WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.679 Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 2 00:00:04.679 --> 00:00:20.120 on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with scarre rictor so just watching 3 00:00:20.519 --> 00:00:42.479 as wooing, not a SiO. Good morning. It's a good morning to 4 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:48.359 be inside. You're gardening, amounting to taking care of house plants. I've 5 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:53.240 just got a container the other day and I was on a pot up one 6 00:00:53.240 --> 00:00:57.320 of my house plants. Have several that kind of outgrew their their potner a 7 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:02.159 little stress. Every time I neglect to adam, they pout about it for 8 00:01:02.200 --> 00:01:03.200 a while. So I'm trying to get a little more soil in there. 9 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:07.000 I'm going to bump them up to a larger size. Good activity for indoors 10 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:11.400 on a day like today, it's also a good time to if you want 11 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.799 to start some cuttings or seeds or things like that inside. It's a great 12 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:21.879 time for that. If you haven't ever purchased a little light for seeds starting, 13 00:01:21.920 --> 00:01:23.719 you want to consider doing that. And I realize this isn't the big 14 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:29.599 big seeds starting season. We think of that in late winter, but it's 15 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:33.040 still something you can do all year round, starting new plants, getting them 16 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:36.680 a go in to move them outside. If you have a really bright window, 17 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:40.640 that's good. But you may notice your your plants all lean in or 18 00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:44.959 lean out toward towards the sunlight, and with a good quality light above them, 19 00:01:45.760 --> 00:01:48.159 they just do a whole lot better. Maybe I can talk a little 20 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:51.359 bit more about that in a bit. Our phone number if you'd like to 21 00:01:51.359 --> 00:01:55.959 give us a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, 22 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:00.000 and we're going to go to League City and I believe we're going to talk 23 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:04.480 to John V. Hello John V. Good morning, having another's day, 24 00:02:04.680 --> 00:02:08.599 Rick and all of you. My question this morning is on the ivy that 25 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:13.520 hanks. Let's trying to have a two story house, and so I'd like 26 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:17.680 to hank the ivy and grow the ivy seven different species, but you know, 27 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:22.599 just start out some with flowering, some not. I just asked my 28 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:27.479 questions. Yes, sorry, I'm sorry you're kind of cutting out on me. 29 00:02:29.080 --> 00:02:31.960 The base base of your question. What do you ask? What do 30 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:38.800 you guys vines that we can grow to cover two story house on the brick 31 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:44.439 side, Oh I see, okay, on the outside, okay, Um, 32 00:02:45.879 --> 00:02:50.000 you know the fig ivy has used a lot it's the vine. You'll 33 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:55.000 see it on overpasses, you know, sixteen gallery area. They sometimes will 34 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:59.800 grow that. The problem with it is it's not fully winter hardy, and 35 00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:04.199 we do get some seasons where it comes in and it's just a little too 36 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:07.319 cold for it. But it's beautiful if you have it and a nice low 37 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:12.159 you know, hugs a brick real tightly and attaches to brick real well. 38 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:16.560 I wouldn't use it on on painted wood type surfaces and things, but I'm 39 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:22.319 good for attaching to the brick. There are you know that that's probably the 40 00:03:22.319 --> 00:03:25.520 most common one that you see around here. The other kinds of ivy that 41 00:03:25.639 --> 00:03:29.759 climb or a bit on the vigorous side, but you could use them. 42 00:03:29.759 --> 00:03:31.319 You just have to, you know, trem them a lot. The English 43 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:37.800 ivy. There's several versions of that, and they they can get kind of 44 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:39.919 invasive. You know, they're hard to keep track of if you don't keep 45 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:44.080 an eye on them. So I'm not as I'm not as big about those. 46 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:49.439 Well, thank you so much. You'll have a wonderful day. Well 47 00:03:49.479 --> 00:03:53.360 you too. Thank you appreciate the call. Take care, okay, you 48 00:03:53.439 --> 00:04:00.639 know, the the indoor indoor ivys, that's where my brain went first. 49 00:04:00.159 --> 00:04:04.319 But the indoor ivys, there's so many kinds of them, and they're so 50 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:08.639 easy to grow. I've been talking about houseplants this morning. I'm shifted over 51 00:04:08.680 --> 00:04:14.000 back inside beautiful cut leaves, different you know, you go buy the little 52 00:04:14.039 --> 00:04:17.040 plants are typically salty and a little hanging basket. Sometimes you can buy them 53 00:04:17.040 --> 00:04:21.199 in smaller four inch pots or something. I like those because when you're creating 54 00:04:21.240 --> 00:04:26.040 your own little dish garden, it allows you to get a little bit more 55 00:04:26.079 --> 00:04:30.680 creative. But they're beautiful and they work really well in a basket. Inside. 56 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:34.160 Just have to turn it around because they're constantly want to point toward the 57 00:04:34.199 --> 00:04:39.120 sun. But those are really beautiful. Probably one of the most common, 58 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.720 if not the most common houseplant. It's just the plain pathos that you see 59 00:04:42.720 --> 00:04:46.519 everywhere, with the green leaves with kind of yellow streaking in them. Those 60 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:49.519 are super, super easy to grow. And there's a lot of new types 61 00:04:49.680 --> 00:04:56.720 of it of the pathos, some with white splotched leaves and other versions. 62 00:04:57.040 --> 00:05:00.879 It's kind of cool, kind of cool to try out some different things. 63 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:03.079 And I always when I see a new plant I haven't tried before, well, 64 00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:09.079 when whatever possible, I grab one to add it to collection and learn 65 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:12.800 about it. Sometimes I learn that I don't care for it. But that's 66 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:16.000 okay. Hey, let's go phone number by the way seven one three two 67 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.000 one two five eight seven four. We're gonna go to Jersey Village now and 68 00:05:20.079 --> 00:05:26.439 talk to Marigold. Wello Marigold, good morning, Hello there. How are 69 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:30.519 you? I'm well? Thank you? Yes, um, I have a 70 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:36.439 bit of an unusual problem. During the winter, I cut back my lawn 71 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:46.519 service and but the guy sold rye grass the all over my front yard. 72 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:51.680 So now it's grown up and I had to go all your grass there before. 73 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:57.519 Oh yeah, and I've been in this house for like twenty years and 74 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:00.160 I've never had this. It's not in the backyard. It is only in 75 00:06:00.199 --> 00:06:04.319 the front. And the reason why I know he did it is because right 76 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:11.199 along the property line there's a straight and on all sides. It's not in 77 00:06:11.279 --> 00:06:15.240 my neighbor's yard. It's just in my yard. But it's really full, 78 00:06:15.480 --> 00:06:18.240 and I don't know what to do. I mean, like since it's been 79 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:24.480 raining, it's up to my knees because because the grass grows like it's two 80 00:06:24.600 --> 00:06:30.079 check about an inch to two inches a week, and god, so well, 81 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:36.680 someone mowing it and keeping it mowed down. Yeah he does. I 82 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:41.360 gotta love the yard guys. And he mows it, he comes to. 83 00:06:41.399 --> 00:06:46.920 He mows it every two weeks. Okay, but it's like now it needs 84 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:51.600 to be once a week yea. And yeah, it's so the homeowners Association 85 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:57.639 is on their course. Well, I tell you I that is gonna die 86 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:00.639 down. It's gonna go away. Uh. They It depends on exactly what 87 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:04.560 they used to oversee. There's an annual rye and a perennial rye and off, 88 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:10.199 and people will oversee the blend of the two because each has its advantages. 89 00:07:10.879 --> 00:07:14.000 And if it's an annual, right for sure, I mean the heat 90 00:07:14.120 --> 00:07:15.879 is going to take it out and you may have a few seeds that are 91 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:20.199 left over to sprout next year, but probably not much. But the perennial 92 00:07:20.279 --> 00:07:24.600 rye can be a little more persistent. But even that does not like our 93 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:28.920 blazing summer heat. So I think time is going to be your friend. 94 00:07:29.319 --> 00:07:33.839 There's not a there's not a magic bullet that kills rye grass, but not 95 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:40.319 your sosia grass. And so okay, yeah that's what I was like, 96 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:44.639 Oh my god, if I put it so someone had suggested use it round 97 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:53.480 up on it? Are we killer? Well, don't don't up? Yeah 98 00:07:53.639 --> 00:08:00.399 youki your will Zosia grass with round up? Yeah yeah? And so waited 99 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:09.079 out yeah out doing anything? Cut low, yeah yeah. Cut more often 100 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:13.959 than the schedule you've been on, probably would be helpful, because the Zoysie 101 00:08:15.120 --> 00:08:20.079 is a good tough competitor, and it's better mode lower than Saint Augustine, 102 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:24.920 and it is better mode very regularly with a good sharp mower. Now, 103 00:08:24.920 --> 00:08:28.639 if you're long, if you're long, care guy has a propeller blade mower, 104 00:08:28.920 --> 00:08:33.679 like a probably the standard kind of a mower. Um, you can't 105 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:37.120 get too low because those end up gouging the grass and they're just not made 106 00:08:37.159 --> 00:08:41.519 to cut real low. As you get shorter heights, the little spiral barber 107 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:48.000 pole type called a real mower R E E L. And those types give 108 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:52.120 the best cut when you get on really short. But then the shorter you 109 00:08:52.159 --> 00:08:56.960 mow, the more often you're having to mow to keep to keep it, 110 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:01.600 you know, from getting range looking. Okay, yeah, it's interesting right 111 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.919 now, all right, thank you very much. Well, thanks for the 112 00:09:05.960 --> 00:09:11.039 call. I hope that helps. Let's head out now to spring. Oh 113 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:13.240 mo I'm pulling you up, but I'm gonna put you on hold. I'm 114 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:16.559 just seeing it is break time and so we'll be right back with you. 115 00:09:16.639 --> 00:09:22.200 Just hang on our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 116 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:28.799 four. R CW Nurseries. That's that's the one up there where tom Ball 117 00:09:28.840 --> 00:09:33.679 Parkway comes into Beltway eight. Go online RCW Nurseries dot com. You can 118 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:39.279 find all the information on them there. Boy, the Williamson family has had 119 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:45.320 RCW since nineteen seventy nine, and they know plants. They really specialize. 120 00:09:45.360 --> 00:09:48.480 One of their specialties is in trees. They grow their own trees up to 121 00:09:48.759 --> 00:09:54.320 I think maybe fifteen maybe up to two hundred gallons, so pretty much any 122 00:09:54.360 --> 00:09:58.759 size you would want. They're going to have available unbelievable selection of roses. 123 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:03.240 That alone is just worth a visit. But they go away beyond that, 124 00:10:03.320 --> 00:10:07.799 Herb's perennials, annual shrubs. Our CW Nurseries. Check them out. I 125 00:10:07.840 --> 00:10:26.240 think that you will be very pleased. Our CW Nurseries dot com. The 126 00:10:26.399 --> 00:10:30.960 good morning. It's a good Sunday morning to be inside, listening to the 127 00:10:31.080 --> 00:10:35.960 radio and taking care of your houseplants. Got a little rain coming today, 128 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.080 and it just reminds us we do live in southeast Texas area where it does 129 00:10:39.159 --> 00:10:41.639 rain. There are people a lot further west that wish they could have just 130 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.120 a little bit of what well we get here every year. But you know, 131 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:48.559 they say, when it rains, it pours, and when it rains 132 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.559 too much, we end up dealing with poor drainage issues are standing water, 133 00:10:52.679 --> 00:10:58.679 soggy soil, and that's one of the key steps to success with many of 134 00:10:58.720 --> 00:11:01.039 our garden beds is to get them up into a raised bed where the soiled 135 00:11:01.080 --> 00:11:05.720 drains a little better, get those roots out of submerged conditions so your plant 136 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:09.120 does a little better, and every time it rains a good amount, it 137 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:13.120 reminds us of that. Well, we're gonna now head out to talk to 138 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:18.200 Mo in Spring. Good morning, Mo, Good morning. My grandmother loved 139 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:22.039 talking to you yesterday. Well, good all, I'm talking to her too. 140 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:26.440 She just forgot to give you what you wanted to give you, was 141 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:33.559 her homemade jam. Homemade jam. Well, maybe next trip she won't forget. 142 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:37.840 That's good. We had a great time out of Arbigate yesterday. A 143 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:41.440 lot of folks came by and got to meet a lot of new folks and 144 00:11:43.759 --> 00:11:46.440 people that hadn't even been there before. They were amazed at the place. 145 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:50.120 Well, what I want to know, I'm planning two new pecanches. What 146 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.960 should us get around of mulch around it on the roots? Well, so 147 00:11:56.759 --> 00:12:00.240 you don't need to do anything in the soil for the pecanjo. You're going 148 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:03.080 to have a huge, extensive root system and the little bit you do doesn't 149 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:07.879 accomplish much if you try to amend the so much for a pecan, But 150 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:13.440 you do want to make sure the surface is mulched to keep all the weeds 151 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:16.720 away and to create that kind of forest floor environment for the pecan tree. 152 00:12:16.840 --> 00:12:20.399 So you can use I mean, you could use just compost for malt. 153 00:12:20.600 --> 00:12:24.279 You could use you know, wood chips, I mean, whatever kind of 154 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:26.320 multi want. Shred your own leaves and put them in there if you like. 155 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:33.080 But just the bigger area. The bigger the area is the less competition 156 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:35.480 for weeds and grass that that tree's going to deal with, and you're going 157 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:41.720 to see a lot faster growth as a result. Yeah, and put tree 158 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:46.879 huggers on them. Yeah. Water. You shouldn't plant a woody ornamental or 159 00:12:46.879 --> 00:12:50.759 tree or something like that without a tree hugger, because the first year that 160 00:12:50.799 --> 00:12:56.000 pecan goes into summer, that's the touching go a year, that's where you 161 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:58.720 may lose it or not. That's where you may get good growth or at 162 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:03.440 base basickly leafs out and just sits there. And accurate watering to that root 163 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:09.080 ball and as the pecan slowly puts new roots out, that is very important. 164 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:11.559 And yeah, you're right, the tree hugger can certainly do that. 165 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.000 Okay, thank you very much. All right, mo, thank you very 166 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:20.440 much for the call. You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, 167 00:13:20.639 --> 00:13:26.360 Skip Richter and our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven 168 00:13:26.440 --> 00:13:31.960 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Yeah, we 169 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.120 had we really had a great time out there at Arburgate yesterday. I've everlely 170 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.679 had the Bellini machine going, and I tell you we had folks. We 171 00:13:39.799 --> 00:13:43.840 had folks coming by to take advantage of that is wonderful, a really good 172 00:13:43.840 --> 00:13:48.360 time. I would like to meet meet folks. And I saw bags of 173 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.759 plant material and photos on phones and all kinds of things as we as we 174 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:58.639 identified, diagnosed and recommended our way to hopefully a beautiful garden at a bountiful 175 00:13:58.720 --> 00:14:03.000 lens Gape for some of the folks that came by. Thank you all for 176 00:14:03.080 --> 00:14:11.679 hostingess out there arbor Gape. The the plants that we plant in our gardens 177 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:16.080 are either going to be well adapted or not. And a lot of times 178 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:20.639 we see things we want, but that doesn't mean they're happy to be where 179 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:24.639 we live. You know what I'm saying, You on a vacation to Colorado 180 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:30.279 and bring home a little blue spruce. Well, the Society for the Prevention 181 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:35.519 of Cruelty to Plants will pull up with syrenes to your landscape and they will 182 00:14:35.600 --> 00:14:39.039 cuffe you for such a crime, a horticultural crime. Now, seriously, 183 00:14:39.279 --> 00:14:45.000 we want things that do well. And one of the one of the best 184 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:50.440 things here in Texas is called the Texas Superstar Program. So Texas Superstars are 185 00:14:50.559 --> 00:14:56.960 plants that have been tested by Agrilife Extension Agrilife research all across the state and 186 00:14:58.399 --> 00:15:01.799 to see how they do, and the one that rise to the top are 187 00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:05.360 given a Superstar status. Now, there's not every good plant in the world 188 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:09.399 in the Superstar program, but all those that are there have their features and 189 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:13.200 have their reason to belong there. And you can go online. You can 190 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:18.480 check out Texas Superstar dot com and there'll be a list of the plants that 191 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:26.240 have been recommended over the years. You find everything from shrubs, two trees, 192 00:15:26.360 --> 00:15:28.759 perennials, not a lot of annuals. Well, actually there are quite 193 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:33.879 a few annuals on there, and then some that they call per annuals, 194 00:15:33.000 --> 00:15:39.080 as in perennial annuals, meaning if you go farther south, they're a perennial, 195 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:41.559 if you go farther north, they're probably an annual. We have a 196 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:48.320 number of plants like that, like Durronta, the Brazilian skyflower, beautiful plant 197 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:54.240 as has the golden berries on it in the following the flowers, and that's 198 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.840 one of its names. It points to that that's a tough one. But 199 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:02.039 you take that up to way and it's not a perennial, that's for sure, 200 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:04.320 but it is down here. In fact, you have it living the 201 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:08.639 above ground parks, living through the winter many times. That's just an example 202 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:15.080 of what I'm talking about. We have many other good Superstar plants, you 203 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:19.679 know. The one of the ones that I like. Of course, I'm 204 00:16:21.279 --> 00:16:25.399 I'm kind of perennial. I'm perennial I'm kind of partial to salvias. I 205 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:29.080 just I love those a lot. And Mexican bush sades, the one that 206 00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:33.039 blooms in late summer and fall with the purple and purple and white or all 207 00:16:33.080 --> 00:16:36.639 purple blooms, that's on the list. That is just a good one, 208 00:16:36.679 --> 00:16:40.000 and I like it because it gives us color at a time of year when 209 00:16:40.440 --> 00:16:42.679 there isn't as much color as there is in the spring, for example, 210 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:47.559 So don't ever forget those fall blooming plants. They also have on their Henry 211 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:52.639 Duelberg salvia, which is a Salvia farrenasia or a cross of it, and 212 00:16:52.759 --> 00:16:57.559 it is native here in Texas, Salvia farnasias. They have a mystic spires 213 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:03.480 salvia, which is beautiful little compact version of a salvia that we used to 214 00:17:03.480 --> 00:17:10.480 grow called indigo spires. So those are all good salvia's for example. Well, 215 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:14.319 let's let's go to the phones. Our number, well, our number 216 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:18.200 if you'd like to give us a call seven one three two one two five 217 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:21.640 eight seven four, And Doug, I'm about to take a little break here, 218 00:17:21.680 --> 00:17:26.640 so to give you a little more time, I am going, I 219 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:30.240 am going, okay, I'm gonna come back to that let me continue on 220 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:33.599 just for a moment, though. A couple more of the superstars that I 221 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.240 did want to mention, and a new group of those are the hibiscus that 222 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:42.799 are perennial. These are different than the multicolored, beautiful tropical hibiscus either a 223 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:49.039 dinner plate sized blooms. There's one called Flare Flair hibiscus. There's one call 224 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:56.000 Lord Lord Baltimore. There's one called Moi Grande. Moi Grande is especially a 225 00:17:56.200 --> 00:18:00.640 unique one in that it has the probably the biggest of the blooms of all 226 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:04.160 of these. The blooms don't form a complete circle. They're more like remember 227 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:07.880 the old time desk fans that had the blades four blades or whatever, and 228 00:18:07.920 --> 00:18:11.240 there was there was space between the blades. That's kind of how a more 229 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:17.799 grande hibiscus bloom is. They're absolutely beautiful, absolutely beautiful. And there are 230 00:18:17.799 --> 00:18:22.240 many other varieties of these that haven't been you know, haven't been tested to 231 00:18:22.319 --> 00:18:26.079 reach the superstar status, but they are they're very good plants for those perennial 232 00:18:26.119 --> 00:18:30.799 hibiscus just give you that color that is just gaudy. I mean, it's 233 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:36.559 if you want, uh, you know, vehicle going down the road stop 234 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:40.519 traffic beauty in your yard. This is going to be the kind of plant 235 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:44.240 to do it. And I was visiting somebody Arbigate yesterday just about that thing. 