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

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this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden
Line with Skip Ricord's crazy just watch him

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as Wood us so many pleas to
see clubs back kicking. Well. Good

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Sunday morning, looking out the window. It is dark outside. Look out

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your window and check your neighbor's house, see if there's any lights on.

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If not, go back on the
bang on the door and tell them they're

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missing garden Line. They will rise
up and call you bless it. Actually

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today they'll rise up and call you
something else. But eventually they will be

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so appreciative if you're turning them on
the garden line. We are here to

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talk gardening with you today, and
by the way, thanks for listening.

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I'm always glad to have folks willing
to get up in the morning and enjoy

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a little bit of time visiting about
all kinds of things gardening, and that's

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what we're here for. I was
at a restaurant yesterday and when I got

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out of the car to walk across
the parking lot, there was this big

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area of just weeds, just you
know, whatever nature had planted. There

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is what was growing. But I
noticed this flat carpet and it was it

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was just growing in a totally unwatered, weedy spot. But it was coming

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over the parking lot asphalt. It
was like two feet over the parking lot

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asphalt and the little white flowers on
it, and I thought, I saw,

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I knew what it was, and
I just had to said, I

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gotta go check this out. And
sure enough, it was a something called

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frog fruit. Now, frog fruit
is a little it's a groundcrever. You

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know. We call things weeds because
they're growing where we don't want them,

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right, Saint Augustine grass and a
corn patch is weed. Okay, So

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weed, just me is two things
determined weeds. Number one, our opinion

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what we want, hint, and
number two is it growing in the place

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we want it to or not?
And so anyway, so this little frog

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fruit weed, which I've seen all
my whole life kind of been impressed with

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as a groundcover, it was just
coming right over the parking a lot of

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me. It's one hundred degrees outside. I don't know where they were getting

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water. I don't know how it
was surviving, but boy, did it

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ever look good. I need to
post that to our Facebook page. Take

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a look at it. But it's
you know, it's a native it's a

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native weed, and it just does
does super super well. Here. One

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of the reasons that people like native
plants is that they just know how to

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survive where we are. I mean, they've had to live through this.

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You know. We act like summer
is the first summer we've ever had every

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year when we moan and complained about
how hot it is, and boy,

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it sure did get hot early this
year. And I understand the complaint.

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I do it myself. But the
fact is, when plants and native plant,

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most likely it's able to survive in
the conditions we have, unless we

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just go into one of those record
never happened before kind of years, which

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I don't want to do that anymore. So anyway, talking about this frog

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fruit, because it's so darn tough. It makes an excellent ground car I

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was driving through I don't remember what
part of Houston. Somebody had used it

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along the side of their yard beside
the street and their privacy fence, just

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as the groundcover, and it was
beautiful. It stays low and it's the

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little white flowers are kind of interesting. They're very helpful to beneficial insects.

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I do know that, so that's
another reason to grow it. And you

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know you're gonna find native plants at
places that specialize in them. I mean

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everybody has a few, but some
people really stock up in it. And

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that well, an example that would
be Buchanan's Nursery done in the Heights.

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They' that is what they're about.
I mean, they love love native plants.

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Now, don't get me wrong.
If you want beautiful house plants,

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if you want vegetables or herbs or
fruit trees, it's all there. They

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got it all. But boy are
they good when it comes to natives.

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And I just was looking today.
They had a They have a number of

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shrubs that they're featuring that attract birds. And this is a time of year

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when we think about hummingbirds, for
example, the plants that hummingbirds like.

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And there are a lot of great
plants, and I've sit here just for

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an hour naming hummingbird plants. But
when it comes to shrubs, you know,

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things like coral berry, things like
beauty berry, things like Yopon holli,

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even those are There are a number
of awesome plants, very beautiful,

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and sometimes they are natives, but
there's selections that have been made out of

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them. Like there's a Saratoga gold
yopon, so instead of the red berries,

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it has kind of a golden berry
on it, very pretty, really

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attractive, And I think you need
to consider as you're doing your landscaping.

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You can have a plant there.
It's green, you enjoy it's a shrub,

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but why not also get the benefit
out of it of attracting birds into

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the yard. Birds that are going
after those berries. And so, anyway,

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just kind of some random thoughts here. And by the way, if

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you've never been to Buchanans, it's
on Eleventh Street and the Heights. You

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can go to Buchanans with an s
at the end. Buchanans Plants dot com

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find out more information about them.
But I like wandering through that to you

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one thing on a day like today, I appreciate the garden centers with a

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big old tree and them because it
allows you to get a little bit of

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shade when you're shopping. It makes
it downright pleasant. You know, we've

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kind of acclimated and accepted that here
we are in summer. Just remember this

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fall is coming and planting season is
already here for fall. What do I

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mean by that, Well, I
mean tomato plants. It's time to put

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your tomato plants out, pepper plants, things like that. Many things in

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the vegetable garden that are warm season
are going in now so they can ripen

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in the cooler day as a fall
And now's the time to start transplants.

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If you want to buy some broccoli
seed and start your own broccoli, well,

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this is a time to get it
done. So when those transplants are

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ready to go in the weather's kind
of broken a little bit, just go

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and enjoy it. It's really easy
to do, really easy to do.

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Lots of tasks out there in the
garden this time of year. I know

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it's hot, but hey, that's
why we have morning times when it's cooler.

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And you know, even late day, once you get the sun baking

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down off of you, you can
get out and get a lot more stuff

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done. It's just good to be
outside. If you haven't fertilized your lawn

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this summer, you need to get
that done. For sure. We're about

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to head into the fall season.
We'll where we will put our fall fertilizers

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on. But right now would be
a good time for something like Nitrophost's product

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Sweet Green. Sweet Green is an
organic products about eleven percent nitrogen, and

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I think it's great. It about
eleven percent is a lot for an organic

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product. Organic things tend to be
a little lower in concentration than that.

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It's pretty high. But it's a
it's a molasses based product through a microbial

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interaction. They've created the combination of
natural molasses and then microbes. They've made

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this fertilizer that just as rocket fuel
for the microbes. Because microbes love sugars,

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especially the bacteria for example ten of
ice seats and let's see what else.

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Archaeas and other microbe loves sugars.
So when you put this on,

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you kick them into high gear.
And when you've got happy microbes in the

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soil, you're gonna have happy plants, in this case, your lawn.

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Now, where do you get sweet
Green, Well, where do you get

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the whole panoply of nitrovost products.
You're gonna get them pretty much everywhere.

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All our ice hardware stores, good
feed stores, a lot of our home

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and garden centers, most of those
we talk about here are going to carry

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nitrovost products. So it's really easy
to find. But if you want to

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get a bag, go ahead and
get that done. Get it done now.

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It'll be available fairly quickly in this
particular form of this product, and

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then you'll be ready to go.
A few months from now, we're gonna

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be talking cool season and you'll be
ready to go for that. Our phone

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number is seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Give me

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a call, Josh and get you
on the board and we'll be talking to

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you. First thing. You know, good Sunday morning. You are listening

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to garden Line and we're here to
talk about gardening. This would be a

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good time to grab a cup of
coffee, sit down, let your eyes

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waken up, waken up, wake
up, and we can I don't know

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what's your questions. We want to
talk about lawns, you want to talk

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about shrubs and trees, or I
love talking about plants that attract birds.

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I just think that's a win win
just doing that a minute ago, but

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that it just makes sense. Think
about your garden out there. Your garden

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is a multi sensory enjoyment. Look, we were made to be in a

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garden. We just it is in
our genes to be in nature. Now,

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maybe you're not the gardener who just
dreams about getting up digging in the

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dirt and playing and all that.
But I can tell you whoever you are,

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being in nature matters. That's why
in Japan, forest bathing is so

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big of a deal. Just getting
out. What does that mean? Well,

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by the way, just in case
your brain doesn't go to the wrong

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place, it means just walking through
the forest, just walking through and just

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soaking in nature and getting all the
junk cleared out of your head and being

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part of that. And gardening is
that way. So again, even the

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non gardeners out there, by the
way, we're trying to convert you.

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Even the non gardeners out there can
recognize it when you go out early in

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the morning and you hear the song
of birds, when you smell a fragrance

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floating across the air that's coming from
one of your plants. Do you see

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what I'm saying. Of course,
there's the aesthetic, the visual, but

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it's all part of creating an environment
that affects so many parts of your body.

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I'm truly serious about this. Your
brains benefits to everything from kids with

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add to adults of dementia. We're
talking about physical benefits, and we're just

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talking about that peace of mind,
blood pressure, all the different factors that

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are part of our health. Gardens
are the answer. They really are.

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They really make a very very big
difference. And that's why we encourage people

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to create that kind of oasis,
that's their little corner of Eden. And

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it'll be different for everybody. Some
people want cactus and rocks, some people

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want azaleas and ferns. Some people
want just stuff you can eat, vegetables

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and fruit and herbs. But most
people want a little of a lot of

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things. And that's what we're here
to help you with. We're going to

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head out to Belair and talk to
David first thing this morning. Hello David,

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Hey, how are you doing well? Thank you? So boxworld,

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box would decline overwatering, underwatering.
I don't know what my problem is.

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I have a whole bunch of box
with that are suffering there. Unfortunately,

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I had to put in a new
lawn and flower beds and prepared my soils,

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got a mixture of composts and such, and I'm trying to keep these

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things looking good. But talk talk
about how can I make but some of

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them are browning out and neighbor.
My neighbor next door has a line of

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a couple of hundred feet of it
that some of them are telling me about

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it. Okay, So, and
the browning is a random here and there

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down through a group of shrubs or
is it like one shrub turns completely browned

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and then another one turns completely browned? Both unfortunate. I had a line

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of one gallon a right, said, I put it had about six months

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ago, and they started spurs,
okay, and then so, so here's

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what's going on. There's things in
your control and there's things not in your

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control. What's not in your control
would be a soil disease like a fusarium

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verticilium, one of those fungal wilts
of the soil that gets in and kills

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the plant. You're not going to
protect against it very well. It's just

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going to happen. And that's unfortunate. But that's one of the one of

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the things that boxwood can come to. Another one is nematodes if your soil

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is very sandy, especially but not
only nematodes can get on a boxwood,

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and there's not a cure for that. But you would see that when you

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wash soil out from around the roots, and you see little knots all over

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the roots that would be nematotes.
The things you can control are watering too

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much water or not enough. Both
are not good, so you don't boxwoods

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don't want to be in a swamp
where their roots can't get oxygen. But

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at the same time, they are
especially fairly newly planted when don't have an

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extensive roots system, and you've got
to water that little cylinder you put in

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the ground, you know, for
a long time, not just that spot,

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but you've got to make sure that
stays moist because that's where all the

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roots are right after planting, and
it may be months down the line before

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they're really getting some roots out and
becoming a more resilient plant. So that's

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that's kind of the thing through the
watering. Uh it's a little touching go

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early on. But too wet,
too dry is what's in your in your

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control. Well, my dads are
it's not swampy, want to put it

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that way, in the well drained
okay, and I'm watering every day,

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okay, but you know they don't
stay to too wet Okay, But uh

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so there's no thought no fun drench
or applications. Not for those fungal wilts

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that I mentioned. Uh, there's
just not a good control for those.

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There's some types of fungi we can
do a fungal drench for, but I

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think we just got to be real
sure we're finding the right thing that's causing

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the problems with them. Uh So
with the with the yopons and the watering.

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You know, it's always hard to
tell people how often to water,

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how long to run it because ever
irrigation systems different, ver soils different.

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But I would dig down, yeah, and a well dig down about four

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or five inches. Just feel the
soil and you don't have to do that

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every type of water. Just kind
of get a fuel for where are you

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and you'll know when you reach down
there and feel the soil, especially near

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the roots system. And again,
just to reiterate, a plant that hasn't

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been in more than a few months, it still has quite a limited root

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system around the base of that plant, So the watering target is more around

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the base of the plant. Then
then it gradually moves out to making sure

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the whole bed stays well. That's
pretty much what I would have to offer

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on that boxwood David, I you
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but that that is something we're dealing
with. There's there's other diseases. I

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think you mentioned boxwood blight that's out
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could be. But when it really
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a good soil and keeping it adequately
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Well, so are there places I
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them technically tested to see it or
the stol What is in what would be

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in your control would be when a
plant is dying and it's like this,

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I've lost half the plant, dig
it up and send it to the state

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plant Clinic up in College Station,
and there's a fee that goes with that.

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But if you'll write down in this
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MU dot E d U, and
just follow their instructions for how to package

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it. You can drive it up, you can mail it up, whatever

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you want to do and they will
get it in. They'll they'll culture it

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out on a Petri dish under a
microscope and determine exactly what it is and

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if something can be done they'll they'll
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it at that. I need to
run. But thank you, bet,

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thank you for the call. Appreciate
that a lot. If you are,

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if you're happen to be out in
the League City area, we're talking about

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South you know, Southea, Houston, your hometown feed stores, League City

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Feed, League City Feed West and
Sister Madison Thunderberg have been running League City

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Feed for a while now, you
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But Leak City Feed is open Monday
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pm. They're closed on Sunday.
They're going to carry the stuff that we

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recommend, all the fertilizers, they
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they have a great selection of different
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herbicides, fungicide and secticide, premium
pet foods. If you're into backyard chickens,

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they've got what you need down there
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and feeders and waterers and everything.
But the chickens. I say, so,

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League City, Clear Lake City,
I'll come into real San Leone Bay,

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Cliff Webster, all that region.
League City Feed. That's your hometown

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Highway three, a few blocks south
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to give him a call to eight
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You're listening to the guard line this
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one three two one two five eight
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fifty eight seventy four. I am
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out to the new Dell Web community, which is in Full Shirts on Highway

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three fifty nine, a couple of
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reason is I'm helping them with a
community garden that they've got going in.

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Now, if you know anything about
Dell Web, you know they design communities

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for active adults age fifty five and
better, lifestyle programs built around you,

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beautiful homes, beautiful walk trails and
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all, wow, a community garden. I mean, that's like the icing

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on the cake right there, in
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a lot of years too. Because
you're listening to a gardening show. Dellweb

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more info, or you can call two

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eight one four five nine zero six
zero nine find out more about that Dell

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Web difference. I can't wait to
get out there and see how things are

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going and visit with them a little
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out yet at the new community.
Always exciting to have a new community coming

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along like that. I'm going to
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I guess we'll need to talk about
the weather and the heat and all

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kinds of stuff like that. You
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if you're in the market for a
new roof, maybe your roofs get a

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little bit older, maybe you've had
some damage done to it, you need

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to call the folks at Brinkman Brinkman
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Well, because when you hire anybody
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what do you want? You want
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and you want work done right,
and you want it done in a timely

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way. And that all is Brinkman. They've been here fifty years. You

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don't stick around for fifty years without
doing some things right. They stand behind

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their work and the product that they
put up there for twenty five years.

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We're talking about all kinds of roofing. Two shingles, the standing scene.

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Metal roofs that they design right on
your property. They put them together right

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there so they fit like a glove. Also, they have which I think

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is the coolest thing, timberline solar
shingles. How can you do better than

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that? Your roof is your solar
panel. Brinckman Quality dot Com is the

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website two eight one four eight zero
seven six six three. Well, good

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morning. You're listening to garden Line, and we're here to talk about whatever

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you're interested in related to gardening.
That's the topic that I'm a most comfortable

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with. I was thinking about this
heat and the you know, the hot

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weather, the drought, the different
things we deal with and our plants deal

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with. And it always amazes me
that plants live through what they live through.

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You know, we sometimes wonder why
did my plant die? My question

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is why is anything alive right now? I mean one hundred degrees. Think

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about this. Go outside, touch
anything at two o'clock this afternoon, in

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the full sun, go out and
touch something, Touch a picnic table,

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touch the concrete and asphalt. I
mean everything is hot, hot, hot.

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So those tree leaves that are out
there, the plant leaves that are

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out there, they are being baked
on, and their temperature could rise up

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to the point where it literally cooks
the plant if it weren't for the plant's

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ability to transpire water and evaporatively cool
itself. It's that evaporation. It's a

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water going up the plant and out
the leaves. It's cooling those leaves.

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So that's just a miracle in and
of itself. But can you imagine if

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that plant starts to not get water. You know, it gets a little

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thirsty. Water's not flowing as well. Maybe it's because there's not water in

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the soil. It's just finally pumped
that whole reserve dry and it needs water.

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Maybe it's because something's wrong with the
roots and they're not functioning properly.

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Or there's a borer in the trunk
that is cutting those tubes that go from

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the roots to the top and preventing
good flow of water. We even have

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diseases. We're talking about a lot
ago to a data the boxwoods, you

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know, something like verticilium and fusarium. Those are wilt diseases. They get

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in and they plug the plumbing and
the plant looks like it's dying of drought,

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but it's noting a drought, but
not because there's not soil water necessarily,

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but because the water can't get up
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do to keep that plant alive.
There's just a lot going on. It's

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really amazing that the plants or as
resilient as they are. But what's in

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our control is when we're gonna plant
plants, get the soil right, create

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above ground drainage with a raised bed
if needed, create internal drainage by improving

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the soil, and then keep it
adequately moist, a good soaking letting it

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dry out a little bit, and
a good soaking letting it dry out a

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little bit, keeping that plant adequately
hydrated. It's like us, right,

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if you go out and work in
the sun and you're not drinking water,

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you are a ticking time bomb and
things are fixing to go south real fast.

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Well that's true for our plants as
well. They can take it,

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but they need our help. But
what they don't need is for us to

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put them in a swamp, thinking
well, they must need lots of water,

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so I'm gonna just you turn it
into a bog garden. They don't

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like that, and in fact,
in that in the kind of heat we're

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experiencing. The fastest way to kill
a plant is to remove all the oxygen

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from the roots by oversaturating it.
Because I mean, in an it's within

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a day that plant is under serious
stress. Because remember what I said about

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the leaves cooling by with the water. When you submerge a root system and

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exclude the oxygen, it starts to
shut down. And I've seen plants in

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standing water that the plant's wilted.
How can that be, Well, it's

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because the water has to move up
through an active living root system, and

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if it doesn't have that, it's
gonna die, and it's gonna die fast

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in this heat. So what does
all that mean? Water? Right,

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they need moisture. They don't want
to be drowning. That's the key,

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and it really simplifies a lot of
things when we're talking about that. Those

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of you live out in Kingwood are
fortunate because you've got two awesome garden centers.

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You've got Kingwood Garden Center and you've
got Warren's Gardens Center. Kingwood Gardens

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is over in Stone Hollow, Warrens
is over on North Park and they always

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have something exciting happening. When I
love going out there. Because when you

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walk through the place, there's just
color everywhere, and color is what we

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need right now. You know a
lot of times our landscapes become a sea

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of green in the summer, and
there's no reason for that. Put a

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big, old, gaudy hibiscus out
there and it will catch everybody's attention.

