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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kat r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor

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It's shoes, Crazy Trim. Just
watch him as so many good things to

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see. Botasy gas Club chickens not
a sign in glass gas. Welcome to

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garden Line. Welcome to garden Line
on a Saturday morning. Listen, We've

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got a good weekend here, and
if there is a pulse, if you've

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got one drop of gardener blood in
your veins, this is a good weekend

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to be outside and getting gardening done. I'm gonna little clouds today, the

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no rain, got sunshine tomorrow,
so we got a couple of days that

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we can get a lot done.
And there's a lot to be getting done

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too. I hope you're as excited
as I am about gardening because spring is

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here and this is the time of
year where it's just exciting get outside and

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get the kinds of things done we
want to do, to plant the vegetables

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and the flowers, the herbs,
to get that lawn up and going to

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make sure this is kind of last
call. If you're doing a little pruning

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on some shrubs and things. It's
good to go ahead and get that done

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now. You trim a tree or
shrub. Anytime of the year, there's

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better times than not as good times, but now's a great time to get

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that done. We're going to talk
about all that and a lot of other

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things today on Garden Line. If
you'd like to give us a call,

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our phone number. My phone number
on Garden Line is seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
If you give Josh a call, we'll

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get you on the boards and we
can talk to you about the things that

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are most interesting to you. Why
don't we just jump I'm right on it

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and go right out to Parland.
Here we're going to talk to Don.

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Hello, Don, good morning,
good morning. How are you this morning?

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Well, I'm well, I'm well. I hope you're doing it well

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the same, Yes I am,
Thank you sir. Quick question. I

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want to know I'm gonna put my
barricade out and how long do I need

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to wait before I put the nightro
far fifteen to five to ten down.

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You can do them the same day, one right after the other if you

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want, Just don't put them both
in the same fertilizer hopper at the same

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time, because the particle size is
different and you won't get even spread.

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So do your fertilizer or your barricade
first. Another one second, and just

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make two runs with it. Okay. And should I cut my yard my

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lorn down again, because I have
cut it it a couple of weeks ago

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before I put it down. Is
your long growing right now? I got

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green growing? Yes? Okay?
Usually what I what I see in lawns

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right now is the weeds are growing. And if if that's the case,

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yeah, cut it back just so
you can get those things to the ground,

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so you know, you can get
the particles of the fertilizer and herbicide

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of the ground. By the way, when you do that, it is

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I like to do it on the
same day because then when I'm done,

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I can just turned the water on, put about a half inch of water

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on it, and that moves both
the fertilizer and the herbicide down where it

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can get some stuff done. But
the barricade does need to be incorporated into

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the soil surface with about a half
inch of water. Okay, great,

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thank you, Yeah, and you
are you're fortunate to be out there in

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the paar Land are you got a
lot of places that you can find a

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barricade all around near you, So
that that's good. Oh, I already

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got it all right, good,
good, Well, I'm glad. I'm

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glad to hear that. Hey,
thanks don, I appreciate appreciate the call

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very much. Yeah, you can
get barricade all kinds of places all over

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town really north, south, east, west, central. For example,

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you down south Houston, you got
places like Fisher's Hardware both on Southmore and

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down on Broadway Street down to La
Port you've got Memorial City Ace Hardware which

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is in Memorial Drive. That's not
a difficult one to figure out. Katie

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Hardware out in Katie, yep.
Katieace Hardware has got barricade as well as

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other nitroposs products, so it's easy, easy to find. But remember,

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when you're using a pre emergent like
barricade, for example, you have to

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get it down for the weeds come
up, because that's what it does is

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it prevents the germinating weeds from establishing. So if you're thinking about doing that,

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if you've got some beare areas where
sunlight is hitting the soil and you

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want to prevent the weeds, you
need to do it sooner rather than later.

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If you look at my schedules,
which are online at gardening with Skip

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dot com, you'll notice that the
pre emergent herbicides we start talking about those

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really January, but February is the
prime time to get those things done.

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Just want to get ahead of the
weeds. I like to use the analogy

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of baseball, where if you're going
to hit the ball, you can't wait

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until it's in the catchers and not
to swing at it. That's kind of

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how it is with the weeds.
Let's head back out to Judy and Sugarland.

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Now, hey, Judy, Hi, thank you for taking my call.

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And I would like to know when
to prune elsia. I have many

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elfias from my mother's gardens that I
have rooted, and now they are getting

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much too large, and I don't
know when to prune them. All right,

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althea is a summer blooming shrub,
and so summer bloomers, broomer,

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I can't say the word bloom bloomers. We prune at the end of winter

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ideally, so now would be a
great time. Now, yes, yes,

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anything that burns in summer, like
Vitex and ALTHEA for example, the

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only under you know whatnot we can
prune those now if they need prune in

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very good. I would also like
to book you for a program for the

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Sugar Creek Garden Club. Could you
give me who to contact for this.

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I'm going to put you on hold
and Josh will give you some information on

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doing that. Thank you Judy for
the call. I appreciate that a lot.

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You know, we're talking about putting
out fertilizer now and putting down the

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barricade now. Now is also a
fine time to do asmite. If you

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haven't done as mite last year,
for sure, you need to consider doing

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that now and again. That would
be another one that we make a separate

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application for, but it can all
be done on the same day if you

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want to do that. There is
not a problem with that. For example,

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the asmite is being a trace mineral
element, we don't have to,

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you know, put it down ten
times a year. I mean, we're

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trying to make sure the bank account
of nutrients in the soil is adequate to

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support plant growth so that when I'll
just make anthropomorphise here use a big word

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the grass plant. You know,
when it needs to grow. It says,

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Okay, I need a little nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. In fact,

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I need a lot of those,
a little bit of maybe calcium,

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some magnesium. I need some of
these nutrients. Oh and I've got to

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have a little malbdanum and I've got
to have a little manganese, a little

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copper. Now you never hear people
talk about fertilizing with copper. Right.

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Plants have to have it, though, And so if it's in the soil

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bank account at the right ratios,
that's important. You don't want to overdo

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any nutrient. Uh, then it's
able to grow, and it has it

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all year and stuff doesn't wash away. You know it's going to be there.

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So asmite is one of those things
that people often forget because you're thinking

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about the macronutrients, but not necessarily
the trace mentals the micronutrients. You can

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go to asimite Texas dot com find
out more about it. It's available pretty

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much everywhere. Every time I walk
into one of our garden centers and feed

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stores and ace hardware stores, Southlets
for all those places we talk about here

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on Guardlane, you're going to find
as might available. That is kind of

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nice. Well, let's take a
little break. We're going to do a

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little bit of information here that you
know you can't live without the news,

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the weather and traffic types of things. We're going to take a little break.

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We will be back, and when
we do, I'm going to continue

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talking about things to do right now
in your garden. Our phone number is

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

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Line. We are happy to hear
to have you listening today. We're going

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to talk a lot about the things
you need to do right now. There

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are a number of things we need
to do right now. The first thing

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we need to do right now is
make sure you get the products you need

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to do. The gardening activities you
need to do. You know, whether

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it's something to go weeds, whether
it's something to prevent weeds, whether it's

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something to fertilize your garden, your
lawn to keep them in top quality shape.

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They're just a lot of different things
that we're doing right now, and

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I'll be talking about them all morning. In fact, we're going to go

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right now to the heights talk to
Larry. Hey, Larry, I think

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we're going to be talking about something
to do right now, aren't we?

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Yes, sir, you advise the
kind of tomatoes your favorite. I think

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you said that Juliet and the Celebrity. Those are two examples. Those are

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both older tomatoes, especially the Celebrity
been around a long time. It's you're

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not going to go wrong with it. You know, there's nine hundred or

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plus varieties of tomatoes out there,
so you know, I could probably name

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twenty five that are all good tomatoes. But Celebrity. I like it because

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it has a nematode resistance in the
roots and for people in sandy soil especially.

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That's my question, scipe is is
it okay to buy these at the

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box store like Home Depot or Lows
or do I need to go to nursery.

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I wouldn't do that. The reason
I don't do that let me see

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here put this carefully. A lot
of times when plants are not properly cared

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for, they will get stressed and
you will see tomatoes and they have shriveled

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leaves, I mean purpleish underneath the
leaf. I did a post on garden

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the garden Line facebook page about that. You will also when you pull them

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out of the container. You look
and it's just a mass of tan roots,

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not fresh, healthy white roots.
But they've been in there too long.

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They've been watered and taken care of
the reason I recommend our mom and

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pop local garden centers is because they
take care of their plants. And I

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just I'm not here to diss somebody, but I'm just telling you, I

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think it's better to get a plant
that's in its best healthy shape. I

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think you're gonna be better. Okay, I'm probably gonna plant some the next

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couple of weeks. All right,
Well, hang around today. I'm gonna

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be talking about things that you do
to take care of your plants. And

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one option I just posted this to
Facebook last night. I believe it was

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last night or yesterday. Uh.
You can take your tomato plants and get

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a head start on them by potting
them up. Uh. And so you

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know, rather than let them get
all root bound, if you wanted to

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buy plants today, you could buy
them. We got to we kind of

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got through the coldest of the nights, but we still got some chilis.

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And if you wanted to wait,
you could bump them up to a little

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bit bigger pot and just put them
out during the day, let them get

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growing, and that way you're not
gambling on if I put them out.

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What if we have another cold spell? You know what I'm saying. But

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when it's time to put them out, if you want to be on the

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conservative end of when you plant,
you're going to have a bigger plant,

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a healthier plant, and you're going
to be better off than waiting to buy

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a plant at planting time. Do
you see what I'm saying? Alrighty,

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OK, appreciate the appreciate the information, all right, Larry, I appreciate

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that. I appreciate that. Yeah, I posted about that a little picture

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of a pepper plant that I am
growing in my house. I've got some

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lights in there that I grow my
plants under. But even now, you

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know, even without the lights,
you get those things out during the day,

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just spring them inn at night when
it's a little chilly. You know,

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fifty degrees is not going to kill
a tomato plant. Forty five is

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not going to kill a tomato plant, of course, but it's they've been

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living the life of riley in a
nice protected area and now you put them

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out and they've got cool winds at
night. Kind of chili. Then it

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kind of sets them into a little
hole pattern there for those hours. And

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I think you can just do a
better job by brandom in and out if

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you don't have an indoor light,
but you can sure get a head start.

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I have planted tomato is way too
early and done this with them,

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and then when it's time to go
out, they already have blooms on them,

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and in some cases I even have
them up to a gallon sized plant.

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I know, I go overboard on
it, but they have a little

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tiny fruit that's already formed on the
things. So you know, let's say

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that I'm not going to name a
day because people will hear it as this

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is when I'm telling you the plant, But just imagine a day so far

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out in the future when you go, okay, I feel like it's safe

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enough to get out there and plant. We're not. We're past the average

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prostate in my area and so on. Well, if you bought them now

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and potted them up and grew them
out a little bit versus waiting and buying

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the same size plant are close to
it at that time, you're going to

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have the head start. So it's
just a little tip a lot of people

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won't want to go through that trouble. I get it. I don't blame

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you. That's fine, but just
know that you can get a really good

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head start that way if you'd like
to do that. By the way,

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whenever you're bumping things up in any
plant situation, herbs and flowers and shrubs

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and the vegetable plants that I've been
talking about, the folks that add Nelson

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plant food have something called nutristar genesis. Now, nutristar genesis is a fertilizer

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designed to help your plants in that
relocation process. For example, it's got

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the beneficial bacteria, it's got the
endo and ectomycorrhizal fungi, it has humates

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to even further condition the soil,
and it enhances biology the soil. It's

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a six to one to three ratio
fertilizer, which is a good one that

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a little higher in the nitrogen on
those three nutrient levels gives the boost to

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vegetative growth, which is what we're
wanting them to do. So I did

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some the other day. In fact, the pepper plants that are in the

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picture on Guardline Facebook page, they
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while I was doing that, and
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and I mixed nutristar genesis transplant mix
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It works very well. For that
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very helpful. And again from the
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little jar. You can get one
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it goes, It goes a long
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of it on the ground. You're
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and you will see a benefit from
the neutral star genesis from the folks at

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Nelson Fertilizer. You're listening to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter,

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and if you would like to give
us a call, the number is seven

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to one three two one two fifty
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two five eight seven four. I
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of coffee in the morning inside the
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got a bird feeder oriented so I
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just look out and watch it.
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and they were just busy as I'll
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know, our birds are coming out
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there are birds that right now are
looking for a home, and that would

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be bluebirds. Bluebirds do their spring
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if you build it, they will
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the folks that wild birds have some
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to put those out. And I
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birds in terms of just beauty.
Purple Martins, they're going to be here

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any day now, if they're not
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You need to get your purple Martin
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those in and again, a beautiful
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them bird seed, but most birds, their favorite thing to eat is bugs.

