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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Richard.

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It's the Crazy gas Trip. Just
watch him as so many go things

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to supt crazy gas tub not a
sid We need to get some soundtrack of

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some roosters crewing in the morning to
kick off the show. Those of you

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who are up early, welcome.
We're glad you're listening to garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we are going to talk gardening all

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day today. That's a surprise,
isn't it. I'm not gonna do sports.

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I'm not gonna do news. That's
Nicky's job, news, traffic,

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all that kind of stuff. We're
going to talk about gardening. What do

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you want to talk about? Our
phone number seven one three two one two

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k t R eight seven one three
two one two k t R eight.

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It's pretty simple. Well, I'll
tell you what we are gonna speaking of.

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Early in the morning. We're going
to go right to Tom Ball and

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talk to Mel. Hey, Mel, congratulations on the Early Bird of War

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today. Good morning. Yeah.
I try try to get up early to

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catch you well, there you go. Last spring, we planted some moseas

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in some box woods, okay,
and I did some fertilizing there. But

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I'm just curious now, beginning of
the year here, when and now do

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you recommend to put some fertilizer on
those isaiahs and boxwoods. You know,

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I would. I would go with
something that's a gradual release. You can

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do an organic fertilizer that will release
a little bit as the microbes begin to

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wake up and break it down.
Or there are other types of slow release

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fertilizers that synthetics that have a natural
slow release as well, But I would

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do that in a moderate amount,
and I would, I would go ahead,

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you can start it anytime. I
would say, you could do it

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this month if it was slow release. Otherwise wait and do it next month

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if it's gonna be something that's releasing
a little bit faster, because those plants

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are gonna they're gonna wake up,
but they're not quite awake yet. They're

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not ready to grow, all right, All right, That's what I was

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curious about, exactly when, because
that's you know, I don't know when

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their grow period starts, or their
blooming period starts, or whatever. Yeah,

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it's all it's all temperature mellot.
You know, the soil warms up,

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the air warms up, and that's
what kicks everything off. All right,

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appreciate it, you bet, and
enjoy enjoy those plants. Thanks for

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the call. Appreciate that, alright, bye bye. You know talking about

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organic product that can gradually give you
a release over time with that, you

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know, microlife fertilizer. I mean, it's not you don't have to wait

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on it to get really, you
get some pretty quick and then it just

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continues on as microbes break down those
organic molecules. And you know, microlife

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is loaded with natural occurring microbial organisms. These are things that you find in

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nature. Just lots and lots of
different types. I think the other day

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I was counting as like over thirty
different individual types of microbes with like I

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don't know, ninety strains or whatever. All together. There's lots of strains

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and each one has has its own
roles. Some work with the roots to

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help release nutrients. Some and interact
with the roots and cause the plant to

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grow differently. That's right, microbes
talking to the roots, if we can

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use a human term talking, cause
the plant to be more resilient to diseases,

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to pests. We find microbes that
can affect growth response of a root,

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Lots of things like that, And
I think if you're going to use

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a microlife product, you can use
things like the six two four. You

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can use their fish uls the release. It's a ocean harvest fish based product.

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But I would always put that microlife
hum mates plus in there at least

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once a year. Go ahead and
do that. That's a zero zero for

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so it's not packed with the Big
three. It's got a little potassium in

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it, but it is packed with
microbes and with the humate component itself,

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which is what the product is.
You're building the soil too over time.

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It's it's a gradual development of a
healthier and healthier soil. And that's how

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it works with organics. You're you're
changing things slowly over time, improving things,

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and the plant just ends up thriving
more and more and more. And

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that's that's important to understand. If
you're gonna if you're going to do something

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organically, you're gonna work with nature. Well, you've got to pay attention

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how nature responds, and nature gradually
responds over time to the to the things

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that are happening out there. You
know, the leaves fall on the ground,

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they decay in time, they molt
the soil, they release their new

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against the microbial activity picks up.
That's not overnight, but it's an ongoing

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thing and that is how you need
to look at it. You can find

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microlife products all over the place.
Just go to microlife fertilizer dot com and

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that would help you know exactly word
to look for them. For example,

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here's an example microlife source Southwest Fertilizer
down on Bison Utton Renwick. Southwest Fertilizer

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they carry every fertilizer I recommend they
carry insecticide funge a side, every herbicide,

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every organic, every synthetic, and
they when you walk in there,

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if they don't have it, you
don't need it. And microlife's an example.

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They have a very good stock of
microlife products there at Southwest Fertilizer.

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And you you know that it's not
hard to get to busin Uton Runwick in

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Southwest Houston. Southwest Fertilizer has been
around for a long long time and they

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you know, anytime that you're looking
at things to enhance plant growth or things

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to use in an am around the
guard for example, seeds for example,

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tools and fertilizer spreaders. All of
that they've got you covered there. Just

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go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com.
You can find out more about them.

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If you haven't been, you need
to go just to see it. And

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I know people that drive all the
way across town to get there because they

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just over the years have kind of
learned that that's the place. They like

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the way they're treated. They like
the folks that you know, come and

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greet you and help you, and
they're very knowledgeable and they're not going to

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point you to something you don't need
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And you know, you treat people
that way, and that's why you're around

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for decades and decades and decades,
and that's why you have customers that are

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that that committed to your place to
drive a long distance even to get there.

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This morning on garden Line, I
want to I want to talk a

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little bit about the spring season coming
upon us and some of the activities that

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we would be doing right now.
One thing that we would be doing right

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now is finishing up our pruning.
If you need to prune fruit trees,

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if you've got some young ornamental trees
that you need to prune, you know,

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shade trees or flowering trees. Now's
the time to get any kind of

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pruning like that done that you need
to do. But I said the word

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flowering. Anything that just flowers in
the spring, don't prune it until after

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it flowers. So what would that
be, Well, if you had a

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dogwood, if you had a red
bud, if you had a flowering quinch

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shrub, if you had a spring
blooming azolua shrub. There's a lot of

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examples of that. So if something
blooms in the summer, like a viex

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or an oleander, you can prune
it now. But if it's only spring

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blooming. A lot of the climbing
roses are what we call them once bloomers.

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They bloom in the spring and then
they're done, and that would be

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like lady banks rose, So don't
prune those now. Exception. The other

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thing to keep in mind is fruit
trees. They bloom in the spring,

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but forget that being the exception.
With fruit, we're not there for blooms.

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We're there for fruit, and a
fruit tree blooms way more than it

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can support a fruit load, so
go ahead and prune them now like you

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would non blooming plants. For example. We're gonna take a break. Our

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phone number is seven one three two
one two kt RH and I'll be right

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back. Man. Well, we
always used to say we play weird stuff

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on guard line, or at least
we expand your musical repertoire right a little

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bit. All right, anybody can
tell me who was singing that, I'd

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be curious. Our phone number is
seven to one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four. That ought to
be an easy question, by the way,

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at least if you're over, I
don't know four fifty somewhere in there,

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somebody else ought to be able to
know. That's right, this talking

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about spring, talking about where we
are, things we need to do.

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If you haven't had your soul tested, now's the time to do that.

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And the reason I say now is
because we're about to do a lot of

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spring fertilization. And you know,
when the grass starts waking up and things,

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and when you fertilize based on a
soil test, it is a let's

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just say, it's an educated fertilization, meaning you're not just fertilizing blind.

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I can tell you the standard numbers
and our fertilizer blends we recommend are good

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standard numbers. You know, with
turf, when you're talking about about a

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three one two four one two top
ratio in general, that is a very

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good ratio for turf. It is
each yard could be different. You know,

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maybe the people that own the place
before you use the triple thirteen or

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twelve twenty four to twelve. That's
another one used to be used long ago.

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Lots I means recommended all the time. Well, if you do that

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over and over and over and over
through the years, you're going to get

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too much phosphorus in your soil.
And in that case, you don't need

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any of it. You've got enough
to last you and you just don't need

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it. So I guess what I'm
saying is start with a test and find

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out where you are, and then
there's going to be a fertilizer that fits

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what you need. Just find It's
real easy to do. If you want

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your soil tests, and you can
go to Soil Testing dot TAMU dot edu

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or here do this, go to
my website Gardening with Skip dot com.

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Gardening with Skip dot com. The
latest publication I put on there. In

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fact I'm gonna post in fact I
did post it. I think yeah,

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I did post it last night to
Facebook, the garden Line facebook page,

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and it talks about how to do
a soil testing made easy. It's not

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that hard, it's not mysterious,
and I explain exactly how to do it.

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There's a direct link to the lab
if you'd like to do that.

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But that is a minor investment,
and you don't need to do that every

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year, once ever three years or
even even less if you things are kind

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of in order. But in a
garden where you're doing a lot of fertile

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fertilizing and you're adding composts and things
like that, you're getting a nutrient level

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that's going up higher and higher,
especially with the additions of compost on a

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regular basis. In one of our
lists to say, roto tilled or spaded

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garden areas like a flower bed or
a vegetable garden, because we're always adding

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stuff to improve the soil there.
In a lawn, you know, you

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can't rotal till the lawn, it'll
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in a garden we are and so
you do need to check it periodically,

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but that's how you do it gardening
with skip dot com. It's as simple

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as that bookmark that. Because we
continue to add things. You know,

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we went through freezes, we added
something on freeze protection. The gardening schedules,

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a lawn schedule rather the and the
lawn pest we in disease management schedules

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are both up there if you would
like to do that. In my backyard,

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I have two golden retrievers, and
they are retrievers. They when I

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plant plants, they retrieve them,
bring them back to the back porch,

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thank you very much. And they
also have torn up a place in the

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yard where I'm going to have to
go in and kind of redo it now.

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But whenever life gives you lemons,
make lemonade. Right So instead of

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just replanting grass right there, I'm
going to do a little bit of a

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different kind of a hardescape out in
that area. I've got some plants,

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part of a little bird bath,
one of those fountain bird baths that recirculates,

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and I just I love the sound
of water. The sound of water

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is so soothing, and there's a
lot of good sounds we can put in

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our landscapes. You know, sound
of water is one, the sound of

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birds is another. We talked about
that once, I believes yesterday, and

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so with the sound of water,
it's just a soothing thing and it'll attract

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that beneficial Insects need to be able
to get to some water for a drink

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that is helpful. There are several
types of beneficials like that. Birds would

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like to come to water as well. And when we have summertime, we

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definitely need to supply some things for
our birds. And if you'd like to

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do that, maybe you want to
go all out and create one of these

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disappearing fountains or something along those lines. Well, piercescapes they are specialists in

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a lot of things. There are
very few companies that can do a lot

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of things well, and pierscapes can. Do you need landscape lighting? Would

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you like to put in a backyard
fountain or some sort of a water feature.

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And here's a big one. What
about your irrigation system? Does it

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have even coverage? Last summer's drought, there were people that were watering all

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the time, but because of bad
coverage with the irrigation sprinklers. Most systems

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are poorly designed. They had dry
spots and they just couldn't water enough to

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keep everything adequate. And so Piercescapes
can come in and they can fix all

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that. They absolutely can fix all
that. But on a need of these

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things, you need to call them
very soon because they stay busy too.

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When you do a good job,
you do stay busy. So schedule as

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soon as you can. They want
to be able to get to work started

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for you before the hot summer weather
comes, so you do have the effect

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of that irrigation system. It's ready
to go. The sooner you start with

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a consultation with them, the sooner
the work can be scheduled on the landscaper's

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books, and so think about that. You can go to the website Piercescapes

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dot com, Pierceescapes dot com,
or give them a call three or excuse

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me two eight one three seven zero
fifty sixty two eight one three seven zero

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five zero six zero. Go to
that website and see some of the work

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they've done. I mean, you're
going to see some early taj Mahal jobs

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out there. But just know that
it doesn't matter what you live in or

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where you live. They you know, in terms of how fancy the place

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or whatever. They can really turn
you're outdoors into a place that you and

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that Well you listening to Garden Line. Our phone number is seven to one

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I was talking yesterday about some events going

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on out at Enchanted Gardens uh in
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in Chenna Gardens, you really do
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a it's a show place. It
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travel from all over to get there. I mean I was out a while

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back talking to them, and people
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to get to in Chenny Gardens just
to see that place. Listen, we

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are fortune in here in Houston to
have some of the best nurseries in the

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state, and way more than any
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fact, I would dare say you
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more good nursery. Sure than they
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a fortunate thing. But in Chenni
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That's on the Katie Richmond side of
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side of Richmond. You go north, how about that three fifty nine In

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Chennigardensrichmond dot com. You're going to
find there that any kind of plant,

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any kind of accessory that you need. They've got it, from seeds to

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plants, to you need a beautiful
rose bush, a beautiful shrub. You

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will get out and plants, your
vegetables and things. They stock all of

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that kind of thing. And they're
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During the week it's eight to five, so it's always a good time.

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And by the way, today's weather
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out there this afternoon, take a
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and you will be as impressed as
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to in Chenne Gardens. Love to
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another big characteristic of our great mom
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is knowledgeable staff and the folks that
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knowledgeable, they're trained, they know
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you go in you really get help. They'll take the time, they'll explain

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things. You can bring a picture
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to identify it. They can do
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We're gonna now head out to Katie
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Hello Hank from Katie, Hello,
sir, I want to talk about

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it can be temperature or be correct
to use nitrogen. Is this a lawn,

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and Randios used to have this on
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you know, toward the end of
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the third week of March would still
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is more of an immediate release for
early green up. Now, nitrogen doesn't

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make the grass grow if the temperature
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it up and you'll get a darker
green color. Then, once we've mowed

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the lawn about twice, which is
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April, somewhere in there, we
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which would tend to be a slower
release product. So hopefully that answered

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what you're trying to find. The
yard took a beating last year. And

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would it be okay to put a
light code of twenty one zero zero first?

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You could for your early application,
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five pounds per thousand square feet.
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what do you consider early well,
I would say that would be you know,

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probably first of March would be good
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little further south, you could go
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say first of March would be the
time. And you want to stay light

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with it because it's it's going to
be an immediate release. Don't do it

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right before a rain because the rain
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of the stuff you put out.
So I like to put it out maybe

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then just turn on the sprinklers for
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down in the soil. Then maybe
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first of April, or even in
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you've done the March fertilization. You
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and be just fine. Thank you. All right, remember that schedules online

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at gardening with skip dot com.
You can find it right there. Hey,

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Hank, thanks for the call.
Thank you. You take care.

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All right, Well, it's time
for Niki in the news. We'll be

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right back if you want to call
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welcome back to garden Line. We're
glad you're listening today, talking about all

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kinds of things gardening. We're going
to start off this segment by going out

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to Cyprus to talk to David.
Hello David, good morning, sir.

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How are you today? I'm well, thank you great great. I was

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calling in reference to I've got about
four acres with a barn dough on it

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and I'm wanting to put in some
bermuda. I have turned the soil with

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basically broke it a couple months back, and to prep it a little bit

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from this last summer seat. And
I was just wondering if you had a

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good bermuda seed that I'm not looking
at for like grazing for cattle. I'm

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looking at something more that would be
for lawn slash, you know, just

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out in the country probably for that. There's a seed called Arizona common Arizona

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common bermuda. It is pretty widely
available. There's a lot of different seeds.

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I think the Aggie Turf website lists
like over twenty five different types of

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bermuda, and some of them are
A lot of them are gonna be hard

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to find, you know, some
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But if you if you were to, if you're up there in the Cypress

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area, if you could find an
Arizona common, you may just check around

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on that. I suspect that you're
gonna need more of it than just a

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little backyard packing. So oh,
yes, you're gonna need a bigger a

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bigger supply. Is the property up
there in Cypress where you're gonna plan,

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No, sir, it's more towards
Schulenberg Houseville area. Okay, a little

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bit sandy like loam, also with
some black you know. Yeah, go

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ahead. Oh, It's just all
I'm trying to do, is is I

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was, you know, wanting to
I'm kind of get ahead of everything,

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you know, the plant because I
think it's March when you usually plant the

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bermuda and stuff like that. You
might want to try talking to the folks

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at D and D Feed and Tomball. If they don't have it, I

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bet they can get it, and
they're not too far from you in the

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Cypress area up there. Just I
guess you would head up Telgi or something

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to get real close to where they
are on twenty nine to twenty. So

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I would try that and see if
they had Arizona common or if they have

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one, and you just explain you
want a turf type but you don't need

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to be a little dwarf. It's
just a standard topp of bermuda. Correct,

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Yes, sir, they would have
If they don't have it, you

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know, I mean you, it'd
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and see if Bob has it down
there too. Now that's a little more

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of a halt for you, but
yeah, that would be the only other

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alternative would be in Schulenberg. I
can't think of who the county Extension agent

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is there for AG but but he
may know someone out in that area to

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one of their suppliers that that has. But I would start with dand I

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think that that's probably your best start
all right, Well, no, I

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appreciate the information on prepping any of
that. So, like I said,

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you know, when we've done other
just pastures, you just you know,

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break it real good and then then
you you know, you sprig it,

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you know for the different grasses.
And I just didn't know you do you

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like something like this? Would you
take and put down any kind of herbicide

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before you the seed or just seed
and let it come up and get a

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little stand and then herbicide, Well
it would be better to do that ahead

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of time to get the competition out
of the way. Uh. You in

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order to have good seed success,
you need to have a clearer ground area

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because you know, we talk all
the time about malts, so you don't

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get weeds in the garden. Well, when you've got a thick cover of

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even if you mowed the field real
low, well, now you just have

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a nice malt cover and those little
seedlings aren't going to get any light.

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Number one, they're not gonna make
it to this little surface like you want

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them to. But but you liked
you need a good a good mulch cover

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for that, Well, I dis
disc it with a disc behind the tractor.

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So I broke it all the way
down and turned it all in.

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It's it's all ground. No,
it doesn't is there is there not bermuda

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at all? There pretty much over
the last two summers. I don't have

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any kind of cattle on it.
And it's just you know, the heat.

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You can only water out so far
to in a lot of it.

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Just from the heat from last summer
filled off a lot of areas of it.

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So I wanted to just see if
I could bring in a stronger bermuda.

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And just because it's just so trouting, it's better for the drought.

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I mean last year was just hard
on everything. Yeah, yeah, well

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that that would do it. Just
remember you know that seed has to hit

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some soil and it needs needs to
get light. That's the two things you're

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trying to give it. All right, sir, Well, I think so

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much of your time. Have a
great day, all right, you take

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care, Thanks for the call.
Appreciate that. Yeah, that's a that's

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a large scale, large scale thing
for sure. You know D and D

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feed. I just was mentioning them. They're up there in the Tombol area

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and it's easy to find them.
You just go if you're in Tombol and

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you head out twenty nine to twenty
to the west. They're just not too

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far out of town there on the
left hand side, and they've got all

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kinds of things you know they've I
just mentioned. Call them for some seed,

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like for a pasture like that.
They in fact, this week they're

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getting in baby chicks. That's when
they start arriving there. And boy do

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they have a great selection at D
and D feed. Just call them.

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Make sure before you go. Two
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four. You can get your red, white and yellow potatoes out there.

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You can get the soils I talk
about, you know, the heirloom soils.

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They've got the plants that come in
periodically out there. They've got the

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fertilizers I reckon men out there.
The nitrofoss is all loaded up there and

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everything. And they have more than
that too, all at D and Defeat

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there on the just out west to
Tomball. Two eight one three five one

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seventy one forty four. You've been
thinking about getting backyard chickens, This would

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be a good time to go ahead
and do that. We're going to head

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out now to Seabrook and talk to
Steve. Hey, Steve, good morning,

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Skip. How are you they?
I'm well, thank you. I

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have two fairly young pecan trees that
are pretty much covered and I believe it's

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called pronounced liking. Huh. And
is there something we can do about that?

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Or is it I've heard a couple
of my neighbors just say leave it

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alone. It's all right. Calm
well, I'm gonna give you a quick

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answer. I'm about a minute out
from a break and if you want to,

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if I need to, you can
hang through and we'll keep talking.

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Likings are a sign that the pecan
is the number one, that the conditions

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are very humid and around it it
maybe the pecans don't have a real great

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edge cover to shade because lichens like
to be in more sun, and so

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as the tree is not real vigorous, you tend to see lichens. And

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people think the lichens did that,
but they came the cause of that,

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not causing it. Right, the
very first year we got picans out of

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either one of them. Yeah,
well, yeah, I would say,

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you know, Steve, I would
ignore it. That would be my suggestion.

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If you want to spray for them. There's some copper based sprays that

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you can get that you know would
would kill the lichen. It takes a

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while for it to shrivel and die
and go away. But the lichen is

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not hurting the tree. It's more
of a sign that maybe you need to

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do a little more weed control to
give it a less competition, maybe a

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little more watering in the heat of
summer, just to keep that vigor on

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the tree up. Okay, okay, sure, I appreciate it, sir.

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All right, thanks for the call. Take care, yes, sir,

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you as well. We're going to
take a break right now if you'd

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like to give us a call.
Seven one three two one two KTRH.

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Good morning, Good Saturday morning.
You're listening to garden line. What do

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we want to talk about today?
Here's the number seven one three two one

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two five eight seven four seven one
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Talking about earlier. I's going to
continue this today. Things to do

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this time of year for spring.
We'll just make that kind of a theme,

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I guess if you will, of
the day it is time to get

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the woody ornamentals that you want to
get planted planted. The sooner you do

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it. The more time that plant
has to develop roots to spread those roots

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out into the soil, so when
summer comes and it's coming, that plant

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is more resilient and able to survive. It just makes it easier. You're

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not having to worry so much about
keeping the soul moisture just right. It

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more and more has that resilience because
it has a wide bank account of soil

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that the roots have filled in order
to draw water and nutrients. So now

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now's the time to get it.
If you're looking for a place to get

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a quality tree planted in a quality
proper way, well that would be a

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Verdant tree farm. A Verdant tree
farm. They got a couple of farms.

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There's one out on Barker Cyprus and
West Houston, and down in Parland

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on Broadway Street there's another Verdant Tree
Farm location there. Now we've known Verdant

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as a place to get all of
the best palms that really are the best

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ones to plant here. But they're
the place to get all kinds of trees,

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a wide variety and if you need
if you need instant posessed. They

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got trees all the way up to
like seven hundred gallons that they'll bring out

407
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and plant when you hire them.
Here's how it works. You go there.

408
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In fact, you can go in
there with a picture and say,

409
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look at this yard, I'd like
a little tree for over here, and

410
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here's what I want. They can
help you find the right tree. You

411
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go out, you pick it out, you get to walk through and go

412
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I want that one, just like
you're getting a Christmas tree, and they'll

413
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put a tag on it, they'll
bring it to your house and they'll plant

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it for you. And that you're
not going to be better than that.

415
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If you are a military first responder. There's ten percent discount that they offer

416
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on that. The website is easy
verdanttreefarm dot com, Verdant treeform dot com.

417
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Give them a call and find the
good tree. But remember, now's

418
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the best time, so get a
hold of them. A lot of people

419
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are wanting trees planted at this time
of the year. Go ahead and get

420
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a hold of them and get scheduled
to get that tree out to your place

421
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and planted the proper way and with
a little proper care this first season,

422
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you'll be well on your way.
When is the best time to plant a

423
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tree? Fifty years ago? When's
the second best time today. Don't delay

424
00:30:37.720 --> 00:30:40.480
get that done. The goal I
always see. The goal when I plant

425
00:30:40.480 --> 00:30:44.559
a tree is how soon can I
hang a hammock in it? Let's get

426
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there quick. Well, I'm giving
you tips for getting there quick. We're

427
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going to go now to Jersey Village
and talk to George. Hey, George,

428
00:30:52.279 --> 00:30:55.799
good morning, Skip. How you're
doing today? I'm well, sir,

429
00:30:56.039 --> 00:30:57.359
How can I help? Good?
Good? Now, I'm trying to

430
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first time I ever tried planting,
and I was curious, Enolf, I

431
00:31:02.079 --> 00:31:04.839
want to eat them all year long? Do I do that like it would

432
00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:10.680
like green vegetables? Plan them,
cycle to plant them and then harvest and

433
00:31:10.720 --> 00:31:12.960
plant them in harvest somewhere. Yeah, plan them all at once. Yeah,

434
00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:18.319
good question, George, good question. The answers know about cycles.

435
00:31:18.440 --> 00:31:22.519
You got two seasons for potatoes.
One of them we put them in the

436
00:31:22.559 --> 00:31:27.640
ground about now, and that means
you buy the little potatoes. We call

437
00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:32.359
them seed potatoes. Basically, we're
going to take that potato, cut it

438
00:31:32.440 --> 00:31:37.119
into sections with two eyes, roughly
two eyes on each section, let it

439
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:42.559
sit in the air on newspaper or
something for about two days or so to

440
00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:48.079
just sort of seal that cut surface
off and then plant it. The next

441
00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:52.359
season is at the end of August, very end of August for a fall

442
00:31:52.440 --> 00:31:56.039
crop. And if you take care
of your potatoes, get them dug,

443
00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:00.480
get them in a refrigerator cooled off. Those two seasons can pretty much keep

444
00:32:00.519 --> 00:32:06.559
you in potatoes all through the year. They last a pretty good time once

445
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:10.880
their harvested under good storage conditions.
All right, So where can I buy

446
00:32:10.880 --> 00:32:15.200
those seed potato things? It's not
their grocery store, yeah, I assume.

