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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

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on this program. Welcome to ktr
H Garden Line with Skip Rictord, So

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smell a trip. Just watch him
as who so many a sun be.

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Good morning, Good morning on a
good Saturday morning. It's dark outside.

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If you look next door and you
see the neighbors lights are off, go

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ahead and bang on the door and
tell them they're missing garden Line. They

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will rise up and call you blessed. Maybe not today, but someday after

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they listened for a while though you
saved my yard. Oh well, that's

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a little overselling, isn't it.
Oh my guys, you're listening to garden

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Line. I'm your host, Skip
Ricter, and our phone number is seven

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one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. You know, if you have not done summer fertilizing

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yet, you need to get that
done. And we have this long hot

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summer season. By the way,
we're going to some rain this week according

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to the weather. I'll talk about
that a little bit more later, but

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that's good news to know. But
anyway, you need to get that fertilizer

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put down to carry your lawn all
the way through into fall. And that's

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why in the summertime we shift over
to slow releasing fertilizers. There's a lot

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of different ways that that's accomplished.
The organic fertilizers microbi league decomposed and that

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takes a little while to do.
They over time are going to release our

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new and if there are different kinds
of technologies for synthetic fertilizers where they release

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gradually over time, that's what you're
looking for, because here's what you don't

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want. You don't want to put
on a bunch of fertilizer and then have

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a lot of growth that you're momo
mowing trying to keep ahead of. And

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in that excessive amount of nitrogen pushed
growth, you end up with a shallower

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roots system, so less of a
resilient plant. You end up with a

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grass plant that's more interesting to ginge
bugs. Different types of diseases, gray

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leaf spot being one of them.
In the summer, large patch used to

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be called brown patch. In the
fall, that is all a no no,

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we don't want that. So we
put a slow release on and it

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gradually feeds it over time. Which
makes sense. That's how all organisms typically

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are going to eat, including ourselves. You don't need a month supply of

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food and then not eat for twenty
nine days, right at least the hope

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not well. That is the kind
of fertilizer that Nitrofoss has produced. When

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they have their nice beautiful silver bag, that makes it real easy to see

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it and know what we're talking about. Pick it out. I can just

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say silverbag, but it's nitrofoss is
superturf. That's a nineteen four ten,

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nineteen four ten silverbag. Nitrofoss superturf
is the kind of fertilizer it's going to

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release like that. That's what we're
looking for. And where do you find

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Nitrofoss will pretty much everywhere. If
you go to an ACE hardware store,

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you're going to find nitrofoss. If
you go to the garden center, as

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we talk about here, places like
plants for all seasons, for example,

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our CW Nursery, the arbor Gate, all of those garden centers, among

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others, are places you're going to
find nitrofoss. Down at the Enchant,

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it's down in Richmond Rosenberg. It's
easy to find Nitch Fuss products, and

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just know that you want to follow
the label carefully, put on the right

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amount, like for the nineteen four
ten, I would put on about five

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pounds per thousand square feet and that
will get you right in the ballpark of

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what you're looking to be able to
do. We are just looking at some

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different things going on. This week. It is going to rain, and

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my recommendation would be if you're fertilizing, wait until you know we're getting close

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to the rain and then put the
fertilizer down. And that way, when

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you put it down, it'll get
washed down. Now, if we feel

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like it's going to be a gully
washer, we'll get three inches or something.

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Well, it'd be better or not
to do it. But with another

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reason a slow release is good is
unless it just literally through erosion washes the

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fertilizer off the yard, it's going
to be okay because it's not gonna be

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immediate release. Immediate releases or think
of something like sugar or table salt.

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You put them out there, you
get them with they dissolve. All the

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nutrients are right there, and so
you can lose your nutrients in those through

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a gully washer. Not so much
with a slow release. I would just

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watch the weather and if it's going
to be an inch of rain, that's

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okay, go ahead and go ahead
and get that down that way. You

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don't have to turn on the water. It'll just take care of it for

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you. Well, let's head out
to a league city and we are going

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to visit with John V. This
morning. Well, good morning, good

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morning, Good morning, Skiven garden
Line. My question this morning is on

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the difference between the jasmine and the
gardenia. And it's an edible flower and

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is it under the same species.
Wow, well it's not the same species.

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You threw me with the edible.
I have never you know, I

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would lean away from it being edible
just because I haven't heard that it is.

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But it may it could be.
I have to look into that.

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The jasmine being a vine and beautiful
fragrant flowers, and then the gardenia being

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a shrub with beautiful fragrant flowers.
You know, it certainly would would seem

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like a wonderful thing. I don't
know though, what it would taste like

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to eat. Perfume that might even
if you even if it was not poisonous

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or whatever, that would be kind
of an interesting I don't know. I

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love the smell. I don't know
if i'd love to eat it, but

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yes, well I'm a gourmet chef. I wanted to decorate my cakes,

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cupcakes and cookie with it, so
so you can decorate it. They say

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that you cannot eat this and I
can take it off. Yeah, well,

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yeah, I know that's that's an
idea. I could look at it.

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I'll try to if I get a
chance. He can calls and stuff,

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just check on it and see.
I just have never heard of them.

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I know you can put daylily flowers
on there. You can put pansies

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and violas on there. There's uh, let's see Calendula's nastartiums. Just trying

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to think of there's a lot of
good edible flowers out there that who would

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be nice decorating. But yeah,
that's a good question. Okay, thank

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you so much. I'll have a
wonderful Saturday. Goodbye. I appreciate that.

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Thank you very much. You know
it's it's always interesting. I can

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get questions after how many years now, I guess I've been doing this about

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forty almost forty years of answering questions. That's one I haven't heard before.

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I haven't heard that how much that
out though? As we get going here

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this morning, well, really good
news that we're getting a little bit of

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a break in the temperatures finally this
week, I think tomorrow, and as

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we get into the week, it's
just going to get down in the mid

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nineties. Which isn't it funny that
we're happy with the mid nineties. Well,

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I guess when you've been in a
hundred degrees with no rain, it's

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it's you're happy with a lot of
things. But yeah, it's going to

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drop down even a little below that
according to the weather reports. So if

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you are water in your yard,
this would be a time to, you

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know, kind of think about,
Okay, no, wait a minute,

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do I really need to water today? Because watch the weather reports and if

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we're like two or three days out
from getting some water, I think I'd

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hold off unless the grass is just
absolutely wilted and suffering. But we overwater

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our lawns here. We do.
We do, we do, and I

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wish we wouldn't, but we do. I lived in Cyprus for a number

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of years and my neighbor water to
yard every other day. Um, and

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you know the spring I joke about
this, but the sprinkler heads were so

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misaligned that they sprayed my car.
Well, I'm gonna talk a little bit

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about watering the yard when we come
back here from break. If you'd like

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to get on the air with me, I'd love to talk to you.

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The number seven one three two one
two five eight seven four day Sunshine,

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goodbye. Range. Just turned my
school ring on a Chaine. She's my

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steady her man, all right.
I just said to let that one play

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a little bit longer. Oh,
that is a blast from the past.

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Hey, you're listening to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three

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two one two five eight seven for
I was talking before we went to break

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about you know, proper watering and
if it's going to rain in the next

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few days, well you don't need
to water now, I mean, think

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about this. You spend money on
drinking water, you soak your soil with

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it, and then the next day
it rains. Well, well, the

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rain, which is the best water
of all. You know, you just

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kind of didn't take advantage of that
great water. You already soaked the soil.

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So why do that. Well,
there's an app called water my Yard,

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and water my Yard app helps you
conserve water. By the way,

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it's free, absolutely free. You
can go to water my yard dot org

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rg water my yard dot org,
or you can go to the Apple app

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Store, Google Play and get it
here. I have it on my phone,

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and here's what happens. I give
my address, here's where I live,

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and they find a weather station near
my house, near your house,

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and that weather station measures the temperature, the humidity, the solar radiation.

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You know, is it a catty
day or sunny day, the wind speed,

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et cetera, et cetera, and
it crunches them all together with scientific

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data on what they know turf uses
under whatever conditions that week provided, and

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they'll send you an email. I
got one the other day. I said,

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you need a point four or five
inches of water on your lawn.

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That's how much your lawn has used
this past week. And you can't get

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more scientific and specific than that.
And for example, if it rains this

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week and next week, you may
think, well I need to rain.

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Well, we needed water once a
week. That's about enough, maybe twice

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a week in some situations, but
in general, and so it would it

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would tell you, hey, you
got this amount of rain near your house

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and so you don't need to you
don't need to water, so they just

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I think it's a great thing.
Watermyard dot org. I'm going to have

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Guy Phips from the water my yard
dot org group. He's an extension engineer

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or agrilife engineer at Texas and M
He's going to come in talk about how

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this all works and the whole system, the statewide in the science based watering

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recommendations that we get to enjoy for
free. Let's head up to Willis now

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and we're gonna talk to Stephen.
Good morning, Stephen, Good morning.

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Skip. First of all, I
knocked on my neighbor's door and telling me

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you're on and I've never heard them. I've never heard them talk to me

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like that before. Yeah, well, you know it takes it takes a

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while for them to appreciate the gift
that you gave them by going over there,

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you know, So I would,
I would, I would keep an

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eye on my trees for toilet paper
and other things like that for a little

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while. Um. I use in
Nelson plant foods, you know, high

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biscuits, color star and so forth. Now are those all organic? And

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my question is is it too hot
to feed them now? Am I going

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to do any burning or anything if
I feed them? That's good questions.

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Nelson's has an organic line. The
color Star are in general is not an

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organic line. But look look at
the fertilizer you buy because they have the

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color Star, Nature Star, the
Turf Star. They've got a number of

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lines, including their organic line,
and it will tell you on the bag

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if this is a slow release or
not. And if it's a slow release,

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you don't worry about it. You
put it down and it gradually releases.

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If it's not, you just do
it in small amounts. You know,

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don't overdo it. But like if
you put three months a fertilizer down

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at one time. Being salt based, I mean, I use salt and

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sugar as an analogy, but that's
a good one because that's essentially what's happening.

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It dissolves and you get that fertilizer
salts to the roots of the plant.

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And we think a salt is like
a bad thing, but in and

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of itself, it's not there.
They're a number of Even in nature,

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you have sometimes combinations that would technically
chemically be called a salt. But the

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fertilizer you put down, if you
do it moderately is going to be just

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fine. And we don't quit fertilizing
just because it's hot. Okay, I

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just didn't want to burn them up. That's good information. Thank you very

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much. You bet and enjoy those
plants, and good luck with the neighbors.

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Thank you. Let's take care bye
bye, hey. We got to

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have a little bit of fun here, right at least, that's what I

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think. You know, if you
if you have not been out to Warrens

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Garden Center out in Kingwood, that
is a place you gotta go. I

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keep saying this to the folks out
all around Kingwood. You know, Valley

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Ranch, New Caney, Atasca,
Seeda, Porter or Humble, all those

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areas. You are rich Wood Garden
centers. You've got Warrens Garden Center,

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and you've got Kingwood Garden Center.
Warrens is on North Park, Kingwood's on

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Stone Hollow. Excellent selection of products. Just everything you would need from soils

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to plants, products to deal with
pests and things are all available there.

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It's a wonderful place to go through. And you know, just because it's

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hot in summer doesn't mean that they're
not some great plants to put out.

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There in the garden and the landscape. You know hibiscus for example, the

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red bird of Paradise. Oh my
gosh, it is never happier than when

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it's hot and humid like it is
now, and that plant would take off

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grow and instead of your landscape being
green, your landscape becomes beautiful. Now.

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Out at Warren's Garden Center and Nelson
or Nelson at Kingwood, you're going

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to be able to fill your Nelson's
and Microlife jugs. They have that little

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filling station where instead of buying a
new plastic jug and putting more plastic in

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the environment, you just pull the
handle. I like some grocery stores.

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You know you're buying peanuts or different
things, you can fill a little container

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with them. That's exactly the same
thing. So in addition to all of

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the other things they offer, you're
going to be able to find that all

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the products we talk about, the
fertilizers and things we talk about, beautiful

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combo containers. They really excel at
combo containers out at Warren's Garden Center out

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there in North Park Drive in Kingwood. I always love it when I get

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to go out there. You are
listening to garden Line and our phone number

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is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. If you would

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like to get on the air,
I would be happy to visit with you

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about any kind of thing that is
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to gardening. With this break in
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kind of a chance to get out
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in the meantime and really on through
summer, I encourage you to take extra

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care. I posted something to Facebook, our garden Line Facebook page the other

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day about being careful in the heat
of summer and what is the difference between

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heat exhaustion and heat stroke and what
are the signs of those? And there

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was a time in my life when
I was young and invincible. Can any

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of you relate to that? You
just kind of did what you thought you

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wanted to do and figured that your
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Well, I learned one day I
didn't have heat stroke, but I

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did experience a moderate heat exhaustion and
it scared me. And it should have

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scared me, it should scare you. It's not something to mess around with.

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And there are signs that we can
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older, we find that we already
know our limits pretty well and we're a

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little more careful. But even at
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We want to keep you around.
And gardening is a fun hobbying. You

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don't have to overdo it when you
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Drinking a lot of water is really
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out of the hottest part of the
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a little light forming out there.
We could actually see some plants walking outside.

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It's a good time to be outside. Getting some of those things done

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ahead of time, shortening your work
time out in the garden, and just

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just enjoying it. Take it,
take it easy. And also, oh

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my gosh, skincare. Sun damage
is cumulative. You know, It's not

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like you have to go out and
stay so long you get a sunburn to

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have a damage. I mean,
you we need sunshine on our skin,

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but just know that it is a
cumulative thing, and so when it's not

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necessary, avoid the damage. You
know, you think about what summer I

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want to wear a shirt sleeve shirt
when I garden. I wear a long

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sleeve shirt in the summertimes especially,
and it's actually cooler A long sleeve cotton

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shirt is very cool and comfortable.
It works pretty well for it keeps the

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blazing sun off your skin. So
just well, however you want to go

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about it. Of course I always
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hats, and so I'm always wearing
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encourage you to please take care of
yourself. Don't don't just assume you can

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get away with what you always got
away with. We want to keep you

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around as a as a listener to
garden line. If you live up in

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the Carlos area, now you know
we're talking. You're thinking where is Carlos?

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Well, first of all, Carlos
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near Rones Prairie, Shiro Richards,
Anderson and bead Eyes and Iola. You

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know. Now, well, okay, how about this. It's up by

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Navasota. If you're up in the
Navasota area, maybe live in Kingwoods or

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Murewood subdivisions, Grimes County. Feed
is your hometown feed store Now. It's

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about two miles west of FM two
forty four. It's a locally family owned

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and operated story. Stop buy and
become part of their family. They're going

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to carry the fertilizers we talk about. They carry things like the mosquito dunks

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and the tree hugger sprinklers, and
they really work at keeping all of those

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kinds of things in stock. It's
a great feed store. You're gonna find

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quality dog and cat food, livestock
food, and so on. If you

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have a little pond and you would
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Twice per quarter, they have arranged
for a fish stocking. You just get

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in there and check out, find
out from them when it's going to be

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You can find out what you need
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They carry all the hay products you
need, the syrup tubs, local honey

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for example. Also their livestock minerals, Grimes County Feeding Farm. If you've

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got a little piece of property,
you need to know about them. If

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you even have a yard, you
need to know about Grimes County Feeding Farm

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up in Carlos. Love to stop
in and visit with the family, become

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part of their family. Well,
we're getting a little close to a break,

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but we got a little bit of
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break. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eight seven

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four seven one three, two one
two fifty eight seventy four. You know

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the other day we had Paul Fagala
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lot of I got a lot of
comments on people just loved that interview.

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And I don't blame you. I
always love visiting with the folks at the

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B Supply up in Dayton. They've
got that second largest in the world indoor

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b observation hive. You can go
see. It's like a plexiglass small room

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up in the air in the middle
of the store. I don't know,

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you just got to go see it
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They got beginner classes out there once
a month in Dayton, so you can

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become a beekeeper. Go to thebe
Supply dot com or Hey, they have

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honey tours also out there at the
b sup Supply that are free. It

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is a fascinating thing for to take
kids groups too, to take your garden

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club, any group that you have, to see the free honey tours that

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they have, and to learn a
lot about the fascinating world of bees,

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even if you don't want to be
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some tasty honey. Seven one three
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Give Josh a call. We'll be
right back. Come on you three.

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Good morning on a I don't know
what partridge slash Brady Bunch slash who knows

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where we're going from this Saturday morning. You're listening to garden Line. I'm

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your host, Skip Richter and our
phone number. Write this down seven one

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

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t r H. If you'd like
to die by on letters, I'm gonna

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tell you a little bit about RCW
Nurseries and it's kind of an update on

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what's going on out there, and
you're familiar with them. They're the nursery

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that's there where Beltway eight and Tombo
Parkway. Have we two forty nine come

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together. You can find more information
on RCW nurseries dot com. Right now

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out at r CW Nurseries, they're
having their Independence Day sale fifteen percent off

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the perennials out there, so a
great time to get some perennials to put

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in. Maybe you've been enjoying other
people's echinatias past this spring. By the

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way, they're still blooming out there. I got some in my yard that

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are bloom and great. Perennial.
Well, that's an example. That's a

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perennial that comes back year after a
year. It's a good one. Another

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thing, they have a really impressive
supply of his crepe myrtles and crape myrtles.

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Everybody knows crepe myrtles. They were
familiar with them. But one thing

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that I think people often do that
they shouldn't do, and that's just buy

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whatever crepe myrtle they see for sale. When you buy crepe myrtle, I

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think there's several things you should know. Number one, how big does it

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get? They don't sell them with
saws for a reason. You could buy

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crepe myrtles they get three feet tall. You can buy crepe myrtles get thirty

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five feet tall. What size do
you want? Do you want a twelve

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foot Do you want one that's seven
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you want one that's fifteen to eighteen? You see what I'm talking about.

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Number two, pick your color.
There are beautiful colors. Red as the

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standard, but oh my gosh,
the lavenders and the white crepe myrtles.

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Number three, look at the bark
if you care about that. There are

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some like Gnatches is one of those
thirty five footers that has beautiful will cinnamon

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exfoliating bark. And then if when
at all possible, choose one that's powdery

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milder resistant. And a lot of
the varieties now are powdery milder resistant,

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so you don't have to mess with
that disease. RCW Nurseries has a wide

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selection of great myrtles and they can
get you set up with ones you want.

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I've got some at my house that
we're planted years ago by somebody,

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and they're so tall now and they're
right at the back patio that they provide

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shade, and I appreciate that very
much, but I can't see the blooms

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because they're way up high across the
yard. I need to put in some

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that are about seven to twelve feet
tall somewhere in there so when I'm sitting

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on the patio I can enjoy the
blooms. You see what I'm talking about.

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There is a crepe myrtle for everybody. In fact, there's a bunch

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of great myrtles for each person that
will do well in our CW Nurseries is

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an excellent source of those RCW nurseries
dot com. We are going to talk

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a little bit about a number of
things regarding gardening this morning. I think

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the most exciting news is is the
break in the weather that all gardeners are

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glad to see. If you've got
a vegetable garden and it is starting to

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look worse for the wear, this
is the time of year where this is

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now the more of a traditional garden. It's a large garden area as opposed

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to maybe a container or a single
bed or something like that. But if

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you had a larger area, this
is a time where you may want to

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think about what areas do I want
to put to rest for a little while.

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That's called fallow in the farming world. So maybe you pull out some

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old slice or tomatoes that are now
full of spider mites, some leaf spots

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and they just aren't setting fruit because
it's too darn hot, and they won't

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for a long time now, So
you pull those out, Mix some nutrient

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in the soil, mix some compost
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mulch over the surface to deter weeds, and just let it set. Tell

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us time for fall planting. That's
an option if you've got an area and

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you want to keep going. There's
a lot of good summer vegetables that we

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can keep growing that if you just
make sure they get water. They can

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handle being out in the sun and
the humidity. You can stay inside.

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They'll be fine if you're getting water. And that would be like sweet potatoes

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and black eyed peas, purple holes, crowders, all those southern peas.

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The yard long beans another one in
that group that they do fine. Of

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course, okra does well. If
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Halloween or for just fall decorating,
this is your not last call, but

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it we're getting towards the end of
the time when you want to get those

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in. And here's why pumpkins can
take like one hundred and twenty days to

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mature. You want them to be
mature before it starts to cool off and

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the day length gets shorter and the
growth slows on the pumpkins. You would

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like to go ahead and get them
to a harvest time so you can harvest

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them and bring them in. So
don't delay much longer if you want to

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do that. Just remember when you
plant pumpkins and any kind of a squash,

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winter squash in the summer. I
mean you plant those. You need

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to protect the foe ledge because they
need they need have foliage in order to

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produce pumpkin of whatever type, or
winter squash of whatever type, acorn squash,

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you kennie squash, butternut squat,
all those different kinds of winter squashes.

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So we get powdery mildews, we
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all kinds of things on the foliage. Take care of the foliage so that

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you have plenty of carbohydrate production,
so you have a really good harvest going

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forward. We're going to head out
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Hello, Ralph, good morning.
You got a great program on your

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water and you guys were all to
score over that again. I'm just missing

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part of my yards. Look like
it's my Saint Augustine. Looked like it's

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the big climbing. Okay, Well, it could be due to lack of

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water. If you're watering at all, I would say it's probably not due

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to a lack of water at this
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probably not. But we want to
give our lawns a good soaking once a

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week and if need be, If
the soil is a little sandy, the

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area is one sunny and so on, well then you can go twice a

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week. But once a week I
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believe it or not, Ralph,
I watered my yard the first time this

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year this past week, and I've
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grass. I don't every time I, you know, it's a little hot,

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run out there and squirt it with
water. I watched the grass and

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it was getting to where it was
starting to wilt during the day and then

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bounce back at night, and I
kind of watched it a wall, and

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I went ahead and watered it.
Now. I'm not saying nobody should have

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watered before now, but I'm just
saying we overwater. So anyway, good

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soaking and then followed by drying out. And Ralph, when you do that,

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you wet that soil. If you
were to look at a cross section

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of your soil, it's full of
water because you gave it a good soaking,

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and then that water slowly kind of
sinks down in the soil. Just

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like you're drinking. You through a
straw and you're you're taking the Maybe you're

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drinking a coke through the straw and
you watch that water or the coke level

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drop down in the glass. That's
happening in the soil because it's evaporating and

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the roots are pulling it out.
But as it does that, it brings

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oxygen back in the soil. You
know, behind the what was once filled

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with water and now you have airspace
and that's good for the roots. And

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if you keep it water logged,
it's not good and it wastes water.

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And that's why we like a good
soaking on an infrequent basis to have the

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best line you can. Okay,
I've been stingy on that. That's what

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I have to get straight. Well
stingy is okay. I mean you know

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we we over water, so yeah, go ahead. Yeah. I got

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a bunch of through trees and I
got a big seag tree. Do you

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I have Do I have to trim
that it down? You said, a

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fig tree with a fig don't worry
about pruning it during the summer unless you

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know it's just absolutely overgrown and you
didn't get it done earlier. I would

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wait, let that tree go into
winter, and then when we get toward

405
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the end of winter and it's ready
to come out, but not quite yet.

406
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I would go ahead and trim it
at that time because when you prune

407
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something, it causes it to try
to regrow. And figs are a little

408
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on the coal tender side. They're
one of the plants that if we have

409
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pretty bad cold, they're going to
be one of the ones that has damage.

410
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And so I don't prune figs after
about August first because I don't want

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to encourage late season flushes of growth
because those will be very coal tender,

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they're not hardened off. Okay,
okay, good information, Thank you,

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Thank you, sir. I appreciate
that call. You're listening to garden Line.

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We are going to be back after
a little bit of a break.

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Here's the number if you want to
get on the board. Seven one,

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three two and two fifty eight se
four. All right, you're listening to

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garden Line. We are here to
talk gardening. Surprise, surprise. I'm

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your host, Skip Ricter and our
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five eight seven four. Give us
a call. Let's talk about whatever you

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437
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we were mentioning. I was talking
about vegetables a moment ago. Flowers is

438
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the same kind of thing. You
know that just because it's hot doesn't mean

439
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that we have to give up on
gardening it. Maybe we don't want to

440
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be outside during the heat of day, but we can have plants that really

441
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beautify our landscapes. And I've said
this before, but our landscapes will become

442
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of sea, a sea of green. And the summer green is a pretty

443
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color. But there's a lot more
colors out there. So why not have

444
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crape myrtles lighting, lightening things up. What about putting out vitex where we

445
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get some good early summer color and
it will continue in waves as we go

446
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through. Why not a red bird
of Paradise one of my favorite summer plants.

447
00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:39.480
It's also called Pride of Barbados.
It's the gaudiest thing in the landscape,

448
00:32:39.720 --> 00:32:44.079
and that includes if you fill your
front yard with pink flamingos and put

449
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:47.119
a Pride of Barbados out there,
it'll be gaudier than the pink flamingos.

450
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And I know some of you like
pink flamingos, but we need to talk

451
00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:59.079
anyway. The red bird of Paradise
is just beautiful, beautiful plant. Hibiscus

452
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both a tropical types and the summer
blooming perennials that are native along the Gulf

453
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coast in the US, big old
dinner plate sized blooms. They can take

454
00:33:10.279 --> 00:33:14.599
the heat. Thryalis can take the
heat with it. It's a shrub like

455
00:33:14.759 --> 00:33:16.920
plant with yellow blooms. Very pretty. We need to talk about that one

456
00:33:16.960 --> 00:33:22.240
more. It can take the heat
on and on. Angelonias in the flower

457
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:25.359
bed can take that kind of heat
as well, and many many other kinds

458
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of plants. I guess what I'm
saying is, don't give up on color

459
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for summer. You can continue to
have a beautiful, beautiful lawn and landscape

460
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in through the summer season. All
these plants ask, they say, we

461
00:33:38.680 --> 00:33:44.559
can handle the heat, We can
handle the humidity in this blasting sun.

