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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r H Garden Line. With skip

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rictor it's sho crazy gas trim just
watch him as we may suppotasys gassing a

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side gas sun Bemon of gaz Well, welcome to garden Line. We got

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a good Saturday today. How many
of you appreciate the fact that it can

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rain around here, but we're pretty
much done with much it'd have been raining

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around here. I think we got
a lot of cabin fever going on Houston

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style. You know, we don't
get so cold that we're typically hiding inside

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for days while the snow drifts pile
up, but we can sure get cabin

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fever from the rainfall periods we have
around here. Well, guess what today

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we got some Chamber of Commerce weather
coming in. We Saturday and Sunday is

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going to be great, so it's
a good time to get out there.

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Our garden centers are getting in some
good stock of some of the things we

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need, certainly the supplies you need
to go ahead and stock up on things,

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you know, garden centers, our
feed stores. We have a lot

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of great suppliers that provide the products
we talk about here on garden Line,

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and it would be a good time
to purchase your fertilizers a little literally for

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standard fertilization, but it is still
worth picking some up having it on hand

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that way you got it. Who
knows you may be out one day and

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have some extra time and thinking,
let me just knock that out and you

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don't have to go run down and
buy some. You already got it on

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hand, so you know what you're
gonna want to get. If you got

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any questions about things like that,
you can give us a call. Our

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

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. That makes it really easy to

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get a hold of us, and
we can talk about all kinds of things.

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I want to spend a little bit
of time. In fact, I

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suspect we may spend a lot of
time based on what you were interested in

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talking about, but spend a little
bit of time talking about dealing with that

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extra rain that we got. What
do we do? You know you walk

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out in the yard, I know
when it just finished raining. It's not

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unusual at all to see puddles of
water. But a day after a rain,

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hey, it's about time for that
to go away. By the time

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you go past a day. We
call that poor drainage, or at least

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I would that may Sometimes you can
have a water standing for two or three

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days and that that's just too soggy
wet. You know. Ideal drainage it

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ought to move out of there within
eight hours and you're done. But we

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don't always have that. We got
some heavy clay soils here that hold water

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very very well. So if you're
a farmer rancher wanting to put in a

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farm pond, that's a good thing. If you are a gardener trying to

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you know, not have a swamp
in the back, it's not a good

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thing. Most plants cannot tolerate what
we call wet feet, meaning soggy wet

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roots. And why is that plants
like water? Well, the reason is

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plant roots need oxygen. A few
plants have worked out ways to deal with

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oversaturated soil, but in general,
when you submerge roots for an extended period

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of time, the plant's going to
go downhill. I don't care if it

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is a houseplant that you're overwatering or
if it is a landscape plant, and

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so what we need to do is
we need to get that water away.

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It's good to get to wet that
whole soil volume, and then it's good

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to not have rain or irrigation for
a while and allow that to dry out.

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And if that's not happening at your
house, you need to fix it

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now. Put a post on Facebook
that goes into some of the information on

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what are your options. I'll talk
about a little bit of that today.

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I just want to remind you again
our phone number if you'd like to give

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us a call seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. So

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when the rain ends, which it
has now leave for most of the area

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last time I checked. If you
see this water standing, uh, it's

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time to step in. And you've
got a few options. So first of

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all, where did that water come
from? Can it be rerouted? Maybe

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it's coming out of the down spouts
from your your gutters and they're dumping all

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the water that's going to a certain
spot where you have the problem. There

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are things you can put on the
bottom of the down spout to direct that

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water somewhere else. That'd be an
option. Sometimes a grade change is all

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that's needed. You know, you
have water that is sheeting across the lawn

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and it's going to one area and
just a slight swale could take it to

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a different spot. That's an option
to Secondly, maybe if it's not too

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bad of a situation, putting raised
beds in would get those roots above the

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water table. So you know,
I mean, we're not talking about six

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inches deep a water standing. We're
just talking about it's just staying there and

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then it goes away. And remember
that when you don't see water on the

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surface, still underground it is wet. Have you ever gone to the beach

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and you're walking on the sand,
you get down close to the water,

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you dig down, and all of
a sudden, water starts coming up in

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the hole. Yeah, it's called
a water table, and you have that

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in your yard. And so maybe
you don't see the problem on top is

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a puddle, but it's there and
the soil. In those kind of situations,

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coming up with a raised bed would
work just fine. Get them up

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high enough. Remember, all race
beds are going to sink down in time,

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especially if they have a lot of
organic matter in them, which our

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bed mixes do. So get it
up a little extra high, knowing that

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it's going to sink down. Number
three a third option, if it's really

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minor, you can do a lot
for internal drainage by mixing in some compost

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and some expanded shale, both of
those together into the soil that you have,

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so that the openings within that soil
are larger and water can drain out

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easier and air can move in better. And so that would be for very

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minor situations. But just just improving
the structure of the soil, that's what

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we're talking about. You can't change
if it's a clay, the fact that

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it's a clay, but you can
make it a better clay by improving the

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structure of it. Number four,
there's another one. You can just what

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do they say, when life gives
us lemons, make lemonade. You can

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just plant things that want to be
there. We do have plants that tolerate

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soggy soil and the problem spots that
you have, why not put something like

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a button bush. It's a native
shrub that can live in that. Louisiana

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iris love a bright, bright,
shady area, maybe a little bit of

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sun dappled through the day and they
can survive in that thing where water tends

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to come and go. Cannes,
Yeah, cannes can actually live in water.

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They do well. The Texas star
hibiscus several of our hibiscus, but

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native along the Gulf coast called Texas
star. It's not native to Texas,

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but it's native along the Gulf coast
that will put up with very wet areas.

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Elephant ears or many others. Lots
of different options there, but essentially,

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when life gives you lemons, make
lemonade, and a good a lot

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of good native plants to choose from
along those lines as well. And then

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finally you can just hire somebody,
a professional to install some subsurface drainage and

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take that water away. And I'm
going to talk about that a little bit

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more when we come back. Right
now, we're going to take a break.

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

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Welcome back to Garden Line. We're
glad you're listening this morning on what

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is going to be a good Saturday. Listen, if you've been cooped up

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this week because of the rain and
the rain and the rain, I got

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good news for you today is going
to be a good day. It is,

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and tomorrow's gonna be a good day. And we got some good days

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in a row here, which is
kind of nice that temperatures mild. We're

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not worried about, you know,
frosts and freezes. We kind of push

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that rain out of the way,
get the sun out there, let it

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warm up things, and just continue
heading us toward the spring season that we're

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all looking for. Remember that it's
not spring now, but it is time

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to be ready for spring now.
And I said this, I think it

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was last week. I used to
know a gardener's ninety two years old.

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His name is Alden Colston, and
he made a statement real sm but it's

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always stuck with me. He said, you can always add water, but

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you can't take it away. And
that is true. That's why we don't

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overwater. You actually can take it
away, but it takes a little bit

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more of a task to do that. And I was going through a moment

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ago some of the tips for when
you walk out and you see puddles that

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are been there more than a day
after it rained, that is a significant

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enough drainage problem that you need to
do something about it. And went through

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a number of things a moment ago
that you could do just to kind of

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recap quick for those of you who
jumped in. If those down spouts are

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dumping water in an area, or
where is that water coming from, in

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other words, how do you change
that. You can reroute the down spout

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spill out point to somewhere else.
You can use slight grain changes to change

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water that is heading across the yard
into a low spot. Maybe it just

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depends on the layout of the land. You can do raised beds that help

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with minor drainage problems. You can
add compost an expanded shale to improve the

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internal drainage of the soil. If
the you know, if you have six

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inches of standing water, that's not
going to fix it, but for minor

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problems of soggy soil, that can
fix it, do a lot of good

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for it. Next, you can
do plants that like it there. They

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actually they're native to you know,
a bog or you know the side of

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a pond or a creek or whatever
where the water table is up there higher

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and they do well with that.
And then finally doing subsurface drainage. Now,

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subsurface drainage relies primarily on the fact
that water runs downhill. That was

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a revelation, wasn't it. Well, Because it runs downhill. All you

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need to do is find a place
for the water can get into a drain,

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find that low spot. There's different
things that professionals can do to put

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a screen over it, and most
doesn't get in as bad. You know,

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you can get water down in there
and then direct it to wherever is

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lower for the water to run off
to or run out of, whether it's

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out at the curb or wherever you
go with it. And you need a

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professional to do this because we're talking
about very slight drops in elevation that you

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just can't see with your eye.
But as you go over a distance,

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you want that pipe to be gradually
sloping down to get that water off the

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site and out to a lower area. In other words, it's like a

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bathtub drain. It's taking the water
from the tub and it's taking it somewhere

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else. And that's real simple.
Sometimes it happens a lot in this area

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because you know, we don't have
a lot of change in elevation here.

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It's not like we live in the
hill country of Central Texas, and so

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you may have an area that doesn't
drain well and there's really no place to

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take it that's lower or significantly enough
lower to do the job. A professional

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can come in then put a drainage
box underground and actually have a pump that

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takes the water that spills into that
and sends it off somewhere else. Even

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if that wolf of course, would
be uphill. You can do it that

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way. But again, good professional
help is needed on that because you need

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them to work well, and a
lot of the do it yourself kinds of

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situations just aren't going to cut it
well. A company that does that is

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Peerscapes. You've heard me talk about
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anything you need done, from lighting
to hardescapes to whatever. But right now,

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topic of the day is drainage,
and you can have them come out,

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get them scheduled, have them come
out, take a look look at

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the situation, you know, do
the little site lines to see how far

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does it drop from here to there, and make the decisions on how to

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fix that problem. That's what they
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one three seven oh fifty sixty two
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Don't mess around, get it.
Get the call in, you know,

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so you can get them scheduled to
come out. Do you need an

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irrigation tune up? Do you need
any other kind of work done? Let's

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get it scheduled now so that you
can get in line to get that work

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done on your property as soon as
you can. And they really know what

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they're doing, Jason and the whole
whole team there, they will do it

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for you. Don't wait until you
run into another rainy spell later and we're

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right back in this situation. Your
plants aren't thriving because of it, go

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ahead and get it fixed. That
is the topic of the day. Rain,

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rain, rain, What do we
do? What do we do about

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all this rain? When plants sit
in anaerobic conditions, meaning no oxygen to

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the roots because they're underwater. We
couldn't breathe underwater, right, neither can

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they, And so when that happens, roots start to shut down and you

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can actually have a plant wilt in
standing water, and that wird you think

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of wilting is the roots are dry. Well, if the roots are shut

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down, it can't take up what
it needs, and you can have wilting

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too. You also have root diseases
that move in. There are some diseases.

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This is kind of interesting. I
guess if I was a plant pathologist,

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I would say it's really cool.
I don't find it cool, I

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just find it interesting. But there
are plant diseases that the spores instead of

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floating through the air, they swim
through the water and soil profile. So

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think of tadpoles, you know,
yell a little tadpole with a tail on

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it. They have spores that actually
do that. If I top there is

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an example of one of those.
We call them water moles, and it'll

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cause major root rots on a number
of different types of plants. And and

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so whether whatever kind of rot it
is, soggy conditions open the door of

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that. And so you may find
that you're losing a plant because you have

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a top there, or rhizactonia or
some other root rot. But really you're

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losing the plant because the soil state's
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that's that's another another reason that we
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have flower beds, if you want
to have vegetable gardens, raised boxes or

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that's the only way to go.
I mean, they absolutely makes it so

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simple and you don't have to worry
about drainage. I mean, if you

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get a good sized rais box,
your roots are going to be just fine.

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It's going to do really well.
Hey, our phone number if you'd

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like to give us a call talk
about something of interest to you is seven

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seventy four. Seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. It
is still prime time to be planting trees

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and shrubs, to be planting perennials, whether it's flowering perennials, ornamental grasses,

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ground covers. This is a prime
time to do it, and we're

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doing it now because summer is coming
and we want to give those plants the

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most many as many weeks as possible
prior to hot weather to get root systems

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established. That little thing you put
in the ground that's a very confined root

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system, you're not going to do
very very well in terms of resilience until

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it gets roots established, so get
them planted. Now. It's a good

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time to plant roses and a good
time in the vegetable garden to plant.

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We're starting to hit the potato season
here real quick. In fact, we

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can be doing it right now.
Plants for all seasons. By the way,

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they've got a great selection. I
was noticing there, David Austin roses,

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really good selection of those, and
it's time to plant those. By

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the way, in this time of
the year, you can plant roses bear

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root, or you can plant them
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them as container rised. With the
difference, well, bear root is bare

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root, container grown was grown in
that container. Containerized means you take a

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bear root rose, you put in
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and that way it has some resilience. If you don't get it planted

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right away, you're okay, it's
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when you do plant it, it
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go to like I could, plants
for all seasons. For example, if

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you buy them in the bare root
stage, you save about ten bucks over

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waiting until they pot them up for
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unless you just need to you know, have them hang on for a few

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weeks before you're going to be able
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good time for that. They also
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noticed they had the kennebec i like
the red, white and gold, and

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that would be the red lesoda,
the kennebecs of white potato, and the

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Yukon gold is that buttery looking yellowish
gold potato. That's really cool. You

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want to make your potato cuts on
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little buds from the potato tuber on
each cut, and then set them with

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the cut faces up so the air
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dry out, kind of scab over
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and they should be good to go
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wet to get out there. But
you don't want to set potatoes in a

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swamp, they will rot. But
what you can do is you can plant

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them a little like a four inch
pot and get them started growing, so

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you're getting the roots going, getting
them moving while you get your potato beds

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ready to put them out there.
Potatoes are growing containers too, by the

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way, if you do it right. But anyway, all that's the Plants

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for All Seasons. Hey, if
you want to give them a call,

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it's two eight one, three,
seven six, sixteen forty six or the

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website Plants for All Seasons dot com. Easy to find. They're on two

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forty nine heading north toward Tomboal.
You just exited Luetta Road crossover Luetta and

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they're right there on the side of
two forty nine. Real easy to find

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them. We are going to be
talking about a lot of different things today.

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I want to spend a little bit
of time on fruit trees here in

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a bet, not right this moment, but I suspect we're going to talk

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a little bit about wetspots and drainage
and what can you do and things like

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that. When you hear Garden Line
every show, I think I talk about

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what is the most important thing if
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And the answer is the soil,
brown stuff before grain stuff. Just

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remember it that way. Brown stuff
is the soil and the nutrients and drainage.

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Green stuff, of course, is
all the fun stuff you go buy

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at the garden center. That's the
pretty things with the flowers on top and

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so on. But brown stuff first
so fix your drainage problems before you put

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in a new planting. Too.
If you want to put in a new

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garden, make sure that you design
it in a way where you're not going

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to have to deal with soggy,
wet soil conditions. And you can do

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that. It's not that difficult to
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really with that. Uh. Water
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know, when it's there's too much
water is a bad thing. When I

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was living in the Houston area,
I've been through two serious floods where we

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lost our office completely. We were
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office and we went completely underwater and
it was like knee deep in the building.

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Uh, and had to rebuild.
And then here comes Harvey and it

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was all the way to the roof. And so I understand what it means

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to have too much water and how
around here sometimes when it rains at pours

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Nikki, that's what the little Martin
Morton salt girl said. That's what I

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said on there right when its carrying
an umbrella spilling salt out in Chicago.

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Really, I believe that's where the
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So anyway, I'm gonna turn over
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If you would like to give me
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Josh so we can talk. Seven
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seventy four, seven to one three
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We'll be back in just a moment
with your calls. We're also going to

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talk a little bit about fruit trees
and how to have success with fruit trees

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here in the Greater Houston area.
Welcome back to garden Line. We are

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glad you're listening today, looking forward
to talking to you about the things that

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interest you. It is. We
are on the doorstep of spring. In

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fact, I would say that in
some ways it's already begun. Our milder

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weather is starting to creep in.
We're going to see more and more.

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Now hear this. Clearly, I'm
not saying we're not gonna have another frost

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or freeze, of course not.
We are before well before the last average

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frost or freeze date, so there
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Doesn't mean it'll happen. Every year
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that it's time to be getting ready. Right now is a good time to

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be growing transplants. Are you interested
in growing some of your own transplants?

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Have you ever started your own peppers
or tomatoes or eggplant before? Those take

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about six to eight weeks, depending
on growing conditions to get them ready to

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go outside. You start them now
and they'll be ready to go definitely by

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the time the last frost or freeze
has passed. It's kind of fun to

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do too, by the way,
I don't know if you've ever done that

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before, but I really love growing
owne transplants. I've got to set up

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in the house right now where I'm
growing some things, and we've got peppers,

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we've got eggplant. I do have
some cool seasons that I'm still going

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to be putting out. There are
some of the cruciferous vegetables. Those are

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the ones that are just packed with
all kinds of phyto nutrients that really help

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our health, from fighting cancer to
other kinds of things heart disease and other

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issues that result from our poor food
choices in many cases. But chryciferous vegetables

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would include broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, col robbie. There's a one that's

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not new to me, yet it
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me. But it's called chi jimasi
c chi j i m s ai something

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like that, and that's what one
seed company calls it. It's a cross

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between two different cruciferous vegetables, and
it's a leafy green. A lot of

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those can have a little bit of
a mustardy taste, and mustard can be

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a pretty pungent flavor, and a
lot of people aren't into that, but

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chi jimasai is very very low in
that pungency. It tastes really good.

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It's a super dark blue or dark
green leaf, I mean, just as

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dark as you can imagine of green, and very healthy. Grows fast,

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easy, easy to grow. Now
I've got some seedlings of that started.

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We've got several other things, got
a little bit of lettuce started. By

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the way, when you plant lettuce
plant, think about this. How many

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heads of lettuce or how many romain
heads or whatever leaf lettuce you're buying,

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How much do you eat in a
week? Not a lot, Even if

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you have salads every day, there's
not a ton of lettuce there. So

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when you plant, don't plant a
fifty foot row of lettuce it's going to

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be ready to eat and you're not
gonna be able to eat at all.

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Plant in small amounts, you do, think about it, about a week's

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worth of lettuce plants, plant them, and then a week or two later

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plant some more, and a week
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that way is you go through.
You'll always have fresh lettuce coming on.

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There's two ways to go about it. One is to let it reach its

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essentially full size and then harvest the
whole plant. Another way is just to

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mow the leaves off. Take some
scissors or whatever you want, and just

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cut the tops off, and the
bases will keep growing. When you cut

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all the top leaves off, the
center we'll just keep pushing up new leaves,

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and it's just like mowing the lawn. You mow it and it grows

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back. You mow it and it
grows back, and you can do your

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vegetables that way too. Now's a
good time to plant things like carrots,

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for example, and radishes. Some
of the root crops we're getting really close

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to time to plant beats. I
might put some out a little bit early,

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but if you're ready to cover them
up when we have a good hard

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freeze. If another one shows up, then you're good to go. But

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starting seeds is easy. You need
a good quality mix. And by the

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way, the folks that landscapers Pride, they have a number of different mixes

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that they have. The website,
by the way is Landscaperspride dot com.

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But they have a rosemix, They've
got the black velvet molts that we talk

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about here on garden Line, and
then a forty pound bag of a potting

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soil. The potting soil is made
with age, pine bark and sand and

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blended organics. You can use it
as it is. I would use it

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as a seed starting mix. The
potting saw is a great one for starting

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new tomato seedlings as well, very
economical. Lots of different places you can

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find it. Go to Landscaperspride dot
com find out about their twenty seven different

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bag products that they have, and
hey, get started this season for too

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long. We're going to talk about
if you want to grow up swash or

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a cucumber transplant. Those are coming
a little bit later, but you're going

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to need some of that on hand. We're going to head out now to

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Kingwood and talk to Kathy. Hello, Kathy, all right, don't know

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do. I didn't get a hold
of Kathy there, so well let's try

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that one more time. Matthew Kingwood, Welcome to garden Line. Thanks,

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thank you so much. I love
your show. Thank you. I've got

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acres of not literally acres, but
it feels like acres of plants that froze

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that are just mush wandering jews and
hibiscus and just aga panthers and everything that

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just looks horrible. It's not dry
frozen stuff, it's wet frozen stuff.

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So I'm wondering if I should clean
that out. Well, you have two

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options. One is just to learn
to tolerate the ugly for now. Should

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we have another freeze, then that
mush on top that's going to dry out

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would be a protection for the crown
of the point below. If you can't

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take the look and caun't adjust to
the look, then you can clean it

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out, but be ready to throw
a little bit of multuor compost over those

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crowns as a protection for them,
and the new growth can come back up

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through that. But I you know, ideal would be, hey, just

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wait and when it was fine,
yeah good. I was worried about some

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kind of bacteria setting in or fungus
because of it. So well looking,

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yeah, we can have those kinds
of things, but in general that frozen

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back, the plants are going to
be just fine. Sometimes. I know,

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with things like palm trees, they've
got that bud at the top of

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the tree that that's where everything comes
from, and we got to protect it.

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And so because water can catch inside
that top of the pecan, a

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pecan palm trunk, well we'll toss
a little bit of a copper top funderside

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or something up there just to protect
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describing, I wouldn't worry about it. Great, all right, I appreciate

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you. All right, Kathy,
thanks for the call. I have fun

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out there in Kingwood. It's gonna
be two good days. I'm ready there

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you go, I'm ready to Hey, we're gonna take a little break here.

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It's time. We're gonna be back
in just a moment. If you'd

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like to give us a call.
Seven to one three two one two five

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

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back to garden Lione. We're glad
you're listening and looking forward to visiting with

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you. What do you want to
talk about today? Well, here's how

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you get a chance to do that. Dolls seven two one two five eight

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seven four. I'm going to go
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to Mike. Hello, Mike,
Hey, how you don't skip? I'm

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good, that's up. I'm looking
to do some pruning for the blueberries I

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have and some stone fruit. But
I was planning on using the cuttings off

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the blueberries to do starts. And
this was curious. What type of soil

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and horn use homer and growth that
powder to use to start the cuttings and

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stuff like that. You should You
should probably go online and look a little

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bit. With blueberries, we typically
do some little hardwood cuttings. This time

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of the hardwood means it's the tissues
that came through the winter. They're already

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hardened off there they're sort of woody. If you will, you can also

407
00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.720
do semi hardwood on a lot of
plants where it's in between that's succulent and

408
00:29:52.759 --> 00:29:56.200
where it is now. You do
want to use a hormone, get a

409
00:29:56.240 --> 00:30:02.000
good quality hormone to dip the cuttings
in. Put them in something that is

410
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:07.079
very well drained. It could be
like fifty percent pearl light fifty percent peet.

411
00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:11.160
That would be an example of a
good mix. You just you want

412
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:17.359
it to stay very well drained,
not underwater. I will push a little

413
00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:22.160
hole with a pencil in that mix, put the cutting that's been dipped in

414
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.640
hormone in, and then push the
soil gently up against it. The reason

415
00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:29.720
is if you put the hormone on
it and then push the cutting in,

416
00:30:29.799 --> 00:30:33.279
it's like the soil is wiping the
hormone off the surface of the cutting.

417
00:30:33.359 --> 00:30:36.240
You see what I'm saying. So
make a little hole to set it in,

418
00:30:36.279 --> 00:30:40.079
just a little thin hole, and
keep it moist, have a cover

419
00:30:40.200 --> 00:30:44.119
over it. Get it in good
sunlight. I mean good light, but

420
00:30:44.279 --> 00:30:48.519
not direct sunlight. And so as
the new leaves begin to come out,

421
00:30:48.640 --> 00:30:52.200
they have plenty of light because that's
important to make the carbs they need to

422
00:30:52.200 --> 00:30:56.240
make the roots. Yeah, tell
me in a greenhouse. But okay,

423
00:30:56.319 --> 00:30:59.319
what type of hormones of it?
Because I was told that some hormones aren't

424
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:04.599
good for fruit. That you eat
hormone powders or is that I think that's

425
00:31:04.599 --> 00:31:10.680
a mix. I don't know that
that what you were told kind of sounds

426
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:15.480
like a compilation of different I just
say no, don't worry about that.

427
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:19.799
The rooting of hormone is typically a
powder, but can also be a liquid.

428
00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:25.720
Our garden centers carry them. They're
not hard to find. You just

429
00:31:25.759 --> 00:31:27.279
want to get a fresh one.
You to keep it in the refrigerator and

430
00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:32.000
a seal jar, and when you
use it, tap a little bit out

431
00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:36.160
of the jar and use that for
what you're rolling the cutting in or dipping

432
00:31:36.240 --> 00:31:38.839
the cutting in, and don't put
it back in the jar and contaminate the

433
00:31:38.880 --> 00:31:41.880
jar. Don't stick your cutting done
in the jar and contaminate the jar.

