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

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this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden
Line with skip rictor just watching as so

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many packing a sign. Well,
good morning, good Sunday morning. You

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are listening to garden Line. We're
here to answer your gardening questions. That's

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what this is all about. I'll
talk about a few things gardening, of

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course, but the most interesting radio
is when when you call in with your

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questions because somebody else has those same
questions. And I just think you shouldn't

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be shy. I know a lot
of folks listen, but they don't call

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in. Well, let's let's see
if we can improve on that by one

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or two folks today. How about
that our phone number seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
And if you look outside it's dark,

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I mean, I think just listening
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to me saying, I think someone
told me once that just listening to garden

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line makes your grass greener. Do
you believe that I do? Give us

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a call. We'll talk about what
you're interested in. Right now, I'm

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going to talk about a couple of
things that I find interesting. You know,

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this past week, I've had more
than one call back at the Agrilife

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Extension office during the week, and
it was about my trees are bleeding.

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And here's here's how the call kind
of goes. On the side of my

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tree. There's this you know,
sap kind of leaking out, but it's

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real watery and it has white and
frothy too, and there's like little butterflies

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and wasps stuff on that. What's
going on, Well, what's going on

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is something called slime flux. It
can also be called bacterial wet wood.

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It kind of just depends on some
specifics of how it's occurring. But what

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happens is our trees get stressed and
sometimes they can even get a stress crack

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that could come from a freeze,
that could come from you know, the

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movement in a strong wind. It
can come from a lot of things.

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It doesn't matter what it comes from. What matters is bacteria now have access

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to that interior behind the behind the
outer dead bark, that interior tissue in

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there, which is where all the
juices are flowing. That's where all the

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carbohydrates made in the leaves are heading
down to the roots. And so it

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is a nutrient and carbohydrate sugar,
if you will, rich water. And

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when back here you get in there, it starts to ferment. And when

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it starts to ferment, and it's
under the sap, under the sap under

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the bark, that fermenting pressure comes
pushing out. In fact, it'll lift

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the bark up a little bit off
the wood the truck behind it. And

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it's not great for the tree,
but it's more of a physical wound than

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like a disease. It's going to
go all through the tree and cause it

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damage. And a young tree can
close that over and will, and most

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trees, well, if it's a
very old tree and it's just kind of

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sitting there, not much bigger hanging
on, you may have something like that

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go on and last for more than
a year, for several years. Actually.

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But the cool thing I think about
it is because it's fermenting liquids.

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We've got something like an alcohol kind
of product going on there, and the

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insects are gathering to drink that fermented
sap. So I consider it just a

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big butterfly and wasp beer joint right
there on the side of the tree.

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And that's that's why you see the
frothy because it's the bubbles, it's the

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fermentation, it's the pressure coming out. Sometimes you just see it as just

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a drainage and no, no frothiness, but it's still the same kind of

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thing going on. So what do
you do, Well, you don't do

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anything. You don't want to go
in and do surgery and cut that area

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out because it's not an infection to
cut out. There's no spray to put

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on it on the outside that's going
to change what's going on underneath the bark.

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What you do is you keep your
trees healthy. If a tree has

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vigor, anytime it's wounded, it
is going to start to create a callous

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and close that wound back over again, and that just takes time. And

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so how does a tree have vigor, Well, it has adequate moisture,

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and boy, during this summer heat, a what a tough time for trees,

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and secondly it has a nutrition it
needs. And then tho other things

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that are affecting vigor in a negative
way. You know, we run cars

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over trees root system and compact the
swil. That's a big deal in terms

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of tree health. We run a
trench by it because we're build a new

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house and cut a bunch of the
roots off. And there's a lot of

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ways we stress trees. But anyway, if you've seen something like that,

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if you go up to it and
smell it, it kind of has a

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sour smell, usually a sour kind
of smell, and sometimes it has that

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alcohol smell to it, a little
bit of an aromatics coming off of the

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thing. Anyway, that's something that's
made the phone ring a little bit this

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summer. Another issue that we've heard
a lot about this summer is chinch bugs.

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Now, the lawn only had your
most lawns, you know, because

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we have more than one type of
turf grass. But let's say it's Saint

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Augustine. Most lawns only have a
handful of insects at bother them. But

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chinch bugs are an insect of the
summertime. And oh, here's what happens.

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The little bugs typically start next to
a hardscape like a driveway or a

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sidewalk or a curb. Not all, but usually there. If you have

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a dead spot starting off across the
yard in the shade somewhere, that's probably

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not chinch bugs. It becomes very
unlikely that it's chinch bugs. But in

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the sun and especially against some hardscape, we see them begin and your grass

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looks like it needs watering, so
you water it, but it doesn't improve,

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and then that problem area moves out
further into the grass and eventually the

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old area is dead. It's just
straw brown or you know, it's just

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dead. And then there's a zone
where the grass is not looking so good,

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and then of course there's your healthy
grass. So think of the chinch

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bugs is like a little army marching
through the yard and they're sucking all the

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juices ei of the grass and injecting
toxins in the grass, and that grass

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is going downhill and as it dies, well, there's nothing for them to

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feed on, so they have to
move further out into the yard and that's

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how it progresses. So how do
we identify them for sure? Well,

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number one, you look for the
signs just described number two. You can

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part the grass in the zone between
healthy and dead. That's where the most

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chinch bugs are because that's where the
primary decline is. That's where they're feeding,

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and look for them. You can
go online and search for what does

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a chinch bug look like? Learn
how the adults look and the young.

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The adults are black and white,
about eighth of an inch long, and

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the young are smaller than that,
and they're typically kind of a brick red

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color with a white band across their
back. But once you see that's what

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you have. You know what to
do, and all you have to treat

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is that area right there. You
don't have the nuke the whole yard because

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you have chinch bugs in one spot. Now, if you feel like you

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may have some other spots getting started, you can move along the curb or

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the driveway and do some other treating, But we try to minimize the treating

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that we do. So anyway,
that's a little quick thought on chinch bugs,

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and we are seeing quite a bit
of them. Get quite a bit

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of information on them coming in and
being a problem. Hey, we are

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going to take a break right now. Our phone number is seven one three

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two one two fifty eight seventy four. GiB Ryan a call and he'll get

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you on the board and we'll talk
to you when we come back. Well,

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good Sunday morning. We are glad
you're listening to garden Line this morning.

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We're here to talk gardening. Of
course, that's why we call garden

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Line. Hey, if you want
to give us a call. Seven one

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three two one two five eight seven
four. That is the number. You

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know, if you're planting any kind
of a woody ornamental really, a shrub,

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a woody vine, a tree,
even perennials, really, you gotta

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water them well through the first days
because the whole root system is in that

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cylinder you pulled out of the container, you know, the day after you

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plant. It's not like it's got
roots everywhere, right, that makes sense.

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Well, a tree hugger sprinkler is
such a nice efficient way to target

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water right there. Tree huggers are
a little round. It's like kind of

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a c shape like Pacman. If
you think about pac Man going along eating

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things. You just put it up
to the trunk and turn it in and

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now you've got a complete circle around
the trunk. It's got a little valve

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on it. You can have it
squirt just a little bit to wet that

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root ball and just a little bit
beyond that. That's, by the way,

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what you want to do when you
first plant, and as those roots

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begin to get into the soil,
then we turn it on a little more

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and water a larger and a larger
area. TreeHugger is an ingenious design.

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You can go to TreeHugger sprinkler dot
com to find a retailer near you,

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or I can just pretty much tell
you this. Most of the folks we

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talk about here on garden Line they're
going to have a tree hugger sprinkler.

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And I wouldn't plant a woody ornamental
without one, because you know, you're

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spending some money on a woody ornamental
plant, tree shrub, or woody vine

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or even a rosebush. But they're
great on roses. It just makes sense

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to take care of them and then
you have it for the next time you

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plant. I know people that have
larger trees, you know, maybe they're

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five years old and trunks getting a
little bigger, they'll put the TreeHugger on

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it for drought watering. And what
a great idea because we want to water

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the area be and just beyond the
branch spread tree huggers designed for just that

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kind of thing. I had some
folks call someone call yesterday about bees in

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a bird bath. I don't know
if you were listening if you remember that

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call, but they're just a lot
of little bees going into the bird bath

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to drink and get water. And
they put some little stones in there,

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which is a good idea because bees
literally can fall in water and drown.

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But if you have a little bit
of a like they can kind of wade

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down or step down to write the
water's edge and not you know, have

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to get in deep water when they're
drinking. It just works really well and

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it helps them, and I encourage
you. You know, we're putting water

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out for birds right now. We
need to be because I mean, gosh,

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can you imagine being outside without something
to drink and this kind of weather.

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Well, the same thing is true
for bees. And that reminds me.

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If you're interested at all mbes,
you need to check out the b

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Supply dot com. It's out there
in Dayton, Texas now. The b

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supply the two things if you interested
in beekeeping. They have bee classes once

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a month for beginners and they walk
you through everything. I mean they hold

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your hand. And that's another thing
I like about Paul. Those folks out

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there the Bee Supply. You buy
your stuff from him, You go home,

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you have problems, you come back, you call them, you talk

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to them, and they're patient and
they walk you through it because they understand

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that there's a learning curve. It
is a fun learning curve, but there

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is if you just are interested in
learning about bees, and you know,

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I don't know how to convince you
of this, but you are interested in

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learning about bees. When someone starts
to talk about the wonderful world to bees

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and the amazing things that they do, that just makes you shake your head.

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I found it. I didn't know
what I didn't know right, and

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I just was so interested as I
began to learn about bees many years ago.

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Well, they have free honey tours
out at the Bee Supply. It's

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about once a month and you can
just bring your group out there. Maybe

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you got a scouting group, a
homeschool kids, or civic organization at garden

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club. You get the idea.
The b Supply dot Com they're out in

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Dayton. Go to the b Supply
dot Com website. And you can find

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out more information and maybe contact them
and schedule a time to go out and

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learn about the wonderful world to bees. It is really cool and plus it's

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a fun shop to walk around look
at too well. Our phone number is

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seven one three two one two fifty
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two five eight seven four. I
was talking earlier about chinch bugs, and

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chinch bugs are a big summer pest
of the lawn. We sometimes get them

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a little earlier in the summer,
but they can really occur any time when

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the weather's warm. But I find
that often they have a really big generation

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that's built up by the time we
get to late summer, and that's when

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I see some of the worst damage
that they can cause. But you want

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to start early because if you wait
until you know you've got a five foot

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wide dead area, well, now, what are you gonna do? Plant

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grass back in there? I guess
to keep to get a lawn back right.

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You can catch this early if you're
watching, and I hope you are

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watching your lawns and just checking for
that. Don't assume ever brown spots a

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chinch bug, but just imagine that
little drought symptom. The sod webworm is

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another one that comes and goes around
here. Well, we have a bad

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year, then people panic and they
want a nucleard all summer the next year.

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And that's not necessary. I mean, you can put down things as

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a preventative for any insects if you
want to go that route. But you

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can also just wait and watch and
you'll see the little moths that are just

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flying around everywhere. You'll notice a
little chunk chomping damage on them. And

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when you see that, you just
go ahead and treat for it. And

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there's a lot of good products out
there if you want a place where you

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can just find pretty much everything you
might need for treating pests and diseases and

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weeds in your landscape. Ace Hardware
and I say that because there's ACE Hardware

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is near you. There's thirty nine
of them in the Greater Houston area,

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So if you're listening to this,
there's probably an ACE Hardware pretty close to

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you. You can go online to
ACE hardware dot com and find one.

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They have an awesome selection. Plus
they carry all the fertilizers I talk about

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here. They carry the soil mixes
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you know, for inside your home, for repairing something or building something,

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or maybe outdoor patio living. They've
got it at ACE Hardware dot Com.

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Love to go into those stores,
check one out and you'll see what

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I'm talking about. If you haven't
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decade or so, you haven't been
into an ACE hardware, you need to

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see the new ACE and just how
cool it is. We're going to go

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to the phones now again the number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four, and we are going
to talk to Joe in Kingwood. Hello,

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Joe, good morning. Skip.
Had a quick question for you regarding

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the tree hugger or a tree hugger
sprinklers. If if I'm wanting to plant

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several plants making a hedge, how
would I use a tree hugger sprinkler sprinkler

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for several plants there together? That's
that's a little more of a challenge.

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But what I think what you're going
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a whole bunch of tree huggers,
is put it around a plant, leave

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it for a little while, and
then move it to the next one.

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Then move it to the next one, because that each of those root balls

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then is getting cared for now.
I mean, if you have a hundred

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plants, you probably need a different
watering system, drip line or something else

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that you've set up to go all
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be as efficient as the tree hugger, but but it will work. But

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generally you're not gonna have to run
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know, you want to put on
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maybe two gallons of water. Depending
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It could be much larger, much
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put it there for a little while. Move it to the next one,

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Move it the next one. I
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I just set it because I get
out working in the yard and forget,

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forget I've left the water run in
somewhere. Roughly how many minutes would would

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get you two gallons? You know? That's that is a good question.

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It depends on how high you have
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one you have. They have a
seven inch eleven inch, and what's the

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largest size. I'm trying to remember
now, the largest size of them.

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I think it's anyway, it doesn't
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inch, that's the other side.
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more volume of water than the next
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just say, you know, I
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a trickle, because you just wanted
to water right there. And after a

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while you'll see the water soaking in
a little bit, and you know,

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you'll know that you've done it.
You can take a screwdriver and if you

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push a long, straight, a
long handled screwdriver straight down in the soil,

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especially if us, if you have
a Claye type soil, it'll go

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right through moist soil like through butter. And then when you hit heart soil,

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it's concrete. And so that's your
little depth measuring device. It's really

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easy with a screwdriver to know how
deep you've wet. And you want to

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wet about eight eight inches deep when
you water six months? And do you

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have to use the old fashioned regular
type pose or can you use those collapsible

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hoses that have you know, a
valve where you can turn it on and

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off. Oh, you can use
any kind of hose you want. Yeah,

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Okay, yeah, it doesn't matter. The only problem with the collapsibles

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is sometimes they shrink up, and
so it's gonna drag your tree hugger across

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the yard. Maybe as a little
valve there at the end where you can

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you turn it on and off,
right there next to where the tree hugger

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would be. Okay, yeah,
well that's good. Normally you hook it

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up to a hose and you turn
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has its own valve and you turn
turn the water on. Then you can

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turn that on and determine. You
know, you don't have to sit there

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and get a shower while you're trying
to adjust things. You can go back

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to the faucet and turn it on. So I hope that helps. Thank

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you Skip forciate the help you bet
have fun out there in Kingwood. Appreciate

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the call. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two five eight

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seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seven. Before I was

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talking about the fact that birds need
water and we really need to be taking

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care of our birds. It,
I mean, it's a really big deal

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when water becomes scarce because not a
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I mean, they may find a
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but they need some help. We
want them to hang out at our

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yard and we love the beautiful songbirds
and things that we have, and you

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need water to do that. And
if you're interested in more bird information and

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more bird product, you need to
check out a wild Birds Unlimited. Now

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we've got seven of them around the
Greater Houston area. You can go to

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wild Birds Unlimited. It's excuse me, WBU dot com. That's what WBU

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stands for. WBU dot com Forward
slash Houston and their seeds, the feeders,

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the houses, that just the knowledge
walking in there and saying, hey,

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this is going on, can you
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talking about. And by the way, I'm going to have a Rich Eddie

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from wild Birds Unlimited on on the
eight o'clock hour today. I almost forgot

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to tell you that he's going to
be here answering bird questions. So if

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you have any kind of wall bird
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call in the eight o'clock hour.
We're going to kind of set that

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aside just to visit with Rich and
learn a whole lot about birds. But

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in the meantime right down WBU dot
com forward slash Houston and you can check

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out their wonderful website and learn a
whole lot of cool stuff. I believe

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we're gonna have to go to a
break here. It's about that time,

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so Chuck, we will come to
you first thing after the break. Right

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now, I just won't give you
the number for you to give Ryan a

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call and get on the board seven
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four. Don't ask me why I'm
going to Texas calls a reason, I

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just don't know. But I've got
a little gown down in Houston, and

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I've got lots of friends in San
Anton, Oh. I love a little

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sleep at the wheel some Western swing. Well, good Sunday morning. You

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are listening to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Wrector, and we're

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here to answer your gardening questions.
Hey, if you have not fertilized your

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lawns, and I don't know how
you would have gotten to this point not

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fertilizing them yet, because I talk
about it all the time, but your

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summer fertilization is an important one.
You just need something that's going to provide

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that boost to carry on into the
summer. And a good option for that

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is to do the one two punch
of the Microlife Green plus Purple. You

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remember that. That's I love colored
bags because it's easy. Rather than all

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these names and numbers. Green plus
Purple Green is the sixty four It is

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the standard Microlife fertilizer. I mean, you know, I know, lawns

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is what we think of when we
think of sixty four Microlife. But you

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can use it on all kinds of
things. I use it all over the

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place, sixty four green bag.
And then combine that with a follow it

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with rather an application of the Humates
plus the purple bag. Now, the

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purple bag is concentrated compost in a
bag. That's what humates plus is.

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It's just think of concentrated composts that
you're putting out. You're adding organic matter,

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you're adding nutrients, you're adding biologically
stimulating. In fact, both of

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these contain micro microbiology that will stimulate
your root system plus like over sixty three

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essential nutrients. If you'll learn more, just go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com.

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That's a great website. You can
find out more about these products,

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and you can find out where to
get microlife, which is pretty much ever

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where you shop. If you're listening
to the places we talk about on Guardenline,

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the vast majority of those are going
to have microlife as well. Well,

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let's head out to Sugarland and we're
gonna talk to Chuck. Good morning,

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Chuck, Good morning. How you
doing. I'm well, thanks?

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What's up? Hey? Recently install
a swimming pool and I was thinking about

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installing one of those backyard mister systems
for mosquito repellents. I just want to

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know if you had any experience with
the effectiveness of those and keeping away mosquitos

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in a relatively small area. Yeah, they can be very effective for that.

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Mosquitoes like to like sit in the
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and that you know, when we
go out in the evening, when it's

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finally time for us to go out, that's also time when the mosquitoes love

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to go out there out all day. But you know, basically they're hiding

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there and those systems coming off the
eaves or dealing with that the I think

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it can be effective. And you
know, there's a lot of strategies.

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Number one, don't leave standing water
around your property. You're breeding your own

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mosquitoes there, and mosquitoes are going
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But you do have a bunch that
hang out at your place, and those

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systems will work pretty well on that, thank you. Yeah. Sure.

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And by the way, if you
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but Scott, they do those systems
there as well. I mean,

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they do all pest control inside and
outside the house, but they also can

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install some of those systems. I
was visiting with him about that the other

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day, asking and they use a
product that's very effective, but that it

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dries and it it kind of goes
away, if you will, in terms

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of being toxic or anything like that. So it's not like you're just putting

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out something that's killing, killing,
killing for a long time and you don't

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you don't want that with one of
those systems. And Scott knows how to

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do all that. Well. Great, thanks a lot, all right,

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thank you very much. Yeah.
Hey, if you want somebody that knows

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about insects, Scott McGrath is that
guy. I mean he is. He

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eats it, sleeps and drinks that
whole world. And by the way,

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you can call him if you want
two eight, one four six, nine

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eighty two forty, or just go
to McGrath pest Control McGr at h McGrath

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pest control dot Com and they can
get you set up if you want an

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outdoor system like that. If you
want to do something, maybe you got

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roaches, or you're worried about termites, or you name it, they can

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take care of all of it.
Well, let's set out to Liberty and

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we're gonna talk to Tracy now.
Good morning Tracy, Good morning Skip.

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I've got a question. I planted
a brown turkey big tree about four years

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ago in a corner of the yard
and it doesn't get them up light and

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it never has done well. And
I plan on digging it up this fall

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and transplant it somewhere else. I'm
just trying to get an idea how big

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a root ball area that I should
try to dig up. You know,

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you don't have to worry a lot
about that. Figs are just easy.

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I mean you literally, I've taken
dormant fig branches, cut them off,

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stuck them in the ground under the
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moist, and they rooted. So
they're pretty easy to do. I would

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get a little bit maybe if you
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the sides. What I do,
Tracy, when I do that, is

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I'll like cut around the plant and
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a good sharp flat shovel, and
then slide a tarp under there and then

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cut the other side. And you
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tarp and drag it. I mean, it's almost effortless to drag it on

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a tarp. And if you go
picking it up, the soil's falling off

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and your chiropractors getting excited because they
found a way to pay for the kids

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college. You be in there for
a few times. So I like to

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use the tarp just to move them. If it's a good sized tree,

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would October be a good month to
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if it can't wait longer. The
thing about figs is that they're coal tender.

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They're not fully hardy. Here we
can get we can get freezes on

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a very cold winter, and so
you know, doing a transplant like that

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that late, that tree is not
going to be as acclimated as one that

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was just sitting there in the ground. And so I'm a little hesitant about

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that, but if you can provide
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get down in the mid teens or
something, for sure, you're going to

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need to throw a cover over it. But if you can wait until spring,

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when the weather starts to warm up, that's a little better time.

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hard freeze. That would work too, because I'm in no hurry to move

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it. I mean it's surviving.
It just doesn't get enough light to get

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any hike to it. There you
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sounds like, hey, when you
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digg and check the roots and see
if they look normal or if they're naughty

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kind of bumps on them, like
a snake that swallowed a rabbit. And

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you know that kind of bumping the
root that may be a sign of that

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is a sign of nematodes, and
that's another reason why a fig wouldn't be

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thriving. So you just want to
make sure and check that because that's a

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whole other issue. Okay, all
right, thank you very much. A

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good day. Yes, sir Tracy, I appreciate your call. Thank you

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very much for that. Hey,
if you've thought about getting you a little

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tractor to take care of your property. You know, we used to have

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a property up in Willis. I
actually had a little orchard and things up

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there, and I had an old
tractor that well, let's just put it

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this way. Every time I went
to start it, it was like I

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was doing a major repair. I
escorting stuff in it and everything trying to

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get the darned thing to start.
A nice new Caboda. Oh my gosh,

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I wish I had had access to
one like the Caboda L twenty five

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oh one that is at Lansdown Moody. And by the way, they've set

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up a deal this summer. It's
continuing now. I don't know how they're

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doing this, but it's zero down, zero percent interest for eighty four months.

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That's a long time. I mean, if there's ever a time to

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get a good deal on a Caboda, this certainly is it. Now.

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You know, with Caboda, you've
got versatility, you've got the performance you

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can hook up to put in a
front endloader or you know, a shredder

410
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on the back, whatever you need
to do. The kinds of work you

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need to do around the place they
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Caboda Tractor and Lansdowne Moody that is
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Well, our phone number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy

417
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four seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Marty, you're

418
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gonna be first when we come back
for right now. We're gonna take a

419
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little break and we look forward to
visiting with you on the other side.

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Well, you're probably thinking where's Simon
and Garfocal, So I'll tell you where

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they are. They have set aside
and let the Lemonheads come on the stage,

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the Lemon Hits. Can you believe
that? Is that an appropriate song

423
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for this show? Just remembering our
friend Randy a little bit there with some

424
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music. I liked their version of
it too. By the way, Hey,

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

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445
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It's not something you set on your
roof. It is your roof.

446
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And they are so cool. You
got to check that out. We're gonna

447
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head out to Fairfield now and we're
gonna talk to Marty Well, Good morning,

448
00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:42.440
Marty morning skip. Nice to hear
Ryan on the phone. Yeah,

449
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I want to put down after all
this drought and watering the yard. I

450
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have a purple bagot at microlife or
has to grow for long, and I'm

451
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wondering which one I should do.
Well, if you've got the purple microlife

452
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and the high to grow, you
can do them both. Because the purple

453
00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.839
purple microlife is humates, that's humates
plus. So basically that's like putting concentrated

454
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:11.319
compost on your lawn. Now,
the has to grow is going to have

455
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the nitrogen, phosphorotassium, the three
numbers. It's more of a fertilizer in

456
00:31:15.799 --> 00:31:21.160
and of itself. Okay, and
so that that would be something you could

457
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do them both, which are the
what is the do you have numbers on

458
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that has to grow? No,
it's just it's just the one for the

459
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yard, okay. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to get them, trying

460
00:31:33.559 --> 00:31:37.319
to get those numbers in my head
right now. Yes, I would do

461
00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:40.960
the has to grow as a summer
fertilizer. If you haven't fertilized the summer,

462
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:42.799
have you have you flised? No? I yes, I have.

463
00:31:44.079 --> 00:31:48.400
I fertilized in early April with the
nineteen four ten and I did the fifteen

464
00:31:48.480 --> 00:31:53.440
five ten back in a late February, and then so I thought I'd do

465
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a slow release now after all this
drought, Well you can, yeah,

466
00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:04.200
you do that. That would be
because April that was what over ninety days

467
00:32:04.200 --> 00:32:08.039
April made June, well it was
mid aprils something. Yeah, and then

468
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:15.119
Hut has to go first, and
then the purple Bag Microlife after. Yeah,

469
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it doesn't matter the order on those. You can do one or the

470
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other, either one. But yeah, the Microlife's gonna be going after a

471
00:32:21.960 --> 00:32:25.200
different thing. With a Microlife purple
Bag, You're you're looking for the microbes

472
00:32:25.240 --> 00:32:30.359
you're looking for. Giving that organic
matter on the soil of the granules,

473
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and for all the different things that
are in a humid type product, there's

474
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a lot. Okay, well,
plans for all season. Yeah, they

475
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said that would be a good transition
to go into organics if I was scoring

476
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.759
too, Yeah, that is,
that's a good one. And I wanted

477
00:32:45.799 --> 00:32:47.839
to make a comment. You were
talking to a lady with the bees in

478
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the fountain yesterday and then you mentioned
it. It was funny because I thought

479
00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:57.200
they were I have a new little
fountain that squirts water out of the top.

480
00:32:57.759 --> 00:33:01.079
I thought they were building a nest
in there. Oh yeah, I

481
00:33:01.119 --> 00:33:06.920
mean there there are a ton of
these bees, a little tiny bees yere

482
00:33:07.279 --> 00:33:12.119
they're and so they're drinking the water. They are they have got to have

483
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water. And I mean you if
you have a little drip irrigation system,

484
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you'll find them gathered around the hole
in a drip irrigation line drinking the waters

485
00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.319
that comes out. Uh. They've
got to have a lot of water to

486
00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.799
survive. And uh, you know
here, think about this. If you're

487
00:33:24.839 --> 00:33:28.480
a bee, I mean there's a
little little bitty thing you're probably flying a

488
00:33:28.559 --> 00:33:32.559
quarter mile from somewhere to go find
a flower. And you can't just go

489
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run to a water fountain somewhere across
town, right, I mean, you

490
00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:40.759
know, it's quite an expenditure of
energy to go find water. And so

491
00:33:40.839 --> 00:33:45.000
when we put it in our yards, they're going to come there. When

492
00:33:45.039 --> 00:33:46.720
when they have flowers and water in
our yard, I mean, they're going

493
00:33:46.759 --> 00:33:51.279
to hang out. And that's what
we want. That is what we want.

