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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

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on this program. Welcome to ktr
H Garden Line with Skip Rictor's smell the

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Crazy. Just watch him as Wood
tell us so many tass. We comes

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back kicking a sign. Well,
good morning, Welcome to garden Line.

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We are here to talk all things
green and red and blue and purple and

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yellow and every other color other flowers
that we have around us. Garden Line

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is been around for a long time. You know that you go back in

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the nineteen fifties and this show was
on the air. The folks familiar names

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to me in the gardening world,
like Dewey, Dewey competent excuse me.

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You know, when I think back
through the history of garden Line, there

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are a lot of names that are
on the plate. I think I'm maybe

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the fifth or sixth host of garden
Line. But the elephant in the room,

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the one that just stands out in
my opinion above all the others,

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has been Randy. You know he
was here at Randy Lemon was a host

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of garden Line from twenty six twenty
seven years, somewhere right in there and

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really made this show what it is
in many many ways, and we're really

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grateful for that. I know a
lot of you as listeners, Miss Randy,

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lots of good relationships there. I'm
as Randy going back even to her

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day's when we met in college,
and I also like to take a moment

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every now and then remind us from
where we came and that that is something

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I'm certainly really grateful for and the
contribution that that made to Houston horticulture.

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Houston is the Greater Houston area is
a amazing place when it comes to growing

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plants. We certainly have challenges in
the way of soil and weather and whatnot,

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but there's also a lot of opportunities. You know, a lot of

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folks couldn't even consider growing citrus or
maybe azaleas in many parts of the most

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parts of the state, but you
can grow things like that here if you

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prepare the soil right, take care
of things, and it's just really an

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opportunity. I always brag on her
mom pop garden centers, but it's just

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true. I mean, there's just
so many really cool places with really cool

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plants, and it makes it a
pleasure, a lot of fun. Perhaps

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this afternoon be a good time to
get out and do some visiting at some

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of our great garden centers that we
have, are picking up supplies for gardening.

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You know, fall season is just
out upon us, and as fall

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season hits, we're going to be
in full swing with finishing our warm season

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plantings, with turning into the cool
season plantings, getting those planted and in

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the ground. But now fall season
had already started before now, but we're

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in the middle of it right now
in terms of this is the time to

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get a lot of things planted if
you want to enjoy them in September,

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October, November, some cases December, and the cool season plantings will start

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soon, not right away, but
we're still in the big warm season.

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But if you wanted something like broccoli
plants, you want to grow them yourself,

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now it's the time to plant those
seed to be ready for that,

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and it's always a good time to
prepare the soil. So I would contend

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that the success of your fall garden, whether it's vegetables, herbs, flowers,

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whatever, is based on getting started
now and doing things right to be

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ready so that you can have success. You know, there are a lot

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of ways in life where you just
sort of get instant success. You know,

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I mean instant tea if you will, which no southern or worth their

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weight and salt whatever drink. But
with gardening, it's not that way.

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Nature is not that way. Nature
develops, nature evolves and unfalls, and

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it just is. It's a wonderful
thing. Speaking of nature, you know

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that the top organic fertilizer in terms
of sales here in the Greater Houston area

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is Microlife Fertilizer. They have the
traditional six two four in the green bag

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that has always been just a leader
in terms of organics in the industry.

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The six two four. If you
haven't fertilized your lawn in the last couple

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of months, you really ought to
go ahead and just do that, and

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sixty four is a good way to
do that. It provides a somewhat gradual

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release being an organic product. But
that didn't mean you have to wait to

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get some green You're gonna get some
pretty quick greene from it. But that

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would you know, that kind of
material, when it goes into the soil,

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you not only get the nutrients out
of it, the big three six

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two four, you get all the
micronutrients as well, because it's organic matter,

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organic matters filled with all the nutrients
that are taken up by plants that

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are needed because it's plant products that
help us create those those kinds of fertilizer

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products. They also have the purple
bag that's the Humates Plus and that just

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think of it as composted composted concentrated
compost in a bag. When you do

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the Humates plus, what you're basically
doing is enriching the soil each time you

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do it. You're enriching the microbial
content each time you do it, and

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it also has nutrients as well to
help enhance. So you ought to go

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online to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and
see where you can find these products and

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learn a little bit more about them. Right now, we're going to go

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out to Montgomery and talk to Albert. Good morning, Albert, and today

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I am going to plant some trees
after this heat's over wood maybe me first

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October. And I'm looking at I
think it's a Schuemar oak tree and versus

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a nut All oak tree. And
I'd like to know the kind of the

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pluses and minuses in which one you'd
recommend over the other one. Okay,

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is your area well drained or does
it tend to hold a little water after

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a rain? It's it's well drained. And do you know is your would

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you call yourself clay sand or loamy
or how would you describe it? Clay?

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Okay, well, you could go
either way. Schumart does best on

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deep loamy types of soils. It
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nut all oak does all that as
well. But in addition it can put

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up with wet feet for periods of
time. So having a clay sometimes the

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soil can you know, sometimes rains
too much, and not all is adapted

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to that better than Schumard. But
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you probably could go either way.
Okay, I generally point people to nuttall,

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but you know, if you if
your soil is decent, the Schumart

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will be okay too. Okay,
would that be a good time? After

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all these seats over with October?
The plan them the absolute best time to

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plant any woody ornamental of the whole
twelve months is in the fall, and

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so October would be fine, November
would be fine. I mean, you

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could do it now, but it's
just a little more touch and go because

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the demands are so high now in
the fall, there's not many demands.

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So if he gets a little short
on water, well, first of all,

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it's not going to get short on
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temperatures down and the water use is
down and so on. It's just an

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easier time. But it's up to
you. You know. Sometimes other issues,

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Hey we got to get this plant
in because we've got to do such

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and such, they may outweigh just
what's a perfect time? All right,

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all right, well, thank you, Shary. You have a good day,

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Albert. Thank you for the call. I appreciate that we're going to

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take a break. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four. Well, good
morning, it is still dark. I'd

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side by the way, look at
your neighbor's house. If the lights aren't

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on, go bang on the door
and tell them they're missing garden line.

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They will rise up and call you
blessed. Not this morning, but eventually

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when they realize what a favorite did
for them. You know, it's all

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about the soil. It's all about
the soil. That is a broken record.

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I'm willing to be because it's all
about the soil. When I think

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of soils. Nature's Way Resources has
been and soils for a very long time

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here. I mean they know what
they're doing John Ferguson and Sunny and they

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operate the place and it's just it's
it's almost like a compost historical site.

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John's been making originator if things like
rose soil originator if things like leafmo compost

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and so on. And they take
their time to make things and make them

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right, and that is really really
important. Time is important when it comes

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to soil type products. And a
lot of times you go into the story

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you buy some off brand thing that
you open it up and it's full of

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wood chips. It's that it's called
soil, but it's full of wood chips

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are called compost. It's full of
woodchip. That's not going to happen with

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Nature's Way. You know, they
have their their Fungal Fridays, which is

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ten percent off all their bag products
and twenty percent off all bulk products that

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they can deliver to of course,
and they have a lot of fungal compost

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on hand and that is really good
rich stuff. Now they carry a wide

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variety of other things. But if
you're interested in getting ready for fall,

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it's time to get those beds made. It's time to improve the soil,

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whether it's a vegetable garden, a
flower bed, a future garden site.

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Maybe you're wanting to top dress your
lawn at some point, leaf more compost.

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They've got that on hand too.
They also have one of the best

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selections in eighty plants. You're in
the Houston area. Now Nature's ways up

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there. If you go up Interstate
forty five, like you're going to Conro,

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but about where fourteen eighty eight comes
in, you exit across the railroad

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tracks and you are there. They're
open Monday through Friday, eight to five,

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Saturdays eight to two, closed on
Sunday. So make your plans this

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coming week. Go ahead and get
their materials and get ready for fall,

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because it's all about the soil.
Let's head out to spring and we're gonna

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talk to Rich. Hello, Rich, good morning. Skip two things.

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Wondering if you had a chance to
look at those videos on the diesel exhaust

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fluid as a source for spoon feeding
nitrogen. I have not. I have

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not. Okay, fair enough,
I've been on the road for two weeks

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now and I'm it's on my list
and I'm honestly intrigued by it. But

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I just well, I went to
I went to Walmart. I bought a

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container, and I'm going to do
a little test patch in my backyard and

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hopefully i'll have some data for you. I'll share. Well, I would

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like that, right, will I'll
share. The next thing is I have

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a neighbor. His lawn is very
thin because the previous owner did not thin

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out trees, et cetera. We're
trying to get his lawn in shape.

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I'm wondering, in addition to normal
fertilizer water, would I hear things like

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a plank growth regulator helps to spread
of stolens and that to move very quickly.

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Do you have any information on that. I don't know a PGR that

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it would speed up the growth of
your grass. I know there's a lot

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of plat growth regulators that cause things
to be a little stocky or more compact.

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You know, people in the nursery
industry, they don't need a big,

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lanky plant they're trying to sell.
They want something that's compact and full

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of blooms and whatnot, and they
use PGRs for that. As far as

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on turf, I would say and
I've talked to a lot of turf specialists

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over the years. I've never heard
them promote anything like that for a turf

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success. Okay, very good,
thank you, skid. All right,

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thank you for the call. I
appreciate that, rich very much. You're

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listening to Garden Line our number seven
one three, two, one two,

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five eight seven four. I talk
about me cannon plants a lot. I

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realize that, but I'm telling you
it is just it is just a great

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place to visit. I love going
there, shopping beneath the big trees,

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especially nice and the heat of summer. Right they have a selection of indoor

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plants. It's just incredible. If
you were interested in succulents, and that's

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a hot item right now. People
are into succulents. I mean, when

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it's one hundred degrees and it won't
rain, that makes your mind go towards

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succulents. But people just love them
little succulent gardens. I got some of

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my my kids are really into succulents, and they're cool. Plants, are

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easy care, and they're beautiful too. Well. They've got that. They

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have a lot of native plants as
well. I was thinking about one the

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other day. Barbados cherry and Barbados
cherry is a little native South Texas plant

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may even reach into the Harris County
being part of its actual native area.

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It has a little crape myrtle like
or crape paper like pink blossoms and it

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goes all spring through fall or produces
low berries that the birds just really like.

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Let's think of a little cherry like
fruit and other wildlife etem as well.

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Barbados chair is one of those native
plants that just looks good in the

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landscape. And of course they're going
to be a mechanic's plants. They have

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those. While you're there, make
sure it's sign up for their newsletter.

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By the way, they are at
East eleventh Street and the Heights for those

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of you who haven't been there before, or just go online to Buchanan's Plants

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dot com and you can find out
all about them and learn you know why

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I think it's such a great place
and when you visit you'll really know that

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for sure. We're gonna head out
now to Cyprus and we're gonna talk to

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Mike. Good morning, Mike,
good morning. How can we help?

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Yes, I just bought a desert
willow tree. And you know, I

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with this heat, I just wasn't
want I wanted to know when is it?

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Why is it to plant it now? Or should I be waiting to

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plant this? Well, I would
plant it now since you bought that,

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because to try to keep it adequately
watered through this kind of heat. You

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know, you you go away for
a day or forget to water one day

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or something, it's just a little
more diligence required to do that. Then

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to just go ahead and get it
in the ground, make sure it's watered

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in well, and then you know, every day or two give it a

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little bit of water. It is
a drought tolerant plant, but it's got

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to get some roots in the ground
to become what its genetic potential is,

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and that's drought tolerant right now,
all the roots if you planted it today

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or anytime, or in that cylinder
you took out of the pot, and

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so there's a period of time there
where it's establishing. And don't let the

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drought tolerance of any any plant fool
you. You've got to help those babies

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along until they get established. Then
there's tough. They're tough as nails.

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I appreciate it. Thank you all
right, Thanks Mike, appreciate that call.

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Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four,

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we love our feed stores here on
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and let's say the Magnolia direction,
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hometown feed store. They're on twenty
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nine seventy eight, so there's minutes
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they are your hometown feed store.
They carry the fertilizers I talk about.

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They carry all the gardening supplies you
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diseases or fungal infections and things like
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Creek Feed. I also think it's
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it out. Sometimes you see what
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barn looking operation. You go inside
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mean everything you can imagine that you
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you are a gardener, you're going
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you've got pets or livestock, you
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Spring Creek Feed center. Well,
you are listening to garden Line and we

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are here for another day of discussing
all things gardening. I realize right now

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you've got a cup of coffee in
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good day for gardening. Lots of
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to make sure and check on your
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go into the fall. We'll be
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months or so. And you know
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silver bag that is like I would
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they have a bazillion options of products. I mean everything that you have that

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you grow. There's a fertilizer from
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a nineteen four ten mix and that
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almost twenty percent nitrogen. Well you
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gradually releases, so you aren't overdoing
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quality product that's got the chemistry is
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you avoid problems like promoting chinche books, promoting large patch or brown patch

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and having to mow all the time. Look for the silver bag wherever you

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shop. I don't care if it
says hardwarees, if it's feed stores,

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garden centers. Nitroposts is easy to
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it really really works well. We
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here. The Nikki News network is
getting prepared for. Yes, what more

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news. Well, we're going to
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are they growing plants and special otherwise
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moon shot, Oh, moonshot shot. Okay, good, good, well,

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here we go. Hey, thanks
for listening and give us a call.

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on the boards. Good morning on
a soon to be beautiful day for guardening.

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I don't know, maybe some of
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headlights on to get a little bit
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know, do we say cool at
least cooler? Right? Cooler? It's

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a good idea. I've never tried
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more qualified, more experience, more
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how to put together that little plot
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No knows how to make the front
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dry by look up, look at
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always always in beautiful condition. The
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they can do that. They can
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irrigation, they can provide walkways and
rock borders. Maybe a new garden you

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want to put in. Do you
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You know, get some beautiful lights
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tend to gather, especially during warm
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enhanced. Skip m a call.
It's two eight one three seven zero five

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com. Give them a call,
talk to Jason and talk to Bob or

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Candice there about the ways that you
want to enhance your landscape. Maybe even

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hey, what do you think here? What would you do here? This

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is something I'm thinking about. What
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it. They know what they're doing, they'll get it right. And fall

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to get the plants in. That's
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don't take any more time. If
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to another level. We're gonna go
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Hello, Archie, morning, Chip. I'll talk to you yesterday about

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the angelonia. I sent you two
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those are not I did? I
did, Okay? And what you've got

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on your angelonia or some little pierced
sucking insects that are they hide underneath the

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leaves and they put their mouth in
and they suck on the leaves and take

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out the chlorophyll and you end up
with all these little specs all over the

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leaves. Now, different things can
do that. There's there's some little tiny

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plant bugs that will do it.
And that's what I think it is.

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Uh, spider mites can cause somewhat
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of spider mites though on your on
your sample under big live boat, too

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big libul Okay, Well, so
your options, you know, I hate

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to go out and just nuke everything. You certainly could spray. It's gonna

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take more than one because these little
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almost going to see them because when
you turn a leaf over, they're already

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gone, just the movement, and
so they drop to the ground or do

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something else. So spray is a
little bit of a challenge, but it

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could be done. I might consider
doing a good shearing of the plants.

