WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.679 KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on 2 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:18.280 this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor so Crazy Trip. 3 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:40.119 Just watch him as so many sea crazy but not a sign. Well, 4 00:00:40.240 --> 00:00:46.719 good morning on a good Saturday morning for gardening. The weather is here, 5 00:00:47.320 --> 00:00:51.960 Today's going to be beautiful. I can't wait to get outside after the show. 6 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:56.479 But for now, we're gonna talk about gardening four hours of your calls 7 00:00:56.640 --> 00:01:00.880 and maybe even a couple of comments and thoughts by me, which I'll just 8 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:03.479 start off doing a little bit of that to begin this morning. First of 9 00:01:03.520 --> 00:01:04.920 all, I want to remind you guys, and I'll remind you a bunch 10 00:01:04.959 --> 00:01:11.120 today about this. But today is the day where, or the weekend where 11 00:01:11.120 --> 00:01:15.319 we have Texas Water Efficient Products sales tax holiday. What does that mean, 12 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.959 Well, it means that anything that helps the soil retain moisture, that prevents 13 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:25.920 water waste is tax free this weekend only, this weekend May twenty seventh and 14 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:30.359 twenty eight. That would include all plants, all soils, all mulches. 15 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:36.159 So summer's coming and here's your opportunity to save a little bit of money on 16 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:40.920 it. Just by not having to pay the taxes on those kinds of purchases. 17 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:46.599 It's a tax free weekend for things we buy that help conserve water out 18 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.560 in the garden and landscape, so that would be plants, soils, mulches, 19 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:53.680 and so on. I'll talk more about that as we go forward, 20 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:57.599 but I just wanted you to be aware of that. It's another like we 21 00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:02.359 didn't already have enough good reasons to get out there and enjoy the visiting a 22 00:02:02.400 --> 00:02:07.239 garden center and stocking up on plants and supplies. Well, now you even 23 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:13.520 got another one. I hope you take advantage of that. This past week, 24 00:02:13.639 --> 00:02:19.120 I was noticing that the lawns have It's almost like they shifted gears again 25 00:02:19.280 --> 00:02:24.000 and just took off growing even faster. Hopefully you've you've done your summer fertilization 26 00:02:24.120 --> 00:02:28.680 by now. If you haven't, it's not too late. It's not too 27 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:30.879 late. Go ahead and you can get it done. We'll talk about some 28 00:02:30.879 --> 00:02:35.719 some good products that'll do that for your lawn. The goal this summer, 29 00:02:35.879 --> 00:02:40.919 goal of every summer and in the lawn is to provide enough nutrition, especially 30 00:02:40.960 --> 00:02:46.159 the nitrogen which is what really pushes the growth, to stimulate good even growth 31 00:02:46.159 --> 00:02:53.000 all through the summertime. And when you know there are places for every type 32 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:57.360 of fertilizer from immediate release to slow release. But the immediate releases, they 33 00:02:57.439 --> 00:03:00.080 give all the nutrient when you apply them, a dissolve a way you think 34 00:03:00.120 --> 00:03:04.800 about it like I don't know mixing table salt or sugar and water. I 35 00:03:04.800 --> 00:03:07.680 mean, it dissolves and it's it's there, it's available. The slow releases, 36 00:03:07.719 --> 00:03:09.759 it takes them a while to break down, and there's a lot of 37 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:15.199 different chemistries that are used for that. First of all, natural products or 38 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:20.080 slow release because microbes have to get a hold of that material that was once 39 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:23.439 living matter. That's why it's an organic product, and they have to break 40 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:28.240 it down and release the nutrients out for your plants to be able to eat 41 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:31.039 and so or to take up. And as a result, natural products give 42 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:36.120 you a natural slow release that's a normal, a normal thing. On the 43 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:39.560 other hand, if you have a synthetic product, there are various chemistries that 44 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:46.319 are used to provide a gradual release over time for the plants, and that's 45 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:52.240 that's the goal again. We want to provide a good gradual release. So 46 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:57.199 when you apply one of those kinds of fertilizers. Basically, what you're doing 47 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:02.039 is you are putting a nutrient out there that week by week, in some 48 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:06.000 cases even month by month, are going to be gradually made available to the 49 00:04:06.039 --> 00:04:11.120 plant. So that gives you an even growth. You don't have to mow 50 00:04:11.199 --> 00:04:16.360 three times one week and you know then it dies back or slows down a 51 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:19.720 little bit, and you know at the mow as much we want to gradually 52 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:24.199 release. And why is that important? Well, for a number of reasons, 53 00:04:24.199 --> 00:04:31.319 and here's one. When you provide a large boost of nitrogen oversupplied amount 54 00:04:31.319 --> 00:04:34.879 of nitrogen, a couple of things happen that are not good. One of 55 00:04:34.879 --> 00:04:39.360 them is, well, more than a couple you get to mo more. 56 00:04:39.879 --> 00:04:44.160 You just mo momo, keeping up with it. Number two, excessive nitrogen 57 00:04:44.439 --> 00:04:46.839 causes top growth at the expense of root development. And we're about to enter 58 00:04:46.879 --> 00:04:51.680 summer when we need our grass plants to have the most robust root system that 59 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:58.600 we can possibly have, and so excessive nitrogen can do that. Another thing 60 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:02.439 is it predisposes them to some insect and disease problem. So as a result, 61 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:08.240 we want to avoid that. Now, when you provide a slow release 62 00:05:08.360 --> 00:05:12.639 nitrogen, something's going to give you an extended release. You smooth things out, 63 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:15.079 and you want to apply it at the right rate, and that way 64 00:05:15.240 --> 00:05:19.399 you can have the healthiest lawn you can because our number one way to fight 65 00:05:19.439 --> 00:05:24.759 weeds is to create a dense, healthy turf. And I'll talk about that 66 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:28.759 a little bit more. We're gonna go ahead and start a little earlier than 67 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:30.480 I normally do on some calls this morning. By the way, our number 68 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:35.439 is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two 69 00:05:35.480 --> 00:05:40.959 one two fifty eight seventy four, and we're going to head out to Galveston 70 00:05:41.319 --> 00:05:46.279 and talk to Bill. Good morning, Bill, Good morning. I've got 71 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:49.079 knockout roses that are about three to four feet high, and you're starting to 72 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:53.800 eternal leggy. And my question is what's a good time to prune them back? 73 00:05:53.800 --> 00:05:57.040 And isn't okay to do so? It's always okay time to prune them 74 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:01.160 back. The roses tend to bloom and flushes. You know, you get 75 00:06:01.160 --> 00:06:04.399 a whole bunch of blooms and then they they may still be blooming and knockout. 76 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:09.560 It's pretty good about continuing to bloom, but it sort of dies down 77 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:12.800 and that's the time when we would shear them back. You could you could 78 00:06:12.839 --> 00:06:16.720 do it individually cutting with the hand pruners or some people just you know, 79 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:20.040 kind of trim the whole bush back. Uh. You want to follow that 80 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:26.720 up bill with a fertilization and a good soaking of water to move that fertilizer 81 00:06:26.759 --> 00:06:30.480 down into the soil, and you'll get fresh new growth and they'll be blooming 82 00:06:30.560 --> 00:06:33.240 like crazy again. Okay, thank you very much. Yeah, and you 83 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:36.240 can do that. And I usually do it about now because you know, 84 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:42.720 April's the big, biggest spring bloom show and May is good too, and 85 00:06:42.759 --> 00:06:45.399 then we have a great show in the in the fall too, So I'll 86 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:46.480 do it now, and I'll do it again in August, and I might 87 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.000 do it in midsummer, So don't worry about that. The more you share 88 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:54.959 them, the more compact they're going to be, and the more bloom terminals 89 00:06:54.959 --> 00:06:59.199 you're going to have on the bush. Thank you, thank you, Yeah, 90 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:06.120 thanks for the call. I was looking over some of the social media 91 00:07:06.199 --> 00:07:12.120 of some of our local mom and pops and our independent garden centers, and 92 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:15.480 I was checking out our CW and they have a lot of they have a 93 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:18.480 lot of new cool things there. First of all, this weekend, Memorial 94 00:07:18.560 --> 00:07:23.959 Day, they're going to have a fifteen percent off of select trees. Now 95 00:07:24.000 --> 00:07:28.800 fruit trees are also fifteen percent off, but select other trees are fifteen percent 96 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.399 off. So now's a good time. Not only do you have that tax 97 00:07:31.439 --> 00:07:35.560 free weekend, but you can also enjoy a fifteen percent off on their fruit 98 00:07:35.600 --> 00:07:43.160 trees. And r CW is they are just an outstanding source for trees. 99 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:47.079 They grown themselves out in Plantersville, you know, fifteen to two hundred gallons. 100 00:07:47.079 --> 00:07:49.560 You pick one out, they'll planet for you, and do let them 101 00:07:49.560 --> 00:07:53.839 do that unless it's a very small tree. They know what they're doing. 102 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:58.519 They'll planet properly, which is important. But r CW is stocked up on 103 00:07:58.600 --> 00:08:01.800 everything right now, and just it's kind of cool. I love to go 104 00:08:01.839 --> 00:08:03.759 buy and see their hibiscus because they always do a really good job of bringing 105 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.519 in some really cool hibiscus, but the roses and every other kind of plant 106 00:08:07.519 --> 00:08:11.920 you can imagine. RCW Nurseries dot com if you want to check out more 107 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:16.199 information online. They're the nursery there at Tomball Parkway to forty nine and Beltway 108 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:22.360 eight, and so I hope you'll check them out. And this weekends it 109 00:08:22.439 --> 00:08:37.279 sure is a good time to get the most for your gardening dollar. Something 110 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:43.679 golden. Well, good morning on a good Saturday morning for gardening. We 111 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:48.799 are still dark outside, but it's gonna lighten up and we're gonna have a 112 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:50.840 good day. By the way, if your neighbors are still sleeping, go 113 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:52.960 wake them up. Tell them they're missing garden Line. They will thank you, 114 00:08:54.240 --> 00:08:58.600 maybe not today, but some day after they've become regular listeners and enjoy 115 00:08:58.679 --> 00:09:03.320 it. Oh my gosh, neighbors everywhere going please don't say that. Please 116 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:07.120 don't tell them that. Hey, I'm today after the show, I'm going 117 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:11.360 to be heading out to clear Lake. What's in clear Lake? Well, 118 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.960 i'll tell you what's in clear Lake. The newest wild Birds Unlimited store, 119 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:18.720 the seventh store in the Houston area out in clear Lake. Now, I'll 120 00:09:18.759 --> 00:09:22.759 be out there for two hours. I will spend some time answering your questions. 121 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:26.120 We will look at sample as you might have. If you want to 122 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.679 bring some things pictures in on your phone to look over and get some advice 123 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:31.919 on, I'll be happy to do that. And here, let me tell 124 00:09:31.919 --> 00:09:35.759 you. First of all, we're gonna be giving away some Nelson's fertilizer out 125 00:09:35.759 --> 00:09:39.360 there. Got quite a bit of it actually, some nice little little plastic 126 00:09:39.399 --> 00:09:45.279 containers that quite an amazing amount. Really, you can take it home and 127 00:09:45.320 --> 00:09:46.720 try it out and see how it works for you. I'll be giving those 128 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:50.240 away. But also the wild Birds Store as part of their grand opening event, 129 00:09:50.559 --> 00:09:54.240 they're going to give away an advanced pole system. Now that is you 130 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:56.799 set it up in your yard. You can hang your feeders on it, 131 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:01.120 and it is a really cool system where you you know, you put it 132 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:05.200 together. You can hang more than one feeder on it, and I have 133 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:07.759 one myself. They work super well. But anyway, I can't believe they're 134 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.279 given one way, but they are. They're also going to have eliminator bird 135 00:10:11.279 --> 00:10:16.879 feeder that is squirrel proof. Now, if you've ever tried to keep squirrels 136 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:18.639 out of a bird feeder, you know that that is no simple task. 137 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:22.600 Well, the eliminator will do it. And again, I've got one of 138 00:10:22.639 --> 00:10:26.360 those systems, and you know the squirrels. I've watched a squirrel one day 139 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:30.519 try to jump up on it and they couldn't get get past the squirrel poop 140 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.919 proof baffle and they were they were very frustrated, which made me very happy. 141 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:39.360 They're also going to give away a twenty pound bag per month of their 142 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:43.919 top selling no Mess bird blend. So if you've bought cheap bird feed before 143 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:48.759 about half of it or more ends up on the ground, you know, 144 00:10:48.159 --> 00:10:50.279 it gets kicked out. The birds don't want to eat it. They don't 145 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:56.840 eat eat the little little red milo seeds that are in there. They don't 146 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:01.919 care for that. The the quality seed is a no mess seed, and 147 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:05.080 that's what we're talking about here. They're gonna give away if you win this, 148 00:11:05.360 --> 00:11:07.879 that's every month for a year, you're going to be able to go 149 00:11:07.960 --> 00:11:13.840 in and get a free twenty pound bag of their no Mess bird seed. 150 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.440 And that is very efficient. Again, you don't have all the mess on 151 00:11:16.480 --> 00:11:22.039 the ground. A little sprouts coming up. I've got a little sunflower forest 152 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:28.080 in the back that is coming up where I had some old cheap bird feed 153 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.399 in a feed or a while back, and it still keeps sprouting every year. 154 00:11:31.879 --> 00:11:33.440 Anyway, while Birds Unlimited, I'll be out there, hope you can 155 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.120 come out eleven thirty to one thirty and that'll be out in clear Lake. 156 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:43.519 Let's let's see our phone number. Excuse me seven one three two one two 157 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:48.399 fifty eight seventy four, we're going to head out to Spring Branch and talk 158 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:54.600 to Judy this morning. Good morning, Judy, Hello, Hello. My 159 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:58.639 question is about knockout roses. I really can't find any information on them all 160 00:11:58.679 --> 00:12:03.360 the long. I know they're so popular, but what's the care. How 161 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:09.519 much water do they need? Just a moderate amount to keep the soil evenly 162 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.559 moist Once one of those bushes is established, you don't have to water them 163 00:12:13.559 --> 00:12:16.720 all the time, keep them wet all the time. They just need, 164 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:20.360 you know, a bank account of moisture in the soil because they're going to 165 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:24.120 have a good, extensive root system and it can take it up. So 166 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:28.039 I would say, you know, for the first one two three months, 167 00:12:28.120 --> 00:12:31.960 as you're getting it established, you're you're giving it a little more TLC with 168 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:37.600 some regular light watering. But then after that, with the amount of rain 169 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:41.000 we get here in this area, you should not have to be pamper in 170 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:48.200 your rose, your rosebush, knock out rosebush all what about fertilizer moderate amount 171 00:12:48.559 --> 00:12:52.559 and there you know, there's some good quality bird bird I'm still talking about 172 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:58.200 birds. There's some good quality rose fertilizers out there on the market. I 173 00:12:58.240 --> 00:13:01.240 would give them a good fertilization coming out of spring, maybe late winter, 174 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:07.879 early spring, and then I would fertilize them again lightly whenever I prune them 175 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:13.120 back. And I was mentioning earlier that I'll I'll often prune back my roses 176 00:13:13.200 --> 00:13:16.559 about now. I primarily grow shrub type roses, which is what knockout is 177 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.960 as opposed to the long cut flour roses. But whenever I do a shuer 178 00:13:22.039 --> 00:13:24.399 back on them, a prune back on him, I'll fertilize them. And 179 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:28.679 I'll do that again in August, getting fresh new growth to come out for 180 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:35.240 a really cool fall bloom. So just small amounts gradually over time do when 181 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:41.000 you prune them, how much of it do you cut back? It's up 182 00:13:41.039 --> 00:13:43.399 to you. Knockout can get to be really large, you know, I've 183 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:50.399 seen them over six feet tall in time, but you'll also see them kept 184 00:13:50.440 --> 00:13:56.519 about pocket high, you know, just below waist high by regular pruning. 185 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:00.639 So it's kind of up to you. But generally I think of a knockout 186 00:14:00.720 --> 00:14:03.039 as a bush that's probably going to be about a four foot bush that in 187 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:07.879 my gardens, that's that's about where I keep them. And so as they 188 00:14:07.879 --> 00:14:09.759 grow a little bit I just share them back again. It's just it's kind 189 00:14:09.759 --> 00:14:16.000 of all dependent on how they're growing. Okay, well, thank you so 190 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:20.240 much. Yeah, it's it's probably, Judy, it's probably the easiest roads 191 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:22.200 you can grow. And that's why it's everywhere. I mean, you see 192 00:14:22.279 --> 00:14:28.159 knockouts all over the place because they're they're just wonderful. I mean they powdery, 193 00:14:28.200 --> 00:14:31.919 mildew, black spot, don't bother them. They're easy, easy to 194 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.559 care for, pretty blooms. So anyway, good, good choice. Okay, 195 00:14:37.720 --> 00:14:41.279 well, thank you all right, Judy, thank you for the call. 196 00:14:41.159 --> 00:14:46.360 I appreciate that. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 197 00:14:46.919 --> 00:14:52.360 fifty eight seventy four two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you live 198 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:56.639 down in the Dickinson, Santa Fe, League City, Lamark, Webster, 199 00:14:56.799 --> 00:15:00.960 Clear Lake City, El Camino Real, that whole area, and you don't 200 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:05.159 know about League City Feed, you need to now League City Feed is. 201 00:15:05.480 --> 00:15:09.480 They are standard traditional type of feed store. Carries your feed out for you. 202 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:13.200 It carries all the products you need for your animals, but an outstanding 203 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:18.600 supply of the garden materials too. That would include the fertilizers, the soils 204 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:22.799 that we talk about on here. League City Feed is run by the Thunderbergs 205 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:28.399 Wes and his sister Madison, and they just have really created that little old 206 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:35.120 time feed store. It's I always enjoy going in. I grab some snacks 207 00:15:35.120 --> 00:15:37.039 from my dogs too when I'm in a feed store, and they do have 208 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.000 those as well. Now they're on Highway three, a few blocks south of 209 00:15:41.120 --> 00:15:43.879 ninety six, so if you want to give them a call, it's two 210 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:50.240 eight one three three two one six one two. Now they're closed on Sunday, 211 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.080 but they're open today and Monday through Saturday nine am to six pm. 212 00:15:54.320 --> 00:15:58.399 So check out League City Feed. You will be very impressed with the line 213 00:15:58.399 --> 00:16:03.399 of products that they have, the wide variety of things, everything you need 214 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:11.360 for your home and garden. I am always interested in new color plants, 215 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:18.360 just beautiful color in the summer is important and when the weather gets hot. 216 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:21.919 You may have noticed this, but our landscapes turn into a sea of green, 217 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.519 green grass, green ground, cool green shrubs, green trees, and 218 00:16:25.600 --> 00:16:27.519 nothing wrong with the color green. But there are a few other colors out 219 00:16:27.559 --> 00:16:32.519 there, right, and so we're always looking for ways to get a really 220 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:40.200 good quality color into the landscape. And the folks that enchanted Forest and Enchanted 221 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:47.120 Gardens both have an outstanding supply of stocked up on color for this weekend. 222 00:16:47.200 --> 00:16:52.759 And I remember this weekend is the tax free weekend on plants and mulch and 223 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:57.080 soils, things that save save water in the landscape. And so this is 224 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:00.240 a good opportunity. It's just like in and of itself, it's just a 225 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:07.119 little bit of a break on costs right with the tax free now in Chenni 226 00:17:07.200 --> 00:17:11.480 Gardens that if you're at Richmond heading up toward Katie Way, that would be 227 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:15.359 Enchanted Gardens. If you're in Richmond going up towards sugar Land Way just south 228 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:19.319 of fifty nine, that's Enchanted Forest, And both nurseries have a wonderful supply. 229 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:22.599 I was just looking at a list of the herbs that they have on 230 00:17:22.640 --> 00:17:29.319 hand, and now is a great time to start either an herb garden or 231 00:17:29.359 --> 00:17:33.799 an herb container, or just mix some herbs into your vegetables. I kind 232 00:17:33.799 --> 00:17:38.160 of like to do plant things together that I cooked together. So for example, 233 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.440 if you have a tomato bush, why not put an a reganeau ground 234 00:17:41.480 --> 00:17:44.920 cover around it? Why not put some basil around it? Right? And 235 00:17:45.240 --> 00:17:47.839 that way, as you're as you're doing you're cooking. It's just kind of 236 00:17:47.880 --> 00:17:49.759 all there together. No need to do that. I just think it's a 237 00:17:49.799 --> 00:17:55.799 it's a good way to go about go about doing it. But anyway, 238 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.799 check out in Chanted Forest in Chenna Gardens. I know you will really enjoy 239 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:04.079 it when you do. Let's see, I wanted to mention we're talking about 240 00:18:04.119 --> 00:18:11.599 color plants. The hibiscus, the perennial hibiscus, the big dinner plate size 241 00:18:11.640 --> 00:18:17.799 hibiscus that is a great dependable perennial for this area and you can get it's 242 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:21.920 truly as dinner plate size. Now they have Typically you're gonna find them in 243 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:23.880 colors of red and pink and white. There'll be some with kind of a 244 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:29.359 swirl or a blush or splotchy look to the colors as they combine. But 245 00:18:29.480 --> 00:18:33.759 it's it's super easy. Each bloom just lasts a day, and you need 246 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:38.000 to pick one of those up this weekend because they just their show stopping. 