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Kat r H Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

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

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It's crazy Rim. Just watch him
as us so many stays clubs.

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Well, good morning, good morning
on a Sunday morning. We're going to

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talk things today. Talk about things
today that relate to your garden, to

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your house, plants, to whatever
you're interested in. Maybe the yard,

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perhaps you're doing some renovations, or
you'd like some suggestions for ways to improve

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on an area and the aesthetics of
an area. We're going to talk about

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all that kind of stuff. But
most importantly, we're going to talk to

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you about your questions, and that
would be by calling this number seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four seven one three two one two KTRH.

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Give us a call and we can
get down to the bottom of the

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things that you are most interested in
asking about. I get a lot of

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emails, and in fact I get
more than I can answer, uh,

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just to be honest, and I
hate to sometimes and when someone emails,

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there's part of the question that is
just not there that I need to know.

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And so that that would start a
back and forth and I'm just not

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able to. So what I ask
of listeners is if you would email me

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any photos related to what you're going
to ask, and then just call the

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show, just as simple as that, and we'll talk about it and I'll

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have the photos there to look at
ahead of time. A lot of times

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with calls, I wish I could
see the situation a caller's asking about.

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But if you wish, if it's
something that we need to do a question

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on, we can certainly do that. And typically the way I handle that

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is when somebody calls in, I'll
I'll just have Josh send them an email

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connection where they can get a photo
to me. But again, my apologies,

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but I just cannot physically find the
time or to type in all the

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entwers and texts or rather emails from
people that call in. But I would

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love to help you with the situation. So again, that's what I would

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ask. We're in the holiday season, and holiday season involves a lot of

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gift giving, right A lot of
people are scampering around trying to find the

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perfect gift for people in their list. Maybe you're going to a gathering or

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a party, and you're like a
hostess gift. You know, maybe you're

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just looking for ideas for some things
you yourself would like to have that you

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can drop a subtle hint around the
house and perhaps accomplish the goals that way.

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Well, horticulture, gardening, this
whole world is just a wonderful place

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to find all kinds of things for
people. Now, certainly for gardeners that's

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easy, absolutely very easy for gardeners. But when you think about non gardeners,

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then what do we do there?
Well, there are so many things

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related to gardening that would that a
non gardener would enjoy it. And I'll

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just give you an example, like
a hummingbird feeder for example, that would

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be that would be a simple,
simple one. There's some gorgeous, beautiful

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hummingbird feeders out there, and people
that aren't into gardening and all of that,

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maybe not really that much into birds, could enjoy a hummingbird feeder,

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a beautiful one that enhances a home. And there's many other examples. I'm

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gonna give you a few as we
go through the day to day. But

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don't don't forget that most of our
good garden centers that we talk about on

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garden Line. They have wonderful gift
shops, and those gift shops are just

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loaded with the really cool stuff,
and so I would encourage you to swing

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by and check out some of those
because it's a great way to find the

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perfect gift for someone that otherwise seems
to have everything already. You know how

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difficult that could be buying for people
that already have everything that they would need.

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Well, I want to talk this
morning just a bit about the vegetable

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garden and the herb garden. To
start off here, in the cool season,

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we have the widest range of things
that we can grow in the vegetable

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garden, and the easiest time of
the year to do it. Temperatures are

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cool, you're not having to water
as much. You've got, really,

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again, a wide variety of great
things that you need to grow or you

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could grow, and it just is
it's the best time of the year I

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think for gardening. Most of our
most nutritious grains are available during the cool

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season. That's just a fact.
There's things like broccoli that you can grow

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now depending on the winter we have. There are marginally hardy cool season plants

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as well. There are things like
let's take turnips and carrots and radishes,

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those are all pretty darn hardy.
Actually, beats are marginal. They generally

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are not considered an over the winter
crop unless we just have a mild winter,

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or you can protect them. And
that's kind of where I was going

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with that, is if you prepare
ahead of time for whenever cold weather might

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arrive, it's really simple. In
my garden. What I do is this

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is just one way to do it. There's a lot of ways to go

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about it. But I purchased some
little short pieces of rebar that are I

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don't know, eighteen inches twelve inches
long, something like that, probably eighteen

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and drive them into the ground on
each side of the bed in pairs,

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so as you go down the bed
there's a pair in, but another four

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foot there's a pair, and so
on. And then just take a piece

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of PVC pipe and bend it and
slip the openings over the rebar, and

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that holds that PVC pipe as an
arch over the bed. I'll attach a

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couple of PVC down the arch using
zip ties or twine, and then you've

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got your perfect little quantcet hut that
whenever you have inclement weather you just run

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out there and throw a cover over
it and make sure it's secure on both

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sides, and you can go through
anything that comes here. Back in February

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twenty one when it was where I
lived, it was seven degrees with that,

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and of course we had a little
snow cover over it. My plans

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just went through it, which it
should have killed everything seven degrees right just

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about. But that's real simple.
It's easy to do, and I encourage

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you to be thinking about that now
because you know, maybe this winter we

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go through without a bad one,
but maybe not. And when suddenly realize

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we're going to have a cold freeze
and you're running the store trying to buy

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the supplies that everybody else on earth
is buying, that can be a little

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frustrating. Now, I don't know
if this qualifies as a Christmas gift,

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but boy, sure would be a
good one. And that is a generator.

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Have you ever thought about getting a
generator? Perhaps you have thought about

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it, but just keep putting it
off. Well, now's the time to

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quit putting it off. And the
reason is Quality Home Products has a generator

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on their generators on sale. It's
called the Holiday blowout. Last till the

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end of this month ten percent off
up to twenty five hundred dollars off.

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So you pick your generators, sit
down with them, they find you the

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one you need. They do all
the stuff in terms of getting the permits

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all aligned so you can put it
up. They pour the slab, they

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put out the generator, They make
sure things are working right, and you

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can even have them come back a
couple times a year to just service it

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and make sure it's in top notch
shape. Because these generators, when the

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power goes off, you don't have
to do anything. They come on automatically.

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They come on and they start running
whatever it is that you need,

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run from refrigerators to keeping the internet, going to I don't know, watching

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that football game you don't want to
miss. Generaic generators are quality product,

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but more important than that is quality
home products. Quality home products is a

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company can depend on and their customer
service is second to absolutely none. QUALITYTX

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dot com. That's the website seven
to one three Quality. That's the phone

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number for Quality Home. Now's a
good time to go ahead and contact them

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and get set up to begin the
process of getting a generator at your house.

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We're going to take a break now. Our phone number is seven one

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three, two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Welcome back to the garden

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line on a It's going to be
a great Sunday. It just is.

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I can tell it already, even
though it's dark outside. It's gonna be

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a good one. And I hope
you are ready to this afternoon, get

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out, do a little bit of
gardening, perhaps do a little bit of

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gardening shopping. That is important and
one place you might want to go,

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especially if you have kiddos is RCW
Nursery. RCW is open today from ten

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am to five pm. That you
can go to their website RCW Nursery dot

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com. And today from twelve to
two they've got Santa out there, so

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haul the kids out for some pictures
with Senna. And that is from twelfth

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to two pm today only at RCW
nurses While you're out there, take advantage

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of signing up for their twenty five
Days of Giving. Do you know that

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every day for twenty five days through
the advent calendar, they are pulling a

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tab and a customer is winning something
cool from RCW Nursery. And I've been

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following it day after day looking at
the different things being won and there's some

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really cool stuff, So go ahead
and put your name in that hat.

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I mean that would be that would
be fun to win too. And also

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while you're out there, ask them
about the various kinds of trees they have

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and any sales going on, because
they're always there's always something going on at

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RCW Nursery. They are the nursery
where Tomball Parkway two forty nine comes into

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belt wagh eight. It's really easy
to get to from wherever you are.

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They carry all the fertilizers I recommend
here on garden line and again a super

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selection of trees and roses and many
many other kinds of plants. We're going

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to head out now to Conroe.
We're going to talk to Roy. Hell

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yeah, good morning, skimp follow
you. I'm well, sir. What's

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up today? You're up? Holy
man? Good to hear you. Yeah,

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it'd be a quiet radio show if
I wasn't here. I guarantee you.

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You were talking about bee keeping last
weekend. I didn't get that phone

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number of information to call. Uh. I was wondering if I could get

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it from me today. Oh yeah, you're talking about the folks at the

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b supply right, Yes, yeah, that was a great show. By

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the way, that's on it's on
our podcast. So if you go to

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KJRH and look at the garden Line
podcast, you can go directly to it.

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The phone number is one eight hundred
three five six forty two twenty nine,

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so it's three five six forty two
to twenty nine. And I think

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you put in extension three if they
ask you there on that. But they're

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out in Dayton. It's theb Supply. Okay, thank you. Yeah,

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good. You have a good day
and you're you're doing a good, good

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program there. I mean, you
know, I've been a listener to this

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program. You know I live in
the Virgin Islands. Oh wow, I've

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been I've been a listener to this
program for a lot of years, you

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know. Yeah, no kidding,
Okay, well, thanks for listening.

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I appreciate that. Okay, thank
you, bybe you take care bye bye.

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Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands.
Yeah, we had the folks that

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the Best Supply on the other day
and that was that was a fun show.

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We enjoyed, really enjoyed visiting a
boy. What they know about bees?

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It's amazing, it is absolutely amazing. Hey, our phone number is

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seven one three, two one two, fifty eight seventy four. Now I've

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told you for months and months that
ACE Hardware is a place to go for

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everything you need for your lawn and
garden. You know, all the fertilizers,

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I talk about everything like that,
supplies tools, garden hoses, past

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sides, they have it all.
ACE has also been the place for your

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Christmas lighting, which a lot of
people didn't know. But I want to

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tell you that ACE is a place
for getting gifts, for getting gifts,

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and there are so many great ideas
at ACE. The ACE Hardwares have a

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wide variety of things. So maybe
someone on your list would like a chainsaw

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or a blower, or a power
tool like a drill or a saw from

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quality companies like Milwaukee and du Walt
for example. Also tool sets from Craftsmen.

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That's another good example of something.
Maybe you're into a still brand Tremor's

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high quality products still and they also
even have Ego power tools. I actually

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have an Ego mower. I really
like it. It's a battery powered mower,

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but boy, it's not your grandfather's
battery powered more. Those things last

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and the battery charge lasts, and
they go a long time, and your

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neighbors appreciate, you know, if
you're out mowing on a Sunday morning,

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not waking them up early in the
morning with an ego power. But they

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got all that and a lot more. There's there's gifts for men, women,

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and kids and everything else at Ace
Hardware forty stores in the area.

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Not hard to find one. Hey, just a suggestion, just try this.