434
00:31:42.839 --> 00:31:48.559
How about the spray peat moss or
I'm saying that right, let's get stagna

435
00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:53.839
mos. Yeah, it's kind of
stringy. So like when you taking a

436
00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:56.079
cutting out, I don't know,
I can see you breaking off some roots

437
00:31:56.079 --> 00:32:01.200
and it usually we just use a
ground up spagnum moss, not spagnum pete,

438
00:32:01.279 --> 00:32:06.759
not not the stringy stuff you would
line a ding basket with, for

439
00:32:06.799 --> 00:32:12.119
example. Okay, well to meet
you at the Master Gardener. I think

440
00:32:12.160 --> 00:32:15.680
that you were going to give a
speak talk there. I am I'm coming

441
00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:19.599
up to Montgomery County to give a
talk on organic gardening to the master gardeners

442
00:32:19.640 --> 00:32:22.920
up there. Yeah, looking forward
to it. Okay, all right,

443
00:32:22.960 --> 00:32:24.920
Mike, we'll have fun up there. And well, I used to have

444
00:32:24.960 --> 00:32:31.240
a peach orchard and a strawberry patch
out east of Willis many years ago before

445
00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:36.000
we ended up moving to another city. Well, actually that's where my orchard

446
00:32:36.039 --> 00:32:43.640
is. It's in between Cleveland and
Cold Springs. Okay, hundred acres up

447
00:32:43.680 --> 00:32:45.519
there, but nice, I don't
We don't live up there, but were

448
00:32:46.079 --> 00:32:49.519
we lived in Willis? All right, sir, Well, hey, thanks

449
00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:52.559
for the call, and good luck
with getting those blueberries taken care of.

450
00:32:52.839 --> 00:32:57.400
You know, we were talking about
wet and rain and everything, but we

451
00:32:57.400 --> 00:33:00.640
were also still dealing with the frase
and your plants that were from the back.

452
00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:04.440
They're going to start waking up as
the weather warms up a little bit,

453
00:33:04.799 --> 00:33:07.160
and when they do, you want
to provide what they need to get

454
00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.359
back on their feet again. They've
lost a lot of tissues from the cold.

455
00:33:10.359 --> 00:33:15.680
They have to regrow. They're in
a depleted state because plants need leaves

456
00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:21.640
to make carbohydrates to support growth,
and microlife has their ocean harvest, which

457
00:33:21.680 --> 00:33:25.480
is a four two three nutrient ratio. Liquid and you can spray it on

458
00:33:25.519 --> 00:33:29.599
the plant. You can drench it
on the soil. I would recommend doing

459
00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:32.079
both. If there's leaves, spray
it on also, but definitely drench it

460
00:33:32.119 --> 00:33:37.279
on the soil. You can follow
that with a four excive me six two

461
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.200
four, which is the green bag, the stuff we typically talk about for

462
00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:44.759
lawns. It's good for all kinds
of things, any kind of plant.

463
00:33:44.759 --> 00:33:47.480
You can put that around it and
then a couple of weeks later just go

464
00:33:47.519 --> 00:33:51.880
ahead and do the ocean harvest again
as the liquid and that'll take care of

465
00:33:51.920 --> 00:33:55.759
it. You can find Microlife products
all over the place. They're available wide

466
00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:59.880
variety of areas. You can go
to Microlifefertilizer dot com find out where to

467
00:33:59.880 --> 00:34:01.960
go at them. League City Feed, for example, those of you done

468
00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:07.720
in League City and all the surrounding
communities like Dickinson and Santa Fe and clear

469
00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:10.760
Lake City, Baylett, Lamark,
all those areas. League City Feed is

470
00:34:10.800 --> 00:34:15.559
your hometown feed store. And if
I talk about a fertilize like Microlife here

471
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:19.440
on the air, they've got it
at League City Feed. The phone number

472
00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:23.239
there is two eight one three three
two one six one two two eight one

473
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:27.960
three three two one six one two. They're real easy to find. They're

474
00:34:27.960 --> 00:34:31.519
on Highway three, just a few
blocks south of Highway ninety six, and

475
00:34:31.559 --> 00:34:36.880
they're open practically all the time Monday
through Saturday, nine am to six pm,

476
00:34:36.960 --> 00:34:39.280
closed on Sunday, and so it's
really easy to find a time to

477
00:34:39.320 --> 00:34:45.159
swing by there and grab all of
those things, including pet feed and pest

478
00:34:45.159 --> 00:34:50.440
control products and other things at League
City Feed. We're going to head out

479
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:55.559
now to East Houston and talk to
Tom. Hello. Tom, Hello,

480
00:34:55.719 --> 00:35:00.199
sure, how can we help today? Thank you for except for my phone

481
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:05.239
call. Yes, sir, Yes, I'm I am a caretaker, and

482
00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:14.519
I believe that I did damage on
a rubber tree okay, rubber plant okay.

483
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:22.400
And I did not bring it in
from the frost okay. And I

484
00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:30.679
covered it up with a sheet and
it looks bad. Okay. Do I

485
00:35:30.920 --> 00:35:36.400
have any Does the plant have any
hope? It does? Right? It

486
00:35:36.480 --> 00:35:40.480
does? Just you know, it
could be anything from it's completely gone to

487
00:35:40.639 --> 00:35:45.400
it's going to be pretty good.
It depends on how cold of God,

488
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:47.960
for how long, and what was
damaged. I would Tom, you could

489
00:35:47.960 --> 00:35:51.519
do a couple of things. You
can scratch the bark with your thumbnail and

490
00:35:51.559 --> 00:35:54.920
look to see if it's a creamy
green color underneath, or if it's kind

491
00:35:54.920 --> 00:35:59.840
of a paper sack brown, meaning
it's dead, and follow it from the

492
00:35:59.920 --> 00:36:02.559
end all the way down toward the
base to see if there's any life.

493
00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:07.079
If it were me, I would
just bring it in if you don't mind

494
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:08.840
looking at it, get it,
get it into protection, and bring it

495
00:36:08.880 --> 00:36:13.079
back out when the weather's okay,
and give it some time. It's not

496
00:36:13.119 --> 00:36:15.760
going to want to grow till it
warms up. That's why coming inside might

497
00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:20.239
help a little bit. But let
the plant tell you where to prune it.

498
00:36:20.400 --> 00:36:23.280
I certainly will tell you if it's
still alive, because when you start

499
00:36:23.320 --> 00:36:27.719
to see sprouts, that's where you're
going to have to pune it back to.

500
00:36:28.360 --> 00:36:30.039
So that may be at the base
where you just have a few buds

501
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:34.920
at the base that lived and the
whole trunk's gone. But the plant will

502
00:36:34.920 --> 00:36:37.880
tell you. Just give it time
and know that it takes some time and

503
00:36:37.960 --> 00:36:42.679
warmth before it's going to want to
start reach sprouting. Oh my gosh,

504
00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:45.239
Well, hopefully it won't be too
bad. Hey, Tom, I'm about

505
00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:50.440
to have to run here. I
appreciate your call very much. Good luck,

506
00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:53.440
yes, sir, good luck.
With that rubber truck. I've dealt

507
00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:58.840
with those myself before. Kind of
interesting. The mystery that we deal with

508
00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:01.119
when it comes to freezes and figuring
out what is and it's not going to

509
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:06.719
make it. And plants always surprise
me. There were there are several times

510
00:37:06.719 --> 00:37:08.039
where I thought, you know,
I plant's gone. I just again around

511
00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:10.360
to taking it out, and all
of a sudden, here comes some new

512
00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:15.599
life they. I guess you could
say they have a very strong will to

513
00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:17.400
live. If at all possible,
they're going to do that. Uh.

514
00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:20.760
We're going to take a little break
for the top of the hour in the

515
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:22.840
news. If you would like to
give us a call, call Josh at

516
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:28.400
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Let him get you

517
00:37:28.679 --> 00:37:32.800
on the on the board so we
can talk to you when we come back.

518
00:37:34.760 --> 00:37:37.960
I just want to remind you today
I'm going to be heading out to

519
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:42.840
the Brasses home show out in Fort
Bene County. Uh. I always enjoy

520
00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:45.760
going out to the home show.
Is getting a chance to visit with folks,

521
00:37:45.119 --> 00:37:49.920
talk about what's going on. Uh. If you have samples you would

522
00:37:49.960 --> 00:37:52.840
like to bring out, bring them, put them in a sip lock bag.

523
00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:55.320
Bring them to me. Let's take
a look. If you have photos

524
00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:59.679
and they're in sharp focus, bring
them on your phone and we'll take a

525
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:02.760
look at those. We can diagnose, we can identify, Uh, if

526
00:38:02.800 --> 00:38:06.760
you want me to, I can
also do last rites. I'll bring some

527
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:09.639
with me. Anyway, you get
the idea. Let's have some fun.

528
00:38:09.639 --> 00:38:13.800
I love to meet folks. I'm
gonna be giving away a few containers of

529
00:38:13.840 --> 00:38:17.519
a brand new product from Nelson Flat
Food that I'm gonna be telling you about

530
00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:21.559
here in a little bit. Uh. And so with people show up,

531
00:38:21.559 --> 00:38:24.639
I don't know, we'll have some
kind of a participation quiz or who drew,

532
00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:29.039
who drove the furthest We'll come up
with something. But we'll be out

533
00:38:29.079 --> 00:38:35.559
there for now. We'll be right
back. K T r H. Garden

534
00:38:35.559 --> 00:38:40.239
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

535
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:53.960
Welcome to Katy r H Garden Line
with skimped Richter. Just watch him

536
00:38:54.000 --> 00:39:05.920
as so many good piece suits.
Welcome back. We're glad you're listening in

537
00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:08.079
on garden Line today and you'd like
to give us a call. What do

538
00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:15.199
you want to talk about? Any
kind of question identifying plants, diagnosing problems,

539
00:39:15.360 --> 00:39:19.440
getting recommendations for plants, for gardening, for how to have success.

540
00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:24.280
We can do that seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven

541
00:39:24.360 --> 00:39:30.159
one three, two one two five
eight seven four in the aftermath of all

542
00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:34.000
the rain. You know, if
you have drainage problems, now just watch

543
00:39:34.039 --> 00:39:36.599
it for a day or two.
You know, if water stands over a

544
00:39:36.679 --> 00:39:39.440
day, you got a drainage problem. And if it stands over two days,

545
00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:45.920
you really got a drainage problem.
Low areas and clay soil. Just

546
00:39:45.960 --> 00:39:47.920
think of it as a big farm
pond. That's what you got out there,

547
00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:52.639
and it holds water very well.
Unfortunately, you got to do something

548
00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:54.960
about it. And I mentioned in
my post to Facebook. By the way,

549
00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:58.760
if you want to go to Facebook
to the garden Line page, we

550
00:39:58.800 --> 00:40:02.239
hope you'll follow us on there.
I've got some information on five different options

551
00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:06.480
for what do you do when you
got a wet sagi area. And one

552
00:40:06.519 --> 00:40:09.960
of the things is build a raised
bed. You can raise the soil up

553
00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:15.599
by essentially bringing in a quality mix
that plants will thrive in, putting it

554
00:40:15.639 --> 00:40:20.760
on ground and planting in that.
And examples would be and by the way,

555
00:40:20.800 --> 00:40:23.800
the folks at Airloom Soils. They
have a bunch of different product combos

556
00:40:23.840 --> 00:40:28.360
that I think are just excellent.
For example, rose soil, they've got

557
00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:31.199
a roast soil mix. It's very
good for raised beds, not just roses,

558
00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:35.639
but shrubs and trees and perennials even
will do very well in that.

559
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:39.480
They have a veggie and herb mix
that you can buy that. By the

560
00:40:39.519 --> 00:40:44.920
way, airloom products are available in
bags and they're also available in bulk as

561
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:50.159
quantities as supplies last. They also
have leaf mold composts that is an excellent

562
00:40:50.239 --> 00:40:53.320
high quality compost for top dressing lawns, for even mixing in the soil,

563
00:40:53.440 --> 00:40:57.199
or I like to use it as
a surface mulch. I think it does

564
00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:00.599
very very well as a surface mulch. All of that can be done if

565
00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:02.360
you've got plants that are struggling.
Mix a little bit of some of those

566
00:41:02.559 --> 00:41:07.079
into the bed itself. Just carefully
mix it in around the plants, just

567
00:41:07.119 --> 00:41:10.039
a little bit, get it going, provide that extra nutrition. You know,

568
00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:15.199
when you got good microriza, when
you've got good biological activity in the

569
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:20.079
soil, it changes the root environment
in a way that helps plants. And

570
00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:24.039
that's what we're all about brown stuff
before green stuff. These are just three

571
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:29.440
examples of really quality brown stuff from
the folks at Airloom Soils. Not hard

572
00:41:29.480 --> 00:41:31.559
to find those products either. They're
sold all over town by the bag.

573
00:41:31.679 --> 00:41:35.079
You can buy them again, as
I said, by the bulk, give

574
00:41:35.079 --> 00:41:39.519
them a call. Here's a website, Heirloom Soilsoftexas dot com. That's simple

575
00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:45.519
Heirloom Soils of Texas dot com and
that will get you right to the information

576
00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:51.159
you need to find the products and
to if you're going to go get the

577
00:41:51.199 --> 00:41:54.400
bulk to know where to do that
as well. Let's go out to Seabrook

578
00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:59.519
and we're going to talk to Lisa. Good morning, Lisa. I have

579
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:04.039
a question about growing lavender and pot. Does it do well as a potted

580
00:42:04.079 --> 00:42:08.880
plant. Lavender does not like our
climate. The rain, the humidity,

581
00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:14.199
and the summer heat are all really
really hard on lavender. Even over you

582
00:42:14.280 --> 00:42:16.719
know, you got to Fredericksburg kind
of central Texas where it's a little dryer

583
00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:22.119
and things. It even struggles out
there in a pot. You're giving it

584
00:42:22.199 --> 00:42:25.039
the best chance you can because you
can put a good quality mix in there.

585
00:42:25.639 --> 00:42:30.320
You can control how much water you
give it. You can even move

586
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.440
it to a you know, late
day shade to help it out a little

587
00:42:32.480 --> 00:42:36.880
bit in the hot summer weather,
and so you can do that. Spanish

588
00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:43.519
lavender is probably one of the easier
ones to grow. Spanish lavender, the

589
00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:50.599
French provincial the provincial lavender. It's
kind of tough, but if you can

590
00:42:50.719 --> 00:42:53.440
keep it, don't we the foliage. Don't have a sprinkler spraying it.

591
00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:58.760
Put it in the pot like you
ask about, and then keep it moist

592
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:01.280
but not soggy. I think you
may have You can at least keep the

593
00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:07.360
plants going and have a good measure
of success. Thank you, you bet.

594
00:43:07.440 --> 00:43:13.840
I have fun with that lavender.
There have been a lot of attempts

595
00:43:14.360 --> 00:43:21.920
to grow lavender here in Texas.
Commercially. There are certainly several attempts that

596
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:25.199
lavender farms. I've gone to see
several of them, and you know,

597
00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:28.920
you go see them initially they look
good, and then you come back a

598
00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:31.119
year or so later and there are
these huge dead spots in the field,

599
00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:37.880
and it's just the challenge of growing
it here. But I think at least

600
00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:40.480
I had the right idea put it
in a container where you control more things.

601
00:43:42.119 --> 00:43:45.079
Let's head out now to Bear Creek
Park and talk to Jerry. Hello

602
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:52.519
Jerry, good morning, sir.
You're talking about a plant. I'll teach

603
00:43:52.639 --> 00:44:00.840
them Assaiah. I tried googling in
id Let me. I can try spelling

604
00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:08.159
it for you, but it's it's
hi ji chi jemassi. But if you

605
00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:12.960
start with that chi ji, just
start with there and you go to a

606
00:44:13.000 --> 00:44:16.559
website the sea company called Baker Creek
Seed. They're the ones that call it

607
00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:22.800
chi jim Assi. Other companies will
sell crosses of the same two parents and

608
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:25.480
call them other things. I can't
remember now what they call theirs. But

609
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:30.159
chi Jimasi is just a It's a
simple, easy one. It's one that

610
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:34.360
I always think gardeners need to try
something new every year. And I try

611
00:44:34.360 --> 00:44:37.519
a number of things new every year, but that would be one that I

612
00:44:37.559 --> 00:44:43.599
think a lot of people are gonna
like be impressed with its growth. Okay,

613
00:44:43.800 --> 00:44:46.679
No, Baker Creek. Baker Creek
Seed up in Missouri, Mansfield,

614
00:44:46.679 --> 00:44:52.719
Missouri. Mansfield, Missouri, that's
where Laura Ingles Wilder wrote the Little House

615
00:44:52.960 --> 00:44:57.480
Books. Originally Mansfield, Missouri.
That's not where they were the story is

616
00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:00.559
from. It's up in Minnesota.
But that's where interl your life. She

617
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.559
settled in and wrote those books.
That was a fun fact worth the price

618
00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:09.840
of passion. I get this wrong. I uncle back and listen to the

619
00:45:09.920 --> 00:45:15.039
podcast there, don't you. Yeah, that's a good thing. I should

620
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:16.719
mention that more on the air.
But if you miss a show or like

621
00:45:16.800 --> 00:45:21.119
you hear me say something and what
did you say? You can you can

622
00:45:21.159 --> 00:45:27.360
go listen to it on podcasts.
Okay, Jerry, did you did you

623
00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:31.800
stay? Do you have any flood
problems in Bear Creek? Well, I'm

624
00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:37.159
not sure. I have been home
in thirty five days. Okay the rehab

625
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:43.519
Siner and copper Gill. Okay,
okay, okay, Well you should try

626
00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:45.519
that chie Ja Messiah thing. And
I wish you well. I hope.

627
00:45:45.519 --> 00:45:50.880
I wish you a recovery there.
And I used to work in the Bear

628
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.440
Creek Park area, so I know
how what happens when it rains too much

629
00:45:58.320 --> 00:46:07.960
after a yes, oh boy,
yep. A lot of your neighbors didn't

630
00:46:07.960 --> 00:46:13.880
fare as well, did they?
That was that was a booger, all

631
00:46:13.960 --> 00:46:17.199
right, sir? Welly I do
wish you well, and good luck finding

632
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:23.599
those seeds. I think it's fun
to grow, you know, gardeners have

633
00:46:23.679 --> 00:46:29.920
to be optimist. You do,
and and there there's reason to be optimistic.

634
00:46:30.199 --> 00:46:34.960
Nature is full of beautiful plants.
I don't care if you want visual

635
00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:38.679
beauty, if you want culinary flavors, if you if you want to just

636
00:46:38.760 --> 00:46:45.360
grow your own food, vegetables and
fruit and things flowers. It's just if

637
00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:49.679
there's so many things out there,
and we always should try something new.

638
00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:52.960
Now, I don't recommend doing something
ill advised. You know, if you

639
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:55.760
go in a vacation to Colorado,
don't bring a blue spruce back or one

640
00:46:55.800 --> 00:47:00.599
of those blue Colorado columbines their state
flower. They're not going to grow here.

641
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:04.679
If you're want a columbine, we
got columbines that will grow here,

642
00:47:05.000 --> 00:47:08.079
but not the blue one from Colorado. Uh and the blue spruce. I

643
00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:12.400
mean, the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Plants should meet you at

644
00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:15.679
the Texas border and take that thing
away from you. Anyway, let's take

645
00:47:15.719 --> 00:47:20.360
a break our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight to seventy

646
00:47:20.360 --> 00:47:27.280
four. I'll be right back,
all right. That's for your listening pleasure.

647
00:47:27.400 --> 00:47:30.039
This morning. You're listening to Garden
Line. I'm your host, Skip

648
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:34.559
Richter, and we're here to talk
about all kinds of things related to gardening,

649
00:47:34.639 --> 00:47:37.400
and even we can talk about some
things on the periphery, let's say,

650
00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:40.880
of gardening, uh, taking care
of the landscape and the backyard and

651
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:45.119
whatnot. A lot of folks are
really interested in backyard chickens. I don't

652
00:47:45.119 --> 00:47:49.719
know if you're one of those,
but we've been through that. I tell

653
00:47:49.719 --> 00:47:53.599
you, I can probably look back
at seven different times we've had backyard chickens

654
00:47:53.639 --> 00:47:57.519
different places, we've lived in things, and it's a lot of fun.

655
00:47:57.800 --> 00:48:01.360
People just like enjoy doing that taking
care of them. But we're getting close

656
00:48:01.480 --> 00:48:06.079
to time to go get you some
baby chicks and to get started. In

657
00:48:06.079 --> 00:48:08.960
fact, the folks at D and
D Feed up in tumble They I believe

658
00:48:09.119 --> 00:48:15.559
it's February or the eighth that they're
going to start getting those in. You

659
00:48:15.639 --> 00:48:20.920
can go to their website. D
and D Feed's website, the D and

660
00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:24.039
D Feed and supply real easy to
eat to find. It's called ddfeed dot

661
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:29.159
com. Just give them a call
too. Two eight one three five one

662
00:48:29.440 --> 00:48:35.199
seventy one forty four two eight one
three five one seventy one forty four.

663
00:48:35.320 --> 00:48:38.360
They are on twenty nine twenty just
west of tumble, and they have everything

664
00:48:38.360 --> 00:48:42.880
by the way they need. They've
got their their fertilizers in the ones you

665
00:48:42.920 --> 00:48:46.480
hear me talk about here on guarden
line. Are there if you need disease,

666
00:48:46.760 --> 00:48:51.639
pest, weed control, if you
need things like their loomrose, soil

667
00:48:51.719 --> 00:48:54.400
and age leaf compost and fruit berry
and citrus, veggie and herb, those

668
00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:57.440
ones I was just talking about.
Yep, they got those at D and

669
00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:00.079
D feed as well, and later
on we get a lot of new things

670
00:49:00.079 --> 00:49:02.639
in. They also have potatoes,
by the way, if you need the

671
00:49:02.679 --> 00:49:07.079
red Leasda, the white Kennebec or
the yellow Yukon gold, they've got them.

672
00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:10.400
But hey, don't wait around,
because go ahead and get them.

673
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:13.559
They can sit on your counter for
a while if you want, or you

674
00:49:13.599 --> 00:49:15.440
can go ahead and cut them.
Get them ready to kind of scab over

675
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.599
a little bit and be ready to
plant so they don't rot in the cool

676
00:49:19.639 --> 00:49:22.639
soils, cool wet soils of spring. All that is available at D and

677
00:49:22.719 --> 00:49:25.119
D. Feat again the number two
eight, one, three, five,

678
00:49:25.239 --> 00:49:30.719
one seventy one forty four. We're
gonna now head out to Sweeney and talk

679
00:49:30.840 --> 00:49:35.559
to Tom. Hello, Tom,
Hello, how are you doing today?

680
00:49:35.840 --> 00:49:39.480
I'm doing good? What's happening in
Sweeney, Texas. Oh, lot of

681
00:49:39.480 --> 00:49:44.000
wet weather right now? Okay,
all right, well we got rid of

682
00:49:44.000 --> 00:49:46.480
that. I called and canceled it. It should be done now. It

683
00:49:46.599 --> 00:49:51.079
ought to wind up for you today. Well, good for you. Thanks.

684
00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:55.960
Yeah, right. I was I'm
gonna plant some save potatoes next month,

685
00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:59.920
and I was just checking to see
what kind of fertilizer I need to

686
00:50:00.440 --> 00:50:05.000
for them. Yeah, that's a
good question, Tom. I'm gonna give

687
00:50:05.000 --> 00:50:08.039
you kind of more than one answer
here. The first of all, a

688
00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:10.880
soil test tells you what you already
have, which tells you what you need

689
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:15.440
to add. So that's the best
answer to your question. We don't have

690
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:17.360
that in front of us right now, so we'll give the next best answer.

691
00:50:17.760 --> 00:50:22.159
As you're mixing composts and things into
the soil, it's just getting better

692
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:24.599
and better and that's always a good
idea. And then as a boost,

693
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:30.760
what I will typically do is I
will use just a lawn type fertilizer for

694
00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:37.679
potatoes. And here's why. With
potatoes, you're growing the tubers, which

695
00:50:37.679 --> 00:50:42.519
are extensions of the stem that are
filled with carbohydrates. You need leaves,

696
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:46.400
healthy foliage to make carbohydrates. So
you can have potatoes on the plants.

697
00:50:46.960 --> 00:50:52.480
So anything you do that stimulates the
leaf growth is going to provide more of

698
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:55.559
a top to create more of a
harvest. And so you get you.

699
00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:01.639
I don't know what kind of fertilizer
you use for your lawn, Well you

700
00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:07.039
have a particular range. I hadn't
put anything, damn, you know,

701
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:13.440
triple thirteen or Okay, I'd switch. I would switch over to something that's

702
00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:17.679
got a ratio instead of a one
one one like triple thirteen does like three

703
00:51:17.840 --> 00:51:22.000
one two. Lots of that first
number, not much of the middle,

704
00:51:22.079 --> 00:51:25.239
and then a moderate amount of the
second. And that's considering that we don't

705
00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:29.280
know what's already in your soil.
But that's a pretty good place to start.