494
00:33:51.440 --> 00:33:54.079
Well, I keep it filled and
clean. I just was really surprised

495
00:33:54.119 --> 00:33:58.319
because I've never seen it until I
got this fountain. It's just a little

496
00:33:58.359 --> 00:34:00.880
tiny fountain that squirts a little bit
of water out. That's right. And

497
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anyways, it's good. Okay,
Well, thank you and enjoy listening to

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you. Well, thanks very much. I appreciate that. Okay, I

499
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:15.039
appreciate that. You know, if
you are wanting to put a fertilizer down

500
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for the summer time to carry you
on through and last through on end to

501
00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:27.880
the fall time, that's a true
long term slow release. Nitrofis has got

502
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their wonderful silver bag, right,
Remember the silver bag of Nitrofis. I

503
00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:35.559
mean we talk about it a lot. It's easy to remember. It's super

504
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:39.039
turf. It's nineteen four ten,
and the nutrients in that gradually release over

505
00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:43.039
time. So if you if you
use it now, you're going to still

506
00:34:43.079 --> 00:34:45.159
have a little bit available as we
go through August and even into the early

507
00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:50.519
part of September. It's gonna it's
gonna release out slowly. And that's important

508
00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:55.559
because a chinch bugs love alon that
is lush and just grow overgrowing, you

509
00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:58.760
know. I mean, it's just
like you're having to mow it every other

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00:34:58.840 --> 00:35:00.800
day to try to keep it down. That kind of fertilizing is not what

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you want to do. You want
to gradual feed over time. The same

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00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:07.760
is true a large patch which we
used to call brown patch, that hits

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in the cool season. Over fertilizing
just aggravates the problem. Plus those brown

514
00:35:13.239 --> 00:35:15.599
circles are a lot easier to see
in a dark, dark green lawn.

515
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Nitrofoss nineteen four ten. Everywhere Nitrofoss
is sold, places like our Ace hardware,

516
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:27.920
places like the garden centers we talk
about here, Nitrofoss is an excellent

517
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:31.719
choice for carrying through that long time
summer feed well. Our phone number is

518
00:35:31.760 --> 00:35:37.480
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. We are getting close

519
00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:42.719
here to a break, and if
you want to give Ryan a call.

520
00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:46.920
He can get you online and we'll
be ready to go whenever we come back

521
00:35:47.079 --> 00:35:53.079
from our break. If you are
looking for something that transforms a flower bed,

522
00:35:53.199 --> 00:35:57.400
let's say, or a vegetable gardener, herb garden, whatever you're going

523
00:35:57.480 --> 00:36:00.480
after, you need to look at
the one two three completely easy system.

524
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Now, this is an arburgate combo
of products. It's got a food that

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feeds anything that really that's got roots
that you need. It's an organic food.

526
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It's a four four three plus ten
percent calcium, so you've got a

527
00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:20.559
good blend of nutrients there for helping
plants get a good root system if they're

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flowering plants to create flowers and so
on. Plus it just is filled with

529
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microbes as well, like you would
expect from an organic product. They've got

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00:36:30.119 --> 00:36:34.639
a soil complete, organic soil complete. It's got composts, it's got very

531
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:39.000
large particle sand and expanded shale.
So not only is it enhancing as a

532
00:36:39.079 --> 00:36:45.960
soil material, but it's gonna last
a while because that shale holds the clay

533
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:51.440
particles apart and it just helps keep
them open even long after the organic material

534
00:36:51.639 --> 00:36:55.360
has decomposed away. And then finally
the organic compost complete and again two kinds

535
00:36:55.360 --> 00:37:02.280
of composts, tons of microbial diversity
and something like the organic compost complete plus

536
00:37:02.360 --> 00:37:08.320
again expanded shale and in our clay
soils, continued use of expanded shale just

537
00:37:08.440 --> 00:37:14.760
helps them get better and better with
their internal drainage as we go over time.

538
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That is a super one two three
compost from Arbourgate. You can go

539
00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:22.960
online to Arbourgate dot com and learn
more about it if you'd like, or

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00:37:22.039 --> 00:37:25.000
if you've got some time this afternoon, just head right out there to Arbourgate

541
00:37:25.039 --> 00:37:29.480
and get some yourself and let them
tell you more about it. And plus,

542
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when you get out there, you
got you know, if it's warm

543
00:37:31.800 --> 00:37:35.400
and you've done with your plant shop
and you got to go in and check

544
00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:39.320
the gift shops. They have,
oh my gosh, unbelievable all kinds of

545
00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:43.239
bling. And if you've got somebody
you're needing to buy a gift for,

546
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:45.639
that's a great idea. I mean, they have a lot of cool stuff,

547
00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:50.280
a lot of garden bling. If
you will out there at the Arbourgate.

548
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:53.679
Well, we are going to take
a break here and let the news

549
00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:59.039
fly. I think I will be
back in just a bit. Our phone

550
00:37:59.079 --> 00:38:05.159
number in the meantime is seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four

551
00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:08.199
seven one three two on two fifty
seventy four. We appreciate you being a

552
00:38:08.280 --> 00:38:12.719
listener today, appreciate more of you
be a caller. I'd love to hear

553
00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:15.719
from you. Answer your gardening questions. Ryan will get you on the board

554
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:29.519
and when we come back, you
will be the first step. KTRH Garden

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

556
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Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with skip
rictor just watching. Well, good

557
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morning, and oh it's a beautiful, beautiful Sunday morning out there. Beautiful

558
00:38:55.519 --> 00:39:00.719
day for gardening, that's for sure. Well, I just you know,

559
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:02.639
we get a lot of questions about
things that are wrong with my lawn.

560
00:39:02.719 --> 00:39:06.280
That's like one of the top to
the two teas, trees and turf,

561
00:39:06.320 --> 00:39:08.119
actually three if you want to throw
in toomatos. That's what make the phone

562
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:14.599
ring around here. But our lawn
right now there. They are needing adequate

563
00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:19.280
moisture in order to survive in this
drought, and that's something that it just

564
00:39:19.320 --> 00:39:22.119
doesn't come naturally to folks to know
how to do that. And here's what

565
00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:25.719
happens. You want to squirch your
lawn every day with a little bit of

566
00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:29.800
water, and that does not wet
the soil deeply. If it does wet

567
00:39:29.800 --> 00:39:32.000
it deeply, you really are creating
a swamp by doing that every day.

568
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:37.400
But it wastes water because think about
this. The first part of your water

569
00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:42.079
cycle is wetting the leaves and the
thatch. And then as the water keeps

570
00:39:42.159 --> 00:39:46.079
going, it's running down and getting
into the soil and starting to soak in.

571
00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:50.239
And as it keeps going, you're
getting a good deep soaking, which

572
00:39:50.280 --> 00:39:52.679
is the goal, a good deep
soaking. So if you take one inch

573
00:39:52.719 --> 00:39:55.679
of water that you're going to spend
your money on and apply to your lawn

574
00:39:57.079 --> 00:40:00.880
and you put it out in four
one quarter inch, you're gations. All

575
00:40:00.920 --> 00:40:04.840
you've done is contribute to the humidity
of Houston and the diseases of your lawn.

576
00:40:05.599 --> 00:40:07.199
If you put all that one inch
down on one day, you may

577
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:09.159
have to water a little, let
it soak, water, a little,

578
00:40:09.199 --> 00:40:13.800
let it soak. Then that water
is in the soil bank account and the

579
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:15.840
money you spent is now helping your
law and long time, and that's what

580
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:19.760
we're raiming for so, how do
you know when to water? Though?

581
00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:23.199
Well, there's an app. This
app is so cool. It's called water

582
00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:29.840
my Yard. Now you can go
online to water my yard dot org and

583
00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:32.239
find out more about it. Or
if you have an Apple Phone, the

584
00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:36.440
App stores got it. If you
have an Android, the Google play Stores

585
00:40:36.480 --> 00:40:39.639
got it. It's a free app
and it's a free service, and you

586
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:43.519
just have to tell them some things
like this kind of sprinklers I got.

587
00:40:43.519 --> 00:40:46.480
This is this is my roughly who
am I addressed? Because what they're gonna

588
00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:50.119
do is they're gonna find the nearest
weather station. Do you know there's a

589
00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:52.599
lot of little mini weather stations all
over the area. It finds the one

590
00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:59.119
closest to you, and that weather
station takes data and it turns it into

591
00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:04.039
it's time to water data like the
solar radiation, the wind speed, the

592
00:41:04.119 --> 00:41:08.320
temperature, the humidity and so on. And I got a text this past

593
00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:13.960
week you need to put point five
eight inches of water in your lawn this

594
00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.000
week. That's how much it used. So it makes so much sense to

595
00:41:16.159 --> 00:41:21.639
water according to what the lawn has
used, rather than just saying, well

596
00:41:22.360 --> 00:41:23.480
I'm going to put an inch on
you know, or whatever. I mean

597
00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:27.840
you need to water. According to
that Water my Yard just a great app

598
00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:30.719
so again, water my yard dot
org. Check it out. I mean,

599
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:32.960
you'll try it out, play with
it for a while. I think

600
00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:38.280
you'll find you really really like it. We're gonna head over to near Woodway

601
00:41:38.360 --> 00:41:45.480
and talk to David. Hello,
David mornings Kip, Thank you. Bottom

602
00:41:45.480 --> 00:41:50.639
line three questions are type of mulsh
to buy, when to plant, whether

603
00:41:50.639 --> 00:41:54.199
I'm doing before mulch, after mulsh
and during the summer heat and then show

604
00:41:54.280 --> 00:42:00.480
up put a newspaper down before the
mulsh. I got this small arden out

605
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:05.119
in front of my front yard window, and it's growing these and there's kind

606
00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:09.280
of another question in there too about
application of a fungus side. But it's

607
00:42:09.280 --> 00:42:15.000
got the thick clay soil, a
lot of sunlight in the morning and growing

608
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:20.320
for twenty years. Has been about
has been a foxsale fern and an agapanthus

609
00:42:20.360 --> 00:42:25.239
and some other unknown kind of big
bushy leapy plant. And I had some

610
00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:30.639
dwarf farrogated Pittus form I planted there
many years ago, but they died from

611
00:42:30.639 --> 00:42:37.559
a soil fungus. And I bought
the anti fungus side, but just was

612
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:42.360
not confident enough to put it on, and they all died. I removed

613
00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:45.960
him and it's just been a weed
bed. So I've finished weating, and

614
00:42:46.239 --> 00:42:52.400
after listening to Randy and you for
a while, I've got confidence to start

615
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:59.480
doing this stuff. And I've been
recommended several different plants, and I'm at

616
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:02.920
the weeds are gone and it's time, I think for the mulch. Okay,

617
00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:08.559
good well for annual weeds, especially
except for nutsedge. That's a perennial,

618
00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:14.239
and that is one that the paper
doesn't work on putting down four to

619
00:43:14.400 --> 00:43:16.960
six sheets of newspaper. The wetting
it. You gotta wet it right away

620
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:21.960
so it sticks down, it doesn't
fly away in the slightest breeze, and

621
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.920
then overlap the next piece a couple
inches. Wet it immediately after you lay

622
00:43:24.920 --> 00:43:28.960
it. Just have a little sprayer
there. You squirt it with your garden

623
00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:31.800
hose and then put mulch on top. That works just fine. That blocks

624
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:36.480
the light out very very well,
and it will decompose over the course.

625
00:43:36.679 --> 00:43:38.400
You know, halfway through the season
that paper is pretty much gone. If

626
00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:44.800
it's underneath, underneath a covering of
mulch, it decays pretty quick. But

627
00:43:44.840 --> 00:43:47.760
it is a good light blocking option. But you can also just put a

628
00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:52.599
good quality mulch down. I would
consider like a shredded hardwood mulch for most

629
00:43:52.639 --> 00:43:55.960
situations. Now, when you start
to use things that are chunky woody,

630
00:43:57.320 --> 00:44:00.920
you gotta watch because those it's easy
to punch a hole that wet paper,

631
00:44:00.079 --> 00:44:05.920
and so it kind of you sort
of lose the effect of the paper's light

632
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:09.039
blocking ability. But you can go
with or without the paper. A shredded

633
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:12.559
hardwood is a good one. There
are lots of good mulchus out there.

634
00:44:12.599 --> 00:44:16.239
I mean, leaf mold compost makes
a mulch even but I think for what

635
00:44:16.320 --> 00:44:22.079
you're describing for longer term, I
would use as a shredded hardwood mulch.

636
00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:25.360
But again, there are many options. It's not it's kind of hard to

637
00:44:25.400 --> 00:44:31.119
go wrong with mulch unless you buy
that dyed mulch or the recycled rubber tire

638
00:44:31.199 --> 00:44:36.480
malts or some of those things that
shouldn't even be on the market. And

639
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:39.880
where should I plant before the multure, after the mulch. I would plant

640
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:44.079
and then mulch. It's just easier
to get in the hole, do what

641
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:46.679
you need to do, and then
put the mulch in around it. And

642
00:44:46.719 --> 00:44:50.760
if you're if you've got some little
you're probably gonna have some little annual weeds

643
00:44:50.760 --> 00:44:52.760
that have sprouted in that time.
If you put a like two or three

644
00:44:52.800 --> 00:44:57.079
inch layer a mulch that we're light
cannot get to the surface of the soil,

645
00:44:57.199 --> 00:45:01.719
it'll kill those weeds. Okay,
um, And what about planting during

646
00:45:01.719 --> 00:45:06.840
the summer heat, Well, you
know you can, but you just have

647
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:09.960
to be extra careful to water each
little plant each day right at the base

648
00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:14.000
because that's where all the roots are, and so it's kind of touching go.

649
00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:15.599
You don't want it to be soggy
wet, but you don't want it

650
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:20.519
to dry out. And that's the
challenge of summer planting. But it can

651
00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:24.119
be done. It absolutely can be
done. Okay, should I put that

652
00:45:24.159 --> 00:45:30.360
fungicide down since it was there,
since the fungus problem was there? No

653
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:36.840
a those Now you're not gonna that's
not gonna be an effective attempt to try

654
00:45:36.880 --> 00:45:40.280
to pre treat a fungicide like that. Okay, very good, Well,

655
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:44.760
thank you so much. Yeah,
there are some yeah, there are some

656
00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:46.840
root right issues. Sorry to interrupt
your day, there's some root right issues

657
00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:51.719
that but that you deal with those
by not keeping the salt too saturated.

658
00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:53.280
And if you have to, you
can come in later with a drench a

659
00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:58.000
fundicide, but it's probably not going
to be needed. Good. Good,

660
00:45:58.159 --> 00:46:00.559
glad to hear that. Okay,
well, thank you so much. You

661
00:46:00.639 --> 00:46:04.280
have a wonderful time, you too, Thank you. I appreciate that very

662
00:46:04.320 --> 00:46:07.679
much. Appreciate your call. Yeah, they're you know, mulching is just

663
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:10.039
so important and it's such an easy
deal to do. I mean, it

664
00:46:10.079 --> 00:46:15.360
really is, it really is.
You know, if you anytime that you

665
00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:20.400
get a chance to redo the soil, you need to add a little compost,

666
00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:23.360
You need to add a little perhaps
some fertilizer in many cases, and

667
00:46:23.400 --> 00:46:27.599
there's there's a lot of good brands
and stuff out there when you're taking care

668
00:46:27.599 --> 00:46:30.360
of your lawn that you know.
Again, the summer fertilization is one to

669
00:46:30.440 --> 00:46:35.119
help carry you through until fall.
But remember in the summer, don't use

670
00:46:35.119 --> 00:46:37.480
a fast release. You want a
slow release. And Nelson Plat Food,

671
00:46:37.519 --> 00:46:42.719
for example, they make a wonderful
slow release called slow and Easy twenty two

672
00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:45.679
two ten. Those are the three
numbers, twenty two two ten. Slow

673
00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:51.800
and Easy is just like the name
in first it's going to gradually give up

674
00:46:51.880 --> 00:46:54.599
the nitrogen over time. So if
you get a gully washer rain with a

675
00:46:54.639 --> 00:46:59.199
fast release, it's just going to
wash your nutrients away. If you use

676
00:46:59.199 --> 00:47:02.360
a slow release, whatever nutrients have
just been leaked out may wash away,

677
00:47:02.440 --> 00:47:07.480
but there's a lot more still there
waiting to gradually release over time. So

678
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:10.639
it just makes sense. I love
Nelson Slow and Easy twenty two two ten

679
00:47:10.760 --> 00:47:15.559
fertilizer. It provides that gradual feeding, so you're not having that flush of

680
00:47:15.559 --> 00:47:19.119
oh my gosh, I got a
mow every day because I fertilize the heck

681
00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:22.679
out of my lawn. No,
it's gradual. The root system is going

682
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:27.159
to be deeper because you're not pushing
the top to fast fast growth. And

683
00:47:27.440 --> 00:47:30.760
a deeper root system means more resilience
against scrubs. It means a plant that's

684
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:35.760
just going to be resilient in general, and it'll carry you all the way

685
00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:37.400
into fall. That's the Nelson Plant
Food. You can find it all over

686
00:47:37.440 --> 00:47:42.480
the place, and Nelson Plant Food
is an excellent brand with lots of different

687
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:45.480
fertilizers and for summer on your law
and the Slow and Easy is all you

688
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:49.519
need to know. All right,
We're gonna head out to League City and

689
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:54.000
talk to Jim. Hello Jim,
Hello Skip Skip. Really enjoy your program.

690
00:47:54.079 --> 00:48:00.119
I like all the details of the
explanations as you give for why we

691
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:05.280
do these things, and that adds
a lot to it. And the Skip.

692
00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:10.400
I have a couple of stock tanks
one foot sides on them and they're

693
00:48:10.440 --> 00:48:16.360
four foot long by two foot on
the bottom, and I used the jungle

694
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:23.000
land of soil in them last this
spring season, and it seemed like it

695
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:30.159
dried out so quickly, and I
was I had holes in the bottom of

696
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:36.320
the tank and I had gravel in
the bottom. Now I recall you saying

697
00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.880
not to use to gravel. So
after the tomato plants were done, I

698
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:46.239
took everything out and took the gravel
out and actually filled the holes in the

699
00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:53.199
bottom with some washers and bolts.
And it was thinking of drilling holes in

700
00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:59.440
the side up a couple of inches
so I may have a little reservoir for

701
00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:02.679
water that would wake up. And
I just wanted to get your opinion on

702
00:49:02.800 --> 00:49:06.960
this. All right. Well you
know what, Jim, I'm I'm against

703
00:49:07.000 --> 00:49:09.320
a heartbreak, So you hang on
and right when I come back, we

704
00:49:09.400 --> 00:49:14.199
will dive right into those stock tank
questions, and thank you for the call

705
00:49:14.519 --> 00:49:34.320
our phone number seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. Well,

706
00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:37.079
good morning on a beautiful Sunday morning. I don't know if you've looked

707
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:44.079
outside yet, but it is awesome, wonderful day. That's my favorite part

708
00:49:44.079 --> 00:49:46.000
of day, especially in summer.
Right we can get outside and actually get

709
00:49:46.039 --> 00:49:51.679
some things done. It's a beautiful, beautiful morning. Hey. I was

710
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:54.679
mentioning fertilizing a while ago, and
I realized I forgot to also mention the

711
00:49:54.760 --> 00:50:01.360
adding of additional micros and those nutrients
that are essential but are needed in very

712
00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:06.559
small amounts. And azamite is a
product that does just that. Now.

713
00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:12.440
Azamite is mined out of the ground
as a crushed mineral material that is loaded

714
00:50:12.760 --> 00:50:16.280
with trace elements also called micronutrients,
and we put it on our lawns.

715
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:20.719
Just do it occasionally. I mean
I typically will do it about once a

716
00:50:20.800 --> 00:50:22.360
year. But if your soil tests
would indicate, you know, we really

717
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:27.519
need more, you can add more
it. Don't think of it as a

718
00:50:27.599 --> 00:50:30.679
fertilizer in terms of I put it
down, it makes a grass grow faster.

719
00:50:30.519 --> 00:50:34.760
In what it does is it provides
the nutrients that are needed for growth.

720
00:50:34.800 --> 00:50:37.960
It's not nitrogen which makes a grass
grow faster, but it's nutrients that

721
00:50:38.039 --> 00:50:42.320
are equally important. And that's kind
of a hard thing to think about,

722
00:50:42.360 --> 00:50:45.239
you know, we're talking about here. I don't need much of it,

723
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:47.119
but it's important. Well, yeah, it's important because if you could take

724
00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:52.480
any one of the seventeen elements the
plants need to live and take it completely

725
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:54.480
out of the soil, the plant
couldn't live, and it couldn't grow,

726
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:59.519
it couldn't thrive, couldn't go through
the life processes that it has. So

727
00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:07.199
even something like manganese or molybdenum or
nickel, for crying out loud, those

728
00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:09.719
are essential for plant growth and so
we have to have them in our soil.

729
00:51:09.960 --> 00:51:13.599
Now, putting those down doesn't make
the grass start growing faster, it

730
00:51:13.639 --> 00:51:16.000
just makes the grass able to grow, and so we want them all balanced

731
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:20.559
and azamite does just that. You
can go to asomite Texas dot com find

732
00:51:20.559 --> 00:51:22.280
out more about it. But if
you haven't done it this year yet,

733
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:25.639
now it would be a good time
to go ahead and do it. We're

734
00:51:25.639 --> 00:51:30.239
gonna head back out now and finish, Jim. We're gonna continue that conversation

735
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:34.760
about the stock containers. I like
your idea putting the holes on the side,

736
00:51:35.079 --> 00:51:37.280
and sometimes I forget to tell people
that. But you know, those

737
00:51:37.280 --> 00:51:40.800
stock containers are flat on the bottom
for sure, right And when you set

738
00:51:40.840 --> 00:51:45.400
them on a clay soil, even
though you have holes, the water goes

739
00:51:45.400 --> 00:51:50.559
through those holes so slowly because the
clay can't take it in fast enough.

740
00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:54.639
And so when you put your excess
holes around the container, then when it

741
00:51:54.679 --> 00:51:58.239
feels, you know, it's getting
too much water. Rather than having an

742
00:51:58.280 --> 00:52:02.360
underground bathtub or you know, submerged
roots system, it just leaks out the

743
00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:07.920
sides. And I think that's a
good strategy that you have there. Well,

744
00:52:07.000 --> 00:52:13.039
these these tanks are elevated since I've
got some mobility problems. They are

745
00:52:13.079 --> 00:52:15.320
up about three feet high, so
I don't have to bend over. That's

746
00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:20.719
but it allows me to see how
fast the water runs out of them.

747
00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:23.239
As soon as I put the hose
on them and the tops off, well,

748
00:52:23.280 --> 00:52:28.000
it's just pouring out. So when
the holes were in the bottom like

749
00:52:28.039 --> 00:52:34.639
that, that's a great idea.
But you know, it works, it

750
00:52:34.719 --> 00:52:39.199
works really good, and um and
uh, it's just it's a little difficult

751
00:52:39.199 --> 00:52:44.480
to get around and to bend over
anymore, and now skip. I do

752
00:52:44.599 --> 00:52:51.400
have another problem. I put some
new trape myrtles out this year and I

753
00:52:51.599 --> 00:52:57.119
noticed I have a white scale on
one of them, and I was wondering,

754
00:52:57.639 --> 00:53:04.840
is this more susceptible to certain species
of creat myrtle. You know,

755
00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:07.960
they've they've done studies on that,
and I don't know that there have been

756
00:53:08.360 --> 00:53:15.320
any that we're discovered to be resistant
to the scale yet. I would have

757
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:17.159
to look into a little further.
But let's just say, for all practical

758
00:53:17.199 --> 00:53:21.079
purposes, pretty much all the create
morder you're going to buy around here,

759
00:53:21.280 --> 00:53:24.840
I would expect scale to be a
potential problem for them if you just put

760
00:53:24.880 --> 00:53:30.440
it in. What I would do
is use a product that contains one of

761
00:53:30.519 --> 00:53:35.840
two ingredients as a drench. You
mix it in water, and you drench

762
00:53:35.920 --> 00:53:37.960
it around the base of the plant. You just soak it in, you

763
00:53:38.000 --> 00:53:42.280
know, the bottom, let's say
a foot or two out in all directions

764
00:53:42.280 --> 00:53:45.400
from the plant. Just soak it
in. It takes it up in its

765
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:50.199
system, and the scale is sucking
juices out of the sap and it gets

766
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:52.840
the poison. It kills the scale. So something like a ladybug crawling over

767
00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:57.079
the top of the plant is not
going to be exposed to that chemical.

768
00:53:58.519 --> 00:54:01.000
And if you do, you have
a pen or pencil handy, Yes,

769
00:54:01.039 --> 00:54:07.039
I do. Okay, the first
one is dino tepherin like a dinosaur d

770
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:14.440
I N T E f U R
A N. And the second way,

771
00:54:14.559 --> 00:54:16.920
the second one is another systemic.
You don't need them both one or the

772
00:54:16.960 --> 00:54:24.880
other is in meadow cloprid I AM
I D O c l O p R

773
00:54:24.960 --> 00:54:30.559
I D. Now, what you
don't want is to have that craig myrtle

774
00:54:30.639 --> 00:54:35.480
blooming in the next six to eight
months after you've put that down, So

775
00:54:35.559 --> 00:54:37.320
now would be a good time.
It's a new plant. Any blooms that

776
00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:40.559
appear, just cut them off.
Let's get that plant growing and established and

777
00:54:40.639 --> 00:54:45.199
looking good and knock that scale out
right away, and then next summer it

778
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:49.280
can have its blooms on it,
because that chemical can get in the bloom

779
00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:54.000
pollen and nectar and effect bs and
we don't want to do that. Okay,

780
00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:58.679
Well, the bloom, yeah,
I've put them out in February and

781
00:54:58.840 --> 00:55:04.440
they have taken all they really they
really doubled in size and do have blooms

782
00:55:04.480 --> 00:55:07.960
on them right now. So go
ahead and clip those blooms. Would well,

783
00:55:08.119 --> 00:55:10.679
if you're going to use the systemic, i'd clip the blooms off.

784
00:55:12.800 --> 00:55:16.159
Now, okay, well we're talking
about clipping blooms. I have a couple

785
00:55:16.199 --> 00:55:22.559
of others NAT show so white that
had blooms on them. Now should I

786
00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:30.880
should I clip they? After the
bloom has disappeared? Should should I clip

787
00:55:30.960 --> 00:55:35.400
that off? And? And will
it bloom again? It generally will do

788
00:55:35.519 --> 00:55:39.480
okay if you get it early enough
that cutting off the end of the shoot

789
00:55:39.559 --> 00:55:43.760
with the blooms is kind of stimulating
for a new shoot to grow, and

790
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:46.000
you may get another bloom out of
it. It's it's kind of it's not

791
00:55:46.079 --> 00:55:51.000
like night and day difference and improvement. But you could try that and work.

