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Katie r h. Garden Line does
not necessarily endorsed any of the products or

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services advertised on this program. Welcome
to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip

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Richard's show Crazy You just watching as
world us so many good things to see.

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Blotsy, good morning, Good morning, and welcome to garden Line.

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We are glad you're listening today.
You get the early Bird Award for being

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up and about and that's a good
thing. Starts a day, right.

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Uh. We are going to talk
about a lot of different things today regarding

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horticulture, gardening, landscapes, trees, shrubs, lawns, you name it.

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But we'll talk about whatever you're interested
in, and that is by calling

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our phone number. It's as simple
as that. You've heard this show before,

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I'm sure, And here's here's the
routine. Seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four,

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give me call. Let's talk about
what you're interested in. Maybe you

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get some questions on some aspect of
gardening, or I've been getting a lot

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of these lately. Somebody tells me
that somebody told them that well, such

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and such about what they should do
to their lawn or whatever, and it's

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just not right. It's not true. And I always think you know the

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information you get, uh, don't
always take it with a grain of salt.

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I mean, do take it with
a grain of salt. Don't always

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believe it. It is. There's
more misinformation about gardening out there than you

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can imagine. And sometimes I have
to not look at certain lightwilf for example,

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Pinterest. People love Pinterest, and
I get that that's cool, but

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don't believe everything horticulturally on there.
There's stuff that's just not right. Facebook,

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any app you use, any websites
and searches and things. You come

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up with all kinds of things.
So if you have any questions about them,

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give us a call. We'll be
glad to visit with you and to

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try to kind of work through what
is and isn't true about something. Usually

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things that are erroneous are based on
a kernel of truth. That's the problem

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with them is they start off right, or they're based on something true,

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but they take it where it's not
true. Well, anyway you get the

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idea, I want to visit a
little bit, starting off about our lawns

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and what we can be doing or
should be doing. At this point in

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time, our lawns are entering their
winter rest. And I don't use the

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word dormancy. Occasionally it may slip
out of my mouth, but that's not

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the right word for our Southern turf
grasses. Saint Augustine doesn't go dormant like

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your deciduous trees go dormant. It
just slows down. You know, the

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light levels are lower, the days
are shorter, the temperatures are cooler,

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and it just shuts down. And
when we get some warm weather it kind

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of can kick back in again.
And that happens in the cool season.

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It's one of the reasons why I
remind people to rake the leaves off your

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yard. How they lay there a
few days, that's not at the end

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of the world. I'm just saying, don't just leave them for long periods

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of time shading the grass, because
that grass, even in January, if

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the weather's right and we get a
bunch of balmy kind of days. I

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say balmy maybe you know, mid
to upper seventies, those kind of temperatures

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and even above sometimes well, that
grass can be making carbohydrates and strengthening itself

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going into winter and therefore coming back
out into spring. That's why we have

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been recommending for weeks and weeks now
get your fall fertilizer down. And the

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reason is you want the grass to
go stronger into the cool season, and

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that's what the fall nutrition does.
All through the year. I've got fertilizers

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that are basically pushing nitrogen to the
grass. That's kind of what the turf

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specialists talk about. If you ask
anybody any university where one of their turf

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specialists, how do we fertilize?
What do we need? Well, they're

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basically through most of the season spring
in summer you're pushing along a little bit

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of nitrogen because you're supporting good growth, good vigor. And I said a

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little bit not nuked with nitrogen because
over applications cause problems, and fall is

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a good example for that. In
fall we shift over to something a little

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bit less nitrogen from a ratio standpoint
to the other nutrients, and we want

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the phosphorus to be really good and
strong in its content. In there the

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levels of phosphorus, it's because in
that cool condition your soil is the roots

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are active in your soil, but
we want them to take up the potassium

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and it has to come with some
nitrogen at that time, so we still

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have some nitrogen and fall fertilizer,
but we don't want to promote a lot

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of vigorous growth. That's where we
get into problem with brown patch, which

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is called large patch. Also,
when you get lots of vigorous growth,

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then you're asking for problems, and
we're just wanting to get the crant,

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the plant healthy with the nutrients it
needs to build the carbohydrates to go into

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winter. And you've heard me talk
about that before. When I say something

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as a fall fertilizer, that's what
I'm talking about. That's what it is

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for, you know. And a
good example of that is Microlife's five to

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one three. They call that the
brown patch formula. It is a good

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fertilizer really, you can use it
anytime of the year, but it has

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got a little bit lower on the
nitrogen and sometimes we'll put a little Humantes

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plus with that because that has about
a four percent nitrogen nitrogen excuse me,

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potassium. I need to watch my
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bag is what we're going after now. Microlife also has a couple of products

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I call them the Blue plus Blue
that would be that would be things like

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the Microlife Ultimate that is the blue
bag a fertilizer. It's got an eight

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four to six ratio of nutrients and
again you can use that about any time

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of the year. And then there's
the Microlife Ocean Harvest. Ocean Harvest is

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a blue bottle. It's basically a
fish based product that you can use to

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water implants as you plant them.
You can use it as a folier spray.

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It just has a lot of uses. But there are and many many

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other products are available from Microlife.
Just go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and

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you can find out where you can
buy it and learn more about each of

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these products. It's always good to
learn a little bit about the things that

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we are talking about. Hey,
if you live up in the Magnolia area,

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spring Creek Feed is your feed store. They're on FM twenty nine seventy

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eight. Y'all know that area.
Y'all know FM twenty ninety seventy eight.

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It just minutes away from ground Parkway
or Highway two forty nine, so it's

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really easy access to get to Spring
Creek Feed. They carry all the fertilizers

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that I would recommend here on guard
Line. They also, of course,

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there are feeds, so they carry
lots of livestock feed, high quality pet

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foods, pet brands for your dog
food or cat food. They even have

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feed for wildlife. And if you
happen to be in FFA or four eight

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maybe raising an animal, if you're
military, or if you are a senior

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citizen, there's discounts for you.
And one of the other good things about

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Spring Creek Feed is they will special
order a product if you need to get

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it and they can get a hold
of it, they will special order it

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in for you and even have a
delivery service available as well. All of

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that you're going to get at Spring
Creek Feed again. It's up in Magnolia

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on twenty nine seventy eight. Well, we're going to go to a break

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here. We will be back if
you would like to give Josh called and

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get on the boards seven one three
two one two fifty eight seven four alright,

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all right, that's your moment of
happy, happy music here for just

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a bit before we get going on
guarden Line again, which is right now.

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Hey, listen, I was talking
about your lawn. I was talking

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about the importance of getting the leaves
off the lawn and why that's important and

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why the nutrients are important that we
put on in the fall. And the

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longer you wait to do fall fertilizing, the less time there is or the

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less grass growth activity there will be
as the year goes on. In other

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words, once we get into you
know, late December and January, the

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grass is kind of just sitting still. But again, you know, it

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moves a little bit, but it
would be so much more efficient for your

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fall fertilizer application to go ahead and
get it on in October, which is

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what I have on my schedule.
For those of you who aren't familiar with

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the schedule, you can go to
Skiperchter dot com or excuse me, gardening

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with Skip. Don't forget Skip Richter
Doctor. There's not one of those Gardening

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with Skip dot com Gardening with Skin
and the schedules are on there. The

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one's a lawn care schedule. It
tells you about fertilizing, It tells you

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about watering and mowing and air rating
and adding mineral supplements and things like that.

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It goes into all of that stuff, and it's got the organic and

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synthetic options for both of those.
For all of that there's also a pest

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disease and weed management schedule. These
are free, by the way, a

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multicolor chart. It makes it really
easy to follow. Just hang it up

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in your garage, you know,
wherever you get your fertilizer spread or out.

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I guess, and just have it
handy there. That's good. Always

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check back though. Anytime I see
an opportunity to update it, to add

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something or improve something, I'm going
to do that, and so just check

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back occasionally. I'll try to remember
to mention when there is an update that's

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just been made to those schedules.
But that would be a good idea.

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So we were discussing lawns and whatnot, and someone asked me the other day

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how tall should I be mowing my
lawn? And it kind of depends on

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the grass that you have. Saint
Augustine is the one we mow the highest.

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It's probably about a two and a
half inch is a good general height

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for Saint Augustine. When you get
too short, it's stressful. It's not

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built to be mowed like a golf
course green. Bermuda on a golf course

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green can take that. Saint Augustine
now, and if you get let it

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get taller. That's okay. It's
just some people don't like the look of

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a taller lawn. But I've seen
people have their lawns three or four inches

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high, and it makes for a
more deep, extensive root system, to

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have more available top growth, especially
if it's in the sun. And it

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also means that when you mow,
you don't have to mow quite as often

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because you're not cutting off you are
not having to just make your clippings really

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short. In general for turf,
let me just put it this way.

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In general, for turf, we
cut off one third of the leaf blade

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of the grass. So if your
grass is three inches high, you cut

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it to two inches high. That's
one third of the of the height.

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So the taller the height you're mowing, the more it can grow before you

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have to mow again, if you
go all the way down. I'll take

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a golf course green as an example. Uh, they're mowing those things every

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day during the growing season especially,
and it's because they're cutting off like an

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eighth of an inch or a six
even less sometimes, but about an eighth

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of an inch usually of the grass
blade height. Well, I don't think

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you want to mow your home lawn
every day or every other day or three

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times a week. Once a week
is generally good. But to do that

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and it looked good, you need
to have a little higher grass height to

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be able to do that. Our
phone number is seven to one three two

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one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four. Airloom Soils is having a
sale that you need to know about if

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you're thinking about building a bed,
or if you have beds and they kind

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of sunk them down in time and
you want to top them off, get

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the soil back up and a taller
or higher level for better drainage. Maybe

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it's a flower bed, for example, a vegetable bed. Here's the opportunity

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to do it because they are putting
two of their best sellers on sale this

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fall for bulk of purchases. So
the veggiean herb soil is on fall special

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for one hundred and nineteen bulk per
cubic yard, or one hundred and forty

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eight for a supersac, which is
a sack that holds a cubicyard. The

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rose soil is on sale for seventy
dollars bulk and ninety nine dollars for a

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supersack, and each of those prices
is a cubicyard and they'll deliver them.

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You can go out there and pick
them up. They'll drop the supersack off

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in your in your driveway if you
want. It's a lot neater and cleaner

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than just having them dump soil there. But anyway you want to go about

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it, you just need to get
a hold of folks at Heirloom Soluce.

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Go online to Heirloomsoilsoftexes dot com,
Airloomsoilsoftexas dot com and when you go there,

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what you're going to see also as
a compost calculator where you can figure

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out how much it is that you
need to order. We're going to heading

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out to the phones. We're gonna
talk to Mike in Sugarland. Hello Mike,

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Hello Skiff, good morning, Good
morning. I applied the Nitra Falls

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winter Riser fertilizer and I did it
about four or five weeks ago, and

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my grass is turned brown, so
I think I over applied it. You

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know, I'd have a hard time
believing that you applied enough of it to

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brown your grass. I mean you
would have you know, it had been

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like it snowed out there just about
not quite, but it's pretty hard to

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apply that much. But go ahead
and go ahead with your question and we'll

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see if we can figure it out. Well, whatever I did, I

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did water immediately after application. But
it was the eight twelve sixteen I believe.

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Anyway, Yeah, I went back
and checked the bag on the application,

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and I used half of a forty
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twenty pounds about two thousand square feet. So fifteen of your twenty on two

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thousand. That's not too high.
That's now twenty pounds ten pounds on one

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thousand, that would be just eight
percent night. I just don't I don't

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think that that application of fertilizer was
enough to do that. Now, you

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should watch the application rate because we're
trying to keep the nitrogen a little lower.

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So even though the ratios are perfect
for fall the nitro fall special,

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if you put on enough of it, you're still putting on more nitrogen,

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right, even though that number is
a little lower than the others. I

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would watch for that. But let's
see if we can figure out what else

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might be going on. Was there
any did you ad any kind of weak

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control products or anything else applied to
the lawn. No, not at that

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time. I did a post emergent
weed spray. Yeah, in the spring.

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Okay, well, hey, I
don't you know, just you're not

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saying it's in circles, and you're
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kind of got hit at once,
right, Yeah, at least where I

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I fertilized it. Okay, So
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Okay, Well, let's just question
is how do I get around it?

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Is it going to kill the grass
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No, it'll come back. But
let's just say you did way over apply

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it or something, and that is
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or irrigation just kind of do a
little extra to basically, you'd be washing

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any salt based minerals, you know, out of that root zone. So

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it's just like washing salt, you
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and it would just get the access
away and the grass will be Okay,

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I don't I can't imagine you're putting
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I'm having trouble believing that you put
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go with that for now. If
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have me just look at them.
I may not have another a different answer,

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but if I see something, I'll
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put you on hold. If you
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up and get you an email and
send me some pictures from different angles where

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I can really see overall, and
then something up really close and good sharp

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focus could I have Are you still
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to run what was your last well? I was going to say, did

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I not water an in enough?
Would that have burned it? It would

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be all you need is a half
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An inch would would be fine if
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but you may need to do it
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to get a salt out of the
soil again. Okay, okay, all

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right, thank you, thank you, sir. I'm put you on hold.

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You know, if you're going to
do some fall planting, and I

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hope you are, excuse me.
Remember when you put a plant in the

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ground, the root system is confined
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And that's why I like to water
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has to go six twelve six is
a simple process. You just mix it

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in water and I use a watering
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You can spray it as a foldier. It's not going to burn plants.

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It's got, of course the nutrients
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seeweed extracts and medinas, will activator, humic acid and other things like that

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that just help. And I would
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Then you do it about five seven
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seven days after that, three times
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know those roots are getting going,
and just from there you can just sort

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of back off and you don't have
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you're hoping that the roots are reaching
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in the swell and able to do
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was talking about a turf while ago, excuse me. And when we go

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into the cool season, some people
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getting a little later in the season
for that, but you still you can

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still do it. But when you
oversee turf like that, what you end

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up with is basically you're putting weeds
in your lawn. That grass you're planting

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is competing with the lawn for water
nutrients. It can be done. Commercial

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properties do it all the time,
but most people don't want to water and

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more and have to fertilize or mode
during the cool season, and this overseeded

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is a cool season annual grass or
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I would just say hesitate before you
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would do that, and there's ways
to do it. People that know what

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they're doing can obviously pull that off. Well, we're about time for a

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break right here. I about that, Nicky, come in while I go

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find some throat lozenges or something.
Here. Oh, that's going to be

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sore. No, I'm okay.
Oh. I saw a doctor and he

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said he'd only seen it once before, but they had to put the whole

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herdles. Sleep time for Nicki and
the news. Welcome back to garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here to answer gardening questions.

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If you would like to ask a
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Seven one three two one two five
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one two fifty eight seventy four.
I was looking at I've got one of

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the rolling above ground raised beds,
the Vego beds, but this is the

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one on wheels. It's like a
little just think of it like a box

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above the ground on wheels. It's
pretty cool. You can move them around

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really easily, which is which is
handy. I'm putting mine in a spot

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where i can get it into the
garage really easily, and I'm just looking

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forward to a really cool harvest through
the winter time because I'm doing a lot

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of greens and other things that are
that are fresh, and it can just

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go in the garage whenever it's too
cold. I mean, you could throw

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something over it to protect it as
well. But I just think that was

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a cool one. You know,
Vego, I brag on them all the

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time, but they just there's a
lot of features. The fact that the

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metal is not going to rest in
Corrode. It's a special it's not just

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galvanized, a special process that is
not going to do that. I was

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tested at the A and M Metals
laboratories and just really passed with flying colors.

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Also the paint, the USDA approved
paint on them. It's just beautiful

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colors. You know, you don't
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sore thumb. You want it to
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And that's why I like the colors
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Now they're a Houston company. There's
a lot of impostors out there that you

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know came along later, and but
listen, Vego's the one. They're the

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original. They know how to build
them. They're time tested. I've tested

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them myself as a matter of fact, and you're not going to go wrong.

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If you are looking for a really
cool garden gift for someone in the

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family, this would be unbelievable.
Just go to vegogarden dot com vegogarden dot

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com. You'll find them at some
of our local mom and pop garden centers

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around here too. Don't be fooled
by the others on the market. You

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need to try it. You need
to try out the Vego because it's just

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so dead gum convenient. It's so
easy, and it lasts forever. That's

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another thing. I've built beds with
treated lumber. That's a lot of time

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and work and a lot of money. And in the long term, when

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you have to read doo beds,
you end up wishing you would gone ahead

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and gotten in the metal bed like
Vego bed. To begin with, we

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are we're here to answer your gardening
questions. If you have any you'd like

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to call in seven to one three
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to one three two one two five
eight seven four. I came home the

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other day and there were branches from
my Chinese pistache tree that's out in the

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front, uh, and they were
laying in the driveway. And I've been

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knowing I needed to get up there
in pruneum. But a delivery truck came

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in and you know those are really
high compared to driving in with your vehicle

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every day. Uh, And it
just broke off a bunch of branches trying

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to get in the driveway. And
so I need to get up there and

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do some some pruning. And if
you have any kind of pruning you need

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done, you know who I'm going
to say, and that's Affordable Tree Service.