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Uh. And and then if you're
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Give them some fertilizer, give them
some water, and get new growth

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coming on. And that new growth
will cover up all the old And every

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new terminal on an angelonia is capable
of blooming. So when you shear,

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you get more blooms in the long
run. Okay, because I put out

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about a three pound jar of color
Star just about a month ago. Yeah,

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and nothing happening. Well, I
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I see new shoots trying to grow. But you know the nutrients that

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are there in the soil. It's
just the plant needs to have all these

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Brazilian little bugs sucking all the life
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of those and you will see a
good response. Color Store will give a

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great push and will Malithon do uh, probably for these It probably will do.

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Any kind of a product labeled,
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flower garden like that or there.
There's just a number of different specific ingredients,

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but a good insect control role product. It's probably gonna gonna work on

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them. One other thing just to
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new growth comes on. Just check
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developing, because sometimes insects will run
their course. Uh. Different things we

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do can often help that process along. And you don't want to be spraying

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when the culprit's already gone, right
right, But I think they've been there

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all summer. Oh well, I
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based on those plants condition. The
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on the grass for the possible you
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found that it's Southwest Fertilizer. Ace
didn't have it. And then uh,

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and I saw I'm going to get
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Uh yeah, that will do it. I would probably, I believe

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I'm a new schedule. We're aiming
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mid October somewhere in there. As
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take All does some reinfection. So
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I've got a bag. If h
makes plus two, should I put

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that out? Oh? Yeah,
it's always a good time to put that

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out. You know that it's not
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gonna You're gonna get the concentrated composts
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good. Yeah, okay, Oh, thank you, thank you very much,

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Archie. I appreciate that. Call
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one two five eight seven four seven
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four. If you are out in
the Richmond area, actually, if you're

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anywhere around the listening area, you
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If you're done in Richmond, it's
north toward Katie. It's up that

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direction. It's on FM three fifty
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Richmond toward Katie again. And in
Chenny gardens is again one of those places

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you go and allow some time because
you are going to want to wander.

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They everything you can imagine, you
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you want color plants? Do you
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And then there's all the blank you
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the beautiful stuff inside their gift shops, which anytime you need a gift

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to check out that gift shop you
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have a non gardening friend. There
is some cool stuff in that gift shop

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that would just be an excellent choice. Something outside the ordinary, if you

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know what I'm talking about. And
Channey Gardens is just the kind of place

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that we like to go to.
You know, the letterments have been going

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there since nineteen ninety five, and
you're just not going to find in anywhere

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around the kind of unique product,
the unique plant materials, and just the

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fund environment. It's just a blast. It's one of those that I think

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another reason I think Houston Chamber of
Commerce ought to have a gardening tour because

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we could keep people busy for three
days with our wonderful places and enchanted gardens

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would definitely be on that list of
you gotta go see. If they have

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people drive from way outside the area
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It is enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com
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Richmond. Go check them out.
While you're there, you can pick up

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all the products we recommend here on
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Monday through Saturday eight to five thirty
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pm. Hey, there's something for
you to do this afternoon. It's time

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for an outing. Well, we're
going to take a break. Our phone

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number is seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Hey,

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you're listening to garden Line. I'm
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are here to answer your gardening questions. Seven one three two one two five

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eight seven four seven one three two
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know the sun's blazing down on our
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days of blasting sunlight. Why not
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your pocket. That's what a solar
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got a better idea than a solar
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I mean that's fine if that's what
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solar shingle on your roof? You
heard that right a solar shingle. There's

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actually a roofing shingle that's not on
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is your roof. It's not on
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regular single roof, if you want
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know, put together right there on
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glove. They can do that.
Don't trust companies that bang on the door

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claiming you've got storm damage and they're
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acclaim. They fly all over the
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Brinkman's is here. Brinckman Quality dot
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two eight one four eight zero seventy
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to Columbus, Texas now and we're
going to talk to Brian. Hello,

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Brian, Hey Skip, good morning, Good morning. Hey, I got

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a five acre ranch out here,
and I'm wanted to do a four acre

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lavender field in sandy soil. Will
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is good. Lavender needs drainage.
We have found lavender to be kind of

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hit and mess here because our weather
is so dead fluctuating. Uh, there's

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a decent little lavender fields as you
get over you know, Fredericksburg direction,

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where there's a little bit of a
little more arid climate, little less often

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rainfall and good drainage. But even
in those we do see some rots in

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the case or you're gonna you're gonna
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it up. But you could grow
lavender. As far as whether it'll be

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economically profitable in Columbus, that I'm
not able to tell you. Yeah.

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I just wanted for the look and
to keep the deer away. Oh okay,

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Well, hey, there you go, go for it. Just be

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aware there's there's many different kinds of
lavender, and not all are equally susceptible

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to issues that might happen. But
good drainage is going to be critical.

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In the sand you described ought to
help with that for sure. Okay,

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I appreciate it. Yeah, good
luck with it. Keep us posted if

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you get it planted. I'd like
to hear about that. I'll send your

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pictures, all right. Sounds like
a deal, Thank you, Brian.

407
00:31:11.960 --> 00:31:18.119
I appreciate that. You know,
there's always a lot of new there's always

408
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new plants people are planting and wanting
to plant. I know right now some

409
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people are getting into looking at pineapple, guava or for joa. Is that

410
00:31:25.720 --> 00:31:30.319
how you say at for joa fahoya
fajoa as a edible crop. There's some

411
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varieties that it's been an ornamental shrub
for us for a long time, but

412
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it does produce an edible fruit,
and boy, there's some superior types.

413
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But it seems like I've been doing
this for you know, well over thirty

414
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years, and there's always something new. There's always some new thing that we're

415
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trying out, and sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But hey,

416
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:53.200
that's part of the fun of gardening. If you're doing any transplanting this fall,

417
00:31:53.559 --> 00:31:59.640
or even now putting in some of
your vegetable transplants, your herb transplants,

418
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you know we're going to be when
it cool season kind of starts to

419
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:07.680
get in here in midfall. We'll
be looking again at prime time for a

420
00:32:07.720 --> 00:32:12.359
lot of the woody ornamentals and things
we plant has to grow. Six twelve

421
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six. That is a liquid fertilizer
that contains of course six percent nitrogen,

422
00:32:17.279 --> 00:32:23.200
twelve percent phosphorus, six percent Potassium's
got that phosphorus load for developing a new

423
00:32:23.240 --> 00:32:28.359
plant's root system. Now, in
addition to that, you've got Medina soil

424
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:32.079
activator to stimulate biological activity. You've
got humic acid in there, improoves soil

425
00:32:32.119 --> 00:32:37.720
structure, improves nutrient uptake. You've
got seaweed extracts in there to stimulate both

426
00:32:38.240 --> 00:32:44.240
fruiting or blooming of the plant.
That's a real concoction there. That is

427
00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:47.559
just rocket fuel for that new transplant. You can use it for foli air

428
00:32:47.559 --> 00:32:52.640
application. I like to put it
in a water watering bottle watering can and

429
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:57.200
just sprinkle it right on the transplant
after I put them out, and do

430
00:32:57.279 --> 00:33:00.519
it again five to seven days later, again five to seven day after that.

431
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:05.119
So three applications based about a week
apart or a little less, and

432
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:08.279
your plant will be well on the
way. It'll be hit the ground running

433
00:33:08.359 --> 00:33:14.839
as we say no't worry about burning
plants with has to grow six twelve six.

434
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Our phone number if you'd like to
give us a call on Guardline is

435
00:33:19.960 --> 00:33:24.759
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one

436
00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:31.960
two five eight seven four. You
know it's it's it's bird season. It's

437
00:33:32.039 --> 00:33:36.680
always bird season. What's happening now, Well, our birds are finishing up

438
00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:40.279
some molting they've been doing. They
are really needing water. I mean,

439
00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:44.640
it is a stressful time to be
a bird out there. I mean imagine

440
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:49.119
flying around trying to find a little
water to be able to drink and survive.

441
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.960
Take care of those birds. Put
some water out for them. You

442
00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:55.480
will find that that brings them in
as good as a feeder does. I

443
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:59.880
mean, if birds are thirsty,
they are come into that water once they

444
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:02.720
find it. And I mean it's
just like a bird attractant. Not just

445
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:07.320
the compassion of hey, they're they're
needing water out there, but the joy

446
00:34:07.400 --> 00:34:12.519
of getting out in the morning and
late afternoon those are my favorite times and

447
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:16.440
just enjoying the birds coming in.
They also need food and nesting. Super

448
00:34:16.519 --> 00:34:21.800
Blend from wild Birds Unlimited is the
product that you need to go for right

449
00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:25.159
now that all the way through August. That is a prime product for your

450
00:34:25.199 --> 00:34:29.320
birds, and then they'll eat it
all year. But it's a quality product.

451
00:34:29.320 --> 00:34:30.920
I have some myself that I've been
using. By the way, there's

452
00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:36.639
a number of different wilbirds here in
the Houston area. Katie Kingwood, Cyprus,

453
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:42.079
Pearland, bel Air, West Houston, Clear Lake. Go to WBU

454
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:46.320
dot com forward slash Houston and find
the wild birds near you. And by

455
00:34:46.360 --> 00:34:52.079
the way, they are a wealth
of information as well you find I'm warning

456
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:57.320
you birding is addictive. Backyard birding, I've given you your warning, but

457
00:34:57.440 --> 00:35:00.360
when you go into wild Birds it
is like a Kidney Candy's store. We're

458
00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:05.559
gonna take a break here pretty quick. I do want to remind you that

459
00:35:05.639 --> 00:35:08.599
we're here every morning on Saturday.
Every morning, we're here on Saturday,

460
00:35:08.639 --> 00:35:13.639
and we're here on Sunday from six
am to ten am. So tell your

461
00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.079
neighbors about garden Line so they can
listen in and enjoy that as well.

462
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:23.840
Passing by an ACE the other day, every time I walk into ACE,

463
00:35:24.199 --> 00:35:29.079
I go, oh, I didn't
know they carry that, because that's the

464
00:35:29.199 --> 00:35:31.159
kind of store that Ace Hardware is. You got thirty nine of them to

465
00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:35.880
choose from in Houston, So you
pretty much throw a rock from where you

466
00:35:35.960 --> 00:35:38.480
live to an ACE Hardware store.
You can go online to ACE Hardware dot

467
00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:43.559
com and look for the store locator
and find the stores nearest to you,

468
00:35:43.719 --> 00:35:45.719
putting your zip code there and it'll
give you all the stores, little nice

469
00:35:45.760 --> 00:35:51.159
little map, and you will be
surprised if I talk about fertilizers, if

470
00:35:51.159 --> 00:35:54.239
I talk about soils, if you
have needs for fertilizers, pesticides, those

471
00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:58.719
kind of things, They've got it
all there. Ace Hardware has it all.

472
00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:02.000
And you can earn money back on
your purchases with the ACE Rewards program,

473
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:07.400
which I belong to. It's a
really good additional thing that they offer

474
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:13.519
there at Ace Hardware. Well,
we today are fortunate. We're gonna have

475
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:22.519
Luis tomorrow from Heirloom Soils come in
and the eight o'clock hour, and we're

476
00:36:22.559 --> 00:36:25.159
going to talk all the nerdy stuff
about soils. You know how I always

477
00:36:25.159 --> 00:36:30.480
say soil, soil, soil.
You gotta start with the soil. We're

478
00:36:30.519 --> 00:36:34.760
going to pick his brain. He's
an expert on all kinds of things soils.

479
00:36:34.880 --> 00:36:39.280
When I say soil, I'm including
compost I'm including bed mixes, you

480
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:44.639
know, mulches that go on top
of the soil. Lots of important facts

481
00:36:44.920 --> 00:36:47.480
to know about. We're gon we're
gonna really tease a lot of that information

482
00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:52.039
out of Luis this morning, and
I look forward to that. So make

483
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:55.320
sure you're listening in the eight o'clock
hour, and if you have questions about

484
00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:02.400
soil, anything related to bed prep
or soil or mulching or new technologies in

485
00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:07.400
that area, let's put Louis on
the spot and let's let's Luise tell us

486
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:13.679
exactly the things we need to know, because when you get the soil right,

487
00:37:14.079 --> 00:37:19.199
you have beautiful gardens. You have
bountiful gardens, you have beautiful landscapes.

488
00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.039
It's all about the soil. Hey, we're gonna take a break.

489
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:28.000
We'll be right back. Ktr H
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of

490
00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:34.719
the products or services advertised on this
program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line

491
00:37:35.000 --> 00:38:01.159
with Skip Rictory. Just watching as
good morning on a good Sunday morning or

492
00:38:01.440 --> 00:38:06.960
gardening, whether it's walking through the
yard this morning, just kind of enjoying

493
00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:10.760
an early morning cup of coffee,
whether it's getting out this afternoon, visiting

494
00:38:10.840 --> 00:38:14.840
some garden centers. I don't know
driving around. You know, you can

495
00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:19.639
learn a lot about horticultures about driving
around. And here's what I'm talking about.

496
00:38:20.199 --> 00:38:22.639
You're sitting there, you're looking at
your yard, just like, what

497
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:23.440
can I do? I don't know
what to do? I don't know what

498
00:38:23.519 --> 00:38:28.000
to plant here? How can I
improve this? And drive around town and

499
00:38:28.079 --> 00:38:30.280
you see things it's like, oh, I like the way they did that

500
00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:34.360
that bed, and the way maybe
they put in colladiums or some sun loving

501
00:38:34.400 --> 00:38:37.760
flowers or something, and it's like
that would really look good at my place.

502
00:38:37.440 --> 00:38:40.719
I do that all the time.
In fact, my head is often

503
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:45.880
swinging from left to right going down
the road, probably when I admit that.

504
00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:49.079
But that's how it is with gardeners. You know, we are we

505
00:38:49.639 --> 00:38:53.639
notice plants and if you notice other
people's landscapes, just really as you go

506
00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:58.559
about, lots of good ideas,
a lot of fun stuff. Plus I

507
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:00.639
just love it. It's a very
enjoyable. Hey, maybe you have a

508
00:39:00.639 --> 00:39:05.559
little piece of property and you are
interested in a tractor, you know,

509
00:39:05.719 --> 00:39:09.239
something to help you move multz,
to help you carry some feedbags back and

510
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:14.000
forth, or maybe you're doing some
fence work. Well, I've got the

511
00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:19.119
deal for you. And that deal
is between Cuboda Tractor and lens Down Moody.

512
00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:22.000
Here in the Greater Houston area.
You know, there's a several lens

513
00:39:22.039 --> 00:39:24.199
Down Moodies. You're not gonna have
trouble finding one close to you. But

514
00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:30.320
they have a Caboda twenty five oh
one. It is a hydrostatic transmission cool

515
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:35.039
cool tractor. I call it a
sweet ride, and that from a horticultural

516
00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:39.719
agricultural standpoint, that is absolutely true. The deal is this zero money down,

517
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:45.119
zero percent interest, eighty four months, eighty four months, seven years.

518
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:49.119
Now you're not going to do better
than that. Number One, you're

519
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:52.559
getting a tractor from Lansdown which is
a great company, great service, you

520
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:55.920
know, just they treat their customers
right. Number two, you're getting a

521
00:39:55.960 --> 00:40:00.000
Cuboda, which is an awesome tractor, especially it's twenty five l twenty five

522
00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:04.880
oh one is a very nice tractor. And then on top of it all,

523
00:40:05.039 --> 00:40:07.519
you're getting a deal of no down, no interest for seven years.

