WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:04.679 Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:20.160 on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Ricter. Just watch 3 00:00:20.239 --> 00:00:44.320 him as a sign good, good Sunday morning, on a good day for 4 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:48.159 gardening. You are listening to your garden Line. I'm your host, the 5 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:53.320 Skip Richter, and we are here to answer your gardening questions. Perhaps it's 6 00:00:53.359 --> 00:01:00.679 some plant identification of problem diagnosis, just subgestions lady for a bet garden or 7 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:07.200 floral bad, any kind of horticultural questions, fair game. I love visiting 8 00:01:07.200 --> 00:01:10.640 the gardeners about things going on in the lawn. And there's a lot going 9 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:15.159 on in the lawn the vegetable garden landscape right now. If you'd like to 10 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:19.359 give us a call, our phone number is seven one three two one two 11 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:25.439 five eight seven four two one two fifty eight seventy four. And we're going 12 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:30.959 to start this morning by heading out to hobby to talk to Fanise Panise. 13 00:01:30.040 --> 00:01:34.799 Congratulations on being the first caller on garden Line on an early Sunday morning. 14 00:01:38.319 --> 00:01:44.640 Are you there all right? Well, while we try to get Fanise back 15 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:51.640 here on the air, are you there? Answer? Good? What can 16 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:57.319 we talk about this morning. Well, are ended up going to get some 17 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:01.120 of those trees that were given away? Uh? I forgot the organization, 18 00:02:01.239 --> 00:02:07.639 but I got three PCU tries in Uh. Obviously they weren't whooping and water 19 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:12.840 while they were there, but when I got home, some of the leagus 20 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:17.560 already turned in black on the tip and you so, but I watered them 21 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:23.000 because I want to make sure that uh uh put them in the ground the 22 00:02:23.080 --> 00:02:28.960 proper way as they try to and uh and they're actually being given a way 23 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:37.439 to Uh. One of my wisest relatives they lost well they lost her brother, 24 00:02:37.599 --> 00:02:42.520 but either way, and uh so they moved out to the country and 25 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:46.360 uh, they don't have any trees there, but I'm going to give them 26 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:49.960 the three picantries, okay, And I want to know more less what to 27 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:53.759 do? Are these trees growing in containers right now? Is that how you 28 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:59.719 go? They're getting containers? Okay, Well, i'd hold on term. 29 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.840 Just see if you can get them back on their feet. Adequate water in 30 00:03:02.879 --> 00:03:07.439 the container. And it's you know, I can't tell you how much to 31 00:03:07.479 --> 00:03:12.319 apply or how often to apply it because depending on whether it's in sun or 32 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:15.199 shade, whether the container drains super well or not well at all. I 33 00:03:15.240 --> 00:03:19.360 mean, there's just a lot of variables. But just you can dig your 34 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:23.319 finger down in the soil and the container a couple inches and if you feel 35 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:25.680 it and it feels moist, it's okay. If you if you feel it 36 00:03:25.680 --> 00:03:30.199 and it's now get a little little on the dryer side, go ahead and 37 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:32.319 give it another watering. In general, they're probably gonna have to water them 38 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:38.599 about once a day, maybe every two days, depending on how big the 39 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:40.800 tree is, how many leaves it has, and how big the container is. 40 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:46.280 But one of them is at least four foot tall. Of the other 41 00:03:46.319 --> 00:03:52.400 one they're somewhere like three foot tall. Okay, But want they're going up 42 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:59.199 towards the Cleveland area is what kind of soil you do I need? Well, 43 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:02.479 I don't know that you need it. It's like they're already in a 44 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:05.560 container, they've got their mix. When you get them up there to plant 45 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:11.280 them, if you can give them a soil that is not a heavy clay 46 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.879 and up in that area there's a lot of sandy loams and silty sands and 47 00:04:15.959 --> 00:04:20.560 stuff like that. But anyway, just a well drained soil, but a 48 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:24.399 soil that that has some moisture to it. You know, if it's a 49 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:27.560 deep deep sand, pecan trees are not gonna be as happy. They're gonna 50 00:04:27.560 --> 00:04:31.360 be drought prone in that. So just plant them at the exact same depth 51 00:04:31.399 --> 00:04:35.800 that they were in the nursery. However deep that cylinder of soil and roots 52 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:39.759 are, that's how deep the hole should be, not an inch deeper, 53 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:44.639 if anything, they could be you know where the topmost route is right at 54 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:49.680 the soil line. All right, I'm so another word to get to build 55 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:56.439 up sound, which trying to say that don't don't put them too deep. 56 00:04:56.439 --> 00:05:00.639 In other words, yeah, don't don't put them too deep. That's not 57 00:05:00.759 --> 00:05:03.000 good for any plants. But you know, pecans are not going to like 58 00:05:03.079 --> 00:05:08.079 that very much. Just you know, when you get through planning and walk 59 00:05:08.120 --> 00:05:12.000 away, what was the top of the soil and the container should still be 60 00:05:12.040 --> 00:05:14.600 the top of the soil. You know, it shouldn't be higher or lower 61 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:18.120 or anything. I mean, you know if yeah, yeah, the top 62 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.399 route tells you kind of where to plant it. Actually that that's the best 63 00:05:21.439 --> 00:05:27.160 way to go. All right, all right, I appreciate sir. All 64 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:30.639 right, well, good good luck with your trees. Thank you. Appreciate 65 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:35.480 that call. We are going to head out now to Kingwood, but first 66 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:39.319 let me give you the number if you'd like to call in seven one three 67 00:05:39.439 --> 00:05:45.040 two one two fifty eight seventy four and let's head out to Kingwood and talk 68 00:05:45.120 --> 00:05:47.720 to Angelo. Well, good morning, Angelo, How are you today, 69 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:50.680 sir? I'm well, thank you? Okay, great? Yeah, I've 70 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:55.519 been guarding the same plot now, probably close to I don't know, twenty 71 00:05:55.519 --> 00:06:02.000 five thirty years. Bilipinos grow great, My Italian peppers grow great, My 72 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:08.839 Hungarian peppers grow great. But my green bell peppers I grew about five years 73 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:12.560 ago, a couple two years in a row, gets lots of flour, 74 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:16.600 bears no fruit. Well I tried it again this year and it's the same 75 00:06:16.959 --> 00:06:21.920 thing. Everything's grown great. I got heavy, getting good produce out of 76 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:27.519 a good good product out of the peppers. But the bell peppers, the 77 00:06:27.600 --> 00:06:31.920 green bell peppers flowers fall off and no fruit. Is there something I'm missing? 78 00:06:32.120 --> 00:06:36.240 Is it a different makeup of pepper or what because it just doesn't bear 79 00:06:36.360 --> 00:06:41.160 fruit. Well, that's very strange. Yeah, I know, I can't 80 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:44.279 understand it. Yeah, the same species of plant, so correct, I 81 00:06:46.120 --> 00:06:48.560 don't know. I don't know why that would be. I mean, pollination 82 00:06:48.680 --> 00:06:55.560 is obviously occurring in the pepper patch. But the thing that gets me as 83 00:06:56.160 --> 00:06:58.720 three or four years ago it did the same thing. I took a break. 84 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:00.680 I said, I'm not going to waste my time, time or money. 85 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:04.199 And now this year plants are very healthy looking, just no fruit. 86 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:11.839 Yeah, we're early enough in the season where you know, certainly the heat 87 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.920 and things like that are not bothering stressing the plants. The leaves look good, 88 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:19.720 healthy. It's a stumper. I don't you know, with some plants, 89 00:07:19.959 --> 00:07:25.959 we can push the nitrogen enough to affect effective fruiting and fruits up. 90 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:30.480 It's just not the likely what you're describing. That's a little bit grabbing at 91 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:35.240 straws. But it's a possibility. Um, I don't know, what do 92 00:07:35.480 --> 00:07:40.920 you remember the variety that you got out there? Yeah, it's bonny plants, 93 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.279 Okay, but the bonnie folks they have, they have a bunch of 94 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:49.120 different varieties that the right. Oh it's not it's just a it's just a 95 00:07:49.360 --> 00:07:56.160 just all green bell pepper. It's not a California wonder or anything like that. 96 00:07:56.279 --> 00:07:59.879 It's just their green bell pepper. I was wondering if I would put 97 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.600 some triple thirteen. You know, I usually spread it out between the plants 98 00:08:03.600 --> 00:08:07.360 and put some grass overtop, and it just fertilized. I wonder if that 99 00:08:07.560 --> 00:08:11.560 could be a problem or that could be a solution. Let me let me 100 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:13.199 think on this one. Angelo, Can you hold Jill after break? I 101 00:08:13.240 --> 00:08:16.600 need to take a break right here, and let's come back and finish this 102 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:20.639 discussion. Thank you. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, 103 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:24.560 Skip Richter Our number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 104 00:08:33.600 --> 00:08:39.919 Well, good Sunday morning, on a good sunday for gardening, being outside 105 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:43.879 and getting some fresh air. I planned this afternoon on doing a little bit 106 00:08:43.879 --> 00:08:48.159 of that myself. Well, we've been talking to Angelo this morning, and 107 00:08:48.639 --> 00:08:52.480 I want to come back here to see if we can continue this conversation. 108 00:08:52.559 --> 00:08:56.200 Angelo. I was thinking about what you were saying on what would be the 109 00:08:56.279 --> 00:09:01.120 difference between the different peppers you have, And certainly varieties and species are different, 110 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:07.080 but one other difference is is bell peppers are a little more personickety about 111 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:11.120 the temperatures. Now, we've had good temperatures, but if it ever drops 112 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:16.440 below sixty, for sure, they're gonna have trouble with fruit setting, and 113 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:20.240 we've had a few kind of crisp nights. So depending on when you put 114 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:22.840 them out, you know, when they had the blooms on them, and 115 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:26.879 when we had some of those crisper knights, that could be a factor. 116 00:09:28.159 --> 00:09:31.240 And I know that's just a little bit of a stretch because overall we've had 117 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.480 good weather. But that's about the only thing I can think of right now 118 00:09:33.519 --> 00:09:39.320 that would be distinguishing between your different kinds of peppers where only the bells are 119 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.440 not setting for you, right so only the bells, And like I said, 120 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:46.440 it's been below sixty a few times and they been out maybe probably going 121 00:09:46.480 --> 00:09:50.440 on, you know, three weeks. But it's just amazing how just one 122 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:54.600 plant does it. Let me ask you one more question. Fertilizing my peppers, 123 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:58.159 I usually don't do it, but sometimes I will put some like I 124 00:09:58.159 --> 00:10:03.000 said, triple third teen in between the rows and cover it with my grass 125 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:09.000 clippings. What other fertilizer I have those containers that go on your hose like 126 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:13.759 miracle growth. What do you suggest for just overall spraying and fertilizing, Well, 127 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.679 I would say overall, yeah, I wouldn't do a one one ratio 128 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:22.279 unless a soil test says, wow, you're low and phosphorus. Otherwise I'd 129 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:26.000 keep that in middle number a little more, a little lower down, depending 130 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:30.120 on the kind of soil you have. So it's kind of hard to say 131 00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:33.240 this is the exact fertilizer you need. Now you can go out there and 132 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:39.200 find something that's like a vegetable fertilizer, and that would certainly be a good 133 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:43.159 choice. And sometimes those have a little higher phosphor sent them. But I 134 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:48.879 tell you, I use a wide variety of things on my vegetables and they 135 00:10:48.919 --> 00:10:52.240 just do well. They do well. The main stay for me is putting 136 00:10:52.240 --> 00:10:56.879 a lot of composts into the soil when I'm working up a bed to replant 137 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.519 the next crop. And then you know, you can use a slower release 138 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:05.240 fertilizer. I like to do that to give them a little more gradual feed. 139 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:07.679 You just don't want to overdo it. But I tell you the modern 140 00:11:07.720 --> 00:11:13.440 tomatoes, peppers and things that they can really produce heavily if you give them 141 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:18.639 decent plant vigor. Not so would you suggest that, Like you don't want 142 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:20.440 to talk about the miracle grill bottle you put on the end of your hose 143 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:26.320 and then you just is that pretty good for this an overall fertilizer. Well, 144 00:11:26.519 --> 00:11:31.720 it gives you an instant boost, but it gives you a very temporary 145 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:35.960 boost, and so you're doing it often. Now. The other thing about 146 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.159 that is you're paying a lot per pound of nutrient in that kind of a 147 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:43.600 fertilizer. You're paying for the convenience of just being able to spray it on 148 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:46.799 you. If you don't see anything wrong with the triple thirteen between the rows, 149 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:52.639 I would avoid the triple thirteen just because most of the garden tests I've 150 00:11:52.679 --> 00:11:56.279 seen they didn't need that ratio of nutrients. I just I'm not a big 151 00:11:56.320 --> 00:12:00.720 fan. It's fine to use, people have used it for decades, but 152 00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:03.600 we've kind of gotten away from it. In the old days, triple thirteen 153 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:07.399 was everything, and now as we're looking more years of experience with soil testing 154 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:11.440 and seeing what's going on, it's kind of like moved to the side and 155 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:16.759 we're looking at other fertilizers now unless a soil test says, now, that's 156 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:18.519 what you need, and I think you're going to find that's rare that it 157 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:22.279 says that, right, So that middle number has to be lower or higher 158 00:12:22.279 --> 00:12:26.240 than the other two. Well, it depends on again what's in your soil, 159 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:30.679 but it depends also on the crops that you're growing, and you're going 160 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:35.279 to see you're going to see a variation. And I in my gardens, 161 00:12:35.559 --> 00:12:39.919 I don't put a higher middle number on my vegetables. And it's because I'm 162 00:12:39.960 --> 00:12:45.200 adding over years as you add compost. If you fertilize, you know, 163 00:12:45.200 --> 00:12:48.000 with fertilizers that have the phosphorus in them, know this that the first and 164 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.320 the third number, especially the first number, it comes and goes a lot 165 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:54.879 phosphorus. Once it's there, it sticks. It's part of the soil. 166 00:12:56.639 --> 00:13:01.720 Very little lowering of phosphorus over time. I'm in the soil. And so 167 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:05.240 that's my approach. But let your plans tell you're a better yet, let's 168 00:13:05.240 --> 00:13:09.639 have a soul test and see what they say. Yeah, I think that's 169 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:11.240 a mess route. Okay, thank you very much, So I appreciate it, 170 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:13.240 all right. Yeah, and Angela, by the way, I'm gonna 171 00:13:13.279 --> 00:13:16.919 be out. I'm going to be out in Kingwood next this coming Saturday, 172 00:13:18.399 --> 00:13:22.080 Yeah, yesterday, happy, Yeah, to be happy to meet you. 173 00:13:22.159 --> 00:13:24.840 Bring some pictures of what you got in your garden. Out there. I'd 174 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.080 like to see though. That's eleven thirty to one thirty pm and it's a 175 00:13:28.279 --> 00:13:31.559 K and M as in Kingwood. Are all right? You're bringing any freebees 176 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:33.480 out there? I am they. We're doing some giveaways. We got some 177 00:13:33.559 --> 00:13:39.159 giveaways that we're doing a pretty significant little fertilizer giveaway, I think every thirty 178 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.840 minutes while we're out there. So we're gonna have to sound good. I 179 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:43.440 probably see you there, but have a nice day, you two take care 180 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:48.600 of thanks. Right, all right, you're listening to garden Line. I'm 181 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:54.480 your host, Skip Richter, and we are talking about all things gardening. 