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I was just visiting with Joe yesterday. And you know, Martin has

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been doing this for a very long
time, over thirty years of experience taking

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care of Houston trees. They know
what they're doing, and don't let anybody

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run your trees doesn't know what they're
doing. I'm telling you one bad pruning

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job, it's pretty much for life. That tree will never have the structural

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strength from the re sprouting as it
would if it were pruned properly. And

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you're just not going to get him
back when they prune in bad And Martin

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knows how to do it, and
that's why you need to call him.

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His number is seven one three six
nine nine twenty six sixty three. Seven

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one three six nine nine twenty six
sixty three. And when you call,

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you're going to talk to Martin or
his wife, Joe. That's who enters

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the phone. Yesterday I called,
Joe answered, and it's if you don't

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hear one of them, you've called
the wrong place. So hang up and

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doll again, or just go to
the website Afftree Service dot com. Now

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you need to take action now.
Even if you're thinking you want trees pruned

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in February or something, call now
and get on the list. He stays

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busy. That's what happens when you
do things right. You stay busy and

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telling me your guardline listener too,
by the way, that that helps move

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you up to the front of their
list. And so don't wait until you

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know, like me, some truck
knocks down branches it should have been prone

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a long time ago, or a
storm comes in and ruins a beautiful tree.

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Have Martin come look at it.
And if you're going to do any

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kind of construction around around that tree, I about trenches or whatever, have

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him come out first and look at
it and give you a consultation as to

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what you need to do, because
again, one mistake in construction can end

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up leading to the death of a
tree as well. We don't want that

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

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Our phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. I think I've told

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you about this for several weekends now, but I just want you to be

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aware that the Oba Lone Star Yule
Ball fundraiser is going on December seventh.

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That's a Thursday, December seventh.
It is a Thursday coming up soon,

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isn't it. It's from five thirty
to nine thirty at the ballroom at Tanglewood

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off Westheimer, and it is going
to be quite a shin dig. By

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the way, you need to be
wearing your Western attire. That's the theme

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of the whole event. Shake Russell
is the legendary Texas performer. You probably

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know Shake or have heard his music. He is going to be there performing

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for him. They'll also have a
group called d VS Strings, which is

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what you would expect, a small
string ensemble. They'll have magician and fortune

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telling and a delicious dinner by the
way, certainly cocktails and other things.

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But you got to go online to
register at OBA online dot org, slash

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register, OHBA online all one word
dot org slash register, and that is

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how you can become part of the
party. We are coming a little close

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to a break here, so I
don't want to start a whole new topic,

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but I did want to just say
a few more things about the Our

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lawns have been through a really difficult
season and a lot of people are sending

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me pictures are telling me that you
know, what do I do? And

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it looks bad and it's a you
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at do you have living grass close
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apart sprigs or a foot apart,
it'll close back in pretty quick in the

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spring to early summer. But that's
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and able to do that. If
not, residing is going to be something

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you're going to have to be looking
at doing, and that's where we get

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rid. That's your chance to get
rid of all the bad weeds that you

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can't get rid of that are growing
in your lawn, to deal with like

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roots that are sticking up above the
surface, or you may need to bring

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a little bit of soil in those
sort of things, leveling the soil,

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filling holes. That's all done ahead
of time, so now'd be a good

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time as you get time over the
next few months to be working on that,

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so you'd be ready to go and
lay lay some fresh grass down and

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get that lawn back where it should
be. We're going to take a break

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right now again. If you'd like
to give Josh a call and get on

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the boards. Seven to one,
three, two and two, five,

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eight, seven four. Welcome back
to Garden Line. We're glad you're listening

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today. I hope you're enjoying the
show. We're just going to offer some

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advice on different aspects of gardening to
help you have success. One of the

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things that I would advise you on
if you are looking to have success is

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to find a good quality mom and
pop garden center. And for those of

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you listening up in the Lake Conroary, the Montgomery, the Conroery all through

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up there, Ana Plants and Produce
is your backyard nursery. And for all

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those lake neighborhoods, Oh my gosh, Waterstone, Lake Conroe, Beltwater,

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Grand Harbor, de Lago, On
and on, that's your hometown nursery.

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And they are having a really cool
deal. By the way, they're getting

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ready for their annual Christmas festival at
the nursery. That is tomorrow, Sunday,

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December third, from noon to four
pm. It's free group photos taken

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with Santa Claus and Missus Claus there. And while you're there, of course,

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you're going to do some shopping I
mean they ana plants and produce.

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If you need fertilizer that I recommend, They've got that. Do you need

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quality annuals, perennials, vegetables,
shrubs, trees, rose vines, everything.

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Ana Plants and Produce is the place
to go. You've driven past it

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one hundred times when you're coming out
of Montgomery heading toward Conro on one oh

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five. It's right on the east
edge of Montgomery and on the north side

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of the road. But if you
drive by, I don't have to tell

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you what side of the road it's
on. It is pretty darn clear,

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and it's always fun to go in
there. Good advice from good folks that

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know what they're talking about too.
That is very important when you are choosing

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a place to purchase plants and other
things like that. Excuse me, I

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have talked about it this fall,
but Nelson Plant Food is doing their special

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for the Carbolobe. That's the Fall
fertilizer. A special thing has happened in

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this fall, and that is that
forever bag of carbo loads sold, Nelson's

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Fertilizer will donate two dollars to Randy
Lemons Memorial Scholarship. It's for horticulture students

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at A and M, and so
it's just a it's kind of a win

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wind deal because you get a good
fertilizer and you contribute to a good cause

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in the processed. I mean,
they're they're providing that two dollars donation for

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you, and carbo load is an
excellent one for reasons I was just talking

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about. Before the fall is when
our grass gets stronger to be hardier in

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winter and come out stronger in the
spring. And carboload also has a pre

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emergent herbicide that will when you water
the carbo load in after application, put

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about a half inch of water on
it, and it'll move that herbicide also

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into the surface and the cool season
weeds that can be germinating anytime here and

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have already begun to germinate. It
prevents that process from happening. And that's

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from Nelson Plant Food, a good
quality product and definitely a good cause too.

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You are listen the garden line.
I'm your host, Skip Richter,

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and we are going to be taking
a little bit break here in a bit,

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But I just wanted to switch gears
from talking about lawns and discuss some

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fertilizing and other activities in the garden. I think the best easiest garden season

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of the year is the fall season. The fall and winter really down this

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far south now. Spring is wonderful, Slummer is wonderful. That's all great,

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But it's so easy right now to
grow healthy greens, things that we

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know have the fighter nutrients to keep
our bodies healthier. And so that would

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be things like kale, greens,
lettuce, spinach. A regular regular is

423
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we use it more for seasoning as
a green. In fact, you make

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a salad with very little dressing when
you add some sorrel for lemony greens,

425
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when you add a little irregular for
kind of a nutty. I don't know

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how to describe the taste, but
I would say nutty is one way to

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go about it. And you can
sprinkle so lantro and if you wanted to.

428
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I mean, there's a lot of
greens with flavor that you can put

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together in a salad and it is
so easy to grow now. You put

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the seeds out or you put the
transplants out, and the weather's just perfect

431
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for them. Yeah, you got
a water some but not like the summer.

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This is a great season for doing
just that, and I encourage you.

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If you have never tried gardening before, would you try this fall the

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bottom line, the low hanging fruit. The easiest way to get into a

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garden is to get a five gallon
bucket, droll holes in the bottom,

436
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fill it full of a quality potting
mix, and give it a shot.

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See how it does. Now,
I know before long you're going to be

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wanting to get beautiful containers to grow
in on the patio. And you may

439
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even decide to put in a raised
bat like one of the veggos I was

440
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talking about a while ago, and
you can grow even more. Don't think

441
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.039
about having a garden, meaning you've
got to go buy a rototiller and plow

442
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:56.920
up the back forty of your yard. You can garden anywhere sunlight hits the

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soil, and so find a way
to do it. It's easy. Do

444
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some lettuce. That's one of the
simplest things you can do. Get the

445
00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:08.759
kids involved. Let them go out
there and mow it with scissors out of

446
00:32:08.839 --> 00:32:10.759
the top of the container. Yeah, that's how you do it. You

447
00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:15.200
just plant a bunch of seeds.
It just comes up like a little weedy

448
00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:17.920
lettuce patcher. But it's all lettuce, and you trim it off like you

449
00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:22.319
mowed it, and it just sproutsrat
back out again and you get another trimming

450
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lighter. Can't get any simpler than
that. Hey, while I'm talking about

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activities, you need to be aware
that at Buchanans they're having their holiday open

452
00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:37.119
house. We've been leading up to
this for a long time, but this

453
00:32:37.160 --> 00:32:38.799
is a free event. There's gonna
be live music, beer and wine.

454
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:44.519
Food, Sam will be there,
kids, crafts, local vendors all there

455
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at Buchanans Nursery which is on Eleventh
Street and the Heights six eleven East eleventh

456
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Street in the Heights. And when
you're there you're gonna find some of the

457
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vendors, for example, Mingo's a
Latin kitchen, traveling Tom's coffee truck,

458
00:32:59.160 --> 00:33:04.119
uncommon Bee for the kiddos if they
want to make crafts like a Christmas headband

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00:33:04.240 --> 00:33:07.720
or write a letter to Santa or
a Christmas bellcraft, that's all going to

460
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be going on there today. And
of course when you're there you need to

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00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:15.759
pick up all the plants that you
want to have to make your beautiful fall

462
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and winter landscape even more beautiful,
and your garden as well. They have

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native plants. They certainly have a
lot of Christmas trees, right, and

464
00:33:25.799 --> 00:33:29.559
it's a great time to go ahead
and get that tree and get it in

465
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the ground. And they take care
of their trees so when you buy them,

466
00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:37.880
they haven't been sitting out of water
on a dry lot somewhere waiting for

467
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somebody to show up in the sun. No, they take care of their

468
00:33:39.759 --> 00:33:43.079
trees. They put them in water, they take care of them from the

469
00:33:43.079 --> 00:33:46.000
time they come off the truck so
that they have the longest life possible in

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your home. I have vacuumed my
share of pine needles up from a tree

471
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:53.559
that was not in good shape when
it came in the house, and it

472
00:33:53.599 --> 00:33:57.920
was just a needle drop adventure.
It kind of looked like Charlie Brown's tree

473
00:33:57.960 --> 00:34:01.400
by the time by the time we
hit the season. But with Buchanans,

474
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you're not going to have that for
sure. Buchanan's Nursery again on East eleventh

475
00:34:06.599 --> 00:34:15.000
Street in the Heights the topics.
I was talking about vegetable gardening and everybody

476
00:34:15.039 --> 00:34:17.280
needs to try. It's just it
really is easy. You can do it.

477
00:34:17.519 --> 00:34:22.000
I would encourage you to. I've
grown more things and just the old

478
00:34:22.039 --> 00:34:27.360
black nursery buckets. I mean,
plants don't care what they're growing in.

479
00:34:27.559 --> 00:34:30.039
They want soil, they want water, and they want nutrients. And if

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you give them an adequate amount of
those three things, they're going to do

481
00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:37.960
well. I mean, you could. I told this story before, but

482
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.239
one time I was driving down the
street and my wife, I tend to

483
00:34:40.239 --> 00:34:44.559
be kind of an eclectic gardener,
and we were driving down the street and

484
00:34:44.599 --> 00:34:47.719
somebody had put a toilet out at
the roadside that they had redone their bathroom.

485
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And I didn't say anything. I
didn't look at My wife says,

486
00:34:51.400 --> 00:34:55.159
don't even think about it. Don't
even think about it, because she knew

487
00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:58.400
what I was saying. Yes,
that's what I was thinking. I could

488
00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:02.119
grow stuff in that. Plants don't
care what they're growing in. Just give

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them enough soil, good water,
and good nutrient. So try it out

490
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:10.400
this fall. Let us help you
walk through that process, because you know,

491
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:15.719
gardening need not end in disappointment.
You do not have a brown thumb.

492
00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:21.039
You may have uninformed thumb, and
we can help with that, but

493
00:35:21.159 --> 00:35:23.079
you do not have a brown thumb. You can garden, You can grow

494
00:35:23.119 --> 00:35:27.960
things. Do you want beautiful flowers? You want to spruce up the entrance

495
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:30.280
way to the home with some containers
of flowers. Do you want to have

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00:35:30.360 --> 00:35:36.800
some vegetable production or RB production in
containers. Just get your feet wet,

497
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:39.159
don't bite off too much. Just
try it out. And we have plenty

498
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:44.440
of great garden centers that will help
walk you through that, getting you good

499
00:35:44.519 --> 00:35:50.679
plants with good advice. And there's
just a lot available online to help you

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00:35:50.800 --> 00:35:53.679
try out gardening. And I want
to say this, and I'm not trying

501
00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:59.800
to meddle here, but it is
a fact that when kids grow up learning

502
00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:05.800
and appreciating good quality food, learning
to eat things that they grew they are

503
00:36:05.840 --> 00:36:09.800
set on a path toward a healthier
life. Because our number one health problems

504
00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:13.840
in this country are because of what
we've put in our mouth. That's one

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00:36:13.840 --> 00:36:16.119
of the biggest things. There's others, but that's one of the biggest things.

506
00:36:16.480 --> 00:36:21.079
And learning to eat fresh and healthy
is so important. And why not

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00:36:21.639 --> 00:36:24.480
also introduce them just to the wonder
of the natural world, and a garden

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00:36:24.559 --> 00:36:29.159
is a great way to do that. We're about to take a little break

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00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:32.159
here and be heading out the door
for the news, but when we come

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00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:35.800
back, we'll be glad to take
your calls. If you'd like to be

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00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:37.960
first in line, you can give
us a call. It's seven one three

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two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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00:36:44.880 --> 00:37:07.840
seventy four. KTRH Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

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services advertised on this program. Welcome
to kt r H Garden Line with Skip

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Rickyard. It's so crazy, Trim. Just watch him as we welcome back

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to garden Line. We are glad
you're listening this morning and looking forward to

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talking to you. Our phone number
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gotten around to it, here's your
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holiday blowout at Quality Home Products right
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through the month of December. Up
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new generator customers, new ones only, and it can't be combined with other

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right generator so you're not wasting money
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go through all the process of the
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of times a year, I think, come out and service the generator,

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make sure everything's working, because listen, when the power goes off and you

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need internet for your job, for
example, or you've got frozen food in

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the freezer, you don't want a
generator's not ready to go. And that's

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what Quality Home Products of Texas does. They make sure that when you're their

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And the awards they have won from the

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Better Business Bureau, you know,
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working it's just amazing and it's a
because of the service that they give their

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customers. We're going to go out
and out of Bay City and talk to

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Lisa. Hello, Lisa, Hello, how can we help? I have

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00:39:34.079 --> 00:39:39.360
a Texas stage and an azalea plant
that I would like to plant, and

546
00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:47.039
our soil is the black gumbo clay
mud height. Okay. Planted trees before

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00:39:47.400 --> 00:39:51.280
and they don't ever get out of
the root ball, okay, and they

548
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:57.159
just die. Well, Texas Sage
doesn't mind that soil, but it does

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want excellent drainage, so raising amound
of soil up to plant in. You

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00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.159
can bring in a quality soil mix
and mix it a little bit with your

551
00:40:07.199 --> 00:40:09.440
soil and then add more fresh mix
on top to sort of create that raised

552
00:40:09.480 --> 00:40:14.559
bed to put it in. If
you can keep the roots from being underwater,

553
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.880
which happens when it rains a lot
in the clay soil, If you

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00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:20.880
can prevent that, Texas Sage will
be happy. It needs full sun,

555
00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:25.559
but it needs good drainage. That's
important. Now, would you suggest top

556
00:40:25.679 --> 00:40:31.559
soil, because I've looked into getting
different types of soil. I live out

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00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:37.400
in the country and so looking for
different types of soil well, top soil

558
00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:39.960
would be good. It's just that
what you and I call topsoil is not

559
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:45.400
always what a soil yard calls top
soil. Sometimes people will sell you something

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00:40:45.440 --> 00:40:49.880
called topsoil and it's not a good
quality soil. A good quality soil mix

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00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:55.000
from a soil company you can trust. That's very important. They won't say

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00:40:55.000 --> 00:41:00.559
you something that it isn't And so
yes, topsoil. You could mix some

563
00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:05.719
organic material in it Texas age will
grow and some of our nice bed mixes,

564
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:07.880
you know, like a roast soil
mix, for example. But mixing

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00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:14.280
it with top soil is a good
thing because the organic materials tend to decompose

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00:41:14.320 --> 00:41:19.199
and therefore shrink down over time,
whereas soil pretty much stays where what you

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00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:23.039
have it doesn't, it doesn't shrink
down as much. Okay, with a

568
00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:30.079
sandy getting sand and mixing in with
it, it's us or not necessarily sand.