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Walk into one, go into one
today and look around and see what's

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there. And I promise you there
is going to be something for everybody that

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you may be buying a gift for. That is just how diverse, widespread

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and cool the product content are at
ACE Hardware stores. Really really like that.

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Someone was asking me the other day
about their their lawn. It was

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it was in really bad shape,
and after looking at some photos, I

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basically said, Okay, look,
you're gonna have to replant. There's just

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not enough grass left there to cover
back in in any reasonable amount of time.

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And whenever you're going to have to
replant, oftentimes you want to.

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You know, you're going to clear
out the dead so you can put the

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new grass down. But leveling is
also important, filling in low areas,

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that is important and green Pro,
who we've talked about for a long time

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now. They're the folks that come
out and do the deep core aeration that

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pulls a little plug of soil out, followed by a compost top dressing a

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finely screened, high quality compost on
top of that. That's great for lawns,

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but they also do the filling areas. If you need to bring in

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some soil and level off an area
or do anything like that, they can

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take care of that as well.
And that is important because if you're going

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to put a new lawn in,
let's go ahead and fix things. Let's

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get them right before we lay the
new grass down. That would even be

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areas with like holes and bumps and
roots sticking up or a little covering of

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soil would help out a little bit. Just go to greenpro dot net greenpro

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dot net and there you can find
out exactly all the things that they do

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and how to connect with them to
get them to come out to help you.

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When we get this is it's planting
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trees and shrubs. I generally wait
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lay a turf. You can lay
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It's just in the cool season,
the root growth is very slow and the

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establishment is very slow, and so
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the yard ready to lay turf.
And that's exactly what Greenbrook can help you

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with. So just something to think
about. You are listening to Guardline,

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we're talking about things related to gardening
today. By the way, today we're

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going to have an upcoming hour.
We're going to have Martin Spoonmore from Affordable

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Tree Service. I've asked him to
call in. We're going to be talking

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about general tree care and some things
you need to know about how do you

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care for a tree properly. A
lot of people buy a saw and have

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no idea what they're doing, or
they have a tree that they think,

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you know, is fine, but
it may have some issues going on.

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And Martin's going to walk us through
things like you know, on tree pruning,

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some important concepts about some of the
things people may be aware of about

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preparing for storms, about doing construction
around trees. Boy, that's that is

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that can be a risky, a
risky endeavor. And Martin knows all about

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that stuff. We're gonna have him
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see what we can all find out
that will help everybody really about trees,

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because a professional tree service fella,
he absolutely knows what he's talking about.

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If you happen to live out in
Mont Bellevue or Baytown, your hometown feedstor

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is Texas feed Stop. That's as
simple as that. Brian and Hope Rhodes

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have built a wonderful feed store that
it has that sense of family. It's

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family owned, but it makes you
feel like family. You go in,

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you're greeted. They have teens from
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there to carry your bags out for
you. And it's just that good old

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day feeling of where you walk in
and you're treated like family. That's what

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you get at Texas Feed Stop.
Now. They're located on Highway one forty

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six, just a few minutes north
of I ten. So you know,

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if you're coming from Baytown or from
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just come down Ien to Highway one
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few minutes there on the right hand
side, they're there. They're going to

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have every fertilizer you hear me talk
about They're going to have many many other

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products. Do you are you into
hunting. They have all the supplies that

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people load up on for the time
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Feed Stop is just a place where
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pest and disease and weed controls,
whatever you need, and certainly quality feeds

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for your pets and your livestock right
there. So again, just go up

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Highway one forty six from Ien,
just a few minutes in Mont Bellevue,

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and when you get there, you'll
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you're treated and the kind of product
variety that they have. It's really really

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excellent. On garden line today,
I'm gonna be visiting with you a little

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bit more. I said I was
going to start off with vegetables, and

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we did that. I want to
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herbs. Herbs are so easy to
grow. I don't know why more people

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won't grow them. As long as
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I grow herbs and containers, I
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grow them and raised beds, and
almost any herb can be planted now to

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carry you on through the winter and
into fall and have a head start on

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spring. There are a few,
like basil, for example, that absolutely

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won't tolerate cool temperatures at all,
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like thyme and rosemary and a regano. All of that kind of thing meant,

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all of those herbs are very cult
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our climate down here. We don't
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So I would encourage you to think
about putting in an herb garden, maybe

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putting in an herb container. I
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of a container. Let them trail
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middle you would plant something like a
little bay tree if it's a very large

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container, or a rosemary bush or
something more upright in the middle. Could

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even be flowers for that matter.
But herbs are fun and I would encourage

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you to try them out this year. This is a great time to plant

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them and get creative. And by
the way, that's also a great gift

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when you purchase a little herb along
with a planter and have a little windowsill

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herb set up for someone on the
list, good idea. Hey our phone

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number seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. We're going to

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turn our attention to Nicki and the
news. Now. Welcome back, Niki,

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what's up? Welcome back to garden
Line. On a Sunday morning,

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it's a dark outside. Look around. If your neighbor's lights aren't on,

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go bang on the door, tell
them they're missing garden Line and they will

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rise up and call you blessed.
Maybe not today, but eventually they will

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appreciate that very much. We're talking
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almost shift gears a little bit and
talk about some cool season color. The

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cool season can be somewhat of a
drab season. Of course, we way

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down south ear it's not like we
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we can grow a lot of things
through the cool season. But there's no

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reason to not have color in your
landscape. We have very dependable cool season

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plants. Of course, everybody's familiar
with pansies and violas. They look very

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similar and they are among the most
cold hardy flowers that we have. We

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also have things like snap dragons.
We have alyssum that does very well in

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the cool season. We have stock
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one of my favorites is Dianthus.
They used to the little compact types generally

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referred to as sweet william. We
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When I say really tall, I
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maybe that have long stalks. Be
good for cut flowers. But they just

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beautiful colors. The Amazon series of
Dianthus is knee colored. I mean you

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just have to see a picture of
them, or go look at some in

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a garden center. They're beautiful and
they do good through the cool se All

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of the diantheesis that's just a good
choice. I mix Dusty Miller in I've

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mentioned that before, but when I
have blue flowers, the silver foliage of

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Dusty Miller, which is also could
hardy, is a really nice addition.

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Outdoors. They're cyclomen that are outstanding
for color. You've got kind of a

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bright, shady area or a little
bit of morning sun, those kind of

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dapple sun through the day. Cyclomone
just does really well outdoors, and it

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takes a pretty cold snap before you
have to cover them up, so that'd

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be a good choice as well.
Just remember when you're transitioning your flower beds,

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always build the soil a little bit. So maybe you had I don't

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know, marigolds or petunias growing this
past fall, and now you're transitioning to

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something cooler, Well add a little
compost maybe a half inch to an inch

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of composts mixed into the soil,
assuming the bed was in good shape to

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begin with. If not, you
may mix a little bit more and make

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sure it has any additional nutrients that
it needs as it grows. I like

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to do light doses of nutrient applications
through the season just to keep those plants

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vigorous because think about this. You
think about a flowering plant and you go,

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well, why would I want to
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when you have growth, you have
foliage which captures sunlight, which makes

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carbohydrates which sets blooms, and blooms
are what you're looking for. So you

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do need to have a good healthy
plant with moderate vigor. You know,

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don't overdo it, but moderate vigor
is important in order to continue to have

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that bloom season carry on and on
for you going forward. So cool season

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color is something that we should be
having I think everybody should have cool season

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containers. It is so easy to
make a little cool season container. And

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the nice thing about it is you
can just strap, you know, slip

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a dollar underneath underneath the plant,
strap a strap around it to hold it

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to the dolly, and wherever you
build it, you can just move it

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right around to where you want it
to be without any backstrain or any whatsoever.

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And the nice thing about containers is
if they get to look in bad,

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you just move them out of the
way, do some resprucing up,

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maybe replanting a plant or two or
the whole thing, and then when it's

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ready, bring it back out to
be on display again. So it's very

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versatile, very very versatile. It'd
be a nice thing to put it a

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front entrance, for example, there's
people coming in to visit and having that

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color splash that's also there. There's
just some things to be thinking about.

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And when you're looking for plants like
the ones I've been mentioning. If you're

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out in the Kingwood area, you've
got Kingwood Garden Center and you have Warrens

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Southern Gardens both right there in your
doorstep, and they are just well stocked.

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That was our with color, but
right now they're well stocked with cool

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seasoned color plants. You can go
out there enjoy yourself while you're It's always

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fun to go out. By the
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Kingwood Garden Center they have fifty percent
off all their gift shop items through

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twelve thirty one through the end of
this month. Well, and that's why

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all supplies last, because, believe
me, people are going to be going

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in there to get some of the
great deals on really beautiful things. And

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you can't bring out other discounts and
coupons and things. It's just fifty percent

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off of all the things in their
gift shop. And if you've ever been

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in there, you know how cool
the things are that they have out in

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the gift shop. And Warren Southern
Gardens, you know, I always tell

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you to you know, when you
buy quality plants from a quality place like

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Warren's or Kingwood, you're going to
get good plants. But take home soil

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as well. And boy, they
have plenty of options for various heirloom soil

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products out there. Oh my gosh, whether it's a potting soil or a

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soil but you're putting in a bed
garden bed. They it's just just outstanding

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selection at both of those places.
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today. Someone asked me that about
trimming shrubs, and when we're out trying

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to make a shrub a nice hedge, the more often you trim them,

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the better the denture it gets.
Every time you cut a shoot off,

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two shoots sprout from behind that cut
to replace it, A maybe three or

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whatever. But you multiply the number
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and that creates that hedge you're looking
for. Now, in the cool

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season, things aren't growing very fast, so you don't need to trim a

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lot, but you always want to
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base, at least vertical, but
preferably more narrow, because shrubs grow top

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heavy. When you're pushing the top
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they're trying to do the very opposite. You're trying to create the letter

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capital A, they're trying to create
the letter capital V. If that makes

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more sense for you, And so
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higher on the hedge. To be honest,

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and the top of the hedge,
because when it gets too big on

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top, it shades out the bottom, you lose the foliage and it's very

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difficult to get foliage back in lower
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you basically are having to go to
drastic measures and do a major pruning back

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of that shrub to start back over
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Now's not a time that we do
a lot of shrub trimming, but if

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you need to, a little trimming
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it in general because when you prune, that stimulates growth. Now, for

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a dormant plant, it's not going
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But for things that are evergreen shrubs, trimming with a period of warm,

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like a week of real mild,
warm winter temperatures, it can begin

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to put out new shoots. And
when that happens, then the next hard

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coal freeze, those shoots are not
going to be as cold hearty as the

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rest of the plant end up getting
burned back. So hold off on that

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if you are thinking about doing it
now, But when you do start,

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I would wait until the danger of
freeze. It's pretty much passed here in

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the spring, and then go ahead
and start your trub shrub trimming, that

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is to maintain that beautiful wall of
foliage. Well, it's time for us

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to take a break. Our phone
number, by the way, if you'd

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like to get on the boards is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four. And when we come
back, James, you will be the

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first up. Welcome back to garden
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We're talking about all kinds of things
gardening today, including your calls at

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seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Hey, Fall and

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winter prime times for planting trees and
shrubs. Absolutely, I just say woody

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ornamentals. I guess that would include
woody vines as well. It also includes,

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by the way, ornamental grasses that
are perennials and other perennial flowers,

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but especially those woody ornamentals that are
about to go in next summer into the

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first critical brutal summer season. The
sooner you plant, the better they have

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more time. Verdant Tree Farm has
an awesome selection of all kinds of drought

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hardy and cold hardy trees and shrubs. Large shrubs that you can plant in

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your landscape, or better yet,
have them plant it for you, because

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some of these plings are huge.
They have trees up to seven hundred gallon

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sized containers. That is a big
one. I wouldn't try lifting that.