236 00:18:44.599 --> 00:18:48.279 But these big bold colors are just beautiful and their perennial. They come 237 00:18:48.319 --> 00:18:51.720 back a year after year. Texas Star, by the way, is another 238 00:18:51.720 --> 00:18:55.640 good one. It's a native to the to the Gulf Coast's actually, despite 239 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.519 being called Texas Star, it's not native to Texas. But we'll call it 240 00:19:00.119 --> 00:19:03.079 happy anyway. Well day, what our phone number seven one three two one 241 00:19:03.160 --> 00:19:08.319 two fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna turn it over to the news and 242 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:33.279 Nikki shake shake your good morning on a good morning to be inside listening to 243 00:19:33.319 --> 00:19:40.680 the radio, doing your gardening with your house plants. The craze of house 244 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:45.920 plants over the years is just kind of surprised me these last couple of years, 245 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:48.640 you know, with with COVID and people being cooped up, well, 246 00:19:48.640 --> 00:19:52.559 it's kind of makes sense at house plants would get a surge in popularity, 247 00:19:52.559 --> 00:19:55.880 but oh my gosh, what a surge. The thing now is to find 248 00:19:55.960 --> 00:20:00.359 something nobody else has. It's never been soldier before. Some new variety or 249 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:04.279 variant or or even species I'm seeing. You know, I've been in horticulture 250 00:20:04.359 --> 00:20:08.640 thirty five years and pretty familiar with a lot of plants, but I am 251 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:12.440 seeing houseplants that, Okay, what is that? You know, I've never 252 00:20:12.480 --> 00:20:17.039 seen that one before, and people are really excited about it. And it's 253 00:20:17.079 --> 00:20:21.920 fun. It's a good it's a good indoor release. It provides that setting 254 00:20:22.440 --> 00:20:26.720 house plants do for a room that I don't know. It just gives it 255 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:30.359 a more natural feel, less sterile, more more natural feel. They have 256 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:37.240 many benefits to house plants, when one of the one of the benefits is 257 00:20:37.279 --> 00:20:38.440 often touted, Oh, by the way, I should give you our phone 258 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:44.720 number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. That way you 259 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:48.559 can put an end to me droning on which I love to do. So. 260 00:20:48.680 --> 00:20:52.079 One of the things that attributed to house plants is improving air quality. 261 00:20:52.519 --> 00:20:56.640 And while I am one thousand percent in favor of people putting more plants in 262 00:20:56.680 --> 00:21:02.960 their home, I think that it is basically oversold. I'm surprised to hear 263 00:21:03.039 --> 00:21:06.880 me say that. Well, there was a study done it NASSA years ago 264 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:11.279 that looked at air quality and it would say, well, this plant pulls 265 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:15.640 formaldehyde out of the air, or this plant, you know, helps take 266 00:21:15.960 --> 00:21:21.599 benzine out of the air. And these tests were done in little chambers where 267 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:26.440 they could do air quality sampling. Well, when you try to take that 268 00:21:26.559 --> 00:21:32.519 and put it in the size of your indoors scale, you would basically have 269 00:21:32.599 --> 00:21:37.839 to create a jungle to achieve those same benefits. And then you add to 270 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:41.160 the fact that we've got doors opening and closing and air blown through, we've 271 00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:45.720 got air conditioners circling the air around. That's not the reason to do it. 272 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:48.359 In fact, you know, an interesting thing of some follow up studies, 273 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:53.400 they found that the soil, actually the soil, the microbes in the 274 00:21:53.480 --> 00:21:57.440 soil were accomplishing even more than the plants that were growing in it. So, 275 00:21:57.480 --> 00:22:00.279 I guess if you want to do something I don't know, bringing a 276 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:03.599 good quality layer of some of the sols we talk about, put it about 277 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:07.319 two inches deep across all the floors in your house and run around barefoot, 278 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:12.039 that would accomplish it. But yeah, houseplants are a wonderful thing. Let's 279 00:22:12.039 --> 00:22:18.200 go out to Liberty and talk to Tracy. Good morning, Tracy, Good 280 00:22:18.200 --> 00:22:21.559 morning, skimp. I got a question about a myer limon. It's a 281 00:22:21.640 --> 00:22:26.519 three year old tree that's just transplanted from a pot into the ground. It's 282 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:33.039 got fruit forming. But the question I have I've noticed they're about the size 283 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:37.319 of a very small marble, but they're turning yellow already and dropping off. 284 00:22:38.640 --> 00:22:44.400 Well, the citrius will abort like that, and it can be due to 285 00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:48.720 different things. You know that if pollination is required for the kind of citrius, 286 00:22:48.720 --> 00:22:52.279 then that could be an issue. But stresses they set a little extra 287 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:56.759 fruit all the time, so it's not unusual to see some of that aboarding. 288 00:22:56.119 --> 00:23:00.319 When it's more it's probably due to I'm sort of a stress in this 289 00:23:00.400 --> 00:23:06.960 case. Maybe the planting process and getting ready to get established there could be 290 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:10.240 part of it. But it's going to be some type of a stress if 291 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:17.039 it's more than the normal amount of a boarding. Is there anything special? 292 00:23:17.119 --> 00:23:18.839 Do you think I need to do to it? Or no? Let nature 293 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:22.960 take its course pretty much. Let nature tickets course. How long ago did 294 00:23:22.960 --> 00:23:27.319 you plant? It's been in the ground about a month? About a month? 295 00:23:27.359 --> 00:23:32.440 Okay, Well, I would say anytime now you could begin to give 296 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:37.359 it small doses a fertilizer. You know, don't overdo it, but provide 297 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:41.599 a sprinkling of fertilizer around it, kind of scratch it into the soil surface 298 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:45.119 and water. The bigger the mulch is around it, you know the words. 299 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:49.000 The wider the mult circle, the better off it'll be too. And 300 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:52.839 just kind of create that setting work and you know, get its feet under 301 00:23:52.839 --> 00:23:57.279 it if you will, and really start to thrive. Okay, And one 302 00:23:57.279 --> 00:24:00.960 other question, the black mail mulch, would that be good to put around 303 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:04.960 citrus tree? Yeah, that'd be fine. It's a natural mult product that's 304 00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:08.279 not dyed mulch. For those folks listening, you know, we're not fans 305 00:24:08.279 --> 00:24:12.519 of dyed mults. But the black velvet is a naturally dark mulch and it 306 00:24:12.519 --> 00:24:17.160 would be just fine. You just want to create, create a good mult 307 00:24:17.279 --> 00:24:22.000 surface and then always add mulch to the surface as the old mulch kind of 308 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:25.839 breaks down. Don't take the old mulch away because that's a good stuff. 309 00:24:25.920 --> 00:24:30.160 And think about the forest floor leaves year after year after year, the leaves 310 00:24:30.279 --> 00:24:34.759 rotting at the bottom. That's the good stuff. All right, we'll do 311 00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:38.720 that, all right, for the information you two. Thank you for the 312 00:24:38.759 --> 00:24:44.160 call. By the way, I want to wish everyone that's a mom out 313 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:48.079 there, A happy Mother's Day. This is a special day of the year 314 00:24:48.960 --> 00:24:56.319 and many many lives that you know just impacted in ways that no one else 315 00:24:56.480 --> 00:25:00.960 in your life can buy. Your mom. We'll take a break right now, 316 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:06.039 our phone number seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 317 00:25:07.079 --> 00:25:10.359 You know jungle Land, I've talked about it before, but it is a 318 00:25:10.519 --> 00:25:15.079 soil for containers. It's a potting type mix, so this would be something 319 00:25:15.160 --> 00:25:19.960 that would provide that color on your patio, the opportunity to really thrive. 320 00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:25.960 And it's because it's got a blend of Canadian peat four sources of decomposement, 321 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:30.480 decomposing organic matter, and then micro rizal fungi. There's the kick. If 322 00:25:30.559 --> 00:25:34.720 you have indoor plants, they have a version with crystals that help hold moisture, 323 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:38.559 so if you forget to water, it helps the plant keep going until 324 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:42.960 you get around to remembering it. Jungle Land is sold everywhere that other nitro 325 00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:48.319 FoST products are sold. So a task aseda Ace Lake Hardware in Angleton or 326 00:25:48.400 --> 00:26:06.319 Gem's Hardware in Montgomery. Looking for well, good morning, Well, a 327 00:26:06.359 --> 00:26:10.759 good morning to be inside listening to the radio and maybe doing some house plant 328 00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:15.160 gardening. I am working with my throat this morning to see how long it's 329 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:18.160 going to allow me to keep talking, So kind of bear with me. 330 00:26:18.839 --> 00:26:22.240 We're gonna head out our phone or by the way seven one three two one 331 00:26:22.359 --> 00:26:26.640 two fifty eight seventy four. Now let's head out to Montgomery and we're going 332 00:26:26.720 --> 00:26:30.720 to talk to carry on. Hello Carrie in good morning, Skip. I 333 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:33.039 am calling up a question about my yard. My husband I moved into our 334 00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:41.519 house a year ago. We laid eighty palettes of sod and we worked hard 335 00:26:41.559 --> 00:26:45.799 to take good care of it. We did aisamite, we did the Medina 336 00:26:45.880 --> 00:26:51.680 soil activator, we watered, but ultimately ended up with brown patch pretty severely 337 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:56.440 at the end of summer, and with all this rain, I'm just really 338 00:26:56.440 --> 00:27:00.440 worried about the emergence of another fungus and wondered if there's anything that I could 339 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.640 do, you know, proactively, or if I see patches start to come 340 00:27:03.720 --> 00:27:10.359 up, what I could do, well, if if we could identify what 341 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:14.119 fungus may be out there affecting your lawn, the brown pat it may have 342 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:18.039 been brown pat, was it circles or was it irregular in the die back? 343 00:27:18.559 --> 00:27:21.359 This at the end of the summer, Yeah, it was, it 344 00:27:21.400 --> 00:27:25.240 was circles. Okay, well, then that is the what we've always called 345 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:29.000 brown patch. I think the turf folks call it a large patch now. 346 00:27:29.599 --> 00:27:33.599 But the that doesn't kill your grass. It rots the leaves off the grass, 347 00:27:33.599 --> 00:27:37.480 and then the runners are alive and they've grown new leaves on them in 348 00:27:37.559 --> 00:27:44.359 time when the weather's right. So if you have a fall of attack from 349 00:27:44.359 --> 00:27:47.119 it, then you're going to have those circles all winter because the grass isn't 350 00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:49.799 growing to come back in yet. But I think you know, in terms 351 00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:52.039 of what you've done for your lawn, it sounds like you're you're doing a 352 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:56.799 lot of things right. The only thing if compaction were an issue, doing 353 00:27:57.200 --> 00:28:02.519 a core aeration pulling the little cores out of the ground, a little compost 354 00:28:02.519 --> 00:28:06.559 top dressing just to kind of cover the soil surface in any areas where the 355 00:28:06.599 --> 00:28:11.160 sunlight might hit the soil. Also provide that that nutrient as it decomposes. 356 00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:15.519 Those would be helpful, But I think the main thing would be just just 357 00:28:15.799 --> 00:28:19.839 watch it close. If you see that it's there's color issues, you know 358 00:28:19.880 --> 00:28:23.720 it's not as green even though you're fertilized, or you're getting yellow splotches through 359 00:28:23.720 --> 00:28:29.279 it or you seeing any of that right now, there's one area that I'm 360 00:28:29.279 --> 00:28:33.480 worried about that's not growing and it should be growing, okay, And it's 361 00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:37.599 definitely in circular yeah nature, And you said it was Saint Augustine, right, 362 00:28:38.160 --> 00:28:41.519 that's correct. Yes, So you know that's going to do really well 363 00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:45.559 in the sun and the shade and sun because it's more shade tolerant, not 364 00:28:45.559 --> 00:28:51.200 too much shade, but a little bit. But just watch that whenever we 365 00:28:51.279 --> 00:28:56.799 hit the heat of summer, that you're providing supplemental water as needed and really 366 00:28:56.039 --> 00:29:02.039 watering once a week in the absence of rainfall. Is is plenty twice at 367 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:04.839 the most, but we try to wean our lawns back to once a week 368 00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:08.519 because that allows the soil to dry out a little bit and brings oxygen back 369 00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:14.839 into the root system in that process. I don't know any magic potions to 370 00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:18.799 put on it at this point, just fertilizing. When was the last time 371 00:29:18.839 --> 00:29:23.359 you fertilized? So April tenth and I use this sweet green And that kind 372 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:27.240 of leads me to speaking questions Skip. I have all kinds of stripes in 373 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:33.960 my yard, and so if I was to fertilize again, it's six weeks. 374 00:29:34.160 --> 00:29:37.960 Should I just go in and fertilize the areas that I missed or just 375 00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:41.920 do a criss cross type of pattern and try to even that out. Well, 376 00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:44.480 if you if you criss cross, you may end up with a checkerboard 377 00:29:44.480 --> 00:29:48.319 instead of stripes. You might do the areas that you missed. Do you 378 00:29:48.400 --> 00:29:52.480 have a drop spreader, yes, sir? Okay, well that's one of 379 00:29:52.519 --> 00:29:56.359 the reasons I kind of like the little whirlybird spreaders. That's you know, 380 00:29:56.599 --> 00:30:00.400 push to put it out everywhere because it's easier to get a kind of an 381 00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:04.319 even blend with just a little overlap and avoid the stripes. But yeah, 382 00:30:04.359 --> 00:30:08.400 normally criss crossing is something we do and that helps us to get it down 383 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:11.799 at the right rate. That way, you don't get halfway through the yard 384 00:30:11.799 --> 00:30:14.880 and you've run out of what should have been a whole yards worth of fertilizer. 385 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:19.279 But right, the drop spreaders are good for applying certain kinds of things, 386 00:30:19.519 --> 00:30:25.440 especially when you're looking at weed issues and stuff like that. Okay, 387 00:30:25.559 --> 00:30:27.759 so wordy bird is what you say, Well, I call him morty bird. 388 00:30:27.839 --> 00:30:32.000 It's a little spinning you know. It's a kind you've probably seen it 389 00:30:32.039 --> 00:30:36.559 in pictures or TV where like the fertilizer is just being spun out everywhere. 390 00:30:36.640 --> 00:30:41.759 There's a little whirling plate underneath that slings it everywhere. That's opposed to the 391 00:30:41.839 --> 00:30:45.200 drop spread They each have their place, but it's a little easier to avoid 392 00:30:45.279 --> 00:30:52.319 the striping with the spinning type spreader. Okay, okay, yeah, Well, 393 00:30:52.359 --> 00:30:55.799 if you fertilize that recently, then you don't need to fertilize again. 394 00:30:55.839 --> 00:30:59.240 That sweet green's gonna last you a while. You might, you might put 395 00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:03.079 on a light summer fertilization if you're just lack in color, but I think 396 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:06.319 probably your next one is probably going to be in the fall, especially if 397 00:31:06.359 --> 00:31:11.559 you return your clippings. Okay, all right, all right, thank you 398 00:31:11.599 --> 00:31:15.640 so much. Well, good luck with your long you are listening to garden 399 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:18.119 Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number is seven 400 00:31:18.200 --> 00:31:22.640 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna be heading to 401 00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:26.680 break here in just a bit. But if you will give Josh a call, 402 00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.920 he'll get you on the boards and we can talk about whatever you are 403 00:31:30.000 --> 00:31:34.920 interested in. And again, wishing all the moms out there a happy, 404 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:41.720 happy Mother's Day. What you've poured into lives, your children, your family. 405 00:31:41.359 --> 00:31:48.079 The sacrifice is made, the kindness is the comfort that the list could 406 00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:53.119 go on and on, and we are very appreciative to you. As the 407 00:31:53.440 --> 00:32:00.640 son of a mom, I can tell you that it is just I don't 408 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:04.079 know, It's just one of those holidays of the year that is unique in 409 00:32:04.119 --> 00:32:08.119 many ways and special in its own way. And I hope you're doing something 410 00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:12.759 for your mom this Mother's Day. Maybe a card, a phone call, 411 00:32:13.039 --> 00:32:16.839 best you, a visit, perhaps a gift. But we are very appreciative 412 00:32:16.920 --> 00:32:20.920 moms, thank you so much. Or as the way you poured out your 413 00:32:20.960 --> 00:32:30.160 life for us. Ana plants up in Montgomery. They're on the east side 414 00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:34.160 of Montgomery. That garden center is just amazing. I mean the color, 415 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:39.119 the color that they have right now is just jaw dropping. If you go 416 00:32:39.440 --> 00:32:45.519 by Ana check out. Also some of their other materials are I call it 417 00:32:45.559 --> 00:32:51.400 blain, but Mexican talavera, the terracotta, the chimineas you know, topiaries 418 00:32:51.480 --> 00:32:54.359 or arches or gazebos, all of that other stuff. In addition to having 419 00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:59.960 all the plants and all the products that we talk about here on Garden Line, 420 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:05.000 the fertilizers and the soil soob lends and whatnot, A and a plants 421 00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:10.480 just on the east side of Montgomery. Let's see we need to I believe, 422 00:33:12.599 --> 00:33:20.440 Josh. Let's go ahead and take us to a break. I'll tell 423 00:33:20.440 --> 00:33:24.200 you what. Let me. Let me do this. I've talked about Vigo 424 00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:31.640 garden beds before. 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Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip 433 00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:39.920 Rictord. Just watching well, good Sunday morning, Good morning to be inside, 434 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:44.559 that's for sure, But It doesn't stop us from gardening, does it. 435 00:34:44.639 --> 00:34:47.440 There's these things called houseplant. You got an ivy apothos or something that's 436 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:52.760 just getting too long and lanky. Cut some of those things off and one 437 00:34:52.880 --> 00:34:57.519 node for each little section that would be a node is where a leaf attaches 438 00:34:57.559 --> 00:35:00.119 to the vine and put them in some Well, let's get them rooted. 439 00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:05.199 Start your whole new ivy basket and enjoy it yourself or give it away to 440 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:07.880 somebody if you'd like to do that. You're listening to Guardenline and I'm your 441 00:35:07.880 --> 00:35:12.199 host. Skip Ricter our phone number. Write this one down. It's seven 442 00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:16.639 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two 443 00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:25.280 five eight seven four. I want to I want to talk about some myths. 