WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.360 Katie r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:11.279 advertised on this program. Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's 3 00:00:11.320 --> 00:00:35.320 show Crazy Guys Trim. Just watch him as got us so many get dasyasked, 4 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:43.039 we're not a salad credit. Well, good morning on a good Saturday. 5 00:00:43.159 --> 00:00:47.079 We're looking forward to talking gardening today with you. We're glad you're listening. 6 00:00:47.479 --> 00:00:49.920 Thanks for tuning in. By the way, if you got some gardening 7 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:53.079 questions and would like to give us a call, our phone number. My 8 00:00:53.119 --> 00:00:58.600 phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one 9 00:00:58.640 --> 00:01:03.039 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. What do you want to talk 10 00:01:03.039 --> 00:01:04.959 about? I'm going to talk a little bit about house plants this morning. 11 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:07.599 I'm going to talk a little bit about lawns. Again, believe it or 12 00:01:07.640 --> 00:01:11.359 not, it's still a season to say a few things about lawns. Of 13 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:15.879 course, with the holidays upon us, a lot of people's brains are heading 14 00:01:15.879 --> 00:01:19.120 off in that direction, and that's certainly understandable. I'll talk a little bit 15 00:01:19.159 --> 00:01:25.040 about some Christmas gifting that might be on folks in your list. If you're 16 00:01:25.079 --> 00:01:30.239 getting gifts for any holiday huh hanikah, any kind of holiday that you would 17 00:01:30.280 --> 00:01:34.079 want to be giving gifts for. Horticulture. Gardening has a lot of great, 18 00:01:34.480 --> 00:01:38.239 great ideas and I'll talk about that a little bit more as we as 19 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:44.239 we get on into the show today. I want to just start off by 20 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.040 discussing the the lawns that are out there outside the door that we have been 21 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.560 I don't know, probably ignoring a little bit in these last few weeks. 22 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:57.719 It is getting a little bit late to do. You a lot of major 23 00:01:57.760 --> 00:02:00.640 stuff to the lawns. But you know, if you haven't done your fertilizing, 24 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:02.640 it's always a good time to do that. If you haven't. If 25 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:06.439 you've got leaves fall on the on top of the lawn, gohead and get 26 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:07.520 those raked up. You know, not to get done the next day, 27 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:10.960 of course, but to leave them there for several weeks is not good. 28 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.840 And here's why. The leaves block sunlight. And you know we most the 29 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:21.360 soil so we don't come up right block the sun from reaching the foliage of 30 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:25.800 a germinating weed and you kill the weed well your lawn on mild days like 31 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:30.919 we've been having and we will continue to have in spells through the winter. 32 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:35.919 Your lawn is taking in sunlight, making carbohydrates and getting stronger and stronger, 33 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:39.680 are maintaining its strength, at least going into the winter and then coming out 34 00:02:39.680 --> 00:02:43.439 of the winter. So get the leaves off, get them raked off, 35 00:02:43.919 --> 00:02:46.680 do not throw them away. They are valuable three fourths or more of the 36 00:02:46.759 --> 00:02:51.840 nutrients that tree took up during the year or in those leaves, lots of 37 00:02:51.879 --> 00:02:54.319 carbon in the wood, the trunk, the branches, those kinds of things. 38 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.680 But when you get out to the leaves, we're talking about a lot 39 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:01.719 of the things we call fertilizer and phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, all that 40 00:03:01.800 --> 00:03:06.120 kind of stuff, and micro nutrients. They're all there. So chop them 41 00:03:06.159 --> 00:03:08.439 up with your lawn, mowrp, use them as malts, make compost out 42 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:12.639 of them, whatever you want to do. Some people will even mult them 43 00:03:12.680 --> 00:03:15.159 right back into the lawn. You can do that if you want to do 44 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:17.680 that. I wouldn't do a ton of it, a lot, but you 45 00:03:17.719 --> 00:03:22.080 certainly can't. I've done it before, but they're just too valuable. I 46 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:24.639 generally don't MultiMate of the yard. I save them, make molts, make 47 00:03:24.680 --> 00:03:30.360 composts and other things. That is a free organic fertilizer for your lown. 48 00:03:30.400 --> 00:03:35.039 It really is. I mean, think about what fertilizes the forest. How 49 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:38.560 does the forest grow without anybody running through their fertilizing well, aside from a 50 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:43.199 little parrot poop here and there, we've got tree leaves on the ground that 51 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:46.479 is recycling those nutrients and sending them back through. Now, we in our 52 00:03:46.919 --> 00:03:53.479 gardening will add fertilizer because we want more than just mediocre survival. We want 53 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:58.039 we want them to thrive at the top level in our lawns. But when 54 00:03:58.080 --> 00:04:01.840 you take organic matter out of your landscape, whether it's grass clippings or tree 55 00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:08.000 leaves, you are renting fertilizer the words you're buying it. You're growing grass, 56 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.360 blades and tree leaves and other things with it, and then you're chopping 57 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:14.000 those off, putting into a bag and paying somebody to holler it away. 58 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:17.759 We're going to head straight out to sugar Land right now and talk to Michael. 59 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.639 Hell Michael, good morning, Skip, Hope everything is fine in your 60 00:04:21.680 --> 00:04:26.040 world. Listen, I got a problem and I'm hoping you can answer some 61 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:29.959 questions. All right, I've got a tree. I'm not sure what type 62 00:04:29.959 --> 00:04:32.160 of tree is that? I've done a little bit search it not nothing to 63 00:04:32.240 --> 00:04:38.959 help me. This thing is roping acorns all over my driveway and I mean 64 00:04:39.360 --> 00:04:43.360 tons of them. It's never done that before. Is this some sign of 65 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:47.279 the tree is suffering of some sort of what can I do to I'm doing 66 00:04:47.279 --> 00:04:51.639 it? Yeah? No, it's just part of nature. That's called the 67 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:57.920 heavy mast year m ast. It means the oak trees are putting on a 68 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:00.680 heavy crop of acorns, and we've had a lot of of that this year, 69 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:03.279 not just here in Houston area but around Texas. Uh. And it's 70 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:08.319 part of it is the cycles. Some oak trees go through a one year 71 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:12.040 a two year cycle as to when they have their heavier crops of acorns. 72 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.439 But then also the genetics, the weather, a lot of other things factor 73 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:19.519 in and it just happens. And for people that have them all over the 74 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:23.480 place, it's an annoyance, but there's really nothing to do about it, 75 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:28.399 and it's not a sign that the tree is dying. Yeah. I had 76 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:31.839 looked up a little bit. It said that the weather could sometimes cause it, 77 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:34.240 and I was wanting to maybe the heat the way we went through it, 78 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:38.439 but I mean there, Yeah, they're just so they may fall on 79 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:44.000 the concrete that they stain. Yes, I guess it's something I go through, 80 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:47.279 all right, man, Yeah, that that happens. There's a lot 81 00:05:47.319 --> 00:05:55.040 of tannins in acrons. Tannins are well, you hear about people tanning like 82 00:05:55.199 --> 00:05:59.839 a cattle hide or something like that. Those tannins are it's a it's a 83 00:06:00.439 --> 00:06:01.920 thing. If you ever picked a pecan up and it just still had the 84 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.879 green chuck on it and got it on your hands, you have brown stains 85 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:11.560 all over your hands from that pecan truck the green they're leaving wine stains, 86 00:06:12.120 --> 00:06:14.399 you know when you keep on them all all over this, all over the 87 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.279 concrete are Yeah, somebody, it'll kind of go away. But you could 88 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:19.759 also, you know, you could put some something on there if you wanted 89 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:23.319 to later. But let's get through all of this and get it all out 90 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:27.639 of the way because there's probably fe more to still drop. Thanks for your 91 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:29.920 advice, man, you have a great weekend, all right, So thank 92 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:31.759 you. I appreciate your call very much. Hey, if you're doing any 93 00:06:31.839 --> 00:06:38.160 fall planting, any fall planting, I'm talking about perennial herbs, flowers, 94 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:43.199 vegetables. Yeah, it's still time to plant vegetable garden trees and shrubs and 95 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:46.639 ornamental grass, all of that you need to get a hold of. Some 96 00:06:46.759 --> 00:06:48.720 has to grow. That's a six twelve six has to grow. It's got 97 00:06:48.800 --> 00:06:54.000 seaweed extract, it's got Medina soil activator in it, it's got humic acid 98 00:06:54.079 --> 00:06:57.959 in it. And plus it has a six percent nititigen, twelve percent phosphorus, 99 00:06:58.079 --> 00:07:00.680 six percent potassium. And water your plants in with that. Mix it 100 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:03.319 up according to the label. Put it in a water and can when you 101 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:06.040 plant, water and in with the has to grow, and it will help 102 00:07:06.079 --> 00:07:09.079 them get off to a good start. And don't just do it once. 103 00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:11.480 Do it again a week later, and again a week after that, three 104 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:15.319 times. Apply that in a good soaking water and get those roots going and 105 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:20.120 establishing, and you just end up with a better plant, not just in 106 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:23.959 the long run, but even in the short run. It establishes better, 107 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:28.319 it takes off better. And that's our whole reason for taking advantage of this 108 00:07:28.439 --> 00:07:31.600 great false season for planting, is to get things established and has to grow 109 00:07:31.639 --> 00:07:38.800 by Medina. We'll do it. We'll do exactly that I was talking earlier 110 00:07:38.959 --> 00:07:42.639 about. You know the importance of taking care of the lawns getting the leaves 111 00:07:42.680 --> 00:07:45.399 off and whatnot. And I'm going to come back and talk a little bit 112 00:07:45.439 --> 00:07:48.079 more about lawns and a little bit. I will give you a phone number 113 00:07:48.079 --> 00:07:50.079 here if you would like to give us a call. We're gonna take a 114 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:55.560 little quick break seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. When 115 00:07:55.639 --> 00:07:59.160 I come back, Rick, you will be the first up. Welcome back 116 00:07:59.199 --> 00:08:01.639 to Guarden Line. Glad you're listening this morning. We're here to talk about 117 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:05.839 gardening the things that are of interest to you. Now. The holiday season 118 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:09.240 is upon us, and I know that I talk about ACE all the time 119 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:13.279 because ACE is a place to get everything you need for your lawn. If 120 00:08:13.319 --> 00:08:16.279 you need fertilizer, if you need pesticide, fungicide, herbicides, tools, 121 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:20.480 water hoses, outdoor bling, maybe a string of lights for that backpadio. 122 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:24.519 They've got it all out there. That's Ace. But did you know ACE 123 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:28.319 is also the place for Christmas lighting. That's right. They've got the indoor 124 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:33.240 light sets, the outdoor light sets, different colors, sizes, and shapes. 