WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.599 Katie r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:11.759 advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's 3 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:38.399 crazy trim. Just watch him as many battis. They're not a sad credit. 4 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:45.159 Well, good morning on a what is going to be a awesome Saturday. 5 00:00:45.159 --> 00:00:48.840 We've got we have got the weather today. This is going to be 6 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:52.079 a good one. Welcome to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 7 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:55.240 and we're here to answer your gardening question. So let me give you 8 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.840 a phone number. You can write this down and give us a call when 9 00:00:58.880 --> 00:01:03.880 you have a question about guard that's seven one three two one two five eight 10 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:10.359 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Speaking of 11 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:12.560 it being a great day out today, I'm going to be going out to 12 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:19.040 r CW Nurseries after the show. I'll be out there for their fall Fling, 13 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:22.120 and it is a fall fling. They're going to have barbecue sandwich lunch. 14 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:26.120 They're gonna have a sale on all the shrubs and select trees that they 15 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.120 have on stock there. And you know they always have a good stock there 16 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:34.760 at RCW because they grow their on trees up in the Plannersville area. That'll 17 00:01:34.799 --> 00:01:38.079 be fifteen percent off all shrubs and on select trees. They're going to be 18 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:42.519 given away or today we're all going to be given away the frostcloth and different 19 00:01:42.519 --> 00:01:46.200 fertilizer. We're gonna give away flowers. We're gonna give away a fungicide for 20 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:49.920 your lawn. We're going to give away the uh see. I've got a 21 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:57.159 number of microlife products and some Nelson products and the nitrophost fungicide. Also lay 22 00:01:57.200 --> 00:02:01.079 spark elm white oak, Mexican white oak, and live oat seedlings. And 23 00:02:01.159 --> 00:02:06.319 these are row bust seedlings. So if you're looking to put a tree in, 24 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.719 these are three excellent species that will do well and they're given away free 25 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:14.919 seedlings. They've got deals going on. The San Filippe red maple, it's 26 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:16.680 normally one hundred and fifty. It's on sale for a hundred. If you 27 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:20.879 want a live oat, normally one hundred and fifty. These are fifteen gallon. 28 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:23.159 By the way, these are pretty good sized and they're on sale for 29 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:27.240 one hundred too, So it's a good time to come out. I hope 30 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.719 you'll come out and see me if you've got any samples to be identified or 31 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:36.199 to be diagnosed. I'd be happy to do that. If you maybe you've 32 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.919 got some pictures on your phone we could look at, say hey, what 33 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.599 would be a good plan for this area or whatever questions you have, come 34 00:02:42.599 --> 00:02:46.599 on out. I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty, and I 35 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:50.120 hope to see you. If you have a piece of property and have been 36 00:02:50.159 --> 00:02:53.599 thinking about getting a tractor, now is the time. And the reason I 37 00:02:53.639 --> 00:02:59.879 say that is because Caboda and Lansdown Moody have teamed up to create a wonder 38 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:04.800 full deal. Now. Lansdown Moody that's our Houston hometown tractor company. They've 39 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:08.000 been here since nineteen thirty six. They have nine locations on the Texas Gulf 40 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:13.520 Coast. It's easy to find them. The specific website you need to go 41 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:17.199 to to check this out is lmtractor dot com. And what is the deal? 42 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:21.080 Well, you pick the Cabota you want. I would recommend you take 43 00:03:21.080 --> 00:03:23.919 a hard look at the L twenty five oh two that's the workhorse from Cabota, 44 00:03:24.319 --> 00:03:29.080 and then you go to tractor package dot com and you pick out the 45 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.560 accessories that you want for your tractor. You know things like a front end 46 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:37.439 loader, for example. And then you go Orange with their finance plan, 47 00:03:37.680 --> 00:03:42.039 which again is it's an unbelievable plan. And here's why, no money down 48 00:03:42.879 --> 00:03:46.919 and no interest from up to eighty four months eighty seven years. Folks, 49 00:03:47.199 --> 00:03:52.400 that is a long time lansdown. Moody is locally owned and locally operated, 50 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:55.800 and I recommend you go buy hop on one of those things and see what 51 00:03:55.879 --> 00:04:00.080 you think. I think, like I was, you'll be very very impressed 52 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:08.759 with the lensdown and the Caboda combination. I've got the number of things I 53 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:14.599 want to talk about today. One of them is the new USDA Plant Heartiness 54 00:04:14.960 --> 00:04:17.000 Zone map, and I'm going to talk about that in a little bit here, 55 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:20.519 but I've got quite a few things to say. There's a brand new 56 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:26.519 map out and I think it's number one. I'm excited that that happened because 57 00:04:26.560 --> 00:04:29.920 we needed a new map. It was time for that. But I just 58 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:32.240 want to kind of give you an idea from a gardener standpoint, how do 59 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:34.800 you how do you use that map? What does it mean, what does 60 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:40.399 it not mean? And so on. Well, folks were getting into the 61 00:04:40.920 --> 00:04:46.079 last call for fall fertilizing season. You know, the each each week you 62 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:50.199 wait is a little less time the grass has before it really slows down a 63 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:55.399 lot to be able to take up those nutrients. So how about the Nitrofoss 64 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:58.720 Texas three step. You know it's got their fall fertilizer. It's got the 65 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:02.920 Fall Special which is designed for our soils and for fall. Fall fertilizer is 66 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:09.800 different than spring and summer fertilizer. And then in the Nitrofoss three step, 67 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:15.319 you've got the Fall Special which is designed for fall. It make the grass 68 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:19.720 takes it up. It's able to create the carbohydrates necessary for cold heartiness and 69 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:24.399 when it comes out in spring to come out stronger. Second step of the 70 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:29.199 three step is the Nitrofoss barricade. It's a pre emergent and it's used to 71 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:32.800 prevent grassy and broad leaf weeds. So you get it down for the weed 72 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:38.560 sprout and when they try to sprout and establish little weed plants, it shuts 73 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:41.759 it down. That's why we call it barricade, forms a barricade on the 74 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:46.000 soil surface. The third step is the Eagle Tour fungicide, and it soaks 75 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:53.319 into the tissues and is there to help prevent diseases like brown patch and take 76 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:57.720 all root rot, which is also a disease that attacks when the cool temperatures 77 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:00.639 arrive, both in spring and in now. Where do you get nitroposs three 78 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:04.519 step well plants for all seasons? Has it on two forty nine in Chanet 79 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:10.160 Gardens out in Richmond or Lake Hardware and Angleton all examples of places where you 80 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:15.399 can find this and other nitrofoss products. You're listening to garden Line and our 81 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:20.839 phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one 82 00:06:20.920 --> 00:06:29.000 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was out in my vegetable 83 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:33.519 garden and you know, the warm season garden is still there, but it's 84 00:06:33.560 --> 00:06:36.399 not very happy to be there right now. And I have a lot of 85 00:06:36.439 --> 00:06:40.399 oak grove. Course. I've got some peppers though, and they seem to 86 00:06:40.439 --> 00:06:45.920 be very happy. Boy. Fall is pepper season, and most people think 87 00:06:45.959 --> 00:06:48.360 of peppers peppers are hot that therefore it must be summer. You know it's 88 00:06:48.360 --> 00:06:51.920 hot in summer, hot peppers. Well, actually, the fall is the 89 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:57.680 best pepper season of the year. And here's why you plant your pepper transplants 90 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:00.199 in the spring. And we're just gonna start at the beginning of the year 91 00:07:00.480 --> 00:07:04.639 and they grow and you get some peppers. The plants are relatively small, 92 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:09.959 and they will produce some peppers for you. Then it gets really really hot 93 00:07:10.040 --> 00:07:15.079 and production tends to wane during that time. And then when fall comes, 94 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:20.279 these plants have continued to grow and they begin to set fruit, which the 95 00:07:20.360 --> 00:07:25.759 peppers again. And oh my goodness, I have some hobby naro plants that 96 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:30.399 literally are you know, at eye level now with me, and they are 97 00:07:30.920 --> 00:07:35.360 I need to open up a hot sauce company because they are loaded up with 98 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:42.120 hobbnair. I got some klipenias also that also are growing. Not quite as 99 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:46.240 big as a hobbinarow's, but they are growing and they are loaded with peppers, 100 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:48.199 and so, you know, I just think that's a cool thing. 101 00:07:48.240 --> 00:07:55.639 I made a Christmas decoration for my door at the office last year. Everybody's 102 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.839 supposed to decorate their door. Well, I had to horticulturally decorate my door, 103 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.920 you know. Used create a little Christmas tree shape with some some branches 104 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:09.920 and twine, and then hung some some various boughs of evergreens on it. 105 00:08:09.959 --> 00:08:13.360 And then pepper's were my ornaments. And they've gone all the way to red 106 00:08:13.439 --> 00:08:16.160 by then and they made nice little ornaments. Well, we're gonna take a 107 00:08:16.199 --> 00:08:20.319 break. If you'd like to get on the board, Josh, we'll get 108 00:08:20.360 --> 00:08:22.920 you going and ready for when we come back at seven one three, two 109 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:28.920 one two fifty eight seventy four. All right, enjoying little Shake Russell music 110 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:35.639 this morning. That reminds me that the folks at Oba, the Organic Corticulture 111 00:08:35.639 --> 00:08:41.879 Benefits Alliance is they are having the lone store yule Ball fundraiser and this is 112 00:08:41.919 --> 00:08:45.840 something that that they do. It's one of the many things Oba does through 113 00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.519 the course of the year. But this fundraiser is Thursday, December seventh, 114 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:54.559 and it'll be from five thirty to nine thirty. It is quite an event. 115 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:58.879 It's at the ball room at Tanglewood and there's going to be you know, 116 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:01.679 the cocktails ob magician there at DA v C. Strings also will be 117 00:09:01.679 --> 00:09:05.720 there by the way, there'll be a fortune teller there. I mean, 118 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:07.840 it's just kind of a fun time. You dress up in your western attire. 119 00:09:09.159 --> 00:09:13.919 There'll be a wonderful dinner that they provide and the silent auction winners that 120 00:09:13.080 --> 00:09:16.720 silent auctions going on, and Shake Russell will be performing there. So if 121 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:20.200 you'd like to hear shake. This is a good time to do it. 122 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:24.000 All you got to do is go to OBA ONLINEHBA online, dot org, 123 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:30.879 slash register and you can find out more about it. Well, you're listening 124 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:35.399 to Gardenline and our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight 125 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:39.159 seventy four. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I 126 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:43.960 want to talk a little bit about the USDA Plant Heartiness Zone Map. Uh. 127 00:09:45.080 --> 00:09:48.399 The map was I think the last edition maybe in the first it was. 128 00:09:48.440 --> 00:09:52.960 The last most recent edition was in twenty twelves. That was eleven years 129 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.200 ago, and they've released now the twenty twenty three version and they updated it. 130 00:09:58.679 --> 00:10:03.519 The new version is based on the past thirty years of climate data. 131 00:10:03.919 --> 00:10:07.679 You know, we can have really unusual winters and unusual summers and so on. 132 00:10:09.039 --> 00:10:11.960 So you don't just look at a few years. You look at it 133 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:15.279 over time to try to get an idea. You know, how cold does 134 00:10:15.320 --> 00:10:18.879 it typically get in one spot for example. By the way, when you 135 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:24.159 go to the hardiness map, you can look for any location just by putting 136 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:26.159 in the zip code. You know, it's one thing to look at the 137 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:28.480 map and try to figure out where you are on that map, but if 138 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.759 you just put your zip code, it'll take you right to it. It 139 00:10:31.759 --> 00:10:37.120 makes it real easy. The map is as I've studied the map, it 140 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:46.480 looks like most areas have moved one half step warmer. So what was once 141 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:50.039 an eight B is now a nine A. There's an A and B with 142 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:56.480 each number, So those of you who were in HB eight B are now 143 00:10:56.519 --> 00:10:58.960 in nine A. For example, that's about a four or five degree day 144 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:03.639 different tread in there. It is a more accurate map, though, and 145 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:09.720 this is because instead of you know, doing like I don't know, eight 146 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:16.159 thousand stations across the country, this map has thirteen four hundred stations that roughly 147 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:20.440 that they are using the data from. So what you're going to find is 148 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:22.360 where you're located. In the past, they may have had to use a 149 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:28.159 station fairly somewhat of a distance away from you, and now it is likely 150 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:31.879 that they're using a station even closer to you, and that makes it a 151 00:11:31.919 --> 00:11:37.679 little more accurate for your location. Now, remember that the USDA Plant Hardiness's 152 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:43.279 own map tells just one thing, and that is, on an average winter 153 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:50.879 over the past thirty years, how cold did it get in your location. 154 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:56.480 That doesn't mean last year or the year before. It means on the average. 155 00:11:56.519 --> 00:12:00.000 And I jokingly say, when it comes to weather, on the app 156 00:12:00.159 --> 00:12:07.960 average is helpful, but maybe not real precise. And for example, if 157 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:09.919 you put one foot in boiling water in one foot in ice water, on 158 00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:15.120 the average, you're comfortable right in the middle. Well, that's of course 159 00:12:15.200 --> 00:12:20.080 ridiculous, but it makes a point. And that point is is that maybe 160 00:12:20.080 --> 00:12:24.000 on the average, they're going to tell you that your lowest winter cold of 161 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:28.720 the whole season is only twenty to twenty five degrees. That's the average. 162 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:31.879 Well, we could have a winter that it hardly freezes at all, we 163 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:37.159 could have a winter where we get down in the teens or hopefully not below 164 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:41.919 that because the weather fluctuates so much. But the average helps you choose your 165 00:12:41.960 --> 00:12:48.360 plants, and by choosing your plants based on cold heartiness, you can avoid 166 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:52.279 some of the damage that occurs when you pick a plant that really is for 167 00:12:52.360 --> 00:12:56.360 a warmer area than here. And I'm going to come back to talk about 168 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:58.399 the plant hardiness zone map, but I'd like to go to the phones for 169 00:12:58.440 --> 00:13:03.799 a minute. The phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight 170 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:07.240 seventy four, We're going to go talk to Larry out in sugar Land. 171 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:13.639 Hey, Larry, Yes, how can we help today? So well, 172 00:13:13.720 --> 00:13:18.360 I got this problem with some weed in my backyard. I think it's all 173 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.879 lower. Everybody has that problem. It has a little yellow flower. Okay, 174 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:26.480 yeah, it's a well, I mean it's real bad. You know, 175 00:13:26.639 --> 00:13:31.120 all ower the yards, you know, all around the neighborhood, everywhere, 176 00:13:31.240 --> 00:13:33.120 I guess does it do real real well? Do you have any shady 177 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.480 areas in your lawn? No, there is doesn't go open? Okay, 178 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:41.639 well, you know, without seeing the weed, I can't tell you for 179 00:13:41.679 --> 00:13:48.120 sure what it is. It sounds to me like a horse herb. The 180 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:52.200 weed horse are based on the little yellow flowers. But there are other weeds 181 00:13:52.240 --> 00:13:56.960 that make little yellow flowers. So well, it takes. It grows like 182 00:13:56.039 --> 00:14:00.799 benda summer too, you know, not only right now, but like when 183 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:05.039 the first coast bell came in and the heavy rain. Yeah, it just 184 00:14:05.080 --> 00:14:07.519 took over. You know what was the backyard? You know, it's everywhere. 185 00:14:07.639 --> 00:14:11.360 You know, all was Well, let's let's do it. Let's do 186 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:13.279 it this way, Larry. I can put you on hold when we're done 187 00:14:13.320 --> 00:14:16.480 talking here, and you can send me a picture and then I can tell 188 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:20.559 you specifically what it is. But that said, I can tell you it's 189 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:24.679 a broad leaf weed, and so the control of it will be the same 190 00:14:26.279 --> 00:14:31.600 no matter what the broad leaf weed is by and large, and that would 191 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:35.279 be a post emergent broad leaf weed control product. And you're out there in 192 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:43.840 Sugarland, You're you're pretty close to the Southwest Fertilizer and they they're on Bissonette 193 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:48.519 and Runwick in Southwest Houston, and they have a bazillion products. And you 194 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:52.399 could even take your weed and pull it up, put it in a bag 195 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.039 and take it in there, and they'll be able to tell you what it 196 00:14:54.159 --> 00:15:00.000 is and point you. They probably have six to ten different products that would 197 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.279 work on that weed. And so yeah, like I say, it's it's 198 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.639 growth pretty well. You know, I joked about everywhere because you know, 199 00:15:07.759 --> 00:15:09.919 people have got in the yards a little bit here, a little bit here. 200 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:13.120 You know. Yeah, well it would be it would be helpful to 201 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:16.000 get that ID and then get a product. It's going to be a post 202 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:18.279 emergent broad leaf we control product. There's a number of them on the market 203 00:15:18.840 --> 00:15:22.279 that work pretty well. But uh, if either you know, take a 204 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.080 sample into Southwest and then they can give you know, point you to what 205 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:30.039 you need for it. Or if you want to email me a picture, 206 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:33.919 I'll take a look at it as well. So would you like me to 207 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.480 put you on hold and so you can get an email? Yes, email, 208 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:39.799 that would be better. All right, I'm going to do that. 209 00:15:41.360 --> 00:15:45.320 Thanks a lot for the callery. Yeah. When it when it comes to 210 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:50.240 two weeds, there's different ways to divide them. One way is cool season 211 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.320 weeds and warm season weeds. Another way is annual weeds and perennial weeds. 212 00:15:54.440 --> 00:16:00.240 A third way is broad leaf weeds and grassy weeds. And when you're picking 213 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:04.360 a product, you need to kind of know what categories it fits in a 214 00:16:04.399 --> 00:16:08.879 lot of our warm season weeds have seeds on them, but they're not going 215 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:12.039 to make it very long. They're going to they're on their way out, 216 00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:17.600 and so when a weed hits that stage at this time of the year, 217 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:21.440 your best bet is to pull them up. Now, I think with the 218 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:26.000 weed that Larry was talking about, that's not going to be an effective approach. 