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Insects out there capturing pests that are
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Bringing them back when they start nesting
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of caterpillars, high protein, high
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of that process. The most important
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things like mealworms, which you can
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in the environment. So attract them
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your pest control. Again, yesterday
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just it just adds something to the
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back patio. And I would encourage
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wild birds and lemit to do that. Check them out. Very knowledgeable folks.

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There's several stores all over the Houston
area. Just go to WBU dot

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com forward slash Houston you can find
one that's near you. We're going to

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head out now to Montgomery and talk
to Judy. Hello Judy about the tomatoes.

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Now, of course, I had
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done not very good with tomatoes.
The plants grow, the flowers come out,

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but no tomatoes. So the fertilizer, what about like epsin salt or

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something like that, you know,
like that's really supernatural or well something that

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you'd have to actually buy. But
I mean, if you have to buy,

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that's okay. But I don't like
to use any kind of chemicals.

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Okay, Well everything is absent.
Salt itself is a chemical. But epsin

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salt you put on for the magnesium, and if your soil needs magnesium,

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and a soil test would tell you
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You hear a lot about people putting
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again you're adding magnesium, so does
it need magnesium. It's like you taking

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a vitamin. You know, are
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So that's what I would say about
the absence salt. You can use it,

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but there are a lot of good
quality fertilizers that have all the nutrients

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in them, not just that one
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a complete fertilizer that has everything.
If you don't want to use synthetics,

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which I'm hearing that in your question, then you can choose an organic you

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know you can. You can choose
a product like Microlife fertilizers for example,

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Microlife if you're doing if you're planting
any kind of transplants, You've got the

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Microlife Ultimate that works really well.
It's got plenty of nutrients in it.

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And I just like to use the
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It's a six two four and it's
going to have the magnesium and other things

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because what you're putting on is an
organic plant based material that the plants took

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those nutrients up to grow, and
now you've got them present in the fertilizer.

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Okay, okay, what about thirteen
thirteen thirteen? Is that okay?

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For use for tomatoes or not?
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it. I would just use a
standard fertilizer. The ratio in triple thirteen

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is not the ratio that plants take
up. It's not going to kill a

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plant to put it on, but
over time you're going to get way too

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much of that middle number. Hey, I got to go gid. Sorry,

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we're hitting a hard, hard break
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Microlife products, you're going to find
them everywhere. Micro Life, all the

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garden centers and feed stores I talk
about here on garden Line, they carry

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all of those and I would recommend
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If you're wanting to give your plants
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Ocean Harvest Fish fertilizer and it'll work
also very well as a liquid addition.

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news seven one three two one two KTRH

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sing us this ung. Well,
my gift to you is I won't sing

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you a song on the air this
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I am your host, Skip Richter, and here is the phone number that

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you want to write down so you
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to Randy. Hello, Randy,
welcome to Guardline. Hello, thank you.

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I have a question I have.
I bought some little palms from a

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box store last year, and uh, they're about five foot or about four

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foot tall. I think my wife
said they're called cat palms, and we

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tried to protect them over the winter
and I didn't do a good job.

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I guess, uh the there.
You know, they had like a bushel

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of like ten little limbs coming out
of the dirt and hat way up.

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They're totally brown and falling, you
know, broken, Okay, and my

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question is how do I how do
I trim that back? I know when

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I right, they were new and
I had a dead limb, I just

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cut it at the bottom, you
know, about four inches up, and

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yeah, the new one sprouts out
the middle. You know, right,

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do you do you have any green
growth in the middle at the top of

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those trunks, there is some green
growth in the middle ones and in the

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middle, and you know, actually
the whole bottom of the plant's green is

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just the top is brown and broke. So I didn't know if I cut

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it where it's broken brown and it
kind of grows from there, or if

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I need to cut it at the
bottom. Okay, I'm not positive.

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I'm not real clear on which kind
of pond you have. But palm trees

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have a living bud at the top
of the trunk, and if that bud

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dies, the tree is dead.
Even if you have some living green fronds

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below it, the tree is not
gonna It's gonna die or and so it's

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that center bud at the top that
is the key. If it's still alive,

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you can keep going forward with those
palms are gonna be okay. If

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it's not, then you need you're
gonna have to replace them if you want

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plains. But let me let me
suggest something, Randy. I would,

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I would definitely uh do a little
investigating as to what kind of palms you

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want to get. Some are much
more hearty than others, much hardier.

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This is just a little pot plant, you know. We bought at loads,

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you know, real and it's not
like a tree. It's uh,

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I mean, the trunk's like six
inches and then it sprouts out about ten

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or fifteen little limbs, you know, and it's got these little knife shape

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coming out of both sides of the
limb about six inches. Okay, well,

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my brain didn't my brain isn't fully
creating the right picture here. So

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uh, but you may have a
psycad, thank you. You may you

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may have a psycad or a Sago
palm, in which case I would if

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you bought it and then planted in
last year, I think it should still

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be alive. But uh, if
you if you want to send me a

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picture of it. I'll be glad
to take a look and see what kind

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it is. I'm going to put
you on hold and you can either hang

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up or wait and Josh will give
you an email to send me a good

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picture of that. Okay, thank
you for the call. Appreciate very much

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you calling in the garden line this
morning. Yeah. You know, the

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when you go buy palms, don't
just buy what's for sale. And there

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are a lot of places to sell
plants that they don't know plants, and

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so they will often get things in
that don't belong here. They just don't

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and so you need to go with
somebody that knows what they're doing. That's

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why I talk about Burden Tree Farm
all the time. Patrick over at Verdon

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he knows palms and he I mean, they sell all kinds of trees,

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but he definitely knows his palms.
I just saw something on Facebook the other

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day. He was talking about the
Texas sable and the Texas Able palms are

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just incredible. About as hard as
you can get. Back three years ago

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we had where I lived, we
had seven degree temperatures and the sables about

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the only thing that made it through
it. It was down on the borderline

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of what a sable can do,
but I'm telling you it came through,

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and that just makes sense. He's
got a lot of other kinds of poems

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too. If you want to learn
more about that, just go to Verdant

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Tree Farm v E R D A
n T Treefarm dot com and you can

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find out more about them. There's
three locations, one over on Broadway Street

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in Pearland, one in central Houston
at the Heights where Yelle and I ten

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come in, and then over at
Barker Cypress on the west side of town.

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They'll bring them out, they'll plan
them, they'll do a turnkey job,

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makes it really easy. And boy, I was just out visiting with

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him about a week ago and we
were just talking all kinds of trees and

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what kind they have, and which
ones we like better and so on.

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Patrick's a wealth of knowledge. His
whole team really is there. I would

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encourage you to give him a call
if you're thinking about a palm. Let's

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go now up to Cypress and talk
to janeas Hello, James, good morning,

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everybody. How are y'all today?
We're good, We're good. What's

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up? Hey? Question for you
and I'll make it quick. I'm looking

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for a shrub or a plant,
you know, three to five or six

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foot tall that flowers and bee and
butterfly friendly. But the caveat is I'd

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like it to be frostproof, freeze
proof, something I really don't have to

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have a lot of maintenance oncome wintertime. And I was just looking for some

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suggestions. Wow, that was a
lot those characteristics. My brain is going

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through the files trying to find a
plant that does all of that. I

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know. Let me just talk a
little bit about some generals. Some of

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the hollies that bloom. They they
are, those blooms are very very popular

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with bees, not so much butterflies, but definitely with the bees. They're

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evergreen. But the blooms are nothing
to write home about, that is for

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sure. With other plants that we
have that can take the cold weather.

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If your soil is right kind of
you create an acidic forest floor type soil,

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azaleas will do really well. They
they you know, there are plenty

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cold hardy for our area here.
Uh, you're catching me. My brain

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has got too many things going in
it right now, and I'm not thinking

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of another one out. Let me
think about that a little bit and come

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up with a couple more answers for
you. I'm trying to think about blooming.

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See we've got the althea's they get
too bad. The encore is one

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type of azalea. There are many
types. Encores are popular because they rebloom.

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I can tell you this that just
from a standpoint of being easier to

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grow and so on, I find
that a lot of the standard azilias may

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be a little leisure to grow,
but you don't get that reblooming characteristic that

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an encore will give you. Okay, yeah, and it it kind of

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depends on you know what, how
much sun you have or shade. For

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example, zelias they do need need
some shade. They don't want to be

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in the full brun especially the western
sun, in order to do their best

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exactly exactly fifty fifty shade sun ratio
where this bed is, So that would

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probably be great. Okay, all
right, Well, uh that's that's what

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I can give you right now.
We're about to hit a break here,

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But I appreciate your calling. If
I think of something else, I'm gonna

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i'll say it on the air here
today, you're listening to Guarden Line.

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It's time for us take another break. When we come back, Sandy,

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you'll be first up and then your
calls at seven one three two one two

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ktr H. Welcome back to guard
Line. Glad to have you today.

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We are covering all kinds of things
you need to be aware of and you

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need to be doing right now.
If you live down in the Richmond area

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or if you're anywhere near let's say
this from central to south and southwest in

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Chanted Gardens is the place you need
to visit. It's one of those destination

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nurseries. It is beautiful and they
always have a full stock of everything you

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need. In fact, right now, their tomato and their pepper selection is

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incredible. Again I posted on what
to do. You know, if you're

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gonna plant those out now, you
can protect them. You can do that.

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That's doable. I like to take
them, get them now while there's

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excellent choices, you have the best
selection, and bring them home, and

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if you're gonna be a little safe, pot them up and wait a little

409
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while and then put them out later. And you just have a plant that's

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00:29:34.680 --> 00:29:38.359
growing and growing and growing and even
better when you put it out. And

411
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so that's an option you can go
out there. You can find roses,

412
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you can find herbs, you can
find all kinds of cool stuff like fountains

413
00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:49.920
and chimes and whimsical the garden art. I love to visit in Chena Gardens.

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It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. They're

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on FM three fifty nine. So
if you're in Richmond and you're going north

416
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toward Katie fullsher direction, that's in
Chenned Gardens on FM three fifty nine,

417
00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:08.640
you need to go check them out. They got some great programs coming up

418
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:14.359
too that you definitely want to be
a part of. Enchanted Gardens in Richmond.

419
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I want to head out to Cyprus
and talk to Sandy now. Hello

420
00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:22.920
Sandy, Welcome to guard Mine.
Hi, good morning Skip. I have

421
00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:30.039
a question. I have some black
beauty eggplants and some bell peppers, some

422
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:37.519
alipinos, some tomatoes that I bought
at a Sordware this past week and I

423
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:41.279
wanted there. So they're going to
be transplants, but I wanted to see

424
00:30:41.920 --> 00:30:45.160
because I know that we got a
freeze coming up either Monday or Tuesday,

425
00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:51.559
or a frost or whatever. Are
they going to be okay? If I

426
00:30:51.759 --> 00:30:56.039
go ahead and plan them and put
them out, they're a good i'd say

427
00:30:56.039 --> 00:31:03.480
about three to four inches. Yeah, I would not. You can put

428
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them out and you can cover them. That's an option, and a cover

429
00:31:06.599 --> 00:31:08.880
will take care of a frost.
If it's going to be a phrase you

430
00:31:08.880 --> 00:31:12.279
you probably need to go a little
extra links to protect them, which can

431
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be done. But I would just
hold on. I would bring them home

432
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and pot them up, put them
in the next size up, like if

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they came out of a little six
pack, put them in a four inch

434
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:25.279
pot, if they came out of
a four inch pot, put them put

435
00:31:25.319 --> 00:31:29.519
them up into a six inch pot
or even a gallon pot, and just

436
00:31:29.640 --> 00:31:33.720
keep fertilizing them and watering them with
the liquid food and give them in the

437
00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:36.880
sun all day. Bring them in
at the night time when we're having that,

438
00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:40.160
and you're going to have a better
plant. You will have avoided wrist

439
00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:42.680
the gamble of how's it going to
do and what's the weather going to do?

440
00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:48.119
And that would be my first choice
if I were you. Okay,

441
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:52.720
okay, all right? And also
can I ask you one more question?

442
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.000
Sure? Also on the pre margint
the barricade, I went and bought it.

