WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:04.599 Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 2 00:00:04.639 --> 00:00:20.199 on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor so just watch 3 00:00:20.359 --> 00:00:39.560 him as anything to club ticket, but not a sign. Well, good 4 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:44.000 Sunday morning. You are listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip 5 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:46.840 Richter, and we we're here to talk to you about whatever you're interested in 6 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:50.600 regarding gardening. So let me give you a phone number. As always, 7 00:00:50.600 --> 00:00:54.439 I tell you to keep a pen and a paper hand because we'll be giving 8 00:00:54.439 --> 00:00:57.600 out other kinds of information you just might want to jot down. And our 9 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:03.039 phone number here is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven 10 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:07.599 one three two one two five eight seven four. Well, we've got some 11 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.480 some pretty decent weather today. You know. I'm looking at different different weather 12 00:01:11.519 --> 00:01:15.879 outlets and kind of get a mix of opinions on what's going to be going 13 00:01:15.920 --> 00:01:21.640 on. But overall it's gonna be pretty good day. I was I was 14 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:26.319 thinking yesterday I was talking to somebody about weed control in the lawn and they 15 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:30.000 were they were asking how to get rid of some particular weeds and and so 16 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:36.159 basically, you know, it's going over the broad leaf post emergent options that 17 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.719 they would have, but just pointing out that when it gets hot, a 18 00:01:38.799 --> 00:01:44.640 lot of those products, the hotter it gets stressed lawn more and more can 19 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:49.079 coust some issues. And of course every particular chemistry is a little different and 20 00:01:49.159 --> 00:01:52.560 how it how it reacts. But in general, if you're going to kill 21 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:57.280 growing existing that is broad leaf weeds in your lawn, especially Saint Augustine lawn, 22 00:01:57.680 --> 00:02:02.480 you want to get that done before the temperatures are mid to uper eighties 23 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:07.719 or above. So as you get in you know, eighty five eighty seven, 24 00:02:07.039 --> 00:02:10.039 Yeah, it's kind of go ahead and get it done. And as 25 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:14.639 I look at the temperature, it's we've got that for a few days. 26 00:02:14.680 --> 00:02:16.719 We're kind of bouncing right around in that area, and then things are heading 27 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:22.240 up to the nineties. And so if you've been looking at weeds and you're 28 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:23.400 on thinking, yeah, I get to get around to that, well, 29 00:02:23.879 --> 00:02:28.919 here's you're around to that. It's time to get it done. Or you 30 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:32.919 know, there's there's options on weeds. Everybody has a has a different tolerance. 31 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:38.319 Some people it has to be perfect, as if you'd lay AstroTurf out 32 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:42.280 there and that of course, is a higher level of weed control, for 33 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:46.000 sure, and it can be achieved. It's just some people don't want to 34 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.039 go to all that. Other people it's, well, the weeds are green, 35 00:02:49.120 --> 00:02:51.479 grass is green. Let's keep a mode to the same height. And 36 00:02:51.560 --> 00:02:53.960 I'm happy and I and that's the other end of the spectrum, and that's 37 00:02:53.960 --> 00:03:00.879 fine too. And there's a thousand debates and arguments over all of these kinds 38 00:03:00.919 --> 00:03:02.120 of things. So I'm not going to wait into all that today, but 39 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:06.280 I just gonna say that if you, if you are going to choose to 40 00:03:06.319 --> 00:03:09.879 spray your broad leaf weeds to shut them down before it gets hot, I 41 00:03:09.879 --> 00:03:13.800 would say the next there or four days, just watch the weather. You 42 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.080 know. It's what I see doesn't show a lot of rain coming. Maybe 43 00:03:16.159 --> 00:03:21.000 a storm today, but that's kind of iffy. Anyway. There's just a 44 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:25.599 word for the wise. The reason the reason I talk about these things on 45 00:03:27.080 --> 00:03:30.919 turf weed control is because a lot of times things we do to our grass 46 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:38.199 weaken the grass and you look at it and maybe you'll notice a little yellowing 47 00:03:38.319 --> 00:03:39.520 or it doesn't look quite right for a little while, and then it bounces 48 00:03:39.560 --> 00:03:43.879 back, or maybe you don't even really see it but if the grass is 49 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:50.680 weakened, then opportunist diseases have a chance to move in, and weeds have 50 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.879 a chance to proliferate because the grass is not filling in and becoming as dense 51 00:03:53.919 --> 00:03:59.639 as it could be, And so we try to avoid that. I compare 52 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:02.159 health to human health all the time, and I realize that's a stretch, 53 00:04:02.280 --> 00:04:06.240 but there are some similarities, and here's one of them. If you are 54 00:04:06.680 --> 00:04:12.159 tired, if you don't get good sleep, if you don't eat right, 55 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:17.240 don't get any exercise, just basically couch potato status, well, the chances 56 00:04:17.240 --> 00:04:21.480 of you getting sick are higher than someone who does all the above. That 57 00:04:21.600 --> 00:04:24.959 doesn't mean someone that does all the above is not going to get sick. 58 00:04:25.000 --> 00:04:29.319 It just means you're predisposing your body to getting sick by not taking care of 59 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:33.319 it. And the same thing can happen with plants. Diseases like hypoxillan canker 60 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:39.199 that can attack oaks and other trees and take them out are out there in 61 00:04:39.319 --> 00:04:42.160 nature. They're there right now. If you've got trees are on your yard, 62 00:04:42.279 --> 00:04:46.480 there are hypoxillan spores in your yard, but they're not killing all your 63 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:50.120 trees. But when that tree gets stressed, the hypoxillan has the opportunity, 64 00:04:50.240 --> 00:04:54.519 if it's the right species that it can attack, to move right in and 65 00:04:54.600 --> 00:04:58.560 kill it. So how do you control apoxilland canker? You don't. You 66 00:04:58.680 --> 00:05:02.000 keep your trees healthy. That's that's how you avoid it and take all root 67 00:05:02.079 --> 00:05:06.199 rot of Saint Augustine grass. Take all root rot is pretty ubiquitous. It's 68 00:05:06.240 --> 00:05:11.639 not like a spore landed in your yard but not your neighbors. It's out 69 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:16.000 there, and so it moves in when the Saint Augustine gets weakened. And 70 00:05:16.120 --> 00:05:23.240 now once we have take all root rot, we're dealing with some significant efforts 71 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:26.560 to try to shut it down. And some of those efforts are a little 72 00:05:26.600 --> 00:05:30.240 bit stressful of the grass as well, like kind of almost a chemotherapy thing 73 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:33.439 where the you know, we're going after the disease, but at the same 74 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:39.040 time, it's a little bit hard on the patient, and so that's why 75 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.439 we try to avoid those things and good cultural practices. I don't care what 76 00:05:42.519 --> 00:05:46.480 you're growing. That is the first foundation. So if you're going to ask 77 00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:49.600 me a disease question, if you're going to ask me how to have a 78 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:56.920 beautiful lawn or beautiful tree or whatever flowers productive vegetables. The answer always begins 79 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:00.959 with cultural practices. That's where we start. Now. Doesn't mean that if 80 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.920 you do all the cultural right, there aren't any problems, of course, 81 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:11.519 but my goodness, why not take ten problems and maybe make them one or 82 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.439 two? Wouldn't that be a good idea? I mean, it's like playing 83 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:17.680 think of it this way is a weird analogy. It's like playing Russian roulet, 84 00:06:18.240 --> 00:06:21.360 you know, and one bullet is poor soil, and one bullet is 85 00:06:23.120 --> 00:06:26.720 poor drainage, and another bullet. You know that it could be the nutrient 86 00:06:26.839 --> 00:06:30.120 levels, or it could be you know, you're stressing it with a certain 87 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:34.319 type of a chemical that stresses it. Are you get the idea? Well, 88 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:39.040 at some point the chance of spending that revolver and coming out with a 89 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:43.120 good a good outcome gets slimmer and slimmer. Right, Well, that's kind 90 00:06:43.120 --> 00:06:46.360 of what we do. That's what we do with our plants. So our 91 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:50.519 goal is basically to every empty, every possible bullet out of the chamber when 92 00:06:50.519 --> 00:06:54.800 we're playing the horticultural or Russian roulette, if you will, out there in 93 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.800 the landscape. I don't know if that analogy works with you. But it 94 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:00.600 makes a little bit of sense to me. So there we go. H 95 00:07:01.560 --> 00:07:04.800 we're talking about taking carrier lawn and the importance of things, you know, 96 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:10.120 looking good. One of the things I did this spring, uh to it 97 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:12.199 was part of in my front yard, right, I hadn't it hadn't done 98 00:07:12.199 --> 00:07:14.920 some fertilizing. I put out some has to grow twelve four eight. It's 99 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:17.240 a liquid lawn food. You attach it to a hose in sprinkler. It 100 00:07:17.279 --> 00:07:20.920 takes about ten minutes to go over your lawn and put it. Not just 101 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:26.439 the nutrients, but they also have the Medina soil activator and humor, a 102 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:30.040 liquid humus in it, and it will give you a nice quick green up. 103 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:34.920 It's good stimulation for the soul's natural microbes and materials that are in it. 104 00:07:35.439 --> 00:07:39.360 Uh And it works well. Now you can. You can do it 105 00:07:39.399 --> 00:07:43.399 about four times a year if you if if you're leaving your clippings on which 106 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.399 you should be, four times a year is enough. But a Medina has 107 00:07:46.439 --> 00:07:49.920 to grow. Twelve four eight Lawn food is an excellent product by Medina that 108 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.319 really helps. And I saw the green up in my own lawn and when 109 00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:56.480 it was the first time I had used this particular product by my medina in 110 00:07:56.519 --> 00:07:59.720 it, I was very impressed. I thought it did it did really really 111 00:07:59.720 --> 00:08:03.879 well. Well, we're bumping here up on a break, so I'm going 112 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:05.360 to give you a phone number and if you want to get on the board 113 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:07.959 with Josh, we'll talk to you when we come back. That's seven one 114 00:08:09.079 --> 00:08:28.639 three two one two five eight seven four. I hope we got a cup 115 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:33.360 of coffee or hot tea or whatever you used to wake up. You're listening 116 00:08:33.399 --> 00:08:37.639 to Garden Line. We're looking forward to talking to you. The number is 117 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:43.720 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. And I was heading 118 00:08:43.759 --> 00:08:48.759 through Tomball the other day and I stopped in at D and D Feed that's 119 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:50.679 about three miles west of Tomball on two forty nine. If you haven't been 120 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.919 out there, you need to check it out now. As as Randy always 121 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:56.360 said on the on the station, you know we love our feed stores, 122 00:08:56.399 --> 00:08:58.879 and that certainly is the case. And D and D is a good example 123 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:03.720 of why they've expanded their store just to have a whole new area where they 124 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.960 can even have more products. They already carry all the things that we talk 125 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:11.159 about here on the show. But they also now have plants, lots of 126 00:09:11.200 --> 00:09:15.799 plants out front, flats of vegetables and different kinds of roses, citrus trees 127 00:09:15.840 --> 00:09:18.799 and things like that. You're gonna find all those high end dog foods at 128 00:09:20.200 --> 00:09:22.360 D and D that would include Origin, diamond, victor those kinds of things. 129 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:26.360 Certainly, it's a feed store, so livestock feed. But maybe you 130 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:30.279 got rodent problems or other kinds of pests. There's a section for that. 131 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:33.120 They carry that mosquito dunk that we need to put putting out now in any 132 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.600 stagnant water. D and D feed just outside of Tumball, three miles west 133 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:41.279 on Highway two forty nine. If you haven't been there, you should. 134 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:43.440 You should check it out. I think you will be impressed. They do 135 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:46.639 an excellent job out there. I always like to go visit, and when 136 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.200 I go, my dogs always insist that I bring them some kind of a 137 00:09:50.200 --> 00:09:54.480 snack home, because they've got a really cool dog deli section as well. 138 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:58.759 Well, let's do it. Let's head out and we're gonna go to Cyprus 139 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:03.960 and talk to Charles this morning. Hello Charles, Hey, good morning, 140 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:09.600 Skiff, good morning. I'm old enough to remember listening to Dewey Compton, 141 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:11.399 So I guess that tells you about how old I am. All right, 142 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:15.200 all right, we may be born on the same day, but let's go 143 00:10:15.279 --> 00:10:22.240 let's keep going here. So live out in Cyprus. Two years ago, 144 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:24.960 I ripped out everything out of my front beds because it was all overgrown, 145 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:33.519 and went back in with Berfort Holly's put in a dwarf magnolia, put in 146 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:37.840 two Japanese us. And I was listening a few weeks back, and I 147 00:10:37.879 --> 00:10:43.039 believe you had a caller calling say he was having trouble with his japeus, 148 00:10:43.799 --> 00:10:48.200 and I'm both of my plants and they're in separate beds, but both of 149 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:54.600 them are having that where one of the growth stalks dies off brown and then 150 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:58.720 you know, I'll still get some green ones. But it seems like one 151 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:05.840 plan is just about going to be completely dead. And I started reading up 152 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:13.879 on it and it seemed to indicate that there might be a root broad problem. 153 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:18.600 So I just will wanted to get your okay, get your opinion. 154 00:11:18.039 --> 00:11:24.639 Well, that's that's entirely possible. Japanese you is not super prone to root 155 00:11:24.759 --> 00:11:28.559 rots, but like almost all plants, it can get a root rotum. 156 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:33.120 What was the dieback. Has it been kind of progressive like this branch and 157 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:37.840 then a few weeks later that branch or or is it kind of like pretty 158 00:11:37.879 --> 00:11:41.559 much all at once you're seeing it. No, it's definitely progressive. Okay, 159 00:11:43.440 --> 00:11:46.399 Well, like I said, it started last year. Yeah, Well, 160 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:48.519 I'd like to blame it on the December freeze at least in part, 161 00:11:48.679 --> 00:11:52.799 because that caught a lot of our plants. I'm prepared. I'm I'm still 162 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.559 surprised at how many crape myrtles I'm seeing that I have huge sections dead or 163 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:01.279 whatnot because because of that freeze. But that you would expect most of the 164 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:07.000 damage to show up at once, although when there's partial damage to let's say 165 00:12:07.039 --> 00:12:09.679 the stem of the plant, it may go for a little while and be 166 00:12:09.720 --> 00:12:13.240 okay, and then later it just kind of collapses and it's not able to 167 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:18.639 keep going. And so I would follow the dead branches down, just examine 168 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:24.000 those limbs of shoots and see if you see splits in them further down, 169 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:30.200 that would be more of an indication of cold damage. That primarily that would 170 00:12:30.200 --> 00:12:33.879 be a point toward cold damage. You may just see some sunken dead areas, 171 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:37.120 and that could be like a canker, and that would be impossible. 172 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:41.600 I would prune out anything that's dead in them. And when you prune, 173 00:12:41.679 --> 00:12:46.320 get you some lysol or a similar product, and you make a cut. 174 00:12:46.440 --> 00:12:48.000 You go below the dead and cut it out of there because it's not going 175 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.480 to come back to life, and then spray your prunters with lysol that's a 176 00:12:52.559 --> 00:12:56.000 disinfectant, and then you go make another cut in that way. If it 177 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.679 is a canker type disease or something is active in there, you're not just 178 00:13:00.039 --> 00:13:01.879 writing it as you make cuts through the plant. So just you know, 179 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:05.480 do that little routine. It's fast and easy and it's a good way to 180 00:13:05.519 --> 00:13:09.720 do it. The only other thing that you know, I would suggest is 181 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:13.240 if you have a bush that declines to the point of you know it's not 182 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:18.159 going to make it, but before it's fully dead, you could dig it 183 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:22.159 up, shake soil off the roots, and send at least a good part 184 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:26.000 of it, or drive it up to the plant clinic lab in college station. 185 00:13:26.519 --> 00:13:30.240 They will take it into a lab, cultured out in a petri dish 186 00:13:30.559 --> 00:13:33.840 and actually scientific, you know, look at what is the name of this 187 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.679 disease rather than just a visual Yeah, that's a root rot and then give 188 00:13:37.679 --> 00:13:41.960 you some recommendations now that would probably be worth your money. If you've got 189 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:45.919 a bunch of them and you'd like to set this down. If you're leaning 190 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:48.840 toward giving up on them already, well you know, you may not want 191 00:13:48.840 --> 00:13:50.519 to go to that extra step, but that's the way I would suggest, 192 00:13:50.919 --> 00:13:56.240 Charles, that you would get to the very bottom of it. Great, 193 00:13:56.960 --> 00:14:00.559 okay, yes, thank you very much. All right, well, and 194 00:14:00.960 --> 00:14:03.720 I hope it does well. I hope they turn around. It's a it's 195 00:14:03.759 --> 00:14:07.960 a decent plant for here. We you know, we often need things that 196 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:11.879 are the shape of a Japanese you, that are evergreen, and a lot 197 00:14:11.919 --> 00:14:13.559 of the things that could be used in other parts of the country don't do 198 00:14:13.600 --> 00:14:16.519 well here, so we're kind of glad to have Japanese you as an option. 199 00:14:18.879 --> 00:14:20.919 All right, well, thank you so much. All right, Charles, 200 00:14:20.000 --> 00:14:24.159 you have a good day up there in Cyprus. Thank you you too. 201 00:14:24.440 --> 00:14:30.279 Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 202 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:35.399 Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I've got a 203 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:39.000 hibiscus, the tropical hibiscus, you know, the gaudy ones with oh my 204 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.960 gosh, the color is just all over the place beautiful, and it's sitting 205 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.720 in a pot and I'm you know, they say the Cobbert's kids go barefoot. 206 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:52.320 Well, I need to get home and actually pot that up. And 207 00:14:52.360 --> 00:14:56.399 I was just thinking about about that, and I've got a big container that 208 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:58.840 I can put it in, and what I need to get a hold of 209 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.279 some of the nitropost jungle land. Jungle Land is a very good mix for 210 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:07.759 potting up plants on your patio because it has it has good drainage, and 211 00:15:07.799 --> 00:15:11.039 you know that's the key. If you want a plant to grow well in 212 00:15:11.120 --> 00:15:13.159 a pot, you want it to do two things. It seem opposite, 213 00:15:13.159 --> 00:15:18.279 and one is drain well and the other one is hold water well. You 214 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:22.279 want the access to drain away so it's not water logged, but you want 215 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:24.639 it to hold water so the soil stays moist, and jungle Land does that. 216 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.320 It's got a blend of peat. And I've talked about the four sources 217 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:33.440 of age material, the micro rhizal fungi. That's another that's another important thing 218 00:15:33.480 --> 00:15:35.960 that's in it. There's an indoor version with the water crystals. But what 219 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:39.759 I'm needing right now is that outdoor version to finally get that thing potted. 220 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.320 I don't know, I probably need to get some help in here so I 221 00:15:43.320 --> 00:15:48.360 can finally get my own yard work done. But potting up that hibiscus is 222 00:15:48.399 --> 00:15:50.279 a good idea, and jungle land is something I think I'll plan on using 223 00:15:50.799 --> 00:15:56.039 to get that knocked out and out of the way. I love hibiscus. 224 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:00.279 The hotter it gets, as long as they have moisture there is going to 225 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.840 keep looking good. I mean, they really just thrive in the heat, 226 00:16:04.039 --> 00:16:07.240 and we just have to watch that they don't dry out. That's it's a 227 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:14.480 number one thing with all our container plants. They you know, it's it's 228 00:16:14.559 --> 00:16:19.039 so easy to forget to you know, you watered and you got busy, 229 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:22.120 and then you went out and did something, and the next day something unexpected 230 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:25.879 happened, and all of a sudden, it's been three days and those plants 231 00:16:25.919 --> 00:16:30.799 are toasty turn into toast out there, and that can happen fast in a 232 00:16:30.840 --> 00:16:34.120 container. So good quality mix is important, making sure they're good drainage holes 233 00:16:34.159 --> 00:16:40.559 in your container is important. But large container sizes. I always cringe when 234 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:45.399 I watch maybe a TV show filmed some of the more northern part of the 235 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:49.879 country. Midwest, east coast California, and you see containers that here, 236 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:56.039 that is not a big enough container for that plant. And if if temperatures 237 00:16:56.080 --> 00:17:00.080 are milder, and I know it can get up to a hundred degrees in 238 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.519 the Midwest, right but we're talking about hot all day all the time, 239 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:08.640 and then hot all night too. It puts a lot of demands on those 240 00:17:08.640 --> 00:17:12.640 plants, and they have to pump a lot of water for the evaporative cooling 241 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:18.519 in their system to work to keep them from overheating themselves. And so we 242 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:21.839 do need to keep them moist. And with a larger volume of soil, 243 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.319 then that plant has more water to draw from, you know, because every 244 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:29.920 cubic inch of soil is going to only be able to hold a certain amount 245 00:17:29.920 --> 00:17:33.079 of water. So how many you know, how many cubic inches or how 246 00:17:33.119 --> 00:17:37.319 big of a container can you provide? That's the bank account. So you 247 00:17:37.319 --> 00:17:40.640 want a little bank account, do you want a big bank account? A 248 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:42.799 big bank account means you don't have to water three times a day or twice 249 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:48.240 a day. It's going to be okay. And that's what we're aiming for. 250 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:51.799 And I mentioned that because you know, everybody intends on water in their 251 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:53.599 plants. I do, but I can't tell you how many times I've come 252 00:17:53.640 --> 00:18:00.400 home and that tomato growing in a container is just wilted and it's like water 253 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:03.400 and it perks back up. Now most people would say, well, okay, 254 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:07.720 chrisis averted. No, not averted. You have ballooms on there that 255 00:18:07.759 --> 00:18:11.200 are going to abort. You have fruit that's going to develop, blossom, 256 00:18:11.319 --> 00:18:15.680 end rot now because you've taken it through that wet dry cycle. There's a 257 00:18:15.720 --> 00:18:18.720 lot of problems that happen. Even though we keep the plants alive, we 258 00:18:18.799 --> 00:18:25.839 don't keep them productive and healthy, and so large containers are just important. 