219 00:16:26.360 --> 00:16:30.600 But things like the fall aster, which is the little dime sized daisy 220 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:37.320 like light pink to white blooms that one is setting a bazillion seed now, 221 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:41.799 and the sooner you pull it up and get all the seeds out, the 222 00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:48.000 better. You're not pulling it up to control this year's fall aster. You're 223 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:53.200 pulling it up to prevent next year's weeds. Because herbicides that kill broadleaf weeds 224 00:16:53.240 --> 00:16:57.879 don't work on fall aster when it's already at the point of setting seed and 225 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:00.879 it's going to die soon way, so your number one goal is to get 226 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.599 you know, there's probably five thousand seed on a good size fall astro plant, 227 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:10.400 and so that's that's what I'm talking about. You need to you need 228 00:17:10.440 --> 00:17:14.039 to get ahead of those. So anyway, well, now we're going to 229 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:18.720 head out to Spring and talk to Frank. Hello, Frank, Hey, 230 00:17:18.759 --> 00:17:22.079 Skip, how are you. I'm well? Thanks. Hey, listen real 231 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.480 quick, everybody's talking about their wheat problem. I have a dollar weak and 232 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:33.599 bermuta problem and I put an nerve beside and the dollar wheat is all browned 233 00:17:33.599 --> 00:17:37.720 out. Great. My concern is to permute up and in another six weeks, 234 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.799 I'm we have somebody come out and dig it out. And I went 235 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:47.240 online. Do I have to go down like six inches to get that permute 236 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:52.920 out? Well, yeah, and those little underground rhizomes break off and it's 237 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.559 hard to hand dig it, but you can. You just need to thoroughly 238 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:03.119 sift through the soil. Generally we don't worry about going quite six inches deep 239 00:18:03.160 --> 00:18:06.680 for it, but I would just dig it and you'll know pretty quick about 240 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:11.839 how deep those rhizomes are tending to run. After you dig it. It's 241 00:18:11.839 --> 00:18:15.359 not going to re sprout much because of the temperatures, but next spring it'll 242 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:18.480 reach out and then you know to go back. That's why it's a little 243 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:22.279 easier to start the process if you're going to hand dig bermuda to do it 244 00:18:23.720 --> 00:18:27.680 earlier in the season, when after the handig it comes right back and then 245 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:30.720 you know the ones you messed and you may do that three times. Yeah. 246 00:18:32.000 --> 00:18:33.839 Sure, we're going to dig it all out, and they just put 247 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:37.400 new top soil on and just haul away everything. So that should probably take 248 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:41.200 care of that. It's only about a sixty square foot area. I had 249 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:45.279 chinch blood problem also, so I just laid some saw down three weeks ago, 250 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:48.000 so that's okay. Now, are you are you adverse to spraying it? 251 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:56.559 I did that. I had I have people that come out of company 252 00:18:56.559 --> 00:18:59.200 comes out and they spread the dollar week twice and it didn't do it. 253 00:18:59.200 --> 00:19:06.039 So I went to a got a post number herb beside and sprayed the heck 254 00:19:06.079 --> 00:19:07.759 got it and it's all browned out. Okay. I just didn't know if 255 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:11.640 that would kill the bermute. Also, I didn't want to do the round 256 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:15.000 up for bermuda, but do you think that would have killed them? Round 257 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.519 up would kill bermuda? Also, if the bermuda is actively growing when we 258 00:19:18.559 --> 00:19:23.319 go into winter, you can spray a bermuda grass lawn with round up and 259 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:26.799 it doesn't make the lawn happy, but it kills the weeds and doesn't really 260 00:19:26.920 --> 00:19:33.720 kill the lawn because it needs an actively growing grass plant to be effective, 261 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:37.079 or any plant that you spray those kind of products on need to be actively 262 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:40.720 growing. Hey, Frank, I'm running against a hard break here. I 263 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:45.400 appreciate your Yeah, good luck with that. Well, here we are at 264 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:49.279 the end of another another section tomorrow. This morning's going fascinating it is. 265 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:55.359 I'm gonna just turn it over to you and then try to regroup. All 266 00:19:55.440 --> 00:20:00.880 ready to go? Alrighty, I'm ready. Well, welcome back to garden 267 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:03.160 Line our phone number if you'd like to give us a call seven one three 268 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:07.920 two one two five eight seven four. I was. I stopped by the 269 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:11.400 arbor Gate yesterday just to see what's happening out there and kind of visit with 270 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:17.119 the folks, and oh, my gosh, that place is already in full 271 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:19.880 swing for the holiday season. I went into the gift shop. Normally, 272 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:22.519 you know, I'm a plant guy, but I went into the gift shop 273 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:29.400 just it is. If you would love anything for a gift or for decorating 274 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:33.559 your home, they are set up out there. They also got their Christmas 275 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:37.920 trees in. The Christmas trees have come all the way from the Blue Ridge 276 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.720 Mountains in North Carolina. Now, if you live in North Carolina, and 277 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:47.079 I have family that does, it's pronounced in North Carolina. But North Carolina 278 00:20:47.160 --> 00:20:49.759 Christmas trees there they're beautiful. You know. I like that. A lot 279 00:20:49.799 --> 00:20:55.440 of lots that have Christmas trees they're just piled up, sitting on asphalt or 280 00:20:55.440 --> 00:20:59.680 whatever. Arburgate has theirs in these little bowls of water, so they stay 281 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:03.839 for and that is very very important on the trees. Hey, while you're 282 00:21:03.839 --> 00:21:08.279 at Arburgate, go ahead and grab one of their one two three system bags. 283 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:11.319 What is one two, three. Well, it's a food, it's 284 00:21:11.319 --> 00:21:15.640 an organic fertilizer, it's a soil, and it is a compost and all 285 00:21:15.680 --> 00:21:18.839 three are top quality. And if you're going to do any planting, go 286 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:21.519 ahead and get some of these. Even if you're not planning on planting right 287 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:25.000 now, get ready so when you ready to go, you can fix that 288 00:21:25.119 --> 00:21:27.920 soil and go full force. By the way, you should be planting right 289 00:21:27.960 --> 00:21:33.880 now. Now's a great time to get planting done. If you are thinking 290 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:38.039 about buying a generator, then let me tell you about something that you definitely 291 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:45.720 need to know. Quality Home Products of Texas sells generaic generators, and they 292 00:21:45.839 --> 00:21:49.839 you can buy generators a lot of places, but nobody, and I mean 293 00:21:49.839 --> 00:21:56.759 that nobody gives you what quality gives you in terms of service and an assistance. 294 00:21:56.000 --> 00:22:00.799 For example, you sit down with them and they match the generator to 295 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:03.680 what you need. When you say, okay, I want this one, 296 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:06.799 they take it from there, and all the hoops you got to jump through, 297 00:22:06.839 --> 00:22:08.960 you know, maybe got to go the HOA has to approve of something 298 00:22:10.079 --> 00:22:14.799 or just be notified or whatever. The electric company gas company too, These 299 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:19.839 are gas powered and the I don't know what else there's other types of things. 300 00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:23.519 They have to take ahead. They have to get ahead of them. 301 00:22:23.640 --> 00:22:26.160 I can't even talk this morning. They have to get ahead of all that. 302 00:22:26.319 --> 00:22:29.680 So then there's permission. They even come out and pour the lab, 303 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:33.599 they put the generator down, and then once you own it, they're there 304 00:22:33.359 --> 00:22:37.839 three hundred and sixty five days a year, twenty four hours a day to 305 00:22:37.000 --> 00:22:41.000 help you. Right now they have their holiday blowout. It's ten percent off 306 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:45.440 up to two five hundred dollars off. I mean, if you get a 307 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:49.039 real big, nice generator. But I find that a lot of folks just 308 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:55.119 need something a little bit smaller to take care of the particular maybe the freezer 309 00:22:55.160 --> 00:22:57.519 and refrigerator, or maybe you need to keep the internet going. They can 310 00:22:57.559 --> 00:23:03.519 do that. Here's the deal, QUALITYTX dot com. That's it, QUALITYTX 311 00:23:03.559 --> 00:23:07.920 dot com. Go there or give them a call at seven one three Quality. 312 00:23:08.079 --> 00:23:11.319 It's as simple as that. They have won so many awards. I 313 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:15.759 could spend the whole show talking about the different awards they've won, about serving 314 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:22.839 the customers and people come back and they make sure that you are happy with 315 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:26.680 it, and they continue to come in and take care of the generator a 316 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:30.240 couple times a year after you make the purchase, boy, peace of mind, 317 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:33.319 and you're not going to find a better time to go ahead and get 318 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:37.759 that done. So if you thought about buying a generator, now's the time. 319 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:40.319 Go ahead and get it done. We're going to head now out to 320 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:45.200 El Campo and talk to Linda. Hello, Linda, Hi. My problem 321 00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:49.279 is I received a plant from a funeral and I did find out from workers 322 00:23:49.279 --> 00:23:55.519 that it's a peace lily. It's three feet in diameter and four foot tall. 323 00:23:55.680 --> 00:23:59.000 I really don't have a place for it in my house. I was 324 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:03.279 wondering it can it be planted outside? I heard it's toxic to dogs, 325 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.119 and I have a dog in the backyard. Well, it's not cold hearty. 326 00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:11.079 It's like almost all the house plants you would have. It can't take 327 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:17.400 the temperatures outside. That is a big, beautiful plant. Wow, a 328 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:21.160 lot of people are ready their mouths are watering at the thought of having something 329 00:24:21.279 --> 00:24:23.480 like that. It's a very beautiful plant. It puts up a very low 330 00:24:23.559 --> 00:24:29.000 light, so that might open up some of the places where you might be 331 00:24:29.000 --> 00:24:33.920 able to keep it in the house. But yeah, outside, you know, 332 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.920 if we're talking about mild temperatures, yes, but if it's living at 333 00:24:37.960 --> 00:24:41.400 seventy two degrees or whatever in the house and then suddenly you put it outside 334 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:45.359 and it's fifty five. That's not going to go well for it, Okay, 335 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:48.759 So can I put it in a room that doesn't have much light? 336 00:24:51.359 --> 00:24:56.480 Yes, But it all comes down to think about foot candles. Our eyes 337 00:24:56.519 --> 00:25:02.599 adjust to different levels of foot candles of light, but plants don't. They're 338 00:25:02.599 --> 00:25:07.680 not able to make big changes in that. So you may want to have 339 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:11.640 a little maybe buy a grow light bulb and have a little lamp that's above 340 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.160 it shining down on it on a timer. That's what I do. I 341 00:25:15.240 --> 00:25:18.000 have some plants indoors in a spot that's a little too dark for them, 342 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:22.039 and I have a little grow light on a little lamp stand and it just 343 00:25:22.119 --> 00:25:23.359 shines on them. I've got it on a timer, so every day it 344 00:25:23.359 --> 00:25:26.480 comes on at a certain time, goes off at a certain time, and 345 00:25:26.519 --> 00:25:30.759 it's it's really easy to do. Okay. And how much water does this 346 00:25:30.799 --> 00:25:36.400 thing require? You want to keep it moist but not over watered. You 347 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:40.559 just and I know that's kind of a vague way to answer your question, 348 00:25:40.640 --> 00:25:44.839 but that's the truth. If it gets too dry, you're gonna have problems, 349 00:25:44.880 --> 00:25:47.599 and if it gets it stays soggy wet, you're gonna have root rots. 350 00:25:48.039 --> 00:25:52.000 And so I would just one trick you can use is if you sharpen 351 00:25:52.039 --> 00:25:56.640 a pencil and push it down in the soil and pull it out. You 352 00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:59.599 know how you use a toothpick to check if a pound cake's done or not. 353 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:03.480 It's the same kind of thing. When you pull that pencil out, 354 00:26:03.519 --> 00:26:07.359 that freshly sharpened spot at the end, it's if it's wet, well, 355 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:11.920 then you know the soil is moist. But if there's moist soil bits clinging 356 00:26:11.000 --> 00:26:15.160 to it, then that's another sign that it's okay. If not, then 357 00:26:15.200 --> 00:26:18.960 it's time to water. Okay, all right, all right, well that's 358 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:23.240 very helpful, so very much, thank you, Lily. I appreciate that. 359 00:26:23.920 --> 00:26:26.559 You know, if you are if you have house plants, or if 360 00:26:26.559 --> 00:26:32.400 you have outdoor plants for that matter. Nature's Creation has an all natural bedding 361 00:26:33.279 --> 00:26:37.200 bedding plant food with micarizal fungi, and it's not just for betting plants, 362 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:41.119 but it is designed for blooming plants. So it's got our falfon cotton seed 363 00:26:41.119 --> 00:26:45.480 meal, a lot of other things in it, including mic orizal fungi. 364 00:26:45.960 --> 00:26:52.359 So maybe you have outdoor beds where you have pansies or cyclomon or snap dragons 365 00:26:52.400 --> 00:26:56.319 and listen that whole thing. It's great for that. Nature's Creation all natural 366 00:26:56.400 --> 00:27:00.559 bedding plant food with micorizal fungi. It's available a number of places. Quality 367 00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:06.839 Feed on Luzan in north central Houston has it. Moss Nursery down southeast in 368 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:11.000 Seabrook, RCW Nurseries where I'm going to be today on two forty nine, 369 00:27:11.160 --> 00:27:15.559 and all Houston Garden centers carry Nature's Creation all natural betting plant food with mike 370 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:22.079 rhizal fungi. You're listening to Garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Richter. 371 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:26.480 We're here to answer your gardening questions. What is of interest to you, 372 00:27:26.640 --> 00:27:30.559 That's what we want to talk about. You can give us a call 373 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:33.920 at seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. When we come 374 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:38.079 back, I'm going to be talking a little more about the USDA Plant Hardiness 375 00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:41.160 Zone Map. In fact, I'm going to probably comment on that on through 376 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:45.960 the show today because I've got a lot of thoughts about the new map that 377 00:27:45.200 --> 00:27:52.200 just came out. Don't forget that. I will be at RCW Nursery today. 378 00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:56.920 I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty for their fall flag and 379 00:27:56.960 --> 00:27:59.799 there's a lot of good stuff going on, and I hope you can come 380 00:27:59.839 --> 00:28:04.880 out out and join us. Welcome back to Garden Line. We're glad you're 381 00:28:04.880 --> 00:28:08.960 listening today. I'm your host, Skip Richter and our phone number is seven 382 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:14.799 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, I want to 383 00:28:14.799 --> 00:28:18.799 tell you a story. Over fifty years ago. There was a young man 384 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:22.640 in college and he realized he had a baby on the way and he needed 385 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.960 to earn some money. So on Black Friday in nineteen seventy three, he 386 00:28:26.039 --> 00:28:30.960 opened up his store selling Christmas trees right on Highway two forty nine, and 387 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:34.799 then over time he began to sell other things. They added plants and flowers, 388 00:28:34.799 --> 00:28:37.880 tree shrubs, fertilizers, anything you can think of for your lawn and 389 00:28:37.920 --> 00:28:41.440 garden all times of the year. And that's why they call it plants for 390 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:47.720 All Seasons. That's how Plants for All Season got started with Christmas trees for 391 00:28:47.839 --> 00:28:51.440 sale. Isn't that interesting? So if you're out and about, you need 392 00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.559 to go buy and check out the trees that they have. If you're out 393 00:28:53.599 --> 00:28:57.079 and about on Black Friday, stop in and say hello. That is their 394 00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:03.559 anniversary that they are celebrating now on Black Friday. They're giving out free swag 395 00:29:03.640 --> 00:29:07.240 bags full of goodies too. So another reason, as if you needed another 396 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:11.079 one to go to Plants for All Seasons. So happy fiftieth anniversary to my 397 00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:15.359 good friends the Flowerty family out there at Plants for All Seasons. You can 398 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:18.480 go to the website Plants for All Seasons dot com. They're on two forty 399 00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:22.119 nine, just north of Luetto as you're going north on the right hand side. 400 00:29:22.759 --> 00:29:26.000 There they are, and they've been there a good while now, and 401 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:30.519 there's a reason for that, and that's the kind of products they carry and 402 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.960 the customer service that they provide at Plants for All Seasons. Our phone number 403 00:29:34.039 --> 00:29:38.200 is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you would 404 00:29:38.240 --> 00:29:41.359 like to give me a call, be happy to visit with you about things 405 00:29:41.480 --> 00:29:45.680 related to your lawn, your garden, your landscape, whatever you want to 406 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:49.960 talk about related to plants. I was talking about the Plant Hardiness oone map, 407 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.160 the new one from USDA, and I think I ended by making the 408 00:29:53.240 --> 00:30:03.160 point that that map is based on the coldest temperature over thirty years each year 409 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:07.920 the coldest temperature. They average those and that's how you get the number. 410 00:30:07.000 --> 00:30:11.720 Whether you're an eight A or or eight B, or nine A or nine 411 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:15.039 B. Most people listening to this show or in nine, eight B, 412 00:30:15.240 --> 00:30:22.559 nine A, and nine B zones. But before you choose a plant, 413 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:27.480 just realize that not all zone nines are equal. Did you know that? 414 00:30:27.680 --> 00:30:33.640 Did you know that there is a zone nine on the western coast of the 415 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:37.480 state of Washington. Yeah, the Washington up there by the Canadian border, 416 00:30:37.640 --> 00:30:41.799 there's a zone nine there because in that area it's cold a lot, but 417 00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:47.799 it doesn't drop down below the lowest average temperature that we do. So now 418 00:30:47.880 --> 00:30:51.039 let's just say in zone nine up there, you can grow blue spruce, 419 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:57.079 you can grow rhododendron, you can grow what else, Oh gosh, certain 420 00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:00.400 different kinds of us that we grow here, well, not down here, 421 00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:06.599 even for cynthia, not down here. But it's because the temperatures all through 422 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:11.240 the year are different. The USD hardiness Map has nothing to do with summer 423 00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:15.720 heat or how hot the nights are. Hot, sultry nights are very hard 424 00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:18.440 on plants here too. It has nothing to do with any of the other 425 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:21.839 climate factors. Now, I'm not dissing it. It's there for one point, 426 00:31:21.920 --> 00:31:25.799 and that is what would you expect on average? How cold is it 427 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:29.680 going to get this winter? That's what it's about. So just remember that, 428 00:31:30.359 --> 00:31:33.799 and you know these temperatures can vary year to year and you're going to 429 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:37.480 have to get some stuff out to cover and protect plants. That's just how 430 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.480 things go. But if you want to find out more about it, you 431 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.160 can go to my website Gardening with Skip dot com, and on that website 432 00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:52.160 I have a link as well as some other comments about the USDA Plant Hardiness 433 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:57.720 Zone Map. If you've speaking of landscapes, if you would like to take 434 00:31:57.759 --> 00:32:01.400 your landscape to the next level, well, Piercescapes they're the ones that can 435 00:32:01.400 --> 00:32:05.920 do it. Jason Garretty and his team out there. They can do everything 436 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:10.160 from like a complete design of a new landscape area. Maybe you just want 437 00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:15.079 to create some rock borders or hardescapes, or maybe you need help with your 438 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:19.640 drainage that is not working right and plants are suffering from it. They can 439 00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:22.880 do all of that. Now, Piercescapes is easy to get hold of. 440 00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:28.200 That's two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three seven o 441 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:34.200 five zero six zero, Or you can go to Piercescapes dot com and reach 442 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:37.160 them there. Check them out online. See the kind of work that they 443 00:32:37.200 --> 00:32:40.599 do. It's really amazing. Let's heat out to friends with now we're going 444 00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.200 to talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, how you do it? Skip? 445 00:32:45.400 --> 00:32:50.400 I'm well, thank you. I have a small vegetable garden and personally 446 00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:53.200 is just taking it over. Guys wondering is there any way to get rid 447 00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:55.680 of it? I know it's you can eat and all that stuff, but 448 00:32:55.720 --> 00:33:01.119 there's any way to get rid of it without having to kill our person. 449 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:05.039 Lane is a warm season weed, and yes it is edible. I was 450 00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:07.319 about to say, if you can't beat them, eat them, but personally, 451 00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:14.200 I like personlane. Actually, there's even vegetable varieties of percelaine that you 452 00:33:14.240 --> 00:33:15.960 can purchase. But you're trying to get rid of it. It's a warm 453 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:20.640 season. It sprouts when the weather's warm, and it can come up anywhere. 454 00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:22.640 If the soil is poor and droughty. Perslaine is just fine with that. 455 00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:27.319 It doesn't matter as far as getting rid of it. The best thing 456 00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:30.079 you can do is keep a mulch on the soil surface and don't allow sunlight 457 00:33:30.160 --> 00:33:35.440 to hit the soil. That will do it. If as far as spraying 458 00:33:35.480 --> 00:33:37.359 it at this time of the year, I wouldn't worry about it because it 459 00:33:37.440 --> 00:33:42.480 is about to die anyway, and you're not going to gain much trying to 460 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:49.200 spray it. But you could put down a pre emergent herbicide in those areas. 461 00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:52.680 I would probably do that in early to mid February. You may have 462 00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:58.039 to repeat it in the summer to prevent the seeds from germinating. But you've 463 00:33:58.039 --> 00:34:00.799 got to get the you know, you've got to get a that is a 464 00:34:00.839 --> 00:34:04.480 pre emergent to do that. But I'm telling you, just a good mult 465 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:08.199 will do the trick. Very good. I appreciate it, all right, 466 00:34:08.239 --> 00:34:12.840 sir, thank you. I appreciate the call. Yes, sir, thank 467 00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:16.679 you. I uh, you know, talking about weeds and stuff, people 468 00:34:16.760 --> 00:34:22.519 have different tolerances of weeds and some people it's like in the lawn especially, 469 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:24.039 it's like, hey, weeds are green, grass is green. I'm good, 470 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:27.239 I'll moh it it all looks good. Other people is like, no, 471 00:34:27.360 --> 00:34:30.880 there's one weed in the yard. Uh. And I'm you know, 472 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:35.679 going all out to make sure it dies and everybody falls somewhere in there. 473 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:42.480 But I'm telling you there's nothing better than malts to just prevent most weed problems. 474 00:34:42.559 --> 00:34:45.400 There's weeds that come through malts. Nut grass will come through malts. 475 00:34:45.920 --> 00:34:49.559 Bermuda grass will come through molts, and there's others that will too, But 476 00:34:49.719 --> 00:34:52.280 molts as a first start. If you don't mult your soil and you keep 477 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:58.199 bare soil areas, you are constantly going to be fighting weeds that is. 478 00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:02.360 That is just a guarantee because wherever the sunlight hits the soil, nature plants 479 00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:08.559 a weed. I was visiting with the folks at Microlife a couple of days 480 00:35:08.559 --> 00:35:14.320 ago talking about some of the different products that they carry, and you know, 481 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:17.199 the brown patch is our fall fertilizer. That's the orange bag. It's 482 00:35:17.199 --> 00:35:22.559 a five one three fertilizer. And if you haven't already fertilized, you need 483 00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:27.480 to get it done. Don't wait another day. This fertilizer, you put 484 00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:30.159 it down, you water it in, the microbial activity takes off and it 485 00:35:30.239 --> 00:35:36.280 releases the nutrients to support your plants. It works very very well. They 486 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:39.159 also have the Microlife humatees and that has a little bit of the potassium in 487 00:35:39.199 --> 00:35:43.480 it, which is the magic thing when we go into fall and want to 488 00:35:43.480 --> 00:35:47.280 strengthen our plants. So consider the hum mates plus the microlife brown patch and 489 00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:54.039 you have got a perfect blend for an organic fall fertilizer application. But remember, 490 00:35:54.239 --> 00:36:00.599 don't delay get that done. Each week that passes, things cool off 491 00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:02.400 a little bit more, the grass slows down a little bit more, so 492 00:36:04.079 --> 00:36:10.360 better sooner than later. I was talking about the plant harding, the zone 493 00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:15.800 map. I just wanted to come back to it one more time. So 494 00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:21.639 when you're picking your plants, your plants have will have a tag usually on 495 00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:29.480 them that says this is a zone eight or zone nine or zone ten plant. 