125 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:35.600 If you can imagine it, they've got it at ACE. But they 126 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:39.240 also have something called custom lights. By the foot you need to go into 127 00:08:39.240 --> 00:08:43.159 an Ace Hardware and ask them to show you the deal custom lights by the 128 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:46.279 foot. That is a really great idea. In other words, you got 129 00:08:46.320 --> 00:08:50.120 a little section on your mantle there, and you need a light about that 130 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:54.360 long and a certain type. Why not build it to fit. That's what 131 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.159 we're talking about. They'll tell you more about it. You'll see what I'm 132 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.720 talking about. Do you need some garlanded, a wreath for the front door? 133 00:09:01.159 --> 00:09:05.120 All of that and more as at Ace Hardware and Ace Hardware's are all 134 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:09.120 over the place. Forty now in the greater Houston area. Go to Ace 135 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:13.679 Hardware dot com, look at their store locator and find the one closest to 136 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:16.240 you. It's as simple as that. We're gonna head out now to Huffman 137 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:20.879 and talk to Rick. Hello, Rick, Yes, sir, how you 138 00:09:20.960 --> 00:09:24.639 doing. I'm good, sir. What's up with Huffman? Uh? The 139 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.240 same old, same old. I was wondering about. I got some grass 140 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:31.399 birds. I was wondering if the business easy way to get rid of them, 141 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.600 or if there is a way to get rid of them. And we 142 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:37.480 are talking about grass birds, not some other kind of plant with thorny seeds, 143 00:09:37.240 --> 00:09:41.480 right now, grass bird? Okay, all right? They germinate when 144 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:45.759 the weather warms up a little bit in the in the early early spring. 145 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:48.919 So when we get to about mid February, you're gonna want to have a 146 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:56.519 pre emergent herbicide down on the surface of the soil and it and water it 147 00:09:56.639 --> 00:10:03.360 in and then when the weeds went the graspur seeds try to germinate that herbicides 148 00:10:03.360 --> 00:10:07.279 there and it doesn't let them establish and grow into plants. It kills them. 149 00:10:07.679 --> 00:10:11.120 And so but you got to get Germany. That's why we say mid 150 00:10:11.240 --> 00:10:16.159 February. But if you go online to my website is gardening with skip dot 151 00:10:16.279 --> 00:10:20.600 Com, I've got a lawn pest, disease and weed management schedule and tells 152 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:24.559 you exactly when to put it on and it even gives you a list of 153 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.879 products. Alrighty sir. And one more quick question. Hey, I got 154 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:31.240 a dead pine tree. What's the Hell's the longest time I could wait for? 155 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.440 Get got to get a job down. Well, it's you know, 156 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:37.039 for a couple of months probably. Yeah, the sooner the better. The 157 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:41.559 bark starts popping off of these things pretty quick, and nobody wants to go 158 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:45.399 climb them. If this is one they can just drop if they got room 159 00:10:45.519 --> 00:10:48.200 to drop it, that's one thing. But if they're gonna have to climb 160 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:50.039 it and take it down from the top, yeah, they're gonna have to 161 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:52.720 climb and take it down from the top. I would, I would, 162 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:56.799 I would call someone pretty quick. You probably want to give Mark Martin Spoon 163 00:10:56.879 --> 00:11:03.080 more Martin Spoon, Yeah, affordable Tree. Give him a call because, 164 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.759 uh, that is that is not something you want to mess with. Okay, 165 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:11.559 alrighty, I sure appreciate jimpul sir, Thank you, you bet, 166 00:11:11.639 --> 00:11:13.440 thank you. Do you need a number for that, by the way, 167 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:16.600 yeah, yeah, yeah, just just just in case our guy's name man, 168 00:11:16.919 --> 00:11:18.600 just a number, Yeah, you give me a number, all right. 169 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:24.480 It is seven one, three, six nine, twenty six, twenty 170 00:11:24.559 --> 00:11:31.279 six, sixty three and sixty three. The website is a fftree service dot 171 00:11:31.399 --> 00:11:33.519 com. Go ahead and give him a call soon. Uh, even if 172 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:37.080 you're not gonna have the work done right away, but make sure you get 173 00:11:37.200 --> 00:11:39.960 on the schedule. But tell him what you got and he'll he'll he'll he'll 174 00:11:39.960 --> 00:11:43.519 give you the straight on it. All right. Sure, I sure appreciate 175 00:11:43.600 --> 00:11:46.919 jimpo. All right, thank you, I appreciate that. Thank you for 176 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:52.759 that call. All right, I'm having trouble finding the buttons on my computer 177 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:56.039 here. Uh. If if you're out in the Kingwood area, you know 178 00:11:56.120 --> 00:12:01.200 you got Kingwood Garden Center and warren Southern Garden there, and there's always stuff 179 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:05.159 to see there. There's always stuff right now, I think one of the 180 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:07.360 coolest things. First of all, the gift shops are awesome, you know, 181 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:11.039 and this is the season for gifting, so you're gonna you're gonna do 182 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.960 well finding a nice gift. Even plants. I think plants. Houseplants are 183 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:20.679 one of the best gifts you can give because they brighten up the room instantly. 184 00:12:20.799 --> 00:12:24.600 They look good right away. If you want something with color, Warrens 185 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:28.000 has got their ethereums out there. They got the pink and kind of a 186 00:12:28.279 --> 00:12:33.480 reddish orange and red and different colors of the little spaths coming up. That's 187 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.600 that's it looks like a leaf, a colored leaf, but it's up at 188 00:12:37.639 --> 00:12:41.200 the top. It's the equivalent of the bloom structure. They're beautiful. Of 189 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:43.639 course, there's holiday cactus and points that is, and all those kinds of 190 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:48.120 things for holidays. You know, everybody's out looking at the Christmas trees and 191 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:50.559 everything else. But think about too when you're out there at Warrens, think 192 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:56.440 about the different color plants for the landscape, because this is still a good 193 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:01.840 time to create some color. Maybe families coming over for the holidays get you 194 00:13:01.960 --> 00:13:05.679 some color out there. Maybe some violas or pansies or a lissom or stock 195 00:13:05.960 --> 00:13:09.639 or there's just a lot of good options for the cool season, both at 196 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:15.440 Warren's and at Kingwood Garden Center out there in Kingwood. So don't don't miss 197 00:13:15.559 --> 00:13:20.200 out on that great, super great opportunity. You are listening to garden Line, 198 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:24.120 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to answer gardening questions. 199 00:13:24.360 --> 00:13:28.759 That's what it's about. Give us a call at seven one three two 200 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:35.480 one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven 201 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:41.039 four. I was it's been a while since I've been out to visit with 202 00:13:41.120 --> 00:13:46.159 Wes out at League City Feed. I need to get back down there. 203 00:13:46.440 --> 00:13:48.559 Last time I went. I just I always like going because it's that old 204 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:52.720 time feed store that I don't know. It's just you walk in and it 205 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:56.519 just has that that feel of a feed sour. It's been around a long 206 00:13:56.559 --> 00:14:00.919 time. This one's been around for forty years and it's started in an Ochre 207 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:03.559 patch down there in West and his sister Madison now run the place that their 208 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.440 dad started. It's on Highway through a few blocks south of ninety six. 209 00:14:07.679 --> 00:14:11.360 So do you need quality feeds, of course they got them. It's a 210 00:14:11.399 --> 00:14:15.559 feed store. Do you need fertilizers that I recommend on guarden line, Yes, 211 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.720 they got that. Pesticides it's exercise fundicides. They've got all of that 212 00:14:18.919 --> 00:14:24.159 kind of stuff. They always are making sure you are served well. They 213 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:26.639 carry the feed sacks out for you. It makes it easy. You know, 214 00:14:26.679 --> 00:14:31.159 they're open Monday through Saturday, nine to six Clothesland Sunday. But you 215 00:14:31.279 --> 00:14:33.879 get through with work one day and you just want to head by there. 216 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:37.200 They're still open. You can pick up everything that you're going to need. 217 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:41.519 They even have local honey out there, which also I think would make a 218 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:46.200 nice little gift for somebody. So check them out at League City Feed. 219 00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:50.120 Their phone number is two eight one three three two sixteen twelve. So all 220 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:54.399 of you folks out there in Webster and Lamark and Dickinson and clear Lake City, 221 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:58.840 League City, all of those areas, this is your hometown feed store. 222 00:14:58.000 --> 00:15:01.960 League City Feed. I like going in there. They have a dalmatian 223 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.399 and guess what his name is, Rorshak. So you stare at the dog 224 00:15:07.519 --> 00:15:13.159 and a psychiatrist ask you what you see. That's a great name for a 225 00:15:13.240 --> 00:15:18.399 dalmatian, Rorshak. I gotta go ahead and see Rorshaks when you're out there. 226 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.879 Well, I was talking about taking care of your lawn, to make 227 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:24.799 sure you get the leaves off of the lawn, anything that you need to 228 00:15:24.919 --> 00:15:30.559 do to get your lawn ready for the cool season. That includes things like 229 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:33.679 fertilizing. And you can go ahead and still do that. You know, 230 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:35.159 the sooner you do it the better. If you look at my schedule, 231 00:15:35.240 --> 00:15:39.600 I've got you doing it, you know, back in October. But does 232 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:41.240 that mean you can't do it now. No, No, you can still 233 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:46.080 do it now. Just get it done. You get the greatest benefit by 234 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:50.480 doing it earlier on. But you still get a benefit because, as I 235 00:15:50.559 --> 00:15:54.399 said about raking leaves off the lawn, the grass is still taking in some 236 00:15:54.559 --> 00:16:00.440 sunlight and therefore able to take up some nutrients and make carbohydrates and get stronger 237 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.639 and stronger and stronger. And that's what we're aiming for when we do this. 238 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:11.200 That is exactly what we're aiming for and you know the folks at Nelson's 239 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:15.639 Plant Food, Dean Nelson, they have got a really nice fertilizer for fall 240 00:16:15.799 --> 00:16:21.000 and it's called carbol Load carbo Load, and the reason for that is you 241 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:25.360 put it down, you get the right ratio of nutrients with fall fertilizers different 242 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:29.600 than spring and summer fertilizer. You get the fall ratio of nutrients. You 243 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.399 get it in the plant. The plant makes carbohydrates, it's more winter hardy 244 00:16:33.559 --> 00:16:37.000 and it comes out stronger in the spring. Carboload also has a pre emergent 245 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:41.279 herbicide in it, so if you get it down and watered in any weeds 246 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:44.840 that have not germinated that any seeds that are there, it's going to prevent 247 00:16:44.919 --> 00:16:48.360 those and carry on really in through the winter. Really well, it lasts 248 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:52.320 a little while and that's what you want. And carbo Load for every bag 249 00:16:52.639 --> 00:16:57.759 that they sell this fall, you're going to get a two dollars donation made 250 00:16:57.840 --> 00:17:02.399 to Randy Lemon's More Scholarship. That's what Dean and the folks that Nelson's are 251 00:17:02.440 --> 00:17:06.200 doing. And that is a wonderful cause. As if you knew Randy knew 252 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:08.160 how much he loved a and m and how proud he would be to know 253 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:14.440 that his memory lives on, his legacy lives on in that scholarship. So 254 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.720 two dollars per bag, So grab some have it on hand, use it, 255 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:19.839 go ahead and get it done. Don't delay when you put it down. 256 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:23.119 Watered in with half an inch of water. And the reason we do 257 00:17:23.279 --> 00:17:27.720 that is to dissolve the nutrients and get him in the soil because remember we're 258 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:30.720 not delaying here. We want to get him in today if we can, 259 00:17:32.039 --> 00:17:37.480 or tomorrow or as soon as possible. And secondly, you're moving the pre 260 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:41.799 emergent herbicide into the soil surface when you watered in with a half inch of 261 00:17:41.920 --> 00:17:45.559 water. Also, and that way it's set up there. When any weed 262 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.920 tries to come through, it shuts it down. It prevents the weed seed 263 00:17:49.000 --> 00:17:55.400 germination. That's what we're going for with the quality product from Nelson Plant Food. 264 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:59.720 We are going to talk about a number of things. I was mentioning 265 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:06.079 how plants earlier, and I just I would like you to think about you. 266 00:18:06.240 --> 00:18:10.799 What is your indoor room areas? What do they look like? Just 267 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:14.839 kind of picture your living room, picture a kitchen area or a bathroom area. 268 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:17.640 By the way, bathrooms one of the best place to put house plants. 