706
00:51:30.280 --> 00:51:34.679
Yeah, alrighty, well, thank
you for all the help. I

707
00:51:34.719 --> 00:51:37.280
appreciate it. Yes, sir,
have fun. And all I ask is

708
00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:39.559
that you bring half the potatoes and
drop them off at the station and we'll

709
00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:45.159
call it out. Thank you,
thank you. All right, you take

710
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:51.159
care. Yeah, the potatoes are
it's it's we're hitting potato season. You

711
00:51:51.199 --> 00:51:54.800
know, they don't the potato plant
itself is not going to tolerate a freeze,

712
00:51:55.239 --> 00:51:59.079
but we put them in the ground
and they come up, and sometimes

713
00:51:59.079 --> 00:52:00.519
you'll get a little bit of a
freeze, they'll blow burn the tops,

714
00:52:00.559 --> 00:52:04.920
but then they just kind of re
sprout from under there. I would throw

715
00:52:05.039 --> 00:52:07.760
a mulch over them. If you
get them planted a little early, throw

716
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:12.159
a mulch over them. And whenever
we're going to have a frieze, just

717
00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:14.679
go ahead and cover them up.
It's okay. They'll come through it.

718
00:52:14.719 --> 00:52:16.679
In fact, one of the strategies, one of the best strategies for growing

719
00:52:16.679 --> 00:52:22.079
potatoes is you put them in let's
say, something like a little bit of

720
00:52:22.079 --> 00:52:27.480
a trench, and as they grow, you throw more compost and soil in

721
00:52:27.800 --> 00:52:31.280
around them, and they keep pushing
their stems up through it, and then

722
00:52:31.320 --> 00:52:37.039
you end up with about eight inches
or so of buried stem and that's where

723
00:52:37.079 --> 00:52:44.360
your potatoes are going to form.
So that's important to remember. A potato,

724
00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:49.760
like a new potato, an Irish
potato, you know those kinds of

725
00:52:49.760 --> 00:52:54.920
things, they're not roots like a
sweet potatoes. They're stems. So when

726
00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:59.599
you plant that potato, I seed
peace. We call it a seed piece.

727
00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:02.920
It's a section of potato that you
cut up and let the edges or

728
00:53:04.000 --> 00:53:07.159
the fresh cuts kind of dry up
before you plant it. The roots go

729
00:53:07.239 --> 00:53:10.119
down and the stem comes up and
the potatoes come off the stem. It's

730
00:53:10.119 --> 00:53:15.280
as simple as that. You grow
potatoes and containers too. They do really,

731
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:21.280
really, really well in a container. Talking about the topics, you

732
00:53:21.320 --> 00:53:23.800
know, really of the season right
now for gardeners is number one, we

733
00:53:23.920 --> 00:53:28.000
just had a really bad freeze and
number two we've got a lot of rain

734
00:53:28.440 --> 00:53:32.039
and we're dealing with that. But
if you you know, we talk about

735
00:53:32.039 --> 00:53:36.320
plant recovery from the freeze. But
what about pipes? You know, do

736
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:39.480
you have some issues with pipes that
you need to do repair on maybe you

737
00:53:39.519 --> 00:53:45.440
know irrigation system, little minor repairs
and things. Well, Ace Hardware is

738
00:53:45.480 --> 00:53:47.440
going to have that. Any kind
of plumbing repair parts you need, they're

739
00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:52.000
going to have it. Anything to
repair your sprinklers. You know, this

740
00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:57.440
Christmas, maybe your brother in law
came over and backing out of the driveway,

741
00:53:57.440 --> 00:53:59.840
he ran across the corner of the
yard and yep, that's where the

742
00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:02.559
wrinkler head is. And maybe you
don't know damage has been done yet,

743
00:54:02.599 --> 00:54:05.800
but boy you will when you turn
it on. What do you do?

744
00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:08.119
Well, Ace Hardware, They'll get
you fixed up. We're going to be

745
00:54:08.199 --> 00:54:14.119
talking a lot about all the products
that they have, because they have everything.

746
00:54:14.199 --> 00:54:17.039
Do you need fertilizers, do you
need mulchus, just any kind of

747
00:54:17.079 --> 00:54:21.880
tools and things, things to control
pests and diseases. ACE Hardware is easy

748
00:54:21.920 --> 00:54:24.119
to find. You know forty of
them here in the Greater Houston area.

749
00:54:24.480 --> 00:54:29.960
Just go to Acehardware dot Com,
find the store locator and you can find

750
00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:32.840
the ones near you, and there
is an ACE Hardware near you. That's

751
00:54:32.840 --> 00:54:38.800
as simple as that. I fortunately
did not have any pipe damage in this

752
00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:45.480
last freeze, and I bought the
little and ACE carries these those little covers

753
00:54:45.480 --> 00:54:47.920
that go over your faucets outdoors,
and the little things you put around your

754
00:54:47.960 --> 00:54:51.840
pipes to protect. Boy, it's
always good to have those on hand.

755
00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:54.880
Years ago I had a little spot
where I put those things, and I

756
00:54:54.920 --> 00:55:00.639
know right where to go get them
when the coal weather arrives. But I'm

757
00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:04.559
glad to not have to mess with
that, for sure. We were talking

758
00:55:04.559 --> 00:55:07.960
about potatoes and how to grow them. There's a lot of different kinds of

759
00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:10.800
grape vegetables. There are a lot
of fun to grow. I grew potatoes

760
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:17.760
one time in a basket like one
of those little wooden baskets with the metal

761
00:55:17.840 --> 00:55:22.320
wire handles. Just drilled a hole
in the bottom and put the seed piece

762
00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:28.519
in the soil that had been worked
up and right over it. After I

763
00:55:28.559 --> 00:55:30.960
buried it, I put the basket
with that hole in it, and so

764
00:55:31.039 --> 00:55:35.639
when the potato sprouted, it came
up inside the basket, and I throw

765
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:38.760
mulch in there, composty stuff,
and as it grows Philip, Philip,

766
00:55:38.760 --> 00:55:44.320
Philip, by the time you get
that basket completely full, you will have

767
00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:46.360
then the vines coming out and growing
over the top. And this is a

768
00:55:46.360 --> 00:55:51.199
conversation piece. When it's time to
harvest, you just cut it loose at

769
00:55:51.239 --> 00:55:53.159
the ground. And now this isn't
going to make the basket last. It's

770
00:55:53.360 --> 00:55:57.679
that moist soil is going to decay. But you'll get that first season out

771
00:55:57.719 --> 00:56:01.119
of it. And all your potatoes
are in the basket because they're not roots,

772
00:56:01.159 --> 00:56:05.519
they're stems, so when they come
up, all the potatoes form in

773
00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:07.800
the basket. I've done that with
five gallon buckets. You gotta have really

774
00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:12.719
good drainage on those lots of holes
drilled in it too. But there's a

775
00:56:12.760 --> 00:56:15.920
lot of fun ways to get kids
and have fun. Then you just take

776
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:20.760
the basket again, cut underneath it
to get it loose from the soil and

777
00:56:20.880 --> 00:56:24.719
dump it out, and now are
all these perfectly formed, beautiful potatoes because

778
00:56:24.719 --> 00:56:30.079
they're growing in nice loose COMPOSTI mix. Kind of a fun way to do

779
00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:35.960
it. Getting kids involved in gardening
is I think an important thing. We

780
00:56:36.039 --> 00:56:39.920
do need to get the kids involved
because it's a lifetime of health when we

781
00:56:40.039 --> 00:56:45.679
learn to eat right and not being
afraid of vegetables, not pushing them around

782
00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:47.519
the plate, afraid to eat them. But you grow them yourself, you're

783
00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:52.960
more likelydium. That's how it works
with kiddos. And another thing that is

784
00:56:52.039 --> 00:56:57.199
fun if you've got little bitty ones, little bitty ones, the is to

785
00:56:57.280 --> 00:57:00.400
plant radish seeds on the ground.
I would put them in like a big

786
00:57:00.480 --> 00:57:04.840
tray. Maybe you only have about
four inches of soil in a tray,

787
00:57:05.320 --> 00:57:08.400
and you put the radish seeds in
there, and then you lay hardware cloth,

788
00:57:08.719 --> 00:57:13.280
like the little half inch square hardware
cloth like you'd have underneath the rabbit

789
00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:15.800
cake. You lay that on the
surface and the radish is sprout up through

790
00:57:15.840 --> 00:57:21.280
it and they just grow. And
then when it's harvest time, you just

791
00:57:21.880 --> 00:57:24.880
pick up the hardware cloths this big
wire sheet wash off the soil, and

792
00:57:25.000 --> 00:57:28.639
on one side you got the radish
tops and on the other side you have

793
00:57:28.719 --> 00:57:31.760
these nice, little, beautifully formed
radishes. And radishes are about a twenty

794
00:57:31.800 --> 00:57:37.559
eight day crop, so kids and
people like me with very low patients can

795
00:57:37.840 --> 00:57:42.599
have fast results. But that's kind
of cool to see about. If you

796
00:57:42.639 --> 00:57:45.400
do that, would you post it
to our Facebook or tell us about it?

797
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:50.519
And we would love to see it
on our Facebook. You can't post

798
00:57:50.559 --> 00:57:53.079
it to our Facebook, but you
can connect it to garden Line Facebook.

799
00:57:53.159 --> 00:57:57.440
That would be so cool. It
is cool. It is cool now eating

800
00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:00.039
radishes for kids, that's a whole
nother. Yeah. Hot, this kid

801
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:05.559
still doesn't like radishes, but are
you not? Well? We won't talk

802
00:58:05.599 --> 00:58:10.639
about that. The Radish Grower Association
of America is probably wonderful if there is

803
00:58:10.679 --> 00:58:15.679
a thing. Yeah, yeah,
they're fabulous. My dad liked those little

804
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:20.000
red radishes and they just were hot. I didn't care for them. There's

805
00:58:20.079 --> 00:58:22.360
actually a big one, though,
Nikki. It's the size of a turnip,

806
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:28.079
and it's white toward the bottom and
green light green toward the top,

807
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:30.960
but when you cut through it,
it's red inside. We call it the

808
00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:35.840
watermelon radish because it's like green on
the outside, red on the inside,

809
00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:38.159
and it's it's pretty mild too.
So I mean, if I guess it's

810
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:45.679
the gateway drugged rabits eat a radish, a watermelon radish might work. We're

811
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:47.320
going to be right back. It's
time for Nicky in the news. Seven

812
00:58:47.360 --> 00:58:57.880
to one three two one two,
five, eight seven four. Good morning,

813
00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:01.159
and welcome to garden Line. We
are talking about things, hopefully that

814
00:59:01.199 --> 00:59:05.039
are of interest to you today.
One way you can make sure that happens

815
00:59:05.079 --> 00:59:08.039
is to give us a call and
ask your question. Seven one three two

816
00:59:08.159 --> 00:59:15.559
one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven

817
00:59:15.840 --> 00:59:20.440
four. I was this past week
with all the rain, and I spent

818
00:59:20.519 --> 00:59:22.960
a lot of time looking from inside
through the window at the outside, and

819
00:59:23.360 --> 00:59:27.679
we're just noticing all the birds that
were gathering at our feet. Er,

820
00:59:27.719 --> 00:59:31.719
we've got one of the those wild
birds squirrel excluding feeders. If you haven't

821
00:59:31.719 --> 00:59:34.760
seen one of those, you got
to go check them out. They are

822
00:59:34.800 --> 00:59:42.239
amazing, quite a contraption, and
to foil a squirrel's evil plans is not

823
00:59:42.440 --> 00:59:46.960
easy. They want the bird seed
that we're given to the birds bird feed

824
00:59:47.519 --> 00:59:50.920
so Anyway, I was watching that
and looking at all the different kinds of

825
00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:52.480
birds that we had, and I
was real surprised. There's just a lot

826
00:59:52.480 --> 00:59:57.840
of variety coming in, all kinds
of different beautiful species. And you know,

827
00:59:57.920 --> 01:00:00.119
this is a season when we still
need to be feeding taking care of

828
01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:04.119
our birds. We're still doing a
little bit of the winter super blend,

829
01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:07.639
that's the one that has lots of
fats and proteins to help them get,

830
01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:10.400
you know, get through this winter. It's pretty duck being a bird out

831
01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:15.000
there when you've got freezing, freezing
cold weather and you're dealing with that and

832
01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:19.599
trying to find food and whatnot.
Well why not help them find food in

833
01:00:19.639 --> 01:00:22.840
your yard. And when you do
that, they'll be back food and water

834
01:00:22.920 --> 01:00:25.280
and all the things we provide.
Housing. By the way, speaking of

835
01:00:25.320 --> 01:00:29.960
housing bluebirds or starting to look for
their nest boxes, if you would like

836
01:00:30.000 --> 01:00:32.559
to have bluebirds, and now's the
time to get a nest box out Purple

837
01:00:32.599 --> 01:00:37.079
Martins. There, we're just on
the doorstep of when they start showing up.

838
01:00:37.440 --> 01:00:40.199
The scout's coming out looking for a
place to make a home. If

839
01:00:40.239 --> 01:00:45.159
you've got a nice Purple Martin house
up on a pole, maybe they'll set

840
01:00:45.199 --> 01:00:47.559
up shop there, they'll find your
place and if you've had them coming back

841
01:00:47.599 --> 01:00:51.559
from year after year, they already
know where you live. Now. There

842
01:00:51.559 --> 01:00:54.119
are a lot of different Wildbirds locations, six of them around town. It's

843
01:00:54.159 --> 01:01:01.719
really easy to find. Go to
WBU dot com forwards slash Houston, WBU

844
01:01:01.960 --> 01:01:07.440
dot com forward slash Houston find a
Wildbird's near you. Also, you want

845
01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:10.559
to follow them on the social media
because they they're always having new tips and

846
01:01:10.599 --> 01:01:15.800
ideas. There's good videos, there's
good information on birding. It's just really

847
01:01:15.920 --> 01:01:20.800
really excellent, excellent website and excellent
social media posts. Two that they do

848
01:01:21.159 --> 01:01:24.079
at Walberds. I was like that
love going into those places too. It's

849
01:01:24.119 --> 01:01:29.000
like a candy story for me and
go go in and in seeing all the

850
01:01:29.159 --> 01:01:32.320
cool new stuff that they have.
Well, you're listening to Gardenline. Our

851
01:01:32.320 --> 01:01:37.320
phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four seven one

852
01:01:37.519 --> 01:01:43.079
three two one two five eight seven
four. I mentioned earlier that I'm going

853
01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:46.760
to be at the Brasses Home and
Garden Show, which is down in Rosenberg

854
01:01:47.000 --> 01:01:51.719
now. It's at the Fort Bend
Epicenter. It's yesterday, today, and

855
01:01:51.800 --> 01:01:54.480
tomorrow. I'll be there Today.
When the show's over, I'm gonna get

856
01:01:54.519 --> 01:01:58.800
some things packed up and head over
that way. I'll be giving a seminar

857
01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:02.400
at twelve and I will also be
giving one at one o'clock. At twelve

858
01:02:02.400 --> 01:02:07.440
o'clock, I'm gonna be talking about
landscape recovery after the freeze, and I'll

859
01:02:07.440 --> 01:02:13.000
talk about some other things, some
general tips for spring and garden success.

860
01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:15.719
And then at one o'clock we're going
to be doing a lot of Q and

861
01:02:15.800 --> 01:02:19.239
A and who knows. Typically i'll
go in, I'll plan on talking about

862
01:02:19.280 --> 01:02:22.719
something, and then here come all
the questions, and we we head off

863
01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:24.039
in the things that the people that
show up want to talk about, so

864
01:02:24.079 --> 01:02:28.519
we can do that too. But
that's all at the Fort Bend Epicenter in

865
01:02:28.719 --> 01:02:31.199
Rosenberg, Texas, and I hope
you'll come out. If you have a

866
01:02:31.239 --> 01:02:36.119
sample you want to bring, put
it in a ziplock bag or twist type

867
01:02:36.280 --> 01:02:38.199
bag, close it up and bring
it in. We'll take a look at

868
01:02:38.199 --> 01:02:42.800
it. If you have photos on
your phone in good sharp focus, bring

869
01:02:42.880 --> 01:02:45.440
those. I'd be glad to see
those as well. Kind of you know,

870
01:02:45.480 --> 01:02:52.039
figure out what might be ailing your
plants, or maybe it's a plant

871
01:02:52.039 --> 01:02:54.639
you want to identify it something like
that. We'll be their home and garden

872
01:02:54.639 --> 01:03:00.119
show BRI's Fort Bend Epicenter to day
after the show garden line. I'll probably

873
01:03:00.119 --> 01:03:05.119
get there about eleven leven thirty.
I'll be talking twelve and one again,

874
01:03:05.480 --> 01:03:08.199
so hope you come out. Let's
head back to the phone. We're going

875
01:03:08.239 --> 01:03:15.039
to go out to Jersey Village and
talk to Clara. Hello Clara, Good

876
01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:22.800
morning, skit morning. I have
a question for you regarding adding that expanded

877
01:03:23.079 --> 01:03:32.480
our expandable coconut fiber to your garden
soils. These race beds have been in

878
01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:37.559
for about eight years now, okay, and as I've added soil, of

879
01:03:37.639 --> 01:03:43.159
course, it's become more and more
compacted. So I was wondering about using

880
01:03:43.199 --> 01:03:46.119
that to kind of like bluff it
up. Well, you could generally,

881
01:03:46.159 --> 01:03:52.239
though, with the cocoa fibers coconut
fibers where we call a coconut core.

882
01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:59.119
We're putting that in planting mixes like
potting soil kinds of things. It would

883
01:03:59.119 --> 01:04:01.079
be pretty cost per to do it, you know, just to a large

884
01:04:01.119 --> 01:04:04.719
area. I would recommend instead,
if you're wanting to improve your soil,

885
01:04:04.840 --> 01:04:10.079
get a good bed mix and spread
it out there. How big of an

886
01:04:10.119 --> 01:04:15.760
area do you need to cover?
This is probably three and a half feet

887
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:20.039
wide by twenty five fee? Okay? And what are you wanting to grow

888
01:04:20.039 --> 01:04:27.400
in that bed? Typically? I
grow tomatoes, cucumbers, spell tempers,

889
01:04:27.480 --> 01:04:33.039
okay, just household household type,
you know, summer and all stream beas

890
01:04:33.519 --> 01:04:41.199
okay, good vegetans, and yes, and I do rotate where the cucumbers

891
01:04:41.199 --> 01:04:45.079
are planted and where the tomatoes are
planting. Okay, well I would I

892
01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:48.000
would grab you a bed mix the
airlom soils folks. They have one called

893
01:04:48.119 --> 01:04:53.880
Edgie and Herb that does very well. And you can find bags of that

894
01:04:54.079 --> 01:04:56.880
over where you live out there in
the Jersey Village area if you go up

895
01:04:56.920 --> 01:05:00.960
to you got a couple of great
ace hardwarares M and d is up there

896
01:05:01.000 --> 01:05:04.760
in the Cypress area, and then
the one on Jones Road as well.

897
01:05:05.119 --> 01:05:11.400
Good supplies of those kind of things. Just buy you some bags, toss

898
01:05:11.400 --> 01:05:14.760
them down the way about. I
probably put it if you've already got soiled

899
01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:16.639
in there, I'd probably put it
about three inches deep and then mix it

900
01:05:16.679 --> 01:05:20.760
in, you know, as deep
as is practical for you with a swaden

901
01:05:20.880 --> 01:05:25.079
park or whatever you're going to use
to kind of improve it a little bit,

902
01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:29.320
and I think you'll have real good
success. Okay, and then use

903
01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:35.639
how about using the coconut fiber or
coconut core to do the seedlings, to

904
01:05:36.199 --> 01:05:40.280
do seeds? You can, but
you don't want to use just that.

905
01:05:41.039 --> 01:05:44.760
It has each component, and a
potting mix has its own purpose. You

906
01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:47.360
know, the peat moss or the
cocoa core that's going to hold water very

907
01:05:47.360 --> 01:05:53.599
well, the things like pearlite and
vermiculite that's going to help drainage be better.

908
01:05:53.679 --> 01:05:57.440
So you wouldn't want to grow and
straight peat moss or and straight cocoa

909
01:05:57.440 --> 01:06:01.320
core, but you can mix it
in. Okay, Okay, Well,

910
01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:05.159
you know we're all starting to think
about these gardens. I know we are,

911
01:06:05.400 --> 01:06:09.920
that is for sure. Yeah.
I used to live up in the

912
01:06:09.960 --> 01:06:14.320
Cypress area, by the way.
One day, it actually dawned on me

913
01:06:14.480 --> 01:06:17.960
why they call it Jersey Village.
I did not know this, but that

914
01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:23.280
was big dairy farm country. That's
why we have Darry Ashford Street and Jersey

915
01:06:23.360 --> 01:06:29.519
Village and there's some other landmarks of
that of that day in time. Yes,

916
01:06:29.679 --> 01:06:34.239
yes, all right. As a
native Ustonian, we've watched the concentric

917
01:06:34.360 --> 01:06:38.960
circle theory, grow and grow and
grow. I'm telling you, I think

918
01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:43.679
we're at it. We're at our
outermost belt at this point, well at

919
01:06:43.719 --> 01:06:47.840
this point, at this point,
I'm afraid that Brunham and College Station are

920
01:06:47.840 --> 01:06:51.159
going to be the edge of Houston
if it keeps going like it is in

921
01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:56.719
that in your direction at least.
Hey, yes, that is very true.

922
01:06:57.000 --> 01:06:59.599
Thank you, thank you for the
call. I appreciate that. Clara.

923
01:06:59.639 --> 01:07:02.079
You take care. We're going to
take a little break here and we'll

924
01:07:02.079 --> 01:07:06.760
be back. Our number is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

925
01:07:06.800 --> 01:07:12.199
four. The sun is on the
way. In fact, the sun is

926
01:07:12.239 --> 01:07:15.320
shining right now. It's just shining
on the other side of some clouds and

927
01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:18.719
maybe a little over the horizon,
depending on when you're where you're listening to

928
01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:25.320
Garden Line from We're going to have
a good day. These cloudy conditions they're

929
01:07:25.320 --> 01:07:28.400
going to start to break up and
move away. We got the rain behind

930
01:07:28.480 --> 01:07:30.360
us, so today is a good
day to get out there. Let's go

931
01:07:30.440 --> 01:07:33.199
visit a garden center. Let's go
pick up some supplies at some of our

932
01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:38.079
garden centers and feed stores, ace
hardware, those kinds of places we talk

933
01:07:38.119 --> 01:07:41.800
about. Get ready for spring.
It's coming. I'm not going to tell

934
01:07:41.800 --> 01:07:45.440
you to fertilize today, but you
could buy the fertilizer and be ready to

935
01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:47.199
go. So when you're ready to
put it out, all you got to

936
01:07:47.239 --> 01:07:50.119
do is head out there and do
it. You don't have to go buy

937
01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:54.360
it at that point in time.
I hope that there's a stock of whichever

938
01:07:54.440 --> 01:07:57.920
you prefer, whichever kind you like
to use, at the places that you

939
01:07:58.000 --> 01:08:01.119
prefer to purchase them. Go ahead
and get out there and get started.

940
01:08:01.400 --> 01:08:06.360
It's definitely time in the vegetable garden. We can continue planting cool seasoned crops

941
01:08:06.559 --> 01:08:12.280
like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower,
cole Robbie. I've got some sweet peas,

942
01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:15.560
some sugar snap peas that I'm about
to put out. I've always planted

943
01:08:15.600 --> 01:08:18.560
them directly in the garden. It's
a big old seed, easy to direct

944
01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:21.680
seed in the garden, and I
just decided this year I was going to

945
01:08:21.680 --> 01:08:26.439
start them inside, and I'm glad
I did, because right after I got

946
01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:30.880
them started, we had this horrific
cold spell that came in, and had

947
01:08:30.880 --> 01:08:33.239
they been up, that would have
been a little bit of a problem for

948
01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:36.520
them. So instead they're in these
little transplant cells, and I'm going to

949
01:08:36.560 --> 01:08:41.359
put them out in the garden here
pretty soon. And they're already up and

950
01:08:41.399 --> 01:08:45.079
growing. It's about time to move
them out as far as the plant condition

951
01:08:45.239 --> 01:08:47.359
is concerned. But you can do
that right now direct seed those out.

952
01:08:47.439 --> 01:08:51.640
Lettuce and spinach can still be planted
out in the garden. Root crops like

953
01:08:51.680 --> 01:08:57.960
carrots and beets and beats. Actually
they're a little coal tender, but you

954
01:08:58.520 --> 01:09:00.479
can grow them if you're just willing
to protect them. When we have our

955
01:09:00.520 --> 01:09:05.560
next little freeze, they'll be all
right. Lots of things to plant right

956
01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:09.680
now in the vegetable garden. In
the cool season garden, you can still

957
01:09:09.720 --> 01:09:15.159
plant some cool season flowers. They're
you know, with summer and warmer weather

958
01:09:15.279 --> 01:09:17.520
coming, they're not going to be
long for this world, but they still

959
01:09:17.560 --> 01:09:23.159
would look good and help spruce things
up. And it's getting closer and closer

960
01:09:23.159 --> 01:09:26.239
to the time when we begin to
plant our warm season. We want to

961
01:09:26.239 --> 01:09:30.359
get that danger of frost past us
to start to put out things like petunias

962
01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:34.359
and other beautiful flowers in the garden. It's a great time to plant herb

963
01:09:34.479 --> 01:09:41.600
transplants. Let's see where are we
right now. It's a tad bit early

964
01:09:41.640 --> 01:09:45.560
to plant basil indoors as a transplant, but you could if you just don't

965
01:09:45.560 --> 01:09:48.359
mind growing it into a bigger plant. Basil likes warm weather. It does

966
01:09:48.399 --> 01:09:51.560
not want you to stick it out
there and the night becomes fifty degrees.