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In fact, if you get a
beautiful hibiscus, you can put three pink

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flamingos next to it and no one
will notice them because they're not the gaudiest

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thing in the yard. The hibiscus
is absolutely beautiful, beautiful Circuma Ginger's in

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the shade, Oh man, some
new arrivals I got out at Kingwood and

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Warrens. They are just so pretty
because in a shaded area with bright light

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but shade, they thrive and the
blooms are gorgeous. The blooms are awesome

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for cut flowers, they really are. They're awesome for cut flowers. And

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one of the things that I really
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Kingwood has them too. Are the
calandra called dwarf fairy duster. Imagine,

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oh gosh, how do I describe
it? Just like a pincushion of

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red pins all coming out of a
little spot. Awesome, beautiful, go

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out there, asked to see the
Calandra. The powder pink puff is another

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name for it. The fairy duster
is another name for it. By the

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way, on August nineteenth, write
this down nine am to ten am at

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Warren's Garden Center nine am to ten
am a free program on fall garden soil

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prep and they will walk you through
the whole thing, that broken record that

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I always brag about about. You
gotta get the soil right. You gotta

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get the soil right before you plant. They'll walk you through the whole deal.

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And so I mean the space is
limited, so go ahead and make

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sure and preregister for this. But
it's called Cultivate a Harvest of Abundance,

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and it's at Warren's Garden Center,
Ruggers nineteenth from nine to ten. Believe

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me, if you go there and
listen to what they say, you will

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have better luck. You will have
better success. Your plants will perform so

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so so much better, really really
important. You're listening to Garden Line our

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phone number seven one three, two
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That is another way to do it.

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I was looking. I was check
social media for a lot of the our

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sponsors and things, just to see
what are they getting in, what's going

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on, what's happening. And a
D and D feed out in Tomball by

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the way, for anyone over in
the Tomball area. D and d's your

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hometown feed store in a greater Tomball
area, even heading out west of there

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down to twenty nine twenty. D
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about three miles west of two forty
nine on twenty nine twenty. Family owned

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by the Dover family, been been
doing this since nineteen eighty nine. They

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expanded this summer and now they've just
I just was looking. They've got some

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new new product in new new layouts
and things that are it's just really cool.

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I got to get back over there
and see this, because when I

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was looking at the pictures, it's
like, dang, I thought I was

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there recently, but here it goes
again. They just keep improving. They've

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got all our fertilizers we talk about. You know you're gonna get soiled there

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from them. The ones we talk
about are going to be available. They

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carry plants seasonally out there now if
you have a pet, high end pet

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food lines, Origin, Diamond,
Victor, Starpro. They've got that their

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feed store. So you know they've
got livestock feed and products to care for

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your horses. They also have products
for cleaning a pool. They've got products

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for controlling pests and rodents, the
little rodents out there. D and D

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Feed on twenty nine twenty about three
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Go buy and check it out.
If you haven't been there in a

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while, you will be very surprised
and very impressed by what all they have

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going on there, your hometown feed
store up in the Tomball area. We're

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about to take a little break here. Our phone number is seven one three

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

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seventy four. If Josh you call, he'll get you on the boards and

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before you know it, we'll be
back and we'll be talking to you.

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It's a it's all, it's all. Well, good morning on a Sunday

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morning that is going to shape up
really nicely. You're listening to garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Rictor,
and we're here to talk all kinds

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of things gardening. Now, I
you know, mister broken record. When

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it comes to soil, here I
go again. But it is the most

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important thing if you want to build
up a bed, whether it's a garden

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bed and vegetables or flowers or herbs, whatever. If you want to create

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a soil bed and you want it
to do well, you need to consider

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arbigates one two three completely easy system. What is one two three one.

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It's a food four four three fertilizer
plus calcium that feeds pretty much anything with

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roots. It's a soil for any
application. That's their organic soil complete.

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That soil contains large particle sand.
It contains expanded shale which helps those clay

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soils. As you build up more
and more shale in the soil, you're

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going to have better and better and
internal drainage. And then the third part

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continues that process organic compost complete that
has a lot of expanded shale in it

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as well. It's got two different
kinds of compost, you know, just

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chock full of microbial activity. One
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food, a soil, a compost
all from Arbourgate. Go on line to

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arburg gate dot com and you can
find out more. If you have been

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out there in a while, you
need to go. It changes all the

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time. I mean I've been out
like sometimes I've been out like two weeks

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in a row, and it's like
there's a whole new group of plants that

408
00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:48.839
just came in. I guess you
could say that sometimes two days in a

409
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row. They're always getting shipments.
There's always something happening, so it's always

410
00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:57.799
fun to go out. Check out
the folks at Arburgate. Our phone number

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00:29:57.839 --> 00:30:02.960
is seven to one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

412
00:30:03.039 --> 00:30:10.680
two one two fifty eight seventy four. The I need to get I'm on

413
00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:14.319
a run these days. I was
in Santonio last week at the Texa Nursery

414
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and Landscape Association show. I'm going
to be out in Alpine in West Texas

415
00:30:18.359 --> 00:30:22.200
with the am Horticulture Department and a
retreat they're having out there in educational retreat.

416
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Looking forward to that as well.
But in the meantime, what do

417
00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:30.400
they say, the cobbler's kids go
barefoot? My lun, My lun needs

418
00:30:30.440 --> 00:30:33.799
some help. It's time to put
a little bit of fertilizer, and I've

419
00:30:33.839 --> 00:30:37.400
got some on hand. I've got
some of the green bag Microlife that's the

420
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:41.359
six two four number one organic fertilizer
sold here in the Greater Houston area and

421
00:30:41.440 --> 00:30:45.279
just a very very popular product for
a very very long time. And it's

422
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got just tons of essential microbes,
essential minerals and it you know, it

423
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:56.319
says sixty four, but it has
way more than just nitrogen, phosphorus and

424
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potassium. Put that with the humans
plus the purple bag. That's how I

425
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.480
like to do it, because the
humates plus got some nutrient in it,

426
00:31:03.519 --> 00:31:07.039
but the main reason it's air is
it's concentrated compost in a bag, lots

427
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of beneficial microbes and lots of a
variety of different kinds of nutrients. Think

428
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of that one two punch green bag, purple bag, sixty four green bag,

429
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:22.160
humates plus purple bag. With that
combination, you're getting your lawn set

430
00:31:22.240 --> 00:31:23.720
up and ready to go, because
next thing, you know, for too

431
00:31:23.720 --> 00:31:27.119
long, we're going to be putting
on our fall applications of fertilizer to get

432
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our grass strong and going into winter. The stronger your grass is now,

433
00:31:32.119 --> 00:31:37.079
the dentrier lawn gets now, the
less weed problems will happen in October when

434
00:31:37.119 --> 00:31:41.599
all the cool season weeds are germinating
and so let's block every bit of sunlight

435
00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.200
from hitting the soil by creating a
dense, healthy lawn. That's really the

436
00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:49.480
secret to the whole thing. Pretty
simple works, works, very very well.

437
00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:59.039
One of the things I'm always interested
in is what plants are people using

438
00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:01.519
to get color at different times of
the year. For a lot of nine

439
00:32:01.559 --> 00:32:05.960
gardeners, you know, spring is
the gardening season. That's when gardening fever

440
00:32:06.039 --> 00:32:08.440
hits. That's when every kind of
plant you can imagine is for sale and

441
00:32:08.480 --> 00:32:12.920
you can plant it some of them. If you've chosen well and gone to

442
00:32:12.960 --> 00:32:16.160
a quality nursery that knows what they're
talking about, you're going to enjoy them

443
00:32:16.160 --> 00:32:20.559
for a long time. If you
just do an impulse purchase, maybe at

444
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:23.519
a place you went to buy a
hammer, so to speak, you're probably

445
00:32:23.519 --> 00:32:30.559
going to come home with like a
fusha that will live about somewhere between seventeen

446
00:32:30.640 --> 00:32:34.519
and twenty three minutes before it dies
at your house. Actually in spring,

447
00:32:34.559 --> 00:32:36.960
they do okay, but they're just
not made to last year. But that's

448
00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:38.720
okay. We have plants that are
like that. But what I'm saying is

449
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:43.599
pick a quality plant, find a
good nursery knows what you're talking about We

450
00:32:43.720 --> 00:32:47.319
talk about those nurseries here all the
time. They understand what it's like to

451
00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:52.400
be a newbie gardener. They understand
what it's like to need help, and

452
00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:57.039
they listen and they direct you in
that way. Another place that's like that,

453
00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.640
by the way, is Southwest Fertilizer. Bob Patterson and his team at

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Southwest They've created a store that has
everything, and I literally mean that,

455
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:10.039
I mean every fertilizer. I would
talk about the soils, we talk about.

456
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:15.240
If you need pesticides and insecticides.
Hey, maybe you're aganic person.

457
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:21.599
You're not going to find a better
line of organic selection than Southwest Fertilizer or

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00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:25.359
herbicides. It's exercise funger sides.
Maybe you're the guy that the first site

459
00:33:25.400 --> 00:33:30.640
of something with six legs wants to
call in an apalm flyover. Southwest has

460
00:33:30.720 --> 00:33:35.240
everything that you would need as well. You can bring his samples in,

461
00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:37.559
you mean pictures in. They'll get
an eye on it. Oh, by

462
00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:39.480
the way, they have that kneeling
bench that I've been so big on now

463
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:44.880
all this season. Once you go
pass for the first time, you wake

464
00:33:44.960 --> 00:33:46.759
up in the morning and you're swore
and you don't know why go buy a

465
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:51.559
kneeling bench because it will change your
life. I mean, you can sit

466
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:53.119
on them and work in the garden. If you need to get on your

467
00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:55.559
knees and get back up. They
got the handles you can get right back

468
00:33:55.640 --> 00:34:00.200
up again and get going. I'm
telling you I bought one for my older

469
00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:07.000
sister, and I like to point
out that she's older to her just thinking

470
00:34:07.160 --> 00:34:08.519
she's getting a little decrepit there,
I'm going to help her out. Well,

471
00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:10.719
first thing, you know, I
got me one, and it's like,

472
00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:15.920
oh dang, this is really really
cool. Bob's got those in stock

473
00:34:16.039 --> 00:34:21.360
at Southwest Fertilizer. He also has
the soul probes. So fall fertilizing time

474
00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:23.519
is coming. Why not have your
soul tested and let's just get a look

475
00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:28.320
at where things are and then you
can purchase, you know, your fertilizers.

476
00:34:28.320 --> 00:34:31.559
Accordingly, Southwest Fertilizer has everything that
you would need. By the way,

477
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:37.599
where is Southwest Fertilizer will Southwest Houston
corner of Bissonette and Renwick. You

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00:34:37.599 --> 00:34:45.239
can go to Southwest Fertilizer dot com
find out more information there. Well,

479
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:49.280
I'll tell you we about to blow
through the first hour here. This kind

480
00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:52.360
of went fast today. Guess what
at the eight o'clock hour, eight o'clock

481
00:34:53.119 --> 00:34:57.320
next hour, but the hour after
that, Sherry Harris is going to be

482
00:34:57.320 --> 00:35:00.239
coming in for plants for all seasons, and we're going to talk all kinds

483
00:35:00.280 --> 00:35:02.400
of things gardening. Any of you
who know Sherry know she is an absolute

484
00:35:02.400 --> 00:35:08.039
wealth of knowledge, very very knowledgeable, been gardening and helping gardeners here in

485
00:35:08.079 --> 00:35:14.920
this area for a long long time, and that kind of experience is priceless.

486
00:35:14.960 --> 00:35:16.199
And I can't wait to get her
on the on the show, pick

487
00:35:16.239 --> 00:35:21.360
her brain a little bit and talk
some fun gardening things that we're doing here.

488
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:24.480
Well, we are getting close to
the end. Our phone number,

489
00:35:24.480 --> 00:35:29.760
by the way is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four seven

490
00:35:29.840 --> 00:35:34.000
one three two one two katr H. We're a little short to take another

491
00:35:34.039 --> 00:35:36.920
call now, but if you'd like
to call, have Josh gets you on

492
00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:39.280
the board, then we can talk
to you when we're ready to go again.

493
00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:45.599
That won't be too long now.
If you live out in mont Bellevue,

494
00:35:45.639 --> 00:35:51.119
we're talking east to town out ten
Texas. Feedstop is your hometown feed

495
00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:54.599
store. I mean that I the
first time I went in there, I

496
00:35:54.719 --> 00:36:01.039
was so impressed Number one, Brian
and Hope Rhodes. This is this is

497
00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:07.360
not just a business to them.
This is being part of a community.

498
00:36:07.719 --> 00:36:10.639
This is enjoying working with people.
You know, they are kids locally to

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00:36:10.679 --> 00:36:13.960
help out there. And by the
way, they carry the sacks of feed

500
00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:16.719
for you, which is a really
nice thing. But they also make sure

501
00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:21.679
they stock everything you need and they
greet you and they're friendly and they're helpful.

502
00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:24.559
If I talk about it on gardening
line, like all these fertilizers,

503
00:36:24.599 --> 00:36:29.920
the soiled products and other things they've
got them there. They've got the pest

504
00:36:29.960 --> 00:36:31.880
management types of things you might need
as you get in there. Now.

505
00:36:32.159 --> 00:36:37.440
Texas feed Stop is just a few
minutes north of y ten on Highway one

506
00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:42.199
forty six and Montain Bellevue. But
they're so close that I mean, if

507
00:36:42.239 --> 00:36:46.159
you live out in Baytown, Texas
feed Stop is still your hometown feed store.

508
00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:51.239
Well, I hope you will give
them a check out because I know

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00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:52.679
you'll be impressed by the way,
and they do have plants from time to

510
00:36:52.719 --> 00:36:57.239
time out there, but it's just
the good old days of where you walk

511
00:36:57.280 --> 00:37:00.920
in and you're treated like family.
Go check it out and you'll see what

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00:37:00.960 --> 00:37:05.920
I'm talking about at Texas feed Stop. Well, I'm gonna take a little

513
00:37:05.920 --> 00:37:08.280
break here. I believe it is
time to crank up some music and get

514
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:13.880
ready for the next hour. You're
listening to garden line. What do you

515
00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:16.920
want to talk about today? I'm
talking about house plants and stay inside and

516
00:37:17.039 --> 00:37:20.760
play with the house plants. You
want to talk about seeds starting. It's

517
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:25.719
time to get the cool seasoned vegetables
starting go and especially the blue leaf cruciferous

518
00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:30.519
vegetables. The cold crops like broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, its teined plant,

519
00:37:30.559 --> 00:37:34.000
tomatoes, tumbled plant peppers, lots
of things. Tin plant flowers.

520
00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:36.199
By the way, at the end
of August every year, I love to

521
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:40.519
plant marigolds. Marigolds are affected by
spider mites in the heat of summer,

522
00:37:40.679 --> 00:37:45.280
but when you plan them at the
end of August, they go into fall

523
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:49.559
and the spider mont populations are crashing
due to the weather and daylink things like

524
00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:53.719
that, and they just absolutely glow
right up until the first frost. And

525
00:37:54.079 --> 00:37:58.599
whether it's the big palm palm types
that's my favorite, the African margoals of

526
00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:02.679
pom pom types of French miracles,
whatever it is. Hey, another thing.

527
00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:09.000
We're getting ready to plan. We'll
be right back. KTRH Garden Line

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

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Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Scared
Rictor. It's a smell crazy just watching

530
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as well. Good morning, good
Sunday morning, beautiful day outside. Good

531
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:47.480
time to be outside too. By
the way, this is the time of

532
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:51.280
day we're gonna get a lot of
good stuff done out there. And remember,

533
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:55.360
just because it is hot and you're
tired of hot, and it's dry

534
00:38:55.400 --> 00:39:00.039
and all, that doesn't mean that
this isn't a very important time in the

535
00:38:59.880 --> 00:39:01.920
garden. This is a time to
be purchasing plants. It's time to be

536
00:39:01.960 --> 00:39:06.000
planning some plants. This is time
to be getting ready for fall, getting

537
00:39:06.039 --> 00:39:10.360
your soil ready for fall. There's
a lot going on because at some point

538
00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:14.719
in time, this weather is going
to break, and it's not that far

539
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:17.199
away from us right now. And
when it does, we need to have

540
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:21.840
done our business now that we need
to be getting done so that at that

541
00:39:21.880 --> 00:39:24.039
time we're ready for our gardens to
thrive. You know, for example,

542
00:39:24.039 --> 00:39:25.920
you wait until it cools off.
Lola being and said, oh, I'd

543
00:39:25.960 --> 00:39:29.920
love some tomatoes and fault it was
too late. Then you got to get

544
00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:31.760
that done. Now, that's what
it's all about. Hey, if you

545
00:39:31.840 --> 00:39:36.320
have a little piece of property and
you would love to be able to get

546
00:39:36.320 --> 00:39:40.519
out there and enjoy moving things around, getting things done, accomplishing work in

547
00:39:40.559 --> 00:39:44.519
an easier way. Maybe need to
build some fence, Maybe need to haul

548
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:49.679
some bags of malts, or maybe
you have a dump of composts out there

549
00:39:49.719 --> 00:39:52.840
that you need to move around the
garden. Takes front end loader to do

550
00:39:52.920 --> 00:39:57.880
that, and that would be a
commode attractor. Orange is the cobode is

551
00:39:57.880 --> 00:40:01.360
the original Orange. Actually, one
of my favorites of all the ones that

552
00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:06.280
Lansdowne Moody has on the lot is
the Caboda L twenty five oh one L

553
00:40:06.360 --> 00:40:08.280
twenty five oh one. I mean
it's got electratatic transmission. It is a

554
00:40:08.719 --> 00:40:12.679
it is a sweet ride, and
you can trick it out with your front

555
00:40:12.760 --> 00:40:15.199
end loader, with the mower behind
it, all kinds of things. Just

556
00:40:15.239 --> 00:40:19.400
go out there and sit on one. Just trust me on this. Just

557
00:40:19.480 --> 00:40:23.280
go check it out and you will
be able for sure to picture yourself getting

558
00:40:23.320 --> 00:40:28.920
a lot of good stuff done in
a very short order with that kind of

559
00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:32.760
Caboda, the l twenty five oh
one, Lansdowne Moody. Their stores all

560
00:40:32.800 --> 00:40:36.920
around the area. You can find
one near you. Not a problem at

561
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:42.039
all. But here's here's the deal
on the whole Caboda and Lansdowne thing.

562
00:40:42.440 --> 00:40:46.480
Right now, they're having an incredible
deal, zero down, zero interest,

563
00:40:46.559 --> 00:40:51.159
eighty four months. That's seven years. I mean, can you imagine that

564
00:40:51.679 --> 00:40:54.559
there's not a better time to purchase, take home and enjoy your new Caboda.