247 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:42.039 And did you know this. The bloom just lasts today. But you can 248 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.799 pick them in the morning just as they open up and put them in the 249 00:18:45.839 --> 00:18:51.920 refrigerator. And if you've got an evening gathering and you wanted to decorate with 250 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:56.160 some hibiscus blooms, you can bring them out in the evening and they still 251 00:18:56.200 --> 00:18:57.039 look good. And you would think, well, if you pick it, 252 00:18:57.079 --> 00:19:00.240 do you have to put it in water? No, no, you don't. 253 00:19:00.319 --> 00:19:03.000 You just set the bloom in the refrigerator. I know some people that 254 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:06.799 will put like a little fish bowl and they'll float them in the fish bowl. 255 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:08.359 But that's not for the sake of the bloom. I mean it'll sit 256 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:11.680 on a counter and look good for a number of hours. And so if 257 00:19:11.680 --> 00:19:17.680 you want a night or an evening, late day Thai hibiscus bloom, that's 258 00:19:17.720 --> 00:19:21.480 a little trick. So go ahead and get you one of those. Today. 259 00:19:22.359 --> 00:19:25.960 Well, we are about to head to news and I we we've talked 260 00:19:26.000 --> 00:19:27.799 about the Nikki news networks. Yeah, I think it's time for that, 261 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:33.880 right. We got sharks, sharks, sharks on a plane, sharks runway 262 00:19:33.519 --> 00:19:37.119 in the water, in the water. Yeah, I don't want to hear 263 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:41.000 about that. People. Now, now everybody is perked up because it's from 264 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:44.240 World Day weekend and people are heading to the beach. Just when you thought 265 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:45.480 it was safe to go back in the water, I thought it was safe. 266 00:19:45.640 --> 00:20:00.039 Yeah, all right, let's hear it. We need people. I 267 00:20:00.519 --> 00:20:04.480 need a feed. Good morning, it's a good Saturday morning for gardening, 268 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:07.799 and you are listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Ricter our 269 00:20:07.880 --> 00:20:11.119 phone number. Write this down so you can give us a call seven one 270 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:17.119 three two one two five eight seven four, and we are going to head 271 00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:22.720 out to Deer Park and talk to Kevin. Hello, Kevin, Hello, 272 00:20:22.960 --> 00:20:29.519 how can we help? Oh? I have a neighbor who I guess has 273 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.839 some bamboo on the other side of the fence, and it's coming through on 274 00:20:32.880 --> 00:20:36.039 our side. Okay, and I've kind of battled with it a little bit. 275 00:20:36.119 --> 00:20:40.160 What's the best way to eliminate that? Oh boy coming through on my 276 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:45.279 side of the fifth You you're gonna have to either dig it or spray it. 277 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:48.119 Those are your two options. What do you spray it with? You 278 00:20:48.160 --> 00:20:52.839 would use bamboo as a grass, so you could use either a general purpose 279 00:20:53.160 --> 00:20:59.359 weed killer, you know, a roundup type product, or you could use 280 00:20:59.400 --> 00:21:03.440 a grass killer and that would be things like there's a there's various versions, 281 00:21:03.519 --> 00:21:07.559 but it's one of two ingredients that in these products, but their grass only, 282 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:11.599 so they spray them in flower beds and it doesn't kill the flowers. 283 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:14.920 That kills the grass, and so that would be you you're in Deer Park. 284 00:21:14.960 --> 00:21:19.400 There is a deer Park Ace Hardware over there on Center Street, and 285 00:21:21.079 --> 00:21:23.240 they will carry those kind of products. So you might just go talk to 286 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.160 them and say, what I need is something that just kills grass. I 287 00:21:26.200 --> 00:21:30.119 would use that because then you know with something like a roundup type product, 288 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:33.119 anything you get it on, it's going to get killed. And so you'd 289 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:37.680 rather be a little more targeted. Now you can. You can spray it 290 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:41.279 on the bamboo shoots coming up, or you could wipe it. Wipe it 291 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.079 on them. You know where you're let's say you've got your yard is under 292 00:21:45.079 --> 00:21:48.200 it, Well, that's grass. So I wouldn't spray. I would use 293 00:21:48.240 --> 00:21:52.039 some sort of a wiper type applicator to just get the bamboo shoots wet with 294 00:21:52.079 --> 00:21:56.240 it, and you're gonna have to stay on it. It's one SHOT's not 295 00:21:56.359 --> 00:21:59.319 going to do it. But if you stay with it, you can do 296 00:21:59.359 --> 00:22:00.440 that. And if you want to be nice about it, you could. 297 00:22:02.039 --> 00:22:06.480 You could go down the line between you and your neighbor and with a sharpshooter 298 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:10.920 shovel go down and cut roots that are going the bamboo shoots runners that are 299 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:15.240 coming across underground there so it doesn't translocate further back. But I think that's 300 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:19.279 that's probably more of a job than you're gonna want to get into. Yeah, 301 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:22.680 all right, I appreciate you. Thank you so much. All right, 302 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:27.279 Kevin, thank you. Appreciate that. Call our phone number seven one 303 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:33.000 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one to fifty 304 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:38.680 eight seventy four. I was this one of my two do lists that didn't 305 00:22:38.680 --> 00:22:44.200 get done this week but will get done next week, is to put some 306 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:48.880 asmite out of my gardens. Now, as might we normally think as mighte 307 00:22:48.920 --> 00:22:52.599 as something that you you've used to follow up on your fertilization. You know, 308 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:56.039 you put the big the big three number bags, you know, MPK 309 00:22:56.319 --> 00:23:00.759 out there to fertilize your lawn. But then we follow up with as might 310 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:04.640 because it's it's all kinds of trace minerals, lots of trace elements that are 311 00:23:04.640 --> 00:23:08.720 just needed in small amounts, but they're very important to all plants. I 312 00:23:08.839 --> 00:23:14.240 like to use it my gardens because it is the nutrients that my body needs 313 00:23:14.279 --> 00:23:17.640 as well. You know, there are things we need as human beings that 314 00:23:17.720 --> 00:23:22.359 a plant doesn't need nutrient wise, and so when you when you stock your 315 00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:26.920 soil with those kind of materials, your produce is let's just say it's it's 316 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:30.319 better for you in a way of providing that nutrition. And as might does 317 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:33.839 that. I meant to get out and do that in the garden. This 318 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:37.039 week I didn't, but next week I will. I put about ten pounds 319 00:23:37.079 --> 00:23:41.240 per thousand square feet in a vegetable garden. But you can also, you 320 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:44.440 know, just follow up your fertilization if you haven't got it done yet, 321 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:47.960 get it done. If you've already fertilized but you didn't put the as might, 322 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.400 there's no problem with going ahead and doing the asmite now and then just 323 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:56.279 watering it in, because I mean, there's a there's not a magical timing 324 00:23:56.400 --> 00:24:00.119 for it. It's just once we got the fertilizer spreader out and you know 325 00:24:00.119 --> 00:24:02.519 we're going to fertilize, it's easy to just go ahead and do the as 326 00:24:02.640 --> 00:24:04.079 might as well. But you can do as might any time of the year 327 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:07.039 that you want to do it. If you hadn't, if you haven't already 328 00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:12.000 gotten it done. You're listening to Garden Line and we are here to answer 329 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:15.519 your gardening questions. So give us a call at seven one three, two, 330 00:24:15.640 --> 00:24:19.319 one two, five eight seven four, seven, one three, two 331 00:24:19.359 --> 00:24:29.400 and two fifty eight seventy four. I mentioned earlier summer color and the way 332 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:33.079 of breaking up that sea green we were talking about. The perennial hibiscus comes 333 00:24:33.079 --> 00:24:37.799 back year after year, big giant blooms on it. That's beautiful. There 334 00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:41.000 are a lot of other excellent summer color plants, you know. One of 335 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:45.000 my favorite, I think is Angelonia angelonia. It goes by the name summer 336 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:48.920 snap dragon. Now, we are always calling plants things that they're not. 337 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:53.000 You know, every vegetable in the summer that's a green is called something spinach. 338 00:24:53.039 --> 00:24:56.400 You know, Malabar spinach, Egyptian spinach, and so on. They're 339 00:24:56.440 --> 00:25:00.559 not spinach. Well, this is not a snap dragon. It's sorta looks 340 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:06.680 like one little tiny snap dragons if you really use your imagination. So let's 341 00:25:06.680 --> 00:25:11.720 just call it Angelonia. Angelonia comes in a wide variety of colors. You 342 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:15.640 can buy some that are very very compact, very short and compact. You 343 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:21.119 can buy some that are get very tall. You know that something that's going 344 00:25:21.160 --> 00:25:22.839 to be down in a one foot range or something you know, up in 345 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:29.359 almost a two foot height range. It's just a very dependable color. Plant 346 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.880 zenias are a good one too. If you have not used the betting plant 347 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:38.039 types of zenias, they do really beautiful. Now. I grew up with 348 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:41.680 the cut flower types, you know, mom through these seeds out there, 349 00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:45.799 and we had the tall cut flower types of zennias. Those are nice, 350 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:49.359 but the betting plant ones are really nice as well. And there's a type 351 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:52.759 of zenia that I just I never hear people talk about it, but I 352 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:57.000 see it in the garden centers and it's it's a narrow leafed zenia. It's 353 00:25:57.000 --> 00:26:00.759 a very small zenia, the blue. It's a little bigger than a quarter 354 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:06.240 maybe about a quarter size. They typically come in either yellow, white, 355 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:10.960 or orange. That's kind of your options. But they're very small and they 356 00:26:11.119 --> 00:26:15.559 deadhead themselves, meaning that after the bloom fades, you don't have this dead 357 00:26:15.599 --> 00:26:21.480 bloom head. It just sort of disappears and goes away. It's a very 358 00:26:21.559 --> 00:26:26.559 neat. These things sort of trail, so if I'm planning a container, 359 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:30.160 I'll put them around, maybe one around the outside of the container to trail 360 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:34.640 over the sides. They're not prone to a powdery mildew and some leaf spots, 361 00:26:34.680 --> 00:26:40.240 which can affect some zennias, but the narrow leaf zenia, if you'll 362 00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:42.359 ask about that when you go to a garden center, narrow leave zenia. 363 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:47.920 And remember this weekend is the weekend to go because it's the tax free weekend 364 00:26:47.960 --> 00:26:52.200 on plants and soils and mulchas and things like that. Anything it's helping you 365 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:56.440 save water. It's a good tax free, tax free weekend for that, 366 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:06.400 so I hope you take advantage of that. The summertime for our lawns, 367 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:11.359 I already mentioned they've kind of kicked into faster growth. This is a time 368 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:17.160 where we need to be really careful and stay on the mowing schedules. If 369 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:19.519 you let the grass grow real tall and then you mow it way back, 370 00:27:19.880 --> 00:27:25.319 it's very shocking to the grass plant. It's it's like, imagine this, 371 00:27:25.519 --> 00:27:29.119 you have a shrub. You could cut that shrub off a foot high and 372 00:27:29.160 --> 00:27:33.279 it would sprout out everywhere and come back right. But that is not good 373 00:27:33.279 --> 00:27:37.079 for a shrub. I mean that is a super shocking pruning well in a 374 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:41.480 lesser sense, but still true. When we let our grass grow real tall 375 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:44.720 and then mow it way back, it's not good for the health of the 376 00:27:44.759 --> 00:27:48.400 plant and it's not good for the density of the grass plant. So the 377 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:51.400 more often you mow, the better your lawn looks. And make sure your 378 00:27:51.440 --> 00:27:55.440 lawnmower is sharp, make sure the blade is sharp. That also makes it 379 00:27:55.480 --> 00:27:59.119 look better. Plus it's easier on the wear and tear on your lawnmower. 380 00:27:59.400 --> 00:28:03.759 But when you when you mow regularly, and ideally, Saint Augustine, if 381 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:07.640 you could mow it over five days, that would be great, But we 382 00:28:07.839 --> 00:28:10.279 tend to go a little bit further. But I'll talk a little bit more 383 00:28:10.279 --> 00:28:14.160 about lawns and lawn care when we come back from break. Give us a 384 00:28:14.200 --> 00:28:18.039 call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four and Josh, we'll 385 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:19.400 get you on the board and Carol, we see you out there on the 386 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:32.680 board, will come to you first when we get back. Well, good 387 00:28:32.720 --> 00:28:37.160 morning on a good Saturday morning for gardening. I don't know if you're aware 388 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:40.720 of this, but Dell Webb is building a new community out at full Sure 389 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:45.759 that's off FM three fifty nine, two miles from downtown fullsher Now. Dell 390 00:28:45.799 --> 00:28:48.799 Webb has been building communities for active adults fifty five and better for over seventy 391 00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:52.319 years. They know what they're doing. They have the inspired designs and the 392 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:57.279 lifestyle programs that go with those communities and designed around you and gardners. Listen 393 00:28:57.319 --> 00:29:02.440 to this. I'm working with them to create a community garden in this new 394 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:07.519 Dellweb community in full Shure. So check out the new Fullshire community, discover 395 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:11.960 the Dellweb difference for yourself. You can go to dellweb dot com slash Houston 396 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:18.440 for more information or call two eight one four or five nine six o nine. 397 00:29:18.759 --> 00:29:22.240 If you live out in the Kingwood area, you need to check out 398 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:26.720 Kingwood Garden Center and Warren's Garden Center this weekend. Remember this is the tax 399 00:29:26.799 --> 00:29:33.640 free weekend for plants and soils, mulches, things that help save on water, 400 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:36.880 so that would include a lot of different things. Now they have the 401 00:29:36.960 --> 00:29:41.079 Microlife and the Nelson's Plant food filling stations for your judge, bring your old 402 00:29:41.160 --> 00:29:42.839 jug back in and just fill it back up again. But I tell you 403 00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:48.000 the amazing thing was I was checking out on Warren's social media, which you 404 00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.720 guys need to subscribe to all these independent garden centers social media, Instagram, 405 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:59.759 Facebook, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. They are doing these mixed plantings that 406 00:29:59.839 --> 00:30:03.880 are just amazing. Like you can buy a giant container that's already planted with 407 00:30:03.920 --> 00:30:07.160 everything, or you can just go buy here's a little tip. If you 408 00:30:07.160 --> 00:30:10.720 don't want to buy the whole thing, maybe you want to make one yourself. 409 00:30:10.920 --> 00:30:12.640 Well, look at the ones they've created, talk to them about how 410 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:17.880 they do it, and you can create something that is beautiful. And they 411 00:30:17.960 --> 00:30:22.079 do an excellent job at Warren's out there in Kingwood. On that, I'm 412 00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:26.759 going to run to the phones here real quick. We're going to go over 413 00:30:26.799 --> 00:30:30.119 to Willowbrook and talk to Carol. Hello, Carol, good morning, good 414 00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:37.119 morning. How can I help Well? I have a brand new lawn in 415 00:30:37.160 --> 00:30:41.440 my front yard that is Saint Augustine grass. I've had it for eight weeks 416 00:30:41.519 --> 00:30:47.279 now. I've been watering it every day. I have omitted watering it during 417 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:51.279 the rain season that we have, but it looks beautiful on the top. 418 00:30:51.920 --> 00:30:56.640 What I'm concerned about are two different things. The first thing is the grass 419 00:30:56.799 --> 00:31:02.799 came with a base. It's kind of a thick dirt. Okay, is 420 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:07.359 that going to dissolve itself? Or do I need to put something like medina 421 00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:12.519 on it? And the second question is when Should I fertilize it or should 422 00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:17.640 I not fertilize and maybe just put some kind of a humte on it? 423 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:21.960 Or Okay, what's your questions? Don't worry about that little black clay that 424 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:26.519 came with the side. As the plant roots go through it and the organic 425 00:31:26.599 --> 00:31:29.279 matter decompose, it's going to be just fine. Nothing to worry about it. 426 00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:32.359 But yes, you do need to fertile right And what I'd recommend right 427 00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:36.839 now would be to go with a Nelson's Plant Food turf Star line. There's 428 00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:40.920 one call slow and Easy because we're entering the summer season, and if you 429 00:31:40.960 --> 00:31:44.319 put the slow and easy down, it's twenty two two ten. That's the 430 00:31:44.400 --> 00:31:48.039 numbers, twenty two two ten. It will feed on through the summer season. 431 00:31:48.200 --> 00:31:55.559 It is designed to gradually release and that'll give you a nice smooth feeding 432 00:31:55.720 --> 00:32:00.720 that won't create top growth at the expense of root growth. It's probably, 433 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:06.480 you know, just the ideal way to spread out that nutrient release. And 434 00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:09.640 Nelson's Plant Foods are excellent about that, especially this turf Star line. But 435 00:32:09.720 --> 00:32:14.920 the slow and easiest one that I would recommend, Carol, Okay, And 436 00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:19.079 should I do that now or should wait a little bit longer. I'm just 437 00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:21.640 confused. As a brand new loan, I don't know what to do that. 438 00:32:21.759 --> 00:32:25.119 How brand new? When did it go down eight weeks? I'd fertilize 439 00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:29.119 it. Yep, start fertilizing it. And when you do it slow and 440 00:32:29.160 --> 00:32:31.599 easy, you're not going to need to fertilize again until fall. Okay, 441 00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:37.200 Okay, it's one application, that's right, that's right. Okay, Well, 442 00:32:37.240 --> 00:32:40.799 that sounds like great advice. I have some people that mow for me, 443 00:32:42.720 --> 00:32:47.519 and my son says they need to get their blades sharpened on their mower. 444 00:32:49.240 --> 00:32:54.960 I chose this service because I didn't want those heavy lawn mowers going across 445 00:32:55.039 --> 00:33:00.599 that new sod. Okay, And this service has just like they use just 446 00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:05.359 like a regular lawn more that you would use yourself. Okay, well, 447 00:33:05.400 --> 00:33:07.160 I think that's a good idea. They just need to sharpen the blade and 448 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:10.720 you just need to tell them that if it's not sharp Okay, all right, 449 00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:14.680 all right, thank you so much. All right, thank you for 450 00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:17.400 the call. Hey, if you live out in the Mont Bellevue area, 451 00:33:17.640 --> 00:33:24.119 you need to know about Texas Feedstop. It's located at ninety five thirty four 452 00:33:24.279 --> 00:33:28.319 North Highway one. Forty six. So it's just north of I ten in 453 00:33:28.400 --> 00:33:30.480 mont Bellevue, So if you're in Baytown, this is really close to you. 454 00:33:31.079 --> 00:33:35.720 Brian and Hope Rhoads have created that old time feedstore. They carry the 455 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:37.720 bags out for you. They have all the products we talk about, you 456 00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:43.319 know, all the fertilizers and soil materials and things that it is just it 457 00:33:43.519 --> 00:33:47.160 is just an enjoyable thing to go in there and see the supply of everything. 458 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:52.279 If you need pesticides, if you need all the traditional you know, 459 00:33:52.400 --> 00:33:55.599 feed store things, they've got it. But especially when it comes to your 460 00:33:55.680 --> 00:34:00.559 lawn, you're going to find all the stuff recommended on guard line. They're 461 00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:04.799 at Texas Feedstop. And again that's on Highway one forty six, just a 462 00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:10.639 few minutes north of A ten in Mont Bellevue. When we when we're talking 463 00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:15.800 about plants and this weekend, this would be a good time to head out 464 00:34:15.840 --> 00:34:19.440 to Nature's Way resources as well, you know Nature's Way. I don't know 465 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:22.440 if you know this, but they are traditionally they've been a leader when it 466 00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:27.320 comes to making soils, mulches, composts, things like that. They know 467 00:34:27.400 --> 00:34:31.079 what they're doing. They were the originators of the rose soil and the leaf 468 00:34:31.159 --> 00:34:36.880 mold compost. For example. This weekend, it's that tax weekend, so 469 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:42.000 you're going to get tax free your purchases of soils and mulches and their native 470 00:34:42.039 --> 00:34:45.639 plants. They're one of the largest selections of native plants in the Houston area. 471 00:34:45.719 --> 00:34:51.519 Two Acres Nursery Garden Center. They have fruit trees, native perennials. 472 00:34:51.559 --> 00:34:53.159 You need to see it. If you haven't been out to Nature's Way in 473 00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:55.760 a while, you need to get back out to Nature's Way. They're just 474 00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:02.159 south of Conro on Interstate forty five, about where fourteen eighty eight comes in 475 00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:07.039 there. But Nature's Way Resources will surprise you with their new plant selection. 476 00:35:07.480 --> 00:35:13.480 And what a better time to purchase to improve your soil, both the amendments 477 00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:19.920 and the mulchus for your soil. I want to go to. We're going 478 00:35:19.960 --> 00:35:23.119 to head out to let's see do we have time for mo in spring? 479 00:35:23.280 --> 00:35:27.239 Let's try that mo. We got just a short time here, but let's 480 00:35:27.239 --> 00:35:30.239 see if we can get your question well as wanting to know what can I 481 00:35:30.320 --> 00:35:35.519 do for a neighbor. Let's purple hole peas and its green beans come over 482 00:35:35.599 --> 00:35:39.239 all my fence and he he don't even take care of me. Just lets 483 00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:44.079 some rival offense, and I've been picking the heck out of them. Sound 484 00:35:44.119 --> 00:35:49.360 like you got a good deal there. I wouldn't complain about free purple hole 485 00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:53.679 peas. I ain't complaining by my grandma's been making as much post of well 486 00:35:53.960 --> 00:36:00.760 sounds like an opportunity. You need to suggest what you want to eat for 487 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:05.360 him to plant next year. I was wondered, Yeah, I should do 488 00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:07.480 that, mo. Thank you, thank you for that call. Thank I 489 00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:14.079 appreciate a good laugh this morning. That's that's good if you are dealing with 490 00:36:14.159 --> 00:36:17.400 fleas, if you if you're dealing with other kind of ground dwelling pests. 