447
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:19.240
Yeah, you can get sea potatoes
in a lot of places. Our

448
00:32:19.279 --> 00:32:22.440
garden centers carry them. You know, you've got plantrel season. You got

449
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:25.599
arbigate down the street from you there. I just was talking about D and

450
00:32:25.640 --> 00:32:30.920
D Feed out in Tumball that has
their red, yellow and white sea potatoes

451
00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:35.880
in as well. Just give these
folks a call at one of those places,

452
00:32:36.119 --> 00:32:37.799
because you want to make sure they
still have a stock of them.

453
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:42.319
You know, sometimes you get a
rush on things and they sell. But

454
00:32:42.440 --> 00:32:45.359
I suspect all of those are going
to have some sea potatoes for you.

455
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.400
What was that last one you mentioned? D and D Feed. It's out

456
00:32:47.400 --> 00:32:52.559
there just west of Tumbull on twenty
nine to twenty. Yeah, from you,

457
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:55.000
I would probably head up to Telgy
Road and go north. That'll put

458
00:32:55.039 --> 00:32:59.759
you right in the backyard of Arbigate
and D and D feed. Oh fantastic,

459
00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:06.079
skip you bet, George. Thanks
for the call very much. I

460
00:33:06.160 --> 00:33:10.079
was talking earlier about, you know, compounds that have nutrients for the soil

461
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:16.720
and whatnot. When it comes to
fertilizing our lawns and gardens and everything else.

462
00:33:17.200 --> 00:33:22.000
There's a wide variety of nutrients that
are essential over twenty nutrients the plant

463
00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:27.200
has to have to survive. And
I mentioned this yesterday, but things you

464
00:33:27.319 --> 00:33:32.160
never worry about, like manganese and
molebdenum for example, in copper. I

465
00:33:32.160 --> 00:33:37.000
mean, whoever puts copper fertilizer out
right, Well, plants have to have

466
00:33:37.079 --> 00:33:40.279
those nutrients to survive, but they
only need a tiny, tiny amount.

467
00:33:40.359 --> 00:33:47.240
You don't put too much. And
asamite is a trace mineral supplement and when

468
00:33:47.359 --> 00:33:51.400
you put it out, I generally
will put it out about once a year.

469
00:33:51.480 --> 00:33:52.640
It may be that you would put
it out more often, but a

470
00:33:52.720 --> 00:33:57.240
soil test would have to direct you
on that. But asimite is going to

471
00:33:57.279 --> 00:33:59.759
provide those kinds of nutrients, so
you don't have to put it out.

472
00:33:59.799 --> 00:34:02.279
When you quote fertilize. You could
do it now, you can do it

473
00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:07.239
anytime. But asimittexas dot com is
a website if you only learn more about

474
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:12.159
it in a vegetable garden, which
it's also good for vegetable gardens. I'd

475
00:34:12.159 --> 00:34:15.199
put about ten pounds, oh about
ten pounds on a thousand square feet of

476
00:34:15.239 --> 00:34:19.320
garden. That's so it didn't take
much, just a little bit, because

477
00:34:19.360 --> 00:34:22.480
a very long way in a yard, maybe a forty four pound bag for

478
00:34:23.039 --> 00:34:29.519
six to twelve thousand feet somewhere in
there that would go. So give it

479
00:34:29.559 --> 00:34:31.920
a try. As and MTE,
I think that we often forget about our

480
00:34:31.960 --> 00:34:37.440
trace minerals, but they are as
important as anything, and you can get

481
00:34:37.480 --> 00:34:39.719
as might in a lot of places. I was just mentioning Arburgate a second

482
00:34:39.800 --> 00:34:44.320
ago, Arburgate Nursery. I'm sure
they carry as might out there. I've

483
00:34:44.320 --> 00:34:47.440
seen it out there before. And
Arburgate is the kind of place where if

484
00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:51.639
you've never been, you got to
go. If you went before, you

485
00:34:51.719 --> 00:34:55.599
need to go back because they're always
doing something new at Arburgate. One of

486
00:34:55.639 --> 00:35:00.480
the coolest things that has happened there
in the last ten years is a new

487
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:05.360
parking lot out back behind the store. You just I don't care which way

488
00:35:05.360 --> 00:35:07.440
you're coming down twenty nine to twenty
from the east or the west. You

489
00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:12.880
turn down Trischel Road. It's a
big loop that goes around behind Arburgate and

490
00:35:13.119 --> 00:35:16.119
you park back there and it's all
weather, easy to get in, easy

491
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:20.480
to walk right into the nursery from
there. It's it is. It is

492
00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:23.519
really cool. I love going to
Arburgate. Knowledgeable folks, good folks.

493
00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:28.320
And when you're out there, ask
them for their three to one two.

494
00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:31.320
Excuse me, three one two,
one two three. I got my numbers

495
00:35:31.320 --> 00:35:34.840
all messed up. What is one? Two three? Well, one,

496
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:37.280
it's a food that feeds anything with
roots. Number two it's or soil that

497
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:42.920
has expanded shale in it, which
helps keep a clay open. And then

498
00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:46.800
the compost is number three and that
also has expanded shale. And so with

499
00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:52.800
those three products you just have everything
you need to set the plan up for

500
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:58.320
success. What's the rule in gardening? Brown stuff before green stuff? One

501
00:35:58.400 --> 00:36:02.079
two three, we'll call that the
brown stuff That all three of those get

502
00:36:02.199 --> 00:36:07.960
the soil ready to set your plants
up for success. Arburgate Nursery out there

503
00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:10.599
in Tombole, go to the website, you know, follow them on on

504
00:36:10.920 --> 00:36:17.400
social media. Lots of good information
from those folks. Well, here goes

505
00:36:17.480 --> 00:36:21.760
an hour in the books. We're
going to be back in just a bit.

506
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:23.519
If you would like to give us
a call, our phone number is

507
00:36:23.559 --> 00:36:30.760
seven to one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. While we're closing

508
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:32.440
down this hour, I just want
to remind you that for those of you

509
00:36:32.519 --> 00:36:40.159
who love vegetable gardening, the annual, the thirty ninth Annual Fort Bend Regional

510
00:36:40.280 --> 00:36:46.639
Vegetable Conference is February to eight.
That's this Thursday out at the Fort Thing

511
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:53.119
County Fairgrounds in Rosenberg, Texas.
Registration is forty bucks, which includes a

512
00:36:53.159 --> 00:36:57.880
really good meal too by the way, for lunch, and a full day

513
00:36:58.000 --> 00:37:01.159
of talks. You want to learn
about ease and honey production. If you're

514
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:05.639
a commercial grower, you know,
a small scale commercial grower, maybe wanting

515
00:37:05.679 --> 00:37:09.679
to learn about marketing your produce,
UH climate, drought, proper irrigation,

516
00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:15.840
backyard gardening and alternative gardening techniques,
how to build soil for better crops,

517
00:37:16.119 --> 00:37:21.000
how to grow mushrooms. They expect
that and a vegetable talk, but yep,

518
00:37:21.119 --> 00:37:24.519
they're going to have one of those
integrated pest management how to manage pests

519
00:37:24.519 --> 00:37:30.920
more safely and find it all there. Here's the website Forkbend dot agrolife dot

520
00:37:31.039 --> 00:37:37.559
org. This Thursday, Katie r
H garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

521
00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:43.360
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to kt r H

522
00:37:43.519 --> 00:37:55.239
garden Line with Scape Richter. It's
so crazy just watch him as world.

523
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:09.280
So many things to see about.
Welcome back, Welcome back to guard Line.

524
00:38:09.400 --> 00:38:14.000
There is a glow in the eastern
sky. I always love the start

525
00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:17.800
of a new day. Gardening.
Every day is a new day. That

526
00:38:17.800 --> 00:38:22.079
that is one of the cool things
about gardening. I I talk to gardeners.

527
00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:28.800
I talk to people that would I
guess they I don't say they aren't

528
00:38:28.800 --> 00:38:30.559
gardeners, but they want to be
gardeners. They want to have success,

529
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:34.440
they want to try things out,
and it's just like I don't know how

530
00:38:34.440 --> 00:38:37.199
to do it. Everything I touch
I kill. You know, those kinds

531
00:38:37.239 --> 00:38:43.199
of statements, And it makes me
sad because everybody can grow things. You

532
00:38:43.320 --> 00:38:46.519
really can, you know. It's
kind of like it's kind of like making

533
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:51.639
compost. You can. You can
take longer doing it, you can get

534
00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:53.679
it done faster. You can do
a little better job, but you know,

535
00:38:53.840 --> 00:38:58.440
if a leaf hits the ground,
it's gonna decompose in time, so

536
00:38:58.719 --> 00:39:04.159
you can't fail at making compost completely. Gardening is a new start every day.

537
00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:07.199
Don't be afraid to mess it up. Don't be afraid. Just get

538
00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:12.119
good information. That's one thing we
try to provide on garden Line is good

539
00:39:12.119 --> 00:39:16.639
guidance that's local, that is accurate
for our area, to help you get

540
00:39:16.639 --> 00:39:20.840
started, because we want you to
have fun gardening. It is such a

541
00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:25.280
good hobby that I don't think anybody
should be afraid to try starting growing something.

542
00:39:25.519 --> 00:39:29.360
And if you have problems, give
us a call. We can answer

543
00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:32.360
your questions. Be happy to do
that. I'm continuing to put stuff on

544
00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:36.320
the website just to make it easier
and easier. We've got a lot of

545
00:39:36.360 --> 00:39:39.039
new material coming out out there that
you can go to and reference. I

546
00:39:39.119 --> 00:39:44.280
send you to places all the time
like Aggie Horticulture website for example, lots

547
00:39:44.280 --> 00:39:47.480
of publications that are very helpful,
that are free, that are for our

548
00:39:47.599 --> 00:39:52.719
area, and that is very important. Well, I think you get the

549
00:39:52.760 --> 00:39:57.840
idea. Another important thing is to
get good quality plants, get things that

550
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:00.400
belong here, get things that want
to go row here, and what's the

551
00:40:00.440 --> 00:40:05.400
most important thing? Ding? Ding
ding? What's the question of garden line?

552
00:40:05.440 --> 00:40:07.960
We always say it brown stuff before
green stuff. Right. Well,

553
00:40:08.159 --> 00:40:12.880
for example, if you want to
have success, you got to build the

554
00:40:12.920 --> 00:40:15.559
soil first. That is like one
oh one. It's not the only thing

555
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:20.800
that's important. It's not the only
thing that's critical, but it is step

556
00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:24.559
one. You got to build the
soil. Well out of Warren's Southern gardens,

557
00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:28.480
they had a new thing out there. If they did this before,

558
00:40:28.480 --> 00:40:32.280
I wouldn't aware of it. But
they now carry the supersacks of heirloom soils,

559
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:37.320
age leaf compost and the heirloom soils
veggie and herb mix. So the

560
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:40.920
supersack is a cubic yard and you
can go there. I mean they just

561
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:45.960
set it in the pickup or on
the trailer or whatever. It just you

562
00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:47.760
take the whole thing home. Instead
of buying eight hundred bags, you just

563
00:40:47.800 --> 00:40:52.960
get a big supersack, and you've
got a very economical way to get a

564
00:40:52.000 --> 00:40:58.320
lot of that material to your house
because building a bed is important. Warrants

565
00:40:58.320 --> 00:41:00.199
has a lot of other good things. By the way, they just got

566
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:02.960
in all the fruit trees, both
citrus and other types of fruits. So

567
00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:08.239
do you need lemons or limes or
blood oranges or they even have an arbikuina

568
00:41:08.280 --> 00:41:14.079
olive. They have several types of
avocados, blueberries, peaches, all of

569
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:16.400
it out there. They also have
a good selection of other things. They

570
00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:22.880
got blackberries, for example. They've
got even a raspberry out there at Warren's

571
00:41:22.920 --> 00:41:27.519
Southern Gardens in Kingwood. Both Warren
Southern Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center, they're

572
00:41:27.559 --> 00:41:30.519
both open seven days a week.
It's easy to find a time that you

573
00:41:30.559 --> 00:41:35.679
can go buy and get stuff fits
around your work schedule. And you know,

574
00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:38.519
let me just say one other thing. When you're out there, you're

575
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:43.880
going to be able to get good
advice. That is very important people that

576
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.440
know what they're talking about. That
is Warrens. They even have the refill

577
00:41:47.480 --> 00:41:52.320
stations for Microlife and Nelson plant Food. You know you buy with those little

578
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:55.039
jugs you've seen those the clear jugs, both those products. You can take

579
00:41:55.039 --> 00:41:59.400
the empty jug back out, refill
it and it's a more economical way to

580
00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:02.599
get fertilized. Plus you're not thrown
away all the plastic. But just another

581
00:42:02.760 --> 00:42:07.679
one of the eight hundred reasons that
if you are anywhere near Kingwood, you

582
00:42:07.679 --> 00:42:10.320
need to go to Warrens. And
if you haven't been to Warrens, well,

583
00:42:10.400 --> 00:42:13.960
if you live halfway across town,
you need to go check it out.

584
00:42:14.079 --> 00:42:16.400
You'll find that it's very, very
cool. We're going to go out

585
00:42:16.400 --> 00:42:21.400
to Sea Lee now and talk to
Francis. Hello Francis, Welcome to garden

586
00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:24.239
Line. Hi Skip, good morning
to you. How are you this morning?

587
00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:28.559
Well, I'm doing great. It's
spring is on the doorsteps, so

588
00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:34.800
here we go. Yeah, my
favorite time. I have a quick question

589
00:42:34.960 --> 00:42:38.320
for you. I have a gorgeous, huge live oat tree in the backyard

590
00:42:38.440 --> 00:42:45.960
that's probably thirty seven to forty years
old and it's very special to me.

591
00:42:45.440 --> 00:42:51.360
And about seven years ago it got
struck by a huge bolt of lightning.

592
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:54.800
Okay, and at the base of
the tree, the bark is starting to

593
00:42:54.880 --> 00:43:00.519
come off. I actually was home
when it happened and saw this, lots

594
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:04.119
of smoke pouring out at the base
of the tree. Wow. The leaves

595
00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:08.400
have done beautifully. The tree has
done beautifully up until a few days ago.

596
00:43:08.480 --> 00:43:10.880
I looked up at the upper limbs
and I'm like, oh, what

597
00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:19.400
is that? And it looks like
white patches more of them than not,

598
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:23.519
and some of them are circular.
So I was wondering if you could recommence

599
00:43:23.599 --> 00:43:29.119
someone that could come out and look
at my tree and see what's going on

600
00:43:29.199 --> 00:43:31.679
with it. I certainly don't want
to lose it. Yeah, very very

601
00:43:31.719 --> 00:43:37.920
special. You're either saying it could
be lichens. Lichens are generally not white.

602
00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:44.360
They can be a light grayish color, or the worst announcement would be

603
00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:49.360
that it's a mold growing on the
tree due to the decay underneath. When

604
00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:53.440
the bark dies, then you can
get decay organisms all the way into the

605
00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:58.519
inner wood. There's no living bark
around the tree to protect it. And

606
00:43:58.559 --> 00:44:00.800
then you see the white. That
means there's rot, which means that limb

607
00:44:00.920 --> 00:44:04.840
is getting weaker and you need to
have somebody look at it. I would

608
00:44:04.840 --> 00:44:07.920
call Martin Spoon Moore over at Affordable
Tree. They're a go to guy for

609
00:44:08.079 --> 00:44:12.360
all kinds of things trees. Martin, let me give it. You have

610
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:15.599
a piner pencil handy, I sure
do, thank you, all right.

611
00:44:15.639 --> 00:44:20.800
The phone number seven one three,
six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven

612
00:44:20.840 --> 00:44:25.480
one three six nine nine two six
sixty three, or go to the website.

613
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:30.880
It's a f F Tree service.
Dot com, a f a aff

614
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:36.800
dot com. Talk to Martin uh
and you know, do it soon.

615
00:44:36.920 --> 00:44:38.679
Let him know you're a guardenline listener
that gets you to the front of their

616
00:44:38.679 --> 00:44:44.239
line, and just see what they
can do. I think they will service

617
00:44:44.320 --> 00:44:47.239
that far out. It may be
that he can't go that far out,

618
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:51.360
but he'll tell you. But he's
the one I would talk to. And

619
00:44:51.679 --> 00:44:53.880
if he can't do it, he'll
he'll, you know, suggest what he

620
00:44:53.960 --> 00:44:58.800
thinks you ought to do from there. But that that is where I would

621
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:00.800
start. He's been doing this for
thirty years here in the Houston area,

622
00:45:00.960 --> 00:45:06.639
and you know, we without hesitation, we'll just send people to Martin.

623
00:45:07.599 --> 00:45:10.760
That's fantastic. Well, I really
appreciate your help and I love listening to

624
00:45:10.800 --> 00:45:15.639
you. Thank you so much for
what you do. And we'll just say

625
00:45:15.639 --> 00:45:17.719
a prayer for that tree. All
right, Thank you. Have fun.

626
00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:22.519
Seeley's a beautiful little town out there. Love love going through Sealy. We

627
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:27.079
love it. It's full of wonderful
people out here. We just really love

628
00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:30.960
it. You've been there a long
time, yeah, bout forty years.

629
00:45:30.079 --> 00:45:37.000
Okay. There used to be a
Richter's Buttercrust bread store out there. Yeah,

630
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:40.920
I happen to notice that that's got
a nice nice name. Oh all

631
00:45:42.000 --> 00:45:45.400
right, you take care, Francis. Do you take care too, skip,

632
00:45:45.480 --> 00:45:47.559
and thank you so much you got
bye bye. We're going to take

633
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:52.400
a little break here again the phone
number seven one three two one two kt

634
00:45:52.599 --> 00:45:58.679
RH. Welcome back to garden Line. We are glad to have you back.

635
00:45:58.840 --> 00:46:00.559
And what are we going to talk
about today? Well, it depends

636
00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:05.719
on what you call about our phone
number seven one three two and two five

637
00:46:05.760 --> 00:46:09.119
eight seven four seven one three two
and two fifty eight seventy four. We're

638
00:46:09.159 --> 00:46:13.960
going to go out to talk to
Joe this morning. Hello Joe, And

639
00:46:14.000 --> 00:46:19.000
where are you calling from? Right
now? The front seat of my car?

640
00:46:19.119 --> 00:46:22.599
I drive Okay, okay, we'll
try to make we'll try to make

641
00:46:22.679 --> 00:46:27.760
recommendations appropriate to that area. Then
okay, Well I'm in Beach City or

642
00:46:28.239 --> 00:46:36.480
Traity by okay. Uh the freeze
and a drought sort tore up my august

643
00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:42.559
in the last couple of years,
and I've had a real bad weed problem

644
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:47.840
and put out barricade in the fall, and uh, I plan on putting

645
00:46:47.880 --> 00:46:52.360
it out again here shortly. Okay, but I I want to go back

646
00:46:52.400 --> 00:46:58.800
with the commuters rat okay, and
see that when would be a good time

647
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.480
to do that. You use the
barricade in the fall, but you haven't

648
00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:07.039
used it in the spring yet.
Not yet, Okay, don't use it.

649
00:47:07.760 --> 00:47:13.639
And here's why. It'll affect your
bermuda seed. It stops weed seeds

650
00:47:13.679 --> 00:47:19.760
from growing. And so wait until
that bermuda is very well established before you

651
00:47:19.800 --> 00:47:22.599
do the barricade. So right before
you're going to plant bermuda, I would

652
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:28.639
wait till the weather warms up pretty
good. I'd probably get into maybe maybe

653
00:47:28.679 --> 00:47:31.599
mid April to put that bermuda seed
down. And right before that you can

654
00:47:31.679 --> 00:47:36.079
kill the weeds you got. You
can rot a till over the area to

655
00:47:36.119 --> 00:47:39.159
get everything down, plant the seed, get them up and growing, and

656
00:47:39.239 --> 00:47:44.360
then just take care of the bermuda. Don't worry about the weeds right now.

657
00:47:44.440 --> 00:47:47.119
And then once the bermuda is established, then we can start dealing with

658
00:47:47.159 --> 00:47:51.039
the weeds. But that, yeah, the barricade lasts a while. It

659
00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:54.360
gives you a good window of control, and not if you do it now,

660
00:47:54.440 --> 00:48:00.360
it's going to affect your bermuda seeds
that you're cutting out. Question,

661
00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:05.920
I've got a bad clover bloom or
clover patches Okay, can I can I

662
00:48:05.960 --> 00:48:09.760
go ahead and put round up down
to kill the clover? Well? You

663
00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:16.000
could? Is this a big yard
two acres? Yeah? Okay, so

664
00:48:16.280 --> 00:48:19.719
I was going to say you could. You could just pull some up here

665
00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:22.719
and there, but not on two
acres. Uh yeah, any kind of

666
00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:25.280
a spot treat you you don't have
to use. You could use that product

667
00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:30.000
you mentioned, but you could also
just use a broad leaf weed killer.

668
00:48:30.039 --> 00:48:35.639
There are a number of ones out
there that our general broad leaf weed killers

669
00:48:35.639 --> 00:48:37.599
brand ups can kill everything. So
if you got grasses and broad leaves to

670
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:42.159
kill that, we would do that. But just for clover, you could

671
00:48:42.199 --> 00:48:46.400
get you know, something like pur
Loans got a weed free zone. I

672
00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:52.320
believe, I believe that's theirs uh
bowneye. We'd beat her. Ultra you

673
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:54.760
know, would would kill the clover
too, but do it soon once it

674
00:48:54.840 --> 00:49:00.559
starts blooming and setting seed. Those
products don't work very well. Okay,

675
00:49:00.360 --> 00:49:06.239
I appreciate it all right, sir, Thank you appreciate that call very very

676
00:49:06.320 --> 00:49:09.800
much. You know, yeah,
down that direction reminds me league city feed.

677
00:49:09.880 --> 00:49:14.039
I was going to try to head
out there yesterday and I got tied

678
00:49:14.119 --> 00:49:17.360
up and wasn't able to go.
But League City Feed is on Highway three

679
00:49:17.679 --> 00:49:23.199
south. League City Feed just south
of League City on Highway three, a

680
00:49:23.239 --> 00:49:28.280
few blocks south of Highway ninety six. So any of you out in all

681
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:30.760
those areas around there, the Lamark, Dickenson, Santa Fe, Webster,

682
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:35.320
Lake City, League City, you
know that whole area. This is your

683
00:49:35.320 --> 00:49:38.400
feed store, your hometown feed store. Thunderbergs have been running the speed store

684
00:49:38.480 --> 00:49:43.800
for three generations. It's that good
old time feed store with good old time

685
00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:46.719
service. They've got the fertilizers I
talk about. They have a lot of

686
00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:52.400
products for controlling pests, diseases with
weeds, super high quality premium types of

687
00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:55.639
pet food there, some of the
horse supplies. You might need, products

688
00:49:55.639 --> 00:49:59.239
for your backyard chicken. They've got
it all there. League City Feed.

689
00:49:59.440 --> 00:50:01.719
They're open Monday through Saturday. Nine
to six. Are closed today, but

690
00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:05.800
it's easy to find a time when
nine to six. You head by there

691
00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:09.920
on the way home from work.
Two eight one three three two sixteen twelve.

692
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:14.599
Two eight one three three two sixteen
twelve on Highway three, just a

693
00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:19.280
few blocks, a few blocks south
of Highway ninety six. We're gonna head

694
00:50:19.280 --> 00:50:22.960
out now to Tomball and talk to
Paul Hey Paul Hey Hey, good morning

695
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:30.400
morning. Yes, sir, hey, I have a question. I have

696
00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:36.719
about a half acre that I planted
of some wallflowers. Yes, and I

697
00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:38.840
was curious. You know, over
the winter, the winter weeds take over

698
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:44.960
and winter grass takes over, and
I was wondering what could be used to

699
00:50:45.159 --> 00:50:53.800
possibly kill the weeds without killing the
wallflowers. You can't kill the broad leaf

700
00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:58.119
weeds without killing the wildflowers, but
you can kill the grass. Well that's

701
00:50:58.159 --> 00:51:00.679
kind of what I thought. Yeah, he killed the grass weeds though,

702
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:06.559
and grasses are big competitors. But
you know, in nature, nothing kills

703
00:51:06.559 --> 00:51:10.679
nothing. The waldflowers just grow and
and and so that's also an alternative do

704
00:51:10.760 --> 00:51:15.000
nothing to it. But there are
some grass only products that you can use

705
00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:22.280
that will kill kill. Uh.
There's yeah, a number of options,

706
00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:25.280
you know, if you if you
want to go back. Okay, alrighty,

707
00:51:25.559 --> 00:51:28.840
well, I do appreciate it,
all right, good luck with that.