496 00:36:29.920 --> 00:36:32.119 And I just realized that, just like I said, all zone nines 497 00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:37.639 are not equal. The weather varies dramatically between Zone nine is a different part 498 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:42.960 of the country. It's the same. It's true for plants. Plant you 499 00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:46.360 may see a plant that says it's for our zone, but it's a plant 500 00:36:46.480 --> 00:36:52.480 that is for zone the same number zone but in a different location in the 501 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:55.760 country. And be careful with that because a lot of times, especially when 502 00:36:57.239 --> 00:36:59.760 you know it says it's good in zone six, seven, eight, and 503 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:05.239 nine, I'm always skeptical because on the bottom end, or the warmer end 504 00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:08.519 of that range, they tend to stretch it a little bit, and it 505 00:37:08.559 --> 00:37:14.800 is cold hearty here. But again, it's not necessarily adapted here. And 506 00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:20.400 that's another reason why you need to go to a good, full service, 507 00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:25.119 local mom and pop nursery garden center. It is because when you go to 508 00:37:25.159 --> 00:37:28.719 these places, and I talk about them all the time. I was just 509 00:37:29.159 --> 00:37:34.559 mentioning the Arborgate mentioned plants for all seasoned Buchanans and warren southern garden, kingwood 510 00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:37.880 gardens. There's just a lot of them around here, and chanted forest and 511 00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:43.039 chenet gardens. All of these are garden centers that have staff that know what 512 00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:46.639 they're talking about, and they don't buy and then sell plants that don't grow 513 00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:50.880 here. Now, you can go to other places and you may think you're 514 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:54.159 getting a good deal on something, but you're wasting your money because the chances 515 00:37:54.239 --> 00:37:59.599 of you getting a quality plant and it you knowing that it's going to do 516 00:37:59.639 --> 00:38:02.639 well here are slim to none at a lot of places where they have no 517 00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:08.239 idea what they're talking about. I could ramt on this all day long. 518 00:38:09.000 --> 00:38:14.199 I have been in a big box store and ask someone a question. They 519 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:15.800 had no idea what they were talking about. And I asked them how long 520 00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:20.360 you've been working here? And they said, well, this is true. 521 00:38:21.000 --> 00:38:25.079 I was managing the jewelry counter last week. Another time someone I asked someone, 522 00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:28.960 they go, oh, I just got the job here. I was 523 00:38:29.000 --> 00:38:34.239 a hair dresser, haircutter before that. That's the preparation that they had. 524 00:38:34.599 --> 00:38:38.280 And I'm not saying that just to desks some of the box stores. I'm 525 00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:43.280 saying that because when you go to a mom and pop garden center, the 526 00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:46.519 ones we talk about on Guardline are prime examples. You get service, and 527 00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:52.559 you get service after the sale, and you get true information about how to 528 00:38:52.559 --> 00:38:55.320 plant that, how to take care of it, where it grows, and 529 00:38:55.360 --> 00:39:00.519 so on. It's a soapbox for me, but you know how it is. 530 00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:01.719 Hey, we're going to take a break. We'll be right back. 531 00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.000 Kt r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 532 00:39:09.039 --> 00:39:15.840 advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richard's 533 00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:34.199 Crazy Trip. Just watch him as well. Well, good morning on what 534 00:39:34.360 --> 00:39:38.320 is going to be a beautiful Saturday today. Chamber of Commerce, Weather we're 535 00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:45.000 gonna enjoy ourselves out at RCW Nurseries by the way, after the show today 536 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:46.519 from eleven thirty to one thirty. I'll tell you more about that later, 537 00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:51.960 but uh, if you're not doing anything right after this show or even into 538 00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:53.639 the early afternoon, you need to come out there. There's gonna be a 539 00:39:53.639 --> 00:40:00.679 lot of giveaways that we're doing out of RCW. I was talking with the 540 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:02.400 folks at Ciena Maltch. It was a while back they had a big shin 541 00:40:02.480 --> 00:40:05.519 dig down there, and by the way, it was a great one. 542 00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.320 I really enjoy every time I get to go down there. Ciena Maltch is 543 00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:15.159 south of Houston and for that whole area within twenty miles in all directions. 544 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:19.159 They can deliver. There's a charge for delivery, but they can deliver or 545 00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:21.880 you can just go right to the place and pick it up. They have 546 00:40:21.960 --> 00:40:25.400 bags, they have bulk they carry all the fertilizers that you hear me talking 547 00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:29.440 about here. And they have other products as well, including some tools and 548 00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:34.800 some other things. But Ciena Maltz has quality products. Maybe you're thinking about 549 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:39.519 doing a I don't know, a flagstone patio for example, they've got it. 550 00:40:39.599 --> 00:40:44.000 Maybe you'd like to create what's you know, the equivalent of like a 551 00:40:44.079 --> 00:40:47.639 dry river bed through through the property. For a specific kind of design, 552 00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:52.440 they've got rock for that. They have everything that you can imagine and they're 553 00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.280 easy to find. They're north of road sharing so it's FM five twenty one. 554 00:40:55.760 --> 00:41:00.159 Sienna Maltz dot com is the website. Need to go check them out, 555 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:04.199 and you need to go buy there. You'll be very impressed with their 556 00:41:04.239 --> 00:41:07.719 stuff, as I was. And it's important when you buy composts and molten 557 00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:12.599 things that you get a quality product, and that's what they carry there at 558 00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:20.239 the Siena Mulch. I've seen a number of people that bought cheap or organic 559 00:41:20.320 --> 00:41:25.760 materials like composts, composts and bed mixes, and the gardens suffered. In 560 00:41:25.800 --> 00:41:29.719 fact, that's why I saw them because they call me, my garden's not 561 00:41:29.800 --> 00:41:34.239 growing, and well you may have thought you saved some money on something, 562 00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:38.199 but yeah, not so much. If you haven't done your fall fertilizing of 563 00:41:38.239 --> 00:41:42.800 the lawn, now's the time. It is absolutely time to get it done 564 00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:47.079 asap. And in fact, Nitroposs they have a great fall fertilizer. It's 565 00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:52.360 the fall special. The nitroposs Fall Special. The design of it, the 566 00:41:52.480 --> 00:41:55.320 nutrient content and ratios of it are for fall, and it's got plenty of 567 00:41:55.320 --> 00:42:00.639 that potassium for winter heartiness and to make sure that when it comes out in 568 00:42:00.679 --> 00:42:05.079 the spring, it comes out strong because your grass, the initial growth of 569 00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:09.400 your lawn in spring is from stored energy, not from what the roots are 570 00:42:09.400 --> 00:42:13.880 taking up. Right at that point, the roots start to grow and pick 571 00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:16.440 up stuff pretty quick, but the initial health and growth and green up is 572 00:42:16.480 --> 00:42:21.639 based on stored energy. Now, Nitrofuss has this three step and the first 573 00:42:21.639 --> 00:42:24.960 step is the fertilizer. Second is the barricade, which is a pre emergent 574 00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:30.519 that stops weeds from getting established from seed, and you need to get that 575 00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:35.440 down ahead of time. I'd put down the Fall Special and the barricade and 576 00:42:35.559 --> 00:42:38.440 then apply about a half inch of water to move both of them down into 577 00:42:38.480 --> 00:42:44.079 the soil surface. That's very important. The third step is the fungicide and 578 00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:49.000 it's called Eagle Turf fungicide, and that's put down to soak into the tissue. 579 00:42:49.039 --> 00:42:52.360 So when brown patch and other diseases would want to come in and attack 580 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:58.599 your lawn, well, you've got a grass that already has been protected by 581 00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:04.760 that system locally systemic fungicide that they have. By the way, if you're 582 00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:07.880 doing if you're doing your lawn fertilizing, it's a good time to do the 583 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:10.719 as and mite application too. You do not have to do as mite when 584 00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:15.280 you fertilize, but it's just easy to remember and don't put it in the 585 00:43:15.280 --> 00:43:19.559 same hopper. It's a different particle size than your fertilizers and you won't get 586 00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:23.559 the right spread, even spread that you want to get. But asmite can 587 00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:27.440 be done any time of the year. It's chock full of all those trace 588 00:43:27.519 --> 00:43:31.559 elements that although they own the grass only needs a tiny bit. They are 589 00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:35.559 absolutely essential and it has to have them, and you want your sole bank 590 00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:37.599 account to have plenty of those in it. That's what aze MIT's about you. 591 00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:40.679 If you want to learn more, just go to asimite Texas dot com. 592 00:43:40.679 --> 00:43:46.519 They have a lot more information online there. You're listening to Gardenline, 593 00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:50.719 I'm your host, Skiprechtor, and our phone number is seven to one three 594 00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:57.440 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight 595 00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:06.480 seven four. The other day I got a call from somebody and they were 596 00:44:06.559 --> 00:44:12.400 asking me if it is okay to use oak leaves for malts. Now think 597 00:44:12.440 --> 00:44:15.039 about that for just a minute. Is it okay to use oak leaves for 598 00:44:15.159 --> 00:44:22.440 malts? Every oak tree on Earth, well in its natural setting, has 599 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:25.760 oak leaves for malts, and all the trees going by that oak tree have 600 00:44:25.920 --> 00:44:29.639 oak leaves for most Yes, it's good to use oak leaves for malt. 601 00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:35.320 There are very few times when I would say, don't use that tree's leaves 602 00:44:35.639 --> 00:44:37.840 for malts. We don't have a lot of black walnut here, but black 603 00:44:38.119 --> 00:44:44.840 walnut roots produce a substance called jew glown and it's their way of it's their 604 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:49.760 own natural herbicide that they used to keep other plants from being competition around them. 605 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:53.400 And it'll affect tomatoes and grapes and several other things. But in general 606 00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:59.679 the leaves are fine. Some have more tannins than others. But yes, 607 00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:04.679 the most important thing you do is multur soil molts Moltz moltz, and you 608 00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:08.320 are getting free leaves at your property every year. Those can be ground up. 609 00:45:08.599 --> 00:45:12.679 They can use for walk away materials. In a larger garden, you 610 00:45:12.760 --> 00:45:15.320 can that's what I do. You can make composts out of them. Or 611 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:20.000 you can just multch beds with them, but don't let that free organic matter 612 00:45:20.039 --> 00:45:22.400 go away. They have nutrients in them. Those leaves that fall on the 613 00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:25.679 ground, just like grass clippings, they have nutrients in them, and those 614 00:45:25.800 --> 00:45:30.440 nutrients you need to keep on your property, not pay somebody to haul your 615 00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:34.599 nutrients away. I always say if you don't, If you bag your clippings 616 00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:39.039 and you bag your leaves, you just are renting fertilizer. You buy the 617 00:45:39.039 --> 00:45:44.440 fertilizer, put it down. The nutrients go up to grow grass blades and 618 00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:47.400 leaves. You chop those off, rake those up and put them in a 619 00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:51.280 bag, and pay somebody to hollered away. That doesn't make any sense at 620 00:45:51.320 --> 00:45:57.519 all, That's sure, sure doesn't make sense. I was talking to things 621 00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:00.559 last week about salads and the greens we can grow. The cool season is 622 00:46:00.599 --> 00:46:06.000 the best season for salads, and if you have not, you need to 623 00:46:06.000 --> 00:46:08.239 get past. You know, let us for example, let us is good. 624 00:46:08.280 --> 00:46:12.639 It's kind of the mainstay. But baby kale we can grow this time. 625 00:46:12.920 --> 00:46:16.360 A regular we can grow this time. And sorel sorrel comes in different 626 00:46:16.360 --> 00:46:20.280 types. There's one type that has red veins and a green leaf. It 627 00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:23.079 is gorgeous. In fact, they have it at Enchanted Gardens. I saw 628 00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:28.559 it out there. The sorel has a tart kind of almost a lemony kind 629 00:46:28.559 --> 00:46:30.920 of flavor. So when you mix your salad with all these, oh my 630 00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:35.719 gosh, it is so good. While you're out an Enchanted Gardens, you 631 00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:37.599 need to check about some of the other things they have. Certainly they have 632 00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:43.440 Christmas trees in but they also have living Christmas trees that's not the same species. 633 00:46:43.480 --> 00:46:46.280 That may be junipers or cyprus or something else. But if you wanted 634 00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:51.280 something out in the yard that you know you could maintain and have that shape 635 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:53.599 to it, well they got you covered there. They have everything you need, 636 00:46:53.679 --> 00:46:59.159 including staff that know what they're talking about, and that is very very 637 00:46:59.199 --> 00:47:04.079 important. They are on the Katie fullsher side of Richmond off FM three fifty 638 00:47:04.159 --> 00:47:08.920 nine. Just go to Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com and you'll learn a lot 639 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:13.000 more. We're going to take a break right now. The numbers seven one 640 00:47:13.119 --> 00:47:19.480 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Hello and welcome back to garden 641 00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.599 Line. We're glad you're listening today. Our phone number is seven one three 642 00:47:22.840 --> 00:47:28.719 two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know, if you have been 643 00:47:28.760 --> 00:47:31.760 thinking about getting some roofwork done, you need to call the folks at Brinkman. 644 00:47:31.960 --> 00:47:36.599 And why do I say that, Well, because Brinkman has been here 645 00:47:36.760 --> 00:47:39.719 for fifty years. They are highly rated by the Better Business Breer Effact. 646 00:47:39.760 --> 00:47:45.360 They won the Pinnacle Award. They give they give you a good price, 647 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:51.000 they give you a good service. They make sure it's done right, and 648 00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:54.199 that is so important. These fly by night roofers that come through, they're 649 00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:58.079 gone. And if there's a problem, then what are you gonna do? 650 00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:01.519 Well, not with Brinkman. They fully warrant their work for twenty five years 651 00:48:01.519 --> 00:48:05.559 of service. You can get any you know, if you want a composite 652 00:48:05.639 --> 00:48:07.039 roof, do you want a metal roof, or do you want one of 653 00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:13.280 the Brinkman solar shingles. It's the timberline solar shingle roof that's really cool actually 654 00:48:13.320 --> 00:48:16.800 makes electricity for you. You can go to their website Brinkman Quality. It's 655 00:48:16.880 --> 00:48:22.719 b r I n K M A n N quality dot com or call them 656 00:48:22.719 --> 00:48:27.840 at two eight one four eight zero seventy six sixty three. We're going to 657 00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:30.880 go now out to a Tasca Sita and talk to Cheryl. Hello Cheryl, 658 00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:37.000 Hi, kis. I wanted to send you some pictures of my backyard and 659 00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:43.280 my sideyard. It was doing really good and I've already used the ncrofoss three 660 00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:49.360 steps sometime in October. And what am noticing? They're not They're not circular 661 00:48:49.480 --> 00:48:54.760 circles, are just very A lot of the grass looks like straw, and 662 00:48:57.039 --> 00:49:00.840 then if I pull it up, it's completely there is you know, no 663 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:07.840 roots, and some of the blades that are still green close to the straw 664 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:15.280 looking have like straw the size. So I've seen some lawns, but not 665 00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:19.480 very many of them, and so I have no idea what it is. 666 00:49:19.679 --> 00:49:22.480 Yeah, it could be a number of things. It may be more than 667 00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:27.159 one thing too. That's part of the If you would just send a picture 668 00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:30.519 kind of do one of the whole lawn, and do one close up of 669 00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:37.480 an area that's showing what you're describing in the leaf blades, then I would 670 00:49:37.519 --> 00:49:39.239 like you to you say, you can just pull it up. I would 671 00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:43.800 like you to just pull it up and then lay it on a dark surface 672 00:49:43.920 --> 00:49:47.000 sideways and let me see the roots going out and I'll take a look at 673 00:49:47.000 --> 00:49:51.599 that. We're looking for several possibilities here. I want to make sure we 674 00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:55.079 cover all of them. But in general terms, you've done what you need 675 00:49:55.119 --> 00:49:59.480 to do. You've got your fertilizer down, you took care of any fungus 676 00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:02.559 or we issues it might come up in it. You shouldn't have to water 677 00:50:02.679 --> 00:50:07.440 right now. I mean the rains that we've had and the mild temperatures are 678 00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:10.280 fine. If we go a couple of weeks without rain, well then give 679 00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:14.199 it a little bit of water. But in general, we are cutting way 680 00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:16.679 back on watering. And the reason I say that is you can make things 681 00:50:16.760 --> 00:50:21.840 worse by overwatering things like brown patch, for example. You're just giving it 682 00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:25.480 such an edge. So that's what I would recommend. But let's take a 683 00:50:25.519 --> 00:50:30.679 look at those so that I can make sure when I tell you what to 684 00:50:30.760 --> 00:50:36.280 do, I'm giving you accurate information. All right Now, the parts that 685 00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:38.519 I pull up that are like straw, you might pull up some that some 686 00:50:38.800 --> 00:50:43.400 green so it has some roots on. Yeah, you're saying it just pulls 687 00:50:43.480 --> 00:50:46.639 up. Does the grain just pull up or are are No, it's just 688 00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:50.559 one of the straw. It just pulls up, and it's like really, 689 00:50:50.679 --> 00:50:54.159 it's like shunk it. It's like a different color. It's like orangish color. 690 00:50:54.199 --> 00:51:00.400 And yeah, yeah, I think I think some of that is just 691 00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:05.159 natural die back. We got some weather that's cooled off a little bit, 692 00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:09.719 but we also have some we went through. What was I'm trying to say, 693 00:51:09.719 --> 00:51:15.280 Oh, this summer's extreme drought could have weakened the grass and just made 694 00:51:15.320 --> 00:51:19.920 it kind of I don't know, not go into the falls as strong as 695 00:51:19.920 --> 00:51:22.920 it should have. But let me take a look at it, because otherwise 696 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:30.639 I'm just spouting possibilities and that's not helpful. Okay. And then what website 697 00:51:30.679 --> 00:51:35.519 do I send it to skim? Oh you when you're gonna get an email 698 00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:38.320 from Josh, I'm put you on hold and you sent it to that email. 699 00:51:38.360 --> 00:51:40.519 All right, Hey, Cheryl, thank you for the call. I 700 00:51:40.559 --> 00:51:45.440 appreciate that very much. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 701 00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:50.920 fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 702 00:51:51.480 --> 00:51:54.760 By the way, if any of you have lawn problems and you are anywhere 703 00:51:54.760 --> 00:52:00.880 close to the RCW Nursery, which is where two forty nine Tombo Parkway comes 704 00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:07.119 into belt Way eight, it's right there easy to get to if you want 705 00:52:07.159 --> 00:52:09.039 to put those in a bag. Let me see them. Just make sure 706 00:52:09.079 --> 00:52:14.719 you get a four x four inch plug and the zone between healthy and dead, 707 00:52:14.960 --> 00:52:17.639 So don't bring me dead grass. I'm unable to do autopsies, but 708 00:52:17.760 --> 00:52:22.559 I can do diagnosis. So bring me a sick patient and we'll take a 709 00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:25.320 look at it, get some roots with it, and if there's anything going 710 00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:28.760 on in there, I'll be able to see it. And I'll be there 711 00:52:28.760 --> 00:52:32.000 from eleven thirty to one thirty today, So that's a good chance to get 712 00:52:32.039 --> 00:52:38.519 that done. It is tree planting season, it is shrub planting season. 713 00:52:38.599 --> 00:52:44.719 It is perennial planting season. Perennial herbs, flowers, grasses, all of 714 00:52:44.760 --> 00:52:47.280 that should be going in now. It's also the season to plant cool season 715 00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:52.000 color, so it's a time to plant. But the most important thing you 716 00:52:52.079 --> 00:52:55.880 plant, if you are going to have I can get out in the garden 717 00:52:55.920 --> 00:53:00.679 for I got Saturday morning or afternoon or whatever, and that's all the time 718 00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:05.400 I got. If you're planning on establishing a woody ornamental, you need to 719 00:53:05.400 --> 00:53:09.079 do it now. That is so important to give it all of these months 720 00:53:09.119 --> 00:53:14.480 before it gets blazing hot again to establish a root system. And verdant tree 721 00:53:14.480 --> 00:53:17.480 Farm has a wide variety of trees. I mean, they are known for 722 00:53:17.559 --> 00:53:23.199 their palm trees, but they have a lot of just standard types of trees 723 00:53:23.239 --> 00:53:27.440 and all sizes, all the way up to seven hundred gallons. And the 724 00:53:27.480 --> 00:53:29.719 thing I like about it is you go to the tree farm, you pick 725 00:53:29.760 --> 00:53:30.760 out the tree you want. You get to pick it out, just like 726 00:53:30.920 --> 00:53:35.920 choosing a Christmas tree. You pick out the one you want and tag it. 727 00:53:36.000 --> 00:53:37.599 They'll tag it and bring it to your house and they'll plant it, 728 00:53:37.639 --> 00:53:42.480 and they do it right. If you happen to be a veteran, they 729 00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:46.159 offer a ten percent discount for both military and first responders. By the way, 730 00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:52.280 too out at Verdant Tree Farm verdanttreefarm dot com. There's one on Barker 731 00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:57.159 Cyprus in West Houston. There's one where Yo comes into it in the Heights 732 00:53:57.199 --> 00:54:01.000 area, and there's also one down in pair Land on Broadway Streets. It's 733 00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:07.880 not easy to find your way to a Verdant tree farm. That talking about 734 00:54:08.239 --> 00:54:14.880 Verdant and trees and the importance of that. Whenever you're let's say you're buying 735 00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:19.519 a smaller tree and it's one you're going to plant yourself, remember that it 736 00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:23.079 is important that if you have any circling roots on the outside of that container, 737 00:54:23.280 --> 00:54:28.920 cut them in about three or four places around the roots cylinder, you 738 00:54:28.960 --> 00:54:32.519 know, so just vertically slice down with a box cutter knife if it's if 739 00:54:32.559 --> 00:54:37.360 the roots are small, or get your handprinters out and cut them. They 740 00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:42.639 will branch and it'll establish better, and the long term prognosis for that tree 741 00:54:42.679 --> 00:54:45.199 will be much much better as well. When you plant it right, don't 742 00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:50.239 plant it too deep. The topmost root. I don't care how much soil 743 00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:52.920 is in the container. Find the topmost root and put that at the soil 744 00:54:52.960 --> 00:54:59.360 line right add or slightly below, not much the soil line. That is 745 00:54:59.519 --> 00:55:02.000 very important as well. There's other tips on how to plant, but those 746 00:55:02.360 --> 00:55:07.920 those are just a couple of them. It's important to do it right. 