565
00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:59.719
The combination Caboda and Lansdowne Moody.
You're just not going to do better

566
00:40:59.760 --> 00:41:02.440
than that. Go to LM tractor
dot com if you want to find out

567
00:41:02.440 --> 00:41:07.199
more information. They can tell you
all about it right there. Let's head

568
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:09.280
out now to Baytown and we're gonna
talk to Robin. Hello, Robin,

569
00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:15.880
Hi there, I have a question
about my yard. I am getting lots

570
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I live in Baytown and I am
getting lots of areas in my yard that

571
00:41:21.800 --> 00:41:24.639
are just they're they're just splitting,
they're turning into holes. I mean,

572
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:30.360
you can tell that the ground is
really dry. And are you talking about

573
00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:35.480
cracks on the soil cracks exactly,
huh okay, and they're big they're they're

574
00:41:35.519 --> 00:41:37.760
not small, they're they're huge.
Oh I know, you got that clay

575
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:40.599
soil out there, and when clay
gets wet, it swells. When it

576
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:44.320
gets dry, it shrinks and the
cracks gets a big You can lose a

577
00:41:44.360 --> 00:41:47.400
small dog down in the backyard.
That's exactly what's happening. So that's why

578
00:41:47.400 --> 00:41:52.400
I'm so concerned, because my dogs
are starting to they don't see them,

579
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:54.519
I guess, and they're starting to
fall in them. Okay, okay,

580
00:41:54.559 --> 00:41:59.280
well that is there's Hey, you
just gotta apply water. I mean,

581
00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:02.360
the way close those cracks is to
get the soil wet and it'll close right

582
00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:06.840
back up again. So that takes
a good soaking, and you know,

583
00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:08.280
you may want to. If I
were you, I wouldn't just water it

584
00:42:08.360 --> 00:42:12.159
one time. I'd water for a
while and then just let it soak for

585
00:42:12.199 --> 00:42:14.840
a while, and then water for
a while, let it soak for a

586
00:42:14.840 --> 00:42:17.400
while, and we call that cycle
and soak. But you can do that.

587
00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:21.679
Let's say let's say today was your
watering day. I mean you could

588
00:42:21.679 --> 00:42:23.880
get up, have your Do you
have an automatic system or do you drag

589
00:42:23.880 --> 00:42:28.039
hoses? Don't? I do?
But I don't. It's broken. I

590
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:30.280
got to get that thick, all
right. So you drag the hose out

591
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:31.840
there, you turn it onto an
area, you run it for a while.

592
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:37.039
I don't how long depends on you
know, the slope and everything.

593
00:42:37.079 --> 00:42:40.159
You don't want the water running off, but let it run for Depending on

594
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:44.119
the kind of sprinkler, it'll vary, so I can't give you a time,

595
00:42:44.199 --> 00:42:46.440
but just a good while and then
move it to another area, and

596
00:42:46.480 --> 00:42:50.280
then move it to another area.
Just have a little timer going off every

597
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:52.880
now and then on your phone,
and as you circle back around, it'll

598
00:42:52.920 --> 00:42:57.559
have about give it about forty five
minutes to soak into one area before you

599
00:42:57.599 --> 00:43:01.039
rewater that area. And after about
two or three loops of that, you

600
00:43:01.079 --> 00:43:05.239
can get some good moisture down in
the soil and that's really going to help

601
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:09.199
your plants, your tree roots.
Go ahead, Can I put any Can

602
00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:13.559
I put dirt in there? Can
I start filling it with dirt? No,

603
00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:15.280
you don't want to do that,
and it's going to close back up.

604
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:20.199
It's a lack of water, and
if the soil is so dry,

605
00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:24.639
it's cracking. Like you're describing the
plants that the trees and shrubs and things

606
00:43:24.679 --> 00:43:29.480
that have roots out in that area, and those reach way out past the

607
00:43:29.519 --> 00:43:32.800
plant on trees and shrubs. I
don't have any because it's my backyard where

608
00:43:32.800 --> 00:43:36.440
my dogs are. So okay,
it's just grass. Everything's in the front

609
00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:38.519
yard. It's just grass. Okay, well the grass itself. If you're

610
00:43:38.519 --> 00:43:42.920
getting cracks like that, I'm surprised
that grass is still alive out there,

611
00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:46.679
because that's as it's it's not doing
real well at all. So let's give

612
00:43:46.719 --> 00:43:49.679
it a good soaking. You don't
have to do that all the time.

613
00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:52.000
And if today were your water day
and you did what I described, you

614
00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:55.639
wouldn't have to water for another week. You could get yeah, you could

615
00:43:55.639 --> 00:43:59.280
get boy, just do it once
a week as long as I'm doing a

616
00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:01.960
good water as long as you wet
it deeply, and in fact it's good

617
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:05.360
then to not water for a while
and let it dry out just a little

618
00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:07.159
bit, all right, Robins,
Okay, okay, it sounds great.

619
00:44:07.199 --> 00:44:12.920
Thank you, bet good luck with
that. Yep, boy, dry dry

620
00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:15.199
shrink swell, Oh boy. We
have a lot of issues we deal with

621
00:44:15.239 --> 00:44:20.440
here because of that shrink swelling of
the soils. Hey, if you're an

622
00:44:20.480 --> 00:44:22.639
active at adult age fifty five and
better, and you would like to find

623
00:44:22.639 --> 00:44:27.000
a home and a community where you
could retire. But I don't mean just

624
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:30.159
go out to pasture. I'm talking
about an active lifestyle, enjoying these best

625
00:44:30.239 --> 00:44:36.239
years of your life. That is
Dellweb Now Don and Fulsher on FM three

626
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:38.639
fifty nine, about two miles from
downtown. Fulscher is a new Dell Web

627
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community that has a community garden going
on in it, and that community garden

628
00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:45.400
is something I've been helping them with. In fact, I'm planning a trip

629
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:50.440
back out there again to check on
things and see how they're doing. You

630
00:44:50.480 --> 00:44:53.519
can go online to dellweb dot com
slash Houston to get more information or just

631
00:44:53.559 --> 00:44:59.679
give them a call to eight one
four five nine zero six zero nine.

632
00:44:59.719 --> 00:45:04.119
And discovered that doll Web difference for
yourself, and now the doe Weeb difference

633
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:07.599
for gardeners. I just think that's
the coolest thing in the world. You're

634
00:45:07.639 --> 00:45:12.239
listening to garden Line. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

635
00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:19.320
five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

636
00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:22.519
Listen. If you've been busy and
you haven't gotten that summer fertilization down,

637
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:25.760
you can still do that now,
don't delay, though, Let's get it

638
00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:31.119
done because fall season is coming.
One product that I think is just a

639
00:45:31.199 --> 00:45:37.519
chemistry that is outstanding and works well
is nitrofossis Superturf nineteen four ten. That

640
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:40.880
is a When I say the chemistry
of it, I mean it's designed so

641
00:45:40.960 --> 00:45:45.840
the nitrogen and the nutrients aren't just
all released at once. It gradually releases

642
00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:50.920
them over time, which is how
grass takes up nutrients. When we do

643
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:53.440
a dump of an extra amount of
nitrogen, we have all kinds of problems

644
00:45:53.440 --> 00:46:00.119
we've created in our lawns. Slow
release super Turf's nineteen four ten. It's

645
00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:04.199
a silver bag and it's going to
be sold everywhere that nitro FoST is sold.

646
00:46:04.440 --> 00:46:07.760
Our great garden centers sell nitro FoST
products, our feed stores sell ace

647
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:13.239
hardware stores. Nitro FoST products not
hard to find at all. But don't

648
00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:15.880
delight, go ahead and get that
down. Now is the time to get

649
00:46:15.920 --> 00:46:21.360
that done. Well. We're going
to take a quick break here seven one

650
00:46:21.519 --> 00:46:23.760
three, two, one two fifty
eight seventy four and we'll be right back.

651
00:46:27.400 --> 00:46:40.360
Good morning, Hey, good morning. You are listening to Garden Line

652
00:46:40.360 --> 00:46:45.239
and we're here to talk about gardening
in that a coincidence. We hope you

653
00:46:45.239 --> 00:46:47.239
give us a call if you have
something you'd be interested in visiting about.

654
00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:52.320
It's seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. We're gearing up,

655
00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:54.000
by the way, next hour eight
o'clock, we're gonna have Sherry hera

656
00:46:54.159 --> 00:46:58.559
from Plants for All Seasons in SHARE's
a wealth of knowledge those of you who

657
00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:02.119
know or know that gardening in this
area and helping gardeners in this area for

658
00:47:02.119 --> 00:47:07.559
a long time, and just really
looking forward to getting Sherry in here and

659
00:47:07.599 --> 00:47:12.199
kind of picking her brain on some
gardening related things this morning, So make

660
00:47:12.239 --> 00:47:15.800
sure and stay tuned for that.
We uh, you know, I wanted

661
00:47:15.880 --> 00:47:22.599
to mention something that is really of
interest to me lately. You know,

662
00:47:22.719 --> 00:47:25.639
with gardening, you there's things you're
interested in, and then you kind of

663
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:29.519
go through phases. You know,
maybe it's your herb phase, and I

664
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:31.880
mean you quit growing herbs. It
just means you're just learning about herbs and

665
00:47:31.920 --> 00:47:35.800
all these new herbs and you go
to some other phase. And for me

666
00:47:35.920 --> 00:47:38.679
right now, I'm just really fascinated
by the pollinator in the butterfly gardens.

667
00:47:38.800 --> 00:47:44.000
I just think they're so so cool
and uh, you know it was looking

668
00:47:44.039 --> 00:47:47.480
the other day. We have a
passion vine, a passion vine that has

669
00:47:47.559 --> 00:47:52.440
the Gulf Fridle areas on it,
the little black and orange spiky caterpillars and

670
00:47:52.480 --> 00:47:58.960
the beautiful orange butterflies, and just
the when you create a backyard landscape where

671
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:02.039
you've got larval food sources and then
adult nectar sources, you're gonna have butterflies

672
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:08.159
show up. And I noticed that
the folks at Enchanted Forests done in Richmond,

673
00:48:08.599 --> 00:48:12.760
they have really got a good selection, and they have had a good

674
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:16.960
selection of all kinds of butterfly attracting
plants, you know, for example,

675
00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:21.719
the things that like ru and then
the citrus family. You're going to get

676
00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:24.320
the swallowtail butterflies. By the way, this is the coolest thing. If

677
00:48:24.320 --> 00:48:29.000
you've got kids that they'll love this. The caterpillars will affect bird poop.

678
00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:32.400
I'm serious. They look like bird
poop until they start moving around sticking the

679
00:48:32.440 --> 00:48:36.480
orange horns out. If you've got
kids, you got to do this.

680
00:48:36.920 --> 00:48:42.840
But all kinds of good good products
out there for caterpillar and butterfly gardening.

681
00:48:42.840 --> 00:48:45.639
And you need to feed the larvae, you need to feed the adults,

682
00:48:45.719 --> 00:48:49.519
and you can have the flying flowers
in your landscape that we call butterflies.

683
00:48:50.360 --> 00:48:52.199
In fact, I was talking to
Danny Lenderman out there a while back,

684
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:55.000
and he was saying that they they
have, you know, with all their

685
00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:58.599
plants. They got so many plants. They've got all these caterpillars that are

686
00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:01.199
there. And if you go and
say, hey, I need a swallowtail

687
00:49:01.320 --> 00:49:05.559
butterfly caterpillar, you got any,
they'll pick one off and give it to

688
00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:07.960
you to take home to put on
your plants, so you can have butterflies

689
00:49:08.039 --> 00:49:12.480
right at your house. That's got
one of the mini services that they offer.

690
00:49:13.199 --> 00:49:16.760
And Chanted for Us they're expanding their
vegetable section. I'm really excited about

691
00:49:16.760 --> 00:49:20.159
that. And if you've ever shopped
out there, you know they got these

692
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:22.480
big giant trees, so it could
be eight hundred degrees outside, and it's

693
00:49:22.519 --> 00:49:25.679
just a pleasure to walk around and
shop in the shade and everything that they

694
00:49:25.719 --> 00:49:30.599
have. But seriously, you need
to check out and Chanted for Us out

695
00:49:30.639 --> 00:49:35.519
in Richmond. They are if you're
in Richmond and you're kind of heading towards

696
00:49:35.559 --> 00:49:38.920
Sugarland, they're off to the right
down South fifty nine. Easy to find.

697
00:49:39.039 --> 00:49:43.119
But when you walk in, it's
like I had no idea this was

698
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:46.679
here. It is the most beautiful, cool place and fun shopping place that

699
00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:51.800
I can imagine. I was really
surprised the first time. I went very

700
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.440
impressed with that. Well, let's
head out to northwest Houston. We're going

701
00:49:54.480 --> 00:49:59.360
to talk to Clifford this morning.
Good morning, Clifford, good morning.

702
00:49:59.400 --> 00:50:01.079
How are you doing this? I'm
good. How can we help today?

703
00:50:01.239 --> 00:50:04.599
Well, I'm calling and I had
a big tree on a front yard,

704
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:07.000
you know, cut down and they
grind to stump and I've got all that

705
00:50:07.079 --> 00:50:10.719
stuff. I've got all that stump
grinding. You know about a sable food

706
00:50:10.760 --> 00:50:14.639
diameter and a yord. It's it's
kind of mount just a little bit.

707
00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:16.400
They told me that when they rain, need to sneak, so I need

708
00:50:16.400 --> 00:50:20.920
to know I need to put dirt
on it and to resaw it. Uh.

709
00:50:21.360 --> 00:50:23.679
You know, when when they leave
all those woodchips from grinding in the

710
00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:28.760
soil, two things happen. Number
One, those woodchips are going to start

711
00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:31.239
to decompose and in the process are
going to tie up some nitrogen because there's

712
00:50:31.239 --> 00:50:36.400
a lot of carbon in them,
and the microbes need nitrogen and carbon for

713
00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:40.440
that to work. And so I
would sprinkle some extra nitrogen fertilizer on the

714
00:50:40.440 --> 00:50:44.480
area, and I do it now, and I probably do it another maybe

715
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:46.199
three or four weeks a little bit
more, and then three or four weeks

716
00:50:46.199 --> 00:50:51.159
a little bit more. And you're
just helping to speed up that decomposition,

717
00:50:51.239 --> 00:50:54.400
to get those big old woody chunks
on their way to breaking down. It

718
00:50:54.480 --> 00:50:58.159
is going to settle down. Number
one, they fluffed up the soil.

719
00:50:58.199 --> 00:51:00.840
I don't know. If you've ever
dug a whole or a trench, you

720
00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:02.800
know that you put all the soil
back in and then later it sinks down.

721
00:51:02.840 --> 00:51:06.519
You wonder how did that happen,
But it's just how that works.

722
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:08.800
But from digging the soil. But
then in addition to that, all that

723
00:51:08.840 --> 00:51:14.480
wood in the soil going away as
it decomposes, it is going to sink.

724
00:51:14.519 --> 00:51:16.559
So it does need to be mounded
up a little bit. I don't

725
00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:21.559
know that I would add more soil
to it. You could at this time.

726
00:51:21.599 --> 00:51:24.440
If you can get a soil that
fairly closely matches what you have in

727
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:28.920
your yard, if it's if it's
dramatically different, that's going to be a

728
00:51:28.920 --> 00:51:30.880
spot in your yard that always looks
a little different, always grows a little

729
00:51:30.920 --> 00:51:35.760
different, and so you want to
match it as close as you can if

730
00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:39.519
you're gonna bring soil in. But
yeah, it's getting the nitrogen on there,

731
00:51:39.639 --> 00:51:44.760
keeping it moist, always keeping it
moist. So you know your goal

732
00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:47.480
is, hey, i've got basically
what you got is a bunch of chunks

733
00:51:47.480 --> 00:51:52.159
of stump underground that are going to
decompose away. And that's a lot of

734
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:54.280
volume, a lot of volume of
Okay, has mound a little bit,

735
00:51:54.320 --> 00:51:59.880
so I won't worry about the soil. Need to tho a high content of

736
00:52:00.119 --> 00:52:04.480
nitrogen, higher nitrogen county. It's
something that's lucky. It's what we recommend

737
00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:07.599
for lawns anyway. You know the
ratios we say three one two four one

738
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:10.239
two, like a lot of that
first number, not much of the second

739
00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:15.159
number. That's what you're going for. You wanted to hire first number high

740
00:52:15.159 --> 00:52:19.239
first number. Yeah, okay,
then and just own that area only over

741
00:52:19.320 --> 00:52:22.920
the whole York. Well, we're
trying to get those wood chips on their

742
00:52:22.920 --> 00:52:25.760
way to we'll put decomposing as quick
as we can. So that's what we're

743
00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:29.639
having for there. You know it's
gonna take a while. I mean,

744
00:52:29.639 --> 00:52:32.400
you're going from a situation where you
had a big old tree stump and giant

745
00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:36.159
roots all through the soil to now
you want to make it a yard.

746
00:52:36.599 --> 00:52:38.559
And that's not gonna happen overnight,
but if you'll do what I'm saying,

747
00:52:38.920 --> 00:52:46.960
it will get there faster sooner rather
so for as planning so little, you

748
00:52:47.000 --> 00:52:52.880
know before decomposed for us before I
do that, at least a little initial

749
00:52:52.960 --> 00:52:55.719
settling, I would, because that's
when you may see, you know what,

750
00:52:55.719 --> 00:52:58.920
I'm gonna have to add a little
bit more to this because it is

751
00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:02.519
going to keep settling. But the
ultrogen down water down. You can scratch

752
00:53:02.559 --> 00:53:07.920
it into the soil to get those
fertilizer particles kind of down in the top

753
00:53:07.000 --> 00:53:13.599
inch of soil or so and then
watered in really good and get that process

754
00:53:13.679 --> 00:53:15.360
started. That That's what I would
do, and then just watch it and

755
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:22.000
adjust accordingly. Okay, then so
so so if if I'm just gonna take

756
00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:25.800
a little bit, I'm gonna let
you go. Should you know I want

757
00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:29.280
to be able to be at least
have a lawn by mixed ring, I

758
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:31.679
guess, yeah, that's what we're
aiming for. I would you know it

759
00:53:32.079 --> 00:53:36.559
you can still plant grass and you
could put grass on it because even if

760
00:53:36.559 --> 00:53:37.800
it sinks down, you can add
a little soil over time. But I

761
00:53:38.639 --> 00:53:43.039
just like to get it as good
as I can before I start putting plants

762
00:53:43.079 --> 00:53:46.760
in a bed, because then things
become more difficult to do. Okay,

763
00:53:47.119 --> 00:53:50.159
all right, it's bed time to
kind of go down a little bit.

764
00:53:50.159 --> 00:53:53.039
We we're watered in and nitrogen it
to delp and here you gotta get some

765
00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:55.639
time, all right. It's been
a hot so me and a household.