708
00:51:29.159 --> 00:51:31.840
I hope you, uh, I
hope you enjoy your wildflowers. I

709
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:35.199
think it's one of the best things
in the world to do, especially when

710
00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:37.719
you've got you know, some piece
of land, piece of property where you

711
00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:44.280
can you know, do some just
make it, make it beautiful. Oh

712
00:51:44.360 --> 00:51:46.480
yeah, yeah, I think that's
a that's a good idea that by the

713
00:51:46.519 --> 00:51:52.079
way, if you decide to go
for a uh weed control over the wildflowers,

714
00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:57.360
and it's a pretty large area,
right. Yes, Yes, there's

715
00:51:57.400 --> 00:52:02.000
a product called ornamech or n A
M And it's one of the two things

716
00:52:02.039 --> 00:52:07.360
that's out there on the market the
home garden market that will kill grass without

717
00:52:07.400 --> 00:52:12.000
hurting broad leaves if you decide to
go that route. Okay, okay,

718
00:52:12.199 --> 00:52:15.599
thank you, all right, I
do appreciate it. You bet. You

719
00:52:15.639 --> 00:52:20.840
take care lots of lots of great
wildflowers that we can grow around here.

720
00:52:21.199 --> 00:52:24.840
I always enjoy getting a chance to
do that. If you are looking for

721
00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:30.679
a quality type of a potting soil
for a potting mix, and a versatile

722
00:52:30.880 --> 00:52:34.760
potting soil, in other words,
one that you can amend as you wish.

723
00:52:34.920 --> 00:52:38.039
Maybe maybe you want to go and
grow some succulents or some cacti,

724
00:52:38.239 --> 00:52:42.320
so you want to add some grit
to a mix to go that direction.

725
00:52:42.599 --> 00:52:45.840
You can do that with Landscaper's Pride. It's their forty pound potting soil and

726
00:52:45.840 --> 00:52:49.039
it's fine to use just as is. It's very budget friendly, but it

727
00:52:49.079 --> 00:52:52.559
is fully customizable. You know,
it's got the aged pine bark and sand

728
00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:57.119
and various blended organics in it.
But I also use it. You can

729
00:52:57.239 --> 00:52:59.920
use it as a weed, I
mean a weed, a seed start.

730
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:02.400
If you're going to start some transplants
indoors. It's just fine for that.

731
00:53:02.519 --> 00:53:07.679
It's one of the many products twenty
seven different bag products from the folks at

732
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:10.079
Landscaper's Pride. UH. If you
want to find where to get at number

733
00:53:10.079 --> 00:53:15.639
one. Their products are widely available, but you can go to Landscaperspride dot

734
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:19.480
com. Landscaperspride dot com. They've
been in business since two thousand and two.

735
00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:23.119
Now it's over twenty years of experience, their local and their top quality.

736
00:53:23.840 --> 00:53:28.800
So give them get give them a
check out there on Landscaperspride dot com

737
00:53:28.840 --> 00:53:30.880
and see some of the things that
they have to offer. Many other really

738
00:53:30.880 --> 00:53:36.119
good, high quality products. You're
listening to the garden Line. Our phone

739
00:53:36.159 --> 00:53:40.519
number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four seven one three

740
00:53:40.719 --> 00:53:45.960
two one two five eight seven four. What do you want to talk about

741
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:50.760
today? I'm talking about UH,
it's the time to get ready for spring.

742
00:53:51.119 --> 00:53:53.199
It is the time we talked about
the importance of planning, what are

743
00:53:53.199 --> 00:53:58.679
you ornamentals? Uh? And also
in that group of what are you ornamentals

744
00:53:58.760 --> 00:54:04.280
or roses? Now, roses are
the queen of the landscape. I mean,

745
00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:07.920
you know, it's just it's just
a bloom that is iconic. People

746
00:54:08.039 --> 00:54:12.840
love roses. Valentine's Days coming,
by the way, be a good time

747
00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:16.239
to get some roses. Right well. RCW Nursery has one of the most

748
00:54:16.320 --> 00:54:22.159
extensive rose lists I've ever seen.
I ask them to send me a rose

749
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:25.599
list a good while back, and
it was like, I don't know how

750
00:54:25.639 --> 00:54:30.519
many pages of roses that they had, but it was like single space,

751
00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:36.800
you know, regular size font Oh
my gosh, it was like six pages

752
00:54:36.920 --> 00:54:39.639
or something of roses. It was
a lot. Let me say that specifically.

753
00:54:39.760 --> 00:54:44.679
Quantity wise, we would classify it
as a lot. I think it's

754
00:54:44.679 --> 00:54:46.760
five pages of roses. They can
get you set up there. They got

755
00:54:46.800 --> 00:54:51.199
all the products you need to to
plant those bushes. By the way,

756
00:54:51.199 --> 00:54:58.320
they carry the fertilizers I recommend on
guardenline. They have a extensive selection of

757
00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:01.480
trees and shrubs and annuals, perennials
and vegetables and all the other things you

758
00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:05.519
can imagine. Right now, I
just want to talk about the fact that

759
00:55:05.559 --> 00:55:07.599
they are stocked up on roses.
I was by there a while back.

760
00:55:07.880 --> 00:55:10.639
They were potting them all up,
getting things ready to go, and I

761
00:55:10.719 --> 00:55:16.880
mean the place was covered in roses. Where is RCW. It's the garden

762
00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:22.159
center that's there where two forty nine
Tomball Parkway comes into belt Way eight.

763
00:55:22.280 --> 00:55:29.000
It's real easy to find. You
can go to RCW Nurseries dot com RCW

764
00:55:29.199 --> 00:55:32.000
nurseries dot com to find out more. But hey, Valentine's on the way.

765
00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:37.320
You can't get a better gift than
a rosebush or Valentine's Day, because

766
00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:40.239
that gift is not just giving them
a vase of flowers on Valentine's Day,

767
00:55:40.239 --> 00:55:45.440
which you know flowers are always way
overpriced for Valentine's Day. It's given them

768
00:55:45.480 --> 00:55:51.159
flowers year after year after year with
that one gift of a rosebush. I

769
00:55:51.199 --> 00:55:52.360
don't know. I was born at
night, but it wasn't last night.

770
00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:57.280
Seems like a good plan to me. Well, let's see here we are

771
00:55:58.280 --> 00:56:01.559
discussing things that we can do at
this time to get ready for spring.

772
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:07.679
If you are dealing with problems in
your landscape, this is a good time

773
00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:09.880
to get those things diagnosed to find
out what's going on. You can go

774
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:13.679
to our good mom and pop garden
centers and say, you know, hey,

775
00:56:13.719 --> 00:56:15.079
here's a leaf, here's a plant, here's a weed, whatever,

776
00:56:15.480 --> 00:56:19.000
what can we do about it?
And they can guide you. They can

777
00:56:19.039 --> 00:56:22.239
guide you in that, and then
when you know what you need, just

778
00:56:22.440 --> 00:56:29.039
go to ACE Hardware and they're going
to have everything from insect control, disease

779
00:56:29.079 --> 00:56:32.880
control, weed control. ACE Hardware
has got it. I was out the

780
00:56:34.000 --> 00:56:37.079
ACE up and porter this week and
just looking at all the supplies that Jeff

781
00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:44.639
had up there at Jnr's Ace.
I'm telling you the it always surprises me.

782
00:56:44.719 --> 00:56:49.079
In fact, I put a Facebook
post in of the barbecue area.

783
00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:53.639
If you want a high quality barber, keep it things like Traeger and Big

784
00:56:53.679 --> 00:56:59.079
Greenick. They've got that and a
bazillion accessories that you need. If you

785
00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:02.719
just want bling for the house,
you know, home decorations and whatnot,

786
00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:06.639
they've got You had to picture of
that too when I was up there.

787
00:57:06.960 --> 00:57:09.639
If you have problems with the irrigation
system you need to replace a broken head

788
00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:14.440
or something, they've got all the
plumbing parts to fix your sprinkler system.

789
00:57:14.960 --> 00:57:17.920
ACE is set up for everything.
ACE is a place for you fill in

790
00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:23.119
the blank. Go to acehrdware dot
com find the store locator and it's not

791
00:57:23.199 --> 00:57:27.119
going to be hard to find out
one of the forty stores in the Greater

792
00:57:27.199 --> 00:57:30.320
Houston area, to find one that
is very close to you. That yeah,

793
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:35.159
I mean that is so handy to
know the company and know that there's

794
00:57:35.199 --> 00:57:38.519
one of those really close by.
And each is independently owned. You know,

795
00:57:38.559 --> 00:57:46.639
this isn't like this giant centrally controlled
chain. This is like each store

796
00:57:47.159 --> 00:57:52.480
there's a personal, local owner who's
taking care of you. That's why you

797
00:57:52.559 --> 00:57:55.639
get that kind of service and that
kind of attention, and that's why each

798
00:57:55.679 --> 00:58:00.280
store is unique in its own way. It's time for a break. Here's

799
00:58:00.320 --> 00:58:05.079
the number seven one three two one
two kt r H and here's Nikky.

800
00:58:06.239 --> 00:58:12.079
Welcome back to Garden Line. We
are talking about getting ready for spring today

801
00:58:12.320 --> 00:58:15.519
because it is time. I mean
it is time. What did we do

802
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:21.239
well? We build the soil.
That's important. Absolutely anything you're gonna plant,

803
00:58:21.280 --> 00:58:22.639
you're gonna put in flowers, you
can put in shrubs, you're gonna

804
00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:28.440
plant a vegetable garden or herbs,
You've got to fix the soil first.

805
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:31.800
Even areas where you can't get in
and rototill the soil like a lawn.

806
00:58:32.320 --> 00:58:36.639
We do add the nutrients we need. We had things like the azumite for

807
00:58:36.719 --> 00:58:42.320
the for the trace elements. And
when soil gets compacted in areas, especially

808
00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:45.039
our heavy clay soils that we deal
with, we can do deep time aeration.

809
00:58:45.199 --> 00:58:49.320
I wouldn't do that right at this
moment, that it's better to do

810
00:58:49.360 --> 00:58:52.599
that when the grass is actively growing, but we can do that. We

811
00:58:52.639 --> 00:58:55.559
can do compost top dressing with a
leaf more compost on our launch. There's

812
00:58:55.599 --> 00:59:00.239
a lot of activities that are all
centered around the soil because the soil is

813
00:59:00.280 --> 00:59:06.920
the foundation for success and when the
roots are happy and thriving, the plant

814
00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:10.599
is happy. Add sunlight to the
top and you've got success. That's kind

815
00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:17.119
of how it works. Good root
zone care. That is what proper gardening,

816
00:59:17.199 --> 00:59:21.840
successful gardening is all about. It's
important to be able to do that.

817
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:25.320
You know I mentioned things to do
to the soil like that in the

818
00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:30.239
lawn. Well, you know,
the folks at Greenpro they're set up for

819
00:59:30.320 --> 00:59:34.119
that kind of thing. Green Pro
they can come out and they can do

820
00:59:34.199 --> 00:59:37.960
deep tenneration. Greenpro can come out
and do compass top dressing or maybe you're

821
00:59:38.000 --> 00:59:40.719
needing to just level the area out
a little bit. You do a little

822
00:59:40.760 --> 00:59:45.079
sand top dressing over the lawn,
a little top soil. Green Pro can

823
00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:47.719
come out and they can do that
sort of thing too. Now it's easy

824
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:52.079
to get a hold of them,
just go to the website. It's greenpro

825
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:59.440
dot net. Greenpro dot Net.
That is the key to success with the

826
00:59:59.519 --> 01:00:02.760
lawn that has been struggling. Last
summer took its toe on a lot of

827
01:00:02.840 --> 01:00:07.320
lawns and as we get going this
year, we're gonna have to rebuild,

828
01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:15.480
rebuild those areas and deep time aerration
and core aeration specifically and compost top dressing

829
01:00:15.599 --> 01:00:20.519
is important. Now what do we
mean by core aeration, Well, you

830
01:00:20.559 --> 01:00:25.119
can rent little aerrator machines you pull
behind that just sort of squeeze a hole

831
01:00:25.199 --> 01:00:30.480
into the soil, kind of like
you took a a dow and just shoved

832
01:00:30.519 --> 01:00:34.400
it down in the soil. What
that does, though, is that presses

833
01:00:35.400 --> 01:00:37.920
the hole open and you end up
with a little bit of a compaction around

834
01:00:37.960 --> 01:00:42.679
the sides of that hole. It's
better to have a core, a hollow

835
01:00:42.760 --> 01:00:46.679
core aerrator and that's what green Pro
uses. Go down in the soil and

836
01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:51.679
pull a plug out and leave that
plug on the surface. It looks like

837
01:00:51.760 --> 01:00:54.960
you had a little dog convention all
over the lawn. At the top that

838
01:00:55.119 --> 01:01:00.239
soil, those little cores will melt
away. Now you have open holes where

839
01:01:00.360 --> 01:01:05.800
organic matter can fall in there,
your fertilizer and your moisture, your better

840
01:01:05.880 --> 01:01:09.039
water infiltration, and the lawn is
just better able to thrive. And that's

841
01:01:09.039 --> 01:01:12.000
what green pro does. Again,
if you want to get a hold of

842
01:01:12.039 --> 01:01:16.280
them greenpro dot net. Even if
you call them and get on the schedule,

843
01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:21.800
you know, so you're ready to
go whenever the warm season hits and

844
01:01:21.880 --> 01:01:23.519
things are warming up a little bit. We'll go ahead and do that now.

845
01:01:23.800 --> 01:01:29.199
And the phone number is two eight
one three five one forty seven thirty

846
01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:34.719
three two eight one three five one
green that's right, g r ee and

847
01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:37.800
some people like the dial by letters. Well there you go. We're gonna

848
01:01:37.800 --> 01:01:43.639
go now to South Houston and talk
to Parker. Hey Parker, Hey,

849
01:01:43.719 --> 01:01:45.760
good morning, good morning. I
want to thank you for the tip yesterday.

850
01:01:46.000 --> 01:01:51.960
I'm purchased the twenty three bags of
fine needles from my neighbor. Oh

851
01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:57.360
all right, all right, so
this is a neighbor kid, right,

852
01:01:58.159 --> 01:02:00.360
yes, sir, yes, so
your up in. A little hard working

853
01:02:00.440 --> 01:02:06.360
kid make a liven there you go, Well, he couldn't find a paper

854
01:02:06.440 --> 01:02:10.199
route. How's that? Hey,
it's a good cause to rake pine needles.

855
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:15.599
Yes, and I put an order
in for this summer for another twenty

856
01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:17.400
bags if he can get them.
So there you go. Sure he'll go

857
01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:22.840
to hustleing all. My question is
about tomato pruning. When they're growing the

858
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:27.199
suckers, do you remove them or
leave them? You remove them. Now,

859
01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:30.599
there's two ways to go about it. One, not many people's steak

860
01:02:30.880 --> 01:02:37.199
tomatoes anymore, but if you did
grow a steaked tomato, you remove every

861
01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:40.239
sucker and just let the main stem
come up the steak and set a cluster

862
01:02:40.440 --> 01:02:45.480
titus at each leap. Most yeah, cages is what most people do.

863
01:02:45.840 --> 01:02:50.119
And so there I would remove the
first, you know, two or three

864
01:02:50.199 --> 01:02:53.119
suckers, and then as they begin
to grow, remove a sucker here and

865
01:02:53.159 --> 01:02:59.360
there as you go. Because a
tomato vine left unsuckered will fill that cage

866
01:02:59.440 --> 01:03:02.400
so down that air can't get through
there. You can't see inside there.

867
01:03:02.519 --> 01:03:07.880
It's easier for pests and diseases to
build up. And so you don't keep

868
01:03:07.960 --> 01:03:12.960
suckering a tomato removing all the suckers
in a cage. But start off with

869
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:16.400
a few sucker removal and then as
they grow, don't be afraid to do

870
01:03:16.480 --> 01:03:20.480
some more removing because they're going to
grow way more shoots than you need,

871
01:03:21.199 --> 01:03:27.719
Okay, And planting them, plant
them as deep as possible up to the

872
01:03:27.760 --> 01:03:30.159
top canopy. Yeah, you can
do that. I mean, you know,

873
01:03:30.199 --> 01:03:34.000
people talk about laying a tomatover in
a trench. If I've got a

874
01:03:34.039 --> 01:03:37.639
real long, lanky tomato, I
will definitely lay it over in the trench

875
01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:43.519
bury the stem, but I prefer
lay it sideways because getting those roots up

876
01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:49.039
within the maybe three inches of the
surface, they'll develop roots all along that

877
01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:54.320
stem very well and that highly oxygenated
soil up near the surface. And that's

878
01:03:54.400 --> 01:03:59.239
a technique. But I've also planted
them where I just planted them. You

879
01:03:59.280 --> 01:04:00.800
know, if they're not long and
lanky, you don't have to lay a

880
01:04:00.840 --> 01:04:04.599
tomato down. Late in the summer, when they get a little bit lanky

881
01:04:04.639 --> 01:04:09.000
and stuff like that, I'll go
ahead and lay them down and they will

882
01:04:09.039 --> 01:04:13.079
rerout alone along the steem. Like
you said, sometimes you get sprouts and

883
01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:15.159
new tomatoes for their next crop.
So yeah, you can and that that

884
01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:23.920
is a technique. I've there's a
thing called uh or they just called layering,

885
01:04:24.360 --> 01:04:27.599
and you bend to stem down,
go underneath the soil, cover it

886
01:04:27.599 --> 01:04:30.559
with soil, or just put it
pin to the soil if it's a tomato

887
01:04:30.559 --> 01:04:33.039
soup, and then cut it off
from the monoplant and you're you're back in

888
01:04:33.119 --> 01:04:38.079
business. Okay, yeah, got
you got you. And and my pepper

889
01:04:38.159 --> 01:04:43.000
plants have survived. They did get
some freeze damage, and I trimmed off

890
01:04:43.000 --> 01:04:45.960
all that freeze damage and I'm hoping
I'll get some green sprouts here if it

891
01:04:45.000 --> 01:04:47.480
warms up the next couple of weeks. Well good, well good. What

892
01:04:47.559 --> 01:04:51.480
kind of peppers you're growing? I've
got about five or six different varieties.

893
01:04:51.559 --> 01:04:57.639
Oh okay, mostly mostly halopenias.
It's more than I can eat, but

894
01:04:57.880 --> 01:05:02.639
there you go. I do have
hobnaro in Tabasco. And oh my gosh,

895
01:05:02.679 --> 01:05:05.480
you need to keep that mulch water
so it doesn't catch on fire.

896
01:05:06.039 --> 01:05:10.800
That that's a lot of heat in
the garden. Oh sheah, okay,

897
01:05:11.079 --> 01:05:14.679
the pine the pine needles water,
Yeah, keep them water. You know

898
01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:17.400
those hobb and arrows are so hot
they'll catch the multi Yeah yeah, yeah,

899
01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:23.480
I tried to grow the ghost.
Yeah, and I did one one

900
01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:26.760
year. I got like three peppers. Could need them. That's a deadly

901
01:05:26.840 --> 01:05:30.239
weapon. That is a deadly weapon. Yeah, gosh, thank you a

902
01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:33.559
fine job and appreciate it. Thank
you Parker. Appreciate the call. Now

903
01:05:33.639 --> 01:05:38.280
for all you listening, that was
a joke. Hobb and narrow peppers will

904
01:05:38.280 --> 01:05:41.199
not catch the mulch on fire.
It was just a joke. I always

905
01:05:41.239 --> 01:05:44.719
have to be careful because there's going
to be somebody who who you know,

906
01:05:44.960 --> 01:05:47.079
thinks you can't plan hot peppers or
your start a fire. You start a

907
01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:50.719
fire in your mouth, that's for
sure. Now I'm a wimp. I'm

908
01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:57.039
not like Parker. I I can't
take the heat. I have four different

909
01:05:57.119 --> 01:06:00.000
varieties of almost heatless jlopenias i'm growing
this year, along with a couple of

910
01:06:00.000 --> 01:06:03.679
hot ones. I do like those. I also have a hobby narrow that's

911
01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:10.400
almost heatless. It's called hobban nada. Good word, habban nada, no

912
01:06:10.480 --> 01:06:13.480
heat, but almost no heat.
Hey, we're going to take a break

913
01:06:13.519 --> 01:06:16.840
seven one three two one two k
t r H. Maybe we'll talk about

914
01:06:16.840 --> 01:06:21.519
peppers more when we come back.
Welcome back to Guardenline. What are we

915
01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:25.679
going to talk about today, you
tell me I'm gonna I know what I'm

916
01:06:25.679 --> 01:06:28.880
gonna talk about is things to do
for spring, getting ready for spring.

917
01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:32.599
But if you'd like to ask a
question seven one three two one two k

918
01:06:32.639 --> 01:06:36.639
t r H. Seven one three
two one two k t r H.

919
01:06:36.840 --> 01:06:43.280
I want to remind you that if
you are going to be, you know,

920
01:06:43.320 --> 01:06:47.000
out taking care of the lawn,
doing fertilizing and stuff, it's always

921
01:06:47.039 --> 01:06:50.719
good to start with a soil test. And if you want to know an

922
01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:55.880
easy way, just a simple,
simple, just give me the basics.

923
01:06:55.880 --> 01:06:58.239
How do I take a soil test? Where do I send it? How

924
01:06:58.239 --> 01:07:00.800
do I do that? I just
created a new little flyer up there on

925
01:07:00.840 --> 01:07:06.280
the website Gardening with Skip dot org
dot com. Excuse me, Gardening with

926
01:07:06.440 --> 01:07:11.320
Skip dot com, and it's called
soul Testing made Easy, and that's all

927
01:07:11.320 --> 01:07:13.639
it is. You can print it
out and read it online, do whatever

928
01:07:13.639 --> 01:07:15.599
you want with it. But it's
up there. It's the newest publication we

929
01:07:15.679 --> 01:07:19.400
have up there. And while you're
there you can print out the lawn schedule,

930
01:07:19.440 --> 01:07:24.920
the lawn care schedule, as well
as the lawn pest disease and weed

931
01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:29.639
management schedule. Two schedules that kind
of tell you whatever you need to know

932
01:07:30.320 --> 01:07:33.239
in order to have success with those. If you would like to give us

933
01:07:33.239 --> 01:07:36.760
a call at seven one three two
one two k t RH, we will

934
01:07:36.880 --> 01:07:43.800
be glad to tackle your questions.
The folks that Nelson have come up with

935
01:07:44.360 --> 01:07:50.880
a really cool new product that is
the Nutristar Genesis Transplant Mix. So what

936
01:07:51.000 --> 01:07:57.440
is that. That's a six one
three fertilizer six one three fertilizer. It's

937
01:07:57.480 --> 01:08:02.320
loaded with beneficial bacteria with indo and
ectomycorrhizo fungi. Those are the ones that

938
01:08:02.400 --> 01:08:06.400
help the roots take up nutrients better. It's got humates in it to help

939
01:08:06.440 --> 01:08:12.639
condition the soil and it has other
nutrients as well in that product, the

940
01:08:12.760 --> 01:08:17.039
six' one three Nutristar Genesis Transplant. So it enhances the biology of your

941
01:08:17.039 --> 01:08:21.119
soil. Now here's what you use
it for. You've got some plants.

