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

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

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It's crazy trip just watching as us
so many go things to Septs Gas.

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Well, good morning. We are
glad you're listening to Garden Line today.

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We're here to talk to you about
I don't know what's of interest to

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you. What do you want to
talk about? House plants of vegetables,

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herbs, your yard. Is it
going to rain next summer? Is it

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go over one hundred degrees? He
answered those two is yes and yes.

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Maybe not as much the first as
we like, but hey, that's the

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weather. If gardening was easy,
then you would just drop a pencil on

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the ground, it would root and
you'd have a pine tree. Right,

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So we're not going to worry about
easy. We're gonna worry about getting informed

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and figuring out how to do this. It is not rocket science, and

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it is something that you learn the
principles and you keep learning as you grow,

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and it just gets better. Your
garden, that is, just gets

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better each time your landscape can become
more beautiful. Nature throws us its ups

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and downs. And there's sometimes it's
a three step forward, two step back

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thing when it comes to certain aspects
of gardening, but in general, it's

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always going forward. One of the
things that I think makes gardening such a

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therapeutic benefit to all of us is
the fact that there is a hope to

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it. There's a get up and
try again. We recognize that sometimes things

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just don't go the way we want, and it's okay, we can you

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know, Let's say have a flower
bit and it's flowers aren't thriving, they

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don't look good, just on and
on, and so you decide what am

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I going to do? Well,
you're gonna rip it out, you know,

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put another one in in its place, Rip those plants out, put

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a new one in. Maybe the
soil needs amending, we can do that,

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we can fix that. Maybe we
need to bring more soil in and

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raise the bed up a little bit
because it's staying too soggy wet, and

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very few plants that we grow want
to be in a swamp. They just

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that's the exception. So in general, good drainage is important. But that's

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why we have rototillers and hose and
spading forks and things. We can we

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can turn a bed that's struggling into
a bed that's thriving. That's just one

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example. Same thing's due of a
lawn our Lawns are probably the single most

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common feature as we go from home
to home to home across the country.

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Lawns and of course shade trees.
Hopefully everbody has a shade tree in the

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summer here, But the same principles
kind of hole for a lawn. It's

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a plain, it has leaves,
it has roots, it needs sun,

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it needs moisture, it needs nutrients, and we can provide all of that.

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And we will try to simplify things
here on garden Line just to give

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you some things to think about and
make it a little bit easier for you.

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And here is an example. We're
going to be planting this fall.

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Fall is the best time to plant
woody ornamentals, that's tree shrubs and woody

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vines. And it's the best time
to plant perennials too, cold hardy perennials,

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which I guess saying cold hardy and
perennial. If it wasn't cold heart

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it wouldn't be a perennial with it. You see what I'm talking about.

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Now's the time to get that done. But first you take care of the

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soil. And when you're blending the
soil where we're riding compost in, we're

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raising the bed, meaning making it
taller so water can drain off the surface

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and get away from the base of
our plants. And we're amending it,

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of course with compost and with shale. If it's a heavy clay soil.

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Shale. Think of shale is like
kitty litter. It looks a lot like

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the old gray kitty litter, you
know I'm talking about. Comes in different

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sizes, from small to quite large. Pebble sized chunks are bigger, but

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expanded. Shale is great for clays
because it holds them open. Think of

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a it's a rock. It's a
little clay material that has been fired at

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such high temperatures that expands and gets
all pitted and pock mark kind of like

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the lavarock on the barbecue pit kind
of look and when visibly you don't see

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that, but that's what's happening if
you've got up rural close and looked at

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it through a hand leanser microscope.
So anyway, the bottom line on shale

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is it keeps its structural integrity.
So when it says, okay, I

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got this space, and you know
the clay has moved apart, this is

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shale space. When you get enough
of it in there, it just creates

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in internal passageways through the soil where
water and nutrients and oxygen and other things

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can move. It's very helpful.
But that's not tossed in three flexes shale

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out there on a flower bed.
It's putting it considerably deep. When they

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did the Antique or not the Antique
the earth Kind Rose Trials up in Dallas,

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doctor George and others working on the
project, they looked at different ways

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to improve the soil, and they
found that mixing a lot of composted material,

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bark and things in made it easier
for those roses to get established.

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Doctor George also did some studies where
they looked at expanded shale and found that

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if you can put three inches down
on a bed and mix it in as

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deeply as you can, that makes
a significant change in the health of the

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plants. The root zone of the
plant going forward. Now three inches that's

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a lot of shale. If you're
into a large area, that's a lot

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a lot of shale. But the
idea is just don't throw a flack or

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two of shale in the soil.
Let's get enough in there. Or do

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it over time. Maybe you add
an inch and then next year when you're

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renovating the beds, you add another
inch and so on. You can build

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it up. Compost is great,
Compost is essential. Nature uses compost,

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that's the whole design. Now,
on the other hand, compost breaks down

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and goes away. If you've ever
had a container pot on your patio and

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it was full of potting soil or
whatever you were growing in and two years

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later you look in that pot's half
full of soil, where'd it go?

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Well, it oxidized the way.
That's what compost does. That's what organic

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matter does, and so it's great
to add it. But just know you

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need to supplement periodically to get more
into the soil, more mixed into the

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area. And when you got something
like a rose bush, you know you

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don't pick up the rose bush every
year and rotortil the soil with new compost

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and put the rose bush back down. That's where expanded shale really really can

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shine. If you're asked me which
should you do, I would say you

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should do both. Because both of
them have their each has their own benefits,

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and together both of them is a
very advantageous combination. When you're looking

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at nutrients. Microlife fertilizer, for
example, Microlife has a wide variety of

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nutrient products. They've got the old
green bag. That's the one we're so

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familiar with because it's good for everything. You know, we say it's for

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your lawn. It is, but
it's also for fruit, trees and herbs

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and anything you want to use it
for. They also have the by the

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way that if you haven't put on
your brown patch five to one three,

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that's the orange Microlife bag. If
you haven't put it on your lawn yet,

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you really need to do so.
Where I say you can put it

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on late, but you know,
the later it gets, the less benefits

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that you're going to enjoy. Although
you're still adding some organic matter, you're

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still providing a product that is enriched
with microbes and is going to help a

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lot. If I were planning a
tree or shrub, I'd probably use the

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blue bag though. That's the Microlife
Ultimate. It's an eight four six and

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it really gives a good boost for
plants. You can mix any of these

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into the soil and they'll do just
fine. Consider though the humates the hum

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mates plus. In fact, I
you know, if I were to say

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what is the best organic overall lawn
care combo product in the fall, Well,

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if you're going to put two together, I'd put the brown patch that's

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the five to one three, and
then I would put the Microlife's hum mates

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plus that gives an extra boost of
four percent, so four percent potassium.

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So what you're looking at is a
five to one seven essentially when you do

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that. Anyway, you can find
Microlife everywhere. Just go online Microlife Fertilizer

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dot com and you can find out
more about these products and where you can

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get them as well. We're going
to take a break. Our phone number,

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let's see, I tell you what. Let's just go ahead and take

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a break. I'll be right back
in just a moment. Welcome back to

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Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip
Richter, and we are looking forward to

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visiting with you today. We're going
to open up the phones here our phone

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number if you would like to give
us a call seven to one three two

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

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four it's always easy to if you're
trying to get through and get in,

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it's always easy to get in early
in the show, real early. It

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tends to the early bird gets the
worm. I guess if you're interested in

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visiting with us, this is a
good time. I am going to talk

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a little bit today about holiday gift
plants. I wanted to go back into

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that. I mentioned some things so
a little while back on it. But

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when when you think about holiday decorations, there's some plants that are just the

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standards. I mean, like point
SETA for example. More that the point

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SETA is the answer to the question
what plant species is sold more in the

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United States, more numbers of plants
than any other, and that would be

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point SETA. Point SETAs are popular. They come in now so many different

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colors and versions and variations. It's
it's really cool. Every time I take

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a look at the next year's crop, I just go, oh, there's

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something I haven't seen before. That's
kind of cool. But point settas are

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a little finicky. You let them
get dry inside there by a heat vent

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or something like that, but especially
drying out that heatvent just makes it dry

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it even faster. As a matter
of fact, then they wilt and then

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they drop older leaves. You water. You know, they perk back up,

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but the older leaves gonna turn brown
fall off pretty soon. Your point

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set is pretty sticky looking, you
know, just a bunch of long shoots

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or stems rather without leaves on them. You can avoid that just by keeping

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them moist. Point set has come
often with a little sleeve around them,

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plastic or some sort of a foil
like sleeve. Just take them out of

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that, put them in the sink. By the way, when you pick

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them up, notice how heavy they
are. Put them in the sink,

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water them oil, and then pick
them up and notice how heavy they are.

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And you just can kind of walk
by ironwalk byer punseetas and just lift

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one up and it's like, yeah, that one's about neating some water here,

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just based on the weight, because
waight is the biggest part of the

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water is the biggest part of the
way of that plant. So points that

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are easy. I like to give
mine some bright light just to kind of

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keep them perky, and going through
the cool season, we move them inside,

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or at least through the holidays,
we move them inside and it's a

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much much lower light environment, and
they may not do as well. If

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you are looking for your hometown feed
store and you happen to live up in

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the Magnolia area, well on FM
twenty nine seventy eight is Spring Creek Feed.

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A Spring Creek Feed. It's just
minutes away from ground Parkway as well

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as Highway to forty nine. You're
going to find the fertilizers I talk about

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at Spring Creek Feed. They carry
those lines. You're going to find a

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wide variety of things to control weeds
or to conrol pasts or diseases in your

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law and your vegetables, your flowers. They have friendly and curtious staff.

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That is that alone is just worth
the price of permission when it comes to

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going and shop, just to be
greeted and treated in a way like you

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know, we're here to help you
instead of like you're bothering me. I'm

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sitting back here playing video games on
my phone. Go find it yourself.

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Have you ever been in a shop
like that? I have, But they

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carry it all there. They have
discounts too, by the way, for

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senior citizens, for military and if
you are youth in FFA and four h

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raising animals that discounts for that as
well. They'll even special order products for

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you at Spring Creek feed feed Center. We'd love to talk about feed stores.

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We have so many great ones here
in the Houston area. Wherever you

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live. We got a feedstore not
too far from you. That is a

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very good thing. I was going
through my garage this past week, and

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that's always a revelation, you know. It's kind of like if you ever

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move and then you go up into
some high cabinet in the kitchen or something,

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and it's like, oh, that's
there. You've got to rediscover that

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you have it, or at least
now I know where it is. Well,

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in my garage, I found two
bird feeders, and I guess I

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had taken them down at some point
and stored them and everything. And I

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got one of them all cleaned ups. One of the ones I got from

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Wallbirds Folks h and it is it's
just an excellent little feeder and it takes

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all you can take it all the
way apart and clean it out, which

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is what I did because they'd been
there for a while. I got any

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old seeds sticking to the sides out
and put it all back together, not

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ready to go back out again,
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want things for helping your birds provide
water, water's really important, even in

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the cool season. The birds have
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Cheap bird seed in the store.
Next time you walk by it, just

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look. You're going to see a
lot of red bebes in there, and

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those are not something the birds like
to eat. They just don't. You

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can make a big bag of seed, a feed with it or a bird

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seed with it and sell it for
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you extract what they don't eat,
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Unlimited has excellent feeds for all groups
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now, I would be talking about
the winter super blend just because it's got

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the fat and it's got the proteins
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Going through this season. Our phone
number is seven to one three two

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

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So it's going through the holiday plants. And I mentioned points settus and

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how we take care of them.
Just make sure you take them out of

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that sleeve and water them thoroughly,
let it completely run out. Maybe let's

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sit there five minutes and just make
sure it's all out of there. It

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didn't take that long, but just
to get it all out of there and

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then put it back in the sleeve
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We just brought some in yesterday that
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and we brought them in because it
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we had a family coming in and
so we wanted to use them decorate around

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the fireplace things like that. Next
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is not a cactus. It's a
different type of plant. And the reason

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I point that out, whether it's
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I point that out is because if
you treat it like a cactus and let

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it get too dry, it'll kind
of shrivel. It's not good for it.

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It can take a little bit of
dry, but because it has succulent

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plant parts, those little pads that
make the stems very succulent, the whole

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moisture. But you got to water
them some. And when you have one

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full of blooms, don't do anything
to shock the system of the plant or

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it'll drop blooms. I had one
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dry, actually twice get kind of
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It aborted all the little buds that
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yet it aborted them all. And
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the darkest area in the room for
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some light and just watch the temperature
extremes. That's another thing on the holiday

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cactus. We're gonna now head out
to Montgomery and talk to Jim. Hello,

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Jim, Hey, good morning.
I wanted to ask you. This

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is not a holiday kind of thing, but I'm trying to find some devil

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gord seed. Devil's gord? Will
you describe that to me? Okay,

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Well, it's a it's a gord
that kind of has like horns on it.

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I guess sometimes they're called horn gorge
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a it's the name of it's a
Devil's gorge Seeds, and they have it.

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They say they have it on Amazon, but every time I check it

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just says it gives me something else. Okay, I think I think I

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know what you're what you're referring to. Uh gee, there are a lot

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of Johnny Seeds has a wide variety
of gords. You probably will find it

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there. They're pretty extensive. Off
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say, well for gord seeds go
to this company just because I don't know.

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I just never have have. Who'd
you say was the first one Johnny's

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j O H N N Y A
posture for us? Okay, Hey,

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I'd like to also tell you that
I talked to you here a while back

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about air layering fiddle leaf ficus.
Yes, huh, I was successful.

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It's putting on new growth now,
wonderful. And yeah, I was surprised

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and it actually worked. So next
spring I'm going to do it again.

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Okay, Well, I think it's
a great idea. It's people that get

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lanky, kind of outgrown house plants. It can be super easy or a

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little bit challenging, but depending on
the plant. Actually, fiddle leaf is

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not the easiest one in the world
to airline. Right you did Evidently you

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did it right. Well. I
tried to do it by cuttings and that

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didn't work. So I did the
air layer and actually this one worked.

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it actually put on roots and I
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leaf. Just curl them out of
it. Well, good luck, congratulations

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Jim. Hey, I appreciate I
appreciate the call very much. And uh,

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good luck fire. I'll take that. Johnny's gorge, Yes, Johnny,

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Johnny's yeah. Check with them.
There's yeah. I would start with

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that. I don't know that they
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would begin with that one. Okay, all right, Yeah, it's talking

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about the fiddlely fig. My daughter
showed me, send me a picture she

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had done what's called notching to her
fiddley fig. And when you do that,

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you go above the bud and you
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tissues down to the wood. So
think of it as like a little chip

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taken out sort of above the bud. And what that does is the hormones

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that are coming down the stem that
inhibit bud growth, they are blocked and

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that bud is set free if you
will to grow. And yes, they're

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hormones that do that. In fact, when we come back, why don't

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we talk about that. Our phone
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fifty eight seventy four. We'll be
right back. Welcome back to garden Line.

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We're glad you've joined us today talking
gardening. If you'd like to give

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

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when we went to break, I
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one of my daughters, had a
fiddlely fig that had got a little

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larger and it was like a long, straight, you know, fishing pole,

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not hard any hardly, any if
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lot. I've got one like that. They can do that. So she

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went you went in and did a
process it's called matching. And above the

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bud at the stem, you you
just take a notch out of the bark

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so that the the hormones that are
flowing down the stem that are inhibiting that

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bud, that line is broken.
They kind of would have to go around

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it or something as stuff moves up
and down through the bark. Uh And

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when that happens, that bud is
free to grow. And I do mean

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that free to grow. The buds, especially the terminal buds. When you

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look at upright shoots, they produce
hormones that flow down the branch and inhibit

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the buds below them from growing.
They're the boss bud there at the top,

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and that that's just the nature.
Actually, those hormones are going all

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the way to the roots, and
in the roots they help root growth down

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there as well. But this is
getting nerdy, I know, but it

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is interesting. And so by making
the notches and the buds starting to grow,

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her straight single pole fiddly fig is
now beginning to put some branches on.

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You're not going to turn it into
this big bushy plant overnight, but

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in general it just kind of helps
because you know, you get a real

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tall, lanky one and that's you
know, that's where you go in like

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we're talking about before the break,
and you do an air layer on it

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to get roots and just cut it
off and now you're left with this naked

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stump of of a trunk from your
fiddly fig. Anyway, I thought that's

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pretty cool, pretty interesting you might
be interested in. That's not something we

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talk about. Is not something we
generally talk about a lot in horticulture and

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gardening. Well, our phone number
if you would like to get us call

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is seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four for those of you

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out in the Kingwood area. But
both Worns seven Gardens and Kingwood Gardens Center

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are outstanding local garden centers that you
can find pretty much everything you need right

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now. The plant of the month, the native of the month is Texas

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beauty berry. Beautiful old native plant
loses its leaves in the fall and leaves

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clusters up and down the stem of
purplish berries. Really nice. They also

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have three bags of heirloom aged leaf
compost for thirty bucks. Three bags for

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thirty bucks of heirloom aged leaft compost. Memory. We're saying it's a good

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time to compost. It's good time
to put some mulch on top of the

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soil, and this would be this
would be a suitable product for that as

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well as mixing into the soil.
Now, this is only a November sale,

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so hey, time is running out. Don't mess around. They've got

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wonderful Christmas trees and cactus and all
kinds of things in there. And I

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noticed, you know, each garden
center has things that are going on around.

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I think at Kingwoo Garden Center they're
having the Twelve Days of Christmas that's

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November twenty fifth through December sixth,
and each day there's something some kind of

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deal for you. So I think
day one was like five dollars off any

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candle in the gift shop, and
it goes on and on. But it's

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worth going to check out. And
the Kingwi Gardens that are gift shops just

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outstanding. If you have a chance
to head out to Warrens there, they

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are constantly bringing in new color,
they're bringing in new plants, They're always

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having something going on. You need
to follow them on social media, by

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the way, so that you can
know when things are going on. Let's

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head out now we're going to go
to Cyprus and talk to Sandy. Hello,

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Sandy, good morning. Get I
have a question. I have an

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indoor craton that I've probably had for
almost a year or a year. My

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girlfriend has a croton that she's had
for years. Hers branches off like into

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big branches. Do I need to
do something to mine so that it can

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start branching off? Don't do it
on it? Well, when you top

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off a branch, you tend to
get bud buds that break out and begin

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growing below where you topped it off. And I don't know if you were

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listening while ago want to talk about
the fiddle e fig, but that that

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flow of hormone and nutrients is keeping
the buds down the stem from the end

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of the branch down the stem from
taking off and sprouting out and being bushy.

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So you could also just top the
plant, and you're going to get

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branching from below that point on the
side. It'll branch off on the side

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instead of keep going tall. Yes, you know there branch is probably an't

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going to like just go horizontal.
They're still going to grow upward. But

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now you have two or three and
so you have a thicker dunser plant and

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then you can do it again,
should so? Should I trim off some

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at the bottom, the ones closest
to the soil. Why are you?

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Why are you wanting to trim there? I'm not following. Because the plant

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that my girlfriend has at her house, it's so beautiful. It's tall that

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it's got one branch that goes off
to the side, and then it's got

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branches on it too. It's got
leads on it too, And I'm trying

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to make mind you that, but
it's just getting bushy. Oh okay,

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I thought, I see. Yes, you could trim off anything you want,

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and as you do that, the
growth, the supply from the roots

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is going to go into the remaining
branches and shoots and trunks and everything like

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that. So yeah, you can
prune esthetically that plant however you aesthetic,

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however you aesthetically want it to look. Don't be afraid, and it won't

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hurt anything. No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't cut off, you know,

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eighty percent of the branches all at
once, you know, remove one

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and give a little time, or
maybe one or two. I can't see

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the plants, so it's kind of
hard for me to be specific, but

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in general, yes, just just
do some printing here and there follow following

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those principles that I was talking about. Okay, maybe I'll send you a

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picture and you can just email me
back. Okay, sounds good. You

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take care, Thank you for the
Yeah, thanks for the call. Our

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

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one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. We put in a refrigerator

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in the garage this past week and
uh, you know it's just family coming

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in and different things going on the
holidays. It just kind of gives you

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that backup, right, it's been
the leftovers and whatnot. We're going to

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put them. Well, I was
thinking about it when we put it in.

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I was saying, yeah, what
if the power goes out, because

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that's happened to me before. By
the way, I cannot describe the smell

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that comes out of an abandoned freezer
well sometime after the power goes out.

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Anyway, that's why we have generators
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is no comparison. Let's take a
little break. It is seven one three

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two one two fifty eight seventy four. Will be right back. Well,

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good morning, and welcome back to
garden line. If you've not done your

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fall fertilizing on the lawn yet,
you still can, but don't delay.

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The longer we delay, the less
of the significant benefits it comes from fall

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fertilization, The less that we get
to enjoy. So we want to get

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that thing down now. Nelson Plant
Foods carbol Load is an outstanding product,

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and it's kind of a two for, or it really is a two for.

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You get a wonderful blend of nutrients
designed for our lawns in this area

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in the fall season, late fall
going into the winter season. Now you

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also get a pre emergent reside that
prevents germination of weed seeds in your lawn.

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And when you put both, when
you put the fertilizer product down and

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watered in with a half inch of
water, you get both. For every

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bag now of carbo Load that's sold
this fall, Nelson Plant food is going

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to donate two dollars to Randy's memorial
scholarship. Now you think about a lot

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of bags sold across the Greater Houston
area in the fall, that's quite a

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donation. And I know Randy would
be would be thrilled and proud to know

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that his legacy lives on in that
way. So I said it was a

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two fur, the fertilizer, the
weed prevention, I guess I should say

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00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:41.519
a three fur and also a good
donation to a great cause and remembrance of

407
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:48.000
a wonderful, wonderful person who did
garden Line for twenty seven years. He

408
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:52.279
held this seat down. He in
many ways created what garden Line is today,

409
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:56.640
and we're grateful for that too.
They'd go out to Flattnia now and

410
00:29:56.680 --> 00:30:02.960
talk to James. Hello, James, No, it's Jane. Oh okay,

411
00:30:03.160 --> 00:30:07.000
hy Jane, I'll still talk to
you, okay, well good,

412
00:30:07.319 --> 00:30:11.400
well, sorry, I've been dealing
with this cough, allergy whatever something for

413
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:17.480
a while, so I'll do my
best so you can understand me. I

414
00:30:17.519 --> 00:30:22.079
have a very very big Christmas cactus, you know, the traditional pinkish,

415
00:30:22.279 --> 00:30:26.599
dark pink kind. It's full of
buds. It's huge, and what I've

416
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.480
done is I don't know if I
took two put them together. It's about

417
00:30:30.480 --> 00:30:33.240
a couple of years old. It's
full of buds. I can't deal with

418
00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:37.880
it anymore. The best window I
have is in an upstairs room that can

419
00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:44.079
just do daylight as it happens naturally, because I don't I understand you put

420
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:47.559
on a light middle of the night. You might mess it up. But

421
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:52.240
I would like to donate it to
a charity auction coming in a couple of

422
00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:56.519
weeks. And it's got buds anywhere
from the size and maybe the tip of

423
00:30:56.559 --> 00:31:02.960
a ink pen. Let me let
me, I'm sorry, let me instead

424
00:31:02.960 --> 00:31:07.039
of the detail on it. I
how can I help? Do you have

425
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:11.640
a question the buds fall off?
I don't want the buds to fall off,

426
00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:14.480
Okay, and that's what happened to
it last year. I got you.