967
01:09:51.560 --> 01:09:56.279
In fact, I'm waiting to plant
mine another at least two weeks, probably

968
01:09:56.880 --> 01:10:01.159
to start a transplant indoors. There's
a lot we can plant. It won't

969
01:10:01.159 --> 01:10:05.439
be long before we're putting in squashing
cucumbers. It's transplants if we would like

970
01:10:05.520 --> 01:10:10.159
to do it that way. I
mentioned potatoes. It's a time to plant

971
01:10:10.199 --> 01:10:12.960
fruit trees, and I want to
talk about fruit trees a little bit here.

972
01:10:13.039 --> 01:10:15.039
I'm probably going to do that the
next hour. But it's time for

973
01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:18.640
all of that. And your lawn. Your lawn's asleep, but it's going

974
01:10:18.680 --> 01:10:24.199
to be waking up pretty soon.
And you know, when the lawn gets

975
01:10:24.279 --> 01:10:28.319
going, we get some spring growth
on it. Anything you can do to

976
01:10:28.399 --> 01:10:32.319
stimulate and help that lawn be healthy
is important. And the roots are where

977
01:10:32.359 --> 01:10:35.960
the lawn lives. I mean that
is, if the roots aren't happy,

978
01:10:36.279 --> 01:10:40.359
no plant's happy. So you've got
to make the roots happy first, and

979
01:10:40.960 --> 01:10:44.359
green pro they do that I don't
know if you've heard me talk about them

980
01:10:44.359 --> 01:10:48.600
before, but green Pro does compost
stop dressing, and they can do the

981
01:10:48.720 --> 01:10:55.479
deep time aeration that punches the holes
in the soil, pops the little plug

982
01:10:55.520 --> 01:10:59.560
out and leaves it on the surface
where it can melt away. They follow

983
01:10:59.600 --> 01:11:02.039
that up. They got really cool
machines that put the compost out for you,

984
01:11:02.079 --> 01:11:05.960
and they know the right kind of
compost to use, very fine texture

985
01:11:06.039 --> 01:11:11.199
that settles in real well. And
with that aeration and compost top dressing,

986
01:11:11.600 --> 01:11:15.159
your lawn just it just gets better
and better. And so you want to

987
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:17.159
give them a call and get a
schedule. Get on the schedule so they

988
01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:23.600
can do that. And all you
have to do is go to greenpro dot

989
01:11:23.680 --> 01:11:29.520
net greenpro dot net and you can
find out more about their services, what

990
01:11:29.600 --> 01:11:31.840
it costs, where they can where
they can go, depending on how far

991
01:11:31.880 --> 01:11:34.039
away you are. You know,
there's a there's a little bit more of

992
01:11:34.079 --> 01:11:38.920
a charge to get out to that
location. But this is the kind of

993
01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:43.840
service that probably does more for your
lawn than any one single thing we do.

994
01:11:43.920 --> 01:11:45.960
We know we got a water in
the summer. We know we've got

995
01:11:45.000 --> 01:11:49.079
to fertilize our launch to have good
growth. But when you use green pro,

996
01:11:49.199 --> 01:11:54.840
what you're doing is you're making the
soil right for those roots to thrive.

997
01:11:55.399 --> 01:11:59.000
And that is more than half the
battle right there. And what do

998
01:11:59.039 --> 01:12:03.960
we say all the time brown stuff
for green stuff? Aeration and top dressing

999
01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:09.079
is taking care of the brown stuff
so the green stuff, that beautiful lawn

1000
01:12:09.199 --> 01:12:13.800
you want to have can really happen. I guess I'm going to become a

1001
01:12:13.800 --> 01:12:15.439
broken record, but I want you
all to go, Okay, Guarden Line,

1002
01:12:15.479 --> 01:12:17.960
I know what he's gonna say.
He's gonna say brown stuff before green

1003
01:12:17.960 --> 01:12:23.920
sale. Hopefully we can get that
so into the psyche of all Houston area

1004
01:12:24.000 --> 01:12:30.359
gardeners that we just see much more
success. One of the frustrating things for

1005
01:12:30.479 --> 01:12:33.359
me in helping people garden, and
I've been doing this for a long time,

1006
01:12:33.479 --> 01:12:38.920
thirty five years with Texas A and
m Agrolife Extension Service. I worked

1007
01:12:38.920 --> 01:12:43.039
in Missouri as a fruit grower advisor
prior to that for a few years and

1008
01:12:43.279 --> 01:12:46.439
now continuing on radio on Garden Line
doing the same thing. One of the

1009
01:12:46.479 --> 01:12:53.600
frustrations is someone who goes out and
does something that has no hope of success

1010
01:12:54.159 --> 01:12:58.239
and then they call and how do
I fix it. Now. I don't

1011
01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:00.840
mean don't call, Please call and
let's fix it. We want to help

1012
01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:06.560
you have success, but I would
rather have helped before whatever was done was

1013
01:13:06.600 --> 01:13:10.520
done, so we could help you
get off the right feet. And here's

1014
01:13:10.520 --> 01:13:15.039
what this looks like. Someone who's
you know, not really gotten into gardening,

1015
01:13:15.039 --> 01:13:18.359
but wants to. They go somewhere
and it typically is going to be

1016
01:13:18.399 --> 01:13:23.680
some you know, big box store
that has plants over on the side.

1017
01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:27.159
They go in to buy a hammer
or whatever else. They see the plants.

1018
01:13:27.239 --> 01:13:29.920
They go over there. Oh they're
pretty, you know, let's grab

1019
01:13:29.960 --> 01:13:31.520
them. They bring a flat home
and they walk around the yard looking for

1020
01:13:31.560 --> 01:13:35.159
where to put them. Well,
number one, are those plants even adapted

1021
01:13:35.159 --> 01:13:39.399
to here? Are the varieties even
adapted to? Here? What condition are

1022
01:13:39.399 --> 01:13:42.640
those plants in? Our Mom and
pops? They know how to take care

1023
01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:45.079
of plants, and they know how
to get you the varieties and species that

1024
01:13:45.199 --> 01:13:47.439
do well here. Well, so
you stand there, you look around,

1025
01:13:47.479 --> 01:13:50.079
where am I going to plant them? You scratch back the weeds in the

1026
01:13:50.119 --> 01:13:53.720
grass, You make a bed and
you put them in it, and the

1027
01:13:53.760 --> 01:13:58.920
soil is not properly prepared, and
then you wait and they struggle and the

1028
01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:00.159
next thing, weeds are in there, and by the time we get to

1029
01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:04.039
May or June, it is just
basically weeds. So you just mow over

1030
01:14:04.079 --> 01:14:08.279
the whole thing and say I can't
garden. That is wrong. You can

1031
01:14:08.399 --> 01:14:12.199
garden. You just started off wrong, and we want to help you start

1032
01:14:12.199 --> 01:14:15.439
with success. That's why I say
brown stuff before green stuff. It's fun

1033
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:17.960
buying plants, and we should.
I mean, my gosh, I love

1034
01:14:18.039 --> 01:14:24.359
that, but take care of the
soil. First broken record. But I'm

1035
01:14:24.399 --> 01:14:28.079
telling you I could sit here all
day and tell you the best tomato varieties,

1036
01:14:28.119 --> 01:14:30.479
the best flower varieties, all that
kind of stuff. But if you

1037
01:14:30.680 --> 01:14:36.880
don't do the other then you're just
you're just spinning your wheels. Let's go

1038
01:14:38.000 --> 01:14:40.720
out to Manville and we're going to
talk to eight off. Eight off.

1039
01:14:40.720 --> 01:14:43.880
I got a little bit of time
here. How can we help Yes,

1040
01:14:43.920 --> 01:14:46.800
you're real quick. I know you've
discussed it before. What I called the

1041
01:14:50.119 --> 01:14:57.880
fruit trees. They're small. Should
I go ahead and uncover those? Yes?

1042
01:14:58.000 --> 01:15:00.600
Absolutely, And you don't need to
cover them up. In fact,

1043
01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:04.600
once we're going to not have a
freezing night, you don't need to cover

1044
01:15:04.640 --> 01:15:09.880
them up. You can pull that
cover off. Okay, great, thank

1045
01:15:09.960 --> 01:15:13.439
you you met Well, that was
fast and easy. Good luck out there

1046
01:15:13.479 --> 01:15:18.960
in Menville with your fruit trees.
Uh uh, that's that is a that

1047
01:15:19.079 --> 01:15:24.279
is a good question. I appreciate
people asking questions because, uh, you

1048
01:15:24.319 --> 01:15:28.800
know, it's what what is the
deal that this is a thing about guys,

1049
01:15:28.880 --> 01:15:31.319
Right, we don't ask for directions. We refuse to ask for directions

1050
01:15:31.319 --> 01:15:34.760
and stuff. Well, I don't
know if that's fully true, but some

1051
01:15:34.840 --> 01:15:38.239
of you are saying, oh,
yes it is, yes it is.

1052
01:15:39.680 --> 01:15:43.000
But when when we get things we
take care of and get them right,

1053
01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:45.359
it's just better. And and again
I was, I was, you know,

1054
01:15:45.399 --> 01:15:49.680
harping on a minute ago about getting
the soul ready before you plant.

1055
01:15:49.800 --> 01:15:54.119
Yeah, I want you to be
inspired, have spring fever by plants come

1056
01:15:54.159 --> 01:15:57.560
home, make the place beautiful,
have a beautiful, bountiful, healthy garden,

1057
01:15:58.159 --> 01:16:00.920
all of that kind of stuff.
But just check a little bit and

1058
01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:05.800
be careful. Oh my gosh,
social media, I don't know where to

1059
01:16:05.800 --> 01:16:10.680
start. I'm gonna not rant.
That's my gift to you. But so

1060
01:16:10.960 --> 01:16:15.720
much stuff on social media is just
flat wrong. It is just flat wrong.

1061
01:16:15.279 --> 01:16:19.039
Some of it is because it's for
another area, not this area,

1062
01:16:19.159 --> 01:16:25.800
not your area. Some of it
Some of it is because people become experts

1063
01:16:25.880 --> 01:16:30.640
overnight. Gardening and medicine seems to
be the same thing. People that have

1064
01:16:30.760 --> 01:16:33.680
all this, do this, do
that, you need this, you need

1065
01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:38.399
that, and they don't know what
they're talking about. And it just is

1066
01:16:38.399 --> 01:16:44.399
frustrating because I watch people waste money
in time and have disappointment because of that

1067
01:16:44.520 --> 01:16:46.119
kind of thing, and I don't
want to see that. You don't want

1068
01:16:46.119 --> 01:16:50.880
to see that. Of course,
that's why we have resources for you.

1069
01:16:51.199 --> 01:17:00.199
Aggie Horticulture website, Aggie hyphen Horticulture
dot TAMU dot edu twenty and publications on

1070
01:17:00.279 --> 01:17:05.039
every vegetable you can imagine growing and
fruit and herbs, and it's just on

1071
01:17:05.319 --> 01:17:09.680
and on and on. There lots
of good information. Call Garden Line,

1072
01:17:09.760 --> 01:17:13.079
visit your county Extension office, your
Egro Life Extension off you got one in

1073
01:17:13.119 --> 01:17:15.520
your county. We've got some some
uh, We've got offices and all the

1074
01:17:15.560 --> 01:17:19.079
counties around here. We had a
horticulturist down at Fort Bend County and Galveston

1075
01:17:19.119 --> 01:17:25.279
County and Brazoria County and Orange County
and Harris County and Montgomery County and Brass

1076
01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:29.840
County. There's plenty of help out
there to help you along the right We'll

1077
01:17:29.880 --> 01:17:34.279
be right back. Kat r H
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of

1078
01:17:34.319 --> 01:17:41.479
the products or services advertised on this
program. Welcome q kt r H Garden

1079
01:17:41.520 --> 01:18:00.840
Line with skip rictor it's trim just
watch him as Welcome back to garden Line.

1080
01:18:00.920 --> 01:18:03.600
We are happy to have you with
us today. What do we want

1081
01:18:03.600 --> 01:18:08.399
to talk about? You got a
question, give us a call seven one

1082
01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:13.920
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

1083
01:18:13.920 --> 01:18:18.039
eight seventy four. We were talking
earlier about recovering from the freeze, the

1084
01:18:18.039 --> 01:18:20.760
different kinds of things we can do
for our plants. The bottom line is

1085
01:18:21.600 --> 01:18:26.079
all the top growth are a lot
of it, depending on the plant was

1086
01:18:26.119 --> 01:18:30.079
frozen back, and so the plant's
got to regrow that and that top growth

1087
01:18:30.439 --> 01:18:33.000
if it had leaves on it,
if it was an evergreen for example,

1088
01:18:33.119 --> 01:18:39.600
or a winter annual for example,
that kind of top growth was making carbohydrates

1089
01:18:39.680 --> 01:18:43.760
to strengthen and support that plan and
help it do more growth, more blooms.

1090
01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:46.680
Now it's using stored carbohydrates to try
to regrow. So, in other

1091
01:18:46.680 --> 01:18:48.960
words, bottom line, we've got
to help our plants, got to take

1092
01:18:49.000 --> 01:18:53.800
care of them, making sure they
have adequate nutrition. Mixing in a little

1093
01:18:53.880 --> 01:18:58.600
compost around them is always a good
idea to do on plants. Also,

1094
01:18:59.199 --> 01:19:03.239
things like Medina plus Medina plus and
Medina seaweed both are very helpful for plants.

1095
01:19:04.000 --> 01:19:08.560
They these two products are liquid.
You can put them in a watering

1096
01:19:08.640 --> 01:19:12.399
can drench them over the soil when
new growth begins. You can use them

1097
01:19:12.399 --> 01:19:15.439
as a folio or spray too,
and that is very helpful as well for

1098
01:19:15.520 --> 01:19:20.800
the plants. But making sure that
that root system as it begins to wake

1099
01:19:20.880 --> 01:19:25.960
up and push growth, has the
nutrition that it needs. That's what's important.

1100
01:19:26.279 --> 01:19:29.079
And you know, some things are
not going to grow for a good

1101
01:19:29.079 --> 01:19:31.680
while. They're just going to be
sleepy heads and take a while before it

1102
01:19:31.680 --> 01:19:34.840
warms up enough to grow. Other
things are going to bounce back pretty quick,

1103
01:19:35.720 --> 01:19:39.399
and so you just need to watch
your plants, take good care of

1104
01:19:39.439 --> 01:19:43.560
them, make sure that whatever's in
your power to do, you do.

1105
01:19:44.039 --> 01:19:46.840
And they know how to deal with
this. Plants are designed for all kinds

1106
01:19:46.880 --> 01:19:50.600
of the vicissitudes of nature that they
just find a way to bounce back.

1107
01:19:50.760 --> 01:19:54.880
And so I have great hope for
that. Now. If it's if you

1108
01:19:54.920 --> 01:20:00.279
put a houseplant pathos ivy outside and
it got down to twenty five degree or

1109
01:20:00.319 --> 01:20:02.279
something. Well, you can just
do last rites and get rid of it.

1110
01:20:02.760 --> 01:20:06.319
But for most of our plants that
are outdoors, there are a lot

1111
01:20:06.359 --> 01:20:09.720
of them. I think we're gonna
have good, good results on this.

1112
01:20:10.520 --> 01:20:14.000
Let's head out to Brenham, Texas
and we're going to talk to Dan.

1113
01:20:14.439 --> 01:20:17.960
Hello. Dan, Yes, I
have a question about my bad yard from

1114
01:20:17.960 --> 01:20:23.159
the freeze. Who got down the
ten eleven degrees? Have several nayses?

1115
01:20:23.239 --> 01:20:25.680
Brown, What do I do?
And when do I do it? You

1116
01:20:25.760 --> 01:20:30.640
have Saint Augustine. Yes, for
right now, just hang on that that

1117
01:20:30.720 --> 01:20:34.399
grass is not going to want to
grow until it warms up. That you

1118
01:20:34.439 --> 01:20:38.439
can put fertilizer on it, water
on it, not put what it's not

1119
01:20:38.479 --> 01:20:42.119
going to grow. Uh, temperature, that's what's going to make it grow.

1120
01:20:42.680 --> 01:20:46.520
We're gonna be that warms up.
Yeah, is it is. It

1121
01:20:46.560 --> 01:20:51.239
starts to warm up, it'll start
to wake up. Your grass is not

1122
01:20:51.439 --> 01:20:57.359
dormant like dormant trees are. It's
the fancy word is quiescent. It is

1123
01:20:57.399 --> 01:21:00.199
sleeping. Uh, it's still alive. We have some warm Like if we

1124
01:21:00.239 --> 01:21:04.399
went through a week where we had
seventy five degrees or so that grasp.

1125
01:21:04.600 --> 01:21:10.119
I would start making carbohydrates and you
know, getting going and stuff a little

1126
01:21:10.159 --> 01:21:12.760
bit, and then it'll go back
to sleep again, because it's not going

1127
01:21:12.800 --> 01:21:15.039
dormant, it's just it's just going
to sleep with the temperature. So what

1128
01:21:15.119 --> 01:21:20.079
I would do is get ready to
go on your spring fertilization. Some people

1129
01:21:20.159 --> 01:21:27.039
start really early on that. I
generally wait until about the time I've mowed

1130
01:21:27.039 --> 01:21:30.840
the lawn twice. On my schedule, I've got April first is a time

1131
01:21:30.880 --> 01:21:35.199
to begin fertilizing in this area.
If you're done in Galveston, you know

1132
01:21:35.279 --> 01:21:39.760
it's going to warm up sooner than
it is if you're up in Huntskill listening

1133
01:21:39.800 --> 01:21:45.680
to the show, what about fruiting
plants that got burned in the freeze if

1134
01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:48.399
you can, if you can stand
to look at the ugly, just leave

1135
01:21:48.439 --> 01:21:53.960
it for low growing plants that just
kind of turned to mush. That's a

1136
01:21:54.000 --> 01:21:58.119
protection for the base the crown of
that plant. The other thing about pruning

1137
01:21:58.239 --> 01:22:00.800
is if you end up cutting into
living woods, it stimulates growth, and

1138
01:22:00.920 --> 01:22:04.319
we may have enough freeze left in
us and we don't want to stimulate it.

1139
01:22:04.720 --> 01:22:09.039
So if you can put up with
looking at the ugly. The plant

1140
01:22:09.079 --> 01:22:13.279
will tell you where to prune.
When spring huts, you'll see where the

1141
01:22:13.279 --> 01:22:15.359
buds come out, and that's where
you prone to if you're patient. On

1142
01:22:15.680 --> 01:22:18.960
hey, do you have a copy
of my lawn care schedule by any chance?

1143
01:22:19.439 --> 01:22:23.159
Dan? Yes? I do?
Okay, good? Well on there

1144
01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:28.680
it lists when to fertilize and all
your product options for synthetic and organic,

1145
01:22:28.720 --> 01:22:32.800
whichever you want to go. Okay, all right, have fun and Brunham

1146
01:22:33.640 --> 01:22:39.079
enjoy a bluebellt ice cream for me. Oh yes, you take care,

1147
01:22:39.800 --> 01:22:44.960
bye bye. That's that is some
good ice cream right there. Let's go

1148
01:22:45.119 --> 01:22:47.680
to Caldwell and talk to Don.
Hey, Don, is this Callwell,

1149
01:22:47.720 --> 01:22:55.600
Texas or Carwell County, Texas?
All right, sir, how can we

1150
01:22:55.680 --> 01:23:02.000
help? Just have some questions about
a few years ago my mother in law

1151
01:23:02.279 --> 01:23:05.199
has some guys come in and mow, and I think they brought grass birds,

1152
01:23:06.079 --> 01:23:12.279
and we don't have good grass at
all. She planted some san augustine,

1153
01:23:12.279 --> 01:23:15.560
but it does come out in spots, but I didn't know whether to,

1154
01:23:17.119 --> 01:23:21.680
you know, just skim the top
off and plant some soya, soysa

1155
01:23:21.920 --> 01:23:26.520
or whatever it is that I see
in the magazines. But okay, it's

1156
01:23:26.560 --> 01:23:30.439
so tired of digging grass birds out
of the carpet. Yeah, and also

1157
01:23:30.479 --> 01:23:34.439
about planning a garden. How to
you know in sandy soil. I've planted

1158
01:23:34.439 --> 01:23:39.600
some tomatoes. I have great bushes
and no tomatoes, so I don't know

1159
01:23:39.640 --> 01:23:45.760
what I'm doing wrong. Huh.
All right, Well that that's a lot

1160
01:23:45.800 --> 01:23:49.439
of questions in one so let's uh. First of all, I was just

1161
01:23:49.880 --> 01:23:55.079
talking about my online schedules. There's
a lawn care schedule, and there's a

1162
01:23:55.159 --> 01:24:01.359
lawn pest disease and weed management schedule, and they're at guard with Skip dot

1163
01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:04.319
com gardening with Skip dot com.
They're free. You just print them out

1164
01:24:04.399 --> 01:24:08.640
or look at them on your computer
and it tells you when to fertilize them

1165
01:24:08.640 --> 01:24:14.039
with what. And the main important
thing coming into spring is getting that fertilizer

1166
01:24:14.119 --> 01:24:17.399
down for the lawn to get going. Now, the grass burds you kind

1167
01:24:17.399 --> 01:24:20.640
of have to catch twenty two on
your hands. If you're gonna sod,

1168
01:24:21.520 --> 01:24:29.359
you don't want to sod after you
put down the pre emergent because the pre

1169
01:24:29.399 --> 01:24:33.439
emergent stubs root growth, and that's
how it kills the weed seeds trying to

1170
01:24:33.439 --> 01:24:38.920
get started and it will have the
same effect on your side that you laid

1171
01:24:38.920 --> 01:24:44.560
on top. It's gonna have trouble
getting roots down. So I would you

1172
01:24:44.560 --> 01:24:47.840
can do one or two things you
can just I probably if you have to

1173
01:24:47.920 --> 01:24:50.560
sod. If you need to sod, I would go ahead and do that.

1174
01:24:51.159 --> 01:24:55.279
Maybe if you've got a bunch of
things there, weeds and other things,

1175
01:24:55.439 --> 01:25:00.079
you would just kill everything so that
you can level the ground out and

1176
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:03.319
and put new sod down and get
going fresh. And then as far as

1177
01:25:03.359 --> 01:25:06.439
things like grass, pro seeds and
things, we can deal with them later.

1178
01:25:06.920 --> 01:25:14.640
But I'd say right now, unless
you see sprigs of grass within you

1179
01:25:14.640 --> 01:25:17.119
know, ten twelve inches of each
other, that you could get it to

1180
01:25:17.159 --> 01:25:23.560
refill in by the by midsummer,
I think probably putting some new fresh grass

1181
01:25:23.600 --> 01:25:26.600
down. But if you have Saint
Augustine, don't just put zoisia in it.

1182
01:25:26.680 --> 01:25:29.960
If you want to go to zeusia, get rid of everything and so

1183
01:25:30.039 --> 01:25:34.119
that zoysia sod can touch the soil, have good contact with the soil,

1184
01:25:34.560 --> 01:25:38.399
and you're not going to want You're
not going to get much results from that

1185
01:25:38.479 --> 01:25:45.079
until it warms up a little bit
more. Okay, do that answered?