269 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:21.200 It though often you have a nice little light coming through a window. 270 00:18:21.559 --> 00:18:26.079 You have an area that tends to get steamy or high humidity, you know, 271 00:18:26.319 --> 00:18:30.160 just from bathing bathing and showers and things, and it's really a good 272 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.480 spot if you got enough light, it's a great spot for plants. But 273 00:18:33.599 --> 00:18:36.920 think about those areas. What do you need? We put some hangers in 274 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:41.799 above a bathroom window. We have all those big kind of glass block type 275 00:18:41.880 --> 00:18:47.839 windows, and that kind of window provides a diffusion of the light and it's 276 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:49.720 really good for plants. By the way, we put some hangers in, 277 00:18:49.880 --> 00:18:52.519 put some hanging baskets in. I just put some in the other day. 278 00:18:52.519 --> 00:18:56.720 I say hanging baskets are actually containers a little macro may hangers. But it's 279 00:18:56.759 --> 00:19:00.880 really beautiful in there. And what about other rooms? Do you need a 280 00:19:02.119 --> 00:19:04.599 very upright like a Norfolk column pine? Those are always nice to decorate during 281 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:08.559 the holidays. Do you need a fiddly fig or some other plant? There's 282 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:12.759 a lot of good houseplants. Where in your house would you benefit from one 283 00:19:12.799 --> 00:19:17.759 of those? And if you're going to give a gift plant, consider one 284 00:19:17.920 --> 00:19:23.400 called the z z plant like zebra twice zz zz plant is tolerant of a 285 00:19:23.519 --> 00:19:26.960 variety of lights. You let it dry out really good between waterings and it 286 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:30.440 just does well. So if you forget to water and it's not the end 287 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:33.319 of the world. It's a good, tough plant. It's a great gift 288 00:19:33.359 --> 00:19:36.599 plant. And chances are people you know don't already have one. It's not 289 00:19:36.759 --> 00:19:41.440 like Apotheus ivy that everybody owns, but that would be another good idea for 290 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:45.960 a gift plant that you might want to consider. Well, we're hitting the 291 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.640 end of a segment here. We're going to go to Nikky for the news 292 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:52.000 that if you'd like to give us a call, Josh, we'll get you 293 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:56.680 on the board seven to one three two one two five eight seven four seven 294 00:19:56.720 --> 00:20:02.000 one three two one two K t R H will be right back. Welcome 295 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:04.599 back to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and you are 296 00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:10.160 listening to a show that's about what you want to talk about regarding gardening. 297 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:14.440 You can give us a call at seven one three two one two five eight 298 00:20:14.680 --> 00:20:21.960 seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I want 299 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.200 to congratulate the folks that plants for All Seasons. They are celebrating their fiftieth 300 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:30.000 anniversary. I don't know if you've been by there recently, but you need 301 00:20:30.079 --> 00:20:36.400 to go check it out. That fifty years right there where Luetta comes into 302 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:40.960 Highway two forty nine Tomball Parkway, just north of Luetta, as you're going 303 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:44.039 up north toward Tomball, it would be on the right hand side. And 304 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:47.519 they've been there a long time. You know. It started selling Christmas trees 305 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:53.079 just basically young men selling Christmas trees had a family on the way and looking 306 00:20:53.119 --> 00:20:57.160 to get going on supply or providing for his family. That was back in 307 00:20:57.240 --> 00:21:02.960 nineteen seventy three. Now at this point in time, now we're looking at 308 00:21:02.960 --> 00:21:04.240 a place that's got everything you need. I mean, you've been in there, 309 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:07.640 you know it. I think one of the best things about Plants for 310 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:10.599 All Seasons is that when you go in there, you know you're going to 311 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:14.680 find quality plants in top shape that belong here, that grow well here, 312 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:18.559 and you're going to find a group of folks that know what they're talking about. 313 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:21.799 So when you go in with a question, maybe it's a bug or 314 00:21:21.880 --> 00:21:25.519 a plant you want identified, or a problem you want to they're gonna be 315 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:26.559 able to help you with that, and they're gonna be able to point you 316 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:33.119 to the right product or the right plants to fit a particular spot in your 317 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:37.279 landscape or a particular need that you have. Check out the point sets too, 318 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:41.960 by the way, they're that unbelievably beautiful selection of some points sets. 319 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:47.079 There at Plants for All Seasons. It's just just north of Luetta Road again 320 00:21:47.559 --> 00:21:52.680 on Highway two forty nine. Check out their website Plants for All Seasons dot 321 00:21:52.920 --> 00:21:56.359 com. And when you're in there, say hey, happy fiftieth anniversary. 322 00:21:56.440 --> 00:22:03.039 That's quite an accomplishment. When it got started was basically a goat trail through 323 00:22:03.079 --> 00:22:06.559 the woods up there. I mean, it was not much to it. 324 00:22:06.599 --> 00:22:08.640 When you look at the old pictures, I think that's pretty cool. They've 325 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:11.720 grown with the community, and the community knows and the community respects them, 326 00:22:12.079 --> 00:22:17.279 and that's why people love to go to Plants for All Seasons. I've been 327 00:22:17.519 --> 00:22:21.000 talking about things to do in the garden or in the lawn. I want 328 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:23.599 to talk a little bit about the garden too. This is an important time 329 00:22:23.960 --> 00:22:29.039 in your flower beds and in your vegetable gardens, because now it's a good 330 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:33.480 time to be providing the nutrients that those plants need to make sure they stay 331 00:22:33.559 --> 00:22:38.319 strong and healthy as they go into the cool season. For example, broccoli, 332 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:42.519 cabbage, and cauliflower, lettuce and spinach takes nutrients to grow that foliage, 333 00:22:42.759 --> 00:22:48.640 and providing some fertilizer to give them a boost to get them going is 334 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:52.799 helpful. You don't need to dump a lot on there. Go gradually move 335 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:57.799 into it slowly, but providing a little gradual feeding over time helps maintain good 336 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:02.799 vigor and good health and production. Most of the things we're growing to eat 337 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:06.680 right now in the cool season garden, we're growing for the foliage. Now, 338 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:08.519 there are some that we grow for the flower buds, like broccoli and 339 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:14.960 cauliflower for example. There are other things we grow the for the fruit, 340 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:18.599 and in this case, like cool season peas, we grow for the fruit 341 00:23:18.720 --> 00:23:23.640 themselves. Anytimes it's a bean or a pea any year, I mean any 342 00:23:23.880 --> 00:23:29.079 month of the year. You want to be careful not to overdo the nitrogen 343 00:23:29.359 --> 00:23:33.240 because they make their own nitrogen in association with microbes on their roots, So 344 00:23:33.359 --> 00:23:36.960 when you push them with a lot of nitrogen, you get vining at the 345 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:41.359 expense of fruiting, and we grow cool season peas, sugar snap peas, 346 00:23:41.440 --> 00:23:44.680 now peas of those things we've grown for the fruit, for the pods, 347 00:23:45.119 --> 00:23:48.039 and so just go a little light on those for everything else. You just 348 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:52.720 want to push them along with regular applications of a good quality nitrogen. There's 349 00:23:52.720 --> 00:23:55.880 a lot of good products out there that can do that. One product that 350 00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:00.599 I think you'll find to be very effective is Microlife Microlife fertilizer. They've been 351 00:24:00.880 --> 00:24:03.240 you know, I've been using Microlife for a good while now on my lawns, 352 00:24:03.319 --> 00:24:07.920 my gardens and other things. But if you get you any of the 353 00:24:07.440 --> 00:24:11.079 quality Microlife products, it's gonna go well in your gardens. It is I 354 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:15.519 mean, you could even use the brown patch for lawns in your gardens. 355 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:17.640 To be honest, I mean, it's not a chemical in there to kill 356 00:24:17.680 --> 00:24:22.880 brown patch. It is a microbe rich fertilizer and organic fertilizer. To do 357 00:24:22.039 --> 00:24:26.119 that, you could use a green bag. You could use I probably if 358 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:29.759 it were me, I would use the blue bag. I like to say 359 00:24:29.839 --> 00:24:33.720 the Blue plus Blue. There's a Microlife Ultimate that is a blue bag. 360 00:24:33.799 --> 00:24:38.279 It's a dry granular fertilizer, organic fertilizer. And then with that is the 361 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:44.319 Microlife Ocean Harvest that's the Blue bottle that is a fish based food. Those 362 00:24:44.440 --> 00:24:48.759 two, whether it's a flower bed of a vegetable garden, an herb garden, 363 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.160 those two will provide a really good boost. The Blue plus Blue Microlife 364 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:57.359 Ultimate that's an eight four six and the Microlife Ocean Harvest, which is a 365 00:24:57.440 --> 00:25:00.680 fish based fertilizer. You can use it is a folier feed if you want. 366 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:07.279 But they work, They work very very well. Well you're listening to 367 00:25:07.400 --> 00:25:11.880 Gardenline. Our phone number is seven to one three two one two fifty eight 368 00:25:11.119 --> 00:25:15.359 seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Give Josh 369 00:25:15.400 --> 00:25:21.319 a call. Let's talk about the things that you are interested in today. 370 00:25:22.279 --> 00:25:25.000 I was talking about house plants while ago, and some some good ones. 371 00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:29.519 I mentioned the zz plant is a great gift plant, and theoreums are too. 372 00:25:29.960 --> 00:25:33.039 I find in theorems a little bit more of a challenge to keep going. 373 00:25:33.559 --> 00:25:37.839 Uh. But you know, we we purchase plants for decorating indoors all 374 00:25:37.880 --> 00:25:41.400 the time that we typically don't keep you around, although we could like a 375 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:45.119 point SETA for example, Christmas cactus I think is a great one because you 376 00:25:45.240 --> 00:25:49.000 do keep it year round. But even in theoreums, if you provide them 377 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:56.119 just the moderate care meaning good dependent so soul moisture without keeping them soggy wet 378 00:25:56.240 --> 00:26:00.720 and their container, give them adequate life. They don't need full sun for 379 00:26:00.839 --> 00:26:06.000 sure, but they do need adequate light, a very bright light location, 380 00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:07.880 and they're going to do really well for you. And I just think indoor 381 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:11.920 plants, in addition to being a good gift plant, they change your home. 382 00:26:11.279 --> 00:26:15.519 They change the environment in your home. We had doctor Charlie Hall on 383 00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:21.599 the other day, and doctor Hall does research into the effects of plants and 384 00:26:21.759 --> 00:26:26.400 people, the effects of nature and people and the change in everything from blood 385 00:26:26.440 --> 00:26:33.039 pressure to mental acuity to he just listed on and on down the line all 386 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:37.640 the things plants do for us physically, psychologically, mentally in general our sense 387 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:42.039 of well being and so on. Put those in your house. Put them 388 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:45.160 in your house. People talk about putting plants in your house to make oxygen. 