600
01:55:36.840 --> 01:55:42.640
will love visiting. It is so
cool out there and so many great great

1601
01:55:42.760 --> 01:55:45.720
products. It's an inspiration. Uh. We've I've bought roses out there on

1602
01:55:45.840 --> 01:55:49.439
more than one occasion, and one
of my daughters. We were out one

1603
01:55:49.520 --> 01:55:53.319
time. She had to get some
roses out there, hauled them off to

1604
01:55:53.399 --> 01:55:57.760
Atlanta, Georgia, I believe,
and actually one of them went to North

1605
01:55:57.800 --> 01:56:03.039
Carolina. I've had roses go to
North Carolina from them as well. I

1606
01:56:03.079 --> 01:56:06.159
won't take it a microlife product.
I've talked about it before, but I

1607
01:56:06.199 --> 01:56:10.279
don't mention it as much as I
probably ought to. And that's microlife hum

1608
01:56:10.279 --> 01:56:15.479
mates plus hum mats plus is a
zero zero four fertilizer, so it's got

1609
01:56:15.560 --> 01:56:18.199
some potassium in it. That's a
third number. But the main reason we're

1610
01:56:18.239 --> 01:56:25.800
putting it down is because it is
a humous product that's a final degradation stage

1611
01:56:25.840 --> 01:56:30.840
of organic matter that is so helpful
in improving soul structure. We're talking earlier

1612
01:56:30.880 --> 01:56:33.239
about a clay soil and what do
we do about it. Microlife's hum mats

1613
01:56:33.279 --> 01:56:38.840
plus is what we do about it. When you use that over the years,

1614
01:56:38.920 --> 01:56:41.800
over time, you know this isn't
an immediate fix, like you put

1615
01:56:41.840 --> 01:56:45.279
it out there and suddenly clay isn't
clay. We're talking about something that you

1616
01:56:45.520 --> 01:56:50.840
use as part of your annual schedule
as you go through i'd say one even

1617
01:56:50.880 --> 01:56:55.319
two times a year, about ten
pounds per thousand square feet. It will

1618
01:56:55.439 --> 01:56:59.399
do wonders for the garden. And
that's from the folks at Microlife. Just

1619
01:56:59.479 --> 01:57:01.800
go to micro Life Fertilizer dot com
and you can find out where you can

1620
01:57:01.840 --> 01:57:06.600
get it. Excellent. Well,
here goes another hour. I'm flying this

1621
01:57:06.760 --> 01:57:12.800
morning. They say time flies when
you're having fun. Permit the frog says,

1622
01:57:13.399 --> 01:57:15.640
time's fun when you're having flies.
I'm sorry, I'm a dad.

1623
01:57:16.800 --> 01:57:20.399
You can thank me later for the
dead jokes. Don't forget. I will

1624
01:57:20.439 --> 01:57:26.159
be at A and A Plants next
Saturday, twelve pm. That's new to

1625
01:57:26.720 --> 01:57:30.840
two pm. Twelve pm to two
pm. I'll be answering your questions and

1626
01:57:30.920 --> 01:57:33.520
guess what I'll be giving away A
bag's a turf star every fifteen minutes.

1627
01:57:33.600 --> 01:57:39.039
The turf Star we dena tour,
specifically the weed Nator. So come out

1628
01:57:39.079 --> 01:57:42.039
and see me. Let's take a
look at samples of plants. If you

1629
01:57:42.119 --> 01:57:45.680
live anywhere up there around Montgomery or
the like Conroe area, anywhere up north,

1630
01:57:46.000 --> 01:57:48.359
I hope you drive out and see
me next sight. This is my

1631
01:57:48.520 --> 01:57:53.159
first appearance at a garden center this
year, and I am excited about getting

1632
01:57:53.279 --> 01:58:01.800
up there and seeing the place.
And meeting you. Kat r H Garden

1633
01:58:01.880 --> 01:58:05.800
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

1634
01:58:08.560 --> 01:58:20.199
Welcome to kat r H Garden Line
with Scamp Richter's Crazy trim. Just

1635
01:58:20.479 --> 01:58:39.840
watch him as so many sup welcome
back. I want you to take a

1636
01:58:39.880 --> 01:58:43.439
look outside, and then I want
you to fill your pulse. If you

1637
01:58:43.560 --> 01:58:47.760
have a pulse, if you've ever
thought about growing anything, Today's a day

1638
01:58:48.079 --> 01:58:54.159
look at that. It is unbelievably
beautiful day to get out. I hope

1639
01:58:54.199 --> 01:58:58.720
this afternoon you get out and visit
some of these awesome, awesome independent garden

1640
01:58:58.760 --> 01:59:02.479
centers in the Greater Houston area that
we have. They're just it's just we

1641
01:59:02.600 --> 01:59:06.159
are so fortunate here to have places, you know, places like enchanted forests

1642
01:59:06.199 --> 01:59:10.520
for example, that's down in the
Richmond area. In fact, if you're

1643
01:59:10.560 --> 01:59:15.560
in Richmond, you're heading up toward
Sugarland direction, Well, all you have

1644
01:59:15.680 --> 01:59:18.840
to do is head off to the
right from there, FM twenty seven fifty

1645
01:59:18.960 --> 01:59:24.680
nine twenty seven to fifty nine will
take you right to enchanted forests. In

1646
01:59:24.720 --> 01:59:30.680
enchanted forests always has good deals going
on, and they always have beautiful plants

1647
01:59:30.840 --> 01:59:35.720
and super health and great condition.
That grow well here and people that greet

1648
01:59:35.800 --> 01:59:39.960
you and say how can I help, and know what they're talking about that

1649
01:59:40.199 --> 01:59:45.600
is really really important. These it's
just a it's a wonderful place to go

1650
01:59:45.720 --> 01:59:49.640
to now. In fact, they
are still having a special right now that

1651
01:59:49.840 --> 01:59:54.159
is unbelievable. It's a pre spring
pottery sell. If you buy one or

1652
01:59:54.199 --> 01:59:57.000
two pots, you get twenty percent
off. You buy three or four potch

1653
01:59:57.239 --> 02:00:00.520
you get forty percent off. If
you buy five or more fifty percent off.

1654
02:00:00.720 --> 02:00:04.760
You cannot beat that. And I'm
telling you we need more containers.

1655
02:00:04.840 --> 02:00:09.840
And they have beautiful containers out at
the Enchanted Forest for sure. Need you

1656
02:00:09.920 --> 02:00:12.760
need to get by there. You
need to check them out if you want,

1657
02:00:13.159 --> 02:00:15.000
if you want to see the complete
list of all the plants and roses

1658
02:00:15.039 --> 02:00:18.159
for example, they have. And
by the way, they got floral Flora

1659
02:00:18.199 --> 02:00:23.000
bundas, the Grande Flora's, they
got anti croses, hybrid tes. You

1660
02:00:23.079 --> 02:00:26.239
know, they have everything. That's
the way to think about it. Enchanted

1661
02:00:26.399 --> 02:00:33.359
Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com.

1662
02:00:33.800 --> 02:00:36.479
Just look under their plant lists and
you're going to find the things that

1663
02:00:36.720 --> 02:00:41.600
I'm talking about. I love going
out to Chanted Forest and live visiting with

1664
02:00:41.720 --> 02:00:46.920
Danny Clay and they just they make
you welcome, they make you feel happy

1665
02:00:46.960 --> 02:00:50.840
to be out there. By the
way. Next Saturday, Mike Surrant from

1666
02:00:53.319 --> 02:00:56.239
micro Life Fertilizer, it's going to
be out there talking about organic gardening.