766
00:53:55.800 --> 00:53:59.559
Oh man, the grass that had
a hard time now so I got time

767
00:53:59.599 --> 00:54:01.360
to do that well. With moisture
and nitrogen, that wood is going to

768
00:54:01.440 --> 00:54:06.400
start rotting fast. It is so
hey, Cliff, thanks for the call.

769
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:09.639
I appreciate that very very much.
You know, years ago, my

770
00:54:09.679 --> 00:54:14.440
wife and I were done in the
Houston area and we were volunteered for Star

771
00:54:14.480 --> 00:54:16.840
of Hope. We love Star of
Hope. We believe in Star of Hope.

772
00:54:17.079 --> 00:54:21.079
Star of Hope has their love and
action vans that go out and reach

773
00:54:21.119 --> 00:54:24.639
out to homeless people on the streets
with prayer and shelter recovery programs. The

774
00:54:24.679 --> 00:54:29.119
thing I like about Star of Hope
is it's not just a handout. It's

775
00:54:29.119 --> 00:54:34.199
not like here's some money good luck
and handing out money at the street corner

776
00:54:34.239 --> 00:54:37.599
amounts to that. Put those dollars
into Star of Hope. I mean,

777
00:54:37.880 --> 00:54:40.039
you know the cost of what a
cup of coffee, you can provide a

778
00:54:40.079 --> 00:54:45.239
meal. Two dollars and eighty cents
will provide a meal for somebody, and

779
00:54:45.280 --> 00:54:49.920
they serve over six thousand a week. They bring people in. If you

780
00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:52.679
move in with Star of Hope,
they will take care of you. They

781
00:54:52.719 --> 00:54:54.599
will get you set up, they
will teach you how to interview for jobs.

782
00:54:54.840 --> 00:54:58.079
And of course they got the rules. You got to apply. You

783
00:54:58.239 --> 00:55:01.000
got to apply to the I mean, which is how it has to be.

784
00:55:01.679 --> 00:55:05.800
But as a result of that,
they walk with people through the course

785
00:55:05.800 --> 00:55:08.679
of the whole year and then some
to help them get their feet under them,

786
00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:14.079
hope to get their life back around
under them. And I know those

787
00:55:14.119 --> 00:55:17.639
folks though you listening are You're compassionate
people, You care about people. You

788
00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:21.360
don't want to see your money wasted, but you don't want to see people's

789
00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:24.559
lives destroyed either. Star of Hope
is a way you can know that every

790
00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:30.480
dollar you're giving them is making a
lasting difference. It's helping people overcome substance

791
00:55:30.480 --> 00:55:35.119
abuse, it's helping people. You
don't think about this if you lost everything

792
00:55:35.639 --> 00:55:38.320
and you didn't have a car to
go get to a job, you didn't

793
00:55:38.360 --> 00:55:43.280
know how to apply, how to
effectively interview for a job, or how

794
00:55:43.320 --> 00:55:45.239
to hold a job and do a
good job. That they have all of

795
00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:50.840
that, along with the spiritual growth, the life management skills. It's all

796
00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:58.199
there s h mission dot org,
sh mission dot org. Check them out

797
00:55:58.239 --> 00:56:01.159
online. And I hope you will
join me as a supporter of Star of

798
00:56:01.239 --> 00:56:07.639
Hope Emission if you're real strong about
that. I really believe in the Star

799
00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:10.119
of Hope and the things that they
do. Our phone number is seven one

800
00:56:10.280 --> 00:56:15.840
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

801
00:56:15.920 --> 00:56:21.639
eight seventy four. Now, anytime
we get rainfall around here, and believe

802
00:56:21.639 --> 00:56:24.519
it or not, it's going to
come back. Anytime you have standing water

803
00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:30.760
from past rains or irrigation over irrigation, or maybe the water that stands in

804
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:34.639
a dog bowl underneath a plant,
in that catch basin, not on your

805
00:56:34.679 --> 00:56:38.400
patio, that's where mosquitoes will thrive. A mosquitoes can lay egg and a

806
00:56:38.519 --> 00:56:45.239
thimble full of water, and they
can raise their little larva and come out

807
00:56:45.280 --> 00:56:49.880
as adult mosquitoes in a very short
time. So you go from enjoying sitting

808
00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:54.440
outside to it just being miserable because
all the mosquitoes around. Mosquito dunks fix

809
00:56:54.519 --> 00:56:59.480
that. Mosquito dunks are natural.
They're a disease of mosquitoes. It's a

810
00:56:59.519 --> 00:57:02.199
little bay donut. You toss it
out there and it floats on standing water.

811
00:57:02.400 --> 00:57:06.199
They also have granules, by the
way, which is what I would

812
00:57:06.239 --> 00:57:08.320
use if you had a big area
and you want to scatter the granules everywhere

813
00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:14.480
to get that that mosquited disease all
through faster. But a duncill last about

814
00:57:14.559 --> 00:57:17.760
thirty days and cover about one hundred
square feet of water. The check out

815
00:57:17.800 --> 00:57:22.480
your eaves of your house. I'm
not the eaves, the gutters on the

816
00:57:22.480 --> 00:57:30.079
house anywhere they're sagging. Mosquited Heaven
is stagnant water with decaying organic matter.

817
00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:35.559
That's still that's what they want.
Mosquito dunks fix that where They available everywhere.

818
00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:38.840
Our independent garden centers, our feed
stores, we brag about ace hardware

819
00:57:38.880 --> 00:57:43.559
stores. They all have mosquito dunks. You should have some on hand because

820
00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:46.960
it will be raining again and that
way you're just ready to go and avoid

821
00:57:47.239 --> 00:57:52.679
you know, recapture your beautiful outdoor
areas and make them pleasant to be in

822
00:57:52.760 --> 00:57:57.840
at the end of the day instead
of surrounded by little tiny blood sucking vampires

823
00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:01.119
nikki flying everywhere and you know as
they land on you and tie me or

824
00:58:01.159 --> 00:58:07.639
you'd be positive or a negative or
what? Taking donations, Yeah, taking

825
00:58:07.199 --> 00:58:15.320
sense or whatever whatever donations are out
there. One of my favorite places when

826
00:58:15.360 --> 00:58:19.679
it comes to looking for a quality
tree is a Verdant Tree Farm. Verdant

827
00:58:19.679 --> 00:58:22.960
Treefarm dot Com is the website you
can find them. They I'm excited that

828
00:58:23.000 --> 00:58:25.800
they've got more than one location.
Now, you know, these just be

829
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:30.039
out there on Bark or Cyprus in
West Houston they're still there. But down

830
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:35.920
in the pair Land area on Broadway
West Broadway you can find a Verdant Tree

831
00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:37.840
Farm there. And if you go
up to the Heights area Yale at I

832
00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:42.440
ten kind of in that region,
there's another Verdant Tree farm down there.

833
00:58:42.840 --> 00:58:45.519
Verdant has trees of all sizes,
I mean all the way up to seven

834
00:58:45.639 --> 00:58:50.039
hundred gallons. If you want instant
shade. They've got palm trees for any

835
00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:52.880
budget. And boy do they ever
have an awesome selection. Hey, go

836
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:57.159
to Verdant, walk around, pick
out a tree, put a tag on

837
00:58:57.199 --> 00:58:59.800
it, they'll bring it, they'll
install it, they'll plant it right.

838
00:59:00.119 --> 00:59:05.440
Ten percent discount for military and first
responders and a one year warranty included with

839
00:59:05.679 --> 00:59:09.239
the installation ed Verdant tree farm.
And the best time to plan a tree

840
00:59:09.320 --> 00:59:12.880
is fifty years ago. The next
best time is today. Yeah, you

841
00:59:12.920 --> 00:59:15.400
can go. That's it. That's
what we're talking about. Hey, we're

842
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:19.000
gonna take a break here for NICKI
and the news seven one three two one

843
00:59:19.119 --> 00:59:34.000
two five eight seven four. I
know, well, good morning, good

844
00:59:34.039 --> 00:59:37.119
Sunday morning. You are listening to
garden Line, looking forward to visiting with

845
00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:44.000
you about the things that are of
most interest to you. I keep talking

846
00:59:44.000 --> 00:59:46.960
about how even though it's hot,
even though it's like ow man, it's

847
00:59:47.039 --> 00:59:51.639
fall, ever going to get here. Now's the time you gotta get stuff

848
00:59:51.639 --> 00:59:52.960
done now if you want to be
ready for fault. That's just how it

849
00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:57.039
works. In fall, we're gonna
be planning vegetable gardens. In fact,

850
00:59:57.039 --> 01:00:00.679
we already are right now. Some
crops. The cool seasons hits in the

851
01:00:00.679 --> 01:00:05.000
fall. In fall we can put
in perennial herbs. Not a better time

852
01:00:05.119 --> 01:00:10.119
of the year to plant perennial herbs, perennial flowers, woody shrubs, woody

853
01:00:10.199 --> 01:00:14.679
vines, trees, anything like that. Then the fall season, it's just

854
01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:19.079
it's just the best. It's the
best season we can plant twelve months out

855
01:00:19.119 --> 01:00:21.639
of the year here, I mean, we really can. We live in

856
01:00:21.639 --> 01:00:24.559
that kind of a climate. But
with that season coming up, why not

857
01:00:24.679 --> 01:00:28.199
be thinking about, now, how
do you get ready for it? You

858
01:00:28.239 --> 01:00:30.639
know, what does the soil need
now? If you if you're planting a

859
01:00:30.679 --> 01:00:34.199
tree. This is just a tip, by the way, we always talk

860
01:00:34.199 --> 01:00:37.039
about improving the soil. You know, so if you're putting in a container,

861
01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:38.719
you want good quality soil. If
you're putting in a new flower bed

862
01:00:38.800 --> 01:00:43.960
or shrub, maybe a vegetable bed
or something like that, you always want

863
01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:47.400
to have this perfect soil blend that
you've created for plants. When it comes

864
01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:51.239
to trees, however, you know, if you think about something that's going

865
01:00:51.320 --> 01:00:54.440
to be you know, sixty feet
across this giant plant, which is a

866
01:00:54.519 --> 01:00:58.880
tree, is a plant, and
it's got roots reaching two and a half

867
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:01.000
times the size of the height through
the tree in all directions. I mean,

868
01:01:01.039 --> 01:01:07.000
that is amazingly wide root system.
To go dig a little hole and

869
01:01:07.079 --> 01:01:09.960
put compost in. It accomplishes nothing. In fact, it works against you,

870
01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:14.480
especially in a clay soil. When
you dig a hole in clay,

871
01:01:14.599 --> 01:01:19.760
that's called a bathtub. It's an
underground water holding bathtub. That's how clay

872
01:01:19.800 --> 01:01:22.719
works. That's why we build up
raised beds. That's why we amend the

873
01:01:22.760 --> 01:01:29.400
soil through a large area for smaller
statured plants with things like expanded shale.

874
01:01:29.679 --> 01:01:32.719
But just remember this, don't put
stuff like that in the planting hole.

875
01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:37.440
That tree's got to live in the
soil where you planted it. Now,

876
01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:40.800
if it's a very small tree,
maybe a medium sized crape myrtle something like

877
01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:45.599
that, yes, you can create
a giant raised bed with lots of improved

878
01:01:45.639 --> 01:01:49.559
soil, very wide and help it
out a little bit. But that's different

879
01:01:49.800 --> 01:01:54.800
creating a bed with a blend of
quality soil than digging a hole and just

880
01:01:54.880 --> 01:02:00.599
filling the hole with potting soil or
something the equivalent thereof. That doesn't do

881
01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:02.559
any good. In fact, what
often happens is roots at the sides of

882
01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:06.960
that hole and they just circle.
It's almost like a terracotta pot or something

883
01:02:07.000 --> 01:02:09.559
under there. They're just going around
in the clay and they're not venturing out

884
01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:14.960
as well as they could. So
for tree planting, pick a tree that

885
01:02:15.039 --> 01:02:17.639
wants to be where you live.
You know. That's why you know bragging

886
01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:22.719
on Verdant tree Farm. I'm gonna
go and they're gonna sell stuff that grows

887
01:02:22.760 --> 01:02:29.719
here and I don't just because you
like a tree planted Colorado blue spruce.

888
01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:32.039
Boy, are they ever prettiest?
I wanted the nursery show this past week

889
01:02:32.360 --> 01:02:36.440
and I was thinking, what is
that doing in Texas? That is not

890
01:02:36.599 --> 01:02:38.639
supposed to be here? And it
won't live here, It won't do good

891
01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:44.440
here. Plant trees that belong here. Native trees trees are very well adapted,

892
01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:46.719
and when you do that, you
are setting yourself up for success.

893
01:02:46.800 --> 01:02:51.440
We can talk more about tree planting
and stuff like that later, but just

894
01:02:51.960 --> 01:02:55.039
a tip. Now's the time to
get ready for all kinds of fall planting,

895
01:02:55.280 --> 01:03:00.360
because it's coming and if you do
the work now, you'll be ready

896
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:05.920
to go when it's time to plant
the plants later. That is important.

897
01:03:06.000 --> 01:03:07.639
So it's kind of like a lot
of things in life. You know,

898
01:03:07.760 --> 01:03:12.960
you think ahead, you know,
we all think we're invincible and we're just

899
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:16.119
going to go on forever doing things
and suddenly realize, well, oh,

900
01:03:16.159 --> 01:03:20.559
it's about time to retire here,
and you know what, I didn't prepare

901
01:03:20.639 --> 01:03:25.360
for retirement. Well, the time
to prepare for everything is now. Now

902
01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:30.559
is the time for gardening and all
kinds of stuff like that for your lawn.

903
01:03:30.679 --> 01:03:36.880
If you haven't done any summer fertilization
and preparation, for example, this

904
01:03:36.880 --> 01:03:39.760
would be a time to put down
a good slow release product like Nelson's plant

905
01:03:39.800 --> 01:03:43.719
Food Slow and Easy. I like
Slow and Easy. It's a twenty two

906
01:03:43.719 --> 01:03:46.480
two ten. That's a lot of
nitrogen, but you're putting it out at

907
01:03:46.519 --> 01:03:51.119
a rate where it's not a lot
of nitrogen. You're putting it out at

908
01:03:51.119 --> 01:03:53.119
about a rate of about five pounds
per thousand square feet, so it goes

909
01:03:53.159 --> 01:03:57.760
a long long way. But that
powerhouse blend, I mean it is going

910
01:03:57.840 --> 01:04:00.800
to gradually feed your lawn over time, so you can't burn a lawn.

911
01:04:01.039 --> 01:04:05.159
When you apply something like It's slow
and Easy at the right rate at the

912
01:04:05.239 --> 01:04:09.400
right time, it's just gonna be
good. It's gonna carry your lawn on

913
01:04:09.480 --> 01:04:13.039
into fall really well. Nitrofoss has
a lot of things in their turf Star

914
01:04:13.119 --> 01:04:16.239
line. Another one I like is
Bruce's Brew it's an immediately available fertilizer.

915
01:04:16.480 --> 01:04:19.239
It's a little bit of a gradual, but by and large it's going to

916
01:04:19.280 --> 01:04:24.400
be available when you put it down. And they have a feather light that's

917
01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:28.400
an eighteen two eight that I also
like. It's one third of it is

918
01:04:28.440 --> 01:04:32.320
feathermeal, which is a natural product
that's put in there. We're gonna be

919
01:04:32.360 --> 01:04:35.880
talking about their carbo load in the
fall. That is an important one to

920
01:04:35.880 --> 01:04:40.280
put down when we're going into the
winter. But Nelson Plant Food, they're

921
01:04:40.320 --> 01:04:44.480
designed to work here. You know, for over twenty years, Dean Nelson

922
01:04:44.519 --> 01:04:48.760
has been making commercial grade quality turf
grash fertilizers available to homeowners. And that

923
01:04:48.840 --> 01:04:51.880
ain't even talking about their Color Star
line, their Nutra Star line, their

924
01:04:51.920 --> 01:04:57.880
Turf Star line, their Nature Star
line, just lots of quality products there

925
01:04:57.880 --> 01:05:01.239
with the folks at Nelson's Plant Food. Our phone number is seven one three

926
01:05:01.360 --> 01:05:05.880
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two and two fifty eight

927
01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:09.360
seventy four. We're gonna take a
little break here in just a bit,

928
01:05:09.599 --> 01:05:14.320
and when we come back, we
are going into our last segment. And

929
01:05:14.719 --> 01:05:16.639
I just want to remind you that
at the eight o'clock hour, just around

930
01:05:16.679 --> 01:05:19.800
the corner. Sherry Harra from Plants
for All Seasons is going to be here.

931
01:05:19.880 --> 01:05:23.880
Now, those of you who know
Sherry knows she is a wealth of

932
01:05:23.960 --> 01:05:29.360
information. She has been gardening and
advising gardeners in this area for a long

933
01:05:29.440 --> 01:05:33.000
time and she's heard it all.
I'm sure she's advised all kinds of things,

934
01:05:33.079 --> 01:05:35.679
I'm sure, and we're gonna pick
her brain try to find out what

935
01:05:35.760 --> 01:05:40.199
all is inside there that can help
us with the way we garden. So

936
01:05:40.280 --> 01:05:44.079
please stick around for the eight o'clock
hour. You definitely do not want to

937
01:05:44.119 --> 01:05:50.639
miss that at all. One thing
that I enjoy about the Houston area when

938
01:05:50.639 --> 01:05:55.519
it comes to plants and plants supplies
and plant products is a fact that we

939
01:05:55.559 --> 01:05:58.360
have thirty nine Ace Hardware stores here. Now. When I was growing up,

940
01:05:58.679 --> 01:06:02.079
Ace Harder was just your little hometown
hardware store, and that was good.

941
01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:04.639
It was a good one. I
like that. I don't know.

942
01:06:04.840 --> 01:06:09.559
Skip forward a couple of decades and
I walk into an Ace Hardware and it's

943
01:06:09.639 --> 01:06:14.119
like, holy cow, they have
everything you can imagine. I mean,

944
01:06:14.480 --> 01:06:17.360
I've been in Ace Hardware's with fudge
bars. I've been in Ace Hardware stores,

945
01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:20.199
you know, with an ice cream
shop. I've been in Ace Hardware

946
01:06:20.199 --> 01:06:24.880
stores with jewelry that, you know, just really cool jewelry for ladies,

947
01:06:24.920 --> 01:06:29.519
that just amazing stuff. That's a
hardware store for crying out loud. But

948
01:06:29.639 --> 01:06:32.000
Ace Hardware is going to have the
fertilizer I talk about, it's gonna have

949
01:06:32.039 --> 01:06:35.119
the soil mixes. I talk about, it's going to have all the products

950
01:06:35.159 --> 01:06:39.840
you need for controlling pest diseases and
other things in your landscape. And with

951
01:06:39.920 --> 01:06:43.800
thirty nine of them, not hard
to find one. Go online Ace Hardware

952
01:06:43.840 --> 01:06:47.960
dot com, Ace Hardware dot Com
and look for their store locator and you

953
01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:50.559
can find the one near you.
And I say the one near you.