444 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:28.320 I in fact, I think from time to time we gotta have a 445 00:35:28.400 --> 00:35:32.840 myth Gardening myths segment. Need a little intro of someone shouting that out. 446 00:35:32.920 --> 00:35:37.400 Gardening myths. Well, here's myth number one. We're gonna talk about it 447 00:35:37.400 --> 00:35:42.239 today. We'll include some of the myths as we go through. Putting star 448 00:35:42.360 --> 00:35:46.079 foam, peanuts or gravel or broken potshards in the bottom of a container to 449 00:35:46.199 --> 00:35:52.000 improve drainage. Now, It makes total sense logically, right, I mean, 450 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:57.239 you pour water onto gravel and the water just goes straight through. Nothing 451 00:35:57.280 --> 00:36:00.760 could drain better than gravel, right, that's true. But the physics a 452 00:36:00.840 --> 00:36:07.679 little nerd warning here. The physics of water is that it moves from broader 453 00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:13.880 spaces into smaller spaces by capillary action. That's why if you have a drop 454 00:36:13.880 --> 00:36:17.920 of water in your counter and you put the corner of a paper towel right 455 00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:22.199 down and touch the drop of water, where does that water go? It 456 00:36:22.280 --> 00:36:29.360 goes up into the paper towel because that draws the water more, you know, 457 00:36:29.440 --> 00:36:31.599 than just the air of the water flattening out in the air on the 458 00:36:31.639 --> 00:36:37.800 counter. So when we have soil, a soil volume, and it's sitting 459 00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:44.679 over gravel, then what the water literally that soil literally has to get so 460 00:36:44.760 --> 00:36:49.559 oversaturated that it drips out of the soil into the gravel. And yes, 461 00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:53.360 then it moves on out very easily. But it two bad things happen when 462 00:36:53.480 --> 00:37:00.280 you do this. Number One, you lose volume of your soil. In 463 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:01.960 other words, let's say you had a container, oh, I don't know 464 00:37:02.079 --> 00:37:07.400 however high it is. If it's full of soil, that whole area is 465 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.440 for plant roots to get water and nutrients from. If you put a bunch 466 00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:15.440 of gravel in the bottom of your pot, then you just shrunk the area 467 00:37:15.480 --> 00:37:19.840 of soil that your plants can get water and nutrients out of. And here 468 00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.559 in Texas when we hit summer especially, we need all the soil we can 469 00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:25.960 get. We need to. You watch TV and see little potted plants and 470 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:30.599 stuff being talked about on some garden show somewhere, just look at the pot 471 00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:34.320 and say, well, I'm gonna have to do about fifty percent or one 472 00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:37.000 hundred percent bigger than that for it to survive well here in Texas. So 473 00:37:37.199 --> 00:37:42.920 that that is one of the things that happens. The other thing that's not 474 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:47.400 good is you just moved the oversaturated section up. You didn't get rid of 475 00:37:47.400 --> 00:37:52.480 it. So fill the soil with fill the pot with soil. If you 476 00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:57.880 have drainage holes, sometimes I'll throw like a coffee filter over them or even 477 00:37:57.880 --> 00:38:01.320 a paper towel just to kind of hole the soil initially from just washing out 478 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:04.719 of that hole. Now they're going to rot away and be gone. And 479 00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:07.719 some people use window screening a little circle cut out of that. Well, 480 00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:13.000 you can do that if you want but anyway that what's going to happen. 481 00:38:13.039 --> 00:38:17.159 Then your whole volume of soil is gonna drain downward with gravity. It's gonna 482 00:38:17.199 --> 00:38:21.000 lose the water, and then it gets to the bottom, it's gonna be 483 00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:22.760 wet right there at the bottom. That's just how it is, and it 484 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:28.239 will dry out. But don't put things in the pot like that. The 485 00:38:28.280 --> 00:38:32.440 only time where I would recommend filling part of a container would be if you 486 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:37.400 have a really really tall planter and you don't want to put that much soil 487 00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.639 in it, you don't want to buy that much soil, then you can 488 00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:44.199 fill it up. And what some people do is they take like the little 489 00:38:44.199 --> 00:38:47.119 you know, a little water bottles that we use for drinking water. Remember 490 00:38:47.159 --> 00:38:52.599 we didn't have to buy water, there was just water fountains. And anyway, 491 00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:58.519 the those things with the lid on them are are a nice little air 492 00:38:58.559 --> 00:39:01.039 pillow if you will, and you can throw a bunch of those into the 493 00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:07.079 bottom of a very tall container. One time I was gardening out of the 494 00:39:07.119 --> 00:39:12.719 tile that lines a chimney. There's these long sections of basically squared a rectangle 495 00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:15.920 terra cotta, and I didn't want to fill all that, so I threw 496 00:39:15.960 --> 00:39:19.119 a bunch of those in the bottom and then I don't know what. I 497 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.440 may have used a board, or I may used a metal screen or something 498 00:39:22.519 --> 00:39:24.480 like that to sit on top of them to kind of hold the soil from 499 00:39:24.519 --> 00:39:28.800 not just falling all in there. And I use much less soil. I 500 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:32.000 still have plenty of soil, but it was that excessively tall container that I 501 00:39:32.079 --> 00:39:36.280 was trying to deal with, so that would be the only time I would 502 00:39:36.280 --> 00:39:40.239 do it. But even though it's even though it is logical to think that 503 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:46.480 gravel helps drainage, it only helps drainage, and gravel the soil is going 504 00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:51.880 to be as wet as it's going to be. Let's head out to Fairfield 505 00:39:51.960 --> 00:39:54.760 and we are going to talk to Marty. Hello Marty, good morning, 506 00:39:54.800 --> 00:40:00.519 Skip. How are you. I'm well, thank you good. Yesterday you 507 00:40:00.559 --> 00:40:09.639 were talking about the nuts edge and one area is just inundated with it and 508 00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:15.599 I just can't seem to get it under control. Okay, you said to 509 00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:21.199 make sure that the blades were gone and not get let the sun get to 510 00:40:21.280 --> 00:40:25.840 them. So if I went out and we eatd wet ate whatever, right, 511 00:40:27.159 --> 00:40:30.840 If I put the weed eater on it and cut them all back and 512 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:37.480 then dug up the soil kind of till it. Would that do something to 513 00:40:37.599 --> 00:40:40.519 help it? The rain's not helping any that's obvious. It's making it very 514 00:40:40.519 --> 00:40:45.559 happy. Yes it is, and truly it truly is a yellow nuts edge, 515 00:40:45.559 --> 00:40:50.000 which is more common when we have in our yard. Yellow nuts edge 516 00:40:50.039 --> 00:40:53.599 has a chemical inhibitor on the nut to keep other buds from sprouting. At 517 00:40:53.599 --> 00:40:57.960 the same time. It has like I don't know, seven or eight buds 518 00:40:58.039 --> 00:41:00.480 on that nut. That's why every time you chop it said off, a 519 00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:05.840 new one comes up, and wet soil washes the inhibitor off, and you 520 00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:12.760 get increased sprouting and proliferation in wet conditions. So don't over water. That 521 00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:15.960 would be one help. And I assume this is a flowerbed, not a 522 00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:20.559 yard a lawn, yes, correct. So what I was saying yesterday was 523 00:41:21.079 --> 00:41:23.480 you need to treat it right away, But if you are not going to 524 00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:28.440 spray it, at least cut the top off and prevent it from getting stronger 525 00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:35.320 and making more daughter nutlets from that plant underground. Chopping the top off is 526 00:41:35.360 --> 00:41:38.719 not at all. Here's how you control nuts edge. It just it was 527 00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:43.280 My comment was more just at least don't let it have leaves. You know, 528 00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:46.760 once it has three to five leaves, it is now replenishing the bulb. 529 00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:52.119 And that bulb is sending out daughter plants. And I think it one 530 00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:54.920 time I talked to some weed specialists and they said, bye, about the 531 00:41:54.960 --> 00:42:00.199 first of May, it has already established daughter plants that are that are able 532 00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:05.000 to survive themselves without being connected to mom. And there's like eight or nine 533 00:42:05.079 --> 00:42:08.400 daughter plants on there. Well, I have a tribe of daughters all over 534 00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:13.000 my hard Yeah, I know, well I would. I would get a 535 00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:17.280 product that is labeled for nuts edge control in the area that you're using it. 536 00:42:17.360 --> 00:42:21.559 And some products that kill nutsedge may hurt some other plants. You have 537 00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:27.599 to be real careful. I use a wiper applicator for mine, and it's 538 00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:30.639 it's a homemade one. And you may have too much nuts edge for this. 539 00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:34.760 But you know the little tools that you grab a jar off a shelf, 540 00:42:35.039 --> 00:42:37.880 it's a little you squeeze a trigger, all right. Well, if 541 00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:40.599 you on the end of those instead of suction cups or whatever they have, 542 00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:45.719 put two halves of a kitchen sponge, cut one in half and just attach 543 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:50.719 with a bolt. I have to each side and then you can squirch your 544 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:54.639 nuts edge control on there and just reach down without even stooping and pull squeeze 545 00:42:54.719 --> 00:42:58.519 the bottom of a of a plant and pull it all the way up to 546 00:42:58.559 --> 00:43:01.679 get that whole thing wet. So if you'd like to let's continue this after 547 00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:05.719 break, can you hang on just a minute? Sure? All right? 548 00:43:05.760 --> 00:43:09.039 Thank you? You're listening to garden lines the number seven one three two one 549 00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:19.639 two fifty eight seventy four Nelson Plant Food. Their turf Star line is. 550 00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:23.159 It is an amazing series of products. They have a number of different lines. 551 00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:27.599 I mean they've got the Color Star, Nutril Star, a Nature Star, 552 00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:31.920 and the Turf Star turf Star number of different quality lawn fertilizers for summer. 553 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:37.840 I like to recommend Slow and Easy twenty two to ten. It gradually 554 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:43.480 releases the nutrients to prevent increased thatching and increasing of thatch, having to mow 555 00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:47.840 more often and developing a better root system for less water consumption. Slow and 556 00:43:47.880 --> 00:44:17.880 Easy by Nitro by Nelson's Plant Food twenty two two ten and well. Good 557 00:44:19.199 --> 00:44:22.599 Sunday morning for a good Sunday to be indoors this morning early, you know, 558 00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:27.840 kind of watching the weather out there and taking care of your indoor plants. 559 00:44:28.559 --> 00:44:30.840 Let's go back. I was having a conversation with Marty up in Fairfield 560 00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:34.880 and I wanted to continue that. Marty, I'm back, and I just 561 00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:37.920 want to add to it that you probably need to get something either that you 562 00:44:37.960 --> 00:44:42.360 can spray in on the plants, try to keep it off other things. 563 00:44:42.400 --> 00:44:45.719 Just follow the label, or you can wipe on the sedge itself, whichever 564 00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:52.039 kind of way you want to apply whatever you've designed, you know, to 565 00:44:52.360 --> 00:44:55.639 to create a wiper or purchase one. But there's a product called nutgrass Killer 566 00:44:55.719 --> 00:45:00.119 two. It's by Monterey. I believe it's a manufact true, but Nutgrass 567 00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:05.920 Killer two has an ingredient that is very good against nutgrass, and its label 568 00:45:06.599 --> 00:45:09.519 is not just lawns. Some of the nutgrass killers are only label for lawns. 569 00:45:09.519 --> 00:45:14.840 This one you can use it in landscape beds as well and it won't 570 00:45:14.880 --> 00:45:21.920 kill the flowers. Uh, I mean, is its selective on the nut 571 00:45:21.960 --> 00:45:27.000 set only? Yes? You know, I need to check and see. 572 00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:30.360 I don't know that I would be very careful in using it, and I 573 00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:32.079 would have to read the label, which I don't have just sitting in front 574 00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:36.559 of me. Um. I don't know that. It's we call those over 575 00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:39.679 the top, you know, the like you grass killers. You just spray 576 00:45:39.719 --> 00:45:43.760 over everything and it only kills the grass. I don't know if it's going 577 00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:46.079 to be like that. So I'm gonna I'm gonna suggest you look. Take 578 00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:50.599 a close look at the label on it, okay, and who made it? 579 00:45:51.199 --> 00:45:55.599 Monterey Monterey. Yeah, they have a nutgrass killer two. It's the 580 00:45:55.719 --> 00:46:00.199 name of it, I believe number two. Okay, Well, I can 581 00:46:00.239 --> 00:46:04.719 probably pull up the nutgrass. It's around the plants that I have. I 582 00:46:04.760 --> 00:46:08.960 have liked lantana and esmonds and stuff like that. But um, okay, 583 00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:13.280 I will give that a shot. The alternative would be to get a long 584 00:46:13.360 --> 00:46:16.800 weeding fork that you can push down in the soil and you're as I'm pulling 585 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:20.519 on an I've done these before, but as I pull on a nuts edge 586 00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:24.599 plant, and I use that um weeding fork kind of a seesaw lever, 587 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:30.440 a lever or whatever, you can tell if the nutgrass is coming up, 588 00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:32.719 if you need to push the fork down a little lore to get underneath it. 589 00:46:34.280 --> 00:46:39.519 But I tell you a hand digging nutgrass nuts. Um you anny kids, 590 00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:45.760 if they ever misbehaved, you can send them out to put the nutgrass. 591 00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:49.239 I'm trying to come up with a strategy here for you, Marty. 592 00:46:49.320 --> 00:46:53.480 Thank you for the call. I appreciate thank you. Bye bye. Now 593 00:46:53.639 --> 00:46:58.480 we are going to go talk to our pod in spring. Hello our pod, 594 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:06.079 good morning, thank you. I've got two Asian pair full of fruit. 595 00:47:06.679 --> 00:47:10.800 And just recently I noticed that some limbs at the top begin to brown 596 00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:15.400 and then the whole limb goes brown, and I'm concerned about that. Okay, 597 00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:21.360 So what that probably is a disease called fireblight. It's a bacterial disease, 598 00:47:22.079 --> 00:47:25.239 and it off, it hits. It typically hits primarily the end of 599 00:47:25.280 --> 00:47:30.000 shoots, and then but it kills. It kills its way back down, 600 00:47:30.239 --> 00:47:34.719 sometimes pretty far. You want to prune those out below the dead, like 601 00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:39.119 cut into livingwood below the dead, and then you want to have some something 602 00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:45.639 like lysol disinfectant. Spray lysol and you spray your pruners and then you make 603 00:47:45.679 --> 00:47:49.639 your next cut. Because because it's a backtar, it's really easy to spread 604 00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:52.519 it from one tree to another, from one branch to another. So do 605 00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:58.079 that little sterile spray and just take it all out of there. In the 606 00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:01.960 springtime is when it's worse, but I would You know, there are some 607 00:48:02.039 --> 00:48:07.599 sprays that can prevent it, but most people don't. Don't bother with that. 608 00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:10.800 So spray at the cut after I cut it, spray there, Spray 609 00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:16.440 the prunters. Oh oh, after first time, having you cut into the 610 00:48:16.519 --> 00:48:20.960 healthy, not into the dead, because there we know we're picking up bacteria 611 00:48:20.960 --> 00:48:24.639 on our prunters, all just low below that cut it off. But then 612 00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:29.000 spray the prunters. So if you did get someone, when you go print 613 00:48:29.039 --> 00:48:32.400 another branch or something, you're not just reintroducing it to that fresh cut wound. 614 00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:36.559 You're making I understand. I understand. And then I had had a 615 00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:39.719 second question. If I made sure I had to cut down. I had 616 00:48:39.719 --> 00:48:44.719 to cut down two big pine trees in the back, and once they were 617 00:48:44.800 --> 00:48:46.880 down, we saw that they were invested with termites. I didn't know that 618 00:48:46.960 --> 00:48:52.159 termites can kill a huge pine tree. So the gentleman did the work, 619 00:48:52.320 --> 00:48:57.000 pointed to a third pine into that that one's probably going to die next year. 620 00:48:57.559 --> 00:49:01.159 So is there a way to save that tree? My knowledge are termites 621 00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:07.480 don't kill pine trees. They termites work on deadwood. They're interested in like 622 00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:09.400 a two by four. That's what that's what they want to eat. They 623 00:49:09.440 --> 00:49:15.320 don't go into my knowledge, into the living tissues, the xylum and flowum 624 00:49:15.320 --> 00:49:20.159 that's alive, active material, and so they will hollow out a tree. 625 00:49:20.199 --> 00:49:23.360 And we have some pretty horrendous types of termites here. You might want to 626 00:49:23.400 --> 00:49:27.599 call a good pest control company to come out and take a look. They 627 00:49:27.599 --> 00:49:31.400 could put some baits out or baits nation or whatever. I'm not a termite 628 00:49:31.440 --> 00:49:36.960 specialist, but to try to control them because as they do all that interior 629 00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:40.079 damage, then the tree becomes more likely to snap off in a storm. 630 00:49:40.199 --> 00:49:44.719 So the trees that are probably a drought or something and then the termites came 631 00:49:44.760 --> 00:49:46.559 in, you know, could it could have been a number of different things. 632 00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:52.639 But yeah, and I if we've got a arborious listening, they can 633 00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:57.719 make change that. I'm open to hear that, but I'm ninety eight percent 634 00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:01.880 sure termites don't eat living tissues trees. Okay, Well, thanks so much, 635 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:06.159 all right, pot thank you for the call. You were listening to 636 00:50:06.199 --> 00:50:09.480 garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight 637 00:50:09.719 --> 00:50:14.760 seventy four. And now we're going to go to Northwest Houston and talk to 638 00:50:14.880 --> 00:50:19.719 Debbie. Well while we figure out how to work our way around the emergency 639 00:50:19.719 --> 00:50:22.559 alerts and everything. Debbie, if you want to hang on, we'll try 640 00:50:22.599 --> 00:50:24.960 to get this fixed and I'll be happy to answer your questions. I just 641 00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:28.840 a while ago, I was talking to somebody about nuts edge, and just 642 00:50:28.920 --> 00:50:32.000 remember when nuts edge, the most important thing is whatever you're gonna do to 643 00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:36.840 it, dig it, spray at whatever, do it. In the spring 644 00:50:37.039 --> 00:50:40.599 when those nuts edge plants have like three leaves, start in on it. 645 00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:45.239 And every time you take one of those nuts out in the spring, you 646 00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:51.000 prevent having ten nuts by the time we get to May and so early. 647 00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:54.840 This is he who hesitates is definitely lost when it comes to nuts edge control. 