389 00:26:45.599 --> 00:26:51.599 Well, yes, plants make oxygen, but you're not going to appreciably 390 00:26:51.839 --> 00:26:56.319 change the oxygen level in your house with a few plants. Still a good 391 00:26:56.319 --> 00:27:00.559 reason to plant plants, But mentally, the effect of being in nature, 392 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:06.960 of being able to see living plants, it really does affect a wide variety 393 00:27:06.960 --> 00:27:11.519 of things, including well being. So what about that corner. I have 394 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:14.799 a corner that's a little too dark. It's a window, but it's not 395 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:19.440 a very bright window. And so we bought one of those tall lamps that's 396 00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:23.359 a standing lamp, you know, that has kind of an elbow. It's 397 00:27:23.440 --> 00:27:26.880 kind of like a Gooseneck lamp, but a big giant one. And we 398 00:27:26.000 --> 00:27:30.559 put a light in it that's a plant light, a nice bright plant light 399 00:27:30.599 --> 00:27:34.160 bulb raised it up all the way. I've got a Norfolk olumn pine in 400 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:37.200 that corner and it shines on it. I have it on a timer, 401 00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:40.559 so it comes on and goes off and I never have to worry about turning 402 00:27:40.599 --> 00:27:44.400 it on. It's on through the day most of the day, and it 403 00:27:44.920 --> 00:27:48.720 supplements and it helps that plant do well. And that plant is thriving there. 404 00:27:48.359 --> 00:27:53.759 And that corner now, which was just a lifeless place, now suddenly 405 00:27:55.240 --> 00:27:56.880 has a living plant in it. And that's what I'm talking about. And 406 00:27:56.920 --> 00:28:00.240 I would encourage you to think about that, whether it buying for a gift 407 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:03.880 or buying just for your own home, because you're going to be having folks 408 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:08.799 over holiday of activities and things. Why not go ahead now and get some 409 00:28:08.920 --> 00:28:11.960 plant and beautify those areas. We're going to take a break. Our phone 410 00:28:12.039 --> 00:28:15.559 number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Will be 411 00:28:15.680 --> 00:28:21.480 right back. Welcome back to garden Line. Hey, we're glad you're listening 412 00:28:21.480 --> 00:28:23.799 today. We're going to talk about gardening. Whatever you're interested in. Give 413 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:29.279 us a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Listen. 414 00:28:29.400 --> 00:28:32.599 I've been telling you all fall that fall is the best time to plant 415 00:28:32.680 --> 00:28:37.359 woody ornamentals. That would be trees and shrubs and woody vines. Verdant Tree 416 00:28:37.440 --> 00:28:41.440 Farm v E R d A n T. Treefarm dot com. Verdant Treefarm 417 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:45.680 dot com. They've got trees. They have a wide variety of trees. 418 00:28:45.920 --> 00:28:48.319 Everything that you would want to plant here that's going to be a high quality 419 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:52.319 tree, even really large things, you know, like large hollies, shrubs 420 00:28:52.359 --> 00:28:56.319 and things. They've got that. You want a giant tree up to seven 421 00:28:56.400 --> 00:29:00.440 hundred gallons, they can do that for that instant pizaz. You can find 422 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:03.279 them on in West Houston out there on Barker Cypress. Then they're done in 423 00:29:03.359 --> 00:29:07.880 Paerland on Broadway Street, kind of close to Killin's Steakhouse and they're up in 424 00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:12.960 the Heights A ten and Yale area. They've got a verdant there as well. 425 00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:17.000 Now you go on the lot, you tag the tree you want, 426 00:29:17.119 --> 00:29:21.039 they bring it and they plant it correctly. And that is very important, 427 00:29:21.400 --> 00:29:26.400 very very important. Tempers that discount for military and first responders. And if 428 00:29:26.440 --> 00:29:30.200 they do the installation for you, they give you a one year warranty as 429 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:34.880 well. Again Verdant treefarm dot com check them out. Don't delay. The 430 00:29:36.000 --> 00:29:38.400 sooner you get a tree planted, the better off it's going to be when 431 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:41.559 next summer arrives, and the sooner you're going to be on your way. 432 00:29:42.680 --> 00:29:47.400 Let's just say to hanging a hammock out there and enjoying yourself. We're going 433 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:49.920 to go now out to sugar Land and talk to Larry. Hello, Larry, 434 00:29:52.079 --> 00:29:59.480 good morning morning. I've got several hibiscus plants in the pots and I'm 435 00:29:59.559 --> 00:30:04.200 wondering they're they're all very full. Should I be trimming those back right now? 436 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:11.440 Are these the tropical types of hibiscus or the perennial or the plate or 437 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:14.440 the flowers as big as a dinner plate in red, pink or white? 438 00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:19.640 Or are they multicolored and flowers. They're not dinner plate size, no, 439 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:26.440 but yeah, you're probably talking about a tropical biscus. Then you can cut 440 00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:30.240 them back. One thing about pruning is it stimulates growth. So if we 441 00:30:30.400 --> 00:30:33.240 have some warmer temperatures and you do some pruning, you're going to have them 442 00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:37.359 try to regrow. And they're not a hearty species, so we want to 443 00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:41.960 I probably would avoid pruning them unless you have to to get them into a 444 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:45.720 protected area. You know, some people have a little greenhouse they got to 445 00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:48.960 fit them into or something. You can prune for that. But otherwise I 446 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:55.039 would wait until spring and do the pruning at that time. Okay, okay, 447 00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:57.000 very good, Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Welcome, 448 00:30:57.160 --> 00:31:00.640 welcome to you. It's first time I've ever called. Well, thank you. 449 00:31:00.720 --> 00:31:03.920 I appreciate you calling. Larry. Don't don't be a stranger call us 450 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:07.920 back. Thanks for the call very much. If you are interested in a 451 00:31:07.039 --> 00:31:10.680 generator, and I know some of you are, you know I've if you've 452 00:31:10.680 --> 00:31:12.000 been sitting there going you know, we one of these days we need to 453 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.519 get a generator. You usually think that when the power goes out, you 454 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.880 know, our grid is not that reliable at times, especially when we get 455 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.839 into cold weather. We went through that already once before. It can be 456 00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.200 true in the heat or true with a storm. 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That's why I like to recommend 483 00:33:10.759 --> 00:33:15.000 that we're going to go now out to Dayton and talk to Steve. Hello, 484 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:22.839 Steve, hey, ship Hey, I got a question about growing squash, 485 00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:29.279 and more so winter squash rather than summer squash. I you know, 486 00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:35.440 the plants start off great and then the leaves just start to will it look 487 00:33:35.519 --> 00:33:38.440 like they are drying up. Okay, I get some fruit, not a 488 00:33:38.519 --> 00:33:42.599 lot of fruit, But then like right now, I mean, all my 489 00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:47.839 plants are potentially dad. There is some young growth coming off, but it's 490 00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:52.880 just not really making any bag. So I'm kind of curious what might be 491 00:33:52.039 --> 00:33:54.200 going on. Yeah, Well, when you get to the end of the 492 00:33:54.279 --> 00:33:58.759 season. Even though the name winter squash is in the name, it's not 493 00:33:58.880 --> 00:34:01.920 a winter plant for sure. It's just we call them winter squash because the 494 00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:07.160 fruit on those types store well, like a pumpkin. You can put it 495 00:34:07.200 --> 00:34:09.159 out there, and that's a type of winter squash. It stores a long 496 00:34:09.239 --> 00:34:15.159 time the summers. We eat when they're immature squash. But what you're describing 497 00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:19.440 on the leaves sounds to me like it could be powdery mildew, and there 498 00:34:19.480 --> 00:34:22.679 are some other leaf diseases that cause the leaves to just not look good and 499 00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:27.920 then they shrivel up and die. Sometimes you see a white, powdery growth 500 00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:31.840 on them. Sometimes you don't because it's other things. But that's just part 501 00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:37.079 of you know, the plant going through its season. Winter squash take a 502 00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:40.039 long time. Unlike zucchini and yellow squash. It may take you, you 503 00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:44.880 know, three months to get some fruit off of those things, or at 504 00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:51.440 least seventy days. And so that's also some older leaves that are having trouble. 505 00:34:51.760 --> 00:34:54.079 I would say a little bit of fertilizer for vigor to make sure you 506 00:34:54.199 --> 00:35:00.119 have new leaf growth coming. That's important because even if the old leaves are 507 00:35:00.199 --> 00:35:02.760 to look ragged, you've got some fresh leaves out there that are capturing sun 508 00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:08.000 to put all those carbohydrates into the fruit you're wanting to harvest. Yeah, 509 00:35:08.440 --> 00:35:14.679 I use the microlife. I mean that stuff does wonders. The summer squash 510 00:35:14.800 --> 00:35:19.519 grow great. I mean I have blossom in right, yeah occasionally, but 511 00:35:19.679 --> 00:35:22.599 I mean I get a good amount of fruit off right. But the winter 512 00:35:22.760 --> 00:35:25.559 squash, and actually they produce really quick. I mean I'm doing like a 513 00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:30.599 butter nut huh and an acorn. Yeah, and they put on fruit pretty 514 00:35:30.679 --> 00:35:35.199 quick. It's just the all of the fruit doesn't get large. I mean 515 00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:38.760 it gets various sizes, but the plant it just acts like it gives up. 516 00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:44.880 Okay, well that those are fast for the winter squashes, butternut and 517 00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:47.440 acorn. You know, Larry, I guess what I need or Steve, 518 00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:51.280 I'm sorry, what I need? To see is some photos of it. 519 00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:54.599 Now at this time of year, squash leaves should be looking horrible right now, 520 00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:59.199 just with where we are in the season. Definitely do Yeah, but 521 00:35:59.320 --> 00:36:00.599 if you're having the earlier on, if you can send me a photo, 522 00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:04.079 I can look at it and say, well, this is the disease or 523 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.400 this is what's happening. Uh, it's going to be something like that. 524 00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:10.440 You can use fungicides on the leaves to you know, help protect them, 525 00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:15.679 but that you know, that's about what I would have to say about it. 526 00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:22.239 Yeah, try various various bone eye products to spray on it. Yeah, 527 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:28.320 nothing seems to be very effective. And I also put mouth on it. 528 00:36:30.280 --> 00:36:34.199 I just said, yeah, well I've got to I've got to run 529 00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:38.159 for a break here. But when this happens, let me see some photos 530 00:36:38.239 --> 00:36:42.039 and let's see it early in the process, because that's when we can do 531 00:36:42.159 --> 00:36:45.159 the most to help protect those plants. Okay, okay, great show, 532 00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:49.000 all right, thank you sir, and and I do look forward to talking 533 00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.840 to you again and getting to the bottom of this. We are we are 534 00:36:52.000 --> 00:36:57.559 here breaking for the news at the top of the hour. Boy, that 535 00:36:57.679 --> 00:37:02.280 hour went fast. Hey, guess what at a clock Paul Fagala from b 536 00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:06.000 Supply, Texas B Supply is going to be in and we're going to be 537 00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:08.599 talking about bees. Now, if you've thought about being a bee keeper, 538 00:37:08.719 --> 00:37:14.559 if you're curious, if you just have questions about bees, we're talking about 539 00:37:14.760 --> 00:37:17.760 an encyclopedia of information on two legs coming into the studio. And so I 540 00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:21.880 hope you will give us a call. That's not next hour. That's the 541 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.079 eight o'clock, eight to nine o'clock hour. We're gonna have Paul. I 542 00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:29.679 believe he's bringing some folks with him here to talk about all kinds of things 543 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:34.840 related to bees that I think you will find very fascinating and interesting. So 544 00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:37.639 if you've got a call like that, that's for the eight to nine hour. 545 00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:39.599 In the meantime, we're going to get out of here and we'll be 546 00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:45.719 back for the seven o'clock hour seven one three, two, one two fifty 547 00:37:45.760 --> 00:37:49.199 eight seventy four. Give Josh a call. We'll get you on the boards. 