792
00:55:51.039 --> 00:55:54.320
And that's just beautiful white one.
I love the cinnamon exfoliating bark on

793
00:55:54.440 --> 00:55:59.719
notches too. That's another plus.
Oh oh, they're so pretty exactly.

794
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:07.239
I had some at the house where
I have previously lived, and the booms

795
00:56:07.599 --> 00:56:12.400
were as big as my head.
Well, I'm a photo of one of

796
00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:15.119
them where I was standing next to
it. Yeah, that's a good one.

797
00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:19.440
Well, hey, Jim, I
really appreciate that call. I hope

798
00:56:19.480 --> 00:56:23.679
that helps well. It does,
and I'll take you advice and uh,

799
00:56:24.000 --> 00:56:29.800
and just keep keep up the good
work and let us know the reason we're

800
00:56:29.840 --> 00:56:32.599
doing things. Okay, all right, we'll try to do that. We'll

801
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:37.360
try to do that. There's a
there is a Southern gardening host. He

802
00:56:37.440 --> 00:56:42.320
does TV and other podcasting and other
things that he has a phrase I like

803
00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:45.400
it says he's going to tell you, let's see the why do behind the

804
00:56:45.480 --> 00:56:50.800
how to? I like that,
why do behind the I can tell you

805
00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:52.639
how to do it, but maybe
if I tell you why to do it,

806
00:56:52.639 --> 00:56:57.519
it'll make you a little better at
dealing with the problem because you'll understand

807
00:56:57.519 --> 00:57:00.719
a little bit more than just here
go spray that. You know. If

808
00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:02.920
you are looking for a hometown feed
store and you're in the Magnolia area,

809
00:57:04.039 --> 00:57:07.599
Spring Creek Feed is your hometown feed
store. They're just minutes away from Graham

810
00:57:07.639 --> 00:57:14.119
Parkway and Highway two forty nine.
They're on FM twenty nine seventy eight in

811
00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:16.920
Magnolia FM twenty nine seventy eight.
Now they're going to carry all the fertilizers

812
00:57:16.960 --> 00:57:20.639
I talk about there. They have
a lot of good supplies for things.

813
00:57:20.679 --> 00:57:22.599
Maybe you need a fund, decide
to herbicide, a pesticide, they've got

814
00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:28.760
that. Their staff of One of
the best things about a quality place like

815
00:57:29.159 --> 00:57:32.039
Spring Creek Feed is friendly, courteous
staff, you know, the kind of

816
00:57:32.039 --> 00:57:37.239
things you expect from the hometown kind
of service. They've got all the things

817
00:57:37.239 --> 00:57:42.199
a feed store has, of course, and they'll even special order products if

818
00:57:42.199 --> 00:57:45.800
you need it. So if you're
looking for gardening materials, if you're looking

819
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:49.639
for anything that you would expect from
a feed store, for lawn garden,

820
00:57:49.719 --> 00:57:53.639
for pond supplies, feeding your livestock, feeding your wildlife. Spring Creek Feed

821
00:57:53.880 --> 00:58:00.920
on Magnolia FM twenty nine seventy eight. Hair phone number is seven one three

822
00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:06.400
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

823
00:58:06.920 --> 00:58:13.119
seventy four. It's funny how phone
calls tend to come in waves, you

824
00:58:13.119 --> 00:58:16.199
know, I just like everybody out
there is timing themselves to everybody call at

825
00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:21.320
the same time. So I would
if I could arrange it, I would

826
00:58:21.360 --> 00:58:24.079
have them trickle in. It belong
an easier to work our way through.

827
00:58:24.360 --> 00:58:28.599
Hey, listen, if you're thinking
about retiring and you are a gardener,

828
00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:30.880
you need to know about the New
Dell web community. It's down in Fullsher

829
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:35.280
on FM three fifty nine, s
to less than two miles from downtown Fullsher.

830
00:58:35.800 --> 00:58:38.440
Dell Web bills communities for active adults
age fifty five and better. You

831
00:58:38.440 --> 00:58:42.559
know, we're not talking about where's
a retirement place where I can just sort

832
00:58:42.599 --> 00:58:45.079
of go out to pasture. We're
talking about place where I continue a lot

833
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:51.280
a very active, enjoyable lifestyle.
They have lifestyle programs designed around you.

834
00:58:51.280 --> 00:58:53.440
And if you're a gardener, guess
what this one has a community garden.

835
00:58:53.480 --> 00:58:55.760
I need to get back out.
I've been out there in a while.

836
00:58:55.800 --> 00:58:59.519
I need to go back out and
see this place again, see how things

837
00:58:59.519 --> 00:59:01.639
are coming. I've been helping it
with that community garden. And you know,

838
00:59:01.719 --> 00:59:06.280
the new Fosher community and the Dellweb
difference is something you're just going to

839
00:59:06.280 --> 00:59:07.920
have to discover for yourself. Don't
take my word for it. Go to

840
00:59:08.000 --> 00:59:13.119
dellweb dot com, slash Houston or
give him a call to eight one four

841
00:59:13.119 --> 00:59:17.480
to five nine zero six zero nine, and you can learn a lot more

842
00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:28.960
about Delweb. Really really cool,
first class quality community. When you're wanting

843
00:59:28.960 --> 00:59:30.519
to have a successful garden, when
you want to have a beautiful lawn,

844
00:59:30.639 --> 00:59:36.360
when you want to have healthy trees. When you want to have maybe vegetables,

845
00:59:36.360 --> 00:59:43.079
flowers and herbs, just remember that
everything begins with soil that supports good

846
00:59:43.079 --> 00:59:46.679
growth. That is the essential.
That is the key. You need to

847
00:59:46.719 --> 00:59:51.559
have that. And that good soil
means that it drains well, it means

848
00:59:51.559 --> 00:59:55.119
has good organic matter content, but
it also means that it's got good nutrient

849
00:59:55.199 --> 01:00:00.519
content. And good nutrient content is
important, especially when you're talking about perhaps

850
01:00:00.599 --> 01:00:05.840
a lawn. You know, the
folks at Nitroposts they created this thing called

851
01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:10.119
sweet Green. It's eleven percent eleven
zero four of the three numbers. And

852
01:00:10.239 --> 01:00:15.400
sweet green is an awesome product.
It's made out of a molasses that with

853
01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:21.360
a microbial activity in the molasses that
has caused the nutrient content to become what

854
01:00:21.440 --> 01:00:23.679
it is. And the cool thing
about it it smells good. You can

855
01:00:23.719 --> 01:00:27.199
put it out anytime. It's not
going to burn. You can't burn your

856
01:00:27.239 --> 01:00:30.079
lawn with it, and this is
a good time to do it. And

857
01:00:30.119 --> 01:00:32.039
the sweet green really you can use
it pretty much anytime you want, but

858
01:00:32.480 --> 01:00:37.920
summer is an excellent time. When
you give microbe sugar, it's like,

859
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:42.960
you know, it's like it's like
giving your toddlers sugar. At eight o'clock

860
01:00:43.000 --> 01:00:45.039
at night. They're bouncing off the
wall. They get real excited in the

861
01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:50.119
soil and they do what microbes do
and that's what our plant roots need and

862
01:00:50.280 --> 01:00:52.599
Sweet Green is that kind of product. So it's just part of their nitro

863
01:00:52.639 --> 01:00:57.320
FoST Summer Essentials program. I think
that you really need to give it a

864
01:00:57.320 --> 01:01:00.400
shot. Sweet Green's available all over
the place now. They got a great

865
01:01:00.480 --> 01:01:04.239
supply in. It was so popular
before that. It is almost like getting

866
01:01:04.280 --> 01:01:07.599
limited and availability. Well not anymore. Nitrofile Sweet Green. Hey, our

867
01:01:07.599 --> 01:01:13.239
phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Give Ryan

868
01:01:13.239 --> 01:01:15.480
a call, get you on the
board and we'll talk to you first thing,

869
01:01:15.559 --> 01:01:32.559
right after the news break. He
comes, Well, good morning here

870
01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:35.960
does come to the sun? Boy? It looks good out there. A

871
01:01:36.039 --> 01:01:38.079
good day to be out in the
garden. Good day to be listening to

872
01:01:38.159 --> 01:01:40.920
garden line. If you don't have
anything to do this afternoon, it's a

873
01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:45.360
good day to get out and visit. Some of our garden centers are excellent

874
01:01:45.400 --> 01:01:47.960
garden centers. We got all over
this this place. You are really fortunate

875
01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:52.559
here to have so many wonderful garden
centers. Hey, don't I just want

876
01:01:52.559 --> 01:01:55.840
to remind you that's starting at eight
o'clock, eight o'clock to nine o'clock hour,

877
01:01:57.480 --> 01:02:00.440
we're gonna have Rich Eddie from wild
Birds Unlimited. In so, if

878
01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:05.079
you have any questions about birds,
about caring for your birds, about types

879
01:02:05.119 --> 01:02:07.360
of feeders and birdhouses, and what
kind of birds do we have here,

880
01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:12.079
anything that you've got about birds,
this is the guy. This is your

881
01:02:12.159 --> 01:02:15.280
chance to pick an expert's brain and
get some good, good fun information.

882
01:02:15.320 --> 01:02:20.719
Because remember, birds are part of
that multi century experience in the gardens.

883
01:02:21.159 --> 01:02:25.280
You know, we visually we see
flowers and plants, we visually see birds,

884
01:02:25.280 --> 01:02:30.440
We smell fragrances from our plants,
and then we hear the beautiful songs

885
01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:34.760
of birds. And so it's a
multi century experience to really have a beautiful

886
01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:38.639
garden and get out there and in
joy it. If you are looking for

887
01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:45.599
a supply of anything you need for
your lawn and garden, that's Southwest Fertilizer.

888
01:02:45.960 --> 01:02:49.480
It's been a Houston tradition since nineteen
fifty five. They you know,

889
01:02:49.519 --> 01:02:52.039
they've sponsored garden lines since back in
the Dewey Compton days. I believe that

890
01:02:52.079 --> 01:02:55.400
I'm the fifth garden line host to
speak for him and Randy was here for

891
01:02:55.440 --> 01:03:00.960
like what twenty seven years, So
that's going way way back. Every kind

892
01:03:01.000 --> 01:03:05.840
of fertilizer I talk about, is
there, every kind of slow It's all

893
01:03:05.880 --> 01:03:09.800
there. They have their own Southwest
Premium Gold five ten slow release. There

894
01:03:10.960 --> 01:03:15.440
the biggest selection of herbicide and secticide
and fungicide in town. And you may

895
01:03:15.480 --> 01:03:19.079
say, well, I'm an organic
gardener. Well, they've got a great

896
01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:23.079
selection of organic products as well,
herbicide, sextide, fungicide like no other

897
01:03:23.079 --> 01:03:28.599
place in town. Garden tools,
I mean, they have plants outside for

898
01:03:28.639 --> 01:03:31.960
example, if you need a mower
sharpened. And best of all, their

899
01:03:32.039 --> 01:03:37.159
experts that know what they're talking about. Bob has put together a wonderful team

900
01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:39.960
of folks. You bring a sample
in, you bring a picture in,

901
01:03:40.360 --> 01:03:44.079
they'll take a look at it,
they'll know what it is, and they'll

902
01:03:44.079 --> 01:03:45.320
be able if you need a product, they'll be able to take you to

903
01:03:45.360 --> 01:03:50.840
one that works and tell you how
to use it. And that is invaluable.

904
01:03:50.960 --> 01:03:53.360
You know, to just go grab
something off a shelf because it has

905
01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:58.719
the deadest bug look on it in
some big box store, that doesn't mean

906
01:03:58.760 --> 01:04:00.920
that's the product you need. Really, that doesn't mean it's gonna work in

907
01:04:01.000 --> 01:04:05.320
your situation. That's why you need
a place like Southwest Fertilizer. So I

908
01:04:05.320 --> 01:04:09.599
hope you will check them out there
there, you know, Southwest Houston,

909
01:04:09.760 --> 01:04:14.559
corner of Bissinette and Renwick. Just
go on line Southwest Fertilizer dot com.

910
01:04:14.599 --> 01:04:16.719
You can find out where they are
and lots more information. Let's head out

911
01:04:16.719 --> 01:04:20.760
to Cyprus and we're gonna talk to
Ike. Good morning, Ike, thanks

912
01:04:20.760 --> 01:04:27.559
for holding Hi. Good morning.
I had a question. I was able

913
01:04:27.599 --> 01:04:32.320
to take out some grass from my
yard using a sod cutter. I've had

914
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:39.519
two inches on the I guess the
control, but I took that grass and

915
01:04:40.079 --> 01:04:44.840
visit to my daughter's house because she
was struggling from last year. Can you

916
01:04:44.880 --> 01:04:50.679
suggest water usage and how often should
I water that grass into a daily thirty

917
01:04:50.679 --> 01:04:55.079
minutes a day or what do you
suggesting? Well, at planting, you

918
01:04:55.119 --> 01:04:58.360
want to just put a little squirt
on it every day and it shouldn't take

919
01:04:58.360 --> 01:05:02.159
thirty minutes. You know you're putting
less than a quarter inch, right,

920
01:05:02.199 --> 01:05:04.679
you need this. It's best if
you water the sol before you put the

921
01:05:04.679 --> 01:05:08.320
grass down, so there's a bank
account under the ether there. That water

922
01:05:08.360 --> 01:05:11.320
will wick up and as the tree
roots are going down, they've already got

923
01:05:11.360 --> 01:05:14.400
something. So initially you need to
get a good soaking in the ground.

924
01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:18.320
But basically you're trying to take that
grass that doesn't have much roots because they

925
01:05:18.320 --> 01:05:23.440
were lost, most of them were
lost in the digging process, and you're

926
01:05:23.440 --> 01:05:26.480
trying to help it until it can
get the roots down. So i'd say

927
01:05:26.559 --> 01:05:30.000
daily, just to be oversimplified,
I'd say daily for a week, and

928
01:05:30.039 --> 01:05:34.000
then probably every other day for about
a week, and small amounts don't create

929
01:05:34.000 --> 01:05:40.360
a swamp, and then you can
probably start heading toward two times a week

930
01:05:40.440 --> 01:05:44.920
maybe and eventually or once or twice
a week schedule that we need to be

931
01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:47.239
on. But it should take a
couple of weeks to really get that thing,

932
01:05:47.519 --> 01:05:50.599
getting some roots down where you can
start to feel a little more confident

933
01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:55.599
about back and off. Sounds good, sounds good. I appreciate it.

934
01:05:55.679 --> 01:05:58.519
All right, Well, thank you, I appreciate the call. Yeah,

935
01:05:58.599 --> 01:06:02.199
it's it's a good It's always good
to think about, you know, the

936
01:06:02.199 --> 01:06:05.840
principle of plants when you're you know, you know grass needs water, but

937
01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:09.760
you know when like if let's say
you buy side it comes in, well,

938
01:06:09.760 --> 01:06:14.039
what a little half inch of clay
soil from the Gulf coast where it

939
01:06:14.079 --> 01:06:18.159
was dug up on a solid form
soil excuse me, side form, and

940
01:06:18.880 --> 01:06:24.079
so it's got almost no roots,
and so it doesn't need an inch of

941
01:06:24.119 --> 01:06:26.679
water, right, It just needs
a little bit. But it needs that

942
01:06:26.760 --> 01:06:30.199
little bit. I mean in one
day with the sun baking down one hundred

943
01:06:30.239 --> 01:06:34.599
degrees. I mean those that root
systems dry. And so that's why we

944
01:06:34.599 --> 01:06:39.960
give a little bit of water each
day, and we wean it and once

945
01:06:40.000 --> 01:06:44.840
it's established, you can wean it
back. I do not water my lawn

946
01:06:45.039 --> 01:06:46.519
much at all. I don't even
water. Some weeks, I don't even

947
01:06:46.599 --> 01:06:49.960
water at all. Many weeks I
don't water at all because I got a

948
01:06:50.039 --> 01:06:55.119
deep rooted, resilient grass plant.
For all the different practices you're gonna hear

949
01:06:55.199 --> 01:06:59.840
me talk about on garden Line,
from fertilizing to the way we water and

950
01:07:00.079 --> 01:07:03.320
on and on, you build a
grass plant that's resilient and you don't have

951
01:07:03.360 --> 01:07:06.360
to square drinking water on it every
other day to keep it alive. In

952
01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:11.199
fact, when you do that,
that's a little bit of a problem as

953
01:07:11.199 --> 01:07:16.159
well. So you're listening to Guardenline. Our phone number is seven one three

954
01:07:16.280 --> 01:07:19.000
two one, two, five,
eight, seven four. If you call,

955
01:07:19.760 --> 01:07:24.519
just be patient. Sometimes it may
wring a walk or Ryan's got He's

956
01:07:24.559 --> 01:07:28.360
like a one armed paper hanger back
there doing a lot of things at once.

957
01:07:28.440 --> 01:07:31.039
So but he will get to your
call, and just be patient hang

958
01:07:31.039 --> 01:07:34.000
on with him. Also, when
you call Ryan, just all he needs

959
01:07:34.039 --> 01:07:38.320
to know is your name, what
part of time you're from, and then

960
01:07:38.519 --> 01:07:42.719
just in a sentence or a half
sentence, what is your question about?

961
01:07:42.760 --> 01:07:45.079
You know, my questions about a
tree dying. It's an oak tree.

962
01:07:45.440 --> 01:07:48.599
Okay, That's all he needs to
know because he's not going to answer your

963
01:07:48.639 --> 01:07:51.679
questions, I am, but it
gives me some information to see kind of

964
01:07:51.679 --> 01:07:56.719
what your question is basically about,
and then that's very helpful. So I

965
01:07:56.760 --> 01:08:01.960
appreciate that I brag on our ACE
hardware stores all the time, and it's

966
01:08:02.039 --> 01:08:09.639
because just when you walk into an
ACE it is eye opening everything that they

967
01:08:09.679 --> 01:08:12.440
have. I mean, when I
grew up, a hardware store had a

968
01:08:12.480 --> 01:08:15.000
bunch of pipes, it had a
bunch of wires, and had a few

969
01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:18.319
lightbulbs and you know, and so
on. It was your basic hardware store.

970
01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:24.760
But now Aces it's got all that, but it's gotten so much more

971
01:08:25.039 --> 01:08:29.439
and you get that service, that
friendly, helpful associates that I just I

972
01:08:29.479 --> 01:08:32.600
can't stand going into a store where
I have to hunt down someone to help

973
01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:35.840
me. And when I talk to
them, I can tell the first five

974
01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:39.359
seconds of talking to them they are
not going to be able to answer this

975
01:08:39.439 --> 01:08:42.119
question. They're going to make something
up or give it their best shot.

976
01:08:42.640 --> 01:08:45.920
You need people that know what they're
talking about. ACE carries all the fertilizers

977
01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:48.279
we talk about. It carries you
know, just everything you need for your

978
01:08:48.279 --> 01:08:53.520
garden. I'm their pesticide selection.
If you need to do a herbicide or

979
01:08:53.560 --> 01:08:57.680
fungicide or insecticide, they've got it
there days. Go to ACE Hardware dot

980
01:08:57.680 --> 01:09:00.800
Com. That's the easiest way I
can think of to tell you. Go

981
01:09:00.840 --> 01:09:03.920
to ACE Hardware dot com and go
to the store locator and find the one

982
01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:08.079
near you. There's only thirty nine
of them in the Greater Houston area,

983
01:09:08.199 --> 01:09:12.800
so ACE is easy to find and
ACE has what you need with a kind

984
01:09:12.800 --> 01:09:16.800
of people that can help you,
and that is a win win for sure.

985
01:09:17.680 --> 01:09:21.479
Let's head down to Southwest Houston and
we're going to talk to Carolin A.

986
01:09:21.479 --> 01:09:28.439
Good morning, Carolyn, good morning, how can you help I have

987
01:09:28.479 --> 01:09:32.039
a container garden, and I don't
know where that to water first? And

988
01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:38.800
did fertilize? Are fertilized first and
then water? I'm sorry, Carolina missed

989
01:09:38.800 --> 01:09:41.039
the last thing you said. Sorry, we got cut off there a little

990
01:09:41.039 --> 01:09:46.760
bit. Oh yeah, I have
a container garden and I'm hanging basket and

991
01:09:46.800 --> 01:09:51.760
I don't know where to fertilize first
and mid and water our water first and

992
01:09:51.800 --> 01:09:57.239
in fertilize. That's a good question. So if you're fertilizing with a dry

993
01:09:57.279 --> 01:10:00.680
granular fertilizer, you would want to
fertilize first and then watered in well that

994
01:10:01.239 --> 01:10:06.399
if it's a if it's a salt
based a synthetic fertilizer, it'll dissolve those

995
01:10:06.479 --> 01:10:11.079
granules and get them down in the
soil for the plant roots. If it's

996
01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:15.760
an organic fertilizer, it'll moisten it
and now the microbial activity can begin to

997
01:10:15.800 --> 01:10:17.840
break it down and make it available
for the plant roots. So that's the

998
01:10:17.880 --> 01:10:20.800
way that I would go about it. If you're using a liquid fertilizer,

999
01:10:20.840 --> 01:10:25.520
I would water first and then put
the liquid on top of it, because

1000
01:10:25.560 --> 01:10:28.159
otherwise, you know, you get
the soil wet with your fertilizer. And

1001
01:10:28.199 --> 01:10:30.800
then you add water to and it
just sort of moves the nutrients which we're

1002
01:10:30.840 --> 01:10:36.720
in liquid form down further than you
want in the root system. Oh wonderful.

1003
01:10:39.560 --> 01:10:46.199
You are so knowledgeable but not at
all pedantic. I'm going to make

1004
01:10:46.239 --> 01:10:54.399
a T shirt with that. Thank
you. Knowledgeable but not Carolyn. You

1005
01:10:54.439 --> 01:10:56.840
made me laugh to day. Thank
you so much. I appreciate the car

1006
01:10:57.840 --> 01:11:04.479
Thank you. Bye bye. Oh
my gosh, skip on guard line.

1007
01:11:04.520 --> 01:11:10.880
He is tolerable, knowledgeable, but
not pedantic, but occasionally annoying. That's

1008
01:11:10.880 --> 01:11:14.439
where we are. Hey, listen, do you need a little tractor to

1009
01:11:14.479 --> 01:11:16.079
take care of your place? Maybe
you need a big tractor to take care

1010
01:11:16.079 --> 01:11:20.079
of your place. If you've found
that little a few acres of heaven outside

1011
01:11:20.079 --> 01:11:23.800
of town, then you're enjoying it. Well. You need to know about

1012
01:11:24.159 --> 01:11:29.640
Caboda from Lansdowne Moody. That combination
of Caboda and Lansdowne Moody. They're both

1013
01:11:29.640 --> 01:11:32.840
originals. You know, Lansdowne has
a great deal right now, by the

1014
01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:38.800
way, on select Caboda tractors.
You need to specifically look at the Caboda

1015
01:11:39.000 --> 01:11:43.680
twenty five O one two five excuse
me, L twenty five one L two

1016
01:11:43.760 --> 01:11:46.359
five zero one. They have a
deal on it. And here's the deal.

1017
01:11:47.079 --> 01:11:50.720
I don't know how they do this, but zero down, zero percent

1018
01:11:50.800 --> 01:11:56.920
interest for eighty four months, So
you get a tractor and for seven years,

1019
01:11:57.680 --> 01:12:01.560
zero persent interest as you you know, pay that off and I mean

1020
01:12:01.760 --> 01:12:05.000
maybe you just pay cash for it
up front. But Caboda L twenty five

1021
01:12:05.039 --> 01:12:09.600
o one, what a what an
awesome tractor. You know, it's what

1022
01:12:09.720 --> 01:12:14.760
you would expect from Landsdown, the
combination Lansdown, Moody and Caboda. You

1023
01:12:14.760 --> 01:12:17.359
can go to Caboda USA for more
information. You can go to l M

1024
01:12:17.479 --> 01:12:26.239
tractor dot com for more information LM
tractor dot com. Oh, I am

1025
01:12:26.239 --> 01:12:33.720
alive it, don't you know nothing? Oh major look, I major look.

1026
01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:41.640
I'll make you double taste soon as
I call up your Kira Pactor doesn't

1027
01:12:41.640 --> 01:12:45.520
get your next well, good Sunday
morning. Tell you hey, I am

1028
01:12:45.680 --> 01:12:48.319
I am excited about this next hour. I've been talking about it this morning.

1029
01:12:48.359 --> 01:12:51.720
But from eight to nine, uh, we are gonna talk birds.

1030
01:12:53.279 --> 01:12:57.199
And that doesn't that sound fun?
I mean we are gonna we're gonna talk

1031
01:12:57.199 --> 01:13:00.640
about everything birds. I've been talking
this more warning about the advantages and the

1032
01:13:01.079 --> 01:13:10.359
ways that birds bring another another factor
to our backyard gardening experience, the visual

1033
01:13:10.479 --> 01:13:14.720
and the audio and everything like that. And uh, I'm we're fortunate to

1034
01:13:14.720 --> 01:13:17.359
have Rich Eddie from wild Birds Unlimited
this this morning. And Rich, I

1035
01:13:17.399 --> 01:13:20.640
want to welcome you to the show. Thank you very much, good to

1036
01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:24.560
be here. It's good to have
you. We're gonna pick your brain today.

1037
01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:27.319
So if you guys, if you
guys have a phone question or you

1038
01:13:27.359 --> 01:13:30.239
want to call in with a question
about birds. Uh, that's what we're

1039
01:13:30.279 --> 01:13:32.359
here far for this hour. So
if you've got a question about gardening otherwise,

1040
01:13:32.640 --> 01:13:34.920
we're gonna ask you just to hold
on to that. And we're gonna

1041
01:13:34.960 --> 01:13:39.960
we're gonna stay on the topic of
birds between now and nine o'clock. And

1042
01:13:40.039 --> 01:13:43.840
so we got Rich and here we
go. We can we can pick his

1043
01:13:43.920 --> 01:13:49.039
brain. Rich, I got one
of the wild Birds Unlimited squirrel excluder feeders.

1044
01:13:49.279 --> 01:13:56.239
Ah whill back right. And I'm
telling you it gives me deep great

1045
01:13:56.319 --> 01:14:01.159
joy to frustrate squirrels. They've tried
everything and they cannot get into that.

1046
01:14:01.479 --> 01:14:06.000
I watch a guy on YouTube that
sets up obstacle courses for squirrels. I

1047
01:14:06.000 --> 01:14:09.640
don't know if you've ever seen my
yeah, I have. Oh, it

1048
01:14:09.760 --> 01:14:12.760
is entertaining because the squirrels figured it
all out. I mean they're awesome,

1049
01:14:13.079 --> 01:14:16.359
not this feeder. They're very smart. But those feeders are very effective.