942
01:08:21.439 --> 01:08:27.640
Maybe you're growing little seedlings like tomato
seedlings for planting out, and you're going

943
01:08:27.680 --> 01:08:30.760
to bump them up to a four
inch pod or a gallum pot. Eventually

944
01:08:30.039 --> 01:08:35.560
you just mix it into the transplant
mix to enhance, to supercharge that mix

945
01:08:35.840 --> 01:08:40.920
and make it even better for roots. You've got a rosebush that you're going

946
01:08:41.000 --> 01:08:44.960
to pot up and put in a
big container. Any kind of a sol

947
01:08:45.039 --> 01:08:48.079
mix that you are going to be
transplanting into, you can add the nutri

948
01:08:48.119 --> 01:08:53.520
Star Genesis transplant mix to it to
just make it do better. Now it's

949
01:08:53.560 --> 01:08:57.039
available in the little jars that you
see, and you're going to find it

950
01:08:57.119 --> 01:09:01.960
everywhere else that you find Nelson Plant
Food Materials, which is widespread availability here

951
01:09:02.199 --> 01:09:04.479
in the Greater Houston area. I
think you ought to give that one to

952
01:09:04.560 --> 01:09:09.359
try. I think you'll find that
it is very helpful and it does that

953
01:09:09.439 --> 01:09:13.439
thing that we talk about, and
that is making the soil better and better

954
01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:17.560
for root systems. Good soil equals
happy roots. Throw in a little bit

955
01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:20.720
of sunshine on the leaves and you
got a happy plant. That's kind of

956
01:09:20.760 --> 01:09:26.560
how that works. We're glad you're
listening. And I wanted to talk a

957
01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:31.279
little more about some things to do
that are connected to this spring season that

958
01:09:31.279 --> 01:09:36.039
we're about to enter into. That
is important. I mentioned the importance of

959
01:09:36.079 --> 01:09:41.520
planting, getting in shrubs, getting
things like that done. This would be

960
01:09:41.600 --> 01:09:45.000
the time if you're going to get
your lawn more sharpened, I would do

961
01:09:45.119 --> 01:09:49.319
it. And a sharp blade actually
makes a greener lawn. And the reason

962
01:09:49.479 --> 01:09:54.640
is that when you create a ragged
cut, you got a dull blade and

963
01:09:54.680 --> 01:09:58.680
it's just ripping the ends of the
grass blades off. You get this little

964
01:09:58.840 --> 01:10:03.560
tan section at the end where it's
the shredded blade end. Multiply that little

965
01:10:03.680 --> 01:10:11.000
ten quarter inch times of bazillion leaf
blades and the whole green color is less

966
01:10:11.199 --> 01:10:14.600
in your lawn. It's like pixelated, if you will, with low brown

967
01:10:14.680 --> 01:10:17.880
pixels. When you have a sharp
blade, that little ten section at the

968
01:10:17.920 --> 01:10:23.479
tip is very narrow, and as
a result, your lawn just looks greener.

969
01:10:23.520 --> 01:10:27.640
So you probably haven't thought about that, but a sharp moor blade creates

970
01:10:27.640 --> 01:10:30.039
a greener lawn. That's how that
works. It's easier and your mower too.

971
01:10:30.399 --> 01:10:34.479
Just another tip and getting ready for
that. If you've not been to

972
01:10:34.560 --> 01:10:38.960
Moss Nursery down in Seabrook, I
was just down there a while back,

973
01:10:39.399 --> 01:10:45.640
and you know it never disappoints Moss
Nursery is it's get this eight acres.

974
01:10:45.880 --> 01:10:49.720
You're wandering through eight acres of gardener's
paradise, every kind of plant you've seen.

975
01:10:49.880 --> 01:10:54.119
I've never seen so much pottery in
one nursery in my life as I

976
01:10:54.199 --> 01:10:57.760
have at Moss Nursery. And the
fun part is as you're walking through,

977
01:10:57.880 --> 01:11:01.279
you know, the habit like a
wooden Africa mask, a mineral specimen sitting

978
01:11:01.279 --> 01:11:05.239
out there, taxidermy mounds, old
swords. I mean, it's just it's

979
01:11:05.399 --> 01:11:11.800
just a cool environment to walk through. Uh And my my personal favorite part

980
01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:15.720
right now is their house plant house. Now at Mos you're going to have

981
01:11:15.960 --> 01:11:18.199
every kind of plant you can imagine. They got everything you need, but

982
01:11:18.479 --> 01:11:24.840
you will not find a collection of
house plants is huge and cool is what

983
01:11:24.880 --> 01:11:29.199
they have done at Moss Nursery and
Seabrook. Do you like succulents? Oh

984
01:11:29.239 --> 01:11:33.680
my goodness, they got string of
everything's They have every kind of thing from

985
01:11:33.800 --> 01:11:38.560
you know, alo to cactus to
you know, like I said, string

986
01:11:38.600 --> 01:11:42.079
of wide verie. Do you like
the more tropicals, you know, like

987
01:11:42.119 --> 01:11:46.640
aglinema and vicuses and things that you've
never heard of. I promise you you

988
01:11:46.680 --> 01:11:51.359
walk in that greenhouse, you are
going to see a number of plants.

989
01:11:51.399 --> 01:11:55.079
I don't care what kind of plant
enthusiasts you are, You're going to go

990
01:11:55.119 --> 01:11:58.760
what the heck is that I've never
seen one of those? That's Moss Nursery.

991
01:11:59.000 --> 01:12:00.720
It's easy to try and website,
and that'll tell you where to go.

992
01:12:00.760 --> 01:12:04.119
It's on Toadville Road, by the
way, our Toddville Road down there

993
01:12:04.159 --> 01:12:11.239
in Seabrook mos nursery dot com,
m a a s nursery dot com.

994
01:12:11.560 --> 01:12:14.039
I need to get back down there. My wife is wanting to get another

995
01:12:14.079 --> 01:12:17.159
string of plants, and that is
the place I just need to take her

996
01:12:17.159 --> 01:12:20.119
to go. A couple of my
daughters went down there a while back with

997
01:12:20.159 --> 01:12:25.479
me and did the same kind of
thing. Let's head to sugar Land and

998
01:12:25.479 --> 01:12:30.199
we're going to talk to Michael.
Hello, Michael hold on doing well,

999
01:12:30.239 --> 01:12:35.239
sir? What's up today? Well, my wonderful wife has gone out and

1000
01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:43.479
bought a plethora of vegetables. Okay, a raised garden dead, I've got

1001
01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:45.720
deal, I've got faith, well, I've got oregano. I need your

1002
01:12:45.760 --> 01:12:50.239
advice on when I should put this
stuff in the ground. And if you

1003
01:12:50.279 --> 01:12:54.000
can give me a little bit of
advice of what type of soil of using

1004
01:12:54.079 --> 01:12:58.079
that garden there, Yeah, I
would, I would use a veggiemex.

1005
01:12:58.720 --> 01:13:02.039
You know you're down there in the
Sugarland area, You're gonna find heirloom soils.

1006
01:13:02.720 --> 01:13:10.760
You're gonna be able to find that
I just went blank. Southwest fertilizer.

1007
01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:13.520
I couldn't say the words. They're
gonna be real close to if you

1008
01:13:13.560 --> 01:13:15.199
ont to had the other way.
You got in Chenny Forest and Jenny Gardens.

1009
01:13:15.239 --> 01:13:18.159
They're gonna have them there. But
they have a veggie garden mix that

1010
01:13:18.239 --> 01:13:21.279
works really really well for that.
In fact, I just got a bunch

1011
01:13:21.319 --> 01:13:24.680
of it the other day. I'm
taking home to put in a big raised

1012
01:13:24.680 --> 01:13:29.800
bed myself, and so I would
do that. It just drains well,

1013
01:13:29.840 --> 01:13:31.880
it holds water and nutrients well.
It's good for the roots. As far

1014
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:35.279
as planning time, Michael, hold
off on the deal a little bit.

1015
01:13:35.359 --> 01:13:39.680
Let's get a little bit warmer before
you put the deal in the ground.

1016
01:13:40.239 --> 01:13:42.680
They're reguno. You could put out
now. You may want to cover it

1017
01:13:42.760 --> 01:13:45.560
up. If we do get a
frosty night, it'll survive the frost,

1018
01:13:45.760 --> 01:13:49.279
but you know, you just don't
want it to get set back. I've

1019
01:13:49.279 --> 01:13:53.520
got a couple other things I've got. She's went nuts on this. I've

1020
01:13:53.560 --> 01:13:59.119
got peas, I've got beans,
squashed, cucumbers and peppers. Okay,

1021
01:14:00.600 --> 01:14:04.119
peas. Now, definitely hold off
on the squash, cucumbers and peppers.

1022
01:14:04.520 --> 01:14:09.079
Let's get past this. Last danger
of frost. You know, we get

1023
01:14:09.119 --> 01:14:13.119
into March and it starts, it
starts to be a little bit, a

1024
01:14:13.199 --> 01:14:15.359
little bit safer if you put them
out early, just be ready to cover

1025
01:14:15.399 --> 01:14:19.640
them up. And those cold frosty
nights, they're not real crazy about the

1026
01:14:19.760 --> 01:14:24.079
chilly nights. We will still have
a number of them. And I bet

1027
01:14:24.079 --> 01:14:28.199
we have another frost for freeze.
Great skip, Thank you so much.

1028
01:14:28.600 --> 01:14:31.399
All right, have a great day. All right, sounds it's good things.

1029
01:14:31.399 --> 01:14:34.119
She went crazy on plants because you
guys are going to eat well this

1030
01:14:34.239 --> 01:14:41.840
year, good healthy food. Thanks
sir. You take care. Yeah,

1031
01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:45.520
I love I love gardening enthusiasm.
Listen, I under my lights. I

1032
01:14:45.600 --> 01:14:50.640
grew all these plants and flats and
it fit under the lights. Then it

1033
01:14:50.640 --> 01:14:54.159
became time to bump them up.
What does that mean? Was that of

1034
01:14:54.159 --> 01:14:57.039
a little six pack sized plant?
Sell? It goes to four inch?

1035
01:14:57.520 --> 01:15:00.520
Oh my goodness, Now what am
I going to do? Number one?

1036
01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:05.560
I'm about to order a new light
just for that. And number two,

1037
01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:09.920
they go outside a little bit during
the day and we managed to get by.

1038
01:15:10.000 --> 01:15:12.840
But oh, it's so much fun
to get out in garden. It

1039
01:15:12.960 --> 01:15:15.000
is just fun. And listen,
if you're listening to this show, and

1040
01:15:15.079 --> 01:15:18.239
you don't have a vegetable garden,
but you would like to grow something you

1041
01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:23.319
can eat, get you some containers
and do that this year. It's easy

1042
01:15:23.399 --> 01:15:27.000
to do. I mean, if
you want to go, there's a wide

1043
01:15:27.039 --> 01:15:30.640
spectrum from You get a five gallon
bucket, drill a bunch of quarter inch

1044
01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:33.039
holes in the bottom, fill it
full of a quality mix, you know,

1045
01:15:33.199 --> 01:15:38.479
veggie growing top mix, and plant
in it and you can grow almost

1046
01:15:38.520 --> 01:15:41.640
anything. You know, tomato.
I like to go bigger than five gallon

1047
01:15:41.680 --> 01:15:45.000
because that's a big plant needs a
little more soort. But anyway, you

1048
01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:49.520
can grow peppers in them. I've
grown like three kale plants and a five

1049
01:15:49.560 --> 01:15:54.640
gallon bucket before and just harvested the
kale leaves as they were coming along.

1050
01:15:54.840 --> 01:15:59.319
Works really well. Or you can
get you a nice bigger container that's even

1051
01:15:59.359 --> 01:16:01.119
better. One of these grow bags. Grow bags work really well, kind

1052
01:16:01.119 --> 01:16:04.359
of a felt type bag that you
grow in. You can go all out

1053
01:16:04.399 --> 01:16:11.680
and buy the most expensive, beautiful
glazed pottery in the world and grow vegetables

1054
01:16:11.680 --> 01:16:15.279
in it. Listen, plants don't
care what they're growing in. You can't

1055
01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:19.039
embarrass a plant by the pot that
I'm telling you, if you want to

1056
01:16:19.039 --> 01:16:21.960
grow them in an old toilet with
holes drilled in the bottom, it will

1057
01:16:21.960 --> 01:16:26.000
not embarrass the plant. That's what
a friend of mine, Felder Rushing says.

1058
01:16:26.399 --> 01:16:31.119
Mississippi plants just want sol volume,
quality, soil, good drainage and

1059
01:16:31.239 --> 01:16:34.279
nutrients. Beyond that, throw them
in what you want. I grow mine

1060
01:16:34.279 --> 01:16:41.840
in wheelbarrows. We'll be right back. Kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily

1061
01:16:41.880 --> 01:16:46.760
endorse any of the products or services
advertised on this program. Welcome to kt

1062
01:16:47.000 --> 01:17:04.760
r H Garden Line with skin ricter. It's so trim. Just watch as

1063
01:17:04.800 --> 01:17:17.199
so many got a taste the soup. Hottazes a sad welcome back to garden

1064
01:17:17.239 --> 01:17:21.880
Line. On look outside. Is
this a beautiful day or what I mean?

1065
01:17:23.000 --> 01:17:26.439
Check out the sunshine, the clear
skies. Oh my goodness, this

1066
01:17:26.600 --> 01:17:30.720
afternoon would be a good time to
get out. Get some supplies. Get

1067
01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:33.760
ready to go, get some soil
mix, get the fertilizers you're going to

1068
01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:36.800
need, any kind of products you
need to get go in this spring.

1069
01:17:36.880 --> 01:17:41.079
We've been talking about them all day. Well now it's a good time to

1070
01:17:41.119 --> 01:17:44.439
go. Do that. Go visit
a garden center, check them out.

1071
01:17:44.680 --> 01:17:48.039
Just get outside and if you're if
you're planting, there's some things that are

1072
01:17:48.079 --> 01:17:50.800
real timely right now. For example, if you're going to put if you

1073
01:17:50.880 --> 01:17:54.640
want to grow potatoes, you know
you can grow your own potatoes. If

1074
01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:56.880
you like, you can do that. Well, now it's time to get

1075
01:17:56.920 --> 01:18:01.119
those things purchased. Cut the potatoes
up two eyes on each seed piece.

1076
01:18:01.239 --> 01:18:04.600
That's a good, good average amount, and give them a couple of days

1077
01:18:04.680 --> 01:18:08.640
to dry off that surface and get
them in the ground. It is time.

1078
01:18:09.520 --> 01:18:12.239
We're visiting a while ago, just
a minute ago with Parker, and

1079
01:18:12.520 --> 01:18:15.279
you know that he mentioned his wife
had peas, and the peas can go

1080
01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:19.399
into ground. Now I forgot to
mention that to him. But peas like

1081
01:18:19.920 --> 01:18:27.319
English peas, snow peas, and
sugar snap type pieas, sugar edible potted

1082
01:18:27.520 --> 01:18:30.279
peas, sugar snap type piece,
those can go in the ground. Now

1083
01:18:30.439 --> 01:18:32.920
if you haven't bought them, and
you're hearing that and going ooh, I'd

1084
01:18:32.960 --> 01:18:38.560
like to grow some of those.
Look for varieties that reach harvest in about

1085
01:18:38.640 --> 01:18:42.199
fifty five to sixty five days.
Some were in there. If you can

1086
01:18:42.319 --> 01:18:45.720
find something in the fifty five to
sixty five range, that will be good

1087
01:18:45.880 --> 01:18:48.319
because we've got to get them in
the ground. We want to protect them

1088
01:18:48.319 --> 01:18:51.159
when we're going to have a freeze, a hard freeze. But you want

1089
01:18:51.199 --> 01:18:57.239
them to hurry up and get that
product available to that harvest available so that

1090
01:18:57.720 --> 01:19:00.760
you don't have hot, hot weather
in there to ripen their pod. That

1091
01:19:01.359 --> 01:19:04.760
is not a good thing. They
do not like hot weather. So sooner

1092
01:19:05.079 --> 01:19:11.640
is better than later on those types
of things. If you are looking for

1093
01:19:11.800 --> 01:19:15.079
a good place to get you all
of those kinds of supplies. By the

1094
01:19:15.159 --> 01:19:20.199
way, RCW Nursery is always a
good place to do that. We talked

1095
01:19:20.199 --> 01:19:24.760
about them earlier, but they're always
going to have supplies of everything you need.

1096
01:19:25.039 --> 01:19:29.000
And if you haven't been to RCW, just remember that's the nursery where

1097
01:19:29.239 --> 01:19:32.000
Highway two forty nine Tomoil Parkway comes
into belt Wagh eight. You're going to

1098
01:19:32.039 --> 01:19:38.359
find everything you need there. You
can go to RCW nurseriesplural dot com and

1099
01:19:38.880 --> 01:19:45.039
that's how you find more about them. I mentioned you know the other day

1100
01:19:45.159 --> 01:19:50.600
that when you're wanting to plant fruit
trees, late winter is the best time

1101
01:19:50.680 --> 01:19:53.960
to get them in. Now,
you can plant fruit any month of the

1102
01:19:54.079 --> 01:19:57.680
year. You can get by with
that, but it is also a plant

1103
01:19:57.800 --> 01:20:00.840
that has got to develop a root
system to get through this first summer,

1104
01:20:00.000 --> 01:20:05.359
so getting it done soon is important. Our garden centers are beginning to get

1105
01:20:05.439 --> 01:20:11.880
the stock in things like deciduous fruits, the traditional fruits citrus for example,

1106
01:20:12.119 --> 01:20:15.560
coming in, so don't delay if
you want to make sure you get good

1107
01:20:15.680 --> 01:20:18.720
selection. Go ahead and buy the
plant when you can get it, and

1108
01:20:18.880 --> 01:20:21.680
bring it home and just take care
of it a little bit until you get

1109
01:20:21.720 --> 01:20:26.680
the spot ready. Don't stick it
in a poorly drained site. Fruit needs

1110
01:20:26.760 --> 01:20:31.079
sunlight and fruit needs excellent drainage to
do well. So if that means you

1111
01:20:31.199 --> 01:20:33.720
need to get a bunch of soil
and bring it in and make a raised

1112
01:20:33.760 --> 01:20:40.840
mound, then do that because you
definitely want to make sure that it is

1113
01:20:40.920 --> 01:20:44.920
in the best well drained, sunny
spot that you can give it for to

1114
01:20:45.000 --> 01:20:50.079
have the best success with that.
Speaking of a soil mixes, Heirloom Soils,

1115
01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:56.479
you need to listen to this one. Heirloom Soils is offering their cocktail

1116
01:20:56.560 --> 01:21:00.840
mix. Again. What is the
cocktail mix A It's a blend of some

1117
01:21:00.960 --> 01:21:03.479
of the best soil packages that they
have at Erlom Soil. You're going to

1118
01:21:03.520 --> 01:21:08.600
get leaf more compos there's h pine
bark, there's cocoa coar, there's shale

1119
01:21:08.680 --> 01:21:12.880
pearlites, you mate sands, worm
castings, molasses, micro rise, a

1120
01:21:12.960 --> 01:21:16.199
biochar. I mean, it's it's
the who's who of soil ingredients all put

1121
01:21:16.279 --> 01:21:20.880
together in one mix. And here's
the deal. And you are never going

1122
01:21:20.960 --> 01:21:26.079
to find a better deal than this
seventy five dollars a yard. Now they

1123
01:21:26.119 --> 01:21:30.479
have a limited amount of the cocktail
mix, so don't wait and expect it

1124
01:21:30.560 --> 01:21:33.760
to be around three months from now. Just go ahead and move on it

1125
01:21:33.880 --> 01:21:35.760
now if you'd like to do it, because you're not going to find a

1126
01:21:35.840 --> 01:21:40.560
better price than that. Now.
It's available in bulk. There's not a

1127
01:21:40.640 --> 01:21:44.760
bad product. It's available in bulk, and you have to go pick it

1128
01:21:44.880 --> 01:21:46.880
up or have them deliver it.
If you're going to pick it up,

1129
01:21:46.960 --> 01:21:53.720
it's Warren's Rock and Mulch and Porter. Just head up sixty nine and past

1130
01:21:53.840 --> 01:21:56.479
Kingwood and when you get to Porter, it's gonna be on the right hand

1131
01:21:56.600 --> 01:22:00.479
side right there, and it's a
seventy five for bulk. If you want

1132
01:22:00.520 --> 01:22:03.239
a supersack, it's one hundred and
four. That's the qubic yard that has

1133
01:22:03.359 --> 01:22:06.560
been put in a sack where it's
real, neat, clean and easy to

1134
01:22:06.640 --> 01:22:11.039
do, so very important to do
that. Now. They also have the

1135
01:22:11.119 --> 01:22:15.960
works potting soil and they're shipping this
out. Our garden centers are colling them

1136
01:22:16.119 --> 01:22:19.720
and saying hey, we need it, and they are shipping it out all

1137
01:22:19.840 --> 01:22:25.560
this week and next week two in
places like allspose up in the woodlands,

1138
01:22:25.840 --> 01:22:29.760
you know, Ace Hardborough Memorial Drive, Kingwood Garden Center is going to have

1139
01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:32.000
it. Warren Southern Gardens is going
to have it out out there in Brookshire

1140
01:22:32.039 --> 01:22:35.800
for those of you out west Nelson
Water Garden not in Brokshire. They're getting

1141
01:22:35.840 --> 01:22:42.319
shipments of the works potting soil and
other other stuff from the heirloom soils as

1142
01:22:42.359 --> 01:22:45.880
well plants for all seasons. They're
going to have a number of different products

1143
01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:49.159
from them, mid Kenny Feed and
Neederland Huntsville Farm Supply for those of you,

1144
01:22:49.319 --> 01:22:54.000
Hey shout out to Huntsville way up
north, all of that heirloom soil

1145
01:22:54.119 --> 01:22:59.199
sources. But the cocktail mix man. What a special deal. And only

1146
01:22:59.479 --> 01:23:03.000
now get it done because somebody else
is going to buy your cubic yard and

1147
01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:08.960
if you're going to make a garden
bed for vegetables or flowers, I mean

1148
01:23:09.000 --> 01:23:13.119
it has a wide variety of uses
because it's got all the good stuff put

1149
01:23:13.159 --> 01:23:16.960
together in one. You're listening to
garden Line. Our phone number is seven

1150
01:23:17.000 --> 01:23:21.319
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seven four seven one three two one two

1151
01:23:21.359 --> 01:23:29.039
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If you have slab foundation problems, now,

1152
01:23:29.079 --> 01:23:30.840
how do you know? Well,
you got cracks on the sheet rock

1153
01:23:30.920 --> 01:23:34.840
inside, maybe going across the ceiling, maybe going up a wall. Typically

1154
01:23:34.960 --> 01:23:38.880
you look over where there's a window. In the corner of the window,

1155
01:23:38.960 --> 01:23:42.920
there's this little spidering crack going down
to the ground outside. Is there crack

1156
01:23:42.960 --> 01:23:46.119
in the brick? Are you seeing
cracks in your foundation themselves? Or maybe

1157
01:23:46.199 --> 01:23:51.319
your driveway, your sidewalk? Fix
my slab foundation repair. That's Tye Trickland's

1158
01:23:51.359 --> 01:23:55.960
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this for twenty three years and he knows

1159
01:23:56.039 --> 01:24:00.760
what he's doing. They give free
estimates for garden Line listeners. So how

1160
01:24:00.800 --> 01:24:03.199
do you get a hold of him? Here's a number two eight one two

1161
01:24:03.279 --> 01:24:09.920
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1162
01:24:10.000 --> 01:24:15.359
nine, or go to his website
at fixmyslab dot com. Listen. Ty

1163
01:24:15.520 --> 01:24:18.560
is committed to several things. Number
one, he shows up on time.

1164
01:24:18.880 --> 01:24:23.279
Number two, he gives you a
fair price. And number three, when

1165
01:24:23.319 --> 01:24:28.319
he fixes it, he fixes it
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1166
01:24:28.720 --> 01:24:32.439
dot com. We're going to go
now to Northwest Houston and talk. Oh

1167
01:24:32.680 --> 01:24:35.760
my goodness, hold on just a
second. I was jumping the gun.

1168
01:24:35.960 --> 01:24:39.399
It's time for a break, Ralph. When we come back, you are

1169
01:24:39.479 --> 01:24:42.319
first up. If you'd like to
give us a call. Seven one three

1170
01:24:42.439 --> 01:24:47.439
two one two KTRH. Welcome back
to Guardline. Glad you're listening today,

1171
01:24:47.600 --> 01:24:51.159
and we are now going to go
talk to Ralph in Northwest Houston. Hey,

1172
01:24:51.279 --> 01:24:57.960
Ralph, good morning. I'm great
to have you on my program.

1173
01:24:58.199 --> 01:25:01.039
Okay, yeah, I have.
I've been here forever. You know.

1174
01:25:01.239 --> 01:25:05.640
I'm ninety years old, but I'm
out there. My garden is good and

1175
01:25:05.760 --> 01:25:12.159
good, but I lost some of
my grass is down and I just don't

1176
01:25:12.239 --> 01:25:15.279
know whether it's gonna come back up. I'll call Mama Saint Augustine in the

1177
01:25:15.359 --> 01:25:18.159
front. I didn't get enough water
on it, and I want to know

1178
01:25:18.279 --> 01:25:21.279
water, but I got other other
questions yet. Yeah. Okay, well,

1179
01:25:21.279 --> 01:25:25.800
how can we help today? Okay? I want to know what's to

1180
01:25:25.920 --> 01:25:30.000
do in my yard, and my
garden is good, governenty gown good.

1181
01:25:30.119 --> 01:25:38.840
But I just uh this don't know
about uh, I got all I gotta

1182
01:25:38.840 --> 01:25:43.039
get too much going on, I
guess okay, But anyway, I'm gonna

1183
01:25:43.319 --> 01:25:45.560
do my garden up. I just
want to brag on you. I guess.