954
01:06:50.559 --> 01:06:55.599
You're going to find the three near
you because they're with thirty nine there are

955
01:06:55.639 --> 01:07:00.159
Ace Hardware stores everywhere. It's easy, easy to get in and find the

956
01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:03.199
things you need. Ace Hardware Store
in twenty twenty two, they raised almost

957
01:07:03.239 --> 01:07:08.079
half a million dollars for Texas Children's
Hospital. They're always doing stuff like that.

958
01:07:08.360 --> 01:07:10.920
When you go in, by the
way, sign up for their Ace

959
01:07:11.000 --> 01:07:15.280
Hardware Reward program, you can earn
money back on your purchase. I belong

960
01:07:15.360 --> 01:07:18.599
to that, and I think it
just makes sense because trust me on this

961
01:07:18.639 --> 01:07:21.840
one. You may go in there
thinking you need a bag of fertilizer or

962
01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:27.079
something, but you're going to find
yourself coming out with barbecue supplies and who

963
01:07:27.119 --> 01:07:30.159
knows what all from ace hardware.
Let's take a little break here seven one

964
01:07:30.280 --> 01:07:34.119
three, two one two five eight
seven four or two one two ktr H.

965
01:07:34.280 --> 01:07:36.719
Give Josh a call. He'll get
you on the board and you'll be

966
01:07:36.760 --> 01:07:54.840
the first we talk to when we
come back. Jealousy, Well, good

967
01:07:54.840 --> 01:07:58.360
morning. We are glad you're listening
to garden Line and we're here to talk

968
01:07:58.360 --> 01:08:00.400
to you about things that are of
interest to you regarding gardening. Our phone

969
01:08:00.440 --> 01:08:05.000
number seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

970
01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:11.440
one two fifty eight seventy four.
I was sitting out in the backyard this

971
01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:15.800
past week enjoying my bird feeder.
I've got one of the wild birds unlimited.

972
01:08:15.840 --> 01:08:19.840
They've got that squirrel excluding feeder,
and I don't know whether my favorite

973
01:08:19.840 --> 01:08:24.359
part of it is watching birds come
to it and feed on it, or

974
01:08:24.479 --> 01:08:29.119
listening to squirrels using language that I
cannot use on the radio up in the

975
01:08:29.119 --> 01:08:31.840
tree because they can't get into the
darn thing. I mean it is to

976
01:08:31.920 --> 01:08:36.319
say something as squirrel proof is like
saying a plant is deerproof. I'm always

977
01:08:36.359 --> 01:08:41.960
hesitant to use those two deer proof
and one sentence because they'll prove me wrong.

978
01:08:42.439 --> 01:08:45.840
But this feeder is amazing anyway.
I enjoy the feeder. But now

979
01:08:45.920 --> 01:08:48.439
is the time to be feeding your
birds, because it's always a good time.

980
01:08:48.479 --> 01:08:53.279
But our birds are molting right now, all the way into August here,

981
01:08:53.359 --> 01:08:57.800
they're still doing their molting as they
get new plumage, and it's important

982
01:08:57.800 --> 01:09:00.840
for them to have a quality food. And birds has one call that's it's

983
01:09:00.880 --> 01:09:04.399
a nesting super blend, that's what
they call it, and it's just good

984
01:09:04.520 --> 01:09:09.720
to use all through this month.
I love their feeds because their feeds are

985
01:09:09.800 --> 01:09:13.800
high quality. They're not filled with
all the little red bibs that birds are

986
01:09:13.840 --> 01:09:15.479
not going to be interested in eating. And when you buy a dollar worth

987
01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:18.760
a wild bird bird seed, you're
going to get a dollar's worth of stuff

988
01:09:18.760 --> 01:09:24.720
that birds are wanting to eat,
and that is important, very important.

989
01:09:25.159 --> 01:09:28.159
They've got the feeders. It's it's
hummingbird season, by the way, so

990
01:09:28.199 --> 01:09:31.520
we absolutely need to be getting those
hummingbird feeders out right now. And they

991
01:09:31.560 --> 01:09:34.960
have some high quality when I love
their high perch feeder. That's a one

992
01:09:35.000 --> 01:09:40.000
I just got recently, about two
years ago, actually, but I got

993
01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:44.479
I got it, and it just
it really works well and the hummingbirds really

994
01:09:44.520 --> 01:09:47.399
really are attracted to it. We're
gonna head out to Conro. We are

995
01:09:47.439 --> 01:09:53.680
going to talk to Jim. Good
morning, Jim, good skip. I

996
01:09:53.840 --> 01:10:00.439
called you last week and since you's
some pictures of a red maple I had

997
01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:05.159
planted last fall, and I think
it has been overwatered even in this drought

998
01:10:05.199 --> 01:10:10.439
time, and I wanted if you
had had or can't, take a look

999
01:10:10.479 --> 01:10:13.399
at him and see if there's anything
I can do or do. Am I

1000
01:10:13.640 --> 01:10:17.039
looking at free planning, Okay,
and this would be an email from Jim

1001
01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:24.960
that in the email is zero three
one two. Okay, tell me a

1002
01:10:25.000 --> 01:10:27.199
little bit about this. I'm gonna
look for that email as you we're talking

1003
01:10:27.239 --> 01:10:29.840
here, but tell me more about
the red maple and what you're seeing.

1004
01:10:31.479 --> 01:10:40.159
The leaves had been drooping most of
the summer, and of course assumed that

1005
01:10:40.199 --> 01:10:44.960
it was not getting enough water,
even though I hadn't watered it in several

1006
01:10:44.960 --> 01:10:50.560
weeks now, but I figured it
had to be a meeting water with all

1007
01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:55.720
of this lack of rain that we've
had. But I went and I watered

1008
01:10:55.760 --> 01:10:59.680
it just a week and a half
ago. I guess I gave it a

1009
01:11:00.000 --> 01:11:03.680
probably ten or fifteen gallons, And
since then it's just gotten worse. The

1010
01:11:03.800 --> 01:11:08.680
leaves are turning brown. Last week
when I sent you the pictures, there

1011
01:11:08.720 --> 01:11:13.399
were probably about ten percent brown,
and now it's it's probably eighty percent.

1012
01:11:14.079 --> 01:11:18.239
M wow, Jim, I'm not
seeing your email. I'll keep looking.

1013
01:11:18.239 --> 01:11:21.439
As we're talking about, I see
it drumming. I found it drum and

1014
01:11:21.439 --> 01:11:27.119
red maple. Yeah, and so
you planted at last November. So that's

1015
01:11:27.159 --> 01:11:29.520
a great time to plant it,
by the way, it gives it the

1016
01:11:29.560 --> 01:11:33.159
best shot. But it still has
a pretty darn limited root system, you

1017
01:11:33.199 --> 01:11:35.680
know. I mean it takes time. You know, I had that tree

1018
01:11:35.720 --> 01:11:39.439
grown from a seat in that spot. It's root to be reaching two and

1019
01:11:39.439 --> 01:11:43.159
a half times a tree in all
directions. But right now you still got

1020
01:11:43.199 --> 01:11:46.319
a pretty pretty confined root system.
It's establishing well, but I just think

1021
01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:50.199
the key is to keep that soul
moist. And it's hard to tell you,

1022
01:11:50.279 --> 01:11:54.159
you know, water for this many
minutes a day or this many days

1023
01:11:54.199 --> 01:11:59.319
a week. The soils vary,
the site varies in terms of sun and

1024
01:11:59.439 --> 01:12:05.319
shade and other things. But dig
down and especially around maybe where the original

1025
01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:11.039
root ball was and maybe two feet
out from there or so, and just

1026
01:12:11.119 --> 01:12:14.680
take down about four or five six
inches and feel the soil and get a

1027
01:12:14.680 --> 01:12:16.520
fuel for it. And it's going
to take a lot of water. That

1028
01:12:16.560 --> 01:12:20.279
tree is pumping a lot of water. And if you can keep the area

1029
01:12:20.319 --> 01:12:25.119
where most of the roots are moist, it's going to have the best chance

1030
01:12:25.520 --> 01:12:29.960
that it has. Soggy soil will
kill plants. Dry soil will kill plants.

1031
01:12:30.720 --> 01:12:33.159
And let me, I'm trying to
pull those those photos that you sent

1032
01:12:33.199 --> 01:12:38.039
me up here as we're talking,
but yeah, I see this a lot.

1033
01:12:38.159 --> 01:12:44.239
And what your symptoms are showing is
leaf scorch. It's the tips of

1034
01:12:44.279 --> 01:12:46.880
the leaves are burning, the margins
the leaves are burning, and then eventually

1035
01:12:46.920 --> 01:12:51.159
the whole leaf is burning. So
something's wrong in the soil gym, and

1036
01:12:51.239 --> 01:12:55.359
it could be drought, it could
be dry soil. It could also be

1037
01:12:55.439 --> 01:13:00.600
anything that's preventing that flow of water
and nutrients from the soil up into the

1038
01:13:00.640 --> 01:13:03.720
tree. The amount of brown you
have on that is very concerning, as

1039
01:13:03.760 --> 01:13:08.560
I'm sure you are concerned about it. There's just not a lot of green

1040
01:13:08.640 --> 01:13:12.279
left, except out towards the ends
of branches. Check the trunk for any

1041
01:13:12.319 --> 01:13:15.239
kind of cracks, check around the
base for any kind of damage, but

1042
01:13:15.439 --> 01:13:20.520
mostly just check that soul moisture level
it. Overall, the site looks to

1043
01:13:20.560 --> 01:13:25.399
me like maybe it needs a little
more water. That may be some something

1044
01:13:25.439 --> 01:13:30.920
you want to look a little closer
at. Yeah, from what I can

1045
01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:33.520
see, I can't see the very
base of the tree. Hopefully there's not

1046
01:13:33.720 --> 01:13:38.560
multipled up against the trunk. But
from the pictures that I see, I

1047
01:13:38.640 --> 01:13:43.119
just see a tree that has been
lacking moisture for a good while. And

1048
01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:45.399
it could be due to a lack
in the soil, or it could be

1049
01:13:45.479 --> 01:13:50.119
due to something preventing that flow all
the way up into the tree. Okay,

1050
01:13:50.159 --> 01:13:55.239
all right, Jim, good good
luck with that. Ken me posted

1051
01:13:55.239 --> 01:13:57.840
if you If you want to call
back later, we can talk about it

1052
01:13:57.880 --> 01:14:01.159
again. If anything develops in a
different direction, be happy to do that.

1053
01:14:02.359 --> 01:14:06.319
You're listening to Guardenline our phone number
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You know those big panels that they
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have a better idea. Why not
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timber line solar shingle. So the
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on your roof, it is your
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him quite attractive when I first thought
what does that look like? And I

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01:15:12.439 --> 01:15:17.119
went and looks it's quite attractive.
It really works well. And so instead

1070
01:15:17.119 --> 01:15:20.439
of sitting around like we are right
now, complaining about the sun and the

1071
01:15:20.439 --> 01:15:25.479
heat and everything else. Why not
turn lemon is into lemonade and make a

1072
01:15:25.560 --> 01:15:30.119
little electricity out of that whole deal? That would be that makes sense to

1073
01:15:30.159 --> 01:15:31.800
me, at least, I liked
that I thought of that kind of idea.

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01:15:32.079 --> 01:15:36.720
Our phone number seven one three two
one two five eight seven four seven

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one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. If you're listening to garden

1076
01:15:43.359 --> 01:15:45.079
Line, we're gonna be back here
at eight o'clock. I we're gonna talk

1077
01:15:45.119 --> 01:15:49.920
to Sherry Hannah from Plants for All
Seasons, and we trust me come back.

1078
01:15:49.960 --> 01:15:55.119
It's going to be a wealth of
really awesome information. That lady.

1079
01:15:55.359 --> 01:15:58.159
She knows her stuff, and we're
going to pick her brain about it.

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01:15:58.960 --> 01:16:02.920
I was the other day about water
in my houseplants with Microlife's Biomatrix. That's

1081
01:16:02.920 --> 01:16:06.319
their orange label bottle. It's a
seven one three that includes a lot of

1082
01:16:06.359 --> 01:16:13.600
beneficial microbes, and even a houseplant
route benefits from having great microbial content working

1083
01:16:13.640 --> 01:16:16.079
around the route to do all the
things that microbs do for the roots.

1084
01:16:16.319 --> 01:16:19.000
I use it for my houseplants.
In fact, just yesterday I mixed up

1085
01:16:19.039 --> 01:16:21.840
a batch and with water and a
bunch of plants with it, just keeping

1086
01:16:21.880 --> 01:16:26.520
them healthy, happy, doing well. They also have the Ocean Harvest that's

1087
01:16:26.560 --> 01:16:29.720
their blue label. These little court
bottles. I mix them into water.

1088
01:16:29.760 --> 01:16:31.199
I like to put them in a
watering can for the outdoor. For the

1089
01:16:31.239 --> 01:16:34.399
Ocean Harvest. That's a fish base, so I use it outdoors. It's

1090
01:16:34.399 --> 01:16:40.000
a four two three again good microbial
content. You're not going to burn plants

1091
01:16:40.000 --> 01:16:42.399
with it. In fact, you
can delute it down and use it as

1092
01:16:42.439 --> 01:16:45.800
a folior spray on your plants.
If you like to go to Microlife Fertilizer

1093
01:16:45.880 --> 01:16:50.000
dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com you
can learn more about these products, but

1094
01:16:50.119 --> 01:16:55.039
can also learn where you can get
Microlife. Here in town and in town,

1095
01:16:55.159 --> 01:16:59.199
in the Greater Houston area and pretty
much everywhere is going to carry Microlife.

1096
01:16:59.199 --> 01:17:00.840
You hear me bragging about a nursery, a garden center, of a

1097
01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:04.920
feed store, a Ace hardware store, they're gonna have micro Life. We

1098
01:17:05.039 --> 01:17:09.399
got a lot of folks out there
on the board, so Jerry and Cooper

1099
01:17:10.000 --> 01:17:12.319
when we come back, we're going
to visit with you a little bit.

1100
01:17:12.319 --> 01:17:15.079
When we have Sherry here. Our
phone number if you'd like to get on

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01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:19.640
the board seven one three two one, two fifty eight seventy four. So

1102
01:17:19.760 --> 01:17:24.600
stick around. Think about some questions
that you might have for Sherry Harris.

1103
01:17:25.319 --> 01:17:30.119
Sherry is I enjoy visiting with a
number one. It's a lot of fun

1104
01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:33.239
just to enjoy to be around.
But she's also just so knowledgeable. Every

1105
01:17:33.239 --> 01:17:36.119
time I talk to Sherry, I'll
learned something, and that is what we're

1106
01:17:36.119 --> 01:17:39.600
about to do when we get to
eight o'clock hours. So I hope you

1107
01:17:39.680 --> 01:17:42.760
stick around with us. We look
forward to visiting with you some more.

1108
01:17:42.840 --> 01:17:45.560
We've got a lot of garden Line
left to do here today. Remember garden

1109
01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:50.840
Line every Saturday and Sunday from six
am to ten am, so tell your

1110
01:17:50.880 --> 01:17:55.319
friends and family about it. You
can also listen to it by podcast.

1111
01:17:55.680 --> 01:18:02.119
We'll be right back. KTRH Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

1112
01:18:02.159 --> 01:18:10.000
products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with

1113
01:18:10.239 --> 01:18:26.479
Scared Rictor. It's a smell crazy, just watching as a wood, so

1114
01:18:26.640 --> 01:18:32.399
many good things. Well, good
morning, good morning, on a beautiful

1115
01:18:32.439 --> 01:18:36.359
Sunday morning. It's a good day
to get outside a little bit of gardening

1116
01:18:36.359 --> 01:18:41.800
downe this afternoon. Our go visit
some of our garden centers because they we

1117
01:18:41.880 --> 01:18:44.920
have a lot of great garden centers
here in the town and I always brag

1118
01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:47.119
about that, but hey, it's
a good thing, you know. It

1119
01:18:47.279 --> 01:18:53.920
just is a good thing because you
have a selection in a variety like none

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01:18:53.960 --> 01:18:57.159
other. I mean, it's it
is I enjoy that. For me,

1121
01:18:57.199 --> 01:18:58.960
it would just be like, what
do you want to do today, I'm

1122
01:18:58.960 --> 01:19:01.039
gonna go to the park to go
to six Flags, or I know,

1123
01:19:01.279 --> 01:19:04.319
I just want to go to a
garden center. That's what makes me happy.

1124
01:19:05.079 --> 01:19:09.039
If you haven't fertilizer lawn this summer, it is time to get that

1125
01:19:09.079 --> 01:19:12.840
done. Go ahead and get it
done. Fall fertilizing is coming, but

1126
01:19:13.039 --> 01:19:15.800
now's the time when we're keeping our
lawn dents. So when the fall weed

1127
01:19:15.840 --> 01:19:21.800
seeds germinate in October, there won't
be enough sunlight to help them get established

1128
01:19:23.000 --> 01:19:26.880
because your lawn has become denser and
dentser and sweet green. By nitrofoss as

1129
01:19:26.880 --> 01:19:30.840
a fertilizer that will do that.
It is an eleven percent nitrogen fertilizer,

1130
01:19:30.920 --> 01:19:34.880
and that's a high amount for a
organic fertilizer. It's made of a molasses

1131
01:19:34.960 --> 01:19:41.760
base with some microbial activity that just
puts everything you need into that product in

1132
01:19:41.920 --> 01:19:47.239
terms of nutrients and nutrient availability.
Just get your Nitrofuss Sweet Green wherever you

1133
01:19:47.279 --> 01:19:51.800
buy Nitrofoss products, which would include
ace hardware stores and home and garden mom

1134
01:19:51.840 --> 01:19:56.600
and pop garden centers, you know, like the ones we brag on all

1135
01:19:56.640 --> 01:19:59.199
the time here your feed stores.
A lot of our feed stores carry the

1136
01:19:59.279 --> 01:20:02.800
Sweet Green as well. Easy to
find, easy to use, smells wonderful,

1137
01:20:02.880 --> 01:20:09.319
and probably most not probably most importantly
of all, it works. That

1138
01:20:09.520 --> 01:20:13.119
is what's important. We're going to
head out to Waller and now and talk

1139
01:20:13.159 --> 01:20:16.840
to Richard. Hello, Richard,
Hello, first time caller. I've got

1140
01:20:16.840 --> 01:20:20.000
a question I'm hoping you can help
me with. It's been going on for

1141
01:20:20.079 --> 01:20:25.560
years and never bother to call in. Why can't you find and buy Saint

1142
01:20:25.640 --> 01:20:30.479
Augustine seed? Okay, used to
be some on the market years ago and

1143
01:20:30.600 --> 01:20:34.039
it just didn't take off. And
there's reasons for that. Number One,

1144
01:20:34.640 --> 01:20:40.520
it's hard to get Saint Augustine to
make a lot of seed where a seed

1145
01:20:40.600 --> 01:20:44.119
company could harvest it and get it
and sell it at a reasonable price.