648 00:50:55.519 --> 00:51:00.119 It is a pernicious weed and it's a problem to deal with, but 649 00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:20.360 it can be. It's not immortal. We can control it well. Good 650 00:51:20.360 --> 00:51:24.000 Sunday morning, on a good morning to be indoors listening to a radio show 651 00:51:24.039 --> 00:51:28.920 about gardening. We are now going to head back out and Debbie, do 652 00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:34.960 I have you live now? Hello? Hello Debbie. All right, I'll 653 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:37.920 tell you what, Debbie, if you would just go ahead and recall call 654 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:44.039 back into the station the number seven one three two one two five eight seven 655 00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:46.239 four we'll see if we can get this resolved. I'll tell you that our 656 00:51:46.239 --> 00:51:52.199 emergency alert just kind of sent everything into a sideways direction. But we're happy 657 00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:55.360 to wait if you'd like to give us a call back. Visit with you 658 00:51:55.400 --> 00:51:59.679 about that. You know, when it when it comes to gardening, there 659 00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:06.079 they're so many types of gardening, so many ways to go about gardening that 660 00:52:06.280 --> 00:52:08.960 just keep it very very interesting. Uh. You know, like you do 661 00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:13.079 you like herbs? Do you like herb gardens? Do you like potted plants 662 00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:16.840 and hanging baskets? Do you do you love flowers and flower beds? Aren't 663 00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:22.800 Maybe you're a lawn ranger and your weekend is spent creating the perfect carpet for 664 00:52:22.840 --> 00:52:28.000 your landscape, and you love that flowering trees, fruit trees. It just 665 00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:32.239 doesn't stop. There's so many aspects of horticulture, of gardening, and they're 666 00:52:32.320 --> 00:52:38.159 all they're all therapeutic, they're all valuable. Some even adds significant interest in 667 00:52:38.280 --> 00:52:42.920 terms of price to your home when you go to sell it. Well, 668 00:52:42.920 --> 00:52:49.599 we're gonna give Debbie another try. Debbie is eighth time the charm? Oh 669 00:52:49.679 --> 00:52:53.000 my gosh, I guess eighth time is not the charm. I am not 670 00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:58.239 able to hear, Debbie, So I'm will stick you back on hole, 671 00:52:58.320 --> 00:53:02.480 will eventually get that solved. All right, one more try Hello, Hello, 672 00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:07.880 Hello, Yeah, Ray you're here. Sorry, Okay, I guess 673 00:53:07.960 --> 00:53:12.599 the gremlins have left the wires. Okay, great, Hey, I have 674 00:53:12.639 --> 00:53:15.280 a couple of questions. The first one is I'm overrun with this. I 675 00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:21.159 guess it's a mulberry weed. Yes, there is um yes, Oh it's 676 00:53:21.199 --> 00:53:24.199 awful and it's all over my flower bed, and so I guess I just 677 00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:29.039 need to go pull it up. Is there anything that I can put on 678 00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:32.440 it too? Yeah? Okay, Well you mentioned flower bed, so the 679 00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:37.079 broad leaf we control products that would kill it after it's up. I would 680 00:53:37.119 --> 00:53:42.960 be very hesitant to use those around a flower bed just because you Okay, 681 00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:46.320 it'll kill your flowers as well. You're broad leaf flowers. So hand pulling 682 00:53:46.440 --> 00:53:50.519 is probably your best bet. And the sooner the sooner, the better. 683 00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:53.119 I know you don't want to hear hand pulling, but okay, because it 684 00:53:53.159 --> 00:53:58.840 produces a seed at all those little nodes going up the stem, and you 685 00:53:58.920 --> 00:54:04.599 don't want to give it time to create another two hundred thousand additional problems per 686 00:54:04.639 --> 00:54:07.280 plant that you have right now, so okay, all right, I would 687 00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:12.599 pull sooner rather than later, if okay after the rain, sure, yeah, 688 00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:17.400 yeah, okay. Second question, I have a joey avocada tree, 689 00:54:17.519 --> 00:54:22.480 and before the huge trees, and it's last freeze, it yielded about one 690 00:54:22.559 --> 00:54:27.519 hundred and twenty avocadas, loved it. I have compost back there, but 691 00:54:27.639 --> 00:54:30.800 now this last freeze got it, and so we cut it back as much 692 00:54:30.840 --> 00:54:36.239 as we can. So do I just make sure there's only one trunk coming 693 00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:39.159 up or several limbs or yeah, I would, and I'd get the others 694 00:54:39.199 --> 00:54:43.719 off there. Cut them as close to what they're coming off of, whether 695 00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:45.960 it's a trunk or the base, you know, the base where root attaches. 696 00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:50.920 Cut them as close as you can to that to not encourage a lot 697 00:54:50.920 --> 00:54:53.880 of sucker sprouting from the base. But pick the one that looks best and 698 00:54:53.920 --> 00:54:59.320 then cut cut the stem off just above that. Give it a little more 699 00:54:59.360 --> 00:55:02.480 time to grow, because right now the attachment of those new shoots is a 700 00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:07.079 little weak. They're pretty easily broken off probably, So give it a little 701 00:55:07.119 --> 00:55:09.920 more time to grow. Maybe a little later in this and as we get 702 00:55:09.960 --> 00:55:15.000 into summer, then go ahead and make a nice cut maybe a quarter inch 703 00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:22.039 above where that current attachment is on the trunk. Do you know what I'm 704 00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:25.760 saying? Yes? And okay, yeah, so you don't want to leave 705 00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:30.960 a trunk stub there. That'll just be a rotting, hollowed out area that 706 00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:35.840 long term is not good. Okay, Well, thank you so much, 707 00:55:36.039 --> 00:55:38.639 and we really enjoy you. It's a bitter so very easy to listen to 708 00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:43.239 and so full of information and anyway, we're so glad to have you now. 709 00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:45.800 Well, thank you. And by the way, you're the you're the 710 00:55:45.840 --> 00:55:51.079 winning caller today when it comes to patients. So thank you for hanging around. 711 00:55:51.119 --> 00:55:55.599 I hope that. Okay, great, thank you, you're beat well, 712 00:55:55.599 --> 00:56:00.440 you're listening to Guardline and we are here to answer your question. That's 713 00:56:00.440 --> 00:56:02.800 why we're here, and we encourage you to call. I you know I 714 00:56:02.920 --> 00:56:07.119 talk to I can't tell you how many people I talk to that they listen 715 00:56:07.159 --> 00:56:09.840 to Gardenline, but they never called in before. And I can just tell 716 00:56:09.920 --> 00:56:15.559 by looking at their face. There's like this little mini terror at the thought 717 00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:20.039 of being live on the air. It's only you and me. I think 718 00:56:20.079 --> 00:56:22.559 there may be one or two people listening. So take the pressure off yourself 719 00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:27.840 and just call. I promised to be kind and gentle and helpful. And 720 00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:30.519 there's no such thing as a stupid question. Just I know what you're thinking. 721 00:56:30.599 --> 00:56:34.159 Yeah, there are, but no, they're stupid answers. And so 722 00:56:34.199 --> 00:56:37.519 the problem and the pressure is on me. If you've got a question, 723 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:39.599 somebody else is going to have that question. We have people listening that are 724 00:56:40.119 --> 00:56:45.559 veteran gardeners. I've been doing this probably longer than I have. That's a 725 00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:47.960 long time. We have people that are brand new, they haven't even tried 726 00:56:47.960 --> 00:56:52.599 gardening yet, and they they just want some help and advice. So do 727 00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:58.480 give us a call. We'd love to answer your questions and try to help 728 00:56:58.519 --> 00:57:00.199 you in a way. We're gonna take a right now. But the number 729 00:57:00.239 --> 00:57:07.559 is seven one three, two one two five eight seven four. Enchanted Gardens 730 00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:12.320 and Enchanted Forests done in Richmond. I hope you've been there. If you 731 00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:16.079 haven't, you need to check them out. Amazing places, mystical enchanting places. 732 00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:21.320 If you will both of them. You know I was looking. I 733 00:57:21.400 --> 00:57:24.199 was actually at both of them within the past two weeks and just just looking 734 00:57:24.239 --> 00:57:28.360 at the supply and what they have. 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Let's head out to Katie and talk to John. 744 00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:37.320 Hello, John, Hello, Good good morning, good morning. Question 745 00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:40.800 for you. My daughter, she lives in Katie. Also, her backyard 746 00:58:40.960 --> 00:58:47.800 is being overgrown with mint. The neighbor was growing some mint and it has 747 00:58:47.840 --> 00:58:52.880 spread and it's a fast grower and it's about taking over half of her yard. 748 00:58:53.000 --> 00:58:55.719 Smells good when you moy, oh, doesn't it? Ever? I 749 00:58:55.880 --> 00:59:01.000 was just gonna say that, yeah, Well, you know, we have 750 00:59:01.039 --> 00:59:05.320 a we have a fertilizer called sweet green, and this would be like a 751 00:59:05.360 --> 00:59:09.440 sweet green lawn, right, you place and this wonderful sweet smell come up. 752 00:59:09.840 --> 00:59:14.000 Oh gosh. You know, there's not a great answer to that. 753 00:59:14.079 --> 00:59:17.719 It's a broad leaf. It's got underground rhizomes that are there's helping it spread, 754 00:59:19.199 --> 00:59:21.679 just getting it out of all. The only thing I can think of 755 00:59:22.440 --> 00:59:27.760 is it seems like it might come up faster and higher than the lawn. 756 00:59:27.960 --> 00:59:30.880 And if if you could go with that molent for long enough and then use 757 00:59:31.159 --> 00:59:37.079 sort of a wiper type applicator on the mint that would be applying a product. 758 00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:40.599 These these things often look like a hockey stick or something there there are 759 00:59:40.639 --> 00:59:45.079 a smartings on the end, and you would just wipe the mint with this 760 00:59:45.159 --> 00:59:50.480 product and the lawn below wouldn't get any of the product on it, you 761 00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:53.480 know, at least not much. Uh. And that's the only thing I 762 00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:58.639 can think of, John h to kill mint in a lawn without killing the 763 00:59:58.719 --> 01:00:02.880 lawn. Yeah, it's just I mean, you could use a broad leaf, 764 01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:07.920 you could use a broad leaf product. Uh, just don't delay. 765 01:00:07.000 --> 01:00:14.079 I mean, actually, I guess you probably the weed beater weed Beater Ultra 766 01:00:14.199 --> 01:00:16.360 product would probably be a good one that that ought to work. I can 767 01:00:16.360 --> 01:00:20.519 tell you it's not going to have mental on the label though, so I 768 01:00:20.599 --> 01:00:24.599 can't I can't guarantee you that that it would work, but it kills over 769 01:00:24.599 --> 01:00:29.760 two hundred broad leaf weeds, so it probably probably would work just fine. 770 01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:34.199 Another one you might want to try is Fertilum has one called weed free Zone. 771 01:00:35.119 --> 01:00:37.639 The same kind of product or same kind of action, a little bit 772 01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:42.679 a little bit different chemistry, but basically very similar. And if you try 773 01:00:42.719 --> 01:00:47.719 those and you do it before the temperature gets up the upper eighties, mid 774 01:00:47.840 --> 01:00:52.400 upper eighties, so that means get it done pretty quick here you may see 775 01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:55.159 a response from it on that. I don't know. But with mint, 776 01:00:55.320 --> 01:00:59.480 my gut is that you're probably gonna have to treat him again a little bit 777 01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:05.280 later, just because there's so much material underground to be able to weather that 778 01:01:05.400 --> 01:01:08.719 storm and have a little bit of life left to come back. Okay, 779 01:01:09.559 --> 01:01:14.280 all right, well, thank you, all right, good luck. We 780 01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:19.639 Yeah, I remember we had mint that escaped into the yard and know it's 781 01:01:19.679 --> 01:01:22.760 growing up, and I always look forward to mowing over that area because the 782 01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:27.360 fragrant, fragrant smell of it. But we lived in a more arid climate 783 01:01:27.400 --> 01:01:32.039 where the mint was not as likely to just proliferate it. Mint doesn't like 784 01:01:32.119 --> 01:01:36.559 to get too dry, that's for sure. You're listening to garden Line. 785 01:01:36.719 --> 01:01:40.000 I'm your host, Skip Richter. Our phone number is seven one three two 786 01:01:40.039 --> 01:01:47.159 one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 787 01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:52.559 four. We're talking about myths earlier with the putting gravel in the bottom of 788 01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:55.679 a pot. Don't put gravel in the bottom pot does no good at all, 789 01:01:55.760 --> 01:01:59.760 no matter what to think. Trust me, this is a physics problem. 790 01:02:00.039 --> 01:02:04.400 So there's a a horticulture problem. The physics of water moving in the 791 01:02:04.440 --> 01:02:09.519 soil is that you have to oversaturate the soil above the gravel before the water 792 01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:15.280 drips out, but with a capillary action that pulls water to smaller spaces and 793 01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:20.760 that's called your potting soil in there compared to the gravel smaller spaces. So 794 01:02:21.119 --> 01:02:23.239 anyway, believe me or not believing, that's true. By the way, 795 01:02:23.360 --> 01:02:28.360 we're getting a lot of rain. So after this rain you need to do 796 01:02:28.440 --> 01:02:32.960 a little quick perusal through the yard. Find out where you might have standing 797 01:02:32.960 --> 01:02:37.519 water. That could be a sagging gutter, that could be a could be 798 01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:43.360 bird bath, it could be the catch basins underneath your plants, any little 799 01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:47.039 spot where you have still stagnant water, the mosquitoes will drop their eggs in 800 01:02:47.079 --> 01:02:51.519 there and in a very short time they go through their life cycle and now 801 01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:55.320 your little outdoor patio enjoyment area becomes a battle zone, right, So we 802 01:02:55.360 --> 01:02:59.159 want to avoid that everywhere you can get rid of standing water and get your 803 01:02:59.159 --> 01:03:01.679 neighbors to do it, is a way to cut down on the number of 804 01:03:01.719 --> 01:03:06.000 mosquito problems. Now, if you've got stagnant water that you know you can't 805 01:03:06.039 --> 01:03:09.400 just get rid of, maybe it's a little pond or something like that. 806 01:03:09.920 --> 01:03:14.199 A mosquito dunk works. Mosquito dunks, you throw them in, They last 807 01:03:14.239 --> 01:03:17.920 about a month. They controlled mosquitoes. Naturally, that's just another option for 808 01:03:19.039 --> 01:03:22.119 controlling mosquitoes. But the dunks are really they're really cool product and easy and 809 01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:25.119 especially the fact that they're so safe. They won't harm pets, they warn't 810 01:03:25.119 --> 01:03:30.559 harm you know, people, they don't harm birds or fish or whatever, 811 01:03:30.239 --> 01:03:35.800 because they're a disease of mosquitoes. To be nerdy about it, it's a 812 01:03:35.880 --> 01:03:38.920 specific kind of BT. You know, have a BT for caterpillars, the 813 01:03:38.960 --> 01:03:45.199 well, mosquito dunks are a different version of BT that works on mosquito larvae 814 01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:49.960 work really well. Very effective, very effective product. Well, let's see, 815 01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:52.840 we're getting kind of close to time to head out of here. We're 816 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:58.840 gonna take a break and we'll be back for the next hour. I'm gonna 817 01:03:58.920 --> 01:04:02.440 make a few more comments before we do go to break, though. We 818 01:04:02.599 --> 01:04:08.880 were discussing mosquito dunks, and we're discussing nuts edge and some other things earlier. 819 01:04:09.119 --> 01:04:12.840 Nuts edge being one of those weeds that it's just so difficult to control. 820 01:04:12.880 --> 01:04:15.280 And another one would be the bermuda grass. It's it's one reason why 821 01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:19.760 I'm hesitant about a bermuda grass lawn because it just loves to invade flower bedge. 822 01:04:19.760 --> 01:04:24.440 It doesn't understand where we want it to stop growing. But when you 823 01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:27.760 have those kind of problems, you need something. You either need to dig 824 01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:32.480 out those rhizomes or nuts or runners whatever underneath the surface, or you need 825 01:04:32.519 --> 01:04:36.880 to spray a product that will go down in there and kill those kill those 826 01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:42.559 runners, and don't delay. I mean, so many people, if you 827 01:04:42.599 --> 01:04:45.800 put a garden bed out on your lawn, maybe you want to get one 828 01:04:45.840 --> 01:04:47.760 of these vego beds and set it up out there on the lawn. If 829 01:04:47.800 --> 01:04:50.400 you have nuts, if you have bermuda grass in the lawn. It's going 830 01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:54.159 to come up in the bed because there's no bottom on the bed, I 831 01:04:54.199 --> 01:04:57.280 mean, which is the way it should be a connect to the soil directly. 832 01:04:57.920 --> 01:05:00.960 Well, if you got to get rid of that first, I mean, 833 01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:03.960 go to great links to get rid of it before you create a garden 834 01:05:04.000 --> 01:05:09.440 bed in that area, because it when it gets into beds now we're trying 835 01:05:09.480 --> 01:05:14.079 to control it around our vegetables or around our flowers, and it just becomes 836 01:05:14.320 --> 01:05:19.199 much more tedious to do. So we want to avoid that weed at all 837 01:05:19.239 --> 01:05:26.199 costs. I used to work in Austin and we had an organic farm, 838 01:05:26.840 --> 01:05:30.519 old organic farm in the city of Austin, which was kind of cool, 839 01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:35.159 several acres and they you know, when you're organic, you can't just grab 840 01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:38.960 the round up to kill the nuts edge. I mean you can't grab the 841 01:05:39.360 --> 01:05:43.639 the grass only killers, excuse me, the bermuda grass. You can't grab 842 01:05:43.639 --> 01:05:47.079 the grass only killers either, because your organic can't use those things. And 843 01:05:47.159 --> 01:05:50.480 so they called it. Their name for it was Lamalamu head or a bad 844 01:05:50.519 --> 01:05:56.239 woman. That was their name for bermuda grass in the beds. We did 845 01:05:56.239 --> 01:06:01.079 some experiments on their farm where we spread out groundcover cloth, a large like 846 01:06:01.320 --> 01:06:05.559 fifty foot across groundcover cloth through the whole section of the farm. Left it 847 01:06:05.599 --> 01:06:11.280 on for several months, and it did an awesome job of taking that bermuda 848 01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:15.000 grass down to just a very minor type of problem. Because it grows underneath 849 01:06:15.039 --> 01:06:17.800 there. It doesn't get light. It's moist and warm, so here it's 850 01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:21.159 growing. You pick up the cloth, it looks like spaghetti. Underneath there 851 01:06:21.199 --> 01:06:25.760 it's about the same color as spaghetti because it can't get any light, and 852 01:06:25.840 --> 01:06:30.880 that was one way that we found to try to overcome that. But anyway, 853 01:06:30.960 --> 01:06:34.840 just some thoughts. I've done number of experiments with the cloth for bermuda 854 01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:40.559 grass control, and I also did one once for nuts edge control. So 855 01:06:41.559 --> 01:06:45.639 I hope you are getting a few good tips today. This is garden Line. 856 01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:49.320 I'll be back after the break. Our phone number is seven one three 857 01:06:49.639 --> 01:06:55.119 two one two fifty eight seventy four. That's seven one three two one two 858 01:06:55.679 --> 01:07:04.079 kt r H. We We have so many ACE Hardware's here in the Greater 859 01:07:04.119 --> 01:07:09.039 Houston area that is just it's just convenient to find one. And if you 860 01:07:09.119 --> 01:07:13.119 want to find one ACE Hardware dot com, you can find the one nearest 861 01:07:13.280 --> 01:07:17.280 you. ACE hardware is it's that hardware store you grew up knowing about, 862 01:07:17.400 --> 01:07:20.880 you know, where they knew what they were talking about. They greeted you, 863 01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:25.639 they knew you, and they directed you right to what they need. 864 01:07:25.719 --> 01:07:30.079 Well, that's true of ACE hardwarees, but so much more is true their 865 01:07:30.119 --> 01:07:32.519 garden sections, the products they carry. It's everything we talk about here on 866 01:07:32.559 --> 01:07:36.440 the show. They've got it and then some. I mean I've spent thirty 867 01:07:36.440 --> 01:07:40.840 minutes just going down the line of products, noticing what they have, reading 868 01:07:40.880 --> 01:07:45.239 about them, and learning about them. Pretty cool stuff. Ace Hardware dot 869 01:07:45.280 --> 01:08:09.480 Com. Check them out. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 870 01:08:09.519 --> 01:08:15.119 the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with 871 01:08:15.359 --> 01:08:33.920 Scared Rictor Just watching. Were good Sunday morning, on a good morning to 872 01:08:33.960 --> 01:08:38.000 be inside, looking out inside watching right. I actually see a lot of 873 01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:40.399 break in the clouds, but I know that's not going to hold up. 874 01:08:41.159 --> 01:08:45.039 But anyway, we appreciate rain. We just wish we could divvy it out 875 01:08:45.159 --> 01:08:47.840 a little more evenly through the year, don't we. About the time we 876 01:08:47.920 --> 01:08:53.199 start complaining about rain. We were reminded of the fact that sometimes in summer 877 01:08:53.600 --> 01:08:57.680 it gets a little bit dicey where we're trying to keep the plants alive with 878 01:08:57.800 --> 01:09:00.960 water and just no rainfall. So we're gonna say thank you that it's raining 879 01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:06.600 today and be glad for that. I um. I was out working in 880 01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:13.760 my lawn this past week doing some I've got cypress trees, and they send 881 01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:15.840 those knees up. I wish they were the type of cypress that don't send 882 01:09:15.920 --> 01:09:19.239 knees by the way, we do have those. A Montezuma cypress is one, 883 01:09:19.760 --> 01:09:24.239 but boy, I've got a heavy glay soil and in that lack of 884 01:09:24.279 --> 01:09:28.039 oxygen, soil conditions are popping knees up everywhere. So I hadn't just a 885 01:09:28.079 --> 01:09:30.039 grubbing hoe out there. There's a little trip to it, by the way, 886 01:09:30.439 --> 01:09:34.279 older gentleman told me about that. You know, pop hit it on 887 01:09:34.279 --> 01:09:38.039 one side with a grubbinhoe on one side of the knee, and then go 888 01:09:38.079 --> 01:09:41.199 to the other side, so you're kind of cutting the route going into the 889 01:09:41.239 --> 01:09:43.640 knee and coming out of the knee, and it pops out pretty easy, 890 01:09:43.880 --> 01:09:46.439 but it's not fun to do that. I was out doing that in my 891 01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:49.760 yard and I just noticed I have a section of yard where i'd i'd put 892 01:09:49.800 --> 01:09:54.960 down some Microlife fertilizer and it was a six two four. That's the green 893 01:09:55.000 --> 01:09:59.239 bag. And also, by the way, when you do the green bag, 894 01:09:59.319 --> 01:10:01.600 you also do the Humates plus, which is the purple bag. We 895 01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:09.359 call that composted or concentrated compost in a bag. But the lawn, it's 896 01:10:09.479 --> 01:10:12.800 kicking in, it's greening up, it's beautiful, and I'm going to get 897 01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:15.239 that gradual release from that over time. Now, if you if you're looking 898 01:10:15.239 --> 01:10:18.479 for nitro foss, you're going to find it. If you go online, 899 01:10:18.560 --> 01:10:27.039 go to Microlife or Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com to find your Microlife 900 01:10:27.159 --> 01:10:31.680 fertilizer. They have all the different products. They've got not just lawn fertilizers, 901 01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:35.000 but a one hundred other things. But right now, let's focus on 902 01:10:35.039 --> 01:10:39.000 the lawn and make sure we get it up and growing in green. And 903 01:10:39.800 --> 01:10:44.039 I was really pleased with the way mine has been greening up. We are 904 01:10:44.479 --> 01:10:46.800 let's see, we are available by phone. Guess what this is? A 905 01:10:46.880 --> 01:10:53.760 callin Joe seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three 906 01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:59.800 two one two five eight seven four one. Thing I didn't mention this morning 907 01:11:00.159 --> 01:11:03.960 talking to anything much about vegetables, and it is a great time to be 908 01:11:04.000 --> 01:11:08.840 out in the vegetable garden. All those things we planted, you know, 909 01:11:08.880 --> 01:11:13.960 when we got past the danger of frosts, things like green beans and tomatoes 910 01:11:14.039 --> 01:11:17.039 and cucumbers and summer squash and those things, they're all being harvested now. 911 01:11:17.640 --> 01:11:21.840 I've noticed on the summer squash, and you will see this, like the 912 01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:28.479 yellow squash crook neck or straight neck, for example, You'll see little whiskers 913 01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:32.039 growing on a fruit and then the fruit just collapses and rots away, and 914 01:11:32.079 --> 01:11:36.359 that is a fungal disease on the fruit. And you want to pick those 915 01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:40.720 off and get them out of the garden because those whiskers are going to prove 916 01:11:40.800 --> 01:11:45.279 spores that will reinfect. Avoid overhead watering too, by the way, that 917 01:11:45.399 --> 01:11:48.600 we're not able to avoid overhead watering today, are we, But where it's 918 01:11:48.640 --> 01:11:53.000 in your control, eavesdrop or something else, because every time you get fruit 919 01:11:53.000 --> 01:11:57.439 wet, squash fruit wet, you increase the chance of different kinds of diseases. 