WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.759 T r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:10.439 advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip rictor 3 00:00:12.679 --> 00:00:27.519 crazy gas trim. You just watch him as so many bird things to sup 4 00:00:27.559 --> 00:00:50.200 botazing gas jobs not a sound gas sun bemon. Well, good morning start 5 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:54.960 it'd Saturday morning. Glad to have you with us this morning. Boyd we 6 00:00:55.039 --> 00:00:59.640 ever have a lot to talk about. There's you know, the two storms 7 00:00:59.679 --> 00:01:03.760 now have just been well basically right at records, if not records when it 8 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:08.879 comes to number of people without power and the effects driving around towncy and the 9 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:15.280 trees down the limbs. Just think about the loss that people have had and 10 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:19.159 the expense of course that follows that. Our hearts go out to everybody out 11 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:25.200 there, including the many that including some in my family, do not have 12 00:01:25.280 --> 00:01:30.480 power during these days afterwards for extended period of time. You know, this 13 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.480 kind of thing happens in the summer. It's blazing hot, makes it a 14 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:38.359 little bit extra tough, But we are definitely gonna, like I said, 15 00:01:40.200 --> 00:01:42.480 our hearts go out to everybody that's in that situation. If you've got an 16 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:47.079 issue with plants that's related to that, I think we're going to be talking 17 00:01:47.079 --> 00:01:49.959 about that a lot today, so feel free to give us a call. 18 00:01:49.079 --> 00:01:53.959 We'd love to love to talk to you at seven to one three two one 19 00:01:53.000 --> 00:02:00.319 two fifty eight seventy four seven to one three two one two five eight seven. 20 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:05.680 I'm going to be discussing trees and some other things, tree training, 21 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:09.400 tree pruning, how to decide if a tree is worth saving or not. 22 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:14.319 We can cover all of those things, and we do welcome you. Just 23 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:19.080 give us a call. We get right on that. Just a few things. 24 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.159 First of all, I wanted to mention a League City feed down there 25 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:23.879 in League City, Texas. They are open, they've got the power up 26 00:02:23.919 --> 00:02:28.039 and going, and they're ready to serve you. You know. League City 27 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:32.280 feed is the one just a few blocks south of Highway nineties of Highway ninety 28 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:37.159 six on Highway three. So you're on Highway ninety six, go south on 29 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:39.439 Highway three just a few blocks and you're right there. If you'd like to 30 00:02:39.439 --> 00:02:43.680 give them a call, the phone numbers two eight one three three two one 31 00:02:43.840 --> 00:02:47.800 six one two and everybody in that region, you know, the League City, 32 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:52.879 Baycliff Webster Ol Community, Real Dickenson sounding on all of you. This 33 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:55.759 is your hometown feed store. They're open Monday through Saturday nine to six, 34 00:02:55.840 --> 00:03:00.159 so yes, today, they're open closed on Sundays. If you need any 35 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:04.680 of the fertilizers I talk about on guardline. If you need any products to 36 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:09.520 control pests, weeds and diseases, they've got them. They also have a 37 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:14.680 good selection of some soils as well. You know, if you have are 38 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:17.960 looking for a quality pet food, a Leake City feed carries the premium pet 39 00:03:17.960 --> 00:03:23.319 food. There's always available, including everything else you would expect from a feed 40 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:29.000 store. Again the phone number two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. 41 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:35.879 Well, I tell you that thinking about some of the issues that are going 42 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:39.199 on outside as we as we deal with this. I had a number of 43 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:46.000 plants my vegetable garden that lodged over, and so we often get questions with 44 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.599 things like that. Typically it's corn in the spring, but what happens is 45 00:03:49.639 --> 00:03:52.520 the plants fall over. You know, can you straighten them up? Nanchers? 46 00:03:52.560 --> 00:03:55.159 Well yeah, if they're just leaning over, you can. This is 47 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:00.719 just part of what we live with when we get when and rain, and 48 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:05.840 especially when plants are just not in the super strong, sturdy shape. We 49 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:11.120 see that sometimes, but I was dealing with that of getting some plants moved 50 00:04:11.159 --> 00:04:14.960 around and taking care of some other things, and you know, the life 51 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:18.959 goes on in the garden. We've got very warm weather and we have adequate 52 00:04:19.079 --> 00:04:23.360 soil moisture, and I guess pretty much every area should. Right now, 53 00:04:24.560 --> 00:04:29.000 we continue to monitor those plants that haven't been in very long, even though 54 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:33.360 we got some gully wash and rain many inches. For many people, the 55 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:39.480 soil dries out in time and as it's hot and the demands are high for 56 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:43.519 a new plant, it just doesn't have the root system to reach out into 57 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:47.160 all that bank account of sow moisture. So you still want This is hard 58 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:49.959 for folks to believe. You know, maybe you got nine inches of water 59 00:04:50.680 --> 00:04:55.399 high many days ago, and now you've got these little plants that are out 60 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:59.040 there welting. What's going on. Well, the little rootball is confined. 61 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:01.720 That's the only place can get water. So you have to hope some kind 62 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:06.279 of wicks in from the sides. But basically you're still watering the root ball 63 00:05:06.879 --> 00:05:11.519 and continue. I don't care if it's a little tomato transplant. It's time 64 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:16.560 now be planting tomatoes and peppers for the fall. Garden. Just treat them 65 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:19.319 like they're still in a pot. So I like to put it for the 66 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:24.879 first for little annuals like that, probably for the first week. If you 67 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:30.160 can give them just a little bit every day or so, just watch the 68 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:32.439 plant. It'll tell you if it's getting a little wilty. For trees and 69 00:05:32.439 --> 00:05:38.800 shrubs and other things, that supplemental goes on a lot longer. In fact, 70 00:05:38.879 --> 00:05:41.879 you know, it takes a year, two or three years even for 71 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:46.360 trees and shrubs to get the root system that they need to be resilient. 72 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:53.199 So remember that I've talked to someone a good while back about their planning some 73 00:05:54.040 --> 00:05:58.079 drought tolerant plants, and I don't remember what it was, might have been 74 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:02.079 a Texas Mountain Laurel or I just don't recall the exact plant, but they 75 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:06.160 were talking about planning it, saying the water all the time, and I 76 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:11.759 told him, well, yeah, you you know, once they're established over 77 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:15.319 in southeast Texas where it rains, we're talking about not having to worry about 78 00:06:15.360 --> 00:06:20.399 the water on those hardly at all. But when they're little, you know, 79 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:26.040 they're like the example I use is John Wayne. You know, when 80 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:30.519 he's an old guy who's a tough ombre and he can go through the desert 81 00:06:30.639 --> 00:06:34.000 without very much water and survive everything else that came at him. But when 82 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:38.279 he was a baby, his mama had to nurse him and change his diaper 83 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:43.040 and take care of him. And that's what your Texas tough drought tolerant plants 84 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:46.199 are. They're babies, So help them get established. Don't mean over watering 85 00:06:46.240 --> 00:06:51.199 them. That's as bad as not watering them. But it means helping him 86 00:06:51.240 --> 00:06:57.319 get that root system out so that they can perform like their species and genetics 87 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:02.399 and everything make them capable of performing. It's one way to look at it. 88 00:07:02.680 --> 00:07:06.279 You know, I said our soil there's a moisture bank account. There's 89 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:13.279 also a nutrient bank account in the soil. And whenever you buy fertilizer bags 90 00:07:13.279 --> 00:07:16.319 you see three numbers. That means that fertilizer has nitrogen, phosphorus, and 91 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:21.480 potassium in it if those numbers are anything other than zero. But there's also 92 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:27.480 secondary nutrients like calcium that are needed. There's magnesium and sulfur and whatnot. 93 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:31.879 There's also micronutrients. Micronutrients are trace elements that the plant needs a very small 94 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:36.079 amount of, but they are essential. So even though they don't need a 95 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:41.680 lot as with the Big Three, they need them. They have to have 96 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:46.000 them to grow and survive. And asamite is a fertilizer mind in Utah to 97 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:51.560 provide trace minerals for the plants. And that's exactly what you do. You 98 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:56.639 don't every time you fertilize, you don't put out asimite. You don't need 99 00:07:56.720 --> 00:08:01.160 that. Just maybe once a year if you get a sol test done, 100 00:08:01.199 --> 00:08:03.319 you can see exactly the kinds of things you need. But if about once 101 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.240 a year you were to go out and whatever time of the year you want 102 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:11.040 put some asmit down, that will help build that soul bank account. So 103 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:15.839 that's what we're aiming for with am You can go to Azamite of Texas dot 104 00:08:15.879 --> 00:08:20.360 com Azamite of Texas dot Com find out more about the product. It's widely 105 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:22.279 available a lot of stores. We're going to go to a break right here, 106 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:26.560 and when we come back, if you would like to be on give 107 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:33.080 Chrysal call at seven one three two one two KTRH. Here's what's trending from 108 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:43.759 the Iheartsports Network presented by Draft Kings Fantasy. All right, welcome back to 109 00:08:43.840 --> 00:08:46.360 Guarden line. Glad to have you with us this morning. We are going 110 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.440 to talk about all kinds of things garden. There's a lot going on out 111 00:08:50.440 --> 00:08:56.720 there. I have a flower bed in front that I had maltzed and really 112 00:08:56.840 --> 00:09:00.759 that it was in good shape, and I just noticed that there's these little 113 00:09:00.799 --> 00:09:03.200 weeds coming up here and there. And as I walk up to it, 114 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:09.000 I see that those are the areas where the multch somehow got bump moved off, 115 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:13.320 or maybe I didn't cover it well in that spot. But wherever sunlight 116 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:16.720 hits the soil, nature plants of weed. That's the way I like to 117 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:20.320 put it, because it's an issue, you know, to deal with weeds 118 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:24.159 in the summer that nobody wants to be out there working doing weed pulling on 119 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:28.759 a hot summer day. All it takes is a little more mult You got 120 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:33.960 to cover the surface of the mulch with a mulch. And what is a 121 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:37.000 multus is decomposed organic matter that it should be at least. I mean, 122 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:41.840 there are a lot of other things that are sold for mulching, including rocks, 123 00:09:41.919 --> 00:09:46.039 even but we're talking about natural, organic, decomposable mulches. The folks 124 00:09:46.159 --> 00:09:54.440 at Landscaper's Pride have got a selection of mulches. They are like a number 125 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:58.759 of different ones you can choose from, for example cedar mulch or cypress mulch. 126 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:03.279 Those are the is naturally beautiful red color as you put it out of 127 00:10:03.279 --> 00:10:07.120 the bag and has an aroma initially there until you know, breaks down a 128 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:11.919 little bit, but it's a very good mult You can use cypress mulch which 129 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:15.799 really kind of has a heaviness when it's wet that it sort of stays in 130 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:20.879 place and instead of floating just floating away everywhere. Very light colored mults. 131 00:10:20.879 --> 00:10:22.960 Pine Bark's the most popular course has been for a long time, very slow 132 00:10:24.039 --> 00:10:30.279 to decompose. And then shredded hardwood mulch that is an excellent option from Landscaper's 133 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:35.120 Pride. It's not ground up palettes like some cheap old companies will do to 134 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:41.279 you. Now, this is a quality ground up hardwood tree materials that makes 135 00:10:41.320 --> 00:10:46.039 an excellent It locks in really well and stays in place. Black velvet mult 136 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:48.799 is there molts, its not dyed, but it's naturally dark in colored vet, 137 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:54.320 very velvety, very dense, but all from Landscaper's Pride. You can 138 00:10:54.360 --> 00:10:58.080 go to Landscaperspride dot com find out more information on these. They're widely available, 139 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:01.480 so wherever you go you find one, but make sure check your beds 140 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:07.679 and see what is the condition of those, because it doesn't malt breaks down, 141 00:11:07.840 --> 00:11:09.399 it goes away and you want to keep it. I would say on 142 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:15.039 most mulches, probably about three inches deep is a pretty good two and a 143 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.480 half three inches deep. Some chunk your mulches a little deeper because there's more 144 00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:24.799 airspace in there for light maybe light beams to get through. But basically, 145 00:11:24.320 --> 00:11:30.279 any good quality mults you put down, including just leaves ground up from your 146 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:35.120 yard, are an excellent option. Save yourself the trouble later, the watering 147 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:41.200 later. You know. One other thing mulch does that I guess I don't 148 00:11:41.240 --> 00:11:46.960 talk about enough is the soil temperature moderation. It is a huge factor here 149 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:50.000 in Texas in summer. Listen, walk out on your driveway barefoot on a 150 00:11:50.080 --> 00:11:56.480 ninety five degree day. If you're brave, go to the asphalt out of 151 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:03.080 the street that is blazing hot, and maulch over the surface makes a huge 152 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:07.600 difference in soil temperature and roots can't function. You know, if the soil 153 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:13.000 gets up to ninety eight one hundred degrees. That's too hot for roots to 154 00:12:13.039 --> 00:12:16.679 function properly, and you've got to keep a mulch on it. So that 155 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:18.720 would be a good thing to put on the to do list to get out 156 00:12:18.759 --> 00:12:26.559 there and try to get that done. Ana Plants in Produce we got word 157 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:30.960 from them that they are up and running. Everything's good out there. They've 158 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:35.200 got some really kind of cool deals going on. For example, just starting 159 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:39.679 today, so you're hearing this first here, just starting today, all of 160 00:12:39.720 --> 00:12:45.039 their plants are on sale forty percent off. Yeah, you heard that right, 161 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:48.960 forty percent off all of the plants, all the pottery that includes metal 162 00:12:48.960 --> 00:12:56.399 trellises and also metal trellises and gazebos and arches. If you've ever been out 163 00:12:56.440 --> 00:13:00.720 there to Ana Plants in Produce, they have beautiful selection of all kinds like 164 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:03.759 metal furniture and these arches that go over your walkways and gazebe. They've had 165 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:09.000 all that. It's all thirty percent off, So forty percent off all plants, 166 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:13.320 thirty percent off all pottery, and all those metal items, trellises, 167 00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:18.279 and then any kind of a side in other words, a herbic side, 168 00:13:18.279 --> 00:13:22.879 fun just side and sect to side and fertilizers. Well you're talking about twenty 169 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:26.879 five percent off those as well, So just give them a call out there. 170 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:30.279 Check it out it listen, you need to stop by. It's on 171 00:13:30.320 --> 00:13:33.600 the east side of Montgomery on one oh five, just on the edge of 172 00:13:33.679 --> 00:13:37.840 town. Really easy, really easy to get to, get in, get 173 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.840 out, and boy, you are not going to find better deals than right 174 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:43.720 now. In fact, that'd be a good thing to do today. Let's 175 00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:48.679 say after ten am we get through the garden line, head out there and 176 00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:50.559 get you some of those things. All those folks listening up in the Lake 177 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:56.919 Conroe area, this is your hometown garden center. You are listening to garden 178 00:13:56.919 --> 00:14:01.600 Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number is seven 179 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:07.919 to one three two one two kt RH seven one three two one two kt 180 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:11.679 r H. Give Josh call. Let's talk about the things that might be 181 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:16.159 of interest to you. Otherwise I got plenty of things of interest to me 182 00:14:16.360 --> 00:14:22.360 that we can talk about this morning. I mentioned working out in the vegetable 183 00:14:22.360 --> 00:14:26.080 garden. Also the flower We have some flower beds that my wife actually has 184 00:14:26.159 --> 00:14:33.879 put together and growing things in and they just are looking outstanding. The plants 185 00:14:33.919 --> 00:14:37.759 are happy, they're growing. She's keeping them well watered. That's an important 186 00:14:37.799 --> 00:14:43.960 thing. But just remember when you plant something in a raised garden bed, 187 00:14:43.080 --> 00:14:48.200 it may dry out a little bit faster. That is one of the characteristics 188 00:14:48.960 --> 00:14:52.200 if the depending on the bed size and the bed height and everything. I 189 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:56.960 find that up near the surface with the high organic matter materials we use in 190 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:01.600 growing mixes and bed mix it's you know, things like rose oil, veggieerics, 191 00:15:01.639 --> 00:15:07.320 those kinds of mixes that they drain really well, but up near the 192 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:11.559 surface that can get kind of dry. So if you're planting any seeds. 193 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:15.639 There are seeds we can plant in summer, like sunflowers and zenias for example, 194 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.759 that do just fine, but you got to keep a moist. You 195 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:22.399 have to keep a moist and I don't care if you've put an okra in 196 00:15:22.440 --> 00:15:26.480 the vegetable garden or zenias in the flower beds. With seed, just remember 197 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:31.799 that when a seed starts to germinate. After that point, when it starts 198 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:41.360 to germinate, biological processes begin and that initiates the formation of a root to 199 00:15:41.399 --> 00:15:43.879 come out, a shoot to come up, and all of that. Once 200 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.440 that starts, just before you even see any root or shoot, if the 201 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:52.360 seed dries out, it dies, it has no resilience, and it takes 202 00:15:52.399 --> 00:15:56.919 a little bit to get a root in the ground where it has some resilience. 203 00:15:56.159 --> 00:16:02.960 So moist soil continue. Moist soil is very important. If you're in 204 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:04.440 a container or whatever. You can get the water for a day and it 205 00:16:04.559 --> 00:16:08.639 dries out, you lose that seed. And so just to remember that you're 206 00:16:08.639 --> 00:16:15.159 bathing it along as it's getting started, and as a result, you end 207 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:21.039 up with a really, really nice plant provided you give it that kind of 208 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:23.919 care. We're going to go now out to Palacios and talk to Craig. 209 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:30.039 Hello, Craig, good morning, Welcome to guard Line gorn to Skip. 210 00:16:30.039 --> 00:16:33.240 How are you? I'm good, I'm good. How can we help today? 211 00:16:34.639 --> 00:16:38.240 I got a question about an orange tree that's going to be producing later 212 00:16:38.279 --> 00:16:42.600 in the later this year or small. But I've got a small I'm pretty 213 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:47.120 sure it's a set suma. It's not very big. It's probably six probably 214 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:52.559 six feet tall and five feet across, and the current day it's got forty 215 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:59.799 nine oranges on it. For good oranges for taste value. Sit up, 216 00:17:00.039 --> 00:17:03.080 take some of that forty nine off of a tree that's as small as it 217 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:06.160 is. Or should I leave them on it? Give me the dimensions again, 218 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:11.640 please, probably six six just a harrow over six feet tall and five 219 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:18.960 feet across. I'm trying to picture forty nine on them. That size about 220 00:17:18.960 --> 00:17:22.640 as well as you are, and you know, up to your neck sideways. 