1050
01:14:16.399 --> 01:14:21.039
So I've got customers who really love
the squirrels, and I have customers who

1051
01:14:21.119 --> 01:14:26.079
really don't want them on their feeders. So I know. So, but

1052
01:14:26.119 --> 01:14:29.479
the eliminator and the fundamentals, either
one of those are great feeders to keep

1053
01:14:29.520 --> 01:14:31.479
them off. That's good. Yeah. Yeah, I have to be careful

1054
01:14:31.640 --> 01:14:35.840
because you know, I can't say
things like tree rats. I can't say

1055
01:14:35.880 --> 01:14:40.920
that some people like squirrels. Oh, I just said it. I just

1056
01:14:40.960 --> 01:14:44.680
said it. Yeah, but I
enjoy the birds. I mean, the

1057
01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:46.640
squirrels are okay, they're there,
They're gonna be there anyway. But I've

1058
01:14:46.640 --> 01:14:49.880
got a garden. I've got tomatoes
over there, and they're just little marauding

1059
01:14:50.000 --> 01:14:54.399
vandals when it comes to my garden
there. I have a little bit of

1060
01:14:54.399 --> 01:14:59.439
a caddyshack attitude towards the squar Well, this hot, dry weather too,

1061
01:14:59.560 --> 01:15:03.159
is really pushing them places that they
may not normally go well, and I

1062
01:15:03.199 --> 01:15:05.880
and I, you know, I
feel mercy for any creature out there that's

1063
01:15:06.119 --> 01:15:11.199
dying a thirsty, it's hot.
Everybody needs water. Heard you're talking about

1064
01:15:11.199 --> 01:15:14.520
the bees earlier. Yeah, yeah, I mean they're definitely collecting around the

1065
01:15:14.520 --> 01:15:16.560
bird baths in the fountains. That's
true, that's true. Well, let's

1066
01:15:16.560 --> 01:15:20.680
talk a little about bird watering.
Tell me about you know, of course

1067
01:15:20.720 --> 01:15:25.119
everybody knows living things have to drink, but tell me a little bit about

1068
01:15:25.439 --> 01:15:28.720
watering for the birds in the backyard. Yeah. So you know, we

1069
01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:31.319
we have a saying in our store. Yet not all birds will come to

1070
01:15:31.359 --> 01:15:35.680
the feeder, but all birds need
water. And so if you want to

1071
01:15:35.760 --> 01:15:41.720
get a wide variety of really just
any kind of wildlife, adding water to

1072
01:15:41.800 --> 01:15:45.520
your backyard is really important. So
it could be a bird bath, it

1073
01:15:45.560 --> 01:15:48.840
could be a pond, there's always
great fountains. Anything moving water will help

1074
01:15:48.880 --> 01:15:55.199
attract them. But having water,
particularly in the migration times in the spring,

1075
01:15:55.199 --> 01:15:58.319
in the fall. Again, those
birds that are coming through, they

1076
01:15:58.760 --> 01:16:01.840
may not go to eaters, but
if they see water, they're gonna make

1077
01:16:01.880 --> 01:16:05.479
a stop because they need water to
make their journey. So yeah, it's

1078
01:16:05.560 --> 01:16:10.720
very important, and right now,
really really important because it is just dry.

1079
01:16:10.800 --> 01:16:15.159
There's no standing water really anywhere,
right and so having um, I've

1080
01:16:15.199 --> 01:16:18.560
got five bird baths and fountains in
my yard. Wow, just kind of

1081
01:16:18.600 --> 01:16:23.079
all over the place, and they're
all busy, So I'm very busy.

1082
01:16:23.239 --> 01:16:26.199
That's awesome. Uh yeah, I
you know, when I go down into

1083
01:16:26.239 --> 01:16:29.800
wallbirds, it's like a toy store, a candy store or something for me.

1084
01:16:30.159 --> 01:16:32.359
But I was looking at you guys
have beautiful bird baths. I mean

1085
01:16:32.359 --> 01:16:38.439
they are they're you know, just
like a focal point of the landscape.

1086
01:16:38.439 --> 01:16:41.920
They're so pretty. And then and
then a little gadgets like there's something you

1087
01:16:41.920 --> 01:16:45.560
guys have that it like moves the
water and causes ripples. So the mosquitoes

1088
01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:47.840
don't lay egg they don't like they
want stagnant water. They don't want that's

1089
01:16:47.920 --> 01:16:50.600
ripple the water. So tell me
about that. Yeah, so moving water.

1090
01:16:50.680 --> 01:16:54.239
So we've got a couple of different
things. One of it is called

1091
01:16:54.239 --> 01:16:58.399
our dripper mists, and so it's
it's a device that hangs on the side

1092
01:16:58.399 --> 01:17:02.640
of your bird bath and it will
constantly drip and so that moving water will

1093
01:17:02.720 --> 01:17:08.239
drown the mosquito arvy. And that's
why moving water not only kills the mosquito

1094
01:17:08.359 --> 01:17:13.039
arvy, but it also attracts the
birds. So having moving water like that

1095
01:17:13.319 --> 01:17:16.399
so the dripper mist is good.
It has a misting tip that you can

1096
01:17:16.439 --> 01:17:21.199
put in it. So with the
hummingbird season coming up, humming birds they've

1097
01:17:21.199 --> 01:17:26.199
got to clean their feathers just like
other birds do, but you know,

1098
01:17:26.279 --> 01:17:29.039
heavy drips and things like that are
a little harder on them. So they

1099
01:17:29.520 --> 01:17:31.640
love to fly through the mists and
get themselves wet and then go off and

1100
01:17:31.720 --> 01:17:35.199
preen their feathers. That's cool.
I've seen video of that. That's pretty

1101
01:17:35.239 --> 01:17:38.880
neat. So this is a little
device, like he said, it hangs

1102
01:17:38.920 --> 01:17:41.760
on the bird bath, but it's
actually a little tube that comes up and

1103
01:17:41.960 --> 01:17:45.199
bends over and either drips or as
you say, miss or mists. Yeah,

1104
01:17:45.239 --> 01:17:47.279
and you just attach it to an
outdoor faucet. So yeah, so

1105
01:17:47.359 --> 01:17:50.840
those work really well. And then
we've also got little solar bubblers. So

1106
01:17:51.000 --> 01:17:55.560
the solar bubblers work really well as
long as their sun, which we've had

1107
01:17:55.640 --> 01:18:00.720
no lack of over the last couple
of months, and those those will recycle

1108
01:18:00.800 --> 01:18:04.239
the water and keep it moving as
well. Oh good, Well, we've

1109
01:18:04.239 --> 01:18:08.800
got Marty in Fairfield. We're gonna
go listen to a bird question. Okay,

1110
01:18:08.920 --> 01:18:12.000
So here we go. If you're
if you have a bird question the

1111
01:18:12.119 --> 01:18:15.960
number seven one three, two,
one two five eight seven four. Well,

1112
01:18:15.960 --> 01:18:19.399
good morning, Marty, good morning. I just wanted to ask while

1113
01:18:19.479 --> 01:18:24.119
birds and limps. It's Richard.
It is Richard, right, Yes,

1114
01:18:24.319 --> 01:18:30.600
okay. I I love y'all's stores. They're so cool and I just can't

1115
01:18:30.319 --> 01:18:33.119
get enough of all the products.
But I do want to have a question

1116
01:18:33.159 --> 01:18:40.720
about, um, how do I
keep the trash birds from hanging around and

1117
01:18:40.880 --> 01:18:45.880
keeping the good birds away? Yeah? So yeah, are you talking like

1118
01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:50.399
starlings and grackles? Probably, yeah, yeah, So a couple of things

1119
01:18:50.880 --> 01:18:57.960
about well, starlings are a different
problem than grackles. Grackles or they don't

1120
01:18:58.000 --> 01:19:02.279
particularly like safflower. So people who
want to keep blackbirds grackles off of their

1121
01:19:02.319 --> 01:19:09.000
feeders, if you go to a
straight safflower, they don't particularly like it,

1122
01:19:09.079 --> 01:19:12.720
so they'll move on. That's one
thing that you can do. The

1123
01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:16.319
other thing is is that we do
have predator guards that you can put over

1124
01:19:16.399 --> 01:19:20.399
your feeders. We've got one.
It's like a cage. It's got a

1125
01:19:20.439 --> 01:19:26.279
two inch opening, so it'll let
birds cardinal sizing down in. Now that

1126
01:19:26.359 --> 01:19:30.039
won't keep starlings out. We've also
got a new device in that's actually more

1127
01:19:30.159 --> 01:19:34.239
ornamental, and it's got chains that
drape down over the feeders, so it's

1128
01:19:34.239 --> 01:19:40.520
not quite as intrusive looking, and
that also works very well to keep the

1129
01:19:40.600 --> 01:19:45.079
big birds from coming in and dominating
feeder. Hey, Marty, we're gonna

1130
01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:46.520
have to take a break here,
but I just need to cut in.

1131
01:19:46.560 --> 01:19:48.960
If you want to hang on after
break. If if there's more to your

1132
01:19:49.039 --> 01:19:51.359
question, that's fine. If not, thank you so much for calling in.

1133
01:19:51.479 --> 01:19:56.520
I appreciate that. Hey. Our
phone number is seven one three two

1134
01:19:56.560 --> 01:20:00.439
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one to fifty eight seventy

1135
01:20:00.439 --> 01:20:04.319
four. We're here with rich Eddie
from Wall Birds Unlimited, and we're talking

1136
01:20:04.319 --> 01:20:06.520
birds all day. When we come
back, I think we're gonna talk about

1137
01:20:06.560 --> 01:20:10.359
hunting birds. I've been wanting to
get to that one. But hang around,

1138
01:20:10.560 --> 01:20:17.840
we'll be right back. KTRH Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of

1139
01:20:17.880 --> 01:20:24.960
the products or services advertised on this
program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with

1140
01:20:25.199 --> 01:20:49.319
skip rictor just watching as so many. Well, good morning. You are

1141
01:20:49.359 --> 01:20:54.760
listening to garden Line this morning.
Hey, if you are interested in a

1142
01:20:54.840 --> 01:20:58.800
new tree for your place and you're
looking for a good deal and a good

1143
01:20:58.840 --> 01:21:01.600
tree and people that know how to
plant it. That would be Verdant Tree

1144
01:21:01.600 --> 01:21:04.880
Form. You know, Verdant has
three locations. They're out there on Barker

1145
01:21:04.920 --> 01:21:11.119
Cypress. They've got a location down
in Gosh, you can't even say,

1146
01:21:11.199 --> 01:21:14.039
I just went blank for a second. Thank you, in the pair Land

1147
01:21:14.079 --> 01:21:16.800
on Broadway Street, and then up
in the Heights where Yoe comes into I

1148
01:21:16.960 --> 01:21:21.199
ten, there's a Verdant location there. Here's the deal right now for July.

1149
01:21:21.359 --> 01:21:27.119
There's a Christmas in July cell ten
to fifty percent off the trees when

1150
01:21:27.159 --> 01:21:30.479
you purchase them with an install,
and you need to buy them with an

1151
01:21:30.479 --> 01:21:32.119
install because they know how to plant
them and you get a big old tree

1152
01:21:32.119 --> 01:21:34.640
in there. You got to have
somebody who knows what they're doing. And

1153
01:21:34.720 --> 01:21:39.239
plus you know, I keep making
the comment about and you've got to disappoint

1154
01:21:39.319 --> 01:21:43.880
your chiropractor by not trying it yourself. Right, Well, they ten to

1155
01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:45.800
fifty percent off. That's for the
tree. Now the install separate. You

1156
01:21:45.800 --> 01:21:48.840
pay for the install separate. But
what a deal. I mean, if

1157
01:21:48.880 --> 01:21:53.439
you're looking for a quality tree,
that's what they grow. If you're looking

1158
01:21:53.479 --> 01:21:58.199
for people that know how to effectively
establish it, so it survives that would

1159
01:21:58.239 --> 01:22:02.000
be verdant tree form. We're here
today with Rich Eaty and we are talking

1160
01:22:02.039 --> 01:22:06.399
all kinds of things birds, but
I want to kind of shift gears a

1161
01:22:06.399 --> 01:22:11.560
little, Rich and talk about hummingbirds. I just think they are among the

1162
01:22:11.560 --> 01:22:15.039
most amazing. You mentioned the little
mister thing you guys have that the hummingbirds

1163
01:22:15.079 --> 01:22:18.960
love to fly through preen their feathers
and things. But let's kind of get

1164
01:22:19.000 --> 01:22:23.239
an overview of some things that you
think people need to be aware of regarding

1165
01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:28.560
hummingbirds. Yeah, so we have
two distinct migratory seasons for hummingbirds in the

1166
01:22:28.560 --> 01:22:33.039
Houston area. So they in the
spring, March through May, those little

1167
01:22:33.039 --> 01:22:36.840
birds, believe it or not,
across the Gulf of Mexico and make their

1168
01:22:36.840 --> 01:22:42.359
way through the Houston area. So
they they're coming north out of Mexico,

1169
01:22:42.479 --> 01:22:46.479
Costa Rica, Central America where they
winner So they're coming north and they're moving

1170
01:22:46.600 --> 01:22:50.640
up into their breeding ground. So
some folks here in Houston are lucky enough

1171
01:22:50.680 --> 01:22:54.800
to have them all through the summer. Most of them move on. So

1172
01:22:54.960 --> 01:22:59.279
even just as close as you know
Columbus oft in that area of folks there

1173
01:22:59.319 --> 01:23:01.920
have hummingbirds all summer long. Wow. Yeah, but they go all the

1174
01:23:01.960 --> 01:23:05.720
way up into Canada, up into
you know, the mountains of Colorado,

1175
01:23:05.800 --> 01:23:09.560
all the way to the east coast. So I mean just the United States

1176
01:23:09.640 --> 01:23:13.680
is covered in them. And now
the fall migration we're about ready to get

1177
01:23:13.720 --> 01:23:15.119
started on it. As a matter
of fact, as over at Edith Moore

1178
01:23:15.479 --> 01:23:18.600
home of Houston, Audubon, and
it saw a hummingbird over there the other

1179
01:23:18.680 --> 01:23:24.000
day hitting the turk's cap. So
so there's just signs of them starting to

1180
01:23:24.000 --> 01:23:28.560
show back up. So the big
months for us here August, September,

1181
01:23:28.600 --> 01:23:32.600
October September is the biggest month.
So not only are we getting the birds

1182
01:23:32.680 --> 01:23:38.359
that came north in the spring,
now we're going to get all the birds

1183
01:23:38.439 --> 01:23:43.720
plus the offspring coming back through to
my great back to the south. So

1184
01:23:43.800 --> 01:23:46.239
yeah, so we'll have a lot
of birds starting in August, September,

1185
01:23:46.239 --> 01:23:50.359
in October. And so when would
you consider again the first like when would

1186
01:23:50.359 --> 01:23:54.279
you put feeders out in this in
the early season for yeah, yeah,

1187
01:23:54.319 --> 01:23:58.640
so March, beginning of March,
so March April may kind of tails off.

1188
01:23:59.479 --> 01:24:01.640
But now I always sell folks first
of August. Put your feeder up

1189
01:24:01.680 --> 01:24:06.479
if somebody is interested, if they've
got a backyard that's got a lot of

1190
01:24:06.520 --> 01:24:11.439
the nectar bearing plants like the salvia, turkscap, things like that, you

1191
01:24:11.520 --> 01:24:14.039
might start to see them on your
flowers. If you start seeing them on

1192
01:24:14.079 --> 01:24:17.479
your flowers, go ahead and put
your feeders out. Okay, you are

1193
01:24:17.479 --> 01:24:23.199
talking about the turk's cap and the
salvias and things like that, and you

1194
01:24:23.239 --> 01:24:26.479
know, of course we're gonna talk
about feeders and birds and birdhouses and all

1195
01:24:26.560 --> 01:24:30.640
kinds of things. But planting for
the birds is an important thing. And

1196
01:24:30.680 --> 01:24:32.640
one thing I like. You know, we talk about Buchanans here a lot.

1197
01:24:33.159 --> 01:24:36.760
One thing I like about Buchanans is
they really focus on native plants and

1198
01:24:36.840 --> 01:24:41.399
so things like a turk's cap,
things like the native salvia, some of

1199
01:24:41.439 --> 01:24:46.039
the burying bushes, but even just
good shrubs that provide birds cover around the

1200
01:24:46.119 --> 01:24:48.720
landscape. You know, you can
do that. I was, I was

1201
01:24:48.760 --> 01:24:53.319
at Buchanans other day looking at some
of the turks cap they had and some

1202
01:24:53.399 --> 01:24:57.159
other blooming things, you know,
with the long salvia like flowers and other

1203
01:24:57.359 --> 01:25:01.920
red tubular flowers that attract them.
And boy, that that is something you

1204
01:25:01.960 --> 01:25:04.239
need to do too. If you're
gonna if you're gonna take care of your

1205
01:25:04.239 --> 01:25:10.119
birds. Yeah, absolutely, So
we encourage all of our customers that we

1206
01:25:10.199 --> 01:25:15.640
talked to to get your yards certified
through National Wildlife Federation. People can get

1207
01:25:15.640 --> 01:25:18.920
their yards certified very easily. Um. All it really takes is, you

1208
01:25:18.960 --> 01:25:23.640
know, to have um a bird, a place for the birds to eat,

1209
01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:27.359
to drink, to raise their young, like anass box or whatever.

1210
01:25:27.840 --> 01:25:31.439
And then cover birds need cover to
get away from harm. Right, So

1211
01:25:31.760 --> 01:25:36.000
when the local, when the local
Cooper's talk decides to make his presence known

1212
01:25:36.039 --> 01:25:41.439
in the backyard, having a thick
shrub like um place for them to dart

1213
01:25:41.479 --> 01:25:45.119
into is important to give them a
place to be safe. That's good to

1214
01:25:45.199 --> 01:25:46.560
know. Yeah, good to know. We'll tell us some more things about

1215
01:25:46.640 --> 01:25:50.079
hummingbirds, uh, you know,
having success with hummingbirds, taking care of

1216
01:25:50.119 --> 01:25:54.560
them and just to bring them in. Yeah, i'd like to. I'd

1217
01:25:54.560 --> 01:25:57.720
like you to get you a dress. As you answer that, the idea

1218
01:25:57.880 --> 01:26:02.720
of dyeing the sugar water red and
don't always been something people thought they needed

1219
01:26:02.760 --> 01:26:05.199
to do, but but go ahead. Yeah, no, we don't want

1220
01:26:05.199 --> 01:26:09.680
you to do that. So when
you make your hummingbird nectar, we encourage

1221
01:26:09.720 --> 01:26:14.479
folks just to use regular white table
sugar and it's four parts of water to

1222
01:26:14.600 --> 01:26:16.520
one part of sugar. So it
really just depends on how much you want

1223
01:26:16.520 --> 01:26:21.359
to make. That sounds like what
people do to their iced tea here in

1224
01:26:21.359 --> 01:26:26.319
the South. Yeah, exactly right. So yeah, so I have a

1225
01:26:26.479 --> 01:26:30.079
quart jar and I feel that.
So it's four cups of water and I

1226
01:26:30.119 --> 01:26:31.960
just put one cup of sugar in
there. I just fill it with hot

1227
01:26:31.960 --> 01:26:35.600
water. You don't need to boil
the water, just get it hot enough

1228
01:26:35.600 --> 01:26:39.960
so the sugar will dissolve well,
right, and so, and then I

1229
01:26:40.159 --> 01:26:44.119
use what I need and I put
the rest in a refrigerator. So in

1230
01:26:44.199 --> 01:26:47.800
the summertime, particularly this year,
if you're putting out sugar water, you

1231
01:26:47.840 --> 01:26:53.680
need to replace it every three days
or so because once if you put it

1232
01:26:53.680 --> 01:26:57.399
in, it's gonna look really nice, clear and bright. Within a couple

1233
01:26:57.439 --> 01:27:00.720
of days, you're going to start
to see that turn and so that'd be

1234
01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:03.960
good. Turn sour. So that
becomes not healthy for the birds. So

1235
01:27:04.079 --> 01:27:06.840
you need to dump it, rinse
it out, and refill it with clean

1236
01:27:06.880 --> 01:27:11.760
nectar. Dyeing the nectar red.
We do not want you to do that.

1237
01:27:11.840 --> 01:27:15.159
It's proven that the red food coloring
is actually harmful to the birds.

1238
01:27:15.680 --> 01:27:18.520
Most of the feeders nowadays have lots
of red on them anyway, So it's

1239
01:27:18.560 --> 01:27:24.520
the color of the feeder more importantly
than the color of the nectar. So

1240
01:27:25.119 --> 01:27:28.840
yeah, I mean think about well, think about turk's cap. You got

1241
01:27:28.840 --> 01:27:30.279
a big green bush and there's a
red flower on it. You don't have

1242
01:27:30.279 --> 01:27:34.479
to paint the bush red to go
hummingbirds, That's exactly right. Yeah.

1243
01:27:34.479 --> 01:27:40.319
So and certainly if you have things
in your yard like the salvia, turk's

1244
01:27:40.399 --> 01:27:45.399
cap, lantana, milkweed, things
like that that the hummingbirds love anyway,

1245
01:27:45.159 --> 01:27:48.840
they're going to find your feeder almost
automatically. So a lot of us don't

1246
01:27:48.920 --> 01:27:54.640
realize too hummingbirds when they're coming through
here, they're eating a lot of insects.

1247
01:27:54.680 --> 01:27:57.800
They've got to really fatten themselves up. So if you think about that

1248
01:27:57.840 --> 01:28:01.439
little bird making a twenty hour trip
across goal from Mexico, they've got to

1249
01:28:01.520 --> 01:28:05.720
really bulk up and get ready for
that trip. And so wow, yeah,

1250
01:28:05.720 --> 01:28:09.159
so they're eating a lot of insects. Of the nectar that's in the

1251
01:28:09.199 --> 01:28:13.319
feeders is giving them the energy that
they need to continue to forage. Is

1252
01:28:13.479 --> 01:28:16.520
that is great information If you're just
tuning in, we're listening. We're talking

1253
01:28:16.560 --> 01:28:21.279
with rich Eatie from wa Bird's Unlimited
about all kinds of things birds this hour,

1254
01:28:21.359 --> 01:28:25.079
so he'll be with us all the
way up the nine o'clock. Give

1255
01:28:25.119 --> 01:28:28.920
us a call seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. Ryan

1256
01:28:28.960 --> 01:28:30.800
will get you on the boards and
we will talk birds with you when we

1257
01:28:30.840 --> 01:28:42.479
come back. Black but singing in
the dead oven nine. Taint these broken

1258
01:28:42.560 --> 01:28:51.920
wings and learn to fly all your
line. You were only waiting for this

1259
01:28:53.039 --> 01:28:57.840
moment to a run. Hey,
we're glad you're listening to Garden Line today.

1260
01:28:58.000 --> 01:29:02.119
We're here talking birds today. I
have fortune of having a Rich Eaty

1261
01:29:02.199 --> 01:29:05.840
with me from wild Birds Unlimited,
and we are going to be continued to

1262
01:29:05.880 --> 01:29:09.600
talk all kinds of things birds.
During break, we were just talking about

1263
01:29:09.680 --> 01:29:14.199
hummingbirds. You know, think about
this. You're you're a tiny little hummingbird,

1264
01:29:14.279 --> 01:29:18.399
I mean, just little bitty things
and your wings beat sixty times a

1265
01:29:18.520 --> 01:29:23.840
second, and you're gonna fly all
the way across the Gulf of Mexico with

1266
01:29:23.960 --> 01:29:28.000
nothing to land on. Just let
you let your brain absorb that. How

1267
01:29:28.079 --> 01:29:31.119
much I would have to take a
truck load of energy bars with me for

1268
01:29:31.159 --> 01:29:34.399
the trip just to survive it.
It's just a miracle that they can do

1269
01:29:34.439 --> 01:29:39.319
that. That's really cool stuff.
Yeah, it is. I find it

1270
01:29:39.399 --> 01:29:43.720
amazing. There are guys that work
in the offshore rig platforms and stuff they'll

1271
01:29:43.720 --> 01:29:46.560
see hummingbirds as they're making migrations.
It's not uncommon as well. Wow.

1272
01:29:46.640 --> 01:29:48.920
But yeah, I mean it's a
it's a tough trip for them. I

1273
01:29:49.000 --> 01:29:54.399
mean, they're they're putting their lives
at stake to make that journey every year.

1274
01:29:55.319 --> 01:29:57.840
No kidding, that is cool stuff. Well, we got a couple

1275
01:29:57.840 --> 01:30:00.600
of questions in here. By the
way, our phone numbers seven one three,

1276
01:30:00.680 --> 01:30:02.279
two one two, fifty eight seventy
four. We're gonna go out to

1277
01:30:02.279 --> 01:30:05.640
Parland first. Hey, Kevin,
I believe you've got a question about birds.

1278
01:30:06.479 --> 01:30:12.079
Hey, good morning guys. I
just really got into birds in the

1279
01:30:12.079 --> 01:30:16.359
past couple of years and I've been
buying my food at wild Birds Unlimited in

1280
01:30:16.520 --> 01:30:21.399
Parland and it's just quite enjoyable just
watching them, you know, come and

1281
01:30:21.520 --> 01:30:27.039
feed and I don't know all the
different species and everything, but I've noticed

1282
01:30:27.119 --> 01:30:30.399
last year that we had a lot
more hummingbirds and this year I'm not seeing

1283
01:30:30.399 --> 01:30:35.680
them. I mean, when is
technically humming birds season? Yeah, so

1284
01:30:35.880 --> 01:30:40.000
yeah, so you're seeing Jeff down
there in the Parland store. Just also

1285
01:30:40.039 --> 01:30:44.319
got a new store over in clear
Lake as well. Right now, you're

1286
01:30:44.359 --> 01:30:48.079
not gonna see very many humming birds. It's just starting for the fall migration.

1287
01:30:48.199 --> 01:30:53.479
So have your feed are ready,
watch your yard. But August,

1288
01:30:53.479 --> 01:30:57.399
September, October September is going to
be the busiest month for seeing them in

1289
01:30:57.479 --> 01:31:00.279
your backyard. Even in the springtime, are not going to see as many.

1290
01:31:00.359 --> 01:31:03.880
Even though the birds are coming through, they've pretty much got one thing

1291
01:31:03.880 --> 01:31:06.960
on their mind and that is making
it to their breeding grounds to the north.

