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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kat r H garden Line with Skip Rictor.

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It's crazy trip. Just watch him
as us. So many good things

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to see that crazy not sorry,
incredible good Sunday morning. Glad you got

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Yeah, I'm glad you're up.
I hope you got a cup of coffee

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or something to help your eyelids open
up. You're listening to garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and guess what. We're here to talk

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about gardening. If you would like
to give us a call, maybe ask

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a gardening question, here's the number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four seven to one three two
one two five eight seven four. I

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don't know how many of you have
actually are actually active on Facebook and follow

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garden Line on Facebook, but you
should. We always posting different things on

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there. A few days ago,
a couple of days ago, I posted

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some stuff about what to do about
the freeze after the freeze right, and

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not just protecting before, but what
about after? Well. I gave a

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number of different steps and I'm going
to go through some of those this morning,

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just to kick us off. You
know, you you look at your

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plants and they look dead. Of
course, a dorma plant kind of looks

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dead anyway, couldn't any leaves on
it. So what do you do?

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You? Number one? You assess
the damage by scraping some spot on the

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stem. You can take your fringer
nail, you can take a knife and

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scrape back the outer bark. And
when I say a stem, i'm talking

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about you know, things that are
the size of a pencil or even smaller.

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You can do that on a little
larger branch too, size of one

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of your fingers. But the goal
is to just get back behind that outer

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brown bark and look just right underneath
it. And if the branch is still

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alive, it's going to be a
green to light green to creamy color underneath

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there. If the branch is dead, it's going to be papersack brown.

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It's pretty pretty clear and easy to
tell. Sometimes it's a grayish brown color.

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Just depends on the plant. It
takes a while on some plants to

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really show the full extent of the
damage, and so I usually say wait

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a few days, let it warm
up for a couple of days, and

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then do that I've noticed already,
though some plants I've checked. I was

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looking at some fireman's cap the other
day and some others that are not that

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hardy, and they definitely took a
major hit. So anyway, that tells

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you, tells you whether it's alive
in that spot or not. And you

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can work your way back, going
further and further back and see if you

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find some green. If you find
some green, then stop there. If

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you're going to prune, prune out
the dead, not the green. When

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you cut off dead wood, it
does nothing to stimulate growth. When you

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cut into green living tissues, pruning
is a growth stimulating process. You begin

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to get bud break below it.
Should we go into some nice mild weather,

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let's say it gets in the seventies
and stays there for a few days,

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which it can do. Of course, you may start to get bud

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break, and then if we have
another hard freeze, which is possible,

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that would be severely damaged, and
you would just increase the damage you have.

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So I try to get people to
tolerate some ugly. That's right.

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If you can tolerate ugly, just
wait before you cut things back. If

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it's a lower lying plant like a
Mexican heather or perhaps some succulent growth on

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perennials that sort of melted down and
turned a mush. That's a protective cover

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over the base of those plants.
And a lot of plants can reach sprout

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from near the base. And so
just if you can stand to look at

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the ugly, just leave it.
It's fine. If you have to print

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it out, then go ahead and
throw some compost or mulch over it just

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to kind of protect it. If
we have another hard freeze, that that

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little coating of mulch over the base
of the crown, the base of the

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plant will help protect it until it
gets through. And then if you want

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to pull that back as growth begins, you can do that. So those

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are a couple of steps. I'm
going to get to some more here.

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I want to continue to kind of
walk through the different options as we go

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through assessing. So what I prefer
to do on plants, and again,

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you got to tolerate a little ugly
out there is let the plant tell you

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word of prone. Sometimes you know, one branch maybe die back further than

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others, and it's kind of hard
to tell unless you just scrape the heck

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out of the plant all over the
place right word to prone. But when

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new growth begins, you're going to
see break wherever there's a living tissues.

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And so when you do that,
it tells you exactly where to print and

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you can go ahead and remove all
the dead wood then because it'll be actively

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growing. Chances are by then we're
kind of past the dangers primary danger of

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a hard freeze for sure, and
it's just a better time to do that.

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So I like to let the plant
tell me what to do. That's

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kind of the bottom line. Some
plants are going to be slow to come

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out. One of my favorite summer
flowers is redbird of Paradise also called Pride

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of Barbadoes, and it doesn't want
to wake up until it really warms up.

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It's going to be May even a
little later before it's really wanting to

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grow. And so that one you
may think, well, it's dead.

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No, just give it some time. It's going to come. It's probably

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going to come back from what we
had, especially if you had it somewhat

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mulched around the base, it should
come back. But anyway, that's just

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a fact on that. Sago palms
are also slow. Oh gosh, and

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we had our February twenty one freeze, there was segos. It was way

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into summer before we started to see
some new growth on those plants. And

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so just be patient on certain kinds
of sleepyheads like that before you go into

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it. Whenever you see fresh new
growth on the plant showing it's coming out,

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it's going to need some extra nutrition
and that's where you would jump in.

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If on the new growth you can
do a folier spray. Something like

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Microlife's Ocean Harvests or Medina Plus are
both good for that seaweed. Both Medina

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and Microlife have a seaweed product that
works very well on that new growth.

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And then I just drenched the soil
with those first two Ocean Harvest and Medina

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Plus to strench the soil, let
it soak into the soil, and take

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care of the roots because there's a
nutrient and other things as well that are

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beneficial with the plant in those products. So then also consider a dry fertilizer

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application. I like to use a
term called scratched kind to try to figure

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out a way to describe how do
you mix fertilizer into the soil. And

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when you have a bunch of roots. You're not going to spade it in.

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You're not going to chop it in
because you damage roots. So just

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imagine like your fingers or one of
those little hand tools. It has the

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essence of metal fingers out there,
and you're just sort of scratching it into

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the surface inch or two just something
like that to work it in. Then

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water it in really well and that
will give you an ongoing nutrient availability to

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the plants. And so that would
be stuff we're doing as there's new growth

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coming out and we're supporting that new
growth. Very very important to do that.

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So those are a few tips,
and again that was that was off

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of Facebook. We post things all
the time up there that can help guide

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you. Also a few things that
might entertain you as well. And if

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I'm going to be doing an appearance
somewhere, there's other other programs activities going

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on we want to tell you about. It'll all be there on Goldline Facebook

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page, so I hope you will
take advantage of that. We're going to

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

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eight seventy and I'll be right back. Welcome to garden Line. Good morning,

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still dark outside. We're glad you're
up. Glad you're listening to garden

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Line. If you got any gardening
questions. Here's a number, by the

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way, if you try to dial
the number I gave before break, I

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don't know who you ended up with. I was looking at one number and

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in saying the wrong one seven one
three, two one two, five,

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eight seven four. If you will
write that down, then no matter what

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number I say, you know where
to go about that. That would work.

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Seven one three, two one two
five eight seven four are just k

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t RH. You can't go wrong
with that. That's also another way to

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dial. Uh. Do you like
dialand letters or do you prefer numbers.

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I'm curious. I prefer the number
because I know right where it is.

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When I look at the letter,
I have to go find that letter on

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the on the dial pad. I
don't know that. That's not like a

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super hard thing to do, but
it just I don't know. Just prefer

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the numbers myself anyway. All right, So hopefully you got the right number.

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You can give us call. We
can talk about what you want to

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talk about. One thing I like
to talk about is is the songbirds in

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our landscape? I've told you before
about some of the feeders that I have

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and some of the birds we attract
and whatnot. It's just it adds another

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another element to gardening. And that
element is not only beauty watching birds,

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but also the element of sound with
their songs. And I think that's cool.

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You know, gardening we think of
a garden as visual, right you

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see flowers or whatever plants you're looking
at in the landscape or a garden,

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and so that's visual. Gardening also
has a textural standpoint to it. For

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example, the big bold leaves of
an elephant ear, the fine lines of

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ornamental grasses. Gardening has a movement
aspect to it, watching things wave in

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the breeze like an ornamental grass wood. There's a movement to the way things

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are. And there's also sounds.
If you've ever sat underneath a clump a

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large clump of bamboo, not the
running bamboo. Don't blunt that one unless

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you've got a very good system to
keep it from running, but a clump

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of bamboo, and listen to the
breeze blow through the leaves. It sounds

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like a light rain falling. The
leaves are kind of stiff and almost papery

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in a sense. And as they
move around that you hear this sound of

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a light rain. That's kind of
cool. The sound of water in a

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garden or in a landscape or on
a patio is a very soothing sound,

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and that is nice. The sound
of songbirds is another and I think that

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that is just an element everybody ought
to have a part of. Unfortunately,

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here in the Greater Housonary, we've
got the wild Birds Unlimited stores, six

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of them around the area. They
can get you fixed up on everything you

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need right now. Bluebirds or this
is a time when they begin to get

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out there. They're looking for a
place to live, and if you have

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a house, they may decide,
hey, that's where I want to be.

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They're certainly not going to stay if
you don't. But bluebirds are beautiful

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little birds, and they also excellent
it capturing the insects and things in our

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gardens. But bluebirds are just a
wonderful, easy bird to enjoy. And

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bluebird houses need to go up.
Now. Purple Martins. About February,

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we're going to start seeing Purple Martins
arriving looking for a place to set up

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shop. And if you don't have
a purple Martin house and you want one,

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you need to get one. And
wild Birds Unlimited has an incredible selection

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of all kinds of bird houses,
bird feeders, and bird seed. In

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the wintertime, we really talk about
the need for proteins and fats for our

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birds, and the winter super blend
by Wildbirds provides just that. Wildbirds doesn't

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just put a sack out there and
say here's bird seed, as if all

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birds all the time need every You
need the same thing if you want to

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attract certain kinds of birds. They
have a variety not just of seeds,

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but things like suet and other things
that attract the birds you want to attract

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in the season that you want to
attract them with the kind of food that

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is best, most helpful for those
birds. And I like that. I

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also like the fact that their seeds
are not they're not wasted. A typical

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cheap bird seed can have over fifty
percent of the little red bebes that birds

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don't like to eat. That's a
milo in there, and it's just not

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it doesn't make sense like you pay
X dollars for a sack and if half

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of it or more is not something
the birds are going to eat, you

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just paid twice that much for that
bird seed, because if you look at

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what you actually got for birds,
you see what I'm saying. Wilbirds isn't

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that way. They don't put that
stuff in there, and they do have

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the specific blends for different groups and
kinds of birds. And I would encourage

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you to visit a wild bird store
today. You know that today'd be a

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day to just get out in your
yard, look around and say, hey,

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do I want to put a Martin
house up? Where could it go?

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And so on. Go into Wilbert's, talk to them, let them

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guide you through it, and you
will find a lot of inspiration, a

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lot of assistance to there. Wilbird's
unlimited. If you want to find one,

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just go to WBU dot com forward
slash Houston WBU dot com forward slash

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Houston. We're going to go out
to the phones now. In fact,

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we're going to head to Katie and
talk to Hank. Hello, Hank,

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good morning, sir. I have
a question about I've got two live oaks.

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I want to put weed berrier around
them, but they're about eight to

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ten feet from a pool. They
don't seem to be a problem there,

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but I just wondered what the problem
would be. There's not really a problem

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with doing it. One thing about
weed barriers is initially they're okay, and

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then over time, as you get
decomposing organic matters and things like that on

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top, we'd seeds start to land, and now you got weed seed down

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the roots kind of sticking down into
the barrier, and it becomes a little

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bit of a management issue. But
you know, there's not something that's going

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to hurt your tree to put the
weed barrier out there. What about putting

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gravel or you know, one inch
grave on top of it. You know,

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it's kind of the same thing whenever, Well, you can do that

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on top, but still you're gonna
eventually there's gonna be weeds that start to

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appear, that the seeds fall into
the top of it. And if you

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like the aesthetics of the barrier with
gravel on top, that's fine. The

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only thing is some live oaks roots
brout really bad, especially ones that the

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seed sources are more like from central
Texas and along the Gulf coast, and

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those things are sending up suckers everywhere
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of lifting up the cloth and if
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Sometimes it sort of falls off to
the side and now you got barriers sticking

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up through the gravel. But probably
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posture. Thank you very much,
all right, Hank, good luck with

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that. Appreciate that call. Yeah, live oaks are you know, they're

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really an amazing tree. I guess
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so we have a whole lot of
something just planted everywhere. We sort of

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don't appreciate it as much. But
if you think about it, Houston is

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basically a live oak forest. I
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look around, there's just a lot
of live oaks here. And there's

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a reason for that. Live oaks. When we went through the February twenty

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one freeze, very little damage.
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of here, but in general they're
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past summer's drought, they're doing really
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live oak that hadn't established roots,
they do well. They're just resilient and

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they're beautiful and they cast a very
dense shade, which for a gardener it

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can be a little bit of a
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grow things underneath them, and the
plant palette options under a live oakre are

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more limited just because of that dense
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of the year, except maybe a
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spring. But anyway, I think
they're a great plant there, and again

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there's a reason that they're planted everywhere
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For those of you out in the
Kingwood area, you know, you've got

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two great garden centers. You've got
Warrens and you've got Kingwood Garden Center out

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there, and they're both a great, great place to visit. Right now,

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they are stocked up on Microlife's three
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Microlife Ocean harvest. By the way, the three steps is the ocean harvest,

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which is a drench that we're going
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as the plant begins to get going, and then they follow that. Excuse

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me with the green label bag.
The sixty four we think of it is

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lawn fertilizer. It's really fertilizer for
anything you want to use it on six

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four, and then then about a
week later they'll do another durnch of the

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ocean harvest. That's the three step. Well Warrens in Kingwood, they let

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me know they are stocked up on
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of you who want to take care
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the cool weather, we just went
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They still have frostcloth, by the
way, and frost cloth if you take

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care of it, you can use
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that way when a freeze is forecast, you're not scrambling around trying to beat

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the other gardeners to the supplies of
frost cloth around the area. So no

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problem with going and habing it,
folding it up, take care of it,

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get it out of the rain,
you know, don't leave it out

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all year where it just sun and
rain are on it, and it'll last

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for years for you. Also.
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a really nice little toasty area where
they have all their houseplants and a great

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supply, great supply house plants looking
for a good home. And I think

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houseplants are something we need to be
doing more of. And with all the

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new plants that are out there now, the new houseplants, a species and

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varieties. You should go take a
look and just see some of the really

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cool things that are on the market
now, really nice well. Warrens and

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Kingwood both again out in the Kingwood
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would encourage you to just go check
them out and make sure that you are

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not only visiting periodically, but also
subscribing to find out information, check the

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website, get the newsletters and things
so that when new events come up,

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you were the first to know.
That's important. I love our mom and

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pop garden centers because so much of
the time they're having different events out there.

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The things you can go to a
class or a speaker coming out,

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a workshop. I know Warren's in
the past had those container workshops where they

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show you how to combine a container. That was last last year they were

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doing. I bet they'll do that
again someday. And that's just fun and

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it helps you to create beautiful,
beautiful things. Nice to have that kind

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of a garden center. And that's
why we're always well, it's one of

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about ten reasons we're always bragging on
our just an incredible amount of really cool

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mom and pop garden centers, north, south, east, west, Central

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here in Houston. No matter where
you live, there's two or three you

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can get to and really enjoy.
Well, you're listening to garden Line.

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

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About to take a little break here
for the news with Nikki. Our phone

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number, and I'm going to give
you the right one this time. Seven

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one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. Seven one three two one

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two five eight seven four. We'll
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when we come back, I want
to tell you about some things going on

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here in the area that I think
you might be interested in. Welcome back

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to guard Line on a early,
early on a Sunday morning. We're glad

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you hear. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and here is a number

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if you'd like to give us a
call. Seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. I have
been talking about the freeze a lot and

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freeze recovery a lot. That seems
to be what everybody's interested in right now,

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and for good reason. We just
went through a pretty good one for

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this area. But this is the
kind of thing that happens from time to

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time. We just have to prepare
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And I find that as you go
through, you know, the year's gardening

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and becoming better and better at it, that as we learn, we just

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kind of figure out how to do
things like what is the best way to

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protect our plants, take care of
our plants? What's the best ones to

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plan here? How do we take
care of them properly? That's that's all

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part of the deal, and that's
what we're here about on Guarden Line.

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We can provide you with the kind
of guidance so that you can have a

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beautiful landscape, a bountiful garden,
because that is one of the best hobbies.

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In fact, I'll just be biased
and say the best hobby. But

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remember just because I'm biased, I
don't mean I'm wrong. I'm happy to

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be right and biased about that.
Gardening is a wonderful hobby. I brag

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on gardening all the time because there
are very few things where you can get

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the mental benefit, the peace of
mind benefit, just the physical benefits and

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just overall well being that you can
with an activity like getting out and enjoying

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plants and enjoying the garden. So
there we go. That's what I think

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about it. If you are wanting
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your beds, now's the time to
do it. You know. I wouldn't

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say this is last calf. No, we can plan any time of the

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year. But the sooner you get
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going to be when summer comes.
That would be true, especially with tree

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shrubs with vines. But it's all
also truth. Perennials, perennial grasses,

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getting them in. Now. Roses
there's another one. Don't wait till Valentine's

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Day. Just go ahead and get
the roses and get going. I mean,

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you can plant them on Valentine's Day, but you don't have to wait

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until then to be able to plant
roses. Our garden centers are stocking up

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on those things. They look good
and when you do get a quality mix

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to put them in. That is
the single most important indicator of success is

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soil that is in good shape for
plant roots. It's as simple as that.

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So for example, Landscaper's Pride,
they have a rose soil, a

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premium rose mix and it's got composted
pine bark, it's got sphagnum moss in

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it. It's got a slow release
fertilizer too, that's put in there,

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it's going to take about three months
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your roses or whatever you plant it
in and by the way, rose soil

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is for a lot of things,
not just roses. Any kind of shrub

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or tree or perennial can do well
in that. But as you put it

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in there and those roots venture out, they're going to find that slow release

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fertilizer, and so Landscaper's Pride,
you know, they're local, their top

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quality resources through here throughout the southeast
and east part of the Unit of Texas.

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Just a really really they've been around
for twenty years, since two thousand

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and two, twenty seven different products. You can also buy bulk from them,

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by the way, if you want, But you go online to Landscaperspride

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dot com Landscaperspride dot com and you
can find out where the stores are where

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you can purchase Landscaper's Pride products.
And this is the time when if you're

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gonna do some planting, you need
to get a good quality product to be

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able to do it. First,
fix that bed and then go get you

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some roses and shrubs and things and
get them in. Let's get those roots

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going before it heats up so much. This is, by the way,

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they also have black velvet mulch.
It's a composted mulch. It is not

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dyed. It is naturally very very
that's why they call it black velvet.

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We hate dyed mulches here on garden
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dyed multi it's naturally that color.
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mulch on the soil surface to protect
the soil moderate temperatures as we just went

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through, and also to keep those
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I want to talk a little bit
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We don't do a lot of that
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healthy things to eat. By the
way, there's another benefit of gardening,

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grow your own healthy food. But
this is the time of year when we've

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kind of gotten We'll just say we're
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but we're really kind of late in
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when spring's going to arrive here this
far south. But I'm planting some broccoli.

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I've got some kale. We've got
lettuce. All the cool season greens

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can still be planted out in your
garden. Carrots, you know. I

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guess you could get a little brave
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right now too. You'd be ready
to cover them up. We have a

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good hard freeze. But those can
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got eggplant and peppers and tomatoes that
are growing in little cells underneath a quality

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light, and they are going to
be ready to go. When we get

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a little further along, I'll be
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I'm starting them inside for that head
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remember is we have here in this
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it is we don't have a long
growing season. We have two short growing

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seasons. And that's partially inaccurate,
but it makes a point. If you

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were to go up let's say,
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Kentucky, somewhere in there Kansas,
you've got a very long growing season.

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It gets hot in summer, but
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with nights that are also hot,
so you can grow things that take a

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long time. Like a brandy wine
tomato, for example, It takes about

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eighty days for that to come to
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that in that zone. You go
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last snow melts? What in June
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first. I'm joking, but you
get the idea. They have a short

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growing, shorter growing season. But
down here we have this blasting inferno called

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summer, and so we have a
spring season and we have a fall season

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for a lot of the things that
we grow, like a cucumbers and tomatoes

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for example, And so we want
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get them in early so that we
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out of them. Taking that brandy
wine tomato as an example, it'll grow

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here. And I mean if you
plan a brandy wine that already has fruit

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on it because you've potted it up
to about a one gallon pot over time

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and try to go out, you
get some harvests, but you don't get

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as much then you get as many
tomatoes as one that's faster that maybe matures

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in Oh, I don't know.
Sixty five days or something along those lines.

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it with transplants. It's also a
plant a little bit early. Put a

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cover over the plants to help them
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in your house that you're growing as
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I mean, you keep it really
comfortable in there for them. When

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they go outside. It may be
a seventy five degree day, but that

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night there's a little breeze and it's
fifty eight degrees or fifty five degrees or

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whatever. The temperature even lower sometimes
and that is a shock to them,

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and so we have to give them
some protection for that. But anybody can

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garden, and anybody can start transplants. There's all kinds of tools and supplies

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that will help, like seed starting
mix and certain kinds of trays. Bego

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makes a really nice seed starting tray
with clear domes that go over them.

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It just makes it real easy.
You can do it in a dixie cup

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if you just want to grow a
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and get busy. I encourage you
to try it. This year, we're

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going to take another little break here. Our phone number is seven to one

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three two one two five eight seven
four. I'll be right back. Welcome

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back to guard Line. We're glad
you're listening in today. Hey, I

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was telling you earlier. I'll tell
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area that I think you might be
interested in. Next Friday, yep,

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Friday the twenty sixth, at the
United Way Greater Houston, Downtown Houston from

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eighth in the morning to three point
thirty is oba's annual Organic Science Day event.

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Organic Science Day Event, now what
that is. It's a day full

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of learning from a lineup of speakers
who are really leading experts in the green

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industry. The author of the Teeming
series, Jeff Loewenfelds. And by the

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Teeming series, I'm talking about teaming
with bacteria, teeming with microbes, you

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know that that sort of thing.
He has all kind of teaming nutrients.

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Another one excellent author. He's going
to be their chance to meet him and

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get a book, a sign book. As a matter of fact, lots

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of other great speakers. Again,
if you want to attend, you need

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to register, so go to OBA
online dot org slash register. That's OHBA

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online dot org slash register there,
there's a couple of snack breaks. There's

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a meal in the thing, so
you know you have to pay to be

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part of the program, but mainly
what you're getting is just a full day

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of learning. I'm going to be
there visiting with folks and enjoin the program

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as I always do. So I
hope you can join us February or Friday,

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January twenty sixth from eight am to
three thirty pm at United Way.

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But remember, go register first so
you're ready to go. Another thing that

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you need to know about if you
are a vegetable gardener, if you're a

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00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:56.119
vegetable producer, if you want to
be a vegetable producer, the Fort Bend

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County Extension Office Agro Life Extension Office
is having their thirty ninth annual Regional Vegetable

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Conference. Again a full day of
learning. They're gonna have topics on bees

420
00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:12.319
and honey production. There will be
backyard gardening and alternative techniques or be building,

421
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soil growing, mushrooms, integrated pest
management, a lot of different kinds

422
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of things. Now, if you
want to go, what you need to

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do is register and to register,
go to thirty ninth th Annual Vegetable Conference

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00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:34.640
dot event Bright dot com thirty ninth
Annual Vegetable Conference. Another way to do

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it. Here's the phone number.
It's probably easier. Two eight one six

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three three seven zero three three two
eight one six three three seven zero three

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three. That is in for Ben
County. It is at the Fort Ben

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County Fairgrounds, the Fort Ben County
Fairgrounds. Uh. And it's out there

429
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just south of Rosenberg a little bit, just cross a highway fifteen nine from

430
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:03.960
Rosenberg, so the Fort Ben County
Fairgrounds on. By the way, I

431
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should tell you that February eighth,
that is a Thursday. A lot of

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our activities are on the weekends.
This is a Thursday, and again it

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is going to be a lot of
information, lots of good information eight am

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00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.039
to three thirty pm with a lunch
included. By the way, the registration,

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if you do it soon before the
twenty six it's thirty bucks. If

436
00:31:27.559 --> 00:31:32.279
you wait until after or January twenty
seventh or later, it's going to be

437
00:31:32.359 --> 00:31:37.279
forty bucks to attend that. No
want to miss out on that for sure.

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Talking about gardening this morning and growing
transplants and getting those out there,

439
00:31:42.359 --> 00:31:47.839
making sure that you've got good,
healthy transplants. If you've never grown vegetables

440
00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:52.640
before, try it. Try it. Here's something. If you're listening and

441
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you have never grown a vegetable garden, but you would like to grow something.

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Get a container that is about ten
gallon, or it could be larger,

443
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but about ten gallons in size.
Make sure it has holes in the

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bottom. Fill it full of a
quality mix for growing things, a quality

445
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mix, and then transplant a tomato
into it. Put it in a sunny

446
00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:16.640
spot. Make sure you water it
adequately. Now I've grown tomatoes in five

447
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:21.960
gallon buckets with holes drilled in the
bottom. The problem with that is tomatoes

448
00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:25.200
get pretty large and you got to
water it a lot in order to keep

449
00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:29.519
the soil moist and keep it out
of stress. So can it be done?

450
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Yes, what I recommend it.
I would recommend getting at least ten

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gallons if you're going to grow a
tomato, and have it a little easier

452
00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:38.839
to manage, because those things dry
out. You don't have to be watering

453
00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:43.279
them twice a day just to keep
them going. But just as simple as

454
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that. You want to grow a
pepper eggplant, you can do that.

455
00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:50.319
If you want to grow right now
you want to to day go outside and

456
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:53.240
plant something. You can also do
a container doesn't have to be as large

457
00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:58.720
as for a tomato, and sprinkle
some lettuce seed on the surface, moisten

458
00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:01.319
the surface and let them sprout.
Don't bury let us seed. It needs

459
00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:07.079
light to germinate, but try that. Get some spinach seed, plant those.

460
00:33:07.119 --> 00:33:09.920
You can cover those up just a
little bit and help them get going,

461
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:14.680
keep them moist Typically for seed,
by the way, I will soak

462
00:33:14.720 --> 00:33:20.440
it overnight. If it's something like, for example, Swiss charred and lettuce

463
00:33:20.559 --> 00:33:23.799
and okra sweet peas, things like
that, I'll soak them overnight in warm

464
00:33:23.839 --> 00:33:30.279
water and that helps to start that
swelling of the seed which initiates germination.