427
00:31:14.559 --> 00:31:17.079
I want them to stay on.
How does that? How can you

428
00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:21.200
do that? Well? Christmas cactus, when it goes through a dry spot

429
00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:25.640
with the blooms or buds on it, it will abort those buds. And

430
00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:30.240
that's one thing that can do it. Major changes I would think in light,

431
00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:33.839
but especially in temperature could also have
something to do with it. And

432
00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:38.039
so you just need to kind of
apparently it was pretty happy where it was,

433
00:31:38.160 --> 00:31:44.240
and so you just need to kind
of recreate those positions or conditions rather

434
00:31:44.759 --> 00:31:48.720
and that is the best way you
can prevent it. Most people, it's

435
00:31:48.799 --> 00:31:53.480
due to drought. Sometimes there's a
combo with the temperature to okay, And

436
00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:57.279
the other question I have with sweet
potatoes, how do you know when to

437
00:31:57.279 --> 00:32:02.680
harvest them? Sweet potatoes don't ripen, so you can harvest them anytime you

438
00:32:02.759 --> 00:32:07.440
want. Now they get bigger as
the fall goes and they get bigger and

439
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:10.759
they store more carbohydrates, so people
leave them as long as they can.

440
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:16.000
Once we're going to have a frieze
or even a frost that's going to kill

441
00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.480
the vines, I would go ahead
and get them dug, because when they

442
00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.599
heave the soil up, it sort
of cracks open the soil at the base

443
00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:27.920
of the plant, and the tops
of the tubers could be exposed to a

444
00:32:27.960 --> 00:32:30.640
good hard freeze temperature and cause damage
to the tubers. That they're not at

445
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:36.480
all a tropical plant, I mean
a cold, hardy plant. So when

446
00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:38.799
the vines start, my vines are
starting to look puny. Yeah, they've

447
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:43.200
lost a lot of their luster.
And so I wondered if that's a sign.

448
00:32:43.319 --> 00:32:45.400
Yeah, you could do it.
I mean you could have done it

449
00:32:45.599 --> 00:32:47.759
a month and a half ago and
wouldn't have near the yield. Or you

450
00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:52.160
could do it now, or you
could wait until after a frost and then

451
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:55.000
go do it. Then. I
would probably just I don't know how many

452
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:59.640
you have, but I would just
go ahead and get it done. Oh

453
00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:02.039
okay, go ahead and pick them
up, all right. And that plant

454
00:33:02.039 --> 00:33:05.440
that girl was talking about while ago, what did she call it? I

455
00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:09.240
couldn't understand Croton. Was it Croton? Yes? Yeah, yeah, okay,

456
00:33:09.319 --> 00:33:14.440
big old, large multicolored leaves.
Yeah, I've got one of those.

457
00:33:14.480 --> 00:33:16.279
And I kind of let them do
their own things. Sometimes they don't,

458
00:33:16.400 --> 00:33:20.160
you know. So anyway, Okay, well, thank you for your

459
00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:23.079
help. I appreciate it. Thanks
for the call, Jane. I've talked

460
00:33:23.079 --> 00:33:29.519
about Star of Hope before, and
Star of Hope is a local organization that's

461
00:33:29.559 --> 00:33:35.960
been here for a very long time
that changes people's lives. Yes, they

462
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:40.799
feed the hungry, Yes they clothe
the homeless. Yes, they provide a

463
00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:45.279
place to stay, as we say, two hots in a cot where you're

464
00:33:45.319 --> 00:33:49.839
fed, you have a place to
stay. But what they really do is

465
00:33:49.960 --> 00:33:55.799
they take the whole person spiritually,
mentally, physically, every aspect and they

466
00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:01.720
provide a pathway out o where that
it's a pathway out. It may be

467
00:34:01.799 --> 00:34:07.759
a mom who for no faulter of
her own is now taking care of two

468
00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:10.880
kids and living in a car.
There are a lot of faces of homelessness.

469
00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.599
They are just a lot of different
stories out there. But the thing

470
00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:20.840
that's consistent is with Star of Hope. People come in, they spend time

471
00:34:20.920 --> 00:34:24.360
there, they get training, they
are provided what they need to actually get

472
00:34:24.400 --> 00:34:29.320
their feet under them and to make
a life. To just throw money away

473
00:34:29.360 --> 00:34:31.960
and not really help somebody, well
that dn't feel great, does it at

474
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:35.880
all. It's not a good call. Star of Hope is a good call

475
00:34:36.039 --> 00:34:39.639
and they know how to make every
dollar go as far as possible. And

476
00:34:39.679 --> 00:34:45.840
I hope this Christmas season that you
will consider donating toward that. You know,

477
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:47.880
for two dollars and eighty cents you
can provide a person a meal.

478
00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:52.760
I mean, that's just chicken feed
right now. You go online to Star

479
00:34:52.840 --> 00:34:58.599
of Hope Mission, it's sohmission dot
org and you can find out more and

480
00:34:58.639 --> 00:35:00.760
you can find out how to donate
to help. And I would ask you

481
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:05.440
to consider that if you would.
It is a good cause of my wife

482
00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.400
and I've worked with them in the
past and I can just tell you it

483
00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:15.440
is definitely money well spent or provided
in the case for someone else's help and

484
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:21.039
benefit. Well, we're about running
out of time here, got about a

485
00:35:21.039 --> 00:35:23.920
minute so left. You know Buchanan's
Plants and the heights. They're on East

486
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:28.440
eleventh Street, by the way,
and the website I should give you this

487
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:34.800
up from Buchanansplants dot com. They're
very dedicated to Texas natives, but they

488
00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.440
have every other thing you can imagine. I mean even their houseplant collection.

489
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:40.239
Walk in there and I promise you
you're going to see things like you've never

490
00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:45.960
seen. What is that species?
They've got everything from native plants to houseplants,

491
00:35:46.440 --> 00:35:51.320
and right now they're Christmas trees.
Oh my gosh, they're wonderful,

492
00:35:51.360 --> 00:35:55.039
wonderful lot of Christmas trees, decorations. A gift shop is awesome. Bottom

493
00:35:55.079 --> 00:36:00.039
line is Bucannon's Plants. Just go
check the out. Drive over there.

494
00:36:00.920 --> 00:36:06.280
A love East Eleventh Street in the
Heights, walk through and see what I'm

495
00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:09.840
talking about. It is always a
good time to be around the folks at

496
00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:14.320
Buchanan's Plants. I love. I
love to go in there to visit,

497
00:36:14.639 --> 00:36:16.840
talk to the people. That boy, they got great, great people that

498
00:36:16.920 --> 00:36:24.519
are working for them there as well. I was just thinking about them earlier.

499
00:36:24.920 --> 00:36:30.000
Oh by the way, there is
a let's see let me come back

500
00:36:30.039 --> 00:36:31.000
to that when I get back,
I want to tell you about a little

501
00:36:31.320 --> 00:36:36.480
upcoming information here. Well, we're
going to take our break, if you'd

502
00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:38.679
like to get on the board for
when we come back. It's seven one

503
00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:43.920
three two one two five eight,
seven, four, seven, one three

504
00:36:43.960 --> 00:36:49.679
two one two fifty eight seventy four. I hope that you had a wonderful

505
00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:55.119
Thanksgiving, a break, holidays,
time spent with family, and now what

506
00:36:55.199 --> 00:37:00.519
do we do We? I think
try to recuperate and digest everything that was

507
00:37:00.639 --> 00:37:06.079
consumed over the weekend. Well,
we're glad you're listening to Guarden Line.

508
00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:17.599
We'll be right back and we will
get right to your calls. Katie r.

509
00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:22.039
H. Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services

510
00:37:22.079 --> 00:37:27.719
advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r. H. Garden Line with

511
00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:46.440
Skip Richter's just watch him as well. Good morning, What is going to

512
00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:52.639
be a beautiful Saturday? If you
don't mind a little rainfall? Perhaps you

513
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:55.559
know I actually enjoy rainy days.
If we had too many of them,

514
00:37:55.639 --> 00:38:00.840
wouldn't. But I occasionally just sit
inside. I don't know, there's a

515
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:07.079
calming thing, read a book,
do whatever interests you. But that that

516
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.559
kind of day I don't always see
is a bad thing at all. In

517
00:38:10.639 --> 00:38:15.960
fact, I'm happy gonna get a
little bit of rainfall in here. I

518
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:20.800
was mentioning talking about Buchanans before I
went to break, and I forgot to

519
00:38:20.840 --> 00:38:24.199
mention they're having their a huge event. This is a holiday open house.

520
00:38:24.639 --> 00:38:28.320
Now. The holiday open house is
going to have light music, It's gonna

521
00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:31.199
have beer and wine and food.
Santa will be there, There'll be crafts

522
00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:37.000
for kids to do. Other local
vendors also will be there on site at

523
00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:43.559
Buchanan's Native Plants on this coming Saturday, December second, from ten am to

524
00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:47.079
three pm. December second, ten
am to three pm. Holiday open House

525
00:38:47.199 --> 00:38:52.960
at Buchanans. And I just know
every time they put another event, it's

526
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:58.199
cool, it is fun and we
really we really enjoy I've been able to

527
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:01.880
participate in things like that. I've
talked to you about the be supply before

528
00:39:02.000 --> 00:39:07.039
out there in Dayton. Uh.
You know, do you have someone in

529
00:39:07.079 --> 00:39:10.840
your family who has been thinking about
becoming a beekeeper? They want to learn?

530
00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:15.039
What a great gift you could you
know? They could they have classes

531
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.639
out there by the way to teach
you how to be bee keepers, to

532
00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:23.079
make you better beekeepers. And what
about a gift to some supplies and some

533
00:39:23.440 --> 00:39:28.840
maybe just get the lineup for the
classes from the folks that at the b

534
00:39:29.039 --> 00:39:31.400
supply check out signing up for them. I think it'd be a great gift.

535
00:39:31.800 --> 00:39:37.000
If you just enjoy going out and
having kind of an outing, go

536
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:40.079
into the be Supply and seeing those
bees. There's a huge hive, huge

537
00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:45.960
indoor hive box and you can just
walk right up to it and you can

538
00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:47.599
look at what the bees you're doing, watch them come in and out and

539
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:52.039
everything like that. That's all at
the b Supply. If you want more

540
00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:59.199
information, go to thebsupply dot com. Bbsupply dot com. Contact them and

541
00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:00.840
find out. Hey, the spring
I'd like to start be keeping. Tell

542
00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:02.960
me what I need to know,
what I need to sign up for,

543
00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:07.719
what do I need to do,
and they'll get you fixed up. I'm

544
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:12.800
going to head now out to Kingwood
and talk to Pamela. Hello, Pamela,

545
00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:21.039
Hi there, skip listen. I
have some questions about molasses and also

546
00:40:21.239 --> 00:40:27.480
about asami. Okay. I had
a product in my staff called Mother's Blooms.

547
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:31.199
Okay. I don't know if you
know anything about that. It was

548
00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:37.920
made in Montgomery, Okay, okay, and I used it and my plants

549
00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:44.960
went crazy and I can't buy anymore. They don't make it. But I've

550
00:40:44.960 --> 00:40:51.000
done a bit of research about molasses
and it's fascinating. How if you use

551
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:57.440
molasses and r CW Nurseries did a
little article. They have a lot of

552
00:40:57.639 --> 00:41:02.840
articles under their website molasses and if
you use it, the ants leave,

553
00:41:04.840 --> 00:41:08.360
Okay, they go next door?
All right? And well, so how

554
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:12.039
can I how can I help?
How can I help today? Okay?

555
00:41:12.320 --> 00:41:15.719
Well, I just wondered if you
knew about that and that you make a

556
00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:22.199
mixture of molasses and liquid garlic.
You don't have mosquitoes. Now, there's

557
00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:27.639
a there's a lot of different remedies
and things like that and recipes out there

558
00:41:27.679 --> 00:41:30.920
on the web, that's for sure. Uh So you wanted to ask about

559
00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:35.800
asite. I believe also, yes, because I also at the same time

560
00:41:36.039 --> 00:41:40.480
that I said this, I was
using my rain water that I collect gallon

561
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:46.880
things. I had some as and
mite sitting there that was like leftover in

562
00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:51.039
the spread or so I'm kind of
well, I'll put some water. I

563
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:54.639
put it in some of the water. How much of the this is poundered

564
00:41:54.679 --> 00:42:01.800
asamite? How much powdered as amite? Can you use uh per gallon?

565
00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:05.880
Oh? You know you don't want
to, you don't want to use much.

566
00:42:06.400 --> 00:42:09.000
I've not gone through the mixing thing
on it. But these are these

567
00:42:09.039 --> 00:42:14.400
are micronutrients that can be out of
whack. And if you were to like

568
00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:16.360
mix a whole bunch and some water
and then pour it on a plant,

569
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:23.159
you would be really doing one hundred
times a thousand times heavier application than is

570
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:30.079
prescribed with a spreader. So can
you do the molasses now, you know,

571
00:42:30.199 --> 00:42:35.400
because you want the higher you can? Well you can, and it's

572
00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:42.440
especially the sugar and molasses is also
something that a lot of the beneficial microbes

573
00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:46.840
in the soil, especially certain bacteria
will will appreciate. So, Hey,

574
00:42:46.880 --> 00:42:51.679
I'm going to have to run,
but I appreciate your question and hope you

575
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:57.239
have a great day out there in
Kingdom. She was talking about. Amite

576
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:00.519
is a crush mineral and it comes
from actually up on mine up in the

577
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:06.320
Utah area. The ASMI Texas dot
com website can tell you more about it,

578
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:09.760
if you'll learn more about it.
We consider it a supplement for our

579
00:43:09.800 --> 00:43:16.199
tur for our soils to make sure
the trace minerals we might need are inadequate

580
00:43:16.239 --> 00:43:20.320
supply, and so as might has
a lot of different trace minerals, and

581
00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:22.880
it put it out a very low
rate. A bag goes a very long

582
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:29.280
way, but still those are nutrients
that are essential for plant growth. So

583
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:32.400
I'm gonna head, let's see,
no not to you what I'm gonna I'm

584
00:43:32.400 --> 00:43:37.960
going to finish talking about the holiday
gift plants. The point settas we talked

585
00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:44.960
about we talked about the holiday cactus, Thanksgiving Christmas cactus being the main one

586
00:43:45.039 --> 00:43:47.840
soul this time of year, and
how to take care of them, how

587
00:43:47.840 --> 00:43:52.760
to have success with them, and
especially when it comes to these things the

588
00:43:52.880 --> 00:43:58.920
drying out too much or soggy wet, overwatering. Also, I've often said,

589
00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:01.639
I think we may feel more plants
by overwatering than underwatering when it comes

590
00:44:01.679 --> 00:44:07.440
to our house plants especially, But
that is all very important. Now you

591
00:44:07.480 --> 00:44:13.039
also have the tupiary rosemary, the
rosemary that is sheared to look like a

592
00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:17.119
little miniature Christmas tree. And those
are excellent because when you're done, you

593
00:44:17.119 --> 00:44:22.840
can plant them outside and they just
add a fragrance in the air when you

594
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:28.440
brush past or if you you know, purposefully pet the Christmas tree to and

595
00:44:28.760 --> 00:44:32.519
smell that wonderful, wonderful fragrance.
The key to those is getting them out

596
00:44:32.559 --> 00:44:37.840
each day as much as possible,
at least not you know, if you

597
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:39.480
can't do it, every day.
That's fine, but get them out in

598
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:45.920
good sunlight so that they will stay
stocky. The growth gets really spindly when

599
00:44:45.920 --> 00:44:50.480
it comes out, and they've been
sitting inside for just too long. But

600
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:53.719
that is a very good tough plant. It needs excellent drainage, and so

601
00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:59.119
when you plant it out, make
sure that those roots do not sit in

602
00:44:59.239 --> 00:45:02.239
water, no matter what how much
it rains, and there'll be a very

603
00:45:02.239 --> 00:45:07.039
happy plant for you. I enjoy
those. I like those a lot.

604
00:45:07.360 --> 00:45:09.360
There's a lot of other plants now
that are kind of put into the mix,

605
00:45:10.079 --> 00:45:14.119
and I'm going to talk about some
other plants, holiday plants when we

606
00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:17.239
come back from break. Right now, we're going to head to some commercial

607
00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:22.639
will be back if you want to
call seven one three two one two five

608
00:45:22.679 --> 00:45:24.360
eight seven four is the number.
Josh will get you on the board.

609
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Welcome back to garden Line. We
are glad you're listening today. What are

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we talking about? We're talking about
holiday gift plants right now. I've kind

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of been going through a bunch of
different ones. You know, a holiday

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plant, the big famous ones.
You know, when you see that plant,

613
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you think of the holidays. I've
kind of gone through those by and

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large. There are a lot of
other types of plants though, that are

615
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out there that are often pulled out
and utilized during the holidays. I was

616
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I was talking about, you know, kind of have a wide variety of

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options, but the care that you
need to provide these plants, and so

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I'm going to add into the mix. There are intheriums that have beautiful red

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reddish colored bracts. They look like
a leaf, but it's a bract on

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the plant. There are plants that
bloom like forcing bulbs indoors. That's always

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a good thing. You have to
do that start ahead of time because it

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takes weeks to get those roots in
and have the bulb come out in bloom.

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But that's another option that you could
do during the holidays. Cyclomen normally

624
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planted outdoors, but boy, they
make a beautiful table decoration, and so

625
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you can kind of keep them in
their containers, water them outside and then

626
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bring them in when you want to
do that, or just plant them out

627
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in the Landscape's real easy, easy, easy to do. When you're looking

628
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for supplies for your gardening activities,
you know, Ace hardware is the place.

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I mean the fertilizers I talk about
on garden line and just to everything

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everything you need to have a beautiful
garden, a bountiful landscape, that's Ace.

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Do you know they're also the place
for Christmas lighting and decorations. That's

632
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right both inside your house outside your
house. Do you need a perhaps a

633
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wreath for the front door, some
other kinds of swag, you know,

634
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like I don't know, maybe garland
to go around and certainly lighting and ACE

635
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has a wide variety of lights,
box sets, you know, large and

636
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small, different light configurations and colors. They also have the thing they call

637
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custom lighting by the foot, and
custom lizing by the foot allows you to

638
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build a system that fits exactly what
you need, Like, hey, I

639
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need something that's so wide or long
to go across the mantel. I like

640
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some lights up in there. They
can do all that kind of stuff.

641
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It's easy to find ACE Hardware because
they're everywhere. But if you just go

642
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online to ACE Hardware excuse me,
yeah, Ace Hardware dot com slash store

643
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dash locator, or just go to
ACE hardbur dot common look for the store

644
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locator button and find the one that's
nourished you. Let's go now to Spring

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Branch and we're gonna visit with Betty. Hello, Betty, Hello, how

646
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can I help? I've got pine
veal and I want to know, uh,

647
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Docta rivers about? I guess twenty
some years ago had a systhetic that

648
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he treated with, but I can't
find anybody that knows about that. Yeah,

649
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and the pine bart beetle hits so
fast that you don't have time to

650
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get a systemic up in there to
stop it. I don't know anything that's

651
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labeled for pine bark beetle. Now, they used to use a product that

652
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actually harmed your eyes a lot,
and people are squirting way up the trunk

653
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of the tree and that wasn't a
good thing. But I don't know what

654
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the current is. I would find
a good quality arborist and talk to them

655
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about what they have access to.
All right, yeah, okay, thank

656
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you, all right, thank you. I appreciate that call, Betty.

657
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Yet, it's no fun to have
pine bark beetles, that that is for

658
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sure. In fact, there are
several different ones that attack the trees.

659
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Have you ever Have you ever been
to Enchanted Forest out in Richmond? Now,

660
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if you haven't, you need to
go. You need to go see

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the place because it is really really
cool. Of course, like every great

662
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nursery, they've got staff that knows
what they're talking about. And Danny and

663
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Clay are out there. They are
very, very very knowledgeable the mindset.

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And I was there a while back
and just kind of watching these people at

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work, and they are just they're
all about helping you find the plant you

666
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need and telling you how to take
care of it, and just watching them

667
00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:55.800
take people around or point this out
or that. It's worth a lot to

668
00:49:55.920 --> 00:50:00.920
just be able to go and enjoy
good customer service. And that's what you

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get it. And Chanted Forest to
Richmond. Of course, it's the holiday

670
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season, so do you need points
out is? Do you need other holiday

671
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gift plants? Do you need Christmas
tree? They've got it. They've got

672
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all of that there, and it
just like I said, it's time to

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plant in general. So why not
wander through Enchantedforest, dot and Richmond and

674
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find out about all the things that
they carry and get you the plants to

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go home. You know, do
you need vegetable garden plants? They got

676
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them. Do you need herbs?
They got them. They're on FM twenty

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seven fifty nine outside of Richmond.
As you're heading toward Katie direction. It's

678
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off to the right and that's Enchanted
Forest Richmond, which is the website if

679
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you would like to just you know, go directly there. Enchanted Forest in

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Richmond is Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX
dot com. I know I'm forgetting something

681
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at the end and Chanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com. We have really

682
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enjoyed getting away from hot weather and
being able to be inside and on a

683
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rainy day like this, it's a
good time to talk about house plants and

684
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talk about holiday gift plants. And
that's kind of what we've been doing,

685
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just talking about the different things that
you can use. I want to make

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a just give you an idea.
If you're getting ready for let's say a

687
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dinner party and you are wanting to
create some sort of a planter, like

688
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a living foliage planter, and you
can use all kinds of things to do

689
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that, but I want to give
you a quick tip on how to create

690
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one that continues to live on a
lot of times when you plant plants together,

691
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they don't grow at the same rate. They don't want the same amount

692
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.960
of light levels in order to be
you know, very happy, and so

693
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that planting that you just created just
sort of outgrows itself. Plus where you're

694
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going to set it, you know, you've got to find a place of

695
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plenty of light keep the plants happy. So what I would do is go

696
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and purchase these plants and small containers
maybe you know, three or four or

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five inches whatever sizes they come in, and put them together in another container,

698
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but leave them in their pots,
and then just fill in with moss.