259 00:18:25.880 --> 00:18:27.920 That's the easiest way. The other thing that I've done before is as I 260 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.920 put a drip system in and you can get these not difficult to put together 261 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:37.119 with a little timer on it. So there's little tubes running along on the 262 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:41.400 ground, or maybe if it's hanging baskets up on the arbor or something, 263 00:18:41.400 --> 00:18:45.400 there's a tube and a little tube drops down in your basket. And every 264 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:49.319 day, maybe once or twice a day, the little sprinkler comes on or 265 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:55.039 the dripper comes on, and it wets that pot and it's I don't want 266 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.319 to ever say, just plug it in and forget it, because things go 267 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:02.559 wrong with anything we plug in, but just check it periodically. But it's 268 00:19:02.640 --> 00:19:06.200 not up to you to remember every day to take care of those plants. 269 00:19:06.519 --> 00:19:10.880 And so the combination of a large container and some type of a drip system, 270 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:15.079 it just makes it full proof and you will see an amazing difference in 271 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:18.480 results as a result of that. Our phone number is seven one three two 272 00:19:18.599 --> 00:19:23.319 one two fifty eight seventy four. If you'd like to be on the air, 273 00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:26.599 I would encourage you to give Josh a call seven one three two one 274 00:19:26.640 --> 00:19:30.519 two fifty eight seventy four and we will take your call and see what it 275 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:33.480 is that we can do to help you have success in your garden. That 276 00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:38.839 is why we're here. Charles was talking about listening back to Dewey Compton days 277 00:19:40.400 --> 00:19:44.960 and somebody out when I was in Sugarland at the Outdoor Living Show yesterday, 278 00:19:45.160 --> 00:19:48.720 somebody was talking to me about you know, they grew up. They were 279 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:52.079 a younger person, but they grew up listening when they were with their dad 280 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:55.559 in the car to Dewey Compton and Bill Zac and John Burrows, and of 281 00:19:55.599 --> 00:20:00.400 course the quarter century of Randy Lemon, and it is not lost on me 282 00:20:00.839 --> 00:20:06.559 the legacy of this show and just what this show has been to the greater 283 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:11.400 Houston community. And I say greater Houston reaching all the way out to Interstate 284 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:14.799 thirty five in the Louisiana border if you if you want to listen that far 285 00:20:14.839 --> 00:20:19.640 away. That's a long history of great radio and good advice, local advice 286 00:20:19.720 --> 00:20:27.160 for gardeners. And I consider that, I guess soberly thinking about the fact 287 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:32.440 that how important that is, wanting to make sure that we continue that tradition 288 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:37.519 here with garden Line. And part of the tradition with garden Line is I 289 00:20:37.559 --> 00:20:41.400 get to hand the baton to Nikki for news every time, and here she 290 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:44.599 is. We're getting close to the time, aren't we. Oh, we 291 00:20:44.720 --> 00:20:48.200 definitely you are. All right, Well, I'm on the edge of my 292 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:52.680 seat waiting to hear what has happened in Houston, because it's always a surprise 293 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:55.799 and then sometimes not so much of it. Well, this involves perhaps drinking 294 00:20:55.880 --> 00:21:15.519 a little bit too much. That's probably first time that's happened. Well, 295 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:18.759 good Sunday morning, on a good day for gardening. You're listening to garden 296 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:22.839 Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter and here's our number. Write this 297 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.839 down, give us a call. Seven one three two one two five eight 298 00:21:26.960 --> 00:21:32.119 seven four seven one three two two fifty eight seventy four. I like to 299 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:37.240 sort of nerd out on reading about horticultural things. It's just something I enjoy. 300 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:41.400 I try to not, you know, be insufferable putting out all the 301 00:21:41.440 --> 00:21:45.119 nerd facts that I find fascinating on the air, But I think it makes 302 00:21:45.119 --> 00:21:48.960 things a little more interesting when you kind of understand the background, and you 303 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:52.200 know, you go back in time and you think about how do people deal 304 00:21:52.480 --> 00:21:59.039 with pests before the era of chemical controls. You know, if you go 305 00:21:59.119 --> 00:22:00.880 back to a round World War two, we got a whole lot of different 306 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:07.960 chemicals that came into the industry as a result of the chemicals research during the 307 00:22:07.960 --> 00:22:11.720 World Wars, and we received a lot of our chemicals at the time. 308 00:22:11.799 --> 00:22:14.759 Some of the almost all the early ones are now gone for good reasons. 309 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:18.559 But you go back before that and you can get into the Middle Ages and 310 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:23.240 times where they were discovering the heavy metals like arsenic and other things that were 311 00:22:23.319 --> 00:22:26.799 used for controlling past. You can go all the way back to Egypt, 312 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:33.640 and sulfur was actually used back then fungicide and a midacide at that point as 313 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:36.640 well. And one of the things I just ran across the other day is 314 00:22:36.680 --> 00:22:41.119 that the Greeks and Romans used cedar for repelling insects, and I thought, 315 00:22:41.119 --> 00:22:45.039 well, that is interesting. It reminded me that nature's creation has a bag 316 00:22:45.160 --> 00:22:49.519 of cedar repell that's what it's called. It's an insect repellent, and it's 317 00:22:49.559 --> 00:22:53.240 really finally ground up. And this is the cedar that you see around here, 318 00:22:53.359 --> 00:22:57.160 the eastern red cedar. It's all over the place and it when you 319 00:22:57.279 --> 00:23:02.319 chucked that up in a find will find particles, so you can spread it 320 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:06.960 really easily. It really does repel insects, so you have things like fleas 321 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:10.799 and chiggers and mosquitoes and ants and other things. Just spread it out there 322 00:23:10.799 --> 00:23:12.920 and do that. You get a little a little pile of it around your 323 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:17.440 barrier. I think that's one of the ways they talk about is effective to 324 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:21.559 keep around your barrier, around your foundation, the perimeter maybe perimeter or the 325 00:23:21.599 --> 00:23:25.519 patio or whatever. And insects aren't it's likely to want to cross over that 326 00:23:25.640 --> 00:23:30.519 crawling through and boy do they ever like to crawl inside our houses now year 327 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:33.519 to find cedar repel. I know our CW has it, plants for all 328 00:23:33.559 --> 00:23:37.400 seasons, Wabash has it, Moss Feed Quality Feed has it, and you'll 329 00:23:37.400 --> 00:23:41.240 find it all the Houston garden centers as well. But you might want to 330 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:44.880 give Nature's creation cedar repel granules a try. I just thought that was an 331 00:23:45.039 --> 00:23:49.240 interesting fact that Greeks and Romans going back that far, they knew that this 332 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:55.400 tree had some interesting uses when it comes to dealing with insects. So a 333 00:23:55.400 --> 00:24:00.400 little fun fact there for you on garden Line this morning, our phone number 334 00:24:00.440 --> 00:24:04.839 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two and 335 00:24:04.920 --> 00:24:12.480 two fifty eight seventy four. I was taking care of some house plants yesterday, 336 00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:15.839 and I have a number of different ones. I'm one of those plant 337 00:24:15.960 --> 00:24:21.200 collectors that just when there's a new plant I don't have somehow seem to need 338 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:26.279 to bring it home. And we have some plants that are doing very well 339 00:24:26.319 --> 00:24:27.920 and some that are not doing as well. And I was checking the plants 340 00:24:27.960 --> 00:24:30.559 out to see, you know, what's going on with these And when I 341 00:24:30.599 --> 00:24:37.000 potted them up, I used different potting media, or they came with different 342 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.279 potting media. I think in most cases, but the ones I potted up, 343 00:24:41.480 --> 00:24:45.480 I always use a good quality mix for because when when you are when 344 00:24:45.480 --> 00:24:49.599 you're trying to have success with your plants, you need to give them, 345 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:52.480 you know, the best soil that you can find for. I mean, 346 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:56.680 we talk about a number of good quality potting soils here, but I thought 347 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.559 it was interesting that the one plant that always is wilting first of all of 348 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:04.640 them is a potting mix. It's almost all peat, almost all Pete, 349 00:25:06.079 --> 00:25:11.359 and I know Randy talked about not caring for Pete, and Pete has some 350 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.839 characteristics that I don't really like. One of them is a shrinks and swells 351 00:25:14.880 --> 00:25:18.240 more and it'll pull away from the sides of the pot a little more than 352 00:25:18.279 --> 00:25:22.480 some of our other options in a blend. But it just seems to wick 353 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.119 and pump dry faster. And I need to take that plant and you know, 354 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:30.720 kind of with my fingers, scratch away some of the exterior soil on 355 00:25:30.759 --> 00:25:32.799 it, move it up to a little bigger pot, and give it a 356 00:25:32.839 --> 00:25:37.359 better mix, uh, and so that it's a little more resilient, because 357 00:25:37.400 --> 00:25:41.079 if it's dependent on me to remember to water it more often than I'm doing 358 00:25:41.079 --> 00:25:44.319 the others well, Eventually that's going to catch up to me, because you 359 00:25:44.359 --> 00:25:48.000 know how that goes the best intentions, it don't always always get to happen. 360 00:25:48.079 --> 00:25:52.759 But when when you're purchasing soils. A group was kind of grilling me 361 00:25:52.880 --> 00:25:57.440 on some soils a few days ago when I was giving a talk, and 362 00:25:57.440 --> 00:26:00.400 and basically I could tell what they were wanting me to say is what's the 363 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.920 cheapest, cheapest soil that I can play? You know, use that's good. 364 00:26:04.000 --> 00:26:07.680 And I was trying to say, if you've got something called potting soil 365 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:12.599 that has wood chips in it, that is not a good idea. That 366 00:26:12.759 --> 00:26:17.720 is a cheap soil. It is It is not, you know, inexpensive 367 00:26:17.720 --> 00:26:21.359 and cheap, thinking of them as two different words. Don't waste your money 368 00:26:21.400 --> 00:26:23.799 on cheap stuff, by a quality stuff, because these are these are plants 369 00:26:23.799 --> 00:26:26.440 you want to enjoy. And you paid for the plant, you paid for 370 00:26:26.480 --> 00:26:30.759 the pot Why not pay a little bit for the soil so you can have 371 00:26:30.839 --> 00:26:33.839 success? And that's really important. Well, I'm gonna quit droning on here. 372 00:26:33.839 --> 00:26:37.920 We're gonna go and talk to Paul out in the Woodlands. Hello, 373 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:45.599 Paul, good morning, World's good skip. I get a question about my 374 00:26:45.720 --> 00:26:52.240 mignolia trees. I got a few nice sized magnolia trees there, and from 375 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:57.599 the ground up to where most of the foliages, I'm starting to get shoots, 376 00:26:59.480 --> 00:27:02.200 which will we saw on them out of the trunk, and I'm just 377 00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:04.920 swoggling. Should I be clipping those off or should I be leaving those? 378 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:10.039 Yeah? These are the southern magnolia. That's an evergreen, not the one 379 00:27:10.079 --> 00:27:15.720 that blooms on bare stems in the light winter. Oh yes, the big 380 00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:21.119 dig evergreen. Okay, uh, well, that's just the tree, you 381 00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:23.759 know, re sprouting, And I would I wouldn't work about clipping them off. 382 00:27:23.799 --> 00:27:26.680 I'd let the tree do what it's gonna do. Uh. Now, 383 00:27:26.680 --> 00:27:30.920 if you wanted to have a trunk on it where you have no branches down 384 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:33.640 low, you could do that. But I think magnolias are beautiful when if 385 00:27:33.640 --> 00:27:37.039 you will, the skirt goes all the way to the ground. You know 386 00:27:37.119 --> 00:27:41.319 that that phono? Yeah, it was just curious if it would help or 387 00:27:42.599 --> 00:27:48.440 look better if those were well yeah, yeah, Paula, I can't see 388 00:27:48.440 --> 00:27:51.480 the tree, so you know, if I saw it, a may go 389 00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:52.640 oh I see. You know, maybe you'd do this or that, But 390 00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:56.839 in general, Magnolia's just don't need a lot of pruning, and we don't 391 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.960 we don't want to get in a mess with it too much if we don't 392 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:03.720 have two Thanks for thank you, all right, thank you for the call. 393 00:28:03.759 --> 00:28:07.720 I appreciate that. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 394 00:28:08.039 --> 00:28:12.839 fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 395 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:18.160 You know, if you are looking for a one stop shop for all 396 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:19.799 kinds of things that you need for the home and garden, that would be 397 00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:25.440 Ace Hardware. And you can go to Ace Hardware dot com and find one 398 00:28:25.480 --> 00:28:30.279 of the thirty nine locally owned and operated Ace Hardware stores here in the Houston 399 00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:33.160 area. And they're I mean they're everywhere. There's thirty nine of them. 400 00:28:33.160 --> 00:28:37.119 Were crying out loud. Ace Hardware carries all the products we talk about here. 401 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:41.799 That's part of the deal with Ace. 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I saw mile mile Well, good morning 411 00:29:22.440 --> 00:29:29.079 on a good Sunday morning to be talking about gardening and soon to be getting 412 00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:32.960 outside here this afternoon, get a little bit of gardening done. When you're 413 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:34.960 out there, you want to make sure if you haven't fertilize your lawn yet, 414 00:29:36.160 --> 00:29:38.240 lawn yet, you need to get that done. We've got a long 415 00:29:38.279 --> 00:29:41.640 summer coming. And when you fertilize, you want to use something that's going 416 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:45.559 to release the nutrient gradually over time to avoid that flush of growth and you 417 00:29:45.599 --> 00:29:51.039 know, followed by a you know that you're you're mowing lot crazy because you've 418 00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:53.119 overdone the nitrogen and then it kind of dies down again and you have to 419 00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:56.000 fertilize again. You want to spread that out, even that out, and 420 00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.640 one way you can do that is with Microlife fertilizers. Microlife is is number 421 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.599 one or again excelling fertilizer here in the Houston area and with Microlife, you 422 00:30:03.599 --> 00:30:07.720 know, we talk about the sixty four bag, the green bag, that's 423 00:30:07.720 --> 00:30:11.039 a main one you want to have that's excellent for using on your lawn. 424 00:30:11.680 --> 00:30:15.240 But it's not just that it has the three numbers nitrogen, phosphorus, and 425 00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:18.799 potassium. We're talking to over one hundred minerals. When you apply Microlife, 426 00:30:18.839 --> 00:30:22.680 you are applying all the micros and stuff that plants need to grow and to 427 00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:26.559 live. And Microlife is available all over town. There's the you can go 428 00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:30.960 go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and if you go there you can find all 429 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:34.559 the locations for you. And when you buy the green bag, also at 430 00:30:34.559 --> 00:30:37.960 this time of the year, go ahead and buy the purple bag. That's 431 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:42.319 the humates plus concentrated compost in a bag. Put those two on together for 432 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:47.519 that one two package. That will really set your lawn up for a good 433 00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:52.519 long summer of healthy growth and beauty, which is kind of why we have 434 00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:56.319 our lawn so we can get out there and enjoy those lawns. Our phone 435 00:30:56.400 --> 00:31:02.480 number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three 436 00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:07.559 two one two fifty eight seventy four. Give us a call. We'll talk 437 00:31:07.559 --> 00:31:11.000 about stuff that you are interested in. In the meantime, I'm gonna talk 438 00:31:11.039 --> 00:31:17.119 about some things that I am interested in. I have been wanting to get 439 00:31:17.160 --> 00:31:21.720 a citrus tree and to get it planted in the yard because I just I 440 00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:25.759 love set personally. I like satsumas. Now it's cool to have you know, 441 00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:30.720 the key lime or or you know the Mexican lime. It's cool to 442 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:33.559 have myer lemons. And I mean there's a lots of different kinds of citrus 443 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:37.960 to plant. I'm just kind of partial towards satsumas. I love those. 444 00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.559 Uh when I plan them up in college station up there, you know, 445 00:31:41.599 --> 00:31:44.519 you need something a little more cold hearty, and the satsuma accomplishes that. 446 00:31:45.000 --> 00:31:48.359 But this last winter was kind of hard on our on our citrus. I've 447 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:52.440 talked to a number of people who who had a pretty severe killed back on 448 00:31:52.559 --> 00:32:00.039 their on their citrus plants, and it's because December hit unexpectedly, unexpectedly, 449 00:32:00.160 --> 00:32:05.119 let's say this, by the plants they were living the life O'Reilly. They 450 00:32:05.200 --> 00:32:08.039 hadn't slowed the growth to the point they needed to to get as much heartiness 451 00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:13.839 as that particular citrus could have and so December comes in with a hard freeze 452 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:16.960 and it just caught them unprepared and it did a lot of damage. And 453 00:32:17.079 --> 00:32:21.480 some of you may may be also wanting to get a citrus to restock. 454 00:32:21.559 --> 00:32:23.839 I was looking the other day online. I always follow, you know, 455 00:32:23.880 --> 00:32:29.640 our independent garden centers their Facebook pages and Instagram pages, and you should too, 456 00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:32.799 But I noticed that Buchanans is getting in new citrus plants, or they 457 00:32:32.799 --> 00:32:37.000 have gotten in new citrus. I think they've got They've got the dwarf lemon, 458 00:32:37.079 --> 00:32:40.880 naval oranges, even Calamandan Persian lime and others like that, and they 459 00:32:40.920 --> 00:32:45.839 will that if you don't delay and get over there, you can you can 460 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:47.640 get you one. No Buchanons, I know you guys are familiarhe it. 461 00:32:47.640 --> 00:32:52.519 It's in the Heights on East eleventh Street. But if if you just want 462 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:54.720 to check it out, go to Buchanans Plants dot com. You can find 463 00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:59.079 out exactly where they're located, and you can also sign up for their newsletter 464 00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:04.440 and follow them on social media as well. But Buchanans does have that citrus 465 00:33:04.519 --> 00:33:07.200 in so now would be a good time to do that. And hey, 466 00:33:07.200 --> 00:33:10.400 when you're there, why not just pick up a bag of Microlifes. They 467 00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:15.480 have a citrus and fruit granular fertilizer. Just have a two one punch, 468 00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:19.319 take it home and get your plants set up for a good season. I'll 469 00:33:19.359 --> 00:33:22.079 tell you what. When the fall, late fall and season comes and my 470 00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:29.839 satsumas or a satsuma is ripening, there's nothing like it. And if you 471 00:33:30.079 --> 00:33:32.720 if you're not grown citrus before, even if you don't care about the fruit, 472 00:33:32.920 --> 00:33:38.279 the blooms are amazing. The fragrance on a citrus bloom, it's like 473 00:33:38.319 --> 00:33:45.640 gardinia. It's one of those It's one of those plants that just wafts through 474 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:51.200 the air and just a wonderful fragrance. I love I love citrus. Winth 475 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:54.519 that that in and of itself is enough reason to grow a citrus. Our 476 00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:59.519 phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, and let's 477 00:33:59.519 --> 00:34:02.119 go out to League City and we're going to visit with Rick Well. Hello, 478 00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:07.279 Rick Skip, thanks for taking my call. I have a quick question. 479 00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:10.239 I have a flower bed in my backyard that is fairly fairly small, 480 00:34:10.280 --> 00:34:15.840 but it's had foxtail ferns in it for a number of years and I decided 481 00:34:15.880 --> 00:34:19.159 I want to make a change, and so I have dug them out. 482 00:34:19.760 --> 00:34:23.760 But in the soil there is all those tubular roots and nodules that are still 483 00:34:23.800 --> 00:34:29.159 in there. And is there anything I can or should apply to that to 484 00:34:29.159 --> 00:34:34.199 make sure those those foxtails will come back up? Nothing to apply. A 485 00:34:34.199 --> 00:34:37.400 lot of that will not reach sprout. Some of it is just storage and 486 00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:39.480 it's not going to reach sprout something. You may get some more sprouts here 487 00:34:39.480 --> 00:34:44.000 and there, but I think I would watch it and if you see some 488 00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:46.960 things coming up, just dig them up because there's not going to be a 489 00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:51.679 good Put this on the soil and it'll prevent them from coming up with a 490 00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:57.079 foxtail fern. Okay, great, So so I can just get what I 491 00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:00.480 can out and then replan and I should be okay, yeah, I think 492 00:35:00.519 --> 00:35:05.000 so. You know the I actually like foxtails. It was at the cold 493 00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:07.039 heartiness problem that's kind of making you want to go in a different direction. 494 00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:12.519 No, it was actually just time for a change. I did replant them 495 00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:16.000 in another another part of the yard, okay, but this particular area I 496 00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:20.000 would like some color and it's a different color, and so I wanted it 497 00:35:20.039 --> 00:35:22.280 to make a change. Yeah, that's a good that's a good idea, 498 00:35:22.320 --> 00:35:25.880 a good reason. Well that hopefully that'll get you going. I they're not 499 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.400 that hard to pop them up if you miss something, but you may find 500 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:34.559 that you got most of it when you've done. Okay, all right, 501 00:35:35.079 --> 00:35:37.599 okay, great, Thanks very much, Hey Rick, thanks for the call. 502 00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:42.960 Appreciate that our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 503 00:35:42.960 --> 00:35:46.719 four two and two fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna hit the break here 504 00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:50.480 in a little bit for the hour, get the news and everything in here. 505 00:35:50.480 --> 00:35:52.360 So if you'd like to give us a call and get on the board, 506 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:57.840 go ahead and do that. If you are having trouble with your lawn, 507 00:35:57.920 --> 00:36:02.760 maybe last summer's drought hit it, call patch is in it compaction issues 508 00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:07.599 with the lawn, You need to call Greenpro and have them come out and 509 00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.960 do a core aeration. That means popping the plugs of soil out of the 510 00:36:10.960 --> 00:36:15.440 soil and dropping them on the surface. That is the way to properly core 511 00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:21.599 aerture lawn. Just to have something that just squeezes a hole in the soils, 512 00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:24.320 compacting the sides of the hole. No, you want a core aerator 513 00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:30.800 that pops that hole out and a follow that with a quality leaf mold compost 514 00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:35.880 stop dressing. And the folks at Greenpro they know how to get a finely 515 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:40.679 ground leaf mold compost top quality so that it falls down in those aeration holes. 