1186
01:25:45.159 --> 01:25:50.199
Or did that just muddy the water. Well, so do I skim the

1187
01:25:50.680 --> 01:25:55.199
skim the top of the grass off
to get what's there, and then read

1188
01:25:55.479 --> 01:26:00.520
resoil and then put the Saint Augustine
down. I'll just switched to some of

1189
01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:03.800
the top of grass. Well,
Saint Augustine is fine. If it's in

1190
01:26:03.880 --> 01:26:06.640
the shade, it's going to be
your most shade tolerant. You know what,

1191
01:26:06.960 --> 01:26:10.279
Don, we are hitting a hard
break. Can you hang on when

1192
01:26:10.279 --> 01:26:12.319
we come back. This is going
to go on a little bit. Let's

1193
01:26:12.399 --> 01:26:15.600
let's finish this conversation in just just
a minute. Thank you for hanging with

1194
01:26:15.680 --> 01:26:19.479
us. Uh, here's here's a
break phone number seven one three two one

1195
01:26:19.600 --> 01:26:26.239
two five eight seven four. I
will be right back. Welcome back to

1196
01:26:26.319 --> 01:26:30.319
garden Line. We're looking forward to
visiting with you about the questions that you

1197
01:26:30.479 --> 01:26:33.760
want to talk about. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

1198
01:26:34.119 --> 01:26:38.880
fifty eight seventy four. I'm going
to go back to Calwell. We're visiting

1199
01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:44.239
with Don about some turf options.
Don, Saint Augustine is the best turf

1200
01:26:44.359 --> 01:26:48.119
when you have a lot of shade. It's the most shade tolerant when you

1201
01:26:48.159 --> 01:26:51.319
get out in the sun. The
challenge with Saint Augustine. You can grow

1202
01:26:51.359 --> 01:26:57.159
it, it just isn't as drought
tolerant, and so Bermuda and Zuezia pass

1203
01:26:57.239 --> 01:27:01.159
it by in terms of drought tolerance
out in the sun. Every grass has

1204
01:27:01.199 --> 01:27:04.640
its pros and cons, though there's
not like one that's the one you got

1205
01:27:04.680 --> 01:27:14.119
to plant. Are you there?
I am here. Okay, I've got

1206
01:27:14.159 --> 01:27:17.319
some shade, but it's not it's
not massive. Okay, I've got big

1207
01:27:17.520 --> 01:27:21.680
sections of the yard that are full
sunshine. Okay, well here, here's

1208
01:27:21.800 --> 01:27:26.880
here's the bottom line. It just
kind of to bring it down to brass

1209
01:27:26.920 --> 01:27:31.880
tacks on the choice. Saint Augustine
will take more shade, and it also

1210
01:27:32.960 --> 01:27:39.920
if you don't mow regularly, it
still looks okay. Zoisia will also take

1211
01:27:40.000 --> 01:27:43.520
a decent amount of shade, so
it probably would be okay in your spot.

1212
01:27:44.079 --> 01:27:47.039
It requires a sharp mower, and
if you don't, if you cut

1213
01:27:47.079 --> 01:27:51.520
it down low, you have to
use a real type mower like a barber

1214
01:27:51.560 --> 01:27:59.039
pole spiral blade as opposed to a
propeller blade like standard mowers have. And

1215
01:27:59.399 --> 01:28:02.079
if you if you don't have a
sharp blade on a propeller blade mower,

1216
01:28:02.439 --> 01:28:06.760
it tends to knock the Zoisia over
and it gets a little lumpy when you

1217
01:28:06.800 --> 01:28:13.800
cut it a little higher rate.
That would be And if you do zoysia,

1218
01:28:14.000 --> 01:28:19.079
I would do the broader leaf types
of zoysia, the varieties like Jammer

1219
01:28:19.359 --> 01:28:25.640
and I'm trying to think of some
of the more modern ones el Toro,

1220
01:28:25.960 --> 01:28:30.239
Jammer a couple of examples of those, but either one would do fine.

1221
01:28:30.840 --> 01:28:33.880
You just realize they all have their
pros and cons. But if you're gonna

1222
01:28:33.880 --> 01:28:36.960
sod, you got to get that
old stuff out of there. Randy used

1223
01:28:36.960 --> 01:28:41.520
to say kill, till and phil, meaning kill the kill, the weeds,

1224
01:28:41.520 --> 01:28:45.039
of grass, the everything, fill
it up to level any areas out

1225
01:28:45.319 --> 01:28:51.479
and then or tillot if you need
to loosen the soil up, level it

1226
01:28:51.479 --> 01:28:55.720
out real good, and then plant
the grass on top. If you don't

1227
01:28:55.760 --> 01:29:00.439
need to do the leveling and everything, just get the organic matter off the

1228
01:29:00.439 --> 01:29:02.520
top. Like if you spray and
kill weeds, you still have that dry

1229
01:29:02.560 --> 01:29:06.359
dead weed on top of the soil, so the sod can't touch the soil.

1230
01:29:06.439 --> 01:29:09.680
It sits on the dry dead weed. Do you see what I mean?

1231
01:29:09.960 --> 01:29:13.079
So you were talking about scraping it
off that that would be helpful if

1232
01:29:13.079 --> 01:29:16.800
you could do that okay, Okay, Yeah, And if it's a perennial

1233
01:29:16.800 --> 01:29:20.880
weed though, that's where spraying is
more important because you chop the top off

1234
01:29:20.880 --> 01:29:26.880
and it just comes back through there. Yeah. I think spraying killing first

1235
01:29:26.920 --> 01:29:30.720
and then killing and then repotting is
going to be the best plan, probably

1236
01:29:30.800 --> 01:29:34.399
so, And I wouldn't get in
a big hurry about it. Some of

1237
01:29:34.439 --> 01:29:39.760
the weeds that are a problem through
the summer, they're going to be waiting

1238
01:29:39.840 --> 01:29:43.800
to really show up until it warms
up a little bit. So let them

1239
01:29:43.840 --> 01:29:45.920
go ahead and come up, and
then when you do get rid of them,

1240
01:29:46.600 --> 01:29:50.199
you can kind of get it all
done, hopefully with one application and

1241
01:29:50.239 --> 01:29:56.119
be done with it and then whenever
you can get that sod in and get

1242
01:29:56.119 --> 01:30:02.600
it laid. So last question,
what about gar name? What's the without

1243
01:30:02.640 --> 01:30:09.399
buying a hundred sacks of it?
Because I was gonna do a pretty deepent

1244
01:30:09.479 --> 01:30:15.960
area where I could do some tomatoes
and yeah, for a variety of plants

1245
01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:21.640
that we eat every every day,
okay, and especially beats. I was

1246
01:30:21.680 --> 01:30:30.680
interested in beats because there's health health
issues. How big of an area are

1247
01:30:30.720 --> 01:30:40.880
you looking at? Probably twenty four
Okay, Yeah, it's going to take

1248
01:30:41.039 --> 01:30:45.680
a bit to do that. By
the way, if you go to Airloom

1249
01:30:45.880 --> 01:30:51.560
Soil's website, they have a calculator
on there that is really helpful. And

1250
01:30:51.840 --> 01:30:57.960
the calculator you can tell it you
know what size area and how deep you

1251
01:30:57.960 --> 01:31:00.119
want to put the stuff, and
it tells you exactly how any qbicyards you're

1252
01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:06.960
going to need, and you probably
want to do. That's Airlooms Soilsoftexas dot

1253
01:31:08.000 --> 01:31:12.560
Com calculator. Find out how much
you need and you're gonna want to buy

1254
01:31:12.600 --> 01:31:15.399
a bulk for that big of an
area, and so you know that way

1255
01:31:15.439 --> 01:31:18.640
you can go ahead and get it
spread out and mix it in a little

1256
01:31:18.640 --> 01:31:21.199
bit with the soil you have,
and then keep building it up with the

1257
01:31:21.319 --> 01:31:26.800
quality bed mix. If you can
get it up probably about ten inches eleven

1258
01:31:26.840 --> 01:31:31.079
inches or so that that ought to
be enough for putting in the bed and

1259
01:31:31.159 --> 01:31:35.640
so you can order it. You
know our soil yards down here in the

1260
01:31:35.640 --> 01:31:43.079
Houston area. Transportation is the big
cost, and so getting it all the

1261
01:31:43.079 --> 01:31:45.760
way out to Caldwell, Texas is
going to get a little cost prohibitive.

1262
01:31:45.760 --> 01:31:48.439
But you can talk to the folks
at Airloom find out what they have,

1263
01:31:48.600 --> 01:31:53.600
or Nature's way is up in Conro
area, that would be another option.

1264
01:31:54.279 --> 01:32:00.640
Or since you're in callwell the recycle
place gosh, I can't say the name

1265
01:32:00.680 --> 01:32:05.039
of it up up there north and
just to the west and north of Brian,

1266
01:32:05.239 --> 01:32:09.560
Texas is pretty close to you.
You got to go get it.

1267
01:32:09.840 --> 01:32:13.560
But they have a compost up there
that I've checked. It's a good compost

1268
01:32:14.039 --> 01:32:15.960
and if you go get it,
you can do that. That's probably the

1269
01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:19.800
most convenient for you. But you
could talk to our soil yards and get

1270
01:32:19.800 --> 01:32:23.640
a price on what it would cost
to get one of our good mixes,

1271
01:32:23.720 --> 01:32:28.359
like a veggy mix up to your
area too. Okay, Well, I've

1272
01:32:28.359 --> 01:32:33.439
got to try rock and get Okay, get that soil. Yeah, I

1273
01:32:33.479 --> 01:32:36.840
just I can't say the name.
It's the same name as the landfill up

1274
01:32:36.840 --> 01:32:41.479
there, and it's escaping me at
the very moment, but it is north.

1275
01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:44.960
There's a thing called Lake Brian that's
up north and west of Brian,

1276
01:32:45.720 --> 01:32:53.159
uh and it's it's out real close
to that the facility Twin Oaks, Twin

1277
01:32:53.199 --> 01:32:58.159
Oaks, Twin Oaks landfill and just
just hunt it down online and you can

1278
01:32:58.159 --> 01:33:02.319
find it. Okay, it's called
it's called twin Oaks, like two Oak

1279
01:33:02.359 --> 01:33:08.960
trees twin oaks. Yeah, it's
close. They don't deliver, they just

1280
01:33:09.079 --> 01:33:12.520
make it. It's part of the
recycling program for those communities up there,

1281
01:33:13.039 --> 01:33:16.800
and so that that is yeah for
you. I think that might be the

1282
01:33:16.840 --> 01:33:21.800
easiest thing to do. All right, Well, I appreciate your show.

1283
01:33:21.920 --> 01:33:26.720
Thank you for doing a great job. We appreciate it. Thanks, sir.

1284
01:33:26.760 --> 01:33:30.079
I appreciate your call very much,
very much. You know the the

1285
01:33:30.279 --> 01:33:36.680
uh folks at Southwest Fertilizer. I
was visiting with them yesterday and they are

1286
01:33:36.800 --> 01:33:43.960
on the verge of getting a product
in all kinds of new things. If

1287
01:33:44.000 --> 01:33:46.920
you need past control, disease control, weed control, they've got all the

1288
01:33:46.920 --> 01:33:49.640
fertilizers. They're sitting there waiting for
you. I mean, do you need

1289
01:33:49.680 --> 01:33:54.159
early weed control. We'll be talking
about that soon. Do you need,

1290
01:33:54.960 --> 01:33:59.520
you know, to do some fertilizing
of your lawn or whatever. They've got

1291
01:33:59.560 --> 01:34:04.880
it all Southwest Feed or Southwest Fertilizer
rather now they're on Bisonet, a corner

1292
01:34:04.920 --> 01:34:10.880
of Bisonet and Runwick in Houston.
It's it's not hard at all to find

1293
01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:13.880
them. If you want to get
them a call seven to one three six

1294
01:34:14.279 --> 01:34:18.039
six, six seventeen forty four.
I was just in yesterday admiring their seed

1295
01:34:18.119 --> 01:34:21.880
collection. They've they've got all kinds
of packets of seed, but they have

1296
01:34:21.960 --> 01:34:26.880
these bulk binds, and you're not
going to do better on a price for

1297
01:34:26.920 --> 01:34:29.279
seed than bulk bends. You just
have a little scoop in there, and

1298
01:34:29.319 --> 01:34:31.640
you scoop it out and put it
in a little envelope. And it is

1299
01:34:31.680 --> 01:34:35.680
the most economical way to plant a
vegetable garden for sure. And they're stocked

1300
01:34:35.760 --> 01:34:40.680
up well in that, but it's
just going to continue to get better and

1301
01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:45.199
better. If they don't have it
at Southwest Fertilizer, you don't need it

1302
01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:48.479
because they pretty much have everything you
can imagine, certainly everything that I would

1303
01:34:48.479 --> 01:34:53.720
recommend here on Garden Line. We're
going to head out to Katie now and

1304
01:34:53.800 --> 01:34:58.239
talk to Roy. Hello. Roy, Hey, thanks for taking my call.

1305
01:34:59.399 --> 01:35:02.159
I just I have a couple of
real quick questions. The first time

1306
01:35:02.319 --> 01:35:08.039
ever. I'm getting ready to do
some container fruit trees that I'm gonna buy

1307
01:35:08.079 --> 01:35:11.239
from the county in I guess in
a couple of weeks, okay, and

1308
01:35:11.279 --> 01:35:15.479
I want to get I want to
get my containers ready. What is the

1309
01:35:15.520 --> 01:35:18.600
best mix that you you know,
soil, mixed and everything that you would

1310
01:35:19.359 --> 01:35:23.840
suggest. And then my part beat
to that is I read the I went

1311
01:35:23.880 --> 01:35:26.479
to the A and M web page
that you suggested and everything, and they

1312
01:35:26.520 --> 01:35:30.239
talk about the biggest problem of overwatering. So can you kind of give me

1313
01:35:30.279 --> 01:35:32.840
some detail on how not to make
sure I don't overwater? Yeah, in

1314
01:35:32.920 --> 01:35:36.680
containers, the way you don't overwaters
you use a mix. It drains well

1315
01:35:36.840 --> 01:35:41.000
and you make sure you have lots
of holes in the bottom of that container

1316
01:35:41.439 --> 01:35:45.960
where water can drip right out if
it gets too wet, so that that

1317
01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:48.640
is important. If it's in the
ground, that's a different discussion. But

1318
01:35:48.760 --> 01:35:54.239
in containers, there are a number
of mixes. I've grown things like that.

1319
01:35:54.520 --> 01:35:58.920
In rose soil, I've grown it. There's also a couple of fruit

1320
01:35:59.079 --> 01:36:05.399
mixes. The folks set Nature's Way
up in the conroad direction and out at

1321
01:36:05.399 --> 01:36:10.760
airloomsils both have a mix for that. You can buy it by the bag.

1322
01:36:11.239 --> 01:36:13.720
If you're doing containers, you don't
need to buy it by the bulk.

1323
01:36:13.840 --> 01:36:16.600
So they're going to be for sale
around you. So you know out

1324
01:36:16.600 --> 01:36:19.880
there in Katie you got some ace
hardware stores that are going to have that

1325
01:36:20.000 --> 01:36:24.600
kind of material. Real handy make
it real easy for you. Remember to

1326
01:36:24.600 --> 01:36:29.159
give them as much soil as you
can. I don't know specifically the fruits

1327
01:36:29.159 --> 01:36:32.439
are growing, but any fruit in
a container has a confined root system.

1328
01:36:33.039 --> 01:36:35.960
In the ground, it would have
roots going way out in all directions.

1329
01:36:36.760 --> 01:36:41.319
In a container, it's confined.
So the more soil you give them,

1330
01:36:41.359 --> 01:36:45.800
the less drought stress, moisture stress, and nutrient stress you're going to have

1331
01:36:45.960 --> 01:36:49.760
because they have a bigger volume for
that soil bank account. Yeah, it's

1332
01:36:49.800 --> 01:36:55.479
going to be mostly the liming and
oranges. But I'm I'm really tempted that

1333
01:36:55.560 --> 01:36:59.800
I saw there they sell an apple
tree that does only needs one hundred hours

1334
01:37:00.039 --> 01:37:03.439
of cold. I guess can that
apple tree you think work in a container?

1335
01:37:04.760 --> 01:37:08.880
Well? It it it could.
I don't know what rootstock it's on.

1336
01:37:09.000 --> 01:37:16.119
There are some dwarfing rootstocks, oh
gosh, the M seven M nine

1337
01:37:16.239 --> 01:37:20.960
M seven would be examples of apple
dwarfing rootstocks that would help. I tell

1338
01:37:20.960 --> 01:37:25.600
you one thing, though, an
apple we're outside the range of apples.

1339
01:37:25.640 --> 01:37:29.880
You can grow them here, but
the variety choices and the fruit quality and

1340
01:37:29.960 --> 01:37:32.640
things aren't always what you might be
hoping for. A lot of other fruit

1341
01:37:32.680 --> 01:37:36.119
we can do better with. But
if you're determined to grow an apple once

1342
01:37:36.239 --> 01:37:40.640
like that or the way you need
to go. Okay, well, thank

1343
01:37:40.640 --> 01:37:43.079
you very much for your help.
I really appreciate it. All right,

1344
01:37:43.159 --> 01:37:45.279
Roy, thank you. I appreciate
your call very much, and we'd like

1345
01:37:45.319 --> 01:37:48.199
to talk to the rest of you
as well. Our phone number is seven

1346
01:37:48.239 --> 01:37:51.439
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. We're going to go to

1347
01:37:51.520 --> 01:37:58.399
Nikki for the news here and we'll
be right back. Welcome back to Gardenline.

1348
01:37:58.399 --> 01:38:00.600
We're glad you're with us today.
What are we going to talk about?

1349
01:38:00.720 --> 01:38:05.560
You tell me seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven

1350
01:38:05.600 --> 01:38:09.960
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. You know, we've been

1351
01:38:10.000 --> 01:38:13.880
talking about this rain, this excessive
amount of rain that we got in a

1352
01:38:13.880 --> 01:38:16.880
lot of parts of the area.
I was talking to the folks at Anti

1353
01:38:16.960 --> 01:38:23.039
Crosing Porium yesterday at the OBA Science
Day event, by the way, that

1354
01:38:23.119 --> 01:38:28.000
was a great event put on by
the Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance and visiting with

1355
01:38:28.039 --> 01:38:30.399
folks at Antie and they got like
fourteen inches of rain up there. That's

1356
01:38:30.439 --> 01:38:33.239
a lot, I know, a
lot. You know. You get up

1357
01:38:33.279 --> 01:38:38.119
around tom Ball and whatnot. There's
areas run seven inches and as you go

1358
01:38:38.199 --> 01:38:42.239
down south, I think, oh
three four five six inches, and a

1359
01:38:42.239 --> 01:38:45.720
lot of areas around here depends on
where you are, but that was a

1360
01:38:45.760 --> 01:38:48.079
lot. So what happens, Well, we we got to get that water

1361
01:38:48.119 --> 01:38:53.880
away from our plant roots. And
I did a Facebook post that talks about

1362
01:38:53.880 --> 01:38:59.439
five different things you can do to
help improve the roots situation get that water

1363
01:38:59.600 --> 01:39:03.000
away, And that's at the garden
Line Facebook page, which I hope you

1364
01:39:03.079 --> 01:39:09.399
will like and join and follow.
But another issue with that rain is our

1365
01:39:09.720 --> 01:39:14.720
is the soils shifting. You know, this summer, it got incredibly dry

1366
01:39:14.760 --> 01:39:17.840
and the soil shrunk up. Our
clay soil shrink and swell. They shrink

1367
01:39:17.880 --> 01:39:20.560
and swell. When they get dry, they get shrinked. They shrink.

1368
01:39:20.600 --> 01:39:25.039
When they get wet, they swell
and boy are they ever swollen now.

1369
01:39:25.439 --> 01:39:30.640
And that is that rex havoc on
our foundations, the home foundation and your

1370
01:39:30.680 --> 01:39:33.800
driveway, your sidewalks. It does
it all And fix my slab. They

1371
01:39:33.800 --> 01:39:38.600
are specialists in this. They know
what they're doing. Uh, they've been

1372
01:39:38.600 --> 01:39:42.479
doing this for thirty or twenty three
years. Ty Strickland of the folks give

1373
01:39:42.520 --> 01:39:45.720
them a call to eight one two
five five forty nine forty nine. If

1374
01:39:45.760 --> 01:39:49.159
you see cracks in your sheet rock
or in your bricks on the outside,

1375
01:39:49.720 --> 01:39:54.359
give tie a call to eight one
two five five forty nine forty nine,

1376
01:39:54.439 --> 01:39:58.720
or go to fixmslab dot com.
Listen when they do it, tell them

1377
01:39:58.720 --> 01:40:02.279
your guardline listener. Free estimates for
gardenline listeners, and they're committed to a

1378
01:40:02.319 --> 01:40:05.119
fair price. They show up on
time the way we like to say it

1379
01:40:05.199 --> 01:40:12.520
is on time, fair price fixed. That's fixmslab dot com. That's Tys

1380
01:40:12.560 --> 01:40:16.560
Tricklin and fix my slab foundation repair. We're going to head now out to

1381
01:40:16.760 --> 01:40:21.119
sugar Land and talk to Greg.
Hello. Greg, Yes, one would

1382
01:40:21.159 --> 01:40:27.279
be the best time for me to
put that barricade down. Well, yeah,

1383
01:40:27.399 --> 01:40:30.600
that's an excellent question. On my
schedule, I talk about applying pre

1384
01:40:30.640 --> 01:40:35.520
emergence. You can begin in mid
January and go all the way through February.

1385
01:40:35.600 --> 01:40:41.760
I generally focus on February. Here's
the deal. Every year, the

1386
01:40:41.880 --> 01:40:45.319
lawn weeds of different species are sprouting
at various times, and so it's not

1387
01:40:45.560 --> 01:40:49.039
like we go, you know,
black and white, like today's too early,

1388
01:40:49.119 --> 01:40:55.319
tomorrow's on time. It depends on
the year. But for those of

1389
01:40:55.359 --> 01:41:00.760
you that are further south in like
sugar Land, then going a little earlier

1390
01:41:00.840 --> 01:41:03.319
is fine for listeners that are further
up north. And you know, waiting

1391
01:41:03.640 --> 01:41:11.359
into February is good too. So
I would say probably not. Hey Greg,

1392
01:41:11.359 --> 01:41:15.800
are you there? Yes? Okay, So I would get it down

1393
01:41:15.079 --> 01:41:20.520
Let's say sometime toward the end of
January here, early February for your area

1394
01:41:20.600 --> 01:41:25.479
would be just fine. Remember you
have to water it in with about a

1395
01:41:25.520 --> 01:41:29.239
half inch of rain just to move
it, or irrigation just to move it

1396
01:41:29.279 --> 01:41:30.560
into the soil surface. Now,
I know the last thing you want to

1397
01:41:30.560 --> 01:41:33.319
do today is irrogate, but it's
going to dry out a little more,

1398
01:41:33.560 --> 01:41:38.119
and when it does, get that
down. But you got to move it

1399
01:41:38.159 --> 01:41:42.640
off the granules into the soil surface. That's where it's able to control weed

1400
01:41:42.680 --> 01:41:45.680
seats. Okay, okay, So
I'm going to have to work it in

1401
01:41:46.720 --> 01:41:49.880
just with water, just a little
bit of water. We'll get it in.

1402
01:41:50.119 --> 01:41:53.359
Okay. Yeah, that's all you
got to do. That's all.

1403
01:41:53.399 --> 01:41:56.039
You don't have to scratch it down
or you don't want to scratch it in

1404
01:41:56.159 --> 01:41:58.920
or anything. Just water and it'll
go in. And listen, Greg,

1405
01:41:58.960 --> 01:42:03.680
when you're using any pre emergent control, including barricade. Follow the label carefully

1406
01:42:03.840 --> 01:42:08.439
when you start going. If a
teaspoon's good, a tablespoon's better, you

1407
01:42:08.479 --> 01:42:11.800
can do damage and you want to
follow the labels so it does what it's

1408
01:42:11.800 --> 01:42:16.560
supposed to do and no more.
Okay, alrighty, thank you so much.

1409
01:42:16.680 --> 01:42:23.119
Thank you appreciate that call very very
much. See we're going to go

1410
01:42:23.199 --> 01:42:27.880
now out to northwest Houston and talk
to Donald. Hello. Donald, Oh,

1411
01:42:28.039 --> 01:42:31.920
how are you glad to be up? I'd like to ask you a

1412
01:42:32.000 --> 01:42:39.239
question about over airating the soil after
it's been growing hay for a couple of

1413
01:42:39.279 --> 01:42:45.399
years and now it's stagnant. And
I have a five foot wide one and

1414
01:42:45.399 --> 01:42:50.399
twenty six spike six inch spike roller
and can you over airrate? Can you

1415
01:42:50.560 --> 01:42:55.760
like make too many holes in the
ground? No, not really. But

1416
01:42:56.359 --> 01:43:00.600
what happens when you airrate is there
is some grass plant damage. You know,

1417
01:43:00.640 --> 01:43:04.600
if that's spine comes down right up
on top of a grass runner or

1418
01:43:04.600 --> 01:43:09.960
something, you know, you get
some wounding there. So we don't want

1419
01:43:10.000 --> 01:43:13.640
to go more than what we need
to do. And I would think one

1420
01:43:13.680 --> 01:43:16.119
time over should be good. If
you wanted to crisscross and do it back

1421
01:43:16.159 --> 01:43:20.560
the other way, that'd be fine. Right. Well, we had fifty

1422
01:43:20.560 --> 01:43:24.720
had a cattle on there or so, and they aerate it with their feet

1423
01:43:24.840 --> 01:43:29.000
pretty good, make holes and all
that. But now that it's wet out,

1424
01:43:29.520 --> 01:43:31.039
when it's dry in the summer,
you can't aerate it all because it's

1425
01:43:31.119 --> 01:43:33.880
you know, the clay as hard
as a rock. Yeah, And you

1426
01:43:33.920 --> 01:43:38.319
can fill up this drum to you
with water. It's five feet by about

1427
01:43:38.359 --> 01:43:41.800
twenty inches around, so you can
bring it up to about one thousand pounds

1428
01:43:41.840 --> 01:43:46.680
I guess whatever. Ye fifty gallons
of waterways And so the only thing that

1429
01:43:46.720 --> 01:43:51.760
had been growing there is was hay, but that was we stopped cattle and

1430
01:43:51.880 --> 01:44:00.079
with auctioned the cattle and now have
the hay field about thirty acres. And

1431
01:44:00.079 --> 01:44:02.119
that would have been in the year
nineteen so nineteen twenty twenty two, so

1432
01:44:02.159 --> 01:44:05.720
it's been three or four years since
there's been any cattle walking on it.