548 00:37:51.880 --> 00:37:55.360 Katrh Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 549 00:37:55.400 --> 00:38:01.519 on this program. Welcome to Kate the r H Garden Line with Skip Ricter. 550 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:34.159 It's just watching as many things to see not a side. Well, 551 00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:37.159 welcome back to Garden Line. We're glad you're listening, and we've got a 552 00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:42.840 lot to talk about today. I been going over some of the different types 553 00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:45.880 of plants and areas and what we might need to be doing right now, 554 00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:51.800 giving some ideas perhaps for holiday decorating, holiday gift giving. Will continue to 555 00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:54.840 do a little bit about that. I just want to remind you that if 556 00:38:54.960 --> 00:39:00.400 you are in the Baytown area, the Mont Belleview area, your hometown feed 557 00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:05.880 store is Texas Feed Stop. Texas feed Stop is It's the kind of place 558 00:39:05.960 --> 00:39:08.000 you go in and they treat you like family when you walk in the door. 559 00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:13.360 That's just the kind of business that Brian and Hope Rhodes have built there, 560 00:39:13.800 --> 00:39:17.800 hiring teenagers from the community. They're supporters of their community. They can 561 00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:21.840 still carry the bags out for you. I mean, remember the days when 562 00:39:22.199 --> 00:39:27.079 there was service like that. People would carry your feed sacks or whatever out 563 00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:30.519 used to be groceries. That's a while back when people actually carry the groceries 564 00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:35.239 out for you. But you know what I'm talking about, it's that kind 565 00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.800 of feel that feedstore. When you go in there, you're going to find 566 00:39:37.800 --> 00:39:40.960 ever fertilizer I talk about. If you need a disease, pest, weed 567 00:39:42.039 --> 00:39:45.440 control product, they've got it. If you need supplies for hunting, it's 568 00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:50.079 hunting season coming out, and boy are they ever stocked up on everything you 569 00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:52.760 need there, in addition to all the quality feeds you know, and the 570 00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:57.639 other items. Maybe you heard me talk about mosquito dunks or something along those 571 00:39:57.719 --> 00:40:00.880 lines, Well, they've got that kind of stuff there. They make sure 572 00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:04.199 they stock up with the stuff you need. They are on Highway one forty 573 00:40:04.320 --> 00:40:07.280 six, just a few minutes north of I ten, So if you head 574 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:10.360 up one forty six from MY ten to the north, they're on the right 575 00:40:10.440 --> 00:40:16.039 hand side. Good customer service. Texas feed Stop your hometown feedstore both mot 576 00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:20.920 Bellevue as well as the Baytown area. I always like going in there. 577 00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:25.239 It's just a, i don't know, just a fun place. I enjoy 578 00:40:25.599 --> 00:40:30.599 looking around all the different things they carry in them in Texas fe Stop Man 579 00:40:30.639 --> 00:40:34.559 getting to visit with Brian in Hope as well. If you're looking for, 580 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:39.320 you know, a quality gift, something maybe that someone doesn't have, you 581 00:40:39.400 --> 00:40:44.199 know, what do you what do you give somebody who already seems to already 582 00:40:44.280 --> 00:40:46.039 have everything. You know that kind of you know that kind of problem. 583 00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:50.719 I know I deal with that. I deal with that all the time. 584 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:52.840 And it's like, what do you do? How do you you know, 585 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:55.320 how do you give somebody like that? Well, I'll tell you one thing. 586 00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:00.360 You give them something from Wallbird's Unlimited. That is something I bet they 587 00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:06.320 don't have. It is the perfect place for a gift for any nature lover 588 00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:10.679 on your list. Lots of great items for Christmas and everything. You know. 589 00:41:10.719 --> 00:41:15.800 A quality bird feeder that is just here's of enjoyment. And they have 590 00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:20.199 quality ones, not cheap old things are going to fall apart. Quality bird 591 00:41:20.199 --> 00:41:22.920 feeders. I have a squirrel excluding feeder. You need to see one of 592 00:41:22.000 --> 00:41:27.079 those. They are really really cool. Every kind of feeder you can imagine, 593 00:41:27.119 --> 00:41:30.400 platform feeders, thistle feeders, every kind of feed you can imagine. 594 00:41:30.760 --> 00:41:36.480 Quality bird seed, quality bird seed. It doesn't end up on the ground 595 00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:39.079 being kicked out because it's full of those red bebies like cheap bird seed is. 596 00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:42.440 Now, this is quality seat. You get what you pay for. 597 00:41:42.880 --> 00:41:46.199 That is exactly what I'm saying. Do you need books on birding? Do 598 00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:51.719 you need any kind of accessories decorations even for the home, related to that. 599 00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:55.800 That's all at Wildbird's Unlimited. And while Birds Unlimited there are stores all 600 00:41:57.039 --> 00:42:00.960 over the Greater Houstonario. It's really easy to find to Wildbirds near you. 601 00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:07.719 You just go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston, WBU dot Com forward 602 00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:10.559 Slash Houston. It's as easy as that. I mean, whether you're in 603 00:42:10.679 --> 00:42:15.760 Cyprus, Memorial or Katie or bel Air or Pairline or Kingwood or clear Lake, 604 00:42:15.280 --> 00:42:21.000 there's Wildbirds Unlimited everywhere, super convenient and trust me on this one, 605 00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:24.280 you will find the perfect Christmas gift. I don't care who it is out 606 00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:30.920 there at Wallbirds Unlimited. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 607 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:36.960 fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 608 00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:43.679 For those of you out in the Richmond area, enchanted forest is just loaded 609 00:42:43.800 --> 00:42:46.719 with cool season color right now. I mean the pansies, for example, 610 00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:51.840 yellows and blues and whites and scarlets and purples, every color you can imagine. 611 00:42:51.880 --> 00:42:54.280 Do you want to build a beautiful color container. They've got They've got 612 00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:59.599 the flowers for that. Do you want to plant a beautiful flower bed to 613 00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:04.239 really spruce up that place before people start showing up for the holidays. They've 614 00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:07.480 got that. Do you need some micro Life Ultimate I was talking about that 615 00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:09.000 one earlier, the blue bag, Or do you need some color Star, 616 00:43:09.159 --> 00:43:13.679 They've got that to help create a beautiful show through the winter. You know, 617 00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:16.679 you got to keep feeding those flowers to get the vigor in the plant 618 00:43:16.840 --> 00:43:22.880 to keep the blooms coming. Do you need gifts for gardeners, for nature 619 00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:27.440 lovers, anybody that just wants to add a little whimsy in their lives. 620 00:43:27.559 --> 00:43:30.920 You have to go into their gift shop there at Enchanted Forest and see the 621 00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:32.960 things. They have. Lots of cool stuff. I mean, even things 622 00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:37.800 like just a jar of local honey, maybe a cast stone, a statue 623 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:43.719 or a bird bath. It's just whoever's hard to buy for on your list, 624 00:43:43.920 --> 00:43:45.880 you're gonna find it there. And if nothing else, just get them 625 00:43:45.920 --> 00:43:50.239 an Enchanted Nurseryes gift card. I mean, it's as simple as that. 626 00:43:50.920 --> 00:43:53.840 Then they can go buy whatever they want. And at Enchanted Forest you are 627 00:43:53.920 --> 00:43:59.679 going to absolutely find everything you need. By the way, it's still time 628 00:43:59.719 --> 00:44:02.519 to play at the herbs, and boy do they have selection cool season color 629 00:44:02.719 --> 00:44:07.199 vegetables all out there at Enchanted Forests. If you haven't been before. If 630 00:44:07.239 --> 00:44:12.199 you're in Richmond heading up toward sugar Land Way, it's off to the right 631 00:44:12.559 --> 00:44:16.320 that is enchanted forest and there they're not hard to find. They are your 632 00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:22.559 local hometown, your hometown garden center out in that area, and it's always 633 00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:28.119 fun to wander through and check them out. You are listening to garden Line 634 00:44:28.159 --> 00:44:30.199 and I'm your host, Skip Richter, So tell me what you want to 635 00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:35.639 talk about. We'll visit about that. Our phone number is seven one three 636 00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:40.719 two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight 637 00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:45.000 seven four. In fact, I'm going to jump right over to talk to 638 00:44:45.159 --> 00:44:49.639 Jim here. Jim out in Meadows Place. How are you doing? Do 639 00:44:49.760 --> 00:44:53.320 it fine? Skip? A quick question for you. I gone through all 640 00:44:53.400 --> 00:44:59.559 the processes. I started out with some eagle funge aside for some brown patch. 641 00:44:59.639 --> 00:45:05.599 Then I'll through the three step got everything down, including some azemite barricade. 642 00:45:05.840 --> 00:45:09.239 Did the fertilizers. My question is my yard seems to be doing fairly 643 00:45:09.320 --> 00:45:14.119 well right now. My question is with the carboloads, you should or would 644 00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:19.679 an application of carboloade helper? Well? You recommend it now or not? 645 00:45:20.039 --> 00:45:22.960 Well, it's a good fertilizer. But if you've done the three step, 646 00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:27.599 you've already done Nitrophossi's Fall Special, which is a fertilizer, and the barricade 647 00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:31.400 which is the preventative for weeds, so you don't need to come back and 648 00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:36.840 also put more preventative and fertilizer down in the carboload. You just hold on 649 00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:39.800 to that. You've gotten it done, so don't overdo it. You always 650 00:45:39.840 --> 00:45:44.519 want to when you use these weed preventative, the pre emergence, you never 651 00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:47.320 want to overdo them. You want to follow the label carefully because overdoing them 652 00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:52.840 can create problems to Okay, well that's what I needed to know. Appreciate 653 00:45:52.119 --> 00:45:55.039 comments all right, simple as that. Thanks for the call, Jim. 654 00:45:55.079 --> 00:46:01.400 I appreciate that you take care into garden Line seven one three two one two 655 00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:05.480 fifty eight seventy four. I'm gonna take a little break and be right back. 656 00:46:07.039 --> 00:46:09.400 Well, good morning. I think you probably have already woken up if 657 00:46:09.400 --> 00:46:14.440 you're listening to this gardening show. Hey, welcome to garden Line. 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I know 677 00:47:32.519 --> 00:47:37.079 we don't want to face those things, but if you're seeing those cracks, 678 00:47:37.280 --> 00:47:39.800 don't put them off. Go ahead and have them come over and look at 679 00:47:39.840 --> 00:47:44.760 it and see what's going on and see what they can do. That is 680 00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:50.880 very important. You know, service service companies are well, there's a lot 681 00:47:50.920 --> 00:47:54.000 of them out there, but ones that provide service are few and far between. 682 00:47:54.639 --> 00:48:00.440 And I'm always excited when we get to talk about a quality service company 683 00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:04.719 here on guard Line. And by the way we do pick and choose our 684 00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:07.760 sponsors. We don't just take somebody because they show up with the checkbook. 