516 00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:45.199 And now you've got oxygen for the plant roots. Now you've got organic 517 00:36:45.239 --> 00:36:49.880 matter in their decomposing and the microbial activity that goes along with that. Greenpro's 518 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:52.360 been in business for nearly fifteen years. They are the experts and getting it 519 00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:58.920 done. You can go to green Protexas dot com or just call them two 520 00:36:58.960 --> 00:37:05.840 eight one three five one four seven three three. This is a you know, 521 00:37:05.880 --> 00:37:08.360 it's a time when we really need to be taking care of our lawns 522 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:13.400 and getting getting them ready for summer, and that's easy to do. I 523 00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.239 was visiting the other day when was out at Arburgate for an appearance I did 524 00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:20.559 out there. I was visiting with them about their one two three easy system, 525 00:37:20.599 --> 00:37:23.039 and I love that combination it is makes it makes it easy because they're 526 00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:27.760 going to give you a food that is essentially it's a fertilizer that feeds anything 527 00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:30.960 with roots. They're going to give you a soil that fits any application, 528 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.960 and then they're going to give you a compost that is going to improve your 529 00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:37.199 soil. Now you can go to Arburgate dot com. If you've never been 530 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:38.079 there, you can find out how to get there. It's one and a 531 00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:43.039 half miles west of two forty nine on twenty nine twenty out in Tomball. 532 00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:45.679 But while you're there, check out the plants, check out the art and 533 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:50.360 the garden. Check out the gifts. If you want to earthkine rows, 534 00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:53.079 they carry fruit trees year round. It will be it would be a very 535 00:37:53.159 --> 00:37:58.840 nice outing for this afternoon to stop by Arbourgate arburgate dot com. But ask 536 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.320 them about their one two three completely easy system. I think that is a 537 00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:07.840 really novel creative way to kind of put in one package pretty much everything that 538 00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:10.960 you're going to need to have success with your plants. Well, you're listening 539 00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:15.079 to garden Line and I am your host, Skip Richter, and we're here 540 00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:17.239 to talk to you about things that you're interested in. We're about to take 541 00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:21.800 a little break here, but give Josh a call at seven one three two 542 00:38:21.800 --> 00:38:25.480 one two fifty eight seventy four. He will get you on the board and 543 00:38:25.559 --> 00:38:30.960 we will talk about what you're interested in talking about when we come back. 544 00:38:30.400 --> 00:38:34.920 I just want to remind you next Saturday, I'm going to be at Wilbird's 545 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:39.840 Unlimited in clear Lake from eleven thirty to one thirty. Wilbird's Unlimited in clear 546 00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:45.119 Lake. It's one of the mini Wahbirds store here in the Greater Houston area. 547 00:38:45.159 --> 00:38:47.239 This is one of the newer stores that's opened up out there. I'll 548 00:38:47.280 --> 00:38:52.400 be there for two hours to answer your gardening questions. I love going to 549 00:38:52.480 --> 00:38:57.679 a Wildbird. I love any excuse to go to Wildbirds because the products they 550 00:38:57.679 --> 00:39:01.199 have it's just amazing. Even books interesting, you know, books about birds. 551 00:39:01.440 --> 00:39:05.960 Maybe you just care about hummingbirds, or maybe you just want to bring 552 00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:09.239 songbirds into the yard, or maybe you're you know, looking at watering or 553 00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:13.239 feeding birds. They got it all. See you next Saturday out there. 554 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:17.840 I hope KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 555 00:39:17.840 --> 00:39:34.280 advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictord. Just 556 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:51.000 watch him as wood Well. Good morning, good Sunday morning, and a 557 00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:53.840 good day to be learning about gardening, talking about gardening, and hopefully this 558 00:39:54.000 --> 00:40:00.119 afternoon doing a little bit of gardening. You enjoy getting outside, I enjoying 559 00:40:00.119 --> 00:40:05.239 the weather and just the I don't know, the fresh air. I've talked 560 00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:09.519 about the brazilion benefits of gardening many times and will many times more. But 561 00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:13.199 you know, it's it's even true. And I just find this to be 562 00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:17.880 an amazing fact that there are microbes in the soil that affect our serotonin level. 563 00:40:17.880 --> 00:40:22.880 Serotonin's all feel good chemical. And so you know, those of you 564 00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:28.000 who grew up playing in the dirt, well, that's why you're that's why 565 00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:30.480 you're happy, I guess, or you work back then at least as one 566 00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:36.880 of the many reasons enjoying, enjoying that just experience of being out and being 567 00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.760 out in nature, and it's it's a nice time. You just gotta get 568 00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:43.159 hot this summer, I know, but hey, there's a lot of gardening 569 00:40:43.159 --> 00:40:45.880 to be done when it gets hot too. So don't don't let that, 570 00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:49.639 don't let that scare you away. If you live up in the Montgomery area 571 00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:52.800 and you haven't been out to A and A plants and produce, you you 572 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:55.000 really you really need to give them a try. They just had a little 573 00:40:55.000 --> 00:41:00.199 hands on project as part of the children's workshop at the Garden Center. They're 574 00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:01.559 in Montgomery, by the way, They're just on the east side of Montgomery 575 00:41:01.599 --> 00:41:05.760 on one oh five, So everybody up in the Lake Conro area, there 576 00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:09.000 your backyard nursery right there. But they're gonna have another workshop, I believe, 577 00:41:09.039 --> 00:41:12.880 in two more weeks. But looking at the pictures of the little kids 578 00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:15.519 that we're having fun, having fun making seed balls. You know, it's 579 00:41:15.519 --> 00:41:21.000 these little little soil balls that you press seed into and so the kids can 580 00:41:21.039 --> 00:41:23.239 just chunk them out there and have things come up. That's kind of things 581 00:41:23.280 --> 00:41:25.599 that they do out there. I mean, they've got a great selection. 582 00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:30.519 You're going to find all the products that we talk about out at Ana. 583 00:41:30.159 --> 00:41:35.199 They just you know, everything you can imagine, and not just plants, 584 00:41:35.280 --> 00:41:37.199 but all the products for your plants and all the kind of bling you need 585 00:41:37.239 --> 00:41:39.679 for your landscape. And by the way, they're open seven days a week, 586 00:41:39.840 --> 00:41:44.039 nine to five. So that's a good trip for this afternoon out to 587 00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:49.880 Ana Plants and Produce in Montgomery. We're gonna talk about I'm gonna talking a 588 00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:54.920 little bit more about lawns this morning. But yesterday when I was out at 589 00:41:57.519 --> 00:42:01.360 the hom and Garden show in Sugarland, Home and Outdoor Living show had a 590 00:42:01.440 --> 00:42:04.559 number of folks, and thanks for everybody that came out. By the way, 591 00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:07.480 I really enjoyed visiting with you. Oh my gosh, you guys had 592 00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:12.760 questions. I think I answered more questions that day out at the Home and 593 00:42:12.800 --> 00:42:16.639 Garden Show than I did in two months on the air here on a garden 594 00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:20.519 line. These guys are filled with questions. But a lot of people are 595 00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:23.440 asking questions about the lawns and lawn weeds and dealing with lawn weeds and things 596 00:42:23.480 --> 00:42:27.199 like that. And I mentioned earlier that if you're going to do a broad 597 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:30.440 leaf weed control, you need to get that done because it is time. 598 00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:32.159 It's going to get too hot. We're going to hit the mid eighties oper 599 00:42:32.199 --> 00:42:36.719 eighties this week, probably hitting up to ninety before too many days ahead, 600 00:42:37.199 --> 00:42:43.280 and so we don't want to wait any longer or you'll stress your grass out 601 00:42:42.880 --> 00:42:47.599 with that broad leaf weed control application. But what you can do is you 602 00:42:47.639 --> 00:42:52.320 can put down a pre emergent, and a pre emergent is one of the 603 00:42:52.360 --> 00:42:55.320 most efficient ways to control weeds because it prevents them from ever coming up in 604 00:42:55.360 --> 00:43:00.360 the first place and getting established. And barricade is that kind of product Nitrofoss 605 00:43:00.800 --> 00:43:07.719 barricade. Nitrofoss's barricade is gonna stop grassy weeds and broad leaf weeds that are 606 00:43:07.719 --> 00:43:10.920 coming up from seed in your lawn. And one bag, a ten pound 607 00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:14.599 bag is going to cover five thousand square feet, so it goes a long 608 00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:17.639 way. And you know up in d D feeding tomball plants and things in 609 00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:22.280 Brennam k and m A sutting king with those, those places all have barricade 610 00:43:22.280 --> 00:43:27.519 products, as does plantation ace and uh you know there there's just there's just 611 00:43:27.639 --> 00:43:30.119 so many opportunities. J and rs Ace. By the way, importers another 612 00:43:30.119 --> 00:43:36.320 good example. Barricade ahead of time, follow the label carefully, but before 613 00:43:36.320 --> 00:43:40.519 the weeds are up, give get put that down and create that protective material 614 00:43:40.800 --> 00:43:45.480 in the surface of the soil that shuts down weeds as they try to get 615 00:43:45.519 --> 00:43:47.239 started and you never see the weed to begin with. And that that's an 616 00:43:47.239 --> 00:43:52.719 efficient way to get to get that done. I you know, I'm amazed. 617 00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:55.840 I know we love our lawns, we love our trees and flowers and 618 00:43:57.000 --> 00:44:02.199 vegetables, but we really are a nation of lawn rangers. We love to 619 00:44:02.280 --> 00:44:07.760 have a beautiful, beautiful, well attended lawn and you know, the idea 620 00:44:07.880 --> 00:44:13.880 of how do I make it that even green carpet that just looks good all 621 00:44:13.920 --> 00:44:15.599 the time. That's kind of what we're after, and that's what we talk 622 00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:20.440 about here, and we give you you'll hear me and I'll be a broken 623 00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:24.320 record on this, but it starts with cultural meaning. You gotta water adequately 624 00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:29.679 with a good deek soaking on an infrequent basis. You want to mow regularly 625 00:44:29.719 --> 00:44:34.000 with a sharp mower for Saint Augustine, don't cut it lower than three inches. 626 00:44:34.039 --> 00:44:36.679 I keep mind at three and a half and sometimes in shade even a 627 00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:40.440 little higher than that, because those grass blades are the solar panels, and 628 00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:45.920 the shorter you cut it in shade, the less sun from that limited light 629 00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:49.840 under the shade, the lust is as able to absorb and take in. 630 00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:52.840 So a longer solar panel, longer grass plate is good. And then finally 631 00:44:52.880 --> 00:44:57.880 fertilizing, you know, putting the nutrients out to give it the boost that 632 00:44:57.920 --> 00:45:01.079 it needs to support healthy growth. That's that's pretty important in fact, talking 633 00:45:01.079 --> 00:45:05.000 about lawns. That's a let's head out to Cyprus. We're gonna talk to 634 00:45:05.039 --> 00:45:08.760 Sandy this morning. Good morning, Sandy, I skip, Thanks to talking 635 00:45:08.800 --> 00:45:14.440 about lawns because it made me remember my question. So I had some oak 636 00:45:14.519 --> 00:45:17.920 treese in my point yard that we were removed because it was keeping my yard 637 00:45:17.960 --> 00:45:23.360 too shady and my grass was dying. And we removed about four oak trees 638 00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:29.880 and we have four left in the front yard. And um where they removed 639 00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.840 it from, and they removed the stump out. It's dip. It dips 640 00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:38.079 down like there, even though it's grass has grown over it. But what 641 00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:44.360 can I do to um that the dips, you know, the little hilly 642 00:45:44.440 --> 00:45:50.000 they're like and I can't tell where it steeps down and where it goes up, 643 00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:53.000 yeah, because until I step over it. Because it's okay, so 644 00:45:53.039 --> 00:45:58.440 these are small ups and downs. This isn't like a ten foot wide low 645 00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:04.920 spot. Um No, it's just from the removal of the cheese trunk, 646 00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:10.280 okay, and where the branches in the inside under the ground branched out of 647 00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:16.119 these up cheets. Okay, Okay, Well what you just you just have 648 00:46:16.159 --> 00:46:19.719 to figure out where the low spots are. Maybe walking on it is one 649 00:46:19.719 --> 00:46:22.719 way you tell. But I would use a soil a top soil quality mix 650 00:46:22.800 --> 00:46:27.360 on that. Normally we top dress with composts, but what we're not. 651 00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:30.800 What we're trying to do is change the soil level in the lawn so it's 652 00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:37.159 even and so you can just spread a good qualities sandy loam top soiltop mix 653 00:46:37.239 --> 00:46:40.360 out over your lawn in those low areas. What I do, uh sandy 654 00:46:40.440 --> 00:46:45.159 is I use a rake, the kind that you would rake soil with, 655 00:46:45.400 --> 00:46:50.159 not a leaf rake, but the stiff times and turn it upside down so 656 00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:53.199 the times you're pointing up and then it's like you're playing shuffleboard on the lawn. 657 00:46:53.280 --> 00:46:55.920 You have all these little piles of soil where you've dumped a little soil 658 00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:59.840 here and there where you felt there's a low spot, and you just use 659 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:02.400 a rake to smooth it out and it gets you a nice even finish, 660 00:47:02.519 --> 00:47:07.440 and that'll settle in and maintain a good level. And then of course top 661 00:47:07.480 --> 00:47:10.360 dressing is good later, but that top dress is composting. It decomposes a 662 00:47:10.400 --> 00:47:14.280 way, so if you're using that to fill a hole, the hole's just 663 00:47:14.360 --> 00:47:16.880 going to sink back down again. That's why I like the soil for the 664 00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:22.440 situation you're asking about. Okay, okay, so good top soil, Yeah, 665 00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:25.679 good quality top soil that ought to get you going. I appreciate you 666 00:47:25.719 --> 00:47:30.880 giving us a call. Yeah very much our phone number seven one, three, 667 00:47:30.960 --> 00:47:37.480 two and two fifty eight seventy four. Be with you right after break. 668 00:47:45.400 --> 00:47:51.079 Well, good Sunday morning, good day for talking about gardening, and 669 00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:53.199 a good day for gardening. That's a good day for shopping for gardening. 670 00:47:53.199 --> 00:47:59.239 Two this afternoon, we are enjoying ourselves today talking about all kinds of things. 671 00:47:59.320 --> 00:48:01.519 And we are now going to shift topics a little bit. Head out 672 00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:06.800 to League City and visit with John V. Hello John V. Good morning, 673 00:48:07.039 --> 00:48:12.480 Good morning, Skip and everybody, and garden talk. I would like 674 00:48:12.559 --> 00:48:20.159 to ask a question about mangoes. Okay, how can we growing them? 675 00:48:20.199 --> 00:48:24.559 And yes, I'm growing them? What are their seasons? And um, 676 00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:30.599 how to maintain? And I think a lot of the things that you've just 677 00:48:30.679 --> 00:48:35.199 told us about the citrus and I listened to so I wrote everything down in 678 00:48:35.280 --> 00:48:38.519 my um in my notebook. Oh good. Yeah, Well, mangoes are 679 00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:42.159 a bit of a challenge because they're a little more cold hearty, you know, 680 00:48:42.280 --> 00:48:45.760 than than some of the citrus even are. But you can people get 681 00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:47.760 them to grow here. You just have to go to great links. When 682 00:48:47.800 --> 00:48:52.079 we're gonna have a real good cold spell. But I love, in fact, 683 00:48:52.079 --> 00:48:55.400 mango. I think mango and peach are probably my two favorite fruits to 684 00:48:55.480 --> 00:49:01.320 eat. But they the mango fruit it takes oh, I don't know, 685 00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:07.840 maybe three to four or five months to fully develop it. You know, 686 00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:13.119 from the time it blooms until the time it harvests. Harvests. H They're 687 00:49:13.159 --> 00:49:15.719 not that difficult to grow. It's just primarily it's going to be the cold 688 00:49:16.480 --> 00:49:21.199 protecting them from the cold. So in what you fertilize them with the things 689 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:24.039 you fertilize other fruit trees with. You give them good drainage like other fruit 690 00:49:24.039 --> 00:49:28.800 trees, you give them good sunlight like other fruit trees, and they do 691 00:49:28.920 --> 00:49:32.400 really well. I thought, sounds wonderful. I'm thinking about planning it in 692 00:49:32.440 --> 00:49:37.920 the center of the backyard because my mother, I love her to pieces. 693 00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:40.440 I call her the Maagnelia tree Murder because she chopped down on vagnelia tree. 694 00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:45.079 No, oh, my gosh, she did, and I told her I 695 00:49:45.119 --> 00:49:46.719 didn't want it. I didn't want to let it go, and she let 696 00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:49.639 it go. So I was like, well, we're gonna have to spot 697 00:49:49.679 --> 00:49:52.400 to replacement. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Well, wherever you put 698 00:49:52.440 --> 00:49:55.440 it, go ahead and start planning for how you're going to protect it. 699 00:49:55.599 --> 00:50:00.519 You know, maybe maybe maybe it's a bunch of lar PVCs that are put 700 00:50:00.559 --> 00:50:06.320 together into like a tinker toy box that you can cover and the kind of 701 00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:07.719 heat you're gonna need to get under it, because the last thing you want 702 00:50:07.719 --> 00:50:10.719 to do is go to all that trouble and then have a coal take it 703 00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:15.079 away from you. That's right. And then um, they get pretty tall, 704 00:50:15.159 --> 00:50:20.119 have by these five ten I mean ten twenty? Yeah, they well, 705 00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:22.599 in time, they can, you know, and if you go to 706 00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:25.519 where they're not going to be frozen down and everything they are going to be, 707 00:50:27.239 --> 00:50:30.599 they're gonna be um pretty large. But you can do some proning to 708 00:50:30.679 --> 00:50:35.280 keep them a little smaller. So a lot of people will plan them, 709 00:50:35.280 --> 00:50:37.039 you know, within eight to ten feet of the south side of a house, 710 00:50:37.119 --> 00:50:42.159 for example. That's one thing. Are the booms of the mango Yeah, 711 00:50:42.239 --> 00:50:45.920 that's a good question. I have not had a mango tree in my 712 00:50:45.039 --> 00:50:49.480 yard. I've seen people grown mangoes. Oh my gosh, I need to 713 00:50:49.559 --> 00:50:52.320 check that out. Maybe someone else can call in that knows I've that is 714 00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:58.639 I'm drawn a blank, I mean, but oh I'll look it up. 715 00:50:58.679 --> 00:51:04.079 Don't you worry skips. Okay, thank you. You have a wonderful Sunday, 716 00:51:04.280 --> 00:51:07.519 all of you. Yeah you two, John V. Thank you, 717 00:51:07.679 --> 00:51:10.960 thank you very much for the call. I was talking about. Fertilized the 718 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:16.159 law and earlier. The folks at Nelson Dean and they have put together the 719 00:51:16.199 --> 00:51:22.280 turf Star line, which is just a group of a half dozen outstanding products 720 00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:25.199 for your lawn. And my favorite for this time of the year is Slow 721 00:51:25.239 --> 00:51:30.440 and Easy, the twenty two two ten Slow and Easy. It's it's the 722 00:51:30.519 --> 00:51:32.840 kind of thing that gradually feeds over the summer, which is what we're talking 723 00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:37.679 about being important. That avoids a lot of the issues we have with shallow 724 00:51:37.760 --> 00:51:40.079 rooting, of with having to mow too much, with the disease or insect 725 00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:47.639 problems being exacerbated for the for the fancy word by excessive succulent growth rates, 726 00:51:47.679 --> 00:51:52.079 and Slow and Easy will do just that. Nelson's they have a number of 727 00:51:52.079 --> 00:51:55.679 products. I always like the Bruces brewis year round eighteen four nine. It's 728 00:51:55.719 --> 00:52:00.199 a good a good fertilizer. But my number one recommendation for the summer would 729 00:52:00.239 --> 00:52:04.679 be to either use a Slow and Easy which will gradually feed, or to 730 00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:08.000 take a Bruis's brew and divide it up into two or three applications, spread 731 00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:12.239 it out not the same, not the full amount each time. But but 732 00:52:12.320 --> 00:52:15.119 do you create a slower release by you fertilizing in small amounts. That's a 733 00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:19.079 lot of trouble. So I would just say go with the slow and easy 734 00:52:19.119 --> 00:52:23.639 twenty two two ten. And you're going to find nice fish products everywhere around 735 00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:28.679 town. But if you're down let's say you're down in southwest part of town 736 00:52:29.000 --> 00:52:32.639 near brass beIN State Park, seen a plantation, Quell Valley, Manville, 737 00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:37.320 Meridian, First Colony, all through that area, you need to go to 738 00:52:37.360 --> 00:52:40.239 see on a mulch because they carry Nelson's. They carry a wide variety of 739 00:52:40.239 --> 00:52:45.280 products that we talk about here. But they also while you're there, you 740 00:52:45.320 --> 00:52:47.719 can grab the molts, the bags of molts, the bags that compost. 741 00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:52.400 If you want it in bulk and it's nearby, they can deliver within an 742 00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:57.679 area around there, and of course there's always a delivery fee when anybody producing 743 00:52:57.960 --> 00:53:00.840 a moltch is going to bring it out to you. But that's a very 744 00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:05.039 nice convenience and they have all those products that you need. Uh go to 745 00:53:05.119 --> 00:53:10.599 Cienamals Dot com CNA malch si E NNA, cnamals dot com uh and they 746 00:53:10.639 --> 00:53:15.239 are open Monday through Friday seven thirty to five thirty, Saturday seven thirty to 747 00:53:15.320 --> 00:53:20.199 two thirty. Close today, but they'll be back open Monday morning. Either 748 00:53:20.239 --> 00:53:22.880 swing by there and grab your products or give them a call and have something 749 00:53:22.960 --> 00:53:29.360 delivered. We um are going to head out to the Spring Branch area now 750 00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:35.360 and we're going to talk to Hurt Well, good morning, Hurta. Are 751 00:53:35.400 --> 00:53:40.519 you there. Well, we'll put you back on hold and we'll see if 752 00:53:40.559 --> 00:53:47.400 we can we can get hurt to live back here again. When when we're 753 00:53:47.400 --> 00:53:52.760 trying to when we're trying to achieve that state of the art landscape, the 754 00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:58.480 landscape that is just you know, it's a show place. You're you're proud 755 00:53:58.519 --> 00:54:00.840 for people to drive by and see your house. You love for people to 756 00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:05.480 come visit and go sit in the backyard with you and hang out. That 757 00:54:05.880 --> 00:54:12.280 kind of landscape comes because people plan, They plan ahead. They choose their 758 00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:15.199 plants that are going to do well here and be established here. They and 759 00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:19.639 by the way, they go to a retail garden center that's going to sell 760 00:54:19.719 --> 00:54:23.320 them stuff that does well here. Not one of these national chain places that 761 00:54:23.519 --> 00:54:29.079 just ships plants to all over the place, and in a lot of places 762 00:54:29.239 --> 00:54:34.840 they should never be planted there. They just it's not a horticulturally driven decision. 