1292
01:31:08.439 --> 01:31:13.720
So for us right now Houston,
it's August, September, October September

1293
01:31:13.760 --> 01:31:16.159
being the busiest month. That's when. That's what I encourage folks. If

1294
01:31:16.199 --> 01:31:19.960
you've ever noticed, the hummingbirds will
fight over a feeder. One bird will

1295
01:31:19.960 --> 01:31:24.319
guard that feeder like crazy. So
if you think about it, they're trying

1296
01:31:24.319 --> 01:31:27.600
to get ready to make that journey. So if they find an energy source

1297
01:31:27.680 --> 01:31:30.960
like that, they're going to protect
it. And so I always tell people

1298
01:31:30.000 --> 01:31:34.760
put up one more feeder than you
have birds. So so you know in

1299
01:31:35.279 --> 01:31:40.159
my yard, I'll put up five
or six feeders, and so that gives

1300
01:31:40.159 --> 01:31:43.640
the birds an opportunity to guard their
own feeder. But then I still get

1301
01:31:43.680 --> 01:31:46.359
to enjoy a lot of activity in
the yard. I get to watch them

1302
01:31:46.399 --> 01:31:51.399
fight and bicker and carry on.
So yeah, so you're really just starting

1303
01:31:51.399 --> 01:31:56.479
to go. So during the months
of June and July, you're not really

1304
01:31:56.479 --> 01:32:00.079
going to see many humming birds in
our area. Some folks do, but

1305
01:32:00.079 --> 01:32:06.159
but that's not the not the prevailing. Yeah, knowledge for everybody. Well,

1306
01:32:06.159 --> 01:32:09.279
I appreciate it very much, man, Thank you all. Gratchel,

1307
01:32:09.520 --> 01:32:13.119
you bet, thanks for Carl.
Appreciate that. Kevin. We're going to

1308
01:32:13.159 --> 01:32:15.720
head now over to clare Lake City
and talk to Stephen. Well, good

1309
01:32:15.720 --> 01:32:21.800
morning, Stephen, Good morning Stirs. You apparently you knew what I was

1310
01:32:21.840 --> 01:32:28.800
going to ask about. We my
significant other and I live in two different

1311
01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:33.079
places and we've put up as many
as three feeders in each place, and

1312
01:32:33.600 --> 01:32:39.399
there's that one garden dog bird just
chases all the other birds away. Yet

1313
01:32:39.439 --> 01:32:44.680
we were in a ranch down near
Fredericksburg that has a ton of feeders.

1314
01:32:44.760 --> 01:32:49.159
They've banned the birds even and I
didn't see any of them fighting down there.

1315
01:32:50.399 --> 01:32:56.640
Is there anything else you can do
other than yeah, unfortunately here,

1316
01:32:57.119 --> 01:33:00.439
unfortunately for us in the Houston area
as there get ready to make that migration.

1317
01:33:00.520 --> 01:33:04.319
They're they're pretty hondry and pretty protective
of a food source that they find

1318
01:33:04.359 --> 01:33:09.479
when you're when you're in their breeding
grounds and they're they're raising their young and

1319
01:33:09.520 --> 01:33:13.680
things like that. It's very common
to see multiple birds on one feeder.

1320
01:33:13.800 --> 01:33:16.880
So um so, like I said, unfortunately in Houston, that's gonna be.

1321
01:33:17.039 --> 01:33:20.680
That's gonna be your experience. By
and large. Every once in a

1322
01:33:20.680 --> 01:33:25.039
while, you'll you'll be able to
see a couple of birds decide to tolerate

1323
01:33:25.079 --> 01:33:29.439
each other and land on the same
feeder. But again, putting up more

1324
01:33:29.520 --> 01:33:32.199
feeders is a way for you to
see more birds. Any other thing too,

1325
01:33:32.359 --> 01:33:35.600
is to is to put them at
least ten feet apart if you can,

1326
01:33:35.840 --> 01:33:39.960
so if you can scatter them around
your yard, certainly put them where

1327
01:33:40.000 --> 01:33:42.439
you can enjoy them. I mean, that's why we put feeders out right,

1328
01:33:42.560 --> 01:33:45.840
is to enjoy seeing the birds.
Speaking of enjoying them, it's kind

1329
01:33:45.880 --> 01:33:49.960
of entertaining to watch them fight with
each other. They dive bomb and but

1330
01:33:50.039 --> 01:33:53.680
it's kind of sad. In the
other hand, is a good birds that

1331
01:33:53.760 --> 01:33:57.520
want to drink? Oh yeah,
for sure. Well they're doing okay,

1332
01:33:57.560 --> 01:34:00.359
so I mean they're but yeah,
they're they're just being very protective. But

1333
01:34:00.399 --> 01:34:03.800
yeah, hummingbirds. You know,
they can fly upside down, sideways,

1334
01:34:03.840 --> 01:34:08.079
backwards, I mean, and they
can go full speed and just no time.

1335
01:34:08.159 --> 01:34:11.039
So yeah, I mean they are. They are a fascinating bird.

1336
01:34:11.239 --> 01:34:14.800
So good. I hope our military
is learning from how they fly. Then,

1337
01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:18.119
okay, thanks very much, yeah, Stephen, thank you for Hey,

1338
01:34:18.119 --> 01:34:21.000
you're lucky Stephen to be out there
and clear like, that's the newest

1339
01:34:21.039 --> 01:34:24.960
wahbird store Jeff has out there,
right, it is. So there's seven

1340
01:34:25.000 --> 01:34:29.039
of us around town. So there's
a landing page wbu dot com, slash

1341
01:34:29.039 --> 01:34:32.920
Houston and find the find the store
nearest to you. So and you're located

1342
01:34:33.039 --> 01:34:35.840
over on the Katie side, right. Yeah. So I've got two stores.

1343
01:34:35.880 --> 01:34:39.720
I've got one up in Cyprus,
which is at Barker Cypress in two

1344
01:34:39.800 --> 01:34:43.560
ninety and the other one is in
Memorial at the Memorial and Kirkwood intersection.

1345
01:34:43.720 --> 01:34:45.119
Good, I think I've been in
the Memorial one. Yeah. Yeah,

1346
01:34:45.279 --> 01:34:48.560
I always tell folks that's right next
to those tios. Everybody knows where those

1347
01:34:48.600 --> 01:34:51.479
tios is over there. So well, I mean, what a good day.

1348
01:34:51.560 --> 01:34:55.439
I mean you go, get you
some good Mexican food and you pick

1349
01:34:55.520 --> 01:34:59.960
up your bird supplies and everybody gets
to eat. That's right, that's good.

1350
01:35:00.239 --> 01:35:03.079
Hey, our phone number seven one
three two one two five eight seven

1351
01:35:03.199 --> 01:35:08.359
four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Give us a

1352
01:35:08.399 --> 01:35:12.439
call. We are visiting with Rich
d from while Birds Unlimited today. So

1353
01:35:12.479 --> 01:35:16.479
you got some bird questions, let's
talk about that. We've got the expert

1354
01:35:16.560 --> 01:35:21.680
here to kind of direct traffic and
put us in the right direction on anything

1355
01:35:21.720 --> 01:35:25.520
related to birds. You know,
there are a lot of there are misconceptions

1356
01:35:25.520 --> 01:35:29.079
out there about birds, Like we're
talking about the red dye and the hummingbird

1357
01:35:29.119 --> 01:35:31.880
feeders and things. What would you
say, Rich, would be some of

1358
01:35:31.920 --> 01:35:35.479
the just the basic ABC's. Maybe
somebody goes, you know, I love

1359
01:35:35.560 --> 01:35:40.239
my landscape. I remember thought about
bringing songbirds in, you know, because

1360
01:35:40.279 --> 01:35:43.800
I like to talk about the fact
that they visually are pretty bit there.

1361
01:35:44.000 --> 01:35:45.199
They add music to the air.
I mean, going out in the morning

1362
01:35:45.199 --> 01:35:48.880
with a cup of coffee is just
wonderful to hear the songs of the birds.

1363
01:35:49.199 --> 01:35:53.000
What would you say are kind of
some of the abcs that someone should

1364
01:35:53.000 --> 01:35:56.520
know if they would like to start
moving in to birds. And then by

1365
01:35:56.520 --> 01:35:59.720
the way, I have to warn
listeners it's addictive. I mean, this

1366
01:35:59.800 --> 01:36:02.560
is a hummingbird feeder. Is just
it's the gateway drug. Okay, so

1367
01:36:03.680 --> 01:36:08.199
it's a great addictive though it's a
wonderful, wonderful hobby. But anyway,

1368
01:36:08.479 --> 01:36:12.159
yeah, I mean the most important
thing if you think about what birds need,

1369
01:36:12.279 --> 01:36:15.159
that birds need insects, right,
so making sure that you focus on

1370
01:36:15.199 --> 01:36:20.479
the native plants to Texas is super
important. We always tell folks if you

1371
01:36:20.520 --> 01:36:26.119
want to attract chickadees, plant an
oak tree. An oak tree is a

1372
01:36:26.319 --> 01:36:32.000
host plant for hundreds of different types
of moths where they'll lay their eggs,

1373
01:36:32.039 --> 01:36:36.279
which turn into pupae and caterpillars,
which the chickadees need to feed their young.

1374
01:36:38.399 --> 01:36:42.000
I always tell folks chickadeese, if
you have chickadees nesting in and around

1375
01:36:42.079 --> 01:36:46.359
your house, you've got a great
habitat. Because chickadees will collect almost three

1376
01:36:46.439 --> 01:36:54.039
hundred caterpillars a day to feed their
young, and they've got to do that

1377
01:36:54.079 --> 01:36:58.600
for twenty eight days, so they've
got to collect about ten thousand or more

1378
01:36:58.640 --> 01:37:02.680
caterpillars and they do all that within
you know, a hundred yards or less

1379
01:37:02.720 --> 01:37:08.079
of the nests, and those caterpillars
are important because as important as like bird

1380
01:37:08.119 --> 01:37:12.239
seed and stuff is when it's nesting
time, having that those proteins, those

1381
01:37:12.319 --> 01:37:15.319
rich sources of food, that's really
critical. I mean, you guys have

1382
01:37:15.399 --> 01:37:17.760
like a dried meal, worms and
products and other things we can supplement with.

1383
01:37:18.359 --> 01:37:21.760
But these birds are working for you. Oh yeah, no, they

1384
01:37:23.039 --> 01:37:29.239
absolutely are. You know, backyard
bird feeders themselves are probably only about fifteen

1385
01:37:29.319 --> 01:37:32.720
percent of their overall diet necks,
right, So the feeders are really for

1386
01:37:32.800 --> 01:37:36.439
our enjoyment. It's to pull the
birds into your yard. Now. It's

1387
01:37:36.479 --> 01:37:42.000
also important during nesting time. While
the birds are out collecting insects to feed

1388
01:37:42.039 --> 01:37:45.680
their young, they're coming to the
feeders to feed themselves. That's why our

1389
01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:49.359
nesting super Blend is a great feed
Even right now while the nesting season is

1390
01:37:49.399 --> 01:37:54.039
starting to wrap up, the high
fat, the high protein that's in there.

1391
01:37:54.039 --> 01:37:56.760
If you've noticed, birds are going
to start going through their molt pretty

1392
01:37:56.800 --> 01:38:00.239
quick. Yes, there's some pretty
pretty shaggy looking cardinals blue jay's flying around

1393
01:38:00.319 --> 01:38:03.239
right now, and what they're doing
is they're getting rid of their old feathers.

1394
01:38:03.239 --> 01:38:05.880
They're going to grow some new feathers
to get themselves ready for winter,

1395
01:38:06.039 --> 01:38:10.399
and your nesting blend is just the
perfect for that. Yes, it's the

1396
01:38:10.479 --> 01:38:13.800
perfect blend with the high fat,
the high protein. It'll get them through

1397
01:38:13.840 --> 01:38:16.159
that season. We've been talking about
the different kinds of birds that even we're

1398
01:38:16.159 --> 01:38:19.760
still nesting going on into summer.
That's for a good while and then hoo

1399
01:38:19.800 --> 01:38:23.760
comes the molt season. So that's
just a good cover your summer, I

1400
01:38:23.760 --> 01:38:27.960
guess. Yeah. So having the
having the insects in your yard, which

1401
01:38:28.000 --> 01:38:30.760
means to have the insects, you've
got to have the native plants. If

1402
01:38:30.760 --> 01:38:34.279
you plan exotics, then then the
insects aren't going to come naturally, and

1403
01:38:34.359 --> 01:38:38.880
so super important, you know,
Rich, I read a book I guess

1404
01:38:38.920 --> 01:38:42.119
a couple of years ago. I
kind of lose track of time on that,

1405
01:38:42.199 --> 01:38:47.279
but it was the most recent eye
opening book related to the natural world

1406
01:38:47.279 --> 01:38:51.560
of our landscapes that I've ever read, and it was by Doug Talomey called

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01:38:51.600 --> 01:38:56.920
Bringing Nature Home. Absolutely what you're
talking about. An oak tree has a

1408
01:38:56.920 --> 01:38:59.680
ton of caterpillars up there in it, and they're not going to kill your

1409
01:38:59.720 --> 01:39:02.359
oak. You may even not even
notice a little bit of disfoliation that's happening,

1410
01:39:02.840 --> 01:39:06.600
but how important that is for birds? And you've alluded to it several

1411
01:39:06.680 --> 01:39:10.439
times talking about the importance of native
plants, right, you know, we

1412
01:39:10.520 --> 01:39:13.960
bring things in. A lot of
our landscapes are from Asia, you know,

1413
01:39:14.079 --> 01:39:19.600
the lagustrum and the red tip Photini
is, the pedisporums and just a

1414
01:39:19.600 --> 01:39:23.560
lot of things. And if you
look at those, we don't have caterpillars

1415
01:39:23.600 --> 01:39:28.239
all over those, but our native
plants do. And if you haven't read

1416
01:39:28.279 --> 01:39:31.119
Bringing Nature Home, I would highly
recommend it. It is an unbelievable book.

1417
01:39:31.640 --> 01:39:38.880
There's a thing going on called Hometown
National Park USA or yeah, that's

1418
01:39:38.880 --> 01:39:42.840
a Doug Polomy thing. Yeah,
trying to turn every yard into a national

1419
01:39:42.920 --> 01:39:47.000
park. Is that while we look
at the mass of our natural parks,

1420
01:39:47.000 --> 01:39:50.920
which they're great, right, our
national parks all over the US. Right,

1421
01:39:51.199 --> 01:39:55.840
The idea is that, you know, the the Audubon or Cornell had

1422
01:39:55.920 --> 01:40:00.319
estimated we'd lost three or four billion
birds since the late seventies and a lot

1423
01:40:00.359 --> 01:40:03.520
of that has to do with land
sprawl, development things like that, losing

1424
01:40:03.560 --> 01:40:09.359
habitat and the ideas to not you
know, I just don't want people to

1425
01:40:09.399 --> 01:40:12.399
freak out and think, oh my
god, what have we done. Start

1426
01:40:12.399 --> 01:40:15.159
in your own yard, Start with
you and your neighbors. Start with your

1427
01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:19.159
neighborhood. And if everybody takes these
things into account, and you think about

1428
01:40:19.199 --> 01:40:24.840
planting for the nature in your area, because what we do here is going

1429
01:40:24.880 --> 01:40:28.279
to be different than it is in
Austin than it is in Dallas, right,

1430
01:40:28.359 --> 01:40:31.079
but everybody's got their native plants,
and so yeah, start start in

1431
01:40:31.119 --> 01:40:35.159
your own yard instead. A good
example. That is great. We're gonna

1432
01:40:35.199 --> 01:40:38.920
take a break here in just a
little bit. Our phone number though is

1433
01:40:38.960 --> 01:40:44.359
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. You know, I

1434
01:40:44.520 --> 01:40:47.680
know you as a listener a garden
line. I just believe that we have

1435
01:40:47.800 --> 01:40:50.880
a lot of compassion, of people
that care about other people that listen to

1436
01:40:50.960 --> 01:40:55.640
the show. And of all the
causes that are out there, one that

1437
01:40:55.720 --> 01:40:59.199
just really hits home to me as
a Star of Hope mission here in the

1438
01:40:59.239 --> 01:41:01.600
Houston area. Star of Hopes have
been around a long time. I mean

1439
01:41:01.600 --> 01:41:05.319
it was several decades ago my wife
and I first volunteered at a Star of

1440
01:41:05.399 --> 01:41:09.840
Hope mission. They make a difference. You know. It's one thing to

1441
01:41:09.880 --> 01:41:14.319
hand somebody on the corner who's panhandling
a few bucks to get by. I

1442
01:41:14.359 --> 01:41:16.920
won't go into the details of how
much that helps or hurts, but I

1443
01:41:16.960 --> 01:41:21.039
can tell you this With Star of
Hope, the money goes into long term

1444
01:41:21.079 --> 01:41:25.880
life change people giving them a chance. You know, if you are homeless

1445
01:41:25.920 --> 01:41:29.720
for whatever reason, maybe no fault
to your own, for you to be

1446
01:41:29.760 --> 01:41:32.680
able to get a job, you
can't do you have a transportation to the

1447
01:41:32.760 --> 01:41:34.800
job. Do you know how to
get a job? Were you ever taught

1448
01:41:34.800 --> 01:41:39.199
how to do an interview? How
to hold a job? Are you struggling

1449
01:41:39.199 --> 01:41:42.840
with substance abuse and that's affecting your
ability to hold a job? Star of

1450
01:41:42.920 --> 01:41:45.199
Hoop does all of that. They
reach all of that. Two dollars and

1451
01:41:45.279 --> 01:41:48.199
eighty cents provides a meal at Star
Hope and by the way, they serve

1452
01:41:48.279 --> 01:41:53.560
six thousand meals a week. They
are making a difference. It's not just

1453
01:41:53.680 --> 01:41:59.000
a handout. It is long term
life change that is changing the face of

1454
01:41:59.039 --> 01:42:03.479
homelessness. And I would encourage you
to check out s o Hmission dot org.

1455
01:42:03.840 --> 01:42:08.960
S oh mission dot org. It
is an incredibly good cause and when

1456
01:42:09.000 --> 01:42:13.239
you learn about the difference they make, it just moves It moves me to

1457
01:42:13.319 --> 01:42:16.479
compassion, and it moves me to
want to do something where my dollars really

1458
01:42:16.520 --> 01:42:20.039
make a lasting change. We're going
to take a break now and go to

1459
01:42:20.119 --> 01:42:25.039
news again. The number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four,

1460
01:42:28.159 --> 01:42:32.159
All of days long, man Up, and the song all the Little

1461
01:42:32.159 --> 01:42:39.239
Birds on deep Birthspeet, Don't do
it. The Robin Ball tweet tea good

1462
01:42:39.359 --> 01:42:45.159
Sunday morning. Appropriate music for today. We're visiting with Rich Dye from wild

1463
01:42:45.199 --> 01:42:47.520
Birds Unlimited about all things birds.
If you'd like to give us a call

1464
01:42:47.560 --> 01:42:51.039
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four, And we are not

1465
01:42:51.119 --> 01:42:55.239
going to waste time and go straight
out to the NASA area and talk to

1466
01:42:55.319 --> 01:42:59.680
Matt. Good morning, Matt,
what's your question? Hi, Good morning

1467
01:42:59.720 --> 01:43:03.079
guys. Um. I was living
down in Corpus for quite a while and

1468
01:43:03.119 --> 01:43:09.680
there was some really bright green colored
humming birds, almost a metallic or iridescent

1469
01:43:09.760 --> 01:43:13.359
color, and I haven't seen them
here in the Houston area. Just said

1470
01:43:13.640 --> 01:43:17.199
it was a different species, or
yeah, Houston it is. It's called

1471
01:43:17.199 --> 01:43:24.199
the buff bellied hummingbird UM and they're
they're very common in South Texas. They're

1472
01:43:24.239 --> 01:43:27.800
in the yury freeze. A few
years ago, I actually had a buff

1473
01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:31.399
belly show up in my backyard.
Oddly enough, he was knocked off course

1474
01:43:31.399 --> 01:43:34.479
a little bit, I think.
But yeah, the buff bellies are pretty

1475
01:43:34.479 --> 01:43:39.079
common down in that area, and
they're they're a beautiful bird, very they're

1476
01:43:39.119 --> 01:43:42.159
they're a bigger bird. And yeah, I've got that real dark green,

1477
01:43:42.279 --> 01:43:46.039
metallic look to them. Okay,
Yeah, I just was kind of curious.

1478
01:43:46.079 --> 01:43:48.239
I tried to look it up on
my own and I wasn't able to.

1479
01:43:48.720 --> 01:43:53.319
Yeah. Yeah, well, we
mostly get here are ruby throated humming

1480
01:43:53.319 --> 01:43:56.920
birds. Those are going to be
the birds that are migrating through um but

1481
01:43:57.279 --> 01:44:00.159
also in the winter. We always
encourage folks to after the the ruby throated

1482
01:44:00.239 --> 01:44:03.279
of left. And by the way, there's another myth out there that says

1483
01:44:03.600 --> 01:44:08.239
you have to take your feeders down. Other words, otherwise the birds won't

1484
01:44:08.239 --> 01:44:11.479
migrate. It's not true. The
birds. The birds are on their own

1485
01:44:11.520 --> 01:44:14.800
clock, so they're gonna leave when
it's time to leave. But I encourage

1486
01:44:14.840 --> 01:44:19.840
folks to leave one small feeder out
all the way through the holidays because we

1487
01:44:19.920 --> 01:44:25.239
get rufous hummingbirds that will winter here. So those birds are up in the

1488
01:44:25.239 --> 01:44:30.720
Pacific Northwest, up in the Oregon, Washington, up into Canada. That's

1489
01:44:30.760 --> 01:44:33.399
their breeding ground, and then when
they migrate, they'll go down the west

1490
01:44:33.399 --> 01:44:36.840
coast. They won't cross the rockies, they'll follow the coast lying down,

1491
01:44:36.920 --> 01:44:41.359
and then once they get down to
the desert southwest, some will peel off

1492
01:44:41.720 --> 01:44:45.359
and head up the Gulf coast and
winter here in the winter. So yeah,

1493
01:44:45.399 --> 01:44:48.560
so keep one. I keep one
small, like a four ounce feeder

1494
01:44:48.640 --> 01:44:54.279
out and if you get one,
you'll notice that the nectar will start dropping

1495
01:44:54.279 --> 01:44:57.439
because they're they're they're a little bit
more shy and they'll be on their own.

1496
01:44:57.560 --> 01:45:00.880
So but not uncommon for folks to
have rufus humming birds all winter.

1497
01:45:01.439 --> 01:45:05.159
Nice. Hey, thank you for
the question, Matt. I appreciate that

1498
01:45:06.079 --> 01:45:10.680
that was good. Good to know, good to think about. Let's head

1499
01:45:10.680 --> 01:45:14.079
out now to the gallery area and
we are going to talk to Paula.

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01:45:14.439 --> 01:45:19.079
Hello, Paula, Hi, good
morning. I have excuse me, an

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01:45:19.239 --> 01:45:25.840
enclosed fence then patio, and I
have a bird bath and a fountain,

1502
01:45:28.039 --> 01:45:34.520
and I cannot attract birds or eating
or butterflies or eating bees. Um.

1503
01:45:34.640 --> 01:45:41.600
I'm growing really right now. The
only thing I have blooming are mandavilla,

1504
01:45:41.880 --> 01:45:45.600
but I don't but no birds?
Is it because my fence is too high.

1505
01:45:45.640 --> 01:45:50.640
I mean, can they not see
or smell or however they detect water

1506
01:45:50.720 --> 01:45:55.079
and food? Well, you know
it. Probably I could probably help you

1507
01:45:55.119 --> 01:45:58.479
a little beout her if if you
were you could send me a picture of

1508
01:45:58.520 --> 01:46:04.439
your backyards into to my email at
at Houston, TX WBU at aol dot

1509
01:46:04.479 --> 01:46:09.760
com let me see it. I
think a lot of it just comes down

1510
01:46:09.840 --> 01:46:14.960
to is there something in your yard
that's intrusting to the birds. They'll find

1511
01:46:15.000 --> 01:46:17.560
it. Um. So, I
think it's a matter of It's like anything,

1512
01:46:17.680 --> 01:46:20.760
right. So when folks put up
a brand new feeder for the very

1513
01:46:20.800 --> 01:46:25.479
first time, they some will call
me in a couple of days and say

1514
01:46:25.520 --> 01:46:29.039
it's not working. The birds aren't
coming to my feeder. It's gonna take

1515
01:46:29.119 --> 01:46:32.520
time, right, So when folks
put up feeders for the first time,

1516
01:46:32.640 --> 01:46:35.720
sometimes you gotta give it a month
or so for the birds to really find

1517
01:46:35.760 --> 01:46:40.960
it. Birds are like people there. They're creatures of habit and they've got

1518
01:46:41.000 --> 01:46:44.640
a forage pattern that they go through. Uh. And so really it's a

1519
01:46:44.680 --> 01:46:49.319
matter of your yard getting on a
bird's forage pattern. If you've got something

1520
01:46:49.439 --> 01:46:54.960
interrusting back there. The water is
a great start, and sometimes you can

1521
01:46:55.000 --> 01:47:00.880
put things out like a little yellow
or little yellow flags to that wave in

1522
01:47:00.920 --> 01:47:02.840
the wind. Birds are kind of
nosy, man, so if they see

1523
01:47:02.880 --> 01:47:08.079
something like that, they may come
see what that's all about. Um.

1524
01:47:08.159 --> 01:47:11.680
But that's sometimes it's just difficult and
you got to give a time. I

1525
01:47:11.720 --> 01:47:15.960
don't know how long you've had your
mandavilla and your water in your backyard,

1526
01:47:15.079 --> 01:47:17.840
but again, it really it just
takes time. Do you have a lot

1527
01:47:17.840 --> 01:47:24.079
of trees or no? Uh no, no. I live in a townhouse

1528
01:47:24.359 --> 01:47:29.600
and so I'm basically I'm surrounded by
other fence, you know, other fenced

1529
01:47:29.640 --> 01:47:32.880
in patios right right, So I
would I would submit, it's just you

1530
01:47:32.920 --> 01:47:36.760
know, my my mother, she
lived in an apartment for twenty years on

1531
01:47:36.800 --> 01:47:41.159
the ground floor, and I would
have never guessed in a million years that

1532
01:47:41.279 --> 01:47:44.680
she would attract birds to her patio
because she backed up to a parking lot.

1533
01:47:45.199 --> 01:47:47.600
But what she ended up doing is
she put out a it's called a

1534
01:47:47.640 --> 01:47:53.000
seed cylinder feeder, so it's just
a block of seed and she puts we

1535
01:47:53.079 --> 01:47:57.119
put saff flour out there for her
because the grackles won't eat it. Um.