747 00:55:07.960 --> 00:55:09.480 Those are investments. Sometimes there are you know, if you get a big 748 00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:14.800 tree, that's a pricey investment and you just need to get it. Give 749 00:55:14.840 --> 00:55:17.199 it every chance in the world to get off to a good start. That's 750 00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:22.119 important. That's why I always tell people when you buy a tree, get 751 00:55:22.159 --> 00:55:24.079 a tree hug or sprinkler. You may not be using it a lot this 752 00:55:24.280 --> 00:55:30.199 winter, but you might need it some because you know, an established tree 753 00:55:30.239 --> 00:55:34.079 and the winter should not need water. But when you just put a new 754 00:55:34.079 --> 00:55:37.679 one in the ground and it's starting to grow roots, the entire root system 755 00:55:37.679 --> 00:55:40.320 of that tree is right there. Now. If it's deciduous, that's good. 756 00:55:40.559 --> 00:55:44.800 There's no water pumping going on to speak of, and it's okay. 757 00:55:45.119 --> 00:55:47.000 But if it is like a live oak and it has leaves through the winter, 758 00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:51.519 it's pumping water. And you may have moist soil out there, but 759 00:55:51.559 --> 00:55:54.800 that root cylinder pumps dry. And that's where the tree hugger sprinklers come in 760 00:55:54.840 --> 00:55:58.760 because you can, you know, you can turn them on just a little 761 00:55:58.800 --> 00:56:01.599 bit, or turn them on a lot that tree five years from now, 762 00:56:02.320 --> 00:56:06.960 ten years from now, when we go into summer droughts, you can put 763 00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:09.519 the tree hugger around the trunk, turn it on and give a good soaking 764 00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:14.519 to the most important area to survive. That's why I like those things. 765 00:56:14.559 --> 00:56:17.800 They're available all over the place, real easy to find a tree hugger sprinkler. 766 00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:23.800 You can also go to their websites tree huggersprinkler dot com. Simple as 767 00:56:23.920 --> 00:56:30.480 that. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven 768 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:36.719 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give us a 769 00:56:36.719 --> 00:56:39.400 call. Josh will get you on the boards and we can talk about the 770 00:56:39.440 --> 00:56:45.280 things that are of interest to you. I seem to be on a roll 771 00:56:45.360 --> 00:56:50.400 here with trees, so I'm just going to keep going because I got trees 772 00:56:50.440 --> 00:56:53.880 on my brain right now. I talked about the importance of planning a tree, 773 00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:59.559 right, and that's very very important. Uh, when you dig that 774 00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:02.159 whole, by the way, don't dig deep and then fill soil in to 775 00:57:02.239 --> 00:57:07.039 set the tree on. Dig only as deep as the root cylinder. So 776 00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:10.960 get a little measure and tape and set that black pot the tree came in 777 00:57:12.159 --> 00:57:15.239 on the ground, and measure how deep is it from the bottom of the 778 00:57:15.280 --> 00:57:19.000 pot up to where the soil is. That's how deep your hole should be. 779 00:57:19.639 --> 00:57:23.079 And that way the tree sits on firm soil and doesn't sink as it 780 00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:29.079 settles over time. That is important. If you've got trees already that are 781 00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:34.039 growing, training them properly early is very important. If you've got nice established 782 00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:38.519 trees, do not let anybody touch those trees that doesn't absolutely know what they're 783 00:57:38.519 --> 00:57:43.760 doing. And that's why I'm always talking about Martin spoonmore at Affordable tree because 784 00:57:43.760 --> 00:57:45.719 he knows what he's doing. He's been doing in a long long time here, 785 00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:49.960 I believe thirty years now. He's been taking care of Houston trees. 786 00:57:50.280 --> 00:57:52.679 But when you get somebody that doesn't know what they're doing, the printing cuts 787 00:57:52.719 --> 00:57:58.639 they make and I drive around town and see them all the time will ruin 788 00:57:58.679 --> 00:58:02.239 a tree. And therefore life. You can do everything you can to help 789 00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:06.559 the tree recover, and a good arborus like Martin U he can get in 790 00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:10.440 there and work on it. But that bad printing job just is for years 791 00:58:10.440 --> 00:58:15.159 and years and years. So in fact, let me give you Martin's number. 792 00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:19.480 It's seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. Seven one 793 00:58:19.519 --> 00:58:25.239 three six nine nine two six six three. Call Martin or his wife Joe 794 00:58:25.280 --> 00:58:30.599 will answer. They answer their own phones. If you get somebody else, 795 00:58:30.800 --> 00:58:34.039 hang up. You got the number wrong, call the wrong place. Seven 796 00:58:34.119 --> 00:58:37.440 one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three. You can also go 797 00:58:37.519 --> 00:58:42.719 to the website aff Tree Service dot com. Now you need to call now 798 00:58:42.880 --> 00:58:45.480 and get on the schedule. There's a lot of printing going on as we 799 00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:49.840 go through the cool season, and Martin stays busy. You know, when 800 00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:52.119 you do your job right, and you know what you're talking about, and 801 00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:53.400 people say, yeah, I hired this guy and it was he did a 802 00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:58.119 great job. You tend to fill up and he does. Just tell him 803 00:58:58.159 --> 00:59:00.239 you are a garden Line listener so that you can get to the front of 804 00:59:00.239 --> 00:59:04.920 the line, because that's what he does. And he provides a garden Line 805 00:59:05.079 --> 00:59:07.840 kind of the front of the line spots and get it scheduled. Even if 806 00:59:07.880 --> 00:59:10.559 it's going to be in February that the printing is done, you need to 807 00:59:10.559 --> 00:59:15.280 get its scheduled now, don't delay. Go ahead and get that, get 808 00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:20.880 that checkbox checked and out of the way, and proper tree work can get 809 00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:22.679 done. And he won't say you something you don't need. He'll do the 810 00:59:22.840 --> 00:59:25.920 amount of pruning that is best for your tree. Well, we're going to 811 00:59:25.960 --> 00:59:29.800 take a break here our phone number seven one, three, six, nine, 812 00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:36.360 nine fifty eight seventy four. Donald, Well, welcome back to garden 813 00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:37.960 Line. While ago, when I was going to break I gave you the 814 00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:43.239 wrong number. I was mixing up Affordable Tree and my number, so I 815 00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:45.119 don't know what would happened if you call the number I gave you. Our 816 00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:50.000 number here on garden Line is seven to one three, two, one, 817 00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:57.239 two, five, eight seven four simple as that. The folks at Ace 818 00:59:58.199 --> 01:00:01.719 Ace Hardware Store have added more stores. They have forty stores here in the 819 01:00:01.719 --> 01:00:07.639 Greater Houston area, the Orange and Bay City stores or the new locations. 820 01:00:07.679 --> 01:00:12.119 Hey guys, welcome to the ACE Houston Area group and the garden line as 821 01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:15.760 well. You know, ACE is the place for your lawn. It's as 822 01:00:15.760 --> 01:00:20.039 simple as that. We know, for the outdoor living, the patio materials, 823 01:00:20.159 --> 01:00:22.960 the taking care of your plants, They've got all that. But did 824 01:00:22.960 --> 01:00:27.800 you know Ace is also the place for Christmas lighting and decoration needs, both 825 01:00:27.840 --> 01:00:32.320 indoor and outdoor. They've got all the accessories that make that installation fast and 826 01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:37.320 easy, and so you don't have to count of Jerry rig something to get 827 01:00:37.320 --> 01:00:40.039 that wreath to hold up on. They got all that covered. They have 828 01:00:40.239 --> 01:00:45.320 lights and every size, every color, I mean, just all these configurations. 829 01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:50.360 They also have something called custom lights by the foot and it's what you 830 01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:53.039 would think it is. You just go to an ACE and ask them about 831 01:00:53.079 --> 01:00:55.960 their custom lights by the foot. Do you need wreaths, do you need 832 01:00:57.039 --> 01:01:00.480 garland? They've got all of that and Ace hard And how do you find 833 01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:05.239 an Ace Hardware store? Well, you just go to Acehardware dot com, 834 01:01:05.639 --> 01:01:08.840 Acehardware dot Com to the store locator and it'll take you right there. You 835 01:01:08.840 --> 01:01:12.760 can find the one near you, and there'll be more than one near you 836 01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:15.719 because they are everywhere. We're going to head out now to Lakeside of States 837 01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:21.880 and talk to Marine. Hello, Marine, good morning. Well, I 838 01:01:22.039 --> 01:01:28.840 have an exceptionally beautiful points out of your plant. It's in a large pot. 839 01:01:29.400 --> 01:01:36.360 And by large, the width of the diameter is fourteen and the depth 840 01:01:36.440 --> 01:01:39.880 of the pot is sixteen. It's just been something that is sold at this 841 01:01:40.000 --> 01:01:44.400 time of the year. Yes, so I've already checked out the soil. 842 01:01:44.679 --> 01:01:50.280 It's not wet, but it's sort of cool. The bracts are perfect, 843 01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:53.400 and so that's why I'm calling. Life can be wonderful. But when these 844 01:01:53.440 --> 01:01:59.079 start bawling apart, it's sad. Yes it is. Since it's perfect. 845 01:01:59.239 --> 01:02:04.000 You need to tell only how to figure out about the soil. And should 846 01:02:04.039 --> 01:02:08.599 I miss the bracts, Okay, no, don't miss them. You need 847 01:02:08.639 --> 01:02:12.800 to keep the soil moist but not soggy wet. So what I do is 848 01:02:12.880 --> 01:02:15.480 we set them in the eyeset them in my sink water. I'm really well, 849 01:02:15.559 --> 01:02:20.360 let all the excess, drain out, and then put it back in 850 01:02:20.440 --> 01:02:22.079 the sleeve, the decorative sleeve that it was in. By the way, 851 01:02:22.079 --> 01:02:25.519 when you pick it up after that kind of watering, you know how heavy 852 01:02:25.519 --> 01:02:29.719 it is. Full. Oh yeah, and you know I'm going to tell 853 01:02:29.719 --> 01:02:31.719 you other ways to know when to water. But for a lot of my 854 01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:36.519 plants, I know how heavy they should be, and when I pick them 855 01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:38.119 up and they're super light, I already know you got to add water to 856 01:02:38.119 --> 01:02:42.400 that because water is one of the heaviest parts of the whole plant and pot 857 01:02:42.400 --> 01:02:45.599 and soil and everything. So that that's one thing to note. If you 858 01:02:45.719 --> 01:02:51.599 take a sharpened pencil and you push it down in the soil around the point 859 01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:53.800 set I would go down in a pot like that. I'd probably go down 860 01:02:53.840 --> 01:03:00.239 two inches maybe three, and then pull it out that sharpened wood. Is 861 01:03:00.280 --> 01:03:04.519 it moist That means it's very wet. Does it have little flex of moist 862 01:03:04.519 --> 01:03:08.239 soil sticking to it that means it's moderately wet. Or does a pencil come 863 01:03:08.280 --> 01:03:12.480 out dry? Again, it's like sticking a toothpick and a cake to tell 864 01:03:12.519 --> 01:03:17.559 when it's done. And that is that's a helpful way for most soul mixes 865 01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:23.840 to tell. Okay, then the last question is, right now it feels 866 01:03:23.880 --> 01:03:29.320 cool and crisp outside, I don't and gets super hot. Can I put 867 01:03:29.360 --> 01:03:34.039 it outside because the weather right now seems to be perfect. But I'm a 868 01:03:34.119 --> 01:03:37.440 human not a plant. Yeah I would. When the night times are going 869 01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:42.119 to be like fifty five, I don't think i'd have it outside, and 870 01:03:42.199 --> 01:03:46.719 some people do, but I wouldn't. You want to avoid shocking it. 871 01:03:46.760 --> 01:03:50.400 So let's say you got up in the morning and it's been in your seventy 872 01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:53.360 five degree house or whatever the temperature is, and you just walked outside and 873 01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:57.320 set it on the porch at fifty five degrees first thing in the morning. 874 01:03:57.760 --> 01:04:00.440 Well, that is a sudden shock. Also, keep it away from heating 875 01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:05.119 vents if you can, because that tends to dry things out as well. 876 01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:11.599 Okay, I'm not running the heat right now because I enjoy this weather. 877 01:04:11.760 --> 01:04:19.320 Okay, So my moisture inside the house is at fifty six percent, and 878 01:04:19.360 --> 01:04:24.760 so that sort of tells me because I sort of have breathing issues occasionally, 879 01:04:24.800 --> 01:04:29.199 so I like moisture. Well that's a plant. That's fine. Point set 880 01:04:29.320 --> 01:04:32.280 is not real picky about that, but that's oh okay, that's just fine. 881 01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:38.119 That level all right, all right, Well, I hope you have 882 01:04:38.159 --> 01:04:45.800 a nice long point set of season with your plant there justromber I ten sometimes, 883 01:04:45.880 --> 01:04:48.280 but this one is just like a specimen. It's perfect. Okay, 884 01:04:48.360 --> 01:04:53.440 everybody's happy. The pressure's on. Marine set a timer. Yeah, I 885 01:04:53.480 --> 01:04:56.760 got it. I feel it all. You take it so much. I 886 01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:01.199 appreciate the call very much. Thank you. Our phone number is seven one 887 01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:08.599 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 888 01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:15.079 eight seventy four. Oh my gosh. The holiday gift plants are so nice. 889 01:05:15.880 --> 01:05:21.320 I love point settus of course. Uh, and every year my wife 890 01:05:21.320 --> 01:05:26.760 and I have point sets in the house. I also like the little topiary 891 01:05:27.599 --> 01:05:30.599 rosemary that are shaped like a miniature Christmas tree. Uh, there'd be one 892 01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:34.920 you could hang your red hallopenas on. Uh. Those are really cool. 893 01:05:34.960 --> 01:05:39.800 We have a little tiny, tiny lightching putting something like that. In fact, 894 01:05:39.880 --> 01:05:44.280 our Norfolk pine gets decorated for the holidays every year as well. But 895 01:05:44.880 --> 01:05:48.840 the Thanksgiving cactus and Christmas cactus are two of my favorite and you'll find those 896 01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:53.159 out and about in our garden centers. Now. The thing I like about 897 01:05:53.159 --> 01:05:57.440 those is it's not that hard to keep them year after year. You keep 898 01:05:57.480 --> 01:06:00.800 them out of really cold temperatures, you know, going into the low fifties. 899 01:06:00.840 --> 01:06:05.480 I'd probably have them in before it goes that cold. But they're tough. 900 01:06:05.519 --> 01:06:09.679 I have them in a bright outdoor area. I keep some inside by 901 01:06:09.719 --> 01:06:14.119 a very bright window, and they're doing okay. They're doing okay, and 902 01:06:14.480 --> 01:06:17.440 some of mine are already putting buds on. There's one that's slow to put 903 01:06:17.480 --> 01:06:23.119 buds on it, and I didn't force it into an early bloom by making 904 01:06:23.159 --> 01:06:28.599 the night the dark period longer for it. But they're just wonderful plants. 905 01:06:28.719 --> 01:06:30.239 And the fact that you can keep it. If you break a branch off, 906 01:06:30.280 --> 01:06:32.639 stick it in the ground or sticking in a pot, it grows, 907 01:06:32.679 --> 01:06:36.119 and now you've got a gift plant for somebody else. It's just really cool. 908 01:06:36.519 --> 01:06:41.639 I love those holiday plants. There's some other ones. Cyclomen are often 909 01:06:41.760 --> 01:06:45.239 used to bring inside in a container because they're so beautiful. The little blooms 910 01:06:45.280 --> 01:06:49.559 look like falling stars, like meteors coming down, just the shape of them. 911 01:06:50.239 --> 01:06:55.239 But you can put those outside too. But on those and on the 912 01:06:55.320 --> 01:06:59.440 rosemary, I would make sure and get it outside as much as I can 913 01:06:59.800 --> 01:07:04.960 to get light rosemary in your house for let's say three weeks, is going 914 01:07:05.079 --> 01:07:11.320 to start getting little spindly new growth stretching to try to find light. So 915 01:07:11.639 --> 01:07:14.280 you just give it a little bit of time outdoors each day, that would 916 01:07:14.280 --> 01:07:15.880 be fine. Bring it in when you want to decorate, or for the 917 01:07:16.079 --> 01:07:20.440 for the evening to enjoy it. So just a few tips there on those 918 01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:26.199 kind of plants. We are going to head now to Oh my gosh, 919 01:07:26.239 --> 01:07:30.159 it is already time for a break. Well, let's see Sandy. You 920 01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:32.800 will be first up when we come back. If you'd like to be on 921 01:07:32.840 --> 01:07:38.599 the boards, call seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 922 01:07:38.719 --> 01:07:43.559 seven one three two one two k t RH. Welcome back to Gardenline. 923 01:07:43.599 --> 01:07:46.679 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number is seven one three 924 01:07:46.840 --> 01:07:53.800 two one two kt RH. I'm gonna head out to Cyprus now and we're 925 01:07:53.800 --> 01:07:58.480 going to talk to Sandy. Hello Sandy, Hi, good morning, Skip. 926 01:07:58.719 --> 01:08:02.760 I hope you're doing well. I have some questions on my peppers. 927 01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:10.000 Uh there's some that I can pick, some that need a couple of days 928 01:08:10.280 --> 01:08:13.400 and some that need you know, maybe a week or two, and then 929 01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:18.279 I've got flowers. But I have these little brown ants on them. Okay, 930 01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:25.880 they're small ants. Is that? Okay? Do I need to spray 931 01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:29.600 them with something? It's okay. There's probably aphids on your peppers. If 932 01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:32.720 you turn some leaves over and look underneath, you may see some little bugs 933 01:08:32.760 --> 01:08:38.680 under there. And that the ants are dairy farmers and the aphids are the 934 01:08:38.720 --> 01:08:42.439 cows. They literally pick them up, take them up on a plant and 935 01:08:42.479 --> 01:08:45.560 get them going. They protect them and they use their intended to stroke the 936 01:08:45.640 --> 01:08:49.640 aphid and it produces the honeydew that the ant feeds on. It's kind of 937 01:08:49.640 --> 01:08:55.479 an interesting idea there. But so they're not a they're not a concern at 938 01:08:55.479 --> 01:08:58.760 this point in the season. You know, winter's at the doorstep here. 939 01:08:58.840 --> 01:09:02.600 So uh, I would not even probably worry about the aphids at this point. 940 01:09:03.800 --> 01:09:08.079 Okay, okay, And do you have time for one more question? 941 01:09:11.159 --> 01:09:15.840 So I was the one that talked to you about my pool pump being broken 942 01:09:16.479 --> 01:09:20.159 and I had so many weeds. I send you pictures and all that the 943 01:09:20.199 --> 01:09:26.399 weeds are going around the back. Can I Well, the pump still isn't 944 01:09:26.439 --> 01:09:30.600 fixed because they ordered it and it hasn't come in yet. You know how 945 01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:35.239 that is? So I'm waiting for the pump still, and so I haven't 946 01:09:35.279 --> 01:09:43.039 been able to do anything with my yard since October. Fertilizer, okay, 947 01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:49.079 the winter Texas step three or whatever. But can I put that down again? 948 01:09:49.760 --> 01:09:57.520 Just the weed beater at least did you put you had? I'd put 949 01:09:57.560 --> 01:10:02.840 it down, okay, I would not reapply the weed control by nitrofoss. 950 01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:06.800 If you put it down, you're good. It's called barricade. They're they're 951 01:10:08.279 --> 01:10:13.279 we thing is barricade. Now. The weed beater that is a product that 952 01:10:13.479 --> 01:10:17.760 is a broad leaf weed control product you spray on growing weeds, different than 953 01:10:17.840 --> 01:10:23.680 barricade where you prevent the seed. So we're talking about weed beater or barricade. 954 01:10:23.960 --> 01:10:30.399 Which which did you put down? I the ace hardware in Cyprus. 955 01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:34.279 Yes, only had at the time when I was getting everything. The weed 956 01:10:34.640 --> 01:10:41.880 beater. Okay, okay, Well then in that case the barricade application now 957 01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:46.399 would be would be fine. That will prevent any weeds that are going to 958 01:10:46.479 --> 01:10:51.359 germinate going forward. I would do that as a p because we are now 959 01:10:51.399 --> 01:10:56.439 in the weather where we'd start germinating. And so again you want to get 960 01:10:56.439 --> 01:11:00.039 ahead of them. If they get up and going pretty good. That is 961 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:03.600 not gonna it's not gonna stop them. It's for preventing them. But that's 962 01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:08.680 why we do it. Soon when you put it down to sandy, watered 963 01:11:08.680 --> 01:11:13.000 in with about a half inch of water, and and that moves the ingredients 964 01:11:13.039 --> 01:11:17.520 into the soil surface where they prevent the weed seeds from establishing. So if 965 01:11:17.560 --> 01:11:25.960 you don't water it in, that soil surface doesn't have that that barricade across 966 01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:29.199 the top to stop the weeds. So watered in with about a half inch 967 01:11:29.199 --> 01:11:32.640 of water. Okay, well, I guess I'll try that other ace on 968 01:11:33.319 --> 01:11:39.399 nineteen sixty because I know my cypress, the one at the Langham Creek one 969 01:11:40.119 --> 01:11:44.279 at five twenty nine. And yeah, you got a lot of aces up 970 01:11:44.279 --> 01:11:46.840 there. I mean there's there's M and D, there's the one on Jones 971 01:11:46.920 --> 01:11:50.479 Road, you know, and then you mentioned Langham Creek. It's easy to 972 01:11:50.479 --> 01:11:55.680 find an ace in your area. Okay, all right, thank you so 973 01:11:55.880 --> 01:11:59.600 very much. All right, thank you. Good luck with those good luck 974 01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:03.199 with those plants. You know, she was talking about peppers and how far 975 01:12:03.319 --> 01:12:08.640 they have to go and whatnot. Let me just have a few words out 976 01:12:08.640 --> 01:12:12.800 here about how do you know when to pick some of the vegetables that are 977 01:12:12.800 --> 01:12:15.640 in your garden. You know, we know a freeze is coming sometime or 978 01:12:15.640 --> 01:12:19.039 at least temperatures too cold for the vegetables. Well, peppers don't ripen, 979 01:12:19.399 --> 01:12:23.560 so they could be a little tiny pepper, or they could be a big 980 01:12:23.600 --> 01:12:27.680 green pepper, or they could turn yellow, orange, and red, whatever 981 01:12:27.760 --> 01:12:33.039 colors that species of pepper turns, and at all stages they're edible. When 982 01:12:33.079 --> 01:12:38.880 a pepper starts turning red, you get a higher level of certain kinds of 983 01:12:38.880 --> 01:12:44.479 phido nutrients that we need, you know, so vitamin A, the precursor's 984 01:12:44.520 --> 01:12:47.439 vitamin A, for example, would be something that would be more in a 985 01:12:47.479 --> 01:12:51.880 red pepper than in a green pepper. And some peppers have a traditional stage, 986 01:12:51.880 --> 01:13:00.000 you know, pallapanias in general. They let them get mature size and 987 01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:02.640 start to crack, and that's kind of what halopena looks like to people. 988 01:13:02.960 --> 01:13:08.239 Well, I let my halopenias a few of them go completely red because they're 989 01:13:08.279 --> 01:13:13.439 sweeter and I just like that. And so that's not a traditional halopena. 990 01:13:13.520 --> 01:13:15.199 But you can do that. You can pick them at any stage if you've 991 01:13:15.199 --> 01:13:18.960 got tomatoes, and I would leave them out for now as long as you 992 01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:23.920 can they're not gonna move very fast, but they they'll move a little bit, 993 01:13:24.479 --> 01:13:27.439 and when you have to bring them in. Any tomato that has reached 994 01:13:27.920 --> 01:13:32.760 a mature stage and still green, they hit maturity when they're still green. 995 01:13:32.800 --> 01:13:38.119 That doesn't mean the flavors best. It just means they have viable seeds inside. 996 01:13:38.359 --> 01:13:40.880 At that stage, you can pick a tomato, bring it in and 997 01:13:40.880 --> 01:13:44.239 it'll ripe them on the counter and it'll be a very good tomato too. 998 01:13:45.319 --> 01:13:48.640 Don't think it won't. Tomatoes that are immature will never ripen because they haven't 999 01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:54.119 hit that mature stage. And the way to tell the difference sort of, 1000 01:13:55.239 --> 01:13:58.119 well, it destroys the fruit in terms of being able to keep going. 1001 01:13:58.520 --> 01:14:01.000 But if you were to take a two green tomatoes and one was mature and 1002 01:14:01.039 --> 01:14:04.680 the other was immature. The immature when when you cut it with a knife, 1003 01:14:04.680 --> 01:14:11.960 those little those little spaces inside that are filled with that gelatinous material and 1004 01:14:12.000 --> 01:14:15.199 the seed they it would not be that way. It would just be a 1005 01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:19.199 kind of a little bit more firm material and then the seeds your knife would 1006 01:14:19.199 --> 01:14:24.159 slice right through them. A mature tomato, the seeds are harder and they 1007 01:14:24.199 --> 01:14:29.640 move aside when you slice through by and large, and those areas are filled 1008 01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:35.039 with a they're starting to become gelatinous in that cavities in between. So once 1009 01:14:35.079 --> 01:14:38.840 you've done that, of course you can't put the tomato back on the vine, 1010 01:14:39.039 --> 01:14:42.079 but at least you can get an idea what the look of it is 1011 01:14:42.279 --> 01:14:46.920 visually and go, yeah, those are worth are worth bringing in. And 1012 01:14:46.960 --> 01:14:50.760 I'll always bring an extra one or two just in case I misassess them. 1013 01:14:51.279 --> 01:14:55.520 But the little ones I just leave out because they're not going to finish ripening 1014 01:14:55.680 --> 01:14:59.199 inside. Uh you know, I'm going to be at RCW Nursers today. 1015 01:14:59.479 --> 01:15:03.239 RCW Nurseries is the nursery up there where Tombo Parkway comes into Highway to forty 1016 01:15:03.319 --> 01:15:08.880 nine. That it's right there at belt wait. I'm sorry, two forty 1017 01:15:08.960 --> 01:15:12.840 nine belt Way eight, Tambo Parkway, bel Way eight. I've said that 1018 01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:17.359 eight hundred times and anyway, RCW Nurseries dot com that's their website. And 1019 01:15:17.840 --> 01:15:21.720 I love to go to RCW because they have a wide variety of things. 