763 00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:37.320 It's a whole different world. You go to an independent garden center and 764 00:54:37.400 --> 00:54:40.880 they're going to give you things that our horticulturally sound advice are going to give 765 00:54:40.880 --> 00:54:46.840 you horticulturally adapted plants for our region. And that's just important, and so 766 00:54:47.960 --> 00:54:52.719 setting things up that way will help you have success. It always breaks my 767 00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:55.880 heart to get a call or to talk to somebody with an email and they're 768 00:54:55.920 --> 00:55:00.199 talking about this plan and they did it, and they put this on and 769 00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:02.440 we're a couple of years in and I've just got to break the news that 770 00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:06.519 look, just dig it up it is. You know, it is never 771 00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:08.320 going to do well here. I know they told you that lilac would grow 772 00:55:08.320 --> 00:55:13.719 further south than others, but not this far south. For example, you 773 00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:17.840 may love the yellow Forsythia blooms where you came from, but not here. 774 00:55:17.920 --> 00:55:21.559 They're not going to make it here. So get plants that will do well 775 00:55:21.599 --> 00:55:24.199 for you here. And that's why we're always talking about our good mom and 776 00:55:24.239 --> 00:55:29.159 pops all through the Greater Houston area that provide that kind of thing. By 777 00:55:29.159 --> 00:55:31.920 the way, it is with all the rain we were having. Remember it 778 00:55:31.920 --> 00:55:37.559 doesn't take mosquitoes very long to go through their life cycle, and here we 779 00:55:37.639 --> 00:55:39.639 got a whole new crop. So that wonderful sitting out on the patio I 780 00:55:39.679 --> 00:55:44.519 was talking about. Now you're swatting things as they fly around, you're irritating, 781 00:55:44.559 --> 00:55:46.599 you're trying to enjoy your time. Well, Mosquito dunks is a way 782 00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:52.039 to get rid of that. Mosquito dunks there's still a small paige donut and 783 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:54.039 you just toss them out there. They float on the standing water. They 784 00:55:54.119 --> 00:55:59.960 dissolve for about a month. You're going to get good control of your mosquito 785 00:56:00.119 --> 00:56:02.639 in a very natural way. By the way, they're safe if your pets 786 00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:06.920 go up and drink the water, if you've got birds that are coming up 787 00:56:06.960 --> 00:56:10.039 and drinking the water, and so on. Mosquito dunks are organic product that 788 00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:16.679 will last about thirty days and will control any mosquito larva that hatch from eggs 789 00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:20.800 in that little body of water. Now you're gonna find them. Of course, 790 00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:23.320 our Ace hardware stores carrying mosquito dunks. Almost all the independent nurseries. 791 00:56:23.320 --> 00:56:25.480 You're going to have them, and all those feed stores we love to talk 792 00:56:25.480 --> 00:56:30.000 about, they're going to have them. But mosquito dunks is just the simplest 793 00:56:30.039 --> 00:56:32.519 way to deal with a body of water. You can't drain that. You 794 00:56:32.599 --> 00:56:37.559 don't want to raise a new crop of mosquitoes in. We're gonna go now 795 00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:39.360 to spring branch. I think we're going to give another try here. Hey, 796 00:56:39.400 --> 00:56:44.280 Hurda, do we have you back? Yes? You do, Thank 797 00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:50.719 you, you beat. How can we help? Well? I bought some 798 00:56:50.920 --> 00:56:54.679 blue plumbago, and I want to know all about planning them. I want 799 00:56:54.679 --> 00:57:02.840 to do everything right, all right, right now I can plant now what 800 00:57:04.039 --> 00:57:09.360 is it that you're wanting to plant? Blue plumbago? Three of them? 801 00:57:09.440 --> 00:57:15.320 Yes, okay, you can plant them now. Blue plumbago. You just 802 00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:17.960 want to in the coming weeks. You want to give it small amounts of 803 00:57:19.000 --> 00:57:22.159 water to keep that little rootball that you put in the ground, to keep 804 00:57:22.159 --> 00:57:25.400 it moist. All right, it's gonna get its roots spread out really well, 805 00:57:25.440 --> 00:57:30.519 and it is amazingly drought tolerant once it is well established. So give 806 00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:34.880 it some TLC for a month or two here, and I think you're going 807 00:57:34.920 --> 00:57:38.800 to be really pleased with that's a great plant, okay, And I have 808 00:57:38.840 --> 00:57:46.119 another question I have. I call it the parent azaa. They're about fi 809 00:57:47.320 --> 00:57:55.679 stems at least half an inch in diameter, but the lead are brown on 810 00:57:55.679 --> 00:58:05.280 one stem and they're kind of yarrowish on another. Um, What do I 811 00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:08.280 do about that? And you said it wasn't azalea, right, yeah, 812 00:58:08.280 --> 00:58:14.920 okay, Uh, something's wrong in the soil. Maybe it dried out a 813 00:58:14.920 --> 00:58:20.239 little too much. Maybe the drainage isn't good and it's staying saggy at Maybe 814 00:58:20.440 --> 00:58:24.079 you used a salt based fertilizer a little too strong and it burned some roots. 815 00:58:24.199 --> 00:58:29.559 That's probably the most unlikely of the options. But something's wrong underground, 816 00:58:29.719 --> 00:58:32.079 and it's just that's why it's not looking good above ground. So I would 817 00:58:32.119 --> 00:58:35.880 just you know, reach down kind of feel the soil on that side of 818 00:58:35.880 --> 00:58:37.639 the plants, see see what you find there. Is it moist or not 819 00:58:37.920 --> 00:58:42.800 watered accordingly? And then I would give them a boost of a fertilizer for 820 00:58:42.800 --> 00:58:47.880 acidic loving plants. We got a good number of plants like Camellias azalia's blueberries 821 00:58:47.920 --> 00:58:52.719 that need an acid fertilizer, and I would give them a boost of that 822 00:58:52.800 --> 00:58:57.000 and try to get some more vigor in those azalias. All right, all 823 00:58:57.119 --> 00:59:00.679 right, oh, thank you so much, Skip, Thank you well, 824 00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:04.800 you're you're very kind. Thank you heard. I appreciate that call. Uh. 825 00:59:05.239 --> 00:59:07.719 You know, I always talking about liking our feed stores. If you're 826 00:59:07.760 --> 00:59:09.960 on the east side of town. We're talking about out in Mont Bellevue or 827 00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:15.480 even down in Baytown because they're just minutes from Baytown. The Texas Feedstop is 828 00:59:15.519 --> 00:59:20.920 that complete feed store. Brian and Hope Rhodes have created that thing that you 829 00:59:20.960 --> 00:59:23.360 would expect from the old time feed store. They carry their bags out for 830 00:59:23.440 --> 00:59:27.880 you that you know, they know their customers. You're like family there. 831 00:59:28.000 --> 00:59:32.559 They're on North Highway one forty six in Mont Bellevue, just north of I 832 00:59:32.719 --> 00:59:36.599 ten, just a little bit of north of I ten Highway one forty six, 833 00:59:37.039 --> 00:59:39.159 and you're going to find all the products there, all the fertilizers that 834 00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:42.960 we talk about, the mosquito dunks I was just talking about, You're going 835 00:59:43.039 --> 00:59:46.039 to find them there at Texas Feedstop. So go buy, say hello to 836 00:59:46.079 --> 00:59:51.519 Brian and Hope there and just get to know them because, like I said, 837 00:59:51.760 --> 00:59:53.800 your family out there, and that's how they treat their customers. And 838 00:59:53.840 --> 01:00:00.519 that's what makes it such a pleasure to go back to and to u go 839 01:00:00.559 --> 01:00:02.119 back again and again. You know, you kind of get to know somebody. 840 01:00:02.119 --> 01:00:05.719 It's like you're an old friend. You can trust what they say, 841 01:00:05.760 --> 01:00:08.039 you can trust with the products that they point you to. Texas feed Stop 842 01:00:08.159 --> 01:00:10.800 is just I love it when I go out there. Just a real pleasure 843 01:00:12.280 --> 01:00:15.840 to be out in that area. Well, speaking of real pleasure, here 844 01:00:15.880 --> 01:00:20.719 comes news with Nikki. Is that right? News? Can we go there? 845 01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:46.199 Nicks Network? That's the NNN jump back. Well, good morning on 846 01:00:46.239 --> 01:00:51.880 a good Sunday morning for gardening, for talking about gardening. This afternoon, 847 01:00:52.000 --> 01:00:54.599 good time to get out and do some gardening. You know, we talk 848 01:00:54.639 --> 01:00:59.480 about a lot of different groups, organizations and things like that here on Garden 849 01:00:59.519 --> 01:01:04.679 Line, but that there's one that really hits close to home for me and 850 01:01:04.719 --> 01:01:08.960 that Star of Hope Mission. Decades ago, my wife and I volunteered at 851 01:01:08.960 --> 01:01:14.000 Star Hope with the church we are at at the time, and it has 852 01:01:14.119 --> 01:01:16.880 changed so much. I visited a couple of months ago, I believe at 853 01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:21.400 the new facilities, some of the new facilities they have, it is amazing. 854 01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:25.559 I mean, they serve Harris Fort Benbersoria, Montgomery Counties. It will 855 01:01:25.639 --> 01:01:30.960 change, It will change the way you see homelessness. To understand the ministries 856 01:01:31.000 --> 01:01:35.400 and outreach of Star of Hope. They have a Love and Action van that 857 01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:38.920 goes to the streets to offer people prayer, shelter, recovery programs, a 858 01:01:39.079 --> 01:01:44.079 chance at a brighter future. They have a place where homeless men, women 859 01:01:44.119 --> 01:01:49.000 and children can stay for up to a year while they focus on life changing 860 01:01:49.039 --> 01:01:52.320 programs, getting educated, getting an employment, learning how to get a job, 861 01:01:53.079 --> 01:01:58.559 recovering from substance abuse, whatever they're dealing with. At that place, 862 01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:02.400 it's a safe places place where they get meals and clothing and training. Sure 863 01:02:02.440 --> 01:02:08.119 there's rules that's necessary in order to operate something successful like that, but an 864 01:02:08.159 --> 01:02:14.199 amazing community that gives people that. You know, it's often been said where 865 01:02:14.360 --> 01:02:16.719 many of us are like a paycheck or two away from being in a similar 866 01:02:16.760 --> 01:02:20.760 spot. And that may not strike you, but I'll tell you this, 867 01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:23.760 when you see the face of homelessness, it may be a mom that for 868 01:02:23.960 --> 01:02:28.480 no fault of our own, is now trying to stay alive, keeping her 869 01:02:28.639 --> 01:02:31.840 living in a car with their kids. It would be someone who is wanting 870 01:02:32.039 --> 01:02:36.840 was once successful and has fallen on hard times and is looking for a way 871 01:02:36.880 --> 01:02:39.800 to get their feetback under them. That little hand out at the corner, 872 01:02:39.880 --> 01:02:44.960 somebody holding the sign up. I don't want to go into that too far, 873 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:46.280 but let me just say this, if you want to give a few 874 01:02:46.320 --> 01:02:51.159 bucks and make a difference, the differences by putting that kind of money into 875 01:02:51.199 --> 01:02:53.199 a place like Star of Hope, where we don't just hand them food for 876 01:02:53.239 --> 01:02:58.000 a day, where we train them, where we set them off for a 877 01:02:58.159 --> 01:03:00.239 successful life. And you can volunteer or star by the way, go to 878 01:03:00.800 --> 01:03:07.079 shmission dot org for more information. Oh mission dot org. For two dollars 879 01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:09.920 and eighty cents the cost of a fancy cup of coffee, you can you 880 01:03:09.960 --> 01:03:15.000 can provide somebody with a meal. They have volunteer opportunities. They need people 881 01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:19.039 to help with everything from helping with meals to just writing encouraging notes. This 882 01:03:19.159 --> 01:03:22.960 is a great way to make a difference in somebody's life. So let's take 883 01:03:22.000 --> 01:03:28.559 that compassion that we all have and let's put it into practice in a way 884 01:03:28.599 --> 01:03:32.639 that really truly brings hope and change, and that that is with starvoph Mission 885 01:03:32.679 --> 01:03:37.760 dot org. I'm going to head out now to Spring Branch and we're going 886 01:03:37.800 --> 01:03:43.159 to talk to Richard. Good morning, Richard, good morning. How can 887 01:03:43.159 --> 01:03:49.800 we help today? Well, this is not it's help for information, is 888 01:03:49.840 --> 01:03:57.039 what it is. I was at a popular nursery the other day and they 889 01:03:57.079 --> 01:04:01.440 sail in lonely Pine, and people ought to be aware that it's not like 890 01:04:01.599 --> 01:04:10.800 the regular pines around here and there. It needs certain conditions. It goes 891 01:04:10.960 --> 01:04:16.559 in sand or sandy long and it has a tap root. Most places don't 892 01:04:16.559 --> 01:04:20.320 think that pines have tap roots, but this particular pine does. Well. 893 01:04:20.360 --> 01:04:24.920 A lot of pine trees haven't tap root. Yeah, that's right, right, 894 01:04:25.400 --> 01:04:30.760 So if if you planet, then it's real slow growing and people need 895 01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:34.880 to understand that because other pines go real fast, but it goes real slow. 896 01:04:35.119 --> 01:04:38.800 Yeah, we have a we have a number of good pines for hearing. 897 01:04:38.800 --> 01:04:42.360 You know, they each have their pros and cons. But I appreciate 898 01:04:42.440 --> 01:04:45.000 that that information. Richard. Did you have a question to go with the 899 01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:50.159 call? Uh? No, I did have another piece of information. Most 900 01:04:50.159 --> 01:04:58.400 people think that Houston has old clay soil, but in north of O ten 901 01:04:58.639 --> 01:05:02.519 there's a lot of s andy loam pocket that is true, that's right. 902 01:05:02.719 --> 01:05:10.039 So if they need to make sure that there's I believe to grow pine tree 903 01:05:10.079 --> 01:05:14.559 with a tap root, they need to make sure that they have sandy loams. 904 01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:16.239 Saw it all right, Richard, Well, I appreciate that information. 905 01:05:16.360 --> 01:05:19.239 Yeah, we do have a variety of types of soil around here. The 906 01:05:19.639 --> 01:05:24.039 predominance through the Gulf Coast. We had a lot of that Houston black clay. 907 01:05:24.119 --> 01:05:27.400 They even named it after us. That's the official name of the sail 908 01:05:27.480 --> 01:05:30.760 type. But as you get up in the piny woods, got some wonderful 909 01:05:30.800 --> 01:05:33.480 sandy loams. And it just varies any area you live in. You know, 910 01:05:33.480 --> 01:05:35.920 it may be mostly clay, but you may have pockets of sand. 911 01:05:36.000 --> 01:05:41.320 And just check your sword before you make assumptions. It's a good, good 912 01:05:41.360 --> 01:05:45.000 idea. You know, you hear me talk about ACE Hardware on this show, 913 01:05:45.119 --> 01:05:51.880 and it's because I just am amazed at the way they have preserved the 914 01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:57.320 old time hardware. Qualities of staff that know what they're talking about, that 915 01:05:57.519 --> 01:06:00.400 greet you, that take you to the products you need, that it advise 916 01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:03.760 you, that help you with your project, and that includes having the gardening 917 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:08.000 products that we need. And they carry the stuff we talk about here. 918 01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:12.079 I mentioned that before, but if you've not been in an ACE Hardware I 919 01:06:12.960 --> 01:06:15.360 would just ask you, do me a favorite, go in one and just 920 01:06:15.400 --> 01:06:18.639 see what I'm talking about. There's thirty nine of them around here. You 921 01:06:18.639 --> 01:06:23.199 can go to ACE Hardware dot Com you can find a one near you. 922 01:06:23.719 --> 01:06:27.920 But you would be amazed. I mean, it's not your daddy's hardware store, 923 01:06:27.960 --> 01:06:30.880 although they treat you like it is. But when you walk in there, 924 01:06:31.480 --> 01:06:34.760 the products that they have, the variety of products that they have for 925 01:06:34.840 --> 01:06:39.000 the home beyond just home and garden, I mean for the home, and 926 01:06:39.679 --> 01:06:43.800 it's just amazing. Ace Hardware dot Com. Check them out. I promise 927 01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:46.920 you won't be disappointed. You'll be amazed like I was when I first walked 928 01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:51.880 in to the new modern Ace and the quality stores we have in our group 929 01:06:51.880 --> 01:06:58.159 of thirty nine hardware stores here in the Houston area. This is this is 930 01:06:58.159 --> 01:07:00.920 a good time of the year to be getting ready for the summer garden. 931 01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:05.079 And that means that means that we are going to be planting the vegetables that 932 01:07:05.119 --> 01:07:09.320 do well in summer. It means we're planting the flowers that do well in 933 01:07:09.360 --> 01:07:11.760 summer. And we're gonna take a break here. But when I come back 934 01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:14.840 from break, I am going to talk to you about some of those things. 935 01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:16.920 In the meantime, write down the number and give us a call seven 936 01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:21.559 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Josh, you'll get you 937 01:07:21.639 --> 01:07:36.519 on the board and we'll talk to you about what you're interested in. We'll 938 01:07:36.559 --> 01:07:43.199 get Sunday morning watching the skies brighten up a little bit as we get a 939 01:07:43.199 --> 01:07:45.719 little bit more light in here. You can see around everything. It's kind 940 01:07:45.719 --> 01:07:48.920 of nice now, you know. The weather is just so awesome these next 941 01:07:48.960 --> 01:07:53.960 few days. We I think we're probably in the next three or four days, 942 01:07:54.480 --> 01:07:57.000 you know, maybe upper eighties at the most, mid eighties, upper 943 01:07:57.039 --> 01:08:00.599 eighties somewhere in there. That boy, that's that's great weather. Good good 944 01:08:00.599 --> 01:08:02.639 time to get out and get some work done out in the garden. By 945 01:08:02.639 --> 01:08:05.280 the way, if you live if you live in down you know, kind 946 01:08:05.280 --> 01:08:10.679 of in the north central part of the interior part of Houston. If you 947 01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:15.639 house that for a description you need to know about Quality Feed Company, Quality 948 01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:20.439 Feed and Garden Quality Feedco dot com. Go to Quality Feedco dot com and 949 01:08:21.039 --> 01:08:25.880 Ken and Cress. This place. It's been going on since well, actually 950 01:08:25.880 --> 01:08:29.479 the store itself since nineteen twenty eight. They've owned it for like thirty two 951 01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:32.000 years now. They carry all the products we talk about when you hear me 952 01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:35.600 mention a fertilizer or mulchis and things, they have it. And they even 953 01:08:35.600 --> 01:08:39.279 have some of their own kind of products, like Ken makes his own potting 954 01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:43.960 soil there and that they sell there everything you'd expect from feed store. Certainly 955 01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:48.079 they get chickens in all the time there and so if you're intesting backyard chickens 956 01:08:48.119 --> 01:08:50.560 and the products to go with them, they're going to have it all so 957 01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:54.760 you can get the complete setup. They're at Quality feed Now. They're open 958 01:08:54.800 --> 01:08:58.119 today from eleven thirty to four pm, so it's a good time to go 959 01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:00.239 buy now. If you went to the old location like I used to go, 960 01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:04.439 you're gonna need to know. The new location is at eighteen thirteen Luzon 961 01:09:04.600 --> 01:09:10.960 Street, which is near the intersection of Equipment and Alesion. So Quality feedcode 962 01:09:11.039 --> 01:09:15.359 dot com check them out. It's one of those cool old time feed stores. 963 01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:18.399 But wow, you will be impressed by the products and even by the 964 01:09:18.439 --> 01:09:24.279 bones eye and other plants that they have there for sale. We're gonna take 965 01:09:24.359 --> 01:09:29.880 some time to go out now to Oatesbury and talk to Lee. Good morning, 966 01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:32.680 Lee, how are you this morning? I'm doing fine, doing fine. 967 01:09:33.319 --> 01:09:40.399 Uh, skip us wondering I have several contrees that I would like to 968 01:09:40.600 --> 01:09:45.000 see if I could get some cons produced out of them. How I go 969 01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:47.239 about that? How old are these trees are? How big are they? 970 01:09:48.359 --> 01:09:56.520 They're pretty old, several several years old. So if you went up to 971 01:09:56.600 --> 01:09:59.680 the trunk and gave it a hug, about how far how far across that 972 01:09:59.760 --> 01:10:02.800 t punk is it? You know? At chest high? Are we looking 973 01:10:02.840 --> 01:10:08.439 at an eight inch trunk? A twelve inch trunk or what it might be 974 01:10:08.520 --> 01:10:13.399 about twelve inch trunk maybe a little bit larger? Okay, good? Probably 975 01:10:13.600 --> 01:10:16.239 at this point, don't know what the varieties are, right, No, 976 01:10:16.359 --> 01:10:19.880 I don't know what kind they are. They just volunteered, Okay, and 977 01:10:20.319 --> 01:10:28.800 do they ever produce for you? I have seen some green ones pop up, 978 01:10:29.199 --> 01:10:31.039 but then when I opened them up to the shelves, who not, 979 01:10:31.880 --> 01:10:36.720 they're not very good? Okay, well, pecans, it's our state tree. 980 01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:41.520 I mean, there's no question that we beloved. They are beloved here 981 01:10:41.560 --> 01:10:46.079 in Texas. However, when we start kind of bringing them into landscape type 982 01:10:46.119 --> 01:10:53.199 situations and whatnot, they're a challenge and even out in a pasture. Uh, 983 01:10:53.960 --> 01:10:58.760 you've when a pecan comes up from seed, it's genetically different than any 984 01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:01.800 other pecan, just like people are all individually different from each other, and 985 01:11:02.000 --> 01:11:06.479 so it may be more susceptible to disease, which means every year you've got 986 01:11:06.560 --> 01:11:12.760 a problem with that. It may have issues with branch structure and tendency to 987 01:11:12.840 --> 01:11:15.399 break branches. It's going to vary in terms of does it produce pollen or 988 01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:20.079 nutlets first, and so it's kind of a mixed bag. When you describe 989 01:11:20.720 --> 01:11:25.640 having a pecan and you open it up and it's nothing inside, it's black 990 01:11:25.760 --> 01:11:30.000 inside or dried up inside, that is probably because something has killed the shuck 991 01:11:30.439 --> 01:11:34.840 tissues. There are diseases that affect the leaves, and there are diseases that 992 01:11:34.920 --> 01:11:40.239 affect that green shuck. And interestingly enough, you know the branch comes into 993 01:11:40.279 --> 01:11:44.039 the base of the pecan and then there's that schuck around the pecan. The 994 01:11:44.199 --> 01:11:47.560 nutrients and water go through that shuck before they move into the pecan, and 995 01:11:47.720 --> 01:11:51.880 so if you kill the shuck, you affect that pecan's ability to fill up 996 01:11:53.039 --> 01:11:58.479 with good pecan kernel, and so you may be looking at a disease problem. 997 01:11:58.560 --> 01:12:01.439 There are also insects that feed inside the shock, and insects it can 998 01:12:01.520 --> 01:12:06.159 feed inside the nut itself, so a lot of things can go wrong for 999 01:12:06.319 --> 01:12:10.840 trees that size. It's gonna take one heck of a sprayer to try to 1000 01:12:10.920 --> 01:12:14.319 get on some kind of a schedule to shut that down. And that just 1001 01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:17.079 maybe the straw that breaks the camel's back in terms of you, you know, 1002 01:12:17.199 --> 01:12:19.520 being able to go out and yeah, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go 1003 01:12:19.640 --> 01:12:24.560 through that and get try to do it that way. But spraying is probably 1004 01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:29.239 necessary just based on what you've told me, which I know is limited information, 1005 01:12:29.399 --> 01:12:33.800 but I just know that with pecans, insects and diseases can spoil the 1006 01:12:33.840 --> 01:12:38.079 show if they're in a lot of Are these in a pasture or in a 1007 01:12:38.399 --> 01:12:44.960 lawn or where lawn? Okay, So a good soaking watering when we go 1008 01:12:45.079 --> 01:12:50.399 through extended summer heat and drought like last year is important because up until about 1009 01:12:50.439 --> 01:12:57.399 August first, roughly, that pecan is growing and the pecan nut is growing 1010 01:12:57.479 --> 01:13:00.920 in size, and then the shell hardens and after August first it fills the 1011 01:13:01.079 --> 01:13:06.880 kernel creates that we call it nutmeat inside. So if you are not getting 1012 01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:14.000 well filled pecans, it's often also because of a lack of adequate moisture during 1013 01:13:14.039 --> 01:13:17.680 August, September and early October, and so that would be another thing that 1014 01:13:17.720 --> 01:13:21.800 would be in your control is to giving a little bit better good deep soaking, 1015 01:13:23.319 --> 01:13:26.119 because you're going to need to put on at least an inch of water 1016 01:13:26.319 --> 01:13:30.840 to wet the soil deeply, probably more than an inch to help rescue a 1017 01:13:30.920 --> 01:13:35.640 pecan when it's in a drought stress and it's depleting those bank account nutrient of 1018 01:13:35.800 --> 01:13:43.720 moisture in the soil. Okay, all right, there's a lot of information 1019 01:13:43.880 --> 01:13:49.039 the really I hope that was helpful. Well, it has helps, so 1020 01:13:49.560 --> 01:13:53.960 I do, thank you very much. Yeah, and there's good information online 1021 01:13:53.960 --> 01:14:00.319 if you go to the Agge Horticulture website, it's aggy Dash Horticulture dot TAMU 1022 01:14:00.880 --> 01:14:03.199 dot edu, or you can just do a Google search for Aggie Horticulture. 