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But they can come in and do
a true turnkey service. You can go

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in there, you sit on in
the office, they do a consultation,

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they recommend the plants that would do
best for your situation. You pick out

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your tree, tag it, and
they bring it and install it. It's

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as simple as that, really really
easy to do. Now. They have

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palm trees, a wonderful selection of
palms as well. They offer a one

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year warranty when you have them install
the tree. That makes sense. They're

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going to plant it correctly and they'll
warranty it for you. Verdanttreefarm dot Com

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is a website. You need to
check them out and don't delay, because

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you're not gonna have a better time
to get these things established to ensure their

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best chance and their ability to survive
tough conditions which are coming. By the

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way, when you're purchasing a tree, you always should grab a tree hugger

407
00:29:15.200 --> 00:29:19.000
sprinkler if you don't have one,
and The reason is you put the sprinkler

408
00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:22.319
around the tree. It's like a
think of it as like a pacman a

409
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hinge that goes around the tree.
There's a seven inch diameter, eleven inch

410
00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:30.720
and a fifteen inch. You turn
them on when you have a new tree.

411
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You just turn them a little bit. You're just water in that little

412
00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:37.240
root ball and a little beyond it. As they get bigger, you crank

413
00:29:37.279 --> 00:29:40.160
it up and you can water a
very large area. So that tree could

414
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be five ten years old or more
and you're still watering the prime zone of

415
00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:48.039
where you can do most of the
good and watering the roots on a tree.

416
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Tree Hugger Sprinklers dot com. By
the way, that makes a good

417
00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:55.039
gift too. By the way,
everybody needs one of these hanging in their

418
00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:57.599
tool shed because even though it says
tree hugger, are you going to plant

419
00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:00.640
a rose bush? That's good for
that too. You get the idea.

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We're going to head out now to
Spring and talk to James. Hello,

421
00:30:04.400 --> 00:30:11.440
James, good morning. The question
is I've moved to Spring from South Louisiana

422
00:30:12.079 --> 00:30:18.160
and I used to plant a lot
of mint grass, peppermint, spearmint.

423
00:30:18.680 --> 00:30:22.519
Will that work here? Or is
it too cold here. No peppermint and

424
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.839
spearmint, and there's a chocolate mint, and there's a pineapple mint. There

425
00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.799
are all kinds of mints and they
all do well here. Yeah, fantastic.

426
00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:33.319
They just thank you. They need
like they didn't lose, and they're

427
00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.200
gonna need adequate moisture to do their
best. And just remember that they have

428
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:42.680
subtle intentions of taking over the world. So keep an eye on them,

429
00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:47.599
because mint will get out in your
lawn. The only good thing about mint

430
00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:52.160
invading your lawn is every time you
mow, you get this wonderful aromatic fragrance

431
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:55.799
coming up in the air. But
yeah, that mint is very invasive,

432
00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:59.799
so watch out. Thank you so
much, Thank you, James, appreciate

433
00:30:59.839 --> 00:31:03.480
that call. Yeah, boy,
is it ever. You know, I

434
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.920
was joking with somebody the other day
about the things we want out of plants.

435
00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:10.960
You know, we want a plant
that you plant it and it just

436
00:31:11.079 --> 00:31:15.160
fills in the area immediately, you
know, it just suddenly it's the size

437
00:31:15.200 --> 00:31:18.039
you want it to be. And
then we wanted to stop growing right there.

438
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.799
You know, we wanted to understand
where we want the extent of its

439
00:31:22.799 --> 00:31:25.839
growth to be, which, of
course we want it to grow fast,

440
00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:29.279
but we don't need to be invasive, and we don't want it to set

441
00:31:29.319 --> 00:31:33.319
seeds and throw them everywhere and become
a weed either. And you know,

442
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:36.480
by the time you get through with
all these I needed to do that,

443
00:31:36.519 --> 00:31:38.880
I needed to do that, I
needed to do this, well, I

444
00:31:40.000 --> 00:31:42.119
kind of run out of plants.
The list that starts off with one hundred

445
00:31:42.160 --> 00:31:47.759
thousand plants ends up being down to
one and a half maybe or zero,

446
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:51.000
And I'm finally left with saying,
Okay, it's the first time I've ever

447
00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:53.759
done this, but I suggest you
go to a hobby store and by silk

448
00:31:53.799 --> 00:32:00.079
flowers. That's about as close to
care free as you can get. But

449
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:02.359
you know, there are such things
as silk worms and dust mites, so

450
00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:07.240
I guess the attacks silk Wow,
I don't know. Anyway, Yeah,

451
00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:10.640
we try to get a lot out
of our plants. If you're up in

452
00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:15.920
the Tomba area, your hometown feed
store is D and D feed Now D

453
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:21.000
and D is three miles west of
two forty nine on FM twenty nine twenty

454
00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:22.960
and Tombull. You go drive on
about three miles out there to be on

455
00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:28.359
the left hand side the dovers open
that in nineteen eighty nine. They expanded

456
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:31.440
this summer a couple times. I
went out several times and I just say,

457
00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:34.720
oh, there's a whole new section
here. And now the last time

458
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.359
I went there was another little kind
of a cubby area there where you walk

459
00:32:37.400 --> 00:32:43.039
in and there's things there as well, including bulk seeds where that's a very

460
00:32:43.079 --> 00:32:45.759
economical way to buy seed. You
just scoop. You pick us different sizes

461
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:51.839
of scoops cost that amount of seed
costs a different amount, but it's way

462
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:55.039
way cheaper than buying seeds by the
package. It's real simple too. They've

463
00:32:55.079 --> 00:32:58.079
got that, and they have a
lot of other things. Do you need

464
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:02.839
disease and pass and weed control products
of course, high quality pet foods,

465
00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:07.319
very high quality pet foods, and
livestock foods as well, and just pretty

466
00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:10.640
much everything you're looking for is out
there at D and D Feed Again there

467
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:15.759
on twenty nine, twenty three miles
west of two forty nine in Tumble,

468
00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:22.839
that's your hometown feed store up in
that area. I want to remind you

469
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:25.880
that later this morning, I'm going
to be visiting with Martin spoon Moore from

470
00:33:25.920 --> 00:33:31.480
Affordable Tree Service and we're going to
be talking about everything related to tree care.

471
00:33:32.200 --> 00:33:37.240
What are the things you need to
know about how to maintain a tree

472
00:33:37.240 --> 00:33:40.640
and top health. You know,
from the standpoint of planting all the way

473
00:33:40.720 --> 00:33:45.799
up into pruning, certainly training in
the in the mid section there and then

474
00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:49.799
as the tree gets older, it's
more of a just just pruning. It's

475
00:33:49.839 --> 00:33:52.759
developed its form. What do you
do when you need to do construction around

476
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:58.359
a tree? What are some of
the trees that you know Martin likes in

477
00:33:58.400 --> 00:34:01.279
this area, is more resilient,
more dependable. We're just gonna pick his

478
00:34:01.319 --> 00:34:05.839
brain because he's been doing this for
a long time. He knows his stuff

479
00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:09.760
in the Houston Greater Houston area,
and so that opportunity will be there.

480
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:14.760
We'll ask for your calls at that
time as well about anything related to tree

481
00:34:14.760 --> 00:34:17.039
care. So in the meantime,
if you'd like to call me, our

482
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:22.960
number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four seven one three

483
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:29.639
two one two five eight seven four. I want I want to tell you

484
00:34:30.119 --> 00:34:35.159
about Star of Hope again. I've
talked about them before because I really believe

485
00:34:35.239 --> 00:34:37.360
in Star of Hope. My wife
and I volunteered for Star of Hope.

486
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:44.079
I don't know it had to have
been two decades maybe more ago, when

487
00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:47.800
we were first living in the Houston
area. Star of Hope changes lives.

488
00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:52.079
It's not just a handout now they
feed folks. In fact, one of

489
00:34:52.119 --> 00:34:57.760
the best ways you can get involved
is by donating toward that. They for

490
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:00.440
two dollars and eighty cents, they
can provide a cre meal for folks.

491
00:35:00.679 --> 00:35:07.480
And at Star Hope mission, you're
going to find that people are there living

492
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:10.800
there as well as just being helped
out in a short term. They bring

493
00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:14.840
folks in, they help them turn
their life around. Listen, when you're

494
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:20.599
homeless and you've lost everything and it's
rock bottom, you don't just like go

495
00:35:20.760 --> 00:35:23.360
quote get a job. It can
be much more complicated than that. Maybe

496
00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:29.000
it's a mom that's living in a
car with kids. Maybe it's someone who

497
00:35:29.159 --> 00:35:34.280
substance abuse and other things have essentially
destroyed their lives. Starve Hope gives them

498
00:35:34.280 --> 00:35:37.639
a chance. It gives them the
recovery programs, It gives them the training

499
00:35:37.679 --> 00:35:43.360
to get a job, It provides
the ability to get to the job,

500
00:35:43.440 --> 00:35:46.760
which is a huge part of holding
a job right, and it provides they

501
00:35:46.800 --> 00:35:52.199
even have clothing store there that's really
nice. It's like a little boutique in

502
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:57.880
my opinion, and these people can
come in and then they can dress for

503
00:35:58.039 --> 00:36:00.559
the interview. And you see what
I'm saying. It's just all around.