1667
02:00:56.640 --> 02:01:00.640
That'll be from eleven to two next
Saturday out at the Enchanted. I'm telling

1668
02:01:00.680 --> 02:01:04.399
you every weekend something is going on
out of an Enchanted for us a food

1669
02:01:04.479 --> 02:01:12.399
truck and a great, great presentation, educational presentation to help you have more

1670
02:01:12.479 --> 02:01:15.359
success. Have you ever any questions
about micro Life products? Next weekend at

1671
02:01:15.439 --> 02:01:20.279
Channey Forst. The way to find
out our phone number if you'd like to

1672
02:01:20.319 --> 02:01:25.560
give us a call today is seven
to one three two one two kt r

1673
02:01:25.880 --> 02:01:30.159
H. Seven to one to three
two one two kt r H makes it

1674
02:01:30.239 --> 02:01:32.760
really easy to get a hold of
us. We're here to answer your gardening

1675
02:01:32.880 --> 02:01:36.079
questions, to help you. My
goal is to help you have a more

1676
02:01:36.159 --> 02:01:42.800
bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. And in the area where we live,

1677
02:01:43.119 --> 02:01:46.960
that can be done. Every place
you live in the whole country's got

1678
02:01:47.079 --> 02:01:50.840
some issue. It gets too cold, it gets too hot, it's too

1679
02:01:51.000 --> 02:01:55.319
dry, it's too wet, the
soil is too sandy, the soil is

1680
02:01:55.359 --> 02:01:58.760
too clay. I mean, we
all have our excuses, but I'm telling

1681
02:01:58.840 --> 02:02:02.640
you we can and clay soil here
and we can plant things that take the

1682
02:02:02.720 --> 02:02:08.279
summer and we can grow stuff all
winter that you go fifty miles north you

1683
02:02:08.359 --> 02:02:12.119
can't grow. And this is a
great place to garden, a great place

1684
02:02:12.880 --> 02:02:18.199
to have that beautiful garden or the
bountiful garden and the beautiful landscape. Azamite

1685
02:02:18.439 --> 02:02:21.920
is a product you've heard me talk
about before. In the spring we think

1686
02:02:21.960 --> 02:02:28.800
about fertilizing, and that always brings
to mind the idea that it may be

1687
02:02:28.840 --> 02:02:31.119
a time to put azamite on as
well. Now, azamite does not have

1688
02:02:31.279 --> 02:02:34.119
to be put on when you put
on fertilizer. You can apply it any

1689
02:02:34.199 --> 02:02:39.800
time of the year. What you're
doing with azamite is not making the plants

1690
02:02:39.840 --> 02:02:44.439
grow. It's not a nitrogen fertilizer
that boosts fath growth. It's a it's

1691
02:02:44.520 --> 02:02:49.359
a bank account building trace mineral supplement
doesn't take a lot of azamite to have

1692
02:02:49.520 --> 02:02:55.279
success. A forty pound bag will
cover six to twelve thousand square feet launch

1693
02:02:55.359 --> 02:02:58.760
it goes a long long way.
Now as mite is going to provide those

1694
02:02:58.800 --> 02:03:02.199
trace minerals so when the plant needs
things that are obscure, which are essential.

1695
02:03:02.520 --> 02:03:06.119
And that's the part people think,
well, if it's a minor nutrient,

1696
02:03:06.279 --> 02:03:10.880
I don't. It's not as important
as a macronutrient. No, it

1697
02:03:11.520 --> 02:03:15.399
a micro nutrient is equally important.
It is essential. If you could take

1698
02:03:15.479 --> 02:03:20.039
every bit of manganese out of your
soil, plants could not live. If

1699
02:03:20.079 --> 02:03:24.159
you took every bit of zinc out
of your soil, plants could not live.

1700
02:03:24.359 --> 02:03:27.960
Those are trace minerals and it's important
that we have a full stock of

1701
02:03:28.039 --> 02:03:30.840
trace minerals to have success. And
that's what azemite's about. So don't put

1702
02:03:30.840 --> 02:03:34.159
it in the hopper with your fertilizer. The particle size is different and it

1703
02:03:34.199 --> 02:03:38.800
won't be applied evenly. Do it
separately. Do your fertilization and do your

1704
02:03:38.840 --> 02:03:43.159
azimide application separately. But just know
you can do it anytime, but now

1705
02:03:43.319 --> 02:03:45.680
is a great time to get out
there while you're buying your products and getting

1706
02:03:45.680 --> 02:03:48.399
ready to go, go ahead and
bring it back home so you can put

1707
02:03:48.439 --> 02:03:50.600
it on now. You can put
it on anytime you want, but you

1708
02:03:50.680 --> 02:03:56.960
got it ready to go on hand. That is an important thing to make

1709
02:03:57.119 --> 02:04:00.239
a note of if you'd like to
give me a COVID action. You got

1710
02:04:00.319 --> 02:04:01.920
open lines right now, so this
would be a good time to give me

1711
02:04:02.000 --> 02:04:06.079
a cough you'd like to ask a
question seven one three two one two five

1712
02:04:06.279 --> 02:04:12.880
eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. I

1713
02:04:13.039 --> 02:04:16.920
was talking earlier with someone about the
nitrophoss, the Imperial product, and nitrophos

1714
02:04:17.000 --> 02:04:21.560
Imperial is an immediately available fertilizer.
So when you put it down and you

1715
02:04:21.680 --> 02:04:26.560
watered in, those nutrients are released
and move out into the soil and they're

1716
02:04:26.600 --> 02:04:30.520
available to your plant. And we're
hitting the time where we do what is

1717
02:04:30.680 --> 02:04:35.880
called a spring green up application.
Now that you know, when we warm

1718
02:04:36.000 --> 02:04:39.920
up, the grass will be growing
actively and we'll be doing all kinds of

1719
02:04:39.960 --> 02:04:43.960
fertilizing at that time. But right
now is an early greenup, so the

1720
02:04:44.039 --> 02:04:46.680
grass takes up the nutrient and it
just is going to show in an earlier

1721
02:04:46.800 --> 02:04:51.600
greenup for your lawn more attractive,
and that lawn grass plant is strong and

1722
02:04:51.720 --> 02:04:56.159
ready to go. So as it
warms up and the growth gets faster and

1723
02:04:56.239 --> 02:05:00.239
faster, it's got that nutrient supply, and that's nitroposs imperials fifteen five ten.

1724
02:05:00.720 --> 02:05:04.720
That's a three one two ratio.
The three one two ratio products that

1725
02:05:05.079 --> 02:05:09.800
created over half a century ago,
TEXA, A and M turf scientists doing

1726
02:05:09.880 --> 02:05:13.640
research found that's what grass needs.
In fact, if you cut off a

1727
02:05:13.720 --> 02:05:16.159
clipping of your lawn and send it
to the lab, if it's a healthy

1728
02:05:16.279 --> 02:05:20.680
lawn, they're going to tell you
I found in this nutrient in this clipping

1729
02:05:20.760 --> 02:05:28.279
a nutrient ratio of those first three
numbers NPK three one two. That's what

1730
02:05:28.399 --> 02:05:31.399
it is. We're feeding grass the
ratio that plants eat. You probably,

1731
02:05:31.399 --> 02:05:35.840
if you've been around for years,
you've heard triple thirteen recommended or triple ten

1732
02:05:36.079 --> 02:05:42.079
or so on, that those are
nutrients and they are available to plants.

1733
02:05:42.239 --> 02:05:45.640
But our plants take up nutrients in
a three one two type ratio in most

1734
02:05:45.720 --> 02:05:49.720
cases. So that's why nitroposs imperial
is a great way to start. And

1735
02:05:49.760 --> 02:05:53.000
where do you get it? You
can get it in a lot of places.

1736
02:05:53.079 --> 02:05:58.000
Plantation Ace Hardware out there in Richmond
Rosenberg area, if you're up in

1737
02:05:58.039 --> 02:06:00.319
Willis Growers Outlet has it. If
you're a we're in Kingwood, Kingwood Ace

1738
02:06:00.359 --> 02:06:05.880
Hardware has it. It's easy to
find nitrofoss products all around and the nitrofoss

1739
02:06:05.920 --> 02:06:10.000
Imperial. This is the time to
get that done. We're going to take

1740
02:06:10.000 --> 02:06:12.479
a little break. We'll be back. We got some calls here waiting.