491 00:36:19.239 --> 00:36:23.639 Cedar repel a product by nature's creation. It's little chips of cedar. Now, 492 00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:27.920 it's we can go off the way back to Greek and Roman times where 493 00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:34.360 they realized that cedar repelled insects, and these little tiny cedar repel chips can 494 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:37.960 be spread around an area. You can put a little a little border, 495 00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:42.599 let's say a little sprinkling of it around your foundation or around the patio or 496 00:36:42.639 --> 00:36:45.800 something like that so they don't want to come crawling up in there. One 497 00:36:45.159 --> 00:36:51.480 or three quarter cubic foot bag covers up to three thousand square feet. So 498 00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:58.119 check out Nature's creation. Cedar repel a very natural way of going about talking 499 00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:02.559 insects into going somewhere other than your place. It's available at RCW Plants for 500 00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:07.599 all seasons, Wabash Moss Nursery, Quality feed and Houston Garden Centers here in 501 00:37:07.639 --> 00:37:14.679 the Houston area. Well, we are going to go to a break and 502 00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:17.960 I just want to remind you that today at eleven thirty I'm going to be 503 00:37:19.039 --> 00:37:22.920 at the Wall Birds Unlimited at clear Lake. It's the new store, the 504 00:37:22.960 --> 00:37:28.880 seventh store in the area. You can go to WBU dot com forward Slash 505 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:34.079 Houston to find the Wallbirds Unlimited all over the Houston area. But come out 506 00:37:34.079 --> 00:37:37.000 to see me at the grand opening out there at Wahbirds Unlimited and clear Lake. 507 00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:40.079 We're going to give away or they're going to give away an advanced pole 508 00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:45.000 system for your backyard feeders. They're going to give away an eliminator bird feeder 509 00:37:45.159 --> 00:37:50.280 that is squirrel proof, and somebody's going to win a twenty pound bag of 510 00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:54.519 their top selling no Mess blend of bird seed per month for a year. 511 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:59.679 Now. These are quality feeds. They at quality products while you're out there, 512 00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:04.559 bring me your pictures, maybe some plant samples or insect samples. Put 513 00:38:04.599 --> 00:38:07.280 them in a bag. We'll take a look at them, help diagnose and 514 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:09.760 give you some recommendations. And I'm going to be given away a little jug 515 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:15.480 or jar of plastic jar of Nelson plant food when for folks coming out as 516 00:38:15.480 --> 00:38:19.719 long as those lasts, so don't delay. We'll be giving away the free 517 00:38:19.719 --> 00:38:23.320 Nelson plant food as well. I hope to see you out at Wallbird's Unlimited 518 00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:35.880 out in the clear Lake area. The newest store. KTRH Garden Line does 519 00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:40.559 not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 520 00:38:40.679 --> 00:39:01.599 to KTRH Garden Line with skip rictor just watch as well. Good Saturday morning, 521 00:39:02.199 --> 00:39:07.239 on a good day for gardening. Lighting up the sky here we're looking 522 00:39:07.280 --> 00:39:12.599 outside and tell you the this is the time of year when I just say 523 00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:17.639 everybody's a gardener because if if you have a pulse, the weather is wonderful, 524 00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:22.960 everything is blooming and beautiful. I mean, this is the time. 525 00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:24.960 And what a good weekend for it too, with that tax free break on 526 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:30.760 the plants and the compost and the soils mulches, those kinds of things. 527 00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:34.800 Everything that saves water is going to be tax frey this weekend, so you 528 00:39:34.840 --> 00:39:38.280 don't take advantage of that. We're going to head out to Magnolia and we're 529 00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:43.840 going to talk to Terry this morning. Good morning, Terry, Good morning, 530 00:39:43.880 --> 00:39:45.639 Skip. Hey. I've been a long time listening to the garden line. 531 00:39:45.679 --> 00:39:51.400 I just keep learning. Thank you, well, thank you. We 532 00:39:51.480 --> 00:39:54.679 are. We just built a house and I had a friend highly recommend a 533 00:39:55.360 --> 00:40:01.920 grass seed that she used at her home in the Montgomery called centipede, and 534 00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:07.199 it's the tiff Blare variety. It looked on an m website and it really 535 00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:13.639 recommends it more for East Texas north of here, but I wasn't if you 536 00:40:13.719 --> 00:40:16.719 knew anything about it, I do. It looks if you haven't seen centipede 537 00:40:16.719 --> 00:40:21.719 before, it looks sort of like a Saint Augustine that's a little less green, 538 00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:27.079 a little more toward a Chartrussi green rather than an emerald green. Centipede 539 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:31.360 is a smaller looking plant than Saint Augustine. So imagine a Saint Augustine blade 540 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:37.920 that's about two thirds size that that's centipede. Centipede likes acidic sandy soils. 541 00:40:37.960 --> 00:40:40.800 That's its ideal it will grow on a clay soil, but it likes them 542 00:40:42.199 --> 00:40:45.639 and it doesn't need much fertilizer. In fact, if you fertilize it too 543 00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:47.719 much, it's not good for it. The drawback you need to be aware 544 00:40:47.719 --> 00:40:54.159 of on centipede is that in the winter it turns tawny tan color. It 545 00:40:54.199 --> 00:41:00.159 does not maintain the green color as well. Especially once we've had a good 546 00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:05.800 coal snap. It goes, it loses its color. It's not a grass 547 00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:09.480 that's at the on the top three for our southern grasses, but it has 548 00:41:09.519 --> 00:41:15.880 its place. Okay, okay, got something to think about here. Yeah, 549 00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:17.599 it is one you can plant from seed, which is an advantage of 550 00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:21.239 it. But I tell you, starting grass from seeds a little bit of 551 00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:24.599 a challenge because you've got bare soil and you plant the seed and now all 552 00:41:24.639 --> 00:41:28.519 the weeds are coming up too. So you got a little bit of a 553 00:41:28.679 --> 00:41:31.960 challenge there for a while. Okay, Yeah, Well, it would just 554 00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:36.960 be a lot less expensive than hiring somebody to lay side it would melt. 555 00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:40.760 It would be you do want someone to come out and get your soils smoothed 556 00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:45.679 out all levels. You know, you want to get any weeds that are 557 00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:50.199 there in fact, I might even say, you know, let let rainfall 558 00:41:50.440 --> 00:41:53.039 or irrigate the dirt and get the weeds to come up, and then spray 559 00:41:53.079 --> 00:41:58.159 and kill the weeds, and then a week later put your seed out without 560 00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:00.199 disturbing the soil. And that way, all those seeds that at the top 561 00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:04.519 that we're inclined to sprout will sprout and you'll get rid of them. And 562 00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:07.840 then you can put your centipede seed down and get a little bit of a 563 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.199 hash start, gotcha, And the seed can go down anytime as long as 564 00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:15.280 we keep it watered. Yes, yes, you just want to. It's 565 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:20.119 a tiny little seedling plant and it cannot dry out, so you don't need 566 00:42:20.159 --> 00:42:22.119 to put an inch of water down, just a light watering, just a 567 00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:27.639 light watering. And as the bigger the grass plant gets, then you can 568 00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:31.639 move toward that once a week or something like that. Right right, okay, 569 00:42:32.119 --> 00:42:36.159 all right, thank you for the call, Terry. I appreciate you. 570 00:42:36.639 --> 00:42:40.079 I have not had a centipede question. It's just been a long time. 571 00:42:40.159 --> 00:42:45.320 But that's that's cool. It used to be a grass we talked about 572 00:42:45.320 --> 00:42:49.440 a lot more, and now it just seems like the others Bermuda Saint Augustine's 573 00:42:49.440 --> 00:42:53.199 Oisia have kind of taken over there. There are the ones, but I 574 00:42:53.199 --> 00:43:00.119 appreciate that call from from Terry Buchanan's Plants done in the Heights is one of 575 00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:06.960 the premier places where you're going to find a wonderful selection of Texas natives. 576 00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:10.719 Is that is kind of like, you know, their mainstay. I mean 577 00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:15.880 when I say that, you know, if you want tropicals, perennials, 578 00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:19.639 trees, shrubs, roses, indoor plants, succulents, they've got everything, 579 00:43:20.039 --> 00:43:22.440 all of that kind of stuff. I was checking out their road. There 580 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.280 are herbs the other day. Still got a good selection of herbs out there. 581 00:43:24.559 --> 00:43:30.360 But one thing when I mentioned they have a table that is just dedicated. 582 00:43:30.360 --> 00:43:34.239 They have several tables in sections, the whole section for native plants, 583 00:43:34.239 --> 00:43:38.400 but there's this one table that's dedicated to Harris County natives. These are plants 584 00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:43.519 that you can find wild here. And you know, sometimes we see natives 585 00:43:43.519 --> 00:43:47.280 and it may be native in Central Texas or whatever, but these are Harris 586 00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:51.000 County natives. So if you want to get that specific, they've got it. 587 00:43:51.039 --> 00:43:53.840 They're on East eleventh Street and the Heights and you can go online to 588 00:43:53.920 --> 00:44:04.199 Buchanansplants dot com Buchanansplants dot com. But sign up are like their Facebook and 589 00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:08.719 their Instagram. They have a constant flow of information. You can stay up 590 00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:13.039 to date on what's going on. They also have a newsletter that they send 591 00:44:13.039 --> 00:44:16.360 out by email that you can sign up for its free and just find out 592 00:44:16.400 --> 00:44:22.000 all kinds of good things. Buchanan's Native Plants on East Elevens and the Heights. 593 00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:24.960 It's really really fun place to go and visit. And remember, as 594 00:44:24.960 --> 00:44:29.440 I keep saying today, this is the tax free weekend, So what a 595 00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:31.320 great time to buy a native plant and not have to pay tax on it. 596 00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:38.639 Because it is a water saving feature for sure in your landscape. I 597 00:44:38.800 --> 00:44:45.360 was talking about the lawn care and the importance of a sharp mowing and mowing 598 00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:52.159 regularly so that regular mowing creates the density that we're looking for. And if 599 00:44:52.199 --> 00:44:57.079 you have not fertilized for summer yet, you need to. And one of 600 00:44:57.079 --> 00:45:01.679 the prime products is Nitrofossis super Or from nineteen four ten. Nineteen four ten 601 00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:07.320 gives that gradual release. Now they triple guarantee it basically that it's going to 602 00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:12.079 keep the grass greener longer, and it will. I mean for twelve to 603 00:45:12.199 --> 00:45:16.280 sixteen weeks of green from this summer fertilization, You're not going to mow as 604 00:45:16.400 --> 00:45:22.360 much because it's gradually feeding your grass. And then thirdly cutting down on brown 605 00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:25.119 patch in Saint Augustine, when we put a lot of nutrient down, get 606 00:45:25.119 --> 00:45:30.519 a flush of nitrogen on grass, and especially as we head into brown patch 607 00:45:30.559 --> 00:45:34.840 season or large patch season, which is the fall that just makes it worse 608 00:45:34.960 --> 00:45:37.239 late summer, the chinch bugs will thank you if you over fertilize your lawn 609 00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:42.639 with nitrogen. You want something slow release, and Nitrofoss Superturf does that. 610 00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:45.800 And you're going to find nitro foss at all kinds of places. You know, 611 00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:52.079 a tascaseda Ace arbigate and in tom Ball Fisher's Hardware down South Houston, 612 00:45:52.159 --> 00:45:58.599 Laport area, Lake Jackson Lake Hardware in a clute near Lake Jackson that nitro 613 00:45:58.639 --> 00:46:01.639 foss products are easy to find and the nitrofis Superturf. That's a silver back, 614 00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:08.400 outstanding, outstanding product. I'm going to take a break here in just 615 00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:10.840 a moment, but I do want to remind you that I am going to 616 00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:17.079 be at Wilbird's Unlimited in Clear Lake, Texas today at eleven thirty. Now 617 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:22.760 that's at fifty five forty El Dorado. El Dorado Boulevard, so which you're 618 00:46:22.760 --> 00:46:25.559 at the store. It faces clear Lake City Boulevard, but El Dorado and 619 00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:30.159 clear Lake City Boulevard where they come together. That is the newest Wilbird's Unlimited 620 00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:34.760 store out in clear Lake. I hope you'll come out there and see me 621 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:37.559 and we can visit and talk about what you're interested in and answer the questions 622 00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:53.119 you have. We're good morning, good Saturday morning. You're listening to garden 623 00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:57.360 Line. I am your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number. 624 00:46:57.840 --> 00:47:02.480 Write this down seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Always 625 00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:07.599 listen to garden Line with a pen and paper handy, because we give out 626 00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:10.840 phone numbers and emails and all kinds of things. And maybe I'd mentioned a 627 00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:14.840 product and later you're going, what did he say? Well, write it 628 00:47:14.880 --> 00:47:21.639 down, you'll have it and be easy to remember. This is the beginning 629 00:47:21.719 --> 00:47:24.599 of our summer season, and when things start to heat up. We want 630 00:47:24.599 --> 00:47:28.960 to make sure that we are taking good care of all the plants that we 631 00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:31.400 have. We want to make sure that they're being watered properly and taken care 632 00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:36.519 of in that way. And you know this is that water efficient product sales 633 00:47:36.559 --> 00:47:40.480 tax holiday this weekend May twenty seventh and twenty eighth. Anything that helps soil 634 00:47:42.800 --> 00:47:46.480 retain moisture prevents water waste. That includes all plants, soils, and mulches. 635 00:47:46.840 --> 00:47:50.719 So if you want some tips on saving water in your garden, I 636 00:47:50.760 --> 00:47:53.519 would say number one, mulch. You need a couple of inches of a 637 00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:58.920 good mult maybe more depending on how course it is, and that holds the 638 00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:02.280 moisture in the soil. It prevents weeds from stealing your moisture, and it 639 00:48:02.400 --> 00:48:07.320 avoids erosion of the soil as well, and it moderates soil temperature. Secondly, 640 00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:09.519 if you've got a low spot in your landscape, you know we always 641 00:48:09.519 --> 00:48:14.119 talk about plants needing good drainage, Well turn it into a rain garden. 642 00:48:14.239 --> 00:48:17.880 A rain garden is an area that's filled with plants that can take wet feet. 643 00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:22.159 They don't mind wet feet, so daylilies would be an example, iris, 644 00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:25.880 especially Louisiana iris. A turk's cap will put up with that from time 645 00:48:25.920 --> 00:48:31.320 to periodically at least. Rain gardens are a good way to turn lemons into 646 00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:36.920 lemonade in your landscape. And then finally native plants. Native plants or they 647 00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:40.199 just are from here. They know how to live in the climate, in 648 00:48:40.239 --> 00:48:44.880 the soils that we have in this region, including the typical rainfall for our 649 00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:47.159 region, that would all those all three of those things are a good way 650 00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:53.079 to save on your water supply. Now, there are other ways to For 651 00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:58.079 example, when you amend your soil with compost. When you mix a quality 652 00:48:58.199 --> 00:49:02.719 compost mix in your soil, you are going to create a better root zone, 653 00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:07.280 a deeper root zone. You know you've got these plants in your flower 654 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:10.760 bed, just thrown them into whatever soil you have on the spot without any 655 00:49:10.800 --> 00:49:15.239 preparation. That's not the way to do it. You want to amend them 656 00:49:15.400 --> 00:49:21.719 well with a quality mix. And if you live south and west of the 657 00:49:21.719 --> 00:49:27.039 Houston area down Sandy Point, Pomona, Fresno, Manville, Roescharon, all 658 00:49:27.039 --> 00:49:30.480 those areas out in the Sienna Plantation area, you need to check out CNA 659 00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:35.920 Mulch. You can go to Sienna Mulch dot com to learn more. They 660 00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:39.480 are just north or Rochcharon on FM five twenty one, near where Highway six 661 00:49:39.519 --> 00:49:44.760 and two eighty eight come together. They've got the mulches in bulk and they've 662 00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:47.559 got it in bags. They've got the soil amendments, the compost that I'm 663 00:49:47.559 --> 00:49:53.800 talking about, the rose soil, organic compost and so on that is today's 664 00:49:53.920 --> 00:49:58.000 This weekend is a good time to go do that because first of all, 665 00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:00.360 they're closed on Sunday. I shouldn't say this weekend today is a good time 666 00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:05.079 to get out to CNA Malts if you want to take advantage of this tax 667 00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:08.719 free weekend. And the products they sell are all gonna be products that can 668 00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:14.920 help your landscape be more water efficient. They carry all the fertilizers we talk 669 00:50:15.000 --> 00:50:17.400 about here as well. A CNA mal it's just a wonderful place to go, 670 00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:20.599 Viz. I always love to go out there and see what they've got 671 00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:24.599 going on. Now, that would be the amendments. Drip irrigation is another 672 00:50:24.639 --> 00:50:30.920 thing that is very good for saving water. It's a very efficient way you 673 00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:32.639 put the water right where it needs it, and that's on the soil where 674 00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:37.320 the roots are that take it up. You avoid spraying and wetting the foliage 675 00:50:37.320 --> 00:50:42.639 and increasing disease problems. A hose end timer, now there's a good idea. 676 00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:45.960 I can't tell you well, I won't tell you how many times I 677 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:49.840 have turned the water on in the evening because I got home from work and 678 00:50:49.920 --> 00:50:53.320 something needed water, and I forget about it. And the next thing you 679 00:50:53.360 --> 00:50:57.280 know, I come out in the morning and the kids have canoes out in 680 00:50:57.320 --> 00:51:00.719 the street at curbside, thanking me for the river that I created for them 681 00:51:00.760 --> 00:51:05.559 to play in. A hose end timer, simple inexpensive way to avoid that 682 00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:09.239 you water for just as much as you need to water. And one other, 683 00:51:09.519 --> 00:51:15.079 one other great idea for a water saving tax free weekend is a tree 684 00:51:15.159 --> 00:51:17.039 hugger sprinkler. I talk about these all the time, but if you're going 685 00:51:17.079 --> 00:51:21.800 to buy a woody ornamental, get a tree Hugger sprinkler. It's a small 686 00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:27.679 investment to make sure your significant investment in that woody ornamental stays alive and not 687 00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:30.719 just stays alive, but thrives. Now you can go to tree Hugger Sprinklers 688 00:51:30.760 --> 00:51:35.559 dot Com to learn more, but you're going to find them all the places 689 00:51:35.559 --> 00:51:38.639 that we talk about. All our sponsors, you carry the tree Hugger sprinklers. 690 00:51:38.840 --> 00:51:42.239 I've got a seven inch, I've got an eleven inch, and I've 691 00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:45.639 got a fifteen inch version. You can turn them on just a little bit 692 00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:49.239 when you have a new plant, just to water the base of that plant 693 00:51:49.239 --> 00:51:52.280 to help you get roots out into the soil. You can crank it up 694 00:51:52.280 --> 00:51:54.840 a little bit more to water a young tree, and you can even turn 695 00:51:54.840 --> 00:51:59.440 it on even higher and water a much much larger area. But tree hugger 696 00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:02.880 sprinkler help target the water and they're a water saving device. As a result 697 00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:07.320 of that, I want to head out. I think we're gonna go out 698 00:52:07.320 --> 00:52:10.199 to League City and we're going to talk to John V. Well. Good 699 00:52:10.199 --> 00:52:15.239 morning, John V. Good Morrie Skip, Good morning everybody. Yes, 700 00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:23.639 my question is on dragon fruit, and yes it's something that can grow down 701 00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:30.920 here in Texas. Yes they can. And could you if your radio is 702 00:52:30.960 --> 00:52:34.039 on in the background, or if your phone's on speakerphone, we're getting a 703 00:52:34.039 --> 00:52:38.679 little feedback from something there. But you can apologize. It's the international landline 704 00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:42.960 Country's calling and we call out, so I apologize. I'll be back on 705 00:52:43.000 --> 00:52:45.239 my other phone just after June first. Yeah, okay, all right, 706 00:52:45.280 --> 00:52:50.039 we'll bear with it today. So, yes, you can grow you can 707 00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:52.679 grow dragon fruit here. They're not a super cold hearted plant, so you're 708 00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:59.400 gonna have to be able to bring them in, have a container that you 709 00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:02.239 could put it to a protected spot when we're going to have really cold weather. 710 00:53:05.880 --> 00:53:08.519 So it's similar to the mango complications with the cold weather. Yeah, 711 00:53:08.559 --> 00:53:13.280 any kind of the real tropical types of things that can't take a hard freeze, 712 00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:17.639 then you're gonna need to bring them in. So that would be that 713 00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:22.639 would be my suggess. Okay, wonderful, Well, thank you, You'll 714 00:53:22.679 --> 00:53:25.199 have a wonderful day. All right, thank you, John V. I 715 00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:30.320 appreciate that. Go, let's see we're gonna go to unless we're going to 716 00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:35.920 head out to Richmond and talk to Brian. Hello, Brian, it's good 717 00:53:36.039 --> 00:53:40.280 Morning's good power, You'm well, thank you, hey man. So I'm 718 00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:45.719 having a ven using weed beater for the crab ground or the mormuda grass that's 719 00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:53.760 creeping up into my garden and flower beds and blueberries and blackberries and um such 720 00:53:53.800 --> 00:54:00.039 hammer for the nut grass. But they're both so slow to kill, and 721 00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:02.880 the wheat beaters labeled for all that. So is there any other over the 722 00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:07.360 top that I can use? It would be faster than wheat beater. And 723 00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:15.119 do I well a non ionic um um madge evan work or do I really 724 00:54:15.159 --> 00:54:22.960 need a methylated seed oil. Oh boy, I don't know on the non 725 00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:30.559 ionic surfactants um as to those particular products. I would have to check that 726 00:54:30.599 --> 00:54:32.559 out. You might want to check. The label should tell you if if 727 00:54:32.599 --> 00:54:38.440 a surfactor is suggested to go with the product. But are you go ahead 728 00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:44.559 by say, does say use methylated um use methylated seed oil. I don't 729 00:54:44.599 --> 00:54:46.760 have any. I've got them the nonionic stuff. I was just curious if 730 00:54:46.840 --> 00:54:51.920 it was much difference. Yeah, and I've used the boneye product for the 731 00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:57.920 nut grass, but my permutograph does not like the doesn't like the boneyed product 732 00:54:58.039 --> 00:55:02.079 very much. It kind of burns it. Yeah, the su chamber works, 733 00:55:02.119 --> 00:55:06.840 It just takes it a week or ten days to start killing stuff. 