524
00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:10.400
How do you do better than that? Now, this is gonna last forever,

525
00:40:10.599 --> 00:40:15.599
So go ahead and give him a
call. Landsdown Moody Tractor. That's

526
00:40:15.840 --> 00:40:19.760
l M Tractor dot com. You
can find the store near you. You

527
00:40:19.840 --> 00:40:22.639
can get the number to swing by. Sit on one one of those L

528
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:29.400
twenty five excuse me, L twenty
five, Oh ones, I came on

529
00:40:29.519 --> 00:40:31.840
numbers in my head today. Sit
on a L twenty five one. Find

530
00:40:31.920 --> 00:40:36.920
out. Just experience what that feels
like. And I know you will be

531
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.039
sold because they are workhorses and they
do a great job. Well, we're

532
00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:45.360
gonna head out now to Leake City
and talk to John V. Hello,

533
00:40:45.480 --> 00:40:52.239
John V. Good Morning's Kissing gardenline. Yes, yesterday was National Happy National

534
00:40:52.400 --> 00:41:00.880
Honeybee Day, and yes, yes, and so basically they're says that the

535
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:05.320
wild bees advocate for them. Native
bees are known as bees if facing increasing

536
00:41:05.320 --> 00:41:08.719
of thestiction there's more than twenty thousand
species of bees worldwide, my goodness.

537
00:41:09.400 --> 00:41:14.559
And so I would want to do
is I know you had talked earlier this

538
00:41:14.719 --> 00:41:20.639
summer about going to Dayton, Texas
for the certification classes for being becoming a

539
00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:23.760
beekeeper. Yeah, yeah, and
so I just wanted to know, like

540
00:41:24.960 --> 00:41:28.960
what kind of like throughout the year, what kind of season, and what

541
00:41:29.239 --> 00:41:35.239
kind of setup do we do for
each season for the bees? Okay,

542
00:41:35.639 --> 00:41:38.039
well it depends on the bees.
You're going after From a standpoint of all

543
00:41:38.119 --> 00:41:45.960
bees, minimizing pesticide use is important. Planting plants that attract them, to

544
00:41:45.159 --> 00:41:50.840
supply them with the pollen and the
nectar that they need, and to also

545
00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:54.000
help you with your pollination. By
the way, any time is a good

546
00:41:54.039 --> 00:41:58.199
time to be adding those kinds of
things to the landscape, and so that

547
00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:01.440
would be important. You can go
out to the bee sup b supplies a

548
00:42:01.559 --> 00:42:06.079
great place. I brag on it
all the time. The first time I

549
00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:08.400
was there, my jaw was dropped
most of the time just looking at all

550
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:15.239
their supplies and products. But anything
we do to enhance our habitat around our

551
00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:20.239
house for bees is going to be
very helpful. And honey bees are very

552
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:24.920
important. I mean they are like
amazing. You just think about momentlessness like

553
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:30.880
farm animals that are providing us with
lots of good services and with good food

554
00:42:31.199 --> 00:42:37.159
too in the process. So those
are planting for bees and probably the one

555
00:42:37.239 --> 00:42:40.199
thing that I would recommend people think
about and do more because we can select

556
00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:45.079
plants for that. Oh that's a
wonderful. Yeah. Because I was thinking

557
00:42:45.159 --> 00:42:49.159
for a job may trail on chardine, I thought it would be nice to

558
00:42:49.239 --> 00:42:52.519
be able to have people come with
me to get trained so they can have

559
00:42:52.679 --> 00:42:57.199
them in there. They're garden is
too. Yeah, and it's it's really

560
00:42:57.280 --> 00:43:00.199
not even a certification, it's just
education. So if you want to be

561
00:43:00.280 --> 00:43:04.840
a beekeeper and have some boxes in
the backyard, for some people it's like,

562
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:07.599
oh no, that's these are going
to attack me. No, they're

563
00:43:07.639 --> 00:43:10.840
not a good, well kept hive. Not only do you get the honey

564
00:43:10.880 --> 00:43:15.079
out of it, but you get
the services of those bees. And then

565
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:19.000
just to go out there for a
tour is awesome. What's a month out

566
00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:23.360
there at Dayton at the supply you
can go out and get a cool tour.

567
00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:28.199
I was amazed at all the knowledge
that they have, of all the

568
00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:30.400
product that they have. I mean, like that tour you get to try

569
00:43:30.440 --> 00:43:35.400
six different kinds of honey I had. I had a heck of a good

570
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:39.400
time out there when I went,
Yeah, well, wonderful planet for a

571
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:43.760
September, then that will be great. Oh absolutely, Yeah. Just give

572
00:43:43.800 --> 00:43:47.599
him a call, make sure that
you know when you're you're going, you

573
00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:52.000
know when they're going to have it, and arrange and if anyone's listening and

574
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:55.159
has a bigger group, then you
want to go out there, give him

575
00:43:55.159 --> 00:43:59.719
a call because they do it once
a month, but they may be able

576
00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:04.960
to schedule a tour if your group
is large enough for a time that's convenient

577
00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:08.159
for both you and that they're able
to accommodate. But anyway, just so,

578
00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:13.880
since we're talking about B supporting,
the website is the B supply dot

579
00:44:13.960 --> 00:44:16.760
com. Bb supply dot com to
check out. Hey, John V,

580
00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:21.119
thanks for that question. I hope
you enjoy it if you get a chance

581
00:44:21.199 --> 00:44:23.760
to go out there. Oh yes, have a wonderful Sunday to all of

582
00:44:23.840 --> 00:44:29.320
you. Thank you, all right, thank you very much, appreciate that

583
00:44:29.480 --> 00:44:32.960
call. Let's see. Yeah,
that boy, that is so cool.

584
00:44:34.679 --> 00:44:38.119
I you know, I always brag
on our feed stores, and a feed

585
00:44:38.239 --> 00:44:44.559
store that is a place I just
love to go visit is Grimes County Feed.

586
00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:47.840
Grimes County Feed is up there in
Grimes County. So if you think

587
00:44:47.840 --> 00:44:52.199
about Navasota and College Station and then
put another point off to the right to

588
00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:55.719
make a triangle, that's where it
is. To be more specific, I

589
00:44:55.760 --> 00:45:00.440
mean, we can give you the
details. Two miles west of F two

590
00:45:00.880 --> 00:45:05.920
forty four on State Highway thirty out
in Carlos, Texas. And you know

591
00:45:06.199 --> 00:45:09.440
all the communities out there, lots
of wonderful low communities, the Kingwood and

592
00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:15.239
Merewood subdivisions. They're your backyard feed
store. If you live in bead Eyes

593
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:19.559
or Iola or Shiro or Richards or
Anderson, any of those places, they're

594
00:45:19.599 --> 00:45:22.440
your backyard feed store. Now.
They have ten percent off all tree hugger

595
00:45:22.480 --> 00:45:29.880
sprinklers in stock. They have a
great supply of fertilizers, and they're having

596
00:45:30.639 --> 00:45:34.400
let's say, they just finished their
customer appreciation Week, which was really a

597
00:45:34.480 --> 00:45:37.360
lot of fun. But the roy
family has lived in Northern Grimes County for

598
00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:42.280
the last twenty years. In its
personal service, for example, you get

599
00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:45.760
Chris's business card, it's got his
personal cell phone on it. So this

600
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:49.079
isn't a company that like, go
away, we're about to close. This

601
00:45:49.320 --> 00:45:52.559
is a company that sticks with you, not only in the sale, but

602
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:55.840
after the sale, to make you
have success. That's what they're about at

603
00:45:55.880 --> 00:46:00.679
Grimes County Feed and that's why they
stock up like they do you on the

604
00:46:00.800 --> 00:46:04.320
materials that are most important for you
as a gardener, as well as anyone

605
00:46:04.400 --> 00:46:07.880
who's interested in feed, feed supplies, animal supplies. We're going to take

606
00:46:07.920 --> 00:46:10.960
a break. Our phone number is
seven one three two, one, two,

607
00:46:12.400 --> 00:46:15.239
five, eight seven four. Give
Josh a coult. We'll get you

608
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:17.920
on the board and talk to you
right after we talk to Ralph in Paarland.

609
00:46:19.039 --> 00:46:37.280
When we come back. It's well, good morning on a beautiful day

610
00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:40.119
for gardening. Lovely out there.
I always like when the sun comes up

611
00:46:40.199 --> 00:46:45.159
and got that early morning sunlight.
I don't know, It's just a peaceful

612
00:46:45.199 --> 00:46:47.320
time of day, good time to
be out in the backyard, enjoying the

613
00:46:47.400 --> 00:46:52.920
sounds of birds, feeling the general
breeze at a time when temperatures are not

614
00:46:52.199 --> 00:46:57.719
so blazing hot. If you haven't
fertilized your lawn in the last couple of

615
00:46:57.800 --> 00:47:01.000
months, you ought to consider sweet
green from nitrofoss. Sweet green is one

616
00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:07.440
of the highest concentrations of nitrogen in
a organic fertilizer that you're going to find.

617
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:12.000
It's eleven percent, so it's eleven
zero four fertilizer. It is a

618
00:47:12.880 --> 00:47:15.159
molasses based fertilizer. So what does
that mean, Well, it means that

619
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:22.239
they start with molasses. They have
some microbial activity in that molasses. Anytime

620
00:47:22.280 --> 00:47:24.559
you have sugar, microbes are going
to be happy about that, and that

621
00:47:24.800 --> 00:47:31.000
combination creates that organic nutrient blend that
is just excellent for your lawns. That

622
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:35.719
low phosphorus, a low middle number
is really important for a lawn because most

623
00:47:35.800 --> 00:47:37.639
lawns have too much of that already. If you haven't a soil tests done,

624
00:47:37.639 --> 00:47:42.199
I'd assume you have plenty of phosphorus, but sol tests it's a way

625
00:47:42.239 --> 00:47:45.719
to know for sure. But sweet
green, it smells fresh. It's really

626
00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:49.199
popular by the way, this year
they have stalked up on it, so

627
00:47:49.440 --> 00:47:52.519
because last year the popularity of it
was through the roof, and so now

628
00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:55.320
you're going to be able to find
it. You just go to all the

629
00:47:55.360 --> 00:47:59.719
places we get nitro FoST products.
That would be feed stores, that would

630
00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:04.800
be hardware stores, that would be
home mom and pop garden centers that we

631
00:48:04.880 --> 00:48:08.280
brag about so much here on Garden
Line. Sweet Green from Nitrofists is an

632
00:48:08.320 --> 00:48:15.039
excellent product for a natural way of
fertilizing and a gradual release that will provide

633
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:19.239
you with what you need right now
as we prepare for the next application of

634
00:48:19.280 --> 00:48:22.360
fertilizers, as we move into fall
to get our launch ready over the winter,

635
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:27.440
we're gonna head out and out to
pair Land and talk to Ralph.

636
00:48:27.639 --> 00:48:31.719
Hello, Ralph, good morning.
I've got a question about eagles and holly.

637
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.119
I planted it three or four years
ago. It had a few berries,

638
00:48:37.400 --> 00:48:42.119
and when I planted it birds got
on ourselthing. But anyway, it

639
00:48:42.239 --> 00:48:45.880
blooms every year, but I never
get a Berri's hoorn. Is it one

640
00:48:45.920 --> 00:48:50.760
of these plants that I have to
have another one with it? Yes?

641
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:55.519
Yeah, Holly's in general are separate
male and female plants, and so it's

642
00:48:55.559 --> 00:49:00.480
one of that groups of plants that's
that way. So eagle Stunt is capable

643
00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:04.760
of putting on beautiful berries, a
lot of them. But you've got to

644
00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:09.400
have some mail holly nearby and nail
pollinator kind. And I don't know where

645
00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:13.159
you got yours, but wherever you
got it, that you could go in

646
00:49:13.280 --> 00:49:15.639
if they know what they're talking about
and just ask them, you know what,

647
00:49:15.719 --> 00:49:20.440
it would be a good mail holly
that you guys carry. That would

648
00:49:20.440 --> 00:49:24.440
be a partner for eagle Stun.
All right, okay, I appreciate it,

649
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:28.519
all right, thank you for the
call. I appreciate that, Ralph.

650
00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:31.960
Yeah, hollies are a great plant. A couple of tips, since

651
00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:37.159
we're talking about hollies, a couple
of thoughts about that. Hollies need a

652
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:42.800
little extra TLC when you're getting them
going, I'd say for the first two

653
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:46.079
years you don't want them to lock
for water. Now, once they're well

654
00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:50.519
established, it's not it's not a
worry. I mean, it's not like

655
00:49:50.639 --> 00:49:52.760
they're prima donnas. You got to
sit there every day and squore them when

656
00:49:52.800 --> 00:49:57.480
they scream, I gotta have water. Now. They're they're tough plants,

657
00:49:57.599 --> 00:50:02.280
they are, but early if you
let them get dry, we see some

658
00:50:02.639 --> 00:50:07.440
considerable problems. Hollies don't wilt,
so you look out and go, oh,

659
00:50:07.519 --> 00:50:09.960
I need to water my holly.
They're suffering and they're not showing it,

660
00:50:10.159 --> 00:50:14.800
and so you got to take care
of them early on. The growth

661
00:50:14.920 --> 00:50:21.559
rate is often slow to medium on
a holly in general, but proper care

662
00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:27.840
they can become a beautiful plant.
And they're being an evergreen, you get

663
00:50:27.920 --> 00:50:30.800
the year round benefits like we're talking
about berries, for example, visiting with

664
00:50:30.960 --> 00:50:36.440
Ralph, the evergreen foliage and then
the berries. So if you need to

665
00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:38.760
screen of view, there's hollies of
ever size. There's just a lot of

666
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:45.039
options out there that are worth considering. But just know that with that particular

667
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:49.400
kind of plant, the early first
two years of care and adequate moisture.

668
00:50:49.800 --> 00:50:53.800
Consistent adequate moisture is very important,
and after that you are off to the

669
00:50:53.920 --> 00:51:01.239
races. I love love holly plants. So we're still doing summer lawn fertilizing

670
00:51:01.320 --> 00:51:07.440
as needed, and we're about to
do our fall fertilization. We put a

671
00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:13.800
different kind of fertilizer down in the
fall, one that's beefier and the potassium

672
00:51:13.920 --> 00:51:19.719
content a little much less in the
nitrogen content. But in order to fertilize

673
00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:22.280
properly, you know, I talk
about a lot of good fertilizers, and

674
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:24.719
boy do we ever have an abundance
here on garden Line to choose from.

675
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:30.800
But really the best fertilizer for your
soil depends on what's in your soil,

676
00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:34.920
right. You know. We could
say that something is a tomato fertilizer,

677
00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:38.039
for example, and the blend in
there is good for tomatoes. But let's

678
00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:43.280
just say your phosphorus was through the
roof high or almost none, which is

679
00:51:43.440 --> 00:51:47.079
rare. Then you would need to
fertilize accordingly to what your soil says.

680
00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:52.199
So if you go out to Southwest
Fertilizer, Bob has got a soil probe

681
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:53.760
out there that he will loan you
out. You have to leave him a

682
00:51:53.800 --> 00:51:58.440
deposit because those things, like many
things, tend to sprout legs and walk

683
00:51:58.519 --> 00:52:00.960
off. But it's free to use. Just go in and get it.