221 00:17:22.200 --> 00:17:25.759 It is a good load. But I don't think you need to. 222 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:32.720 And the reason is Cuchrus trees are notorious for if they get a little too 223 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:37.880 much of a load or they go into a stress, they will abort fruit, 224 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.079 especially early on, right after bloot. So the fact they're all on 225 00:17:41.200 --> 00:17:44.559 there, I think I think you're gonna be okay with that size tree. 226 00:17:44.559 --> 00:17:48.680 Now, if I walked out there and saw the thing, I might change 227 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:52.319 my mind a little on that, but I believe that if they're holding on 228 00:17:52.359 --> 00:17:59.079 to them, I think you're gonna be fine. That sounds the little the 229 00:17:59.119 --> 00:18:03.000 limbs seem so small and diameter compared to two oranges, for example, on 230 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:06.640 the end of a limb that's going to mature into a side of my fist, 231 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:08.759 that seems like, okay, that's pretty heavy. So you're talking about 232 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:14.160 a little willowy tree. This isn't a like a well I don't know, 233 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:22.000 Okay, Well, go ahead, say if you feel like there's too many, 234 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:23.920 you're you're welcome to take those off, and you can see it. 235 00:18:23.960 --> 00:18:29.079 I can't. But so if there's like little willowy growth, like when you 236 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:32.119 say six feet is like a whole lot of air, but one little branch 237 00:18:32.160 --> 00:18:38.559 reaching up to six feet versus a really thick bush, then the thick bushes 238 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:44.119 at more than than the little willowy thing. So if you see that there's 239 00:18:44.559 --> 00:18:47.680 they're weighing everything down and you feel like the whole tree is going to be 240 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:52.880 basically have limbs on the ground with all this heavy fruit, then yat them 241 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.319 somehow. Yes, sure, maybe I could have said that differently or set 242 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:00.559 it up differently. I've got it's got quite a few limbs, and some 243 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:03.200 of the limbs have zero fruit. Some of them have quite a few fruits. 244 00:19:04.119 --> 00:19:08.000 Yeah, on the quater few, then that may be a place, 245 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:11.279 you know, to do a little bit offending on it. That's that's the 246 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:15.000 problem with trying to answer without seeing it. A lot of times I'll have 247 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.359 guests just send a photo in and that way I got a much better look 248 00:19:18.400 --> 00:19:23.519 at it. Actually I took photos, but my cell towers are not working 249 00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:26.359 very good. Around here, and I'm not getting picture photos out. I 250 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:30.960 was so I knew, I didn't even try. I've been I learned that 251 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:33.400 through work during the week you're not going out. But okay, so the 252 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:37.079 value if if the if the limb seems like it's going to be able to 253 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:41.400 support the weight. At the same time, there's three orders on the same 254 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:47.079 limbs. Should I worry about value of taste them? Craig, I've lost 255 00:19:47.119 --> 00:19:52.319 you here. Yeah, that figures, okay, Jiff, thank you very 256 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:55.559 much. All Right, thank you, Craig. I appreciate appreciate your call. 257 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:59.799 Right, we're gonna take another little break here. I will be right 258 00:19:59.799 --> 00:20:02.759 back if you would like to be first up when we come back. Seven 259 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:15.640 one three two one two K t R H. All right, welcome back 260 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:19.599 to garden Line. Glad you're with us today. We're here to talk about 261 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:23.920 the things that you would like to talk about in your garden. So let's 262 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:29.319 see here, We're gonna head out to spring and talk to is that skip? 263 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:36.079 Hello? Oh? Yeah? This Mark? Oh? Mark? Okay, 264 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:40.319 Mark, you're in the guarden line. How can we help? All 265 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:45.359 right? I sent you an email last week on the High Biscus, the 266 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:49.759 Hardy High biscus. Okay, you get it. Well, I'm gonna look 267 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:52.759 and see here. Tell me a little bit more about it while I'm hunting 268 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:57.480 this one down. Uh, it's not growing very big. It's it's staying 269 00:20:57.559 --> 00:21:06.519 small. It's not like my other ones. The leaves are small and and 270 00:21:06.599 --> 00:21:11.119 it's long, alrighty Mark, I am not seeing it. Would it have 271 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:19.880 come under a different name? Uh? No? Do? Okay, So 272 00:21:21.000 --> 00:21:26.440 it's as a hearty hibiscus, right, yes, yeah, And the leaves 273 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:30.440 are smaller than they should be, like like how much smaller half the size 274 00:21:30.759 --> 00:21:33.839 or what are we talking? It's it's a core of the size. Uh 275 00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:38.960 huh wow. My my other two high business are like three feet taller or 276 00:21:40.039 --> 00:21:48.160 smaller. This thing here is only about eighteen inches mm hmm. Well something 277 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:53.559 is yeah, something's wrong underground. A few questions. Did you use any 278 00:21:53.640 --> 00:21:56.920 kind of a weed killer around it or in the yard right beside it? 279 00:21:57.839 --> 00:22:03.519 No? No, I got it in a okay. And secondly I put 280 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:10.920 a good poty soil in there. Okay. Well if the pot is at 281 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:14.359 all limiting, well, if the pot is not big enough, it will 282 00:22:14.359 --> 00:22:19.319 limit the size of the plant because it's a big pot. Okay, Still 283 00:22:19.359 --> 00:22:23.799 not getting anything. Did have you ever had success with that and now it's 284 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:30.000 getting smaller leaves and things, or did it just never? I transplanted it 285 00:22:30.119 --> 00:22:34.039 last year. Okay, yeah, I put it from a smaller pot to 286 00:22:34.079 --> 00:22:40.720 a bigger pot. You know, mark basically from what I'm hearing, assuming 287 00:22:40.799 --> 00:22:45.519 it's getting good sunlight and you are not letting it go into drought, and 288 00:22:45.640 --> 00:22:48.279 the drainage is good in the pot, meaning the holes aren't plugged up so 289 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:52.440 that it doesn't stay too wet, although that Hibiscus is pretty tolerant of that. 290 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:59.559 But I would say I'm kind of wondering if maybe in the transplanting some 291 00:22:59.720 --> 00:23:03.799 nema toads may have come in with it and now they've proliferated on the roots, 292 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:08.599 because they're a very stunting effect on plants nemotods. And the way you 293 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:12.759 would check that is kind of take a hose and try to wash up some 294 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:17.640 soil some of the roots, or pull it out of the slide it out 295 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:21.799 of the pot. If it hasn't filled the soil yet, that's going to 296 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:23.319 pull it out of the soil. But try to look at the roots, 297 00:23:23.400 --> 00:23:26.880 is what I'm trying to get at. And if you see little games and 298 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:30.200 knots on it. You're kinda just need to throw away the soil and the 299 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:34.599 plant and start off fresh with new soil and a new plant, because there's 300 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:41.759 no curing them. It's no cure in that not nematods, no, sir. 301 00:23:41.519 --> 00:23:45.400 There's things we do that suppress them, but they will be there and 302 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.839 you're never going to get the performance you want if that's the case. But 303 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:52.880 don't don't jump to the conclusion until you see or it looks like a string 304 00:23:52.920 --> 00:23:59.680 of pearls but not why heat kind of the root kind of a Yeah. 305 00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:03.839 Another thing I've told you was like a snake that swallowed a rabbit. You 306 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:07.640 got this little bump in the middle of the snake. That's kind of okay, 307 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:12.319 okay, okay, then all right, okay, that's what I see. 308 00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:15.559 Other than that, send me send me a picture. If you want 309 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:18.440 to do that, I can put you on hold. Have the producer you 310 00:24:18.480 --> 00:24:23.039 know, get your information, give you the information to send me some photos. 311 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:27.440 Happy to do okay if you want. Okay, thank you, sir, 312 00:24:29.519 --> 00:24:33.599 Thank you. You have a wonderful day, you too. All right, 313 00:24:33.640 --> 00:24:37.000 there you're listening the guardline. Our phone number is seven one three two 314 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:44.119 one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven 315 00:24:44.680 --> 00:24:49.359 four. Medina has a number of plants, I mean of plants products out 316 00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:52.559 there that you know about. I mean you've heard about Medina has to grow. 317 00:24:52.720 --> 00:24:57.599 The Medina has to grow for lawns. Uh. Now they have Medina 318 00:24:57.599 --> 00:25:03.400 has to grow super grow plus, super grow plus. That is a sixteen 319 00:25:03.559 --> 00:25:07.839 zero two fertilizer hooks up to a garden hose, a little quart bottle. 320 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:11.000 You just hook it up to your garden hose. It'll take about I don't 321 00:25:11.039 --> 00:25:15.640 know, ten minutes to cover the four thousand square feet you should get out 322 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:18.720 of a quart bottle. That's a lot and that's fast. Of course, 323 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.400 it has a sixteen zero two fertilizer, which is a good ratio for our 324 00:25:22.519 --> 00:25:29.200 lawns here in the summertime. And what you'll find in there is a keylated 325 00:25:29.279 --> 00:25:34.039 form of iron that'll help keep your grass green. That supplement of the keylated 326 00:25:34.079 --> 00:25:37.640 form of iron is excellent. They have seaweed extract in it, it has 327 00:25:37.720 --> 00:25:41.200 molasses, and it has humic accident. It's just got a lot of things 328 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:47.440 that stimulate the soil and then therefore stimulate the plant and the plant's performance, 329 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:51.400 and Medina has to grow widely available here in the Greater Houston area. They 330 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:55.680 pretty much you hear me talk about a garden center and a hardware store, 331 00:25:55.720 --> 00:26:00.720 a south Its fertilizer feed stores that you're going to find Medina astra grow in 332 00:26:00.759 --> 00:26:04.200 most places. And it is an excellent product. I love it. I 333 00:26:04.240 --> 00:26:07.640 really love the design of it and the ease of it, and certainly the 334 00:26:07.680 --> 00:26:15.119 results that you get when you use it out in the lawns. I'm seeing 335 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:18.400 a lot of iron chlorosis this year, speaking of the has to grow having 336 00:26:18.480 --> 00:26:23.240 kilaid iron in it. Iron chlorosis is when areas of your lawn just start 337 00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:27.319 yellowing, but they're not any pattern. It's not like a straight little strip 338 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:32.359 or a circle or anything. It's just generally yellowing. And you go grab 339 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:34.880 a grass blade and hold it up to the light and you see streaks of 340 00:26:36.000 --> 00:26:41.440 yellow and green. That's iron deficiency. So the question becomes, why is 341 00:26:41.480 --> 00:26:45.880 the grass iron deficient? Maybe there's not enough iron in the soil. That 342 00:26:45.319 --> 00:26:49.440 most likely is not the case, but it's very possible that is not enough 343 00:26:49.480 --> 00:26:53.200 iron in the soil. You need to add it. But generally what happens 344 00:26:53.359 --> 00:27:02.880 is either something affects the roots of ability to take up the iron, maybe 345 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:07.119 a drop period where roots actually you're starting to lose some roots and then they're 346 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:11.799 coming back, or maybe a disease like take all root rot that kills roots 347 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:14.519 and when you kill a root, you can't take up a nutrient. So 348 00:27:15.160 --> 00:27:19.279 those are possible things that will end up in iron deficiency. But another one 349 00:27:19.799 --> 00:27:26.799 is extra high phosphorus levels and high pH and that Medina hashcro was just talking 350 00:27:26.839 --> 00:27:30.720 about, that's a sixteen zero two zero phosphorus in it. And a lot 351 00:27:30.720 --> 00:27:36.559 of states are kind of going in the direction of limiting just indiscriminate use of 352 00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:41.640 phosphorus for various reasons. But I think that if you have high pH and 353 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:45.519 high phosphorus, you're going to have iron deficiency. But a soil test would 354 00:27:45.519 --> 00:27:48.920 tell you that. And that's where a soil test comes in handy. And 355 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:57.880 you can go to the website soil Testing dot ta MU dot edu, soil 356 00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:03.480 testing dot dot edu, and you can find out how to get your soil 357 00:28:03.519 --> 00:28:06.480 tested. Just remember when you go there. By the way, if you 358 00:28:06.559 --> 00:28:11.880 download my lawn Care schedule soil Testing dot TAMU dot edu, the whole URL 359 00:28:11.039 --> 00:28:15.960 is there to get right to the urban soil test form. You need the 360 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:19.599 urban soil test form. I don't care if you live in timbukt and you 361 00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:23.440 haven't seen a human being in ten years. You need the urban soil test 362 00:28:23.480 --> 00:28:30.079 form for your yard, garden, landscape, orchard, et cetera. That's 363 00:28:30.119 --> 00:28:33.039 the one you want to use. All right, we're gonna take a little 364 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:36.400 break here. We'll be right back with your calls. Good to have you 365 00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:40.000 with us, Glad to have you. Hey, we're going to go straight 366 00:28:40.039 --> 00:28:42.599 out to the phones. We've got some folks here that are waiting to talk. 367 00:28:44.519 --> 00:28:47.480 See here, all right, we've got some glitches with the system. 368 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:49.640 Yeah, the storm's affecting us too, So I'm not going to know your 369 00:28:49.720 --> 00:28:59.720 name, but welcome to garden Line. Who are you hello? All right? 370 00:28:59.759 --> 00:29:03.960 For some reason, I'm not able to go there. We gollo. 371 00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:07.839 I'm here, I'm here together. Is it's me? All right? I'm 372 00:29:07.880 --> 00:29:14.400 Candy from Spring And in areas of my flower bed, the mulch has turned 373 00:29:14.400 --> 00:29:18.799 black, and I have black on the trunks of my crape myrtles, and 374 00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.559 leaves of the mandevillas and periwinkle, and do I need to just clear it 375 00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.480 all out? And start over, treat it or what do I need to 376 00:29:26.519 --> 00:29:32.279 do? Are the periwinkles and mandavilla's close to being under some some crape myrtle 377 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:37.039 or what? Yes they are okay, yeah, I have lots of flower 378 00:29:37.079 --> 00:29:40.839 beds and they're on a stand, you know, hanging baskets, and they 379 00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:47.240 have black leaves. The mulch underneath is black. Okay, Here here's the 380 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:51.839 deal. The crape myrtle has a couple of pets that are capable of producing 381 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:56.400 sugary water. One is aphids and one is great myrtle bark scale. The 382 00:29:56.480 --> 00:30:00.720 bark scale shows up on the trunk as little white specs. You'll see that. 383 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:03.960 Okay, that's what it is. That is what is there. It 384 00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:10.880 is, And so what they do is basically there's drinking sugary sap and excreting 385 00:30:11.079 --> 00:30:12.799 the sugary part. They don't want the sugar, they want what else is 386 00:30:12.839 --> 00:30:17.880 in the sap, and so it falls on surfaces and then a black city 387 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:19.759 mold goes. So it's like you if you make sugar water up in a 388 00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:23.519 spray bottle and squirt it up over something, you would see that kind of 389 00:30:23.559 --> 00:30:27.119 mold type thing for me. But the bottom line is you've got to get 390 00:30:27.160 --> 00:30:32.200 rid of the scale, to get rid of the sooty mold, and they 391 00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:37.640 think some the scale are very difficult to control. You can use a systemic 392 00:30:37.680 --> 00:30:42.400 product that goes into the roots and up into the crpe myrtle and kills the 393 00:30:42.440 --> 00:30:47.279 scale because they're sucking the juices out, and you're basically putting a poison in 394 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:51.119 the plumbing of a plant a tree. Okay, do that now. The 395 00:30:51.319 --> 00:30:56.279 problem with the systemics is that honey bees need crape myrtles in the summer. 396 00:30:56.319 --> 00:31:00.839 It's one of the number one plants honeybees go to. These plants are all 397 00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:07.880 over town, and so you don't want to toxify the nectar of the flowers 398 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:11.400 either. If you can, if the crape isn't too big, and you 399 00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:15.640 can prune brent it blooms off and just go to the treatment stage here for 400 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:19.920 a while, that would be good. Wait until it's lost at least most 401 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:25.160 of its flowers, if not all, and then do the treatment at that 402 00:31:25.279 --> 00:31:29.920 time. That's another option. Okay, yeah, Do I need to pull 403 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:34.640 up the mulch and put new down or no? No, no, that 404 00:31:34.799 --> 00:31:37.720 black is it. Don't worry about that. It's not a pot it won't 405 00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.359 hurt anything. Okay, that's what I was worried about. The only thing, 406 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:45.039 the only way it would hurt like your periwinkles and other things, is 407 00:31:45.079 --> 00:31:51.240 that it's like putting a shade cloth over the leaves. The sunlight reaching the 408 00:31:51.319 --> 00:31:56.640 leaf is less. So some people have tried using like an insectidal soap up 409 00:31:56.680 --> 00:32:00.640 spray and then washing that off. I don't find that that works super well 410 00:32:00.759 --> 00:32:02.759 and definitely don't want to do it when the sun is baking down. It'll 411 00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:07.960 burn, you can burn. Okay, all right, now these are kreite 412 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:15.799 myrtle. These are almost like trees instead of bushes. Okay, we can't 413 00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:21.799 them. Okay, that's the best thing I can suggest you at this time. 414 00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:24.759 All Right, Okay, thank you so much. Bye, Thank you 415 00:32:24.880 --> 00:32:30.200 very much. Appreciate that here. All right. Uh, if you're up 416 00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:35.759 in Tomball D and D Feed Store out west on twenty nine to twenty, 417 00:32:35.920 --> 00:32:39.400 that is just a hop, skip and a jump outside of Tomball, very 418 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:43.720 easy to get access on and off from twenty nine to twenty and boy do 419 00:32:43.799 --> 00:32:46.119 they ever load up on everything that you're going to need for your garden. 420 00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:51.039 So if I talk about a fertilizer, they're going to have them. They 421 00:32:51.119 --> 00:32:57.319 do. They have the soil mixes and blends, especially airloom soil, rose 422 00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:00.119 soil, a leaf, more composts, a berry and ctrus, the vegetable 423 00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.440 and herb. That's all there. They carry some plants outside as well, 424 00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:07.559 and inside they got all the products again, like I said, the fertilizers 425 00:33:07.559 --> 00:33:12.880 and some of the soils. They've got insects, side, pesticide, bungeicide, 426 00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:15.000 whatever kind of things you're dealing with. They're going to have it there 427 00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:21.799 at d and Defeed Store just outside of Tomball on the left side of the 428 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:24.920 road as you're heading away from town. They're not too far there. If 429 00:33:25.000 --> 00:33:28.759 you want to give them a call two eight one, three five, one 430 00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:34.319 seventy one forty four. I'm going to run to the phones now and we're 431 00:33:34.359 --> 00:33:38.680 going to talk to who are we talking to today? I don't have your 432 00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:47.839 name? All right, let's try this again. Are you there? Put 433 00:33:47.839 --> 00:33:52.359 that call on hold. Maybe they stepped away from their phone for just a 434 00:33:52.440 --> 00:33:58.440 second. If you're heading up and down two forty nine Tomball Parkway goes to 435 00:33:58.559 --> 00:34:02.839 Tomball in Houston. Plants for All Seasons is just north of Luetta on the 436 00:34:02.839 --> 00:34:07.599 east side of two forty nine, you exit Luetta if you're going north and 437 00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:13.719 cross over the Luetta Street and you're it's right there on the right hand side. 438 00:34:14.119 --> 00:34:15.679 Plants for All Seasons is a place you're going to go if you want 439 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:21.320 plants that are well adapted to here. Because listen, the Flowery family has 440 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:24.719 been doing this since nineteen seventy three, so they know what grows here and 441 00:34:24.760 --> 00:34:29.599 what does and it's a place you go when you want excellent service. It's 442 00:34:29.599 --> 00:34:32.599 a place you go when you want excellent advice. You got a bug, 443 00:34:32.880 --> 00:34:37.880 a plant, some picture of Hey, my neighbor has one of these? 