1741
02:06:12.640 --> 02:06:15.520
We'll be getting to those right away. Dope or Derek, you will be

1742
02:06:15.560 --> 02:06:18.000
the first up. Welcome back to
garden Line. Glad to have you listening

1743
02:06:18.039 --> 02:06:21.760
in today. We've got lots of
things still to talk about in this our

1744
02:06:21.840 --> 02:06:27.239
last hour of this weekend of garden
Line. I want to remind you those

1745
02:06:27.279 --> 02:06:30.399
of you who are interested in bee
keeping and those of you who just are

1746
02:06:30.520 --> 02:06:34.960
interested in learning about some of the
fascinating things in the world of bees,

1747
02:06:35.319 --> 02:06:40.399
and trust me, it is absolutely
fascinating. Well, the folks out at

1748
02:06:40.439 --> 02:06:43.840
the Bee Supply and Dayton they can
get you set up. They have the

1749
02:06:43.920 --> 02:06:46.479
products you need. They get in
bees. For example, you want to

1750
02:06:46.479 --> 02:06:49.800
buy bees to stock a hive.
They have a couple of strains that they

1751
02:06:49.880 --> 02:06:54.960
work with out there and they're getting
shipments in pick up dates all the way

1752
02:06:55.000 --> 02:06:59.840
from April eleventh through May twenty fourth
this year. Go to the b Supply

1753
02:07:00.239 --> 02:07:06.119
dot com vbsupply dot com. They
also will get you into their classes,

1754
02:07:06.279 --> 02:07:12.720
which are incredible. It's about six
hours for the class they go through the

1755
02:07:12.840 --> 02:07:17.760
lunch there that they will provide you
a barbecue sandwich. They're about every two

1756
02:07:17.800 --> 02:07:23.319
weeks February twenty fourth, that's coming
up this next week, March ninth,

1757
02:07:23.479 --> 02:07:28.079
March twenty third, April thirteenth,
April twenty seventh, and both two more

1758
02:07:28.119 --> 02:07:31.319
weeks as well in May. Dbsupply
dot COM's where you find that out.

1759
02:07:31.640 --> 02:07:35.199
You learn about bees in a classroom
and then you go outside and you get

1760
02:07:35.279 --> 02:07:41.199
some hands on experience with bees and
they get you all suited up and everything.

1761
02:07:41.319 --> 02:07:45.159
It's safe. You can learn a
lot. So if you've even been

1762
02:07:45.279 --> 02:07:49.079
thinking about it, go out and
just experience that class and learn and see

1763
02:07:49.119 --> 02:07:54.359
if it's for you. They also
have interactive honey tours that are going on

1764
02:07:54.520 --> 02:07:58.279
out there. This is people for
example, maybe you're not interested in bees,

1765
02:07:58.600 --> 02:08:01.359
but you just want to learn about
bees, and they will fascinate you.

1766
02:08:01.439 --> 02:08:05.359
With bees, you get to taste
all these different types of honey to

1767
02:08:05.439 --> 02:08:09.199
see the difference in the different types
of honey. You will learn a lot.

1768
02:08:09.439 --> 02:08:11.239
It is really cool. They also
are available to come out and speak

1769
02:08:11.279 --> 02:08:16.319
at your garden club or other organization
meetings. Just give them a call.

1770
02:08:16.399 --> 02:08:20.359
Out there at the Bee Supply.
Again, it is easy, easy,

1771
02:08:20.439 --> 02:08:22.760
easy to find out about them.
They're a little ways out there in Dayton,

1772
02:08:22.920 --> 02:08:26.359
but it is so worth it.
I love going out to the be

1773
02:08:26.520 --> 02:08:30.439
Supply. I find the store cool
because I used to keep bees myself,

1774
02:08:30.520 --> 02:08:33.199
so that's pretty cool. But anyway, maybe you need to participate in the

1775
02:08:33.239 --> 02:08:37.800
b rental program. If you're a
landowner and you've got five to twenty acres,

1776
02:08:37.159 --> 02:08:41.680
you want to use bees to help
qualify for your ag exemption. Yeah,

1777
02:08:41.800 --> 02:08:46.239
that's right, ag valuation. Well, they have a rental program put

1778
02:08:46.279 --> 02:08:52.039
bees on your property and make it
an agricultural venture. So again you just

1779
02:08:52.199 --> 02:08:58.119
go to the website, thebesupply dot
com. That's where you find out everything

1780
02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:01.319
you need to know. I'm going
to head out now to Southwest Houston and

1781
02:09:01.399 --> 02:09:07.159
talked to Derek. Hello Derek,
the EG morning, Skip morning. The

1782
02:09:07.319 --> 02:09:15.680
question I have is this past May, we had to build up the backyard

1783
02:09:15.760 --> 02:09:20.439
because it became a lake when it
rained heavy and we didn't have any grass

1784
02:09:20.520 --> 02:09:24.479
to speak of. So we built
it up with some pretty decent top soil

1785
02:09:24.079 --> 02:09:30.199
and went to Houston Grass and bought
oh I half a pallet a saw.

1786
02:09:30.239 --> 02:09:37.000
It laid it down fertilized, it
did everything that you say. Now here's

1787
02:09:37.079 --> 02:09:46.920
my concern. From October till even
now. The backyard is only ten foot

1788
02:09:46.319 --> 02:09:50.159
from the house to the fence and
about thirty foot long, so it's not

1789
02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:56.199
a real backyard a large backyard.
And the grass took really well. I

1790
02:09:56.319 --> 02:10:01.520
was surprised. And we watered it
even through the drought time. Okay,

1791
02:10:01.039 --> 02:10:07.239
And it did take really well,
was really nice and green now since October

1792
02:10:07.319 --> 02:10:09.319
because we have all that shade in
the backyard. And I've heard you say

1793
02:10:09.439 --> 02:10:18.680
that Saint Augustine is pretty shade tolerant, but n of it since the freeze

1794
02:10:18.720 --> 02:10:24.920
that we had is now just brown
grass blades. But there is some green,

1795
02:10:26.000 --> 02:10:28.920
and my wife says she has faith. We still don't have any sun

1796
02:10:30.000 --> 02:10:33.159
in the backyard yet. It's about
a foot above the foot above the ground

1797
02:10:33.199 --> 02:10:39.039
along the fence, so it's probably
another month before we really start getting any

1798
02:10:39.159 --> 02:10:43.159
sun in the backyard. Okay.
Do you think it's going to come back,

1799
02:10:43.479 --> 02:10:46.119
yes, even with the fertilizer program, or do we have to look

1800
02:10:46.159 --> 02:10:50.640
at some other option. Yes,
it sounds like you have a good pattern

1801
02:10:50.720 --> 02:10:52.960
where if you're going to have shade, you have it in the winter when

1802
02:10:52.000 --> 02:10:56.800
the grass is not very active.
The grass can capture some sunlight in the

1803
02:10:56.840 --> 02:10:58.960
winter and help maintain the strength.
I think it's going to be okay.

1804
02:11:00.840 --> 02:11:03.880
I would go ahead and either get
down your early spring green up application or

1805
02:11:03.960 --> 02:11:09.159
for sure make sure when that grass
starts need to be mode that you're getting

1806
02:11:09.199 --> 02:11:15.239
an application of a slower release fertilizer
over time down uh. And the sun

1807
02:11:15.399 --> 02:11:18.680
pattern is going to give you a
little more sunlight as we get into summer,

1808
02:11:18.800 --> 02:11:22.920
right right, okay, And so
I think the middle of the middle

1809
02:11:22.920 --> 02:11:26.880
of the middle of the summer it's
full direct sunlight. Yeah, okay,

1810
02:11:26.279 --> 02:11:31.479
I think you'll be okay. They
get they get some light and the you

1811
02:11:31.560 --> 02:11:35.920
know, even when the sun isn't
shining directly on it, it's getting enough

1812
02:11:35.000 --> 02:11:39.439
light to hold on. And then
summer is a great time to grow and

1813
02:11:39.520 --> 02:11:41.399
rejuvenate. And so you just need
to make sure it has good nutrients.

1814
02:11:41.640 --> 02:11:46.079
And and that's the fertilizer we talked
about here. If you haven't gone online

1815
02:11:46.119 --> 02:11:48.880
to my website to get my lawn
care Guide, just go ahead and get

1816
02:11:48.880 --> 02:11:50.680
it. It's free. You can
look at it or print it out.