462
00:33:45.160 --> 00:33:50.400
Just keep us moist. And moist
means moist, it doesn't mean soggy.

463
00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:53.200
And there's a mindset in gardeners,
and I see it here in Houston a

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lot as well as elsewhere where.
It's like it. My plants have been

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water they're moist, but now it's
hot, so I have to water more.

466
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And when you add saggy conditions to
blazing heat, you will severely injure

467
00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:14.920
plants, if not kill them.
If you overwater a plant in the cool

468
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season, the demands are low,
it is able to handle that pretty well

469
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:22.559
usually, but when you get into
the heat of summer and that plant is

470
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:27.400
pumping water as fast as it can
just to stay cool, and that's one

471
00:34:27.440 --> 00:34:30.440
of the main reasons are pumping waters
to stay cool and supply the processes and

472
00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:34.880
the plant. And then you water
log it, and now the roots can't

473
00:34:34.880 --> 00:34:39.360
get oxygen and they have to shut
down. They have a respiration process,

474
00:34:39.400 --> 00:34:43.440
they have to have oxygen in the
roots, and so you water log it.

475
00:34:43.840 --> 00:34:46.840
And now you've got a plant that
is demanding water, and you're making

476
00:34:46.880 --> 00:34:51.880
the roots unable to take it up
even though they're sitting in standing water.

477
00:34:51.960 --> 00:34:58.079
I know that's counter intuitive, but
it's what happens. Don't overwater, Yes,

478
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consistent moist water enough to keep the
soul moist. But if you think

479
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that because it's one hundred degrees for
five days, you have to water every

480
00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:12.840
day, then you're making a mistake
and you will watch plants collapse faster than

481
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:16.000
at any other time of the year
when you do that. Kind of watering.

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I love vegetable garden. I was
talking about it earlier. I love

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vegetable gardening in traditional gardens and beds
and containers and all kinds of things.

484
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But a lot of folks don't have
room for a garden, or maybe they

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don't have sunshine for a garden in
the backyard, and they would look to

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a community garden. We have many
good community gardens around the Greater Houston area,

487
00:35:37.039 --> 00:35:40.559
infects one of the big cities with
an excellent supply of community gardens here

488
00:35:40.599 --> 00:35:45.480
in the US. There's also a
neighborhood going in Sadelle Web neighborhood down there

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in Full Shirts two miles from downtown
Full Shure on FM three fifty nine,

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and I love number one. I
love Dell Web. You know they've been

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building homes for active adults. I
shouldn't say homes, I should say communities

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for active adult It's fifty five and
better for over seventy years. Dellweb communities

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have lifestyle programs built around you.
But this Dellweb community, they've contacted me

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to help them with putting in a
community garden. So imagine all the pluses

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of living in a Dellweb community Plus
there's a community garden where you can go

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where you can grow food and flowers
and you can enjoy that time that we

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have a gardeners. You know how
gardeners are. We love to get together,

498
00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:29.079
we love to talk, we love
the social events, the social interaction

499
00:36:29.519 --> 00:36:32.239
Dellweb will provide that. Go to
delweb dot com slash Houston to find out

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about this community or call two eight
one four to five nine zero six zero

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nine to eight one four five nine
zero six zero nine and find out about

502
00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:51.039
that dell Web difference and why I'm
so excited about it. I was doing

503
00:36:51.079 --> 00:36:54.039
an educational program up in College Station
the other day and we were talking about

504
00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:59.559
planning trees and shrubs and taking care
of trees and shrubs, and I was

505
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:01.840
talking to about that the first summer
that a tree or shrub is in the

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00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:07.719
ground is a critical one. And
here's why. In the container at the

507
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garden center, at the nursery where
it was grown, all the root system

508
00:37:10.920 --> 00:37:15.079
of that plant is in that container. And so those folks that are taking

509
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:17.559
care of the plants and growing and
selling the plants, they're watering them regularly,

510
00:37:17.599 --> 00:37:22.159
maybe every day some situations, maybe
twice a day because that is not

511
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:27.599
a natural spread of a root system. That is an extremely confined spread.

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But that's what we have to do
in order to grow the plant. And

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when that happens, you put it
in the ground. And now all those

514
00:37:34.400 --> 00:37:37.440
roots are still in the cylinder,
and day by day, week by week,

515
00:37:37.519 --> 00:37:40.880
month by month, the roots are
moving out in the ground around it.

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And with each little bit of more
soil gained by the root system,

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00:37:46.079 --> 00:37:51.480
it becomes more resilient and less needing
to be pampered. You know, an

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00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:55.599
established tree, we only rescue water
them during extended summer droughts. We don't

519
00:37:55.599 --> 00:38:00.239
have to water them all the time. But a new plant, it was

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00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:01.840
being watered, let's say it was
water daily. Well, now it's in

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00:38:01.880 --> 00:38:06.159
the ground, and how long does
it take to pump that cylinder dry?

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00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:12.760
A day? I mean a little
water is wicking in from around the roots

523
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:16.079
cylinder, from the moist soil around
it, but it pumps it dry and

524
00:38:16.199 --> 00:38:20.480
you can get into big trouble fast, and so you have to keep that

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00:38:20.679 --> 00:38:22.840
moist and it's a little touching go. You don't want it's soggy, but

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00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:27.280
you do want it moist. The
best way to do that, I think

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00:38:27.400 --> 00:38:30.679
is a tree Hugger sprinkler because you
know you can buy those in seven inch

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00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:35.360
diameter, eleven inch, fifteen inch
diameter. Go online to TreeHugger sprinkler dot

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00:38:35.360 --> 00:38:37.519
com so you can see what I'm
talking about. But it's a little device.

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00:38:37.599 --> 00:38:39.360
It wraps around the tree. You've
got a lottle valves, so you

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can turn it to just water right
there where the sprinkler is, or you

532
00:38:43.920 --> 00:38:46.440
can turn it on more and more
and more where it's watering a very large

533
00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:50.039
area. Maybe you've got a tree
that's been in the ground three years or

534
00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:52.960
five years and you're still watering.
To take care of it and help it

535
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.960
get growing faster, because that's our
goal when the trees are young. Tree

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00:38:57.000 --> 00:39:00.800
Hugger will save your investment. They're
found at ACE Hardware's, are found at

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00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:05.960
the feed stores we talk about,
the garden centers we talk about Go online

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00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.280
tree huggersprinkle dot com. You can
find out more. But it is really

539
00:39:09.320 --> 00:39:15.480
really a cool thing that will save
you not just having to replace a tree,

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00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:20.400
but we'll make that tree you have
grow faster, or the shrub or

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00:39:20.480 --> 00:39:22.599
the rosebush, you name it.
Hey, give us a call seven one

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00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.000
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Josh, you'll get you on

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00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:30.400
the board, and when we come
back from break, you will be the

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00:39:30.400 --> 00:39:32.199
first one we talk to. What
kind of gardening questions do you have this

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00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:37.880
morning? We can talk about herbs, flowers, containers. A lot of

546
00:39:37.920 --> 00:39:43.199
people late leaving getting a lot of
questions about different kinds of fertilizer and which

547
00:39:43.199 --> 00:39:45.440
one do you use and how do
you use them? And things like that.

548
00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:49.159
We can we can drown on about
that. If you want, you

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00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:52.599
like some suggestions for plants, maybe
we can talk about that. I just

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love visiting me gardeners and I hope
you enjoy listening to Gardenline. By the

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00:39:57.400 --> 00:40:00.519
way, if you ever miss a
show, you can listen to us on

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00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:05.519
podcast. We're available on podcast as
well. Just go to your podcast supplier

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00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:09.639
I hope it's iHeartRadio or whoever you
use and look for garden Line. Go

554
00:40:09.719 --> 00:40:14.719
back and listen to past shows and
remember the things that you heard but you

555
00:40:14.760 --> 00:40:17.559
can't quite remember. This time has
passed. Hey, we'll be right back

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00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:25.679
after break. Look forward to talking
to KTRH. Garden Line does not necessarily

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00:40:25.800 --> 00:40:31.920
endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH

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garden Line with scip director, just
watching as so many crazy. Well,

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00:40:55.039 --> 00:41:00.199
good morning on a beautiful Saturday morning. Outside, I see sunshine, I

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00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:04.880
see breeze. I see a good
chance to be outside getting some stuff done.

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00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:07.039
You're listening to garden Line. If
you go outside, please take the

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00:41:07.159 --> 00:41:10.920
radio with you. We are going
to talk gardening all morning. I'm your

563
00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:14.519
host, Skip Richter, and our
phone number if you would like to give

564
00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:19.920
us a call is seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

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00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:22.199
Talking about the breeze out there in
summertime. You know, once we hit

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June and July and August September,
what is that called hurricane season here on

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the Gulf Coast. And we know
that when hurricanes come blasting through, our

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trees often take a hit. So
if you've got a tree that has maybe

569
00:41:36.760 --> 00:41:39.199
some dead limbs in it, maybe
it's hanging over a fence or over your

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00:41:39.280 --> 00:41:45.400
roof, maybe you're hanging over your
neighbor's driveway, and you don't want it

571
00:41:45.440 --> 00:41:47.960
to fall on the maserati, that
might get interesting, right, Well,

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00:41:49.079 --> 00:41:52.639
you need to call Affordable Tree Service
now. Affordable Tree Service is the go

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00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:57.760
to tree service for garden Line.
And if you give him a call.

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00:41:57.800 --> 00:42:00.199
By the way, tell them that
you heard about him on guarden Line.

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00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:06.000
Because Guardline customers go to the front
of their line. Martin and Joe owners,

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00:42:06.239 --> 00:42:10.079
they still answer their own phone.
So when you call Affordable Tree Service

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00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:14.840
seven one, three, six,
nine, nine, twenty six sixty three,

578
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:16.639
Martin or Joe will answer. If
they don't, you've called the wrong

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00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:21.119
place. Hang up, find the
number right and call again. Affordable Tree.

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00:42:21.400 --> 00:42:25.400
On the web, you can go
to Afftree Service dot com and they

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00:42:25.400 --> 00:42:30.320
can take care of all those let's
just say pre hurricane kinds of issues that

582
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:32.400
may be in your tree. I
mean, it doesn't take a hurricane to

583
00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:37.079
need to clean up a tree and
get it wrong, or get it wrong,

584
00:42:37.360 --> 00:42:40.119
get what's wrong fixed so that it's
strong, so that it has the

585
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:44.440
resilience and the ability to stand.
Do you need deep roof feeding? Do

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00:42:44.440 --> 00:42:46.599
you need trees removed? You need
trees planted? Are you going to do

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00:42:46.679 --> 00:42:52.079
construction anywhere near a tree? Absolutely
call Martin. Haven't come out and advise

588
00:42:52.199 --> 00:42:58.239
you because once the damage is done, we are limited on what we can

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00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:01.239
do to help a tree recover and
bad pruning jobs. By the way,

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00:43:01.480 --> 00:43:07.079
don't if someone sticks a business card
in your door to pruna tree. Just

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00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:09.800
throw it away, use it from
mulch and your house plants. How about

592
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:15.199
that, throw it on top of
the ground it. You don't need to

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00:43:15.360 --> 00:43:20.000
jerks on a chainsaw tree service coming
by and butcher in a tree because you

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00:43:20.119 --> 00:43:23.519
screwed up once and it's done.
I mean, it's a very, very

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00:43:23.559 --> 00:43:30.159
seldom that we can recover properly from
bad pruning. Martin and Joe Affordable Tree

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00:43:30.199 --> 00:43:32.639
Service, they will not do that. They will They know what they're doing,

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00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:37.880
and it is well worth contacting them
and getting that kind of advice.

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00:43:37.559 --> 00:43:43.320
We're gonna head out to Galveston and
go to the phone's down talk to Jackie.

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00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:46.840
Good morning, Jackie, Hi,
good morning. How can we help

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00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:52.159
today? I have plamary a tree, that is it a pod? I've

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00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:54.119
had it for about two years,
beautiful green leaves, but I can't seem

602
00:43:54.119 --> 00:43:58.079
to get the flowers to bloom.
What am I doing wrong? That's a

603
00:43:58.079 --> 00:44:00.599
good question. You know. I
had folks from the Plumeria Society and the

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00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:05.800
other day and we were talking about
things like that. Well, there's there's

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00:44:05.800 --> 00:44:07.800
a handful of things and I'm gonna
tell you what they are. And you're

606
00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:12.280
gonna tell me you're doing all of
them. That's usually how these calls go.

607
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:16.199
They need sunshine, they need really
good sunshine in order to bloom.

608
00:44:16.840 --> 00:44:21.039
They need moisture, but they don't
need to stay too saggy wet. They

609
00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:23.880
don't want that, and they are, you know, they're a resilient plant.

610
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:28.599
But they do need adequate moisture.
They need moderate nutrition, so a

611
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:34.679
good quality plumeria fertilizer applied to encourage
growth and blooming. And then of course

612
00:44:34.719 --> 00:44:37.719
the warm weather they like. They
don't bloom in the winter much unless you

613
00:44:37.760 --> 00:44:43.280
haven't been a very warm indoor place. But seriously, they that's what they

614
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:46.159
need. And I bet you're already
providing yours with those things, yes sir,

615
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:50.920
yeh, yeah, all three of
those. Yeah, Well that's that

616
00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:53.239
is for me. The frustrate I
am not a plumeria expert, and that's

617
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:58.039
a frustrating thing about plumeria is for
me is trying to get those darned things

618
00:44:58.039 --> 00:45:00.840
to bloom. If we got some
folks plumarious society listening in, you can

619
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:06.239
call in. Maybe I left something
out, but that that's basically what it

620
00:45:06.280 --> 00:45:09.199
takes. And then then it's just
a matter of time, I've noticed,

621
00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:14.400
and I don't know. I don't
know how much is cultural and how much

622
00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:20.239
maybe differences and varieties, some being
a little more prone to bloom well than

623
00:45:20.280 --> 00:45:23.039
others. Maybe it could be a
factor his years bloomed in the past.

624
00:45:24.599 --> 00:45:28.800
Um well, I snipped it from
my grandma's tree in Florida, and so

625
00:45:28.960 --> 00:45:30.320
when I snipped it, it was
beautiful. It's pink and white and bloom.

626
00:45:30.360 --> 00:45:34.199
But ever since i've had it here
in Texas the last two years,

627
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:39.199
it's it's no blooms. Yeah.
Yeah, I'm trying to think of what

628
00:45:39.239 --> 00:45:43.920
else. Yeah, I know,
I know, And that's why we grow

629
00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:45.519
those things. I mean, how
are you ever going to make a lay

630
00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:49.960
to get on a plane and go
to Hawaii with if you If you don't,

631
00:45:51.360 --> 00:45:53.519
yeah, I'll let me think about
it a little bit more. But

632
00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:57.719
those are the keys. When I've
talked to primary people before, those are

633
00:45:57.719 --> 00:46:04.679
the things I hear from them,
and I just don't know another another secret

634
00:46:04.719 --> 00:46:07.119
to it. I think maybe just
a little more time settling in. I

635
00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:12.000
know that's not what you want to
hear, but that that's probably the best

636
00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:14.760
the best I can give you on
this right now. If I come up

637
00:46:14.800 --> 00:46:19.039
with something else. Just keep listening
in I'll say something about that. All

638
00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:21.159
right. Well, we love your
show. Thank you well, thank you

639
00:46:21.239 --> 00:46:27.400
Jackie. I appreciate that you take
care. You know the we I was

640
00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:32.920
talking to earlier about the nitrofoss UH
nineteen four ten, the super turf product

641
00:46:34.039 --> 00:46:37.360
that they have, Nitrofos has another
couple of products that deal with some of

642
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:42.480
the pests that get on our lawns. One of them is the nitrofoss Fiant

643
00:46:42.559 --> 00:46:46.079
Killer N Fiant Killer. It works
quick, the queen can't escape. It

644
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:51.079
kills the whole colony to prevent new
mounds. So it's a it's a good

645
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:54.960
way to shut pesky fireants down as
they as they come into our lawns and

646
00:46:55.039 --> 00:47:00.480
landscapes. And I don't know what
to say, pesky fire ants like a

647
00:47:00.920 --> 00:47:07.800
redundancy all fire incher pesky. But
they also have something called bugout Max.

648
00:47:07.039 --> 00:47:10.719
Now Bugout Max kills up one hundred
and thirty different species of insect. It's

649
00:47:10.719 --> 00:47:15.199
an advanced formula. It targets all
those pests that invest your lawn. So

650
00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:19.480
when we're looking at the sideweb warm
and when looking at the chinch bug,

651
00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:22.800
for example, when we're looking at
grubs when they're feeding up near the surface,

652
00:47:22.679 --> 00:47:25.840
which is let's see what we are
July. They're about to head down

653
00:47:25.880 --> 00:47:30.760
south at this point, coming up
real quick here, so it would be

654
00:47:30.840 --> 00:47:35.119
an excellent time to get out bug
Out Max to shut those grubs down as

655
00:47:35.119 --> 00:47:38.639
well. These are all Nitrofos products
which are available where Nitrofos is sold,

656
00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:43.920
which is everywhere. That would be
the garden centers you're here on garden Line,

657
00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:50.760
the feed stores, the let's see
mom and pop nurseries all around on

658
00:47:50.880 --> 00:47:54.480
garden Line, places like RCW nursery
paces like the K and m Ace out

659
00:47:54.480 --> 00:47:59.480
there in Kingwood are J and R
a s up in a porter for example,

660
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:04.760
plants and things out in Brenham.
Nitrofoss Summer Essentials that includes the nineteen

661
00:48:04.760 --> 00:48:08.079
four ten fertilizer Slow Release and also
the Bugout Max and the fire Ant Killer,

662
00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:15.280
all quality products that nitro Foss produces
and sells throughout our Houston area.

663
00:48:15.480 --> 00:48:19.840
You know, if you're listening to
garden Line, you hear me talk about

664
00:48:20.880 --> 00:48:23.760
some of the favorite places that we
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665
00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:29.280
way, you don't just call garden
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666
00:48:29.360 --> 00:48:31.519
checkbook, and you get to be
a sponsor. We're very selective in the

667
00:48:31.559 --> 00:48:37.000
sponsors that we pick up here on
Garden Line. I need to believe in

668
00:48:37.039 --> 00:48:39.440
the product. If at all possible, I need to use the product,

669
00:48:39.800 --> 00:48:44.800
for example, to test it and
know that it's going to work. I

670
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.159
visit with the owners. I look
at the if it's a storefront, I

671
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:52.480
look at the storefront, and I
make sure that it is something that I

672
00:48:52.519 --> 00:48:57.719
can put my name on and say
to you, this is quality and know

673
00:48:57.960 --> 00:49:00.920
that that's the kind of results that
you're going to have. We're gonna take

674
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:04.679
a break. Our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

675
00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:09.039
four. Give us a call.
We'll be right back. You did love

676
00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:30.719
true. My goal in music is
to play something you didn't expect. How

677
00:49:30.719 --> 00:49:35.840
did that work? You're listening to
garden Line. We're having fun and this

678
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:39.480
is the good time of the day
to be outside getting some gardening done,

679
00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:45.079
or inside talking about gardening, which
is why we're here. Let's start by

680
00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:47.840
heading out to League City and talking
to John V. Hey John V.

681
00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:52.440
By the way I live morning.
I looked into those flowers. I could

682
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:57.920
not find anything that I would I
found Trustworthy online about gardenia's But the jasmine

683
00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:02.920
um that seems to be one that
is an edible flower, the awesome blossom.

684
00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:09.079
Yeah, yes, great. And
then my question is on the avocado.

685
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:15.719
I keep keeping the avocado seeds and
putting them in a little planter before

686
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:20.840
my mother finds them. Una,
So I wanted to see how tall will

687
00:50:20.920 --> 00:50:24.960
one avocado seed grow? Or what
foil should I use to put it temporary

688
00:50:25.159 --> 00:50:30.519
and in a pot and then plant
it. I'm sorry I asked that again.

689
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:35.960
I didn't catch that. Okay,
Yes, which which? So once

690
00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:40.199
I have the avocado seed, which
type of soil mixture and nutrients do I

691
00:50:40.239 --> 00:50:44.760
need to put it temper in a
pot for it to grow and then transferred

692
00:50:44.800 --> 00:50:47.039
into the ground. I would I
would use a rose soil. That's in

693
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:50.760
general, that's a pretty good blend. I mean, there's more than one

694
00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:55.039
blend that could grow an avocado but
seed, but the rose soil would be

695
00:50:55.079 --> 00:50:57.760
the one I would use. By
the way, I want to go back

696
00:50:57.800 --> 00:51:02.320
to that flower thing. The jasmine, it's edible, is the official jasmine.

697
00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:08.280
It's called jasmine aficionale. That's edible. But the fault we call jasmine.

698
00:51:08.320 --> 00:51:12.920
There's a girl's gall semium semper varians. It's a it's a called a

699
00:51:12.960 --> 00:51:15.760
false jasmine, but that is not
edible. So you want to make sure

700
00:51:15.920 --> 00:51:22.519
that you're really dealing with something that's
in the genus jazz jasminum, not the

701
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:25.719
other one. And what is the
what is the color of that jasmine?

702
00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:30.559
Official, it's gonna be white.
It's gonna be white. Wow, you're

703
00:51:30.639 --> 00:51:34.320
white. And after I told you
I couldn't find anything on guardinia, I

704
00:51:34.360 --> 00:51:37.719
did find one that they're the fragrant
blooms are used in jams and preserves and

705
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:40.920
can be added to cakes for extra
flavor. For there you go with your

706
00:51:40.920 --> 00:51:49.119
little culinary, ready to bake.
Have fun. Okay, thank you,

707
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:52.119
I'll have a wonderful Saturday. Goodbye
you bet you two, thank you very

708
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:58.480
much. Appreciate that call. Let's
go to Cyprus now and talk to Susan

709
00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:04.599
hellus morning, good morning. I
have two questions. The first one is

710
00:52:04.599 --> 00:52:08.480
is it too hot to use an
a spray like on the hose the spray

711
00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:15.639
in sexicide on my yard like triaz
side? Can I use that? That's

712
00:52:15.679 --> 00:52:19.719
fine, it's not too hot.
It just follow always follow the label and

713
00:52:20.119 --> 00:52:22.320
you'll be fine. You can I
ask what you're trying to go after.

714
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:28.960
Okay, so we have these little
gnats, little flying gnats everywhere in our

715
00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:31.960
yard. And my sudden law used
it on his yard. He lives a

716
00:52:31.960 --> 00:52:35.960
couple of houses down and it worked
on his yard, but he used it

717
00:52:35.960 --> 00:52:37.400
a month or two ago. But
I want to use the same thing to

718
00:52:37.480 --> 00:52:40.800
kill those little flying things that are
in my yard. Okay, they're not

719
00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:45.760
they're not side wood. We're in
mos there's some little kind of gnat or

720
00:52:45.880 --> 00:52:51.599
moth, little natty thing that's flying
everywhere. Huh Okay, well, yeah,

721
00:52:51.639 --> 00:52:55.159
that would be fine. A tryside
is going to have kind of insecticide

722
00:52:55.159 --> 00:53:00.039
that it hasn't It don't kill about
anything, so that will work just fine.

723
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:02.960
And then my second question, please, we need to tell us to

724
00:53:04.119 --> 00:53:08.039
water deep in our grass almost like
once a week. How many minutes do

725
00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:13.280
you mean for a deep watering.
That's a good question. So here's how

726
00:53:13.320 --> 00:53:17.679
that works. Rather than me giving
you the minutes that is needed, we

727
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:22.440
need to look at the volume that
you put down. And if you will

728
00:53:22.519 --> 00:53:28.760
take a rain gage or some kind
of a can with straight sides like pinto

729
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:31.719
beans, cap food, tuna,
fish, those kind of cans, they

730
00:53:31.760 --> 00:53:35.400
can be a little rain gauge.
Put them around the lawn, turn it

731
00:53:35.480 --> 00:53:38.039
on, and how long does it
take to catch an inch of water?

732
00:53:38.679 --> 00:53:43.800
That's a good deep soaking. In
most soils, now clay soils, you're

733
00:53:43.840 --> 00:53:45.599
not going to get an inch down
without it running off. So you have

734
00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:50.199
to run it for a while and
then let it soak for about forty five

735
00:53:50.199 --> 00:53:52.679
minutes, and then run it for
a while and then let it soak for

736
00:53:52.679 --> 00:53:57.000
forty five minutes. So let's say
that today's Saturday, Saturday was your watering

737
00:53:57.079 --> 00:54:00.400
day. You would get up early
this morning with or have the the clock

738
00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:05.039
set to come on early this morning, maybe you know, six o'clock,

739
00:54:05.119 --> 00:54:07.480
and it waters for a while and
then it goes off. Then it's seven

740
00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:10.239
o'clock, it runs again and goes
off, and the eight o'clock until you've

741
00:54:10.280 --> 00:54:15.559
caught that inch and that gives you
the good deep soaking that you're looking for.

742
00:54:16.440 --> 00:54:20.000
Sound good, Thank you very much. All right, Well I hope

743
00:54:20.039 --> 00:54:23.440
that helps. Thank you very much. I appreciate that call. We are

744
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:29.440
talking about all kinds of things,
and you know she's talking about triaside any

745
00:54:29.519 --> 00:54:32.719
kind anytime you're looking and you're wherever
you are around the Greater Houston area.

746
00:54:32.760 --> 00:54:38.159
If you're looking for products that control
insects, controlled diseases, controlled fungus,

747
00:54:38.199 --> 00:54:45.360
fungi, control weeds, ACE Hardware
dot Com is near you, and it's

748
00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:47.199
going to carry what you're looking for. They have a great selection of all

749
00:54:47.199 --> 00:54:51.440
these products. They also carry.
ACE Hardware carries the fertilizers we talk about.