920 01:11:57.439 --> 01:12:00.239 It might affect the plant, so you don't avoid that. But I 921 01:12:00.279 --> 01:12:03.680 was noticing some of that on the plants, and it's it's easy to deal 922 01:12:03.720 --> 01:12:08.039 with. But the thing I like about this part of the season is we 923 01:12:08.079 --> 01:12:11.800 also are putting in our warm season, our hot season gardening, if you 924 01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:15.600 will, And we have a lot of vegetables that do well here, and 925 01:12:15.680 --> 01:12:18.600 if you think about it, it makes sense. The problem. I don't 926 01:12:18.640 --> 01:12:21.920 know if it's a problem, but the issue with these vegetables is we don't 927 01:12:21.920 --> 01:12:27.199 know about them. You know, I grew up in our gardens or squash, 928 01:12:27.479 --> 01:12:31.520 cucumbers, tomatoes, you know, just the standard Texas garden vegetables. 929 01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:36.039 We have a lot of vegetables from parts of the world that have a somewhat 930 01:12:36.039 --> 01:12:42.119 similar climate, hot and humid, and those kind of vegetables they're very happy 931 01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:44.279 to be in the Houston summer if you just give them a little bit of 932 01:12:44.279 --> 01:12:49.039 water. And we have a number of greens. Malabar green grows and very 933 01:12:49.079 --> 01:12:55.359 well in hot weather. The Molecchia is a green that does very well here. 934 01:12:55.359 --> 01:12:58.239 In fact, you only need about two plants because it makes a little 935 01:12:58.239 --> 01:13:00.800 bush. It's an annual that is back in the winter, but you just 936 01:13:00.880 --> 01:13:04.560 trim the little tip side of the shoots for use as you would a green. 937 01:13:05.359 --> 01:13:10.199 Let's see another one. There's one call. It's a summer type of 938 01:13:10.279 --> 01:13:15.439 spinach. New Zealand spinach does pretty good here in the warm season. Amaranth, 939 01:13:15.880 --> 01:13:21.119 they're vegetable amorants. They have big, bold leaves that we would use 940 01:13:21.279 --> 01:13:26.760 as a summer vegetable. Anyway, the list, the list just goes on 941 01:13:26.840 --> 01:13:31.319 and on. There's a lot of options included with our summer vegetables, like 942 01:13:31.359 --> 01:13:35.920 okra and southern peas, which is black eyed peas, purple hull peas, 943 01:13:36.159 --> 01:13:41.560 cream peas, for example, all of those summer vegetables, sweet potatoes. 944 01:13:41.640 --> 01:13:45.319 You know, they take a long time to produce their potatoes, but you 945 01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:47.720 need to get them in now if you haven't done so already, to give 946 01:13:47.800 --> 01:13:53.119 them that time to be able to do that. And don't forget the cool 947 01:13:53.199 --> 01:13:57.720 season squash, the winter squash they call it, I shouldn't say cool season 948 01:13:57.800 --> 01:14:00.319 winter squash, And it's named that not as it grows in winter, but 949 01:14:00.439 --> 01:14:05.960 because it's stores into winter. So you take something like a pumpkin, a 950 01:14:06.560 --> 01:14:12.640 spaghetti squash, a butternut squash, an acorn squash. We let those go 951 01:14:12.720 --> 01:14:15.239 all the way to maturity before we harvest them. That's different than our summer 952 01:14:15.239 --> 01:14:18.520 squash. And then we can bring them in, put them on the counter, 953 01:14:18.680 --> 01:14:21.560 and they'll sit there for several months, depending on which kind of squash 954 01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:26.000 it is and the condition of it when you bring it in. But those 955 01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:30.840 are planted in the summer also at this time of the year, because we 956 01:14:31.159 --> 01:14:35.079 need to give them ninety days. Some pumpkins maybe one hundred and twenty days 957 01:14:35.399 --> 01:14:43.399 into harvest. But just remember on those watch the foliage for diseases. Number 958 01:14:43.399 --> 01:14:48.760 one reason we have problems growing something like a pumpkin or these squashes here is 959 01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:54.520 because the diseases get to their foliage. Powdery milder is one of the worst, 960 01:14:55.239 --> 01:15:00.359 and it just it'll essentially take out almost all the foliage and so you 961 01:15:00.439 --> 01:15:05.720 can't the plant can't make carbohydrates to make those fruit that we want to store 962 01:15:05.760 --> 01:15:11.239 and enjoy for months to come. And so you need to spray the foliage, 963 01:15:11.279 --> 01:15:15.520 whether you use organic products or synthetic, you need to protect that foliage 964 01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:20.600 from the diseases. And again, powdery mildew is a prime example. On 965 01:15:20.680 --> 01:15:25.439 those where you're listening to garden Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter, 966 01:15:25.640 --> 01:15:30.319 and our number is seven one three, two one two fifty eight seventy four. 967 01:15:31.119 --> 01:15:34.119 A little bit ago I was talking about microlife and you know, putting 968 01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:41.199 a fertilizer like that down on your lawn. 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Yeah, it's really interesting when you when 984 01:16:49.199 --> 01:16:51.880 you go to a place has a wide variety of products because a lot of 985 01:16:51.880 --> 01:16:58.880 the a lot of those stores that are let's say, big boxesh kind of 986 01:16:58.880 --> 01:17:01.640 things, the ones that are you know, big company, multiple store, 987 01:17:02.279 --> 01:17:06.039 you'll find products in there, but a lot of times the special products you're 988 01:17:06.039 --> 01:17:10.279 looking for you may not be able to find in there, and of course 989 01:17:10.279 --> 01:17:14.600 you're not going to get any help in there and directing you from a horticulturally 990 01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:19.199 educated perspective on which product you might need to use. And that's that's really 991 01:17:19.239 --> 01:17:24.640 important. You know, we're always talking about our our mom and pop nurseries, 992 01:17:24.680 --> 01:17:30.439 are independent garden centers and places you know like uh, Southwest Fertilizer. 993 01:17:30.239 --> 01:17:33.560 There. In those kinds of places, you get people that take you to 994 01:17:33.600 --> 01:17:38.560 what you need and that that's important and by the way they carry the things 995 01:17:38.560 --> 01:17:42.840 that you need to Well, this is a call in show seven one three, 996 01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:45.159 two, one two, five eight seven four. So let's go and 997 01:17:45.279 --> 01:17:49.680 we're gonna go to Pallasha and talk to Greg are Craig. Hello, Craig, 998 01:17:53.359 --> 01:17:58.359 were Hey good morning, Yes, good morning, I'm along time listen. 999 01:17:58.399 --> 01:18:02.680 Never called because might normally get my answers answers before my question, before 1000 01:18:02.680 --> 01:18:08.119 I've even asked them. So I was listening. But I've got a new 1001 01:18:08.119 --> 01:18:13.760 one I've never had before. Um. In November, I planted some oak 1002 01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:17.159 trees, some big ones, the four inches across at the base. I 1003 01:18:17.199 --> 01:18:21.039 don't know what gallon size of it, but it's big. Um. And 1004 01:18:21.119 --> 01:18:26.640 I did what the nursery recommended for me to do. They asked. They 1005 01:18:26.680 --> 01:18:30.079 told me, if dig a hole the size of your root ball, put 1006 01:18:30.119 --> 01:18:32.119 it in the hole and pack it in real tight. Saw up on doing 1007 01:18:32.239 --> 01:18:35.880 so. I'm kind of in a windy wind throne area, but I figured 1008 01:18:35.960 --> 01:18:40.199 that the size of the root ball and such that the trees were gonna be 1009 01:18:40.239 --> 01:18:44.359 good to go. Nope, um bye. Week ago a storm came through 1010 01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:48.560 and blew the oaks over to about thirty degrees off ninety quite a bit. 1011 01:18:49.439 --> 01:18:58.119 So when I and they and so the whole fill up with water and pulled 1012 01:18:58.159 --> 01:19:00.920 the pulled the trees up straight vertical and this time staked them off. But 1013 01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:05.359 in doing so it raised the trees probably to some two inches some three inches. 1014 01:19:05.560 --> 01:19:09.319 Yep. It raised them up because of the sentiment. I suppose that 1015 01:19:09.399 --> 01:19:13.039 I un'erneath the tree. That's right, that's what happens. Yeah. I 1016 01:19:13.159 --> 01:19:17.239 dug a hole adjacent to the root ball bigger, put a coffican in it, 1017 01:19:17.760 --> 01:19:20.560 and drained all the water out for a couple left the water seep into 1018 01:19:20.560 --> 01:19:25.760 that hole for a couple of days, and got as much water by natural 1019 01:19:25.840 --> 01:19:29.960 drainage as I could out. But now I'm worried that of course I've got 1020 01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:32.640 I've got an air pocket in there because of the one side that was touching 1021 01:19:32.680 --> 01:19:36.159 the ground that got raised up. And I'm so and I've got a so 1022 01:19:36.199 --> 01:19:39.920 I've got air pocket. I know, I've got saturated roots that and it's 1023 01:19:39.960 --> 01:19:43.439 a real, real dense clay. I mean, this is like concrete clay. 1024 01:19:43.720 --> 01:19:46.640 Yeah, what when I make sure I do to I don't lose these 1025 01:19:46.640 --> 01:19:50.399 trees? Yeah, Well what a situation. And not an unusual one though, 1026 01:19:50.840 --> 01:19:56.720 Craig. So when a tree blows over, it's always a good idea 1027 01:19:56.760 --> 01:20:01.359 to get in the hole and dig out what is probably washed first, as 1028 01:20:01.439 --> 01:20:05.239 you as you were describing you know this, uh, and and get it 1029 01:20:05.359 --> 01:20:10.960 staked upright. And I'm gonna talk about staking in just a moment. But 1030 01:20:11.039 --> 01:20:15.159 I wouldn't worry at this point about like an air pocket under it. I 1031 01:20:15.199 --> 01:20:17.840 think that with the root ball from the container and everything, you're probably going 1032 01:20:17.920 --> 01:20:21.279 to be okay, and you know it. You don't need to go to 1033 01:20:21.279 --> 01:20:26.920 the great lengths of essentially almost digging it up and replanting it. But I 1034 01:20:27.000 --> 01:20:31.439 would I would make sure that it's staked from three directions would be best. 1035 01:20:31.960 --> 01:20:39.319 Make sure that one steak is pointing toward the southwest, especially because that's the 1036 01:20:39.359 --> 01:20:44.399 prevailing wind and so you've got a real direct line holding it. Make sure 1037 01:20:44.439 --> 01:20:47.840 the lines you use number one are not stuff that like a wire that would 1038 01:20:47.880 --> 01:20:51.960 cut into the branches or cut into the trunk something us, something that's designed 1039 01:20:51.960 --> 01:20:56.199 to go around a tree, a strap, or there's other plastic gadgets. 1040 01:20:56.800 --> 01:21:01.000 But leave the wires slightly loose, just a little bit, because you want 1041 01:21:01.039 --> 01:21:04.119 that trunk to move. You don't want the tree to blow over, but 1042 01:21:04.199 --> 01:21:08.680 you want to allow it to move just a little bit and that will help 1043 01:21:08.720 --> 01:21:13.199 strengthen the trunk. And you should not leave need to leave those steaks on 1044 01:21:13.680 --> 01:21:17.439 past oh, let's say six months to definitely not past a year from now. 1045 01:21:17.800 --> 01:21:21.439 That tree will be well rooted in. And the issue with your soil, 1046 01:21:21.680 --> 01:21:26.000 you know, it is what it is, and we can't fix that. 1047 01:21:26.199 --> 01:21:29.119 All we can do is try to pick species that are going to do 1048 01:21:29.199 --> 01:21:31.239 well in that soil. And you know, the live oaks are good a 1049 01:21:31.319 --> 01:21:34.920 good species. I mean, Houston is basically a live oak forest. It's 1050 01:21:34.960 --> 01:21:39.760 really there are a lot of live oaks around here. So I think do 1051 01:21:40.079 --> 01:21:43.079 you have a follow up on that or does that kind of answer your question? 1052 01:21:44.199 --> 01:21:46.479 Well, I'm cool. Worried about you would some sort of any black 1053 01:21:46.520 --> 01:21:49.439 root rot or something setting in, something that's going to kill it from below 1054 01:21:49.479 --> 01:21:53.920 that that I can't see. Well, it won't kill it, but it 1055 01:21:53.960 --> 01:21:58.800 will kill some roots down there. And I you know, again, are 1056 01:21:58.800 --> 01:22:03.800 there live oaks in your neighbor? Do you see live oaks around? Actually? 1057 01:22:04.600 --> 01:22:06.960 Yes, but very few. I'm right on the bait, right on 1058 01:22:06.960 --> 01:22:11.279 the right on mya goor to bait. You know, I've seen a couple 1059 01:22:11.319 --> 01:22:14.159 of us are Yeah. Well, I think it's gonna be fine. I 1060 01:22:14.159 --> 01:22:16.039 would straighten it up and just you know, take good care of it, 1061 01:22:16.039 --> 01:22:18.960 give a little fertilizer, make sure you keep it mulch, keep the lawnmown, 1062 01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:23.319 weedier away, and I think that's the best you can do, and 1063 01:22:23.359 --> 01:22:26.159 that I think is gonna do good. Craig, Hey, I'm gonna have 1064 01:22:26.199 --> 01:22:29.560 to run. I'm pushing up against a break here. Our phone number seven 1065 01:22:29.640 --> 01:22:43.119 one three two one two five eight seven four. Well, you're listening to 1066 01:22:43.439 --> 01:22:47.640 garden Line on a nice Sunday morning. To be inside listening to the radio 1067 01:22:47.680 --> 01:22:51.239 and maybe call on the radio. Our number is seven one three two one 1068 01:22:51.319 --> 01:22:56.840 two fifty eight seventy four. You. We were just talking with Craig about 1069 01:22:56.880 --> 01:23:00.039 the uprooted tree and it just reminded me when when you plant a tree, 1070 01:23:00.319 --> 01:23:04.760 and I just am so happy to see this new product out that that they 1071 01:23:04.760 --> 01:23:09.600 have called tree Hugger sprinklers. When you plant a tree, you need to 1072 01:23:09.640 --> 01:23:13.239 invest the small amount of money in that little sprinkler to take care of the 1073 01:23:13.359 --> 01:23:15.880 large amount of money you put in that tree. And so they have them 1074 01:23:15.920 --> 01:23:18.880 in seven inch, they have them eleven and fifteen and it goes around the 1075 01:23:18.920 --> 01:23:23.119 tree and when you turn the water on, you can turn it on, 1076 01:23:23.439 --> 01:23:26.479 you know, with a lot of pressure and make in water a big area, 1077 01:23:26.880 --> 01:23:28.960 or you can have it just you know, come up where it's just 1078 01:23:29.039 --> 01:23:31.920 spouting a couple inches above the sprinkler if you want to water that root ball. 1079 01:23:31.960 --> 01:23:35.319 And we're going into summer, so trees that you've been planting, you 1080 01:23:35.359 --> 01:23:43.199 know, let's say since January especially, they're not getting that root system fully 1081 01:23:43.319 --> 01:23:47.640 established out into the lawn around them. And so that root cylinder that came 1082 01:23:47.640 --> 01:23:50.119 out of the pot is where all the roots are. And that's why the 1083 01:23:50.119 --> 01:23:55.760 tree hugger works so well and helping protect that investment. You can find out 1084 01:23:55.800 --> 01:23:59.880 more about them at TreeHugger Sprinklers dot Com. I find them in independent nurse 1085 01:24:00.119 --> 01:24:03.279 centers. Certainly hardware stores like Ace Hardware is going to have them. Tree 1086 01:24:03.319 --> 01:24:08.359 Hugger Sprinklers dot Com is well worth it, and so I would encourage you 1087 01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:13.119 to just protect that investment that you put in a really nice tree or shrub 1088 01:24:13.239 --> 01:24:15.439 or rosebush. They weren't great on roses, to protect them with a tree 1089 01:24:15.520 --> 01:24:20.399 Hugger sprinkler and you have a lot better results. The trees are one of 1090 01:24:20.439 --> 01:24:23.680 the things that make the phone ring. You know, we say we got 1091 01:24:23.680 --> 01:24:28.560 trees, turf, and tomatoes, Well, the three tees trees are definitely 1092 01:24:28.600 --> 01:24:30.399 one of them. We get a lot of calls on trees and questions about 1093 01:24:30.399 --> 01:24:34.800 trees. I've talked to you before about Affordable Tree Service, but we only 1094 01:24:35.000 --> 01:24:41.720 we only have one tree service that we really advocate for here on garden Line, 1095 01:24:41.760 --> 01:24:45.319 and that is Affordable Tree Service. You can go to aff Tree Service 1096 01:24:45.359 --> 01:24:48.279 dot com or just call call Martin and Joe. Just call them seven one 1097 01:24:48.399 --> 01:24:54.520 three six nine nine two six six three seven one three six nine two six 1098 01:24:54.600 --> 01:24:57.439 sixty three. Make sure you tell them that you're a garden Line customer. 1099 01:24:57.880 --> 01:25:00.720 Martin. By the way, if Martin or Joe don't answer, hang up, 1100 01:25:00.760 --> 01:25:03.800 You've called the wrong place with Affordable in the name. Unfortunately, there's 1101 01:25:03.840 --> 01:25:08.600 more than one Affordable Tree Service. Martin and Joe, that's who you want 1102 01:25:08.640 --> 01:25:12.560 to talk to. They do everything your tree needs, from planting, deep 1103 01:25:12.640 --> 01:25:16.439 roof, feeding, pest control, pruning on the tree. They come out 1104 01:25:16.439 --> 01:25:20.680 and do bids for free. And the experience that they have, they know 1105 01:25:20.720 --> 01:25:25.600 what they're doing, and that's why we are so fond of their service and 1106 01:25:25.640 --> 01:25:30.600 we can depend on them because every time I've talked to several garden Line listeners 1107 01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:33.600 who've had Affordable Tree Service work done, and you know, I mean, 1108 01:25:33.640 --> 01:25:38.840 it's like they feel like a friend just showed up and someone they can trust 1109 01:25:39.000 --> 01:25:43.319 someone that doesn't oversell, that takes care of them, and boy, that's 1110 01:25:43.319 --> 01:25:46.640 the kind of stuff I like to hear. Well our phone number seven one 1111 01:25:46.439 --> 01:25:50.039 three two one two five eight seven four. I'm going to head out to 1112 01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:55.560 Lake Livingston and we're going to talk to Bob. Hello Bob, Good morning, 1113 01:25:55.560 --> 01:25:59.359 Skip. How are we doing today? We're doing well. Good good. 1114 01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:03.439 Hey, you were talking about the knees on your cypress tree. I've 1115 01:26:03.479 --> 01:26:09.760 got property at Lake Livingston. I've got a beautiful cypress that is probably about 1116 01:26:09.800 --> 01:26:13.640 thirty feets on the bulkhead, and you know, of course on a ride 1117 01:26:13.640 --> 01:26:16.960 and mower man, I feel like I'm just getting bounced all around because of 1118 01:26:16.960 --> 01:26:21.359 these knees. Yeah, tell me again, how to can I Can I 1119 01:26:21.439 --> 01:26:27.319 brain those down? You were talking earlier about your issues. Yeah, yeah, 1120 01:26:27.640 --> 01:26:29.560 first of all, there's not gonna be a good answer. But here's 1121 01:26:29.840 --> 01:26:32.800 here's some answers. I used to use like a reciprocating saw and just cut 1122 01:26:32.840 --> 01:26:38.680 them off at the surface. And I don't know that that's a hard cut. 1123 01:26:38.960 --> 01:26:43.399 Even putting a printing blade into a ciprocating saw still didn't make it that 1124 01:26:43.640 --> 01:26:47.079 workable. But you got a route that's running along not far underneath the surface, 1125 01:26:47.560 --> 01:26:51.119 and then a knee pops up somewhere on the route, and so you 1126 01:26:51.159 --> 01:26:57.079 can kind of Usually if you look at the tree and hitch your grubbing hoe 1127 01:26:57.119 --> 01:27:00.960 on that side of the knee, you're gonna be catching the root coming from 1128 01:27:01.000 --> 01:27:04.039 the tree. Something. They don't always run just directly out from the tree, 1129 01:27:04.039 --> 01:27:09.159 but that's always a good guest. But one good hard chop on the 1130 01:27:09.359 --> 01:27:14.880 both tree side and they away from the tree side on each side usually pops 1131 01:27:14.880 --> 01:27:16.800 those things right out. Sometimes you got knees that are already big, you 1132 01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:19.439 know, maybe you have sought them off so many times that now they're six 1133 01:27:19.479 --> 01:27:24.199 inches across. Well that's gonna take a little more work. But I'm telling 1134 01:27:24.239 --> 01:27:28.399 you I understand the pain with mowing over them. You can't run barefoot hit 1135 01:27:28.479 --> 01:27:31.840 yard because oh my gosh, you even get your your feet and ankles. 1136 01:27:32.000 --> 01:27:34.560 Yeah, yeah, that was my thing. I thought, you know, 1137 01:27:34.800 --> 01:27:39.319 bringing some grinding guy. But yeah, I didn't want to affect the tree 1138 01:27:39.359 --> 01:27:45.600 because it's probably got a thirty six inch diameter trunk on it, and you 1139 01:27:45.640 --> 01:27:47.760 know, we don't really go over in that area. But yeah, just 1140 01:27:47.920 --> 01:27:51.199 you know, my fillings fall out of my mouth when I'm running over those 1141 01:27:51.239 --> 01:27:59.880 things with the mowery. Well, I thank you for your time, sir. 1142 01:28:00.600 --> 01:28:02.319 All right, thank you very much, Bob, appreciate that call. 1143 01:28:02.680 --> 01:28:08.439 Yeah, I wish I could go back forty years in time and get people 1144 01:28:08.439 --> 01:28:13.880 to plant Montezuma cypress or another strain that doesn't have the knees, because oh 1145 01:28:13.920 --> 01:28:16.319 my gosh, once you got them, you got them, and it's kind 1146 01:28:16.359 --> 01:28:20.399 of a pain, very much a pain in the neck to deal with. 1147 01:28:21.239 --> 01:28:24.600 You know, I've got a bill on the line. Bill. We're going 1148 01:28:24.640 --> 01:28:27.640 to come back to you after break. I want to give time for us 1149 01:28:27.720 --> 01:28:30.720 to be able to talk. But right now I'm just gonna just gonna talk 1150 01:28:30.720 --> 01:28:33.279 for a minute about a couple of things. We talked about fertilizing, and 1151 01:28:33.479 --> 01:28:39.079 when you fertilize your lawn, you need to put down azamite after your fertilization. 1152 01:28:39.199 --> 01:28:43.520 And that's because azamite is a product that has all the trace elements you 1153 01:28:43.560 --> 01:28:46.359 need for your lawn. So you fertilize and then you add the asamite. 