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So think about this. Imagine one
of those little oval galvanized trays that

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has you know, handle on each
end. Maybe the old washtubs, that's

701
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what that's the kind of thing I'm
talking about. But the small ones maybe

702
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you know, two feet long and
I don't know, eight ten inches wide.

703
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I've taken those before, put some
stuff in the bottom to support the

704
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plants because the plants aren't as deep
as the planter is, and then just

705
00:52:38.679 --> 00:52:42.840
staggered these plants around in it to
create the look I want. Then just

706
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get you some moss, some just
some Spanish moss, whatever, and put

707
00:52:45.440 --> 00:52:49.000
it around the surface. And when
someone walks in and looks at it,

708
00:52:49.000 --> 00:52:52.320
it looks like they all grew there, but they're actually in their individual pots.

709
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So you can take them out after
that water the plants, keep them

710
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in good bright sunlight, and bring
them in and do it again, and

711
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then put them out in your garden. It's it's so excuse me. If

712
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it's if it's an herb type plant, you can put it on in the

713
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garden. If it's the ones I
was talking about house plants, and no,

714
00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:14.480
I would not put this out in
the garden. But that little design

715
00:53:14.719 --> 00:53:17.400
trick, it really works well.
It's easy to do. I had a

716
00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:22.719
daughter, one of my one of
my daughters, that created a garden,

717
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a container garden for you know,
an event, for a competition. And

718
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she used a big basket with his
giant handle going over the top, and

719
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the basket of course very porous,
you wouldn't hold water. So she took

720
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some plastic lining, put it down
in there, hot gluted to the sides,

721
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and then cut it all off so
you didn't know the lining was in

722
00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:46.519
there. But when you put water
in, it's not going to ruin the

723
00:53:46.559 --> 00:53:51.480
basket or the tabletop. And then
she put her plants in it together,

724
00:53:51.639 --> 00:53:58.519
but found some vining like ivs and
wove the vines kind of up over the

725
00:53:58.559 --> 00:54:01.280
handle as far as they would go. And when she got through it's just

726
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beautiful, very very pretty. So
those kind of containers are also worthwhile,

727
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:10.960
and you could include things that have
color in them. Just remember that low

728
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till hopefully that helps. Hey,
our phone number is seven one three two

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

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four. I've talked to you about
Peerscapes before. They are the landscaper that

731
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we just believed does the excellent job, that has the excellent skills, the

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trained employees, everything that you would
want when it comes to hiring somebody and

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making sure the job's done right.
That's Peerscapes. And they can do pretty

734
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much everything you need outside. I
mean they do. They do hard escapes,

735
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They fix drainage problems, they install
and take care of irrigation. Do

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you want landscape lighting? You know? Do you put in a whole new

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garden? They can do all of
that. After this summer, if you

738
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lost some plants, give call,
show them a picture of the beds and

739
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say hey, what can I do
here a little different? They may redesign

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00:55:05.719 --> 00:55:07.079
the bed a little bit. They
may I don't who knows. But and

741
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they can provide plants that are more
drought tolerant as an option if that's what

742
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you would like to do. Piercescapes
dot Com is a website. The phone

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number two eight one three seven oh
fifty sixty two eight one three seven oh

744
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five zero six zero. I give
them a call. We are talking about

745
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house plants and I was just talking
about some way to design in a container,

746
00:55:34.199 --> 00:55:38.920
especially containers that are not far plant
growing, but they're really really cool.

747
00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:45.159
Another thing, by the way,
that a little miniature watering can on

748
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a on a stick that like it's
pouring out, but they put a vining

749
00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:52.000
plant coming out of it, so
it looks like green water flowing out of

750
00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:58.400
the flowing out of the can.
Kind kind of cool stuff, you know.

751
00:55:58.519 --> 00:56:01.199
RCW Nurseries talking about them while back
I was out there for their spring

752
00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:06.000
fling or fall fling. It was
awesome. We had a really good time.

753
00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:08.199
But r CW is a place that
you can go and you can get

754
00:56:08.199 --> 00:56:13.800
everything you need for your plants.
I mean, we're talking about a quality

755
00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:16.000
set of fertilizers, the kinds I
talk about here on guard Line. They

756
00:56:16.039 --> 00:56:22.679
carry that. They carry that for
you, and they carry also advice and

757
00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:28.039
wisdom and patience, so it's patient
when people are asking you questions just all

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day and sometimes the same one.
But they carry that and that means that

759
00:56:32.239 --> 00:56:36.920
when you go there and you talk
to them, they tell you what plant

760
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:39.039
will or won't do well in your
area. They don't just go, oh,

761
00:56:39.079 --> 00:56:43.000
here's a holiday, put it right
there if that's what you want.

762
00:56:43.079 --> 00:56:46.679
No. They they find out about
what you need and they design the the

763
00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:52.079
instructions they give you accordingly. They
also do design by the way in there.

764
00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:55.679
But you can go all the woody
ornamentals that you find lots and lots

765
00:56:55.719 --> 00:57:00.679
of woody ornamentals that are available at
RCW Nursery. Again, it's our nurseries

766
00:57:00.800 --> 00:57:05.400
dot com. They are the nursery
that is on Tomball Parkway. I have

767
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Way two forty nine right where it
comes in to Beltweg eight, and I

768
00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:13.159
like to call them to get it. Got it nursery. If they don't

769
00:57:13.199 --> 00:57:17.880
have it, they will do their
best to find it at RCW. Well,

770
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you're listening to guarden Line. Our
phone number is seven one three two

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

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four. I uh. The other
day I saw an ad I don't know,

773
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an ad for the movie The Little
Shop of Horrors. I don't know

774
00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:43.639
if you've ever seen that outline,
boy, that goes back a few years.

775
00:57:43.719 --> 00:57:46.360
Yeah, but can you imagine how
valuable that plant, those plants would

776
00:57:46.400 --> 00:57:51.199
be right now in terms of I
got I got relatives coming over. I

777
00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:55.320
need one of those. Yeah,
walk by it and get eat or something.

778
00:57:55.679 --> 00:57:59.400
But that was a weird movie.
That was a very strange move,

779
00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:01.760
very straight. I don't know why, but I've just thought about those plants

780
00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:07.239
in there, and I thought,
Yeah, that puts a whole new level

781
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:12.320
to venus fly trap when you've got
something that will eat your uncle Joe when

782
00:58:12.360 --> 00:58:15.679
he comes walking by. Hey,
you've heard me talk about Southwest Fertilizer before,

783
00:58:15.960 --> 00:58:20.960
and they are the place that has
everything. If they don't have it,

784
00:58:21.000 --> 00:58:23.559
you don't need it. And you
can go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com

785
00:58:23.599 --> 00:58:28.320
to find out more. You can
also go just down to the storts at

786
00:58:28.360 --> 00:58:32.559
the corner of Byssinet and Runwick and
Southwest Houston and everything you possibly could need,

787
00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:38.440
from fertilizers to pest control, even
tools are available there at Southwest Fertilizer.

788
00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:42.920
Bob's done a great job. Remember
the best Christmas gift on Earth for

789
00:58:43.039 --> 00:58:45.840
the gardener a kneeling bench. Go
ask Bob about it. They got plenty

790
00:58:45.880 --> 00:58:50.360
of them. That's where I got
all my plants. Oh yeah, well

791
00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:52.440
that's cool. Yes, that's it. That's a fun place. Love love

792
00:58:52.480 --> 00:59:00.000
to go there. That's a Thanksgiving
song, pre Thanksgiving song. You're listening

793
00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:04.440
to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number

794
00:59:04.440 --> 00:59:07.760
if you would like to give us
a call is seven one three two one

795
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two fifty eight seventy four. If
you live down south of Houston. If

796
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you live in our color Iowa Colony, Siena Plantation, Quell Valley, Riverstone,

797
00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:22.000
anywhere through that area. An even
out near Bras has been state Park,

798
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you have Ciena Maltch is your backyard
compost, malt and rock supplier.

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And in addition to that, they
carry all the fertilizers that I talk about

800
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on garden Line. So remember brown
stuff before green stuff. First we build

801
00:59:36.239 --> 00:59:40.199
a soil. Then we make those
plants very very happy when we put them

802
00:59:40.199 --> 00:59:44.800
in and they're ready to go.
That's the secret to success. That's also

803
00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:47.199
the order of how you go about
it. Fix the soil, plant the

804
00:59:47.239 --> 00:59:52.159
plants. CNA Malts has all of
that. They're down on FM five twenty

805
00:59:52.199 --> 00:59:57.039
one, near where Highway six and
two eighty eight come together. Their website

806
00:59:57.119 --> 01:00:00.920
is cienamlts dot com. You can
go check them out. They're open Monday

807
01:00:00.920 --> 01:00:04.639
through Friday from seven thirty to five
and Saturday from seven thirty to two.

808
01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:07.800
They're closed today, but they'll be
back open seven thirty tomorrow morning. Uh.

809
01:00:08.119 --> 01:00:13.199
You should check out the bulk materials
that they have. They can deliver

810
01:00:13.239 --> 01:00:16.239
within about twenty miles of the location, and I think when you go by

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01:00:16.239 --> 01:00:21.079
there you'll be impressed. If if
you're thinking about doing kind of a stone

812
01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:22.840
patio, you got to go see
some of the stone that they have.

813
01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:30.320
Excellent and beautiful stuff. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

814
01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:36.320
five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

815
01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:42.760
Someone had called earlier talking about gourds
and gorge seeds and things like that.

816
01:00:43.440 --> 01:00:49.480
During the fall season, there's all
these beautiful, very unusual looking decorative squashes

817
01:00:49.639 --> 01:00:52.239
you know that are just I don't
know. You look at them, you

818
01:00:52.239 --> 01:00:55.119
go that looks like an alien from
another planet. And a lot of people

819
01:00:55.119 --> 01:00:58.840
want to know, well can I
grow those in my garden? And yeah,

820
01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:01.079
yes you can. You just in
the varieties that you want. You

821
01:01:01.119 --> 01:01:04.920
can also take seeds out of them. Now, when you do that,

822
01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:07.679
you're going to get a mixture.
Who knows what they're going to be.

823
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:09.440
They're not all going to look like
mama, let me just put it that

824
01:01:09.480 --> 01:01:14.800
way. But that can be done. You take the seeds out, you

825
01:01:14.880 --> 01:01:17.800
let them dry. Those, by
the way, are fully mature squash fruits

826
01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:22.760
and gourds as well, so the
seeds are viable. They can grow.

827
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:27.079
I put mine on a little screen, let them dry out, you know,

828
01:01:27.159 --> 01:01:30.320
for about a week or so maybe
to just get good and dried out,

829
01:01:30.559 --> 01:01:34.519
and then put them in a jar. Store them. Make sure put

830
01:01:34.559 --> 01:01:38.920
a label in there. Trust me, you will not remember the voice of

831
01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:42.920
experience. You will not remember what
you put in that jar. What are

832
01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:45.960
these seeds? You plan them and
find out. But anyway, I think

833
01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:52.480
that's kind of cool. People often
ask about that. If you need any

834
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:55.559
kind of tree work, you need
to talk to the folks at Affordable Tree.

835
01:01:55.599 --> 01:02:00.159
Martin Spoon Moore has been doing this
for a long time. Reason this

836
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:05.320
is the tree company that I recommend
on guarden Line. The reason for that

837
01:02:05.920 --> 01:02:08.119
is because they know what they're doing, and they do their business right,

838
01:02:08.599 --> 01:02:12.480
So if you want to get some
work done, you need to call them

839
01:02:12.639 --> 01:02:15.440
because they stay busy. That's what
happens when you do a good job and

840
01:02:15.480 --> 01:02:21.440
treat your customers right. Call them
at seven one three six twenty six sixty

841
01:02:21.480 --> 01:02:23.960
three. That would work well.
Get on the schedule though, seven one

842
01:02:24.000 --> 01:02:30.519
three six twenty six sixty three,
or you can go to the website aff

843
01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:36.119
tree service dot com and Martin sure
can do that. Somebody called earlier about

844
01:02:36.639 --> 01:02:39.480
some pine bark beetles up in the
trees. You know, having somebody knows

845
01:02:39.519 --> 01:02:45.199
what they're talking about, take a
look at them, make some some observations

846
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:47.280
and come back and say, okay, here's what you can and can't do.

847
01:02:47.360 --> 01:02:51.559
And I tell you with pine beetles, it it often is so fast

848
01:02:51.639 --> 01:02:57.800
that a tree infected. The chance
of ridding them or it's it's it's very

849
01:02:57.800 --> 01:03:01.519
difficult. So basically we try to
prevent them. That's the main thing.

850
01:03:01.639 --> 01:03:07.360
But that's just an example of you
know what what can come up when it

851
01:03:07.400 --> 01:03:10.559
comes to I've got these trees,
I need I need questions, I don't

852
01:03:10.599 --> 01:03:14.760
know what to do. Don't let
anybody touch your trees with a chainsaw.

853
01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:19.119
That's not affordable tree service. That's
that's easy, that's the bottom line.

854
01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:22.320
But always be skeptical about some of
the things people tell you about trees,

855
01:03:22.320 --> 01:03:25.960
because just because you own a pickup
and a chainsaw does not make you a

856
01:03:27.079 --> 01:03:34.280
tree expert at all. But why
not just hard one affordable tree service Martin

857
01:03:34.320 --> 01:03:38.159
spoon Moore, that's what you need
to know. I've been discussing some different

858
01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:43.719
things today, like the houseplants and
the holiday plants. I want to talk

859
01:03:43.719 --> 01:03:49.239
a little bit about some cool season
color. Cool season is an easy time

860
01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:54.840
to have color because the weather is
not so demanding, especially on our container

861
01:03:54.880 --> 01:04:00.480
plants. The weather. You know, in the summertime, you're watering container

862
01:04:00.599 --> 01:04:03.800
once or twice a day, sometimes
trying to keep it hydrated. But when

863
01:04:03.800 --> 01:04:09.400
it comes to cool season, the
evaporation and the water use slows down considerably.

864
01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:14.599
And I would encourage you to do
some multicolor containers like I like light

865
01:04:15.159 --> 01:04:19.159
blue violas, violas and pansies.
Pansies have the little monkey face. Violas

866
01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:24.679
just have the blank flower without all
the markings on it. But I like

867
01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:29.639
light blue violas with alyssum, which
is a white blooming plant, and dusty

868
01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:32.840
miller, which is a silver plant, and that combination just looks really good.

869
01:04:33.360 --> 01:04:39.039
The white could also come from stock. Stock is another cool season plant

870
01:04:39.079 --> 01:04:46.679
that will provide you some white flowers. I was visiting earlier. I guess

871
01:04:46.760 --> 01:04:49.599
this was yesterday, talking about A
and A Plants and Produce. They're a

872
01:04:49.639 --> 01:04:55.519
full service garden center up there on
Highway one five in Montgomery. They're on

873
01:04:55.519 --> 01:04:57.920
the east side of Montgomery, on
the Lake side, so all the lake

874
01:04:57.960 --> 01:05:01.440
neighborhoods out there. This is your
hometown, this is your home town garden

875
01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:06.079
center. They do delivery, they
do some landscaping around the Lake Conroe area

876
01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:11.159
as well. Seven days a week, nine am to five pm. And

877
01:05:11.480 --> 01:05:14.719
anytime you go in there, you're
gonna find lots of cool plants. Plus

878
01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:18.440
you're gonna find a lot of great
garden bling too. To enhance that patio,

879
01:05:18.519 --> 01:05:23.559
maybe you need a chimenea for sitting
out on some cool nights. How

880
01:05:23.599 --> 01:05:28.000
would that be? They could be
pretty good. You're listening to Garden Line.

881
01:05:28.159 --> 01:05:30.679
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and I'm gonna let's see here.

882
01:05:30.719 --> 01:05:33.679
We're gonna go real quick to a
call before we have to take a break.

883
01:05:34.199 --> 01:05:38.320
Hey, Bill and sugar Land trying
to get you in for a break.

884
01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:41.719
Okay, great, thank you Skip
for taking my call. Yes,

885
01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:46.159
hey, I've got some native oaks
out in the front yard. I'm out

886
01:05:46.159 --> 01:05:51.639
in sugar Land here, and for
the last three four years they've been putting

887
01:05:51.679 --> 01:05:57.039
out a ton of a carns.
Yes, and they're hard to keep up

888
01:05:57.079 --> 01:06:00.480
with, and I'm just wondering if
there's anything i can do about it.

889
01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:04.760
The fast answer or do you have
a recommendation on a better way than raking

890
01:06:04.960 --> 01:06:11.760
on how to get those off the
ground? Yes, I have used like

891
01:06:11.840 --> 01:06:15.800
a certainly raking is one option,
but it's hard to get them out of

892
01:06:15.000 --> 01:06:17.880
the ground. I kind of ignore
the ones that are in my grass.

893
01:06:17.920 --> 01:06:21.679
I just do and that's okay.
They'll be fine if they try to sprout

894
01:06:21.719 --> 01:06:26.280
and the mower hit them and they're
not going to make anything. But that's

895
01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:30.079
probably the fastest thing that you can
do to just get them raked out.

896
01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:34.440
I've tried some vacuums of different types. You know, there's there are some

897
01:06:34.559 --> 01:06:39.199
vacuums, but that is so tedious
and you end up pulling up a lot

898
01:06:39.199 --> 01:06:43.159
of your organic matter and stuff,
and so I don't I don't recommend trying

899
01:06:43.199 --> 01:06:45.639
that. Unfortunately, it's where we
are. I'm gonna have to go to

900
01:06:45.679 --> 01:06:49.239
break, but I'm gonna make some
comments about it coming after break. If

901
01:06:49.239 --> 01:06:53.559
you'd like to hang on, that's
fine. Our phone number is seven one

902
01:06:53.639 --> 01:06:59.320
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Well, come back to Garden

903
01:06:59.360 --> 01:07:02.039
Line. We are glad you're listening. As always, we look forward to

904
01:07:02.079 --> 01:07:08.840
visiting with you about the things that
you're curious about regarding having a successful landscape,

905
01:07:08.880 --> 01:07:12.480
a beautiful lawn, that's a challenge, but we know how to help

906
01:07:12.519 --> 01:07:15.599
do that. Having a bountiful garden, flower, garden, vegetable gardens,

907
01:07:15.960 --> 01:07:18.800
herbs, fruit, trees. What
do you want to talk about? We'll

908
01:07:18.840 --> 01:07:24.400
talk about that today. All right, So going through some of the different

909
01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:28.400
different topics this morning, you know, the houseplants, Christmas tree, Christmas

910
01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:31.719
plants and things. Now we come
to the call we just had about acorns

911
01:07:31.760 --> 01:07:35.880
and acorn production. And I am
I wish I had a nickel for every

912
01:07:35.960 --> 01:07:42.679
question I've had at the Agrove Extension
Office and here at Garden Line about acorns

913
01:07:42.679 --> 01:07:46.039
because people just keep asking about where'd
they all come from? It is never

914
01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:48.920
liked this before, and so on. Well, the fact is it has

915
01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:53.920
been like this before. But acorns
are different. Oaks are on different schedules.

916
01:07:54.599 --> 01:07:58.280
White oaks tend to produce our acrons
in one year and red oaks tend

917
01:07:58.280 --> 01:08:02.000
to take maybe two years or And
it's not an exact where I can just

918
01:08:02.039 --> 01:08:06.920
make a sweeping statement that everyone does
exactly this, but they're on different schedules.

919
01:08:08.599 --> 01:08:13.800
Secondly, some years are just heavy
mass years. Masts is what the

920
01:08:13.840 --> 01:08:18.079
word we use for All those fallen
acrens are produced on the tree that's the

921
01:08:18.239 --> 01:08:23.159
mast. And so when it's a
heavy mass year, and you combine that

922
01:08:23.359 --> 01:08:28.760
with maybe two different kinds of oaks
also being on this is the year of

923
01:08:28.800 --> 01:08:31.920
their schedule, whatever, then you
just end up with a lot of acrons.

924
01:08:32.079 --> 01:08:35.399
And I'm seeing them everywhere. I
think I said yesterday on the radio.

925
01:08:36.000 --> 01:08:42.880
I went to visit family in San
Antonio and driving down their driveway felt

926
01:08:42.920 --> 01:08:47.199
like running over bubble wrap. I
mean it was just solid acrens, just

927
01:08:47.279 --> 01:08:50.600
crunch, crunch the whole time.
And so what do you do, Well,

928
01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:56.039
there's nothing you can do, really
nothing practical that you can do to

929
01:08:56.119 --> 01:09:00.239
try to alleviate that. You just
have to wreck them up, you know,

930
01:09:00.359 --> 01:09:02.840
vacuum them up. If you've got
a vacuum them. They're on some

931
01:09:02.880 --> 01:09:08.000
hard escape that you can use it. The bottom line is just it is

932
01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:10.520
what it is, and it'll be
different. Next year will not be the

933
01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:16.399
same as this year. But combining
the genetics of the oaks with the natural

934
01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:21.479
cycles and then the vicissitudes of nature, which I'd like to use that word,

935
01:09:21.560 --> 01:09:26.520
because nature can throw us a curve
a lot of times, and plants

936
01:09:26.680 --> 01:09:30.479
respond to things in the weather,
the climate, and the soils and so

937
01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:33.960
on. So there's a lot of
things that can combine for this. But

938
01:09:33.960 --> 01:09:38.159
I think that I don't know maybe
this year's drought had anything to do with

939
01:09:38.199 --> 01:09:40.920
it. I don't think it did
because the no, in fact, it

940
01:09:40.920 --> 01:09:45.359
couldn't. The acorns were pollinated and
started way back in the spring. So

941
01:09:45.520 --> 01:09:49.680
anyway, that's that's what it is. It's too bad that there's not a

942
01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:55.920
good market for acorns, because that
may be the number one not producing tree

943
01:09:56.199 --> 01:10:01.479
in Texas this year only. But
it's been that kind of year where you

944
01:10:01.560 --> 01:10:05.119
listen to garden Line and I'm your
host, Skip Richter, and I want

945
01:10:05.119 --> 01:10:10.560
to tell you about in Channi Gardens
done Richmond in Chenne Gardens is on the

946
01:10:10.640 --> 01:10:15.800
Katie fullsher side if you're heading north
out of Richmond toward Katie that direction on

947
01:10:16.039 --> 01:10:20.960
FM three point fifty nine, you
will find Enchanted Gardens and the website's really

948
01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:28.439
easy Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com in
Chennigardens Richmond dot com. The Lindemann family

949
01:10:28.479 --> 01:10:31.640
has been around the community since what
nineteen ninety five when in Chenne Garden first

950
01:10:31.680 --> 01:10:41.720
opened, and they just excel at
providing a wide array of plants in awesome

951
01:10:41.720 --> 01:10:45.239
condition, by the way, and
a group of employees that knows what they're

952
01:10:45.279 --> 01:10:49.079
talking about. You can walk in, you're going to be greeted, They

953
01:10:49.079 --> 01:10:54.079
are going to be able to direct
you and to point you to the plants

954
01:10:54.079 --> 01:10:56.960
that you're going to have success with
based on what you're telling them you're looking

955
01:10:57.000 --> 01:11:00.840
for. That's in Channi Gardens Richmond. Now. They carry all the fertilizers

956
01:11:00.840 --> 01:11:03.039
that I talk about as well.
Of course it's the holiday season. They've

957
01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:10.319
got a wonderful selection of the Christmas
trees as well as some of those beautiful

958
01:11:10.319 --> 01:11:14.000
houseplants that help decorate. They also
have a great gift shop, so just

959
01:11:14.079 --> 01:11:17.159
another reason to go out to Engended
Gardens and Richmond, by the way,

960
01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:27.319
they're open today from ten am to
four pm on Garden Line. We sometimes

961
01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:30.800
get folks who don't want to be
in the air, and there's a lot

962
01:11:30.840 --> 01:11:34.359
of folks who want to email in, and I just want to say about

963
01:11:34.399 --> 01:11:38.720
the first one not being on the
air, don't worry about it. It's

964
01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:41.920
nobody but you and me on the
air. That's all. That's only people,

965
01:11:41.960 --> 01:11:45.520
it's just us talking. If you've
heard this show many times, you

966
01:11:45.600 --> 01:11:50.239
know that there's no such thing as
a stupid question. They're just stupid answers.