684
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:06.360
It'll allow you to take a proper
soil test, which is a vertical core

685
00:52:06.480 --> 00:52:09.159
of soil from the top of the
soil down six inches deep. Take a

686
00:52:09.239 --> 00:52:13.079
bunch of cores, mix them together, and send them to the soil lab

687
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:17.679
for analysis. That is something you
should do about every three to five years

688
00:52:17.840 --> 00:52:22.920
because just periodically checking on things,
you know, as we add nutrients and

689
00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:28.960
as plants use nutrient it varies,
that really works well. Of course,

690
00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:32.159
you know, you would expect that
kind of customer service, community service from

691
00:52:32.159 --> 00:52:37.400
Bob out of Southwest Fertilizer. They've
been around since what nineteen fifty five,

692
00:52:38.639 --> 00:52:42.199
or actually they may have been around
longer than that. I need to ask

693
00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:44.920
Bob of that. I think it's
been nineteen fifty five they actually went in.

694
00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:47.400
They're serving the community. They have
every product you can imagine. If

695
00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:51.840
they don't have it, you don't
need it, whether it's fertilizer, pesticides,

696
00:52:52.000 --> 00:52:55.119
even tools. They've got to an
amazing eighty foot long wall of tools.

697
00:52:55.920 --> 00:53:00.679
Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is the website. The location down in Southwest Houston

698
00:53:00.840 --> 00:53:06.559
is corner of Bissinette and Renwick.
But just go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com.

699
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:09.119
When you walk in there, you're
gonna walk out with everything you need

700
00:53:09.320 --> 00:53:14.559
for your lawn and for your garden. We're gonna head out now to let's

701
00:53:14.559 --> 00:53:17.360
see pair Land and talk to Kevin. Hello, Kevin, Hey, good

702
00:53:17.400 --> 00:53:22.800
morning. All right. So I've
planned at some roses, all kinds of

703
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:30.800
different varietals. After the twenty one
freeze that killed everything. They've been doing

704
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:36.880
very well. Use the medina has
to grow fertilizer on them, and I

705
00:53:36.960 --> 00:53:42.639
mean they've been great, lots of
pretty flowers. Now they've just kind of

706
00:53:42.880 --> 00:53:47.079
gotten all these different kind of crazy
off shoots and kind of going every which

707
00:53:47.159 --> 00:53:52.280
way. When is it good time
to thrown them back? Or should I

708
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:58.159
wait? I'm not a rose expert. I just wanted to get something to

709
00:53:59.079 --> 00:54:04.760
replace the it did plants that I
had. Okay, yeah, good question.

710
00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:08.679
And these are kind of a shrub
type rose. I bought shrub type

711
00:54:08.800 --> 00:54:13.639
roses for the front, and then
I got a couple of that, you

712
00:54:13.719 --> 00:54:16.280
know, I don't know, long
stem ones you know, for the back.

713
00:54:16.559 --> 00:54:19.920
Okay, they're they're all kind of
small, but the ones in the

714
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:23.400
fun are definitely starting that shrub.
Okay, So for those shrubs, you

715
00:54:23.800 --> 00:54:29.800
want to give them a shearing back
by about a third uh in late August

716
00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:36.719
or early September in order to well
follow that with fertilizing them and watering the

717
00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:39.480
fertilizer in. I even scratched my
fertilizer into the surface about an inch,

718
00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:43.760
you know, just kind of raking
over it in the soil, because that

719
00:54:43.840 --> 00:54:49.960
way it when you watered in,
it dissolves the materials, or in the

720
00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:53.320
case of an organic fertilizer, it's
stimulating that microbial activity that will break that

721
00:54:53.440 --> 00:55:00.039
fertilizer down and release the nutrients.
And with that that light shearing and the

722
00:55:00.400 --> 00:55:04.719
fertilizing and then watering, you'll set
yourself up for a really good show in

723
00:55:04.800 --> 00:55:09.280
October when roses really come on strong
again. Okay, yeah, I appreciate

724
00:55:09.360 --> 00:55:13.519
the help. Right now, they
just need a break from this blazing heat

725
00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:16.519
and for you to make sure they
don't get too dry or definitely not stay

726
00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:22.239
soggy wet either. All right,
thank you, yes, sir, you

727
00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:25.760
take care, you take care.
Yeah, taking care of our plants is

728
00:55:25.840 --> 00:55:31.400
important, and during this heat,
it's really tough. You know, the

729
00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:36.599
folks had affordable tree Martin and his
wife Joe. I talk about him all

730
00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:40.840
the time. They are our premier
tree care service for Garden Line Radio,

731
00:55:40.960 --> 00:55:45.519
and there's a reason for that.
They number one. They do what they

732
00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:49.320
say they're going to do at a
reasonable price, so you don't have to

733
00:55:49.400 --> 00:55:52.400
wonder whether they're going to show up. When you ask them to come,

734
00:55:52.679 --> 00:55:54.679
they'll tell you and then they'll be
there. That's the kind of business they

735
00:55:54.760 --> 00:55:58.920
are. They've had employees with him
for fifteen to twenty years. I mean,

736
00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:01.760
these are experienced folks. These are
knowledgeable folks. When you make a

737
00:56:01.840 --> 00:56:05.480
phone call, Martin or Joe will
answer. And by the way, that

738
00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:08.320
phone number seven one, three,
six nine nine, twenty six sixty three.

739
00:56:08.719 --> 00:56:14.079
Now's the time to get out there
and get some deep root watering done

740
00:56:14.360 --> 00:56:17.280
to really fill that soil of volume. The little sprinklers that you put on

741
00:56:17.400 --> 00:56:21.559
your lawn don't do trees a whole
lot of good. I mean, unless

742
00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:23.480
you just run it and run it
and run it to get us soaking.

743
00:56:23.880 --> 00:56:27.559
With a deep root watering, you
can get the water right down to where

744
00:56:27.559 --> 00:56:30.440
the roots are. You can make
sure your trees have the resiliency to get

745
00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:35.920
through this time. It's also time
to be looking at storms. You know,

746
00:56:36.159 --> 00:56:39.159
storms come and they're welcome to the
greater Houston area. I mean,

747
00:56:39.239 --> 00:56:44.599
we are down in Hurricane Alley here. They could do the trimming you need

748
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:47.280
done. If there's any weak branch
structures, they can fix that. You

749
00:56:47.400 --> 00:56:53.159
just it's always better to prepare things
rather than to react to things. Okay,

750
00:56:53.519 --> 00:56:58.239
so prepare for the storms that are
coming rather than Okay, Martin,

751
00:56:58.719 --> 00:57:00.880
the storm just split my tree all
apart. Could you come take it away?

752
00:57:01.400 --> 00:57:05.519
That's not what we're after. They
know how to take care of your

753
00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:08.880
trees and do it in a way
that really helps your tree to thrive.

754
00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:15.280
Trees are so valuable to the value
of your home. And just like you

755
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:17.320
go outside now and have a beautiful
shade tree on one hundred degree day,

756
00:57:17.400 --> 00:57:22.159
Boy, that's worth something. A
tree that shades the west wall of your

757
00:57:22.199 --> 00:57:27.480
home and cuts down on heat and
just that radiant heat that comes in in

758
00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:31.360
the evenings or shades over your roof, those are all important affordable tree and

759
00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:35.360
Martin, they know how to take
care of your trees and they will be

760
00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:37.679
honest with you, they will be
direct with you, and they will do

761
00:57:37.800 --> 00:57:40.760
what they say they're going to do
at a very very reasonable price. We're

762
00:57:40.800 --> 00:57:44.719
gonna have to take a little break
here for the news quickly. I will

763
00:57:44.760 --> 00:57:47.639
be back. Our number is seven
one three, two one two five eight

764
00:57:47.920 --> 00:57:52.639
seven four in David and Lake Jackson. When we come back, you will

765
00:57:52.639 --> 00:58:08.800
be the first up. Good Sunday
morning, on a great day for gardening.

766
00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:13.199
You're listening to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Ricter and let's

767
00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:16.400
taught gardening. We're gonna start by
going straight out to David and Lake Jackson.

768
00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:22.119
David, thanks for hanging on.
How can we help? Good Sunday

769
00:58:22.159 --> 00:58:25.960
morning. I've got fallen up on
the conversation about Holly's. Okay, I

770
00:58:27.199 --> 00:58:31.400
have a Tunny's holly, actually two
that are very well established. I don't

771
00:58:31.440 --> 00:58:37.400
know how old they are, but
they're twelve to fifteen foot tall, about

772
00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:39.920
ten foot in diameter or so.
But they're I don't know, twenty plus

773
00:58:40.039 --> 00:58:45.639
years old. But they've started growing
shooters is what I call them, or

774
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:51.920
new growth from the roots, and
they're fairly can be fairly far out from

775
00:58:51.960 --> 00:58:55.280
the trunk too. So I was
wondering what causes that and what to do

776
00:58:55.360 --> 00:59:00.360
about it. It often happens like
if you try to cut one of them

777
00:59:00.480 --> 00:59:05.159
down and then you'll start seeing these
little things pop up. But it'll even

778
00:59:05.199 --> 00:59:07.199
happen while the tree is growing without
it being cut down. But it's just

779
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:13.960
it's just the fact that that particular
kind of holly has the ability to send

780
00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:17.840
up sprouts from the roots, rich
suckers or something along those lines, and

781
00:59:19.039 --> 00:59:22.320
you just have to cut them out
and remove them. You definitely don't want

782
00:59:22.360 --> 00:59:25.559
to spray them because they're attached to
the mother plant. And so yeah,

783
00:59:25.719 --> 00:59:31.360
that's just a factor with some hollies. Oh goodness. Okay, Well there's

784
00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:36.000
like dozens and dozens of them,
oh boy, wow. Yeah, and

785
00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:38.679
you never had that problem before.
Well, it's just, you know,

786
00:59:38.760 --> 00:59:43.400
it's been that way for a little
while. We just have we have cut

787
00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:46.119
them, actually have gone through and
we needing them, uh huh and taking

788
00:59:46.159 --> 00:59:49.480
them down. But then if you
don't stay on top of it, then

789
00:59:49.840 --> 00:59:55.079
yeah, they get pretty wooty,
and then there's other vegetation things you don't

790
00:59:55.119 --> 00:59:59.519
want to weeded around it. So
that is to be it's been that way.

791
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:04.480
I just used a sharp shovel,
uh David and gone in you know

792
01:00:04.719 --> 01:00:07.519
between the up shoot coming out of
the ground and the mother plant and just

793
01:00:07.760 --> 01:00:12.480
shoved it in the ground to cut
that loose and then grabbed it and kind

794
01:00:12.519 --> 01:00:14.639
of drug it, pulled it out
with the root. I mean, you

795
01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:17.800
kind of figure out how to do
it. But just tiny, tiny,

796
01:00:17.840 --> 01:00:22.119
even like a six think that nicks
is how they start. Yeah, when

797
01:00:22.159 --> 01:00:30.119
they when they get started. There
are sometimes people will use a ground cloth.

798
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:34.000
I'm not a fan of groundcloth at
all, but they'll use that covered

799
01:00:34.079 --> 01:00:38.239
with some kind of a multuay to
be able to just block them out that

800
01:00:38.400 --> 01:00:43.559
way, like is done with some
of the live oaks that tend to really

801
01:00:43.679 --> 01:00:47.599
sucker bad around the base. Any
soil disturbance that you do where you're cutting

802
01:00:47.679 --> 01:00:52.000
roots and things. Though, it
also is going to stimulate new growth and

803
01:00:52.079 --> 01:00:55.679
time of those kind of things.
So it's just part of the trade off.

804
01:00:55.960 --> 01:01:00.760
This must be not a real stiff
holly or is it is? Like

805
01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:06.239
it it's very stiff. You get
into it, it'll pricky pretty well.

806
01:01:06.679 --> 01:01:14.280
Okay. So that nice bread card
deep forest green okay, with the little

807
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:19.639
pointers on it. Okay that yeah, that's like there's a dwarf version of

808
01:01:19.719 --> 01:01:22.960
that one to call rotunda that stays
real compact, and boy, they are

809
01:01:23.119 --> 01:01:30.400
versatile. They are versatile plants.
Yeah, if any, if any listeners

810
01:01:30.840 --> 01:01:35.519
have daughters, this is one of
the top five plants to put underneath their

811
01:01:35.519 --> 01:01:42.119
bedroom window. It is. It
will make sure that I love the plant.

812
01:01:42.159 --> 01:01:45.639
I've amazed how much shade they can
take too. You know. I

813
01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:47.920
think of plants like that should be
out in the sun, but they'll put

814
01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:51.159
up with quite a bit of shade. Dude, real, real tough.

815
01:01:51.440 --> 01:01:52.400
The only thing you don't want to
do is have to get in there and

816
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:59.199
prune hand brune on it or something, because you will get blood. Yeah,

817
01:01:59.280 --> 01:02:02.199
you got some long sleeves for sure. Yep, that's right. But

818
01:02:02.320 --> 01:02:07.199
they're a good plant. Yeah.
So if we want to if we just

819
01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:10.960
get tired of dealing with it,
and we go to cut it down and

820
01:02:12.400 --> 01:02:15.119
pull it out. I mean,
the trunk on this thing's probably for four

821
01:02:15.199 --> 01:02:19.079
inches at least, right, it's
great to make to kill all of it.

822
01:02:19.199 --> 01:02:21.519
Besides, you just cut it down
because the roofs will just continue to

823
01:02:21.599 --> 01:02:24.119
go. Yep. Well, if
you decide to get rid of any woody

824
01:02:24.239 --> 01:02:29.960
plant, if you when you cut
it down. If you dab that cut

825
01:02:30.239 --> 01:02:36.480
surface with a product containing tricloper,
it's t r I c l O P

826
01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:39.280
y R. So if you go
into a garden center and something says it's

827
01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:44.159
like poison ivy, poison oak killer, that's going to have triclo peer in

828
01:02:44.199 --> 01:02:46.320
it, and you don't have to
dilute it a lot. You just just

829
01:02:46.960 --> 01:02:51.199
dab it right on that fresh cut. Don't wait the day after you cut

830
01:02:51.280 --> 01:02:53.639
it. Cut it right. Then
it'll soak inn and it'll go a long

831
01:02:53.760 --> 01:02:57.159
way toward killing it. And it's
just a matter of how big is the

832
01:02:57.239 --> 01:03:00.480
plant and everything as to whether you
need one or two applications to do that.

833
01:03:01.599 --> 01:03:05.039
Oh, I'm sure Lake Hardware down
here has it. Oh yeah,

834
01:03:05.159 --> 01:03:07.719
they're going to have more than one
product that has triclipar in it, that's

835
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:14.840
for sure. Okay, all right, Well, I'm gonna keep looking at

836
01:03:14.960 --> 01:03:17.360
if anybody else has tips and ideas. One of the thoughts I had David

837
01:03:17.480 --> 01:03:22.039
was maybe a plant growth regulator.
There are things you can spray that kind

838
01:03:22.079 --> 01:03:25.320
of regulate plants. Maybe that would
help minimize it. But I just don't

839
01:03:25.360 --> 01:03:29.199
think that's going to be worth your
time in trouble. But maybe there's another

840
01:03:29.239 --> 01:03:34.320
solution out there we can figure out. I'll keep my eyes open. Okay,

841
01:03:34.800 --> 01:03:38.039
all right, thank you, sir. Appreciate that call. You're listening

842
01:03:38.079 --> 01:03:42.960
to Garden Line. We're here to
answer your gardening questions, but that would

843
01:03:43.000 --> 01:03:46.960
require you giving us a call seven
one three two one two five eight seven

844
01:03:47.079 --> 01:03:51.000
four. I just want to remind
you, first of all that we are

845
01:03:51.079 --> 01:03:54.920
going to have Louis Tomorrow, Louis
Chamorrow from Heirloom Soils in for the eight

846
01:03:55.000 --> 01:04:00.480
o'clock hour, and we're going to
pick his brain on all things related to

847
01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:05.599
soils, mulches, compost bed mixes. You know, we talk about things

848
01:04:05.719 --> 01:04:10.599
like leafmode composts, and we talk
about things like you know, fungo composts

849
01:04:10.719 --> 01:04:16.480
and materials mixes that are used for
container plants, and all those kinds of

850
01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:19.599
blends you know you want to put
in a herb garden or vegetable garden.