750
00:54:51.440 --> 00:54:54.320
They carry the bags of soil that
we talk about. Everything you need

751
00:54:54.400 --> 00:54:58.079
for the inside the house, outside
the house, you got it. I

752
00:54:58.119 --> 00:55:00.920
mean we No hardware store has paint, light, bulbs, and plumbing and

753
00:55:01.000 --> 00:55:05.280
all those things that you would expect
from a hardware store. When you walk

754
00:55:05.280 --> 00:55:07.360
into an ACE you're going to find
out, Oh my gosh, I did

755
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:10.360
not know what all they have in
these store. I mean, it is

756
00:55:12.519 --> 00:55:16.119
plan some time, because I mean
some ACE hardware stores have beautiful lines of

757
00:55:16.400 --> 00:55:22.320
in fact, most of them beautiful
lines of house decorating, personal beauty,

758
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:30.079
just decorations, and it's just amazing. I get hung up in the barbecue

759
00:55:30.119 --> 00:55:34.280
section. I can't get out of
there because there's so many good quality items,

760
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.800
including the actual pits like Webber and
Draeger and Big Green Egg and more.

761
00:55:38.239 --> 00:55:42.760
But when it comes to gardening,
if we name a fertilizer. You're

762
00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:45.400
going to find it at ACE Hardware. It's going to be there. And

763
00:55:45.559 --> 00:55:50.280
when you're there, sign up for
ACE Hardware Rewards program. I Belong myself.

764
00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:52.960
You earn up money, you earn
money back on your purchase. Just

765
00:55:53.039 --> 00:55:58.360
go to Ace hardware dot Com,
go to the store locator. I usually

766
00:55:58.400 --> 00:56:00.519
scroll at the bottom of the page
and find store locator and click on that

767
00:56:00.760 --> 00:56:05.280
and you find all the stores,
thirty nine of them. Can't be that

768
00:56:05.360 --> 00:56:07.840
hard to find one near you.
And that's the way it is with Ace

769
00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:15.840
Hardware. This past week, I
have a bird feeder that has a little

770
00:56:15.840 --> 00:56:19.599
camera and that my kids gave it
to me for Christmas, and I get

771
00:56:19.719 --> 00:56:22.320
emails all day about who visited my
feeder. So I have to kind of

772
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:28.239
silence the thing because birds are coming
and going all day. But I love

773
00:56:28.320 --> 00:56:30.760
backyard birding, and maybe you do
too. That is one of the things

774
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:37.440
that I would consider one of the
important enhancements to your outdoor gardening enjoyment is

775
00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:40.960
to bring in birds, songbirds,
things that get up in the morning and

776
00:56:42.000 --> 00:56:45.280
you just enjoy the beautiful songs at
the time of day when you actually want

777
00:56:45.320 --> 00:56:47.320
to be outside right now in the
heat of summer. You can enjoy that.

778
00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:50.719
You can watch them at the feeder, put a little bird bath out

779
00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:53.880
for them. Birds need water right
now. And if you need anything regarding

780
00:56:53.920 --> 00:56:59.480
birds, while Birds Unlimited is the
place to go, it's the only place

781
00:56:59.480 --> 00:57:01.880
to go. I mean you can
find it wall birds near you if you're

782
00:57:01.880 --> 00:57:07.280
in Katie, are you up northeastern
Kingwood, or you northwest and Cypress down

783
00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:10.280
in pair Land or bel Air or
West Houston or even over in clear Lake.

784
00:57:12.079 --> 00:57:17.000
While Birds Unlimited go to WBU dot
com. You'll get a lot of

785
00:57:17.119 --> 00:57:21.199
quality advice there too. They don't
just like here's a product, by it

786
00:57:21.199 --> 00:57:24.800
and they go home. They actually
educate you and help you understand. This

787
00:57:24.880 --> 00:57:30.960
is nesting season still. Bluebirds will
usually nest through July. Cardinals, chickadeese,

788
00:57:30.960 --> 00:57:34.440
wrens all still nesting. We're about
to go through molting season for a

789
00:57:34.440 --> 00:57:37.480
bunch of birds, and it's important
for them to have a supply of quality

790
00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:43.719
feed. Their nesting super blend is
exactly that they have no waste bird seeds.

791
00:57:43.800 --> 00:57:46.000
You know, where you buy cheap
bird seed, about half of it

792
00:57:46.039 --> 00:57:50.039
gets kicked on the ground, if
not more, because they're not going to

793
00:57:50.119 --> 00:57:53.960
eat those little red babies. But
with a quality feed from wall birds unlimited,

794
00:57:54.039 --> 00:57:58.159
they eat what you put out and
you get to enjoy that as well.

795
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:04.159
Talk about it raining later this week. You know, the rain is

796
00:58:04.199 --> 00:58:07.239
going to be a very welcome thing. But it arrives here because not just

797
00:58:07.400 --> 00:58:10.719
is the best quality water in the
world dropping from the sky, but we're

798
00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:15.599
getting a little bit of a break
when it comes to the temperatures. And

799
00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:20.119
that is important. But if you're
new to Houston, let me tell you

800
00:58:20.199 --> 00:58:27.000
something. Our soils have something called
high shrink swell potential. That means when

801
00:58:27.000 --> 00:58:29.920
they get wet, they swell up. When they get dry, they shrink

802
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:31.599
up. We give it cracks,
cracks big enough to lose a two year

803
00:58:31.599 --> 00:58:35.360
old in the backyard. And when
it's hot and dry for a long time,

804
00:58:35.719 --> 00:58:38.559
well what happens. Why is that
important? Well, it's important because

805
00:58:39.119 --> 00:58:43.639
our slabs really take a beating.
I mean, if you're driven down through

806
00:58:43.679 --> 00:58:46.039
Houston on some of the streets and
it's like you're going across the Rocky mountains

807
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driving down the street, that's that
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808
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it does all kinds of things,
and it recks havoc on our driveways

809
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our homes. Fix my Slab is a

810
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811
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twenty three years here, local small
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812
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to fix my slab dot com if
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show up on time, they have
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817
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or a cracked sidewalk as well.
They're on time, they have a fair

818
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820
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live in the Houston area, you
need to write that down and keep it

821
00:59:46.079 --> 00:59:50.880
handy because if you don't need them
today, you will tomorrow. Unfortunately,

822
00:59:51.320 --> 00:59:59.960
that is what we are dealing with
here. I always enjoy talking about product

823
01:00:00.320 --> 01:00:01.920
that I believe in in products at
work, and one of those kinds of

824
01:00:01.960 --> 01:00:07.480
products are Microlife. The Microlife group
of fertilizers. You've heard me talk about

825
01:00:07.519 --> 01:00:10.320
the green Bag six two four and
the humans plus and stuff for summer.

826
01:00:10.639 --> 01:00:15.159
But the something I've been really interested
in lately, I use their Biomatrix.

827
01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:20.039
This is a liquid. They have
a number of liquid feeds, the Microlife

828
01:00:20.039 --> 01:00:23.760
Biomatrix. It's in an orange bottle. Orange, remember orange. Seven one

829
01:00:23.960 --> 01:00:29.360
three is the nutrient ratio, so
it's a high nitrogen organic liquid. It

830
01:00:29.440 --> 01:00:31.960
will not burn your plants. It
has beneficial microbes added to it which are

831
01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:37.519
important for the soils, including for
our house plants and the Microlife seven one

832
01:00:37.679 --> 01:00:42.079
three. Because it's higher in nitrogen. Our houseplants are primarily foliage plants,

833
01:00:42.320 --> 01:00:45.199
it will take care of that.
The second is the Blue Harvest or Ocean

834
01:00:45.199 --> 01:00:50.559
Harvest blue label four two three,
a fish based fertilizer. Go to Microlife

835
01:00:50.599 --> 01:00:54.519
Fertilizer dot com and learn more about
these two products and more and find out

836
01:00:54.519 --> 01:00:59.199
where you can buy Microlife near you. Well, let's take a break here

837
01:00:59.239 --> 01:01:06.400
for some news and information seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

838
01:01:22.360 --> 01:01:27.039
And that's for all the folks listening
over in Louisiana. Actually it's for

839
01:01:27.079 --> 01:01:30.199
everybody in Southeast Texas. We love
that kind of music. You're listening to

840
01:01:30.239 --> 01:01:35.159
garden Line seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. I'm your

841
01:01:35.199 --> 01:01:38.159
host, Skip Richter, and we're
here to talk about things related to gardening

842
01:01:38.239 --> 01:01:43.480
today. You know I love plants. Is that a surprise? I hope

843
01:01:43.480 --> 01:01:46.559
it's not. And I suspect you
love plants too, if you're listening to

844
01:01:46.599 --> 01:01:51.000
garden Line. Uh. And those
of us at love plants were really good

845
01:01:51.000 --> 01:01:52.960
at put bringing plants home because we
see them, we want them, We

846
01:01:53.000 --> 01:01:55.840
see a picture, we get this
dream in our mind's eye and we want

847
01:01:55.840 --> 01:01:59.039
to bring it home. We plan
it and we take care of it,

848
01:01:59.440 --> 01:02:01.199
and we're we're good at that.
We know how to pick out a plant

849
01:02:01.239 --> 01:02:04.639
and bring it home, take care
of it and have it grow and do

850
01:02:04.760 --> 01:02:08.480
well. But does it look good
when you look at the overall landscape.

851
01:02:08.639 --> 01:02:14.039
That's the challenge and that's where I
know I am challenged, and driving around

852
01:02:14.079 --> 01:02:17.760
town, a lot of people are
challenged as well when it comes to designing.

853
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.440
The way I like to put it
is you could give me rim brands,

854
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:30.079
canvas and paint and brushes, and
what I paint would not be worth

855
01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:37.400
hanging up with five year olds,
finger paintings in kindergarten or whatever it is

856
01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:39.039
you get. You know what I'm
talking about. In other words, it's

857
01:02:39.039 --> 01:02:40.880
one thing to have the tool.
That's another thing you know how to use

858
01:02:40.920 --> 01:02:45.320
them. Well, when it comes
to landscapes, I'll tell you who has

859
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:47.239
the tools and knows how to use
them, and that's Peerscapes. Peerscapes is

860
01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:52.119
our preferred landscaper here on garden Line. They're a one stop for anything you

861
01:02:52.199 --> 01:02:54.159
need. What do you need designed? I mean even to the basics of

862
01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:57.679
like, hey, we got to
improve the drainage here, I need a

863
01:02:57.719 --> 01:03:00.360
hardscape, I need a walkway to
go back in there, a rock border

864
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:04.039
along the bed. They've got the
designers and they know how to do that.

865
01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:07.159
Give m a call. It's two
eight one three, seven zero fifty

866
01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:13.320
sixty or just go online. Pierce
Scapes one word, Peerscapes dot com.

867
01:03:13.559 --> 01:03:19.079
Quality, quality, quality, experience, staff professionals that are trained that know

868
01:03:19.119 --> 01:03:22.960
how to do these things. They
will take your garden and that plant palette

869
01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:27.480
you love so much, and they
can turn it into something that is outstanding,

870
01:03:27.480 --> 01:03:30.559
that is a showstopper. Whether you're
sitting in the backyard with family or

871
01:03:30.599 --> 01:03:35.400
friends enjoying the landscape or driving by
on the street. Peerscapes knows how to

872
01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:39.480
do that. I'm thankful for people
that know how to design. Oh my

873
01:03:39.519 --> 01:03:44.559
goodness, let's head to Cyprus and
we're going to talk to Sandy this morning.

874
01:03:44.760 --> 01:03:50.360
Well, good morning, Sandy,
Hi, good morning. I have

875
01:03:50.440 --> 01:03:58.400
a question. I water my grass
right now because the hundred degree temperature.

876
01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:04.159
I'm pretty much every day for five
minutes in each station at my smunklers,

877
01:04:04.480 --> 01:04:12.079
okay, and I see a lot
of burnt like burnt grass. That's what

878
01:04:12.159 --> 01:04:16.400
I can classify it as. Okay, burnt. I don't know what to

879
01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:20.760
do, okay, and that's why
I do another round. Yeah, well,

880
01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:23.360
it could be. It could be
a couple of things. First of

881
01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:28.199
all, Sandy, I'd like you
to take that watering schedule and gradually move

882
01:04:28.239 --> 01:04:32.920
it to where you're soaking it deeper
less often. You Twice a week is

883
01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:36.639
the most that anybody should need to
water if you give it a good soaking.

884
01:04:38.000 --> 01:04:42.039
What happens when you water regularly is
you keep it wet, and diseases

885
01:04:42.119 --> 01:04:46.000
like wet, so you may be
seeing the effects of a disease like gray

886
01:04:46.079 --> 01:04:49.679
leaf spot, for example, that
loves it. When we over fertilize and

887
01:04:49.760 --> 01:04:54.199
we water too often, it could
be some other disease. There are other

888
01:04:54.280 --> 01:04:57.519
diseases that can cause that. Now, I don't know that the browning,

889
01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:01.599
the dry that look is by the
watering, but it could be. So

890
01:05:01.920 --> 01:05:04.760
it'd be better to give it a
good soaking, let that soul dry out

891
01:05:04.760 --> 01:05:09.880
a little bit. And the grassroots
system just gets deeper and deeper as you

892
01:05:10.000 --> 01:05:14.159
move from watering every day or every
other day to watering twice a week or

893
01:05:14.199 --> 01:05:17.519
even once a week. As you
get there without seeing your grass, it's

894
01:05:17.599 --> 01:05:20.960
kind of hard to tell exactly what's
wrong. But I'm gonna do something here.

895
01:05:21.079 --> 01:05:25.800
I'm gonna put you on hold as
we finish talking, and Josh will

896
01:05:25.960 --> 01:05:28.960
pick you up the call and he
will tell you how to get some pictures

897
01:05:28.960 --> 01:05:30.239
to me. And I want you
to send me a picture of the overall

898
01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:34.320
yard from a couple of angles,
and then get as close as you can

899
01:05:34.519 --> 01:05:41.159
to an area that you were describing
as being brown with a camera and make

900
01:05:41.159 --> 01:05:44.519
sure it's in good sharp focus.
Check that before you send it, and

901
01:05:44.599 --> 01:05:46.480
let me see a couple of pictures
as close as you can get them,

902
01:05:46.480 --> 01:05:50.079
even if it means picking a few
blades of grass and laying them on a

903
01:05:50.159 --> 01:05:54.440
dark table to take a picture of
them or whatever. Let me look at

904
01:05:54.440 --> 01:05:57.519
it, because I may see a
disease, or I may see something else,

905
01:05:57.599 --> 01:06:01.719
because it could be anything from insects
to ease. Okay, all right,

906
01:06:01.880 --> 01:06:05.039
sure, all right, I'll put
you on hold here and Josh,

907
01:06:05.039 --> 01:06:14.159
we'll take it from there. When
I actually today, I'm heading out to

908
01:06:14.199 --> 01:06:18.679
a garden center and purchasing some plants. My wife is a fan of blue

909
01:06:18.760 --> 01:06:24.320
plumbago, baby sky blue flower and
plumbago. And they come in white too,

910
01:06:24.360 --> 01:06:26.840
by the way, but there's a
white it's it's just the old time

911
01:06:26.840 --> 01:06:29.559
memory of us. See, I
mean, we've had those things in the

912
01:06:29.599 --> 01:06:31.559
past and really enjoyed them. I'm
gonna pick up some of those and some

913
01:06:31.599 --> 01:06:36.960
other things. But when I plant
my plants, the product one of the

914
01:06:38.000 --> 01:06:40.960
best ways that you can get a
plant off to a good start is to

915
01:06:41.000 --> 01:06:45.039
water it in with a soluble plant
food, something that's liquid. You mix

916
01:06:45.119 --> 01:06:48.119
it in water or dilute it in
water, whichever, and you water it

917
01:06:48.159 --> 01:06:51.920
in. And I can't think of
a better product than has to grow six

918
01:06:53.199 --> 01:06:56.519
twelve six. That's a high phosphorus
number. To help get those roots going

919
01:06:56.559 --> 01:06:59.920
and started. But a six twelve
six has to grow. You mix it

920
01:07:00.039 --> 01:07:02.880
water. I put mine into watering
can after it's diluted, and then just

921
01:07:03.000 --> 01:07:08.280
drench it over the new transplants.
It's got the nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium

922
01:07:08.320 --> 01:07:11.719
in it, of course, but
it's got medinas soil activator to stimulate biological

923
01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:15.760
activity. It's got humat humic acid, and it even has seaweed extracts lots

924
01:07:15.760 --> 01:07:19.360
of good different things to stimulate and
help those plants get established. Now you

925
01:07:19.360 --> 01:07:25.239
need to keep a brand new plant
moist, not saggy. Remember we overwater

926
01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:29.920
not saggy, but keep it moist. And I will do something like the

927
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:32.639
has to Grow at planting. But
then you need to repeat it about a

928
01:07:32.679 --> 01:07:36.000
week later, and repeat it about
a week after that. So you're helping

929
01:07:36.079 --> 01:07:43.440
as that gets roots out in the
soil to establish successfully and quickly. Now

930
01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:45.960
you're not going to burn plants with
has to grow. It's a low salt

931
01:07:45.039 --> 01:07:50.559
kind of combination and it just stimulates
that biological activity in the soil that promotes

932
01:07:50.599 --> 01:07:55.000
fruiting and blooming. If it's a
little set of flowers like my plumbago is

933
01:07:55.039 --> 01:07:58.480
about to be when I finally get
it home and plant it. Excellent product

934
01:07:58.599 --> 01:08:01.239
and it really works well. I
like it has many uses, but I

935
01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:04.800
like to use it as a water
in your new transplants. Just always have

936
01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:12.599
some one hand for that kind of
thing. I love gardening, and I

937
01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:15.640
think everybody ought to have the opportunity
to garden. And some of you have

938
01:08:15.800 --> 01:08:20.720
big property, you have big sunny
areas where you can plant a garden or

939
01:08:20.760 --> 01:08:25.399
put your flower beds or whatever.
Some of you have to use containers on

940
01:08:25.439 --> 01:08:29.560
the patio because the yards too sunny, are too shady. Excuse me for

941
01:08:29.680 --> 01:08:32.640
good, good bloom production. We
have plants a bloom in the shade,

942
01:08:32.640 --> 01:08:35.720
but not as many as bloom in
the sun. And when it comes to

943
01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:40.560
vegetables, you pretty much need sun
at least six hours of sun for them

944
01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:43.039
to do well. A few things
will do okay and a little less.

945
01:08:43.079 --> 01:08:46.359
But so what do you do well? What I think you need to do

946
01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:50.520
is growing containers in your patio.
But if that is not an option,

947
01:08:50.640 --> 01:08:56.319
you can't grow enough. Maybe you
really would like to grow enough food produce

948
01:08:56.560 --> 01:08:59.880
for the family, Well, you
need room to do that. And he's

949
01:09:00.039 --> 01:09:02.920
in his fortune's have a lot of
community gardens. You know the urban Harvest

950
01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:10.359
farmers markets. Here, we've got
the community garden system that Urban Harvests sponsors

951
01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:15.680
or supports and create created here in
the Houston area. But if you live

952
01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:18.000
out from there, maybe you want
to retire, you want this piece of

953
01:09:18.039 --> 01:09:23.560
property, a police place to retire, something like that maybe you've looked at.

954
01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:27.560
I would like a community where I
can just take it easy. It's

955
01:09:27.560 --> 01:09:30.079
a beautiful community that has kind of
lifestyles that I want to live. Well,

956
01:09:30.199 --> 01:09:34.159
that would be Dell Weeb talk about
them before. But Dellweb's got the

957
01:09:34.159 --> 01:09:40.199
new community out in Fullsher a couple
of miles from downtown Fullsher It's on FM

958
01:09:40.199 --> 01:09:44.000
three fifty nine. And this new
community, the reason I'm bringing it up

959
01:09:44.159 --> 01:09:46.760
is because they are putting in a
community garden and I'm helping them with that

960
01:09:46.840 --> 01:09:51.439
community garden. And that community garden
means that in addition to all the good

961
01:09:51.479 --> 01:09:56.640
dell Web things. And if you
don't know about Dellweb, go to dellweb

962
01:09:56.680 --> 01:10:00.960
dot com slash Houston find about that
Dellweb difference or just give him a call

963
01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:03.479
at two eight one four five nine
zero six zero nine. But I can't

964
01:10:03.479 --> 01:10:10.079
think of anything better than a community
of quality homes, beautiful setting that has

965
01:10:10.159 --> 01:10:15.319
those lifestyle programs designed around the residence
like you, ages fifty five and better,

966
01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:21.760
active adults that enjoy that, that
want now a community garden. That's

967
01:10:21.760 --> 01:10:26.079
a win win win. That is, I don't know how you do better

968
01:10:26.119 --> 01:10:29.800
than that, and I would encourage
you to check out web two eight one

969
01:10:29.800 --> 01:10:32.479
four to five nine ZERL six zero
nine. I think you'll find that it's

970
01:10:32.760 --> 01:10:38.640
very very attractive place and a wonderful
lifestyle for you as well. Let's take

971
01:10:38.640 --> 01:10:43.680
a break here our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

972
01:10:43.720 --> 01:11:05.840
four. Good borne in on a
beautiful day, and as every day is

973
01:11:05.880 --> 01:11:10.319
a good day for gardening. You're
listening to garden Line. I'm your host,

974
01:11:10.520 --> 01:11:13.319
Skip Richter, and we are here
to answer your gardening questions. If

975
01:11:13.319 --> 01:11:16.479
you want to give Josh call seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

976
01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:21.359
four. We will get right on
talking about the things that you are interested

977
01:11:21.399 --> 01:11:26.560
in. Hey, if you don't
have anything to do this afternoon already,

978
01:11:26.760 --> 01:11:29.800
and if you do, I got
something better right here that is to go

979
01:11:29.880 --> 01:11:33.880
by Buchanan's native plants. They're in
the heights they're at East eleven Streets six

980
01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:39.119
to eleven East eleven Street in the
Heights. You can go online Buchanan's Plants

981
01:11:39.159 --> 01:11:41.119
dot com. By the way,
when you're there, sign up for their

982
01:11:41.159 --> 01:11:45.239
newsletter. So informative, so helpful, so much good information. They really

983
01:11:45.279 --> 01:11:49.880
focus on native plants, and I
mean they have they have those plants that

984
01:11:50.920 --> 01:11:55.319
support our local pollinators, They have
those plants that support our local birds.

985
01:11:55.359 --> 01:11:59.520
Do you know that a lot of
the things we put in our landscapes are

986
01:11:59.560 --> 01:12:03.239
of real no ecological value to things
like birds and native pollinators and whatnot.

987
01:12:03.800 --> 01:12:08.159
But you can do that with many
of the select native plants that they grow

988
01:12:08.279 --> 01:12:12.000
there at or they sell there at
Buchanans on One of my favorite plants,

989
01:12:12.039 --> 01:12:15.439
and you don't see this for sale
in a lot of places, but it

990
01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:23.520
is at a little plant, a
little groundcover type of plant called frog fruit.

991
01:12:23.640 --> 01:12:26.479
Excuse me, frog fruit, and
it's a weed basically. I mean

992
01:12:26.520 --> 01:12:28.880
you find it everywhere growing as a
weed, but when you put it into

993
01:12:28.920 --> 01:12:31.960
a landscape. I saw a yard
in Houston that was all frog fruit.

994
01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:34.439
It was a side yard, and
it's not the kind of thing you want

995
01:12:34.439 --> 01:12:38.800
to go stomping all through all the
time and rolling on and like you would

996
01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:42.079
do grass. But if you need
a groundcover and you don't want to have

997
01:12:42.119 --> 01:12:45.720
to water it, oh my gosh, it's beautiful as these little match stickhead

998
01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:51.159
little bulbs that are not bulbs,
a little round things that stick up on

999
01:12:51.199 --> 01:12:55.920
stalks. How's that for a horticultural
description, that have little white flowers on

1000
01:12:55.960 --> 01:13:00.840
them, and the tiny parasitoid wasps
love those. So here we are now

1001
01:13:00.840 --> 01:13:05.520
we're supporting some of the things that
are helping us in the gardens. Front

1002
01:13:05.560 --> 01:13:11.000
fruit is excellent, excellent, excellent
choice. It does so super super well.

1003
01:13:11.039 --> 01:13:14.039
Here. Another one is inland sea
oats. Now that if you have

1004
01:13:14.039 --> 01:13:16.279
a shady area and you want something
of a couple of feet high with a

1005
01:13:16.359 --> 01:13:21.279
little it looks like oat clusters,
but they're large and flat compared to what

1006
01:13:21.479 --> 01:13:26.319
true oats would look like. This
is a groundcover that spreads underground, especially

1007
01:13:26.359 --> 01:13:30.479
if it has moisture, spreads pretty
well. But those hang over and when

1008
01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:35.479
they dry they are so attractive in
floral arrangements as well, you get the

1009
01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:39.720
idea of what I'm talking about.
The red yucca that we see everywhere.

1010
01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:43.760
I mean, you almost can't kill
that plant when you get quality plants from

1011
01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:46.760
a place like Buchanans, you're going
to end up having success and you're going

1012
01:13:46.800 --> 01:13:49.600
to create that landscape that you want. Now, they don't just have natives.