685 00:48:08.480 --> 00:48:10.679 We got to believe in them. I've got to believe in them. I've 686 00:48:10.679 --> 00:48:14.559 got to believe that they do a good job, They follow through, they 687 00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:17.320 do the work they say they're going to do, and that enables me to 688 00:48:17.440 --> 00:48:22.000 brag on them. Because you've had people out before, You've hired people, 689 00:48:22.239 --> 00:48:25.920 or you've called people who said, well, we'll show up on Saturday sometime 690 00:48:27.039 --> 00:48:29.960 block your whole day and who knows if we get there or not. I 691 00:48:30.079 --> 00:48:34.119 hate that. I can't stand that You've had people that don't clean up, 692 00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.079 they're not courteous, they don't do good work. That is not the kind 693 00:48:37.079 --> 00:48:40.000 of sponsor I'm going to have on guard line. It's just not And that's 694 00:48:40.039 --> 00:48:45.039 why, for example, Scott McGrath just like fix my slab. Scott McGrath 695 00:48:45.159 --> 00:48:49.039 is another example of that. Scott shows up when he says he schedules a 696 00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:52.079 time, not a half a day or a day where you're supposed to sit 697 00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:54.199 around. It's been doing this. The company's been going now for almost fifty 698 00:48:54.320 --> 00:48:59.239 years, since Scott's dad started in nineteen seventy four. Still family run, 699 00:49:00.199 --> 00:49:04.199 highly highly rated because of the service that they give. The owner actually gets 700 00:49:04.280 --> 00:49:08.400 involved in day to day operations and is accessible to the customers. Scott serves 701 00:49:08.440 --> 00:49:14.880 a whole Houston area with Scott. It's modern technology and techniques combined with old 702 00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:20.440 fashioned customer service. You can go to mechgrathpestcontrol dot com or give Scott a 703 00:49:20.519 --> 00:49:24.480 call two eight one four six nine eighty two forty. The holidays are coming. 704 00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:28.239 They need to get out there. You don't want Grandma is sitting there 705 00:49:28.280 --> 00:49:30.840 while some cockroach runs across the floor for cride out loud. Oh and by 706 00:49:30.880 --> 00:49:34.800 the way, in the winter season, that's when we deal with the varmints 707 00:49:34.880 --> 00:49:37.519 up in the attic and other things. And yes, whether it's six legs, 708 00:49:37.599 --> 00:49:42.920 eight legs or four legs, Scott can handle it at McGrath Pest Control. 709 00:49:43.440 --> 00:49:47.719 That is for sure. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, 710 00:49:47.880 --> 00:49:52.519 Skip Richter, and our phone number is seven to one three two one 711 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:57.679 two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 712 00:49:57.679 --> 00:50:01.800 I just want to remind you that my schedules are online for you to 713 00:50:01.920 --> 00:50:05.159 take a look at, and I would hope you print out. In fact, 714 00:50:05.159 --> 00:50:07.719 if you've got family over for the holidays, tell them about garden Line 715 00:50:08.199 --> 00:50:12.519 and tell them about the lawn care schedules. They cover this whole area, 716 00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:17.199 this whole southeast region of the state. You can find my lawn care schedule. 717 00:50:17.239 --> 00:50:22.679 It talks about fertilizing, mowing, watering, supplemental minerals, aeration of 718 00:50:22.760 --> 00:50:27.119 the soil and whatnot. That's all on the lawn care schedule. You can 719 00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:31.880 also find the lawn pest disease and weed management schedule. So do you want 720 00:50:31.920 --> 00:50:36.840 to know when chinchbugs or sid webworms are likely to occur? Do you want 721 00:50:36.880 --> 00:50:38.639 to know what to use on them? Do you want to know what's an 722 00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:44.079 organic option, what's a synthetic option. All of that are all my schedules, 723 00:50:44.119 --> 00:50:45.960 and they're free. They're right, they're free. You can't beat that 724 00:50:46.159 --> 00:50:52.480 at skip Gardening with skip dot com. Gardening with skip dot com. I 725 00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:55.719 don't know, this is a little presumptuous of me, but why not print 726 00:50:55.719 --> 00:51:00.760 a couple of them out and have available out of it, maybe a stocking 727 00:51:00.800 --> 00:51:02.800 stuff or you know, if you rolled it up, it'd kind of hold 728 00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:07.079 the stocking open a little bit so you could get candy in there. Okay, 729 00:51:07.239 --> 00:51:10.400 I'm going I on, am. Hey, it's valuable stuff. Take 730 00:51:10.440 --> 00:51:14.480 advantage of a chair with your friends, a chair with your family. Let's 731 00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:17.440 go to the phones now are we're going to go talk to Gary and Crystal 732 00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:22.400 Beach. Hello? Gary, Hey, how are you doing this morning? 733 00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:25.679 I'm well, sir. Good. So I'm living down here at Crystal Beach 734 00:51:27.079 --> 00:51:30.760 and north of Galveston, and I'm wondering if are there any fruit trees that 735 00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:35.119 can grow down here that would put out edible fruit? Oh? Absolutely, 736 00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:38.440 absolutely. You can grow figs down there. You could grow for simmons down 737 00:51:38.480 --> 00:51:42.159 there. You can. Let's see what else are we doing. There's some 738 00:51:42.360 --> 00:51:45.119 very low. I don't see any fruit trees down here alrightly. Well, 739 00:51:45.440 --> 00:51:50.719 they grow down there, that's for sure. The Galveston County Master Gardeners have 740 00:51:50.760 --> 00:51:57.760 a little demonstration site there in Carbide Park and not in Crystal Beach, but 741 00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:00.159 just down down the road from you a little bit, and they have a 742 00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:04.679 little orchard where you can go and see the different kinds of fruit that they 743 00:52:04.840 --> 00:52:08.280 grow. And that is one thing I would do just so you can go 744 00:52:08.360 --> 00:52:10.960 buy and see it. They often have workdays out there we can go buy 745 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.440 and visit with them. But there are some low chill peaches that will grow 746 00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:20.639 in that area, and you certainly can grow citrus. There are a number 747 00:52:20.679 --> 00:52:24.880 of different types of citrus, satsumas or a quite a hearty citrus. It 748 00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:30.440 would take a real cold winter, unusually cold winter down in Crystal Beach to 749 00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:35.480 do damage to a satsumme tree, but they can take that. There are 750 00:52:35.480 --> 00:52:37.679 a lot of other citrus shooting plant. Some people even go out on limb 751 00:52:37.719 --> 00:52:43.480 and try avocados. We will get some winters in here that are too hard 752 00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:46.199 on avocados, but in general, even if they freeze back, they'll come 753 00:52:46.320 --> 00:52:50.360 back, so that'd be a little more of a stretch, but that's one 754 00:52:50.440 --> 00:52:57.639 you can grow kind of freakake. I wanted to put orange up yea talking 755 00:52:57.679 --> 00:53:00.400 about Yeah, Republic of Texas orange. And there's some other good ones that'll 756 00:53:00.440 --> 00:53:05.199 do very well down there. Well good. I appreciate that, I really 757 00:53:05.280 --> 00:53:07.840 do. Give me, gives me a line of what to think about. 758 00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:14.280 Yeah, find find the website for the Galveston County Extension Office and I'm gonna 759 00:53:14.800 --> 00:53:17.199 trying to remember how that goes. But at the Galveston County Extension Office, 760 00:53:19.079 --> 00:53:24.760 the horticulture agent there, mister William Burgerhoff. Uh, will Steven. I'm 761 00:53:24.760 --> 00:53:29.119 sorry, Steve, Stephen Broger. I'm mixing two different people. Stephen broger 762 00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:34.719 Hoff has a lot of information online and that you can walk into the office. 763 00:53:34.880 --> 00:53:37.880 You can pick up free publications and it's very very helpful to get you 764 00:53:37.960 --> 00:53:42.920 off you want to get off on the right foot. Okay, absolutely, 765 00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:45.559 I appreciate your time. Thank you very much. All right, Gary, 766 00:53:45.639 --> 00:53:47.360 you take care. Thank you for the call. Appreciate that very much. 767 00:53:49.679 --> 00:53:53.639 If you are if you're looking for supplies for anything you need for your lawn 768 00:53:53.639 --> 00:53:58.480 and garden, any garden. I'm talking to vegetables, flowers, fruit, 769 00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:04.559 everything, Southwest Fertilizer has got you covered. Southwest Fertilizer is a place that 770 00:54:04.679 --> 00:54:07.840 carries literally everything. If they don't have it, you don't need it. 771 00:54:07.159 --> 00:54:10.519 That's how I like to put it, because that is absolutely the fact. 772 00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:15.800 If you need a herbicide, a funge aside, an insecticide, a fertilizer, 773 00:54:16.039 --> 00:54:19.960 they've got it. An eighty foot wall of tools. By the way, 774 00:54:20.000 --> 00:54:23.079 you want to do some holiday shopping, a quality set of pruners or 775 00:54:23.239 --> 00:54:27.719 lappers or something along those lines. Maybe a soil knife if you've never seen 776 00:54:27.719 --> 00:54:30.440 a soil knife, go check those out there. Really cool. There's a 777 00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:35.199 lot of really good tools that Bob and his team has there at Southwest Fertilizer. 778 00:54:35.280 --> 00:54:38.800 They're on the corner of Byssinet and when Renwick in Southwest Houston. The 779 00:54:38.920 --> 00:54:45.199 website is Southwest Fertilizer dot com. And anytime you have a problem, you 780 00:54:45.400 --> 00:54:47.039 just take a picture of it, make sure it's in sharp focus, or 781 00:54:47.199 --> 00:54:51.360 grab a sample of it, put it in a bag. Go down there. 782 00:54:51.639 --> 00:54:54.239 They're good at identifying and they'll take you to the product that works. 783 00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:59.880 They won't say something you don't need. At Southwest Fertilizer been around since nineteen 784 00:55:00.039 --> 00:55:04.280 fifty five and there's a reason for that. Everything you need is there, 785 00:55:04.840 --> 00:55:08.559 including great advice at Southwest Fertilizer. And I always like to remind people the 786 00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:13.960 best gardening gift, one of them that I've ever had is a kneeling bench. 787 00:55:14.000 --> 00:55:16.199 A kneeling bench folds up. They have the folding type there. You 788 00:55:16.320 --> 00:55:20.320 can sit on them while you're working in the garden. You can kneel down. 789 00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:22.679 They got little the legs turn upside down and it's a handle to get 790 00:55:22.840 --> 00:55:28.639 up and down and it will change your gardening life. As Bob to show 791 00:55:28.639 --> 00:55:31.960 you the kneeling benches that they have, and I guarantee you any gardener you 792 00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:38.960 know north of forty will appreciate that gift very very much. I love mine, 793 00:55:39.239 --> 00:55:43.760 that's for sure. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 794 00:55:44.400 --> 00:55:49.880 fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 795 00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:53.760 If you live up in the Tomba area, your hometown feed store is D 796 00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:59.760 and D Feed, D and D Feed and Supply awesome place. Dover Family's 797 00:55:59.760 --> 00:56:04.199 been operating this since nineteen eighty nine. They just expanded this summer. They've 798 00:56:04.280 --> 00:56:07.320 in fact, they've expanded a second time now. They have another little enclave 799 00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:10.400 where all of the bulk seeds are. You go in a very inexpensive way 800 00:56:10.440 --> 00:56:13.679 to buy seed. By the way, you have a little scoop. You 801 00:56:13.800 --> 00:56:15.320 scoop it out and depending on the size of the scoop, you know, 802 00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:20.639 you pay that much for the seeds and put them in a little envelope and 803 00:56:20.679 --> 00:56:22.159 take them with you. Real easy to do. Now. They have all 804 00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:25.760 kinds of supplies for your garden, the fertilizers and all the different pest and 805 00:56:25.840 --> 00:56:30.760 disease and weed control products that are there. High quality dog food. I'm 806 00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:34.599 talking about high end lines, you know, like star Pro and Diamond Origin 807 00:56:35.320 --> 00:56:37.880 and others they've got. Of course, they're a feed store, so livestock 808 00:56:37.960 --> 00:56:42.800 feed, horse care products, things to control pests and roadents outside. They've 809 00:56:42.840 --> 00:56:45.679 got all of that and it's so easy to get to. They are on 810 00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:50.800 FM twenty nine to twenty outside of Tombol to the west, about three miles 811 00:56:50.880 --> 00:56:53.760 west of two forty nine. Go check them out at D and D Feed 812 00:56:53.840 --> 00:56:58.679 and you will be impressed with all of the different things that they carry there. 813 00:57:00.840 --> 00:57:02.440 I've talked about house plants a little bit this morning, and some of 814 00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:07.199 the ones that you might want to try and grow. I mentioned the zz 815 00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:13.079 plant is one that is it's close to fool proof ZZ plant and mother in 816 00:57:13.119 --> 00:57:15.599 law's tongue. I know what a name, sense ofaria. That's a proper 817 00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:20.360 name for it. Those two plants. If you can't grow them, I 818 00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:23.280 can't help you. I mean, they're just one step above silk plants when 819 00:57:23.320 --> 00:57:28.519 it comes to can you keep it going? Yes you can. They take 820 00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:31.519 high er light, lower light. They take moisture, and they take drought. 