465
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:35.319
You can just plant dry seed nature
plant to dry seed and it gets wet

466
00:33:35.359 --> 00:33:37.079
on the ground and it begins to
sprout. But if you want to speed

467
00:33:37.119 --> 00:33:40.480
it up a little bit, an
overnight soaking and warm water would be a

468
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:45.880
good way to do that. By
the way. Finally, now we are

469
00:33:46.720 --> 00:33:51.319
seeing we have seen a break from
the drought and we're about to see a

470
00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:54.920
lot more rain. This week is
going to be a doozy some lot of

471
00:33:54.960 --> 00:34:00.680
areas about four inches of rain is
predicted. That is a lot. And

472
00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:04.680
what happens when it rains here,
well, one thing that happens is the

473
00:34:04.680 --> 00:34:08.360
soil absorbs water, and our clay
soils is Houston black clay. It swells

474
00:34:08.480 --> 00:34:14.159
up, it actually expands in size. When it gets dry, it shrinks.

475
00:34:14.360 --> 00:34:16.199
That's why you get the big cracks
in the backyard, large enough to

476
00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:22.360
lose a small toddler in in the
backyard. But when it swells and shrinks,

477
00:34:22.400 --> 00:34:25.679
that wrecks havoc on our foundations.
If you see cracks in your sheet

478
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:30.840
rock, or cracks in your brick
exterior on your home, if your sidewalks

479
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:35.840
are buckling, or your driveway,
call fix my Slab Foundation Repair. Ty

480
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Stricklan's been doing this since twenty ten, over twenty three years. Fix my

481
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Slab. Now. The nice thing
about hiring Tie to do your work is

482
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that it's going to be on time. In other words, he tells you

483
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and he shows up, and it's
going to be a fair price. He

484
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prides himself on that, and he's
going to fix it right. And those

485
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three are the main things you need. And that's what he provides on time,

486
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fair price, and fixed right.
Fix myslab dot com. It's a

487
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:09.440
website fix myslab dot com, or
you can just give him a call two

488
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eight one two five five forty nine
forty nine two eight one two fy five

489
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forty nine forty nine for fix myslab
dot com check check out around the house.

490
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Look, you're going to see this
kind of thing because it's just part

491
00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:29.320
of what we live with here where
we have the shrinking and swelling of our

492
00:35:29.360 --> 00:35:32.760
soil. It's amazing how much power
those kind of soil movements have. You

493
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:37.559
see broken water lines down in Houston
all the time in the summertime when it

494
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:43.880
gets really dry and cracks that A
really powerful force is soil when it's shrinking

495
00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:50.280
and when it's swelling back up.
I was talking to you yesterday, you

496
00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:53.760
know about this is the time to
use some landscaping redos. Maybe you got

497
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plants that died from the freeze,
plants that died from last summer's drought,

498
00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:00.559
and you want to redo it.
Apes is your company to do that.

499
00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:05.199
And Jason Garrity and his team there
at Peerscapes, they know what they're doing.

500
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:08.239
They've been doing this since nineteen eighty
eight. Peerscape has been around now

501
00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:13.840
two eight one three seven fifty sixty
two, eight one three seven fifty sixty.

502
00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:16.239
That's the phone number. The website
is peerscapes dot com, and I

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00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:20.199
encourage you to go there because when
you go there, you're going to see

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00:36:20.239 --> 00:36:23.400
pictures of the kind of work they
can do. And it doesn't matter if

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00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:27.760
you have a giant, beautiful home
and you want the whole thing redone,

506
00:36:27.960 --> 00:36:30.079
or if you've just got a modest
place and you just want some work on

507
00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:34.920
an irrigation system. Maybe you want
some landscape lighting, maybe you'd like to

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00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:37.039
add a water feature. I was
talking about the beauty and the sound and

509
00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:43.000
comfort of water in the backyard,
back patio environment. They can do all

510
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:47.079
of that. They can fix areas
with poor drainage so you don't have standing

511
00:36:47.119 --> 00:36:52.280
water anymore. Pierscapes. Give them
a call. It's time, because you

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00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:54.800
need to get set up and you
need to be ready to go when the

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00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:59.800
time to get in there and get
that work done arrives too. Eight one

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00:37:00.159 --> 00:37:02.880
three seven fifty sixty. Well,
we're going to take another break. I

515
00:37:02.880 --> 00:37:07.079
hear the music. That means I
have to shut up pretty quickly. Our

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00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:12.440
phone number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

517
00:37:12.519 --> 00:37:16.360
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. I want to remind you that

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if you are looking for good additional
gardening information, I'm putting together a website.

519
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:24.960
It's been up for a little while. We are really working on a

520
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:30.000
lot of things right now to go
up and enhance it. But what you

521
00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:35.199
will find there right now is my
lawn care schedule. So if you want

522
00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:39.159
to know from January to December,
when I fertilized, what do I use?

523
00:37:39.280 --> 00:37:43.440
Organic and synthetic? What about trace
minerals? If you want to know

524
00:37:43.440 --> 00:37:47.519
about aeration, mowing, proper mowing, guess there's such a thing as mowing

525
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:52.480
right, watering right. It's all
on there. And also my lawn pest

526
00:37:52.599 --> 00:37:58.199
disease and we'd management schedule again January
through December, organic and synthetic, it's

527
00:37:58.199 --> 00:38:01.760
all on there. E T r
H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

528
00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:07.400
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to Casey r H

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00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:27.119
Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's
crazy Trim just watching as so many things

530
00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:37.559
to sets well. Welcome back to
Garden Line. We are talking all kinds

531
00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:40.840
of things gardening. This morning,
it's still dark outside. If you see

532
00:38:40.880 --> 00:38:44.719
your neighbor's lights are not on,
you need to go bang on the door

533
00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:47.119
and tell them they're missing garden Line. They will rise up and call you

534
00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:51.480
blessed. This morning, they'll rise
up and call you something else, but

535
00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:55.719
eventually they will rise up and call
you blessed and appreciation for you turning them

536
00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:59.039
on to garden Line. Hey,
we got to have a little bit of

537
00:38:59.079 --> 00:39:02.920
fun here right I wanted to mention
I was talking about growing some transplants inside

538
00:39:04.360 --> 00:39:07.920
a little bit earlier, and I'm
going to be posting something to Facebook today,

539
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:12.599
the garden Line Facebook page. You
need to be checking this out if

540
00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:16.639
you're interested in learning about growing transplants. And this is a like a I

541
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:23.559
could say a course, but it's
like a one hour lecture that covers all

542
00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:30.039
kinds of aspects of growing great transplants. I would recommend you take a look

543
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:34.360
at it. If you're not interested
right now, maybe book market for coming

544
00:39:34.400 --> 00:39:38.400
back to later. But it's a
training that I did online and it's part

545
00:39:38.400 --> 00:39:42.760
of a Gardening in the Gulf series
we did as I was a horticulturist with

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00:39:42.760 --> 00:39:46.360
agrolife extension, and it's called growing
Great Transplants, and it gives you the

547
00:39:46.400 --> 00:39:50.639
tips for all of it, the
soil, the lighting, the temperatures,

548
00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:54.159
taking care of them. Do you
know that you're supposed to pet your transplants?

549
00:39:55.199 --> 00:40:00.719
You are. Here's why. Whenever
in nature something gets stressed, it

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00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:06.039
can get stronger. For example,
you go to the gym, you work

551
00:40:06.079 --> 00:40:09.360
out, You wear your muscles out, and they get stronger. Give them

552
00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:13.719
time to recover and they bounce back, and then do it again, and

553
00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:15.119
do it again, and do it
again, and you just build and build

554
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:19.920
and build your muscles. When a
tree trunk is out there in the wind,

555
00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:23.000
a young tree, and that wind
is moving the trunk and bending it

556
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:28.760
a little bit like it, that
would happen. Those trunk tissues literally get

557
00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:31.360
stronger. The same thing happens with
transplants. Have you ever grown little tomato

558
00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:37.599
seedlings and they're spin ly and thin
and they just break so easily. Growing

559
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:42.280
in still air, that's gonna happen. Growing in low light, that's going

560
00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:47.440
to happen too. So what we
do is what I do. I go

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00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:50.880
over in my transplants. I need
to talk to them every day anyway,

562
00:40:50.960 --> 00:40:52.840
right, go over there a couple
times a day and just take my fingers

563
00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:57.280
and just kind of brush through them. People. Sometimes people use your hand

564
00:40:57.320 --> 00:41:00.840
or a pencil over the top.
Some people set up a little oscillating fan

565
00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:02.559
to go back and forth, and
each time it does so, it moves

566
00:41:02.599 --> 00:41:07.800
the plant a little bit and the
stem gets stockier, stronger. That is

567
00:41:07.719 --> 00:41:15.199
just a fact of nature that that
kind of effect has had when we when

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00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:17.840
we do that to our transpants.
One little tip there that's also in the

569
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:22.800
training. By the way, growing
Great Transplants. Look at Facebook and we're

570
00:41:22.800 --> 00:41:23.960
going to have it up there.
I'm also going to be adding it to

571
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:29.199
the website this week for those of
you who want to do seeds starting or

572
00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:32.119
won a book market for future seed
starting. Let's head out to the phones

573
00:41:32.159 --> 00:41:36.280
now. By the way, our
number is seven one three two one two

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00:41:36.599 --> 00:41:39.800
fifty eight seventy four. We're going
to talk to Tammy and Tomball. Hey,

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00:41:39.800 --> 00:41:45.639
Tammy, let's see. Let me
try again. Now do we have

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00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:49.480
toil? Hey? There we go. Hi, Sorry I didn't have you

577
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:53.599
the first round. Oh, good
morning. Hi. My question regards read

578
00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:58.760
using potting soil for tomatoes and peppers. I know in the garden you're supposed

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00:41:58.760 --> 00:42:01.760
to move them around. How does
that work with potting soil? You can

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00:42:01.800 --> 00:42:07.239
reuse potting soil. The times when
I would not reuse it is if the

581
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plant that was growing before had some
sort of a disease, especially a root

582
00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:19.320
type disease, then because then you
would be reintroducing that to the new planting

583
00:42:19.360 --> 00:42:22.880
you're putting in. But otherwise you
can redo it. I use mine all

584
00:42:22.920 --> 00:42:27.320
the time. As you notice in
your pots, after a year or two,

585
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:31.920
the potting level sinks down because that
potting soilt is continuing to compost away,

586
00:42:32.559 --> 00:42:37.800
and so I will take it out
and mix it with fresh new potting

587
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:42.000
soil to extend it a little bit. But there's not a problem with reusing

588
00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:45.960
it other than the disease issue.
Okay, awesome, thank you. Yeah.

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00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:51.840
The one time I probably wouldn't do
that, Temmy is with seedlings,

590
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:55.679
like if I had some potting soil
outside and then bringing it in to start

591
00:42:55.760 --> 00:43:01.079
seeds. In seedling environment is very
warm, very humid, and it's a

592
00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:06.480
disease heaven, and so there could
be spores and things out there that that

593
00:43:06.519 --> 00:43:10.719
would be a problem for all right, Okay, thank you, Yes,

594
00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:16.119
thank you. That's a that's a
good question. That tammy head right there

595
00:43:16.400 --> 00:43:27.760
there. There is a way to
pasteurize old potting soil or old potting mixes.

596
00:43:28.159 --> 00:43:30.679
Uh. Some people will do that, you know, they bring in

597
00:43:30.760 --> 00:43:34.320
composts and they're going to mix it
into a potting mix. And in general,

598
00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:39.360
yes, you can do that.
Nature plants seeds in rotting composting materials

599
00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:43.719
and doesn't You don't have to worry
about sterilizing the forest floor. So a

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00:43:43.760 --> 00:43:46.840
seed can come up, right.
But in that environment where we start seeds,

601
00:43:47.079 --> 00:43:51.840
we can have things called damping off. And that basically is your seeds

602
00:43:51.840 --> 00:43:54.920
come up and they just fall over
and rode at the base. Uh.

603
00:43:54.960 --> 00:44:00.320
And that's called damping off. And
it's due to rise actni epipium. There's

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00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:05.760
different disease organisms that will do that. What you can do for those of

605
00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:07.360
you who care to do this,
most people are going to say, I'm

606
00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:12.760
gonna do that, But if you
want to, you can put potting soil

607
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:15.159
that you want to make sure is
let's say, cleaned up, no bad

608
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:19.760
stuff in it. Put it in
a turkey bag. Remember those bags.

609
00:44:20.039 --> 00:44:22.920
Slip a turkey and a bake in
the oven. They can take the heat.

610
00:44:22.360 --> 00:44:25.639
Well. Take moist potting soil it
needs to not be dry, moist

611
00:44:27.239 --> 00:44:30.719
and put it in a turkey bag. Set it in a big long like

612
00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:35.400
brownie dish or something large like that. Poke a few holes in it.

613
00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:39.519
That's important, suffer air to escape, just a few little holes, and

614
00:44:39.599 --> 00:44:43.800
then put it in the oven.
I don't have the temperature at the top

615
00:44:43.840 --> 00:44:49.239
of my head. Maybe I should
post that too, But anyway, you

616
00:44:49.280 --> 00:44:52.000
take it up to a certain temperature. I think it's about one eighty,

617
00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:55.840
but I'm not sure on that one. Anyway, if you don't heat it

618
00:44:55.880 --> 00:44:59.760
hot enough, it won't kill anything. If you heat it too hot,

619
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:04.320
it will run you out of the
kitchen and your house will smell horrible when

620
00:45:04.360 --> 00:45:07.920
you overheat that stuff. So be
very careful with it. But you heat

621
00:45:07.960 --> 00:45:09.719
it up to a certain temperature for
a certain amount of times, not very

622
00:45:09.760 --> 00:45:15.320
long, and that reaches that temperature
that kills the bad stuff, and it

623
00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:21.280
would be like a pasteurization type thing, not a complete sterilization hopefully. But

624
00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:23.639
anyway, then when it cools off, you can reuse it. Some people

625
00:45:23.679 --> 00:45:29.320
will go through that trouble. I
would just say, get some nice,

626
00:45:29.320 --> 00:45:31.559
fresh new potting soil. It's probably
the best thing to do if you have

627
00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:37.480
concerns over disease and whatnot. But
that is an option that you can do.

628
00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:42.559
Let's see here we are. Our
phone number is seven one three two

629
00:45:42.679 --> 00:45:47.079
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

630
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:52.760
four. We love to talk about
our feed stores here on garden Line and

631
00:45:52.280 --> 00:45:57.679
League City feed down in the League
City area is just a great place.

632
00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:00.000
It's one of those old time feed
stores where you get person service to carry

633
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:05.920
the bags out for you. The
Thunderbergs have been running League City Feeds since

634
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:12.039
what their grandfather built it forty years
ago, and now Wes and Madison's sister,

635
00:46:12.880 --> 00:46:15.920
they are basically running the place and
it's I love going in there.

636
00:46:16.039 --> 00:46:19.639
When you go in there, you're
going to find all the fertilizers that I

637
00:46:19.679 --> 00:46:22.880
recommend on Guardenline. You're going to
find the pesticides, herbicides, bunge sides,

638
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:27.280
things like that. Of course,
you're going to find premium pet food,

639
00:46:27.559 --> 00:46:30.800
quality pet food. They're going to
be supplies for all your backyard chicken

640
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:34.760
needs. And it's a feed store, right, you get the idea.

641
00:46:35.480 --> 00:46:37.679
But when you when you go in
there, you're going to have everything you

642
00:46:37.719 --> 00:46:44.320
need to have a successful garden in
terms of fertilizers and pest management. And

643
00:46:44.760 --> 00:46:50.159
the phone number is two eight one
three three two sixteen twelve two eight one

644
00:46:50.239 --> 00:46:55.000
three three two sixteen twelve. They're
open money through Saturday nine to six pm

645
00:46:55.199 --> 00:47:00.199
nine am six pm and they're on
Highway three, just a few blocks out

646
00:47:00.320 --> 00:47:02.000
of ninety six. So if you
live in Santa Fe, Clare Lake,

647
00:47:02.039 --> 00:47:06.440
Webster Baycliff, San Leone, O, Kamina Reality, that whole area,

648
00:47:06.760 --> 00:47:09.239
League City Feed is your hometown feed
store. We're going to take a break

649
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:15.000
right now and we'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. We're

650
00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:17.840
glad you're listening this morning. Hey, here's a phone number, give us

651
00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:22.559
a call. We can talk about
whatever your questions are regarding gardening. We

652
00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:27.280
want you to have success. Just
dolls seven to one three two one two

653
00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.920
fifty eight seventy four, seven to
one three two one two five eight seven

654
00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:36.360
four and we can talk about the
things that interest you speaking of and we

655
00:47:36.440 --> 00:47:40.880
can talk. I'm going to be
heading out to the at to Fort Benk

656
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:45.800
County next Saturday. You know,
we do the garden Line show here until

657
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:50.519
ten am, and I'll jump in
a car next Saturday, twenty seventh and

658
00:47:50.559 --> 00:47:53.920
head to the Fort Bend Epicenter for
the Brasses Home and Garden Show. The

659
00:47:53.920 --> 00:47:58.719
Brasses Home and Garden Show is a
great opportunity to get out and see a

660
00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:02.800
lot of cool products. And I'll
be giving a talk on plant tips for

661
00:48:02.920 --> 00:48:07.800
spring, dealing with coming out of
the freeze thing, just all kinds of

662
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:10.239
things. I'll be answering your questions
too. By the way, I'm gonna

663
00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:13.800
set up at a little table there, and just as you come by,

664
00:48:14.280 --> 00:48:17.320
let's meet. Bring me some samples
of plants or bugs or questions that you

665
00:48:17.400 --> 00:48:21.239
might have. If you got photos, check them, make sure they're in

666
00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:24.320
sharp focus so I can help with
them, and then bring them by.

667
00:48:24.400 --> 00:48:28.719
We'll take a look and we will
help. And whatever kinds of questions you

668
00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:32.800
have, vegetables and herbs and flowers
and lawns and trees and planting landscapes,

669
00:48:32.880 --> 00:48:36.719
you know what might be a good
plant for this area, all those kind

670
00:48:36.719 --> 00:48:39.119
of things. Again, that's a
Brasses Home and Garden Show next Saturday.

671
00:48:39.159 --> 00:48:44.519
I'll be there from about eleven eleven
thirty for about two hours. They're at

672
00:48:44.559 --> 00:48:46.519
the show, so I hope you'll
come by. I always like to meet

673
00:48:46.599 --> 00:48:52.320
and visit with folks that listen to
Garden Line. That's an opportunity. All

674
00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:55.280
right, I have a garden line
quiz. It's the same quiz almost all

675
00:48:55.280 --> 00:49:00.199
the time. That is, what
is the most important thing you do have

676
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:06.119
success with plants of any kind.
The answer is if you said, improve

677
00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:07.920
the soil. First comes brown stuff, then comes green stuff, ding,

678
00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:12.079
ding, ding, winter winter chicken
dinner. You got it. That's right.

679
00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:16.199
And Heirloom Soils has a variety of
different cool soil mixes that just work

680
00:49:16.679 --> 00:49:21.880
very well. I like their Heirloom
Soils rose soil. I like the veg

681
00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:24.239
and herb mix. In fact,
I just just about to fill one of

682
00:49:24.280 --> 00:49:29.719
my vego beds with some veg and
herbmex here coming up soon when I can

683
00:49:29.719 --> 00:49:31.920
actually get back and do work at
my house instead of talking to you about

684
00:49:31.920 --> 00:49:36.719
what's going on at your house.
They also have lead mold compost. Now,

685
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:39.400
these are all available in bags all
over town. If you are trying

686
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:45.079
to help a plant that's recuperating from
the cold, they would suggest, for

687
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:49.079
example, that you take some of
those products like the vegiane ner, mix

688
00:49:49.480 --> 00:49:53.320
the heirloom rose soil and mix it
in real carefully around the plant, all

689
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:58.119
through that area. Just gently mix
it all in around that area. Maybe

690
00:49:58.159 --> 00:50:00.199
mix it. A little of the
MICROLFE sixty four is with it as well.

691
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:04.719
They've had good success with that as
well, of course, and then

692
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:07.599
watered in really well, and as
that plant begins to send out fresh new

693
00:50:07.639 --> 00:50:13.159
roots, it's got a really nutritious
soil mix to be able to survive,

694
00:50:13.760 --> 00:50:19.400
and not just survive, but thrive. That's most important. The beneficial endo

695
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:23.599
and ectomycurza in the heirloom sols mixes
is just an extra boost. You know.

696
00:50:23.679 --> 00:50:29.400
That's part of nature. That's how
nature takes organic matter and turns it

697
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:34.239
in to stuff that's rocket fuel for
plants. It's the endo and ectomycroiza and

698
00:50:34.280 --> 00:50:37.719
other microbes that are out there,
and you're going to boost that when you

699
00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:40.800
put down a quality mix like the
airloom cells Rose or airroom cells Veggie and

700
00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:45.079
Herb, or even their leaf mold
compost by the way, airlom cells.

701
00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:49.440
Folks, if anybody's listening, you
knocked it out of the park on the

702
00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:52.519
new bag of leaf mold compost.
I mean that just pops. I love

703
00:50:52.599 --> 00:50:58.639
that new design really clear. I
mean halfway across the store looking up you

704
00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:02.039
can see what that is and after
and it's a super super quality product.

705
00:51:02.320 --> 00:51:07.480
We're going to head out to Parland
now and talk to Kay. Good morning,

706
00:51:07.559 --> 00:51:10.960
Ka, Good morning. How are
you doing this morning? I do.

707
00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:15.519
I'm doing well. K. I'm
inside and I'm not freezing to death,

708
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:20.679
so all is well me too.
You may have already addressed this.

709
00:51:20.880 --> 00:51:23.000
I don't know. I overslept and
I've just been up about fifteen minutes,

710
00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:28.760
so I missed the first part.
But I was wondering about how long can

711
00:51:28.840 --> 00:51:32.280
you keep plants covered because I don't
know what are we going to get another

712
00:51:32.519 --> 00:51:39.719
freeze spell? I know they need
to have fresh air and so forth,

713
00:51:39.800 --> 00:51:44.880
but I didn't know how long.
Well, it's you're not supposed to in

714
00:51:44.960 --> 00:51:47.639
pairline there, you're not supposed to
get another freeze, you know. If

715
00:51:50.039 --> 00:51:52.280
it's not so much the air that
they get, it's just getting back to

716
00:51:52.320 --> 00:51:58.280
the sunlight again. Sunlight helps the
plants make carbohydrates, carbohydrates or sugars.

717
00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:01.320
They're like anti freeze for the plant. So far to support growth, to

718
00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:05.920
support health, you can't leave them
in the dark too long, So I'd

719
00:52:05.920 --> 00:52:07.199
go ahead and pull the covers over. I mean, if we're gonna have

720
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:09.840
it, doesn't hurt to leave them
on a few days. If you need

721
00:52:09.880 --> 00:52:13.840
to but I would pull them off
as soon as you can, and I

722
00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:16.039
think now is as soon as you
is. Fine. Okay, very good,

723
00:52:16.159 --> 00:52:19.880
Thanks so much. You have a
great day, all right, you

724
00:52:19.920 --> 00:52:22.000
two, Kate, you take care. Yeah, go ahead and get those

725
00:52:22.000 --> 00:52:27.920
covers off. You know, it's
just we're gonna have some chilly nights,

726
00:52:27.920 --> 00:52:31.000
but we're not gonna we're not gonna
be looking at the free stuff like we

727
00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:35.800
just went through. That's a good
thing. That's a very very good thing.

728
00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:39.920
Uh. You probably you know,
when you go out and you're you're

729
00:52:39.960 --> 00:52:43.719
trying to cover and protect your plants
and take care of them, you probably

730
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:45.840
think, Okay, what maybe I
just need to plant things that don't freeze.

731
00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:51.119
Well you can do that, but
let me let me just offer my

732
00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:54.760
perspective on some of these kinds of
things. And this includes the heat and

733
00:52:54.840 --> 00:53:00.920
drought from last summer, and includes
the really good hard coal snap we just

734
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:08.920
went through. Gardening is a process, and gardens and landscapes evolve the idea

735
00:53:09.039 --> 00:53:13.239
that you're gonna you know, you
buy a house, you put in a

736
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:16.119
landscape, and you're set to go
for the next twenty years. I wouldn't

737
00:53:16.119 --> 00:53:21.679
think that way. You can plant
things that are like that. They don't

738
00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:23.800
freeze, they don't have drought heart
problems, but there's a moderate amount of

739
00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:30.480
water. But that's a rather boring
landscape. I like to change things out.

740
00:53:30.599 --> 00:53:34.440
You know, containers on the patio
with color, that's a great thing.

741
00:53:34.440 --> 00:53:37.519
Well, you're changing those out all
the time. So if you have

742
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:40.119
a plant that gets too large,
it needs to be cut way back or

743
00:53:40.159 --> 00:53:45.559
replaced with something that gets smaller.
As plant breeders keep coming up with better

744
00:53:45.280 --> 00:53:50.440
options, maybe it's a plant that
is more compact so more people can use

745
00:53:50.440 --> 00:53:52.320
it. You don't have to have
this giant space for it to swallow up.

746
00:53:53.039 --> 00:53:57.639
You need to do that when it
comes to plants that die from a

747
00:53:57.679 --> 00:54:00.639
freezer drought, get out there,
pull them up, and plan something else

748
00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:05.920
in that spot. It's part of
the transitions of nature and in nature,

749
00:54:06.320 --> 00:54:10.559
but it's also part of gardening and
landscaping, and I personally, I think

750
00:54:10.639 --> 00:54:13.920
that's a lot of fun. Now. I wouldn't want to have to replace

751
00:54:14.000 --> 00:54:17.559
a bunch of very expensive shrubs every
year, of course, but some transition

752
00:54:17.719 --> 00:54:22.159
is okay, and just you know, occasionally you just lose something. I

753
00:54:22.280 --> 00:54:25.199
just had a patch of strawberries.
I got through the first freeze. I

754
00:54:25.320 --> 00:54:29.559
left town forgot to cover them up
for a left and when I come back,

755
00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:31.239
I'm going to have some problems.
The second freeze where I live was

756
00:54:31.239 --> 00:54:35.559
a little bit a little bit too
cold to that. Probably lost lost the

757
00:54:35.639 --> 00:54:38.800
initial crop, but I'll get more. But that's just part of the deal.