182 00:13:56.720 --> 00:14:03.200 Our whole purpose here is to enjoy ourselves as we as we go through the 183 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:09.559 show, and also to enlighten and to guide. I guess you could say 184 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:15.879 there's a lot of gardening advice out there. Have you noticed that the social 185 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:20.240 media often drives me nuts for a number of reasons, But when it comes 186 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:24.080 to gardening advice, I just read stuff all the time, and about I 187 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:31.399 don't know sevent it falls into that's not true, or that's only true in 188 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:37.440 certain circumstances, or well, that's only true in other areas other than where 189 00:14:37.480 --> 00:14:41.440 we are, right now do you see what I'm saying? And or it's 190 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:43.919 not. It's just not practical. If you want to pose a picture and 191 00:14:43.960 --> 00:14:48.240 become an influencer and stuff and have this little unusual little thing you designed, 192 00:14:48.559 --> 00:14:54.720 that's fine, but other people should not try to grow that particular thing that 193 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:58.639 way. And you see this with the wall filled with two leader pop bottles 194 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:03.039 hanging upside down with plants growing in them, you know, and you can 195 00:15:03.080 --> 00:15:07.440 set it up and make a picture, but that is just it's just not 196 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:09.799 a practical way to grow things, and you're not going to have success in 197 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:16.759 many cases for a number of reasons. One is lighting is often inadequate in 198 00:15:16.799 --> 00:15:22.120 the especially when it's the pictures taken indoors. The amount of soil that's in 199 00:15:22.159 --> 00:15:26.600 a little pot bottle is not that much the tedium of watering, and some 200 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:31.200 of these pictures there's like fifty pop bottles hanging on the wall and it's like, 201 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:33.759 okay, are you going every day? Do you really want to do 202 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:35.840 that? And then what happens when they drip out and it splashes on the 203 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:39.559 wall, you know, at your indoor house or whatever. Anyway, lots 204 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:43.320 of examples, but it's just not true. And that's what we're here for, 205 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:48.639 to try to provide some unbiased, research based advice. In other words, 206 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:54.000 something that's been proven. And it's a pet peeve of mine and everything. 207 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:56.279 I guess I need to get on one soap box a day. Can 208 00:15:56.279 --> 00:16:00.159 you allow me that? If I go out this year and someone gives me 209 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:03.320 a tomato variety and says it's the best thing ever, and I plant it 210 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:08.320 and it doesn't do well, and then I now know this variety is no 211 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:14.440 good for here. That is inaccurate information. In research, we do something 212 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:19.320 called replicating. We may plant five different varieties of tomatoes, and we may 213 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:26.960 plant five different replications of those five sets, so that when we average the 214 00:16:27.080 --> 00:16:32.720 production over different locations, I mean, maybe this spot in the soil is 215 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:36.080 better drained or less drained, maybe this spot over here has more or less 216 00:16:36.080 --> 00:16:40.159 of a nutrient, or more or less sun or whatever. It evens it 217 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:45.080 out, and we get dependable information from that as a result. And that's 218 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:48.679 how we need to be getting our gardening advice based on that kind of experience, 219 00:16:49.039 --> 00:16:52.240 because otherwise we end up with things like you know, someone says, 220 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:57.039 I grew at tomato last year, and I went out there and I let 221 00:16:57.080 --> 00:17:03.000 me make up something here. I put certain brand of Seltzer water in the 222 00:17:03.039 --> 00:17:07.640 soil, and the production was unbelievable. And see that. What we say 223 00:17:07.680 --> 00:17:14.480 in the science world is correlation does not equal causation. I know that's nerdy. 224 00:17:14.680 --> 00:17:17.960 What that basically means is just because two things happen at the same time, 225 00:17:18.200 --> 00:17:21.759 doesn't mean one cause the other one. Okay, And that's the kind 226 00:17:21.759 --> 00:17:25.799 of information we try to give you here on garden Line, stuff that you 227 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:33.599 can depend on, stuff that is based on proven results. And I just 228 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.519 think that's the way to go. The one thing that would disappoint me most 229 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:41.400 would be to shoot from the hip and give you something that I heard somewhere 230 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:45.720 or that seems like that might be a good idea, and present it as 231 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:48.759 absolute, ironclad fact because you go out and don't have success with it, 232 00:17:48.960 --> 00:17:52.200 and basically I have failed you as a gardener. I'll put it that way. 233 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:56.000 I want, when I give you some suggestions and advice for you to 234 00:17:56.039 --> 00:18:00.000 take them home to them and have success. And we need to figure out 235 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.279 why if that didn't happen. But that's what we're here for. So you're 236 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:06.000 listening to garden Line. We're about to go to a break here, but 237 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:07.799 if you'd like to get on the boards, Josh, we'll get you up 238 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:11.519 there for us to talk with you at the next segment. Just write down 239 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:17.960 our number seven one three, two, one two five eight seven four seven 240 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:23.079 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. And good morning to Nikki. 241 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:27.000 How are we today? We're doing good? Happy Saturday and Saturday. 242 00:18:27.039 --> 00:18:30.759 Hello, we're into Sunday. Are I think your fan club is sleeping in 243 00:18:30.839 --> 00:18:36.480 because I have not yet today I had to say hi to Nikki response, 244 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:57.599 but I bet they're coming. Well, good morning to you. Well, 245 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:03.960 good Sunday morning, which is still dark outside, but the sun is coming 246 00:19:03.039 --> 00:19:07.519 up, and when it does, good to get out and see what's going 247 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:08.720 on in the yard. We've got a little bit of rain here and there 248 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:15.319 probably, but you know, the way I look at it is rain just 249 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:18.039 helps the garden get better, and so if it keeps me in for a 250 00:19:18.079 --> 00:19:19.640 little bit, that's fine. I'm ahead wrap back out when it stops, 251 00:19:21.079 --> 00:19:23.119 because gardening is too much fun, too much fun to miss. Hey, 252 00:19:23.160 --> 00:19:27.240 I am your host of garden Line. Skip Ricter and our number. You'll 253 00:19:27.279 --> 00:19:32.519 want to write this down seven one three two one two, five, eight, 254 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:37.880 seven, four, seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 255 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:41.119 Give a Josh a call and he will get you on the board so 256 00:19:41.160 --> 00:19:45.000 we can visit about the things that are of interest to you. I was 257 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:48.359 kind of ranting a little bit before break about the importance of research based information, 258 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:55.319 and that is important because you know, if you think about things for 259 00:19:55.359 --> 00:19:59.240 your own health, like someone says, here's a new medicine on the market 260 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:03.799 that you need to t and you knew that they had not done an extensive 261 00:20:03.880 --> 00:20:07.599 trial on a lot of people to find out does this work? And number 262 00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.400 two, what are the drawbacks that we see popping up as we use it? 263 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:15.440 Well, you wouldn't be very confident in that a medication would you for 264 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:22.720 your own body? Well, in a less perhaps important way, in you 265 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.920 know, in terms of life and health. When we're looking at information online 266 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:30.119 about gardening, the same kind of thing applies, and we want to make 267 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:33.599 sure we're doing well with stuff now. And we have a lot of sponsors 268 00:20:33.640 --> 00:20:37.599 on the show, and you know, you may be thinking, well, 269 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:41.240 you know that person is a sponsor, so that's why they're talking about it. 270 00:20:41.279 --> 00:20:44.759 You need to understand something. I look at it this way, my 271 00:20:44.839 --> 00:20:48.920 reputation is on the line, and so I'm not going to read a sponsor 272 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:52.319 in that I don't believe in their product, that I haven't tried their product, 273 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:57.400 that I haven't looked into it deeper, that I haven't if it's something 274 00:20:57.640 --> 00:21:02.880 the kind of a thing that I would just because of where how whatever I 275 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:06.079 live, I wouldn't happen to use that thing specifically, I will talk to 276 00:21:06.079 --> 00:21:08.759 people that do and I'll look into it, because when we sponsor something, 277 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:11.799 we want you to have success, and it's not just you know, someone 278 00:21:11.839 --> 00:21:15.440 shows up and buys a spot and so we say it absolutely not, I 279 00:21:15.559 --> 00:21:19.400 don't do that. I'm not gonna do that. And I know Randy felt 280 00:21:19.400 --> 00:21:26.680 that way too. It when many years of hearing him he needed personal experience 281 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:30.640 with things. And I think that's good because it's like the world is already 282 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:34.960 filled with enough information about people saying you gotta get this, you gotta buy 283 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:40.839 that, you gotta get this, and you know that's not what we want 284 00:21:40.880 --> 00:21:44.240 to do in terms of just well, you know, here's a sponsor, 285 00:21:44.319 --> 00:21:48.480 let's talk about them. It's it's people we believe in and the products that 286 00:21:48.519 --> 00:21:52.759 I talked about here most of them I have used extensively myself, and the 287 00:21:52.759 --> 00:21:56.880 ones that I haven't I'm in the process of using. But I've looked into 288 00:21:56.920 --> 00:21:59.680 it, I've I've talked with people that are using them, seeing how things 289 00:21:59.680 --> 00:22:02.400 are going with it, and I'm going to believe in it, and so 290 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:06.359 I just want you to be aware of that. I'll try to tell you 291 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:08.599 when I don't know something. I'll also try to give you my best guess, 292 00:22:08.680 --> 00:22:11.920 but warn you. Okay, this one just went from I know to 293 00:22:12.599 --> 00:22:17.079 based on all the science of how things work, this is what I think 294 00:22:17.160 --> 00:22:19.599 you're going to have good success with. But that's the disclaimer is you know, 295 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:23.480 it's what I think, and there's a big difference between that. All 296 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:29.000 right, Well, that's enough about all of that. We are we're looking 297 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:32.200 at a day where we're probably going to get some drezzling here and there, 298 00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:36.880 and so if your plants are being wet by rain, you need to be 299 00:22:36.920 --> 00:22:42.160 aware of the fact that diseases often will follow that. Not all diseases, 300 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:48.119 but a lot of bacterial diseases and a lot of fungal diseases need a film 301 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:52.359 of water over the leaf, the right temperature, and a number of a 302 00:22:52.400 --> 00:22:56.599 certain number of hours for that spore to germinate or for that bacteria to proliferate 303 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:00.519 and to infect the leaf and to cause a problem. So if you have 304 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:04.759 a plant that's prone to disease problems and you're going to do something in a 305 00:23:04.839 --> 00:23:08.839 spray form about that, you need to do that after the rain stops, 306 00:23:10.079 --> 00:23:14.759 go ahead and make that application. And that is the reason why if you 307 00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:18.400 wait until you've got spots all over your leaves, maybe your bacteria or just 308 00:23:18.519 --> 00:23:21.680 filled with I mean you're a peppers or filled with bacterial spots, or your 309 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:26.559 tomatoes a fungal spots or whatever the plane your rose with black spot, you 310 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:30.039 need to do that treatment afterwards because just think of it as a seed of 311 00:23:30.079 --> 00:23:33.559 a weed on the leaf. That's what a fungal spore is like. And 312 00:23:33.839 --> 00:23:37.079 you get that seed wet and it's going to sprout, and when its sprouts, 313 00:23:37.119 --> 00:23:41.599 here we go. So we need to move in pretty quickly with something 314 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:44.480 that we're going to do, and that way you avoid a lot of problems 315 00:23:44.519 --> 00:23:47.400 and it helps bring it under control things and get out of hand when you 316 00:23:47.400 --> 00:23:52.680 wait too long. Doing something early is almost always better than doing it late 317 00:23:53.400 --> 00:23:56.519 for a number of reasons. I've talked about this before, but for example, 318 00:23:57.039 --> 00:24:02.359 let's say you're going to use on our again, like BT on caterpillars. 319 00:24:02.680 --> 00:24:06.799 Well, if you catch them when they're young and voraciously feeding, BT 320 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:12.079 is amazingly effective on them. As that caterpillar gets older and older, and 321 00:24:12.119 --> 00:24:15.359 it's just you know, it starts to think about, hey, I think 322 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:18.400 I'm going to become a cocoon pretty soon here and then then a moth. 323 00:24:18.920 --> 00:24:22.839 Well at that stage BT asn't as effective, So just keep that in mind. 324 00:24:22.920 --> 00:24:26.720 Early is better. You're listening to garden Line, I'm your host, 325 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:30.720 skip Rictor our number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 326 00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:40.359 Don't ask me why I'm gone to Texas. Why in all the world am 327 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:48.079 I here? Because I do love to hear those Texas fiddle and dance and 328 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:55.839 say and drink my lord, start Dallas. I have a little old elpason 329 00:24:56.559 --> 00:25:02.680 you can hear Bob will Mill macke me. You know, when I'm here 330 00:25:02.680 --> 00:25:04.400 in Western Swing, I don't want to start talking. I just want to 331 00:25:04.440 --> 00:25:07.359 keep listening. I think you guys, if you've listened to me more than 332 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:11.400 a show or two, you probably have figured that one out. You're listening 333 00:25:11.440 --> 00:25:14.680 to garden Line, I am your host, Skip Richter, and we're here 334 00:25:14.680 --> 00:25:18.160 to answer your gardening questions. Whatever you want to talk about regarding gardening, 335 00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:22.799 maybe it's some ideas for a new a new landscape area, or something that 336 00:25:22.240 --> 00:25:26.559 some plant you've been struggling with. We're here because we want you to have 337 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:33.880 success. Gardening is a fun, relaxing, rewarding hobby, but like anything, 338 00:25:34.440 --> 00:25:37.960 it can become frustrating and you can feel like I can't do this, 339 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:41.920 and you can feel like this just isn't working, and I don't have a 340 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:45.559 green thumb and all that kind of thing. Well, there are no brown 341 00:25:45.599 --> 00:25:48.559 thumbs. There are uninformed thumbs. And so if you want to use a 342 00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:53.519 thumb color, listen to garden Line. Work with us will help you, 343 00:25:53.680 --> 00:25:57.680 and we will turn a brown thumb green. But essentially, what you really 344 00:25:57.759 --> 00:26:03.079 need is not some spec usual innate you know, magic that makes plants grow 345 00:26:03.160 --> 00:26:04.880 like some people think. Well, Grandma had a green time. Everything she 346 00:26:04.960 --> 00:26:08.480 touched was green. Grandma knew what to do. You know, Grandma spent 347 00:26:08.519 --> 00:26:12.279 a lifetime learning out of garden and talking to other gardeners, and she you 348 00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:15.400 know, she sort of had a knack for it. But she had a 349 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:18.519 knack for it because she knew what to do. And that's what we're here 350 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:21.680 to help you have. So nobody needs to fail at gardening, you know. 351 00:26:21.720 --> 00:26:23.920 I say that, and then I think about that. One of the 352 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:29.960 most famous horticulturists in the US, I believe it was him, J. 353 00:26:30.079 --> 00:26:32.839 C. Ralston, that said this. He said that in order to be 354 00:26:32.880 --> 00:26:36.559 a good horticulture she got to kill a lot of plants, something along that 355 00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:40.160 that lines. And yes, we do learn by doing, and we learn 356 00:26:40.200 --> 00:26:45.160 by failing and stuff. But overall, as we learn, we get better 357 00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:48.200 and better and better. And you know, if we're going to kill a 358 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:51.960 plan, it's going to be because of something unusual that happened which we learned 359 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:55.799 from, or it's going to be, you know, some unexpected weather event 360 00:26:55.920 --> 00:27:00.079 like we've had and so on. But to get your knowledge, love a 361 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:03.359 lot and your experience level, it just makes it more fun. And it 362 00:27:03.960 --> 00:27:07.240 absolutely I know I'm biased, but it absolutely is the best hobby in the 363 00:27:07.279 --> 00:27:11.559 world. It gives you health benefits, it gives you mental benefits, and 364 00:27:11.640 --> 00:27:15.559 those are huge. The benefits of gardening, just the esthetics of making your 365 00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:22.799 place more beautiful, just the health benefits of making your garden more bountiful, 366 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:26.000 good fresh food to put in our mouths. We know that what we eat 367 00:27:26.119 --> 00:27:30.759 is what primarily our number one health problem. It's because of things that are 368 00:27:30.799 --> 00:27:33.960 going in our mouths and the fact that the couch is a little more comfortable 369 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:38.759 than walking around. So that those kinds of changes is what gardening can offer. 370 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:45.079 And gardening can literally make you healthier and make you happier. And so 371 00:27:45.160 --> 00:27:48.079 let's talk about whatever you're interested in. The number seven one three, two 372 00:27:48.200 --> 00:27:55.279 one two fifty eight seventy four. I did want to visit a little bit 373 00:27:55.400 --> 00:28:00.200 about some fruit and nut things today. While we're talking, we get a 374 00:28:00.200 --> 00:28:03.920 few calls on people that are wanting to grow fruits and nuts and things like 375 00:28:03.960 --> 00:28:07.759 that. You know, the challenge and the key to success, for I 376 00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:15.279 guess with fruit is number one good sunlight. If you've got a little backyard 377 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:18.920 full of trees. It doesn't matter how much you like peaches, you're gonna 378 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:22.839 have trouble grown a peach. Peaches need fruit in general needs. I'm gonna 379 00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:27.160 say six hours of sunlight and more is much better, but let's just say 380 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:33.079 six. Now, there's some things like figs and blueberries that both can get 381 00:28:33.079 --> 00:28:36.720 in a little less. Don't put them in deep shade and expect anything but 382 00:28:36.839 --> 00:28:40.880 a little less, and they still produce pretty well. Citrus is pretty good 383 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:45.799 about producing in a moderate amount of sunlight. Again not too low, but 384 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:49.359 where I would say no, don't plant a peach, maybe yeah, blueberry 385 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:52.400 figs. Citrus will do pretty good there. I think it'll. I think 386 00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:56.920 it'll get buy and do all right. Just remember that you're growing fruit to 387 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:00.279 have a nice sweet fruit to eat, right, And how do you it's 388 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.200 sweet and a fruit, Well, that's carbohydrates. And carbohydrates come from leaves. 