444 00:34:37.079 --> 00:34:39.360 What is it? And how do I get one? They can help you 445 00:34:39.440 --> 00:34:44.559 with all of that kind of thing. Plants for All Seasons dot Com is 446 00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:49.800 the website and here's the phone number two eight one three seven six one six 447 00:34:50.400 --> 00:34:54.800 four six. They are loaded with really quality plants that can take our blazing 448 00:34:54.920 --> 00:35:00.360 hot, blazing hot summer heat. And that is an important thing, because 449 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:05.519 you know, just because it's gotten hot doesn't mean that we have to give 450 00:35:05.599 --> 00:35:08.840 up on planting all together. There are things we can plant now. And 451 00:35:09.079 --> 00:35:16.280 I always have to try to remind people that summer is a long time and 452 00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:21.760 I mean in terms of the number of months, it includes September in my 453 00:35:21.920 --> 00:35:24.559 book. So we're looking at the beginning. We're here in July, and 454 00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:29.320 the mid July, you've got August, you've got September, and even on 455 00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:32.280 endto October. You're going to have color from the things you plant now that 456 00:35:32.360 --> 00:35:38.719 can take the heat. That's important and just providing that kind of a little 457 00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:46.000 added benefit of a good successful establishment will provide color. There's no sense that 458 00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:52.480 your landscape has to become a sea of green, no sense at all just 459 00:35:52.719 --> 00:35:57.199 because it's hot. And listen, landscapes do become a sea of green, 460 00:35:57.800 --> 00:36:01.440 green grass, green trees, green ground covers, green shrubs, and it 461 00:36:01.559 --> 00:36:07.400 is just yeah, green's are pretty color, but why not all the other 462 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:12.639 colors in summer we can have them. One of the main ways we do 463 00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:17.440 it is with foldage plants. Ooldage plants have bold colors, but blooming plants 464 00:36:17.440 --> 00:36:22.880 as well. So don't let summer get to you. Hey, get some 465 00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:27.119 work done earlier in the morning, and you can have a beautiful garden, 466 00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:30.960 beautiful landscape. Well you're listening to garden line. We're going to take a 467 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:34.559 low break here for the top of the hour. I will be back if 468 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:37.559 you'd like to get on the board with christ seven one three two one two 469 00:36:38.320 --> 00:37:34.920 K to our age three thousand open beds. They could have put these criminals 470 00:37:34.920 --> 00:37:37.360 in, but instead they let them go. The men accused of killing Jocelyn 471 00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:42.679 face the death penalty after it was determined during the investigation that a sexual assault 472 00:37:42.800 --> 00:37:46.440 had occurred. The manslaughter charges against actor Alec Baldwin have been dropped by a 473 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:52.079 new Mexico judge due to the prosecution withholding evidence. Dismissal with prejudice is warranted 474 00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:58.719 to ensure the integrity of the judicial system and the efficient administration of justice. 475 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:04.800 Your motion to dismiss with prejudices granted, Judge Mary Marlowe Summer. Baldwin was 476 00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:07.880 accused of shooting a cinematographer on the Rust movie set in twenty twenty one. 477 00:38:08.440 --> 00:38:12.760 Our next update comes at seven thirty Now Sign for more of the Garden Line 478 00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:15.159 with Skip rictor. I'm Jared Lewis on Houston's news whether and traffic station News 479 00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:21.159 Radio seven forty k r H kt r H. Garden Line does not necessarily 480 00:38:21.239 --> 00:38:27.440 endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt 481 00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:39.239 r H. Garden Line with Skip Rictor it's Trim. Just watch him as 482 00:38:45.840 --> 00:39:04.639 stray sun. Thank you. All right, welcome back to Garden Line. 483 00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:08.159 We are back in rolling again for another hour here. We actually we're going 484 00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:12.400 to go for several hours, but we're starting the new one. I'm going 485 00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:14.920 to head straight out to the phones on this one and we're going to go 486 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:21.320 talk to Jim in Conro. I believe. Hello Jim, and good morning 487 00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:25.360 Yip. How are you? Yes? Hello? Yeah, I was calling 488 00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:31.159 because I almost lost a new two hundred gallon live oak that was put in 489 00:39:31.199 --> 00:39:37.320 a couple of months ago in the storm, and you had advertised a tree 490 00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:39.639 support system. I was calling to see what that was and where it could 491 00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:45.039 be found. Well, it's called the Tree Stabilized three sixty tree Stabilizer butt. 492 00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:50.920 It's not for a two hundred gallon sized live oak. You know's a 493 00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:57.599 trunk trunk diameter on that tree probably about five inches. Yeah, yeah, 494 00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:02.519 it would help. I just those I've never tried to take that strap that 495 00:40:02.639 --> 00:40:07.119 far around. It may work. I need to actually go. Maybe I'll 496 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.679 I've got one handy and I'll take a look at. But generally it's for 497 00:40:10.800 --> 00:40:15.280 when you're planning a little bit smaller tree to get it in the ground. 498 00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:19.239 But if you use more than one on it, that would provide you with 499 00:40:19.519 --> 00:40:23.199 some strength. Okay, Well, I plan to put in some smaller ones 500 00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:27.559 anyway, so maybe I'll look at it for those. Yeah, you should, 501 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:30.280 because it's excellent. In fact, I would suggest you could do one. 502 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:35.519 But if you do two at right angles, then north south, east 503 00:40:35.559 --> 00:40:38.599 west, whichever way the wind blows, and you've got really good strong support. 504 00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:45.719 It's an excellent product, that's for sure. I just tree and live 505 00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:52.960 oak and things. I'm just not certain that it will hold that I need. 506 00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:58.400 I need to find out I need type. Okay, I haven't thought 507 00:40:59.199 --> 00:41:02.079 question before on Yeah, thanks Jim. I appreciate you. Appreciate your calling 508 00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:08.880 a boy. Take care. If you haven't fertilized your long this summer, 509 00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:15.159 Nitrofoss has got you covered. They have something called Superturf. Superturf is a 510 00:41:15.199 --> 00:41:20.280 silver bag that's the easiest. I don't think I've ever seen anything in any 511 00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:25.199 kind of plant supplies store or of any kind that is in a silver bag 512 00:41:25.239 --> 00:41:30.079 other than Nitrofoss Superturf. It is an excellent product. It provides a gradual 513 00:41:30.119 --> 00:41:34.119 release. If you apply it now. If you haven't fertilized yet, go 514 00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:37.239 ahead and apply it now. If you have, you're then you're okay. 515 00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:43.519 But it'll carry all the way to fall and that's that is a gradual release. 516 00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:45.559 And that is nice because you know, we just had a gully washer 517 00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:52.239 rain and other than particles getting washed off the soil surface instead of it just 518 00:41:52.360 --> 00:41:57.599 dissolving and going away and you lost your fertilizer because it rained so much. 519 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:00.719 Well, this one is going to gradually over time. It doesn't just dissolve 520 00:42:00.760 --> 00:42:06.280 away. There is a chemistry to it that slowly, gradually, often with 521 00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:12.840 microbial activity, help releases those particles and the nutrients into the soil. Ninetri 522 00:42:12.880 --> 00:42:15.440 five super turfs available, many many kinds of places. You're going to find 523 00:42:15.480 --> 00:42:21.719 it out at Plantation Ace Hardware in the Richmond Rosenberg Ad area. Katie Ace 524 00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:27.519 Hardware has it as well as does the Growers Outlet up in Willis. Head 525 00:42:27.519 --> 00:42:31.000 back to the phones now and all right, here we go. So this 526 00:42:31.079 --> 00:42:35.159 is another case of I don't know who's calling. So who are we talking 527 00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:43.920 to? Hello, Hey, you're on gard Yeah, you're on goodline. 528 00:42:44.599 --> 00:42:47.760 Who are we talking to? Good? Morning. This is Kelly. Hey, 529 00:42:47.880 --> 00:42:52.639 Kelly, I am calling. I have a property and sergeant on the 530 00:42:52.679 --> 00:43:00.320 creek and we experienced saltwater storm serge during burrow and right now all of our 531 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:06.840 vegetation, our mature trees, pecand trees, apple trees, pear, citrus, 532 00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:09.000 bi tech, all of it, even my Peggy Martin, they all 533 00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:14.719 look dead. And I didn't know if there was something we should could do 534 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:20.760 to treat or mitigate the salt water that came on our property. Well, 535 00:43:20.920 --> 00:43:23.639 salt itself, you know, it's dissolved in water. That's how it comes 536 00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:28.159 in with the water, and so the way one way to move it out 537 00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:32.280 of there is to do some major drenching of the soil to dissolve and move 538 00:43:32.320 --> 00:43:37.840 it either down lower in the soil profile or whatever it takes. But that's 539 00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:42.920 that would be the solution of salt. Now, anything that you could put 540 00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:49.280 some organic matter in the soil, some decomposed compost that we talk about a 541 00:43:49.280 --> 00:43:52.360 lot of them. We have bed mixes for vegetables or roses. We've got 542 00:43:52.719 --> 00:43:55.480 straight composts that you put in your lawn as a top dressing, some deep 543 00:43:55.519 --> 00:44:00.639 tying aeration. But ultimately you don't want to keep the soil so soggy that 544 00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:05.840 the plant roots can't get oxygen. But at some point you're going to need 545 00:44:05.880 --> 00:44:12.280 a good drenching, and it shouldn't be that just salt water briefly like we 546 00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:16.079 had it. The storm surge should should be totally wiping them out. So 547 00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:22.760 I'm kind of wondering did they get submerged underwater or was it just wet on 548 00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:25.519 the soil. It was submerged. We probably had a foot of water on 549 00:44:25.559 --> 00:44:30.159 our lot. We're about a mile from the beach, so we got storm 550 00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:32.519 serge. It probably didn't last too long, and of course the wind, 551 00:44:32.639 --> 00:44:36.559 you know, probably damaged the leaves quite a bit and that may be part 552 00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:42.079 of why they look so bad. But we were we're pretty shocked. Yeah, 553 00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:45.599 I wouldn't have expected that. A lot of folks down there on the 554 00:44:45.599 --> 00:44:47.599 beach, you know, they plant things that are salt tolerant, and there 555 00:44:47.639 --> 00:44:52.159 are plants out there you got and hunt them down and plant things that because 556 00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:58.199 you have the salt spray, their salt coming through the air, even when 557 00:44:58.199 --> 00:45:02.440 you're really close to the the coast, and just being able to have tolerant 558 00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:06.320 plants is important. But I think for now, I think you got I 559 00:45:06.400 --> 00:45:09.360 think you're right. I think the wind played a big factor. Certainly the 560 00:45:09.400 --> 00:45:15.199 salt isn't helping. But your soil can be leached out. You can leach 561 00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:20.760 it out of soil and then being submerged in water. Do you know how 562 00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:23.519 many hours that that was? Was it like two or three hours that it 563 00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:30.320 was submerged or how long I'm just guessing. I'm going to say six to 564 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:32.800 ten, but I don't really know for sure. Yeah, I don't. 565 00:45:32.840 --> 00:45:39.480 That's submerging. Shouldn't shouldn't have killed everything? Okay, okay, help you 566 00:45:39.480 --> 00:45:43.840 get a new re sprouting on them. But you know, I'm not there 567 00:45:43.880 --> 00:45:47.559 on site walking around scratch and bark and everything, but I think that most 568 00:45:47.599 --> 00:45:52.239 of them should come back. But anyway, what's in your power is to 569 00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:57.800 add the organic matters as you can to the soil. We have some liquid 570 00:45:57.960 --> 00:46:01.960 products that are you. I was talking about the the product has to Grow 571 00:46:02.039 --> 00:46:07.400 Supergrow plus is an excellent one, but I would just use Medina's has to 572 00:46:07.480 --> 00:46:13.400 Grow or has to Grow lawn either one on those those. Give them a 573 00:46:13.440 --> 00:46:15.360 good deep soaking with it and see if you can get some benefit from that. 574 00:46:16.519 --> 00:46:20.079 Okay, I will try that. Thank you so much for your help 575 00:46:20.119 --> 00:46:22.760 with this, and we listen to your show every weekend. We appreciate all 576 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:24.559 the good advice that you give us. Well, that's kind. Thank you, 577 00:46:24.639 --> 00:46:29.840 appreciate that very much. We are going to take a quick break here. 578 00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:32.280 We'll come back. We got a call on the board. It's kind 579 00:46:32.280 --> 00:46:36.480 of fun today. I'm playing mystery caller. I look at the board and 580 00:46:36.519 --> 00:46:38.880 I see someone called, and I have no idea who it is. Every 581 00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:42.199 now and then I do. All right, we're gonna take a break. 582 00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:45.840 I'll be right back by the way. So just give us a call if 583 00:46:45.840 --> 00:46:50.760 you'd like to talk and maybe ask a gardening question. Seven to one three 584 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:55.480 two one two kt r H. Seven to one three two one two kt 585 00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:00.519 ur H. We want you to have success. We're going to run straight 586 00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:05.519 out to the phones here. See there we go. Who are we talking 587 00:47:05.519 --> 00:47:10.280 to today? By the way, Welcome to Guardland, missus Linwood. All 588 00:47:10.360 --> 00:47:20.039 right, Lynn, how can I answer? I've got a vine growing in 589 00:47:20.119 --> 00:47:25.559 my garden and it may be a morning glory. I'm not sure. It 590 00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:32.039 wraps around my other plants and causing problems, so I've been plucking it out. 591 00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:37.559 Well. I went to help my daughter the other day, and she's 592 00:47:37.599 --> 00:47:45.679 got that vine or another vine growing in among her ground cover, and we 593 00:47:45.760 --> 00:47:49.800 need to get it out, but it's gonna be hard to get out of 594 00:47:49.880 --> 00:47:53.400 ground cover. Do you have any suggestions? That's a good question. Boy, 595 00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:57.400 I wish I knew a little more about it. Can you describe the 596 00:47:57.480 --> 00:48:05.000 leaves to me? Small leaves and and it it produces a pretty flower, 597 00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:09.960 kind of a purple flower, probably an inch and a half in diameter. 598 00:48:12.039 --> 00:48:16.719 Now my wife thinks it's a morning glory. Okay, it could be a 599 00:48:16.760 --> 00:48:21.440 morning glory. That is, that is for sure. Morning glories have an 600 00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:25.440 underground storage root, and so if you pull them up, they if it 601 00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:30.159 breaks off, they just come back again. And you got to get something 602 00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:37.400 to translocate down into that route to do the damage. Uh, these these 603 00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:40.000 are you said they're grown in groundcover? What other kinds of things are they 604 00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:44.760 growing in? Just so I can make sure not recommend the wrong thing. 605 00:48:45.880 --> 00:48:50.199 Well, it was going around a tree, but she lost that tree. 606 00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:53.639 I had reason, I was old. I took my chainsaw and cut it 607 00:48:53.719 --> 00:48:59.440 down. So the tree is no longer an issue. But that that vine 608 00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:04.719 was growing around that tree. Okay, Well, since it's a mystery bind 609 00:49:05.039 --> 00:49:08.159 to me is to just the exact name for sure. I think you're going 610 00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:15.559 to need a product that contains triclop here tri I clo p y R. 611 00:49:16.159 --> 00:49:21.960 And it may be called poison ivy killer, it may be called stump and 612 00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:27.280 brush killer or something like that. But triclop here is the ingredient now that 613 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:30.400 will kill anything that has broad leaves on it. So if it's in a 614 00:49:30.440 --> 00:49:36.320 groundcover those are ninety nine percent broad leaf plants, it would hurt them. 615 00:49:36.599 --> 00:49:39.400 So you would have to use a wiper type applicator to put it on, 616 00:49:39.559 --> 00:49:43.960 so you get it on the weed, but not on the good plant because 617 00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:50.679 the spray will get on unintended targets. Yeah. I make my own wiper 618 00:49:51.360 --> 00:49:53.840 using those little tools that you grab a jar off a shelf with those a 619 00:49:53.840 --> 00:49:58.480 little three foot long, got a pistol grip on one hand and the other 620 00:49:58.559 --> 00:50:01.079 and grabs the jar. Do you know what I'm I'm a I do. 621 00:50:00.800 --> 00:50:06.480 What do you use for the the You can find one of those that has 622 00:50:06.519 --> 00:50:09.920 a suction cup on each side, uh, and they're available. They have 623 00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:14.880 a little boat through them and I'll put a little flat metal plate or something 624 00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:20.239 behind it. Anything that gives some firm, you know, rigidity to that. 625 00:50:20.679 --> 00:50:24.239 And then I attach a kitchen sponge, a little normal sized little kitchen 626 00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:28.760 sponge about size of a deck of cards, cut it in half, attach 627 00:50:28.800 --> 00:50:30.360 each to each side. Through that, I put a little washer in that 628 00:50:30.400 --> 00:50:34.519 boat, and you can squirt whatever you want on it. You could put 629 00:50:34.679 --> 00:50:37.440 glavasat round up, you could put the triclip here that I'm talking about, 630 00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:42.840 uh, and then you just reach down and kind of squeeze it gently on 631 00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:47.599 each leaf and it it works very very well. All right, thank you 632 00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:52.880 very much. Yeah, it's one thing that allows that surgical leaf weed removal. 633 00:50:53.639 --> 00:50:58.159 And so I wish you well with that project. All right, thank 634 00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:02.159 you, thank you very much, appreciate it. You're listening to Guardenline our 635 00:51:02.280 --> 00:51:08.679 number seven one three two one two five eight seven zero seven to one three 636 00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:17.159 two one two fifty eight seventy. You know that Southwest Fertilizer is always going 637 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:22.639 to have everything you need. It doesn't matter what it is, they're going 638 00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:24.599 to have it. And way I like to put it is, if Southwest 639 00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:28.960 doesn't have it, you don't need it. You can go to their website 640 00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:32.639 Southwest Fertilizer dot com. The store is located in Southwest Houston at the corner 641 00:51:32.679 --> 00:51:37.519 of this Net and Runwick bin Neet and Runwick. And when you go to 642 00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:42.360 Southwest Fertilizer, you walk in and first thing you think is Skip's right. 643 00:51:42.400 --> 00:51:46.480 There's a lot of product here. Each aisle is loaded, and you know, 644 00:51:46.719 --> 00:51:52.760 it doesn't matter if it's insecticide, pesticide, fungicide, herbicides, fertilizers. 645 00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:58.440 Their selection of fertilizer is huge, quality soil balloons in a bag. 646 00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:02.039 You're going to find everything organic and synthetic. In fact, if you're an 647 00:52:02.119 --> 00:52:07.119 organic gardener, you probably won't find a bigger selection of organic products in one 648 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:12.760 place than a Southwest Fertilizer the corner of Bess and Nutt and Runwick. You 649 00:52:12.800 --> 00:52:15.880 know, you can go to the website Southwest Fertilizer dot com find out a 650 00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:19.039 little bit more, but you need to run by their good selection of tools, 651 00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:22.079 all kinds of things that you might need. Once you walk in and 652 00:52:22.119 --> 00:52:24.559 see it, it's like, oh, okay, yeah, this is it's 653 00:52:24.639 --> 00:52:28.199 true. If they don't have it, I don't need it. And I 654 00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:31.000 really believe it when I say that we're gonna head out now to Tom Ball 655 00:52:31.079 --> 00:52:36.239 and talk to David. Hello David, Hey, good morning, sir. 656 00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:44.320 Hey. I've been buying these These they're called black palms at ATB and they're 657 00:52:44.480 --> 00:52:47.119 just probably a little bit smaller than a tennis baller, but that's a big 658 00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:51.800 plum. And man, they are so sweet and juicy, and I've saved 659 00:52:51.960 --> 00:52:55.000 some of the pits. And I'm wondering, does that variety of plum do 660 00:52:55.199 --> 00:53:00.000 well down in this area, and if so, how do you get it 661 00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:05.480 from seed to tree? Or am I waste my time? Most of the 662 00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:09.880 time when you get it's a store bought fruit, right, yeah. Yeah, 663 00:53:09.920 --> 00:53:15.719 So when you do that, you're getting a variety that was bred very 664 00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:20.920 carefully over many many years, crossing this and that and testing them and stuff. 665 00:53:21.360 --> 00:53:27.000 And so when it's pollinated, the offspring of that seed are going to 666 00:53:27.039 --> 00:53:30.159 be different than the planet came off of. So the plum may be close 667 00:53:30.199 --> 00:53:37.000 to the same, maybe almost identical, but it may be more disease problem. 