443
00:31:56.440 --> 00:32:00.240
I'm going to put it up this
weekend. And that's the one that

444
00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:02.799
you water first and then you put
it out. No, and then do

445
00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:06.960
I wait the bear wait a couple
of days. No. The barricade,

446
00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:10.079
you put it out and then you
water it in because you want to move

447
00:32:10.200 --> 00:32:19.119
the nutrient down into the soil surface
right now. Yeah, there's different approaches

448
00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:21.839
depending on the products you're using and
stuff. But with barricade, a pre

449
00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.720
emergent about a half inch of water
after you put it out, Now I

450
00:32:24.759 --> 00:32:30.720
think you go ahead. Yeah,
and then the fertilizer you say, wait

451
00:32:30.799 --> 00:32:36.440
until March or April. So do
I do the post emergent after I fertilize,

452
00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:39.440
or do I do the post emergent
like in a couple of weeks post

453
00:32:39.480 --> 00:32:44.640
emergent? I would do it right
now. Right now would be the time

454
00:32:44.680 --> 00:32:49.279
to do the post emergent, because
when you do a post emergent, you

455
00:32:49.599 --> 00:32:52.640
are killing the weeds that are young
and getting started. And if you wait

456
00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:59.240
until those weeds are large, you're
going to have some problems getting control of

457
00:32:59.279 --> 00:33:04.240
them because once they start blooming and
setting seed, it's very difficult to kill

458
00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:10.000
the weeds at that point in time. So what's a good post emergent to

459
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:15.039
go by. Yeah, so you
can get a sprays that are for broad

460
00:33:15.079 --> 00:33:17.279
leaf weeds and if you go into
an ACE, they're going to be able

461
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:21.799
to direct you to the options.
There are a number of different companies have

462
00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:24.559
those. You can do that.
It's not a problem at all. It

463
00:33:24.640 --> 00:33:30.200
works. It works quite well.
The other product, you know, the

464
00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:36.079
Nelson plant Food. Nelson Plant Food
has a oh gosh, I can't say

465
00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:38.519
the name of it. I will
here in just a moment. It just

466
00:33:38.599 --> 00:33:43.079
jumped out of my head. They
have a product that's a fertilizer with a

467
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:47.400
post emergent in it. It's called
Turf Star Weedinator. And Turf Star Weedinator

468
00:33:47.440 --> 00:33:52.079
may have been what you were thinking
about when you said water and then apply

469
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:55.880
it, because it's a granule that
you want to stick to the weeds leaves.

470
00:33:57.440 --> 00:34:00.079
So this is post emergent. So
you water and then you put turf

471
00:34:00.079 --> 00:34:07.079
Star Weedinator out and it moves down
into the weeds. I would wait probably

472
00:34:07.039 --> 00:34:12.719
a day or two after you water, or after you apply it to water

473
00:34:13.119 --> 00:34:17.960
again. Okay, because the second
watering we'll move the fertilizer down into the

474
00:34:17.960 --> 00:34:22.800
ground. But first damp weeds just
damp. You don't need an inch of

475
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:27.440
rain, just damp surfaces. Turf
star weedonator. It moves into the weed,

476
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:30.159
give it time to move into the
weeds, and then watering a day

477
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:34.400
or two later to move it into
the soil. And it's going to provide

478
00:34:34.440 --> 00:34:38.159
you with a very slow release that
will carry you on into spring. Okay,

479
00:34:38.400 --> 00:34:40.559
sounds great, Thanks so much.
Good all right, thank you,

480
00:34:40.760 --> 00:34:46.800
Good luck with that. Appreciate appreciate
your goal, all right. I uh

481
00:34:47.079 --> 00:34:51.440
yeah, it's I know it can
get confusing, and that's why I created

482
00:34:51.639 --> 00:34:58.760
the weed or lawn pest disease and
weed management schedule at garden at gardeningwidth skip

483
00:34:58.960 --> 00:35:02.360
dot com. That's my website,
Gardening with Skip dot com. The schedules

484
00:35:02.360 --> 00:35:06.239
on there, you can you can
print it out. It's got the information

485
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:08.719
that you need to know. And
you're going to find products like we're talking

486
00:35:08.719 --> 00:35:12.639
about here up at Spring Creek Feed
Center. You know, Spring Creek Feed

487
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:16.320
is up there on it's in Magnolia
actually on FM twenty nine to seventy eight

488
00:35:16.360 --> 00:35:21.119
for those of you up there Grand
Parkway Highway two forty nine up that direction.

489
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:25.239
Then you're going to when you go
into Spring Creek it's a feed store.

490
00:35:25.440 --> 00:35:30.280
It's got everything a feed store has, but it is so cool inside

491
00:35:30.440 --> 00:35:32.760
and you're going to find all your
gardening products in there as well. The

492
00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:36.480
turf Star lines that I was talking
about, the micro life lines, the

493
00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:40.159
nitrofless lines, all the different products
for dealing with weeds and diseases and pests

494
00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:45.360
are going to be there. They're
friendly, they're courteous. It's always a

495
00:35:45.400 --> 00:35:49.559
pleasure to go into Spring Creek Feed. And again they're on FM twenty nine

496
00:35:50.079 --> 00:35:54.079
seventy eight up in the Magnolia area. I just a while back was in

497
00:35:54.119 --> 00:35:58.280
there and they were just starting to
get in supplies and oh my god,

498
00:35:58.320 --> 00:36:00.840
they have plants now too. They
got some plants that they're bringing in.

499
00:36:01.440 --> 00:36:07.000
They've got huge shipments of all the
products you need for your lawn and garden.

500
00:36:07.159 --> 00:36:12.639
Another good reason to go up there
to Spring Creek Feed. I did

501
00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:17.800
want to mention that it is time
to get our pruning done and to do

502
00:36:17.880 --> 00:36:21.920
it in the correct way is critical. Now. I know, we got

503
00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:24.199
to do it yourselfers that do a
little pruning on shrubs and trees themselves,

504
00:36:24.480 --> 00:36:29.559
but when you need a professional to
come in and get up there and you

505
00:36:29.559 --> 00:36:32.159
know you don't want to hurt yourself
going way up in a tree, and

506
00:36:32.760 --> 00:36:37.079
you don't have the equipment to do
the kind of pruning that may need to

507
00:36:37.079 --> 00:36:39.840
get done. Affordable Tree Service does. That's Martin Spoonmore. By the way,

508
00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:45.280
Martin and his wife answer their own
phone. That's a kind of company.

509
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:49.760
This is we're talking about thirty years
of experience taking care of Houston trees.

510
00:36:50.079 --> 00:36:53.599
We're talking about dealing with the owners, not some call center or whatever.

511
00:36:53.800 --> 00:36:57.760
We're talking about dealing with the owners. Just call seven one three,

512
00:36:57.880 --> 00:37:02.280
six nine nine twenty six sixty three
seven one three six nine nine two six

513
00:37:02.400 --> 00:37:06.159
sixty three. Talk to Martin about
things. He can come in. He

514
00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:07.639
can look at your trees. He
can say that doesn't need pruning, or

515
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:09.960
yeah, we got a couple of
limbs, or no, we got a

516
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:13.679
big problem here, and here's what
it is, and here's what we need

517
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:15.840
to do about it. If you're
gonna do anything around your trees, like

518
00:37:15.960 --> 00:37:22.400
trenching or putting in a driveway or
a sidewalk, please call Martin first.

519
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:27.599
Don't wait until you've already done the
job, done the damage, and now

520
00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:29.639
you're trying to figure out what to
do. I mean, he can help

521
00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.400
you with that. But listen,
once the damage is done, you have

522
00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:37.000
really set your trees back. And
I just have to say this when I

523
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:40.960
talk about tree pruning. Just because
someone owns a pickup and a chainsaw,

524
00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:45.639
it does not make him a tree
expert at all. And I see some

525
00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:51.880
horrible pruning jobs that ruin that tree
for life. I'm seriously, it can

526
00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:55.239
ruin a tree for life. Don't
do that. Call Martin Spoon Moore seven

527
00:37:55.320 --> 00:37:59.679
one three, six nine nine twenty
six sixty three if you don't go to

528
00:37:59.679 --> 00:38:05.719
the web site. The website is
a fftree Service dot com. AFF Tree

529
00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:08.920
Service dot com. Now is a
great time to get that done because listen,

530
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:13.440
the fastest time a tree healing and
growth is in the spring. So

531
00:38:13.519 --> 00:38:16.159
when you prune now, when that
tree starts to grow, it's going to

532
00:38:16.239 --> 00:38:22.119
heal as fast as it does at
any time of the year right soon after

533
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:27.159
you get that pruning done. Always
always good to take extra care with those

534
00:38:27.159 --> 00:38:30.000
trees. They are so valuable in
our landscape. You know, tree adds

535
00:38:30.360 --> 00:38:36.760
hundreds and hundreds of dollars to the
value of your home. It's also a

536
00:38:36.760 --> 00:38:38.679
reason why, by the way,
that it's good when you plant trees to

537
00:38:38.840 --> 00:38:44.800
choose types that do well here and
don't assume if a tree is for sale,

538
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:47.639
especially at some places, that it's
going to do well here. That's

539
00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:52.199
again why we like our independent garden
centers. The mom and pops that are

540
00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:58.320
from here, they know the plants
that belong here and they can direct you

541
00:38:58.400 --> 00:39:01.159
that way, because when you buy
a tree, that is a long term

542
00:39:01.320 --> 00:39:06.400
process. You know, people like
Burden Tree Farm Patrick, they they know

543
00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:09.159
the trees that need to be sold
here. They can take care of you.

544
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:15.119
That so always all the shop and
places that are going to sell you

545
00:39:15.159 --> 00:39:17.960
the things that go there. A
lot of people just don't get that.

546
00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:22.920
It calls all the time about I
bought something from such and such place.

547
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:24.880
I'll help you the best I can. Hey, we'll be right back.

548
00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:30.719
Katie r H. Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

549
00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:37.480
services advertised on this program. Welcome
to Katie r H Garden Line with Skin

550
00:39:37.679 --> 00:39:59.679
Richt. It's just watch you as
so many gos to Septasy. Welcome back

551
00:39:59.679 --> 00:40:04.079
to guard Hey, thanks for listening
this morning. I hope you are ready

552
00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:07.239
for spring because I am, and
it is time and we have ordered up

553
00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:14.559
some beautiful rain free weather this weekend, So make plans. It's starting to

554
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:19.320
get a little lighter outside a bit. The day's going to be here,

555
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:24.199
and you want to be outside.
Listen outside planting plants, preparing soil,

556
00:40:24.960 --> 00:40:30.239
purchasing plants and products and supplies,
and fertilizing and taking care of weeds,

557
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:32.800
all that kind of stuff. Now's
the time to do it. And what

558
00:40:32.920 --> 00:40:37.039
a great day it's going to be
for doing just that. For example,

559
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.599
if you want to go out to
RCW Nurseries, you know that's the nursery

560
00:40:40.599 --> 00:40:46.039
that's there where Tombol Parkway comes into
belt Wagh eight. RCW Nurseries is going

561
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:51.119
to have every kind of thing you
need to have success with your plants.

562
00:40:51.159 --> 00:40:54.159
They carry the fertilizers I talk about
here. They have a wide variety of

563
00:40:54.199 --> 00:40:58.199
plants. And you know, this
is tree planting season. I talked about

564
00:40:58.239 --> 00:41:01.079
it being tree pruning season, but
it's planting season. And remember what I

565
00:41:01.119 --> 00:41:07.800
said earlier about picking trees that belong
here because they are very long term investments.

566
00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:14.079
RCW grows their own up in Planetersville. They've got their own supply of

567
00:41:14.159 --> 00:41:17.400
the trees that do well here.
Because RCW is local, they know what

568
00:41:17.519 --> 00:41:21.599
does well here. They've been doing
this for decades here in the Houstern area.

569
00:41:21.639 --> 00:41:24.599
They know what is going on.
And that's the kind of place that

570
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:29.440
you need to purchase your tree from. You need that's the kind of place

571
00:41:29.440 --> 00:41:32.800
you purchase your roses from. And
boyd, they are a great selection pages

572
00:41:32.840 --> 00:41:37.440
of roses that they carried all kinds
of different varieties there. It's just really

573
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:43.159
easy. But right now, I
would just say top of the line list

574
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:46.239
of urgencies is if you're going to
plant a tree, get it done now,

575
00:41:46.440 --> 00:41:50.239
sooner the better. If you're going
to plant a rose, get it

576
00:41:50.360 --> 00:41:54.800
done now. The sooner the better
you'll be. It's it's not hard to

577
00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:59.800
grow these things. You put them
in good quality soil and RCW is going

578
00:41:59.840 --> 00:42:02.559
to be able to supply you with
some of the supplements and fertilizers you need

579
00:42:02.559 --> 00:42:07.079
for planting. They know how to
do it here. Now you can you

580
00:42:07.079 --> 00:42:08.800
can give them a call, you
can go buy RCW. I mean,

581
00:42:08.840 --> 00:42:14.199
I just would say go to the
website to trow easy. RCW nurseries dot

582
00:42:14.239 --> 00:42:19.000
com. R CW Nurseries dot com. Again, they're Talmball Parkway at Bela

583
00:42:19.119 --> 00:42:22.559
eight. Very easy to get to. Uh. They are open today from

584
00:42:22.559 --> 00:42:27.440
eight to five and tomorrow from ten
am to five pm as well at RCW.