1536
01:47:57.520 --> 01:48:02.239
But she attracted cardinals and chickadees and
wrens and house finches right to her

1537
01:48:02.279 --> 01:48:06.199
backyard, right on the parking lots
of an apartment building that she did it

1538
01:48:06.279 --> 01:48:11.039
for a while. Yeah, and
the hummingbirds coming out as well with that

1539
01:48:11.119 --> 01:48:14.560
man the villa. I wouldn't be
surprised if the hummingbirds find that. So

1540
01:48:14.680 --> 01:48:17.000
you might think about putting a hummingbird
feeder out as well in the next week

1541
01:48:17.079 --> 01:48:20.159
or two. Okay, okay,
perfect, all right, thank you so

1542
01:48:20.279 --> 01:48:24.119
much. That is great information.
Thank you very much. We're going to

1543
01:48:24.159 --> 01:48:26.680
go to Sharon and West Chase.
Hey, Sharon, we got about a

1544
01:48:26.680 --> 01:48:30.720
minute Joe break. How can we
help Hey, I wouldn't would you please

1545
01:48:30.760 --> 01:48:35.319
go over again? Just the list
of the flowers, flowers that attract the

1546
01:48:35.399 --> 01:48:39.760
hummingbirds. And there's a flower that
I remember but I can't think of the

1547
01:48:39.880 --> 01:48:45.640
name. And it has orange,
right orange blossoms on it, and I

1548
01:48:45.760 --> 01:48:48.800
used to have those, but they
I don't have them anymore. Well,

1549
01:48:48.960 --> 01:48:53.880
the orange could have been like trumpet
creeper, that's one that they may go

1550
01:48:53.960 --> 01:48:56.760
to. No, it was something
like fire. It had another name like

1551
01:48:56.920 --> 01:49:04.600
fire in it of oh fire bush
firebush Amelia patterns is heat tolerant and it

1552
01:49:04.640 --> 01:49:09.840
has these tubular red orange flowers kind
of have a little yellow up that they

1553
01:49:09.920 --> 01:49:13.399
like. And you said Amelia.
Is that what you said? Amelia patterns

1554
01:49:13.520 --> 01:49:16.039
pat Amelia, that's the name I
remember. Yeah, okaye, a lot

1555
01:49:16.079 --> 01:49:18.880
of that. And it did attract
the hummingbird. Yeah, it does,

1556
01:49:18.960 --> 01:49:23.560
it does. And we got so
many flowers that we should be growing here

1557
01:49:23.640 --> 01:49:27.239
that we can, yeah, at
least review the flowers again. And also

1558
01:49:27.319 --> 01:49:30.520
I just wanted to say that I
attract the cardinals by going out in the

1559
01:49:30.560 --> 01:49:38.359
afternoon later when it's not quite sublazing
hot into water in my patio area with

1560
01:49:38.520 --> 01:49:42.079
a I have a spray nozzle and
it'll shoot far up in the air,

1561
01:49:42.159 --> 01:49:45.560
so I'll put it. I'll shoot
it up in the air and it'll fall

1562
01:49:45.640 --> 01:49:48.760
back down through my trees like I've
got ligustrium and holly and everything that have

1563
01:49:48.840 --> 01:49:55.600
grown into trees. And the cardinals
would just come flying in and I'll hear

1564
01:49:55.640 --> 01:50:00.640
them. They'll start tweeting, and
they love to just get inside the foliage

1565
01:50:00.880 --> 01:50:04.239
and flutter their wings and bathe in
the in the water. They love.

1566
01:50:05.319 --> 01:50:09.640
Sounded like a dog. And I
go outside, they hear us come out,

1567
01:50:09.960 --> 01:50:12.239
and they'll fly in and wait for
me to turn on the host.

1568
01:50:12.800 --> 01:50:15.920
That's good. Sounds like the word
on the street with the birds is Sharon's

1569
01:50:15.960 --> 01:50:18.159
place is a place to go hang
out. That's how my neighbors have oaks

1570
01:50:18.159 --> 01:50:20.960
too. We all have trees,
so we have a little bit of a

1571
01:50:21.000 --> 01:50:25.239
sanctuary circle around. Well, Sharon, thank you for the call. I

1572
01:50:25.319 --> 01:50:28.520
appreciate that we're gonna have to take
a break here. We're talking with rich

1573
01:50:28.720 --> 01:50:30.720
Edie from wild Birds Unlimited. We'll
be right back after break. Our phone

1574
01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:34.439
number seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. And Joan,

1575
01:50:34.520 --> 01:50:51.880
you'll be first up when we come
back. And well, you are listening

1576
01:50:51.920 --> 01:50:55.680
to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are with

1577
01:50:55.920 --> 01:51:00.520
rich Dy from wild Birds Unlimited.
Wild Birds Unlimited. They're seven story across

1578
01:51:00.560 --> 01:51:05.199
the Houston area. Just go to
WABU dot com forward slash Houston and you

1579
01:51:05.239 --> 01:51:09.199
can find all the wildbirds right here. And we've been talking all kinds of

1580
01:51:09.199 --> 01:51:14.000
things birds today and the last couple
of collars, we were talking about some

1581
01:51:14.039 --> 01:51:15.920
plants that they might like. And
you know, there are long lists of

1582
01:51:16.000 --> 01:51:19.640
plants that hummingbirds like, but one
that I've noticed in my yard that they

1583
01:51:19.720 --> 01:51:25.640
just love, or a lot of
the salvias there's a salvia called Salvia gara

1584
01:51:25.760 --> 01:51:30.600
nitica. Sometimes it's called a nice
scented sage. Sometimes it's called hummingbird sage.

1585
01:51:30.640 --> 01:51:34.560
That's another colloquial name for it.
But it reminds me of something rich.

1586
01:51:34.640 --> 01:51:38.680
Then we were talking about during break
that it doesn't have to be a

1587
01:51:38.720 --> 01:51:41.840
red tubular flower for a hummingbird to
be interested in it. A lot of

1588
01:51:41.880 --> 01:51:45.119
these blue, purple and other salvias
are really popular. Absolutely. Yeah,

1589
01:51:45.000 --> 01:51:48.920
I know. I've got purple salvia
in my backyard in front yard and they

1590
01:51:49.119 --> 01:51:54.600
love that stuff. And again,
remember while it can be a nectar bearing

1591
01:51:54.640 --> 01:52:00.760
plant that it's important. They're also
harvesting spiders in mosquitos and gnats. They're

1592
01:52:00.800 --> 01:52:04.520
eating a lot of insects. Okay, So anything that will host these little

1593
01:52:04.560 --> 01:52:09.159
insects, they're gonna love it.
So yep, that's nice. That is

1594
01:52:09.199 --> 01:52:14.119
good to remember. They aren't just
entertaining our eyes. They are actually helping

1595
01:52:14.199 --> 01:52:16.840
us with the oil. Mosquitoes.
Boy, we could use a few less

1596
01:52:16.840 --> 01:52:20.880
mosquitoes around the Great Area, that's
for sure. Hey, there's some events

1597
01:52:20.920 --> 01:52:24.960
coming up who are regarding hummingbirds.
Will you tell me a little more about

1598
01:52:25.119 --> 01:52:28.000
Yeah, for sure. So everybody
loves hummingbirds. I mean, by far

1599
01:52:28.159 --> 01:52:31.119
the most popular bird. When we
get to the season, our customers certainly

1600
01:52:31.159 --> 01:52:36.239
get really excited. But we wanted
to make sure everybody were aware of three

1601
01:52:36.279 --> 01:52:41.760
pretty big events in our area and
they're all in September. September ninth,

1602
01:52:41.960 --> 01:52:45.279
there's a Hummingbird Festival at club Woods, which is a Harris County park.

1603
01:52:45.720 --> 01:52:50.000
It's up at twenty nine twenty and
Mushki. If you've never been to Clubwoods,

1604
01:52:50.119 --> 01:52:54.520
highly encourage you to go. It's
a beautiful old homestead home by the

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01:52:54.600 --> 01:52:59.640
name of the guy was club Wood
and it's beautiful year round. But they

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01:52:59.680 --> 01:53:03.920
will have a hummingbird festival on Saturday, September ninth. They'll do the hummingbird

1607
01:53:03.920 --> 01:53:09.479
banding. An interesting note on that, people wonder if hummingbirds came back to

1608
01:53:09.520 --> 01:53:14.840
the same place every year they captured
the same female Rufus hummingbird, like seven

1609
01:53:14.920 --> 01:53:17.840
years in a row after they banded
it. So they banded it and then

1610
01:53:17.880 --> 01:53:23.800
subsequently seven years in a row they
captured the same bird and checked the band

1611
01:53:24.600 --> 01:53:27.960
So that's a really good one.
There's another one that will be down.

1612
01:53:28.159 --> 01:53:31.760
Everybody probably knows about the Rockport Festival. That's down at Rockport, Texas.

1613
01:53:31.840 --> 01:53:35.880
That's from the fourteenth to the seventeenth. Okay, that's a huge festival and

1614
01:53:35.920 --> 01:53:40.680
they've got all kinds of stuff going
on. It's a nice easy drive down

1615
01:53:40.720 --> 01:53:45.079
there. Strongly encourage you to go. They have personal homes that are on

1616
01:53:45.119 --> 01:53:47.840
a walking tour. There's a lady. The word I got one time is

1617
01:53:47.840 --> 01:53:53.560
that she'll go through forty pounds of
sugar a week feeding hummingbirds because it's a

1618
01:53:53.560 --> 01:53:56.640
big staging area for the birds getting
ready to head back across the Gulf of

1619
01:53:56.680 --> 01:54:00.399
Mexico. So the Rockbord Festival is
awesome. That's seventh, the fourteenth through

1620
01:54:00.439 --> 01:54:04.319
the seventeenth of September. And then
a little bit closer to home then is

1621
01:54:04.439 --> 01:54:09.479
Lake Jackson, the Gulf Coast Bird
Observatory right down there on the coast,

1622
01:54:09.760 --> 01:54:15.279
just outside Lake Jackson. They're gonna
have it on two Saturdays, September sixteenth

1623
01:54:15.319 --> 01:54:17.760
and September twenty third, and that's
going to be from eight in the morning

1624
01:54:17.840 --> 01:54:23.119
till noon of those two saturdays.
And again it's a place to go see

1625
01:54:23.159 --> 01:54:26.840
the birds and they'll be doing banding
and things like that. And if you've

1626
01:54:26.880 --> 01:54:30.239
never been to Gulf Coast Birding Observatory. You can go back and look at

1627
01:54:30.279 --> 01:54:33.840
our Facebook page. Back in April, we saw some beautiful migratory birds come

1628
01:54:33.880 --> 01:54:42.039
through there this last spring. Red
tanagers, Baltimore orioles, walnut chested warblers

1629
01:54:42.399 --> 01:54:45.720
are sited. So yeah, so
if you've never been another, it's really

1630
01:54:45.760 --> 01:54:49.239
easy drive down there. It's not
a huge place, so you can walk

1631
01:54:49.279 --> 01:54:53.000
around, but it's beautiful. You
can get some good pictures as well.

1632
01:54:53.279 --> 01:54:56.920
You know, as you're getting into
being interested in birds and bringing them to

1633
01:54:56.960 --> 01:55:00.239
your backyard, it's good to have
good resources to learn more bottom in which

1634
01:55:00.720 --> 01:55:05.039
your your wall. Bird websites are
just just awesome for providing information, but

1635
01:55:05.079 --> 01:55:09.720
also when you walk in a store, you got people helping you that really

1636
01:55:09.760 --> 01:55:13.319
know what they're talking about and they
kind of direct you. Absolutely. Yeah,

1637
01:55:13.439 --> 01:55:15.840
no, all of our all of
our team members go through what we

1638
01:55:15.880 --> 01:55:19.880
called a Certified Bird Feeding Specialist program, so they'll ask you the questions.

1639
01:55:19.920 --> 01:55:24.479
If you've got a particular problem you
want to get solved, tell us what

1640
01:55:24.560 --> 01:55:27.800
you're trying to figure out, or
if you're just getting into the hobby,

1641
01:55:28.279 --> 01:55:30.239
we can we can help you every
step of the way. And if you're

1642
01:55:30.279 --> 01:55:34.199
trying to solve a problem. Like
one of the earlier callers, pictures always

1643
01:55:34.199 --> 01:55:36.760
help. If you've got a particular
problem you want to solve, we can

1644
01:55:36.800 --> 01:55:40.840
take a look at that and make
some recommendations. That's good. That's good

1645
01:55:40.880 --> 01:55:45.600
information. And plus, you know, I coming from not knowing about birds,

1646
01:55:45.840 --> 01:55:49.640
I have had a long educational process. I got a long way to

1647
01:55:49.680 --> 01:55:53.319
go still. But one of the
thing is, you know, you see

1648
01:55:53.359 --> 01:55:56.279
bird seed for sale everywhere, and
it's full of those little red babies.

1649
01:55:56.920 --> 01:56:00.319
And when you look at it and
you go, oh, that's too bird

1650
01:56:00.319 --> 01:56:03.119
seed. I can afford that,
And then you bring it back and you

1651
01:56:03.239 --> 01:56:08.399
realize birds don't really like to eat
those little red babies. They're hard and

1652
01:56:08.439 --> 01:56:12.119
they're you know, they get kicked
out on the ground till they finally maybe

1653
01:56:12.199 --> 01:56:15.319
some doves drop down there because they're
starving or right. But you guys have

1654
01:56:15.600 --> 01:56:19.079
seed that's directed for different times of
the year, different kinds of birds,

1655
01:56:19.159 --> 01:56:24.760
different goals. And you also have
the mess free seeds. That's right.

1656
01:56:24.880 --> 01:56:28.119
So instead of you know, breaking
up the black ole sunflower or whatever and

1657
01:56:28.199 --> 01:56:30.279
dropping the shells everywhere you can get
just go to the straight seed. I

1658
01:56:30.319 --> 01:56:33.439
have your safflower seed that's like that
that I'm using my feeders right now.

1659
01:56:33.600 --> 01:56:36.880
Yeah, so that's our no mess
blend and so yeah. So you know,

1660
01:56:38.199 --> 01:56:41.199
as much as we would love to
sell everybody all their bird seed all

1661
01:56:41.199 --> 01:56:45.720
the time, we realize you're gonna
buy elsewhere. I just encourage folks if

1662
01:56:45.720 --> 01:56:48.319
they're buying a songbird blend of any
kind, if you look at the ingredients

1663
01:56:48.319 --> 01:56:56.039
and you see corn, milow,
wheat, those are ingredients the birds absolutely

1664
01:56:56.079 --> 01:56:59.600
positively will not eat. They're going
to kick it to the ground and so

1665
01:57:00.319 --> 01:57:02.600
everything. And we have no cereal
fillers in our feed, like we get

1666
01:57:02.720 --> 01:57:08.520
seed in every week so it's fresh
and so yeah, and we've got different

1667
01:57:08.560 --> 01:57:13.159
blends and different types of seeds to
target specific things that you that you want

1668
01:57:13.159 --> 01:57:15.880
to feed well. And I think
the point too that I'm making is you

1669
01:57:15.960 --> 01:57:19.720
may look at something and think,
well, that's that's a good price on

1670
01:57:19.800 --> 01:57:26.600
bird seed, But when half of
it is getting not eaten, that's right,

1671
01:57:26.760 --> 01:57:29.159
Is that a good price on bird
seed or not? You're you're doubling

1672
01:57:29.239 --> 01:57:31.079
what it costs you essentially, you
know, and I know it's exactly.

1673
01:57:31.079 --> 01:57:33.640
I think it's even like up to
seventy percent. It can be up to

1674
01:57:33.680 --> 01:57:36.359
seventy percent for sure, and so
yeah, the birds are going to kick

1675
01:57:36.359 --> 01:57:39.880
it to the ground, and then
with that laying on the ground, you're

1676
01:57:39.880 --> 01:57:44.640
going to attract probably some some things
that you're not interested in seeing as well.

1677
01:57:44.760 --> 01:57:47.319
So the no masses are great because
it's there's no shell mass on the

1678
01:57:47.359 --> 01:57:51.800
ground. One hundred percent of the
seed that's in the bag is edible and

1679
01:57:51.840 --> 01:57:56.399
it's highly improbable that it will germinate
as well, So you're not going to

1680
01:57:56.479 --> 01:58:00.399
get some flower seeds popping up under
your feeders in your yards. So it's

1681
01:58:00.439 --> 01:58:02.720
a nice tidy way of feeding your
birds. Yeah, and I'd noticed in

1682
01:58:02.760 --> 01:58:08.319
the past when I first was going
and using a cheap bird seed, you

1683
01:58:08.359 --> 01:58:11.720
would just watch the bird seed level
just drop real fast, that's right.

1684
01:58:11.760 --> 01:58:14.239
And then you look in the feeder
and it's like, oh, I said,

1685
01:58:14.239 --> 01:58:18.119
the red babies the milo you're talking
about corn, and they're just basically

1686
01:58:18.159 --> 01:58:20.840
going through it trying to find stuff
they can eat, right, Whereas I

1687
01:58:20.840 --> 01:58:25.840
put out the sapphire thing, and
my gosh, the birds are there all

1688
01:58:25.840 --> 01:58:29.359
the time, but the level is
dropping very slowly that I'm not putting out

1689
01:58:29.359 --> 01:58:31.119
as much feed. Yeah, I
convinced the guy one time he came in

1690
01:58:31.239 --> 01:58:34.840
and said he insisted on buying this, this cheap blend at a at a

1691
01:58:34.880 --> 01:58:38.520
box store. He said, ooh, they just love it. They ripped

1692
01:58:38.520 --> 01:58:41.319
through it, and so you know, I told him, I said,

1693
01:58:41.520 --> 01:58:44.239
I said, do me a favor, try at five pound bag of the

1694
01:58:44.279 --> 01:58:46.880
snow mouse, and then you tell
me what the difference is. And he

1695
01:58:47.000 --> 01:58:51.720
converted to a full time bird seed
customer because he realized all of it was

1696
01:58:51.760 --> 01:58:55.359
going to the ground. There you
go, there you go. That's that's

1697
01:58:55.399 --> 01:58:57.840
a good point. Hey, we're
going to head out to Waller now,

1698
01:58:57.960 --> 01:59:00.159
Joan, thanks for waiting. What
kind of question can we help you with

1699
01:59:00.199 --> 01:59:03.600
today? Yes, yes, good
morning, gentlemen, and I'm a first

1700
01:59:03.600 --> 01:59:06.840
time caller, so I appreciate being
able to get in. Thank you.

1701
01:59:08.600 --> 01:59:12.640
We have acreage and Waller, and
on that acreage we do have an agg

1702
01:59:12.760 --> 01:59:16.520
wildlife exemption because we do feed the
birds. We take care of the birds

1703
01:59:17.000 --> 01:59:23.159
every year. We have a private
company either do a winter bird survey or

1704
01:59:23.319 --> 01:59:28.079
a breeding bird survey in the springtime. And you're right the populations are declining,

1705
01:59:28.119 --> 01:59:31.439
both in terms of sure numbers of
the birds and species. But my

1706
01:59:31.640 --> 01:59:35.479
question today is related to a property
that we've owned for the last eight years

1707
01:59:35.479 --> 01:59:41.439
in Georgetown, Texas, because it's
in a restricted fifty five plus community which

1708
01:59:41.479 --> 01:59:45.479
shall remain nameless for noll And to
make long story short, I've tried for

1709
01:59:45.520 --> 01:59:54.039
eight years doing the organics with the
corn gluten fertilizer, no pesticides, despite

1710
01:59:54.079 --> 01:59:58.720
our neighbors on all sides, you
know, having the landscape companies that pour

1711
01:59:58.840 --> 02:00:02.000
on the pesticides and herbicides as well. But during those eight years, I

1712
02:00:02.039 --> 02:00:06.399
had violets that came up. I
had dandelions, I had what my mom

1713
02:00:06.479 --> 02:00:11.239
used to call digitalis, which I
think is like a called a liar back

1714
02:00:11.359 --> 02:00:15.039
something. And we had hummingbirds and
also had blue bonnets to escape from the

1715
02:00:15.079 --> 02:00:21.000
flower beds onto the lot itself.
And one of the things was this particular

1716
02:00:21.199 --> 02:00:25.600
h well it's called a cia.
It's not an hoa yet. But they

1717
02:00:26.239 --> 02:00:29.920
allowed the blue bonnets, which was
great because we also had butterflies as well

1718
02:00:29.960 --> 02:00:34.199
as birds, blue blue birds.
We even had a woodpecker that tried to

1719
02:00:34.239 --> 02:00:38.920
make a home out of our porch
post, so that was kind of discouraged

1720
02:00:39.000 --> 02:00:42.159
by us. Say Joan, I
wish, I wish we had another hour

1721
02:00:42.199 --> 02:00:45.000
because this is sounding fun, but
we actually have about fifteen seconds left.

1722
02:00:45.000 --> 02:00:49.079
So to make a long story short, I've had to go now with chemicals

1723
02:00:49.119 --> 02:00:53.760
and we're not seeing the birds because
the h or the CIA was going to

1724
02:00:53.840 --> 02:00:58.560
start giving me violations. And I
guess it's just a question. Is it

1725
02:00:58.600 --> 02:01:02.399
a matter of time before the the
politics of the world change and allow people

1726
02:01:02.439 --> 02:01:06.039
to have native All righty, well, we're gonna we're gonna go to break

1727
02:01:06.039 --> 02:01:10.000
here, we'll come back. Maybe
I'll have a comment or so on that.

1728
02:01:10.640 --> 02:01:13.119
Thank you so much, rich for
being with us today. Rich Edie

1729
02:01:13.159 --> 02:01:17.079
from Wilbirds Unlimited. Go to WBU
dot com forward slash Houston for more information.

1730
02:01:17.359 --> 02:01:21.319
Thank you, Bye bye. Ktr
H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse

1731
02:01:21.399 --> 02:01:27.920
any of the products or services advertised
on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden

1732
02:01:27.960 --> 02:01:42.359
Line with Skip Ricord. Just watch
well. You are listening to garden Line

1733
02:01:42.439 --> 02:01:46.399
on a beautiful Sunday morning. It
is just gorgeous outside. Good day to

1734
02:01:46.399 --> 02:01:50.359
be out and about this afternoon.
I hope you dropped by and visit some

1735
02:01:50.479 --> 02:01:54.640
of our great local garden centers here
in town. You know, we're talking

1736
02:01:54.960 --> 02:02:00.119
to rich ADYE from Wabird's Unlimited about
birds this whole last hour and it's a

1737
02:02:00.159 --> 02:02:04.600
really interesting topic. Thanks Rich for
coming in for that really really enlightening.

1738
02:02:05.239 --> 02:02:09.479
But we talk about plants a little
bit, and you know, there are

1739
02:02:09.520 --> 02:02:13.760
so many plants that are important for
bringing in birds, and we talked about

1740
02:02:13.840 --> 02:02:16.239
Salvia's, for example, being a
really good choice. I mean, there's

1741
02:02:16.279 --> 02:02:19.760
a list of dozens of plants we
could mention, but if you're out in

1742
02:02:19.840 --> 02:02:25.600
the Kingwood area, you're fortunate to
have Warrens Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center

1743
02:02:25.680 --> 02:02:28.720
there and they carry Salvia's and they
carry many other plants. You go in

1744
02:02:28.760 --> 02:02:30.560
and say, hey, look,
I'm looking for things that hummingbirds like,

1745
02:02:30.680 --> 02:02:33.239
and I'd like to spread it out
through the season, which is a good

1746
02:02:33.279 --> 02:02:36.279
idea, by the way, things
that bloom in spring and summer and in

1747
02:02:36.359 --> 02:02:42.000
fall. For example, Warrens Southern
Gardens on North Park Drive, Kingwood Gardens

1748
02:02:42.039 --> 02:02:45.520
Center on Stone Hollow, they've got
all of that. It's a good time

1749
02:02:45.560 --> 02:02:47.640
also to get out there if you
haven't put some colladiums out. I'm telling

1750
02:02:47.680 --> 02:02:50.279
you, colladiums if you give them
a little moisture. They laugh at this

1751
02:02:50.399 --> 02:02:55.079
weather. They think this is wonderful
weather because they're going to be under the

1752
02:02:55.159 --> 02:02:59.399
shade of a tree and just setting
that area of blaze. And Warrens has

1753
02:02:59.439 --> 02:03:03.319
a nice selection of colladiums of course
as well, so Warren's Garden Center Kingwood

1754
02:03:03.319 --> 02:03:08.960
Garden Center, both open seven days
a week and a great way to get

1755
02:03:09.000 --> 02:03:13.560
some of those plants that will attract
hummingbirds and other kinds of birds to your

1756
02:03:13.640 --> 02:03:16.479
landscape. Were listening to garden Line, I am your host, Skip Ricter

1757
02:03:16.600 --> 02:03:23.319
our phone number seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. Give

1758
02:03:23.399 --> 02:03:27.920
us a call seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. We

1759
02:03:27.960 --> 02:03:30.119
had a couple of people we asked
to wait a little bit while we're talking

1760
02:03:30.159 --> 02:03:34.159
birds to get to other kinds of
questions. But we're wide open right now.

1761
02:03:34.199 --> 02:03:40.600
We'd love to have you give us
a call. If you're interested in

1762
02:03:40.720 --> 02:03:44.680
living in a place where you have
a beautiful home and a community garden and

1763
02:03:45.159 --> 02:03:48.760
everything else as far as amenities,
then that's called a Dell Web community in

1764
02:03:48.920 --> 02:03:54.640
Fullsher Texas. In full Shore,
Texas, two miles from downtown Fullshire on

1765
02:03:54.760 --> 02:04:00.159
Highway our FM three fifty nine is
a new Dell Web community and I'm helping

1766
02:04:00.239 --> 02:04:02.800
them with a community garden that they've
got going in there. Now, if

1767
02:04:02.840 --> 02:04:06.159
you know Dell Weeb, you know
you've got quality building, you got in

1768
02:04:06.359 --> 02:04:12.600
communities that are gorgeous, and you
have lifestyle programs built around you. So

1769
02:04:12.640 --> 02:04:16.079
I can't think of a better place
for gardening retirement than a Dellweb community with

1770
02:04:16.119 --> 02:04:19.920
a community garden. Go to dellweb
dot com forward slash Houston. You can

1771
02:04:19.920 --> 02:04:24.439
get more information that way, or
just give him a call them at two

1772
02:04:24.479 --> 02:04:30.720
eight one four five nine zero six
zero nine and discover that Dellweb difference for

1773
02:04:30.760 --> 02:04:31.520
yourself. I need to get back
out there. It's been a wall.

1774
02:04:31.520 --> 02:04:35.760
ST's been out that community, see
how things are going, because I'm really

1775
02:04:35.760 --> 02:04:40.840
excited just the idea of a community
garden and a community like that. Wow,

1776
02:04:40.960 --> 02:04:46.159
that makes my gardening heart happy to
hear about. Our phone number is

1777
02:04:46.159 --> 02:04:51.000
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. You know, I've

1778
02:04:51.039 --> 02:04:57.000
had some calls this morning, and
really we often do on is it okay

1779
02:04:57.000 --> 02:05:00.359
to plant such and such right now? And you know we talk about fall

1780
02:05:00.399 --> 02:05:03.039
being an excellent time to plant Winner's
fine. Spring is fine, and then

1781
02:05:03.119 --> 02:05:06.000
you know in summer it's a little
more of a challenge, but it can

1782
02:05:06.039 --> 02:05:11.720
still be done. And so there's
no need to delay. In fact,

1783
02:05:11.760 --> 02:05:15.359
now it's a great time to get
you know, some wonderful plants that will

1784
02:05:15.399 --> 02:05:17.000
do well in your area. I
mean you pick up, for example,

1785
02:05:17.039 --> 02:05:21.960
habiscus. The perennial habiscus are just
so gorgeous. So we talked about firebush

1786
02:05:23.000 --> 02:05:28.000
a minute ago. Amelia pattents that's
got the tubular flowers that hummingbirds is really

1787
02:05:28.079 --> 02:05:30.000
love. I mean, now's a
good time to plant things like that.