1817
02:11:50.159 --> 02:11:54.079
A lot of people print it out
and put it on the refrigerator, put

1818
02:11:54.119 --> 02:11:58.239
it out in the garage where they
have that they're fertilizers and things. It's

1819
02:11:58.359 --> 02:12:03.319
gardening with skip. Oh yeah,
yeah, I know. I've been there.

1820
02:12:03.520 --> 02:12:05.920
We've got it. I've looked at
it. Okay, good, Well,

1821
02:12:05.239 --> 02:12:09.600
that that is the schedule to follow. I took a lot of time

1822
02:12:09.680 --> 02:12:13.159
to put that together, uh,
to where it's as accurate as possible.

1823
02:12:13.359 --> 02:12:16.600
Okay, I'm just down the road
from Selfless Fertilizer. So if I go

1824
02:12:16.760 --> 02:12:22.039
over and explain to them what's going
on, they'll have the same mindset as

1825
02:12:22.079 --> 02:12:24.880
you and absolutely help me. Tell
them you talk to us on guardline and

1826
02:12:26.199 --> 02:12:30.319
and that you know, yes,
and they're going to have all the options

1827
02:12:30.359 --> 02:12:35.119
I talk about. And then some
A's Southwest Fertilizer. Sure are that's too

1828
02:12:35.199 --> 02:12:37.319
handy. That's not fair. I
have to drive a distance to get there.

1829
02:12:37.399 --> 02:12:43.800
That is not fair that you live
down the road. I'm only I'm

1830
02:12:43.840 --> 02:12:48.079
only three three four miles from r
Okay, very good, all right,

1831
02:12:48.159 --> 02:12:52.760
Derek. Uh, let's let's stay
on it. And I think you're gonna

1832
02:12:52.000 --> 02:12:56.039
I think you're going to find that
the grass does really well this summer.

1833
02:12:56.399 --> 02:13:00.800
Well, I hope so, because
it wasn't it wasn't cheap to redo.

1834
02:13:01.199 --> 02:13:05.600
Yeah, I know that I have
had to do that before. Hey,

1835
02:13:05.680 --> 02:13:09.039
thanks a lot for the call and
good luck, good luck with getting that

1836
02:13:09.159 --> 02:13:15.439
thing back in tip top tiptop shape. I have been doing repotting at my

1837
02:13:15.640 --> 02:13:18.319
house. I've got some outdoor plants
that need repinting. I actually haven't gotten

1838
02:13:18.359 --> 02:13:22.159
to them yet. I'm working on
indoor plants, some houseplants that I have,

1839
02:13:22.439 --> 02:13:26.439
and I had some tomatoes that I
bumped up. You may have heard

1840
02:13:26.520 --> 02:13:31.319
me mention yesterday that if you buy
tomatoes too early to put outside, that's

1841
02:13:31.359 --> 02:13:33.720
okay. Bring them in, put
them in a larger container and just keep

1842
02:13:33.760 --> 02:13:37.560
them growing. Put them out during
the day when it's mild temperatures and sunny,

1843
02:13:37.880 --> 02:13:41.159
and bring them in in the two
cool chili chili night times, and

1844
02:13:41.520 --> 02:13:43.479
you will get a much better plant. Well that's what I do, and

1845
02:13:43.560 --> 02:13:48.439
that's what I did. I potted
up my tomatoes and put in a nutri

1846
02:13:48.560 --> 02:13:52.039
Star, which is their Genesis transplant
mix. It's a six to one to

1847
02:13:52.079 --> 02:13:58.479
three fertilizer. It is loaded with
micorizo fungi and then has that nice ratio

1848
02:13:58.720 --> 02:14:01.640
six one to three that is going
to give your plants the boost that they

1849
02:14:01.680 --> 02:14:05.920
needs, got humates in it to
help condition the soil. And when I

1850
02:14:07.039 --> 02:14:09.720
do, I'm telling you those little
tomatoes that came out of a small sell

1851
02:14:09.840 --> 02:14:16.199
pack and went into a larger container
where I'd mixed nutristar genesis transplant mix into

1852
02:14:16.279 --> 02:14:20.760
the soil at the recommended rate.
When those roots get out there and start

1853
02:14:20.920 --> 02:14:24.880
accessing that stuff, they take off
and really really grow. It's just another

1854
02:14:24.920 --> 02:14:28.439
one of the good products that you're
going to get from the folks at Nelson's

1855
02:14:28.600 --> 02:14:35.920
Plant Food. I'm going to go
now to Memorial and talk to Agnes.

1856
02:14:35.000 --> 02:14:41.560
Hello, Agnes Hie. I wanted
to ask you Skip. I bought five

1857
02:14:41.800 --> 02:14:46.960
gladiosis bolbs, okay, and put
them over an arbor. Are they're going

1858
02:14:48.000 --> 02:14:56.159
to run rampant in my yard?
You're talking about bulb on an arbor bolb?

1859
02:15:00.279 --> 02:15:03.600
You know, I don't think they
are. They do pretty well here

1860
02:15:03.640 --> 02:15:09.760
if you give them good care and
give them the kind of the kind of

1861
02:15:11.960 --> 02:15:15.720
sunlight, moisture, a little bit
of nutrient and stuff that they need.

1862
02:15:15.840 --> 02:15:18.520
But I've never known one of those
to run rampant all over the yard.

1863
02:15:20.079 --> 02:15:26.960
Would you put all five in one
spot to go over the harbor. You

1864
02:15:28.039 --> 02:15:31.239
know what I am not. I'm
not sure we're talking about the same plant.

1865
02:15:31.319 --> 02:15:35.520
It's a lily, right, and
you're saying it finds it findes enough

1866
02:15:35.600 --> 02:15:43.039
to go across an arbor. Yeah, it's multi colored and including that's all

1867
02:15:43.359 --> 02:15:50.720
springing into the I mean somewhere in
into the fall. Hmm. I should

1868
02:15:50.840 --> 02:15:52.920
know what you're talking about. It's
not it's not ringing a bell with me.

1869
02:15:52.960 --> 02:15:58.159
I'm sorry. Uh, let me
let me do this. Can you

1870
02:16:00.000 --> 02:16:03.000
can you look? Do you have
a tag still for them? Is there

1871
02:16:03.079 --> 02:16:07.079
a name tag? Will you spell
spell that gladiosis for me if you have

1872
02:16:07.159 --> 02:16:18.640
it there? Okay, l A
g I owe us. Okay, I

1873
02:16:18.760 --> 02:16:22.720
tell you what. I'm gonna put
you on hold. I want you to

1874
02:16:22.920 --> 02:16:26.560
email me, email me a picture
of that tag and let me take it

1875
02:16:26.680 --> 02:16:33.280
from there because I'm I'm kind of
stemmied here. Glor gloriosis. Thank you?

1876
02:16:33.440 --> 02:16:39.120
Okay, now now we're now we're
getting somewhere. Yeah, gloriosis.

1877
02:16:39.360 --> 02:16:43.200
I tell you what, I gloriosis. I have not grown those before,

1878
02:16:43.840 --> 02:16:50.280
but I've known people that have,
uh, and it is it's a beautiful,

1879
02:16:50.440 --> 02:16:54.399
a beautiful ball, beautiful plant.
Uh. I just have never messed

1880
02:16:54.440 --> 02:16:56.840
with them before, but I don't
think of them as something that vines.

1881
02:17:01.360 --> 02:17:05.520
I just don't think of them as
something that binds and covers an arbor here

1882
02:17:05.559 --> 02:17:07.520
in our area. I've not tried
that. Maybe some other folks that are

1883
02:17:07.600 --> 02:17:13.600
listening have have grown these before.
I know the glory we call them gloriosa

1884
02:17:13.719 --> 02:17:18.280
lily's, that's the specific thing of
them. But they're they're I don't know

1885
02:17:18.440 --> 02:17:24.040
if anybody has had success growing those
this far south. I know they've grown

1886
02:17:24.079 --> 02:17:28.440
a lot more farther north, but
if if they've had success with them,

1887
02:17:30.280 --> 02:17:33.920
please let me know about that.
And I'm going to look into this a

1888
02:17:33.959 --> 02:17:37.879
little bit, and then I will
comment on the air agnes about these particular

1889
02:17:37.959 --> 02:17:41.719
bulbs for this particular air. Okay, great, thank thank you very much.