1020 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:27.560 Today is a specially good day to go out there to RCW because they're having 1021 01:15:27.560 --> 01:15:31.840 their fall fling and in the fall fling they're going to have giveaways of seedling 1022 01:15:32.119 --> 01:15:36.920 trees like live Oak, Monterey Oak and lace Park Elm. They're also going 1023 01:15:36.960 --> 01:15:41.159 to have barbecue sandwich lunch. They're going to have a sale on all their 1024 01:15:41.199 --> 01:15:45.239 shrubs and select trees for fifteen percent off. And we'll be giving away a 1025 01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:50.840 lot of stuff. Fertilizers for microlife and Nelson's, the nitrofoss fungicides, the 1026 01:15:51.279 --> 01:15:55.359 flowers, the frost cloth. Boy, you need some of that, the 1027 01:15:55.399 --> 01:16:00.920 frostcloth to cover your plants and protect them against frost freezes. It's all going 1028 01:16:01.000 --> 01:16:04.399 to be there. I'm going to be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. 1029 01:16:04.680 --> 01:16:08.359 So let's take a look at some of the plant questions you have. 1030 01:16:08.479 --> 01:16:12.560 Bring me some samples in. If you want to talk about identifying something, 1031 01:16:12.680 --> 01:16:15.720 bring me a sample in. If you have photos on your phone, that 1032 01:16:15.840 --> 01:16:19.600 is especially helpful because it's always better to see what it is I'm about to 1033 01:16:19.600 --> 01:16:24.680 be talking about than to just guess based on a description. That's one of 1034 01:16:24.680 --> 01:16:29.439 the challenges of doing radio is what someone is describing and seeing at their house 1035 01:16:29.520 --> 01:16:31.800 and what my mind is hearing and picturing may not be the same thing, 1036 01:16:32.520 --> 01:16:35.840 and that makes it harder. But I'll be their live. It's a chance 1037 01:16:35.880 --> 01:16:40.319 to come by. I love to meet you and visit. I'll be there 1038 01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:42.439 all the way to one thirty. So if you want to come by at 1039 01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:45.960 lunch for you know, grabbing the barbecue sandwich, that's fine. If you 1040 01:16:46.039 --> 01:16:48.439 want to come by in the afternoon, that's fine. We'll still be giving 1041 01:16:48.479 --> 01:16:53.800 away stuff through that whole time at RCW Nurses. While you're out there, 1042 01:16:53.800 --> 01:16:56.319 you got to check out their plants. You got to check out the trees. 1043 01:16:56.760 --> 01:17:00.239 They have a lot, a lot of cool stuff to make your winter 1044 01:17:00.359 --> 01:17:05.600 landscape better. And remember, now is the time, the best time to 1045 01:17:05.680 --> 01:17:11.560 get a tree planted. That it gives the roots all winter to grow. 1046 01:17:11.640 --> 01:17:14.840 And I'm a broken record on that one, but I just got to tell 1047 01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:18.720 you. If you wait until let's say you wait until May to put a 1048 01:17:18.800 --> 01:17:21.439 tree in the ground, you can keep it alive. You can plant a 1049 01:17:21.439 --> 01:17:25.479 tree in July and keep it alive. But it's very touch and go at 1050 01:17:25.479 --> 01:17:29.000 that time. You have to be very careful to attend to it and keep 1051 01:17:29.000 --> 01:17:32.039 that root cylinder moist without keeping it too wet. And that's the challenge. 1052 01:17:32.199 --> 01:17:38.439 So make it easy on yourself and get the thing planted now. Trees and 1053 01:17:38.479 --> 01:17:42.359 shrubs in Woody vines, any kind of a woody material like that. What 1054 01:17:42.439 --> 01:17:45.520 I'm saying is it holds water. We want them to get a good, 1055 01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:49.960 strong root system established. Hey, I just want to remind you guys, 1056 01:17:50.159 --> 01:17:57.079 if you're interested, the OBA, the Organic Horticulture Organization, is having a 1057 01:17:57.119 --> 01:18:03.079 Lone Star yule Ball fundraiser that is going to be at the ballroom at Tanglewood 1058 01:18:03.079 --> 01:18:08.199 that's on West Timer in Houston. There tickets. You go online to purchase 1059 01:18:08.239 --> 01:18:14.600 your tickets at OBA online, OHBA online dot org, slash register. They're 1060 01:18:14.600 --> 01:18:18.279 going to have a magician and fortune teller there. They're going to have great 1061 01:18:18.359 --> 01:18:23.600 music. D v C Strings will be there and Shake Russell. Now there's 1062 01:18:23.640 --> 01:18:27.640 a there's a headliner they're bringing in for that. You want to wear your 1063 01:18:27.640 --> 01:18:31.880 Western attire and have a really good time, have a delicious dinner, cocktails. 1064 01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:34.520 It's just going to be a shindig. That's kind of thing OBA tends 1065 01:18:34.560 --> 01:18:41.359 to put on is really cool events. Well, you've been listening to Gardenline. 1066 01:18:41.560 --> 01:18:44.119 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're going to take a break 1067 01:18:44.359 --> 01:18:47.199 for the top of the hour. When we come back, you would like 1068 01:18:47.239 --> 01:18:50.399 to be on the phones with me seven to one, three, two, 1069 01:18:50.560 --> 01:18:59.079 one two fifty eight, seventy four seven one three two one two KTRH. 1070 01:18:59.119 --> 01:19:02.840 If you haven't been to my website yet, it's Gardening with Skip dot Com. 1071 01:19:02.880 --> 01:19:08.520 There you will find my write up about the new twenty twenty three USDA 1072 01:19:08.720 --> 01:19:13.079 Plant Pardiness Zone Map. You'll find my lawn care schedule. There. You'll 1073 01:19:13.079 --> 01:19:17.760 find my lawns disease and weed management schedule there. Both of those go from 1074 01:19:17.840 --> 01:19:23.760 January through December telling you what to do and what do you do. That's 1075 01:19:23.800 --> 01:19:30.760 really something I hope you go there. Gardening with Skip dot Com. Katie 1076 01:19:30.880 --> 01:19:33.880 r h Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 1077 01:19:33.920 --> 01:19:41.000 on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Ricter. 1078 01:19:41.199 --> 01:19:57.319 It's so crazy, rim just watch him as gods, what so many good 1079 01:19:57.439 --> 01:20:06.159 things to Septasy Well, good morning on what is shaping up to be a 1080 01:20:06.479 --> 01:20:11.680 beautiful Saturday. Great day to get out and do some gardening, garden shopping, 1081 01:20:12.159 --> 01:20:15.840 sprucing things up, getting ready for the wintertime. Now is the time 1082 01:20:15.880 --> 01:20:18.720 to get all that done. If you walking around the house you see cracks 1083 01:20:18.800 --> 01:20:21.800 in your sheet rock, or maybe walking around the outside of the house, 1084 01:20:21.880 --> 01:20:27.359 cracks in the brick. That's a sign that something's going wrong foundation wise, 1085 01:20:27.399 --> 01:20:30.960 and you need to do something about it soon. Don't put it off. 1086 01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:34.000 The earlier you get in on it, the better off you will be. 1087 01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:39.439 And fix my slab. Foundation Repair is a company that can do just that. 1088 01:20:40.279 --> 01:20:44.159 Ty Strickland, he's been doing this for twenty three years. He knows 1089 01:20:44.279 --> 01:20:47.600 what he's talking about. He understands our Houston soils and how they swell and 1090 01:20:47.640 --> 01:20:51.319 shrink as they get wet and dry. And oh my gosh, that wrecks 1091 01:20:51.439 --> 01:20:57.399 havoc on your foundation. Maybe your doors are sticking inside. That's another sign 1092 01:20:57.479 --> 01:21:01.439 something may be wrong. You can go to fix myslab dot com or you 1093 01:21:01.439 --> 01:21:06.840 can call them too eight one two fy five forty nine forty nine to eight 1094 01:21:06.920 --> 01:21:13.119 one two five five forty nine forty nine. They're on time. Well, 1095 01:21:13.119 --> 01:21:16.920 I'm speaking of fix my slab. They are priced fairly, that's important, 1096 01:21:17.279 --> 01:21:23.720 and they fix it right. That is also very very important. We're going 1097 01:21:23.760 --> 01:21:27.399 to head to the phones now and talk to Carol and a task Asita. 1098 01:21:27.600 --> 01:21:31.319 Hello Carol, good morning, back too quick questions please. First of all, 1099 01:21:31.359 --> 01:21:39.399 do you have a name brand product product for Virginia buttonweed? I like 1100 01:21:39.520 --> 01:21:44.960 the product called celsius for Virginia buttonweed. At this time in the season, 1101 01:21:45.199 --> 01:21:48.880 it is declining, and I don't know that you'll get a lot of benefit 1102 01:21:48.960 --> 01:21:53.239 from spraying it. I've been telling folks that if you got it, and 1103 01:21:53.319 --> 01:21:56.880 you can do it, every little strip you pull out of it with those 1104 01:21:56.880 --> 01:22:00.079 little buttons on it, you're you're taking some seed out of the mix for 1105 01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:04.880 next year, and so that's that's very helpful. The herbicide will not kill 1106 01:22:04.920 --> 01:22:11.479 the seeds, that's for sure. There are some other products that can do 1107 01:22:11.520 --> 01:22:15.000 it, but you just have to Virginia buttonwheed is not a one and done 1108 01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:17.640 spray. You're probably going to have to retreat it a little bit later. 1109 01:22:18.520 --> 01:22:23.920 Okay, then my other question. I have two very large looking billions in 1110 01:22:24.039 --> 01:22:29.279 pots. They're like seven feet tall and the drapes are equally six or feet 1111 01:22:29.760 --> 01:22:33.680 and usually I can pull those back in for the winter, but they're not 1112 01:22:33.800 --> 01:22:38.840 that large. Can I cut those things back to pull them back? When 1113 01:22:38.840 --> 01:22:41.680 I start to pull them back for the winter, you can do that. 1114 01:22:42.439 --> 01:22:45.560 Another thing that some people do is and this takes more than one person, 1115 01:22:45.640 --> 01:22:48.960 but you get a piece of twine, you lift those all up and you 1116 01:22:49.000 --> 01:22:54.319 pull them together kind of like a ponytail sitting up on top, and that 1117 01:22:54.399 --> 01:22:59.520 makes it easier to move the plant around. And I don't know if that 1118 01:22:59.560 --> 01:23:01.439 will help with your plant and your situation, but yeah, you can do 1119 01:23:01.520 --> 01:23:05.359 some trimming. Just minimize the trimming you do that, would you say, 1120 01:23:05.439 --> 01:23:10.800 minimize? So give me more, don't don't prune more than you have to 1121 01:23:10.880 --> 01:23:14.880 prune to handle the plant and get it where you need to get it. 1122 01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:17.239 Yeah, okay, all right, well, thank you so much. All 1123 01:23:17.319 --> 01:23:21.560 right, thank you. I appreciate the call very much. Our phone number 1124 01:23:21.560 --> 01:23:25.520 if you would like to give us a call is seven to one three two 1125 01:23:25.640 --> 01:23:30.920 one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1126 01:23:30.960 --> 01:23:35.239 four. If you're doing any planting this fall. Microlife has a couple of 1127 01:23:35.640 --> 01:23:41.439 really cool products that are exceptional when it comes to getting your plants established. 1128 01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:45.800 One of those is Microlife Ultimate. It's an eight four six organic fertilizer. 1129 01:23:46.159 --> 01:23:49.520 And when you're planting a tree, normally I say, don't put fertilizer in 1130 01:23:49.600 --> 01:23:54.399 the planting All that applies to salt based fertilizers that are not slow release. 1131 01:23:55.119 --> 01:23:58.840 But when you do Microlife organic, you're not going to burn the roots. 1132 01:23:59.039 --> 01:24:02.840 And it is going to decomposed as microbes release those nutrients. You also should 1133 01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:08.039 have some Microlife Ocean Harvest. I call this the Blue plus Blue. It's 1134 01:24:08.479 --> 01:24:13.439 the Microlife Ultimate is a blue bag. Microlife Ocean Harvest, which is a 1135 01:24:13.439 --> 01:24:16.560 fish based fertilizer, is a blue bottle and you can use that to water 1136 01:24:16.600 --> 01:24:21.920 plants in you can spray it as a folier feed. It's just really versatile 1137 01:24:21.960 --> 01:24:26.119 and easy to use. If you go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com you can 1138 01:24:26.199 --> 01:24:30.319 find out all the places where you can buy Microlife in this area. We 1139 01:24:30.520 --> 01:24:32.840 are going to go now to Spring Branch and talk to John. Hey. 1140 01:24:32.920 --> 01:24:41.560 John, Yes, I wanted I have a bunch of clay pots, six 1141 01:24:41.600 --> 01:24:47.359 ants clay pots. I wanted to plant some things in it like alabera and 1142 01:24:48.159 --> 01:24:55.159 perslin and a shafts the day'sy seeds. What would be a good potting soil. 1143 01:24:56.399 --> 01:25:00.199 There are a number of good soils out there. I probably would go 1144 01:25:00.399 --> 01:25:04.079 with the heirloom soils. They have a couple of different potting mixes. One 1145 01:25:04.119 --> 01:25:09.359 they designed for indoors, one they designed for outdoors. But those are good 1146 01:25:09.720 --> 01:25:15.439 quality mixes that that will provide okay cole water. But they drain access and 1147 01:25:15.520 --> 01:25:20.920 which is what you need in a potting soil. Okay, yeah, all 1148 01:25:21.000 --> 01:25:25.199 right, yes, sir, and you can find that you can find the 1149 01:25:25.239 --> 01:25:30.079 Airloom Sols products and many places around town you can. I mean you can 1150 01:25:30.119 --> 01:25:31.520 also just you know, give them a call and check it out. But 1151 01:25:32.439 --> 01:25:35.920 I'm gonna talk about a little bit more about their products later. But that's 1152 01:25:36.039 --> 01:25:40.680 what the one I would recommend. And I appreciate so much you calling. 1153 01:25:41.199 --> 01:25:45.439 I love to visit with gardeners about their gardening questions. That's why we're here. 1154 01:25:45.960 --> 01:25:51.960 We're here to answer gardening questions. Uh. Wilbird's Unlimited is one of 1155 01:25:53.039 --> 01:25:55.560 my favorite places to go into. And by the way, if you're doing 1156 01:25:55.600 --> 01:26:00.920 any Christmas shopping, someone on your list maynn't be a garden but wouldn't they 1157 01:26:00.960 --> 01:26:04.159 love a beautiful birdhouse or feeder where they can watch the birds or hummingbird feeder 1158 01:26:04.800 --> 01:26:09.720 are one of the bazillion other really cool things that Wildbirds has. Now, 1159 01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:13.199 if you do feedbirds, you need to go buy and get some of their 1160 01:26:13.399 --> 01:26:17.239 winter super blend that's got the fat and protein content that birds need to get 1161 01:26:17.319 --> 01:26:20.560 through this winter season. You know, our days are shorter and the time 1162 01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:24.760 they have out there to run around and try to find seeds in the wild 1163 01:26:25.199 --> 01:26:29.600 is more limited, and a nice feeder really helps them to get through the 1164 01:26:29.600 --> 01:26:31.840 winter time. You know, with wildbirds, when they put something in a 1165 01:26:31.880 --> 01:26:36.199 bag and call it bird feed, you get every drop of what's in that 1166 01:26:36.279 --> 01:26:43.199 bag. There's not all those little red bebes that cheap bird seeds have some 1167 01:26:43.279 --> 01:26:46.039 of them. It's like way over half, like sixty two thirds or more 1168 01:26:46.479 --> 01:26:51.399 of the mix could be those little tiny bebes, and that is that's wasting 1169 01:26:51.439 --> 01:26:55.920 money. Well, actually you may think that's cheaper feed, but when you 1170 01:26:56.000 --> 01:26:59.319 pull out all the bebes and look at how much feed you actually got, 1171 01:26:59.399 --> 01:27:02.960 it's not feet And wildbirds doesn't sell that kind of stuff. They sell bird 1172 01:27:03.000 --> 01:27:06.960 blends for all kinds of birds, and they don't put the junk in that 1173 01:27:08.079 --> 01:27:13.439 those birds don't eat. Another thing about wildbirds is you can do their holeless 1174 01:27:13.800 --> 01:27:18.319 packages. So birds love sunflowers, certain kinds of birds love sunflowers, but 1175 01:27:18.359 --> 01:27:21.680 they crack them to eat the inside and then they drop the shells. Well, 1176 01:27:21.720 --> 01:27:25.720 if you don't want that mess, they have a holeless blend, where 1177 01:27:25.800 --> 01:27:29.279 again, one of what's in that bag is going to end up in a 1178 01:27:29.319 --> 01:27:32.319 bird's stomach as opposed to being kicked out on the ground. Wilbirds unlimiteds all 1179 01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:35.720 over town. There's six of them here in the Greater Houston area. You 1180 01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:43.279 can go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston WBU dot com forward slash Houston 1181 01:27:43.399 --> 01:27:46.319 real easy to find them. Uh. And again they're all over the place. 1182 01:27:46.920 --> 01:27:50.840 Easy to find waldbirds in the Greater Houston area. Let's take a little 1183 01:27:50.840 --> 01:27:56.000 break. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1184 01:27:56.039 --> 01:28:00.479 four. We'll be right back. Welcome back back to garden Line on a 1185 01:28:00.560 --> 01:28:04.720 beautiful sunday. Wow, we got a full board here, and I'm to 1186 01:28:04.800 --> 01:28:09.119 talk about a number of gardening things. Let's just go ahead and start with 1187 01:28:09.199 --> 01:28:15.000 Sarah up in Highland Village. Hello, Sarah, Hello, how came you? 1188 01:28:15.079 --> 01:28:21.239 Hell? I need to know what kind of Saint Augustine grass to plant 1189 01:28:21.439 --> 01:28:27.159 in an area to gets full sun all day and what kind of soil to 1190 01:28:27.199 --> 01:28:31.479 put down prior to planning it. There are a number of good Saint Augustine's 1191 01:28:31.520 --> 01:28:38.159 on the market, you know. Just naming one particular one, it is 1192 01:28:38.199 --> 01:28:41.439 difficult because there's so many good ones. We've always used Raleigh in the past 1193 01:28:41.520 --> 01:28:45.039 that that's still around that. That's a that's a good one. Uh. 1194 01:28:45.079 --> 01:28:47.159 There there are some new ones that are coming out too. By the way, 1195 01:28:48.039 --> 01:28:51.800 there's one. Oh my gosh, the name just escaped me. I'll 1196 01:28:51.800 --> 01:28:55.640 come back to the varieties. As far as soil prep, you want to 1197 01:28:55.640 --> 01:28:58.920 make sure the area is is. If you can listen the soil a little 1198 01:28:58.920 --> 01:29:00.560 bit, a little bit of a tilling, that would be helpful. You 1199 01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:04.600 want to fill any low areas that you have, so you level it out 1200 01:29:04.720 --> 01:29:10.000 before you put the sod down. Are you wanting to plant that grass now 1201 01:29:10.079 --> 01:29:15.439 or can you wait until spring? Well? Probably pretty soon, okay. 1202 01:29:15.800 --> 01:29:21.079 The challenge of planting late in the season is the grass roots, whether it's 1203 01:29:21.119 --> 01:29:26.119 an existing lawn or new sod, the growth that slows down a lot, 1204 01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:29.920 and you need to get those roots out of the sod you buy and down 1205 01:29:29.960 --> 01:29:33.039 into the soil at your place. And so this is a time of year 1206 01:29:33.119 --> 01:29:38.319 when you may need to be doing a couple of light waterings. You may 1207 01:29:38.359 --> 01:29:43.640 see some increased round patch on the turf as a result of watering it a 1208 01:29:43.640 --> 01:29:46.880 little more frequently to try to get that new sod established. So if there 1209 01:29:46.920 --> 01:29:48.760 was a way to wait till spring, I would do that. But if 1210 01:29:48.760 --> 01:29:51.760 you want a plant now, it can be done. Just you may have 1211 01:29:51.800 --> 01:29:59.760 some loss over the winter. Okay. And again, the variety you mentioned 1212 01:29:59.800 --> 01:30:04.039 that you dealt was particularly good, although they're all good. Yeah, well, 1213 01:30:04.079 --> 01:30:14.479 I mentioned I mentioned the variety Raleigh, but you know it that's an 1214 01:30:14.520 --> 01:30:18.520 older variety. It doesn't it doesn't have to be that particular variety of Saint 1215 01:30:18.560 --> 01:30:21.600 Augustine A. And M's got a new one that they released out there. 1216 01:30:21.600 --> 01:30:26.399 I'm trying to think of the name of that one, and let me see, 1217 01:30:26.399 --> 01:30:28.800 hang on just one second. I got something here where I wrote down 1218 01:30:28.800 --> 01:30:33.680 about Yeah. Uh, so there's there's one called Captiva you may find around 1219 01:30:33.720 --> 01:30:40.079 there. There is a palmetto that you see around a lot. That would 1220 01:30:40.119 --> 01:30:43.239 be another one that you might look at. Uh. And then there's some 1221 01:30:43.319 --> 01:30:46.359 others. You know. It depends on the grass company as to which ones 1222 01:30:46.359 --> 01:30:50.399 they grow. Not ever, grass company grows the exact same set of varieties. 1223 01:30:50.680 --> 01:30:56.399 But there's a number of good ones that are out there. And if 1224 01:30:56.640 --> 01:31:00.960 if we did wait, which I guess we should, if we must, 1225 01:31:00.399 --> 01:31:05.159 what's the best time then in the spring to play it. Well, if 1226 01:31:05.239 --> 01:31:11.159 you want that turf to hit the ground running about the time that you have 1227 01:31:11.319 --> 01:31:15.520 mowed your people have mowed their lawn twice would be a good time at least 1228 01:31:15.560 --> 01:31:20.399 one mowing. Let the grass and yards get one mowing that tells you the 1229 01:31:20.439 --> 01:31:25.199 grass is growing, that tells you the root system is taken off. And 1230 01:31:25.279 --> 01:31:29.199 so that would be a good time to start laying side for the season and 1231 01:31:29.720 --> 01:31:32.960 just to get a little faster results. But if we don't have any really 1232 01:31:33.039 --> 01:31:42.640 healthy live grass there, what month then I would say first of April. 1233 01:31:43.199 --> 01:31:45.079 That's pretty close to it. Yeah, first of April, could be the 1234 01:31:45.319 --> 01:31:49.640 end of March, first of April something like that. And do I know 1235 01:31:49.760 --> 01:31:56.640 that you that there are many grass companies, but is there a team you 1236 01:31:56.760 --> 01:32:03.399 name a few that I might call. Let's see Highland Village. There's Milberger 1237 01:32:03.520 --> 01:32:09.800 Turf. That is one that has been around for ages. They're they're a 1238 01:32:09.920 --> 01:32:14.119 grower and so they may be selling to other people who are selling you their 1239 01:32:14.239 --> 01:32:20.239 varieties. Duguet Turf is out east of here. That's another one. UH 1240 01:32:20.439 --> 01:32:26.239 King Ranch is another. King Ridge Turf is another company. You'll find UH 1241 01:32:26.319 --> 01:32:30.800 in the southeast Texas region. So those are all good growers that can provide 1242 01:32:30.840 --> 01:32:35.680 you a callery very helpful. Thank you so much. All right, Sarah, 1243 01:32:35.800 --> 01:32:40.079 thank you for that call. I appreciate it. Uh. Now I 1244 01:32:40.079 --> 01:32:43.520 know you've been to Buchanan's Nurser before, because if you have more, you 1245 01:32:43.560 --> 01:32:46.000 got to go. It's it's right in the the heart of Houston, kind 1246 01:32:46.000 --> 01:32:49.920 of in the Heights area. Buchanans is on eleven Street up in the Heights. 1247 01:32:50.399 --> 01:32:54.520 They have got their Christmas trees in and boy do they have a really 1248 01:32:54.720 --> 01:32:59.359 good selection of some of some cool varieties. If you like Frasier fur, 1249 01:32:59.520 --> 01:33:03.479 if you like noble fur, if you like the concolor fur bet you haven't 1250 01:33:03.520 --> 01:33:08.000 heard of that one the Nordman for they've got those, go by check them 1251 01:33:08.000 --> 01:33:11.359 out and see what they look like. You know, Buchanans has an event 1252 01:33:11.439 --> 01:33:13.520 coming up that I want to tell you about too, by the way, 1253 01:33:14.079 --> 01:33:17.760 Buchanan's open House, their holiday open House. It's a free event and this 1254 01:33:17.840 --> 01:33:23.159 is going to be one heck of a deal. It is on Saturday, 1255 01:33:23.199 --> 01:33:28.800 December second, from ten am to three pm. So get through Thanksgiving and 1256 01:33:28.880 --> 01:33:31.840 then you know it's time to get ready to go. Live music, beer 1257 01:33:31.880 --> 01:33:35.800 and wine. Food. Santa will be there and there'll be kids crafts that 1258 01:33:35.840 --> 01:33:40.680 they the kiddos can do local vendors setting up. I mean, it's really 1259 01:33:40.760 --> 01:33:45.600 a deal at Buchanans and again they are at six eleven eleventh Street and the 1260 01:33:45.640 --> 01:33:49.039 Heights, or just go to Buchanansplants dot com. You can find them there. 1261 01:33:49.399 --> 01:33:55.319 Let's now go out to Ron in Spring. Hello Ron, Hello sir, 1262 01:33:55.359 --> 01:34:00.479 how are you? Good morning? Morning? Yeah, I first time 1263 01:34:00.600 --> 01:34:03.600 I'm doing a greenhouse. It's twenty foot by ten foot seven feet high, 1264 01:34:03.880 --> 01:34:10.199 and I'm looking for gruel lights. Okay, tropical tropical plants. I've got 1265 01:34:10.239 --> 01:34:15.439 beans and peppers and tomatoes, and I was just thinking I'll begin I'm shopping 1266 01:34:15.479 --> 01:34:20.319 with effort for the groul lights. I didn't know how many Ambradge lumens and 1267 01:34:20.359 --> 01:34:26.319 all that. Yeah, boy, I tell you I could spend two shows 1268 01:34:26.760 --> 01:34:30.159 trying to fill you out with all the information on growing lights. Just remember 1269 01:34:30.760 --> 01:34:35.520 that quality products can cost you some money. It should be an led for 1270 01:34:35.600 --> 01:34:42.319 your little home greenhouse, and it needs to have the right wavelength for plants. 1271 01:34:42.840 --> 01:34:46.079 And you'll see things called grow lights out there that you may buy them 1272 01:34:46.119 --> 01:34:51.720 online, you know, some Amazon type place. There's a lot of ineffective 1273 01:34:51.800 --> 01:34:58.000 junk being sold in those I don't know all the lighting sources on the market, 1274 01:34:58.000 --> 01:35:01.880 but I do know there's a place called Greenhouse Megastore Greenhouse Megastore, and 1275 01:35:01.880 --> 01:35:06.560 you order online from them, and they have a lot of lighting for greenhouses. 1276 01:35:06.600 --> 01:35:10.239 They even have the little lights that you know you put in your house 1277 01:35:10.279 --> 01:35:14.000 to put a plant underneath on a table. But they have a wide variety, 1278 01:35:14.039 --> 01:35:17.479 and I might try them and start there. I was trying to direct 1279 01:35:17.560 --> 01:35:23.359 you to some information. I've got some stuff I should put online. Wrote 1280 01:35:23.399 --> 01:35:29.279 an article for Texas Gardener Magazine a while back on on lighting and understanding lighting. 1281 01:35:29.800 --> 01:35:33.479 Uh. And so that's I guess where I would start you off. 1282 01:35:34.720 --> 01:35:42.039 And that's again, Mega Mega Lighting, Greenhouse Megastore d Yeah. And I'm 1283 01:35:42.079 --> 01:35:45.199 not you know, I'm not recommending them as a company. I don't. 1284 01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:49.479 I don't know anything about business practices or anything like that. But it is 1285 01:35:49.560 --> 01:35:55.880 a place where gardeners and small scale greenhouses you can go and get a lot 1286 01:35:55.920 --> 01:36:00.479 of different products. Excellent, Thank you, sir. Okay, take care 1287 01:36:00.760 --> 01:36:04.680 appreciate that, oh very much. If you have them into the bee supply, 1288 01:36:04.760 --> 01:36:08.600 you really need to go. I'm going to try to try to get 1289 01:36:08.600 --> 01:36:13.199 the folks from be Supply in here on the air real soon because I just 1290 01:36:13.239 --> 01:36:16.880 love talking with bees, talking bees with them. You to. I don't 1291 01:36:16.880 --> 01:36:20.439 know if they're still able to order bees now on their website, but you 1292 01:36:20.479 --> 01:36:26.479 could go and check. It'll tell you for sure. But they have one 1293 01:36:26.479 --> 01:36:30.279 of the coolest things. It's an observation I have over seven feet tall and 1294 01:36:30.600 --> 01:36:33.279 gosh, if you go, definitely got to take kids. You watch the 1295 01:36:33.279 --> 01:36:38.720 bees come in and out from the outside into the building into this giant plexiglass 1296 01:36:38.840 --> 01:36:42.000 space where they're doing their work. I mean, you can get up close 1297 01:36:42.039 --> 01:36:45.039 and watch the work. It is super cool. You can give them a 1298 01:36:45.079 --> 01:36:49.319 call at nine three six seven seven six o seven three nine, or just 1299 01:36:49.359 --> 01:36:55.560 go to the website thebsupply dot com. If you're a bee keeper. They 1300 01:36:55.560 --> 01:36:58.319 got everything you need. If you want to be a bee keeper, they 1301 01:36:58.359 --> 01:37:03.119 got everything you need, plus really good training and they love to help people 1302 01:37:03.359 --> 01:37:08.239 have success. So you can go back in and ask them questions because there's 1303 01:37:08.279 --> 01:37:13.359 gonna be a thousand questions and it just you know, the beet Supply is 1304 01:37:13.520 --> 01:37:16.159 just it's just a place you need to go check out and also go visit 1305 01:37:16.840 --> 01:37:20.680 even if you're not a bee person. Pretty cool stuff. Well, let's 1306 01:37:20.720 --> 01:37:24.840 see here, We're gonna go to Spring and talk to Bob. Hello Bob, 1307 01:37:25.920 --> 01:37:28.880 Good morning, Chip. I got a question for you. Okay, 1308 01:37:29.000 --> 01:37:34.760 starting about two months ago in my backyard, it used to be Saint Augustine, 1309 01:37:34.800 --> 01:37:38.880 but the bermuna grass has taken over since the drought in the summer. 