1023 01:14:03.560 --> 01:14:08.560 There's a publication in the fruit section on pecans. It's many pages of full 1024 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:12.520 color pictures and it'll tell you all about the kinds of things you're probably curious 1025 01:14:12.520 --> 01:14:16.399 about in terms of getting success with those. Okay, okay, thank you 1026 01:14:16.520 --> 01:14:19.600 very much. Well, thank you for the call. I appreciate that very 1027 01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:26.960 much. We are you know, we talk about trees and things and success 1028 01:14:27.039 --> 01:14:30.119 with them, and I know that just like turf, trees are one of 1029 01:14:30.159 --> 01:14:33.199 the big things that people care a lot about, very concerned when you start 1030 01:14:33.239 --> 01:14:39.600 seeing trees having problems and you know, I know a pecan is it would 1031 01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:42.319 be in that group of trees we call fruit and nut trees, but they're 1032 01:14:42.319 --> 01:14:45.319 also shade trees. And when it comes to taking care of trees, you 1033 01:14:45.399 --> 01:14:49.159 need somebody that knows what they're talking about. And the folks at Affordable Tree 1034 01:14:49.199 --> 01:14:53.680 Service I'm talking about Martin and his wife Joe. They've been in the business 1035 01:14:53.760 --> 01:14:57.600 fifty two years. It's the third generation for those folks that family in the 1036 01:14:57.640 --> 01:15:01.000 Tree Service. When you call seven one three, six nine nine twenty six 1037 01:15:01.119 --> 01:15:04.560 sixty three, either Martin or Joe's going to answer. And there are some 1038 01:15:04.680 --> 01:15:08.560 other companies that put Affordable in the name. So if it's not Martin or 1039 01:15:08.640 --> 01:15:12.159 Joe that answers the phone, we're talking about the owners answering their own phone, 1040 01:15:13.079 --> 01:15:16.079 then hang up and you got the wrong number. Seven one three sixty 1041 01:15:16.159 --> 01:15:21.479 nine nine two six sixty three. Or you can go online to aff Tree 1042 01:15:23.000 --> 01:15:27.600 Service dot com. They do it all, you know, consulting and that's 1043 01:15:27.600 --> 01:15:30.920 a that's a very good thing to hire somebody to come out look at it, 1044 01:15:30.079 --> 01:15:33.399 see the situation, especially if you're about to do any changes to the 1045 01:15:33.520 --> 01:15:38.560 landscape or build a house around a tree or anything like that. They do 1046 01:15:38.720 --> 01:15:42.359 pruning, deep root feeding, pest disease control, They grind stumps, I 1047 01:15:42.399 --> 01:15:45.159 mean, you know, the whole whole nine yards. Affordable tree service or 1048 01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:48.880 folks that you can depend on to do the job right. And remember with 1049 01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:51.880 trees, you only get one shot. When someone comes in and they don't 1050 01:15:51.880 --> 01:15:55.479 know what they're doing, they screw up the tree. That's for life. 1051 01:15:56.199 --> 01:16:00.000 They did they don't outgrow a butchering pruning, but a four tree service does 1052 01:16:00.079 --> 01:16:02.840 know what they're doing. Tell them, tell them that you are with KTRH, 1053 01:16:03.720 --> 01:16:09.880 that you listen to garden Line and they will put you to the front 1054 01:16:09.880 --> 01:16:13.279 of the line. And they have a lot of business, but Guarden Line 1055 01:16:13.319 --> 01:16:15.680 customers go to the front of the line, So make sure and mention that 1056 01:16:15.359 --> 01:16:20.479 when you call seven one three six nine nine two six six three. We 1057 01:16:23.399 --> 01:16:29.760 I'm really enjoy visiting with Martin and Joe. Just a really pleasant a couple 1058 01:16:29.800 --> 01:16:31.800 to be around, and it's just pleasure. It's a pleasure to be able 1059 01:16:31.840 --> 01:16:34.760 to recommend something where I know you're going to get a good results from it, 1060 01:16:34.880 --> 01:16:39.239 because there's, as you know, in any industry, there's a wide 1061 01:16:39.319 --> 01:16:42.359 variety from the good, the bad, to the ugly out there, and 1062 01:16:42.520 --> 01:16:45.439 that's certainly true and tree care as well. Were you're listening to Garden Line, 1063 01:16:45.640 --> 01:16:49.399 we are putting another hour in the books and we'll be back again after 1064 01:16:49.880 --> 01:16:54.359 a break for news. If you would like to get on the boards, 1065 01:16:54.600 --> 01:16:59.479 give Josh a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, 1066 01:16:59.600 --> 01:17:03.760 seven three two and two five eight seven four. He will get you on 1067 01:17:03.760 --> 01:17:06.760 the board so we can talk about what you're interested in. By the way, 1068 01:17:06.840 --> 01:17:12.520 next hour, I'm gonna talk a little bit about the transition into hot 1069 01:17:12.600 --> 01:17:15.720 weather for our flower gardens and for our vegetable garden, so you definitely will 1070 01:17:15.760 --> 01:17:19.399 stick around with that. If your neighbors are still sleeping in, go bang 1071 01:17:19.479 --> 01:17:21.720 on the door, wake them up and tell them they're missing garden Line. 1072 01:17:21.760 --> 01:17:27.520 They'll appreciate that, trust me. Someday, maybe maybe not this morning, 1073 01:17:27.600 --> 01:17:30.880 but someday they will say thank you for turning us on to garden Line. 1074 01:17:31.159 --> 01:17:41.399 Hey, we'll be back in a little bit here. KTRH Garden Line does 1075 01:17:41.439 --> 01:17:46.199 not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome 1076 01:17:46.359 --> 01:18:02.439 to KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor just what I have been called a lot 1077 01:18:02.479 --> 01:18:11.960 of things, but to my knowledge, not adorable. You're listening to garden 1078 01:18:12.039 --> 01:18:15.920 Line. I am your host, Skip Water. You can decide whether it's 1079 01:18:15.960 --> 01:18:18.840 adorable or not as we go through the show today seven one three two one 1080 01:18:18.960 --> 01:18:25.439 two fifty eight seventy four, two on two fifty eight seventy four. We 1081 01:18:25.560 --> 01:18:28.960 are here to talk about the things you're interested in. And why don't we 1082 01:18:29.079 --> 01:18:32.760 just start by going up to spring and visiting with Rich. Good morning, 1083 01:18:32.920 --> 01:18:38.920 Rich, Good morning Skip. On May the fifth, I put down my 1084 01:18:39.039 --> 01:18:44.359 second application of fertilizer, the nitro foss nineteen four ten, and I also 1085 01:18:44.560 --> 01:18:50.760 applied amid a cloprit as a preventative manager against side web worms, and we 1086 01:18:50.920 --> 01:18:56.199 got all that monsoon, and I'm wondering, do I need to reapply either 1087 01:18:56.479 --> 01:19:00.239 or both? Tell me the date again when you put those down, May 1088 01:19:00.359 --> 01:19:04.239 the fifth, May fifth, No, you don't. And as far as 1089 01:19:04.279 --> 01:19:08.920 the metacoprit, it is a systemic and it hangs around a while. But 1090 01:19:09.439 --> 01:19:12.560 side web rbs are going to come a little bit later on, so I 1091 01:19:13.319 --> 01:19:15.119 think I wouldn't do it again for sure now anyway, that number one that's 1092 01:19:15.119 --> 01:19:18.079 already in the plant. But I would wait a little bit later and we 1093 01:19:18.199 --> 01:19:20.560 see if we're going to start to have a web worn problem, you can 1094 01:19:20.600 --> 01:19:24.880 get in on it really early and knock that out too. There, so 1095 01:19:25.199 --> 01:19:29.479 there's no need to you know, start earlier in the year applying the meta 1096 01:19:29.520 --> 01:19:32.680 culprit. But so i'd wait. I would wait, and that nineteen the 1097 01:19:33.000 --> 01:19:38.319 fertilizer you mentioned putting down, that one's gonna gradually release anyway over time, 1098 01:19:38.399 --> 01:19:42.119 so even the rain, that's one of the nice things about having something that 1099 01:19:42.239 --> 01:19:45.680 releases slowly. Got it. Appreciate your help, Skid, Thank you all 1100 01:19:45.760 --> 01:19:47.840 right, Well that was fast and easy. Thank you very much. Rich. 1101 01:19:47.880 --> 01:19:53.880 Appreciate that call I mentioned before break. We're going to talk about some 1102 01:19:54.039 --> 01:19:57.079 of the transition to hot weather in our gardens. By the way, our 1103 01:19:57.159 --> 01:20:00.359 number seven one, three, two and two fifty eight seven four, if 1104 01:20:00.399 --> 01:20:03.479 you'd like to give us a call. When it comes to the flower beds, 1105 01:20:04.119 --> 01:20:09.760 the petunias, some of those spring flowers that were just gorgeous in the 1106 01:20:09.880 --> 01:20:14.159 spring, but when the heat of summer comes, it really hammers them pretty 1107 01:20:14.159 --> 01:20:17.039 good, and you can stretch them out a little bit. You can keep 1108 01:20:17.079 --> 01:20:20.399 them going a little bit if you will shear them back and give them some 1109 01:20:20.520 --> 01:20:26.479 fertilizer, give them a boost of a good fertilizer designed for color plants. 1110 01:20:26.880 --> 01:20:30.479 Okay, And so last year I had a petunia in a hanging basket. 1111 01:20:30.560 --> 01:20:35.920 Oh my gosh, it was beautiful or it just unbelievable, and they actually 1112 01:20:35.960 --> 01:20:40.640 almost bloom themselves to death if you look at it early on. You have 1113 01:20:40.680 --> 01:20:43.600 a lot of leaves, and then here comes out the bloom stalks and things, 1114 01:20:44.079 --> 01:20:46.239 and it just blooms and blooms and blooms. And at some point I 1115 01:20:46.359 --> 01:20:51.119 looked at it, and the last foot of that vine, if you want 1116 01:20:51.159 --> 01:20:56.319 to call it a vine, it was all just where flowers had been, 1117 01:20:56.359 --> 01:21:00.680 and there were no leaves. And so a plant can't make carbohydrates to make 1118 01:21:00.760 --> 01:21:05.079 more flowers without foliage. And so sometimes people say, well, why would 1119 01:21:05.079 --> 01:21:09.439 you recommend a high nitrogen fertilizer if it's a blooming plant. Well, you 1120 01:21:09.479 --> 01:21:12.880 don't necessarily need a high nitrogen, but you do need nitrogen. And so 1121 01:21:13.079 --> 01:21:17.159 ever, fertilizer should contain some nitrogen for blooming plants too, not just phosphorus 1122 01:21:17.239 --> 01:21:23.359 and potassium, and that boost of nitrogen combined with a shearing back. So 1123 01:21:23.760 --> 01:21:26.880 think of it this way. You look at these plants that seem to be 1124 01:21:27.000 --> 01:21:30.520 kind of blooming themselves into a little bit of a weakened state. There's not 1125 01:21:30.640 --> 01:21:33.640 as many blooms. You cut them back, you fertilize them, you water 1126 01:21:33.720 --> 01:21:38.319 it in, and you get a fresh, new vegetative growth, and then 1127 01:21:38.640 --> 01:21:41.680 the blooms come back, you get more blooms again. And we can do 1128 01:21:41.760 --> 01:21:44.560 that with a lot of plants. You know, maybe you have Salvia greggy 1129 01:21:44.640 --> 01:21:47.640 I greg sage or cherry sage. Sometimes it's called autumn sage. I hate 1130 01:21:47.680 --> 01:21:54.239 that name for it, but anyway, Salvia greg it's a little subshrub and 1131 01:21:54.640 --> 01:21:57.079 if you just let it go, it'll just keep growing. As a little 1132 01:21:57.079 --> 01:22:00.000 subshrub kind of gets open, a little woody look in. It always is 1133 01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:03.399 blooming, just a few blooms, but always blooming. But if you will 1134 01:22:03.399 --> 01:22:05.960 share that back, I share mine back at the end of winter. I 1135 01:22:06.079 --> 01:22:12.239 come back typically when it's finished the spring flush of growth, and it's always 1136 01:22:12.279 --> 01:22:14.520 gonna have blooms on it. So this is gonna be a hard pruning for 1137 01:22:14.600 --> 01:22:16.520 you to do, but you share it back by about a third again going 1138 01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:21.720 into summer, fertilize it, water that fertilizer in fresh new growth, lots 1139 01:22:21.800 --> 01:22:26.960 more blooms. I'll do that again at the end of summer, the sharing, 1140 01:22:27.239 --> 01:22:30.800 fertilizing and watering, and it's a beautiful fall. Now, if you 1141 01:22:30.880 --> 01:22:33.319 don't do any of that, it's a tough plant. It'll stay alive, 1142 01:22:33.439 --> 01:22:38.640 but it'll be rangey looking and you won't have nearly the bloom production. And 1143 01:22:39.000 --> 01:22:42.039 here's why, and I've talked about this before, but a lot of plants, 1144 01:22:42.239 --> 01:22:45.920 many of our gardening plants, bloom on the terminal ends of shoots. 1145 01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:49.239 Roses do that. Salvias do that, for example. So if you have 1146 01:22:49.399 --> 01:22:54.560 one shoot with blooms on the end, and you go back and you prune 1147 01:22:54.600 --> 01:22:59.399 it back far enough back to encourage some resprouting and vigor, not just cutting 1148 01:22:59.439 --> 01:23:01.000 the end, the end off with the very bloom on it, but cut 1149 01:23:01.000 --> 01:23:04.079 back a little further. That's why I say about about a third, and 1150 01:23:04.199 --> 01:23:08.479 you fertilize in water, then all these new shoots come out. Where there 1151 01:23:08.560 --> 01:23:11.319 was one shoot, you may have two or three, and now you have 1152 01:23:11.479 --> 01:23:15.000 three terminals that can have blooms on them. So your plant is more compact, 1153 01:23:15.279 --> 01:23:19.439 more tidy, and more floriferous. How's that for a nice word for 1154 01:23:19.439 --> 01:23:25.279 a Sunday morning. Floriferous. So that's the care. That's the management. 1155 01:23:25.359 --> 01:23:28.399 People used to ask me. You know, they would say things like, 1156 01:23:28.920 --> 01:23:30.600 I don't know how to take care of my plants, and I never could 1157 01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:33.720 understand what what are you talking about? You water at your fertize. What 1158 01:23:33.800 --> 01:23:35.920 do you mean? You don't know how to take care of your plants? 1159 01:23:36.279 --> 01:23:40.359 And I think it's it's just this. I look at a plant. I 1160 01:23:40.479 --> 01:23:43.159 don't know about plants. I don't know what to do, and it's kind 1161 01:23:43.199 --> 01:23:45.039 of intimidating. Maybe, Well, I'm telling you what to do, and 1162 01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:49.159 I'm telling you for these kind of flowers, don't be afraid to two or 1163 01:23:49.239 --> 01:23:54.079 three times a year give them a sharing back, give them some fertilizer and 1164 01:23:54.159 --> 01:23:56.920 some water, and get them going again, and you will just have good 1165 01:23:57.000 --> 01:24:00.319 success. Now, as we're getting warmer, we're going to be heading into 1166 01:24:00.520 --> 01:24:04.880 some really hot weather. So things like petunias. Even though they've improved on 1167 01:24:05.000 --> 01:24:12.159 heat tolerance with these plants, they're still not totally summer heat tolerant in terms 1168 01:24:12.199 --> 01:24:15.720 of performing their best in the summer. So that's when we look to things 1169 01:24:15.840 --> 01:24:18.439 that can take the heat. And I keep talking about summer snap dragon or 1170 01:24:18.479 --> 01:24:24.079 angelonia, just because the breeding that's been done on that plant, the colors, 1171 01:24:24.199 --> 01:24:30.239 the compactness, the size just covering up with little spikes of blooms really 1172 01:24:30.319 --> 01:24:32.600 beautiful. I mean, it's hard to go wrong with Angelonia for a summer 1173 01:24:32.640 --> 01:24:36.279 color plant. It will never get too hot and humid in Houston for angelonia, 1174 01:24:38.119 --> 01:24:42.079 so that that would be a good example. There are several other plants. 1175 01:24:42.319 --> 01:24:45.199 There is a kind of a version of a lissum, which we normally 1176 01:24:45.239 --> 01:24:47.920 think about as a winter plant, but you can get them to bloom in 1177 01:24:47.960 --> 01:24:53.640 summer. But there's one called white stream. We call it Lobularia as if 1178 01:24:53.720 --> 01:24:57.520 that's something different, but that's the same genus as a lissum, but albularia 1179 01:24:57.640 --> 01:25:01.680 white stream will bloom all summer. When I worked out at Bear Creek Park 1180 01:25:01.880 --> 01:25:06.840 at the Extension office here in Houston Harris County, we planted some white stream 1181 01:25:06.920 --> 01:25:14.960 Liabularia in May. Now May is just the doorstep of really hot weather, 1182 01:25:15.000 --> 01:25:17.119 and it was mid to light May when we planted them, and we kept 1183 01:25:17.159 --> 01:25:19.760 them watered. Of course, they got to have water. But I thought 1184 01:25:19.840 --> 01:25:23.960 these things don't have a chance. They just got better and better each month 1185 01:25:24.000 --> 01:25:28.079 of the summer. White, just like a lissome little tiny white flowers all 1186 01:25:28.119 --> 01:25:31.600 over the place. Nice, pleasant fragrance, very attractive to beneficial insects. 1187 01:25:31.640 --> 01:25:35.760 If you've got a container, it spills over the side and just looks beautiful, 1188 01:25:36.000 --> 01:25:40.119 nice trailing plant. But anyway, I'll come back. We'll talk about 1189 01:25:40.159 --> 01:25:42.760 some more of that stuff in a minute. We're gonna take a break now. 1190 01:25:42.920 --> 01:25:46.640 Our phone number seven one three two and two fifty eight seventy four. 1191 01:25:50.119 --> 01:26:04.319 Is it still over mind? Well, good morning on a good Sunday morning. 1192 01:26:04.960 --> 01:26:09.159 We are glad you're listening to garden Line our phone number seven one three 1193 01:26:09.319 --> 01:26:13.800 two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you would like to give us 1194 01:26:14.000 --> 01:26:16.720 a call, I want to remind you that next Saturday, that's Saturday, 1195 01:26:16.880 --> 01:26:20.520 the twenty seventh of May, I will be at the Wall Birds Unlimited in 1196 01:26:20.680 --> 01:26:26.119 clear Lake from eleven thirty to one thirty. We'll spend two hours out there. 1197 01:26:26.640 --> 01:26:30.279 We'll answer your gardening questions. We'll certainly be pointing you to some good 1198 01:26:30.439 --> 01:26:32.159 quality supplies at Wilbirds. And by the way, if you've not been into 1199 01:26:32.199 --> 01:26:34.720 a wild Birds you're not going to believe it. In fact, let me 1200 01:26:34.760 --> 01:26:42.039 give you a website. Please write this down w BU dot com, WBU 1201 01:26:42.199 --> 01:26:45.800 dot com forward slash Houston. When you go there, what you're gonna see 1202 01:26:46.000 --> 01:26:50.600 are the wild Birds Unlimited store in our Houston grouping here. Now, there's 1203 01:26:50.640 --> 01:26:54.640 one missing out there, and that's the clear Lake store. That's the one 1204 01:26:54.720 --> 01:26:57.000 I'm gonna be out. They haven't got that on the map yet. It'll 1205 01:26:57.000 --> 01:27:00.640 be up there soon. But all the wild Birds around town, you're going 1206 01:27:00.680 --> 01:27:02.319 to find the one near you, and they're all over around town. It's 1207 01:27:02.359 --> 01:27:05.439 not hard to get to one. But next next Saturday, I'll be at 1208 01:27:05.479 --> 01:27:10.000 the one in clear Lake. But check out that website. Go to a 1209 01:27:10.119 --> 01:27:12.880 store near you. There's a You can go to the website of the store 1210 01:27:13.000 --> 01:27:15.560 from the link I gave you, and you will be amazed what you'll find. 1211 01:27:16.520 --> 01:27:19.399 All this kind of information online. You know, how do you squirrel 1212 01:27:19.479 --> 01:27:24.199 proof a feeder? Uh? There's cams on there. I like these. 1213 01:27:24.520 --> 01:27:28.520 There are several bird cams, like five different bird cams around the country and 1214 01:27:28.640 --> 01:27:30.760 they're just set up all the time, and you could just sit there and 1215 01:27:30.880 --> 01:27:32.800 watch birds come to it. In fact, if you put that on your 1216 01:27:32.840 --> 01:27:35.960 TV and just let it run kind of like background, it'll give your catch 1217 01:27:36.039 --> 01:27:41.079 something to do all day, trust me. But they'll never get close enough 1218 01:27:41.119 --> 01:27:43.960 to get a me a lot of that. But while Bird's unlimited, just 1219 01:27:44.239 --> 01:27:48.960 so many educational things upcoming events. You know, the materials they have, 1220 01:27:49.039 --> 01:27:53.520 the food they have, the feeders that they have, the bird houses. 1221 01:27:53.520 --> 01:27:56.439 By the way, a good time for getting out there with some bluebird houses. 1222 01:27:56.479 --> 01:27:59.439 We got a little property with maybe a little grassy field out to the 1223 01:27:59.520 --> 01:28:01.720 side that is just bluebird heaven. You know, get up on the edge 1224 01:28:01.720 --> 01:28:05.520 of the woods and put your bluebird feeders in such a pleasure to watch. 1225 01:28:05.680 --> 01:28:09.840 While Bird's unlimited. Well, let's call to Montgomery. We're gonna talk to 1226 01:28:09.960 --> 01:28:14.199 Jim this morning. Good morning, Jim, Hey, good morning. Say 1227 01:28:14.239 --> 01:28:15.800 I wanted to ask you about this blueberry. I got it. It was 1228 01:28:15.880 --> 01:28:21.720 called a southern high bush and it's in a container, a large container, 1229 01:28:21.920 --> 01:28:27.319 and I left it out all winter, and you know, it's deciduous, 1230 01:28:27.840 --> 01:28:30.680 but it came back big time and it put on tons and tons of blueberries. 1231 01:28:30.880 --> 01:28:36.560 Okay, but it looks like a rabbit got him. I have a 1232 01:28:36.600 --> 01:28:42.560 big old rabbit. While rabbit runs around here, I'm just assuming that's we've 1233 01:28:42.600 --> 01:28:45.359 got it. But they ate them green, can you? Uh? And 1234 01:28:45.760 --> 01:28:50.319 I was wondering, you think this blueberry is gonna boom twice like another time 1235 01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:56.239 this fall? Probably not? Probably not. It's just a one shot deal. 1236 01:28:56.479 --> 01:28:59.319 Yeah, it would if they if they got them green. I don't 1237 01:28:59.359 --> 01:29:01.479 think it was bird birds, although birds birds can eat blueberries for sure. 1238 01:29:02.159 --> 01:29:06.520 It could have been squirrels too, but that is unusual. Yeah, I 1239 01:29:06.600 --> 01:29:11.600 got squirrels too, but I didn't think they'd eat them green. But I 1240 01:29:11.720 --> 01:29:15.199 got a few that were ripe, and they were big and nice and sweet 1241 01:29:15.239 --> 01:29:23.039 and everything. And I use that Microlife red label at the Microlife sixty four 1242 01:29:23.079 --> 01:29:26.600 for acid loving plants, and yeah, that's wonderful stuff. I also use 1243 01:29:26.680 --> 01:29:30.479 the orange label for my cum quots, and they're like blooming their heads off 1244 01:29:30.600 --> 01:29:33.479 right now. But I thought of another question, if you got time. 1245 01:29:35.039 --> 01:29:39.439 I was in France a couple of years ago, and I noticed it's some 1246 01:29:39.600 --> 01:29:43.079 of the outdoor cafes. They have these trees that grow up in there. 1247 01:29:43.319 --> 01:29:45.680 I don't know what kind of trees they are. They had blooms on them, 1248 01:29:45.239 --> 01:29:50.319 but they're not great myrtles. But they I don't know what you call 1249 01:29:50.359 --> 01:29:57.640 it, but they've they've grafted the limbs together to form a lattice, you 1250 01:29:57.680 --> 01:30:00.079 know what I'm talking about, Like, have you seen that? Yes? 1251 01:30:00.119 --> 01:30:05.560 I have Huh do they have that in Texas? Anywhere? I'm sure people 1252 01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:08.640 have done that. I mean it's a little bit of work to do. 1253 01:30:08.800 --> 01:30:13.279 But basically, where two branches would touch, you know that, you you 1254 01:30:13.399 --> 01:30:17.680 can create the kind of like checkerboard xes type lattice, or you can create 1255 01:30:17.760 --> 01:30:21.199 even a ladder if you want to do that. But where two branches touch, 1256 01:30:21.399 --> 01:30:25.119 you kind of cut the bark back and you put them together so they 1257 01:30:25.319 --> 01:30:29.760 heal back together there, you know it. The books these were older, 1258 01:30:30.039 --> 01:30:33.159 and they you know, had like knots where they grafted them together, whatever 1259 01:30:33.199 --> 01:30:35.920 you call it. And they did it all over the top. You know, 1260 01:30:36.000 --> 01:30:40.600 it's like a ceiling of lattice. Yes, and the blooms. It 1261 01:30:40.720 --> 01:30:43.159 was wonderful. You know. I was always afraid though a bird was going 1262 01:30:43.199 --> 01:30:47.520 to drop something in my food, but you know, I was taking a 1263 01:30:47.640 --> 01:30:53.199 chance. But they really looked cool. I was wondering if that was kind 1264 01:30:53.239 --> 01:30:56.439 of a just a French thing or people did that, you know in the 1265 01:30:56.560 --> 01:31:00.399 United States. Yeah, well, you know in different countries, they're different 1266 01:31:00.520 --> 01:31:02.880 traditions and styles and things. But when you get over into parts of Europe, 1267 01:31:02.920 --> 01:31:09.720 there are some elaborate pruning things that they do to create beautiful uh, 1268 01:31:10.399 --> 01:31:13.439 like you described there, allott Us would be one example. You can do 1269 01:31:13.600 --> 01:31:15.640 that here. You just have to, you know, pick your plants accordingly, 1270 01:31:15.760 --> 01:31:17.800 things that are going to do well here. It does take time, 1271 01:31:17.880 --> 01:31:23.199 and I guess you know where you have this little courtyard with a stone wall 1272 01:31:23.319 --> 01:31:26.199 around it, and that's been in the property for three generations. You know, 1273 01:31:26.359 --> 01:31:30.039 time is not an issue we you know, we create beautiful things, 1274 01:31:30.159 --> 01:31:32.760 but we tend to be a little more mobile over here, and you don't 1275 01:31:32.800 --> 01:31:36.720 see things like Espalier. That's another example, you know, the sal with 1276 01:31:38.920 --> 01:31:40.920 one and if that would work, you could do it. You could make 1277 01:31:40.960 --> 01:31:44.359 it work. It's going to take a lot of work, and you're gonna 1278 01:31:44.359 --> 01:31:46.720 have to really do a lot of really big right now. And they're kind 1279 01:31:46.760 --> 01:31:53.840 of touching each other right now, but yeah, they're I could do that, 1280 01:31:54.079 --> 01:31:56.479 but I couldn't make it one. You know, it's just going to 1281 01:31:56.560 --> 01:32:00.159 be in one line it's not going to be like over like they headed over 1282 01:32:00.239 --> 01:32:03.520 a courtyard. Well, what they will often do on that is you will 1283 01:32:03.760 --> 01:32:08.079 you will plant the crape myrtle at like a forty five degree angle, a 1284 01:32:08.199 --> 01:32:12.680 single shoot, and then you can use like a bamboo stick or something to 1285 01:32:12.840 --> 01:32:15.239 tie it to to keep it going at that forty five degree angle. And 1286 01:32:15.319 --> 01:32:18.880 when you do that to several crape myrtles, now you've created a row of 1287 01:32:18.960 --> 01:32:23.680 them leaning like that. Then shoots come off and you train them back the 1288 01:32:23.760 --> 01:32:26.560 other way at a forty five degree angle. So you kind of get the 1289 01:32:26.680 --> 01:32:30.520 design in your head and use pieces of bamboo that will allow you to attach 1290 01:32:30.720 --> 01:32:34.920 those shoots to it so that it's perfectly straight and at right at the angle 1291 01:32:35.000 --> 01:32:40.159 you want to create that ultimate final effect that you're going to grow yourself into. 1292 01:32:40.800 --> 01:32:44.079 Oh it sounds interesting, sounds like a fun thing to do. Yeah, 1293 01:32:44.079 --> 01:32:45.520 I'm gonna give it a start and see what happened. Yeah, we'll 1294 01:32:45.560 --> 01:32:48.039 have to well I have to try that myself. That'll keep us out of 1295 01:32:48.079 --> 01:32:53.800 trouble. I guess we'll have something busily keep that. Seeing out of trouble. 1296 01:32:54.239 --> 01:32:58.840 Not my thing, but I can cut it all right, Hey, 1297 01:32:58.920 --> 01:33:00.920 Jim, thanks for the call. I appreciate good luck with that out there. 1298 01:33:01.399 --> 01:33:06.880 Oh wow, that's funny. Yeah. The the kinds of pruning and 1299 01:33:08.039 --> 01:33:12.640 design and things that people do, it's just it's really it's really outstanding. 1300 01:33:14.319 --> 01:33:19.119 I was talking about the importance of getting trees planted properly and you. In 1301 01:33:19.159 --> 01:33:23.720 fact, yesterday I was visiting someone about it's time to get that done. 1302 01:33:23.920 --> 01:33:26.880 Now. You can plant trees twelve months out of the year here. If 1303 01:33:26.920 --> 01:33:29.000 you know how to take care of them, you can just keep going and 1304 01:33:29.079 --> 01:33:31.680 planting them. But if you really want a quality tree, I would suggest 1305 01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:36.159 you check out Verdant Tree Farm. That's Verdant tree Farm dot com. Now 1306 01:33:36.319 --> 01:33:40.199 their original location, the one I first went to, is out of bark 1307 01:33:40.279 --> 01:33:43.680 Or Cyprus, on the west side of town, kind of just past Bear 1308 01:33:43.760 --> 01:33:48.720 Creek Park on in pair Land on Broadway West Broadway. There is a Verdant 1309 01:33:48.760 --> 01:33:53.079 Tree Farm down there. For those of you south and east, if you're 1310 01:33:53.159 --> 01:33:57.800 kind of in more central three thirty seven Yale Street is the newest one. 1311 01:33:57.880 --> 01:34:00.199 It's right at Eye Tend there. Verdant Tree Farm in the Heights area never 1312 01:34:00.359 --> 01:34:02.560 Dance got all the kinds of trees that you would want to grow. I 1313 01:34:02.600 --> 01:34:04.760 mean you go picture tree, you tag it, they bring it, they 1314 01:34:04.840 --> 01:34:08.760 install it for you. They'll go all the way up to seven hundred gallons. 