1013
01:13:49.640 --> 01:13:53.880
They've got every kind of thing in
the world you can imagine, herbs

1014
01:13:53.880 --> 01:13:56.680
and whatnot. By the way,
did you know that rosemary is one of

1015
01:13:56.720 --> 01:14:02.079
the most drought tolerant shrubs lash ground
covers that we have. The uprights make

1016
01:14:02.119 --> 01:14:08.039
a good shrub. The trailing types
make a deep groundcover as well, and

1017
01:14:08.079 --> 01:14:12.520
they bloom better. The trailing types
bloom even better than the kinds that are

1018
01:14:12.640 --> 01:14:15.600
that are very very upright. But
either way, you're not gonna go wrong

1019
01:14:15.640 --> 01:14:19.439
with rosemary. Not a native plant
to hear, but one that thrives like

1020
01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:25.680
it was from here. Let's now
go out to Woodland Hills and we are

1021
01:14:25.680 --> 01:14:30.399
going to visit with Arthur. Hello, Arthur, good morning, Good morning.

1022
01:14:32.359 --> 01:14:35.760
Yeah. I have a question about
my son just bought a new house

1023
01:14:36.199 --> 01:14:41.600
and I'm helping them. But I
noticed a yard the side A lot died,

1024
01:14:42.119 --> 01:14:45.399
okay, and they didn't go back
and patch them up, but there's

1025
01:14:45.439 --> 01:14:48.359
a lot of like gaps between them, and it's kind of lumpy when you

1026
01:14:48.399 --> 01:14:51.359
walk on it, so when he
cuts this going to have a hard time

1027
01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:55.359
trying to cut it. Yeah,
Now when you say gaps, you mean

1028
01:14:55.439 --> 01:14:59.119
like they didn't put the side pieces
next to each other, they left a

1029
01:14:59.159 --> 01:15:04.199
gap or okay, yes, well
shame on them. Well, so side

1030
01:15:04.239 --> 01:15:09.640
should be laid side by side so
that you get a good solid cover unless

1031
01:15:09.720 --> 01:15:12.960
you're just trying to save money,
and there's a technique for that, but

1032
01:15:13.439 --> 01:15:17.199
that creates other issues. But it
also has to be watered in well.

1033
01:15:17.520 --> 01:15:21.560
And when if I were laying side
anytime, you know, once we get

1034
01:15:21.600 --> 01:15:26.319
into June, for sure, I'm
gonna water it a little bit, just

1035
01:15:26.359 --> 01:15:28.960
a little bit every day. Now, I know that's the opposite of how

1036
01:15:28.960 --> 01:15:31.439
I've been telling people to water all
morning. But I'm talking about that was

1037
01:15:31.479 --> 01:15:35.159
talking about established side new side.
You know, it comes in with just

1038
01:15:35.199 --> 01:15:40.319
a little what a half inch of
soil and the roots are all right there.

1039
01:15:40.399 --> 01:15:45.119
So you gotta water lightly and frequently
until they get roots to dawn.

1040
01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:48.319
So I'm watering it every day for
I don't know, maybe almost a week,

1041
01:15:48.960 --> 01:15:54.119
every other day for another week or
and then maybe two to three times

1042
01:15:54.119 --> 01:15:58.079
a week for a while, and
you just you're getting it established and then

1043
01:15:58.119 --> 01:16:01.840
you eventually end up watering it once
a week, but early on it sounds

1044
01:16:01.880 --> 01:16:05.199
to me like that one of two
things happened. Either it didn't get the

1045
01:16:05.279 --> 01:16:10.880
regular water or when they laid the
side, they didn't roll it and press

1046
01:16:12.279 --> 01:16:15.079
exactly what it looks like. They
need to press the sod down in contact

1047
01:16:15.079 --> 01:16:19.319
with the soil. Otherwise you have
side. Then there's an air gap between

1048
01:16:19.399 --> 01:16:23.920
the side that was laid in the
soil and that where the how are the

1049
01:16:24.000 --> 01:16:26.680
roots going to get to the soil
right there? There's an air gap in

1050
01:16:26.760 --> 01:16:30.439
That's what I'm having. I'm having
now. What I did is it was

1051
01:16:30.520 --> 01:16:33.640
real dry, like almost like play, so I soaked it and I'm having

1052
01:16:33.680 --> 01:16:38.560
to like walk on it to push
it down to straighten that out and get

1053
01:16:38.600 --> 01:16:41.199
it. Yeah, I've done that. There is like an air gap I

1054
01:16:41.239 --> 01:16:44.439
build. Yeah, I've done that. And you know for a small area,

1055
01:16:44.479 --> 01:16:46.600
that's fine. You know, you're
you're the size of your foot,

1056
01:16:47.119 --> 01:16:49.479
you know, it's kind of you're
doing a lot of stomping to try to

1057
01:16:49.479 --> 01:16:51.920
get it all down in there.
And I say stopping, I don't mean

1058
01:16:51.960 --> 01:16:57.199
stomping, I mean pressing on it. But the little rollers you can bring

1059
01:16:57.319 --> 01:17:00.000
on rount and put a little water
in them and it gives them a little

1060
01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:02.720
eight and you roll over it.
Those are fast and easy and uniform.

1061
01:17:03.359 --> 01:17:05.920
But whatever you got it, Where
would I get one of those? You

1062
01:17:06.359 --> 01:17:10.720
the hardware store, you know,
I don't. I don't know who rents

1063
01:17:10.760 --> 01:17:14.439
those in your area? You can, yeah, it would be something you

1064
01:17:14.439 --> 01:17:17.199
would rent. But you know,
just as you lay it, you can

1065
01:17:17.239 --> 01:17:20.880
also kind of press it down,
and just you want the soil underneath to

1066
01:17:20.920 --> 01:17:25.640
be moist before you lay side,
because it's hard to wet it after if

1067
01:17:25.640 --> 01:17:28.720
it's dry, and now you have
side on top of it, and then

1068
01:17:28.760 --> 01:17:30.760
you want to lay the side.
You want the sail to be raked smooth,

1069
01:17:31.079 --> 01:17:34.319
so there's not hills and valleys and
you want to lay the side and

1070
01:17:34.359 --> 01:17:38.399
press it down. I think you're
on the right track. And at the

1071
01:17:38.479 --> 01:17:41.720
very end of this, once it
gets established and gets going, you can

1072
01:17:41.800 --> 01:17:45.479
come in with a little bit of
a top saw mix and if you truly

1073
01:17:45.560 --> 01:17:49.000
do have some low areas that you
want to dust a little top soil over

1074
01:17:49.319 --> 01:17:53.239
just here and there to kind of
smooth it out, you can do that

1075
01:17:53.279 --> 01:17:58.119
and the grouse will grow up and
over. This isn't the way we want

1076
01:17:58.159 --> 01:18:00.600
side to go, but you got
to deal with what you got, and

1077
01:18:00.680 --> 01:18:02.560
that's where that's where you are.
No, well, what happened when a

1078
01:18:02.560 --> 01:18:06.159
lot of it died before they could
move into it? A lot so they

1079
01:18:06.439 --> 01:18:11.800
they pack them up. But it's
not good at all. I'm having a

1080
01:18:11.880 --> 01:18:15.439
good Well, good for you,
but I really appreciate the info. Yeah,

1081
01:18:15.640 --> 01:18:18.359
fortunately you're there and you're taking care
of it. I appreciate that call,

1082
01:18:18.520 --> 01:18:21.079
and I wish you well. Arthur. Hey, by the way,

1083
01:18:21.079 --> 01:18:26.960
once it's rooted in, maybe two
weeks, three weeks after you got it

1084
01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:29.479
was laid down, and you got
it rooted in, go ahead and do

1085
01:18:29.520 --> 01:18:32.840
a fertilization on it. Okay,
well, what could I put anything on

1086
01:18:32.920 --> 01:18:36.680
it? Now? I would wait, let's let's let it get some roots

1087
01:18:36.720 --> 01:18:42.239
down and lets it's kind of established. It's not like it's starving right now.

1088
01:18:42.720 --> 01:18:45.760
There's some nutrient there and it's able
to get established. But then pretty

1089
01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:50.359
quick, go ahead and give it
something to encourage regrowth and better. Fkay.

1090
01:18:51.199 --> 01:18:56.399
One more sense. I actually saturated
because it was really really hard to

1091
01:18:56.439 --> 01:19:00.239
get it kind of soft. So
now just start let that drying. It's

1092
01:19:00.239 --> 01:19:03.479
water it lightly every day. Yes, that's it that's it, and then

1093
01:19:03.840 --> 01:19:06.439
then go to every other day.
I mean, we don't water water every

1094
01:19:06.520 --> 01:19:09.960
day, but we have too early
on and then every other day. But

1095
01:19:10.039 --> 01:19:14.319
as quick as you can wean it
back. All right, thank you very

1096
01:19:14.399 --> 01:19:18.960
much. I appreciate appreciate that call. Let's see here we are gonna I'll

1097
01:19:18.960 --> 01:19:21.600
tell you what marine. I would
like to get to your question, but

1098
01:19:21.640 --> 01:19:26.039
I'm running short on time. If
you will hold through the break, you

1099
01:19:26.079 --> 01:19:29.880
will be I promise, first one
up when we when we come back.

1100
01:19:30.720 --> 01:19:34.279
You know, this is the fourth
of July weekend, the extended weekend coming

1101
01:19:34.359 --> 01:19:39.039
up here and Verdant Tree Farm,
the folks out of Verdant, they have

1102
01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:42.840
a Christmas in July sale. I
like that Christmas in July. It's at

1103
01:19:42.880 --> 01:19:45.359
all three of the locations. You
know. They got the original out there

1104
01:19:45.359 --> 01:19:48.359
on Barker Cyprus and West Houston.
Down in parallel on Broadway they've got one.

1105
01:19:48.479 --> 01:19:51.439
And then up in the heights where
Yale Street and ten come together,

1106
01:19:51.479 --> 01:19:56.680
there is a Verdant Tree Farm.
What is this sale? Ten to fifty

1107
01:19:56.760 --> 01:20:00.880
percent off the trees when you purchase
them an install and you need to purchase

1108
01:20:00.920 --> 01:20:05.600
with an insult. Hopefully you're buying
a good sized tree. Your chiropractor's kids

1109
01:20:05.640 --> 01:20:10.359
can find another way to go to
college. You need to have Verdant install

1110
01:20:10.439 --> 01:20:13.960
another fifty percent off or ten to
fifty isn't off the install, it's off

1111
01:20:13.960 --> 01:20:17.119
the tree, but you purchase it
with the install and in the tree and

1112
01:20:17.239 --> 01:20:20.319
you get that discount. Don't delay. This is a great time to take

1113
01:20:20.319 --> 01:20:27.159
advantage of that. Go to Verdant
Treefarm dot com. Verdant Treefarm dot com.

1114
01:20:27.279 --> 01:20:30.640
We'll be right back. We're going
to take a little break here and

1115
01:20:30.720 --> 01:20:32.880
again, Maureen, I can't wait
to talk about Okrah with you. We'll

1116
01:20:32.880 --> 01:20:35.560
be doing that when we come back. If you would like to be on

1117
01:20:35.640 --> 01:20:43.399
guarden line and ask some questions seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1118
01:20:43.399 --> 01:20:47.960
four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. I just want

1119
01:20:47.960 --> 01:20:54.039
to remind you that tomorrow I'm fortunate
I've been able to get a guy Phipps.

1120
01:20:55.039 --> 01:20:59.680
He is the creator of water my
Yard, that free app I talk

1121
01:20:59.720 --> 01:21:02.279
about each weekend. He's gonna be
here here online and we're gonna talk about

1122
01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:06.479
the science of watering soil. Now, I promise you this will not be

1123
01:21:06.560 --> 01:21:11.640
boring. It is fascinating. You
know, you think about well I need

1124
01:21:11.720 --> 01:21:14.399
how often do I need to water
my yard? And how long do I

1125
01:21:14.479 --> 01:21:16.840
run the water? That's the question
I always get. I can't answer how

1126
01:21:16.920 --> 01:21:19.800
long because I don't know how much
your system is putting out. We're gonna

1127
01:21:19.880 --> 01:21:28.800
learn all about that tomorrow. Hang
around tomorrow with Guy Phipps. KTRH Garden

1128
01:21:28.880 --> 01:21:33.720
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

1129
01:21:33.880 --> 01:22:04.760
Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line with Scared
dictor just watching. Good morning,

1130
01:22:05.199 --> 01:22:10.239
Good morning on a beautiful, beautiful
Saturday morning, Good day for gardening.

1131
01:22:10.319 --> 01:22:13.199
Good day to listen to garden Line. If you'd like to give us a

1132
01:22:13.199 --> 01:22:17.560
call, the number is seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

1133
01:22:17.720 --> 01:22:21.800
Be glad to visit with you about
the things that are of interest to

1134
01:22:21.840 --> 01:22:26.520
you. Well, we are going
to head out now to Lakeside Estates and

1135
01:22:26.800 --> 01:22:31.199
visit with Maureen Marine. Thank you
for waiting. Yes, yes, if

1136
01:22:31.279 --> 01:22:36.000
I listen all the morning, why
shouldn't I wait? Okay, Well,

1137
01:22:36.039 --> 01:22:42.880
I'm glad you're looking at it that
way. Okay, So the Okrah is

1138
01:22:42.960 --> 01:22:45.760
doing very well. But this is
the very first time that I've planted it

1139
01:22:45.760 --> 01:22:51.960
it's good, is about four foot
high. I'm having a little problem keeping

1140
01:22:53.159 --> 01:22:58.680
up with understanding when I should be
cutting them. So okay, while I

1141
01:22:58.800 --> 01:23:02.399
was waiting on the phone, I
quickly went out and picked about six.

1142
01:23:02.760 --> 01:23:09.720
Okay, they the ones that I
picked are between four and about five and

1143
01:23:09.760 --> 01:23:15.119
a half inches, because I know
there if you wait too long, they're

1144
01:23:15.119 --> 01:23:18.479
not really as good. So I've
been told, right, So what is

1145
01:23:18.520 --> 01:23:26.439
the fact? Plus now I'm seeing
the beautiful cream colored flower with a sort

1146
01:23:26.439 --> 01:23:30.079
of a purple center, but I
didn't see them right away, and so

1147
01:23:30.960 --> 01:23:34.880
my next sort of question is how
do I tell the difference between a pod

1148
01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:40.960
developing and one of the flowers?
They look very similar. It's all the

1149
01:23:41.000 --> 01:23:44.640
same. Ochrah only has one kind
of flower, and that is the flower

1150
01:23:44.720 --> 01:23:47.039
that produces pods. There's not like
a male flower and a female flower like

1151
01:23:47.119 --> 01:23:53.000
on squash. Oh okay, okay, every flower potentially should should have a

1152
01:23:53.039 --> 01:23:58.039
pod at the bottom if it gets
pollinated. So okay, now, okay,

1153
01:23:58.079 --> 01:24:00.920
Now the next part is not really
so much focused on the okra.

1154
01:24:01.399 --> 01:24:05.319
It is going to be focused on
sugar pod peas, which I planted,

1155
01:24:05.960 --> 01:24:12.000
and um, they are getting beat
up by the sun. But the okra

1156
01:24:12.720 --> 01:24:17.760
is protecting them in a sense.
They're they're they're really not great. But

1157
01:24:17.880 --> 01:24:24.840
it looks as though the okra is
uh sort of an umbrella. And now

1158
01:24:24.880 --> 01:24:30.760
that I'm going to plant new pea
pods, um, I just am confused

1159
01:24:30.880 --> 01:24:34.800
as to it's just too hot?
Yeah, ahead, and do it?

1160
01:24:34.880 --> 01:24:39.199
Are you talking about the like a
sugar snappee that you would eat the whole

1161
01:24:39.239 --> 01:24:43.720
pod and everything? Okay, those
exactly those are cool season. I'm amazed

1162
01:24:43.760 --> 01:24:47.039
they're even alive for you. Right
now, this is way too hot.

1163
01:24:47.319 --> 01:24:51.600
We have little windows for those here
in the Greater Houston area. For example,

1164
01:24:51.680 --> 01:24:59.159
you would plant those sometime maybe toward
the end of September even early October,

1165
01:25:00.239 --> 01:25:05.000
to have them fruit when the weather
is cool, but before it gets

1166
01:25:05.199 --> 01:25:11.039
hard and hard freezes, because a
hard freeze will burn the pods and blooms.

1167
01:25:11.039 --> 01:25:14.279
The plants are pretty tough, but
the pods and blooms. Okay,

1168
01:25:14.399 --> 01:25:19.600
So then tell me a name of
a pea pod or or just a peas

1169
01:25:19.800 --> 01:25:25.079
because I do enjoy fresh Okay.
Now are you saying for when you plant

1170
01:25:25.079 --> 01:25:27.840
in the fall those kinds of things
or no for summer? No? No,

1171
01:25:28.000 --> 01:25:30.159
right now, right now, because
you have been talking about it.

1172
01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:35.199
Now I've been listening. Okay.
The only peas for summer are the Southern

1173
01:25:35.520 --> 01:25:40.800
peas, and so you could plant
a black eyed pea, a purple hall

1174
01:25:40.920 --> 01:25:46.760
pee, a crowder peeple, a
zipper cream pea. What else? Crowd

1175
01:25:46.960 --> 01:25:51.079
a crowd or zipper cream purple hall
I'm leaving something out. Oh the yard

1176
01:25:51.159 --> 01:25:57.479
long beans that literally are like a
yard long. Those are also a type

1177
01:25:57.479 --> 01:26:00.680
of southern pea. And it's the
same kind of plant. It's different than

1178
01:26:00.720 --> 01:26:03.399
green beans. It's different than the
cool season peas we were talking about earlier.

1179
01:26:04.479 --> 01:26:10.359
Okay, in my final question is
not about this. I did plant

1180
01:26:11.000 --> 01:26:18.119
watermelon, a sugar small watermelon,
dark skinned, and I think they refer

1181
01:26:18.239 --> 01:26:24.560
to it as a personal size.
It's not a big oblong one. I

1182
01:26:24.640 --> 01:26:29.399
planted it made it tints. I
have lots of plants. I also have

1183
01:26:30.199 --> 01:26:35.560
several watermelons. So I measured one
the girth. It's only six inches round.

1184
01:26:35.840 --> 01:26:41.560
Okay, what's going on? Is
that kind of normal? Well?

1185
01:26:41.560 --> 01:26:45.600
It First of all, the genetics
of the plant, there's a variety will

1186
01:26:46.279 --> 01:26:53.199
dramatically affect how big that melon gets. It may still be growing. Are

1187
01:26:53.199 --> 01:26:56.279
you familiar with how to tell when
a watermelon is ready to pick or not.

1188
01:26:57.279 --> 01:27:00.600
Oh no, oh no, but
I'm nowhere near there. Okay,

1189
01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:06.920
I'm still teeny tiny and so I
have I watered it or I am watering

1190
01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:10.880
it every single day. Okay,
Oh, I know this is going to

1191
01:27:10.960 --> 01:27:15.199
stand strength, but just for three
minutes, because I'm looking for consistency.

1192
01:27:15.359 --> 01:27:18.560
I'm not looking and I'm home so
I can check on it all day long

1193
01:27:18.600 --> 01:27:21.720
if I choose, Just give it
a good soaking on an infrequent basis.

1194
01:27:21.800 --> 01:27:27.159
Just keep the soul moist. Watermelons
don't want to go through drought, or

1195
01:27:27.359 --> 01:27:30.119
you will. It'll affect the several
things can happen with the fruit if you

1196
01:27:30.199 --> 01:27:32.920
go through drought. So just keep
a moist. But you don't have the

1197
01:27:32.920 --> 01:27:36.439
water every day, even every other
day, like twice a week's enough for

1198
01:27:36.520 --> 01:27:40.960
watermelons if you give them a good
soaking. Now, if you are you

1199
01:27:41.399 --> 01:27:45.720
are you on Facebook? Do you
go on Facebook occasionally? Okay? If

1200
01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:48.239
you go on Facebook, look for
garden Lions facebook page. We put a

1201
01:27:48.279 --> 01:27:55.000
post up a week or ago,
maybe maybe in a little further on watermelons,

1202
01:27:55.039 --> 01:27:59.520
and there's pictures of what you're looking
for on the part of the watermelon

1203
01:27:59.560 --> 01:28:01.680
that's set on the ground. When
you turn it over, you call it

1204
01:28:01.720 --> 01:28:05.920
the ground spot. If you look
at those pictures, you'll know exactly when

1205
01:28:05.960 --> 01:28:11.760
to pick your watermelons. That will
tell you. Another clue is that there

1206
01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:15.640
where the watermelon attaches to the vine, there's a little tendril, a curtecue

1207
01:28:15.640 --> 01:28:18.640
where it would normally grab on and
hold onto something. When that turns brown,

1208
01:28:18.880 --> 01:28:24.159
that's another cueue that it's probably right, but you kind of have to

1209
01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:27.560
use several things. The color of
the ground spot, the dried tendril.

1210
01:28:27.880 --> 01:28:30.960
Some people even go to the thumping, but the thump sound is different for

1211
01:28:31.119 --> 01:28:38.039
different sizes of melons, and not
everybody knows exactly what they're listening for,

1212
01:28:38.359 --> 01:28:43.520
so no one of those cues is
alone the only way to go. So,

1213
01:28:44.039 --> 01:28:45.920
dude, hey, can I go
back to the ochre just for a

1214
01:28:45.920 --> 01:28:50.279
minute. Please? Do you know
the variety of ochre you have? No?

1215
01:28:50.960 --> 01:28:56.159
Okay, I really, I really
don't. The other thing was I

1216
01:28:56.560 --> 01:29:00.319
had them sitting here right in front
of the several are sort of purple red

1217
01:29:00.640 --> 01:29:06.880
and on the ribby portion that's still
green. Okay, So yeah, well

1218
01:29:06.920 --> 01:29:12.159
whatever, I was just trying to
nail it down a little closer but you

1219
01:29:12.319 --> 01:29:16.399
probably should be picking the ochre between
three and four inches long typically, but

1220
01:29:16.840 --> 01:29:20.279
I also don't care to use just
length. And by the way, I'm

1221
01:29:20.319 --> 01:29:23.960
just about to have to take a
break here for a commercial, right,

1222
01:29:24.399 --> 01:29:28.680
it's about three or four days after
the blooms fall off is when you pick.

1223
01:29:29.000 --> 01:29:31.319
So you can have ochre that just
doesn't grow and it doesn't get four

1224
01:29:31.319 --> 01:29:35.680
inches as fast as another one does. But it's about four days after three

1225
01:29:35.720 --> 01:29:40.079
to four days or three to four
inches long for the best tender okre.

1226
01:29:40.279 --> 01:29:43.640
Some varieties you can let them get
bigger than that, but you'll know when

1227
01:29:43.640 --> 01:29:46.119
you cut through them with a knife. You can kind of tell you're cutting

1228
01:29:46.159 --> 01:29:51.920
through some tough tissues rather than it's
like you're just real succulent that you're cutting

1229
01:29:51.960 --> 01:29:56.359
through and that that's an indication that's
gone too long and it really hurts the

1230
01:29:56.439 --> 01:30:00.159
quality. Hey, thank you so
much, Marine. I appreciate that we're

1231
01:30:00.159 --> 01:30:02.920
going to take a break. The
number is seven one three, two one

1232
01:30:03.000 --> 01:30:06.680
two fifty eight seventy four. Sue
and spring. You'll be the first step

1233
01:30:06.880 --> 01:30:18.199
when we come back from break.
Boo Please, guys, sticking rocket lack

1234
01:30:18.239 --> 01:30:30.920
of boogie will get you to trade
it's okay today, it's a screaming all

1235
01:30:31.000 --> 01:30:33.840
right. Don't listening to the garden
Line. We are here to answer gardening

1236
01:30:33.920 --> 01:30:38.520
questions, and if you'd like to
give us a call, the phone number

1237
01:30:38.640 --> 01:30:43.479
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. If you were looking

1238
01:30:43.720 --> 01:30:47.960
for a source of quality mulch,
especially for those of you down south of

1239
01:30:48.039 --> 01:30:53.279
the Houston area, CNA Malch.
You're not going to do better than CNA

1240
01:30:53.359 --> 01:30:57.720
Malch. I love that place.
Go to cinamulch dot com, cnamulch dot

1241
01:30:57.800 --> 01:31:01.479
com and they serve. They're down
there Arthur Rochera near Highway six and two

1242
01:31:01.520 --> 01:31:05.960
eighty eight. They're actually on FM
five twenty one near Highway six and two

1243
01:31:05.960 --> 01:31:12.000
eighty eight. If you are in
sun Creek Estates, Manville, Meridian,

1244
01:31:12.079 --> 01:31:15.039
First Colony, Sweetwater, Pomona,
you get the idea. If you're out

1245
01:31:15.039 --> 01:31:18.720
there near Brows Spend Steak Part Siena, malt is your place. They've got

1246
01:31:18.760 --> 01:31:24.680
bulk maltz, they've got bulk compost, they have it in bags. They

1247
01:31:24.720 --> 01:31:28.800
have every fertilizer we talk about here
on Garden Line, they've got it at

1248
01:31:28.840 --> 01:31:32.359
CNA Malts. They've got tools,
they've got gravel and aggregates. They've got

1249
01:31:32.520 --> 01:31:39.159
stone, an unbelievable selection of stone
there at Siena Malts. They'll deliver within

1250
01:31:39.199 --> 01:31:42.079
a twenty mile area. You know, it costs a little extra to have

1251
01:31:42.159 --> 01:31:45.159
anything bulky delivered in this world we
live in, and for good reason,

1252
01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:49.279
but a very reasonable cost. But
they will deliver within twenty miles of the

1253
01:31:49.359 --> 01:31:53.560
area if you would like it dropped
off, or you can just go by

1254
01:31:53.560 --> 01:31:56.159
there and pick it up. I
recommend going by and picking it up,

1255
01:31:56.399 --> 01:32:00.399
especially if you're buying by the bag
or you know, fertilizer bags and things

1256
01:32:00.439 --> 01:32:02.760
like that. You will love Sienna
Maltz. You will love the product,

1257
01:32:02.800 --> 01:32:05.680
You'll love the prices, you will
love the service that you get there.