585
00:42:27.880 --> 00:42:30.719
We're going to head out now to
northwest Houston. Talk to Ralph.

586
00:42:30.719 --> 00:42:35.239
Hello, Ralph, good morning.
There a great program. I have a

587
00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:38.239
regarden and I all got it all
killed up and I'm ready to put my

588
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:44.679
fertileers in to get ready for not
no freeze and have a thing. But

589
00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:46.960
but anyway, my nighbor's got it, and I want to know more about

590
00:42:46.960 --> 00:42:52.519
that. But my neighbor's got to
uh some kind of bush uh thing that's

591
00:42:52.599 --> 00:42:59.880
coming up and at this feign seats
all over my backyard and I can't I

592
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:02.280
don't know, have no problem to
keep it coming, but it keeps coming

593
00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:07.280
up? What to do with it? So it's coming from a bush and

594
00:43:07.320 --> 00:43:12.079
it's putting seeds in your yard?
Right yeah, I don't. My wife

595
00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:15.320
knows what the name of it.
But if you don't know, right yeah,

596
00:43:15.840 --> 00:43:22.719
little ss come in and looking old
that comes up, I get it

597
00:43:22.800 --> 00:43:25.559
rough. Well, I don't,
you know, knowing the exact name of

598
00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:30.000
it would be helpful because then I
could make sure I'm recommending the best product

599
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:37.239
for that particular species. But in
general, over well, I know that's

600
00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:42.639
how that's how plants, that's why
plants survived through the eons without us.

601
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.119
They throw the seeds out, the
seeds come up, and everybody's happy.

602
00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:47.519
And then we arrive and go,
hey, this is my yard. Don't

603
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:52.199
do that in my yard. So
here's what you do. You need to

604
00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:54.840
use a post emergent product on the
ones that have come up. Uh.

605
00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:59.800
And there are a lot of good
post emergents out there. Okay, And

606
00:43:59.840 --> 00:44:06.679
then okay, well but okay,
I got I got the whole kind of

607
00:44:06.679 --> 00:44:09.800
trees to all come fruit and trees
and everything, my big old gordon,

608
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:16.199
and I'm ready to do it.
And my best fertilized is what. Well,

609
00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:21.239
we got a lot of good fertilizers. What are you fertilizing vegetables?

610
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:25.199
Everything? I go on my way, I go with a big gord and

611
00:44:25.239 --> 00:44:29.519
it's a it's all over that way
and everything. Well, you got a

612
00:44:29.559 --> 00:44:31.679
lot of options, you know.
The only fertilizers I talk about here on

613
00:44:31.719 --> 00:44:36.639
guard Lines are ones that I use
and that are successful, that I believe

614
00:44:36.679 --> 00:44:39.079
in. Uh. And so for
example, the Microlife fertilizer, that would

615
00:44:39.079 --> 00:44:43.480
be an example of one. I
would get the green bag, the six

616
00:44:43.719 --> 00:44:47.880
two four green bag of Microlife.
That's an organic fertilizer that will feed your

617
00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:52.639
plants gradually over time. It does
a very good job. That would be

618
00:44:52.679 --> 00:45:00.000
an example. Cons and my pairs
and everything. Everything just on the pairs.

619
00:45:00.559 --> 00:45:05.280
Go light on the fertilizer on pears
because they tend to grow too fast

620
00:45:05.320 --> 00:45:08.000
and straight up anyway, and we
want to slow them down a little bit.

621
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:13.079
So that's the one plant that I
would say probably need a little,

622
00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:16.039
very little fertilizer. On the rest
of them, you can just go after

623
00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:21.079
it, and the Microlife's not going
to burn your plants, all right,

624
00:45:21.119 --> 00:45:24.519
And put my fertile out now,
I get I'm ready to go. You

625
00:45:24.559 --> 00:45:27.320
could put it, yeah, you
can put it out now. You can

626
00:45:27.320 --> 00:45:30.280
put out now, you put out
next month or the month after that.

627
00:45:30.280 --> 00:45:32.960
That's all good. Hey, rolp. I've got to run. But thank

628
00:45:32.960 --> 00:45:37.840
you folks. All right, thank
you. I always appreciate your call.

629
00:45:37.719 --> 00:45:42.239
Let's see, we're gonna go now. I tell you what I'm gonna have

630
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:45.199
to hold on, Barbara, I'm
gonna have to come to you right when

631
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:46.360
we come back from break. We're
going to take a break here in it

632
00:45:46.440 --> 00:45:50.320
just a little bit. I wanted
to talk to you guys about the be

633
00:45:50.480 --> 00:45:54.000
Supply and B classes. Now,
I don't know if you've ever thought about

634
00:45:54.000 --> 00:45:59.440
this before, but the B Supply
out and Dayton they have beginner classes.

635
00:45:59.639 --> 00:46:04.199
They holding them. I mean there's
a February twenty fourth, the March ninth,

636
00:46:04.280 --> 00:46:07.320
March twenty third, April thirteenth,
April twenty seven. You see what

637
00:46:07.360 --> 00:46:10.800
I'm talking about that every time you
turn around there's another class two weeks later

638
00:46:10.920 --> 00:46:15.400
at the B Supply. And if
you've ever thought about keeping bees but you

639
00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:17.639
know you don't know how to do
it, that first year is is the

640
00:46:17.639 --> 00:46:22.960
most challenging one to do anything,
really, but beekeeping is the same thing.

641
00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:25.000
They walk you through it, they
teach you about it. You can

642
00:46:25.039 --> 00:46:29.320
call them over again and say,
well this is happening or what do I

643
00:46:29.400 --> 00:46:32.199
do about that? They carry all
the supplies you need. These classes begin

644
00:46:32.239 --> 00:46:36.360
at nine thirty, they end at
three thirty. You get to go out

645
00:46:36.400 --> 00:46:39.679
and actually get some hands on experience
going through a beehive. They feed your

646
00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:46.159
lunch. I mean, what else
can you want? Dbsupply dot com vbsupply

647
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:52.800
dot com they have plenty of things
available. You can even order bees through

648
00:46:52.840 --> 00:46:57.199
them to come in and I just
tell you this, I would not try

649
00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:00.719
bee keeping without talking to the folks
at the Bees Supply. They're very knowledgeable.

650
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:05.880
They do know what they're talking about, and they will steer you right

651
00:47:05.920 --> 00:47:10.320
and they understand be keeping in our
region and the things you need to do

652
00:47:10.440 --> 00:47:15.320
for success. The Bee Supplied and
Dayton we had them on over the holidays

653
00:47:15.519 --> 00:47:19.840
talking about bees, and every time
I talk with those guys, Paul and

654
00:47:19.920 --> 00:47:23.599
others about bees, I'm just like
floored at the knowledge and the information they

655
00:47:23.599 --> 00:47:27.920
have. We're going to take a
break the phone number seven one three two

656
00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:30.119
one two k t RH. I'll
be right back, and Barbara, you'll

657
00:47:30.119 --> 00:47:36.679
be first up. Welcome back to
garden Line. Thanks for listening today.

658
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:40.480
Boy, do we have a lot
to talk about because this is the prime

659
00:47:40.559 --> 00:47:45.880
time gardening season. We are entering
it right now. We're at that stage

660
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:49.000
where we're going is there gonna be
another freezer or not? And you look

661
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:52.480
at the average and then you realize, well, average just you know,

662
00:47:52.960 --> 00:47:58.480
just means right in between from the
earliest to the latest, and so basically,

663
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:00.639
when's gonna be the last frost?
I don't know. We're going to

664
00:48:00.679 --> 00:48:04.519
find out pretty quick though. I
wish I could predict it. One year,

665
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:08.360
I did an interview for a newspaper
and I said, the last average

666
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:14.960
average frost date is such and such, and the printed out county extension agents

667
00:48:15.039 --> 00:48:19.719
Kip Rictor says the last frost this
year will be on a certain date.

668
00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:23.559
I spent two weeks trying to explain
to people that I did not say that.

669
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:27.960
I just said the average turns out
on the day that came out of

670
00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:31.280
my mouth the average day that year
that was the last frost. I should

671
00:48:31.280 --> 00:48:34.719
have kept my mouth shut. And
it's been like I had a crystal ball

672
00:48:34.840 --> 00:48:38.519
or something. But anyway, I've
always been amused by that. Hey,

673
00:48:38.559 --> 00:48:42.800
we're going to go out to North
Houston now and talk to Barbara. Hello,

674
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:45.199
Barbara, good morning. How are
you. I'm well? Thanks.

675
00:48:45.760 --> 00:48:49.639
Hey. I have a couple of
questions. First one is long question.

676
00:48:49.840 --> 00:48:53.079
I'm going to be doing my core
aeration and compost top dress, saying either

677
00:48:53.159 --> 00:48:58.599
next week or the weekend after?
Okay, should I put my fertilizer down

678
00:48:58.760 --> 00:49:02.000
before or after? That's a good
question. You can do it either way.

679
00:49:02.519 --> 00:49:07.920
It doesn't really matter. When it
comes to that. I might do

680
00:49:07.960 --> 00:49:13.360
it ahead of time just because you're
going to put the compost down on top

681
00:49:13.400 --> 00:49:15.079
of it, and it's just you
kind of it'll sort of like cover up

682
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:20.079
your fertilizer as you water it and
wash it in and whatnot. But it's

683
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:24.239
not a big difference either way.
I would do it fertilizer first, but

684
00:49:24.559 --> 00:49:29.880
there's not a solid reason to have
to do that. Okay, perfect.

685
00:49:30.119 --> 00:49:35.400
Then the other question I have,
I've just started seed starting my first foray

686
00:49:35.480 --> 00:49:39.079
into this and it's not vegetables.
I'm doing you annuals and perennials. Okay,

687
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:45.280
I have some sweet piece seeds.
Are those best to be? Can

688
00:49:45.320 --> 00:49:49.480
I plant those now? Or is
that more fall? Well, you can

689
00:49:49.519 --> 00:49:52.760
plant them now. They don't like
hot weather, and so if you have

690
00:49:52.880 --> 00:49:57.360
them on hand, I would just
probably go ahead and give them a shot

691
00:49:57.400 --> 00:50:01.480
and plant them. The best time
to plan in this area down as far

692
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:07.320
south as we are would be in
the fall season. They'll sprout. They're

693
00:50:07.360 --> 00:50:10.000
fairly cold hearty as small plants.
Maybe you know we have one of those

694
00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:14.639
bitter freezes. We would cover them
up, but you get a head start

695
00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:19.199
and the blooming is just better in
the spring. The second best time would

696
00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:23.039
be probably back in January, getting
them in the ground and then now would

697
00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:29.280
be doable. But depending on the
weather and how soon hot weather hits,

698
00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:32.960
they may or may not do well. And they're perennial, right, I

699
00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:37.599
mean they'll come back. No,
they're annual, yes, okay, okay.

700
00:50:37.840 --> 00:50:42.400
And then any seeds that you have
that say you can direct sow.

701
00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:45.280
I don't usually have good luck direct
sewing into the garden. I don't know

702
00:50:45.320 --> 00:50:49.800
why, if it's the watering or
whatever. Can I start those in like

703
00:50:49.840 --> 00:50:53.079
little four cell packs four cell packs
and then just keep them in the house

704
00:50:53.199 --> 00:50:55.639
or on the back patio or something, and then as they get bigger,

705
00:50:55.639 --> 00:50:59.119
put them out. Yep, you
can start them in a dixie cup if

706
00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:01.039
you take an ice picking ontelevis in
the bottom. I mean, the seed

707
00:51:01.039 --> 00:51:05.000
doesn't care what it's in. It
just wants some good quality soil. It

708
00:51:05.039 --> 00:51:09.840
wants to good drainage, not soggy
wet, and an excellent sunlight. That's

709
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:15.199
the most critical thing on starting seedlings
is you got to have really good sunlight.