668 00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:38.880 It may be a little different size or color. And it's kind of 669 00:53:38.880 --> 00:53:44.119 like kids, you know, you kids never look just like one parent or 670 00:53:44.119 --> 00:53:49.639 the other, although I have noticed that when they misbehave usually one parent is 671 00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:53.599 identified as the cause of that. Genetically we know which one that is t 672 00:53:54.239 --> 00:54:00.199 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we do don't. We generally does not agree 673 00:54:00.280 --> 00:54:04.800 with that assessment. But seriously, just like your kids are not identical to 674 00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:09.320 either you or your wife, the fruit from a store bought tree, which 675 00:54:09.360 --> 00:54:15.239 is an improved variety, is likely to be in a little inferior in some 676 00:54:15.280 --> 00:54:19.960 way. That doesn't mean Okay, let me change well, let me change 677 00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:22.800 my question. Then if I want to narrow that choice down to get a 678 00:54:22.840 --> 00:54:29.320 good variety of plumb what what type do I get at the nursery that's going 679 00:54:29.400 --> 00:54:32.000 to do well in this region? David, you're there, and Tomball and 680 00:54:34.840 --> 00:54:38.719 arbigate out into they have fruit trees year round and they're going to have a 681 00:54:38.800 --> 00:54:43.360 number of good varieties for so rather than me, just name one. If 682 00:54:43.400 --> 00:54:45.239 you go there, if Arbur Gates Karen, a variety is going to be 683 00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:49.199 a good one for you and they'll be able to give you your choices. 684 00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:53.639 And that's what I would recommend. Alrighty, thank you man, all right, 685 00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:58.000 thank you. I appreciate enjoy your show, all right, bye bye, 686 00:54:58.280 --> 00:55:00.760 appreciate it, David, thank you very much. 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You have twenty four seven, three sixty five service. Now 704 00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:23.239 they do financing options also available. This is a family owned company since nineteen 705 00:56:23.280 --> 00:56:30.360 eighty nine. Go to Quality tx dot com to learn more qualitytx dot com 706 00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:35.960 or call them at seven one three Quality. A lot of places will sell 707 00:56:36.000 --> 00:56:39.519 you a generator. You will not find service like Quality. They have the 708 00:56:39.519 --> 00:56:45.159 best generators available and they have service that is unlike any And listen, when 709 00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:50.800 you're talking about a problem time, you need a company that is going to 710 00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:53.880 provide very good, very fast service. And that that's why I like to 711 00:56:53.920 --> 00:56:59.599 recommend Quality Home fact, no question about that. And listen, This hurricane 712 00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:02.639 season is now projected to be a bad one because we have that really early 713 00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:07.199 storm barrel. Uh. It doesn't take a hurricane for the power to go 714 00:57:07.280 --> 00:57:10.320 out. So I would give him a call. It's a process to get 715 00:57:10.320 --> 00:57:14.599 this set up and done. Give them a call and let them help you. 716 00:57:15.000 --> 00:57:22.079 Quality we are. Let's see here. I'm going to go to Brian 717 00:57:22.320 --> 00:57:25.239 and Richmond. Hello, Brian, what can I get more thing to skip? 718 00:57:27.119 --> 00:57:29.719 Hey? Just trying to figure out when it's going to be safe to 719 00:57:30.239 --> 00:57:37.960 trim my lava tree? Uh? Brian, can hear me? Yes? 720 00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:42.119 Can hear me yes? We're running out of time. Why don't you go 721 00:57:42.159 --> 00:57:44.719 ahead and ask me the question, and then when we come back, I'll 722 00:57:44.719 --> 00:57:47.400 answer it. Yeah, when is that safe to trim my lava tree? 723 00:57:49.199 --> 00:57:52.239 Okay, you can do it now. That's an easy one. You can 724 00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:55.039 do it now. Okay. If you want to hang on to discuss that 725 00:57:55.119 --> 00:58:00.519 further, I'm put you on hold. Uh, feel free to im I 726 00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:02.800 know what the issue is. I just there's a bunch of young shoe marks 727 00:58:02.800 --> 00:58:07.840 and cherry bart in my neighborhood, and I don't want to start spreading wilt. 728 00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:12.320 Well, wilt, if there's wilt in your neighborhood, that's an issue. 729 00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:15.039 I'm not aware of wilt down there, but if it is, will 730 00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:17.840 that's the one time I would say, paint a cut. If you want 731 00:58:17.840 --> 00:58:22.960 to be absolutely sure, you can paint those cuts immediately after you make them, 732 00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:27.079 not the next day, and you should be okay, Okay, great, 733 00:58:27.159 --> 00:58:31.440 thanks you bet all right? Well you're listening to the guard Line. 734 00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:42.440 We're gonna take a break and I'll be right back Houston's News. I've been 735 00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:50.599 on my own for long. Maybe you can show me. Maybe I'm gonna 736 00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:52.960 go back to the guard Line. Good to have you with us today. 737 00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:58.360 We got plenty of things to talk about for those of you down in Richmond 738 00:58:58.480 --> 00:59:04.360 area in Channon, for it is a wonderful place to visit. It is 739 00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:07.679 out there on FM twenty seven fifty nine, So just kind of picturing it 740 00:59:07.719 --> 00:59:12.119 as the crow flies. If you're in Richment and you're heading up toward sugar 741 00:59:12.199 --> 00:59:15.400 Land, it's off to the right, FM twenty seven fifty nine. And 742 00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:19.320 Chenna Forest always has a good selection of things, and I'm telling you right 743 00:59:19.360 --> 00:59:25.079 now their selection of hot weather plants is outstanding. It really is. I 744 00:59:25.199 --> 00:59:30.679 keep telling you this. We need to keep planting now for summer color. 745 00:59:30.039 --> 00:59:37.159 So there is a Helianthus sunflower called Sunbelievable. They have that in stock out 746 00:59:37.199 --> 00:59:42.000 there, and it is unbelievable. It makes a small, little bushy annual 747 00:59:42.079 --> 00:59:46.480 plant that has little sunflowers all over it. It's's gorgeous and it just blooms 748 00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:52.000 and blooms, producing flower after flower after flower. They've got that. Plumbago 749 00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:58.719 lantana, lots of different kinds of Salvias, Tacoma stands or yellow bells does 750 00:59:59.079 --> 01:00:02.960 very very well. Hibiscus, both the tropical types and the perennial mallows. 751 01:00:04.159 --> 01:00:08.400 They've got that, lots of native plants. They're at the Enchended Forest, 752 01:00:09.159 --> 01:00:15.480 Boogavillia's plumeria. Boy, those plants can take the heat. And thrialis trialis 753 01:00:15.559 --> 01:00:19.559 is an outstanding when also all of those things are among many plants you can 754 01:00:19.599 --> 01:00:22.800 get right now. It enchanted for uts, get them in the ground, 755 01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:25.679 and you've got color to take you all the way up to fall, which 756 01:00:25.719 --> 01:00:30.719 is unfortunately still well a ways away. No reason you count plan this time 757 01:00:30.760 --> 01:00:34.320 of the year. Get out in the morning when it's cool, get out 758 01:00:34.320 --> 01:00:39.440 there and joy making your place something beyond just a sea of green. We're 759 01:00:39.440 --> 01:00:45.360 going to head now to Missouri City and talk to Kay. Hello, Okay, 760 01:00:46.079 --> 01:00:51.079 Hello, Hi, can you hear Hi? Can you hear me? 761 01:00:52.239 --> 01:00:57.320 Okay? I just moved into a new apartment complex and I'm on the first 762 01:00:57.360 --> 01:01:00.880 floor. So they're going to allow me to have a flower When is the 763 01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:06.360 best time of year to have a flower bed? Put in any month of 764 01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:08.400 the year is good. Kay, You could do it right now and have 765 01:01:08.519 --> 01:01:15.480 them plant some things that take the heat, like periwinkles and angelonia. There 766 01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:20.760 are zenya bush types of zenny as. You can put in lots of good 767 01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:22.159 plants. It can take the heat. Now In fact, as you drive 768 01:01:22.199 --> 01:01:28.679 around and you see those little planting beds maybe entrances to guard to subdivisions, 769 01:01:28.719 --> 01:01:30.400 and look at the flowers that are in them, and those are all good 770 01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:36.440 exactibles for this time of the year. Yeah, okay, I was thinking 771 01:01:36.480 --> 01:01:42.599 about more. I was thinking about more after the beginning of next year. 772 01:01:42.960 --> 01:01:51.800 Is that still Okay? Maybe around February you could actually so in February, 773 01:01:52.920 --> 01:01:58.840 as we get past pretty soon they're a final frost in whatever it is in 774 01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:02.719 your particular, you can begin planting some of the things that are good spring 775 01:02:02.760 --> 01:02:07.239 flowers. Petunias do well at that time of the year. That's just an 776 01:02:07.280 --> 01:02:12.199 example. In the summer, we need things that can take the heat and 777 01:02:12.239 --> 01:02:15.239 that that would well. I was gonna let incanted gardens take care of the 778 01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:20.679 for me. I'm not going to choose. I'm gonna let them. But 779 01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:23.559 thank you so much. I just wanted about the time of year. Okay, 780 01:02:24.119 --> 01:02:28.719 all right, well you'll get good You will definitely get get good advice 781 01:02:29.159 --> 01:02:34.159 from them. Okay. Thank you, have a good weekend. Thanks for 782 01:02:34.199 --> 01:02:38.880 the call. Now you're listening to Guardline and we're here to help you have 783 01:02:38.920 --> 01:02:44.559 a more bountiful garden. A more beautiful landscape. Nelson Plant Food is up 784 01:02:44.639 --> 01:02:47.559 to the same thing. By the way, if you need your lawn to 785 01:02:47.679 --> 01:02:52.800 look good for a very long time. Slow and Easy that's their turf Star 786 01:02:52.920 --> 01:03:00.880 product that is slow released for summer Slow and Easy from Nelson, and Slow 787 01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:02.239 and Easy is going to give you feeding all the way up to fall. 788 01:03:02.440 --> 01:03:06.920 Slow and Easy is going to give you a slight acidifying of the soil as 789 01:03:06.920 --> 01:03:09.840 well, which is helpful for some of those pesky diseases like take all root 790 01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:15.880 route that likes high pH soil. Slow and Easy is going to gradually release 791 01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:19.239 the nutrients so you don't have this peak of mowing and trying to water to 792 01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:24.960 keep up with it, or the effect on roots that over apply applying nitrogen 793 01:03:25.000 --> 01:03:30.000 can cause. That would be an example of something that can make the plant 794 01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:35.199 not develop as deep of a root system as it should. Slow and Easy 795 01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:38.159 fixes all of that. It avoids all of that. Slow and Easy from 796 01:03:38.239 --> 01:03:43.280 Nelson one of the many excellent products from Nelson, such as their nutri Star 797 01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:46.559 line and their color Star line. Well, you're going to find it all 798 01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:50.840 over the place, and I can guarantee this I've used it. You will 799 01:03:50.880 --> 01:03:54.280 not be disappointed. It works very very well. I'm going to head out 800 01:03:54.360 --> 01:04:00.559 now to talk to Sky in Magnolia. Hello, Sky, Hey, good 801 01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:03.519 morning. How are you doing this morning? It's actually ski but uh, 802 01:04:03.719 --> 01:04:12.880 good morning Si. I appreciate that. Well, I'm a little polished, 803 01:04:12.880 --> 01:04:15.840 so that's where it comes from. Uh. But uh, I was wondering. 804 01:04:16.119 --> 01:04:18.679 I have a pool and I was want want looking for a palm tree 805 01:04:18.719 --> 01:04:23.360 to go behind the pool, A couple of them. What would you recommend 806 01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:27.239 for our Texas heat and our winners. We have a lot of good ones 807 01:04:27.400 --> 01:04:32.159 I like. I like the sable palms. There's a Texas Mexican tables that 808 01:04:32.239 --> 01:04:36.440 are s A B A L s A B A LA. They are. 809 01:04:36.639 --> 01:04:40.960 They're about as cold hearty as you're going to get. They're going to do 810 01:04:41.559 --> 01:04:45.920 very very well for you. Like that, But I tell you what you 811 01:04:45.079 --> 01:04:53.320 need to contact Verdant Tree Farm. Verdant Tree Farm is one of the best 812 01:04:53.360 --> 01:05:00.039 that I've ever seen selections of palms that are good for this area. You 813 01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:02.239 know when you go there, you're going to get something that's gonna do well 814 01:05:02.239 --> 01:05:06.280 here. And if you go to their website, it's Verdant Treefarm dot com 815 01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:16.039 or let me check that one second. All right, that's bad radio for 816 01:05:16.039 --> 01:05:18.480 me to have all that dead air space. But I had to reach and 817 01:05:18.519 --> 01:05:26.159 grab grab a phone number for you. Uh uh. The Verdant Tree Farm 818 01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:32.599 phone number is two eight one three four five sixty seven eighty nine. Two 819 01:05:32.599 --> 01:05:36.599 eight one three four five sixty seven eighty nine. Uh. There's there's a 820 01:05:36.599 --> 01:05:42.519 store in Barker, Cyprus and West Houston. There's one in Paarland off Broadway, 821 01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:45.079 and there's one in the heights at Yale kind of where Yo comes into 822 01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:51.360 Itan right there. But Verdant right the website Verdant Treefarm dot com. That's 823 01:05:51.360 --> 01:05:54.920 where I'd start, because they're gonna have a thing where you can look at 824 01:05:54.920 --> 01:05:57.920 all kinds of trees that they have, and then another button where you cook 825 01:05:57.960 --> 01:06:01.599 at all the palms and it described it tells you know the benefits of them 826 01:06:01.639 --> 01:06:05.679 and the specifics on how big they'll get and all that kind of thing. 827 01:06:06.119 --> 01:06:11.119 But it's really a good website. Patrick has put together an excellent site there. 828 01:06:11.840 --> 01:06:15.719 But Sable you said, would be the one that you might recommend. 829 01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:19.679 Yeah, Texas or Mexican Sable, those that do really well. When we 830 01:06:19.800 --> 01:06:27.320 had the bad, bad freeze in what February twenty one, I believe I 831 01:06:27.519 --> 01:06:30.800 was up in the College Station area looking at a lot of dead palms and 832 01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:39.119 some nice living Texas sables that so that that impressed me a lot. Yeah, 833 01:06:39.159 --> 01:06:43.320 I'm actually a magnolia, so yeah, we're familiar with cold weather once 834 01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:45.840 in a while. Yeah, you do. You get some cold up there. 835 01:06:46.480 --> 01:06:49.320 I do appreciate that, and glad to hear you on line trying to 836 01:06:49.320 --> 01:06:53.960 get back to normal out here. All right, Well, good luck with 837 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:58.760 that. I know it's been a booger of a storm again, but thanks 838 01:06:58.760 --> 01:07:00.760 for the calls. Oh yeah, we're thank you. Have a good day. 839 01:07:01.440 --> 01:07:05.079 Yes, sir BOBBYE, you're listening to Garden Line. I'm gonna take 840 01:07:05.079 --> 01:07:09.280 a little break if you would like to give us a call, give call 841 01:07:09.280 --> 01:07:13.000 of Chris. Give Chris a call at seven one three two one two. 842 01:07:13.679 --> 01:07:16.679 Katie. Back to Guarden Line. Good have you with us today. We 843 01:07:16.840 --> 01:07:21.320 are talking about the things that help you have a bountiful garden and a beautiful 844 01:07:21.400 --> 01:07:25.519 landscape. That is our goal is to help you have success with that, 845 01:07:26.159 --> 01:07:29.920 and one of the key elements of success is being able to get a hold 846 01:07:29.960 --> 01:07:32.760 of the products that you need in order to have success with your plants. 847 01:07:32.800 --> 01:07:38.760 Products like fertilizers for the lawn and for the garden, fire ant control, 848 01:07:39.239 --> 01:07:45.320 mosquito repellents, mosquito control, all of that. Ace Hardware is loaded with 849 01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:48.480 all of the things that you might need for success with your plants. You 850 01:07:48.519 --> 01:07:54.079 know, right now, Ace Hardware has got their generators in stock, the 851 01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:59.519 little gas powered ones you fire up to be able to run something during the 852 01:07:59.559 --> 01:08:02.679 power. They've got that. They've got all kinds of things for cleaning up 853 01:08:02.880 --> 01:08:06.159 around the house from the storm. You know, you need a chainsaw, 854 01:08:06.280 --> 01:08:12.239 Do you need any kind of a handsaw or pole pruners or whatever. Everything 855 01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:15.679 like that is going to be at Ace Hardware. They always have all the 856 01:08:15.719 --> 01:08:19.600 things that are needed for the season, air conditioning unit. You know, 857 01:08:20.399 --> 01:08:24.159 there's a lot of things that we have to deal with going through the year 858 01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:27.920 when we're trying to have a beautiful garden or even a beautiful outdoor area. 859 01:08:28.159 --> 01:08:31.199 And Ace Hardware has all of that covered. They specialize in that, and 860 01:08:31.239 --> 01:08:34.680 there's forty stores around the Greater Houston area. It's really easy to find one. 861 01:08:35.159 --> 01:08:40.039 Just go to acehardware dot com, look at the store locator and find 862 01:08:40.079 --> 01:08:43.560 the store nearest you. When you get there, you're going to be able 863 01:08:43.560 --> 01:08:45.399 to stock up on all the things you need, and one thing I would 864 01:08:45.479 --> 01:08:48.680 highly recommend you go ahead and stock up on, get your mosquito dunks, 865 01:08:48.680 --> 01:08:54.239 get your mosquito repellents. And because listen, with all this rain they're coming, 866 01:08:54.239 --> 01:08:58.439 in fact, they're already here. It just encourages them to enables them 867 01:08:58.479 --> 01:09:01.159 to reproduce even more. We have rainfall like we've had before. Oh, 868 01:09:01.239 --> 01:09:04.680 but that's part of the deal living down in this area. But ACE is 869 01:09:04.920 --> 01:09:12.079 your solution to those mosquito problems as well. You are listening to garden Line. 870 01:09:12.119 --> 01:09:15.880 Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 871 01:09:16.159 --> 01:09:20.279 seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Give Chris call. 872 01:09:20.880 --> 01:09:25.039 Let's get you on the boards and talk about the things that you like, 873 01:09:25.199 --> 01:09:29.800 the things that you are interested in. That's definitely what we want to be 874 01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:34.680 able to do here on garden Line. I talked a little bit earlier about 875 01:09:34.880 --> 01:09:40.039 yellowing in the turf and the fact that it's usually an iron deficiency, but 876 01:09:40.079 --> 01:09:45.600 an iron deficiency that's brought on not necessarily, in fact, not likely by 877 01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:48.960 a lack of iron in the soil, but by either high pH and hyphosphorus, 878 01:09:49.039 --> 01:09:54.720 which locks up the iron making it unavailable, or by take all root 879 01:09:54.800 --> 01:09:57.520 route, which is a disease that kills roots. And when you have that, 880 01:09:57.640 --> 01:10:01.920 then you proceed into all kinds of of issues, including iron deficiency being 881 01:10:02.159 --> 01:10:11.119 a pretty common thing that we run across. I wanted to just spend a 882 01:10:11.159 --> 01:10:16.600 little bit of time talking about plant care. During the summer season, when 883 01:10:16.640 --> 01:10:25.119 we are dealing with the issues of heat and humidity and often drought, we 884 01:10:25.159 --> 01:10:28.279 need to make sure our plants have what they need. And water is the 885 01:10:28.319 --> 01:10:31.560 single most important thing. But that doesn't mean you just water water water. 886 01:10:31.840 --> 01:10:38.000 It means you water enough to keep the soil adequately moist so that very you 887 01:10:38.039 --> 01:10:42.920 know, I get calls a lot or emails where it says where they say 888 01:10:43.720 --> 01:10:45.439 how often do I water and how long do I water? You know, 889 01:10:45.479 --> 01:10:50.880 and that kind of depends. I would the fastest answer to that is apply 890 01:10:51.600 --> 01:10:56.840 water enough to put an inch of water down a week on your lawn. 891 01:10:57.039 --> 01:11:01.239 One inch a week on your lawn. So every kind of lawn sprinkler will 892 01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:04.840 put out water at different rates. There's the pop up sprinklers, there's the 893 01:11:05.000 --> 01:11:11.800 rotors, there's the multi stream rotors. Several times and they all put water 894 01:11:11.840 --> 01:11:15.199 at at different rates. So you tell me how long put a rain gage 895 01:11:15.239 --> 01:11:17.479 in your lawn. Take some straight sided can like a tuna fish can, 896 01:11:17.520 --> 01:11:21.840 a cat food can, a pinto bean can. Whatever you got straight sided 897 01:11:21.920 --> 01:11:26.680 so it measures a little more accurately, and put it out there. Turn 898 01:11:26.720 --> 01:11:30.159 on the water. How long does it take to apply Let's say a half 899 01:11:30.199 --> 01:11:35.079 inch or a quarter inch. That then you can just multiply at times four 900 01:11:35.159 --> 01:11:40.279 with a quarter inch, find out how long you need to run your system. 901 01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:43.680 Most cases, you're not going to be able to put a whole inch 902 01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:45.640 on at one time. You're gonna have to have it water and then go 903 01:11:45.680 --> 01:11:49.319 off for a while. We call that cycle and then soak, and then 904 01:11:49.399 --> 01:11:54.760 repeat it with another cycle and soak, and you can get the inch down 905 01:11:54.800 --> 01:12:00.199 in the soil that way. See, we're going to run out here to 906 01:12:00.479 --> 01:12:06.319 again a mystery caller. Welcome to garden line, who were talking to Hello, 907 01:12:08.680 --> 01:12:13.479 Hello, Yeah, you're welcome to gardener. Oh I didn't realize. 908 01:12:14.840 --> 01:12:19.880 Is there any way to get miss a pygmy bamboo that's taken over my Saint 909 01:12:19.920 --> 01:12:26.079 Augustine? Is there a way to kill that without it's from coming over from 910 01:12:26.079 --> 01:12:31.119 my neighbor's yard? Yeah, they like a more, they like a more 911 01:12:31.199 --> 01:12:35.319 natives look. Yeah, yeah, I get it. I get it. 912 01:12:36.239 --> 01:12:42.920 So I would recommend you get a product, either a grass only killer, 913 01:12:43.079 --> 01:12:47.880 but probably for more effective control. I would get a glyphosate which brand name 914 01:12:48.000 --> 01:12:53.680 examples round up and put it in a wiper applicator and just wipe it on 915 01:12:53.880 --> 01:12:58.880 that bamboo because it's taller than your grass. And you can get it on 916 01:12:58.920 --> 01:13:02.079 the bamboo without getting it on your grass, because both of those products will 917 01:13:02.159 --> 01:13:09.960 kill grass. Okay, Well, I mow the grass, and of course 918 01:13:10.000 --> 01:13:14.039 it keeps all the same leaks. But I think I can probably I don't 919 01:13:14.079 --> 01:13:19.359 take a little paintbrush maybe, and it may take a while, but it'll 920 01:13:19.359 --> 01:13:23.439 take a while, but if you stay on it, you'll drive it back. 921 01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:26.159 But the only other thing to do would be to put some sort of 922 01:13:26.159 --> 01:13:30.079 a trench in a barrier in the property line so that the battery couldn't crawl 923 01:13:30.119 --> 01:13:33.000 underground. It would like hit an underground wall so it couldn't come in. 924 01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:39.039 But yeah, those are your probably your best options for travel. Well, 925 01:13:39.079 --> 01:13:45.439 thank you so much, Okay, I appreciate it. Take care. Yeah, 926 01:13:45.640 --> 01:13:48.560 that's just one of the things that we have to deal with, you 927 01:13:48.600 --> 01:13:53.079 know. It just we we end up with a lot of different kinds of 928 01:13:53.199 --> 01:13:57.840 issues and they don't all have good solutions. That's something you probably have noticed 929 01:13:58.119 --> 01:14:02.199 listening to Garden Line is sometimes there's not a good solution, or the solution 930 01:14:02.399 --> 01:14:05.239 is not one you want to hear or do, or is not practical. 