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00:41:30.199 --> 00:41:32.000
Just if you could get something that's
more of a loam, ask them

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00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:37.800
about more of a loam type soil
to mix in with your clay or or

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00:41:37.119 --> 00:41:42.840
or they may have other options depending
on where you end up getting your your

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00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:45.840
mix. I know your way down
in Bay City, We've got a couple

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00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:47.239
of great places up on the north
end of town. I know I talk

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about airlom soils and Nature's Nature's Way
up towards Conro, but they deliver in

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00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:57.559
a wide area too. Now,
as far as your azilia that needs a

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00:41:57.639 --> 00:42:02.239
woodland type soil mix, just imagine
in the woods, there's lots of decaying

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00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:07.519
organic matter and that's where azaleas are
from. And so what you want to

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00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:09.400
do, and I'm going to say
this in kind of a funny way,

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but it gives you the idea.
You want to set your azalea plant on

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00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:17.920
the ground and then bring your bed
in around it. So what we're saying

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00:42:19.000 --> 00:42:22.800
is that that plant isn't dug in
a hole in the ground because that's poor

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00:42:22.880 --> 00:42:25.320
drainage and the heavy clay soil azelia
is just not going to like that.

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00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:30.159
But you can mix some bed mix
in with your soil, but make sure

584
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and get a good quality acidic bed
mix. And again Nature's Way up in

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00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:37.679
Conro and Heirloom soils out and Porter, both of them make a high quality

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00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:43.880
mix that's on the acidic side and
makes azaleas feel at home. Okay,

587
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:50.079
okay, I think our soil is
kind of acidic because we can grow blue

588
00:42:50.159 --> 00:42:54.960
bonnets. No toad that blue bonnets
grow in bad soil. No, well,

589
00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:59.239
they grow in bad soil, but
not really. There's one blue bonnet

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00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:02.440
that grows in a city soil,
but that's aside from I would just make

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00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:06.840
sure you get a good mix and
get those get that mixed into the ground

592
00:43:06.880 --> 00:43:09.760
and give those plants a good chance. But I appreciate Lisa your call,

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and I wish you. I wish
you well. That's a that is an

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00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:16.519
unusual combination Texas Sage with the Azalia. I hope you're not putting them in

595
00:43:16.559 --> 00:43:22.159
the same place because their desires are
different. Texas age likes a higher pH,

596
00:43:22.360 --> 00:43:28.239
Azalia's need a lower pH. And
so just a little bit of words

597
00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:31.280
for the wives there. Uh RCW
Nurseries. I was out there this fall.

598
00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:35.519
I had a little shindig going on
out there. You know, we

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call RCW that get it, got
it nursery, and that means if they

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00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:42.199
don't have it, they'll get it
for you. They are just right down

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00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:45.679
the website and go check them out. It's RCW Nurseries dot com. They're

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00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:50.360
the garden center that where Tamba Parkway
comes south and hits belt Way eight.

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00:43:50.519 --> 00:43:53.199
They're right there in that area,
easy to get to and they carry pretty

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00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:58.559
much everything you need. And if
you're doing any fall planting of woody ornamentals,

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00:43:58.719 --> 00:44:01.480
roses, shrubs, tree those kinds
of things, they specialize in that.

606
00:44:01.840 --> 00:44:06.360
I mean they have everything else too, but they carry the fertilizer I

607
00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:08.519
talk about here. But RCW Nursery. You just need to go buy and

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00:44:08.639 --> 00:44:12.760
visit them and let them show you
the trees that they have. They have

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a very good selection of species that
do well here and they know what they're

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talking about. That is also very
very important. Was I was just talking

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with Lisa Done in Bay City and
I didn't think about this, but Siena

612
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Maltz, really, Lisa is They're
just not a long way from you.

613
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They're due south of the Houston area. I don't know if you are in

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the delivery range of them or not, but you can go by and pick

615
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up a bulk there anyone living anywhere
down south, you know, especially within

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a twenty mile radius of them.
They're on FM five twenty one, just

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north of Road Sharing. Their website
is Sienamaltz dot com. Beautiful Stone Options,

618
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Beautiful Stone Options, Beautiful quality soils
and mulches and every kind of fertilizer

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you hear me talk about on Guardenline. See and the mulch is open Monday

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through Friday, seven thirty to five
today seven thirty to two and closed on

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Sunday, So today'd be a good
time to go check it out, because

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remember, a quality garden, a
beautiful and bountiful garden, begins in the

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soil. We're going to take a
little break here, we'll be right back

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our number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back

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to garden Line. We are glad
you are listening today. I am going

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to be talking more about some other
aspects of gardening as we go through the

627
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show. But before I get going
on that again, I just wanted to

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make a comment, and that is
that if you have not we talk about

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fertilizing all the time, fall fertilizing, if you have not done an asimite

630
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application, it's still a good time
to do that. Now, everything I

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said about fertilizer and then more nitrogen
in the spring and summer, less nitrogen

632
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than the fall, but good potassium
in the fall. That that kind of

633
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blend. It's all there on my
chart. You don't have to memorize all

634
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that. Just look at the chart
and it tells you the products. If

635
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you don't do it organically synthetic,
it's got all of it there together to

636
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help you with that. But the
azamite is not something that makes your plants

637
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:22.199
want to grow faster like nitrogen would
do. But it has micro nutrients we

638
00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:25.159
call them trace elements in it,
and those are essential for plant growth.

639
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So as a plant goes to take
up nutrients and put on growth, make

640
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blooms, make fruit, whatever you
wanted to make, leaves, whatever you

641
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want of that plant, the asamite
is in the trace elements are in each

642
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each part of the plant that you
that you were growing. Let's say it's

643
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a lawn. You got grass blades, well that you know, you got

644
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nitrogen faster's potassium in there. But
the micronutrients, that's the ones that are

645
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also very important. They don't spur
growth, but they're required for growth.

646
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Think of it this way. If
you were gonna if you were going to

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build a brick wall, you would
need bricks, you would need mortar,

648
00:47:02.840 --> 00:47:07.480
you would need some moisture to make
the you know, to make a slurry

649
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with the mortar. That mortar would
need some sand mixed into it. See

650
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all of that, so if you
tried to make a brick wall and all

651
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you had is bricks and sand,
you can't make a wall. Everything is

652
00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:22.719
essential when it comes to our trace
elements. And that's why we talk about

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amite. Azimite Texas dot Com is
the website. I encourage you to go

654
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check it out, but you're gonna
find it really easy to find a lot

655
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of different places here in the Greater
Houston area will carry the asmite. Our

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phone number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

657
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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Give us a call. Let's

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talk about the things that you are
interested in. There's a lot going on

659
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:55.960
around town today. I was just
visiting, uh, you know, Enchanted

660
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Gardens out in Richmond. They're having
their holiday open houses and what they you

661
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know, take your family, your
friends, your neighbors, just go out

662
00:48:04.960 --> 00:48:07.039
there. It's always fun to visit
in Chenny Gardens in Richmond. But their

663
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holiday open house is going to have
live music. It's going to have plenty

664
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of holiday chair for sure. Their
gift stock, the gift shop is so

665
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:20.559
stocked with unique gifts and one day
only open house sales. Now one day

666
00:48:20.719 --> 00:48:23.039
that's today. That one day is
today. You don't want to miss that.

667
00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:27.079
They're going to have a taco truck
out there. They're going to have

668
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the Southern Comfort Taco truck. They're
going to have GPI Lost Tacos food truck

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out there both today and tomorrow.
By the way, today it's from eleven

670
00:48:35.519 --> 00:48:39.639
thirty to four and that's when the
taco truck is there. From two to

671
00:48:39.679 --> 00:48:44.679
four is when the Southern Comfort truck
is there. They're also going to have

672
00:48:44.760 --> 00:48:47.280
hundred being coffee roasters. How they
have them out there a lot. But

673
00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:52.159
this is just it's just a fun
event. It's your opportunity to get out

674
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and enjoy. Take the kids with
you out there, and when you get

675
00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:58.400
there, you're going to find a
lot of cool stuff. If it has

676
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anything to do with beautiful fall and
winter landscapes, they've got it in Chinned

677
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:07.639
Gardens, Richmond. If it has
anything to do with your Christmas decorating,

678
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:12.079
holiday decorating of any type, they've
got it. The points that is in

679
00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:15.000
the trees and the swag, all
the stuff you need out there, and

680
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:20.320
plus you don't want to miss today
just because holiday open house is going to

681
00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:28.320
be really cool. I was discussing
earlier the importance of making sure we keep

682
00:49:28.360 --> 00:49:30.840
our lawns without the leaves land all
over them. I do want to say,

683
00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:35.159
though, that don't get rid of
your leaves, don't get rid of

684
00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:37.880
your grass clippings, and don't get
rid of your leaves, leaves or nature's

685
00:49:37.880 --> 00:49:44.280
own slow release fertilizer and nature's own
mulch. That's how a forest protects its

686
00:49:44.280 --> 00:49:47.079
soil. It drops leaves on it
and they decompose over time, and it

687
00:49:47.119 --> 00:49:52.679
gets richer and richer and richer.
And that is why we need to be

688
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:55.480
taking care of our soil. You
can bring a beautiful soil land, a

689
00:49:55.519 --> 00:50:00.400
good mix and go, but are
you adding some composts to it as it

690
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:02.960
goes over time? Are you keeping
it molt? When you molt, do

691
00:50:04.000 --> 00:50:06.519
you take out Some people think you
have to take out the old malts and

692
00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:09.159
put in fresh molts. Who does
that in the forest? In fact,

693
00:50:09.199 --> 00:50:14.199
that would be so counterproductive to rake
up the best stuff now that it's finally

694
00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:17.159
decomposing and doing something, and then
just bring leaves and lamb on the ground

695
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:22.119
that it blocked the sunlight. It
accomplished the weed control. But why not

696
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:25.280
leave the old stuff and just add
fresh new on top of it, And

697
00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:30.000
in doing so you are gradually overtime
like a forest, making your soil better

698
00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:35.639
and better and better. That fall
is the time to plant tree, shrubs

699
00:50:35.639 --> 00:50:42.800
and woody vines. It's the most
effective time because those plants have between now

700
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and let's say next May, before
it starts to get really hot and we're

701
00:50:46.519 --> 00:50:52.639
having to, you know, go
into extra measures to water when it doesn't

702
00:50:52.719 --> 00:50:55.320
rain and the plants or the root
system isn't extensive enough. It's a new

703
00:50:55.320 --> 00:50:59.719
plant. It's going to be that
way for two three years, even depending

704
00:50:59.760 --> 00:51:02.960
on what you're planting. When it
comes to trees and shrubs, but plan

705
00:51:04.039 --> 00:51:06.239
them now. This is a good
time. And when you plan them,

706
00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:08.760
just go ahead and grab you a
tree hugger sprinkler. I talk about these.

707
00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:12.960
I've got three sizes myself. I've
got the seven inch, the eleven

708
00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:15.199
inch, and the fifteen inches.
Of the three sizes, what they do

709
00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:17.559
is they have a little hinge and
they go around the trunk of the tree.

710
00:51:17.679 --> 00:51:21.440
You hook up a water hose,
you turn on the water, and

711
00:51:21.480 --> 00:51:23.760
if you want to water a small
area like it's a fairly new plant with

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00:51:23.800 --> 00:51:28.079
a still quite limited system, you
can do that. Don't turn it up

713
00:51:28.159 --> 00:51:30.719
much. If you have got a
tree that's five, seven, ten years

714
00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:35.480
in the ground and you want to
water a much larger area to do the

715
00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:39.199
summer rescues, especially when it's critical, you can do that with a tree

716
00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:45.039
hugger sprinkler. You're going to find
them at tree huggersprinkler dot com. That

717
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:47.440
is, you'll find the retailer where
you can get them there tree Hugger sprinkler

718
00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:52.880
dot com. I find them widely, widely available. They just are.

719
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You're listening to Garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and we're

720
00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:01.039
here to answer gardening questions. Give
us a call of the for the things

721
00:52:01.119 --> 00:52:06.440
that interest you. I can talk
to the cows come home about different things

722
00:52:06.440 --> 00:52:10.280
that I find interesting. But what
do you find interesting. I don't know

723
00:52:10.280 --> 00:52:14.079
if I talked to you about this
before, but I know that in any

724
00:52:14.079 --> 00:52:16.440
given hour there are people listening that
weren't listening the last hour, or maybe

725
00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:21.320
the hour after you have to run
to a meeting or go do something else.

726
00:52:21.920 --> 00:52:24.280
I can't believe there's anything else to
do. Other than listen to garden

727
00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:29.960
line. But I'm biased. I'm
biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong

728
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:35.840
mistletoe. Mistletoe is a holiday deal, right, you hang it over the

729
00:52:35.920 --> 00:52:39.639
door, you get to kiss somebody
underneath the missletoe. Well, mistletoe.

730
00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:44.840
I think the fun thing about the
fact that we want to kiss under the

731
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:50.679
mistletoe is we think that the name
missletoe is derived from Old English for the

732
00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:58.280
words twig and dung. So happy
kissing. There are a thousand plus species

733
00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:00.320
of missiletoe around the world. They
get into branches. They truly are a

734
00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:05.400
parasite. They send their roots down
in the branch, the little white berries.

735
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:12.320
When they explode, they overfill like
a balloon and they explode and they'll

736
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:15.480
shoot their seeds out like sixty miles
an hour. Right as it leaves the

737
00:53:15.480 --> 00:53:19.000
berry and it flies over and it's
sticky and it sticks to a branch,

738
00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:22.760
or a bird comes by and it
sticks to its feet or its beak.

739
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:25.119
And then the next tree comes along
and here it get wipes off, it

740
00:53:25.199 --> 00:53:29.840
sprouts and the next thing you know, here you got the mistletoe. What

741
00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:34.119
do you do about mistletoe, Well, I would say nothing. Now you

742
00:53:34.320 --> 00:53:36.920
can do some pruning of the tree, but when you got a lot of

743
00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:40.800
mistletoe, your pruning is probably doing
what it is doing more harm probably than

744
00:53:40.880 --> 00:53:45.639
just the misletoe. There isn't a
good spray to kill it. But you

745
00:53:45.760 --> 00:53:52.079
can spray something called flor L fl
ore L fruit eliminator and it's registered here

746
00:53:52.079 --> 00:53:57.639
in the US to control growth on
mistletoe and deciduous trees. So again,

747
00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:00.360
it's gonna make some of it kind
of branch may fall out and stuff,

748
00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:05.239
but it doesn't kill what's down in
the plant. It's not a herbicide,

749
00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:08.039
if you will, but florrell is
one way to do that every time you

750
00:54:08.119 --> 00:54:14.039
do that. Though, mistletoe comes
in male and female plants. Did you

751
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:17.159
know that they're separate male and female
plants, So one plant's kind of like

752
00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:22.119
Chinese pistache. The trees are either
male or female, and you definitely know

753
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:25.239
it when you see it loaded with
berries that you got a female there.

754
00:54:25.480 --> 00:54:30.960
But anyway, with a mistletoe,
just not letting it produce more berries to

755
00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:36.039
fly around and cause more harm,
that would be a really good thing.

756
00:54:36.199 --> 00:54:39.360
I can talk about it at a
little bit more, but bottom line is,

757
00:54:39.480 --> 00:54:45.320
yes, it is a popular holiday
thing, but it has its nefarious

758
00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:47.559
side as well. Let's go out
to Clear Lake and we're going to talk

759
00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:53.159
to Jim. Hello, Jim,
good morning. I've been walking through the

760
00:54:53.239 --> 00:54:59.480
yards and I kick up a few
moss every time, but lately I've seen

761
00:54:59.480 --> 00:55:02.079
a couple of webs down in the
grass. Is it too late to treat

762
00:55:04.000 --> 00:55:09.159
or is it I'm surprised that there
would be sod webworm activities. Still,

763
00:55:09.239 --> 00:55:15.960
I know each year is different and
sometimes unusual things happen. What I would

764
00:55:15.960 --> 00:55:19.360
do is, when you get down
and look at the grass, you may

765
00:55:19.400 --> 00:55:23.039
see some webbing that could be webworms, but there are other things, spiders

766
00:55:23.079 --> 00:55:29.119
and things that can create webbing in
the grass. Look at the grass blades

767
00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:32.639
like something is chewed chunks out of
the sides, and if you see that,

768
00:55:32.639 --> 00:55:37.000
that is a sign of caterpillar feeding
activity. There's a hundred moths,

769
00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:42.239
more thousand moths that could be out
there in your yard. So just seeing

770
00:55:42.280 --> 00:55:46.360
some moths could point to a lot
of different things. If you've ever had

771
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:51.039
soad webworms in the past that were
bad, you probably are more familiar with

772
00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:53.159
what those moths look like. Have
you ever had to struggle with that?