710
00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:19.000
And right beside a window is not
adequate. Okay, Well, I

711
00:51:19.079 --> 00:51:22.039
started some winter sewing in some you
know, old water jugs kind of thing,

712
00:51:22.039 --> 00:51:24.840
and I'm getting you know, I've
got plants coming up in there,

713
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:28.159
and it seems to be doing well. So I don't know if I could

714
00:51:28.239 --> 00:51:30.280
just go ahead and do the same
type of thing. Absolutely stuff that says

715
00:51:30.320 --> 00:51:34.840
Directso just stick them out there,
you can. The only thing I wouldn't

716
00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:37.639
where you said you weren't talking about
vegetables, but other folks are listening.

717
00:51:37.960 --> 00:51:42.320
If it's a root crop like carrots, it's not going to transplant, well

718
00:51:42.360 --> 00:51:46.199
you're gonna have deformed, malformed carrots. But in general, yes, you

719
00:51:46.199 --> 00:51:51.079
can pretty much transplant anything perfect.
All right, Well, good deal,

720
00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:52.760
Thank you so much. I appreciate
the infos have fun with all that.

721
00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:57.440
Sounds like you're gonna have a beautiful
place. I'm looking forward to it,

722
00:51:57.519 --> 00:52:02.079
all right, take care by bye. If you've been to Channed Forest out

723
00:52:02.199 --> 00:52:07.079
in the Richmond area and Channed Forest
is well, it's an enchanting place.

724
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:09.960
It's a good name for it because
you go in there and it's like you've

725
00:52:10.039 --> 00:52:15.079
entered another place in time. I
love going by there. Even the buildings

726
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:19.800
are fun and cool. By the
way, they just built a last fall,

727
00:52:19.840 --> 00:52:22.760
a new area for their herbs and
their vegetables, and are they ever

728
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:30.400
stocked up? It is incredible,
absolutely incredible By the way, they're having

729
00:52:30.440 --> 00:52:34.400
their spring pottery sale now through February
twenty fifth. So you buy one or

730
00:52:34.440 --> 00:52:37.719
two pots twenty percent off, three
or four pots forty percent off, five

731
00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:42.960
or more fifty percent off. And
listen, if you've been gardening for a

732
00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:45.360
year or two, you already know
you can never have enough pots, right

733
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:50.360
container gardening. We just need to
be doing a lot more of that.

734
00:52:50.599 --> 00:52:54.079
And boy, what an opportunity to
really get ahead of the game and get

735
00:52:54.079 --> 00:53:02.079
a great deal. This Saturday afternoon, they're gonna have at Enchanted Forest.

736
00:53:02.079 --> 00:53:07.199
I can't even say say the name
of the person. It's Carol Burton,

737
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:12.119
and Carol Burton is from Urban Harvest. She's director of permaculture there. You

738
00:53:12.159 --> 00:53:14.840
can go out there join them.
They have a glass of rose and an

739
00:53:14.840 --> 00:53:21.000
intro to permaculture design through the lens
of plant gills and roses. Plant gills

740
00:53:21.039 --> 00:53:22.760
and roses. You won't know what
that means, Well, go out there

741
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:29.960
and find out. It's free February
seventy two day at four pm. Remember

742
00:53:29.960 --> 00:53:32.440
that four pm. By the way, from two to five, Silhadad's Tamali

743
00:53:32.519 --> 00:53:37.519
truck's going to be set up out
there. I'm just saying can't beat that.

744
00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:42.760
A glass of rose Tomali's and an
excellent topic and then every plant you

745
00:53:42.800 --> 00:53:45.840
can imagine ready to go home with
you. Make sure you've got plenty of

746
00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:52.079
room in the car. Enchanted Forest
Richmond TX dot com. Enchanted Forest,

747
00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:57.239
Richmond, TX dot com. It's
on FM twenty seven to fifty nine,

748
00:53:57.320 --> 00:54:00.360
So if you're going from Richmond to
sugar Land area, it's going to be

749
00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:02.840
off to the right. Always a
good time to go out to enchen it

750
00:54:02.920 --> 00:54:07.440
for us. Let's see here.
Why don't we go out to Seabrook now

751
00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:13.480
and talk to Charlotte. Hey,
Charlotte, Hey, what's up. Well,

752
00:54:14.039 --> 00:54:20.239
they're replacing a fence in the subdivision
that runs behind my house, and

753
00:54:20.320 --> 00:54:24.039
they're having to trim the roots of
the trees and part of the trunk of

754
00:54:24.119 --> 00:54:30.679
the tree in order to put the
new fence in because of all the growth

755
00:54:30.760 --> 00:54:35.760
and stuff. Anyway, they got
sawdust all over my flower beds where I

756
00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:40.880
plant a lot of my vegetables and
stuff for the spring. And I've heard

757
00:54:42.000 --> 00:54:47.039
that that's not good. So what
can I do to ameliorate or to take

758
00:54:47.039 --> 00:54:51.679
away the damage of that sawdust all
being in there? Okay, Well,

759
00:54:51.840 --> 00:54:54.960
first of all, sawdust. Mix
it into the soil as it begins to

760
00:54:55.000 --> 00:54:59.920
break down, ties up nitrogen because
it's all carbon. Sawdust is all carbon.

761
00:55:00.239 --> 00:55:04.400
But on the surface as a mult
I wouldn't worry about it. Now,

762
00:55:04.960 --> 00:55:07.679
if you just don't like the look
of it and you want to get

763
00:55:07.679 --> 00:55:09.480
it out of there, if you
can rake some out, go ahead and

764
00:55:09.559 --> 00:55:13.960
do that. But it's not going
to kill your plants sitting on the surface.

765
00:55:14.079 --> 00:55:16.199
Don't mix it in though, you
said. One thing that concerns me

766
00:55:16.280 --> 00:55:20.800
though, They took a chunk out
of the trunk of the tree in doing

767
00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:28.400
this. Yeah, they just went
and they he just sought it down.

768
00:55:28.519 --> 00:55:30.800
You know, had this little like
a plane saw, but was going you

769
00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:36.400
know, vertical. It was just
going across the trunk and going down into

770
00:55:36.679 --> 00:55:44.360
the roots where they could then you
know the boards. Well, long term,

771
00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:50.159
that tree is in bad shape that
that will never heal over and the

772
00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:52.320
interior would. Now it's like laying
a two by four on the ground.

773
00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:55.320
After about two or three years,
there's going to be very little left to

774
00:55:55.360 --> 00:56:00.119
the two by four. It's just
going to start decaying away, and then

775
00:56:00.159 --> 00:56:02.079
you're going to have a hazard that's
going to fall one direction or the other,

776
00:56:02.679 --> 00:56:07.880
so I might need to get together
with the neighbors and make some decisions

777
00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:09.920
on that. For the short term, you're okay, But longer term,

778
00:56:10.039 --> 00:56:15.440
no, that's the that's the subdivision
that's next to my subdivision, okay.

779
00:56:15.800 --> 00:56:22.000
And they they do their own thing, and they don't take well to advice,

780
00:56:22.199 --> 00:56:25.880
so I guess, well, okay, we'll see how they take to

781
00:56:27.159 --> 00:56:31.159
paying for the stuff that was damaged
when it falls on your property, or

782
00:56:31.599 --> 00:56:35.760
are damaging a human being, which
I think that ought to get there.

783
00:56:36.280 --> 00:56:39.000
These are all these are cratee myrtles, so I oh, crate myrtles.

784
00:56:40.199 --> 00:56:45.320
They're just crate myrtles that line the
whole. Okay. I was when you

785
00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:50.320
said tree, I was picturing something
really big. Well, that's they're big

786
00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:53.920
crate myrtles. Okay. They've got
big trunks on some of them, especially

787
00:56:54.000 --> 00:56:59.119
the ones behind my house, because
they've been well watered and fertilized. I

788
00:56:59.280 --> 00:57:01.800
tell you what, I would love
to see a picture of what they did

789
00:57:02.079 --> 00:57:05.679
from a distance and up close.
I don't know if you have time for

790
00:57:05.760 --> 00:57:07.920
that, but if you did,
I would love for you to send me

791
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:10.880
some pictures of that, because I
take pictures of what I call the good,

792
00:57:10.920 --> 00:57:14.360
the bad, and the ugly,
and that would definitely be the ugly.

793
00:57:14.679 --> 00:57:19.239
So and that. But the question, how do I if I can't

794
00:57:20.000 --> 00:57:24.039
mix it up? How do I
put in the fertilizer in there and then

795
00:57:24.280 --> 00:57:28.960
put the plants in there? I
mean, I'll rake off as much as

796
00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:30.599
I can, right, rake it
off, break it off as much as

797
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:34.840
you can, and then just scratch
the fertilizer into the surface. I say

798
00:57:34.880 --> 00:57:37.440
scratch because it's I mean you can
use a rake to kind of work it

799
00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:39.800
into the surface a little bit and
then just water it in. It's okay,

800
00:57:40.360 --> 00:57:44.519
uh, if you right, if
you rake off as much as you

801
00:57:44.599 --> 00:57:46.639
can, what gets mixed in is
not a concern for me. Just go

802
00:57:46.800 --> 00:57:51.920
a little extra fertilizer to get some
more nitrogen in the soil and it'll be

803
00:57:52.119 --> 00:57:53.760
just fine. Don't worry about it, Okay. So what I use is

804
00:57:53.840 --> 00:57:57.719
the microlife, so I can just
go ahead and put that. Yes,

805
00:57:57.880 --> 00:58:00.960
do I put any composts on kind
of put com post on top of that?

806
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:02.800
Sure, you can do it all
if you want. Uh, yeah,

807
00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:07.079
just mix it in, all right, Charlotte, appreciate your call very

808
00:58:07.159 --> 00:58:15.239
much. And that's that is really
interesting, you know, CNMLS. I'm

809
00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:17.480
going to be down at Cenamals this
spring. By the way. I'll tell

810
00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:22.920
you more about it when we get
closer to it. But CNMLS has all

811
00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:25.239
the products we're talking about. She
was talking about microlife. They've got those

812
00:58:25.320 --> 00:58:30.199
products. They have the Landscaper's Pride, the heirloom soils, the medina that

813
00:58:30.360 --> 00:58:35.480
all all the different types of fertilizers
we talk about here on guardline. And

814
00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:37.320
they have mulch. You can buy
by the bag, you can buy by

815
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:42.280
the bulk. They deliver within twenty
miles of the location down there. And

816
00:58:42.360 --> 00:58:45.639
where are they They're near Highway to
eighty eight and Highway six, just north

817
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:51.360
of Roach Sharon on FM five point
twenty one. Just go to Ciena Mulch

818
00:58:51.480 --> 00:58:53.840
dot com and find out more.
Listen, if you're thinking about putting a

819
00:58:53.880 --> 00:58:58.280
little stone patio out there, you
know, not cemented in but just a

820
00:58:58.400 --> 00:59:04.840
walkway, well they've got unbelievable selection
a flat stone for that. They got

821
00:59:04.880 --> 00:59:09.079
the bull rock all the way down
to gravel and anything you need to create

822
00:59:09.199 --> 00:59:15.000
that beautiful landscape. It comes by
the palette out there at Cinmulch. Now,

823
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:20.599
if you are interested in having a
delivery, give them a call or

824
00:59:20.719 --> 00:59:24.480
just go to the website Sienna Moltz
dot com and have them bring it out

825
00:59:24.519 --> 00:59:28.559
to you. Hey, it's time
to do this. Don't delay any further.

826
00:59:28.920 --> 00:59:30.679
You know, brown stuff comes before
green stuff. And I know you're

827
00:59:30.679 --> 00:59:36.079
wanting to get out and plant.
Well, call Ciena Maltch and have them

828
00:59:36.480 --> 00:59:38.239
either go buy and pick up bags, take your trailer over there, or

829
00:59:38.280 --> 00:59:42.559
have them deliver it for you.
But let's get that so ready to go,

830
00:59:43.239 --> 00:59:45.199
and so that when we plant,
we're going to have the best year

831
00:59:45.360 --> 00:59:50.719
ever and you're going to you know
that picture in your mind's eye where you

832
00:59:51.239 --> 00:59:55.559
see this beautiful flowers and shrubs and
vegetables and all of that. Make that

833
00:59:55.719 --> 01:00:00.679
picture of a reality by starting with
Cienama. It's as simple as that.

834
01:00:02.639 --> 01:00:06.840
We are going to be taking a
little break here in just a second for

835
01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:10.039
the news. I want to remind
you that if you need my gardening schedules,

836
01:00:10.119 --> 01:00:15.280
they are available online at gardening with
Skip dot com. Gardening with Skip

837
01:00:15.360 --> 01:00:20.199
dot com. That's the lawn care
schedule and that's the weed management schedule.