1788
02:05:30.119 --> 02:05:33.199
Just keep them water, to keep
that rootball watered, and they'll do just

1789
02:05:33.399 --> 02:05:38.159
fine. Now, if you know
the plants you like, but you just

1790
02:05:38.159 --> 02:05:41.760
don't know how to design them,
then you need to hire somebody to come

1791
02:05:41.760 --> 02:05:44.720
in. They can put a design
together for you. I mean, you

1792
02:05:44.760 --> 02:05:47.319
know, go ahead and turn your
place into a show place. Maybe the

1793
02:05:47.359 --> 02:05:50.960
front yard, you know, the
drive up look, that first impression.

1794
02:05:51.920 --> 02:05:55.479
That's what you're going for. And
Peer Scapes knows how to do that.

1795
02:05:55.560 --> 02:06:00.119
By the way, Jason and his
team at peer Scapes, they are experts

1796
02:06:00.119 --> 02:06:03.399
and designing. Maybe it's not just
plant beds, I mean it's it's rock

1797
02:06:04.000 --> 02:06:10.359
walkways. Maybe it's rock borders,
other kinds of hardscapes. Maybe your irrigation

1798
02:06:10.439 --> 02:06:13.960
needs tweaking. Maybe you need drainage
fixed, that's Peerscapes and they can put

1799
02:06:14.000 --> 02:06:18.960
it all together. Go to pierscapes
dot com. Peerscapes dot com find out

1800
02:06:19.000 --> 02:06:24.479
more about them or give him a
call two eight one three seven zero five

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zero six zeros. Find out what
quality folks well trained, knowledgeable, they

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02:06:30.520 --> 02:06:36.520
know the area and they have the
design gift if you will, that's Peerscapes.

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02:06:36.640 --> 02:06:40.119
Find out the difference they can make. Maybe you got a backyard area

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02:06:40.159 --> 02:06:43.079
where you want to gather and you
know, with family and friends, and

1805
02:06:43.520 --> 02:06:45.680
you would just like to turn it
into a show place, little landscape lighting.

1806
02:06:45.920 --> 02:06:49.319
There we are Peerscapes. They can
do all of that well. Our

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02:06:49.359 --> 02:06:53.960
phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna

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02:06:54.000 --> 02:06:58.520
head out to Lake Jackson now and
talk to Diana. Hello, Diana,

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02:06:58.640 --> 02:07:00.960
Hey, how are you doing?
List more? I'm well, thank you.

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02:07:01.560 --> 02:07:05.399
I got a quick question. I
think I've got a line that had

1811
02:07:05.439 --> 02:07:11.279
a chinch book attack and I've addressed
it with the triaz side more than one

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02:07:11.279 --> 02:07:15.399
application. But I'm wondering what I
can do to help the lawn come back.

1813
02:07:15.439 --> 02:07:19.960
I know watering, but I have
done the spring fertilization wouldn't be appropriate

1814
02:07:20.039 --> 02:07:26.199
to do another fertilization on it at
this point in time. You did,

1815
02:07:26.399 --> 02:07:29.520
you did it in spring, you
said, right, yeah, yes,

1816
02:07:29.640 --> 02:07:32.199
I would do it again. I
would. I would absolutely, I would

1817
02:07:32.239 --> 02:07:35.399
absolutely do that again. And you've
got a lot of good options out there,

1818
02:07:35.439 --> 02:07:39.760
you know. We we're fortunate here
also to have some great options for

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02:07:39.800 --> 02:07:44.039
selections. But since it's summertime and
you want to get a fertilizer to last

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02:07:44.119 --> 02:07:46.800
you a long, long, long
time, I would consider going, you

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02:07:46.800 --> 02:07:51.439
know, with that nitrofoss silver bag, the super turf. It's a nineteen

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02:07:51.520 --> 02:07:55.920
fourteen yea, it's got the chemistry
design so it's not going to release all

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02:07:55.960 --> 02:07:59.720
at once, So you want a
gradual feeding, just keeping that lawn going

1824
02:07:59.760 --> 02:08:03.119
and rowing and filling in from the
chinch bug damage. That would be a

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02:08:03.119 --> 02:08:07.560
pretty good choice in my opinion,
for doing just that. Okay, perfect,

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02:08:07.600 --> 02:08:09.199
That's what I wanted to know.
Thank you so much, you bet,

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02:08:09.239 --> 02:08:13.600
thank you for the call. Yeah, I appreciate that very much.

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02:08:16.039 --> 02:08:20.079
The thing I'm going with a quality
feed that's going to our feed, lawn

1829
02:08:20.159 --> 02:08:24.239
feed, if you will. Lawn
fertilizers are going to gradually release it out.

1830
02:08:24.479 --> 02:08:28.600
Is it just it provides nutrients over
time at a rate where you know,

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02:08:28.680 --> 02:08:31.560
grass needs a little nutrient each today, and so to have a fertilizer

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02:08:31.680 --> 02:08:37.079
that's designed with that technology is super
super cool, and you know nitrifies.

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02:08:37.159 --> 02:08:39.800
You can find them everywhere. I
mean our home garden centers, our ace

1834
02:08:39.880 --> 02:08:45.359
hardware. They're pretty much everywhere that
we would go looking for a quality product

1835
02:08:45.439 --> 02:08:50.199
like that. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two five eight

1836
02:08:50.359 --> 02:08:56.119
seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. We are

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02:08:56.159 --> 02:09:00.760
in I'm sitting here looking out over
some trees from the studio, some oak

1838
02:09:00.840 --> 02:09:05.079
trees, which reminds me of that
caterpillar conversation we had with Rich eaty from

1839
02:09:05.119 --> 02:09:11.399
wild birds, those caterpillars or song
bird food, and they need a lot

1840
02:09:11.399 --> 02:09:13.199
of caterpillars and they eat them up. So we don't lose the leaves on

1841
02:09:13.239 --> 02:09:18.960
our oak trees and other trees that
caterpillars might eat because we got birds that

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02:09:18.000 --> 02:09:22.039
are helping take care of that.
And that's a wonderful thing. But if

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02:09:22.079 --> 02:09:26.399
you've got beautiful trees on your property, and you know we're entering the hurricane

1844
02:09:26.439 --> 02:09:30.840
season, it might be time to
take a good hard look and make sure

1845
02:09:30.920 --> 02:09:35.399
you don't have any limbs that are
subject to breakage. They're hanging over maybe

1846
02:09:35.439 --> 02:09:37.279
rubbing the roof, hanging over a
power line, drop, coming in your

1847
02:09:37.319 --> 02:09:43.319
neighbor's driveway, whatever. And Affordable
Tree is the folks that we there are

1848
02:09:43.399 --> 02:09:46.800
go to folks on garden line,
you know, Martin Spoon Moore and his

1849
02:09:46.840 --> 02:09:50.479
wife Joe. It's first rate,
first class work. It's the owner being

1850
02:09:50.520 --> 02:09:54.199
involved in the business. I mean
you call and Martin or Joe's can answer

1851
02:09:54.199 --> 02:09:56.439
the phone. That's just the way
it is. By the way, the

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02:09:56.439 --> 02:10:01.600
phone number if you'd like to call
them at seven one three six nine nine

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02:10:01.880 --> 02:10:05.600
two six sixty three, or I
would suggest just go to their website.

1854
02:10:05.600 --> 02:10:11.760
It's Afftree Service dot com. And
it's not just for storm damage, although

1855
02:10:11.800 --> 02:10:16.319
that's what we got in mind right
now it's a storm season. But if

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02:10:16.319 --> 02:10:20.039
you need a consultation and maybe you're
going to do construction around them for crying

1857
02:10:20.039 --> 02:10:24.199
out loud column before you let people
dig and damage tree roots, they can

1858
02:10:24.279 --> 02:10:28.560
help prepare for that. Do you
need deep root feeding or pruning or something

1859
02:10:28.560 --> 02:10:31.119
grinding or anything else like that,
they can take care of it. Martin

1860
02:10:31.319 --> 02:10:35.560
and his wife they've been doing this
for a long time and they do first

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02:10:35.560 --> 02:10:39.680
class work. Again. Aff Tree
service dot com. You can find out

1862
02:10:39.720 --> 02:10:43.680
more information from them when you go
online or just get him a call,

1863
02:10:43.600 --> 02:10:56.039
do somef that you look up from
your glass room with him. Good morning,

1864
02:10:56.720 --> 02:11:01.520
beautiful, beautiful Sunday morning, and
a great day for anything related to

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02:11:01.600 --> 02:11:05.800
gardening. I hope this afternoon you'll
make plans to head out to one of

1866
02:11:05.800 --> 02:11:09.800
our wonderful local garden centers. And
boy do we ever have a lot of

1867
02:11:09.920 --> 02:11:13.159
great garden centers around this area.
We are rich with those kind of things.

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02:11:13.199 --> 02:11:16.319
You know, the Enchanted Gardens out
there in Richmond. That's just a

1869
02:11:16.319 --> 02:11:20.119
good example. If you're done in
the Richmond area and you hit up kind

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02:11:20.119 --> 02:11:22.840
of toward Katie area, that's Enchanted
Gardens. Let me give you their website

1871
02:11:22.920 --> 02:11:26.039
right up front so you can write
this down because you will want to check

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02:11:26.039 --> 02:11:31.479
it out. They have a ton
of wonderful information on the website. I

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02:11:31.520 --> 02:11:35.199
mean it is you want to belong, you want to subscribe to any kind

1874
02:11:35.239 --> 02:11:41.079
of newsletter, top materials they have
because they have got really first quality information.

1875
02:11:41.119 --> 02:11:43.960
You find about sales, find out
about all kinds of things like that.

1876
02:11:43.359 --> 02:11:48.119
So Enchanted Gardens the Linderman family has
been part of this community since nineteen

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02:11:48.199 --> 02:11:54.760
ninety five when Enchanted Gardens first opened. This is truly an unforgettable experience to

1878
02:11:54.800 --> 02:11:56.279
go out of place like that.
I trust me. If you haven't been

1879
02:11:56.279 --> 02:12:00.279
out there, you need to go
check it out. It is really really

1880
02:12:00.279 --> 02:12:03.199
cool and they have a lot of
information you want to build a little fairy

1881
02:12:03.279 --> 02:12:07.359
garden for example, you know those
little one of the statues and figure it's

1882
02:12:07.359 --> 02:12:11.439
like a miniature landscape scene. They've
got something you can just go out and

1883
02:12:11.520 --> 02:12:15.039
see that are out there kind of
give you inspiration. And then they got

1884
02:12:15.119 --> 02:12:18.560
all the little I guess you'd call
it fairy bling to go with it.

1885
02:12:18.960 --> 02:12:22.399
It's pretty cool stuff. I love
going out there. You never know what

1886
02:12:22.479 --> 02:12:24.399
kinds of plants and things are going
to have on hand, but you always

1887
02:12:24.479 --> 02:12:28.760
know that whatever season it is,
everything you need plant wise is going to

1888
02:12:28.840 --> 02:12:31.640
be at Enchanted Gardens. Again.
They're open, by the way, on

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02:12:31.680 --> 02:12:37.239
Saturday from eight to five thirty,
Monday through Saturday eight to five thirty,

1890
02:12:37.479 --> 02:12:39.560
and today from ten am to four
pm, So it's a good data go

1891
02:12:39.600 --> 02:12:41.920
out and get some things. Why
are you there? You can pick up

1892
02:12:41.920 --> 02:12:46.640
the fertilizers and the soils. We
talk about here, now would be a

1893
02:12:46.680 --> 02:12:50.239
good time to plant all of those
heat loving plants. And when you get

1894
02:12:50.239 --> 02:12:54.279
out there, just stop and look
across the place and you see color everywhere.

1895
02:12:54.680 --> 02:13:00.359
And they've got the educated folks that
when you need help and ask them

1896
02:13:00.359 --> 02:13:03.359
for ideas, you ask them for
direction, give me more information on a

1897
02:13:03.439 --> 02:13:07.800
plant, they can do that.
That's why we love a quality hometown garden

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02:13:07.880 --> 02:13:11.000
center. And that's exactly what in
Channing Gardens is. By the way,

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02:13:11.039 --> 02:13:15.600
they're on three fifty nine. As
you head from Richmond up toward the Katie

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02:13:15.720 --> 02:13:22.159
Fulls, your direction Lovell is always
love going out and visiting. If you

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02:13:22.199 --> 02:13:26.199
are concerned about a roof, maybe
you got some roof problems that you need

1902
02:13:26.239 --> 02:13:30.159
to take care of, you need
to call Brinkman. And here's why I

1903
02:13:30.279 --> 02:13:35.399
say that. When it comes to
roofs and storm damage and things, we

1904
02:13:35.520 --> 02:13:43.479
have people that basically they just fly
through the country going from storm to storm

1905
02:13:43.720 --> 02:13:46.319
so they can fix roofs and that's
how they make money. And they tell

1906
02:13:46.319 --> 02:13:48.279
you they're going to help you get
your insurance coverage and stuff, But that

1907
02:13:48.359 --> 02:13:52.000
didn't mean they know what they're doing, and that didn't mean if something's wrong.

1908
02:13:52.039 --> 02:13:54.640
They're there to fix it because they're
gone. They're off to the next

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02:13:54.680 --> 02:13:58.640
storm in Alabama or wherever it was. Brinkman's is not that way. They

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02:13:58.720 --> 02:14:03.760
live here. They've been doing this
for fifty years in this community. The

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02:14:03.800 --> 02:14:09.640
Better Business Bureau gave them the Pinnacle
Award in twenty twenty two. They just

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02:14:09.359 --> 02:14:13.680
you can trust, you can depend
you can know the workmanship is going to

1913
02:14:13.720 --> 02:14:16.840
be right. You can know they're
going to stand behind it, like twenty

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02:14:16.840 --> 02:14:22.439
five year guarantee on stand behind a
roof for the workmanship that they do.

1915
02:14:22.600 --> 02:14:26.199
And then they use quality products.
You know, if you've never if you've

1916
02:14:26.199 --> 02:14:30.439
thought about getting solar, but you
don't want those giant panels up on top

1917
02:14:30.439 --> 02:14:33.279
of the roof, they have a
thing called the Timberline Solar Shingle. They're

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02:14:33.279 --> 02:14:37.680
not above the roof, they are
the roof and it really looks nice and

1919
02:14:37.840 --> 02:14:43.720
it works super super well. Go
to online to Brinkman Quality dot Com.

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02:14:43.720 --> 02:14:48.399
That's Brinkman with two ends at the
end, Brinkman Quality dot Com. Or

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02:14:48.439 --> 02:14:54.079
call them at two eight one four
eight zero seven six six three. Yeah,

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02:14:54.319 --> 02:14:58.399
love love it when we have folks
that are part of the community that

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02:14:58.439 --> 02:15:03.520
are committed to quality, and they
have proven themselves over the years. Boy

1924
02:15:03.600 --> 02:15:07.159
that if you can find that in
any company, that is a welcome and

1925
02:15:07.359 --> 02:15:11.880
unfortunately often a rare thing to find. You're listening to garden Line my phone

1926
02:15:11.920 --> 02:15:16.840
number. Give me a call seven
one three two one two five eight seven

1927
02:15:16.880 --> 02:15:20.479
four. It's wide open now.
We can talk about anything you're interested in,

1928
02:15:20.520 --> 02:15:22.800
as long as it's regarding to plants. I had someone come into the

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02:15:22.800 --> 02:15:26.079
Agrilife extension office this week, a
man and a woman, and they were

1930
02:15:26.119 --> 02:15:31.079
standing there and pretty much everything he
said she disagreed with. Pretty much everything

1931
02:15:31.159 --> 02:15:35.439
she said he disagreed with. And
I was trying to help him with their

1932
02:15:35.520 --> 02:15:37.920
plot problem. So basically I said, hold on, let's wait a minute.

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02:15:39.680 --> 02:15:43.560
Horticultural advice is free. Marriage counseling
is three hundred dollars an hour.

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02:15:43.720 --> 02:15:46.880
How do we want to do this? So I found it funny. At

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02:15:46.960 --> 02:15:50.479
least actually they did too. They
realized what was going on. But the

1936
02:15:50.560 --> 02:15:54.039
horticulture advice from garden Line is free. You can just give us a call

1937
02:15:54.079 --> 02:15:58.399
anytime you want. You know,
when it's hot in the summer, we

1938
02:15:58.479 --> 02:16:01.199
go inside and take care of our
house plants a little bit more attentively.

1939
02:16:01.680 --> 02:16:05.840
Attentively perhaps than we do it other
times a year, because you know it's

1940
02:16:05.840 --> 02:16:11.479
air conditioned in the inside. I've
got a whole bunch of houseplants, more

1941
02:16:11.520 --> 02:16:13.720
than I ought to have, I'm
sure, but hey, you know that's

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02:16:15.239 --> 02:16:20.640
how it goes with plants and plant
people. And I was fertilizing my plants

1943
02:16:20.680 --> 02:16:22.960
this week. I do it about
once a week. I like to use.

1944
02:16:24.119 --> 02:16:26.920
Microlife has a couple of products.
They've got an orange label and they've

1945
02:16:26.960 --> 02:16:31.559
got a blue label. Orange label
and blue label. And I will tell

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02:16:31.600 --> 02:16:37.280
you a little bit about those two
products specifically. Now. The orange label

1947
02:16:37.399 --> 02:16:39.719
is called Biomatrix. It's a seven
one three. I use that on my

1948
02:16:39.760 --> 02:16:45.840
houseplants. It's got beneficial microbes,
which are important. Even in an indoor

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02:16:45.879 --> 02:16:50.079
plant soil, there needs to be
good microbial activity and the Microlife Biomatrix orange

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02:16:50.120 --> 02:16:54.719
label will provide us out. Now
they're blue label. That's the Ocean Harvest.

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02:16:54.840 --> 02:16:58.000
That's a four two three fertilizer.
It's a fish based fertilizer. You

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02:16:58.040 --> 02:17:01.760
can put it out there on your
planting, dilute it down and use it

1953
02:17:01.799 --> 02:17:05.760
as a foli or spray. It's
not going to burn your plants. Works

1954
02:17:05.760 --> 02:17:09.559
super super well, so inside plants, outside containers, you've got it.

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02:17:11.000 --> 02:17:13.840
They've got you covered with those two. Just get you a little quart bottle

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02:17:13.840 --> 02:17:16.319
of each one, like I do
have it right underneath the kitchen sink,

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02:17:16.399 --> 02:17:18.959
so I can go right to town
with it. Hey, go to Microlife

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02:17:18.959 --> 02:17:24.680
Fertilizer dot com. Microlife Fertilizer dot
com. They're online. You can find

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02:17:24.680 --> 02:17:26.920
out about these two products, and
you can also find out about their other

1960
02:17:26.959 --> 02:17:33.239
products as well as where do you
get microlife in your community. We're going

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02:17:33.280 --> 02:17:37.639
to take a trip out to Richmond
now and see if I can get my

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02:17:37.840 --> 02:17:39.959
cursor in the right direction. We're
gonna talk to Brian. Good morning,

1963
02:17:41.000 --> 02:17:46.520
Brian, Good morning, Skip.
Just checking if you was able to identify

1964
02:17:46.600 --> 02:17:48.760
that we'd the picture I sent a
little while ago. Okay, hang on

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02:17:48.840 --> 02:17:52.079
just a minute, I'll pull it
up. Tell me a little bit more

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02:17:52.079 --> 02:17:54.600
about it while we're heading in that
direction. Well, so, the blade

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02:17:54.639 --> 02:17:58.559
sort of look like Saint Augustine,
but their watch here and generally a lighter

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02:17:58.600 --> 02:18:03.520
color. Okay, there, it's
not saying artist team. It does sort

1969
02:18:03.520 --> 02:18:05.600
of look like it, though,
Yeah, yeah, I know what you're

1970
02:18:05.600 --> 02:18:11.399
talking about. That is that weed
is one of those in the family of

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02:18:11.840 --> 02:18:16.479
plants that has grass like leaf veins, but it's not a grass wandering jew

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02:18:16.600 --> 02:18:20.040
is in that family. Uh,
let's see, Um, what's the other

1973
02:18:20.079 --> 02:18:24.879
one? Doveweed is the same kind
of deal, and this is just one

1974
02:18:24.920 --> 02:18:28.079
of those. It's probably kind to
like day flowers another one, and they're

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02:18:28.120 --> 02:18:30.799
difficult to kill. I mean,
you can use it, you know,

1976
02:18:30.799 --> 02:18:33.840
and it's in a spot like that
where it's isolated. You can use a

1977
02:18:33.959 --> 02:18:37.399
kind of an everything weed killer and
spray it on it. It's going to

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02:18:37.520 --> 02:18:39.239
kill whatever you get it on.
But if in the picture I see there's

1979
02:18:39.280 --> 02:18:43.399
not a lot of grass right in
that spot, might you might be able

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02:18:43.440 --> 02:18:46.159
to sacrifice it and just try to
get rid of that weed sartainly. Digging

1981
02:18:46.200 --> 02:18:48.840
them up is helpful, but they
always leave pieces in the soil, so

1982
02:18:48.920 --> 02:18:52.959
one digging is never going to get
it. But that those are some options

1983
02:18:54.040 --> 02:18:58.000
that might do well. There are
a few other weed killers out there that

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02:18:58.280 --> 02:19:01.200
that work on broad leaves, and
they do a little bit of good on

1985
02:19:01.239 --> 02:19:05.680
this kind of weed Brian. But
in general though, that's the approach that

1986
02:19:05.719 --> 02:19:09.120
I would take. I also have
a little wiper that I made using one

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02:19:09.159 --> 02:19:11.159
of those things. There's gadgets that
you get a jar off a shelf with

1988
02:19:11.360 --> 02:19:15.239
it's like a little pistol grip,
and you squeeze it and the ends of

1989
02:19:15.280 --> 02:19:18.600
the other end of the stick grabs
the jar, you know what I'm talking

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02:19:18.600 --> 02:19:20.799
about. There. I put a
little sponge on each side of those and

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02:19:20.879 --> 02:19:24.239
put a little product of whatever kind
on it, and then you can just

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02:19:24.280 --> 02:19:28.840
reach down and squeeze those leaves and
pull it up and it just wipes its

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02:19:28.879 --> 02:19:31.280
way all up the leaf or all
up in your case, a little vining

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02:19:31.360 --> 02:19:35.680
like growth, and it gets the
product right on it, and that keeps

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02:19:35.719 --> 02:19:37.440
you from getting it maybe if it's
coming up in the grass, it keeps

1996
02:19:37.440 --> 02:19:41.479
you from getting it on your grass
as well. So that I've got a

1997
02:19:41.479 --> 02:19:45.360
few patches come up in my bermuda
grass. So yeah, it sounds like

1998
02:19:45.399 --> 02:19:48.280
I'm gonna have to sacrifice some mup
mmuna either that or the little wiper thing

1999
02:19:48.280 --> 02:19:50.399
that I talked about. You know, yeah, you can, you can

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02:19:50.440 --> 02:19:54.600
deal with it that way, but
that probably the best approach. Okay,

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okay, alrighty, thanks very much, all right, thank you very much.

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02:19:58.200 --> 02:20:01.799
I appreciate I appreciate that call.
Hey, if you live up in

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02:20:01.840 --> 02:20:05.159
the Grimes, County area, Grimes
County, that's up toward Navasotaway, just

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02:20:05.200 --> 02:20:09.639
south of College Station. Your hometown
feed stores, Grimes County Feed and Farm.

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02:20:09.760 --> 02:20:13.200
They're out there on State Highway one
thirty in Carlos, Texas. And

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02:20:13.239 --> 02:20:15.719
if you live up in there,
up in God's Country in that part of

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02:20:15.719 --> 02:20:20.959
the world, Iola, Beat Eyes, Rones, Prairie, Shiro Anderson,

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02:20:20.120 --> 02:20:26.120
Richards, any hopetown's out there.
If you're living king Oaks Subdivision or Mere

2009
02:20:26.200 --> 02:20:30.040
Woods, this is your hometown feed
store. They carry the fertilizers I'll talk

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02:20:30.079 --> 02:20:33.879
about. You're going to find the
tree hugger, sprinkler we talk about there.

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02:20:33.920 --> 02:20:35.600
You're going to find the mosquito ducks
we talk about there. And of

2012
02:20:35.639 --> 02:20:39.719
course it's a feed store, quality
dog food, cat food, livestock food,

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02:20:41.000 --> 02:20:43.479
you need to control pests and rodents. They've got all the supplies for

2014
02:20:43.559 --> 02:20:48.479
everything. If you had a little
farm pond, they do fish stocking twice

2015
02:20:48.559 --> 02:20:50.799
a quarter. You just come in
get signed up, talk to Chris or

2016
02:20:50.959 --> 02:20:54.760
some of the other folks there at
Grimes County and they'll get you all set

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02:20:54.840 --> 02:21:00.600
up if you'd like to get your
pond stocked. And while you stocked and

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02:21:00.680 --> 02:21:05.120
while you're there also pick up some
seed food or seafood. Oh my gosh,

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02:21:05.239 --> 02:21:07.680
fish food. I guess that would
be seafood. I don't know anyway,

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02:21:07.680 --> 02:21:11.959
fish food and a quat a curbside
and stuff for dealing with weeds.