1433
01:44:05.760 --> 01:44:10.399
And we don't want to grow anything. We don't what to grow on it.

1434
01:44:10.439 --> 01:44:15.279
I was thinking about putting getting BlackBerry
bushes that are thornless and plant them

1435
01:44:15.279 --> 01:44:18.239
and then the birds eat the blackberries
and they spread them out all over the

1436
01:44:18.239 --> 01:44:23.359
place, and then you have free
blackberries. You know, never heard that

1437
01:44:23.399 --> 01:44:27.199
one before. Well, I'm not
a pastor, guy Donald. Is this

1438
01:44:27.239 --> 01:44:30.680
in Harris County? In love Lady
Texas? Love Lady? What county is

1439
01:44:30.720 --> 01:44:34.920
that? Lovely? Houston County?
Houston County. You have a Houston County

1440
01:44:34.960 --> 01:44:40.840
Extension office up there, and I
would call your ag agent in Houston County.

1441
01:44:41.119 --> 01:44:45.119
I've not heard of like air raiding
pastures like that. I'm it's just

1442
01:44:45.159 --> 01:44:49.359
because that's not my area. But
talk to your county extension agent in Houston

1443
01:44:49.399 --> 01:44:53.399
County. I can't think of the
guy's name right now, but he can

1444
01:44:53.439 --> 01:44:55.800
talk to you about that better.
But yeah, you're right. When the

1445
01:44:55.840 --> 01:44:59.600
soil gets dry, you need a
jackhammer to airrate. You can't do it.

1446
01:45:00.399 --> 01:45:02.439
And the purpose of it is also
to keep it from puddling up,

1447
01:45:02.479 --> 01:45:05.800
because if you do go out there
to mow and you've got you know,

1448
01:45:05.960 --> 01:45:10.680
puddles, the puddles will stay there
and you don't need to get your tractor

1449
01:45:10.760 --> 01:45:13.439
stuck in a puddle of mud.
And then the harder you pull it,

1450
01:45:13.479 --> 01:45:16.359
the deeper it goes. And yeah
it is. We have one tractor that's

1451
01:45:17.640 --> 01:45:20.840
John Dearwood four wheel drive, a
great, big monster tractor. You know,

1452
01:45:20.960 --> 01:45:25.000
so all right, that one gets
through anything, but we don't need

1453
01:45:25.000 --> 01:45:29.439
to pull that little roller behind that
great big tractors. Well, yeah,

1454
01:45:29.800 --> 01:45:32.279
that makes sense, but yeah,
I just that's about as far as I

1455
01:45:32.319 --> 01:45:35.479
can advise you. But I do
appreciate the call and good luck with that.

1456
01:45:35.520 --> 01:45:39.159
Sounds like you have a nice little
piece of property out there. Thank

1457
01:45:39.199 --> 01:45:42.359
you, thank you very much.
I'm going to have to run. It's

1458
01:45:42.399 --> 01:45:45.720
time for a break here. Our
phone number is seven one three two one

1459
01:45:45.800 --> 01:45:50.920
two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1460
01:45:51.000 --> 01:45:55.000
We'll be right back after the break. Call Josh and get you on

1461
01:45:55.039 --> 01:46:00.720
the boards and you can be first
up. Welcome back to Garden Line.

1462
01:46:00.960 --> 01:46:04.239
Thanks for listening today. Now I
look outside and I see lots of clouds,

1463
01:46:04.239 --> 01:46:08.319
but I'm telling you those clouds are
staying on the move, and we

1464
01:46:08.399 --> 01:46:11.399
have asked them to hold and not
drop any water, and they've agreed to

1465
01:46:11.439 --> 01:46:14.880
that. The weather man even agrees
with that. And so here we are.

1466
01:46:15.479 --> 01:46:18.399
Tomorrow we're going to get some sun
and patches through today. It's a

1467
01:46:18.479 --> 01:46:23.720
good day to be outside getting some
things done. Tomorrow is gonna be downright

1468
01:46:23.800 --> 01:46:26.760
sunny even, and boy do we
ever have a good week. This week,

1469
01:46:26.800 --> 01:46:31.000
it's warming up considerably, and so
that reminds me. When the temperatures

1470
01:46:31.000 --> 01:46:35.000
start going up, we start to
think about things like what's happening with the

1471
01:46:35.039 --> 01:46:40.439
plants, including the weeds. Those
are plants too. When the soil temperature

1472
01:46:40.840 --> 01:46:44.760
it's a certain point, depends on
the weeds. Some weeds it's around fifty

1473
01:46:44.760 --> 01:46:48.000
five degrees, some weeds it's a
little warmer. That's when we start to

1474
01:46:48.000 --> 01:46:53.600
see weed seed germination, and getting
ahead of those with something to prevent the

1475
01:46:53.600 --> 01:46:59.079
weed seeds from establishing is important.
It's easier to deal with it that way

1476
01:46:59.520 --> 01:47:02.520
than to have weeds growing in and
among your grass plants. And now we're

1477
01:47:02.560 --> 01:47:08.039
trying to kill weeds binochiar grass.
That then we start running into some challenges

1478
01:47:08.079 --> 01:47:12.279
depending on the weed and the species
of grass that you have. And so

1479
01:47:12.520 --> 01:47:15.159
pre emergence season is upon us.
It doesn't mean you have to get it

1480
01:47:15.199 --> 01:47:19.399
out today by any means, but
it's coming up here, and so it

1481
01:47:19.439 --> 01:47:26.199
wouldn't hurt for those of you who
are further south down Galveston direction. That

1482
01:47:26.279 --> 01:47:30.720
would be an earlier application because all
it takes is, you know, a

1483
01:47:30.760 --> 01:47:34.079
few days of the right temperature like
a week like we're going into and we

1484
01:47:34.119 --> 01:47:39.680
may start to see some germination occurring. Normally, I would say put your

1485
01:47:39.680 --> 01:47:45.159
pre emergence down in February because that's
when that usually gets us ahead of most

1486
01:47:45.199 --> 01:47:48.199
of the weeds. But when I
say in February, I really mean early

1487
01:47:48.279 --> 01:47:53.359
to mid February. And here's the
trade off. When you put a product

1488
01:47:53.359 --> 01:47:58.319
down, it you watered in and
it moves into the soil. So when

1489
01:47:58.319 --> 01:48:01.039
a weed seed germinates it, it
prevents that little route from establishing. They

1490
01:48:01.079 --> 01:48:05.359
work different ways, but that's one
way, and it prevents the root from

1491
01:48:05.479 --> 01:48:11.000
establishing. And so if you wait
until the weed has already put down a

1492
01:48:11.079 --> 01:48:15.199
route and is growing, then unless
you catch it really early in the process,

1493
01:48:15.920 --> 01:48:18.720
you're not going to have any effect. It's like swinging at a baseball

1494
01:48:18.760 --> 01:48:23.159
after the catcher's already holding it in. Is MIT a little bit too late

1495
01:48:23.199 --> 01:48:27.319
then, so you want to do
it ahead of that. Now, for

1496
01:48:27.600 --> 01:48:30.279
those of you further north you start
to getting up, let's say you go

1497
01:48:30.279 --> 01:48:34.800
as far as Conroe, Bryan College
Station, certainly Huntsville up in those areas,

1498
01:48:35.560 --> 01:48:41.479
we're looking at more of an endo
February type of application for getting those

1499
01:48:41.520 --> 01:48:45.239
down most years, but remember every
year is different, and so just be

1500
01:48:45.399 --> 01:48:49.119
aware. That's why I'm saying and
said it last week and I'm saying it

1501
01:48:49.119 --> 01:48:53.680
today. Go ahead and get the
products that you need. They'll wait until

1502
01:48:53.720 --> 01:48:55.840
the day you want to apply them. To go get them, I mean,

1503
01:48:55.880 --> 01:48:59.359
you can do that, but get
them and have them there on hand

1504
01:48:59.439 --> 01:49:01.520
ready to go, so when the
time comes, you're ready to apply them.

1505
01:49:01.720 --> 01:49:05.680
Now. If you have not bookmarked
my website, I encourage you to

1506
01:49:05.720 --> 01:49:10.520
do that because on there, number
one, I write things from time to

1507
01:49:10.520 --> 01:49:13.920
time. I'm about to post one
on soil testing. It's coming up in

1508
01:49:13.960 --> 01:49:16.960
the next few days. But up
there you'll find the long care Schedule,

1509
01:49:17.119 --> 01:49:21.479
which talks about fertilizing, air rating, mowing, and watering your lawn for

1510
01:49:21.600 --> 01:49:27.640
success. It gives you stuff to
do from January to December. It lists

1511
01:49:27.680 --> 01:49:30.600
the products that you would apply.
It even as a link to the soil

1512
01:49:30.680 --> 01:49:35.319
test forms. And then there's the
Lawn Past, Disease and Weed Management schedule

1513
01:49:35.760 --> 01:49:42.439
that does just that. What insects
occur in our typical lawns here, and

1514
01:49:42.479 --> 01:49:46.159
when do they occur and what do
you do about them? What diseases occur

1515
01:49:46.359 --> 01:49:48.960
and when do they occur? And
what do you do about them? What

1516
01:49:49.039 --> 01:49:54.720
about weeds? Oh my gosh,
what about preventing them with a pre emergent

1517
01:49:54.920 --> 01:49:57.840
or killing them with a post emergent? What do you do? How do

1518
01:49:57.880 --> 01:50:00.079
you go about that? It's all
there on the schedule. And again,

1519
01:50:00.520 --> 01:50:05.279
if you choose synthetic, choose organic
options, the options are there for you

1520
01:50:05.359 --> 01:50:10.840
and I encourage you. And all
that is that gardening with Skip dot com.

1521
01:50:10.880 --> 01:50:15.239
Gardening with Skip that's me dot com
and you can find that and more.

1522
01:50:16.039 --> 01:50:19.720
Like been talking for a while about
new updates coming, and boy do

1523
01:50:19.760 --> 01:50:24.600
we ever have a lot of new
updates that are coming to the website.

1524
01:50:24.920 --> 01:50:28.800
So I've been talking about talking about
fruit trees, talking about talking about and

1525
01:50:28.960 --> 01:50:32.880
I'm going to talk about it.
Fruit trees are one of the really cool

1526
01:50:32.880 --> 01:50:36.000
things we can add to our landscapes. And when I say fruit trees,

1527
01:50:36.039 --> 01:50:43.359
I mean fruit trees, vines and
bushes, grape vines, blueberry bushes,

1528
01:50:43.680 --> 01:50:46.880
BlackBerry bushes, and then all the
different kinds of fruit trees that we have.

1529
01:50:47.600 --> 01:50:53.479
And winter is a great time to
plant those container grown bear root.

1530
01:50:53.560 --> 01:50:56.800
There's a lot of bear root now
I know, buchanans and the heights has

1531
01:50:56.840 --> 01:51:00.399
just gotten their ship the first shipment
of the the bear root fruit trees.

1532
01:51:00.439 --> 01:51:03.279
They've got peaches, they've got plums, they've got pears, they've got a

1533
01:51:03.319 --> 01:51:09.439
lot of other things as well.
Uh, And so you know you can

1534
01:51:09.600 --> 01:51:13.760
you can go that root. You
can also purchase from them plants that are

1535
01:51:13.800 --> 01:51:16.640
in containers. And so however you
go about it, you want to first

1536
01:51:16.680 --> 01:51:18.960
think about what fruit do you want
to grow and do you have a good

1537
01:51:19.000 --> 01:51:25.640
spot. And a good spot for
fruit generally centers on two things. Is

1538
01:51:25.680 --> 01:51:30.800
it well drained and if the area
is not well drained, create a big

1539
01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:33.119
mound to grow it on. It
could be about a foot high, or

1540
01:51:33.159 --> 01:51:38.079
you can have a container about you
know, foot or so deep a box.

1541
01:51:38.399 --> 01:51:40.199
I say a container, I mean
you know a box. You can

1542
01:51:40.279 --> 01:51:43.720
use landscape timbers or whatever you want
to make a box. Or you can

1543
01:51:43.760 --> 01:51:45.760
grow them in something like a vego
bed, a big ring a vego bed

1544
01:51:45.800 --> 01:51:50.359
could be done. But you want
to have plenty of drainage for the roots.

1545
01:51:50.600 --> 01:51:55.039
Number two, you want to have
sunlight because listen, on fruit trees,

1546
01:51:55.399 --> 01:51:59.520
we're growing them for the fruit,
not for the foliage. And so

1547
01:52:00.119 --> 01:52:03.800
in order to have fruit, you
need sun shine. Shining on leaves to

1548
01:52:03.880 --> 01:52:10.000
make carbohydrates. You can grow a
peach tree in quite a bit of shade.

1549
01:52:10.159 --> 01:52:13.920
It'll be spindley and it'll never give
you peaches. But if you put

1550
01:52:13.920 --> 01:52:16.279
it in sun you get the peaches, which that's why we're growing them.

1551
01:52:16.600 --> 01:52:23.199
So drainage and sunlight. Those are
the two most important things. Right with

1552
01:52:23.399 --> 01:52:27.720
them is a good variety, and
you want to pick varieties that do well

1553
01:52:27.720 --> 01:52:30.359
here. And we don't have time
to go into all of those, but

1554
01:52:30.399 --> 01:52:32.439
you go to a quality nursery,
a mom and pop nursery like Buchanans,

1555
01:52:32.640 --> 01:52:36.359
and you're going to be able to
find exactly the varieties you want because they're

1556
01:52:36.359 --> 01:52:41.239
not going to sell you stuff that
doesn't do well here. That's not how

1557
01:52:41.279 --> 01:52:45.439
mom and pops stand business. Now. Buchanans is on eleventh Street in the

1558
01:52:45.479 --> 01:52:48.720
Heights, and by the way,
today after my show today, they're going

1559
01:52:48.800 --> 01:52:53.880
to have a program on going native
there. It's a free program, free

1560
01:52:53.880 --> 01:52:57.279
class at Buchanans from ten to eleven
am. In fact, you could go

1561
01:52:57.319 --> 01:53:01.439
to that and then run down and
see me at the four Bend the brass

1562
01:53:01.520 --> 01:53:05.880
Is Garden showing for it, Ben. But those classes are free and Native

1563
01:53:05.960 --> 01:53:09.520
is so important. You know,
we dealt with all this rain that we've

1564
01:53:09.520 --> 01:53:15.800
had and struggling through that. We
don't have to worry about about rain when

1565
01:53:15.840 --> 01:53:19.680
we plant a plant that likes to
be in wet conditions. And a good

1566
01:53:19.680 --> 01:53:24.439
example, and this is a native
is button bush Buchan and sells button bush.

1567
01:53:24.720 --> 01:53:28.880
Button bush makes a very large shrub
with beautiful little button like blooms,

1568
01:53:28.960 --> 01:53:32.520
very unusual looking blooms. And it's
also a butterfly plant too as well,

1569
01:53:32.600 --> 01:53:36.479
So ask them about that when you
go by there. I was talking with

1570
01:53:38.039 --> 01:53:44.279
Dean Nelson Nelson Fertilizer the other day
and we were discussing their new Genesis Tramps

1571
01:53:44.439 --> 01:53:48.199
Plant Mix. Genesis Transplant Mix,
what is that. That's a six one

1572
01:53:48.279 --> 01:53:55.600
three fertilizer designed to aid in that
relocation process. You mix it in with

1573
01:53:56.119 --> 01:53:59.640
the mix that you're going to plant
in and it helps get them off to

1574
01:53:59.640 --> 01:54:05.760
a good It's got beneficial bacteria,
it's got indo and ecto microreizo fungi which

1575
01:54:05.800 --> 01:54:10.520
helps the roots with nutrients. It's
got humates to help the soil, got

1576
01:54:10.520 --> 01:54:15.039
a lot of other nutrients that encourage
enzyme production and just enhances the biology of

1577
01:54:15.079 --> 01:54:19.920
the soil. As well. That's
a nutri Star Genesis transplant mix. I'm

1578
01:54:19.920 --> 01:54:26.279
going to bring I believe almost a
dozen bottles or jars of that down to

1579
01:54:26.520 --> 01:54:30.760
the Fort Bend or the Brasis Garden
show in Fort Bend at the Fort Bend

1580
01:54:31.079 --> 01:54:33.920
Center, and I'll be giving those
away. We're gonna have some sort of

1581
01:54:33.960 --> 01:54:38.279
little way to figure that out as
to who would win one of those,

1582
01:54:38.319 --> 01:54:42.239
But come down, let's visit.
I'll be down there after the show today.

1583
01:54:42.239 --> 01:54:45.039
I'm gonna start giving a talk at
twelve. I'll do another one at

1584
01:54:45.079 --> 01:54:48.960
one o'clock with basically lots of Q
and a bring me samples and stuff,

1585
01:54:48.960 --> 01:54:54.840
and who knows, maybe you'll win
one of the nutri Star Genesis transplant mixes

1586
01:54:55.239 --> 01:55:02.279
from the folks at Nelson's Fertilizers.
I have some saw mix and I'm planting

1587
01:55:04.159 --> 01:55:09.600
putting the Genesis in for my transplanting
that I'm about to be doing in some

1588
01:55:09.680 --> 01:55:12.439
things. And I always like that, by the way, when you're out

1589
01:55:12.520 --> 01:55:15.279
shopping and doing then else it's their
turf Star weedonator. That's another one that's

1590
01:55:15.279 --> 01:55:19.840
timely. It kills existing weed that
is not a pre emergent. It kills

1591
01:55:20.199 --> 01:55:24.920
those little winter broad leaves that are
about to take off and grow like crazy.

1592
01:55:25.199 --> 01:55:29.600
That's a turf star Weedlater, Well, we're glad you're listening to garden

1593
01:55:29.640 --> 01:55:32.720
Line today. We're going to come
back. I've got another hour here before

1594
01:55:32.760 --> 01:55:36.880
we head out. We'll be back
again tomorrow morning. If you have friends

1595
01:55:38.000 --> 01:55:41.560
or family, or even people from
other areas they're interested in the garden Line,

1596
01:55:42.279 --> 01:55:45.479
tell them about it. Tell them
that it is a way to learn

1597
01:55:45.520 --> 01:55:47.479
a lot about gardening. Maybe they
don't live right here, but we have

1598
01:55:47.600 --> 01:55:53.119
a lot of good general advice on
gardening. Maybe the exact fruit tree I

1599
01:55:53.159 --> 01:55:56.359
tell you a plant doesn't apply in
Atlanta. Yeah, we had some of

1600
01:55:56.359 --> 01:56:00.239
them from Atlanta listening last week,
and typical we get those kind of calls.

1601
01:56:00.279 --> 01:56:04.079
But they can also they can listen
live online at the kg r H

1602
01:56:04.159 --> 01:56:10.479
website, or they can get their
iHeart app and just subscribe to garden Line

1603
01:56:10.760 --> 01:56:13.800
and you can listen there. You
can also listen to pass shows there,

1604
01:56:14.000 --> 01:56:17.039
which is kind of helpful. Well, we're glad you're a listener. Take

1605
01:56:17.079 --> 01:56:25.960
our little break and we'll be right
back, Katie r H. Garden Line

1606
01:56:26.039 --> 01:56:30.399
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Welcome to kat r H Garden Line
with Skip rictor Crazy Trip. You just

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01:56:44.319 --> 01:57:00.479
watch him as things Supt. Bazy
Welcome back, well, come back to

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01:57:00.560 --> 01:57:04.760
Garden Line. We have put in
an order for the rain to stop,

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01:57:05.199 --> 01:57:10.520
for sunshine to arrive. The rain
is gone. It's not supposed to rain

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anymore for us this weekend. And
that's good news because we got a lot

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01:57:14.159 --> 01:57:16.600
of get out in garden getting our
supplies and our plants and all kinds of

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01:57:16.600 --> 01:57:20.520
things ready to go to do this
weekend. And now the clouds are going

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01:57:20.560 --> 01:57:24.520
to be kind of passing through today. Don't worry. They're a little soggy

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01:57:24.520 --> 01:57:28.680
bottom looking. But like I said, the weatherman has assured me that we're

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01:57:28.720 --> 01:57:31.680
done with the rain for now.
Tomorrow, big sunny day and it's going

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to chill out a little bit.
I think you may have heard that on

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01:57:34.439 --> 01:57:39.079
the weather I was just kind of
looking into the weather and what's to be

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expected. And we've got Sunday night
gonna drop down some cool temperatures. That's

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01:57:44.119 --> 01:57:46.800
that little front kind of pushing things
a little cooler for us. Some of

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01:57:46.800 --> 01:57:49.920
you in the northern parts of the
listening area are going to get pretty close

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01:57:49.960 --> 01:57:55.880
to frostable temperatures. You know,
you can have a frost above thirty two

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degrees. That's kind of an interesting
fun fact too for another day. Uh,

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01:58:00.880 --> 01:58:03.039
it's gonna hit down around thirty six
here in the Houston some parts of

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01:58:03.079 --> 01:58:06.520
the Houston area low cold or farther
north. So just hang on to that

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01:58:06.600 --> 01:58:11.880
froshcloth just in case you need.
It might get down to that temperature.

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But oh my gosh, what a
day. Sixty six sixty eight seventy,

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01:58:16.399 --> 01:58:21.600
sixty eight seventy that's wonderful temperatures right
there. Lots of good things can happen

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out in the garden. Let's head, We're going to go ahead and start

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01:58:25.520 --> 01:58:28.960
taking some calls here. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four, and let's
go to Lake Conroe. Talk to d

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01:58:31.960 --> 01:58:38.520
Hello, d Hi, how are
you doing well? Thank you? Good

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01:58:38.560 --> 01:58:43.560
good. I have had marillas and
lots of them, and all of the

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01:58:44.000 --> 01:58:47.159
stems, the foliagees all on the
ground. Now, So what do you?

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01:58:47.199 --> 01:58:50.039
What do you suggest I do?
First? Tell me what to do?

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01:58:50.279 --> 01:58:54.680
Well, if it were mine,
I would just ignore them and leave

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01:58:54.720 --> 01:58:58.319
them alone. Yeah, that dead
mush on top is just going to be

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01:58:58.359 --> 01:59:00.960
a little protective cover. If we
were to have another good hard freeze,

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01:59:00.960 --> 01:59:05.479
which could happen, it'll be there
to protect it. If you can't if

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01:59:05.520 --> 01:59:09.880
you get stand the look of it, can't, as we say, learn

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01:59:09.960 --> 01:59:14.239
to tolerate ugly for a little while. Then you can pull it all out

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01:59:14.239 --> 01:59:16.000
of there, cut it out of
there. And but I would be ready

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01:59:16.039 --> 01:59:19.520
to throw a little compost or mulch
over those bulbs, because if we do

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01:59:19.560 --> 01:59:24.720
have another co front, you don't
have that protective mush, dried mush on

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01:59:24.840 --> 01:59:27.640
top, and so you're going to
have to do a little more to protect

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01:59:27.720 --> 01:59:31.520
them. Very good, Okay,
I'll do that. I'll just and just

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01:59:31.560 --> 01:59:36.159
deteriorate or I should never never clean
it up. Oh, you can clean

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01:59:36.199 --> 01:59:39.720
it up a little bit later.
You know, new growth will start to

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01:59:39.720 --> 01:59:41.479
push up out of there and you
can get it out of there. I

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01:59:41.560 --> 01:59:45.520
just like to get us past.
You know, right now we expect another

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01:59:45.600 --> 01:59:50.079
freeze. You know, we're still
at a point where it would be probably

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01:59:50.119 --> 01:59:55.520
more likely then we'll have another cold
snap. Then we won't. But you

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01:59:55.600 --> 01:59:59.960
can't predict the weather, so we
just kind of prepare. Among those people

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02:00:00.119 --> 02:00:03.319
that's kind of conservative about that stuff, do I wear a belt and suspenders

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02:00:03.399 --> 02:00:11.560
just in case. That's yeah.
If you want to gamble and run with

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02:00:11.600 --> 02:00:13.880
scissors, hey, go for it. You can do it either way.