504
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:05.079
How do we turn a life around? And that's not done by handing to

505
00:36:05.360 --> 00:36:07.400
a dollar out of window at a
stop sign. That does not turn a

506
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:14.599
life around. Star of Hope does
so. Ohmission dot org. Take your

507
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:19.559
compassion and put it to good use
for just a small amount of whatever you

508
00:36:19.559 --> 00:36:22.679
can afford. Shmission dot org.
Go there. You find other ways you

509
00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:29.280
can volunteer and be involved. Uh, it's well, it's an outstanding cause

510
00:36:29.320 --> 00:36:35.880
and I truly believe in it very
much, sincerely, Very few things I

511
00:36:35.960 --> 00:36:42.039
find in that category of giving opportunities
and that where I just believe a dollar

512
00:36:42.119 --> 00:36:46.639
makes a huge difference. In Starfart, were listening to Gardenline. We're gonna

513
00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:51.320
take a little break here. Our
number is seven one three two one two

514
00:36:51.480 --> 00:36:53.480
five eight seven four. If you'd
like to get on the phones with me,

515
00:36:53.840 --> 00:36:59.599
we can talk about whatever is of
interest to you. We're glad you're

516
00:36:59.639 --> 00:37:01.239
listening today. By the way,
I appreciate the fact that you listen.

517
00:37:01.960 --> 00:37:06.920
If those of you who have emailed
me and sent photos. You're welcome to

518
00:37:06.960 --> 00:37:09.159
give us a call. We can
follow up on that now. I always

519
00:37:09.159 --> 00:37:14.559
appreciate a well taken photo. I
can't tell from a fuzzy photo, but

520
00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:17.920
I sure can when it's crispin and
focus and shows me the problem from a

521
00:37:17.960 --> 00:37:28.199
couple of different angles. We'll be
right back. Katie r. H.

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Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on this

523
00:37:31.199 --> 00:37:37.119
program. Welcome to Katie r.
H. Garden Line with scip Rictor.

524
00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:57.760
It's crazy. Just watch him as
well. Good morning. We're glad you're

525
00:37:57.800 --> 00:38:01.800
listening this morning. The sun is
brightening the eastern sky. I hadn't peaked

526
00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:07.079
up yet, but it's about to. I was like that time of day

527
00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:13.440
looking out. Everything is silhouetted against
that slowly glowing sky. I think it's

528
00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:16.400
kind of cool, cool time of
the day today. By the way,

529
00:38:16.400 --> 00:38:20.079
it's going to be a great day, an awesome day to be out doing

530
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:23.000
things in the garden and maybe going
out this afternoon do a little shopping around

531
00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:29.039
for various items, certainly for Christmas
items and things. Hey, by the

532
00:38:29.039 --> 00:38:32.360
way, if you have been to
Buchanan's Native Plants in the Heights and you

533
00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:37.880
are still doing some shopping. Boy, is this ever a good time to

534
00:38:37.920 --> 00:38:40.159
go by? They're having their end
of the year sale, so their select

535
00:38:40.199 --> 00:38:45.800
plants, outdoor living and gift shop
items marked down thirty fifty percent, which

536
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:46.840
is really good. And if you
haven't been in their gift shop, it

537
00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:52.559
is outstanding, lots of really cool
stuff. I was checking out their su

538
00:38:53.159 --> 00:38:58.159
succulence. I can't even say that
word. I was checking out their succulents

539
00:38:58.159 --> 00:39:02.800
the other day and they houseplant selection
and their succulent selection and all of that

540
00:39:02.960 --> 00:39:08.000
is just unbelievable. It's outstanding.
And this is a time of year,

541
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:12.639
you know, when we're doing a
lot of our gardening indoors. And I

542
00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:16.079
guarantee you this. You go to
Buchanans, you're going to find houseplants that

543
00:39:16.199 --> 00:39:22.280
are gorgeous that you've just got to
have one that you don't have because their

544
00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:23.519
selection is so wide. Every time
I go in there, it's like,

545
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:25.639
wait a minute, I got to
read the label on that. What is

546
00:39:25.679 --> 00:39:32.159
that? You know? A good
example? They have a gove? Is

547
00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.599
it a gove or is it a
I'm trying to remember for sure what the

548
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:42.480
name. Oh it's an aloe.
I'm sorry. Alo aloed diablo and it's

549
00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:46.320
just imagine it almost looks a Goviy
like but it's silvery with green and then

550
00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:52.639
the edges are the little blunt spines
on the edges are a reddish color.

551
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:59.039
That's just whoa that that is so
unique. So if you're into succulents and

552
00:39:59.079 --> 00:40:01.199
a cacti and like that, or
even if you're not, you got to

553
00:40:01.199 --> 00:40:07.000
go buy Buchanans. Check out the
aloed diablo that they have and all the

554
00:40:07.039 --> 00:40:08.719
other house plants that they have,
and while you're there, take advantage of

555
00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:14.440
the sale. They're at six eleven
East eleventh Street in the Heights. Six

556
00:40:14.480 --> 00:40:19.679
eleven East eleventh Street and the Heights, and it's just really easy to find

557
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:22.519
something that you love or that someone
on your list would love. They're at

558
00:40:22.519 --> 00:40:28.119
Buchanans. I always like to,
you know, it's fun going into garden

559
00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:32.519
centers. I'm doing a list of
things that kind of New Year's resolutions for

560
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:37.639
gardeners. It will air it as
we get close to the weekend for New

561
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:40.159
Year's I guess, but anyway,
one of the things is this year,

562
00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:44.800
go to a garden center. You've
never been to go to a botanic garden.

563
00:40:44.800 --> 00:40:46.639
You've never been to. If you
go to another town, let's say

564
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:50.159
you're in you're going to go to
San Antonio, You're going to go to

565
00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:52.440
Dallas or Austin. Give me a
call and say, hey, what is

566
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:55.960
a good garden center, what's a
good botanic garden there? And I'll tell

567
00:40:57.000 --> 00:41:00.840
you the ones that I would go
to that I have gone to. Every

568
00:41:00.840 --> 00:41:05.440
town has its own, but just
remember this. No town has the number

569
00:41:05.559 --> 00:41:12.480
of quality garden centers mom and pop
outstanding places to visit that we do in

570
00:41:12.519 --> 00:41:15.320
the greater Houston area. It's hands
down here. You go in north,

571
00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:19.000
south, east, west, central, everywhere there is going to be a

572
00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:23.079
garden center that is just outstanding.
And so we're fortunate. But as you

573
00:41:23.119 --> 00:41:29.440
travel in twenty twenty four, that's
one of the resolutions that I put is,

574
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:31.199
hey go to a new one this
year, a new garden center,

575
00:41:31.239 --> 00:41:35.840
new botanical garden. Let's visit we
have botanical Oh, if you've been in

576
00:41:35.880 --> 00:41:37.840
the Houston Botanic Garden, that would
be a great one to go to here

577
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:42.480
in the Houston area. Really nice
to get out and do those kind of

578
00:41:42.519 --> 00:41:46.079
things. If you're looking for gifts, I want to give you a place

579
00:41:46.199 --> 00:41:50.039
that I think you are going to
have no trouble at all finding a gift

580
00:41:50.039 --> 00:41:54.360
for pretty much anybody. And that
is Waldbird's Unlimited Wall Birds is the kind

581
00:41:54.400 --> 00:42:00.840
of place where you walk in and
everything it looks cool, it's quality,

582
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:07.000
and they're bird feed, for example, is designed for the kinds of birds

583
00:42:07.039 --> 00:42:10.000
you're feeding, and it's full of
what the birds eat. It's not full

584
00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:14.519
of the little red bebes that the
birds kick out. And so if you

585
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:16.239
find some bird seed and you go, that's a better deal on bird seed.

586
00:42:16.559 --> 00:42:21.159
No, it's not. No,
it's not because the amount of stuff

587
00:42:21.159 --> 00:42:24.360
that goes into a bird's stomach or
craw if you will, that's in that

588
00:42:24.440 --> 00:42:29.280
bag is a fraction of the bag. It's a lot of it's wasted.

589
00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:31.719
You go to wild Birds and you
buy a quality seed and it's one hundred

590
00:42:31.719 --> 00:42:36.599
percent bird food. Do you need
a feeder? Those are so cool?

591
00:42:36.679 --> 00:42:38.760
A little feeder sticks on the window
with a suction cop a feeder that hangs

592
00:42:38.800 --> 00:42:44.159
outside. I have the squirrel excluding
feeder. Whichever time they try to get

593
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:47.119
into it, they can't. And
that's kind of down the line of what

594
00:42:47.159 --> 00:42:50.880
I'm trying to accomplish it. I'm
trying to feed the birds not the squirrels,

595
00:42:51.039 --> 00:42:52.440
but they even have squirrel feeders if
you want to go into that.

596
00:42:52.920 --> 00:43:00.719
Books and just indoor decoration and things. Wild Bird's Unlimited has a wide variety

597
00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:05.239
of everything that you would want to
do, and even if someone's not a

598
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:08.239
gardener, you're going to find some
really cool gifts there at Wildbird's Unlimited.

599
00:43:08.440 --> 00:43:13.480
Now there's seven stores. There's one
in Memorial, one in Cyprus, Katie

600
00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:16.440
bel Air, down in Paarland,
up in Kingwood, and even down in

601
00:43:16.519 --> 00:43:21.239
clear Lake. There's a store and
they're easy to find. Just go to

602
00:43:21.440 --> 00:43:28.559
WBU dot com, WBU dot com, slash Houston. That's as simple as

603
00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:34.559
that. Can't get much easier than
just doing that. You're listening to garden

604
00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:38.000
Line. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eight seven

605
00:43:38.119 --> 00:43:44.800
four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. I just give

606
00:43:44.880 --> 00:43:47.559
us a call. We'll talk about
the things that might be of interest to

607
00:43:47.679 --> 00:43:52.800
you. If you are looking at
renovating your landscape or fixing some things in

608
00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:57.800
the landscape. Maybe your irrigation system
is on the blank, it's not got

609
00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.000
good coverage, and now you've lost
a section of the word because of that.

610
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:05.039
Maybe you've got areas that are so
poorly drained that no plant wants to

611
00:44:05.039 --> 00:44:08.320
be done in the swamp drownding.
I know who can fix that. That's

612
00:44:08.360 --> 00:44:14.320
Peerscapes. Jason Garretty and his team
at Peerscapes. They can do it all

613
00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:17.320
they do. You need hardescapes,
do you need landscape lighting? Do you

614
00:44:17.440 --> 00:44:22.159
need a redo in an area of
your landscape? But you want to go

615
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:24.079
in and say, hey, guys, I need some drought tolerant plants,

616
00:44:24.159 --> 00:44:30.519
They can do that for you.
The website is Piercescapes dot com. Piercescapes

617
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dot com. Go look there and
see an example of the kind of work

618
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they can do, or give them
a call two eight one three seven zero

619
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fifty sixty. Take a picture of
your landscape, go in, sit down

620
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:45.280
and say hey, what can we
do here? They can come up with

621
00:44:45.519 --> 00:44:52.320
a professional design, a professional design
that just really enhances any area outdoor entertaining

622
00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:58.559
areas especially boy, you can turn
that outside part of your house into just

623
00:44:58.679 --> 00:45:01.760
an extension of your home where people
love to gather and pier scapes and knows

624
00:45:01.800 --> 00:45:07.599
how to make exactly that type of
thing happen. Well, you're listening to

625
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:12.400
garden Line again our phone number seven
one three two one two five eight seven

626
00:45:12.480 --> 00:45:14.880
four. I'm going to go to
a little break here and I'll be right

627
00:45:14.920 --> 00:45:17.000
back. Give Josh a call and
we'll talk to you when we come back.