1184
01:25:46.000 --> 01:25:48.359
Well, that's kind of you,
Ralph. I would I would just

1185
01:25:48.439 --> 01:25:53.359
make sure and that you get some
fertilizer down on your lawn. Uh.

1186
01:25:53.760 --> 01:25:57.319
You can do an early green up
if you want. It's on my online

1187
01:25:57.359 --> 01:26:00.199
schedule, or you could just wait
and after you start mowing the lawn,

1188
01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:04.720
put down a quality fertilizer one of
the ones we talk about here on guarden

1189
01:26:04.800 --> 01:26:09.840
Line, one of the ones on
my schedule, and we can then see

1190
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:14.079
those nutrients start to wake that get
that grass growing when it's trying to wake

1191
01:26:14.199 --> 01:26:16.680
up and looking for nutrients. That
that would be the most important thing.

1192
01:26:17.159 --> 01:26:20.960
And right after that would be then
making sure it's mode as often as you

1193
01:26:21.079 --> 01:26:25.439
can, because every time you mow
it, it gets denser and denser.

1194
01:26:28.439 --> 01:26:33.079
Okay, I got another question.
I got my pecan trees or overloaded with

1195
01:26:33.199 --> 01:26:38.319
pecans? Is it's been a crazy
year for my all my trees and everything

1196
01:26:40.039 --> 01:26:42.720
anything. I can Some of them
are good, but some are them more

1197
01:26:42.800 --> 01:26:50.239
good? Can I do anything with
them? I got a two big trees.

1198
01:26:51.720 --> 01:26:56.199
They come down and they are producing
for you though, right, you're

1199
01:26:56.239 --> 01:27:01.399
getting some production. Yes, okay, well that's a long time. I've

1200
01:27:01.439 --> 01:27:05.239
been here a long time. Yeah, yeah, okay, Well just again,

1201
01:27:05.920 --> 01:27:13.520
pecans need some vigor to produce well. So they also benefit from fertilizing

1202
01:27:14.479 --> 01:27:17.800
things you do to keep the competition
down underneath them, you know, just

1203
01:27:17.960 --> 01:27:23.359
keeping the grass down. If they're
big trees, there's no multing around them.

1204
01:27:23.399 --> 01:27:26.359
If they're young trees, mult helps
them grow faster. But once they're

1205
01:27:26.439 --> 01:27:30.279
established, that's not that important.
But getting a good quality, just treat

1206
01:27:30.279 --> 01:27:32.560
them like you would your lawn.
You can use the same fertilizer on lawns

1207
01:27:33.319 --> 01:27:38.840
on your pecan trees. Okay,
but I've over got there, all these

1208
01:27:38.920 --> 01:27:43.039
old pecans. Anything you can,
I can't. I got to compose in

1209
01:27:43.159 --> 01:27:46.079
my bag in the back. But
did you just throw them away? Oh

1210
01:27:46.079 --> 01:27:50.680
you're talking about the pecan nuts.
Yeah, nuts, it's oh well,

1211
01:27:50.800 --> 01:27:55.079
I mean, you know, you
can throw them out as a malt on

1212
01:27:55.159 --> 01:27:58.720
the ground underneath plants. You can
grind them up if you have a grinder.

1213
01:27:58.800 --> 01:28:03.319
But it's a shame and that's a
big and they cropped this year on

1214
01:28:03.479 --> 01:28:09.960
my ag trees. I got in
my howls. It was am doing really

1215
01:28:10.000 --> 01:28:15.199
good and all all my other trees
and I yes, I just nothing as

1216
01:28:15.239 --> 01:28:17.760
you can do. Just that's just
what it is. Yeah, just throw

1217
01:28:17.800 --> 01:28:20.199
them out on the ground as a
malts. That'd be just fine. But

1218
01:28:20.800 --> 01:28:24.399
good luck with those. And hey, Ralph, thank you so much for

1219
01:28:24.520 --> 01:28:27.800
calling. I appreciate that. And
good luck with those because they like your

1220
01:28:27.840 --> 01:28:29.960
program. You're the best. Thank
you, Thank you, sir. I

1221
01:28:30.039 --> 01:28:38.479
appreciate that very much. If you
are in the Tomball direction, that would

1222
01:28:38.479 --> 01:28:41.520
be plants for all seasons. On
Highway to forty nine. I'm talking about

1223
01:28:41.960 --> 01:28:45.840
you're going up to forty nine,
you cross over the exit for Luetta and

1224
01:28:45.960 --> 01:28:47.840
go off to the right there and
just past Luetta, it's plants for all

1225
01:28:47.880 --> 01:28:53.119
seasons. Now, I know a
lot of people already know that very popular

1226
01:28:53.239 --> 01:28:56.039
in that area. That people know, they love it. They know when

1227
01:28:56.079 --> 01:28:58.760
they go there they're going to get
good service. That's why they go back.

1228
01:28:58.840 --> 01:29:01.079
I was like going by myself off
visiting with Sherry and the rest of

1229
01:29:01.119 --> 01:29:04.720
the Flowery family and the folks they
have there. It's just a quality group.

1230
01:29:04.840 --> 01:29:08.760
They know what they're talking about.
They give good advice, they carry

1231
01:29:08.840 --> 01:29:15.079
good plants. They are happy to
provide service after the sale, and that's

1232
01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:17.119
all you can ask for in a
garden center. There's a reason they've been

1233
01:29:17.119 --> 01:29:21.359
around since nineteen seventy three, and
it's because people love to go back to

1234
01:29:21.439 --> 01:29:26.680
Plants for All seasons. The websites
Plants for All Seasons dot com. The

1235
01:29:26.840 --> 01:29:32.279
phone number write this down two eight
one three seven six sixteen forty six two

1236
01:29:32.319 --> 01:29:38.000
eight one three seven six one six
for six. I had to get my

1237
01:29:38.399 --> 01:29:42.680
brain straight there. Listen. If
you are a green thumb, you already

1238
01:29:42.720 --> 01:29:45.760
know about plants for all seasons.
If you're a brown thumb and you want

1239
01:29:45.800 --> 01:29:48.640
to see it turned green, you
need to visit Plants for All Seasons again

1240
01:29:49.039 --> 01:29:54.880
right there, just north of Luetta
on Highway to forty nine. I love

1241
01:29:55.000 --> 01:29:58.520
visiting the place myself. Where are
we going to go now? I believe

1242
01:29:58.600 --> 01:30:00.960
we are going to head to the
the Galleria area and talk to Chip.

1243
01:30:01.119 --> 01:30:04.760
Hello, Chip, Hey, good
morning, good morning, love this show.

1244
01:30:05.039 --> 01:30:10.880
Hey, can you replete please?
The soil place that you said was

1245
01:30:11.000 --> 01:30:16.119
north of oh An importer it's in
Porter. It's called the soil place is

1246
01:30:16.159 --> 01:30:24.239
called Warren's Rock and Mulch. That's
a soil yard in Porter and woul.

1247
01:30:24.239 --> 01:30:27.720
Do you have a phone number for
them? I do that you can call

1248
01:30:27.800 --> 01:30:32.479
them. I believe eight three to
two, two to one zero seventy nine

1249
01:30:33.039 --> 01:30:40.000
zero eight. That's the number I
have. Yeah, I generally don't call

1250
01:30:40.079 --> 01:30:44.680
it there the perfect perfect, but
there they're in Porter. Because that cocktail

1251
01:30:44.760 --> 01:30:49.720
mix that you describe sounded wonderful.
It is wonderful in that building a raised

1252
01:30:49.760 --> 01:30:53.439
bed garden for my mom's house.
And there you go. You know,

1253
01:30:53.520 --> 01:30:56.079
it all starts, It all starts
with the soil. Can you give me

1254
01:30:56.079 --> 01:31:00.439
the address one more time up in
Porter? Let me see here. Let

1255
01:31:00.479 --> 01:31:08.239
me fucking click on here and get
the actual address. They're on US fifty

1256
01:31:08.319 --> 01:31:13.920
nine, the numbers twenty three nine
US fifty nine Importer. Here. I'll

1257
01:31:13.960 --> 01:31:16.000
make it real easy. You just
go to Porter and you pull off.

1258
01:31:17.159 --> 01:31:21.000
Just go to Porter and you pull
off. There you exit. I guess

1259
01:31:21.119 --> 01:31:27.680
the exit would be for FM thirteen
fourteen. Yeah, it's the big main

1260
01:31:27.960 --> 01:31:30.359
main cross street Importer. But before
you get to that, though, there's

1261
01:31:30.359 --> 01:31:33.720
a tractor supply right close to there. Yeah, perfect, all right,

1262
01:31:33.720 --> 01:31:38.640
I'm gonna swing by. Thank you
sir for show you bet you take care

1263
01:31:40.000 --> 01:31:45.239
appreciate that call. All right,
Well, let's see I had Charles.

1264
01:31:45.279 --> 01:31:48.159
I believe we lost Charles. If
if you'd like to call back, we

1265
01:31:48.239 --> 01:31:51.039
can get you back on there.
We lost you. There'd be happy to

1266
01:31:51.119 --> 01:31:58.239
visit with you about all those things. Hey. Micro Life fertilizers widespread,

1267
01:31:58.439 --> 01:32:03.119
wide, known known. They've been
a leader in the organic fertilizer and organic

1268
01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:09.600
products in general really for a very
very long time. And they have a

1269
01:32:09.720 --> 01:32:15.039
product called Humates Plus. It's a
zero zero four and I'm suggesting that you

1270
01:32:15.560 --> 01:32:18.560
put that down on your soils now. It doesn't matter if it's your lawn,

1271
01:32:18.640 --> 01:32:23.159
it doesn't matter if it's a flower
better or garden soil. Humates help

1272
01:32:23.279 --> 01:32:28.680
improve the soil. They're the final
decomposition stage of organic matter. You know,

1273
01:32:28.800 --> 01:32:32.079
we have dry leaves and grass clippings
and animal manure things like that.

1274
01:32:32.399 --> 01:32:39.840
That's organic matter that decomposes into compost, and then compost decomposes fully all the

1275
01:32:39.880 --> 01:32:44.880
way into something called humate. And
Humates plus has a good little concentration of

1276
01:32:44.960 --> 01:32:49.279
potassium in it. But most importantly
it's got the soil structure building capabilities,

1277
01:32:49.439 --> 01:32:59.600
and it is loaded with thirty plus
different kinds of microbial activity organisms and it's

1278
01:32:59.680 --> 01:33:04.119
got like ninety strains totally many strains
of all those organisms. You know,

1279
01:33:04.399 --> 01:33:08.399
you may have a Bacillis, which
is a bacteria, and there's a lot

1280
01:33:08.479 --> 01:33:12.560
of great Bacillus for the soil,
and there may be number of strains of

1281
01:33:12.640 --> 01:33:17.199
Bacillus and they've got that all packed
into that one product, Microlife Humates plus

1282
01:33:17.439 --> 01:33:21.319
zero zebra four. It is a
purplish, dark blue, purplish bag.

1283
01:33:23.159 --> 01:33:26.359
And you just need to try it. You need to use it, because

1284
01:33:26.439 --> 01:33:29.279
I'll tell you this, you will
see the results. Now. Anytime you're

1285
01:33:29.279 --> 01:33:32.199
building soil organically, it's not like
you just put something down and it's all

1286
01:33:32.279 --> 01:33:38.800
over and everything changes overnight. It's
a gradual process like nature does. Nature

1287
01:33:38.920 --> 01:33:42.760
builds soil over time, but over
time it builds the best soil you can

1288
01:33:42.840 --> 01:33:46.039
have. And that's what we're going
for in an organic system is to build

1289
01:33:46.119 --> 01:33:50.680
that soil and grow ourselves out of
and create a healthy root zone environment,

1290
01:33:51.079 --> 01:33:56.520
grow ourselves out of the problems that
we deal with. And it just it

1291
01:33:56.680 --> 01:33:59.600
happens in time. You stay faithful
to it, you stay with it,

1292
01:34:00.039 --> 01:34:05.399
we'll see those kind of results.
I've talked about today a lot about what

1293
01:34:05.640 --> 01:34:09.399
to do. It's time for spring. Here we are. What are the

1294
01:34:09.520 --> 01:34:14.199
things that we need to be getting
done at this point in time. If

1295
01:34:14.319 --> 01:34:18.800
you purchase something like tomatoes or peppers
or eggplant, just know that it's a

1296
01:34:18.880 --> 01:34:23.319
little early to put them out now. I often do put them out early

1297
01:34:23.479 --> 01:34:27.159
like this because I know I'll cover
them up and i'll protect them and i'll

1298
01:34:27.199 --> 01:34:30.159
get them through. I don't think
we're through with frosts and freezes yet,

1299
01:34:30.600 --> 01:34:32.600
but I'll go ahead and purchase them, and myself, I'll plan them and

1300
01:34:32.760 --> 01:34:36.119
just have the covers over them.
But if you want, you can purchase

1301
01:34:36.159 --> 01:34:40.640
them and just bump them up to
a bigger container, have them out in

1302
01:34:40.720 --> 01:34:44.760
the sun during the day. If
it's a night that's going to drop down,

1303
01:34:44.920 --> 01:34:46.359
you know, fifty degrees, and
go ahead and bring them in for

1304
01:34:46.479 --> 01:34:50.359
that night. But get them out
there and a bigger container. You'll get

1305
01:34:50.399 --> 01:34:54.279
them growing. Next thing. You
know, those things will be blooming and

1306
01:34:54.479 --> 01:34:57.800
even setting fruit. And then when
you put them out, you've got that

1307
01:34:58.000 --> 01:35:00.800
head start. You didn't start off
with that little small plant. Now you've

1308
01:35:00.800 --> 01:35:05.159
got a bigger plant than when you
feel like the coast is clear and it's

1309
01:35:05.239 --> 01:35:08.600
safe. You got to do a
roll of the dice to know. But

1310
01:35:09.279 --> 01:35:12.399
you can put them right out and
do that, and that makes it makes

1311
01:35:12.439 --> 01:35:15.359
it real easy and get you can
get those plants, by the way,

1312
01:35:15.560 --> 01:35:18.039
all kinds of plants. If you're
up in the Montgomery area at A and

1313
01:35:18.159 --> 01:35:23.680
A A and A Plants and Produce
Ana is on the east side of Montgomery

1314
01:35:23.800 --> 01:35:26.399
off right off one O five.
There you've seen it every time you drive

1315
01:35:26.479 --> 01:35:29.800
by, especially those of you who
live up in the Lake Conroe area,

1316
01:35:29.880 --> 01:35:33.359
all the neighborhoods around Lake Conroe.
It's your backyard garden center. They've been

1317
01:35:33.399 --> 01:35:38.560
there for thirty years and I've watched
them over thirty years. There was a

1318
01:35:38.640 --> 01:35:43.079
time when I was keunty extend an
agent in Conroe, and I've seen an

1319
01:35:43.199 --> 01:35:45.960
a grow over the decades, and
it is it is a cool place.

1320
01:35:46.439 --> 01:35:49.720
You've got, you know, three
acres to wander through looking at trees and

1321
01:35:49.760 --> 01:35:56.039
shrubs and fruit and berries and vegetables
and herbs and boogainvillias and succulents and roses

1322
01:35:56.119 --> 01:35:59.439
and palm trees. And do you
get the idea what I'm talking about annual

1323
01:35:59.520 --> 01:36:02.279
flowers seven days a week, nine
to five. What a great idea for

1324
01:36:02.359 --> 01:36:06.039
this afternoon. Run by an a
plants and produce. While you're out there,

1325
01:36:06.079 --> 01:36:12.119
you're gonna find Chimenea's and metal yard
art, and Tallavera and Trellis's gazebos

1326
01:36:12.159 --> 01:36:17.159
and Topiari's and wemsicle yard art.
I like that, wemsicle. That's a

1327
01:36:17.239 --> 01:36:23.439
fun way. It's fun to say
wemsicle. Yeah, that's cool. They've

1328
01:36:23.479 --> 01:36:25.600
got it all there. If you've
ever been to Ana, you know what

1329
01:36:25.640 --> 01:36:29.239
I'm talking about. If you haven't
been, go this afternoon. It's good

1330
01:36:29.279 --> 01:36:33.000
time to go buy there and see
that. Welcome back to guard Line.

1331
01:36:33.439 --> 01:36:36.600
Good to have you today. Our
phone number if you'd like to give us

1332
01:36:36.640 --> 01:36:41.479
call. Maybe you got a question
seven one three two one two k t

1333
01:36:42.079 --> 01:36:45.199
r H. Let's head out to
Kingwood and talk to Lena. Hello,

1334
01:36:45.319 --> 01:36:50.560
Lena, Hello, thank you for
taking my call. Yes, okay,

1335
01:36:50.600 --> 01:36:57.239
I have three quick questions. The
grapevine that's wrapped around all the trees.

1336
01:36:57.960 --> 01:37:01.039
Okay, how do you get rid
of that? You just have to cut

1337
01:37:01.079 --> 01:37:06.159
it off like up pie in the
branches or at the base. No,

1338
01:37:06.319 --> 01:37:11.399
cut it off the base and everything
above that dies when you cut it off.

1339
01:37:11.560 --> 01:37:14.439
Just you can make two cuts,
take a little section out, but

1340
01:37:15.199 --> 01:37:17.199
just you want to cut it.
Once you sever it, then the top

1341
01:37:17.239 --> 01:37:20.560
will all be dead. Now the
roots will then re sprout or the base

1342
01:37:20.560 --> 01:37:26.079
will re sprout. So right when
you cut it right away. Get a

1343
01:37:26.279 --> 01:37:32.039
product that contains tri cloap here t
R I C l O P y R.

1344
01:37:32.640 --> 01:37:36.399
It may be sold. The label
may say something about killing poison ivy

1345
01:37:36.640 --> 01:37:42.239
or killing brush or whatever. It's
a home garden shelf thing. Try clopp

1346
01:37:42.279 --> 01:37:45.359
heer a good garden center like Kingwo
Garden Center or Warren Southern Garden. They

1347
01:37:45.359 --> 01:37:48.239
can direct you to it on the
shelf. And you want to take a

1348
01:37:48.279 --> 01:37:53.920
little spongebrush like you would do for
painting, those little tiny sponges on a

1349
01:37:54.000 --> 01:37:59.920
stick, and just dab that product
straight out of the container onto the cut

1350
01:38:00.560 --> 01:38:03.399
surface. And you don't have to
spray it. You don't have to mix

1351
01:38:03.439 --> 01:38:06.520
it up in a sprayer. You
just dab it right on the freshly cut

1352
01:38:06.600 --> 01:38:11.439
surface and it soaks in and it
will kill that vine. It will not

1353
01:38:11.600 --> 01:38:14.960
re sprout, and it won't hurt
anything around it if you just get it

1354
01:38:15.079 --> 01:38:17.840
on that fresh cut surface. So
I just add literally you're putting like a

1355
01:38:17.920 --> 01:38:24.920
teaspoon of it out. Okay,
I've got a lot of it to do,

1356
01:38:25.119 --> 01:38:28.319
so well, that's the fast way
because you're not having to dig.

1357
01:38:28.640 --> 01:38:30.039
You can dig it up. But
if it's grown around the base of a

1358
01:38:30.119 --> 01:38:34.000
tree, digging it as a nightmare. Yeah. And then it hangs from

1359
01:38:34.039 --> 01:38:38.680
the top of the trees. Yeah, well it'll it'll it'll dry and die

1360
01:38:38.840 --> 01:38:42.039
and you know, eventually wrought out. I mean you can once you've cut

1361
01:38:42.119 --> 01:38:45.800
it loose, you can pull on
it and kind of you can without breaking

1362
01:38:45.880 --> 01:38:50.279
tree limbs. Yeah, all right, okay, So how do I prune

1363
01:38:50.399 --> 01:38:56.560
asiatic jas when that's going around the
crpe model? Oh boy? So it's

1364
01:38:56.600 --> 01:39:01.760
on the ground as a groundcover,
right, Yes, sir, you have

1365
01:39:02.000 --> 01:39:08.680
options. Some people will just basically
mow over it, you know, weed

1366
01:39:08.720 --> 01:39:12.760
eater, mower, whatever, and
just cut it way back and then it'll

1367
01:39:12.840 --> 01:39:16.880
come out fresh and clean. That's
one option. But you can I've known

1368
01:39:16.920 --> 01:39:20.319
people to get down with hedge trimmors
and trim it. That's kind of bend

1369
01:39:20.399 --> 01:39:26.840
over tedious to do it that way, but you don't have to print it.

1370
01:39:27.119 --> 01:39:29.760
But if you want to kind of
lower the level of it, make

1371
01:39:29.800 --> 01:39:31.800
it flat and neat, you know, and everything. You can do that

1372
01:39:31.960 --> 01:39:36.520
and it'll rea sprout. Okay.
So there's an area where there was a

1373
01:39:38.159 --> 01:39:43.239
lagostrum that had grown too big and
dyed. Chop that down. So all

1374
01:39:43.279 --> 01:39:46.800
of the Asiatic jazz and that was
close to that browned over the heat of

1375
01:39:46.840 --> 01:39:50.920
the summer. So should I just
kind of trim that back or so it'll

1376
01:39:50.920 --> 01:39:54.640
get Yeah, yeah, I would. I'd trim it up. If it's

1377
01:39:54.680 --> 01:39:57.600
still live, I just trim it
back and it'll come out Asian jazz.

1378
01:39:57.960 --> 01:40:02.119
Any plant that grows in a lot
of shade and then suddenly has the full

1379
01:40:02.159 --> 01:40:09.640
brunt of the sun, the leaves
plant leaves adjust to their environment within a

1380
01:40:09.760 --> 01:40:14.920
certain range. And so if you
get a plant that's that's adjusted to being

1381
01:40:15.000 --> 01:40:17.319
in shade and then suddenly you give
it the full brunt of the sun,

1382
01:40:18.359 --> 01:40:21.880
it's going to burn. It's going
to fry it. That same plant could

1383
01:40:21.920 --> 01:40:26.159
adjust to the sun. In the
case of jasmine, you can grow jasmine

1384
01:40:26.239 --> 01:40:30.760
and quite a bit of sun.
We usually see it in semi shade because

1385
01:40:30.800 --> 01:40:33.800
it thrives there. But yeah,
well this was already in the house that

1386
01:40:33.920 --> 01:40:38.640
we just purchased, So okay,
trying to deal with it. One more

1387
01:40:38.760 --> 01:40:45.960
question. The crepe myrtle that blooms
so pretty, they obviously did create murder

1388
01:40:45.039 --> 01:40:51.359
on it, and so the the
branches from this past season, should I

1389
01:40:51.439 --> 01:40:56.720
just leave them alone and then they'll
go back? You know? There's there's

1390
01:40:57.000 --> 01:41:01.600
there's a couple of approaches. The
drastic approach when you have a truly butchered

1391
01:41:01.720 --> 01:41:05.319
CRP myrtle, horribly butchered, would
be to cut it all back at the

1392
01:41:05.399 --> 01:41:11.119
ground, select one of the shoots
coming up or three. You often see

1393
01:41:11.159 --> 01:41:15.359
CRP myrtles with like three trunks,
for example, select three and then let

1394
01:41:15.439 --> 01:41:19.000
them come up and then form branch
and you just recreate the whole plant.

1395
01:41:19.439 --> 01:41:24.800
Now, that takes time and it's
a little drastic. The alternative would be

1396
01:41:25.640 --> 01:41:30.680
to when the re sprouts come from
those cut stubs of where they butchered it,

1397
01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:36.439
select a couple of them to be
the new growth for the going out

1398
01:41:36.479 --> 01:41:42.479
from there on each cut stub,
and then start to reform the structure from

1399
01:41:42.560 --> 01:41:45.039
there. You're always going to see
that old stub though up there, but

1400
01:41:45.680 --> 01:41:50.720
you can begin it now. Yeah, if the cutoff piece is you know

1401
01:41:50.840 --> 01:41:57.279
the size of a golf ball or
smaller you can probably retrain the regrowth.

1402
01:41:57.479 --> 01:42:00.800
If it's much bigger than a golf
ball, it's just going to be an

1403
01:42:00.920 --> 01:42:03.760
ugly spot. There's going to be
decay in the wood because it doesn't cover

1404
01:42:03.920 --> 01:42:13.119
back over that giant cut very fast, so it's it's black life. The

1405
01:42:13.199 --> 01:42:17.119
branches were flowered on. I just
left them so we grow. Or should

1406
01:42:17.119 --> 01:42:20.399
I cut those all those branches back? No, you could leave it,

1407
01:42:20.520 --> 01:42:25.479
just lets reach them. Yeah,
look at it. Aesthetically is what is

1408
01:42:25.560 --> 01:42:30.279
what I'm saying. I guess if
you you can do either way, the

1409
01:42:30.399 --> 01:42:32.840
drastic way or the work with what
you got way, and it just comes

1410
01:42:32.880 --> 01:42:36.920
down to aesthetics, the plant is
going to be fine either way. Okay,

1411
01:42:38.680 --> 01:42:40.720
just wait and see how it looks
and then deal with it. I

1412
01:42:40.760 --> 01:42:43.239
think I would do that. Yeah, it sounds like that'd be the best.