1890
02:17:41.959 --> 02:17:46.040
I appreciate that. Well. We
don't play stump to jump here a

1891
02:17:46.079 --> 02:17:48.280
lot on garden line, but we
just did one there. So I'm gonna

1892
02:17:48.280 --> 02:17:50.719
have to look into this one a
little bit and try to get a little

1893
02:17:50.719 --> 02:17:56.959
more information here on those particular bulbs. We are getting close to take a

1894
02:17:56.040 --> 02:18:00.799
little break here, but I did
want to mention that Nature's Way Resources is

1895
02:18:00.879 --> 02:18:05.840
having their Spring Garden Festival March ninth. That's coming up. Write that down

1896
02:18:05.000 --> 02:18:09.719
March ninth, from nine to two. Now when they throw a shindig up

1897
02:18:09.760 --> 02:18:11.760
there, it is a shindig.
They're going to have, you know,

1898
02:18:13.079 --> 02:18:16.680
a bright spring sangria. There's gonna
be local vendors that you can shop with,

1899
02:18:18.840 --> 02:18:22.440
lots of they call them hot plant
sales available to They have gardening education

1900
02:18:22.639 --> 02:18:26.879
going on so you can learn in
the process. For kids. They have

1901
02:18:26.959 --> 02:18:30.760
a story time. They have a
giant sandbox. They have coloring book activities

1902
02:18:30.840 --> 02:18:35.040
and scavenger hunt and everything. It's
all at nature's way resources. While you're

1903
02:18:35.120 --> 02:18:37.520
up there, leave room in the
car. You need to pick up some

1904
02:18:37.680 --> 02:18:41.760
of their rose soil, or some
of their leaf mold composts, or some

1905
02:18:41.879 --> 02:18:45.559
of the many products that they sell
by the bag, or put in an

1906
02:18:45.719 --> 02:18:48.360
order and pick up. If you've
got a trailer or a pickup, you

1907
02:18:48.399 --> 02:18:52.040
can pick up some bulk if you
want, or have them deliver it.

1908
02:18:52.559 --> 02:18:56.799
Nine three six three two one sixty
nine ninety. We'll be right back at

1909
02:18:56.920 --> 02:19:03.719
seven one three two point two.
Kih. But that is absolutely true.

1910
02:19:03.799 --> 02:19:11.440
And a fiddle and a isolin are
not the same instrument unless you believe they

1911
02:19:11.479 --> 02:19:16.079
are. I don't actually They are
the same instrument, it's just who has

1912
02:19:16.159 --> 02:19:18.920
them in their hands. There you
go, by the way. Getting back

1913
02:19:20.000 --> 02:19:22.840
to Agnes's question about the glorios Lily, I did a little checking with some

1914
02:19:22.959 --> 02:19:28.200
resources that I do trust. Doctor
Arnold has some good information of a text,

1915
02:19:28.239 --> 02:19:31.639
A and M and apparently to have
success with them down here, they

1916
02:19:31.680 --> 02:19:37.159
will do well. Down here.
They the super blazing hot heat like a

1917
02:19:37.239 --> 02:19:41.239
western wall or the late day signs
a little much for them. So if

1918
02:19:41.280 --> 02:19:43.920
you can give them a spot where
they get a little bit of a break

1919
02:19:43.959 --> 02:19:46.159
from the heat, that's better.
Make sure the soul stays moist but not

1920
02:19:46.319 --> 02:19:50.719
soggy wet. They need to have
good drainage. And I'm gonna have to

1921
02:19:50.760 --> 02:19:54.639
try these things. I have never
I've never grown one before. And the

1922
02:19:54.719 --> 02:19:56.239
more I read about them and look
at them is I'm gonna give that a

1923
02:19:56.319 --> 02:20:01.159
try. I'm sure they have their
challenges, but it doesn't seem like there's

1924
02:20:01.239 --> 02:20:05.600
any major flags where Yeah, I
don't grow that here. I think that's

1925
02:20:05.680 --> 02:20:07.559
interesting. I learned one today.
That's a good deal. Hopefully we both

1926
02:20:07.600 --> 02:20:11.680
did. We're going to go up
to Conroe and talk to Sue. Hello,

1927
02:20:11.840 --> 02:20:18.000
Sue, Hi, what's up in
Conroe. In Conro, Oh,

1928
02:20:18.120 --> 02:20:20.760
it's a beautiful day. It's a
little cold, but anyway, we bought

1929
02:20:20.879 --> 02:20:26.440
a house that's been long neglected.
I don't think anything's been done in the

1930
02:20:26.559 --> 02:20:31.639
yard for five years or so.
It's about twenty years old, and so

1931
02:20:31.200 --> 02:20:35.079
we need to start doing some long
care right now. And we have no

1932
02:20:35.239 --> 02:20:39.799
idea if it was ever fertilized or
whatever. So okay, my husband said,

1933
02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:45.479
let's go to Lowe's and pick up
something. So do we want fertilizer?

1934
02:20:45.920 --> 02:20:48.239
What do we want? Well,
the first thing I want you to

1935
02:20:48.360 --> 02:20:50.760
do is to turn the car around
and go to A and A Plants and

1936
02:20:50.879 --> 02:20:54.520
Produce up there in Montgomery. It's
on one oh five, so she's down

1937
02:20:54.600 --> 02:20:58.440
the road from you. They're going
to have a really good selection of the

1938
02:20:58.520 --> 02:21:01.360
things you need need for here,
and the products I talk about on guard

1939
02:21:01.440 --> 02:21:03.879
line and whatnot, they're gonna they're
gonna have all those. So anyway,

1940
02:21:03.920 --> 02:21:07.799
I had to throw that in.
By the way, I'll be up there

1941
02:21:07.879 --> 02:21:09.799
next Saturday from twelve to two.
I hope if you all have time,

1942
02:21:09.840 --> 02:21:13.680
you come out and let me meet
you. Bring some pictures, Bring me

1943
02:21:13.760 --> 02:21:16.840
some pictures of that lawn area from
different angles, and let's look at it.

1944
02:21:18.200 --> 02:21:20.680
Because you know, on the air, I can do only so good,

1945
02:21:20.760 --> 02:21:22.079
but if I see it, I
can do better. If you got

1946
02:21:22.120 --> 02:21:26.799
some particular weeds that you're concerned about, put them in a bag and bring

1947
02:21:26.920 --> 02:21:31.360
those with you. We'll do a
little consultation. Okay, we have a

1948
02:21:31.399 --> 02:21:35.680
lot of that bottle but brush or
whatever. Okay, I don't know,

1949
02:21:35.040 --> 02:21:39.639
Okay, okay, so we'll just
I don't need to go buy anything today.

1950
02:21:39.239 --> 02:21:43.280
I'm GOODA you can't go to day. Well, do you have a

1951
02:21:43.360 --> 02:21:46.200
lot of weeds in the lawn when
you look at it? Yeah? Okay,

1952
02:21:46.440 --> 02:21:48.920
yeah, yeah, we need to
look at those. You could go

1953
02:21:48.120 --> 02:21:54.360
today and get the like Nelson's.
Uh. They have a weed in Nature

1954
02:21:54.719 --> 02:21:58.399
product. Uh. And if you
dampen your lawn, were just just enough

1955
02:21:58.479 --> 02:22:05.239
irrigator irrigating to wet the leaves and
then immediately put that weed inator down.

1956
02:22:05.319 --> 02:22:09.280
It's a fertilizer with a broadly post
emergent we control, meaning the weeds you

1957
02:22:09.440 --> 02:22:13.920
see now is what you'd be killing
with it. There are other products that

1958
02:22:15.040 --> 02:22:20.399
prevent weeds. Okay, tell me
again, weed or what w weed dnator

1959
02:22:20.799 --> 02:22:24.639
like terminator, but with weed at
the beginning, we donator. That's a

1960
02:22:24.680 --> 02:22:28.319
good name. It kind of makes
you think of an Armo Schwarzenegger movie.