389 00:29:03.200 --> 00:29:07.079 But leaves only work when the sun shining, So that's kind of how 390 00:29:07.119 --> 00:29:11.519 it works. The leaves of the food factory. Imagine this factory, you 391 00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.440 know belching smoke up in the Midwest, except without the Midwest and without the 392 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:21.039 smoke. There's a factory in the leaf that is producing the food that fuels 393 00:29:21.079 --> 00:29:23.559 the plant. And we call fertilizer plant food, and I do too, 394 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:30.279 I understand that, But technically it's the fertilizers the elements that become plant food. 395 00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:34.039 In the plant, the plant makes its food and he uses all those 396 00:29:34.119 --> 00:29:41.599 important nutrients that fertilizer provides to make carbohydrates that fuel the plant. But the 397 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:45.759 factory only works when the power is on it, and the power is the 398 00:29:45.799 --> 00:29:49.920 sunlight. So when the sun goes off, imagine you've got a giant auto 399 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:55.319 manufacturing factory and someone turns off all the power. How many cars are going 400 00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:57.079 to come on that? Right? That's how it works on your leaves. 401 00:29:57.079 --> 00:30:03.240 And when we start trying to cheat sunlight and still have productive quality fruit, 402 00:30:03.240 --> 00:30:06.319 we're gonna have a problem. So sunlight would be one of the most important 403 00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:08.480 things. We can talk about some other things that are good to success with 404 00:30:08.599 --> 00:30:14.200 fruit, but would I would first consider the amount of sun in the area, 405 00:30:14.319 --> 00:30:18.279 and after we do that, we'll talk about things like important drainage. 406 00:30:18.759 --> 00:30:23.079 Certainly what species and varieties you're planting, that's probably right behind sunlight. That's 407 00:30:23.119 --> 00:30:27.960 probably the most important. Maybe we'll visit about that a little bit after we 408 00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:32.440 come back from breaks. If you're listening to garden Line, I'm your host, 409 00:30:32.680 --> 00:30:34.480 skip rictor if you'd like to give us a call, have Josh put 410 00:30:34.519 --> 00:30:40.119 you on the board. Seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 411 00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:48.079 two one two k two eight ktrh. Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 412 00:30:48.119 --> 00:30:53.240 of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line 413 00:30:53.480 --> 00:31:15.519 with Skip Rictors. Just watching a good Sunday morning on a good day for 414 00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:19.039 gardening, as is every day you're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, 415 00:31:19.200 --> 00:31:22.480 Skipp Richter, and we are here to talk in gardening with you. 416 00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:26.079 If you'd like to give us a call, have just kitch you up on 417 00:31:26.119 --> 00:31:30.480 the board. It is seven one three two one two five eight seven four 418 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:37.920 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was talking about 419 00:31:37.920 --> 00:31:41.519 fruit before we took that last break, and I mentioned the importance of sunlight. 420 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.200 I mean that is like number one, if can you give it sunlin 421 00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:49.319 or not, that will that will be the foundation for whether you're successful. 422 00:31:49.680 --> 00:31:56.000 Number two is soil drainage. Very few types of fruit can put up with 423 00:31:56.119 --> 00:32:00.799 poorly drained soil. For example, a Mayhaw native fruit produce plant out in 424 00:32:00.839 --> 00:32:04.119 East Texas. They can put up with some wet soil. But when you 425 00:32:04.279 --> 00:32:07.519 when you think of your typical fruits, you know apples, pears, blackberries, 426 00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:13.680 peaches, and so on, plums that they need good drainage and so 427 00:32:13.880 --> 00:32:15.920 you need to give them soil that when it rains too much, the access 428 00:32:16.039 --> 00:32:19.880 goes away. They want moist soil, but they don't want to be in 429 00:32:19.920 --> 00:32:22.680 a swamp and they won't do a do you know peach roots? And I 430 00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:25.240 guess this would be true with plum trees too, because they're typically grafted on 431 00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:30.119 the peach. Uh is that when when they're underwater, when they're anaerobic, 432 00:32:30.200 --> 00:32:35.680 cannot get oxygen, they produce a substance called hydrogen cyanide. Now how does 433 00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:38.279 that sound as far as a good thing to be around the beach roots and 434 00:32:38.319 --> 00:32:42.640 the soil. Uh, they just don't put up with it. So drainage 435 00:32:42.759 --> 00:32:47.240 is really important. Uh. Picking the right cultivar and the right species in 436 00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:53.400 fact, is really important. I was listening to somebody the other day was 437 00:32:53.440 --> 00:32:58.839 asking about, you know, can you can you grow a m what was 438 00:32:58.920 --> 00:33:02.960 it? Almond? Almond here in the Houston area. Well, I will 439 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:07.319 say I'll never say never. You know, if I say you cannot grow 440 00:33:07.319 --> 00:33:09.039 an almond, someone'll call in and go, oh, I had an almond. 441 00:33:09.039 --> 00:33:12.039 And you know, as we come to find out, it probably didn't 442 00:33:12.039 --> 00:33:14.319 live long, probably didn't produce well, but they had an almond. They 443 00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:17.279 got it to survive well. Almond is basically a peach. It really is. 444 00:33:17.319 --> 00:33:20.680 I mean, look at the look at the shell around an almond, 445 00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:22.720 and look at the pit around the peach, and they look alike or similar, 446 00:33:22.960 --> 00:33:27.000 and that's because they are similar, very closely related. But instead of 447 00:33:27.039 --> 00:33:30.480 eating the fleshy outer part on an almond, we eat the seed inside of 448 00:33:30.519 --> 00:33:37.440 the pit. And in our climate it is number one. Are because of 449 00:33:37.559 --> 00:33:40.960 chilling hours and the way they work around here, we often find almonds blooming 450 00:33:42.200 --> 00:33:45.000 too early and as a result they get hit by a frost. The other 451 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:51.000 thing is they need to dry when they reach that stage where you know, 452 00:33:51.079 --> 00:33:54.039 the fruit has been formed and the seed has been formed, and now it 453 00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:59.920 needs to shrivel down the whole outside what would be the peach around the almond, 454 00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:05.759 It just shrivels away into a little leathery, little leathery piece. And 455 00:34:06.039 --> 00:34:09.000 we don't have the climate that allows for that good drying, and we have 456 00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:13.840 rots and other things that occur. So picking the right species is important, 457 00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:16.480 but picking the right variety is important too. And one of the biggest things 458 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:22.519 on varieties is the chilling hours. So when we talk about chilling hours, 459 00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:25.559 now this does not apply to our citrus, for example, and a lot 460 00:34:25.599 --> 00:34:32.039 of the tropical kinds of fruits, but apples, pears, peaches, plums, 461 00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:36.400 per simmons, you know a lot of things. It does apply. 462 00:34:36.599 --> 00:34:42.360 And here's what happens. When we go into fall, the buds on the 463 00:34:42.400 --> 00:34:45.960 tree that are the bloom buds going to be next year's crop, they go 464 00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:52.079 into a dormancy, a chemically induced dormancy. They cannot sprout because there's an 465 00:34:52.079 --> 00:34:55.719 inhibitor keeping them from it. So if in late December, you know, 466 00:34:55.800 --> 00:35:00.360 we have five days of eighty degrees, they're not going to be able to 467 00:35:00.400 --> 00:35:06.199 come out of it because they're chemically inhibited from doing that. But over the 468 00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:10.920 winter period, when we have temperatures around forty degrees forty forty five, especially, 469 00:35:13.079 --> 00:35:15.519 that inhibitor starts to break down. And I like to compare it to 470 00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:21.920 a little time bomb that's clicking click click click on its way down to zero 471 00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:25.199 and then boom. Well, when we have the right temperatures, that little 472 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:30.239 egg time or time bomb, whatever you want, it's moving pretty quick. 473 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.440 And so for every hour that we have of time in the day, we're 474 00:35:34.440 --> 00:35:37.559 getting an hour of chilling. And then there's times when the temperatures a little 475 00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:42.760 warmer, a little cooler, and the time clock slows down or stops all 476 00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:46.519 together. And so here's the deal. When that time clocks clicked down, 477 00:35:46.719 --> 00:35:51.920 and it says my buds are no longer inhabited. When the weather's right, 478 00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:54.239 I'm going we have some warm days, they're going to pop out and bloom. 479 00:35:54.280 --> 00:35:59.280 Now for a super low chilling requirement, Peach, that could occur way 480 00:35:59.360 --> 00:36:04.239 too early, and we're almost indefinitely going to have another frost that takes them 481 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:07.480 out. And so that's why chilling is so important. I'm going to pause 482 00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:09.239 on that for a minute, if you'd like to give us a call seven 483 00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:14.599 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're going to head out 484 00:36:14.679 --> 00:36:19.800 to Spring and we're going to talk to Shannon. Hello, Shannon, Well, 485 00:36:19.960 --> 00:36:24.840 good morning. Skip. In my compost pile, I found a volunteer 486 00:36:25.360 --> 00:36:30.159 avocado starting. Okay, so I've put it in a pot and it started 487 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:36.920 to go leave and mind you, I'm up and paid semi professional part time 488 00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:39.880 pat killers. Okay, Well, I would like to I would like to 489 00:36:39.920 --> 00:36:44.519 know what I mean. I don't intend to get any fruit out of it, 490 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:46.440 but but what what can I do? To keep it alive just to 491 00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:51.320 kind of see what it's going to look like. You can you can pot 492 00:36:51.360 --> 00:36:53.599 it up, or you can plan it in the ground and watch it. 493 00:36:53.599 --> 00:36:58.039 It is going to be very cold, tender, and so if it's in 494 00:36:58.119 --> 00:37:00.920 the ground, unless you do a whole lot, it's going to freeze. 495 00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:05.320 Okay. Now, there's there's several types of avocados, and then there's even 496 00:37:05.440 --> 00:37:08.079 hybrids between types. Okay, so when you go to the store and you 497 00:37:08.159 --> 00:37:15.480 buy those almost black, bumpy avocados, that is not a hardy type. 498 00:37:15.599 --> 00:37:20.840 They're the kind that typically gets sold. But there's also avocados that have smooth 499 00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:25.320 skin and a greenish skin even when they're ripe, and those kind are the 500 00:37:25.440 --> 00:37:29.599 hardier kinds. So if you go to a good garden center around here and 501 00:37:29.719 --> 00:37:32.440 you buy an avocado to try out, they're going to be selling you the 502 00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:37.840 kind that has a better shot at cold heartiness. They're still not extremely cold 503 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:40.360 hearty, but they're going to sell you that better shot, and that that 504 00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:46.840 would be the Mexican type of avocado. If you if you try the Guatemalan 505 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:52.000 or West Indian types, they probably won't survive most of the freezes outdoors. 506 00:37:52.039 --> 00:37:55.960 So I would If you want to grow it for fun, that's fine. 507 00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:59.800 If you want to grow it to get an avocado, I would buy a 508 00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:04.159 tree of a good variety that's going to have its best chance here. Okay, 509 00:38:05.239 --> 00:38:07.760 great, Great, Do you have time for one more question? Absolutely? 510 00:38:07.840 --> 00:38:10.320 Well, let's see I have thirty seconds. We can start it and 511 00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:14.840 maybe hold you a lot after break if you like. Okay, And I 512 00:38:14.840 --> 00:38:19.760 would just wondering if you are aware of a food safe paint. I grow 513 00:38:20.280 --> 00:38:23.039 veggies and containers, but they're just so ugly, So I just was wondering 514 00:38:23.079 --> 00:38:28.480 if you're aware of a food safe paint. You know, I'm just going 515 00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:30.960 to answer that one. I'm not I'm sure they are paints out there. 516 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:36.039 I'm sure that a lot of paints are probably okay once they dry and stuff, 517 00:38:36.400 --> 00:38:37.480 But I'm not going to be the one to guide you that. I 518 00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.599 would go to your local Ace hardware store where they sell paint, and I 519 00:38:40.599 --> 00:38:45.639 would ask them that question and see if they can can give you any direction. 520 00:38:45.920 --> 00:38:47.519 Okay, all right, thank you so much. Every good day. 521 00:38:47.639 --> 00:38:51.360 Thank you, Shannon. Appreciate the call. You're listening to Garden Line. 522 00:38:51.400 --> 00:38:53.239 I'm your host, Skip Rickter. Give us a call. Seven one three 523 00:38:53.360 --> 00:39:20.639 two one two fifty eight seventy four, good Sunday morning. On a good 524 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:23.039 Sunday morning for gardening. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, 525 00:39:23.159 --> 00:39:27.840 Skip Richter, And if you'd like to give a scholar number is seven one 526 00:39:27.960 --> 00:39:32.960 three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five 527 00:39:34.119 --> 00:39:37.039 eight seven four. And I just wanted to give a couple more comments to 528 00:39:37.119 --> 00:39:40.239 kind of finish out that what I was talking about on fruit and nut trees 529 00:39:40.280 --> 00:39:43.679 and Jerry and Anna I see out there. We're gonna get to you real 530 00:39:43.800 --> 00:39:46.320 quick here. I talked about the importance of sunlight. I talked about the 531 00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:51.480 importance of drainage. I talked about the importance of picking species and varieties that 532 00:39:51.599 --> 00:39:53.239 want to grow here. That's important. And I just want to add to 533 00:39:53.280 --> 00:40:00.000 that also that some types of fruit require pollinating. Apples almost all they're going 534 00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:06.719 to require pollinate a second variety for pollinator. Peaches are not plums, some 535 00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.880 don't, a few don't, most of them do pairs. Most of them 536 00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:15.400 benefit from pollinating as well. Blueberries, you're going to have bigger berries because 537 00:40:15.559 --> 00:40:20.280 with better pollination there's more seeds, which allows it to be a bigger berry. 538 00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:23.039 So in general, many of the fruit trees will require a pollinator. 539 00:40:23.119 --> 00:40:27.280 So make sure when you if you buy that kind of fruit tree, that 540 00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:30.840 you also purchase a variety that's going to bloom at the same time and help 541 00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:36.000 pollinate each other. And another reason to go to an independent garden center where 542 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.760 they know their products and they know to tell you that. A lot of 543 00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:42.599 places, a lot of the big national stores, they're not going to have 544 00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:45.519 the staff that understands that and is going to be able to direct you. 545 00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:49.559 So what happens you go buy a particular kind of fruit that needs a pollinator, 546 00:40:49.840 --> 00:40:52.800 you plan it. Four years later, you call garden line, it's 547 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:57.239 just not producing. It blooms every year. Well we just lost four years 548 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:00.559 before you get the information that you really needed another variety. Don't let that 549 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:04.440 happen to you. Hey, we're going to go out to the phones now, 550 00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:08.760 the number seven one three two one two five eight seven four, and 551 00:41:08.880 --> 00:41:14.519 we're going to start with Jerry. Good morning, Jerry, good morning, 552 00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:16.920 Thanks for taking my call. I appreciate your show. Yes, sir, 553 00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:23.119 thank you. I have I have probably forty or fifty foot tall pine tree 554 00:41:24.159 --> 00:41:30.519 that there are two places on the base of it have scars that are through 555 00:41:30.599 --> 00:41:35.559 the bark and into the wood, and it, I don't know, it 556 00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:42.079 almost looks like sawdust coming out of them. I've sprayed. I just want 557 00:41:42.079 --> 00:41:45.039 to know if there's anything else I should be doing if it's going to kill 558 00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:51.280 the tree. Okay, Well, if you're seeing sawdust, that's a that's 559 00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:54.599 a border that's working on the interior deadwood of the tree. And while we 560 00:41:54.639 --> 00:42:00.199 don't love to have things two and through the you know, structural strength of 561 00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:05.199 the tree, it's not a threat to the health of your of your pine. 562 00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:10.280 If it were a bark beetle, which is a very significant threat to 563 00:42:10.360 --> 00:42:15.480 the health of a pine, then you would see little globs of sap on 564 00:42:15.519 --> 00:42:21.159 the outside. So the fact that it's I've had the pine bark beetle before, 565 00:42:21.280 --> 00:42:23.679 I know what the holes and that kind of thing, Yeah, I've 566 00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:27.239 seen them before, but that's not what this is. Yeah, I mean 567 00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:34.159 it's like a you know, twelve inch high by maybe six inch wide scar. 568 00:42:34.599 --> 00:42:37.920 Okay, two of them. Well, anytimes there's physical damage to any 569 00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.119 tree like that, you're gonna get that kind of wound on the trunk. 570 00:42:42.159 --> 00:42:45.280 And when it kills the bark. Then you're down to the inner wood, 571 00:42:45.280 --> 00:42:50.800 and that's not good because then moisture gets in there, decay begins in there. 572 00:42:51.159 --> 00:42:53.800 But on a pine, they just don't close over. They don't callous 573 00:42:53.840 --> 00:43:00.880 over as rapidly as many other tree species would, and so they will gradually 574 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.719 start to close over. But there's really nothing you can do about it. 575 00:43:02.760 --> 00:43:07.239 There's no spray to make it close over faster. Don't paint the wound. 