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Welcome to k t r H Garden
Line with Skip Richard. It's just watch

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him as world map basic. Good
morning, Welcome back to garden Line.

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Let's talk about gardening. What would
you like to visit about seven one three

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two one two k t r H
seven one three two one two k t

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r H if you'd like to give
us a call and we will talk about

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those kinds of topics that you are
interested in. The folks at r CW

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Nurseries, you know, that is
the place where you can find a wide

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variety of all kinds of things.
That's a nursery that's on Tomball Parkway to

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forty nine where it comes into belt
Wait eight on the north west side of

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Houston, and it's easy to get
to, easy to find, and when

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you get there, you're going to
find everything you need. I ask them

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for a list of their roses earlier
in the year, and oh my gosh,

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like four or five pages, single
spaced a list of all the different

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kind of roses that they can get
a hold of for you. They also

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grow their own trees out at Williamson
Tree Farm out in the Plannersville area,

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and so they have an excellent selection
of every kind of tree that you can

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imagine you'd want to plant here.
Things that do grow here, and that

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includes when I say trees, I
mean large shrubs as well, of course

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holly's and whatnot. They know how
to grow them, they know how to

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pick the ones that belong in the
yards here in the Greater Houston area.

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That's what they specialize in. And
it's all there at RCW Nursery. You

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know, David and the team out
at RCW do an excellent job of all

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of that. And so here we
are, we're at the end of winter

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time. If you want to get
a woody ornamental on the ground, you're

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not going to find a better time. Don't delay, go ahead, go

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ahead and get it. Just pick
it up, get it, bring it

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back. You can water a little
bit while you get the bed ready and

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everything. Get get set and ready
to go and get that thing in the

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ground as soon as you can.
This Uh, we've had a few kind

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of days of some cloudy, rainy
stuff. That's gonna go away. We're

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going to be back in nice sunshine
and it'd be a great time to get

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those things planted. Build a quality
mix into the soil and put in a

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quality plant like they have. They're
at the RCW Nurseries. You know,

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you can go online to RCW Nurseries
dot com. You can find out more

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about them there. But just know
this that from fifteen gallons up the two

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hundred gallons, that is a place
where you can get quality, quality trees

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and a wide, wide variety of
roses along with everything else. If they

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sell at the nursery. You're listening
to garden Line again our phone number seven

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one three two one two kt r
H. We're going to go out to

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Cleveland now and talk to David.
Hello, David, good morning, Skip.

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What's up. I have a I
have three questions. They're probably pretty

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short. First, I got a
plumbria. A friend gave me a cutting

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about three or four years ago.
I got in about a twenty twenty five

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gallon pot and I moved inside for
the freeze. I've protected it well up

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till now. And my shed got
a little bit cold. And it has

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three branches, but two feet tall, and the branches out in three and

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the tips of the branch is about
excuse me, about six or so inches

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of them got cold enough that they
turned kind of mushy. They're soft.

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I'm not sure what I should do
with that. It seems to be still

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solid at the bottom and there's green. You know, when you peel the

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skin a little bit, Have I
lost that thing completely or probably it's probably

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not. You could have a soft
spot on the stem somewhere, you know,

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where it also was damaged. But
I would kind of wait and watch

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it a little bit. You can
cut out any area that you know is

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dead, that you know was rotted, and just get a fresh cut and

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make sure that it has a chance
then to dry over that cut that you

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made, which it will, and
it should be fine. Primaria doesn't even

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think about growing til it really warms
up, and so there's still in a

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dormant stage. There's no rush on
anything. Unless you just saw you had

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an active decay going on in there. Then I would go below that area

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and make the cut. When you
make a cut, you'll know if the

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center looks rotted or not. But
I think it's gonna be. I think

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you're gonna be okay a bit two
or three weeks from now. Probably do

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the cut on it. Oh yeah, you could. I would look it

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over it kind of feel on fill
those stems and stuff and check it over

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and if you feel like that,
you know you have an active decay going

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on. I would do the printing
now, but I don't think you need

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to. I think you can wait
a little bit and then let's see what

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the plant looks like as we begin
to warm up just a little bit.

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Okay, good deal. Now,
I got a blood orange in a Sam

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Houston peach. Okay, the blood
orange. It got really bit pretty hard

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by the it was twenty twenty one. I think the real super cold.

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I protected it. I had a
heat lamp and all that. But the

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December before that it produced some peaches. It wasn't old enough. I thought

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I'd got them all off, but
I hadn't. And not peaches, dang

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it, oranges oranges. And yeah, it had hit some in some dense

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foliage at the bottom, and there
were about eight of them, and they

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were really good. I followed Ranta's
advice by knocking all the blooms and stuff

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off of it, and I missed
eight of them. But it hasn't produced

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an orange since then. And it
just got bit by this last freeze here

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this spring or winter, and it
lost lost all the sleeves. But it

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looks like it's sprouting little leaves.
Yeah, the all the stems are really

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green and that right, that thing's
probably going to be all right. How

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long should that thing go without producing
oranges? Well, yeah, it depends

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on grain conditions and a lot of
things, but it will start producing again.

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You know, you haven't lost the
tree. As long as there's growth

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above the bud at the bottom,
then that's growth through. Yeah. I

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never lost it down to the graft. It's still the same wood that it

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was. Well, I would wait, I'd watch it and wait right now,

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David, and let the new growth
do what it's going to do.

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I wouldn't want to print it anymore. Right now, it is super susceptible

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to cold because you've got succulent new
growth coming out. You don't have a

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canopy to kind of hold in some
of the radiant heat coming up from the

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soil, and so you don't want
to add that to that pruning it,

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which is also a stimulating thing to
do to a plant, is to prune

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into living tissues. So just wait
and as it begins to grow we kind

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of get past the danger cold.
Then you can go in and do some

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selective printing in there to take out
all the dead At that point. Yeah,

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the peach tree. I've had it
for about probably eight years, and

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I've never really got an edible fruit
off that thing. Okay. It's produced

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some small peaches and most of the
time the squirrels get to them, but

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and the birds, but none of
them ever got to what you would call

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of something that you want to,
Yeah, pull off there and put them

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out. So you said you've had
it eight years, David, Yeah,

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probably seven eight years okay in the
ground. Yeah, it should have produced

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for probably about eight inches in diameter. Maybe is something like that. It's

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a peach that does well in East
Texas. It should have done better for

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you. Is does every year do
you get blooms from it? Yes?

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Okay, it does, and as
long as frost hadn't taken out the blooms.

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I don't know what to tell you. It needs good sunlight in order

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to set bloom, produce blooms,
sat blooms, and set fruit and develop

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fruit. All those require a lot
of sunlight. So that's one possibility.

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Full sun Yes, for sure.
Then I would I don't know. I

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would wait and see. The only
thing I can think of is maybe it's

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not the brighter you thought it was. Sometimes things get crossed up. But

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I think I'll just give it a
little more time. If the tree looks

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good, I'm gonna have to take
a break here, so I can't readig

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down much further into this one on. But look at the health, Look

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at the growth. You ought to
have eighteen to twenty four inches and new

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growth on shoots by the end of
the season. If it's more than that,

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back on nitrogen fertilizing. If it's
less, give it a little bit

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more. Make sure the drainage is
good, and hopefully it'll it'll finally kick

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in. It should for sure.
Hey, thank you, thank you for

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the call, and good luck.
Thanks for you bet, thank you very

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much. We're gonna take a break
right now. Our phone number seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Welcome back to garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip rich Or. We're here to talk about gardening.

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Isn't that a surprise for a gardening
show? Well, would you like to

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talk about gardening? Got a question? Seven one three two one two k

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

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when we get to the end of
the winter season, we are in like

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the peak season of the whole year
for pruning trees and shrubs and things like

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that. And the folks at Affordable
Tree. When I say the folks at

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a Portable Tree, I'm talking about
Martin spoon Moore. Martin's been around since

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oh my gosh, I think he's
done this for thirty years now taking care

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of Houston trees. He knows what
he's doing. That's why that's why Randy

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always talked about Martin spoon Moore service. I'm talking about Martin spoon Moore.

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When you get somebody that knows what
they're doing and does it right, you

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need to stick with them. Because
listen, if you screw up planning a

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tomato, you can dig it up
and put a new one in the ground.

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When someone comes in and messes up
your tree with a bad printing job,

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that's permanent. Do not let some
fly by night guys stick a card

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in the door of your front door
and you know, have access to your

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trees. You got to know what
you're doing or you do permanent damage to

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trees. It is serious the kind
of stuff you see around town, and

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it's heartbreaking because it's done. You
can't go, you can't go put the

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branches back and do it right.
Martin does it right. He does it

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right the first time. Listen.
Here's his number. Just write this down.

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You'll want to have this on hand
anytime you need any kind of tree

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work done. Seven one three,
six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven

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one three, six, nine nine
two six sixty three. When you call,

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you're going to get Martin or his
wife, Joe. That's right,

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the bosses. They answer the phone. That's the kind of business. This

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is afftree Service dot com. If
you want to go to the website aff

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tree Service dot com, get on
the schedule. He has a lot of

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work. Make sure and tell him
that you're a garden line listener. That

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gets you to the front of the
line. And anything that's going to be

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done around your tree, Martin needs
to be involved in that. Maybe you're

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going to put a trench in the
ground, maybe you're going to add a

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driveway or a sidewalk or something that's
going to be on top of the tree's

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root system. Because they reach way
out in all directions. Get him there

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first so that it's not too late
and the damage is already done. Let

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him guide you through it, let
him consult with you and make sure you

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take care of those giants of the
landscape that add incredible value to your home.

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Don't trust them with somebody else.
That's as simple as that. I'm

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going to go out now to Richmond
and we're going to talk to Gus.

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Hello, Gus, good morning.
Hello. How can we help today?

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Yes, I have a thank you
for what you before all our gardeners.

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Yes, sir, I just want
to have a question about the Saint Augustine

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grass. It is the time to
top dress it. And how much should

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I put on there? Yeah,
you can. About a third of an

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inch is usually about right. It
doesn't take a lot, just a little

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bit over the top of it.
You want to use a very fine screened

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compost, you know, you want
to make sure that you're not putting big

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chunks you know, of wood that
the lawnmower is going to knock all around.

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This is a high quality. It's
best to use a finely screened leaf

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mold compost if you can, because
that will settle down between the grass blades

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and do its work right there.
All right. Just a concern about it

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being too early and now, yeah, it's really not, and in fact,

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getting it down a little bit early. It's just a little less light

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hitting the ground, so maybe some
of the weeds that would have otherwise germinated

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don't quite get enough light to establish. Well, just a little bit of

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a help there. It's going to
release its nutrients over time. But you

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can do the top dressing at different
times. You don't have to do it

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right now. I mean you can
do it now, or you can do

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it a little bit later as well, So it's not a real specific date

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on the calendar. You have to
get that done. Well. Thank you,

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all right, Gus, you take
care. Good luck with that.

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Good luck having a beautiful, beautiful
lawn. Boy. The season we've been

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through last summer's that took its toll. Our lawns have been hammered, and

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we've got some thin talk to a
lot of people. Are they're having to

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reap plant lawn sad in areas and
you know it, And sometimes people go,

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I don't know if I need to
replant or not. I had a

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lot of damage. And here's the
way to look at it. Uh,

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if money's not that big of an
object and you've got an ugly lawn,

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you can rip it up and reside
it and put a new one in and

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do that. If you are trying
to save some and you look at your

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lawn and you've got living grass that's
let's say, not a bit more than

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about a foot apart. Some of
the little patches of grass. There's not

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like a three foot area with all
dead grass in it. Well, that's

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within a foot. It's going to
fill in. By the by the time

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we get into the mid season,
it'll it'll have covered in. You're gonna

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have some issues with weeds coming up
in those bear spots. But the grass,

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the grass you have can recreate the
lawn you want. But that's provided

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that it's in good health that you're
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That's why I put the mow the
lawn care schedule online at gardeningwith Skip dot

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com. Now, if you do
that kind of care, you can get

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back into the lawn that way.
People vary in their tolerance for weeds or

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for maybe being patient versus I want
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That's not my call to make.
That's your call to your yard.

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But I'm just telling you that if
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a foot apart, and you take
care of it good, you can get

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that to fill back in for you. But if it's suffering from diseases,

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it's going to be weak and it's
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So that's that's the caveat that we
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speaking of composts and mulch and things, and being down there in the Richmond

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area, you're not very far away
there. Gus called in from down there

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from Cienamals. Cienamulches is really a
great place to get let me put it

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this way. I always say brown
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a great place to get the brown
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I mean. They've got mulches,
they have composts, they have soil blends

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bet we call them bed mixes where
you bring the mix, you put it

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on the ground and you grow in
it. It's already ready to go.

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They've got that. They have bags, they have bulk they deliver within about

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twenty miles of their area down there. They also have the fertilizers that I

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talk about. That's part of taking
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soil bank account of nutrients ready,
so when plants grow the roots, have

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everything they need things bend those nutrients
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running. And that's what we're after. That's the kind of success we want,

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and Ciana Multill gets you set up
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dot com Sienna Multch dot com.
They're on FM five twenty one just north

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of road Sharing. And so for
all of you living out in near Brasis

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Ben State Park, sun Creek Estates, Fresno Quo Valley, or Colo Cinti

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Plantation of course, Iowa Colony,
all those neighborhoods around there, this is

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your backyard specialist in the brown stuff
that makes the green stuff jump out of

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the ground with success. I'm going
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I'll tell you more about that later. Really looking forward to getting out

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there. They're open Monday through Friday, five or seven thirty in the morning

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to five pm. Saturday's seven thirty
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they'll be back open again tomorrow where
you can begin to get everything you need

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so that this spring you have a
show place because you built the foundation first

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at Cienamulch. Our phone number if
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seven to one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two

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I am when I get back to the

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house a little bit later here and
get through the show today and head back,

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I'm gonna I'm gonna be focusing in
this the next week. My number

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one goals are to get some transplants
moved outside. I've been growing some under

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a light inside and they're nice,
sturdy transplants. Get them moved out into

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the garden, and I've got some
coverings ready to put over them, warm

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season transplants. It's a little early
to put them out. I'll be planning

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these up in the College station area, and that's a little cooler. You

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get up Conroe College Station up that
far, the last frost is a little

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bit a little bit later than it
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listening, for example. But if
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can go ahead and do that.
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what I would recommend, and I'm
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mine, by the way, is
to kind of hedge my bet is just

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bump them up into a bigger container. I have some that are just about

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ready to go into a one gallon
container and finish. They're growing out,

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and that way I can put them
outside. They can get sunlight and get

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used to you know, the wind
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a cold night it's gonna get down
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lower, I'll go ahead and bring
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cool. When you get down fifty
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put them back out again. And
when it's time to plan outside, I'm

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going to have a bigger plant with
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on them already by the time I
actually plant them outside. But if you're

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out shopping and you see some,
go ahead and buy them and bring them

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home and do that. And here's
why, somebody else is going to come

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pick them up, and you may
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available anymore. So there's nothing wrong
with going ahead and getting them. Just

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remember they need good light, they
need a little protection from really cool weather,

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and you need to fertilize them,
keep them growing, and you can

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have quite a plant and quite a
head start. That's all pretty important.

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Uh. So I here comes a
call that's of interest to me. We

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got Mick in Wisconsin talking about palms. That doesn't that doesn't compute make in

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my head. Tell me what's going
on? Hey there, good morning.

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It's been a while since I've called
end of the show. But oh,

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okay, well, yeah, I
I grow all kinds of stuff, mangos,

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lemons, palms, bananas up here. But anyway, the uh and

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the question I have is, I
have somebody sent me to Mexican fan palms

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from down there, and they came
together. They're about I want to say,

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about half of a foot tall,
okay, and they're growing really close

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together. And I want to know, I don't want to do this with

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bananas, but I don't know how
to separate these things. I don't want

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to kill them. Yeah. Let
it. Let it warm up just a

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little bit for you. Palms like
warm weather. We do. We even

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done here to a lot of our
palm planting in the summertime because they just

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do well in that weather. Uh. And then you can just take a

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sharpshooter cut them apart and they'll be
fine. Uh. The palm palms are

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basically they're technically they're a grass plant. They're not a tree like we think

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of trees. Uh, and so
appreciate that. Yeah, so just cut

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the roots. New roots will originate
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is a grass plant, it's not
a tree, and so that'll be just

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fine. Yeah. Tell me how
you grow of that stuff? In Wisconsin?

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What you must to have one heck
of a greenhouse. Yeah. In

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my in my office, I don't
keep closing my closet. I have a

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lighting and mile our back and wow, reflecting the lights. And then I

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built a structure in the in the
actual office itself. Wow, lots of

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lights and high electric bills. Yeah, but that's fine. Man. It

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sounds like you're having a blast.
What part of Wisconsin again, chaboy?

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And it's about an hour north of
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You were up in Wisconsin pretty far. We're up here. Yeah, And

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I'll started. I was down in
friends of mine, We're digging up banana

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plants from their yard, and I
said, let me take a let me

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take a rhizome home with me.
And sure enough, that's how it started.

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There. You go hey, it's
a gateway drug, man, it's

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a gateway drug all kinds of tropicals. You're in trouble. Thanks for the

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call, and good luck with that. I'd love to hear how things you

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go before you up there. Uh
yeah, we could say we could recommend

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a lot of wonderful If you've never
grown white butterfly ginger, that's a that's

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a tropical that you ought to try
out. Put it in pots so you

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can protect it from the kind of
coal you have. But that's the most

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heavenly fragrance you've ever seen. I
will do that, all right, nick

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Hey, thanks for the call.
I appreciate I appreciate hearing from you.

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All Right, it's time for Nicky
in the news. Our phone number if

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you want to give me a call
on Garden Line seven one three two one

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two kt r H boh you me, we see soaking it up. That's

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fine, it out. Just have
fast your brothers, boll pops here you

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there ing nothing bad lead it's your
face like along sermon on a pretty sunday.