851
01:04:19.679 --> 01:04:23.280
The kinds of blends we need.
We're going to pick his brain about that.

852
01:04:23.360 --> 01:04:26.280
So if you have any questions,
this is your chance to ask the

853
01:04:26.360 --> 01:04:30.800
man. Heirloom Soils produce a lot
of products, a lot of quality products

854
01:04:30.840 --> 01:04:34.320
that are available in a lot of
places. So here you can pick the

855
01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:38.119
brain and the guy who knows all
about it, and we're going to do

856
01:04:38.280 --> 01:04:41.360
just that at eight o'clock during the
eight o'clock hour, So stick around,

857
01:04:41.639 --> 01:04:44.199
get check up a questions ready for
us, and give us a call.

858
01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:47.280
You know, I talk about fertilizing
your lawn, and I talk about soil

859
01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:50.119
test, and I'll talk about the
importance of nutrients and everything like that.

860
01:04:51.000 --> 01:04:55.440
We also mentioned a product called azamite, and some of you may be a

861
01:04:55.480 --> 01:04:59.320
little confused. What is azamite?
Is that fertilizer? Well, let's put

862
01:04:59.440 --> 01:05:01.480
I don't think think of it as
a fertilizer, even though it's you're putting

863
01:05:01.519 --> 01:05:05.840
it on for its nutrients. But
it's not like an NPK at fifteen five,

864
01:05:05.880 --> 01:05:12.519
ten sixty four or those kinds of
products. It's the micros. It's

865
01:05:12.559 --> 01:05:16.760
those trace elements that are so important. And when you put down trace elements,

866
01:05:16.920 --> 01:05:21.079
what you're doing is you're loading the
bank account of the soil with the

867
01:05:21.239 --> 01:05:26.360
many things that are essential for plant
growth but are just needed in very small

868
01:05:26.400 --> 01:05:30.079
amounts. And if you haven't done
an azomite application this year, now is

869
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:30.679
a fine time to do it.
I mean, you can do it at

870
01:05:30.679 --> 01:05:35.639
anytime. Often people will just fertilize
and then azamite. Don't put them in

871
01:05:35.719 --> 01:05:40.719
the same bind. The particle size
is a little different. I prefer to

872
01:05:40.800 --> 01:05:44.280
do the fertilizing and then following with
the azamite. It just makes it easier

873
01:05:44.320 --> 01:05:46.400
to get it all out evenly like
you want. But it works really well.

874
01:05:46.840 --> 01:05:49.159
You can use it in your lawn. I use it in my vegetable

875
01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:54.719
gardens because I want the things that
I grow and eat to have the full

876
01:05:54.800 --> 01:05:59.000
package of nutrients, because we need
a whole lot of nutrients. Plants do,

877
01:05:59.199 --> 01:06:01.639
but we do too for our own
bodies. Asamite can provide just that.

878
01:06:01.760 --> 01:06:04.639
You can go to azamite Texas dot
com if you want to find out

879
01:06:04.679 --> 01:06:10.519
more information and just see what we're
talking about when we brag on asmite.

880
01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:14.199
Well it's here. It is time
for another break seven one three, two,

881
01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:16.480
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Give Josh a call and he will

882
01:06:16.519 --> 01:06:33.480
get you on the boards for when
we come right back. Well, welcome

883
01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:38.760
back to garden Line. We are
continuing on with your gardening questions, and

884
01:06:39.239 --> 01:06:42.199
I don't know if you tips and
tricks that I might offer here and there.

885
01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:45.840
For example, you need to return
your grass clippings when you mow.

886
01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:50.960
Did you know that grass clippings contain
the perfect blend of nutrients for grass?

887
01:06:51.320 --> 01:06:55.039
How can we say that? We'll
think about this for the plant to make

888
01:06:55.119 --> 01:07:00.079
a grass blade. At clipping,
it takes all the important big nutrients like

889
01:07:00.239 --> 01:07:04.639
nitrogen, phosphors, potassium, the
secondary nutrients like sulfur, magnesium, calcium,

890
01:07:05.039 --> 01:07:10.599
and all those trace elements. You
think of something as obscure as zinc

891
01:07:10.840 --> 01:07:15.880
or molebdanum or manganese or those kinds
of things. It takes that too,

892
01:07:15.239 --> 01:07:18.599
and in that clipping those nutrients are
there because otherwise it couldn't have grown.

893
01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:23.840
These are essential for plant growth,
even though you didn't trace amounts are essential.

894
01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:27.679
So when you return the clippings,
you're fertilizing. Now that doesn't mean

895
01:07:27.760 --> 01:07:32.679
you don't also fertilize. It just
means you're taking the nutrients your fertilizer put

896
01:07:32.800 --> 01:07:38.159
you put down that have now grown
clippings, and you're returning them to decompose

897
01:07:38.239 --> 01:07:40.719
them to the lawn. That's how
nature does it, and it makes sense.

898
01:07:41.280 --> 01:07:44.320
So if you don't, if you
bag your clippings, if you don't

899
01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:47.559
mulch and return them to the lawn. You're gonna need to double your fertilizer

900
01:07:47.599 --> 01:07:54.639
applications in order to be able to
make up for what you just paid somebody

901
01:07:54.679 --> 01:07:57.920
to haul away because you didn't want
to you wanted to bag your clippings.

902
01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:01.639
So there's a little tip of the
week. Hope that makes sense and and

903
01:08:01.760 --> 01:08:06.239
hope it helps. Speaking of tips, we are in the season when we

904
01:08:06.440 --> 01:08:11.679
tend to get hurricanes coming through,
and you know when you have a storm,

905
01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:15.599
the fly by nighters are going to
be banging on the door saying we're

906
01:08:15.679 --> 01:08:18.920
going to replace your roof, and
we know how well they'll be gone and

907
01:08:19.119 --> 01:08:23.000
you'll be left hold in the bag. That's just kind of how that works.

908
01:08:23.479 --> 01:08:28.039
Instead called Brinkman Roofing. They've been
here fifty years. They were a

909
01:08:28.119 --> 01:08:33.439
twenty twenty two Better Business Bureau Pinnacle
Award winner. That means those two facts

910
01:08:33.560 --> 01:08:39.720
both mean customer service. You don't
get there without customer service, without a

911
01:08:39.920 --> 01:08:45.000
good product, quality workmanship. And
I guarantee that if anything goes wrong,

912
01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:47.880
they'll be back to take a look
at that because they want you to have

913
01:08:48.000 --> 01:08:54.039
success. That's how they have success
by creating happy customers. That's how it

914
01:08:54.079 --> 01:08:58.840
works in business. And boy Brinkman
gets it well. Brinkman Quality dot Com

915
01:08:59.000 --> 01:09:02.439
two eight one four rado seven six
sixty three. Do you need shingles?

916
01:09:02.520 --> 01:09:06.880
Do you want their new uh solar
shingles? Do you want a metal roof,

917
01:09:06.920 --> 01:09:10.960
a standing sea metal roof that they
put together right on your property.

918
01:09:11.439 --> 01:09:16.760
They can do it all commercial residential
Brinkman two eight one four eight seven six

919
01:09:17.079 --> 01:09:20.960
six zero. We're gonna head out
and nowt to clear Lake and talk to

920
01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:25.840
Theodore. Hey Theodore, Yes,
sir, good morning. How are you.

921
01:09:26.119 --> 01:09:29.960
I'm well, thank you? Yes, I have a quick question.

922
01:09:30.840 --> 01:09:39.359
I'm growing in avocado tree plant uh
and a planet about two months ago and

923
01:09:39.560 --> 01:09:45.520
it's it looks like just keeps growing
straight up as it normal or that I

924
01:09:45.640 --> 01:09:48.399
had to trim it and and and
keep it down to tours. It's not

925
01:09:48.520 --> 01:09:54.239
going to break. Uh. You
can you can trim it down it when

926
01:09:54.279 --> 01:09:58.760
you trim where we're like you have
one shoot going up and when you cut

927
01:09:58.800 --> 01:10:00.399
it off, so you come down
six inches or so from the end and

928
01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:03.720
cut it, you're going to have
several shoots to come out. And that

929
01:10:04.119 --> 01:10:08.640
that is branching. You don't want
to do that so much that it's just

930
01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:13.520
this thick bush, but you can't
do some training. But early on avocado,

931
01:10:13.840 --> 01:10:18.520
as is the case with many of
our trees and plants like the Chinese

932
01:10:18.640 --> 01:10:24.119
elm, is this way. They
just are lanky teenagers when they're young,

933
01:10:24.359 --> 01:10:29.079
and and then the full little better. Just remember this though, Theodore avocado

934
01:10:29.239 --> 01:10:32.720
is a cold sensitive species, so
we're kind of marginal here on. Sometimes

935
01:10:32.800 --> 01:10:38.359
we have cold, it'll kill them
back. And I was just gonna say

936
01:10:38.359 --> 01:10:43.039
I'd avoid pruning this late at this
point. I would just wait because let's

937
01:10:43.039 --> 01:10:46.279
say in September you pruned and you
got all this fresh, new succulent growth,

938
01:10:46.399 --> 01:10:50.319
and then we get a good hard
freeze in late November, early December

939
01:10:50.439 --> 01:10:57.239
or something that would be a disaster. So I would avoid those stimulating process

940
01:10:57.319 --> 01:11:00.479
of pruning. Once we get past
about the first of August really, and

941
01:11:00.680 --> 01:11:03.520
when we come out of next year, then do some of your pruning and

942
01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:08.560
training. Okay, okay, now, and of course it is it right

943
01:11:08.640 --> 01:11:15.840
now? I have it inside?
That is that a times turn that I

944
01:11:15.920 --> 01:11:19.079
have to take it outside? Well, that would be yeah, that may

945
01:11:19.119 --> 01:11:21.840
be one reason why it's kind of
lanky. It's because we never can have

946
01:11:23.079 --> 01:11:27.479
enough light inside for you know,
could be happy. So yeah, I

947
01:11:27.560 --> 01:11:30.680
would put it out. Let it
get good sunlight. Just watch that it

948
01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:34.600
doesn't go into droughtstus being out in
the heats. But and I probably wouldn't

949
01:11:34.640 --> 01:11:40.800
move it like suddenly from indoors to
full sun outdoors. I might put it

950
01:11:40.880 --> 01:11:45.760
in a little morning sun and the
rest of the because even the shadiest spot

951
01:11:45.800 --> 01:11:49.600
outdoors is brighter than most indoor environments. And so you know, gradually,

952
01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:54.720
oh, let's say, over the
next three or four weeks, working into

953
01:11:54.760 --> 01:11:59.640
full sun. Okay, perfect,
all right, okay, well, thank

954
01:11:59.640 --> 01:12:03.199
you, you bet, thank you. Good luck with that avocado hurt.

955
01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:09.079
Yeah. Avocados, boy, they're
so good, aren't they good? And

956
01:12:09.159 --> 01:12:12.640
we have the avocados that will grow
here. You know. It's not the

957
01:12:12.800 --> 01:12:15.680
black, bumpy, fruited thing you
buy in the store, you know,

958
01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:19.319
like hass avocado, that kind of
thing. It's a thin skinned, a

959
01:12:19.479 --> 01:12:25.479
greenish avocado, but very very high
quality. Many good varieties do well here.

960
01:12:26.319 --> 01:12:28.720
It's a lot of fun and it
wants to be a giant tree.

961
01:12:28.880 --> 01:12:31.079
And you just have to accept when
you plan it that every now and then

962
01:12:31.159 --> 01:12:35.000
a winner's going to come through and
it's gonna kill it back considerably. It's

963
01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:40.840
just part of the deal. But
we can grow and fruit and produce avocados

964
01:12:40.920 --> 01:12:45.640
here in the Houston area. I
talk about lawns a lot, talk about

965
01:12:45.680 --> 01:12:49.079
lawn fertilizing a lot, and when
when I think about a good quality,

966
01:12:49.159 --> 01:12:55.239
slow release fertilizer for your lawn,
turf Star fits that bill. Turf Star

967
01:12:55.319 --> 01:13:00.560
by Nelson and the particular product slow
and Easy. It's a twin two two

968
01:13:00.680 --> 01:13:04.279
ten. It's got a I love
that ratio of nutrients. You know,

969
01:13:04.439 --> 01:13:11.039
it's like a very low phosphorus,
plenty of nitrogen, medium potassium. That's

970
01:13:11.439 --> 01:13:15.600
the way you go about it.
And the technology in all Nelson products is

971
01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:21.800
such that it provides what your lawn
needs gradually over time. It provides a

972
01:13:21.960 --> 01:13:31.880
good, let's just say, technologically
advanced designed way of releasing those nutrients over

973
01:13:31.960 --> 01:13:36.600
time for optimum growth. And Nelson's
turf Star is you know, they have

974
01:13:36.920 --> 01:13:41.319
a wide line of it. Bruce's
Brew is in eighteen four nine. It's

975
01:13:41.399 --> 01:13:45.720
more of an immediate release kind of
product, but very appropriate year round however

976
01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:48.000
you want to fertilize. They've got
their feather Light it's an eighteen two eight,

977
01:13:48.560 --> 01:13:53.199
and of course with Nelson's you've got
color Star Nutrostar, turf Star and

978
01:13:53.279 --> 01:13:59.840
their organic Nature Star fertilizers all available
widely available through garden centers here and there

979
01:14:00.039 --> 01:14:04.479
later Houston area. It's a quality
product that gives quality results, and that's

980
01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:10.640
what we're looking for. You know, don't be a person who let me

981
01:14:10.720 --> 01:14:14.960
how do I say this? Don't
be a person that just looks at what

982
01:14:15.199 --> 01:14:17.520
you think is the cheapest product available. I mean, we all want to

983
01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:21.079
save money. We don't want to
waste money. But when whether you're talking

984
01:14:21.159 --> 01:14:27.119
about a plant from a garden center, whether you're talking about a fertilizer product,

985
01:14:27.680 --> 01:14:30.880
whether you're talking even about certain pest
disease and weed control, you want

986
01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:34.359
to get the one that works,
because that's the cheapest product there is.

987
01:14:34.479 --> 01:14:39.039
I mean, if you put something
down like I was just talking about Nelson

988
01:14:39.079 --> 01:14:43.199
sturf Star, you put something down
and it gradually feeds for months and months,

989
01:14:43.319 --> 01:14:46.399
A good quality mix like that,
that's worth it. There are a

990
01:14:46.560 --> 01:14:50.479
lot of really cheap products that immediately
release. You get a flush of growth,

991
01:14:50.520 --> 01:14:55.760
You get chitchbugs get excited enough to
cross Interstate forty five to come to

992
01:14:55.840 --> 01:14:59.960
your yard. The brown patch,
large patch of the fall goes crazy.