931 01:14:06.039 --> 01:14:10.560 We try to kind of guide you and line you up with the right kinds 932 01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:15.439 of products and the right kinds of approaches, but sometimes there's just not a 933 01:14:15.479 --> 01:14:18.760 great way to get there from here, and so sometimes drastic measures are needed. 934 01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:23.920 And believe me, I've I've had to take drastic measures, including you 935 01:14:23.960 --> 01:14:27.880 know, like a replace my whole lawn this past year due to some issues 936 01:14:27.880 --> 01:14:31.199 that we had with diseases and insects and me being away for several weeks and 937 01:14:31.319 --> 01:14:39.760 unable to see them happening and stop them early on in the process. I 938 01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:43.840 wanted to I want to talk a little bit about RCW Nursery. You know 939 01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:49.359 RCW is it's the garden Center, that's where Tomball Parkway two forty nine comes 940 01:14:49.359 --> 01:14:55.600 into belt Way eight and it's just a it's just an outstanding place. But 941 01:14:55.760 --> 01:14:59.520 right now you need to see the sale that they have going on. They 942 01:14:59.520 --> 01:15:03.680 have fifty percent off all their trees. That is huge, fifteen percent off 943 01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:09.479 all their trees. Now they're open today from eight to four. Normally it's 944 01:15:09.520 --> 01:15:13.399 seven to four Monday through Friday, and then tomorrow from ten am to four 945 01:15:13.479 --> 01:15:16.079 pm as well. It's easy to get by there. RCW grows their own 946 01:15:16.119 --> 01:15:20.079 trees. They grow their own trees up in Plannersville. So they have chosen 947 01:15:20.159 --> 01:15:27.439 varieties that are gonna be successful here and that listen, trees are a long 948 01:15:27.520 --> 01:15:31.520 term investment. Don't just plant a tree because you saw it somewhere else and 949 01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:34.960 like it. It needs to be something that is going to be able to 950 01:15:35.079 --> 01:15:40.560 grow here. And that is what they specialize in at RCW Nursia Chris. 951 01:15:40.600 --> 01:15:43.840 They have everything else. They got roses, they got every kind of plant 952 01:15:43.880 --> 01:15:46.119 you might want. If you can get by there and find their Cajun hibiscus, 953 01:15:46.159 --> 01:15:49.439 I don't know if they have any laugh, but that is an outstanding 954 01:15:49.520 --> 01:15:55.600 type of hibiscus. So RCW. They're on the access road there, two 955 01:15:55.680 --> 01:15:59.720 forty nine access road right where two forty nine comes into belt Weigh eight. 956 01:16:00.119 --> 01:16:04.840 Just go to the website RCW Nursery Dot, nurseries dot com, RCW nurseres 957 01:16:04.840 --> 01:16:10.399 dot com you can find out what well looks like. We're about to put 958 01:16:10.399 --> 01:16:14.119 another hour in the books here. Hey, I hope you stick around with 959 01:16:14.199 --> 01:16:15.720 us. We got plenty of things to talk about when I come back. 960 01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:24.000 I'm going to dive in head for headfirst into tree issues, from broken limbs 961 01:16:24.079 --> 01:16:30.520 to bent trucks, to uprooted trees, to split tree trunks, you name 962 01:16:30.560 --> 01:16:32.520 it. We're going to talk about all those kinds of things. And for 963 01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:35.000 those of you who are recovering from the storm, or maybe you got to 964 01:16:35.039 --> 01:16:38.680 enaghbor the tree covering and you could give them a tip or two if they're 965 01:16:38.720 --> 01:16:41.359 open to that, We're going to fill you in on all of that. 966 01:16:42.359 --> 01:16:44.760 It's right after we come back. If you'd like to get on the board. 967 01:16:44.760 --> 01:16:47.359 In the meantime, give us a call at seven one three two one 968 01:16:47.479 --> 01:16:53.680 two k t r H. That's seven one three two one two k t 969 01:16:54.119 --> 01:17:28.600 r H with Skip Rictor. It's just watching as all right, we're back. 970 01:17:29.439 --> 01:17:31.119 We are back here on Guarden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 971 01:17:31.279 --> 01:17:35.119 and we are going to talk about the things that are most of interest 972 01:17:35.119 --> 01:17:39.000 to you. That is how we would like to do this. Have you 973 01:17:39.039 --> 01:17:43.239 been out to Nelson Water gardens that's out in Katie. So think of it 974 01:17:43.279 --> 01:17:47.600 as your West Houston garden center, really your West Houston destination garden center. 975 01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:50.159 It's quite the place. If you haven't been by there, you got to 976 01:17:50.199 --> 01:17:54.279 go. I keep telling people this. So we're having some hot summer days, 977 01:17:54.560 --> 01:17:59.319 what a wonderful time to go out to Nelson Water Garden. Strolled through 978 01:17:59.319 --> 01:18:02.560 the shade back there and look at all of the beautiful water features. Listen 979 01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:04.720 to the sound of the water, just sit down a while on it. 980 01:18:05.279 --> 01:18:09.520 Think of it as free therapy. When you go out there, you're going 981 01:18:09.560 --> 01:18:13.079 to get inspired and want to put some of that in your landscape because there's 982 01:18:13.119 --> 01:18:19.000 nothing like the sound of moving water to just help you rest and just be 983 01:18:19.079 --> 01:18:24.520 a piece. It is a very very soothing thing, and it attracts birds 984 01:18:24.560 --> 01:18:26.960 too, by the way. To hear that sound. While you're out there, 985 01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:30.119 you need to check out their rose sale. All the roses they have 986 01:18:30.199 --> 01:18:33.119 are essentially half price. That's basically at about half price on the roses. 987 01:18:33.119 --> 01:18:38.359 You're not going to do better than a deal like this. Excellent opportunity to 988 01:18:38.399 --> 01:18:40.640 grab you some roses. While you're out there, you're going to find every 989 01:18:40.680 --> 01:18:44.199 other kind of thing that you're looking for. They have got a collection of 990 01:18:44.520 --> 01:18:48.039 beautiful hibiscus, and the hotter it gets, the more hibiscus just laughs and 991 01:18:48.079 --> 01:18:51.760 loves being in Houston. Give a little bit of water and it is happy 992 01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:55.960 to go. There are a lot of other great plants that we can put 993 01:18:56.000 --> 01:19:00.800 out there, and you're going to find them an excellent selection at Nelson Watergarden 994 01:19:00.840 --> 01:19:03.920 and Nursery. They're out on Katie Fort Ben Road. So head to Katie 995 01:19:03.920 --> 01:19:08.720 on I ten. When you get to Katie Fort Benroad, turn right just 996 01:19:08.800 --> 01:19:15.359 a little north of Ien. You'll find them there on the right. Nelsonwatergardens 997 01:19:15.399 --> 01:19:19.239 dot Com. Nelsonwatergardens dot com. Don't go by yourself, take some friends 998 01:19:19.239 --> 01:19:24.199 with you, because really this will be an enjoyable outing that you will love. 999 01:19:25.520 --> 01:19:29.760 I'm going to head now out to the heights and we're going to talk 1000 01:19:29.800 --> 01:19:36.600 to Nancy. Hello Nancy, good morning. Hi there, My wife is 1001 01:19:36.720 --> 01:19:42.479 gamy phone. Quick question for y'all and of course enjoy your show, Thank 1002 01:19:42.520 --> 01:19:45.600 you for it. And quick question, before you know the hurricane, we 1003 01:19:45.680 --> 01:19:51.039 got some crep myrtles out front that got twisted up and some of the I'm 1004 01:19:51.079 --> 01:19:55.319 not going to say the trunk, but right above the trunk where some of 1005 01:19:55.359 --> 01:20:00.880 the major branches branch off, they split, and I'm one wondering can I 1006 01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:05.880 just screw those things back together and hope for the best. Tell me again 1007 01:20:05.960 --> 01:20:12.640 the type of tree and the diameter of the trunk below the split. Okay, 1008 01:20:12.760 --> 01:20:16.880 I'm going to say, well, it's a crape myrtle, and it's 1009 01:20:17.000 --> 01:20:28.920 probably about six inches the diameter of the split branch slash trunk. Okay, 1010 01:20:29.000 --> 01:20:36.319 Well, vaulting is possible, and it can help. It's not easy to 1011 01:20:36.359 --> 01:20:39.960 do, but if you're doing yourself, or you can pull it off. 1012 01:20:40.880 --> 01:20:45.000 What you need to do is to have some way to pull those two branches 1013 01:20:45.279 --> 01:20:50.199 together, those two trunks together, so that you close off that split as 1014 01:20:50.279 --> 01:20:55.520 much as possible, right, and then put a you can drill a hole 1015 01:20:55.560 --> 01:21:00.520 through and put a bolt through with washers on each side, and like you 1016 01:21:00.600 --> 01:21:05.960 use what's like an all thread material or or there's different ways to get figure 1017 01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:11.079 that. I didn't explain. I didn't explain it good enough. It's just 1018 01:21:11.239 --> 01:21:15.199 it's just it's just as it's one of the as the tree brand. It's 1019 01:21:15.279 --> 01:21:19.760 just a single brand, so the trunk isn't split. It's just a brand 1020 01:21:19.960 --> 01:21:26.680 that split a limb, okay, But it's just I get what you're saying, 1021 01:21:27.119 --> 01:21:30.640 and I'm thinking if it shouldn't be shouldn't be that barred famous laugh words. 1022 01:21:31.520 --> 01:21:34.119 Well, because of the angle on a limb, sometimes you don't have 1023 01:21:34.199 --> 01:21:39.439 a lot to hold up there, so I can't quite picture it. I 1024 01:21:39.479 --> 01:21:43.279 think I see what you're talking about, but I'm a little more hesitant about 1025 01:21:43.359 --> 01:21:48.079 the bolting working with that. But in general, there are other things we 1026 01:21:48.119 --> 01:21:54.720 can do. You'll see professionally done jobs where a tree branch is going to 1027 01:21:54.760 --> 01:21:58.279 hang too low and they want to hold it up, or where there's a 1028 01:21:58.359 --> 01:22:00.439 split, but they go out a little bit and you put a bolt through 1029 01:22:00.479 --> 01:22:05.279 the trunk and a bolt through the branch with a little cable between the two. 1030 01:22:05.880 --> 01:22:10.199 You can go that route too, where you're not you know, if 1031 01:22:10.199 --> 01:22:13.039 you if you thought about if you were to reach with your hand and grab 1032 01:22:13.119 --> 01:22:15.680 that if you could have it that big of a hand, grab the trunk 1033 01:22:15.399 --> 01:22:20.319 and and try to hold that branch from sagging down, you would have no 1034 01:22:20.439 --> 01:22:25.000 ability to do that because of the leverage on the branch. So going further 1035 01:22:25.119 --> 01:22:28.960 out on the branch and a little further up on the trunk allows you to 1036 01:22:28.960 --> 01:22:32.520 pull them together and have more strength because you're getting further out to pull it 1037 01:22:32.600 --> 01:22:36.720 to. I got you, I got you, okay, all right. 1038 01:22:36.760 --> 01:22:41.159 It was just I was looking out the window looking at and that that just 1039 01:22:41.199 --> 01:22:44.960 popped into my head and my wife so well, I know the guy who 1040 01:22:44.960 --> 01:22:48.079 can answer your question. Well, I appreciate that, Thank you very much. 1041 01:22:48.199 --> 01:22:56.279 And any anything else that is that'll basically what y'all call about. That's 1042 01:22:56.359 --> 01:22:59.039 it. Thank you. All right, well, thank you very much. 1043 01:22:59.119 --> 01:23:03.479 I appreciate the Take care, okay, bye bye, bye bye. You 1044 01:23:03.479 --> 01:23:06.680 know, we got a lot of tree things going on right now, a 1045 01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:11.279 lot of messes. And you know, after the mess what you do as 1046 01:23:11.319 --> 01:23:14.279 you go in and you just clean it up and you do the best job 1047 01:23:14.319 --> 01:23:16.640 you can. And believe me, there is a right and wrong way to 1048 01:23:16.720 --> 01:23:20.880 clean up a mess on a tree, to fix when you have split trunks, 1049 01:23:20.960 --> 01:23:27.800 broken limbs, bending trunks. Affordable tree service. Martin spoon Moore is 1050 01:23:27.840 --> 01:23:31.000 our go to arborist here on Guarden Line, and Martin's been doing this for 1051 01:23:31.359 --> 01:23:35.600 many, many years. He knows what he's doing. If you survive the 1052 01:23:35.640 --> 01:23:40.399 storm, I would encourage you still to have him come out take a look 1053 01:23:40.439 --> 01:23:44.439 at the trees and see if any selective pruning needs to be done, because 1054 01:23:44.479 --> 01:23:46.319 you know, there were things that went down in this storm that didn't go 1055 01:23:46.359 --> 01:23:48.840 down in the last storm. Why is that weather? It's all different, 1056 01:23:49.039 --> 01:23:55.279 okay, And so just because you dodge this bullet doesn't mean you know you're 1057 01:23:55.319 --> 01:23:59.520 going to dodge all the others in what's predicted to be a very busy hurricane 1058 01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:03.239 season. You can call Martin at seven one three six nine nine twenty six 1059 01:24:03.359 --> 01:24:09.319 sixty three seven one three six nine nine two six six' three, or 1060 01:24:09.359 --> 01:24:15.000 go to the website Afftree Service dot com. Telling me from garden line helps 1061 01:24:15.039 --> 01:24:16.880 you get up the list. There they put his garden line listeners up at 1062 01:24:16.920 --> 01:24:20.159 the top of the list, telling me from Guardenline, he's gonna he's a 1063 01:24:20.159 --> 01:24:24.159 busy guy. I mean he does a good job and boys are lever a 1064 01:24:24.199 --> 01:24:27.199 lot of work out there right now to get done. But get a hold 1065 01:24:27.239 --> 01:24:29.920 of him, get on the schedule so he can come by and you have 1066 01:24:30.039 --> 01:24:33.000 him take a look and do that kind of assessment for you at your place. 1067 01:24:33.279 --> 01:24:39.680 Affordable Tree Service seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. 1068 01:24:39.720 --> 01:24:44.399 We're gonna now head out to Kingwood, Texas, and talk to Joe. 1069 01:24:44.680 --> 01:24:50.000 Hello Joe, Good morning, skip Uh. I have a question about recovering 1070 01:24:50.039 --> 01:24:56.640 from storm damage. Among the damage I got was my double knockout roses were 1071 01:24:57.520 --> 01:25:01.760 just absolutely had all their leaves stripped off of them. They're about four foot 1072 01:25:01.800 --> 01:25:05.960 tall, and I have six or seven of them grouped together, but they're 1073 01:25:06.000 --> 01:25:11.359 just sticks right now, What would you recommend I do to help them? 1074 01:25:11.640 --> 01:25:14.399 All right? So, in order to give you a little better answer than 1075 01:25:14.479 --> 01:25:15.880 just a quick one, I'm going to put you on on hold or I'm 1076 01:25:15.920 --> 01:25:18.439 going to hang on to you until we come back from the break I have 1077 01:25:18.479 --> 01:25:21.680 to take right now, and we will continue this discussion. But I got 1078 01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:26.840 several good ideas. All right, thank you, you bet. All right, 1079 01:25:26.880 --> 01:25:29.960 folks, we are just going to break here and we will be right 1080 01:25:30.000 --> 01:25:34.039 back seven to one three six or seven one three two one two kt r 1081 01:25:34.239 --> 01:25:42.720 H if you'd like to call in, all right, welcome back to Garden 1082 01:25:42.760 --> 01:25:45.279 Line. Hey, you hear all kinds of music on this show. I 1083 01:25:45.359 --> 01:25:47.920 doubt you've ever heard that one before. I don't know, maybe you did, 1084 01:25:48.520 --> 01:25:54.319 but it just reminds me about the fact that with this rain we're going 1085 01:25:54.399 --> 01:25:58.279 to have an increase in mosquita issues. That's the way it is. Wherever 1086 01:25:58.319 --> 01:26:01.199 there is a thimble full of water, a mosquito can lay an egg in 1087 01:26:01.239 --> 01:26:04.880 it, complete its life cycle and come out and run and fly around, 1088 01:26:04.960 --> 01:26:11.159 bite biting you and your friends. You got to make sure that any areas 1089 01:26:11.199 --> 01:26:15.319 that have water are dumped out. If you've got catch basins under your flower 1090 01:26:15.359 --> 01:26:17.319 pots, dump them out. If you you know you got a bird bath, 1091 01:26:17.640 --> 01:26:21.079 squirt it out with water. Blast all the old water out. If 1092 01:26:21.079 --> 01:26:26.560 the water is moving, and there's gadgets that move the water to avoid mosquitos 1093 01:26:26.600 --> 01:26:30.600 being able to lay eggs or wanting to lay eggs in there, that's okay. 1094 01:26:30.680 --> 01:26:32.439 I've got a little fountain that's circulating all the time. I don't worry 1095 01:26:32.479 --> 01:26:36.760 about that. But stagnant water, maybe it's in a tire somewhere sitting around. 1096 01:26:36.800 --> 01:26:43.039 Maybe it's in another kind of container, like the gutters in your house. 1097 01:26:43.119 --> 01:26:45.119 That's a place mosquitoes can breed. And you don't need to be a 1098 01:26:45.119 --> 01:26:49.119 squitter breeder. Stop it. Don't be a mosquito breeder. Get some mosquito 1099 01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:55.439 dunks. Mosquito dunks are the simplest, safest thing you can do to control 1100 01:26:55.800 --> 01:27:00.800 mosquito larvae from hatching out and adding to the popular All it is is a 1101 01:27:00.800 --> 01:27:05.039 little beige d beige dunk. It's about the size of one of those little 1102 01:27:05.439 --> 01:27:12.600 little debbies white powder sugar doughnuts, you know, the little bity things. 1103 01:27:13.039 --> 01:27:15.800 But you put it in water, it floats. It covers about one hundred 1104 01:27:15.840 --> 01:27:19.159 square feet per dunk, and it lasts for about a month. They also 1105 01:27:19.199 --> 01:27:23.840 have little granules that you can purchase, or you can take a dunk and 1106 01:27:23.880 --> 01:27:26.520 just hit it with a hammer and make your own granules, however you want 1107 01:27:26.520 --> 01:27:30.760 to go about it. But it works really well, the little granules. 1108 01:27:30.800 --> 01:27:33.119 I've got a neighbor's got some water, just a little bitty thing of water, 1109 01:27:33.199 --> 01:27:38.000 and they're gone on a little trip and it's not something it's like at 1110 01:27:38.039 --> 01:27:43.279 the top of their rainwater collection system. So I'm just gonna sprinkle some little 1111 01:27:43.319 --> 01:27:46.800 granules out of that later today when I go by there. It's really easy, 1112 01:27:46.960 --> 01:27:51.720 easy to do. Mosquito dunks is. They're available at almost all your 1113 01:27:51.720 --> 01:27:56.760 independent nurseries, their feet stores, ace hardware stores. So if it's fertilizer, 1114 01:27:56.840 --> 01:28:00.159 easy to find mosquito dunks here in the area. Don't be a skeeter 1115 01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:04.760 breeder. Let's head back out. Now we're going to go back to Joe 1116 01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:09.199 in Kingwood, and Joe you had the roses with all the leaves blown off 1117 01:28:09.279 --> 01:28:14.840 or yes, sir, so those rose bushes will put on new leaves just 1118 01:28:14.920 --> 01:28:18.079 fine. They're okay. They're going to bounce back quickly. It's a time 1119 01:28:18.119 --> 01:28:21.760 when you're looking at them. If they need any pruning done here and there, 1120 01:28:21.880 --> 01:28:26.279 some twiggy growth, a broken branch or, or however you might want 1121 01:28:26.319 --> 01:28:28.720 to trim them a little, go ahead and do that because it's easy to 1122 01:28:28.720 --> 01:28:32.479 get access without the leaves on them. And then just give them some fertilizer 1123 01:28:32.960 --> 01:28:36.600 and if we go into a dryer, hotter spell, make sure they continue 1124 01:28:36.640 --> 01:28:42.520 to get adequate moisture. But a good boost of fertilizer. You could use 1125 01:28:42.720 --> 01:28:48.439 a addition to providing nutrients for your roses, you could use some medina aster 1126 01:28:48.520 --> 01:28:53.800 grow to put on those roses to give them a good drench to help the 1127 01:28:53.840 --> 01:28:58.600 soil. That works really well. Microlife has a number of different products that 1128 01:28:58.720 --> 01:29:02.319 work. A seaweed product, a fish type product called ocean harvest, but 1129 01:29:02.399 --> 01:29:08.119 a little concoction of those mixed up and drenched into the soil around the rose 1130 01:29:08.239 --> 01:29:12.720 will also be helpful, but primarily right now, it's going to be just 1131 01:29:12.760 --> 01:29:15.640 a little bit of time and a little bit of nutrient. So find something 1132 01:29:15.640 --> 01:29:19.000 with a good nitrogen level in it. And I'll tell you this, Joe 1133 01:29:19.000 --> 01:29:23.119 a lot of times, just because I have it handy. I always have 1134 01:29:23.199 --> 01:29:27.439 some bags of fertilizer around. I just use a lawn fertilizer around them. 1135 01:29:27.520 --> 01:29:30.439 You can do that, or you can go buy a little canister of something 1136 01:29:30.520 --> 01:29:33.359 made specifically for roses. Either way, that's great. Yeah, I've got 1137 01:29:33.359 --> 01:29:39.800 some nitrofoss rose fertilizer. There you go. Well, then that's an outstanding 1138 01:29:39.800 --> 01:29:45.520 product. I think the Hoastern Rose Society was actually in on that, but 1139 01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:50.039 it's an excellent one. Thank you, Skip. I appreciate it all right, 1140 01:29:50.159 --> 01:29:55.039 Thank you. Appreciate your call very much. If you'd like to be 1141 01:29:55.119 --> 01:29:59.479 on the air, ask a question, don't be afraid. I like to 1142 01:29:59.479 --> 01:30:02.439 tell people that us there. And I know this is a stretch, but 1143 01:30:02.680 --> 01:30:08.159 I like to say there's no stupid questions, just stupid answers to put you 1144 01:30:08.199 --> 01:30:12.920 at ease, like, don't worry about it, if even if it's even 1145 01:30:12.960 --> 01:30:15.800 if it were a stupid question. There are other people that have it and 1146 01:30:16.119 --> 01:30:19.800 I'll worry about the stupid answers, the pressures on me. You relax, 1147 01:30:20.079 --> 01:30:25.560 give us a call seven to one three, do one two ktrh and we 1148 01:30:25.600 --> 01:30:28.960 will help you work it out. Don't be afraid to ask your questions. 1149 01:30:29.000 --> 01:30:32.880 That is why we're here. Uh. There is a product that we were 1150 01:30:32.920 --> 01:30:38.199 just talking about, Nitrofos with the rose fertilizer. It reminded me. Nitrofos 1151 01:30:38.239 --> 01:30:44.760 has a natural type plant lawn food called sweet green. Sweet green is made 1152 01:30:44.800 --> 01:30:47.920 from a molasses base. So you know, with molasses base, you're putting 1153 01:30:47.960 --> 01:30:53.520 a carbon material in the soil that is going to stimulate a lot of happy 1154 01:30:53.600 --> 01:30:57.199 microbes because that's what they go after. That's why we use molasses in the 1155 01:30:57.239 --> 01:31:01.680 garden. Well, sweet grain is eleven percent nitrogen, so it will release 1156 01:31:01.800 --> 01:31:06.560 that nitrogen quickly as it dissolves away. So what I would recommend is buy 1157 01:31:06.600 --> 01:31:11.479 your bag of sweet green. I would split the amount you're going to apply 1158 01:31:11.600 --> 01:31:14.880 in half. So at eleven percent nitrogen, you're going to put about ten 1159 01:31:14.960 --> 01:31:18.520 pounds per thousand square feet. But I would cut it in half and I 1160 01:31:18.520 --> 01:31:23.479 would do five pounds now and then about six to eight weeks from now, 1161 01:31:23.520 --> 01:31:26.720 I do the other five pounds, so, in other words, same amount 1162 01:31:26.800 --> 01:31:30.520 total, but spread it out. It's not a slow release, but you 1163 01:31:30.600 --> 01:31:35.000 can do that and achieve the slow release effect by doing that with sweet Green 1164 01:31:35.359 --> 01:31:40.439 from Nitrofoss and Nitrofoss products. As I always say, they're really easy to 1165 01:31:40.439 --> 01:31:43.920 find. If you're up in the woodlands all Spa ace HASM up there. 1166 01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:47.359 If you're down in Memorial area, ACE Hardware City a Memorial Drive has them 1167 01:31:47.680 --> 01:31:56.560 easy to find. The fertilizing products from Nitrofoss like sweet Green. We're going 1168 01:31:56.640 --> 01:32:00.039 to go now out to Richmond, Texas and talk to Nancy. Hello, 1169 01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:05.640 Nancy, Honey, h skip. I hope you're doing well. I've got 1170 01:32:05.680 --> 01:32:13.119 a hurricane related question. We have a pineapple guava that fell over. We 1171 01:32:13.159 --> 01:32:16.239 had one that split, so we cut that away, and we have one 1172 01:32:16.279 --> 01:32:19.680 that fell over. The root ball is halfway exposed, it's not all the 1173 01:32:19.680 --> 01:32:26.359 way up, so do we we need to remove it? How old is 1174 01:32:26.399 --> 01:32:33.800 the pineapple gava? Twenty five years old on a little bush like that. 1175 01:32:34.039 --> 01:32:36.359 I think you're going to get by with this. What you're going to find 1176 01:32:36.520 --> 01:32:43.359 is the wind and the rain that blew it over also washed soil in underneath 1177 01:32:43.399 --> 01:32:47.359 it. So what was what looks like a hole was once a much bigger 1178 01:32:47.399 --> 01:32:50.680 hole where it kind of lifted up. So you may have to move a 1179 01:32:50.720 --> 01:32:55.119 little soil out of there just to be able to set it back down and 1180 01:32:55.159 --> 01:32:57.800 then watered in real good. And you're going to need to put a steak. 