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02:00:15.920 --> 02:00:20.760
Another question I have is about Pride
of Barbados yesterday. Maybe I did it

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02:00:20.800 --> 02:00:26.279
too early, but in the past
I've always cut them way down and it

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02:00:26.439 --> 02:00:32.079
comes in the original plants probably fifteen
years old, and it grows real tall

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02:00:32.119 --> 02:00:39.399
to six feet and all of the
buds and blooms are you know, have

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02:00:39.520 --> 02:00:44.039
been off since maybe August or September
or something like that or October, I

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02:00:44.039 --> 02:00:48.079
don't remember. But anyway, I
cut them way back as I have done

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02:00:48.079 --> 02:00:53.680
in the past, and they come
out from the base of the original.

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02:00:55.119 --> 02:01:00.960
Oh it's huge now, about one
and a half feet wide, you know,

1665
02:01:00.039 --> 02:01:04.560
are around And was that too early
to do that? No, you

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02:01:04.600 --> 02:01:08.760
can do that. The freeze we
had probably took it all the way to

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02:01:08.720 --> 02:01:12.960
the ground. For Pride of Barbatas. I even throw a little bit of

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02:01:12.960 --> 02:01:16.720
a kind of a multi composting material
over the base going into winter, just

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02:01:16.760 --> 02:01:20.600
to protect that crown so they can
can reach sprout from there. But they

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02:01:20.960 --> 02:01:25.680
will, and most of this area
here, it's it's mild enough to where

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02:01:25.720 --> 02:01:28.279
we don't have to worry about them. There. They're slow to wake up,

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02:01:28.319 --> 02:01:31.079
though I like to put it there. They are as they sleep as

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02:01:31.159 --> 02:01:36.359
late as a teenager on Saturday morning, and so when when it gets to

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02:01:36.399 --> 02:01:40.640
about late May, they're interested in
starting to grow, you know, So

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02:01:40.760 --> 02:01:44.600
don't don't give up on them if
you don't see sprouts. And that would

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02:01:44.640 --> 02:01:49.000
be true with chrysanthemums. They're all
butting out new growth. Now. Yeah,

1677
02:01:50.920 --> 02:01:55.079
yeah, just just wait. You
know, when you prone, it

1678
02:01:55.199 --> 02:02:00.960
stimulates new growth, and so it's
gonna you know, let let's not encourage

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02:02:00.279 --> 02:02:04.840
growth just yet because growth new tender
growth, and then here comes another freeze.

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That's not a good comment. Okay, Well I'll wait until later,

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maybe later end of February or into
March or something, and I need to

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02:02:14.159 --> 02:02:16.720
transplant a bunch of them if I
have a lot of them. Good.

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02:02:17.520 --> 02:02:21.600
Yeah, Well is your pride of
Barbados. I bet it's beautiful in the

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02:02:21.640 --> 02:02:27.680
summertime, Oh my gosh. Yes, Well I'll live them a golfwell on

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02:02:27.800 --> 02:02:32.359
one of the holes. But it's
right on the lake too, and everyone

1686
02:02:32.439 --> 02:02:39.920
stops by and talks about my Peggy
Martin roses, and it's absolutely beautiful.

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02:02:40.000 --> 02:02:43.319
They hang over the wall. You're
doing everything right. You must hang out

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02:02:43.359 --> 02:02:46.880
at A and A plants and produce
because they're down the street from you.

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02:02:48.079 --> 02:02:51.520
I go everywhere, and I started
a lot of them. I love the

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02:02:51.560 --> 02:02:56.159
way you said last week or the
week before that, I don't. I

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02:02:56.199 --> 02:02:59.720
can't listen to all of it because
I don't wake up better. But today

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02:02:59.760 --> 02:03:02.760
I'm at a point because I needed
to know about the marillas and other things.

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02:03:02.840 --> 02:03:05.359
Nada. I thought we could be
friends, but now I just found

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02:03:05.399 --> 02:03:09.000
out. You're not even willing to
sell an alarm clock to get up to

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02:03:09.000 --> 02:03:12.079
hear me first thing, so you
don't miss a single word. I'm sorry

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02:03:12.159 --> 02:03:15.840
you come on too early. And
today I thought with a fifteen and I

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02:03:15.880 --> 02:03:17.960
said, get out of the bed
and don't listen to the Hey, I

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02:03:18.039 --> 02:03:21.600
agree with you. I come on
too early the time the alarm clock goes

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02:03:21.600 --> 02:03:25.119
off in the morning. I won't
even tell you what time I have to

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02:03:25.159 --> 02:03:29.039
get up to get ready and get
up. I've got so other gosh,

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02:03:29.119 --> 02:03:31.520
what does he think is awake so
early in the morning. Maybe you'd be

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02:03:31.640 --> 02:03:35.520
surprised. You would be surprised.
A lot of people are morning people.

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02:03:36.479 --> 02:03:42.239
All right, question now about Roses, You talked about roses one time on

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02:03:42.359 --> 02:03:45.600
my way to churches when I listened
to you on Sunday. But anyway,

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02:03:45.680 --> 02:03:51.720
you talked about roses, and I
have three beautiful hybrid pink roses. They're

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02:03:51.760 --> 02:03:57.199
just bigger than the saucer when they
bloom, and one of them has been

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02:03:57.239 --> 02:04:00.159
there for probably going on a year
and a half. Uh huh, I've

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02:04:00.159 --> 02:04:03.399
got I've got about thirty seconds,
so let me say about it. I'd

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02:04:03.439 --> 02:04:10.119
like that what moved, and also
the prunem I think you said later in

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02:04:10.159 --> 02:04:15.319
the month, So that's what I'll
do. D do it do it a

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02:04:15.520 --> 02:04:17.439
S A P. Because we're planning
bear route now, so what you're going

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02:04:17.479 --> 02:04:20.479
to be is digging it up and
having a bear root plant that you put

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02:04:20.600 --> 02:04:25.159
right back in the ground, settle
the soil watered in good and it should

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02:04:25.159 --> 02:04:28.039
be good. Hey d thank you. I've enjoyed the call. Good good

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02:04:28.119 --> 02:04:30.640
luck up there in the Lake Conroy
area with your plants. We're going to

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02:04:30.720 --> 02:04:33.520
take a break when we come back. We've got some folks on the line

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02:04:33.520 --> 02:04:38.359
if you'd like to call seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

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02:04:42.560 --> 02:04:45.119
All right, you're back with the
garden line, and we got some

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02:04:45.399 --> 02:04:48.960
people to talk to. Here,
we're going to run right out to let's

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02:04:48.960 --> 02:04:51.560
see. Start off, we're going
to go to the heights and talk to

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02:04:51.600 --> 02:04:56.319
Mike. Hello, Mike good Martin. Yeah, pow are you? I'm

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02:04:56.319 --> 02:05:00.760
well, sir, good sir.
I got a question. After all this

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02:05:00.880 --> 02:05:03.039
rain we have had all week long, and yesterday, of course, I

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02:05:03.119 --> 02:05:09.640
was wondering, is it time can
I put shredded mult around my shrubs in

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02:05:09.640 --> 02:05:14.479
the front yard or do they need
to dry out more? Or any time?

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02:05:15.319 --> 02:05:20.800
I can see the the the the
piping of my sprinkler system, and

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02:05:20.840 --> 02:05:25.520
I wanted to kind of cover that
and maybe cover the base of the plants

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02:05:25.600 --> 02:05:29.159
just before the next freeze or cold
spell. Yeah, either one would be

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02:05:29.159 --> 02:05:30.079
fine. Mike, don't worry about
it. I mean, if you want

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02:05:30.119 --> 02:05:33.880
to leave it open, let a
little more evaporation from the surface, But

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02:05:33.960 --> 02:05:38.119
that's going to be kind of a
minor thing that takes time, especially in

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02:05:38.199 --> 02:05:42.199
the temperatures we're about to go into. So anytimes a good time to put

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02:05:42.199 --> 02:05:45.880
the mulch out, okay, So
I could go ahead, and a good

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02:05:45.920 --> 02:05:48.439
time to do it now, yeah
you could, okay. Also, I

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02:05:48.600 --> 02:05:54.319
liked your earlier this morning. You
mentioned our Saint Augustine is sleeping, it's

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02:05:54.359 --> 02:06:00.279
resting. Yeah, it gives me
hope. That's right, Well I took

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02:06:00.319 --> 02:06:02.920
it osh. Saint Augustine took a
real hit last year on the summer,

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02:06:03.039 --> 02:06:06.119
so it's going to be interesting seeing
what all we're dealing with this year.

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02:06:08.000 --> 02:06:13.439
So it's taken two hits, one
from the drought and then one then that's

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02:06:13.520 --> 02:06:15.920
all this rain we've got there,
you go, All you need to do

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02:06:16.039 --> 02:06:19.359
is throw in a bunch of dogs
to trapes it down all day long and

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02:06:19.399 --> 02:06:25.159
a handful of maybe a invite the
kindergartens from the local preschool to stomp through

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02:06:25.159 --> 02:06:28.479
it a little bit. Well,
let me ask you this. I've got

1744
02:06:29.119 --> 02:06:31.119
I have a yard man who comes
to here and I call it the chariot.

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02:06:31.560 --> 02:06:34.640
It's a big, tall riding line. More that he stands up off

1746
02:06:35.159 --> 02:06:38.840
Should he stay off of that right
now? While that grass is in that

1747
02:06:38.920 --> 02:06:44.720
condition, Well, it's more the
soil. Now, those particular mowers have

1748
02:06:44.960 --> 02:06:49.199
pretty good you know how snowshoe distribute
your weight so your foot doesn't go right

1749
02:06:49.199 --> 02:06:53.279
down through the snow. They do
a pretty good job of that kind of

1750
02:06:53.319 --> 02:06:59.119
thing. So they don't compact the
soil like a little narrow blade or wheel

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02:06:59.159 --> 02:07:03.680
wood, or like your foot stomping
down on the soil. I rather not

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02:07:03.760 --> 02:07:08.840
pound on the soil whenever it's it's
wet. But I think that's if they

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02:07:08.920 --> 02:07:12.399
need to get in there to most
something right now, it'd be mowing weeds

1754
02:07:12.439 --> 02:07:15.479
though, really because the grass is
Yeah, so if they could hold off,

1755
02:07:15.520 --> 02:07:19.039
that's fine. But uh, those
mowers are not too bad about that,

1756
02:07:19.840 --> 02:07:23.720
Okay, so maybe we'll hold off
on it all. Yeah. And

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02:07:23.760 --> 02:07:26.960
if you feel like you have some
silk compaction when we get into spring a

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02:07:27.000 --> 02:07:29.840
little bit there, you know,
call the folks at Greenpro have them come

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02:07:29.840 --> 02:07:33.880
out and do a deep time aeration
and that fixes it. Yeah. Good

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02:07:33.920 --> 02:07:38.720
idea approach. You may need that
already. Okay, Well, thank you

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02:07:38.760 --> 02:07:41.920
so much, and you've given me
hope. Thank you, Mike. I

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02:07:41.960 --> 02:07:45.920
appreciate your call very much. Let's
see, we are now going to go

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02:07:45.039 --> 02:07:50.399
talk to Charles out in Deer Park. Hello, Charles, good morning.

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02:07:50.479 --> 02:07:54.920
How are you starting. I'm doing
well. I'm doing well. How can

1765
02:07:54.960 --> 02:07:58.159
we help you? Just got a
quick question. Got a quick question about

1766
02:07:58.159 --> 02:08:01.960
my milk weed. I grow Texas
native milkweed out in the backyard. Thirty

1767
02:08:03.079 --> 02:08:07.119
forty plants, froze last year,
pulled it all up, replanted, froze

1768
02:08:07.119 --> 02:08:11.840
again this year. No big deal. Will it come back or do I

1769
02:08:11.880 --> 02:08:16.279
need to cut it and pull it? Is this the one that has the

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02:08:16.359 --> 02:08:22.800
orange flowers, yes, and the
red and the little red and orange flowers

1771
02:08:22.840 --> 02:08:26.199
for the monarchs okay, the native
Okay, So that one should be a

1772
02:08:26.199 --> 02:08:33.439
perennial comeback. Really, so if
I just trim it back to six inches

1773
02:08:33.560 --> 02:08:35.920
or something like that, maybe if
you need to, yeah, cutting it

1774
02:08:37.000 --> 02:08:41.319
back. I'm trying to just My
only hesitation is making sure I'm thinking about

1775
02:08:41.359 --> 02:08:46.359
the same species you're talking about,
because there's a lot of different different types

1776
02:08:46.399 --> 02:08:48.840
of milk weed. But yeah,
that was the only one I can buy.

1777
02:08:50.039 --> 02:08:52.920
It's the only one I can buy
here in Houston. I go over

1778
02:08:52.920 --> 02:08:58.199
to the Heights someplace I forgetting out
exactly the name of it. Well,

1779
02:09:00.079 --> 02:09:03.640
yeah, I think you'll be fine. I just wait and watch let nature

1780
02:09:03.680 --> 02:09:07.920
take its course on it. Yeah, okay. Because the one that's a

1781
02:09:07.960 --> 02:09:16.319
little lower growing and has big clusters
of little orange blooms, that is the

1782
02:09:16.560 --> 02:09:22.159
Asclepias tuberosa, And it is one
that is a perennial that we'll returned.

1783
02:09:22.560 --> 02:09:26.720
Yeah, this grows. I've got
some stalks that are six foot long,

1784
02:09:26.840 --> 02:09:31.119
I mean, so they don't fall
over the dry so they don't fall over

1785
02:09:31.159 --> 02:09:35.600
the walkway, and and that kind
of thing. Okay, we're not talking

1786
02:09:35.600 --> 02:09:39.199
about the native. Maybe there's a
there's a swamp milk weed, there's a

1787
02:09:39.239 --> 02:09:41.880
periri milk weed. There's a number
of difference. The one in most gardens

1788
02:09:43.199 --> 02:09:48.239
is tropical milkweed, and it has
skinny, little pencil sized stalks that come

1789
02:09:48.319 --> 02:09:50.920
up to the heights you talked about, and they'll have a little cluster at

1790
02:09:50.920 --> 02:09:56.680
the end. Now that's that's not
a native. That's that is a introduced

1791
02:09:56.720 --> 02:10:01.479
species. And a lot of times
it if you had it mulched, if

1792
02:10:01.560 --> 02:10:03.800
it may have made it through the
freeze. Otherwise it probably killed it.

1793
02:10:03.840 --> 02:10:07.000
But that thing received so much that
it's going to be coming back somewhere.

1794
02:10:09.640 --> 02:10:13.119
I have little stalks popping up all
over the yard, and that's fine because

1795
02:10:13.119 --> 02:10:15.840
that's going to get mowed every week. Yeah, well I would aad.

1796
02:10:15.840 --> 02:10:18.800
I've got about a thirty foot bed
or so that I grow it in.

1797
02:10:18.960 --> 02:10:22.479
All right, Well I would,
Yeah, I would just kind of wait

1798
02:10:22.520 --> 02:10:26.680
and see it. It's gonna it's
gonna show up again it volunteers a lot.

1799
02:10:28.319 --> 02:10:31.680
Yes it does, Yes, it
does. All right, Thank you

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02:10:31.760 --> 02:10:35.520
very much. Thank you, Charles. Appreciate appreciate your phone call very much.

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02:10:35.800 --> 02:10:39.279
Let's see where we're going to go. Now, let's go to West

1802
02:10:39.319 --> 02:10:43.920
Houston and talk to Jim. Hello, Jim, Hey, Skip, good

1803
02:10:43.960 --> 02:10:46.880
to talk to you. I got
a question for you. Uh dot Condra

1804
02:10:48.000 --> 02:10:52.760
in my yard? What's the best
way to spot treat that? You can

1805
02:10:52.800 --> 02:10:58.439
buy a product that has a blend
of different ingredients in it. Something called

1806
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trimech is an example that has three
as the name implies, it has three

1807
02:11:03.880 --> 02:11:07.840
different herbicides to put together in it. Make sure it's label for your lawn

1808
02:11:09.119 --> 02:11:13.840
spray with that. There are some
other products like celsius we use, especially

1809
02:11:13.880 --> 02:11:18.960
as the temperature gets warmer. Some
of those things that we could get away

1810
02:11:18.960 --> 02:11:26.079
with in late winter early spring become
problematic in damaging your lawn when the weather

1811
02:11:26.159 --> 02:11:31.199
gets too hot, so we switch
over to something called celsius, like the

1812
02:11:31.239 --> 02:11:37.039
temperature celsius. So that would be
those would be two options. The folks

1813
02:11:37.039 --> 02:11:43.600
that Nelson have their turf star weedonator. If you wet the lawn or catch

1814
02:11:43.600 --> 02:11:46.479
it when it's wet and then put
that out it sticks to the grass leaves.

1815
02:11:46.479 --> 02:11:50.880
You don't want to do it during
a rainstorm or right before a rainstorm.

1816
02:11:50.560 --> 02:11:54.479
You just want it to be damp, so the little granule stick to

1817
02:11:54.520 --> 02:11:58.359
the weed leaves and it would kill
them. And then it also has a

1818
02:11:58.479 --> 02:12:05.840
very slow release fertilizer that's going to
take a while to Yeah, I'm sorry.

1819
02:12:05.840 --> 02:12:09.119
The reason I'm asking now is,
you know, with the threes and

1820
02:12:09.159 --> 02:12:11.920
the rain and it's the greenest thing
in my yard, I fever really worried

1821
02:12:11.960 --> 02:12:16.359
about too much. But it's so
easily easy to see right now. It

1822
02:12:16.399 --> 02:12:20.960
would be pretty easy for me to
you know, you pop up sprayer and

1823
02:12:22.399 --> 02:12:24.960
and you know, just hit this
stuff out right now where you can see

1824
02:12:26.000 --> 02:12:31.479
it in the past. I'm kind
of the genre. If it's green,

1825
02:12:31.560 --> 02:12:35.279
I just cut it. But I
can take care of this stuff right now

1826
02:12:35.319 --> 02:12:37.880
because I can see it. Yeah. Well, bon Night and and furlom

1827
02:12:37.960 --> 02:12:45.239
both make a a good product.
The fur looms, I believe, is

1828
02:12:45.279 --> 02:12:48.560
called weed free Zone and I say
in the right number name on that uh.

1829
02:12:48.600 --> 02:12:52.760
And the bon Night is weed Beater
Ultra. And either of those can

1830
02:12:52.800 --> 02:12:58.079
be mixed in water in your sprayer
and you can spray just follow them labor

1831
02:12:58.359 --> 02:13:01.319
and be careful because it kills.
It kill broadleaf things, so you spray

1832
02:13:01.319 --> 02:13:03.479
it on broadly flowers and they'll kill
them. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,

1833
02:13:03.680 --> 02:13:07.319
that's why I wanted to get down
right on top of it. Why I

1834
02:13:07.319 --> 02:13:09.680
can say it'd be really easy to
treat this week with the weather kind of

1835
02:13:09.760 --> 02:13:13.560
drying out. Yeah, it would, and we're going to get some warmer

1836
02:13:13.600 --> 02:13:16.960
temperatures. That's another thing on these
post emergent herbicides is if the weed is

1837
02:13:18.000 --> 02:13:22.800
in a dormant or a quiescent state
where it's really not growing due to temperature,

1838
02:13:22.840 --> 02:13:28.279
for example, they don't work as
well, and so you may have

1839
02:13:28.399 --> 02:13:31.760
better luck when the weeds are you
know, kind of coming alive and waking

1840
02:13:31.840 --> 02:13:35.680
up because the temperature is more suitable. Go, I'm I'm wasting my time

1841
02:13:35.720 --> 02:13:39.239
to do it right now. You
think on the dichondra. With the week

1842
02:13:39.279 --> 02:13:43.279
we're having, I might give it
a shot and see how that works.

1843
02:13:43.399 --> 02:13:48.000
We're going to get up around seventy
for two or three days here after we

1844
02:13:48.079 --> 02:13:50.319
go through the cold spell. Don't
spray to day after we go through the

1845
02:13:50.359 --> 02:13:54.880
culture. Yeah. Yeah, I
was gonna get it like middle of next

1846
02:13:54.920 --> 02:13:58.359
week or something after it dried out
pretty good. Yeah, yeah, that's

1847
02:13:58.399 --> 02:14:01.840
right. All kay, good luck, Thanks love love your show. Thanks

1848
02:14:01.880 --> 02:14:05.399
sir, I appreciate that. I
appreciate that those of you out there in

1849
02:14:05.479 --> 02:14:07.520
Kingwood. I was talking to somebody
king with the other day. You've got

1850
02:14:07.520 --> 02:14:11.359
Warren's Garden Center, Warren's Southern Gardens, you know it if you live out

1851
02:14:11.359 --> 02:14:15.279
there, and you've also got Kingwood
Garden Center. You got two garden centers.

1852
02:14:15.319 --> 02:14:18.359
Room really handy there for you live
in out that area. Warrens is

1853
02:14:18.399 --> 02:14:24.279
stocked up on all the things you
need to help your plants recover and get

1854
02:14:24.319 --> 02:14:28.359
back growing again from the freeze.
So that would be things like that Microlife

1855
02:14:28.399 --> 02:14:33.760
three way combo where we talk about
ocean harvests drenching the plants and then following

1856
02:14:33.800 --> 02:14:39.079
that with a six four green bag
fertilizer, and then about a week later

1857
02:14:39.159 --> 02:14:41.479
drenching again with the ocean harvest.
That ocean harvest is going to give them

1858
02:14:41.479 --> 02:14:48.520
some immediate availability of nutrients. It's
a fish fertilizer. The sixty four is

1859
02:14:48.560 --> 02:14:52.039
more of a little bit longer term. Now Warrens has got that. They

1860
02:14:52.039 --> 02:14:54.199
have all kinds of fertilizer we talk
about here on Garden line. They've got

1861
02:14:54.199 --> 02:14:58.760
the mulches and the soil mixes and
the everything you need. They even have

1862
02:14:58.840 --> 02:15:03.520
some extra restock on frostcloth. I
believe to check that. Check them out

1863
02:15:03.520 --> 02:15:09.039
about that. They got plenty of
seeds, plenty of seeds ready to go

1864
02:15:09.079 --> 02:15:11.520
for your spring gardens. So,
I mean, you know, if you've

1865
02:15:11.520 --> 02:15:15.520
ever been out to Warrens, there's
always something going on there. There's always

1866
02:15:15.640 --> 02:15:20.439
a lot of just really cool flowers
and vegetables and plants and whatnot. And

1867
02:15:20.479 --> 02:15:24.720
they have great classes out there that
you need to sign up for their list

1868
02:15:24.800 --> 02:15:28.680
to get notified about things. I
always love to go out and visit at

1869
02:15:28.680 --> 02:15:35.640
Warrens and Kingwood, a garden center
out there in that area. The you

1870
02:15:35.640 --> 02:15:39.159
know, in spring we get we
get the spring fever a little bit early,

1871
02:15:39.239 --> 02:15:43.760
I think, and so when we
do that, we tend to kind

1872
02:15:43.760 --> 02:15:46.039
of get a rush and go and
do things. And I always tell people,

1873
02:15:46.119 --> 02:15:48.520
no way to plant your tomatoes.
Don't plan them now. But you

1874
02:15:48.600 --> 02:15:52.600
go somewhere and they'll be tomatoes for
sale, you know some places. Well

1875
02:15:54.039 --> 02:15:56.439
if you end up unable to resist
and you buy them, you're gonna have

1876
02:15:56.479 --> 02:15:58.640
to bring them home and you have
to pot them up. In a little

1877
02:15:58.680 --> 02:16:01.680
bigger container and grow them for a
while, get them plenty of light,

1878
02:16:01.720 --> 02:16:05.279
as much light as you can,
and bump them up once or twice until

1879
02:16:05.279 --> 02:16:11.600
there's time to plant tomatoes. But
timeliness is really important on all of those

1880
02:16:11.600 --> 02:16:13.920
things. Hey, I wonder tell
you about an event. I mentioned it

1881
02:16:15.000 --> 02:16:18.520
last week, but on February eighth, the Fort Ben County Extension Office Boon

1882
02:16:18.600 --> 02:16:24.439
Holiday and the team out there,
they are going to have the thirty thirty

1883
02:16:24.520 --> 02:16:28.199
ninth annual Fort Ben Regional Vegetable Conference. So if you're a commercial grower or

1884
02:16:28.279 --> 02:16:33.479
if you're a homeowner that just likes
to grow vegetables, there is a day

1885
02:16:33.520 --> 02:16:39.000
full of information at a really good
price. I mean if you, let's

1886
02:16:39.000 --> 02:16:43.799
see about forty bucks at this point
for registration and you can just contact the

1887
02:16:43.879 --> 02:16:48.799
Extension office out there to get more
information on it. That is on February

1888
02:16:48.840 --> 02:16:54.120
eighth. That's an all day thing
at the Fort the Fort Ben Regional Vegetable

1889
02:16:54.159 --> 02:16:56.440
Conference, So I think you ought
to check it out. I've spoken out

1890
02:16:56.440 --> 02:17:01.079
there before. By the way.
The website is Fort Ben dot agralife dot

1891
02:17:01.200 --> 02:17:07.159
org, Fort Bend dot a g
R I L I f E dot org.