628
00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:22.440
Welcome back to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter. We're

629
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here to answer gardening questions and talk
about things related to gardening to help you

630
00:45:27.760 --> 00:45:31.719
have more success. That's exactly what
it's about. That's why we're having Martin

631
00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:37.199
spoon More this morning, Colin from
Affordable Tree Service, and we're going to

632
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:39.960
talk about all kinds of things related
to trees. You're going to learn a

633
00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:45.119
lot about what your trees need,
what they don't need, and get some

634
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:49.920
wisdom on how to maintain and just
keep them more and more beautiful over time.

635
00:45:50.199 --> 00:45:52.719
Maintain good structure in your trees,
good health on your trees. That's

636
00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:57.079
very important. And so Martin.
You know Affordable Tree Service, They've been

637
00:45:57.119 --> 00:46:00.239
around a long time. Martin's been
doing this. He's no rookie when it

638
00:46:00.280 --> 00:46:04.920
comes to taking care of your trees. I mean, the guy's been I

639
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:07.079
don't know how many years, I
mean decades. Martin has been doing this

640
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:10.880
in the Greater Houston area. But
I think thirty years now as a matter

641
00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:15.760
of fact, through the whole area. Does your tree need pruning? Are

642
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:20.119
you concerned about storm damage? Do
you need a tree trained or planted,

643
00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.159
or do you need you know,
a stump ground even I mean the whole

644
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:27.239
thing, from start to finish of
a tree's life. Martin can take care

645
00:46:27.280 --> 00:46:29.840
of it and do that. Now
you need to call to get on the

646
00:46:29.880 --> 00:46:34.559
schedule because they stay busy. That's
what happens when you treat your customer's right.

647
00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:37.559
You do good work for a reasonable
price, you stay busy, and

648
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:40.320
he does tell him you're a guardenline
listener when you call and the phone number

649
00:46:40.400 --> 00:46:46.320
is seven to one three six nine
nine twenty six sixty three six nine nine

650
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:54.079
twenty six sixty three. Never let
anyone who isn't properly trained and experienced touch

651
00:46:54.360 --> 00:47:00.400
your trees because damage can be done
by I call it the two jerks on

652
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:02.400
a chainsaw tree service. You know, two guys have a chainsawn a pickup

653
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:07.360
and they run around butchering trees.
More damage can be done by that.

654
00:47:07.360 --> 00:47:10.480
That just it'll never be the same
after that. And so make sure you

655
00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:15.760
let someone like Martin Spoon Moore.
Uh, you know, be the one

656
00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:21.159
who essentially touches your trees. It
doesn't allow anybody else to butcher things up.

657
00:47:21.440 --> 00:47:24.360
We're gonna head out to San Antonio, Texas and talk to Andy this

658
00:47:24.440 --> 00:47:28.880
morning. Hello. Andy, Hey, how are you doing skip. I'm

659
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:32.280
good, sir, Yes, I've
got it. I know we're a little

660
00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:36.559
bit different soil than than Houston.
We used to live in Houston, and

661
00:47:36.599 --> 00:47:43.000
we moved here almost five years ago. Now I've got I've got five pinoaks

662
00:47:43.039 --> 00:47:47.079
in my backyard and then uh,
and they're all doing just well. Uh,

663
00:47:47.719 --> 00:47:52.679
I've got a cedar elm that's in
there, and and and for the

664
00:47:52.760 --> 00:47:58.239
past I'm gonna say two to three
years. And these trees are all about

665
00:47:58.320 --> 00:48:02.039
four to five years old, same
as we've been in the house. It's

666
00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:07.519
kind of how it looks in the
fall, kind of when the leaves kind

667
00:48:07.519 --> 00:48:14.440
of yellow. It's that almost all
year long, all summer long. Well,

668
00:48:14.719 --> 00:48:17.960
it's kind of weird. I don't
see any anything going up and down

669
00:48:19.000 --> 00:48:22.119
the stalk any you know, for
anything. I didn't know if it was

670
00:48:22.159 --> 00:48:25.440
some kind of disease that you would
think of. And is this a tree

671
00:48:25.480 --> 00:48:30.119
that was planted from a container or
is it a native grown tree planted.

672
00:48:30.400 --> 00:48:37.800
I planted everything from a container.
These are new houses. Okay, sometimes

673
00:48:37.800 --> 00:48:40.960
in a container. As the trees
being grown and moved into bigger containers.

674
00:48:42.519 --> 00:48:45.119
Early in the process, you get
a root going around the outside of the

675
00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:47.239
container, as you know, a
little spaghetti sized root, and then it

676
00:48:47.239 --> 00:48:52.199
gets bumped up to a bigger container
as it's being grown, and that root

677
00:48:52.199 --> 00:48:53.920
gets bigger and bigger, and the
trunk gets bigger and bigger, and the

678
00:48:53.960 --> 00:48:58.840
two end up coming together. And
it's as if you put a cable around

679
00:48:58.880 --> 00:49:01.719
the trunk, it just litterally.
He sinks into the trunk as both expand

680
00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:08.000
and strangles it. That can cause
over time a decline in a tree where

681
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:10.519
you're going, man, it looks
like it needs water, something's wrong,

682
00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:15.199
and usually that takes about eight years, could be a little longer, but

683
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:20.239
usually it takes about that long before
you start seeing the problem. So I

684
00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:22.760
think you're early for that. But
I would at least go to the base

685
00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:28.239
of the tree a little handspade or
squirt of water to blast soil away,

686
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:31.119
and just look for any kind of
a strangling route going around the trunk.

687
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:35.800
That would be one thing i'd look
for. Cedar elm is incredibly resilient.

688
00:49:35.960 --> 00:49:39.239
I mean you'll see those things.
I didn't quite catch it. Or is

689
00:49:39.280 --> 00:49:44.880
the elm in Austin or is it
in Houston? I'm sorry, San Antonio

690
00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:49.599
or HOUSTONI okay, we're the far
west side of San Antonio. Yeah,

691
00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:52.199
okay, I know that area.
I grew up in Jordan and thirty miles

692
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:57.199
south of there over the Alma Ranch
area over here. Okay. Well,

693
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:05.280
so it's a resilient tree. I
mean you put it on these clay soils

694
00:50:05.320 --> 00:50:08.920
that shrink and swell and it survives
for a few other things. Big cedar

695
00:50:08.960 --> 00:50:14.480
realms and hackberries can both take that
kind of abuse, and so I don't

696
00:50:14.480 --> 00:50:21.079
worry about cedar ealm. We don't
have major foliage diseases or insects that threaten

697
00:50:21.559 --> 00:50:23.679
the life of a seedar realm.
Every tree is going to have certain things

698
00:50:23.679 --> 00:50:27.800
that'll chew on it, or maybe
a disease it hits here and there.

699
00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:30.760
But it's just a resilient plant now
hidden that fall color through the year.

700
00:50:31.280 --> 00:50:37.039
Something is stressing the tree. I
don't know if the roots didn't escape the

701
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:40.440
planting hole well, and a clay
even have some coliches out in that area

702
00:50:40.840 --> 00:50:45.840
here and there roun. Yeah,
it can be a real rough hole to

703
00:50:45.880 --> 00:50:50.239
dig and then the roots get out
and survive in that. You know,

704
00:50:50.280 --> 00:50:52.079
if it had grown there as a
seedling, it'd probably be better off than

705
00:50:52.400 --> 00:50:58.519
if it was transplanted, just because
sometimes you have a hole that becomes underground

706
00:50:58.559 --> 00:51:02.360
bathtub and the roots don't escape it, And that could be one of the

707
00:51:02.400 --> 00:51:07.079
issues you're seeing. But it sounds
to me like a water problem. But

708
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:10.079
why isn't it getting water? That's
the question because cedar realm, again,

709
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:15.760
it's a tough species that it can
make it through brutal conditions that we have

710
00:51:15.800 --> 00:51:23.199
here. So we water quite a
bit. It's probably our our highest bill

711
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:28.880
out here, Okay, And in
our grass we fertilize. The grass is

712
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:31.360
good, the tree, the other
trees are good. Yeah, everything is

713
00:51:31.400 --> 00:51:35.840
green. I don't overwater it,
like you know, like at the very

714
00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:37.800
first you water quite a bit.
I don't. I don't have to do

715
00:51:37.840 --> 00:51:42.119
that anymore. But it's getting plenty
and the rest of the trees are getting

716
00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:46.079
plenty too, so that root thing
might be it might be the deal then,

717
00:51:46.360 --> 00:51:49.760
yeah, And I don't know how
to fix it at this point.

718
00:51:49.880 --> 00:51:52.440
You know, it's been in a
while, so yes, the only thing

719
00:51:52.440 --> 00:51:58.199
would be yeah, I just don't
know. Maybe thinking back to when the

720
00:51:58.239 --> 00:52:00.679
hole was dug, did that sound
like what we may be dealing with as

721
00:52:00.920 --> 00:52:07.039
a slick side hole in a clay
soil, And boy, it's difficult to

722
00:52:07.079 --> 00:52:09.519
come in later and fix that.
I'm going to have Martin spoon Moore here

723
00:52:10.079 --> 00:52:14.159
on the phone here in a little
bit, and you may just keep listening.

724
00:52:14.239 --> 00:52:16.559
This morning. I may pose that
question to him and see what do

725
00:52:16.599 --> 00:52:20.360
you do when you've got a tree
that's been put in a hole and the

726
00:52:20.440 --> 00:52:27.320
roots aren't venturing out. So that
in and of itself makes it drought prone

727
00:52:27.840 --> 00:52:30.840
because it doesn't have the root system
and the volume of soil to draw moisture

728
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:36.079
from. So maybe he'll have an
idea on that. Okay, thank you

729
00:52:36.159 --> 00:52:37.239
very much for your time. I
appreciate it. Yeah, Andy, one

730
00:52:37.280 --> 00:52:39.960
other thing you should be aware of. You got one of the best horticultures

731
00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:45.000
in the state. And David Rodriguez
there at the Bear County Extension Office.