821 00:57:31.760 --> 00:57:36.400 You forget to water and they're still okay. And no plant wants to 822 00:57:36.480 --> 00:57:39.039 sit in a swamp, so you can't overwater anything. Don't do that. 823 00:57:39.639 --> 00:57:44.199 But these are easy plants to grow, and as easy as an easy one. 824 00:57:44.239 --> 00:57:46.320 Mother in laws tongue thats ave area is an easy one. I also 825 00:57:46.599 --> 00:57:52.719 would recommend you consider some of the ones called Chinese evergreen aglao neema is the 826 00:57:52.800 --> 00:57:58.320 other name for them. Beautiful coloring in the foliage. The standard types green 827 00:57:58.400 --> 00:58:01.599 and silver, lots of version of those available, and then the types that 828 00:58:01.760 --> 00:58:08.280 have the coral and pink splashed colors in the leaves are just absolutely beautiful. 829 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:10.599 There are just a lot of plants out there. I mean, I'm just 830 00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:15.480 naming a few, uh, but you can really beautify your home and it 831 00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:20.079 makes such a great gift to give someone that. And don't forget too the 832 00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:24.559 Thanksgiving and Christmas cactus because those you enjoy them now, they easy to grow 833 00:58:24.639 --> 00:58:29.679 through the year, and then next fall here you go again with more blooms. 834 00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:34.119 What a beautiful, beautiful plant to grow. Well, it's time for 835 00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:37.159 Nicki and the News. We're about to move to that. If you'd like 836 00:58:37.199 --> 00:58:38.360 to give us a call, Josh, we'll get you on the board and 837 00:58:38.480 --> 00:58:43.559 you'll be first up when we come back at seven one three two one two 838 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:49.719 fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to Garden Line. We're glad you're with 839 00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:52.639 us today. We're gonna be talking about lots of things gardening, including your 840 00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:55.519 calls. He can give us a call at seven one three two one two 841 00:58:57.079 --> 00:59:00.679 five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 842 00:59:00.960 --> 00:59:05.719 Now I've talked about greenpro a number of times. Green Pro the folks that'll 843 00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:09.119 come out, they'll do deep tyne aeration, the core aeration that pops a 844 00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:12.199 little plugs out of the ground. That's the way you need to do it. 845 00:59:12.320 --> 00:59:15.159 Don't get the kind that just pushes a hole in the ground and squeezes 846 00:59:15.239 --> 00:59:20.320 the sides of the clay hole apart. That's helpful, but it's not the 847 00:59:20.440 --> 00:59:23.639 most helpful. Deep tye aeration pulling cores out of the ground as a way 848 00:59:23.679 --> 00:59:27.719 to go. That's what green Pro does. They do compost top dressing as 849 00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:31.960 well, which really helps to improve especially at heavy clay soil areas that are 850 00:59:32.039 --> 00:59:37.679 compacted. Very very helpful for that. But they also do some lawn leveling. 851 00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:39.960 If you're gonna have to go through that kill till and filled maybe your 852 00:59:40.039 --> 00:59:44.199 lawn. You lost some areas, so you just need some leveling done. 853 00:59:44.239 --> 00:59:46.679 You got some holes out there. They can come out with a quality topsoil 854 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:51.039 mix and do that for you as well, and you can find out more 855 00:59:51.199 --> 00:59:57.559 at greenpro dot net. Greenpro dot net check them out. Prices start at 856 00:59:57.599 --> 01:00:01.039 five ninety nine plus sales tax for the area and compost top dressing. But 857 01:00:01.159 --> 01:00:06.519 ask him also about that bringing in a little topsoil to level out some areas 858 01:00:06.599 --> 01:00:09.000 for your lawn. For those of you that will be replanting lawns because you 859 01:00:09.119 --> 01:00:14.599 lost some, that is especially especially important. We're going to now go out 860 01:00:14.679 --> 01:00:22.039 to Spring and talk to Bernie Hello Bernie, Good morning Skip. I was 861 01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:29.280 wanting to know is it time to start planting seeds in the garage for like 862 01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:34.840 tomatoes, peppers and things like that for the spring spring season. It's a 863 01:00:34.880 --> 01:00:39.360 little early. I usually do mine between Christmas and New Year's You can certainly 864 01:00:39.480 --> 01:00:44.079 do it on into January. There's no rush. But I tend to grow 865 01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:47.760 mine mine larger, move them up from the seedling trade or four inch pot 866 01:00:47.880 --> 01:00:52.639 or six inch or even a gallon pot. Uh, in order to get 867 01:00:52.679 --> 01:00:57.039 the biggest, strongest plan I can for planting time. But you are you're 868 01:00:57.039 --> 01:01:00.679 a little early right now. Yeah, you would end up something and pretty 869 01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:06.199 pretty big to keep it alive all the way until planting. All right? 870 01:01:07.360 --> 01:01:09.880 How about putting the soil in the in the vegetable garden? When should I 871 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:14.119 do that? Anytime is good? The sooner the better anything. Yeah, 872 01:01:14.199 --> 01:01:16.199 put soil in, Mix it in, blend it, you know, get 873 01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:20.079 it right if you need, if you need your soul testing done, do 874 01:01:20.239 --> 01:01:23.039 that ahead of time before you fertilize. Uh. If you you know, 875 01:01:23.320 --> 01:01:27.440 just are raising the bed up. Always get a quality mix. That's the 876 01:01:27.519 --> 01:01:31.800 most important thing. Yeah, sure, nature Nature's way is pretty good for 877 01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:36.039 that. Oh, Yeah, they got excellent, excellent they're up in your 878 01:01:36.079 --> 01:01:39.159 neck of the woods and they've got excellent, excellent products. Uh, you 879 01:01:39.239 --> 01:01:42.079 know, tell them, tell them what you're going to grow. Is it 880 01:01:42.119 --> 01:01:45.440 a vegetable garden, is it a flower garden or whatever. They'll they'll have 881 01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:50.119 a blend for you that will do super super well. And don't be fooled 882 01:01:50.119 --> 01:01:52.039 by some of the names too. Even something like a roast soil is not 883 01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:57.480 a bad soil for a vegetable garden. That's what I've always used. Yeah, 884 01:01:59.039 --> 01:02:02.360 it's good stuff. And the raise the seeds in. I use that. 885 01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:07.880 The rose oil too, to put down I would use. Ask them 886 01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:12.239 for something for more of a potting soaw mix, a seed starting tight mix. 887 01:02:12.480 --> 01:02:15.599 Huh, get one of the blends they have for that. You want 888 01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:21.239 that to whole moisture, but to drain well. Sometimes I'll even add a 889 01:02:21.320 --> 01:02:25.039 little bit of pearlite or vermiculatee to a compost blend that I get to use 890 01:02:25.119 --> 01:02:31.159 it for container growing. Okay, I appreciate your help. All right, 891 01:02:31.239 --> 01:02:37.239 Bernie, Thanks good luck with a vegetable garden. You take care if you 892 01:02:37.400 --> 01:02:42.519 are in the area of RCW nurses And by the way, that's where Tombol 893 01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:45.800 Parkway comes into boat Way eight. You need to stop buying check them out. 894 01:02:45.440 --> 01:02:49.199 RCW is the get it, got it nursery. Now they're going to 895 01:02:49.239 --> 01:02:53.079 have everything like vegetables and flowers and herbs and all kinds of things. The 896 01:02:53.199 --> 01:02:58.519 thing I want to talk about today is they're woody ornamentals. The roses that 897 01:02:58.639 --> 01:03:04.000 they have, huge roses, huge selection. The trees they have from fifteen 898 01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:07.239 gallons to two hundred gallons. They have every kind of tree that needs to 899 01:03:07.280 --> 01:03:10.159 get planted here. They're not going to sell you something like a blue spruce 900 01:03:10.239 --> 01:03:14.880 that has no business being in this whole state of Texas. But they will 901 01:03:14.920 --> 01:03:16.800 sell you stuff that grows here in the Greater Houston area. They grow it 902 01:03:16.880 --> 01:03:22.239 themselves at a twenty acre farm ount in Plantersville, and you will find an 903 01:03:22.599 --> 01:03:25.119 excellent selection. Every time I go by there and visit with David about the 904 01:03:25.199 --> 01:03:30.400 different kinds of trees and things they have, I'm always impressed with the selection 905 01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:35.400 that they have in the quality of trees as well. RCW Nurseries Tomball Parkway 906 01:03:35.440 --> 01:03:40.400 at belt Way eight or go online to rc W Nurseries dot com, RCW 907 01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:45.119 Nurseries dot Com and find out more. Remember fall is the best time to 908 01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:50.800 plant trees. Don't delay, go ahead and go buy there are different You 909 01:03:50.840 --> 01:03:54.000 know you're gonna find some really good prices too on the trees there at RCW 910 01:03:54.159 --> 01:03:59.119 Nurseries. Let's head out now to sugar Land and we're gonna talk to Mary. 911 01:03:59.360 --> 01:04:02.840 Hello, Mary, good morning, Skip, good morning. My question. 912 01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:09.599 My question is I had the yard people put in some cycle them around 913 01:04:09.679 --> 01:04:13.440 my trees up front. Yes, and I've watered it in and everything, 914 01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:18.000 but I'm wondering how cold are they? How cold resistant are they? They're 915 01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:24.320 pretty cold resistant, but they're not like violas or pansies, so if we 916 01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:28.159 get a pretty hard freeze, it's gonna pop them pretty good. They're not 917 01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:31.760 they're not quite that cold party, but it's really easy to protect them. 918 01:04:32.239 --> 01:04:36.880 I would just set something in the bed to hold a cover up off the 919 01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:41.000 plants. So that might be little, it could be a little steaks, 920 01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:43.960 it could be I mean, you can put some Mason jars upside down out 921 01:04:44.000 --> 01:04:45.039 there. You see what I'm saying. It's just you're gonna lay a cover 922 01:04:45.239 --> 01:04:47.960 over it, and you don't want to crush those little blooms sticking up. 923 01:04:48.559 --> 01:04:53.599 And then you put your cover over it and make sure and seal the edges 924 01:04:54.119 --> 01:04:57.480 around it. And that cover could just be a it could be a bed 925 01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:00.000 sheet, it could be a lot of things, you know, a piece 926 01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:04.199 of tarp or something. But just don't crush the plants, right, Okay, 927 01:05:04.400 --> 01:05:08.400 thank you so much, you bet you bet. Mary, Thank you. 928 01:05:08.559 --> 01:05:11.719 Hey. By the way, Mary, if you go to my website, 929 01:05:11.840 --> 01:05:16.199 Gardening with Skip dot com, I have a nine page full color publication 930 01:05:16.400 --> 01:05:20.639 you can look at it online or download it for free that talks about everything 931 01:05:20.679 --> 01:05:26.360 you need to know about coal protection from everything from your little cyclemans up to 932 01:05:26.440 --> 01:05:29.599 citrus trees and whatnot. And it's all on there. So you may just 933 01:05:29.639 --> 01:05:31.599 want check that out maybe help. Oh, thank you, yes, I 934 01:05:31.719 --> 01:05:35.519 will. Okay, Gardening with good Day dot com you bet you take care. 935 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:42.679 Appreciate that call very much. When you're looking for supplies for your garden, 936 01:05:42.800 --> 01:05:44.920 you know, ACE Hardware is a place for that. I mean, 937 01:05:45.360 --> 01:05:46.840 no matter what you need, even you know, you got to get that 938 01:05:46.960 --> 01:05:51.079 out there for coal protection. In the season of coal protection. I like 939 01:05:51.159 --> 01:05:56.400 those little clamp on lights with the little aluminum shield you can put. You 940 01:05:56.480 --> 01:05:59.039 don't need to even put a heat lamp in it. You can put like 941 01:05:59.079 --> 01:06:01.519 one hundred and fifty water bulb, shine it down toward the ground, put 942 01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:05.320 a cover over the plant with that, and that little bit of heat makes 943 01:06:05.360 --> 01:06:10.320 a lot of difference. And in my publication at Gardening with Skip dot Com 944 01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:14.800 on cold protection, it talks about that Ace Hardware's got that stuff. They 945 01:06:14.880 --> 01:06:17.880 got everything you need. They also have everything you need for your Christmas lighting 946 01:06:17.960 --> 01:06:21.559 and decorations. Do you need a wreath, do you need garland? Do 947 01:06:21.639 --> 01:06:25.519 you need Christmas lights? The box sets, you know, the kinds, 948 01:06:25.559 --> 01:06:29.960 different sizes and colors. Ace has a great supply, great selection of that, 949 01:06:30.400 --> 01:06:32.039 and they also have something called custom lights by the foot. Now, 950 01:06:32.119 --> 01:06:36.760 custom lights by the foot are just what it sounds like. You design a 951 01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:41.360 light string, the length you need to be, the kind of light you 952 01:06:41.440 --> 01:06:45.000 want it to be, and just go buy an ACE. Let them explain 953 01:06:45.079 --> 01:06:47.159 to you how it works, and you'll think to yourself, now, why 954 01:06:47.199 --> 01:06:50.679 didn't somebody start doing this before, because it really really makes a lot of 955 01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:54.960 sense. Ace Hardware is all over the place, forty stores in the Greater 956 01:06:55.039 --> 01:07:00.320 Houston area. Ace Hardware dot Com find their store locator and you can find 957 01:07:00.400 --> 01:07:03.039 two or three stores that are close enough to you to go get all of 958 01:07:03.119 --> 01:07:10.039 those Christmas holiday decorations done. Really simple, nice nice that it's not easy. 959 01:07:10.239 --> 01:07:12.840 We're gonna take a little break. Our phone number is seven one three 960 01:07:12.960 --> 01:07:17.800 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back to garden Line. Hey, 961 01:07:17.880 --> 01:07:20.920 we're glad you're listening today. Looking forward to talking to you about what 962 01:07:21.280 --> 01:07:25.079 is of interest to you. What do you want to talk about cold protection? 