773
00:55:55.079 --> 00:56:01.159
Not that I I mean, I've
seen moths for and gun in law had

774
00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:07.119
some in his yard. They kind
of have their a can with a darker

775
00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:10.480
brown modeling. Yeah yeah, well
you can go online and see what they

776
00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:14.760
look like. But I would get
down on my hands and knees if I

777
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:16.880
don't see a bunch of chewed leaves. Do not worry about it, because

778
00:56:16.920 --> 00:56:23.320
it's getting late anyway. These these
insects have the temperature ranges they proliferate in

779
00:56:23.400 --> 00:56:28.840
and those that they don't. So
I'm doubting it's webworms. But if you

780
00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:32.239
see that, go ahead and just
use a spinosid spray on your lawn and

781
00:56:32.360 --> 00:56:36.840
that will shut it down. Okay, well, thank you very much.

782
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:39.519
All right, thank you, jentlemen. I appreciate, appreciate your call very

783
00:56:39.559 --> 00:56:43.280
much. We're going to be taking
a little break here for the news.

784
00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:45.719
If you would like to give us
a call, Josh will get you on

785
00:56:45.760 --> 00:56:51.800
the boards seven to one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

786
00:56:51.840 --> 00:56:55.239
three two one two kt r H. We got more to talk about with

787
00:56:55.360 --> 00:57:00.000
gardening when we come back, ed, you will be our first one,

788
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:02.960
so just hang in with us a
little bit longer. There. I've got

789
00:57:04.000 --> 00:57:06.920
another kind of interesting horticulture. Fun
fact. I'm going to talk to you

790
00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:08.800
about when we come back, but
right now, I'm just going to take

791
00:57:08.840 --> 00:57:15.239
this baton or the golden microphone.
I'm going to take some microphone and hand

792
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:16.800
it to you. NICKI, alright, you can take it from here.

793
00:57:16.880 --> 00:57:22.440
I'll take it from here. We
got the news. Welcome back to Garden

794
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:27.239
Line. We are glad you're with
us today talking about gardening. You know,

795
00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:30.199
if you are in the Kingwood area. Kingwood area, you've got two

796
00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:35.639
great garden centers, Kingwood Garden Center
Warren's Garden Center. It's crazy that you

797
00:57:35.760 --> 00:57:39.960
got two places like that in the
same town, but that's nice. Their

798
00:57:40.079 --> 00:57:43.400
plan of the month, by the
way, their native plant of the month

799
00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:46.679
is beautyberry, Texas beauty berry.
And there's stuff going on all the time

800
00:57:46.679 --> 00:57:51.119
at both of these garden centers.
Number One, they've got great products,

801
00:57:51.159 --> 00:57:54.679
great plants, yes, trees yes, cool season color, yes, Christmas

802
00:57:54.760 --> 00:57:59.039
decorations, I've got all of that. At Kingwood Garden Center, they're doing

803
00:57:59.039 --> 00:58:02.079
something called twelve Days a Christmas and
it's November twenty fifth through December sixth,

804
00:58:02.440 --> 00:58:06.719
and each day there's a different deal
that may be a bye one, get

805
00:58:06.719 --> 00:58:09.800
one I believe yesterday was a thirty
percent off. There's a forty percent off.

806
00:58:10.159 --> 00:58:15.920
There's a buy one, get one
coming up day tomorrow, I believe.

807
00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:21.199
I believe tomorrow a thirty percent Bogo
free again thirty percent. Gosh,

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00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:23.800
just it's a great time to come
in. And if you're looking for anything,

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00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:28.639
Kingwoo Garden Center has a beautiful gift
shop that that is really, really

810
00:58:28.760 --> 00:58:32.719
very nice. I just want to
let you know Warren's Holiday Hanging Basket Workshop

811
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.960
where you can learn how to craft
a stunning holiday hanging basket. You've probably

812
00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:42.599
never seen one of these. I
just imagine a holiday decorations, you know,

813
00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:45.679
with the greenery and the pine cones
and the lights and everything, but

814
00:58:45.840 --> 00:58:49.920
in a hanging basket. It is
gorgeous. And they're going to teach you

815
00:58:49.920 --> 00:58:53.199
how to do that on December ninth
from ten am to eleven am. Ten

816
00:58:53.239 --> 00:58:59.280
am to eleven am. They will
teach you on December ninth, that's just

817
00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:01.679
around the corner. So they will
provide all the materials you need, the

818
00:59:01.840 --> 00:59:06.519
step by step guidance, and you
need to go online and look at it.

819
00:59:06.639 --> 00:59:10.840
Just go online to go find them
on do Warren Southern Gardens on Facebook,

820
00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:15.079
and you can learn about a lot
of things that are going on there

821
00:59:15.079 --> 00:59:17.239
at the garden Center. We're going
to head out now to South Houston and

822
00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:22.960
talk to Ed. Hello, Ed, Hi Schiz, thanks for taking my

823
00:59:22.000 --> 00:59:28.679
call. Yes, sir, so, my wife and I recently purchased a

824
00:59:28.760 --> 00:59:32.840
lake house just north of Houston in
a small town of Crockett Sexton, and

825
00:59:34.280 --> 00:59:40.039
the yard is just ridden with and
we tried this past summer to get some

826
00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:45.719
graph establish it by putting Bermuda feet
down, but not being there full time,

827
00:59:45.199 --> 00:59:49.480
and with the heat that we were
faced with this summer, we didn't

828
00:59:49.519 --> 00:59:52.679
have any luck. So this fall
through this winter, sorry, we're going

829
00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:57.000
to be having a sprinkler system installed
and gonna be pumping out of the lake

830
00:59:57.119 --> 01:00:00.840
the water of the yard, And
just wanted to get your advice on establishing

831
01:00:01.000 --> 01:00:07.840
a new lawn. We're looking at
possibly doing Bermuda seat just for the simple

832
01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:10.639
fact that the yard's about three quarters
of an acre. I'd like to have

833
01:00:10.719 --> 01:00:16.960
Saint Augustine's, but unfortunately it can't
afford to lay saw on the entire space,

834
01:00:17.159 --> 01:00:20.760
so right now it's full of weeds. I just kind of want to

835
01:00:20.760 --> 01:00:23.119
get your advice on prep work and
what would you do leading into the spring?

836
01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:25.199
All right? What you want to
do? Randy used to use the

837
01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:31.280
terms kill phil till, and basically
what they're saying is you kill anything in

838
01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:35.000
there that you don't want to live
in your lawn. Like if you had

839
01:00:35.039 --> 01:00:37.519
a perenne of weeds, now or
spring would be a good time to go

840
01:00:37.559 --> 01:00:40.039
ahead and get those done. If
they're a cool season or warm season,

841
01:00:42.079 --> 01:00:45.880
just get that knocked out. You
want to fill up any low areas that

842
01:00:45.360 --> 01:00:49.239
where the soil is, maybe there's
a hole or something you don't on twitter

843
01:00:49.280 --> 01:00:51.920
your ankle and just kind of get
it like you want it to be.

844
01:00:52.039 --> 01:00:54.280
Maybe if there's big tree roots up, you can bring a little soil around

845
01:00:54.320 --> 01:00:58.599
those just to kind of level it
out a little bit. But that would

846
01:00:58.599 --> 01:01:02.599
be the fill and then and then
you just you just plant it. We'll

847
01:01:02.679 --> 01:01:07.199
just plant plant your grass. I
would at this point you're gonna want to

848
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:12.960
wait until the weather warms up considerably
to put out those bermuda seeds because you

849
01:01:13.000 --> 01:01:15.480
want them to come up soon after
you plant, not to sit there waiting

850
01:01:15.519 --> 01:01:21.079
for warm weather to arrive. So
you could probably get by with late March

851
01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:25.519
on that or early April, either
one would be early April be a little

852
01:01:25.519 --> 01:01:30.000
better. I think to put the
seed out and watermen really good and just

853
01:01:30.119 --> 01:01:35.639
choose a good quality seed. Do
you have a pinner pencil handy? Ed?

854
01:01:37.639 --> 01:01:42.840
Are you there? I believe with
us. Okay, if you got

855
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:45.960
a pin or pencil handy. If
you go to the Aggie Turf website and

856
01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:51.280
it's Aggie Turf A G G I
E t U r F at dot TAMU

857
01:01:51.360 --> 01:01:53.119
dot e d U and I'm not
going to talk you through the whole thing,

858
01:01:53.119 --> 01:01:58.000
but there's a there's an option down
toward the lower left on the page.

859
01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:01.519
It says Texas Turf Grasses and you
can scroll down and click on Bermuda

860
01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:06.800
grass and it's going to give you
a list of varieties that you plant from

861
01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:10.480
sod and varieties that you can plant
from seed that would be ones that have

862
01:02:10.559 --> 01:02:15.599
done well here in Texas. Okay, great, I appreciate it. Yes.

863
01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:20.480
Going back to the kill, you
said that is well, I want

864
01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:22.440
to wait till the spring. I'm
assuming that's just because everything's dormant at the

865
01:02:22.480 --> 01:02:30.960
moment. I would because the seeds
are I'm sorry, what were you saying?

866
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:36.840
Wait on the kill portion of killing
all the weeds. You'd like me

867
01:02:36.920 --> 01:02:38.280
to wait until the spring to do
that, and you do that with the

868
01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:43.480
glhawks fate you could. It depends
on the weed. There's stuff for grassy

869
01:02:43.519 --> 01:02:49.440
weeds as well, but if it's
a perennial weed, then you want to

870
01:02:49.440 --> 01:02:52.599
get rid of it whenever it's growing. If it were a cool season weed,

871
01:02:52.679 --> 01:02:55.559
then you know you could be doing
it now. But it's more likely

872
01:02:55.599 --> 01:02:59.719
that those are going to be warm
season perennials and you may not see them

873
01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:02.920
up until it warms up a little
bit. Another good reason to wait a

874
01:03:04.000 --> 01:03:08.679
little bit on seeding them out.
Okay, yeah, sure, yeah,

875
01:03:08.800 --> 01:03:12.440
great, I appreciate it. Yeah, okay. When you're up there,

876
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:17.199
there is also at that Aggie Turf
website, there's also where you see Texas

877
01:03:17.239 --> 01:03:22.880
Turf Grass. You'll see publications and
there's a lot of good stuff on taking

878
01:03:22.880 --> 01:03:25.360
care of a lawn and establishing a
lawn and whatnot. So just check that

879
01:03:25.440 --> 01:03:29.639
out. Great, I will.
I appreciate your time. All right,

880
01:03:29.760 --> 01:03:35.960
thank you, Good luck with that
project out there. When you went into

881
01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:39.920
an Ace Hardware the last time,
weren't you impressed with all the stuff that

882
01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:44.719
they have. Every time I go
in, I see like ten things as

883
01:03:44.800 --> 01:03:46.519
like, oh, I did not
know they did that. Well, here's

884
01:03:46.559 --> 01:03:50.519
something you may not know. Did
you know that ACE is a place for

885
01:03:50.559 --> 01:03:53.519
your Christmas lighting and decorations. So
do you need something for outside? Do

886
01:03:53.519 --> 01:03:57.599
you need stuff for inside? It
could be lighting, for example, strings

887
01:03:57.599 --> 01:04:01.559
of lights. They have all high
into boxed strings of lights and colors and

888
01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:05.880
shapes and sizes and links and everything
like that. They also have something called

889
01:04:06.480 --> 01:04:11.280
custom lights by the foot, and
that is what you expect. It is.

890
01:04:11.480 --> 01:04:13.960
You just have to go into an
ACE to see how it works.

891
01:04:14.360 --> 01:04:16.960
The custom lights by the foot allows
you to create lights of the links that

892
01:04:17.079 --> 01:04:20.519
you want. Maybe just something across
the mantle. You know, you want

893
01:04:20.559 --> 01:04:25.000
to find one that's exactly that long, Well you can make one that's exactly

894
01:04:25.039 --> 01:04:28.079
that long. Have they got reads? They have garland, you know,

895
01:04:28.159 --> 01:04:30.320
so decorating the front door and the
outside. We just put some garland up

896
01:04:30.320 --> 01:04:33.800
above the entrance way to the house
with the lights and things in it.

897
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:39.559
Just the other day. It's easy
to find an ACE Hardware store there all

898
01:04:39.559 --> 01:04:44.360
over town. Just go to Acehardware
dot com slash store dash locator, or

899
01:04:44.440 --> 01:04:46.719
just go to Acehardware dot com and
you can find the store locator right,

900
01:04:46.719 --> 01:04:51.239
there plenty of them around this area. Well, it's about time for us

901
01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:58.199
to take another break and I'm going
to turn it over to the information here

902
01:04:58.239 --> 01:05:00.760
coming up with news and and all
kinds of things. But I'll be back,

903
01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:04.840
So give me a call seven to
one three two one two five eight

904
01:05:04.920 --> 01:05:08.320
seven four. Hang around when we
come back. I'm going to give you

905
01:05:08.360 --> 01:05:15.440
a little horticulture fun fact. Ain't
nothing doesn't go with camouflage. You're listening

906
01:05:15.480 --> 01:05:17.400
to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here

907
01:05:17.440 --> 01:05:20.119
to answer gardening questions. So feel
free to give us a call. We'd

908
01:05:20.159 --> 01:05:25.360
love to visit with you whatever is
of interest to you. There's a lot

909
01:05:25.400 --> 01:05:29.719
of different topics we can talk about
in gardening, and it's just I don't

910
01:05:29.760 --> 01:05:32.079
know, it's always new. That's
the thing I like is that no two

911
01:05:32.159 --> 01:05:35.719
days are the same, no two
years are the same. Things are always

912
01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:41.199
changing with the seasons and nature and
our gardens and our landscapes can do that

913
01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:45.360
as well. Being in the holiday
seasons, we talk about a lot about

914
01:05:45.400 --> 01:05:48.679
gift giving, and there are so
many great gifts that you can give for

915
01:05:48.800 --> 01:05:53.440
gardeners. For example, plants,
houseplants, if you if you're going to

916
01:05:53.480 --> 01:05:55.880
go to a holiday party, why
not take a point set or why not

917
01:05:55.960 --> 01:06:00.880
take something that even lasts longer,
like a Christmas cactus, Thanksgiving cactus.

918
01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:03.760
Those kinds of things. They can
keep that plant for years, a little

919
01:06:03.840 --> 01:06:08.800
care for it. Even a nice
little orchid can be an attractive little gift

920
01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:12.360
and not a high priced gift at
all, but one that you know would

921
01:06:12.360 --> 01:06:15.599
be a nice hostess gift. What
about something else, though, What about

922
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:20.199
people on your list, either gardeners
or non gardeners. What about a wild

923
01:06:20.239 --> 01:06:25.239
bird's unlimited? It could be a
gift certificate, or they can go in

924
01:06:25.280 --> 01:06:28.400
and get anything they want. It
could be a particular kind of feeder,

925
01:06:28.400 --> 01:06:33.119
maybe a hummingbird, a beautiful hummingbird
feeder, or one of their nicer feeders

926
01:06:33.159 --> 01:06:38.119
that each kind of bird you know, Some are pulling little thistles out of

927
01:06:38.119 --> 01:06:42.840
a sock, Some are feeding on
certain kinds of blends. And by the

928
01:06:42.840 --> 01:06:45.960
way, wallbirds will have every blend
you need, every blend without the waste.

929
01:06:46.039 --> 01:06:53.440
Remember red bebes means trash bird food. You don't you're wasting your money

930
01:06:53.519 --> 01:06:56.960
buying something that's going to half of
it end up on the ground. Wall

931
01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:01.519
Birds unlimited their blends are one birds
want to eat. That is absolutely and

932
01:07:01.559 --> 01:07:05.119
you can do that. But they
have beautiful feeders, platform feeders. I've

933
01:07:05.159 --> 01:07:10.880
got one of the little feeders that's
actually a tall feeder that hangs down and

934
01:07:10.920 --> 01:07:13.679
if a squirrel tries to get on
it, it excludes them, and that

935
01:07:13.880 --> 01:07:17.880
is an amazing thing. It's fun
to watch squirrels get frustrated, but I'm

936
01:07:17.920 --> 01:07:23.159
having to pay for the food for
them. I would recommend you try Wildbirds.

937
01:07:23.159 --> 01:07:27.679
They're everywhere and when you walk in
you will immediately know some things that

938
01:07:27.719 --> 01:07:30.480
you think would be great gifts.
You can get wildbirds. You can find

939
01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:34.440
your Wildbirds Unlimited. There's seven of
them all around the Greater Houston area,

940
01:07:34.519 --> 01:07:41.559
so that's kind of nice. Just
go to WBU dot com. WBU like

941
01:07:41.599 --> 01:07:45.920
Wilbirds Unlimited dot com forward slash Houston, but don't delay. Now's a great

942
01:07:46.000 --> 01:07:50.039
time to get a special gift for
someone on the list. Or maybe you

943
01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:54.000
go in in there and you just
make a hint that you would like one

944
01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:58.000
of those. That works too well. You're listening to garden Line and we're

945
01:07:58.000 --> 01:08:02.239
here to answer gardening questions or we're
more than excited when we get to talk

946
01:08:02.280 --> 01:08:08.480
about gardeners, because gardeners are I
just I find in general gardners are pretty

947
01:08:08.480 --> 01:08:12.599
pleasant people. They just are,
you know, people that get out and

948
01:08:12.880 --> 01:08:15.800
play in the dirt like I do. There is a therapy that goes on

949
01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:19.520
in that. And by the way, next hour, next hour, we're

950
01:08:19.560 --> 01:08:24.640
going to have doctor Charlie Hall from
the Texas A and M Horticulture Department.