1961
02:22:30.239 --> 02:22:35.200
So yeah, I am the pot
and so anyway that there you go.

1962
02:22:35.360 --> 02:22:41.120
That was free, but get some
of that we the leaves put it down.

1963
02:22:41.280 --> 02:22:43.639
You need to have the leaves what
so it sticks. Give it a

1964
02:22:43.760 --> 02:22:48.680
day or two because that granule is
going to stick to the leaf and release

1965
02:22:48.799 --> 02:22:52.879
the chemical endo the leaf that kills
that weed. And then water the lawn.

1966
02:22:52.120 --> 02:22:56.280
And because you want to dissolve the
granules to go down into the soil

1967
02:22:56.440 --> 02:23:01.159
for the fertilizer. That's a slow
release product, take a long long time

1968
02:23:01.399 --> 02:23:05.799
to feed, meaning you're going to
get benefits right away, but you're also

1969
02:23:05.879 --> 02:23:09.120
going to benefits over time as the
weather warms up and as the nutrient releases

1970
02:23:09.159 --> 02:23:13.159
and as the grass is needing it. So I would start with that then

1971
02:23:13.280 --> 02:23:16.639
and let me take a look at
some photos next week. Okay, thank

1972
02:23:16.680 --> 02:23:20.000
you. One more thing that okay, So we go home today. I'll

1973
02:23:20.040 --> 02:23:24.479
buy it. We'll go home today
and we'll water the lawn a little bit

1974
02:23:24.520 --> 02:23:28.280
just to get it wet, and
then we're going to put it, spread

1975
02:23:28.319 --> 02:23:30.799
it out, and then we're going
to water the yard again. Yep,

1976
02:23:31.680 --> 02:23:35.319
yep. Okay, yeah, you're
going to water it again a day or

1977
02:23:35.399 --> 02:23:39.879
two later. You need to let
let that granule sit on the weed leaves

1978
02:23:41.159 --> 02:23:43.520
for a day before you water it
again. You're going to get it in

1979
02:23:43.600 --> 02:23:46.479
there. And wherever you're going to
go, just make sure and call first,

1980
02:23:46.559 --> 02:23:50.159
make sure they got that weed natter
on hand, and you know if

1981
02:23:50.200 --> 02:23:54.479
you have it, because you don't
want to make a long trip and then

1982
02:23:54.639 --> 02:23:56.840
then not be able to get it. And if you run, if you

1983
02:23:56.959 --> 02:24:01.760
run dry on that just when you
and I talked to you, we'll find

1984
02:24:01.799 --> 02:24:03.680
your place for it and we'll make
sure. In fact, I bet you

1985
02:24:05.280 --> 02:24:07.319
A and A could get it in. If they don't have it in they

1986
02:24:07.360 --> 02:24:11.280
probably already have it in good deal. Okay, thank you so much.

1987
02:24:11.360 --> 02:24:13.719
All right, Thanks Sue, look
forward to seeing you. Take care.

1988
02:24:16.000 --> 02:24:20.760
You know, the folks at Medina
have a wide variety of products, and

1989
02:24:22.000 --> 02:24:24.639
Medina's been around. They've been advertising
on Guardline since Dewey Compton day. So

1990
02:24:24.719 --> 02:24:28.440
we'll go back to the fifties,
the nineteen fifties. You were hearing about

1991
02:24:28.719 --> 02:24:35.120
Medina on the show back in those
days, and it's because people love these

1992
02:24:35.159 --> 02:24:39.920
products. They have something called has
to Grow six twelve six. And it's

1993
02:24:39.000 --> 02:24:45.600
got the nutrient the six percent nitrogen
twelve phosphorus six potassium. But it also

1994
02:24:45.680 --> 02:24:50.639
has Medina soil activator for stimulating that
biological activity that is there in your soil.

1995
02:24:50.000 --> 02:24:56.879
It's got hum humic acid which proves
soil structure, it improves nutrient uptake,

1996
02:24:56.239 --> 02:25:00.920
and then seaweed extracts as well.
It's all combined in the hast Grow

1997
02:25:00.959 --> 02:25:03.879
six twelve six. If you're going
to transplant something into the ground, go

1998
02:25:03.959 --> 02:25:07.879
ahead and give it a drench of
the has to Grow six twelve six.

1999
02:25:07.079 --> 02:25:11.200
Just follow the label, mix it
up and drench it over. You can

2000
02:25:11.319 --> 02:25:16.280
use it as a folio spray too
if you like. But those plants have

2001
02:25:16.360 --> 02:25:20.760
got hammered by last summer, the
plants that got hammered by the freeze this

2002
02:25:20.920 --> 02:25:24.879
year that really knocked a few of
your perennials back pretty good, and maybe

2003
02:25:24.959 --> 02:25:26.920
some other things. A good drenching
of has to Grow six twelve six.

2004
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That's a good place to start for
spring, for rejuvenating them, getting them

2005
02:25:33.120 --> 02:25:35.959
back up on their feet, or
in this case, back back up on

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their roots. We're going to head
out to West Houston and talk to Mari

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02:25:41.719 --> 02:25:46.360
jen Am I saying that right.
It's Marianne. Oh, Marianne, Okay,

2008
02:25:46.559 --> 02:25:50.719
all right, Marianne Hi. I
boy three alis last year and it

2009
02:25:50.840 --> 02:25:54.440
loomed and has scrone to about four
feet right now. But the leaves got

2010
02:25:56.000 --> 02:26:00.600
turned brown during the heavy frost that
we had. Do I just trim off

2011
02:26:01.479 --> 02:26:05.520
some of the branches on the tip
ends where it's brown, off the leaves

2012
02:26:07.079 --> 02:26:11.239
down. As you get south in
this part of Texas, the Trialis can

2013
02:26:11.399 --> 02:26:16.000
often survive partially above ground, depending
on the winter we had. But I

2014
02:26:16.200 --> 02:26:20.920
find it's up to you how you
go about it. But I find that

2015
02:26:20.079 --> 02:26:24.360
often they're left kind of scraggly where
they get a little bit of damage and

2016
02:26:24.399 --> 02:26:26.840
stuff, and it just isn't as
pretty. I will cut mine back to

2017
02:26:28.079 --> 02:26:31.440
like two or three inches above the
ground and they will come back like crazy,

2018
02:26:31.600 --> 02:26:35.319
and you'll have a fresh new bush
that you know you can trim and

2019
02:26:35.479 --> 02:26:41.319
shape if you wish to do that. And Triallis just blooms and blooms.

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02:26:41.639 --> 02:26:45.000
I don't know that I know another
plant that blooms many months out of the

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02:26:45.120 --> 02:26:48.600
year as Trialis does. It just
goes and goes until weather shuts it down

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02:26:48.680 --> 02:26:52.239
at the end of the season.
Okay, I notice that it's not particularly

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02:26:52.280 --> 02:26:56.799
a fast blooming shrub either. It
likes to warm up a little bit,

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02:26:56.920 --> 02:27:00.799
but it'll I would share mine back. I would give at furlizer. Get

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02:27:00.840 --> 02:27:03.360
it growing, and it's a great
shrub. It's probably one of the top

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02:27:03.520 --> 02:27:11.000
ten underplanted plants that we have try
Alis and you see it around. So

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02:27:11.239 --> 02:27:16.559
if the stems themselves are stiff and
they break off, just trim underneath that

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02:27:16.799 --> 02:27:20.719
and let it go. Yeah,
I would. You could take if you

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02:27:20.879 --> 02:27:24.079
want to keep part of the top
growth, which I just cut my back,

2030
02:27:24.159 --> 02:27:26.760
whether it's frozen back or I cut
it back and get a fresh news.