1413
01:42:43.760 --> 01:42:45.119
All right, Okay, all right, that's it. Thank you,

1414
01:42:45.319 --> 01:42:48.239
all right, Lenna, thank you
very much. I appreciate that. Hey,

1415
01:42:48.319 --> 01:42:53.159
listen, if you have got winter
weeds in your lawn, we're talking

1416
01:42:53.199 --> 01:42:58.479
about hind bitten chick weed and cleavers
velcrow weed they call it, or carpet

1417
01:42:58.479 --> 01:43:01.600
weeds another one. All those weeds
you got to do something about them before

1418
01:43:01.680 --> 01:43:06.479
they start to bloom and set seed. At that stage, even products that

1419
01:43:06.520 --> 01:43:10.800
would kill them are not going to
work well. So what do you do

1420
01:43:10.920 --> 01:43:13.520
now, Well, one thing you
can do now is turf Star Weedenator.

1421
01:43:13.920 --> 01:43:16.720
Turf Star Weedenator has got that broadly
wheat control. It's a granule. It's

1422
01:43:16.800 --> 01:43:21.439
got a very slow release fertilizer that's
going to release over the next six weeks

1423
01:43:21.640 --> 01:43:29.079
and then continue to release with slowly
available water insoluble types of nitrogen that just

1424
01:43:29.399 --> 01:43:32.079
really stretch it out. So it's
a long term fertilization, not a fast

1425
01:43:32.239 --> 01:43:36.199
dissolve, and it's gone. You
need to make sure the weeds are moist,

1426
01:43:38.239 --> 01:43:42.359
so water just enough to barely we
the weed surfaces. Then when you

1427
01:43:42.439 --> 01:43:45.880
put it out, it sticks to
those weeds. A granules stick to those

1428
01:43:45.920 --> 01:43:49.119
wet leaves of the weed and it
does its job. Now, turf Star

1429
01:43:49.199 --> 01:43:53.239
Weedenator is widely available. It's a
Nelson products, so you can find a

1430
01:43:53.279 --> 01:43:57.760
lot of places like Nelson Products are. It's got a really good blend of

1431
01:43:58.239 --> 01:44:01.079
nutrients for a lawn. And so
this is one time where I think doing

1432
01:44:01.159 --> 01:44:04.239
the two at once would be an
option. We're going to take a break

1433
01:44:04.319 --> 01:44:08.880
right now. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1434
01:44:09.159 --> 01:44:14.640
seventy four. Welcome back to guard
Line. What do you want to talk

1435
01:44:14.680 --> 01:44:18.000
about today? Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven one

1436
01:44:18.039 --> 01:44:21.479
three two and two fifty eight seventy
four. We can talk about all kinds

1437
01:44:21.479 --> 01:44:27.359
of things. I love talking about
gardening, vegetables and house plants. I

1438
01:44:27.520 --> 01:44:30.880
was just noticing the other day some
of the orchids at the house that I

1439
01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:35.039
have. I keep them in a
bathroom window. It's a real big,

1440
01:44:35.199 --> 01:44:39.720
bright window, and they just love
it in there. They you know,

1441
01:44:39.880 --> 01:44:45.800
the moth orchid, the kettle orchid. They're not that difficult to grow.

1442
01:44:46.279 --> 01:44:50.640
They're the ones you just see for
sale everywhere. It's real easy, easy

1443
01:44:50.720 --> 01:44:55.600
to grow. And if you give
them a humid environment with a bright light,

1444
01:44:55.720 --> 01:44:59.399
not direct sun, just a good
bright light, they do really really

1445
01:44:59.479 --> 01:45:00.960
well. I've got something that I've
neglected. I hate to tell you.

1446
01:45:01.359 --> 01:45:04.199
I just haven't gotten around to them. Something I had in my office a

1447
01:45:04.279 --> 01:45:06.960
while back, and they just sat
in the window. Whenever I happened to

1448
01:45:08.039 --> 01:45:10.840
come by and think about it.
I'd give them a little water. That's

1449
01:45:10.920 --> 01:45:14.000
no way to treat a plant,
but they're tough, they're easy to grow.

1450
01:45:14.079 --> 01:45:16.680
People think orchids are too tough and
they're really too difficult to grow.

1451
01:45:16.720 --> 01:45:20.399
They're not. They some orchids are. Some of them you've got to have

1452
01:45:20.479 --> 01:45:26.640
certain temperatures and they're real persnicty.
But boy, the moth orchid is the

1453
01:45:26.800 --> 01:45:30.279
easy one. That's really easy to
grow. It's time to repot them.

1454
01:45:30.439 --> 01:45:34.159
If you've got orchids that kind of
gone through their bloom cycle now, it'd

1455
01:45:34.199 --> 01:45:38.479
be a time to go in repot
them. Get you a good orchid mix,

1456
01:45:38.760 --> 01:45:44.359
a good bark mix where there's different
blends. Some people put big chunky

1457
01:45:44.439 --> 01:45:50.359
pearlite in there, or or expanded
shale or the little clay dried clay a

1458
01:45:50.560 --> 01:45:56.960
spheres laika that it just does well
for that too. You can use a

1459
01:45:56.960 --> 01:46:00.119
lot of different kinds of mix.
I was in b Canon yesterday as a

1460
01:46:00.119 --> 01:46:02.039
matter of fact, looked at some
of the orchid mix that they have there

1461
01:46:02.359 --> 01:46:08.159
that would work just good. By
the way, Buchanans they if you have

1462
01:46:08.640 --> 01:46:13.079
a rose plant, a rose bush, they are having number one. They've

1463
01:46:13.159 --> 01:46:17.560
got rose pruning basic video online that's
very very helpful. Buchanans has a lot

1464
01:46:17.720 --> 01:46:23.119
of really good educational material on their
website. You need to go check it

1465
01:46:23.159 --> 01:46:28.239
out. But on Saturday February the
tenth. Guess when that is right?

1466
01:46:28.520 --> 01:46:31.560
Next week, Saturday, February the
tenth, Gay Hammond from the Houston Rose

1467
01:46:31.640 --> 01:46:35.560
Society is going to be there talking
about pruning roses one oh one. Now,

1468
01:46:35.560 --> 01:46:39.840
I want to tell you something.
Gay Hammond knows more about roses than

1469
01:46:39.960 --> 01:46:44.000
roses do. I mean that lady
is a wealth of information, a good

1470
01:46:44.039 --> 01:46:47.439
friend of mine for a long time. But really Gay Gay is absolutely outstanding.

1471
01:46:47.560 --> 01:46:51.600
So if you want to learn from
the best pruning roses one oh one

1472
01:46:51.720 --> 01:46:59.279
with Gay Hammond at Buchanan's next Saturday
from ten to eleven am. So it's

1473
01:46:59.359 --> 01:47:01.960
required that you do finish garden line, I'll let you out five minutes early

1474
01:47:02.079 --> 01:47:08.199
so you can run over to Buchanans. Seriously, it's excellent. You will

1475
01:47:08.279 --> 01:47:11.560
learn a lot and you can pick
her brain to the cows come home,

1476
01:47:11.920 --> 01:47:15.840
and the lady can answer any question
that you have about roses. Really good.

1477
01:47:15.960 --> 01:47:18.960
I'm so glad they're having her there. That's excellent. Buchanans, by

1478
01:47:19.000 --> 01:47:21.159
the way, is at eleventh Street
in the Heights. You can go to

1479
01:47:21.239 --> 01:47:26.359
the website buchanansplants dot com. Look
for that look for that thing I was

1480
01:47:26.439 --> 01:47:29.920
telling you about. You know,
the information, it's under there. It's

1481
01:47:30.000 --> 01:47:33.520
under their resources. There's gardening articles
and gardening guides and how to videos.

1482
01:47:33.880 --> 01:47:38.840
Go check it out there. Zach
and the team there have really put together

1483
01:47:38.960 --> 01:47:43.359
some good information. But yeah,
so I was talking about orchids. Yes,

1484
01:47:43.560 --> 01:47:48.159
you can grow you can grow orchids. The moth orchid very simply a

1485
01:47:48.359 --> 01:47:54.840
very dilute fertilizer. The thing orchids
don't want is to be kept too wet.

1486
01:47:55.399 --> 01:47:59.399
Orchids grow in the air, they
grow on the side of a tree

1487
01:47:59.560 --> 01:48:02.560
and the in the jungle for example. That that is an orchid's happy place.

1488
01:48:02.640 --> 01:48:06.319
Now we do have terrestrial orchids,
meaning they grow in dirt. There's

1489
01:48:06.359 --> 01:48:11.000
a native orchid to East Texas.
That's just an aside, but yes,

1490
01:48:11.119 --> 01:48:14.079
there's an orchid that you can find
in the woods of East Texas. There's

1491
01:48:14.119 --> 01:48:16.720
also and I saw this at begin
just do by the way, there is

1492
01:48:16.800 --> 01:48:20.239
a terrestrial orchid that they have And
I'm trying to remember the name of the

1493
01:48:20.359 --> 01:48:23.600
durned thing. It just just went
out of my head. I had it

1494
01:48:23.720 --> 01:48:26.880
just a second ago, but it
grows in soil and a container. A

1495
01:48:27.039 --> 01:48:31.720
very different kind of orchid, very
very unique. And but orchids are a

1496
01:48:31.880 --> 01:48:38.800
fun plant. That is something that
I would suggest you consider getting some and

1497
01:48:38.920 --> 01:48:43.560
growing them. They're they're they're really
not that difficult. Start with a moth

1498
01:48:43.680 --> 01:48:47.239
orchid. That is, that is
absolutely the easiest one. With a moth

1499
01:48:47.359 --> 01:48:50.359
orchid. You're not going to have
any trouble at all, real, real

1500
01:48:50.439 --> 01:48:56.520
easy. Just a little dilute fertilizer
solution. That's what I do for mine.

1501
01:48:56.880 --> 01:48:59.399
If my orchids were here, they
were going. He's lying, he

1502
01:48:59.439 --> 01:49:01.479
didn't do any thing for us.
We're we're abused. Somebody comes to steal

1503
01:49:01.600 --> 01:49:06.479
us out of his house. Now
seriously, though, they they are simple

1504
01:49:06.520 --> 01:49:09.920
to grow. I am going to
repopmine, though, get them, get

1505
01:49:09.960 --> 01:49:12.960
the old roots cut off, get
them cleaned up and stuff like that,

1506
01:49:13.279 --> 01:49:17.479
and they they will do just just
fine for you. Love love to grow

1507
01:49:17.640 --> 01:49:21.840
orchids. All right, Well,
let's see our phone number nine seven or

1508
01:49:21.920 --> 01:49:27.520
A seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. I'm sitting here

1509
01:49:27.560 --> 01:49:31.079
looking at another number seven one three
two one two five eight seven four or

1510
01:49:31.239 --> 01:49:34.960
just KTRH if you want to make
it really simple. You can do that.

1511
01:49:35.560 --> 01:49:40.399
They do super super well. Uh. If you need supplies for anything

1512
01:49:40.640 --> 01:49:44.359
for your garden and landscape, Ace
Hardware is a place that's going to have

1513
01:49:44.479 --> 01:49:47.359
it. Now we know ACE is
a place to go for lawn fertilizer and

1514
01:49:47.520 --> 01:49:51.359
garden fertilizer, for soil blends and
nutrients, all the ones I talk about

1515
01:49:51.399 --> 01:49:55.039
here on garden Line. You're going
to find them there at ACE Hardware.

1516
01:49:55.439 --> 01:49:59.279
You're also going to find pest controlled, disease control. Uh, you're going

1517
01:49:59.319 --> 01:50:02.039
to find we You're gonna find tools
and things like that. You're gonna find

1518
01:50:02.119 --> 01:50:06.039
everything. You're going to find repair
parts for your plumbing. Did you have

1519
01:50:06.159 --> 01:50:11.479
freeze damage to your plumbing? Did
you have do you have damaged irrigation heads,

1520
01:50:11.560 --> 01:50:14.880
sprinkler heads? They can fix that. They can sell you the stuff

1521
01:50:14.960 --> 01:50:17.159
to fix that. They know how
to do that. They are getting in

1522
01:50:17.439 --> 01:50:21.199
their supplies right now. I was
in some ACE the other day and the

1523
01:50:21.439 --> 01:50:27.319
nitrophos products were flowing in the door, and they carry all the fertilizers that

1524
01:50:27.359 --> 01:50:31.520
I talked about here on garden Line. Ace Hardware dot Com. That's the

1525
01:50:31.600 --> 01:50:36.520
website. Find the store locator.
Forty stores more than one is near you.

1526
01:50:38.239 --> 01:50:41.720
Let's head out now we're going to
go to League City and talk to

1527
01:50:42.319 --> 01:50:45.279
Brian. Hello, Brian, Hey, good morning, Skip. How you

1528
01:50:45.359 --> 01:50:48.319
doing doing well? What's up?
Got a quick question? So I know

1529
01:50:48.399 --> 01:50:51.800
everybody's grass last year got hit pretty
hard with the drought and then you know

1530
01:50:51.880 --> 01:50:58.199
the little uh frieze we got this
uh this last month. But my question

1531
01:50:58.520 --> 01:51:00.319
was, is I know every year
I'll put prodigamin like you are, not

1532
01:51:00.399 --> 01:51:05.319
prodoming barricade down like you'd recommend.
But since I hadn't having some like thin

1533
01:51:05.439 --> 01:51:10.439
spots and I want that Saint Augustine
to spread back out, should I hold

1534
01:51:10.520 --> 01:51:13.720
back on the barricade, you know, to let them runners. Yeah,

1535
01:51:13.880 --> 01:51:15.960
that's that is a trade off that
we have to deal with when we're talking

1536
01:51:15.960 --> 01:51:19.880
about a pre emergent herbicide. I
would say, do it according to the

1537
01:51:20.000 --> 01:51:24.399
label. Do it according to the
label. There's going to be some time

1538
01:51:24.479 --> 01:51:28.319
if you go ahead and get that
done right away, you've got several months

1539
01:51:28.720 --> 01:51:33.920
before the Saint Augustine is growing at
a clip where any kind of a concern

1540
01:51:34.119 --> 01:51:38.119
like that would be a big deal. Just do it at the left.

1541
01:51:38.159 --> 01:51:41.319
Don't overdo it, that's for sure. Get sure and watered in and I

1542
01:51:41.399 --> 01:51:45.560
think as we get into the summertime
that stuff's going to start breaking down at

1543
01:51:45.600 --> 01:51:48.279
some point. And I think you'd
be okay if you don't do it.

1544
01:51:48.680 --> 01:51:51.640
You can just let the Saint Augustine
do what it's going to do. But

1545
01:51:51.680 --> 01:51:55.199
you're gonna have to wait a while. You're gonna have a lot of weeds

1546
01:51:55.239 --> 01:51:58.039
that are coming up in it,
and then you're dealing with the seeds and

1547
01:51:58.159 --> 01:52:01.119
things. So those are the two
options you have. Is just to grow

1548
01:52:01.279 --> 01:52:04.920
your way back into a lawn over
time. But if you'd like to give

1549
01:52:04.960 --> 01:52:10.560
the Saint Augustine open space to get
that done, do the barricade right away.

1550
01:52:11.359 --> 01:52:14.920
Okay. And then I got one
more question. I know when that,

1551
01:52:15.159 --> 01:52:18.159
like I said that we got hit
with all that the drought and everything,

1552
01:52:18.520 --> 01:52:21.199
that wild bermuda came in really good, you know, and kind of

1553
01:52:21.239 --> 01:52:26.479
overran at Saint Augustine. So yes, I know that that new herbicide recognition

1554
01:52:26.640 --> 01:52:30.439
came out that just attacks just the
wild bermuda and leaves the Saint Augustine alone.

1555
01:52:30.840 --> 01:52:35.239
Would you recommend doing that too or
having the info on that actually there's

1556
01:52:35.520 --> 01:52:40.600
there is a concoction, it's not
just the recognition. Let me. That

1557
01:52:40.800 --> 01:52:44.159
is a huge topic. Let me
address that next hour on the air.

1558
01:52:45.520 --> 01:52:48.520
People are gonna have questions about that. The answer is can it be done?

1559
01:52:48.600 --> 01:52:53.720
Yes? The answer is is it
affordable and practical? Probably not,

1560
01:52:54.079 --> 01:52:56.680
But I'll answer that and I'll come
back. I picked up the stuff.

1561
01:52:56.720 --> 01:53:00.760
It was like right around three hundred
dollars. Yeah, I'm talking about Yeah,

1562
01:53:01.000 --> 01:53:03.279
that's some expensive stuff. I appreciate
it, sir. Do you men?

1563
01:53:03.439 --> 01:53:06.119
Do you know how many cool plans
you can buy for three hundred dollars?

1564
01:53:08.760 --> 01:53:11.760
Mount Fiance told me that. Yeah, there you go, there you

1565
01:53:11.880 --> 01:53:15.720
go. You could have spent three
hundred on Valentine's Day. Brian, you've

1566
01:53:15.800 --> 01:53:20.760
missed. I'm kidding you. Hey, we we gotta take a break.

1567
01:53:21.479 --> 01:53:25.319
Oh my gosh. I have to
remember to talk about that when I come

1568
01:53:25.359 --> 01:53:29.039
back. Carolyn Spring, you'll be
first up when we come back. Definitely

1569
01:53:29.079 --> 01:53:31.239
don't have enough time to do your
call service right now, but I'll take

1570
01:53:31.279 --> 01:53:35.039
you first when we come back.
Our phone number is seven one three two

1571
01:53:35.199 --> 01:53:41.199
one two fifty eight seventy four seven
winth I probably just got Brian and Trump.

1572
01:53:41.239 --> 01:53:45.399
I shouldn't have done that. Seven
one three two one two five eight

1573
01:53:45.960 --> 01:53:49.079
seven four give us a call.
We'll talk to you when we come back.

1574
01:53:49.159 --> 01:53:54.359
Don't forget My schedules are online and
it's time to download them at Gardening

1575
01:53:54.560 --> 01:54:01.880
with Skip dot Com. Kt r
H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

1576
01:54:01.920 --> 01:54:08.800
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to kt r H

1577
01:54:08.960 --> 01:54:20.119
Garden Line with Skip Richter. It's
so crazy trip. Just watch him as

1578
01:54:20.359 --> 01:54:40.399
well, so many the supposa not
a sorry gas. Welcome back to guard

1579
01:54:40.520 --> 01:54:44.359
Line. We're glad you're joining us
today. Looking forward to talking to you

1580
01:54:44.600 --> 01:54:49.319
in this last hour of this weekend
for garden Line about the things that interest

1581
01:54:49.479 --> 01:54:54.720
you. Seven one three two one
two k t r H seven one three

1582
01:54:55.199 --> 01:54:59.399
two one two k t r H. That makes it real simple, easy

1583
01:54:59.479 --> 01:55:05.039
to find. While ago had a
phone call and we were talking about the

1584
01:55:05.159 --> 01:55:11.199
question was about using recognition herbicide to
control bermuda grass from Saint Augustine up to

1585
01:55:11.359 --> 01:55:14.800
now, I would say that there
is not a way to get rid of

1586
01:55:14.840 --> 01:55:20.000
bermuda grass in Saint Augustine. There
are now actually there is a way,

1587
01:55:20.399 --> 01:55:25.960
but I'll just say this. It
is not cost effective and probably not practical,

1588
01:55:26.119 --> 01:55:30.000
but professional turf care people can probably
get hold of the stuff if they

1589
01:55:30.079 --> 01:55:33.039
can have enough yards to justify it, because, like I said, this

1590
01:55:33.119 --> 01:55:39.640
stuff is expensive. But Recognition is
a herbicide available for commercial use and it

1591
01:55:39.840 --> 01:55:44.880
will kill bermuda grass and not kill
the Saint Augustine. What they do is

1592
01:55:44.920 --> 01:55:49.159
they put a combination together of bermuda
grass and fusilade herbicide. It's kind of

1593
01:55:49.199 --> 01:55:55.560
a cocktail mix that they put together, and they have pretty good results on

1594
01:55:55.800 --> 01:55:59.319
killing bermuda without killing the Saint Augustine. Now, don't run out to the

1595
01:55:59.399 --> 01:56:01.920
store and where's your Recognition. You're
not going to find it. It's very

1596
01:56:01.960 --> 01:56:06.319
hard to find. It is on
the market, but it basically the supplies

1597
01:56:06.359 --> 01:56:11.960
are almost gone for it in terms
of you know, being able to grab

1598
01:56:12.039 --> 01:56:15.439
it, but a professional lawn care
person may be able to get a hold

1599
01:56:15.479 --> 01:56:18.079
of some and do that kind of
combo for you. In general, when

1600
01:56:18.079 --> 01:56:20.520
you got the two, you're going
to have to live with them. They

1601
01:56:20.720 --> 01:56:26.199
just it's hard to eradicate one from
the other. But we can talk about

1602
01:56:26.199 --> 01:56:29.279
that more at another time. I
just wanted to finish answering that question.

1603
01:56:29.720 --> 01:56:32.600
We're going to go to a spring
and talk to Carol. Hello, Carol,

1604
01:56:33.680 --> 01:56:39.600
Hi, Skip, Hi, what's
up? I have four Texas blueberry

1605
01:56:39.640 --> 01:56:42.800
bushes that have been in the ground
for about two years, and they do

1606
01:56:42.960 --> 01:56:46.880
produce berries, but the bushes aren't
growing. So I don't know what I'm

1607
01:56:46.920 --> 01:56:57.720
doing wrong. Okay, good sunlight, yes, decent drainage, The so

1608
01:56:57.960 --> 01:57:03.560
didn't stay too saggy wet. I
don't think it does. Okay with blueberries

1609
01:57:03.680 --> 01:57:08.960
generally, the way I would tell
people is you plant them on top of

1610
01:57:09.000 --> 01:57:13.600
the ground. Meaning the idea is
you got this level soil that you would

1611
01:57:13.600 --> 01:57:16.319
normally plant plants in. I set
the blueberry plant on top of it and

1612
01:57:16.399 --> 01:57:18.800
then bring a bed in around it. Now that's a little bit of a

1613
01:57:18.880 --> 01:57:23.560
caricature to say it that way,
but the concept is that those roots are

1614
01:57:23.640 --> 01:57:26.960
in a bed above the soil surface. It's highly organic, very acidic.

1615
01:57:27.760 --> 01:57:30.439
You can create that kind of environment
and they thrive in that. I would

1616
01:57:30.640 --> 01:57:35.920
suggest in the meantime that you go
ahead and try an acidic fertilizer. There

1617
01:57:35.960 --> 01:57:40.960
are a number of different products that
are acidic that are made for blueberries,

1618
01:57:41.560 --> 01:57:46.319
camellias, azaleas, gardenias, those
kind of plants, and use one of

1619
01:57:46.359 --> 01:57:51.800
those and try to get some more
vigor in the plant. Now the plants

1620
01:57:53.119 --> 01:57:57.439
are not going to bloom this spring
because you fertilized them. The bloom buds

1621
01:57:57.520 --> 01:58:01.319
were created last fall or late summer
and fall and so. But in the

1622
01:58:01.399 --> 01:58:05.720
course of this year, getting more
vigor and health in the plants should help

1623
01:58:06.039 --> 01:58:11.279
then with them blooming. If they're
getting good sunlight and they have adequately moist

1624
01:58:11.359 --> 01:58:15.640
soil and they overall the plants look
good and healthy, you should see some

1625
01:58:15.880 --> 01:58:19.439
increased heels. If that isn't the
case, then you may want to consider

1626
01:58:19.760 --> 01:58:25.520
in the fall season when it cools
off about November, going ahead and digging

1627
01:58:25.640 --> 01:58:30.439
some up, redoing a nice rais
improved bed, and then resetting them right

1628
01:58:30.479 --> 01:58:34.239
away back into it. That would
be stage two. If stage one doesn't

1629
01:58:34.279 --> 01:58:40.319
work. Okay, all right,
tell me how many plants you have.

1630
01:58:41.840 --> 01:58:47.920
I have four, and they're the
Texas blueberries, but you know, I

1631
01:58:48.079 --> 01:58:54.119
don't know if they're all the same
variety. Yeah, okay, that you're

1632
01:58:54.119 --> 01:58:58.239
saying they bloom though, right,
they bloom, and one of them for

1633
01:58:58.359 --> 01:59:01.760
sure has a lot of blue on
it right now. It just they're just

1634
01:59:01.960 --> 01:59:06.279
scrawny little plants though. Yeah.
Well, we've got to get the plants

1635
01:59:06.319 --> 01:59:11.399
healthy and then hopefully there's more than
one variety so they can cross pollinate.