1258
01:32:06.359 --> 01:32:11.680
I always enjoy getting to drop in
and visit with Ashley and the whole team

1259
01:32:11.680 --> 01:32:15.560
there at Sienna Malts. Let's see
where were we going to go next?

1260
01:32:15.560 --> 01:32:18.000
We're going to go to Sue in
Spring. Hello, Sue, how are

1261
01:32:18.039 --> 01:32:23.079
you this morning? I'm doing well? How about yourself? Well? Thank

1262
01:32:23.119 --> 01:32:29.520
you? How can I help?
Well? We had our roof washed by

1263
01:32:30.159 --> 01:32:34.359
a professional roof washer about three or
four weeks ago. Okay, and the

1264
01:32:34.439 --> 01:32:39.680
day we had it washed, we
have one holly that's in our front yard,

1265
01:32:39.760 --> 01:32:45.159
a hollyheadge and which it's been there
about thirty years, and it immediately

1266
01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:49.880
turned brown on the top and it's
green on the bottom, okay. And

1267
01:32:49.960 --> 01:32:55.319
they said this would be temporary or
whatever, and you know, this should

1268
01:32:55.359 --> 01:33:00.960
be expected. And since then we've
had other shrubs around the foundation of the

1269
01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:05.600
house that the tips of the shrubs
have looked like they're singed. I mean,

1270
01:33:05.600 --> 01:33:09.760
that's what it looks like. I
guess it's probably a chemical sine or

1271
01:33:09.800 --> 01:33:13.720
something. Any chance they told you
what they used to wash the roof.

1272
01:33:14.600 --> 01:33:19.279
They said it was just a bleach. Okay, Well, just a bleach

1273
01:33:19.359 --> 01:33:23.680
on plants is not a good thing, right, I uh, you know,

1274
01:33:24.199 --> 01:33:26.119
I don't know the company, and
I don't want you to tell me

1275
01:33:26.159 --> 01:33:30.319
of the company for sure on the
air. But if they know that that

1276
01:33:30.359 --> 01:33:32.239
can happen, why don't they cover
your plants before they do the roof?

1277
01:33:32.319 --> 01:33:36.199
Well they did. They did cover
the plants. They covered with these thin

1278
01:33:36.359 --> 01:33:45.640
plastic tarps. And they said that
the the singing was from caused from the

1279
01:33:45.199 --> 01:33:50.600
tarts you know whatever, It wasn't
from the chemical, which, okay,

1280
01:33:50.800 --> 01:33:55.039
debate that. So I just want
to want to what do I need to

1281
01:33:55.079 --> 01:33:59.119
do going forward? Do I need
to remove these plants? Will these plants

1282
01:33:59.159 --> 01:34:01.279
come back? Give them a chance. I think they'll come back now with

1283
01:34:01.439 --> 01:34:08.039
the tart's clear with okay, Well, why did they do that? Well,

1284
01:34:08.279 --> 01:34:10.840
what happens when you walk out on
your car on a sunny day.

1285
01:34:10.880 --> 01:34:14.199
I mean you could fry an egg
on the dash right because the sun shines

1286
01:34:14.239 --> 01:34:18.039
through a clear windshield and it cooks
inside. Why would they use clear tart.

1287
01:34:18.079 --> 01:34:21.199
I'm gonna quit griping and just try
to help you if that's the case.

1288
01:34:21.439 --> 01:34:26.680
Yeah, you burn the foliage,
but it should be that new shoots

1289
01:34:26.720 --> 01:34:29.680
come out. I would give it
some time. You may have to do

1290
01:34:29.720 --> 01:34:31.960
a little shearing back, you know, to just get get rid of the

1291
01:34:31.960 --> 01:34:35.199
old brown. I doubt it.
If it's holly, it's probably not just

1292
01:34:35.239 --> 01:34:39.640
gonna fall off real fast, but
it might. But I would just give

1293
01:34:39.680 --> 01:34:43.000
them time. I think they'll be
okay. But again, I that just

1294
01:34:43.119 --> 01:34:45.640
it's frustrating to hear, and I
know it's trust straining for you to have

1295
01:34:45.640 --> 01:34:47.279
it happened to your plants. So
I'm sorry that happened. But yeah,

1296
01:34:47.359 --> 01:34:51.760
well, particularly since we have what
we really work to keep our yard,

1297
01:34:53.359 --> 01:34:56.640
you know, maintained now the one
holly bush. I mean, we have

1298
01:34:56.720 --> 01:35:02.119
several hollies that have a little finged
edges, and then we have some u

1299
01:35:02.199 --> 01:35:10.039
ponds that the tops look like they're
singe, and then I have one azalea

1300
01:35:10.199 --> 01:35:14.079
that and these are all kind of
like except for the one I have,

1301
01:35:14.560 --> 01:35:18.439
the one holly, the one that
got singed first. The rest of them,

1302
01:35:18.439 --> 01:35:21.840
it's just like right on the tips. Yeah, and it's just you

1303
01:35:21.880 --> 01:35:28.600
know, it isn't very deep.
The one that was originally had the problem.

1304
01:35:28.680 --> 01:35:32.039
It's the shrub. It's probably oh
about waist high, you know,

1305
01:35:32.039 --> 01:35:35.319
about four feet tall, three feet
tall, three or four feet tall,

1306
01:35:36.000 --> 01:35:45.359
and it's probably two thirds of the
shrub. Okay, it's brown. Okay,

1307
01:35:45.560 --> 01:35:48.479
Well, bottom line, nothing you
can do about it now. And

1308
01:35:48.840 --> 01:35:54.079
so I would just wait and watch
or the one, especially the one that's

1309
01:35:54.079 --> 01:35:57.479
got that much damage, I might
do a light sharing of it. Do

1310
01:35:57.520 --> 01:36:00.119
you get all the dead off so
when the fresh comes out you don't have

1311
01:36:00.239 --> 01:36:04.560
dead brown stuff in there among it. It won't It doesn't require you to

1312
01:36:04.560 --> 01:36:08.640
print it back like that, but
it just aesthetically that may help a little

1313
01:36:08.680 --> 01:36:14.279
bit, but yeah, that would
mean cutting off about you know a foot

1314
01:36:14.399 --> 01:36:24.000
of yeah, well, or let
let's wait and see. Why don't you

1315
01:36:24.039 --> 01:36:26.680
wait and watch it and see how
it's looking. I don't want to.

1316
01:36:26.840 --> 01:36:30.000
I don't want to overreact until we
know for sure what's going to come back

1317
01:36:30.039 --> 01:36:34.720
out. And I think it's going
to be okay. Uh, still shame

1318
01:36:34.800 --> 01:36:39.479
on them, but here we go. Let just give it some time before

1319
01:36:39.560 --> 01:36:44.000
you you rush out and do something
drastic like pulling them out and replacing them.

1320
01:36:44.000 --> 01:36:45.920
I don't think that's going to be
necessary, although on the one planet

1321
01:36:46.000 --> 01:36:48.960
might be. But we'll see.
You'll know pretty soon. You should know.

1322
01:36:50.279 --> 01:37:00.720
Are there any of these um,
you know products uh that Microlife makes

1323
01:37:00.800 --> 01:37:05.760
that I could put on there to
like treat the soil and yep, yeah,

1324
01:37:05.840 --> 01:37:09.199
you want to get that's kind of
a reddish pink bag. It's the

1325
01:37:09.279 --> 01:37:13.800
acidic product that they make. It's
a six two four. You put that

1326
01:37:13.880 --> 01:37:16.279
on, hey, scratch it into
the ground a little bit just under the

1327
01:37:16.319 --> 01:37:21.960
surface and then watered in well,
and that will that will provide a boost

1328
01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:27.279
of nitrogen to get fresh new growth
coming and as well as a lot of

1329
01:37:27.279 --> 01:37:30.199
the plants you named are going to
be happy to have a little bit of

1330
01:37:30.239 --> 01:37:34.239
an acidic fertilizer around them as well. Okay, okay, thank you very

1331
01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:38.319
much, you bet, thank you. I appreciate that call very much,

1332
01:37:38.680 --> 01:37:42.439
very much. Hey, earlier I
was talking about fertilizing your lawn and the

1333
01:37:42.479 --> 01:37:45.800
importance of using a slow release over
time. There is something we do along

1334
01:37:45.800 --> 01:37:49.359
with the fertilizer, and actually it's
an application of nutrients, but I prefer

1335
01:37:49.399 --> 01:37:55.319
not to call it fertilizer, and
that's azamite. Now, azamite is it

1336
01:37:55.479 --> 01:37:59.960
certainly is certified as a fertilizer,
but what it basically is is a ground

1337
01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:04.640
owned mind material that has trace elements, lots of trace elements in it.

1338
01:38:04.920 --> 01:38:10.439
And when you use azomite, you
provide all of the things that don't typically

1339
01:38:10.479 --> 01:38:15.279
appear on those three numbers on a
fertilizer bag. So I'll do a regular

1340
01:38:15.279 --> 01:38:18.039
fertilizer application, but then follow with
an azomite application. You can do that

1341
01:38:18.079 --> 01:38:21.680
about once a year is generally enough. Now, soil test tells you exactly

1342
01:38:21.720 --> 01:38:25.920
what you need and it's the best
way to do with any kind of fertilization

1343
01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:29.520
schedule. But with the azamite,
if you haven't done it yet this year,

1344
01:38:29.720 --> 01:38:32.239
I would recommend you go ahead and
do an application of the azamite.

1345
01:38:32.279 --> 01:38:38.319
It's asomite Texas dot com if you
want more information, really interesting story behind

1346
01:38:38.359 --> 01:38:43.239
the product. But that's something that
will help make sure your trace elements,

1347
01:38:43.279 --> 01:38:46.199
whether it's a lawn or even in
your vegetable gardens and flower beds, that

1348
01:38:46.279 --> 01:38:51.000
your trace elements are up there where
they need to be. Let's head up

1349
01:38:51.039 --> 01:38:57.079
to Cypress now and we are going
to talk to Maureen Hello, or Marsine.

1350
01:38:57.159 --> 01:39:01.800
Excuse me, Skips, that's okay. No one knows how to pronounce

1351
01:39:01.840 --> 01:39:04.279
money. Well, if I could
just read, I could pronounce it.

1352
01:39:08.159 --> 01:39:11.399
I really enjoy your pocket, your
radio show. Thank you so much for

1353
01:39:11.439 --> 01:39:15.960
all that you do for us.
I have a question about my lemon trees.

1354
01:39:16.760 --> 01:39:20.800
So I have four big lemon trees
that have been in pots for probably

1355
01:39:20.800 --> 01:39:27.479
fifteen years, and in October we
moved and instead of them now being on

1356
01:39:28.079 --> 01:39:30.159
the south side of my house,
they're on the west side of the house,

1357
01:39:30.159 --> 01:39:35.520
and so they're getting a lot of
intense sun right well this summer,

1358
01:39:35.600 --> 01:39:41.399
even though I'm loaded with fruit on
all of the lead all of the trees,

1359
01:39:42.199 --> 01:39:46.399
the leaves are turning brown at the
very edge and kind of rolling up.

1360
01:39:46.439 --> 01:39:48.760
I don't see any pests. I
don't see any pests. I just

1361
01:39:48.800 --> 01:39:54.479
see just the leaves that are turning
brown and rolling up. Is it the

1362
01:39:54.520 --> 01:39:58.399
heat? Is it water? Is
it lack of water? Well, heat

1363
01:39:58.520 --> 01:40:02.880
brings on a lack of water by
increasing the demands, but it's it's probably

1364
01:40:02.920 --> 01:40:06.560
a lack of water. If you
use a salt based fertilizer and over apply

1365
01:40:06.720 --> 01:40:12.000
at a synthetic salt base, you
can burn plants like that. I suspect

1366
01:40:12.039 --> 01:40:15.119
you haven't done that. And it's
just a matter that in those containers,

1367
01:40:15.640 --> 01:40:19.199
now that they're on the west side, the whole root system of the tree

1368
01:40:19.319 --> 01:40:24.479
is just in the container soil.
So that's a challenge. And now you've

1369
01:40:24.520 --> 01:40:29.880
got one hundred degree sun shining on
the sides of the container, heating the

1370
01:40:29.920 --> 01:40:33.359
container and the soil up, which
speeds of operation. But maybe it could

1371
01:40:33.359 --> 01:40:36.880
even damage some roots around the edge
of the container right on the outside where

1372
01:40:36.880 --> 01:40:42.119
they touch super super hot temperatures.
And the combination of all that just means

1373
01:40:42.119 --> 01:40:45.840
you're gonna have to water a little
more often in order to keep them,

1374
01:40:45.039 --> 01:40:48.560
keep them happy. I will do
that then, And so one of the

1375
01:40:48.800 --> 01:40:53.119
one of the particular plants it's in
actually an orangetrea instead of a lemon.

1376
01:40:53.640 --> 01:40:56.920
It does have the kind of pale
leaves on some parts of it. What's

1377
01:40:56.920 --> 01:41:00.760
the best fertilizer if I shouldn't do
a salt based line, what's the best

1378
01:41:00.800 --> 01:41:04.479
fertilizer to put on those for for
a lemon tree? Right we're talking a

1379
01:41:08.000 --> 01:41:11.520
Yeah, if the pail is a
new growth, that's a sign of iron

1380
01:41:11.720 --> 01:41:16.319
deficiency or could be a sign of
iron deficiency, and any of our fertilizers

1381
01:41:16.399 --> 01:41:20.000
that are complete are going to have
that. So something like a microlife we're

1382
01:41:20.000 --> 01:41:25.479
talking about earlier, A microlife would
provide not just the big three numbers,

1383
01:41:25.560 --> 01:41:28.760
but it's going to have some micro
micros with it. And a number of

1384
01:41:28.800 --> 01:41:32.479
our fertilizers do. Many of the
brands we talk about here, Uh,

1385
01:41:32.720 --> 01:41:38.960
they have a variety of fertilizer options. Microlife has a citrus food for example,

1386
01:41:39.760 --> 01:41:44.560
the Nelsons and the nitrofiles, they're
all going to provide you with an

1387
01:41:44.560 --> 01:41:48.560
option for feeding plants like that and
that that will have more than just the

1388
01:41:48.560 --> 01:41:53.920
three nutrients. But go beyond those. Okay, what about that medina has

1389
01:41:53.920 --> 01:41:56.600
to grow? Since we're you know, don't want to worry about the salt

1390
01:41:56.640 --> 01:41:58.800
that would be fine as well.
Yeah, you could use that. Hey,

1391
01:41:59.079 --> 01:42:00.560
we're hitting on a break, but
thank you. I appreciate that call

1392
01:42:00.720 --> 01:42:05.119
very much. Our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1393
01:42:05.159 --> 01:42:09.880
four. Hey, what's going to
be happening in the news now we're about

1394
01:42:09.880 --> 01:42:33.359
to find out? Well, good
morning, beautiful Saturday morning for gardening,

1395
01:42:33.439 --> 01:42:35.960
for talking about gardening. Hey,
if you'd like to give us a call

1396
01:42:36.079 --> 01:42:42.920
and talk about gardening, seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1397
01:42:43.239 --> 01:42:45.680
Hey, if you live up in
the Montgomery area, we're talking Lake

1398
01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:49.640
Conrow area, I want to tell
about your hometown garden center up there,

1399
01:42:49.640 --> 01:42:55.159
and that's A and A Plants and
produce. Now, this has been operated

1400
01:42:55.239 --> 01:42:59.479
for what over thirty years? I
know Kathy now has taken over from her

1401
01:42:59.479 --> 01:43:03.119
parents, Adam and Alice Flores,
and the place just continues to grow,

1402
01:43:03.239 --> 01:43:06.880
develop and get better. We're talking
about three acres of plants. We're talking

1403
01:43:06.880 --> 01:43:13.239
about every kind of I call it
gardening bling or patio bling, but chemineas,

1404
01:43:13.399 --> 01:43:18.880
terra cotta metal structures, Trellis's gazebos, Topiari's deck, furniture, you

1405
01:43:18.920 --> 01:43:23.319
know, patio furniture, whimsicle yard, are. I mean, I need

1406
01:43:23.359 --> 01:43:26.800
to go on. But plants,
plants, plants all over the place.

1407
01:43:27.119 --> 01:43:30.920
Also when we talk about fertilizers and
things, you're going to find them there

1408
01:43:30.920 --> 01:43:33.359
at A and A Plants and Produce
or open seven days a week from nine

1409
01:43:33.359 --> 01:43:38.680
am to five pm. That's a
great thing to get out and do today.

1410
01:43:38.800 --> 01:43:43.479
So those of you in April sound
the Woodlands Magnolia up in Walden Water

1411
01:43:43.640 --> 01:43:47.479
de Lago anywhere up in that region. A and A Plans and produce your

1412
01:43:47.520 --> 01:43:54.279
hometown garden center with knowledgeable staff,
friendly service and a super super selection of

1413
01:43:54.359 --> 01:44:00.279
things that you get to choose from. We got some weather coming along here

1414
01:44:00.319 --> 01:44:02.840
that's going to be a little bit
on the wet side, I hope later

1415
01:44:02.880 --> 01:44:06.279
in the week. But more important
than the rain is a little bit of

1416
01:44:06.279 --> 01:44:11.000
a break in the temperature. So
you may want to do some shopping this

1417
01:44:11.039 --> 01:44:14.159
weekend. If you don't have time
to get it planted this weekend, that's

1418
01:44:14.159 --> 01:44:16.279
okay. Just hang on to it, keep them watered, water them once

1419
01:44:16.479 --> 01:44:19.239
maybe twice a day if they're in
the sun. I usually put mine in

1420
01:44:19.239 --> 01:44:21.680
a little bit of a shady area
when it's gonna be a few days before

1421
01:44:21.680 --> 01:44:25.960
I can get them in and get
them planted. They get some morning sun

1422
01:44:26.000 --> 01:44:30.399
to keep them healthy, but not
just you know, blazing through the day.

1423
01:44:30.239 --> 01:44:32.840
They could survive that if i'd water
them. But you know how things

1424
01:44:32.840 --> 01:44:35.640
are. You get busy and it's
oh, I didn't water them this afternoon,

1425
01:44:35.720 --> 01:44:38.479
and next thing you know, you
go out in the morning, they

1426
01:44:38.479 --> 01:44:41.960
don't look so good. Perfectly okay, to get plants ahead of time.

1427
01:44:42.000 --> 01:44:45.880
Just take care of them and get
them ready because the conditions are coming and

1428
01:44:45.920 --> 01:44:50.239
as we enter into that break from
the heat and hopefully some rain with it,

1429
01:44:50.640 --> 01:44:55.319
you can't get a better time,
especially in the summer, for plants

1430
01:44:55.560 --> 01:44:58.960
to be able to get established.
So get them planted ahead of that.

1431
01:44:59.239 --> 01:45:02.920
Now weekend is a good time to
get out and purchase plants wherever you do.

1432
01:45:03.119 --> 01:45:09.720
You're purchasing and be ready to go
when here comes the nice spring weather.

1433
01:45:10.039 --> 01:45:13.960
Well, let's go out to spring
and talk to Jerry. Hello,

1434
01:45:14.119 --> 01:45:17.159
Jerry, Hi, Skip, I
sure enjoy your show. Thank you.

1435
01:45:18.800 --> 01:45:27.119
We're about to have our beds cleaned
out and remulched, no dyed mulch.

1436
01:45:27.239 --> 01:45:30.119
Randy, if you're listening anyway,
I don't worry. I'll carry that on

1437
01:45:32.319 --> 01:45:35.359
like I can drone and gripe about
it, just for good old time's sake,

1438
01:45:35.439 --> 01:45:42.039
right, Okay, I hate anyway
the guys are doing it. I've

1439
01:45:42.079 --> 01:45:46.680
done it several times before, and
this time they recommended that we use humus

1440
01:45:46.720 --> 01:45:51.079
instead of mulch. I went online, I had I saw kind of mixed

1441
01:45:51.079 --> 01:45:57.119
reviews that it's it's good, but
it could almost be too nutrient rich and

1442
01:45:57.279 --> 01:46:01.479
not not too much of a a
good thing. I just wondered how you

1443
01:46:01.520 --> 01:46:06.479
feel about it. Well, I
will use compost, for example, as

1444
01:46:06.520 --> 01:46:11.159
a surface mulch in addition to a
soil amendment. But just put it on

1445
01:46:11.159 --> 01:46:15.520
the surface as a malt. That's
fine. Humus is pretty rich stuff,

1446
01:46:15.640 --> 01:46:19.000
but it's always compost over time.
I mean, I guess, you know,

1447
01:46:19.079 --> 01:46:24.640
depending on what you were growing,
you could give it too much of

1448
01:46:24.640 --> 01:46:30.560
a boost. But you know,
I would say my biggest concern about using

1449
01:46:30.680 --> 01:46:34.840
humus as a surface mulch is that
you're putting a lot of humus on and

1450
01:46:34.880 --> 01:46:40.760
it's a valuable, not too cheap
product that you would rather mix in the

1451
01:46:40.840 --> 01:46:44.279
soil where you get the most benefit
out of it, because that's that's its

1452
01:46:44.399 --> 01:46:48.600
plus is its ability to stimulate the
root system to open up soil to release,

1453
01:46:49.119 --> 01:46:53.920
you know, the humic and fulvic
acids and things that are beneficial to

1454
01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:57.439
the plants, the soil and the
roots. So I guess I wouldn't be

1455
01:46:57.439 --> 01:47:00.640
so much worried about it being too
much as I'm worried about. Yeah,

1456
01:47:00.680 --> 01:47:03.680
that's not the best use of humus. Oh okay, let will be about

1457
01:47:03.680 --> 01:47:09.079
twenty five dollars a yard more.
But yeah, yeah, I would.

1458
01:47:09.600 --> 01:47:13.000
I think it's a great product.
I just I would use as soil amendment.

1459
01:47:13.079 --> 01:47:15.800
And then for the mulch, we
would like something that's not going to

1460
01:47:15.880 --> 01:47:20.159
just decompose overnight, that's going to
last you a little while, and then

1461
01:47:20.199 --> 01:47:25.600
as it decomposes, we had fresh
mulch on top and let the old stuff

1462
01:47:25.640 --> 01:47:29.640
decompose. And it's kind of like
nature does in the forest floor. Just

1463
01:47:29.680 --> 01:47:34.680
okay, So the hum humus U
decomposes pretty rapidly, is that right?

1464
01:47:34.920 --> 01:47:39.880
Well, it actually has, if
it's truly humus, it's almost at its

1465
01:47:40.000 --> 01:47:45.960
last stage of decomposition. I mean
it's it's gone past composed into a little

1466
01:47:45.000 --> 01:47:49.760
further along. So we might be
better advice just to go with the standard

1467
01:47:49.840 --> 01:47:54.439
mulch. That That's what I would
do, And I don't know all the

1468
01:47:54.520 --> 01:47:58.520
areas you might be using it in. But a good shredded hardwood mulch works

1469
01:47:58.560 --> 01:48:05.520
just fine. There is a fungal
leaf mold compost that works really well.

1470
01:48:05.560 --> 01:48:09.800
That is a super high quality product
that you could use as well. And

1471
01:48:09.920 --> 01:48:13.159
that's one that will feed your plants. It's it's ready to go in terms

1472
01:48:13.159 --> 01:48:16.880
of doing feeding, but at the
same time it is a good product for

1473
01:48:17.000 --> 01:48:21.039
use as a mulch on the surface. Okay, all right, thank you,

1474
01:48:21.079 --> 01:48:24.119
Skip. I really appreciate it.
All right, Jerry, thank you

1475
01:48:24.119 --> 01:48:27.800
for the call. I appreciate that
very much. Hey, if you live

1476
01:48:28.039 --> 01:48:32.800
up in the Magnolia area, we're
talking about FM twenty nine seventy eight,

1477
01:48:32.840 --> 01:48:35.399
had to stop and think a minute, what's that? What's that Farm Market

1478
01:48:35.439 --> 01:48:40.359
Road twenty nine seventy eight that's up
near your Grand Parkway Highway two forty nine

1479
01:48:40.399 --> 01:48:45.159
that area. Spring Creek Feed is
your hometown feed store. They carry the

1480
01:48:45.199 --> 01:48:47.479
fertilizers we talk about here, the
full line of you know, things like

1481
01:48:47.520 --> 01:48:50.479
the Nelsons and the microlife and the
night five. They've got all that and

1482
01:48:50.520 --> 01:48:54.680
then some. They've got plenty of
lawn and garden supplies, you know,

1483
01:48:54.720 --> 01:48:59.159
the herbicides, fungicides, pesticides.
I like the way they treat you when

1484
01:48:59.199 --> 01:49:02.520
you walk in Spring Creek Feed.
A very friendly, very courteous staff like

1485
01:49:02.600 --> 01:49:09.079
you would expect from a Garden Lines
recommended feed store. They're going to carry

1486
01:49:09.079 --> 01:49:12.239
the livestock feeds, the pep feeds, all the things that you need.

1487
01:49:12.359 --> 01:49:15.039
They also have a delivery service.
If you have a bulky thing you need

1488
01:49:15.079 --> 01:49:17.680
to get delivered, they can help
you with that. If you're a fair

1489
01:49:17.720 --> 01:49:21.880
for h if you're military for Senior
citizen, their discounts for you. And

1490
01:49:21.960 --> 01:49:25.960
if they don't have it, ask
them. I bet they can special order

1491
01:49:26.000 --> 01:49:30.800
it at Spring Creek Feed again and
Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight.

1492
01:49:30.399 --> 01:49:33.520
I want to head out to Stafford
now and we're gonna talk to Robert.