758
00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:45.079
It's okay, don't be discouraged.
Just enjoy. Just enjoy. That's

759
00:54:45.360 --> 00:54:49.440
important. You know, we just
came through that freeze and a lot of

760
00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:52.800
you are out there transitioning your plants, and I've talked about products and things

761
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:55.599
and how we help them come back
out of the freeze. Well, Ice

762
00:54:55.639 --> 00:55:00.039
Hardware has got you set up on
all of that. For example, do

763
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:02.559
you need a new set of prunters
loppers for example, a saw, a

764
00:55:02.599 --> 00:55:08.400
pruning saw. Do you need some
of the products for fertilizing for the sole

765
00:55:08.519 --> 00:55:13.480
amendment products that we talk about in
bags, Ace has got that. Did

766
00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:16.239
you have some pipe damage during the
cold, Well they can get you set

767
00:55:16.280 --> 00:55:20.679
up on that. Any kind of
plumbing repair part, they've got it.

768
00:55:21.039 --> 00:55:23.440
Insulation for your pipes, by the
way, going forward, they've got it.

769
00:55:23.480 --> 00:55:27.599
Why not have some of that on
hand so next year when you have

770
00:55:27.679 --> 00:55:31.800
issues, you're good to go the
little covers that go over your outdoor faucets.

771
00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:35.760
For example, do you need repair
on your sprinklers? You know,

772
00:55:35.960 --> 00:55:38.320
people came over to visit and they
as they backed out of the driveway,

773
00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:42.119
they kind of cut the corner ran
over that sprinkler right at the edge of

774
00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:45.039
the grass and driveway. And you'll
know it when you turn it on the

775
00:55:45.079 --> 00:55:49.239
first time and you get a guyser
there. Just go to ACE. They've

776
00:55:49.239 --> 00:55:52.360
got the products you need to fix
it. Ace is a place for that.

777
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:54.519
Also, you can find ACE Hardware
is all over Houston. Go to

778
00:55:54.559 --> 00:56:00.920
Ace hardware dot com and look for
the store locator and find one of the

779
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:04.199
forty Ace Hardware is near you.
In fact, you're going to find three

780
00:56:04.280 --> 00:56:10.760
or four that aren't too far away. Cool thing for the ACE Hardware discussing

781
00:56:10.920 --> 00:56:15.599
plants and plants starting don't forget.
I'm going to put that on Facebook.

782
00:56:15.599 --> 00:56:20.159
I'm going to put the link up
for It's about a one hour lecture on

783
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:24.079
all aspects of starting seed. Lots
of good pictures and it's me doing it

784
00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:30.480
on the on a website and I'll
put a link to that up on Facebook.

785
00:56:30.480 --> 00:56:32.639
I would encourage you know, you
may go one hour. Well,

786
00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:37.599
that's fine, you bookmarket if you
don't want to watch it now, but

787
00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:39.320
the next time you want to learn
how to garden. This is like a

788
00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:45.519
gardening seminar in your living room,
okay, And it'll tell you all aspects

789
00:56:45.639 --> 00:56:49.199
of how to plant seed, how
to take care of seed, how to

790
00:56:49.239 --> 00:56:52.920
have success, the kind of lighting
that it takes, and why that's important,

791
00:56:52.239 --> 00:56:55.480
and on and on and on down
the line. So be looking for

792
00:56:55.519 --> 00:57:00.239
that on our Facebook page. If
you don't join us, if you don't

793
00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:04.840
follow us on Facebook, please do
because there's always good information that's popping up

794
00:57:04.920 --> 00:57:09.960
that we're putting on to our Facebook
page. Important. I think learning is

795
00:57:10.000 --> 00:57:15.639
important. What do they say that
what I can't remember how they put it,

796
00:57:15.639 --> 00:57:19.960
but basically what it amounts to is
if you've got you know, if

797
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:22.840
you're if you're cutting down a forest, if you're a lumberjack or whatever,

798
00:57:23.440 --> 00:57:28.679
you got to stop every now and
then and sharpen the saw because at some

799
00:57:28.760 --> 00:57:31.920
point the saw gets dull and you're
just not getting the job done well.

800
00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:37.840
The same is true with gardening and
learning. You got to sharpen the gardener.

801
00:57:37.079 --> 00:57:40.400
In terms of sharper I know more, I know how to do things

802
00:57:40.440 --> 00:57:45.000
more I've learned about new issues that
are going on. The gardening is a

803
00:57:45.079 --> 00:57:49.360
learning process. That's one of the
things that makes gardening keep us young.

804
00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:52.639
Nikki just came in here. We're
about to do the news, Nikki.

805
00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:58.079
Gardening keeps us young. It does
even your house plants. It's a fountain

806
00:57:58.199 --> 00:58:02.800
of youth. Absolutely, so quit
looking for some water somewhere from the gardening

807
00:58:02.920 --> 00:58:06.960
is a fountain of you, it
really is. It brings hope every season.

808
00:58:07.000 --> 00:58:08.719
I mean, you look out and
it's bleak. There's gonna be bulbs

809
00:58:08.760 --> 00:58:12.079
coming out of the ground. In
blooming, there's gonna be seeds, and

810
00:58:12.760 --> 00:58:16.800
it's my best garden always is the
next one that I'm gonna s Yes,

811
00:58:16.880 --> 00:58:19.800
that's the way I like to look
at it. Well, it's a chance

812
00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:22.440
for you to get out and exercise
without doing anything strenuous. But you are

813
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:27.199
moving. You're moving a whole lot
of muscles, You're getting the sunshine,

814
00:58:27.239 --> 00:58:30.159
the benefits of that. So lots
of reasons, lots and lots of benefits.

815
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:32.480
Yeah, even now sitting in offices, say hey, get up and

816
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:36.679
walk around every few minutes exactly.
Well, gardening is that on steroids?

817
00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:40.519
All right, we're gonna take a
break seven one three two one two five

818
00:58:40.559 --> 00:58:45.199
eight seven four. I'll be right
back. Well, come back to garden

819
00:58:45.239 --> 00:58:52.239
line. We are talking about all
kinds of things timely regarding your garden.

820
00:58:52.480 --> 00:58:53.880
Here on guarden that's what we do, you know, kind of give you

821
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:57.239
the idea of what what should we
be doing? Now, how do we

822
00:58:57.320 --> 00:59:00.400
do it? If you've got any
questions you'd like to ask of me seven

823
00:59:00.480 --> 00:59:05.800
one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

824
00:59:06.400 --> 00:59:08.880
k t r H. That's another
way to go about it. We'd be

825
00:59:08.960 --> 00:59:13.320
glad to visit with you about the
things that are of interest to you.

826
00:59:13.559 --> 00:59:17.400
I was talking earlier. We were
mentioning the the airlom soils, and I'm

827
00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:21.679
saying that they were, you know, suggesting like a sixty four, a

828
00:59:21.760 --> 00:59:24.079
Microlife sixty four to put in there
and mix in with it. It's a

829
00:59:24.159 --> 00:59:27.920
it's a great product. Microlife has
a number of great products. As a

830
00:59:27.960 --> 00:59:30.920
matter of fact, right now,
you know, the focus is on the

831
00:59:30.920 --> 00:59:36.599
freeze recovery, and that's the three
step that they recommend would be the Microlife

832
00:59:36.599 --> 00:59:39.719
Ocean harvest. It's a four to
two three fish based fertilizer as a drench

833
00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:44.000
over the plant. I would say
also as new growth comes, spray it

834
00:59:44.039 --> 00:59:45.880
on as a folier feed. It's
not going to burn. It's not salt

835
00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:50.119
based. It'll be just fine.
Uh. And then follow that with their

836
00:59:50.159 --> 00:59:53.960
sixty four, the green bag that
we normally think of as lawn fertilizer.

837
00:59:54.039 --> 00:59:59.519
But I'm telling you the sixty four
is a general use good for a lot

838
00:59:59.519 --> 01:00:02.199
of different things, including just helping
plants get off to a boost. It's

839
01:00:02.199 --> 01:00:07.079
got a little higher nitrogen level that
first number. That supports the vigor and

840
01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:10.519
the growth and nice green growth.
And then following that about a week later

841
01:00:12.119 --> 01:00:16.280
with the ocean harvest again as a
drenched the four two three the liquid and

842
01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:21.159
that's just a one two three easy
if you're planting, why not the ultimate

843
01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:24.920
that's the blue bag Microlife Ultimate.
You can again mix that in the soil.

844
01:00:25.000 --> 01:00:29.280
Normally I would say, do not
put fertilizer in a planting hole.

845
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:31.400
Well, this is not a salt
base. Not going to be a problem

846
01:00:31.400 --> 01:00:34.719
with that. Anything that's going to
release slowly, it is not going to

847
01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:39.320
burn like that. So Microlife eight
to four can be mixed in to the

848
01:00:39.320 --> 01:00:44.639
soil around the plants, and then
as the roots go out, they'll just

849
01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:47.719
encounter it pretty quickly. Actually,
the new roots will begin to grow even

850
01:00:47.760 --> 01:00:52.519
before the top has a lot of
growth going on because roots can grow and

851
01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:55.280
temperatures when the soil is like fifty
to fifty five degrees, you're going to

852
01:00:55.320 --> 01:01:00.760
get some root growth there. And
that's pretty much all season long in our

853
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:04.440
location. Now, you can find
microlife all over town. But if you

854
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:06.800
want to, if you want to
look for local places, just go to

855
01:01:06.920 --> 01:01:13.239
microlifefertilizer dot com and you can find
out specific places that have the microlife fertilizer

856
01:01:13.400 --> 01:01:17.880
available. I want to mention that
reminds me too, want to tink a

857
01:01:17.920 --> 01:01:22.239
microphone. Think about the the OVA
Organic Science Day event. Now, the

858
01:01:22.320 --> 01:01:27.719
Organic Science Day event is Friday,
January twenty sixth. It is from eight

859
01:01:27.760 --> 01:01:30.480
am to three thirty pm. What
is this event, Well, it's a

860
01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:37.159
day full of lectures by professionals in
the horticulture Injoy. Some of the best

861
01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:42.320
professionals and experts in the green industry
will be there. Now Jeff Loenfels,

862
01:01:42.360 --> 01:01:45.239
he's the author of a number of
books. We call it the Teeming series

863
01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:50.840
is Teaming with micros, Teaming with
nutrients, Teaming with fungi, They're all

864
01:01:50.880 --> 01:01:53.360
really interesting. If you want to
nerd out on soil, this is some

865
01:01:53.400 --> 01:01:58.000
pretty cool stuff. There'll be many
other great speakers through the course of the

866
01:01:58.079 --> 01:02:00.800
day. You have to go online
register. There will be serving a meal.

867
01:02:00.840 --> 01:02:06.119
There's a charge for this if you're
a non member of Microlife a Microlife

868
01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:12.199
of Oba Organic Horticulture Benefits alliance.
It is one hundred and twenty five bucks

869
01:02:12.199 --> 01:02:15.920
for the day, but that includes
again speakers. You're just not going to

870
01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:19.280
get elsewhere a couple of breaks to
get a nice meal in the middle of

871
01:02:19.320 --> 01:02:22.639
it. So I would recommend you
check it out Oba online dot org,

872
01:02:22.920 --> 01:02:29.719
ohbaonline dot org, Forward slash register. I'm going to be hanging out there.

873
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:32.679
I always like to meet gardeners and
things, and this is a great

874
01:02:32.760 --> 01:02:37.000
place to meet a lot of the
leaders in the industry as well. So

875
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:42.920
I hope you'll consider joining us this
Friday. That's just right around the corner

876
01:02:45.039 --> 01:02:46.480
if you would like to give us
a call. Our phone number is seven

877
01:02:46.559 --> 01:02:52.400
one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

878
01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:57.280
fifty eight seventy four. Talking about
seed starting this morning, talking about freeze

879
01:02:57.320 --> 01:03:01.239
recovery. This morning, we're getting
into the season pretty quick here where we're

880
01:03:01.280 --> 01:03:07.440
going to be talking a lot about
lawns. And when you consider the things

881
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:09.079
we do to our lawns, of
course, we've got we fertilize, we

882
01:03:09.119 --> 01:03:13.440
may have insect control, we may
have disease control, we may have weed

883
01:03:13.920 --> 01:03:17.559
prevention, we may be killing existing
weeds. All of the above you're going

884
01:03:17.639 --> 01:03:22.199
to find on my schedules online.
My website is Gardening with Skip dot com.

885
01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:25.400
So when you hear me on guardline, I'm talking about these schedules.

886
01:03:25.960 --> 01:03:30.599
That's where you get them. Gardening
with Skip dot Com. And there's a

887
01:03:30.639 --> 01:03:36.840
fertilizing schedule, and there is the
weed disease or pest disease and weed management

888
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:38.960
schedule. You can print these out. You can stick them on their refrigerator

889
01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:42.760
if you like, and you got
them there and you can just kind of

890
01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:45.239
look, oh, it's mid March. What should I be doing now?

891
01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:47.679
What should I be looking for right
now? It's all on the schedule.

892
01:03:49.000 --> 01:03:53.239
If you want synthetic options or if
you want organic options, they're all there

893
01:03:53.320 --> 01:03:58.119
on the schedules. Makes it really
really easy. You can bookmark them and

894
01:03:58.119 --> 01:04:00.719
go back and check them. I
just say, just print one out if

895
01:04:00.760 --> 01:04:03.239
you're going to go in and maybe
you want to purchase a product for some

896
01:04:04.280 --> 01:04:08.920
disease pastor weed management. You just
pronount and take in the store with you

897
01:04:09.159 --> 01:04:11.639
and go down the bottom and say, I want one of these right here?

898
01:04:11.679 --> 01:04:15.079
Do you got this? And that
way you don't have to remember what

899
01:04:15.159 --> 01:04:18.199
the name of it is. It's
all right there on the schedule to make

900
01:04:18.239 --> 01:04:27.360
it really really easy for you.
I was out visiting Plants for All Seasons

901
01:04:27.679 --> 01:04:30.519
not too long ago, visiting the
sherry out there and just talking about the

902
01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:33.880
season and the season we've been through
and the season coming up and things,

903
01:04:34.440 --> 01:04:39.079
and if Plants for All Seasons is
always something new going on. Right now,

904
01:04:39.480 --> 01:04:42.519
we are just on the edge of
spring. We're just trying to figure

905
01:04:42.559 --> 01:04:45.039
out, you know, what is
it going to quit freezing to get those

906
01:04:45.039 --> 01:04:49.320
tomatoes going and other things like that. And they are set up. They're

907
01:04:49.320 --> 01:04:53.519
going to be trucks lined up a
mile long bringing all kinds of plants in

908
01:04:53.519 --> 01:04:57.199
there. Probably already some deliveries have
started. But Plants for All Seasons is

909
01:04:57.239 --> 01:05:00.079
a great place to get plants that
belong here, tents that grow here,

910
01:05:00.440 --> 01:05:04.199
from a family that's been here a
long time in this business. You know,

911
01:05:04.239 --> 01:05:10.079
they celebrated their fiftieth anniversary. Just
recently been doing this since nineteen seventy

912
01:05:10.119 --> 01:05:15.000
three now, the Flowerty family.
The thing I like about the business they've

913
01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:18.039
created there is not only do you
get plants that grow here, but you

914
01:05:18.039 --> 01:05:23.400
get people that know here, They
know what it is to garden here,

915
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:26.079
and you get good advice. You
can take them a sample, you can

916
01:05:26.119 --> 01:05:28.559
take them a picture. You can
walk in with a question and say,

917
01:05:28.559 --> 01:05:31.039
look at this. I've got this
area here. It seems like every time

918
01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:34.599
I plant something there it just doesn't
get enough sunlight. What what would be

919
01:05:34.599 --> 01:05:38.800
good there? That would you fill
in the blank. They can do that

920
01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:42.599
for you and they won't steer you
wrong. Plants for all seasons. Dot

921
01:05:42.639 --> 01:05:45.239
com that's the website, or just
give them a call. Two eight one

922
01:05:45.679 --> 01:05:50.800
three seven six one six four six
two eight one three seven six one six

923
01:05:51.000 --> 01:05:55.079
four six. By the way,
if you haven't been there before, they're

924
01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:58.920
on Highway two forty nine. As
you're heading from Houston up towards tumbul direction,

925
01:05:59.639 --> 01:06:02.920
just you exit for Lueta and just
cross over Luetta and they're right there,

926
01:06:03.079 --> 01:06:06.360
not too far on the right.
Get your grown, get your green

927
01:06:06.400 --> 01:06:12.719
on is how they like to say
it at Plants for All Seasons dot com.

928
01:06:13.280 --> 01:06:15.480
A little bit of happy music for
a Sunday morning. Welcome back to

929
01:06:15.559 --> 01:06:20.800
garden Line. Let's talk about what
you are interested in regarding your plants.

930
01:06:21.360 --> 01:06:25.039
Uh. I like to kind of
in my mind, I sort of go

931
01:06:25.119 --> 01:06:27.800
through the yard and think about,
Okay, what's what's in front. There's

932
01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:30.000
the lawn, the shrubs, the
trees, the flower beds, and then

933
01:06:30.039 --> 01:06:32.480
there's a garden and vegetable garden and
all of that, and just talk about

934
01:06:32.519 --> 01:06:38.280
things we do in all of those
areas. One big thing is our trees.

935
01:06:38.360 --> 01:06:42.840
Trees are the most valuable part of
your landscape. They they make the

936
01:06:42.880 --> 01:06:46.920
most. Uh, they add most
to the value of your home. Number

937
01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:53.079
one to have big beautiful trees.
Are beautiful blooming trees as well, very

938
01:06:53.119 --> 01:06:56.280
valuable for that. They're valuable for
the sense of shade. You know,

939
01:06:56.559 --> 01:07:00.519
there's this thing called summer down here
in the South, and it can be

940
01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:04.559
rough, and trees that provide shade
make it more habitable to be outside.

941
01:07:05.280 --> 01:07:10.719
There are also trees that shade or
location of the tree may shade your house

942
01:07:10.840 --> 01:07:15.559
or a western wall. I've got
a western brick wall in my house,

943
01:07:15.960 --> 01:07:19.840
and I was surprised. I walked
by one day and I literally could feel

944
01:07:19.880 --> 01:07:23.880
the heat coming off that wall.
I mean I was walking about two feet

945
01:07:23.880 --> 01:07:27.480
away from the wall, and it
was like there was a fire burning over

946
01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:30.519
there, and just the radiant heat
hitting my face. It was just I

947
01:07:30.559 --> 01:07:32.480
put my hand on the wall.
I was like, Wow, that's hot

948
01:07:32.760 --> 01:07:38.320
and interesting. I went in that
room that evening, sunny gone down a

949
01:07:38.320 --> 01:07:41.639
good while. I mean it had
been down for probably an hour, and

950
01:07:41.679 --> 01:07:44.760
I put my hand on the sheet
rock of that wall, and I could

951
01:07:44.840 --> 01:07:48.519
feel the heat still, the warmth
from that wall radiating into the house.

952
01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:54.280
Now, guess who got to pay
for the air conditioning to cool that room

953
01:07:54.320 --> 01:07:58.119
off? Me? What about a
tree that would shade a wall like that?

954
01:07:58.159 --> 01:08:00.800
What about a vine that would shade
a wall like that? You know,

955
01:08:00.840 --> 01:08:03.519
we talk about energy efficiency, we
talk about saving on our utility bills.

956
01:08:03.840 --> 01:08:08.880
Plants can do that for you,
and trees can do that for you.

957
01:08:08.960 --> 01:08:12.880
Trees are very very important, and
you need to choose them carefully and

958
01:08:12.920 --> 01:08:15.159
wisely. You want a tree that's
going to do what you want it to

959
01:08:15.199 --> 01:08:19.359
do and keep living fast, grow
fast, die young. Remember that,

960
01:08:19.479 --> 01:08:24.359
grow fast, die young, or
fall apart young. Trees that are not

961
01:08:24.520 --> 01:08:27.720
long term or just trash trees,
and we don't need that. We need

962
01:08:27.760 --> 01:08:30.840
something that lasts and then we need
to take care of them. That's one

963
01:08:30.840 --> 01:08:34.920
of the reasons why I'm always sending
people to Martin spoon Moore an affordable tree.

964
01:08:35.000 --> 01:08:39.840
Martin's been doing this for a long
time. He knows, he knows

965
01:08:39.880 --> 01:08:43.439
what he's doing, over thirty years
now in the business, and as a

966
01:08:43.439 --> 01:08:46.600
result, people line up to get
Martin to come out and do their work.

967
01:08:46.840 --> 01:08:49.720
That's why I would say, if
you're thinking about any tree work,

968
01:08:49.800 --> 01:08:53.359
or if you need your trees looked
out, go ahead and get on the

969
01:08:53.399 --> 01:08:58.279
schedule now, don't delay. We're
in the big peak of tree pruning season

970
01:08:58.520 --> 01:09:03.640
right now on one three six nine, twenty six sixty three seven one three

971
01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:09.800
six nine nine two six six three
or go to the website. This is

972
01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:15.479
easy. Hope you got a pin
afftree service dot com, aff tree Service

973
01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:17.960
dot com. Tell him you're a
guardline listener and that'll get you the front

974
01:09:17.960 --> 01:09:21.000
of the line because a lot of
people want Martin to come out and do

975
01:09:21.039 --> 01:09:24.960
the work for him because of the
kind of work he does. But this

976
01:09:25.119 --> 01:09:28.800
is the time to get on get
on the line. And get a hold

977
01:09:28.840 --> 01:09:30.279
of them and make sure they come
out and check things. If you're going

978
01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:35.039
to do anything around your trees,
maybe you're going to put in a sidewalk

979
01:09:35.119 --> 01:09:40.000
or a patio or a driveway,
or maybe you're going to do some trenching

980
01:09:40.119 --> 01:09:44.640
to run a water line or a
power line or something. Call Martin first,

981
01:09:44.840 --> 01:09:47.600
have him come out. Once the
damage is done. There's not a

982
01:09:47.600 --> 01:09:51.079
whole lot that they can do to
help the tree. Once you've cut all

983
01:09:51.079 --> 01:09:55.119
the roots off one side of the
tree, for example, call him first

984
01:09:55.199 --> 01:09:57.640
for a consultation. Or if you're
going to plant a tree, call him

985
01:09:57.640 --> 01:10:00.960
to come out and what would you
recommend here. Listen, this is a

986
01:10:00.119 --> 01:10:05.199
long, long, long term investment
worth a lot for your home. Don't

987
01:10:05.479 --> 01:10:10.439
just shoot from the HILP. Get
an expert that knows what they're talking about.

988
01:10:10.880 --> 01:10:13.720
We're going to head out the phones
now again the number seven one three

989
01:10:13.800 --> 01:10:16.239
two one two fifty eight seventy four, and we're going to talk to Carolyn.

990
01:10:16.479 --> 01:10:24.600
Hello, Carolyn, Hey, I
was reminded yesterday when the lady called

991
01:10:24.600 --> 01:10:30.000
in about her amarillis that I need
to ask you. Last year I bought

992
01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:40.399
a waxed amarillis from Brookwood and it
still has a leaf coming up. Should

993
01:10:40.399 --> 01:10:45.960
I now break that wax and plants
plant the bulb? Oh? You,

994
01:10:45.039 --> 01:10:48.279
Oh, it'd be too late.
You can You can do that if you

995
01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:51.680
want. And no, it's not
too late to plant. I think if

996
01:10:51.720 --> 01:10:57.960
you've waited this long, I I
might a couple of options. You could

997
01:10:57.960 --> 01:11:00.279
get us started inside and some soil, or you could go ahead and put

998
01:11:00.279 --> 01:11:05.039
it out. Amarillas are fairly hardy, and most of the time we get

999
01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:09.600
away with them. Here there's one
type that's quite hardy. But uh,

1000
01:11:11.039 --> 01:11:14.000
and I'm just thinking about setting it
out. We get around another hard freeze

1001
01:11:14.000 --> 01:11:16.000
as it begins to try to grow, But I think that'll still be fine.

1002
01:11:16.079 --> 01:11:18.600
Just be ready to throw a bunch
of mult over it when you put

1003
01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:21.520
it in the ground. But it's
always it's always good. Went in doubt.

1004
01:11:21.600 --> 01:11:25.199
Just get those bulbs out there and
get them in the ground, and

1005
01:11:25.560 --> 01:11:30.600
okay, let them get Yeah.
I don't have a lot of options for

1006
01:11:30.720 --> 01:11:33.399
where I plant it. Okay,
Well, does it require full sun or

1007
01:11:33.439 --> 01:11:38.359
do it towel race some shade?
Actually, I like to put them in

1008
01:11:38.560 --> 01:11:43.920
a deciduous shade, so in the
wintertime sunshines through and in the summertime.