1636
01:59:11.520 --> 01:59:15.319
Well, did they used to produce
in the past or they just have never

1637
01:59:15.800 --> 01:59:19.720
done well? Well, they've never
done well. They do get blueberries on

1638
01:59:19.840 --> 01:59:24.319
them, but there's just a few. Yeah. I would start with fertilizer

1639
01:59:24.640 --> 01:59:29.039
and make sure the soil stays adequately
moist. Try to get vigor because you

1640
01:59:29.119 --> 01:59:32.960
need vigor to have good production going
forward, all right, Okay, and

1641
01:59:33.079 --> 01:59:39.000
then also a friend of mine has
some box woods that a neighbor's cat is

1642
01:59:39.159 --> 01:59:43.680
using that bed as a litter box. Okay, what can be done to

1643
01:59:43.760 --> 01:59:54.079
keep the cats out? And yeah, so one option that some people use

1644
01:59:54.159 --> 01:59:56.760
is they put like a mesh wire
in the bed. It's like you get

1645
01:59:56.840 --> 02:00:00.000
chicken wire and just sort of cut
out where you get it around the planet

1646
02:00:00.199 --> 02:00:01.720
and just get it on the ground, maybe pin it down, and the

1647
02:00:01.840 --> 02:00:05.199
cats can't scratch with that chicken war
on the surface and they sort of go

1648
02:00:05.319 --> 02:00:09.720
somewhere else. I don't know how
long you would have to leave that,

1649
02:00:09.920 --> 02:00:14.880
but that they want to be able
to scratch. Another thing. There are

1650
02:00:15.000 --> 02:00:19.159
some repellents on the market. I
suspect you probably have to replace them periodically.

1651
02:00:19.600 --> 02:00:24.520
They don't like the smell of it. I've heard of people before that

1652
02:00:24.800 --> 02:00:30.720
use like a moth crystal kind of
thing, just muffballs, scatter them around

1653
02:00:30.960 --> 02:00:34.560
in there. You don't eat a
lot. They have quite the odor and

1654
02:00:35.079 --> 02:00:39.840
cats do not like that, and
that'll keep them out of there. That's

1655
02:00:39.880 --> 02:00:45.960
an option, all right. Some
of them are I don't know, a

1656
02:00:46.119 --> 02:00:53.039
kind of yellowy brownish on the top. Pick our fertilizers you can put on

1657
02:00:53.119 --> 02:00:56.800
them to try to get them healthy, yellowy brownish on the top. If

1658
02:00:56.840 --> 02:01:00.880
it's not coal damage, it could
be due to some temporary drought occurring.

1659
02:01:01.279 --> 02:01:03.600
Even if you're water and you go
for a while and you don't and it's

1660
02:01:03.640 --> 02:01:08.640
hot, that would be something to
look at. But I suspect browning on

1661
02:01:08.720 --> 02:01:12.680
the top on box woods with the
frost or freeze we had a while back

1662
02:01:12.760 --> 02:01:15.920
that was pretty hard. That could
be due to that as well. And

1663
02:01:16.039 --> 02:01:19.880
then there's always a possibility of nematods
in the soil. If it's a somewhat

1664
02:01:19.960 --> 02:01:25.079
sandy soil, especially Nema toads will
often get on them and then they make

1665
02:01:25.119 --> 02:01:29.079
them very inefficient, and it's the
equivalent of drought injury because you've got these

1666
02:01:29.159 --> 02:01:32.479
knots all over the roots and the
water can't flow through. Okay, all

1667
02:01:32.600 --> 02:01:36.600
right, all right, thank you, Carol, appreciate that very much.

1668
02:01:38.520 --> 02:01:43.039
I was talking about wildbirds the other
day, and I love wallbirds unlimited because

1669
02:01:43.039 --> 02:01:46.399
they have so many cool supplies.
I got my squirrel excluding feeder there by

1670
02:01:46.439 --> 02:01:50.159
the way, bluebird season, they're
looking. Get a box out if you

1671
02:01:50.239 --> 02:01:55.800
want bluebirds, Purple Martin, same
thing, get a box out, get

1672
02:01:56.199 --> 02:01:59.479
a bird house, a purple Martin
house up on a pole to bring those

1673
02:01:59.520 --> 02:02:02.039
in the seat, bugs and stuff
you need. You need to have some

1674
02:02:02.239 --> 02:02:06.239
in your yard. By the way, six stations, six locations all over

1675
02:02:06.319 --> 02:02:12.560
town for wildberds. Go to WBU
dot com forward slash Houston. You can

1676
02:02:12.640 --> 02:02:15.600
find out more there. We're going
to take a break. We'll be right

1677
02:02:15.720 --> 02:02:19.880
back. Welcome back to guardenline.
What do we want to talk about today?

1678
02:02:20.079 --> 02:02:23.920
I'm talking about things to do for
spring? What do you want to

1679
02:02:23.960 --> 02:02:27.920
talk about? Seven one three,
two one two five eight seven four.

1680
02:02:28.000 --> 02:02:30.479
I'll tell you one thing you need
to do right now is you need to

1681
02:02:30.720 --> 02:02:33.239
make sure your trees are in good
shape going into spring. When it comes

1682
02:02:33.279 --> 02:02:38.640
to pruning. If you got weak
branches, broken branches, rubbing, crowded,

1683
02:02:38.960 --> 02:02:43.520
narrow branch angles, that's got to
be fixed. And Martin Spoon Moore

1684
02:02:43.800 --> 02:02:45.479
is the guy I would say is
the best one to go to for that,

1685
02:02:45.640 --> 02:02:49.479
because Martin's been doing this for many, many years now, about thirty

1686
02:02:49.560 --> 02:02:54.039
years here in the Houston area.
He knows what he's doing. He knows

1687
02:02:54.119 --> 02:02:57.720
what he's doing. He stays busy. Affordable Tree Service that's his company.

1688
02:02:57.760 --> 02:03:00.920
If you want to get a hold
of him, aff Tree Service dot com,

1689
02:03:00.439 --> 02:03:04.359
or you can skip Martin a call. Either here's something. Either Martin

1690
02:03:04.840 --> 02:03:09.920
or his wife Joe will answer the
phone. And if you call someplace that

1691
02:03:10.079 --> 02:03:13.880
has Affordable in the name and you
don't talk to Martin or Joe, it's

1692
02:03:13.920 --> 02:03:17.880
not the right place. Hang up
seven to one three six nine twenty six

1693
02:03:18.239 --> 02:03:24.239
sixty three seven one three six nine
nine two six six three. Yes,

1694
02:03:24.359 --> 02:03:28.359
the owners answer the phone at Affordable
Tree Service. Tell him you're a guardenline

1695
02:03:28.399 --> 02:03:30.479
listener gets you at the front of
the list. He stays busy because he

1696
02:03:30.600 --> 02:03:34.079
does a good job. So don't
delay. Have him come out. If

1697
02:03:34.119 --> 02:03:39.720
you're planning on doing any work in
the yard like trenching or laying a slab

1698
02:03:40.319 --> 02:03:44.720
for a driveway or something anything like
that around the trees, that that affects

1699
02:03:44.800 --> 02:03:48.199
trees negatively. Have Martin come out
and advise you on how to go about

1700
02:03:48.239 --> 02:03:54.560
it. Don't let somebody that has
a business card, a pickup truck and

1701
02:03:54.640 --> 02:03:59.119
a chainsaw touch your trees. You
need a professional that knows what they're doing.

1702
02:03:59.199 --> 02:04:02.600
That's why we recommend Martin Spoon Moore
without any hesitation at all here on

1703
02:04:02.720 --> 02:04:05.800
garden Line. I'm going to head
now out to where am I going.

1704
02:04:05.840 --> 02:04:11.119
I'm going to go to Herta and
Spring Branch. Hello, Herda, good

1705
02:04:11.279 --> 02:04:18.399
morning. My questions about foxtail fern. At the Credit Union. They had

1706
02:04:18.920 --> 02:04:25.720
like three fronds coming out of their
plants, but they sickened up and my

1707
02:04:25.920 --> 02:04:30.600
gosh, they've got like eight or
ten now, but they all turned to

1708
02:04:30.760 --> 02:04:34.760
brown. Yeah, now will those
come back or not? Probably so.

1709
02:04:35.760 --> 02:04:42.399
Spockstae farn has some underground structures to
give it some ability to resprout real well.

1710
02:04:43.439 --> 02:04:45.359
It is not the heartiest of all
the plants we have, and I

1711
02:04:45.520 --> 02:04:49.000
generally recommend mulching them, especially when
we go into winter and we're liable to

1712
02:04:49.039 --> 02:04:53.520
get one of those doozy coal spells. Go ahead and mulch them real well.

1713
02:04:53.720 --> 02:04:57.279
That way you're sure the crown stays
alive and healthy and can come back

1714
02:04:57.359 --> 02:05:00.119
strong. I've seen times when they
come back and it's just a shoot or

1715
02:05:00.159 --> 02:05:04.560
two, but they will eventually rebuild. So don't give up. Don't give

1716
02:05:04.640 --> 02:05:09.119
up on them. Be patiently.
That's very good to know. Thank you

1717
02:05:09.319 --> 02:05:12.439
so much. All right, herr, you take care of it. Wonderful,

1718
02:05:12.880 --> 02:05:15.079
wonderful to talk to you. Thank
you very much. The folks at

1719
02:05:15.159 --> 02:05:19.279
Nature's Way, do you know Nature's
Way? That's that's the place up there.

1720
02:05:19.359 --> 02:05:23.760
As you're going up forty five toward
tom Ball, right where fourteen eighty

1721
02:05:23.800 --> 02:05:29.560
eight from Magnolia comes in to Highway
forty five. You just turn right,

1722
02:05:29.640 --> 02:05:32.680
go across the railroad tracks. That's
Nature's Way. Now, Nature's Way is

1723
02:05:32.760 --> 02:05:36.680
the originator of some of the best
blends that are now sold all over town

1724
02:05:38.000 --> 02:05:41.479
in the Greater Houston area. We're
talking about roast soil, we're talking about

1725
02:05:41.520 --> 02:05:45.880
leaf more composts. For example,
they have got a great supply of fungal

1726
02:05:45.000 --> 02:05:48.640
composts, and on every Friday,
they call it Fungal Friday, they have

1727
02:05:48.720 --> 02:05:53.800
a discount on the fungal compost.
It's ten percent off bags of it,

1728
02:05:54.000 --> 02:05:57.520
twenty percent off bulk of it.
Of the fungal and that is a super

1729
02:05:57.600 --> 02:06:00.800
high quality compost you can use for
a lot of things, including of course

1730
02:06:00.960 --> 02:06:04.560
amending the soil. They've got a
Native plant garden center. If you drive

1731
02:06:04.640 --> 02:06:06.960
out there, you need to check
that out. Leave from room in the

1732
02:06:08.039 --> 02:06:11.039
car for some native plants. Here's
a number if you want to give them

1733
02:06:11.079 --> 02:06:15.760
a call. Nine three six three
two one sixty nine ninety. They have

1734
02:06:15.920 --> 02:06:20.000
a blend for pretty much anything you
want to grow, from roses to acid

1735
02:06:20.079 --> 02:06:25.399
loving plants, and on and on
down the line, many quality products.

1736
02:06:25.720 --> 02:06:29.840
John ferguson his son Ian. They
know what they're doing. They're ready to

1737
02:06:29.920 --> 02:06:31.880
go, so give them a call. This would be a good time to

1738
02:06:32.000 --> 02:06:35.640
get some stuff either delivered to your
house or to go pick it up yourself

1739
02:06:35.760 --> 02:06:41.279
at Nature's Way Resources. I'm going
to head out now to Liberty and we're

1740
02:06:41.279 --> 02:06:45.720
going to talk to William. Hello
William, Hello, good morning morning.

1741
02:06:47.119 --> 02:06:55.560
I was to ask something about some
plum trees, because in twenty twelve or

1742
02:06:55.680 --> 02:06:59.399
thirteen I had two plumb trees,
but now I got one, and I'll

1743
02:06:59.560 --> 02:07:02.359
not have a plumb on it till
not too long ago. I've had about

1744
02:07:02.399 --> 02:07:08.640
three plums on them on one tree. I still have. Okay, it's

1745
02:07:08.680 --> 02:07:12.319
because I've been fertilizing it. I'm
not for sure, but if you could

1746
02:07:12.319 --> 02:07:15.479
give me some tips. Okay,
do you happen to know the variety of

1747
02:07:15.600 --> 02:07:20.960
the plum that you still have?
I know it's a big purple one,

1748
02:07:21.000 --> 02:07:25.119
but I've got I think we got
it from I got from Crister Supply.

1749
02:07:25.520 --> 02:07:30.920
Uh huh, I think okay,
No, I got it from Houston's Garden

1750
02:07:31.439 --> 02:07:38.680
and all right, well it might
be something called Morris, maybe something else.

1751
02:07:39.239 --> 02:07:44.199
Uh. Most plums need another variety
for pollinating. There's a plumb called

1752
02:07:44.279 --> 02:07:47.560
methylee, and it is not a
big purple plum. Plumb called methylee that

1753
02:07:47.880 --> 02:07:54.560
is somewhat self fruitful. Uh,
but it even it benefits, uh,

1754
02:07:54.680 --> 02:07:57.840
you know, to have some self
pollination, I think you need to get

1755
02:07:57.880 --> 02:08:01.920
you another variety and plant it.
Now. I should just get any can

1756
02:08:03.119 --> 02:08:07.279
or well, any kind that's going
to be appropriate for this area and bloom

1757
02:08:07.319 --> 02:08:11.159
at the right time. That's important, so you know, go to let's

1758
02:08:11.159 --> 02:08:16.239
see you're out in let's see liberty
trying to moss. Nurseries. Probably one

1759
02:08:16.279 --> 02:08:20.279
of the closer nurseries to you that
down there down at Seabrook I know that's

1760
02:08:20.319 --> 02:08:24.479
not close, but it's fairly close. They got one in nineteen sixty in

1761
02:08:24.600 --> 02:08:28.760
Dayton. Okay, so get you
a good nursery and knows what they're talking

1762
02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:33.720
about. Ask them what they have, Describe your plumb to them, tell

1763
02:08:33.760 --> 02:08:35.880
them you need something different. But
here's something you can do, William in

1764
02:08:35.920 --> 02:08:41.960
the short term. Do you know
anybody else that has plumb trees? I

1765
02:08:41.119 --> 02:08:43.840
did, but I think the woman
sold out. I think. Okay,

1766
02:08:45.399 --> 02:08:48.039
Well, if you could find one
in the spring, you could just trim

1767
02:08:48.199 --> 02:08:52.520
off one or two little blooming shoots. Get you something like a coke can,

1768
02:08:52.680 --> 02:08:54.920
punch a hole in it so you
can put a wire through the top,

1769
02:08:56.439 --> 02:08:58.359
put those shoots down in the can. You could use a jar or

1770
02:08:58.399 --> 02:09:03.039
anything like that and hang it in
your tree, and the bees will visit

1771
02:09:03.119 --> 02:09:09.079
your blooms and that bloom and you
will get your cross pollinating done that way

1772
02:09:09.359 --> 02:09:13.439
until you can get a tree purchase, planted and up to a size where

1773
02:09:13.439 --> 02:09:18.000
it's blooming. So just think about
that. Be on the lookout for some

1774
02:09:18.159 --> 02:09:20.960
of the plums. You know,
you're not asking for a lot, just

1775
02:09:20.039 --> 02:09:24.600
a few blooming shoots if you could
replace them after about four or five days,

1776
02:09:26.520 --> 02:09:30.079
with some fresh shoots that would be
even better. But that is that

1777
02:09:30.159 --> 02:09:33.760
would be a good test to find
out does that work for you? And

1778
02:09:33.920 --> 02:09:37.119
you know, in other words,
is that a different variety than what you

1779
02:09:37.319 --> 02:09:39.880
have? And if that's the case, then then just find out what they

1780
02:09:39.960 --> 02:09:46.600
have and buy you one of those. Now, I've seen on multiple gardening

1781
02:09:46.680 --> 02:09:54.479
things where you can put like a
leaf or steam and put it in water

1782
02:09:54.600 --> 02:09:58.760
and root it like that. Yeah, well that's still work, not really

1783
02:09:58.800 --> 02:10:03.520
with a plum, not not really. So you have to actually have a

1784
02:10:03.640 --> 02:10:07.880
plumb tree. You need a plumb
tree. Now, if you find somebody

1785
02:10:07.960 --> 02:10:11.319
that has a plumb that will let
you take a cutting in the winter or

1786
02:10:11.359 --> 02:10:16.119
in this well, there's a thing
called tea budding that you can go online

1787
02:10:16.239 --> 02:10:18.359
learn how to do, and you
can try grafting that thing into your tree

1788
02:10:18.920 --> 02:10:22.079
and then you have a branch that's
you're pollinator branch for the rest of the

1789
02:10:22.159 --> 02:10:26.399
tree. That's another option, but
that's that's a little harder to do.

1790
02:10:26.840 --> 02:10:31.720
You may not have great success with
it. You might so all those will

1791
02:10:31.800 --> 02:10:37.000
work if you do them right.
All right, all right, thank you,

1792
02:10:37.399 --> 02:10:41.560
all right, thanks for the call. I appreciate I appreciate that very

1793
02:10:41.640 --> 02:10:46.279
much. Let's see here, go
to Oh I wanted to I wanted to

1794
02:10:46.319 --> 02:10:52.439
talk to you about Medina plant Products. It's a it's a company, it's

1795
02:10:52.479 --> 02:10:54.560
been around a very long time.
They're one of the first sponsors of guard

1796
02:10:54.640 --> 02:10:58.159
Line. I mean we're talking about
decades and decades ago that they began to

1797
02:10:58.279 --> 02:11:03.560
support gardener. Medina has a couple
of great products for your plants that suffered

1798
02:11:03.600 --> 02:11:07.840
some coal damage, were set back
having to regrow, and one of them

1799
02:11:07.920 --> 02:11:11.039
is Medina Plus. Medina Plus you
would drench on the soil. Do it

1800
02:11:11.159 --> 02:11:15.079
right now. Just drench it on
the soil. As new growth begins,

1801
02:11:15.079 --> 02:11:18.680
to drench it again on the soil
as the plants begin to get foliage.

1802
02:11:18.840 --> 02:11:22.000
Get the Medina seaweed and spray that
on the foliage to get into the plants.

1803
02:11:22.039 --> 02:11:24.960
By the way, that's something that's
good to have on hand. I

1804
02:11:26.079 --> 02:11:31.840
was reading some research the other day
on use of seaweed in helping plants prepare

1805
02:11:31.920 --> 02:11:35.720
for cold. Now that's well ahead
of time, not the day before it

1806
02:11:35.800 --> 02:11:39.960
freezes, but you get a few
weeks ahead of time. Some seaweed sprays

1807
02:11:39.039 --> 02:11:43.039
can actually help enhance the cold protection. That's something to remember for next winter.

1808
02:11:43.319 --> 02:11:46.680
But it's also good to use any
time on the plants. Medina Seaweed

1809
02:11:46.800 --> 02:11:50.840
Medina Plus are both excellent products.
They work well, they're easy to find,

1810
02:11:52.119 --> 02:11:56.279
widely available, and one of the
mini products from Medina that I would

1811
02:11:56.319 --> 02:12:01.840
recommend without a question. Let's go
now, we're going to head out to

1812
02:12:01.039 --> 02:12:05.319
Tomball and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, Hey, good morning.

1813
02:12:05.319 --> 02:12:09.239
It's good. How are you.
I'm well? Thanks? Good. Yeah.

1814
02:12:09.319 --> 02:12:13.199
So I've got these clover patches in
my backyard. I've got Saint Augustine

1815
02:12:13.319 --> 02:12:18.560
grass and they came about probably last
spring and summer, and I went to

1816
02:12:18.640 --> 02:12:24.079
Ace and bought some spread that I
put on them and didn't take care of

1817
02:12:24.199 --> 02:12:28.319
them. And now that the grass
is nice and browned out because of the

1818
02:12:28.399 --> 02:12:33.359
freeze, those clover patches are still
there in bright green. Is there a

1819
02:12:33.359 --> 02:12:35.399
way to get rid of that?
Or I just have to go out there

1820
02:12:35.439 --> 02:12:39.199
with my hands and pick them.
Well, the simplest thing is to go

1821
02:12:39.239 --> 02:12:41.840
out and pull them. That's a
single root going in the ground, so

1822
02:12:43.000 --> 02:12:46.399
that big patch of clover has one
spot, so they're not as hard to

1823
02:12:46.439 --> 02:12:50.439
get out as you think. I've
got a little thing called the Grandpa's red

1824
02:12:50.560 --> 02:12:52.279
weed, or you step on it
and it pinches the weed and pulls it.

1825
02:12:52.359 --> 02:12:54.600
You lean the hogh handle back.
You never have to bend over.

1826
02:12:54.680 --> 02:12:58.680
It just comes right out. If
you're going to spray them, you need

1827
02:12:58.720 --> 02:13:01.600
a broad leaf weed killer. And
I don't think that's clover. If it

1828
02:13:01.720 --> 02:13:05.239
was if you saw it in spring, and if you saw it in the

1829
02:13:05.319 --> 02:13:09.640
summertime, that may be a less
padiza, which looks a lot like clover.

1830
02:13:09.079 --> 02:13:11.399
But it doesn't matter. I see
that because yeah, it's not like

1831
02:13:11.560 --> 02:13:15.399
it's not three leaves like a clod. Yeah, yeah, that's probably a

1832
02:13:15.479 --> 02:13:18.960
less padiza, and it's more of
a woody thing. So you could get

1833
02:13:18.000 --> 02:13:22.439
a product that was, you know, made for broad leaf. We ConTroll

1834
02:13:22.560 --> 02:13:28.000
do pretty good with it. There
is an ingredient called tricloap here. It's

1835
02:13:28.119 --> 02:13:33.520
not great for Saint Augustine, but
while the Saint Augustine's asleep, it's probably

1836
02:13:33.640 --> 02:13:37.319
okay to use a little bit just
if you're spot spraying product like that,

1837
02:13:37.600 --> 02:13:41.359
just make sure it has a lawn
label before you buy it, but otherwise,

1838
02:13:41.560 --> 02:13:46.199
just get a good broad leaf.
We control bone Eyed, we'd beat

1839
02:13:46.439 --> 02:13:50.000
ultra fur loan. There's a weed
free zone product out there that's also very

1840
02:13:50.039 --> 02:13:54.840
good. That will work, and
just direct the sprays to them if you

1841
02:13:54.880 --> 02:13:56.720
don't want to get out and do
some pulling, but whatever you do,

1842
02:13:56.920 --> 02:14:00.680
do it soon before they start to
bloom and set. See. Yeah,

1843
02:14:00.760 --> 02:14:03.119
let's I was thinking that this would
be a good time. You bet,

1844
02:14:03.359 --> 02:14:05.800
you bet? Hey, Mike,
I've got to hit a break right here,

1845
02:14:05.840 --> 02:14:07.600
but thank you for the call.
I appreciate that and good luck getting

1846
02:14:07.640 --> 02:14:11.840
that under control. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two kt

1847
02:14:13.119 --> 02:14:18.079
RH. It's time for Nicky in
the news. Welcome back to guard Linem.

1848
02:14:18.119 --> 02:14:20.000
Glad you're listening today. As I
was, I was glad you're listening.

1849
02:14:20.319 --> 02:14:24.960
Good to talk to you about things
related to your garden success, because

1850
02:14:24.000 --> 02:14:28.840
that's what we're here for. How
do we help you have a more beautiful

1851
02:14:28.920 --> 02:14:33.199
landscape and a more bountiful garden.
That's why we're here. If you'd like

1852
02:14:33.239 --> 02:14:37.159
to give us a call, our
number is seven one three two one two

1853
02:14:37.760 --> 02:14:43.279
five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1854
02:14:43.640 --> 02:14:46.399
Pretty easy to reach us that way, right, Hey, have you have

1855
02:14:46.520 --> 02:14:52.520
you been out to Enchanted Forest lately? Have you been out there that?

1856
02:14:52.600 --> 02:14:56.640
If you haven't been out there,
you need to go that place is amazing.

1857
02:14:56.720 --> 02:14:58.920
I'm going to be out there later
this spring. I'll tell you more

1858
02:15:00.000 --> 02:15:03.560
about that later for an appearance.
But I was just looking the other day.