1310 01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:44.079 But now I'm growing mushrooms, okay, kicking them almost every day. Okay, 1311 01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:46.720 I become a mushroom farmer. Well, yeah, what do they look 1312 01:37:46.880 --> 01:37:51.800 like? Color? Size? Some of them have real big white heads, 1313 01:37:51.840 --> 01:37:55.840 you know, a good three four or five inches across, and the other 1314 01:37:55.880 --> 01:37:59.640 ones are a little brown, kind of button type mushrooms with little kind of 1315 01:37:59.680 --> 01:38:04.000 little brown helmetsile. Well, mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungus. And 1316 01:38:04.880 --> 01:38:09.640 for a lot of mushrooms, it may be the organic matter in your soil 1317 01:38:09.800 --> 01:38:13.439 that the fungus is decomposing. It's doing you a favor, by the way, 1318 01:38:14.279 --> 01:38:16.880 and then it sends up these mushrooms. Some people see the circles of 1319 01:38:16.960 --> 01:38:20.239 fairy rings, we call them. That's one type. There's other types that 1320 01:38:20.279 --> 01:38:26.479 live in association with tree roots or decaying wood underground, and there is not 1321 01:38:27.000 --> 01:38:30.159 a reason to worry about them. If you can ignore them. That would 1322 01:38:30.199 --> 01:38:31.920 be good. If you just want to get your golf club out and have 1323 01:38:31.960 --> 01:38:36.760 some fun, that would be okay. But they're not a disease of your 1324 01:38:36.800 --> 01:38:42.880 plants as you're describing those, and so I wouldn't worry about them, okay. 1325 01:38:42.920 --> 01:38:45.640 And can I get one more question? Sure? Okay? With this 1326 01:38:45.800 --> 01:38:49.000 crazy weather that we have in the summer and then these freezes in the winter, 1327 01:38:49.119 --> 01:38:54.039 might flower beds are pretty much naked except for two high biscuits. So 1328 01:38:54.039 --> 01:38:58.760 I'm looking for something to put in kind of around now that might be able 1329 01:38:58.800 --> 01:39:02.039 to get through the winter without me having to spend hundreds of dollars each year 1330 01:39:02.079 --> 01:39:08.319 replacing all my shrubs. So you're looking for annual flowers or what do you 1331 01:39:08.479 --> 01:39:11.800 now, I'm looking for some shrubs. I need some shrubs under my windows. 1332 01:39:11.920 --> 01:39:15.319 Oh, Michael, Well, hibiscus dye and the zalias I haven't had 1333 01:39:15.319 --> 01:39:19.000 any luck with. Okay. Well, you want to go and get something 1334 01:39:19.039 --> 01:39:23.960 that's very low growing because you don't want them to block your windows, that's 1335 01:39:24.000 --> 01:39:27.079 for sure. That's a mistake a lot of people make. Uh. There 1336 01:39:27.119 --> 01:39:31.199 are dwarf forms of yopond. There, there are dwarf forms of Chinese witch 1337 01:39:31.239 --> 01:39:35.199 hazel, which used to be the ones we had in the past who got 1338 01:39:35.279 --> 01:39:39.640 really big o there some that stay a little smaller can be kept a little 1339 01:39:39.680 --> 01:39:43.520 bit smaller in sunny areas. There's there're just a lot of options. I 1340 01:39:43.520 --> 01:39:46.920 think what I would do is go to a quality nursery and talk to them 1341 01:39:46.960 --> 01:39:50.680 about what they have, because literally they're going to have dozens of things that 1342 01:39:50.720 --> 01:39:55.319 you can choose from uh and do that. Your other option would be to 1343 01:39:55.479 --> 01:40:00.239 use a groundcover around the area, or to maybe have some taller th things 1344 01:40:00.319 --> 01:40:03.880 that our groundcover ish, like tall loriopee or cast iron plan in shade, 1345 01:40:03.920 --> 01:40:06.920 deep shade. So I would go to a nursery where you get a little 1346 01:40:06.920 --> 01:40:11.680 bit bigger, better palette than I'm going to come up with in a in 1347 01:40:11.720 --> 01:40:15.239 a minute here on the air. Okay, great, I'll take a couple 1348 01:40:15.239 --> 01:40:16.800 of pictures and that's what I'll do. There. You go, Thank you 1349 01:40:16.800 --> 01:40:21.640 so much, thank you. I appreciate that. See, we're going to 1350 01:40:21.720 --> 01:40:27.239 go Annie in spring. I've got just about thirty seconds, but you're going 1351 01:40:27.319 --> 01:40:30.680 to be the first when we come back. We're going to take a break 1352 01:40:30.720 --> 01:40:33.920 right now. Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 1353 01:40:33.960 --> 01:40:41.720 four. Well, good Saturday morning, and welcome back to garden Line. 1354 01:40:41.920 --> 01:40:45.159 We're glad you're listening, and if you'd like to call us seven one three 1355 01:40:45.279 --> 01:40:49.279 two one two fifty eight seventy four is the number you need. I'm going 1356 01:40:49.359 --> 01:40:55.640 to go now out to Annie and we're going to talk about what any killing 1357 01:40:55.720 --> 01:41:00.479 weed? All right? Eat something? I have bull rock around my house. 1358 01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:04.479 Of course, the rain continues, and I guess washes weed, seeds 1359 01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:14.079 down anything long term? And how often should I apply it? Well, 1360 01:41:15.760 --> 01:41:19.319 do you know anything about the kind of weeds you have? Can you describe 1361 01:41:19.319 --> 01:41:23.520 them or do you know names? Everything? You can? Think? I 1362 01:41:23.560 --> 01:41:27.520 have a little something that grows talls, and you know some that get down 1363 01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:31.359 and it's so hard to pull them because the roots are delicate. So you 1364 01:41:31.399 --> 01:41:36.039 know, I know it's I fight it with sprays and things, but I 1365 01:41:36.039 --> 01:41:42.720 thought you might have an idea on how to fight this because it just never 1366 01:41:42.920 --> 01:41:49.359 ends. Yeah, I understand the post emergent products that spray that kill the 1367 01:41:49.359 --> 01:41:55.960 weeds. You see, there are some that kill everything, all the grasses, 1368 01:41:56.039 --> 01:41:59.720 broad leaves and everything like that, and then there's some that just focus 1369 01:41:59.720 --> 01:42:03.880 ones. And so you kind of have that option I don't know. In 1370 01:42:03.920 --> 01:42:09.000 there. If your weeds are coming from seeds, then a pre emergent herbicide 1371 01:42:09.039 --> 01:42:12.039 would be helpful. But those you're going to have to put out seasonally. 1372 01:42:12.079 --> 01:42:15.159 You put them out in the spring. You might do them in the summer, 1373 01:42:15.560 --> 01:42:17.800 and then if you need it, and then in the fall again, 1374 01:42:17.880 --> 01:42:24.319 so you're still out there applying stuff. I think if you can just as 1375 01:42:24.359 --> 01:42:28.520 the seeds sprout and come up, just kill the ones that show their face, 1376 01:42:29.239 --> 01:42:30.880 that would be probably pretty good. If you catch them at a really 1377 01:42:30.920 --> 01:42:38.439 young age, you have more options on what will kill those weeds, what 1378 01:42:38.560 --> 01:42:45.640 kind of sprays or what would you see geest Okay, well, I'll just 1379 01:42:45.119 --> 01:42:49.560 mention some things. From an organic standpoint. Vinegar is the weed killer for 1380 01:42:49.640 --> 01:42:55.520 post emergent weed control probably just remember that it's a strong vinegar, not household 1381 01:42:55.560 --> 01:42:58.000 vinegar, and you need to be very careful using it. You wouldn't want 1382 01:42:58.039 --> 01:43:00.319 it to splash in your eyes or anything like that. Uh. It is. 1383 01:43:00.840 --> 01:43:05.600 Then as you go into the grass killers, there are two ingredients. 1384 01:43:06.039 --> 01:43:11.880 They're the names of the products will tell you they're a grass killer, uh 1385 01:43:11.920 --> 01:43:17.880 and and they will both kill grasses after they've sprouted and glacis, which is 1386 01:43:18.000 --> 01:43:24.560 round up and many other brands that kills both grasses and broad leaf weeds both 1387 01:43:24.800 --> 01:43:30.960 and so those last two products move down into the grass plant or the weed 1388 01:43:30.079 --> 01:43:35.319 plant and kill it from completely. They don't just burn the top like vinegar 1389 01:43:35.359 --> 01:43:42.439 wood. Sounds good. I don't like round up too much, but try 1390 01:43:42.439 --> 01:43:45.680 to avoid if I can. But yeah, it's your call, it's your 1391 01:43:45.680 --> 01:43:50.039 house. But yeah, those are some of the options. And if you 1392 01:43:50.079 --> 01:43:53.479 know, if you have pictures of the weeds, it may be that, 1393 01:43:53.640 --> 01:43:56.920 oh I need to recommend something different for that one, you know, But 1394 01:43:56.920 --> 01:44:01.279 but that that's my okay. I can think I get a little of everything 1395 01:44:01.319 --> 01:44:05.760 there is all right, And thank you very much. I appreciate you giving 1396 01:44:05.840 --> 01:44:10.119 us a call. You know, if you're going to establish and have a 1397 01:44:10.119 --> 01:44:14.119 successful laun or garden, you need to take care of the soil first. 1398 01:44:14.239 --> 01:44:16.159 The soil comes first for your vegetable garden, for your herbs, for your 1399 01:44:16.159 --> 01:44:20.640 flower beds. And the folks at Nature's Way they have got a quality mix. 1400 01:44:20.800 --> 01:44:26.880 They kind of have been a leader in soil building products for a very 1401 01:44:26.960 --> 01:44:32.600 long time. John Ferguson has created some of the He's actually created products that 1402 01:44:32.640 --> 01:44:35.800 a lot of other people sell now by the same name, like a leaf 1403 01:44:35.840 --> 01:44:40.680 more compost, like a rose soil for example. I mean he was original 1404 01:44:40.720 --> 01:44:45.199 on those. Now at Nature's Way, they have Fungal Fridays where you get 1405 01:44:45.279 --> 01:44:50.119 ten percent off bag products and twenty percent off bulk products that are fungal composts. 1406 01:44:50.199 --> 01:44:53.640 They can take care of that. They have leaf moll compass, they 1407 01:44:53.680 --> 01:44:56.800 have rose soil, they have all those things. Give them a call at 1408 01:44:56.840 --> 01:45:03.600 nine three six three two one sixty nine six three two one six nine nine 1409 01:45:03.840 --> 01:45:08.960 zero. We're going to go back to the phones now and talk to Ralph 1410 01:45:09.119 --> 01:45:14.199 in northwest Houston. Hey, Ralph, good morning. You're the greatest man, 1411 01:45:14.439 --> 01:45:17.600 the best ever been on this day. Anyway. I got my garden 1412 01:45:17.680 --> 01:45:23.920 now, and I want to put something in it right now. I had 1413 01:45:23.960 --> 01:45:28.199 trouble with my big old pecon try. I I'm kind of trouble this year 1414 01:45:28.239 --> 01:45:31.359 with its heat, and then we got a good weather finally. Okay, 1415 01:45:31.479 --> 01:45:36.479 So what could I just put plant good vest of bulgarsoma in my garden? 1416 01:45:36.720 --> 01:45:40.439 You want to know what vegetables to plant now? Is that what you're asking 1417 01:45:40.479 --> 01:45:45.920 me? Yeah? Okay, you can plant leafy greens like lettuce and a 1418 01:45:45.000 --> 01:45:50.319 regular spinach. Let's say it was just sorel is the LEMONI when I was 1419 01:45:50.319 --> 01:45:56.439 talking about earlier. Kal kal is a good leafy green that you can plant 1420 01:45:56.439 --> 01:46:00.560 this time of the year. And I'm probably probably forgetting a few more in 1421 01:46:00.640 --> 01:46:04.600 the other category, the coal crops. I call them blue leaf vegetables because 1422 01:46:04.600 --> 01:46:09.439 they have a bluish look to the green. That would be broccoli, cabbage, 1423 01:46:09.479 --> 01:46:15.039 cauliflower, kale, collars called robby Brussels sprouts. Those kinds of things 1424 01:46:15.119 --> 01:46:18.600 could also be planted. You can still plant carrots out in the garden and 1425 01:46:18.680 --> 01:46:23.159 probably get away with radishes if we don't have a real hard early phrase. 1426 01:46:25.239 --> 01:46:28.279 Okay, yeah, that sounds great. Well, hey, thank you for 1427 01:46:28.319 --> 01:46:31.399 the call. I appreciate it. Ralph, appreciate you calling. We are 1428 01:46:31.479 --> 01:46:38.960 going to let's see, I want to go to Carolyn here in southwest Houston. 1429 01:46:39.199 --> 01:46:44.279 Hello, Carolyn. Hi, I was so glad to hear you talking 1430 01:46:44.319 --> 01:46:49.359 about personally this morning and you said that we can now get it as a 1431 01:46:49.479 --> 01:46:55.399 vegetable. Yes. Does it have the same nutritional value as the weed. 1432 01:46:55.720 --> 01:46:59.279 Yes, it's just a bigger plant with big, fat, plump leaves that 1433 01:46:59.319 --> 01:47:01.920 are good. Uh, that's great. Do you have a pin or pencil 1434 01:47:01.960 --> 01:47:08.039 handy, I do, okay. One of them is called Mithra m I 1435 01:47:08.119 --> 01:47:15.199 t h r A m I t h r A. Another one is red 1436 01:47:15.720 --> 01:47:24.840 Groooner g r U n e r okay grooner. There's a third one that's 1437 01:47:24.920 --> 01:47:28.479 escaping me at this very moment. But if you do a search online and 1438 01:47:28.560 --> 01:47:31.079 you say pers Lane and Mithra for example, it's gonna it's gonna take you 1439 01:47:31.119 --> 01:47:42.000 to the where you can buy it. All right, yeah you can, 1440 01:47:42.239 --> 01:47:45.720 people do uh, but you don't know. So I was disappointed to hear 1441 01:47:45.760 --> 01:47:54.479 the narrow one one season vegetable. Vegetable one season. We don't plan them 1442 01:47:54.520 --> 01:48:00.239 until it warms up well next spring, all right, Oh okay, so 1443 01:48:00.520 --> 01:48:04.880 now will the vegetable ones be one season? All they're annuals, they're warm 1444 01:48:04.960 --> 01:48:11.319 season. Well, wonderful. Have to run, Carolyn, but go have 1445 01:48:11.439 --> 01:48:15.399 fun. Yeah that's a tasty weed one we ought to be growing more. 1446 01:48:15.399 --> 01:48:18.920 You know, the folks at Kingwood Garden Center and Warrens Garden Center out there 1447 01:48:18.920 --> 01:48:25.000 in Kingwood, they have got an excellent selection of plants everything you think about. 1448 01:48:25.039 --> 01:48:28.479 Okay, it's Christmas season, holiday season and whatnot. I need color 1449 01:48:28.520 --> 01:48:31.199 in my beds. They've got that out there now. They have the heirloom 1450 01:48:31.239 --> 01:48:36.359 Soul's Age leaf compost that is a high quality product. Three bags for thirty 1451 01:48:36.479 --> 01:48:42.319 dollars. Month of November only. Month of November only. They have package 1452 01:48:42.359 --> 01:48:46.000 bulbs and sale. They've got fall de coren accessories, Christmas cactus, Christmas 1453 01:48:46.039 --> 01:48:49.560 trees, everything that you can imagine. I mean, that's the deal that 1454 01:48:49.600 --> 01:48:56.399 they do now on Thursday, let's see. Nope, I had the wrong 1455 01:48:56.479 --> 01:48:59.760 date on that one. But when last time I was out of Kingwood, 1456 01:48:59.760 --> 01:49:03.800 I was. That's really impressed with just the color selection. And they are 1457 01:49:03.840 --> 01:49:08.600 so helpful. Again, it's a knowledgeable Mama Pop garden center and they can 1458 01:49:08.640 --> 01:49:11.399 direct you to any plant you need and tell you how to grow it. 1459 01:49:11.880 --> 01:49:14.279 We're going to take a break right now, Fred, you'll be first when 1460 01:49:14.319 --> 01:49:17.399 we come back. Our phone number seven one three two point two fifty eight 1461 01:49:17.560 --> 01:49:25.000 seventy four. Well, lovely brothers there on a beautiful Saturday morning. Welcome 1462 01:49:25.000 --> 01:49:29.199 back to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. Now, the 1463 01:49:29.239 --> 01:49:32.760 folks at Nelson Plant Food, Dean Nelson and his family and the employees out 1464 01:49:32.760 --> 01:49:38.039 there, they make a very high quality fertilizer. That's just the case. 1465 01:49:38.119 --> 01:49:42.239 They have beautiful blends that are designed for various kinds of plants. I mean 1466 01:49:42.239 --> 01:49:46.000 they've been doing this since nineteen eighty three. That's that's amazing. Now. 1467 01:49:46.039 --> 01:49:51.039 The lawn fertilizer for this season from Nelson Plant Food is carbo load. It's 1468 01:49:51.039 --> 01:49:55.000 called carbo load because when you put it in the ground, takes up the 1469 01:49:55.079 --> 01:50:00.680 nutrients and that grass is able to make carbohydrates that increases winter heartiness and helps 1470 01:50:00.720 --> 01:50:03.600 the plant come out stronger in the spring. And for every bag sold of 1471 01:50:03.680 --> 01:50:09.560 carbo load, Dean is going to donate two dollars to the Randy Lemon Memorial 1472 01:50:09.600 --> 01:50:13.880 Scholarship at Texas A and M for horticulture students. And I know Randy would 1473 01:50:13.880 --> 01:50:16.840 be very, very proud to know that there was such a thing honoring his 1474 01:50:16.920 --> 01:50:20.840 legacy up there. Carboload's an outstanding project. It also has a pre emergent 1475 01:50:20.840 --> 01:50:25.600 weed control in it, so if you are using the carbo load, you 1476 01:50:25.640 --> 01:50:29.520 are also putting down a pre emergent which is another reason to get it on 1477 01:50:29.800 --> 01:50:34.000 very soon and watered in with about a half inch of rainfall or irrigation. 1478 01:50:34.760 --> 01:50:38.760 We are going to go now to Cyprus and talk to Fred. Hello. 1479 01:50:38.840 --> 01:50:44.239 Fred and thanks for waiting. Actually it's an sage mond. Okay, how 1480 01:50:44.279 --> 01:50:47.560 can I help my Good morning sir. My question is I've been walking the 1481 01:50:47.560 --> 01:50:51.640 neighborhood recently a little bit more than what I should, and I know there's 1482 01:50:51.640 --> 01:50:56.479 those weed that's just popping all over, just taking control of everything. It's 1483 01:50:56.520 --> 01:51:00.880 a tiny little white daisy looking. Is there a nursey that I could take 1484 01:51:00.920 --> 01:51:04.239 a sample to in this area? You don't have to. I can tell 1485 01:51:04.239 --> 01:51:11.319 you what it is. It's called slender slender aster, slender aster. It 1486 01:51:11.399 --> 01:51:16.039 has other names that it goes by, but it is a warm season weed 1487 01:51:16.159 --> 01:51:20.439 that is in the astor family. That hence the little dime sized white to 1488 01:51:20.479 --> 01:51:28.319 pinkish colored flowers. There's nothing to spray on it now, it's too late 1489 01:51:28.399 --> 01:51:34.159 for spraying it. But every flower is capable of producing about fifty seeds, 1490 01:51:34.520 --> 01:51:39.399 and I've seen plants with one hundred flowers on them that big of a plant. 1491 01:51:40.119 --> 01:51:42.960 In the lawn, they grow horizontal. In a bacon lot, they 1492 01:51:42.960 --> 01:51:46.439 grow almost waist high. But you just have to grab it. It has 1493 01:51:46.439 --> 01:51:50.279 a taproot. If the soil is moist, you can grab it right around 1494 01:51:50.279 --> 01:51:54.319 that taproot and pull it right up, or use a pruning fork. But 1495 01:51:54.399 --> 01:51:59.399 every time you pull one weed out, you are saving yourselves hundreds of seeds 1496 01:51:59.439 --> 01:52:03.600 for next fall to be a problem again. So I highly recommend people hand 1497 01:52:03.680 --> 01:52:09.600 pull as much of it as they can as soon as they can. Okay, 1498 01:52:09.720 --> 01:52:16.640 surrender what astor as t R. Okay, thank you very much, 1499 01:52:16.720 --> 01:52:19.840 all right, sir, thank you. I appreciate the call. Our phone 1500 01:52:19.920 --> 01:52:29.239 number you're on garden line is seven one three two one two five eight seven 1501 01:52:29.359 --> 01:52:32.520 four seven one three two one two kt r H. Give us a call. 1502 01:52:32.520 --> 01:52:35.800 We'd be glad to visit with you about whatever's of interest to you, 1503 01:52:36.079 --> 01:52:40.800 even if you like Fred walking around the neighborhood and you just see some weeds 1504 01:52:40.800 --> 01:52:44.960 and curious about what that is. That is definitely the weed of the month, 1505 01:52:45.680 --> 01:52:48.760 the fall or slender aster. Boy, is it ever? Is it 1506 01:52:48.800 --> 01:52:53.159 ever a little sneaky thing because you don't notice it until you get into the 1507 01:52:53.239 --> 01:52:57.560 later part of the season when it's about to start blooming. Now, I 1508 01:52:57.600 --> 01:53:00.960 tell you another time we noticed it around is this summer when lawns were dying 1509 01:53:01.000 --> 01:53:05.760 back from drought. It didn't get affected by the drought hardly at all, 1510 01:53:06.079 --> 01:53:12.079 and you had this blue, greenish looking plant growing in a dead to dying 1511 01:53:12.119 --> 01:53:18.159 Saint Augustine lawn kind of made it show up a little bit extra as well. 1512 01:53:18.399 --> 01:53:25.760 Okay, let's see, the Spring Creek Feed Center is our hometown feed 1513 01:53:25.800 --> 01:53:30.039 store. It's your hometown feed store if you live up in the Magnolia area, 1514 01:53:30.119 --> 01:53:32.399 and we love our feed stores here on Garden Line. They're on FM 1515 01:53:32.560 --> 01:53:36.640 twenty nine seventy eight now just minutes away. If you're up on Graham Parkway 1516 01:53:36.720 --> 01:53:41.239 or Highway to forty nine, you need your local feed store. It is 1517 01:53:41.479 --> 01:53:45.039 Spring Creek Feed. They got the fertilizers I talk about anything you need to 1518 01:53:45.039 --> 01:53:49.159 control pests, diseases, weeds and insects, or to fertilizer lawn, They're 1519 01:53:49.159 --> 01:53:53.000 going to have it there. I like the fact that they have friendly, 1520 01:53:53.039 --> 01:53:57.399 courteous staff that greets you. If you need feed for livestock, of course, 1521 01:53:57.399 --> 01:54:00.600 they got that high quality dog feed. They've got that. If you 1522 01:54:00.600 --> 01:54:03.119 want to do backyard chickens, they have all the supplies you need to get 1523 01:54:03.159 --> 01:54:09.800 started with backyard chickens. They'll special order products if you need them, and 1524 01:54:09.840 --> 01:54:12.760 they even have a delivery service available. I mean, what more could you 1525 01:54:12.800 --> 01:54:17.479 ask for from Spring Creek Feed in Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight. 1526 01:54:17.920 --> 01:54:21.880 Simple as that. Our phone number again if you'd like to give us a 1527 01:54:21.880 --> 01:54:29.640 call is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one 1528 01:54:29.760 --> 01:54:33.159 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Uh. If you if you 1529 01:54:33.159 --> 01:54:38.640 haven't been to my website, it's gardening with Skip dot Com. I just 1530 01:54:38.800 --> 01:54:43.079 keep adding more things to it here. When we get past the holidays, 1531 01:54:43.479 --> 01:54:45.199 I'm gonna have a little extra time on my hands to be able to do 1532 01:54:45.319 --> 01:54:48.359 more, and we're going to really beef that up. You know, questions. 1533 01:54:48.439 --> 01:54:53.239 We had a couple of questions you know that came in this morning that 1534 01:54:53.399 --> 01:54:56.199 I thought, you know what, I need to put a publication up about 1535 01:54:56.199 --> 01:54:59.920 that. Like lighting, What kind of lighting do you need to start seedlings 1536 01:55:00.239 --> 01:55:03.640 for? That's something we do after the holidays, start our warm seasoned ceilings. 1537 01:55:04.239 --> 01:55:08.159 What kind of lighting do you need for a greenhouse? And how do 1538 01:55:08.239 --> 01:55:11.720 you know what's a good light and what's not a good light, and on 1539 01:55:11.760 --> 01:55:14.399 and on. I can do a publication on that, and I hope to 1540 01:55:14.439 --> 01:55:16.800 be able to do that soon. Right now, we're going to head out 1541 01:55:16.880 --> 01:55:24.279 to Eddie in Pasadena. Hello, Eddie, we got you. Hey, 1542 01:55:27.800 --> 01:55:33.000 Hey, Skip, I sent you some emails this morning. Quick, wow, 1543 01:55:33.079 --> 01:55:39.720 ask the question I do have, Saint Augustine Long, I got a 1544 01:55:39.800 --> 01:55:45.039 real bad beating this summer with tinchbugs and all that, and so I am 1545 01:55:45.079 --> 01:55:49.199 wondering if it is worth it for me to replace the grass with new sod 1546 01:55:50.039 --> 01:55:55.000 or just don't even bother and just wait for the spring coming up. Well, 1547 01:55:55.079 --> 01:56:00.720 that strip between the sidewalk and the drive the road is very dead. 1548 01:56:01.239 --> 01:56:05.159 There are some living sprigs that will fill in, but I think that's too 1549 01:56:05.319 --> 01:56:10.159 large of areas that they're going to have to cross over to fill in from 1550 01:56:10.159 --> 01:56:15.079 the little bit that's still alive. So I would probably consider resotting that a 1551 01:56:15.119 --> 01:56:16.159 lot of the rest that I see in the pictures. You know, you 1552 01:56:16.239 --> 01:56:20.479 got green spots here and there among the dead, and if the lawn is 1553 01:56:20.560 --> 01:56:24.520 healthy, it will cover over that pretty well. I mean, if if 1554 01:56:24.520 --> 01:56:28.119 you've got a spot that's even a foot in diameter and it can come across 1555 01:56:28.159 --> 01:56:31.119 from both sides, it'll fill that back in pretty quick once we get warm 1556 01:56:31.159 --> 01:56:35.000 weather. Okay, great, I'll just go ahead and focus on the ones 1557 01:56:35.039 --> 01:56:38.119 on the sidewalk. Yeah, take you there. I think that's it. 1558 01:56:38.199 --> 01:56:41.840 You bet, Thank you, for the call. I appreciate that very much. 1559 01:56:42.600 --> 01:56:45.399 You know, if you need any supplies for these kinds of things, 1560 01:56:45.159 --> 01:56:49.800 taking care of your lawn, dealing with pests and diseases, and fertilizing and 1561 01:56:49.960 --> 01:56:54.479 your gardens and your flower bits, Ace Hardware stor has got all of that. 1562 01:56:54.680 --> 01:56:59.359 But they're also the place for Christmas lighting and decoration. And I'm talking 1563 01:56:59.359 --> 01:57:01.600 about both inside your house and outside your house. Do you need a wreath, 1564 01:57:01.720 --> 01:57:04.279 do you need garland? Do you need lights? Oh my gosh. 1565 01:57:04.319 --> 01:57:10.279 They have a multitude of lights, different sizes and colors and everything even down 1566 01:57:10.319 --> 01:57:14.600 to something called Christmas or custom lights by the foot. Just go to your 1567 01:57:14.640 --> 01:57:19.000 Ace Hardware store and ask them about that. Ace Hardware dot Com is the 1568 01:57:19.560 --> 01:57:24.960 store for all Ace Hardware stores. The website and if you go to their 1569 01:57:25.000 --> 01:57:28.760 store locator, you can find the store nearest to you just by putting in 1570 01:57:28.880 --> 01:57:32.560 your zip code. Let's head now out to Baytown and we're going to talk 1571 01:57:32.560 --> 01:57:38.199 to Joan. Hello, Joan Ry, good morning. This is John Rumman. 1572 01:57:38.800 --> 01:57:42.279 They can not have an issue with one of my plants. Okay, 1573 01:57:43.560 --> 01:57:48.199 it's a flower plants that's outside. I don't know what the name of it 1574 01:57:48.279 --> 01:57:59.520 is anyway, what's happening. The leaves are have a white moldy looking on 1575 01:57:59.560 --> 01:58:02.560 it. Okay, now try to I showed my yard man, he said 1576 01:58:02.560 --> 01:58:06.159 it was a mouse. I would to the garden center and I gag me 1577 01:58:06.279 --> 01:58:12.239 something and it didn't work. Okay, Well it could be more than it 1578 01:58:12.279 --> 01:58:14.840 could be more than one thing. Are you able to take a picture and 1579 01:58:14.880 --> 01:58:19.079 send it to me up close? Eat my email? I can, yes, 1580 01:58:19.199 --> 01:58:21.760 Okay, Well, I'm going to put you on hold and Josh will 1581 01:58:21.760 --> 01:58:26.319 pick up and give you an email. I want some close up pictures and 1582 01:58:26.359 --> 01:58:28.720 a picture of the whole plant, if you would send that to me. 1583 01:58:28.880 --> 01:58:32.359 Make sure before you send them they're in good sharp focus. Okay, yes, 1584 01:58:32.399 --> 01:58:34.960 sir, all right, I'll be glad to help you that way. 1585 01:58:35.000 --> 01:58:40.159 I'm not just guessing as to what it might it might be. Let's see. 1586 01:58:40.159 --> 01:58:44.319 We're going to head out now to Liverpool and talk to Trish. Hey, 1587 01:58:44.359 --> 01:58:45.640 Trish, I got a couple of minutes here left. How can we 1588 01:58:45.720 --> 01:58:53.239 help? Yes, I have a persistent weed that it's very difficult to get 1589 01:58:53.319 --> 01:58:58.840 rid of out in the country. And this particular weed has these leaves on 1590 01:58:58.920 --> 01:59:02.720 it that when you touch them they fold up and then it develops a real 1591 01:59:03.479 --> 01:59:08.960 a purple puffy flower. Yes, I know the weed you're talking about, 1592 01:59:09.520 --> 01:59:14.039 and it is kind of cool how the leaves move. What's it growing in? 1593 01:59:14.039 --> 01:59:15.359 In other words, what do we not want to kill that? The 1594 01:59:15.359 --> 01:59:20.239 weeds growing around? Well, it's grown in my grass. I try to 1595 01:59:20.319 --> 01:59:25.000 keep it out of my garden, bent my raised beds. Yes, but 1596 01:59:25.079 --> 01:59:29.479 you know how deep those roots run. Yes, yeah, that's true. 1597 01:59:30.000 --> 01:59:32.039 So what you're going to need to use, and I'm just gonna talk kind 1598 01:59:32.039 --> 01:59:35.159 of quick here because I'm about out of time. What you're going to need 1599 01:59:35.159 --> 01:59:41.560 to use is a broad leaf post emergent weed control product. There is for 1600 01:59:41.840 --> 01:59:49.000 loam weed free zone. There is oh my gosh, weed beater ultra booneyed 1601 01:59:49.199 --> 01:59:55.239 that's another one. Just follow the label and you want to catch the weave 1602 01:59:55.319 --> 01:59:59.880 when it's actively growing, and you could try spraying it now, but next 1603 02:00:00.000 --> 02:00:01.760 spring when you start seeing it, they're going to need to do some spot 1604 02:00:01.840 --> 02:00:05.039 spring at that time too. Okay, all right, I'll do that, 1605 02:00:05.239 --> 02:00:10.520 Thank you, Thank you. Well, you've been listening to garden Line. 1606 02:00:10.560 --> 02:00:14.199 We are going to take a break and we'll come back with a nine o'clock 1607 02:00:14.239 --> 02:00:17.920 hour here in just a bit. Don't forget today to day. At RCW 1608 02:00:18.119 --> 02:00:21.279 Fall Fling, I'm going to be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. 