1146
01:20:44.199 --> 01:20:46.960
Number Two, when you plant seed, it is harder to get grass started

1147
01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:53.680
because that little tender seedling has to
be really cared for and through that process,

1148
01:20:53.720 --> 01:20:57.920
whereas with side it's just a lot
more resilient. But the main reason,

1149
01:20:58.239 --> 01:21:01.840
Richard is the most or varieties you
just can't get them by seed.

1150
01:21:01.920 --> 01:21:06.159
They couldn't make a seed from them
anyway. And so when we recommend Saint

1151
01:21:06.159 --> 01:21:10.640
Augustine, there's a new one coming
out from Texas A and M called Cobalt

1152
01:21:11.000 --> 01:21:14.520
that is going to make it's a
Saint Augustine that's as drought resistant as a

1153
01:21:14.520 --> 01:21:17.319
lot of our bermudas and sosias can
be. And so something like that you

1154
01:21:17.319 --> 01:21:20.640
couldn't have by seed. So do
you want it to be resistant to take

1155
01:21:21.000 --> 01:21:27.079
to Saint Augustine declined virus, which
our good varieties are. Those kinds of

1156
01:21:27.119 --> 01:21:31.920
things are just not gonna be available
in a seed anyway. But the farms

1157
01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:39.239
down in uh Wharton, let's say, or that that are growing it over

1158
01:21:39.279 --> 01:21:42.439
Invider Texas. That the farms are
growing it, they got to be planting

1159
01:21:42.520 --> 01:21:45.039
some kind of seed to start with
something. They're growing it. They're doing

1160
01:21:45.079 --> 01:21:51.359
it. No, they don't.
They plant sprigs of Bermuda zoysia and little

1161
01:21:51.439 --> 01:21:56.079
strips of Saint Augustine. If you
look at how they harvest a farm.

1162
01:21:56.119 --> 01:22:00.119
Imagine this like a like a football
field, but it's Saint Augustine. They

1163
01:22:00.199 --> 01:22:03.079
cut the strips out of it,
but they leave a little strip in between

1164
01:22:03.119 --> 01:22:08.279
the strips they remove, and it
just crawls back across there and fills back

1165
01:22:08.319 --> 01:22:12.199
in and then they can reharvest it
again. Gotcha, Okay, gotcha.

1166
01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:16.079
So there's no such thing at home
depot. If you find Saint Augustine seed

1167
01:22:16.119 --> 01:22:19.800
on the shelf, don't buy it
that. I mean, I don't know

1168
01:22:19.840 --> 01:22:24.560
how to put any cler in that. All right. I appreciate your help

1169
01:22:25.039 --> 01:22:30.560
very much. All right, bye
bye. Yeah, it's you know how

1170
01:22:30.560 --> 01:22:32.039
it goes. And speaking of our
lawns, and we need to water them

1171
01:22:32.079 --> 01:22:35.279
properly, and we have. You
have a free tool available to you,

1172
01:22:35.319 --> 01:22:39.079
by the way. I've talked about
it before, but it's the water my

1173
01:22:39.600 --> 01:22:42.399
Yard app. Now. You can
get it for Apple Store, you can

1174
01:22:42.399 --> 01:22:45.800
get it for Google Play for your
Android devices. You can go online to

1175
01:22:45.960 --> 01:22:50.520
water my yard dot org orgy water
my yard dot org and check it out.

1176
01:22:50.840 --> 01:22:54.840
Here's the deal. There's little weather
stations all through the region. You

1177
01:22:54.840 --> 01:22:58.439
don't even notice. Some they're small, they're out there, they're collecting solar

1178
01:22:58.560 --> 01:23:02.960
radiation, humidity, temperature, windspeed, all the things that determine how much

1179
01:23:03.000 --> 01:23:08.159
water grass uses or doesn't use.
Okay, and they will send you a

1180
01:23:08.199 --> 01:23:11.319
free email once you sign up.
They send a free email to you based

1181
01:23:11.359 --> 01:23:15.560
on your closest weather station telling you
exactly how much water your plant is used.

1182
01:23:15.640 --> 01:23:18.960
And they know that they've done the
research to know with all those factors

1183
01:23:19.279 --> 01:23:23.479
as it gets hotter, cooler,
humid, dry, et cetera, they

1184
01:23:23.520 --> 01:23:27.359
know how that affects water use.
And so I got one last week that

1185
01:23:27.479 --> 01:23:30.680
said I think it was point five
eight inches of water needed on my lawn.

1186
01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:33.479
And that's a science based answer,
and it's free. All that technology,

1187
01:23:33.560 --> 01:23:40.239
that expensive technology is available to you
for free with water my yard dot

1188
01:23:40.359 --> 01:23:44.399
org. We're going to go to
cypress and talk to Melanie. Now,

1189
01:23:44.479 --> 01:23:49.680
Hello Melanie, Hello Skip. I
just was moving for the last two weeks

1190
01:23:49.680 --> 01:23:54.920
from our old house, and I
left the sprinkler system lining about real early

1191
01:23:54.960 --> 01:23:59.439
in the morning about three times a
week. And it looks good, especially

1192
01:23:59.439 --> 01:24:02.880
the shaded area. But I have
an area I just went over and thought

1193
01:24:02.880 --> 01:24:09.640
it's about a twenty by twenty foot
where the grass is like white. I

1194
01:24:09.680 --> 01:24:13.079
mean it's not brown, it's white. And I'm like, oh my gosh.

1195
01:24:13.079 --> 01:24:15.439
So I started walking. I put
on the sprinkler, and that area

1196
01:24:15.479 --> 01:24:18.800
has always been bad. The sprinklers
don't really hit it real good. Okay,

1197
01:24:19.079 --> 01:24:23.600
So I just is there any hope
for it? Or I had put

1198
01:24:23.600 --> 01:24:27.399
out I will tell you this,
about three weeks ago, I put out

1199
01:24:27.520 --> 01:24:30.359
bug out because I saw a few
spots and I thought, well, maybe

1200
01:24:30.359 --> 01:24:34.399
there's some bugs getting in here.
I did put that out, Okay,

1201
01:24:34.520 --> 01:24:38.640
so I know if it is bugs
or if it's or if I can make

1202
01:24:38.640 --> 01:24:42.119
it come back alive, you know, with you know, fertilizing it or

1203
01:24:42.640 --> 01:24:45.079
I don't know what. And it's
it's a Saint Augustine grass, right,

1204
01:24:45.720 --> 01:24:48.960
it's Sant August okay, yeah,
and it's in full sun. Yeah.

1205
01:24:49.000 --> 01:24:51.960
So you just gotta keep soul moist, and I, you know, go

1206
01:24:53.039 --> 01:24:56.079
out to those areas, dig down
a few inches with a little hand trawl

1207
01:24:56.159 --> 01:24:59.960
and just feel the soil because you
know, we can sit here and talk

1208
01:25:00.000 --> 01:25:02.680
about how often the sprinklers come on
and run and things, but there are

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01:25:02.680 --> 01:25:05.920
a lot of variables there. The
bottom line is is your soul moist at

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01:25:05.920 --> 01:25:10.000
the root zone or not? And
that's what you can just walk out real

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01:25:10.079 --> 01:25:13.319
quickly and determine. And you don't
have to do that every time you water.

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01:25:13.439 --> 01:25:15.840
You just like, right now,
do it and see what does it

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01:25:15.880 --> 01:25:18.640
need. The bugout will take care
of the chinch bugs if you put that

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01:25:18.680 --> 01:25:23.279
out at right at the right rate. And so we're going to eliminate them

1215
01:25:23.319 --> 01:25:26.359
from the picture. Maybe they were
involved, but they shouldn't be involved now

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01:25:26.399 --> 01:25:30.439
if you use the bugout now.
And I just think the neglect because I

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01:25:30.479 --> 01:25:32.319
was unpacking and I just never went
over to the house and then all of

1218
01:25:32.359 --> 01:25:34.520
a sudden it was like, oh
my gosh, I probably could have caught

1219
01:25:34.520 --> 01:25:40.239
it sooner. Should put anything like
any kind of fertilizer on it, or

1220
01:25:40.560 --> 01:25:44.439
yeah, I would, I would
use I would use some fertilizer just to

1221
01:25:44.520 --> 01:25:46.520
kind of help it along a little
bit. And you can do a couple

1222
01:25:46.520 --> 01:25:50.119
of things. I mean you can
you can put out a dry granule fertilizer.

1223
01:25:50.159 --> 01:25:53.840
We talked about a lot of good
products you're on the market. That

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01:25:54.840 --> 01:26:00.039
sweet Green that'd be a good example. It's got plenty of nitrogen in it,

1225
01:25:59.520 --> 01:26:04.079
and so you would do that.
Let's see Sweet Green seven ten eleven.

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01:26:04.239 --> 01:26:08.680
You're gonna put about ten pounds per
thousand square feet on the sweet green

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01:26:08.880 --> 01:26:13.119
on the lawn. So just consider
how big the lawn is by enough to

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01:26:13.159 --> 01:26:15.640
do that. Watered in really well
when you do it and get it down

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01:26:15.640 --> 01:26:18.960
because we want to give it a
pretty good quick boost and it will accomplish

1230
01:26:18.960 --> 01:26:25.079
that for you. What is the
difference between sweet green and slow and easy?

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01:26:26.159 --> 01:26:29.199
Oh gosh, that's a long answer, and I have to go to

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01:26:29.279 --> 01:26:32.640
a break. Bottom line is sweet
sweet green, sweet greens of molasses and

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01:26:32.680 --> 01:26:39.039
micro based product. That that's what
it's amounted to. And the slow and

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01:26:39.079 --> 01:26:42.479
easy is based on a lot of
different kinds of ingredients that helps stretch out

1235
01:26:42.520 --> 01:26:46.479
them feeding over a long time.
Okay, I'll just stick with the sweet

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01:26:46.520 --> 01:26:50.279
green right now. And it's okay
to fertilize aze is it? Famelia is

1237
01:26:50.319 --> 01:26:54.600
now right? It is okay,
do it moderately and watered and well.

1238
01:26:54.880 --> 01:26:57.000
Okay, all right, thank you
for that call. Hey, we're gonna

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01:26:57.000 --> 01:27:15.000
take a break seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy for well.

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01:27:15.039 --> 01:27:17.600
Good morning. You are listening to
garden Line and we are talking gardening this

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01:27:17.640 --> 01:27:21.800
morning. You know, I don't
have to tell you how hot and miserable

1242
01:27:21.840 --> 01:27:26.840
it is outside. Well, can
you imagine being homeless at this period in

1243
01:27:26.920 --> 01:27:29.800
time? You know, people are
homeless for a number of different reasons,

1244
01:27:30.159 --> 01:27:34.760
sometimes of no fault of their own. And when when you think about how

1245
01:27:34.760 --> 01:27:39.439
do we compassionately help people that are
in situations like that? The first thing

1246
01:27:39.479 --> 01:27:42.119
I think about a Star of Hope. You can go to a Star of

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01:27:42.239 --> 01:27:46.279
Hope mission. It's sh mission dot
org, s oh mission dot org to

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01:27:46.359 --> 01:27:49.199
learn more. But I can tell
you this, when you donate to Star

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01:27:49.279 --> 01:27:55.039
of Hope, they don't just give
handouts. They bring lifestyle change. They

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01:27:55.159 --> 01:27:58.520
help people, over the course of
a year, turn their life around,

1251
01:27:58.640 --> 01:28:02.319
get a job, get on their
feet, and it is hope not just

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01:28:02.399 --> 01:28:05.720
for them, but in many cases, perhaps a mom with some children that

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01:28:05.720 --> 01:28:11.359
are living in a car. It
is a generational change. At Star of

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01:28:11.399 --> 01:28:15.199
Hope. You're listening to garden Line
and we're talking grass today. Boy,

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01:28:15.359 --> 01:28:19.199
question after questions, all about lawns
and things. Let's go to Humble and

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01:28:19.239 --> 01:28:24.319
talk to Wilburt. Hello, Wilbert, Hello, how are you doing today?

1257
01:28:24.439 --> 01:28:28.880
I'm good, sir. How can
we help? I've got Saint Augustine

1258
01:28:28.960 --> 01:28:32.800
with a mixture of Bermuda grass in
it, and I usually use the nitrofoss

1259
01:28:33.399 --> 01:28:38.159
fertilizer. So all right, the
meat being the way it is, I

1260
01:28:38.239 --> 01:28:43.600
want to know, can I go
ahead on and do that fertilize and this

1261
01:28:43.640 --> 01:28:46.279
money I think the calendar calls forward. Yes, I want to ask a

1262
01:28:46.359 --> 01:28:51.319
qution because it's hot, and then
it is good for the bermuda part of

1263
01:28:51.359 --> 01:28:58.279
it, because the bamouda is brown
looking in the thing. Augustin is green,

1264
01:28:58.600 --> 01:29:02.039
right, and that's because muta holds
back and saves its water so it

1265
01:29:02.079 --> 01:29:05.800
can survive long term. And saying
augustine lives like there's no tomorrow and it

1266
01:29:05.880 --> 01:29:10.119
stays green until when it when saying
augustine turns brown, you've got a big

1267
01:29:10.159 --> 01:29:13.439
problem. But yes, you can
use it on both. If you follow

1268
01:29:13.479 --> 01:29:15.279
the label and apply the right amount, you will not burn your lawn.

1269
01:29:15.359 --> 01:29:17.880
You have to put it down and
then you want to water it in very

1270
01:29:17.880 --> 01:29:23.239
well. And with that combination,
Yes, you can fertilize now and don't

1271
01:29:23.279 --> 01:29:27.359
worry about it hurting anything. Okay, Because I was wondering if if I

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01:29:27.399 --> 01:29:30.439
could do I have to scale it
down a number. Could I just use

1273
01:29:30.520 --> 01:29:35.600
the call for a number that on
the label pack you can use what you

1274
01:29:35.680 --> 01:29:40.640
got and if you're planning on doing
a fall fertilization, which is coming up

1275
01:29:40.640 --> 01:29:45.239
here in a couple of months,
then you might hold a little on the

1276
01:29:45.239 --> 01:29:47.119
hold back just a little bit for
right now. Especially if it's going to

1277
01:29:47.159 --> 01:29:53.119
be something that's going to release gradually
over time, you don't need to put

1278
01:29:53.239 --> 01:29:56.560
as much on, but you always
want to have plenty of nutrient there for

1279
01:29:56.600 --> 01:29:59.520
the lawn to be dense, because, as I was saying earlier, in

1280
01:29:59.560 --> 01:30:03.039
October, where all the cool season
weeds are germinating, and the denter that

1281
01:30:03.079 --> 01:30:08.039
you can get that lawn between now
in October, the less cool season,

1282
01:30:08.039 --> 01:30:11.359
we are gonna be fighting. Okay, okay, appreciate it now. Also,

1283
01:30:11.479 --> 01:30:15.520
I was second board it calls for
the bug out now, but I

1284
01:30:15.600 --> 01:30:18.680
know some of them bring them patches
in these yards. It looked like you

1285
01:30:18.720 --> 01:30:25.159
don't know whether it's cheek bugs are
software or they just getting burned from from

1286
01:30:25.199 --> 01:30:28.800
the heat. Yeah, well,
and that's probably true. We do have

1287
01:30:28.920 --> 01:30:30.720
chinch bugs out now. I mean
that's possible. I haven't heard of sideware

1288
01:30:30.800 --> 01:30:34.439
burns yet this year. I mean
they're there, but I haven't heard of

1289
01:30:34.520 --> 01:30:39.680
a population being a problem yet.
But for the chinch bugs, Yeah,

1290
01:30:39.680 --> 01:30:42.399
the bug out Maxwell work. The
chinch bugs easy to pick out though.

1291
01:30:42.439 --> 01:30:45.239
It almost always starts in the sun
next to a driveway, a sidewalk or

1292
01:30:45.319 --> 01:30:49.000
curb or some other masonry kind of
thing. And so when you see that,

1293
01:30:49.159 --> 01:30:54.039
it's probably worth going in and treating
for the chinchbugs. All right,

1294
01:30:54.079 --> 01:30:57.760
Okay, well, appreciate the AMFO. You helped me out one hunt Well,

1295
01:30:57.840 --> 01:31:00.760
I appreciate that call Webert, thank
you very very much. If you

1296
01:31:00.920 --> 01:31:04.000
are looking at your landscape and you're
thinking, you know, I like my

1297
01:31:04.079 --> 01:31:08.279
house, I like my landscape,
but I want more. I want it

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01:31:08.319 --> 01:31:11.600
to be a showplace. I want
an outdoor area where I can get family

1299
01:31:11.680 --> 01:31:15.560
and friends in and just have a
great time. Piercecapes, that's who you

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01:31:15.680 --> 01:31:19.600
call. Pierscapes has the designers on
staff that can create that design. You

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know, it goes beyond your and
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They know how to do it and
they can create that beauty that makes your

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gardening, your landscape awesome. Rock
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drainage, irrigation, they do it
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Let the experienced and professionally trained folks
at Piercescapes turn your place is in

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into a showplace. That is what
they specialize in, that's what they do

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01:31:54.079 --> 01:31:58.479
well at. We're going to go
now to Pasadena and talk to James A.

1309
01:31:58.560 --> 01:32:01.960
Good morning, James, Good morning
Skip. I'm gotta question about torpedo

1310
01:32:02.000 --> 01:32:04.960
grass. How do I get rid
of it? Is the what is it

1311
01:32:05.079 --> 01:32:13.359
growing in Saint Augustine? Okay,
well, I'm sorry to hear that there's

1312
01:32:13.479 --> 01:32:17.840
not something that kills torpedo grass and
doesn't kill St. Augustine. Torpedo grass

1313
01:32:18.119 --> 01:32:23.079
has a characteristics though, where it
tends to grow up taller than you're Saint

1314
01:32:23.119 --> 01:32:27.399
Augustine. So with that in mind, if you have a wiper type applicator,

1315
01:32:27.840 --> 01:32:31.960
you can use a product such as
a something that kills everything, like

1316
01:32:32.039 --> 01:32:36.560
glyphosate round up type product. Put
it on, wipe it just on the

1317
01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:42.840
torpedo grass, not don't spray it
on your lawn and it'll translocate down And

1318
01:32:42.960 --> 01:32:45.600
that's not going to be once in
done deal. You're gonna have to go

1319
01:32:45.720 --> 01:32:49.600
after several times over time because it
is a very persistent, very pernicious weed.