734 00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:08.800 And I would like to be able to spray it weekly so that I can 735 00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:13.159 get the new stuff. I can't tell the new stuff from the old even 736 00:55:13.280 --> 00:55:15.760 using the dye that my sprinklers washed the die away after a couple of days. 737 00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:20.320 Okay, well it ought to it ast start just coloring a little before 738 00:55:20.320 --> 00:55:22.880 a week. But you know, here's the problem. Both the nuts edge 739 00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:28.679 is hard to kill, and so anything that would work fast is probably it 740 00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:35.199 means it's not translocating down into the nuts underground and doing a more thorough job 741 00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:38.840 for you. And so I don't know a fast nuts edge product. Now 742 00:55:38.880 --> 00:55:42.840 you can burn the top off of it, but I don't know a fast 743 00:55:42.920 --> 00:55:45.920 product that truly kills it. And that's what you're looking for. It's truly 744 00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:51.440 the BONEYE said gender or whatever it's called. It starts killing it in two 745 00:55:51.519 --> 00:55:54.360 or three days. But it just my bermudigrash just doesn't like it. I 746 00:55:54.400 --> 00:55:58.840 mean, it's it's specifically for it. But if you don't know anything else, 747 00:55:58.880 --> 00:56:00.039 you don't know anything else. And that's what we got to work with. 748 00:56:00.559 --> 00:56:04.679 So it's just hey, hey, waiting for that stuff to grow up 749 00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:07.880 in my blueberries and biteberries. Oh I know, I know. It's a 750 00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:12.039 mess. It is truly a mess. So when you say it doesn't like 751 00:56:12.119 --> 00:56:15.639 it, is it like yellowing it or what are the symptoms are saying it 752 00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:19.880 yellows my bermuda grass lawn when I'm spraying the nuggrass and my lawn. Okay, 753 00:56:20.320 --> 00:56:24.719 all right, Well, I don't know where else to take you manage 754 00:56:25.320 --> 00:56:30.960 an image image will even yellow Saint Augustine, I don't know if it yellows 755 00:56:30.000 --> 00:56:35.119 bermuda that's it. I have to check on that. But when you're you 756 00:56:35.199 --> 00:56:37.400 know, when you're in there, have you where you shop if you ask 757 00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.960 them about any other options that they carry, because there's a lot of different 758 00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:45.400 products on the market. Yeah, I shop at the Ace of Rosenberg and 759 00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:52.079 the two that they have or are sedgehammer and the bonite product okay, sedge 760 00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:57.039 beater or whatever it's called. There's also a sedge ender I think product sedge 761 00:56:57.320 --> 00:56:59.840 that's the one that's the one I was thinking. And they also carry image. 762 00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:05.760 Yeah. Well, I think as far as I my knowledge is that 763 00:57:05.960 --> 00:57:07.760 you're you're kind of doing what you need to do, and I think that's 764 00:57:07.880 --> 00:57:10.800 just just the nature of it. Brian, I wish we had a better 765 00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:15.920 solution. All right, thanks very much. Appreciate you. Yes, sir, 766 00:57:15.079 --> 00:57:19.239 thank you for the call. Appreciate that. Let's see, let's head 767 00:57:19.320 --> 00:57:23.159 out before we do that. Now, let's head out to talk to Clark. 768 00:57:23.519 --> 00:57:29.639 Good morning, Clark. Yes, hey, thanks for taking a call. 769 00:57:30.199 --> 00:57:34.559 I got a question from the freeze. The past couple of years, 770 00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:38.239 I had centris feed trees out in the backyard, and of course they all 771 00:57:39.159 --> 00:57:44.039 die. So this year be and my wife we determined that we're going to 772 00:57:44.119 --> 00:57:49.960 get some centris tree, Well, I need some recommendations as far as growing 773 00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:54.400 them into container h. You know, for simmoned and some of the orange 774 00:57:54.480 --> 00:58:01.639 tree H terms of what science container? And you know how that careful as 775 00:58:01.719 --> 00:58:05.960 you say, okay, well, I wouldn't try persimmon in a container. 776 00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:09.960 It just it just wants to be too big of a tree. But the 777 00:58:10.119 --> 00:58:15.880 citrus, if you went with a satsuma and you put it in a very 778 00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:19.119 large container, let's say the equivalent of a large whiskey barrel. But don't 779 00:58:19.159 --> 00:58:23.360 use a whiskey barrel because it'll rot out over time. But satsuma could be 780 00:58:23.400 --> 00:58:28.960 grown in that. But the lemons, the mare lemon, the various types 781 00:58:29.000 --> 00:58:34.599 of limes um let's see kumquats would also do good in a very large container. 782 00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:37.280 You just want to be able to move the container around because when cold 783 00:58:37.320 --> 00:58:40.199 cold weather is threatening, you want to be able to wheel that thing into 784 00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:45.320 the garage. And so I always I use a little hand truck or dolly 785 00:58:45.440 --> 00:58:52.039 to do that. But just be prepared to do that. So as large 786 00:58:52.199 --> 00:58:57.719 container as I can say to a handle would be good for the And you 787 00:58:57.840 --> 00:59:02.199 write the mare livings and changerine. Yes, okay, and for simmon, 788 00:59:04.199 --> 00:59:07.599 take my chances in the ground again with them this year. Yeah. Yeah, 789 00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:10.000 as long as it's good drainage, you're gonna do fine on the percimmon 790 00:59:10.079 --> 00:59:13.840 in the ground. Just make sure that that the area drains well. They 791 00:59:13.840 --> 00:59:15.599 don't want to live in a swamp. So all right, all right, 792 00:59:16.159 --> 00:59:20.280 thank you very much, Well, thank you. I appreciate the call very 793 00:59:20.360 --> 00:59:23.960 much. Well, I believe it's time to talk about the news. And 794 00:59:24.199 --> 00:59:28.840 uh, let's say we just we survived sharks. We got through the sharks. 795 00:59:29.320 --> 00:59:32.719 Now I'm listen, I'm eavesdropping on your conversation. In every context. 796 00:59:34.000 --> 00:59:37.800 The word cum quat is funny. It is, it is, I don't 797 00:59:37.800 --> 00:59:42.119 know, it's it just sounds funny. It just sounds funny. Don't know. 798 00:59:42.280 --> 00:59:57.559 Squat get a coume quat. All right, But good morning. It 799 00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:00.440 is a good day. Oh my gosh. The sun is out and they're 800 01:00:00.480 --> 01:00:06.360 just watching the trees waving in the breeze out there outside the studio. You 801 01:00:06.440 --> 01:00:10.559 know that that reminds me seeing the trees. We are coming up not too 802 01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:15.880 long on the hurricane season here in the Greater Houston area, and it is 803 01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:21.800 a good time now to do some hurricane preparedness on your trees. It may 804 01:00:21.840 --> 01:00:25.239 be some limbs that need to be removed. Just making sure that the structure 805 01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:30.239 and everything looks good. You can. I like the folks at Affordable Tree 806 01:00:30.280 --> 01:00:32.360 Service, we talk about him all the time, Martin and his wife Joe. 807 01:00:34.239 --> 01:00:37.519 They Martin will come out and he'll take a look at the trees you 808 01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:39.320 can harm to come out and do a little bit of an assessment, a 809 01:00:39.480 --> 01:00:43.840 little consultation. What needs to be trimmed, what needs to come out, 810 01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:46.480 and what is fine just the way it is, And that is how it 811 01:00:46.599 --> 01:00:50.039 is with Martin. He's not going to say you need to do something you 812 01:00:50.079 --> 01:00:52.559 don't need to do just because he has a chainsaw and wants to use it. 813 01:00:52.719 --> 01:00:54.920 Right, that's the guy that sticks his business card in your door. 814 01:00:55.360 --> 01:01:00.119 Run away from that stuff. But Affordable Tree they know what they're doing and 815 01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:04.519 they're honest. They do good work. They you know, it's worth calling 816 01:01:04.559 --> 01:01:08.039 a professional when someone trims your tree. They either know what they're doing and 817 01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:13.239 it builds the beauty and strength of that tree over time, or they don't 818 01:01:13.280 --> 01:01:16.760 know what they're doing and it ruins it. One bad pruning can be such 819 01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:20.719 that the tree never recovers from it. It always is going to be a 820 01:01:20.760 --> 01:01:22.960 problem and it's probably more likely to break when they don't prune it right. 821 01:01:23.440 --> 01:01:28.159 That is what is important. Maybe you need to clear some limbs out where 822 01:01:28.199 --> 01:01:31.280 you've got some power lines coming into the property. Maybe they're limbs rubbing on 823 01:01:31.360 --> 01:01:36.760 the eaves of your house or on the shingles of your house. That is 824 01:01:36.800 --> 01:01:39.119 an expensive damage, so you want to get those out of there. If 825 01:01:39.159 --> 01:01:43.239 you've got any trees by the way that you're waiting on them to leaf out 826 01:01:43.360 --> 01:01:46.639 and just giving them a little extra time. If they're not leafy now they're 827 01:01:46.719 --> 01:01:49.880 not going to be leafy, They're gone. They need to come out, 828 01:01:50.039 --> 01:01:52.960 or maybe there's just some limbs that need to come out that are that way. 829 01:01:52.480 --> 01:01:55.840 Don't delay, go ahead and get that work done. Martin at Affordable 830 01:01:55.880 --> 01:02:00.840 Tree can do it, and that is aff Tree Service dot com. Afftree 831 01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:07.920 Service dot com or give McCall seven one three six ninety nine twenty six sixty 832 01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:15.320 three seven one three six nine nine twenty six sixty three. I've talked about 833 01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:19.480 being out at Wallbirds Unlimited, and I'm going to be there at the clear 834 01:02:19.599 --> 01:02:22.199 Lake store today. This is the new store, the newest of the seven 835 01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:25.920 locations now in the Houston area. And by the way, wherever you are 836 01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:30.760 in Houston, there's a Wall Birds Unlimited near you. You can go to 837 01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:37.639 WBU dot com forward slash Houston and find the store near you. I hope 838 01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:39.920 you'll come out and see me today at the Wallbirds out at clear Lake on 839 01:02:42.719 --> 01:02:46.679 El Dorado Boulevard fifty four forty I believe Eldorado Boulevard. That's at the corner 840 01:02:46.719 --> 01:02:51.039 of El Dorado and clear Lake City. So the store when you come out 841 01:02:51.079 --> 01:02:53.159 of the Wild Bird Store, it faces clear Lake City Boulevard. I'll be 842 01:02:53.199 --> 01:02:57.960 out there from eleven thirty to one thirty. Let's talk about plant problems, 843 01:02:58.039 --> 01:03:01.280 let's talk about whatever you're interested in. You need to check out the stores 844 01:03:01.440 --> 01:03:05.400 or grand opening and they're going to be given away a lot, a lot 845 01:03:05.639 --> 01:03:08.360 of stuff. This is a this is a time when you can get a 846 01:03:08.519 --> 01:03:14.360 free one will be given away. Advanced pole system for your bird feeders, 847 01:03:14.719 --> 01:03:19.239 an eliminator bird feeder to keep the squirrels out and they work, believe me. 848 01:03:19.519 --> 01:03:22.760 And they're going to give away twenty pound bag one per month for the 849 01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:29.199 next year of their top selling no Mess blend bird seed. So you win 850 01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:31.800 this and each month you can come in for a twenty pound bag of their 851 01:03:31.880 --> 01:03:35.519 no Mess blend bird seed. Wow, what a deal. I'll be giving 852 01:03:35.519 --> 01:03:38.880 away some Nelson plant food also out there lots of good reasons to come out 853 01:03:39.159 --> 01:03:45.000 to the wild Birds Unlimited out in the Clear Lake area. I had been 854 01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:51.320 visiting with folks with Dell Webb talk to him a while back, and they 855 01:03:51.360 --> 01:03:55.840 were visiting with me about a new full Share community that they're putting in and 856 01:03:57.519 --> 01:04:00.519 I'm going to be helping them create a community garden at that community. Isn't 857 01:04:00.519 --> 01:04:04.719 that call a community garden at the new Dell Web community, which is less 858 01:04:04.719 --> 01:04:10.679 than two miles from downtown fullsher on FM three fifty nine. Now, Dell 859 01:04:10.719 --> 01:04:15.039 Webb's been building communities for active adults age fifty five and better for over seventy 860 01:04:15.159 --> 01:04:19.719 years and they are very distinctly inspired. I mean, the lifestyle programs that 861 01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:25.960 are designed around you that are part of those communities amazing. Go to dellweb 862 01:04:26.039 --> 01:04:29.800 dot com for Bridge slash Houston to get more information, or you can call 863 01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:35.599 two eight one four five nine six o nine. You're listening to garden Line 864 01:04:35.760 --> 01:04:40.519 and I'm your host Skip Richter, and we are here to answer gardening questions, 865 01:04:40.599 --> 01:04:44.960 talk about whatever you're interested in regarding gardening. Our phone number is seven 866 01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:49.559 one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two 867 01:04:49.960 --> 01:04:56.159 fifty eight seventy four. If you've got weed problems in the lawn, it's 868 01:04:56.239 --> 01:05:00.840 because those the lawn was thin and sunlight at the soil and nature was able 869 01:05:00.880 --> 01:05:04.840 to plan a weed there. We avoid that by putting down a pre emergent 870 01:05:04.960 --> 01:05:09.880 and barricade is that kind of product. Nitrofoss is barricade. We'll control both 871 01:05:09.960 --> 01:05:14.199 grassy weeds and broad leafweeds. A ten pound bag covers up to five thousand 872 01:05:14.519 --> 01:05:19.920 square feet. Barricade pre emergent prevents the problem before it starts. Now you're 873 01:05:19.960 --> 01:05:26.400 gonna find barricade like you find other nitrofost products all over the place. DND 874 01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:30.280 feed out in Tomball plants and things, and Brenham Knmas Hardware and Kingwood. 875 01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:34.960 In fact, many of the ash hardware stores are going to carry barricade by 876 01:05:35.079 --> 01:05:41.840 Nitrofoss. Let's take a moment and go to Spring Branch and we're going to 877 01:05:41.960 --> 01:05:46.280 talk to Herta this morning. Hello Hrta, good morning, Thank you for 878 01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:55.400 being there for us. My son Provos say, he gave me a Texas 879 01:05:55.599 --> 01:06:01.320 mountain Laurel. Now I grew up the say antonia, and it's rocky soil. 880 01:06:03.119 --> 01:06:11.360 How long can I leave it in the container? And can I still 881 01:06:11.519 --> 01:06:15.840 plant it? Is it too hard or is it getting too late? Well, 882 01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:20.039 you can plant it, and it's probably better to plant it than to 883 01:06:20.159 --> 01:06:25.000 just leave it in the container if you wait until like the fall, when 884 01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:30.840 we plant a lot of woody ornamentals. I just think it you're you're unlikely 885 01:06:30.000 --> 01:06:33.239 to always remember to water it adequately, and I think it's going to be 886 01:06:33.320 --> 01:06:36.400 a stressful summer for that plant if you leave it in the container. Now, 887 01:06:36.480 --> 01:06:41.119 the nurseries that grow them, they've got automatic systems at water them. 888 01:06:41.480 --> 01:06:44.400 But I would get it in the ground. But heard you need to get 889 01:06:44.440 --> 01:06:47.679 it on excellent drainage, even if that means bringing in soil and making a 890 01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:50.320 big Picture's mound there, you know, for them to grow on. But 891 01:06:50.480 --> 01:06:56.039 just make sure that it never is saggy wet around that plant. It will 892 01:06:56.119 --> 01:06:58.639 grow here and it will do well here. But you're right, I mean 893 01:06:58.679 --> 01:07:02.400 they grow out of limestone outcroppings in the hill country and they're very happy with 894 01:07:02.519 --> 01:07:08.559 that. What they're not happy with is a clay soil that holds water and 895 01:07:08.840 --> 01:07:13.800 is overwatered they either by rain or irrigation. They're not happy with that. 896 01:07:14.039 --> 01:07:16.960 But isn't it a great plant? Oh? I love it? And the 897 01:07:17.159 --> 01:07:25.199 fragrance of those blooms in the spring. How close can I? I have 898 01:07:25.559 --> 01:07:30.360 so many trees in my yarm, I mean pine and oak, full grown 899 01:07:30.599 --> 01:07:38.360 tall. How close to any competitive plant can I put it? Well, 900 01:07:38.639 --> 01:07:42.800 here's the thing. You want that Mountain Laurel to never lack for good sunlight. 901 01:07:43.360 --> 01:07:45.559 Okay, all right, So if it can get morning sun up to 902 01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:50.039 at least maybe six hours of sun at least, that's okay. But you 903 01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:54.000 know in the hill country you've seen them. They're growing in bright, bright 904 01:07:54.119 --> 01:07:58.679 sun. So we just have to go oh, yes, yes, okay. 905 01:08:00.280 --> 01:08:02.960 Thank you for the call, and I hope you really enjoy that plant. 906 01:08:03.079 --> 01:08:06.079 That's great to hear. We're gonna take a little break now our phone 907 01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:11.239 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh a 908 01:08:11.320 --> 01:08:13.679 call and he'll get you on the boards when we come back from break. 909 01:08:14.480 --> 01:08:30.199 Love is deeper than strong. Well, good morning, what a great day 910 01:08:30.239 --> 01:08:33.159 it is today? Great day to be out in the gardens, great day 911 01:08:33.159 --> 01:08:36.039 to go visit garden centers. By the way, this is the tax free 912 01:08:36.079 --> 01:08:42.079 weekend on water saving products, which includes plants and soils and composts and malts 913 01:08:42.159 --> 01:08:44.960 and things like that, so take it, take advantage of that. Speaking 914 01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:49.960 of composts and molts and stuff, Heirloom Soils of Texas. You you probably 915 01:08:50.119 --> 01:08:55.279 have seen their products everywhere you shop. I mean, they their bag products 916 01:08:55.439 --> 01:08:59.760 are just widespread. Lots of good products too. I mean we're talking about 917 01:08:59.800 --> 01:09:03.000 things like rose soil. There is a veggie and herb mix that I really 918 01:09:03.079 --> 01:09:06.359 like that a lot. There's a leaf mold compost, and just on and 919 01:09:06.479 --> 01:09:11.680 on. They have lots of products. They also offer the super Sacks. 920 01:09:11.800 --> 01:09:15.560 That's a one cubic yard sack that they set on your driveway. They deliver 921 01:09:15.640 --> 01:09:18.000 it and put it on the driveway. You can go to Airloom Soils of 922 01:09:18.079 --> 01:09:23.680 Texas dot com and find out about that. And remember this is the tax 923 01:09:23.760 --> 01:09:26.600 saving weekend. So if you're thinking about buying malture, if you're thinking about 924 01:09:26.640 --> 01:09:31.319 buying compost, now's the time to do it. Today and tomorrow are the 925 01:09:31.479 --> 01:09:36.560 days that or you can get the tax free on your purchases so airlom Soils 926 01:09:36.560 --> 01:09:39.960 of Texas. If you don't know how much soil you need or how much 927 01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:45.680 compost you need, they have a cubic yard calculator on the website Airloom Soils 928 01:09:45.720 --> 01:09:48.279 of Texas dot com. And on the website you can click on it and 929 01:09:48.560 --> 01:09:51.479 you know the dimensions of the area you want to cover and how deep you 930 01:09:51.560 --> 01:09:56.840 want to put it. You can find exactly how much that you need from 931 01:09:56.880 --> 01:10:00.720 Airloom Soils of Texas. We're going to head out to Magnolia now and visit 932 01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:05.439 with Mike. Good morning, Mike, Good morning, Skip. How can 933 01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:12.199 we help today. I've got three drumming red maple trees that I bought from 934 01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:15.880 RCW a little over two years ago. They've been in the ground probably twenty 935 01:10:15.880 --> 01:10:19.119 six months, and I was wondering, what's sort of protocol to remove the 936 01:10:19.159 --> 01:10:24.560 stakes from around these guys. All Right, Well, if if you brought 937 01:10:24.600 --> 01:10:27.960 them from r CW, they were well grown and those plants are going to 938 01:10:28.000 --> 01:10:30.479 be well anchored in the ground. Uh. You know, there where the 939 01:10:30.720 --> 01:10:33.840 plant enters the ground, there'll be a little bit of a flare at the 940 01:10:33.920 --> 01:10:40.239 base of the trunk and the idea. Now, when they've been staked, 941 01:10:40.279 --> 01:10:43.560 have they been staked tight or have there been a little bit of room for 942 01:10:43.640 --> 01:10:47.600 them to move just a little bit, there's been just some slight room to 943 01:10:47.680 --> 01:10:54.000 move, Okay, that that movement is important because that helps the trunk tissues 944 01:10:54.079 --> 01:11:00.279 to strengthen. In a tree that has been mistaked too tight, I really 945 01:11:00.319 --> 01:11:03.000 recommend loosening them and leave them loose for a month or two before you fully 946 01:11:03.039 --> 01:11:08.520 take them off. But once a tree has been in the ground about six 947 01:11:08.640 --> 01:11:12.920 months, it ought to be established enough to where you can just take the 948 01:11:13.000 --> 01:11:16.680 stakes away that you might take a wire loose and kind of move the trunk 949 01:11:16.760 --> 01:11:21.720 and and just see is it just is the whole thing moving at the ground, 950 01:11:21.880 --> 01:11:25.760 you know what I'm saying, Like it's still wobbly in the in the 951 01:11:25.840 --> 01:11:29.359 hole. I doubt that's the case. But if it was, lead them 952 01:11:29.359 --> 01:11:33.159 a little bit longer. But in general, about six months they shouldn't need 953 01:11:33.239 --> 01:11:39.760 steaking anymore. That sounds perfect to me. So how do you how do 954 01:11:39.840 --> 01:11:43.239 you like that tree? By the way, Mike oh Man, it's probably 955 01:11:43.399 --> 01:11:48.000 in two years has doubled in heightened, quadrupled in width on the on the 956 01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:54.439 triplane excellent, excellent, Yeah, beautiful. I bought a Mexican sycamore from 957 01:11:54.439 --> 01:11:58.239 them too about a year ago when doing the same. I mean, it's 958 01:11:58.359 --> 01:12:01.880 it's wonderful tree. That is that is a very very beautiful tree. I 959 01:12:02.000 --> 01:12:05.319 grew up with sycamore. It's the big giant white trunks, you know, 960 01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:10.479 towering up in the sky. That's an awesome tree. Yep, yep. 961 01:12:10.560 --> 01:12:12.920 And when you go to that's what sold me on. It was when you 962 01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:16.920 go to RCW, they've got a couple of huge ones just all their property. 963 01:12:17.239 --> 01:12:20.840 Well, it sounds like you made a good decision, all right, 964 01:12:21.000 --> 01:12:25.840 Well, I appreciate the advice. I have a morning project. Sounds like, 965 01:12:26.159 --> 01:12:28.880 all right, have fun with that project. And I thank you for 966 01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:32.880 the call. I've mentioned ACE Hardware a million times here on the show, 967 01:12:32.960 --> 01:12:36.960 and it's just because I'm enthusiastic about ACE Hardware. I mean, there's thirty 968 01:12:38.000 --> 01:12:41.119 nine of them here in the Greater Houston area. For crying out loud, 969 01:12:41.199 --> 01:12:43.600 I mean, you don't even need to get in your car, just walk 970 01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:45.760 to the nearest as near to you. Hey, you can go to ACE 971 01:12:45.840 --> 01:12:49.159 hardware dot com, go online to Ace hardware dot com. They've got a 972 01:12:49.279 --> 01:12:53.960 store locator and you can find the ones that are closest to you, and 973 01:12:54.159 --> 01:12:58.279 they're gonna be more than one that's close to you. ACE Hardware carries all 974 01:12:58.319 --> 01:13:00.880 those products we talk about, you know, we talk about the fertilizers and 975 01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:05.840 the mulches. They're going to have a herbicide, fungicide, pesticide, her 976 01:13:06.359 --> 01:13:13.239 all that, all that section amazing wide variety of all kinds of products. 977 01:13:13.600 --> 01:13:17.199 Their associates are friendly and they're helpful. They have everything you need. So 978 01:13:17.319 --> 01:13:20.520 it mean you may go in there to buy, you know, some fertilizer 979 01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:25.079 for your lawn, but you can also pick up things for the home there. 980 01:13:25.920 --> 01:13:30.960 This isn't your father's hardware store when it comes to the limited supply. 981 01:13:30.199 --> 01:13:34.560 This is your father's hardware store when it comes to service. And ACE Hardware 982 01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:38.199 is that kind of place, you know, the local ACE Hardware stores in 983 01:13:38.279 --> 01:13:42.560 our group of thirty nine here, they raised almost a half million dollars for 984 01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:46.600 Texas Children's Hospital in twenty twenty two. I mean, it's just it's just 985 01:13:46.760 --> 01:13:50.359 a win win, win win. When you go shop at ACE, you 986 01:13:50.439 --> 01:13:55.119 get the products you need, you get the service you need, and don't 987 01:13:55.159 --> 01:14:00.640 forget their ACE Rewards program where you earn money back on your purchases. I'm 988 01:14:00.680 --> 01:14:03.800 a member myself, and I think that you you definitely need to belong to 989 01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:09.239 that as well. You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip 990 01:14:09.359 --> 01:14:13.680 Richter, and we are here to talk about gardening whatever is of interest to 991 01:14:13.760 --> 01:14:17.239 you. Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 992 01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:24.399 seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I was checking out 993 01:14:24.439 --> 01:14:28.359 my lawn this week, looking at you know, how are things going? 994 01:14:28.520 --> 01:14:30.039 I got the weeds coming here or there? You know, how's the law 995 01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:34.319 growing or any spots that are of concern? And I stood back and I've 996 01:14:34.439 --> 01:14:41.079 used some different kinds of products on my lawn and this spring I used hast 997 01:14:41.199 --> 01:14:45.800 Grow twelve four eight. It's a liquid lawn food plus. So you just 998 01:14:45.880 --> 01:14:48.319 took it, hook it up to a hose in I mean there's a gallon 999 01:14:48.399 --> 01:14:51.640 in larger sizes, but other size it's a quart size. You just took 1000 01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:56.720 it up to your hose and you just it takes about ten minutes to treat 1001 01:14:56.760 --> 01:15:00.640 an average lawn. But I just treated one section with the grow because I 1002 01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:04.960 wanted to see how it works. Well. It works beautiful green lush green 1003 01:15:05.199 --> 01:15:10.239 looks really good. Now you can do that with a hast Grow twelve for 1004 01:15:10.520 --> 01:15:14.399 eight liquid lawn food Plus. You can do it about four times for growing 1005 01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:17.439 season if you are returning your clippings, which you should be doing now. 1006 01:15:17.479 --> 01:15:20.560 If you bag your clippings, you probably need to do it about every month. 1007 01:15:21.239 --> 01:15:25.800 But hast Grow twelve for eight, we'll give you a quick response. 1008 01:15:26.159 --> 01:15:30.680 It's a natural food supple that's got the Medina sail activator and Humate liquid humus 1009 01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:34.239 also in it, and your lawn will show the difference when you use it. 1010 01:15:35.319 --> 01:15:39.920 Why don't we head out to Bay City and we're going to talk to 1011 01:15:40.239 --> 01:15:44.000 Mike this morning. A good morning, Mike, Good morning. How are 1012 01:15:44.039 --> 01:15:46.159 you. I'm well, thank you? What's up to Okay? Well, 1013 01:15:46.279 --> 01:15:49.359 I've sent an email, I mean, yeah, an email with some pictures 1014 01:15:49.720 --> 01:15:53.880 a week or so ago about a plant that I had, kind of heart 1015 01:15:53.920 --> 01:15:57.399 shaped thing. I don't know if you got it or not, because I 1016 01:15:57.439 --> 01:15:59.880 don't know if I was supposed to get an email back. All Right, 1017 01:16:00.439 --> 01:16:03.119 you're gonna answer it on radio. I like to answer them on the radio. 1018 01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:08.760 I'm gonna have to have missed you. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna 1019 01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:12.079 have to find your your email here, and so that may tell me just 1020 01:16:12.159 --> 01:16:14.239 a minute, can you tell me a little bit more about it while we're 1021 01:16:14.399 --> 01:16:16.920 while I'm looking about the picture. About the email, well I could be 1022 01:16:17.079 --> 01:16:20.840 from Mike, but anyway, about the picture. Yeah, it was a 1023 01:16:21.000 --> 01:16:28.000 heart shape, a little heart shape plant and it's coming up all over my 1024 01:16:28.079 --> 01:16:31.399 lawn and it's got a little nodule on the end when it's real small, 1025 01:16:31.520 --> 01:16:34.920 just a little not I don't know how it's propagating all through my lawn. 1026 01:16:35.319 --> 01:16:40.159 It'll get in my little potted plants. Okay, very small, you know. 1027 01:16:40.239 --> 01:16:43.000 And I'm man, they're everywhere and I don't know how they're propagating. 1028 01:16:43.039 --> 01:16:45.760 I'd like to get rid of them. Well, that's a little woods Violet. 1029 01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:47.760 I found your email, found your pictures, good pictures about the thank 1030 01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:53.439 you, and it is everywhere. Uh. They will eventually have little purple 1031 01:16:53.479 --> 01:16:57.319 flour on them, but that doesn't mean that you're gonna like having them in 1032 01:16:57.439 --> 01:17:00.239 the lawn, right, So you need to use a broad leaf weed control 1033 01:17:00.319 --> 01:17:06.159 product to kill them without killing your grass. Now, the good effective broad 1034 01:17:06.239 --> 01:17:12.640 leaf weed control products post emergent, killing existing weeds. They're heart on grass 1035 01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:16.439 when temperatures get up mid to upper eighties and above. So if you can, 1036 01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:20.079 if you you know, I haven't looked at the weather, but we're 1037 01:17:20.199 --> 01:17:24.479 we're bordering on that. In fact, we're in the numbers. If you 1038 01:17:24.520 --> 01:17:28.159 can find today's we're a little milder and go ahead and get that done. 1039 01:17:28.560 --> 01:17:31.640 That would be important because those things do have that underground storage, and so 1040 01:17:32.760 --> 01:17:35.840 one application may not take care of it. You may have Yeah, do 1041 01:17:35.960 --> 01:17:40.279 you have a recommended broad leaf or just any other there? You know, 1042 01:17:40.479 --> 01:17:44.600 there's a number of good ones that are there. You're seat in the base 1043 01:17:44.640 --> 01:17:47.880 cite here there. Bonide has a weed beat or Ultra that is a pretty 1044 01:17:47.920 --> 01:17:53.960 good one. Fertilan, oh gosh, trying to remember the fertil product. 1045 01:17:54.039 --> 01:17:58.760 That's it's a different group of mixus. One other thing you may need to 1046 01:17:58.800 --> 01:18:00.920 think about. This is going to be a battle that has to go on 1047 01:18:00.960 --> 01:18:03.960 a little further. There is a product called Celsius. It's not cheap, 1048 01:18:04.239 --> 01:18:09.239 but our garden centers do carry it. Celsius. You buy a little tiny 1049 01:18:09.319 --> 01:18:13.680 pack to mix and water it'll It can be used when temperatures are up nineteen 1050 01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:17.399 ninety two degrees without any damage. And so you may want to switch to 1051 01:18:17.479 --> 01:18:21.439 that one because it's also very effective for this weed. All right, okay, 1052 01:18:21.760 --> 01:18:28.199 all right, hey, thanks for the call. KTRH Garden Line does 1053 01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:32.920 not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 1054 01:18:33.079 --> 01:18:57.119 to KTRH Garden Line with skin rictor just watching as well. Good morning. 1055 01:18:57.920 --> 01:19:02.199 It is an absolutely list morning outside. Good day for gardening and good day 1056 01:19:02.319 --> 01:19:06.119 for going to a garden center as well. I'm going to be doing a 1057 01:19:06.199 --> 01:19:12.279 little bit of traveling around myself that I've got an appearance out at the wild 1058 01:19:12.319 --> 01:19:16.119 Birds Unlimited in clear Lake. This is the newest store for wild Birds Unlimited 1059 01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:20.239 in our area. They now have seven stores. You can go to WBU 1060 01:19:20.680 --> 01:19:27.600 dot com, forward slash Houston find the stores near you at our location out 1061 01:19:27.640 --> 01:19:30.000 there today at the clear Lake location, they're going to be as part of 1062 01:19:30.039 --> 01:19:35.640 the grand opening giving away an advanced pole system to help establish your backyard bird 1063 01:19:35.760 --> 01:19:41.720 sanctuary to hang your feeders on. They have also to give away an eliminator 1064 01:19:41.800 --> 01:19:45.520 bird feeder that is squirrelproof, which is important if you've ever tried to deal 1065 01:19:45.560 --> 01:19:49.439 with squirrels in a bird feeder. And somebody is going to win a twenty 1066 01:19:49.600 --> 01:19:56.640 pound bag per month for a year of their top selling no mess blend bird 1067 01:19:56.720 --> 01:20:02.039 seed. That is important. I've used cheap seeds before and they all about 1068 01:20:02.119 --> 01:20:04.760 half of it ends up on the ground just making a mess. And so 1069 01:20:05.000 --> 01:20:09.760 there are no mess types. I mean everything in it the birds want. 1070 01:20:09.800 --> 01:20:12.399 They don't want to kick it out and throw it on the ground. By 1071 01:20:12.439 --> 01:20:16.000 the way, that Wahbird's Unlimited in clear Lake is on El Dorado Boulevard fifty 1072 01:20:16.159 --> 01:20:21.600 four forty El Dorado Boulevard. That's where El Dorado and clear Lake City Boulevard 1073 01:20:21.680 --> 01:20:26.960 come together. Across from the HB. The storefront for the wild Birds faces 1074 01:20:27.119 --> 01:20:30.359 clear Lake City Boulevard. Just Mega ladies. You're free to find it and 1075 01:20:30.479 --> 01:20:32.159 get there. You need to check it out and come see me. I'm 1076 01:20:32.199 --> 01:20:36.359 gonna be given away some Nelson plant food fertilizer. Also got quite a few 1077 01:20:36.399 --> 01:20:41.720 of those to give away and first come, first served, so don't delay 1078 01:20:41.920 --> 01:20:45.319 in getting there. Bring some samples if you want to talk about plants, 1079 01:20:45.720 --> 01:20:48.039 insects, bugs in a bag. If you want to bring some pictures in 1080 01:20:48.279 --> 01:20:50.840 on your phone, we can look at those. It's always kind of fun 1081 01:20:50.960 --> 01:20:56.319 to help people plan out some stuff that they're doing in the landscape and get 1082 01:20:56.359 --> 01:20:59.800 some ideas. So it would be a great time. I always enjoy getting 1083 01:20:59.800 --> 01:21:04.439 out doing those. I've talked about the B Supply out in Dayton before, 1084 01:21:04.720 --> 01:21:09.640 but I would tell you that the B Supply and Dayton is a bold statement. 1085 01:21:09.640 --> 01:21:13.319 I would say that it is a place that everybody would enjoy going to. 1086 01:21:13.560 --> 01:21:15.560 Now, maybe you want to be a beekeeper. Maybe you are a 1087 01:21:15.640 --> 01:21:17.479 beekeeper. Well, they've got all the supplies you need. Of course, 1088 01:21:18.359 --> 01:21:23.720 they also have classes beginner classes twice a month out there in Dayton. Now 1089 01:21:23.760 --> 01:21:28.159 you can go to the Bee Supply dot Com online and find out more about 1090 01:21:28.199 --> 01:21:30.520 them. But if you're not a beekeeper, you don't want to be a 1091 01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:34.800 beekeeper. You just want to learn about the fascinating world of bees. They 1092 01:21:34.880 --> 01:21:40.079 have honey tours out there, and a honey tour is a great way to 1093 01:21:40.399 --> 01:21:45.239 get an exposure to bees and beekeeping. They'll have a little presentation where they 1094 01:21:45.319 --> 01:21:47.720 talk about bees. You learn a lot about them, and then you'll get 1095 01:21:47.760 --> 01:21:51.079 to taste about six different kinds of honey. Have you ever tried or in 1096 01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:57.319 honey? Have you ever tried creamed honey or BlackBerry honey? You'll get too 1097 01:21:57.359 --> 01:22:00.359 on one of these tours. So go to the b supply dot Com find 1098 01:22:00.399 --> 01:22:02.960 out about it, get a group together and go out and have some fun. 1099 01:22:03.279 --> 01:22:05.600 And it is fun. I've been there. Cool place. Oh, 1100 01:22:05.720 --> 01:22:11.840 they also have the largest, the second largest indoor be observation hive in the 1101 01:22:11.920 --> 01:22:14.560 world. I think you got to go to New Zealand to find a bigger, 1102 01:22:14.600 --> 01:22:19.039 one big plexiglass room up in the air where the bees are building comb 1103 01:22:19.239 --> 01:22:23.119 and you can watch them work. You can go up a little steps and 1104 01:22:23.560 --> 01:22:27.840 walk all around it and see it really really cool stuff. At the b 1105 01:22:27.960 --> 01:22:31.680 supply dot Com. You're listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven 1106 01:22:31.760 --> 01:22:36.880 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two and two 1107 01:22:38.199 --> 01:22:42.079 five eight seven four. Let's head out to pair Land and we're gonna talk 1108 01:22:42.079 --> 01:22:45.840 to Kevin Well. Good morning, Kevin, Hey, good morning. Got 1109 01:22:45.920 --> 01:22:50.720 a question about coffee grounds. Used to go to Starbucks all the time and 1110 01:22:51.159 --> 01:22:56.079 get a coffee in the morning and they would give you bags of use coffee 1111 01:22:56.119 --> 01:23:00.680 grounds for free, and I'd bring it home and just you know, sprinkler 1112 01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:04.479 around in the flier beds and whatnot, and then quit going the Starbucks and 1113 01:23:04.880 --> 01:23:09.239 kind of quit doing it. But is there any real benefit to doing that. 1114 01:23:09.960 --> 01:23:15.880 I just yes, random thought, Yes there is. Coffee grounds actually 1115 01:23:15.960 --> 01:23:19.680 have a decent amount of nitrogen in them, and they are an organic substance, 1116 01:23:19.760 --> 01:23:26.000 meaning that they will decompose back into the soil. So used in moderation. 1117 01:23:26.119 --> 01:23:28.279 They're just fine. I wouldn't put them, you know, four inches 1118 01:23:28.359 --> 01:23:30.600 deep all around your plants, but sprinkling a little here and there, working 1119 01:23:30.640 --> 01:23:33.319 them into the soil, that's just fine. Yeah, it works pretty good, 1120 01:23:34.479 --> 01:23:36.560 all right, appreciate it, brother, have a good weekend. Have 1121 01:23:36.720 --> 01:23:39.840 fun with them. Hey. And by the way, Kevin, when you 1122 01:23:40.119 --> 01:23:43.960 use coffee grounds as fertilizer around your plants, they grow faster because they they're 1123 01:23:44.039 --> 01:23:47.920 up all night growing in addition to being up during the day. That's a 1124 01:23:48.399 --> 01:23:51.960 wonderful dad joke, right, that is a very bad dad joke. And 1125 01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:55.600 you know what my kids will tell you. I've got a bunch of those. 1126 01:23:56.439 --> 01:24:01.479 Thanks for the call. Appreciate it. Bye, Oh gosh the phone 1127 01:24:01.560 --> 01:24:08.800 number seven one three two one two five eight seven four ktrh if you would 1128 01:24:08.840 --> 01:24:14.600 like some more information there. You know, if you are wanting a beautiful 1129 01:24:14.840 --> 01:24:18.640 color container on your patio, you need to consider jungle Land by nitrofos. 1130 01:24:18.800 --> 01:24:24.760 Jungle Land is a growing mix that drains well but holds water well. It 1131 01:24:24.920 --> 01:24:30.000 has four different sources of aged organic matter. It's got micro rhizal fungi in 1132 01:24:30.159 --> 01:24:34.479 it that really just enhanced the root system. Plants and micro riza go together 1133 01:24:34.680 --> 01:24:38.359 very well, and having that in a mix is a good thing. Now 1134 01:24:38.399 --> 01:24:41.560 you're going to find jungle land everywhere you find nitrofoss products. That would be 1135 01:24:41.600 --> 01:24:45.520 places like a tascaseda ACE hardware. Fact, many of the Ace hardwas around 1136 01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:50.399 Town Lake Hardware and Angleton, Gemp's Hardware. Montgomery jungle Land potting soil for 1137 01:24:50.600 --> 01:24:56.640 beautiful outdoor plants. They also have an indoor version with water holding crystals to 1138 01:24:56.800 --> 01:25:00.439 make it a little easier in case you forget to water. It helps the 1139 01:25:00.520 --> 01:25:03.479 plants get on a little bit further as a result of that. You know, 1140 01:25:03.560 --> 01:25:08.279 talking about nitrophi stuff. There are so many products and so many places 1141 01:25:08.359 --> 01:25:12.319 you can get them that it's just it's just a real easy It's an easy 1142 01:25:12.439 --> 01:25:16.600 purchase and easy to find. What I'm gonna go out and talk to Ron 1143 01:25:16.720 --> 01:25:19.600 and Beaumont run I got about a minute. I think we can get it 1144 01:25:19.680 --> 01:25:25.000 done in a minute, Yes or we can yes or good, I got 1145 01:25:25.319 --> 01:25:28.319 I got carpet grass, I think you am, I Saint Augustine. What's 1146 01:25:28.319 --> 01:25:30.479 the best treatment for that? There is not a way to kill carpet grass 1147 01:25:30.560 --> 01:25:36.119 in Saint Augustine. Now, okay, they're just not There's nothing selective to 1148 01:25:36.239 --> 01:25:42.399 get between those two. Carpet is a little bit rangier grass right, and 1149 01:25:42.880 --> 01:25:47.319 a little bit kind of upright tall rangey. I don't know if you know. 1150 01:25:47.560 --> 01:25:50.800 I just don't. It's it's also growing on the surface. So when 1151 01:25:50.880 --> 01:25:55.840 you pull up a runner of carpet grass, you've you've gotten rid of that 1152 01:25:56.039 --> 01:25:59.279 plant. It's not like bermuda grass. It's also coming up from underground. 1153 01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:03.720 But I tell you, I don't other than just killing everything and starting over 1154 01:26:04.119 --> 01:26:09.359 our spot, spraying the carpet where you see it, and letting the Saint 1155 01:26:09.359 --> 01:26:13.800 Augustine creep back into those areas. None of those answers are good ones. 1156 01:26:13.920 --> 01:26:16.119 But that's about the best I think you can do. Yeah. Yeah, 1157 01:26:16.199 --> 01:26:19.000 the guy the A, M and D is supplying Bowmont told me the same 1158 01:26:19.119 --> 01:26:21.720 thing. Yeah. Well, I thought you might know well, and I 1159 01:26:21.840 --> 01:26:28.159 want to I want to compliment you on your presentation over the radio. You're 1160 01:26:28.239 --> 01:26:30.479 not running seventy five. You're running down about fifty five miles an hour. 1161 01:26:30.920 --> 01:26:36.800 We'll appreciate it. Folk. Don't talk too fast for you. Sometimes I 1162 01:26:36.920 --> 01:26:40.920 get a little excited and talk fast. No, no, no, you're 1163 01:26:40.960 --> 01:26:45.680 good, Thank you. You're kind to say that. Well, good luck, 1164 01:26:45.800 --> 01:26:47.000 good luck with your line out there, and Beaumont run. Appreciate you 1165 01:26:47.319 --> 01:26:49.359 all right. See, we're gonna need to take a break here. Let 1166 01:26:49.399 --> 01:26:54.079 me give you the number one more time seven one three two one two fifty 1167 01:26:54.119 --> 01:26:57.119 eight seventy four. Give a Josh a call, get you on the board, 1168 01:26:57.319 --> 01:27:17.840 and we'll talk to you when we come back. Good morning on a 1169 01:27:17.960 --> 01:27:23.479 good Saturday morning for getting outside and getting some gardening done. By the way, 1170 01:27:23.520 --> 01:27:27.279 that was Tina Turner, Queen of rock and roll, though she passed 1171 01:27:27.319 --> 01:27:30.000 away recently, and I just thought we'd throw one of those in. Wow. 1172 01:27:30.119 --> 01:27:35.039 What an outstanding performer, especially just stage performer, like like none other. 1173 01:27:36.119 --> 01:27:41.039 We you know, I was talking about RCW nurseries and I just I 1174 01:27:41.199 --> 01:27:45.880 was reminded of the fact that they have this weekend. By the way, 1175 01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:49.560 this weekend is the tax free weekend for plants, soils, compost, multuous 1176 01:27:49.640 --> 01:27:56.640 things that save water. And they also have going on fifteen percent off all 1177 01:27:56.760 --> 01:28:00.039 fruit trees and fifty percent off select other trees that they have. So I 1178 01:28:00.119 --> 01:28:03.760 mean, it's just like reason upon reason to get out to our CW Nursery 1179 01:28:03.880 --> 01:28:08.760 this weekend. You can go to OURCW Nursery dot com. They are the 1180 01:28:08.920 --> 01:28:13.800 nursery that's there where Tamball Parkway to forty nine comes into Beltway eight where they're 1181 01:28:13.840 --> 01:28:16.640 joined together. You're going to find everything you can imagine at OURCW. And 1182 01:28:16.680 --> 01:28:19.119 by the way, when you go by there, tell them that you want 1183 01:28:19.159 --> 01:28:26.039 to see the tropical hibiscus that Skip keeps talking about on the radio. The 1184 01:28:26.319 --> 01:28:31.600 colors are unbelievable. They just have a Cajun line of hibiscus that is unbelievable. 1185 01:28:31.640 --> 01:28:34.359 Telling me to take me and show me where are these hibiscus, and 1186 01:28:34.479 --> 01:28:38.560 when you see them, you will agree that wow, I gotta have one 1187 01:28:38.600 --> 01:28:42.840 of those. Let's head out to Katie and we're going to talk to Stephanie 1188 01:28:42.920 --> 01:28:46.399 this morning. Good morning, Stephanie, Hi, Good morning Skip. How 1189 01:28:46.479 --> 01:28:51.159 are you. I'm well? Thank you all right. My question is is 1190 01:28:51.319 --> 01:28:58.039 I'd like to expand my garden into an existing landscaping bed that we pulled all 1191 01:28:58.079 --> 01:29:01.159 the plants out Okay, and I obviously know I need to, you know, 1192 01:29:01.239 --> 01:29:05.239 get the mulch out and whatnot. But I'm wondering, we have that 1193 01:29:05.359 --> 01:29:11.119 wonderful clay soil, what do I do? I still use the rose soil 1194 01:29:11.239 --> 01:29:15.359 and composts that Randy always talked about to mix in with that soil, or 1195 01:29:15.399 --> 01:29:17.920 is there something else I need to use to convert that bed into a like 1196 01:29:18.079 --> 01:29:21.359 a vegetable garden. No, that that would be just fine. Uh. 1197 01:29:21.439 --> 01:29:27.359 There, that's a good combination and it works good just plants in general. 1198 01:29:27.520 --> 01:29:30.479 That's a good combination. Now. I know that airbum soils makes a veggie 1199 01:29:30.600 --> 01:29:34.479 and herb mix. That's also a good one that you can use if you're 1200 01:29:34.680 --> 01:29:39.800 if you're wanting to um, you know, is this vegetables that you're planting 1201 01:29:39.880 --> 01:29:45.000 or is this flowers? No, it would be vegetable. Okay, that's 1202 01:29:45.039 --> 01:29:47.720 what I thought, but I just didn't want to assume. Yeah either way, 1203 01:29:47.960 --> 01:29:53.119 but get a good quality mix. Mix it in very deeply, because 1204 01:29:53.199 --> 01:29:57.399 what you're gonna do is you're going to create a huge root zone area that 1205 01:29:57.600 --> 01:30:00.199 the roots can thrive in. And that's how you have success above ground is 1206 01:30:00.279 --> 01:30:05.359 by making sure the plants are doing good below ground. How deep does it 1207 01:30:05.479 --> 01:30:10.479 need to deep need to be turned into? Well, I mean if you 1208 01:30:10.520 --> 01:30:13.119 could get it six or eight inches deep, that would be just fine. 1209 01:30:13.279 --> 01:30:15.840 Or if you want to mix a little bit of the mix in and then 1210 01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:21.039 bring additional mix in on top, so you sort of have a gradual interface 1211 01:30:21.199 --> 01:30:26.720 then from the quality mix the rose soil to compose the veggian herb mix whatever 1212 01:30:26.800 --> 01:30:30.640 you use on into your native soil. And you know, it's not just 1213 01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:34.600 like you're putting a wonderful mix right on top of let's say clay or whatever 1214 01:30:34.640 --> 01:30:41.199 you have there. You're right beneficial? No, Okay, would it be 1215 01:30:41.279 --> 01:30:46.439 beneficial to also include expanded shale If you have a heavy clay and you want 1216 01:30:46.479 --> 01:30:50.159 a long term fix, expanded shale can help with that. But it takes 1217 01:30:50.239 --> 01:30:54.880 quite a bit. You may put about three or four inches into a clay 1218 01:30:54.920 --> 01:31:00.840 soil to turn it into something much significantly enhanced, because you don't just need 1219 01:31:00.920 --> 01:31:02.760 like a particle of shale here and there. You need quite a bit in 1220 01:31:02.960 --> 01:31:08.479 terms of the volume of the soil that you have. Okay, let it 1221 01:31:08.600 --> 01:31:12.960 lasts a long time. Compost improves clay too. Compost just breaks down over 1222 01:31:13.079 --> 01:31:15.279 time, and so if it's if it were a bed where I was doing 1223 01:31:15.399 --> 01:31:20.560 vegetables, I probably would avoid the shale and just use compost because you're constantly 1224 01:31:20.640 --> 01:31:24.800 going to be going and changing out your crops, and it gives you an 1225 01:31:24.840 --> 01:31:30.439 opportunity to put more compost down to amend over time with Like if it was 1226 01:31:30.479 --> 01:31:33.039 a rose bed or something where you can't roto till the roses, right, 1227 01:31:33.680 --> 01:31:36.479 then you want to use something it's going to last a very very long time, 1228 01:31:36.560 --> 01:31:43.199 and that that's where shale would really shine. Okay, well that's what 1229 01:31:43.359 --> 01:31:45.520 I needed to know. I appreciate it. Thank you, all right, 1230 01:31:45.600 --> 01:31:49.319 Katie, thank you for the call. I appreciate the call. Let's head 1231 01:31:49.359 --> 01:31:53.199 out. We're gonna go to Northwest Houston now and we're gonna talk to Ralph. 1232 01:31:53.319 --> 01:31:57.680 Good morning, Ralph, good morning. It's great to have your programming. 1233 01:31:57.840 --> 01:32:00.119 You the best I've ever had. It's simply I've been listening to you 1234 01:32:00.359 --> 01:32:08.000 really are knowledgeable, and I thank you. Oh if in grass I have 1235 01:32:09.840 --> 01:32:13.760 overrun of the long runner, they're going on top of the grass, what 1236 01:32:14.119 --> 01:32:16.279 what's what's what's called in that? You know? They just I don't know 1237 01:32:16.600 --> 01:32:19.800 that I've got some of that in one area of my yard. I've got 1238 01:32:19.880 --> 01:32:24.880 some in the other areas don't have it. I've noticed in areas sometimes where 1239 01:32:24.920 --> 01:32:28.560 the grass is struggled a little bit as it begins to grow back in you 1240 01:32:28.640 --> 01:32:31.840 may you may see some of that, but just other than clipping them off 1241 01:32:31.960 --> 01:32:35.279 or usually the mower will lift those up and chop them when you mow over 1242 01:32:35.359 --> 01:32:40.479 them, because you know that that kind of vacuuming of the propeller blades on 1243 01:32:40.520 --> 01:32:44.720 the mower sort of pulls things up underneath there a little bit. But yeah, 1244 01:32:44.920 --> 01:32:47.880 it's it's not a disease, it's not an insect. It's really nothing 1245 01:32:47.960 --> 01:32:53.359 that you can do anything about. Having a good thick thatch can also cause 1246 01:32:53.399 --> 01:32:57.319 a little bit of that because the grass runner can't get down and put roots 1247 01:32:57.520 --> 01:33:01.159 in the soil because it's riding on top of all that dead runner material that's 1248 01:33:01.159 --> 01:33:08.760 at the soil surface. Okay, that's great, appreciate your program. Yeah, 1249 01:33:08.840 --> 01:33:10.640 and if you got if you got a lot of that, Ralph, 1250 01:33:10.720 --> 01:33:12.880 thank you. If you got a lot of that, you might want to 1251 01:33:12.960 --> 01:33:17.560 do consider doing a deep tie narration followed with a compost top dressing and that'll 1252 01:33:17.600 --> 01:33:20.840 help break down that dead organic matter. And it's just good for the lawn 1253 01:33:20.880 --> 01:33:26.840 anyway, But that just a tip. Thank you for that call. Our 1254 01:33:26.880 --> 01:33:30.479 phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one 1255 01:33:30.600 --> 01:33:35.479 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know, talking about lawns. 1256 01:33:35.800 --> 01:33:41.319 The Nitrofile Super Turf that's their silver bag, the Super Turf nineteen four 1257 01:33:41.439 --> 01:33:45.119 ten. That is a product that is going to gradually release those nutrients over 1258 01:33:45.319 --> 01:33:49.239 twelve to sixteen weeks. I mean that is a long time of feeding. 1259 01:33:49.279 --> 01:33:53.680 You put that down now and you don't worry about fertilizing again until fall. 1260 01:33:54.159 --> 01:33:58.279 And nineteen four tens an excellent ratio. It's got a good amount of nitrogen. 