1609 02:00:21.560 --> 02:00:25.880 They're going to have a sandwich lunch, barbecue sandwich lunch. They're going to 1610 02:00:25.960 --> 02:00:29.680 be giving away a number of different kinds of products as well as some little 1611 02:00:29.720 --> 02:00:33.479 tree seedlings I shouldn't say little. They're good sized lace bark ellm Mexican white 1612 02:00:33.479 --> 02:00:38.000 oak, live oaks. It's the time to pick up your trees because they're 1613 02:00:38.119 --> 02:00:42.840 on sale. All shrubs and some trees on sale at RCW. I hope 1614 02:00:42.840 --> 02:00:45.079 you can make it out today. They're the nursery where two forty nine comes 1615 02:00:45.119 --> 02:00:51.640 into Beltway eight. KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products 1616 02:00:51.720 --> 02:00:59.760 or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with scip Rick 1617 02:01:00.279 --> 02:01:21.520 show Crazy, just watching as the world. Well, good morning and welcome 1618 02:01:21.520 --> 02:01:27.079 back to garden Line. It is going to be one awesome Saturday, and 1619 02:01:27.119 --> 02:01:30.680 I hope you have gardening plans from shopping to getting things done around the house. 1620 02:01:31.359 --> 02:01:34.520 Uh, this is a day for it. It doesn't get any prettier 1621 02:01:34.560 --> 02:01:42.479 than this. For sure. The questions that I had earlier in the show, 1622 02:01:42.520 --> 02:01:45.600 I was just thinking back on some of those things that people had asked 1623 02:01:45.600 --> 02:01:50.319 about, and it reminded me we were talking about some houseplant watering and issues 1624 02:01:50.439 --> 02:01:55.920 like that, and it just reminded me that we kill more house plants with 1625 02:01:56.159 --> 02:02:00.119 too much water than we do it not enough. That's that's true. I 1626 02:02:00.159 --> 02:02:02.720 mean, yes, you can underwater a houseplant, but we tend to keep 1627 02:02:02.760 --> 02:02:05.439 them too wet. And then we go into the cool season, the winter 1628 02:02:05.560 --> 02:02:10.239 season, and I know it's not winter in your house, but outdoors, 1629 02:02:10.279 --> 02:02:15.159 the light levels are lower and there are cold windows and things that can affect 1630 02:02:15.680 --> 02:02:18.720 the temperature around houseplots. They're just not using as much water and it is 1631 02:02:18.960 --> 02:02:24.000 extra easy to overwater them when they're in that cool season as well. So 1632 02:02:24.119 --> 02:02:27.239 just kind of think about that, take care of that. Our phone number 1633 02:02:27.279 --> 02:02:31.279 is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two 1634 02:02:31.319 --> 02:02:35.439 one two fifty eight seventy four. If you are in the market for a 1635 02:02:35.520 --> 02:02:40.239 roof, there's only one company that you need to think about, and that's 1636 02:02:40.319 --> 02:02:45.000 Brinkman. Brinkman Quality Roofing. They can come out, they can assess your 1637 02:02:45.079 --> 02:02:48.479 roof if you need one or not. They'll be direct with you, honest 1638 02:02:48.520 --> 02:02:50.840 with you on that, and what kind of roof do you want? Do 1639 02:02:50.840 --> 02:02:54.800 you want a metal roof, you want a composite roof? 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You can go 1649 02:03:33.600 --> 02:03:39.640 to Brinckman Quality dot com. Brickman has two ends at the end Brinckman Quality 1650 02:03:39.680 --> 02:03:44.359 dot Com or you can call them at two eight one four eight zero seven 1651 02:03:44.520 --> 02:03:53.239 six six three Brankman Quality. If you have not downloaded the lawn care schedule 1652 02:03:53.279 --> 02:03:58.039 and the lawn Pestd's disease and weed schedule from my website. You need to 1653 02:03:58.079 --> 02:04:01.439 do that and check back perodotically or just bookmark the website probably be a better 1654 02:04:01.479 --> 02:04:04.840 way to do it, because I make adjustments to these, and I'm always 1655 02:04:04.880 --> 02:04:11.239 putting something new up on the website. But these tell you everything that you 1656 02:04:11.359 --> 02:04:14.000 need to do and when you need to do it, and what you need 1657 02:04:14.039 --> 02:04:18.640 to do from January to December of each year. It's multicolored. It's easy 1658 02:04:18.680 --> 02:04:24.319 to follow and even list products and things for that particular application, so it 1659 02:04:24.319 --> 02:04:27.159 makes it real easy to do. I did put an article up at the 1660 02:04:27.199 --> 02:04:34.000 website today or actually yesterday evening on the twenty twenty three USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 1661 02:04:34.079 --> 02:04:38.319 map. The new map came out. It's been eleven years since we had 1662 02:04:38.319 --> 02:04:41.439 a map, and a new one came out, and lo and behold, 1663 02:04:41.760 --> 02:04:46.319 most people have moved one half of a zone warmer. So if you were 1664 02:04:46.359 --> 02:04:50.359 a nine A, you were now a nine B. If you are an 1665 02:04:50.399 --> 02:04:55.239 eight B, you are now a nine A. You get it how that 1666 02:04:55.319 --> 02:04:59.840 works. My article on there explains a lot of things about what the map 1667 02:05:00.119 --> 02:05:06.439 does and does not tell you, and the importance of selecting quality plants that 1668 02:05:06.479 --> 02:05:11.840 are adapted to your region. And that takes us right back to where do 1669 02:05:11.920 --> 02:05:15.520 you go to get quality plants. Well, you go to a place like 1670 02:05:15.760 --> 02:05:18.520 enchanted Forest, for example Donn and Richmond. They are not going to say 1671 02:05:18.520 --> 02:05:24.520 you something doesn't grow here. They know what they're doing very much so they 1672 02:05:24.720 --> 02:05:28.279 by the way, they've got Christmas trees in now, they're being set up. 1673 02:05:28.359 --> 02:05:30.239 They're starting to arrive, and we'll be getting more in set up and 1674 02:05:30.359 --> 02:05:33.880 stands ready for you to come by as of right now. The first half 1675 02:05:33.920 --> 02:05:38.600 of the orders here and then the second half. The first half or Fraser 1676 02:05:38.640 --> 02:05:43.079 first. The second half will come in over this weekend will be Noble, 1677 02:05:43.399 --> 02:05:46.479 Grand, Nordman and silver Tip first. Wow, lots of different options there. 1678 02:05:46.920 --> 02:05:50.479 Next week the pointset has arrived. The nursery right now is loaded with 1679 02:05:50.560 --> 02:05:56.039 colors. So do you want pansies or cyclomen or snap dragons, a lissome 1680 02:05:56.159 --> 02:06:00.359 stock, lobelia. They've got all of that stuff and your winter vegetables and 1681 02:06:00.479 --> 02:06:03.680 herbs as well, so there's a lot of reasons to get out there. 1682 02:06:03.960 --> 02:06:09.399 Remember, as always, fall is the time to plant woody ornamental plants, 1683 02:06:09.399 --> 02:06:13.760 shrub trees and woody vines, and they have that as well. An excellent 1684 02:06:13.840 --> 02:06:16.600 selection of those as well. I was looking at Chinese fringe trees, one 1685 02:06:16.600 --> 02:06:21.439 of my favorite trees that they carry out there at Enchanted Forest in Richmond. 1686 02:06:21.680 --> 02:06:26.600 Now, how do you get there? Well, Enchanted Forest is it's not 1687 02:06:27.159 --> 02:06:32.600 going to be the thing that you just drive by going down Highway fifty nine. 1688 02:06:32.880 --> 02:06:36.920 You need to if you're heading let's say you're heading from Richmond North to 1689 02:06:38.079 --> 02:06:41.960 sugar Land. It's FM twenty seven fifty nine, so it's off to the 1690 02:06:42.079 --> 02:06:45.039 right. That is how you get there. You can go online and find 1691 02:06:45.079 --> 02:06:48.000 them. I mean, it's real easy to do as well, but it's 1692 02:06:48.119 --> 02:06:53.239 Enchanted Forest and it is a place you go for plants that you know are 1693 02:06:53.279 --> 02:06:56.600 going to do well. Here. We're going to go now out to Pearland 1694 02:06:56.720 --> 02:07:01.000 and talk to Ronda. Hello, Ronda, I skip. I have a 1695 02:07:01.279 --> 02:07:06.600 crate myrtle that has a black fungus or mold on it, and I've sprayed 1696 02:07:06.600 --> 02:07:11.239 some copper side on it several times and it doesn't seem to be helping. 1697 02:07:11.399 --> 02:07:15.720 So okay, I wondered, Yeah, okay, well, don't do any 1698 02:07:15.720 --> 02:07:19.439 more spraying with that. That is for fungus, and the black city mold 1699 02:07:19.640 --> 02:07:23.840 is a fungus, but it's not We don't spray for the mold. We 1700 02:07:23.880 --> 02:07:28.920 spray for the insects that cause black city mold, insects that feed on the 1701 02:07:28.960 --> 02:07:32.680 sap of plants. The flowum sap out the back end of the insect goes 1702 02:07:32.720 --> 02:07:35.399 a lot of sugary water. They don't need the sugar, they get the 1703 02:07:35.479 --> 02:07:40.439 other nutrients in the sap. And so you have this little mist falling all 1704 02:07:40.479 --> 02:07:44.039 the time. It's dropping on your leaves, it's getting on your trunks, 1705 02:07:44.239 --> 02:07:46.279 you know, on branches of your crpe myrtle, and then the city mold 1706 02:07:46.359 --> 02:07:49.680 grows on that. So you need to figure out which it is. It 1707 02:07:49.680 --> 02:07:54.840 could be aphids. Turn over a leaf and you see little yellowish chartruce colored 1708 02:07:54.840 --> 02:07:58.439 things underneath a leaf on a crpe myrtle. That's aphids, or it could 1709 02:07:58.479 --> 02:08:01.920 be bark scale. And that's going to show up is some little white things 1710 02:08:01.960 --> 02:08:05.319 on the trunk and branches. In each of those we approach from a different 1711 02:08:05.319 --> 02:08:09.600 way. But depending on which of those you have, the product you use 1712 02:08:09.640 --> 02:08:15.399 in the timing would be a little different. Okay, And if you want 1713 02:08:15.439 --> 02:08:18.159 to send me a picture, I can tell which it is and tell you 1714 02:08:18.199 --> 02:08:22.279 what to use for it if you'd like, I'd be happy to do that. 1715 02:08:20.720 --> 02:08:26.159 It looks more like the black scale. There is some white, okay, 1716 02:08:26.359 --> 02:08:30.560 spot well. Crete myrtle bark scale is a very difficult thing to control. 1717 02:08:31.039 --> 02:08:35.319 You can use oils in the winter time, but they're not fully effective 1718 02:08:35.399 --> 02:08:39.359 like they are against other types of scale. In the spring. There's a 1719 02:08:39.399 --> 02:08:43.640 period of time it's going to come, probably around March. It just depends 1720 02:08:43.640 --> 02:08:48.760 on the year where the baby scale come crawling out to set up shop, 1721 02:08:48.880 --> 02:08:54.920 and at that stage certain insecticide sprays will kill them, as will a horticultural 1722 02:08:54.960 --> 02:08:58.840 oil sprays at that time. You just need to time it well in order 1723 02:08:58.880 --> 02:09:03.720 to get ahead of them. Okay, thanks a lot, you bet, 1724 02:09:03.800 --> 02:09:07.319 thank you, Randa. Well, there's there's another publication I need to do 1725 02:09:07.439 --> 02:09:09.520 on great myrtle bark scale. We're going to take a break. Seven one 1726 02:09:09.640 --> 02:09:16.119 three two point two fifty eight seventy four. Good morning on a beautiful Saturday 1727 02:09:16.239 --> 02:09:20.279 morning, A good time to talk about gardening and get ready to go out 1728 02:09:20.319 --> 02:09:24.760 and do gardening, whether you're purchasing plants or preparing the soil or planting the 1729 02:09:24.800 --> 02:09:30.800 plants. Remember brown stuff before green stuff. Do not leave a garden center 1730 02:09:31.319 --> 02:09:33.640 if you haven't prepared your soil and you purchase plants, do not leave that 1731 02:09:33.720 --> 02:09:37.159 garden center without bags of compost to mix into the soil. To get that 1732 02:09:37.199 --> 02:09:41.600 soil right, heavy clays, maybe you need, you know, a little 1733 02:09:41.600 --> 02:09:45.920 expanded shale to go with it, but whatever you do, get the soil 1734 02:09:46.119 --> 02:09:48.479 right before you set the plants in it. That's the secret to success. 1735 02:09:48.760 --> 02:09:54.000 That is it. It's as simple. It's as simple as that. It's 1736 02:09:54.000 --> 02:09:58.920 also a time this weekend to go ahead and get your fall fertilization done. 1737 02:09:58.079 --> 02:10:03.279 And any fall we control that you're going to do because as the days get 1738 02:10:03.359 --> 02:10:07.680 cooler and cooler, we're going to see more cool season weed germination, We're 1739 02:10:07.720 --> 02:10:13.199 going to see diseases on our turf, and we're also going to see those 1740 02:10:13.479 --> 02:10:16.159 that rude growth slow down and its ability to take up a lot of nutrients 1741 02:10:16.199 --> 02:10:20.079 decrease. So we want to get it done. Nitropos has their Texas three 1742 02:10:20.079 --> 02:10:24.359 step It's just really simple. All all you have to know is it's three 1743 02:10:24.359 --> 02:10:31.199 steps. The first is Nitroposs Fall Special Fertilizer widely available, the second Nitrofoss 1744 02:10:31.199 --> 02:10:39.520 Barricade pre Emergent weed control widely available, and the third Nitrofos Eagle Turf fungicide 1745 02:10:39.800 --> 02:10:43.359 to soak into the its systemic. It soaks into the tissues and then it 1746 02:10:43.439 --> 02:10:46.479 prevents disease issues that may come around. Now, you can find nitrofoss in 1747 02:10:46.560 --> 02:10:52.840 a million places, but places like Gym's Hardware and Montgomery Ace Hardware, City 1748 02:10:52.840 --> 02:10:58.359 Immemorial, or Lake Hardware out include they all carry the nitrofoss three step system 1749 02:10:58.439 --> 02:11:03.359 makes it really easy to do. I'm going to go to the phones here 1750 02:11:03.399 --> 02:11:07.640 in just a second, but I did want to just say a word about 1751 02:11:09.079 --> 02:11:13.520 plant starting indoors. Now, I know the holidays are coming, it's the 1752 02:11:13.600 --> 02:11:18.119 last thing on your mind. But this right after the holidays, right the 1753 02:11:18.199 --> 02:11:22.520 first of the year, it's time to get those warm season transplants started. 1754 02:11:22.039 --> 02:11:24.800 And I can talk about more at that time. But if you have a 1755 02:11:24.840 --> 02:11:31.319 gardener on your list, or if you are a gardener who would like to 1756 02:11:31.359 --> 02:11:35.920 give a hint to people who have you on their list, a good quality 1757 02:11:35.920 --> 02:11:41.640 plant lighting is a great idea. The little cells with the covered clear plastic 1758 02:11:41.720 --> 02:11:45.720 covers, those little gadgets, that's great for starting plants. It's real easy 1759 02:11:45.760 --> 02:11:50.600 to do, and I would recommend that you consider some of the gardening supplies 1760 02:11:50.760 --> 02:11:56.760 for that gardener on your list. I always get excited when I get gardening 1761 02:11:56.840 --> 02:12:01.319 supplies as a gift. We're going to head now to Victoria and talk to 1762 02:12:01.399 --> 02:12:05.359 Michael. Hello, Michael, how are you today, sir? I'm well, 1763 02:12:05.560 --> 02:12:07.840 what's up? Good? Hey. We live out in the country and 1764 02:12:09.760 --> 02:12:13.479 mow inside our yard and outside the yard, and we've got some old world 1765 02:12:13.479 --> 02:12:18.079 blue stem krs and that kind of thing starting to pop up in the yard. 1766 02:12:18.600 --> 02:12:24.199 Is there any way to get rid of that? Saint Augustine? Is 1767 02:12:24.239 --> 02:12:28.319 it Saint Augustine, It's in a Saint Augustine yard, But we've got old 1768 02:12:28.319 --> 02:12:33.880 world bluestems like yeah, King Ranch and k R that's those That is tough 1769 02:12:33.960 --> 02:12:37.680 because you're killing a grass and the grass in some cases perennio grass and the 1770 02:12:37.720 --> 02:12:41.159 grass that those all come up above your Saint Augustine. So using a wiper 1771 02:12:41.199 --> 02:12:45.800 applicator could be a sponge soaked and round up. There's different kinds of applicators 1772 02:12:45.840 --> 02:12:48.680 you can purchase or make homemade. Uh, And you just wipe it over 1773 02:12:48.720 --> 02:12:52.239 the top and get it on those taller grasses and keep it off to Saint 1774 02:12:52.279 --> 02:13:00.239 Augustine. That's a strategy. I don't know how you know, appealing that 1775 02:13:00.319 --> 02:13:03.760 thought is will a wiper work? I mean, what's going on right now? 1776 02:13:03.800 --> 02:13:07.680 I know, you know, is just we just got seaedheads popping up. 1777 02:13:07.760 --> 02:13:11.640 Yeah, yeah we do. It'll help a little bit. But it's 1778 02:13:11.720 --> 02:13:16.359 better to catch those grasses when they're actively growing. And so I would, 1779 02:13:16.439 --> 02:13:18.720 I would right now. I would just mow them, just keep the mode 1780 02:13:20.239 --> 02:13:24.199 and uh then you know when when they come up in the spring, go 1781 02:13:24.199 --> 02:13:28.079 ahead and go after them. Then sure, all right, well that's kind 1782 02:13:28.079 --> 02:13:30.520 of what I thought. But I was hoping you had a silver bullet. 1783 02:13:30.680 --> 02:13:35.399 Well not not on that particular weed. You know, there are some things 1784 02:13:35.439 --> 02:13:41.439 that will kill what's the behea grass out of a long nice in. Yeah, 1785 02:13:41.920 --> 02:13:45.199 I'm not those others though. Hey, which direction from Victoria? Do 1786 02:13:45.239 --> 02:13:48.520 you live? A little bit east? Little east? Okay? Good, 1787 02:13:48.960 --> 02:13:52.359 well, enjoy it out there, and sure, good luck with the with 1788 02:13:52.399 --> 02:13:58.399 the weed management. You know, if you're wanting to fertilize your flower beds, 1789 02:13:58.760 --> 02:14:03.600 your vegetable gardens, your herb garden has to grow. Six twelve six 1790 02:14:03.960 --> 02:14:07.640 is a good fertilizer for doing that. Now. I use it myself as 1791 02:14:07.800 --> 02:14:11.439 a transplant fertilizer. That's just how I really love to use it. It 1792 02:14:11.439 --> 02:14:15.600 can be used in other ways, even a folier feed. But when I 1793 02:14:15.600 --> 02:14:18.640 put a transplant in, I don't care if it's a little pansy plant or 1794 02:14:18.680 --> 02:14:22.560 if it's a shrub or a tree or perennial grat whatever, watered in with 1795 02:14:22.680 --> 02:14:26.640 hash to grow six twelve six, and then about five days later, do 1796 02:14:26.680 --> 02:14:28.880 it again because you got new roots coming out in the soil. And about 1797 02:14:28.880 --> 02:14:33.840 five days later a third time, do it again, and that will help 1798 02:14:33.880 --> 02:14:37.960 that plant get off to a good start. It just does. And it's 1799 02:14:37.000 --> 02:14:43.600 important early on that that plant get its roots down and get them going and 1800 02:14:43.640 --> 02:14:46.880 you know, do some good early growth. We're going to go to Cypress 1801 02:14:46.880 --> 02:14:50.560 now and talk to Tiffany. Hello, Tiffany, Hi, Skip, how 1802 02:14:50.560 --> 02:14:56.520 are you today? I'm good? What's up in Cypress, Texas? Well? 1803 02:14:56.520 --> 02:15:00.560 We absolutely love you. You are just a joy to listen and so 1804 02:15:00.720 --> 02:15:05.079 informative. But I'm actually piggybacking on the lady who called about her as nailure. 1805 02:15:05.399 --> 02:15:09.079 Sorry, create myrtle. We have two in the backyard that are just 1806 02:15:09.199 --> 02:15:13.039 thriving, but one in the front. But it's not actually in the yard. 1807 02:15:13.079 --> 02:15:18.119 It's like in beds, and it's a lot smaller and it has that 1808 02:15:18.600 --> 02:15:24.039 black stuff that's just started developing about a couple of weeks ago on the leaves 1809 02:15:24.199 --> 02:15:28.720 and on part of the trunk, And so I really just wanted to send 1810 02:15:28.760 --> 02:15:35.560 pictures to you via Josh if I could get the email after we stopped talking 1811 02:15:35.840 --> 02:15:39.800 and let you look at it and just recommend what you think I should do 1812 02:15:39.920 --> 02:15:43.600 now and then heading into the spring, because I don't want to lose her. 1813 02:15:43.680 --> 02:15:46.600 She's really pretty. But okay, just let you see. Okay, 1814 02:15:46.800 --> 02:15:52.199 yeah, I can. I can do that. You know the city mold 1815 02:15:52.319 --> 02:15:56.720 already mentioned you probably heard when I was talking about that before. Demand of 1816 02:15:56.760 --> 02:16:01.560 managing the scale insects as far as printing the well, less is better on 1817 02:16:01.600 --> 02:16:03.640 a crape myrtle, people way over prune them all the time, they butcher 1818 02:16:03.680 --> 02:16:07.840 them, and so just I would take out little tiny twiggy growth if you 1819 02:16:07.960 --> 02:16:13.880 want. You don't have time if you want. And is this a younger 1820 02:16:13.920 --> 02:16:18.960 plant or is it an older plant? No, we've lived here four years 1821 02:16:18.039 --> 02:16:22.319 this June, so it's been there since we moved in, all three have. 1822 02:16:22.600 --> 02:16:30.039 And I did call Affordable Tree Service and not just to prune those, 1823 02:16:30.159 --> 02:16:35.360 but to also hang I'm sweetie, also to prune our trees like our oaks. 1824 02:16:35.559 --> 02:16:39.639 And he said, though he did not have availability until January. And 1825 02:16:39.719 --> 02:16:45.319 I know that you always say October November the prime time. So what do 1826 02:16:45.360 --> 02:16:48.680 you think of October November for planting or prime time? Oh for planting? 1827 02:16:50.239 --> 02:16:52.559 Plant in December, you can plant in January. Those are still good months, 1828 02:16:52.600 --> 02:16:56.959 even February. It's just how many weeks do you want to give it 1829 02:16:56.000 --> 02:17:00.600 before next summer. That's kind of the question, is when do you want 1830 02:17:00.600 --> 02:17:03.639 to get it planted to give it as much to him as you can, 1831 02:17:03.440 --> 02:17:07.239 right, and then what do you think about pruning our trees? Is January 1832 02:17:07.280 --> 02:17:11.440 and okay months to do that. January even early February is a good time 1833 02:17:11.440 --> 02:17:16.639 because you're about to get spring growth when the wounds they created heal the fastest. 1834 02:17:16.040 --> 02:17:20.479 Okay, gotcha, Okay, perfect, Yeah, I'll send you those 1835 02:17:20.520 --> 02:17:22.760 pictures. Yeah, I'll put you on hold, Josh, we'll pick up 1836 02:17:22.799 --> 02:17:26.319 the phone and give you the email. Thank you very much for that call, 1837 02:17:26.440 --> 02:17:31.760 Tiffany. I appreciate that. Let's see, we're going to go now 1838 02:17:31.000 --> 02:17:37.479 to Joan. Let's see. I didn't say where Joan is, but hey 1839 02:17:37.559 --> 02:17:45.840 Joan, Yes, yes, okay, how can I help? Oh, 1840 02:17:46.000 --> 02:17:50.159 I'll send you some email pictures on my plant that had you hading to mold 1841 02:17:50.239 --> 02:17:54.399 on it. You did, let's mold and plant looks sick. Okay, 1842 02:17:54.520 --> 02:17:58.159 all right, boy, I'm glad I had you send me pictures. That 1843 02:17:58.280 --> 02:18:03.799 is not mold that. Yeah, I know that's a mite. It's caused 1844 02:18:03.799 --> 02:18:07.319 by a mite and it's called the eero fid might if you want to, 1845 02:18:07.520 --> 02:18:13.319 you know, a fancy name. But that might is causing those white blotches 1846 02:18:13.479 --> 02:18:16.680 on your You sent me pictures. Wait a minute, did you send me 1847 02:18:16.760 --> 02:18:22.239 pictures of ruellia? I don't actually know what the name of it. Okay, 1848 02:18:22.280 --> 02:18:30.719 I think that's would it have come from Yoshi Mama? Okay, well 1849 02:18:30.760 --> 02:18:35.959 I got the pictures with it. But anyway, yeah, that's what it 1850 02:18:35.120 --> 02:18:39.520 is. What I would do wintertime, those plants are going to look good, 1851 02:18:39.559 --> 02:18:43.479 They're going to die back a little. I would cut all those branches 1852 02:18:43.479 --> 02:18:46.040 out at the ground and because they're not going to grow and bloom in the 1853 02:18:46.040 --> 02:18:50.079 winter. Next spring when it comes up the first time you start to see 1854 02:18:50.079 --> 02:18:54.079 those there is some treatment you can do, but it is a problem for 1855 02:18:54.239 --> 02:18:58.719 ruellia. But get all that old stuff, along with all the mites out 1856 02:18:58.719 --> 02:19:01.079 of there. Don't put it in your compotpologist, just bag it up and 1857 02:19:01.120 --> 02:19:09.280 get rid of it. Okay, all righty, But there's nothing I can 1858 02:19:09.479 --> 02:19:16.440 put on it right now. There's nothing to do it now. And it's 1859 02:19:16.479 --> 02:19:20.200 those are hard to kill when they're at that stage, and it just I've 1860 02:19:20.239 --> 02:19:22.159 had to cut them down one time already. Oh, you can cut that 1861 02:19:22.239 --> 02:19:26.040 thing down all the time. You are not going to kill it. It 1862 02:19:26.159 --> 02:19:30.799 is. It is like a weed in terms of its growth. Thank you 1863 02:19:30.879 --> 02:19:35.079 for the call. I appreciate, appreciate that very much. Now we're going 1864 02:19:35.200 --> 02:19:41.799 to go to let's see Greg in northwest Houston. Hello. Greg, Yes, 1865 02:19:41.879 --> 02:19:45.559 sir, how are you? I'm well? Thank you. I have 1866 02:19:45.760 --> 02:19:50.399 what one of the ladies earlier we're calling you about. Possibly it's it's scale. 1867 02:19:50.559 --> 02:19:54.239 I know it's scale. I've used soap and water and a tooth brush 1868 02:19:54.639 --> 02:20:01.840 on about twenty great myrtles, and then i use Captains Jack's and the sick 1869 02:20:01.840 --> 02:20:09.799 disidal soap okay, and then I've used melthion okay. And I need to 1870 02:20:09.799 --> 02:20:13.239 see if there's something. I think there's something I can put down on the 1871 02:20:13.280 --> 02:20:18.319 ground soap, the ground around the crepe myrtle, okay, to uh to, 1872 02:20:18.760 --> 02:20:22.040 So the crape myrtle's cooking up, so we eliminate this, okay, 1873 02:20:22.079 --> 02:20:26.920 systemically, all right, So for malathion, the only time that would work 1874 02:20:26.159 --> 02:20:31.680 is in the spring when the scale baby crawlers are out trying to set up 1875 02:20:31.760 --> 02:20:33.879 house. It would kill those, yeah, but it would do no good. 1876 02:20:33.959 --> 02:20:39.280 Now I'm trying to think of what the other thing you said before that 1877 02:20:39.239 --> 02:20:43.040 was. I think I think there's something called dominion. Dominion. Oh, 1878 02:20:43.200 --> 02:20:46.319 okay, now we're back to the put on the ground. Yes. Dominu 1879 02:20:46.760 --> 02:20:52.920 is a product that you mix up, follow the label, and you pour 1880 02:20:52.959 --> 02:20:56.120 it on the soil around the plant and just follow the label. Okay, 1881 02:20:56.239 --> 02:21:00.399 and the plant takes it up. Now they're not going to be picking it 1882 02:21:00.479 --> 02:21:05.319 up now because they're shutting down. They're shutting down, they're not growing. 