576 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:12.480 That's not going to be helpful. You might if you're concerned enough about it, 577 00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:15.480 depending on where the tree is, what's near the tree that you might 578 00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:19.559 be concerned. If it did break in a storm in the future, you 579 00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:22.920 might have an arborask come out and take a look at it and give you 580 00:43:22.960 --> 00:43:27.719 an assessment about what you should do. I think nine chances out of ten, 581 00:43:27.880 --> 00:43:30.000 it's just going to be a wait and watch and take care of the 582 00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:37.360 tree. I've seen some things on the internet about going in and scraping it 583 00:43:37.440 --> 00:43:40.719 out and trying to get to good wood on each side of it, and 584 00:43:42.079 --> 00:43:46.960 you know in the essentially the bottom of the scar, is that going to 585 00:43:47.039 --> 00:43:51.679 help. No. I The only part of that that I'll go along with 586 00:43:51.719 --> 00:43:53.480 would be, you know, if you've got dead bark in there, dead 587 00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:59.480 pieces that just helps hold moisture behind them, and you know, pull that 588 00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:02.480 loose pieces of bark or any kind of thing in the way out of there 589 00:44:02.599 --> 00:44:07.639 to open it up so it air dries better. But beyond scraping out wood, 590 00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:10.599 and I wouldn't do that, But again, I would have a certified 591 00:44:10.679 --> 00:44:15.440 arbist come or an arbreast that is trained and knows what they're doing, to 592 00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:19.199 come out and take a look at that and be able to give you that 593 00:44:19.239 --> 00:44:22.239 assessment. Again, my best guest, having seen a whole lot of pines 594 00:44:22.280 --> 00:44:25.119 in my life and these kind of issues, is it's going to be a 595 00:44:25.159 --> 00:44:29.480 wait and watch. Yeah, clean out any debris that's in the way. 596 00:44:29.519 --> 00:44:31.639 But in general, I think it is what it is. But the arbist 597 00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:35.840 can come out and make a statement like, you know what, structurally, 598 00:44:36.639 --> 00:44:39.039 here's my concern with this tree, you know, or I don't have a 599 00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:43.960 concern at this time. All right, all right, I appreciate it. 600 00:44:44.039 --> 00:44:45.960 Have a good day, you bet, Thank you, Jerry, appreciate that 601 00:44:46.039 --> 00:44:52.599 call. Let's now head out to Laporte and talk to Anna. Good morning 602 00:44:52.639 --> 00:44:58.800 Anna, good morning Escape. Thank you so much for taking out or appreciate 603 00:44:58.920 --> 00:45:05.239 your help. I've been listening to the Garden Line way before and Randy, 604 00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:08.039 So anyway, I really enjoyed the show. Yeah, thank you. It's 605 00:45:08.039 --> 00:45:12.239 an honor to be part of a show that has a history, you know, 606 00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:15.000 going way back, I mean through Dewey Compton, Bill Zac, down 607 00:45:15.079 --> 00:45:22.000 Burrows and all the different and of course Randy, who really I think made 608 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:28.719 to show what it is today. Yes, so I have problems. Did 609 00:45:28.840 --> 00:45:35.719 you pull up my pictures? Did you send me an email? Yeah? 610 00:45:35.800 --> 00:45:39.920 I think an email yesterday. Okay, Now what I'm having problems with is 611 00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:45.239 something is I have a lot of greens I eat out of my garden. 612 00:45:45.280 --> 00:45:51.000 I have colored, charred everything. So anyway, but something is eating some 613 00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:54.400 of my greens and I just didn't know what he would be or how can 614 00:45:54.440 --> 00:45:59.159 I get care of it? Okay, well, Anna, I did not 615 00:45:59.280 --> 00:46:01.360 get it. Not sure why. But after we get you talking, I 616 00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:05.840 want to put you on hold and you can talk to Josh about trying to 617 00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:07.480 get I would like to see those pictures, but I can tell you this, 618 00:46:07.559 --> 00:46:13.880 if it's greens. There are two insect types that typically bother them. 619 00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:17.159 One as beetles, little small beetles that eat holes in the leaves, and 620 00:46:17.199 --> 00:46:22.360 then there are caterpillars which can also eat holes, but often eat from the 621 00:46:22.440 --> 00:46:25.679 sides of the leaves in not just hole. Beetles are pretty much on greens. 622 00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:29.920 Beetles or pretty much just things that eat holes in your leaf, whereas 623 00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:35.039 caterpillars holes on the leaves. So I can it sounds like beetles, I 624 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:37.440 can it? Treat it? Okay, let me ask you a question. 625 00:46:37.480 --> 00:46:39.039 How big would you say the holes are? Are we talking about like a 626 00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:46.960 bebe or how bigby? Okay, So this is gonna be a little hard 627 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:51.320 to find. But if you want, since it's greens and you're putting the 628 00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:53.519 whole thing in your mouth, I try to go to the safest thing you 629 00:46:53.519 --> 00:46:58.159 can possibly think of, right, and you can always wash your produce, 630 00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:00.599 and if it's labeled for it, it's okay to use it. But I 631 00:47:00.599 --> 00:47:06.519 would look for a type of BT. And this is important, very important 632 00:47:06.559 --> 00:47:10.760 distinction, that is for beetles, not caterpillars. If you look on the 633 00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:16.119 label at the at the BT where it says at the bottom basillostherne gensis, 634 00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:22.360 this is what's in the product, it'll say san diego after the BT, 635 00:47:22.360 --> 00:47:24.199 but go to a good garden center where they can direct you to the right 636 00:47:24.239 --> 00:47:29.119 one, or you'll be wasting your money. Right. Well, I'm surrounded 637 00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:30.960 by say, real good ones, so we'll do that. That's good. 638 00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:34.880 Well, that's all I did. That's all I need. And now thank 639 00:47:34.920 --> 00:47:37.920 you so much for all the information you provide us. Well, thank you 640 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:40.800 very much, and I appreciate the call. Anna. Yeah, that you 641 00:47:40.840 --> 00:47:50.280 know, it's interesting. I think the future of pest control in the garden 642 00:47:51.239 --> 00:47:55.920 is really making a shift. We will always have products that are chemicals, 643 00:47:57.000 --> 00:48:01.000 organic chemicals, synthetic chemicals that are out there that are going to kill bugs, 644 00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:05.320 they poison bugs, or they give bugs a disease, and those kind 645 00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:07.920 of thing. That's always going to be here, but more and more we 646 00:48:08.000 --> 00:48:14.760 are seeing biological products like BT. And you know, the original BT was 647 00:48:14.800 --> 00:48:20.280 just for caterpillars. And then I mentioned to Anna that we have the San 648 00:48:20.320 --> 00:48:23.800 Diego strain is for many types not all, but many types of leaf feeding 649 00:48:23.840 --> 00:48:28.519 beetles. We've got the mosquito dunks. We talk about those a lot here 650 00:48:28.559 --> 00:48:34.239 on the show. That's a BT Israeliensis strain that works on a mosquito larva. 651 00:48:34.360 --> 00:48:37.239 You know, we have a BT for fungal n larva and on and 652 00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:39.320 on, and we're seeing more of those kind of products develop. And then 653 00:48:39.360 --> 00:48:44.920 there's some other cool things happening that I will talk about when we get back 654 00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:46.159 from break. I like to spend a little bit more time on that. 655 00:48:46.800 --> 00:48:52.559 But it is an interesting world whereas we learn more about how nature works, 656 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:57.639 and we'd make new discoveries about what's going on in nature, then new products 657 00:48:57.639 --> 00:49:00.400 are starting to appear, or new approaches that aren't just spray it in the 658 00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:06.960 face and kill it. They're they're a different approach to how pest control works. 659 00:49:06.960 --> 00:49:10.760 And I think that's that's pretty cool. So anyway, uh, fortunately 660 00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:15.920 for you, Nikki is here to save you from me nerding out about strains 661 00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:21.199 of microbes and tell us some exciting things happening out in the world around us. 662 00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:25.800 Twitterville has gone insane. Well that's a short trip. What happened, 663 00:49:27.840 --> 00:49:49.079 I'll tell you all about it, all right. Good morning, on a 664 00:49:49.159 --> 00:49:53.159 good Sunday morning. I see light. That is a wonderful thing. And 665 00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:57.039 even though there's some clouds in the sky, I can tell you this can 666 00:49:57.079 --> 00:49:59.440 be a good day to be out and about. You know, may have 667 00:49:59.519 --> 00:50:01.920 to dodge a little rain according to what the weather man is saying. But 668 00:50:02.440 --> 00:50:07.559 hey, don't let a good, wonderful afternoon like this get away from you. 669 00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:10.119 You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 670 00:50:10.400 --> 00:50:15.599 we are here to answer your gardening questions. You know, one of the 671 00:50:15.639 --> 00:50:20.280 things I love to do is to go roundtown and just stick my head in 672 00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:22.280 the door and a lot of these businesses that we talk about here, all 673 00:50:22.280 --> 00:50:27.760 the independent garden centers, you know, the feed stores that we talk about, 674 00:50:27.760 --> 00:50:31.880 these hardware stores that we talk about, and just earlier it was Friday, 675 00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:36.159 Yeah I believe it's Friday. I had stuck my head in the door 676 00:50:36.159 --> 00:50:38.559 in a couple of Ace hardwares just to look around and see what's on the 677 00:50:38.599 --> 00:50:42.119 shelves. What have they got? And you know, every time I do 678 00:50:42.159 --> 00:50:45.679 that, I'm stunned at the amount of products that they have. I mean 679 00:50:47.039 --> 00:50:51.280 everything you can imagine. And often when I go in there, I see 680 00:50:51.320 --> 00:50:52.880 something new and it's like, oh, this is on the market, let 681 00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:55.719 me read about it, let me learn about this. In other words, 682 00:50:55.920 --> 00:50:59.840 the bottom line is if you need something, they're going to have it. 683 00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:01.920 They got they got the fertilizers we talk about, they got the products we 684 00:51:01.960 --> 00:51:07.119 talk about and then some uh and it's just if you want to find an 685 00:51:07.119 --> 00:51:10.760 ACE near you, go to ACE Hardware dot com, Ace Hardware dot com 686 00:51:10.920 --> 00:51:15.360 and there's a way to find the ACE near you. It's it's real evident 687 00:51:15.440 --> 00:51:17.159 on the page to get to it and they can direct you to that. 688 00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:22.880 Now, if if you will write on your calendar for Saturday, the twenty 689 00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:25.440 ninth, this coming Saturday, I'm going to be at K and m Ace 690 00:51:25.719 --> 00:51:31.159 Hardware in Kingwood, K and m Ace Hardware in Kingwood from eleven thirty to 691 00:51:31.320 --> 00:51:37.119 one thirty pm. And I invite you to come out, bring me your 692 00:51:37.119 --> 00:51:42.079 plants, bring me your photos, just come out to talk about. Hey, 693 00:51:42.119 --> 00:51:44.199 here's an idea I have. I want to run it by you. 694 00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:45.840 Do you think this would work? I'd love to do that. It's good 695 00:51:45.880 --> 00:51:50.039 to meet you. Gives you the opportunity kind of with some one on one 696 00:51:50.079 --> 00:51:52.000 time with me to eye to eye, just kind of talk about some of 697 00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:55.719 the questions you might have. Heck, it's even okay to bring pictures and 698 00:51:55.800 --> 00:52:00.440 brag about you know this rosebush or whatever, you're your hibiscus or whatever. 699 00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:05.480 We can do that too. But that is this Saturday, four twenty nine, 700 00:52:05.519 --> 00:52:08.360 April twenty ninth, K and m Ace hardwareing Kingwood from eleven thirty two 701 00:52:08.400 --> 00:52:12.639 one thirty. I hope all of those of you up in the Kingwood Porter 702 00:52:12.639 --> 00:52:15.719 and New Caney, you know that whole area. I hope you'll come out 703 00:52:15.719 --> 00:52:17.320 and check it out. And if you want to drive from Acrosstown, that's 704 00:52:17.320 --> 00:52:20.719 good too. You know, often on these appearances we have people that come 705 00:52:20.760 --> 00:52:23.760 from pretty far away and that is just a whole lot of fun. Well, 706 00:52:23.840 --> 00:52:29.119 let's head out to talk to Jim now on the phones. Good morning, 707 00:52:29.280 --> 00:52:35.119 Jim, Good morning, skip. Quick question for are you about two 708 00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:38.320 and a half three weeks ago? I had two resawt about four hundred and 709 00:52:38.360 --> 00:52:45.960 fifty square feet of my yard. The question is is it too early to 710 00:52:45.159 --> 00:52:54.519 apply the next round of fertilizer. Yeah, it's a little early. Can 711 00:52:54.559 --> 00:52:59.480 you tell me what ratio of nutrients or what type of product you used before? 712 00:53:00.360 --> 00:53:06.000 Initially? I use the fifteen five ten? Okay? Okay, sweet 713 00:53:06.039 --> 00:53:09.480 green? Yes? Oh, sweet green? Okay, sweet green should be 714 00:53:09.480 --> 00:53:14.239 eleven. Let's see, what's the two numbers eleven? It's the first numbers 715 00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:19.880 eleven? Well, it was the fifteen five ten is going to be an 716 00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:22.480 immediate release and you're going to get a good response from that. It's not 717 00:53:23.039 --> 00:53:28.039 one that I would expect to carry you all through the summer unless your soil 718 00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:30.199 is already in a really good shape. You're returning your clippings and you know 719 00:53:30.239 --> 00:53:35.400 you've already built the nutrient content. But I would say probably about six weeks 720 00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:38.559 after that application if you wanted to come in with something that would carry you 721 00:53:38.599 --> 00:53:42.639 on through the summer, that would give you, you know, a longer 722 00:53:43.159 --> 00:53:49.119 a longer feed time. And right now the one that I'm I'm most interested 723 00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:51.880 in, you know, or the products that are going to give you that 724 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:57.000 kind of gradual feed because we're about to go through that long see season. 725 00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:00.639 And since you use the fifteen five ten nitrofis also that super turf, it's 726 00:54:00.639 --> 00:54:04.719 got the nineteen percent nitrogen. That would be the next one that I would 727 00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:07.360 go to, and that'll give you that'll take you all the way through until 728 00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:10.559 it's time to fall fertilize. And how long before I apply that, I 729 00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:15.920 would do it about maybe six weeks after the first application the fifteen five ten 730 00:54:15.000 --> 00:54:17.920 you put down, you just want to give it some time. That's gonna 731 00:54:19.000 --> 00:54:21.119 last a while. I mean, it's not like it just lasts a week 732 00:54:21.199 --> 00:54:24.000 or less. A good while, but then you want to the more extended 733 00:54:24.000 --> 00:54:27.360 one as you go for it. And now you could have put the super 734 00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:30.039 trift down earlier too. That's fine, but I think, considering where you 735 00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:34.800 are, that's how I would go about it. Okay, appreciate the hell, 736 00:54:34.920 --> 00:54:37.119 Thank you, sir, you bet Jim, good luck with that. 737 00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:39.880 I hope you have a beautiful lawn, and I bet you will. You 738 00:54:39.920 --> 00:54:47.079 know, we have such wonderful growing conditions for Saint Augustine that when it gets 739 00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:50.360 hot in human here in the summer and you don't want to go outside, 740 00:54:50.679 --> 00:54:53.760 as long as there's water in the soil, Saint Augustine's gonna be very very 741 00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:58.480 happy, very happy. Well, you're listening to Garden Line. I'm your 742 00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:00.920 host, Skip Richter, and we are here to answer gardening questions. I'm 743 00:55:00.920 --> 00:55:05.239 about to head to a break, but I invite you to give Josh a 744 00:55:05.320 --> 00:55:07.719 call get on the board so we can jump right at it right after the 745 00:55:07.760 --> 00:55:14.639 break. That's seven one three two one two five eight seven four. I've 746 00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:17.280 forgot all about the sweat and then dig and every time I go out and 747 00:55:17.400 --> 00:55:39.599 big all the two things, gotta get to some home grown tomatoes. I 748 00:55:39.639 --> 00:55:43.519 love that song. That's not the Guy Clark version. I believe that's a 749 00:55:43.639 --> 00:55:47.519 John Denver version, but it's still a good song. Right you're listening to 750 00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:51.480 garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. We are here to answer 751 00:55:51.519 --> 00:55:52.960 gardening questions. So give us a call. Got just a little bit of 752 00:55:53.000 --> 00:55:57.400 time left in this hour, and then we'll be back again. Seven one 753 00:55:57.559 --> 00:56:04.440 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty 754 00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:08.400 eight seventy four. And I am seeing someone coming on the line there, 755 00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:12.159 but I'm not sure who we got call. And I wait just a second, 756 00:56:12.199 --> 00:56:15.159 see if a name pops up, and we will move to that call. 757 00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:20.960 I've been talking about fruit trees today. I've been talking about pesticide changes 758 00:56:21.280 --> 00:56:23.719 today, and I want to continue that last one just a little bit. 759 00:56:25.159 --> 00:56:30.800 What I was basically saying is the day of our pest control option just being 760 00:56:30.880 --> 00:56:35.079 poisoned. The pest that is going away. And I think it's a good 761 00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:37.000 thing. Now. When I say going away, I mean not that those 762 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:42.119 products are going to go away. We'll always have how to poison a pest 763 00:56:42.159 --> 00:56:45.159 products, but we're seeing a day where we have more options than that, 764 00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:49.519 and it's come with the biologicals. You know, BT's been around a long 765 00:56:49.599 --> 00:56:54.000 time, a very well known biological but we keep learning about other biologicals. 766 00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:58.280 Now, this is a nerd alert, and so I just want to give 767 00:56:58.320 --> 00:57:00.719 you a little bit of a warning before I go into it. But I 768 00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:08.480 think you will find it interesting. There's a product that's another bacillus, and 769 00:57:08.719 --> 00:57:15.119 the basillus is not BT, but it's basillis a miloliko phacians. That is 770 00:57:15.159 --> 00:57:21.159 a long word after It'll say seven forty seven. That's like the airplane seven 771 00:57:21.280 --> 00:57:28.039 forty seven. Basillis a miloliko phacians is a unique new basillus to us in 772 00:57:28.119 --> 00:57:32.119 terms of having a product that colonizes the root. The bacteria gets all around 773 00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:38.039 the roots and it fights root right organisms on the route, but it releases 774 00:57:38.119 --> 00:57:45.440 substances that make the plant grow different above ground. So something like powdery mildew 775 00:57:45.519 --> 00:57:51.280 that would be attacking the plant would be somewhat hampered by the fact that the 776 00:57:51.280 --> 00:57:55.320 basillis a miloliko phacians product is down there on the roots. Now, go 777 00:57:55.360 --> 00:57:59.320 to a good garden center and ask him about that. Say, this is 778 00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:01.599 a new basil you drench on the soil. They're gonna know what you're talking 779 00:58:01.639 --> 00:58:06.840 about. There's several manufacturers now that make it, at least two that I've 780 00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:08.960 seen in the Houston area, and it's just a new way approaching it. 781 00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:14.760 And so my point is that we're seeing a lot of new ways of doing 782 00:58:14.800 --> 00:58:19.920 things. We've learned that plants and microbes live together and they interact in ways 783 00:58:20.000 --> 00:58:24.719 that make it difficult for diseases or difficult for insects, and now new products 784 00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:28.840 are appearing that take advantage of that. I think that's kind of cool. 785 00:58:30.199 --> 00:58:34.280 We had a question of someone looking for a landscaper and the one that we 786 00:58:34.280 --> 00:58:38.280 would recommend here on Garden Line would be Peerscapes. Peerscapes has been around a 787 00:58:38.280 --> 00:58:43.320 long time. They are up in the Cypress area. That's where home base 788 00:58:43.519 --> 00:58:45.760 is. They serve of course a much bigger area than that. But the 789 00:58:45.800 --> 00:58:51.480 folks at Peerscapes can really direct you to the kinds of help that you need, 790 00:58:51.559 --> 00:58:58.000 the kinds of product or structures like hardscapes and if you need landscape lighting, 791 00:58:58.039 --> 00:59:00.159 and on and on down the line. But I would I would give 792 00:59:00.159 --> 00:59:02.559 them a try. And response to that, I'll tell you more about Peer 793 00:59:02.599 --> 00:59:07.199 Escape soon. Let's go now to the phones and talk to Gordon in Missouri 794 00:59:07.440 --> 00:59:14.480 County, Missouri County. Am I reading that right? Missouri County, Missouri. 