732
00:52:45.000 --> 00:52:50.559
It's on the northwest side of town, kind of where six fourteen and intersect

733
00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:54.679
ten leaves out of town Military Highway
up in there. He's very knowledgeable and

734
00:52:55.239 --> 00:52:59.519
he knows the area very well too, so don't hesitate to ever call on

735
00:52:59.679 --> 00:53:05.119
him as well. What's his name, David Rodriguez. He's the Horticulture Texas

736
00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:08.159
A and m Agrolife Extension. Yeah, good friend and a very knowledgeable guy.

737
00:53:09.400 --> 00:53:13.800
And I've thought about about taking nanny, just cutting a little cutting a

738
00:53:13.840 --> 00:53:16.480
little piece off of it with the
leaves like it is, and I'll probably

739
00:53:16.599 --> 00:53:21.000
do that in the spring then after
it starts turned, because it'll be green

740
00:53:21.079 --> 00:53:23.639
in the first in the spring and
then it'll start well. In addition to

741
00:53:23.719 --> 00:53:27.599
that, take a good photo of
the tree from a distance so he can

742
00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:30.920
see that, and you can just
email it to him too, but tell

743
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:34.360
him I sent you and that he
has to treat you right. Yeah,

744
00:53:34.599 --> 00:53:37.559
definitely, so all right to take
care, all right, thanks, you

745
00:53:37.679 --> 00:53:42.679
bet, you bet. We're going
to head out now to David in northwest

746
00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:46.000
Houston. Hello, David, Lordy
Skip, thank you for taking my call.

747
00:53:47.360 --> 00:53:52.280
I have a question with regards to
some hybrid roses that I want to

748
00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:59.840
plant in the spring, and my
question is focused around the planting hole.

749
00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:07.800
I want to be able to maximize
the health of the roses and so that

750
00:54:07.880 --> 00:54:14.239
they'll reproduce significantly during the spring and
summer months. Okay, can you walk

751
00:54:14.320 --> 00:54:19.599
me through how you would prepare that
planting hole, Yes, to maximize its

752
00:54:19.639 --> 00:54:22.360
help and growth. Yes. I'm
going to back up for two quick comments

753
00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:27.480
before we get to the planning hole. Roses need as much sun as you

754
00:54:27.559 --> 00:54:30.519
can give them, So the area
needs to get at least six hours of

755
00:54:30.559 --> 00:54:34.400
sun and really does better with more
than that for the bloom production to be

756
00:54:34.519 --> 00:54:38.599
good. Secondly, they are not
a swamp dwelling species, so if the

757
00:54:38.760 --> 00:54:42.440
area, if you have a clay
soil, the area is a little low

758
00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:45.559
lying and it tends to be on
the wet side. Getting them up into

759
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:50.639
a bed that's raised to facilitate that
drainage that's critical. So now we can

760
00:54:51.400 --> 00:54:54.440
go to the planning hole. I
would prepare a bed with lots of organic

761
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:59.280
materials. There's a thing called rose
soil sold here in the Houston area that's

762
00:54:59.400 --> 00:55:06.400
designed and approved by the Houston Rose
Society. Originally it was done by Nature's

763
00:55:06.400 --> 00:55:08.800
Way Resources. Now there are some
other sources that carry a roast soil blend

764
00:55:09.239 --> 00:55:14.320
that is an excellent mix if you're
going to use it to amend your current

765
00:55:14.440 --> 00:55:17.400
soil like mixed some in. I
would add more roasts soil even on top

766
00:55:17.440 --> 00:55:21.000
of that mix, so you have
a blend from top to bottom, and

767
00:55:21.119 --> 00:55:24.079
then dig the hole in that to
plant. In other words, don't dig

768
00:55:24.119 --> 00:55:28.960
a hole in clay and then fill
it the whole with rose soil to plant.

769
00:55:29.000 --> 00:55:32.440
The plant have a blend so when
the roots go out, they easily

770
00:55:32.519 --> 00:55:40.159
go out in all directions. Does
any is there any necessity for any kind

771
00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:45.840
of areation media to be part of
that soil that we put down. Well,

772
00:55:45.880 --> 00:55:47.400
No, the rosse oil in and
of itself is going to have the

773
00:55:47.519 --> 00:55:52.800
organic matter to hold the soil open. Now, if you're if you're dealing

774
00:55:52.840 --> 00:56:00.280
with a very heavy clay cocius,
amounts of expanded shale are helpful. Think

775
00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:04.920
of kitty litter, the little gray
kitty litter that's been super fired at a

776
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:08.039
hot temperature and literally expands so when
you look at it under microscope, it

777
00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:12.159
almost looks like those lava rocks you
see in the bottom of a barbecue pit,

778
00:56:12.519 --> 00:56:14.920
you know, with all the holes
and things in them. And that

779
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:16.880
shale has a structure. It's very
hard, it's like a little rock,

780
00:56:17.320 --> 00:56:22.719
and it holds the soil open.
So even after organic matter decomposes the way

781
00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:28.440
the shale is still remaining there and
it's providing you a longer term benefit of

782
00:56:29.199 --> 00:56:32.239
internal drainage, aeration and whatnot.
But it takes about three inches of that

783
00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:37.639
shale over an area mixed in to
be enough quantity to make a big difference

784
00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:40.519
in a clay. You know,
just a little bit here and there doesn't

785
00:56:40.639 --> 00:56:46.199
accomplish a lot. Okay, well, I appreciate that very much and I'll

786
00:56:46.440 --> 00:56:52.000
look forward to that endeavor one springtime
comes. And thanks so much for your

787
00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:54.599
time. Well good call us anytime
we can help with it. Roses or

788
00:56:54.800 --> 00:56:59.960
the queen of the landscape. And
that's a beautiful, beautiful plant chive shows.

789
00:57:00.360 --> 00:57:05.840
Thank you all right, sir,
Thank you appreciate that very very much.

790
00:57:07.960 --> 00:57:10.079
I've talked about ACE Hardware a number
of times in the past, and

791
00:57:10.280 --> 00:57:13.679
usually I'm telling you, hey,
it's the place to go for your lawn

792
00:57:13.760 --> 00:57:16.159
care because it is. It's got
all the fertilizers, I recommend, disease

793
00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:20.639
control products, all the tools for
taking care of your garden and your landscape.

794
00:57:21.159 --> 00:57:24.079
I've been telling you that's great Christmas
lighting. Most of you purchased that

795
00:57:24.199 --> 00:57:28.679
by now, but just know that
they have that there and it's outstanding.

796
00:57:29.199 --> 00:57:34.000
But ACE is a place where you
can do some very important Christmas shopping as

797
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:39.360
well. ACE has all kinds of
things, especially for that let's say the

798
00:57:39.599 --> 00:57:44.159
do it your sulfur on the list. You know what do they need to

799
00:57:44.320 --> 00:57:47.280
do what they enjoy doing out in
the landscape and garden, like a chainsaw,

800
00:57:47.400 --> 00:57:52.599
a blower, a time or a
tremor from still and ego power to

801
00:57:52.840 --> 00:57:57.719
those electronic battery operated. I've got
one ego mower. Those are outstanding.

802
00:57:58.079 --> 00:58:01.039
Maybe a saw from Milwaukee or to
wall Uh, tool sets from Craftsmen.

803
00:58:01.480 --> 00:58:07.199
Lots of gift departments for men and
women, gifts and kids too. By

804
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:09.960
the way, at ACE Hardware stores, there's forty around the area. Go

805
00:58:10.119 --> 00:58:15.639
to Acehardware dot com and when you
get there, look for the store locator

806
00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:17.960
and you can find one of the
forty. Actually, you're going to find

807
00:58:19.000 --> 00:58:22.559
three or four of the forty that
are near you because they're everywhere. It's

808
00:58:22.639 --> 00:58:25.599
time for news with Nikki, and
I'm going to give you a phone number

809
00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:30.880
one more time seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four her too.

810
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:36.920
We'll come to you when we get
back. Welcome back to guard Line.

811
00:58:37.039 --> 00:58:40.199
We are glad you're listening today because
we're talking about gardening. I always

812
00:58:40.280 --> 00:58:45.480
enjoy talking about gardening. I guess
I ended up right in the right business.

813
00:58:45.199 --> 00:58:50.440
It's fun talking about gardeners too.
You know, everybody who is a

814
00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:53.159
gardener is a learner. That's just
the case. At least if you're going

815
00:58:53.199 --> 00:58:57.760
to stick with it in gardening,
you better be a learner because there's always

816
00:58:57.800 --> 00:59:00.320
something new, always things we don't
know, and it's fun. I enjoy

817
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:02.679
I learned from callers, I believe
it or not, I sure do.

818
00:59:04.280 --> 00:59:08.199
The everybody who's been out there and
had experienced gardening has something to offer,

819
00:59:08.480 --> 00:59:14.039
something useful to offer, and it's
it's just fun to get to interact with

820
00:59:14.159 --> 00:59:17.159
folks. I'm going to go straight
out now to Spring Branch and talk to

821
00:59:17.239 --> 00:59:24.519
her to Good morning, Good morning
Rick. My question is about acorns.

822
00:59:27.800 --> 00:59:32.639
Well, the yard is just full
of them. Yes. Do I have

823
00:59:32.840 --> 00:59:37.559
to break them all up? Can
they break down into the soil? They

824
00:59:37.639 --> 00:59:40.079
will break down and be just fine. Some of them are going to try

825
00:59:40.119 --> 00:59:44.039
to sprout, but when you mow
over them, it chops them off and

826
00:59:44.280 --> 00:59:46.960
they're not going to be a problem. You don't have to weed your lawn

827
00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:52.280
out of acorns. Oh well,
good, good there. I don't know

828
00:59:52.920 --> 01:00:00.440
how many millions are out. The
other question is I want a Texas Mountain

829
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:10.280
Laurel, but I have ten trees
along across the front of the front yard.

830
01:00:15.719 --> 01:00:19.119
They need a lot of light,
don't they. They do. They

831
01:00:19.119 --> 01:00:22.079
will tolerate a little shade, but
they won't bloom as much. Okay,

832
01:00:22.280 --> 01:00:27.239
Oh no, I want those blooms. I grew up with San Antonio and

833
01:00:27.519 --> 01:00:34.159
I love them. Oh yeah,
they're all over Santonio. Let's see.

834
01:00:34.599 --> 01:00:38.840
Wow. Okay, I guess I'll
plant them on the east side. Get

835
01:00:38.960 --> 01:00:43.800
more sun there. Yeah, give
them in the most sun you can.