967
01:11:50.279 --> 01:11:55.000
I'll worry about the stupid answers and
you know, so that's on me,

968
01:11:55.119 --> 01:11:58.560
all right, don't worry about it. Other people will have the questions

969
01:11:58.560 --> 01:12:01.520
you have. That's the thing.
People don't realizes you may have a very

970
01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:04.880
unusual question. You think nobody else
has this. Yeah, they do,

971
01:12:05.199 --> 01:12:11.720
Absolutely they do. And that's why
we are here to help answer whatever questions

972
01:12:11.800 --> 01:12:14.079
that you have. We want you
to have success. I want you to

973
01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:17.880
have success. I want gardening for
you to be as much fun as possible.

974
01:12:18.159 --> 01:12:23.880
I want it to be as bountiful
and create landscapes that are as beautiful

975
01:12:24.600 --> 01:12:28.279
as you can. And that is
why we're here for that success. So

976
01:12:28.319 --> 01:12:30.600
some people, again don't want to
be on the air, but don't worry

977
01:12:30.640 --> 01:12:35.760
about that. It's okay. Just
sume me. The other thing that I

978
01:12:35.800 --> 01:12:43.680
often run into is the email backlog. And right now I'm just and it's

979
01:12:43.720 --> 01:12:46.319
probably not to continue this way,
but I just am not able to sit

980
01:12:46.359 --> 01:12:51.319
in type answers to each email.
If you can send me a photo,

981
01:12:51.359 --> 01:12:55.800
if you can send me to describe
something and then call in on Saturday or

982
01:12:55.800 --> 01:13:00.800
Sunday, you know, we can
tackle it then and and solve it then.

983
01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:02.199
And it does help to have a
photo and stuff ahead of time.

984
01:13:02.760 --> 01:13:06.840
But in general, just overloaded on
the email. And you can imagine that

985
01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:11.479
there's a lot of people live around
here, and so I do my best

986
01:13:11.479 --> 01:13:15.359
that I can. Occasionally I may
answer one that is just I feel like

987
01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:18.399
this is not good to try to
cover on the air. But in general,

988
01:13:18.680 --> 01:13:24.920
please understand, and we will give
you permission to send a photo and

989
01:13:24.960 --> 01:13:29.640
we can take a look and be
happy to help. Let's see, I

990
01:13:29.800 --> 01:13:35.800
was discussing the benefits of soil and
the brown stuff before green stuff just a

991
01:13:35.840 --> 01:13:42.399
while ago. Nature's way resources is
the I don't know the epitome. I

992
01:13:42.399 --> 01:13:45.640
guess of the brown stuff you've got
malts. You've got compost, you've got

993
01:13:45.640 --> 01:13:49.600
all kinds of soil, amendments,
bed mixes, all the brown stuff it

994
01:13:49.640 --> 01:13:55.479
takes to make plants grow. They
can provide you fertilizer too, there by

995
01:13:55.479 --> 01:13:58.640
the way. They keep some of
that on hand, you know, Nature's

996
01:13:58.680 --> 01:14:02.479
way resources. They've added the large
nursery area now a couple acres that have

997
01:14:02.600 --> 01:14:06.399
quite a bit of plants, especially
a real good selection of native plants.

998
01:14:06.760 --> 01:14:11.199
I would encourage you to go out
and take a look. If you've got

999
01:14:11.199 --> 01:14:14.039
a way to haul at home,
haul at home. If you need to

1000
01:14:14.159 --> 01:14:18.119
order have them deliver, then have
them deliver or just by by the back.

1001
01:14:18.279 --> 01:14:21.720
That is a little more convenient way
for people that aren't needing a lot

1002
01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:26.239
of soil. But you can call
them it nine three six three two one

1003
01:14:26.479 --> 01:14:32.520
sixty nine ninety nine three six three
two one sixty nine nine zero. We're

1004
01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:35.840
listening to garden Line. I'm going
to give you our phone number. We're

1005
01:14:35.880 --> 01:14:40.840
about to go to a break here, but the phone number is seven one

1006
01:14:40.960 --> 01:14:45.960
three two one two KTRH. If
you want to get on the board with

1007
01:14:45.079 --> 01:14:49.960
Josh, we'll visit with you when
we come back. This hour seemed to

1008
01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:54.279
kind of go a little bit quick
on me. That was kind of fast.

1009
01:14:54.520 --> 01:14:58.159
I want to remind you that if
you are interested in my lawn care

1010
01:14:58.239 --> 01:15:05.279
schedule, if you're interested in my
lawn pest disease and weed management schedule,

1011
01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:12.239
those are both online. If you
go to Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening

1012
01:15:12.319 --> 01:15:15.199
with Skip dot Com, you get
both those Skip wilt the colored every month

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frost or whether it's for a freeze. It's all in there. So I

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

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01:16:11.239 --> 01:16:16.319
or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to Katie r h. Garden Line

1023
01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:39.600
with Skip Richter's crazy trim just watch
him as well. Stay well, Welcome

1024
01:16:39.640 --> 01:16:44.520
back to Garden Line. We are
glad you are listening today and got some

1025
01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:47.159
calls on the board. We will
be getting to in just one second here.

1026
01:16:47.560 --> 01:16:50.720
You know I've talked to you about
Star Hope before, and do you

1027
01:16:50.800 --> 01:16:56.920
know that they feed a lot of
people, especially during this time of the

1028
01:16:57.000 --> 01:17:00.520
year. With your support, hundreds
and hundreds of you, umeless of Houston's

1029
01:17:00.520 --> 01:17:05.359
homeless people can call it a home. They can find a place where they

1030
01:17:05.359 --> 01:17:10.520
can go and have shelter and food
there at Star of Hope. They also

1031
01:17:10.720 --> 01:17:15.199
there will find long term recovery programs
that help with employment, job training for

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01:17:15.279 --> 01:17:20.760
example, and life skills. Over
five thousand people a week have a meal

1033
01:17:21.000 --> 01:17:26.159
or five thousand meals a week out
there at Star of Hope. For two

1034
01:17:26.239 --> 01:17:30.600
dollars and eighty cents, you can
provide one meal. Now, that is

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01:17:30.640 --> 01:17:34.159
a good cause because you're not just
feeding someone and sending them out with the

1036
01:17:34.399 --> 01:17:41.640
well wishes. You're involving them and
with your money providing food, you're helping

1037
01:17:41.680 --> 01:17:45.079
them and helping Star of Hope does
what it does, and that's changed lives,

1038
01:17:45.159 --> 01:17:47.159
not just for those people, but
for their kids too, who are

1039
01:17:47.159 --> 01:17:51.000
in this and no fault of their
own. So I encourage you to sponsor

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01:17:51.720 --> 01:17:58.399
to some meals to provide that.
Just go to sohmission dot org sohmission dot

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01:17:58.560 --> 01:18:02.239
org and you can find out information. We are now going to go out

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01:18:02.359 --> 01:18:10.880
to Lee and Baytown. Helloly,
Hello, thank you. Yes, I

1043
01:18:10.960 --> 01:18:16.319
called to say something complimentary about your
program. Yesterday I was listening to the

1044
01:18:16.439 --> 01:18:23.319
lady with the fig tree and the
bores were getting into it, and she

1045
01:18:23.520 --> 01:18:30.520
had gone to a gardening center and
they had made a recommendation to her and

1046
01:18:30.840 --> 01:18:38.279
she was uncertain about following that recommendation. And you were very judicious in your

1047
01:18:38.319 --> 01:18:44.359
advice and said this is an off
label use and I can't recommend it.

1048
01:18:45.119 --> 01:18:50.399
And so I wanted to compliment you
on that answer. I don't garden much

1049
01:18:50.439 --> 01:18:56.640
because I'm disabled, but I always
call and listen in to the advice that's

1050
01:18:56.720 --> 01:19:03.359
given. And you do an excellent
job of telling people how to do their

1051
01:19:03.399 --> 01:19:12.239
gardening, especially with food. You
know, in my childhood, my grandmother

1052
01:19:12.319 --> 01:19:15.640
always had outside next to the garage. She always had a row of onions,

1053
01:19:16.199 --> 01:19:21.840
she had a row of turnips,
and she had a row of collars

1054
01:19:21.880 --> 01:19:26.600
because and she was wealthy, but
she wasn't going to get caught without any

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01:19:26.640 --> 01:19:30.079
food. There you go. So
she always had that going. And we'll

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01:19:30.119 --> 01:19:33.800
get men. I just got to
thank you so much. Those are kind

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01:19:33.800 --> 01:19:38.760
words. I appreciate. I appreciate
that very much. I'm going to hop

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01:19:38.840 --> 01:19:42.880
and go to some of your fellow
callers here now, but thank you.

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01:19:42.920 --> 01:19:46.479
I appreciate that. We're going to
go up to Mike and Willis. Hello,

1060
01:19:46.720 --> 01:19:51.479
Mike, Yeah, skip in.
I'm heading out to my orchard now.

1061
01:19:51.680 --> 01:19:58.000
And I've been using round up too
weak controls on my blueberries, blackberries

1062
01:19:58.039 --> 01:20:01.520
and grapes and fruit trees. And
I was just wondering because I'm just a

1063
01:20:01.520 --> 01:20:11.359
one man person using round up and
then fertilizer and then moult all the same

1064
01:20:11.439 --> 01:20:15.399
day, you know, because sometimes
I can't coming back up to the orchard.

1065
01:20:15.800 --> 01:20:17.720
You can, you can do a
problem. You can do that,

1066
01:20:17.800 --> 01:20:27.359
Mike, But you want to if
I spray the weed with with round up,

1067
01:20:27.520 --> 01:20:30.760
you need to give it some days
for that to soak in and begin

1068
01:20:30.840 --> 01:20:32.479
to do its work. And if
you just threw mulch over and it happened

1069
01:20:32.520 --> 01:20:36.479
to cover the the weeds, I
don't think you're going to get the same

1070
01:20:36.520 --> 01:20:41.000
result. I could be wrong,
but I think I would. The only

1071
01:20:41.119 --> 01:20:45.920
change I would have is maybe the
mulching coming a little bit later. So

1072
01:20:45.199 --> 01:20:49.880
mixing the fertilizer and roundup is not
going to be a problem. When you

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01:20:49.920 --> 01:20:55.319
say mixing, you're talking about a
liquid. Yeah. I would spray round

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01:20:55.399 --> 01:20:59.159
up. The last couple of years
I've been used around up to control the

1075
01:20:59.199 --> 01:21:03.560
grass around the planet. But if
I spray and then the same day I

1076
01:21:03.600 --> 01:21:06.880
come back fertilizer, then you're saying
wait for two or three days, for

1077
01:21:09.000 --> 01:21:12.039
which I could probably do that.
Yes, And when you fertilize, you're

1078
01:21:12.039 --> 01:21:15.760
gonna want rainfall or irrigation or something
to help move it down into the soil.

1079
01:21:16.000 --> 01:21:19.720
And with roundup, yeah, you're
barely wetting the leaves. You don't

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01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:25.119
need much. And if you're drenching
the soil then there can be some big

1081
01:21:25.159 --> 01:21:29.640
problems with that. I'm not I'm
not touching the plants itself. There's you

1082
01:21:29.640 --> 01:21:32.159
know, I'm I'm going and we
got trail, you know, we got

1083
01:21:32.159 --> 01:21:38.199
a hunter for long okay, brows
and stuff that. Well. I hope

1084
01:21:38.239 --> 01:21:42.800
that. I hope that helps.
And sounds like you're growing some fun stuff

1085
01:21:43.199 --> 01:21:45.760
up in Willis. I used to
live in that airy long time ago.

1086
01:21:45.960 --> 01:21:48.399
Mike, thank you. I appreciate
that call a lot. Uh. You

1087
01:21:48.439 --> 01:21:53.119
know, we're talking about lawn care
for the last couple of months here,

1088
01:21:53.600 --> 01:21:57.239
and I'm just saying it's kind of
getting to be last call for getting this

1089
01:21:57.319 --> 01:22:01.039
fall fertilization down. If the weather
holes out, we can still get benefits

1090
01:22:01.119 --> 01:22:04.640
going forward. But if you haven't
done your fall fertilizing, you need to

1091
01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:09.560
do it now. And Nelson plant
Food carbo load is an excellent product for

1092
01:22:09.640 --> 01:22:15.239
that. It's got that higher phosphorus
number and lower nitrogen number that is important

1093
01:22:15.600 --> 01:22:19.880
for providing what the plant needs to
make carbohydrates in this presence of sunlight,

1094
01:22:20.319 --> 01:22:23.880
to get stronger, to get more
cold hearty, and to come out better

1095
01:22:23.920 --> 01:22:26.960
in spring. That's what carbo load
does. It also has a pre emergent

1096
01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:30.159
herbicide. You put that down,
you water it in, and the additional

1097
01:22:30.159 --> 01:22:34.359
benefit to the nutrients is that you
have that pre emergent herbicide now at the

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01:22:34.359 --> 01:22:40.319
soil surface, helping to prevent weeds. Every bag sold of carbo load in

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01:22:40.359 --> 01:22:45.279
the Greater Houston area this fall,
two dollars sent to the Randy Lemon Memorial

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01:22:45.319 --> 01:22:53.560
Scholarship for horticulture students up at Texas
and M University. You're gonna don't really

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01:22:53.600 --> 01:22:57.720
have time to get to a call
right now, so I'm going to just

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01:22:57.880 --> 01:23:00.960
hang on one second. When we
come back for break here, Ruth and

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01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:04.039
Donna, you'll be the first two
up. I want to remind you guys

1104
01:23:04.119 --> 01:23:11.479
about the lone Star Yule Bald fundraiser
that OBA puts on Organic horri Culture Benefits

1105
01:23:11.479 --> 01:23:15.479
Alliance. It's called an Evening with
Shake Russell Shakes, the legendary Texas singer

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01:23:15.800 --> 01:23:20.680
and songwriter. You need to go
online to get your tickets. It's OHBA

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01:23:21.000 --> 01:23:28.840
online, OBA online dot org,
slash register. There's going to be a

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01:23:28.880 --> 01:23:33.560
delicious dinner. There'll be a silent
auction, Fortune Tellers magician the da VS

1109
01:23:33.720 --> 01:23:38.079
Strings will be playing, as will
Shake Russell. That's kind of the the

1110
01:23:38.199 --> 01:23:42.680
end of the evening, This nice
long performance by Shake Russell at OBA.

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01:23:42.720 --> 01:23:45.399
By the way, it's going to
be at the Balling Room at Tanglewood on

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01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:49.399
West Timer on Thursday, December seventh, five thirty to nine thirty. Don't

1113
01:23:49.439 --> 01:23:53.840
delay, go ahead and get your
tickets now. Well, we're going to

1114
01:23:53.920 --> 01:23:57.600
take a break. We will be
right back our phone number seven one three

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01:23:57.920 --> 01:24:03.920
two one two kt R H seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1116
01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:09.800
four. Welcome back to garden Line. Welcome back. We're glad you're listening

1117
01:24:09.920 --> 01:24:13.079
and looking forward to talking to you. Our phone number is seven one three

1118
01:24:13.239 --> 01:24:18.199
two one two five eight seven four. If you're thinking about planting a tree,

1119
01:24:19.000 --> 01:24:24.000
now's the time. Fall is the
best time. Winter is also an

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01:24:24.079 --> 01:24:28.000
excellent time. Spring is a good
time, but fall it just seems like

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01:24:28.319 --> 01:24:31.000
it's the best of all. When
you go to Verdant Tree Farm, and

1122
01:24:31.119 --> 01:24:34.680
by the way, there's three places
where you can find Verdant Tree Farm.

1123
01:24:34.720 --> 01:24:40.479
One is Barker Cypress and West Houston. One's up in the Heights where Yale

1124
01:24:40.479 --> 01:24:45.840
Street comes into it, and another
one down in the Paarland area on Broadway

1125
01:24:45.920 --> 01:24:49.520
Street, not too far from Killing
Steakhouse down there. When you go to

1126
01:24:49.560 --> 01:24:53.920
a place like that, by the
way, they're open today from nine point

1127
01:24:53.920 --> 01:24:56.760
thirty to three pm, so good
day to get a tree. By the

1128
01:24:56.800 --> 01:24:59.279
way, I'm just saying, you
walk in, you can sit down,

1129
01:24:59.279 --> 01:25:01.479
they'll spend some time with you that
look over things, look over your plans,

1130
01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:06.079
make some suggestions if you're needing help
with what's the best kind of holly

1131
01:25:06.159 --> 01:25:10.560
for here. Whatever, whatever you're
looking for, they can take care of

1132
01:25:10.600 --> 01:25:14.319
you. On that. You can
go online to Verdant v er da nt

1133
01:25:14.920 --> 01:25:20.439
Verdant Treefarm dot com. You're going
to find that they have huge trees as

1134
01:25:20.479 --> 01:25:24.880
well as smaller size trees. But
some's so big it's just like instant tree,

1135
01:25:25.039 --> 01:25:28.960
like seven hundred gallons for crying out
loud, that's a big tree.

1136
01:25:29.439 --> 01:25:32.239
Verdant Tree Farm Verdantreefarm dot com.
Go check them out. They're open today

1137
01:25:32.600 --> 01:25:38.000
and this is the best time to
get a tree planted. Actually they say

1138
01:25:38.039 --> 01:25:41.079
the best time fifty years ago,
the second best times today. But let's

1139
01:25:41.119 --> 01:25:44.159
do it. We're going to head
out to Bear Creek now and talk to

1140
01:25:44.239 --> 01:25:49.960
Ruth. Hello, Ruth, Hello, how can I help? In the

1141
01:25:50.039 --> 01:25:56.279
past, I've taken acorns to the
Wildlife Cender and they put them in the

1142
01:25:56.319 --> 01:26:00.800
freezer and feed them to the animals
all throughout the year. I did not

1143
01:26:00.960 --> 01:26:08.920
know that. That's very interesting.
The Wildlife Center used to be on Hamley,

1144
01:26:08.960 --> 01:26:12.520
but they're in the process of moving. Okay, all right, well,

1145
01:26:12.760 --> 01:26:16.560
hey, good suggestion. I think
people are having trouble getting them all

1146
01:26:16.640 --> 01:26:20.640
up. That's one of the biggest
problems is getting them, getting them out

1147
01:26:20.640 --> 01:26:25.159
of the grass and smashing them the
driveway and everything else. But hey,

1148
01:26:25.159 --> 01:26:28.159
thanks for that tip, Ruth.
I appreciate that. Okay, sounds like,

1149
01:26:29.159 --> 01:26:31.439
yeah, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. So when life

1150
01:26:31.439 --> 01:26:36.520
gives you too many acorns, make
rehabbing wildlife happy. That sounds like a

1151
01:26:36.560 --> 01:26:42.680
good plan. Fall is the time
for planting, and once you've prepared your

1152
01:26:42.720 --> 01:26:45.479
soil, you want to pick the
right plants to go in, and then

1153
01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:50.960
you want to plant them properly.
And part of properly is after you have

1154
01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:54.960
put the plant in the ground at
the same level it was growing before,

1155
01:26:55.439 --> 01:27:00.359
watered in with some hash to grow
six twelve six six twelve six has those

1156
01:27:00.439 --> 01:27:03.600
nutrients in it. It also has
seaweed extracts, humic acid, medina soil

1157
01:27:03.680 --> 01:27:08.399
activator. It's a concoction of a
number of different things, but you mix

1158
01:27:08.439 --> 01:27:12.840
it in water and can just spread
over the plant. Watered in really really

1159
01:27:12.880 --> 01:27:15.479
well. That phosphorus is really helpful, by the way, for the root

1160
01:27:15.520 --> 01:27:18.279
system. And I would do it
again a week later and again a week

1161
01:27:18.319 --> 01:27:23.399
after that. It's as simple as
that. Just three good waterings in with

1162
01:27:23.479 --> 01:27:27.079
a little bit of time between them
to help get that plant off to a

1163
01:27:27.119 --> 01:27:30.039
good boost and has to grow by
medina. Is that's the six twelve six

1164
01:27:30.119 --> 01:27:34.640
one. It is an excellent choice
for doing just that. We're going to

1165
01:27:34.640 --> 01:27:40.359
head out now to sugar Land and
talk to Donna. Hello, Donna high

1166
01:27:40.439 --> 01:27:46.079
Camp. Yeah, I sent you
an email with a picture of a plant

1167
01:27:46.239 --> 01:27:53.199
that I needed identified. They have
it in the landscape that papasitos here in

1168
01:27:53.239 --> 01:27:57.920
Sugarland, Okay, and I really
like the foliage. I lost my shrubs

1169
01:27:57.920 --> 01:28:02.680
along my garage wall in the front
the twenty twenty frees and I've been temporarily

1170
01:28:02.800 --> 01:28:05.640
putting things in the bed just to
fill in till I could figure out what

1171
01:28:05.680 --> 01:28:11.000
I wanted to do. Yeah,
but so I wanted to know. It

1172
01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:15.399
looks like maybe it's a sweet by
vernum, but I'm not sure, and

1173
01:28:15.960 --> 01:28:17.680
I'm not sure if it's going to
work in the spot where I need it,

1174
01:28:17.760 --> 01:28:25.359
because in the summer that bed gets
full blazing sun till very late afternoon,

1175
01:28:25.439 --> 01:28:29.079
and I have a huge live oak
in the backyard that actually shades that

1176
01:28:29.159 --> 01:28:32.199
area plus the house, but this
time of year it's in a shade almost

1177
01:28:32.199 --> 01:28:39.760
all day long. And I've read
that my vernom here need to have more

1178
01:28:39.840 --> 01:28:45.520
shade. But these shrubs that Papasito's
are in full blazing west afternoon sun.