951
01:08:25.000 --> 01:08:29.640
Charlie is in the horticulture department.
He's an economist and he's also a researcher

952
01:08:29.720 --> 01:08:32.840
when it comes to the effects of
plants on people. And you are going

953
01:08:32.880 --> 01:08:38.439
to be fascinated by this, So
don't miss the eight o'clock hour because we

954
01:08:38.479 --> 01:08:42.880
are really going to delve into some
wow. Now. You know, when

955
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:47.359
I first started hearing doctor Hall talk
and seeing research like he does from other

956
01:08:47.399 --> 01:08:51.720
folks around the country, I just
realized that's why I like gardening so much,

957
01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:57.279
the benefits of it to mental health
and physical health and all the different

958
01:08:57.359 --> 01:09:02.000
kinds of things. I think it's
really cool to see scientific studies that actually

959
01:09:02.840 --> 01:09:10.399
prove the beneficial effects of nature and
plants on people. If you are looking

960
01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:15.560
for a place to get some quality
tools, like a quality pruner, you

961
01:09:15.600 --> 01:09:19.319
ought to consider Southwest fertilizer. Now
Southwest Fertilizer has everything. They're the place

962
01:09:19.359 --> 01:09:24.600
you go and you find ever fertilizer
you're looking for every insecticide, fung just

963
01:09:24.680 --> 01:09:29.760
side herbicide. They I've never seen
a selection like Bob has at Southwest Fertilizer.

964
01:09:30.159 --> 01:09:31.840
They've got that kneeling bench, which
I keep telling you is a good

965
01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:36.560
Christmas gift too. The folding kneeling
bench changed my gardening life. But they

966
01:09:36.600 --> 01:09:42.600
also have quality tools. Eighty foot
row, eighty foot wall, loaded with

967
01:09:42.720 --> 01:09:45.720
quality tools. And take care of
those tools. By the way. Cheap

968
01:09:45.760 --> 01:09:47.680
pruners, you're going to throw them
away and get frustrated after they make your

969
01:09:47.680 --> 01:09:53.319
hands hurt from being sprung and not
cutting well, not able to sharpen them

970
01:09:53.399 --> 01:09:57.359
right. When you get quality prunters, you just replace parts and they go

971
01:09:57.479 --> 01:09:59.880
for life if you take care of
them. So make sure and do take

972
01:10:00.039 --> 01:10:03.199
carry your tools. Go to Southwest
Fertilizer dot com if you've never been there

973
01:10:03.239 --> 01:10:05.560
before and you want to see where
they are, or I can just tell

974
01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:10.479
you they're on the corner of Bissinet
and Renwick, But go to Southwest Fertilizer

975
01:10:10.520 --> 01:10:14.520
dot Com. Stop in there because
if you're looking for a good quality tool

976
01:10:14.560 --> 01:10:17.800
as a gift, and every gardener
would appreciate a quality pair of prunters or

977
01:10:17.880 --> 01:10:23.800
loppers, maybe a the kneeling bench
that I talked about, we've go a

978
01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:28.119
wonderful gift as well. And a
soil knife if you've if a gardener in

979
01:10:28.159 --> 01:10:30.880
your list has not had a soil
knife, they need to get one of

980
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:33.760
those. Those are amazing. I
use mine all the time all the time.

981
01:10:33.840 --> 01:10:38.920
It's a really good quality tool that
lasts, and that's a good thing.

982
01:10:39.119 --> 01:10:43.199
Finding things that last and things that
are quality, that is important.

983
01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:46.880
I wanted to tell you a little
horticulture fun fact, and I think you

984
01:10:46.880 --> 01:10:51.800
know, I realized that any given
hour, someone may be listening new that

985
01:10:51.920 --> 01:10:56.319
wasn't listening the last hour or maybe
one weekend your way, And you may

986
01:10:56.319 --> 01:10:59.079
have heard me talk about this before, but I just I just think this

987
01:10:59.239 --> 01:11:04.239
is a fascinating anything. Nature amazes
me. And the more you study,

988
01:11:04.520 --> 01:11:09.279
and in fact, the more we
learn, the more amazing nature becomes.

989
01:11:09.800 --> 01:11:13.680
When you consider, I'm trying to
get someone in here on the on the

990
01:11:13.720 --> 01:11:17.079
show that talks about the interaction between
insects and plants. We'll be doing that

991
01:11:17.119 --> 01:11:21.840
as a show later this month having
them as a guest rather. But oh

992
01:11:21.880 --> 01:11:29.720
my gosh, the way that nature
interacts and the things that cause whatever happens

993
01:11:29.760 --> 01:11:31.560
to happen is just amazing. So, for example, you're looking at your

994
01:11:31.600 --> 01:11:36.359
Greg's missflower, beautiful little light blue, shaggy looking flowers in the fall,

995
01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:42.319
loads up with queen butterflies. They
love that plant, they absolutely love that

996
01:11:42.399 --> 01:11:46.640
plant. But what looks like just
this cute little nature scene. Oh,

997
01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:50.000
there's butterflies on that plant and they
flutter away, and so that's that.

998
01:11:50.560 --> 01:11:55.439
There is a there is a lot
going on in that process. That plant

999
01:11:55.479 --> 01:12:02.199
produces poisonous alkaloids. Okay, alkaloid
substance is toxic to livestock and humans,

1000
01:12:02.920 --> 01:12:09.000
and these substances are the way the
plant prevents itself from being eaten by livestock,

1001
01:12:09.079 --> 01:12:14.199
for example. Though it's like their
own little way of warding off the

1002
01:12:14.239 --> 01:12:18.840
things that are eating them. And
that particular poison doesn't poison queen butterflies,

1003
01:12:19.239 --> 01:12:23.439
but in fact, not only does
it not poison them, it's essential for

1004
01:12:23.520 --> 01:12:28.560
their reproduction. And here's how this
works. When the male about ninety percent

1005
01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:32.560
of the butterflies you see sitting on
your Greg's missflower and they'll be loaded there

1006
01:12:32.600 --> 01:12:35.760
all over it. They love that
plant, about ninety percent of them or

1007
01:12:35.800 --> 01:12:41.359
male, and they're they're imbibing that
nectar. And in the nectar is something

1008
01:12:41.399 --> 01:12:47.479
called intermeddine intermedine that is a poisonous
substance, but the butterfly's body converts part

1009
01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:53.720
of that intermedine into a smaller molecule
which is a sex attractant for females.

1010
01:12:53.760 --> 01:12:59.199
It's a pheromone. So in eating
the poison nectar, it produces a sex

1011
01:12:59.239 --> 01:13:04.399
attractant pheromone to attract female butterflies for
mating, which is a cool thing that's

1012
01:13:04.479 --> 01:13:10.239
good for the butterfly's ongoing future,
right, But also part of that that

1013
01:13:10.359 --> 01:13:15.800
didn't get turned into the pheromone turns
is still a toxin, and in the

1014
01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:20.640
mating, that nuptial gift, if
you will, our nuptial gift is transferred

1015
01:13:20.720 --> 01:13:27.119
over to the female and renders the
eggs of the female queen butterfly unpalatable to

1016
01:13:27.159 --> 01:13:31.239
predators. Is that amazing? So
the butter as the butterfly pollinates the flour,

1017
01:13:31.319 --> 01:13:35.800
the flour gives it a molecule that
helps in two different ways that butterfly

1018
01:13:35.880 --> 01:13:41.560
to reproduce. And this is discovered
by two Cornell University professors, Thomas Eisner

1019
01:13:41.640 --> 01:13:45.279
and a chemist, Gerald Meinwald,
and they're good friends. And really from

1020
01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:50.520
that in similar studies, the field
of chemical ecology the research field that has

1021
01:13:50.600 --> 01:13:55.840
taken off, and oh my gosh, we're learning so much more that's going

1022
01:13:55.880 --> 01:13:59.000
on in nature than we ever knew
before. I don't know, I'm a

1023
01:13:59.039 --> 01:14:01.399
nerd. I thought that was interesting. I hope you found it interesting as

1024
01:14:01.399 --> 01:14:03.800
well. We're about to take a
break here. When we come back,

1025
01:14:03.840 --> 01:14:10.079
we will have doctor Charlie Hall and
we'll be visiting with him about the effects

1026
01:14:10.079 --> 01:14:14.199
of plants and nature on people.
And trust me, you're going to learn

1027
01:14:14.239 --> 01:14:17.760
a lot of stuff that you never
knew existed. So hang around with us.

1028
01:14:17.800 --> 01:14:20.800
Our phone number, by the way, seven one three two one two

1029
01:14:20.840 --> 01:14:27.079
fifty eight seventy four if you'd like
to ask doctor Hall a question. Katie

1030
01:14:27.199 --> 01:14:30.680
r H. Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

1031
01:14:30.720 --> 01:14:36.000
advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r H. Garden Line with scipe

1032
01:14:36.079 --> 01:14:53.960
Richt. It's so crazy, Trim, just watch him as Welcome back to

1033
01:14:54.079 --> 01:14:58.479
Garden Line. I hope you enjoyed
that last hour with doctor Charlie Hall.

1034
01:14:58.640 --> 01:15:03.279
That was some really interesting stuff.
Lots of good information out there. And

1035
01:15:03.640 --> 01:15:09.079
any one of you who listening,
who maybe you're part of a city group,

1036
01:15:09.479 --> 01:15:14.800
you know, city council or parks
departments, part of schools, maybe

1037
01:15:15.319 --> 01:15:18.880
your kids go to private school somewhere
and you're able to come in and offer

1038
01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:23.920
thoughts and suggestions and things. Think
about all the things Charlie talked about in

1039
01:15:23.960 --> 01:15:28.600
the effects, Go arm yourself,
read up, learn about some of these

1040
01:15:28.640 --> 01:15:31.680
benefits. And there is a lot
being done right now. When I first

1041
01:15:31.680 --> 01:15:35.800
started working with schools years and years
ago as an extension agent, it was

1042
01:15:35.880 --> 01:15:40.520
few and far between that schools called
and said we need help with plants.

1043
01:15:41.319 --> 01:15:46.039
In the later certainly the last decade
of working Fraggerife, I now often will

1044
01:15:46.079 --> 01:15:49.600
get calls from a school that wants
to create an outdoor learning environment. In

1045
01:15:49.640 --> 01:15:54.640
other words, they want to take
the science classes and other classes for that

1046
01:15:54.680 --> 01:15:59.279
matter, outside, for people to
be for kids to be able to interact

1047
01:15:59.319 --> 01:16:01.239
with nature and learn and use that. And that's a very common thing,

1048
01:16:01.840 --> 01:16:08.680
the school scape itself being a learning
environment. Then we have the program through

1049
01:16:08.920 --> 01:16:15.319
Agrolife Extension at A and M that
is called Junior Master gardener Junior Master Gardener,

1050
01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:20.760
we call it JMG. Wide variety
of programs, lots of educational materials

1051
01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:26.720
connected to nutrition and health, lessons
for science, lessons for math, at

1052
01:16:26.760 --> 01:16:30.920
school curriculum. They just have a
lot of stuff up there. So there

1053
01:16:30.960 --> 01:16:33.640
for any of you like those I
was mentioning that might be interested, learn

1054
01:16:33.720 --> 01:16:39.159
some more about it, and if
you need some more help and information,

1055
01:16:39.279 --> 01:16:43.279
let me know. But there's a
lot we can be doing in our communities

1056
01:16:43.319 --> 01:16:46.720
to make not only the whole city
better, but certainly every small part of

1057
01:16:46.760 --> 01:16:53.159
it. From maybe a facility that
houses older adults that have reached a point

1058
01:16:53.159 --> 01:16:56.560
where they're needing special care, maybe
it's a school, whatever it is,

1059
01:16:57.199 --> 01:17:00.359
we got stuff in horticulture that can
make a difference there. We're going to

1060
01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:05.079
go out now to West Houston and
talk to Bob. Hello, Bob rick

1061
01:17:06.600 --> 01:17:12.000
Skip That's okay, I'll call it
just I'll call me anything that sad laid

1062
01:17:12.000 --> 01:17:15.640
for dinner. How can I have
Bob right right, right right? I

1063
01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:17.279
at my ranch. I beginning.
I've got a fig tree. It's about

1064
01:17:17.279 --> 01:17:21.800
a thirty year old tree, and
we've gotten wonderful figs off of the last

1065
01:17:21.840 --> 01:17:26.439
couple of years. Well, like
last year, I probably got a dozen

1066
01:17:26.479 --> 01:17:30.520
figs off of it, and then
the figs that came came on were little

1067
01:17:30.520 --> 01:17:35.359
bitty green knots and they never matured. Yeah, yeah, I've had that

1068
01:17:35.399 --> 01:17:40.800
before. We've had that. You've
had that before, you say, yeah,

1069
01:17:40.840 --> 01:17:43.239
I did it. It's done it
for the last two years. Okay,

1070
01:17:43.720 --> 01:17:47.119
I have not fully tracked that one
down, and I've gotten I've had

1071
01:17:47.119 --> 01:17:50.880
people ask me questions about it.
I've not had it happen my on fig

1072
01:17:50.920 --> 01:17:57.319
trees that I've had through through life. But I think it is in some

1073
01:17:57.359 --> 01:18:00.560
way related to the weather. The
fig is the figs we grow here in

1074
01:18:00.680 --> 01:18:04.159
Texas, by and large or not, figs that have to be pollinated.

1075
01:18:04.800 --> 01:18:09.640
They are what we call parthenocarpick.
So it's not like, well those figs

1076
01:18:09.720 --> 01:18:13.199
didn't get pollinated right, you know, or some other issue. It's just

1077
01:18:13.239 --> 01:18:16.920
a matter of that fruit developing and
that can happen. Sometimes figs can take

1078
01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:20.279
hot weather. So I don't know
what all is involved in it, but

1079
01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:25.680
yes, we unfortunately have to deal
with that occasionally. And I'm gonna have

1080
01:18:25.720 --> 01:18:28.960
to look into it more, Bob, to see if anyone who's you know,

1081
01:18:29.000 --> 01:18:32.560
a higher level expert on figs,
can can offer a thought on what

1082
01:18:32.760 --> 01:18:36.600
the research has shown that may be
causing that, what all's going on?

1083
01:18:38.399 --> 01:18:44.600
Yeah, well one other question.
That tree puts out a lot of suckers.

1084
01:18:44.920 --> 01:18:47.640
Yes, take all those suckers off. You know, it's up to

1085
01:18:47.720 --> 01:18:51.239
you. We used to train figs. I grew up in South Texas and

1086
01:18:51.279 --> 01:18:56.000
there it didn't freeze to the ground
hardly ever, And we had single trunk

1087
01:18:56.079 --> 01:18:59.199
trees in our yard where it was
a single trunk and then it branched out.

1088
01:18:59.319 --> 01:19:01.399
It made a little nice tree.
Once you get a freeze back,

1089
01:19:01.520 --> 01:19:05.239
then you lose that trunk and cutting
all the suckers off and trying to go

1090
01:19:05.319 --> 01:19:10.159
back to a single trunk and rebuild
it takes time, and who knows,

1091
01:19:10.199 --> 01:19:14.880
maybe you get another freeze. So
most people here will have multi trunk trees,

1092
01:19:15.119 --> 01:19:17.760
and they may be five five different
trunks coming out of the ground in

1093
01:19:17.800 --> 01:19:23.279
different directions. I would thin out
those suckers to just a few, however

1094
01:19:23.359 --> 01:19:27.239
many you want. Just to remember
that two suckers that let's say, are

1095
01:19:27.279 --> 01:19:30.359
two feet apart, even when they
get to grow and their branches are going

1096
01:19:30.439 --> 01:19:34.399
to be growing together and everything.
So don't leave too many of those suckers

1097
01:19:34.399 --> 01:19:41.399
coming up. Well, I cut
them out last winter. I took all

1098
01:19:41.439 --> 01:19:43.880
of them out because the tree,
like I say, it's an old tree.

1099
01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:46.399
Yeah, it's got some major branches. Okay, these are coming up

1100
01:19:46.600 --> 01:19:48.800
around the bottom, and I took
them all out. Of course they all

1101
01:19:48.840 --> 01:19:53.439
came back. Yeah, yeah,
so so yeah, I should have entered.