1261 01:33:58.600 --> 01:34:00.600 So because the numbers higher, you're going to use a little bit less 1262 01:34:00.600 --> 01:34:04.000 of it than something that has a lower number. For example, about five 1263 01:34:04.079 --> 01:34:08.840 pounds per thousand square feet of lawn would would be a pretty good rate in 1264 01:34:08.960 --> 01:34:14.399 most situations. But you're going to find Nitrofoss Super Turf nineteen four ten. 1265 01:34:14.479 --> 01:34:16.439 Everywhere you find Nitrofoss, which is everywhere. I mean if you're in Brenn, 1266 01:34:16.479 --> 01:34:21.119 I'm at plants and things in Montgomery, and gym's hardware done in Angleton 1267 01:34:21.239 --> 01:34:25.600 and Lake Jackson. There's a Lake Hardware in Angleton and a lake Hardware and 1268 01:34:25.640 --> 01:34:30.439 clute on I forty five North RCW and Plants for all seasons are gonna have 1269 01:34:30.600 --> 01:34:34.159 it. You get the idea Nitrofoss super Turf nineteen four ten. It's just 1270 01:34:34.319 --> 01:34:39.560 an excellent choice to have a beautiful lawn. Do it now, forget it. 1271 01:34:39.720 --> 01:34:43.479 You've taken care of fertilizing for the rest of summer. I was mentioning 1272 01:34:43.960 --> 01:34:46.039 plants for all seasons. There is a place where you can get those nitrofos 1273 01:34:46.199 --> 01:34:53.079 products. Plants for all seasons is it is a go to garden center that 1274 01:34:53.359 --> 01:34:56.479 if you're a green thumb that you take pride in your lawn in your garden, 1275 01:34:57.159 --> 01:35:00.960 you need to visit Plants for All seasons because it will they have the 1276 01:35:00.159 --> 01:35:04.840 selection and the products that you're looking for. If you're a brown thumb and 1277 01:35:04.960 --> 01:35:09.279 you want to turn your brown thumb green, then you need to visit Plants 1278 01:35:09.319 --> 01:35:13.439 for All seasons. It's a family owned nursery, full service retail garden center. 1279 01:35:13.520 --> 01:35:16.920 They've been going since nineteen seventy three. They're at the intersection of Louetta 1280 01:35:17.000 --> 01:35:20.399 and two forty nine and when you walk in there, you can bring pictures 1281 01:35:20.439 --> 01:35:26.319 and samples for diagnosis and solutions. They truly are lawn and garden experts. 1282 01:35:26.720 --> 01:35:31.000 I mean the Flowery family. They are just an institution when it comes to 1283 01:35:31.560 --> 01:35:35.680 home, mom and pop local retail garden centers. You can give a call 1284 01:35:35.760 --> 01:35:40.840 at two eight one three seven six sixteen forty six, or you can go 1285 01:35:40.960 --> 01:35:46.359 to Plants for All Seasons dot com and again this weekend tax free weekend by 1286 01:35:46.439 --> 01:35:49.359 Plants by Soil by Malt. They got all that, by the way, 1287 01:35:49.720 --> 01:35:54.840 and anything that's a water saving product too, is going to be tax free 1288 01:35:54.960 --> 01:35:58.920 this weekend, So another good reason to get out there. To Plants for 1289 01:35:59.079 --> 01:36:01.880 All Seasons. You'll see what I'm talking about. Amazing, amazing place. 1290 01:36:03.079 --> 01:36:09.600 Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven 1291 01:36:09.640 --> 01:36:15.119 one three two one two five eight seven four. I was out on my 1292 01:36:15.279 --> 01:36:21.039 patio this past week and guess what I was doing. I was swatting mosquitoes. 1293 01:36:21.239 --> 01:36:25.800 Yep, it's mosquito season. Had that rain, I've been walking around 1294 01:36:25.800 --> 01:36:29.960 the yard looking at where are mosquitoes. Where's the standing water that they're breeding 1295 01:36:30.000 --> 01:36:31.960 in? Maybe it's on my neighbors, I don't know, But wherever you 1296 01:36:32.039 --> 01:36:36.680 have standing water doesn't take very long, and mosquitoes can complete a life cycle 1297 01:36:36.800 --> 01:36:42.520 and next thing you know, your beautiful, enjoyable outdoor environment has now been 1298 01:36:42.600 --> 01:36:46.359 invaded by those low pests. Well, mosquito dunks is the simplest way to 1299 01:36:46.439 --> 01:36:49.960 deal with this. Mosquito dunk is a small beige donut. It floats on 1300 01:36:50.119 --> 01:36:56.920 standing water and slowly dissolves. It's a bacterium that's toxic to mosquito larva, 1301 01:36:57.239 --> 01:37:00.760 so it doesn't bother your ladybugs or the pet or birds that come to the 1302 01:37:00.840 --> 01:37:05.800 bird bath, or other fish for example. It's an organic product. So 1303 01:37:06.079 --> 01:37:12.560 mosquito dunks will control your mosquito problem for up to a month. And so 1304 01:37:12.960 --> 01:37:15.640 that one dunk will cover one hundred square feet of water. So you need 1305 01:37:15.720 --> 01:37:18.479 to check them out. I mean mosquito dunks. All these places we talk 1306 01:37:18.479 --> 01:37:21.800 about on garden Line, to the independent nurseries, the feed stores, the 1307 01:37:21.920 --> 01:37:26.239 ace hardware stores, they all have mosquito dunks. Go ahead and buy some 1308 01:37:26.760 --> 01:37:29.399 and bring them home so that when you need them, you've got them there. 1309 01:37:29.640 --> 01:37:31.960 And you just toss a dunk into that standing water and you take care 1310 01:37:32.000 --> 01:37:38.560 of it really simple, really fast, really easy. We're talking about this 1311 01:37:38.720 --> 01:37:42.960 being the tax free weekend. Hooray tax free weekend. For anything that is 1312 01:37:43.399 --> 01:37:47.960 a plant, that is soil, that is mulch, or anything that saves 1313 01:37:48.239 --> 01:37:53.000 on water, this is a good time to do it. And speaking of 1314 01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:57.680 cool things and plants, if you have a bend of Verdant Tree Farm, 1315 01:37:57.760 --> 01:38:00.720 you need to check it out. Now. The original store out there on 1316 01:38:00.800 --> 01:38:06.399 the west side on Barker Cyprus, kind of near the old extension office that 1317 01:38:06.520 --> 01:38:12.520 used to be out there at the flood prevention. I can't even say the 1318 01:38:12.640 --> 01:38:15.800 name of a reservoir out there, att Ex Reservoir. Anyway. They also 1319 01:38:15.880 --> 01:38:17.600 have one done in pair Land on Broadway Street. They've got one in the 1320 01:38:17.720 --> 01:38:23.600 Heights which is at three thirty seven Yale Street at ten. With all those 1321 01:38:24.039 --> 01:38:29.399 locations, it's not hard to find a Verdant Tree Farm. Memorial Day sail 1322 01:38:30.079 --> 01:38:34.680 twenty five percent off all trees and palms twenty five Did you hear that? 1323 01:38:34.840 --> 01:38:39.760 Twenty five percent off at Verdant Tree Farm. So if you're thinking about a 1324 01:38:39.840 --> 01:38:42.800 palm, and they know they've got all kinds of trees, but wow, 1325 01:38:42.880 --> 01:38:46.279 do they have a selection of palms, and palms love to be planted in 1326 01:38:46.399 --> 01:38:50.039 the summertime. I mean, this is palm planting season for sure. So 1327 01:38:50.279 --> 01:38:55.520 check out Verdant Tree Farm save twenty five percent off this weekend only. Then 1328 01:38:55.600 --> 01:39:00.119 this offer ends on May twenty ninth, so do not delay. Well, 1329 01:39:00.239 --> 01:39:02.199 Nikki, what are we going to talk about today? We got more news. 1330 01:39:02.399 --> 01:39:10.520 I just think it's interesting that whenever a Theatics reservoir comes up, anything 1331 01:39:10.560 --> 01:39:14.560 about it, our minds immediately go to Harvey. Those two will forever be 1332 01:39:14.680 --> 01:39:18.720 connected, they will. And we lost our extension office twice. The number 1333 01:39:18.760 --> 01:39:23.239 one was a Tax Day flood, which was a year or two before Harvey, 1334 01:39:23.560 --> 01:39:26.960 and then Harvey took it underwater for weeks and then we never went back. 1335 01:39:27.279 --> 01:39:30.439 It's an abandoned play. In fact, the building's gone now. But 1336 01:39:30.600 --> 01:39:34.520 Wolf and we had Harvey. We had the Tax Day flood, we had 1337 01:39:35.000 --> 01:39:40.920 the Memorial Day flood, remember that one. Here we are Memorial Day weekend. 1338 01:39:41.439 --> 01:39:44.079 Got some news coming up. We're going to talk about Paxton next. 1339 01:39:58.119 --> 01:40:01.680 Well, good morning on Hey, wonderful morning for getting out in gardening, 1340 01:40:02.039 --> 01:40:05.640 enjoying the yard, kind of sprucing things up and whatnot. Hey, I 1341 01:40:05.720 --> 01:40:09.840 want to go to the phones. I've got a special guest here. We're 1342 01:40:09.880 --> 01:40:13.920 going to visit with, and that is Jeffrey from Wibird's Unlimited. Hey you 1343 01:40:14.039 --> 01:40:16.840 doing this morning? Jeffrey, Hey, good morning, Skip. I'm doing 1344 01:40:16.960 --> 01:40:20.119 great. How about yourself? Very good. We've been talking about your place 1345 01:40:20.199 --> 01:40:24.640 and the parents coming up out there all morning, so tell us tell us 1346 01:40:24.640 --> 01:40:29.079 a little bit about what you got going on. Well, we're excited that 1347 01:40:29.119 --> 01:40:32.159 you're coming out to visit us here in our new location in clear Lake. 1348 01:40:32.960 --> 01:40:39.760 Customers are excited. We're just waiting for you to come out at eleven thirty. 1349 01:40:40.039 --> 01:40:46.600 And the birding activity in the area is fabulous. And just a little 1350 01:40:46.720 --> 01:40:50.279 side note, Skip, I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but 1351 01:40:51.239 --> 01:40:55.359 gardening, of course, is the number one hobby in the US, and 1352 01:40:56.000 --> 01:41:00.159 second to that is birding. Birding is the second most popular hobby in the 1353 01:41:00.359 --> 01:41:04.760 US. Wow. And they go together so well? So well they do 1354 01:41:05.159 --> 01:41:09.239 they do? Yeah, I'm sitting out on my patio and I'm enjoying my 1355 01:41:09.359 --> 01:41:13.920 plants, but I'm also watching the feeder and just all the sound and the 1356 01:41:14.640 --> 01:41:17.800 activity there. It's a it's a blast. And you know, we work 1357 01:41:18.159 --> 01:41:25.960 in tandem in many ways when it comes to you know, pollinators, we 1358 01:41:26.720 --> 01:41:33.560 encourage bees and bats. Surprisingly our pollinators as well as you know, other 1359 01:41:33.880 --> 01:41:42.079 other birds that that we we try to encourage the installation of nesting boxes. 1360 01:41:42.439 --> 01:41:45.640 Yeah, that's that's help us with a little bit of a pest control too, 1361 01:41:45.920 --> 01:41:50.000 you know, that's that's very true. One bat will consume three to 1362 01:41:50.159 --> 01:41:56.880 five thousand mosquitos in one night. Oh boy, I think I have three 1363 01:41:56.920 --> 01:41:59.680 to five thousand at my house from me and out the other day. So 1364 01:42:00.039 --> 01:42:03.359 need to need to send a bat over there? Well we can, we 1365 01:42:03.439 --> 01:42:08.840 can, certainly, you know, are the wild Birds Unlimited shops can can 1366 01:42:08.960 --> 01:42:15.279 help customers putting together their bird sanctuary and installing the nesting boxes and bad houses 1367 01:42:15.319 --> 01:42:19.319 too. Well, good good, And I know you guys have unbelievable supplies. 1368 01:42:19.359 --> 01:42:21.319 I mean, every time I go into wild Birds, it's just, 1369 01:42:21.600 --> 01:42:27.960 oh my gosh, there there's so many fun things. It is. It's 1370 01:42:28.000 --> 01:42:31.840 a it's a wonderful hobby. And and we differentiate ourselves. We have a 1371 01:42:31.960 --> 01:42:38.800 quality product. We have expert to people on staff that know birding and know 1372 01:42:39.119 --> 01:42:44.000 what is going to attract the birds so that you can enjoy, you know, 1373 01:42:44.159 --> 01:42:46.760 sitting back, especially now with all of this stuff going on around us, 1374 01:42:47.319 --> 01:42:51.720 it's always fun to sit back relax with a cup of coffee or an 1375 01:42:51.720 --> 01:42:57.439 adult beverage. You can listen and watch the birds. That's true. And 1376 01:42:57.600 --> 01:43:00.760 I was talking earlier about your nomad blend bird seed. You know, I 1377 01:43:00.920 --> 01:43:05.119 have in the past use cheap bird seed and what a mess in the birds. 1378 01:43:05.640 --> 01:43:09.159 Half of what's in there, they don't want to eat. But you 1379 01:43:09.239 --> 01:43:15.640 guys have one that and you have seeds that are designed are packaged for specific 1380 01:43:15.760 --> 01:43:18.840 types of birds, so you know you can even control you know, if 1381 01:43:18.880 --> 01:43:26.640 you like maybe finches or tip mouse or whatever, there's seeds that really are 1382 01:43:26.760 --> 01:43:31.000 directed toward those birds, right, That is correct. We do tailor a 1383 01:43:31.119 --> 01:43:38.720 lot of our seed offerings to specific birds, finches in particular. And also, 1384 01:43:39.279 --> 01:43:43.640 you know, squirrels can be a pesky nuisance, and so we have 1385 01:43:43.800 --> 01:43:48.760 seed you know that will deter the squirrels. That would be our hot pepper 1386 01:43:48.960 --> 01:43:55.960 fiery feast line as well as a lot of people aren't aware that staff flour 1387 01:43:56.119 --> 01:43:59.920 is a very good one for deterring the squirrels. Now. Really, staff 1388 01:44:00.000 --> 01:44:03.319 flower has a very bitter taste, but you know, the squirrels tend not 1389 01:44:03.560 --> 01:44:06.920 to eat it, okay, And if you're really dealing with squirrels, you 1390 01:44:08.079 --> 01:44:11.199 need an eliminator. Yeah, and well, as a matter of fact, 1391 01:44:11.239 --> 01:44:15.439 you're giving one away today, right. Well, our grand opening event is 1392 01:44:15.840 --> 01:44:21.479 continuing this weekend, and I encourage people to come into our shop. We 1393 01:44:21.600 --> 01:44:27.359 are on the clear Lake City Boulevard side of El Dorado and clear Lake City 1394 01:44:27.359 --> 01:44:32.560 Boulevard, and we are giving away registered to win an eliminator squirrel proof mind 1395 01:44:32.600 --> 01:44:41.000 you that squirrel resistance squirrelproof bird feeder, one twenty pound bag of our top 1396 01:44:41.079 --> 01:44:45.840 selling no Mess blend bird seed one a month for a year. Wow. 1397 01:44:45.159 --> 01:44:51.079 And also our advanced pole system so that you can begin and you can establish 1398 01:44:51.159 --> 01:44:57.000 your bird sanctuary in your backyard. And those those advanced full systems are really 1399 01:44:57.079 --> 01:45:00.880 cool I tonight, They're wonderful. And hey, you're at fifty four forty 1400 01:45:00.920 --> 01:45:04.920 Eldorado Boulevard, which is kind of where El Dorado and clear Lake City Boulevard 1401 01:45:05.000 --> 01:45:10.119 come together out there in clear Lake. Yes, we're across the street from 1402 01:45:10.319 --> 01:45:16.319 HB Okay, so we face the clear Lake City Boulevard Highway. All right. 1403 01:45:16.359 --> 01:45:19.680 Well, and you know I always tell people that when you walk into 1404 01:45:19.680 --> 01:45:26.239 a place like wild Birds, even if you're not interested in a particular thing, 1405 01:45:26.359 --> 01:45:29.600 when you walk through there. You can think of everybody you know in 1406 01:45:29.680 --> 01:45:32.439 the family and friends. They would love that. My mom would love that 1407 01:45:32.560 --> 01:45:35.600 hummingbird feeder right there. I mean, you're going to be interested yourself, 1408 01:45:35.680 --> 01:45:40.640 but I'm just saying it is a great place to get some really cool gifts 1409 01:45:40.760 --> 01:45:45.600 too. Yep. And we have Father's Day upcoming. It's a great place 1410 01:45:45.680 --> 01:45:50.239 to come and get dad a new feeder and let him enjoy the birds as 1411 01:45:50.279 --> 01:45:54.600 well. Wonderful, wonderful. Hey, Jeffrey, thanks so much. I 1412 01:45:54.640 --> 01:45:56.840 can't wait to get out there. I'll be there at eleven thirty, folks, 1413 01:45:57.000 --> 01:46:00.439 and you got it. Yeah, thanks for calling, and all right, 1414 01:46:00.239 --> 01:46:02.520 take care. We look forward to seeing you. Take care, yes, 1415 01:46:02.560 --> 01:46:05.479 sir, bye bye. Yeah, that's gonna be. That's gonna be 1416 01:46:05.520 --> 01:46:10.239 fun to get out there and get to enjoy that. You know, Dell 1417 01:46:10.279 --> 01:46:14.199 Weeb. You've heard of Dell Weeb. They've been building communities for active adults 1418 01:46:14.319 --> 01:46:16.880 age fifty five and better for over seventy years. And I was speaking to 1419 01:46:16.880 --> 01:46:20.359 the folks the other day. They got a new community coming up in full 1420 01:46:20.399 --> 01:46:25.479 Shure on FM three fifty nine, just two miles from downtown full Shure, 1421 01:46:26.039 --> 01:46:28.800 and they were talking to me. I'm going to be helping them with a 1422 01:46:28.960 --> 01:46:31.680 community garden that they're putting in at this facility. So, hey, gardeners, 1423 01:46:32.359 --> 01:46:39.680 if you want a wonderful community with inspired designs, lifestyle programs designed around 1424 01:46:39.720 --> 01:46:44.840 you, and a community garden plus all the wonderful trails and it just you 1425 01:46:44.960 --> 01:46:48.880 just go to dellweb dot com slash Houston for more information or calumn to eight 1426 01:46:48.960 --> 01:46:54.600 one four five nine O nine or excuse me six O nine two eight one 1427 01:46:55.199 --> 01:47:00.680 four five nine zero six zero nine. Dell Web can't wait to see that 1428 01:47:01.439 --> 01:47:05.600 community garden all come together, and I just think that's gonna be a great 1429 01:47:05.600 --> 01:47:12.760 community. If you haven't fertilized your lawn yet this summer, boy, I'm 1430 01:47:12.760 --> 01:47:16.439 getting tongue tight here. Slow and Easy from Nelson is the kind of product 1431 01:47:16.560 --> 01:47:23.399 that gives you that all summer long feeding. It's a powerhouse blend it because 1432 01:47:23.479 --> 01:47:29.920 it's gradually feeding moless. You don't have the development of thatch that overfeeding too 1433 01:47:30.000 --> 01:47:33.439 much at one time can do good root development to your grass, so water 1434 01:47:33.640 --> 01:47:38.359 consumption, the need to water goes down a little bit from that. Also, 1435 01:47:38.439 --> 01:47:41.479 they have the Bruce's Brew. It's an eighteen four nine. It's ideal 1436 01:47:41.720 --> 01:47:45.119 year round, no fuss, and I'm going to be given away Nelson plant 1437 01:47:45.199 --> 01:47:49.159 food out at the wild Birds Unlimited. That we're just talking about that being 1438 01:47:49.239 --> 01:47:53.800 out there and giving away things and whatnot. Well, come out to the 1439 01:47:53.880 --> 01:47:59.439 Wilbirds Unlimited in clear Lake and I will be as first come, first serve, 1440 01:47:59.520 --> 01:48:02.159 as long as last, given away some Nelson plant free jars as well 1441 01:48:03.039 --> 01:48:06.800 well. Our phone number is seven one, three, two and two fifty 1442 01:48:06.880 --> 01:48:10.319 eight seventy four. Give us a call, Josh. We'll get you on 1443 01:48:10.359 --> 01:48:30.079 the board and we'll talk to you soon. Good morning, Wow, have 1444 01:48:30.239 --> 01:48:33.239 you looked outside? This is this is the day. This is the day 1445 01:48:33.239 --> 01:48:38.520 to be outside outside, working in the yard, be outside, maybe visiting 1446 01:48:38.560 --> 01:48:41.359 a garden center. I hope you come out and see me out in clear 1447 01:48:41.520 --> 01:48:45.039 Lake. Be out there eleven thirty to one thirty at the Wahbird's Unlimited in 1448 01:48:45.159 --> 01:48:47.520 clear Lake. A good day to get out and do that. Maybe you've 1449 01:48:47.520 --> 01:48:53.399 got some plants you need diagnosed identified, some pest problems. You got some 1450 01:48:53.520 --> 01:48:56.359 pictures on your phone you can show me to kind of Hey, what do 1451 01:48:56.439 --> 01:48:59.479 I do with this area? How can improve on this? We'll be happy 1452 01:48:59.520 --> 01:49:01.399 to do all that. I'll be out there from eleven thirty to one thirty. 1453 01:49:01.479 --> 01:49:05.399 Today. We're gonna start off right. Go into the phones. Our 1454 01:49:05.439 --> 01:49:10.640 phone number, by the way is seven one three two one two five eight 1455 01:49:11.039 --> 01:49:15.279 seven four. Let's go up to Cyprus and talk to Sandy. Hello, 1456 01:49:15.439 --> 01:49:21.680 Sandy, either skip, good morning. I have a question about my okras. 1457 01:49:24.000 --> 01:49:29.720 They had little holes on the leads. Is that normal? Not all 1458 01:49:29.760 --> 01:49:32.920 of them, but some of them have it? Is it is normal? 1459 01:49:33.039 --> 01:49:38.039 I've never seen it become a problem. And those okra plants are tough. 1460 01:49:38.159 --> 01:49:41.640 They can afford to lose some leaf area without any problem. So I don't 1461 01:49:41.680 --> 01:49:45.119 think it's something you need to spray for or worry about. I believe it's 1462 01:49:45.159 --> 01:49:47.039 a beetle that's doing it. It could be a caterpillar, but most likely 1463 01:49:47.119 --> 01:49:50.680 it's a beetle, a little beetle. Okay. I keep seeing this clear 1464 01:49:50.800 --> 01:49:56.159 colored fly looking thing that lands on it. Is that okay for it? 1465 01:49:56.279 --> 01:49:58.760 Or is that the thing that's eating it? You're saying it's a fly? 1466 01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:02.279 What color looks like a fly? But it's yeah, it looks like a 1467 01:50:02.359 --> 01:50:12.159 fly, and it's uh got a red head? Is it? Is it 1468 01:50:12.279 --> 01:50:17.520 like a skinny kind of long legged fly compared to a house fly? That's 1469 01:50:17.560 --> 01:50:23.000 a beneficial That is a beneficial insect. It's called a long lead fly. 1470 01:50:23.159 --> 01:50:26.039 There's a lot of different types. Some of them you'll see the reddish. 1471 01:50:26.079 --> 01:50:30.600 Some of them have almost a metallic green reflective or metallic green color to them. 1472 01:50:30.880 --> 01:50:33.920 But they're predators, so that's a good thing to have out in the 1473 01:50:34.000 --> 01:50:40.560 garden. Nothing to worry about. And these oakra seedlings I planted two weeks 1474 01:50:40.600 --> 01:50:45.720 ago, they came up and they're legging. They're like tall and lanky, 1475 01:50:46.039 --> 01:50:50.760 okay, but they had they had like leads, and so I snipped off 1476 01:50:50.880 --> 01:50:56.600 the top, the one that was the furthest top um. Did I do 1477 01:50:56.680 --> 01:51:01.079 it too early? You cut the leaf off? If you're saying, yeah, 1478 01:51:01.159 --> 01:51:05.439 the tall one, I left the bottom two leaves that were lower than 1479 01:51:05.479 --> 01:51:10.439 the tall one, I left that one. I mean I kept the top. 1480 01:51:11.119 --> 01:51:14.359 The one that was on top of the bottom leaves I left alone. 1481 01:51:14.640 --> 01:51:16.880 Okay, And why were you taking the leaf off to make it shorter? 1482 01:51:18.479 --> 01:51:26.399 No, I thought that year's placed to snip the first set of whatever I 1483 01:51:26.560 --> 01:51:29.520 see. I see, No, Sandy, that that's not necessary. I 1484 01:51:29.560 --> 01:51:31.680 mean, it wouldn't hurt anything. You did it, But I thought off 1485 01:51:31.760 --> 01:51:39.840 like the first um nip the top off when you get leaves. No, 1486 01:51:40.039 --> 01:51:43.520 I on okra, I just let mine grow. I don't snip anything off. 1487 01:51:44.600 --> 01:51:48.880 So I may not well, I may not be picturing exactly what you're 1488 01:51:49.039 --> 01:51:53.239 talking about, but I can just tell you this, when ochre comes up, 1489 01:51:53.359 --> 01:51:56.359 just let it grow. Don't worry about it. It's a tough plant. 1490 01:51:56.439 --> 01:52:00.199 It's gonna be just fine. Yeah. Is there a good sunlight? 1491 01:52:00.880 --> 01:52:03.000 Is it getting good sunlight? Sandy? Oh? Yeah, yeah, Okay, 1492 01:52:03.039 --> 01:52:05.439 I've got it on the sun all right. Well, sounds like you're 1493 01:52:05.479 --> 01:52:10.359 off to a good start. You're halfway to gumbo. Yeah. On my 1494 01:52:10.439 --> 01:52:14.119 blueberries, I've got a bird beater, so I know that it's not the 1495 01:52:14.199 --> 01:52:18.439 birds. But they're just not turning purple like there. It's taking them a 1496 01:52:18.520 --> 01:52:24.840 long time. And they've got these new light colored leaves that have popped up. 1497 01:52:26.479 --> 01:52:32.159 Does that mean that it's done producing for the season. It could be 1498 01:52:32.239 --> 01:52:38.439 a nutrient deficiency. If you're seeing light colored leaves, I know they're acid 1499 01:52:38.520 --> 01:52:43.119 levers. And I didn't put acid in it for like over a month now, 1500 01:52:43.359 --> 01:52:45.960 right, So if the older leaves have the normal blueberry kind of a 1501 01:52:46.000 --> 01:52:51.600 blue green color that blueberries have, and then the younger leaves are looking yellowish 1502 01:52:51.920 --> 01:52:57.800 to whitish pale. Maybe maybe the veins are green, but the other's rest 1503 01:52:57.840 --> 01:53:01.000 of it is white. That's an armed deficient. See. So that's one 1504 01:53:01.079 --> 01:53:05.319 reason why we keep blueberries acidic. It makes the iron more available and they're 1505 01:53:05.399 --> 01:53:10.359 happier with that. You could put an armed supplement around them, but I 1506 01:53:10.479 --> 01:53:14.520 think just everything you do should be acidifying. In fact, you might want 1507 01:53:14.560 --> 01:53:17.600 to get a hold of Microlifs. They have an acidifying fertilizer. It's a 1508 01:53:17.680 --> 01:53:24.439 six two four, but it's in a red bag and it is acidifying, 1509 01:53:24.920 --> 01:53:29.439 and just fertilize with that. It's organic, so it's going to decompose into 1510 01:53:29.479 --> 01:53:32.840 the soil and improve the soil. But would I would start fertilizing with an 1511 01:53:32.880 --> 01:53:39.840 acidic fertilizer more? I think, And every chance you get and encourage some 1512 01:53:40.000 --> 01:53:43.359 new growth, because they're going to go ahead and grow, and by the 1513 01:53:43.439 --> 01:53:45.560 time we get to the towards the end of summer, they are already setting 1514 01:53:45.600 --> 01:53:47.960 buds for next year. So you want to get them as healthy as you 1515 01:53:48.039 --> 01:53:51.399 can by then, so next year you have a good crop. Okay, 1516 01:53:51.479 --> 01:53:55.279 cool, Thank you so very much. I have a great yea you two 1517 01:53:55.359 --> 01:53:58.119 Sandy, Yeah, thank you very much. Yeah, Microlife. You can 1518 01:53:58.159 --> 01:54:00.159 go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com if you want to find out where to buy 1519 01:54:00.199 --> 01:54:04.279 Microlife, but I can taste basically everywhere. It's widely available. If it's 1520 01:54:04.319 --> 01:54:06.359 your lawn, though, you want to go with the six two four in 1521 01:54:06.399 --> 01:54:11.920 the green bag and then get your bag of the purple purple bag. That's 1522 01:54:11.960 --> 01:54:15.000 the humates plus, which is like concentrated compost in a bag. So you're 1523 01:54:15.039 --> 01:54:18.520 adding a lot of minerals beyond the three, the six two four, the 1524 01:54:18.640 --> 01:54:23.560 three numbers on the bag. With Microlife, you've got all kinds of essential 1525 01:54:23.640 --> 01:54:27.600 minerals that are also included in that because it's an organic product, it's coming 1526 01:54:27.640 --> 01:54:31.159 from organic materials, and you will you will see a difference in your lawn. 1527 01:54:31.520 --> 01:54:36.600 Microlife Fertilizer dot Com. Let's head out to Southeast Houston and we're gonna 1528 01:54:36.600 --> 01:54:45.840 talk to Todd. Hello, Todd, probably not okay, I can hear 1529 01:54:45.880 --> 01:54:47.840 you now, I can hear you now, Todd, go ahead. It's 1530 01:54:47.880 --> 01:54:53.800 weird because I'm I'm here and here when I'm not hearing, they're different. 1531 01:54:55.439 --> 01:55:00.399 Okay, Todd, I'm gonna we're gonna put you back on hold. I'm 1532 01:55:00.439 --> 01:55:03.000 not sure Todd is talking with me there. If we have time, we'll 1533 01:55:03.039 --> 01:55:08.760 try to get Todd back back on. You know, yesterday I was in 1534 01:55:09.199 --> 01:55:14.479 kind of just north of downtown, like north central Houston, but downtown inside 1535 01:55:14.520 --> 01:55:17.640 the Loop, and I had to swing by Quality Feed because I love going 1536 01:55:17.680 --> 01:55:20.279 to Quality Feed East to go to them when they're in their other location. 1537 01:55:20.399 --> 01:55:26.640 Now they are on Luzon Street eighteen thirteen Luzon, which is near the intersection 1538 01:55:26.720 --> 01:55:30.920 of Equipment and a Lesion. But it's the same Quality Feed. It's that 1539 01:55:30.079 --> 01:55:34.239 old time feed store. It's been a Houston tradition since nineteen twenty eight and 1540 01:55:34.319 --> 01:55:38.439 Ken and Chris have owned it for thirty two years. I was out visiting 1541 01:55:38.520 --> 01:55:41.920 with Ken. I was looking at some of his materials. It carries all 1542 01:55:41.960 --> 01:55:45.199 the stuff we talk about, all the different fertilizers and soil blends and whatnot. 