795 00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:16.920 All right, Gordon, how are you today? All not too bad? 796 00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:21.639 Enjoy the show and everything. I've got account of a weird question for 797 00:59:21.679 --> 00:59:23.159 you. A couple of years ago when a storm came down through here. 798 00:59:23.719 --> 00:59:27.719 You know, I lost about twelve trees. A lot of my trees got 799 00:59:27.760 --> 00:59:30.119 tore up and everything. But I had a lot of pecan trees. And 800 00:59:30.199 --> 00:59:32.760 I know probably what the answers are going to be. But all of the 801 00:59:32.880 --> 00:59:37.199 coon trees, they just started. The leaves just started coming out on them 802 00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:39.440 a couple of weeks ago. And my best pecon try, I got to 803 00:59:39.559 --> 00:59:44.719 have no bad limbs, no broken limbs or nothing. It has a sprout, 804 00:59:44.800 --> 00:59:46.719 dying, any leaves or anything. Yet? Is that basically tell me 805 00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:52.199 that thing has died. I wouldn't give up on it yet. Pecans are 806 00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:54.239 a little slow to come out, even though they are coming out now, 807 00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:58.679 but they're not one of the fastest things to come out. It would be 808 00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:02.400 very unusual for the eas we have had in December to have killed your pecan 809 01:00:02.480 --> 01:00:05.880 tree. I mean, in fact, I would say it's almost impossible. 810 01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:09.920 I don't know why it's not coming out. It's not going to be a 811 01:00:10.000 --> 01:00:15.360 chilling requirement thing most likely. Do you know, Gordon, was this pecan 812 01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:19.000 tree? Did it come from a seed that the squirrels planted or is it 813 01:00:19.119 --> 01:00:22.719 one you bought and planted? Well, to be honest with you, this 814 01:00:22.760 --> 01:00:27.599 is I've got five acres down here and everything neat pecan trees have been here. 815 01:00:28.480 --> 01:00:30.639 I ended up getting the property back from my grandparents and everything, and 816 01:00:31.039 --> 01:00:35.840 the countries have been here forever, okay, And this is just one tree 817 01:00:35.920 --> 01:00:37.360 that was kind of by itself. But it's a eat the countree. It's 818 01:00:37.400 --> 01:00:43.760 always developed real good. Yeah, but you know, I'd give it more 819 01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:46.280 time. We're about to head to break here, but I'd give it more 820 01:00:46.320 --> 01:00:50.840 time, Gordon. I think it's probably still going to come out. There's 821 01:00:50.880 --> 01:00:53.000 nothing you can do about it either way right now, so just be patient 822 01:00:53.039 --> 01:00:57.679 and watch it. That is going to be a seedling pecon so genetically it's 823 01:00:57.719 --> 01:01:00.400 going to be different than every other pecan or in your place, just like 824 01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:02.960 all people are different in one way or another. And this may just be 825 01:01:04.199 --> 01:01:07.639 kind of a characteristic that you hadn't noticed that it was a little slower normally, 826 01:01:07.159 --> 01:01:09.840 but let's give it some time. I'm going to hope for the best. 827 01:01:09.960 --> 01:01:15.519 And I just because the chances of something over essentially over the winter completely 828 01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:19.920 killing a tree that was fine last year, that's that's pretty slim. But 829 01:01:20.000 --> 01:01:22.920 thank you for the call. I appreciate that very much. You're listening to 830 01:01:22.960 --> 01:01:31.880 garden Line seven one three two one two five eight seven four. KTRH Garden 831 01:01:31.960 --> 01:01:37.440 Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. 832 01:01:37.519 --> 01:02:08.440 Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip director. Just watchings good Sunday morning. 833 01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:14.360 It's a good Sunday morning, or all kinds of things gardening back This 834 01:02:14.480 --> 01:02:16.880 afternoon may being good out, being a little bit of showers here to get 835 01:02:16.920 --> 01:02:21.039 some stuff done back this would be a good time to go buy maybe a 836 01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:25.320 new house plant. I was visiting some nurseries around town looking at the different 837 01:02:25.400 --> 01:02:30.719 kinds of house plants that they have for sale, and it you know, 838 01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:35.880 if COVID it was such a negative event overall for us, I've ent or 839 01:02:36.079 --> 01:02:43.480 a negative disease issue to deal with as a country and all the negative impacts 840 01:02:43.480 --> 01:02:46.800 that it had, but one positive impact was it sent more people into gardening, 841 01:02:47.119 --> 01:02:52.960 and house plants suddenly became interesting and everybody wanted them because hey, if 842 01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:55.039 you're cooped up in the house, right you need more. And people kind 843 01:02:55.039 --> 01:03:00.519 of went crazy. I mean the prices of house plants and the obscure plants 844 01:03:00.519 --> 01:03:04.039 that many of which are difficult to control, that appeared on the scene, 845 01:03:05.239 --> 01:03:09.519 difficult to control, difficult to get to thrive and stay alive. You know 846 01:03:09.599 --> 01:03:15.199 that that wasn't such a great thing, but the variety was amazing, and 847 01:03:15.360 --> 01:03:20.760 I probably added four new species of houseplants I'd ever grew before during that time, 848 01:03:20.760 --> 01:03:23.400 and I think probably a lot of you did too. But it's always 849 01:03:23.440 --> 01:03:28.039 fun to get a new plant. Really cool decorative pots, you know, 850 01:03:28.119 --> 01:03:35.280 some of our home grown nurseries just have an outstanding pottery and and maybe things 851 01:03:35.280 --> 01:03:39.480 that hang. We for a family member this week, we purchased a hanging 852 01:03:40.239 --> 01:03:44.239 container. I think we were up at I was up at Buchanans, I 853 01:03:44.280 --> 01:03:45.639 believe, and looking at some things. I saw this container. I just 854 01:03:45.719 --> 01:03:49.639 really needed to get it, and I got me one of those got three 855 01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:52.239 herbs to go in it, and it'll hang in a window in their home. 856 01:03:52.519 --> 01:03:54.199 But it's just really cool, you know. I mean, it's certainly 857 01:03:54.199 --> 01:03:58.480 they can go over there and snip some herbs off and enjoy them. It's 858 01:03:58.519 --> 01:04:01.199 not your typical houseplant, but if you get them in enough light, herbs 859 01:04:01.239 --> 01:04:04.440 can grow inside in the window, and I think that's kind of fun, 860 01:04:05.159 --> 01:04:10.119 especially when you add a container. That just makes overall a really good effect. 861 01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:14.960 But so don't let reports of a little bit of rain stop you from 862 01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:18.599 continuing your gardening activities. And if I can, in any way get out 863 01:04:18.639 --> 01:04:23.280 to a nursery even in between storms, I like to do that because you 864 01:04:23.320 --> 01:04:26.559 know, on rainy days people tend not to get out. And that's your 865 01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:30.159 chance. They say, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When 866 01:04:30.280 --> 01:04:34.039 life gives you rain, recognize that's a chance. When you could a garden 867 01:04:34.119 --> 01:04:38.519 center, you kind of got the folks. There's less of a crowd. 868 01:04:38.599 --> 01:04:42.239 You got folks counted to yourself, and you can visit and have a lot 869 01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:46.079 more time to ask questions and cruise around and see things. And I just 870 01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:49.800 think that's kind of a tip of the day. But don't let her rain 871 01:04:50.000 --> 01:04:57.159 keep you from getting out and enjoying the garden centers. You're listening to garden 872 01:04:57.199 --> 01:05:00.239 line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are here to answer 873 01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:04.440 your gardening questions. That's what we do. Give us a call the phone 874 01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:12.920 number seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two 875 01:05:13.000 --> 01:05:17.880 one two fifty eight seventy four. This morning. We've talked a lot about 876 01:05:17.960 --> 01:05:21.480 lawns, and you've heard me say it before, but the things that make 877 01:05:21.519 --> 01:05:25.880 the phone ring typically seem to be the three teas, trees, turf, 878 01:05:25.920 --> 01:05:30.159 and tomatoes. Nobody calls me about the co Robbie. I guess one day 879 01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:32.800 I'll get one call. Probably if I keep saying that, somebody will give 880 01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:35.800 me a call about it. But you know, tomatoes is the king of 881 01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:41.239 the vegetable garden. Everybody loves tomatoes. There's every year there's new tomatoes to 882 01:05:41.320 --> 01:05:45.719 grow, and they just keep coming up with new ones. It used to 883 01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:51.320 be that only the professional seed companies and universities we're breeding tomatoes, and that's 884 01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:56.880 still going on for sure, but homeowners are starting to get into it. 885 01:05:56.960 --> 01:06:00.599 And there's a group of tomato enthusiasts across the kind tree that are part of 886 01:06:00.960 --> 01:06:06.880 developing new types of tomatoes and they share their seeds around. They have dwarf 887 01:06:06.920 --> 01:06:11.679 types of tomatoes and larger types, and all of these are unproven in our 888 01:06:11.719 --> 01:06:14.239 area, or at least buy and large. I mean, if someone tries 889 01:06:14.280 --> 01:06:16.199 them here, we begin to learn about them. But we're talking about hundreds 890 01:06:16.239 --> 01:06:19.920 and hundreds of different kinds of tomatoes out there, so you can't test them 891 01:06:19.920 --> 01:06:24.480 all. But it's fun. Here's a gardener. Here are a group of 892 01:06:24.480 --> 01:06:27.800 gardeners that are getting out. They learn how you pollinate a tomato, which 893 01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:29.920 is a little a little bit of a trick to learn how to do. 894 01:06:29.920 --> 01:06:32.840 It's not hard. And then they start crossing them and they share their crosses, 895 01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:36.039 and they get things other people to cross and they tryump. That's part 896 01:06:36.039 --> 01:06:39.880 of the fun of gardening. That's kind of like that gardening two point zero 897 01:06:39.960 --> 01:06:44.880 I talk about you gardening, you know one point zero? That is how 898 01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:46.599 do I make my lawn green? How do I keep my trees alive? 899 01:06:46.679 --> 01:06:49.800 What's a good tomato to plant? Those kind of things. Then you hit 900 01:06:49.840 --> 01:06:55.159 the stage where you start learning about plant propagation. You start learning about plant 901 01:06:55.159 --> 01:06:59.519 breeding, and it's fun, I'm telling you. When you get a hang 902 01:06:59.599 --> 01:07:02.239 of it and you learn how to the basics of doing it, it is 903 01:07:02.280 --> 01:07:09.119 a whole new aspect of this expansive hobby that we call gardening. Not for 904 01:07:09.159 --> 01:07:12.320 everybody, I'm sure to go out and do plant breathing, but for a 905 01:07:12.360 --> 01:07:15.079 lot of you. I bet it is, and we should talk about that 906 01:07:15.159 --> 01:07:17.079 sometime. Well, speaking of talk about that, sometime, we're going to 907 01:07:17.119 --> 01:07:20.840 go to the phones. The number is seven one three two one two five 908 01:07:21.039 --> 01:07:26.159 eight seven four. We're going to head out to pair Land and talk to 909 01:07:26.280 --> 01:07:30.840 Cheryl. Hello, Cheryl, Hey, how are you this morning? Well? 910 01:07:30.880 --> 01:07:33.480 I'm good. How are you? I'm good? Thank you. I 911 01:07:33.559 --> 01:07:42.480 have a couple of questions. I had my husband planted all of Martini's I'm 912 01:07:42.519 --> 01:07:46.480 not sure the botanical name for that, but it was well before mlis. 913 01:07:46.559 --> 01:07:49.719 We shouldn't have, but they were selling them here at our local nurseries. 914 01:07:50.480 --> 01:07:58.119 So we planted several to try to grow as a privacy hedge, and they 915 01:07:58.280 --> 01:08:01.280 survived the threes. Some of them are doing okay, but most of them 916 01:08:01.280 --> 01:08:05.480 lost their original leaves and put off new leaves. And then I'll also have 917 01:08:05.519 --> 01:08:12.559 an issue with dogs. Two male dogs that keep um marking on them. 918 01:08:12.639 --> 01:08:15.719 I can't get them to stop, so one half of them is dying. 919 01:08:15.079 --> 01:08:18.279 I think that's the reason. Okay, So I was wondering if there's anything 920 01:08:18.359 --> 01:08:21.800 special I can do. Okay, um, I planted them. They were 921 01:08:21.840 --> 01:08:26.399 probably about a foot tall. Now they're about three feet tall, some of 922 01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:29.199 them, some of them not that tall. All right, now, you're 923 01:08:29.199 --> 01:08:33.079 talking about sheryln a true olive shrub, an olive tree. Right, No, 924 01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:36.079 it's called an olive martini, and it's a shrub, and it's a 925 01:08:36.199 --> 01:08:43.680 variegated shrub. And the botanical name is I can't I can't think of the 926 01:08:43.720 --> 01:08:45.960 botanical name. It starts with an e. Oh. You're talking about agnes. 927 01:08:46.279 --> 01:08:51.439 You're okay, yes, yes, okay, h all right, Well 928 01:08:51.960 --> 01:08:56.159 you were really close to bumping on a break, So we'll talk a little 929 01:08:56.199 --> 01:08:58.279 bit and then I want you to hold on, and I think you may 930 01:08:58.319 --> 01:09:00.840 have some other questions and we'll get to those when we come back after that. 931 01:09:01.319 --> 01:09:06.279 Eli Agnes is a good evergreen shrub. Generally, it can you know, 932 01:09:06.359 --> 01:09:11.399 occasionally you can have things that will knock leaves off of plants just due 933 01:09:11.439 --> 01:09:15.479 to weather. But it's it's a good one. It should do pretty well 934 01:09:15.560 --> 01:09:17.039 for you. I mean, it's not like the top pick of all the 935 01:09:17.079 --> 01:09:21.399 shrubs I would recommend here. But let's let's when we come back from break, 936 01:09:21.520 --> 01:09:25.680 let's drill down a little bit further, because I think we're gonna go 937 01:09:25.680 --> 01:09:30.880 a little deeper than a few seconds will allow. You're listening to garden Yeah's 938 01:09:30.039 --> 01:09:33.199 you're listening to the garden Line. And I'm going to be back here in 939 01:09:33.279 --> 01:09:35.680 just a moment, and Matt, we will get to you as well, 940 01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:40.279 if you'd like to be on the board seven one three two one two fifty 941 01:09:40.359 --> 01:10:00.199 eight seventy four. You're listening to guard Line on a Sunday morning, that 942 01:10:00.680 --> 01:10:05.880 as is always every day a good day for getting out there and gardening. 943 01:10:05.920 --> 01:10:09.960 I'm your host, Skip Ricter Our phone number seven one three two one two 944 01:10:10.439 --> 01:10:14.359 fifty eight seventy four. While ago, I was talking about heirloom or excuse 945 01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:18.199 me, enchanted gardens and enchanted for us, and I didn't give you the 946 01:10:18.319 --> 01:10:21.680 email or the web address, and I want to give you that. It's 947 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:25.720 you need to check it out. You know, if you're if it's pouring 948 01:10:25.760 --> 01:10:29.920 inside, you can't get outside. Online it's good time to peruse things. 949 01:10:30.000 --> 01:10:32.840 And if you go to my enchanted dot com, my enchanted dot com, 950 01:10:33.439 --> 01:10:39.319 that word enchanted at fifths these places, I mean they are unbelievable. And 951 01:10:40.119 --> 01:10:43.119 maybe you know enchanted gardens, but you haven't been to enchanted for us. 952 01:10:43.359 --> 01:10:45.760 You need to go to both of them because there they were unique in their 953 01:10:45.800 --> 01:10:53.039 own way and absolutely cool. Ten am to four pm today my enchanted dot 954 01:10:53.119 --> 01:10:56.600 Com. Check them out and I promise you you will not be disappointed. 955 01:10:57.119 --> 01:11:00.600 We're gonna go back to the phones now. We were talking to Cheryl and 956 01:11:00.079 --> 01:11:06.239 Herrol. You had that olive martini right that you. We were discussing growing 957 01:11:06.319 --> 01:11:09.760 and you were having some problems with it. It kind of died back a 958 01:11:09.800 --> 01:11:12.439 little bit, and the dogs are giving it a hard time. Is that 959 01:11:12.600 --> 01:11:17.279 right? Yes, yes, that's exactly right. We planted it because we 960 01:11:17.359 --> 01:11:21.279 wanted it to be a privacy hedge. Yes. So it hasn't grown as 961 01:11:21.359 --> 01:11:24.800 quickly as we thought. I guess it's been in the ground about a year 962 01:11:24.840 --> 01:11:27.920 and a half and we have about seventeen of them, so it's a big 963 01:11:27.960 --> 01:11:30.439 investment. We want to get them to grow. Yeah. So is the 964 01:11:30.560 --> 01:11:35.800 drainage decent around them? I think it is. But we do have a 965 01:11:35.960 --> 01:11:42.119 what do they call that a high water you know under the ground water table? 966 01:11:42.359 --> 01:11:45.880 Okay, yea, yeah, we do, and it's you know, 967 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:49.960 on the perimeter of the lot where it drains that direction. Okay, well, 968 01:11:50.399 --> 01:11:54.640 let's see if we can help them. But if not, it push 969 01:11:54.720 --> 01:11:57.600 comes to shove, we may end up having to go to you know, 970 01:11:58.239 --> 01:12:01.079 when we hit the November time, lifting them up, kind of getting that 971 01:12:01.159 --> 01:12:04.600 soul built up a little bit better to improve the drainage. If indeed that 972 01:12:04.800 --> 01:12:08.000 is going to be a limiting factor, but I don't want to assume that 973 01:12:08.119 --> 01:12:11.479 just now yet. In the meantime, they just need a good fertilizer, 974 01:12:11.600 --> 01:12:14.399 and they need a fertilizer with a lot of nitrogen. So what you would 975 01:12:14.439 --> 01:12:17.760 put on your lawn I would use for these So what I'm kind of product 976 01:12:17.800 --> 01:12:21.680 you normally use, you know, nitro files and Nelson's plat Food, Microlife. 977 01:12:21.720 --> 01:12:27.239 There's a lot of brands out there that have a quite product. But 978 01:12:27.920 --> 01:12:30.359 go with one of the terf fertilizers because they're higher in nitrogen and with a 979 01:12:30.439 --> 01:12:35.199 shrub, you're wanting to push vegetative growth and get that going. So I 980 01:12:35.239 --> 01:12:41.319 would probably put a cup or two of one of those fertilizers out per bush. 981 01:12:41.359 --> 01:12:45.640 If you're going to go with the organic, would probably put two to 982 01:12:45.159 --> 01:12:49.600 three or four cups even around them, and they're going to gradually release it 983 01:12:49.680 --> 01:12:53.479 over time, hopefully get that. Get those plants go, and they like 984 01:12:53.640 --> 01:12:56.159 full sun, so if they're in shade, they don't like that. That 985 01:12:56.319 --> 01:13:01.079 thing about the winner hitting them, that's unusual because the eliagnes, specifically the 986 01:13:01.159 --> 01:13:05.560 olive martini too, they're hardy, way further north than here. Now. 987 01:13:05.720 --> 01:13:10.920 December caught our plants off guard. So something that should have been way hardy 988 01:13:11.279 --> 01:13:15.079 may have gotten hit because it wasn't ready for the cold. It was living 989 01:13:15.119 --> 01:13:16.920 the life of Riley, thinking it's in a tropical paradise and all of a 990 01:13:16.920 --> 01:13:21.359 sudden, boom, we're freezing. That's a little exaggeration, but that's kind 991 01:13:21.359 --> 01:13:25.920 of what happened in December. So I would just fertilize them. Let's see 992 01:13:25.920 --> 01:13:28.000 if we can get them going. If not, why don't you call us 993 01:13:28.039 --> 01:13:30.920 back and we'll talk about maybe consider and redoing the area in the meantime. 994 01:13:30.960 --> 01:13:34.479 One last thing, Cheryl, if you have a post hole digger or a 995 01:13:34.560 --> 01:13:38.600 sharpshoot or something, you can dig a hole straight down. With just a 996 01:13:38.760 --> 01:13:43.159 small hole straight down, I would go down about a foot and a half 997 01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:48.439 with it and then fill it with water and then come back in twelve hours, 998 01:13:48.600 --> 01:13:53.920 twenty four hours, forty eight hours, How long does it take for 999 01:13:54.399 --> 01:13:58.199 the majority of that to drain out? So you know you have at least 1000 01:13:58.239 --> 01:14:01.479 a foot of drainage underneath those plants. That's going to tell us if we 1001 01:14:01.600 --> 01:14:04.640 got a problem that we're going to have to deal with in terms of soil 1002 01:14:04.840 --> 01:14:10.000 drain nige. Okay, that was like a great idea. Thank you so 1003 01:14:10.159 --> 01:14:13.960 much. You bet, yeah, let me ask you one more question, 1004 01:14:14.159 --> 01:14:17.640 all right. When we initially planted them, we did have area, you 1005 01:14:17.720 --> 01:14:20.319 know, right around the soil, like a ring around them with dirt, 1006 01:14:20.479 --> 01:14:24.279 and the grass is grown up around a lot of them. Should I clear 1007 01:14:24.399 --> 01:14:28.039 that back and molt around them? You absolutely should. If you talk to 1008 01:14:28.119 --> 01:14:30.760 a shrubb or tree and they could talk, they would tell you I do 1009 01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:33.039 not want to be able to see grass much have it growing all the way 1010 01:14:33.119 --> 01:14:38.560 up to my trunk. That's competitive with them, and so you need to 1011 01:14:38.600 --> 01:14:42.119 get that out of there and as wide as you can. I know, 1012 01:14:42.359 --> 01:14:45.159 esthetically, you know you don't want to have a twenty foot wide bed for 1013 01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:48.279 a shrub, But as far as the plant's concerned, the further the grass 1014 01:14:48.399 --> 01:14:50.640 is away, the better. So don't just move it a foot away, 1015 01:14:50.720 --> 01:14:54.920 get further than that if you can, and then the mouls, yes, 1016 01:14:55.079 --> 01:14:59.920 would do a very good job for them. Well that mays solve a lot 1017 01:15:00.079 --> 01:15:01.199 the problems. I'm going to give it a shot. Thank you for your 1018 01:15:01.239 --> 01:15:04.479 time this morning. We're gonna hope it does. And thank you for the 1019 01:15:04.600 --> 01:15:08.600 call. And you don't feel free to call us back as we go forward. 