963 01:07:25.199 --> 01:07:27.440 Do you want to talk about house plants, you want to talk about 964 01:07:27.480 --> 01:07:30.440 fertilizers, maybe some vegetable gardening. This is a great time of year to 965 01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:34.519 be getting out and getting your gardening plants. I know right now everybody's thinking 966 01:07:34.559 --> 01:07:40.519 about holidays and color for the landscape and color for inside the house and all 967 01:07:40.599 --> 01:07:45.320 of that. But our vegetable gardens are going strong out there. This is 968 01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.239 wonderful weather. You know, cool seasoned plants like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower 969 01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:54.719 out in the vegetable garden. They don't want freezing weather. They can tolerate 970 01:07:54.800 --> 01:07:59.239 freezing weather, but they like mild temperatures, not hot, but mild. 971 01:07:59.400 --> 01:08:02.719 That's when they grow their fastest. And so days like today they are just 972 01:08:03.079 --> 01:08:06.079 moving at a really good pace, and so we want to keep them well 973 01:08:06.159 --> 01:08:12.079 fed, provide a good quality fertilizer mix in there. Keep that ground mulched. 974 01:08:12.320 --> 01:08:15.840 By the way, if you keep the soil surface covered with mulch, 975 01:08:15.920 --> 01:08:18.279 it could be shredded leaves, it could be a store bought mulch. Keep 976 01:08:18.319 --> 01:08:23.920 it covered with mulch. It fights the winter weeds hindbit and chickweed and all 977 01:08:24.079 --> 01:08:28.119 those things that just give us trouble in the cool season. They don't give 978 01:08:28.159 --> 01:08:30.399 you trouble when you cover the soil. Those are annual weeds. They come 979 01:08:30.479 --> 01:08:35.359 from seed every year, and it's as simple as that. Just block the 980 01:08:35.520 --> 01:08:41.199 sunlight and you prevent the weed problem. It makes it so easy. Plus 981 01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:46.079 it's prettier. I just think it's a well moltzed garden just looks really really 982 01:08:46.159 --> 01:08:51.319 good. If you are in the Montgomery area. Ana Plants and Produce, 983 01:08:51.560 --> 01:08:56.760 that is your hometown garden center. Now, Ana Plants and Produce. They've 984 01:08:56.760 --> 01:09:00.239 been around a long time, I guess thirty years ago. Over thirty years 985 01:09:00.239 --> 01:09:03.359 ago. Now Kathy has taken over from her parents, Adam and Alice Flores, 986 01:09:03.720 --> 01:09:09.399 and that family owned and run garden center just keeps getting better. Every 987 01:09:09.439 --> 01:09:12.600 time I go by there. I'm surprised, you know, I go along 988 01:09:12.680 --> 01:09:14.920 and I think I know what's there, and then I come back another time 989 01:09:15.000 --> 01:09:18.800 and here's a whole new kind of group of plant. They really specialize in 990 01:09:19.039 --> 01:09:23.439 bling two to go with all of the kinds of plants I sell. So 991 01:09:23.520 --> 01:09:28.119 do you need a chiminea for the patio outback? I'd be a nice place 992 01:09:28.159 --> 01:09:30.319 to gather. You know, we don't have winter here, We just have 993 01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:33.960 cool weather. So when you have holidays and family are around, why not 994 01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:38.520 a chiminea out there on the back patio. Well, that's the kind of 995 01:09:38.640 --> 01:09:42.520 thing that they have. Lots and lots of things. They're open seven days 996 01:09:42.560 --> 01:09:45.800 a week, nine to five. They're in Montgomery on the east side. 997 01:09:45.880 --> 01:09:50.439 That's the Conro side, just outside Montgomery on the north side of the Highway. 998 01:09:50.960 --> 01:09:55.239 A and A Plants and produce. If you've ever driven through there, 999 01:09:55.479 --> 01:09:58.239 you've seen them. It's time to stop in and check them out. And 1000 01:09:58.319 --> 01:10:01.640 boy do they ever have plenty on hand for all the things you're gonna want 1001 01:10:01.680 --> 01:10:08.319 to be purchasing or having on hand for the holiday season that were already into 1002 01:10:08.359 --> 01:10:12.319 the big middle of I was like going by there. It's a lot of 1003 01:10:12.359 --> 01:10:15.880 fun to wander around and see what's new now. Out of a plants and 1004 01:10:15.960 --> 01:10:21.279 produce. So I was talking earlier about my schedules that are online and the 1005 01:10:21.840 --> 01:10:29.119 frost control freeze control management publication that's online. In other words, here comes 1006 01:10:29.159 --> 01:10:31.880 a good, good coal freeze. It's not here tomorrow, but it's coming. 1007 01:10:32.800 --> 01:10:35.159 And when we hit one of those, you want to be ready. 1008 01:10:35.199 --> 01:10:38.800 You want to have your supplies on hand, and you want to know how 1009 01:10:38.840 --> 01:10:42.800 to do it. And people in general don't know how to protect plants. 1010 01:10:43.479 --> 01:10:46.119 They think in terms of what would make people warm. For example, if 1011 01:10:46.159 --> 01:10:48.720 I wrapped in a blanket and stood out in the yard, I would be 1012 01:10:48.800 --> 01:10:54.319 warmer because I have that blanket around me, because my body produces heat and 1013 01:10:54.399 --> 01:10:57.960 the blanket holds the heat in. That's why a blanket makes you warm, 1014 01:10:58.079 --> 01:11:01.680 unless it's a heating blanket doesn't produce any heat itself. It just holds in 1015 01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:08.000 heat. Well, if you wrap your plants like a landscape lollipop, that's 1016 01:11:08.079 --> 01:11:10.920 going to be very little help. It'll slow the cooling a little bit, 1017 01:11:11.319 --> 01:11:15.760 but plants don't produce heat. What you need is the heat of the soil 1018 01:11:15.960 --> 01:11:19.479 or heat from an artificial source to protect that plant. So we put the 1019 01:11:19.560 --> 01:11:24.319 cover over the plant, drape it all the way to the ground on all 1020 01:11:24.479 --> 01:11:30.560 sides, and seal that cover to the soil with rocks or bricks or soil 1021 01:11:30.720 --> 01:11:33.039 or whatever. I'll hold it down so when the wind blows, it doesn't 1022 01:11:33.159 --> 01:11:38.720 move that warmer air underneath the cover out. It holds it in as dead 1023 01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:45.359 air space. The soil itself provides a nice amount of rising heat on a 1024 01:11:45.479 --> 01:11:48.520 cold, cold night. If it's not enough, you can add a little 1025 01:11:48.600 --> 01:11:54.439 source of light. I mentioned going to a hardware store grabbing you one of 1026 01:11:54.479 --> 01:11:58.600 those little clambon aluminum shielded lights one hundred and fifty white bulb in it. 1027 01:11:59.239 --> 01:12:00.640 I mean, if you really had a night where it was going to be 1028 01:12:00.960 --> 01:12:04.039 unbelievably cold, you could put a heat lamp in it. But shine it 1029 01:12:04.159 --> 01:12:08.760 at the ground. Don't shine it at your plants. That heat. If 1030 01:12:08.800 --> 01:12:11.199 you ever put your hand in front of a heater or a radiant heater, 1031 01:12:11.279 --> 01:12:15.960 you know the kind that have electric heaters, that's radiating out and you can 1032 01:12:15.079 --> 01:12:18.439 just feel the heat building up on your hand from that radiant. Well, 1033 01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:21.520 that happens to a plant stem too, and you don't want that. You 1034 01:12:21.640 --> 01:12:26.279 do not want to overheat a plant stem. So never shine a light or 1035 01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:29.880 let a bulb come into close contact with your plant, it's just going to 1036 01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:32.560 cause problems and you can avoid that. That's not that not that difficult to 1037 01:12:32.640 --> 01:12:35.439 do, but it's always a good time to get out take care of your 1038 01:12:35.479 --> 01:12:43.000 plants. Multing your perennials, tender perennials especially, you know something like a 1039 01:12:43.119 --> 01:12:49.479 duranta for example, golden showers, a what's a seyeselpinia redbird of paradise is 1040 01:12:49.520 --> 01:12:53.800 another one kind of marginally hardy. You want to take care of those. 1041 01:12:53.960 --> 01:12:58.239 There's a number of perennials that are that way. Well. If you live 1042 01:12:58.359 --> 01:13:00.479 south of town, see in a mult can get you all fixed up. 1043 01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:04.560 They've got the multches, they've got the composts, they've got the soul mixes, 1044 01:13:04.680 --> 01:13:09.199 all in bulk. You can buy them in bulk, native hardwood, 1045 01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:13.279 double ground, two inch screened, all kinds of good quality stuff there. 1046 01:13:13.720 --> 01:13:17.399 And they're just north of Roach Sharon on Highway six and where Highway six and 1047 01:13:17.439 --> 01:13:23.319 two eighty eight come together. They are on FM five twenty one FM five 1048 01:13:23.439 --> 01:13:27.000 twenty one. They're open Monday through Friday, five or seven thirty in the 1049 01:13:27.079 --> 01:13:30.119 morning to five. Saturdays seven thirty in the morning to two closed on Sundays. 1050 01:13:30.479 --> 01:13:32.960 But they have everything. If you're within twenty miles of them, they'll 1051 01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:39.600 even deliver for a reasonable little fee of delivery. They also have the compos 1052 01:13:39.840 --> 01:13:44.640 the I'm sorry, the fertilizers that I recommend, wide variety of quality fertilizers. 1053 01:13:44.680 --> 01:13:46.680 There a lot of other products as well. Hey, if you're wanting 1054 01:13:46.760 --> 01:13:50.560 to kind of create a back patio or something, you need some quality stone. 1055 01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:54.640 Maybe you want to create a dry river bed with some river rock. 1056 01:13:55.119 --> 01:13:59.880 They have a wide selection of rock and stone products as well at CNMO. 1057 01:14:00.479 --> 01:14:04.039 Go to the website cienamultch dot com. Again there on FM five twenty one 1058 01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:10.079 near Highway six and two eighty eight. Truly easy to find. So all 1059 01:14:10.159 --> 01:14:14.159 of those folks listening out there in First Colony in Fresno and Quell Valley, 1060 01:14:14.239 --> 01:14:18.760 Sandy Point, like Olympia, Iowa Colony, Siana Plantation, Sun Creek Estates, 1061 01:14:18.880 --> 01:14:23.119 pear Land, I need to go on. This is your hometown place 1062 01:14:23.439 --> 01:14:27.920 to get quality mulch products, quality rock products, and the fertilizers I'll talk 1063 01:14:27.920 --> 01:14:31.720 about here on garden Line. We're glad you're listening to garden Line today. 1064 01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:39.000 Today is we're getting close to the holidays, and I just always look forward 1065 01:14:39.000 --> 01:14:42.359 to this time of year. It's kind of a restarted chance to kind of 1066 01:14:42.399 --> 01:14:45.439 take it slow, enjoy things. I remember, we're going to be seeds 1067 01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:49.079 starting once we get through the Christmas season here, it'll be time for the 1068 01:14:49.159 --> 01:14:51.960 seed starting as we get to the first of the year. I start my 1069 01:14:53.079 --> 01:14:55.319 little earlier than that, but it can go a little bit a little bit 1070 01:14:55.439 --> 01:14:59.720 later. Hey, if your landscape took a beating this year, Purescapes is 1071 01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:01.720 you need to call. And here's how you call them. Two eight one 1072 01:15:02.319 --> 01:15:09.319 three seven oh fifty sixty artists. Go to their website piercescapes dot com. 1073 01:15:09.479 --> 01:15:12.479 You will be very impressed with the kind of work they do. And they 1074 01:15:12.520 --> 01:15:15.479 got pictures on their jobs they've done from other people. They do small jobs, 1075 01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:18.520 they do large jobs. I mean, you can renovate the whole backyard, 1076 01:15:18.640 --> 01:15:24.039 create patios and hard escapes and all kinds of things. Landscape lighting. 1077 01:15:24.159 --> 01:15:27.359 Does your irrigation need work? They can do that. Do you got a 1078 01:15:27.399 --> 01:15:30.199 poorly drained area, Those are a pain in the neck. They will help 1079 01:15:30.319 --> 01:15:35.159 provide subsurface drainage to fix that. Pierce Capes can do all of that again. 1080 01:15:36.000 --> 01:15:42.359 Two eight one three seven oh fifty sixty. Give Jason and his team 1081 01:15:42.439 --> 01:15:46.159 a call. They will turn your landscape that just survived the summer into something 1082 01:15:46.520 --> 01:15:53.479 of beauty. That's a p where you're listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, 1083 01:15:53.720 --> 01:15:58.920 Skip Richter, and guess what happens next eight o'clock hour. Paul Fagala 1084 01:15:59.000 --> 01:16:01.479 from the b Supplies to be here and we're gonna be talking about all kinds 1085 01:16:01.479 --> 01:16:05.439 of things bees. It will be fascinating even if you're not a beekeeper, 1086 01:16:05.920 --> 01:16:12.399 if you are interested in maybe dabbling and beekeeping, which backyard gardener should because 1087 01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:15.840 it helps pollinating your crops and it's just a lot of fun. Plus, 1088 01:16:15.199 --> 01:16:19.479 imagine if you made your own honey and gave away jars of the honey you 1089 01:16:19.600 --> 01:16:25.800 built, You built that you created with your bees in your own backyard, 1090 01:16:25.840 --> 01:16:29.279 giving away as gifts for the holiday. Wouldn't that be cool? Well, 1091 01:16:29.479 --> 01:16:32.800 Paul will tell you all about that, the classes they offer and everything else. 1092 01:16:33.000 --> 01:16:35.880 Just stay tuned. Give us your calls on bees. The next hour 1093 01:16:35.960 --> 01:16:39.760 we're going to focus on calls from people interested in bees.