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All right, welcome back to Garden
Line. We are going to talk

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about the things you were interested in
and a couple things that I'm interested in

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today. It is time to get
your garden in, man, I mean

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the warm season garden. We are
on the doorstep of it. What we're

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doing is we're staring at the weather. We're listening to the weather man.

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We're rolling dice, we're rubbing on
crystal balls, We're using our imagination.

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When's that last froster free is going
to be? We don't know, it

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doesn't matter. Here's the deal.
Here's the way I look at it.

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I often will get out with an
early planting, and I know it's a

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little early, but maybe I'll get
lucky and it works. If it doesn't,

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I'll just replant, especially with seeds. That's easy to do. With

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the other plants. You bring them
in, you get them going, you

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get that gardening fever flowing, and
when it's time to put them out,

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you put them out there in the
garden. I talked earlier about potting up

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your tomato plants, just to be
ready to go. Maybe you're gonna plant

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a few tomatoes and you buy several, but you plant a few and you

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hold back a few, pot them
up and you've got them as a I

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don't know an insurance policy you could
put out there our peppers. By the

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way, Plants for All Seasons has
an excellent supply of tomatoes and peppers.

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I know, you know. Plants
for All Seasons are on two forty nine.

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They're just north of Luetta and Tomball
Parkway, heading up toward Tomball direction

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or down from Tombol for those you
coming in that way, just north of

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Luetta. They've got a wide variety
of things like helopanos, tabascos, serranos,

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the Chaszzo pepper, the giant Marconi
that's a that's a really nice one

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too, bell peppers. They've got
all kinds of vegetables. Have you ever

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grown poc joy before? They have
transplants of that. You ought to try.

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It is fast, like in twenty
eight days from seed you've got pock

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joy. So that is a great
stir Fried's grape for soups. It's just

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a really mild brassica that I think
is excellent. Girl. I always I

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have someone about to plant out in
the garden myself, but they're set up,

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they're ready to go. What do
you need? They've got it there,

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the tomatoes, the peppers, all
kinds of things. They've got the

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roses and oh my gosh. Their
seed selection is unbelievable, huge wall seeds

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and bulbs, seeds, bulbs and
supplies. Oh my, how about that?

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All there at Plants for All Seasons. Go by and see them.

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You know, when you go by
there, you're gonna get good service.

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You're gonna get good plants, you're
gonna get good advice, and if you

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need service after the sale, they're
absolutely going to be right there for you.

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So that is an insurance policy like
you just can't get when you go

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shop at some place that, let's
just say also selles, hammers or lumber

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kinds of you know, some of
those places, not all, but you

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know what I'm talking about, Plants
for All Seasons. That is a is

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a great place to go, and
you need to get to know the flowertys

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there and find out the kind of
service I'm talking about. We're gonna go

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over at the Galleria right now and
talk to Chip. Hello. Chip,

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Hey, Hey, I love your
show. I appreciate it. Thank you.

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The question I had is can you
I know no one has the crystal

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ball, but can you go ahead
and put your try fruit. He's in

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the in the ground right now,
and you know you have to cover them

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up if we got something coming through. But yeah, can you go ahead

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and put those things in brown or
do they prefer a bigger container, like

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you know of a large you know, like fifty gallon containers. Okay,

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some people have so all the decisions
for trees can go in the ground now

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without any concerns. Are you talking
about like citrus trees? Yes, they're

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like a couple of orange limes,
lemons. Okay, Okay, out here

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there's a great sunny area that has
the parents house that we want. Want

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to go ahead and put them in, you know you could, uh,

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and then be ready to protect them. I think if they were mine,

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I would buy them on it and
get the selection right now that that's best,

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uh, And then I would just
hold on to them, put them

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out, let him get sunlight as
much as you can. If we're going

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to get down you know below forty, bring them inside, just bring them

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in a garage or something, and
then put them back outside again and let's

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get a little warmer and then get
them in the ground. That way,

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if you do, if we were
to have one of these unexpected, very

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very cold spells, you haven't created
a lot of work for yourself trying to

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protect it, and then you put
perfect when you plant that. I've heard

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tell that maybe you pour a little
fish emotion or something in the bottom of

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the hole that you might dig.
Is there any like super trick that you

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might suggest to give the plant the
best opportunity. So what I would do

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is, now, if you wanted
to mix in like a microlife. Microlife

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has a citrus type special fertilizer,
you could mix that in with the soil

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around the planting hole. Normally we
don't put fertilizer in a planting hole because

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salt based fertilizers, too much of
them around the roots can burn roots when

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you're trying to get a plant established. But you could do that. Microlife's

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not going to do that. You
mix them in and then if you want,

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as it's after it's planted, if
you want to water it in from

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the top down, drenched down on
it with a solution of like Microlife's ocean

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harvest, you could do that.
That would be a good example of that.

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Medina makes one called Medina has to
Grow Plus and that would be another

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example of one of those Those kind
of products are high quality and they go

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right in a solution to the roots
and can help get you off to a

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good start. But you're citrus isn't
going to want to grow until it warms

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up, and so you can't make
it grow with fertilizer right now. In

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fact, you want it to not
take off too fast because it needs to

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warm up a little bit more.
Okay, all right, thank you for

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the call. I appreciate that very
much. Hey, you've heard me talk

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about Star Hope here before on Guarden
Line. Star Hope is a Cristi centered

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community that's been in Houston since nineteen
oh seven. They've been helping the homeless

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now for over one hundred and sixteen
years. I mean that is a long

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track record. Now, I don't
go that far that back with that far

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back with Star Hope. My wife
and I've been supporting Star Hope now,

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oh gosh, probably the last time
it did was over oh gosh, probably

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we're thirty definitely over thirty years ago. When we begin to help with Star

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Hope. It's a place that we
believe in. It's not just three we

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say three hots in a cot,
meaning they're going to feed you three hot

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meals, give you place to sleep
overnight. They can do short term,

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but what they're really here about is
changing lives, long term job training,

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dealing with substance abuse, overcoming that, the kind of education and spiritual growth,

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life management skills and things helping people
actually get job interviews, training them

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for the job interviews. They even
have clothing there for folks to dress properly

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and to put their best foot forward. And do you see what I'm saying.

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We're talking about a commitment, a
long term commitment to help people change

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their lives. And when you're talking
about I like to use the example when

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we're talking about mom living in a
car with little kids. I mean,

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we are not just changing Mom's life. We are changing the future for those

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kids in a real, really real
way. We're changing our greater Houston community

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with Star Hope. It doesn't take
much. Just go to Star of Hope

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and check them out. It's s
o hmission dot org s o Hmission dot

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org for Star Hope. You're not
gonna find a better way to put your

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compassion into action. We're gonna take
a little break right now. Our phone

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number is seven one three two one
two k t r H. I'll be

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right back. DOT. I was
in love with you, Dot, I

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was in love with you a man
witch dot. He told me what to

435
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do. He said it you never
know what kind of song we're gonna play

436
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on garden line. Welcome back.
We're glad to have you here. We

437
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are going to talk about the things
you're interested in. If you'd like to

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get us call seven one three two
one two k t r H. Seven

439
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one three two one two k t
r H. This is a time to

440
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plant trees. This is a time
to plant shrubs. This is a time

441
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to plant roses. Now, if
you're going to plant a tree, you

442
00:30:02.039 --> 00:30:06.039
need to give it some stability initially
until it gets its roots established and you

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know, can kind of hold up
on its own. Well. The best

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00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:11.960
way to do that is with a
new product actually on the market called the

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00:30:11.039 --> 00:30:18.599
three sixty Tree Stabilizer. What that
is Imagine it's like an arm that reaches

446
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.960
out and it grabs on to the
post that you're using for your anchor post,

447
00:30:22.079 --> 00:30:26.559
and it grabs onto the tree with
a soft rubber strap that allows movement

448
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:30.119
on the tree. That's important.
You don't want trees to just not move

449
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at all. Movement in the wind
helps strengthen them. You don't want to

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move too much, but you want
to move a little bit in the three

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sixties. Designed to allow that you
can put one on a tree. You

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can put them from two different angles, like ninety degree angles, so one

453
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is keeping it going north south,
the others keeping it on the east west

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direction, however you want to go
about it. They're made to attach to

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an iron post, one of those
little t posts. They're designed just for

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that. You can also put them
on a big old round post and they

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do just fine. Going to find
him at R. CW. Buchanan's Plants

458
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Arborgate plants for all seasons. I
was, you know, the Verdant tree

459
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:08.799
Pharmas out there the other day.
They had some of those out there.

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Three sixty tree stabilizer is a small
investment in a very significant investment. When

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00:31:17.440 --> 00:31:21.759
you purchase that tree, help it
get established and off to a good start.

462
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You know the goal. How fast
can I hang a hammock in a

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tree? That's what I think when
I buy a tree. How fast can

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I hang a hammock? We want
to get it on the ground. We're

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going to hit the ground running.
And three sixty tree stabilizer is a great

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00:31:33.920 --> 00:31:37.599
insurance policy. It'll last you forever, I mean a long long, long

467
00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:41.599
time. So any other future trees
you plan or loaned to a friend who's

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going to plant one, these things
are going to stick around, and they

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00:31:44.279 --> 00:31:47.240
do the job right much better than
wires that you're going to trip over.

470
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Besides wires, they you know you. They keep you from pulling against the

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wire but not pushing toward the wire
and the wind blows different directions. Three

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00:31:55.880 --> 00:32:00.519
sixty tree Stabilizer has you covered all
the way around. Really really products.

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I've messed around with them myself a
long time ago when they're first working on

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getting the patent of this thing,
and it's a great product. We're going

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to go out to Spring now and
talk to Catherine. Hello, Catherine,

476
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good morning, Good morning. How
can we help? Do I trim turks

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cap? Do I take it down
close to the ground or just a few

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more inches? I would take it. You could leave it as it is,

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but it looks a little straggly.
I would take it down and cut

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it off about four inches above the
ground. Just cut it all off,

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00:32:34.720 --> 00:32:37.119
and when it warms up, it
will come out like Gangbusters and it'll be

482
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a much more pretty plant. And
it'll still Esperanza. Yeah, Esperanza will

483
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do the same thing. Yes,
sometimes it makes it through. This year

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we had enough cold. I don't
I think Esperanza may be killed back to

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the ground at a lot of places. But yes, I just there are

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a lot of those semi surviving above
ground perennials. Esperanza's one and Turk's cap

487
00:33:02.480 --> 00:33:09.240
is another one like that. The
Golden showers is another one. Just cut

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them all back. And what about
beauty berry? I have several beauty berries.

489
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The beauty berry is a shrub and
that one you shouldn't have to cut

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00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:24.559
back like that. It should be
surviving above ground unless for some reason it

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00:33:24.720 --> 00:33:29.799
just was not ready for winter and
that cold hit it. But I think

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I just need to wait for leaves. Yeah, I just wait for leeds.

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The plant, like I like to
say, the plant will tell you

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where to prune back on anything like
that when you see the new growth coming.

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I appreciate your help. Well,
Catherine, thank you for the call.

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Good luck with all those plants.
Those are all great plants too to

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have. By the way, hey, have you been out to the enchanted

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forest. Enchanted forest is set up
and they're ready to go if you need

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00:33:54.759 --> 00:34:00.799
any kind of hell. Halloween,
wrong time of the year in times day

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00:34:00.799 --> 00:34:05.119
shopping. They've got the potted plants, just really cool stuff, all kinds

501
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:07.880
of their gift shop. If you've
not been in there, you got to

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00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:10.559
go see it. It is every
time I see it is just better and

503
00:34:10.599 --> 00:34:14.679
better and better, and you're in
chanted for us. They've got all kinds

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00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:19.960
of plant if you need tomatoes and
peppers and herbs. That their new section

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00:34:20.039 --> 00:34:23.440
they built last year is just outstanding. And while you're out there, asked

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00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:29.519
to see the gerber daisies. Gerber
Daisy is just you know, Jay from

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Texas Gardener. He always ends every
one of his little social media things with

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00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:37.519
plant happiness, y'all. Well,
if you gerber daisy is the poster plant

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00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:43.639
for plant happiness. They are the
brightest, most colorful, happy looking little

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00:34:43.679 --> 00:34:46.079
blooms you've ever seen in your life. Gerber Daisy's are beautiful. I've had

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them in containers on my porch over
the years, many many times. Beautiful

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plant. Ask him it in chanted
for us to see the gerber daisies.

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By the way, where is enchanted
for us? Well, if you're in

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Richmond heading up Torch sugar Land Way, it's off to the right. FM

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twenty seven fifty nine FM twenty seven
fifty nine makes it real easy? Or

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how about this. Here's a website
Enchanted Forest Richmond, TX dot com.

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Enchanted Forest, Richmond, TX dot
com. It's always fun to go out

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00:35:19.400 --> 00:35:22.400
and see Danny and Clay and the
whole team out there, and they sure

519
00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:24.199
we'll give you the help you need
to have success. We're going to go

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00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:29.599
now to Magnolia and talk to Cindy. Hello, Cindy, Hi, how

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are you this morning? Well,
I'm well, how are you? I'm

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doing just fine. The question that
I have is we have Saint Augustine grass,

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and because of the bird seed,
I'm sure that I'm feeding the birds.

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I've got a lot of weeds in
the yard, stinging grass and things

525
00:35:45.119 --> 00:35:49.039
like that, and I don't want
to stinging grass on the dog's seat.

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Can you tell me what is the
best thing to use to kill the weeds

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00:35:52.199 --> 00:35:58.320
in the Saint Augustine without actually killing
the Saint Augustine? Yes, right now?

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00:35:58.639 --> 00:36:05.000
You want to use a post emergent
broad leaf weed control product, so

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that would be that could be something
you spray. There are things you mix

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00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:12.760
up and can spray, or you
can get a product that Nelson's makes.

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Nelson's makes, of course a lot
of fertilizers, but they make one that's

532
00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:22.159
called we Donator we Donator, and
it has a fertilizer that's very gradual release,

533
00:36:22.239 --> 00:36:24.320
so when you put it down,
it's going to be fertilizing your lawn

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00:36:24.360 --> 00:36:30.039
for the next few months. But
it has the product that kills the existing

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00:36:30.079 --> 00:36:34.679
broad leaf weeds that you're seeing.
You need to wet the soil first,

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00:36:35.239 --> 00:36:38.639
just barely actually wet the plant,
just barely get the plant wet so that

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00:36:38.679 --> 00:36:44.199
when the granules of weedinator land on
it, they stick to that weed plant

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00:36:44.440 --> 00:36:47.039
and they move into it. And
then don't water for a day or two

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00:36:47.599 --> 00:36:51.239
and it will move in the weed
and it'll kill it. Then you want

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to water it to get the fertilizer
down in the soil, all right,

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And that's called the Nelson's Donator we
Doinator. That's the fertilizer combo that you

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00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:07.119
put on right now to kill those
cool season weeds before they start blooming and

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00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:08.719
setting seed. Don't delay. If
you're going to do that, you need

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00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:15.719
to get it done sooner rather than
later while they're still most susceptible. That

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00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:19.320
that spraying with just a weed control
that you know, just spraying would just

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00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:24.920
a herbicide itself would be an option, but for most things go ahead emergence

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00:37:27.800 --> 00:37:32.440
broad leave. Yeah, but let's
just make it simple. The Nelson weed

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00:37:32.519 --> 00:37:37.039
nator will kill the kinds of weeds
you're seeing right now that are about the

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00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:42.519
problem, and it'll fertilize at the
same time. Yeah, okay, wonderful.

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Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate you. Bet youa

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00:37:45.679 --> 00:37:50.480
Cindy, thank you. I appreciate
appreciate your call. Thank you. That's

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00:37:50.559 --> 00:37:53.199
high time to get that kind of
thing done. Hey, uh, if

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you are wanting some you know,
just good ideas and advice and guidance on

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00:38:00.840 --> 00:38:04.960
plants. The Aggi Horticulture website is
excellent. I talk about my website a

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00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:07.159
lot. I'm just getting it built, you know, gardeningwith skip dot com.

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That's where the schedules are and some
other things. By the way,

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I just put a thing on soil
testing made easy. Put it on last

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00:38:14.599 --> 00:38:17.079
week on my website and it just
gives you the real simple how to do

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00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:20.559
it. Here's how you do a
swell tester, say you send it in.

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Really easy to do. But Aggie
Horticulture website, there's a whole section

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on fruit, where you can get
a free publication to view online or print

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00:38:29.960 --> 00:38:34.719
out, whichever you want, on
everything from avocados to I don't know what

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00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:37.800
fruit begins with the Z. It's
got all of them on there, dozens

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00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:42.960
of fruit. It's got the same
thing for vegetables, every vegetable you could

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00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.679
want to grow in your garden.
It's all free information. You should go

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00:38:45.760 --> 00:38:47.440
check it out. You can learn
a lot. It's very very hardful.

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We'll be right back. Welcome to
KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's

568
00:38:55.199 --> 00:39:22.119
so just watch him as the world
many things. Good morning, Welcome back

569
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to garden Line. Let's talk about
gardening. What would you like to visit

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00:39:24.760 --> 00:39:30.440
about seven one three two one two
k t r H seven one three two

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one two k t r H.
If you'd like to give us a call

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00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:37.639
and we will talk about those kinds
of topics that you are interested in.

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00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:42.599
Uh. The folks at r CW
Nurseries, you know that is the place

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00:39:42.920 --> 00:39:45.079
where you can find a wide variety
of all kinds of things. That's a

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00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:49.880
nursery that's on Tomball Parkway to forty
nine where it comes into belt Wait eight

576
00:39:50.440 --> 00:39:52.559
on the northwest side of Houston,
and it's easy to get to, easy

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00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:54.760
to find, and when you get
there, you're gonna find everything you need.