838
01:00:20.599 --> 01:00:22.840
Both are easy to get a hold
of. There no problem at all.

839
01:00:22.880 --> 01:00:27.000
You print them out yourself. I'd
recommend printing them out, taking them with

840
01:00:27.079 --> 01:00:29.719
you when you go to get any
of these products, and you can just

841
01:00:29.719 --> 01:00:31.400
say point out and say out,
I need this one right here, and

842
01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:36.000
they can get you fixed up on
that. We're about to take a break,

843
01:00:36.039 --> 01:00:37.760
as I said, have Joe come
in and do a little bit of

844
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:44.280
news for us. I want to
remind you that next week, the twenty

845
01:00:44.320 --> 01:00:47.039
fourth of February, I'm going to
be at A and A Plants and Produce

846
01:00:47.199 --> 01:00:52.400
up in Montgomery. The folks at
Nelson's have donated eight bags of turch star

847
01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:57.000
weedon eater. Come by, maybe
you'll win one. We're going to be

848
01:00:57.039 --> 01:01:01.880
given away every fifteen minutes. Welcome
back to garden Line. I'm your host,

849
01:01:01.920 --> 01:01:05.440
Skip Richter. What are we going
to talk about today? You tell

850
01:01:05.519 --> 01:01:08.639
me give us a call seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

851
01:01:08.679 --> 01:01:10.840
I got my list of things I
want to talk about today. I

852
01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:14.320
was posting that to our Facebook page. By the way, if you don't

853
01:01:14.320 --> 01:01:17.079
follow garden Line on Facebook, you
ought to follow us. We are always

854
01:01:17.119 --> 01:01:22.840
putting stuff up there. I just
did something on growing transplants out. You

855
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:23.960
know, you purchase them a little
early, you can grow them out and

856
01:01:24.039 --> 01:01:29.000
make a better plant out of them, and talked about things we would be

857
01:01:29.199 --> 01:01:31.440
discussing today. So look at the
list, and here comes more of it

858
01:01:31.559 --> 01:01:36.320
as we go into the show a
little further. Hey, you know,

859
01:01:36.719 --> 01:01:42.320
ACE Hardware stores are all over the
Greater Houston area, so it makes it

860
01:01:42.440 --> 01:01:45.760
really easy to find the stuff I
talk about on Guardenline because it's at ACE

861
01:01:45.840 --> 01:01:50.360
Hardware. You can go to Acehardware
dot Com, go to the store locator.

862
01:01:50.360 --> 01:01:52.320
It's easy to find and look at
where the stores are. I mean,

863
01:01:52.320 --> 01:01:55.960
I'm looking at one right now.
They did red dots all over the

864
01:01:57.280 --> 01:02:00.599
easy easy to find an ACE Hardware
and they carry the fertil line I talk

865
01:02:00.639 --> 01:02:02.880
about. If you hear me talking
about mulches and different things, if you

866
01:02:04.000 --> 01:02:07.719
need pest control, disease control,
weed control, the weed control products we've

867
01:02:07.719 --> 01:02:12.679
been talking about today. I mentioned
the barricade, you know from nitrophis.

868
01:02:12.760 --> 01:02:17.000
I mentioned the Nelson's, the turf
star. We near that they've got those

869
01:02:17.079 --> 01:02:22.039
things at ACE Hardware stores makes it
really really easy. Again, just go

870
01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:24.039
to Acehardware dot Com. By the
way, when you go to ACE,

871
01:02:24.880 --> 01:02:29.840
you need to sign up for the
ACE Rewards program. I belong to myself

872
01:02:30.000 --> 01:02:34.800
and whenever I go shop, it
just earns points for money back on your

873
01:02:34.880 --> 01:02:37.199
next purchase, and so it really
makes sense go in there. Just ask

874
01:02:37.280 --> 01:02:43.559
them about the ACE rewards program.
And I mentioned nitrophus. Now's the time

875
01:02:43.599 --> 01:02:50.679
to get that nitrophos imperial out and
nitrofos imperial is the early fertilization for spring

876
01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:52.679
green up. Now, this is
one where if you'd like to get the

877
01:02:52.760 --> 01:02:57.840
long greener in the spring, we
put a little bit of available, immediately

878
01:02:57.880 --> 01:03:02.079
available nitrogen out. And that is
exactly what the red bag nitrofoss imperial,

879
01:03:02.599 --> 01:03:07.280
that's exactly what it is. A
fifteen five to ten product. That ratio

880
01:03:07.880 --> 01:03:10.639
was developed a long time ago,
about fifty years ago, over fifty years

881
01:03:10.679 --> 01:03:15.320
ago TEXA A and M University in
the turf department, because that's the ratio

882
01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:21.599
that grass takes up nutrients in.
Someone asked earlier about triple thirteen. Plants

883
01:03:21.679 --> 01:03:24.880
don't take up equal amounts of nitrogen, phosphors and potassium. That would be

884
01:03:24.960 --> 01:03:28.679
a one to one to one ratio. Triple thirteen, don't do that.

885
01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:34.920
Fifteen five ten. The nitrofoss imperial
the three one to two ratio, that

886
01:03:35.079 --> 01:03:37.679
is a good one to put out. And you can find nitrofoss products all

887
01:03:37.840 --> 01:03:43.400
over the place. I was just
mentioning Ace Hardware stores, Plantation Ace out

888
01:03:43.440 --> 01:03:45.760
there in the Richmond Rosenberg areas,
got it all, spa ace up in

889
01:03:45.840 --> 01:03:50.679
the wood woodlands, has it go
out to Kingwood, Kingwood Ace hard Restores.

890
01:03:50.760 --> 01:03:53.280
Got it easy to find nitrofoss products. And if you want to do

891
01:03:53.400 --> 01:03:58.559
the spring green up, the fifteen
five to ten Imperial from Nitrofoss is an

892
01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:01.960
excellent example of a prou that will
do a super job to get your lown

893
01:04:02.039 --> 01:04:06.639
greening up a little. We'll talk
about slow release products coming up here as

894
01:04:06.679 --> 01:04:11.239
we get into the spring where we're
feeding them over a gradual amount of time.

895
01:04:11.559 --> 01:04:15.360
But for right now, for the
quick green up Nitrophoss Imperial fifteen five

896
01:04:15.519 --> 01:04:19.960
ten. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two kt RH.

897
01:04:20.239 --> 01:04:24.320
If you would like to give us
a call, we would be happy to

898
01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:28.159
talk about all kinds of things like
that. On the Facebook post I mentioned

899
01:04:28.239 --> 01:04:32.280
what do you do about lawns struggling
with past drought and insects and disease damage.

900
01:04:33.440 --> 01:04:38.719
Remember you've heard me say this before. Wherever sunlight hits the soil,

901
01:04:38.960 --> 01:04:45.360
nature plants a weed. So our
number one goal and having a lawn is

902
01:04:45.400 --> 01:04:47.960
to grow a dense, thick,
healthy lawn. That's first. A few

903
01:04:48.000 --> 01:04:51.480
weeds can survive in that, but
most of them can't. So when you

904
01:04:51.760 --> 01:04:57.559
create a solid cover that shades the
soil, that is your first step in

905
01:04:57.639 --> 01:05:00.800
weed control. Absolutely, And if
you've got some bear areas, or if

906
01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:05.280
you have an annual problem with the
warm season weeds sprouting up in your lawn,

907
01:05:05.800 --> 01:05:11.320
the barricade. Now, after you
apply it half inch of water to

908
01:05:11.400 --> 01:05:15.480
move it into the soil surface,
we'll create that barrier that the weeds can't

909
01:05:15.480 --> 01:05:19.800
come through and get established. That's
the number one goal in stopping them before

910
01:05:19.800 --> 01:05:23.760
they even get started. After they
get started, we have to resort to

911
01:05:23.840 --> 01:05:28.280
other options to try to control them. But spring greenup is fine. I

912
01:05:28.400 --> 01:05:30.519
call it an optional fertilizer. You
don't have to do it, but if

913
01:05:30.559 --> 01:05:33.840
you would like to have a greener
lawn earlier. The spring greenup is on

914
01:05:33.960 --> 01:05:39.039
my schedule, it was on Randy's
as well as an optional application, and

915
01:05:39.199 --> 01:05:43.360
now's the time to get it done. We are definitely entering that time.

916
01:05:44.000 --> 01:05:46.880
If you live down south, I
would say yes absolutely. Now if you're

917
01:05:47.239 --> 01:05:50.360
north of I ten, depending on
the spring we have, you can go

918
01:05:50.480 --> 01:05:55.079
on into March, first three weeks
of March and get it done. Go

919
01:05:55.119 --> 01:05:58.559
ahead and buy the products so you
have it whenever you have a day where

920
01:05:58.559 --> 01:06:00.760
you can get it out and just
go for it. Get it out there.

921
01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:04.239
But that is important in lawn care, good mowing, watering, and

922
01:06:04.280 --> 01:06:08.039
fertilizing. You know, when we
talk about law care, people always thinking

923
01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:10.880
about what is the product I need
to put on. Well, products are

924
01:06:10.920 --> 01:06:15.719
helpful, but cultural practices are where
you start. Products help deal with the

925
01:06:15.840 --> 01:06:23.559
things that the problems that you might
have despite the good cultural practices, but

926
01:06:23.639 --> 01:06:27.800
when you mow right, when you
water correctly, and when you fertilize in

927
01:06:27.880 --> 01:06:30.760
the right way with the right kinds
of blends of nutrients, you're going to

928
01:06:30.840 --> 01:06:34.440
build a good, dense, healthy
lawn. And that is absolutely First of

929
01:06:34.480 --> 01:06:38.639
all, we don't have any insects
that we're dealing with in the lawn right

930
01:06:38.719 --> 01:06:44.559
now. We are looking at the
reappearance of large patch disease. It could

931
01:06:44.599 --> 01:06:47.480
be going on right now in the
lawn. That is something in the spring

932
01:06:47.639 --> 01:06:51.639
sometimes we have to deal with and
that would require a treatment to stop that.

933
01:06:53.239 --> 01:06:56.760
But I'm telling you, as you
take car of your lawn, follow

934
01:06:56.840 --> 01:07:00.400
my lawn care schedule. As you
take carr of your lawn, a lot

935
01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:03.400
of the issues that you have to
deal with just go away. And we're

936
01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:08.679
talking about trying to get a grass
that's struggling back on its feed and moving

937
01:07:08.800 --> 01:07:14.119
fast. So just some things to
think about there. Nature's way resources up

938
01:07:14.480 --> 01:07:17.800
toward Conroe, up Interstate forty five, I say, toward Conro. Some

939
01:07:17.880 --> 01:07:21.800
of you are listening in Conroe.
It's on forty five south to Conro where

940
01:07:21.840 --> 01:07:27.199
fourteen eighty eight comes in. They're
having their Spring Gardening Festival on March ninth

941
01:07:27.400 --> 01:07:30.199
from nine to two pm. And
I want to tell you this festival,

942
01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:36.840
it really is a festival. They've
got gardening education talks, people guiding and

943
01:07:36.960 --> 01:07:41.920
directing you on gardening. They've got
children activities. Children are going to have

944
01:07:42.000 --> 01:07:45.480
all kinds of fun things from a
story time to a sandbox to coloring,

945
01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:48.920
scavenger hunt with prizes. They're going
to have SIPs and vendors and sales.

946
01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:54.000
What does that mean, Eh,
some bright spring sangria, some local vendors

947
01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:58.519
that'll be set up there. It's
just it's just really fun to go to

948
01:07:58.599 --> 01:08:00.280
the event. I went last year, just had a really good time.

949
01:08:00.800 --> 01:08:04.880
By the way. The address is
one oh one Sherbrooks Circle if you'd like

950
01:08:05.000 --> 01:08:08.679
to do that, If you want
to give them a call nine three six

951
01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:14.159
two seven three twelve hundred, make
sure your truck and your vehicle are all

952
01:08:14.360 --> 01:08:16.920
empty because you're going to want to
come home with some quality bags of Nature's

953
01:08:16.960 --> 01:08:20.960
Way products. And they have all
kinds of products available. They're the leader,

954
01:08:21.159 --> 01:08:26.359
the originator of many of the things
we talk about all the time when

955
01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:30.359
it comes of taking care of the
brown stuff first, the soil, making

956
01:08:30.439 --> 01:08:32.399
the soil better. They've also got
native plants too, by the way,

957
01:08:32.560 --> 01:08:35.680
so you do want to leave plenty
of room. Don't drive up there for

958
01:08:35.800 --> 01:08:39.960
the festival with a car full of
stuff or a pickup where the bed you

959
01:08:40.000 --> 01:08:43.880
can't put anything in it. Make
room because trust me, when you get

960
01:08:43.920 --> 01:08:45.960
there, you're going to want to
bring some of that good stuff home.