1315 01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:11.640 I mean, if you really want to just an instant tree, they 1316 01:34:11.720 --> 01:34:15.520 can do that. Of course. They they have always specialized in palms, 1317 01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:18.520 greatest selection of palms in town, and Verdant Tree Farm is the kind of 1318 01:34:18.600 --> 01:34:23.640 place that can get you set up with a quality tree and they can plan 1319 01:34:23.760 --> 01:34:27.439 it right so it survives and it just gets better with time. Go to 1320 01:34:27.560 --> 01:34:31.039 Verdant tree Farm dot com for that. Speaking of go to let's go to 1321 01:34:31.319 --> 01:34:36.279 Cyprus and we're going to talk to Stephen. Hello, Stephen Poties, get 1322 01:34:36.920 --> 01:34:41.359 what's up today? Hey, I got a question for you. I have. 1323 01:34:41.840 --> 01:34:45.479 We have three goldies in a K King Cavalier and I'm trying to find 1324 01:34:45.520 --> 01:34:50.199 out what type of fertilizer and wheat killer I can put out there that's good 1325 01:34:50.239 --> 01:34:54.680 for the pets, because the problem I have is the dogs like to eat 1326 01:34:54.760 --> 01:34:59.399 the grassy, but we try to stop them. But it's I always section 1327 01:34:59.479 --> 01:35:00.960 off the art where I think it needs it most, but I like to 1328 01:35:01.039 --> 01:35:04.199 do the whole yard if I can, and I want to make sure that 1329 01:35:04.279 --> 01:35:08.760 that you know, I have tumble sometimes, you know, trusting what I 1330 01:35:08.880 --> 01:35:13.279 read. Question says they grass. Yeah, so I was hoping maybe you 1331 01:35:13.359 --> 01:35:16.880 can give me a direction where I can do the whole yard and try to 1332 01:35:16.960 --> 01:35:21.319 get the you know, like a pre emergent and the fertilizer to put out 1333 01:35:21.359 --> 01:35:25.000 there to where the dogs you know, if they do eat the grass, 1334 01:35:25.279 --> 01:35:29.279 you know it won't harm them. Okay, well, my preference is always 1335 01:35:29.359 --> 01:35:32.479 to do fertilizing and pre emergent. Separate. Fertilizing and herbicide separate. I 1336 01:35:32.600 --> 01:35:35.359 know you can buy combo products. There's a few times of the year where 1337 01:35:35.479 --> 01:35:40.800 the timing is okay for that, but I would I would separate those out. 1338 01:35:40.880 --> 01:35:43.840 That way, you pick the herbicide that deals with the weeds you're dealing 1339 01:35:43.920 --> 01:35:45.600 with at the time of year you're needing to deal with them, and you 1340 01:35:45.680 --> 01:35:49.560 pick the fertilizer of your choice separately. I think that's the best way to 1341 01:35:49.640 --> 01:35:53.680 go. But that said, when you put a fertilize or when you put 1342 01:35:53.720 --> 01:35:56.800 a herbicide out, you're gonna want to water it in if it's a pre 1343 01:35:56.920 --> 01:35:59.920 emergent. If it's a post emergent, you're gonna get it on the foliage. 1344 01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:01.399 And just give it some time. You just need to keep the dogs 1345 01:36:01.439 --> 01:36:04.600 off for a little while. Now, technically, when it dries, they 1346 01:36:04.640 --> 01:36:06.840 should be able to go out there without a problem. But if you just 1347 01:36:06.920 --> 01:36:10.880 want to be extra careful, just kind of keep them off of an area 1348 01:36:10.960 --> 01:36:13.800 for a while, give that. Maybe if you can give it a week 1349 01:36:13.880 --> 01:36:15.039 to keep them out of a certain area, that would be even better. 1350 01:36:15.159 --> 01:36:19.279 Maybe your situation doesn't allow for that. But as far as the fertilizer, 1351 01:36:19.399 --> 01:36:21.760 you know, if it's a granule here and there and then you give it 1352 01:36:21.840 --> 01:36:27.159 a good watering in after applying it, I'm not so concerned with the dogs 1353 01:36:27.239 --> 01:36:30.159 coming along and just eating up all the fertilizer. And if it was an 1354 01:36:30.239 --> 01:36:33.000 old pile where they could you get into more trouble there, that might be 1355 01:36:33.079 --> 01:36:36.800 a thing. I'll tell you this. You know, Microlife talks about their 1356 01:36:36.880 --> 01:36:42.159 products being safe for pets. Not only they are safer pets, but pets 1357 01:36:42.239 --> 01:36:45.159 like them. You mentioned you have did you say three Goldies? Yes? 1358 01:36:45.479 --> 01:36:50.199 Yes? Wow? How many Rubot vacuum cleaners do you own? Seven? 1359 01:36:53.640 --> 01:36:56.880 It's funny you say that. My wife, Sylvia, I think she has 1360 01:36:56.920 --> 01:36:59.479 three of them, Missie Baggage, like two or three times a day. 1361 01:37:00.000 --> 01:37:02.479 Oh no, and people listening. This is not an exaggeration. This man 1362 01:37:02.720 --> 01:37:08.079 is speaking the truth. We have two goldens and Ellie and texts. And 1363 01:37:08.760 --> 01:37:12.520 I was out I put some microlife in my vegetable garden a few weeks ago, 1364 01:37:12.920 --> 01:37:15.680 and Texas out working in the garden with me, which he does, 1365 01:37:15.840 --> 01:37:17.319 and I was just looking and he was just going through there picking up the 1366 01:37:17.359 --> 01:37:21.720 microlife and shooting it up. It's like tax I paid for that, cut 1367 01:37:21.800 --> 01:37:25.880 it out, so I would. I would definitely water it in really good 1368 01:37:25.920 --> 01:37:30.159 because they'll be fond of it. Oh yeah, trust me, I agree. 1369 01:37:30.640 --> 01:37:32.079 All right, Hey, Stephen, thank you for the call. I 1370 01:37:32.159 --> 01:37:35.920 hope that's helpful. No, it is very helpful. I appreciate your time. 1371 01:37:38.319 --> 01:37:59.560 All right, you take care. We'll get Sunday morning. Welcome to 1372 01:37:59.600 --> 01:38:03.680 garden. We are here to talk to you about whatever it is of interest 1373 01:38:03.760 --> 01:38:09.000 to you regarding the home, garden landscape kind of things. Our phone number 1374 01:38:09.039 --> 01:38:13.760 seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one 1375 01:38:13.840 --> 01:38:18.560 two fifty eight seventy four. You know, I was visiting the folks at 1376 01:38:18.680 --> 01:38:24.520 League City Feed a while back, and that's Wes and Madison Funderberg there running 1377 01:38:24.520 --> 01:38:27.920 the show. Now, League City Feed is one of those old time feed 1378 01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:30.399 stores. It's the kind of randy used olways say we love our feed stores. 1379 01:38:30.439 --> 01:38:33.119 Well, this is why, this kind of place is what we're talking 1380 01:38:33.159 --> 01:38:36.119 about. We're talking about a place that gives you the kind of service you 1381 01:38:36.199 --> 01:38:39.640 need. You know, carry the bags out for you. You don't have 1382 01:38:39.720 --> 01:38:44.800 to sign up for a chiropractor visit every time go bag of feed. They 1383 01:38:44.880 --> 01:38:47.000 bring it out for you. They provide that kind of service and they carry 1384 01:38:47.039 --> 01:38:50.079 the products that you need. They're going to have the things we talk about 1385 01:38:50.159 --> 01:38:54.680 here, all the different fertilizers. They have a good selection of pesticides and 1386 01:38:54.760 --> 01:39:00.600 herbicides and fungicides, quality premium pet food and products for your backyard chicken needs. 1387 01:39:00.600 --> 01:39:02.439 I know that's a real popular thing now people are interested in getting some 1388 01:39:02.479 --> 01:39:06.760 backyard chickens. League City Feed can provide you those kinds of products. Now 1389 01:39:06.960 --> 01:39:11.960 the phone numbers two eight, one, three three two, sixteen twelve. 1390 01:39:12.239 --> 01:39:15.439 But if you are looking for League City Feed, they are on Highway three, 1391 01:39:15.600 --> 01:39:19.720 just a few blocks south of Highway ninety six, so near League City, 1392 01:39:19.800 --> 01:39:24.760 Santa Fe, Dickinson, Lamar, Clear Lake City, all those places 1393 01:39:24.960 --> 01:39:27.800 you're close to League City feed and you need to check them out. You 1394 01:39:27.840 --> 01:39:30.399 will find the selection of what they have, the quality of what they have 1395 01:39:30.880 --> 01:39:36.760 to be exceptional. I'm going to head out and talk to let's you know. 1396 01:39:36.840 --> 01:39:42.119 I think we'll start by going to Richmond and talking to Warren this morning. 1397 01:39:42.159 --> 01:39:47.000 Good morning, Warren, Hey, real, good morning. Question. 1398 01:39:48.159 --> 01:39:53.840 I've got Dallas grass in my front yard. I think it's because the neighbors 1399 01:39:54.039 --> 01:40:00.399 also had Dallas grass and it has infiltrated my beautiful Saint Augustine and I'm trying 1400 01:40:00.399 --> 01:40:03.479 to figure out a way to get rid of it and keep it from coming 1401 01:40:03.520 --> 01:40:10.039 back. I do do the pre emergent, but I think I didn't get 1402 01:40:10.159 --> 01:40:14.239 enough down or you know, it's just more aggressive than I thought. Yeah, 1403 01:40:15.000 --> 01:40:16.399 so how long? How long has this been a problem If you've been 1404 01:40:16.439 --> 01:40:19.359 dealing with for years or yeah, I've been a deal with a couple of 1405 01:40:19.439 --> 01:40:24.159 years. Yeah, okay, Well, now my backyard is perfectly fine. 1406 01:40:24.239 --> 01:40:27.680 There's no Dallas grass in the backyard. The front yard is the one that's 1407 01:40:27.840 --> 01:40:31.279 uh, you know and affected. Well, you certainly a pre emergent can 1408 01:40:31.399 --> 01:40:38.880 stop the seeds from creating new Dallas grass plants, but Dallas grass is a 1409 01:40:38.960 --> 01:40:42.680 perennial, so you're gonna have to get rid of that weed. And there's 1410 01:40:42.760 --> 01:40:46.439 not a grass killer to kill Dallas grass but not kill your long grass. 1411 01:40:46.920 --> 01:40:53.399 So what I generally do, Dallas grass is very happy to send its leaves 1412 01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:56.880 up a little higher than the Saint Augustine. I don't know if it's there, 1413 01:40:57.039 --> 01:40:59.920 yeah, yeah, And that's where you have the opportunity for a white 1414 01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:03.960 or applicator where you could wipe something on those leaves without getting it on your 1415 01:41:04.000 --> 01:41:08.640 grass. And so I would use you know, you could use a grass 1416 01:41:08.720 --> 01:41:12.960 only killer, one of the products that's the label will tell you just kills 1417 01:41:13.000 --> 01:41:16.039 grass. There's a couple of ingredients that that do that, or even even 1418 01:41:16.119 --> 01:41:20.000 something that's a general purpose you know, kills all the plant you know, 1419 01:41:20.239 --> 01:41:24.920 broadly ven grassy plants. You could use that carefully in there, but if 1420 01:41:24.920 --> 01:41:27.800 you can get the if you can wipe it on those leaves, you probably 1421 01:41:27.840 --> 01:41:30.199 you are not going to get it all the first time, because just the 1422 01:41:30.279 --> 01:41:32.039 way the plant comes out of the ground, you maybe get leaves on this 1423 01:41:32.199 --> 01:41:35.800 side, but then some on the other side survives. So that leaves you 1424 01:41:35.880 --> 01:41:40.199 with the options of either carefully trying to dig it out as best as you 1425 01:41:40.279 --> 01:41:44.840 can, and then the grass right well, if it's that bad, then 1426 01:41:44.880 --> 01:41:48.760 the other alternative is you just you spray those spots as much as you can, 1427 01:41:49.119 --> 01:41:51.720 just get the spotty right down. Then there on the Dallas grass, 1428 01:41:51.720 --> 01:41:55.640 you're gonna have a dead spot and you're Saint Augustine. But it'll fall back 1429 01:41:55.720 --> 01:41:58.840 in over the course of the season. So those are kind of the options. 1430 01:41:58.960 --> 01:42:00.640 Just when you see those big seat heads coming up tall that have the 1431 01:42:00.720 --> 01:42:04.479 little angles going out with all the seeds on them, don't let clip those 1432 01:42:04.560 --> 01:42:08.159 off. Mow them off with a bagger or something. You don't want that. 1433 01:42:08.279 --> 01:42:10.960 Yeah, we've been mowing more frequently trying to keep those at bay. 1434 01:42:11.159 --> 01:42:14.880 That'll do it. Yep, that'll that will do it. We'll skip. 1435 01:42:14.960 --> 01:42:16.359 Appreciate it. Thank you. Have a great morning. Hey, Warren, 1436 01:42:16.439 --> 01:42:19.880 thank you for the car. I appreciate that. Now let's head out and 1437 01:42:20.000 --> 01:42:24.079 we're gonna go to Bay City and talk to Mike. Hello, Mike, 1438 01:42:25.119 --> 01:42:28.520 Hello there, how are you going to skip? I'm doing well. Go 1439 01:42:28.600 --> 01:42:31.640 to Indians. By the way, Hey, I was gonna call you about 1440 01:42:32.640 --> 01:42:38.399 I got something in Milan and it's been there for a while, you know, 1441 01:42:38.520 --> 01:42:41.920 like last year and everything but it's spread. It's like crazy. I'm 1442 01:42:41.920 --> 01:42:45.640 gonna try to describe it. It's like a heart shaped leaf. If I 1443 01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:47.119 pull a real small one up, it's got a little nod on me. 1444 01:42:47.560 --> 01:42:53.039 Okay, I'll pull a bigger one up. It's gotta like a large, 1445 01:42:54.000 --> 01:42:57.199 you know, tubrious thing on there. But anyway, I don't know how 1446 01:42:57.279 --> 01:43:00.239 they spread or how they've gotten so far. They're getting into everything, and 1447 01:43:00.640 --> 01:43:03.600 I need to know how to what you think about how I needed to get 1448 01:43:03.720 --> 01:43:08.960 rid of this. I mean, they're just they just keep ye spreading and 1449 01:43:09.119 --> 01:43:11.720 I don't know what's doing it because I don't never see him bloom. What 1450 01:43:11.800 --> 01:43:14.800 I think I look try to look them up and said, it's a wild 1451 01:43:16.079 --> 01:43:20.720 violet or would okay, would violet or something like that. Well, that 1452 01:43:21.039 --> 01:43:24.720 has somewhat of a leaf like you describe, but they also have a little 1453 01:43:24.800 --> 01:43:27.920 violet flowers on them. I tell you what, I've never seen a flower. 1454 01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:30.239 Yeah, I'm gonna put you on hold because I cannot just guess based 1455 01:43:30.279 --> 01:43:33.880 on that description. I'm gonna put you on hold and Josh will give you 1456 01:43:34.119 --> 01:43:38.960 an email address. Please take some pictures. If you can do that pretty 1457 01:43:39.039 --> 01:43:42.000 quick this morning, I might be able to see them and enter online. 1458 01:43:42.840 --> 01:43:45.239 But if you can make sure they're in sharp focus, get as close as 1459 01:43:45.319 --> 01:43:49.199 you can to the plant, okay, and nail them to me and I'll 1460 01:43:49.239 --> 01:43:51.840 give it my best shot. Let's just do it that way, Otherwise I'm 1461 01:43:51.880 --> 01:43:56.680 gonna beat around the bush and probably not help them. Look okay, very 1462 01:43:56.720 --> 01:43:58.520 good? All right, Mike, Hey, thank you, thank you, 1463 01:43:58.680 --> 01:44:00.640 all right, thank you, thank you for call. I appreciate that. 1464 01:44:01.000 --> 01:44:05.279 Let's run out to Kingwood and we're gonna talk to Pamela. Hello, Pamela, 1465 01:44:06.439 --> 01:44:13.479 Hi, gets listen. I just got back from Europe. I was 1466 01:44:13.560 --> 01:44:18.039 there for over a month for the garden shows like Cordoba the Patio Gardens. 1467 01:44:18.359 --> 01:44:25.000 But I didn't get my Azzalius trimmed before I left. Can I steal trima? 1468 01:44:25.760 --> 01:44:29.439 Yes you can, absolutely you can. I've got about thirty seconds before 1469 01:44:29.479 --> 01:44:32.479 breaks. So here's a quick answer. Prune them back as needed, take 1470 01:44:32.520 --> 01:44:35.279 out the wild hair, shoot the bush like you want. They don't need 1471 01:44:35.359 --> 01:44:39.319 to be heavily pruned, but you can do it now, and you get 1472 01:44:39.359 --> 01:44:43.039 it done now. They have plenty of time all the rest of mid to 1473 01:44:43.159 --> 01:44:46.239 late summer and fall to set the blooms for next year. So just get 1474 01:44:46.279 --> 01:44:50.359 it done by midsummer. I would say, okay, great, thank you, 1475 01:44:50.680 --> 01:44:55.840 all right here, thank you. I appreciate that call a Linda. 1476 01:44:55.960 --> 01:44:58.239 Don't have quite enough time to get to you for a break, but you 1477 01:44:58.279 --> 01:45:00.880 will be first when we come back. Number seven one three two one two 1478 01:45:01.199 --> 01:45:18.880 fifty eight seventy four. A good morning on a good Sunday morning. It's 1479 01:45:19.000 --> 01:45:21.840 nice at day of the day. Little cloudy, a little lowercast, but 1480 01:45:21.920 --> 01:45:25.840 that just makes it not get so hot, and it's not gonna get so 1481 01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:30.399 hot today. Pretty good day to be outside in my opinion. Let's see, 1482 01:45:30.520 --> 01:45:32.520 we are going to go to the phones. Got a few folks here 1483 01:45:32.600 --> 01:45:38.760 lined up. Let's start with David in Spring Branch. Hello, David, 1484 01:45:39.600 --> 01:45:42.760 Yeah, good morning. I had a quick question about my peach and neck 1485 01:45:42.840 --> 01:45:45.880 three fruit trees. They gave me good truth this year, very happy about 1486 01:45:45.920 --> 01:45:49.960 it. Where's a good time for me to prude the upward branches. They're 1487 01:45:49.960 --> 01:45:54.199 getting a little bit too high for me to reach up here on a small 1488 01:45:54.319 --> 01:45:57.920 lad in anything going up through the middle of the tree or out at the 1489 01:45:58.520 --> 01:46:00.600 tall ends of the branches. You could do it now. Just a little 1490 01:46:00.600 --> 01:46:02.880 bit of pruning here and there is just fine. We do most of the 1491 01:46:02.960 --> 01:46:06.239 pruning in the winter, but you've got to keep the suckers and water sprouts 1492 01:46:06.279 --> 01:46:12.560 and like that under control or they'll shade out your interior. I appreciate that, 1493 01:46:12.760 --> 01:46:15.920 Thank you very much, you bet, I appreciate appreciate that call. 1494 01:46:15.600 --> 01:46:21.720 If you're interested in a quality product to add compost to your should maybe you're 1495 01:46:21.800 --> 01:46:27.279 needing a rosebed mix, or maybe you're needing a vegetable garden type mix. 1496 01:46:27.840 --> 01:46:30.439 The folks at Airloom Soils now have the supersacks. What is that, Well, 1497 01:46:30.479 --> 01:46:34.640 that's a one cubic yard. That's a big sack that they bring out 1498 01:46:34.680 --> 01:46:39.119 and set on your driveway. They will deliver that to you. You can 1499 01:46:39.159 --> 01:46:43.760 go to Airloom Soils of Texas dot com and see what products they have that 1500 01:46:43.920 --> 01:46:46.560 you need that are available in the supersack. While you're there, check out 1501 01:46:46.600 --> 01:46:53.079 the Airloom Soils cubic yard calculator. Maybe you need to put four inches over 1502 01:46:53.399 --> 01:46:56.000 X number of square feet and you need to know how many yards do I 1503 01:46:56.079 --> 01:46:58.720 need for that? Or I want to make a bed this tall or whatever. 1504 01:46:59.159 --> 01:47:01.239 You can do that and it'll break it down to how many five gallon 1505 01:47:01.319 --> 01:47:04.319 buckets or how many will barrows, you know, are in a qubic yard. 1506 01:47:04.439 --> 01:47:10.479 It's an amazing calculator that the folks at Heirloom Soils of Texas dot Com 1507 01:47:11.079 --> 01:47:14.359 have put up for you to use. I really recommend that you check that 1508 01:47:14.439 --> 01:47:17.840 out. Uh. If you're if you're in the market for um, you 1509 01:47:17.880 --> 01:47:21.439 know, getting a quality soil like that, I suggest you do get McCall 1510 01:47:21.439 --> 01:47:25.039 because they have they have a wide blend. I could sit here all day 1511 01:47:25.119 --> 01:47:28.800 just talking about all the different heirloom soil products. Pretty pretty cool stuff. 1512 01:47:29.720 --> 01:47:32.800 Let's see where are we now. We're going to head to Missouri City and 1513 01:47:32.920 --> 01:47:39.279 talk to Don. Hello Don, Hello, Skip. I've got two problems 1514 01:47:39.319 --> 01:47:44.479 I want to ask you about. One is I've got a Japanese you that 1515 01:47:45.800 --> 01:47:49.479 is, uh, the needles are starting to turn a little pale color. 1516 01:47:51.239 --> 01:47:57.720 Uh. And then I've got a problem with the lawn kind of doing the 1517 01:47:57.800 --> 01:48:03.920 same thing. Spots all over the yard a light green to yellow. Okay. 1518 01:48:04.279 --> 01:48:10.880 So either we're looking at some sort of a nutrient issue, which just 1519 01:48:11.039 --> 01:48:14.560 quality fertilizing will get you out of that situation. And if you're if you 1520 01:48:14.600 --> 01:48:16.359 know, if you if you're looking for like in the lawn, I don't 1521 01:48:16.399 --> 01:48:20.800 know, have you fertilized this year yet, Oh yes, all right, 1522 01:48:21.119 --> 01:48:26.000 Well, I would then look to something like a take all root rot and 1523 01:48:26.119 --> 01:48:29.760 that's going to require a proper diagnosis. You may want to send a sample 1524 01:48:29.880 --> 01:48:32.840 up to the plant clinic at A and M and have them look at it 1525 01:48:32.920 --> 01:48:35.800 and determine what that is. They'll tell you how to take the sample and 1526 01:48:35.920 --> 01:48:40.840 everything. But yellowing at this time of year, if the nutrients are already 1527 01:48:40.880 --> 01:48:44.039 there and they're right, I think I would look to look to a disease 1528 01:48:44.079 --> 01:48:48.199 sample because that's probably what you're gonna be looking at. Okay, and the 1529 01:48:48.359 --> 01:48:53.439 Japanese use on the y. It could just be some older it could be 1530 01:48:53.479 --> 01:48:56.439 a little bit of damage from cold, but it could also just be some 1531 01:48:56.560 --> 01:49:01.920 older foliage that's being you know, basically given up by the plant that at 1532 01:49:02.000 --> 01:49:04.800 this point just a few older leaves. I wouldn't sweat it. Okay, 1533 01:49:04.880 --> 01:49:08.760 done, sor right? Thank you very much? All right, thank you 1534 01:49:08.880 --> 01:49:11.880 for the call. You know, if you're looking to fertilizer, lawn Nelson's 1535 01:49:11.920 --> 01:49:17.479 Plant Foods Slow and Easy twenty two two ten powerhouse blend gradual release through the 1536 01:49:17.560 --> 01:49:21.800 season, high quality fertilizer. I can't recommend it. More. And when 1537 01:49:21.800 --> 01:49:26.119 you put a fertilizer like that out, you do it once now and you're 1538 01:49:26.159 --> 01:49:29.159 done until fall. I mean it has that kind of slow release. Now. 1539 01:49:29.239 --> 01:49:32.000 Nelson's has their Color Star line, the Nutral Star Line, Turf Star 1540 01:49:32.119 --> 01:49:36.039 Line, Nature Star Line. But this Turf Star Line for your lawn this 1541 01:49:36.199 --> 01:49:41.399 time of year is it's the product and the time to get that done. 1542 01:49:42.239 --> 01:49:46.199 I'm going to head out now to talk to Linda in tom Ball. Hello, 1543 01:49:46.319 --> 01:49:50.359 Linda, good morning, good morning. Thank you for taking my call. 1544 01:49:50.680 --> 01:49:56.880 Yes, um, I'm it's calling because I have poison ivy growing on 1545 01:49:57.000 --> 01:50:00.840 my tnsit okay, and I want to know what's the best way to kill 1546 01:50:01.039 --> 01:50:05.399 that poison ivy without harming my horses. I also have a couple of horses. 1547 01:50:05.520 --> 01:50:08.720 Well, you're not going to harm the horses because they're not going to 1548 01:50:08.760 --> 01:50:11.279 eat that poison ivy. So whatever you spray on it, it's okay. 1549 01:50:12.079 --> 01:50:17.039 If it's on the fence. You can use a product that contains triclopier t 1550 01:50:17.359 --> 01:50:23.039 R I c l O p y R. There's a number of brands. 1551 01:50:23.159 --> 01:50:26.600 Some of them will say things like poison ivy killer, some of them will 1552 01:50:26.600 --> 01:50:30.880 say brush killer or things like that. But if it's just a bunch of 1553 01:50:30.960 --> 01:50:32.760 foliage, you can spray it on that. Just know that the tricleal pier 1554 01:50:32.880 --> 01:50:36.239 kills broadly plants, so if you have anything desirable around it, don't let 1555 01:50:36.279 --> 01:50:42.119 it drift over on those. If it's a big stump coming either ground, 1556 01:50:42.199 --> 01:50:45.199 a stem, or a trunk of the poison ivy, you can just cut 1557 01:50:45.279 --> 01:50:47.920 it off at the ground and everything above it will die and the leaves will 1558 01:50:47.920 --> 01:50:53.159 eventually rot and fall off. And then you treat that stump with the tricle 1559 01:50:53.279 --> 01:50:57.920 pier directly. You dab it right on the fresh cut stump and it translocates 1560 01:50:57.960 --> 01:51:00.560 down and that way you don't spray the foliage all over the place. You 1561 01:51:00.720 --> 01:51:03.960 just go right to the source and you treat that base of that cut stump. 1562 01:51:05.640 --> 01:51:09.279 What would you suggest to cut it off with it? I mean, 1563 01:51:09.399 --> 01:51:12.920 I'm really highly alarmed. Yeah, well, you you just gotta be careful. 1564 01:51:12.920 --> 01:51:15.039 I mean, somebody has to have some sort of a saw that they 1565 01:51:15.079 --> 01:51:17.439 can reach down there. I wouldn't use a chainsaw that's flinging pieces of bark 1566 01:51:17.479 --> 01:51:20.600 all over your face. Right, Just a little saw you want to cut 1567 01:51:20.640 --> 01:51:25.119 out a section, you know, you just cut it where you can get 1568 01:51:25.159 --> 01:51:28.600 to treat that stump. So any kind of a little tree pruning type saw, 1569 01:51:28.640 --> 01:51:30.039 maybe a pole pruner, you know where you got a little bit longer 1570 01:51:30.119 --> 01:51:33.960 extension and you can get in there and oh yeah, void that. Okay, 1571 01:51:34.079 --> 01:51:39.880 Linda, I appreciate it. Yeah, appreciate today. Good luck with 1572 01:51:39.960 --> 01:51:43.279 that. Thank you, thank you very much. If you haven't been out 1573 01:51:43.279 --> 01:51:45.199 to RCW nurses in a while, you need to check them out. They're 1574 01:51:45.319 --> 01:51:49.720 that nursery at Tomball Parkway and Beltway eight. They're the ones we think about 1575 01:51:49.800 --> 01:51:54.399 when we think of roses because they've got such a huge selection, certainly trees. 1576 01:51:54.439 --> 01:51:58.039 They grow them out in Plantersville on a farm and everything for fifteen to 1577 01:51:58.159 --> 01:52:00.960 two hundred gallons. I'll even come out and play them for you. But 1578 01:52:00.199 --> 01:52:03.479 they're also the place where you pick up the fertilizers. We talk about where 1579 01:52:03.560 --> 01:52:08.000 you would get herbs, perennials, annuals. If they don't have it, 1580 01:52:08.359 --> 01:52:10.800 ask them, I bet they can get it. We call them to get 1581 01:52:10.840 --> 01:52:15.079 it. Got it nursery RCW nurseries dot com. Check them out there RCW 1582 01:52:15.319 --> 01:52:18.840 nurseries dot com. You're going to be impressed with a kind of color and 1583 01:52:18.960 --> 01:52:23.800 the other options that you have. Boy, We've been going here on Guarden 1584 01:52:23.840 --> 01:52:29.399 Line all day and it just seemed like the hour is finishing up pretty fast. 1585 01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:32.520 So I I do want to mention again. I talked about this folks 1586 01:52:32.560 --> 01:52:38.159 earlier, but Star of Hope. Star of Hope here in Houston gives hope 1587 01:52:38.359 --> 01:52:42.479 to people that are homeless that are in need of help. They not only 1588 01:52:42.560 --> 01:52:45.479 send a van out to help people in the streets to try to invite them 1589 01:52:45.520 --> 01:52:47.359 to come in and have a change to their life, but they have a 1590 01:52:47.439 --> 01:52:50.079 place where people can live for up to a year, where they can get 1591 01:52:50.199 --> 01:52:53.840 training, they can learn how to get a job, how to hold a 1592 01:52:53.960 --> 01:52:59.119 job, they can recover from stuff substance abuse, get meals and clothing that 1593 01:52:59.239 --> 01:53:01.439 they need to at a start. And I've I've seen the folks there at 1594 01:53:01.479 --> 01:53:05.600 Star Hope. It's a different look at homelessness than you normally would expect. 1595 01:53:06.079 --> 01:53:11.279 These are people that they want to make a life for themselves. They've run 1596 01:53:11.399 --> 01:53:14.560 into trouble and they're willing to do the work to get back on their feet, 1597 01:53:14.880 --> 01:53:16.880 but they need help doing that. So rather than just a hand out, 1598 01:53:17.319 --> 01:53:20.800 invest your money and Star of Hope go to a Star of Hope mission. 1599 01:53:20.880 --> 01:53:27.439 Dot org and put your compassionate heart to work by providing the money or 1600 01:53:27.520 --> 01:53:30.439 even volunteering to be to be a help at Star of Hope. You can 1601 01:53:30.520 --> 01:53:34.159 do things like helping with the food. You can even just write encouraging notes. 1602 01:53:34.159 --> 01:53:38.960 I mean, there's a lot of opportunities put your compassion to work at 1603 01:53:39.239 --> 01:53:47.640 sh mission dot org. Just that's a passionate, a passionate thing for me 1604 01:53:47.760 --> 01:53:51.359 to talk about because it just means a lot to me. I've been involved 1605 01:53:51.399 --> 01:53:55.800 with it in the past. My wife and I volunteered there. We just 1606 01:53:55.960 --> 01:53:59.800 love the Star Star of Hope Mission, and I would encourage you to get 1607 01:53:59.840 --> 01:54:02.600 an involved with them as well. You've been listening to garden Line. We're 1608 01:54:02.640 --> 01:54:08.920 finishing another hour up, about to put the eight o'clock hour in the books. 1609 01:54:09.000 --> 01:54:13.359 If you want to get on the boards seven one three two one two 1610 01:54:14.000 --> 01:54:18.279 five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, 1611 01:54:18.560 --> 01:54:21.079 Josh, we'll get you in there on the boards. Get your car ready 1612 01:54:21.159 --> 01:54:24.760 to go. You'll be the first we come to. Now, we've got 1613 01:54:24.880 --> 01:54:29.039 one more hour left today in the show, so don't delay. You wait 1614 01:54:29.119 --> 01:54:30.159 till the end, and that's usually when we have a little bit of a 1615 01:54:30.199 --> 01:54:33.279 bottle of that coming in and we're trying to wrap it all up fast, 1616 01:54:33.479 --> 01:54:38.039 so give us a call sooner rather than later. By the way, next 1617 01:54:38.079 --> 01:54:43.079 Saturday eleven thirty to one thirty, I will be at Wahbird's Unlimited out in 1618 01:54:43.199 --> 01:54:45.920 clear Lake. That's the newest store. By the way, you can go 1619 01:54:45.000 --> 01:54:53.520 to WFBU dot com forward slash Houston w BU dot com forward slash Houston. 