1181 01:32:57.840 --> 01:33:00.359 I would you could do different things. I might try try the tree 1182 01:33:00.359 --> 01:33:04.119 stabilizer three sixty tree stabilizer. It's a little steak. You put a you 1183 01:33:04.199 --> 01:33:08.640 put an iron post in, hammer a t post in right there beside it, 1184 01:33:09.079 --> 01:33:12.760 and it'll hold it in place. Because it is going to take a 1185 01:33:12.920 --> 01:33:17.640 long time for that tree to redevelop the roots that can anchor it. This 1186 01:33:17.720 --> 01:33:21.600 is going to be like at least a two or three year process. I 1187 01:33:21.680 --> 01:33:28.960 said, pineapple, pineapple, globba bush. So they're trees there, Yeah, 1188 01:33:30.279 --> 01:33:34.199 they're like tall. Okay, well if you if you get it in 1189 01:33:34.279 --> 01:33:39.239 his place, just plan on leaving that thing there for a long long time 1190 01:33:39.720 --> 01:33:45.560 because it it takes a while to develop roots that reach out far enough and 1191 01:33:45.600 --> 01:33:48.560 achieve the diameter to be able to be really strong and hold on to things. 1192 01:33:48.640 --> 01:33:53.199 And that's not going to occur in the first two years. Okay, 1193 01:33:53.319 --> 01:33:56.159 is there any kind of roots stimulator or anything I need to put on it. 1194 01:33:56.680 --> 01:34:00.159 You think the tree, and yeah, you could do that. There's 1195 01:34:00.159 --> 01:34:02.720 a number number of different kinds of products that you can put out there. 1196 01:34:02.800 --> 01:34:08.319 There are things that are hormone type, things that have other ingredients in them. 1197 01:34:08.640 --> 01:34:12.399 Uh. If you're you're out there in Richmond area, you got a 1198 01:34:12.439 --> 01:34:15.159 couple of great nurseries out there. You got some hardware stores like Plantation Ace. 1199 01:34:15.520 --> 01:34:18.720 You can get by there and just look for something along those lines and 1200 01:34:18.760 --> 01:34:25.800 that will help. But the time is the main thing that you're going to 1201 01:34:25.880 --> 01:34:29.840 need to do. All right, Well, I've got a little bit of 1202 01:34:29.920 --> 01:34:34.399 time. They'll take care of it. I appreciate it. All right, 1203 01:34:34.479 --> 01:34:38.680 well, you take care. Thanks for the call. I want to I 1204 01:34:38.720 --> 01:34:44.680 want to continue that discussion that we were just having there. Uh, there's 1205 01:34:44.720 --> 01:34:47.560 so many things to talk about regarding plants that have blown over and whatnot. 1206 01:34:47.680 --> 01:34:53.239 But there's a lot of trees, young trees have been bent. I had 1207 01:34:53.239 --> 01:34:58.600 an email this past week from it was a new cypress tree that have put 1208 01:34:58.600 --> 01:35:01.399 in and the whole thing it was coming straight up out of the ground still, 1209 01:35:01.760 --> 01:35:06.000 but the whole trunk just bent. It was like you grabbed the top 1210 01:35:06.039 --> 01:35:10.600 of a fishing pole that someone was pointing toward the sky, and you just 1211 01:35:10.640 --> 01:35:13.560 bent that top all the way to the ground, made a big U shape 1212 01:35:13.600 --> 01:35:16.399 with it. That's what this tree looked like. And the cause of that 1213 01:35:17.600 --> 01:35:21.439 was that the trunk wasn't strong enough to support the top in the wind. 1214 01:35:23.079 --> 01:35:27.279 Now, sometimes when it's a new tree, it's because it was grown in 1215 01:35:27.359 --> 01:35:32.479 a very non moving environment. You know, the trunk is staked firmly up 1216 01:35:32.520 --> 01:35:38.560 against a rigid steak, and so that trunk doesn't bend in the wind as 1217 01:35:38.560 --> 01:35:44.880 it would in nature. And when tree branches trunks tree plant tissues, I'll 1218 01:35:44.920 --> 01:35:49.079 go that far. When plant tissues are bent and kind of stressed, they 1219 01:35:49.119 --> 01:35:55.079 get stronger, and in response to the wind, it gets stronger. A 1220 01:35:55.159 --> 01:35:58.720 lot of times in greenhouses they'll have a little ocilating fan going back and forth 1221 01:35:58.760 --> 01:36:02.199 across tiny seedlings coming up, and that's to just move them a little bit. 1222 01:36:02.279 --> 01:36:06.680 Because your little tomato seedling that grows in perfectly still air is going to 1223 01:36:06.720 --> 01:36:12.720 be a spindly, easy breakable plant when you put it outside. If you 1224 01:36:12.800 --> 01:36:15.920 move it around a lot, it gets stockier. And the same is true 1225 01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:18.880 with the woody tissues. On a tree trunk, and so that is the 1226 01:36:18.920 --> 01:36:21.239 cause of the bent trunk. What do you do. You stake it back 1227 01:36:21.279 --> 01:36:26.520 in place with a tree stabilizer, but you make sure that it can move 1228 01:36:26.600 --> 01:36:30.720 some, which tree stabilizers will do, because you do want it to get 1229 01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:35.439 stronger. But just holding it stiff in one spot doesn't achieve that very well. 1230 01:36:35.720 --> 01:36:41.439 Now, whenever the tree blows over, that's a whole another matter. 1231 01:36:41.600 --> 01:36:45.520 And when we come back from the next break, perhaps we will talk a 1232 01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:48.359 little bit when I can give that a little more time. I just answered 1233 01:36:48.840 --> 01:36:53.199 a caller by saying, yes, you can lean it back up. You 1234 01:36:53.239 --> 01:36:56.760 may have to take a little soil out so it leans upright and stake it 1235 01:36:56.840 --> 01:37:00.920 into place. But this was a very small plant. We were talking about 1236 01:37:00.000 --> 01:37:04.880 U pine apple WIV I believe, and so it's not like a big tree 1237 01:37:05.279 --> 01:37:10.159 that uproots. But if a little plant does that, a little shrub or 1238 01:37:10.199 --> 01:37:15.399 a very small young tree, that's let's say within the first two years of 1239 01:37:15.479 --> 01:37:19.199 that tree being planted, then you can straighten it up, hold it in 1240 01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:24.439 place. But know that it's going to take at least a couple of years, 1241 01:37:24.439 --> 01:37:29.279 more like really three years before it has enough strength to really give it 1242 01:37:29.359 --> 01:37:31.000 some support, and it may even take longer than that. All right, 1243 01:37:31.039 --> 01:37:33.560 I'm gonna stop there, but when we come back, we're going to continue 1244 01:37:33.600 --> 01:37:44.600 this discussion about storm damaged trees. Welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line. 1245 01:37:44.600 --> 01:37:47.000 I'm your host, Skip Richter. We're here to answer gardening questions to 1246 01:37:47.039 --> 01:37:51.239 help you have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape. That's what 1247 01:37:51.279 --> 01:37:56.479 you want to do, right. Gardening is fun. Gardening is an enjoyable 1248 01:37:56.520 --> 01:38:00.119 hobby. And you know, we we have the vicissity of nature. How's 1249 01:38:00.119 --> 01:38:03.520 that for a word for the day. The vicissitudes of nature to deal with, 1250 01:38:03.720 --> 01:38:06.880 like storms, like freezes, like drought, like heat. Yes, 1251 01:38:08.199 --> 01:38:11.520 we do. It's a challenge. Every year is different. Sometimes things do 1252 01:38:11.600 --> 01:38:15.560 better than others, and that's just part of the learning experience and part of 1253 01:38:15.600 --> 01:38:19.000 the resilience that gardeners have and being able to stick with it and do it. 1254 01:38:19.000 --> 01:38:23.680 It is an enjoyable outlet. Though, don't worry about success or failure 1255 01:38:23.720 --> 01:38:26.439 in terms of oh, I tried to grow something, but it died. 1256 01:38:27.199 --> 01:38:30.039 Let's help you grow it successfully. That's what I'd like to do. I 1257 01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:33.520 want you to have success because there is listen Gardening is for your mental health, 1258 01:38:33.560 --> 01:38:39.760 gardening is for your physical health, and gardening is just the just the 1259 01:38:39.880 --> 01:38:44.199 joy and peace of mind that comes from being out in nature and a garden. 1260 01:38:44.439 --> 01:38:46.279 You don't want to miss that. We're going to head out now to 1261 01:38:46.359 --> 01:38:50.199 the phones, and I don't have your name on the board. So who 1262 01:38:50.239 --> 01:38:56.760 are we talking to? Yeah? Hello, Hi, can you hear me? 1263 01:38:57.640 --> 01:39:01.319 Yes, sir? All right, my name is the R and I'm 1264 01:39:01.319 --> 01:39:05.960 calling from out in catch Spring Belleville area. All right, good dar, 1265 01:39:06.159 --> 01:39:10.680 welcome to guard Line. All right, question for you. Yeah, so 1266 01:39:11.760 --> 01:39:18.520 I've inherited a I've purchased a place out there, and it had inherited a 1267 01:39:18.560 --> 01:39:27.840 tremendous number of rose bushes that are all around six seven years old and super 1268 01:39:27.880 --> 01:39:33.840 healthy. They're all good. But I've noticed that and there's like three different 1269 01:39:34.000 --> 01:39:42.239 varieties of rose bushes that are on that are on the property and the ones 1270 01:39:42.279 --> 01:39:45.399 that are at the front of the property that are like on these really long 1271 01:39:46.800 --> 01:39:51.600 flower beds. Uh. There's probably an excess of one hundred rose bushes, 1272 01:39:53.359 --> 01:40:00.359 and the top two thirds of them are pretty and green, and they're putting 1273 01:40:00.359 --> 01:40:06.760 out flowers, you know, putting out the actual roses. But then the 1274 01:40:06.800 --> 01:40:14.279 bottom third, the bottom third of them are kind of you know, they 1275 01:40:14.359 --> 01:40:18.840 they're they're brown. There's no there's no limbs. There's no limbs on the 1276 01:40:18.880 --> 01:40:23.680 property. I'm excuse me. There's no limbs on the rose bushes. No 1277 01:40:23.800 --> 01:40:26.840 limbs, there's no leaves. There's no leaves on the rose bushes. They're 1278 01:40:26.920 --> 01:40:30.000 just brown, like you know, twigs. So I'm trying, and I 1279 01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:31.840 don't know anything about rose bushes. But like I said, the tops healthy, 1280 01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:35.600 pretty and green. I just don't know what to do with that bottom 1281 01:40:35.640 --> 01:40:40.319 section. Got you, gotcha? All right? Well, here's the thing. 1282 01:40:41.119 --> 01:40:44.319 Whenever a rose bush is stressed, it could be a drought stress, 1283 01:40:44.680 --> 01:40:47.880 you know, it could be any kind of a stress like that. Oftentimes, 1284 01:40:48.000 --> 01:40:51.720 and this is true not just roses, plants in general. Oftentimes they 1285 01:40:51.720 --> 01:40:58.119 will cast their older leaves off, and you just see that sort of thing 1286 01:40:58.199 --> 01:41:03.079 happen. It be diseases, the oldest the leaves lower in the bush and 1287 01:41:03.159 --> 01:41:08.880 further down any shoot, or the oldest leaves on the plant, and so 1288 01:41:09.159 --> 01:41:15.560 sometimes you just see a casting off of that older foliage. You can do 1289 01:41:15.640 --> 01:41:18.640 a couple of things. You could just live with it for now, and 1290 01:41:18.680 --> 01:41:24.279 then in the fall season you could excuse me. In the winter season, 1291 01:41:24.359 --> 01:41:29.840 you could do some serious pruning to those roses and bring them back, let 1292 01:41:29.880 --> 01:41:33.239 them re sprout up from a little bit lower than you trim, and restore 1293 01:41:33.279 --> 01:41:38.119 them that way. If you like the shape that they're in now, I 1294 01:41:38.199 --> 01:41:42.000 might be tempted to leave them as they are a little bit of pruning. 1295 01:41:42.119 --> 01:41:45.159 I often will do a little bit of pruning to mine when we get into 1296 01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:50.199 the late late summer early fall season, like late August, for example, 1297 01:41:51.479 --> 01:41:56.079 and do a shearing back then, because October is a big blooming month for 1298 01:41:56.199 --> 01:42:00.960 roses, and if you fertilize them and water the water that fertilizer in, 1299 01:42:00.079 --> 01:42:04.039 you'll get a stimulation of growth and they'll fill in and look good again. 1300 01:42:04.960 --> 01:42:10.720 So there's a couple of pockets where you can. Yeah, So if I 1301 01:42:10.800 --> 01:42:14.560 just want to leave them, if I just want to leave them as they 1302 01:42:14.600 --> 01:42:16.760 are, if I just want to leave them as they are right now, 1303 01:42:16.800 --> 01:42:24.840 you're saying, let them be, and then uh, maybe like October, 1304 01:42:25.439 --> 01:42:28.560 you say, prune them and hit them with a little fertilizer. No, 1305 01:42:28.760 --> 01:42:32.880 in late August, at the end of August, the little fertilizer and watered 1306 01:42:32.880 --> 01:42:38.720 in really good for October blooms. You're gonna have really good blooms season October. 1307 01:42:40.039 --> 01:42:45.079 And also just one other thing, you are when you shade leaves out, 1308 01:42:45.560 --> 01:42:48.000 they fall off. They can't. If you look at any head shrub 1309 01:42:48.119 --> 01:42:51.279 and you just pull the hedge apart and look inside, it's all twiggy brown 1310 01:42:51.359 --> 01:42:55.920 inside. It's only out there where they get sunlight that you have the hedge 1311 01:42:56.039 --> 01:43:00.640 leaves. So roses, these roses could be overgrown enough to where they're doing 1312 01:43:00.680 --> 01:43:06.600 some of that to themselves. So maybe just leave them as they are. 1313 01:43:08.279 --> 01:43:12.600 Yeah, leave them as they are right now late August. Uh, trim 1314 01:43:12.640 --> 01:43:15.800 trim, trim the the lower parts I'm talking about when you say prune them 1315 01:43:15.800 --> 01:43:19.560 back. How far do I prune back on yours? I would do it 1316 01:43:19.560 --> 01:43:24.359 by about a third. You could do a third. You could also normally 1317 01:43:24.399 --> 01:43:27.199 I would just do a fourth. Uh, prune them back by about a 1318 01:43:27.239 --> 01:43:30.600 fourth to get new growth. With the fertilization and the pruning, you get 1319 01:43:30.640 --> 01:43:34.560 new growth, and roses produce on new shoot at the end of shoots. 1320 01:43:35.079 --> 01:43:39.039 So the more ends of shoots you have, the more roses you're gonna have 1321 01:43:39.079 --> 01:43:43.840 on the plant. But also in mid in mid to or late winter, 1322 01:43:44.399 --> 01:43:48.079 that's the time to do a heavy pruning if you want to reshape them, 1323 01:43:48.479 --> 01:43:53.800 and you know, because they're in a semi dormant state, right then uh 1324 01:43:53.840 --> 01:43:59.720 to get fresh new growth in the spring. Ah, okay, all right, 1325 01:43:59.760 --> 01:44:01.920 you answered my question. I really appreciate it. All right, good 1326 01:44:01.960 --> 01:44:05.239 luck with those sounds like you got your hands full. You might need to 1327 01:44:05.319 --> 01:44:11.399 join the Houston Roads Society. What mean? Yeah? Hey, thanks so 1328 01:44:11.479 --> 01:44:15.680 much. Right by the way, Houston Roads Society is a great organization anybody 1329 01:44:15.680 --> 01:44:19.239 that wants to learn more about roses and enjoy meeting people who love roses. 1330 01:44:19.640 --> 01:44:24.079 They're a great a great group for that. I've been to their meetings more 1331 01:44:24.119 --> 01:44:32.039 than once and I always enjoy dealing with folks from the Road Society. Soil 1332 01:44:32.159 --> 01:44:36.600 is important. Soil is critical on garden line. One of my mantras is 1333 01:44:36.920 --> 01:44:41.800 rom stuffed before green stuff. What does that mean? That means if you 1334 01:44:42.000 --> 01:44:45.399 get the soil right, that means good drainage, good internal drainage, good 1335 01:44:45.520 --> 01:44:50.159 oxygen done in the soil for the root system, and a good nutrient content 1336 01:44:50.239 --> 01:44:57.880 and pH plants are going to thrive. And Cienamulch is the place for all 1337 01:44:58.560 --> 01:45:03.720 things related to this brown stuff that I'm talking about Cinmulch has composts, they 1338 01:45:03.760 --> 01:45:09.359 have bed mixed blends like heirloom soils, veggie and or mix. They've got 1339 01:45:09.359 --> 01:45:15.199 that. They have out the blends as well. Cienamulch also has every fertilizer 1340 01:45:15.239 --> 01:45:18.520 I talk about on Guardline. So when you drive into Cianamulch and drive out, 1341 01:45:18.680 --> 01:45:24.800 you have in your vehicle what's needed to set the stage for success. 1342 01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:28.960 That is so important. So if you're going to plant, let me just 1343 01:45:29.000 --> 01:45:31.119 talking about rose. You don't put a rosebush and don't just PLoP it into 1344 01:45:31.159 --> 01:45:35.920 an unprepared plot. Don't just stick it into heavy clay soil and no amendments. 1345 01:45:36.039 --> 01:45:41.159 The drainage hasn't been improved. Stop in and get you some good products. 1346 01:45:41.199 --> 01:45:44.119 And for all those of you south of Houston, that's where Cenamulch is 1347 01:45:44.119 --> 01:45:46.800 there at FM five twenty one. You're where Highway six and two eighty eight 1348 01:45:46.840 --> 01:45:50.560 come together, just north of Roast Sharing. If you want just write this 1349 01:45:50.680 --> 01:45:55.720 down Ciena Mulch dot com. That's the website and that'll tell you everything you 1350 01:45:55.760 --> 01:45:58.439 need to know. You can buy in bulk, you can buy by the 1351 01:45:58.479 --> 01:46:00.640 bag, and by the way. They got their power back on they're rolling 1352 01:46:00.760 --> 01:46:05.319 full force. Open Saturdays from seven point thirty to two, closed on Sunday. 1353 01:46:05.359 --> 01:46:09.119 Of course, open Monday through Friday. But if you want to get 1354 01:46:09.119 --> 01:46:12.359 this stuff started and done now, it'd be a good day to get out 1355 01:46:12.399 --> 01:46:15.720 there. Just do it four two o'clock today and get the supplies you need. 1356 01:46:15.760 --> 01:46:20.279 They'll deliver within twenty miles of their location, so that's another option for 1357 01:46:20.319 --> 01:46:25.880 you. We are gonna now, let's see here where we're going to run 1358 01:46:25.920 --> 01:46:30.239 out to spring and talk to her to Hello, Herda, good morning. 1359 01:46:31.119 --> 01:46:38.399 I have a couple of questions of my cheffelera, which is outside, it's 1360 01:46:38.479 --> 01:46:47.680 not in the house. Two stems with about like five leaves to a stem, 1361 01:46:47.960 --> 01:46:55.880 they're turning yellow. What's wrong with it? Cheffleara leaves turning yellow is 1362 01:46:56.000 --> 01:46:59.800 usually due to a fluctuation and saw moisture. Maybe it got a little dry 1363 01:47:00.039 --> 01:47:02.399 and then then you watered it again, or maybe it's say a little too 1364 01:47:02.520 --> 01:47:06.960 on the web side. Uh, those are possibilities. Older leaves turning yellow 1365 01:47:08.520 --> 01:47:13.800 can be a lack of nitrogen. Usually on a cheff falara that doesn't they 1366 01:47:13.800 --> 01:47:16.399 don't turn yellow, they just lighten their green color. So I think it's 1367 01:47:16.399 --> 01:47:25.600 a sole moisture issue. While we have a lot of rain. Uh huh 1368 01:47:25.800 --> 01:47:30.960 yeah, well maybe too much. I don't know how well the drainage are. 1369 01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:36.000 Well that that's a possibility now yeah, yeah, if you got if 1370 01:47:36.000 --> 01:47:40.079 you lean a pot over, just lay it on its side and see if 1371 01:47:40.119 --> 01:47:44.479 water starts running out. That's a sign that it definitely needs a little bit 1372 01:47:44.479 --> 01:47:46.000 better drainage. Hey, hurd it, I got to run to a break. 1373 01:47:46.039 --> 01:47:48.079 You want to hang on and we can ask We can answer your other 1374 01:47:48.159 --> 01:47:56.199 question when we come back. Well, take all call back. Thank you 1375 01:47:56.239 --> 01:47:59.039 all right, that sounds good. Thank you very much. I appreciate the 1376 01:47:59.079 --> 01:48:04.680 call our phone. If you'd like to call, Welcome back to garden Line. 1377 01:48:04.720 --> 01:48:08.239 Have a little bit of fun with the music this morning. Hey, 1378 01:48:08.399 --> 01:48:11.920 we are glad you are listening. I appreciate that, and I hope that 1379 01:48:11.960 --> 01:48:14.399 it is helpful for you. I want to be inspirational, I want to 1380 01:48:14.399 --> 01:48:17.199 be encouraging. I want to provide you the tools you need to have success, 1381 01:48:17.439 --> 01:48:21.800 because gardening is the greatest hobby in the world. And no matter what 1382 01:48:21.840 --> 01:48:25.840 you like, maybe all you want to mess with is houseplants. Maybe you 1383 01:48:25.880 --> 01:48:29.560 want to be a rose enthusiast, and maybe you want to grow fruit trees 1384 01:48:29.600 --> 01:48:31.720 and you just want to learn all about that, whatever it is. Most 1385 01:48:31.760 --> 01:48:35.159 people, I just want a beautiful place. Well, we can help you 1386 01:48:35.199 --> 01:48:40.600 with that. Problems with the trees, problems with the lawn and other things. 1387 01:48:40.680 --> 01:48:45.079 Give us a call seven to one three six or seven one three two 1388 01:48:45.159 --> 01:48:49.560 one two k t R H seven one three two one two k t R. 1389 01:48:50.000 --> 01:48:55.239 As simple as that. Hey, the Enchanted Gardens down in Richmond, 1390 01:48:55.479 --> 01:48:59.039 they are stocked up on plants and they are ready to go. I mean, 1391 01:48:59.119 --> 01:49:01.439 if you need boog and villias, they've got them. You know. 1392 01:49:01.479 --> 01:49:04.920 They say, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade, maybe a little 1393 01:49:04.960 --> 01:49:08.880 spider loly to go in some wet areas, you know, that's right. 1394 01:49:09.159 --> 01:49:13.920 There are things called rain gardens, and basically it's places that don't drain well 1395 01:49:13.960 --> 01:49:15.760 after a rain. There are plants you can put in those, and they 1396 01:49:15.800 --> 01:49:21.840 have those an Enchanted Gardens Nursery. There's always something fun going on there too. 1397 01:49:23.159 --> 01:49:26.560 Lots of good educational materials that they provide. And I'll tell you this, 1398 01:49:27.560 --> 01:49:31.600 the kinds of bling that they have for your garden, I just love 1399 01:49:31.640 --> 01:49:34.880 it, absolutely love it. And by garden bling, you know all the 1400 01:49:34.960 --> 01:49:41.680 things like a little metal oh gosh, flamingos, you know that kind of 1401 01:49:41.720 --> 01:49:44.720 move up and down in the wind. You got to have stuff like that. 1402 01:49:44.720 --> 01:49:46.720 It's important. Plus the more you put in, at some point the 1403 01:49:46.760 --> 01:49:51.079 neighbors start to talk and that is really fun. You definitely need that if 1404 01:49:51.079 --> 01:49:57.439 you're looking at doing containers, and Chenny Gardens has an outstanding supply both the 1405 01:49:57.439 --> 01:50:00.159 containers and the plants that go in them, and they can tell you to 1406 01:50:00.159 --> 01:50:04.960 put that all together. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. That's the that's the 1407 01:50:05.000 --> 01:50:12.000 website, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They're on FM five excuse me, 1408 01:50:12.159 --> 01:50:16.560 three fifty nine, FM three fifty nine on the Katie Fullscher side of Richmond, 1409 01:50:16.600 --> 01:50:20.720 and today it would be a great day to go out there. We're 1410 01:50:20.720 --> 01:50:26.439 going to go to the phones now and let's see, all right, welcome 1411 01:50:26.479 --> 01:50:30.720 to garden Line. Tell me who I'm talking to. This is Larry. 1412 01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:38.039 Hey, Larry, how are you doing well? I have got I have 1413 01:50:38.159 --> 01:50:45.760 about a twelve or fourteen foot apple tree that uh just has leaned all the 1414 01:50:45.760 --> 01:50:49.479 way over touching the ground. The roots haven't popped out of the ground or 1415 01:50:49.520 --> 01:50:56.960 anything, but I wonder can I I've bought a come along and I was 1416 01:50:57.039 --> 01:51:00.720 going to look it up to the back of my truck and gradually pull it 1417 01:51:00.760 --> 01:51:06.720 over and stake it up. Is that a Is that a possibility to do 1418 01:51:06.760 --> 01:51:11.600 that? Yes? It is, and let me make it. It's a 1419 01:51:11.640 --> 01:51:15.039 pretty, pretty, pretty big tree. Is probably big tree. I'd say 1420 01:51:15.439 --> 01:51:20.159 about eight inches in diameter on the trunk, right. But what I'm hearing 1421 01:51:20.159 --> 01:51:26.159 from you is it's basically the trunk has bent. It's not that the tree 1422 01:51:26.199 --> 01:51:29.399 has leaned and the root pulled roots out of the ground. Right. It 1423 01:51:29.439 --> 01:51:31.640 has not pulled the roots out of the ground. Thow. Okay, yeah, 1424 01:51:31.680 --> 01:51:34.840 I would bring it up in place. I would get what is a 1425 01:51:34.920 --> 01:51:44.000 trunk diameter about let's say chest tie. Uh, it's the trunk about chest 1426 01:51:44.039 --> 01:51:48.600 tie is probably five six inches. Okay, that's a good, good tree. 1427 01:51:49.239 --> 01:51:53.840 You're gonna need a good strong support to do that. Probably two of 1428 01:51:53.880 --> 01:51:57.319 them, if you use the tree stabilizers. I would put two on them 1429 01:51:57.880 --> 01:52:00.960 and bring it up in its place. And to those two steaks. If 1430 01:52:00.960 --> 01:52:04.600 you're going to use the come along kind of approach you mentioned, then you 1431 01:52:04.640 --> 01:52:09.760 could you could use a wire with a steak or U and I would do 1432 01:52:09.880 --> 01:52:13.439 two of them. Kind of coming in like in a V shape toward the 1433 01:52:13.439 --> 01:52:15.039 trunk. So in other words, if it blows left or right, you 1434 01:52:15.119 --> 01:52:19.680 used to have some support there. Okay, close wires up, and then 1435 01:52:19.760 --> 01:52:23.199 if you can move them a little bit later a little further do that. 1436 01:52:23.680 --> 01:52:26.960 I just kind of go easy, because that trunk has been really stressed and 1437 01:52:27.039 --> 01:52:30.079 the tissues have probably suffered a little bit of damage in it, and so 1438 01:52:30.279 --> 01:52:34.079 for you just to yank it right back up straight, I'd go a little 1439 01:52:34.079 --> 01:52:38.399 slower, move it as far as you feel like you know you can, 1440 01:52:39.039 --> 01:52:41.399 uh, and then wait a little while, and then if you can pull 1441 01:52:41.479 --> 01:52:44.720 up a little more, do that. But it's going to take a while 1442 01:52:44.800 --> 01:52:49.000 for it to grow enough new strong lignant tissue to where it's not going to 1443 01:52:49.079 --> 01:52:55.000 need the steaks. Okay, Okay, it's worth it. It produces a 1444 01:52:55.000 --> 01:52:58.199 ton of apples, so I'd like to keep it if I can. Well, 1445 01:52:58.199 --> 01:53:02.000 good, what do you know what variety it is? Oh, it's 1446 01:53:02.039 --> 01:53:08.039 a to me, uh, it's like a gala apple. It's like a 1447 01:53:08.119 --> 01:53:13.399 gala apples. I thought it at I got it at arbor Gate. Okay, 1448 01:53:13.520 --> 01:53:17.039 do you have something to pollinate it or is it? Well? Yes, 1449 01:53:17.079 --> 01:53:21.600 I have three other small apple trees that are blooming. Okay, good 1450 01:53:21.840 --> 01:53:29.840 good, I'm always curious. Yeah, I probably got two hundred apples off 1451 01:53:29.880 --> 01:53:33.039 of it this year. Holy moly. All right, well, Larry, 1452 01:53:33.079 --> 01:53:36.439 thank you for the calling. Good luck getting that tree back in shape. 