961
01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:50.399
I always love love visiting up in
Nature's Way, John and Ian and they

962
01:08:50.640 --> 01:08:57.279
that place just keeps getting better all
the time. By the way, if

963
01:08:57.399 --> 01:09:00.880
you haven't been to the Arborgate lately, you need to go because they have

964
01:09:00.920 --> 01:09:05.960
a new parking lot that is unbelievable's
outstanding. It is so convenient Trashel Road

965
01:09:06.439 --> 01:09:11.520
leaves twenty nine to twenty before Arburgate
and comes back in after Arburgate. I

966
01:09:11.560 --> 01:09:14.239
don't care if you're coming from the
east or west. It's a loop behind

967
01:09:14.279 --> 01:09:17.479
the arbor Gate Trashel Road. The
parking lot comes in off that in the

968
01:09:17.600 --> 01:09:21.000
back. They've got wagons there for
you to grab and take off shopping.

969
01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:27.520
It's all weather surface, it's easy, it's plenty of room to park you

970
01:09:27.640 --> 01:09:30.319
need to go. And you know
why you go to Arburgate. Always something

971
01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:35.520
cool at Arburgate. They always have
the best and the latest of every kind

972
01:09:35.560 --> 01:09:39.239
of plant. I love going by
there. I do a lot of my

973
01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:44.760
own shopping there. Arburgate is the
place. It is a destination for sure.

974
01:09:45.159 --> 01:09:46.319
Hey, we're going to take a
little break. The number seven one

975
01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:49.520
three two one two KTRH. If
you'd like to give us a call.

976
01:09:51.760 --> 01:09:55.600
Welcome back to Garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter. What do

977
01:09:55.680 --> 01:09:58.760
you want to talk about today?
The phone number is seven one three two

978
01:09:58.840 --> 01:10:02.560
one two fIF eight seventy four.
We're going to start by running straight out

979
01:10:02.720 --> 01:10:08.279
to Mayland and talking to George.
Hello George, Yeah, good morning,

980
01:10:08.359 --> 01:10:11.079
Skip. How are you doing.
I'm well, I'm well, thank you.

981
01:10:11.479 --> 01:10:15.039
Well, I've got a question with
my citrus trees. I have a

982
01:10:15.079 --> 01:10:19.600
few citrus trees that are already butting
out and some almost the blue, I

983
01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:27.239
mean the buzzs almost opening up,
and tomorrow they're predicting thirty seven degrees for

984
01:10:27.319 --> 01:10:31.319
about three four hours. Is that
a problem? Yep, yeah, I

985
01:10:31.399 --> 01:10:34.640
mean it's not going to kill them, but they don't like it. That

986
01:10:34.800 --> 01:10:40.479
tender new growth at thirty seven is
kind of the border. I don't think

987
01:10:40.600 --> 01:10:44.760
you're going to If it truly is
thirty seven, you probably aren't going to

988
01:10:44.800 --> 01:10:46.960
get a frost, But I know
it can frost up. I've seen frosts

989
01:10:47.000 --> 01:10:54.399
at thirty six, even not commonly, but it can happen. So I

990
01:10:54.479 --> 01:10:58.119
probably would throw some sort of a
cover just over the top of it.

991
01:10:58.439 --> 01:11:00.239
If you want to be extra.
Are these big trees or young trees?

992
01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:06.560
They're well, they could have been
bigger trees, but the freeze have knocked

993
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:11.079
him back the last few years.
No, I'm thinking about covered them.

994
01:11:11.439 --> 01:11:13.720
Yeah, that's what I was just
trying to figure out what to do.

995
01:11:13.960 --> 01:11:16.079
Yeah, I would say that eighty
percent chance they're not going to have a

996
01:11:16.159 --> 01:11:20.039
problem, but why take a twenty
percent chance? When you don't have to.

997
01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:24.399
Okay, Yeah, it was just
good to me. Yeah, it

998
01:11:24.399 --> 01:11:30.079
would just require a frost to burn
that tender new growth. And I think

999
01:11:30.159 --> 01:11:34.399
thirty seven is getting high to have
a frost, but it probably can happen

1000
01:11:34.520 --> 01:11:40.119
under certain circumstances. Okay, I
appreciate that then, all right, George,

1001
01:11:40.199 --> 01:11:45.319
thank you for the call. Ok
thank you very much. When when

1002
01:11:45.359 --> 01:11:48.680
you're looking for, you know,
quality kinds of products and supplies, George

1003
01:11:48.760 --> 01:11:54.279
Downe there in Marland area. He's
not too far away from Southwest Fertilizer.

1004
01:11:54.399 --> 01:11:59.079
Southwest Fertilizers on the corner of Bissina
and Renwick, and they carry supplies for

1005
01:11:59.119 --> 01:12:00.800
all kinds of things, you know. I know earlier they had the frost

1006
01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:05.359
cloth and things that you could use. They've always got ever fertilizer you can

1007
01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:09.439
amit. If I talk about a
product on Guardline, they've got it at

1008
01:12:09.479 --> 01:12:13.479
Southwest Fertilizer, and then they have
so much more. I like to say,

1009
01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:15.560
if they don't have it, you
don't need it. And I mean

1010
01:12:15.640 --> 01:12:19.199
that because everything you could possibly need, you're going to find it Southwest.

1011
01:12:19.279 --> 01:12:28.399
Bob make sure his store stays stocked
up in sex insect control disease control,

1012
01:12:28.720 --> 01:12:32.239
weed control, fertilizing your plants,
eighty foot long wall of tools. Every

1013
01:12:32.319 --> 01:12:35.319
tool you need, they're going to
have it there. You can go to

1014
01:12:35.439 --> 01:12:40.600
Southwest Fertilizer dot com if you want
to find out more. Corner Abusina and

1015
01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:45.800
Runwick real easy to get to and
like I said, you're going to be

1016
01:12:45.840 --> 01:12:48.920
amazed when you go in there.
They also are knowledgeable and that's important.

1017
01:12:48.920 --> 01:12:51.520
And here's why. You walk in
with a weed, you walk in with

1018
01:12:51.600 --> 01:12:56.000
a picture of a bug. You
walk in with whatever, and they can

1019
01:12:56.079 --> 01:13:00.640
identify it and they can put you
onto the product or it'll be products,

1020
01:13:01.399 --> 01:13:05.800
plural options for dealing with that problem. They're good at that. Do you

1021
01:13:05.920 --> 01:13:10.279
need organic, They've got it.
Do you need synthetic, They've got it.

1022
01:13:10.720 --> 01:13:14.159
Southwest Fertilizer. It's a no brainer, easy, easy to remember.

1023
01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:16.920
I always like going in there.
By the way, when you go in

1024
01:13:17.039 --> 01:13:23.399
there, I always tell folks ask
about their kneeling bench, their folding kneeling

1025
01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:26.880
bench. It's a low green bench. It folds up. It's got pads

1026
01:13:26.920 --> 01:13:29.479
on the top and the bottom.
Because you can flip it one way and

1027
01:13:29.680 --> 01:13:31.840
sit on it in the garden.
You can flip the other way. And

1028
01:13:32.000 --> 01:13:36.159
kneel on it in the garden,
and those legs become handles for getting up

1029
01:13:36.199 --> 01:13:40.640
and down. And if you're north
of forty years old, you know what

1030
01:13:40.720 --> 01:13:44.800
I'm talking about, up and down, up and down through a good Saturday

1031
01:13:44.920 --> 01:13:48.039
like we're having today, and you
wake up Sunday in the pre natal position,

1032
01:13:48.159 --> 01:13:51.600
if you know what I'm talking about, we get sore. It's like

1033
01:13:51.880 --> 01:13:56.239
I remember the first time I woke
up sore and I could not figure out

1034
01:13:56.279 --> 01:13:58.960
what on earth I had done the
day before to make me sore. Some

1035
01:13:59.159 --> 01:14:01.520
of you can done fight with that. If you can't now you will,

1036
01:14:02.079 --> 01:14:06.920
you will. But that kneeling bench
is a lifesaver. It's I would say

1037
01:14:06.920 --> 01:14:10.079
if I, if you were to
tell me, I'm going to take every

1038
01:14:10.119 --> 01:14:13.880
tool you got skip, I'm gonna
leave you with five tools. Kneeling bench

1039
01:14:13.920 --> 01:14:16.720
would be one of them. That
that's how that, that is how special

1040
01:14:16.800 --> 01:14:23.079
I think they are. You're listening
to Garden Line our phone number seven one

1041
01:14:23.239 --> 01:14:27.760
three two one two k t R
seven one three two in two k t

1042
01:14:28.359 --> 01:14:31.079
R H makes it really easy,
easy easy to get a hold of us

1043
01:14:31.159 --> 01:14:35.159
and get your gardening questions answered.
Uh if for those of you out in

1044
01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:40.800
the Kingwood area, worre in Southern
Gardens and Kingwood Garden Center. They have

1045
01:14:41.079 --> 01:14:45.680
stocked up and it is unbelievable.
Have you ever seen a saucer magnolia or

1046
01:14:45.720 --> 01:14:50.000
a tulip magnolia. They are gorgeous. These are plants that are deciduous,

1047
01:14:50.079 --> 01:14:54.439
not like southern magnolia. In the
spring, it's one of the first things

1048
01:14:54.520 --> 01:14:58.960
to bloom. They're budding out right
now. Uh. They have beautiful blooms

1049
01:14:59.159 --> 01:15:02.520
that are shaped kind of like a
tuliper, kind of like a saucer shape

1050
01:15:03.000 --> 01:15:06.880
and beautiful. And I'm not good
at colors, but let's just say few

1051
01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:12.960
sha pink, white, that that
range of colors. They are dis gorgeous.

1052
01:15:13.159 --> 01:15:15.720
Someone said they look like on a
big old saucer magnolia in full bloom

1053
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:20.880
looks like a thousand porcelain goblets out
there in the spring. And I don't

1054
01:15:20.920 --> 01:15:25.439
see a lot of saucer magnolias around
the area, and we ought to see

1055
01:15:25.479 --> 01:15:29.119
more because it's a cool plant,
a really good plant. We like to

1056
01:15:29.159 --> 01:15:32.399
spread out our blooms and beauty through
the through the months of the year.

1057
01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:36.119
Saucer magnolia is a big part of
doing that. While you're out there.

1058
01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:41.760
You can grab roses. They got
tomatoes. Oh my goodness. Tumbling tom.

1059
01:15:42.279 --> 01:15:45.600
Tumbling tom tomato is what you would
think. You put it in a

1060
01:15:45.680 --> 01:15:48.720
container and they'll sell you one in
a container and it just comes tumbling out.

1061
01:15:49.680 --> 01:15:54.000
One year at Bear Creek Park when
I was a county horticulturist here in

1062
01:15:54.119 --> 01:15:58.920
Harris County, we did a trial
of all these tomatoes and seven gallon containers.

1063
01:15:59.199 --> 01:16:02.520
Tumbling tom was the best one out
of like twenty different varieties. We

1064
01:16:02.680 --> 01:16:06.960
tried. Two hundred tomatoes per plant
is what we averaged on tumbling tom.

1065
01:16:08.439 --> 01:16:12.359
You need to go get you a
tumbling tom tomato out at Warren Southern Gardens

1066
01:16:12.880 --> 01:16:16.920
in the Kingwood area. Lots more
we could talk about lots of cool stuff.