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00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:59.239
I ask him for a list of
their roses earlier, uh in the

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year, and oh my gosh,
like four or five pages, single spaced

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00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:06.119
a list of all the different kind
of roses that they can get a hold

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of for you. They also grow
their own trees out of Williamson Tree Farm

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00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:14.800
out in the Plannersville area, and
so they have an excellent selection of every

583
00:40:14.880 --> 00:40:16.440
kind of tree that you can imagine
you'd want to plant here, things that

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00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:20.480
do grow here, and that includes
when I say trees, I mean large

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00:40:20.480 --> 00:40:24.639
shrubs as well, of course holly's
and whatnot. They know how to grow

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00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:29.960
them, they know how to pick
the ones that belong in the yards here

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00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:32.519
in the Greater Houston area. That's
what they specialize in. And it's all

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00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:37.239
there at RCW Nursery. You know, David and the team out at RCW

589
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.039
do an excellent job of all of
that. And so here we are,

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we're at the end of winter time. If you want to get a woody

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00:40:43.840 --> 00:40:45.800
ornamental on the ground, you're not
going to find a better time. Don't

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00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:50.000
delay, go ahead, go ahead
and get it. Just pick it up,

593
00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:52.559
get it, bring it back.
You can water a little bit while

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00:40:52.599 --> 00:40:54.880
you get the bed ready and everything. Get set and ready to go and

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00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:59.239
get that thing in the ground as
soon as you can. This. We've

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00:40:59.239 --> 00:41:01.519
had a few kind of days of
some cloudy, rainy stuff that's gonna go

597
00:41:01.519 --> 00:41:06.559
away. We're going to be back
in nice sunshine and it'd be a great

598
00:41:06.639 --> 00:41:12.000
time to get those things planted.
Build a quality mix into the soil and

599
00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:15.679
put in a quality plant like they
have. They're at the RCW Nurseries.

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You know, you can go online
to RCW Nurseries dot com. You can

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00:41:21.159 --> 00:41:24.159
find out more about them there.
But just know this that from fifteen gallons

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00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:29.199
up the two hundred gallons, that
is a place where you can get quality,

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00:41:29.320 --> 00:41:34.440
quality trees and a wide, wide
variety of roses along with everything else

604
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:38.159
that they sell at the nursery.
You're listening to garden Line again our phone

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number seven one three two one two
kt r H. We're going to go

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00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:46.760
out to Cleveland now and talk to
David. Hello, David, good morning,

607
00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:52.920
Skip, what's up? I have
a I have three questions they're probably

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00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:55.360
pretty short. First, I got
a plummeria A friend gave me a cutting

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00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:00.880
about three or four years ago.
I got in about a twenty five doll

610
00:42:00.920 --> 00:42:04.840
the pot, and I've moved inside
for the freeze. I've protected it well

611
00:42:04.920 --> 00:42:08.159
up till now. And my shed
got a little bit cold. And it

612
00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:13.840
has three branches but two feet tall, and the branches out in three and

613
00:42:15.360 --> 00:42:20.239
the tips of the branch is about
excuse me, about six or so inches

614
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:24.480
of them got cold enough that they
turned kind of mushy. They're soft.

615
00:42:24.880 --> 00:42:28.599
Yeah, I'm not sure what I
should do with that. It seems to

616
00:42:28.639 --> 00:42:31.480
be still solid at the bottom,
and there's green, you know when you

617
00:42:31.480 --> 00:42:36.320
peel the skin a little bit,
right, Have I lost that thing completely?

618
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:39.599
Or probably probably not. You could
have a soft spot on the stem

619
00:42:39.679 --> 00:42:44.119
somewhere, you know where it also
was damaged. But I would kind of

620
00:42:44.119 --> 00:42:46.519
wait and watch it a little bit. You can cut out any area that

621
00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:51.440
you know is dead, that you
know it's rotted, and just get a

622
00:42:51.480 --> 00:42:55.039
fresh cut and make sure that it
has a chance then to dry over that

623
00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:59.639
cut that you made, which it
will and it should be fine. Primary

624
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.559
I want to think about growing til
it really warms up, and so they're

625
00:43:02.639 --> 00:43:07.280
still on your dormant stage. There's
no rush on anything, unless you just

626
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:10.199
saw you had an active decay going
on in there. Then I would go

627
00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:14.039
below that area and make the cut. When you make a cut, you'll

628
00:43:14.039 --> 00:43:17.039
know if the center looks rotted or
not. But I think it's gonna be.

629
00:43:17.320 --> 00:43:20.320
I think you're gonna be. Okay, a bit two or three weeks

630
00:43:20.360 --> 00:43:22.639
from now, probably do the cut
on it. Uh, yeah, you

631
00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:25.199
could. I would look it over, kind of feel on. Fill those

632
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:29.360
stems and stuff and check it over. And if you feel like that,

633
00:43:29.639 --> 00:43:31.880
you know you have an active decay
going on. I would do the printing

634
00:43:31.920 --> 00:43:35.920
now, but I don't think you
need you. I think you can wait

635
00:43:35.920 --> 00:43:38.800
a little bit and then let's see
what the plant looks like as we begin

636
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:44.079
to warm up just a little bit. Okay, good deal. Now I

637
00:43:44.159 --> 00:43:47.599
got a blood orange and a Sam
Houston peach. Okay, the blood orange

638
00:43:47.960 --> 00:43:53.239
it got really a bit pretty hard
by the it was twenty twenty one.

639
00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:58.760
I think the real super cold.
I protected it. I had a heat

640
00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:04.519
lamp and all that good. But
the December before that it produced some peaches.

641
00:44:04.679 --> 00:44:07.039
It wasn't old enough. I thought
i'd got them all off that I

642
00:44:07.079 --> 00:44:12.280
hadn't and not peaches. Dang,
it oranges oranges, And yeah, it

643
00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:15.320
had hit some in some dense foliage
at the bottom, and there were about

644
00:44:15.320 --> 00:44:17.840
eight of them, and they were
really good. I followed Rantag's advice by

645
00:44:17.880 --> 00:44:21.679
knocking all the blooms and stuff off
of it, and I missed eight of

646
00:44:21.719 --> 00:44:25.519
them. But it hasn't produced an
orange since then. And it just got

647
00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:32.599
bit by this last freeze here this
spring or winter and it lost lost all

648
00:44:32.599 --> 00:44:37.840
the sleeves. But it looks like
it's sprouting little leaves. Yeah, all

649
00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:42.280
the all the stems are really green. And that right, that thing's probably

650
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:45.760
going to be all right. How
long should that thing go without producing oranges?

651
00:44:46.079 --> 00:44:50.800
Well, yeah, it depends on
grain conditions and a lot of things.

652
00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:54.199
But it will start producing again.
You know, you haven't lost the

653
00:44:54.239 --> 00:44:58.559
tree. As long as there's growth
above the bud at the bottom, then

654
00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:00.320
that's growth through. Yeah. I
never lost it down to the graft.

655
00:45:00.360 --> 00:45:05.599
It's still the same wood that it
was. Well, I would wait,

656
00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:09.440
I'd watch it and wait right now, David, and let the new growth

657
00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:12.719
do what it's going to do.
I wouldn't want to print it anymore.

658
00:45:13.760 --> 00:45:17.679
Right now. It is super susceptible
to cold because you've got succulent new growth

659
00:45:17.719 --> 00:45:22.119
coming out. You don't have a
canopy to kind of hold in some of

660
00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:25.039
the radiant heat coming up from the
soil, and so you don't want to

661
00:45:25.079 --> 00:45:30.159
add that to that. Pruning it, which is also a stimulating thing to

662
00:45:30.199 --> 00:45:32.719
do to a plant, is to
prune into living tissues. So just wait

663
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:36.960
and as it begins to grow,
we kind of get past the danger cold.

664
00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:38.880
Then you can go in and do
some selective printing in there to take

665
00:45:38.880 --> 00:45:46.280
out all the dead at that point. Yeah, the peach tree, I've

666
00:45:46.280 --> 00:45:50.920
had it for about probably eight years, and I've never really got an edible

667
00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:54.280
fruit off that thing. Okay.
It's produced some small peaches and most of

668
00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:59.480
the time the squirrels get to them
and the birds, but none of them

669
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:04.480
ever got to what you would call
of something that you want to, yeah,

670
00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:07.480
pull off there and put them out. So you said you've had it

671
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:10.199
eight years, David, Yeah,
probably seven eight years in the ground.

672
00:46:10.239 --> 00:46:15.639
Yeah, it should have produced for
probably about eight inches in diameter, maybe,

673
00:46:15.119 --> 00:46:19.280
is something like that. It's a
peacha does well in East Texas.

674
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.280
It should have done better for you. Is does every year do you get

675
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:25.599
blooms from it? Yes? Okay, it does and as long as frosted

676
00:46:25.639 --> 00:46:29.400
and taken out the blooms. I
don't know what to tell you. It

677
00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:32.480
needs good sunlight in order to set
bloom, produce bloom, set blooms,

678
00:46:32.480 --> 00:46:36.679
and set fruit and develop fruit.
All those require a lot of sunlight.

679
00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:39.599
So that's one possibility. Full sun
Yeah, for sure, Then I would

680
00:46:40.119 --> 00:46:43.519
I don't know. I would wait
and see. The only thing I can

681
00:46:43.519 --> 00:46:46.119
think of is maybe it's not the
brider you thought it was. Sometimes things

682
00:46:46.159 --> 00:46:50.599
get crossed up. But I think
I'll just give it a little more time.

683
00:46:50.639 --> 00:46:52.360
If the tree looks good, I'm
gonna have to take a break here,

684
00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:58.239
so I can't read dig down much
further into this one. But look

685
00:46:58.239 --> 00:47:00.480
at the health, Look at the
growth. You ought to have eighteen to

686
00:47:00.559 --> 00:47:02.800
twenty four inches and new growth on
shoots by the end of the season.

687
00:47:02.920 --> 00:47:07.559
If it's more than that, back
on nitrogen fertilizing. If it's less,

688
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:09.880
give it a little bit more.
Make sure the drainage is good, and

689
00:47:10.599 --> 00:47:15.599
hopefully it'll it'll finally kick in.
It should for sure. Hey, thank

690
00:47:15.639 --> 00:47:19.079
you, thank you for the call, and good luck. Thanks for you

691
00:47:19.159 --> 00:47:21.559
bet, thank you very much.
We're gonna take a break right now.

692
00:47:21.559 --> 00:47:36.199
Our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome

693
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:37.880
back to garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip rich Or. We're here

694
00:47:37.920 --> 00:47:42.199
to talk about gardening. Isn't not
a surprise for a gardening show? Well,

695
00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:45.199
would you like to talk about gardening? Got a question? Seven one

696
00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:49.840
three two one two k t R
eight seven one three two one two k

697
00:47:50.079 --> 00:47:52.639
t R. H. Listen,
when we get to the end of the

698
00:47:52.679 --> 00:47:55.000
winter season, we are in like
the peak season of the whole year for

699
00:47:55.079 --> 00:48:00.760
printing trees and shrubs and things like
that. And the folks that affordable tree.

700
00:48:00.760 --> 00:48:02.039
When I say the folks at a
portable tree, I'm talking about Martin

701
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:06.960
spoon Moore. Martin's been around since
oh my gosh, I think he's done

702
00:48:06.960 --> 00:48:09.199
this for thirty years now, taking
care of Houston trees. He knows what

703
00:48:09.239 --> 00:48:14.800
he's doing. That's why that's why
Randy always talked about Martin spoon Moore service.

704
00:48:15.079 --> 00:48:17.639
I'm talking about Martin spoon Moore.
When you get somebody that knows what

705
00:48:17.679 --> 00:48:21.440
they're doing and does it right,
you need to stick with them. Because

706
00:48:21.519 --> 00:48:23.400
listen, if you screw up planning
a tomato, you can dig it up

707
00:48:23.400 --> 00:48:27.760
and put a new one in the
ground. When someone comes in and messes

708
00:48:27.840 --> 00:48:30.800
up your tree with a bad printing
job, that's permanent. Do not let

709
00:48:30.880 --> 00:48:35.639
some fly by night guy stick a
card in the door of your front door,

710
00:48:36.039 --> 00:48:39.320
and you know have access to your
trees. You got to know what

711
00:48:39.320 --> 00:48:43.840
you're doing or you do permanent damage
to trees. It is serious, the

712
00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:46.599
kind of stuff you see around town, and it's heartbreaking because it's done.

713
00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:50.840
You can't go, you can't go
put the branches back and do it right.

714
00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:52.920
Martin does it right. He does
it right the first time. Listen,

715
00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:55.679
here's his number. Just write this
down. You'll want to have this

716
00:48:55.760 --> 00:49:01.639
on hand anytime you need any kind
of tree work done. Three six twenty

717
00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:07.639
six sixty three seven one three six
nine nine two six sixty three. When

718
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:10.360
you call, you're going to get
Martin or his wife, Joe. That's

719
00:49:10.440 --> 00:49:15.280
right, the bosses. They answer
the phone. That's the kind of business.

720
00:49:15.280 --> 00:49:20.119
This is afftree Service dot com.
If you want to go to the

721
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:23.719
website afftree Service dot com, get
on the schedule. He has a lot

722
00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:27.719
of work. Make sure and tell
him that you're a garden line listener.

723
00:49:27.719 --> 00:49:30.519
That gets you to the front of
the line and anything that's going to be

724
00:49:30.559 --> 00:49:35.159
done around your tree. Martin needs
to be involved in that. Maybe you're

725
00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:37.239
going to put a trench in the
ground, maybe you're going to add a

726
00:49:37.320 --> 00:49:39.559
driveway or a sidewalk or something that's
going to be on top of the tree's

727
00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:45.119
root system. They reach way out
in all directions. Get him there first

728
00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:49.920
so that it's not too late and
the damage is already done. Let him

729
00:49:49.960 --> 00:49:52.639
guide you through it. Let him
consult with you and make sure you take

730
00:49:52.679 --> 00:49:57.800
care of those giants of the landscape
that add incredible value to your home.

731
00:49:58.119 --> 00:50:00.840
Don't trust him with somebody else.
That's as simple as that. I'm going

732
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:05.079
to go out now to Richmond and
we're going to talk to Gus. Hello,

733
00:50:05.199 --> 00:50:10.400
Gus, good morning. Hello.
How can we help today? Yes,

734
00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:15.400
I have a thank you for what
you do for all our gardeners.

735
00:50:15.679 --> 00:50:19.400
Yes, sir, I just want
to have a question about the Saint Augustine

736
00:50:19.440 --> 00:50:23.400
grass. It is the time to
top dress it, and how much should

737
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:25.599
I put on there? Yeah,
you can. About a third of an

738
00:50:25.639 --> 00:50:30.119
inch is usually about right. It
doesn't take a lot, just a little

739
00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:34.480
bit over the top of it.
You want to use a very fine screened

740
00:50:34.599 --> 00:50:38.639
compost. You know, you want
to make sure that you're not putting big

741
00:50:38.760 --> 00:50:42.760
chunks you know, of wood that
the lawnmowarer is going to knock all around.

742
00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:47.679
This is a high quality. It's
best to use a finely screened leaf

743
00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:52.599
mold compost if you can, because
that will settle down between the grass blades

744
00:50:52.639 --> 00:50:59.760
and do its work right there.
All right, that's just a concern about

745
00:50:59.800 --> 00:51:05.199
it being too early, and now, yeah, it's really not and in

746
00:51:05.199 --> 00:51:07.920
fact, getting it down a little
bit early, it's just a little less

747
00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:10.599
light hitting the ground, so maybe
some of the weeds that would have otherwise

748
00:51:10.639 --> 00:51:15.000
germinated don't quite get enough light to
establish. Well, just a little bit

749
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:19.599
of a help there. It's going
to release its nutrients over time. But

750
00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:22.679
you can do the top dressing at
different times. You don't have to do

751
00:51:22.760 --> 00:51:24.840
it right now. I mean you
can do it now or you can do

752
00:51:24.880 --> 00:51:30.360
it a little bit later as well, so it's not a real specific date

753
00:51:30.400 --> 00:51:34.039
on the calendar. You have to
get that done. Well. Thank you,

754
00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:36.559
all right, Gus, you take
care, Good luck with that.

755
00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:43.440
Good luck having a beautiful, beautiful
lawn. Boy. The season we've been

756
00:51:43.480 --> 00:51:46.519
through last summer, she's that took
its toll. Our lawns have been hammered

757
00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:51.079
and we've got some thin talk to
a lot of people or they're having to

758
00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:55.480
replant lawn sad in areas, and
you know, and sometimes people go,

759
00:51:55.559 --> 00:51:59.000
I don't know if I need to
replant or not. I had a lot

760
00:51:59.039 --> 00:52:02.119
of damage. And here's a way
to look at it. If money's not

761
00:52:02.159 --> 00:52:06.440
that big of an object, and
you've got an ugly lawn, you can

762
00:52:06.559 --> 00:52:08.320
rip it up and resote it and
put a new one in and do that.

763
00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:13.800
If you are trying to save some
and you look at your lawn and

764
00:52:13.880 --> 00:52:17.880
you've got living grass that's let's say, not a bit more than about a

765
00:52:17.960 --> 00:52:22.280
foot apart some of the little patches
of there's not like a three foot area

766
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:25.960
with all dead grass in it.
Well, that's within a foot. It's

767
00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:29.800
going to fill in by the by
the time we get into the mid season,

768
00:52:30.000 --> 00:52:32.719
it'll it'll have covered in. You're
going to have some issues with weeds

769
00:52:32.760 --> 00:52:37.119
coming up in those bear spots.
But the grass you have can recreate the

770
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:40.599
lawn you want. But that's provided
that it's in good health, that you're

771
00:52:40.599 --> 00:52:44.519
mowing, watering, and fertilizing.
Right. That's why I put the mow

772
00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:49.880
the lawn care schedule online at gardeningwith
Skip dot com. Now, if you

773
00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:52.440
do that kind of care, you
can get back into the lawn that way.

774
00:52:52.719 --> 00:52:57.480
People vary in their tolerance for weeds
or for maybe being patient versus I

775
00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:00.760
want it right now, And that's
your call. It's not my call to

776
00:53:00.760 --> 00:53:04.239
make. That's your culture yard.
But I'm just telling you that if you

777
00:53:04.400 --> 00:53:07.079
have some living spriggs about a foot
apart and you take care of it good,

778
00:53:07.119 --> 00:53:10.880
you can get that to fill back
in for you. But if it's

779
00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:15.559
suffering from diseases, it's going to
be weak and it's not going to fill

780
00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:19.159
in really well. So that's the
caveat that we have to deal with.