993
01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:03.600
You get to mow a lot because
you've created flushes of growth and then it

994
01:15:03.720 --> 01:15:10.119
all washes away when it get a
gully washer rain. That's why we avoid

995
01:15:10.199 --> 01:15:13.319
that. That's why we go to
quality garden centers where they know what they're

996
01:15:13.359 --> 01:15:15.479
talking about. So when we buy
it, we take it home and it

997
01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:18.239
does well. That is what we're
looking for. We're looking for places that

998
01:15:18.319 --> 01:15:23.960
give us advice, that direct us
properly to go to someplace and they don't

999
01:15:24.000 --> 01:15:28.720
know what they're talking about, and
they grab something off the shelf and they

1000
01:15:28.800 --> 01:15:30.920
absolutely don't know what they're talking about, and they sell it to you to

1001
01:15:31.039 --> 01:15:34.880
go home. You've spent time,
you've spent money, and you may not

1002
01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:40.159
have accomplished anything. So, I
mean, this is a big broad statement

1003
01:15:40.199 --> 01:15:45.680
I'm making, but what I'm just
saying is the cheapest product may well not

1004
01:15:45.960 --> 01:15:50.640
be the most economical product that there
is. Whether it's a plant but it's

1005
01:15:50.840 --> 01:15:57.720
fertilizer, whether it's oh my gosh, mulch and composts. There is a

1006
01:15:57.840 --> 01:16:00.960
lot of trash out there on the
market. You know, to open a

1007
01:16:00.039 --> 01:16:03.159
bag of something that says it's composting, it as wood chunks in it.

1008
01:16:04.239 --> 01:16:08.600
That's not what you're looking for and
with each kind of plant, with this

1009
01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:11.720
kind of bad, you're gonna use
different kinds of products. And hey,

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01:16:11.920 --> 01:16:15.600
we're gonna be back in just a
minute with Louis Tomorrow from Heirloom Source to

1011
01:16:15.680 --> 01:16:21.359
talk about just that KTRH Garden Line
does not necessarily endorse any of the products

1012
01:16:21.439 --> 01:16:29.479
or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor.

1013
01:16:29.600 --> 01:16:54.000
It's so crazy just watching as so
many pleas to come. Well,

1014
01:16:54.039 --> 01:16:58.640
good Sunday morning. You are listening
to garden Line. Thanks to Louis for

1015
01:16:58.720 --> 01:17:00.560
coming in. We got kind of
already about all kinds of things soil,

1016
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:05.399
because soil is where it all starts. Well, thank you for those of

1017
01:17:05.479 --> 01:17:10.680
you who hold had been holding on
our number seven one three two one two

1018
01:17:10.800 --> 01:17:14.680
fifty eight seventy four. Let's head
out to Jersey Village and we're going to

1019
01:17:14.720 --> 01:17:17.600
talk to Michelle. Good morning,
Michelle get Marie Skid, thank you so

1020
01:17:17.760 --> 01:17:23.479
much for taking my call. You're
bad. So I'm into Jersey Village area

1021
01:17:23.720 --> 01:17:28.640
and we live in town homes which
are in pretty close proximity of each other.

1022
01:17:30.239 --> 01:17:34.720
We all have crepe myrtles that are
close to the street. I feel

1023
01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:40.479
blessed because I haven't experienced this problem, but I'm calling on behalf of four

1024
01:17:40.520 --> 01:17:45.079
of my neighbors, the crepe myrtles, and it seems like this happened like

1025
01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:50.279
within a period of two days.
All of a sudden, the crepe myrtles

1026
01:17:50.560 --> 01:17:56.600
of their branches have turned all brown. Okay, not the whole tree,

1027
01:17:56.680 --> 01:18:01.039
but like a good, good chunks
of the tree. Best I can tell

1028
01:18:01.159 --> 01:18:04.680
is maybe something like I read about
it, like a crape mortal blight.

1029
01:18:06.560 --> 01:18:11.720
I don't know of anything like that. The heat, the demands, the

1030
01:18:11.880 --> 01:18:15.680
stresses. We are seeing crepe myrtles
that are that are turning brown around the

1031
01:18:15.800 --> 01:18:19.640
edges and in some case lose the
whole leaves. I would first start with

1032
01:18:19.720 --> 01:18:24.960
soil moisture and just dig down four
or five inches, feel the soil around

1033
01:18:25.000 --> 01:18:28.560
them, and just kind of get
a feel for that, because that's the

1034
01:18:28.680 --> 01:18:32.000
most likely thing. There's not some
major crape myrtle disease. It just blights

1035
01:18:32.000 --> 01:18:36.720
and kills the whole bush. We
don't okay that problem. So I think

1036
01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:42.479
it's going to be a combination of
water related because even if water is moderately

1037
01:18:42.880 --> 01:18:47.000
there, the demands are so high
they have trouble pumping it fast enough to

1038
01:18:47.680 --> 01:18:51.159
cool the plant to do all the
things the plant needs to do function wise.

1039
01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:55.239
And so I think that's probably a
lot of what you're dealing with.

1040
01:18:56.720 --> 01:18:59.560
Oh okay, well, thank you
so much. All right, well,

1041
01:18:59.600 --> 01:19:01.600
thank you. I appreciate that call. Thanks for being patient with us today.

1042
01:19:02.159 --> 01:19:05.000
UH. Let's go out to Jim
and clear Lake. Hey, Jim,

1043
01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:11.680
I understand you got a question as
well. Yeah, I'm I'm about

1044
01:19:11.720 --> 01:19:15.920
ready to do some landscaping here.
I've suffered some root rod on my isalia

1045
01:19:16.760 --> 01:19:21.039
on the front. Uh and UH. I had to pull one plant last

1046
01:19:21.119 --> 01:19:26.079
year, and now the other two
are not looking good, and so I'd

1047
01:19:26.119 --> 01:19:30.439
like to start over, but I
don't want to start with soil that may

1048
01:19:30.560 --> 01:19:42.159
have some problems with whatever type of
damaging UH and UH systemic product. What

1049
01:19:42.279 --> 01:19:46.279
would you suggest that I do after
I pulled these other three bushes out and

1050
01:19:47.199 --> 01:19:51.479
cleaning up that soil. Good question. There's not a whole lot to do

1051
01:19:51.920 --> 01:19:57.439
at that point, but I would
get a good quality bed mix that is

1052
01:19:57.720 --> 01:20:00.159
does well with acid loving plants and
build it up a little bit, get

1053
01:20:00.199 --> 01:20:04.920
some fresh soil in there, and
then that also helps the drainage and most

1054
01:20:05.159 --> 01:20:11.800
azalia root rots are related to saggy
conditions. There's even the main diseases we

1055
01:20:11.920 --> 01:20:15.239
deal with on azalias and the roots
actually have spores that swim like a tadpole

1056
01:20:15.760 --> 01:20:20.039
and literally through the soil. So
when you provide a wet, saggy condition,

1057
01:20:20.319 --> 01:20:24.760
it proliferates that kind of a disease. So I would say that would

1058
01:20:24.760 --> 01:20:28.640
be the number one goal. Create
a bed where you cannot overwater, I

1059
01:20:28.720 --> 01:20:31.359
mean, where drainage is excellent,
put in some good fresh soil and then

1060
01:20:31.560 --> 01:20:34.880
get some good healthy plants to go
in and by the time you get all

1061
01:20:34.960 --> 01:20:39.960
that set up, it'll be time
to plant azalias this fall okay, So

1062
01:20:41.199 --> 01:20:49.840
just a soil amendment and add possibly
the airline hairloom soils to what I've got.

1063
01:20:50.119 --> 01:20:54.600
Yeah, do I need to as
set fallow for some period of time.

1064
01:20:55.159 --> 01:20:59.000
No, No, that's not gonna
accomplish anything. These things are persistent

1065
01:20:59.359 --> 01:21:02.520
and so you know, time is
not really the fix of it. But

1066
01:21:02.640 --> 01:21:06.840
yeah, a good quality soil for
air or for airline, for acid loving

1067
01:21:06.960 --> 01:21:13.199
plants, it is what you're looking
for. And getting those beds up,

1068
01:21:13.600 --> 01:21:16.079
depending on your site and how low
it lies in the type of clay or

1069
01:21:16.119 --> 01:21:19.600
whatever you have, blue get them
up high enough so they drain well and

1070
01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:24.920
then then you're ready to go with
the new planting. All right, well,

1071
01:21:24.960 --> 01:21:27.319
I appreciate that, Thank you very
much. Yeah, thank you.

1072
01:21:27.520 --> 01:21:30.039
I appreciate that call very much.
For those of you out here who haven't

1073
01:21:30.119 --> 01:21:34.680
put down your lawn fertilizer for mid
to late summer, that would be an

1074
01:21:34.720 --> 01:21:40.399
option to put down Sweet Green.
Sweet Greens a nitrofist product. It's a

1075
01:21:40.520 --> 01:21:45.880
molasses based product, and due to
a combination of the molasses and microbial activity

1076
01:21:45.960 --> 01:21:49.279
in the production of this product,
you end up with a very high nitrogen

1077
01:21:49.520 --> 01:21:55.119
organic material. It's eleven zero four
and it smells great too. By the

1078
01:21:55.159 --> 01:21:59.239
way, just put it down about
ten pounds per thousand square feets about what

1079
01:21:59.359 --> 01:22:02.159
you need, and you will see
a very distinct improvement in your lawn.

1080
01:22:02.399 --> 01:22:06.840
Because it's still summertime. You have
to walk outside to know that. And

1081
01:22:08.479 --> 01:22:11.800
we will be doing our fall fertilizations
later on, but now it would be

1082
01:22:11.840 --> 01:22:15.000
a good time to put on something
like a nitrifice product. Call Sweet Green.

1083
01:22:16.000 --> 01:22:19.119
Let's go out to Bay Town and
we're gonna visit with Bruce. Bruce,

1084
01:22:19.199 --> 01:22:24.479
you get the award for patiently hanging
on. Thank you. Thank you.

1085
01:22:25.199 --> 01:22:28.680
Louisa's such a valuable resource. I
learned a lot listening to him and

1086
01:22:28.880 --> 01:22:32.960
to you, Well good. I've
I've got a bottle brush at my house,

1087
01:22:33.039 --> 01:22:39.039
and this is the third one that
I've planted. They go in all

1088
01:22:39.079 --> 01:22:45.760
the preparations there. They're properly watered, in my opinion, and they do

1089
01:22:45.079 --> 01:22:49.640
absolutely great for about three years,
and then they begin to die out and

1090
01:22:49.880 --> 01:22:55.520
within the year's time they're they're dead
top to bottom. I've got them in

1091
01:22:55.560 --> 01:22:58.880
two different locations and had this problem
with him, and I'm wondering if it's

1092
01:22:58.920 --> 01:23:03.880
a root and Inmato or perhaps a
root rot. There are other shrubs they're

1093
01:23:03.920 --> 01:23:09.560
about Japanese clear in that area.
They're doing terrific okay, but bottom Broche,

1094
01:23:09.600 --> 01:23:13.119
as much as I like, it
seems to be a challenge. That's

1095
01:23:13.159 --> 01:23:15.880
interesting. You know, I can't
know for sure if there's a root right

1096
01:23:15.920 --> 01:23:19.000
on them or not. I assume
that if your other shrubs are doing okay

1097
01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:26.560
like that, you probably are not
creating a very soggy, continually saggy condition

1098
01:23:26.720 --> 01:23:30.079
that would lead to root rod issues, So I would lean away from that

1099
01:23:30.199 --> 01:23:34.760
being the thing I tell a bottlebrush
they're very cool, sensitive and we had

1100
01:23:34.840 --> 01:23:40.159
the February twenty three freeze, we
had the December freeze this past December twenty

1101
01:23:40.199 --> 01:23:44.399
two, and that hammered a lot
of those kind of plants. And then

1102
01:23:44.720 --> 01:23:47.239
you throw in last summer's heat and
drought this summer's heat and drought. I

1103
01:23:47.319 --> 01:23:50.279
think there's a lot of things like
that that could be a play which we're

1104
01:23:50.319 --> 01:23:55.039
not in control of. So just
keeping the soil adequately moist, putting a

1105
01:23:55.119 --> 01:23:59.079
good quality soil in the bed that
they're going to grow in, those are

1106
01:23:59.159 --> 01:24:01.399
within your power. The only other
thing is if one starts to die,

1107
01:24:01.840 --> 01:24:05.319
you could go ahead and take a
sample before it's dead, send it up

1108
01:24:05.359 --> 01:24:10.520
to the plant clinic and get the
definitive answer if there is a root disease

1109
01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:15.039
it's affecting it. I think that's
a longer shot. I don't think that's

1110
01:24:15.079 --> 01:24:19.319
the most likely thing going on,
but it is something that's available. Well.

1111
01:24:19.399 --> 01:24:23.399
Thanks, that's good advice, Kip, And how'll follow that all right,

1112
01:24:23.479 --> 01:24:26.439
sir? Well, good luck with
those bottlebrush are great plants, good

1113
01:24:26.479 --> 01:24:30.720
for pollinators too, by the way, and beautiful. Yeah, thank you,

1114
01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:33.199
yes, sir, thank you for
the call. I appreciate that very

1115
01:24:33.319 --> 01:24:38.800
much. Thanks a lot if you're
looking for a quality garden center, one

1116
01:24:38.880 --> 01:24:44.319
where you go and I mean everything
from gift shops to vegetables, herbs,

1117
01:24:44.720 --> 01:24:47.239
flowers, trees. They sell fruit
trees year around. That's Arbourgate Nursery up

1118
01:24:47.279 --> 01:24:51.600
in Tumble. Arbourgate is on twenty
nine twenty just about a mile and a

1119
01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:56.800
half west of two forty nine in
Tumble, and they have ever kind of

1120
01:24:56.880 --> 01:25:00.920
plant that you can imagine. I
mean the stock of annuals and perennials and

1121
01:25:00.039 --> 01:25:04.640
everything is always amazing at Arbourgate.
The place always looks beautiful. It's a

1122
01:25:04.720 --> 01:25:09.119
place you always want to take friends
when they visit from town just to see

1123
01:25:09.159 --> 01:25:12.159
it because they don't have anything like
that in their hometown, that's for sure.

1124
01:25:12.640 --> 01:25:15.760
Now. The Arbogate one two three
completely Easy system is a food that's

1125
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:19.920
a four four three organic food.
It's got calcium added to it as well,

1126
01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:24.640
and it feeds all your plants that
you know you're putting a flowerbed,

1127
01:25:24.800 --> 01:25:28.800
shrubbed, vegetable. It's great for
all of that. There's a soil for

1128
01:25:29.119 --> 01:25:34.159
almost anything you can imagine because it
contains a quality mix. It's got the

1129
01:25:34.279 --> 01:25:38.920
microbes in it, it's got even
some expanded shale in it as we're talking

1130
01:25:38.920 --> 01:25:44.119
about earlier, and then compost complete
that is their organic compost complete step three,

1131
01:25:44.960 --> 01:25:48.640
compost complete again more of the expanded
shale. Two different kinds of compost

1132
01:25:49.399 --> 01:25:56.560
microbially just rocket fuel for your plants
and your gardens. Organic food complete,

1133
01:25:56.680 --> 01:26:01.359
Organic soil complete, Organic compost complete
one two three completely easy. Right up

1134
01:26:01.399 --> 01:26:08.680
there at Arburgate in Tumball. Well
we are see we've been talking soil all

1135
01:26:08.760 --> 01:26:10.920
day. I guess we're gonna shift
around and talk about a lot of other

1136
01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:14.920
things going forward. Our number seven
one three, two one two five eight

1137
01:26:15.119 --> 01:26:19.279
seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. I was

1138
01:26:19.680 --> 01:26:26.720
I got on my weekly email from
water my Yard this past week and it

1139
01:26:26.840 --> 01:26:30.960
was I think it said I needed
point nine inches was essentially an inch of

1140
01:26:30.039 --> 01:26:34.600
water. The thing about water my
Yard two things. Number One, it's

1141
01:26:34.720 --> 01:26:38.760
free, and there are not a
lot of things that are quality that are

1142
01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:42.960
free. And this is because you
can go to the water my yard dot

1143
01:26:43.119 --> 01:26:46.279
org website and sign up for free. You just give them your location.