1179
01:28:45.479 --> 01:28:53.159
So if that's what they are.
Okay, you know what, I haven't

1180
01:28:53.279 --> 01:28:57.880
been able to open your your photo
sure, yeah, so I may have

1181
01:28:57.960 --> 01:29:00.199
to do that maybe during a break
or something, and then go back to

1182
01:29:00.239 --> 01:29:02.920
you so I can take a look. I hear what you want, and

1183
01:29:02.960 --> 01:29:08.159
I'll take a look at those pictures
and then get back and talk about it.

1184
01:29:08.319 --> 01:29:12.359
Okay, okay, I'll best.
Thank you. I appreciate that very

1185
01:29:12.439 --> 01:29:16.880
much. I uh, if I
try to multitask too many things, yeah,

1186
01:29:16.920 --> 01:29:20.880
it doesn't go real well. So
we'll take a look at those during

1187
01:29:20.920 --> 01:29:25.479
a break. You are listening to
Garden Line. Our phone number is seven

1188
01:29:25.520 --> 01:29:31.560
to one three two one two five
eight seven four seven to one three two

1189
01:29:31.600 --> 01:29:35.199
one two fifty eight seventy four.
As simple as that, give us a

1190
01:29:35.199 --> 01:29:40.000
call. We'll talk about gardening and
the things that are of interest to you.

1191
01:29:40.720 --> 01:29:44.600
Remember this is still prime time to
get in cool season color in your

1192
01:29:44.640 --> 01:29:47.760
color beds. There's lots of great
plans to choose from. Go to a

1193
01:29:47.800 --> 01:29:51.159
good quality garden center. They're going
to carry the stuff that does well here

1194
01:29:51.199 --> 01:29:55.000
and tell you how to take care
of it so that you have success.

1195
01:29:55.039 --> 01:29:58.840
And that's really important, It really
is important. It's also the time for

1196
01:29:59.119 --> 01:30:02.640
continuing to plan our fall vegetable gardens. And I say vegetable garden, but

1197
01:30:02.720 --> 01:30:06.800
I realize a lot of people don't
have room for a big garden out back.

1198
01:30:08.520 --> 01:30:11.479
They probably you know, have room
for maybe a bet or two,

1199
01:30:11.680 --> 01:30:15.079
or maybe they just are going to
grow in containers on the patio. Well,

1200
01:30:15.079 --> 01:30:19.800
however you go about it, do
some a little bit of looking into

1201
01:30:19.880 --> 01:30:21.920
it, how to do it,
or give me a call on garden line,

1202
01:30:23.000 --> 01:30:27.760
and let's talk about how do you
successfully grow food in a container of

1203
01:30:27.840 --> 01:30:30.920
whatever type or size. We can
advise you on that. But you can

1204
01:30:30.920 --> 01:30:33.560
grow carrots and cool season greens and
all kinds of stuff. I mean,

1205
01:30:33.720 --> 01:30:40.479
basically you just have a little field
that's a scattering of different kinds of greens.

1206
01:30:40.520 --> 01:30:45.000
When I say feeling about a large
container size and it just go in

1207
01:30:45.000 --> 01:30:47.439
and take scissors and clip them off, make solid or use them for cooking

1208
01:30:47.520 --> 01:30:51.319
or whatever. You can grow in
containers. So if the only sunny spot

1209
01:30:51.399 --> 01:30:56.640
you've got is out in the driveway, get a container you can actually don't

1210
01:30:56.680 --> 01:30:59.560
run into it with a car by
the way, but you can find that

1211
01:30:59.560 --> 01:31:03.439
sunny's spot and do real well.
I'm going to go now out to Ronnie

1212
01:31:03.479 --> 01:31:08.680
and Lake Jackson. Hello, Ronnie, it's good about you doing this morning.

1213
01:31:08.720 --> 01:31:11.800
I'm good, Thank you. Yes, sir, I've got a quick

1214
01:31:11.880 --> 01:31:15.359
question. I've got a couple of
rows of Japanese box woods coming up my

1215
01:31:15.479 --> 01:31:21.680
driveway and I'm getting brown spots in
them where like a portion of the plant

1216
01:31:21.800 --> 01:31:28.760
has died, but it's not dead, but it's it's not leafy. Uh

1217
01:31:29.479 --> 01:31:32.079
yeah, is there some Is there
something? I figured it's got to be

1218
01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:35.760
something that I can spray in treat. I just wanted to know what you

1219
01:31:35.880 --> 01:31:40.960
thought. Yeah, several things can
do that one of them, and I

1220
01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:45.279
realize not all these are probably what's
happening to your plant. But we get

1221
01:31:45.279 --> 01:31:49.079
a real hard cold snap and those
boxwoods aren't ready, and you'll see some

1222
01:31:49.119 --> 01:31:53.399
splits on the stem, and then
often that stem dies and you have that

1223
01:31:53.479 --> 01:31:59.920
brown area in there that nothing's coming
back. Certainly, if you got pats

1224
01:32:00.119 --> 01:32:01.680
running around, this happens to a
lot to dwarf you opon, but it

1225
01:32:01.680 --> 01:32:05.600
can happen to box which a basketball
bounces in or a pet goes in and

1226
01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:11.119
you actually crack a branch and that
leads to maybe a canker type infection.

1227
01:32:11.279 --> 01:32:17.960
That's another possibility. Are these watered
by sprinkler irrigation, No, shir.

1228
01:32:18.039 --> 01:32:21.159
The only thing we get is rain
water. It's about the only thing I

1229
01:32:21.239 --> 01:32:25.319
did. Rain water. It takes
care of them. Okay. Well,

1230
01:32:25.479 --> 01:32:29.640
the last thing would just be some
type of a stem canker, and those

1231
01:32:29.640 --> 01:32:32.880
are very difficult to treat because you
don't just spray the bush and it doesn't

1232
01:32:32.920 --> 01:32:36.640
get the canker. Canker is an
internal like think of it as like an

1233
01:32:36.680 --> 01:32:42.199
infection and a cut on your arm
or something. That the canker is working

1234
01:32:42.279 --> 01:32:47.079
inside of bark tissues. So when
you find those, follow them all the

1235
01:32:47.079 --> 01:32:54.479
way down and cut them off behind
where you see the either a split or

1236
01:32:54.640 --> 01:32:57.800
brown bark or anything. You can
take your pocket knife scrape the bark back

1237
01:32:57.840 --> 01:33:00.520
and see if it's creamy and green
inside. If it's kind of you know,

1238
01:33:00.640 --> 01:33:04.800
dying brown and gray, cut it
behind that and between each cut,

1239
01:33:05.119 --> 01:33:09.640
get some lifeyl and just spray your
printers just in case you got into the

1240
01:33:09.680 --> 01:33:13.840
canker. You don't want to carry
those diseases onto the next year. Okay,

1241
01:33:14.880 --> 01:33:17.039
got you all right? Well,
good luck with that running. Appreciate

1242
01:33:17.039 --> 01:33:24.359
you. Appreciate your call very very
much. Let's see, we're going to

1243
01:33:24.439 --> 01:33:30.880
go now to Mike and Fredericksburg.
Hello, Mike, hits Her, Mike

1244
01:33:30.000 --> 01:33:33.079
or you listen? Are you listening
to a radio or are you doing it

1245
01:33:33.119 --> 01:33:39.399
on your computer? On my heart? Okay? Good. I just always

1246
01:33:39.439 --> 01:33:42.960
have to ask. I'm curious.
I heard garden line on the edge of

1247
01:33:43.039 --> 01:33:45.720
Lano a few months ago, and
I thought, wow, I didn't think

1248
01:33:45.720 --> 01:33:49.199
we could reach that. But it
wasn't much fun to listen to as cractly

1249
01:33:49.239 --> 01:33:54.399
as it was. But you know
I have actually done that. I've listened

1250
01:33:54.439 --> 01:34:00.479
to seven forty outside Atlanta before.
I sure have. Okay, how can

1251
01:34:00.520 --> 01:34:04.359
I help? Well, my question
is this. So we bought a prefab

1252
01:34:05.039 --> 01:34:13.720
greenhouse one of the builders that metal
builders that offers those as a package.

1253
01:34:14.800 --> 01:34:17.880
Did it in the summer, and
I failed to put some type of floor

1254
01:34:17.920 --> 01:34:25.000
in it. And so as we
started getting rain again across the summer,

1255
01:34:25.119 --> 01:34:31.119
late summer and early fall, the
grass started growing, okay, and I

1256
01:34:31.239 --> 01:34:35.079
was wanting to find out an effective
way to get rid of that grass and

1257
01:34:35.159 --> 01:34:41.960
not poison my greenhouse and I'm going
to probably put everything on pots above ground,

1258
01:34:42.119 --> 01:34:45.560
but I just didn't want the atmosphere
to be bad. Yeah, you

1259
01:34:45.560 --> 01:34:49.760
could use anything to kill weeds grass. It could be a grass only killer.

1260
01:34:49.840 --> 01:34:53.239
It could be a product like life
a say, that has broad leave

1261
01:34:53.359 --> 01:34:57.760
and grass activity. You just spray
it whatever you're going to use, and

1262
01:34:57.840 --> 01:35:02.279
then, know, don't drench the
soil with it. Slightly cover it.

1263
01:35:02.560 --> 01:35:05.600
Now, if you have plants in
the greenhouse at the time, if you

1264
01:35:05.600 --> 01:35:10.199
could get them out before you spray, that would be better, just because

1265
01:35:10.239 --> 01:35:13.640
I'm yeah, so go ahead,
and if you own do it, do

1266
01:35:13.720 --> 01:35:15.720
it now. Another thing gets going
a weed eater and take it to the

1267
01:35:15.720 --> 01:35:19.680
ground and then put a some kind
of a good thick mulch over it.

1268
01:35:19.760 --> 01:35:25.680
That that's another option. But I
don't generally use a mulch in the greenhouse

1269
01:35:25.800 --> 01:35:30.000
just because it ends up kind of
getting soggy, wet and not being a

1270
01:35:30.399 --> 01:35:35.640
not being a real good environment.
We were thinking like pea gravel something like

1271
01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:39.520
that, Yes, if you can, but you if you're going to use

1272
01:35:39.560 --> 01:35:43.159
it to kill the plant, you'd
need some like a layer of craft paper

1273
01:35:43.239 --> 01:35:45.279
or something underneath it. But yeah, pea gravel would be fine. Pea

1274
01:35:45.279 --> 01:35:50.239
gravel in those little one foot by
one foot contrey concrete stepping stones. That

1275
01:35:50.399 --> 01:35:55.159
is that is so good. I
see it in a lot of greenhouses and

1276
01:35:55.239 --> 01:35:58.359
it is very clean and neat.
You just have to watch you don't get

1277
01:35:58.359 --> 01:36:02.479
some algae growing on something where you'd
have a slippery footing. Great skip.

1278
01:36:02.600 --> 01:36:04.840
Thank you very much for your will. All right, Mike, thank you,

1279
01:36:04.960 --> 01:36:10.680
and thanks for listening out in Fredericksburg. I appreciate that. Well,

1280
01:36:10.720 --> 01:36:14.239
here we are, Nikki, we
are time for another break. This morning

1281
01:36:14.479 --> 01:36:19.640
is the last few days of doing
Gardenline. It just felt like I'm careening

1282
01:36:19.720 --> 01:36:24.960
downhill. It's on roller skates at
breakneck speeds, and first thing you know,

1283
01:36:25.000 --> 01:36:27.479
I'm at the bottom of the hills. Isn't that amazing? It's eight

1284
01:36:27.520 --> 01:36:31.560
thirty. Didn't we just start this? We did just start Yeah, yeah,

1285
01:36:31.720 --> 01:36:35.880
it's one of those days. I've
been having computer issues. I know

1286
01:36:36.279 --> 01:36:42.600
all the more. Oh Gremlin's everywhere. They've just taken over. So yeah,

1287
01:36:42.720 --> 01:36:46.439
one of those days they're going to
rule the world, especially with AI.

1288
01:36:47.159 --> 01:36:50.520
Oh boy, yes, yeah,
let you we get out of here.

1289
01:36:50.520 --> 01:36:54.520
We got this and then do the
news for you just by pulling it

1290
01:36:54.560 --> 01:36:57.960
off the headlines. And reading it, and we're getting in a robot voice,

1291
01:36:58.039 --> 01:37:02.079
but you don't have Nicki's dulctones.
When you use a computer generated voice,

1292
01:37:02.079 --> 01:37:05.399
that's you all sit down, then'll
sit down. We'll come back to

1293
01:37:05.439 --> 01:37:10.880
that. Welcome back to garden Line. We are. We're happy to have

1294
01:37:10.960 --> 01:37:15.159
you today and looking forward to visiting
with you about the kind of questions that

1295
01:37:15.399 --> 01:37:18.800
you might have. You can give
me a call at seven one three two

1296
01:37:18.840 --> 01:37:26.319
one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven

1297
01:37:26.560 --> 01:37:32.560
four. When you are talking about
planting plants, we always begin with the

1298
01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:38.960
soil round stuff before green stuff.
And when you create the swell environment where

1299
01:37:38.960 --> 01:37:44.880
the plant can thrive it, you're
just way past halfway to success, way

1300
01:37:44.960 --> 01:37:50.079
past, because you you now have
a thing that a substrate that the plant

1301
01:37:50.159 --> 01:37:54.880
roots are going to just be able
to proliferate in, and that's going to

1302
01:37:54.960 --> 01:37:59.119
create a much stronger, healthier,
better plant. And heirloom soils has a

1303
01:37:59.159 --> 01:38:01.520
couple of blunds like that. In
fact, that probably the two most common

1304
01:38:01.600 --> 01:38:05.880
things that I'll mention about airlooms is
there are rose soil and the veggiean RB

1305
01:38:05.920 --> 01:38:10.439
mix. Both are high quality soils
that they put together out there in Porter

1306
01:38:11.319 --> 01:38:15.079
and the rose soil happens to be
on by. In fact, both of

1307
01:38:15.079 --> 01:38:17.880
those happen to be on a really
big fall special. So if you're looking

1308
01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:23.960
for bulk, you can get roasts
soil for seventy dollars up a qubit yard,

1309
01:38:24.199 --> 01:38:27.000
or you can get the supersac,
which is also a qubit yard set

1310
01:38:27.000 --> 01:38:30.039
in your driveway for ninety nine dollars. The veggie and art mix is also

1311
01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:35.199
on special one hundred and nineteen bulk
one eight supersack. Now there, these

1312
01:38:35.199 --> 01:38:40.800
are very very good prices, and
so if you're thinking about putting in a

1313
01:38:40.800 --> 01:38:44.720
bed, topping off a bed,
making a bed a little higher, all

1314
01:38:44.760 --> 01:38:46.680
of that, now's the time.
This is the best deal you're going to

1315
01:38:46.720 --> 01:38:51.359
get, and you just give them
a call. Make sure that they understand

1316
01:38:51.600 --> 01:38:55.560
the kinds of plants that you're wanting
to grow in the area so that they

1317
01:38:55.560 --> 01:39:00.399
can direct you to the best products
for you. And that's Airloom Soil of

1318
01:39:00.720 --> 01:39:04.920
Texas dot Com, Heirloom Soils of
Texas dot Com. This fall special isn't

1319
01:39:04.960 --> 01:39:10.640
going to last forever. Go ahead
and take advantage of it, because we

1320
01:39:10.880 --> 01:39:15.439
always need to improve soil somewhere in
the lawn, garden and landscape, if

1321
01:39:15.479 --> 01:39:18.199
not everywhere we need to be improving
our soil. I'm going to head now

1322
01:39:18.359 --> 01:39:24.760
out to Lawrence and Humble. Hello
Lawrence, thank you, morn How are

1323
01:39:24.800 --> 01:39:28.680
you. I'm well, thank you? How can I help? So?

1324
01:39:28.760 --> 01:39:34.159
I sent some pictures in r a
picture of some little bugs that they like

1325
01:39:34.199 --> 01:39:38.960
to jump on my lawnmower when I'm
through the grass. Okay, I've had

1326
01:39:39.880 --> 01:39:44.079
I've had a problem with the spill
bugs in the past that I treated for

1327
01:39:44.520 --> 01:39:48.399
that. These are little babies.
Yeah, I'm looking at that. I

1328
01:39:48.520 --> 01:39:51.840
can't tell what that is. It's
a little too far away to really make

1329
01:39:51.880 --> 01:39:56.800
them out where I could keym out. That is not a common pest of

1330
01:39:56.840 --> 01:40:00.239
plants that I know of. The
plants were growing, so I don't I

1331
01:40:00.279 --> 01:40:06.680
don't think that this is a concern. But that's that's my best estimate based

1332
01:40:06.760 --> 01:40:11.640
on not quite being able to make
out the details on those bugs very well.

1333
01:40:13.119 --> 01:40:15.159
Okay, I'll watch you, Yeah, just watch them. You know,

1334
01:40:15.760 --> 01:40:21.119
the vast majority of insects are either
beneficial or of no consequence to what

1335
01:40:21.159 --> 01:40:25.720
we're doing, you know, And
so it is it's the exception to have

1336
01:40:25.760 --> 01:40:30.039
the past and I don't believe these
are anything to be concerned about. Thank

1337
01:40:30.119 --> 01:40:31.920
you, though, I appreciate you, appreciate your email, appreciate that.

1338
01:40:32.000 --> 01:40:36.680
I appreciate that call very much,
very much. Let's see, I'm going

1339
01:40:36.720 --> 01:40:43.840
to go to Allen in Kingwood.
Hello, Allan, this skip. I

1340
01:40:43.960 --> 01:40:49.520
enjoy your show a whole lot,
never missions on weekends. The question is

1341
01:40:49.560 --> 01:40:55.359
that I've discovered I got at least
I got a mole in the yard,

1342
01:40:55.760 --> 01:41:00.960
okay around maybe even more than one. Do you have any feedback you can

1343
01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:02.920
give me on how to get rid
of them? Are and are they doing

1344
01:41:02.960 --> 01:41:09.359
any serious damage? Let's let's uh
let me ask you some questions about what

1345
01:41:09.399 --> 01:41:13.039
you're seeing. Uh Well, first
of all, describe to me what what

1346
01:41:13.119 --> 01:41:16.199
you're seeing when you when you say
tunneling around, Well, there's the there's

1347
01:41:17.000 --> 01:41:23.960
it looks like it's the ground has
come up about an inch and a half.

1348
01:41:24.640 --> 01:41:28.199
And I don't I see some of
those, but I don't see where

1349
01:41:28.000 --> 01:41:31.239
there's any heel or anything where they're
popped up or anything like that. Right,

1350
01:41:31.600 --> 01:41:33.960
And and you don't, Yeah,
you don't have the big piles of

1351
01:41:34.039 --> 01:41:40.600
soft dirt out there, so that
that I've got a little that big piles

1352
01:41:40.640 --> 01:41:42.880
I've just got a little where the
grounds come up in the air, a

1353
01:41:42.880 --> 01:41:45.680
little bit soft dirt. It's just
spongy. Yeah, I think you're dealing

1354
01:41:45.760 --> 01:41:48.880
with moles. I just wanted to
be sure because there's some other critters out

1355
01:41:48.920 --> 01:41:54.079
there, moles, vowls, gophers, things like that. Uh, probably

1356
01:41:54.079 --> 01:41:58.239
the best thing. There's different options. There's there's poisons for them, and

1357
01:41:58.319 --> 01:42:02.279
there's traps for them that you can
get from a good feed store, hardware

1358
01:42:02.279 --> 01:42:05.319
store, you know, like an
a store for example, is going to

1359
01:42:05.359 --> 01:42:11.000
have that. There is a publication
that you need to look at if you

1360
01:42:11.039 --> 01:42:17.319
go online to agra Life Learn a
g R I l I F E L

1361
01:42:17.359 --> 01:42:23.359
e A r N Agrolife Learn dot
t A m U tex An m University

1362
01:42:23.439 --> 01:42:28.399
dot E d U that's education.
That is the bookstore for free publications from

1363
01:42:28.439 --> 01:42:33.039
Agrolife Extension And if you type the
word mole in you will get a free

1364
01:42:33.039 --> 01:42:36.840
publication. Fact there's a couple of
them on there that you can click on.

1365
01:42:38.359 --> 01:42:41.319
You just have to fill out some
stuff. They send you an email

1366
01:42:41.359 --> 01:42:45.760
with a link to the pdfile and
you can learn about it. Because chasing

1367
01:42:45.800 --> 01:42:48.880
these down is not always easy,
and a lot of times people feel like

1368
01:42:48.960 --> 01:42:55.239
they're playing Whack a mole. Joe
contended with the moles because they can't quite

1369
01:42:55.279 --> 01:42:59.000
get rid of them. So the
publications can be very helpful and help me

1370
01:42:59.119 --> 01:43:02.279
understand that. Okay, okay,
could you repeat that this one more time?

1371
01:43:02.319 --> 01:43:06.399
I can barely hear you. Yes, Agra life learn A G R,

1372
01:43:06.560 --> 01:43:11.159
I L I F E, and
then the word learn dot T A

1373
01:43:12.439 --> 01:43:16.359
dot I need you text an m
university education With those stand for okay,

1374
01:43:16.439 --> 01:43:21.880
okay, we'll type okay, well
the mole if I just say, well,

1375
01:43:21.880 --> 01:43:25.680
at some point, we'll just get
tired of live in my yard and

1376
01:43:25.760 --> 01:43:29.840
go somewhere else. I don't know. I wouldn't count on that. Uh

1377
01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:33.520
you know, Okay, you're did
you ever see the movie Caddyshack? Yes,

1378
01:43:33.720 --> 01:43:38.640
I think you're Bill Murray. I'm
sorry, Yeah, so I got

1379
01:43:38.640 --> 01:43:41.560
to do the Bill Murray. I
don't have any data mite, so I

1380
01:43:41.560 --> 01:43:45.760
guess I'll just have to give you
some chemicals. Well, yeah, I

1381
01:43:45.760 --> 01:43:47.920
wouldn't I wouldn't worry a lot about
it. But but there is dammage,

1382
01:43:47.960 --> 01:43:51.399
so hopefully we'll set you off on
the right direction there. Hey, thanks

1383
01:43:51.399 --> 01:43:56.560
for the Thank you very much.
Alan appreciate that a lot. Uh.