1453 01:53:38.119 --> 01:53:44.920 Okay, appreciate it. All right, there we are. Now, you 1454 01:53:44.960 --> 01:53:50.279 know what I would like to just just briefly talk a little bit about some 1455 01:53:50.319 --> 01:53:55.399 more on the tree thing. I mentioned when a branch when a trunk bends, 1456 01:53:55.439 --> 01:53:58.079 and we just had a call from Larry about that. What did you 1457 01:53:58.079 --> 01:54:00.720 straighten him back up? And just know that you're gonna have to hold those 1458 01:54:00.760 --> 01:54:04.720 supports for a long time. When trees blow over and the roots are up. 1459 01:54:05.239 --> 01:54:11.399 If that happened in the last two years, that I mean, if 1460 01:54:11.439 --> 01:54:15.079 the tree has only been in two years, then you can probably lean it 1461 01:54:15.119 --> 01:54:18.800 back up keep it place in place for a long time. It's going to 1462 01:54:18.840 --> 01:54:23.880 take a while to not only grow roots, but grow strong, thick roots 1463 01:54:23.960 --> 01:54:27.439 to support that tree. But you can do that. If the tree's been 1464 01:54:27.439 --> 01:54:32.880 in longer than two years, certainly longer than three years, you probably are 1465 01:54:32.880 --> 01:54:35.199 going to need to replace it. And I hate to say that, but 1466 01:54:35.239 --> 01:54:39.640 a lot of people have big old trees that bring roots up out of the 1467 01:54:39.680 --> 01:54:42.800 ground. You got all these broken roots now sticking up in the air. 1468 01:54:43.079 --> 01:54:45.680 You know, they lift up the sod and everything else, kind of like 1469 01:54:45.720 --> 01:54:48.680 a pancake of soil and roots coming up. You're just not going to straighten 1470 01:54:48.720 --> 01:54:54.520 those out and have any kind of strength to them. For various reasons, 1471 01:54:54.560 --> 01:54:59.279 it's just not going to work well. So on established trees that do that, 1472 01:55:00.159 --> 01:55:02.159 i'd call it, I just pull them out. It's a good tree 1473 01:55:02.199 --> 01:55:05.680 to put back in. I hate that, that's the fact, but you 1474 01:55:05.840 --> 01:55:21.680 just need to think that way. We'll be right back. Let's just jump 1475 01:55:21.760 --> 01:55:27.960 right in here and get this thing rolling for our upcoming hour, the last 1476 01:55:27.960 --> 01:55:30.680 hour this morning on guarden Line. By the way, we'll be back six 1477 01:55:30.760 --> 01:55:33.560 o'clock in the morning tomorrow, all the way to ten am. So lots 1478 01:55:33.560 --> 01:55:38.359 of opportunities for you to call in, tell your neighbors about garden Line, 1479 01:55:38.399 --> 01:55:41.640 have them give us a call too. We'll be happy to answer their gardening 1480 01:55:41.720 --> 01:55:45.520 questions. I think about a lot of different things when it comes to garden 1481 01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:49.239 success, because people basically are wanting to know, how do I have six 1482 01:55:49.399 --> 01:55:53.199 how do I grow tomatoes? How do I have a beautiful lawn. How 1483 01:55:53.199 --> 01:55:56.319 do I what's wrong with my tree and how do I make it better? 1484 01:55:56.680 --> 01:56:00.760 Let me just tell you the single starting point of all gardens success is the 1485 01:56:00.800 --> 01:56:05.199 soil. It is. And if you're heading up Interstate forty five toward Conro 1486 01:56:05.560 --> 01:56:10.319 right where fourteen eighty eight comes in from the left, you go to the 1487 01:56:10.399 --> 01:56:14.399 right, and that's Nature's Way Resources. They're on Sherbrooke Circle right there. 1488 01:56:15.079 --> 01:56:20.039 Nature's Way has been a leader for decades, for a very long time when 1489 01:56:20.039 --> 01:56:27.239 it comes to quality soil blends. They that's where. That's where things like 1490 01:56:28.319 --> 01:56:33.720 rose soil and veggie mixes and leaf mold compost and things like that. That's 1491 01:56:33.720 --> 01:56:39.720 where they were born. That really John ferguson Nature's Way that that is the 1492 01:56:39.840 --> 01:56:43.520 start of a lot of these mixes. And now we know our standards. 1493 01:56:43.920 --> 01:56:46.720 Nature's Way is having a deal right now that you need to know about. 1494 01:56:46.880 --> 01:56:55.039 It's thirty percent off in the nursery all the plants except native sun perennials. 1495 01:56:55.039 --> 01:56:58.439 That's only one thirty percent off everything else at Nature's Way Resource. Yes, 1496 01:56:58.479 --> 01:57:00.439 they have a nursery right there. You can go in and check out lots 1497 01:57:00.479 --> 01:57:03.960 of good native plants. By the way, twenty percent off. Now, 1498 01:57:03.960 --> 01:57:10.039 listen carefully to this one. Twenty percent off all composts, all soils, 1499 01:57:10.560 --> 01:57:14.640 and all mulches. If you mentioned that you heard about them on guard line, 1500 01:57:14.720 --> 01:57:15.880 you have to say that. You say, hey, I heard Skip 1501 01:57:15.920 --> 01:57:19.279 say on guardline that you had twenty percent off of your molt or your soil 1502 01:57:19.399 --> 01:57:24.359 or your compost, and you'll get it. And they make quality mixes. 1503 01:57:24.760 --> 01:57:26.880 You can go pick them up by the bag. You can go pick them 1504 01:57:26.960 --> 01:57:30.439 up by the bulk. You can have them deliver it. Just get a 1505 01:57:30.439 --> 01:57:36.279 hold of them there at Nature's Way and check it out. Start do yourself 1506 01:57:36.319 --> 01:57:43.079 the favor of starting off by making that brown stuff magical so your plants thrive 1507 01:57:43.479 --> 01:57:49.239 nine three six three two one sixty nine three six three two one six nine 1508 01:57:49.720 --> 01:57:58.119 nine zero. Another thing that I did want to talk about is our garden 1509 01:57:58.199 --> 01:58:03.039 centers being open, are closed or what's open what's closed? You know, 1510 01:58:03.199 --> 01:58:06.239 just like houses around the Houston area, some people have power, some people 1511 01:58:06.359 --> 01:58:11.520 don't. But a lot of our places, from ace hardware stores to garden 1512 01:58:11.520 --> 01:58:15.119 centers and other places, even if they don't have power, they're they're on, 1513 01:58:15.479 --> 01:58:17.359 they're open, they're still going. But I would suggest you give them 1514 01:58:17.399 --> 01:58:20.640 a call wherever you're going to go, just call first. Just make sure 1515 01:58:21.039 --> 01:58:25.159 I know, ace hardware stores that have full power and they know as hardware 1516 01:58:25.199 --> 01:58:30.000 stores that don't, but they're open. You can go in there. You 1517 01:58:30.039 --> 01:58:31.920 can you know, you can still go and do that. Just give them 1518 01:58:31.960 --> 01:58:38.359 a call, make sure that they are able to have customers come in. 1519 01:58:38.520 --> 01:58:42.159 And I think that in almost all the cases when I'm talking about these sponsors 1520 01:58:42.159 --> 01:58:45.399 that they are. I know Buchanans Plants is for example, by the way 1521 01:58:45.479 --> 01:58:48.520 Buchanans is, it is a wonderful place for plants. I mean, you're 1522 01:58:48.560 --> 01:58:56.720 not going to find a selection like Buchanans of natives anywhere nearby. You absolutely 1523 01:58:57.159 --> 01:59:02.239 native plants, that's what they specialize in. They also have summer tough plants 1524 01:59:02.279 --> 01:59:06.600 that are non natives, and one of my favorite plants like that is redbird 1525 01:59:06.640 --> 01:59:13.079 of Paradise. It's also called Pride of Barbados. That's probably a better name 1526 01:59:13.159 --> 01:59:16.920 because there's another plant called bird of Paradise. It's also just gone by the 1527 01:59:17.039 --> 01:59:23.239 proper name Sey Sulpinia pool karam o pul Karima means beautiful and it is. 1528 01:59:23.359 --> 01:59:29.039 It is gaudy. It has these orange yellow red blooms. That are just 1529 01:59:30.119 --> 01:59:31.880 gorgeous. I mean, it's like sticking a pink flamingo out in the front 1530 01:59:31.960 --> 01:59:35.760 yard. You got to notice it. You can't not see it well that 1531 01:59:35.880 --> 01:59:40.960 they have that there. It's a wonderful plant, and many many other plants 1532 01:59:41.039 --> 01:59:44.680 as well. With Buchanans Plants, you do also want to do this. 1533 01:59:45.239 --> 01:59:51.760 Check out their website Buchanansplants dot com and when you get there you're going to 1534 01:59:51.840 --> 02:00:00.880 find that the opportunities for education are limitless. They always have new programs going 1535 02:00:00.920 --> 02:00:04.800 on at buchanans Plants dot com. For example, let me just give you 1536 02:00:04.840 --> 02:00:10.920 some examples. We're they're coming up on a tomato excuse me, not a 1537 02:00:10.960 --> 02:00:14.760 tomato class. Oh gosh, I can't say. Had the class in my 1538 02:00:14.800 --> 02:00:16.720 head just a minute go, and it jumped and jumped right out. Starting 1539 02:00:16.720 --> 02:00:19.680 a cutflower garden on August tenth, that's the one I was trying to think 1540 02:00:19.720 --> 02:00:24.479 of. Starting a cut flower garden on August tenth. Get that on your 1541 02:00:24.479 --> 02:00:30.800 calendar. Ten to eleven am on August seventeenth is the tomato class. Tomato 1542 02:00:30.880 --> 02:00:33.439 one oh one. Yes, you can grow tomatoes here and fall at Buchanan's 1543 02:00:33.439 --> 02:00:36.279 Plants. But I'm not gonna read all the things they have going on. 1544 02:00:36.680 --> 02:00:41.880 Just go online Buchanan's Plans dot com, sign up for the newsletter and check 1545 02:00:41.920 --> 02:00:46.279 them out. Always something happening there. We're gonna let's see here are We're 1546 02:00:46.279 --> 02:00:51.960 gonna head out now. Talk to our mystery caller. Who's calling this morning? 1547 02:00:55.479 --> 02:01:00.000 Who am I tell you? Open garden line? Well, welcome to 1548 02:01:00.039 --> 02:01:02.720 guard line. I didn't have your name on the screen, so how can 1549 02:01:02.760 --> 02:01:08.880 we help? I was calling because I'm having a problem on my pepper plants 1550 02:01:08.880 --> 02:01:14.439 with caterpillars, and I was just wondering what type of the herbicide or natural 1551 02:01:14.600 --> 02:01:21.279 organic item to help get rid of them. Okay, the simplest thing is 1552 02:01:21.319 --> 02:01:27.439 something called bt B as in boy Teas and tom. It's a caterpillar disease. 1553 02:01:27.520 --> 02:01:30.159 It doesn't hurt anything else. Good bugs are bad bugs other than caterpillars. 1554 02:01:30.159 --> 02:01:32.960 It doesn't hurt them. It just hurts caterpillars, and you spray it 1555 02:01:33.000 --> 02:01:36.199 on there. It only lasts a day or two in the environment where it 1556 02:01:36.239 --> 02:01:40.239 breaks down. But if you can get it on there and get them feeding 1557 02:01:40.319 --> 02:01:43.720 on it, it's good. You might want to try spring upward from underneath 1558 02:01:43.760 --> 02:01:46.439 the plant to coat the bottle of the leaves as well as the top of 1559 02:01:46.439 --> 02:01:50.319 the leaves, because sometimes caterpillars are under the leaves, hiding and feeding when 1560 02:01:50.319 --> 02:01:57.600 they're real young. Exactly. Okay, so it's BT. Yeah, look 1561 02:01:57.880 --> 02:02:02.000 any product with B T b As and boy Teas and tom. I don't 1562 02:02:02.039 --> 02:02:09.159 know what where area are you located in. I'm in East Parrace County over 1563 02:02:09.199 --> 02:02:13.680 here in the Sheldon area. Okay, Well you're gonna find you know, 1564 02:02:14.079 --> 02:02:15.800 met is widely available. You're gonna find it in our feed stores, in 1565 02:02:15.880 --> 02:02:24.199 our garden centers and Ace hardware stores. We got a lot of feedback coming 1566 02:02:24.239 --> 02:02:32.359 in there, so I hope that you Hey, thanks for calling this morning. 1567 02:02:32.439 --> 02:02:39.319 I appreciate that very much. We're going to you bet we're going to 1568 02:02:39.399 --> 02:02:43.439 go to a break right quick. When we come back, Lee in Sharpstown 1569 02:02:43.720 --> 02:02:48.760 and Hurt you'll be our first two up for the lazy days of summer. 1570 02:02:48.840 --> 02:02:53.399 This is that song? But who can tell me who sang it? Well, 1571 02:02:53.479 --> 02:02:56.520 I won't wait for an answer. The rem Brands, the rem Brands, 1572 02:02:56.600 --> 02:03:00.560 Yeah, that is one of them, proby the biggest song they did. 1573 02:03:00.039 --> 02:03:02.600 Welcome back to Guardline. Good to have you with us today. I 1574 02:03:02.640 --> 02:03:06.359 want to talk to you a little bit about microlife products. Microlife Fertilizer is 1575 02:03:06.479 --> 02:03:13.840 a Houston area fertilizer company. They are local and they have been a leader 1576 02:03:13.880 --> 02:03:15.960 in organic fertilizers for a very long time. Certainly, we have all the 1577 02:03:16.000 --> 02:03:20.960 bag fertilizers, like their multipurpose green bag for lawns and things. They have 1578 02:03:21.000 --> 02:03:26.760 the Humans plus, the Purple bag, which is concentrated compost in a bag. 1579 02:03:27.119 --> 02:03:30.880 They have an acidifying fertilizer a six two four acidifying. It's in a 1580 02:03:30.920 --> 02:03:34.279 reddish colored bag. But right now, with a lot of things we're trying 1581 02:03:34.319 --> 02:03:38.600 to do. As someone called earlier about had some questions about, you know, 1582 02:03:38.760 --> 02:03:42.399 salt that come into the soil and plants that were struggling along and stuff, 1583 02:03:42.640 --> 02:03:45.560 it's always a good time to do a liquid over plant root systems. 1584 02:03:45.600 --> 02:03:49.760 For example, the Humante plus is available by liquid, the super Seaweed is 1585 02:03:49.800 --> 02:03:55.159 available by liquid. The Ocean Harvest, which is a fish based fertilizer, 1586 02:03:55.239 --> 02:03:59.600 available by liquid. And there's several more that they have, including just the 1587 02:03:59.600 --> 02:04:05.359 point on old microlife molasses and molasses stimulates biological activity, and biological activity is 1588 02:04:05.399 --> 02:04:09.920 good, good for the soil. All available for microlife. You can go 1589 02:04:09.920 --> 02:04:14.000 to Microlife Fertilizer dot com fu will learn more about it. Easy to find 1590 02:04:14.079 --> 02:04:17.279 microlife products. They are ubiquitous. There's another big word for the day, 1591 02:04:17.520 --> 02:04:20.439 meaning they're everywhere. You can go to feed stores, you can go to 1592 02:04:20.479 --> 02:04:25.039 garden centers, you can got ace, hardware stores, office fertilizer. All 1593 02:04:25.159 --> 02:04:29.199 kinds of places are going to carry those microlife products. And we are going 1594 02:04:29.239 --> 02:04:31.479 to go out to Sharpstown now and talk to Lee. Hello, Lee, 1595 02:04:32.600 --> 02:04:39.800 Hey, how's it going. Well? Well, I'm about trees. Okay. 1596 02:04:41.399 --> 02:04:44.359 I got a lot of trees in my art, I mean, and 1597 02:04:44.399 --> 02:04:46.359 I got two questions about them. Amusingly enough, the sick tree that I 1598 02:04:46.399 --> 02:04:50.239 was really worried about didn't lose the leave my totally healthy pecan. However, 1599 02:04:50.359 --> 02:04:55.880 lost a big old branch way high up. And my first question is how 1600 02:04:55.920 --> 02:04:59.239 important is it that I get all the way up there and see up that 1601 02:05:00.960 --> 02:05:02.760 and I don't know, pat with some pain for something, or is it 1602 02:05:02.800 --> 02:05:06.319 safe to just leave it and let it heal naturally? The tree is healthy, 1603 02:05:06.359 --> 02:05:12.239 it just you know, so typically when branches break off, they don't 1604 02:05:12.279 --> 02:05:15.640 break off in a good way for the tree to heal over that area. 1605 02:05:15.159 --> 02:05:21.439 So coming back and making a fresh so you're not leaving this. Did the 1606 02:05:21.439 --> 02:05:27.520 branch break off right against the trunk or you know, a few inches or 1607 02:05:27.560 --> 02:05:30.399 a foot out or something? Yeah, a little ways out. Yeah, 1608 02:05:30.439 --> 02:05:33.439 it's about it putting a half a split coming out. You know, it's 1609 02:05:33.479 --> 02:05:38.079 not a clean break at all. Yeah, So follow that branch back to 1610 02:05:38.079 --> 02:05:43.319 where it attaches to a bigger branch, and you'll see that the diameter of 1611 02:05:43.319 --> 02:05:46.359 the branch starts to flare out right as it attaches. Right at the beginning 1612 02:05:46.439 --> 02:05:49.279 of that flare. Cut it off there, so you're not leaving a stub, 1613 02:05:49.680 --> 02:05:54.640 but you're not flush cutting it up against which makes a much bigger wound. 1614 02:05:55.159 --> 02:05:57.560 So just cut it off there. There's no need to treat it. 1615 02:05:57.680 --> 02:06:00.720 Make a fresh, clean cut, and that's that's what's in control of the 1616 02:06:00.760 --> 02:06:04.680 tree. I'll take it from there, okay. And my second question is 1617 02:06:04.680 --> 02:06:10.600 the tree that I was worried about. It's the older Arizona ash was. 1618 02:06:10.680 --> 02:06:14.439 I spent the entire storm worrying about it falling over. I really need to 1619 02:06:14.479 --> 02:06:18.760 take it out, but I kind of like to keep a memento of sometimes. 1620 02:06:19.039 --> 02:06:23.760 Do you know of any tree trimmers or anybody that has a portable sawmill? 1621 02:06:24.279 --> 02:06:27.359 So I could turn one of my beloved trees into furniture when it's time 1622 02:06:27.399 --> 02:06:29.800 for it to go, and I don't have to, you know, totally 1623 02:06:29.920 --> 02:06:32.840 let it go. Boy, I don't And I don't even know where to 1624 02:06:32.880 --> 02:06:39.359 start looking for that kind of thing. If it was an Arizona ash, 1625 02:06:39.439 --> 02:06:43.760 I probably would not use it for furniture because just the nature of the wood 1626 02:06:43.880 --> 02:06:47.560 is not that great. But as far as your question, I don't. 1627 02:06:47.560 --> 02:06:53.720 I don't know where to get a sawmill kind of source. But hopefully if 1628 02:06:53.720 --> 02:06:56.479 we put it on the radio, someone'll call and say, hey, I 1629 02:06:56.560 --> 02:06:59.359 know this, There you go, There you go. Well, I don't 1630 02:06:59.399 --> 02:07:02.039 know, maybe even a little local Google search or something would turn something out, 1631 02:07:02.079 --> 02:07:04.720 but yeah, we can. We can do that. Hey, thank 1632 02:07:04.760 --> 02:07:11.840 you, La, good luck. Take care. Well, let's see, 1633 02:07:12.000 --> 02:07:15.359 I wanted to talk to you about insects in the lawn. We're in the 1634 02:07:15.399 --> 02:07:18.840 season where chinchbugs are on the We're on the lookout for them. It's a 1635 02:07:18.880 --> 02:07:21.680 little early in the season, but not too early for them to occur. 1636 02:07:23.239 --> 02:07:27.239 Uh, we'll fall webworms. It's another one that can occur early earlier, 1637 02:07:27.319 --> 02:07:31.359 but generally a little bit later. Nitroposs bug out max is a granular product. 1638 02:07:31.479 --> 02:07:35.520 You put it out there after recommended rate, and you watered in and 1639 02:07:35.840 --> 02:07:41.520 these things that live down in the thatch and around the base of the grass 1640 02:07:41.520 --> 02:07:45.159 plant like chinchbugs, side web worms are done in that area too. Ants 1641 02:07:45.199 --> 02:07:48.560 and fleas and ticks and things. Nitrofoss bug Out Max will work for those, 1642 02:07:48.640 --> 02:07:51.640 and you put it down once and it's it's gonna work for the rest 1643 02:07:51.640 --> 02:07:56.000 of the summer season. So if these pest show up a little bit later, 1644 02:07:56.279 --> 02:07:59.840 you've already got it out there in place you're gonna find that. Like 1645 02:08:00.199 --> 02:08:05.079 other nitrofoss products, it's easy to find. The Bugout Max. RCW Nursery 1646 02:08:05.159 --> 02:08:09.600 carries those products plans for all seasons on two forty nine out in Kingwood Ace. 1647 02:08:09.680 --> 02:08:13.000 Kingwood Ace out there as well as a Taska seat to Ace are going 1648 02:08:13.079 --> 02:08:18.720 to be places you can get nitroposs products like this bug Out Max. We're 1649 02:08:18.760 --> 02:08:24.279 going to head back to the phones now and we're going to talk to Hurta. 1650 02:08:24.479 --> 02:08:28.199 Hello, Hurta, welcome back. Let's thank you. Let's see. 1651 02:08:28.239 --> 02:08:35.640 My second question is about my Cali lily I putty in a little bit of 1652 02:08:35.680 --> 02:08:45.640 a larger pot, but it has oh less than a quarter of inch blue 1653 02:08:45.840 --> 02:08:52.960 white streaks all along the leaves, and it hadn't bloomed since I first started. 1654 02:08:56.000 --> 02:08:58.359 That's interesting. I kind of need to see a picture to know for 1655 02:08:58.439 --> 02:09:05.800 sure what you're looking at with the white streak. No, I don't think 1656 02:09:05.840 --> 02:09:11.399 I can do that. That's okay, I think right now you're kely with 1657 02:09:11.600 --> 02:09:16.000 Keller lily is. The secret is they need good light intensity, but not 1658 02:09:16.479 --> 02:09:18.239 too much of the brunt of the hot sun. They don't they're not real 1659 02:09:18.439 --> 02:09:22.880 fond of that. They need conn. Yeah, well, I had been 1660 02:09:22.960 --> 02:09:28.479 taking it in after you told me that. The last time I leave it 1661 02:09:28.520 --> 02:09:33.760 out in the morning shune. But I bring it out on the porch for 1662 02:09:33.960 --> 02:09:37.159 afternoon. Oh boy, Well, you don't have to go do all that. 1663 02:09:37.680 --> 02:09:41.199 I don't know if there's a way to give it a morning sun or 1664 02:09:41.199 --> 02:09:46.720 whatever, but just just that's a lot of moving and a lot of trouble, 1665 02:09:46.760 --> 02:09:50.199 but try to try to provide it good light. Light is essential for 1666 02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:54.039 bloom production, and it is they are somewhat seasonal, so uh, just 1667 02:09:54.359 --> 02:10:00.000 stick with it and hopefully it'll turn around and you'll get you'll get some blooms 1668 02:10:00.079 --> 02:10:03.000 in time, probably next spring. All right, thank you very much, 1669 02:10:03.119 --> 02:10:07.520 take care. You've heard it, Thank you back call. I appreciate that 1670 02:10:07.319 --> 02:10:11.960 Peerscapes is a professional landscape service. You can go in there and say I 1671 02:10:13.000 --> 02:10:16.319 want you to do the whole thing everything, and they'll do it. You 1672 02:10:16.359 --> 02:10:18.399 could go in there and say I want to redo this bed. I need 1673 02:10:18.439 --> 02:10:22.359 you to design something that's beautiful. Maybe I want some maybe you want drought 1674 02:10:22.359 --> 02:10:26.079 tolerant plants or native plants or whatever. Work with them on it. They 1675 02:10:26.119 --> 02:10:31.800 can do that. They do hard scapes. They do irrigation work. They 1676 02:10:31.039 --> 02:10:35.439 help areas. If you've got bad drainage and you ought to know it by 1677 02:10:35.479 --> 02:10:37.239 now, if you do with that rain we just had, they can take 1678 02:10:37.239 --> 02:10:41.840 care of that. They also have a quarterly maintenance program where they come in 1679 02:10:41.199 --> 02:10:46.399 they do seasonal color changes in your flower beds. They make sure everything's mulched, 1680 02:10:46.439 --> 02:10:50.479 weeded, fertilized, check the irrigation. Pierscapes is an expert in all 1681 02:10:50.520 --> 02:10:54.079 of those and many more things. You can go to the website, and 1682 02:10:54.119 --> 02:10:58.119 I highly recommend you go to this website, pierscapes dot com. It is 1683 02:10:58.239 --> 02:11:01.399 inspiration and all to see the kind of work they can do, or give 1684 02:11:01.439 --> 02:11:07.399 them a call. Two eight one three seven o five zero six zero two 1685 02:11:07.439 --> 02:11:11.680 eight one three seven oh five zero six zero. I'm going to go back 1686 02:11:11.720 --> 02:11:15.920 out to the phones now, and I don't have your name on the board. 1687 02:11:15.920 --> 02:11:22.319 But who do we have today? It's calling? Yes, this you're 1688 02:11:22.359 --> 02:11:24.880 on garden line. Who am I talking to? My name is Ken. 1689 02:11:26.079 --> 02:11:31.560 I live out near Beasy. I have a I have a burrow tree. 1690 02:11:31.960 --> 02:11:35.359 Looks all healthy, but it has it's starting to grow a little fungus. 1691 02:11:35.399 --> 02:11:41.359 It's real hard, sticks out kind of like a half moon from the bark, 1692 02:11:41.399 --> 02:11:43.800 and I'm wondering what I should do with that. Is this on the 1693 02:11:43.840 --> 02:11:52.960 small twigs, No, it's on the main trunk and the little fungus mushroom 1694 02:11:54.039 --> 02:11:58.600 type thing is growing out about an inch and it's about half moon about three 1695 02:11:58.640 --> 02:12:05.880 inches is wide. And there's others growing along it. The largest one is 1696 02:12:05.920 --> 02:12:09.920 that. I think that is a decom decomposing fungi. But if you want 1697 02:12:11.039 --> 02:12:13.800 the best answer, I would put you on hold and have you send me 1698 02:12:13.840 --> 02:12:18.119 a photo to an email that you can get from my producer, and then 1699 02:12:18.159 --> 02:12:22.479 I would know for sure. But I think it's probably Is it white you 1700 02:12:22.520 --> 02:12:28.119 said, you know, it's kind of a darkish tan, light brown. 