1020 01:15:08.720 --> 01:15:10.960 We want to get these things growing and looking their best for you. 1021 01:15:12.159 --> 01:15:15.840 We'll go out now to the woodlands and we're going to talk to Matt. 1022 01:15:15.159 --> 01:15:19.520 Hello, Matt, Hey, good morning, Skip. I'm almost sorry to 1023 01:15:19.600 --> 01:15:24.319 bug you with this, man, but I am fighting a losing battle with 1024 01:15:25.600 --> 01:15:30.279 look to be field mice in my garden. They've destroyed everything save the cucumbers. 1025 01:15:30.439 --> 01:15:35.199 Oh boy. And I feel like I've tried everything from ultra sonic you 1026 01:15:35.279 --> 01:15:42.560 know, solar powered deals to know, homemade trap, traditional traps. I 1027 01:15:42.720 --> 01:15:45.000 just don't I'm about to give up. Man, I'm losing this one big 1028 01:15:45.079 --> 01:15:47.800 time. All right, Well, don't give up. There's a lot of 1029 01:15:47.880 --> 01:15:51.600 devices out there, majority of them don't work. Don't work. Well, 1030 01:15:53.520 --> 01:15:57.439 I had, you know, the first time I ever noticed rodent problems in 1031 01:15:57.520 --> 01:16:00.319 the garden. That's a broccoli, and I went out, and you know 1032 01:16:00.359 --> 01:16:04.680 how broccoli has all the little tiny tight flower clusters on its head. It 1033 01:16:04.880 --> 01:16:10.600 was like little flower clusters had been chewed off, but just the little round 1034 01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:15.079 ball cluster flower on the ends. And I couldn't figure out what was doing 1035 01:16:15.159 --> 01:16:16.279 that, and I kept watching it and looking at it, and finally I 1036 01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:19.520 realized it's rats coming in that are doing that at night. And I've never 1037 01:16:19.600 --> 01:16:24.279 had that problem before, so I understand how rats and mice can be a 1038 01:16:24.359 --> 01:16:27.159 problem. What I would do if it were in my garden as I would 1039 01:16:27.199 --> 01:16:30.880 get some of those outdoor stations where they have bait and it's a poison for 1040 01:16:30.960 --> 01:16:35.399 the rats and mice, and you put them in. Sometimes they come in 1041 01:16:35.520 --> 01:16:40.399 a weather proof cover so that you just set them out in the garden and 1042 01:16:40.439 --> 01:16:45.199 don't worry about it. Other times you may homemake a little umbrella type something 1043 01:16:45.279 --> 01:16:47.840 cover to keep them out of the rain. You want to keep your pets 1044 01:16:47.920 --> 01:16:50.720 away from them, and that's one of the nice things about these ones with 1045 01:16:50.840 --> 01:16:55.000 the covers. They're designed so pets can't get the stuff out of them. 1046 01:16:55.479 --> 01:16:58.439 But I would just put those out and always have fresh bait in them. 1047 01:16:58.520 --> 01:17:00.359 You can buy the bait, sepparate and ref fill them, and you're just 1048 01:17:00.439 --> 01:17:03.800 gonna have to stay after it because they will go to that and it will 1049 01:17:03.840 --> 01:17:06.920 be effective. But you need to you need to get them out there. 1050 01:17:06.960 --> 01:17:10.359 You have to move them around a little bit to figure out where the best 1051 01:17:10.439 --> 01:17:13.680 spot is. You know, sometimes those things we're running along the basement or 1052 01:17:13.760 --> 01:17:16.600 the foundation of your house, you know, they kind of take that path 1053 01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:19.680 around. You can kind of figure that out as you mess around with it. 1054 01:17:21.600 --> 01:17:25.880 Okay, well, I appreciate that. Why so it's just here, 1055 01:17:25.960 --> 01:17:30.119 I'm about at my wits end here, I understand. Yeah, you bet 1056 01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:33.720 well, Good luck with it, and keep us posted on how that how 1057 01:17:33.800 --> 01:17:39.119 that goes. You're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 1058 01:17:39.279 --> 01:17:42.359 and we are here to answer your gardening questions. If you will give 1059 01:17:42.439 --> 01:17:46.800 us a call at seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven 1060 01:17:46.920 --> 01:17:53.840 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four, we will be glad to 1061 01:17:54.199 --> 01:17:56.840 get you on the board. We're gonna take a break here in a little 1062 01:17:56.880 --> 01:17:59.760 bit, and if you called during that time, Josh will get you up. 1063 01:17:59.800 --> 01:18:01.680 So when you come back, you're going to be right in the big 1064 01:18:01.760 --> 01:18:05.119 middle of the show and we can we can talk about what you're interested in. 1065 01:18:05.399 --> 01:18:09.039 I always find the shows. Although I like to drowne on, I 1066 01:18:09.159 --> 01:18:13.279 can't. I admit that I find the shows are most interesting when you guys 1067 01:18:13.359 --> 01:18:16.880 are calling and we can discuss the issues that you're having. And sometimes you 1068 01:18:16.960 --> 01:18:20.319 may feel a little bit like, Hey, I'm not an expert, you 1069 01:18:20.399 --> 01:18:25.119 know, and I don't want to call in and I don't I'll have a 1070 01:18:25.199 --> 01:18:28.279 silly question. Don't worry about that. We can take care of you. 1071 01:18:28.359 --> 01:18:30.960 There, let's run out real quick. We got about a minute and a 1072 01:18:31.000 --> 01:18:36.119 half here, Danette, good morning, and how can we help Hi? 1073 01:18:36.239 --> 01:18:39.640 Yeah, I was causing about it so all a bad that I want to 1074 01:18:39.680 --> 01:18:44.399 lead do again and I need to get some more saus for it. Okay, 1075 01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:48.359 what kind of flyers do you want to grow? I want to go 1076 01:18:48.479 --> 01:18:54.000 out the roses and the judgments. Ah, good, good, good choice. 1077 01:18:54.359 --> 01:18:58.840 You need to look for something that's called a rose blend, some sort 1078 01:18:58.880 --> 01:19:02.399 of soil. There's some good ones out there. You know, you're out 1079 01:19:02.600 --> 01:19:06.239 in the Texas City area. You got you got some quality place you can 1080 01:19:06.279 --> 01:19:10.720 go to Thunderbergs, the feed store. We're just talking about a little bit 1081 01:19:11.079 --> 01:19:15.199 and League City Feed for example, and so on. Get a look for 1082 01:19:15.319 --> 01:19:18.199 a rose soil, tell them that's what you're looking for. If you need 1083 01:19:18.239 --> 01:19:21.520 a whole lot, you order it directly from one of the soil producers. 1084 01:19:23.119 --> 01:19:26.920 We got we got some delivery abilities around here. But that will get you 1085 01:19:27.039 --> 01:19:31.600 set up to success. All right, it is no, it is no, 1086 01:19:32.239 --> 01:19:34.640 okay, all right, Well good luck with that. Hey, thank 1087 01:19:34.680 --> 01:19:39.039 you for the call, Tonette. I appreciate that. I don't know what 1088 01:19:39.159 --> 01:19:42.359 happened, but the phone's just lit up here in a minute. Those of 1089 01:19:42.439 --> 01:19:45.159 you who are talking to Josh and getting on the board, good for you 1090 01:19:45.319 --> 01:19:49.359 if you'd like to join them. Seven one three two one two five eight 1091 01:19:49.600 --> 01:20:06.279 seven four seven to three two and two kt r H. Well, you 1092 01:20:06.399 --> 01:20:13.199 are listening to garden Line on a wonderful day for gardening. Indoors are out 1093 01:20:13.319 --> 01:20:16.079 to get as much as you can outdoors and have fun indoors in the process 1094 01:20:16.159 --> 01:20:20.600 too. We are available for calls if we got two folks on the board. 1095 01:20:20.640 --> 01:20:24.279 Helen Marty, I'm about to get to you. If you would like 1096 01:20:24.399 --> 01:20:28.640 to call and be on the board. Seven one three two one two five 1097 01:20:28.760 --> 01:20:32.800 eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's 1098 01:20:32.840 --> 01:20:35.479 go out to Alvin first, and we are going to talk to Helen. 1099 01:20:35.720 --> 01:20:40.239 Hello, Ellen, Helen, how are you. Yes, it's Helen. 1100 01:20:40.520 --> 01:20:45.399 Thank you. I have so many questions to ask you, but I don't 1101 01:20:45.399 --> 01:20:48.760 know how many you want to limit me to. Let's dive in and we'll 1102 01:20:48.760 --> 01:20:54.239 see how far we go. Okay, I have had a tree pop up 1103 01:20:54.439 --> 01:21:00.239 in kind of my area. I have about three feet from the house to 1104 01:21:00.479 --> 01:21:04.720 a sidewalk and right there a tree popped up like a year and a half 1105 01:21:04.760 --> 01:21:10.840 ago, and it's already to the top of my roof and I'd love to 1106 01:21:10.920 --> 01:21:15.920 have it transplant it. Somebody said they thought it was a type of mulberry 1107 01:21:15.039 --> 01:21:20.600 tree. Is it too late to transplant a tree? It's a little late. 1108 01:21:21.199 --> 01:21:25.760 You could probably get by with it, but it'd be better to do 1109 01:21:25.840 --> 01:21:28.399 it in the fall. That's the best time to do, late fall and 1110 01:21:28.520 --> 01:21:31.920 winter. Oh, I know that. I at eighty three. I'm not 1111 01:21:32.079 --> 01:21:38.520 able to dig it out myself and to find someone too deep, you know, 1112 01:21:38.760 --> 01:21:45.239 dig down deep, because the bottom, the stem or root or whatever 1113 01:21:45.840 --> 01:21:49.520 is right up against the sidewalk. Well, Helen, you can give it 1114 01:21:49.600 --> 01:21:54.760 a try, but I'm going to advise against it, and here's a number 1115 01:21:54.800 --> 01:21:59.279 one digging. I just leave it and wait till next year. I would 1116 01:21:59.319 --> 01:22:01.399 not transplant. And I know, I know you call it because you want 1117 01:22:01.479 --> 01:22:04.119 tresplant, but I'm just I'm just being honest with you. I ever mind, 1118 01:22:04.560 --> 01:22:06.479 it's gonna be very hard to dig it out of there and get a 1119 01:22:06.520 --> 01:22:13.000 good root system. Mulberry is it's a It's a decent tree, but it's 1120 01:22:13.079 --> 01:22:17.680 not one that's gonna add value to your property twenty thirty forty years from now 1121 01:22:17.800 --> 01:22:21.439 like a long left quality tree will do. Plus mulberries, I mean, 1122 01:22:23.039 --> 01:22:25.239 you know they have their pros, but they also can be a little bit 1123 01:22:25.319 --> 01:22:29.079 messy. So that's just one of the thing to consider. Okay. But 1124 01:22:29.119 --> 01:22:30.520 if you decide if you want to do it or not, I'm just telling 1125 01:22:30.560 --> 01:22:34.760 you what i'd advise. Okay. The next thing is the lawn. I 1126 01:22:35.000 --> 01:22:41.239 lost like almost half of my lawn to the drought because I couldn't get out 1127 01:22:41.319 --> 01:22:45.680 in water it. Now some of the same now Augustine is coming back, 1128 01:22:46.119 --> 01:22:51.359 but the other weeds are in. Would I have to try to chop up 1129 01:22:51.439 --> 01:22:58.479 the weeds before I lay pallets of graph Now I would? I would get 1130 01:22:58.600 --> 01:23:01.199 rid of them either by spraying or by a little rototilling. If they're not 1131 01:23:01.399 --> 01:23:04.520 too tall, if you've mowed them low, you can probably rototill, but 1132 01:23:05.239 --> 01:23:10.119 in some ways that doesn't really fully get rid of them. So usually I'll 1133 01:23:10.159 --> 01:23:13.560 start with a spray to get rid of them, but then get that new 1134 01:23:13.600 --> 01:23:15.680 side down. But do it pretty soon, get it done, because you 1135 01:23:15.760 --> 01:23:18.000 want to have a lot of time to fill back in, and with proper 1136 01:23:18.159 --> 01:23:24.239 care, it'll do that. Okay. The other question, gentlemen called about 1137 01:23:24.439 --> 01:23:30.680 his peppers that he was losing the blooms. Yes, what degree did you 1138 01:23:30.840 --> 01:23:35.279 say that the peppers would do this? Well, j they dropped below sixty. 1139 01:23:36.319 --> 01:23:40.640 Below sixty, we start to see some bloom set problems and pepper, 1140 01:23:40.720 --> 01:23:44.520 especially bells, they're a little bit. The hot peppers aren't as sensitive to 1141 01:23:44.640 --> 01:23:48.640 that as the bells for some reason. Oh okay, we have a church 1142 01:23:48.800 --> 01:23:56.119 community garden and since I can't do anything, they asked me to purchase peppers. 1143 01:23:56.199 --> 01:24:02.439 So we went down and I just wonder if we should maybe court jars 1144 01:24:02.600 --> 01:24:09.039 over them if it's going to be below sixty. Well, no, I 1145 01:24:09.079 --> 01:24:11.960 wouldn't worry about that. We plan them when we plan them at the right 1146 01:24:12.039 --> 01:24:14.640 time. We want to be well past the frost when it's warming up and 1147 01:24:14.720 --> 01:24:18.000 they're more willing to go then. So two weeks ago, yeah, and 1148 01:24:18.119 --> 01:24:23.159 so typically we don't have that kind of temperature. By the time they've grown 1149 01:24:23.319 --> 01:24:26.600 and they're really trying to set some fruit, it's warmed up a little bit 1150 01:24:26.680 --> 01:24:28.800 more. So I don't I don't worry about that a lot. But I 1151 01:24:28.880 --> 01:24:30.479 guess you know, if we're going to have an unusual coal spell, you 1152 01:24:30.560 --> 01:24:33.960 could you could go ahead and do that. I generally I don't worry about 1153 01:24:33.960 --> 01:24:36.640 it. I just let them keep going and they're going to be fine most 1154 01:24:36.720 --> 01:24:42.159 years, so that you could cover them if you felt like that. But 1155 01:24:42.399 --> 01:24:44.720 you know, if a court jar covers it, that's too small of a 1156 01:24:44.800 --> 01:24:46.960 plant to worry about protecting. I mean, the plant's going to survive, 1157 01:24:47.079 --> 01:24:49.720 but that's too small for it to try to put a pepper on anyway. 1158 01:24:49.840 --> 01:24:54.560 Well, I see, okay, okay, Well I appreciate it. Well, 1159 01:24:54.640 --> 01:24:57.279 thank you very much, and thank you very much for the call. 1160 01:24:58.119 --> 01:25:00.720 Michelle and Marty. We see you guys out there. We are getting close 1161 01:25:00.840 --> 01:25:03.680 enough to a break here where I'm gonna not try to get started with you. 1162 01:25:03.720 --> 01:25:06.159 If you will hang on, you will be the first that we come 1163 01:25:06.199 --> 01:25:10.760 to Marty year first, and then Michelle. You're right afterwards, we'll get 1164 01:25:10.800 --> 01:25:15.399 to your questions. Our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight 1165 01:25:15.600 --> 01:25:27.039 seventy four. Seven one three two one two kat r h On. Hey, 1166 01:25:27.199 --> 01:25:41.760 Now, well, good Sunday morning. You're listening to garden Line. 1167 01:25:42.039 --> 01:25:45.399 I'm your host, Skip Rictor, and we're here to answer your gardening questions, 1168 01:25:45.439 --> 01:25:47.560 which we are about to do in just a moment, with Marty and 1169 01:25:47.800 --> 01:25:51.479 with Michelle. If you'd like to be on the air. Seven one three 1170 01:25:51.479 --> 01:25:58.239 two one two fifty eight seventy four, let's start by going out to Fairfield 1171 01:25:58.359 --> 01:26:02.000 and talking to Marty. Hell oh Marty, good morning, Skip. I 1172 01:26:02.279 --> 01:26:08.960 hope you're doing well. I have a question. You suggested not cutting our 1173 01:26:09.079 --> 01:26:13.600 roses back all the way down to a third, but just as much as 1174 01:26:13.680 --> 01:26:16.920 we thought would be good. And this is the first year my piece Rose 1175 01:26:17.600 --> 01:26:26.199 has actually had hundreds fifties, twenties, a bunch of roses, and I'm 1176 01:26:26.319 --> 01:26:31.520 so excited. But the problem is though, that they're all doing the bud 1177 01:26:31.800 --> 01:26:35.199 draw where they don't open. Okay, I guess that's what it's called, 1178 01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:39.880 and I don't one year I used OZMA code on the few that came out, 1179 01:26:40.039 --> 01:26:42.880 and it helped a little. But I just don't know what to do 1180 01:26:43.039 --> 01:26:46.239 to make this poor little rose. It's happy now, but I don't know 1181 01:26:46.319 --> 01:26:53.079 how to make them open. So the rose blooms are forming, but they're 1182 01:26:53.159 --> 01:26:56.279 not opening up for you to see. Well, some of them are, 1183 01:26:56.399 --> 01:27:02.680 but they're kind of got a mild not mildew. They're kind of brown on 1184 01:27:02.720 --> 01:27:06.279 the edges, okay, And some of them that don't open are brown on 1185 01:27:06.359 --> 01:27:10.680 the edges. All right. So here's what's probably happening. There is a 1186 01:27:10.800 --> 01:27:15.720 petal blight. It's a fungal disease that in wet conditions will affect the petals. 1187 01:27:15.840 --> 01:27:19.279 And when you have a bud and it's trying to swell up and open, 1188 01:27:19.800 --> 01:27:27.720 if the outer petals are killed, it's like they become a dried restriction 1189 01:27:28.079 --> 01:27:31.720 that keeps that bloom from opening properly. And I think that's what you're seeing 1190 01:27:32.039 --> 01:27:34.760 now. There are other things that can affect roses. Certainly, thrips get 1191 01:27:34.800 --> 01:27:39.159 inside and piece is kind of a light colored rose, you know, as 1192 01:27:39.199 --> 01:27:43.239 you move to lighter color, we often see thrips, although they'll attack all 1193 01:27:43.359 --> 01:27:45.000 kinds of colors. Of roses. But I think what you're looking at as 1194 01:27:45.000 --> 01:27:50.039 a petal blight, so that can be prevented with a fungicide spray, or 1195 01:27:50.359 --> 01:27:57.159 just if you've got a sprinkler that's wetting the bushes, then change to drip 1196 01:27:57.199 --> 01:28:00.319 irrigation or you know, redirect it to keep from frequently wedding, because that 1197 01:28:00.439 --> 01:28:05.720 just makes the fungal blight kind of issues greater. But if you if that's 1198 01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:11.000 not the issue that you can control, then I would consider a fungicidal spray, 1199 01:28:11.760 --> 01:28:14.800 especially when we're going through wet weather like let's say today, that storm 1200 01:28:14.840 --> 01:28:16.800 blows suit and you get a little wet on your roses. Following that up 1201 01:28:16.840 --> 01:28:24.000 with a fungicidal spray can help cut that down, reduce I would go with 1202 01:28:24.239 --> 01:28:28.079 more of a regular fungicident. I'm gonna have to look to see on that 1203 01:28:28.239 --> 01:28:33.319 pedal blight what the best ingredient would be. But I've yeah, I've never 1204 01:28:33.439 --> 01:28:36.399 heard of that. Yeah, the Concend is more of a like a surface 1205 01:28:36.479 --> 01:28:41.840 ster kind of product, and that's okay for some uses. I think we 1206 01:28:41.920 --> 01:28:44.760 would probably want to go with something a little different. I'm gonna have to 1207 01:28:44.800 --> 01:28:46.319 look at that in another break here and see if I can come up with 1208 01:28:46.359 --> 01:28:50.520 an actual ingredient for you. But if you go let's see, you're calling 1209 01:28:50.640 --> 01:28:54.920 from up in the woodland. No, you're done in fair fair Field, 1210 01:28:54.960 --> 01:28:59.439 Okay, so you're real close to Plants, Row Seasons and Arborgate very knowledgeable. 1211 01:28:59.520 --> 01:29:02.199 If you go right down two forty nine, you know, to RCW, 1212 01:29:02.439 --> 01:29:05.199 all those places are going to be able to direct you to a product 1213 01:29:05.319 --> 01:29:10.039 for that particular problem. And I would do that because that way they're going 1214 01:29:10.119 --> 01:29:13.800 to send you to something that they carry in the store. And if I 1215 01:29:13.920 --> 01:29:15.720 give you a name of a chemical and you go and they don't have it, 1216 01:29:15.800 --> 01:29:18.600 well then we're cut up a creek. So I trust all three of 1217 01:29:18.680 --> 01:29:25.119 those places to not direct you wrong on this. Yeah, and Sherry both 1218 01:29:25.319 --> 01:29:28.439 that they can help me. I'm sure, but I just I've never heard 1219 01:29:28.479 --> 01:29:30.119 of it, so thank you very much. I will look into it. 1220 01:29:30.279 --> 01:29:32.680 Yeah, we'll just tell them. You talk to me and there was a 1221 01:29:32.760 --> 01:29:38.159 pedal blight and you need something for that. But remember you gotta you know, 1222 01:29:38.279 --> 01:29:41.279 once the roses are brown on the outside, it's a little late to 1223 01:29:41.359 --> 01:29:44.199 do anything. So you got to stay ahead of it, which usually means 1224 01:29:44.279 --> 01:29:47.399 following the rain with the spray. If you did before the rain, the 1225 01:29:47.479 --> 01:29:50.359 rain would blah it off. So you see what I'm saying. Okay, 1226 01:29:50.600 --> 01:29:54.239 makes sense, Okay, very good, Thank you so much. All right, 1227 01:29:54.319 --> 01:29:57.199 Marty, thank you very much for the girl. Have a good day 1228 01:29:58.039 --> 01:30:00.640 you too. It is good to talk to you, Michelle. We are 1229 01:30:00.800 --> 01:30:05.399 about to hit a break time here. I tell you what. Let's let's 1230 01:30:05.439 --> 01:30:09.159 go ahead Michelle and get started, and then I think you're gonna have to 1231 01:30:09.239 --> 01:30:13.039 hang in for break after break for the answer. How about that? Sure? 1232 01:30:13.560 --> 01:30:16.600 Good morning? How are you, sir? I'm well great. Um. 1233 01:30:16.720 --> 01:30:21.520 So I have about a four year old elderberry tree and the leaves started 1234 01:30:21.600 --> 01:30:26.159 turning yellow. It's about six foot toss, so it's doing well. But 1235 01:30:26.319 --> 01:30:30.359 then the leaves started turning yellow, so I thought, well, probably lacking 1236 01:30:30.439 --> 01:30:34.720 iron. So I gave it some lime and it turned nice and green. 