1009
01:11:43.960 --> 01:11:45.840
They have some shade, a nice
bright shade, but some shade, and

1010
01:11:45.880 --> 01:11:53.560
they'll okay, they'll do that.
Yeah, I have a live oak,

1011
01:11:54.840 --> 01:12:00.880
so if if I plan it,
say twenty feet away, it'll have shame,

1012
01:12:00.000 --> 01:12:03.279
but it'll still get some sun.
Yeah, some son. Ideally,

1013
01:12:03.319 --> 01:12:05.640
if you could do morning sun,
that'd be good. But you know,

1014
01:12:05.800 --> 01:12:09.800
just try it out, see how
it does. It's gonna survive. And

1015
01:12:09.880 --> 01:12:12.479
if you just don't get the performance, the blooming out of it, you

1016
01:12:12.479 --> 01:12:16.239
can always try moving it somewhere doing
something a little bit different. Okay,

1017
01:12:16.279 --> 01:12:24.640
great, And I wish you had
another hour for your program because I really

1018
01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:27.239
enjoy it. Well, that's kind
of you know, we go to ten

1019
01:12:27.319 --> 01:12:30.439
am, so we got four hour. Yeah, but i'd like you to

1020
01:12:30.479 --> 01:12:36.159
go to eleven. I'll tell you
what. I'm gonna call you on Saturday

1021
01:12:36.199 --> 01:12:41.760
and Sunday mornings when I actually get
up, start to get ready to come

1022
01:12:41.800 --> 01:12:45.800
over here, and we'll see how
you like that extra hour. Thank you,

1023
01:12:45.880 --> 01:12:49.119
Carolyn, that's sweetie to say that. I appreciate very much. Good

1024
01:12:49.199 --> 01:12:57.039
Luckily, you're good lucky boy.
Oh my goodness. Let's go to Spring

1025
01:12:57.079 --> 01:13:00.520
and we're going to talk to Chris. Hello, Chris Nip, how are

1026
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:04.439
you today? I'm well, thanks
very well. Hey, I just we

1027
01:13:04.560 --> 01:13:09.239
just had a lot of paperwork done
in our backyard over a thousand feet and

1028
01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:12.520
there's a lot of dry cutting going
on, and there's a pretty good coating

1029
01:13:12.560 --> 01:13:15.680
of his paper dust all over the
lawn and the shrubs and beds. Do

1030
01:13:15.760 --> 01:13:20.359
I need to do anything as far
as any offsetting of treatments or just let

1031
01:13:20.399 --> 01:13:23.680
it soak in and not worry about
it. I wouldn't worry about it.

1032
01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:27.119
If it's a it's a If it's
a drifted dust from some paper cutting,

1033
01:13:27.239 --> 01:13:30.199
I think you'd be fine. I
don't think there's a practical way to worry

1034
01:13:30.199 --> 01:13:32.279
about it. I don't you got
it? You gotta clay in there.

1035
01:13:32.279 --> 01:13:34.760
I'm trying to think of what else
might be in pavers. I'm not sure

1036
01:13:34.760 --> 01:13:39.479
about how those get made. I
know it's a fired clay product, but

1037
01:13:40.520 --> 01:13:44.239
no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't
worry about it. Okay, all right,

1038
01:13:44.399 --> 01:13:46.119
A really quick second question if you
got to say, sure, are

1039
01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:51.640
you familiar with a something called a
root quencher or O T q U E

1040
01:13:51.720 --> 01:13:56.800
N C H E R No,
what does it do? It's a product

1041
01:13:56.800 --> 01:14:00.560
Mada it's from California, but it's
a it's a true that you are going

1042
01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:05.319
to the ground and then allows you
to deeproot your trees on a regular basis

1043
01:14:05.359 --> 01:14:09.880
just by pouring water into those tubes. Yeah, I wouldn't do that.

1044
01:14:10.479 --> 01:14:16.760
Here's why nature waters from the top
down. That's how trees everywhere, that's

1045
01:14:16.760 --> 01:14:19.560
how they grow. They get water. It soaks down from the top.

1046
01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:24.800
Now, in drought conditions, you
can make a case for hiring someone to

1047
01:14:24.840 --> 01:14:28.760
come in and do a deeper watering
where they put water down in the sew.

1048
01:14:28.840 --> 01:14:31.000
But they're poking that thing in all
over the place. They're wetting a

1049
01:14:31.159 --> 01:14:35.840
large volume of soil. And you
know, one or even three or five

1050
01:14:36.479 --> 01:14:41.399
of those tubes down in the ground
is just not going to make It's not

1051
01:14:41.439 --> 01:14:45.319
going to support it. And I
know you would think, well, the

1052
01:14:45.840 --> 01:14:50.439
roots will gather there, that's dependable
water, but it just it doesn't work.

1053
01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:57.600
It doesn't work that way. Okay, Okay, Well I appreciate that

1054
01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:00.680
because I've been looking at it as
wells tree rings, so like you're still

1055
01:15:01.000 --> 01:15:05.159
ring fan, Yeah, tree ring's
fine. Now we're talking about a brand

1056
01:15:05.239 --> 01:15:11.439
new tree or are we talking about
an established tree? Are established Okay,

1057
01:15:11.479 --> 01:15:15.840
yeah, I wouldn't worry about that. You know, when I was originally

1058
01:15:15.920 --> 01:15:20.359
when I came out with my master's
in horticulture, I was a fruit specialist.

1059
01:15:20.479 --> 01:15:25.760
That was my focus. And with
peach trees, we would start off

1060
01:15:25.800 --> 01:15:28.920
with drip irrigation and that just what's
a spot that gets a little bigger,

1061
01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:32.840
but it's a spot right shape,
like a turnip underground typically, and you'd

1062
01:15:32.880 --> 01:15:36.800
put three to two drips, and
then four drips and then six and at

1063
01:15:36.800 --> 01:15:42.800
some point that tree's root system is
so wide that you can't give the tree

1064
01:15:42.960 --> 01:15:46.520
enough water in those few spots to
support the top of the tree. So

1065
01:15:46.600 --> 01:15:51.840
we switched to microsprinklers in the orchard
where it wets a much larger volume of

1066
01:15:51.960 --> 01:15:57.760
soil to support that tree. So
the same is true with your landscape trees.

1067
01:15:57.960 --> 01:16:01.119
You can't in a few spots,
you know, supply everything that a

1068
01:16:01.239 --> 01:16:06.039
large, large growing tree is going
to need. Again, hiring someone to

1069
01:16:06.159 --> 01:16:11.960
deep root and a number of spots
to rescue during a drought, that's a

1070
01:16:11.960 --> 01:16:15.000
little bit different. But just having
a stationary one, two or three spots,

1071
01:16:15.119 --> 01:16:19.319
it is not even come close.
Great, great, it's great information.

1072
01:16:19.600 --> 01:16:23.680
Thank you. How often do you
do I mean we have deep root

1073
01:16:23.680 --> 01:16:28.239
feeding done once a year as it
sufficient. Well, yeah, I mean

1074
01:16:28.319 --> 01:16:32.359
it depends on what you use.
What they use. You can go in

1075
01:16:32.479 --> 01:16:36.239
with, you know, putting some
material down in the soil. You can

1076
01:16:36.279 --> 01:16:40.840
also I'll tell you something else too, when you fertilize your lawn, a

1077
01:16:40.840 --> 01:16:44.600
lot of that nutrient is washing down
into the soil and is also benefiting the

1078
01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:47.920
tree. So it kind of depends
on the situation. I think the ideal

1079
01:16:47.960 --> 01:16:50.680
for a tree would be to have
a nice thick mulch all around it that

1080
01:16:50.760 --> 01:16:57.800
decomposes constantly over time. Essentially,
it's equalling the forest floor in our landscapes.

1081
01:16:57.840 --> 01:16:59.960
You're not going to turn your whole
front yard into a mulch bed.

1082
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:04.439
So coming in with some top fertilizer
or with putting some fertilizer down into the

1083
01:17:04.439 --> 01:17:10.000
soil by somebody who knows what they're
doing and has the right blend of nutrients,

1084
01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:13.399
the right ratio of nutrients to support
that tree, that that would do.

1085
01:17:13.479 --> 01:17:16.640
That got it? Okay, great, thank you very much. All

1086
01:17:16.720 --> 01:17:20.279
right, thank you. I appreciate
the call. Chris. Yeah, you

1087
01:17:20.359 --> 01:17:26.159
know, the uh whenever you're looking
at something like that. I was talking

1088
01:17:26.159 --> 01:17:29.720
about Martin Spoon Moore from Affordable Tree. I was looking at some videos of

1089
01:17:30.279 --> 01:17:33.279
watching them do their work, oh
gosh, several months ago and just pushing

1090
01:17:33.279 --> 01:17:39.159
that deep root down in the soil
releasing the water. This was a watering.

1091
01:17:39.199 --> 01:17:42.920
It wasn't adding the nutrients in this
particular video, but just doing it

1092
01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:45.800
in a lot of places to create
the volume. That's the key. And

1093
01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:49.880
during droughts, you know, if
you turn on a sprinkler and you're underneath

1094
01:17:49.880 --> 01:17:55.000
your tree. You know I talked
to you before about the treehover sprinklers and

1095
01:17:55.039 --> 01:17:58.560
you water the whole area underneath the
branch spread of the tree, that'll get

1096
01:17:58.560 --> 01:18:00.159
them through a drought. Their roots
go way beyond that. But we can

1097
01:18:00.560 --> 01:18:03.560
We can't go to your neighbor three
houses down and knock on the door and

1098
01:18:03.560 --> 01:18:05.680
say, hey, some of my
tree roots over here. Can I water

1099
01:18:05.760 --> 01:18:09.119
your lawn? Actually they would say
yes, but you got to use your

1100
01:18:09.119 --> 01:18:13.920
own water to do it. But
seriously, joking, aside wedding a volume,

1101
01:18:14.039 --> 01:18:17.039
that is what is really important in
order to have success. We're going

1102
01:18:17.079 --> 01:18:20.000
to take a break here Leo and
Missouri City. You will be the first

1103
01:18:20.119 --> 01:18:24.239
up when we come back. I
want to make sure that I have plenty

1104
01:18:24.239 --> 01:18:30.680
of time available for you. Uh. The I want to mention to you

1105
01:18:30.760 --> 01:18:33.520
before we go to break if you
need to give us a call. Seven

1106
01:18:33.560 --> 01:18:39.600
to one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four is the number. Josh

1107
01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:43.079
will get you on the board and
we'll come to you after Leo when we

1108
01:18:43.119 --> 01:18:46.560
come back. If you're interested in
the lawn care schedules, don't forget the

1109
01:18:46.600 --> 01:18:51.239
website Gardening with Skip dot com.
I've got the lawn care guide that tells

1110
01:18:51.279 --> 01:18:55.479
you everything you need so when you
go in to get the right products,

1111
01:18:55.520 --> 01:18:59.000
the ones we recommend here on guardline, the right products for your lawn,

1112
01:18:59.760 --> 01:19:01.680
you just have it right there printed
out in your hand. The weed disease

1113
01:19:02.439 --> 01:19:06.600
schedule the same kinds of things you
know, for example, when do chinch

1114
01:19:06.720 --> 01:19:11.560
bugs typically occur? How about side
web worms? If we have a year

1115
01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:14.880
with those, it's on the schedule. When do you treat for grubs,

1116
01:19:15.239 --> 01:19:19.039
It's on the schedule. What about
brown patch or large patch as you call

1117
01:19:19.079 --> 01:19:23.239
it. Now, what about take
all root rod? What about gray leaf

1118
01:19:23.279 --> 01:19:27.399
spot? You see what I'm saying, It's all on the schedule. Well,

1119
01:19:27.439 --> 01:19:29.880
we're going to take a little break. We'll be right back and we'll

1120
01:19:29.960 --> 01:19:35.520
answer your questions. Katie r h. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

1121
01:19:35.520 --> 01:19:42.239
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to Katie r h.

1122
01:19:42.399 --> 01:20:15.239
Garden Line with Skin Rictor. It's
so crazy. Just watch him as

1123
01:20:15.000 --> 01:20:20.760
Good morning, Good Sunday morning to
you. I am glad you're listening to

1124
01:20:20.800 --> 01:20:25.199
garden Line today because I like to
talk with you about what's going on.

1125
01:20:25.279 --> 01:20:28.119
You can give us a call if
you got a question. Seven one three

1126
01:20:28.239 --> 01:20:31.439
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Right now, I'm going to head

1127
01:20:31.439 --> 01:20:34.880
out to Missouri City and we're gonna
talk to Leo. Hello, Leo,

1128
01:20:35.840 --> 01:20:39.279
Hey, how you doing this morning? I'm good? Thanks? What's up?

1129
01:20:39.319 --> 01:20:42.439
Man? Yeah? I want to
answer about the magnoga trees. I

1130
01:20:42.479 --> 01:20:45.039
mean, you know, I have
a magnoga tree. It's probably about twenty

1131
01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:49.000
five to twenty eight years old.
So you know, my wife she's saying

1132
01:20:49.159 --> 01:20:51.399
is dying. I'm saying, I'm
gonna give it a chance and everything.

1133
01:20:51.439 --> 01:20:56.000
You know, Yeah, is it
all brown or what what are you seeing?

1134
01:20:57.199 --> 01:20:59.159
Who is it? Yeah? It
got some brown, it's still got

1135
01:20:59.159 --> 01:21:01.000
some green, but it got some
brown. But I know that you know,

1136
01:21:01.079 --> 01:21:04.479
we're going into the fall. So
yeah, yeah, so a lot

1137
01:21:04.479 --> 01:21:09.640
of leaves are going to probably fall
off when you come into spring and new

1138
01:21:09.680 --> 01:21:13.000
growth comes. That's just kind of
how magnolias do. So that in and

1139
01:21:13.039 --> 01:21:16.680
of itself won't be a sign.
The magnolias took a heavy hit this year

1140
01:21:16.800 --> 01:21:19.960
during the heat and drought. It
just all over town. We saw complete

1141
01:21:20.000 --> 01:21:24.279
death of the trees. Right,
But if you got green on it,

1142
01:21:24.479 --> 01:21:28.880
then whatever's green has a chance of
taking off and growing again. Now when

1143
01:21:29.039 --> 01:21:31.640
if you look at the tree and
like all the tops brown and there's a

1144
01:21:31.640 --> 01:21:34.600
green branch off one side or something, well that's not gonna be a very

1145
01:21:34.600 --> 01:21:40.279
pretty tree. When when it keeps
going dead, is dead. But I

1146
01:21:40.279 --> 01:21:43.720
would give it a little bit more
time and see. But but depending on

1147
01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:48.279
the extent and how disfigured that tree
is going to be, I would make

1148
01:21:48.319 --> 01:21:53.000
the decision on whether to keep it
or not. Hopefully it'll be okay,

1149
01:21:53.359 --> 01:21:58.000
yeah, yeah, yeah, spring
is Spring's gonna be your answer. Let's

1150
01:21:58.079 --> 01:22:00.199
let some growth get I probably let
it get to about you know, April

1151
01:22:00.279 --> 01:22:05.760
or May before I really make a
full assessment. Okay, all right,

1152
01:22:05.840 --> 01:22:09.199
Dan, that works. I appreciate
it, Yes, sir, thanks for

1153
01:22:09.239 --> 01:22:13.279
the call. Leo. All right, you take care. I appreciate that

1154
01:22:14.039 --> 01:22:16.319
very much. Let's see, we're
gonna go out now to Richmond and talk

1155
01:22:16.359 --> 01:22:20.840
to Jenny. Hello, Jenny,
Oh, good morning. How are you.

1156
01:22:21.159 --> 01:22:26.319
I'm well, thanks, Yes,
I have a question for you.

1157
01:22:26.399 --> 01:22:29.880
So, my good old leaf and
my snake plant have both kind of been

1158
01:22:29.960 --> 01:22:34.880
struggling indoors, and I'm wondering if
I need to fertilize them, and if

1159
01:22:34.960 --> 01:22:42.800
so, what should I use.
Okay, snake plant is easy and so

1160
01:22:42.960 --> 01:22:46.239
it shouldn't be struggling if you forget
to water it. If it gets not

1161
01:22:46.359 --> 01:22:49.920
quite enough light, it still does. Okay. It may be in an

1162
01:22:49.960 --> 01:22:54.760
area that is just absolutely so dark
that it needs more light. That's a

1163
01:22:54.800 --> 01:22:59.640
possibility. Fiddle leaf being a ficus, they can be kind of persnickety.

1164
01:23:00.039 --> 01:23:02.520
They get a little dry, and
they get big brown spots in the leaves

1165
01:23:02.600 --> 01:23:08.199
or leaves completely fall off, and
you just need a more consistent moisture.

1166
01:23:08.479 --> 01:23:12.600
You may want to look at the
pot versus the plant size, and if

1167
01:23:12.600 --> 01:23:15.239
you have a little bitty pot compared
to the size of the plant, maybe

1168
01:23:15.239 --> 01:23:19.039
it would help to put it in
a larger pot just so it has a

1169
01:23:19.039 --> 01:23:24.800
little more soil volume. So it
can get nutrients from a larger volume of

1170
01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:28.359
soil, it can get moisture from
a larger volume of soil. But also

1171
01:23:28.520 --> 01:23:33.319
with it, it needs a decent
amount of light to do well. Okay,

1172
01:23:34.359 --> 01:23:41.479
is there is there a soil in
particular that you would recommend for snake

1173
01:23:41.600 --> 01:23:47.119
plant, Not a particular one,
just a good quality indoor potting mix would

1174
01:23:47.159 --> 01:23:53.399
do that, and so you you
know you yeah, it doesn't. I

1175
01:23:53.439 --> 01:23:56.479
wouldn't put them in roase soil,
for example. I would find something that's

1176
01:23:56.520 --> 01:24:00.760
made for indoor plants. And we
got some really good quality ones out there

1177
01:24:00.760 --> 01:24:03.000
on the market. Uh, depending
on you know, we're okay, you

1178
01:24:03.119 --> 01:24:05.560
shop, they're gonna have. They're
gonna have one of the ones, one

1179
01:24:05.600 --> 01:24:11.840
of the ones I talk about here
on Gardland wonderful. Yeah. I've over

1180
01:24:11.920 --> 01:24:15.720
watered my snake plan a little bit
and I've lost a lot of the you

1181
01:24:15.720 --> 01:24:19.319
know, the leaves from it,
and there's about three that are still surviving

1182
01:24:19.640 --> 01:24:25.239
and it's dried out and they're standing
tall. Now I'm thinking it's time to

1183
01:24:25.279 --> 01:24:28.079
put that in a bigger pot too, and I need to give it some

1184
01:24:28.159 --> 01:24:32.520
new soil. Sounds like it might
be. It might be. Can you

1185
01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:36.680
turn that radio off in the background
for me. Uh. The it what

1186
01:24:36.760 --> 01:24:40.960
you will find. Snake plants often
get lanky. In fact, I've got

1187
01:24:40.960 --> 01:24:45.279
one that's too lanky right now.
Uh. And there's a thing called notching,

1188
01:24:45.640 --> 01:24:47.479
and so you just got to go
online do a little search. But

1189
01:24:47.720 --> 01:24:54.000
basically, a notch is cut just
above a bud. Wherever a leaf attaches

1190
01:24:54.359 --> 01:24:57.720
to the stem, there's a bud
right above that. So everywhere a leaf

1191
01:24:57.720 --> 01:25:00.439
has fallen off, you can see
those spots on your stem right above it.

1192
01:25:00.520 --> 01:25:05.319
A notches cut above that bud,
and it helps force that bud to

1193
01:25:05.359 --> 01:25:10.720
take off and grow. I can't
describe it fully on the air. If

1194
01:25:10.720 --> 01:25:14.359
you do a look for it,
you may try that a couple of places

1195
01:25:14.640 --> 01:25:18.560
and maybe that would help put some
branches in a little bit lower end that

1196
01:25:19.199 --> 01:25:25.399
it'd be worth a try. Wonderful
And may I ask you one more question

1197
01:25:25.720 --> 01:25:30.960
sure regarding meme oil. So when
my fiddle leaf was getting some brown spots,

1198
01:25:31.239 --> 01:25:34.319
I tried to, you know,
do some self diagnosis on the internet,

1199
01:25:34.800 --> 01:25:39.880
and so I started spraying or down
with mem oil. Is name oil

1200
01:25:40.159 --> 01:25:45.279
beneficial route like on a routine basis? Or should I only use it periodically?

1201
01:25:46.079 --> 01:25:54.279
Yeah? Nem oil. It is
primarily used for smothering small insects like

1202
01:25:54.399 --> 01:26:00.039
spider mites or like young scale crawlers
and wipe flie people the plants and things

1203
01:26:00.079 --> 01:26:03.039
like that. That's that's its primary
use. It has a little bit of

1204
01:26:03.039 --> 01:26:10.920
an insecticide in it. If you
wanted to use Name as the insecticidal ingredient,

1205
01:26:11.720 --> 01:26:16.399
it's not the name oil. It's
a compound called ASA directin And when

1206
01:26:16.439 --> 01:26:19.319
you go grab a bottle of Name
and you look at the label, the

1207
01:26:19.479 --> 01:26:24.000
ingredient is either going to be Name
oil or it's going to be as a

1208
01:26:24.119 --> 01:26:29.840
direct and begins with an A,
A Z. And the second one is

1209
01:26:29.920 --> 01:26:32.560
more of an insecticide to spray on
the planet. It's a growth regulator,

1210
01:26:32.640 --> 01:26:36.680
natural growth regulator, but the oil
is more of a smothering. So they

1211
01:26:36.760 --> 01:26:40.840
killed differently. They both can do
that, but different kinds of pests.

1212
01:26:40.960 --> 01:26:45.039
One or the other may be better. What was the problem again that you

1213
01:26:45.079 --> 01:26:48.640
were having that you used it for? Well, when I saw those brown

1214
01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:54.039
spots and I was thinking that there
was something attacking it, But now I

1215
01:26:54.039 --> 01:26:58.920
think it's not getting adequate light.
I guess yeah. Probably the only disease

1216
01:26:59.039 --> 01:27:02.159
for I see for nem oil is
it helps with powdery mildew. It's pretty

1217
01:27:02.199 --> 01:27:08.960
good on powdery mildew, which is
a surface fungal growth that also gets into

1218
01:27:09.000 --> 01:27:14.399
the leaf. But other than that, Okay, okay, thank you so

1219
01:27:14.479 --> 01:27:16.359
much, and I love listening to
y'all. Well, thank you, thank

1220
01:27:16.399 --> 01:27:17.920
you. Tell your friends. By
the way, I'm going to be out

1221
01:27:17.920 --> 01:27:23.279
there in Richmond at the Home and
Garden Show, the Brasis Home Garden Show

1222
01:27:23.800 --> 01:27:27.159
next Saturday after the show, so
hope y'all can get out. Oh,

1223
01:27:27.239 --> 01:27:30.640
I'll have to see bring me one
of your leaves. I'll take a look

1224
01:27:30.640 --> 01:27:34.119
at it, all right, Okay, thank you, Jenny. I appreciate

1225
01:27:34.199 --> 01:27:38.000
that very much. We're going to
take a break. Our number is seven

1226
01:27:38.079 --> 01:27:41.760
one three two one two five eight
seven four. When we come back Archie

1227
01:27:41.800 --> 01:27:46.520
in Pairland, you'll be first welcome
back to Garden Line. We're glad you're

1228
01:27:46.520 --> 01:27:50.680
listening this Sunday morning. We are
talking about all kinds of things gardening.

1229
01:27:50.680 --> 01:27:56.920
I was talking about earlier about making
sure that our plants that went through the

1230
01:27:56.920 --> 01:28:00.000
freeze struggle, that had damage and
things like that, that we give them

1231
01:28:00.000 --> 01:28:03.239
I'm a boost when they come out. And one of the things that works

1232
01:28:03.399 --> 01:28:11.359
really well for that would be Medinas
Medina plus specifically Medina seaweed is another good

1233
01:28:11.359 --> 01:28:15.359
example of that. And as these
plants begin to try to grow, providing

1234
01:28:15.359 --> 01:28:18.640
a good drenching to them with Medina
plus and or you can do both if

1235
01:28:18.640 --> 01:28:25.600
you want. Medina seaweed works really
well. The material soaks down in the

1236
01:28:25.600 --> 01:28:28.279
ground, it's got the nutrients.
How's are the compounds in it. They're

1237
01:28:28.359 --> 01:28:30.680
very helpful to plants as well and
kind of helps them as they're trying to

1238
01:28:30.680 --> 01:28:34.760
get that growth started and get them
going. I would use those both as

1239
01:28:34.760 --> 01:28:38.920
a folio feed too. By the
way new growth coming out, you can

1240
01:28:39.000 --> 01:28:42.840
provide a spray for that foliage.
It's not going to burn them, make

1241
01:28:42.920 --> 01:28:45.640
them according to the label, and
that works really well. One of the

1242
01:28:45.760 --> 01:28:49.560
many are too. Actually, of
the many products by Medina they're helpful and

1243
01:28:49.680 --> 01:28:55.119
can really help you turn a stress
landscape into a healthy one and if you

1244
01:28:55.199 --> 01:28:58.600
have a healthy one, to make
it even more beautiful, more productive as

1245
01:28:58.640 --> 01:29:03.640
well. Medina Plus and the Medina
seaweeds specifically in this times where our plants

1246
01:29:03.640 --> 01:29:08.359
are going to be coming out and
recuperating from what we just went through.

1247
01:29:08.600 --> 01:29:11.840
I'm going to go down to Paarland
now and talk to Archie. Hello,

1248
01:29:12.000 --> 01:29:18.520
Archie morning, Skip morning. I
have a bed of archangel angelonia out in

1249
01:29:18.640 --> 01:29:23.479
my front. It's about ten foot
by ten foot. It's a raised bed.

1250
01:29:24.279 --> 01:29:28.000
And last year when we had that
really bad freeze, I went out

1251
01:29:28.039 --> 01:29:30.680
and got a couple of yorks of
composts and just you know, shoveld it

1252
01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:34.399
all on the top of all of
them. And afterwards, you know,

1253
01:29:34.439 --> 01:29:39.840
I removed all the composts from around
them and cut them back, and I

1254
01:29:39.920 --> 01:29:42.920
saved about eighty percent of them,
but I lost about twenty percent of them.

1255
01:29:43.079 --> 01:29:46.800
And there's about seven flats of those
out there. And this year,

1256
01:29:46.960 --> 01:29:51.640
instead of going and getting the compost
and covering them, I put blankets and

1257
01:29:53.159 --> 01:29:56.920
frost blankets on top, and then
I put a tarp on top of that

1258
01:29:57.039 --> 01:29:59.319
and waved it down all the way
around so the wind did and get up

1259
01:29:59.399 --> 01:30:02.079
under well. I went out there
yesterday and removed all of that, and

1260
01:30:02.279 --> 01:30:05.319
they look deader than the door nill. I mean, they're just brown.

1261
01:30:05.680 --> 01:30:11.079
And I don't know if I can
cut them back and you know, get

1262
01:30:11.119 --> 01:30:14.039
some from the from the surface of
you know, from the ground up.