1493
01:49:33.960 --> 01:49:41.119
Good morning, Robert, good morning. I'm concerned about my I think it's

1494
01:49:41.119 --> 01:49:45.319
a California ash so big tree has
been there thirty years, okay, and

1495
01:49:45.479 --> 01:49:49.960
the roots are you know coming up
from the yard, got plenty of shade.

1496
01:49:49.960 --> 01:49:54.479
But should I be concerned about that
or should I cut them off or

1497
01:49:54.520 --> 01:49:56.880
what? I wouldn't cut them off. I mean, you can take a

1498
01:49:57.359 --> 01:50:00.399
route off here and there over time, but I would bring in some kind

1499
01:50:00.439 --> 01:50:04.439
of a mix fill in between them, or use a very thick layer of

1500
01:50:04.520 --> 01:50:08.920
mulching in there to kind of smooth
it out. You're not going to get

1501
01:50:09.000 --> 01:50:12.560
grass to grow when you got roots
up like that. Anyway, you could

1502
01:50:12.560 --> 01:50:15.720
also put a ground cover in there, like an Asian jasmine or something that

1503
01:50:15.800 --> 01:50:19.479
can kind of crawl around and fill
in as a green sort of hide those

1504
01:50:19.560 --> 01:50:26.199
roots. That's probably the best approaches
that I would suggest. Please put big

1505
01:50:26.279 --> 01:50:29.640
mulch around the tree itself. Yeah, a little bit of you know,

1506
01:50:29.680 --> 01:50:33.319
a woodchip mulch or I can't see
the scene that you see, but I'm

1507
01:50:33.359 --> 01:50:36.840
just giving you ideas for what I
do around the base of a tree.

1508
01:50:36.880 --> 01:50:41.600
It's always big tree roots sticking up. But Robert, I'm gonna have to

1509
01:50:41.920 --> 01:50:44.159
take a break. If you want
to hang around talk. If you've got

1510
01:50:44.159 --> 01:50:45.399
more questions, we can do that. I'm gonna go ahead and take a

1511
01:50:45.439 --> 01:50:48.840
break and put you on hole for
right now and you're good to talk to

1512
01:50:48.880 --> 01:50:54.239
you seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. If you'd like

1513
01:50:54.279 --> 01:51:00.279
to give us a call, we'll
be right back. Is right back again

1514
01:51:00.560 --> 01:51:15.399
the saddle again. Whoopee, tie
back in the saddle. Whoopee tie,

1515
01:51:15.319 --> 01:51:20.479
good morning, hanging out with a
singing cowboys this morning. You're on garden

1516
01:51:20.520 --> 01:51:24.000
Line. I'm your host, Skip
Richter. Our phone number if you'd like

1517
01:51:24.039 --> 01:51:29.359
to give us call is seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1518
01:51:29.880 --> 01:51:32.239
Now, if you're looking for maybe
you're looking at moving. You like

1519
01:51:32.319 --> 01:51:36.479
a place where you can kind of
retire, kick back and have an enjoyable,

1520
01:51:36.680 --> 01:51:41.119
very relaxed life in a beautiful environment
where you're not going to do better

1521
01:51:41.159 --> 01:51:44.960
than a Dell Web community. They've
been building communities for over seventy years for

1522
01:51:45.000 --> 01:51:48.239
active adults age fifty five and better. A new community by Dell Web here

1523
01:51:48.239 --> 01:51:51.760
in our area is out there in
Full Shure Effect. It's less than two

1524
01:51:51.760 --> 01:51:57.239
miles from downtown Fullshre on FM three
fifty nine. Out in that community,

1525
01:51:57.279 --> 01:52:00.680
you're going to find the a community
garden that is being developed. I've been

1526
01:52:00.720 --> 01:52:03.920
working with them on that and I'm
really excited about it because you know,

1527
01:52:03.960 --> 01:52:08.560
when you take the Dellweb, the
kinds of houses, the kinds of homes

1528
01:52:08.720 --> 01:52:12.600
that you get with a Dolleweb community, the lifestyle that you get with a

1529
01:52:12.680 --> 01:52:15.359
Dollweb community, the programs that they
have for residents, just the beauty of

1530
01:52:15.359 --> 01:52:19.239
the whole thing, walking trails and
whatnot. Adding a community garden. You

1531
01:52:19.279 --> 01:52:21.239
know, as a gardener, I
don't know what else, what else you

1532
01:52:21.319 --> 01:52:24.800
could want. You don't have to
plow up the back forty in the backyard

1533
01:52:24.800 --> 01:52:27.039
to have a garden. You got
a community garden where you can hang out

1534
01:52:27.039 --> 01:52:31.439
with friends and just enjoy yourself there
at the new Dellweb community. Go to

1535
01:52:31.520 --> 01:52:35.039
dellweb dot com slash Houston. You
can get more information there or just give

1536
01:52:35.079 --> 01:52:41.840
him a call to eight one four
five nine zero six zero nine find out

1537
01:52:41.880 --> 01:52:46.359
about that Dellweb difference and especially this
really cool community out that way. You

1538
01:52:46.399 --> 01:52:50.319
know, talking about being out in
the full Shore area kind of reminds me

1539
01:52:51.000 --> 01:52:56.880
one of our best garden centers in
the whole Greater Houston area is out there

1540
01:52:56.920 --> 01:53:00.319
in pretty close to that area.
It's actually Enchanted Gardens. Now that's on

1541
01:53:00.560 --> 01:53:05.000
FM three fifty nine. Did you
just hear me say FM three fifty nine

1542
01:53:05.039 --> 01:53:09.920
with the Doe Web community. The
Lenderman family has been part of that community

1543
01:53:09.920 --> 01:53:14.880
since nineteen ninety five Enchanted Gardens opened. Now, this is one of those

1544
01:53:14.960 --> 01:53:17.560
destination garden centers, you know,
Enchanted Gardens is going to carry all the

1545
01:53:17.600 --> 01:53:21.359
products we talk about, you know, the fertilizers and the soils and mixes,

1546
01:53:21.399 --> 01:53:25.159
things like that. They're going to
have that. But you need to

1547
01:53:25.159 --> 01:53:29.119
see the plant selection. You need
to see the garden bling that goes with

1548
01:53:29.159 --> 01:53:31.760
it, you know, the things
like fountains and chimes and garden art.

1549
01:53:32.439 --> 01:53:34.960
I was talking earlier about, Hey, it's time. If you want to

1550
01:53:35.000 --> 01:53:39.840
have pumpkins, it's time to get
those things planted. Well, just head

1551
01:53:39.840 --> 01:53:45.279
out to Enchanted Gardens and Richmond and
they've got pumpkin plants are ready to go

1552
01:53:45.359 --> 01:53:46.520
for sale. I mean you can
buy seeds and stuff, or you can

1553
01:53:46.560 --> 01:53:49.880
just grab the plants they've already got
going for you and get a good head

1554
01:53:49.920 --> 01:53:56.479
start. If you're like pollinator gardens, they are an excellent source of all

1555
01:53:56.600 --> 01:54:00.279
kinds of plants, you know,
for butterflies, for pollinators and other things

1556
01:54:00.319 --> 01:54:03.600
like that. Enchanted Gardens, it's
just it's worth a visit. Trust me

1557
01:54:03.640 --> 01:54:08.079
on this one. You take family
and friends out there and walk through the

1558
01:54:08.119 --> 01:54:12.560
place, check it out, and
you're going to find it to be absolutely

1559
01:54:12.960 --> 01:54:17.399
an enchanted wonderland. When it comes
to plants, let's head out to friends

1560
01:54:17.479 --> 01:54:26.680
Wood and we're going to talk to
Hello, Claudia to turn off the radio

1561
01:54:26.720 --> 01:54:30.319
and let's talk about what you're interested
in. All right, let me turn

1562
01:54:30.319 --> 01:54:34.279
it down. Hi skip. My
husband was supposed to talk to you,

1563
01:54:34.319 --> 01:54:39.520
but he's too shy, so all
right. Um. We have a climbing

1564
01:54:39.640 --> 01:54:47.760
rose on a trailis in our backyard. It faces the afternoon heat and it's

1565
01:54:47.840 --> 01:54:50.439
just not putting out in a roses. Now. A few years ago it

1566
01:54:50.479 --> 01:54:57.760
did you know? I wish I
didn't know. It's the kind of climbs

1567
01:54:57.800 --> 01:55:02.560
up trails, okay, I well, most climbers are once bloomers, are

1568
01:55:02.680 --> 01:55:06.920
spring only bloomers. There are some
that repeat bloom and so if it's a

1569
01:55:06.920 --> 01:55:12.039
spring only bloomer, it shouldn't be
blooming right now. Lady Banks is a

1570
01:55:12.039 --> 01:55:15.279
good example of big old yellow blooms. Personall yellow blooms on Lady Banks.

1571
01:55:15.319 --> 01:55:19.079
But you know it, if it's
a repeat bloomer and it's not blooming,

1572
01:55:19.600 --> 01:55:23.920
I would look at sunlight. I
would look at what condition is the plan

1573
01:55:24.039 --> 01:55:27.520
in it? Has it got good
vigor? Is it growing well? But

1574
01:55:27.640 --> 01:55:32.680
mostly is it getting really good sunlight? And that would oh yeah, yeah,

1575
01:55:32.720 --> 01:55:38.800
it faces the afternoon sun and all
believes look healthy. They're green.

1576
01:55:38.920 --> 01:55:44.119
I don't see anything yellow. They're
not dropping. It's yeah, it's and

1577
01:55:44.159 --> 01:55:49.359
it's tall. Okay, it's just
roses. Well you know, I mean

1578
01:55:49.439 --> 01:55:54.039
roses bloom on terminals, so that
means if it's growing, that means you

1579
01:55:54.039 --> 01:55:58.640
have new group growth. That means
you have terminal shoots, and the roses

1580
01:55:58.680 --> 01:56:02.680
occur on those. I would I
don't know. I'd give it more time,

1581
01:56:02.720 --> 01:56:05.199
I guess. But if you could
find out the name of the rose,

1582
01:56:05.359 --> 01:56:10.079
it may be that it's just not
Have you had it for years,

1583
01:56:11.239 --> 01:56:14.640
Yes, we have, and it
blooms through the summer in the past.

1584
01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:18.319
We haven't seen it bloom now in
a couple of years. Oh okay,

1585
01:56:18.439 --> 01:56:25.800
all right, wow. Yeah.
If you have a rosebush that's healthy and

1586
01:56:25.880 --> 01:56:29.359
getting good sunlight, and if it's
healthy, it means it's got decent nutrition

1587
01:56:29.680 --> 01:56:33.159
good enough to bloom, then I
don't know why it wouldn't be blooming unless

1588
01:56:33.199 --> 01:56:36.680
it's just a once bloomer. But
if you could figure out the name of

1589
01:56:36.720 --> 01:56:40.439
it, or hunt down the name, or if you got any pictures of

1590
01:56:40.479 --> 01:56:44.840
the blooms, you could email me
a picture of the blooms from past years.

1591
01:56:44.920 --> 01:56:46.239
If you happen to take some and
I could take a look at the

1592
01:56:46.239 --> 01:56:50.960
bloom and probably identify it that way
and then know at least what we're working

1593
01:56:51.039 --> 01:56:59.119
with here. Okay, Now you
know that when you're doing everything right and

1594
01:56:59.159 --> 01:57:04.680
a plant won't operate, the last
resort is you you get you a bottle

1595
01:57:04.720 --> 01:57:08.960
of round up, okay, and
you just walk out to the rose and

1596
01:57:09.039 --> 01:57:11.920
you point it at the plant and
you say, see this stuff, I

1597
01:57:11.960 --> 01:57:15.600
don't mind using it. I'm coming
back in three weeks if there's no blooms

1598
01:57:15.640 --> 01:57:20.359
on you and I find that that
usually they start blooming. Sorry, you

1599
01:57:20.399 --> 01:57:24.439
know, I've run out of good
ideas, so we'll try some humor on

1600
01:57:24.520 --> 01:57:29.720
this. But seriously, I you
know, sunlight, adequate water, a

1601
01:57:29.880 --> 01:57:33.319
blue a plant that's genetically geared toward
blooming at the time of year we're talking

1602
01:57:33.399 --> 01:57:42.079
now beyond that, I don't know
what to tell you that. I was

1603
01:57:42.159 --> 01:57:46.159
told once that you shouldn't over water
roses. You need to be careful about

1604
01:57:46.159 --> 01:57:48.880
how much water you give roses.
Do you agree with that? Yes,

1605
01:57:48.880 --> 01:57:51.920
they don't want to be in a
swamp. They're they're not native to swampy

1606
01:57:51.960 --> 01:57:57.199
areas at all, and that is
they don't want that. But if that's

1607
01:57:57.199 --> 01:58:00.279
the case. You should be seeing
some other signs and problems above ground.

1608
01:58:00.640 --> 01:58:05.039
It's not like overwater and makes them
not bloom. It's over water and causes

1609
01:58:05.119 --> 01:58:10.640
root rods, causes the wilting because
the roots can't get oxygen, start dying

1610
01:58:10.640 --> 01:58:15.000
and things like that. All right, Okay, thank you so much.

1611
01:58:15.159 --> 01:58:18.319
All right, thank you. I
appreciate the call very much. Hey,

1612
01:58:18.399 --> 01:58:24.840
do you have pest problems. We're
talking about cockroaches, We're talking about fire

1613
01:58:24.920 --> 01:58:28.479
ens, We're talking about all kinds
of things regarded the creepy crawleys. Well,

1614
01:58:28.640 --> 01:58:31.000
McGrath pest Control. They're the folks
you need to talk to. Scott

1615
01:58:31.079 --> 01:58:35.800
McGrath as Scott's dad started this back
in nineteen seventy four. But McGrath pest

1616
01:58:35.840 --> 01:58:41.319
control over let's see forty nine years
or over forty eight at least. It's

1617
01:58:41.319 --> 01:58:45.600
a family run business. It's the
old fashioned kind of business where they say

1618
01:58:45.640 --> 01:58:46.720
I'm going to be there at a
certain time and they show up. They

1619
01:58:46.720 --> 01:58:49.319
don't go, well, I'll try
to be there on Saturday afternoon sometime.

1620
01:58:49.359 --> 01:58:51.720
You got to hang around all day
and wait and see if I'll show up.

1621
01:58:51.920 --> 01:58:55.279
No, they tell you when they're
gonna show up and they show up.

1622
01:58:55.600 --> 01:58:59.199
They're highly rated company. They serve
the whole area. If you're dealing

1623
01:58:59.239 --> 01:59:01.840
with pests, if you're dealing with
rodents, that's an issue that we deal

1624
01:59:01.840 --> 01:59:04.119
with from time to time, you
know, as we go through the season.

1625
01:59:04.560 --> 01:59:09.840
We got our termite seasons February through
March, big termite peak. But

1626
01:59:10.079 --> 01:59:14.079
they'll do year round inspections all year. I mean, the termites don't go

1627
01:59:14.119 --> 01:59:16.760
away after March. They're there in
your house. If they're there you want

1628
01:59:16.760 --> 01:59:18.840
to take care of that. They
can walk around the house and look at

1629
01:59:18.840 --> 01:59:23.119
it and see issues you may have
going on around the weep holes and other

1630
01:59:23.199 --> 01:59:27.119
things. Call Scott McGrath have them
come out. You can go to McGrath

1631
01:59:27.119 --> 01:59:30.800
pest control dot com or just give
him a call to eight one four six

1632
01:59:31.000 --> 01:59:36.079
nine eight two four. Oh.
The kind of company you call, a

1633
01:59:36.159 --> 01:59:40.359
service company that you can trust,
you can believe, and they do what

1634
01:59:40.439 --> 01:59:44.920
they say and it's a reasonable price. Man, with that combination, I

1635
01:59:44.920 --> 01:59:47.159
don't know how you can do better
than McGrath Pest Control for those kinds of

1636
01:59:47.199 --> 01:59:50.399
issues that you're dealing with. Hey, we're about to take a break here,

1637
01:59:50.800 --> 01:59:55.239
we're about to end the hour.
But I just wanted to say that

1638
01:59:55.720 --> 01:59:58.600
as we come back the next hour, we're going to be talking about a

1639
01:59:58.720 --> 02:00:01.600
number of different things that important in
terms of what we do at this time

1640
02:00:01.600 --> 02:00:05.680
of year in our gardens and in
our landscapes. So I hope you will

1641
02:00:05.720 --> 02:00:10.920
hang around for us a little bit. I also want to take your gardening

1642
02:00:11.000 --> 02:00:14.520
questions if you have some. This
will be now our last hour coming up

1643
02:00:14.520 --> 02:00:19.319
here at nine seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

1644
02:00:19.399 --> 02:00:24.119
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. I just want to remind you

1645
02:00:24.439 --> 02:00:30.479
that we are going to be interviewing
tomorrow regarding this water my Yard app that

1646
02:00:30.560 --> 02:00:35.000
I keep talking about. Doctor Guy
Phips from Texan m University is going to

1647
02:00:35.079 --> 02:00:39.680
be in for the interview and he's
going to be talking about the things that

1648
02:00:39.720 --> 02:00:45.159
are going on in the science of
watering and how now we have the technology

1649
02:00:45.239 --> 02:00:48.720
available to help us know how much
and when the water and I mean it

1650
02:00:48.840 --> 02:00:53.760
is some really cool stuff. We're
going to talk about stuff you don't have

1651
02:00:53.760 --> 02:00:57.079
to worry about. Takes the worry
out of watering. I do the water

1652
02:00:57.159 --> 02:01:00.159
my Yard app. By the way, I get emails all the time to

1653
02:01:00.239 --> 02:01:01.640
tell me, yeah, this week
you don't need to water this week,

1654
02:01:01.640 --> 02:01:03.960
you need to water a half answer
this week, you need to water an

1655
02:01:04.159 --> 02:01:10.279
ch. It's really cool service to
have available, so save some questions you

1656
02:01:10.359 --> 02:01:14.439
might have Tomorrow when we have Guy
PEPs on, you'll definitely want to listen

1657
02:01:14.479 --> 02:01:23.920
to. Katrh Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

1658
02:01:23.960 --> 02:01:40.279
advertised on this program. Welcome to
KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor just watch

1659
02:01:40.399 --> 02:01:50.920
him as well. Good Saturday morning, and boy is it ever a good

1660
02:01:50.920 --> 02:01:56.640
Saturday morning. Oh my gosh,
makes Saturday. It makes you happy to

1661
02:01:56.640 --> 02:01:59.680
be alive and certainly happy to be
a gardener. To get out there,

1662
02:02:00.520 --> 02:02:03.600
enjoy some of that and get out
perhaps stop by a garden center pick up

1663
02:02:03.640 --> 02:02:06.279
some plants. Hey, why you're
at it, why not stop by someplace

1664
02:02:06.319 --> 02:02:10.680
and get you some of the supplies
you need for your plants. And I

1665
02:02:10.720 --> 02:02:14.720
can't think of a better place than
that, for sure than a Southwest Fertilizer.

1666
02:02:14.760 --> 02:02:16.600
You know, Southwest Fertilizer has been
around since gosh, I think nineteen

1667
02:02:16.680 --> 02:02:21.079
fifty five. I believe, I
believe that I am the fifth garden Line

1668
02:02:21.119 --> 02:02:26.000
host to speak for Southwest Fertilizer.
Now it's not like Guardenline goes to the

1669
02:02:26.039 --> 02:02:29.439
host very fast. I mean,
you know, this is a long tradition,

1670
02:02:29.479 --> 02:02:32.840
going back in the fifties. Randy
was doing this show for over I

1671
02:02:32.960 --> 02:02:38.520
was twenty six, twenty seven years. I believe that that's a that is

1672
02:02:38.560 --> 02:02:43.079
a long time institution, and certainly
the importance of that is not lost on

1673
02:02:43.119 --> 02:02:45.359
me. I'll tell you that for
sure, that this show has been important

1674
02:02:45.399 --> 02:02:49.000
for the city of Houston, for
the greater Houston area, really the southwest

1675
02:02:49.520 --> 02:02:56.279
Southeast Texas region for a long,
long, long time. Guardline reaches a

1676
02:02:56.279 --> 02:03:00.880
wide area. I was listening to
Guardline on the other side of New Bronfels

1677
02:03:00.880 --> 02:03:04.760
the other day, and I've had
callers calling that listen from Louisiana and up

1678
02:03:04.880 --> 02:03:10.359
north of Bryan College Station. Even
it's a wide area and it's a show

1679
02:03:10.399 --> 02:03:15.800
that our goal is to make it
educational and helpful to you. I think

1680
02:03:15.840 --> 02:03:17.680
gardening is the best hobby of all
I know I'm biased, but that doesn't

1681
02:03:17.680 --> 02:03:21.920
mean I'm wrong. I think it's
an important hobby, and I think it's

1682
02:03:21.920 --> 02:03:26.439
a wonderful hobby for all ages.
There are not a lot of hobbies.

1683
02:03:26.479 --> 02:03:29.000
You can say that when you're eighty
years old, you can still be doing

1684
02:03:29.039 --> 02:03:31.359
this, certainly not playing flag football, although I'm sure there's some out there

1685
02:03:31.399 --> 02:03:35.319
doing that now. But seriously,
gardening is a wonderful hobby. But we

1686
02:03:35.359 --> 02:03:39.880
want to give you facts because there's
a lot of bologna out there. I

1687
02:03:39.920 --> 02:03:45.119
mean, I have to limit my
time looking at social media just because it

1688
02:03:45.279 --> 02:03:48.239
drives me nuts when it comes to
gardening stuff. The things that are said

1689
02:03:48.279 --> 02:03:53.399
and claimed and they're just not true. And I don't want someone spending time

1690
02:03:53.439 --> 02:03:58.439
and money and then saying they have
a brown thumb just because someone misled them

1691
02:03:58.960 --> 02:04:02.920
on gardening information. And that is
one of the things I think is important

1692
02:04:02.960 --> 02:04:05.840
and I take it seriously. And
I was talking about, you know,

1693
02:04:05.880 --> 02:04:11.359
the importance of products and Southwest Fertilizer. I kind of drifted off here a

1694
02:04:11.359 --> 02:04:16.720
little bit. But when you go
to Southwest, any kind of fertilizer that

1695
02:04:16.760 --> 02:04:20.079
we talk about and more, you're
going to find there. Any kind of

1696
02:04:20.119 --> 02:04:24.600
an insecticide, herbicide, fungicide,
you're going to find there. If you're

1697
02:04:24.600 --> 02:04:28.880
an organic gardener and you want the
widest selection of organic products, you're going

1698
02:04:28.920 --> 02:04:33.560
to find it at Southwest Fertilizer.
Bob Patterson and his team have created a

1699
02:04:34.000 --> 02:04:38.720
institution. I mean, and if
you've been around since nineteen fifty five,

1700
02:04:38.760 --> 02:04:42.840
you're doing a lot right. They're
down on the corner of Byssinet and Runwick.

1701
02:04:42.960 --> 02:04:47.279
Just go on line to Southwest Fertilizer
dot com and find them. If

1702
02:04:47.279 --> 02:04:50.680
you need to pick up any kind
of supplies for the garden, the landscape,

1703
02:04:50.800 --> 02:04:54.880
any kind of pest control, any
kind of fertilizer, anything like that.

1704
02:04:54.960 --> 02:04:59.800
Maybe tools eighty foot wall of tools
that you can purchase. Go in

1705
02:04:59.840 --> 02:05:01.920
there. Take your dull more blade, let them get that sharpened for you.

1706
02:05:01.960 --> 02:05:04.039
Maybe you get some power equipment and
needs a little work. They got

1707
02:05:04.039 --> 02:05:08.399
a shop in the back. They
can take care of that at Southwest Fertilizer.

1708
02:05:08.800 --> 02:05:11.920
Love going in there, Love visiting
with Bob and the team. Really

1709
02:05:12.000 --> 02:05:15.199
quality folks that know what they're talking
about. Hey, let's go out to

1710
02:05:15.439 --> 02:05:20.439
Richmond and we're going to visit with
Michael. Hello Michael, Yes, good

1711
02:05:20.520 --> 02:05:25.920
morning, Good morning. I've got
a question for you. I've got a

1712
02:05:25.960 --> 02:05:30.960
tomato plant that's doing quite well,
cherry tomatoes, and over the last couple

1713
02:05:30.960 --> 02:05:35.720
of weeks, i'd notice I'm getting
these what I would call a stink bug

1714
02:05:35.800 --> 02:05:43.520
looking creature that's crawling all over it, but they're not like eating the fruit.

1715
02:05:43.760 --> 02:05:45.640
Okay, How big are they?
And what color are they? What

1716
02:05:46.399 --> 02:05:53.800
is their shape? So their ship
kind of like a maybe like a shield

1717
02:05:54.000 --> 02:05:59.199
in a sense, okay, and
they're usually like a gray black color.