1543 01:55:46.039 --> 01:55:49.399 But he also makes a kens Potting soil, which is very popular with 1544 01:55:49.479 --> 01:55:53.560 his customers. And you just go by there and ask him to see the 1545 01:55:53.720 --> 01:55:57.800 Kenspotting soil. He's got all kinds of supplies. They're always getting chickens in. 1546 01:55:58.119 --> 01:56:03.359 I mean, they're always new groups of chickens coming along, and just 1547 01:56:03.760 --> 01:56:06.399 you can go pick them up bring them home. Backyard chickens are a real 1548 01:56:06.479 --> 01:56:11.680 popular thing right now. But were we were visiting about the different things they've 1549 01:56:11.720 --> 01:56:15.479 got going on there. And by the way, Quality Feed is open Monday 1550 01:56:15.520 --> 01:56:18.159 to Friday nine to six, on Saturday from nine to four, and Sunday 1551 01:56:18.239 --> 01:56:23.479 from eleven thirty to four pm. So go buy Quality Feed or check them 1552 01:56:23.520 --> 01:56:30.119 out online quality feed dot com. Let's head out to southeast Houston and we 1553 01:56:30.239 --> 01:56:32.439 are going to talk to Scott. Hey, Scott, we're running short on 1554 01:56:32.520 --> 01:56:35.560 time, but let's see if we can help, all right, great, 1555 01:56:35.600 --> 01:56:42.199 appreciate that. So I'm calling about bottle brushes and alternatives to bottle brushes. 1556 01:56:42.720 --> 01:56:46.359 We've had some bottle brush trees in our yard, not very big ones, 1557 01:56:46.439 --> 01:56:51.840 but love the flowers, really nice plants like them. But in the freeze, 1558 01:56:53.159 --> 01:56:56.439 they really didn't handle it well, even though we tried to do what 1559 01:56:56.520 --> 01:57:00.239 we could to protect them. Yeah, and so I'm kind of looking to 1560 01:57:00.920 --> 01:57:03.800 I'm going to have to replace them, and I'm looking to figure out what 1561 01:57:03.880 --> 01:57:11.640 can I replace them with that would be attractive and yet be able to deal 1562 01:57:11.720 --> 01:57:16.199 with our with Houston's occasional freezes. Oh my, I don't know anything that 1563 01:57:16.319 --> 01:57:23.000 looks like a bottle brush. My brain is is skimming the files back there, 1564 01:57:23.079 --> 01:57:26.039 trying it doesn't need to look like a bottle brush. But I'm just 1565 01:57:26.119 --> 01:57:30.560 looking for something ornamental, small tree, ornamental. I would prefer something that 1566 01:57:30.640 --> 01:57:35.720 flowers, but just looking for suggestions. Yeah, that's a that is a 1567 01:57:35.800 --> 01:57:40.960 good question, and it's my brain is drawn drawing a blank as to you 1568 01:57:41.039 --> 01:57:46.079 know, there's always things like they're burying plants like one of the upright weeping 1569 01:57:46.199 --> 01:57:50.319 yopas. They're real beautiful. They're burying plants like that that I think would 1570 01:57:50.319 --> 01:57:56.520 be an interesting somewhat bottle brush shape to the plant, if you will. 1571 01:57:57.560 --> 01:58:01.239 There's lots of good flowering trees, especially in spring. The vitex, which 1572 01:58:01.359 --> 01:58:05.960 is blue colored. You see those around town that goes all summer. It 1573 01:58:06.119 --> 01:58:09.680 just blooms and blooms and blooms. If you keep it, prune back, 1574 01:58:10.079 --> 01:58:13.199 sheer off the old blooms, the new ones come out. Certainly, crape 1575 01:58:13.199 --> 01:58:15.560 myrtles, I mean that's kind of the standard of the South. And you 1576 01:58:15.640 --> 01:58:20.720 can buy crape myrtles in different sizes so that you get one that's the size 1577 01:58:21.159 --> 01:58:24.600 that you want and you don't have to prune the heck out of it to 1578 01:58:24.680 --> 01:58:28.720 try to keep it smaller than it wants to be. That I think would 1579 01:58:28.880 --> 01:58:31.000 I would consider a crape myrtle. If you go online and type in skip 1580 01:58:31.239 --> 01:58:34.560 Richter and crape myrtle. One of the top things that pops up is a 1581 01:58:34.600 --> 01:58:41.199 little chart I put together with another agrilife specialist, and it has from three 1582 01:58:41.239 --> 01:58:44.520 foot high all the way up to thirty feet high different crepe myrtles, different 1583 01:58:44.560 --> 01:58:48.399 colors. Tells you you know which ones have pretty bark, more beautiful bark, 1584 01:58:49.439 --> 01:58:54.119 and disease resistance and all of that. So that might help you nail 1585 01:58:54.199 --> 01:58:58.920 down the specific one that best fits the space and size and color that you're 1586 01:58:58.960 --> 01:59:04.079 looking for. Okay, let's thank you very much, all right. I 1587 01:59:04.439 --> 01:59:09.279 hope that's helpful, But you know, it's always a challenge to It's kind 1588 01:59:09.319 --> 01:59:12.880 of like the analogy I use as someone gives you a credit card and says, 1589 01:59:12.920 --> 01:59:15.159 go to the mall and buy me clothes, and you know, you're 1590 01:59:15.199 --> 01:59:16.680 just thinking, oh, my gosh, do you need a bathe and suit? 1591 01:59:16.760 --> 01:59:20.119 Do you need an evening gown? What kind of clothes are we talking 1592 01:59:20.159 --> 01:59:24.079 about? What do you like? And so on? And there's so many 1593 01:59:24.159 --> 01:59:28.359 good plants out there and apologize of Scott that my brain kind of draws a 1594 01:59:28.439 --> 01:59:30.359 blank there when I'm trying to think in the wide world of plants. But 1595 01:59:30.399 --> 01:59:33.119 hopefully it's a few good ideas to kind of get you off to a good 1596 01:59:33.159 --> 01:59:36.079 start. They don't forget that. I'm going to be out at the wild 1597 01:59:36.119 --> 01:59:42.279 Birds Unlimited at clear Lake in clear Lake. Now. That is on Eldorado 1598 01:59:42.359 --> 01:59:46.119 Boulevard. It's where Elderado and clear Lake City Boulevard come together, right across 1599 01:59:46.199 --> 01:59:50.760 from the HB. And I will be there from eleven thirty to one thirty 1600 01:59:50.800 --> 01:59:55.560 today. They're going to be giving away some wonderful prizes. I'll be giving 1601 01:59:55.600 --> 02:00:01.199 away some Nelson's fertilizer, first Come, first serve. KATRH Garden Line does 1602 02:00:01.239 --> 02:00:06.960 not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 1603 02:00:08.119 --> 02:00:25.239 to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictord. Just watching moving well, good Saturday 1604 02:00:25.319 --> 02:00:29.119 morning. I'm a good day for gardening. Wow, look at the weather. 1605 02:00:29.319 --> 02:00:30.359 This is awesome. I love it. I love it. I love 1606 02:00:30.399 --> 02:00:32.800 it, I love it. It's a good day to be outside right now. 1607 02:00:32.840 --> 02:00:34.800 It's a good day to be inside. Listening to garden Line. You 1608 02:00:34.840 --> 02:00:38.920 got a radio you can carry along with you and listen while you work. 1609 02:00:39.720 --> 02:00:42.439 We are in our last hour this morning. We hear at All at ten 1610 02:00:42.439 --> 02:00:45.560 o'clock. After that, I am heading to Clear Lake. I'm gonna go 1611 02:00:45.760 --> 02:00:49.640 to the wild Birds Unlimited, be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. 1612 02:00:49.680 --> 02:00:55.840 I hope you can come out and join me out there. If you want 1613 02:00:56.039 --> 02:01:00.239 beautiful plants on your patio, if you have outdoor containers and you want a 1614 02:01:00.399 --> 02:01:06.680 quality mix to put in them, Nitrofosts jungle Land fits the bill. Nitrofoss 1615 02:01:06.760 --> 02:01:10.760 jungle Land drains well. It holds moisture, but it drains well. That's 1616 02:01:10.800 --> 02:01:15.800 a combination that is very important if you want success with plants. It's mixed 1617 02:01:15.840 --> 02:01:19.640 with a blend of Canadian blonde peat, four different sources of decomposed organic matter 1618 02:01:19.960 --> 02:01:24.880 and the micro rhizal fungi that work in harmony with the plant roots to make 1619 02:01:24.960 --> 02:01:30.199 the roots even more efficient. And it really helps the plants to have the 1620 02:01:30.319 --> 02:01:35.039 micro rhizal that are associated the micro rhyzing that are associated with the plant roots 1621 02:01:35.079 --> 02:01:40.840 themselves. Now indoors, they've got the indoor with water saving crystals, and 1622 02:01:41.000 --> 02:01:44.920 that is another jungle land product. For indoor plants. It works really well. 1623 02:01:45.279 --> 02:01:47.840 Now you're gonna find jungle land everywhere you find nitrofosts, and that is 1624 02:01:47.920 --> 02:01:53.479 pretty much everywhere. I mean, you've got nitro FoST products and bearings hardware 1625 02:01:53.840 --> 02:01:58.720 up in Bisonette and maybe bearings hard rout on Westheimer. You go out to 1626 02:01:58.920 --> 02:02:03.399 Richmond Rosenberg, enchanted Forest and enchanted gardens and plantation Ace. All those places 1627 02:02:03.520 --> 02:02:10.880 carry nitrofos products, including the nitrofis jungle land. So don't just go out 1628 02:02:10.920 --> 02:02:15.399 and buy a plant by a beautiful pot, but also by a quality mix 1629 02:02:15.720 --> 02:02:18.159 to put that plan in, because it all begins in the soil. If 1630 02:02:18.279 --> 02:02:21.319 you don't prepare your soil ahead of time, if you don't pick a quality 1631 02:02:21.359 --> 02:02:27.439 mix for a container soil or raised bed soil, your chances of success go 1632 02:02:27.600 --> 02:02:31.720 downhill, less bounty, less beauty, and that's not what you're getting into 1633 02:02:31.800 --> 02:02:35.199 the gardening to do. Right. You want to be able to enjoy that 1634 02:02:38.199 --> 02:02:41.600 dndie feet up in Tumble. They're about three miles west of Highway two forty 1635 02:02:41.680 --> 02:02:44.119 nine. I don't know if you've been by there, but they've already expanded. 1636 02:02:44.239 --> 02:02:47.039 They've got a bigger facility now where they can put even more products like 1637 02:02:47.159 --> 02:02:53.199 they already didn't have enough. They are stocked with all of the fertilizers and 1638 02:02:53.439 --> 02:02:58.119 the potting mixes and things that we talk about here on Garden Line. You're 1639 02:02:58.119 --> 02:03:00.800 gonna be able to buy plants out front as well. Beautiful plants sitting out 1640 02:03:00.880 --> 02:03:05.239 front. They have the high quality dog food like Origin, Diamond, Victor 1641 02:03:05.319 --> 02:03:09.399 and Star Pro, and food for all your pets, food for your livestock, 1642 02:03:09.479 --> 02:03:13.159 and your horse care products. If you've got a problem with pass or 1643 02:03:13.199 --> 02:03:16.119 with rodents, for example, they can help you with that as well. 1644 02:03:16.159 --> 02:03:20.000 We talked about mosquito dunks earlier. They carry those, even pool cleaners. 1645 02:03:20.039 --> 02:03:24.000 I mean, there's a lot of reasons to stop at D and D Feed, 1646 02:03:24.359 --> 02:03:29.680 three miles west of Tumball on Highway two forty nine. I think what 1647 02:03:29.800 --> 02:03:31.600 we'll do now is we're gonna go and start on the phones out here. 1648 02:03:31.600 --> 02:03:36.199 We're gonna go to Texas City and talk to Sharon. Good morning, Sharon, 1649 02:03:38.199 --> 02:03:41.119 Well, good morning, how are you. I'm well, thank you? 1650 02:03:41.399 --> 02:03:45.840 What's up today? Well, I've got two beautiful egg plants, the 1651 02:03:46.199 --> 02:03:50.800 little Japanese ones that make the long egg plants, and they're blooming. The 1652 02:03:51.319 --> 02:03:58.079 plants are beautiful, but the blooms dyeing. They're not producing any egg plant. 1653 02:03:58.720 --> 02:04:01.279 What do I need to do for them? Well, eggplant. A 1654 02:04:01.399 --> 02:04:08.239 lot of our plants in that family, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant, they 1655 02:04:08.319 --> 02:04:11.880 have some trouble setting during the heat, but eggplants usually one of the better 1656 02:04:11.960 --> 02:04:15.319 ones for that. So I don't think we've hit a point where we can 1657 02:04:15.399 --> 02:04:17.760 blame it on the heat on the eggplant. So it must be a pollination 1658 02:04:17.920 --> 02:04:23.279 problem for some reason the plant. You fertilize the plants, I assume, 1659 02:04:23.359 --> 02:04:27.800 and you're water and them regularly. Oh yeah, yeah. The plants themselves 1660 02:04:27.880 --> 02:04:31.399 are beautiful, but they're and they're blooming, but the blooms not. You 1661 02:04:31.520 --> 02:04:38.199 know, it is possible to overfertilize, especially with nitrogen, and and it 1662 02:04:38.359 --> 02:04:42.920 just it seems to promote vegetative growth at the expense of good bloom setting. 1663 02:04:43.720 --> 02:04:45.880 So I'll just throw that out there as a possibility. I don't know how 1664 02:04:45.960 --> 02:04:49.880 much you've fertilized, and it's kind of hard to figure it out over you 1665 02:04:50.000 --> 02:04:57.199 know, over the phone here, but that maybe watch that you don't overdo 1666 02:04:57.279 --> 02:05:00.199 the fertilizer. Other than that, it's just kind of waiting it out. 1667 02:05:00.359 --> 02:05:05.119 Have you noticed any bees on the blooms. No, Okay, well maybe 1668 02:05:05.239 --> 02:05:11.840 I don't know. Maybe there's something going on with the pollination, But it 1669 02:05:11.920 --> 02:05:15.479 sounds like you're doing everything right based on your description of the plant. So 1670 02:05:15.600 --> 02:05:17.199 I think I would just give them a little bit more time and see if 1671 02:05:17.199 --> 02:05:20.159 they settle down. Don't give up on them, though. Eggplant is a 1672 02:05:20.319 --> 02:05:26.760 good summer, tough plant, and they should be performing better for you with 1673 02:05:27.000 --> 02:05:31.079 just the proper care. Just just watch that excessive fertilizer. Okay, Well, 1674 02:05:31.119 --> 02:05:36.720 I've got tomatoes. Um, it's it's a big raised bed, and 1675 02:05:36.840 --> 02:05:45.159 I've got tomatoes in the same dirt, same fertilizer, everything, and they're 1676 02:05:45.239 --> 02:05:51.159 doing fantastic and putting on tomatoes like crazy. Yeah, but the egg egg 1677 02:05:51.239 --> 02:05:58.760 plants just sitting there looking at me, that is, I don't know. 1678 02:05:59.000 --> 02:06:00.680 That's kind of a stumper. Uh. You know, you obviously know how 1679 02:06:00.720 --> 02:06:05.479 to grow vegetables, and so, um, the eggplant ought to be it 1680 02:06:05.640 --> 02:06:09.920 had to be setting better than tomatoes, especially as we get into some hotter 1681 02:06:10.039 --> 02:06:14.000 weather here coming up. Well that's what I'm thinking too. I don't know 1682 02:06:14.159 --> 02:06:17.399 what's going on with it, but I was hoping maybe you could tell me 1683 02:06:17.600 --> 02:06:21.159 now you just need to give him a good talking to. That's that's probably, 1684 02:06:21.640 --> 02:06:27.119 that's probably the last resort. They're right. Have you tried putting the 1685 02:06:27.239 --> 02:06:31.880 radio out there and playing garden line for the plants that they I'm sorry, 1686 02:06:32.159 --> 02:06:36.840 I'm just messing around with you that now. I'm guys, give him some 1687 02:06:36.920 --> 02:06:40.520 time, is my best. My best answer on that one. I can't 1688 02:06:40.600 --> 02:06:45.039 think of a cause that you would fix at this point on those egg plants. 1689 02:06:45.960 --> 02:06:49.199 Okay, well, I appreciate it, Thank you, all right, 1690 02:06:50.439 --> 02:06:53.840 all right, thank you, and I hope you get into some baba ganoosh 1691 02:06:54.000 --> 02:07:00.399 with your egg plants here real soon. Thank you. Let's go to Dickinson 1692 02:07:00.479 --> 02:07:03.680 and we're going to talk to Dale. Hello, Dale'll hire you this morning. 1693 02:07:04.560 --> 02:07:06.960 I am very fine, sir, thank you for taking my call. 1694 02:07:10.960 --> 02:07:16.960 I have a monerary oak about twenty five feet tall that I purchased for our 1695 02:07:17.039 --> 02:07:25.520 new home. And it I got a three years ago, beautiful tree, 1696 02:07:25.720 --> 02:07:30.600 perfect tree. Two years ago. During that cold snap that we had, 1697 02:07:31.439 --> 02:07:39.000 you know, those four or five days, the trunk split, okay, 1698 02:07:39.479 --> 02:07:44.640 from the from the ground up maybe six feet, And of course I've been 1699 02:07:44.760 --> 02:07:48.880 very concerned about this tree ever since. And what if anything I can do 1700 02:07:49.920 --> 02:07:58.560 to heal that split in the trunk. I've been told to put insecticide soap 1701 02:07:59.399 --> 02:08:03.840 on it, which I have done. But that's the only thing I've been 1702 02:08:03.880 --> 02:08:07.079 able to do to this tree. Okay, now you know this spring, 1703 02:08:07.640 --> 02:08:13.920 the leaves are out and it's it's beautiful, but that trunk is still split 1704 02:08:15.199 --> 02:08:18.239 and it's black. Hey, Dale, I'm gonna have to take a break. 1705 02:08:18.279 --> 02:08:22.000 I want to give you some time on this call, So would you 1706 02:08:22.079 --> 02:08:24.039 hang on and we'll be right back with you after break. Sure seven one 1707 02:08:24.199 --> 02:08:28.680 three two and two five eight seven four. If you'd like to call in, 1708 02:08:31.560 --> 02:08:35.840 doctor, doctor, give me the news. I gotta batcakes. Loving 1709 02:08:37.119 --> 02:08:46.239 you some good music right there by the way. I got some music I 1710 02:08:46.359 --> 02:08:48.399 bet you've never heard in your life before. Coming up after the next break, 1711 02:08:48.680 --> 02:08:52.520 stick around. It's worth it's worth hearing. I promise you you never 1712 02:08:52.600 --> 02:08:56.000 heard this song before in your life. We are Garden Line. I'm your 1713 02:08:56.000 --> 02:08:58.239 host, Skip Richter, and our phone number is seven one three two one 1714 02:08:58.319 --> 02:09:03.800 two fifth seventy four. Listen if you want to kick your lawn into high 1715 02:09:03.840 --> 02:09:07.039 gear. Maybe it's struggling from last year's drought. Maybe you had to take 1716 02:09:07.079 --> 02:09:11.640 all root rod or chinch bugs or something that kind of took it backwards. 1717 02:09:11.119 --> 02:09:16.600 You need to consider having a good quality core aeration and compost stop dressing. 1718 02:09:16.720 --> 02:09:20.720 And the folks to do that are green Pro. Green Pro. They are 1719 02:09:20.800 --> 02:09:24.239 the experts in the field of compost top dressing. They've been doing it for 1720 02:09:24.319 --> 02:09:26.920 fifteen years. I'll tell you one thing about Greenpro that is I think is 1721 02:09:26.960 --> 02:09:31.760 a distinction. When they leave your place is clean and neat. There's not 1722 02:09:31.359 --> 02:09:35.640 composts and stuff all over the driveway. It's not a mess. They're not 1723 02:09:35.760 --> 02:09:39.680 tracking it around. They know what they're doing, they know how to do 1724 02:09:39.760 --> 02:09:46.119 it right, and they use a high quality leaf mold compost that is fine 1725 02:09:46.199 --> 02:09:50.920 textured so it falls down in those aeration holes and it just improves your soil. 1726 02:09:50.079 --> 02:09:56.199 Go to green Pro Texas dot com or dial two eight one three five 1727 02:09:56.359 --> 02:10:00.600 one green to get a hold of the folks at green Pro. We're gonna 1728 02:10:00.640 --> 02:10:05.159 go back now. We were in conversation with Dale about the split in the 1729 02:10:05.319 --> 02:10:07.720 tree, and Dale, I can tell you this the Monterey oak. I 1730 02:10:07.800 --> 02:10:11.600 love Monterey oak, Mexican white oaks another name for it. It is on 1731 02:10:11.039 --> 02:10:16.399 the less hardy side of all our recommendable trees that we have, and when 1732 02:10:16.439 --> 02:10:20.960 a freeze hit like the one we had there that I can see why that 1733 02:10:20.039 --> 02:10:24.520 was a little hard on that tree. They're using the soap though in the 1734 02:10:24.600 --> 02:10:28.479 cracks and the trunks. None of that's necessary. What it needs is whatever 1735 02:10:28.640 --> 02:10:33.800 makes it vigorous so that it can close that wound over. Have you noticed 1736 02:10:33.880 --> 02:10:37.279 dale on each side of the crack, any callous tissues starting to form, 1737 02:10:39.119 --> 02:10:45.399 moving toward closing the area over? A little, very little, very little? 1738 02:10:45.560 --> 02:10:50.880 Okay, Well, those longitudinal splits are a slow heel compared to a 1739 02:10:52.319 --> 02:10:56.560 branch pruning. But I just would say, continue to use a good quality 1740 02:10:56.960 --> 02:11:01.960 fertilizer, get those get that tree in as vigorous a state as you can. 1741 02:11:03.399 --> 02:11:05.560 I wouldn't fertilize after about August, though, we don't want to push 1742 02:11:05.640 --> 02:11:11.279 it into lush growth late in the season because you get another freeze and you've 1743 02:11:11.600 --> 02:11:15.079 helped the plant and I get ready for winter rather than get ready and so, 1744 02:11:15.600 --> 02:11:18.520 but I would get a good quality mix if whatever fertilizer you use, 1745 02:11:18.600 --> 02:11:22.000 I mean, you could even use a lawn fertilizer if you want, or 1746 02:11:22.119 --> 02:11:24.640 there's a lot of companies that make fertilizer for trees and shrubs, those are 1747 02:11:24.720 --> 02:11:28.199 great too. But for every inch of trunk diameter, just kind of put 1748 02:11:28.239 --> 02:11:33.279 your thumb up there and how many thumb widths across. Give it one to 1749 02:11:33.359 --> 02:11:37.560 two cups of fertilizer for each inch of trunk diameter, and sprinkle it through 1750 02:11:37.600 --> 02:11:39.960 an area as wide as a branch, spread and watered in. Really good. 1751 02:11:41.359 --> 02:11:45.439 If it's got grass up to the trunk competing against it, get that 1752 02:11:45.520 --> 02:11:48.520 away, give it a little molster area, and you'll get faster growth out 1753 02:11:48.560 --> 02:11:50.479 of it as well. But those are the things that are in your power. 1754 02:11:50.600 --> 02:11:54.319 Now, as you look dale at the canopy of the tree, is 1755 02:11:54.359 --> 02:11:58.079 there a lot of dead wood up in there? Or is it all? 1756 02:11:58.760 --> 02:12:03.520 It's all been removed, wasn't he? Well, there was very little to 1757 02:12:03.760 --> 02:12:09.520 be removed. There was one there was one branch on the lower part of 1758 02:12:09.600 --> 02:12:13.600 the tree that I did cut this year, But other than that, no 1759 02:12:13.479 --> 02:12:18.520 very little dead wood at all. Okay, Well, I would just say, 1760 02:12:18.279 --> 02:12:22.079 you know, when we get into summer and it hadn't rained for two 1761 02:12:22.159 --> 02:12:26.479 weeks and it's upper nineties, a good soaking you get you out. I'd 1762 02:12:26.560 --> 02:12:30.439 use a tree hugger sprinkler because they're so good for that. Because they put 1763 02:12:30.479 --> 02:12:33.239 the water right where you want it, but run it and soak that soil. 1764 02:12:33.319 --> 02:12:35.720 Well, you don't have to do it every don't do it every day, 1765 02:12:35.840 --> 02:12:39.479 don't even do it every other day. Just when head and rained in 1766 02:12:39.520 --> 02:12:41.359 a couple of weeks, give them a good soaking. You just want the 1767 02:12:41.439 --> 02:12:46.319 soil to be adequately moist and you want to have good nutrition. And that 1768 02:12:46.760 --> 02:12:50.119 that's all that you can do. And it's up to the tree from there 1769 02:12:50.600 --> 02:12:56.399 to take off and get growing where it can heal over faster. Well a 1770 02:12:56.600 --> 02:13:01.600 question, you know, I paid a fortune for that tree to have it 1771 02:13:01.119 --> 02:13:09.399 planted here. And why are species, if you will, of like this 1772 02:13:09.640 --> 02:13:16.199 tree or other trees that don't do well in this area because of these infrequent 1773 02:13:16.119 --> 02:13:20.359 freezes, why are they even sold here? Well, I think that I 1774 02:13:20.439 --> 02:13:24.279 think that's kind of a harsh judgment on this tree. I would even recommend 1775 02:13:24.399 --> 02:13:28.359 the trees here. And you know the freeze that got your tree, that 1776 02:13:28.600 --> 02:13:33.560 was that was a very unusual occurrence. I mean, it wasn't something that 1777 02:13:33.640 --> 02:13:39.159 you would foresee coming. And we can't if we just planted plants that could 1778 02:13:39.199 --> 02:13:41.720 not be hurt by any weather condition that ever might show up, well, 1779 02:13:41.760 --> 02:13:46.880 it would it would limit our options a lot. But Mexican white oak is 1780 02:13:48.239 --> 02:13:50.960 a great oak. It's resistant to oak wilt, it grows very fast for 1781 02:13:52.079 --> 02:13:56.760 an oak. It is a good, long lived tree. It's an attractive 1782 02:13:56.840 --> 02:14:01.279 tree, and I would plant them here. I just think that that tree 1783 02:14:01.439 --> 02:14:05.239 got caught not prepared for the kind of freeze that hit, and that was 1784 02:14:05.319 --> 02:14:09.399 not a normal, normal freeze. We have a number of species that are 1785 02:14:09.479 --> 02:14:15.600 good species. Some of the elms that I think a lot of the oh 1786 02:14:15.760 --> 02:14:20.439 gosh, what's the other fall color Chinese pistache trees were hit pretty hard by 1787 02:14:20.520 --> 02:14:22.119 it, and I even it's all live oaks that were hit by that freeze 1788 02:14:22.640 --> 02:14:26.520 in some places. So yeah, I wouldn't say it's a species that shouldn't 1789 02:14:26.520 --> 02:14:33.560 be planted here at all. Okay, all right, thank your question. 1790 02:14:33.119 --> 02:14:39.680 Yes, I also planted a pear tree in our backyard, same thing, 1791 02:14:39.840 --> 02:14:43.760 same scenario. You know what that freeze that this pear tree is just now 1792 02:14:45.760 --> 02:14:50.840 starting to sprout leaves? Is that normal? No, that's kind of unusual. 1793 02:14:50.920 --> 02:14:54.199 But the fact that it's sprouting is good because I would have said if 1794 02:14:54.239 --> 02:14:56.680 it still didn't have leaves, I would have said it's it's dead. But 1795 02:14:58.520 --> 02:15:01.520 it sometimes plants can be a little slow to come out of winter. I'm 1796 02:15:01.560 --> 02:15:05.640 not sure. I don't know what to think about that pear tree just coming 1797 02:15:05.680 --> 02:15:09.199 out now. I mean, if you had some other symptoms, maybe we 1798 02:15:09.319 --> 02:15:11.800 could delve a little deeper into it. But just the fact that it's slow 1799 02:15:11.920 --> 02:15:16.880 to come out, usually that's a chilling related issue, and that's not going 1800 02:15:16.960 --> 02:15:20.760 to be the case with that pair. We can eliminate chilling is the cause. 1801 02:15:22.119 --> 02:15:26.319 Okay, yeah, all right, you got some unusual things going on 1802 02:15:26.439 --> 02:15:33.840 around there, saying well, well, good luck, good luck with them 1803 02:15:33.880 --> 02:15:37.399 though, no, thank you for speaking with me. I appreciate it very 1804 02:15:37.479 --> 02:15:41.560 much, you bet, I appreciate that. Calldale. Hey, I'm want 1805 02:15:41.560 --> 02:15:45.920 to tabot a product, actually a series of products up at the Arbourgate and 1806 02:15:46.000 --> 02:15:48.319 tom Ball. Now, if you haven't been to Arburgate, you gotta go. 1807 02:15:48.399 --> 02:15:52.640 It's on FM twenty nine twenty just west on the west end of Tomball, 1808 02:15:52.720 --> 02:15:54.960 just a little bit west of town. You can go to www dot 1809 02:15:56.159 --> 02:16:00.119 Arburgate dot com Arburgate dot com find out more about it. 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Go out and you will spend a 1826 02:17:11.239 --> 02:17:16.600 couple of hours they're just wandering around looking at all of the things that are 1827 02:17:16.639 --> 02:17:24.239 available out at Arburgate Arburgate dot com. We were talking about taking care of 1828 02:17:24.360 --> 02:17:28.760 your plants and making a beautiful landscape, and I talked about the sea of 1829 02:17:28.840 --> 02:17:31.680 Green earlier today. And you want color in your landscape. Now, you 1830 02:17:31.760 --> 02:17:35.319 can do that by buying plants. But if you look at your landscape and 1831 02:17:35.440 --> 02:17:39.559 it's just like there's something missing, I don't know. I buy plants, 1832 02:17:39.639 --> 02:17:43.280 I plan them, but it just doesn't look right. You need to contact 1833 02:17:43.319 --> 02:17:48.040 the folks at Peerscapes. Peerscapes is our preferred landscaper here on garden Line, 1834 02:17:48.479 --> 02:17:52.840 and they're a one stop shop. They do it all new gardens, rock 1835 02:17:52.959 --> 02:17:58.559 borders, walkways, drainage issues, on and on. They know what they're 1836 02:17:58.600 --> 02:18:03.239 talking about. Experienced professionals, very trained employees. Go to pierce Scapes dot 1837 02:18:03.319 --> 02:18:09.319 com and have them design that show place that your place can be for you. 1838 02:18:09.680 --> 02:18:16.000 They can do that. Two eight one three seven zero five zero six 1839 02:18:16.319 --> 02:18:22.799 zero. I'm visiting with Jason Garty out there at pier Scapes a while back, 1840 02:18:22.920 --> 02:18:28.000 and I just tell you their expertise, their knowledge, it's it's impressive. 