1263
01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:18.720
Uh. You know that I was
impressed that you did what you did last

1264
01:30:18.800 --> 01:30:23.039
year and got through it. Angelonia
is not a coal weather plant. It's

1265
01:30:23.039 --> 01:30:26.880
just not happy when it's cold,
much less freezing to death. I would

1266
01:30:26.880 --> 01:30:30.199
take my thumbnails straight back on those
little stems a little bit, and you're

1267
01:30:30.199 --> 01:30:33.760
gonna tell underneath it's gonna be mushy
brown gray, or it's gonna have a

1268
01:30:33.800 --> 01:30:39.600
little creamy, creamy to green color
underneath. If you see that, then

1269
01:30:39.680 --> 01:30:43.880
they can sprout from the base.
But they're not gonna do anything until it

1270
01:30:43.920 --> 01:30:47.560
warms up. But chances are you
lost them. If I had to like

1271
01:30:48.159 --> 01:30:51.399
roll the dice and say what I
think, I think they're gone. But

1272
01:30:51.880 --> 01:30:56.279
do the scratch test, and if
you find green near the base, there's

1273
01:30:56.319 --> 01:30:59.359
a chance that they can bounce back. That's a wonderful plant. By the

1274
01:30:59.359 --> 01:31:02.920
way, our angel angelonia just and
when it's hot, it just laughs at

1275
01:31:02.960 --> 01:31:06.439
the sun. It's it's a good
one. Well should I cut them back

1276
01:31:06.600 --> 01:31:11.239
now, you know, to the
base? Or should I wait? I

1277
01:31:11.279 --> 01:31:15.600
would wait. I've been saying I
learned to like ugly. That top growth

1278
01:31:15.640 --> 01:31:20.199
that's all dead is somewhat of a
covering over those plants. And if you

1279
01:31:20.239 --> 01:31:26.279
do have to recover something, maybe
we have a lighter freeze at least it'd

1280
01:31:26.279 --> 01:31:29.479
be a little bit of a protection
for you. The compost. What it

1281
01:31:29.520 --> 01:31:33.640
did is it got all around the
base and truly warmed up those stems at

1282
01:31:33.680 --> 01:31:38.359
the base. Uh. And that's
why last year worked a little bit better

1283
01:31:38.399 --> 01:31:41.439
than this year did. Yeah,
I was thinking that, you know,

1284
01:31:41.520 --> 01:31:45.680
the cotton blankets and and the frost
blankets on top of those, Maybe I

1285
01:31:45.760 --> 01:31:49.159
maybe I maybe I covered them too
much. No, I don't think you

1286
01:31:49.199 --> 01:31:53.520
did. Uh. You know,
I'd have to see the situation to see

1287
01:31:53.520 --> 01:31:57.960
what might have gone wrong on it. But you can't cover them too much

1288
01:31:58.039 --> 01:32:01.560
when you're protecting against coal. Some
good should I put some ocean harvest on

1289
01:32:01.600 --> 01:32:05.479
there or some medina plus when the
new growth begins, give a good drenching

1290
01:32:05.840 --> 01:32:09.119
of those other words, we're doing
that right now. It's not going to

1291
01:32:09.199 --> 01:32:13.119
help anything. Right. Well,
you'll get the nutrient from it and the

1292
01:32:13.199 --> 01:32:17.199
soil, but right now they're number
one, you don't know if they're alive.

1293
01:32:17.319 --> 01:32:23.000
Number two, they're definitely on hold, being a warm seasoned plant in

1294
01:32:23.520 --> 01:32:27.000
cooler soil than they want, cooler
tempson they want. Yeah, I know,

1295
01:32:27.279 --> 01:32:30.039
I know. Randy always said you
can't bring back dead, So that's

1296
01:32:30.079 --> 01:32:33.800
a good that's a good point.
Yeah, all right, well, thank

1297
01:32:33.840 --> 01:32:40.560
you so much. Hey, thanks
for the call. Appreciate that we get

1298
01:32:40.640 --> 01:32:45.840
here. There we go trying to
operate my computer. At the same time,

1299
01:32:45.880 --> 01:32:47.640
I'm talking a good thing. I
wasn't trying to chebe gom at the

1300
01:32:47.640 --> 01:32:51.800
same time. Out there, you
know, he's calling them from Pearland.

1301
01:32:53.279 --> 01:32:57.119
I was about to tell you run
over to Pearland Ace because Ace. ACE

1302
01:32:57.159 --> 01:32:59.920
has got all kinds of stuff like
that, all the supplies we're talking about,

1303
01:33:00.119 --> 01:33:01.720
you know, a lot of the
products we're talking about in the conversation

1304
01:33:01.840 --> 01:33:05.439
that we had right there. ACE
Hardware is all over town, and it

1305
01:33:05.479 --> 01:33:10.239
doesn't matter you know what part of
Houston you live in, there's one close

1306
01:33:10.359 --> 01:33:13.880
enough to go find the things you
need. And Ace, we say,

1307
01:33:13.920 --> 01:33:16.640
ACE is a place where, you
know, ACE is a place for in

1308
01:33:16.680 --> 01:33:19.680
other words, of course it's a
hardware store. It's a place for plumbing

1309
01:33:19.720 --> 01:33:24.720
and lighting and all that. Of
course it's a place for your landscape too.

1310
01:33:24.800 --> 01:33:29.079
ACE Hardware carries all the fertility that
I recommend on guarden line. What

1311
01:33:29.159 --> 01:33:31.720
forty Ace Hardware stores around the Greater
Houston area is not hard to find one.

1312
01:33:32.039 --> 01:33:35.479
Do you need pruning equipment they've got
that there. Do you need covers

1313
01:33:35.560 --> 01:33:39.479
for your plants, They carry that
kind of stuff there. But they also

1314
01:33:39.520 --> 01:33:43.800
are the place for coal damage to
your home, to your pipes, any

1315
01:33:43.920 --> 01:33:46.760
kind of plumbing repair part you need, they've got it. If you've got

1316
01:33:46.760 --> 01:33:50.119
a damaged sprinkler head, you know, we run over them. Different things

1317
01:33:50.159 --> 01:33:54.439
happen. You can go to ACE. You can get the supplies you need

1318
01:33:54.479 --> 01:33:57.039
just to get out there and get
that thing fixed. And by the way,

1319
01:33:57.079 --> 01:33:59.199
if you don't know if you have
damage or not, you will when

1320
01:33:59.239 --> 01:34:01.119
you turn it on the first time. That's when the geysers show up.

1321
01:34:01.920 --> 01:34:05.880
But ACE is just the place that's
kind of the way to look at it.

1322
01:34:06.039 --> 01:34:10.079
Go to Acehardware dot com. They
have a store locator. You can

1323
01:34:10.079 --> 01:34:14.640
find the ones near you, and
they're all over town. And I think

1324
01:34:14.680 --> 01:34:17.039
when you walk in, if you
haven't been in an ACE recently, you're

1325
01:34:17.039 --> 01:34:23.119
going to be pleasantly surprised. They
really have a wide right. I'll tell

1326
01:34:23.159 --> 01:34:26.079
you this. I promise you you
go into an ACE Harder, walk around

1327
01:34:26.159 --> 01:34:29.039
for a while, and at least
ten times you're going to go I didn't

1328
01:34:29.039 --> 01:34:31.920
know they had that, Yes they
do. Absolutely. ACE is a place

1329
01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:38.279
we're talking about all kinds of things
for your home, your garden and whatnot.

1330
01:34:38.760 --> 01:34:41.520
I want to talk a little bit
about the house plants. For just

1331
01:34:41.560 --> 01:34:45.000
a little bit. I realized they
didn't go through the cold. That's nice,

1332
01:34:45.000 --> 01:34:47.960
isn't it. I encourage you to
add more house plants to your home.

1333
01:34:48.520 --> 01:34:51.880
Now. I'm kind of a place
that I'm in right now where I

1334
01:34:51.920 --> 01:34:56.359
do not have good lighting except in
two rooms. There's two rooms that have

1335
01:34:56.479 --> 01:35:00.560
really good lighting, and the rest
of the house it's for a variety of

1336
01:35:00.600 --> 01:35:04.039
reasons that's just not very bright.
And remember, our eyes can adjust to

1337
01:35:04.039 --> 01:35:08.119
the light. So if it's low
light, our eyes adjust and we can

1338
01:35:08.119 --> 01:35:11.680
see again. And if it's highlight, our pupil's closed down and we can

1339
01:35:11.720 --> 01:35:15.600
see fine again. Houseplants don't really
do that, and so what may look

1340
01:35:15.640 --> 01:35:20.199
okay to you is probably much less
light than the plant needs. But there's

1341
01:35:20.199 --> 01:35:26.800
houseplants where every kind of lighting situation
just about and there are things we can

1342
01:35:26.840 --> 01:35:30.359
do to improve on lighting. I've
got one area where it's in a living

1343
01:35:30.399 --> 01:35:33.600
room where I really really want to
have some beautiful house plants, and they're

1344
01:35:33.640 --> 01:35:36.880
all crowded over by a window right
now, trying to get light I'm about

1345
01:35:36.880 --> 01:35:41.560
to put in some plant lighting in
there. You can buy nice plant lights

1346
01:35:41.680 --> 01:35:45.880
that are just an attractive feature in
the home, and you can also just

1347
01:35:45.920 --> 01:35:50.680
buy standard plant lights like you would
start seedlings for a new crop of annuals,

1348
01:35:50.720 --> 01:35:55.720
perennials, things like that. But
consider where you might use some houseplants,

1349
01:35:55.720 --> 01:36:00.159
because there's a lot of new cool
ones out there on the markets.

1350
01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:06.039
Plants make a home feel more comfortable, more livable. We were made to

1351
01:36:06.079 --> 01:36:10.880
be around plants that you know.
I always say that it wasn't the cubicle

1352
01:36:10.920 --> 01:36:14.640
of Eden, it was the garden
of Eden. We're made to be around

1353
01:36:14.880 --> 01:36:18.920
plants, That's what that is.
Just part of the connection between humans and

1354
01:36:19.039 --> 01:36:27.880
nature out there. And when you
change a somewhat sterile indoor setting into one

1355
01:36:27.960 --> 01:36:30.880
where you have a lot of plants, it really affects just the mood of

1356
01:36:30.920 --> 01:36:34.800
the room. Plus they're fun to
mess with, you know. I just

1357
01:36:34.840 --> 01:36:39.600
got through making a bunch of cuttings
that have rooted, and now I need

1358
01:36:39.640 --> 01:36:41.960
to pot them up again. I
had a vine that was just taking over

1359
01:36:42.000 --> 01:36:44.600
the world. I just cut it
way back up, chopped it all up,

1360
01:36:44.640 --> 01:36:46.680
put some I put them in water
because it was fast and easy it's

1361
01:36:46.720 --> 01:36:49.159
not the best way to root,
but you can do that. And I'm

1362
01:36:49.199 --> 01:36:50.880
going to pull them out and put
them in a plant, and here we

1363
01:36:50.920 --> 01:36:55.920
go. I got a brand new
hanging basket just ready to happen on the

1364
01:36:55.920 --> 01:36:59.520
way. So I hope you'll take
advantage and enjoy that. If Buchanans,

1365
01:37:00.039 --> 01:37:02.640
I always like going to Buchanans and
the Heights for that reason. They have

1366
01:37:02.720 --> 01:37:08.359
a house plant house. You know, it's a big greenhouse area where they

1367
01:37:08.359 --> 01:37:12.039
have all kinds of things and they
I promise you you walk into there and

1368
01:37:12.079 --> 01:37:14.920
you're going to see house plants you've
never seen before. You're going to say,

1369
01:37:14.920 --> 01:37:17.119
what is that? Because they have
that kind of variety. And the

1370
01:37:17.159 --> 01:37:20.520
Heights Eleventh Street in the Heights is
where they are. If you haven't been,

1371
01:37:20.800 --> 01:37:24.680
you ought to go go today.
It'd be a good day to get

1372
01:37:24.680 --> 01:37:29.760
out and do that this afternoon.
Buchanans Plants dot com that is the website.

1373
01:37:30.039 --> 01:37:33.359
There's always something going on. Educational
programs at Buchanan's Plants. I think

1374
01:37:33.399 --> 01:37:36.560
there's a there's one I'll tell you
about in just a minute. But it's

1375
01:37:36.560 --> 01:37:41.960
a oh my gosh, I can't
think of the names. It's basically a

1376
01:37:42.560 --> 01:37:46.279
Valentine's Day. I think they call
it Gallantines, like for it's for ladies

1377
01:37:46.319 --> 01:37:49.960
to come in there. And that's
the Buchanan's Plants. But that stuff's going

1378
01:37:49.960 --> 01:37:53.880
on all the time. Every kind
of plant you need is going to be

1379
01:37:53.920 --> 01:37:58.479
there at Buchanan's Plants. Now they
call I keep saying Buchanan's Plants, I

1380
01:37:58.520 --> 01:38:01.439
need to say Buchanan Native Plants,
because that's the name of the place.

1381
01:38:01.920 --> 01:38:06.079
That is their specialty, that's their
strongest point. But don't be mistaken.

1382
01:38:08.039 --> 01:38:11.159
Begin in test house plants. They've
got shade plants, they got fruit trees,

1383
01:38:11.199 --> 01:38:14.239
they've got all kinds of things.
But if you're looking for natives,

1384
01:38:14.279 --> 01:38:17.119
you're not going to find a better
selection of all kinds of natives, including

1385
01:38:17.159 --> 01:38:21.199
They even have a table where they
just put natives to the immediate Houston area

1386
01:38:21.600 --> 01:38:25.640
right there on the table. Makes
it kind of easy and it's always fun

1387
01:38:25.680 --> 01:38:29.880
too to go by and visit Buchinnans. We're going to head out now to

1388
01:38:30.079 --> 01:38:34.760
southeast Houston and talk to Julia.
Hello Julia, Hello, Rick, how

1389
01:38:34.760 --> 01:38:40.079
are you doing today? I'm good. I'm not sure this is a question

1390
01:38:40.159 --> 01:38:42.920
for you, but I don't know
where else to go or if it's a

1391
01:38:42.960 --> 01:38:48.479
pest control, how do you deter
mudbugs from making their mounds in your yard?

1392
01:38:50.720 --> 01:38:56.319
Well, you can import some natural
enemies. If you know anybody from

1393
01:38:56.319 --> 01:38:59.239
South Louisiana, they probably come in
and eat them all up for you.

1394
01:38:59.359 --> 01:39:02.279
Right. Sorry, that was uncalled
for. When I was a kid,

1395
01:39:02.479 --> 01:39:06.159
we used to drop bacon on a
string down in there, try to pull

1396
01:39:06.199 --> 01:39:10.159
the crowd heads out of the hole, because, yeah, you can meet

1397
01:39:10.239 --> 01:39:15.680
those things. Uh there, I
don't know of a good labeled way to

1398
01:39:15.720 --> 01:39:23.039
do it. There are some products
that will control mud bugs. I'm just

1399
01:39:23.119 --> 01:39:27.560
not going to spout out things that
are not labeled that are not essentially legal

1400
01:39:27.600 --> 01:39:30.399
for use. If you will on
the air, you probably do a little

1401
01:39:30.399 --> 01:39:34.600
search and find some of those kinds
of things. But there there's not a

1402
01:39:35.880 --> 01:39:40.560
mudbug aside. If you will on
the market where you flip the label over

1403
01:39:40.600 --> 01:39:45.119
and it says use this at this
rate to control crowdads or crayfish in your

1404
01:39:45.239 --> 01:39:51.319
yard. They like a high water
table, so if it's possible to fix

1405
01:39:51.439 --> 01:39:57.479
that through subsurface drainage or something else, that will help. But wherever they

1406
01:39:57.520 --> 01:40:00.319
can dig a hole down and have
a water table down there, they're going

1407
01:40:00.399 --> 01:40:01.319
to do that, and you're gonna
have a lot of problems with them.

1408
01:40:01.800 --> 01:40:06.359
That's just part of the part of
the deal. Okay, I understand that

1409
01:40:06.479 --> 01:40:10.840
my sister is the one that has
the problem. She lists in Texas City

1410
01:40:10.880 --> 01:40:16.119
behind Moses like okays a problem.
Yeah, yeah, I hate to hate

1411
01:40:16.159 --> 01:40:18.479
to turn it loose that way.
I just on the air not going to

1412
01:40:18.560 --> 01:40:23.840
give home remedies that I don't have
a label on them. There's a number

1413
01:40:23.840 --> 01:40:27.079
of reasons for that. But you
can find stuff like that if you want

1414
01:40:27.119 --> 01:40:30.039
to go that route. Would it
be possible a pest control person would take

1415
01:40:30.079 --> 01:40:33.079
care of that? I bet they
could. I sure, I sure would

1416
01:40:33.359 --> 01:40:36.800
talk to them and see see what
they can do. You know you,

1417
01:40:40.600 --> 01:40:42.840
Yeah, I think so. I
was trying to think if I've ever talked

1418
01:40:42.880 --> 01:40:47.199
to one of our pcos about about
that sort of thing, and I can't

1419
01:40:47.279 --> 01:40:51.399
remember doing it. They may have
a product that they can use that they're

1420
01:40:51.439 --> 01:40:55.840
able to use when it comes.
Hey, do you have a number for

1421
01:40:56.520 --> 01:41:00.520
McGrath pest Control? I remember you
talked listening to him on the air one

1422
01:41:00.560 --> 01:41:04.920
day. I don't have the number, but I will take it down all

1423
01:41:05.000 --> 01:41:10.119
right here here it is. You
can go to the website Metgrathpestcontrol dot com

1424
01:41:10.199 --> 01:41:15.920
or here's the number two eight one
four sixty nine eighty two forty two eight

1425
01:41:15.000 --> 01:41:19.359
one four sixty nine A two four
Oh. If you talk to Scott he

1426
01:41:19.359 --> 01:41:23.960
can tell you whether or not he
can do it. I appreciate your help

1427
01:41:24.039 --> 01:41:27.199
so much. Thank you, Thank
you today, by bye bye. All

1428
01:41:27.279 --> 01:41:29.960
right, time for a break.
NICKI is in here for the news.

1429
01:41:30.279 --> 01:41:32.159
If you would like to give us
a call, our number is seven one

1430
01:41:32.239 --> 01:41:38.560
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Nicki, Uh, every time

1431
01:41:38.560 --> 01:41:42.159
you do the news, I keep
waiting to hear no. I was dreaming

1432
01:41:42.239 --> 01:41:46.159
last night. Actually the Texans won. Well, you'll keep breaking my heart

1433
01:41:46.199 --> 01:41:50.520
over and over again. Keep listening. Miracles happen. Just keep listening.

1434
01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:54.600
It might change. Let's be an
optimist about things. Right there, you

1435
01:41:54.680 --> 01:41:57.640
go, All right, we'll be
back. Here's NICKI. We're gonna move

1436
01:41:57.680 --> 01:42:03.000
to the news and talk to you
in just a minute. Welcome back to

1437
01:42:03.039 --> 01:42:08.199
Guardline. Glad you're listening this morning. Our phone number seven one three two

1438
01:42:08.279 --> 01:42:14.000
one two five eight seven four.
Someone asked me the other day, when

1439
01:42:14.520 --> 01:42:18.319
when is it time to start applying
asmite fertilizer. Well, first of all,

1440
01:42:18.439 --> 01:42:23.399
yes, Azimite has nutrients, but
don't think of it like a fertilizer

1441
01:42:24.359 --> 01:42:27.680
like the nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, the big three we need a lot

1442
01:42:27.680 --> 01:42:30.920
of or fertilizing all the time.
This is a supplement to build trace minerals

1443
01:42:31.079 --> 01:42:34.680
in the soil, and so the
time is anytime. You know, putting

1444
01:42:34.720 --> 01:42:39.319
azimite down doesn't like push all this
new growth out of the ground like a

1445
01:42:39.399 --> 01:42:45.399
nitrogen fertilizer would, but asimite provides
the trace elements that are essential for plants.

1446
01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:46.880
So you can do that anytime you
want to do it. You can

1447
01:42:46.920 --> 01:42:49.279
do it right now if you want
to, you can wait and when you

1448
01:42:49.319 --> 01:42:54.560
fertilize, then just finish fertilizing,
turn right around, put azmite in and

1449
01:42:54.600 --> 01:42:59.199
do that at that time. You
can go to azimite Texas dot com azomite

1450
01:42:59.239 --> 01:43:03.800
azom it Texas dot com and you
can find out more about azumite there.

1451
01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:09.199
But remember, asmite isn't just for
lawns. Vegetable gardens are great. Do

1452
01:43:09.239 --> 01:43:13.800
you want to make sure your produce
has a good, nice, full,

1453
01:43:13.960 --> 01:43:18.960
complete stock of all the different things
our bodies need as we consume the produce.

1454
01:43:19.039 --> 01:43:23.520
Well, Asmite is a great way
to provide that as well. It

1455
01:43:23.560 --> 01:43:27.439
one takes about ten pounds per thousand
square feet in a vegetable garden. It

1456
01:43:27.439 --> 01:43:30.359
goes a long way because you're not
putting a lot down. You're just putting

1457
01:43:30.399 --> 01:43:33.560
a little because it's a trace element, but it's also an essential element.

1458
01:43:34.039 --> 01:43:39.239
That's how that works. By the
way, if you have not had a

1459
01:43:39.279 --> 01:43:43.199
soil test done, now be a
good time to do it. You know,

1460
01:43:43.279 --> 01:43:45.760
early before the season gets going.
It's always a good time to check

1461
01:43:45.800 --> 01:43:48.439
on things now. If you've had
one done in the last two years,

1462
01:43:48.479 --> 01:43:51.479
three years, that probably don't have
to do that again, but it's a

1463
01:43:51.479 --> 01:43:56.840
good way to monitor where you are
now. You wouldn't want to put on

1464
01:43:57.000 --> 01:44:00.199
fertilizer and then sell test immediately because
what's your basic going to get is what's

1465
01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:04.119
in that fertilizer too, and that
throws things off. You want to sample

1466
01:44:04.239 --> 01:44:08.439
when you haven't fertilized for a while, and now's a good time to do

1467
01:44:08.520 --> 01:44:13.720
that. The best soil test is
one where you go down in the soil

1468
01:44:13.880 --> 01:44:17.239
vertically about six inches deep, and
you take a core out of the soil

1469
01:44:17.439 --> 01:44:23.399
that represents the top inchs all the
way down to six inches deep equally.

1470
01:44:24.119 --> 01:44:28.960
Because some nutrients tend to tie up
in the surface after your phosphorusus that way.

1471
01:44:29.800 --> 01:44:31.520
But when you do the vertical core, you get a good example of

1472
01:44:31.560 --> 01:44:38.560
the whole the majority of the primary
root zone of like your turf plant,

1473
01:44:38.680 --> 01:44:43.039
for example. And you just do
that in several places. Try to avoid

1474
01:44:43.159 --> 01:44:46.399
the little green spots where the family
dogs stop last week, as you can

1475
01:44:46.479 --> 01:44:50.439
imagine that or last year. That
would throw things off a little bit.

1476
01:44:51.119 --> 01:44:55.399
But do it in several places.
Mix it together. Nicle in a bucket

1477
01:44:55.439 --> 01:44:59.920
that hadn't had fertilizer in it,
and put about a pint into a Ziply,

1478
01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:02.720
I take a court bag and put
about a pint of soil in it

1479
01:45:03.039 --> 01:45:05.920
and then send it off to the
lab. If you want the website,

1480
01:45:06.119 --> 01:45:11.159
I need to put this on my
website. But the link is Soil Testing

1481
01:45:11.600 --> 01:45:17.000
dot T A MU, dot E
d U. And one reason so testing

1482
01:45:17.079 --> 01:45:21.279
is important is you'll hear me say, and it's on my schedule. Put

1483
01:45:21.479 --> 01:45:27.159
a three one two type fertilizer or
some blend of nutrients that's out there for

1484
01:45:27.279 --> 01:45:30.760
lawns. Is typically that put that
out there at this rate. And I'm

1485
01:45:30.760 --> 01:45:35.319
telling everybody in the Greater Houston area
and further to do the same thing.

1486
01:45:35.800 --> 01:45:40.039
Well, that's a good average.
You're not going to go wrong with that.

1487
01:45:40.680 --> 01:45:44.199
But let's just take you and your
next door neighbor. If your next

1488
01:45:44.199 --> 01:45:47.239
door neighbor has been using triple thirteen
for the last ten years, they're going

1489
01:45:47.319 --> 01:45:51.760
to have a really high phosphorus count. They really are, and they don't

1490
01:45:51.760 --> 01:45:58.319
need any And so you could fertilize
with almost a real high nitrogen high potassium,

1491
01:45:58.359 --> 01:46:00.960
and you wouldn't You wouldn't need much
the phosphors. Maybe they have high

1492
01:46:01.159 --> 01:46:04.640
magnesium and you have low magnesium.
Maybe they have high potassium and you have

1493
01:46:04.680 --> 01:46:09.600
low potassium. So one size doesn't
fit all, but it's it's a good

1494
01:46:09.600 --> 01:46:12.520
way to go, and you're not
going to go wrong using the things I

1495
01:46:12.560 --> 01:46:17.000
recommend because they are that Basically,
the fertilizers I recommend are based on what

1496
01:46:17.279 --> 01:46:25.119
the turf scientists tell me are in
grass. So we're feeding the grass with

1497
01:46:25.239 --> 01:46:29.520
the ratio of nutrients that are in
grass. Does that make sense? And

1498
01:46:29.680 --> 01:46:31.359
a lot of plants are that way. I use a three one two for

1499
01:46:31.399 --> 01:46:33.479
a lot of different things, a
four to one two for a lot of

1500
01:46:33.520 --> 01:46:38.319
different things. But I use a
varied variety of fertilizers, and there are

1501
01:46:38.399 --> 01:46:42.600
situations where you want a different blend, and so you can do that.