1718
02:05:59.479 --> 02:06:03.039
Okay. And I don't know if
you know what I mean when I say

1719
02:06:03.039 --> 02:06:08.479
a stink bug. They kind of
look like that, and they're they actually

1720
02:06:08.479 --> 02:06:11.680
look like they're mating too, because
they could be backed back. Okay,

1721
02:06:12.600 --> 02:06:16.880
yeah, okay, Well, so
it could be a stink bug. There

1722
02:06:16.880 --> 02:06:19.479
are many types of stink bugs.
It could be a leaf footed bug,

1723
02:06:19.520 --> 02:06:23.319
and it really doesn't matter which it
is. They're the same thing. They

1724
02:06:23.319 --> 02:06:28.199
put their mouthpart in your tomato.
They spit caustic spit. It dissolves the

1725
02:06:28.239 --> 02:06:30.199
cells. They slurp it up,
and they leave yellow, hard spots on

1726
02:06:30.279 --> 02:06:34.560
your fruit. So you need to
deal with them when they're young. The

1727
02:06:34.560 --> 02:06:39.760
ones that aren't mating are the younger
ones that don't have wings. You can

1728
02:06:39.920 --> 02:06:42.319
just swat them, knock them off
into a pail of water. You can

1729
02:06:42.399 --> 02:06:45.159
vacuum them up, are you can
spram if you want to spram. The

1730
02:06:45.199 --> 02:06:47.600
ones that have wings can fly away, and they're a bigger challenge and it

1731
02:06:47.640 --> 02:06:53.319
takes a little stronger insecticide to kill
them. The hemiptra, the stink bugs

1732
02:06:53.319 --> 02:06:58.199
and leafooted bugs, they're they're not
just killed by insecticidal soap or BT or

1733
02:06:58.239 --> 02:07:00.640
some other little simple stuff like that. Uh. And so it's going to

1734
02:07:00.720 --> 02:07:04.880
take something more powerful to get rid
of them. But you know you're gonna

1735
02:07:04.880 --> 02:07:06.960
be able to find that. You
know, you're down, You're out in

1736
02:07:08.079 --> 02:07:13.079
Richmond, So I mean you're close
to the enchanted nursery, You're you're close

1737
02:07:13.199 --> 02:07:17.279
to there's some some good ace hardwares
out that way. Plantation Ace probably one

1738
02:07:17.279 --> 02:07:20.159
of the closest one to you.
And and Mickey and the folks out there

1739
02:07:20.199 --> 02:07:25.880
have got a good selection of pesticides
to choose from, and they can direct

1740
02:07:25.920 --> 02:07:30.560
you to whatever's on their shelves that
might be good for you know, more

1741
02:07:30.560 --> 02:07:33.880
powerful bug. It's probably gonna be
a perrethroid of some type or a parrethren

1742
02:07:34.159 --> 02:07:38.439
if you want the organic version that
you're gonna have to hit them with.

1743
02:07:38.520 --> 02:07:41.479
I'd go out early in the morning
when it's still cool and spray them,

1744
02:07:41.920 --> 02:07:45.079
try to knock them out at that
point in time. So, now,

1745
02:07:45.119 --> 02:07:49.880
are they are they doing anything to
the fruit at this point Yeah, from

1746
02:07:50.000 --> 02:07:54.560
the time they're young, they are
piercing, sucking mouthparts are doing their work.

1747
02:07:55.680 --> 02:07:59.760
Yeah, you need to get on
those and knock them out. But

1748
02:08:00.000 --> 02:08:01.079
hey, I appreciate the call,
and I wish you good luck with them.

1749
02:08:01.079 --> 02:08:05.159
They're not an easy one to deal
with, so don't delay any longer.

1750
02:08:05.199 --> 02:08:07.880
Remember the morning, they're a little
bit more sluggish, a little easier

1751
02:08:07.880 --> 02:08:11.560
to get them sprayed than they are
later in the day. All right,

1752
02:08:11.560 --> 02:08:13.000
well, thank you for that call. Hey, if you are looking for

1753
02:08:13.039 --> 02:08:18.119
a quality source of mulch, of
composts, of any kind of a soil

1754
02:08:18.159 --> 02:08:24.840
amendment, Nature's Way is a place
to go. Nature's Ways up on Highway

1755
02:08:24.920 --> 02:08:28.399
forty five, up toward Conrow where
fourteen eighty eight comes in. If you're

1756
02:08:28.399 --> 02:08:31.359
going north, just turn across the
railroad tracks right where fourteen eighty eight is

1757
02:08:31.680 --> 02:08:35.319
and you'll you'll find Nature's Way.
They've got rose soil, they've got leaf

1758
02:08:35.680 --> 02:08:41.039
mold compost. In fact, they've
got a large supply of fungal compost,

1759
02:08:41.760 --> 02:08:45.359
and they have a thing called fungal
Friday now ten percent off bag, twenty

1760
02:08:45.359 --> 02:08:50.239
percent off bulk to move a mountain
of that super souper high quality stuff that

1761
02:08:50.319 --> 02:08:54.680
they have. They've also got a
native plant nursery. They in fact,

1762
02:08:54.680 --> 02:08:58.760
they have other kinds of plants as
well, but they really focus in on

1763
02:08:58.800 --> 02:09:03.199
some native native plants, native perennials. There at Nature's Way. While you're

1764
02:09:03.199 --> 02:09:05.319
out there by the way, there
are summer hours Monday through Friday, eight

1765
02:09:05.319 --> 02:09:09.880
to five today, Saturday's eight to
two, closed on Sunday. They do

1766
02:09:11.079 --> 02:09:15.800
deliveries. You will find their products
also bagged in some of our garden centers.

1767
02:09:15.840 --> 02:09:18.720
But whether you go pick them up
yourself or give them a call Nature's

1768
02:09:18.840 --> 02:09:22.760
Way Resources, you're just not going
to do better in terms of a quality

1769
02:09:24.399 --> 02:09:28.800
mix, whether it's composed or garden
soil or whatever. A lot of our

1770
02:09:28.800 --> 02:09:35.119
folks that are gardeners like organic gardening. They like to garden organically and there's

1771
02:09:35.159 --> 02:09:39.640
a lot of reasons for that.
And one of the companies that's been kind

1772
02:09:39.640 --> 02:09:43.479
of the leader in organic products here
in the greater Houston area and now across

1773
02:09:43.560 --> 02:09:48.479
Texas is Microlife. Microlife has fertilizers
for the lawn. The two that I'm

1774
02:09:48.520 --> 02:09:54.640
really talking about right now a lot
are the Orange label liquid the Microlife bio

1775
02:09:54.840 --> 02:10:00.079
Matrix. Just look for the orange
labels. A little quart bottle seven and

1776
02:10:00.199 --> 02:10:03.680
one three. It's got beneficial microbes. I use it for my houseplants.

1777
02:10:03.720 --> 02:10:07.640
It works super super well that high
nitrogen your houseplants or foliage plants. It

1778
02:10:07.720 --> 02:10:13.840
helps them ocean harvest. Blue label
four two three is a fishing motion base

1779
02:10:13.920 --> 02:10:18.199
that I use for outside the guard
outside of the house. It can be

1780
02:10:18.239 --> 02:10:20.199
a folior spray if you can do
some folior feeding. It's not gonna burn

1781
02:10:20.239 --> 02:10:24.439
your plants. Go to Microlife Fertilizer
dot com to learn about these or to

1782
02:10:24.479 --> 02:10:28.479
find out where to buy these products
in your area. Hey, we're gonna

1783
02:10:28.479 --> 02:10:31.399
take a break. We'll be right
back. Seven one three two one two

1784
02:10:31.600 --> 02:10:39.239
fifty eight seventy four. In the
summer time, when the wind is high,

1785
02:10:39.520 --> 02:10:43.840
you can stage fine up bands this
sky when the weather is fine.

1786
02:10:43.920 --> 02:10:48.079
You got women, You got women
on your mind, Have a drink,

1787
02:10:48.079 --> 02:10:52.439
have a job, go out and
see why you get fine. And good

1788
02:10:52.479 --> 02:10:56.039
morning. It's a great morning.
Great morning for gardening, great morning for

1789
02:10:56.159 --> 02:11:01.279
talking about gardening, great morning for
getting out to Guard center. And hey,

1790
02:11:01.319 --> 02:11:05.239
listen, if you are anywhere near
the two forty nine and Louetta intersection,

1791
02:11:05.520 --> 02:11:09.159
that is where Plants for all Seasons
is and at EVA you need drive

1792
02:11:09.239 --> 02:11:13.560
cross towns Worth going to check out. Plants for All Seasons is one of

1793
02:11:13.560 --> 02:11:18.039
those hometown nurseries that they've been here
a long time. It's a family run

1794
02:11:18.159 --> 02:11:22.560
nursery. They have the expertise you
need. And I'm really serious when I

1795
02:11:22.600 --> 02:11:26.960
say that. The folks that Plants
for All Seasons they know what they're talking

1796
02:11:26.960 --> 02:11:30.960
about. You bring a problem in, they identify it correctly, which is

1797
02:11:31.000 --> 02:11:35.560
important, so they can point you
to a product that will work against against

1798
02:11:35.560 --> 02:11:37.880
that problem, that will solve that
problem. That's the kind of place this

1799
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is. If you're a green thumb, you already know about it because green

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thumbs go there. I mean,
it's right there two forty nine and Luetta

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02:11:45.159 --> 02:11:46.920
Plants for All Seasons. If you're
a brown thumb, you need to go

1802
02:11:46.960 --> 02:11:50.680
there and turn that thumb green.
And they can do that because remember,

1803
02:11:50.760 --> 02:11:54.720
we don't have brown thumbs, we
have uninformed thumbs. And a place like

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02:11:54.800 --> 02:11:58.760
Plants for All Seasons is going to
inform your thumb. If you will talk,

1805
02:11:58.840 --> 02:12:01.880
if you will take it that way, bring up sample, bring in

1806
02:12:01.000 --> 02:12:07.319
a picture for diagnosis, let them
help you. Listen. This is summer

1807
02:12:07.359 --> 02:12:11.319
season. No reason to not have
color in your landscape. They are loaded

1808
02:12:11.479 --> 02:12:16.199
with color. Do you want a
multicolor combo container, say that five times?

1809
02:12:16.880 --> 02:12:20.560
They can provide it. Do you
just want some pizzas, something that

1810
02:12:20.720 --> 02:12:24.079
can get out there in the heat
and laugh at Houston heat and humidity.

1811
02:12:24.560 --> 02:12:28.600
They can provide that for you.
Perennials, annuals, tree shrubs, groundcovers,

1812
02:12:28.680 --> 02:12:31.720
herbs, vegetables, soil, pottery, on and on and on.

1813
02:12:33.000 --> 02:12:35.439
Plants for all seasons. You are
not going to find a place that has

1814
02:12:35.479 --> 02:12:41.960
more trained staff, that has more
quality product that just continues to be stocked

1815
02:12:43.039 --> 02:12:46.840
up in beauty and bounty to make
your place more beautiful and bountiful. That's

1816
02:12:46.880 --> 02:12:50.880
plants for all seasons. Love to
go there, love to visit with them

1817
02:12:50.880 --> 02:12:52.920
too. I mean, it's just
it's just refreshing, you know, to

1818
02:12:52.960 --> 02:12:56.479
go to a mom and pop garden
center where people know what they're talking about

1819
02:12:56.520 --> 02:13:03.079
and they it's it just excites their
plant nerds like me, and boy do

1820
02:13:03.119 --> 02:13:09.520
they do they ever have the experience
to help you out. I am just

1821
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I did some fertilizing along in this
summer and one of the products that I

1822
02:13:13.560 --> 02:13:18.359
just think one of the product lines
actually that I just think is an outstanding

1823
02:13:18.359 --> 02:13:22.239
one is the Nelson Plant Food Turf
Star Line now Nelson. In fact,

1824
02:13:22.279 --> 02:13:26.960
they're loaded with quality products or Color
Star Line, their Nutrastar Line, their

1825
02:13:28.079 --> 02:13:31.239
Nature Star Line for those of you
who want more of an organic type fertizer.

1826
02:13:31.760 --> 02:13:35.439
Turf Star Line is designed for lawns
and the summer. One that I

1827
02:13:35.560 --> 02:13:39.600
always focus on is slow and easy. I love those words. Slow and

1828
02:13:39.800 --> 02:13:43.439
easy. That's the kind of fertilizer
you need in summer. You want to

1829
02:13:43.479 --> 02:13:48.520
gradually feed over time, cut down
on thatch development, cut down on the

1830
02:13:48.560 --> 02:13:52.960
insect and disease problems that a fast
release can provide in the summertime. Slow

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and Easy twenty two two ten is
the one we're talking about. While you're

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picking up slow and Easy, you
might as well grab some Bruce's Brew.

1833
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That's an eighteen four nine. You
can use that year round. Now,

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02:14:03.279 --> 02:14:07.319
I know it's a lawn fertilizer.
Don't tell them, don't tell them I

1835
02:14:07.319 --> 02:14:09.840
said this, But it's an everything
fertilizer, right, I mean Bruce's Brew

1836
02:14:09.960 --> 02:14:13.640
eighteen four nine. You're gonna have
a fruit tree, you can put it

1837
02:14:13.680 --> 02:14:16.520
on that. I know they have
fruit tree food too, but it works

1838
02:14:16.560 --> 02:14:18.039
good for everything. For your herb
gardens. For your vegetable words. I

1839
02:14:18.119 --> 02:14:20.840
use it for all kinds of stuff. I know it's a lawn fertilizer and

1840
02:14:20.880 --> 02:14:24.960
it's good for that. But this
line of fertilizers, you're not going to

1841
02:14:26.039 --> 02:14:28.039
go wrong with Nelson plant food.
They're sold all over the place, easy

1842
02:14:28.079 --> 02:14:33.039
to find Nelson, and it's one
of those products that we believe in here

1843
02:14:33.079 --> 02:14:37.159
on Garden Line because we know that
it's going to give you a quality,

1844
02:14:37.680 --> 02:14:41.800
quality result in terms of your lawn, in terms of your flowers, in

1845
02:14:41.880 --> 02:14:46.359
terms of whatever you're wanting to grow. You know, Dell Webb, I've

1846
02:14:46.359 --> 02:14:48.399
talked about him a couple of times
today, but I just want to mention

1847
02:14:48.439 --> 02:14:52.800
one more. Maybe you just joined
us and you didn't hear me discussed this

1848
02:14:52.880 --> 02:14:58.680
earlier. Del Webb is one of
those institutions now because for over seventy years

1849
02:15:00.199 --> 02:15:05.439
been building these neighborhoods. When I
was a kid, I went to a

1850
02:15:05.479 --> 02:15:09.319
Dellweb community out near south of Phoenix, Arizona. Believe not, that's a

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02:15:09.319 --> 02:15:13.880
long time ago. Dellweb has been
building these communities for active adults age fifty

1852
02:15:13.880 --> 02:15:18.760
five and better now for over seventy
years. Down in Fullsher less than two

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02:15:18.760 --> 02:15:22.079
miles from downtown fullsher on FM three
fifty nine is a brand new Dellweb community

1854
02:15:22.119 --> 02:15:26.439
going in. I'm helping them.
They contacted me to work with them on

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02:15:26.560 --> 02:15:31.439
a community garden. A community garden
is a wonderful opportunity to gather with friends

1856
02:15:31.479 --> 02:15:35.359
to visit. You know, gardeners. They're the gardeners are just good people.

1857
02:15:35.520 --> 02:15:41.079
I mean really, I I don't
know how many master gardener classes I've

1858
02:15:41.079 --> 02:15:43.600
trained over the years. I don't
know how any gardening talks I've given over

1859
02:15:43.640 --> 02:15:46.680
the years, And it's just it's
amazing to me. You can't walk into

1860
02:15:46.760 --> 02:15:50.760
a group of people and do better
than a group of gardeners. They're friendly,

1861
02:15:50.800 --> 02:15:54.880
they're hopeful. You know, gardening
gives us that hope and tomorrow,

1862
02:15:56.000 --> 02:15:58.920
that belief that it's going to get
better, the belief that that nursery cat

1863
02:16:00.079 --> 02:16:03.840
lug that seed packet. It just
sets your dreams ablaze right as to how

1864
02:16:03.880 --> 02:16:07.640
beautiful your place is going to be. Well. Community gardens are like that.

1865
02:16:07.840 --> 02:16:11.479
Dellweb provides that for you if you're
looking for a place for a place

1866
02:16:11.600 --> 02:16:16.880
retired, but to have that community
with lifestyle programs, dellweb dot Com Slash

1867
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Houston is what you need to check
for more info or just call them two

1868
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eight one four five nine zero six
zero nine. I wanted to mention a

1869
02:16:28.279 --> 02:16:31.800
little bit about some of the pests
of summer. You know, we talked

1870
02:16:31.800 --> 02:16:35.559
about stink bugs and leafooted bugs.
In fact, I was visiting with Michael

1871
02:16:35.639 --> 02:16:39.879
lid and Richmond about that a minute
ago, and those that's just a it's

1872
02:16:39.920 --> 02:16:41.920
one of the problems we have in
the summertime. If you grow fruits and

1873
02:16:43.079 --> 02:16:46.000
vegetables, they love those especially.
They love your tomatoes, they love your

1874
02:16:46.000 --> 02:16:50.399
peaches, I love your pecans,
and they love a lot of other things.

1875
02:16:50.760 --> 02:16:54.399
We also have spider mites that are
a problem. Now. Spider mites

1876
02:16:54.440 --> 02:16:56.200
are really easy, I think to
take care of. And you know,

1877
02:16:56.280 --> 02:16:58.639
you can go try to find a
mita side, and that's fine. You

1878
02:16:58.639 --> 02:17:03.760
can use that. A lot of
times. Insecticides make spider mites worse than

1879
02:17:03.799 --> 02:17:05.760
they were before, and that's a
whole nother story. I just use a

1880
02:17:05.799 --> 02:17:11.239
blast of water upward from underneath the
plant, just spray the heck out of

1881
02:17:11.239 --> 02:17:15.280
the foliage and blast them right off, and it dislodges them. It gets

1882
02:17:15.280 --> 02:17:18.000
them wet, which causes disease problems, and their bodies and it messes them

1883
02:17:18.079 --> 02:17:20.840
up. I mean, you can
use insexticidal soap, but boy, when

1884
02:17:20.879 --> 02:17:24.479
that's one hundred degrees and the sun
is blazing down, you can burn a

1885
02:17:24.479 --> 02:17:28.840
plant withinsexticidal soap. I you mix
it too strong and spray it at that

1886
02:17:28.879 --> 02:17:31.399
time of day. But just a
blast of water is a pretty good way

1887
02:17:31.399 --> 02:17:35.719
to go about. It makes it
a lot easier if you're looking for products

1888
02:17:35.760 --> 02:17:39.920
like that. You know the ACE
hardware stores. We talked about them over

1889
02:17:39.959 --> 02:17:43.920
and over because I don't know,
I can't get enough personally of ACE hardware.

1890
02:17:43.159 --> 02:17:46.280
Every time I go into an ACE, I find something else I didn't

1891
02:17:46.280 --> 02:17:50.760
know they carried that I would love
to have myself. Now. They got

1892
02:17:50.799 --> 02:17:54.440
all the fertilizers that we talk about, They've got the pesticides and products that

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02:17:54.520 --> 02:17:58.280
you need for your garden. They've
got the grills. I mean they've of

1894
02:17:58.280 --> 02:18:01.760
course, they've got haint and plumbing
and electrical and everything else. But they

1895
02:18:01.760 --> 02:18:07.159
have a lot of beautiful things for
your home and for your garden that once

1896
02:18:07.200 --> 02:18:09.760
you get into an ACE and check
it out, you'll see what I'm talking

1897
02:18:09.760 --> 02:18:13.399
about. It's like a one stop
shop for so many different kinds of things.

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02:18:13.719 --> 02:18:18.520
So ACE Hardware dot Com is how
you find one of those thirty nine

1899
02:18:18.559 --> 02:18:22.399
ACE Hardware stores near you, and
I would encourage that you do that.

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Hey, fourth of July is coming
up. It's time to go get you

1901
02:18:26.399 --> 02:18:30.000
a grill. It's to get you
some grill supplies. It's to get stuff

1902
02:18:30.120 --> 02:18:33.280
or outdoor entertaining. Maybe you need
some outdoor furniture, some outdoor bling,

1903
02:18:33.520 --> 02:18:37.639
You're going to find it there at
the Ace Hardware. All was good.

1904
02:18:37.760 --> 02:18:41.319
Hey, by the way, earlier
I was speaking who was I talking with

1905
02:18:41.639 --> 02:18:46.600
about? Oh my gosh, somebody
had a plumaria that wasn't blooming. And

1906
02:18:46.719 --> 02:18:50.520
now I am trying to remember,
Oh it was a Jackie out in Galveston,

1907
02:18:50.760 --> 02:18:52.719
and I said I was going to
look into that. Jackie and I

1908
02:18:52.799 --> 02:18:56.399
have and you know, pretty much
what I told you is what the plumaria

1909
02:18:56.440 --> 02:19:00.319
experts seem to be saying. Does
it if your plumaria is not blooming,

1910
02:19:00.479 --> 02:19:05.799
it's getting enough sunlight? Is it
just young plumerius take a few years typically

1911
02:19:05.840 --> 02:19:09.680
to mature and reach a size where
they settle in and start blooming. Really

1912
02:19:09.719 --> 02:19:13.600
well, they just need a little
more time. Of all the things that

1913
02:19:13.600 --> 02:19:16.079
we've talked about, I think Jackie
that's probably the one that most applies to

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02:19:16.120 --> 02:19:18.959
your situation. Now, if you're
nutrients or way out of whack, or

1915
02:19:20.000 --> 02:19:24.280
maybe you don't have a phosphorus plenty
of phosphorus in the soil that could affect

1916
02:19:24.360 --> 02:19:30.000
it. We typically will prune a
plumeria in late winter early spring before new

1917
02:19:30.200 --> 02:19:33.120
growth emerges, and that will help
stimulate the blooming. So proper pluning,

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02:19:33.360 --> 02:19:39.479
pruning at the proper time is important. Certainly sun in shade and the things

1919
02:19:39.520 --> 02:19:41.239
we talked about, But I think
with yours maybe it's just a little bit

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02:19:41.280 --> 02:19:46.040
on the young side, So that's
something to consider. Don't overwater them,

1921
02:19:46.159 --> 02:19:50.600
don't underwater them, keep them moderately
moist, actively growing, and I think

1922
02:19:50.600 --> 02:19:52.719
you're going to do as good as
you're going to do with a plumeria with

1923
02:19:52.760 --> 02:19:56.799
those kinds of cares, and my
gosh, what a gorgeous, unique flower,

1924
02:19:58.440 --> 02:20:00.840
fun one to be able to grow. If you don't have a plume

1925
02:20:00.840 --> 02:20:03.799
area, you need to go out
and grab one. Speaking of going out

1926
02:20:03.840 --> 02:20:07.159
and grabbing one, if you're up
in the Tomball area, are just feeling

1927
02:20:07.360 --> 02:20:13.639
willing to drive Acrosstown Arburgate dot com. Arburgate is one of the nurseries that

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02:20:13.680 --> 02:20:18.079
we love to talk about. Here, we got a whole handful of fact.

1929
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I've said this before, but those
of you in the Greater Houston area

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02:20:22.639 --> 02:20:26.280
are so fortunate to have some of
the best, and I mean that the

1931
02:20:26.559 --> 02:20:33.639
best home garden centers in the state
of Texas right here and Arburgate absolutely one

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02:20:33.680 --> 02:20:37.639
of those kinds of places. Arburgate
dot Com. There you're going to find

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02:20:37.639 --> 02:20:41.879
a plume area that you're looking for
herbs, flowers, all kinds of things.

1934
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But also they're one two three completely
easy system. What is that,

1935
02:20:46.479 --> 02:20:50.440
Well, that's a food, a
four four three plus tim percent calcium organic

1936
02:20:50.959 --> 02:20:58.520
plant food that will absolutely make your
plants thrive. Anything with roots is going

1937
02:20:58.559 --> 02:21:01.639
to be happy with that. You're
going to find a soil, the organic

1938
02:21:01.840 --> 02:21:07.479
soil complete from Arburgate. That is
not the amendment that we use in our

1939
02:21:07.520 --> 02:21:11.200
clay soils. You need compost and
you need shale. And guess what's in

1940
02:21:11.719 --> 02:21:16.360
Arbourgate Organic Soil Complete. You're gonna
have compost, you're gonna have some large

1941
02:21:16.440 --> 02:21:20.920
particle sand, and you're gonna have
the shale that helps open up those clay

1942
02:21:20.959 --> 02:21:24.120
soils. As you continue to add
shale over time, it just gets better

1943
02:21:24.200 --> 02:21:28.079
and better. And then you're going
to have the compost complete two different kinds

1944
02:21:28.079 --> 02:21:33.799
of compost. You're talking about incredible
beneficial MicroB diversity. You're talking about a

1945
02:21:33.920 --> 02:21:41.959
very well balanced soil with plenty of
macromicronutrient content, and also again the shale

1946
02:21:43.040 --> 02:21:50.200
content in the organic compost. Complete
Arbourgate one two three food soil compost all

1947
02:21:50.239 --> 02:21:54.840
together in one package at arbourgate dot
com. Hey, you're listening to Gardenline

1948
02:21:54.879 --> 02:21:56.840
and we're going to take a little
break. We will be back our phone

1949
02:21:56.920 --> 02:22:24.440
number seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Well, I

1950
02:22:24.559 --> 02:22:26.600
told you we'll always surprise you with
songs that actually came in by request.

1951
02:22:26.719 --> 02:22:31.399
First time I've had a request on
garden Line for music, by the way,

1952
02:22:31.719 --> 02:22:37.159
Thank you appreciate that very much.
A fan of the unusual and eclectic

1953
02:22:37.200 --> 02:22:41.280
on garden Line when it comes to
music. Anchors away for all those folks

1954
02:22:41.280 --> 02:22:46.079
that you out there, I have
family and friends in the Navy. Fourth

1955
02:22:46.079 --> 02:22:52.360
of July certainly a good time for
remembrance of all those people that stand in

1956
02:22:52.440 --> 02:22:54.520
the gap for us, for those
that have given their lives for us over

1957
02:22:54.559 --> 02:22:58.360
the years as well, and all
of the armed forces. You're listening to

1958
02:22:58.399 --> 02:23:01.600
garden Line, your host, Skip
Richter, and our phone number seven one

1959
02:23:01.760 --> 02:23:07.520
three two one two five eight seven
four. We're coming up on the last

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02:23:07.639 --> 02:23:11.680
less than thirty minutes of garden Line
for today. We'll be back tomorrow from

1961
02:23:11.719 --> 02:23:15.559
six am to ten am. But
if you'd like to get a question in

1962
02:23:15.680 --> 02:23:18.879
today, this is a good time
to go ahead and do it. And

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let's head right out to Highlands and
talk to Warren. Hello Warren high Skip.