1384
01:43:57.039 --> 01:44:01.199
I was talking about Verden Tree Farm, Wago and uh playing plants, planting

1385
01:44:01.239 --> 01:44:04.960
trees, the importance of this season
for woody ornamentals. You know, tree

1386
01:44:05.039 --> 01:44:10.319
hugger sprinklers is a tool that you
need to just have it in your garage

1387
01:44:10.479 --> 01:44:13.640
where your toolrack are, where do
you keep a hand trowel and a shovel

1388
01:44:13.920 --> 01:44:17.119
and those kind of things. Right
there, handle the wall TreeHugger sprinklers seven

1389
01:44:17.159 --> 01:44:21.079
inch, eleven inch fifteen inch.
You hook them to your hose and your

1390
01:44:21.159 --> 01:44:25.800
newly planted tree. You can water
wherever the roots are from just in that

1391
01:44:25.840 --> 01:44:30.119
little cylinder, initially the day you
plant it, to gradually moving out into

1392
01:44:30.119 --> 01:44:32.279
a large area, you just turn
the tree hugger up more and it does

1393
01:44:32.319 --> 01:44:35.319
that. I like to think of
it as insurance on a tree, and

1394
01:44:35.319 --> 01:44:41.319
that is really inexpensive insurance when you
consider the value, the costs and value

1395
01:44:41.359 --> 01:44:45.720
of those trees in our landscapes.
You are listening to garden Line, I

1396
01:44:46.000 --> 01:44:50.039
want to remind you those of you
listening that I have a website. It's

1397
01:44:50.159 --> 01:44:56.960
Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening
with Skip dot Com. That's where you'll

1398
01:44:56.960 --> 01:45:01.640
find my lawn fertilizing schedule, my
law past disease and we schedule. Uh,

1399
01:45:01.680 --> 01:45:08.319
they're up there a good amount of
information and once we get past January,

1400
01:45:08.359 --> 01:45:13.199
first, we are going to do
some major upgrading of the website by

1401
01:45:13.359 --> 01:45:17.479
just adding a lot other categories and
information. That's all coming. That's all

1402
01:45:17.479 --> 01:45:20.840
coming. I gotta get through all
this holidays first, and then we're gonna

1403
01:45:20.840 --> 01:45:25.119
put our hands to that plow.
Well, thanks for being a garden Line

1404
01:45:25.159 --> 01:45:28.279
listener. If you'd like to give
us a call seven one three two one

1405
01:45:28.319 --> 01:45:30.439
two fifty eight seventy four. And
when we come back, Charlie, you'll

1406
01:45:30.439 --> 01:45:36.319
be first up. Welcome back to
garden Line. Welcome back. Yeah,

1407
01:45:36.439 --> 01:45:42.560
playing whack a mole with moles just
like Bill Murray. Actually I wasn't a

1408
01:45:42.600 --> 01:45:45.479
mole. Was what was a little
rodent that he was after? Anyway?

1409
01:45:46.119 --> 01:45:49.000
Ground high? There you go,
there you go. Hey, we're gonna

1410
01:45:49.039 --> 01:45:51.039
go back to the phones now,
if you'd like to give us a call

1411
01:45:51.159 --> 01:45:58.079
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. That's right. It

1412
01:45:58.119 --> 01:46:04.399
was a gopher kind of figured out. Uh, let's go to West University

1413
01:46:04.399 --> 01:46:11.479
and talk to Charlie. Hello,
Charlie, Hi, my fun lawn looks

1414
01:46:11.760 --> 01:46:16.960
bad. It's Saint Augustine past Saint
Augustine in half weeds. I put some

1415
01:46:17.159 --> 01:46:21.439
fertilizer on my wife. Did this
fall the kin? You recommend anything for

1416
01:46:21.960 --> 01:46:29.960
eight twelve, but it's still looking
looking bad. Things just started going.

1417
01:46:30.319 --> 01:46:33.800
There's a large oak tree that covers
a lot of it that may be part

1418
01:46:33.800 --> 01:46:38.319
of the problem. Is it a
live oak? A live oak? Yeah?

1419
01:46:38.520 --> 01:46:43.199
Yeah? Uh? What West University
asking? Is it a live oak?

1420
01:46:43.960 --> 01:46:48.720
This kind of a unnecessary questions only
one? Oh is it okay?

1421
01:46:48.760 --> 01:46:54.880
Well I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
So I it could be a couple of

1422
01:46:54.880 --> 01:46:58.520
things. Number One, I have
to think drought had a part in this.

1423
01:46:59.479 --> 01:47:02.720
When when the grass gets weak and
there is a disease called take all

1424
01:47:02.880 --> 01:47:10.239
root rot that move can move in
and often does and destroys roots and takes

1425
01:47:10.279 --> 01:47:14.520
it down further. And then there's
the issue with the live oak shade,

1426
01:47:15.199 --> 01:47:17.880
which can be dense and it's twelve
months out of the year basically, and

1427
01:47:17.960 --> 01:47:24.479
so unlike a deciduous tree where maybe
the grass could capture all sunlight you know

1428
01:47:24.600 --> 01:47:29.000
after the leaves fall off. Well
you don't have that with the live oat.

1429
01:47:29.279 --> 01:47:34.039
So it's probably a combination of those
things. Charlie, I just remember

1430
01:47:34.319 --> 01:47:40.199
my wife Waters. You mentioned the
drop my what Waters had the sprinkle sets

1431
01:47:40.199 --> 01:47:44.920
of water. I think it's fifteen
minutes, three times a week almost no

1432
01:47:44.960 --> 01:47:47.479
matter what. Okay? Well,
and is this grass in a lot of

1433
01:47:47.520 --> 01:47:51.840
shade then or is it just part
of it under the live oat. I

1434
01:47:51.880 --> 01:47:57.039
see it's part of it under the
live Oaka, it's not doing well either

1435
01:47:57.199 --> 01:48:00.720
either way. Well, the more
you keep the thing well, the more

1436
01:48:00.760 --> 01:48:03.640
frequently water, the more disease problems
you can you can have as well.

1437
01:48:04.239 --> 01:48:06.880
But if you want to take drought
out of the mix, I'll take your

1438
01:48:06.880 --> 01:48:11.720
word for that one. But I
think what you basically are going to need

1439
01:48:11.760 --> 01:48:14.600
to do is look to see if
you have that disease. You can send

1440
01:48:14.600 --> 01:48:17.439
a sample up to the state plant
clinic, or you can just you know,

1441
01:48:19.399 --> 01:48:26.119
basically follow the publication on take all
Root route that's online and just try

1442
01:48:26.159 --> 01:48:29.920
to make your best visual assessment of
it. Typically you're going to get some

1443
01:48:30.000 --> 01:48:33.239
yellowing of the grass, yellow blades
here and there on the grass. It's

1444
01:48:33.279 --> 01:48:40.279
going to decline and you just very
irregular areas, not like the round circles

1445
01:48:40.279 --> 01:48:46.079
of brown patch, but very different. And if that's yes yellow, yeah,

1446
01:48:46.359 --> 01:48:49.640
just see and if you want to. I can put you on hold

1447
01:48:49.640 --> 01:48:51.880
if you want to send me a
picture of it from the distance, show

1448
01:48:51.920 --> 01:48:56.600
in the yard, and then picture
or two really up close and good sharp

1449
01:48:56.640 --> 01:49:00.600
focus. That would be helpful.
Try pulling up a runner at the end

1450
01:49:00.960 --> 01:49:04.399
and see if the roots look healthy
or if they're just tiny, shriveled,

1451
01:49:04.439 --> 01:49:10.159
wiry brown things indicating that they've died. That would be another helpful. Till

1452
01:49:10.439 --> 01:49:14.159
just see if you got to take
all right, Okay, all right,

1453
01:49:14.239 --> 01:49:16.399
Charlie, I'm going to put you
on holes, so Josh can give you

1454
01:49:16.439 --> 01:49:20.279
an email if you would if you
would like to go ahead and send me

1455
01:49:20.319 --> 01:49:25.640
those pictures. Let's go now to
Bill in Spring. Hello, Bill,

1456
01:49:26.600 --> 01:49:30.079
Hey, good morning. I enjoy
your show. Thank you. Hey.

1457
01:49:30.119 --> 01:49:32.680
I've got a thirty foot magnolia tree
that's been in stress for about two to

1458
01:49:32.720 --> 01:49:36.800
three months. It started during all
the hot and dry period that we had,

1459
01:49:38.359 --> 01:49:41.720
and about half the leaves are brown, but they aren't falling. Okay.

1460
01:49:41.800 --> 01:49:45.800
Now, Initially I started watering at
the base of the tree, and

1461
01:49:45.119 --> 01:49:48.479
I wasn't sure if that was doing
enough, so I dug a two foot

1462
01:49:48.479 --> 01:49:56.159
hole about two feet away from the
trunk and put a three inch PVC pipe

1463
01:49:56.279 --> 01:50:00.000
in the hole down to where I
thought it would be. I've been warning

1464
01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:04.640
it regularly and it's been that way
for about three weeks, and I was

1465
01:50:04.680 --> 01:50:09.239
hoping that the roots would be fed
directly by the water. Now I'm not

1466
01:50:09.279 --> 01:50:13.479
sure this it's actually working. And
what I was wondering, is there some

1467
01:50:13.560 --> 01:50:17.600
type of fertilizer or chemical that I
could add to this hole that would go

1468
01:50:17.680 --> 01:50:24.520
directly to the roots that might save
the tree. Well, okay, I'm

1469
01:50:24.560 --> 01:50:29.760
trying to picture the setup. You
got probably not fully understanding it, but

1470
01:50:30.199 --> 01:50:34.640
I will tell you this. The
magnolias took a hammer hammering from this summer

1471
01:50:34.640 --> 01:50:39.439
heat and drought, and we lost
entire trees and huge sections of other trees

1472
01:50:39.479 --> 01:50:45.439
around town like I haven't seen before. And that is probably what is going

1473
01:50:45.479 --> 01:50:48.319
on with that. When you water
in one spot that root system from them,

1474
01:50:48.680 --> 01:50:55.039
magnolia is going out three times in
all directions from that tree trunk and

1475
01:50:55.680 --> 01:50:59.840
three times the width of the tree
in all directions or in some cases.

1476
01:51:00.720 --> 01:51:04.399
But that just doesn't help to water
one spot like that. You need to

1477
01:51:04.479 --> 01:51:09.680
keep the whole root system hydrated,
and that would be a top down soaking.

1478
01:51:09.760 --> 01:51:14.399
I talk about the the tree hugger
sprinkler, you know, put it

1479
01:51:14.439 --> 01:51:16.479
around the plant and turn it on
to create as big a circle as you

1480
01:51:16.560 --> 01:51:21.319
want for watering. That's the area
you most need to try to take is

1481
01:51:21.359 --> 01:51:26.319
the you know, the branch bread
and a little beyond that. Uh yeah,

1482
01:51:26.560 --> 01:51:29.199
I wouldn't. I wouldn't do the
whole version. And same with the

1483
01:51:29.239 --> 01:51:31.319
same excuse me one second, Bill, The same is true with fertilizing.

1484
01:51:31.760 --> 01:51:35.640
Sprinkle a good fertilizer all around and
watered in really good, and that's the

1485
01:51:35.640 --> 01:51:40.520
best. Yeah, okay, hey, well I appreciate it. I'll try

1486
01:51:40.520 --> 01:51:43.359
that, all right, Bill,
thanks for the call. I appreciate that.

1487
01:51:43.760 --> 01:51:47.760
Yeah. It's a misconception, and
it just continues to, I don't

1488
01:51:47.800 --> 01:51:54.199
know, go on and on.
Especially you know when tree companies will use

1489
01:51:54.359 --> 01:51:59.479
a picture of a mirror top bottom, a mirrored tree as their logo.

1490
01:51:59.600 --> 01:52:01.319
For example, Well, you know, you hold your hand up, hold

1491
01:52:01.319 --> 01:52:04.359
out five fingers, that's the tree. Then open your other hand and put

1492
01:52:04.399 --> 01:52:09.039
it upside down. That's the roots. In other words, they're a mirror

1493
01:52:09.119 --> 01:52:14.680
image and they're not tree. Roots
are about whether they're in the top foot

1494
01:52:14.720 --> 01:52:19.640
of soil. Primarily virtually every significant
part of the root system that you need

1495
01:52:19.680 --> 01:52:23.439
to deal with is in that top
foot of soil. That's how it is.

1496
01:52:23.880 --> 01:52:26.279
And so I tell people, if
you want a picture of a tree,

1497
01:52:26.439 --> 01:52:30.000
forget that top bottom mirror image.
Put a pancake on the table.

1498
01:52:30.159 --> 01:52:33.560
That's the root system. Put a
stalk of broccoli in the middle of the

1499
01:52:33.600 --> 01:52:39.680
pancake. That's the tree. So
you got this little tree virtually compared to

1500
01:52:39.720 --> 01:52:44.159
the roots, and this large area
of roots going out in all directions.

1501
01:52:44.520 --> 01:52:49.000
And so that advises us when we
go to maybe put a trench in.

1502
01:52:50.119 --> 01:52:55.960
You know, take a knife,
slice through the pancake. If you slice

1503
01:52:56.039 --> 01:53:00.520
right close to the stalk in the
middle, you've taken half the root system

1504
01:53:00.720 --> 01:53:02.439
out of that tree. The further
you get away from the trunk, the

1505
01:53:02.560 --> 01:53:08.800
less root loss occurs with a trench. That's just an example, but it's

1506
01:53:08.840 --> 01:53:13.239
also part of watering. How does
rain water. It drops down on the

1507
01:53:13.279 --> 01:53:17.560
ground over time, and it soaks
in and it wets to soil deeply from

1508
01:53:17.560 --> 01:53:21.560
a good rainstorm. That's what we're
trying to achieve and helping our plants.

1509
01:53:21.880 --> 01:53:28.760
Now that the stress is off,
everything's fine in terms of the plant not

1510
01:53:28.960 --> 01:53:34.800
going through additional issues. But I
understand the damage and I understand the concern

1511
01:53:34.840 --> 01:53:41.039
about losing them. The decision you
have to make on your trees, like

1512
01:53:42.159 --> 01:53:45.439
let's say this magnolia tree, is
is it going to be so disfigured when

1513
01:53:45.479 --> 01:53:49.119
I prone out all the dead that
I want to keep it? And often

1514
01:53:49.159 --> 01:53:55.720
the key answer that is no.
And that's true with cray Myrtle's really hit

1515
01:53:55.760 --> 01:53:59.760
by last December spreeze, especially in
the northern parts of the listening area,

1516
01:54:00.359 --> 01:54:03.199
and you just see whole sections died
out, And so that's the question you

1517
01:54:03.239 --> 01:54:09.920
ask yourself. But caring for trees
for now, soil's moist, they're doing

1518
01:54:09.960 --> 01:54:14.640
okay, don't worry about them.
If they're evergreens like a magnolia, they're

1519
01:54:14.640 --> 01:54:17.359
going to use more water in the
winter time than a deciduous plant would because

1520
01:54:17.359 --> 01:54:21.119
they've got leaves on them. So
just watch. If we go through two

1521
01:54:21.199 --> 01:54:26.600
weeks three weeks without rain and the
cool season, go ahead and give them

1522
01:54:26.640 --> 01:54:29.239
one soaking. That's all you need
to do. It takes about an inch

1523
01:54:29.279 --> 01:54:31.159
of water a little more to give
them a good soaping. Well, you're

1524
01:54:31.199 --> 01:54:34.079
listening to Guardline. We're going to
take our little break here and we will

1525
01:54:34.119 --> 01:54:36.960
be right back. Our number is
seven to one. Three, two,

1526
01:54:38.079 --> 01:54:47.880
one, two, five, eight
seven four. Kt RH Garden Line does

1527
01:54:47.920 --> 01:54:54.960
not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

1528
01:54:55.079 --> 01:55:06.760
to kt RH Garden Line with Skip
Rict It's so yes trip. Just watch

1529
01:55:06.840 --> 01:55:18.079
him as well, say hey,
welcome back to garden Line. We're glad

1530
01:55:18.119 --> 01:55:24.000
you're listening on this Saturday morning.
I've got about an hour left here in

1531
01:55:24.039 --> 01:55:30.319
today's edition. We'll be back next
Saturday morning. Sunday morning. We'll be

1532
01:55:30.359 --> 01:55:34.760
back next Saturday and Sunday next weekend
from six am to ten am. We're

1533
01:55:34.800 --> 01:55:39.279
glad. We're glad you listen.
It always makes a show more interesting too

1534
01:55:39.279 --> 01:55:44.159
when people call in have a wide
variety of questions. Never know what is

1535
01:55:44.239 --> 01:55:47.920
going to hit. We're going to
go now to Magnolia and talk to Mary.

1536
01:55:48.119 --> 01:55:53.319
Hello Mary, Hi, Skip,
good morning. How are you doing

1537
01:55:53.359 --> 01:55:56.319
today? I'm well, Thank you, I'm well. How can I help?

1538
01:55:57.439 --> 01:56:00.880
Okay, I'm up a magnolia.
We've got an aerobic sceptic system in

1539
01:56:00.920 --> 01:56:06.399
our backyard and it sprays the water
out onto the pine trees and the bark

1540
01:56:06.520 --> 01:56:11.920
is getting covered with the green moss. Okay, and I'm wondering if that's

1541
01:56:11.960 --> 01:56:14.920
going to hurt the trees, or
if it is, if there's a way

1542
01:56:14.960 --> 01:56:16.960
to get it off of the trees. I tried scraping some off with a

1543
01:56:17.039 --> 01:56:20.520
razor blade and that didn't work out
too well. Yeah, if you're getting

1544
01:56:20.520 --> 01:56:25.680
green moss growing successfully on there,
then it is it is keeping it pretty

1545
01:56:25.720 --> 01:56:30.159
wet. It must spray pretty often. It's not good for trees to have,

1546
01:56:30.680 --> 01:56:34.159
you know, wet trunk tissues all
the time, especially when you have

1547
01:56:34.359 --> 01:56:38.960
like piles soil up against the bottom
of the trunk. That's a big note.

1548
01:56:39.039 --> 01:56:41.680
I'm gonna I'm going to hang up
and just listen to you because I

1549
01:56:41.720 --> 01:56:44.520
can't hear you on the phone very
well. Just turn my radio up.

1550
01:56:44.560 --> 01:56:46.119
Oh thank you, all right,
Mary, thank you. I appreciate that.

1551
01:56:47.119 --> 01:56:50.680
So, yeah, that when you
wet a tree trunk, the bark

1552
01:56:50.760 --> 01:56:54.319
on a tree trunk, and keep
it constantly wet, that's not good for

1553
01:56:54.359 --> 01:56:58.319
it. That's one of the reasons
why we say don't pile multi volcanoes up

1554
01:56:58.319 --> 01:57:00.439
against the base of the trunk of
your tree. Tree trunks aren't made for

1555
01:57:00.520 --> 01:57:05.560
that. However, just spray of
water here and there. Rain does that

1556
01:57:05.680 --> 01:57:11.399
all the time. So if it's
enough where moss is growing, I still

1557
01:57:11.439 --> 01:57:14.880
think the trees are going to be
okay, just because there is oxygen,

1558
01:57:14.920 --> 01:57:17.399
they're able to get oxygen on there. I wouldn't worry about that. It'd

1559
01:57:17.439 --> 01:57:20.399
be nice if they didn't do spray
it all the time. But I think

1560
01:57:21.119 --> 01:57:24.840
that you're going to be just fine. Mary, that's not going to be

1561
01:57:24.840 --> 01:57:29.800
a problem. Let's now go to
the galleria and talk to Unus. Hey,

1562
01:57:29.880 --> 01:57:34.560
Yunus, Hey, Kim. I
have a problem. I restarted my

1563
01:57:35.159 --> 01:57:43.760
front lawn because I had so much
bermuda grass. I killed it. I

1564
01:57:43.760 --> 01:57:48.199
didn't kill anything, but I put
the sod down with the grass. Really

1565
01:57:48.319 --> 01:57:56.880
sure. Well three months later,
I'm covered in bermuda again. Okay,

1566
01:57:58.079 --> 01:58:01.640
So I was wondering if I reach
on it again, should I do it

1567
01:58:02.039 --> 01:58:05.319
at this time of the year or
wait until the spring. Well, if

1568
01:58:05.319 --> 01:58:09.279
you're going to go to that measure, and that's a lot of work,

1569
01:58:09.319 --> 01:58:12.800
as you know, and expense,
I would do it in the spring.

1570
01:58:14.119 --> 01:58:18.479
Okay. You want your grass to
be actively growing, and here's why you're

1571
01:58:18.520 --> 01:58:25.920
going to have to spray that bermuda
grass. Spray everything and and kill it.

1572
01:58:26.399 --> 01:58:30.600
I would I would use a glacy
state product on that because it translocates

1573
01:58:30.640 --> 01:58:34.520
down and works very well. There
are also some grass only killers. Depending

1574
01:58:34.520 --> 01:58:39.960
on which one you get, they
may work very well or not really get

1575
01:58:39.960 --> 01:58:44.079
all the bermuda really well either,
but either either way you're going to when

1576
01:58:44.119 --> 01:58:48.079
it's actively growing. That's when those
spray products work the best on bermuda,

1577
01:58:48.279 --> 01:58:53.560
and I would spray it in the
spring with new growth. Make sure don't

1578
01:58:53.600 --> 01:58:56.199
mow it right before you spray,
because you're cutting off all the leaves that

1579
01:58:56.239 --> 01:59:00.279
are going to get that round up
or whatever you're using on them. Life

1580
01:59:00.520 --> 01:59:05.239
ate. There's a lot of other
brands, and probably about two weeks later

1581
01:59:05.479 --> 01:59:11.079
you may need to come back and
spray again just because it doesn't all come

1582
01:59:11.159 --> 01:59:14.479
up. And having been through this
once already, the last thing you want

1583
01:59:14.920 --> 01:59:18.119
is to get almost all the bermuda
rest again and then here we go again,

1584
01:59:18.399 --> 01:59:21.720
you know, because okay, so
it's important that I kill the bermuda

1585
01:59:21.800 --> 01:59:26.840
before I do any sarting that if
if you don't want to mix lawn,

1586
01:59:26.960 --> 01:59:32.920
you're going to have to do that. There they're actually there's actually a type

1587
01:59:32.960 --> 01:59:43.319
of sod that it's a it's a
Saint Augustine. You may want to call

1588
01:59:43.359 --> 01:59:45.520
the folks at Milburg or Turf on
this one. I'm trying to remember who

1589
01:59:45.560 --> 01:59:51.239
all carries it. It's a it's
a new product that is resistant to glyphasate,

1590
01:59:51.479 --> 01:59:57.199
and so if you spray that with
to kill the bermuda, then kill

1591
01:59:57.239 --> 02:00:00.840
the Saint Augustine. But that's a
very special kind of sid And I don't

1592
02:00:00.840 --> 02:00:01.840
know if you don't try to get
into all that or not, but I

1593
02:00:01.920 --> 02:00:06.479
just want to mention that that's there. Okay, okay, thank you very

1594
02:00:06.520 --> 02:00:10.840
much. All Right, thank you. I appreciate your call very much.