836
01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:46.760
But the most important thing is give
them good drainage. If you have to

837
01:00:46.800 --> 01:00:51.320
build up a raised mound to do
that, whatever it takes. They they're

838
01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:54.599
not a swamp dwelling species, as
you know from San Antonio. They'll grow

839
01:00:54.639 --> 01:01:00.519
out of a limestone outcrop. Cropping
out in the hill country is fine,

840
01:01:00.559 --> 01:01:04.519
but they don't want to grow down
in a creek bottom. So just go

841
01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:07.440
ahead and make sure they have good
drainage and you can have success. They

842
01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:10.039
grow slow, but as you know
from growing up with them, when they

843
01:01:10.159 --> 01:01:16.000
bloom, I mean that's the most
syrupy, grape smelling, greape bubblegum smelling

844
01:01:16.079 --> 01:01:21.159
thing in the world. I love
it. I love it well. I

845
01:01:21.320 --> 01:01:27.119
want to wish you and your family
a merry Christmas and a blessed New Year.

846
01:01:27.360 --> 01:01:29.800
Well like you heard it, and
the same goes to you as well.

847
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:32.320
Thank you. I appreciate your call
very much this morning. Our phone

848
01:01:32.360 --> 01:01:37.079
number is seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

849
01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:42.039
two one two fifty eight seventy four. And I've been telling you all fall

850
01:01:42.199 --> 01:01:44.760
that you need to get out there
and get your fall fertilizing done, and

851
01:01:44.880 --> 01:01:46.599
you need to put down if you're
going to prevent weeds, you need to

852
01:01:46.920 --> 01:01:51.280
put a pre emergent down as soon
as you can because you want to get

853
01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:55.039
ahead of the weed germinating well.
Nelson Plant Food has a product called carbo

854
01:01:55.119 --> 01:02:00.880
Load, and carbo load has both
the fertilizer in a ratio does lined for

855
01:02:00.039 --> 01:02:04.480
this time of the year, we're
not trying to push growth with nitrogen.

856
01:02:04.880 --> 01:02:08.840
We're trying to provide cold heartiness and
really drought resilience too for that matter,

857
01:02:09.280 --> 01:02:14.079
with a potassium and a little bit
of nitrogen, and that's what carbolod is.

858
01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:16.519
It also has a pre emergent in
it. So when you fertilize the

859
01:02:16.599 --> 01:02:21.559
carboload, do it and then turn
on your sprinklers. I know it's already

860
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:25.079
moist out there, but you want
about a half inch of water to move

861
01:02:25.280 --> 01:02:30.079
the fertilizer down into the root zone
and to move the weed prevent down into

862
01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:35.400
the soil's surface. And once that's
done, any weed after that point that

863
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:38.079
tries to germinate is not going to
be able to establish. Now, for

864
01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:43.719
every bag of carboloads sold this fall, Dan Nelson from Nelson Plantfood, they're

865
01:02:43.719 --> 01:02:49.239
going to donate They are donating two
dollars for each bag to Randy Lemon's Memorial

866
01:02:49.280 --> 01:02:52.800
Scholarship at Texas A and M Horticulture
Students, a cause that I know was

867
01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:55.880
dear to Randy's heart, and he
would be so proud to know. I

868
01:02:57.000 --> 01:03:00.599
think that his legacy lives on like
that. But here's an opportun to do

869
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:05.000
something good for your lawn and something
good for future horticulture students, of which

870
01:03:05.079 --> 01:03:09.880
I was one at one point in
time. And so carbolode from Nelson's at

871
01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:14.239
this time of year, two dollars
per back goes to Randy Scholarship. Please

872
01:03:14.280 --> 01:03:17.400
take advantage of that. I'm going
to go out now to Memorial and we're

873
01:03:17.440 --> 01:03:22.519
going to talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon, good morning. Skip listen.

874
01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:29.239
I did a really stupid thing yesterday. I wanted a Christmas cactus really

875
01:03:29.320 --> 01:03:32.880
bad. So I went out and
I found a beautiful one. It just

876
01:03:34.360 --> 01:03:40.320
absolutely green and had these about ten
or twelve scent balloons on it, Okay,

877
01:03:40.599 --> 01:03:44.960
and I bought it, bought it
home, and it does not have

878
01:03:45.199 --> 01:03:52.000
one but not one. They all
fell off. No, there weren't any

879
01:03:52.079 --> 01:03:53.719
when I bought it. Okay,
that's all right, that's all right.

880
01:03:54.280 --> 01:03:59.199
Yeah. So I just don't know
what a much was to do because it's

881
01:03:59.239 --> 01:04:02.360
already. Do I put it back
in the dark or what? No,

882
01:04:02.639 --> 01:04:06.320
No, it's done. What you
need to do is make sure it gets

883
01:04:06.360 --> 01:04:09.880
a lot of light as much as
you can give it. I know,

884
01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:12.559
when you're decorating indoors, we don't
give them a lot of light, but

885
01:04:12.679 --> 01:04:15.239
that that's for that period of time. But for the plant itself, give

886
01:04:15.239 --> 01:04:18.880
it a lot of light. I
put mine in a very bright southern window

887
01:04:19.639 --> 01:04:23.239
and keep them there really during the
year. I have some that I keep

888
01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:28.639
outside too. Once we get past. Once the night times aren't dropping into

889
01:04:28.760 --> 01:04:30.679
the low to mid fifties or a
little above that, you can put your

890
01:04:30.719 --> 01:04:36.320
Christmas cactus outside and just keep it
moist. Despite the name cactus, it

891
01:04:36.440 --> 01:04:41.840
doesn't want to be very dry for
an extended period. A little dry and

892
01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:45.360
out it's okay. But don't think
of it as a cactus. Think of

893
01:04:45.440 --> 01:04:48.480
it as a normal plant that needs
water. And keep it, keep it

894
01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:53.360
moist, and it will do fine. A little dilute fertilizer over time.

895
01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:56.960
And here's what's going to happen.
Then next fall, when you get the

896
01:04:57.039 --> 01:04:59.360
next fall, and this is not
a hard plant to grow, I mean

897
01:04:59.400 --> 01:05:03.599
i' really I neglect mine and they
do fine, But next fall you're going

898
01:05:03.679 --> 01:05:08.280
to cover it up. I tell
people that you know are out working a

899
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:12.360
job that when you go to work
in the morning, when you come home

900
01:05:12.360 --> 01:05:14.360
from work at the end of the
day, you put a box over the

901
01:05:14.400 --> 01:05:16.599
plant to exclude all light. So
that's going to be some time around five

902
01:05:16.760 --> 01:05:19.320
or so, five or six you
put a box over it, and then

903
01:05:19.360 --> 01:05:23.079
when you go to work in the
morning, you take the box off.

904
01:05:23.360 --> 01:05:27.719
And so what you've done is you've
lengthened the length of the night, and

905
01:05:27.840 --> 01:05:30.920
you do that for about three weeks
in the in the fall, and we

906
01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:34.400
get some cooler temperatures where the nights
are dropping down in the upper fifties,

907
01:05:35.119 --> 01:05:39.960
and that thing will start putting on
buds and you'll be right back in business

908
01:05:40.039 --> 01:05:45.719
next year. And do you think
that it may when this year or do

909
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:48.880
you just think it's finished If you
don't see buds. Probably not. You

910
01:05:48.960 --> 01:05:53.960
may get a butt or two,
but typically they start their outsize of bb

911
01:05:54.280 --> 01:05:58.480
and then they fall off. They
just don't make it. But you can,

912
01:05:58.599 --> 01:06:00.000
you can give it a try.
You could try the thing I just

913
01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:03.639
said. However, the fact that
it just finished blooming, I don't know

914
01:06:03.679 --> 01:06:08.280
if you can bring it right back
into a bloom cycle immediately. But try

915
01:06:08.320 --> 01:06:12.519
it and then let me know how
it works. Okay, do the box?

916
01:06:13.519 --> 01:06:15.159
All right? Okay, you take
care. Hey, it's time for

917
01:06:15.239 --> 01:06:18.320
a break. Our number is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

918
01:06:18.360 --> 01:06:21.519
four. Stick around. We're gonna
be talking to Martin spoon Moore and picking

919
01:06:21.599 --> 01:06:29.559
his brain in the eight o'clock hour
about all things trees. Welcome back to

920
01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:33.559
garden Line. We have the sunshining
on a beautiful Sunday today, and I'm

921
01:06:33.599 --> 01:06:36.719
glad you're inside listening to Guardenline,
or maybe you took the radio with you

922
01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:42.679
outside. But however you're listening,
whether it's by pie by not podcast but

923
01:06:42.800 --> 01:06:46.320
live online or by radio, we
want to welcome you here. Our phone

924
01:06:46.400 --> 01:06:49.480
number if you'd like to ask questions
is seven to one three two one two

925
01:06:50.119 --> 01:06:56.159
five eight seven four. And I
tell you I've been talking about Christmas gifting

926
01:06:56.320 --> 01:07:00.599
today and holiday gifting in general.
And if you're looking for or an outstanding

927
01:07:00.679 --> 01:07:05.480
place to pretty much get anything for
anybody, Arborgate Garden Center up in Tomball,

928
01:07:06.719 --> 01:07:12.119
you need to go see their gift
shops. It is. It's unbelievable

929
01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:15.480
the amount of stuff they have.
I'm talking about little simple gifts like maybe

930
01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:16.840
an arbigate mug, which are really
cool, by the way, I got

931
01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:24.719
one, along with some hot chocolate
mex or cider spices for making apple cider.

932
01:07:25.519 --> 01:07:29.840
Maybe a gift for decorating in the
home. Maybe it's a food based

933
01:07:29.880 --> 01:07:33.559
gift, like they have some seasoned
salts of various type. I don't think

934
01:07:33.559 --> 01:07:36.840
of seasoned salt from the store.
Think of something way more cool and special

935
01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:42.639
that is actually gift worthy. A
garden tool, some gloves. They've got

936
01:07:42.719 --> 01:07:45.400
all of that bling for the outside. Some of the glasswork they have there

937
01:07:45.639 --> 01:07:50.719
is just unbelievable. Anybody on your
any gardener in your list, will love

938
01:07:51.119 --> 01:07:55.880
this kind of glass work for decorating
outside. And of course when you're at

939
01:07:55.960 --> 01:08:00.679
arburgate everything I would say about cool
season plants, vegetable plants, flower plants,

940
01:08:01.280 --> 01:08:05.159
getting a good quality mix and fertilizer
for planting your plants, remember brown

941
01:08:05.199 --> 01:08:09.760
Stuff first. That would include a
food for anything with roots, their four

942
01:08:09.800 --> 01:08:15.360
four to three organic food fertilizer.
It would include their Soil Complete, which

943
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:19.119
is a quality soil mix that also
has expanded shale in it, as does

944
01:08:19.199 --> 01:08:24.600
their Organic Compost Complete, a blend
of two different composts with expanded shale.