1964
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Enjoy your program, Thanks sir.
My problem is I have a couple

1965
02:23:31.280 --> 02:23:39.360
of large fig trees that are the
the what we used to call is sugar

1966
02:23:39.399 --> 02:23:45.120
figs, and this is the first
year I've had a major black fly infestation.

1967
02:23:45.600 --> 02:23:50.159
What do you recommend to treat this? Well, what are they doing?

1968
02:23:50.200 --> 02:23:52.799
Are they getting in the fig in
the hole in the end of the

1969
02:23:52.799 --> 02:23:56.280
fig or what are they doing?
Yeah, they're they're just it's like a

1970
02:23:56.399 --> 02:24:01.719
big hive of bees all over the
tree. And you know they get on

1971
02:24:01.959 --> 02:24:07.200
when the figs are right, you
know, they get on the juice and

1972
02:24:07.399 --> 02:24:11.239
uh yeah, and then the riotings
that fall on the ground. But they're

1973
02:24:11.440 --> 02:24:16.680
just all in the tree itself.
Oh boy, that's a that's a problem.

1974
02:24:16.760 --> 02:24:20.680
That is one of the reasons.
We generally recommend figs that have a

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02:24:20.719 --> 02:24:24.799
closed eye because they can't get that
juice and they you don't get souring,

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02:24:24.840 --> 02:24:28.079
you don't get wasps and other things
in there. Uh. When you know,

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02:24:28.120 --> 02:24:30.840
if you got an insect, it's
either a matter of living with it,

1978
02:24:31.200 --> 02:24:33.159
uh, you know, and trying
to get the figs you can,

1979
02:24:33.479 --> 02:24:35.479
or using a spray. Now,
the course, these figs or things were

1980
02:24:35.479 --> 02:24:39.920
one to eat, so we're gonna
be real careful with what we would use

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02:24:39.920 --> 02:24:45.040
it as spray. But you might
try, uh a product containing pyretheran that

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02:24:45.040 --> 02:24:50.959
that happens to be an organic insecticide
that kills a wide variety of insects.

1983
02:24:52.479 --> 02:24:54.760
And the reason I would recommend it
is because it breaks down really fast.

1984
02:24:54.840 --> 02:24:58.159
In a few days out in the
sunlight, it's broken down. So when

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02:24:58.200 --> 02:25:01.840
you pick those figs, joys want
to wash anyway, just to be sure

1986
02:25:01.879 --> 02:25:07.399
when you've sprayed. But that would
probably be one of the less persistent products

1987
02:25:07.440 --> 02:25:11.920
that you could use that would work. Okay, what about the difference between

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02:25:13.000 --> 02:25:20.719
pireth and pre permethrin or Okay,
Okay, so that's that's a good question.

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02:25:20.760 --> 02:25:24.319
It gives me just a little bit
chance to get nerdy here on horticulture.

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02:25:24.360 --> 02:25:33.440
But it's important. Okay, Pyrethrin
is and pyrethrum is the natural insecticide

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02:25:33.479 --> 02:25:37.440
that comes from a daisy like flower
plant. Okay, they grind up the

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02:25:37.479 --> 02:25:41.840
flowers into a powder. They call
that pirethrum. They extract the ingredient,

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02:25:43.079 --> 02:25:48.479
natural ingredient from that, and that
would be pyrethrine. Now, as it

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02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:54.520
gets confusing, pyrethrin ends in th
r i n. Every other thing that

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02:25:54.680 --> 02:25:58.799
ends in t r i n is
a synthetic perethroid. So here we go.

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Pyrethrin the only natural one, uh
res meth thrin, uh silo,

1997
02:26:09.200 --> 02:26:15.959
cyphlutherrian, lambda silo hathrin. What
all of those threads are synthetic parithrids.

1998
02:26:16.280 --> 02:26:20.559
They range in toxicity, they range
in persistence. By fen thrin a is

1999
02:26:20.559 --> 02:26:24.920
a synthetic parrethroid, you would not
you want to use that on your figs.

2000
02:26:24.239 --> 02:26:28.479
And that's why I say the pyri
thren because I know that one is

2001
02:26:28.479 --> 02:26:31.520
going to break down. I know
it works good. The pyrethroids are more

2002
02:26:31.559 --> 02:26:37.959
effective is insecticides because they've been designed
that way. But that's probably the safest

2003
02:26:37.959 --> 02:26:41.520
way to go if you just absolutely
can't live with the bugs that are on

2004
02:26:41.559 --> 02:26:48.879
your figs right now, now,
what would that material also kill the larva?

2005
02:26:50.159 --> 02:26:54.079
And are the eggs that say are
laying in the in the trees.

2006
02:26:54.200 --> 02:27:00.000
It would kill larva that gets sprayed
with it, but probably at the eggs.

2007
02:27:00.239 --> 02:27:05.319
No, okay, so you recommend
just that would if I have to

2008
02:27:05.360 --> 02:27:09.360
take one shot in the dark,
because I'm not totally clear on which insect

2009
02:27:09.440 --> 02:27:13.399
it is you're seeing the black flies
you're talking about, but one shot in

2010
02:27:13.440 --> 02:27:16.600
the dark, it would be go
ahead and go with the pirether and if

2011
02:27:16.600 --> 02:27:20.559
you want to kill them, I
think probably all right. Thank you,

2012
02:27:20.799 --> 02:27:24.520
yes, sir, thank you very
much. I appreciate that very much.

2013
02:27:24.840 --> 02:27:30.399
Hey, by the way, if
we are if you are looking for a

2014
02:27:30.559 --> 02:27:35.200
quality blend of soils, and you
especially you know those of you out in

2015
02:27:35.280 --> 02:27:39.840
the Porter direction, Porter area,
that's where airloom soils is. But you

2016
02:27:39.840 --> 02:27:41.920
don't have to live out there to
have airloom soils. They deliver all over

2017
02:27:41.959 --> 02:27:46.920
the area. They also have bag
soil that is available. And all the

2018
02:27:46.959 --> 02:27:50.200
places we talk about here, the
mom and pop garden centers, the ace

2019
02:27:50.319 --> 02:27:52.920
hardware stores, the feed stores and
things, a lot of them are going

2020
02:27:52.959 --> 02:27:58.440
to carry the Heirloom Soils line of
products and They have a product for pretty

2021
02:27:58.520 --> 02:28:03.280
much everything you can imagine, from
building a flowerbed to maybe putting a potting

2022
02:28:03.280 --> 02:28:07.319
soil in for indoors, a potting
soil for outdoor. I mean they've they've

2023
02:28:07.360 --> 02:28:11.559
got all kinds of stuff like that
available. Airloom Soils of Texas dot Com

2024
02:28:11.600 --> 02:28:13.000
is where you need to go to
see the products that they have. They

2025
02:28:13.079 --> 02:28:18.799
offer a one qbic yard supersack.
Think of a giant you know those those

2026
02:28:18.840 --> 02:28:22.479
sacks people get so they can bring
home groceries without getting another bag or something

2027
02:28:22.479 --> 02:28:26.680
in a plastic bag. Imagine one
of those so big that it holds a

2028
02:28:26.760 --> 02:28:30.040
yard of soil and it's strong enough
to lift the yard of soil. They'll

2029
02:28:30.079 --> 02:28:33.000
drop that on your on your driveway
and you can just go to town right

2030
02:28:33.040 --> 02:28:35.719
there, neat clean, easy,
easy to do. Give them a call

2031
02:28:35.760 --> 02:28:39.200
see what products they have in the
supersacks that you might be interested in.

2032
02:28:39.600 --> 02:28:43.680
Go online Airloom Soils of Texas dot
com. They can deliver for you.

2033
02:28:43.760 --> 02:28:46.680
They can bring you know, a
load up, put it in your driveway

2034
02:28:46.680 --> 02:28:50.680
if you just want soil dumped there. They have a qbcard calculator, and

2035
02:28:50.719 --> 02:28:54.440
the nice thing about a qubcard calculator
is you know, maybe you want to

2036
02:28:54.440 --> 02:28:58.680
build a flowerbed and you don't know
how many qbyard? What's at I know

2037
02:28:58.680 --> 02:29:01.280
a qbcard is three about by three, But how much soil do I need?

2038
02:29:01.280 --> 02:29:05.159
How many qubcards do I need?
The calculator will tell you that.

2039
02:29:05.559 --> 02:29:07.680
You tell, I mean, how
deep it is, how wide it is,

2040
02:29:07.719 --> 02:29:09.760
how long it is? How many
wheelbarrows is in a qubcard? How

2041
02:29:09.760 --> 02:29:13.360
many five gallon buckets for crying out
loud as in a Qubcard's all on their

2042
02:29:13.399 --> 02:29:18.879
calculator. Heirloom Soils dot Com.
You'll be amazed at the variety of products.

2043
02:29:20.319 --> 02:29:24.760
And I've experienced many of them firsthand
myself. They are super super quality

2044
02:29:24.799 --> 02:29:28.959
products. You won't go wrong with
an heirloom soil. Now we're gonna head

2045
02:29:28.000 --> 02:29:33.040
all the way out to San Antonio
and talk to Cleveland. How are you

2046
02:29:33.079 --> 02:29:41.200
doing, Cleveland? I'm well,
are you really in San Antonio? Well,

2047
02:29:41.280 --> 02:29:43.200
not right now, but I'm living
in San Antonio, Okay, right

2048
02:29:43.239 --> 02:29:50.479
down the Louisana all right east and
west. How can we help today?

2049
02:29:50.479 --> 02:29:54.440
Well? I thought, how big
funks all all over the country. And

2050
02:29:54.559 --> 02:30:00.360
I was in Indiana and I saw
grass that were very pretty called Kentucky blue

2051
02:30:00.200 --> 02:30:03.319
Yes, sir, So like I
want to beg grass and survive, and

2052
02:30:03.399 --> 02:30:09.040
so I use the Google machine and
to say there's something called Yes, sir,

2053
02:30:09.120 --> 02:30:15.680
you know anything about that? Yes, as far as you know,

2054
02:30:15.799 --> 02:30:20.399
San Antonio, Houston, Louisiana.
No Kentucky blue grass, that's for sure.

2055
02:30:20.639 --> 02:30:22.479
If you got all the way up
into Dallas and even a little further

2056
02:30:22.639 --> 02:30:28.120
north, you could get by with
a blend that has fescue Kentucky bluegrass kind

2057
02:30:28.120 --> 02:30:33.799
of mixed in it, especially if
you had a really shady yard, because

2058
02:30:33.840 --> 02:30:37.239
it takes shade even better than Saint
Augustine, and you you could use it

2059
02:30:37.280 --> 02:30:41.639
there. But it's going to struggle. It's on the opposite schedule of our

2060
02:30:41.680 --> 02:30:45.760
southern grasses, all right, like
all the use Saint Augustine. Saint Augustine

2061
02:30:45.920 --> 02:30:48.079
is all happy all summer and then
it just kind of sits through the winter

2062
02:30:48.120 --> 02:30:52.200
and then it's all happy all summer. These Kentucky blue grass and rescue those

2063
02:30:52.200 --> 02:30:56.360
are cool season grasses. So they're
going to do really well in the fall

2064
02:30:56.399 --> 02:30:58.719
when it cools off and in spring
when it cools off, but they barely

2065
02:30:58.760 --> 02:31:01.959
may get through summer, and they
struggle Cleveland. I'm gonna put you on

2066
02:31:03.040 --> 02:31:05.239
hold. I've got a hard break
I have to do. But when I

2067
02:31:05.239 --> 02:31:07.600
come back, I'm gonna finish answering
this about the Texas blue grass. Sorry

2068
02:31:07.600 --> 02:31:11.200
for having to do that, but
thanks for hanging on seven one three two

2069
02:31:11.239 --> 02:31:15.000
one two fifty eight seventy four.
If you'd like to give us a call

2070
02:31:15.040 --> 02:31:26.200
and be on right after Clevelands dot
com boy, you know the rule of

2071
02:31:26.920 --> 02:31:41.799
shot on his almost eating see dragon. Good morning, good Saturday morning,

2072
02:31:43.239 --> 02:31:46.959
beautiful day, beautiful day for gardening, beautiful day for talking about gardening as

2073
02:31:48.000 --> 02:31:52.159
well. Hey, let's go back
to talk to Cleveland in San Antonio,

2074
02:31:52.239 --> 02:31:54.959
but actually Louisiana Cleveland. We were
talking about blue grass, and you would

2075
02:31:54.959 --> 02:32:01.280
ask about Texas blue grass. That's
actually a native Texas grass. Now it

2076
02:32:01.559 --> 02:32:03.680
is a type of bluegrass. And
so if you were to throw it out

2077
02:32:03.719 --> 02:32:07.639
here in Houston, Texas or San
Antonio, Texas and in the full brun

2078
02:32:07.760 --> 02:32:11.600
of the sun and say good luck, it's probably not gonna do real well

2079
02:32:11.680 --> 02:32:15.680
for you. But it has been
used, and they've they've tried using it

2080
02:32:15.760 --> 02:32:18.280
and breeding. The Texas A and
M turf breeding program up in Dallas has

2081
02:32:18.319 --> 02:32:22.319
messed with it a little bit.
We still haven't come up with one that

2082
02:32:22.559 --> 02:32:26.879
is just you know, one percent
dependable, but in the right spot,

2083
02:32:26.159 --> 02:32:30.600
you know, a real bright shade, especially as you get a little further

2084
02:32:30.719 --> 02:32:33.000
north. But you might be able
to get it to do. Okay,

2085
02:32:33.479 --> 02:32:35.920
you're not gonna, to my knowledge, you're not going to find it for

2086
02:32:37.079 --> 02:32:43.319
sale as sad anywhere. So I'm
so good. Thank you very much for

2087
02:32:43.399 --> 02:32:45.520
your help. All right, well, hey, thanks for calling, and

2088
02:32:46.159 --> 02:32:50.280
you take care out there on the
roadways. Thank you, Yes, sir,

2089
02:32:50.600 --> 02:32:56.399
Bye bye. Let's go out to
Katie now and we're gonna talk to

2090
02:32:56.440 --> 02:33:01.040
Andre. Hello, Andre, good
morning. Take them a call. Yes,

2091
02:33:01.120 --> 02:33:05.239
sir, how can we help Well, hopefully this is a simple one

2092
02:33:05.319 --> 02:33:09.079
for y'all. Um. So we've
been in our home for going on four

2093
02:33:09.159 --> 02:33:15.799
years. They have some beautiful knockout
roads pus just in the front footen plampet,

2094
02:33:16.040 --> 02:33:18.399
they have race plampet. They've been
doing great. They've gone through the

2095
02:33:18.479 --> 02:33:22.319
freezes, uh, trimming them back. They come back and just full force

2096
02:33:22.399 --> 02:33:28.440
and absolutely stunning for you know,
turn part of the year. Recently though,

2097
02:33:28.920 --> 02:33:33.200
I just fertilized because I was overdue
with that and didn't have what I

2098
02:33:33.399 --> 02:33:39.680
was using So I just picked up
some miracle grow the rose foot and treating

2099
02:33:39.760 --> 02:33:46.000
with that, and all of them
look good except for this one that is

2100
02:33:46.440 --> 02:33:52.319
browning up bad. The leader brown
and looks almost like it's dying. Well,

2101
02:33:52.399 --> 02:33:58.719
I'm sorry, go ahead. Well, I've seen some problems on roses

2102
02:33:58.760 --> 02:34:01.680
in general, but since knockouts are
everywhere, we certainly notice it on knockout.

2103
02:34:01.680 --> 02:34:05.959
I don't think it's a knockout problem
so much, but there's some scorching

2104
02:34:07.040 --> 02:34:09.680
of the older leaves, and there
are different things that can cause that.

2105
02:34:09.799 --> 02:34:13.239
Certainly, dry soil can cause that. Overwatering and killing roots by not giving

2106
02:34:13.280 --> 02:34:18.120
them oxygen can cause similar kinds of
problems in time, burning them with fertilizer

2107
02:34:18.280 --> 02:34:22.239
excessive salt based fertilizers, which I
doubt at all that's what you did,

2108
02:34:22.319 --> 02:34:26.280
but that that can cause a problem
in terms of tip and margin burn.

2109
02:34:28.159 --> 02:34:33.840
There's sometimes diseases involved the older leaves
turning yellow from like black spot on the

2110
02:34:33.000 --> 02:34:39.600
leaves, but I think it's more
of a heat and a moisture related problem

2111
02:34:39.719 --> 02:34:43.040
that you're seeing that in most cases, that's what I've noticed on the knockouts.

2112
02:34:43.200 --> 02:34:48.120
Okay, yeah, it's it's kind
of a strange thing. You know,

2113
02:34:48.280 --> 02:34:52.719
just try to get that sole moisture
moderate. And roses are not prima

2114
02:34:52.760 --> 02:34:58.200
donna plants really, but something like
a knockout. You shouldn't have to worry

2115
02:34:58.239 --> 02:35:01.799
a lot about getting the water just
right. But one hundred degrees for days

2116
02:35:01.840 --> 02:35:05.559
and days on end. I mean
that's stressful to any plant. And and

2117
02:35:05.719 --> 02:35:11.040
you know the all the biological processes
in the plant, the respiration and the

2118
02:35:11.479 --> 02:35:16.079
photosynthesis and all the things that plants
do to stay alive. As a temperature

2119
02:35:16.120 --> 02:35:18.559
goes up, they hit a place
where some of those things start to shut

2120
02:35:18.680 --> 02:35:24.319
down, and so things can get
kind of complicated. So that that may

2121
02:35:24.399 --> 02:35:28.520
be part of what we're dealing with. Okay, would it be just God

2122
02:35:28.600 --> 02:35:31.639
be there just one and knock the
other four? That makes sense? Well,

2123
02:35:33.559 --> 02:35:37.680
it could. Is this a sprinkler
system or a drip system that they're

2124
02:35:37.719 --> 02:35:48.719
on sprinkler? Okay? Yeah,
I um ah boy. If something is

2125
02:35:48.799 --> 02:35:52.639
blocking a sprinkler, you can have
an area, even a section of a

2126
02:35:52.719 --> 02:35:58.040
bush that just doesn't get water.
Uh. You know, when I've noticed,

2127
02:35:58.159 --> 02:36:00.239
you know, I'll turn the sprinkler
on like the other up at a

2128
02:36:00.280 --> 02:36:03.399
sprinkler on my yard, and I
don't know something had kind of blocked a

2129
02:36:03.479 --> 02:36:07.120
little part of it, and so
there was this whole slice of the pie

2130
02:36:07.239 --> 02:36:09.280
going out from the sprinkler that wasn't
getting watered, you know what I'm saying.

2131
02:36:09.639 --> 02:36:13.239
And that can happen in the sprinklers
in our bed. So you maybe

2132
02:36:13.239 --> 02:36:16.319
want to turn the sprinkles on and
look at where the water's going and just

2133
02:36:16.479 --> 02:36:18.799
make sure that it is actually getting
water in that spot. That would be

2134
02:36:18.920 --> 02:36:28.200
a possibility. Plants all can be
somewhat different. Now, all your knockouts

2135
02:36:28.319 --> 02:36:31.639
or clones of each other, so
genetically they're the same. But if the

2136
02:36:31.799 --> 02:36:35.799
roots system had any kind of issues
on this one plant, then it could

2137
02:36:35.840 --> 02:36:39.719
look different than the plants next to
it. So that could be another thing

2138
02:36:39.760 --> 02:36:45.040
going on, something underground related to
that. But at this point, Andrea,

2139
02:36:45.120 --> 02:36:48.360
I'm you know, I'm starting to
play Colombo and dream up, well,

2140
02:36:48.360 --> 02:36:50.159
it could be this. It could
be that. It could be this

2141
02:36:50.239 --> 02:36:52.959
because I can't be there to see
it. But check out the sprinkler,

2142
02:36:54.079 --> 02:36:56.040
making sure the things I've been talking
about, making sure they're happening. And

2143
02:36:56.159 --> 02:37:00.879
if all is well, it's good, even coverage, everything is getting watered

2144
02:37:00.959 --> 02:37:05.040
the same, then I'm not sure
why that is happening to that bush.

2145
02:37:05.159 --> 02:37:07.319
Maybe you would want to send us
some photos. Let me take a look

2146
02:37:07.360 --> 02:37:11.600
at them. Just make sure it's
not a disease or that I don't see

2147
02:37:11.719 --> 02:37:16.040
something else in the photo. A
picture of the whole rosebush, maybe a

2148
02:37:16.120 --> 02:37:18.639
picture of some of the leaves that
are showing the symptoms of what you're talking

2149
02:37:18.639 --> 02:37:22.600
about. Make sure they're in good
sharp focus. I'll be glad to take

2150
02:37:22.600 --> 02:37:26.360
another look at it just to see. But do let me know, especially

2151
02:37:26.399 --> 02:37:28.559
if you send me the photo and
you get out there and you turn the

2152
02:37:28.639 --> 02:37:31.959
water on and find out that that
blocking the sprinkler thing or whatnot is going

2153
02:37:33.040 --> 02:37:35.159
on, or maybe the sprinkler has
a plug in it. That happened to

2154
02:37:35.200 --> 02:37:39.280
my launch sprinkler two by the way, where there's something kind of gets in

2155
02:37:39.360 --> 02:37:43.840
the way, like a chip of
lime or you know whatnot, breaks loose

2156
02:37:43.920 --> 02:37:48.319
from the hose and goes in there
and plugs it. Anything like that.

2157
02:37:48.760 --> 02:37:50.479
Just check that out first. But
if you want me to take a look,

2158
02:37:50.799 --> 02:37:54.000
hang on, I'll have Josh pick
you up and get you the information

2159
02:37:54.159 --> 02:38:01.120
you need to send me the photo
to take it from there. Thank you

2160
02:38:01.239 --> 02:38:05.840
very much for that call. I
appreciate that. Well. We are too

2161
02:38:05.920 --> 02:38:09.600
far along for another call, so
we're about to finish up our day here.

2162
02:38:09.879 --> 02:38:11.440
You've been listening to Gardenline, and
hey, I've had a good time.

2163
02:38:11.479 --> 02:38:15.159
I hope you have too. We're
here to answer your gardening questions.

2164
02:38:15.159 --> 02:38:18.559
We're gonna be back in again tomorrow. Be here from six am to ten

2165
02:38:18.840 --> 02:38:22.719
am. If you didn't have the
guts to go knock on the neighbor door

2166
02:38:22.840 --> 02:38:28.200
this morning to wake them up,
maybe now they're awake you can go over

2167
02:38:28.319 --> 02:38:30.479
and tell them, hey, have
you heard about this thing called Gardenline,

2168
02:38:30.559 --> 02:38:33.399
Especially if they've got one of those
yards where they don't take care of it,

2169
02:38:33.959 --> 02:38:35.440
or you hear me talking about things
like how to water, how to

2170
02:38:35.520 --> 02:38:39.879
mow whatever, and they're not doing
that. You don't have to be ugly

2171
02:38:39.920 --> 02:38:41.479
about it, but you could just
say I got a great show to listen

2172
02:38:41.520 --> 02:38:46.319
to, and who knows, maybe
they'll do what maybe you can accomplish,

2173
02:38:46.360 --> 02:38:52.680
and I can help with what the
neighborhood association can get done themselves. I

2174
02:38:52.840 --> 02:38:58.079
joke about neighborhood associations, but I'll
tell you I think my neighborhood association has

2175
02:38:58.159 --> 02:39:01.520
a stack up envelopes with my rest
on them, just so they can grab

2176
02:39:01.639 --> 02:39:05.399
the next one for the next crazy
thing that I pulled off in the yard.

2177
02:39:05.520 --> 02:39:09.120
Like, yeah, it is not
okay with us for you to you

2178
02:39:09.280 --> 02:39:13.799
to do that in the yard here
in this place around here. Oh,

2179
02:39:13.079 --> 02:39:16.680
gardening is fine. You know.
We have rules of gardening, like you

2180
02:39:16.799 --> 02:39:20.760
have to have colors from opposite sides
of the color palette or from the three

2181
02:39:20.840 --> 02:39:24.600
corners like tertiary colors three like a
triangle across the color palette. We have

2182
02:39:24.799 --> 02:39:28.319
rules about you know, how you
plant this or where you plant that,

2183
02:39:28.559 --> 02:39:33.040
or you design the beds this way. That's all fine. I mean,

2184
02:39:33.079 --> 02:39:37.120
if you want to follow those,
they're based on good reasons because it's esthetically

2185
02:39:37.239 --> 02:39:41.200
pleasing, but it's your yard.
If you and the neighborhood association can get

2186
02:39:41.280 --> 02:39:46.639
along on it, then go for
it and do that. Is there a

2187
02:39:46.760 --> 02:39:50.239
reason we don't have vegetables and flower
beds? Nope, no reason at all,

2188
02:39:50.479 --> 02:39:54.200
just we don't do that. But
think of all the ornamentals we have,

2189
02:39:54.559 --> 02:40:00.440
the trailing herbs like oregano for example, or an upright rosemary areas a

2190
02:40:00.479 --> 02:40:05.360
shrub or a multicolored Swiss chart for
a beautiful plant, or the herb calls

2191
02:40:05.440 --> 02:40:11.200
solid Burnett. It makes a little
mound of leaves that are cucumber flavored leaves.

2192
02:40:11.520 --> 02:40:13.520
It's an herb. Why can't it
be used where you would have used

2193
02:40:13.879 --> 02:40:18.559
lariaty or something else. Hey,
just some ideas. Have fun. Talk

2194
02:40:18.559 --> 02:40:18.159
to you tomorrow.