1841 02:18:28.319 --> 02:18:31.399 And when you go see the work that they've done well, then it 1842 02:18:31.520 --> 02:18:37.440 all begins to make a whole more sense. You were listening to garden Line 1843 02:18:37.440 --> 02:18:41.760 our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give 1844 02:18:41.799 --> 02:18:45.719 a call. Josh will get you up on the boards and we will be 1845 02:18:45.920 --> 02:18:50.159 happy to talk to you about whatever questions that you have. By the way, 1846 02:18:50.280 --> 02:18:52.879 coming coming out, coming out of this break, I've got a unique 1847 02:18:52.920 --> 02:18:56.520 song that I promise you've never heard before. You know, I always say 1848 02:18:56.559 --> 02:19:03.280 we try to stretch your musical what earworms or tastes or whatever. We do 1849 02:19:03.399 --> 02:19:07.120 that here on garden Line. And you've already heard everything today, that's all 1850 02:19:07.200 --> 02:19:11.079 across the board, but you haven't heard what's coming up, So hanging around 1851 02:19:11.159 --> 02:19:18.120 for that. Southwest Fertilizer has been a Houston lawn and garden tradition since nineteen 1852 02:19:18.200 --> 02:19:20.479 fifty five, I mean back in the Dewey Compton days. In fact, 1853 02:19:20.719 --> 02:19:26.559 I'm the fifth garden Line host to speak for Southwest Fertilizer. And they've got 1854 02:19:26.760 --> 02:19:28.959 every kind of fertilizer. We talk about every kind you can imagine. They 1855 02:19:30.040 --> 02:19:33.319 even have their own Southwest Premium Gold. If you want organic products, you're 1856 02:19:33.360 --> 02:19:39.040 not going to find a better selection than Southwest Fertilizer, all herbicides, fertilizers, 1857 02:19:39.159 --> 02:19:43.600 fungicides, expert advice. When you walk in there with a picture or 1858 02:19:43.680 --> 02:19:46.920 a plant problem, they put their eyes on it and they take you to 1859 02:19:46.079 --> 02:19:52.319 what you need to fix the situation. Because you know, it's one thing 1860 02:19:52.399 --> 02:19:54.520 to just go in and say, I have an insect, I need an 1861 02:19:54.559 --> 02:19:56.879 insecticide. It's another no, no, which one which insect is it? 1862 02:19:58.040 --> 02:20:01.559 Maybe it's a beneficial insect. Folks at Southwest Fertilizer they can direct you go 1863 02:20:01.639 --> 02:20:07.120 to Southwest Fertilizer dot com and find out more about them. You know, 1864 02:20:07.200 --> 02:20:11.920 they're down there on the corner of Bissonette and Renwick in Southwest Houston. Southwest 1865 02:20:11.959 --> 02:20:16.920 Fertilizer dot com. Well, Nikki, we uh, we've been talking about 1866 02:20:16.920 --> 02:20:22.840 all kinds of things plants today and I know you do you right? Who 1867 02:20:22.879 --> 02:20:26.360 who'd have thought about that? But it is news that this weekend is tax 1868 02:20:26.479 --> 02:20:31.840 free on all water saving things, which includes plant sales, includes compost sales, 1869 02:20:31.879 --> 02:20:35.600 that includes molt sales. That's big news. Two days where the state 1870 02:20:35.639 --> 02:20:39.479 of Texas doesn't get a little bit of your money. So that's like a 1871 02:20:39.600 --> 02:20:52.120 sale right there. There you go, tax free weekend. This is your 1872 02:20:52.200 --> 02:21:07.680 moment of sound. You can thankful. That's enough Fronzel. I don't know 1873 02:21:07.799 --> 02:21:11.200 a better yodor than that guy. Pretty amazing. Maybe it's not your gig, 1874 02:21:11.319 --> 02:21:15.600 but hey, we're trying. We're trying. We're trying to spread the 1875 02:21:15.760 --> 02:21:18.440 musical taste out a little farther and wider. I'd just be glad you didn't 1876 02:21:18.440 --> 02:21:24.280 grow up in my household. My kids were subjected to everything from that to 1877 02:21:24.399 --> 02:21:28.280 barbershop to you name it. If it was a musical style, we gave 1878 02:21:28.360 --> 02:21:33.639 it a shot around the house. You're listening to Garden Line, not you 1879 02:21:33.719 --> 02:21:39.000 know, Polka Hour. It's seven one three, two one two fifty eight 1880 02:21:39.280 --> 02:21:41.159 seventy four. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here to 1881 02:21:41.200 --> 02:21:48.120 answer your gardening questions. If you live up in the Late Conro Montgomery area, 1882 02:21:48.639 --> 02:21:52.479 you need to check out an A Plants. They are your backyard nursery 1883 02:21:52.600 --> 02:21:56.079 right up in that area. They are just on Highway one oh five, 1884 02:21:56.159 --> 02:22:01.280 just on the east side of Montgomery, and they carry all the products we 1885 02:22:01.360 --> 02:22:03.079 talk about, the fertilizers, you know, the soils and things that we 1886 02:22:03.200 --> 02:22:07.159 talk about here. They do some landscaping up in that area and in do 1887 02:22:07.360 --> 02:22:11.760 some delivery up in that area around the Lake Conrow area as well. So 1888 02:22:13.079 --> 02:22:16.200 you need to check them out. They've got all the plants that you need. 1889 02:22:16.360 --> 02:22:18.639 I mean, that's for sure, Like three anchors. You can wander 1890 02:22:18.719 --> 02:22:22.559 through everything, shade trees, fruit, nut citrus, berries, vegetables, 1891 02:22:22.639 --> 02:22:26.360 herbs, perennials, annuals, palm trees, cactus. Have I read enough? 1892 02:22:26.399 --> 02:22:30.040 I mean, they're all there. Plus they have an amazing amount of 1893 02:22:30.120 --> 02:22:35.120 bling, you know, whimsicle yard art, concrete, statuary, gazebos, 1894 02:22:35.399 --> 02:22:41.879 arches, topiaries, maybe a chiminaia from the patio that is that is ana 1895 02:22:41.239 --> 02:22:46.120 plants in produce. So check them out. You will. You will be 1896 02:22:46.239 --> 02:22:48.920 amazed. If you haven't been in there, you will be amazing. I 1897 02:22:48.959 --> 02:22:52.479 used to go a long time ago through there, and then by the last 1898 02:22:52.520 --> 02:22:54.000 couple of years, I've been going back again to see it, and it 1899 02:22:54.159 --> 02:22:58.200 is it just keeps getting better. It is. It is really really cool. 1900 02:23:01.319 --> 02:23:03.000 I'm gonna ask go ahead and head to the phones. Here. Let's 1901 02:23:03.239 --> 02:23:09.559 talk to Don up in Menville. Hello, Don wait, Skiptan pre taking 1902 02:23:09.639 --> 02:23:13.639 the call, sir, Yes, sir, I've got a comment and in 1903 02:23:13.719 --> 02:23:16.840 a question. The comment is Nikki you see my favorite broadcaster, Okay, 1904 02:23:16.920 --> 02:23:20.399 and then my question, Yeah, she's really good. I like her a 1905 02:23:20.440 --> 02:23:22.440 lot. My question is one would be the last day that I should be 1906 02:23:22.479 --> 02:23:28.440 able to put my tomatoes in the ground. I know what I'm going to 1907 02:23:28.479 --> 02:23:31.319 plant are the little romas. I think they're about a seventy five day to 1908 02:23:31.440 --> 02:23:35.120 maturity. Yeah, we're a little late. We're a little late for that. 1909 02:23:35.399 --> 02:23:41.479 In fact, that roma is okay about setting in the summer. It's 1910 02:23:41.680 --> 02:23:45.440 not as bad as the big slicers, but it's not as good as the 1911 02:23:45.479 --> 02:23:48.079 little cherry types. You know. I'm trying to think what I would do 1912 02:23:48.120 --> 02:23:52.120 if I had a tomato right now. When we get to about July, 1913 02:23:52.680 --> 02:23:54.440 it's time to put them in again. I was just wondering. I guess 1914 02:23:54.520 --> 02:23:58.799 you could plan them. You're you're not gonna see yield until the weather breaks 1915 02:24:00.079 --> 02:24:03.000 the fall, and that's why we sometimes do a fall planting a little later. 1916 02:24:03.319 --> 02:24:07.399 But give them a shot. Maybe they'll prove me wrong. Give them 1917 02:24:07.399 --> 02:24:11.280 a well, let me ask you, Let me ask your questions when I 1918 02:24:11.360 --> 02:24:15.760 do plant them. Should they be like semi sunny I mean? Or can 1919 02:24:15.840 --> 02:24:18.040 I plant them all in the sun the sun is going to hit them all 1920 02:24:18.079 --> 02:24:18.920 day? Or should I How should I do that? Well, it's just 1921 02:24:20.000 --> 02:24:22.520 the air temperature. It's the nighttime and daytime air temperatures. When night when 1922 02:24:22.600 --> 02:24:28.200 daytimes are up in the nineties and nighttimes are in the upper eight upper seventies, 1923 02:24:28.239 --> 02:24:33.079 which welcome to summer in Houston. Uh, that is just it's hard 1924 02:24:33.159 --> 02:24:35.680 on the plants. They don't the pollen clumps, and it doesn't pollinate well, 1925 02:24:35.760 --> 02:24:41.600 and you don't get good fruit sut. So I would if you got 1926 02:24:41.680 --> 02:24:43.920 them, I would put them in a spot. If you can choose a 1927 02:24:43.959 --> 02:24:48.399 spot that has morning sun for at least six hours and then some afternoon shade, 1928 02:24:48.000 --> 02:24:50.399 maybe that'll help a little bit. But it's not going to change the 1929 02:24:50.479 --> 02:24:54.719 air temperature. And so give it, give it your best shot, and 1930 02:24:54.760 --> 02:24:58.680 then call me back and tell me, you know, especially if they end 1931 02:24:58.799 --> 02:25:01.680 up doing okay, I'd like to know that because I I've not tried planting 1932 02:25:01.840 --> 02:25:07.200 roma that late. So well, what would you suggest instead of room of 1933 02:25:07.399 --> 02:25:09.920 I'm not stuck on those. What do you think would do better? Maybe 1934 02:25:09.920 --> 02:25:13.000 the little cherries, yea, the big boys or what the little cherries and 1935 02:25:13.079 --> 02:25:16.239 grapes do better in the summer. They don't like it in the summer, 1936 02:25:16.319 --> 02:25:20.120 but they'll they'll set better. They set fruit better in the in the summer 1937 02:25:20.200 --> 02:25:22.920 time, so I mean something, well, that's something that we have in 1938 02:25:24.000 --> 02:25:26.000 common. I don't like the summer down here either. Yeah, and not 1939 02:25:26.159 --> 02:25:30.319 the truth. So yeah, I mean if if you just need some tomato 1940 02:25:30.360 --> 02:25:33.079 flavor and things, you know, in the summer, the skin gets a 1941 02:25:33.120 --> 02:25:37.079 little tough on those on those and say you eat the cherry tomato and then 1942 02:25:37.120 --> 02:25:41.000 you spit a little red cellophane out of your mouth. That was the skin. 1943 02:25:41.600 --> 02:25:46.280 So but anyway, yeah, if you want to want to try one, 1944 02:25:46.799 --> 02:25:48.920 I would, I would, I would do that. Okay, don 1945 02:25:48.879 --> 02:25:50.760 yes, sir, thank you. I'll give it a shot. All right, 1946 02:25:52.159 --> 02:25:56.760 good luck with that. Now you've probably heard of Dell Web Communities. 1947 02:25:56.760 --> 02:26:01.000 I mean they've been building communities for active adults age fifty five for over seventy 1948 02:26:01.120 --> 02:26:03.799 years. Well, they got a new community going in State of the Art 1949 02:26:03.440 --> 02:26:09.239 less than two miles from downtown Full Sure on FM three fifty nine. They've 1950 02:26:09.280 --> 02:26:13.280 got the inspired designs and the lifestyle programs that you would expect from Dellweb Plus 1951 02:26:13.399 --> 02:26:18.399 and gardeners hear this. I'm working with them to create a community garden on 1952 02:26:18.600 --> 02:26:22.040 site at that community for the residents. So go to dellweb dot com Slash 1953 02:26:22.120 --> 02:26:26.319 Houston to get more information or give him a call two eight one four or 1954 02:26:26.360 --> 02:26:33.959 five nine six o nine. Check out the dellweb difference for yourself. If 1955 02:26:33.040 --> 02:26:41.280 you have not gotten your pre emergent fertilizer, fertilizers herbicide out and you've got 1956 02:26:41.360 --> 02:26:46.079 an ongoing weed problem, you might want to consider a barricade application. Now, 1957 02:26:46.159 --> 02:26:48.399 barricade is not going to kill weeds are existing. It's a pre emergence, 1958 02:26:48.399 --> 02:26:52.239 so it prevents them from coming up. So maybe you've prepared a soil 1959 02:26:52.399 --> 02:26:58.879 area and you know the weeds you're worried about weeds coming up in it, 1960 02:26:58.959 --> 02:27:03.360 Well, barricade can hold those down. Just remember that it stops the broad 1961 02:27:03.479 --> 02:27:07.520 leaf and the thin grassy weeds and it'll go a long time. One ten 1962 02:27:07.559 --> 02:27:11.280 pound bag goes over five thousand square feet. You're gonna find barricade everywhere you 1963 02:27:11.399 --> 02:27:16.440 find nitrofost products. If you're up in the Taska cedat the ace hardware there, 1964 02:27:16.159 --> 02:27:20.159 if you are on plants for all seasons up on I thirty five, 1965 02:27:20.159 --> 02:27:24.399 if you're up in the woodlands direction, I'll spash ace in the woodlands and 1966 02:27:24.479 --> 02:27:28.920 shades of Texas, all places that you can get barricade products. Well, 1967 02:27:28.959 --> 02:27:31.280 let's head out. We're gonna go now all the way out to Crosby and 1968 02:27:31.399 --> 02:27:35.520 talk to Delilah. Hey, Delilah, good morning, Hi, good morning. 1969 02:27:37.239 --> 02:27:41.200 Um. I have a oak tree and it used to drop a lot 1970 02:27:41.319 --> 02:27:48.760 of acorns, and after the freeze it's stopped. Okay. Is it a 1971 02:27:48.799 --> 02:27:52.159 live yes, yes, sir, and it's about twenty five years old. 1972 02:27:52.399 --> 02:27:56.840 Okay, Well, I wouldn't worry about it. Different things can affect the 1973 02:27:56.920 --> 02:28:01.399 cycle of acorns under an oak, and you know, the different types of 1974 02:28:01.520 --> 02:28:05.719 oaks produce them on a different schedule, some every year, some every other 1975 02:28:05.840 --> 02:28:09.639 year, and so on. But I well, I know we had got 1976 02:28:09.760 --> 02:28:13.879 them every year, and we don't have a lot of squirrels in our neighborhood, 1977 02:28:13.959 --> 02:28:18.079 so they were all over under the tree. And then, like I 1978 02:28:18.200 --> 02:28:22.879 said, just after the freeze, Yeah, we have not gotten them since 1979 02:28:22.920 --> 02:28:26.799 then. I can't connect up to the freeze, but I don't know why 1980 02:28:26.879 --> 02:28:30.360 that is. But I'm sure they'll be back. Yeah, okay, all 1981 02:28:30.440 --> 02:28:33.360 right, all right, definitely not much, you bet, definitely not a 1982 02:28:33.440 --> 02:28:37.440 problem with that oak tree. We're gonna take a quick break here. The 1983 02:28:37.520 --> 02:28:41.719 number seven one three, two one two fifty eight seventy four, called Josh, 1984 02:28:41.799 --> 02:28:43.879 get on the boards. We'll talk to you when we come back in 1985 02:28:43.040 --> 02:28:54.440 Charles in Texas City, you'll be first up. No body, I got 1986 02:28:54.520 --> 02:29:07.040 some. I just got shots too. Well, good morning on a great 1987 02:29:07.200 --> 02:29:11.799 Saturday for gardening, for talking about gardening. It's just an inspired day, 1988 02:29:11.879 --> 02:29:16.959 I tell you this is this is the kind of weather that turns landscapes beautiful 1989 02:29:18.000 --> 02:29:22.239 because it catches everybody's interest. We're out there buying plants, planning plans, 1990 02:29:22.319 --> 02:29:24.920 fertilizing plants, taking care of them. That's why we're here advise you on 1991 02:29:26.000 --> 02:29:28.559 those kind of things. You're listening to Garden Line our phone number seven one 1992 02:29:28.719 --> 02:29:35.319 three two one two five eight seven four. Let's head out to Texas City 1993 02:29:35.479 --> 02:29:39.520 and we're going to talk to Charles. Hello Charles, Well, I'm lucky 1994 02:29:39.559 --> 02:29:43.520 again I get to speak with you. This is a continuing saga. Can 1995 02:29:43.879 --> 02:29:50.360 harmon me? Continuing saga of the stink bugs? Bugs? Do you think 1996 02:29:52.120 --> 02:29:56.280 that the guy to feed store anywhere? Uh? Do you think the mallet's 1997 02:29:56.319 --> 02:30:01.319 ion would would help or maybe eradicate the problem with those sting bows on the 1998 02:30:01.399 --> 02:30:05.959 tomato plants? Yea, nothing's going to eradicate them, but a malifane will 1999 02:30:05.040 --> 02:30:11.520 kill stink bugs. Um, I am very fortunate I have bees are available. 2000 02:30:11.600 --> 02:30:18.799 I mean they got pollinators. Well, malion kill bees if they're coming 2001 02:30:18.879 --> 02:30:22.239 around. If I spray with malthan, yes, if you if you spray 2002 02:30:22.280 --> 02:30:24.639 a bee, or if you spray the plant and then the bee lands on 2003 02:30:24.719 --> 02:30:30.040 the plant um, then malifan is toxic to bees, that's for sure. 2004 02:30:30.520 --> 02:30:35.000 Now tomatoes, tomatoes are not bee pollinated. They are pollinated when the blossoms 2005 02:30:35.120 --> 02:30:41.680 move and the pollen falls within the flower from the the anthers to the to 2006 02:30:41.840 --> 02:30:46.639 the female parts of the flower, and and so. But that's you wouldn't 2007 02:30:46.680 --> 02:30:48.639 want to kill bees anyway. But anyway, that no, sir, Yeah, 2008 02:30:50.120 --> 02:30:52.440 that's the case. Stink bugs are just tough. You know, learning 2009 02:30:52.639 --> 02:30:56.479 what they look like when they're in an egg stage and when they're in their 2010 02:30:56.520 --> 02:31:01.200 little nymphs stages. That's the best thing that tomato rour can do. Because 2011 02:31:01.639 --> 02:31:05.680 you're out there looking at your tomato plants and if you see a cluster of 2012 02:31:05.719 --> 02:31:09.680 eggs, you know what a stink bug egg or their cousin, the leaf 2013 02:31:09.719 --> 02:31:13.680 footed bug, which is also essentially a stink bug, what they look like. 2014 02:31:13.799 --> 02:31:15.879 You can just you can just snip them out and throw them away. 2015 02:31:16.200 --> 02:31:18.319 When they're little nymphs, they tend to hang out in herds. They don't 2016 02:31:18.360 --> 02:31:22.559 have wings yet, and so it's really easy. I mean, somebody doesn't 2017 02:31:22.559 --> 02:31:24.280 want to spray, you can just swat them into a pale of soapy water 2018 02:31:24.479 --> 02:31:28.120 because they don't need wings to fly away once they got wings, and they're 2019 02:31:28.159 --> 02:31:33.120 everywhere like you probably have now, Charles, Uh, I mean you're putting 2020 02:31:33.120 --> 02:31:35.319 out a lot of pesticide. That's pretty strong stuff to try to get ahead 2021 02:31:35.319 --> 02:31:39.200 of stink bugs. Yeah, and these are those black ones with the yellow 2022 02:31:39.239 --> 02:31:45.000 bands are and they just they are they are just as thick as flies out 2023 02:31:45.040 --> 02:31:48.000 there. Oh I know, I know that is the leaf footed bug. 2024 02:31:48.120 --> 02:31:52.680 And yeah, they are a problem there. You know, it's probably not 2025 02:31:52.760 --> 02:31:56.520 going to help you this year. But another strategy, there's things they like 2026 02:31:56.879 --> 02:32:01.360 even as much or more than tomatoes, and that is they like sunflowers, 2027 02:32:01.440 --> 02:32:05.000 the kind that have the seed, big seat heads on them. They like 2028 02:32:05.680 --> 02:32:11.399 what do they like the not artichoke cardoon, a little cartoon has a little 2029 02:32:11.399 --> 02:32:16.520 blooms on them. They like black eyed peas, and so some people will 2030 02:32:16.680 --> 02:32:20.840 put a planting in just to attract the stink bugs to it, and then 2031 02:32:20.879 --> 02:32:26.879 they'll spray them on that planting and try to get in ahead before they move 2032 02:32:26.920 --> 02:32:28.959 into your tomatoes, for example, before the tomatoes start to come on. 2033 02:32:30.239 --> 02:32:31.600 They're and they're doing that. That's a little bit of a timing trick. 2034 02:32:33.360 --> 02:32:37.399 But I know there's some research done by the Extension Service over in Alabama on 2035 02:32:37.680 --> 02:32:41.840 looking at trap crops for stink bugs, and that's basically what they're doing. 2036 02:32:41.879 --> 02:32:45.639 They're trying to draw them off. They've used they've done that, and it's 2037 02:32:45.680 --> 02:32:48.319 probably more than you will know, but they've done that in pecan orchards, 2038 02:32:48.600 --> 02:32:52.959 planted black eyed peas around the periphery and then they just spray the black eyed 2039 02:32:52.000 --> 02:32:56.479 peas and try to stop the stink bugs before they move up into the pecan 2040 02:32:56.559 --> 02:33:03.200 trees to do the damage there. That's well, we got about sixty or 2041 02:33:03.239 --> 02:33:07.479 seventy plants, So it's sir, Yeah, it's it's terrible. Yeah yeah, 2042 02:33:07.520 --> 02:33:13.600 it's it's stuck and grabbing, smashing, Yeah yeah yeah, Charles. 2043 02:33:13.680 --> 02:33:16.639 Once they get wings, you've kind of lost the battle at that stage. 2044 02:33:16.680 --> 02:33:20.680 I mean, yes, there are things you can nuke them with, but 2045 02:33:20.079 --> 02:33:26.440 basically, um I would I would back up and come up with some other 2046 02:33:26.559 --> 02:33:30.920 strategies for the next next round of the tomato season. Uh and and and 2047 02:33:31.079 --> 02:33:33.319 try to come up with someone those if somebody build a crap like I get 2048 02:33:33.360 --> 02:33:39.000 for the flies that well, yeahs they have natural enemies. But apparently natural 2049 02:33:39.079 --> 02:33:45.440 enemies aren't doing their job very good because they are a garden annual problem around 2050 02:33:45.520 --> 02:33:48.479 here. Yeah. Yeah, I ain't daddy, Okay, Well, I 2051 02:33:48.559 --> 02:33:52.680 just want to make sure for I did what was suggested. And yeah, 2052 02:33:52.680 --> 02:33:54.399 because I don't want to hurt no bees. Yeah, their problems. Yeah, 2053 02:33:54.440 --> 02:34:00.399 i'd p that's that's true. That's true. All right, you take 2054 02:34:00.440 --> 02:34:03.920 care, thanks to me, and keep doing what you're doing. Put it 2055 02:34:03.159 --> 02:34:07.360 well, thank you. That means a lot. I appreciate that thought. 2056 02:34:07.840 --> 02:34:13.639 You know. Ace Hardware is everywhere you are, thirty nine stores in Houston. 2057 02:34:13.760 --> 02:34:16.280 I mean, go to Ace Hardware dot com look for their store. 2058 02:34:16.719 --> 02:34:20.520 There's a place you click for the store locator and you can find the one 2059 02:34:20.600 --> 02:34:26.399 near you, And there is one near you. Ace Hardware carries the products 2060 02:34:26.479 --> 02:34:28.280 we talk about all the time. So if you need a beautiful garden and 2061 02:34:28.319 --> 02:34:31.840 a bountiful landscape, Ace Hardware's got it. They got the fertilizers, they 2062 02:34:31.840 --> 02:34:35.840 got the soils, they got the products that you might need to spray for 2063 02:34:37.079 --> 02:34:41.000 controlling pests and diseases and weeds and things like that. Ace Hardware has got 2064 02:34:41.040 --> 02:34:45.879 one of the largest grilling selections on the market. I mean Webber, Tragger, 2065 02:34:46.200 --> 02:34:48.719 Big Green Egg, and more. I mean it is. It is 2066 02:34:48.760 --> 02:34:52.200 a wonderland to walk through an Ace Hardware and see all that they have. 2067 02:34:52.399 --> 02:34:56.120 And if you knew the Ace Hardware from years and years ago, you need 2068 02:34:56.159 --> 02:35:01.040 to see the new. Ace Hardware still got that serve us that we love 2069 02:35:01.280 --> 02:35:05.319 from a good old hometown hardware store. But with Ace Hardware, in addition 2070 02:35:05.559 --> 02:35:09.479 to the service, you get a selection that is just unbelievable. Go to 2071 02:35:09.600 --> 02:35:15.120 Ace Hardware dot com and find the store near you. We're going to now 2072 02:35:15.200 --> 02:35:20.680 head out to East Houston and talk to Tom good Morning. Tom good Morning, 2073 02:35:20.760 --> 02:35:26.600 serves a beautiful day for Accepted by call. You're bat. My question 2074 02:35:26.760 --> 02:35:31.280 is I'm going to buy a vego a raised bed good for you? And 2075 02:35:31.719 --> 02:35:41.079 and yes and uh. Earlier in the in your show, you mentioned a 2076 02:35:41.280 --> 02:35:48.520 soil company that provided the specs of how to how to calculate how many qbic 2077 02:35:48.680 --> 02:35:56.559 feet of soil I need for my good? Could you please, could you 2078 02:35:56.840 --> 02:36:03.120 you spoke real fast there have a PN I guess, but could you repeat 2079 02:36:03.200 --> 02:36:07.239 that for me please and all the other listeners. I would be happy to 2080 02:36:07.840 --> 02:36:11.799 That is airloom soils. They're out in porter, they deliver through the area. 2081 02:36:11.520 --> 02:36:20.920 But airloom soils of Texas dot Com, heirlooms soils plural of Texas dot 2082 02:36:22.000 --> 02:36:28.000 Com. And that the qbcard calculators on there, it's it's the best one 2083 02:36:28.000 --> 02:36:31.639 I've ever seen. It's because I mean, like literally, if you wanted 2084 02:36:31.680 --> 02:36:35.959 to know how many five gallon buckets of soiler in a qubic yard or how 2085 02:36:35.040 --> 02:36:39.479 many wheelbarrows of soil, they'll give you a real good rough estimate on that 2086 02:36:39.559 --> 02:36:46.760 calculator. It's pretty cares that airloom of Texas airloom. Let me just I'm 2087 02:36:46.799 --> 02:36:50.000 gonna spell the whole thing out because I want everybody to get them. It's 2088 02:36:50.479 --> 02:36:58.159 h E I R l O O M S O I L S O F 2089 02:36:58.920 --> 02:37:07.520 T e x S heirloom soils of Texas dot Com. Oh air h yeah, 2090 02:37:07.559 --> 02:37:13.000 heirloom like a like a family heirloom. Okay, Lau of Texas Okay, 2091 02:37:13.200 --> 02:37:18.559 good, all right, you good luck. Yeah. I have fun 2092 02:37:18.639 --> 02:37:22.840 with that. Have fun with that vego bad Those are super cool. Hey, 2093 02:37:22.399 --> 02:37:26.719 Can I ask you one other question? Yes, sir, okay, 2094 02:37:26.719 --> 02:37:33.360 I know tomatoes have a deep root, and so right now I have been 2095 02:37:33.319 --> 02:37:39.200 large containers. Okay, probably Tim, Tim gallant that you're doing it right. 2096 02:37:41.120 --> 02:37:48.000 And uh, but when I get my vego they come in seventeen h 2097 02:37:48.159 --> 02:37:56.920 high or two two foot high, I believe, yes, check out my 2098 02:37:56.040 --> 02:38:01.200 specs. Is uh, I know twenty four would be better than seventeen. 2099 02:38:01.559 --> 02:38:09.840 Is it would there be that much difference in the preparation of Yeah, okay, 2100 02:38:09.920 --> 02:38:13.440 tom are you putting this bed on the ground or are you putting it 2101 02:38:13.559 --> 02:38:18.479 on like a sidewalk or okay, So the roots, the tomato roots are 2102 02:38:18.479 --> 02:38:20.360 going to go down in the ground. So what I would do is the 2103 02:38:20.479 --> 02:38:24.559 seventeen is fine, that's enough. That's enough. So you just want to 2104 02:38:24.760 --> 02:38:28.200 break up the soil and kind of mix it with the bed mix that you're 2105 02:38:28.239 --> 02:38:31.319 going to put in there, and then fill it with bed mix and you'll 2106 02:38:31.360 --> 02:38:35.280 be good to go. The tomato roots will get down in that soil and 2107 02:38:35.399 --> 02:38:37.280 it I mean in the soil below as well, so you'll be fine. 2108 02:38:39.639 --> 02:38:43.239 The soil is hard clay, well, that's why I spread a little bit 2109 02:38:43.280 --> 02:38:48.479 of the bed mix and mix it with the hard clay so you don't go 2110 02:38:48.680 --> 02:38:54.000 from a transition from this beautiful bed mixed soil to the hard clay. You 2111 02:38:54.159 --> 02:38:58.239 heard. I think it's funny, absolutely is you bet well? You've been 2112 02:38:58.280 --> 02:39:03.760 listening to Garden Line Goodness. They flew by. We are going to be 2113 02:39:03.879 --> 02:39:07.760 out. I will be out at clear Lake at the wild Birds Unlimited at 2114 02:39:07.840 --> 02:39:11.360 clear Lake. They're going to be given away an advanced pole system. They're 2115 02:39:11.360 --> 02:39:13.680 giving them away, an eliminator bird feater that's squirrel proof. They're going to 2116 02:39:13.719 --> 02:39:18.079 give away. Somebody's going to win a twenty pound bag of their no Mess 2117 02:39:18.399 --> 02:39:24.319 bird seed blend per month for the next year. Now, go out to 2118 02:39:24.520 --> 02:39:28.360 El Dorado Boulevard, corner of El Dorado and clear Lake City, across from 2119 02:39:28.520 --> 02:39:33.840 HB storefront faces Blair Lake City Boulevard. I'll be there from eleven thirty to 2120 02:39:33.920 --> 02:39:35.639 one. I hope you'll come out and see me today. Looking forward to 2121 02:39:35.760 --> 02:39:37.280 talking to you.