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02:21:11.360 --> 02:21:16.440
Great, great deal. I always
love going by a feed store, and

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02:21:16.479 --> 02:21:20.879
boy, that is a quality,
quality kind of deal. I just want

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02:21:20.920 --> 02:21:22.440
to say something. You know,
maybe you're on your way back from church

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02:21:22.520 --> 02:21:26.600
today or on your way to church
today, if you haven't ever thought about

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02:21:26.639 --> 02:21:31.280
given a Star of Hope mission,
I hope you will. Star of Hope

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02:21:31.399 --> 02:21:37.120
makes long lasting, permanent change in
people's lives. We're not talking about here's

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02:21:37.120 --> 02:21:39.680
about go buy a sandwich, good
luck. We're talking about come in live

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02:21:39.719 --> 02:21:43.600
here for a year. We will
provide food, we will provide clothing so

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02:21:43.639 --> 02:21:46.200
you can go out and get a
job, will provide training for getting a

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02:21:46.280 --> 02:21:50.079
job. We will provide if you
have a substance abuse problem, we will

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02:21:50.120 --> 02:21:54.680
help you break that, get that
monkey off your back. We're talking about

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02:21:54.239 --> 02:21:58.639
Star of Hope a life change place, not just a handout, but people

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02:21:58.680 --> 02:22:03.719
that are willing to put the time
in and to go for it. Star

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02:22:03.840 --> 02:22:07.120
of Hope is there to walk alongside
him. I cannot think of a better,

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02:22:07.840 --> 02:22:13.479
better cause in this whole community.
S o hmission dot org. S

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02:22:13.600 --> 02:22:18.239
o H mission dot org. They'll
give you more information. By the way,

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02:22:18.280 --> 02:22:20.079
we're going to take a break.
It is the phone number seven one

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02:22:20.159 --> 02:22:24.319
three two one two five eight seven
four. Give Rhyan a call and when

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02:22:24.399 --> 02:22:39.000
you come back after Annie, you
will be the first up. Good morning

2040
02:22:39.159 --> 02:22:43.479
on a beautiful Sunday morning. Outside, we're listening to garden Line. I'm

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02:22:43.479 --> 02:22:46.399
your host skip director. Our phone
number if you'd like to call, is

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seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

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02:22:52.600 --> 02:22:56.239
two fifty eight seventy four. You
know the folks up at Nature's Way,

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02:22:56.959 --> 02:23:01.360
they really know how to make composts. They know how to make all kinds

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02:23:01.440 --> 02:23:09.600
of organic materials to enhance your plants
growth. We're talking about the originators of

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02:23:09.719 --> 02:23:13.600
rose soil. We're talking about the
originators of leaf mold composts. By the

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02:23:13.600 --> 02:23:16.959
way, on Fungal Fridays, at
ever Friday, that's Fungal Friday, there

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is a ten percent off bag product
and twenty percent off bulk on thousands of

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02:23:22.719 --> 02:23:28.120
yards of fungal compost. I mean
they are loaded and ready and you're not

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02:23:28.159 --> 02:23:33.040
going to find a better quality compost
on the planet. Fungal compost is just

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02:23:33.239 --> 02:23:37.680
absolutely outstanding. I love the leaf
compost, the leaf mold compost. I

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02:23:37.760 --> 02:23:39.639
love all of the products that they
put out there. And by the way,

2053
02:23:39.680 --> 02:23:43.959
when you're out there, they're one
of the largest varieties of native plants

2054
02:23:43.959 --> 02:23:46.239
in the Houston area. They got
a two acre nursery, which, by

2055
02:23:46.280 --> 02:23:50.280
the way, they're expanding even further
coming up here. I was visiting with

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02:23:50.360 --> 02:23:54.360
Ian out there the other day and
they really got some exciting plans for even

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02:23:54.479 --> 02:23:58.120
making that nursery area better. But
I'm telling you, whether you need bag

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02:23:58.200 --> 02:24:03.360
or whether you need both, the
folks that Nature's Way produce a super quality

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02:24:03.360 --> 02:24:05.559
product. By the way, there's
summer hours for those of you who are

2060
02:24:05.559 --> 02:24:09.920
head in that direction Monday through Friday
eight to five, Saturdays from eight to

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02:24:11.079 --> 02:24:15.600
two, and on Sundays they're closed
out of Nature's Way. It's if you

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02:24:15.639 --> 02:24:20.200
go up Highway Interstate forty five about
where fourteen eighty eight comes in. You

2063
02:24:20.280 --> 02:24:24.879
just had right turn right across the
railroad tracks and they're right there, just

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02:24:24.920 --> 02:24:28.239
south of Conro. Easy easy to
find, easy to get to Nature's Way.

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02:24:28.280 --> 02:24:33.159
Hey, let's go to Southwest Houston
now and talk to Annie. Hello,

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02:24:33.559 --> 02:24:37.840
is it Anne or Annie? Okay, Anne, we'll talk to you

2067
02:24:37.959 --> 02:24:43.559
two. How's it going? Ye? Well, good morning, Skip,

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02:24:43.639 --> 02:24:48.319
I am. I'm wanting to make
a shout out to Southwest Fertilizer. They're

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02:24:48.360 --> 02:24:52.840
just great. I just recently had
some of my sharans shutled and it made

2070
02:24:52.879 --> 02:24:56.360
my cup my jobs hering job in
half. Oh my god. And the

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02:24:56.440 --> 02:25:05.760
people they are just wonderful. Aaron
and kal is just stirling their cashier butts

2072
02:25:07.040 --> 02:25:11.959
and what that sentiment is a common
one that I hear about Southwest. I

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02:25:11.000 --> 02:25:16.520
mean they they the customers are happy, that's for sure. Yes, yes,

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02:25:16.920 --> 02:25:20.000
And then up, I have a
question about salth Yes, I have

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02:25:20.159 --> 02:25:24.319
salvius. I have salvious, but
it's like the bottom third their leaves and

2076
02:25:24.440 --> 02:25:28.239
then the top to get leggy.
So I don't know if I'm doing something

2077
02:25:28.319 --> 02:25:33.760
wrong or they're in the wrong spot
to get full sun. So, so,

2078
02:25:33.840 --> 02:25:37.479
An, do you know which salvias
you have? What kind of salvia?

2079
02:25:37.760 --> 02:25:43.760
If not, that's okay. The
name is blue motion. Say that

2080
02:25:43.799 --> 02:25:50.040
again, blue emotion. I think
it's the name. Okay, that's one

2081
02:25:50.120 --> 02:25:54.079
I'm not famire with salvia is in
general, they're in the mint family,

2082
02:25:54.120 --> 02:25:56.600
they got square stems like mint has, and so you know mint, I

2083
02:25:56.600 --> 02:25:58.799
mean, you share it back and
it just pops right back out of the

2084
02:25:58.799 --> 02:26:03.840
ground going again. Salvia is there's
nothing wrong with sharing them back occasionally.

2085
02:26:03.920 --> 02:26:07.680
Now in the heat and stress of
summer, I wouldn't do it right now,

2086
02:26:07.079 --> 02:26:11.479
but as we get you know,
toward maybe toward the end of August

2087
02:26:11.479 --> 02:26:13.680
a little bit, I would give
them a sharing. I typically will share

2088
02:26:13.719 --> 02:26:16.959
mine at the end of May or
sometime in May, getting ready for summer,

2089
02:26:18.000 --> 02:26:20.559
and I'll share them again at the
end of summer going into fall,

2090
02:26:20.639 --> 02:26:24.319
and I'll share them again at the
end of winter, cutting them back.

2091
02:26:24.559 --> 02:26:28.479
And every time you share a salvia, it produces more growth with leaves,

2092
02:26:28.879 --> 02:26:33.159
and every shoot that comes out will
have blooms on it. And so maybe

2093
02:26:33.159 --> 02:26:35.360
you had one salvia shoot that had
a bloom on the end, and when

2094
02:26:35.399 --> 02:26:39.600
you cut it back, now that
one shoot, you may get two or

2095
02:26:39.600 --> 02:26:41.639
three sprouts out, and each of
those will have a bloom on the end.

2096
02:26:41.680 --> 02:26:46.079
So you have a more compact plant, not so leggy, and you

2097
02:26:46.200 --> 02:26:50.239
just increase the blooms. But following
the shearing, you want to sprinkle fertilizer

2098
02:26:50.280 --> 02:26:52.760
around it and you want to water
it in really good so it has moisture

2099
02:26:52.799 --> 02:27:00.200
and nutrients to support that flush of
new growth. Okay, Mystic spar I

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02:27:00.200 --> 02:27:05.719
believe with your favorite, you have
a second favorite well of the of the

2101
02:27:05.760 --> 02:27:09.319
blue spire type salvia. As there
was an indigo spires originally which was wonderful

2102
02:27:09.399 --> 02:27:15.680
but floppy, and the mistic spires
is good. There's also one called misty

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02:27:16.000 --> 02:27:18.600
MYSTI. I believe it is how
they spell it. That's really compact.

2104
02:27:20.000 --> 02:27:24.600
But I just like, I like, I like the the you know,

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02:27:24.760 --> 02:27:28.559
just that whole group of salvia's because
they're beautiful and you do need to share

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02:27:28.559 --> 02:27:33.159
them back to get the old dead
blooms off and to end up create more

2107
02:27:33.200 --> 02:27:37.239
growth Salvia, Greggy I. The
cherry sage or greg sage is another one.

2108
02:27:37.319 --> 02:27:39.479
It's a little subshrub. It'll always
have blooms on it, so you'll

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02:27:39.520 --> 02:27:43.559
never want to share it, but
go ahead and bite the bullet and share

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02:27:43.559 --> 02:27:46.159
it back, fertilize, water it
and it'll be even better going forward.

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02:27:48.399 --> 02:27:50.600
Thank you so much, Hey,
thanks for the call in. I appreciate

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02:27:50.680 --> 02:27:56.440
that very much. Let's see we
are gonna hear what we got. We

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02:27:56.520 --> 02:28:01.040
got a little time for break.
Let's go to talk to care in Grimes

2114
02:28:01.040 --> 02:28:11.840
County, Hey Carry in subdivision near
Navasota, Okay. Uh, I had

2115
02:28:11.840 --> 02:28:16.840
a landscape. Were put in stone
rings around trees and they got six trees

2116
02:28:16.879 --> 02:28:22.879
in our backyard h three feet across
in the first year. It was great.

2117
02:28:24.879 --> 02:28:31.239
And then the trees a diamer of
the trees measuring between three three inches.

2118
02:28:31.760 --> 02:28:39.520
There are some brand new Uh yeah
they are, they're are. They're

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02:28:39.559 --> 02:28:43.840
just getting bigger over time. Yeah. And so the weeds, weeds have

2120
02:28:45.079 --> 02:28:48.319
cropped up in these stone rings,
and how I show why they didn't have

2121
02:28:48.399 --> 02:28:52.239
we didn't have the first year.
My question is is there a we didn't

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02:28:52.280 --> 02:28:56.600
kill that. We'll kill weeds without
killing the tree, you know, it

2123
02:28:58.239 --> 02:29:00.920
kind of helps to know what the
weeds are. And if you like,

2124
02:29:01.040 --> 02:29:03.760
you can send me a picture of
the weeds and I can be more specific.

2125
02:29:03.000 --> 02:29:09.159
But there's the general purpose stuff that
just kills grasses, broad leaves and

2126
02:29:09.239 --> 02:29:11.440
everything. Those kind of weed killers, and you could use those. Just

2127
02:29:11.600 --> 02:29:16.360
check and make sure your trees don't
have any basals sprouts coming out of the

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02:29:16.399 --> 02:29:18.399
trunk or the roots. Because I've
had a little tree shoot coming up in

2129
02:29:18.440 --> 02:29:22.159
amidst the weeds they're out of the
base, and you sprayed it with one

2130
02:29:22.200 --> 02:29:26.000
of these general purpose killers, you
can really set the tree back pretty good.

2131
02:29:26.280 --> 02:29:28.760
So as long as you don't have
that, you can use these and

2132
02:29:28.799 --> 02:29:33.440
they'll they'll do just fine. If
the weeds just grassy, then you may

2133
02:29:33.479 --> 02:29:37.079
want to just do a grass only
killer. And there's a couple of ingredients

2134
02:29:37.159 --> 02:29:41.360
that are sold in various products that
will kill grass but not kill broad leaves.

2135
02:29:41.680 --> 02:29:43.239
You can use them in a flower
bed and spray over the flowers and

2136
02:29:43.239 --> 02:29:46.879
the grass and it just kills the
grass. So that'd be an option if

2137
02:29:46.879 --> 02:29:52.360
it's primarily annual weeds, Carrie would, I would just you know, mow

2138
02:29:52.399 --> 02:29:56.120
them down and you know a little
weed eater and then put a mulch over

2139
02:29:56.159 --> 02:29:58.600
them, a real thick mulch.
And they can't resprout if they they're not

2140
02:29:58.639 --> 02:30:01.959
going to them up as seeds when
they can't get light, So that'd be

2141
02:30:03.000 --> 02:30:07.639
an option. I suspect what you
got is probably some grassy perennial weeds coming

2142
02:30:07.680 --> 02:30:13.799
in like bermuda grass or something else. Yeah, I hit it with I

2143
02:30:13.799 --> 02:30:18.079
had some very sparse weeds and in
the backyard, and I hit him with

2144
02:30:18.120 --> 02:30:22.600
the general weed killer and kill them. When I hit the stone rings with

2145
02:30:22.760 --> 02:30:26.559
it, they just kind of laughed
at me. Here, well, let's

2146
02:30:26.719 --> 02:30:30.520
let's do this. Let me let
me do this. I'm gonna when we're

2147
02:30:30.520 --> 02:30:33.200
done here, i'm gonna put you
on hold, and in fact, I

2148
02:30:33.239 --> 02:30:35.959
need to go to break right now. I'm gonna put you on hold if

2149
02:30:35.000 --> 02:30:39.879
you would like, Ryan will pick
up, and he will give you an

2150
02:30:39.920 --> 02:30:43.360
email to send me some pictures.
Get up close, take good pictures.

2151
02:30:43.440 --> 02:30:46.079
Make sure they're in sharp focus,
and that way I can prescribe what you

2152
02:30:46.159 --> 02:30:50.280
need for that particular group of weeds
you got. Okay, thank you,

2153
02:30:50.799 --> 02:30:54.799
Thank you so much for the call. We're gonna take a break our number

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02:30:54.879 --> 02:31:18.280
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four around a neighborhood Sunday.

2155
02:31:18.760 --> 02:31:22.040
Well, good Sunday morning. You
are listening to Garden Line. We are

2156
02:31:22.079 --> 02:31:26.280
in our last little segment here.
We'll be gone for the week, then

2157
02:31:26.399 --> 02:31:30.360
back again next weekend. Every Saturday
morning, every Sunday morning, from six

2158
02:31:30.440 --> 02:31:33.559
am to ten am, tell your
neighbors about the show. Tell family and

2159
02:31:33.600 --> 02:31:37.319
friends. We have folks that listen
out of state and certainly out of this

2160
02:31:37.399 --> 02:31:39.760
area. They're welcome to listen to
and if you ever miss a show,

2161
02:31:39.799 --> 02:31:46.479
you can go to the podcast garden
Line podcast with your iHeartMedia podcast app or

2162
02:31:46.639 --> 02:31:50.120
whatever kind of way you get to
your podcast. You're gonna find garden Line

2163
02:31:50.159 --> 02:31:54.440
on there and you can listen to
past things we've said. Maybe miss the

2164
02:31:54.559 --> 02:31:58.319
name of a product. Sometimes I
spell out the name of a product just

2165
02:31:58.360 --> 02:32:01.000
to make it a little easier for
people to find it. And that way

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02:32:01.040 --> 02:32:03.600
you can go back and hang,
what was that thing he said? Or

2167
02:32:05.040 --> 02:32:07.520
anyway you get the idea. We
try to have fun here on garden Line,

2168
02:32:07.559 --> 02:32:13.000
and we love answering your gardening questions
because that's what you know. Gardening

2169
02:32:13.120 --> 02:32:16.319
is like. In my opinion,
I think it's probably the number one hobby

2170
02:32:16.319 --> 02:32:18.920
in the country. It's close to
the top, if not the tiny is

2171
02:32:18.959 --> 02:32:22.680
the top. But gardening does so
many things. It affects our physical health

2172
02:32:22.719 --> 02:32:26.840
in a positive way. Getting out. You know, we're learning now that

2173
02:32:26.000 --> 02:32:30.719
just get out of your chair at
the office and walk around a little bit

2174
02:32:30.799 --> 02:32:33.920
actually makes a health difference. And
well, here's gardening giving us a lot

2175
02:32:33.920 --> 02:32:37.719
of opportunities to walk around and enjoy. It's a forever hope. You know,

2176
02:32:37.760 --> 02:32:43.440
with a gardener, you look out
and every season is new, every

2177
02:32:43.559 --> 02:32:48.399
season is different, and there's just
a hope. You know. You go

2178
02:32:48.520 --> 02:32:52.639
buy a seed of a tomato plant
and in your mind's eye you can taste

2179
02:32:52.639 --> 02:32:54.600
the tomato you're going to grow from
that. I mean, there's always a

2180
02:32:54.680 --> 02:32:58.879
hope with gardeners. Gardeners are great
people. They're fun. I mean,

2181
02:32:58.879 --> 02:33:03.040
I've believe me, I've a million
gardeners in my life, from this the

2182
02:33:03.120 --> 02:33:07.479
average residence that liked a garden,
to the intense all in gardeners, master

2183
02:33:07.639 --> 02:33:13.680
gardeners around the different programs here,
and they're just good people. It's a

2184
02:33:13.760 --> 02:33:18.000
pleasure and pleasure to be part of. We're gonna head out now to Beach

2185
02:33:18.079 --> 02:33:24.879
City and talk to Terry. Hello, Terry, good morning. How can

2186
02:33:24.920 --> 02:33:28.479
we help today? Hey, I've
got to block the view of my neighbors

2187
02:33:28.520 --> 02:33:33.399
building and I need something to plant
that gets about at least twenty five foot

2188
02:33:33.440 --> 02:33:39.840
tall and coarseity evergreen. My wife
is thinking about magnolias. What did you

2189
02:33:41.000 --> 02:33:43.920
thought on that? Well, magnolia's
would be a wonderful, beautiful plant.

2190
02:33:45.120 --> 02:33:48.200
They grow really slow and so you
need to buy a pretty big one.

2191
02:33:48.040 --> 02:33:50.319
But if you're gonna get it up, you know that high. It's gonna

2192
02:33:50.319 --> 02:33:56.040
take a good while, So that
would be the only drawback to the magnolia

2193
02:33:56.120 --> 02:34:00.600
idea that I see. Yeah,
finding something that gets up right. You

2194
02:34:00.639 --> 02:34:03.920
know, twenty five feet tall is
really high for a screen. Is this

2195
02:34:05.040 --> 02:34:09.479
like a two story building right on
your property line or what are you trying

2196
02:34:09.479 --> 02:34:11.120
to do? It's on the proper
line, but it's not two You could

2197
02:34:11.120 --> 02:34:15.200
be two story, but it's where
he keeps a big motor home. Okay,

2198
02:34:15.280 --> 02:34:18.319
I mean it's being tall. Yeah
yeah, well, and also I

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have to plan like a seventy foot
area to block this building. So something

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seventy foot long, Oh yeah,
well that's a that is a that's a

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lot um. Something to think about
is think about where you're viewing it from,

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and the closer the screen is to
you, the higher it's going to

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block. You know, like if
something was only six feet high and you're

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02:34:45.399 --> 02:34:48.399
sitting in a patio chair, h
and it gets glistia. I mean,

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you can block thirty feet on the
other side of the fence with a six

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02:34:50.879 --> 02:34:54.719
foot high screen. You get the
idea. So maybe you don't need twenty

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02:34:54.719 --> 02:34:56.280
five but if you do, if
that you know, just because you know

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the layout of your property and where
it needs to be. Boy, that's

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gonna that's gonna take something with a
little more growth on it. I like

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02:35:05.799 --> 02:35:11.200
the Brighton Tight Cherry Laurel Carolina Cherry
Laurel. If you're soiled drains, well,

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02:35:11.040 --> 02:35:15.959
Carolina Cherry Laurel will work, and
Brighton Tight is a compact type of

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02:35:16.000 --> 02:35:18.280
that. All right, one thing
I've read about that. I thought about

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02:35:18.280 --> 02:35:22.319
those, but we have dogs,
and I understand that they're poising its fruit

2214
02:35:22.360 --> 02:35:26.440
on there for dogs. Okay,
all right, well let's see. Boy,

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02:35:26.479 --> 02:35:31.719
you're you're handcuffing me fact by fact. That's why I called ye here

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02:35:31.760 --> 02:35:37.159
you go. Okay, gosh,
I actually at the top of my head

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02:35:37.200 --> 02:35:39.479
be able to Yeah, there are
there are clumping types of bamboo, not

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02:35:39.639 --> 02:35:43.760
running types, but clumping types that
can get that doll. I'm gonna take

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02:35:43.799 --> 02:35:46.239
them about three years to really start
growing. Okay, and we'll throw you

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02:35:46.280 --> 02:35:50.120
another wrench in the thing here.
I did have bamboo, but it did

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02:35:50.159 --> 02:35:54.239
not survive. The last two winners
kindly got to the point you couldn't see

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02:35:54.239 --> 02:35:58.879
the bamboo stalks. Is like little
grassy bamboos that were growing out. Okay,

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02:36:00.079 --> 02:36:03.840
removed all that got you twenty five
feet tall. Probably got some garden

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02:36:03.879 --> 02:36:07.479
centers listening that text me your email
me or something. Hey, you're gonna

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02:36:07.520 --> 02:36:11.920
about this plant, let's say what
else. I'll tell you what. Here's

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02:36:11.959 --> 02:36:16.079
one. Now this would be a
summer only block. But there is a

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02:36:16.200 --> 02:36:22.159
type of sweet gum that is columnar. It grows straight up like an Italian

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02:36:22.200 --> 02:36:24.120
ciper, straight up. And I
can't think of the name of it right

2229
02:36:24.159 --> 02:36:30.360
now, but if you just deserts
columnar columnar shaped sweet gum. You see

2230
02:36:30.399 --> 02:36:33.760
those around town occasionally and they are
really pretty. And if you if you

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02:36:33.760 --> 02:36:37.719
could plant those, they're gonna grow
fast, are gonna get up there quick.

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02:36:37.200 --> 02:36:41.799
And they are very narrow and compact. So that might work, except

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02:36:41.799 --> 02:36:45.600
for the fact that in the winter
you're just gonna have some branches from it.

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02:36:45.639 --> 02:36:48.760
You're not going to have the full
foliage to hide the block. So

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02:36:48.879 --> 02:36:54.440
that that is one thing that comes
to mind to see Japanese you is just

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02:36:54.879 --> 02:37:01.280
not quite going to get high enough
for that. If you said time bedtime

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02:37:01.319 --> 02:37:05.840
plane of trees fifty years ago.
Yeah, but I'll tell you these,

2238
02:37:05.040 --> 02:37:09.440
you know this week comes will grow
pretty quick and get up there straight.

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02:37:09.920 --> 02:37:13.280
I'm sure there's some others. There's
probably some hollies. But here's the thing.

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02:37:13.319 --> 02:37:15.959
With a lot of plants. To
get them twenty five feet tall,

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02:37:16.399 --> 02:37:20.120
they're gonna be really wide and you
lose half your yard to this one plant.

2242
02:37:20.239 --> 02:37:22.639
Well, I have an acre land. Okay, Well, then that,

2243
02:37:24.280 --> 02:37:26.959
by the way, where where is
Beach City. I'm not familiar with

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02:37:26.000 --> 02:37:31.680
that. It's on the east side
of Bay Town. East side okay,

2245
02:37:33.000 --> 02:37:35.440
yeah, after by north of Trinity
Bay. You know, I would,

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02:37:37.319 --> 02:37:43.879
I would probably I may give someone
like Moss Nursery. They're kind of down

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02:37:43.879 --> 02:37:48.639
in your direction over Chema direction.
Uh, call and see what they have

2248
02:37:48.799 --> 02:37:52.399
down that way. That's about as
close to you that that comes to mind

2249
02:37:52.479 --> 02:37:54.959
initially as a garden center. I'm
gonna think about this, Terry. If

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02:37:54.959 --> 02:37:58.079
you wanted to send me an email, I where I have a little more

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02:37:58.120 --> 02:38:01.840
time. I'm not braindead from the
end of a show. Maybe I can

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02:38:01.920 --> 02:38:05.920
help you low further. Okay,
I'm gonna have to run, but thank

2253
02:38:05.959 --> 02:38:07.000
you very much. I'm gonna put
you on hold, and if you want

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02:38:07.159 --> 02:38:11.319
that email, just Ryan will help
you. You know, if you're wanting

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02:38:11.319 --> 02:38:16.680
to put in new transplants has to
grow six twelve six is a great way

2256
02:38:16.680 --> 02:38:20.079
to go. It's really three products
in one. You got the NPK from

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02:38:20.120 --> 02:38:24.680
the six twelve six. You got
Medinas oil activator to stimulate biological activity and

2258
02:38:24.760 --> 02:38:30.959
humate, humic acid and seaweed as
tracts all together in one. It's not

2259
02:38:30.959 --> 02:38:35.600
going to burn plants, absolutely not. It is a very good product for

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02:38:35.719 --> 02:38:39.760
increasing the microbial activity of soil for
planting things. And when I put on

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02:38:39.760 --> 02:38:43.520
an energy transplant, a high phosphorus
material like that works really well. I

2262
02:38:43.600 --> 02:38:46.799
just water them in A week later
or five days later, I watered in

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02:38:46.840 --> 02:38:50.680
again, and then one more time, three times to get the roots established,

2264
02:38:50.959 --> 02:38:54.639
to get them going and to have
success and has to grow. Can

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02:38:54.680 --> 02:38:58.840
provide you just that kind of success. It's a great opportunity, especially for

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02:39:00.040 --> 02:39:05.239
water and in new transplants of any
kind, woody shrubs, annuals, flowers,

2267
02:39:05.680 --> 02:39:09.760
vegetables, any kind of thing like
that. It does a super super

2268
02:39:09.840 --> 02:39:16.360
job with You know, we talk
about the different benefits of gardening. I

2269
02:39:16.440 --> 02:39:20.920
was just mentioning some before. Something
I didn't get to though, is the

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02:39:20.959 --> 02:39:26.479
psychological benefit. There is so much
peace of mind that comes with gardening.

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02:39:28.040 --> 02:39:31.319
We know that it helps kids with
ADHD when they can see nature, when

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02:39:31.360 --> 02:39:35.719
they can touch nature. We know
that it helps folks with depression. Do

2273
02:39:35.760 --> 02:39:39.879
you know that there's also research on
the effect on people with dementia for gardening.

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02:39:41.120 --> 02:39:46.280
I mean throughout our whole life,
gardening provides refreshing health benefits from physical

2275
02:39:46.479 --> 02:39:52.639
to mental. It provides that social
contact, It provides the engagement with nature,

2276
02:39:52.719 --> 02:39:56.280
and I you know, I don't
think there's it's just by chance that

2277
02:39:56.319 --> 02:40:00.799
there was a thing called the Garden
of Eden that was considered a good place

2278
02:40:00.840 --> 02:40:03.879
to put mankind. Well, we
need to be in a garden. You

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02:40:03.920 --> 02:40:05.639
need to be in a garden.
I mean, if you just get out

2280
02:40:05.639 --> 02:40:11.120
and do a walk in the woods, you will have blood perishure benefits.

2281
02:40:11.879 --> 02:40:15.159
It's it's amazing the different. We
need to have someone come in here sometime

2282
02:40:15.159 --> 02:40:18.760
and talk about forest bathing. That
would be a great topic. Yes,

2283
02:40:18.799 --> 02:40:20.840
there's something called forest bathing. I
guess was. Since we're out of time,

2284
02:40:20.840 --> 02:40:24.120
you're gonna have to look that one
up. Maybe I'll talk about it

2285
02:40:24.200 --> 02:40:28.840
another time. But engage with plants. Take an opportunity. I mean,

2286
02:40:28.959 --> 02:40:31.000
if you can put in a garden, great If you don't have room,

2287
02:40:31.399 --> 02:40:35.920
containers on the back patio, that's
a great way. If you don't have

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02:40:35.040 --> 02:40:39.520
room for that, go visit a
botanical garden, Go visit a garden center.

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02:40:39.879 --> 02:40:43.399
I mean it. Just get out
there and engage with plants. I'm

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02:40:43.440 --> 02:40:48.840
telling you. Of course, it's
fun, but it's also just good therapy.

2291
02:40:48.079 --> 02:40:52.680
I get some of my best therapy
done just being out poking around in

2292
02:40:52.719 --> 02:40:56.680
the garden. I can even work
through a lot of life problems pulling weeds.

2293
02:40:56.520 --> 02:41:00.479
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