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02:27:28.520 --> 02:27:31.120
But if you won't take your thumbnail
and scrape the bark, and if

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02:27:31.159 --> 02:27:35.200
you see green or cream color underneath
a white cream or green, then that

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02:27:35.319 --> 02:27:39.239
branch is alive and you don't have
to print it off. If you see

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02:27:39.360 --> 02:27:43.760
paper sack brown when you scrape with
your thumbnail or a knife, that's dead

2035
02:27:43.799 --> 02:27:46.319
and you might as well pune it
out because it's not going to come back

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02:27:46.360 --> 02:27:50.799
to life. Okay, I appreciate
it, Thank you very much, Marian,

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02:27:50.959 --> 02:27:54.360
appreciate that call. We're going to
take a break right here. If

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02:27:54.360 --> 02:27:56.600
you'd like to call us seven one
three two one two kt r H.

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02:28:01.959 --> 02:28:05.680
Welcome back to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and we're

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02:28:05.719 --> 02:28:13.040
here to answer your gardening questions.
What question that I get often is you

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02:28:13.120 --> 02:28:16.799
know where can I find you?
Fill in the blank? You know where

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02:28:16.840 --> 02:28:18.440
should I go for whatever? Well, I want to tell you if you

2043
02:28:18.479 --> 02:28:24.559
ask a lot of gardeners where they
go, especially those folks that are north

2044
02:28:24.639 --> 02:28:30.680
central of North and above a central
part of Houston, they're going to answer

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02:28:30.719 --> 02:28:33.959
plants for all seasons because it's one
of the most popular garden centers we have,

2046
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and there's a reason for that.
They've been around since nineteen seventy three.

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There's one they have well trained staff, and of course the whole flowery

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02:28:43.079 --> 02:28:48.280
family is there taking part in helping
you find the right plant and know how

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to take care of it. That's
what they specialize in. If you've got

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02:28:52.159 --> 02:28:54.200
a green thumb, you probably have
already been there. If youve got a

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02:28:54.239 --> 02:28:56.520
brown thumb, you need to go
and they will turn it green for you,

2052
02:28:56.600 --> 02:29:00.719
because remember, good information is what
turns of brown on thumb green.

2053
02:29:01.079 --> 02:29:03.879
Learning what a plants want, what
plants belong here, how do I care

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02:29:05.000 --> 02:29:07.760
for them? Your thumb gets greener
as each of those questions gets answered.

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02:29:07.799 --> 02:29:11.920
And that's what they can do.
Plants for all seasons dot com. Plants

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02:29:11.959 --> 02:29:16.920
for all Seasons dot com or two
eight, one, three, seven,

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six, sixteen forty six. They
are easy to get to. They're right

2058
02:29:20.280 --> 02:29:24.559
there on to forty nine, in
between Houston and Tumba. They're just north

2059
02:29:24.600 --> 02:29:28.360
of Luetta Road. So if you're
going toward Tomball from Houston, exit for

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02:29:28.479 --> 02:29:33.440
Luetta and they're just past Luetta on
the right hand side. Really easy.

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02:29:33.600 --> 02:29:37.040
Take them plants, take our pictures, take them samples, help them,

2062
02:29:37.159 --> 02:29:39.680
let them diagnose for you, let
them identify, and let them turn you

2063
02:29:39.840 --> 02:29:45.040
loose out in their garden center where
you're going to find pretty much everything you

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02:29:45.120 --> 02:29:48.840
could possibly want, in good quantity
and in great great health and shape.

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02:29:50.120 --> 02:29:54.200
That's another important thing about a quality
garden center. I want to go up

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02:29:54.239 --> 02:29:56.319
to Champions now and we're going to
talk to Don. Hello, Don,

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02:29:58.000 --> 02:30:00.760
Well, good morning to you.
Thanks for taking the Yes, sir,

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02:30:01.280 --> 02:30:07.600
I'm calling about the possibility of pine
beetles. I have a lot that I

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02:30:07.680 --> 02:30:11.600
guess I have probably twenty five or
thirty very large pine trees, maybe eighty

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02:30:11.680 --> 02:30:18.559
feet tall, trunks, probably around
twenty five inches in diameter. I've noticed

2071
02:30:18.600 --> 02:30:22.639
one of my pine trees the bark
seems to be slipping off, letting go.

2072
02:30:24.319 --> 02:30:28.000
When I pull off what is is
loose there? Then I see what

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02:30:28.159 --> 02:30:33.760
looks like larva in their worms of
some sort or whatever. I'm wondering if

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02:30:33.840 --> 02:30:41.680
that's something that's pine bark beetles,
And should I contact an arborist to come

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02:30:41.879 --> 02:30:46.280
take a look at that sort of
thing, or what would you recommend I

2076
02:30:46.399 --> 02:30:48.959
do other than cut the tree down
if that's what it is. Yeah,

2077
02:30:48.079 --> 02:30:52.799
that's a good question. Are you
seeing globs of sap on the outside of

2078
02:30:52.840 --> 02:30:56.559
the trunk? No, okay,
I don't think you have pine bark beetles.

2079
02:30:56.639 --> 02:31:00.239
There's something going on in there.
There are a number they're five different

2080
02:31:00.280 --> 02:31:07.000
beetles that are our most common pine
tree attacking bark type beetles. And so

2081
02:31:07.040 --> 02:31:11.159
some of them are when you get
them, the tree's gone. Others others

2082
02:31:11.280 --> 02:31:16.479
can kind of be a nagging problem
and not so much. You may want

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02:31:16.520 --> 02:31:20.760
to. You know, these are
incredible tree that the size you described is

2084
02:31:20.879 --> 02:31:24.959
unbelievable. I think big. Yeah, you might want to. You might

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02:31:26.000 --> 02:31:31.159
want to call Martin at Affordable Tree
Service and just hav him come out and

2086
02:31:31.159 --> 02:31:35.120
take a look at him. Possibly
he may have you send him some pictures

2087
02:31:35.200 --> 02:31:39.520
you know, of what you're seeing
too, But I I would have him

2088
02:31:39.559 --> 02:31:41.040
take a look. I don't want
to tell you it's no problem, and

2089
02:31:41.200 --> 02:31:43.319
I definitely don't want to tell you
it's the end of the world either.

2090
02:31:43.760 --> 02:31:48.159
It just what you're describing does not
sound like pine bark beetles. By the

2091
02:31:48.200 --> 02:31:50.920
way, do you have a pen
or pencil? Let me just go ahead

2092
02:31:50.920 --> 02:31:54.120
and give you a number, just
to call him seven to one three six

2093
02:31:54.399 --> 02:32:00.239
nine two six six three, telling
me you talk to me and you just

2094
02:32:00.319 --> 02:32:03.719
have some questions about these trees.
Uh, tell me that number again,

2095
02:32:03.799 --> 02:32:07.360
the last four digits, two six
sixty three. That's right, you got

2096
02:32:07.440 --> 02:32:11.200
it, Okay, that's correct,
one six nine nine two six six three.

2097
02:32:11.520 --> 02:32:13.719
Yeah, I'd have him. I'd
have him take a look. The

2098
02:32:13.799 --> 02:32:18.680
bark shouldn't just be falling off.
Maybe you know a little hour bark pieces

2099
02:32:18.719 --> 02:32:22.360
here and there. But if no, this is it looks like it may

2100
02:32:22.440 --> 02:32:28.079
be girdling. Uh. It it's
not just falling off, it's just letting

2101
02:32:28.200 --> 02:32:31.280
go. And and when I pull
it off, there looks like a bunch

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02:32:31.360 --> 02:32:35.559
of all For lack of better choice
of words, maybe some ashes underneath.

2103
02:32:37.040 --> 02:32:43.200
Assume that is from the whatever's eating
it is it's their defecation or whatever.

2104
02:32:43.799 --> 02:32:46.200
Uh, let me ask you one
more question about done. When you look

2105
02:32:46.239 --> 02:32:50.159
at the wood underneath where the bark
came off, or if you look at

2106
02:32:50.159 --> 02:32:52.680
the backside of the bark that came
off, do you see lines like in

2107
02:32:52.760 --> 02:32:58.879
a pattern like a main highway with
little side highways at ninety two angles going

2108
02:32:58.159 --> 02:33:03.040
well, any other kind of pattern
like that. I'm not sure. It's

2109
02:33:03.079 --> 02:33:07.239
been a while since I've looked at
it, so I'm just already not sure.