1102
01:19:55.199 --> 01:19:59.479
Yeah. No, it can be
due to freeze damage, but trees

1103
01:19:59.520 --> 01:20:01.640
will often just do that. And
when you cut suckers off, if you

1104
01:20:01.720 --> 01:20:04.439
leave a little bit of a stub, there's a budgs right at the base

1105
01:20:04.479 --> 01:20:09.560
of a sucker. And so this
happens on crape myrtles. You cut them

1106
01:20:09.560 --> 01:20:14.039
back and then you get even more
because you got to cut those suckers off

1107
01:20:14.079 --> 01:20:17.319
pretty much where they attach almost to
try to get those buds out of there.

1108
01:20:17.359 --> 01:20:19.920
But yeah, I forgot. You
were talking about already having this tree.

1109
01:20:20.119 --> 01:20:25.319
It hadn't died back. But we
have had some folks that have had

1110
01:20:25.359 --> 01:20:29.800
their trees die back. And look, one other question. If I'm here

1111
01:20:29.800 --> 01:20:32.920
in Houston, I have some sunshine
eduestrins in my flower bed, Okay,

1112
01:20:33.399 --> 01:20:40.840
and they are gosh, they're just
they're withering away. They're losing their leaves.

1113
01:20:41.439 --> 01:20:44.720
It looks like the leaves are trying
to come back. Okay, little

1114
01:20:44.760 --> 01:20:46.880
buds on there, but they're just
losing all their leaves. And some of

1115
01:20:46.880 --> 01:20:50.680
the leaves are light green rather than
the dark green. All right, I've

1116
01:20:50.680 --> 01:20:55.039
got a sprinkler system. I know
it's not water. Okay, all right,

1117
01:20:55.119 --> 01:20:59.520
Well I'll tell you what I think. It could be too much water,

1118
01:21:00.000 --> 01:21:01.199
it could be not enough. It
could be a root disease, which

1119
01:21:01.239 --> 01:21:06.720
is unlikely but possible that's affecting them. And have you ever used a glyphysaid

1120
01:21:06.840 --> 01:21:13.359
or round up around them? No, okay, because that is one of

1121
01:21:13.399 --> 01:21:17.359
the If you get a very light
dose of a round up type material on

1122
01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:21.520
the plant, too little to kill
the plant, you'll often see the growth

1123
01:21:23.159 --> 01:21:28.039
coming out, little tiny, strappy, not normally formed leaves. So the

1124
01:21:28.079 --> 01:21:30.000
only other thing I'd say, Bob, is if you want to send me

1125
01:21:30.000 --> 01:21:31.399
a picture, I can put you
on hold. Let me take a look

1126
01:21:31.399 --> 01:21:34.800
at those from a distance and some
leaves close up, and maybe when I

1127
01:21:34.840 --> 01:21:38.760
see that, I'll go, oh, I know what's going on here,

1128
01:21:39.079 --> 01:21:43.239
and I can answer you better than
trying to imagine it in my mind's eye.

1129
01:21:43.640 --> 01:21:45.680
Okay, I'm gonna put you on
hold and Josh can give you the

1130
01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:49.039
email. Yeah, you're listening to
garden Line and hey, if you have

1131
01:21:49.159 --> 01:21:54.399
not purchased a tree and for your
landscape, remember I keep saying fall,

1132
01:21:54.520 --> 01:21:57.439
fall, fall, plant or trees
in fall, or plant them in winter

1133
01:21:57.680 --> 01:22:03.239
or certainly by spring. If you
can check out Verdant Tree Farm Verdanttreefarm dot

1134
01:22:03.279 --> 01:22:08.479
com. They are everywhere in town. I mean there are several locations and

1135
01:22:08.520 --> 01:22:13.279
they got a big deal of fifty
percent off up to fifty percent off all

1136
01:22:13.319 --> 01:22:16.199
their trees at all their locations,
the one out at barker Cypress, the

1137
01:22:16.199 --> 01:22:20.239
one at Yale Street at Iten,
and the one down on Broadway and Paarland

1138
01:22:20.560 --> 01:22:26.119
and the folks at Verdant. They
carry a wide variety of trees and some

1139
01:22:26.359 --> 01:22:30.000
very large container sizes too, so
you can kind of get that instant effect.

1140
01:22:30.319 --> 01:22:33.479
But check them out again Verdant Treefarm
dot com. We'll be right back.

1141
01:22:34.720 --> 01:22:39.199
Welcome back to garden Line. So
glad to have you with us today.

1142
01:22:39.520 --> 01:22:44.279
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four

1143
01:22:44.359 --> 01:22:49.119
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. I was visiting with

1144
01:22:49.520 --> 01:22:55.199
Kennon out at the arbor Gate yesterday
and just looking over. They still got

1145
01:22:55.239 --> 01:22:58.520
a great supply of Christmas trees out
there. By the way, I did

1146
01:22:58.560 --> 01:23:02.159
want to change of date. They
had a date and due to inclement weather,

1147
01:23:02.319 --> 01:23:06.800
the Santa and Missus clause had to
bump that date forward, and it's

1148
01:23:06.840 --> 01:23:13.119
going to be December eighth from one
thirty to five. December eighth from one

1149
01:23:13.399 --> 01:23:15.600
thirty to five. If you want
to go out to Arbigate, bring the

1150
01:23:15.680 --> 01:23:19.479
kids, definitely want to do that. That'll be next Friday, December eighth,

1151
01:23:19.800 --> 01:23:24.199
one thirty to five. Bring your
camera, take pictures and while you're

1152
01:23:24.239 --> 01:23:28.359
out there, Oh my gosh,
they have everything you could imagine this time

1153
01:23:28.399 --> 01:23:30.680
of year. Do you want to
put in beautiful color? Do you need

1154
01:23:30.720 --> 01:23:33.960
some vegetables or herbs or any other
kind of plants? Certainly all the holiday

1155
01:23:33.960 --> 01:23:40.520
plants like poinsettas and other kind of
The cyclomane is another beautiful one for the

1156
01:23:40.520 --> 01:23:45.119
holidays. While you're there, grab
their organic food complete, organic soil complete,

1157
01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:49.840
and organic compost complete. That one
two three, completely easy system that

1158
01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:57.680
Arborgate offers of some quality, quality
products. If you if you've been listening

1159
01:23:57.720 --> 01:24:01.039
to Garden Line for a while,
you've kind of heard me talk about the

1160
01:24:01.079 --> 01:24:04.960
fact that things begin in the soil. It's important that we get our soil

1161
01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:10.600
ready, and that's why getting those
three bags, the three completes, if

1162
01:24:10.640 --> 01:24:14.239
you will, from Arbigate is important
because when you take them a plant,

1163
01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:16.880
take them something to keep that plant
happy, and the brown stuff comes before

1164
01:24:16.920 --> 01:24:21.199
the green stuff. You know,
our soils aren't always great here and we

1165
01:24:21.399 --> 01:24:26.880
always can benefit from improving them.
One of the problem with our soils is

1166
01:24:26.920 --> 01:24:30.319
that they have a lot of shrink
swell potential. That means a clay when

1167
01:24:30.319 --> 01:24:31.960
it gets dry, it shrinks a
lot. When it gets wet, it

1168
01:24:32.039 --> 01:24:35.159
expands a lot, and that just
creates a havoc. I mean tree roots

1169
01:24:35.199 --> 01:24:39.439
trying to grow through there and you
pop a two inch crack open in the

1170
01:24:39.439 --> 01:24:44.520
soil. That's hard on hard on
trees and roots trying to establish as well.

1171
01:24:45.319 --> 01:24:47.760
But it's really hard on our foundations, our sidewalks, our driveways.

1172
01:24:48.159 --> 01:24:54.000
That's why fix my slab foundation repair
is there. Ty Strickland has been doing

1173
01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:57.840
this for twenty three years. And
if you see a crack in your brick

1174
01:24:57.920 --> 01:25:00.520
on the outside, a crack in
the sheet rock on the inside, have

1175
01:25:00.760 --> 01:25:03.600
them look at it. Don't put
it off, because now I'm gonna get

1176
01:25:03.600 --> 01:25:08.560
better, and it can get a
lot worse. So whatever kinds of issues

1177
01:25:08.680 --> 01:25:11.680
like that you have, give Tie
a call. You can call them at

1178
01:25:11.720 --> 01:25:15.880
two eight one two five five forty
ninety nine two eight one two five five

1179
01:25:16.479 --> 01:25:21.680
forty nine forty nine, or just
go online to fixmslab dot com. Their

1180
01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:27.359
slogan is on time, fair,
priced and fixed, and that's exactly how

1181
01:25:27.359 --> 01:25:32.000
they do business. We're gonna now
head out to Cyprus and talk to Robert.

1182
01:25:32.119 --> 01:25:36.239
Hello, Robert, good morning,
and thank you for taking my call.

1183
01:25:36.319 --> 01:25:42.159
Yes, sir, a quick question. I'm got an acorn tree dropping

1184
01:25:42.319 --> 01:25:46.039
major acorns on my Saint Augustine grass. Yes, and I'm wondering if it's

1185
01:25:46.079 --> 01:25:53.439
detrimental to my grass. Well,
not necessarily. They're going to sprout and

1186
01:25:53.479 --> 01:25:55.640
try to come up, and your
mower is going to shut that down.

1187
01:25:55.800 --> 01:25:59.600
When you mow your lawn. We
generally don't tell people you have to get

1188
01:25:59.600 --> 01:26:02.600
the acre off your lawn. But
I guess you know, with the amount

1189
01:26:02.720 --> 01:26:06.359
of they call that mast, with
the amount of a mast year that we're

1190
01:26:06.399 --> 01:26:11.119
having now on our oaks, it
could get pretty thick out there. And

1191
01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:14.000
some people will do a little bit
of raking or something like that. But

1192
01:26:14.920 --> 01:26:17.319
I think in general, I wouldn't
worry a lot about the fact that they're

1193
01:26:17.359 --> 01:26:20.800
there. If you got some time, tine to go ahead and take raak

1194
01:26:20.880 --> 01:26:28.000
some out. So there's no any
city effect, no, sir, nothing

1195
01:26:28.119 --> 01:26:31.720
like affecting pH or nutrient levels or
anything like that. Very good. Thank

1196
01:26:31.760 --> 01:26:34.079
you, yes, sir, you
bet, thank you for the call.

1197
01:26:34.119 --> 01:26:38.279
I appreciate that. Yeah, think
about the trees in the forest. I

1198
01:26:38.279 --> 01:26:42.760
mean they have mass years in the
forest too, and that it just ends

1199
01:26:42.840 --> 01:26:46.079
up becoming organic matter or a new
tree if it's allowed to sprout and to

1200
01:26:46.159 --> 01:26:50.119
grow. Have you been to the
bee supply you've heard me talk about.

1201
01:26:50.279 --> 01:26:55.479
Go out there and do their free
tours. The honey tours are amazing.

1202
01:26:55.600 --> 01:26:58.880
First of all, the honey tour
you get to see how bees build,

1203
01:26:58.920 --> 01:27:01.079
come and you learn all about what's
going on. You. By the way,

1204
01:27:01.119 --> 01:27:11.119
inside they're building is a seven foot
high what they call plexiglass little room

1205
01:27:11.199 --> 01:27:14.439
if you will, and it has
b comb in it. The bees are

1206
01:27:14.439 --> 01:27:16.840
building their comb, they're caring for
their brood and so on. There's a

1207
01:27:16.880 --> 01:27:19.239
tube going to the outside that you
can watch it come and go. It

1208
01:27:19.359 --> 01:27:24.359
is really really cool. You have
family in just give them a call out

1209
01:27:24.399 --> 01:27:27.479
at be Supply make sure they're going
to be around whenever you might want to

1210
01:27:27.520 --> 01:27:30.279
go. Don't just head there first. But by the way, you can

1211
01:27:30.279 --> 01:27:34.079
call them at nine three six seven
seven six seven three nine, or just

1212
01:27:34.159 --> 01:27:40.760
go to thebsupply dot com if you're
a beekeeper. They have classes. The

1213
01:27:40.760 --> 01:27:44.520
classes are going to be starting up
again here in the spring, and they're

1214
01:27:44.560 --> 01:27:48.000
also they will bring in queens to
help re queen the high They've got every

1215
01:27:48.039 --> 01:27:53.479
kind of equipment you can imagine,
and I just think it. In fact,

1216
01:27:53.520 --> 01:27:56.840
I'm gonna have Paul Vagala here on
the show for too long. We're

1217
01:27:56.880 --> 01:28:00.279
just going to talk bees for a
little while. Let's got to Conrad now

1218
01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:05.960
and talk to David. Hello.
David Hello, I'm wondering. I've got

1219
01:28:06.399 --> 01:28:12.119
what I've identified as aster weed in
my yard, and I've pulled up a

1220
01:28:12.119 --> 01:28:15.359
bunch of it. When the ground
is wet, I can get it up.

1221
01:28:15.439 --> 01:28:19.279
But there's some of it that's so
intertwined with my Saint Augustine that I

1222
01:28:19.319 --> 01:28:23.039
can't. I can't get down there
to get the weed like I need to.

1223
01:28:24.039 --> 01:28:26.840
Is there something I can spray on
it that won't kill the grass,

1224
01:28:26.920 --> 01:28:30.760
not at this stage. Once that
astor is blooming, which it's been for

1225
01:28:30.800 --> 01:28:34.359
a while now, and so you
seed that just a post merging attempt on

1226
01:28:34.439 --> 01:28:38.600
its life is not going to be
very very helpful. Yeah, I know

1227
01:28:38.640 --> 01:28:42.680
what you're talking about. It weaves
its way through your grass and sometimes,

1228
01:28:42.880 --> 01:28:45.520
you know, I typically go for
the tap root, which is what you've

1229
01:28:45.560 --> 01:28:47.640
been doing pulling it up. But
if you have some that you can't get

1230
01:28:47.680 --> 01:28:51.119
out, just just clip them with
a little snipper and then pull them out

1231
01:28:51.119 --> 01:28:54.600
the other way or something. You
just have to get them out of there.

1232
01:28:54.760 --> 01:28:59.800
Just remember when you leave them,
hundreds, if not thousands, of

1233
01:29:00.359 --> 01:29:03.199
can come off of one plant.
And so yeah, you're doing you're doing

1234
01:29:03.239 --> 01:29:06.840
good things right now getting those seeds
out. You're still gonna happen next year.

1235
01:29:06.880 --> 01:29:13.039
But why have an extra five thousand
seeds? So there's nothing to kill

1236
01:29:13.079 --> 01:29:16.600
them right now, But a pre
emergent herbicide would help it. A pro

1237
01:29:16.640 --> 01:29:23.520
emergent now that includes broad leaf weeds
in the label and what it controls would

1238
01:29:23.520 --> 01:29:28.479
work. Barricade is nitrophosis product that
works for that. You would want to

1239
01:29:28.479 --> 01:29:31.319
do it in the spring and it's
warmed up just a little bit. Maybe

1240
01:29:31.359 --> 01:29:34.960
we would say March or April,
and then probably you need to repeat that

1241
01:29:35.079 --> 01:29:42.439
again about sixty maybe a little longer, about sixty days later to try to

1242
01:29:42.479 --> 01:29:46.680
prevent them from going. But they
come up. You just don't see them

1243
01:29:46.840 --> 01:29:51.199
until they start popping up and making
their little pretty blooms, which bees love.

1244
01:29:51.239 --> 01:29:56.279
Another way, well, I know
we've had some good rain up here

1245
01:29:56.279 --> 01:29:58.680
in the last day, so I'm
going to be out there again this afternoon.

1246
01:29:58.760 --> 01:30:00.960
Get you of them. I have
a five gallon bucket, and uh,

1247
01:30:01.439 --> 01:30:04.720
find a place to set your cup
of coffee or other drink of choice,

1248
01:30:04.760 --> 01:30:08.840
and go after it. Man,
That's what's what I do. I

1249
01:30:08.920 --> 01:30:12.680
do. Thanks, thank you,
thank you for the call. I appreciate

1250
01:30:12.720 --> 01:30:17.119
that. Ace Hardware Stores. You've
probably heard the jingle ACE is the place

1251
01:30:17.319 --> 01:30:20.760
right for your hopeful hardware man.
Remember that jingle. Well, ACE is

1252
01:30:20.800 --> 01:30:25.760
a place for Christmas lighting, Christmas
decor, any kind of holiday decor.

1253
01:30:26.119 --> 01:30:30.199
We're talking about the box light sets
of different colors and sizes and shapes and

1254
01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:33.760
whatnot. They also have custom lights
by the foot, which is I think

1255
01:30:33.840 --> 01:30:38.640
the best thing anybody's ever thought about
when it comes to Christmas lighting. You

1256
01:30:38.760 --> 01:30:42.119
just create a light that is the
length you want, and you just have

1257
01:30:42.199 --> 01:30:45.399
to go to your Ace Hardware store
and just say, tell me about your

1258
01:30:45.399 --> 01:30:47.560
custom lights by the foot. This
guy on the radio saying there's such a

1259
01:30:47.560 --> 01:30:50.319
thing as custom lights by the foot, Well, go ask him about it.