1502
01:46:42.600 --> 01:46:45.960
That's just fine. But remember a
soil test is the way you know where

1503
01:46:46.000 --> 01:46:50.920
you're starting so that it can guide
what you choose to add. Does that

1504
01:46:50.960 --> 01:46:58.199
make sense? I hope it does. We love FEAT stores and just in

1505
01:46:58.239 --> 01:47:00.159
fact, just what was it a
couple of days ago. Yeah, a

1506
01:47:00.159 --> 01:47:04.000
couple of days ago. I was
passing through and stopped at D and D

1507
01:47:04.079 --> 01:47:10.439
feed out in Tomball there out west
of Tombaal. D and D is one

1508
01:47:10.439 --> 01:47:13.840
of those feed stores you used like
to walk into and see what they have

1509
01:47:13.960 --> 01:47:15.920
because they have everything. You know, if I'm talking about a fertilizer,

1510
01:47:16.079 --> 01:47:20.319
They've got them all there. If
I'm talking about things like leafmol compost,

1511
01:47:20.319 --> 01:47:24.600
heirlooms, rose, soil and fruit, berry and citrus or veggie and herb,

1512
01:47:24.880 --> 01:47:29.079
they've got all of that there.
And occasionally they're bringing through different kinds

1513
01:47:29.079 --> 01:47:31.000
of plants. In fact, there's
usually plants there too. They got fruit

1514
01:47:31.039 --> 01:47:33.920
and citrus coming in the middle of
February. They were telling me about that.

1515
01:47:34.960 --> 01:47:40.960
If you're interested in backyard chickens,
chicks Week, I like saying that

1516
01:47:41.359 --> 01:47:45.880
chicks Week is February sixth, they're
gonna get a bunch of chickens in and

1517
01:47:46.000 --> 01:47:49.279
if you would like to try some
backyard chickens, and you need supplies for

1518
01:47:49.319 --> 01:47:54.039
the chicken, including the feeds and
the chickens themselves. They have a great

1519
01:47:54.079 --> 01:47:58.239
supply there coming in. They also
have red, white, and yellow potatoes.

1520
01:47:58.239 --> 01:48:00.720
By the way, that's three different
kinds of potas it is not one.

1521
01:48:00.880 --> 01:48:01.960
It'd be cool if you had a
potato that was red, white,

1522
01:48:01.960 --> 01:48:05.359
and yellow. But the red,
you know, thele soda, for example,

1523
01:48:05.399 --> 01:48:08.920
is a real common red. It's
proven. I grow it all the

1524
01:48:08.920 --> 01:48:12.840
time myself. YU kind gold is
the one that's it's golden color, yellow

1525
01:48:12.840 --> 01:48:15.560
colored, almost looks buttery even before
you put butter on it. All of

1526
01:48:15.600 --> 01:48:19.119
that is that D and D feed
and more. Just check them out again

1527
01:48:19.560 --> 01:48:25.000
just west of Tomball out there on
the south side of twenty nine to twenty

1528
01:48:25.279 --> 01:48:30.399
at D and DE feed chicks week
for crying out loud, All right,

1529
01:48:30.640 --> 01:48:34.039
So what are we going to talk
about on guard line now? I want

1530
01:48:34.039 --> 01:48:39.039
to mention a little bit about fruit
trees. Late winter, midwinter, late

1531
01:48:39.079 --> 01:48:42.760
winter is a great time to plant
fruit trees. You can plant container grown

1532
01:48:42.840 --> 01:48:45.319
fruit anytime, but a lot of
our garden centers are going to be getting

1533
01:48:45.319 --> 01:48:48.880
in their stock of fruit trees here. Some of them are already stocked up

1534
01:48:48.880 --> 01:48:51.760
pretty good on it, and now's
a good time to do that. And

1535
01:48:51.800 --> 01:48:56.199
when you get them in the ground, you want to make sure number one,

1536
01:48:56.399 --> 01:49:00.640
they have good drainage. Fruit does
not like swamps. I don't care

1537
01:49:00.680 --> 01:49:05.199
if it's apples, pears, peaches, plums, even figs. They don't

1538
01:49:05.239 --> 01:49:11.279
want to just sit and drag with
the roots are drowned in constant moisture.

1539
01:49:11.560 --> 01:49:14.760
In fact, I'll you know,
I saw that. I knew that,

1540
01:49:14.840 --> 01:49:16.840
but I saw it visually. I
want to tell a little story about figs.

1541
01:49:16.880 --> 01:49:18.880
I want to come back from break
right now. Need to take a

1542
01:49:18.880 --> 01:49:23.359
break. Our phone number is seven
to one three two one two five eight

1543
01:49:23.479 --> 01:49:27.079
seven four. I'll be right back
with a fig story and your calls.

1544
01:49:29.399 --> 01:49:32.960
Welcome back to garden Line. Weird
to take your calls, answer gardening questions.

1545
01:49:32.960 --> 01:49:38.239
That's what I've been doing today,
plus throwing in some just general tips

1546
01:49:38.359 --> 01:49:41.880
things you need to be aware of, things you need to be doing right

1547
01:49:41.920 --> 01:49:45.039
now, preparing for right now.
It's always a good time to prepare the

1548
01:49:45.079 --> 01:49:49.279
soil. It it's always a good
time to prepare the soil. There's not

1549
01:49:49.359 --> 01:49:53.479
a season for doing that, like
there are seasons for a lot of things,

1550
01:49:54.159 --> 01:49:58.880
getting good quality mixes, making sure
your soil. Here's what soil needs.

1551
01:49:59.359 --> 01:50:01.920
Number One, you need good drainage. And in our Houston Black clays,

1552
01:50:01.920 --> 01:50:06.119
we typically don't have good drainage.
So we add well, we do

1553
01:50:06.159 --> 01:50:09.760
two things. Number One, we
build up a raised bed. The water

1554
01:50:10.000 --> 01:50:14.079
runs off that to a lower area
in the bed. The roots of the

1555
01:50:14.119 --> 01:50:16.520
plants that are in the bed are
up a little bit higher, and they're

1556
01:50:16.520 --> 01:50:21.760
not in anaerobic conditions, meaning they're
drownding underwater. They can't breathe. And

1557
01:50:21.800 --> 01:50:27.039
do you know roots have to breathe. If I can anthropomorphize a little bit

1558
01:50:27.079 --> 01:50:32.479
on roots, basically they have to
have oxygen in order to do the respiration

1559
01:50:32.640 --> 01:50:36.279
processes that go on in the root, and so you put them underwater,

1560
01:50:36.399 --> 01:50:42.680
they can't breathe. A few plants
have adapted a mechanism for doing for surviving

1561
01:50:42.720 --> 01:50:47.000
that way, but in general,
almost all without almost without exceptions, your

1562
01:50:47.039 --> 01:50:50.079
plant roots have got to be able
to have oxygen. So raise beds help.

1563
01:50:51.840 --> 01:50:56.399
The typical soil in the area predominantly
is kind of like a Houston black

1564
01:50:56.439 --> 01:51:00.399
clay soil, and that is a
very thick, heavy, sticky color that

1565
01:51:00.439 --> 01:51:03.600
shrinks and swells and does not drain
well. It doesn't let water in very

1566
01:51:03.600 --> 01:51:08.960
fast. I heard one time soslicidentists
told me that a Houston black clay without

1567
01:51:08.960 --> 01:51:12.560
any organic matter, without any roots, just the clay, it can take

1568
01:51:12.800 --> 01:51:15.600
absorb water at one eighth of an
inch an hour. Now, Nikki was

1569
01:51:15.640 --> 01:51:18.199
just saying, well, Ago,
it's about to start raining and we're going

1570
01:51:18.279 --> 01:51:21.439
to have days where we get four
inches of rain. Well, it can't

1571
01:51:21.479 --> 01:51:26.640
take it in that even close to
that fast. So what do we do.

1572
01:51:26.720 --> 01:51:30.560
We add organic matter we had compost, and that massive clay starts to

1573
01:51:31.359 --> 01:51:36.600
break apart into clumps, if you
will. I like to use the analogy

1574
01:51:36.640 --> 01:51:41.039
of a bowl of popcorn as an
example, because that's the visual. People

1575
01:51:41.079 --> 01:51:46.840
can imagine that you've got these clumps
of popcorn and there's space in between the

1576
01:51:46.920 --> 01:51:53.279
clumps because of the way it's clumped
together. When you take clay with organic

1577
01:51:53.319 --> 01:51:57.479
matter and you create a structure we
call it structure to the soil, it

1578
01:51:57.840 --> 01:52:03.199
helps it absorb water, it helps
it to drain internally better, and then

1579
01:52:03.319 --> 01:52:10.680
the organic matter itself is a place
where microbial activity is very high and you

1580
01:52:10.760 --> 01:52:13.920
get a lot of the things going
on that roots need to thrive. That

1581
01:52:14.159 --> 01:52:16.880
that's the fast, easy way to
put it. So we need to improve

1582
01:52:16.920 --> 01:52:20.520
our soil. That is very important, and it's always a good time to

1583
01:52:20.560 --> 01:52:25.239
do that in my vegetable garden.
When I finish a crop and I'm gonna

1584
01:52:25.239 --> 01:52:29.239
put in another crop, I'll mix
in some organic matter or mix in some

1585
01:52:29.399 --> 01:52:32.720
nutrient, whatever is required at that
time, and just keep getting it better

1586
01:52:32.800 --> 01:52:36.399
and better and better. Listen,
when we don't take care of soil,

1587
01:52:36.600 --> 01:52:41.600
when we strip off all the plant
growth and it's hard, and the sun's

1588
01:52:41.640 --> 01:52:45.920
making down on it and we're walking
on it and compacting it, it becomes

1589
01:52:45.960 --> 01:52:49.720
a place where plants just struggle at
best. But if you turn it back

1590
01:52:49.720 --> 01:52:55.880
over to nature, like a think
about this, a tropical rainforest out in

1591
01:52:55.920 --> 01:52:59.720
the middle of nowhere. The tree
leaves are falling, little parrot poop here

1592
01:52:59.720 --> 01:53:03.119
and there, and it just hits
the ground and it rots and it rots

1593
01:53:03.119 --> 01:53:08.239
and it rots year after year,
decade after decade, and that soil just

1594
01:53:08.279 --> 01:53:14.079
gets richer and richer and richer because
nature builds soil naturally, and the meadows

1595
01:53:14.159 --> 01:53:18.640
nature bills soil naturally. Do you
know that grass? Think about the Great

1596
01:53:18.640 --> 01:53:23.720
Plains. When the settlers were coming
across the Naconastoga wagon, they said,

1597
01:53:23.760 --> 01:53:27.399
grass as deep as a horse's belly. Well, those grass plants, their

1598
01:53:27.479 --> 01:53:30.079
roots live about a year and then
they die, and not all at once,

1599
01:53:30.199 --> 01:53:33.560
but there's a process of living and
dying that's going on in the roots.

1600
01:53:33.800 --> 01:53:38.199
So a root pushes into the soil. A root is organic matter.

1601
01:53:38.600 --> 01:53:42.760
It dies, it rots, it
leaves a chamber open. Earthworms follow those

1602
01:53:42.840 --> 01:53:46.199
chambers because they like to eat the
decaying organic matter. Water then has a

1603
01:53:46.239 --> 01:53:51.640
way to infiltrate, and the soil
gets richer and richer over time. So

1604
01:53:51.680 --> 01:53:55.960
why am I going into all that
description. Well, if you learn to

1605
01:53:56.000 --> 01:53:59.760
think like what nature does, then
we know what to do in our gardens

1606
01:54:00.039 --> 01:54:02.600
our landscapes to have more success.
And it's as simple as that. It's

1607
01:54:02.640 --> 01:54:08.199
always a good time to build your
soils. In fact, I did not

1608
01:54:08.359 --> 01:54:14.039
plan this. We're gonna We're gonna
go to the phones and talk Lewis Luise,

1609
01:54:14.119 --> 01:54:18.479
I was just talking of about soil. What's happening? So I I

1610
01:54:18.560 --> 01:54:21.880
just listen to your conversation. Well, you're you're talking about about soil,

1611
01:54:23.640 --> 01:54:28.439
clay, organic matter. Yes,
and when I when I present the topic

1612
01:54:28.680 --> 01:54:31.800
at garden centers or you know,
some gardening groups that want me to talk

1613
01:54:31.840 --> 01:54:41.119
about soils. The best way I
can describe this is clay are sticky particles.

1614
01:54:41.479 --> 01:54:46.199
They bond so as a parent.
Imagine you have teenagers and you have

1615
01:54:46.399 --> 01:54:50.319
a girl or a boy, and
the girl or the boy has somebody that

1616
01:54:50.359 --> 01:54:55.079
they like. As a father of
daughters, I already know I'm gonna like

1617
01:54:55.159 --> 01:54:59.239
this one. Yeah, and so
they're gonna like they're they're trying to have

1618
01:54:59.319 --> 01:55:01.159
a kiss, right like the first
case or a make up session. Yeah,

1619
01:55:01.359 --> 01:55:06.239
we can't let that happen, Louise, Okay, So compost in this

1620
01:55:06.359 --> 01:55:12.359
In this instance, compost and expanded
shell does the disruptor, which is the

1621
01:55:12.399 --> 01:55:15.640
parent that stands in between the two
kids. Okay, there you go.

1622
01:55:15.000 --> 01:55:20.560
It doesn't let those clay particles bond. Okay. Therefore it starts creating more

1623
01:55:20.640 --> 01:55:27.760
porous space, and it starts creating
a softer, looser environment. There you

1624
01:55:27.840 --> 01:55:31.960
go. Keep in mind the organic
matter and expanded shell is that this rupture

1625
01:55:32.039 --> 01:55:35.399
between those two sticky clay parties.
And I'm glad you brought up the expanded

1626
01:55:35.479 --> 01:55:40.199
jail because organic matter is wonderful.
I mean, it's the miracle cure for

1627
01:55:40.359 --> 01:55:43.600
also a problem. And we've talked
about clay, but sand can't hold water

1628
01:55:43.680 --> 01:55:46.520
and nutrient. It runs right through
and organic matter helps it hold water and

1629
01:55:46.600 --> 01:55:49.640
nutrients. So it works for all
soil. But you mentioned right now,

1630
01:55:49.960 --> 01:55:54.760
you mentioned that expanded shale though,
uh, you know, organic matter does

1631
01:55:54.800 --> 01:55:59.439
decay away, but expanded shail is
like a little fired rock with with porous

1632
01:56:00.079 --> 01:56:03.560
air space into the rock, and
it will help keep that clay apart for

1633
01:56:03.560 --> 01:56:09.439
an even longer time. Absolutely,
And over the years I've gone phone calls

1634
01:56:09.439 --> 01:56:14.399
from you know, customers asking me, so I put it. I spread

1635
01:56:14.399 --> 01:56:17.840
this expanded shell on the compost,
but the soil is not softening that the

1636
01:56:17.880 --> 01:56:21.279
clay compacted areas are not getting used. And I'm like, well, you

1637
01:56:21.319 --> 01:56:24.439
have to work it in, because
if you don't work it in, you're

1638
01:56:24.439 --> 01:56:29.159
not creating that disruption in the structure
within that environment. Right, That's good.

1639
01:56:29.880 --> 01:56:32.399
I like that. Anyways, thanks, Without analogy, I I and

1640
01:56:32.479 --> 01:56:38.279
the listeners will not forget that.
Yeah, and nobody forgets that because you

1641
01:56:38.319 --> 01:56:42.359
always think about it. It's making
out in the parenting the disruptor. Right,

1642
01:56:42.800 --> 01:56:45.279
that's that's I do think about that. Yes, I did a half

1643
01:56:45.279 --> 01:56:48.520
for years. Hey, thanks a
lot, man, I appreciate I appreciate

1644
01:56:48.560 --> 01:56:56.800
that very much. Happy Sunday to
you. Take care parent and teen analogies.

1645
01:56:56.840 --> 01:57:02.600
I've got a number of them as
including one for per trees. Professor

1646
01:57:02.640 --> 01:57:06.800
of mine in college he used to
say, when you have a tree and

1647
01:57:06.840 --> 01:57:11.560
it has two trunks side by side, both growing together, take one or

1648
01:57:11.600 --> 01:57:15.720
the other out. It's it's like
a young man having two girlfriends and thinking

1649
01:57:15.800 --> 01:57:17.680
that's going to get better. No, that doesn't turn out. Well.

1650
01:57:17.960 --> 01:57:20.880
You gotta make a choice, buddy, take one or the other. Don't

1651
01:57:20.960 --> 01:57:26.479
leave a narrow forked double trunk tree. It just gets worse over time.

1652
01:57:26.920 --> 01:57:30.640
So for all of you with parents
that are yelling amen out there, or

1653
01:57:30.800 --> 01:57:33.119
all of you with kids rather there
you go. Oh my gosh, we're

1654
01:57:33.159 --> 01:57:38.039
having fun on garden Line today.
Our phone number is seven one three two

1655
01:57:38.119 --> 01:57:43.600
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two five eight seven

1656
01:57:43.680 --> 01:57:49.359
four garden Line where you get plant
growing advice and apparently parenting advice to as

1657
01:57:49.399 --> 01:57:55.000
a result. Oh my gosh,
I love this, love it absolutely.

1658
01:57:55.199 --> 01:58:00.560
Hey, don't forget that next Saturday, I'm going to be out End where

1659
01:58:00.000 --> 01:58:04.119
tell Me bras is Home and Garden
Show and for bencount in Rosenberg at the

1660
01:58:04.159 --> 01:58:08.279
Fort Bend Epicenter. After the show, I'm gonna jump in a car head

1661
01:58:08.319 --> 01:58:10.760
that way. I don't know,
leven them thirty. I'll get out there,

1662
01:58:10.800 --> 01:58:13.000
be there for a couple hours.
I'm gonna talk about all kinds of

1663
01:58:13.119 --> 01:58:15.479
spring tips, give a little presentation, and then I'm going to hang around

1664
01:58:15.479 --> 01:58:18.640
for your questions. Do you have
pictures? Do you have samples the things

1665
01:58:18.640 --> 01:58:21.000
you want to bring in, Let's
take a look at them. Come on

1666
01:58:21.039 --> 01:58:25.439
out. Love to meet the listeners. And this is an opportunity, first

1667
01:58:25.520 --> 01:58:29.119
chance of the season when I'm getting
outside and doing some things like that.

1668
01:58:29.399 --> 01:58:31.199
So I hope you join us out
there. Hey, we'll be right back.

1669
01:58:36.119 --> 01:58:41.079
Kat RH Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services

1670
01:58:41.119 --> 01:58:46.720
advertised on this program. Welcome to
kt RH Garden Line with Skip Rict.

1671
01:58:46.920 --> 01:59:08.960
It's so crazy Trim, just watch
him as the world. Welcome back to

1672
01:59:09.039 --> 01:59:13.600
garden Line. We're glad you're listening
on this Sunday morning. Well let's see,

1673
01:59:13.800 --> 01:59:16.479
we got the coal behind us.
Now here comes the rain boy that

1674
01:59:17.039 --> 01:59:23.359
sounds like some gully washing going on
in these coming days this week, so

1675
01:59:23.520 --> 01:59:28.680
you're gonna have a lot of time
to be inside while you're enjoying the indoors,

1676
01:59:28.800 --> 01:59:34.159
enjoying your housepend don't forget that our
garden centers have got unbelievably good selection

1677
01:59:34.399 --> 01:59:40.119
of all kinds of things like indoor
you need fertilizer, indoor plants. If

1678
01:59:40.159 --> 01:59:43.600
you need indoor plants, it's good
to get out and do that. Bring

1679
01:59:43.600 --> 01:59:46.239
it home. If you've got house
plants that need some care. I've got

1680
01:59:46.279 --> 01:59:50.640
a couple of them that need to
be pruned up. I've got a vining

1681
01:59:51.199 --> 01:59:56.359
plants, a type of fellodendron that's
vining, and oh my gosh, those

1682
01:59:56.439 --> 01:59:59.880
vines are like ten feet long.
It seems like there are at least eight

1683
02:00:00.800 --> 02:00:02.520
and I need to cut that thing
up. I'm gonna cut it up and

1684
02:00:02.520 --> 02:00:06.359
make a bunch more one of them, just wrap those vines around on it.

1685
02:00:06.439 --> 02:00:10.039
I don't know. If you've grown
a pothos ivy before, something where

1686
02:00:10.039 --> 02:00:12.920
it just gets long and lanky,
you can just lift those up, put

1687
02:00:12.920 --> 02:00:15.880
them across the top of the pot. If it's a hanging basket for example,

1688
02:00:15.920 --> 02:00:18.000
which mine are, and let them, drape down as they get long

1689
02:00:18.039 --> 02:00:20.520
again lift them up and put them
through the pot and you can just end

1690
02:00:20.600 --> 02:00:27.239
up with a really nice set of
foliage that looks great. One of my

1691
02:00:27.319 --> 02:00:33.000
daughters actually actually attaches her pothos type
ivy materials to the wall. She has

1692
02:00:33.119 --> 02:00:36.800
these little things you stick on the
wall and you kind of clip the ivy

1693
02:00:36.880 --> 02:00:40.920
vine in there, the pothos vine
in there, and so these things are

1694
02:00:40.960 --> 02:00:44.840
sprawling all over the walls and cross
the ceiling and everything's kind of crazy.

1695
02:00:45.479 --> 02:00:47.640
But that's one fun thing about plants. We can kind of do what we

1696
02:00:47.680 --> 02:00:53.800
want, invent the kinds of stuff
we enjoy messing with. If you're gonna

1697
02:00:53.840 --> 02:00:57.159
do some soil work and you can
get out today and get that done,

1698
02:00:57.600 --> 02:01:00.680
get some fertilizer put down and mix
down if it's needed. The we were

1699
02:01:00.720 --> 02:01:05.680
talking about compost and bed prep and
everything. This just kind of helps settle

1700
02:01:05.680 --> 02:01:11.880
the soil in getting ready for planting
time. One thing that a ninety two

1701
02:01:11.960 --> 02:01:15.760
year old gardener used to always say, mister Alden Colston up in Conroe,

1702
02:01:15.840 --> 02:01:18.800
Texas, he was at the community
garden there. He would always say,

1703
02:01:18.840 --> 02:01:21.720
you can always add water, but
you can't take it away. What he

1704
02:01:21.800 --> 02:01:26.319
meant was, you know, when
it's soggy wet, you just kind of

1705
02:01:26.359 --> 02:01:29.039
stuck. But if it's dry,
you can add water, of course,

1706
02:01:29.039 --> 02:01:31.640
you can water your plants. And
the reason is he would get his beds

1707
02:01:31.680 --> 02:01:36.680
built in the fall for his spring
garden in the community garden, and he

1708
02:01:36.680 --> 02:01:41.640
would get them all built, everything
right whenever he had some reasonably dry weather

1709
02:01:41.720 --> 02:01:45.439
to work with. When spring came, he was ready to plant. And

1710
02:01:45.520 --> 02:01:48.520
it could be it could be too
wet to rod, hotail or spade or

1711
02:01:48.520 --> 02:01:53.840
whatever the soil that his beds were
ready so he could go right in and

1712
02:01:53.840 --> 02:01:57.800
get the planting done. That's a
good advice that would hold for any time

1713
02:01:57.800 --> 02:02:00.840
of the year when you get a
chance to get the all right, get

1714
02:02:00.840 --> 02:02:02.760
this all right, so you're ready
to go. You're ready to plant.

1715
02:02:03.479 --> 02:02:10.479
Just a little tip of advice for
folks that are new to gardening, and

1716
02:02:10.560 --> 02:02:14.600
it would like to have a few
ways to have more success. You know,

1717
02:02:14.640 --> 02:02:17.279
our goal on garden Line is to
help you have success. Uh.

1718
02:02:17.439 --> 02:02:21.319
And and when you call in or
when you just listen to other people's calls,

1719
02:02:23.039 --> 02:02:26.319
you get little tips here and there, little things to avoid, little

1720
02:02:26.319 --> 02:02:30.119
things to do. Uh. And
you start to accumulate those over time,

1721
02:02:30.560 --> 02:02:32.079
and you just become a better and
better gardener. The way I like to

1722
02:02:32.119 --> 02:02:36.079
put it as your thumb becomes greener. People say they have a brown thumb.

1723
02:02:36.239 --> 02:02:41.239
You don't have a brown thumb.
You have an uninformed thumb. And

1724
02:02:41.399 --> 02:02:44.359
information will turn that thumb green,
if you want to think of it that

1725
02:02:44.399 --> 02:02:46.279
way. And that's what we're here
all about. If you'd like to give

1726
02:02:46.319 --> 02:02:50.479
us a call, our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty

1727
02:02:50.560 --> 02:02:55.399
eight seventy four. We're about to
well, we are in our last hour

1728
02:02:55.680 --> 02:02:59.680
of the weekend here on garden Line. We're here every Saturday and every Sunday

1729
02:02:59.680 --> 02:03:03.319
from six am to ten am both
days for you to call in ask your

1730
02:03:03.520 --> 02:03:08.960
gardening questions. So we're about to
be hold up here for the week with

1731
02:03:09.079 --> 02:03:11.760
rain, and I'll be back again
next Saturday. If you got friends,

1732
02:03:11.800 --> 02:03:14.920
tell them about garden Line. You
can listen live, of course, on

1733
02:03:15.000 --> 02:03:19.079
the air pretty much from Louisiana to
New Bronfels and North and South as well,

1734
02:03:19.600 --> 02:03:27.199
or you can listen online. You
can listen to a podcast if you've

1735
02:03:27.199 --> 02:03:30.920
got a podcasting app, just you
know, tune it to garden Line and

1736
02:03:31.000 --> 02:03:34.000
it'll you can listen to past shows. Maybe you forgot to write down the

1737
02:03:34.079 --> 02:03:39.399
name of a website or a product
or something else that I gave out here

1738
02:03:39.560 --> 02:03:43.279
some event going on. You can
do it that way. You can also

1739
02:03:43.359 --> 02:03:47.279
listen live online on the internet.
So that's just another way. We have

1740
02:03:47.319 --> 02:03:49.800
folks listening from all over and I
always wondering, how do you listen to

1741
02:03:49.840 --> 02:03:55.920
garden Line and Alabama or Porto Rico
for crying out, And that's how they

1742
02:03:55.960 --> 02:03:59.560
do it. That's how you can
do it too. We're glad you're listening

1743
02:03:59.560 --> 02:04:02.399
today. So I'm going to be
talking a lot about a lot of different

1744
02:04:02.399 --> 02:04:05.159
things right now. I just want
to make a few more comments about trees.

1745
02:04:05.520 --> 02:04:09.560
Trees are the most valuable part of
our landscape when it comes to what

1746
02:04:09.640 --> 02:04:12.640
does it add to the value of
your house? How does it help with

1747
02:04:12.680 --> 02:04:15.279
shade, How does it make your
outdoor living more comfortable in the summertime,

1748
02:04:15.520 --> 02:04:19.520
how does it protect or how does
it help with your your heating cooling bills?