1237 01:30:35.359 --> 01:30:39.680 Now it's turning yellow again, so I don't know if I need to have 1238 01:30:39.920 --> 01:30:45.359 more lime on you know, go ahead, yeah, Michelle, I don't 1239 01:30:45.399 --> 01:30:48.640 think the line the line may it may have turned better after the line, 1240 01:30:48.680 --> 01:30:53.199 but I don't think that's what did it. So yellowing of the leaves, 1241 01:30:53.800 --> 01:30:58.520 if it's the young leaves, the newest growth, then maybe that was the 1242 01:30:58.640 --> 01:31:02.680 iron deficiency, and I'm actually would probably work against you on that, so 1243 01:31:03.640 --> 01:31:06.760 you would rather have the pH a little lower than higher. If iron deficiency, 1244 01:31:06.800 --> 01:31:11.520 I would find something called key lated iron. Now you're up in the 1245 01:31:11.600 --> 01:31:14.399 area where you can get to A and A plants, and they're going to 1246 01:31:14.479 --> 01:31:16.319 probably have a key lated iron. I would call them, talk to Cathy 1247 01:31:16.399 --> 01:31:23.279 there. Keylated iron releases iron slowly to keep that plant happy. Anytime you 1248 01:31:23.359 --> 01:31:27.960 add compost, you're adding iron along with everything else because it's in the ingredient. 1249 01:31:28.600 --> 01:31:31.399 Anytime you're enhancing your soil like that, or an organic fertilizer in the 1250 01:31:31.479 --> 01:31:34.680 soil, they're going to have all the different nutrients on them, but the 1251 01:31:34.760 --> 01:31:40.159 key lated iron directly. If it's the yellowing on the new growth, okay, 1252 01:31:40.399 --> 01:31:44.640 all right, growth, it's If it's on the old growth, I 1253 01:31:44.680 --> 01:31:46.640 would look to you know, it could be a lack of nitrogen, probably 1254 01:31:46.680 --> 01:31:50.680 not on elderberry, but it also could be a water problem in the soil, 1255 01:31:50.760 --> 01:31:57.159 a temporary drought, saggy web conditions can all cause yellowing on older growth, 1256 01:31:57.319 --> 01:32:01.520 as well as a few other possibilities. Okay, thank you so much. 1257 01:32:01.880 --> 01:32:04.279 I appreciate you. All right, good, thank you for the call. 1258 01:32:04.399 --> 01:32:08.319 Well, we got it done before break. If you're listening to garden 1259 01:32:08.359 --> 01:32:12.920 Line, write this down seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 1260 01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:19.199 Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 1261 01:32:19.239 --> 01:32:27.199 advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor, so 1262 01:32:34.520 --> 01:32:47.640 just watch him as well. Good Sunday morning. You are listening to garden 1263 01:32:47.680 --> 01:32:51.760 Line, I'm your host, Skip Richter, and our phone number. We 1264 01:32:51.880 --> 01:32:56.920 need to write this down so you can give us call seven one three two 1265 01:32:57.000 --> 01:33:03.039 one two five eight seven four seven three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1266 01:33:04.039 --> 01:33:08.960 That Nicki's talking about the weather and this rainstorm is going to blow through. 1267 01:33:09.159 --> 01:33:11.520 So just think of it this way. The rain today is just going 1268 01:33:11.600 --> 01:33:15.279 to freshen it up outside a little bit, and then you can head out 1269 01:33:15.319 --> 01:33:21.239 for a wonderful afternoon visiting with some of our quality local garden centers. Maybe 1270 01:33:21.279 --> 01:33:25.359 stop in at one of our feed stores. I love feed sort. It's 1271 01:33:25.439 --> 01:33:29.680 it's always fun to get to go into a well stocked feed store, maybe 1272 01:33:29.720 --> 01:33:32.640 an ACE hardware store. Boy, once you're inside there, you kind of 1273 01:33:32.640 --> 01:33:36.439 get a little bit of everything that you might need from plumbing to paint too. 1274 01:33:36.800 --> 01:33:42.199 Of course, all of the good gardening information and help you know, 1275 01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:45.640 spring is popping all over the place, and Lansdowne Moody is really hitting the 1276 01:33:45.680 --> 01:33:50.039 ground running with a whole lot of Caboda Spring deals. You can get a 1277 01:33:50.119 --> 01:33:55.640 great buy on a compact or a subcompact tractor, a full size tractor. 1278 01:33:55.880 --> 01:34:00.319 I mean, if you're gonna go all the way fully enclosed cab ac gpes, 1279 01:34:00.439 --> 01:34:02.159 even sound systems. Oh my gosh, why would you ever leave the 1280 01:34:02.199 --> 01:34:08.560 tractor cab They have the attachments like mowers and loaders and backhoes. I mean, 1281 01:34:08.920 --> 01:34:11.399 everything you need to get downe on your property. There's going to be 1282 01:34:11.439 --> 01:34:15.119 a Caboda for that. They're L twenty five O one's a best selling tractor 1283 01:34:15.159 --> 01:34:19.119 in Texas. There B B series tractors. It's a subcop sub compact and 1284 01:34:19.640 --> 01:34:25.119 I'm telling you those things are workhorses. Now here's something you need. You 1285 01:34:25.199 --> 01:34:29.479 need to hear this. Stop a moment and listen. One percent financing on 1286 01:34:29.880 --> 01:34:35.520 all new Caboda tractors for a limited time only to June thirtieth on. In 1287 01:34:35.600 --> 01:34:40.920 addition, one hundred percent financing zero APR. Forget this, it used to 1288 01:34:40.960 --> 01:34:44.920 be it was going to be seventy to eighty months with no money down. 1289 01:34:45.680 --> 01:34:48.199 What else can we say? Don't waste time. It only lasts to June 1290 01:34:48.239 --> 01:34:51.960 thirty if you can go to Caboda USA dot com. But check out your 1291 01:34:53.079 --> 01:34:57.000 Landsdown Moody folks. They are all over the place. You're going to find 1292 01:34:57.119 --> 01:35:01.840 Landsdown Moody in several spots all around our area. Caboda and landsdowne Moody. 1293 01:35:01.920 --> 01:35:10.039 What a combination. I want to talk about some things that are related to 1294 01:35:10.159 --> 01:35:12.920 trees in a moment, but it looks like we need to stop for a 1295 01:35:13.000 --> 01:35:17.159 moment and go talk to Kevin in West Houston about a similar topic. Well, 1296 01:35:17.199 --> 01:35:20.680 hello Kevin, Hello sir, how are you? I'm doing well? 1297 01:35:20.800 --> 01:35:28.359 Thank you? How can we help? Well? I have a Schumart oak 1298 01:35:28.560 --> 01:35:31.920 I believe, okay, And when I bought when I bought it four or 1299 01:35:31.960 --> 01:35:35.319 five years ago, it was a twenty gallon when I bought it, and 1300 01:35:36.560 --> 01:35:41.640 it balloomed a couple of years. Well, then I bought an above ground 1301 01:35:41.720 --> 01:35:47.079 pool and some overspray from the chlorine got on one side and it burned it. 1302 01:35:47.720 --> 01:35:51.159 And so I just I tried some over the counter stuff and it looked 1303 01:35:51.199 --> 01:35:57.279 like it was dying and it came back, but it looks weak on the 1304 01:35:57.479 --> 01:36:03.760 north side, the all everywhere else around it. It's growing, and over 1305 01:36:03.920 --> 01:36:09.199 time it's starting to grow around the dead part, right, but the dead 1306 01:36:09.279 --> 01:36:13.640 part is kind of deep, and so I'm just kind of concerned that the 1307 01:36:13.800 --> 01:36:17.439 core is going to be dead and it grows. It's at the base right 1308 01:36:17.479 --> 01:36:23.399 now, that's a good eight inches in diameter, and I'll just wonder if 1309 01:36:23.560 --> 01:36:26.600 y'all had any vice. Yeah, that's a good question. I would. 1310 01:36:26.880 --> 01:36:30.600 I would check those branches and what appears to be dead, just making sure 1311 01:36:30.680 --> 01:36:32.880 they are, but that that could be, you know, it could be 1312 01:36:32.960 --> 01:36:38.520 the chlorine issue, it could be some of the freeze issues that we've had. 1313 01:36:38.840 --> 01:36:43.600 Maybe some of those branches were still actively growing when our December freeze hit 1314 01:36:43.720 --> 01:36:51.319 and hit them normally or un abnormally hard. That when normally a regular oak 1315 01:36:51.439 --> 01:36:54.560 like that is going to survive, it just fine. But I would just 1316 01:36:54.720 --> 01:36:57.600 I want to be extra sure before I take them out. But once you've 1317 01:36:57.640 --> 01:37:00.560 determined to know they're dry, they're brown underneath the bark, there's no life 1318 01:37:00.600 --> 01:37:03.439 there, go ahead and cut them back as far as you need to to 1319 01:37:03.479 --> 01:37:09.880 get the dead out. And you're right, the living branches from the sides 1320 01:37:09.960 --> 01:37:13.159 will eventually kind of work their way into that area and into the oak tree 1321 01:37:13.239 --> 01:37:15.399 didn't have a brain and go, oh, I've got a gap over here. 1322 01:37:15.399 --> 01:37:17.359 I got to fill it in. But what happens is branches shoot out 1323 01:37:17.399 --> 01:37:21.880 in all directions from our shoots come out in all directions from branches, and 1324 01:37:23.000 --> 01:37:26.720 so you're gonna get some going that way, and just encourage those. Although 1325 01:37:26.800 --> 01:37:30.720 that seems like a big holedal, go ahead, but at the base it 1326 01:37:31.279 --> 01:37:36.359 seems dead on the north side. Oh, and it's growing. It's growing 1327 01:37:36.479 --> 01:37:40.760 around it. Oh, I see what you're talking about. So go in 1328 01:37:40.920 --> 01:37:45.720 that that open gap and any loose bark anything like that, just kind of 1329 01:37:45.760 --> 01:37:47.760 scrape it out of there, get it cleaned up, and where it says 1330 01:37:47.800 --> 01:37:51.920 it's growing around it, it will eventually close back over At the size of 1331 01:37:51.960 --> 01:37:57.680 your tree is and the species of tree, the Schumard variety of red oak, 1332 01:37:58.560 --> 01:38:01.159 it's gonna it's gonna grow fast and it will close that area over. 1333 01:38:01.199 --> 01:38:04.439 So your number one goal right now as good healthy growth. Try to avoid 1334 01:38:04.520 --> 01:38:09.359 the anymore of the you know, the chlorine kinds of issues and whatnot. 1335 01:38:09.760 --> 01:38:13.680 But I would get a quality fertilizer for trees. There's a number of good 1336 01:38:13.720 --> 01:38:16.720 options out there, or even just a good lawn fertilizer used in that area 1337 01:38:17.079 --> 01:38:19.880 on a tree like that, because you're gonna need to fertilize a large area, 1338 01:38:20.039 --> 01:38:24.399 keep the grass and weeds as far away as you can mulch it. 1339 01:38:24.800 --> 01:38:28.960 And I think that you're going to find that shumard covers over pretty good. 1340 01:38:29.199 --> 01:38:31.239 I would not worry about it this early in the life of the tree, 1341 01:38:31.279 --> 01:38:34.319 and f it was an old tree, just kind of barely hanging on. 1342 01:38:34.600 --> 01:38:39.279 Okay, you know then it's probably not going to close over, but this 1343 01:38:39.520 --> 01:38:43.239 tree is going to have the vigor to do it all right. Thank you 1344 01:38:43.880 --> 01:38:45.880 you, Bet Kevin, thank you for the call. You are listening to 1345 01:38:46.000 --> 01:38:49.680 Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are going to 1346 01:38:49.760 --> 01:38:54.199 give you the phone number for you to write down and call it because Josh 1347 01:38:54.199 --> 01:38:56.920 will get you on the board and when we come back from break, we 1348 01:38:57.039 --> 01:39:03.439 can talk seven one three two one two five eight seven four seven one three 1349 01:39:03.920 --> 01:39:32.760 two one two fifty eight seventy four and it's all be clear. Hopping along 1350 01:39:32.880 --> 01:39:35.680 when loggins in the scena right into our next segment. Here we go. 1351 01:39:35.960 --> 01:39:40.680 We are gonna head straight out to Magnolia. But first let me give you 1352 01:39:40.760 --> 01:39:45.159 the number seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Well, 1353 01:39:45.439 --> 01:39:51.239 good morning, Bruno. What's up today? Well, I've got a vine 1354 01:39:51.359 --> 01:39:56.279 problem. I have about seven acres and magnolia and a good portion of it 1355 01:39:56.439 --> 01:40:00.960 is wooded, and there's all kinds of buns growing everywhere, big large diameter 1356 01:40:01.159 --> 01:40:05.159 green ones, and there some wild muscadine grapes. I think they're domesticated ones, 1357 01:40:05.239 --> 01:40:10.760 but someone planet or going everywhere. So I keep going through and clipping 1358 01:40:10.800 --> 01:40:15.199 them, but it seems like a lot of them are coming back. In 1359 01:40:15.439 --> 01:40:19.319 looking online and YouTube, there's people that suggest wrapping a paper towel around it 1360 01:40:19.439 --> 01:40:26.520 and coating it with roundup or something and putting the plastic bag over thousands of 1361 01:40:26.600 --> 01:40:30.000 vines. So I just can't do that right. Here's what you need to 1362 01:40:30.039 --> 01:40:33.479 do, Bruno. You need to find a product with an ingredient called Triclopier 1363 01:40:33.840 --> 01:40:40.760 t r I c l O pyr. It's in ranch products for brush control, 1364 01:40:40.960 --> 01:40:45.560 it's in homeowner products for poison ivy and brush killer types of things. 1365 01:40:45.079 --> 01:40:49.319 Triclopier. Now, if you can, if you can cut the vinyl if 1366 01:40:49.359 --> 01:40:54.159 it's a sizable vine, you can cut it off and paint the fresh cut 1367 01:40:54.279 --> 01:40:57.319 surface directly with the tricolopier. When I say paint, I mean you know, 1368 01:40:57.479 --> 01:41:00.359 use a little foam brush or something to put it on there. Or 1369 01:41:00.880 --> 01:41:04.159 you can mix it with a vegetable oil and you can spray it on the 1370 01:41:04.399 --> 01:41:08.159 sides of the vine, on the on the edge. And now if you've 1371 01:41:08.239 --> 01:41:11.520 got a lot of bark on the vine, that's not going to work as 1372 01:41:11.560 --> 01:41:15.520 well, although the vegetable oil helps it soak in. I will sometimes take 1373 01:41:15.560 --> 01:41:17.319 it like a weed eater and just kind of whack up the sides of the 1374 01:41:17.439 --> 01:41:21.479 vine a little bit, or take a little hatchet or a machetti type thing 1375 01:41:21.560 --> 01:41:26.720 and make some little downward slices into the sides to wound it. That helps 1376 01:41:26.760 --> 01:41:30.079 that ingredient to stick and to get into the vine. But that is going 1377 01:41:30.119 --> 01:41:33.800 to be the fastest way to cover acreage and get rid of your vines. 1378 01:41:36.399 --> 01:41:43.840 All right, What radio of oil to that, I Am gonna depends on 1379 01:41:43.920 --> 01:41:46.039 the vine you're going after. But if you will do it a Google search 1380 01:41:46.159 --> 01:41:54.520 for brush Busters and uh, let's say Texas A and m Agrilife. That 1381 01:41:54.720 --> 01:41:58.119 is a program that used to be available online. I don't see as many 1382 01:41:58.159 --> 01:42:00.640 of the publications, but if you search for that, it'll link you to 1383 01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:05.720 that kind of information. And so there'll be a brush busters for you know, 1384 01:42:06.000 --> 01:42:11.359 this particular weed or that particular weed that you're dealing with. But there's 1385 01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:15.319 an information on what's called a cut stump treatment. And then there's a basal 1386 01:42:15.840 --> 01:42:18.640 spray. And the basal spray is where you have the diesel and it'll tell 1387 01:42:18.680 --> 01:42:24.840 you the ratio to mix with the tricyle pier so that the oil I said 1388 01:42:24.880 --> 01:42:27.960 diesel, it could be diesel oil or it could be vegetable oil where it'll 1389 01:42:28.000 --> 01:42:30.960 help it soak in and hang on and then the product will do it will 1390 01:42:31.000 --> 01:42:36.039 do its trick and it's very effective. All right, thank you very much. 1391 01:42:36.239 --> 01:42:39.640 Well, good luck with that. I appreciate the call. Thank you 1392 01:42:39.720 --> 01:42:43.520 so much for calling today. Our phone number is seven one three two one 1393 01:42:43.640 --> 01:42:47.920 two fifty eight seventy four. We are in our last segment until next Saturday. 1394 01:42:48.079 --> 01:42:50.720 So if you want to talk gardening, you need to hop on the 1395 01:42:50.800 --> 01:42:57.359 lines now so we can see what you're interested in and discuss it. Let's 1396 01:42:57.399 --> 01:43:00.920 go out to Katie now and we're going to visit with Ring. Good morning, 1397 01:43:00.039 --> 01:43:04.239 Ring, Good morning. Skip. Say, we just bought a house, 1398 01:43:05.199 --> 01:43:13.319 a new build, and the builder put in the backyard in front yard. 1399 01:43:13.439 --> 01:43:17.960 But the backyard is a problem, and he didn't use any top soil, 1400 01:43:20.520 --> 01:43:25.680 and it just looks it's just like impossible to keep enough water on it, 1401 01:43:26.680 --> 01:43:30.439 and about a third of it looks dead no matter how much water I 1402 01:43:30.760 --> 01:43:36.159 put on it. Is is that a custom here I keep in San Antonio? 1403 01:43:36.439 --> 01:43:40.039 I mean, is that a custom not to use tops? Oh? 1404 01:43:40.079 --> 01:43:45.479 Well, it's it happens in a lot of places, and sometimes they bring 1405 01:43:45.640 --> 01:43:49.199 in a soil. Some areas if you're in San Antonio, are up in 1406 01:43:49.239 --> 01:43:53.359 the Austin area. I was there and we used to call it red death. 1407 01:43:53.399 --> 01:43:58.840 They would bring in this red soil that just was horrible for plants. 1408 01:43:59.119 --> 01:44:02.359 But builders are interested in the houses, and they're interested in plopping some plants 1409 01:44:02.439 --> 01:44:06.279 down and heading down the road to build another house. And then you're left 1410 01:44:06.399 --> 01:44:11.279 oftentimes with the results, and that's what you're dealing with, and there's not 1411 01:44:11.399 --> 01:44:15.159 a great answer for that. What I'm going to recommend is that you build 1412 01:44:15.239 --> 01:44:18.840 your beds up with a quality store bought bed mix, and you can have 1413 01:44:18.960 --> 01:44:23.399 those delivered in bulk. I would spread a little bit like let's say you 1414 01:44:23.439 --> 01:44:26.079 want to do a rose bed or a flower bed over here, I would 1415 01:44:26.119 --> 01:44:30.520 spread a little on the ground rototil, spade mix, whatever it is to 1416 01:44:30.640 --> 01:44:34.000 kind of break that interface between the crummy soil and the great stuff you're putting 1417 01:44:34.039 --> 01:44:36.960 down, and then add more to it on top, so you sort of 1418 01:44:38.039 --> 01:44:42.760 blend out that transition from the quality bed mix like a rose soil, into 1419 01:44:43.319 --> 01:44:45.079 the soil that you have. I mean, you're not going to excavate the 1420 01:44:45.119 --> 01:44:48.039 whole soil on all the property and bringing all new soil, and you don't 1421 01:44:48.039 --> 01:44:51.479 really have to. Now for your lawn, you can do a similar kind 1422 01:44:51.520 --> 01:44:57.079 of thing where you add some composted materials down to it and then move into 1423 01:44:57.159 --> 01:45:00.119 the nutrients and fertilizers that are going to get those l it's in that your 1424 01:45:00.199 --> 01:45:03.239 long grass is going to need. But I think that's going to be your 1425 01:45:03.279 --> 01:45:08.199 best bet, and I would strongly recommend you spend a dollar on the brown 1426 01:45:08.279 --> 01:45:12.800 stuff before you go spending a lot more money on green stuff, meaning the 1427 01:45:12.880 --> 01:45:15.199 plants that you're putting in, because to put a plant into that kind of 1428 01:45:15.279 --> 01:45:20.239 condition, it's just a recipe for a long term disappointment, and so let's 1429 01:45:20.279 --> 01:45:25.479 get that sol fixed and then all the wonderful plants you want can go in 1430 01:45:25.560 --> 01:45:28.680 it and they're going to thrive for you. Okay, they're going to replace 1431 01:45:28.760 --> 01:45:32.840 the sad this week. Okay. Should I demand that they rip this up 1432 01:45:32.920 --> 01:45:40.039 and put topsa. Well, you know that'll come at a cost putting in 1433 01:45:40.119 --> 01:45:42.960 some topsa and you're gonna need to bring in quite a bit to make a 1434 01:45:43.039 --> 01:45:47.520 big difference on it. I probably would go in with a blend, maybe 1435 01:45:47.560 --> 01:45:51.479 a soil with some compost type material, blend, have them mix it in 1436 01:45:51.600 --> 01:45:56.039 really well. So this is a new construction, right, yeah, okay, 1437 01:45:56.279 --> 01:45:58.960 so you don't you don't have tree roots all over the place. They 1438 01:45:59.319 --> 01:46:02.119 can run a rototailer over a large area and break it up a little bit, 1439 01:46:02.279 --> 01:46:05.399 get it leveled out right, and then put the sod in on top 1440 01:46:05.439 --> 01:46:09.680 of it. That'd be ideal. If you just need to go straight in, 1441 01:46:10.439 --> 01:46:13.000 I would at least put a little bit of a compost down and mix 1442 01:46:13.119 --> 01:46:16.479 it in to create a good, good foundation to have that topsail sit on 1443 01:46:16.680 --> 01:46:19.439 and go in. Then just watch your watering, keep it moist but not 1444 01:46:19.600 --> 01:46:24.760 too wet. And you hear us talk fertilizers every day on guard line, 1445 01:46:24.880 --> 01:46:29.399 and you do need a good lawn fertilizer. I would let the lawn have 1446 01:46:29.560 --> 01:46:32.279 about two weeks to root in before you start fertilizing, because it's not going 1447 01:46:32.319 --> 01:46:35.640 to have the roots to take up the nutrient, and then begin your summer 1448 01:46:35.680 --> 01:46:42.079 fertilization regiment to give it the best chance. Yeah. I already started fertilizing 1449 01:46:42.159 --> 01:46:45.880 here to try and bring this back, and it helped a little bit. 1450 01:46:45.960 --> 01:46:48.960 But yeah, it looks like it's never going to be a lush yard. 1451 01:46:49.039 --> 01:46:55.239 It just looks like it's it's just struggling too much and the weeds are winning 1452 01:46:55.560 --> 01:46:59.720 on the Yeah. Yeah, the weeds are just a sign that your lawn 1453 01:46:59.840 --> 01:47:02.039 is not doing what it should do. That that's true. One other thing 1454 01:47:02.079 --> 01:47:05.079 wreck you might consider, and it don't do this right after you lay the 1455 01:47:05.119 --> 01:47:09.239 side. It needs to be rooted in well. But you might try a 1456 01:47:09.399 --> 01:47:15.239 core aeration with a compost top dressing, and that basically means they're pulling plugs 1457 01:47:15.319 --> 01:47:17.600 out of the soil and dropping them on the surface. That's what a core 1458 01:47:17.680 --> 01:47:23.199 aeration is, and it works, it works really really well. And then 1459 01:47:23.399 --> 01:47:26.920 you finish that with compost on top. Now, you can do some of 1460 01:47:26.960 --> 01:47:30.399 that yourself, or you can call a company like Greenpro. They advertise with 1461 01:47:30.520 --> 01:47:32.800 us. They do it, that's what they do. They're very skilled at 1462 01:47:32.840 --> 01:47:35.239 it. They got the equipment to do it. But whether it's a do 1463 01:47:35.319 --> 01:47:39.880 it yourself or hiring someone like that to come in, I think that's going 1464 01:47:39.960 --> 01:47:42.720 to help. Well, that's going to get oxygen in your soil, it's 1465 01:47:42.760 --> 01:47:45.479 going to get organic matter in your soil. But just give your lawn at 1466 01:47:45.600 --> 01:47:49.520 least two or three weeks to root in pretty well before you start the core 1467 01:47:49.560 --> 01:47:54.640 aeration. Okay, okay, sounds great. All right, for the hell 1468 01:47:54.960 --> 01:47:57.760 you bet, thank you for the call. We're going to go to Archie 1469 01:47:57.880 --> 01:48:00.680 and pair Land. Hey, Archie, we're bumping, not close to a 1470 01:48:00.760 --> 01:48:02.079 break, but let's see how much we can get done for a break. 