1144
01:26:46.640 --> 01:26:51.239
They find the nearest weather station to
you. Do you know there's little weather

1145
01:26:51.359 --> 01:26:55.680
stations all throughout this area. I
mean I'm not talking about big I'm just

1146
01:26:55.800 --> 01:26:58.359
on a little weather see. It
could be on a golf course or someplace.

1147
01:26:58.840 --> 01:27:03.399
They measure solar already, sun intensity, humidity, windspeed, all the

1148
01:27:03.479 --> 01:27:10.079
stuff that makes plants use water,
and they shoot you exactly what you need

1149
01:27:10.720 --> 01:27:14.319
via email to water your yard that
week. I've had weeks where it said

1150
01:27:14.359 --> 01:27:16.680
you need point four inches of water
this week. They're at the Apple app

1151
01:27:16.720 --> 01:27:21.520
Store, They're at Google Play Water. My yard is free and it works.

1152
01:27:21.600 --> 01:27:28.960
It's designed by an M extension Agrilife
engineers and they have created the perfect

1153
01:27:29.039 --> 01:27:32.319
tool that, again is free.
I don't know how to do much better

1154
01:27:32.479 --> 01:27:35.600
than that. I don't know how
you do much better than that. I

1155
01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:41.760
have a shrub that I need to
put out in the landscape, and in

1156
01:27:41.840 --> 01:27:45.439
fact, if I can ever quit
traveling around and sitting here on the radio,

1157
01:27:45.479 --> 01:27:47.880
I need to get it planted.
But when I do, I've already

1158
01:27:47.880 --> 01:27:53.359
purchased my tree hugger sprinklers. That's
the little thing that goes around a shrub.

1159
01:27:53.439 --> 01:27:55.720
It could be a tree, a
shrub, a bush or rose bush

1160
01:27:55.800 --> 01:27:58.520
whatever. You hook it up to
the garden hose. You got low valve

1161
01:27:58.600 --> 01:28:00.119
there so you can make it just
put on a little bit of water for

1162
01:28:00.199 --> 01:28:04.159
that newly planted shrubs can find roots
system and then as it grows, you

1163
01:28:04.279 --> 01:28:08.319
just turn it up more and more
until you water a very large area.

1164
01:28:08.520 --> 01:28:13.319
It gets your plants through drought,
It gets your plants through the transition of

1165
01:28:14.079 --> 01:28:19.119
heat related stresses while they're trying to
get roots systems in. It just makes

1166
01:28:19.199 --> 01:28:24.199
sense not just keeping them alive,
but having them thrive. That's tree Hugger

1167
01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:28.560
Sprinklers. You can go to tree
Hugger Sprinklers dot com and find out more

1168
01:28:28.600 --> 01:28:30.920
information and where you can buy them, which is most places that I talk

1169
01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:35.319
about here on Garden Line. And
with that we'll turn it over to the

1170
01:28:35.439 --> 01:28:56.479
Nikki News Network NNN for the latest. Well, good morning on a beautiful

1171
01:28:56.520 --> 01:29:00.520
Sunday morning. Gosh, it just
looks great out there. Looking forward to

1172
01:29:00.520 --> 01:29:02.560
getting out this afternoon. There are
so many good things you can do in

1173
01:29:02.640 --> 01:29:06.760
an afternoon here in Houston, Texas. When you've got the kind of garden

1174
01:29:06.840 --> 01:29:10.680
centers we have, when you have
the kind of suppliers we have. We

1175
01:29:10.760 --> 01:29:15.159
would talking about soil this morning.
I'm talking about fertilizing this morning, getting

1176
01:29:15.199 --> 01:29:19.880
ready, getting your lawn ready,
getting your garden beds ready planting things right

1177
01:29:19.920 --> 01:29:23.880
now and he's still time you can
be planting things. It's a little stressful,

1178
01:29:23.880 --> 01:29:26.359
a little tough for things touch and
go, but you can do it.

1179
01:29:26.479 --> 01:29:28.680
You can do it anytime of the
year you want. Here in this

1180
01:29:29.000 --> 01:29:32.920
area where we have an almost three
sixty five growing season, and I guess

1181
01:29:33.000 --> 01:29:38.039
in some ways we do have a
three sixty five. If you need any

1182
01:29:38.159 --> 01:29:41.800
kind of a supply, I'll tell
you what's near you that we'll provide that,

1183
01:29:41.920 --> 01:29:44.399
and that is Ace Hardware. There's
thirty nine of them here in the

1184
01:29:44.439 --> 01:29:47.239
Houston area. You can go to
Ace Hardware dot com and go to their

1185
01:29:47.359 --> 01:29:51.720
store locator, put in your zip
code, find the stores near you.

1186
01:29:51.880 --> 01:29:57.000
It's easy to find them. I
recommend fertilizers, and if I do,

1187
01:29:57.159 --> 01:30:00.439
they're going to have them an Ace
Hardware. We talk about soil mixes.

1188
01:30:00.439 --> 01:30:02.640
We're talking about to airloom a minute
ago as an example. They've got that

1189
01:30:02.960 --> 01:30:08.439
and more at Ace Hardware stores.
The products you need to control insects,

1190
01:30:08.560 --> 01:30:13.239
diseases and pests, the things you
need for outdoor living and making that outdoor

1191
01:30:13.319 --> 01:30:15.960
place a beautiful place to sit and
enjoy. And by the way, the

1192
01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:18.039
weather is going to break here and
we're gonna want to be spending more time

1193
01:30:18.159 --> 01:30:24.520
outdoors. You can provide everything from
barbeque in to you know, just outdoor

1194
01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:30.319
lounging and enjoyable, just any kind
of encouterment you might need for that outdoor

1195
01:30:30.399 --> 01:30:32.520
setting. You're gonna find it there
at ACE Hardware, as well as everything

1196
01:30:32.560 --> 01:30:36.840
else you'd find at an Ace Hardware
store, which is quality products and good

1197
01:30:38.479 --> 01:30:41.920
service. And I always I'm glad
to walk into a place that's going to

1198
01:30:42.000 --> 01:30:45.199
treat me right, know what they're
talking about, and help me find what

1199
01:30:45.319 --> 01:30:48.880
I need. We're going to go
out now to Lakewood Estates and talk to

1200
01:30:49.000 --> 01:30:54.800
Maureen. Well, hello, Maureen, Hello, let me just get away

1201
01:30:54.880 --> 01:31:00.840
from my radio. All right.
My question is this is my season ever

1202
01:31:00.000 --> 01:31:04.399
to grow okra. And I have
so much okra and I'm picking it as

1203
01:31:04.479 --> 01:31:09.520
fast as I can. Okay,
but now I have all different sizes.

1204
01:31:10.079 --> 01:31:15.800
So I went online and looked at
whatever I could produce recipe wise, and

1205
01:31:15.920 --> 01:31:19.359
so I know I can do some
small sizes in the oven. That's good,

1206
01:31:19.560 --> 01:31:23.319
I know, because I love soup, so I can put them in

1207
01:31:23.399 --> 01:31:28.680
the soup. Yes, But is
there a point where I should say this

1208
01:31:28.960 --> 01:31:31.760
is like a stone, because I
do come into those, I can't cut

1209
01:31:31.840 --> 01:31:35.199
it. I throw them out.
No, he's what else. Here's what

1210
01:31:35.319 --> 01:31:40.039
I do. I've just been the
pod. If you've been the pod about

1211
01:31:40.159 --> 01:31:44.199
a third away back from the end, and if it doesn't just snap into

1212
01:31:44.960 --> 01:31:46.920
that is too mature of a pod. If you have a little like almost

1213
01:31:47.000 --> 01:31:50.079
woody strings holding the thing together,
when you try to bend it, it

1214
01:31:50.199 --> 01:31:55.800
just collapses. Ye that throw it
away. There's life's too short for eating

1215
01:31:55.840 --> 01:32:00.159
bad okra. And I just didn't
believe that this would happen. So go

1216
01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:02.720
ahead. Well it grows fast.
And here's the deal. It's not the

1217
01:32:02.840 --> 01:32:06.239
size of the pod. People talk
about that, but it's not. It's

1218
01:32:06.359 --> 01:32:11.520
the age of the pod. About
three days after it is the bloom has

1219
01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:15.960
fallen off, maybe four days,
but about three days after the bloom is

1220
01:32:15.000 --> 01:32:18.000
fallen off, you need to be
picking that pod. Now, you're not

1221
01:32:18.079 --> 01:32:20.960
going to keep track of ever pot
on the plant, but as you regularly

1222
01:32:21.079 --> 01:32:24.920
harvest, you're going to be able
to kind of get a feel for what

1223
01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:27.960
you're doing. Another thing you need
to do with okra if you haven't,

1224
01:32:28.000 --> 01:32:30.960
if you got a barbecue pit,
just take a pod. Yes I do,

1225
01:32:30.439 --> 01:32:33.920
I do smear a little olive oil
on each side, sprinkle it with

1226
01:32:34.000 --> 01:32:38.119
sea salt, put it on the
pit two minutes on one side, flip

1227
01:32:38.159 --> 01:32:41.399
it over two minutes on the other, and it will be a non slimy,

1228
01:32:42.000 --> 01:32:45.439
delicious okra for you. It's just
yet, Okay, no problem with

1229
01:32:45.640 --> 01:32:50.600
that to enjoy ore. Okay,
my last question, I've had to put

1230
01:32:50.640 --> 01:32:55.600
a shirt on in order to pick
my variety. Yes, it seems that

1231
01:32:55.760 --> 01:33:00.359
there's something prickly, yes, all
over the leaves, and I come in

1232
01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:04.279
and it's irritating. So what else
can I do beside I watch it off.

1233
01:33:04.479 --> 01:33:08.760
Yeah, but I'm thinking I should
maybe wear gloves than a long sleeved

1234
01:33:08.760 --> 01:33:11.960
shirt. Definitely, a long sleeved
shirt. Gloves, definitely, because they

1235
01:33:12.000 --> 01:33:15.279
are itchy. That's just part of
the deal with yeah planning. Your plants

1236
01:33:15.319 --> 01:33:18.119
are close together that you're having to
rub through them and it's hitting your neck

1237
01:33:18.199 --> 01:33:21.199
and everything. You don't do that. So that's about what you do,

1238
01:33:21.479 --> 01:33:26.079
is you just dress right and make
sure when you plant them you give yourself

1239
01:33:26.199 --> 01:33:29.760
enough space to get in there and
do the work. Okay. Okay,

1240
01:33:29.920 --> 01:33:32.000
love your show. Everybody wants to
talk to you. That's a good sign.

1241
01:33:32.640 --> 01:33:35.840
Well, thank you. I appreciate
marine, appreciate your call. You

1242
01:33:36.359 --> 01:33:42.000
take care for sure. If you
are looking for a tree for your landscape

1243
01:33:42.079 --> 01:33:46.439
right now, Verdant Tree Farm has
got a great selection in stock now.

1244
01:33:46.520 --> 01:33:49.199
They are the place to go for
palm trees. I mean that is,

1245
01:33:49.880 --> 01:33:53.399
they just have everything you need in
the way up a palm tree. Lots

1246
01:33:53.439 --> 01:33:56.079
of good quality varieties, and they
know how to grow them. They know

1247
01:33:56.199 --> 01:33:59.640
what to do with them. When
it comes to other trees though, they

1248
01:33:59.680 --> 01:34:02.840
are also a great place to go. They have trees up to l seven

1249
01:34:02.960 --> 01:34:06.680
hundred gallons in size. Have you
on a real big instant impact. Go

1250
01:34:06.840 --> 01:34:14.600
on line to Verdant Treefarm dot com
Verdant or I should say Verdant Verdant Treefarm

1251
01:34:14.680 --> 01:34:16.520
dot com Verdant means green. On
one of these days, I'm gonna learn

1252
01:34:16.560 --> 01:34:20.399
how to pronounce it and just check
them out. There's two locations, oh

1253
01:34:20.479 --> 01:34:27.399
actually three. Now there's the Barker
Cyples location in West Houston down on Broadway

1254
01:34:27.520 --> 01:34:31.159
Street in pair Land they have a
location. And now in the Heights where

1255
01:34:31.319 --> 01:34:36.159
Yale and I ten come together,
there's another d location. Take some pictures

1256
01:34:36.199 --> 01:34:40.079
of your place, walk in there, tell them, hey, I'm looking

1257
01:34:40.159 --> 01:34:43.239
for a flowering tree for here.
I'm looking for a shade tree for here.

1258
01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:45.600
What do you got? What do
you think? And they will help

1259
01:34:45.720 --> 01:34:47.560
guide you. You can picture tree
out on spot, they'll tag it,

1260
01:34:47.680 --> 01:34:51.199
they'll bring it to you. They'll
plant it properly, which is critical.

1261
01:34:51.279 --> 01:34:58.039
They know what they're doing. That's
all Verdant Tree Farm. I am going

1262
01:34:58.199 --> 01:35:01.439
to now head up to rich Mend
and talk to James. Hey, James,

1263
01:35:01.520 --> 01:35:05.600
how are you today? I'm doing
fine about yourself. I'm doing good.

1264
01:35:05.720 --> 01:35:08.840
Listen. We got about a minute, so let's see if we can

1265
01:35:08.920 --> 01:35:12.439
do it. If not, I'll
hold you over after break. Okay.