1595
02:00:11.800 --> 02:00:15.159
You're listening to garden Line. Our
phone number is seven to one three two

1596
02:00:15.239 --> 02:00:21.399
one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven

1597
02:00:21.640 --> 02:00:25.920
four. By the way, I
wanted to go back to a question from

1598
02:00:26.000 --> 02:00:29.640
Donna. Donna, you'd sent me
the pictures of the shrub you saw,

1599
02:00:30.119 --> 02:00:34.159
and then where you want to plant
something. I think what you're looking at

1600
02:00:34.239 --> 02:00:39.399
as a copper tone low quat.
The best I'm able to make out in

1601
02:00:39.439 --> 02:00:43.199
the photos. I think that is
a copper tone low quat that makes a

1602
02:00:43.239 --> 02:00:46.880
really big tree. And so I
don't you know, you would have to

1603
02:00:46.920 --> 02:00:51.199
prune a lot to keep it as
small as you want it to be.

1604
02:00:53.319 --> 02:00:58.159
So I don't know that that's going
to be the best one for the location

1605
02:00:58.560 --> 02:01:03.239
that you have right there. There
are a number of other evergreens that stay,

1606
02:01:03.720 --> 02:01:09.960
you know, fairly compact, fairly
small, especially with some pruning,

1607
02:01:10.359 --> 02:01:13.159
and so it just kind of depends
on what you like the looks of.

1608
02:01:13.199 --> 02:01:16.159
There's a lot of a lot of
really good options out there. You may

1609
02:01:16.199 --> 02:01:19.439
want to go with something that's going
to be a little bit smaller, a

1610
02:01:19.439 --> 02:01:25.039
little more compact to do well to
of course, Drophiopon, that's always an

1611
02:01:25.079 --> 02:01:30.119
easy one that it does really well. Nandinas can take a variety of the

1612
02:01:30.159 --> 02:01:35.640
sun exposures. They often are more
compact, and they also have a nice

1613
02:01:35.760 --> 02:01:42.640
colored foliage. With the cool weather
especially you get the burgundy to orangish red

1614
02:01:42.720 --> 02:01:46.760
tips or foliage developing on them as
a result of the cool temperature. So

1615
02:01:46.800 --> 02:01:50.439
that may be another one that you
like that does pretty well for you.

1616
02:01:50.760 --> 02:01:57.199
But go go someplace and I'm trying
to remember where you're calling from out in

1617
02:01:57.239 --> 02:02:01.119
sugar Land, go out to one
of the enchanted gardens and genet for us

1618
02:02:01.159 --> 02:02:05.920
nurseries out there and ask them,
you know, show them a picture of

1619
02:02:05.960 --> 02:02:10.359
the plant and ask them do they
have that? And I think they probably

1620
02:02:10.399 --> 02:02:15.159
would, and then they would also
have some suggestions for how to maybe swap

1621
02:02:15.239 --> 02:02:18.439
that out with something else that better
fits what you wanted to do. Take

1622
02:02:18.479 --> 02:02:21.920
your photos with you when you do
that, because they know better than I

1623
02:02:21.960 --> 02:02:29.560
do. Everplant that's sitting on the
on the I can't even talk here.

1624
02:02:29.800 --> 02:02:32.920
Ever, plant that's sitting on the
property there, I want to go.

1625
02:02:33.520 --> 02:02:39.079
Let's see, I think we had
unus here. We've already visited with Unice,

1626
02:02:39.119 --> 02:02:45.680
haven't we. Jer's going all right, Well, I'm gonna put that

1627
02:02:45.760 --> 02:02:50.760
back on hold. There. I
want to spend a little time before we

1628
02:02:50.800 --> 02:02:55.640
wind up today we're getting close to
the end and talk about some fruit tree

1629
02:02:55.760 --> 02:02:58.840
things. We need to take a
little break, but when we come back,

1630
02:02:59.359 --> 02:03:00.960
the topics going to be fruit and
nut trees, and we're going to

1631
02:03:00.960 --> 02:03:04.680
talk about that a little bit with
your calls at seven one three two one

1632
02:03:04.720 --> 02:03:11.800
two kt RH. Welcome back to
garden Line. I'm your host, Skip

1633
02:03:11.920 --> 02:03:15.720
Richter, and we are here to
answer gardening questions. If you want to

1634
02:03:15.880 --> 02:03:19.199
ask a question, give us a
call seven one three two one two five

1635
02:03:19.439 --> 02:03:27.119
eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. If

1636
02:03:27.159 --> 02:03:31.439
your question is where no matter where
I live in the Greater Houston area.

1637
02:03:31.520 --> 02:03:35.399
Where can I find all these products
you're talking about? Well, the answer

1638
02:03:35.439 --> 02:03:41.800
to that is ACE Hardware forty stores
in the Greater Houston area. Ace Hardware.

1639
02:03:42.119 --> 02:03:44.840
Do you need fertilizers that you hear
on garden Line, Well, they're

1640
02:03:44.840 --> 02:03:49.479
going to have that pesticide disease control
everything for your yard, all the outdoor

1641
02:03:49.560 --> 02:03:54.279
things, the bling Like I love
those little strings of lights. I call

1642
02:03:54.319 --> 02:03:57.000
them beer garden lights. But you
know what I'm talking about. Uh,

1643
02:03:57.079 --> 02:03:59.720
They've got all kinds of stuff like
that. But did you know the ACE

1644
02:03:59.800 --> 02:04:03.239
is a place for your holiday decorating
and lighting for that matter. Do you

1645
02:04:03.279 --> 02:04:08.279
need a wreath? Do you want
some garland? Do you need lighting?

1646
02:04:08.560 --> 02:04:13.960
Perhaps box lights that have various colors
and sizes, and ACE has all that

1647
02:04:14.039 --> 02:04:17.920
available. They also have something called
custom lights by the foot. Custom lights

1648
02:04:17.920 --> 02:04:21.680
by the foot allows you to do
just that. You can create a set

1649
02:04:21.680 --> 02:04:26.880
of lights for each area that you
need to be lit. For example,

1650
02:04:26.920 --> 02:04:30.119
I used the example earlier of a
mantle on of oiurplace. You know,

1651
02:04:30.399 --> 02:04:31.399
I want a light to go around
there, so it needs to be this

1652
02:04:31.520 --> 02:04:35.760
long. Well, custom lights by
the foot will do that. Indoor lighting

1653
02:04:35.920 --> 02:04:42.319
outdoor lighting. Just give ACE a
try. Go buy the nearest ACE near

1654
02:04:42.399 --> 02:04:45.960
you. And how do you find
the nearest ACE Hardware near you, Well,

1655
02:04:45.000 --> 02:04:48.600
you go to Acehardware dot com and
if you want the whole thing,

1656
02:04:48.640 --> 02:04:53.920
you can put slash store dash locator, or just go to Aceharware dot com

1657
02:04:53.960 --> 02:04:57.840
the store locating enter your zip code
and you'll see what I'm seeing right now

1658
02:04:57.840 --> 02:05:00.399
on my computer screen, as a
matter of fact, is a whole lot

1659
02:05:00.439 --> 02:05:03.000
of red dots, meaning that ACE
is everywhere. We're going to go out

1660
02:05:03.039 --> 02:05:08.039
now to pair Land and talk to
Kay. Hello, Okay, good morning,

1661
02:05:08.239 --> 02:05:13.199
Skip, Thank you for taking my
call. I was in Round Top

1662
02:05:13.520 --> 02:05:17.079
area last weekend with visiting my daughter
and they have a little red house there

1663
02:05:17.159 --> 02:05:23.399
and she has a big fiddly fig
over in one corner there then and some

1664
02:05:23.560 --> 02:05:27.079
of the laser starting to turn brown
around the edge, and she wondered if

1665
02:05:27.359 --> 02:05:30.199
she should take those off, clip
them off, or just let them go

1666
02:05:30.319 --> 02:05:35.960
till they turned browner and drop off
or whatever. Yeah, okay, or

1667
02:05:35.960 --> 02:05:42.159
do you have any ideas on why
it's doing that. It's probably Yeah,

1668
02:05:42.199 --> 02:05:46.199
it's probably a soul moisture situation.
I have a physical gig and I only

1669
02:05:46.239 --> 02:05:49.520
get to see it, you know, about about months a week really,

1670
02:05:50.000 --> 02:05:55.319
uh and yeah, I find that
sometimes I need to move it into a

1671
02:05:55.359 --> 02:05:58.520
bigger pot because it's still in too
small of a pot consider how big it

1672
02:05:58.560 --> 02:06:03.079
is. Uh yeah, I would, yeah, okay, I'll just give

1673
02:06:03.119 --> 02:06:06.680
it that As far as as far
as what the douque for those leaves,

1674
02:06:08.159 --> 02:06:10.560
they're not going to get green again, of course, and so oh,

1675
02:06:10.640 --> 02:06:13.800
I know, generally when there's enough
of a brown spot, I'll just take

1676
02:06:13.840 --> 02:06:16.319
the leaf out. It's not one
leaf plants where you can take your scissors

1677
02:06:16.359 --> 02:06:21.079
and cut up the leaf and make
it look okay anyway, But I would

1678
02:06:21.119 --> 02:06:25.640
just take the leaf. It is
not no. You know, if you

1679
02:06:25.720 --> 02:06:30.399
have if you have something like a
corn plant a dressina and the turns brown,

1680
02:06:30.600 --> 02:06:33.119
you can cut a new v into
the healthy leaf behind it, and

1681
02:06:33.439 --> 02:06:36.479
after you do it, people can't
retell that it was prune. I do

1682
02:06:36.560 --> 02:06:42.039
that with my bamboos sometimes, Yeah, you could do it, but fiddlely

1683
02:06:42.119 --> 02:06:45.520
fig that's not appropriate. Also,
anytime that you break off a living leaf,

1684
02:06:45.560 --> 02:06:49.600
there's going to be white sap that
forms in that sapple see clothing,

1685
02:06:49.680 --> 02:06:54.960
it's a rubber it's a rubber tree. So that's the substance that's coming out.

1686
02:06:55.239 --> 02:06:58.079
Uh, and it'll get on carpet, on clothing and stuff, so

1687
02:06:58.199 --> 02:07:00.800
just be be extra careful. I
usually have it issue there, so I

1688
02:07:00.800 --> 02:07:02.800
want to break it off. So
if she snips it off, so it's

1689
02:07:02.880 --> 02:07:06.399
not going to weep like that.
If it's dead, it's not. If

1690
02:07:06.439 --> 02:07:11.760
it's alive. Oh yeah, I
wouldn't. Well, I'm thinking the leaf

1691
02:07:11.880 --> 02:07:15.039
might be brown, but the stem
might be kind of green. Still,

1692
02:07:15.960 --> 02:07:19.159
well, I wouldn't snip it off. I would grab the thing and just

1693
02:07:19.239 --> 02:07:24.600
pull sharply downward and it pops right
off. Oh okay, and that way

1694
02:07:24.600 --> 02:07:28.800
you don't have a little stub that
you left when you snip Okay, okay,

1695
02:07:29.000 --> 02:07:30.920
thank you so much, great day
and love your show. Thank you

1696
02:07:30.960 --> 02:07:34.079
man, appreciate that. Thank you
for the call. You are listening to

1697
02:07:34.159 --> 02:07:40.319
Garden Line. Our phone number is
seven to one three two one two five

1698
02:07:40.439 --> 02:07:44.920
eight seven four seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Uh.

1699
02:07:45.079 --> 02:07:48.960
It is as simple as that.
Do you have some more holiday shopping

1700
02:07:49.479 --> 02:07:54.399
to do still? Do you need
to get some products to take care of

1701
02:07:54.399 --> 02:07:57.279
your lawn or build a flower bed, or do you just want to get

1702
02:07:57.319 --> 02:08:01.319
some new plants? Well, Arbrogate
our Gate Overgate it is. It is

1703
02:08:01.399 --> 02:08:05.880
a destination nursery just to the west
of Tombol. Most of you know where

1704
02:08:05.920 --> 02:08:09.720
it is. In case you're new
here, you need to go check it

1705
02:08:09.720 --> 02:08:13.960
out. It's Arborgate dot com.
That's the website. It's on FM twenty

1706
02:08:15.039 --> 02:08:18.960
nine to twenty just about a mile
and a half west of Tomball Parkway,

1707
02:08:18.960 --> 02:08:22.520
which is two forty nine in Tombol, so out west just one and a

1708
02:08:22.560 --> 02:08:26.600
half miles. Now they while you're
there, grab the completely easy system.

1709
02:08:26.680 --> 02:08:31.399
That's three different product bags. One
is organic food complete it's a four four

1710
02:08:31.479 --> 02:08:37.680
three fertilizer plus calcium. And then
the second is organic soil complete That is

1711
02:08:37.720 --> 02:08:43.680
a soil that has some additional shale, expanded shale at it like I was

1712
02:08:43.720 --> 02:08:48.159
talking about earlier on in the show
today. And then organic compost complete,

1713
02:08:48.159 --> 02:08:52.439
two different kinds of composts blended together, super high quality product with more expanded

1714
02:08:52.479 --> 02:08:58.479
shale in it. So those three
together is the brown stuff that comes before

1715
02:08:58.520 --> 02:09:01.880
the green stuff, right, and
when you build those beds, fill those

1716
02:09:01.920 --> 02:09:05.600
containers, do whatever you're going to
do and take a quality so like this,

1717
02:09:05.760 --> 02:09:11.279
then those wonderful plants that you're going
to find at Arburgate are just going

1718
02:09:11.359 --> 02:09:13.119
to be so happy and they're going
to thrive. And when you go there,

1719
02:09:13.159 --> 02:09:16.119
they'll direct you to the kinds of
plants you need, things that will

1720
02:09:16.159 --> 02:09:18.960
grow here, and they'll advise you
just go and ask questions. You know,

1721
02:09:20.000 --> 02:09:22.319
hey, I've got this plan and
it's not doing really well. What

1722
02:09:22.359 --> 02:09:26.800
would you recommend? Are there some
other options and so on. Arburgate is

1723
02:09:26.800 --> 02:09:28.479
great with that. They got a
new parking behind the building. By the

1724
02:09:28.479 --> 02:09:33.520
way, if you go down Trisher
Road, either before or after you pass

1725
02:09:33.600 --> 02:09:39.920
by Arborgate, it swings around to
the back with some wonderful parking and of

1726
02:09:39.000 --> 02:09:43.880
course they're loaded with Christmas trees and
poinsettas and flowers and all kinds of things

1727
02:09:45.159 --> 02:09:56.520
to make the holidays more festive at
your house. So I'm just getting a

1728
02:09:56.159 --> 02:10:01.199
message there from Josh. Somebody had
asked about it was still located to winter

1729
02:10:01.239 --> 02:10:07.199
fertilizer and the answer is yes.
But I want I want to say you

1730
02:10:07.199 --> 02:10:11.640
two things. Number One, my
website, gardening with Skip dot com has

1731
02:10:11.680 --> 02:10:18.800
the schedule and yes we are past
the fall fertilizing schedule time. Now I

1732
02:10:18.880 --> 02:10:22.760
put that on there, not to
say it has to fall between these two

1733
02:10:22.840 --> 02:10:26.720
days, right, But to say
this is the best time to do it,

1734
02:10:26.800 --> 02:10:30.119
This is when I would recommend that
you do it. If you miss

1735
02:10:30.199 --> 02:10:33.119
that. And you may have heard
Randy say this before, I know,

1736
02:10:33.359 --> 02:10:35.199
you know, over the years I've
heard him say, if you miss the

1737
02:10:35.239 --> 02:10:39.800
schedule, then just still do it. Just get it done, don't don't

1738
02:10:39.840 --> 02:10:41.760
skip it. Just go ahead and
get it done. And you can do

1739
02:10:41.840 --> 02:10:48.199
that. The reason a fall fertilizer
a winter fertilizer helps your lawn is because

1740
02:10:48.199 --> 02:10:52.960
it produced. It puts the nitrogen
potassium levels, especially into the soil for

1741
02:10:54.039 --> 02:10:58.520
the roots to take up in the
presence of sunlight. They make carbohydrates,

1742
02:10:58.600 --> 02:11:03.560
which is and a freeze for the
grass plant. It makes it heartier going

1743
02:11:03.600 --> 02:11:07.720
through winter and when it comes out
in spring. The energy that drives grass

1744
02:11:07.960 --> 02:11:13.239
growth at the beginning of spring is
stored energy that's in the plant. The

1745
02:11:13.359 --> 02:11:18.159
roots will begin growing as spring warms
up and they'll begin to take over and

1746
02:11:18.239 --> 02:11:22.479
provide the plant. But initially it's
how did it go into winter? And

1747
02:11:22.479 --> 02:11:26.399
that's why fall fertilizing is important.
Now when you wait this long, yeah,

1748
02:11:26.439 --> 02:11:31.279
we have less days where that grass
is going to be in a somewhat

1749
02:11:31.560 --> 02:11:35.359
growing state. Hopefully the weather stays
mild and we continue to make a lot

1750
02:11:35.359 --> 02:11:41.079
of carbs on those grass out of
those grass blades. Over time, it's

1751
02:11:41.119 --> 02:11:43.680
better to get it done if you
use a product that has a per emergent

1752
02:11:43.720 --> 02:11:46.800
herbicide in it. Same thing with
weeds. They sprout when the weather goes

1753
02:11:46.840 --> 02:11:50.720
off in the fall. If you
didn't get them, you can still put

1754
02:11:50.720 --> 02:11:54.600
down a per emergent and prevent additional
weeds, but if they've gotten large enough,

1755
02:11:54.600 --> 02:11:58.199
they're not going to be affected.
Some products will give you a little

1756
02:11:58.279 --> 02:12:03.239
kick back, like the kill seedlings
and actor as a pre emergent, but

1757
02:12:03.439 --> 02:12:05.359
most of them, most of them
are not going to have that kickback.

1758
02:12:07.000 --> 02:12:11.359
Well, I want to head now
out to Kingwood and we're going to talk

1759
02:12:11.399 --> 02:12:16.319
to Natalie. Hello, Natalie,
Hi, how can I help? I

1760
02:12:16.359 --> 02:12:20.800
have a quick question. I grow
a lot of crown of thorns and they

1761
02:12:20.840 --> 02:12:26.760
bloom all the time. But I
purchased four last I don't know when,

1762
02:12:26.800 --> 02:12:31.960
and I replanted them kept them alive
during the summer. They're in containers,

1763
02:12:31.319 --> 02:12:35.720
and I guess I'm trying to use
up a lot of fertilizers that I have,

1764
02:12:35.359 --> 02:12:39.039
you know, for various things,
and I must have put something in

1765
02:12:39.079 --> 02:12:46.199
that had something that made the leaves
grow beautifully. I've never seen such beautiful

1766
02:12:46.239 --> 02:12:50.920
green leaves, but no blooms.
What can I get to have some blooms

1767
02:12:50.960 --> 02:12:56.640
on them? Well, based on
what you've said, my best guess is

1768
02:12:56.680 --> 02:13:01.840
that you put down a higher nitrogen
fertilizer. Prona thorns is not a super

1769
02:13:01.880 --> 02:13:05.399
fast grower, you know. I've
had those. Mother in law is a

1770
02:13:05.520 --> 02:13:09.880
giant, beautiful and she's had for
years. But they don't grow super super

1771
02:13:09.920 --> 02:13:13.800
fast, and so we want to
give them a little nitrogen for boost for

1772
02:13:13.880 --> 02:13:16.920
health and whatnot, but we just
don't want to push them with too much.

1773
02:13:16.479 --> 02:13:20.640
And so I would just say it's
the quantity, and it's also the

1774
02:13:20.760 --> 02:13:24.239
ratios that you put down. So
some story I can't hear you. It's

1775
02:13:24.439 --> 02:13:28.960
the quantity of fertilizer, and it's
the ratios. You know, if it's

1776
02:13:28.960 --> 02:13:33.199
a real high nitrogen not much else, that's probably not a good ratio for

1777
02:13:33.279 --> 02:13:37.359
crown of thorns. You want something
more balanced down. I would use a

1778
02:13:37.399 --> 02:13:41.560
product called color Star. Color Stars
an excellent product and it will work.

1779
02:13:41.720 --> 02:13:45.640
You can use it on houseplants.
There's also I know Nelson's makes a houseplant

1780
02:13:45.680 --> 02:13:48.359
food as a matter of fact.
Okay, it's designed. Okay, what

1781
02:13:48.399 --> 02:13:52.319
was the first one you said?
Color Color Star. Yeah, that's a

1782
02:13:52.399 --> 02:13:54.479
star that is a fertilizer we've had
around for a long time. It's it's

1783
02:13:54.560 --> 02:14:00.159
an excellent, excellent product and it
works really well, especially when you're talking

1784
02:14:00.199 --> 02:14:05.359
about plants that you're wanting to produce
good blooms. Is that available uh?

1785
02:14:07.000 --> 02:14:13.720
At various stores? Oh? Yeah, Yeah, Nelson's Color Star is available

1786
02:14:13.760 --> 02:14:18.079
all over the place. You just
just call around and ask where you like

1787
02:14:18.199 --> 02:14:20.159
to shop. I know you're out
there in Kingwood. Kingwood Garden Center or

1788
02:14:20.199 --> 02:14:24.880
Warren's probably has some. You may
find some at a nice hardware oute there

1789
02:14:24.880 --> 02:14:28.279
as well. Oh I've got to
wrap I've got to wrap up and go

1790
02:14:28.359 --> 02:14:30.840
here. Kay, I'm put you
on or Natalie, I'm put you on

1791
02:14:30.840 --> 02:14:33.920
hold. If you want to stick
around, we can continue talking. Phone

1792
02:14:33.960 --> 02:14:39.199
number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back

1793
02:14:39.199 --> 02:14:43.199
to garden Line. We are glad
you're listening today as we talk about whatever

1794
02:14:43.279 --> 02:14:46.720
gardening topics or of interest to you. Our phone number is seven one three

1795
02:14:46.840 --> 02:14:52.199
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1796
02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:54.079
seventy four. Give us a call
if you like to visit. Right now,

1797
02:14:54.119 --> 02:14:58.239
I'm going to go back to Kingwood
and I was in a conversation with

1798
02:14:58.359 --> 02:15:01.720
Natalie. Natalie, where do we
go from here? Well, my second

1799
02:15:01.760 --> 02:15:07.039
question was is there a product that
I can use to kill pine trees?