1892
02:17:07.360 --> 02:17:09.639
Great event it's time for Nicky and
the news. Give us call seven

1893
02:17:09.719 --> 02:17:16.280
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Welcome back to garden Line.

1894
02:17:16.920 --> 02:17:20.840
You know, we've talked about a
lot of different things today, but

1895
02:17:20.959 --> 02:17:24.799
one thing I haven't talked about is
our trees. Most of your trees are

1896
02:17:24.840 --> 02:17:28.079
dormant right now. We've got things
like live oaks that have green leaves on

1897
02:17:28.120 --> 02:17:33.680
them all through the wintertime. But
we're in the big middle right now pruning

1898
02:17:33.719 --> 02:17:39.280
season. And before you turn your
trees loose to anybody, know that that

1899
02:17:39.319 --> 02:17:41.760
person has to be a professional that
knows what they're doing. The guy that's

1900
02:17:41.719 --> 02:17:46.479
stuck the business card in your door
and owns a pickup and a chainsaw,

1901
02:17:46.120 --> 02:17:50.479
they can do more damage. They
can do permanent damage. The tree never

1902
02:17:50.719 --> 02:17:54.639
fully recovers from a bad pruning job. Martin Spoon Moore Affordable Tree. They

1903
02:17:54.680 --> 02:17:58.120
know what they're doing. Martin's been
doing this for a very long time,

1904
02:17:58.120 --> 02:18:01.280
about thirty years now in the Houston
area. You can get Martin to call

1905
02:18:01.319 --> 02:18:05.079
at seven one three six nine nine
twenty six sixty three seven one three six

1906
02:18:05.239 --> 02:18:09.719
nine nine two six sixty three.
Write that down or go to the website.

1907
02:18:09.840 --> 02:18:15.600
Eight Fftree service dot Com. Now
you want to get on the schedule.

1908
02:18:15.959 --> 02:18:20.079
Anything that is going to be done
too and around your trees, Martin

1909
02:18:20.120 --> 02:18:22.879
needs to be part of it.
And here's why. If somebody is going

1910
02:18:22.959 --> 02:18:26.120
to put in a new water line, an irrigation system or you know,

1911
02:18:26.239 --> 02:18:31.639
trench, if you're going to add
a new slab or driveway over part of

1912
02:18:31.680 --> 02:18:35.040
the root system, if anything like
that that's going to be done around them,

1913
02:18:35.600 --> 02:18:37.520
you need to call Martin to come
in and look first before they do

1914
02:18:37.680 --> 02:18:43.360
some significant damage. There's things we
can do beforehand, afterand after it's done.

1915
02:18:43.920 --> 02:18:48.040
It's a mess. It's hard to
do. Tell Martin, tell them

1916
02:18:48.079 --> 02:18:50.639
when you call that your garden line
listener, get to the front of the

1917
02:18:50.680 --> 02:18:54.479
line again the phone number seven one, three, six, nine nine twenty

1918
02:18:54.559 --> 02:18:58.440
six sixty three. Let's get that
pruning done during the best time ever,

1919
02:18:58.520 --> 02:19:01.000
which is right now. I mean
prune tree anytime of the year, but

1920
02:19:01.079 --> 02:19:05.840
now sure is the best time.
We're going to head now out to talk

1921
02:19:05.879 --> 02:19:11.520
to Jim and Paarland. Hello,
Jim, good morning. Skip in October,

1922
02:19:11.639 --> 02:19:18.840
I put down carbo load, yes, sir on my Zorasia and Saint

1923
02:19:18.879 --> 02:19:24.120
Augustine. Okay, I had already
had some weedy uh killer in it.

1924
02:19:24.799 --> 02:19:28.600
Should I still go ahead and put
down some barricades? You said, when

1925
02:19:28.639 --> 02:19:33.120
did you put it down the month
October? October? Yeah? I would

1926
02:19:33.840 --> 02:19:39.639
yes. Uh, let's see October, this, November, December, January's

1927
02:19:39.760 --> 02:19:43.680
three months. It's probably doing a
little bit of good for you. Still

1928
02:19:43.719 --> 02:19:48.000
that stuff is pretty persistent, but
this is getting, you know, out

1929
02:19:48.040 --> 02:19:50.639
toward the edge of the time.
I would, I would say, do

1930
02:19:50.760 --> 02:19:54.120
the barricade. Let's see, you
are in Paarland, so you can probably

1931
02:19:54.120 --> 02:19:58.040
do that at the end of this
month or early next month. Okay,

1932
02:19:58.479 --> 02:20:01.159
all right, appreciate it, Thank
you, Thank you, jam Weekend,

1933
02:20:01.319 --> 02:20:05.520
Yes, sir, and as always, Jim, on any of these products,

1934
02:20:05.200 --> 02:20:11.280
follow the label. That's very important. Okay, all right, take

1935
02:20:11.319 --> 02:20:16.920
care. Let's see We're going to
go now to Pinehurst and talk to Vicky.

1936
02:20:18.200 --> 02:20:22.520
Hey, Vicky, hare things up
in Pinehurst? Uh, Wendy,

1937
02:20:22.840 --> 02:20:30.239
Okay, I have questions. And
I heard you talking about er last Saturday,

1938
02:20:30.319 --> 02:20:33.719
and I looked it up and it's
not on Nelson's website, so I

1939
02:20:33.760 --> 02:20:39.799
had to google it and finally brought
it up. But last year I used

1940
02:20:39.799 --> 02:20:45.280
the bruces Brew for pre emergent and
and they I think they had pre emergent

1941
02:20:45.319 --> 02:20:48.079
in it last year, which they
do not have this year. But I'm

1942
02:20:48.120 --> 02:20:52.799
wondering if I used the barricade,
Now can I do the We didn't either

1943
02:20:54.040 --> 02:20:56.600
we didn't ate, or when can
I do that? Okay? I did

1944
02:20:56.639 --> 02:21:01.799
cart like the gentleman before me last
October? Okay, Well, the Bruces

1945
02:21:01.840 --> 02:21:07.479
Brew does not have a pre mergon
and it's just just a standard, fairly

1946
02:21:07.319 --> 02:21:11.959
immediately available a fertilizer on the Bruce's
Brew in compared to a lot of the

1947
02:21:11.959 --> 02:21:16.879
other products that they have. Now, now you did, I'm sorry the

1948
02:21:16.440 --> 02:21:20.159
names of all the products jumbled up
in my head? When did you last

1949
02:21:20.200 --> 02:21:26.760
apply what I did? The carbos
in October? Like the man ahead of

1950
02:21:26.840 --> 02:21:30.760
me sick and I had to wait. So you you want to put another

1951
02:21:30.799 --> 02:21:35.440
premrgon out now? Right? Yeah? Yeah, same same kind of thing.

1952
02:21:35.520 --> 02:21:37.719
I would, you know, playing
her shirlot further north up there,

1953
02:21:37.799 --> 02:21:43.479
and I would say probably early February
would be a good time to put that

1954
02:21:43.600 --> 02:21:46.680
down. You may wait till mid
month and get away with it just fine.

1955
02:21:46.799 --> 02:21:50.239
We just don't know how early spring
is going to start, so that

1956
02:21:50.280 --> 02:21:54.280
would that would probably be a good
time for you. But again, follow

1957
02:21:54.360 --> 02:21:58.239
the label carefully on the rate.
If it says a certain amount, use

1958
02:21:58.360 --> 02:22:07.879
that amountain morey and watered in.
Okay, so the which I want an

1959
02:22:07.879 --> 02:22:11.920
early green up. But can I
use the then is my fertilizer or do

1960
02:22:13.000 --> 02:22:16.719
I need to just do the briefest
bruise. If you're if you're going to

1961
02:22:16.760 --> 02:22:20.879
put down a pre emergent product like
a barricade, for example, you don't

1962
02:22:20.920 --> 02:22:28.159
also do well the weedonator. It's
a different kind of of weed control a

1963
02:22:28.200 --> 02:22:35.520
barricade, and the carbolode has a
pre emergent in it. The weedenator is

1964
02:22:35.559 --> 02:22:41.079
a post emergent, so it doesn't
prevent weeds, it kills existing weeds.

1965
02:22:41.479 --> 02:22:45.559
So if you wanted to do the
weedonator, I would do that in the

1966
02:22:45.600 --> 02:22:50.159
next three weeks if you could,
Yes, because what you're putting it out

1967
02:22:50.200 --> 02:22:54.520
for is in your lawn. You
would use it if in your lawn you've

1968
02:22:54.520 --> 02:23:01.000
got little chick weed and clover and
hind bit and cleavers or velcrow weed.

1969
02:23:01.079 --> 02:23:05.440
You know, in all those cool
season weeds. When the weak weeds are

1970
02:23:05.559 --> 02:23:09.559
wet, the leaves are wet,
you put it out in the granule,

1971
02:23:09.639 --> 02:23:13.159
stick to the weed leaf and then
they kill that weed. They don't prevent

1972
02:23:13.239 --> 02:23:16.079
summer weeds from coming up. They
killed the weeds that are there. And

1973
02:23:16.159 --> 02:23:18.159
if you got in your lawn and
you do not have a broad little broad

1974
02:23:18.239 --> 02:23:22.120
leaf weeds, don't expect things knee
high out there. I'm talking about little

1975
02:23:22.159 --> 02:23:24.799
bitty things in the grass. If
you don't see that, then you don't

1976
02:23:24.799 --> 02:23:28.159
need a post emergent on that lawn. You just go on with the regular

1977
02:23:28.200 --> 02:23:33.600
fertilization, okay. And it does
say it provides it does say it provides

1978
02:23:33.639 --> 02:23:37.799
a quick green up. Well,
it has more than one kind of nitrogen

1979
02:23:37.840 --> 02:23:41.360
in it, and some of the
types are released in the first six weeks

1980
02:23:41.360 --> 02:23:45.680
after you apply them. That'd be
like ammonia and U rhea, Okay,

1981
02:23:46.120 --> 02:23:50.959
And later on, as the soil
warms and the microbes become more active,

1982
02:23:50.360 --> 02:23:56.280
there's a couple of slowly available types
of nitrogen that gradually release. So you're

1983
02:23:56.280 --> 02:23:58.719
going to get a long term or
release out of the weed Nator, But

1984
02:23:58.799 --> 02:24:03.159
there are other products that will do
that too. Generally in the spring,

1985
02:24:03.959 --> 02:24:07.200
if you've got your weeds taken care
of and you don't need the post emergent,

1986
02:24:07.639 --> 02:24:13.959
just go with a fertilizer and follow
that I have such a large yard.

1987
02:24:13.000 --> 02:24:18.399
I've got thirty nine thousand square feet
three quarters of a nic or so

1988
02:24:18.120 --> 02:24:22.959
you need to set up bleachers and
have football games out there, right that

1989
02:24:24.120 --> 02:24:28.399
c line like to do the all
in one. It's just okay, take

1990
02:24:28.479 --> 02:24:35.559
me a little more so, no
barricade, just the weedonater or barricade.

1991
02:24:35.559 --> 02:24:41.639
Also okay, weedonator kills. Weeds
that right now are visible and above ground

1992
02:24:41.639 --> 02:24:48.319
in your lawn that are broad leaves. The barricade or the carbo loade have

1993
02:24:48.479 --> 02:24:54.159
a pre emergent that prevents the warm
season weeds from waking up and establishing when

1994
02:24:54.159 --> 02:24:58.879
it warms up just a bit.
Okay, so what are you going after

1995
02:24:58.920 --> 02:25:03.559
that? That's the question. Yeah, understate it's not either or it's it's

1996
02:25:03.600 --> 02:25:07.639
two different things for two different situations. Okay, thank you so much.

1997
02:25:07.719 --> 02:25:11.760
All right, good luck, Thanks
for the call, Vicky. I appreciate

1998
02:25:11.799 --> 02:25:15.280
that we're gonna take a little break
here. Uh Mark, when we come

1999
02:25:15.319 --> 02:25:18.840
back, you will be our first
up and our phone number is seven one

2000
02:25:18.879 --> 02:25:26.680
three two one two five eight seven
four. Welcome back to the garden Line.

2001
02:25:26.920 --> 02:25:31.360
Glad you're listening today. We're going
to jump right out and get on

2002
02:25:31.399 --> 02:25:33.680
the phones here. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two five

2003
02:25:33.799 --> 02:25:37.000
eight seven four. We're going to
go to Mark Mark. Are you in

2004
02:25:37.079 --> 02:25:43.680
Joplin, Missouri? I'm just south
of there right now? Okay, I'm

2005
02:25:43.719 --> 02:25:48.559
on my way. Well, good
about the shellco oppers that I kept running

2006
02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:52.680
over with my track here, Yeah, that's not good for him. Oh

2007
02:25:52.840 --> 02:26:00.280
I didn't hurt them at all.
Let me tell you, well, it's

2008
02:26:01.159 --> 02:26:05.159
some questions about my peach tree.
Okay, Yeah, it looks like it's

2009
02:26:05.200 --> 02:26:11.559
got some uh runners coming up out
of the roots, you know, away

2010
02:26:11.600 --> 02:26:16.319
from the main tree. I was
wondering, is that commons? That is

2011
02:26:18.520 --> 02:26:24.000
it? No? How far away
from the trunk? Are we talking about?

2012
02:26:24.479 --> 02:26:28.520
Maybe about four or five? Yeah, peach roots don't do that.

2013
02:26:30.280 --> 02:26:35.360
Maybe what's happened is a peach pit
got buried there or something, and you're

2014
02:26:35.399 --> 02:26:41.760
you're getting a seedling coming up.
Cool. Yeah, but that works because

2015
02:26:41.799 --> 02:26:46.920
there's quite a few of them,
and I really would like more peach trees.

2016
02:26:46.200 --> 02:26:52.040
Yeah. Well, uh, the
thing with seedlings is you don't know

2017
02:26:52.079 --> 02:26:54.280
what they're going to be. You
know, you you picked peaches to plants

2018
02:26:54.280 --> 02:27:00.559
that are well adapted varieties for your
area, and that seedling is going to

2019
02:27:00.600 --> 02:27:03.319
be different, just like a child
is never identical to mom or dad,

2020
02:27:03.399 --> 02:27:09.200
although mine have been accused of being
identical to me when they misbehave. But

2021
02:27:09.479 --> 02:27:15.239
seriously, they were not identical to
the parents. So the the if you

2022
02:27:15.360 --> 02:27:18.840
do a seedling, you're probably gonna
want to graft it over to an improved

2023
02:27:18.959 --> 02:27:24.559
variety. Okay, well this one
was grafted. It was given to us

2024
02:27:24.600 --> 02:27:30.920
in two thousand and six when we
moved to property. Okay, so yeah,

2025
02:27:30.959 --> 02:27:37.239
so what that works? Well,
yeah, so the tree you have

2026
02:27:37.719 --> 02:27:41.120
has got a rootstock and then they
grafted. Do you remember what variety it

2027
02:27:41.200 --> 02:27:46.399
is? No, that's okay,
it doesn't matter. It was grafted to

2028
02:27:46.440 --> 02:27:52.440
an improved variety, and so when
it pollinates and has seeds, the genetics

2029
02:27:52.440 --> 02:27:56.200
get all mixed up, and so
the babies will not be identical to the

2030
02:27:56.239 --> 02:28:01.120
mama plant. That's all I'm saying. But yeah, you can do that.

2031
02:28:01.159 --> 02:28:05.840
In fact, I used to work
at the State Fruit Growing Experiment station

2032
02:28:07.000 --> 02:28:09.719
there in Mountain Grove, which is
about one hundred miles to the east of

2033
02:28:09.799 --> 02:28:13.920
you. I don't know if you've
been out that way or not, but

2034
02:28:13.000 --> 02:28:20.680
they developed the ose Art gold apple
there and and there what was the peach

2035
02:28:20.799 --> 02:28:22.719
that that they did they do loring. I think they may have done loring

2036
02:28:22.799 --> 02:28:26.760
there, but anyway, uh,
the Topaz. So you got your Peach

2037
02:28:26.799 --> 02:28:33.479
Country. I live west of Houston. Oh you're just in Joplin. Yeah

2038
02:28:33.600 --> 02:28:37.799
yeah, okay to pick I'm going
to pick up a load job. I

2039
02:28:37.840 --> 02:28:41.719
see. What are you listening on
iHeart app? Or how are you listening?

2040
02:28:41.159 --> 02:28:45.120
Oh? Yes, sir? Okay, well good, all right,

2041
02:28:45.200 --> 02:28:48.399
it's a great thanks and slice breads. Let me tell you, isn't that

2042
02:28:48.479 --> 02:28:50.559
the slickest thing, especially when you've
got to have a lot of windshield time?

2043
02:28:52.000 --> 02:28:54.840
Yeah, that's that's good. Even
people that live around Houston can listen

2044
02:28:54.879 --> 02:28:58.079
on the iHeart app because you know
that way. You're not always around the

2045
02:28:58.159 --> 02:29:03.959
radio, but you're a run garden
line, that's right. And you give

2046
02:29:03.040 --> 02:29:09.239
away your age there with the cointy
scissors and running with them. Well,

2047
02:29:09.360 --> 02:29:13.360
because we used to get told that
in school all the time. But I

2048
02:29:13.520 --> 02:29:15.920
was to throw it out. Yeah, well I know I'll give away my

2049
02:29:15.920 --> 02:29:20.319
age. Last weekend I got thinking
after I said it. I was describing

2050
02:29:20.360 --> 02:29:22.680
gardening like an Etra sketch. You
turn them upside down and shake them and

2051
02:29:22.760 --> 02:29:26.760
you get to start drawing all over
again, And after I said that,

2052
02:29:26.840 --> 02:29:28.760
I thought, I wonder how many
people out there know what an extra sketch

2053
02:29:30.000 --> 02:29:33.760
is. So, yeah, we
used to try and get all the grain

2054
02:29:33.840 --> 02:29:37.040
pills off there and see what was
behind it. There you go, all

2055
02:29:37.120 --> 02:29:39.840
right, hey, thanks for the
call, Good luck with it. Now.

2056
02:29:39.840 --> 02:29:43.319
I assume was this question all about
a peach in Jopplin or a peach

2057
02:29:43.680 --> 02:29:48.120
down in Houston? Just unclear?
It one? Okay? All right?

2058
02:29:48.159 --> 02:29:52.799
Good? Yeah, the whole different
group, a whole different group of peaches

2059
02:29:52.799 --> 02:29:56.280
down here. Oh yeah, So
I could just go ahead and cut one

2060
02:29:56.319 --> 02:30:01.959
of those out and transplant it for
an experiment, you could, but just

2061
02:30:03.120 --> 02:30:07.920
know that it's going to take number
one. It takes longer. I like

2062
02:30:07.000 --> 02:30:11.440
to use human analogies because it's easy
to understand. A child is not able

2063
02:30:11.479 --> 02:30:16.239
to reproduce until they hit a certain
age. Neither is a peach seedling.

2064
02:30:16.079 --> 02:30:20.239
When you graft it, it's like
you're taking older wood and putting it on

2065
02:30:20.399 --> 02:30:24.760
that seedling, and you can get
into peaches a lot faster. So if

2066
02:30:24.760 --> 02:30:31.559
you wait for that seedling to start
producing peaches, it may be seven years,

2067
02:30:31.680 --> 02:30:33.520
ten years. I don't know how
long it'll take, but it'll take

2068
02:30:33.520 --> 02:30:39.840
a longer time than with a grafted
tree. That's another thing. Yeah,

2069
02:30:39.840 --> 02:30:43.719
that's fine because it originally took a
yeah, about two years I think for

2070
02:30:43.879 --> 02:30:48.440
it to finally get up and start
producing in the beginning. Yeah, hey,

2071
02:30:48.440 --> 02:30:50.280
Mark, I have not been watching
my clock. I'm going to have

2072
02:30:50.319 --> 02:30:54.399
to run. But thank you very
much for the call. I appreciate that.

2073
02:30:54.200 --> 02:30:56.719
You know, any kind of supplies
that you need are going to be

2074
02:30:56.760 --> 02:31:00.920
at ACE Hardware. It's just as
simple as that. To fertilizers. We've

2075
02:31:00.920 --> 02:31:03.479
been talking about all these we control
products, you know, the barricade and

2076
02:31:05.079 --> 02:31:09.399
products from Nelson's and other things,
and they're there at Ace Hardware. They

2077
02:31:09.479 --> 02:31:11.600
have all of it. Now,
could they also, of course, have

2078
02:31:11.719 --> 02:31:13.879
the things to fix your plumbing?
Do you have broken pipes? Did somebody

2079
02:31:13.920 --> 02:31:18.280
back over a sprinkler head? And
you need to repair irrigation? Ace Hardware.

2080
02:31:18.440 --> 02:31:22.399
ACE Hardware is the answer. Ace
is a place for you fill in

2081
02:31:22.440 --> 02:31:24.840
the blank. Now. You can
go to Acehardware dot Com find the store

2082
02:31:24.920 --> 02:31:30.440
locator. There's forty of them near
you in the Greater Houston area. Check

2083
02:31:30.479 --> 02:31:33.040
them out at ACE Hardware. I've
got one more call. I'm gonna get

2084
02:31:33.079 --> 02:31:35.600
to you out here. We're going
to go to Brenham and talk to Leonard.

2085
02:31:35.639 --> 02:31:39.399
And Leonard I believe I've got about
a minute left, so we'll see

2086
02:31:39.399 --> 02:31:45.399
what we can do. Good morning. I have two evergreen oak trees in

2087
02:31:45.399 --> 02:31:48.760
my front yard. They've been having
problems for years. I believe in they're

2088
02:31:48.760 --> 02:31:52.879
getting worse. One of them especially, they have a little bitty balls on

2089
02:31:52.920 --> 02:31:58.159
the each leaf. I've had a
tree man out and he said, oh,

2090
02:31:58.200 --> 02:32:01.559
that's nothing to worry about, but
I think it's get weaker and weaker

2091
02:32:01.639 --> 02:32:05.200
the tree. I mean they had
like nine ten little bitty ball. Some

2092
02:32:05.879 --> 02:32:09.879
they bigger. Okay, I got
a question for you. Are they about

2093
02:32:11.200 --> 02:32:15.879
Are they about half the size of
an English pea? And maybe they're reddish

2094
02:32:15.920 --> 02:32:20.680
at times and brownish at times?
Are they larger and fuzzy? Maybe maybe

2095
02:32:20.760 --> 02:32:24.159
a little smaller than an English Yeah, but you discussed that is but they

2096
02:32:24.200 --> 02:32:28.760
get bigger, they're smaller and then
they get bigger. That's a there's a

2097
02:32:28.840 --> 02:32:33.200
gold wasp that does that. And
in general, they have their own natural

2098
02:32:33.319 --> 02:32:37.159
enemies and you don't have to worry
about them. And plus if you did

2099
02:32:37.200 --> 02:32:39.799
try to spray them, you would
have to spray a lot in order to

2100
02:32:39.879 --> 02:32:43.319
catch them. When they're out because
the spray doesn't go in that gall to

2101
02:32:43.440 --> 02:32:48.959
kill the larvae inside. So I
would say, look like it's getting weaker.

2102
02:32:48.079 --> 02:32:52.600
Well, it's getting weaker not just
because of that, though. Something's

2103
02:32:52.639 --> 02:32:56.520
wrong, something strangling the trunk.
It's not enough water, too much water,

2104
02:32:58.159 --> 02:33:03.120
there's something else going on. Adequate
moisture, but good drainage, a

2105
02:33:03.159 --> 02:33:05.479
little fertilizer to get it boosts along. If you want, I'm gonna put

2106
02:33:05.520 --> 02:33:09.520
you on Hoole right now and Josh
will give you an email. You can

2107
02:33:09.559 --> 02:33:13.479
send me some pictures of the gall
and of the tree and I'll go into

2108
02:33:13.520 --> 02:33:16.559
more depth than I have time for
right now. Okay, I'm gonna put

2109
02:33:16.559 --> 02:33:20.159
you on hole leard if you want
to do that, I'll get to get

2110
02:33:20.200 --> 02:33:22.879
an email that Josh is about to
give you. Well, you've been listening

2111
02:33:22.879 --> 02:33:26.559
to Garden Line. Here we go. Boy, day's going fast. Today

2112
02:33:26.760 --> 02:33:30.600
just seems like we got started and
here we are. We're going to be

2113
02:33:30.639 --> 02:33:33.680
back tomorrow at six am. Don't
forget today. I'm going to head down

2114
02:33:33.719 --> 02:33:37.000
to Fort Benn County to the Home
and Garden show down there. It's the

2115
02:33:37.079 --> 02:33:43.719
Brasses Home and Garden Show in Fort
Bend at the Epicenter. They're in Rosenberg,

2116
02:33:43.159 --> 02:33:46.920
Texas. I'm gonna be there giving
a talk at twelve and another one

2117
02:33:46.959 --> 02:33:50.600
at one answering your gardening questions.
Come on by, I'd love to meet

2118
02:33:50.639 --> 02:33:54.040
you. I'm even going to give
away of Nelson's brand new fertilizer