1266
01:35:12.520 --> 01:35:15.319
I've got an oak tree in my
front yard, and the roots or push

1267
01:35:15.439 --> 01:35:18.640
every time I planted the pile a
little dirt up and put mulch and planted

1268
01:35:18.680 --> 01:35:23.520
some print meals around it, and
they always die. Yeah, I'll put

1269
01:35:23.600 --> 01:35:26.840
gerber daisies in and they didn't last, right, So what I'm wanting to

1270
01:35:26.960 --> 01:35:30.039
do? And the roots are pushing
the blocks up that I landscaped around it,

1271
01:35:30.239 --> 01:35:32.760
Yes, some of them moved those
out. Yes, a larger circle

1272
01:35:32.800 --> 01:35:39.039
around the root, the root line. And I was wondering, what's the

1273
01:35:39.159 --> 01:35:43.720
best way for me to put flowers
on top of bad there, and yeah,

1274
01:35:44.399 --> 01:35:45.920
James, I don't want to kill
I don't want to kill the flowers,

1275
01:35:46.199 --> 01:35:50.119
right right, Well, I found
it almost impossible to put a little

1276
01:35:50.119 --> 01:35:55.319
flower bed around a tree as it
gets older because the roots are so big

1277
01:35:55.479 --> 01:36:00.439
and there's so many that the soil
is basically all wood and very very source

1278
01:36:00.479 --> 01:36:03.880
space for roots to grow and thrive. And in addition to being the competition

1279
01:36:04.000 --> 01:36:08.359
with the tree pulling water and the
tree pulling nutrients and the shade from the

1280
01:36:08.439 --> 01:36:12.239
tree, it's just a challenge.
And I would go to a shade loving

1281
01:36:12.399 --> 01:36:15.039
groundcover, and that could be things
like and Asian jasmine. It could be

1282
01:36:15.079 --> 01:36:18.439
there's a lot of great native sedges, there's a cast iron plan, a

1283
01:36:18.520 --> 01:36:21.199
lot of things that will grow there, and just move the flower bed a

1284
01:36:21.279 --> 01:36:24.880
little bit further out. I'm gonna
have to take a break. If you

1285
01:36:24.920 --> 01:36:28.199
want to hang around, I'll come
right back to you. But thank you

1286
01:36:28.479 --> 01:36:30.000
for the question, and thank you
for holding. If you would like to

1287
01:36:30.079 --> 01:36:34.840
hold seven one three, two one
two fifty eight seventy four, let's get

1288
01:36:34.880 --> 01:36:39.079
on the board and we'll talk to
you as well as James when we come

1289
01:36:39.119 --> 01:36:58.560
back. All right, good morning, good Sunday morning. Thank you for

1290
01:36:58.640 --> 01:37:01.119
listening to garden Line. We love
visiting with you about all kinds of things

1291
01:37:01.439 --> 01:37:05.920
gardening. We want you to have
success and the key to success, as

1292
01:37:06.000 --> 01:37:11.079
I say all the time, a
green thumb is an informed thumb. A

1293
01:37:11.199 --> 01:37:14.920
brown thumb is an uninformed thumb.
That's the only difference. And we're here

1294
01:37:14.960 --> 01:37:18.439
to inform, advise, suggest,
give you the tools you need to have

1295
01:37:18.600 --> 01:37:23.560
a beautiful garden and a bountiful landscape. That's what we love to do here.

1296
01:37:24.199 --> 01:37:27.279
If you happen to live out in
the Kingwood area, you were fortunate

1297
01:37:27.399 --> 01:37:31.720
because you have two outstanding garden centers. That's Warren Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden

1298
01:37:31.840 --> 01:37:38.720
Center. Both of them are well
worth a visit now right now out there,

1299
01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:42.439
a house plants are a big item
they you know, of course,

1300
01:37:42.479 --> 01:37:45.600
they have all the kinds of plants
we need. But are you looking for

1301
01:37:45.680 --> 01:37:49.399
some hard to find exotic house plants. Maybe you know our intour home can

1302
01:37:49.439 --> 01:37:55.439
be transformed into a cool oasis of
tranquility when we have houseplants. It just

1303
01:37:55.720 --> 01:37:59.800
gives you a different feeling and a
lot of people can attest to that.

1304
01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:03.520
Silken scientific research by the way,
that are being around plants, it just

1305
01:38:03.800 --> 01:38:09.279
has effects on us in many,
many positive ways. They also have a

1306
01:38:09.319 --> 01:38:15.439
compost sale going on. Three bags
of heirloom soil the aged leaf compost and

1307
01:38:15.560 --> 01:38:19.600
you get one free. Sounds like
a twenty five percent deal. Compost is

1308
01:38:20.000 --> 01:38:27.439
always needed. Aged leaf mold compost
is the cadillac of the group. And

1309
01:38:28.039 --> 01:38:31.239
buy three bags get one free.
What a good deal. If you're looking

1310
01:38:31.279 --> 01:38:34.039
for a vine, rangoon creeper,
I don't know if you've ever seen it

1311
01:38:34.039 --> 01:38:39.239
before, go look it up.
Rangoon creeper. It is a quite vigorous

1312
01:38:39.640 --> 01:38:42.680
vine annual. It tends to be
an annual in our areas, but it

1313
01:38:42.800 --> 01:38:48.079
can return in a protected spot.
They just have an outstanding selection out there

1314
01:38:48.079 --> 01:38:53.119
as well in Kingwo. You know
the thing I like about it is the

1315
01:38:53.359 --> 01:38:58.880
blooms are a combination of pink and
almost light pink whitish and then red and

1316
01:38:59.000 --> 01:39:01.720
they change or is the age little
clusters of flowers. Go look at it

1317
01:39:01.800 --> 01:39:04.479
up online. You I can't describe
it on the air. You'll see what

1318
01:39:04.520 --> 01:39:09.520
I'm talking about. But Rangoon creeper
this far south is a plant that you

1319
01:39:09.640 --> 01:39:13.039
can take through year after year with
a little mulching of the base of the

1320
01:39:13.119 --> 01:39:16.479
plant now Kingwood Garden Center. Their
gift shop is loaded now with Halloween and

1321
01:39:16.640 --> 01:39:20.880
fall decore. It is beautiful and
all the things you want to do for

1322
01:39:21.000 --> 01:39:27.279
your decorating for autumn, you know, to create that enchanting scene of autumn.

1323
01:39:27.880 --> 01:39:31.439
You've got it there, I mean
captivating fall decore at the Kingwood Garden

1324
01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:36.920
Center's gift shop coming up. Let's
see we are nope that do that one.

1325
01:39:38.000 --> 01:39:40.600
I was about to talk about a
program they just had. I hope

1326
01:39:40.640 --> 01:39:43.800
you didn't. Hope you got to
go to it last night August nineteenth,

1327
01:39:43.880 --> 01:39:47.840
on soil prep. But I love
going to those garden centers, love walking

1328
01:39:47.880 --> 01:39:53.039
around, love seeing what they have, and they always have good quality stuff.

1329
01:39:53.079 --> 01:39:56.720
They also they haven't folks that are
trained. They know what they're talking

1330
01:39:56.760 --> 01:40:00.880
about, and that is so important. If you have my lie for Nelson

1331
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:03.800
plant food jars, they have the
filling station there to fill them up.

1332
01:40:03.880 --> 01:40:10.479
Save a little few bucks and also
save on putting plastic out there in the

1333
01:40:10.600 --> 01:40:14.520
landscape. Just another another good thing. So if you live out there in

1334
01:40:14.600 --> 01:40:17.760
New Caney, if you live in
Porter Valley, Ranch, Ambelatasca, Seda,

1335
01:40:18.439 --> 01:40:26.039
Kingwood, these are your hometown garden
centers that is Warren Southern Gardens on

1336
01:40:26.159 --> 01:40:30.520
North Park Drive, Kingwood Garden Center
on Stone Hollow Drive. Both are open

1337
01:40:30.640 --> 01:40:33.720
seven days a week. Hey,
now you got some fun trip to do

1338
01:40:33.880 --> 01:40:39.039
this afternoon to get out and about. Well, let's go to Annie in

1339
01:40:39.199 --> 01:40:44.119
the Woodlands. How's things going this
morning? Annie? It's very hot I'm

1340
01:40:44.159 --> 01:40:50.760
here this morning. Well, good
morning. Yeah. My question for you

1341
01:40:51.359 --> 01:40:56.439
is not so much about plants,
but all of the different products that we

1342
01:40:56.960 --> 01:40:59.840
use for our plants, you know, like the insect and side of Stokes,

1343
01:41:00.399 --> 01:41:05.039
which would sponge, asides the Noh's
color star granules, mastedral dust,

1344
01:41:05.720 --> 01:41:11.479
zipples dust or whatever that's called.
You know, I store an these stuff

1345
01:41:11.560 --> 01:41:16.600
in my garage. Okay my garage, he says, is you know it

1346
01:41:16.680 --> 01:41:21.680
could be out there, right,
I mean we're talking about year after year.

1347
01:41:23.079 --> 01:41:26.359
Yeah, what is the shelf life
and what how does that affect?

1348
01:41:27.560 --> 01:41:30.840
Yeah, there's there's not a good, one size fits all answer on that

1349
01:41:30.920 --> 01:41:32.560
one. But I can tell you
this. If it's a pesticide, especially

1350
01:41:32.640 --> 01:41:39.039
like a synthetic typesticide or a organic
maybe that would have the potential of living

1351
01:41:39.159 --> 01:41:43.520
organisms in it, like a BT
product or something like that, they are

1352
01:41:43.640 --> 01:41:45.800
not going to do well in terms
of shelf life when it comes to that

1353
01:41:45.920 --> 01:41:49.520
kind of storage. Temperatures and so
they don't like light, and they don't

1354
01:41:49.600 --> 01:41:56.199
like the heat. The heat hot
temperature are are freezing cold for that matter.

1355
01:41:56.920 --> 01:41:59.600
I put a lot of that kind
of stuff in a little cabinet we

1356
01:41:59.680 --> 01:42:04.359
have on the little mudroom going out
to the garage in order to have a

1357
01:42:04.399 --> 01:42:08.439
little bit of a better break for
them. When it comes to fertilizers,

1358
01:42:08.560 --> 01:42:13.199
those are pretty resilient. I mean, yes, over time there is some

1359
01:42:13.359 --> 01:42:16.520
decline, but in general I consider
those pretty resilient. Now, I don't

1360
01:42:16.520 --> 01:42:19.680
know, four years in the garage
of storage, Yeah, that's probably stretching

1361
01:42:19.760 --> 01:42:24.439
things. But in general, it's
just a little bit of warm temperature in

1362
01:42:24.560 --> 01:42:27.359
and of itself for most of those
is not going to be a problem.

1363
01:42:27.720 --> 01:42:30.520
Now, if you have microbial content
and it gets hot enough, a lot

1364
01:42:30.560 --> 01:42:36.439
of our organics and even some of
the others have some microbial content there.

1365
01:42:36.560 --> 01:42:40.399
I would avoid, you know,
that excess. It's still going to be

1366
01:42:40.439 --> 01:42:45.960
a good fertilizer, but you can
at certain temperatures start to shut down that

1367
01:42:45.119 --> 01:42:51.079
microbe. Okay, I don't know
if that's I was most concerned about I'm

1368
01:42:51.159 --> 01:42:56.359
most concerned about some of these,
you know, models of different things.

1369
01:42:56.560 --> 01:43:00.199
Yeah, not so much. The
bags of soil or composts or low or

1370
01:43:00.239 --> 01:43:05.520
anything like that. Are masquito gulfs? Are they affected as for a year

1371
01:43:05.640 --> 01:43:11.039
or two? Well, I know
the devil's in the details on that question.

1372
01:43:11.279 --> 01:43:15.079
So how hot, how long?
Mosquito dunks are BT, which is

1373
01:43:15.119 --> 01:43:19.319
an organic compound that is a strain
of BT that kills mosquito larvae. And

1374
01:43:19.479 --> 01:43:23.840
so I would put anything like that
indoors. I would just store it indoors.

1375
01:43:23.960 --> 01:43:27.800
I mean, you know, if
you had some super toxic compound or

1376
01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:30.960
whatever they didn't want in the house, that would be different. But the

1377
01:43:31.319 --> 01:43:40.399
heat doesn't do those bottled products any
good. Alrighty, right right, thanks

1378
01:43:40.439 --> 01:43:43.960
you so much. All right,
any appreciate you got. Thanks for the

1379
01:43:44.039 --> 01:43:47.359
call. I hope that helps.
Speaking of bottled products, the product I

1380
01:43:47.520 --> 01:43:51.680
use for fertilizing in my house plants
is a Microlife Biomatrix that's an orange label.

1381
01:43:53.239 --> 01:43:57.199
The nutrient content is seven to one
three, which means seven percent nitrogen,

1382
01:43:57.319 --> 01:44:00.720
one percent phosphors, three percent potassium. Anytime you see three numbers on

1383
01:44:00.800 --> 01:44:05.039
a fertilizer bag, it's the percentage
of nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium in that

1384
01:44:05.239 --> 01:44:10.880
order. This product has beneficial microbes
in it. So again, you know,

1385
01:44:10.920 --> 01:44:14.640
we're talking about storing something in blazing
heat for an extended period time.

1386
01:44:14.800 --> 01:44:16.479
I wouldn't do it. I wouldn't
do it. I keep it in the

1387
01:44:16.560 --> 01:44:18.680
house. I keep it under the
sink in the house as a matter of

1388
01:44:18.760 --> 01:44:23.359
fact. And when I water house
plants, I put some of that the

1389
01:44:23.520 --> 01:44:28.119
right amount into water and just water. With that water, it works super

1390
01:44:28.199 --> 01:44:33.560
super well. And all those beneficial
microbes are also helpful for the soil because

1391
01:44:33.840 --> 01:44:40.119
roots need microbes. There's a relationship
there that is very essential, and we

1392
01:44:40.359 --> 01:44:45.319
want to not destroy it, but
even enhance it in order for our plants

1393
01:44:45.399 --> 01:44:47.840
to do their best. You know, house plants are basically foliage plants for

1394
01:44:47.880 --> 01:44:53.119
the most part, So that's seven
percent nitrogen. That's a good level to

1395
01:44:53.279 --> 01:44:59.319
help keep them healthy and green and
good beautiful vegetation. Now, outdoors,

1396
01:44:59.479 --> 01:45:03.159
that would be the Ocean Harvest Blue
label. That's a four two three fish

1397
01:45:03.239 --> 01:45:09.159
based fertilizer. I again mix it
in water and water with it. You

1398
01:45:09.239 --> 01:45:12.439
can also mix it up and use
it as a folior spray. It's not

1399
01:45:12.520 --> 01:45:16.279
gonna burn your plants. Just just
follow the label. It works super well.

1400
01:45:16.319 --> 01:45:19.000
I like to use it outdoor because
being fish based, there's a slight

1401
01:45:19.079 --> 01:45:24.159
odor to it. But we've known
for a long time that fish based fertilizers

1402
01:45:24.239 --> 01:45:29.720
are rocket fuel for plants, very
very very helpful for plants. So Harvest

1403
01:45:29.840 --> 01:45:34.720
label, Ocean Harvest Blue label,
Biomatrix Orange label. Those are the two

1404
01:45:34.800 --> 01:45:39.000
I think you should have on hand. You can get them from Microlife.

1405
01:45:39.439 --> 01:45:43.279
You know, Microlife fertilizers are available
on a lot of places. If you

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go online to Microlife Fertilizer dot com
you can find out the different places that

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they have and you can buy it. And that is in most of the

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places I talk about here on garden
Line. Well, you've been listening to

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a good show today because we had
a great guest today. We've got a

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lot of good information. You know, on guarden Line we are here every

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Saturday and Sunday six am to ten
am, so that's eight hours a weekend

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that you can call in and get
gardening advice or just listening for gardening advice.

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I hope you tell your friends about
it. We always love to have

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more listeners, more interest in the
show. You have people that live somewhere.

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I'd had a call from Georgia today. I'm crying out loud coming in.

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Tell your friends and neighbors about garden
Line. If you miss a show,

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you can hear us by podcast.
Whether you have the iHeartMedia podcast app

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or some other podcast app. Search
for garden Line here in Houston, Texas,

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and you can listen to past shows. Maybe you heard me say those

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two fertilizers just a minute ago,
and you go, what was that?

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I didn't write it down? We
go listen to the past. Sure you

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can hear that. You hear me
give advice to people and recommend things.

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Another good reason I love podcasts because
gosh, these past two weeks I have

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driven all over Texas for various sort
of culture of and boy, I listened

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all wins. Your time is education
time for me when I hit somewhere because

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of all the great podcasts that we
can listen to. Thank you for being

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a listener to Gardenline. We look
forward to talking to you again next Saturday morning.