1800
02:15:09.960 --> 02:15:13.239
Well, if you cut a pine
tree off, it can't reach sprout.

1801
02:15:13.359 --> 02:15:16.640
So there, you know, there's
no need to like spray. I mean,

1802
02:15:16.680 --> 02:15:20.920
you can just saw them off at
the ground or wherever are these in

1803
02:15:20.960 --> 02:15:26.000
your yard? Are they you know, like a wood? They are?

1804
02:15:26.039 --> 02:15:33.079
They're huge trees. And I hate
to say this, but you know there's

1805
02:15:33.119 --> 02:15:39.079
a disagreement between my husband and me
about these trees and I'd kind of like

1806
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to maybe get rid of some of
them, if you know what I mean.

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02:15:43.560 --> 02:15:48.439
So basically, you're asking me in
front of the entire listening audience to

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02:15:48.439 --> 02:15:50.880
be an accomplice to a crime.
Here? Is that? What's going on?

1809
02:15:50.560 --> 02:15:56.920
Yes, well, you don't need
to spray a pine tree. It's

1810
02:15:58.039 --> 02:16:01.600
going to die when you cut it
off. And so there are way is

1811
02:16:01.640 --> 02:16:07.279
there something? Is there something that
I can inject into the roots. Well,

1812
02:16:07.279 --> 02:16:13.199
here's the problem. When when a
pine tree dies, the bark very

1813
02:16:13.239 --> 02:16:16.680
soon loosens on that tree and it
becomes very hard to climb, very unsafe

1814
02:16:16.720 --> 02:16:24.479
to climb. And so you I
don't know, I don't think it's a

1815
02:16:24.520 --> 02:16:28.079
good idea to just basically kill a
tree that's still standing. That's a pine.

1816
02:16:28.960 --> 02:16:33.920
You there are herbicides you can put
and take a little hatchet and chop

1817
02:16:33.000 --> 02:16:37.479
down in the in the bark around
the tree. There's some herbicide you can

1818
02:16:37.479 --> 02:16:41.680
put on it that will kill it
that way. But you know, as

1819
02:16:41.719 --> 02:16:45.879
far as putting on the roots and
things, I don't know anything that's not

1820
02:16:45.920 --> 02:16:48.760
going to mess up other things.
I know it's a it's a kind of

1821
02:16:48.760 --> 02:16:56.680
a murderous question, but you know, well they can be very annoying.

1822
02:16:58.079 --> 02:17:03.600
Yes, okay, well I understand, but thank you, thank you for

1823
02:17:03.639 --> 02:17:05.079
the advice. I appreciate it.
Well, thank you for the call.

1824
02:17:05.079 --> 02:17:09.520
I appreciate that, Natalie. I
hope we helped out with that crowd of

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02:17:09.559 --> 02:17:13.000
thorns too. Those are cool plants, you know. I guess that could

1826
02:17:13.040 --> 02:17:18.719
be you know a little reddish kind
of an orange red blooms on them or

1827
02:17:18.760 --> 02:17:22.239
on some of them. Uh,
that could be kind of a holiday plant

1828
02:17:22.600 --> 02:17:26.559
as well. Just for those of
you who don't know what they are.

1829
02:17:26.719 --> 02:17:31.040
There's a bunch of straight stocks coming
up on the ground that are incredibly thorn.

1830
02:17:31.120 --> 02:17:35.639
I mean there's like on each side
their rows of really long thorns.

1831
02:17:37.000 --> 02:17:41.719
Now, they're not sharp pointed like
cactus thorns that I wouldn't grab one and

1832
02:17:41.760 --> 02:17:46.280
try to pick it up by this
now. But but they're not quite as

1833
02:17:48.280 --> 02:17:50.600
vicious as maybe a cactus thorn.
But I'll tell you what they They are

1834
02:17:50.680 --> 02:17:56.000
beautiful and they bloom and they seem
to thrive on the glack. They are

1835
02:17:56.159 --> 02:18:00.319
tolerant of droughty periods. They'll drop
their foliage and then come back when they

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02:18:00.319 --> 02:18:01.600
get some moisture and put a new
foliage on. It's kind of a cool

1837
02:18:01.600 --> 02:18:07.680
plant. I think that's a great
one. You know. The whole idea

1838
02:18:09.040 --> 02:18:15.360
of plants and gardening is to have
fun. It's to provide that escape.

1839
02:18:15.440 --> 02:18:20.799
And I for me, it has
long been escape. It's mental health to

1840
02:18:20.840 --> 02:18:24.600
get out in the garden and just
relax and let the day wind down.

1841
02:18:26.600 --> 02:18:31.239
When I was working with extension in
another county that I'm in then I'm in

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02:18:31.360 --> 02:18:35.040
right now. I remember when our
kids were younger, they I come home

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02:18:35.079 --> 02:18:37.319
from work at the end of the
day, and I just would be spent,

1844
02:18:37.079 --> 02:18:41.719
and I would just go to the
straight to the water hose and the

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02:18:41.760 --> 02:18:46.399
garden and I watering a garden with
your thumb on the end of a hose

1846
02:18:46.479 --> 02:18:50.079
is not the recommended way to water. But when you are getting the day

1847
02:18:50.120 --> 02:18:54.200
out of you, and my wife
and kids knew, Okay, give daddy

1848
02:18:54.319 --> 02:18:58.760
just a wind down time here and
he'll be in in just a moment.

1849
02:18:58.319 --> 02:19:01.799
But it is. It is therapeutic, It really really is. When it

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02:19:01.840 --> 02:19:09.559
comes to people that don't have room
to create a garden, it's easy when

1851
02:19:09.559 --> 02:19:13.239
you have containers and such a huge
variety of plants, plants that want to

1852
02:19:13.239 --> 02:19:18.280
be in a container outside, plants
that will do well in the container inside,

1853
02:19:18.319 --> 02:19:22.000
all the different house plants and the
cacti and succulents and succulents are really

1854
02:19:22.040 --> 02:19:26.200
big right now, and they are
foolproof. I mean, it's really easy

1855
02:19:26.239 --> 02:19:28.760
to take care of succulents. Just
don't over water them. That's basically your

1856
02:19:28.840 --> 02:19:35.440
number one goal. But whatever kind
of plant you choose, just find some

1857
02:19:35.600 --> 02:19:39.159
that will do well for you,
that you find attractive, and just continue

1858
02:19:39.159 --> 02:19:43.120
to learn and get better and better
at them. It is a I have

1859
02:19:43.120 --> 02:19:48.159
a daughter one of my daughters really
collects plants. I mean, it's a

1860
02:19:48.280 --> 02:19:50.840
jungle in there. It is little
shop of horror as you go in and

1861
02:19:50.879 --> 02:19:54.440
freight one of the plants going to
eat you, there's so many of them.

1862
02:19:54.840 --> 02:19:58.520
But she does and she really enjoys
that, and I love to go.

1863
02:19:58.559 --> 02:20:01.559
I mean, I just think it's
a wonderful environment to go and see,

1864
02:20:01.319 --> 02:20:05.399
you know, a house just full
of so many really cool plants.

1865
02:20:05.520 --> 02:20:09.440
So I guess what I'm trying to
talk you into is, Hey, I

1866
02:20:09.479 --> 02:20:11.600
know you're busy, it's a holiday
season, but it's a great time to

1867
02:20:11.600 --> 02:20:16.719
get out to a garden center and
purchase some plants and pots. Just so

1868
02:20:16.760 --> 02:20:20.559
many beautiful containers that you can.
Just want to make sure any container you

1869
02:20:20.719 --> 02:20:24.600
use is well drained. That's important, So you also need a catch basin

1870
02:20:24.680 --> 02:20:30.360
under the container. I've got a
couple of house plants and containers that have

1871
02:20:30.440 --> 02:20:33.120
no drainage holes at the bottom.
But when I put them in there,

1872
02:20:33.159 --> 02:20:39.200
I put some charcoal in the bottom
because that helps keep the water from going

1873
02:20:39.319 --> 02:20:43.840
sour from the decomposing organic matter helps
a little bit. Put some of that

1874
02:20:43.920 --> 02:20:46.159
in there, and I just know
how much to water them, you know,

1875
02:20:46.520 --> 02:20:48.920
I know that let's say a quarter
cup of water, a half cup

1876
02:20:48.959 --> 02:20:54.040
of water poured into this container is
going to be about right for taking care

1877
02:20:54.079 --> 02:20:56.440
of it, maybe a little more, and you just watch and you can

1878
02:20:56.479 --> 02:21:00.280
always use a pencil trick. Remember
the pencil trick. You show up and

1879
02:21:00.280 --> 02:21:03.239
a pencil, you push it down
in the soil, and when you pull

1880
02:21:03.280 --> 02:21:07.879
it out, if the sharpened wood
is wet, that means it's soggy wet.

1881
02:21:07.239 --> 02:21:13.159
If there's moist soil clinging to that
sharpened rough wood surface, that means

1882
02:21:13.479 --> 02:21:16.680
it's moist and it's okay. And
if it comes out clean and dry,

1883
02:21:18.200 --> 02:21:20.440
then you know you need to water. So that's just one way to go

1884
02:21:20.520 --> 02:21:26.520
about determining when you need water.
Plants. Everybody's mix is different, particle

1885
02:21:26.600 --> 02:21:30.280
size and whatnot. Some of them
are chunky and they drain super super well,

1886
02:21:30.319 --> 02:21:33.879
so you need to water them often. Others are mucky and they don't

1887
02:21:33.920 --> 02:21:37.760
drain very well. So once you
get them moist, back off or you're

1888
02:21:37.760 --> 02:21:43.360
going to create problems with that.
Important to find a good quality mix.

1889
02:21:43.760 --> 02:21:46.040
Well, you're listening to garden Line. We're gonna take a little break here

1890
02:21:46.079 --> 02:21:48.360
and come back for our last segment. Our phone number is seven one three

1891
02:21:48.440 --> 02:21:56.440
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two kt rh.

1892
02:21:56.520 --> 02:21:58.680
Give us a call, Josh,
you'll get you on the board and

1893
02:21:58.719 --> 02:22:03.319
we will talk to you first when
we come back. Well, welcome back

1894
02:22:03.360 --> 02:22:05.440
to garden line. We're in our
last segment of the day. So if

1895
02:22:05.479 --> 02:22:09.280
you have a call that can't wait
till next weekend, that would be a

1896
02:22:09.319 --> 02:22:13.760
good time. And don't hesitate,
because we don't this last segments of a

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02:22:13.760 --> 02:22:18.360
fairly short one seven one three two
one two five eight seven four That is

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02:22:18.399 --> 02:22:26.360
the number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Staring out

1899
02:22:26.399 --> 02:22:30.520
the window watching the wind blow,
and there's this swirling of leaves coming up

1900
02:22:30.520 --> 02:22:33.000
as the wind comes around through the
buildings and whatnot, and it's it's just

1901
02:22:33.079 --> 02:22:39.399
almost like there's a little mini leaf
tornado coming up through here. That's kind

1902
02:22:39.399 --> 02:22:43.799
of cool. You know. The
fall season is a season when we are

1903
02:22:43.840 --> 02:22:48.600
provided with free organic matter for mulching, composting, whatever however we want to

1904
02:22:48.680 --> 02:22:52.280
use it. And that's the tree
leaves. Most of the nutrients that your

1905
02:22:52.360 --> 02:22:56.079
trees take up during the year are
in its foliage. A lot more of

1906
02:22:56.120 --> 02:23:00.239
the nitrogen phosphorus potassium, magnesiums all
that kind of stuff. The micro is

1907
02:23:01.079 --> 02:23:05.280
in the foliage and in the tender
let's say, fresh twig growth, then

1908
02:23:05.360 --> 02:23:09.360
in the old interior wood, which
is mostly carbon. So here comes all

1909
02:23:09.399 --> 02:23:13.840
these nutrients up through the tree that
it took up, perhaps you fertilized it.

1910
02:23:13.079 --> 02:23:16.440
And here are your nutrients now in
the leaves that fall to the ground.

1911
02:23:16.920 --> 02:23:20.239
If you bag them and pay them
by to hollum away, which if

1912
02:23:20.239 --> 02:23:24.719
they are cities, Halloway, you're
paying for that. If you do that,

1913
02:23:24.360 --> 02:23:28.319
then you're renting fertilizer. That's true. Your grass clippings in your tree

1914
02:23:28.399 --> 02:23:33.840
leaves recycle, recycled, recycle them. And it's not just you know,

1915
02:23:35.079 --> 02:23:37.559
a matter of like the money or
you know, for fertilizer or anything like

1916
02:23:37.600 --> 02:23:41.079
that. It's a matter of it's
the best stuff in the world for plants.

1917
02:23:41.360 --> 02:23:46.360
Think about a forest, you know, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of

1918
02:23:46.479 --> 02:23:50.479
years of growth, and it just
the soil just keeps getting better because of

1919
02:23:50.600 --> 02:23:54.520
the decaying organic matter. The tree
dropped it on the ground and that microbes

1920
02:23:54.559 --> 02:23:58.920
take it from there. It's really
easy to do. I will mow from

1921
02:23:58.920 --> 02:24:05.040
the outside in on my lawn,
blowing the leaves towards the center, and

1922
02:24:05.079 --> 02:24:07.520
that way, with each mowing you're
chopping and blowing leaves. It makes them

1923
02:24:07.559 --> 02:24:11.040
real easy to pick up on a
tarp. I can just scrape them up

1924
02:24:11.079 --> 02:24:13.600
onto a tarp, drag the tarp
somewhere. It's easy to use them,

1925
02:24:13.639 --> 02:24:18.680
real easy to do. But the
point is do it. This is valuable

1926
02:24:18.680 --> 02:24:22.600
stuff. It's good for molts,
very good for malts in your flower beds

1927
02:24:22.639 --> 02:24:26.760
and whatnot. If you have areas
where you want some certain malts, it's

1928
02:24:26.760 --> 02:24:30.000
more attractive to you. Oh yeah, you can do that. But just

1929
02:24:30.079 --> 02:24:35.120
remember tree leaves are the original mults. That is what that is what trees

1930
02:24:35.159 --> 02:24:39.440
get mulched with in nature. And
so it's okay to go ahead and do

1931
02:24:39.520 --> 02:24:45.159
that. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eight seven

1932
02:24:45.280 --> 02:24:48.840
four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. If you'd like

1933
02:24:48.879 --> 02:24:52.360
to give us a call. I
got time for another one here before we

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02:24:52.719 --> 02:24:58.559
take a break or in the show. Actually not just take a break today.

1935
02:24:58.760 --> 02:25:01.760
When I get back to the house, I've got some things that need

1936
02:25:01.799 --> 02:25:07.399
to get done outside. I've got
a bunch of plants and containers, and

1937
02:25:07.520 --> 02:25:09.399
that usually happens. I see a
plant somewhere and I bring it home and

1938
02:25:09.440 --> 02:25:13.040
then it sits there for a minute
waiting for me to get around to it

1939
02:25:13.079 --> 02:25:16.559
to be able to plant it.
Well, I have my round to it,

1940
02:25:16.600 --> 02:25:20.920
and I'm going to head home do
some of that today, getting some

1941
02:25:20.000 --> 02:25:24.840
of those things put in big containers. I got a couple of beautiful salviats

1942
02:25:24.319 --> 02:25:28.479
that just are absolutely gorgeous, and
I need to move those to a big

1943
02:25:28.520 --> 02:25:31.680
container and get them through the winter. After that, maybe they'll go to

1944
02:25:33.040 --> 02:25:35.799
a flower bed or something like that. Always use a good quality soil,

1945
02:25:37.200 --> 02:25:41.360
you know. The works potting soil
from Airloom Soils is an example of a

1946
02:25:41.360 --> 02:25:45.520
good one. There's the indoor potting
soil and an outdoor putting soild that they

1947
02:25:45.559 --> 02:25:48.079
make, and they are very very
well blended. I'm very very good,

1948
02:25:48.079 --> 02:25:52.639
and I've used them for for potting
up plants and they just seem to thrive

1949
02:25:54.079 --> 02:25:58.280
in that kind of a mix.
A perfect mix is well drained and yet

1950
02:25:58.399 --> 02:26:03.600
it holds moisture. That balance between
those two is what you're aiming for in

1951
02:26:05.000 --> 02:26:09.399
creating a good, good quality mix. Just be careful what people find.

1952
02:26:09.520 --> 02:26:15.040
Some bargain soil somewhere and I know
what you're talking about. I know what

1953
02:26:15.079 --> 02:26:20.319
you're thinking, but just remember this
that when you use quality soil and choose

1954
02:26:20.399 --> 02:26:26.200
quality plants from a place that gives
quality advice, that is your saving money.

1955
02:26:26.280 --> 02:26:33.000
That is well worth the loss from
going someplace and just trying to find

1956
02:26:33.000 --> 02:26:35.920
some cheap plant somewhere. A lot
of those kind of places, box stores

1957
02:26:35.920 --> 02:26:43.280
and whatnot, they have plants,
but it's they're not necessarily chosen for this

1958
02:26:43.399 --> 02:26:45.920
area. You know, it drives
me nuts. I was, I'm just

1959
02:26:45.920 --> 02:26:48.520
gonna ramp my way out of this
one. I believe it drives me nuts.

1960
02:26:48.559 --> 02:26:52.120
But I was in a big box
store and I was looking the head

1961
02:26:52.120 --> 02:26:58.360
little rack with fruit growing on it, and they had some blueberries. And

1962
02:26:58.440 --> 02:27:03.239
those blueberries were not southern high bush
so or rabbit eye. They were northern

1963
02:27:03.319 --> 02:27:05.719
high bush, so they're not going
to do well down here. They're just

1964
02:27:05.920 --> 02:27:11.719
not. But they were for sale
raspberries of various types that the particular ones

1965
02:27:11.760 --> 02:27:16.040
they had will not survive and do
well here, but they were selling them

1966
02:27:16.040 --> 02:27:20.399
to you. And you know,
it just goes on and on. In

1967
02:27:20.040 --> 02:27:24.280
that sense. Grapevines, you see
a conquered grape for sale, conquered as

1968
02:27:24.319 --> 02:27:28.879
well as grape juice. It's that
traditional grape flavor. But it grows up

1969
02:27:30.120 --> 02:27:33.319
in the north, and if you
bring it down here and grow it in

1970
02:27:33.399 --> 02:27:37.600
warm, warm weather, warm winters, and when the berries ripen instead of

1971
02:27:37.680 --> 02:27:41.760
a cluster ripening, they tend to
ripen like a berry at a time.

1972
02:27:41.840 --> 02:27:46.159
Although it's not quite that neat and
clean, it doesn't belong here. It's

1973
02:27:46.200 --> 02:27:50.319
not a grape for here. There
are grapes that are for here. Southern

1974
02:27:50.399 --> 02:27:54.680
sensation seedless is probably the best grape
for backyard arbors and things for people that

1975
02:27:54.760 --> 02:28:00.000
want to eat the fruit themselves.
Southern Sensation. There's one called Victoria Red.

1976
02:28:00.040 --> 02:28:03.520
It's pretty good. I think Southern
Sensation is a little bit better than

1977
02:28:03.559 --> 02:28:16.840
that. Lloyd, Yes, sir, how can I help? I'm looking

1978
02:28:16.920 --> 02:28:20.920
for some cypress seedlings. I'm wondering
if you could help me with that,

1979
02:28:24.639 --> 02:28:31.760
uh cypress seedlings. I would I
would talk, Yeah, I would talk

1980
02:28:31.799 --> 02:28:39.360
to ARCYW Nursery. I know they
grow out little seedlings like that. Maybe

1981
02:28:39.520 --> 02:28:45.200
and that's not a product they normally
sell, but maybe they would sell you,

1982
02:28:45.200 --> 02:28:48.600
you know, a tray of of
something like that. Just talk to

1983
02:28:48.719 --> 02:28:54.399
RCW and c uh. That would
probably be my first choice because they've got

1984
02:28:54.799 --> 02:29:00.719
they're they're growing a bunch of those
out blot I mean uh, long lay

1985
02:29:00.799 --> 02:29:07.040
panted yes, uh you know there
there is something called conservation bundles by those

1986
02:29:07.120 --> 02:29:11.840
during the wintertime. They're bear root
uh. And it's just groups of trees

1987
02:29:11.959 --> 02:29:16.520
that are that are really inexpensive because
they're just small, bare roots ceilings.

1988
02:29:16.520 --> 02:29:18.440
When I say small, I mean
maybe maybe two feet high or so,

1989
02:29:20.159 --> 02:29:24.920
hunting counting the roots on the tops. But those conservation dundles. There's a

1990
02:29:24.959 --> 02:29:30.600
Texas Forest Service nursery. I think
they still have it out in West Texas

1991
02:29:30.639 --> 02:29:33.520
and I can't think aware, but
they grow a bunch of stuff. And

1992
02:29:33.559 --> 02:29:39.000
then throughout the southern seaboard there are
some places that will sell you clusters of

1993
02:29:39.040 --> 02:29:41.479
seedlings like that for people that want
to maybe you know, plant out by

1994
02:29:41.479 --> 02:29:45.920
the roadside or fill up a pasture
with trees or things where you just don't

1995
02:29:45.959 --> 02:29:50.520
want to buy big, expensive trees. But you don't have any of the

1996
02:29:50.600 --> 02:29:54.760
numbers. No, I tell you
what, I'm going to put you on

1997
02:29:54.840 --> 02:29:58.559
hold. Josh is coming on Lloyd
and he will give you my email.

1998
02:29:58.719 --> 02:30:03.159
Send me that question and I will
send you a link. Just know this

1999
02:30:03.559 --> 02:30:09.040
that at some of those places are
already sold out on some things. You

2000
02:30:09.079 --> 02:30:11.200
need to probably put the orders in
much earlier in the year, but we

2001
02:30:11.280 --> 02:30:16.159
can certainly give it a shot.
Just send me an email and I'll be

2002
02:30:16.239 --> 02:30:20.840
glad to provide that. Well,
you've been listening to garden Line. I'm

2003
02:30:20.840 --> 02:30:24.520
your host, skip Rickter, and
we are here every Saturday and Sunday from

2004
02:30:24.559 --> 02:30:30.319
six am to ten am to answer
your gardening questions. I'm going to be

2005
02:30:31.799 --> 02:30:37.280
doing some holiday traveling myself as we
were close to the Christmas season. Looking

2006
02:30:37.319 --> 02:30:41.920
forward though, to being here in
the next few weeks for sure behind the

2007
02:30:41.959 --> 02:30:46.799
microphone and being able to answer your
gardening question. So thanks for listening,

2008
02:30:46.159 --> 02:30:48.760
look forward to talking to you next
week.