1260
01:30:50.359 --> 01:30:54.319
Let them show how that works.
They've got wreath, they've got garland,

1261
01:30:54.800 --> 01:30:57.399
so whatever you need. Of course, when you're in there, you're

1262
01:30:57.399 --> 01:31:00.399
going to get your lawn care products
that you need, your fertilizers and other

1263
01:31:00.439 --> 01:31:03.920
things. They've got garden tools and
hoses and everything you need to have a

1264
01:31:03.960 --> 01:31:08.960
beautiful outdoor. I like the little
strings of outdoor patio lights. I think

1265
01:31:09.000 --> 01:31:12.079
those are really cool. And yes, I says those two. But Ace

1266
01:31:12.079 --> 01:31:15.960
Hardware is easy to find. Just
go to Acehardware dot com find their store

1267
01:31:15.199 --> 01:31:20.159
locator, and you have to limit
yourself to forty stores in the greater Houston

1268
01:31:20.239 --> 01:31:24.399
area. I think we can find
one pretty close to any of us.

1269
01:31:25.079 --> 01:31:29.720
That's Ace Hardware. Uh, you
are listening to Garden Line. If you

1270
01:31:29.720 --> 01:31:31.640
would like to give us a call, our phone number is seven to one

1271
01:31:31.720 --> 01:31:39.239
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

1272
01:31:39.279 --> 01:31:44.920
eight seventy four. Hey, if
you have not heard about or registered for

1273
01:31:45.199 --> 01:31:48.199
the Texas Tomato Lovers Conference. You
might want to give that a check.

1274
01:31:48.680 --> 01:31:51.960
You know, tomatoes are the queen
of the garden. That is the one

1275
01:31:53.079 --> 01:31:59.119
vegetable that excites the most interest,
passion, endeavors, and sometimes frustrations of

1276
01:31:59.159 --> 01:32:02.840
all the vegetables garden and the Texas
Tomato Loverage Conference is a day long,

1277
01:32:03.279 --> 01:32:10.680
really event that features some great speakers
from around Texas and around our region as

1278
01:32:10.720 --> 01:32:15.039
well. It is on Saturday,
January thirteenth. That's right in the big

1279
01:32:15.079 --> 01:32:18.720
middle of January, Saturday, January
thirteenth. It's at the Antiqueros Imporium out

1280
01:32:18.720 --> 01:32:24.760
there in Independence, Texas. And
if you want to register, by the

1281
01:32:24.800 --> 01:32:27.399
way, this event, they're going
to have it. There's going to be

1282
01:32:27.560 --> 01:32:30.800
food, there's going to be you
know, lots of snacks and things that

1283
01:32:30.880 --> 01:32:35.239
you need for breaks. And this
lineup of speakers includes Rosanne Green is going

1284
01:32:35.239 --> 01:32:40.680
to be talking about growing tomatoes with
and for the young family. Destin Nook,

1285
01:32:41.000 --> 01:32:45.239
our Texas garden guy is going to
be mastering container grown tomatoes. That

1286
01:32:45.479 --> 01:32:50.680
is important and boy, with container
growing, everybody can grow a tomato even

1287
01:32:50.720 --> 01:32:54.800
if you don't have him for a
garden. Patti Leander from over in the

1288
01:32:54.840 --> 01:32:58.359
Austin area is going to come over
and talk about the best varieties for twenty

1289
01:32:58.399 --> 01:33:01.199
twenty four, and she knows it. Patty. I've known Patty for thirty

1290
01:33:01.279 --> 01:33:06.439
years or more now, and Patty
has been growing and gardening. She's gardened

1291
01:33:06.439 --> 01:33:10.880
in the Houston area, She's gardened
over in the Austin area. She's also

1292
01:33:10.920 --> 01:33:14.760
going to talk about eight steps to
grafting success. Did you know you could

1293
01:33:14.800 --> 01:33:17.800
graft tomatoes? Yes? You can. That's kind of cool. I wish

1294
01:33:17.840 --> 01:33:21.680
I had time to get into that
now, but time doesn't allow. And

1295
01:33:21.720 --> 01:33:27.119
I'll be talking about the ten commandments
of tomatoes success. Does that sound important?

1296
01:33:27.560 --> 01:33:31.199
I don't have any chipped out blocks
of stone, but I do know

1297
01:33:31.680 --> 01:33:35.560
ten things you better know if you
want to have success with your tomatoes anyway?

1298
01:33:35.880 --> 01:33:41.079
Do you want to register? Two
five four eight four eight ninety three

1299
01:33:41.199 --> 01:33:45.000
ninety three two four, eight four
eight ninety three ninety three are just emails

1300
01:33:45.039 --> 01:33:56.079
Sally at texasgardener dot com. Simple
as that. We're always discussing how rough

1301
01:33:56.159 --> 01:34:00.000
this year was and how hard it
was for the different landscapes and gardens we

1302
01:34:00.039 --> 01:34:03.880
had. If your landscape needs some
major work, you need to call Peerscapes.

1303
01:34:03.920 --> 01:34:10.239
Peerscapes is our garden line preferred landscaper. They've been here since nineteen eighty

1304
01:34:10.279 --> 01:34:13.760
eight. You can go to their
website peerscapes dot com, or you can

1305
01:34:13.760 --> 01:34:18.119
call them at two eight one three
seven oh five zero six zero and they

1306
01:34:18.159 --> 01:34:23.159
can do it all. They can
fix your irrigation system if it's not performing

1307
01:34:23.159 --> 01:34:27.560
properly. They can fix poor drainage
areas and make them drain well. They

1308
01:34:27.560 --> 01:34:31.359
can put in walkways, rock borders, hard scapes. Do you need outdoor

1309
01:34:31.439 --> 01:34:35.000
lighting, boy, that really enhances
that setting. They can do that as

1310
01:34:35.000 --> 01:34:39.279
well. Just give them a call. They have been doing this for a

1311
01:34:39.319 --> 01:34:44.520
long time. They have their certifications, there's licenses and very highly trained employees

1312
01:34:44.600 --> 01:34:48.239
as well as the designers who can
create that beautiful landscape. Telling me you'd

1313
01:34:48.279 --> 01:34:53.279
like some new plans that are a
little more drought tolerant. I suspect we

1314
01:34:53.319 --> 01:34:56.399
may be dealing with that again in
the future. Well, for now,

1315
01:34:56.399 --> 01:34:59.239
we're going to take a break.
Our number is seven one three, two

1316
01:34:59.319 --> 01:35:02.479
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Melanie. When we come back, you'll

1317
01:35:02.479 --> 01:35:08.960
be the first up. That lady
is an energizer, bunny. I mean

1318
01:35:09.000 --> 01:35:13.439
she's still going now, even doing
some really cool rock work. I work

1319
01:35:13.479 --> 01:35:16.720
for some rock stars compilations and stuff. Pretty cool stuff. Dolly just she's

1320
01:35:16.760 --> 01:35:19.960
an energizer, Bunny, that's for
sure. We're going to go now up

1321
01:35:20.000 --> 01:35:24.079
to Cypress by the way. Our
phone number is seven one three two one

1322
01:35:24.199 --> 01:35:27.880
two fifty eight seventy four. We're
going to talk to Melanie. Hello,

1323
01:35:27.960 --> 01:35:33.640
Melanie, Hello, I've got a
problem with nut said, I've decided it

1324
01:35:33.680 --> 01:35:40.760
should be called the cancer plant.
I mean weed, that stuff is impossible.

1325
01:35:41.439 --> 01:35:44.199
Yes, this summer we moved out
of our house and I kind of

1326
01:35:44.439 --> 01:35:47.159
let things go and we're going to
turn it into a rental property. But

1327
01:35:47.199 --> 01:35:53.439
I have this one big bed that
this nutsedge just came up from nowhere and

1328
01:35:53.479 --> 01:35:56.920
I wasn't paying attention to it.
So now I'm trying to kill it.

1329
01:35:57.479 --> 01:36:00.239
I've sprayed it first. It didn't
die after the rain the other day.

1330
01:36:00.239 --> 01:36:03.199
I went in with a pitchfork,
and I mean, I dug up that

1331
01:36:03.439 --> 01:36:08.079
entire bed because I'm going to just
put grass on the side of the driveway

1332
01:36:08.119 --> 01:36:12.079
and not have that bed anymore.
But I went to plants for all season

1333
01:36:12.159 --> 01:36:15.399
and he said, you probably still
didn't kill it even after And I mean,

1334
01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:16.800
it has that nut at the end, and I was throwing all that

1335
01:36:16.840 --> 01:36:20.399
stuff away, and he said,
if it comes up again, then I've

1336
01:36:20.399 --> 01:36:27.840
got to spray it again. But
it didn't. We also had chinchbugs along

1337
01:36:27.880 --> 01:36:30.840
that driveway and so a lot of
the grasses did. So I'm going to

1338
01:36:30.920 --> 01:36:32.439
just I'm going to go through and
take the killer. I'm going to just

1339
01:36:32.520 --> 01:36:35.560
kill everything up. But there's some
other weeds. I also sprayed it.

1340
01:36:35.920 --> 01:36:41.079
The stuff I used on that nutsedge, you put a hose on it.

1341
01:36:41.079 --> 01:36:45.920
It is a nutsedge. I can't
remember what brand it was. Probably with

1342
01:36:45.800 --> 01:36:50.199
a hose and spray it, Okay, I don't know if there's one that's

1343
01:36:50.199 --> 01:36:53.520
more effective. He said, if
I start seeing it come back up,

1344
01:36:53.560 --> 01:36:57.359
I've got to spray it again.
Yes, so this may go on for

1345
01:36:57.439 --> 01:37:00.399
a while, and so I doubt
if I'm going to be able to get

1346
01:37:00.479 --> 01:37:03.880
rid of it. And my landscape
guy that came, he's helping me with

1347
01:37:03.880 --> 01:37:08.680
some other beds. He wants to
put grass down, but I'm just kind

1348
01:37:08.720 --> 01:37:11.600
of like, I don't even know
after spraying all this nuts edge, if

1349
01:37:11.600 --> 01:37:14.760
it's wise to put grass down.
If that nuts edge is still going to

1350
01:37:14.840 --> 01:37:17.800
come up, well you can do
it either way. It's easier to kill

1351
01:37:17.880 --> 01:37:23.119
weeds. When you don't have your
desirable plant in the area. You can

1352
01:37:23.159 --> 01:37:27.600
still use certain products that won't hurt
your grass and whatnot, but it's just

1353
01:37:27.720 --> 01:37:30.079
easier if you get it cleaned up. But this is a long term thing.

1354
01:37:30.920 --> 01:37:34.279
We do a lot of different things, no one of which just solves

1355
01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:39.000
everything you can hand dig. Whenever
you get the nuts out of there,

1356
01:37:39.039 --> 01:37:44.199
you've prevented some more plants. Know
this that in the spring when nutsedge comes

1357
01:37:44.279 --> 01:37:47.199
up, once it gets three to
five leaves, you need to spray it.

1358
01:37:47.279 --> 01:37:53.000
Because if you were to let one
mama nuts edge plant one nut go

1359
01:37:53.039 --> 01:37:56.680
all the way to May, it
would already have eight viable daughter nuts that

1360
01:37:57.199 --> 01:38:00.119
it had sent out little strands to
go to build that nut, and they

1361
01:38:00.159 --> 01:38:04.119
will all be viable. So you'd
have you'd essentially almost have one hundred percent

1362
01:38:04.239 --> 01:38:08.680
more of I mean one hundred percent
increase almost on your what you had.

1363
01:38:09.079 --> 01:38:13.399
So by catching it early, don't
let them get up and get sunlight and

1364
01:38:13.479 --> 01:38:17.880
start putting carbohydrates out to create more
nuts. You be with it no matter

1365
01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:21.439
how good you do initially, if
you give it room to come up and

1366
01:38:21.439 --> 01:38:26.640
breathe again, it's it's you're just
starting takes over. Yeah, it's the

1367
01:38:27.319 --> 01:38:29.560
gruesome way. I like to refer
to it as you got to hold a

1368
01:38:29.600 --> 01:38:33.000
nutsedge under water until the bubbles quit
coming out, because if you let it

1369
01:38:33.079 --> 01:38:36.680
up for air, you just start
over again. Uh. But there are

1370
01:38:36.760 --> 01:38:40.239
products out there. If you went
to plants for all seasons, they are

1371
01:38:40.279 --> 01:38:44.439
experts there. They know they probably
have more than one different thing that will

1372
01:38:44.479 --> 01:38:47.000
control nuts sets. There's image,
there's manage, there's sedge gender, there's

1373
01:38:47.520 --> 01:38:50.239
uh, you know, yeah,
I think this one was said, and

1374
01:38:50.319 --> 01:38:54.439
I may switch to the sedge hammer
or something you could. You could do

1375
01:38:54.520 --> 01:38:58.600
that. Just know that follow the
label carefully, make sure it's labeled for

1376
01:38:58.720 --> 01:39:00.880
use where you want to use it. Some of those, for example,

1377
01:39:00.960 --> 01:39:04.119
you can't put in a vegetable garden. But the combination. But just the

1378
01:39:04.159 --> 01:39:09.119
most important thing to remember is when
it sticks its head up, just have

1379
01:39:09.159 --> 01:39:13.119
your little squirt bottle ready to go. Just squirt it and you never let

1380
01:39:13.119 --> 01:39:15.960
it get established. It seems like
it's immortal, but it's not. It

1381
01:39:16.079 --> 01:39:19.960
uses straored energy to grow a shoot, and when that shoot is killed,

1382
01:39:20.119 --> 01:39:26.760
chopped off whatever, it sends up
another SHOOTE And some of the better parts

1383
01:39:26.800 --> 01:39:30.840
I've been able to control all the
other weeds, not this one. Well,

1384
01:39:30.880 --> 01:39:35.039
those products don't go down the chain
of nuts underground. You kill the

1385
01:39:35.079 --> 01:39:39.199
plant they sprayed them on, but
they're not going out to kill the daughter.

1386
01:39:39.279 --> 01:39:43.560
So remember what I said about by
may it has eight daughters. Well

1387
01:39:43.800 --> 01:39:46.119
you could have sprayed that mama plant
and killed it, but now you have

1388
01:39:46.239 --> 01:39:49.119
eight more coming back, and it's
like, my gosh, my spray just

1389
01:39:49.119 --> 01:39:51.479
made it worse. Well, no
it didn't. It just that there were

1390
01:39:51.520 --> 01:39:56.720
others underground that haven't popped up yet, right, so just keep I guess

1391
01:39:56.840 --> 01:40:00.359
should I just keep? He wants
to put the you know, wants to

1392
01:40:00.359 --> 01:40:02.720
go ahead and start killing everything up
and put the grass down, but I'm

1393
01:40:02.760 --> 01:40:06.159
scared to do that. Well,
you can do that. If you see

1394
01:40:06.159 --> 01:40:10.479
any nuts in the process, go
ahead and pull those out. But when

1395
01:40:10.479 --> 01:40:14.399
it comes up. There are products
you can use in turf. It's best

1396
01:40:14.439 --> 01:40:17.920
to use them when there are some
you can. There is a version of

1397
01:40:18.000 --> 01:40:23.479
image. Not everything called image is
the same ingredient, but there's a version

1398
01:40:23.520 --> 01:40:28.880
of itage. It says image for
nutsedge And just here's the thing. You've

1399
01:40:28.880 --> 01:40:31.119
been to plants for all seasons.
Just go in there, tell them what

1400
01:40:31.159 --> 01:40:34.079
you got and they will not send
you home with a product that doesn't work.

1401
01:40:34.279 --> 01:40:38.399
Just know that even products at work, you got to stay with them.

1402
01:40:38.520 --> 01:40:42.319
You got to come back again.
And my last bit of advice,

1403
01:40:42.800 --> 01:40:45.600
Yeah, just to repeat it once
more because I know other people listening have

1404
01:40:45.680 --> 01:40:50.319
nutsedge issues. If you if you
haphazardly go after nutsedge, you're never going

1405
01:40:50.399 --> 01:40:55.279
to catch up. Yeah, it
is a war. It is a war.