1883 02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:11.799 The problem with the systemic insecticides for creatmurtle bark scale is that great myrtles are 1884 02:21:13.319 --> 02:21:18.760 one of the main things bees rely on in the heat of summer, and 1885 02:21:18.120 --> 02:21:22.079 if you get the insecticides up there, there's a potential to do damage to 1886 02:21:22.159 --> 02:21:28.239 those native pollinators. That is, that is the caveat on those But the 1887 02:21:28.319 --> 02:21:33.399 systemic is the most effective way to go about it. But they also they 1888 02:21:33.479 --> 02:21:39.239 also have beneficial insects. There's a lady beetle that's black with two red spots 1889 02:21:39.319 --> 02:21:43.399 that goes after scale and in time builds up the numbers to kind of keep 1890 02:21:43.440 --> 02:21:46.879 it in check. It'd be rare to see creat murtle, bark, scale 1891 02:21:46.920 --> 02:21:52.280 killer create myrtle. And I've found that while it starts off horrible, usually 1892 02:21:52.319 --> 02:21:56.799 over a few years it just sort of gets better, a little better on 1893 02:21:56.840 --> 02:22:00.680 its own. But those other options we've already talked to. That's how you 1894 02:22:00.680 --> 02:22:03.159 would go about it. Yeah, you know, and like I said, 1895 02:22:03.159 --> 02:22:07.600 I spent like two three hours with a tooth brush and a little don soap 1896 02:22:07.639 --> 02:22:11.399 and water also so get it and I just spot treat when I see it. 1897 02:22:11.479 --> 02:22:15.760 Yeah, well that you've kind of got the whole package. Eric, 1898 02:22:15.840 --> 02:22:18.479 Greg I'm gonna have to run, but I appreciate that call. Thank you 1899 02:22:18.680 --> 02:22:22.600 very very much. Hey, if you were up in the Montgomery area, 1900 02:22:22.799 --> 02:22:24.840 you need to go to A and A Plants and Produce. You probably already 1901 02:22:24.840 --> 02:22:28.920 have been there because when you drive from Montgomery toward Tomball, it's on the 1902 02:22:28.079 --> 02:22:33.440 edge of town on Montgomery on the left hand side serves that whole Lake Conroe 1903 02:22:33.479 --> 02:22:37.600 area, all those neighborhoods around Lake Conrod. This is your hometown garden center, 1904 02:22:37.959 --> 02:22:41.200 family owned for over thirty years. You know, Kathy now runs the 1905 02:22:41.239 --> 02:22:43.799 place. She's taken over from her took it over from her parents, Adam 1906 02:22:43.799 --> 02:22:48.559 and Alice Flores, who started it. And you're going to find every fertilizer 1907 02:22:48.559 --> 02:22:52.520 I talk about at A and A Plants and Produce. They're open seven days 1908 02:22:52.559 --> 02:22:56.200 a week from nine am to five pm. And if you want decorations for 1909 02:22:56.280 --> 02:23:01.239 the holidays, if you want color plants for your yard, A and A's 1910 02:23:01.280 --> 02:23:05.600 got it, plus all the fertilizers I talk about, and pest weed and 1911 02:23:05.639 --> 02:23:11.079 disease management products as well. On the east side of Montgomery on Highway one 1912 02:23:11.120 --> 02:23:16.280 oh five. I let's see here. I'm going to go to Marcy and 1913 02:23:16.559 --> 02:23:20.479 northwest Houston. Hey, Marsy. I've got about a million and a half. 1914 02:23:20.600 --> 02:23:24.120 But I see good morning. I live in a corner in every other 1915 02:23:24.239 --> 02:23:28.280 year, I put new soil to my whole property, right okay, And 1916 02:23:28.440 --> 02:23:33.319 where is the soil going. I know it's great for my for my land, 1917 02:23:33.040 --> 02:23:37.159 but nobody else does that. And I've been doing it for the last 1918 02:23:37.200 --> 02:23:43.280 twenty five years. Where are you putting the soil everywhere. Well, it 1919 02:23:43.639 --> 02:23:50.959 just I just level level it because I noticed the soil goes down in Okay, 1920 02:23:50.239 --> 02:23:54.079 if it's a if it's a bed mix with a lot of organic matter, 1921 02:23:54.399 --> 02:23:58.440 then it's going to decompose a way and and somewhat disappear over time. 1922 02:24:00.079 --> 02:24:03.719 And you add more. If it's actual soil, like top soil, it 1923 02:24:03.760 --> 02:24:07.440 should stay there and then the level should stay where it is. But the 1924 02:24:07.680 --> 02:24:11.000 bed mixes the compost things like that, you can top dress along with those. 1925 02:24:11.079 --> 02:24:15.639 It does very very well. Uh, and so that's probably it. 1926 02:24:15.680 --> 02:24:18.479 I got about twenty seconds here. What was that great? Thank you, 1927 02:24:18.799 --> 02:24:22.079 Thank you very much for your help. All right, Marsha, thank you. 1928 02:24:22.360 --> 02:24:24.840 Yeah. I hate to go to a call right for a break, 1929 02:24:24.879 --> 02:24:28.680 but I also want inybody to not have to wait, so darnong to talk 1930 02:24:28.719 --> 02:24:31.280 to me. Hey, we're going to take a break. Our phone number 1931 02:24:31.319 --> 02:24:35.159 is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh a 1932 02:24:35.239 --> 02:24:39.440 call and get on the board. And now I'm going to pass the baton 1933 02:24:39.879 --> 02:24:43.760 to Nicky who just when it comes to news she is the empress of the 1934 02:24:43.799 --> 02:24:46.680 newsroom. Oh wow, how was that for? That was free? By 1935 02:24:46.719 --> 02:24:50.719 the way, my Crown some titles, Trust Money, That one's free. 1936 02:24:50.879 --> 02:24:56.360 Thank you, Welcome back to Garden Line. We're glad you're listening today. 1937 02:24:56.760 --> 02:25:01.120 We're talking about, hopefully whatever you're interested in. That's why we have phones. 1938 02:25:01.159 --> 02:25:05.360 If you'd like to give us a call seven to one three two one 1939 02:25:05.479 --> 02:25:11.120 two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two kt RH. It's 1940 02:25:11.159 --> 02:25:16.360 as simple as that. Now. I always talk about in the order of 1941 02:25:16.639 --> 02:25:20.719 planting plants, what do we do first? Brownze stuff, then green stuff? 1942 02:25:20.799 --> 02:25:24.200 Right, That's how it works because you want your plants to have a 1943 02:25:24.239 --> 02:25:28.239 foundation for success by the time you walk away, whether you put in a 1944 02:25:28.239 --> 02:25:33.040 seed or a transplant, when you walk away, you're about seventy five percent 1945 02:25:33.079 --> 02:25:35.920 of the way to success or failure. You've put it in a spot that 1946 02:25:35.000 --> 02:25:37.879 drains well or not, and the plant's going to have an opinion about that. 1947 02:25:37.959 --> 02:25:41.639 You put it in sun or shade, it's going to have an opinion 1948 02:25:41.680 --> 02:25:46.319 about that as well. You've chosen a species that is either adapted or not 1949 02:25:46.440 --> 02:25:50.360 adapted. You've planted it properly or you've planted it incorrectly, one or the 1950 02:25:50.399 --> 02:25:54.920 other. Do you see what I'm talking about? But most importantly is you 1951 02:25:54.000 --> 02:26:00.479 have put it in a quality mix where the roots can thrive, or you 1952 02:26:00.520 --> 02:26:05.079 have it and to just dig a hole in a clay soil that's an underground 1953 02:26:05.120 --> 02:26:09.360 bathtub. Put a plan in that. That is a recipe for failure. 1954 02:26:09.719 --> 02:26:15.120 So building your beds properly is so important. Heirloom soils, they're having a 1955 02:26:15.120 --> 02:26:18.959 big fall special. I mean, this is a huge deal, the veggie 1956 02:26:18.959 --> 02:26:22.479 and herb mix. It's normally one forty eight for a supersack and one hundred 1957 02:26:22.479 --> 02:26:26.639 and ninety eighteen. No excuse me, that is the new prize. I'm 1958 02:26:26.639 --> 02:26:28.559 sorry, more than that. One hundred and forty eight for a supersack and 1959 02:26:28.600 --> 02:26:33.760 one hundred and nineteen bolt. That is really really good. They can deliver 1960 02:26:33.799 --> 02:26:35.639 it. You can go pick it up. You just work that out with 1961 02:26:35.719 --> 02:26:39.879 them. The rose soil ninety nine dollars for that supersack. By the way, 1962 02:26:39.879 --> 02:26:43.760 a supersack is what you would expect. Just imagine a giant sack that 1963 02:26:43.840 --> 02:26:46.600 they set on your driveway with a whole qubic yard of soil in it. 1964 02:26:46.760 --> 02:26:52.319 Seventy dollars book for the rose soil. So don't miss out on this. 1965 02:26:52.520 --> 02:26:56.760 By the way, someone called earlier and was asking about grasses. Well, 1966 02:26:58.399 --> 02:27:01.920 they also sell out of the Warren Drock and Moltz. They also sell and 1967 02:27:03.000 --> 02:27:05.920 deliver lawn grasses too, so that you know, while you're out there buying 1968 02:27:05.920 --> 02:27:09.159 your soils, or while you're calling in buying your soag, you can also 1969 02:27:09.159 --> 02:27:11.879 go ahead and get your grass delivered for you. The number for that, 1970 02:27:11.959 --> 02:27:16.000 by the way, for the turf delivery Warren Trock and Malts would be two 1971 02:27:16.079 --> 02:27:22.280 eight one three five four nineteen fifty. And again just remember you can have 1972 02:27:22.399 --> 02:27:26.079 them deliver it, you can go out and pick it up or airloom soils 1973 02:27:26.120 --> 02:27:31.360 products are widely available around town at the garden centers you love to visit, 1974 02:27:31.799 --> 02:27:35.920 so check them out. Take advantage of the bulk sale if you're doing any 1975 02:27:35.920 --> 02:27:39.639 bed building, and I hope you are. And also if you just need 1976 02:27:39.639 --> 02:27:43.280 small amounts, you can buy it by the bag. That is about as 1977 02:27:43.280 --> 02:27:48.520 convenient as you can get. We are going to now go to Leah and 1978 02:27:48.600 --> 02:27:52.719 Tomball. Hello, Leah, Hey, Skip, how you doing. I'm 1979 02:27:52.719 --> 02:27:58.600 well, thanks. So I was unlike everybody else, my yard took a 1980 02:27:58.639 --> 02:28:03.399 major hit with the drought and everything. And I have Saint Augustine. I 1981 02:28:03.440 --> 02:28:07.600 get so much sun in the front yard and it just got burnt to a 1982 02:28:07.680 --> 02:28:13.319 crisp And I was looking on the Aggie turf site like you recommended, and 1983 02:28:13.399 --> 02:28:20.559 I saw that there's a Zoija Jepponica that has a seed option. What would 1984 02:28:20.639 --> 02:28:26.559 it be like to throw seeds of that into the dead areas of my Saint 1985 02:28:26.600 --> 02:28:30.360 Augustine? Wou those two mixed together? Well or not? It would be 1986 02:28:30.840 --> 02:28:33.520 they would both be a weed to the other. They're They're very different in 1987 02:28:33.559 --> 02:28:37.879 their look and their mowing schedule, even mowing height is different. So no, 1988 02:28:39.000 --> 02:28:43.040 I would. I wouldn't Exstoysia with Saint Augustine. Okay, Well, 1989 02:28:43.319 --> 02:28:48.760 I'm just you know, I'm looking at potentially having to resaw it half my 1990 02:28:48.879 --> 02:28:52.520 yard, and I was just trying to look for other options that might be 1991 02:28:52.600 --> 02:28:56.479 a good drought tolerant. I understand that, Leah, I feel your pain. 1992 02:28:58.000 --> 02:29:01.079 I lost a couple sections where my eargation didn't come on this summer when 1993 02:29:01.079 --> 02:29:05.600 I was away for several weeks. But yeah, it's just it's what we're 1994 02:29:05.680 --> 02:29:09.879 left with, you know, just putting some sod back in those areas or 1995 02:29:09.920 --> 02:29:13.520 starting over if you want to go to that, and then you're really buying 1996 02:29:13.559 --> 02:29:18.479 a lot of sod and are you recommending I know you were talking about you 1997 02:29:18.639 --> 02:29:22.200 take care of the brown stuff first. Yeah. Do you think do I 1998 02:29:22.239 --> 02:29:26.559 need to dig out, like take away all of the dead Saint Augustine stuff 1999 02:29:26.559 --> 02:29:31.879 and put down maybe compost or whatever book for I resell. If you're doing 2000 02:29:31.920 --> 02:29:35.159 this in and among your grass you already have, I wouldn't do the compost 2001 02:29:35.200 --> 02:29:37.440 and things. You can do a top dressing later on, but I would 2002 02:29:37.520 --> 02:29:41.600 get all the debris off the surface, because you want the soil that comes 2003 02:29:41.639 --> 02:29:46.760 with the SOD to be completely in contact with your soil, So maybe raking 2004 02:29:46.799 --> 02:29:50.840 it to loosen it a bit and then laying this down and making sure it's 2005 02:29:50.000 --> 02:29:54.239 it's good contact. That's the secret to that. Hey, I'm going to 2006 02:29:54.319 --> 02:29:58.440 ask have to run, but I appreciate the call very much, and I 2007 02:29:58.479 --> 02:30:03.760 know a lot of people are having the same kinds of experiences with it as 2008 02:30:03.799 --> 02:30:09.079 well. We're going to go out to Georgia and Laporte. Hello Georgia, 2009 02:30:09.280 --> 02:30:15.079 Hi, Skip, how can I help? Well, we had a magnolia 2010 02:30:15.120 --> 02:30:18.000 tree out in our front yard and because the drought, it died because we 2011 02:30:18.000 --> 02:30:22.040 weren't here to take care of it. We were wondering what kind of tree 2012 02:30:22.079 --> 02:30:26.319 can we get where the roots go down, but yet not a whole lot 2013 02:30:26.360 --> 02:30:31.600 of mess like berries and stuff like that. You don't what you're saying. 2014 02:30:31.639 --> 02:30:37.079 You don't want berries? Right, Well, we're not sure what we want 2015 02:30:37.159 --> 02:30:43.239 yet. Then we know we need a tree out there because it's so hot 2016 02:30:43.360 --> 02:30:46.479 on our metal front door that it almost burns your hand to open the door. 2017 02:30:46.600 --> 02:30:50.079 All right, Georgia, I've got about one minute to answer you, 2018 02:30:50.120 --> 02:30:52.760 and after that, if you want to stay on hold, I'll come back 2019 02:30:52.760 --> 02:30:56.559 to you after the the Uh, we have to take the break. You 2020 02:30:56.079 --> 02:31:01.200 might consider some hollies. There are some nice upright hollies that you know, 2021 02:31:01.280 --> 02:31:07.440 the various sizes are available. You can you're down there and the put You're 2022 02:31:07.440 --> 02:31:11.719 pretty close to the Verdant Tree Farm down there, not too far from Pasadena. 2023 02:31:13.200 --> 02:31:16.680 Uh, and that's on Broadway Street. You might talk to them about 2024 02:31:16.799 --> 02:31:20.040 I know they carry several of the more upright or taller types of hollies. 2025 02:31:20.559 --> 02:31:24.239 That would be an option to get you back into an evergreen. Uh. 2026 02:31:24.280 --> 02:31:28.639 So you don't have the complete deluge of leaves at one time in the fall, 2027 02:31:28.719 --> 02:31:33.159 but just take good care of them if you're going to plant them. 2028 02:31:33.479 --> 02:31:35.360 Uh. You know, there are a bunch of other plants we could talk 2029 02:31:35.399 --> 02:31:37.879 about, but I think that's pretty much the one I would go with. 2030 02:31:39.159 --> 02:31:43.840 Okay, all right, that sounds good. Thank you. All right, 2031 02:31:43.840 --> 02:31:46.399 Well, when you talk to the people at Verdint, they're going to probably 2032 02:31:46.399 --> 02:31:48.840 have another idea or two for you. Thank you for the call. I 2033 02:31:48.879 --> 02:31:54.079 appreciate that very much. Well, here we are another break. We'll come 2034 02:31:54.120 --> 02:31:58.600 back for the last fifteen minutes of Garden Line. Our phone number is seven 2035 02:31:58.639 --> 02:32:03.879 to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Well, welcome back 2036 02:32:03.920 --> 02:32:07.760 to garden Line. We're We're glad you're here today, glad to be able 2037 02:32:07.760 --> 02:32:11.120 to talk with you about all kinds of things plants. We are going to 2038 02:32:11.159 --> 02:32:13.639 go straight to the phones, and first we're going to talk to Jennifer and 2039 02:32:13.680 --> 02:32:20.719 Dickinson. Hello Jennifer, Hi, how can I help? We have a 2040 02:32:20.760 --> 02:32:26.639 Holly Stephen tree, and we have several of them, and this one isn't 2041 02:32:26.680 --> 02:32:30.719 as green as the other one because he's turning yellow. Okay, I don't 2042 02:32:30.719 --> 02:32:35.399 wonder causing that, Well, it could be different things. Holly's how long 2043 02:32:35.440 --> 02:32:37.639 has it been in the ground? Is it within the last year you planted 2044 02:32:37.639 --> 02:32:43.280 it? Yes, sir, Okay, the first year or two or three, 2045 02:32:43.360 --> 02:32:46.159 actually Holly's you need to kind of TLC them when it comes to the 2046 02:32:46.239 --> 02:32:52.079 roots and make sure the whole root system gets well watered to keep the soul 2047 02:32:52.120 --> 02:32:54.399 moist and not let it dry out. When it's a new plan, all 2048 02:32:54.399 --> 02:32:58.600 the roots are confined, and so the watering has to be done right there 2049 02:33:00.040 --> 02:33:03.719 because even though the soil around it's moist, that root system gets pumped ry 2050 02:33:03.799 --> 02:33:07.120 quick. So it could be something like a droughty symptom. But it also 2051 02:33:07.200 --> 02:33:13.799 could be soggy wet conditions. And when holly roots cannot get oxygen, that 2052 02:33:13.920 --> 02:33:16.479 tree is going to have big problems. It's going to go down. So 2053 02:33:16.520 --> 02:33:20.360 it'd be one of those two. If the yellowing is just on the newest 2054 02:33:20.479 --> 02:33:26.760 growth of the leaves, sometimes that we point to a iron deficiency for that. 2055 02:33:26.879 --> 02:33:30.600 If it's the older leaves that are yellowing and falling off, I'm going 2056 02:33:30.639 --> 02:33:33.040 to go back to the water as being the most likely something in the watering. 2057 02:33:35.079 --> 02:33:39.200 Okay, okay, that makes sense. All right, Thank you you 2058 02:33:39.319 --> 02:33:41.840 bad, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. If you're looking 2059 02:33:41.840 --> 02:33:48.559 for a quality fall fertilizer and pre emergent herbicide all in one well, that 2060 02:33:48.920 --> 02:33:54.840 is Carboload. Carboloads made by Nelson Fertilizer. And by the way, every 2061 02:33:54.879 --> 02:34:00.319 bag of Carboloads sold this fall, Dean Nelson's going to donate two bucks to 2062 02:34:00.440 --> 02:34:03.840 the Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship. So you think of that the Houston area and 2063 02:34:03.879 --> 02:34:07.799 the potential there for a nice little donation, and Randy would be so proud 2064 02:34:07.879 --> 02:34:13.200 to know that his legacy lives on in that way. But Carboload, and 2065 02:34:13.760 --> 02:34:16.120 the main thing I want to tell you right now is that it is a 2066 02:34:16.200 --> 02:34:22.879 quality product. It's designed for the fall fertilization, and this is the most 2067 02:34:22.879 --> 02:34:26.680 important fertilization of the year, is in the fall. Yes, it's important 2068 02:34:26.680 --> 02:34:30.920 to fertilize other times, but in the fall you're sending that plan into winter 2069 02:34:31.520 --> 02:34:35.200 with the carbohydrate load that it needs for cold heartiness. By the way, 2070 02:34:35.559 --> 02:34:41.840 potassium's good for drought tolerance too, And then coming out in spring, it's 2071 02:34:41.840 --> 02:34:45.280 going to come out stronger because it uses stored energy for the first growth of 2072 02:34:45.319 --> 02:34:48.799 spring. So carboload will do that. It's got a pre emergent in it. 2073 02:34:48.959 --> 02:34:52.520 Just put it down, do it soon before a bunch of weeds have 2074 02:34:52.559 --> 02:34:56.920 germinated, and before the grass is slowed down anymore, put it down half 2075 02:34:56.920 --> 02:35:01.520 inch of water watered in, and you're in business. It is as simple 2076 02:35:01.559 --> 02:35:05.479 as that. We're going to go now out to Richmond and talk to Frank. 2077 02:35:05.719 --> 02:35:09.280 Hello, Frank, how do you there? Skip a nice talking to 2078 02:35:09.360 --> 02:35:13.120 you. They I'm good. And now Joe, we have a coddo about 2079 02:35:13.159 --> 02:35:18.040 you down at the in China forest. And it has never produced. Okay, 2080 02:35:18.760 --> 02:35:22.319 Uh, how old is it? Oh bye? About eight years now. 2081 02:35:22.319 --> 02:35:26.680 It's been through the Harvey, has been to two freezes. Uh, 2082 02:35:26.000 --> 02:35:28.840 actually three floods. I think two three flood Yeah, I've been right on 2083 02:35:28.879 --> 02:35:33.000 the river. Well, Joey's a tough, tough tree. Yeah it is. 2084 02:35:33.040 --> 02:35:37.399 I mean it prosed and it came back from the root, and so 2085 02:35:37.559 --> 02:35:43.680 did my old citrus of It's an orange tangery type tree. My uncle gave 2086 02:35:43.719 --> 02:35:46.680 me about thirty years ago. And I put it in the ground here and 2087 02:35:46.760 --> 02:35:48.920 once they called Randy and I asked, hey, somebody told me if you 2088 02:35:50.000 --> 02:35:52.959 bang it with a bat or something during the spring, before the spring, 2089 02:35:52.479 --> 02:35:56.680 it'll it'll come back. And it's sure. It blossomed me in put a 2090 02:35:56.680 --> 02:36:00.680 lot of fruit. Well, it also and they're coming back. Okay. 2091 02:36:01.000 --> 02:36:05.959 Well, in general, I wouldn't recommend the bat banging, but I could 2092 02:36:05.959 --> 02:36:09.719 go into why that works, but that's not important that. Why is Joey 2093 02:36:09.799 --> 02:36:18.479 not producing? You're not seeing blooms either, nothing? Nothing? Well has 2094 02:36:18.520 --> 02:36:22.639 it had severe freeze damage in past years? Oh? Yeah, yeah, 2095 02:36:22.639 --> 02:36:26.920 I mean it came back. Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, you 2096 02:36:26.959 --> 02:36:28.479 were telling me about it. Well, that that's setting it back and having 2097 02:36:28.479 --> 02:36:31.239 to come with new growth. I mean that's not doing it any good for 2098 02:36:31.319 --> 02:36:35.840 sure. Hopefully it will after we get through this winter and everything. Next 2099 02:36:35.920 --> 02:36:39.479 year will be a better year for it. Uh. The only you know 2100 02:36:39.559 --> 02:36:45.920 there, you know, the stuff hitting with a bat and things like that. 2101 02:36:46.120 --> 02:36:48.600 I just wouldn't recommend that. Getting Giving it good fertilizer, but not 2102 02:36:48.680 --> 02:36:54.479 too much is important too. Just what I use for the trees normally that 2103 02:36:54.959 --> 02:36:58.120 the green one. I think it's micro life. Yeah, micro life six 2104 02:36:58.200 --> 02:37:01.280 two four would be fine for avocados. And you wouln't want to play that 2105 02:37:01.719 --> 02:37:07.360 several times? Yeah, several times, yeah, several times in small doses 2106 02:37:07.120 --> 02:37:11.399 with that micro wife around the avocado. Is it getting lots of sunlight? 2107 02:37:11.399 --> 02:37:16.840 Yes? All right, all right, Well, uh, Joey just needs 2108 02:37:16.879 --> 02:37:20.079 to get with the program here. Maybe if you walked out with the bat 2109 02:37:20.680 --> 02:37:24.440 and just tapped the trunk a little bit and said, if I don't see 2110 02:37:24.479 --> 02:37:30.120 avocados next year, I'm coming back and I'm going to go after you like 2111 02:37:30.520 --> 02:37:39.959 a baseball player, maybe that will normally bloom. Oh gosh, you know, 2112 02:37:39.000 --> 02:37:41.719 I should know that I don't have an avocado tree. I live too 2113 02:37:41.719 --> 02:37:48.639 far north for avocados. Oh, I have you know what I'm not gonna 2114 02:37:48.680 --> 02:37:50.280 I'm not gonna get my best guess. I'm gonna find the answer before I 2115 02:37:50.319 --> 02:37:54.440 answer that. Thank you. Well, I'll listen. I listen all the 2116 02:37:54.440 --> 02:37:58.600 time. So all I appreciate you. Okay, you take care and enjoy 2117 02:37:58.639 --> 02:38:03.520 a program, Sir, I appreciate ate that very much. We're going to 2118 02:38:03.600 --> 02:38:11.760 go now to Tom in Rosenberg. Hello, Tom, Tom, I'm not 2119 02:38:11.879 --> 02:38:16.479 able to hear you. Well, okay, let me can you hear me? 2120 02:38:16.520 --> 02:38:20.600 Now? That's better? Yes, okay. I have a silver leaf 2121 02:38:20.639 --> 02:38:24.079 maple that I thought I was going to lose this summer. I deep root 2122 02:38:24.159 --> 02:38:31.840 seated a lot water, and I want to know what type of fertilizer and 2123 02:38:31.879 --> 02:38:39.920 if I should continue that process this fall. Deep water root feeding and watering 2124 02:38:39.920 --> 02:38:45.159 did you say, what what for what type of tree? It's a silver 2125 02:38:45.239 --> 02:38:48.479 leaf maple. Silver Okay, it's thirty years old, and I know they're 2126 02:38:48.520 --> 02:38:54.440 not common for this area. Yeah, yeah, well you I tell you 2127 02:38:54.440 --> 02:38:58.559 you it. You've gotten a lot of years out of that tree. A 2128 02:38:58.600 --> 02:39:01.600 lot of people don't don't get that many years out of it. I would 2129 02:39:01.680 --> 02:39:05.239 not do any more deep root feeding or watering. Now. It's fine. 2130 02:39:05.360 --> 02:39:09.799 It's going to be just fine when you does it have a lawn around it? 2131 02:39:11.120 --> 02:39:13.559 Yes, it grass all the way around it. Okay, I would 2132 02:39:13.600 --> 02:39:18.879 say when you fertilize your lawn, that's plenty for that silver leaf maple. 2133 02:39:20.239 --> 02:39:24.639 At the stage it is now, it's kind of reached close to its full 2134 02:39:24.680 --> 02:39:28.280 size and it doesn't need to be pushed into a lot more growth with a 2135 02:39:28.399 --> 02:39:33.520 you know, like a high nitrogen fertilizer something along those lines. I wouldn't 2136 02:39:33.559 --> 02:39:37.239 do that. I would just gradually feed it with a moderate amount, and 2137 02:39:37.280 --> 02:39:41.680 I think that's probably the best route. And I just know that you're right. 2138 02:39:41.799 --> 02:39:48.760 It's days or numbered. But we always have outliers in any species that 2139 02:39:48.280 --> 02:39:54.479 live way longer than we would expect. So yeah, so would I do 2140 02:39:54.520 --> 02:39:58.120 you think in the spring do I need to deeproot water or just water like 2141 02:39:58.200 --> 02:40:01.440 normal. No, are like normal top down. Think of a forest. 2142 02:40:01.799 --> 02:40:07.280 You know, the forest gets water from the top down. That's just fine. 2143 02:40:07.879 --> 02:40:09.159 Now, if you have really dry soil, you need to get down 2144 02:40:09.200 --> 02:40:13.719 there and provide some water just a little under the surface a foot or so. 2145 02:40:13.079 --> 02:40:16.799 That's fine. But as long as it's raining, or as long as 2146 02:40:16.840 --> 02:40:20.200 you can provide a good soaking from the top that that's the way I would 2147 02:40:20.200 --> 02:40:26.959 go about it. Wonderful. I appreciate your your intelligence and helping all of 2148 02:40:28.040 --> 02:40:31.479 us figure out our gardening and treat issues. Okay, well, thank you. 2149 02:40:31.520 --> 02:40:35.559 Those were kind words. But that's what we do and we love doing 2150 02:40:35.559 --> 02:40:39.799 it. It's fun. Thanks for calling Tom. I appreciate that. Wow, 2151 02:40:41.000 --> 02:40:43.520 this is it's been a whirlwind day. We've kind of gone pretty quick 2152 02:40:43.559 --> 02:40:50.120 here in terms of you know, each segment seemed to go fast today. 2153 02:40:50.719 --> 02:40:52.959 Going back to the avocado question, I should have known the answer of that. 2154 02:40:54.399 --> 02:41:00.200 But avocados are going to bloom in earlierly spring and all all the way 2155 02:41:00.280 --> 02:41:03.079 into mid to late spring, even depending on the area and the type you 2156 02:41:03.120 --> 02:41:09.079 have and whatnot. But that's that is the answer to what I was asked. 2157 02:41:09.600 --> 02:41:13.479 Just a moment ago. I want to remind you that I'm going to 2158 02:41:13.600 --> 02:41:18.479 be at RCW Nurseries when this show ends, which is in a very short 2159 02:41:18.479 --> 02:41:22.280 time. I'll be there and we will be They have a barbecue lunch first 2160 02:41:22.319 --> 02:41:28.040 of all, barbecue sandwich lunch, and they're going to be given away all 2161 02:41:28.120 --> 02:41:31.840 kinds of products, and I'll be there giving them away as well. We're 2162 02:41:31.879 --> 02:41:35.920 going to be given away lace park elm Mexican white oak, which Monterey oak 2163 02:41:35.280 --> 02:41:39.840 and live oak seedlings that are in really quality seedling growing pots. So these 2164 02:41:39.879 --> 02:41:45.719 are trees that they are perfect for planting right out. And then they have 2165 02:41:45.799 --> 02:41:48.399 a sail on all the shrubs fifteen percent off, and many of the trees 2166 02:41:48.440 --> 02:41:52.399 as well are on sale. There's a number of really cool quality trees they 2167 02:41:52.440 --> 02:41:56.879 have, so while you're out there, there's your chance to grab the tree 2168 02:41:56.959 --> 02:41:58.680 or shrub or rose bush or hey, why you're out there, you can 2169 02:41:58.680 --> 02:42:03.559 get your winter color and winter vegetables. RCW has it all and we're gonna 2170 02:42:03.559 --> 02:42:07.840 have some fun out there today. So I hope you show up and let 2171 02:42:07.840 --> 02:42:09.440 me meet you. I'd I always like to meet people that listen to Garden 2172 02:42:09.520 --> 02:42:16.079 Line. We can look at plant samples for identification, for diagnostics. Just 2173 02:42:16.159 --> 02:42:20.399 make sure and don't bring me dead plants. I cannot do autopsies, just 2174 02:42:20.559 --> 02:42:24.600 diagnosis. Also, if you want to maybe take some pictures from your phone. 2175 02:42:26.319 --> 02:42:28.719 You saw a plant somewhere, what plant is that? Or here's my 2176 02:42:28.879 --> 02:42:33.079 yard, what would you recommend for this area over here, we'll have all 2177 02:42:33.079 --> 02:42:37.959 those kinds of conversations eye to I. Thank you for listening to garden Line 2178 02:42:39.000 --> 02:42:41.760 today. It's great to visit with those of you who called in and we 2179 02:42:41.799 --> 02:42:46.760 look forward to coming back tomorrow. You know, we're here every Sunday and 2180 02:42:46.959 --> 02:42:52.559 Saturday from six am to ten am. We're also available by podcast. Look 2181 02:42:52.600 --> 02:42:56.639 for garden Line on your podcast supplier for the iHeartRadio or whatever your podcast supplier 2182 02:42:56.760 --> 02:43:01.000 is, you can find garden Line on there. You can even go to 2183 02:43:01.040 --> 02:43:05.520 my website gardeningwith Skip dot com and I've got a link right to the show 2184 02:43:05.559 --> 02:43:09.440 where you can listen to past shows and you can also listen to live shows. 2185 02:43:09.719 --> 02:43:13.760 So lots of ways to listen to Gardenline. Thanks for being a listener. 2186 02:43:13.879 --> 02:43:15.920 We'll be back tomorrow.