1620 01:54:53.720 --> 01:54:56.159 You can see all the wahbirds stores there. By the way, I haven't 1621 01:54:56.159 --> 01:54:58.800 added the clear Lake win to the map, yep, but it's coming soon. 1622 01:54:59.279 --> 01:55:00.640 But for those of you in other areas, you can find their store 1623 01:55:00.720 --> 01:55:05.920 there the clear Lake Lawbirds. Next Saturday, eleven thirty to one thirty. 1624 01:55:06.000 --> 01:55:09.560 Bring me your plants in a bag, take a look at them. Maybe 1625 01:55:09.600 --> 01:55:12.279 it's a bug you want to identify it, or a plant you want to 1626 01:55:12.279 --> 01:55:15.000 identify it or diagnosed, or maybe maybe you just want to talk about a 1627 01:55:15.239 --> 01:55:18.680 good way to die to a landscape. We'll take a look at some pictures 1628 01:55:18.720 --> 01:55:24.119 and help you do that. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of 1629 01:55:24.159 --> 01:55:30.800 the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with 1630 01:55:30.079 --> 01:56:00.319 skip rictor just watch him as any well. Good Sunday morning, a good 1631 01:56:00.319 --> 01:56:02.640 sunny morning. Every day is a good day for gardening, and today's no 1632 01:56:02.720 --> 01:56:06.279 exception. I hope this afternoon you get out and enjoy that a little bit. 1633 01:56:06.960 --> 01:56:13.880 If you're looking at your landscape and you know it's just like I go, 1634 01:56:14.159 --> 01:56:15.199 I buy a new plan. I like it, I'll bring it home 1635 01:56:15.279 --> 01:56:19.560 a planet, but just overall it doesn't have the look I want. There's 1636 01:56:19.600 --> 01:56:27.039 something missing. You need to give Peerscapes a call. Peerscapes is the kind 1637 01:56:27.079 --> 01:56:31.840 of company that can design impressive beauty. They can design that look that is 1638 01:56:31.920 --> 01:56:35.560 exactly what you want. I mean, it may be heartscapes that maybe that 1639 01:56:35.720 --> 01:56:39.319 you need to put in a rock border, or maybe there's an issue with 1640 01:56:39.439 --> 01:56:43.159 drainage that you need to address. We certainly have those issues around here. 1641 01:56:43.840 --> 01:56:48.600 They do the whole thing. They have complete custom landscape design and installation practices. 1642 01:56:48.880 --> 01:56:53.960 Now you can call them up to eighty one three seven zero five zero 1643 01:56:54.520 --> 01:56:59.119 six zero and see what Peerscapes can do for you. Also check them out 1644 01:56:59.159 --> 01:57:03.159 online. Go to the web site Piercescapes p E A r C E Scapes 1645 01:57:03.279 --> 01:57:11.239 peerscapes dot com and find out the difference that they can make that landscape that 1646 01:57:11.479 --> 01:57:15.000 you or I and I'm not a designer. We can get our landscapes so 1647 01:57:15.119 --> 01:57:16.720 far, but when you want to just take it to that next level, 1648 01:57:17.319 --> 01:57:24.520 you need a quality company with the training, the expertise, the design abilities 1649 01:57:24.600 --> 01:57:29.840 that Peerscapes has to do just that. We are here to answer your gardening 1650 01:57:29.920 --> 01:57:32.199 questions today. We're in our last hour for this weekend, so if you'd 1651 01:57:32.239 --> 01:57:34.520 like to give us a call now would be a good time. Trust me, 1652 01:57:34.600 --> 01:57:38.680 at the end it often gets a little too busy, so let's move 1653 01:57:38.760 --> 01:57:41.680 that forward a little bit and get your call in when we have a little 1654 01:57:41.680 --> 01:57:46.079 more time to address it. That's seven one three two one two fifty eight 1655 01:57:46.319 --> 01:57:53.720 seventy four seven one three, two one two five eight seven four. I 1656 01:57:53.880 --> 01:57:58.960 was talking about hot weather flowers earlier, and I also wanted to mention hot 1657 01:57:59.039 --> 01:58:02.680 weather of thats when the vegetable season transitions. You know, our cool season 1658 01:58:02.760 --> 01:58:08.039 plants are done. I mean the vegetables they're done. We plant a lot 1659 01:58:08.079 --> 01:58:12.079 of things in the spring that are gonna do great in spring and early summer. 1660 01:58:12.159 --> 01:58:15.439 That would include tomatoes. By the way, this is May is the 1661 01:58:15.560 --> 01:58:19.319 big warm season garden production month here here in the area. That's tomatoes, 1662 01:58:19.359 --> 01:58:24.039 there's some peppers, there's eggplant there. You've got squashing cucumbers and all kinds 1663 01:58:24.079 --> 01:58:26.640 of things like that that do well. Then we get into summer when it 1664 01:58:26.680 --> 01:58:29.640 gets really hot and you need to include a few vegetables for that. That's 1665 01:58:29.680 --> 01:58:33.399 where sweet potatoes come in. That's where southern peas, the black eyed peas, 1666 01:58:33.520 --> 01:58:38.520 the purple hole peas, the crowder and cream and lots of different kinds 1667 01:58:38.560 --> 01:58:42.199 of Southern peas. By the way, if you've eaten black eyed peas out 1668 01:58:42.199 --> 01:58:45.119 of a can, you haven't eaten black eyed peas. Now. I know 1669 01:58:45.239 --> 01:58:48.000 everyone says when you grow it yourself, it tastes better. I agree with 1670 01:58:48.079 --> 01:58:54.640 that, but I can think of very few crops where the difference is so 1671 01:58:55.039 --> 01:59:00.520 dramatic as fresh shielled southern peas versus canned. Now, the frozen kind those 1672 01:59:00.520 --> 01:59:06.159 are okay, that's fresh frozen, But growing yourself, it's unbelievable. Will 1673 01:59:06.800 --> 01:59:09.640 you will really love it. And then we have a lot of good warm 1674 01:59:09.720 --> 01:59:14.560 season greens, malabar greens. There is one called Egyptian spinach. It's actually 1675 01:59:14.560 --> 01:59:17.920 a type of solosa that you can grow here there's molaquia that grows very well 1676 01:59:18.000 --> 01:59:23.039 here, makes a little bush in fact before it freezes back in the winter 1677 01:59:23.239 --> 01:59:26.840 time, and it's an annual, but it does make a bush in the 1678 01:59:26.920 --> 01:59:29.720 garden. So you don't need very many of those. And there's some others 1679 01:59:29.760 --> 01:59:32.720 that we can talk about. But the warm season is no reason not to 1680 01:59:32.840 --> 01:59:36.039 garden. When I say warm, I should say the blazing hot season is 1681 01:59:36.079 --> 01:59:40.279 no reason not to garden. We have a lot of other options. Those 1682 01:59:40.279 --> 01:59:44.159 are just just a few that you might want to think about when you're building 1683 01:59:44.199 --> 01:59:46.600 a garden. By the way, you always build it with quality soil. 1684 01:59:46.800 --> 01:59:50.000 That's the beginning. I mean, I don't care how good of a vegetable 1685 01:59:50.079 --> 01:59:54.199 you put it in an earth flower. If you put it into unprepared soil, 1686 01:59:54.880 --> 01:59:58.199 it's like tying an arm and a half behind your back. I mean, 1687 01:59:58.319 --> 02:00:00.600 it's gonna be very hard to have suc us when you didn't start with 1688 02:00:00.680 --> 02:00:04.520 good soil. And nature's way resources has been making good soil for a very 1689 02:00:04.600 --> 02:00:09.800 long time. They were the originators of rose soil and fungal compost and so 1690 02:00:10.039 --> 02:00:13.640 on. In fact, if you just want to tip, every Friday is 1691 02:00:13.720 --> 02:00:16.680 fungal Friday. Fungal Friday, that's a good name. Ten percent off their 1692 02:00:16.720 --> 02:00:21.079 bag products, twenty percent off their bulk products, and they have thousands of 1693 02:00:21.159 --> 02:00:28.119 yards of fungal composts ready to go to help you enhance your garden and your 1694 02:00:28.399 --> 02:00:30.000 landscapes and every kind of way. By the way, one of the best 1695 02:00:30.079 --> 02:00:32.600 things about Nature's Way Now that I've seen going out there. I mean, 1696 02:00:32.640 --> 02:00:35.880 the soil is absolutely outstanding. But when you're out there, check out their 1697 02:00:35.920 --> 02:00:41.960 plants. We're talking about two acres of nursery garden center. They've got fruit 1698 02:00:42.039 --> 02:00:45.279 trees, native perennials, they even have house plants and seasonal vegetables out there. 1699 02:00:45.600 --> 02:00:50.359 One of the largest varieties of native plants here in the Houston area out 1700 02:00:50.399 --> 02:00:54.920 at Nature's Way. They're up there on North forty five, just south of 1701 02:00:55.000 --> 02:01:00.079 conro about where fourteen eighty eight comes in. But Nature's Way Resources, you 1702 02:01:00.159 --> 02:01:02.199 just kind of check it out and you'll see what I'm talking about. The 1703 02:01:02.279 --> 02:01:08.239 difference in their soils is just dramatic, and it will make your gardens successful 1704 02:01:08.560 --> 02:01:12.640 by starting them correctly with that kind of quality mix. We're gonna go to 1705 02:01:12.680 --> 02:01:16.720 the phones and go out to Humble Now and talk to Lawrence Hello, Lawrence. 1706 02:01:19.680 --> 02:01:24.039 Are you there, Lawrence? Yes, I am. How are you 1707 02:01:24.079 --> 02:01:27.680 going good? I'm good. How are you doing? I'm pretty good? 1708 02:01:28.039 --> 02:01:33.359 Thanks for asking. How can we help today? So I've gut these strange 1709 02:01:34.880 --> 02:01:40.199 bulbous planks me and my neighbors. It looks like lying. When you pull 1710 02:01:40.279 --> 02:01:44.239 it up, it's got like little shoots that shoot up straight from the ground. 1711 02:01:44.960 --> 02:01:48.560 And when you pull them up, it looks like onion, horse gallion 1712 02:01:48.680 --> 02:01:51.720 hanging on the bottom. But it doesn't smell like it. Oh, it 1713 02:01:51.800 --> 02:01:57.039 doesn't smell like it. No one does not, even when you break the 1714 02:01:57.199 --> 02:02:00.560 leaves, and you know, you smell that fresh cut, broken, little 1715 02:02:00.600 --> 02:02:05.680 strappy leaf. So I broke the bulb. I think that'd be the stronger 1716 02:02:05.960 --> 02:02:13.119 which it. Huh, Well, it's either there's wild onion and there's wild 1717 02:02:13.199 --> 02:02:16.399 garlic, and they are quite similar U and they but they both have that 1718 02:02:16.560 --> 02:02:21.600 alium family smell. And so if you're not smelling it, then we're gonna 1719 02:02:21.600 --> 02:02:25.199 have to shift over to something else. And off the top of my head, 1720 02:02:25.319 --> 02:02:30.119 I'm not thinking what that particular thing would be. Now, the control 1721 02:02:30.199 --> 02:02:32.960 of it is going to be similar, but h in a flower bed, 1722 02:02:33.680 --> 02:02:36.439 you know, the products that would kill it will also kill your flowers, 1723 02:02:36.520 --> 02:02:41.680 and so you want to probably probably avoid the spraying, and that leaves you 1724 02:02:41.760 --> 02:02:45.880 with the unhappy task of getting one of those long handled weeding forks where you 1725 02:02:45.960 --> 02:02:48.199 can push it at the ground and you you pull on the leaves but not 1726 02:02:48.399 --> 02:02:51.359 enough to break them, but you know, your fork kind of leverages it 1727 02:02:51.520 --> 02:02:55.760 up out of the ground. You get the bulb and everything that would be 1728 02:02:56.600 --> 02:02:59.800 you know, that would be my suggestion, uh, spray and not being 1729 02:02:59.880 --> 02:03:03.880 a option. Him pulling not being much fun. So sorry, but I 1730 02:03:03.960 --> 02:03:08.600 don't I don't have I don't have great simple silver bullet on this one. 1731 02:03:09.680 --> 02:03:13.880 They come up easy. But I've just didn't know if it was like a 1732 02:03:14.680 --> 02:03:17.960 lily or some kind of flower, or well, if it's a strappy skinny 1733 02:03:18.079 --> 02:03:23.960 leaf, you know, a little little straight skinny leaf coming out in a 1734 02:03:24.079 --> 02:03:26.720 clump out of the ground, there's a whole bunch of them. Uh, 1735 02:03:27.000 --> 02:03:30.000 then that boy, thats or sounds like a wild onion, wild garlic, 1736 02:03:30.079 --> 02:03:32.800 But it's going to be something else that there are some other plants that will 1737 02:03:32.840 --> 02:03:35.520 do that. I'll tell you what. If you want, I'm gonna put 1738 02:03:35.600 --> 02:03:39.800 you on hold. If that's the If that's the last question, you have, 1739 02:03:40.119 --> 02:03:44.000 I'll put you on hold and Josh will pick up the line and get 1740 02:03:44.039 --> 02:03:47.199 you an email. If you can pull one up and lay it on a 1741 02:03:47.359 --> 02:03:51.880 dark surface like a kitchen table or whatever's a dark surface, and take a 1742 02:03:53.119 --> 02:03:57.920 good sharp close up, well focused, very well focused photo, I'll see 1743 02:03:57.960 --> 02:04:00.800 what I can do. All right, okay, all right, thank thanks 1744 02:04:00.840 --> 02:04:04.439 a lot. Okay, so Josh gonna take that one for me. We're 1745 02:04:04.479 --> 02:04:08.560 gonna go to a break now our phone number seven one three two one two 1746 02:04:09.000 --> 02:04:20.199 fifty eight seventy four. I will wait for you, and I will wait. 1747 02:04:20.560 --> 02:04:28.560 I will wait for you. Well, good Sunday morning. We are 1748 02:04:28.640 --> 02:04:31.039 looking forward to visiting with the last folks here as we go through our last 1749 02:04:31.159 --> 02:04:34.760 hour here today. If you'd like to get on the board seven one three 1750 02:04:34.760 --> 02:04:39.760 two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know, if you yellow piece 1751 02:04:39.800 --> 02:04:43.640 of land and you need to take care of it, we're talking about an 1752 02:04:43.640 --> 02:04:47.960 acre, five acres even more, you need to consider a Lansdown Moody cubot 1753 02:04:48.000 --> 02:04:51.479 a tractor now. Lansdown Moody is available. There's number of stores around the 1754 02:04:51.520 --> 02:04:56.079 area. You can go to LM tractor dot com LM tractor dot com. 1755 02:04:56.479 --> 02:05:00.319 But check out their Texas edition Kubota L twenty five one. That's the one 1756 02:05:00.359 --> 02:05:04.760 with hydrostatic transmission. It is a first rate tractor. You can trick it 1757 02:05:04.800 --> 02:05:09.560 out with that front end loader, maybe a box blade so you can smooth 1758 02:05:09.600 --> 02:05:13.479 the soil out and you know, spread some spread soil around, get everything 1759 02:05:13.560 --> 02:05:16.079 like you wanted. A rotary cutter another good addition to it. But but 1760 02:05:16.279 --> 02:05:20.439 here's the thing. You need to hear until June thirtieth. Only until June 1761 02:05:20.520 --> 02:05:27.880 thirtieth, zero down, zero interest for eighty four months. I don't know 1762 02:05:27.920 --> 02:05:31.119 how they do that. Seven years, zero down, zero interest, landsdown 1763 02:05:31.279 --> 02:05:36.720 and Caboda is a good combination, a good package. LM tractor dot com. 1764 02:05:38.079 --> 02:05:42.920 But don't delay. The deal lasts until June thirtieth. I want to 1765 02:05:42.960 --> 02:05:46.159 go now out to Conro and we're gonna talk to Ben. Good morning, 1766 02:05:46.239 --> 02:05:51.840 Ben, Hi, Skip, Hey, I'm out here Premium Sego Palms. 1767 02:05:53.159 --> 02:05:58.520 And it's okay to just yank them loose, right, you mean cut the 1768 02:05:59.079 --> 02:06:01.800 cut the leaf front off where they attached to the n Yes, yes, 1769 02:06:02.159 --> 02:06:04.840 yes, okay. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going to damage 1770 02:06:04.840 --> 02:06:10.560 anything doing that. Well as far as yanking them I've never tried that before. 1771 02:06:10.840 --> 02:06:14.039 I guess they did break off. That is an option. I usually 1772 02:06:14.079 --> 02:06:16.800 to snap them off real close to the trunk, but some of them, 1773 02:06:17.199 --> 02:06:20.159 the dead ones, pull off really easy. Some of the green ones brings 1774 02:06:20.239 --> 02:06:24.760 a little trunk of the meat of the trunk with it, just a little 1775 02:06:24.760 --> 02:06:27.920 bit. Though. Well it's not like a pineapple. Yeah, it's not 1776 02:06:27.960 --> 02:06:30.960 going to kill the sago to do that, I don't know. I generally 1777 02:06:30.039 --> 02:06:33.319 just prune mine off, but you can probably do it either way. I've 1778 02:06:33.399 --> 02:06:38.279 pruned them for in it a trunk. It's not two feet tall on one 1779 02:06:38.359 --> 02:06:41.039 of them or a couple of them, and it looks like a like a 1780 02:06:41.119 --> 02:06:43.840 porky pine or you know, a sticker bird or something. It's, oh, 1781 02:06:44.079 --> 02:06:45.159 I don't know, just look kind of funny. Okay, yeah, 1782 02:06:45.239 --> 02:06:50.720 well it does look way with all those little stubs sticking out. So when 1783 02:06:50.760 --> 02:06:55.119 I get done, what do I do to feed these things? Is sixty 1784 02:06:55.199 --> 02:06:59.680 four good enough? Or yeah, that's that's perfectly good enough, A good 1785 02:07:00.279 --> 02:07:03.000 y you know, any even a long type fertilizer works really well. If 1786 02:07:03.039 --> 02:07:08.119 you have you ever used the nitro FoST products before? Oh yeah, yes, 1787 02:07:09.279 --> 02:07:14.319 all I really owe us around here purposes the micro six two four, 1788 02:07:14.600 --> 02:07:16.840 I would do the green bag six two four. I think that you're going 1789 02:07:16.880 --> 02:07:19.479 to have good success with that. You can throw some of the humans plus 1790 02:07:19.600 --> 02:07:25.600 in if you want, but that will do just fine. That kind of 1791 02:07:25.720 --> 02:07:30.079 ratio for that kind of plant is just ideal. Yeah, okay, great, 1792 02:07:30.319 --> 02:07:31.800 all right, that's all I got. Thank you, you bet, 1793 02:07:32.000 --> 02:07:34.800 thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Uh. You know, 1794 02:07:34.840 --> 02:07:38.920 we were talking about garden centers already every time, about some of the great 1795 02:07:38.960 --> 02:07:43.000 garden center around here. In the importance of an independent center if you're down 1796 02:07:43.079 --> 02:07:46.199 in the Southwest region. In fact, these folks Enchanted Forest in Chended Gardens. 1797 02:07:46.359 --> 02:07:51.159 They have people driving from Austin and other places to come there because it's 1798 02:07:51.279 --> 02:07:56.359 that kind of destination. Gardens that are both of them are enchanted forest. 1799 02:07:56.680 --> 02:08:00.359 That's the one. If you're done in Richmond kind of in the Sugarland direction 1800 02:08:00.600 --> 02:08:05.159 just south of fifty nine, and if you are in Richmond area going north 1801 02:08:05.239 --> 02:08:09.640 toward Katie direction, that would be Enchanted Gardens. So each of those nurseries 1802 02:08:09.680 --> 02:08:13.039 has their own Facebook and Instagram pages, so just go on and find them. 1803 02:08:13.079 --> 02:08:16.239 In Chanted Forest and Chanted Gardens, you will be staying up to date 1804 02:08:16.319 --> 02:08:20.159 with what the latest deals are, what's going on there. Maybe they got 1805 02:08:20.199 --> 02:08:22.760 a food truck coming out or something like that. That's the way to find 1806 02:08:22.800 --> 02:08:26.920 out. But this is one of the places where you go and I don't 1807 02:08:26.960 --> 02:08:31.119 care where you're driving from. You will enjoy it and it'll be time well 1808 02:08:31.239 --> 02:08:33.840 spent. In Chanted Forest and in Channing Garden, both of them. I 1809 02:08:33.039 --> 02:08:37.279 love to go there. Let's head out to Full Shure and we're going to 1810 02:08:37.359 --> 02:08:39.840 talk to chat. Well, hello, chat, how are things out in 1811 02:08:39.880 --> 02:08:46.319 Full Shure? They're good, skip, thank you. So last year we 1812 02:08:46.479 --> 02:08:50.800 planted some southern leaf wax myrtles, all right, and now they're and the 1813 02:08:50.920 --> 02:08:54.079 goal is to have a privacy headge kind of hide our wood fence, and 1814 02:08:54.319 --> 02:09:01.720 they're about six seven feet tall now and they're basically growing like wild child and 1815 02:09:01.600 --> 02:09:07.119 thank you. And I'm just trying to figure out what's the strategy to prune 1816 02:09:07.199 --> 02:09:11.279 them, how to you know, how do you do that appropriately so that 1817 02:09:11.359 --> 02:09:13.640 they're you're sort of stan or you know, kind of flat on the runt 1818 02:09:13.840 --> 02:09:16.640 and you know, but they we're wanting to height too. Yeah, I 1819 02:09:16.720 --> 02:09:20.239 get it, I get it, all right. So here here's the deal. 1820 02:09:20.359 --> 02:09:22.479 Wax myrtle is a little bit of a loose, open growing shrub. 1821 02:09:22.640 --> 02:09:28.239 That's its natural style. But every time you share a plant, what was 1822 02:09:28.319 --> 02:09:33.199 one shoot, now you get a bud breaks that create several shoots to fill 1823 02:09:33.279 --> 02:09:35.560 in for it. Okay, you cut off the end of a shoot, 1824 02:09:35.800 --> 02:09:41.000 two or three shoots or true or three shoots replace it, And every time 1825 02:09:41.079 --> 02:09:43.520 you do that, the density gets more and more. You just want to 1826 02:09:43.600 --> 02:09:50.760 watch chap that you keep the top a little narrower than the base because wherever 1827 02:09:50.880 --> 02:09:54.760 you don't get sunlight, you will not have foliage on any shrub, including 1828 02:09:54.800 --> 02:09:58.279 an evergreen like southern wax myrtle. So if the plant will always try to 1829 02:09:58.319 --> 02:10:01.960 grow top heavy, it'll become more of like an umbrella that's spreading out at 1830 02:10:03.000 --> 02:10:07.279 the top and then everything underneath that you lose the foliage. So you make 1831 02:10:07.399 --> 02:10:11.479 that plan have a narrower top with your sharing. The more often you share, 1832 02:10:11.640 --> 02:10:16.520 the denser you're gonna have in terms of a wall of foliage. So 1833 02:10:16.920 --> 02:10:18.760 that's the key to it, and that in fertilizing it. Put a good 1834 02:10:18.840 --> 02:10:22.760 quality fertilizer on there. And uh, you know what kind of what do 1835 02:10:22.840 --> 02:10:26.079 you have a favorite brand or something you'd like to use on the fertilizer. 1836 02:10:28.479 --> 02:10:31.520 Um, yeah, nro flies, I think is what we typically use. 1837 02:10:31.600 --> 02:10:37.000 We we we shop and we got these actually from enchanted gardens. Okay, 1838 02:10:37.000 --> 02:10:41.199 that's where we where we do are are shopping. Good place to shop. 1839 02:10:41.479 --> 02:10:43.039 Well, I would, I would do. And this is gonna sound weird, 1840 02:10:43.119 --> 02:10:46.279 but you know Nitrofis has that nineteen four ten which is for lawns. 1841 02:10:46.800 --> 02:10:50.039 But it would be great because you're growing foliage. Just like on a lawn, 1842 02:10:50.079 --> 02:10:54.680 you're growing foliage. On a wax murder, you're growing foliage. Now 1843 02:10:54.760 --> 02:10:56.960 you could use one of their fertilizers for trees and shrubs, that's just fine. 1844 02:10:58.439 --> 02:11:01.079 But if you're already is that a grand kneeler like you would just kind 1845 02:11:01.119 --> 02:11:03.439 of throw under the plan. Yeah, no, yeah, it's a grand 1846 02:11:03.479 --> 02:11:05.760 yard. It's it's you know, you put it in your fertilizer spreader for 1847 02:11:05.800 --> 02:11:07.359 the lawn. And I'm not saying you have to have that one. I 1848 02:11:07.439 --> 02:11:09.880 mean that you get one of the ones that have for trees and shrubs, 1849 02:11:09.920 --> 02:11:13.560 that's just fine too. But if you already got that for your lawn, 1850 02:11:13.680 --> 02:11:18.239 I would use it on that wax myrtle for every inch of trunk diameter on 1851 02:11:18.359 --> 02:11:20.479 your wax myrtle. So just use your thumb as a measuring guide for every 1852 02:11:20.560 --> 02:11:24.600 about every thumb width across the thing. Give it a cup or two a 1853 02:11:24.680 --> 02:11:30.199 fertilizer, spread evenly throughout a big circular area and watered in really well. 1854 02:11:30.640 --> 02:11:35.920 All right, okay, okay, And then how far out from the trunk 1855 02:11:35.039 --> 02:11:39.119 should I be trimming? I mean, is there? I don't want to 1856 02:11:39.600 --> 02:11:41.239 understand what you said. You cut it and then you get more shoots coming 1857 02:11:41.279 --> 02:11:45.840 off. But yeah, you know sort of a rule eight inches out or 1858 02:11:45.960 --> 02:11:48.159 six inches well no, I mean, you know those shrubs, A lot 1859 02:11:48.199 --> 02:11:54.000 of people keep them probably five feet six feet wide, but you can make 1860 02:11:54.039 --> 02:11:56.199 them four feet. You can make them two feet. If you've got a 1861 02:11:56.239 --> 02:11:58.760 little bit of area and you need a two foot wall of foliage, you 1862 02:11:58.800 --> 02:12:01.840 can and make the shrub do that. But the tighter you get it, 1863 02:12:03.159 --> 02:12:07.359 the more often you have to share it, because it's constantly coming right back 1864 02:12:07.399 --> 02:12:11.800 into that little walkway space or whatever. So I would start my sharing chet 1865 02:12:11.520 --> 02:12:16.520 a little narrower than you're eventually gonna want it to be, because think about 1866 02:12:16.520 --> 02:12:18.800 it, you share back. Let's say you shared it a foot away from 1867 02:12:18.840 --> 02:12:20.520 the trunk and then there's no reason to do it there. But let's see 1868 02:12:20.520 --> 02:12:24.079 you did that, well, then it's going to grow out. Now it's 1869 02:12:24.119 --> 02:12:26.680 sticking six inches out and you share it back again. But you're not sharing 1870 02:12:26.720 --> 02:12:30.359 it right back to one foot. You're sharing it an inch or two out 1871 02:12:30.439 --> 02:12:33.720 from that right or six inches out from that, and so it's going to 1872 02:12:33.760 --> 02:12:37.199 get a little wider on you. So start narrower. Okay, okay, 1873 02:12:37.479 --> 02:12:41.960 is that a good table? That's it? Alrighty so much, thank you, 1874 02:12:41.880 --> 02:12:46.479 thank you, I appreciate, appreciate your call our phone number seven one 1875 02:12:46.640 --> 02:12:50.600 three two one two fifty eight seventy four. You know that Nitrofos nineteen four 1876 02:12:50.720 --> 02:12:54.279 ten. It's a good it's a good all purpose really, but it's it's 1877 02:12:54.319 --> 02:12:56.840 made for the lawns for a gradual slow release, which is what we need 1878 02:12:56.920 --> 02:13:00.920 in the summer. You put it down now twelve to sixteen weeks. A 1879 02:13:01.000 --> 02:13:03.039 good, good, even growth is going to come out of that product, 1880 02:13:03.119 --> 02:13:07.399 and that's what we need. We don't want encourage these we don't want to 1881 02:13:07.479 --> 02:13:11.039 encourage insects, We don't want to encourage having a mo mo mode to keep 1882 02:13:11.159 --> 02:13:15.159 up with it. So put it out at the right rate, it'll feed 1883 02:13:15.239 --> 02:13:18.760 gradually over time. And by the way, when you do a fertilization, 1884 02:13:18.279 --> 02:13:24.680 you need to also consider adding azamite to your lawn. And azamite don't think 1885 02:13:24.720 --> 02:13:28.800 of it like a fertilizer. It doesn't replace the three numbers on the bag 1886 02:13:28.960 --> 02:13:33.800 that your typical fertilizer has. What azamite is is it's all the other elements 1887 02:13:33.000 --> 02:13:37.319 that you need as well, all the micros. You know, there's tons 1888 02:13:37.359 --> 02:13:41.640 of trace elements, many of which are essential for plant growth, and we 1889 02:13:41.760 --> 02:13:43.920 need to have a good supply. The soil is a bank account. If 1890 02:13:43.960 --> 02:13:48.239 your bank account is few and far between, when it comes to finding a 1891 02:13:48.399 --> 02:13:54.319 manganese molecule or an iron molecule or a zinc molecule, that turf is not 1892 02:13:54.399 --> 02:13:56.000 going to do as well. You need to have plenty of it there. 1893 02:13:56.039 --> 02:14:01.560 And that's why we follow our fertilization with an application of ASMIT. You can 1894 02:14:01.600 --> 02:14:05.119 go to ASMIT Texas dot com and find out more about it. Basically a 1895 02:14:05.279 --> 02:14:09.760 mind mineral that is excellent and I use it my vegetable gardens because I want 1896 02:14:09.840 --> 02:14:15.159 my vegetables to be as packed with nutrients. It go beyond what the plant 1897 02:14:15.279 --> 02:14:18.520 needs, including the nutrients my body needs, and it just makes for healthier 1898 02:14:18.600 --> 02:14:24.880 produce to have that kind of an application. We're gonna head out now to 1899 02:14:24.159 --> 02:14:31.039 Spring and talk to Greg Well. Good morning, Greg, good morning. 1900 02:14:31.760 --> 02:14:39.159 I have a question about a lab Lally pine. It's about sixty five or 1901 02:14:39.239 --> 02:14:43.760 seventy years old and it looks like the roots are coming to the surface. 