1749
02:04:19.560 --> 02:04:23.880
For example? Trees can help with
that. And Martin spoon Moore an

1750
02:04:23.920 --> 02:04:27.840
affordable tree. He's an expert in
getting this done. Martin's been doing this

1751
02:04:27.920 --> 02:04:30.920
a long time, a very long
time. He knows what he's doing.

1752
02:04:30.560 --> 02:04:33.920
There's a reason that Martin stays busy, and that's because when you do a

1753
02:04:34.039 --> 02:04:39.600
job right, people hire you.
The word gets around, it builds up.

1754
02:04:40.359 --> 02:04:43.680
You know, in a business you
never have It's never a good long

1755
02:04:43.800 --> 02:04:47.199
term strategy to cut corners. It's
just not. And with Affordable Tree,

1756
02:04:47.760 --> 02:04:50.199
Martin knows how to take care of
your trees. He can advise you,

1757
02:04:50.239 --> 02:04:53.600
can come out and advise you.
He can come out and do pruning.

1758
02:04:53.880 --> 02:04:55.880
He can eat a planet a tree
if you need him to, or tell

1759
02:04:55.920 --> 02:04:58.680
you what kinds of plant. If
you're about to do a trench or if

1760
02:04:58.680 --> 02:05:01.279
you're about to put some kind of
a concrete slab over the soil around the

1761
02:05:01.359 --> 02:05:04.600
tree's roots, call him first.
Let him come out and do that.

1762
02:05:04.680 --> 02:05:10.560
In the summertime, he's doing deep
root watering to help during those extended drafts

1763
02:05:10.600 --> 02:05:16.039
that we're dealing with. Af aff
Tree Service dot com. Aff Tree Service

1764
02:05:16.079 --> 02:05:20.720
dot Com seven one three six nine
nine six sixty three. That's the phone

1765
02:05:20.800 --> 02:05:25.279
number to give him a call.
Hey, don't delay, He says,

1766
02:05:25.359 --> 02:05:27.840
very busy right now. I don't
know how he's getting it all done.

1767
02:05:27.880 --> 02:05:30.600
I mean, lots of pruning going
on lots of things like that. Call

1768
02:05:30.680 --> 02:05:33.359
him, tell him your guardline listener
that gets you to the front of the

1769
02:05:33.399 --> 02:05:36.439
line for a thing. You know, wherever there's space that hadn't already been

1770
02:05:36.479 --> 02:05:41.640
booked, and let him know that. And that's important to let him know

1771
02:05:41.760 --> 02:05:45.439
too. Just do that and get
him out there to take a look at

1772
02:05:45.439 --> 02:05:48.920
your trees. Trees are valuable and
don't cut corners when it comes to trees.

1773
02:05:49.359 --> 02:05:53.520
When you make a mistake when you
hire the guy that owns a business

1774
02:05:53.520 --> 02:05:56.960
card, has a business card,
a pickup in a chainsaw I call it

1775
02:05:57.000 --> 02:06:00.800
the two jerks on a chainsaw tree
service. To come out and just go

1776
02:06:00.920 --> 02:06:03.800
after your trees, you're gonna end
up with hat racks and a mess that

1777
02:06:03.960 --> 02:06:10.159
forever marred and ruined the structure and
strength and stability and everything of that tree.

1778
02:06:10.640 --> 02:06:13.920
Don't do that. Don't let anybody
touch your trees that doesn't know what

1779
02:06:13.920 --> 02:06:16.760
they're doing. Let's go out to
the galleria. We're gonna talk to Chip.

1780
02:06:16.760 --> 02:06:19.800
Hey, Chip, I've taken this
call with about twenty seconds, so

1781
02:06:20.079 --> 02:06:23.920
let me get the question in and
then we'll take a break and I'll be

1782
02:06:24.000 --> 02:06:27.119
right back. Hey, I appreciate
it. Love the show. Hey,

1783
02:06:27.199 --> 02:06:30.720
we so we're building a backyard garden, and in essence, we're going to

1784
02:06:30.119 --> 02:06:36.439
be raised beds. And where best
would you suggest to get the seeds and

1785
02:06:36.680 --> 02:06:42.840
or young plants that would be planted
in there that's going to be grown correctly.

1786
02:06:42.920 --> 02:06:45.479
And then the tropicals when do we
plant them? And where do you

1787
02:06:45.520 --> 02:06:47.399
get them? All right, that's
all good. Let me let me come

1788
02:06:47.399 --> 02:06:49.720
back so I can devote some time
to that. Thank you. Just hang

1789
02:06:49.760 --> 02:06:54.279
on a little bit here and I
will come right back with your answers.

1790
02:06:54.640 --> 02:06:58.720
Well, it's time for a break. Seven one three, eight seventy four.

1791
02:07:00.319 --> 02:07:03.279
Well, we're about to good,
call Josh. We are about to

1792
02:07:03.319 --> 02:07:06.039
see the rain. Hey, you're
listening to garden Line. Our number is

1793
02:07:06.039 --> 02:07:11.199
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. We're gonna head back

1794
02:07:11.199 --> 02:07:14.840
out to the galleria and talk to
Chill. Hey, Chip, what what

1795
02:07:14.920 --> 02:07:17.159
are you wanting to grow in those
beds? We don't have vegetables or flowers

1796
02:07:17.239 --> 02:07:21.279
or what or what you know,
it's gonna be a vegetable and kind of

1797
02:07:21.479 --> 02:07:28.359
a family of four. So there's
enough land that gives it some good sunlight

1798
02:07:29.000 --> 02:07:33.399
and they're just gonna basically steak off
and and we're gonna build a set of

1799
02:07:33.520 --> 02:07:38.359
raised beds, and I've been kind
of researching it to see, you know,

1800
02:07:38.439 --> 02:07:45.359
potatoes, cucumbers, edibles, basically
little row of lemons and say limes

1801
02:07:45.439 --> 02:07:47.880
on the outer. And then you
do have a real big back fence,

1802
02:07:47.920 --> 02:07:51.800
and we're trying to figure out how
to populate that back fence in some sort

1803
02:07:51.800 --> 02:07:55.880
of artistic way. Okay, you
know, because it's over there, you

1804
02:07:55.960 --> 02:07:59.560
know what I mean. So we
yeah, hey, well, good idea.

1805
02:07:59.600 --> 02:08:03.159
Well, you've got several places they're
kind of close to you. Down

1806
02:08:03.399 --> 02:08:09.239
on Bissonette and Runwick. You've got
a Southwest Fertilizer which is down in the

1807
02:08:09.279 --> 02:08:11.800
Belly area that's real close to you. Up in the Heights, you've got

1808
02:08:13.079 --> 02:08:16.479
Buchanans Nursery, and they're going to
both of those places. Is going to

1809
02:08:16.560 --> 02:08:20.279
have the fertilizers and the soil bags
and things like that. I don't know

1810
02:08:20.279 --> 02:08:22.800
if you're going to bulk bring in
soil or if you're going to get it

1811
02:08:22.800 --> 02:08:26.039
by the bag, but if it's
bags, they're going to have it.

1812
02:08:26.720 --> 02:08:31.800
Up in the up in North Central, just a little to the east of

1813
02:08:31.960 --> 02:08:35.600
Buchanans, you've got quality feed and
they have a great supply of seed.

1814
02:08:35.640 --> 02:08:41.359
They have actually an antique seed rack
from the nineteen twenties. It's stocked with

1815
02:08:41.439 --> 02:08:46.560
heirloom seeds. So those are all
options for you on all those kind of

1816
02:08:46.600 --> 02:08:50.479
basic supplies. And where sir,
would you get the actual plants themselves?

1817
02:08:50.479 --> 02:08:52.600
And when would you put them in
the ground. Let's say, I mean

1818
02:08:52.680 --> 02:08:56.439
it's a little cold this last weekend, but you know, I think we're

1819
02:08:56.479 --> 02:09:01.439
almost over it, right, you
know, get the soil right, and

1820
02:09:01.079 --> 02:09:07.920
where would you source the actual you
know, fifty five gallon the big boys

1821
02:09:09.039 --> 02:09:15.399
that might come in in the back, say row of setting in your garden,

1822
02:09:15.479 --> 02:09:20.640
well rather than watching it grow right
right? Well, you know the

1823
02:09:20.960 --> 02:09:24.119
place I mentioned are both going to
have the soils and the seeds for example,

1824
02:09:24.399 --> 02:09:28.159
and all of them will carry some
plants, especially what we call betting

1825
02:09:28.159 --> 02:09:31.720
plants, the little annuals you put
in. But Buananan's is going to have

1826
02:09:31.760 --> 02:09:35.159
the biggest selection of those. And
if you're looking for citrus for example,

1827
02:09:35.359 --> 02:09:39.720
and stuff, Buchanans is the closest
to you to be able to get those

1828
02:09:39.800 --> 02:09:43.319
kinds of things. And if you're
willing to drive a distance, there's lots

1829
02:09:43.359 --> 02:09:48.560
of great places all over, but
I think as far as somewhat nearby those

1830
02:09:48.800 --> 02:09:52.159
Have you been to Buchanans before.
I have not been to Buchanans. I've

1831
02:09:52.159 --> 02:09:56.680
been to Southwest and others. Yeah, yeah, good, good. Well

1832
02:09:56.720 --> 02:10:00.439
you know how great Southwest is for
supplies all kinds of things. You need

1833
02:10:00.479 --> 02:10:03.199
to go to Buchanans. Check them
out. Maybe this afternoon you get chess.

1834
02:10:03.279 --> 02:10:05.319
Get out there where all this rain
gets going. Uh, and just

1835
02:10:05.399 --> 02:10:09.600
see what I'm talking about. I
mean a wide, wide variety. And

1836
02:10:09.680 --> 02:10:13.279
they always have a good selection of
for trees too that they bring in for

1837
02:10:13.760 --> 02:10:18.239
planting. Oh good, very good. That's what I needed to hear.

1838
02:10:18.399 --> 02:10:20.560
I appreciate the show. All right, hey man, thank you sure,

1839
02:10:20.680 --> 02:10:26.000
thanks for the jail take care.
Yeah, you know, we're fortunate here

1840
02:10:26.039 --> 02:10:28.760
in Houston. I've said this before, but we're fortunate here in Houston to

1841
02:10:28.920 --> 02:10:35.479
have just an unbelievable group of garden
centers and soul suppliers. Really. Uh,

1842
02:10:35.680 --> 02:10:41.319
if you're looking for plants that people
in a lot of big cities cannot

1843
02:10:41.319 --> 02:10:45.479
get, especially outside the big city, uh, you got it here.

1844
02:10:45.760 --> 02:10:48.439
You're fortunate. If you're looking for
quality source, listen, I have been

1845
02:10:48.880 --> 02:10:52.640
I've lived in a lot of different
areas and I've seen a lot of different

1846
02:10:52.720 --> 02:10:58.600
kinds of soil yards and to have
places that produce quality mix that is not

1847
02:10:58.640 --> 02:11:03.199
to be taken for granted, because
as I keep saying, that's the most

1848
02:11:03.199 --> 02:11:07.279
important thing in success with plants is
to have a good mix. We got

1849
02:11:07.279 --> 02:11:09.680
it all here, So you're fortunate, North, South, East, and

1850
02:11:09.720 --> 02:11:13.960
West. I just I love to
get out and just go visit them just

1851
02:11:13.000 --> 02:11:16.640
to see what's new. Because if
there is some new exciting thing on the

1852
02:11:16.640 --> 02:11:20.039
market, they're going to have it. And every time I go to one

1853
02:11:20.079 --> 02:11:24.079
of our real great mom and pop
local garden centers, I walk through and

1854
02:11:24.119 --> 02:11:28.199
they'd be like, what's that.
I haven't seen that herb before, And

1855
02:11:28.239 --> 02:11:31.840
you know, go look at it
and read about it and learn something about

1856
02:11:31.840 --> 02:11:35.720
it. That's the cool stuff.
Real fortunate to have that. Hey,

1857
02:11:35.760 --> 02:11:37.840
our phone number if you'd like to
give us a call. This is the

1858
02:11:37.960 --> 02:11:41.600
last forty minutes of garden Line for
this weekend. Seven one three two one

1859
02:11:41.680 --> 02:11:48.359
two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1860
02:11:50.039 --> 02:11:54.880
He mentioned Southwest Fertilizer and Southwest Fertilizer
has got let me put it this

1861
02:11:54.960 --> 02:11:58.359
way, I like to say this
it they don't have it, you don't

1862
02:11:58.399 --> 02:12:03.119
need it. And I mean that. I mean, is it a fertilizer

1863
02:12:03.119 --> 02:12:05.680
that I recommend on garden line,
They've got it. And more. Is

1864
02:12:05.680 --> 02:12:09.359
it a soil type, you know, a quality bag of a quality soil

1865
02:12:09.399 --> 02:12:13.640
mix or potting mult or something,
They've got it. Do you need something

1866
02:12:13.680 --> 02:12:18.680
to control insects or diseases or weeds, They've got it. They have a

1867
02:12:18.800 --> 02:12:24.159
wider variety than anybody I know.
They've got synthetic, they've got organic.

1868
02:12:24.239 --> 02:12:26.600
So whichever way you want to go, they got you covered there. They've

1869
02:12:26.600 --> 02:12:31.439
got plenty of tools if you need
to get you know, your small engine

1870
02:12:31.439 --> 02:12:35.560
equipment, something sharpened or tuned up
or whatever kinds of things. They're set

1871
02:12:35.640 --> 02:12:39.640
up for all of that. And
Southwest is a one stop shop. And

1872
02:12:39.680 --> 02:12:41.479
you're not going to go in there
and then tell you, well, we

1873
02:12:41.520 --> 02:12:45.600
don't have one of those. If
you've got a problem, take a picture,

1874
02:12:45.720 --> 02:12:48.520
take a simple They're experts at that, they know what they're talking about.

1875
02:12:48.960 --> 02:12:52.159
And you know I bragged on our
garden centers. I'll say the same

1876
02:12:52.199 --> 02:12:58.479
thing here. Knowledgeable staff, knowledgeable
staff, friendly staff, helpful people.

1877
02:12:58.560 --> 02:13:01.840
That kind of service may be that
you thought was long gone it's not.

1878
02:13:01.640 --> 02:13:05.439
It's not here in the Houston area, and it's certainly not when it comes

1879
02:13:05.479 --> 02:13:11.920
to Southwest Fertilizer. There are phone
number seven one three six six six one

1880
02:13:11.239 --> 02:13:18.800
seven four four, or just go
to Southwest Fertilizer dot com. I always

1881
02:13:18.880 --> 02:13:22.880
like to go in there. We've
talked about a lot of different things related

1882
02:13:22.880 --> 02:13:26.239
to gardening today. I haven't really
mentioned much about herbs, but I think

1883
02:13:26.279 --> 02:13:31.479
that if you're a vegetable gardener,
if you're a flower gardener flower beds,

1884
02:13:31.159 --> 02:13:35.880
you need to think about herbs too. And here's why herbs. Yes,

1885
02:13:37.000 --> 02:13:41.039
we grow them primarily. The reason
people grow herbs is for culinary and absolutely

1886
02:13:41.159 --> 02:13:45.880
fresh herbs. Yeah, we were
over the holidays, you know, we

1887
02:13:45.920 --> 02:13:48.880
were cooking at the house. The
kids are in and stuff, and to

1888
02:13:48.920 --> 02:13:52.239
be able to walk out and grab
a sprig or rosemary or something and just

1889
02:13:52.279 --> 02:13:56.319
bring it in and go right to
cooking with it. That's cool, that's

1890
02:13:56.359 --> 02:14:03.159
fun. But herbs are also ornamental. The rosemary I just mentioned it makes

1891
02:14:03.199 --> 02:14:05.119
a beautiful little evergreen bush. If
you give a good drainage, it does

1892
02:14:05.159 --> 02:14:09.960
well here. What about a groundcover? Have you thought about time or you

1893
02:14:11.039 --> 02:14:15.840
thought about oregano? For example,
those are just two examples of herbs that

1894
02:14:15.880 --> 02:14:20.199
make good groundcovers. We got herbs
that bloom like chives. A row of

1895
02:14:20.239 --> 02:14:24.479
chives down a walkway looks sort of
like kind of ape, a skinny leaf

1896
02:14:24.560 --> 02:14:28.720
lariope. I guess if you want
to use your imagination, but then it

1897
02:14:28.760 --> 02:14:33.560
sends up these blooms that pollinators just
love. I've got onion chives and garlic

1898
02:14:33.680 --> 02:14:37.840
chives, and we just love those
things. Lots of good herbs to grow.

1899
02:14:37.319 --> 02:14:43.439
Some are very ornamental pineapple sage.
It's a type of salvia blooms primarily

1900
02:14:43.439 --> 02:14:50.560
in later summer in the fall,
big long or skinny, tubular red blooms

1901
02:14:50.560 --> 02:14:52.960
that hummingbirds just love. It has
a pineapple like fragrance to it, but

1902
02:14:54.000 --> 02:14:58.640
it's also a beautiful ornamental. So
think about herbs this year. You could

1903
02:14:58.680 --> 02:15:01.680
do it just in a pot,
or you could use them in your landscape.

1904
02:15:01.720 --> 02:15:05.720
I like at the end of my
vegetable rows to plant some herbs,

1905
02:15:05.079 --> 02:15:09.680
especially the ones that bloom, to
help support pollinators, because that's one of

1906
02:15:09.680 --> 02:15:13.560
the things that herbs will do.
And hey, we need more pollinators attracted

1907
02:15:13.600 --> 02:15:18.760
to our gardens and supported by our
gardens. Well there you go. Let's

1908
02:15:18.760 --> 02:15:20.720
head out to Baytown and we're going
to talk to BJ. Hey, BJ

1909
02:15:22.159 --> 02:15:28.159
Hi. I was wondering, I
understand that gravel is not very well for

1910
02:15:28.640 --> 02:15:31.560
when you read pot of plants to
put in the bottom of your pint of

1911
02:15:31.680 --> 02:15:35.600
for drainage, would lava rock work? No, you don't want to use

1912
02:15:35.680 --> 02:15:39.359
either of those. Fast answer,
you don't need it. You don't need

1913
02:15:39.359 --> 02:15:45.119
it. If your if your pot
has adequate holes for drainage, you don't

1914
02:15:45.119 --> 02:15:48.319
need them. What I will do
at the bottom is I'll put Sometimes I

1915
02:15:48.439 --> 02:15:54.479
use that little uh screen fabric,
you know, not the metal window screens.

1916
02:15:54.520 --> 02:15:58.039
But then I don't know if I
don't know what they're made out of.

1917
02:15:58.319 --> 02:16:01.239
I'll cut a setting in. Yeah, I'll cut a little circle the

1918
02:16:01.239 --> 02:16:03.439
size of the bottom of the pot
and drop it in there, and the

1919
02:16:03.520 --> 02:16:07.560
soil doesn't wash out. Another thing
I do is I'll put coffee filters,

1920
02:16:07.640 --> 02:16:11.960
a couple of coffee filters in the
bottom that holds the soil and after it

1921
02:16:13.119 --> 02:16:16.520
kind of sets up, the coffee
filter is going to ride away, but

1922
02:16:16.760 --> 02:16:20.239
it holds the soil in and it
sets up and it doesn't wash out as

1923
02:16:20.239 --> 02:16:22.000
well. Here's what you do.
If you put the if you put gravel

1924
02:16:22.119 --> 02:16:26.520
or other things like lava rock.
In What you're doing is you're reducing the

1925
02:16:26.560 --> 02:16:31.800
amount of growing mix that that pot
can hold. And we need every bit

1926
02:16:31.880 --> 02:16:35.680
we can to get through soil to
get through heat, you know. And

1927
02:16:35.799 --> 02:16:39.680
it doesn't improve drainage. I guess
sometime I'll drone on have time probably today

1928
02:16:39.719 --> 02:16:45.600
to do much of it on but
just trust me, gravel does not improve

1929
02:16:45.680 --> 02:16:50.360
drainage. And either do styrofoam,
peanuts or broken pot shards or lava rock.

1930
02:16:50.360 --> 02:16:54.520
Okay, thank you so much,
dear. I appreciate it. Hey,

1931
02:16:54.799 --> 02:16:58.479
good luck. Thanks for the call. Appreciate it. I'm glad you

1932
02:16:58.559 --> 02:17:03.159
called because I I really do appreciate
those kind of questions. That is one,

1933
02:17:03.360 --> 02:17:07.920
there are a lot of myths in
gardening. In fact, one day,

1934
02:17:09.319 --> 02:17:13.719
one weekend, I should just do
gardening myths one at a time and

1935
02:17:13.760 --> 02:17:18.360
go through them, because these do
not die. They just keep going on

1936
02:17:18.479 --> 02:17:24.600
and on and on. So I
would tell you that don't put stuff in

1937
02:17:24.680 --> 02:17:30.239
the pots for drainage. It doesn't
work. And here's why water moves from

1938
02:17:30.680 --> 02:17:37.000
large particle size towards smaller particle size. Capillar reaction draws it. If you

1939
02:17:37.040 --> 02:17:41.639
want an example, put a little
puddle of water on your counter and take

1940
02:17:41.680 --> 02:17:45.600
a paper towel and put the corner
down in the puddle. And where does

1941
02:17:45.600 --> 02:17:52.799
the water go up? Away from
gravity? Right, it goes uphill because

1942
02:17:52.799 --> 02:17:56.680
of the particle side called the fibers
in the paper towel, it pulls it

1943
02:17:56.799 --> 02:18:00.399
up. So when you have a
good potting soil and then you got better

1944
02:18:00.440 --> 02:18:05.479
gravel underneath it. The only way
water gets in the gravel is when there's

1945
02:18:05.559 --> 02:18:09.680
so much of a water column in
that potting soil that it literally drips out

1946
02:18:09.760 --> 02:18:13.840
of the soil into the bottom.
So the bottom layer of your soil in

1947
02:18:13.879 --> 02:18:16.799
that pot we grovel in, the
bottom is soppy, saturated, wet,

1948
02:18:16.920 --> 02:18:20.600
and water by gravity falls out of
it. If you just fill the whole

1949
02:18:20.639 --> 02:18:24.719
pot with water, the bottom layer
is always going to be soppy, wet,

1950
02:18:24.840 --> 02:18:26.239
and it's going to drip out the
holes of the pot. But you

1951
02:18:26.319 --> 02:18:31.680
have more soil, and here in
Texas we need bigger containers. We need

1952
02:18:31.760 --> 02:18:37.399
more soil for our roots to supply
water through the course of a very hot

1953
02:18:37.479 --> 02:18:43.319
day, to supply nutrients, more
nutrient room for more room for roots to

1954
02:18:43.440 --> 02:18:48.520
reach all kinds of nutrients in the
soil. It you know, I can

1955
02:18:48.639 --> 02:18:50.600
just drone about the physics of it, but just trust me on this one.

1956
02:18:50.680 --> 02:18:56.479
It does not improve drainage. It
does reduce the available amount of soil.

1957
02:18:56.719 --> 02:19:01.000
And all you do is you move
the wet spot, the soggy spot

1958
02:19:01.040 --> 02:19:03.159
at the bottom of your potting soil
in the pot. You just move it

1959
02:19:03.280 --> 02:19:07.879
up and instead of having root zone, now you have a bunch of air

1960
02:19:07.040 --> 02:19:11.319
and gravel in the bottom and you've
lost the use of that area. So

1961
02:19:11.360 --> 02:19:13.959
that's my fast answer. One very
fast. But anyway, that's my answer.

1962
02:19:15.360 --> 02:19:20.319
That's why I would recommend that you
not do that. Please please don't

1963
02:19:20.360 --> 02:19:22.360
do that. But yeah, the
tip about a window screen just to keep

1964
02:19:22.360 --> 02:19:26.200
the soil in that works really really
well. I've used. I've also used,

1965
02:19:26.239 --> 02:19:31.760
like some gardeners by the Organza bags
to slip over fruit to protect them

1966
02:19:31.799 --> 02:19:37.520
against pest. Organzo works really well. It's a synthetic fiber. Put it

1967
02:19:37.559 --> 02:19:39.159
in the bottom of the pot over
the whole works just fine. Did one

1968
02:19:39.200 --> 02:19:43.840
the other day, just like that. I've also used the coffee filters.

1969
02:19:43.879 --> 02:19:48.079
They do decompose away. But that's
just another thing that you can do as

1970
02:19:48.120 --> 02:19:52.959
an option. Free tips from garden
Line. You heard it. I don't

1971
02:19:52.959 --> 02:19:54.840
know if you heard it first here, but you heard it here. Just

1972
02:19:54.879 --> 02:20:00.479
something to think about. Hey,
I want to remind you again that the

1973
02:20:00.719 --> 02:20:07.280
Organic Science Day event by OBA the
Organic Horticulture of Benefits Alliance is going to

1974
02:20:07.319 --> 02:20:11.200
be this Friday, January twenty sixth
from eight am to three thirty pm at

1975
02:20:11.200 --> 02:20:15.680
the United Way. So what is
this event. This is an event that

1976
02:20:15.719 --> 02:20:20.079
brings in some of the best speakers
that you can get on all aspects of

1977
02:20:20.159 --> 02:20:24.479
gardening and organic horticulture. They're going
to have a number of speakers. I

1978
02:20:24.479 --> 02:20:28.879
think the keynote guy is Jeff Loenfellows. He's the author of a number of

1979
02:20:28.879 --> 02:20:33.399
books like Teaming with Microbes, Teaming
with Bacteria, Teaming with Fungi, Teaming

1980
02:20:33.440 --> 02:20:37.280
with the Nutrients. And you hear
me droning on about soil. He'll take

1981
02:20:37.280 --> 02:20:39.920
it down to the level of the
microbes and talk all about what's going on

1982
02:20:41.000 --> 02:20:45.399
in the soil and how these are
helping. This is again eight am to

1983
02:20:45.479 --> 02:20:46.959
three point thirty. If you want
to go, you got a register.