781
00:53:19.760 --> 00:53:23.280
You know, speaking of composts and
mulch and things, and being down there

782
00:53:23.280 --> 00:53:28.960
in the Richmond area, you're not
very far away. Gus called in from

783
00:53:29.000 --> 00:53:36.199
down there from Cienamlts. Ciena Mulches
is really a great place to get let

784
00:53:36.199 --> 00:53:38.639
me put it this way. I
always say brown stuff before green stuff,

785
00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:43.440
and Cienamultch is a great place to
get the brown stuff taken care of.

786
00:53:43.519 --> 00:53:46.480
And here's what I mean. They've
got mulches, they have composts, they

787
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:51.360
have soil blends bet we call them
bed mixes. Where you bring the mix

788
00:53:51.440 --> 00:53:52.840
in, you put it on the
ground and you grow in it. It's

789
00:53:52.880 --> 00:53:57.440
already ready to go. They've got
that. They have bags, they have

790
00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:01.320
bulk, they deliver within about twenty
miles of their area down there. They

791
00:54:01.360 --> 00:54:06.000
also have the fertilizers that I talk
about. That's part of taking care of

792
00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:09.039
the brown stuff, getting the soil
bank account of nutrients ready. So when

793
00:54:09.039 --> 00:54:15.119
plants grow, the roots have everything
they need. Things bend those nutrients by

794
00:54:15.199 --> 00:54:17.960
putting them into growth and taking off
running. And that's what we're after.

795
00:54:19.119 --> 00:54:22.039
That's the kind of success we want, and Cianamultchill gets you set up for

796
00:54:22.079 --> 00:54:27.119
that. The website is cenamultch dot
com Sienna multch dot com. They are

797
00:54:27.119 --> 00:54:30.119
on FM five twenty one just north
of road Sharing. And so for all

798
00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:34.679
of you living out near Brasis Ben
State Park, sun Creek Estates, Fresno

799
00:54:34.760 --> 00:54:38.199
Quo Valley, or Colo Senti Plantation
of course, Iowa Colony, all those

800
00:54:38.239 --> 00:54:44.679
neighborhoods around there, this is your
backyard specialist in the brown stuff that makes

801
00:54:44.679 --> 00:54:47.280
the green stuff jump out of the
ground with success. I'm going to be

802
00:54:47.320 --> 00:54:51.000
out at cenamultch later this spring.
I'll tell you more about that later,

803
00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:53.480
really looking forward to getting out there. They're open Monday through Friday, five

804
00:54:53.599 --> 00:54:58.760
or seven thirty in the morning to
five pm. Saturday's seven thirty to two.

805
00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:01.719
They're closed today. They'll be back
open again tomorrow where you can begin

806
00:55:01.880 --> 00:55:07.920
to get everything you need so that
this spring you have a showplace because you

807
00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:14.480
built the foundation first at Cienamulch.
Our phone number if you'd like to give

808
00:55:14.559 --> 00:55:17.559
us a call is seven to one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four

809
00:55:17.679 --> 00:55:24.639
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. I am when I

810
00:55:24.679 --> 00:55:29.039
get back to the house a little
bit later here and get through the show

811
00:55:29.039 --> 00:55:34.199
today and head back, I'm gonna
I'm gonna be focusing in this the next

812
00:55:34.320 --> 00:55:37.039
week. My number one goals are
to get some transplants moved outside. I've

813
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:43.880
been growing some under a light inside
and they're a nice sturdy transplant. Uh.

814
00:55:44.079 --> 00:55:46.519
Get them moved out into the garden, and I've got some coverings ready

815
00:55:46.519 --> 00:55:52.119
to put over them warm season transplants. It's a little early to put them

816
00:55:52.119 --> 00:55:54.760
out. I'll be planning these up
in the College Station area and that that's

817
00:55:54.800 --> 00:55:59.360
a little cooler. You get up
Conroe College Station up that far. The

818
00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:02.199
last four dust is a little bit, a little bit later than it is

819
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:07.679
down if you're in the Galveston area
listening, for example. But if you're

820
00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:09.960
ready to cover them up, you
can go ahead and do that. If

821
00:56:10.000 --> 00:56:14.119
you're not ready to cover them up, what I would recommend, and I'm

822
00:56:14.119 --> 00:56:16.639
going to do this with some of
mine, by the way, is to

823
00:56:16.719 --> 00:56:21.599
kind of hedge My bet is just
bump them up into a bigger container.

824
00:56:21.679 --> 00:56:24.079
I have some that are just about
ready to go into a one gallon container

825
00:56:24.639 --> 00:56:28.960
and finish they're growing out, and
that way I can put them outside.

826
00:56:28.960 --> 00:56:31.320
They can get sunlight and get used
to, you know, the wind and

827
00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:37.119
the temperatures outside. And then on
a cold night it's gonna get down in

828
00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:39.719
the ill, say mid fifties or
lower. I'll go ahead and bring them

829
00:56:39.719 --> 00:56:45.440
in that far tomato that's a little
cool when you get down fifty degrees,

830
00:56:45.159 --> 00:56:47.599
I'll bring them in and then put
them back out again. And when it's

831
00:56:47.639 --> 00:56:51.880
time to plant outside, I'm going
to have a bigger plant with blooms,

832
00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:55.760
and oftentimes I'll even have fruit on
them already by the time I actually plant

833
00:56:55.800 --> 00:57:00.280
them outside. But if you're out
shopping and you see go ahead and buy

834
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:04.320
them and bring them home and do
that. And here's why somebody else is

835
00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:06.800
going to come pick them up,
and you may go back and the variety

836
00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:09.760
you want isn't available anymore. So
there's nothing wrong with going ahead and getting

837
00:57:09.760 --> 00:57:15.039
them. Just remember they need good
light, they need a little protection from

838
00:57:15.119 --> 00:57:19.440
really cool weather, and you need
to fertilize them, keep them growing,

839
00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:22.159
and you can have quite a plant, okay, quite a head start.

840
00:57:22.559 --> 00:57:28.199
That's all pretty important. So I
here comes a call that's of interest to

841
00:57:28.239 --> 00:57:32.960
me. We got Mick in Wisconsin
talking about palms. That doesn't that doesn't

842
00:57:34.039 --> 00:57:37.360
compute make in my head. Tell
me what's going on? Hey there,

843
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:39.920
good morning. It's been a while
since I'm called into the show, but

844
00:57:40.079 --> 00:57:45.760
over the year. But okay,
but yeah, I grow all kinds of

845
00:57:45.760 --> 00:57:51.360
stuff, mangos, lemons, palms, bananas up here. But anyway,

846
00:57:52.199 --> 00:57:55.280
and the question I have is,
I have somebody sent me to Mexican fan

847
00:57:55.400 --> 00:58:00.559
palms from down there, and they
came together. They're about I want to

848
00:58:00.599 --> 00:58:05.199
say, about half of a foot
tall, okay, and they're growing really

849
00:58:05.280 --> 00:58:07.119
close together. And I want to
know, I don't want to do this

850
00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:10.199
with bananas, but I don't know
how to separate these things. I don't

851
00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:15.599
want to kill them. Yeah,
let it let it warm up just a

852
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:19.840
little bit for you. Palms like
warm weather. We do. We even

853
00:58:19.840 --> 00:58:22.559
done here to a lot of our
palm planting in the summertime because they just

854
00:58:22.599 --> 00:58:25.840
do well in that weather. Uh. And then you can just take a

855
00:58:25.880 --> 00:58:30.480
sharpshooter cut them apart and they'll be
fine. Uh. The palm palms are

856
00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:36.519
basically they're technically they're a grass plant. They're not a tree like we think

857
00:58:36.519 --> 00:58:39.239
of trees. Uh, and so
appreciate that. Yeah, So just cut

858
00:58:39.239 --> 00:58:43.960
the roots. New roots will originate
at the base of the palm because it

859
00:58:44.039 --> 00:58:46.760
is a grass plant, it's not
a tree, and so that'll be just

860
00:58:46.840 --> 00:58:50.639
fine. Yeah. Tell me how
you grow of that stuff? In Wisconsin?

861
00:58:50.719 --> 00:58:53.760
What you must have one heck of
a greenhouse. Yeah. In my

862
00:58:53.920 --> 00:58:59.440
in my office, I don't keep
closing my closet. I have a lighting

863
00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:04.400
and mile our back and wow,
reflecting the light. And then I built

864
00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:09.000
a structure in the in the actual
office itself. Wow. That's lots of

865
00:59:09.039 --> 00:59:13.400
lights and high electric bills. Yeah, but that's fine. Man. It

866
00:59:13.400 --> 00:59:16.639
sounds like you're having a blast.
What part of Wisconsin again. Uh,

867
00:59:17.280 --> 00:59:22.679
Sheboygan. It's about an hour north
of Milwaukee. Well you're not just in

868
00:59:22.719 --> 00:59:25.239
Wisconsin. You were up in Wisconsin
pretty far. We're up here. Yeah,

869
00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:30.679
And all started Uh. I was
down in friends of mine. We're

870
00:59:30.679 --> 00:59:34.519
digging up banana plants from their yard, and I said, let me take

871
00:59:34.519 --> 00:59:37.360
a let me take a rhizome home
with me. And sure enough, that's

872
00:59:37.360 --> 00:59:38.880
how it started. There you go. Hey, it's a gateway drug,

873
00:59:39.000 --> 00:59:43.000
man, it's a gateway drug all
kinds of tropicals. You're in trouble.

874
00:59:45.119 --> 00:59:49.599
Thanks for the call, and good
luck with that. I'd love to hear

875
00:59:49.639 --> 00:59:52.400
how things you go for you up
there. Yeah, we could say,

876
00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:57.159
we could recommend a lot of wonderful
If you've never grown white butterfly ginger,

877
00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:00.800
that's a that's a tropical that you
ought to try out. Put it in

878
01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:04.559
pots so you can protect it from
the kind of coal you have. But

879
01:00:04.639 --> 01:00:08.960
that's the most heavenly fragrance you've ever
seen. ILL do that, all right,

880
01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:13.320
nick, Hey, thanks for the
call. I appreciate I appreciate hearing

881
01:00:13.360 --> 01:00:15.599
from you. All Right, it's
time for Nicky in the news. Our

882
01:00:15.639 --> 01:00:19.000
phone number if you want to give
me a call on garden line. Seven

883
01:00:19.039 --> 01:00:25.880
one three two one two kt rh
ooh you me, we me, I'm

884
01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:34.880
soaking up that fine it out.
Just have fast your brothers boat. I'll

885
01:00:35.039 --> 01:00:42.119
tell you there ain't nothing in that. He's your face like a long sermon

886
01:00:42.119 --> 01:00:45.719
on a pretty sunday. All right, welcome back to garden Line. We

887
01:00:45.920 --> 01:00:51.719
are going to talk about the things
you are interested in and a couple things

888
01:00:51.719 --> 01:00:54.199
that I'm interested in. Today.
Uh, it is time to get your

889
01:00:54.360 --> 01:00:58.880
garden in, man, I mean
the the warm season garden. We are

890
01:00:58.880 --> 01:01:01.840
on the doorstep of it. What
we're doing is we're staring at the weather.

891
01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:06.519
We're listening to the weather man.
We're rolling dice, we're rubbing on

892
01:01:06.599 --> 01:01:10.159
crystal balls, We're using our imagination. When's that last frost or free is

893
01:01:10.239 --> 01:01:13.480
going to be? We don't know, it doesn't matter. Here's the deal.

894
01:01:13.519 --> 01:01:16.000
Here's the way I look at it. I often will get out with

895
01:01:16.039 --> 01:01:20.000
an early planting, and I know
it's a little early, but maybe I'll

896
01:01:20.039 --> 01:01:22.239
get lucky and it works. If
it doesn't, I'll just replant. Especially

897
01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:25.119
with seeds, that's easy to do. With the other plants. You bring

898
01:01:25.159 --> 01:01:30.159
them in, you get them going, you get that gardening fever flowing and

899
01:01:30.320 --> 01:01:31.559
when it's time to put them out, you put them out there in the

900
01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:37.360
garden. I talked earlier about potting
up your tomato plants just to be ready

901
01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.679
to go. Maybe you're gonna plant
a few tomatoes and you buy several,

902
01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:44.320
but you plant a few and you
hold back a few, pot them up

903
01:01:44.360 --> 01:01:47.400
and you've got them as a I
don't know an insurance policy you could put

904
01:01:47.440 --> 01:01:52.320
out there our peppers. By the
way, Plants for All Seasons has an

905
01:01:52.360 --> 01:01:55.960
excellent supply of tomatoes and peppers.
I know you know. Plants for All

906
01:01:55.960 --> 01:02:01.039
Seasons are on two forty nine.
They're just north of Lowe and Tomball Parkway,

907
01:02:01.039 --> 01:02:05.639
heading up toward Tomball direction or down
from Tombol for you coming in that

908
01:02:05.679 --> 01:02:10.360
way, just north of Luetta.
They've got a wide variety of things like

909
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:16.760
Alapanos, Tabascos, serranos, the
Schizzo pepper, the giant Marconi that's a

910
01:02:16.800 --> 01:02:22.599
really nice one too, Bell peppers. They've got all kinds of vegetables.

911
01:02:22.679 --> 01:02:24.360
Have you ever grown poc joy before? They have transplants of that. You

912
01:02:24.400 --> 01:02:29.039
ought to try. It is fast
like in twenty eight days from seed you've

913
01:02:29.519 --> 01:02:32.199
got pock joy. So that is
a great stir fried grape for soups.

914
01:02:32.239 --> 01:02:37.800
It's just a really mild brassica that
I think is excellent to grow. I

915
01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:42.519
always I have someone about to plant
out in the garden myself, but they're

916
01:02:42.559 --> 01:02:45.119
set up, they're ready to go. What do you need? They've got

917
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:47.320
it there, the tomatoes, the
peppers, all kinds of things. They've

918
01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:52.760
got the roses, and oh my
gosh, their seed selection is unbelievable,

919
01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:57.119
huge wall seeds and bulbs, seeds, bulbs and supplies. Oh my,

920
01:02:57.400 --> 01:03:00.639
about that all there at plantchborol Sa. Go by and see them. You

921
01:03:00.679 --> 01:03:02.920
know, when you go by there, you're gonna get good service, You're

922
01:03:02.920 --> 01:03:07.320
gonna get good plants, you're gonna
get good advice, and if you need

923
01:03:07.360 --> 01:03:10.639
service after the sale, they're absolutely
going to be right there for you.

924
01:03:12.039 --> 01:03:15.079
So that is an insurance policy like
you just can't get when you go shop

925
01:03:15.119 --> 01:03:22.159
at some place that well, let's
just say also sells hammers or lumber kinds

926
01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:25.159
of you know, some of those
places, not all, but you know

927
01:03:25.199 --> 01:03:30.000
what I'm talking about, plants for
all seasons. That is a that is

928
01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:31.679
a great place to go, and
you need to get to know the floweries

929
01:03:31.719 --> 01:03:36.159
there and find out the kind of
service I'm talking about. We're gonna go

930
01:03:36.159 --> 01:03:38.440
over at the galleria right now and
talk to Chip. Hello. Chip,

931
01:03:39.960 --> 01:03:44.320
Hey, Hey, I love your
show. I appreciate it. Thank you.

932
01:03:44.360 --> 01:03:49.000
The question I had is can you
I know no one has the crystal

933
01:03:49.039 --> 01:03:52.920
ball, but can you go ahead
and put your fruit trees in the in

934
01:03:52.039 --> 01:03:58.360
the ground right now? And you
know you have to cover them up if

935
01:03:58.360 --> 01:04:00.559
we got something coming through, but
yeah, can you go ahead and put

936
01:04:00.599 --> 01:04:04.880
those things in brown or do they
prefer a bigger container, like, you

937
01:04:04.920 --> 01:04:12.119
know, one of a large you
know, like fifty gallon containers. Okay,

938
01:04:12.679 --> 01:04:15.360
some people have so all the decisions
for trees can go in the ground

939
01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:19.960
now without any concerns. Are you
talking about like citrus trees? Yes,

940
01:04:19.960 --> 01:04:24.599
they're like a couple of orange limes, lemons. Okay, okay, go

941
01:04:24.679 --> 01:04:28.719
out. There's a great sunny area
that has the parents house that we want.

942
01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:31.559
Want to go ahead and put them
in you know you could, uh

943
01:04:31.719 --> 01:04:34.320
and then be ready to protect them. I think if they were mine,

944
01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:38.800
I would buy them on and get
the selection right now that that's best,

945
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:42.000
uh, and then I would just
hold on to them, put them out,

946
01:04:42.119 --> 01:04:45.280
let them get sunlight as much as
you can if we're going to get

947
01:04:45.280 --> 01:04:49.519
down you know below forty, bring
them inside, Just bring them in a

948
01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:54.039
garage or something, and then put
them back outside again and let's get a

949
01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:56.639
little warmer and then get them in
the ground. That way, if you

950
01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.239
do, if we were to have
one of these unexpected, very very cole

951
01:05:00.360 --> 01:05:03.360
spells, you haven't created a lot
of work for yourself trying to protect it.

952
01:05:03.960 --> 01:05:10.840
And then you put perfectly when you
plant that I've heard tell that maybe

953
01:05:10.920 --> 01:05:15.000
you pour a little fish emotion or
something in the bottom of the hole that

954
01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:18.719
you might dig. Is there any
like super trick that you might suggest to

955
01:05:18.800 --> 01:05:25.119
give the plant the best opportunity.
So what I would do is now if

956
01:05:25.159 --> 01:05:30.079
you wanted to mix in like a
microlife. Microlife has a citrus type special

957
01:05:30.199 --> 01:05:33.119
fertilizer, you could mix that in
with the soil around the planting hole.