1154 01:28:46.399 --> 01:28:50.800 Now, I use it in my vegetable gardens because asamite has nutrients that plants 1155 01:28:50.800 --> 01:28:54.880 don't need, but my body needs, and I want those nutrients to be 1156 01:28:55.000 --> 01:29:00.279 in the produce that I eat from the vegetable garden Asamite Texas dot com if 1157 01:29:00.279 --> 01:29:14.760 you'd like more information as and White Texas dot com. Well, good morning 1158 01:29:14.840 --> 01:29:18.840 on a good morning to be inside listening to a gardening show. This weather 1159 01:29:19.000 --> 01:29:23.479 is coming in bands, as Nikki said, and so it's a good time 1160 01:29:23.520 --> 01:29:27.800 to be inside. Hey, I wanted to mention on next Saturday, Saturday 1161 01:29:27.840 --> 01:29:30.680 the twentieth, I'll be at the Sugarland Home and Outdoor Living Show. It's 1162 01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:36.920 at the Stafford Center in Stafford. The Times or eleven thirty to one thirty. 1163 01:29:36.960 --> 01:29:41.079 So I hope all of you live out west, Southwest, even south 1164 01:29:41.319 --> 01:29:44.680 come on over there and let's meet. I'd love to meet you. Sugarland 1165 01:29:44.720 --> 01:29:48.479 Home an Outdoor Living Show next Saturday at the Stafford Center in Stafford from eleven 1166 01:29:48.600 --> 01:29:53.279 thirty to one thirty. Right now we're going to head out and talk to 1167 01:29:53.359 --> 01:29:56.920 Bill in the Woodlands. Good morning, Bill, and thanks for hanging on. 1168 01:29:58.000 --> 01:30:00.239 You're welcome. I never realized it took so long for all the news 1169 01:30:00.239 --> 01:30:05.119 and ads. Well, how can we help? Well, I've always wanted 1170 01:30:05.159 --> 01:30:09.520 to have an avocado tree, and I had a beautiful one in California, 1171 01:30:09.600 --> 01:30:14.239 and it's very disappointing here in the woodlands. I haven't had anybody give me 1172 01:30:14.319 --> 01:30:17.920 any encouragement on how I might be able to raise an outdoor avocado tree. 1173 01:30:18.159 --> 01:30:23.600 Okay, what are your thoughts on that? Well, here's the first thing 1174 01:30:23.680 --> 01:30:26.840 I would do. Because it'll call on the radio, I can't give you 1175 01:30:26.840 --> 01:30:29.880 the whole nine yards on raising an avocado. But if you will, go 1176 01:30:30.000 --> 01:30:36.399 to Agge hyphen Horticulture at dot TAMU dot edu, or you could just Google 1177 01:30:36.399 --> 01:30:41.680 search whatever for Aggy Horticulture. There's a web page and on that page is 1178 01:30:41.680 --> 01:30:45.840 a fruit and nut resources and there is a fact free fact sheet you can 1179 01:30:45.840 --> 01:30:49.439 look at online or download for every future you can imagine, including avocados. 1180 01:30:49.479 --> 01:30:54.039 So you can get a multi page, full color fact sheet that goes through 1181 01:30:54.039 --> 01:30:56.960 the whole nine yards on what you need to know about avocados. And I 1182 01:30:57.000 --> 01:30:59.600 would definitely start there. And if you have any follow up questions, feel 1183 01:30:59.600 --> 01:31:02.840 free, you know, to give us a call back. But that's the 1184 01:31:02.920 --> 01:31:10.119 most likely to survive? Uh, what is the most likely avocado variety? 1185 01:31:10.319 --> 01:31:14.119 Or what? What are you asking me to survive our cold weather here? 1186 01:31:14.239 --> 01:31:21.840 Yeah, so the Mexican avocado is probably the one that we use most here. 1187 01:31:21.920 --> 01:31:26.560 There's a Guatemalan and Mexican hybrids that are used. All that's in the 1188 01:31:26.600 --> 01:31:30.960 publication. You know the varieties. You'll see varieties like like lu lower wilma 1189 01:31:30.039 --> 01:31:34.560 for example. Uh. They they've proven to be hardy in places like San 1190 01:31:34.560 --> 01:31:39.319 Antonio, which is actually colder than here. Uh, that's where they originally 1191 01:31:39.359 --> 01:31:44.199 found some of these varieties that are now being spread around. Oh okay, 1192 01:31:44.359 --> 01:31:46.600 yeah, well, thank you. Yeah. The avocado in the store, 1193 01:31:47.079 --> 01:31:53.319 the black bumpy one is not hardy at all. And so if you plant. 1194 01:31:53.359 --> 01:31:56.039 Some people like to plant those seeds, stick toothpicks in them and put 1195 01:31:56.079 --> 01:31:59.800 them on a glass of water. That's fine, just for fun. But 1196 01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:03.680 don't grow that one and don't graft onto it, because then your rootstock isn't 1197 01:32:03.680 --> 01:32:08.680 hardy. But go by the kind that our quality quality. And when you 1198 01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:11.840 go to a good garden center, you know they're going to have the ones 1199 01:32:11.880 --> 01:32:15.399 that you need and they'll point you to them. Okay, thank you, 1200 01:32:15.520 --> 01:32:17.439 Emma. All right, Bill, thank you for that call. Let's head 1201 01:32:17.439 --> 01:32:20.560 out and out to League City. We're going to talk to Jason. Good 1202 01:32:20.560 --> 01:32:26.399 morning, Jason, A good morning, Skip. I've got some peach trees 1203 01:32:26.439 --> 01:32:30.600 that I've raised from seeds or I've got a couple of them are about a 1204 01:32:30.680 --> 01:32:32.680 year and a half old and some that are just about six months. Okay, 1205 01:32:32.960 --> 01:32:40.159 And and I'm getting some flies on the leaves, and I've also found 1206 01:32:40.199 --> 01:32:45.359 some ants in the pots that they're growing in right now, How can I 1207 01:32:45.439 --> 01:32:48.000 take care of this? Well, the flies, I know of no pest 1208 01:32:48.039 --> 01:32:53.479 of peaches that is anything like a fly on a leaf, so I think 1209 01:32:53.520 --> 01:32:58.000 those are incidental. There are different reasons that insects will go around to peach. 1210 01:32:58.039 --> 01:33:01.520 Peach have what peaches have what's called extra floral nectares. That means little 1211 01:33:01.560 --> 01:33:06.399 spots where the it's at the base of the leaves that secrete a sweet substance, 1212 01:33:06.520 --> 01:33:10.760 a nectar type substance, and you'll have insects that go to that, 1213 01:33:10.960 --> 01:33:14.399 especially wasps like it. But I don't know why the flies are there or 1214 01:33:14.399 --> 01:33:17.960 what they are, but they're not a pest of the tree itself. You 1215 01:33:18.039 --> 01:33:23.560 mentioned the ants and the pots, Those again are not going to be ants 1216 01:33:23.600 --> 01:33:26.840 that attack the tree or hurt the tree. If they're fire ants and you 1217 01:33:26.840 --> 01:33:30.840 don't want them, just get some, get a product called come and Get 1218 01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:34.640 It. I believe it's still made by Fertile Home, but come and get 1219 01:33:34.680 --> 01:33:38.560 it. Fire ant killer. It's an organic fireant killer. It's labeled to 1220 01:33:38.560 --> 01:33:42.079 be used in like vegetable gardens, food production. And you just put that 1221 01:33:42.159 --> 01:33:45.680 bet around and let them find it. Don't disturb them, mound and that 1222 01:33:45.000 --> 01:33:47.640 should take them out. If it's other kinds of ants, I wouldn't worry 1223 01:33:47.680 --> 01:33:53.079 at all. Okay, very good, all right, all right, thank 1224 01:33:53.079 --> 01:33:55.199 you very much. All right, thank you for the call, Jason. 1225 01:33:55.319 --> 01:34:00.880 I appreciate that call. You know, this is this is a season when 1226 01:34:00.039 --> 01:34:04.880 birds out in the landscape are raising their nests of young. In fact, 1227 01:34:04.880 --> 01:34:09.359 they're they're well into that process by now. And if you've never been into 1228 01:34:09.359 --> 01:34:12.560 a Wahbird's Unlimited store, I was in one the other day, and in 1229 01:34:12.600 --> 01:34:15.479 fact, I'm going to be at the new clear Lake store coming off. 1230 01:34:15.520 --> 01:34:19.000 I'll talk about that more later. It's like Saturday, May twenty seventh, 1231 01:34:19.000 --> 01:34:25.279 two saturdays from now. But wild birds, they just have everything you could 1232 01:34:25.319 --> 01:34:28.119 need, and they have the knowledge. You know, it's not just somebody 1233 01:34:28.199 --> 01:34:30.720 selling you, oh, here's a bag of quote bird feed. During the 1234 01:34:30.760 --> 01:34:34.960 nesting time, they'll sell you dried mealworms, which is exactly what birds need 1235 01:34:35.039 --> 01:34:40.239 that protein to be able to raise a nest. Of Young's bird seed is 1236 01:34:40.279 --> 01:34:44.760 not that helpful as the protein sources, but they know that kind of thing. 1237 01:34:44.880 --> 01:34:48.119 They can set you up with feeders with. By the way, it's 1238 01:34:48.119 --> 01:34:53.479 a good good Mother's Day gift there too. Maybe a hummingbird feeder would work 1239 01:34:53.520 --> 01:34:57.439 out. Check out Wallburg done. Let me go to the website here it 1240 01:34:57.479 --> 01:35:06.520 yes w BU dot Come and you will find the wild birds in your area 1241 01:35:09.920 --> 01:35:15.960 on these now well good Sunday morning, on a good morning to be inside 1242 01:35:16.079 --> 01:35:18.880 listening to a garden show. Nikki was talking about we had some clearing and 1243 01:35:18.920 --> 01:35:24.600 here comes the next band, just like she predicted coming over us. By 1244 01:35:24.640 --> 01:35:27.800 the way, I am going to be out at the Sugarland Home and Garden 1245 01:35:27.840 --> 01:35:30.760 Show next Saturday. Now I mentioned that come by and see me, you 1246 01:35:30.800 --> 01:35:33.960 know, at the booth. And it's always always the same instructions. Bring 1247 01:35:33.960 --> 01:35:39.640 me some plants, bring to identify, or bugs to identify or or diagnose 1248 01:35:39.720 --> 01:35:43.319 a problem. Bring me pictures on your phone. I'll be happy to look. 1249 01:35:43.359 --> 01:35:45.119 I'm moving there for an hour at the booth, just at the booth, 1250 01:35:45.159 --> 01:35:48.680 but the first hour I'm going to be doing a seminar in the classroom 1251 01:35:49.000 --> 01:35:53.760 to give you success tips for gardening. That starts at eleven thirty, So 1252 01:35:53.800 --> 01:35:57.119 I'll be there from eleven thirty to one thirty Sugarland Home and Garden Show, 1253 01:35:57.159 --> 01:36:00.840 Stafford's Center in Stafford. I hope you can get out. I always love 1254 01:36:00.920 --> 01:36:04.239 to meet meet listeners and help you work through some of the issues that you 1255 01:36:04.319 --> 01:36:08.399 might have with your plans. Well right now, our first of all, 1256 01:36:08.640 --> 01:36:11.760 not just right now. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 1257 01:36:12.199 --> 01:36:15.600 five eight seven four. Right now we're going to go to Southwest Houston and 1258 01:36:15.640 --> 01:36:21.039 talk to B. Good morning B, Good morning Skip U. I got 1259 01:36:21.039 --> 01:36:26.039 to ask about my parsley plan. I've never grown parsley before, and I 1260 01:36:26.119 --> 01:36:30.159 followed Randy's instructions and it was doing very well. And now it's got this 1261 01:36:30.359 --> 01:36:34.600 big stock in the middle of it, and it doesn't seem to be as 1262 01:36:34.680 --> 01:36:40.840 bushy. Should I cut the stalk off? You can do that. What 1263 01:36:40.960 --> 01:36:45.159 the parsley is doing is blooming. And this happens with cilantro, it happens 1264 01:36:45.159 --> 01:36:48.800 with parsley, It happens with our spinach, it happens with our lettuce. 1265 01:36:49.359 --> 01:36:55.479 As the days start to get longer, it signals the plant to bloom, 1266 01:36:55.520 --> 01:37:00.079 set seed, you know, and propagate itself if you will, so you 1267 01:37:00.119 --> 01:37:01.800 can cut that off. You may find that the bush doesn't do a whole 1268 01:37:01.800 --> 01:37:05.119 lot more past that, but I would give it time and see keep giving 1269 01:37:05.159 --> 01:37:09.119 it good care. But yeah, that's what's happening. By the way, 1270 01:37:09.159 --> 01:37:12.680 if you want to leave it. The blooms of parsley are very attractive to 1271 01:37:12.960 --> 01:37:15.760 some of the little beneficial insects, like the tiny wasps that attack aphids. 1272 01:37:16.399 --> 01:37:20.039 So sometimes I'll leave a few things in my garden to just bloom for that 1273 01:37:20.079 --> 01:37:26.479 purpose. What do the balloon look like? Uh, they're kind of umbrella 1274 01:37:26.600 --> 01:37:30.920 like covered like yarrow, I guess in a little bit or Queen annelais similar 1275 01:37:30.119 --> 01:37:34.680 somewhat similar to that, different in their own way, but they're they're that 1276 01:37:35.600 --> 01:37:40.359 umbelifery family, if you will. And it reminds the word reminds me of 1277 01:37:40.439 --> 01:37:45.119 umbrella because that's what the bloom looks like. But we'll still put out parsley 1278 01:37:45.239 --> 01:37:48.359 shoots. Uh, it may produce some more. I you know, in 1279 01:37:48.399 --> 01:37:51.439 the past, I've had my partially hang around for a while and I've also 1280 01:37:51.439 --> 01:37:58.520 had to die back. Oh you could, yeah, there's oh, okay, 1281 01:37:58.560 --> 01:38:00.760 woman, I'll do that. Good reason to do that. But again 1282 01:38:00.920 --> 01:38:05.600 that blooming is you know, for nature, it's a good thing. Oh 1283 01:38:05.640 --> 01:38:10.279 okay, well then I'll watch it bloom and then I'll buy a new partley 1284 01:38:10.319 --> 01:38:12.920 plant. There you go, there you go. Sounds like you've got a 1285 01:38:12.920 --> 01:38:15.800 plan. B. Thank you, Thank you so much for the call. 1286 01:38:15.840 --> 01:38:20.439 Appreciate that. Yeah, you know herbs and I don't. Sometimes I don't 1287 01:38:20.479 --> 01:38:25.199 know whether it calls some of the vegetable or a herb. But the herbs 1288 01:38:25.720 --> 01:38:29.640 just enhanced gardening in so many ways. They season our food and it's so 1289 01:38:29.640 --> 01:38:31.319 easy to grow erbs. You can grow partially in your vegetable garden, but 1290 01:38:31.399 --> 01:38:35.119 at the end of a row, I will grow a number of different herbs 1291 01:38:35.119 --> 01:38:40.199 at bloom in my vegetable garden, just to attract beneficials because you want them 1292 01:38:40.239 --> 01:38:44.800 to be hanging around and if you want success with gardens. Okay, this 1293 01:38:44.880 --> 01:38:48.159 is a garden line quiz. What is the most important thing you do if 1294 01:38:48.199 --> 01:38:53.680 you want to have a successful, a beautiful flower bed or a bountiful gart 1295 01:38:53.760 --> 01:38:57.520 vegetable garden. Well, I hope you said start with a soil, And 1296 01:38:57.560 --> 01:39:00.000 that's right. You do. Start with a soil. When you get the 1297 01:39:00.079 --> 01:39:06.720 soil right, everything thrives and Heirloom Soils is out in the porter. They 1298 01:39:06.760 --> 01:39:11.359 will deliver some of the products they have to you, but they can deliver 1299 01:39:11.560 --> 01:39:15.800 also in what's called a super sack, think of a big, old giant 1300 01:39:15.840 --> 01:39:19.199 grocery sack, but full of one cubic yard of the product that you bought. 1301 01:39:19.319 --> 01:39:25.239 Go to Heirlooms Soils of Texas dot com and when you're there, click 1302 01:39:25.319 --> 01:39:30.520 on their soil cubic yard calculator. And if you've got a little box that 1303 01:39:30.560 --> 01:39:32.159 you want to fill up with soil and you don't know how much to buy, 1304 01:39:32.640 --> 01:39:36.439 that will tell you exactly how much to buy. And the quality soils 1305 01:39:36.439 --> 01:39:41.239 they have will really make your garden do well. I've used them myself, 1306 01:39:41.439 --> 01:39:45.319 found them to be very very good. We're gonna stop talking about soil for 1307 01:39:45.319 --> 01:39:48.720 a saying. I want to go over and talk to Steve out in Tomball. 1308 01:39:49.239 --> 01:39:55.239 Good morning, Steve, good morning. I need a little advice. 1309 01:39:55.279 --> 01:40:00.680 This morning. I kind of made a bonehead mistake and I spray some image 1310 01:40:00.760 --> 01:40:06.840 lawn weed and crab grass killer on my Saint Augustine grass. And as it 1311 01:40:06.840 --> 01:40:12.239 turns out, it wasn't wasn't made for Saint Augustine and it's it's starting to 1312 01:40:12.399 --> 01:40:16.079 yellow, Okay, dying off obviously. Is there any remedy to that? 1313 01:40:16.760 --> 01:40:21.239 Not at this point. Just wait, It'll probably come out of it. 1314 01:40:21.479 --> 01:40:28.399 Yellowing is not unusual for even the regular image on grass. But I would 1315 01:40:29.239 --> 01:40:32.199 I would just give it time. There's no thing to make the herbicide go 1316 01:40:32.239 --> 01:40:35.119 away. You know that that's going to really help. It just needs a 1317 01:40:35.159 --> 01:40:40.680 little bit more time. Okay. Hopefully the damage isn't too severe and it 1318 01:40:40.720 --> 01:40:44.760 will bounce right back. Okay, okay, very good, appreciate it. 1319 01:40:44.840 --> 01:40:47.159 Thank you very much, Steve. Appreciate that, Carl very much. We're 1320 01:40:47.159 --> 01:40:53.560 gonna go to Rosenberg and talk to Rob. Good morning, Rob, Hey, 1321 01:40:53.640 --> 01:40:57.479 how you doing. Um? I have a question. I wanted to 1322 01:40:57.520 --> 01:41:02.439 plant some HMOs the trees out in my backyard for the shade, but I 1323 01:41:02.439 --> 01:41:05.600 don't see them around. I mean, I think is it pretty much? 1324 01:41:05.840 --> 01:41:10.239 Is it kind of a nuisance tree because of how fast it grows? Yeah? 1325 01:41:10.319 --> 01:41:14.359 I was one to wonder how how well it would do out here. 1326 01:41:15.039 --> 01:41:19.319 You know, people have mixed feelings about mimosas they don't live long. They 1327 01:41:19.359 --> 01:41:25.000 have the number of issues that can take them out eventually, but almost the 1328 01:41:25.079 --> 01:41:29.479 blooms are unbelievable, and the form of the tree is really attractive too. 1329 01:41:29.760 --> 01:41:33.439 So normally we don't consider trees to be like a perennial or something that we'd 1330 01:41:33.479 --> 01:41:35.840 have for a while and then get rid of. But that's that's the future. 1331 01:41:35.880 --> 01:41:40.800 If you plant a mimosa, I'm not sure where you would find mimosa. 1332 01:41:40.960 --> 01:41:44.439 You're out in the Rosenberg area. I would call the two enchanteds out 1333 01:41:44.439 --> 01:41:46.800 there first of all and see if they carry them. That'd be my first 1334 01:41:46.800 --> 01:41:51.359 stop. But yeah, they're they're good trees. But just know that this 1335 01:41:51.479 --> 01:41:56.720 is not a typical tree in the landscape. This is something you're planting for 1336 01:41:56.840 --> 01:42:01.520 ten maybe years of enjoyment. What about what about that is opposed to um 1337 01:42:02.079 --> 01:42:06.119 like a crape myrtle? I know those don't live very long either, but 1338 01:42:06.439 --> 01:42:11.199 they live longer, ye mimosa. Yeah, crapes live a lot longer, 1339 01:42:11.239 --> 01:42:15.119 in fact, a very bad time. Yeah, that would be another good 1340 01:42:15.159 --> 01:42:18.039 traice. Just make sure you get one that's resistant to powdery mildew to save 1341 01:42:18.039 --> 01:42:23.359 you the headache of that particular problem. Okay, well I haven't I haven't 1342 01:42:23.399 --> 01:42:28.439 really seen so I'm from Lake Charles. I haven't really seen mimosas out here, 1343 01:42:28.680 --> 01:42:30.399 and I know obviously, I guess people don't really plan them because they 1344 01:42:30.439 --> 01:42:35.239 don't live that long. But would it would it grow with like proper feeding 1345 01:42:35.239 --> 01:42:40.000 and watering? Oh? Absolutely, they grow like a weed and then exactly 1346 01:42:40.079 --> 01:42:42.399 that's why people do. Yeah, if you can find one that's a what 1347 01:42:42.520 --> 01:42:45.000 do you weed? Yeah, they'll do fine. Hey, I'm gonna head 1348 01:42:45.000 --> 01:42:48.119 off to another call. Rob. We're gonna go to Tiki Island and talk 1349 01:42:48.159 --> 01:42:51.600 to Jeff. Hello, Jeff, good morning, sir. How are you 1350 01:42:51.680 --> 01:42:56.920 doing. I'm doing well, excellent. So I've got questions. Uh, 1351 01:42:57.159 --> 01:43:00.760 the mango tree didn't flower this year, but it's a expanding very rapidly, 1352 01:43:00.840 --> 01:43:04.920 so I'm I'm assuming I'm gonna have to like cut it back because it's quite 1353 01:43:05.039 --> 01:43:08.840 large. Okay. Last year, what I did, I made some cuttings 1354 01:43:08.840 --> 01:43:13.039 out of it, and they seem to be doing okay, but they're not 1355 01:43:13.159 --> 01:43:16.159 getting any larger faster. So I want to rack your brain on how you 1356 01:43:16.159 --> 01:43:19.359 would go about doing it. Good sunlight, good drainage in the container, 1357 01:43:19.479 --> 01:43:25.399 and just regular gradual fertilizer is the best thing that ought to they eventually ought 1358 01:43:25.399 --> 01:43:30.159 to get going for you. What about a dragon fruit, dragon fruit, 1359 01:43:30.239 --> 01:43:32.479 A good care. They do well here. I know Vego Beds makes a 1360 01:43:32.520 --> 01:43:36.560 special little bed with us a rack on it for growing your dragon fruit, 1361 01:43:36.640 --> 01:43:40.760 and that's a cool one. It's just you know, with the things you're 1362 01:43:40.800 --> 01:43:44.680 talking about, they're not totally cold hearty, but with a little care you 1363 01:43:44.720 --> 01:43:47.359 can you can get them through. Jeff. Thank you very much, sir. 1364 01:43:47.479 --> 01:43:50.560 I appreciate your call. Thank you very much. Hey, if you've 1365 01:43:50.560 --> 01:43:54.000 not been out to Arburgate, I was just out there yesterday. We had 1366 01:43:54.000 --> 01:43:57.760 a great time. But you can go to online to Arburgate dot com. 1367 01:43:58.039 --> 01:44:01.439 I'll tell you that place looks all right now. And the number of products 1368 01:44:01.439 --> 01:44:05.279 not just plants, but all kinds of products for your gardening and for your 1369 01:44:05.319 --> 01:44:09.960 home. They also have to Arburgate one two three, completely easy system that 1370 01:44:10.000 --> 01:44:13.720 would be a food to feed your plants, a soil for any application, 1371 01:44:14.079 --> 01:44:17.920 and a compost to improve your soil, all completely organic and you find them 1372 01:44:18.000 --> 01:44:24.880 at arburgate dot com. I'm going to head over to the New Vienna, 1373 01:44:24.960 --> 01:44:28.279 Ohio and we're going to talk to Jim. Jim, is that really the 1374 01:44:28.279 --> 01:44:31.319 state of Ohio? Yes, sir, New Vienna, Yes, sir. 1375 01:44:31.560 --> 01:44:36.640 That's all grandy years ago. Okay, first time calling year. So how 1376 01:44:36.680 --> 01:44:40.399 are you. I'm well, thank you and I appreciate you calling back. 1377 01:44:40.399 --> 01:44:44.920 How can we help? Yeah, well, we had pretty bad winter this 1378 01:44:45.199 --> 01:44:49.279 uh this past season here got down to minus nine with a windfil of minus 1379 01:44:49.319 --> 01:44:57.239 thirty nine, and I had, I guess it's a rose tree, all 1380 01:44:57.279 --> 01:45:00.880 kind of backpots here. I protected the upper part of it. I built 1381 01:45:00.880 --> 01:45:06.479 a wall with the landscaping fabric. Yeah, We're nearing the end of the 1382 01:45:06.680 --> 01:45:11.000 of the hour, and so I'm going to try to help pantr for you. 1383 01:45:11.359 --> 01:45:13.920 We may have to hold you over to the next hour, just kind 1384 01:45:13.920 --> 01:45:16.840 of letting you know. Okay, I'll wait. Okay, well, I 1385 01:45:16.840 --> 01:45:19.239 mean, you know, you know, start talking just this moment. But 1386 01:45:19.920 --> 01:45:27.439 if you okay, I protected it with landscaping fabric about what are they about? 1387 01:45:27.439 --> 01:45:30.319 Two three feet tall? Yes, and the field up with leaves to 1388 01:45:30.319 --> 01:45:35.760 take the upper part. Okay, But did that told kill the plant because 1389 01:45:35.760 --> 01:45:39.399 it was in It wasn't in the ground. It was in a big part 1390 01:45:39.560 --> 01:45:42.159 all right, So let me let me come back to that afterbreak. Just 1391 01:45:42.199 --> 01:45:45.960 hang on and I'll address that issue. You're listening to the garden line, 1392 01:45:45.000 --> 01:45:48.640 give us a call. Seven one three, two one two fifty eight seventy 1393 01:45:48.680 --> 01:45:55.680 four. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 1394 01:45:55.680 --> 01:46:09.479 advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Guarden Life with Skip Rictord. Well, 1395 01:46:09.479 --> 01:46:13.359 a good Sunday morning to you on a good day to be inside listening 1396 01:46:13.399 --> 01:46:16.520 to gardening radio right and by the way, Happy Mother's Day to all the 1397 01:46:16.600 --> 01:46:21.600 moms out there. We know what all you did for us, and we 1398 01:46:21.680 --> 01:46:26.079 know the sacrifices that were made, we know the love that was given, 1399 01:46:26.600 --> 01:46:30.960 and we're just very appreciative of all you did for us many beginning with giving 1400 01:46:30.000 --> 01:46:33.479 us life itself. Thank you so much, appreciate that. Well, we're 1401 01:46:33.520 --> 01:46:38.319 gonna go back. We're talking to Jim up in New Vienna, Ohio, 1402 01:46:38.600 --> 01:46:42.880 and we're talking about rose roses that froze and so, Jim, are you 1403 01:46:42.920 --> 01:46:47.760 looking for ways to protect them in the future. Yeah, it's a rose 1404 01:46:47.880 --> 01:46:54.680 tree. I guess you might call it on a three long Yeah. Yeah, 1405 01:46:54.760 --> 01:46:58.039 yeah, that's going to be that's a challenge, you know, normally 1406 01:46:58.039 --> 01:47:00.359 with the roses and the climate like you've got up in the Midwest there, 1407 01:47:01.720 --> 01:47:04.479 if you've got a variety. First of all, some varieties are hardier than 1408 01:47:04.520 --> 01:47:08.319 others, which is a good thing. But if you've got a variety that's 1409 01:47:08.359 --> 01:47:12.640 going to be a little coal tender for your area, people will they'll wrap 1410 01:47:12.760 --> 01:47:16.279 the stems all up together kind of with twine, you know, creating a 1411 01:47:16.279 --> 01:47:20.920 little upright stems on the bush and then mound up a lot. You can 1412 01:47:21.000 --> 01:47:24.359 use soil, or you can use mulch, but I'm trying like a foot 1413 01:47:24.439 --> 01:47:28.119 deep or more, and just to protect that base that way, if the 1414 01:47:28.159 --> 01:47:31.079 top freeze is back, maybe you get some sprouting from the base. That's 1415 01:47:31.199 --> 01:47:35.399 very helpful. But with your tree rows, you got a long stalk of 1416 01:47:35.439 --> 01:47:41.159 a trunk with your variety grafted way up there in the air, that stalk 1417 01:47:41.279 --> 01:47:45.159 is a different probably a different species. I could be wrong on your particular 1418 01:47:45.279 --> 01:47:48.880 rows, but those are hard to protect and you just almost have to have 1419 01:47:48.920 --> 01:47:55.119 some sort of a mounded cover over them with some source of heat underneath to 1420 01:47:55.279 --> 01:48:00.399 just bring the severe cold down to just a hard freeze and the road we'll 1421 01:48:00.399 --> 01:48:02.560 get through that, but that's a lot of trouble to go through, and 1422 01:48:02.760 --> 01:48:05.560 probably you have to leave it on for long periods of time. When you 1423 01:48:05.560 --> 01:48:10.560 have one of the kinds of winners you can have up there. Can I 1424 01:48:10.640 --> 01:48:14.880 just bring it into garage on a really I don't know, maybe below thirty 1425 01:48:14.880 --> 01:48:17.960 two degree days or oh my gosh, it's in a container. I missed 1426 01:48:18.039 --> 01:48:23.319 that. I'm sorry. Yes, oh, absolutely, yeah. Get if 1427 01:48:23.319 --> 01:48:27.960 it's not on on wheels, you can slide a little dolly or hend truck 1428 01:48:28.159 --> 01:48:30.720 underneath the edge of the pot, put a strap around it to hold it 1429 01:48:30.840 --> 01:48:33.760 onto the dolly and it makes it so easy to move it in. And 1430 01:48:33.840 --> 01:48:36.640 absolutely, yes, you can leave it in there for long periods of time 1431 01:48:36.680 --> 01:48:43.039 if you need to. It's really yeah, still be okay with no sunlight. 1432 01:48:43.239 --> 01:48:45.680 Yeah, well, when I shouldn't say. When I say long periods 1433 01:48:45.720 --> 01:48:47.600 of time, I'm talking about two or three days getting through a freeze, 1434 01:48:47.680 --> 01:48:51.800 you know, a real bad bad spell. Even a week could be okay. 1435 01:48:51.840 --> 01:48:55.279 But yeah, you do want to to be able to have sunlight. 1436 01:48:55.600 --> 01:48:58.319 Usually, you know, the day temperature warms up enough, it could it 1437 01:48:58.319 --> 01:49:00.520 could be run outside to catch all sun and then put back in if you're 1438 01:49:00.520 --> 01:49:05.279 going to have a number of nights of hard freezing. And how about watering? 1439 01:49:05.319 --> 01:49:08.760 Do you still need to water at a lot or no? Keep the 1440 01:49:08.840 --> 01:49:12.680 roots adequately moist. That's all, it's not using hardly any water at all, 1441 01:49:12.680 --> 01:49:15.880 but you don't want them to completely dry out. When the plant is 1442 01:49:15.920 --> 01:49:18.920 stressed, it's cold heartiness is decreased, and so you don't want to create 1443 01:49:18.960 --> 01:49:24.680 a drought stress in that container. Awesome news. Thank you so much. 1444 01:49:24.680 --> 01:49:28.439 I love yourself and be leek out there. Well. Thank you. Tell 1445 01:49:28.520 --> 01:49:32.680 everybody in Ohio to listen to Garden Life. I appreciate the caldail. Let's 1446 01:49:32.680 --> 01:49:36.600 head up to or down to sugar Land. We're going to talk to Fred. 1447 01:49:36.760 --> 01:49:41.399 Good morning, Fred, I skip hey, listen. We're really enjoying 1448 01:49:41.439 --> 01:49:45.520 your show, clarity you bring to it and the advice you give. Thank 1449 01:49:45.560 --> 01:49:49.039 you, Thank you. My question has to do with knock out roses on 1450 01:49:49.079 --> 01:49:53.319 the east side of our home front yard. We'll get a little too much 1451 01:49:53.319 --> 01:49:57.079 shade. Now. We just know that the fungus is going to come. 1452 01:49:57.199 --> 01:50:00.800 I'm wondering, is there something we should start doing earlier. You're on maybe 1453 01:50:00.399 --> 01:50:04.600 as a preventative. They're just beautiful now, all the leaves and yeah, 1454 01:50:04.760 --> 01:50:09.079 in the plants, but we know what's coming. You know, if you 1455 01:50:09.159 --> 01:50:13.399 have a susceptible rose that that can get the black spot or powdery mildew, 1456 01:50:13.720 --> 01:50:16.760 then then you do just need to spray, and those those products are better 1457 01:50:16.920 --> 01:50:20.600 used as a preventative. We have some that are systemic and some that just 1458 01:50:20.680 --> 01:50:26.000 coat the surface of the leaf. What I would recommend that you do is, 1459 01:50:26.600 --> 01:50:30.680 uh find you're in Sugarlander. You've got a number of good ACE hardwares 1460 01:50:30.720 --> 01:50:35.239 that are out in your area. You know there's plantation ace in your general 1461 01:50:35.279 --> 01:50:41.000 area out there in Sugarland. You've got uh, let's see, we're gonna 1462 01:50:41.439 --> 01:50:45.399 go in a south east. I've trying to direct you to some places that 1463 01:50:45.439 --> 01:50:48.159 are going to have that kind of protection. Oh, there's an M and 1464 01:50:48.239 --> 01:50:54.199 D supply right there in u in Rosenberg also that you can use. But 1465 01:50:54.359 --> 01:50:58.800 this I've been in there and the selection of the of the fungicides is great 1466 01:50:58.840 --> 01:51:01.439 and a qualify. You know, a person that works there can direct you 1467 01:51:01.560 --> 01:51:04.920 to your options. We have a number of things we can use on roses 1468 01:51:04.960 --> 01:51:11.039 to fight different kinds of diseases, and it would be good to go with 1469 01:51:11.079 --> 01:51:14.159 one of those products and they can direct you to the ones they carry that 1470 01:51:14.199 --> 01:51:17.319 are going to work the best. So are we talking sprays rather than drenches, 1471 01:51:17.600 --> 01:51:20.600 Yes, we are talking for spraying the foliage. You know, if 1472 01:51:20.600 --> 01:51:25.319 it's a systemic that'll move in and give you a longer period of protection. 1473 01:51:25.800 --> 01:51:30.239 If it's just a surface fungicide. A lot of the organics or surface fungicides, 1474 01:51:30.720 --> 01:51:34.560 those you're going to have to repeat periodically because they're not moving into the 1475 01:51:34.600 --> 01:51:39.199 tissue to kill the diseases. They are just on the surface and so therefore 1476 01:51:39.199 --> 01:51:43.560 they wash off. Great, thank you, You have time for another real 1477 01:51:43.680 --> 01:51:47.760 quick one, Yes, sir. We're nine years into a new yard, 1478 01:51:48.199 --> 01:51:53.640 a new home, and we've done lots of things through the years, all 1479 01:51:53.680 --> 01:51:56.600 the products added to it, and all I'm wondering, do we ever reach 1480 01:51:56.600 --> 01:52:00.479 a point where a NUS is kind of NFS in terms of of all these 1481 01:52:00.520 --> 01:52:05.439 additional products we add to the yard. Yeah? Yeah, the brown patch 1482 01:52:05.520 --> 01:52:11.760 question brought that to my mind. Yeah, you know, you could. 1483 01:52:12.000 --> 01:52:15.359 I mean you could, but it depends on what your yard needs. And 1484 01:52:15.800 --> 01:52:18.399 for a lot of folks, uh, there are there are things that are 1485 01:52:18.439 --> 01:52:24.279 add ons that are really important and that they really help without. And so 1486 01:52:25.119 --> 01:52:29.000 I don't think we're there yet. But it may be that your yard needs 1487 01:52:29.000 --> 01:52:30.560 a different mix of things, and some of the add ons you don't need, 1488 01:52:30.640 --> 01:52:34.039 and someone else it would be a different mix of things. So it 1489 01:52:34.119 --> 01:52:38.960 just kind of depends on the situation when we're talking about those kind of products. 1490 01:52:39.199 --> 01:52:42.159 Now we've used a lot of composts, we use the microlife products. 1491 01:52:43.000 --> 01:52:46.159 Oh, that's good. Next and we and we had it ierated this year, 1492 01:52:46.199 --> 01:52:51.640 but we've always had a big brown patch problem and we'd problem. Well. 1493 01:52:53.079 --> 01:52:55.399 I hope that gets you off to a good start at hand. I 1494 01:52:55.439 --> 01:52:58.399 appreciate the call out there, and I'm going to be out in sugar Land 1495 01:52:58.479 --> 01:53:01.119 again next Saturday from am to one. Fred. I hope you could stop 1496 01:53:01.119 --> 01:53:08.560 by. We'd love to meet you if you live up in let's say Magnolia 1497 01:53:08.640 --> 01:53:12.560 area. FM twenty nine, seventy eight. You know what I'm talking about. 1498 01:53:12.600 --> 01:53:15.720 This is just minutes away from Graham Parkway in Highway two forty nine. 1499 01:53:15.800 --> 01:53:19.279 Spring Creek Feed. Spring Creek Feed carries all these fertilizers that we talk about. 1500 01:53:19.760 --> 01:53:24.079 Really friendly, courteous staff. By the way, if you are a 1501 01:53:24.159 --> 01:53:29.279 kiddo in FA for h if you are military or senior citizens, there's discounts 1502 01:53:29.279 --> 01:53:31.279 for you and they'll special order. If they don't have it, they'll order 1503 01:53:31.319 --> 01:53:34.960 it for you. Spring Creek Creek Feed. It is a pleasure to walk 1504 01:53:35.000 --> 01:53:44.279 through. I'm always amazed when I go in there. The next caller I 1505 01:53:44.319 --> 01:53:48.640 want to go to this morning is Jim out in Cypress. Good morning, 1506 01:53:48.760 --> 01:53:54.159 Jim, Good morning Rec. Let's talk to you again. Good talk to 1507 01:53:54.199 --> 01:53:59.680 you. How can I help my I had I called yesterday. I'm trying 1508 01:53:59.720 --> 01:54:05.479 to get some confirmation that the weed I'm fighting in my lawn is sandber okay, 1509 01:54:05.479 --> 01:54:11.079 And I was hoping that a picture I sent you yesterday might help you 1510 01:54:11.239 --> 01:54:17.119 to help me determine that and then treating it. I bought some image at 1511 01:54:17.359 --> 01:54:23.199 at ace as Image Kills Night and much said, yeah, but it does 1512 01:54:23.239 --> 01:54:27.000 the same thing about applying it before or after rain. I thought you might 1513 01:54:27.039 --> 01:54:30.960 be able to Jim based on yeahs. Based on your picture, it looks 1514 01:54:31.000 --> 01:54:34.359 like what you're dealing with is dollar weed, So check for that on the 1515 01:54:34.479 --> 01:54:39.920 label of the products that contain more than just a regular image. Make sure 1516 01:54:39.960 --> 01:54:43.239 that it is the weed on the label. You want to get it down 1517 01:54:43.319 --> 01:54:47.239 and have at least for three or four hours before you get a rain on 1518 01:54:47.279 --> 01:54:49.920 it. But if I'm seeing rain coming later in the day, I would 1519 01:54:49.920 --> 01:54:53.680 not apply it. And if I'd already applied it and it got rained on, 1520 01:54:54.760 --> 01:54:57.760 I'd watch it for a week after that and probably need to go back 1521 01:54:57.840 --> 01:55:00.279 and apply it again. Okay, so it looks like you say, dollar 1522 01:55:00.399 --> 01:55:03.920 weed. It looks like dollar weed, but the photo it's it's not up 1523 01:55:03.960 --> 01:55:06.920 close and real sharp, crisp ro I can see for sure, but I 1524 01:55:06.960 --> 01:55:11.880 think that's what you're dealing with. This dollar weed have little spikes on it. 1525 01:55:12.600 --> 01:55:15.880 No, I'll tell you what this, Jim. This is pretty start. 1526 01:55:15.039 --> 01:55:18.039 Yeah, take take another picture up close, check it and make sure 1527 01:55:18.039 --> 01:55:20.760 it's in good focus, and I'll give it another shot. I'll be happy 1528 01:55:20.800 --> 01:55:24.000 to do that. Thank you very much. We're gonna have to run to 1529 01:55:24.039 --> 01:55:35.159 break seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. And just like 1530 01:55:35.479 --> 01:55:41.720 the guy big Well, nice choice of music, Ryan, it's appropriate for 1531 01:55:41.880 --> 01:55:45.560 today. Oh gosh, Hey, I want to tell you about a product. 1532 01:55:45.600 --> 01:55:48.079 If you have a small acreage, you know, and you just want 1533 01:55:48.079 --> 01:55:54.000 to take care of that acreage, you need to consider a Caboda tractor from 1534 01:55:54.079 --> 01:55:58.000 Lansdowne Moody. Now. Capoda has their Texas edition right now and it's the 1535 01:55:58.079 --> 01:56:02.800 Caboda L twenty five one. You got that hydrostatic transmission, you can trick 1536 01:56:02.840 --> 01:56:05.840 it out with, you know, at a friend endloader at a box blade 1537 01:56:05.880 --> 01:56:10.199 or a rotary cutter and do as much as you want. It is a 1538 01:56:10.359 --> 01:56:13.560 blast to drive one of those things, and it is a great way to 1539 01:56:13.600 --> 01:56:16.680 take care of your property. Go to l M tractor dot com. But 1540 01:56:16.800 --> 01:56:21.439 don't delay on this because listen to this deal, zero down, zero interest 1541 01:56:21.680 --> 01:56:27.520 for eighty four months, seven years. The Lansdown and Caboda are a great 1542 01:56:27.560 --> 01:56:30.680 combination. Just do it before June thirtieth. That's when this deal is over. 1543 01:56:30.760 --> 01:56:34.640 And you can't beat a deal like this. I want to want it 1544 01:56:34.680 --> 01:56:38.279 to head out and talk to We've got a lot of calls on the board 1545 01:56:38.359 --> 01:56:42.560 right now, but I'm gonna start by heading up to Willis and we're gonna 1546 01:56:42.560 --> 01:56:45.560 talk to Mike. A good day, Mike, how are you? Good 1547 01:56:45.640 --> 01:56:51.720 day? I'm heading to the arbor Gate right now. I got about fifth 1548 01:56:51.760 --> 01:56:57.239 ye or so muscadine graves, and I was told that she's got some I 1549 01:56:57.399 --> 01:57:01.479 was there about the David. She's got some seaglists muscadine grapes. Oh wow, 1550 01:57:01.800 --> 01:57:06.640 cool, So I'm gonna put another row in. But my question on 1551 01:57:06.720 --> 01:57:14.199 the grapes was summer pruning. You know, I've got three varieties of muscadine 1552 01:57:14.239 --> 01:57:19.439 grapes so pretty aggressive. So he said, okay, and they're about seven 1553 01:57:19.520 --> 01:57:30.000 years old and they're all trolls out for picking. It's for pruning the vines 1554 01:57:30.000 --> 01:57:33.359 that are really aggressive, thinning them out. Is okay to do that? 1555 01:57:33.600 --> 01:57:38.439 Or how aggressive can you during the summertime? You can do some of that? 1556 01:57:39.000 --> 01:57:41.680 Well, here's what here's what I want to do. Just to help 1557 01:57:41.720 --> 01:57:45.000 you more than I can in the short call time on the radio. Go 1558 01:57:45.039 --> 01:57:50.720 to Aggy Horticulture dot Tammo Dodds. That's actually Aggie hyphen Horticulture dot tammu dot 1559 01:57:50.840 --> 01:57:55.840 edu. There's a button there for fruit nut information. Their fact sheets and 1560 01:57:55.920 --> 01:57:59.960 there is a sheet just on muscadines and it goes through everything some of the 1561 01:58:00.119 --> 01:58:01.600 varieties. They are a little bit older varieties on the list because new ones 1562 01:58:01.680 --> 01:58:05.720 keep coming out, but they have information on planting, trellising, pruning, 1563 01:58:06.279 --> 01:58:11.039 fertilizing. We control all that is right there on the list, and I 1564 01:58:11.079 --> 01:58:15.119 think that would be the most fruitful thing that you can do for you know, 1565 01:58:15.199 --> 01:58:19.000 figuring out how to handle that. Yeah, I've done a ton of 1566 01:58:19.119 --> 01:58:24.520 research and stuff, but I couldn't really get anybody, you know. They 1567 01:58:24.560 --> 01:58:32.520 had some videos of summer pruning but okay, well, if that's I'll go 1568 01:58:32.560 --> 01:58:35.479 ahead and look at it well. To me, yeah, to just simplify 1569 01:58:35.560 --> 01:58:40.319 though, Mike, just you can remove the twiggy stuff that you know, 1570 01:58:40.520 --> 01:58:43.640 what you feel like is in the way or whatever. You can do some 1571 01:58:43.720 --> 01:58:45.039 of that. It's just most of our prunting we do in the wintertime. 1572 01:58:45.119 --> 01:58:48.840 But with Muscadine's air so darn vigorous that I think you have to stay on 1573 01:58:48.880 --> 01:58:54.600 it a little bit. What was your next question? Um? You know, 1574 01:58:55.119 --> 01:58:59.199 actually I called you a couple of weeks ago about this black leaves coming 1575 01:58:59.239 --> 01:59:02.079 on my charach. You said, cut cut the limbs off. I have 1576 01:59:02.279 --> 01:59:06.760 cut them off, and I've noticed that some of the trees are getting that 1577 01:59:06.920 --> 01:59:12.520 black leaves again. Is there anything I can spray on it to prevent that 1578 01:59:12.680 --> 01:59:16.960 or what's causing you know, I'd I'd have to see it to know exactly. 1579 01:59:17.000 --> 01:59:20.760 If the black is on the tips and margins of the leaf, then 1580 01:59:20.800 --> 01:59:25.079 it's it's a flow of water through the plant problem. It could be dry 1581 01:59:25.079 --> 01:59:27.319 soil, it could be rotting roots, it could be a lot of things. 1582 01:59:27.760 --> 01:59:30.199 But if it's in the tips and margins, if the whole leaf is 1583 01:59:30.239 --> 01:59:34.840 turning black, that really does still sound like fireblight. And there are sprays 1584 01:59:34.880 --> 01:59:40.039 for fireblight. They're not easy to find, they're not cheap, and you 1585 01:59:40.319 --> 01:59:44.199 may, you know, you have to reapply them, but basically they're sprays 1586 01:59:44.239 --> 01:59:47.960 that contain an antibiotic type material in them. You might want to give those 1587 01:59:48.000 --> 01:59:53.199 a try, you know, when you're go to Arbigrate, when you're there 1588 01:59:53.199 --> 01:59:56.720 today, and just ask them there what they carry for fireblight. They may 1589 01:59:56.720 --> 02:00:01.560 have something that is just the perfect thing for that. Because I do some 1590 02:00:01.680 --> 02:00:05.880 heavy water. This shirt that I did last years. All right, well, 1591 02:00:06.760 --> 02:00:10.039 I'm gonna run to another call, but thank you very much for the 1592 02:00:10.079 --> 02:00:13.399 call. Mike. Good luck with that. Let's see, we're gonna go 1593 02:00:13.399 --> 02:00:17.479 to Southeast Sistern and talk to James. Hello, James by, good morning, 1594 02:00:17.600 --> 02:00:23.800 Good morning. My question is because I listened to the show the last 1595 02:00:23.840 --> 02:00:27.920 two years, I have had excellent crop of tomatoes, but word has spread 1596 02:00:28.159 --> 02:00:33.159 and I am getting already stink bugs okay, and how can I control them? 1597 02:00:33.199 --> 02:00:39.680 They are just terrible? Yeah, well, stink bugs are definitely a 1598 02:00:39.680 --> 02:00:42.279 problem. The first thing I would do is go online and look look at 1599 02:00:42.319 --> 02:00:45.119 what their eggs look like. Stink bugs and leafooted bugs. They're very distinct, 1600 02:00:45.640 --> 02:00:49.199 and if you know what you're looking for, you have a bunch of 1601 02:00:49.199 --> 02:00:54.239 tomatoes or just a few, quite a few, quite a few. Okay, 1602 02:00:54.279 --> 02:00:57.359 well this it may be hard to you know, comb over your plants 1603 02:00:57.439 --> 02:00:59.800 looking for eggs, but if you can find them at that stage, you 1604 02:00:59.800 --> 02:01:02.760 can wipe out a whole bunch of them before they do anything. Check your 1605 02:01:02.760 --> 02:01:09.399 tomatoes every few days. And when you see the little herds of stink bugs 1606 02:01:09.439 --> 02:01:12.760 or herds of leafooted bugs, they don't have wings yet, just put a 1607 02:01:12.880 --> 02:01:15.840 pale of soapy water under them and swap the branch with your hand and knock 1608 02:01:15.880 --> 02:01:19.680 them into the soapy water. Once they get wings and they're flying all around, 1609 02:01:20.520 --> 02:01:24.159 that's a problem. I mean, we have some You have to use 1610 02:01:24.199 --> 02:01:28.439 a pretty stout insecticide to try to kill them, and you're spraying it all 1611 02:01:28.479 --> 02:01:30.640 over all your plants when there may just be a stink bug here or there, 1612 02:01:30.640 --> 02:01:34.319 and then another one comes flying in from somewhere else. So that early 1613 02:01:34.399 --> 02:01:41.439 monitoring is really important. Okay, I have never I've looked on the internet 1614 02:01:41.479 --> 02:01:43.560 and stuff and got all kind of ideals, but never heard of that. 1615 02:01:43.640 --> 02:01:45.840 So I will try it and see what happens. Because it's really disappointing. 1616 02:01:46.000 --> 02:01:51.319 Yeah, it's very disappointing. And stink bugs and leafooted bugs, they're rude 1617 02:01:51.439 --> 02:01:56.359 creatures, vandals out there, tomato garden. I understand your pain on that, 1618 02:01:57.000 --> 02:01:59.560 but yeah, it just makes sense to get a whole bunch of them 1619 02:01:59.560 --> 02:02:01.920 when it's you know, let's spray anything. You got them all collected together. 1620 02:02:02.000 --> 02:02:05.239 They tend to kind of stay in a herd a little bit when they 1621 02:02:05.279 --> 02:02:09.800 first hatch out. So you see a bunch of these little things crawling around 1622 02:02:10.079 --> 02:02:13.479 there, you go. They're pretty tricky. I mean, they see you, 1623 02:02:13.520 --> 02:02:15.600 they see you coming, and they run over to the other side of 1624 02:02:15.640 --> 02:02:19.600 the tomato. Really, that's that's why. You know, the earlier you 1625 02:02:19.680 --> 02:02:23.520 catch them, the off you're going to be. Plus the products you would 1626 02:02:23.520 --> 02:02:28.399 spray are less toxic early on. When you get adult stink bugs and leadfoot 1627 02:02:28.439 --> 02:02:30.039 of bugs, you're having to go to a more toxic con sect decide. 1628 02:02:30.199 --> 02:02:33.840 But I appreciate that call very much. Thank you. Let's head out to 1629 02:02:34.000 --> 02:02:39.279 Spring and we're going to talk to Alex. Hello, Alex, Hey, 1630 02:02:39.319 --> 02:02:43.199 good morning, how you doing well? Thank you? Good hey. I 1631 02:02:43.239 --> 02:02:45.279 got a couple of questions for you. The wife and I are bridges in 1632 02:02:45.279 --> 02:02:50.800 the new house. You're in a couple of months and they're putting a Saint 1633 02:02:50.800 --> 02:02:58.239 Augustine grass into the yard. Now, I really want to get into real 1634 02:02:58.399 --> 02:03:02.920 mowing, and I know you can't get short with that. Is it reasonable 1635 02:03:03.399 --> 02:03:12.680 to oversee and go to a bermuda? It's going to coexist with your Saint 1636 02:03:12.720 --> 02:03:15.920 Augustine. If it's a shady area, Saint Augustine has the edge. If 1637 02:03:15.960 --> 02:03:20.720 it's a sunny area and you're mowing high, the Saint Augustine will hang on 1638 02:03:20.840 --> 02:03:25.800 much better. When you mow real low, it's a little bit better for 1639 02:03:25.840 --> 02:03:30.960 the bermuda. So once you have a mixed if I would not intentionally mix 1640 02:03:30.000 --> 02:03:33.479 them, Saint Augustine is easy to kill. It just lives on top of 1641 02:03:33.520 --> 02:03:36.800 the ground, and I would if you want bermuda, I would get rid 1642 02:03:36.800 --> 02:03:41.399 of Saint Augustine and then plant the bermuda. It's not Saint Augustine's not going 1643 02:03:41.439 --> 02:03:45.239 to pop back up in your bermuda like bermuda will pop back up in your 1644 02:03:45.239 --> 02:03:48.600 Saint Augustine. Okay, well, cool man, Well, I appreciate you. 1645 02:03:48.680 --> 02:03:51.640 Tom, all right, thank you very much. I appreciate that call. 1646 02:03:53.039 --> 02:03:56.399 Let's head to let's see we've got time yet just a little bit. 1647 02:03:56.640 --> 02:04:00.000 Let's head to sugar Land and we're going to talk to Fred. Good morning, 1648 02:04:00.119 --> 02:04:03.359 Fred, Hey, how you doing. I'm doing well. How can 1649 02:04:03.399 --> 02:04:08.560 we help the day? Yeah? I used to have a really nice looking 1650 02:04:08.600 --> 02:04:13.880 patch of zucchini and yellow squash, and probably every year I get attacked by 1651 02:04:13.920 --> 02:04:17.600 the squash squash mine bars. Do you have any good ideas to bull bin 1652 02:04:17.760 --> 02:04:24.680 or kill them? Ideas? But no magic magic bullets. Here's the thing. 