1984
02:20:48.079 --> 02:20:52.680
There's a cost to this because you're
getting incredible speakers, You're getting a whole

1985
02:20:52.719 --> 02:20:56.120
day full of it. You even
get you even get the lunch. They

1986
02:20:56.159 --> 02:21:01.799
always have a good healthy lunch there
as well. Go to o HbA online

1987
02:21:03.200 --> 02:21:11.719
dot org slash register OHBA online dot
org slash register to sign up. I'll

1988
02:21:11.719 --> 02:21:13.680
see you there this Friday, if
you show up Friday the twenty six from

1989
02:21:13.719 --> 02:21:18.360
eight am to three thirty pm.
Well, now it's time for Nicky in

1990
02:21:18.399 --> 02:21:24.079
the news. We're gonna see if
there's been any movement on that Texans school

1991
02:21:24.159 --> 02:21:26.040
texts school. I can't get over
that man, and I can't get over

1992
02:21:26.079 --> 02:21:35.360
at Niki. We'll see. Welcome
back to Guardline. We are glad you're

1993
02:21:35.360 --> 02:21:37.840
listening today, and we're talking about
all kinds of things horticulture. In fact,

1994
02:21:37.840 --> 02:21:41.120
we talk about what you're interested in
when you make a phone call.

1995
02:21:41.559 --> 02:21:48.239
That's what we talk about. Five
excuse me seven one three two one two

1996
02:21:48.319 --> 02:21:52.520
five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1997
02:21:52.520 --> 02:21:54.440
If you'd like to be on the
air and visit with me about plants.

1998
02:21:54.680 --> 02:21:58.280
We're going to go straight to Conroe
and talk to Carol. Hello, Carol,

1999
02:22:00.280 --> 02:22:03.559
Hello, I have a question about
all these down trees. Can they

2000
02:22:03.600 --> 02:22:11.680
be shredded or sanded down somehow to
be put into the soil and all that

2001
02:22:11.040 --> 02:22:16.799
just spread it everywhere. Is that
going to help airate and do something with

2002
02:22:16.840 --> 02:22:20.000
them? They're just going to be
burned if we can't figure out something else

2003
02:22:20.040 --> 02:22:22.639
to do with it. Is that
a good thing? Well, you can.

2004
02:22:22.799 --> 02:22:28.040
You can grind them up. There
are machines that can do that.

2005
02:22:28.600 --> 02:22:33.120
If it's just branches. You know
the folks that bring the little trailer around

2006
02:22:33.200 --> 02:22:35.879
with the truck and they grind them
and blow them into the back of the

2007
02:22:35.879 --> 02:22:41.280
truck. That's one level. Another
level would be having them go to a

2008
02:22:41.399 --> 02:22:46.440
soil yard one of our accomplished producers
that puts them in. These giant machines

2009
02:22:46.479 --> 02:22:50.200
that can even take tree trunks and
grind them up. Uh, And then

2010
02:22:50.360 --> 02:22:54.680
the stumps themselves. Stump grinders can
do that. Chips are helpful. I

2011
02:22:54.680 --> 02:22:58.639
wouldn't put the material directly into the
soil. I would put them on the

2012
02:22:58.639 --> 02:23:03.799
surface as a mulch. That's it's
primary best use. It's not practical to

2013
02:23:03.799 --> 02:23:07.280
get it all down in the soil, and big chunks of wood that haven't

2014
02:23:07.280 --> 02:23:13.120
been decomposed really aren't the best thing
to add directly to the soil in mass

2015
02:23:13.360 --> 02:23:18.200
amounts. All right, So do
you just call one of these places and

2016
02:23:18.239 --> 02:23:20.120
see I got trees down and they
come and get them or do I haul

2017
02:23:20.159 --> 02:23:22.440
them there? And they yeah,
you would have to haul down and then

2018
02:23:22.479 --> 02:23:26.120
I bring them back to my house. Right. Well, you're in Conros,

2019
02:23:26.200 --> 02:23:30.840
so you got Nature's Way, which
is right where fourteen eighty eight comes

2020
02:23:30.840 --> 02:23:35.879
into forty five across the railroad tracks. You could call them and ask them.

2021
02:23:35.559 --> 02:23:39.159
They don't go get trees. To
my knowledge, I'm almost sure they

2022
02:23:39.200 --> 02:23:45.360
don't, but like landscapers will bring
greenways down and things like that for them

2023
02:23:45.399 --> 02:23:50.120
to grind up and use. So
that would be one option. Are we

2024
02:23:50.120 --> 02:23:54.239
talking about a whole bunch of trees, Well, there's just yeah, there's

2025
02:23:54.280 --> 02:23:56.040
several several and rather than just burn
them, I thought, well, why

2026
02:23:56.079 --> 02:24:01.159
wouldn't that be organic material? It
could be yeah, of recycled in some

2027
02:24:01.239 --> 02:24:05.280
way here on the property. Yeah, that rent a machine that would break

2028
02:24:05.319 --> 02:24:07.920
it down to you know, chop
it up so that it would fit in

2029
02:24:07.959 --> 02:24:11.760
there. But we were just trying
to do something other than burn it.

2030
02:24:11.239 --> 02:24:15.520
Yeah, not really. With the
trunks, that's going to be a lot

2031
02:24:15.520 --> 02:24:18.920
of labor cutting it up and getting
it in the place to haul over and

2032
02:24:18.959 --> 02:24:22.680
stuff. There are companies, there
are land clearing companies that will come in

2033
02:24:22.840 --> 02:24:26.639
and aside from the logs, they
will take all the branches and everything and

2034
02:24:26.680 --> 02:24:33.040
they just run over it. It's
almost like, oh gosh, I was

2035
02:24:33.079 --> 02:24:37.079
going to say lawnmar but the blade
doesn't go sideways. It just is like

2036
02:24:37.200 --> 02:24:41.479
a rototiller. Think of a rototiller, but with big giant blades that chop

2037
02:24:41.559 --> 02:24:46.399
up trees and they just mow over
the drop limbs and things. They shred

2038
02:24:46.479 --> 02:24:48.200
it all and leave it on the
surface as a mulch. And that's actually

2039
02:24:48.280 --> 02:24:54.680
very good for a forested area,
you know, to do that. Okay,

2040
02:24:54.840 --> 02:24:56.399
okay, all right, I'm look
into those. Thank you, all

2041
02:24:56.479 --> 02:25:01.079
right, Thank you, Carol.
Appreciate the call very much. We're going

2042
02:25:01.120 --> 02:25:05.559
to head out now to Jeff.
Hello, Jeff, Hello, Skip,

2043
02:25:05.600 --> 02:25:09.280
how are you. I'm doing good? What's up? Good? Listen?

2044
02:25:09.319 --> 02:25:13.479
Earlier you were talking about with the
gentleman that was looking for seeds and things

2045
02:25:13.559 --> 02:25:22.719
like that. Yes, you mentioned
a feed store seed store in near Buchanans.

2046
02:25:22.079 --> 02:25:28.840
Yes, that's Quality Feed Quality Feed
Quality Feed. Couldn't find it on

2047
02:25:28.319 --> 02:25:31.920
Google maps. Okay, well they're
there. They're so like if you take

2048
02:25:33.040 --> 02:25:39.239
forty five and sixty nine and I
ten and six ten and make a box

2049
02:25:39.280 --> 02:25:41.479
out of them. Quality Feeds in
the lower center of that area, just

2050
02:25:41.520 --> 02:25:46.680
above it ten almost due east of
Buchanans as the crow flies. But they're

2051
02:25:46.719 --> 02:25:52.719
on Luzon Street l u z n
uh and it's that old town, old

2052
02:25:52.719 --> 02:25:56.159
time feed store. But they have
a lot of things. They bring plants

2053
02:25:56.159 --> 02:26:01.799
in, they've got soils, they
specialize. It sounds like a good adventure.

2054
02:26:01.959 --> 02:26:03.000
Yeah, it kind of is.
And they got all the products we're

2055
02:26:03.000 --> 02:26:07.000
talking about, kind of like the
old wall bash. Well, yeah,

2056
02:26:07.040 --> 02:26:11.600
I mean that was a good I
remember, that's cool. I've been going

2057
02:26:11.600 --> 02:26:15.799
to Quality Feet since they were in
another location. This is a newer location.

2058
02:26:15.879 --> 02:26:18.799
They've been there a while, but
uh, it's it's it's a good

2059
02:26:18.799 --> 02:26:20.920
stop. And when you're in there, they show me your nineteen twenty three

2060
02:26:22.040 --> 02:26:24.799
seed track. They got this old
seed track from feed store. They put

2061
02:26:24.840 --> 02:26:30.799
their heirloom seeds in cool. All
right, Well, thank you, and

2062
02:26:31.520 --> 02:26:37.040
that's that's all I really needed.
But sorry to hear about Randy. Yes,

2063
02:26:37.399 --> 02:26:41.520
I think I think you've done a
good job of filling the shoes.

2064
02:26:41.680 --> 02:26:46.440
Well, Randy, Randy was a
legend and he held this place down and

2065
02:26:46.520 --> 02:26:50.120
built it for what twenty six twenty
seven years. Yeah, and that was

2066
02:26:50.239 --> 02:26:54.440
I don't know if you know,
Randy and I go back to college days.

2067
02:26:54.440 --> 02:26:58.639
We were in the same dorm together
and really none a long time as

2068
02:26:58.680 --> 02:27:01.840
well. Okay, we're in Moses
Haul up in the north west corner of

2069
02:27:01.920 --> 02:27:05.840
campus where things were a little bit
rowdy up there. We won't talk in

2070
02:27:05.879 --> 02:27:07.879
case I got any kids. Listen, we're not going to talk about that

2071
02:27:07.879 --> 02:27:13.120
anymore though, Randy, you know, hey, that that was the side

2072
02:27:13.120 --> 02:27:18.319
of campus. It was really close
to the Chicken and all that. Yes,

2073
02:27:18.399 --> 02:27:24.879
it was. That's part of was
Yes. Hey, you know those

2074
02:27:24.879 --> 02:27:28.479
are the days before over Dixie Chicken, right man, you can just stumble

2075
02:27:28.520 --> 02:27:33.000
your weight. Well, see there, we were not going to go there.

2076
02:27:33.600 --> 02:27:41.799
Jeff, thanks a lot for the
call boy. That's funny, plausible.

2077
02:27:41.840 --> 02:27:45.719
Deniabilic, thanks Josh, that's oh
gosh. I just tell them I

2078
02:27:45.760 --> 02:27:48.319
was pure as the wind driven snow. I don't know what kind of college

2079
02:27:48.319 --> 02:27:50.760
stories you want to hear, but
I ain't got any. I also joke

2080
02:27:52.479 --> 02:27:54.520
I also, yeah, that's right, I was studying all the time.

2081
02:27:54.639 --> 02:27:56.680
I also joked at Randy and I
gave each other our twenty dollars bill to

2082
02:27:56.760 --> 02:28:01.959
never tell our kids someday about what
was going on? All right, enough

2083
02:28:03.000 --> 02:28:07.879
of that, listen. I haven't
talked a lot about lawns. But even

2084
02:28:07.920 --> 02:28:11.559
though it's a little early for lawns
to wake up and get going, it's

2085
02:28:11.600 --> 02:28:16.879
not too early to use turf star
weedinator. And the reason is turf star

2086
02:28:16.920 --> 02:28:24.399
weedenator is a post emergent broad leaf
weed killer and a furtilisure so that chickweed

2087
02:28:24.719 --> 02:28:31.040
and hind bit and carpet weed and
cleavers are also called velcrow plant. There's

2088
02:28:31.079 --> 02:28:33.520
a lot of those kind of weeds
that are in your lawns. If the

2089
02:28:33.559 --> 02:28:37.520
lawn is thin and sunlight hit the
soil, they're already growing. It's too

2090
02:28:37.600 --> 02:28:41.959
late for a pre emergent. But
when you moisten the lawn with just a

2091
02:28:41.959 --> 02:28:45.559
little water to wet the surface of
the grass and the weeds, and then

2092
02:28:45.600 --> 02:28:48.479
you put down the turf star weedinator, it sticks. Those granules stick to

2093
02:28:48.479 --> 02:28:52.040
the wet weed surfaces, and that's
how it moves in and it takes them

2094
02:28:52.040 --> 02:28:58.360
out. Those weeds in about what
is it, about four to eight weeks

2095
02:28:58.360 --> 02:29:03.520
from now are going to be already
well on their way to blooming and to

2096
02:29:03.639 --> 02:29:07.879
setting seeds. And it's too late
then to do much about them, and

2097
02:29:07.920 --> 02:29:11.120
you've just sentenced yourself to ten times
the weeds, if not more, for

2098
02:29:11.239 --> 02:29:15.000
next year. So by doing the
turf Star, we need her now.

2099
02:29:15.079 --> 02:29:20.600
It's a slow release fertilizer, so
it takes about six weeks after application for

2100
02:29:20.680 --> 02:29:26.799
the ammonium and the urea, the
urea end that product to release UH.

2101
02:29:26.840 --> 02:29:31.479
And then then there's some slowly available
nitrogen water we would call water and soluble

2102
02:29:31.559 --> 02:29:37.479
nitrogen. Then release is slower over
time, and that comes later on when

2103
02:29:37.520 --> 02:29:41.520
the turf is waking up and needs
to do. It's turf Star we donators

2104
02:29:41.559 --> 02:29:46.159
simple as I find it all over
the place from Nelson Products. Well,

2105
02:29:46.159 --> 02:29:48.520
it's time for a break. Here
we go again. We've got one more

2106
02:29:48.520 --> 02:29:52.079
segment left today, if you'd like
to call seven one three two one two

2107
02:29:52.120 --> 02:30:00.440
fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back
to Guarden Line, our last segment of

2108
02:30:00.479 --> 02:30:03.159
the day. We are going to
head out to Spring Branch now and talk

2109
02:30:03.200 --> 02:30:07.200
to Larry. Hello, Larry,
Hey, good morning. Skip. Got

2110
02:30:07.239 --> 02:30:11.760
a question about the weed Nater.
I bought a bag. I want to

2111
02:30:11.799 --> 02:30:15.440
know if it's a good time to
put it down. I'm concerned about all

2112
02:30:15.440 --> 02:30:18.920
the rain coming this week. I
would not do it right before all this

2113
02:30:20.079 --> 02:30:24.559
rain. The end of the week
or whenever this stops. It's still okay,

2114
02:30:24.559 --> 02:30:26.479
time to put out the weed.
Nat the weeds are not going to

2115
02:30:26.479 --> 02:30:30.639
be knee deep out there and it
blooming and everything. Just get it a

2116
02:30:30.639 --> 02:30:33.000
little ahead of time. But yeah, it would be better just to wait

2117
02:30:33.159 --> 02:30:37.600
right before. I don't know what
total of about four inches in some areas,

2118
02:30:37.600 --> 02:30:41.840
it seems to be about an average. That's just too much water.

2119
02:30:41.520 --> 02:30:45.319
So hang on, you good,
you bought it, so you're ready to

2120
02:30:45.399 --> 02:30:48.200
go when you can, But just
hold on. Yeah, I'll start it,

2121
02:30:48.360 --> 02:30:52.639
okay, Thank you so much,
sir. You bet you too,

2122
02:30:52.719 --> 02:30:56.079
Thank you very much. I appreciate
that call. Yeah, you know the

2123
02:30:56.479 --> 02:31:01.760
I know it. Here we go. I know that a lot of people

2124
02:31:01.840 --> 02:31:05.719
like to put out like their fertilizer
before rain, because when you apply fertilizer,

2125
02:31:05.799 --> 02:31:09.840
you want to water it in.
That's good, that's natural. But

2126
02:31:09.920 --> 02:31:13.319
you can't control how much it rains. And so if you're going to get

2127
02:31:13.440 --> 02:31:18.479
a half inch of rain or so, that would be a good time to

2128
02:31:18.520 --> 02:31:20.319
do it. It would wet it
enough to move it down into the soil

2129
02:31:20.360 --> 02:31:24.879
a little bit, even an inch
if it came slow enough to not just

2130
02:31:24.399 --> 02:31:30.440
gully wash an inch in an hour, but it's better to just turn it,

2131
02:31:30.639 --> 02:31:35.040
turn on your sprinklers and water it
in and unless you just know that

2132
02:31:35.079 --> 02:31:39.600
you're not going to get too much
rain, because four inches for an immediately

2133
02:31:39.639 --> 02:31:43.639
available fertilizer. Fertilizers come in different
types of organic and synthetic, of course,

2134
02:31:45.319 --> 02:31:50.479
but among the synthetics there's some that
it's just like putting salt and sugar

2135
02:31:50.479 --> 02:31:52.600
and water. It dissolves and it
goes into solution, and there's a there's

2136
02:31:52.639 --> 02:31:56.280
a purpose and a reason though that
it's very fast acting in everything. But

2137
02:31:56.360 --> 02:32:01.319
those kind can dissolve and you get
you lose a lot to your nutrients when

2138
02:32:01.319 --> 02:32:05.959
we get four inches of rain.
The slow release tend to not do that

2139
02:32:05.600 --> 02:32:11.760
because they release over time. There's
different chemistries that cause them to release slowly,

2140
02:32:13.319 --> 02:32:16.280
but they release over time. But
even then, when you just have

2141
02:32:16.440 --> 02:32:20.559
water sheeting off the lawn, it
can pick up granules and move them a

2142
02:32:20.600 --> 02:32:22.719
little bit, and so I would
just wait, don't do that wrap for

2143
02:32:22.799 --> 02:32:26.920
a rain afterwards, you know it
doesn't take much water just to water mint

2144
02:32:26.920 --> 02:32:30.120
a little bet or maybe you know
you're gonna get a little bit of rain

2145
02:32:30.280 --> 02:32:33.000
just a little, that's fine.
But I wouldn't run out right before.

2146
02:32:33.360 --> 02:32:39.559
And that's true for you know your
vegetable gardens and other things. It's gonna

2147
02:32:39.600 --> 02:32:43.000
be a lot, So just just
hang on, Just hang on, it's

2148
02:32:43.079 --> 02:32:46.479
fine. Go ahead and get them
now, while the supplies are there,

2149
02:32:46.559 --> 02:32:50.079
while you know you're there, you're
shopping doing some other things. Get the

2150
02:32:50.079 --> 02:32:54.040
products you need. That's just fine. In fact, I've got several different

2151
02:32:54.079 --> 02:32:56.440
things in the garage right now that
I'm waiting to put out there. I've

2152
02:32:56.440 --> 02:32:58.799
got them, I'm ready to go. First time I get a whim,

2153
02:33:00.000 --> 02:33:01.040
I don't have to run to the
store and go buy them. I already

2154
02:33:01.079 --> 02:33:03.639
got them, and I can head
out if I got an hour, hour

2155
02:33:03.680 --> 02:33:05.760
and a half time, I can
run out there and get it done,

2156
02:33:05.959 --> 02:33:09.360
be done with it, don't have
to worry about it. So it's always

2157
02:33:09.440 --> 02:33:13.760
good to be prepared. It's also
always good to use your head a little

2158
02:33:13.799 --> 02:33:18.840
bit. I try to do that
myself when I'm going to be doing any

2159
02:33:18.920 --> 02:33:24.920
kind of gardening activities. Just kind
of think through this. One of the

2160
02:33:26.000 --> 02:33:31.719
challenges I like to give people every
year is to try try something new in

2161
02:33:31.840 --> 02:33:35.920
gardening. Try a plant you haven't
grown before. Try a type of gardening

2162
02:33:35.000 --> 02:33:41.159
you haven't done before. Try,
especially with vegetables, Try something you haven't

2163
02:33:41.159 --> 02:33:45.280
eaten before. I don't know why
it is, but the typical Texas vegetable

2164
02:33:45.319 --> 02:33:50.319
garden is going to have the meat
and potatoes. Stuff like potatoes, like

2165
02:33:50.840 --> 02:33:54.319
tomatoes, you know, onions maybe
in it. It's going to have a

2166
02:33:54.319 --> 02:33:58.040
lot of the basics, even broccoli. But there are so many vegetables,

2167
02:33:58.120 --> 02:34:03.479
especially from other cultures, other ethnic
cuisines, that are wonderful. And if

2168
02:34:03.520 --> 02:34:07.000
you get to exploreing, you're going
to find things you like. I remember

2169
02:34:07.000 --> 02:34:11.799
the first time I discovered Backchoi,
it was like, man, this stuff

2170
02:34:11.879 --> 02:34:15.040
is great. There's another one here. This is going to be a little

2171
02:34:15.040 --> 02:34:20.079
hard to find, called chi Jemsi. I'll spell itch c h I j

2172
02:34:20.399 --> 02:34:26.639
I m I s ai. I
believe that try. Baker Creek Seeds sells

2173
02:34:26.680 --> 02:34:30.879
seeds for it. There. It's
a cross between two different Asian vegetables.

2174
02:34:31.200 --> 02:34:33.399
You can buy that cross from other
places. They don't call it Chiamsi,

2175
02:34:33.719 --> 02:34:37.559
but it's very mild. If you
are kind of not a fan of mustard,

2176
02:34:37.639 --> 02:34:43.440
that strong mustard flavor that's present in
a lot of the cruciferous vegetables.

2177
02:34:43.799 --> 02:34:48.719
Chijemasi is very, very flavorful.
Chinese cabbage that is an awesome one.

2178
02:34:50.399 --> 02:34:54.559
I remember doctor Jonovac who's now working
with the gardens out at Rice. He

2179
02:34:54.680 --> 02:35:01.440
was my vegetable professor in college,
and he talked told me about Chinese cab.

2180
02:35:01.479 --> 02:35:07.079
It just many years ago. But
it's like if you imagine a head

2181
02:35:07.079 --> 02:35:11.399
of lettuce and a head of cabbage
something in between. So it's mild enough

2182
02:35:11.440 --> 02:35:16.239
to use as a mix in salads. It's wonderful for stir fry. It's

2183
02:35:16.280 --> 02:35:18.600
just a great vegetable, easy to
grow. Try some things like that.

2184
02:35:18.719 --> 02:35:22.719
I mean I could go on and
on and on and try some different things.

2185
02:35:22.760 --> 02:35:26.639
I remember the first time I decided
to do a hanging tomato plant,

2186
02:35:26.680 --> 02:35:31.120
an upside down tomato. Have y'all
seen those? You can buy little bags

2187
02:35:31.159 --> 02:35:33.520
to grow them in, but you
don't have to. You can get you

2188
02:35:33.559 --> 02:35:35.799
a five gallon bucket. It's already
got a handle on it, and you

2189
02:35:35.920 --> 02:35:39.879
drill a little hole in the bottom
so that you can take your tomato transplant

2190
02:35:39.920 --> 02:35:43.760
and push it up through the hole. If it's coming out a little six

2191
02:35:43.799 --> 02:35:48.760
pack or if it's like a four
inch pot, you just kind of What

2192
02:35:48.799 --> 02:35:54.840
I'll do is I'll wrap the plant
in a like a paper towel, so

2193
02:35:54.920 --> 02:35:58.280
you can create a little tube with
the leaves instead of leaves and branches going

2194
02:35:58.319 --> 02:36:03.239
everywhere, and you just slide it
right down through that hole. If the

2195
02:36:03.319 --> 02:36:07.159
root ball isn't enough to not fall
out of the hole, I've just taken

2196
02:36:07.479 --> 02:36:09.559
like paper towel or something like that
around it, just to kind of create

2197
02:36:09.600 --> 02:36:13.760
a little bit bigger thing there to
hold it, and then fill the pot

2198
02:36:13.799 --> 02:36:16.760
full of potting soil. It helps
to drill a hole or two also in

2199
02:36:16.799 --> 02:36:20.680
the pot, so all the water
didn't have to drain out of that one

2200
02:36:20.760 --> 02:36:22.479
hole. But you don't have to
hang it upside down. I've done that

2201
02:36:22.520 --> 02:36:26.360
before, and it's cool. You
need to do it. I would suggest

2202
02:36:26.399 --> 02:36:31.840
doing it with like a vining type
of a grape or a cherry tomato,

2203
02:36:31.920 --> 02:36:35.479
something with clusters. What will happen
is the vines will hang down, but

2204
02:36:35.479 --> 02:36:37.719
then they'll try to turn and grow
up, because that's how plant tomato plants

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want to grow. And then with
the weight of the fruit, it hangs

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down. But it's quite a conversation
piece. Then in mind, I just

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thought, well, hey, we're
gonna why don't we just do put some

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plants that like to grow together,
like basil. Right when you cook,

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you want pesto, you want tomato
sauce. You so I just put basil

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in the top of it. Coming
out of the top of the bucket,

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you got a water it a lot
that's five gallons doing everything for both plants.

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But it gives the neighbors something to
talk about. And they're already talking

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about you. You know that,
right, They're already talking about you.

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Now they have something else to talk
about. But that's different. Have you

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ever done it? Try it this
year. See how that works. You

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just need to put it in an
area that gets good sunlight. There are

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a thousand other things you could be
doing out in the garden, a lot

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of different things that are different,
that are new that you're trying something new,

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And especially with flowers and the beauty
and cut flowers. Have you ever

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grown cut flowers? Try some zenias
or the Gateway Drug for cut flower growing.

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Everybody can buy zenia seeds, scatter
mouts real easy to do. Sunflowers

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are easy to do, but there's
lots and lots of other flowers you can

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grow for cuts, for making the
indoor vases in your house, making that

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a beautiful area, a nice little
gift when you go visit somebody. So

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think outside the box. Gardening is
fun, and I know we have these

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guidelines, you can call them rules, but don't worry about all the rules,

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the ones that are good horticulture practices. Yes, but it's your place.

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What do you want to grow?
What do you want to eat?

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What do you want to look at? What do you want to try?

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You know you're not going to fail
at gardening. You're only going to give

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up. So don't be afraid to
fail. Try some new things. Our

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garden centers. I promise you every
one of the garden centers I talk about

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on garden Line, North, South, East, West and Central, they

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are going to have something you've never
grown or seen before in the garden center.

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Go try it? Why not?
Why not think outside the box?

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Have I encourage you to do that? I hope? So I'm trying.

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It is fun. Gardening is meant
to be fun. So don't worry about

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well I fail or not. J. C Ralston, North Carolina University,

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North Carolina said to be a good
horticulture, she got to kill a lot

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of plans. Don't be afraid to
kill it. Have fun. Hey,

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we'll be back next week. Thanks
for listening to the Gardenline. Talk to

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you next Saturday. Mm hmm