958
01:05:33.159 --> 01:05:36.840
Normally we don't put fertilizer in a
planting hole because salt based fertilizers, too

959
01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:41.079
much of them around the roots can
burn roots when you're trying to get a

960
01:05:41.079 --> 01:05:44.239
plant established. But you could do
that. Microlife's not going to do that.

961
01:05:44.280 --> 01:05:46.760
You mix them in and then if
you want, as it's after it's

962
01:05:46.800 --> 01:05:50.000
planted. If you want to water
it in from the top down, drenched

963
01:05:50.079 --> 01:05:57.639
down on it with a solution of
like Microlife's Ocean Harvest, you could do

964
01:05:57.719 --> 01:06:00.440
that. That would be a good
example of that. Medina makes one called

965
01:06:01.559 --> 01:06:06.239
Medina has to Grow Plus and that
would be another example of one of those.

966
01:06:06.360 --> 01:06:11.840
Those kind of products are high quality
and they go right in a solution

967
01:06:12.039 --> 01:06:15.039
to the roots and can help get
you off to a good start. But

968
01:06:15.079 --> 01:06:17.440
you're citrus isn't gonna want to grow
until it warms up, and so you

969
01:06:17.480 --> 01:06:20.559
can't make it grow with fertilizer right
now. In fact, you want it

970
01:06:20.639 --> 01:06:25.039
to not take off too fast because
it needs to warm up a little bit

971
01:06:25.079 --> 01:06:28.000
more. Okay, all right,
thank you for the call. I appreciate

972
01:06:28.039 --> 01:06:30.360
that very much. Hey, you've
heard me talk about Star Hope here before

973
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:34.519
on Guarden Line. Star Hope is
a christ centered community that's been in Houston

974
01:06:34.519 --> 01:06:39.519
since nineteen oh seven. They've been
helping the homeless now for over one hundred

975
01:06:39.519 --> 01:06:43.400
and sixteen years. I mean that
is a long track record. Now,

976
01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:46.679
I don't go that far that back
with that far back with Star Hope.

977
01:06:46.800 --> 01:06:49.199
My wife and I've been supporting Star
Hope. Now, Oh, gosh.

978
01:06:49.239 --> 01:06:53.320
Probably the last time we did was
over Oh gosh, probably we're thirty.

979
01:06:53.360 --> 01:06:57.679
Definitely over thirty years ago when we
began to help with Star Hope. It's

980
01:06:57.719 --> 01:07:00.719
a place that we believe in.
It's not just three we say three hots

981
01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:04.320
and a cot, meaning they're going
to feed you three hot meals, give

982
01:07:04.320 --> 01:07:09.000
you place to sleep overnight. They
can do short term, but what they're

983
01:07:09.039 --> 01:07:14.880
really here about is changing lives long
term. Job training, dealing with substance

984
01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:18.920
abuse, overcoming that, the kind
of education and spiritual growth, life management

985
01:07:19.000 --> 01:07:25.360
skills and things helping people actually get
job interviews, training them for the job

986
01:07:25.400 --> 01:07:30.199
interviews. They even have clothing there
for folks to dress properly and to put

987
01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:31.960
their best foot forward. And do
you see what I'm saying. We're talking

988
01:07:31.960 --> 01:07:36.159
about a commitment, a long term
commitment to help people change their lives.

989
01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:40.199
And when you're talking about I like
to use the example when we're talking about

990
01:07:40.239 --> 01:07:43.159
mom living in a car with little
kids, I mean, we are not

991
01:07:43.360 --> 01:07:47.199
just changing Mom's life. We are
changing the future for those kids in a

992
01:07:47.360 --> 01:07:54.000
real, really real way. We're
changing our whole Greater Houston community with Star

993
01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:58.079
Hope. It doesn't take much.
Just go to Star of Hope and check

994
01:07:58.119 --> 01:08:02.960
them out. It's so h mission
dot org shmission dot org for starf Hope.

995
01:08:04.760 --> 01:08:10.599
You're not gonna find a better way
to put your compassion into action.

996
01:08:10.880 --> 01:08:13.599
We're gonna take a little break right
now. Our phone number is seven one

997
01:08:13.639 --> 01:08:18.560
three two one two k t r
H. I'll be right back. Dot.

998
01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:24.079
I was in love with you,
dot. I was in love with

999
01:08:24.159 --> 01:08:28.520
you wich dot. He told me
what to do, He said it.

1000
01:08:30.359 --> 01:08:33.079
You never know what kind of song
we're gonna play on garden line. Welcome

1001
01:08:33.119 --> 01:08:35.640
back. We're glad to have you
here. We are going to talk about

1002
01:08:35.640 --> 01:08:39.399
the things you're interested in. If
you'd like to get us, call seven

1003
01:08:39.720 --> 01:08:44.000
one three two one two k t
r H. Seven one three two one

1004
01:08:44.000 --> 01:08:47.800
two k t r H. This
is a time to plant trees. This

1005
01:08:47.840 --> 01:08:50.479
is a time to plant shrubs.
This is a time to plant roses.

1006
01:08:50.640 --> 01:08:54.079
Now, if you're gonna plant a
tree, you need to give it some

1007
01:08:54.079 --> 01:08:58.199
stability initially until it gets its roots
established and you know, can kind of

1008
01:08:58.199 --> 01:09:00.239
hold up on its own. Well. The best way to do that is

1009
01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:04.800
with a new product actually on the
market called the three sixty Tree Stabilizer.

1010
01:09:05.159 --> 01:09:11.079
What that is Imagine it's like an
arm that reaches out and it grabs on

1011
01:09:11.199 --> 01:09:15.399
to the post that you're using for
your anchor post, and it grabs onto

1012
01:09:15.439 --> 01:09:18.840
the tree with a soft rubber strap
that allows movement on the tree. That's

1013
01:09:18.840 --> 01:09:23.680
important. You don't want trees to
just not move at all. Movement in

1014
01:09:23.720 --> 01:09:27.000
the wind helps strengthen them. You
don't want to move too much, but

1015
01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:30.560
you want to move a little bit. In the three sixties designed to allow

1016
01:09:30.640 --> 01:09:32.840
that. You can put one on
a tree. You can put them from

1017
01:09:32.840 --> 01:09:36.399
two different angles, like ninety degree
angles, so one is keeping it going

1018
01:09:36.439 --> 01:09:40.800
north south, the others keeping it
on the east west direction, however you

1019
01:09:40.840 --> 01:09:44.359
want to go about it. They're
made to attached to an iron post,

1020
01:09:44.399 --> 01:09:46.600
one of those little t posts.
They're designed just for that. You can

1021
01:09:46.640 --> 01:09:49.960
also put them on a big old
round post and they do just fine.

1022
01:09:50.199 --> 01:09:55.079
You're going to find them at RCW. Buchanan's Plants, Arborgate Plants for all

1023
01:09:55.119 --> 01:09:59.640
seasons. I was, you know, the Verban tree Pharmas out there the

1024
01:09:59.640 --> 01:10:03.279
other day, had some of those
out there. Three sixty Tree stabilizer is

1025
01:10:03.319 --> 01:10:09.920
a small investment in a very significant
investment. When you purchase that tree,

1026
01:10:10.439 --> 01:10:14.000
help it get established and off to
a good start. You know the goal.

1027
01:10:14.439 --> 01:10:15.840
How fast can I hang a hammock
in a tree? That's what I

1028
01:10:15.880 --> 01:10:18.079
think when I buy a tree.
How fast can I hang a hammock?

1029
01:10:18.600 --> 01:10:21.079
We want to get it on the
ground. We're going to hit the ground

1030
01:10:21.159 --> 01:10:26.960
running. And three sixty Tree Stabilizer
is a great insurance policy. It'll last

1031
01:10:27.000 --> 01:10:30.039
you forever. I mean a long, long, long time. So any

1032
01:10:30.079 --> 01:10:32.840
other future trees you plan or loaned
to a friend who's going to plant one,

1033
01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:35.800
these things are going to stick around
and they do the job right much

1034
01:10:35.840 --> 01:10:40.680
better than wires that you're going to
trip over. Besides wires, they know

1035
01:10:40.760 --> 01:10:44.720
you. They keep you from pulling
against the wire but not pushing toward the

1036
01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:48.399
wire and the wind blows different directions. Three sixty Tree Stabilizer has you covered

1037
01:10:48.479 --> 01:10:51.720
all the way around. Really really
quality product. I've messed around with them

1038
01:10:51.760 --> 01:10:56.279
myself a long time ago when they're
first working on getting the patent of this

1039
01:10:56.359 --> 01:11:00.359
thing, and it's a great product. We're going to go out to now

1040
01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:03.800
and talk to Catherine. Hello,
Catherine, good morning, Good morning.

1041
01:11:05.279 --> 01:11:12.479
How can we help I trim turks
cap? Do I take it down close

1042
01:11:12.560 --> 01:11:15.960
to the ground or just a few
more inches? I would take it.

1043
01:11:16.359 --> 01:11:19.560
You could leave it as it is, but it looks a little straggly.

1044
01:11:19.920 --> 01:11:25.000
I would take it down and cut
it off about four inches above the ground.

1045
01:11:25.239 --> 01:11:27.720
Just cut it all off, and
when it warms up, it will

1046
01:11:27.720 --> 01:11:30.119
come out like gangbusters, and it'd
be a much more pretty plant. And

1047
01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:34.520
it'll still smil to Esperanza. Yeah, Esperanza will do the same thing.

1048
01:11:34.640 --> 01:11:38.960
Yes, sometimes it makes it through. This year, we had enough cold.

1049
01:11:38.960 --> 01:11:41.960
I don't. I think Esperanza maybe
killed back to the ground at a

1050
01:11:41.960 --> 01:11:45.520
lot of places. But yes,
I just there are a lot of those

1051
01:11:46.319 --> 01:11:55.560
semi surviving above ground perennials. Esperanza's
one, and Turk's cap is another one

1052
01:11:55.640 --> 01:12:01.199
like that. The Golden showers is
another one. Just cut them all back.

1053
01:12:02.960 --> 01:12:08.680
And what about beauty berry? I
have several beauty berry The beauty berry

1054
01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:12.039
is a shrub, and that one. You shouldn't have to cut back like

1055
01:12:12.079 --> 01:12:16.640
that. It should be surviving above
ground unless for some reason it just was

1056
01:12:16.880 --> 01:12:20.880
not ready for winter and that cold
hit it. But I think I just

1057
01:12:20.920 --> 01:12:25.039
need to wait for leaves. Yeah, I just wait for leeds. The

1058
01:12:25.079 --> 01:12:27.159
plant, like I like to say, the plant will tell you where to

1059
01:12:27.159 --> 01:12:30.159
prun back on. Anything like that
when you see the new growth coming.

1060
01:12:32.159 --> 01:12:35.119
I appreciate your help. Well,
Catherine, thank you for the call.

1061
01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:39.520
Good luck with all those plants.
Those are all great plants too to have.

1062
01:12:39.600 --> 01:12:42.479
By the way, Hey, have
you been out to the Enchanted Forest.

1063
01:12:43.199 --> 01:12:46.319
Enchanted Forest is set up and they're
ready to go if you need any

1064
01:12:46.439 --> 01:12:51.640
kind of hell of Halloween, wrong
time of the year, Valentine's Day shopping.

1065
01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:56.960
They've got the potted plants, just
really cool stuff, all kinds of

1066
01:12:57.199 --> 01:12:59.439
their gift shop. If you've not
been in there, you got to go

1067
01:12:59.479 --> 01:13:02.279
see it. It is every time
I see it is just better and better

1068
01:13:02.319 --> 01:13:05.239
and better, and you're in chanted
for us. They've got all kinds of

1069
01:13:05.239 --> 01:13:11.600
plant if you need tomatoes and peppers
and herbs. That their new section they

1070
01:13:11.600 --> 01:13:15.920
built last year is just outstanding.
And while you're out there, asked to

1071
01:13:15.960 --> 01:13:20.279
see the gerber daisies. Gerber Daisy
is just you know, Jay from Texas

1072
01:13:20.359 --> 01:13:25.119
Gardener. He always ends every one
of his little social media things with plant

1073
01:13:25.119 --> 01:13:30.039
happiness. Y'all. Well, if
you gerber Daisy is the poster plant for

1074
01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:34.479
plant happiness. They are the brightest, most colorful, happy looking little blooms

1075
01:13:34.520 --> 01:13:38.680
you've ever seen in your life.
Gerber daisy's are beautiful. I've had them

1076
01:13:38.680 --> 01:13:43.399
in containers on my porch over the
years, many many times. Beautiful plant.

1077
01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:45.359
Ask him it in chanted for us
to see the gerber daisies. By

1078
01:13:45.399 --> 01:13:48.079
the way, where is enchanted for
us? Well, if you're in Richmond

1079
01:13:48.279 --> 01:13:53.079
heading up Torch sugar Land Way,
it's off to the right FM twenty seven

1080
01:13:53.319 --> 01:13:57.920
fifty nine. FM twenty seven fifty
nine makes it real easy. Or how

1081
01:13:57.920 --> 01:14:05.119
about this. Here's a website Andanted
Forest Richmond, TX dot com. Enchanted

1082
01:14:05.199 --> 01:14:10.840
Forest, Richmond, TX dot com. It's always fun to go out and

1083
01:14:10.880 --> 01:14:13.960
see Danny and Clay and the whole
team out there, and they sure we'll

1084
01:14:14.000 --> 01:14:15.920
give you the help you need to
have success. We're gonna go now to

1085
01:14:15.960 --> 01:14:20.319
Magnolia and talk to Cindy. Hello, Cindy, Hi, how are you

1086
01:14:20.319 --> 01:14:25.079
this morning? Well? I'm well, how are you? I'm doing just

1087
01:14:25.239 --> 01:14:30.199
fine. The question that I have
is we have Saint Augustine grass and because

1088
01:14:30.199 --> 01:14:32.880
of the bird seed, I'm sure
that I'm feeding the birds. I've got

1089
01:14:32.920 --> 01:14:36.760
a lot of weeds in the yard, stinging grass and things like that.

1090
01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:41.840
I don't want to stinging grass on
the dogs seat. Can you tell me

1091
01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:45.840
what is the best thing to use
to kill the weeds in the Saint Augustine

1092
01:14:45.159 --> 01:14:49.439
without actually killing the Saint Augustine.
Yes, right now, you want to

1093
01:14:49.560 --> 01:14:57.439
use a post emergent broad leaf weed
control product, so that would be that

1094
01:14:57.520 --> 01:15:00.760
could be something you spray. There
are things you mix up, can spray,

1095
01:15:00.279 --> 01:15:05.359
or you can get a product that
Nelson's makes. Nelson's makes, of

1096
01:15:05.359 --> 01:15:11.399
course a lot of fertilizers, but
they make one that's called we Donator we

1097
01:15:11.520 --> 01:15:15.000
Donator, and it has a fertilizer
that's very gradual release, so when you

1098
01:15:15.000 --> 01:15:16.399
put it down, it's going to
be fertilizing your lawn for the next few

1099
01:15:16.399 --> 01:15:23.399
months. But it has the product
that kills the existing broad leaf weeds that

1100
01:15:23.439 --> 01:15:28.079
you're seeing. You need to wet
the soil first, just barely actually wet

1101
01:15:28.119 --> 01:15:31.159
the plant, just barely get the
plant wet so that when the granules of

1102
01:15:31.199 --> 01:15:36.039
weedinator land on it, they stick
to that weed plant and they move into

1103
01:15:36.079 --> 01:15:40.760
it. And then don't water for
a day or two, and it will

1104
01:15:40.760 --> 01:15:43.119
move in the weed and it'll kill
it. Then you want to water it

1105
01:15:43.159 --> 01:15:47.279
to get the fertilizer down in the
soil, all right, And that's called

1106
01:15:47.359 --> 01:15:55.119
the Nelson's doator we Doonator. That's
the fertilizer combo that you put on right

1107
01:15:55.159 --> 01:15:59.239
now to kill those cool season weeds
before they start blooming and setting seed.

1108
01:15:59.319 --> 01:16:00.479
Don't delay. If you're going to
do that, you need to get it

1109
01:16:00.520 --> 01:16:06.960
done sooner rather than later while they're
still most susceptible. That that and spraying

1110
01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:11.560
with just a weed control that you
know, just spraying would just a herbicide

1111
01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:18.800
itself would be an option. But
for most things go ahead emergence broad leaf.

1112
01:16:20.800 --> 01:16:25.479
Yeah, but let's just make it
simple. The Nelson weed Enator will

1113
01:16:25.560 --> 01:16:29.880
kill the kinds of weeds you're seeing
right now that are about the problem,

1114
01:16:29.960 --> 01:16:33.159
and it'll fertilize at the same time. Yeah, okay, wonderful. Thank

1115
01:16:33.199 --> 01:16:36.479
you so much for your time.
I appreciate you. Bet youa Cindy,

1116
01:16:36.720 --> 01:16:42.640
thank you. I appreciate appreciate your
call. Thank you. That's high time

1117
01:16:42.720 --> 01:16:45.439
to get that kind of thing done. Hey. Uh, if you are

1118
01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:51.680
wanting some you know, just good
ideas and advice and guidance on plants,

1119
01:16:53.079 --> 01:16:56.479
The Aggie Horticulture website is excellent.
I talk about my website a lot.

1120
01:16:56.520 --> 01:16:59.680
I'm just getting it built, you
know, gardening with skip dot Com that's

1121
01:16:59.680 --> 01:17:01.279
where the schedules are and some other
things. By the way, I just

1122
01:17:01.319 --> 01:17:05.439
put a thing on soil testing made
easy, put it on last week on

1123
01:17:05.520 --> 01:17:09.680
my website and it just gives you
the real simple how to do it.

1124
01:17:09.760 --> 01:17:12.840
Here's how you do a swell test, so you send it in. Really

1125
01:17:12.880 --> 01:17:16.520
easy to do. But Aggie Horticulture
website, there's a whole section on fruit

1126
01:17:16.760 --> 01:17:21.239
where you can get a free publication
to view online or print out, whichever

1127
01:17:21.279 --> 01:17:26.920
you want, on everything from avocados
to I don't know what fruit begins with

1128
01:17:26.960 --> 01:17:30.600
the Z. It's got all of
them on there, dozens of fruit.