1471 01:48:02.840 --> 01:48:08.560 Okay, morning skipped, good morning. Back in October, i'd gone over 1472 01:48:08.640 --> 01:48:13.880 to Germany to the Passion Play and October fish came back in. My backyard 1473 01:48:14.039 --> 01:48:18.239 had just turned almost brown or yellowish green. And I called Randy and he 1474 01:48:18.319 --> 01:48:20.760 said, whoa. He said, I can't believe you'd let your yard get 1475 01:48:20.840 --> 01:48:24.079 that way. And I said, well, you know, I've gone and 1476 01:48:24.159 --> 01:48:27.720 my brother didn't recognize what was going on, and I didn't know whether I 1477 01:48:27.800 --> 01:48:30.640 had, you know, moths in the grass or whether it was something else. 1478 01:48:30.239 --> 01:48:33.119 So he vised me to go out and get some organic composts, which 1479 01:48:33.119 --> 01:48:38.560 I did, and I spread it all over the back and it's still even 1480 01:48:38.600 --> 01:48:43.319 though some of the grass is coming back. I've got so many weeds because 1481 01:48:43.399 --> 01:48:46.960 my neighbor died and that house has been vacant, and the weeds are growing 1482 01:48:47.000 --> 01:48:50.359 up because they aren't caring for it. And I think I'm getting the weeds 1483 01:48:50.359 --> 01:48:55.680 are from that lot into my backyard now. So I've got you know, 1484 01:48:55.920 --> 01:49:00.159 I'm fighting a battle on several sides. Okay. So and used to talk 1485 01:49:00.159 --> 01:49:02.560 about putting out microlife. I put sweet Green out about six weeks ago, 1486 01:49:02.760 --> 01:49:08.279 okay, And I'm wondering whether I should put out the microlife and the humates 1487 01:49:08.640 --> 01:49:13.319 now or try to spray it all with something like you know, we'd beat 1488 01:49:13.520 --> 01:49:15.680 for southern lawns or something. Gotcha. I don't know. Well, you're 1489 01:49:15.720 --> 01:49:20.239 thinking, right, and this is a complex question with a lot of moving 1490 01:49:20.319 --> 01:49:23.640 parts. So what I'm gonna do, If you'll hold on, We're gonna 1491 01:49:23.640 --> 01:49:26.079 take a break here. I will come back to you, because I want 1492 01:49:26.119 --> 01:49:29.039 to discuss why the lawn died in the first place. I want to discuss 1493 01:49:29.119 --> 01:49:32.399 what's probably going on in it, and then some steps that are your next 1494 01:49:32.479 --> 01:49:34.880 course of action to get it back to where you want it. Okay, 1495 01:49:35.439 --> 01:49:39.840 I can't. I can't do that in twenty seconds. So I'm gonna hold 1496 01:49:39.920 --> 01:49:42.880 on to you so you get a better answer and we'll be right back. 1497 01:49:42.960 --> 01:49:46.319 Thank you for hanging on. Archie. Hey, we are going to break. 1498 01:49:46.479 --> 01:49:50.359 I'm your home teese you tease. Do I want to hear a reward 1499 01:49:50.399 --> 01:49:53.800 of this answer. Also, when we come back, I'm going to tell 1500 01:49:53.800 --> 01:49:56.760 you where to find a million dollars for no work or no trouble. And 1501 01:49:56.880 --> 01:50:00.680 it's legal. How about that for getting listeners to hang round seven one three 1502 01:50:00.800 --> 01:50:10.119 two one two fifty eight seventy four? Is that with you? And if 1503 01:50:10.159 --> 01:50:15.840 you want to, you know you got me an old one two town baby. 1504 01:50:15.960 --> 01:50:23.319 If you run on my big green track. Dude, Oh my gosh, 1505 01:50:23.880 --> 01:50:29.520 that sounds like the national anthem of Lansdown Moody caboda. I had never 1506 01:50:29.600 --> 01:50:31.600 thought about it that way before. But you just have to change a color 1507 01:50:31.720 --> 01:50:35.359 from green. You need to change it to uh coboda. Colors. How 1508 01:50:35.359 --> 01:50:40.439 about that that's the way to go. Uh. Well, let's see, 1509 01:50:40.479 --> 01:50:43.560 we're gonna talk some more about gardening today. If you want to talk with 1510 01:50:43.880 --> 01:50:47.479 us, it's seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven 1511 01:50:47.560 --> 01:50:53.239 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Let's go now out to 1512 01:50:53.359 --> 01:50:57.520 pair Land and talk to Archie. Well, hello, Archie, morning, 1513 01:50:57.800 --> 01:51:03.079 good morning. Where where were we? We were talking about your soil not 1514 01:51:03.279 --> 01:51:05.840 being good and you're wanting to get things going. You wanted to get it 1515 01:51:05.880 --> 01:51:09.239 to looking good and all that kind of thing. So let me back up 1516 01:51:09.359 --> 01:51:14.760 all the way to the lawn died last last summer. Last summer's drought was 1517 01:51:14.960 --> 01:51:17.760 long. It was hot, and it was brutal, and there wasn't much 1518 01:51:17.840 --> 01:51:20.760 rain, you know, to speak of the in the process of course, 1519 01:51:21.239 --> 01:51:25.479 and our lawns took a good hit. And even if they didn't get killed 1520 01:51:25.520 --> 01:51:30.760 by the drought, especially Saint Augustine lawns were significantly weakened to allow the take 1521 01:51:30.840 --> 01:51:34.119 all organism in. And I have seen so many lawns that were struggling with 1522 01:51:34.239 --> 01:51:38.439 take all root rot. And it is a disease that flat kills grass. 1523 01:51:38.800 --> 01:51:41.439 Now we can recover from it. And but what we need to do there 1524 01:51:41.439 --> 01:51:45.960 are certainly fungicides that will fight take all, but to get that plant system 1525 01:51:46.039 --> 01:51:49.560 healthy again, I would definitely go back to what I said before. That's 1526 01:51:49.600 --> 01:51:57.439 the deep deep tine core aeration with a compost top dressing. I would use 1527 01:51:57.560 --> 01:52:00.960 a quality product, you know, a microlife kind of product put out there 1528 01:52:00.000 --> 01:52:03.000 on it. Get that up around the roots. And normally we would say 1529 01:52:03.039 --> 01:52:08.199 six two four the green bag for your lawn. This is a case where 1530 01:52:08.239 --> 01:52:12.319 I would I would use their ascidifying six two four. And it's not going 1531 01:52:12.359 --> 01:52:15.039 to turn high pH into low pH overnight, but it just moves it in 1532 01:52:15.119 --> 01:52:19.399 that direction. And that organism take all root route organisms is not like acidifying 1533 01:52:19.520 --> 01:52:24.399 conditions. So everything you do to move it in that direction is going to 1534 01:52:24.520 --> 01:52:28.439 help, and then you get those nutrients released over time. So where do 1535 01:52:28.520 --> 01:52:31.920 we go from there with your question? Well, I mean that you know 1536 01:52:32.560 --> 01:52:36.319 again, I mean right now, I've got a lot of different weeds out 1537 01:52:36.359 --> 01:52:40.399 there, and a lot of it's dollar weed, okay, and and uh 1538 01:52:40.520 --> 01:52:45.159 and I'm I'm not even sure if the if the you know, the the 1539 01:52:45.239 --> 01:52:49.000 weed beater for southern lawns to even knock out dollar weed. It'll a pretty 1540 01:52:49.000 --> 01:52:54.079 good job of it. There. There's a couple of products that are going 1541 01:52:54.159 --> 01:52:57.920 to give you that kind of that kind of control. You're done in Parlanta. 1542 01:52:58.000 --> 01:53:00.600 You're near Paralands Hardware. They're they're going to have a wide variety of 1543 01:53:00.680 --> 01:53:04.600 those, and you need to go to talk to them very good. Well 1544 01:53:04.640 --> 01:53:08.439 they know what they're talking about in there and there you want to hit that 1545 01:53:08.520 --> 01:53:11.640 dollar we let's get that done a sap because it's gonna be up in the 1546 01:53:11.720 --> 01:53:14.520 mid eighties pretty soon. And after that, we kind of want to stay 1547 01:53:14.520 --> 01:53:16.760 away from those products. But that's perennial, so you got to get rid 1548 01:53:16.800 --> 01:53:20.720 of it. Okay, Okay, So you're you're basically saying, I need 1549 01:53:20.840 --> 01:53:25.479 I need to do the core aeration. I would do number one. I'd 1550 01:53:25.520 --> 01:53:30.000 control the diseases and I mean the dollar weed and perennial weeds and things like 1551 01:53:30.119 --> 01:53:33.319 that. I would I would follow that after it's had time to kind of 1552 01:53:33.520 --> 01:53:38.159 have a few days to move in. I would follow that with correeration and 1553 01:53:38.239 --> 01:53:42.520 then the compost top dressing as well as the fertilization that we talked about. 1554 01:53:42.960 --> 01:53:45.800 What about hasa mike would be good too. You need those nutrients. They're 1555 01:53:45.840 --> 01:53:49.760 the micros and stuff. So well, then go to town. I mean, 1556 01:53:49.960 --> 01:53:54.199 let's let's do all of that. Let's get it going and hopefully have 1557 01:53:54.680 --> 01:53:57.760 some really good results because you need to have a beautiful green lawn that you 1558 01:53:57.840 --> 01:54:00.920 can appreciate. Oh yeah, it's all my roses. That's it. There 1559 01:54:00.960 --> 01:54:05.920 you go between Bob out there Southwest Fertilizer and John here today. So oh 1560 01:54:06.039 --> 01:54:11.039 my gosh, pretty much everything I need. They I mean, they have 1561 01:54:11.439 --> 01:54:14.680 everything you can imagine from your lawn, your garden, you name it. 1562 01:54:15.319 --> 01:54:17.279 If you can't find it there, you don't need it. That's right, 1563 01:54:17.520 --> 01:54:21.640 all right, good to talk to the RT. You bet bye bye. 1564 01:54:23.359 --> 01:54:26.720 You're listening to Garden Line and I'm your host, Skip Rictor, and we're 1565 01:54:26.760 --> 01:54:30.880 here to talk about gardening. Now. We last until ten am on Saturday 1566 01:54:30.920 --> 01:54:34.439 and Sunday, six am to ten am on Saturdays and Sundays. So what 1567 01:54:34.520 --> 01:54:38.960 does that mean, Well, that means and about another By the time I 1568 01:54:39.079 --> 01:54:42.800 come back, about another fifteen minutes or less, we're gonna be done for 1569 01:54:42.880 --> 01:54:45.279 the day. So if you would like to be on the air, talk 1570 01:54:45.319 --> 01:54:49.279 to me about any kinds of questions you have seven one three two one two 1571 01:54:49.720 --> 01:54:54.680 five, eight, seven four. Here's your shot until next Saturday. We 1572 01:54:54.800 --> 01:54:57.840 look forward to talking to you. Just tell Josh let's get on the board 1573 01:54:57.880 --> 01:55:29.039 and go. He says, who played again? All right, we got 1574 01:55:29.039 --> 01:55:32.600 a little bit of Taylor Swift crazy time going on right now. Everybody's excited 1575 01:55:32.600 --> 01:55:35.439 about going out to Taylor Swift. I just have to tell you, though 1576 01:55:36.000 --> 01:55:39.800 I knew Taylor Swift when Taylor Swift wasn't cool. And when I say I 1577 01:55:39.960 --> 01:55:43.319 knew, okay, I'm stretching it. I went to a Brad Paisley concert, 1578 01:55:44.359 --> 01:55:46.600 who is one of my favorite artists, uh in New Braunfels, Texas, 1579 01:55:46.680 --> 01:55:50.359 and Taylor Swift was back up singer back in that day. That tells 1580 01:55:50.359 --> 01:55:54.680 you how far back that was. I believe she's got a little more famous 1581 01:55:54.720 --> 01:55:58.159 in Brad Paisley for meantime. So there's a little Taylor Swift for those of 1582 01:55:58.239 --> 01:56:01.840 you who are looking forward nixt at it about all the Taylor Swift happenings going 1583 01:56:01.920 --> 01:56:04.960 on around town. Right now, you're listening to garden Line. I am 1584 01:56:05.079 --> 01:56:11.960 your host, Skip Richter. I am excited to talk about gardening. I 1585 01:56:12.239 --> 01:56:15.560 love to visit with gardeners. So if you got a question, you give 1586 01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:18.159 us a quick call and we will try to get you here on the boards. 1587 01:56:18.920 --> 01:56:21.439 It looks like check. I believe we lost you there. So if 1588 01:56:21.439 --> 01:56:24.520 you want a call right back in, we will try to get you on 1589 01:56:24.560 --> 01:56:27.600 the board. Not a lot of time left, but Sheer would like to 1590 01:56:27.760 --> 01:56:31.840 not have it wait so long as next Saturday when we will be back going 1591 01:56:32.000 --> 01:56:36.039 strong again. Here. By the way, I need speaking in next Saturday. 1592 01:56:36.119 --> 01:56:40.439 I need you to write this down. Saturday, April twenty ninth, 1593 01:56:41.319 --> 01:56:46.279 K and m Ace Hardware in Kingwood, eleven thirty am to one thirty pm. 1594 01:56:46.479 --> 01:56:49.439 I'll be there. I'll make an appearance. Come visit, let's talk. 1595 01:56:49.600 --> 01:56:53.880 I'd love to meet you. Bring me. You're tired, you're weary, 1596 01:56:54.039 --> 01:56:58.680 You're huddled plant masses yearning to have somebody recommend some way to help save 1597 01:56:58.800 --> 01:57:01.399 them. And I'll do that. If you've got some plant pictures on your 1598 01:57:01.439 --> 01:57:04.600 phone, maybe landscape pictures, we can talk about that. By the way, 1599 01:57:04.680 --> 01:57:09.239 ACE hardwarees are all over the Houston area, thirty nine of them. 1600 01:57:09.319 --> 01:57:12.760 I mean you can't throw a rock without hitting an Ace hardware. Ace hardware 1601 01:57:12.840 --> 01:57:17.000 dot Com is where you can find every Ace hardware around the Houston area that 1602 01:57:17.199 --> 01:57:20.520 you can go to get all these things we keep talking about that they carry 1603 01:57:20.600 --> 01:57:26.359 and just walk into one and wander around a while and you'll be amazed. 1604 01:57:26.399 --> 01:57:28.880 It's like, oh, I could get that here. I didn't know that 1605 01:57:29.399 --> 01:57:32.000 that's what you're going to find, and especially when it comes to gardening products. 1606 01:57:32.039 --> 01:57:36.720 But next Saturday, K and m Ace in Kingwood eleven thirty am to 1607 01:57:36.840 --> 01:57:40.960 one thirty pm. Please show up if you live in that area, I'd 1608 01:57:41.039 --> 01:57:44.079 love to meet you and see how we can help you have a more beautiful 1609 01:57:44.119 --> 01:57:47.359 lawn and a bountiful landscape. Right now we're gonna jump out to Matta Gorda 1610 01:57:47.680 --> 01:57:53.680 and talk to Ira. Good morning, Ira, how you doing sir? 1611 01:57:54.159 --> 01:58:00.119 Very quickly, but Ida escapes me. But it's a granulated product like gravel 1612 01:58:00.720 --> 01:58:08.880 you incorporated into the soil. It's at the matter places uh force in nature, 1613 01:58:09.640 --> 01:58:15.560 water disperses and gathers in the bank and use it as it needs. 1614 01:58:15.640 --> 01:58:20.880 It's name ring a bell. Can you freak it? Absolutely? It absolutely 1615 01:58:21.000 --> 01:58:26.520 does. You're describing expanded shale. This is a product that's mine. It's 1616 01:58:26.640 --> 01:58:31.520 mind out of the ground a shale and then they superheated with extremely hot steam 1617 01:58:31.920 --> 01:58:36.880 and it causes those shale particles to expand. So the way I describe it 1618 01:58:36.920 --> 01:58:40.880 is, yeah, if you've got a little magnified be like you were looking 1619 01:58:40.960 --> 01:58:45.039 at that that uh what is it? A volcanic rock that used to be 1620 01:58:45.079 --> 01:58:48.960 on barbecue pits? You know for of whatnot? It It creates holes and 1621 01:58:49.119 --> 01:58:55.520 spaces and microbes living there. It holds moisture and it because it's a shale 1622 01:58:55.600 --> 01:58:58.960 essentially a little rock type product, it stays that way. You know, 1623 01:58:59.079 --> 01:59:03.359 compost accomplish those things, but compost decomposes away, and shale is the way 1624 01:59:03.399 --> 01:59:06.239 when you have a heavy clay sail. But here's the thing. You need 1625 01:59:06.279 --> 01:59:10.319 to put down about three or four inches of it if you really want to. 1626 01:59:12.359 --> 01:59:16.079 Yeah, I've been using this for two years. Right now I'm going 1627 01:59:16.239 --> 01:59:21.399 to corporate a new fans are a place to land, and I'm going to 1628 01:59:21.479 --> 01:59:26.039 get this right. I'm gonna use the rose so but do all that. 1629 01:59:26.279 --> 01:59:31.239 I might even put some all that, uh, some chips and that let's 1630 01:59:31.239 --> 01:59:35.640 shame there black lions, Okay, dusting of that. It stirred up in 1631 01:59:35.760 --> 01:59:43.560 the in the black specifically black gumbo. Yeah, and then do the show 1632 01:59:43.760 --> 01:59:46.600 with the rose food. That's not the rose, the rose soil Okay, 1633 01:59:46.760 --> 01:59:53.960 so that's really what I wanted my question. You're cool to use a quite 1634 01:59:54.000 --> 01:59:58.760 a bit of that. I like it. I even have flowers growing them 1635 01:59:58.880 --> 02:00:05.079 there with the shell and very mental. Okay, Well, if if you've 1636 02:00:05.119 --> 02:00:11.720 got a heavy clay, then the expanded sail is what you need to put 1637 02:00:11.760 --> 02:00:14.279 down, and I would mix it in. Well, then if you want 1638 02:00:14.319 --> 02:00:16.840 to come in and put some rose soil on it and mix it in as 1639 02:00:16.920 --> 02:00:20.800 well, and then even add more straight rose soil on top to just grow 1640 02:00:20.880 --> 02:00:25.079 in. I always like to change that. You know, if you have 1641 02:00:25.199 --> 02:00:29.399 a heavy clay and you go immediate lead to a quality mix like rose soil, 1642 02:00:29.720 --> 02:00:31.359 well that's an interface there, and I like to blend that. So 1643 02:00:31.479 --> 02:00:34.199 that's why I lay a little bit of it down, mix it in with 1644 02:00:34.359 --> 02:00:38.520 what's below, and then lay more of it down, and that kind of 1645 02:00:39.119 --> 02:00:42.399 creates a more gradual interface. And I think long term you're just going to 1646 02:00:42.439 --> 02:00:45.079 have good luck with it. Sounds like Ira, you're off on a good 1647 02:00:45.159 --> 02:00:48.000 start. You got all the right ideas. So thank you. No I 1648 02:00:48.119 --> 02:00:54.840 pick that out incorporating up earlier in your show. Okay, you mentioned it, 1649 02:00:55.600 --> 02:00:59.880 I do that myself, all right, Well, thank you, thank 1650 02:00:59.880 --> 02:01:01.760 you. For the call. I appreciate you calling into the show. You 1651 02:01:01.840 --> 02:01:05.560 are listening to garden Line and we're about to head to put this one in 1652 02:01:05.640 --> 02:01:13.079 the books. The show will be back next Saturday morning from six am to 1653 02:01:13.279 --> 02:01:16.239 ten am, and it'll be on Sunday morning for six am to ten am. 1654 02:01:16.279 --> 02:01:18.920 Now, I try to remember to tell you all this, but when 1655 02:01:19.039 --> 02:01:23.960 you get up and you're listening to garden Line, because I know every faithfully 1656 02:01:24.079 --> 02:01:27.039 right, every day you're there at six am, I'm going to believe that 1657 02:01:28.800 --> 02:01:30.359 when you get up and do that, and you look over and you see 1658 02:01:30.399 --> 02:01:33.359 your neighbors and the house is still dark, you need to go bang on 1659 02:01:33.399 --> 02:01:35.960 the door and tell them they're missing garden Line. They will thank you. 1660 02:01:36.399 --> 02:01:40.640 Not that day, I promise they won't thank you that day, but eventually, 1661 02:01:40.680 --> 02:01:43.479 if they start listening to garden Line, they will rise up and call 1662 02:01:43.560 --> 02:01:48.039 you blessed. So tell your neighbors about garden Line. Maybe before six am, 1663 02:01:48.239 --> 02:01:51.119 but either way, we want to help them have a good lawn. 1664 02:01:51.159 --> 02:01:55.279 If you got a neighbor that just you know, I mean, it's it's 1665 02:01:55.319 --> 02:01:58.000 an eye sort a look across the street. You know what I'm talking. 1666 02:01:58.000 --> 02:02:00.079 You know who I'm talking about well, you need to tell them like a 1667 02:02:00.159 --> 02:02:03.920 hot garden line too. We can help get them off to a good start. 1668 02:02:04.359 --> 02:02:09.399 Our whole purpose of being here on the air is for you to be 1669 02:02:09.479 --> 02:02:14.439 able to have a more beautiful garden, a more bountiful landscape, gorgeous lawn 1670 02:02:14.760 --> 02:02:18.279 to avoid the common problems people make when they plant the wrong plants, they 1671 02:02:18.319 --> 02:02:23.319 don't prepare the soil, they put the wrong kinds of products on. And 1672 02:02:23.880 --> 02:02:26.600 that's what we're here for. Well, save you money, right, save 1673 02:02:26.640 --> 02:02:30.039 you money by helping you have success with what you're doing. So I hope 1674 02:02:30.079 --> 02:02:33.399 that you will tell folks about it. We're also available, by the way, 1675 02:02:33.680 --> 02:02:38.439 by podcast, So if you miss a show, or even though I 1676 02:02:38.560 --> 02:02:42.079 keep saying have a pen and paper handy, when you listen to the show 1677 02:02:42.600 --> 02:02:45.600 you didn't and it's like, oh, what was that product you talked about? 1678 02:02:45.960 --> 02:02:47.840 Check out the podcast. You'll be able to hear us about it on 1679 02:02:48.000 --> 02:02:53.159 there. And so I look forward to talking to you again next week. 1680 02:02:53.479 --> 02:02:56.399 In the meantime, I hope you have a wonderful week. We're gonna get 1681 02:02:56.399 --> 02:03:00.239 a little rainblowing through today. Don't let that hamper you. Just you know, 1682 02:03:00.399 --> 02:03:02.840 get ready to go because the sun is coming out, and it's a 1683 02:03:03.000 --> 02:03:05.760 good day to get out and visit your garden centers, and it's a good 1684 02:03:05.840 --> 02:03:10.720 day to get out and put that fertilizer down on your lawn. You know, 1685 02:03:10.840 --> 02:03:13.680 you never know how much it's going to rain, So my preference is 1686 02:03:14.079 --> 02:03:16.640 to not put the fertilizer down before a rain because if you have a gully 1687 02:03:16.680 --> 02:03:19.680 washer, you end up losing a lot of it. But to put it 1688 02:03:19.760 --> 02:03:24.000 down and then turn on the sprinkles for about a half inch of rain rain 1689 02:03:24.199 --> 02:03:29.199 equivalent and water that nutrient down into the soil. Certainly that's true if you're 1690 02:03:29.199 --> 02:03:31.199 putting on a pre emergent too, you've got to get it down just into 1691 02:03:31.239 --> 02:03:34.760 the soil surface where it can do what it's going to do for you. 1692 02:03:35.600 --> 02:03:39.439 Look forward to talking to you next week again on Garden Line.