1859
02:15:03.760 --> 02:15:09.880
The herbs selection they have in is
incredible, and herbs are fun to

1860
02:15:09.920 --> 02:15:11.960
gree You put herbs in pots and
containers, you can use them. I

1861
02:15:13.119 --> 02:15:16.279
use some herbs like a regano as
a groundcover. I use others like chives

1862
02:15:16.680 --> 02:15:20.479
lining a walk, just like you
would use like a riopy or monkey grass

1863
02:15:20.600 --> 02:15:24.800
or something like that. You could
use herbs for that. There's herbs that

1864
02:15:24.000 --> 02:15:28.239
bloom, that attract beneficial insects,
that support pollinators, and of course the

1865
02:15:28.359 --> 02:15:33.000
culinary purposes of herbs just that's in
and of itself, is a reason to

1866
02:15:33.159 --> 02:15:37.359
grow some. We are just talking
the other day with my wife about putting

1867
02:15:37.520 --> 02:15:43.319
some basil seed in the container to
get them started. Basil likes warm weather.

1868
02:15:43.600 --> 02:15:46.199
Too cold for basil right now,
but you can start the seed right

1869
02:15:46.239 --> 02:15:48.439
now. Well, when you go
out to Enchanted for us, they've got

1870
02:15:48.760 --> 02:15:54.720
herbs, vegetables, flowers, trees, shrubs, roads, everything you can

1871
02:15:54.800 --> 02:15:58.000
imagine. Really cool things in the
gift shop too. That that is always

1872
02:15:58.079 --> 02:16:01.760
kind of nice to get by there. You need seed potatoes if they still

1873
02:16:01.800 --> 02:16:05.880
got some around, I know they
had a great stock of those going in

1874
02:16:05.079 --> 02:16:09.279
as well. There's always something going
on out there and in Chanted Forest.

1875
02:16:09.319 --> 02:16:13.119
I'll be telling you about some of
the programs they have coming up. Now.

1876
02:16:13.199 --> 02:16:16.239
If you haven't been there before,
well you need to know where to

1877
02:16:16.319 --> 02:16:20.720
go. Enchanted Forest is on FM
twenty seven fifty nine in Richmond, So

1878
02:16:20.800 --> 02:16:24.399
if you're in Richmond, you're heading
up towards sugar Land direction. That's off

1879
02:16:24.479 --> 02:16:28.880
to the right FM twenty seven fifty
nine in Richmond. It's really easy to

1880
02:16:28.960 --> 02:16:31.799
find. And trust me, when
you drive up, you're going to say,

1881
02:16:31.920 --> 02:16:37.360
oh my gosh, this place,
this place is enchanting. It's really

1882
02:16:37.639 --> 02:16:41.200
really nice for that. If you
want to start seeds, they've got equipment

1883
02:16:41.239 --> 02:16:43.239
for that. They got seeds for
that. And of course the I mentioned

1884
02:16:43.239 --> 02:16:48.440
the potatoes is time to get those
done. Stop by Chanted Forest out in

1885
02:16:48.559 --> 02:16:52.280
Richmond and plan on picking up all
the supplies you need to have success,

1886
02:16:52.360 --> 02:16:56.120
because that is what they carry,
all the supplies that you need to have

1887
02:16:56.239 --> 02:17:01.440
success. They've also got knowledgeable folks, you know, Danny and Klay and

1888
02:17:01.559 --> 02:17:05.879
really all the folks that work there. They know what they're talking about and

1889
02:17:05.000 --> 02:17:09.840
they can guide you straight on what
you need to have success because just like

1890
02:17:09.959 --> 02:17:13.799
I was saying before on guardline,
we're here to help you have success.

1891
02:17:13.159 --> 02:17:18.239
That's why they're there. That's why
they are there too. They know that

1892
02:17:18.639 --> 02:17:22.559
when you help people have success,
they're going to come back. And that's

1893
02:17:22.600 --> 02:17:24.719
the way you want to get treated. And that's kind of garden center that

1894
02:17:26.200 --> 02:17:31.639
enchanted forest Richmond is. Let's see
who's been on the line here. Let's

1895
02:17:31.680 --> 02:17:37.479
head out to Deborah in Galveston.
Hello, Debra, Hey, I have

1896
02:17:37.719 --> 02:17:45.040
been told that clover is beneficial because
it brings nitrogen into the soul. Would

1897
02:17:45.120 --> 02:17:50.959
you tell me more that is true? Clover is a lagome, And when

1898
02:17:50.040 --> 02:17:56.360
you have a lagome, that means
it's a plant that takes nitrogen from the

1899
02:17:56.520 --> 02:18:00.760
air and puts it in nodules and
its roots. There's actually a bacteria doing

1900
02:18:00.840 --> 02:18:05.159
the work. The plant gets a
credit. But yes, blue bonnets or

1901
02:18:05.239 --> 02:18:09.120
lagoons, vetch is a lagoon.
Clover is a lagome. We even have

1902
02:18:09.239 --> 02:18:13.799
trees and shrubs that are lagoons.
Now, if you are taught, if

1903
02:18:13.840 --> 02:18:18.600
you tolerate the fact that you've got
clover growing in your lawn, you can

1904
02:18:18.680 --> 02:18:22.959
leave it you just mow it and
ignore it. But it's so dark green

1905
02:18:24.600 --> 02:18:26.559
that it kind of tends to stand
out like a neon sign, and people

1906
02:18:26.600 --> 02:18:30.639
don't care for that to have that
kind of a weed in the lawn.

1907
02:18:31.159 --> 02:18:33.040
But yes, you could leave it. It also blooms, and the blooms

1908
02:18:33.079 --> 02:18:39.399
attract little tiny pollinators. So I
could sing the praises of clover or tell

1909
02:18:39.399 --> 02:18:41.760
you how to get rid of it, whichever way you want to go.

1910
02:18:43.520 --> 02:18:48.040
I just wanted to be sure that
I was accurate on that my uncle told

1911
02:18:48.159 --> 02:18:52.520
me in Yeah, I wanted to
be sure that was true. That's true.

1912
02:18:52.559 --> 02:18:54.959
Now, ideally, if you want
the best results, about the time

1913
02:18:56.159 --> 02:19:00.959
that clover is going to start blooming, you would get to the plant then

1914
02:19:01.159 --> 02:19:03.920
just cut it off at the ground, and you'd have the most amount of

1915
02:19:03.040 --> 02:19:07.319
nitrogen in the soil. Once it
starts setting seed, it starts to pull

1916
02:19:07.440 --> 02:19:11.680
nitrogen up out of the nodules in
the roots and put them in use it

1917
02:19:11.840 --> 02:19:18.399
to make good seed protein in the
seeds. But that's a technicality. Well,

1918
02:19:18.479 --> 02:19:22.520
I've always had the pink flowers and
I thought they were pretty, so

1919
02:19:22.719 --> 02:19:24.840
I would pull them out of my
grass and put them in the flower bed.

1920
02:19:26.079 --> 02:19:28.879
There you go there. You go, well, I guess you can

1921
02:19:28.920 --> 02:19:33.120
do it that way. Listen,
people, there are people that need their

1922
02:19:33.159 --> 02:19:37.280
lawn to look like AstroTurf, all
the same size, all the same color,

1923
02:19:37.440 --> 02:19:41.879
perfectly cut, perfectly smooth, and
not a weed in sight. That's

1924
02:19:41.920 --> 02:19:43.280
one end of the spectrum. And
that's fine. You can do that.

1925
02:19:45.000 --> 02:19:48.760
Then there are other people who they
don't care. If it's green, I'll

1926
02:19:48.879 --> 02:19:52.440
mow it and it'll look good.
And I've noticed something. If you've got

1927
02:19:52.639 --> 02:19:58.120
a thoroughly weed infested lawn and you
mow it and take off your glasses,

1928
02:19:58.319 --> 02:20:05.159
it looks great. If you can't
see close, it's all green. That's

1929
02:20:05.239 --> 02:20:09.200
a statement, another one of Felder
rushing statements. You make all the weeds

1930
02:20:09.239 --> 02:20:13.600
in your long go away by just
taking over your glasses. So now a

1931
02:20:13.680 --> 02:20:16.920
lot of people are going to be
not in my yard. I ain't going

1932
02:20:16.000 --> 02:20:18.959
to, you know. So you
choose where you want to go. It's

1933
02:20:20.040 --> 02:20:22.840
your yard. Go out and have
fun with it. Deborah, thank you,

1934
02:20:24.200 --> 02:20:28.760
all right? You take care,
Papa oh Man. More than one

1935
02:20:28.799 --> 02:20:31.959
way to just skin a cat,
I guess they say, pretty helpful.

1936
02:20:33.159 --> 02:20:35.159
Let's see here. I wanted to
I wanted to tell you a little bit

1937
02:20:35.200 --> 02:20:39.840
about Siena Mulch. You heard me
talk about them before. Sienna is a

1938
02:20:39.959 --> 02:20:45.319
place down just north of Rocharon for
those of you who haven't been there,

1939
02:20:45.360 --> 02:20:48.159
it's near Highway six and two eighty
eight where they come together. It's on

1940
02:20:48.680 --> 02:20:54.680
FM five one FM five twenty one. Their website. Let me just give

1941
02:20:54.719 --> 02:20:56.440
you this, write this down.
You'll need it if you live anywhere down

1942
02:20:56.479 --> 02:21:07.520
that direction. Sienna Mulch now Cienamltch
has a wonderful selection of compost of soil,

1943
02:21:07.600 --> 02:21:11.920
amendment bed mixes of mulches. They
carry every fertilizer I talk about.

1944
02:21:13.000 --> 02:21:16.440
They even have pest disease and weed
control products there. You can buy stuff

1945
02:21:16.440 --> 02:21:20.280
by the bag, you can have
them deliver it. Their selection of gravel

1946
02:21:20.799 --> 02:21:26.239
of river stones and especially the landscaping
rock, you know, from the flat

1947
02:21:26.319 --> 02:21:31.319
stones to the stones, you make
a whole lot of it's unbelievable. Just

1948
02:21:31.959 --> 02:21:33.000
go to the website and take a
look at it. You see what I'm

1949
02:21:33.000 --> 02:21:37.399
talking about. Lots and lots of
options and varieties. So that patio you've

1950
02:21:37.440 --> 02:21:41.200
been wanting to build, they can
get you fixed up. They deliver within

1951
02:21:41.280 --> 02:21:45.239
twenty miles of their location out there. It's real easy to do. I

1952
02:21:45.319 --> 02:21:48.680
mean it just cienamltch dot com makes
it so easy because you get all the

1953
02:21:48.719 --> 02:21:52.040
stuff you need to take care of
the brown stuff so that when it's green

1954
02:21:52.159 --> 02:21:56.879
stuff season, your plants look wonderful
because you gave them a good place to

1955
02:21:56.959 --> 02:22:01.200
live, in a good root zone. That is what they can do for

1956
02:22:01.280 --> 02:22:03.920
you out there at Ciena Mulch.
Let's head. Let's see enough, it's

1957
02:22:05.040 --> 02:22:07.719
time per break. Good Conte Ribbon
and Maria. You'll be my first two

1958
02:22:07.799 --> 02:22:11.239
up when we come back. I'll
be right back. For those of you

1959
02:22:11.319 --> 02:22:16.040
who'd like to call seven one three
two one two five eight seven four,

1960
02:22:18.079 --> 02:22:20.280
welcome back to garden Line. What
are we going to talk about, Rubin?

1961
02:22:20.399 --> 02:22:24.840
We're going to head out to Missouri
City and see what Ruben's got on

1962
02:22:24.959 --> 02:22:28.559
his mind. Hey Rubin, good
morning. Yesterday I caught on on the

1963
02:22:28.680 --> 02:22:33.600
tail end of a conversation where you
mentioned some soil for seventy five bucks of

1964
02:22:35.000 --> 02:22:39.079
panting soil, and I didn't get
the name of the location of the place

1965
02:22:39.120 --> 02:22:41.440
that was seventy on sale. All
right, that's Heirloom Soils. It's out

1966
02:22:41.520 --> 02:22:46.159
in Porter, Texas. So if
you're going up sixty nine, go past

1967
02:22:46.280 --> 02:22:50.360
Kingwood. Just a little further down
the street road there is is Heirloom Soils

1968
02:22:50.360 --> 02:22:56.200
Importer Texas. Okay, good to
know. And uh I just to comment.

1969
02:22:56.680 --> 02:22:58.760
Two weeks ago, some woman called
in where a ship was having a

1970
02:23:00.639 --> 02:23:05.719
bombs with mud bugs, and I
can't understand her concern because of so being

1971
02:23:05.799 --> 02:23:09.760
so close to Louisiana. She could
just rent a cage in the There you

1972
02:23:09.920 --> 02:23:15.239
go, There you go. There's
a concept in pest management called integrated pest

1973
02:23:15.319 --> 02:23:18.200
management. One of the key things
is you import natural enemies. You bring

1974
02:23:18.280 --> 02:23:22.840
in lady bugs when you have an
aphian problem, You bring in caguns when

1975
02:23:22.879 --> 02:23:26.559
you've got a mud bug problem.
You could bring me into hey as a

1976
02:23:26.680 --> 02:23:31.479
kid, I would tie bacon to
a string and throw it in the ditch

1977
02:23:31.079 --> 02:23:35.319
and come up with food before you
knew it about that. That's right.

1978
02:23:35.479 --> 02:23:41.639
One final, one final comment.
I like the Ryan's answer. You win,

1979
02:23:41.799 --> 02:23:45.440
some you lose. So there you
go. That's it. That's all

1980
02:23:45.520 --> 02:23:46.280
right, Ruben. Is that what
you called about? Or do you have

1981
02:23:46.360 --> 02:23:50.719
a question? Oh okay, all
right, well thanks for calling. You

1982
02:23:50.840 --> 02:23:56.399
made my day. I appreciate that. Oh my gosh, yeah, crowd

1983
02:23:56.440 --> 02:24:01.879
audsy, it's always crowdedsy you've got
when you got a bunch of the little

1984
02:24:03.040 --> 02:24:05.600
chimney sticking up out of the yard. Oh goodness, Well, let's head

1985
02:24:05.719 --> 02:24:09.319
to the heights. Now we're gonna
talk to Maria. Hey, Maria,

1986
02:24:09.440 --> 02:24:15.280
good morning. I have a question. I know the crape myrtles are dormant

1987
02:24:15.360 --> 02:24:18.239
right now, but I had issues
with the scale and the black city in

1988
02:24:18.319 --> 02:24:22.440
the summer. So is it a
good time to spray them right now,

1989
02:24:22.600 --> 02:24:26.360
like within the second sidal soap or
malathion, so that they don't come back.

1990
02:24:26.680 --> 02:24:30.799
No, it's not what you need
to do. I'm going to tell

1991
02:24:30.799 --> 02:24:37.239
you the time to spray is going
to be about March or April because those

1992
02:24:37.399 --> 02:24:39.879
little tiny scale, the little white
things that are on the crape murle.

1993
02:24:39.920 --> 02:24:45.639
You'll see little white, cottony little
spots specs, and that's the scale,

1994
02:24:45.799 --> 02:24:48.280
and the city mold is growing on
the sugar water the scale puts out.

1995
02:24:48.840 --> 02:24:54.200
But if you spray now, you
want to accomplish anything. But when we

1996
02:24:54.280 --> 02:24:58.360
get into spring, all the little
baby scales start coming out from under the

1997
02:24:58.440 --> 02:25:01.879
mom scale and crawling around, little
tiny things. They don't have a protective

1998
02:25:01.959 --> 02:25:07.520
coating, and sprays of horticultural oil
at that time or even insecticidal. So

1999
02:25:07.719 --> 02:25:11.799
but I would do horticultural oil.
We'll coat them if you get complete,

2000
02:25:11.840 --> 02:25:16.040
good coverage, all sides of all
branches, and it will kill them.

2001
02:25:16.159 --> 02:25:18.959
Now, how do you know when, Well, I give you an estimate

2002
02:25:20.399 --> 02:25:26.000
of sometime in late March or April. But if you have double sided tape,

2003
02:25:26.079 --> 02:25:30.319
that little double sided scotch tape type
stuff, and you put it around

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a few branches, just tape it
to the branch, make a circle around

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the branch, and then go check
it every few days. I would do

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that, probably probably mid March I
would do it, and then I would

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check it and check it, and
it may be after I don't know,

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a week or two. The dust
is on the tape and it's not sticky

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02:25:50.120 --> 02:25:54.280
anymore. So you just put new
tape over it. And when you see

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02:25:54.360 --> 02:25:58.799
these little tiny reddish things starting to
get stuck in the tape, that's that's

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that scale is active and it's time
to treat for them. And that's the

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02:26:05.479 --> 02:26:09.639
least toxic option for trying to manage
those scale. So do it with the

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oil first, with the oil first. But oil has to be at the

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02:26:13.000 --> 02:26:16.959
right time. The old mother scale
they're going to die. But the baby

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scale they you know, you increase
your scale population one hundredfold when they all

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get out there and start setting up
shop. Great, thank you so much.

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All right, Maria, there are
other options. You know, they're

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toxic sprays that you can use.
It will kill scale, but uh that

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overall, other than a systemic which
can affect your honeybees, that's the best

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route that I know to take.
Thanks again, I appreciate, I do

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appreciate, thank you, Thank you. Hey, what was the last time

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you were at Anti Rozenborium or have
you ever been? Well, if you

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haven't been, you really have to
go. This place is really cool.

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I remember they opened up. I
was in grad school and horticulture grad score

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just getting out I believe, just
getting out at grad school about that time,

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and it just it's just a wonderful
place. The setting itself is so

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cool. It just goes back to
another place and time. And antique roses,

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boy, they are the place to
get antique roses. Just so many

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types and variety. They're even crossing
some roses and coming up with their own

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02:27:24.639 --> 02:27:30.040
varieties out there. There's a program
working on that at Antiquros Importum. You

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can go to the website Antique Roseemporium
dot com. You just head out to

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Brenham, go north and antiq ros
imparms real easy to find. It's everybody

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else knows where it is. I
mean they've gone there, so you need

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to go to The phone number is
nine seven nine eight three six fifty five

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forty eight. I'll tell you it. Anytime's a good time to go.

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You can go right now. They've
got a good stock of all kinds of

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things. Right now. They're going
to be starting their educational workshops. They'll

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have different kinds of programs. I'm
going to be out there also, but

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they're having the on February twenty fourth, there's an session on seed starting that

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02:28:07.600 --> 02:28:13.760
they're doing out there. They have
a spring celebration March ninth and tenth going

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02:28:13.799 --> 02:28:18.360
on out there. Lots of stuff
happening at Antique Rosing Porum. And it's

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not just roses, it's so much
more. Right now, they've still got

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02:28:20.840 --> 02:28:26.719
cool season color out there, like
pansies by old isn't Dianthus a really good

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02:28:26.799 --> 02:28:31.680
selection of ornamental grasses and perennials at
the antiqu Rosing Porum as well. And

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02:28:31.840 --> 02:28:37.239
once we get into about the April
season. That's when you know roses are

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02:28:37.319 --> 02:28:41.159
at their peak all over the greater
Southeast Texas area. And boy, to

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02:28:41.280 --> 02:28:46.680
go out there then and see the
roses is so inspiring. It's also when

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02:28:46.719 --> 02:28:48.959
blue bonnet's bloom. While you're at
it, you can make a little trip

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02:28:50.040 --> 02:28:54.000
through the blue bonnet trails outside of
the Brennam area there. So yeah,

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02:28:54.120 --> 02:28:58.600
lots of reasons to go to Antique
Rosing Porum. Check them out online though

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02:28:58.719 --> 02:29:03.600
Antique rosem dot com or give them
a call nine seven nine eight three six

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02:29:03.200 --> 02:29:07.520
fifty five forty eight. If you've
not been, you need to go by

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02:29:07.559 --> 02:29:11.120
the way. If you have a
group like a garden club, maybe a

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02:29:11.200 --> 02:29:15.479
master gardener group or a junior master
gardener with the kiddos, Native Plant Society

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02:29:15.559 --> 02:29:18.159
or Herb Society. Yeah, they
have herbs out there too. That's a

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02:29:18.239 --> 02:29:22.360
good time. Get the team together
and let's do a road trip. Head

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02:29:22.399 --> 02:29:26.440
out to Anti grozing for him.
Well, wow, they're win another show.

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02:29:28.040 --> 02:29:30.319
I mean, we're here at the
big end of the whole nine yards.

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02:29:30.760 --> 02:29:31.959
Thanks for calling in today, those
of you who called. It was

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02:29:33.040 --> 02:29:37.079
fun. We had a good time
talking and a couple of laughs along along

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02:29:37.200 --> 02:29:41.879
the way as well. I appreciate
that. I'm here every Saturday and Sunday

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02:29:41.920 --> 02:29:46.799
from six am to ten am on
garden Line. It is a pleasure being

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02:29:46.879 --> 02:29:50.319
your host. I want to remind
you if you need my garden schedules for

2064
02:29:50.479 --> 02:29:56.959
your lawn, they're online. If
you want that information on soil testing made

2065
02:29:56.000 --> 02:29:58.879
easy, how to do a soil
test, I tell you all about it.

2066
02:30:00.399 --> 02:30:03.200
It's online. If you are looking
to have a copy of the thing

2067
02:30:03.239 --> 02:30:07.200
we were talking about a while back, the frost and freeze protection information,

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02:30:07.840 --> 02:30:13.440
that's online. And there's lots more
coming at gardening with Skip dot com.

2069
02:30:13.600 --> 02:30:16.319
Gardening with Skip dot com, you
can find all the things I talk about

2070
02:30:16.319 --> 02:30:20.399
here on Guardenline are available there for
you to download, so I hope you'll

2071
02:30:20.399 --> 02:30:24.959
take advantage of that. If you
will look outside right now, you will

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02:30:24.000 --> 02:30:26.959
see one of the best days you've
seen in a long time. And this

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02:30:28.120 --> 02:30:31.959
afternoon to be a great time to
get out and visit our garden centers,

2074
02:30:31.280 --> 02:30:35.239
Visit some of the suppliers that we
talk about here on guarden Line, get

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02:30:35.280 --> 02:30:39.479
your malts, to get your composts, to get the products for fertilizing your

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02:30:39.559 --> 02:30:41.319
lawn, taking care of your lawn, all of that kind of stuff.

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02:30:41.680 --> 02:30:46.600
What a great afternoon to get out
and enjoy that as well. Thank you

2078
02:30:46.760 --> 02:30:50.879
so much for being a listener to
Gardenline. I do want to remind you,

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02:30:50.000 --> 02:30:56.959
guys that are vegetable gardeners, the
annual Fort Bend Vegetable Conference, the

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02:30:56.079 --> 02:31:03.159
Regional Vegetable Conference, is this Thursday, February the eighth at the Fort ben

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02:31:03.479 --> 02:31:07.399
County Fairgrounds in Rosenberg, just south
Highway thirty six, turn off a fifty

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02:31:07.479 --> 02:31:11.959
nine term south on thirty six,
and I mean it's just not even a

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02:31:11.040 --> 02:31:15.760
mile down the road right there.
Easy to find. Forty bucks is a

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02:31:15.840 --> 02:31:20.440
registration. You do need to register. If you want more information, go

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02:31:20.559 --> 02:31:26.719
to the website Fortbend dot Agrolife dot
org, Fortbend dot Agrolife dot org.

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02:31:26.680 --> 02:31:30.879
There they can get you all set
up figuring out what you need to do

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02:31:31.040 --> 02:31:33.799
and how to go about it.
There's lots of good information at this conference.

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02:31:33.920 --> 02:31:37.200
Listen that forty bucks. Not only
do you get lunch, but you

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02:31:37.280 --> 02:31:43.200
get a full day of sessions.
There's things on bees and honey production,

2090
02:31:43.600 --> 02:31:46.559
how to market produce if you're a
commercial grower, how to deal with drought,

2091
02:31:48.440 --> 02:31:52.719
how to properly irrigate backyard gardening tips, alternative gardening techniques, how to

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02:31:52.760 --> 02:31:56.840
build your soil. Have you ever
grown mushrooms? You'll learn how you're gonna

2093
02:31:56.840 --> 02:32:01.200
have a thing on mushroom growing.
There. Integrate pest management. That's the

2094
02:32:01.360 --> 02:32:05.520
safest way we know to manage pest
where you're just not spraying them all the

2095
02:32:05.559 --> 02:32:09.360
time because it's you know you got
spray and it's a day you know you're

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02:32:09.559 --> 02:32:13.879
you're doing it in a way that
minimizes the need to spray. That's there.

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02:32:15.079 --> 02:32:18.440
There's gonna be a lot of breakout
sessions as well. It's a great

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02:32:18.479 --> 02:32:22.520
deal. So this Thursday annual Fort
Man Regional Vegetable Conference, hope you can

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02:32:22.559 --> 02:32:22.799
make it.