945
01:08:24.960 --> 01:08:28.079
When you start treating your yard like
that, when you start taking care of

946
01:08:28.159 --> 01:08:31.079
your soil like that those products from
Arbigate, you're going to end up with

947
01:08:31.359 --> 01:08:35.399
plants that just hit the ground running. And that's why I always say brown

948
01:08:35.479 --> 01:08:40.840
Stuff for green stuff, because when
you get that right, it is easy

949
01:08:41.199 --> 01:08:44.520
to have a green thumb. I'm
going to head out now and we're going

950
01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:48.520
to talk to k in Paarland.
Hello, okay, hi, I'm back

951
01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:54.000
again. I have another question.
I called you yesterday and spoke with you

952
01:08:54.079 --> 01:08:57.920
about my newly planted tree. We
allow repig callers. Welcome to the show.

953
01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:04.159
Thank you. A little later,
you were speaking with a gentleman about

954
01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:08.479
his tree. He had a tree
he had planted, I think, and

955
01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:12.039
it wasn't growing. He said,
it wasn't really doing anything. And you

956
01:09:13.399 --> 01:09:17.119
asked him if he had loosened the
dirt around the dirt ball, the root

957
01:09:17.199 --> 01:09:21.039
ball, and he hadn't, and
you suggested that he augur it. I

958
01:09:21.199 --> 01:09:26.119
was. I watched the men planting
my trees, and I didn't notice that

959
01:09:26.239 --> 01:09:30.640
they loosened the dirt around in the
dirt ball, So I was wondering if

960
01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:34.960
maybe I should augur around my trees
too. Well, I just don't have

961
01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:40.239
enough information to be able to really
tell you on that based on your specific

962
01:09:40.359 --> 01:09:45.800
situation. If trees are grown right, they tend to not have the degree

963
01:09:45.880 --> 01:09:49.399
of circling root problems that a tree
that's not grown right as they well they

964
01:09:49.399 --> 01:09:54.199
were from Verdant. Okay, Well
then that was grown right, so don't

965
01:09:54.319 --> 01:09:57.840
right. Yeah, Well, if
they Verdant planeted it, it's fine.

966
01:09:58.000 --> 01:10:00.760
I wouldn't worry about it. Again, I I don't have X ray vision

967
01:10:00.840 --> 01:10:03.680
to go look in the soil and
see what's going on down there. But

968
01:10:04.159 --> 01:10:08.079
just telling me, Harden planted,
I wouldn't worry about that tree is gonna

969
01:10:08.079 --> 01:10:11.680
be fine. Okay. Well,
you know, took the recommendation from you

970
01:10:11.800 --> 01:10:16.319
and mister Williamson yes yesterday on these
medina has to grow or ocean harvest or

971
01:10:16.479 --> 01:10:20.600
some of those things you know,
yes, to do periodically. There's a

972
01:10:20.680 --> 01:10:24.159
lot of things. There's a lot
of things k that we can do for

973
01:10:24.279 --> 01:10:27.960
trees, and there are things that
aren't essential, but they're hopeful, okay.

974
01:10:28.079 --> 01:10:31.720
And so everybody that plants or you
know, goes about that may do

975
01:10:31.800 --> 01:10:35.319
it a little differently. It doesn't
mean one's wrong. It just means there's

976
01:10:35.439 --> 01:10:40.199
there's different systems. But the goal
is to get that tree in soil and

977
01:10:40.279 --> 01:10:44.720
get those roots expanding outward as soon
as possible and by plenting. And when

978
01:10:44.760 --> 01:10:47.039
you did, you did a good
thing. Okay, very good. Well,

979
01:10:47.079 --> 01:10:50.560
thank you so much. Merry Christmas
to you, and thank you.

980
01:10:50.680 --> 01:10:55.560
I appreciate your call very much,
that is for sure. Let's see,

981
01:10:55.560 --> 01:10:58.640
we're going to go out to Montgomery
and talk to Matt. Hello, Matt,

982
01:11:00.479 --> 01:11:06.079
morning, you had a quick question
about a brown spot put down the

983
01:11:06.199 --> 01:11:12.760
fungus side, and I was curious
what you would recommend to kind of revive

984
01:11:12.880 --> 01:11:15.399
the areas that have that have died
off. Okay, well, when when

985
01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:19.399
the brown patch occurs, it rots
the leaves off the runner, and the

986
01:11:19.520 --> 01:11:24.920
runner remains alive and somewhat green.
Uh, And there's nothing you can do

987
01:11:25.319 --> 01:11:30.119
until the weather promotes growth of the
grass. So if we have some warm

988
01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:32.720
winter weather, it may begin to
regreen a little bit, but in general

989
01:11:32.800 --> 01:11:35.960
it's going to I say, we'll
just live with the circles until spring,

990
01:11:36.760 --> 01:11:44.319
because additional treatments would only be to
prevent additional brown circles. So when we

991
01:11:44.439 --> 01:11:48.399
go into the spring season, we
often can have another brown patch period where

992
01:11:48.439 --> 01:11:53.399
we tend to get some new circles, and so you might want to retreat

993
01:11:54.199 --> 01:11:59.000
after we get oh I don't know, probably into about late January, early

994
01:11:59.079 --> 01:12:03.560
February, something like that, if
your lawn is prone to the brown patch

995
01:12:03.640 --> 01:12:08.279
circles. In general, I don't
tell everybody. Just everybody spray every year

996
01:12:08.359 --> 01:12:13.000
because most lawns don't have that problem. Good well, thank you very much,

997
01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:15.279
you bet enjoy that, and good
luck with your lawn. I'm sure

998
01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:18.880
it'll come out fine, that's good. All right. Well, let's see,

999
01:12:18.880 --> 01:12:21.760
I'm going to go take another call. Here. We've got Flow in

1000
01:12:21.960 --> 01:12:26.520
northwest Houston. Hello, Flow,
how are you, sir? I'm well,

1001
01:12:26.640 --> 01:12:30.119
thanks, nice to listen to you
this morning. Well and good to

1002
01:12:30.159 --> 01:12:33.319
have you call. I was telling
him I've got a crape myrtle in the

1003
01:12:33.439 --> 01:12:36.800
back. I had two of them
and actually went ahead and had one of

1004
01:12:36.840 --> 01:12:41.119
them cut down. Of course,
you know, it's got about four major

1005
01:12:41.439 --> 01:12:45.640
shoots coming off that one route.
Okay, to be, it's about thirty

1006
01:12:45.720 --> 01:12:50.840
feet are more tall right now,
and have had some problems with of course,

1007
01:12:50.840 --> 01:12:55.560
I had problems with the other one's
disease. But anyway, I wanted

1008
01:12:55.600 --> 01:12:59.560
to come down and cut. It's
never been cut, and it's got a

1009
01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:01.119
lot of branches, of course,
all up at the top. But I

1010
01:13:01.239 --> 01:13:05.079
wanted to come down as much as
maybe eight or ten feet off the top

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all the way across. Can I
do that? Well? You can.

1012
01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:14.479
Uh, it's gonna You're gonna end
up with a tree that has kind of

1013
01:13:14.520 --> 01:13:17.960
a not the beautiful crape myrtle structure
that a crepe properly prune could have.

1014
01:13:18.560 --> 01:13:20.880
Well, it's just kind of it's
kind of a whisky at the top.

1015
01:13:20.920 --> 01:13:24.960
You know, the branches just go
like they're small and they go in there

1016
01:13:25.000 --> 01:13:29.359
a different direction. Well, if
you're gonna if you're gonna lower the height,

1017
01:13:29.920 --> 01:13:32.920
I would make my cuts where one
branch joins another. In other words,

1018
01:13:33.039 --> 01:13:39.239
don't just at stumpy back at a
y at a why exactly, And

1019
01:13:39.640 --> 01:13:44.840
that way the growth is redirected.
The amount of re sprouting isn't as much

1020
01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:46.520
as if you just cut it off
like the top of a broom handle,

1021
01:13:46.840 --> 01:13:50.079
and then you just get this crow's
foot of growth that's going all up and

1022
01:13:50.439 --> 01:13:54.960
it's a it's a wind that doesn't
heal well. And uh so if you

1023
01:13:55.079 --> 01:14:00.720
can do we call that what I'm
recommending a thinning cut, because is I

1024
01:14:00.920 --> 01:14:04.199
just used the highway pattern as a
way to explain it to people. It's

1025
01:14:04.279 --> 01:14:08.960
like you got a highway with an
exit ramp. You you block the highway

1026
01:14:09.079 --> 01:14:13.119
just past the exit ramp, and
it redirects traffic down the exit ramp.

1027
01:14:13.199 --> 01:14:16.159
Correct. That's kind of how we're
pruning when we're doing any kind of pruning

1028
01:14:16.239 --> 01:14:19.680
really, but especially with the crape
myrtle. But when you got one that's

1029
01:14:19.720 --> 01:14:23.760
real big and you try to make
it much much smaller. You're still gonna

1030
01:14:23.800 --> 01:14:26.199
have some pretty big cuts, and
you're gonna have to trim off a lot

1031
01:14:26.239 --> 01:14:29.239
of regrowth to trust to be sprout. Okay, So I could say,

1032
01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:32.000
when when the guy comes, I'm
just going to have him, you know,

1033
01:14:32.159 --> 01:14:36.159
just work across the top and just
to cut because Scott, I'm looking

1034
01:14:36.159 --> 01:14:40.279
at a lot of hide, so
I'm saying it, and a lot of

1035
01:14:40.359 --> 01:14:44.000
branches, That's what I'm saying,
going in every direction from off those it's

1036
01:14:44.000 --> 01:14:46.359
got it's got maybe three or four, it's got maybe four come off that

1037
01:14:46.479 --> 01:14:50.239
route, that main route course.
It's real old. Well, I got

1038
01:14:50.319 --> 01:14:55.199
the magical music playing that says I'm
about to have to leave this this segment.

1039
01:14:55.279 --> 01:14:57.520
Okay, it's not gonna hurt the
tree. In other words, it

1040
01:14:57.560 --> 01:15:00.920
won't hurt the tree. No,
it's just my I do a lot of

1041
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:03.399
things for to keep small trees or
to keep shrubs of crape. Martle,

1042
01:15:03.439 --> 01:15:05.279
I do that all the time.
I go, hey, Phlo, thank

1043
01:15:05.319 --> 01:15:08.960
you, thank you very much for
the call. I appreciate that we're gonna

1044
01:15:08.960 --> 01:15:12.119
have to run. Unfortunately. Our
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1045
01:15:12.199 --> 01:15:15.119
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I come back. I'll be talking to

1046
01:15:15.199 --> 01:15:19.359
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1047
01:15:19.920 --> 01:15:26.039
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1048
01:15:26.199 --> 01:15:29.800
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1049
01:15:29.840 --> 01:15:31.520
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1050
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