2110
02:33:07.639 --> 02:33:09.559
Better there's someone else today to look
at its far. Yeah, that's

2111
02:33:09.600 --> 02:33:15.200
good. And it is the canopy
green, Yes, yes it is.

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02:33:15.959 --> 02:33:20.399
I think my gut feeling is that
it's not a serious thing. But with

2113
02:33:20.520 --> 02:33:24.520
the tree that size and the value
and what it's going to cost you to

2114
02:33:24.600 --> 02:33:28.200
take it down on that size,
I would go ahead and have somebody look

2115
02:33:28.239 --> 02:33:31.360
at it. Yeah. I just
had to take one down that was leaning,

2116
02:33:31.920 --> 02:33:35.799
which are not affected this way,
but it was leaning, and one

2117
02:33:35.920 --> 02:33:39.559
night it just fell over. After
all the excessive range we had and the

2118
02:33:41.239 --> 02:33:45.920
bill to take it down was well, it ended up being thirteen hundred dollars

2119
02:33:45.920 --> 02:33:48.639
because I had include some other things. But yeah, that's not inexpensive.

2120
02:33:50.120 --> 02:33:50.959
No, I mean you could take
your wife. I had to eat more

2121
02:33:52.000 --> 02:34:01.760
than once without too with affordability tree
service, affordable tree service, affordable service.

2122
02:34:01.840 --> 02:34:05.079
Okay, and Martin, Martin spoon
More is the guy you know.

2123
02:34:05.280 --> 02:34:07.360
Okay, Well, thank you so
much for you ad bus and maybe a

2124
02:34:07.399 --> 02:34:11.680
little bit of reassurance there. So
we'll do that and we're safe where we

2125
02:34:11.760 --> 02:34:15.799
go from here. There you go, thanks a lot, have a nice

2126
02:34:15.840 --> 02:34:18.680
weekend, yes, sir, good
luck with good luck with those trees.

2127
02:34:18.719 --> 02:34:22.479
Wow, those are those are nice
pine trees. Nice pine trees for sure.

2128
02:34:24.399 --> 02:34:28.040
I you know a lot of people
pines. There are people that love

2129
02:34:28.120 --> 02:34:33.520
pines, and then there are people
that do not care for pines. Usually

2130
02:34:33.079 --> 02:34:37.120
what if, they say, familiarity
breeds contempt. If you got pine trees

2131
02:34:37.159 --> 02:34:39.239
all over your yard and they're dropping
needles constantly and you're fishing them out of

2132
02:34:39.239 --> 02:34:43.360
the gutter and everything else, you're
probably not a fan of pines. But

2133
02:34:43.120 --> 02:34:48.079
I find people outside Pine country are
always on the planet of pine tree because

2134
02:34:48.079 --> 02:34:50.559
they think they're beautiful, and they
are beautiful. It's a wonderful tree.

2135
02:34:52.040 --> 02:34:56.399
But anyway, I understand, we
get these neighborhoods where you know, the

2136
02:34:56.520 --> 02:35:00.559
trees get older and older, and
you got all these houses everywhere. It's

2137
02:35:00.600 --> 02:35:03.639
hard to bring a tree like that
down without doing damage to something. So

2138
02:35:05.000 --> 02:35:09.680
anyway, that's the way that goes. Hey, I just want to remind

2139
02:35:09.760 --> 02:35:11.520
you as you're out and about this
weekend, and I hope this afternoon you

2140
02:35:11.920 --> 02:35:16.520
will get out and take advantage of
some of the things you've heard about today,

2141
02:35:16.639 --> 02:35:18.959
some of the products you need to
get to the places that have those

2142
02:35:20.040 --> 02:35:26.280
products and plants. Remember that it
begins in the soil. So if you're

2143
02:35:26.360 --> 02:35:28.479
going to go out and buy some
beautiful plant, you know, I don't

2144
02:35:28.479 --> 02:35:31.879
know. Maybe you're out at Warrens
Garden Center and you decide, I've got

2145
02:35:31.959 --> 02:35:35.639
to have one of those Saucer Magnolias
he was talking about. I talked about

2146
02:35:35.680 --> 02:35:41.520
those yesterday. Unbelievably gardeous, the
earliest harbinger of spring we have in this

2147
02:35:41.680 --> 02:35:43.840
area. They're gorgeous. Maybe you
decide you want one of those, make

2148
02:35:43.920 --> 02:35:50.479
sure you go home with the soil
that'll make that site more hospitable for that

2149
02:35:50.639 --> 02:35:54.479
plant, because you want them to
hit the ground running. And you got

2150
02:35:54.600 --> 02:35:56.399
to give them a good spot.
I know, I'm a broken record on

2151
02:35:56.479 --> 02:36:00.680
this. I talk about it all
the time. So it comes first sprown

2152
02:36:00.719 --> 02:36:03.719
stuff, then green stuff, the
soil and the nutrients you put out.

2153
02:36:03.799 --> 02:36:07.280
That is very important. Now our
good and garden centers around here, and

2154
02:36:07.440 --> 02:36:11.120
we do have a lot of great
ones. They are going to have all

2155
02:36:11.399 --> 02:36:13.680
kinds of gorgeous plants. By the
way, now is a good time to

2156
02:36:13.719 --> 02:36:18.440
get out and get some roses.
That is an inspiration. And you know,

2157
02:36:18.520 --> 02:36:22.280
I like there are a lot of
kinds of roses. There's the kind

2158
02:36:22.399 --> 02:36:24.360
that are cut flowers, and they're
the kind that shrubs. I like them

2159
02:36:24.399 --> 02:36:28.520
all. They do really well.
They do really really well if you give

2160
02:36:28.559 --> 02:36:33.360
them a good soil and good nutrition. Hopefully get some that are a little

2161
02:36:33.399 --> 02:36:37.639
more disease resistant. If not,
make sure you're ready to go when diseases

2162
02:36:37.719 --> 02:36:41.719
show up that you've got to spray
to prevent those diseases. You can do

2163
02:36:41.840 --> 02:36:43.559
that. I can just tell you
there are a lot of good ones that

2164
02:36:43.680 --> 02:36:46.319
you don't have to spray a lot. They're going to be just fine,

2165
02:36:46.799 --> 02:36:52.799
and they are naturally disease resistant.
So maybe if you view roses as a

2166
02:36:52.840 --> 02:36:56.399
prima Donna that you got to hold
an umbrella over and squirt every day with

2167
02:36:56.559 --> 02:37:01.280
some fungicide to keep it from getting
set. You need to relook a roaches.

2168
02:37:03.159 --> 02:37:07.719
They are wonderful dwarfs, climbers,
pet you need to get a climber.

2169
02:37:07.799 --> 02:37:13.680
Peggy Martin awesome, awesome road.
Earlier I had to call him trying

2170
02:37:13.680 --> 02:37:16.680
to remember who called me. We
were joking. She said she was an

2171
02:37:16.719 --> 02:37:20.200
old lady. I can't remember now
who that was it caused it. You're

2172
02:37:20.239 --> 02:37:22.440
not an old lady. I'm gonna
let Thomas Jefferson answer that for me.

2173
02:37:22.600 --> 02:37:28.200
Thomas Jefferson said that although I am
an old man, I am but a

2174
02:37:28.360 --> 02:37:33.559
young gardener eighteen eleven. He had
it right. Thomas Jefferson really loved plants.

2175
02:37:33.600 --> 02:37:37.440
He was quite a horticulturist. But
then at times I kind of wonder

2176
02:37:37.520 --> 02:37:41.159
because he says an acre of peach
trees can keep you in far wood all

2177
02:37:41.239 --> 02:37:45.600
winter. Maybe he wasn't such a
good peach grow if that's the case.

2178
02:37:46.479 --> 02:37:48.399
Thanks for listening to Garden Line.
We're done for this weekend, putting this

2179
02:37:48.479 --> 02:37:52.680
one in the books. Remember you
can listen to podcasts if you missed something

2180
02:37:52.760 --> 02:37:54.719
on the air, and tell your
friends about Garden Line, because we're going

2181
02:37:54.760 --> 02:37:58.760
to be back next Saturday, and
bright and early at six am.