1701 02:12:31.800 --> 02:12:33.720 I need to see it. I have ideas, but I don't want a 1702 02:12:33.720 --> 02:12:37.159 wild guess, so uh, can I put you? Can I put you 1703 02:12:37.239 --> 02:12:41.119 on hold and get that picture and I will get you and yes, yes, 1704 02:12:41.520 --> 02:12:50.279 I'll do that. Okay, oh gee, uh that we're having we're 1705 02:12:50.279 --> 02:12:56.439 having issues at the at the station due to all these storms and things. 1706 02:12:58.520 --> 02:13:00.920 Just a second, let me put I'm an to put you on hold for 1707 02:13:01.000 --> 02:13:03.600 one second and I'll come right. I'll tell you what. Let's just do 1708 02:13:03.640 --> 02:13:09.760 this, could you could you call back? Try calling back tomorrow and and 1709 02:13:09.920 --> 02:13:11.720 let me get to get it to you. Then I don't have a way 1710 02:13:11.920 --> 02:13:20.520 of getting you to the producer right now. Sure, I just don't know. 1711 02:13:20.640 --> 02:13:26.359 It's ten three inches half moon. It's I want to say it's a 1712 02:13:26.399 --> 02:13:30.600 decomposer of fungi. It also, yeah, I just think that's the most 1713 02:13:30.720 --> 02:13:35.520 likely, but but I just it's real hard. Yeah. Yeah, are 1714 02:13:35.520 --> 02:13:41.479 there dead limbs on the tree around? Okay? How do you treat that? 1715 02:13:41.560 --> 02:13:48.520 If I do that? There's not a treatment for either one of those. 1716 02:13:48.079 --> 02:13:52.960 But we're kind of we're kind of stuck on high center here, So 1717 02:13:52.800 --> 02:13:56.520 give me a try back tomorrow. Let's let's see what we could do. 1718 02:13:56.560 --> 02:14:01.239 All right, Thank you? Okay, thanks so much. Yeah, we 1719 02:14:01.319 --> 02:14:09.880 too are dealing with a storm here and trying to get through some technological hurdles 1720 02:14:09.880 --> 02:14:13.359 that we're having to jump through. Uh. Ace Hardware stores are all over 1721 02:14:13.399 --> 02:14:18.359 the place. They're just widely, widely available, forty of them in the 1722 02:14:18.359 --> 02:14:22.119 greater Houston area. You can go to acehard Hardware dot com find the one 1723 02:14:22.159 --> 02:14:24.720 for you. What do you need right now? You know, do you 1724 02:14:24.800 --> 02:14:28.199 need do you need a little small generator, you know you power up and 1725 02:14:28.279 --> 02:14:31.640 do run some equipment or runner fridge or something like that off of They have 1726 02:14:31.760 --> 02:14:37.079 those a little gas powered things. Uh, if do you need perhaps an 1727 02:14:37.119 --> 02:14:41.520 air conditioning unit that can run off a generator and keep those nights that are 1728 02:14:41.600 --> 02:14:45.439 just not very comfortable right now? Are they a little less stressful? They've 1729 02:14:45.439 --> 02:14:48.479 got that new gas cans, They've got that evaperative cooling systems. They've got 1730 02:14:48.479 --> 02:14:52.760 that just make your list and stop by before the next hurricane shows up. 1731 02:14:54.159 --> 02:15:01.079 Ace Hardware has been getting truckloads of these kinds of let's just say hurricane relief 1732 02:15:01.159 --> 02:15:03.880 type items in and they're stocked out and ready for you to come in and 1733 02:15:05.479 --> 02:15:09.560 help you get off to a better start here. Ace Hardware Hurricane preparation, 1734 02:15:09.800 --> 02:15:15.359 ACE Hardware, Blondecair, ACE Hardware for pest and disease and weed management. 1735 02:15:15.960 --> 02:15:20.479 ACE Hardware. ACE is the place. Acehardware dot Com is where you find 1736 02:15:20.079 --> 02:15:24.239 the store locator so that you can find the ACE Hardware store nearest to you. 1737 02:15:24.319 --> 02:15:28.680 We're gonna take a break. We will be right back. James. 1738 02:15:28.039 --> 02:15:39.600 You'll be our first caller up you live. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back 1739 02:15:39.640 --> 02:15:43.199 to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richt. Good to have you 1740 02:15:43.239 --> 02:15:46.039 with us. We're going to run straight out this segment and we're going to 1741 02:15:46.119 --> 02:15:50.279 go talk to James in Spring, Texas. Hello James, and thanks for 1742 02:15:50.359 --> 02:15:58.600 waiting. Good morning, Skip. This is the first time I'm spoken with 1743 02:15:58.680 --> 02:16:05.279 you that you took over that position, and I have listened a lot. 1744 02:16:05.800 --> 02:16:13.399 I enjoy your program. My question on a tree I've got. I'm sitting 1745 02:16:13.399 --> 02:16:20.119 on about acre and a half in Spring, and I lost the six pretty 1746 02:16:20.159 --> 02:16:24.640 good sized trees in this storm. Fortunately it didn't hit anything but a fence. 1747 02:16:24.439 --> 02:16:31.359 But I noticed when I was cleaning up the yard near one that fell 1748 02:16:31.840 --> 02:16:39.399 that I've got this real tall pine tree. And I looked at the ground 1749 02:16:39.479 --> 02:16:46.079 around that pine tree the dirt and you can see where that trunk wiggled and 1750 02:16:46.120 --> 02:16:50.360 it moved. I'm going to say there was like a one inch gap in 1751 02:16:50.479 --> 02:16:56.760 the dirt around the base of that trunk. Now the roots or nothing is 1752 02:16:56.840 --> 02:17:03.120 lifted up, but it definitely did some rocket. Yeah, nothing to do 1753 02:17:03.159 --> 02:17:05.959 about that right now. I mean, you don't want that thing to happen. 1754 02:17:05.040 --> 02:17:11.399 But evidently that tree took one heck of a strong push from the storm 1755 02:17:13.000 --> 02:17:18.360 and remained upright, apparently unbroken, not uprooted. So I think I think 1756 02:17:18.399 --> 02:17:22.239 right now you wait and watch and see. It should be Okay, a 1757 02:17:22.280 --> 02:17:26.479 one inch move is not good, but it you know. I think the 1758 02:17:26.479 --> 02:17:33.440 the one thing that concerns me is that this is right on the property line. 1759 02:17:33.760 --> 02:17:39.719 If it fell to the south, it hit my neighbor's house. If 1760 02:17:39.719 --> 02:17:43.840 it fell any other direction, it wouldn't hurt anything. And I'm kind of 1761 02:17:43.879 --> 02:17:48.000 wondering, time wise, how long will it take that tree to re establish 1762 02:17:48.040 --> 02:17:54.840 itself if it's been you know, shook like then we don't know. And 1763 02:17:54.959 --> 02:17:58.680 my gut is that nothing got broken, It just got moved and the tree 1764 02:17:58.719 --> 02:18:03.040 held on. Understand the risks that is always the case when you've got a 1765 02:18:03.040 --> 02:18:05.840 big tree like a pine, They can fall if they're big enough, thing 1766 02:18:05.879 --> 02:18:09.959 fall pretty much any direction and do damage you don't want done. H So 1767 02:18:11.200 --> 02:18:13.040 you could call Martin Spoon Moore from Affordable Tree to come out and take a 1768 02:18:13.079 --> 02:18:18.600 look at it and see if he sees anything that is of concern to him. 1769 02:18:20.079 --> 02:18:22.920 Are not there on site. So I can't give you a final call. 1770 02:18:22.959 --> 02:18:26.840 I gave you my opinion, but that Affordable Tree would be you know, 1771 02:18:26.879 --> 02:18:28.639 if you want a number, I can give you one for him, 1772 02:18:28.639 --> 02:18:37.040 but that that would okay. But is it likely that that given time, 1773 02:18:37.120 --> 02:18:43.760 say by next season, if theres nothing nothing else disturbs it, that it'll 1774 02:18:45.239 --> 02:18:50.319 get his grip back. I guess for lack of a better way. Well, 1775 02:18:50.399 --> 02:18:54.600 if my if my best assessment based on a phone call, you know, 1776 02:18:54.760 --> 02:19:00.760 a description is true, then it is okay, and it it will 1777 02:19:00.840 --> 02:19:05.120 just continue on. It's okay. Yeah. So I didn't hear anything in 1778 02:19:05.159 --> 02:19:09.000 your words that made me think there's something broken that needs to be regrown or 1779 02:19:09.000 --> 02:19:15.000 fixed or whatever. Now it didn't seem to lose. It could have been 1780 02:19:15.040 --> 02:19:16.719 a limb or something come out of the top of it. I haven't really 1781 02:19:16.760 --> 02:19:20.680 looked at that. But there's nothing broken, there's no split, and it 1782 02:19:20.840 --> 02:19:24.719 seems to be. It hasn't moved the ground up, you know, were 1783 02:19:24.719 --> 02:19:28.239 some of those trees when they push over, well the roots will lift up 1784 02:19:28.239 --> 02:19:33.440 the ground that's all flat. So okay, all of a sudden watch it. 1785 02:19:35.200 --> 02:19:37.200 Yeah, that's nice. Essment Just remember this, a pine tree that 1786 02:19:37.239 --> 02:19:41.959 came through this storm just fine, could go down in the next one. 1787 02:19:41.200 --> 02:19:46.079 Not even a hurricane, just a good stormy thing. It's strange, you 1788 02:19:46.079 --> 02:19:48.479 know, we had those bad storms that knocked out power before a few weeks 1789 02:19:48.520 --> 02:19:54.600 ago, and then this storm came in and we lost trees that made it 1790 02:19:54.639 --> 02:19:56.280 through the other one. And that's just the nature of things. We even 1791 02:19:56.319 --> 02:20:01.200 have trees that, yes, sudden limb drop the middle of summer on a 1792 02:20:01.280 --> 02:20:05.520 still night. It's weird. But I'm just saying, based on what you 1793 02:20:05.639 --> 02:20:11.479 described to me, I don't see a damage that needs to be fixed. 1794 02:20:11.799 --> 02:20:16.280 But that's all right. Well, good luck with that. Thank you. 1795 02:20:16.959 --> 02:20:22.120 Thanks appreciate that call very much. We're going to now go out. Okay, 1796 02:20:22.319 --> 02:20:24.079 Color, I don't have your name on the board, but welcome to 1797 02:20:24.120 --> 02:20:31.159 garden Line. Who am I talking to? Christine? Hey Christine, how 1798 02:20:31.239 --> 02:20:37.639 can we help? I was listening to your show about somebody wanted to use 1799 02:20:37.680 --> 02:20:39.840 all this wood for maybe making furniture. And I just wanted to give a 1800 02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:48.600 reference that there's a Whitney Wolf in Atlanta that has a sawmill. The public 1801 02:20:48.760 --> 02:20:52.360 park system there when they are pruning and cleaning trees, or when there are 1802 02:20:52.440 --> 02:20:56.520 disasters or at any time, they bring him the wood and he mills it. 1803 02:20:56.799 --> 02:21:01.799 He has the kiln he makes for anture from this wood and the shavings. 1804 02:21:03.360 --> 02:21:07.040 Other people come that grow mushrooms commercially, people that grow or want, 1805 02:21:07.639 --> 02:21:16.239 uh the shavings for their garden, and so it's a completely economically and ecologically 1806 02:21:16.559 --> 02:21:18.639 balanced system. But he's got you know, I don't know of one here, 1807 02:21:20.040 --> 02:21:20.920 but there could be an affiliate, That's what I was saying. And 1808 02:21:22.000 --> 02:21:24.840 his name is Whitney Wolf. I don't know if there's an affiliate here in 1809 02:21:24.879 --> 02:21:31.159 Houston. All right, Well thanks for that information. The ultimate recycler. 1810 02:21:31.200 --> 02:21:35.719 They're they're like they say, what someone says, they're using everything from the 1811 02:21:35.760 --> 02:21:41.479 pig except the oint, so it sounds right. And he makes beautiful furniture 1812 02:21:41.079 --> 02:21:46.559 from the wood that he uses. And that's online too that they sell tables, 1813 02:21:46.680 --> 02:21:50.200 you know, things. So it's really a neat idea. And I 1814 02:21:50.239 --> 02:21:52.200 didn't know if we had one here, but I thought to pass them along. 1815 02:21:52.200 --> 02:21:54.600 Well, I appreciate you calling him to do that, and thank you 1816 02:21:54.760 --> 02:22:01.440 very much for the key. Have a good day, Christine. Where are 1817 02:22:01.479 --> 02:22:07.040 we here? Let's see we're going to head to Wow. Okay, I 1818 02:22:07.239 --> 02:22:09.719 just are you their color? I can't see who you are, but if 1819 02:22:09.760 --> 02:22:16.120 you give a you hello, welcome to Yeah, good morning Clark and Heights. 1820 02:22:16.959 --> 02:22:20.639 Hey Clark, how can we help? Well? I have sort of 1821 02:22:20.639 --> 02:22:26.639 related questions. I have uh, one big of coontry in the backyard, 1822 02:22:28.319 --> 02:22:31.680 and I think because of this drow that we had. It's just my grass 1823 02:22:31.760 --> 02:22:37.680 is dying like crazy in my backyard. And also have the same problem in 1824 02:22:37.760 --> 02:22:43.799 my front have a big red oak tree there that the grass. I've been 1825 02:22:43.799 --> 02:22:48.000 here, I've been here many years, and yes, sir, we've never 1826 02:22:48.000 --> 02:22:52.920 had a problem before. And then to add to that on the area between 1827 02:22:52.959 --> 02:23:03.239 the sidewalk and curb, about fifty fifteen foot squares spot, it's just bad. 1828 02:23:03.239 --> 02:23:05.799 I mean, it's just I don't know how to replant that or what 1829 02:23:05.840 --> 02:23:09.799 I should do about that. All right, Well, that's that is good 1830 02:23:09.920 --> 02:23:13.719 information. I'm hearing in my ear that we got to run to a break. 1831 02:23:13.799 --> 02:23:18.680 If you will hang on, I will address the grass under the trees 1832 02:23:18.719 --> 02:23:22.040 and the grass at the curb. Uh. Basically, just hang on for 1833 02:23:22.040 --> 02:23:24.520 a little bit. I'll be right back. Uh. If you'd like to 1834 02:23:24.520 --> 02:23:26.319 be able us to call the phone number seven one three two one two K 1835 02:23:26.360 --> 02:23:37.520 T R H. I will be right back. Good to have you with 1836 02:23:37.600 --> 02:23:39.920 us today. I tell you, have you been out to Arbigate lately. 1837 02:23:41.840 --> 02:23:46.079 I'm telling you the place looks awesome. I know we're entering summer, but 1838 02:23:46.280 --> 02:23:52.840 it is still time to plant things. Arbigate's got some outstanding summer color plants. 1839 02:23:52.280 --> 02:23:56.159 Uh. You know, there's many plants we're familiar with. Of course, 1840 02:23:56.239 --> 02:23:58.360 the perennial hibiscus. You're familiar with that. You know, it does 1841 02:23:58.399 --> 02:24:03.280 good. It's excellent here in the summer heat. But there's another plant that 1842 02:24:03.280 --> 02:24:07.360 they have out there called some believable and some believable, like as an unbelievable, 1843 02:24:07.440 --> 02:24:11.879 but it is believable when you see it. I've got one in my 1844 02:24:11.360 --> 02:24:16.000 guard I need to post that to our Facebook garden on Facebook page. Some 1845 02:24:16.200 --> 02:24:20.120 believable Helianthus. It's a type of sunflower, but it makes a bush. 1846 02:24:20.239 --> 02:24:22.440 It's a bush. It only gets maybe a couple of feet tall and maybe 1847 02:24:22.559 --> 02:24:26.360 two and a half feet wide something like that, somewhere in that range, 1848 02:24:26.799 --> 02:24:28.799 and it just blooms and blooms and blooms. They say it produces a thousand 1849 02:24:28.879 --> 02:24:33.760 blooms during the season, and that's because it's always blooming for a very very 1850 02:24:33.799 --> 02:24:39.040 long time and it is gorgeous, some believ That's another example. They also 1851 02:24:39.079 --> 02:24:41.719 have a plant called Pirate's Pearl. It's a little white blooming plant, looks 1852 02:24:41.799 --> 02:24:46.000 really good outstanding. You're gonna find it there, and you will find that 1853 02:24:46.120 --> 02:24:52.239 it just is just keeps going. It just keeps going through summer. Maybe 1854 02:24:52.360 --> 02:24:56.079 you're interested in a foliage plant, the colorful cannas, they've got those at 1855 02:24:56.120 --> 02:25:03.479 Arburgate Salvia's excellent selection of Salvia's. Arburgate is west of Tombull on twenty nine 1856 02:25:03.520 --> 02:25:07.520 to twenty. You just head out west from Tombull on twenty nine twenty and 1857 02:25:07.559 --> 02:25:11.879 on the right hand or left hand side, you'll see Arburgate. Before you 1858 02:25:11.920 --> 02:25:16.280 get there, Trishell Road leaves off of twenty nine to twenty, circles around 1859 02:25:16.399 --> 02:25:20.319 Arburgate and comes back to twenty nine to twenty. So I would recommend turn 1860 02:25:20.399 --> 02:25:24.319 down Trishel to go to the new parking lot in the back. It's all 1861 02:25:24.399 --> 02:25:28.959 weather and it's the easiest, safest access you can have. You know, 1862 02:25:28.040 --> 02:25:33.079 when you go to Arburgate, you're going to excellent advice from people that know 1863 02:25:33.239 --> 02:25:37.280 their stuff, and you know you're going to get a plant selection that is 1864 02:25:37.559 --> 02:25:41.840 just unstoppable. Don't let summer stop you from gardening. Hey, we got 1865 02:25:41.840 --> 02:25:46.879 two and a half more months here of blazing summer weather. Let's get some 1866 02:25:46.920 --> 02:25:50.040 plants out there and color things up. Let's break up the sea of green 1867 02:25:50.319 --> 02:25:54.840 at the Arborgate. We're going to now go out to the phones here and 1868 02:25:56.520 --> 02:26:01.760 pull up, so welcome to garden Line. Tell us your a Clark. 1869 02:26:03.920 --> 02:26:07.399 Hey, you glad to have you. But oh that's right, I had 1870 02:26:07.399 --> 02:26:11.079 you on hold. Sorry, yes sir, Yeah, no problem, my 1871 02:26:11.159 --> 02:26:16.120 brain. My brain was busy well during a break, So going on. 1872 02:26:18.079 --> 02:26:22.639 Yeah under whenever you get shade, even Saint Augustine, it gets shady enough 1873 02:26:22.680 --> 02:26:26.719 to where it just doesn't have energy to do much and if it starts to 1874 02:26:26.959 --> 02:26:30.559 h it's hard to get it to come back. You know, you need 1875 02:26:30.719 --> 02:26:35.079 extra energy to regrow and get thick and all of that, and that just 1876 02:26:35.159 --> 02:26:39.360 doesn't happen in the shade very well, So it may be the area is 1877 02:26:39.440 --> 02:26:43.200 too shady. Now. Selective limb removal can help that, but it's only 1878 02:26:43.239 --> 02:26:46.239 a temporary fix, and it costs quite a bit of money, you know, 1879 02:26:46.319 --> 02:26:50.639 to get somebody up there to do that. So the only thing I 1880 02:26:50.639 --> 02:26:54.879 would suggest or be considered transitioning that area into something other than turf grass, 1881 02:26:54.920 --> 02:26:58.200 something that can take the shade. And you got a lot of options for 1882 02:26:58.280 --> 02:27:03.000 that, but I think that's about all you can do in the shade. 1883 02:27:03.040 --> 02:27:07.360 I tell people set the more as high as you can to get as much 1884 02:27:07.399 --> 02:27:11.200 grass blade as you can, keep all the foot traffic off of it to 1885 02:27:11.239 --> 02:27:15.239 give the grass every chance. And if that doesn't work, then let's transition 1886 02:27:15.319 --> 02:27:22.799 to another kind of plant, like, for example, OKH groundcovers. There's 1887 02:27:22.840 --> 02:27:26.959 a number of different groundcover plants that will do well of varying heights. I 1888 02:27:26.000 --> 02:27:30.760 mean, some people in areas that are moisture in the shade, they'll put 1889 02:27:30.799 --> 02:27:35.399 ferns in there to cover over the ground. A cast iron plant will be 1890 02:27:35.479 --> 02:27:39.719 part of a large bed that does well. Aztec grass looks like you're wiape, 1891 02:27:39.879 --> 02:27:43.600 but it's white and green striped and it does well and shape. It 1892 02:27:43.639 --> 02:27:48.319 just depends on how bright the shade is and what kind of plant you want 1893 02:27:48.360 --> 02:27:52.120 to look at. A juga is another shade tolerant groundcover that you can have 1894 02:27:52.239 --> 02:27:58.280 do well, it's a little bit tolerant. In the part that I'm most 1895 02:27:58.280 --> 02:28:03.840 concerned about is the grass that actually died and there's brown dirt left there is 1896 02:28:05.000 --> 02:28:07.760 out on the street in a hot sun. I mean, have been there 1897 02:28:07.799 --> 02:28:13.479 for many years. We saw that as it's been going well for years, 1898 02:28:13.559 --> 02:28:18.760 and you just lost it. I lived here for fifty years, okay for 1899 02:28:18.799 --> 02:28:22.879 some reason, Yeah, I would reside it soon. Is there no living 1900 02:28:22.920 --> 02:28:30.840 grass at all in that area? No? Sure, okay, there is, 1901 02:28:30.639 --> 02:28:35.000 but not not in this cup of spots. Okay, Well, if 1902 02:28:35.079 --> 02:28:37.159 on the edges of what's dyed, you can get on on your hands and 1903 02:28:37.239 --> 02:28:41.040 knees and get your face down there near the grass level part the grass and 1904 02:28:41.040 --> 02:28:46.239 look for little chinch bugs crawling around in there. They're little black and white 1905 02:28:46.239 --> 02:28:50.120 bugs, smaller than a grain of rice, about half the size of a 1906 02:28:50.120 --> 02:28:54.239 grain of rice. And if that's the case, then you need to treat 1907 02:28:54.239 --> 02:28:56.280 those because just putting new grass in, they're going to move right back into 1908 02:28:56.360 --> 02:29:01.760 the new grass. But if you don't, but I would get that sided 1909 02:29:01.840 --> 02:29:05.120 a S A P. Because you've got a lot of time for the stay 1910 02:29:05.000 --> 02:29:11.200 to get well established. And a good place to buy grass would be I 1911 02:29:11.280 --> 02:29:13.920 have a truck, so I can go get it. Yeah, you know 1912 02:29:13.959 --> 02:29:20.280 there's a number of grass suppliers through the area. Yeah, I might ask 1913 02:29:20.360 --> 02:29:22.520 it. You know, what what area are you in right now? In 1914 02:29:22.600 --> 02:29:30.760 the Heights Downtown Houston area, that's right just north of downtown. I'm about 1915 02:29:30.799 --> 02:29:35.799 six blocks from Buchanans. Well, I would go by there. They probably 1916 02:29:35.879 --> 02:29:39.360 sell some sod there. I don't. I haven't, but if not, 1917 02:29:39.520 --> 02:29:43.399 they could tell you. They could tell you where we're lovely. Yeah, 1918 02:29:43.719 --> 02:29:46.879 there's a country cowboy or something like that, Alcle Brigmore on the west side. 1919 02:29:46.920 --> 02:29:52.200 That this huge place. But okay, well I'm gonna have to run. 1920 02:29:52.239 --> 02:29:56.360 Thank you though for Colin. I appreciate that. Uh going to a 1921 02:29:56.399 --> 02:30:00.280 new call here, Welcome to garden Line. Tell me who I'm talking talking 1922 02:30:00.319 --> 02:30:05.120 to? Ronda? Hey, Ronda, how can we help? Hey? 1923 02:30:05.760 --> 02:30:11.559 I live in Austin County and I have a huge water oak tree and part 1924 02:30:11.639 --> 02:30:16.159 of it is still alive, but like the top part is completely dead. 1925 02:30:16.680 --> 02:30:22.399 Does that mean the rest of the tree is dead. No, it means 1926 02:30:22.600 --> 02:30:26.000 that just the top died out. That could be anything from a lightning strike 1927 02:30:26.159 --> 02:30:31.360 to a anytime you get a severely stressed tree, root damage, droughts, 1928 02:30:31.520 --> 02:30:35.680 other things, the peripheral parts of the first to go, and that it's 1929 02:30:35.719 --> 02:30:41.879 like the tree loses that and you'll often see trunk sprouting below that where it's 1930 02:30:41.000 --> 02:30:45.440 trying to send out new foliage because it has to have leaves to survive and 1931 02:30:45.479 --> 02:30:48.840 do well, so it's trying to release what it lost. But that's what 1932 02:30:48.879 --> 02:30:54.760 that sounds like to me. That's typically not any particular disease doing that. 1933 02:30:54.639 --> 02:30:58.040 Okay, thank you so much. All right, Ron, thanks, I 1934 02:30:58.040 --> 02:31:03.600 appreciate your call. All right there, Well, gosh, we've run out 1935 02:31:03.600 --> 02:31:07.719 of time here. We've got another show coming up tomorrow six am to ten 1936 02:31:07.760 --> 02:31:11.479 am. We appreciate you listening to Guardline. I'm just going to end this 1937 02:31:11.559 --> 02:31:15.280 with talking a little bit about trees again. Things that you may see. 1938 02:31:15.319 --> 02:31:18.399 I mentioned that if a tree has blown over and you want to straighten it 1939 02:31:18.440 --> 02:31:20.479 back up, if it's a young tree, let's say one to two years 1940 02:31:20.520 --> 02:31:24.680 old, you can do that. You just got to leave those stakes for 1941 02:31:24.719 --> 02:31:28.360 a very long time. You can use the three sixty tree stabilizer. I 1942 02:31:28.360 --> 02:31:33.319 would get two of them and do them at kind of an angle coming in, 1943 02:31:33.479 --> 02:31:39.239 so whether the tree blows toward it the stakes away from the steaks left 1944 02:31:39.280 --> 02:31:41.920 or right, it's going to be stabilized. That would work. If it's 1945 02:31:43.040 --> 02:31:46.559 let's say five years plus. For sure, you're not. It's just not 1946 02:31:46.719 --> 02:31:50.600 going to make it. When you see a bunch of broken roots up in 1947 02:31:50.639 --> 02:31:52.840 the air now because the tree's blown over, you put it back down. 1948 02:31:54.200 --> 02:31:58.559 Number one, it takes an incredible amount of support to hold a bigger tree 1949 02:31:58.159 --> 02:32:01.959 when the wind blow, and it's just not practically to do. It's going 1950 02:32:03.040 --> 02:32:05.959 to take those roots forever to re establish and be strong enough to where it 1951 02:32:05.959 --> 02:32:09.479 doesn't just blow over again. So don't bother with it. I hate that 1952 02:32:09.479 --> 02:32:13.840 that happened to your tree. Put a new tree, get it out of 1953 02:32:13.879 --> 02:32:16.760 there, get it cleaned out, and put you win out. That's just 1954 02:32:16.959 --> 02:32:22.479 the bottom line. You're pruning off branches on your storm damaged trees. You 1955 02:32:22.559 --> 02:32:24.879 want to go follow that branch back to where it attaches to the trunk, 1956 02:32:26.799 --> 02:32:30.000 and as it gets close to the trunk, it flares out a little bit. 1957 02:32:30.440 --> 02:32:33.920 That's the base of the branch attachment. You want to cut it off 1958 02:32:33.040 --> 02:32:39.319 right outside that where, right where the branch shrinks down to about the size 1959 02:32:39.360 --> 02:32:41.920 it's going to be. Cut it off right there. That way, you 1960 02:32:41.959 --> 02:32:46.440 don't leave a stub which will die and prevent closure of the wound. Nor 1961 02:32:46.559 --> 02:32:50.040 do you cut it against the trunk, which creates a bigger wound. Because 1962 02:32:50.040 --> 02:32:52.239 this is flaring out. So the farther in you go to cut it, 1963 02:32:52.799 --> 02:32:56.440 the more you're going to have a larger wound. So that'd be my best 1964 02:32:56.440 --> 02:33:00.440 advice. No need the truth its wounds. I need to trade him. 1965 02:33:01.000 --> 02:33:03.840 We'll be back tomorrow and talk some more about tree damage. Then