1406
01:40:55.439 --> 01:40:58.840
It is a war. I've often
said that. You know, it's

1407
01:40:58.840 --> 01:41:00.800
like at the beginning of the movie
Patent, he marches back and forth on

1408
01:41:00.840 --> 01:41:04.199
the stage in front of the troops, basically getting them ready to go to

1409
01:41:04.239 --> 01:41:08.039
battle, and almost feel like we
gardeners. I got to do that and

1410
01:41:08.079 --> 01:41:11.439
say, you know, it's you
or the nuts edge, and here's what

1411
01:41:11.479 --> 01:41:15.199
you have to do exactly. Good
luck with it. Okay, I'm a

1412
01:41:15.239 --> 01:41:18.399
little nervous about putting the grass down. We'd had really mild weather, but

1413
01:41:18.640 --> 01:41:21.520
I'm hoping. Okay, it's going
to taking me about a pallet of kit

1414
01:41:21.560 --> 01:41:25.319
grass on that side of the driveway. All right, Well, Melanie,

1415
01:41:25.319 --> 01:41:27.560
I got to run, but thank
you for your call, and good luck

1416
01:41:27.600 --> 01:41:29.800
with it. Call us back if
you have other questions. Yeah, well,

1417
01:41:29.840 --> 01:41:31.159
she was talking about Plants for All
Seasons. You know, Plants for

1418
01:41:31.159 --> 01:41:34.880
All Seasons is in their fiftieth anniversary
year, and you got to go online

1419
01:41:34.880 --> 01:41:40.199
to their social media and see photos
from years ago when two forty nine was

1420
01:41:40.399 --> 01:41:45.880
looked like a goat trail practically,
and they were getting established there selling Christmas

1421
01:41:45.960 --> 01:41:48.199
trees. That was the first thing
they did at Plans Fell Season. It's

1422
01:41:48.279 --> 01:41:51.680
just a young man trying to make
some money. I had a family on

1423
01:41:51.720 --> 01:41:56.119
the way, a baby on the
way, and just needed to earn some

1424
01:41:56.159 --> 01:41:59.399
money. And then it grew from
that into what it is now. I

1425
01:41:59.439 --> 01:42:02.960
mean everything has been added plants,
flowers, trees, and shrubs, years

1426
01:42:03.039 --> 01:42:06.960
and years of experience by the Flowerty
family. They are on two forty nine,

1427
01:42:08.319 --> 01:42:10.720
just north of Luetta Road, and
when you go in there and ask

1428
01:42:10.760 --> 01:42:13.359
a question, you're going to get
a good answer and you're gonna get pointed

1429
01:42:13.720 --> 01:42:16.000
to the right product as well.
Plants for All Seasons, just north of

1430
01:42:16.039 --> 01:42:19.279
Luetta on Highway two forty nine.
We're going to take a break, ted

1431
01:42:19.359 --> 01:42:24.039
when we come back, you'll be
the first up our number seven one three,

1432
01:42:24.119 --> 01:42:30.119
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to Garden Line.

1433
01:42:30.199 --> 01:42:33.880
We are entering our last segment of
the day, So if you would like

1434
01:42:33.960 --> 01:42:39.560
to give us a call, it's
last call for calls. The number is

1435
01:42:39.600 --> 01:42:43.720
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. We are going to

1436
01:42:43.760 --> 01:42:47.880
head out to Magnolia and talk to
Ted. Hello, Ted, good morning.

1437
01:42:49.840 --> 01:42:56.800
I have four river birds trees which
I really like, and yesterday I

1438
01:42:56.920 --> 01:43:00.119
was out and noticed a woodpecker on
one of them, and I got the

1439
01:43:00.159 --> 01:43:04.439
look and closer, and there's little
bore holes with part of that bark missing,

1440
01:43:05.159 --> 01:43:12.359
and the bottom four feet of that
same trunk has like a honey something

1441
01:43:12.479 --> 01:43:16.319
that's attracting bees. Okay, it's
seething from the tree. Okay, I

1442
01:43:16.439 --> 01:43:19.960
have no idea what to do with
that. All right, what looks like

1443
01:43:20.039 --> 01:43:26.680
boreholes. They're probably about the depth
of a pencil eraser something like that.

1444
01:43:26.680 --> 01:43:30.199
That is a sapsucker. It is
a woodpecker type. It's not like other

1445
01:43:30.239 --> 01:43:33.680
woodpeckers. It's it's called a sapsucker. And what it does is it comes

1446
01:43:33.720 --> 01:43:39.800
along and it drills those it pecksels
little holes into the trunk, and typically

1447
01:43:39.840 --> 01:43:44.319
they're in horizontal rows to some degree. And it's like you took a machine

1448
01:43:44.319 --> 01:43:49.520
gun and strafed the trunk across.
That bird then comes back and it feeds

1449
01:43:49.560 --> 01:43:54.119
on the sap that leaks out of
those holes. It's not good for the

1450
01:43:54.159 --> 01:43:57.199
tree, but it's not going to
kill a tree. It happens a lot.

1451
01:43:57.359 --> 01:44:00.680
There's certain trees that attracted more than
others. I know pecons, they

1452
01:44:00.760 --> 01:44:03.399
love pecons, but there are a
lot of other species that they love to

1453
01:44:03.760 --> 01:44:08.079
do that on. Nothing you can
really do about it unless you can talk

1454
01:44:08.119 --> 01:44:11.920
the neighborhood cat and hanging out in
the tree and waiting for the woodpecker to

1455
01:44:11.960 --> 01:44:16.600
show up. But that is what
it is now. The seeping sap that

1456
01:44:16.760 --> 01:44:24.680
is due to some kind of a
crack or a wound where the outside for

1457
01:44:24.840 --> 01:44:30.119
where microbes could get into the interior
sap of the tree and start to populate

1458
01:44:30.159 --> 01:44:34.760
there and they cause the bleeding leaking. It's kind of like an open wound

1459
01:44:34.760 --> 01:44:40.399
that won't heal. And this is
especially true when trees are weaker stressed,

1460
01:44:40.479 --> 01:44:44.439
which magnolia. Some of them are
just killed out right this summer with the

1461
01:44:44.520 --> 01:44:49.039
drought and heat we had. But
it'll weep and eventually the tree will just

1462
01:44:49.479 --> 01:44:54.239
kind of wall that off and create
a callus to close back over that area.

1463
01:44:55.039 --> 01:44:59.039
But that's what it is. It's
a fermented sap that's building up pressure

1464
01:44:59.119 --> 01:45:04.479
underneath the bark. Is there anything
I should do? No? The only

1465
01:45:04.520 --> 01:45:09.439
thing is the tree needs to be
healthy and it needs to have some vigor

1466
01:45:09.880 --> 01:45:13.680
and uh so we're ending a cool
season, but it is an evergreen tree,

1467
01:45:13.720 --> 01:45:16.600
so it's still capturing sunlight. Uh
And as we go, is this

1468
01:45:16.640 --> 01:45:19.920
tree in your yard or is it
more in like a big bed somewhere.

1469
01:45:20.560 --> 01:45:25.920
Yeah, yeah, no, it's
it's in my yard to lose its leaves.

1470
01:45:26.079 --> 01:45:30.079
Yeah, well, meaning like in
the spring trade off or what do

1471
01:45:30.079 --> 01:45:33.000
you mean by getting ready to lose
them? No, it's a river birch.

1472
01:45:33.560 --> 01:45:36.960
Oh, I'm sorry, I was
operating. I had magnolia in my

1473
01:45:38.000 --> 01:45:41.560
head. H yeah, a river
birch. Yeah. Those those can be

1474
01:45:41.640 --> 01:45:48.479
persnickety and they some types scorch really
bad and hot summer heat and sun and

1475
01:45:48.479 --> 01:45:53.439
and losing foliage and stuff is not
unusual. But of course this time of

1476
01:45:53.520 --> 01:45:57.439
year it's losing its leaves because as
you know there it's a deciduous tree.

1477
01:45:57.840 --> 01:46:00.279
So I would say next year,
as it as it begins growing, if

1478
01:46:00.319 --> 01:46:05.880
you're fertilizing the lawn around it,
that's enough for that tree that just if

1479
01:46:05.880 --> 01:46:11.039
it's an established tree that ought to
be enough. Just make sure it doesn't

1480
01:46:11.159 --> 01:46:15.479
lack for water during dry hot weather. You don't need to be water in

1481
01:46:15.560 --> 01:46:18.239
it in the winter or even in
spring probably, And I would say when

1482
01:46:18.239 --> 01:46:23.680
it gets really hot, then maybe
some supplemental just to prevent the stresses that

1483
01:46:23.760 --> 01:46:28.000
tend to lead to things like that. It's either bacterial wet wood or slime

1484
01:46:28.039 --> 01:46:31.479
flux. That's the names for what's
happening to the trunk of your tree.

1485
01:46:31.760 --> 01:46:35.520
Okay, just yeah, I try
to soak it when it's really hot.

1486
01:46:35.600 --> 01:46:41.359
I try to soak it for half
an hour or so. Slow soak and

1487
01:46:41.640 --> 01:46:45.119
the bigger bed you can give it
where there's no grasp, but it's just

1488
01:46:45.239 --> 01:46:48.479
a natural forest floor beneath the tree, the better the tree will do.

1489
01:46:48.840 --> 01:46:54.359
So that comes down to esthetics.
But you know, if you if you

1490
01:46:54.439 --> 01:46:58.600
turned your whole yard into a big
compost pile, the tree would be really

1491
01:46:58.640 --> 01:47:02.640
happy. It doesn't want to see
grass anywhere. We have to, Yeah,

1492
01:47:02.680 --> 01:47:05.600
we have to find the happy medium. Hey, Ded, thank you

1493
01:47:05.640 --> 01:47:09.640
for that call. I appreciate that. Uh. We are going to go

1494
01:47:09.760 --> 01:47:14.359
now to Southwest Houston and talk to
Jesse. Hello. Jesse. Hey,

1495
01:47:14.359 --> 01:47:19.000
good morning, tripod morning. I
have a question. Uh the spurs that

1496
01:47:19.000 --> 01:47:23.399
that's growing in the Saint Augustine that
I have, and it's more than what

1497
01:47:23.479 --> 01:47:28.720
I need in there, and I
did spray it like three weeks ago.

1498
01:47:30.000 --> 01:47:38.760
I don't know what huh. Now
are you talking about spurge? For sure,

1499
01:47:38.800 --> 01:47:41.359
it's like if you pull it,
you get a little milky sap coming

1500
01:47:41.359 --> 01:47:47.720
out of the little twigs or little
shoots. You just have flowers on it,

1501
01:47:49.560 --> 01:47:54.000
yes, and real small leaves,
okay. And it seems like it

1502
01:47:54.039 --> 01:47:57.319
grows from a from a little cap
root from the you know, just kind

1503
01:47:57.319 --> 01:47:59.960
of grows on top of the grass. Are the flowers little pink days.

1504
01:48:00.039 --> 01:48:04.039
He's about the size of a dime. I have not seen it be that

1505
01:48:04.279 --> 01:48:09.359
okay, But when I went to
south Let's Fertilizer, the guy said,

1506
01:48:09.399 --> 01:48:12.159
oh, yeah, that's spurge.
Oh he gave me this product of the

1507
01:48:12.239 --> 01:48:16.800
surbicide okay, that I spradered about
three weeks ago. Yeah, by direction,

1508
01:48:16.920 --> 01:48:20.399
that is still there. So it's
not like it's really uh, you

1509
01:48:20.439 --> 01:48:24.159
know, killing it. So yeah, just traded here in the fall.

1510
01:48:24.239 --> 01:48:28.039
Did you take a photo or a
sample in the Southwest? Oh? Yes,

1511
01:48:28.079 --> 01:48:30.399
I did all right, Well,
they know what they're talking about.

1512
01:48:30.399 --> 01:48:33.000
So we're gonna we're going to say
that is spurge, and it is an

1513
01:48:33.039 --> 01:48:36.600
annual, a warm season annual,
and so you can kill it, but

1514
01:48:38.000 --> 01:48:41.319
it's going to die out anyway when
we get into some really cold weather.

1515
01:48:41.920 --> 01:48:45.159
But it will be back with a
vengeance. Everywhere sunlight hits the soil next

1516
01:48:45.239 --> 01:48:49.439
year. Any bear areas, any
areas that don't have thick, dense grass

1517
01:48:49.479 --> 01:48:54.840
cover over them, it'll sprout again. And that would be I would say

1518
01:48:54.840 --> 01:48:58.680
in the spring, about the time
we get into about mid February. Putting

1519
01:48:58.760 --> 01:49:04.119
down a pre emergent product to prevent
those spurge seeds from germinating would be your

1520
01:49:04.199 --> 01:49:09.319
better, better approach than trying to
kill them after the fact, because as

1521
01:49:09.359 --> 01:49:13.560
the weather gets warmer, it some
of those products that kill spurge will also

1522
01:49:13.680 --> 01:49:17.520
kill Saint Augustine when it gets really
like temperatures in the nineties for example.

1523
01:49:17.560 --> 01:49:23.359
So oh yeah, yeah, So
pre emergent in January and southwest can point

1524
01:49:23.439 --> 01:49:27.880
you to one of the mini products
like barricade that they have there. Right,

1525
01:49:27.960 --> 01:49:30.680
I just I did spray that already
in the pre emerging in the Saint

1526
01:49:30.720 --> 01:49:34.439
Augustine, So I don't know,
okay for the fall. Yeah, well,

1527
01:49:34.479 --> 01:49:38.439
it'll have to warm up next year
before the new seeds come up.

1528
01:49:39.520 --> 01:49:43.279
That's do it again into around March
or something with a pre emergence. Yeah,

1529
01:49:43.920 --> 01:49:48.159
mid late February or early March would
would be fine. Okay, yeah,

1530
01:49:48.239 --> 01:49:50.960
all right, well, okay,
that's good, right, thank you.

1531
01:49:50.880 --> 01:49:54.199
You have a good weekend. You
take care. Have fun with the

1532
01:49:54.279 --> 01:49:57.479
lawn out there. Boy. Lawn
weeds, I tell you, that is

1533
01:49:57.560 --> 01:50:02.039
a that is a common topic when
it comes to concerns people have. And

1534
01:50:02.079 --> 01:50:10.520
you know it, really nature.
Nature is resilient. But nature hates bear

1535
01:50:10.640 --> 01:50:16.920
soil because bear soil erodes, bere
soil washes away, and it's not good

1536
01:50:17.239 --> 01:50:23.760
for the ground and the plants growing
on the ground to have bear soil.

1537
01:50:24.119 --> 01:50:27.800
And so nature plants a weed wherever
the sunlight hits the soil. That's how

1538
01:50:27.840 --> 01:50:30.439
it works. Just think of it
as nature. You just scrape something back

1539
01:50:30.479 --> 01:50:32.960
and now you got bare dirt,
and Nature's going to cover it back up

1540
01:50:33.000 --> 01:50:38.800
with green plants because green plants protect
the soil and actually build the soil over

1541
01:50:38.880 --> 01:50:43.000
time in a number of ways.
And so that's why when our lawns get

1542
01:50:43.039 --> 01:50:47.039
thin. We end up with such
issues with that, with the weed problems

1543
01:50:47.039 --> 01:50:50.399
that pop up in them. And
I just have seen so many pictures this

1544
01:50:50.479 --> 01:50:55.439
year of lawns that are weedy,
weedy, weedy because sunlight is hitting the

1545
01:50:55.479 --> 01:50:58.920
soil, and so your only approach
is there, if it's a perennial,

1546
01:50:58.960 --> 01:51:01.840
you're going to have to kill the
plant because it's not going to be prevented

1547
01:51:01.960 --> 01:51:05.560
just with a pre emergent. You've
already got a plant there, but it'll

1548
01:51:05.560 --> 01:51:10.359
prevent the seeds of that perennial.
But if it's an annual, yeah,

1549
01:51:10.399 --> 01:51:15.520
a pre emergent will stop help prevent
that seed from germinating successfully. But the

1550
01:51:15.560 --> 01:51:20.640
real solution is to build your lawn
denser and denser and denser. Mow,

1551
01:51:20.880 --> 01:51:26.439
water, infertilize. Go to gardening
with Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip

1552
01:51:26.479 --> 01:51:30.680
dot com. Look at my lawn
care schedule there and it talks about exactly

1553
01:51:30.760 --> 01:51:33.159
what you need to do, And
when your lawn gets denser, your weed

1554
01:51:33.199 --> 01:51:39.199
problems dwindled down to just a few
weeds that can thrive even in a dense

1555
01:51:39.199 --> 01:51:43.279
Saint Augustine. The rest of them
you will grow your way out of as

1556
01:51:43.319 --> 01:51:47.000
you build your lawn denser and denser
with proper mowing, watering, and fertilizing.

1557
01:51:47.039 --> 01:51:50.479
Nobody wants to be on a treadmill
where every year you're spraying one hundred

1558
01:51:50.479 --> 01:51:55.479
times to fill a hundred things.
Start with good, healthy lawn, and

1559
01:51:55.560 --> 01:51:59.920
then those things that escape, we
can deal with those when those problems happen.

1560
01:52:00.439 --> 01:52:02.199
It's kind of like us, you
know, if I can just pontificate

1561
01:52:02.560 --> 01:52:06.800
here, when you are tired,
when you're not sleeping well, when your

1562
01:52:06.880 --> 01:52:12.840
diet is really crummy, you are
more likely to get sick than had you

1563
01:52:13.760 --> 01:52:16.399
exercised and gotten good sleep and eating
a healthy diet. You see what I'm

1564
01:52:16.399 --> 01:52:19.960
talking about. It's not black and
white like you'll never get sick, but

1565
01:52:20.159 --> 01:52:24.880
it's just is saying it reduces the
problems, and we need to treat our

1566
01:52:24.920 --> 01:52:28.279
plants the exact same way. Hey, we're going to leave now. We'll

1567
01:52:28.279 --> 01:52:30.640
be back tomorrow morning at six am
to answer your gardening questions