1320
01:32:49.720 --> 01:32:54.560
Too. By the way, there
are also products that are for grass

1321
01:32:54.760 --> 01:33:00.760
only killer that contain an ingredient called
sathak sidem. But when you see something

1322
01:33:00.840 --> 01:33:03.880
that says it just kills grass post
emergent and it begins with Seth, like

1323
01:33:04.039 --> 01:33:10.159
the guy's name Seth set that's going
to be the ingredient. And again it

1324
01:33:10.279 --> 01:33:13.520
will kill your Saint Augustine. But
you can wipe it on the torpedo,

1325
01:33:14.159 --> 01:33:17.079
let it grow up higher so you
can get it on that. Other than

1326
01:33:17.159 --> 01:33:21.399
that, those two things are going
to coincide with each other and it commingle

1327
01:33:21.560 --> 01:33:26.479
and it They're just not something to
go in and surgically take out the torpedo.

1328
01:33:28.479 --> 01:33:30.800
All right, thank you, scip
all Right, I'm sorry to be

1329
01:33:30.880 --> 01:33:33.199
the bearer of bad news and I
know that is one pain in the neck

1330
01:33:33.479 --> 01:33:40.600
weed to be dealing with. Okay, you take care. Hey, if

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01:33:40.640 --> 01:33:45.119
you live in the see north central
Houston area, you know, Downtown Heights,

1332
01:33:45.239 --> 01:33:50.159
all through that region, your hometown
feed stores Quality Feed and Gardens supply

1333
01:33:50.359 --> 01:33:54.680
Quality Feed, Ken and Chris the
folks Quality Feed. They've they've owned it

1334
01:33:54.720 --> 01:33:58.199
for like thirty two years. Quality
Feed's been around since nineteen twenty eight.

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01:33:58.479 --> 01:34:00.680
So you talk about an old time
feed store. You go in there and

1336
01:34:00.760 --> 01:34:04.039
I mean they've got this. They've
got a seed rack that dates back to

1337
01:34:04.199 --> 01:34:09.159
nineteen twenty eight stocked with heirloom seeds. I just think that's the coolest thing

1338
01:34:09.239 --> 01:34:13.600
ever. They got all the fertilizers
and soils and things we talk about here.

1339
01:34:13.680 --> 01:34:15.479
They got all the feed store stuff
you would expect in a feed store.

1340
01:34:15.720 --> 01:34:19.079
They even make their own Kin's potting
soil, and they make their own

1341
01:34:19.159 --> 01:34:24.039
Granny's lang mix for chickens. And
by the way, I don't know anybody

1342
01:34:24.079 --> 01:34:27.079
that gets chickens in as much as
Quality Feed. Like ever two weeks it

1343
01:34:27.119 --> 01:34:29.840
seems like they got a new shipment
coming in. So if you want to

1344
01:34:29.880 --> 01:34:31.560
get into backyard chickens, or if
you're into it and you want to add

1345
01:34:31.560 --> 01:34:34.600
a few more to the flock,
they're the place to go. They have

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01:34:34.760 --> 01:34:40.119
everything you need for your backyard chickens. Go to Quality Feed coo dot com,

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01:34:40.439 --> 01:34:45.439
or just find them on Luzon Street. They're near the intersection of equipment

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01:34:45.880 --> 01:34:47.439
and a Lesion. If you went
to Quality Feed years ago, like I

1349
01:34:47.600 --> 01:34:51.920
did, that was a different location. Fairly recently, they've been in this

1350
01:34:53.119 --> 01:34:57.560
new location last couple of years.
I Guess and on Luzon Street. They're

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01:34:57.600 --> 01:35:00.600
open Monday through Friday nine to six, Saturday night to four, and Sunday

1352
01:35:00.880 --> 01:35:04.279
eleven thirty to four pm. So
it's a good day to get out there

1353
01:35:04.319 --> 01:35:11.039
and check out quality feed. You're
listening to garden Line and our number seven

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01:35:11.399 --> 01:35:17.239
one three two one two five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

1355
01:35:17.720 --> 01:35:23.439
fifty eight seventy four. This past
week, I was at the Texas Nursery

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01:35:23.479 --> 01:35:28.039
and Landscape Association Show in San Antonio, and this is like the state wide

1357
01:35:28.039 --> 01:35:30.880
show, in fact, bigger than
state wide. People come from Tennessee and

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01:35:31.000 --> 01:35:35.319
Louisiana and Oklahoma all over the place
to come because this is just an awesome

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01:35:35.439 --> 01:35:40.000
show. While I was there,
six headed came around the corner and Vego

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01:35:40.079 --> 01:35:44.000
Gardens how to display there? Now, Vego Gardens, that's the metal garden

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01:35:44.119 --> 01:35:46.760
bed. It's they treat the metal
so that it does not rust and corrode.

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01:35:47.079 --> 01:35:51.880
Then they paint it with the USDA
approved USDA IS certified paint so that

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01:35:51.960 --> 01:35:56.520
it's very food safe. So if
you're an organic gardener, this is the

1364
01:35:56.800 --> 01:36:00.960
only superior alternative to a treated lumber
bed. For example, if you're not

1365
01:36:01.039 --> 01:36:05.960
an organic gardener, there's other reasons
to love Vego gardens. They last forever,

1366
01:36:06.159 --> 01:36:11.279
and literally, if you compare them
to like treated lumber, in the

1367
01:36:11.399 --> 01:36:15.520
long run, Vego is cheaper because
it just outlasts treated lumber and you're not

1368
01:36:15.640 --> 01:36:17.000
having to build it and you're not
having to, you know, deal with

1369
01:36:17.119 --> 01:36:21.960
warping boards and all of that stuff. They are local company, Houston area

1370
01:36:23.039 --> 01:36:27.159
company. You go to vegogarden dot
com some of our mom and pop garden

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01:36:27.239 --> 01:36:30.239
centers here Carrie Vego garden beds.
There's a lot of impostures out there,

1372
01:36:30.279 --> 01:36:34.319
so don't be fooled. You want
quality, you want local, you want

1373
01:36:34.439 --> 01:36:40.560
Vego garden. I have Vego garden
beds myself. I think they are absolutely

1374
01:36:40.640 --> 01:36:44.680
wonderful. If I were putting in
a brand new garden, that's the only

1375
01:36:44.760 --> 01:36:47.720
way I'd do it. As with
a garden bed our phone number seven one

1376
01:36:47.840 --> 01:36:54.159
three two one two five eight seven
four seven one three two one two fifty

1377
01:36:54.239 --> 01:36:59.159
eight seventy four. Or you can
just uh, you know, give me

1378
01:36:59.239 --> 01:37:01.560
a call. Maybe we will talk
about gardening. Maybe we'll visit about you

1379
01:37:01.680 --> 01:37:04.920
bragging about the tomatoes you're growing in
the middle of summer. I won't believe

1380
01:37:04.960 --> 01:37:08.960
that one by the way, but
you can tell me anyway if you want

1381
01:37:09.079 --> 01:37:13.399
to. I was talking about affordable
treecare earlier. You know Martin spoon Moore,

1382
01:37:14.119 --> 01:37:17.479
the guy he knows trees, And
right now you look at your trees

1383
01:37:17.520 --> 01:37:21.359
and they're green, but I'm telling
you they're stressed unless you have really just

1384
01:37:21.479 --> 01:37:26.199
been watering with good deep soakings a
lot. Martin can come out and do

1385
01:37:26.279 --> 01:37:30.159
a deep root watering, and it's
important to do that because when you look

1386
01:37:30.239 --> 01:37:32.760
up at a tree and you see
problems, it's a little late and it

1387
01:37:32.920 --> 01:37:38.600
may be well on its way downhill
fast. And when a tree gets stressed,

1388
01:37:38.640 --> 01:37:42.760
things like hpoxlan canker in oak trees
and elms comes in. There's just

1389
01:37:42.880 --> 01:37:47.600
a lot of problems. It's like
becomes a Rhoadminos one leads to another seven

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one three, six nine nine two
six six three are aff Tree Service dot

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Com. While they're out there,
take a look at the trees. Make

1392
01:37:57.600 --> 01:38:00.359
sure ask them, will you look
at them? Do you see any issues

1393
01:38:00.439 --> 01:38:02.600
with future storms? I got some
limbs that need to be removed. They're

1394
01:38:02.640 --> 01:38:05.359
not going to sell you something you
don't need. Martin is an honest fellow

1395
01:38:05.520 --> 01:38:10.800
who does good work, and so
you just ask them and if it needs

1396
01:38:10.840 --> 01:38:13.199
it, they'll tell you. In
that way, you won't have this issue

1397
01:38:13.239 --> 01:38:17.239
you're dealing with later when that tree
has fallen on the line, drop coming

1398
01:38:17.399 --> 01:38:20.319
bringing the power into your house and
oh my gosh, is that ever a

1399
01:38:20.399 --> 01:38:25.439
mess? Well, Nikki, we're
here for the Nicki News Network and all

1400
01:38:25.520 --> 01:38:29.920
kinds of things. Plan. I
think we need a segment that says gardening

1401
01:38:30.039 --> 01:38:34.439
questions from Niki. Maybe amateur gardening
question no offense, amateur gardening questions from

1402
01:38:34.560 --> 01:38:40.000
Nikki, or it could be the
like asking for a friend segment. Yes,

1403
01:38:40.479 --> 01:38:43.279
yes, can we do that at
some point? Oh absolutely, I'd

1404
01:38:43.279 --> 01:38:46.880
love to do that Gardening questions in
here next Saturday. We can do that

1405
01:38:46.960 --> 01:38:48.840
next Saturday. Right now, I'm
going to shut up so you can do

1406
01:38:48.920 --> 01:39:15.800
the news. We're listening to garden
Line this morning. I am your host,

1407
01:39:15.840 --> 01:39:17.000
Skip Rictor. And what are we
here for it? Well, we're

1408
01:39:17.039 --> 01:39:19.520
here to talk about gardening. What's
of interest to you? What kind of

1409
01:39:19.600 --> 01:39:24.720
questions do you have? I know
everybody is suffering in the heat right now,

1410
01:39:24.960 --> 01:39:29.800
trying to keep plants adequately hydrated.
It's just a it's just a lot

1411
01:39:29.920 --> 01:39:33.560
going on. You know, Folks
get concerned as they rightly should when their

1412
01:39:33.600 --> 01:39:38.000
plants start looking bad. I was, I don't know where I was yesterday,

1413
01:39:38.079 --> 01:39:40.560
somewhere out and about, and I
saw a bed full of roses,

1414
01:39:40.720 --> 01:39:45.000
and boy, they just looked,
i don't know, like almost shark trus

1415
01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:48.840
tan looking they were. It was
just like the systems were shutting down on

1416
01:39:48.960 --> 01:39:53.399
those things. Now they needed water. I'm pretty sure that was involved.

1417
01:39:53.920 --> 01:39:57.800
But you know where it gets us
hot. It does affect the some of

1418
01:39:57.920 --> 01:40:02.800
the processes inside plants, and our
plants, buy and large, are pretty

1419
01:40:02.880 --> 01:40:08.039
tough and able to take it.
If you plant plants that are four here

1420
01:40:08.159 --> 01:40:11.359
that do well here, you don't
try to stretch the zone too much on

1421
01:40:11.479 --> 01:40:14.520
things. But it is an issue
that we do have to deal with.

1422
01:40:15.239 --> 01:40:19.119
I'm doing transplanting myself. There's well, there's always something to be planted,

1423
01:40:19.840 --> 01:40:23.760
and whenever you do, you want
to make sure those plants get off to

1424
01:40:23.800 --> 01:40:26.960
a good start. Remember, we've
got a cylinder of roots. It came

1425
01:40:27.000 --> 01:40:29.920
out of the pot and now they're
going in the ground, and we need

1426
01:40:29.960 --> 01:40:33.880
to take good care of them while
they're in that process under stressful conditions to

1427
01:40:34.000 --> 01:40:39.760
try to get a root system in. Okay, So a product like hastragrow

1428
01:40:40.079 --> 01:40:45.199
six twelve six is ideal for watering
implants like that. And here's why.

1429
01:40:45.680 --> 01:40:48.680
It's got the six twelve six hiphosphorus
content, which is important for blooms and

1430
01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:54.039
roots and fruiting and things like that
helping that plant get established. But it

1431
01:40:54.119 --> 01:40:58.920
also has medina soil activator to stimulate
the biological activity, and it's got humic

1432
01:40:58.960 --> 01:41:03.920
acid which helps improve ultimately will help
improve sol structure. But humic acid is

1433
01:41:04.000 --> 01:41:12.600
just a very very rich substance that
really helps plants. It just there can't

1434
01:41:12.640 --> 01:41:15.760
go into all the details of it, but in many ways, the ways

1435
01:41:15.800 --> 01:41:20.560
it functions in the soil and with
the roots to help is just night and

1436
01:41:20.640 --> 01:41:25.600
day in terms of the benefits that
it has. This has to grow six

1437
01:41:25.680 --> 01:41:30.199
twelve six also has a seaweed extract
in it as well, and that again

1438
01:41:30.319 --> 01:41:33.239
stimulates the blooming and the fruiting.
So just think of it. It's a

1439
01:41:33.319 --> 01:41:38.760
concoction that ever plant going in the
ground needs to be watered in well with

1440
01:41:38.880 --> 01:41:43.479
something like a Medina hast grow twelve
six. Whether it's a perennial, maybe

1441
01:41:43.520 --> 01:41:46.680
an herb or a salvia something like
that, whether it's a shrub or a

1442
01:41:46.800 --> 01:41:51.279
tree, watering in the root systems
really well, whether there's a tomato transplant

1443
01:41:51.359 --> 01:41:54.520
or a pepper that you're putting in
right now. And by the way,

1444
01:41:54.560 --> 01:41:57.760
it's time to do that. If
you want tomatoes and peppers for the fall

1445
01:41:57.840 --> 01:42:01.119
garden, Medina has to grow six
twelves. It just works. Well.

1446
01:42:02.520 --> 01:42:04.960
We're gonna head out now, and
let's see we're going to go first.

1447
01:42:04.960 --> 01:42:09.319
I think we're a head to Kingwood
first and talk to Fred. Hello,

1448
01:42:09.439 --> 01:42:13.119
Fred good million, Skip, thank
you for everything you do. Yes,

1449
01:42:14.279 --> 01:42:18.600
I've been using six two four Microlife
six two four in my lawn for about

1450
01:42:18.640 --> 01:42:24.840
five or six years now and it's
doing well, and I'm always asking myself

1451
01:42:25.640 --> 01:42:30.479
should I use it as my winterizer? And the reason I've gone only organic

1452
01:42:30.600 --> 01:42:32.800
in my lawn is because years and
years ago we've been in the house for

1453
01:42:32.920 --> 01:42:41.199
forty five years, I was using
the other synthetic stuff, and since I've

1454
01:42:41.239 --> 01:42:44.920
switched to Microlife, it's just doing
so much better. But I don't know

1455
01:42:45.000 --> 01:42:50.000
if it's the proper thing for the
for the winterizer. I also use azamite.

1456
01:42:50.039 --> 01:42:55.680
I also put you made plus down
and I'll also be doing the barricade.

1457
01:42:56.359 --> 01:43:01.479
Okay, well, so if it
were me going into fall, I

1458
01:43:01.600 --> 01:43:05.560
would use their brown Patch product.
It is. It's going to have a

1459
01:43:05.640 --> 01:43:10.720
nutrient content. But what happens was
we're go into fall, is we want

1460
01:43:10.760 --> 01:43:15.680
to pull that nitrogen down lower and
make sure the third number, the potassium

1461
01:43:15.000 --> 01:43:18.760
is up at a good decent level. You know, the six two four

1462
01:43:19.199 --> 01:43:23.359
has a good amount of potassium,
but it's got a little more nitrogen.

1463
01:43:23.520 --> 01:43:26.840
We'd like to shift those over a
little bit. And and so that's what

1464
01:43:26.920 --> 01:43:30.399
the brown Patch does. Now you
can use six two four on any plan

1465
01:43:30.439 --> 01:43:31.520
at any time of the year.
I mean, it's just a good all

1466
01:43:31.600 --> 01:43:36.680
purpose fertilizer. You would do better
though once we get into about October time.

1467
01:43:36.760 --> 01:43:42.359
That's when I'm gonna start talking about
the winterizers and the fall fertilizers and

1468
01:43:42.560 --> 01:43:46.199
and that's and the brown Patch is
also an organic microlife product. Yes,

1469
01:43:46.439 --> 01:43:51.079
it's a brown bag Microlife brown bag. So the two six two four bags

1470
01:43:51.119 --> 01:43:55.239
I just bought, maybe I can
take them back to one seven Gardens and

1471
01:43:55.319 --> 01:43:59.119
exchange them. Well you could do
that or just keep them around. I

1472
01:43:59.199 --> 01:44:01.399
mean, you know, if I
don't know, if you're planting any shrubs

1473
01:44:01.439 --> 01:44:04.079
and trees and what do ornamentals this
fall, you can put those down in

1474
01:44:04.119 --> 01:44:08.880
the ground. That is a product
that's adding organic matter, and it's adding

1475
01:44:08.920 --> 01:44:13.520
the nutrients and stuff over time.
You could use them now too, Fred.

1476
01:44:13.920 --> 01:44:17.159
In fact, you could fertilize with
them now and then still fertilize in

1477
01:44:17.239 --> 01:44:21.800
October with the brown patch material,
because our goal right now, Fred,

1478
01:44:21.920 --> 01:44:26.520
is to get that lawn as dense
as we can by proper mowing, watering,

1479
01:44:26.560 --> 01:44:29.960
and fertilizing. When all the winter
weeds try to sprout in October,

1480
01:44:30.079 --> 01:44:31.840
you do not want sunlight hitting the
soil. So I would go ahead and

1481
01:44:31.920 --> 01:44:35.000
use the six two four now and
just worry about the brown patch material when

1482
01:44:35.000 --> 01:44:40.039
we get on October. Okay,
sounds like thank you for your advice,

1483
01:44:40.279 --> 01:44:43.600
Yes, sir, thank you for
the call. I appreciate that very much.

1484
01:44:44.319 --> 01:44:48.079
Well, if you are, if
you're thinking about retiring and you would

1485
01:44:48.119 --> 01:44:53.159
just like to have a beautiful home
site, but you're not wanting to just

1486
01:44:53.279 --> 01:44:56.159
go out and pasture to pasture,
so to speak, and sit there.