1653 02:04:24.880 --> 02:04:28.800 You need bees on those squash flowers, taking the pollen back and forth, 1654 02:04:28.920 --> 02:04:31.239 and so anything that's going to be a real good insect aside in other 1655 02:04:31.239 --> 02:04:34.960 words, real good meaning it works well, it's going to kill your bees 1656 02:04:35.000 --> 02:04:39.800 and you absolutely can't let that happen. So what I do on the vine 1657 02:04:39.800 --> 02:04:44.560 board Number one, Their eggs are very distinct, little tiny pinhead sized amber 1658 02:04:44.560 --> 02:04:46.960 eggs, typically laid on either the vine or the stalk. So if you 1659 02:04:47.000 --> 02:04:50.039 know what they look like and you're going through your squashing, find them and 1660 02:04:50.079 --> 02:04:54.600 just rub the egg out and avoid that altogether. When you start to see 1661 02:04:54.640 --> 02:04:57.800 the little ooze come out of the vine where the vine boar is in there 1662 02:04:57.840 --> 02:05:02.439 tunneling pushing out like wet sawdust. You can split the vine lengthwise and kill 1663 02:05:02.479 --> 02:05:05.119 the worm that's in there, and then covered up a little bit. One 1664 02:05:05.119 --> 02:05:11.399 other thing, start with a row cover or a netting over your squash that 1665 02:05:11.520 --> 02:05:16.640 excludes insects. They are insect excluding mesh materials. And when it comes time 1666 02:05:16.640 --> 02:05:20.720 for pollination, you either do it yourself or you pull the netting off. 1667 02:05:20.800 --> 02:05:25.640 Then and your plants are big enough to produce a decent crop for you. 1668 02:05:26.039 --> 02:05:30.079 I'm gonna have to run now, Fred. There are some insecticides, but 1669 02:05:30.079 --> 02:05:31.520 you just want to be real careful with you using them. We're gonna go 1670 02:05:31.560 --> 02:05:35.960 ahead and take a break pretty quick here. Our phone number is seven one 1671 02:05:36.079 --> 02:05:43.279 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 1672 02:05:43.359 --> 02:05:46.479 eight seventy four. Now we try all kinds of things. I've done several 1673 02:05:46.520 --> 02:05:53.279 experiments on squash using foil mulches to try to deter them. Nothing works really 1674 02:05:53.319 --> 02:05:57.520 good. Just need to from the time their eggs on, just get after 1675 02:05:57.560 --> 02:06:01.000 them and do the best you can. I believe it's time for some news. 1676 02:06:01.039 --> 02:06:04.359 Do you remember yesterday at nine o'clock we're going is it time to leave 1677 02:06:04.439 --> 02:06:08.840 yet? And here it is nine thirty. Boy, this morning's gone by 1678 02:06:09.000 --> 02:06:27.680 fast. I know, okay, let's jump it in the news. Well, 1679 02:06:27.720 --> 02:06:30.239 good morning on a good morning to be indoors listening to a garden and 1680 02:06:30.279 --> 02:06:34.439 show are calling into a gardening show. I was just talking about the barricade, 1681 02:06:34.479 --> 02:06:38.119 you know, the preventing weeds and things. I was out in the 1682 02:06:38.199 --> 02:06:42.079 yard the other day and doing some fertilization and I used the has to Grow 1683 02:06:42.239 --> 02:06:46.720 twelve for eight liquid lawn food plus. That's a long name, has to 1684 02:06:46.720 --> 02:06:51.199 Grow twelve or eight liquid lawn food plus. It's from Medina Products. It's 1685 02:06:51.239 --> 02:06:54.359 in a Hosen sprayer. Now you can get into a quart, in a 1686 02:06:54.399 --> 02:06:58.399 gallon, larger sizes, but basically you buy the Hosen sprayer about a quart 1687 02:06:58.479 --> 02:07:01.239 size and it takes about ten minutes to fertilize your lawn. It gives a 1688 02:07:01.359 --> 02:07:05.079 very fast response. You got liquid food on there giving a fast response. 1689 02:07:05.279 --> 02:07:12.520 It stimulates the natural soul organisms and if you if you return your clippings to 1690 02:07:12.600 --> 02:07:15.359 your lawn, they're going to help feed. So only about four times per 1691 02:07:15.439 --> 02:07:18.239 growing season would you use this has to Grow with the clippings removed. You 1692 02:07:18.279 --> 02:07:21.079 need to do it every month because you're taking a lot of the nutrients out 1693 02:07:21.079 --> 02:07:28.000 of there has to Grow twelve for a liquid lawn food. Plus you're going 1694 02:07:28.079 --> 02:07:30.399 to find it at all of the places we talk about, our garden centers, 1695 02:07:30.439 --> 02:07:34.079 our sponsors, ace hardware, places like that. You check out the 1696 02:07:34.079 --> 02:07:38.760 has to Grow, see how it works for you. I am going to 1697 02:07:38.840 --> 02:07:42.960 head to the phones, because we got folks here on the phones have been 1698 02:07:43.000 --> 02:07:45.600 waiting a little ball. We're going to go to Jersey Village now and talk 1699 02:07:45.640 --> 02:07:51.079 to Joe. Good morning, Joe, Satty. I'm calling from Kate may 1700 02:07:51.720 --> 02:07:59.119 a correction, Kate Charles of Virginia. Okay, okay, how can I'll 1701 02:07:59.199 --> 02:08:05.359 still help you? Know you listening online out there? Uh yeah, it's 1702 02:08:05.399 --> 02:08:11.720 on the on my iHeart radio. Good, good, wonderful. Well, 1703 02:08:11.760 --> 02:08:16.399 thanks for being a listener. How can I help? But don't get too 1704 02:08:16.439 --> 02:08:22.720 excited. I live in Jersey Village, okay, But I mean you're you're, 1705 02:08:22.840 --> 02:08:24.760 you're, you're getting all the way out here to Cape Charles. It's 1706 02:08:24.800 --> 02:08:30.119 beautiful out here right now, but it's raining back home. And two weeks 1707 02:08:30.119 --> 02:08:35.640 ago I put out Pete to uh deal with my take all patch right as 1708 02:08:35.640 --> 02:08:39.840 a suppressant hunt and so, and I haven't and I then I had that 1709 02:08:39.960 --> 02:08:46.439 was put down before Thursday. It's now raining. It's you no better than 1710 02:08:46.479 --> 02:08:52.760 I do because I'm not there. We'll let have diminished the value of the 1711 02:08:52.920 --> 02:08:56.039 of the pete. I need to reapply more pete. Well, a little 1712 02:08:56.119 --> 02:08:58.079 rain is helpful because you want to kind of wash it down in and around 1713 02:08:58.159 --> 02:09:03.000 the runners of Saint Augustine. If you have a gully washer and you got 1714 02:09:03.000 --> 02:09:07.159 erosion just sheeting across your lawn, then that's probably going to dislodge that peat 1715 02:09:07.239 --> 02:09:11.279 and move it out, but hopefully some of it will still be helpful. 1716 02:09:11.439 --> 02:09:13.600 You may want to follow up with like an iron sulfates, something a little 1717 02:09:13.640 --> 02:09:18.880 acidifying, and something with iron in it, because that helps the grass get 1718 02:09:18.880 --> 02:09:22.000 by when it's already dealing with a limited root system, and that acidifying. 1719 02:09:22.560 --> 02:09:28.560 The organism that causes take all rot doesn't like acidic conditions. It likes high 1720 02:09:28.600 --> 02:09:33.119 pH conditions. So if all this is not working for you, you may 1721 02:09:33.159 --> 02:09:37.479 have the switch and use a systemic type pungicide to shut things down. But 1722 02:09:37.560 --> 02:09:41.760 I'd give it a watch. Just make sure, and then anything stretching your 1723 02:09:41.760 --> 02:09:45.720 grass show It could be compaction, it could be too much shade, it 1724 02:09:45.760 --> 02:09:50.720 could be use of certain herbicides. That weaken the grass, that is just 1725 02:09:50.760 --> 02:09:54.079 going to predispose it to the take. Also, we try to avoid all 1726 02:09:54.079 --> 02:09:58.279 of those things as best it's in our control and minimize the pressure on the 1727 02:09:58.319 --> 02:10:07.520 plant. Okay. I plugged with some palmetto Saint Augustine in the bar areas. 1728 02:10:07.680 --> 02:10:11.520 Okay, in the shade areas, and that's stressing out of the shade. 1729 02:10:11.640 --> 02:10:15.520 Okay, Well, it does pretty good. The most light you can 1730 02:10:15.560 --> 02:10:18.319 give it, even though it's quite shade, tallerant. The more light you 1731 02:10:18.359 --> 02:10:20.199 give it, the more energy the plant can have, and the thicker and 1732 02:10:20.279 --> 02:10:24.840 healthier it'll be. Okay, then I need to get your tree term wrapped 1733 02:10:24.840 --> 02:10:30.279 in. Okay, I appreciate thanks so much. In the from Cape Charles, 1734 02:10:30.279 --> 02:10:33.560 the Virginia's gorgeous sun up here. I'm good and I got some I 1735 02:10:33.640 --> 02:10:37.239 got some kids and Durham, North Carolina, so i'd say stop buy and 1736 02:10:37.239 --> 02:10:41.239 say hi to inform me. But I think that's a little bit of a 1737 02:10:41.319 --> 02:10:43.119 drive. Thanks for the call, Joe. I appreciate that. Okay. 1738 02:10:43.960 --> 02:10:48.800 Oh gosh, I'll tell you what. Let's go to Spring Branch. Hey, 1739 02:10:48.800 --> 02:10:52.399 we're gonna talk to David in Spring Branch. Good morning, David. 1740 02:10:52.439 --> 02:10:54.720 How can we help. Good morning, good morning, thank you for taking 1741 02:10:54.720 --> 02:10:58.439 my phone call. I just had a question about the expanded shell. I 1742 02:10:58.520 --> 02:11:03.479 have about four bags in them that I never used. They're probably like about 1743 02:11:03.479 --> 02:11:07.399 five years old. It is it too late to use them? To put 1744 02:11:07.399 --> 02:11:11.119 them on my plant bed next to my front yaw to my front of my 1745 02:11:11.199 --> 02:11:16.960 home. I have clay era and I have a waxy murder there. Okay, 1746 02:11:16.479 --> 02:11:22.680 Well, the expanded shail we put down prior to planting, you can't 1747 02:11:22.039 --> 02:11:26.000 get it evenly all through a soil once you have plants in the way, 1748 02:11:26.079 --> 02:11:30.800 so that that's probably not going to be super helpful unless it's a ser enough, 1749 02:11:31.239 --> 02:11:35.079 serious enough condition that in maybe this fall, you know, to pull 1750 02:11:35.119 --> 02:11:37.119 some plants out, move them over on a tarp, and redo the whole 1751 02:11:37.119 --> 02:11:41.039 bed and then put the plants back in. I know that's a lot of 1752 02:11:41.039 --> 02:11:43.920 work, but that would be the only way that I would see expanded shaw 1753 02:11:43.000 --> 02:11:48.279 coming into this situation you described. Okay, within that's helpful. Yeah, 1754 02:11:48.319 --> 02:11:54.239 I will do some transplanting maybe this fall or maybe within a week. So 1755 02:11:54.479 --> 02:11:58.600 I appreciate that very much. Okay, just one quick tip, David, 1756 02:11:58.720 --> 02:12:01.760 with expanded shawl, you need to put it down about three inches. Agrilife 1757 02:12:01.800 --> 02:12:05.840 extension from A and M did studies up in Dallas, and they would mix. 1758 02:12:05.920 --> 02:12:09.840 They found that when you don't mix enough, it's just some shale particles 1759 02:12:09.880 --> 02:12:13.760 here and there in the clay. When you put about three inches down and 1760 02:12:13.840 --> 02:12:16.880 mix it in, well that's enough volume of the shale where it really gives 1761 02:12:16.880 --> 02:12:20.960 you the aeration benefit, the water infiltration benefit, and all those kinds of 1762 02:12:22.000 --> 02:12:26.319 things. Okay, all right, well, I appreciate very much. All 1763 02:12:26.359 --> 02:12:28.439 Right, you take care. I appreciate your call. Thank you very much. 1764 02:12:30.000 --> 02:12:31.680 We're gonna head to a break here. I see you out there, 1765 02:12:31.760 --> 02:12:35.560 Craig and Base City. You will be first when we come back up. 1766 02:12:50.479 --> 02:12:54.119 Well, good Sunday morning. You were listening to garden Line and I'm your 1767 02:12:54.119 --> 02:12:58.239 host, Skip Richter, and we are here to talk about things that are 1768 02:12:58.359 --> 02:13:01.760 interest to you. At Boy's grew lit up the boards here since we got 1769 02:13:01.840 --> 02:13:05.800 into this last couple of segments. Let's head out to Base City. We're 1770 02:13:05.840 --> 02:13:09.840 gonna talk to Craig. Good morning, Craig, Good morning to Skip doing 1771 02:13:09.840 --> 02:13:15.000 a great job. The question I have is is I had the opportunity to 1772 02:13:15.039 --> 02:13:18.720 be in a new subdivision this past week and they were planning trees in the 1773 02:13:18.920 --> 02:13:26.239 esplague. I noticed that they're putting it. They were putting a PBC pipe. 1774 02:13:26.039 --> 02:13:31.119 Oh, I guess half inch down right going right to the root ball 1775 02:13:31.239 --> 02:13:33.640 coming back up and they cut it off and I asked him, I said, 1776 02:13:33.680 --> 02:13:37.079 why are you doing that? And they said, well, that's we 1777 02:13:37.199 --> 02:13:41.439 could deep deep root water and deep root feed from there. I said, 1778 02:13:41.479 --> 02:13:43.960 how do you keep bugs from growing in since it's got a cap? I 1779 02:13:45.159 --> 02:13:48.159 just want to get true take on it. Well, I'm not worried about 1780 02:13:48.159 --> 02:13:50.760 the bugs, but listen, a tree has roots going in all directions. 1781 02:13:52.239 --> 02:13:54.960 Initially we have to water the cylinder that went into the ground. That's where 1782 02:13:56.000 --> 02:13:58.720 all the roots are. That's why I like tree hugg sprinklers. And I 1783 02:13:58.760 --> 02:14:01.159 know the city's not going to just buy bunch of treehars. I wish they 1784 02:14:01.199 --> 02:14:05.479 would, but because it water, you can make them water in that area, 1785 02:14:05.640 --> 02:14:07.560 or a berm of soil that you fill up with water is also helpful. 1786 02:14:07.800 --> 02:14:11.279 But those roots are going everywhere, and I mean, if you put 1787 02:14:11.359 --> 02:14:16.920 in twenty little pipes to water through that, it just it's not worth the 1788 02:14:16.960 --> 02:14:20.319 trouble and it's not going to wet the soil volume that we need to wet, 1789 02:14:20.399 --> 02:14:24.399 so when we fertilize, we fertilize the whole area. If we need 1790 02:14:24.439 --> 02:14:28.520 to errate, we can errate. But basically, don't worry about doing those 1791 02:14:28.520 --> 02:14:31.760 little pipes. That is just not that helpful. I mean, if somebody 1792 02:14:31.840 --> 02:14:35.039 wanted to go in with a deep root water or feeder, you know, 1793 02:14:35.199 --> 02:14:39.319 like a tree company can do. I mean that when when you when you 1794 02:14:39.399 --> 02:14:41.399 do something like that, you're doing it all over the place, you know 1795 02:14:41.479 --> 02:14:46.359 when I mean we're talking about tree watering and feeding in a lot of places, 1796 02:14:46.399 --> 02:14:50.359 all around the trunk. That's what Affordable does, by the way, 1797 02:14:50.359 --> 02:14:52.399 when they do that, but don't at home, don't do the pipes. 1798 02:14:52.640 --> 02:14:56.279 Not worth it. Okay, all right, thank you for the call. 1799 02:14:58.119 --> 02:15:01.439 I appreciate that. Let's head out to Danbury and we're gonna talk to Ronnie. 1800 02:15:01.479 --> 02:15:05.319 Hello, Ronnie, good morning. Hey, Skip appreciates taking the call. 1801 02:15:05.399 --> 02:15:09.000 And agree with the gentleman the call before. You're doing a great job. 1802 02:15:09.560 --> 02:15:13.439 Listen, I've got a question. What I've got is out in the 1803 02:15:13.439 --> 02:15:18.039 garden this morning, in between rain storts, and there are literally thousand, 1804 02:15:18.439 --> 02:15:22.600 over the exact hundreds of gnats on my tomato plants. A little white looking 1805 02:15:24.000 --> 02:15:28.560 nat flies. Do I need to be worried? Well, that sounds a 1806 02:15:28.600 --> 02:15:33.079 little bit like it could be white flies. They if you can see this, 1807 02:15:33.479 --> 02:15:39.159 if when they land, if they're holding their wings kind of like a 1808 02:15:39.239 --> 02:15:41.439 rooftop, you know that angle of your rooftop. If they're holding their wings 1809 02:15:41.520 --> 02:15:46.479 down alongside their body, but in that shape, you might be dealing with 1810 02:15:46.720 --> 02:15:50.680 somewhat of a like a white fly problem getting started. There are so many 1811 02:15:50.680 --> 02:15:54.880 insects out there though that without a good identification, I don't know. I 1812 02:15:54.960 --> 02:15:58.640 hate to send people out with insecticide to treat white flies. And here's why. 1813 02:15:58.159 --> 02:16:01.439 They have a lot in that trial enemies. And when you treat for 1814 02:16:01.479 --> 02:16:05.239 the white flies, you may kill white flies, but you kill the natural 1815 02:16:05.359 --> 02:16:09.199 enemies. And then the white flies come in, you know, in a 1816 02:16:09.319 --> 02:16:13.479 wave, and there's nothing there to even slow them down. So you might 1817 02:16:13.560 --> 02:16:16.760 want to use something if you feel like you have them. When you turn 1818 02:16:16.840 --> 02:16:20.560 over your leaves, you're gonna see these little tiny, smaller than a typed 1819 02:16:20.840 --> 02:16:24.520 zerbo, but a little tiny fish scale looking things on the bottom of the 1820 02:16:24.600 --> 02:16:28.159 leaf. That's their pupa. And if you if beyond the adults, if 1821 02:16:28.159 --> 02:16:31.639 you're seeing a lot of that under the leaves. I would get an insecticidal 1822 02:16:31.680 --> 02:16:35.520 soap, or better yet, a horticultural oil, summer oil like a kneem 1823 02:16:35.520 --> 02:16:39.280 oil that would be an example, and spray upward and coat those things, 1824 02:16:39.360 --> 02:16:43.079 coat the undicides of the leaves. That would be the best way to manage 1825 02:16:43.120 --> 02:16:48.120 them, because when we start pulling out the insecticides, they're just a bootmerang. 1826 02:16:50.559 --> 02:16:52.840 I hear you odds if I appreciate thanks sir, Thank you. I 1827 02:16:52.879 --> 02:16:58.639 appreciate that call running. Thank you very much. Wow, we this time 1828 02:16:58.680 --> 02:17:03.319 flu this morning really moving kind of fast on us. So I'm going to 1829 02:17:03.479 --> 02:17:05.079 talk about a couple of things I've been wanting to talk about for a while. 1830 02:17:05.479 --> 02:17:11.000 First of all, I've been mentioning today this is lawn fertilizing season, 1831 02:17:11.399 --> 02:17:15.520 and if you want a good quality lawn fertilizer, you need to look at 1832 02:17:15.559 --> 02:17:20.920 the Turf Star line by Nelson. The Turf Star line has a number of 1833 02:17:20.959 --> 02:17:22.760 different things in it. You know, it's got the Bruce's Brew, the 1834 02:17:22.799 --> 02:17:26.959 eighteen four nine that you just use it year round. In fact, I 1835 02:17:26.959 --> 02:17:30.920 would use products like that in flower beds and vegetable beds. I mean it's 1836 02:17:30.959 --> 02:17:33.520 a slow you know it's going to give you a faster release, so when 1837 02:17:33.639 --> 02:17:37.319 you know you put it down, you get the release right. Then if 1838 02:17:37.319 --> 02:17:39.000 you want to slow things down a little bit, I would go to slow 1839 02:17:39.000 --> 02:17:43.879 and easy. That's a twenty two to ten and that's going to give you 1840 02:17:43.920 --> 02:17:46.559 feeding that will last you through the rest of the summer. You don't worry 1841 02:17:46.600 --> 02:17:50.000 about fertilizing your lawn again until fall when you put down a slow and easy 1842 02:17:50.040 --> 02:17:54.719 type product. You know Dan Nelson, the folks Nelson's Fertilizers. Over twenty 1843 02:17:54.799 --> 02:18:01.079 years have they been making fertilizer. They have followed carefully research on turf at 1844 02:18:01.079 --> 02:18:05.159 A and M and to how they formulate their their fertilizers. And that Turf 1845 02:18:05.159 --> 02:18:07.479 Star line is just a good one. Nay, a lot of other good 1846 02:18:07.479 --> 02:18:11.000 lines too, but I really I really like the Turf Star line a lot 1847 02:18:11.079 --> 02:18:13.079 for the summer. One. Another one though, like a lot, by 1848 02:18:13.079 --> 02:18:18.639 the way, is a color Star. Color Star products for your plants that 1849 02:18:18.760 --> 02:18:22.200 have color right flower bed. They work really well for that, and uh, 1850 02:18:22.360 --> 02:18:26.399 you know, it's just a quality product, and so I encourage you 1851 02:18:26.479 --> 02:18:31.920 to check that out. Whenever this rain is done and we get a little 1852 02:18:31.959 --> 02:18:35.559 bit drier, I'm gonna need to head back out and do some more lawn 1853 02:18:35.719 --> 02:18:39.120 care. And this is when lawns tend to kind of get away from you. 1854 02:18:39.120 --> 02:18:41.879 You know what I'm talking about. You know, you can't get out 1855 02:18:41.879 --> 02:18:43.760 and mow, and next time you get out there, if you know it's 1856 02:18:43.760 --> 02:18:48.159 going to look like a hay field, well I always tell you to multure 1857 02:18:48.200 --> 02:18:52.559 clippings back in the lawn. That is. I'll just say that's the best 1858 02:18:52.639 --> 02:18:56.639 lawn fertilizer and the cheapest because it's free, it's your lawn. You're recycling 1859 02:18:56.680 --> 02:19:01.520 the clippings that's not in and of it's enough to keep a law dense and 1860 02:19:01.559 --> 02:19:03.520 healthy. You know, we still fertilize, but if you get rid of 1861 02:19:03.559 --> 02:19:07.200 those clippings, you're just renting the fertilizer that you're putting down because you're growing 1862 02:19:07.239 --> 02:19:11.760 grass clippings with it and paying somebody to haul it away. But after a 1863 02:19:11.879 --> 02:19:18.520 rain, that would be a time where you could When it's grown too much 1864 02:19:18.719 --> 02:19:22.000 to where I'm we like to just cut off like a third of the grass 1865 02:19:22.040 --> 02:19:26.440 blade height each mowing. That's ideal, but maybe it's grown to where when 1866 02:19:26.440 --> 02:19:30.040 you mow it it's going to be you're cutting off over half the height of 1867 02:19:30.079 --> 02:19:31.959 it. Well, in that case, yeah, you could gather the clippings, 1868 02:19:33.120 --> 02:19:35.639 use them as a mulch in flowerbus. It's not too deep. They'll 1869 02:19:35.719 --> 02:19:39.959 dry out and work well. Use them in your compost pile. What I 1870 02:19:39.079 --> 02:19:43.680 do, because I just love having the clippings there is I'll mow high and 1871 02:19:43.799 --> 02:19:48.239 then I'll come in and I'll mow again lower, and that just better chops 1872 02:19:48.399 --> 02:19:52.920 up all those clippings and so it doesn't look like a hay field when you're 1873 02:19:52.920 --> 02:19:56.440 done. So that's another strategy for it. But the secret to a good 1874 02:19:56.440 --> 02:20:00.799 healthy lawn, one of the key secrets is regular mowing, frequent mowing. 1875 02:20:01.040 --> 02:20:03.959 The more often you mow, the denser of a lawn you're gonna be able 1876 02:20:03.959 --> 02:20:05.559 to have. Now, it's important to have water, it's important to have 1877 02:20:05.639 --> 02:20:11.639 fertilizer, of course in your lawn, but dense mowing or frequent mowing creates 1878 02:20:11.680 --> 02:20:18.639 that density. And I'll prove it this way. The most mode turf on 1879 02:20:18.680 --> 02:20:22.840 the planet is a golf course green. I mean they are mowing those things 1880 02:20:22.879 --> 02:20:26.959 every day, like an eighth of an inch cut out. You just barely 1881 02:20:26.959 --> 02:20:28.840 mow it a little off And how could you get denser than a golf course 1882 02:20:28.920 --> 02:20:31.920 green? Right now. If they mowed a golf course screen once a week 1883 02:20:33.159 --> 02:20:37.280 when they mowed, it will be an ugly mess and it wouldn't be a 1884 02:20:37.280 --> 02:20:39.760 good surface for playing golf on for sure. Well, in our home lawns, 1885 02:20:39.760 --> 02:20:43.440 we're not going for that low of a mowing unless you just have a 1886 02:20:43.440 --> 02:20:48.079 little backyard putting area. But just mowing once a week is enough cutting off 1887 02:20:48.079 --> 02:20:52.200 a third of the blade. That's good. It's just when we get stretched 1888 02:20:52.200 --> 02:20:54.319 out by extended periods of rain. I don't think this one will be quite 1889 02:20:54.319 --> 02:20:58.799 that extended, but that's when we kind of get into a problem with things 1890 02:21:00.000 --> 02:21:03.040 stretching, stretching out and just getting a little bit long and lanky. Honest 1891 02:21:03.280 --> 02:21:07.280 Hey, I want to remind you guys that on this coming Saturday, that's 1892 02:21:07.319 --> 02:21:13.159 the twentieth, I'm going to be at the Sugarland Home and Garden Outliving Show 1893 02:21:13.440 --> 02:21:18.959 Outdoor Living show that's in Stafford Center in Stafford. I'll be there eleven thirty. 1894 02:21:18.959 --> 02:21:22.399 I'm gonna give a seminar and help you have success with your garden, 1895 02:21:22.120 --> 02:21:26.040 and then I'm going to spend an hour outside at a booth answering garden questions. 1896 02:21:26.040 --> 02:21:31.239 This is where you bring me in a ziplock bag, bugs, disease 1897 02:21:31.559 --> 02:21:35.680 examples, you know, other issues with the lawn. What is this plan? 1898 02:21:35.840 --> 02:21:39.440 Bring it in a bag or take pictures with your phone, take pictures 1899 02:21:39.479 --> 02:21:43.040 of a problem area, or take pictures of an area where you're kind of 1900 02:21:43.079 --> 02:21:48.479 thinking what would be some good color to put into that area of the landscape. 1901 02:21:48.799 --> 02:21:50.520 We'll help you with all that. On garden Line. We have a 1902 02:21:50.520 --> 02:21:54.959 short time to visit with you on a question, But when you come to 1903 02:21:54.000 --> 02:21:58.360 one of these places that I appear at, like Sugarland Home and Outdoor Living 1904 02:21:58.360 --> 02:22:03.280 Show, we can spend some time eye to eye and kind of work through 1905 02:22:03.360 --> 02:22:05.799 some of the bigger questions that you might have. I hope you'll be able 1906 02:22:05.840 --> 02:22:09.520 to come out and see us this coming Saturday, and by the way, 1907 02:22:09.520 --> 02:22:11.799 just stretching things out a bit further. The following Saturday, I'm gonna be 1908 02:22:11.840 --> 02:22:15.959 at wall Bird's Unlimited at clear Lake, and I'm gonna tell you a whole 1909 02:22:16.040 --> 02:22:18.000 lot about that next week.