1129
01:17:30.079 --> 01:17:33.880
It's got the same thing for vegetables, every vegetable that want to grow in

1130
01:17:33.920 --> 01:17:36.640
your garden. It's all free information. You should go check it out.

1131
01:17:36.640 --> 01:17:40.960
You can learn a lot. It's
very very harpful. We'll be right back.

1132
01:17:46.399 --> 01:18:00.640
Welcome to kt r H garden Line
with Skin Director. It's so watch

1133
01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:14.840
as the world. Welcome back to
garden Line. Glad you're listening today.

1134
01:18:15.439 --> 01:18:18.319
Got some interesting weather out there this
morning, but that front is moving to

1135
01:18:18.359 --> 01:18:23.479
the east. It is going to
get away from us here and this afternoon

1136
01:18:23.720 --> 01:18:26.800
is still going to be a good
day. So let's not give up on

1137
01:18:26.920 --> 01:18:30.800
today yet we've got some rough stuff
going on out there. We just hope

1138
01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:34.479
everything goes safely for the folks that
are dealing with the front coming through up

1139
01:18:34.680 --> 01:18:39.600
further north than here in the the
tornado issues and things like that, what

1140
01:18:39.720 --> 01:18:44.279
would be extra extra cautious in those
areas. But I tell you when it

1141
01:18:44.399 --> 01:18:45.199
when it comes to the rest of
the day, you just know, we

1142
01:18:45.279 --> 01:18:48.560
got a gardening day here that's coming
up, So I hope you'll get out

1143
01:18:48.600 --> 01:18:51.479
and enjoy that. For those of
you up in the Montgomery area, you

1144
01:18:51.560 --> 01:18:57.279
got a na plants and produce up
there, outstanding, outstanding garden center.

1145
01:18:57.520 --> 01:19:00.840
You know they've got right now in
stock. They've got the sea potatoes.

1146
01:19:00.880 --> 01:19:02.319
If you want a plant. By
the way, now's the time. If

1147
01:19:02.319 --> 01:19:05.239
you want to have a crop of
potatoes this spring. You got to buy

1148
01:19:05.279 --> 01:19:10.159
those sea potatoes and you cut them
up with a couple of eyes on each

1149
01:19:10.399 --> 01:19:13.840
section. Give them a couple of
days to dry off, just so they

1150
01:19:13.880 --> 01:19:15.640
don't rot so bad when you put
them in the ground. Then once they've

1151
01:19:15.720 --> 01:19:18.600
kind of dried that cut surface,
put them in the ground and you're on

1152
01:19:18.680 --> 01:19:23.880
your way to success. Onion sets
are out there too, fruit tree citrus

1153
01:19:23.920 --> 01:19:27.279
trees. Of course, they have
everything at Ana Plants and produce your color

1154
01:19:27.359 --> 01:19:31.560
plants, your roses or shrubs,
your trees. Lots and lots of quality

1155
01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:36.239
products too. When you hear me
talk about night frost and Nelson's products,

1156
01:19:36.279 --> 01:19:41.199
about microlife products, about airloom soils, Nature's way, leave mo compost,

1157
01:19:41.560 --> 01:19:44.399
They've got all of that. It
nate at A and A Plants and produce

1158
01:19:44.520 --> 01:19:47.720
up there in Montgomery. You can
hire them. Their landscape crew can come

1159
01:19:47.760 --> 01:19:50.920
out. If you live around Lake
Conroe, they can come right over there.

1160
01:19:51.079 --> 01:19:55.199
Then do early clean up on your
homes, getting the beds already,

1161
01:19:55.239 --> 01:19:59.640
sprucing them up, ready to go. Let's have some beauty and really enjoy

1162
01:19:59.720 --> 01:20:01.439
that. Well, it looks like
we've got Nikki coming back in for the

1163
01:20:01.439 --> 01:20:04.680
news. I'm gonna pass it with
the microphone back over to her. All

1164
01:20:04.760 --> 01:20:10.880
ready, let me check there we
go. News Radio seven forty KTRH activating

1165
01:20:10.920 --> 01:20:16.359
the Houston area emergency alert system.
The National Weather Service in League City has

1166
01:20:16.439 --> 01:20:27.560
issued a tornado warning central Grimes County, east central Brasis County, northwestern Montgomery

1167
01:20:27.680 --> 01:20:35.039
County, and southwestern Walker County.
The tornado warning in effect until nine fifteen

1168
01:20:35.720 --> 01:20:45.159
tornado and quarter size hail is possible
again. The affected areas include Richards,

1169
01:20:45.199 --> 01:20:53.079
Carlos, and Rhones Prairie. The
counties are Central Grimes County, east central

1170
01:20:53.279 --> 01:21:00.760
Brass County, north western Montgomery County, and southwestern Walker County. This concludes

1171
01:21:00.800 --> 01:21:09.600
activation of the Houston Area Emergency Alert
System. Okay, am I back on,

1172
01:21:09.760 --> 01:21:13.319
now there we go, all right? I think I was just saying

1173
01:21:13.359 --> 01:21:17.239
that the Ana Plants and Produce,
the folks up there have every kind of

1174
01:21:17.279 --> 01:21:20.640
plant that you would need and all
the things you need to go with it,

1175
01:21:20.840 --> 01:21:25.159
every kind of supply that you would
need, all the products of fertilizers

1176
01:21:25.159 --> 01:21:29.279
and soils and things. And they
do have copies of my lawn care schedule

1177
01:21:29.359 --> 01:21:31.159
that you can just go to the
counter there and they've got them printed up.

1178
01:21:31.159 --> 01:21:33.840
They'll give you one or bring it
in even better yet, just print

1179
01:21:33.840 --> 01:21:38.199
it out and bring it in with
you so you know which thing you want

1180
01:21:38.239 --> 01:21:40.039
to point out and say, hey, I need one of these. We'll

1181
01:21:40.039 --> 01:21:42.760
get you set up with that.
By the way, guess what I'm going

1182
01:21:42.840 --> 01:21:45.720
to go up to Ana Plants and
produce not this coming Saturday, but the

1183
01:21:45.720 --> 01:21:48.640
Saturday after. What day would that
be with that would be the twenty fourth

1184
01:21:48.680 --> 01:21:54.199
of February. February the twenty fourth, I'm going to be at Ana Plants

1185
01:21:54.199 --> 01:21:57.880
and Produce. And it gets even
better. They are going to be given

1186
01:21:57.880 --> 01:22:00.880
away. The folks from Nelson's are
going to be giving way eight bags of

1187
01:22:00.000 --> 01:22:03.479
turf star weedinator every fifteen minutes.
I'm gonna have a drawing for a bag

1188
01:22:03.479 --> 01:22:08.600
of turf star weedinator while I'm there
at Ana Plants and Produce. Now'll be

1189
01:22:08.640 --> 01:22:13.640
there from twelve to two, and
I encourage you bring me samples of plants

1190
01:22:13.680 --> 01:22:18.439
for identification or for diagnosis, bring
me pictures if you have something to identify

1191
01:22:18.560 --> 01:22:21.680
or to diagnose, or if you
just want to show me your landscape and

1192
01:22:21.680 --> 01:22:25.640
say, hey, what would go
good right here, or what do you

1193
01:22:25.680 --> 01:22:28.880
think's wrong with this over there?
Let's talk. I love to meet the

1194
01:22:28.920 --> 01:22:31.119
folks that listen to Garden Line.
I don't get up that far very often,

1195
01:22:31.199 --> 01:22:35.399
and I'm really looking forward to two
weeks from yesterday, Saturday, the

1196
01:22:35.439 --> 01:22:39.800
twenty fourth, A and A Plants
and Produce. By the way, leave

1197
01:22:39.880 --> 01:22:42.239
room in your car because you're going
on a haul home. Some of the

1198
01:22:42.279 --> 01:22:45.039
good things that they have available there. Those of you that live in the

1199
01:22:45.439 --> 01:22:50.239
Lake Conroe, Montgomery Conroe area.
You already know about ana plants and produce

1200
01:22:50.279 --> 01:22:54.520
and the kind of quality stuff that
they keep on hand, as well as

1201
01:22:54.560 --> 01:23:00.439
staff that knows what they're talking about
to guide you and to having success.

1202
01:23:00.720 --> 01:23:01.920
If you'd like to give us a
call here on Guarden Line, our phone

1203
01:23:02.000 --> 01:23:06.600
number is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four seven one three

1204
01:23:06.720 --> 01:23:12.880
two one two kt RH. That
makes it really simple, didn't it.

1205
01:23:13.479 --> 01:23:17.239
Uh? You know, the kind
of cold weather we had a while back,

1206
01:23:17.319 --> 01:23:21.239
caught our plants unprepared. It got
a little bit too cold for that.

1207
01:23:21.840 --> 01:23:25.760
My goodness, Here we come with
another newsflash. We got a lot

1208
01:23:25.800 --> 01:23:31.479
of weather going on today. May
Yes News Radio seven forty KTRH activating the

1209
01:23:31.520 --> 01:23:41.279
Houston Area Emergency Alert system. The
National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch.

1210
01:23:41.720 --> 01:23:45.800
It had been a warning. It
is a tornado watch in effect until

1211
01:23:45.960 --> 01:23:55.039
three this afternoon. It includes nine
counties Austin, Colorado, Waller, Washington,

1212
01:23:55.600 --> 01:24:01.239
Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, Poke
and Sandra Sinto. Again, the

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01:24:01.359 --> 01:24:10.840
National Weather Service has issued a tornado
watch in effect until three this afternoon.

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01:24:12.239 --> 01:24:19.920
This concludes activation of the Houston Area
Emergency Alert system. Alrighty wow, that's

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01:24:20.000 --> 01:24:24.760
a little excitement going on in the
weather. I hope everybody's staying safe,

1216
01:24:25.000 --> 01:24:29.079
take care of yourself out there,
keeping eye on the sky, and we

1217
01:24:29.239 --> 01:24:33.119
just wish everybody the best, and
that it kind of throws you off when

1218
01:24:33.199 --> 01:24:39.000
you come in with such serious news
and we're talking about you know that happen

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01:24:39.039 --> 01:24:42.960
the fun things about gardening and taking
care of plants and stuff. If you'd

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01:24:43.000 --> 01:24:45.479
like to give us a call,
our phone number again is seven one three

1221
01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:49.079
two one two five eight seven four. We had that weather back a little

1222
01:24:49.119 --> 01:24:53.880
bit earlier in the winter where the
temperature dropped down lower than it's supposed to

1223
01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:57.399
drop down around here. Now I'm
not saying when I say supposed to,

1224
01:24:57.439 --> 01:25:00.119
I mean it doesn't not that it
never happens. It happens actually quite often,

1225
01:25:00.159 --> 01:25:04.039
but we don't expect all the time
to have that kind of weather dropping

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01:25:04.079 --> 01:25:09.800
down. And I think you have
experienced that before. Back in February twenty

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01:25:09.800 --> 01:25:14.439
one, we had that freeze.
It was just record breaking for so long,

1228
01:25:14.720 --> 01:25:17.119
so cold, single digits. I
had seven degrees up at my house

1229
01:25:17.359 --> 01:25:21.159
a little further up north, and
it was brutal. But then we had

1230
01:25:21.199 --> 01:25:27.039
the December, not this December,
but December ago, it dropped down and

1231
01:25:27.119 --> 01:25:30.439
it caught plants unprotected. They were
not hardened off and ready for winter.

1232
01:25:30.520 --> 01:25:35.199
And then this year we had another
coal one that hit later in the season

1233
01:25:35.239 --> 01:25:40.399
than the December freeze the year before, but our plants got hammered. And

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01:25:40.479 --> 01:25:43.159
a lot of people have called and
asked questions about what do I do about

1235
01:25:43.159 --> 01:25:45.880
my plants? Well, one thing
you want to do is as they begin

1236
01:25:45.960 --> 01:25:48.359
to regrow, and that's coming as
the weather warms up a bit. Got

1237
01:25:48.359 --> 01:25:53.720
a couple of cool chili days here, not cold, but just the night

1238
01:25:53.800 --> 01:25:56.880
times a little on the chili side, and then it's going to warm up

1239
01:25:56.920 --> 01:26:00.279
and these plants are going to get
moving. And a product like Microlife their

1240
01:26:00.439 --> 01:26:04.399
blue labels, I like the blue
label that that would be the Microlife Ultimate

1241
01:26:04.439 --> 01:26:09.720
by the way, that is a
eight four six, a real fortified.

1242
01:26:09.760 --> 01:26:14.039
Their fertilizer does super well for your
plants. You can use that on transplanting

1243
01:26:14.199 --> 01:26:16.680
as well, putting plants in and
then the ocean harvest. That's the four

1244
01:26:16.760 --> 01:26:24.079
two three seaweed or fish based fertilizer
that you can drench in. When your

1245
01:26:24.079 --> 01:26:28.319
plants start to regrow, go ahead
and drench them with that ocean harvest.

1246
01:26:28.439 --> 01:26:30.560
Mix it up, follow the label. You're not going to burn your plants

1247
01:26:30.600 --> 01:26:32.439
with it, don't worry about that. If you got some leaves coming on,

1248
01:26:32.560 --> 01:26:35.479
go ahead and spray those two.
You can do a FOLDI your feed

1249
01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:41.560
with that as well as well as
with the Microlife's seaweed product on helping that

1250
01:26:41.720 --> 01:26:45.479
new growth to get the nutrients and
energy it needs to get some leaves out

1251
01:26:45.520 --> 01:26:49.720
there, capture sunlight, make carbohydrates
to fuel the plant and everything that it

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01:26:49.720 --> 01:26:54.720
needs, and all that's for Microlife. Microlife has a wide variety of products.

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01:26:54.920 --> 01:26:58.760
I've used them for years. They
work very very well, and I

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01:26:58.800 --> 01:27:03.560
think that you just go to the
website Microlifefertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com.

1255
01:27:03.640 --> 01:27:06.960
You can find out where they are
learn a lot more about those products

1256
01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:11.439
as well and the many options that
you have. You're not going to go

1257
01:27:11.520 --> 01:27:15.600
wrong with Microlife where you're working with
nature in order to create a more resilient

1258
01:27:15.760 --> 01:27:20.680
landscape. And resilience is the key. We've been through a lot weatherwise,

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01:27:23.039 --> 01:27:27.199
and our plants when they're treated right, when we select good quality plants and

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01:27:27.199 --> 01:27:30.960
when we take care of them right, they just become more resilient and they're

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01:27:30.960 --> 01:27:35.439
able to survive, as they say, the vicissitudes of nature. And boy

1262
01:27:35.479 --> 01:27:41.880
does nature ever throw vicissitudes at us
as it is doing today with the kind

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01:27:41.920 --> 01:27:46.960
of weather that's passing through here.
May it pass quickly? Please. You've

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01:27:47.000 --> 01:27:54.840
heard me talk about Starhope before.
Starhope is a program that I fully believe

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01:27:54.880 --> 01:27:59.600
in. I'm completely It's a christ
centered community, been around Houston since nineteen

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01:28:00.359 --> 01:28:04.319
seven, a long long time.
More than a thousand homeless and nearly homeless

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01:28:04.359 --> 01:28:11.119
men, women and children every day
are served by Starrohope. Starhope provides every

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01:28:11.279 --> 01:28:15.920
level of help that it needs to
turn a life around. Their downtown Men's

1269
01:28:15.920 --> 01:28:19.239
Center has over three hundred beds or
women and Family Development Center off Red Road

1270
01:28:19.279 --> 01:28:23.920
off two eighty eight down south.
It can host one hundred and eighty single

1271
01:28:23.920 --> 01:28:27.279
women and one hundred and thirty families
there. They serve about six thousand a

1272
01:28:27.279 --> 01:28:30.640
week, six thousand meals a week
there at Star of Hope. You can

1273
01:28:30.680 --> 01:28:34.840
get involved in that. Just a
few dollars provides a meal. How do

1274
01:28:34.880 --> 01:28:38.960
you want to get involved? Well, go online? Do this? Will

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01:28:39.000 --> 01:28:43.000
you do me? If I ever
go to sohmission dot org and find out

1276
01:28:43.119 --> 01:28:46.680
how you can donate. Find out
more information. There's everything from volunteering to

1277
01:28:46.760 --> 01:28:50.479
donating money. Just two dollars and
eighty cents provides a meal. I mean,

1278
01:28:50.600 --> 01:28:57.279
that's that's the pocket change. Put
your compassion into action in ways that

1279
01:28:57.319 --> 01:29:00.800
are not just a handout, but
that are a hand up to change a

1280
01:29:00.840 --> 01:29:05.279
life for the people and for their
children as well. Shmission dot org.

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01:29:08.600 --> 01:29:13.079
You're listening to Guardline. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

1282
01:29:13.279 --> 01:29:17.640
five eight seven four seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1283
01:29:17.960 --> 01:29:21.840
I was talking to you yesterday about
Verdon Tree Farm. You know. Vernon

1284
01:29:21.880 --> 01:29:28.079
has the three locations. They're down
south in uh Pearland, and they're up

1285
01:29:28.239 --> 01:29:30.720
in the Heights area where Yale Street
and I ten come together, and then

1286
01:29:30.760 --> 01:29:34.439
they're out on Barker Cypress in West
Houston. I was just out visiting out

1287
01:29:34.479 --> 01:29:39.840
there at the Barker Cypress location this
past week, looking at all the plants

1288
01:29:39.960 --> 01:29:43.000
that they have all that. Boy, they have a lot of things coming

1289
01:29:43.039 --> 01:29:47.119
in. I believe I was visiting
with them about some holly l nice large

1290
01:29:47.800 --> 01:29:54.439
excellent hedge plant holly types. They
have a number of different holly species they

1291
01:29:54.479 --> 01:29:58.560
grow. You need a wall of
foliage to block a view. They can

1292
01:29:58.560 --> 01:30:01.760
get you set up with that.
Of course, they specialize in trees that

1293
01:30:01.840 --> 01:30:05.319
are just all the way up to
like seven hundred gallons for that instant.