1902 02:14:46.039 --> 02:14:54.760 Okay, so you or can you what do? What? Please? What 1903 02:14:56.079 --> 02:15:01.800 are you asking me? Can you do? The roots seem to be coming 1904 02:15:01.880 --> 02:15:09.199 to the surface. Okay? Can I cover those with soil? You can? 1905 02:15:09.680 --> 02:15:13.239 You can bring the line up to the top of the roots. There's 1906 02:15:13.279 --> 02:15:16.279 no problem with just adding a little soil. That's primarily around the base that 1907 02:15:16.399 --> 02:15:18.319 you get the most surface roots, and that would be just fine. You 1908 02:15:18.399 --> 02:15:22.680 could do a mulch. The pine would love to have you do a mulch 1909 02:15:22.840 --> 02:15:24.680 bed around it. That would be even better. It's gonna be hard to 1910 02:15:24.680 --> 02:15:28.359 get grass to grow around there anyway, but either way it would be fine. 1911 02:15:28.439 --> 02:15:33.119 Greg, Okay, understood more to hurt thee now, now, if 1912 02:15:33.159 --> 02:15:37.399 you put four inches of soil over the whole root system, yes, that's 1913 02:15:37.399 --> 02:15:39.039 a problem. But just putting a little soil around the base to bring it 1914 02:15:39.159 --> 02:15:43.000 up to the root level. That's fine. Okay. These are out from 1915 02:15:43.039 --> 02:15:48.560 the base about four feet Okay, well it still would be okay, it 1916 02:15:48.600 --> 02:15:52.279 would still be okay. If it were mine, I would seriously consider a 1917 02:15:52.319 --> 02:15:54.199 big mulch bed there because I don't think you're going to get much to grow 1918 02:15:54.279 --> 02:15:58.119 there anyway. But that's your that's your call. We can go either way 1919 02:15:58.199 --> 02:16:03.560 on that. All right, Okay, thank you sir, Yeah, Greg, 1920 02:16:03.640 --> 02:16:07.239 thanks for the question. I appreciate that We're gonna take a little break 1921 02:16:07.279 --> 02:16:11.079 here, but our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight 1922 02:16:11.319 --> 02:16:13.000 seven four. Give Josh a call. Let's get you on the board. 1923 02:16:13.560 --> 02:16:16.920 We're heading into our last thirty minutes of the weekend, so this is the 1924 02:16:18.000 --> 02:16:20.439 time to talk if we need to talk. And speaking of talking, we're 1925 02:16:20.439 --> 02:16:26.600 gonna hear Nikki Talk now. Oh my goodness, NICKI talk with Nikki Talk. 1926 02:16:26.720 --> 02:16:31.359 That's like a podcast. It's yes, it's the talk show. We 1927 02:16:31.560 --> 02:16:58.280 just gather around and discuss current events. I'll jump into it. That's a 1928 02:16:58.360 --> 02:17:03.719 fun song. Can anybody tell me who sings that? Who is that? 1929 02:17:03.319 --> 02:17:07.159 Well, I'll give you a hint. The answer is it fits the store. 1930 02:17:07.440 --> 02:17:13.600 This show by the Lemonheads. So you've body been listening to garden Line 1931 02:17:13.639 --> 02:17:16.479 for a while. That's pretty appropriate song, isn't it a song by the 1932 02:17:16.600 --> 02:17:20.680 Lemonheads for garden Line? And plus it's fun enough beat. Hey, if 1933 02:17:20.760 --> 02:17:24.559 you have any interest in bees whatsoever you need you need to check out the 1934 02:17:24.600 --> 02:17:26.639 B Supply out in Dayton. Now here's what I'm talking about. If you 1935 02:17:26.719 --> 02:17:30.719 would like to have a hive, and you should there. If you have 1936 02:17:30.799 --> 02:17:35.520 a garden, a productive garden, a hive of bees is gonna you're gonna 1937 02:17:35.520 --> 02:17:39.239 actually see an increase in production because more seats get pollinated, the fruits develop 1938 02:17:39.319 --> 02:17:41.440 better. It's just a better way to go. If you're inserted in keeping 1939 02:17:41.520 --> 02:17:46.760 bees. They have classes twice a month and they walk you through everything. 1940 02:17:46.879 --> 02:17:50.239 I mean, your hands on you learn. It's a six hour class with 1941 02:17:50.559 --> 02:17:52.920 twice a month out in Dayton. Go to the B Supply dot com. 1942 02:17:54.319 --> 02:17:56.399 Now my fascination in bees. I used to keep bees a current time. 1943 02:17:56.440 --> 02:18:01.440 I'm not, but my fascination is just learning about bees. You know, 1944 02:18:01.600 --> 02:18:05.120 how bees affect the environment, the different bees in the hive, the jobs 1945 02:18:05.200 --> 02:18:09.440 they do, just how everything transpires inside the hive. You can go do 1946 02:18:09.520 --> 02:18:11.719 a free honey tour out there. Now, this is a great exposure to 1947 02:18:11.799 --> 02:18:16.319 bees. The honey tours that they provide I said free. I believe there's 1948 02:18:16.319 --> 02:18:20.079 a small charge for them. I may be wrong about that, but either 1949 02:18:20.120 --> 02:18:24.479 way, it's well worth it. We're talking about getting to taste like six 1950 02:18:24.680 --> 02:18:28.520 different kinds of honey. What does clover honey taste like? How about BlackBerry 1951 02:18:28.559 --> 02:18:31.680 honey? What does that taste like? You'll find out if you've got a 1952 02:18:31.760 --> 02:18:35.200 homeschool group, a church group, pacific organization, or a garden club, 1953 02:18:35.280 --> 02:18:39.319 or you just want to help your kids learn about that wonderful science of the 1954 02:18:39.440 --> 02:18:43.840 world of bees. The Bee Supply dot Com check them out. While you're 1955 02:18:43.879 --> 02:18:48.280 there, you'll get to see the second largest indoor bee observation hive in the 1956 02:18:48.360 --> 02:18:54.200 world. It's just like plexiglass giant above the ground room where bees are building 1957 02:18:54.319 --> 02:18:58.879 comb and coming in from outside. It is amazing. You just need to 1958 02:18:58.920 --> 02:19:03.600 go check it out to be supplied. We're gonna take a phone call now 1959 02:19:03.760 --> 02:19:07.040 and I'm gonna head out all the way to New Caney and we're gonna talk 1960 02:19:07.079 --> 02:19:13.680 to rust Stee. How are you doing, Rusty? Hey, Rusty you 1961 02:19:13.799 --> 02:19:18.799 there? Yes, I couldn't hear better with my radio. No I know 1962 02:19:18.920 --> 02:19:22.159 we'll go ahead and turn it down and you and I'll just talk on the 1963 02:19:22.200 --> 02:19:24.760 phone. Here. What can we do for you today? I wanted to 1964 02:19:24.920 --> 02:19:31.559 just tell you that you are such a wonderful garden line. You have so 1965 02:19:31.680 --> 02:19:37.959 much information, your kind, your patient, You give people the right to 1966 02:19:37.120 --> 02:19:41.600 do whatever they want. And I just want to give you a double a 1967 02:19:41.799 --> 02:19:43.840 plus. And I've been wanting to tell you that for a long time. 1968 02:19:43.879 --> 02:19:50.399 I haven't called in lately, but anyway, I was wondering, I appreciate 1969 02:19:50.520 --> 02:19:56.520 that. Is it okay? Just soak them? Is it better? What 1970 02:19:56.760 --> 02:20:01.520 results? I want? Good results? So do I soak them? Is 1971 02:20:01.559 --> 02:20:03.399 this you're talking about like southern peas, like black eyed peas, purple haul 1972 02:20:03.440 --> 02:20:07.959 peas, those kind right? Yeah, okay, you don't have to just 1973 02:20:09.239 --> 02:20:13.920 plant them into ground now when we go into warm hot weather are now we 1974 02:20:15.040 --> 02:20:18.399 just had rain here, so this isn't a situation right now. But I'm 1975 02:20:18.399 --> 02:20:20.479 going to answer your question a little bigger than you ask it, and that 1976 02:20:20.680 --> 02:20:24.360 is when we get into hot weather and the soil gets a little dry. 1977 02:20:24.920 --> 02:20:28.040 Before you plant those summer crops like peas, you want to wet the soil 1978 02:20:28.360 --> 02:20:31.440 thoroughly. Some people make a little trench, just a little furrow for the 1979 02:20:31.600 --> 02:20:37.079 seed, and they water it well and soak it deeply and get that water 1980 02:20:37.239 --> 02:20:41.120 down six eight inches or more into the ground. And then a day or 1981 02:20:41.120 --> 02:20:43.840 two later you just come in and you plant your peas. But when that 1982 02:20:45.159 --> 02:20:48.559 seed germinates and puts a root down, it puts a root down into moist 1983 02:20:48.600 --> 02:20:52.799 soil, because if it doesn't stay moist, the seedling dies. And that 1984 02:20:54.000 --> 02:20:58.520 preplant watering is the most important one because once you've planted, it's hard to 1985 02:20:58.639 --> 02:21:05.040 get a good soaking with without washing your seeds up or something. So yeah, 1986 02:21:05.200 --> 02:21:07.319 do that now. Now it's rained, so you probably don't need to 1987 02:21:07.360 --> 02:21:11.399 worry about it. But in general, just always remember our summer crops that 1988 02:21:11.520 --> 02:21:15.600 preplant watering is very important. But yes, put them right in the moist 1989 02:21:15.639 --> 02:21:18.399 soil, cover them up, give them a little top watering and you're good 1990 02:21:18.479 --> 02:21:22.959 to go. Okay, Is that also good for like a big bean? 1991 02:21:24.600 --> 02:21:28.079 You know? I have someone brought back from Africa. They're very big large. 1992 02:21:28.760 --> 02:21:35.879 Yes, any beans you plant, the instructions I just gave you applied 1993 02:21:35.920 --> 02:21:39.040 to them as well. Okay, right, well, God bless you well, 1994 02:21:39.120 --> 02:21:45.440 thank you wonderful show, and I am thoroughly enjoy listening to well, 1995 02:21:45.559 --> 02:21:48.719 Rusty, you're making me uncomfortable. Thank you very much for the kind words. 1996 02:21:48.959 --> 02:21:50.120 By the way, I'm not kinder Rusty, and I didn't give her 1997 02:21:50.159 --> 02:21:54.639 twenty dollars. You have a good rest to your Sunday, Rusty. Thank 1998 02:21:54.719 --> 02:21:58.719 you very much. You know, if you're if you're planting a woody ornamental, 1999 02:21:58.399 --> 02:22:01.719 you need to just think of it this way. If I buy a 2000 02:22:01.799 --> 02:22:03.680 tree or shrub, I need a tree hugger sprinkler. Maybe you already have 2001 02:22:03.799 --> 02:22:07.440 one, maybe you need to get one. There's a seven inch diameter, 2002 02:22:07.559 --> 02:22:11.440 eleven inch, fifteen inch. But you go to TreeHugger sprinkler dot com. 2003 02:22:11.559 --> 02:22:13.799 You can find the retailers close to you. But I can tell you this, 2004 02:22:13.680 --> 02:22:16.319 everywhere I look at our garden line sponsors, you know, the Ace 2005 02:22:16.399 --> 02:22:20.920 Hardware's, the garden centers, the feed stores, they all got them tree 2006 02:22:20.000 --> 02:22:24.280 hugger sprinklers. You're not that expensive. And you're investing in a woody ornamental, 2007 02:22:24.760 --> 02:22:28.559 and you can set it to come on and just water that small area 2008 02:22:28.799 --> 02:22:33.399 at and just beyond the cylinder of roots you put in the ground so you 2009 02:22:33.479 --> 02:22:35.440 can keep them moist. Because in the nursery they've been watering them once or 2010 02:22:35.479 --> 02:22:39.680 twice a day to keep them going. And so this way you control that 2011 02:22:41.079 --> 02:22:43.000 as a tree grows, you can turn it on more. You can water 2012 02:22:43.120 --> 02:22:48.319 a wider and a wider area to get young trees or trees that are year 2013 02:22:48.360 --> 02:22:52.280 or two old and through the summer droughts. Tree hugger sprinkler is a very 2014 02:22:52.520 --> 02:22:56.440 good investment. And I wouldn't plan a woody ornamental without planning without getting one. 2015 02:22:56.959 --> 02:23:01.360 It just makes sense. You know, when we're when taking care of 2016 02:23:01.479 --> 02:23:05.200 our plants and we're being proactive, we're thinking about things like what I just 2017 02:23:05.319 --> 02:23:07.520 talked about. You know, a new plant needs to be needs to be 2018 02:23:07.639 --> 02:23:11.840 taken care of. You know, I've talked to people who put a tree 2019 02:23:13.000 --> 02:23:16.719 into the soil the soil was moist, and they felt like, well, 2020 02:23:16.760 --> 02:23:18.959 the soil is moist, the tree's okay. No, the whole root system 2021 02:23:20.000 --> 02:23:24.760 of that tree is still in that cylinder and it pumps that dry in less 2022 02:23:24.799 --> 02:23:28.719 than a day in hot weather. Okay, So yes, you're going to 2023 02:23:28.799 --> 02:23:33.079 get some soil wicking in slowly from the sides, but early on you got 2024 02:23:33.200 --> 02:23:35.280 to water that cylinder and the soil around it. You don't want to keep 2025 02:23:35.319 --> 02:23:39.719 it soggy, but you do want to keep it moist, and normally a 2026 02:23:39.840 --> 02:23:43.040 tree established is going to have roots way out in all directions. You can 2027 02:23:43.120 --> 02:23:46.440 just crank up your tree hugger and water a large area, but early on 2028 02:23:46.840 --> 02:23:52.000 you got to take care of that initial cylinder because just imagine if you pulled 2029 02:23:52.040 --> 02:23:54.959 it out of the pot and just set it on the driveway, how long 2030 02:23:54.959 --> 02:23:58.920 does that take to dry out? I mean, not anytime at all. 2031 02:23:58.399 --> 02:24:03.680 So we need to take care of our trees that way. We're coming in 2032 02:24:03.719 --> 02:24:05.920 the end, toward the end of our show here. You know, we're 2033 02:24:07.040 --> 02:24:11.600 here every Saturday and Sunday from six to ten to answer your gardening questions and 2034 02:24:11.760 --> 02:24:16.920 really enjoy doing that. I want to remind you that this coming Saturday, 2035 02:24:16.159 --> 02:24:20.680 from eleven thirty to one thirty, I will be at the wild Birds Unlimited 2036 02:24:20.799 --> 02:24:24.159 out at clear Lake. This is our newest store. Now you can go 2037 02:24:24.239 --> 02:24:30.840 to WBU dot com, slash Forward, slash Houston and find the wild Birds 2038 02:24:30.959 --> 02:24:35.440 Unlimited stores near you. This clear Lake store is a new one and it's 2039 02:24:35.479 --> 02:24:37.680 a pretty cool and you need to get out there and check it out. 2040 02:24:37.719 --> 02:24:39.639 I'll be there. Hey, let's talk about plants. Bring me things to 2041 02:24:39.719 --> 02:24:45.440 identify, bring me things to diagnose, Bring me pictures on the phone of 2042 02:24:45.559 --> 02:24:50.200 your landscape and questions you might have. Always try to get a picture from 2043 02:24:50.200 --> 02:24:52.920 a distance, a picture from really up close, so we can see what 2044 02:24:54.159 --> 02:24:56.920 both of those look like. I'd get a good, crisp, clear, 2045 02:24:58.120 --> 02:25:01.840 focused picture. I can tell a whole lot of things, and so I 2046 02:25:01.920 --> 02:25:03.760 would encourage you to do. I'd love to meet folks that are listening to 2047 02:25:03.879 --> 02:25:07.920 the show. You need to see the wild Birds Unlimited stores. If you 2048 02:25:07.920 --> 02:25:11.239 haven't been in one, it is just bird, one bird, wonderland. 2049 02:25:11.319 --> 02:25:16.159 I mean every kind of thing. I don't care what your interests are. 2050 02:25:16.319 --> 02:25:20.600 If it's any type of gardening interest, there are going to be a lot 2051 02:25:20.680 --> 02:25:24.000 of things and wild Birds Unlimited that you will want. You'll want for your 2052 02:25:24.079 --> 02:25:26.239 landscape. You'll want them for your patio, to be able to watch and 2053 02:25:26.440 --> 02:25:31.600 enjoy those birds. To get quality expertise, advice, you know, all 2054 02:25:31.639 --> 02:25:35.520 those questions that you might come up with and things you may not even have 2055 02:25:35.680 --> 02:25:39.440 known about that you need to be asking from wild Birds Unlimited. Hey, 2056 02:25:39.440 --> 02:25:41.000 we're gonna take a break right now. We'll be back for our last segment. 2057 02:25:41.120 --> 02:25:46.239 The phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 2058 02:25:46.360 --> 02:26:03.239 Now, well, good morning, it's a good Sunday morning. You're listening 2059 02:26:03.280 --> 02:26:07.760 to garden Line. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty 2060 02:26:07.840 --> 02:26:13.840 eight seventy four. I am going to head out, I think to Galveston. 2061 02:26:13.920 --> 02:26:18.120 We're gonna talk to Kent here. How are you doing, Kent doing 2062 02:26:18.200 --> 02:26:20.040 good? How are you buddy doing good? How can we help today? 2063 02:26:22.600 --> 02:26:26.600 We play at Cilantro like a few months ago, and it's already dying. 2064 02:26:26.200 --> 02:26:33.239 It meant more of a winter type of herb. Yeah, Cilantro, you're 2065 02:26:33.319 --> 02:26:35.959 right, it's a cool season. It can grow in warmer weather, but 2066 02:26:35.000 --> 02:26:39.959 when the day length gets longer, it bolts and it sends up its bloomstalks 2067 02:26:39.959 --> 02:26:43.559 and then it dies. That's kind of behaving like let us does and spinach 2068 02:26:43.719 --> 02:26:48.719 does and some of those others. Now, you know, if it bolts 2069 02:26:48.760 --> 02:26:50.239 on, you let it bold, let it bloom, because those blooms are 2070 02:26:50.319 --> 02:26:56.600 very attractive to small beneficial insects, and so there it's a benefit to leave 2071 02:26:56.600 --> 02:26:58.959 it in for a little extra Plus you can get some seed for replanting next 2072 02:27:00.159 --> 02:27:03.239 year that way. But yeah, once it's yeah, it's hard to just 2073 02:27:03.360 --> 02:27:05.760 keep growing. I don't know. I don't know how you make your charo 2074 02:27:05.840 --> 02:27:13.600 beans after early summer, but I guess you could keep planting it and go 2075 02:27:13.719 --> 02:27:18.360 to great lengths to make it. Think it's still short days. But okay, 2076 02:27:18.399 --> 02:27:20.520 buddy, thank you so much. Hey, thank you, Ken. 2077 02:27:20.600 --> 02:27:26.239 I appreciate I appreciate that call. If you are if you live out in 2078 02:27:26.799 --> 02:27:31.440 the Kingwood area, You've got you're fortunate. You've got a couple of really 2079 02:27:31.479 --> 02:27:37.360 outstanding garden centers in that area. That would be Kingwood Garden Center and Warrens 2080 02:27:37.600 --> 02:27:43.079 Southern Gardens now Kingwood Garden Centers on Stonehallow Drive out in Kingwood. Warren's Southern 2081 02:27:43.159 --> 02:27:46.159 Gardens is on North Park Drive. They each are unique in their own way. 2082 02:27:46.239 --> 02:27:50.399 I love the gift shop that they have there at a Kingwods. Of 2083 02:27:50.399 --> 02:27:52.319 course Warrens as a gift shop too, but they have a wonderful gift shop 2084 02:27:52.360 --> 02:27:56.840 out at the Kingwood Garden Center. Warren's a nice spread, beautiful, lots 2085 02:27:56.879 --> 02:28:01.079 of beautiful plants. I mean it, you got to go there to see 2086 02:28:01.120 --> 02:28:03.959 what I'm talking about. But again, this is this is a destination kind 2087 02:28:05.000 --> 02:28:07.879 of garden centers. These are these are the ones that you may live far 2088 02:28:07.959 --> 02:28:11.319 away or may if your friends come in from out of town and they're visiting 2089 02:28:11.360 --> 02:28:15.040 you. Where if you live in this Houston area and you say, hey, 2090 02:28:15.040 --> 02:28:18.000 I want to I want to take you out and go see garden centers 2091 02:28:18.280 --> 02:28:20.479 and Warrens would be one of those places you need to go stop. Warren's 2092 02:28:20.520 --> 02:28:24.120 Southern Gardens has got all the kinds of plants that you need. They have 2093 02:28:24.440 --> 02:28:28.719 excellent information, very educated staff too, and the same is true with Kingwood 2094 02:28:28.760 --> 02:28:31.920 Garden Centers. They are going to be able to direct you to the plants 2095 02:28:31.959 --> 02:28:33.639 that are going to do well. They're gonna tell how to plant them, 2096 02:28:35.040 --> 02:28:37.360 how to take care of them. They're going to have the products that we 2097 02:28:37.440 --> 02:28:41.879 talk about, like the fertilizers for example, that will sustain those plants. 2098 02:28:41.000 --> 02:28:43.639 And so it's kind of a one stop shop. You can get it done. 2099 02:28:43.920 --> 02:28:48.200 You can follow them, follow Warrens and their Facebook page. They've got 2100 02:28:48.239 --> 02:28:52.200 a really cool Instagram page as well. That's a great way to find out 2101 02:28:52.239 --> 02:28:56.680 what's going on to kind of stay up to date on things. Kingwood Gardens 2102 02:28:56.719 --> 02:29:00.239 that are likewise, they got a Facebook page and you can follow them stay 2103 02:29:00.319 --> 02:29:03.399 up to date. It's really fortunate you're you guys are in Kingwood are rich 2104 02:29:03.520 --> 02:29:09.680 with garden centers to have two great options like that so close by. Both 2105 02:29:09.760 --> 02:29:11.959 of them, by the way, are open seven days a week. So 2106 02:29:11.399 --> 02:29:15.239 you've got something to do this afternoon. If not, hey, I've got 2107 02:29:15.319 --> 02:29:18.319 a great idea for you. Go and get some ideas, inspiration, and 2108 02:29:18.440 --> 02:29:24.079 some plants that take home from one of the Kingwood Garden Center and Warren Garden 2109 02:29:24.159 --> 02:29:28.760 Centers. You know, today went so fast, I feel like we are 2110 02:29:28.799 --> 02:29:35.040 just getting started. But here we are at ten o'clock next Saturday. Mentioned 2111 02:29:35.079 --> 02:29:39.000 this again case anybody missed it. While Birds Unlimited out at clear Lake, 2112 02:29:39.120 --> 02:29:43.440 I will be there from eleven thirty to one thirty. Please put that on 2113 02:29:43.520 --> 02:29:46.120 your calendar. Come out and see me. This is your chance. You 2114 02:29:46.200 --> 02:29:48.319 got those weeds in the yard you want identified know what to do about them? 2115 02:29:48.399 --> 02:29:52.000 Pull them up, put them in his uplock bag, bring them in. 2116 02:29:52.520 --> 02:29:54.719 You've got a plant that's not looking real good. It has some yellow 2117 02:29:54.799 --> 02:29:58.440 leaves. Take me a picture of the plant, the whole plant. Take 2118 02:29:58.479 --> 02:30:01.319 me some pictures up close. Can see which of the leaves are yellow and 2119 02:30:01.399 --> 02:30:05.360 how they're turning yellow. And we'll get to the bottom of it. And 2120 02:30:05.479 --> 02:30:09.520 so you can take care of what it is that you need, you know, 2121 02:30:09.159 --> 02:30:13.760 need to get done on those. It just really helps to have a 2122 02:30:13.840 --> 02:30:18.079 good diagnosis. You know. I sometimes cringe when I hear people say, 2123 02:30:18.159 --> 02:30:20.280 well, I bought a weed control product to kill my weeds, and what 2124 02:30:20.479 --> 02:30:24.440 product. I don't know what product I bought? Well, what weeds you 2125 02:30:24.520 --> 02:30:26.559 have? I don't know what weeds I have. Well, here's how I 2126 02:30:26.639 --> 02:30:30.799 look at that. That is like, it's like going no, It's like 2127 02:30:30.959 --> 02:30:33.959 calling your doctor up on the phone and saying I don't feel so good today, 2128 02:30:35.079 --> 02:30:37.079 and he goes, okay, I'll send in a prescription. Wouldn't you 2129 02:30:37.159 --> 02:30:41.920 go, wait a minute, you don't even know what's wrong with me yet, 2130 02:30:41.120 --> 02:30:46.000 and of course you would. Well, not all products kill all weeds. 2131 02:30:46.399 --> 02:30:50.159 Not all products prevent weeds. Some kill them after they're up, some 2132 02:30:50.440 --> 02:30:54.719 prevent them from coming up. Some work well on grassy weeds, some work 2133 02:30:54.799 --> 02:31:00.600 better on broad leaf weeds. There's the cool season weeds and the warm season 2134 02:31:00.680 --> 02:31:03.319 weeds. There's annual weeds and perennial weeds. One size does not fit all. 2135 02:31:05.079 --> 02:31:07.639 And so if you know the weeds you're dealing with, these are the 2136 02:31:07.719 --> 02:31:11.319 main weeds that are my problem, then we can put together the suggestions for 2137 02:31:11.719 --> 02:31:15.920 here's what to use and when to use to get those under control. And 2138 02:31:16.040 --> 02:31:18.879 you know me, I'm always going to say, first mo water, fertilized, 2139 02:31:18.959 --> 02:31:22.879 get that lawn as dense as you can and choke out the majority of 2140 02:31:22.920 --> 02:31:26.920 the problems, and then we'll deal with the ones that can survive in a 2141 02:31:26.040 --> 02:31:31.319 dense, healthy, otherwise healthy lawn that we can take care of that. 2142 02:31:31.639 --> 02:31:33.559 The same is true with insects. You know, to go buy quote an 2143 02:31:33.639 --> 02:31:39.440 insecticide, Well, what insect are you going after? And do you have 2144 02:31:39.520 --> 02:31:43.239 beneficial insects that are helping with the job or is it just you and the 2145 02:31:43.319 --> 02:31:46.399 insects? Probably not the latter, but it's probably the former. But let's 2146 02:31:46.600 --> 02:31:50.559 prescribe the right one in the right way. We always go with the safest 2147 02:31:50.600 --> 02:31:54.959 thing that we could recommend. We go with the thing with the least unintended 2148 02:31:56.079 --> 02:32:01.200 consequences that we can recommend. So let me give you an example. You 2149 02:32:01.360 --> 02:32:05.000 have a particular pest on a plant, and you also have spider mites on 2150 02:32:05.079 --> 02:32:07.399 the plant, and so you go get seven dust. Seven dust, something 2151 02:32:07.440 --> 02:32:11.040 I've used my whole life. I mean, I grew up with seven dust. 2152 02:32:11.120 --> 02:32:15.520 My family use seven does well through time and research. You know what 2153 02:32:15.600 --> 02:32:20.520 we've learned when you put seven dust on spider mites, the way the plant 2154 02:32:20.680 --> 02:32:26.959 changes makes it more nutritious for the spider mites, and the spider mites reproduction 2155 02:32:26.040 --> 02:32:31.079 and development is actually enhanced. Because seven dust is not a spider mite control. 2156 02:32:31.159 --> 02:32:35.520 It kills a lot of different insects, including insects that eat spider mites. 2157 02:32:37.440 --> 02:32:39.920 So it is not wise to use seven dust on a plant when you 2158 02:32:41.000 --> 02:32:46.719 have a spider mite problem because it's just going to exacerbate that problem. And 2159 02:32:46.959 --> 02:32:50.600 we keep learning more and more about products like that. Now that's not to 2160 02:32:50.680 --> 02:32:54.040 say there's never a use for seven there. It does many things well. 2161 02:32:54.639 --> 02:33:00.360 But as time goes on and as technology advances, we're able better or to 2162 02:33:00.440 --> 02:33:05.680 have more options, including organic options for controlling pests and diseases. And so 2163 02:33:05.840 --> 02:33:09.319 that's why I know, you know on the radio you call in, it's 2164 02:33:09.360 --> 02:33:11.319 like, okay, tell me what it is the bug. No, don't 2165 02:33:11.319 --> 02:33:13.079 even tell me what the bug is, just tell me how to kill it. 2166 02:33:13.200 --> 02:33:16.280 Well, we can do that, but I'm going to give you an 2167 02:33:16.280 --> 02:33:20.000 answer based on thinking like I just described, and you don't have to listen 2168 02:33:20.040 --> 02:33:22.079 to me. Go through all that. I won't bore you with that. 2169 02:33:22.680 --> 02:33:28.639 But that's why proper identification and proper diagnosis is so important. What is the 2170 02:33:28.760 --> 02:33:31.000 plant, what is the past? How long has it been there? What 2171 02:33:31.079 --> 02:33:33.719 else is going on? We want to give you that kind of help. 2172 02:33:33.719 --> 02:33:37.520 And that's why I love these individual you know appearances like I'll be at Wallbird's 2173 02:33:37.600 --> 02:33:41.920 next Saturday eleven thirty to one thirty because I get to visit with you eye 2174 02:33:41.959 --> 02:33:45.319 to eye. We need to go back and forth. We have more time. 2175 02:33:45.399 --> 02:33:46.479 I can look at your pictures, I can look at your plants, 2176 02:33:46.959 --> 02:33:50.479 and we can guide you to the right things. And plus when you're when 2177 02:33:50.520 --> 02:33:54.079 you're in Wallbirds, you you probably will I'll have to call you to come 2178 02:33:54.120 --> 02:33:58.280 over my table because your eyes will have spirals in them as you see all 2179 02:33:58.319 --> 02:34:01.399 the cool products that they have. There's anyway come over here and see me 2180 02:34:01.479 --> 02:34:05.680 too, not just the stuff now. Seriously, though, they do have 2181 02:34:05.719 --> 02:34:07.760 a great supply. But I hope you can make it out next Saturday. 2182 02:34:09.799 --> 02:34:13.639 In the meantime, I hope you have a really really good week. Don't 2183 02:34:13.680 --> 02:34:16.000 forget this is a week to get that lawn fertilizing done. If you haven't 2184 02:34:16.040 --> 02:34:18.959 done it, already get that down. I believe we may have rain a 2185 02:34:20.000 --> 02:34:22.360 little bit later in the week that'll help water it in. If you don't 2186 02:34:22.360 --> 02:34:24.000 know how much it's going to rain, you just watered in with irrigation, 2187 02:34:24.559 --> 02:34:28.000 because too much rain can wash away which you just put down, or at 2188 02:34:28.079 --> 02:34:33.040 least a large part of it. But about a half interrigation, we'll do 2189 02:34:33.159 --> 02:34:35.559 it just fine. Remember to keep the lawn more sharp for a greener, 2190 02:34:35.760 --> 02:34:41.719 healthier lawn. Less wear and tear on your lawn more. I don't say 2191 02:34:41.879 --> 02:34:45.040 think you need to water just now, because we're not in that season quite 2192 02:34:45.159 --> 02:34:48.079 yet with all the rain we've been getting, but we hope you have success. 2193 02:34:48.200 --> 02:34:50.719 If there is bear soil in your vegetable garden, your herb beeds, 2194 02:34:50.760 --> 02:34:56.440 your flower beds cover up the bear soil. Nature plants of weed. Whenever 2195 02:34:56.639 --> 02:35:03.079 sunlight hits the soil. That's how in the forest the trees take care of 2196 02:35:03.159 --> 02:35:05.920 it. They know how to stop the competition. They drop leaves on the 2197 02:35:07.000 --> 02:35:11.520 competition, they bury it and mulch. That works in our gardens too, 2198 02:35:11.040 --> 02:35:16.440 So who wants to spend their summer fighting weaves as the fiance bite you and 2199 02:35:16.760 --> 02:35:20.440 the kids. Vocabulary grows in ways you don't want it to start with mulch 2200 02:35:20.479 --> 02:35:22.399 and avoid the problem.