1487
01:44:56.239 --> 01:44:59.680
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1488
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01:45:14.760 --> 01:45:18.279
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1492
01:45:18.319 --> 01:45:23.159
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1493
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1496
01:45:34.520 --> 01:45:41.279
four five nine oh six o nine. We're gonna now head out and talk

1497
01:45:41.399 --> 01:45:45.359
to Tim Well. Hello, Tim, how are you? Can you hear

1498
01:45:45.399 --> 01:45:49.199
me? All right? I can, sir. Oh, I've got a

1499
01:45:49.359 --> 01:45:53.720
question. I've listened to you a
couple of weeks ago. You were talking

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01:45:53.800 --> 01:45:57.439
to a fellow about mem oil,
okay, and you were saying that it

1501
01:45:57.520 --> 01:46:03.039
would it would get rid of the
caterpillars on my own pan lily so gingers,

1502
01:46:03.960 --> 01:46:09.399
okay. I was wearing I've got
free range chickens from the Memorial hurt

1503
01:46:09.520 --> 01:46:13.319
Room. No it will not.
But you know, if I were going

1504
01:46:13.439 --> 01:46:20.279
after caterpillars, I would probably use
the nime. It's a nime extract.

1505
01:46:20.399 --> 01:46:26.720
It's the ingredient is azadiractin. So
here's the thing. Nime is kin to

1506
01:46:26.800 --> 01:46:31.680
our chinaberry trees and it grows in
India and tropics places like that. Inside

1507
01:46:31.760 --> 01:46:36.239
that plant seeds is an oil that
they press out and it works like any

1508
01:46:36.319 --> 01:46:43.279
horticultural oil smothers insects. It's great
for little insect eggs, for spider mites,

1509
01:46:43.359 --> 01:46:45.920
aphids, those kinds of things.
Oils great for that, but they

1510
01:46:46.159 --> 01:46:51.640
extract out of it the asadiracting,
same tree, same plant. In other

1511
01:46:51.680 --> 01:46:57.760
words, the azadiracting is more of
an insect growth regulator. And so when

1512
01:46:57.800 --> 01:47:01.279
you spray it on a plant and
catap pillar eats that plant, it stops

1513
01:47:01.319 --> 01:47:04.840
eating and it stops developing. It
doesn't go through its molds. It'll never

1514
01:47:04.960 --> 01:47:10.840
become a moth and fly around and
legs and you know, procreate itself like

1515
01:47:11.039 --> 01:47:15.199
that. So I would go the
ASA direct and type of name as opposed

1516
01:47:15.239 --> 01:47:18.960
to the oil type of name.
If caterpillars are your target, I think

1517
01:47:19.000 --> 01:47:23.159
I could get that as a ice
hard work. I know you could.

1518
01:47:23.359 --> 01:47:26.279
Yeah, you just have to go
in. When you look and you see

1519
01:47:26.359 --> 01:47:29.640
name on a product, just look
at the ingredient and it'll say one or

1520
01:47:29.680 --> 01:47:32.279
two things. It'll leave this say
as a direct in that long a word,

1521
01:47:32.760 --> 01:47:39.199
or it'll say nme oil clarified name
oil, and that'll tell you which

1522
01:47:39.239 --> 01:47:42.119
one you're getting. Hey, I
gotta run to a break. I appreciate

1523
01:47:42.159 --> 01:47:44.079
the coffe. You want to hang
around, you've got more questions. We

1524
01:47:44.159 --> 01:47:45.880
can do that, but I gotta
just put you on hold for now.

1525
01:47:46.760 --> 01:47:50.520
Let's say you're listening to garden Line
and we're taking a break. Give us

1526
01:47:50.560 --> 01:47:54.239
gods you like to feel on the
board. In the meantime, just hang

1527
01:47:54.319 --> 01:48:08.760
on. We'll be right back.
Hey, good morning. You are listening

1528
01:48:08.800 --> 01:48:12.399
to garden Line and we are in
the home stretch here on Sunday. We're

1529
01:48:12.399 --> 01:48:16.840
here every Saturday and Sunday from six
am to ten am for your gardening college.

1530
01:48:16.840 --> 01:48:19.399
You can listen to us also on
podcasts. By the way, if

1531
01:48:19.399 --> 01:48:21.920
you miss the show, or maybe
you heard something in a show that you

1532
01:48:21.960 --> 01:48:25.640
didn't write down and now you're trying
to remember what it was, you can

1533
01:48:25.680 --> 01:48:29.920
go back on podcasting and listen in
and get filled back in. We are

1534
01:48:30.000 --> 01:48:32.479
going to go out now to Southwest
Houston and talk to David. Hello,

1535
01:48:32.640 --> 01:48:38.520
David, good morning. I got
a question for you about some vines.

1536
01:48:38.840 --> 01:48:42.600
Okay, my main one is I
have it. I grow moon vine from

1537
01:48:42.640 --> 01:48:45.600
seeds every year. Usually there it's
the prettiest plant and they open up at

1538
01:48:45.680 --> 01:48:50.319
night maybe you place in tonight and
they're just gorgeous. Well, this year

1539
01:48:51.000 --> 01:48:57.640
they're only opening the flowers halfway and
it's tops there and dies. Okay,

1540
01:48:58.520 --> 01:49:01.199
and I grow in the park now
about in their way? Yeah, a

1541
01:49:01.279 --> 01:49:04.880
fertilizer I can give them? Or
are you on every day? Yeah?

1542
01:49:04.920 --> 01:49:10.800
Are you growing those? You've grown
them before and they always bloom well in

1543
01:49:10.880 --> 01:49:14.840
the summer for you every year,
okay, them like crazy. It's the

1544
01:49:14.920 --> 01:49:16.920
first time ever that they haven't.
It's not blooming all the way. They

1545
01:49:17.159 --> 01:49:20.760
go half the flower will be halfway
and stop. Yeah, that's that is

1546
01:49:20.880 --> 01:49:26.279
strange I have. I've run across
that before, and I've never really nailed

1547
01:49:26.319 --> 01:49:30.159
down exactly everything going on. I
think that part of it can be related

1548
01:49:30.279 --> 01:49:35.920
to the nitrogen fertilization. Sometimes if
you overdo nitrogen on something, you just

1549
01:49:36.119 --> 01:49:41.640
don't get the bloom response that you're
looking for. The Other thing is I

1550
01:49:41.760 --> 01:49:45.279
don't I haven't fertilized, by the
way, you haven't. Okay, all

1551
01:49:45.359 --> 01:49:47.039
right, I'm waiting for you what
to do. Okay, good, well

1552
01:49:47.479 --> 01:49:51.359
moderate amout nutrition is good, but
just be really careful on the overdoing it.

1553
01:49:51.960 --> 01:49:57.640
Uh. Have you checked later at
night? I know it normally would

1554
01:49:57.680 --> 01:50:00.560
open earlier, but have you you
know, gone out like other day,

1555
01:50:00.600 --> 01:50:03.680
I was at about maybe two in
the morning. It was the same.

1556
01:50:03.920 --> 01:50:10.159
Okay, the open halfway and I
give them. I always grow them for

1557
01:50:10.199 --> 01:50:12.920
friends too, because they do it
from see and all of my friends and

1558
01:50:12.920 --> 01:50:16.159
family owers. Yeah, there's are
like normal opening all the way. Oh

1559
01:50:16.239 --> 01:50:20.119
they are this year, yeah,
right, the same, the same band.

1560
01:50:20.119 --> 01:50:24.520
It's just it's just mine that is
very strange. Like I said,

1561
01:50:24.560 --> 01:50:28.319
I have heard that before. I've
never heard a good scientific answer for why

1562
01:50:28.399 --> 01:50:31.159
it's it's being that way. Uh. You know, I was going to

1563
01:50:31.239 --> 01:50:35.039
start to say, well, gosh, maybe this just brutal excessive heat is

1564
01:50:35.079 --> 01:50:40.399
affecting some processes and it's just not
quite making it. Uh, because they

1565
01:50:40.479 --> 01:50:44.800
open up. They open up when
the you know, as the sun goes

1566
01:50:44.880 --> 01:50:47.640
down, we're getting lower light levels
that triggers them to open up. And

1567
01:50:47.800 --> 01:50:50.680
why would they not go ahead and
open the rest of the way. You

1568
01:50:50.760 --> 01:50:54.439
know, it's one thing if they
don't have blooms, that especially would be

1569
01:50:54.520 --> 01:50:58.279
the extra nitrogen, which you're not
doing. So what's start fertilizing with.

1570
01:50:58.840 --> 01:51:02.840
I would just get moderate lawn fertilizer
and just put a moderate amount in.

1571
01:51:02.920 --> 01:51:09.039
How big are these containers? Oh? Maybe two feet wide? Two feet

1572
01:51:09.079 --> 01:51:12.199
wide? Okay? Yeah, I
would just just get you a turf type

1573
01:51:12.239 --> 01:51:15.319
fertilizer. Is there a particular kind
of lawn fertilizer you'd like to use?

1574
01:51:15.319 --> 01:51:21.279
I use the organic noxofoss fusing.
Okay, sweet green, Okay, that

1575
01:51:21.359 --> 01:51:24.800
would be the one to get.
Then, I'm the reason I ask is

1576
01:51:24.840 --> 01:51:28.000
I'm trying to forget what you already
have on hand there. I would do

1577
01:51:28.119 --> 01:51:33.159
the sweet green. It's eleven percent, so probably let's say about two tablespoons

1578
01:51:33.800 --> 01:51:38.439
uh in there and watered in really
good and just watch them and you may

1579
01:51:38.560 --> 01:51:41.880
do that again later, but not
not much more. Right now, let's

1580
01:51:41.880 --> 01:51:45.119
just go kind of easy because I
don't want to overdo it. But it's

1581
01:51:45.199 --> 01:51:47.960
not it's not a lack of nutrient
that's causing that. You know, if

1582
01:51:48.199 --> 01:51:51.039
your old leaves are turning yellow and
the new leaves are green, well,

1583
01:51:51.119 --> 01:51:55.960
yeah, i'd probably need some nitrogen
or something. But I also go two

1584
01:51:56.000 --> 01:52:00.840
other vines. I want to ask
about I grow passion vine and also grow

1585
01:52:01.079 --> 01:52:06.359
pipevine. Could I fertilize in with
that with the same sweet green or something

1586
01:52:06.399 --> 01:52:10.680
different? No, you can.
You just again go moderately because those are

1587
01:52:10.760 --> 01:52:14.880
all all these you're talking about are
pretty pretty vigorous, especially the passion vine.

1588
01:52:15.319 --> 01:52:17.159
That one take over the world,
is it? By the way,

1589
01:52:17.239 --> 01:52:20.079
is that a red or a blue
or purple? What kind of passion vine

1590
01:52:20.079 --> 01:52:24.680
do you have? I have the
passion vines are blue and purple, okay,

1591
01:52:24.760 --> 01:52:30.039
and the pipe vines I do the
shoot Okay, I don't do that

1592
01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:32.560
big one because those I've heard those
aren't good for butterflies. Right. Do

1593
01:52:32.560 --> 01:52:38.039
you grow the one that's a ground
cover'd good at frina? Yeah? Yeah,

1594
01:52:38.159 --> 01:52:40.399
yeah, that's a good one.
That's the one for your butterflies.

1595
01:52:41.359 --> 01:52:45.720
So I would just watch the foliage. You know that the moonvine the moonvine,

1596
01:52:45.880 --> 01:52:47.880
and to some degree the passion vine
can get spider mites that you want

1597
01:52:47.880 --> 01:52:50.720
to watch for that. If it's
the new growth is green and the old

1598
01:52:50.800 --> 01:52:54.680
growth is yellow, that's a sign
you probably need a little bit of a

1599
01:52:54.720 --> 01:52:59.359
boost of a nitrogen. But let's
look at the vine characteristics. Go ahead,

1600
01:53:00.159 --> 01:53:02.159
they're all green, okay. It
looks super healthy. Well, then,

1601
01:53:02.279 --> 01:53:05.159
I you know, I wouldn't sweat
too much putting a lot of fertilizer

1602
01:53:05.279 --> 01:53:11.399
on them. I'd do the two
tablespoons of this week in a two inch

1603
01:53:11.479 --> 01:53:14.319
pot. That that's a light dose. But that should be okay, it

1604
01:53:14.359 --> 01:53:15.279
should be okay. You're not going
to burn them with it, that's for

1605
01:53:15.399 --> 01:53:18.920
sure, but I just want to
be moderate. I think the most important

1606
01:53:18.960 --> 01:53:23.239
thing for you is is consistent moisture
in the pot, because boy, can

1607
01:53:23.319 --> 01:53:28.159
it ever dry out fast in this
water night. Okay, And you got

1608
01:53:28.199 --> 01:53:30.199
good drainage, so they're not seeing
soggy, is that right? No,

1609
01:53:30.720 --> 01:53:34.680
that's that that holds in the bottom. Okay, man, Rid David,

1610
01:53:34.720 --> 01:53:38.000
you're doing everything right. You just
need to go out and give them a

1611
01:53:38.039 --> 01:53:43.159
good talking to. I think,
hey, i'd be curious, Uh,

1612
01:53:43.520 --> 01:53:47.720
I'd be curious if they turn out
where they start blooming better as the move

1613
01:53:47.760 --> 01:53:50.880
another month or so in. I
would like you to call me back and

1614
01:53:51.000 --> 01:53:56.640
let me know that I'm kind of
curious as we get into late September or

1615
01:53:56.720 --> 01:53:59.760
something, if they're looking a little
bit better or not. All right,

1616
01:54:00.159 --> 01:54:03.199
well, I should appreciate you,
all right, thank you. Sounds like

1617
01:54:03.319 --> 01:54:08.199
you've got some really cool vines.
We don't use vines enough in our landscapes

1618
01:54:08.239 --> 01:54:11.000
here. We have a lot of
great vines. Maybe we should just do

1619
01:54:11.119 --> 01:54:14.560
a show or we talk about vines
sometime. Hey. If you're looking for

1620
01:54:14.920 --> 01:54:20.079
supplies and products, you know David
talking about the nitrofists, the sweet green,

1621
01:54:20.199 --> 01:54:23.880
I mean, if you're looking for
all the fertilizers you talk about,

1622
01:54:23.960 --> 01:54:28.840
you know, the nitrofists, the
microlif the Nelson plant food. Ace Hardware

1623
01:54:28.880 --> 01:54:30.359
stores are going to be the place
to go for that. If you need

1624
01:54:30.479 --> 01:54:36.399
insexicides, pesticides of any type,
fungicides, herbicides, They're going to have

1625
01:54:36.560 --> 01:54:41.039
that really good selection. I've been
very impressed with the selection that they have.

1626
01:54:41.479 --> 01:54:45.479
If you're looking for everything else you
need from indoor and outdoor, if

1627
01:54:45.479 --> 01:54:48.920
you're looking for the outdoor living,
maybe you want to create a more beautiful,

1628
01:54:49.079 --> 01:54:54.479
unique outdoor space. You know,
barbecue pits and all the supplies that

1629
01:54:54.560 --> 01:54:57.720
are part of outdoor living. You
know it is going to cool off eventuland

1630
01:54:57.760 --> 01:55:00.960
we're gonna head outside and enjoy those
o ACE Hardware is where you get it

1631
01:55:01.000 --> 01:55:05.239
all. Go to Ace hardware dot
com, find their store locator and you

1632
01:55:05.359 --> 01:55:11.960
can find the thirty nine Ace Hardware
stores that are here in the Greater Houston

1633
01:55:12.000 --> 01:55:14.840
area, so there are gonna be
two or three near you. You'll see

1634
01:55:14.880 --> 01:55:16.840
what I'm talking about when you walk
in. I mean it is a store

1635
01:55:17.239 --> 01:55:21.680
that has all kinds of things for
your home, for your outdoors, and

1636
01:55:21.960 --> 01:55:28.279
certainly for your lawn and garden there
at Ace Hardware. You know, these

1637
01:55:28.319 --> 01:55:31.600
shows always go so fast. I
mean, here we are Sunday, it's

1638
01:55:31.720 --> 01:55:35.439
almost time to shut the show down
again. Got about a minute left,

1639
01:55:35.520 --> 01:55:39.680
so we don't have time for another
call. But just talking a little bit.

1640
01:55:39.920 --> 01:55:43.119
We're just talking about vine. So
let me let me go out mentioning

1641
01:55:43.159 --> 01:55:47.239
a few things about that. The
summers here are brutal, and to have

1642
01:55:47.359 --> 01:55:50.279
a vine overhead, you know,
people think of a grape vine on an

1643
01:55:50.399 --> 01:55:54.119
arbor. That idea. That's a
great idea. By the way, if

1644
01:55:54.119 --> 01:55:56.039
you're going to do that, give
me a call because we need to get

1645
01:55:56.079 --> 01:55:58.960
you the right kind of grape or
you're just gonna not be happy with the

1646
01:55:59.039 --> 01:56:02.000
results. But there are perennial vines. It come back year after year like

1647
01:56:02.239 --> 01:56:08.720
Queen's wreath. It is a beautiful
clusters of pink blooms that the pollinators will

1648
01:56:08.760 --> 01:56:12.319
go nuts for and then all the
annual vines. You know, a moon

1649
01:56:12.439 --> 01:56:15.640
vine we just were talking about.
That's a type of morning glory. Actually

1650
01:56:16.199 --> 01:56:19.319
it does really well. You mentioned
passion vine. Oh my gosh. The

1651
01:56:19.359 --> 01:56:24.760
blooms are exotic and beautiful. And
you bring in goldfrid Larry caterpillars when you

1652
01:56:24.840 --> 01:56:27.880
plant that. They love to eat
that. That. We could go on

1653
01:56:28.079 --> 01:56:31.000
and on and on. There's woody
vines, there's perennial vines, there's annual

1654
01:56:31.119 --> 01:56:35.920
vines. There's vines, and the
annuals that recede vines are a great way.

1655
01:56:36.359 --> 01:56:41.479
I actually have a western wall on
my house that the brick is heating

1656
01:56:41.600 --> 01:56:45.159
up infernally at the end of the
hot day. I'm planning on putting a

1657
01:56:45.239 --> 01:56:48.439
lattice covering over that and covering it
with a vine. I should have done

1658
01:56:48.479 --> 01:56:53.600
it before this summer, but the
amount of money that saves I'm going that

1659
01:56:53.720 --> 01:56:56.520
wall. Put my hand on the
wall of the house at eight o'clock at

1660
01:56:56.600 --> 01:57:00.399
night and feel the heat on the
sheet rock radiating in from that wall.

1661
01:57:00.800 --> 01:57:03.199
Well, we can fix that with
a plant. I mean, how much

1662
01:57:03.239 --> 01:57:10.039
are you spending on air conditioning to
cool a room where it's radiating well into

1663
01:57:10.119 --> 01:57:13.479
the night. The heat. There's
no sense for that, no sense for

1664
01:57:13.560 --> 01:57:15.319
that. We can do it with
a vine. Lots of good vines out

1665
01:57:15.359 --> 01:57:18.680
there. Don't have time to name
them all today, but think about it.

1666
01:57:18.880 --> 01:57:19.920
Try some out this sign.