1294
01:30:05.399 --> 01:30:09.479
Wow, I already got it.
It hit the ground running. They take

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01:30:09.520 --> 01:30:12.119
it out, they plant it.
You pick it out, haven't put a

1296
01:30:12.119 --> 01:30:14.920
tag on it. They'll bring it
to your house and they'll plant it for

1297
01:30:15.000 --> 01:30:18.079
you. They'll even help you if
you're looking at doing some developing, you

1298
01:30:18.119 --> 01:30:23.439
want to redo a new landscape or
even developing a community area. They can

1299
01:30:23.479 --> 01:30:26.800
sit down with you and talk about
what are some good species that would do

1300
01:30:26.840 --> 01:30:30.439
good for that area. What is
a good cold hardy tree, what's a

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01:30:30.560 --> 01:30:33.800
drought hardy tree, drought resistant tree? They have all of that at Vernant

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01:30:33.840 --> 01:30:40.640
Tree Farm v e er d Ant
Treefarm dot com. Vernant Tree Farm.

1303
01:30:40.880 --> 01:30:44.319
Hey, if you are a military
or first responder, they are for a

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01:30:44.359 --> 01:30:47.279
ten percent discount for you as well
and a one year warranty on what they

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01:30:47.319 --> 01:30:53.479
sell when they do the installation.
That is a great deal. And now's

1306
01:30:53.479 --> 01:30:57.279
the time. Remember the hotter it
gets, the more stressful it is for

1307
01:30:57.319 --> 01:31:00.359
a new plant going in the ground. Why not make it easy get that

1308
01:31:00.399 --> 01:31:02.239
done right? Now, get that
done right. Now, let's go out

1309
01:31:02.319 --> 01:31:08.319
to northwest Houston. We're going to
talk to Rebecca. Hello Rebecca, Well,

1310
01:31:08.359 --> 01:31:15.079
good morning. My question is I
have an oak tree, and do

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01:31:15.119 --> 01:31:17.319
all those acorns need to be picked
up? I mean, I hate for

1312
01:31:17.439 --> 01:31:21.039
them to be sprouting up little trees, but I didn't know whether they actually

1313
01:31:21.079 --> 01:31:25.159
needed to be picked up. Well, they don't need to be, but

1314
01:31:25.399 --> 01:31:27.640
if you want to rake them up, I mean you can. You can

1315
01:31:27.720 --> 01:31:30.000
just kind of clean them out of
there and a lot of them will sprout

1316
01:31:30.119 --> 01:31:32.079
send up a little tree when you
mow over them. They just just chop

1317
01:31:32.159 --> 01:31:34.920
them off anyway, you don't have
to worry about it. But if they're

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01:31:34.960 --> 01:31:36.960
in a flower bed, yeah,
you're gonna have to grab on to them,

1319
01:31:38.000 --> 01:31:39.840
kind of pull them up. You
do it when they're real young and

1320
01:31:39.920 --> 01:31:44.239
pull them up with one hand.
This makes it all easy, okay.

1321
01:31:44.239 --> 01:31:46.159
But they all don't really all have
to be I mean, there was a

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01:31:46.239 --> 01:31:49.279
lot of them this year. There
was a lot. I know, we

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01:31:49.359 --> 01:31:54.640
call that a heavy masked year.
That's the term they use. But oaks

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01:31:54.680 --> 01:31:58.399
do that. They'll have seasons where
it just really you get a lot of

1325
01:31:58.479 --> 01:32:01.279
acorns, right, but they do
cycle. Different kinds of oaks are on

1326
01:32:01.359 --> 01:32:05.279
a one or two year cycle,
and but then we have these master years

1327
01:32:05.279 --> 01:32:08.920
where it's like, oh my gosh, where did that come? Right?

1328
01:32:08.960 --> 01:32:12.680
I think I think this is a
life oak. I'm not exactly sure,

1329
01:32:12.720 --> 01:32:15.840
but I think it's called a live
oak. Okay. Does it have green

1330
01:32:15.920 --> 01:32:18.640
leaves on it right now? Yes? Yeah, probably a life Yeah,

1331
01:32:18.680 --> 01:32:21.960
it's right. Okay. So they
don't all have to be picked up,

1332
01:32:23.000 --> 01:32:27.479
but some of them probably should.
That's completely up to you. You know.

1333
01:32:27.479 --> 01:32:29.640
If I'm gonna run around barefoot under
the tree, I don't know.

1334
01:32:29.880 --> 01:32:32.079
I don't like stepping on them.
That's just me. That's just me.

1335
01:32:32.159 --> 01:32:34.760
I'll pick them up. But you
know, it's not like a sweet gum

1336
01:32:34.840 --> 01:32:39.800
to that for sure. You need
no one to run barefoot. Oh yeah,

1337
01:32:39.960 --> 01:32:43.760
right, seriously, it's not.
It's it's whatever you want to do.

1338
01:32:44.760 --> 01:32:47.079
Okay, sounds good. Thank you
so much. You bet, you

1339
01:32:47.199 --> 01:32:50.920
bet. Thanks for the call,
Rebecca. I appreciate that. I want

1340
01:32:50.960 --> 01:32:55.680
to tell you something. As a
former seven year old boy live oak,

1341
01:32:55.720 --> 01:32:59.720
acorns and a sling shot, you
can have a lot of fun. I'm

1342
01:32:59.760 --> 01:33:02.640
just you can have a lot of
fun. Also, as a former seven

1343
01:33:02.720 --> 01:33:06.239
year boy a China berry tree.
Did any of y'all listening, did any

1344
01:33:06.279 --> 01:33:13.600
of you grow up with China berry
trees and a slingshot? We had a

1345
01:33:13.880 --> 01:33:16.000
next door to our house was another
house. It was actually a rental house

1346
01:33:16.039 --> 01:33:20.800
my parents secure. And there's a
China berry and a little kind of a

1347
01:33:20.840 --> 01:33:25.720
garage for parking out there, a
little tin roof garage. And I'm telling

1348
01:33:25.760 --> 01:33:28.920
you, give me a sling shot, put me on that tin roof underneath

1349
01:33:28.920 --> 01:33:32.079
that China berry tree, and I
could hold off the whole neighborhood for but

1350
01:33:32.239 --> 01:33:42.319
a week. Okay, enough of
those unnecessary bits of information. You're listening

1351
01:33:42.359 --> 01:33:44.520
to the garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Richter. What are we

1352
01:33:44.520 --> 01:33:45.640
going to talk about today? Well, I want to tell you what's something

1353
01:33:45.880 --> 01:33:48.479
one thing I would like to talk
about, and that is what do you

1354
01:33:48.520 --> 01:33:54.920
do with a landscape that is just
brutalized by the kind of summer we had

1355
01:33:55.000 --> 01:33:58.319
last year and maybe even by the
cold weather we just had. Well,

1356
01:33:58.359 --> 01:34:01.000
I ain't. One thing you can
do is you can call Pieres Pierscapes love.

1357
01:34:01.640 --> 01:34:05.680
I love going online to their website
and looking at the kinds of jobs

1358
01:34:05.720 --> 01:34:09.720
that they've done. Now, a
lot of those jobs. I mean they

1359
01:34:09.720 --> 01:34:12.640
are like top of the line jobs
and you're going, well, that's not

1360
01:34:12.720 --> 01:34:15.159
what my house looks like. Okay, But they can do anything. Do

1361
01:34:15.239 --> 01:34:20.319
you need just an added flower bed
or a renovation or do you just need

1362
01:34:20.319 --> 01:34:25.840
a little work on a sprinkler system? Do you something modest or do you

1363
01:34:25.840 --> 01:34:28.840
want to go all out? Do
you want to create a beautiful outdoor patio

1364
01:34:29.479 --> 01:34:34.039
with water features, with landscape lighting
all the above. Perscapes can do it

1365
01:34:34.079 --> 01:34:38.039
all from a to Z, all
of that kind of stuff, and they

1366
01:34:38.079 --> 01:34:41.640
do an excellent, excellent job.
But you need to get them scheduled.

1367
01:34:41.640 --> 01:34:44.399
Hey, they stay busy, you
know, telling me you heard about on

1368
01:34:44.439 --> 01:34:47.680
guardline that you heard you need to
get it scheduled ahead of time, and

1369
01:34:47.680 --> 01:34:51.039
they'll say, yes, absolutely,
of course you do, because they want

1370
01:34:51.039 --> 01:34:54.760
to be able to get to work, get it planned out. You know,

1371
01:34:54.800 --> 01:34:57.319
maybe it's a big job, gonna
take a lot of time to get

1372
01:34:57.359 --> 01:35:00.720
it all scheduled, work with you
on the design, or maybe it's a

1373
01:35:00.720 --> 01:35:02.880
simple job. They stop to get
it planned out and scheduled so they can

1374
01:35:02.920 --> 01:35:06.279
come out. If your sprinkler system
isn't working wide, if you got broken

1375
01:35:06.359 --> 01:35:11.359
heads, if the coverage last year, proved to you that that system was

1376
01:35:11.479 --> 01:35:15.000
very inefficient and did not do the
job of evenly watering throughout your yard.

1377
01:35:15.000 --> 01:35:18.279
To keep the whole yard alive,
you need to call Pierscapes. They can

1378
01:35:18.319 --> 01:35:21.359
do all of that and then some. I keep saying, Collum, what's

1379
01:35:21.399 --> 01:35:26.800
the number two eight one three,
seven oh fifty sixty two eight one three

1380
01:35:26.880 --> 01:35:34.439
seven oh five zero six zero,
Or go to that wonderful website piercescapes dot

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01:35:34.479 --> 01:35:39.119
com pierscapes dot com. Take a
look at the kind of work they can

1382
01:35:39.159 --> 01:35:44.920
do, and then imagine for your
home, for your outdoor goals, what

1383
01:35:45.199 --> 01:35:48.119
might you have them do for you. We're going to go now out to

1384
01:35:48.439 --> 01:35:53.520
where are we going? To the
League City League City and talk to Rubin.

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01:35:53.560 --> 01:36:00.319
Hello, Rubin iod line. I
ordered and received ten metal plastic.

1386
01:36:00.359 --> 01:36:04.920
It should have been clear. Unfortunately
it was too late to send it back.

1387
01:36:05.039 --> 01:36:10.960
It's a opaque almost white plastic eating
and the reason for this to tend

1388
01:36:10.960 --> 01:36:14.319
top areas in the garden, ok, for this protect them to my TRAIND

1389
01:36:14.359 --> 01:36:18.119
Is that going to be detrimental using
the plastic in your garden? You're saying,

1390
01:36:18.239 --> 01:36:23.359
well, actually what I wanted was
a clear plastic, but I ended

1391
01:36:23.399 --> 01:36:27.920
up gaining almost so white. It's
not opaque, it's almost white, slightly

1392
01:36:28.079 --> 01:36:32.399
see through plastic instead. Okay,
if you're if you're wanting, are you

1393
01:36:32.439 --> 01:36:35.920
wanting to use it to protect plants
against temperatures that are cold or what?

1394
01:36:36.039 --> 01:36:39.880
Well? No, no, just
just to tent up garden areas where we

1395
01:36:39.960 --> 01:36:45.239
have excessive rains that just while they're
growing. Oh, I guess you could.

1396
01:36:45.760 --> 01:36:47.119
I guess you could. I don't
fully picture what you're saying. Hey,

1397
01:36:47.520 --> 01:36:49.760
Ryn, I'm sorry, but Nicky's
come back in. We gotta do

1398
01:36:49.760 --> 01:36:54.119
a little news break or a weather
emergency here, or just hang on just

1399
01:36:54.159 --> 01:37:02.800
a moment. News radio kg RH
activated the Houston Area Emergency Alert system.

1400
01:37:03.239 --> 01:37:12.479
The National Weather Service has issued a
tornado warning. This is a warning east

1401
01:37:12.520 --> 01:37:19.119
central Grimes County. There are three
areas. The counties are east central Grimes,

1402
01:37:19.640 --> 01:37:28.520
northwestern Montgomery, and southwestern Walker Counties. Again, this is a tornado

1403
01:37:28.920 --> 01:37:35.039
warning in effect until nine to forty
five. This concludes activation of the Houston

1404
01:37:35.079 --> 01:37:43.000
Area Emergency Alert System. All right, there we are back, so Rubin,

1405
01:37:43.359 --> 01:37:45.439
I guess you know, if you're
just wanting to shed some water off

1406
01:37:45.439 --> 01:37:48.600
the area, Yes, you could
use any kind of a plastic just remember

1407
01:37:48.640 --> 01:37:51.600
if the sun shines through it,
it gets a little hot underneath it,

1408
01:37:51.880 --> 01:38:09.159
so that would just be the only
caveat that if I'm understanding here. Welcome

1409
01:38:09.159 --> 01:38:11.960
back to guard Line. We're glad
you're listening in today. Boy, what

1410
01:38:12.079 --> 01:38:15.159
a day, interesting weather going on
north of town. To pray everybody's safe

1411
01:38:15.199 --> 01:38:19.920
up there, property and people.
Tornadoes come through up in that area.

1412
01:38:20.560 --> 01:38:25.680
I just want to remind you down
here, this front is blowing through and

1413
01:38:25.800 --> 01:38:28.800
we are going to have an afternoon
that is a good day to get out

1414
01:38:28.920 --> 01:38:31.960
and get outside. For those of
you shopping down in the Houston area looking

1415
01:38:32.000 --> 01:38:36.640
for garden centers and plants and products
and supplies and whatnot, it's a good

1416
01:38:36.680 --> 01:38:40.920
day to get out there. And
it's going to just let this blow through

1417
01:38:40.960 --> 01:38:43.840
here. Once you get past lunch
a little bit, it's going to be

1418
01:38:43.840 --> 01:38:47.000
a really, really nice afternoon.
And I hope you will enjoy that and

1419
01:38:47.000 --> 01:38:53.199
take advantage of it, because you
know, the gardening is just such a

1420
01:38:53.279 --> 01:38:59.680
refreshing and enjoyable hobby. It's such
a hobby of hope. It always amazes

1421
01:38:59.760 --> 01:39:02.840
me that every year it's just like
a new start, you know, And

1422
01:39:02.920 --> 01:39:08.760
there's a lot of things in life
where new starts are much more difficult to

1423
01:39:08.760 --> 01:39:10.800
come by. You know, when
it comes to gardening, if you don't

1424
01:39:10.840 --> 01:39:13.000
like the way a plant grew,
if something died, if it didn't do

1425
01:39:13.079 --> 01:39:16.000
well, you can try again.
You can do something different. And I

1426
01:39:16.079 --> 01:39:19.199
just think that's one of the most
refreshing things about it. And I don't

1427
01:39:19.199 --> 01:39:24.880
think it's a coincidence that there is
something that we call the Garden of Eden.

1428
01:39:25.560 --> 01:39:29.600
There wasn't the Cubicle of Eden.
Right. We enjoy being out in

1429
01:39:29.680 --> 01:39:33.520
nature. We're just built for nature. We're built from being out among living

1430
01:39:33.600 --> 01:39:39.199
things and plants and whatnot. And
I think it's a happy place, and

1431
01:39:39.239 --> 01:39:43.479
I hope you enjoy that. There's
so much research out there showing the benefits

1432
01:39:43.880 --> 01:39:47.720
of being in nature, certainly gardening, but even just walking, walking through

1433
01:39:47.760 --> 01:39:54.840
the woods, breath of fresh air, exercise, just participating in all the

1434
01:39:54.880 --> 01:40:00.640
activities that the outdoors and enable us
to be able to enjoy. Take advantage

1435
01:40:00.640 --> 01:40:04.159
of that, especially this afternoon.
Speaking of picking up supplies, Bob and

1436
01:40:04.199 --> 01:40:09.119
the folks over at Southwest Fertilizer,
they are stocked up. I've been a

1437
01:40:09.159 --> 01:40:12.800
couple of weeks since I've been in
there, but they were already getting all

1438
01:40:12.880 --> 01:40:16.319
these shipments in of all kind every
kind of fertilizer I talk about, and

1439
01:40:16.359 --> 01:40:20.840
then some is it Southwest fertilizer,
every kind of pesticide. Whether you need

1440
01:40:20.880 --> 01:40:25.600
to deal with insects or diseases or
weeds, they've got you covered there.

1441
01:40:25.880 --> 01:40:28.800
They have staff that knows what they're
talking about. You bring them a sample,

1442
01:40:29.039 --> 01:40:30.039
bring it, put it in the
ziplock bag, bring it by.

1443
01:40:30.039 --> 01:40:32.199
I say, what's wrong here?
What do I do? What is this

1444
01:40:32.279 --> 01:40:35.079
weed? How do I kill it? They can help you with that.

1445
01:40:35.199 --> 01:40:39.479
Take them a picture. They can
work with you on that. They have

1446
01:40:39.560 --> 01:40:42.319
the products they need, and they
know how to direct you to the thing

1447
01:40:42.359 --> 01:40:47.000
you want. Listen. I have
stood in big box stores before, watching

1448
01:40:47.119 --> 01:40:53.760
customers stare at this wall of products, not knowing what to get or where

1449
01:40:53.800 --> 01:40:56.880
to begin. I mean you can
just see it in their eyes. They're

1450
01:40:56.920 --> 01:40:59.439
like, Okay, I don't know
what they were there for. I didn't

1451
01:40:59.479 --> 01:41:01.680
butt in and ask them, but
you know, as cockroaches or what are

1452
01:41:01.680 --> 01:41:04.520
you trying to kill? And so
they look for a bottle that's got the

1453
01:41:04.520 --> 01:41:09.439
deadest looking bug on it and the
brightest colors to the plastic on the bottle,

1454
01:41:09.760 --> 01:41:12.800
and that's kinw they choose their purchases. That is not the way to

1455
01:41:12.880 --> 01:41:15.960
do it. You go into a
place like Southwest Fertilizer and you they know

1456
01:41:16.039 --> 01:41:20.319
the weed or the past or whatever
it is that you're dealing with. They

1457
01:41:20.319 --> 01:41:26.960
take you to the product that's timely
for that situation and they tell you how

1458
01:41:26.960 --> 01:41:30.600
to use it. And that is
that's the way it ought to be done.

1459
01:41:30.880 --> 01:41:34.720
That is good service. That's the
old fashioned kind of makes sense service.

1460
01:41:35.000 --> 01:41:40.399
That is just so important and unfortunately
too rare these days. But not

1461
01:41:40.479 --> 01:41:45.560
a Southwest Fertilizer seven one three six
nine nine seventeen forty four. That's the

1462
01:41:45.640 --> 01:41:50.439
number seven one three six nine nine
seventeen forty four. Or just go online

1463
01:41:50.479 --> 01:41:57.000
to Southwest Fertilizer dot com. There
at the corner Abyssinet and Renwick in southwest

1464
01:41:57.039 --> 01:42:00.880
Houston. Go by there, go
by to day see for yourself. By

1465
01:42:00.920 --> 01:42:04.399
the way, when you're in there, kneeling bench, say show me your

1466
01:42:04.439 --> 01:42:09.920
folding kneeling bench. One of those. I bought one for my sister.

1467
01:42:11.000 --> 01:42:14.239
Wonderful thing. I bought one for
myself, and it's like, oh my

1468
01:42:14.359 --> 01:42:16.680
gosh. If you need to sit
and work in the garden, if you

1469
01:42:16.680 --> 01:42:18.960
want to kneel down and get up. It's got a little handles to help

1470
01:42:19.000 --> 01:42:23.760
you get up and down. It'll
change your gardening life. And if anyone

1471
01:42:23.800 --> 01:42:27.760
o north of forty, trust me, it will change your gardening life a

1472
01:42:27.800 --> 01:42:31.880
lot. The folding Bod's got plenty
of those on hand in there all right

1473
01:42:31.880 --> 01:42:34.600
here, Where are we? Now? We're going to go out to Baytown

1474
01:42:34.800 --> 01:42:41.279
and talk to Steven. Hello Stephen, Hey man, I'm a quick question

1475
01:42:41.399 --> 01:42:46.600
for actually two one. My grandmother
has always told me turn the roses right

1476
01:42:46.600 --> 01:42:50.079
at Valentine's Day? Is that too
early? Too late? Perfect, No

1477
01:42:50.119 --> 01:42:54.159
problem at all. You can do
it now. You can do it in

1478
01:42:54.239 --> 01:42:56.560
January. You can do it in
February. Just you want to get it

1479
01:42:56.600 --> 01:43:00.359
done. You know, heavy purning
before you already start the new growth.

1480
01:43:00.359 --> 01:43:01.640
You don't want it to start growing, and then you cut off all the

1481
01:43:01.680 --> 01:43:05.319
growth that just spent energy to grow. So February is a good time.

1482
01:43:05.399 --> 01:43:11.720
Valentine's Days a good time. Okay. Second, I'm starting. I just

1483
01:43:11.760 --> 01:43:18.000
bought a home, so I'm starting
the the fertilizer schedule. Randy stuff starting

1484
01:43:18.000 --> 01:43:24.199
that. Put down my barricade,
Yesterda before the rain Friday night. Actually

1485
01:43:24.239 --> 01:43:28.119
put it down sod watered in for
me, because why not use that right

1486
01:43:30.039 --> 01:43:34.880
the backyard. The front is beautiful
already, the back is just clover and

1487
01:43:35.439 --> 01:43:40.039
gross, and I know there's some
some grass under there somewhere. Yes,

1488
01:43:40.399 --> 01:43:45.119
is there anything else I can do
now to start getting rid of some of

1489
01:43:45.159 --> 01:43:48.800
the weeds that have already come up? So if you've got this is in

1490
01:43:48.840 --> 01:43:53.920
your lawn, Stephen, Yes,
okay, So Stephen, I've got a

1491
01:43:54.000 --> 01:43:58.439
schedule online also kind of an updated
one that I put up on gardening withthskip

1492
01:43:58.479 --> 01:44:00.560
dot com. You should download those
two. I have two actually, there's

1493
01:44:00.600 --> 01:44:05.079
one that just deals with fertilizing and
mowing, watering. There's one that deals

1494
01:44:05.079 --> 01:44:10.319
with the pest diseases and weeds and
so print those out. But what I

1495
01:44:10.359 --> 01:44:14.399
would do now if you've got broad
leaf weeds in your lawn is since you've

1496
01:44:14.399 --> 01:44:17.199
put the barricade out, I would
go ahead and get a broad leaf post

1497
01:44:17.279 --> 01:44:26.520
emergent product like Bonides. We'd better
ultra. There is a fertile homes Oh

1498
01:44:26.560 --> 01:44:29.079
gosh, I'm trying to think of
what they call theirs. I need to

1499
01:44:29.079 --> 01:44:32.920
get that in front of me.
Gosh. Anyway, they're for broad leaf

1500
01:44:32.960 --> 01:44:36.479
weeds. You're out there in the
Baytown area. You've got some ace hardware

1501
01:44:36.479 --> 01:44:40.760
stores really close to you, really
easy to find, easy to get to.

1502
01:44:41.600 --> 01:44:44.720
If I were you, I would
just head out go to one of

1503
01:44:44.760 --> 01:44:48.760
those and say I need a broad
leaf post emergent weed killer product, and

1504
01:44:48.800 --> 01:44:55.000
they can get you fixed up and
you'll be ready to go spray that directly

1505
01:44:55.079 --> 01:45:00.279
on the weeds. But do it
steven soon, not later, because once

1506
01:45:00.279 --> 01:45:02.800
those weeds start to bloom and set
seed, you're not going to get as

1507
01:45:02.800 --> 01:45:08.600
good as results trying to control them. Okay, so that's like clover and

1508
01:45:08.640 --> 01:45:13.920
such. That would be like clover, chick weed, hen bet, carpet

1509
01:45:13.920 --> 01:45:16.560
weed, cleavers, all of those
cool season weeds. Yes, sir,

1510
01:45:17.720 --> 01:45:20.520
okay, perfect, Thank you so
much, you bet, take care.

1511
01:45:21.520 --> 01:45:25.880
All right. We're going to now
go to talk to Rick. Hello,

1512
01:45:26.000 --> 01:45:32.239
Rick, do we have a Rick
there? You have a Fred? Fred?

1513
01:45:32.279 --> 01:45:36.880
All right, we'll talk to Fred
then mean Kingwood. Good morning,

1514
01:45:36.920 --> 01:45:45.399
Skip, good morning. I have
a very beautiful white pillar al fea I

1515
01:45:45.479 --> 01:45:51.560
think it's called. And for the
freeze, I put a lot of hairloom

1516
01:45:53.079 --> 01:45:58.960
composts around the base, and yesterday
we didn't get a whole lot of rain.

1517
01:45:59.039 --> 01:46:01.880
The last couple of days. But
yesterday came out yesterday morning and this

1518
01:46:01.960 --> 01:46:06.159
morning, and it was growing a
very right at the base, right around

1519
01:46:06.199 --> 01:46:12.199
the bottom of the of the plant. It was growing a very bright yellow.

1520
01:46:12.680 --> 01:46:15.920
I think of fungus, of course, okay, and I'm thinking that's

1521
01:46:15.000 --> 01:46:18.600
just because the compost was doing a
good job. Yeah. Now, when

1522
01:46:18.760 --> 01:46:23.000
when we pile the compost around the
base of a plant, we do that

1523
01:46:23.079 --> 01:46:26.039
to protect the base if it gets
frozen back to it. But you never

1524
01:46:26.079 --> 01:46:30.159
want to leave composts piled against the
trunk of the plant. Pull it back,

1525
01:46:30.359 --> 01:46:33.760
leave a little gap there. Mulch
is a good thing. About three

1526
01:46:33.800 --> 01:46:39.119
inches deep. That's pretty good,
but don't leave it piled up against the

1527
01:46:39.159 --> 01:46:44.479
trunk. But yes, nature has
a bazillion organisms that turn wood back into

1528
01:46:44.520 --> 01:46:49.279
soil, and that's kind of what's
going on there. So I should pull

1529
01:46:49.359 --> 01:46:53.760
back the moult. It's only about
two inches high. Oh, okay,

1530
01:46:53.760 --> 01:46:59.479
I should just pull it back down
to the uh they pull it back to

1531
01:46:59.600 --> 01:47:01.199
the base of the trunk. Yeah, that'd be better. You know,

1532
01:47:01.520 --> 01:47:05.119
two inches isn't bad. But I
would just I basically let mine go to

1533
01:47:05.159 --> 01:47:09.000
the ground right at the base of
the plant, and then have the multch

1534
01:47:09.279 --> 01:47:12.640
sticking up as you go out from
it. But that the yellow. There's

1535
01:47:12.680 --> 01:47:15.239
a lot of different kinds of fungi
someone. Some actually look like a dog

1536
01:47:15.279 --> 01:47:18.399
through up. Others look like scrambled
eggs sitting on top of the mulch.

1537
01:47:18.479 --> 01:47:24.640
Others look like white mushrooms. And
it's all decomposer fungi that are doing what

1538
01:47:24.680 --> 01:47:29.439
they're supposed to do. This was
just a real pretty yellow Yeah, okay,

1539
01:47:29.640 --> 01:47:33.640
well, don't worry about it.
It's nature making the soil better.

1540
01:47:33.800 --> 01:47:38.279
That's really what it amounts to.
Those are called decomposer much. I appreciate

1541
01:47:38.359 --> 01:47:41.319
it, all right, man,
thanks a lot. Appreciate the call.

1542
01:47:41.399 --> 01:47:45.159
Fred, thank you very much.
All Right, here we go. We're

1543
01:47:45.199 --> 01:47:48.159
coming right back here. We're kind
of jumping around here dealing with the alerts

1544
01:47:48.159 --> 01:47:51.159
and other things. I tell you
what, I'm gonna go ahead and go

1545
01:47:51.199 --> 01:47:56.560
straight out to Kevin and Cypress Ranch. I believe Kevin's got a question out

1546
01:47:56.600 --> 01:48:00.640
there. Kevin, welcome to garden
line. Yes, yes, you got

1547
01:48:00.640 --> 01:48:05.720
it, immen Cyprus. Uh,
we've got three sets of large trees,

1548
01:48:06.479 --> 01:48:13.960
uh. And they're all three combined
oak and a hiring growing in sin from

1549
01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:23.279
the flare of the base and they're
they're sort of parallel electrical high lines.

1550
01:48:23.960 --> 01:48:27.680
All right, I'd like to get
rid of the oaks. I want to

1551
01:48:27.760 --> 01:48:32.239
keep the pines. Uh, the
heads and times are pretty high above the

1552
01:48:32.359 --> 01:48:38.840
lines at all. But I'd like
to, you know, get rid of

1553
01:48:38.840 --> 01:48:45.239
those. And I'm just warning if
that would increase the potential of them blowing

1554
01:48:45.359 --> 01:48:50.039
in a high wind situation, or
blowing over the pine trees blowing over in

1555
01:48:50.119 --> 01:48:55.279
a high wind situation, or anything
like that, you know. And then

1556
01:48:55.880 --> 01:49:00.680
well, whenever you remove trees that
have been growing to some trees that have

1557
01:49:00.720 --> 01:49:05.119
been grown together, the other trees
are more exposed to the to the air

1558
01:49:05.319 --> 01:49:10.079
blowing through. They don't have that
canopies of the other trees around them.

1559
01:49:10.319 --> 01:49:13.079
So I can't tell you for sure, you know, not seeing the situation

1560
01:49:13.319 --> 01:49:17.680
and the size and the trunk diameter
and everything of everything. Just yes,

1561
01:49:17.760 --> 01:49:21.159
there's a potential that the trees you
leave would have some problems. It may

1562
01:49:21.199 --> 01:49:26.039
be worth having somebody come out and
look at it. I would if I

1563
01:49:26.079 --> 01:49:28.560
we had call Martin Spoon Moore to
come out and just say, look,

1564
01:49:28.800 --> 01:49:31.680
you know, hey, I'm out
here at Syranch. What what do you

1565
01:49:31.720 --> 01:49:34.520
think can we take these out?
Are they going to be okay? Is

1566
01:49:34.560 --> 01:49:39.000
there any kind of a pruning you
need to do to help make them more

1567
01:49:39.079 --> 01:49:43.680
okay or not? And I think
that would be probably the best, the

1568
01:49:43.760 --> 01:49:47.600
best way to go because me just
guessing over the air on it is that's

1569
01:49:47.640 --> 01:49:50.199
not going to be a very accurate, very accurate. Do you need a

1570
01:49:50.520 --> 01:49:54.640
would you like a phone number in
case you decide to give them a call?

1571
01:49:54.840 --> 01:49:59.199
Yes? And that last name.
I didn't get a spoon more just

1572
01:49:59.319 --> 01:50:02.920
like two words, but put together
spoon and more and it's seven to one

1573
01:50:03.039 --> 01:50:12.520
three six nine nine twenty six sixty
three seven one three six nine nine two

1574
01:50:12.640 --> 01:50:20.880
six sixty three. His website is
afftree service dot com. Okay, another

1575
01:50:20.960 --> 01:50:29.439
thing I have a little bit of
difficulty getting the getting the program inside my

1576
01:50:29.600 --> 01:50:35.800
house has am FM radio. We're
not knowing the correct okay numbers. Well,

1577
01:50:35.840 --> 01:50:40.479
the truck truck works fine, it's
always there. But yeah, the

1578
01:50:40.560 --> 01:50:43.239
interior on these things, I'm not
sure what's happening. Well, if you

1579
01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:45.800
get the iHeartRadio app on your phone, you can listen live that way and

1580
01:50:45.840 --> 01:50:49.880
you can listen to podcasts that way
too. It's a free app iHeartRadio app.

1581
01:50:50.520 --> 01:50:55.600
You can listen on your computer as
well, and it's kt RH.

1582
01:50:55.680 --> 01:50:59.119
It's seven forty am. Hey,
I got to run to another call.

1583
01:50:59.159 --> 01:51:00.399
We're just about out of the show
today. But thank you very much,

1584
01:51:00.520 --> 01:51:04.239
Kevin. I appreciate your call very
much. We're going to go up to

1585
01:51:04.800 --> 01:51:10.920
UH Humble and talk to Butler.
Hello, Butler, Hi, how are

1586
01:51:10.960 --> 01:51:15.399
you? Good morning? You've probably
been asked this question to million times,

1587
01:51:15.399 --> 01:51:19.119
but I've always missed it. My
oak trees never shed their leaves, and

1588
01:51:19.199 --> 01:51:24.159
as I drive around the neighborhood,
even talk to people as far as Dallas,

1589
01:51:24.560 --> 01:51:28.640
it seems to be a common thing, especially the lower leaves. Sometimes

1590
01:51:28.640 --> 01:51:31.119
they're shed the top that they never
shed the lower. Yeah, or some

1591
01:51:31.279 --> 01:51:34.439
at all. This sounds like a
red phenomenon. Sounds like a red oak

1592
01:51:34.479 --> 01:51:39.520
probabably, Yeah, that's mine.
Are they hold on to them up?

1593
01:51:40.199 --> 01:51:43.359
I'm sorry, they do hold on
to them in the interior. That's not

1594
01:51:43.479 --> 01:51:45.960
unusual at all. They'll come off
later. Don't worry about that. Just

1595
01:51:46.560 --> 01:51:50.079
nothing, not a sign of a
problem at all. All right. Well,

1596
01:51:50.119 --> 01:51:54.520
because of the drought last year,
I was wondering if it was affecting

1597
01:51:54.520 --> 01:51:58.279
in Lord of the early frost or
anything. There's nothing that really can do

1598
01:51:58.359 --> 01:52:00.439
that. Yeah, no, that
it's it's not a problem. It's a

1599
01:52:00.439 --> 01:52:04.600
good question, good thing to wonder
about. But now some species, the

1600
01:52:04.920 --> 01:52:10.159
Mexican monterey oak, also holds on
to its leaves a long time, especially

1601
01:52:10.199 --> 01:52:13.600
in the interior, so not a
problem. Okay, all right, thank

1602
01:52:13.640 --> 01:52:15.920
you very much. Well, goods. All right, we have a good

1603
01:52:15.960 --> 01:52:18.359
day you too. Thanks for listening. Appreciate you listening to garden Line.

1604
01:52:18.479 --> 01:52:23.319
See if I can squeeze one quick
one in here, let's say noe,

1605
01:52:23.359 --> 01:52:27.680
we already had Kevin here in sy
Ranch, right, leave Kevin just hanging

1606
01:52:27.720 --> 01:52:30.279
on. Yeah, okay, all
right, well, thank you very much.

1607
01:52:30.800 --> 01:52:33.079
Well, look, I was trying
to finish all the calls before we

1608
01:52:33.159 --> 01:52:36.279
run into the end of the day. You've been listening to garden Line.

1609
01:52:36.359 --> 01:52:41.039
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we're here every Saturday and Sunday from

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six am to ten am. Six
am to ten am. Really easy to

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get ahold of us. You can
listen to seven forty am on your radio.

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You can listen to the get the
iHeartMedia app and listen to us live.

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You can do that. You can
listen to past shows. You can

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go on your computer and go to
the KTRH website find garden Line listen to

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us that way. A lot of
ways to listen to garden Line, including

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by the podcast with the past shows. In fact, on a number of

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different podcast apps will carry garden Line
as well, not just the iHeartMedia,

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but that's the one that I like
to use because I listen to the show

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live and everything. Actually I don't
listen to the show. I'm talking on

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the show, but I do love
podcast. That's a great way to catch

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up on things. Thanks for being
a listener. Hey, I hope this

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afternoon we're going to get this weather
through here, and I hope you get

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out and get some of the supplies
and plants and things you need to have

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a really, really good day.
Remember two weeks fround'ming to be at A

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and A Plants and Produce in Montgomery. That's Saturday, the twenty fourth,

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at lunch. I hope you'll come
see me.