1067
01:16:17.640 --> 01:16:24.359
Just go out there and check it
out, because it is. It's

1068
01:16:24.479 --> 01:16:27.239
amazing. But you got to give
one of those tumbling toms. The cool

1069
01:16:27.239 --> 01:16:30.000
thing about a hanging basket tomato too, is if it's going to frost,

1070
01:16:30.159 --> 01:16:33.079
just bring it in, carry it
back out, and hang it up again

1071
01:16:33.159 --> 01:16:38.640
when it's not frosting. That one
that is what we call a frostproof plant,

1072
01:16:38.720 --> 01:16:42.079
a plant that has legs that can
run inside like you do when it's

1073
01:16:42.119 --> 01:16:45.640
going to get really, really cold. I want to remind you that on

1074
01:16:46.000 --> 01:16:51.239
next Saturday, the twenty fourth,
Next Saturday, from twelve to two pm,

1075
01:16:53.159 --> 01:16:56.319
right after I leave Garden Line,
I'm gonna head straight up to A

1076
01:16:56.439 --> 01:17:00.840
and A Plants and Produce. That's
in Montgomery, Ana Plants and Produce,

1077
01:17:00.920 --> 01:17:05.319
and Montgomery is a great place.
You're gonna find every kind of thing that

1078
01:17:05.479 --> 01:17:09.760
you might need there. Do you
need seed potatoes, do you need onion

1079
01:17:09.920 --> 01:17:13.119
sets? Do you need fruit trees
or citrus? Yes, they have a

1080
01:17:13.199 --> 01:17:16.720
good selection of those already in Do
I talk about a product on garden Line,

1081
01:17:16.840 --> 01:17:19.600
They're gonna have it at A and
A. They've got all the nitropots,

1082
01:17:19.640 --> 01:17:23.039
they've got all the Nelson. In
fact, they have that turf star

1083
01:17:23.199 --> 01:17:26.359
line. Like the Weedonator I was
talking about. I'm gonna be giving away

1084
01:17:27.119 --> 01:17:32.520
eight bags of Weedonator one over fifteen
minutes next Saturday at Ana Plants in Montgomery,

1085
01:17:32.600 --> 01:17:36.600
Ana Plants and Produce twelve to two
pm. They're gonna have all your

1086
01:17:36.720 --> 01:17:42.600
microlife products. They're gonna have Nature's
Way leaf mold compost, both the fine

1087
01:17:42.640 --> 01:17:45.920
and the course texture. They're gonna
have all the heirloom soils, up there.

1088
01:17:45.359 --> 01:17:49.680
They're experts can do clean up around
your home. If you're up in

1089
01:17:49.760 --> 01:17:54.920
the Lake Conroe area, they come
out, they make it look good.

1090
01:17:55.000 --> 01:17:58.960
I mean, if you walked outside
right now, landscapes aren't always looking that

1091
01:17:59.079 --> 01:18:01.079
great right this time of the year. Hire an a and a expert to

1092
01:18:01.159 --> 01:18:04.720
come out, one of their landscape
crew to do a cleanup of your place.

1093
01:18:05.119 --> 01:18:08.920
And when you go there, my
lawn care schedule's right there at the

1094
01:18:09.000 --> 01:18:11.600
counter. You can just grab one
there, or you can print one up

1095
01:18:12.159 --> 01:18:15.760
long cair or the weed, pest
and disease schedule that I have online at

1096
01:18:15.880 --> 01:18:20.000
gardening with skip dot com. You
can find all that there. I hope

1097
01:18:20.039 --> 01:18:24.319
you'll come out and see me next
Saturday. If you have a plant you

1098
01:18:24.399 --> 01:18:27.800
want identified, if you have a
problem, you can put it in a

1099
01:18:27.880 --> 01:18:30.920
ziplock bag and bring it out.
If you have a photo on your phone,

1100
01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:33.159
we can take a look at photos. We'll spend some time face to

1101
01:18:33.279 --> 01:18:39.840
face looking at things, talking about
problems, talking about good ideas and plants

1102
01:18:39.920 --> 01:18:45.399
for certain areas all out there in
Ana. Next Saturday. My first nursery

1103
01:18:45.520 --> 01:18:49.800
appearance of this spring right out there, So come on out, all those

1104
01:18:49.840 --> 01:18:57.479
folks up in Lake Conrod Montgomery APIs
you know that region Ana plants and produce.

1105
01:18:57.520 --> 01:18:59.000
By the way, I don't know
if I told you, Bous.

1106
01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:01.880
They are open seven days a week
from nine to five, so it's always

1107
01:19:01.920 --> 01:19:06.319
a good time to swing by over
at an a. Well, here we

1108
01:19:06.439 --> 01:19:11.760
go another break at top of the
hour. When we come back, we

1109
01:19:11.920 --> 01:19:15.600
will go to the phones. K
will be our first up and after that

1110
01:19:15.800 --> 01:19:18.199
it'll be you if you give us
a call at seven one three two one

1111
01:19:18.319 --> 01:19:24.520
two k t r H seven one
three two one two k t r H

1112
01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:55.359
kt RH Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

1113
01:19:55.399 --> 01:20:08.840
on this program. Welcome to kt
r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's trim.

1114
01:20:09.600 --> 01:20:28.680
You just watch him as world a
Taste suppotas Welcome back, Welcome back

1115
01:20:28.720 --> 01:20:32.760
to Garden Line. It is daylight
enough to see outside, to get outside,

1116
01:20:32.880 --> 01:20:36.439
begin to do some of the tasks
that we have before us today.

1117
01:20:36.800 --> 01:20:42.039
Hey, by the way, uh, people have been just watching social media,

1118
01:20:42.239 --> 01:20:47.840
looking at my emails, looking just
general conversations going on. There's a

1119
01:20:47.960 --> 01:20:53.039
lot of people talking about planning tomatoes
and no, don't plant tomatoes. We're

1120
01:20:53.079 --> 01:20:56.840
going to have a freezer or frost
or whatever. Uh. Tonight, it's

1121
01:20:56.880 --> 01:20:59.239
going to get down pretty chilly.
Depends on where you are. You know,

1122
01:20:59.359 --> 01:21:01.880
the temper is vary a lot as
you go through the Greater Houston area,

1123
01:21:02.600 --> 01:21:06.800
but it's going to get down pretty
chilly, maybe thirty six around where

1124
01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:11.079
you live, maybe a little more, maybe a little less. Tomorrow night

1125
01:21:11.319 --> 01:21:14.920
is going to be another chilly night, and then starting Monday, we're beginning

1126
01:21:15.079 --> 01:21:18.560
a warm and warming trend. Like
Monday night, maybe around fifty where you

1127
01:21:18.720 --> 01:21:21.479
live, or a little bit lower, a little bit higher. And so

1128
01:21:21.880 --> 01:21:25.560
if you're going to get a tomato, go ahead and get it, bring

1129
01:21:25.640 --> 01:21:29.600
it home. And if you're going
to wait a while to plant it,

1130
01:21:29.760 --> 01:21:31.039
then pot it up, make it, put it in a bigger pot,

1131
01:21:31.560 --> 01:21:34.239
bring it home. But if you've
already got it there, you've had a

1132
01:21:34.359 --> 01:21:39.680
better chance to get the optimum selection. That's why I would recommend not waiting

1133
01:21:39.800 --> 01:21:43.079
to get the plants. I always
like to have things ahead of time,

1134
01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:46.119
and then when you're ready to plant
it, you can go out and plant

1135
01:21:46.199 --> 01:21:49.479
it. You can also put it
in a larger container start to grow it

1136
01:21:49.560 --> 01:21:55.640
out. When temperatures at night go
down in the forties or even mid to

1137
01:21:55.720 --> 01:21:59.439
lower fifties tomatoes aren't real happy with
that. They're okay with it, but

1138
01:21:59.479 --> 01:22:01.399
they don't want it, and so
it gives you a chance to bring it

1139
01:22:01.479 --> 01:22:06.520
in and just continue to speed that
growth along. So whenever you decide it's

1140
01:22:06.560 --> 01:22:11.239
safe to plant, and that's your
call, but just between you and the

1141
01:22:11.279 --> 01:22:15.520
weather, land and the vicissitudes of
nature, go ahead and plant it.

1142
01:22:15.560 --> 01:22:19.119
Because you have a plant that has
a good head start. So yeah,

1143
01:22:19.199 --> 01:22:24.600
I would not stick one in the
ground today and do nothing to protect it.

1144
01:22:24.960 --> 01:22:28.920
That won't end well, okay,
But you can protect it, or

1145
01:22:29.039 --> 01:22:31.239
you can pot it up and you
can take care of it a little bit

1146
01:22:31.760 --> 01:22:35.039
and get that head start. Because
the plant you put in the ground,

1147
01:22:35.159 --> 01:22:39.800
if you've potted it up and given
it a week or even two before you

1148
01:22:39.960 --> 01:22:43.239
know you're putting it out in the
ground, is going to be a much

1149
01:22:43.279 --> 01:22:45.199
stronger, better plant. All right, That's all I have to say about

1150
01:22:45.199 --> 01:22:48.119
that. We're going to go out
to k now in Pairland. Hello.

1151
01:22:48.119 --> 01:22:51.880
Okay, Hey, good morning,
Skip, Thank you for taking my call.

1152
01:22:53.399 --> 01:22:56.760
I spoke with you a couple of
weeks ago about a post emergent we

1153
01:22:57.199 --> 01:23:01.439
killer that I had, and you
recommended the Nelson's Weedenator, and I haven't

1154
01:23:01.479 --> 01:23:04.920
gotten it yet, and I have
a friend of mine was going to help

1155
01:23:05.000 --> 01:23:09.479
me do it, because I don't
think I can take it on myself anyway,

1156
01:23:10.439 --> 01:23:13.800
our schedules didn't work out work wise
or so forth, and then the

1157
01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:16.479
rain well on the day we could
do it. So I looked out in

1158
01:23:16.560 --> 01:23:23.720
my yard life of yesterday and it's
a little little tiny looks almost a little

1159
01:23:23.840 --> 01:23:28.640
clover like, little tiny weed.
Okay, it already has started putting out

1160
01:23:29.039 --> 01:23:32.439
some little tiny yellow flowers. Is
it too late for the weedenator? Now?

1161
01:23:32.920 --> 01:23:38.199
No, it's not. That is
oxalis. An oxalis you can even

1162
01:23:38.239 --> 01:23:40.760
pick one and put in your mouth
and chew. Want it to have a

1163
01:23:40.880 --> 01:23:44.439
lemony flavor, kind of unique.
Oh, I don't recommend adding it in

1164
01:23:44.600 --> 01:23:48.319
large quantities to salad. It has
oxalic acid, which also spinach does too.

1165
01:23:48.439 --> 01:23:50.760
But I'm not going to go into
the health of all that. Okay,

1166
01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:57.760
But that's exalis, and it is
a problematic weed. When it goes

1167
01:23:57.880 --> 01:24:01.039
to seed, the pod pops and
it slings those seed a long way.

1168
01:24:01.479 --> 01:24:09.239
I've seen oxalis on the floor of
a greenhouse cast seeds that landed up in

1169
01:24:09.279 --> 01:24:12.920
the pots on the tables, and
started to grow. That's what I mean

1170
01:24:12.960 --> 01:24:16.319
about casting seed. So the weed
enators find if you can get the granules

1171
01:24:16.399 --> 01:24:19.680
to stick to the leaf, you
just need the leaves to be wet and

1172
01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:25.039
so oh and I could have done
that after the rain man. You could

1173
01:24:25.079 --> 01:24:28.600
have Yeah, you don't want it
to rain after you apply it for at

1174
01:24:28.680 --> 01:24:31.800
least twenty four hours, but that
would be an option. If you find

1175
01:24:31.960 --> 01:24:35.239
that those leaves are just too little, you know, for the granule to

1176
01:24:35.319 --> 01:24:41.239
happen to land on them, then
you can go back and use a spray

1177
01:24:41.319 --> 01:24:45.720
type post emergent to control it and
take it back. But it is,

1178
01:24:46.079 --> 01:24:51.159
it is a problem. It's pretty
persistent. And because it's casting seed everywhere,

1179
01:24:51.640 --> 01:24:55.079
you know, if you killed every
one of them, new ones would

1180
01:24:55.119 --> 01:24:58.920
sprout up. That's just part of
the day. Yeah, yeah, that's

1181
01:24:59.279 --> 01:25:03.439
part of gardening and yarning you that's
right. Okay, Well you have a

1182
01:25:03.520 --> 01:25:06.720
great day. Thank you show you
as well. I appreciate that. Thank

1183
01:25:06.760 --> 01:25:12.439
you for being a listener. If
you are looking for a place where you

1184
01:25:12.520 --> 01:25:15.199
can get these products we talk about
on garden Line, and you live up

1185
01:25:15.319 --> 01:25:19.520
toward the Tumbul direction, well,
Plants for all Seasons is right there on

1186
01:25:19.720 --> 01:25:24.319
the side of Tomboll Parkway, which
is two forty nine. If you're going

1187
01:25:24.439 --> 01:25:30.119
north from Houston toward Tombul exit Luada, cross over Luada and it's right there

1188
01:25:30.199 --> 01:25:34.239
on the right hand side, easy
to get to. They have quality plants,

1189
01:25:34.439 --> 01:25:38.720
they have the species that ought to
be planted here, and they have

1190
01:25:38.880 --> 01:25:43.399
staff that knows that they're talking about. And that is not something that you

1191
01:25:43.600 --> 01:25:46.239
get in just any place. Plants
for All Seasons is the kind of place

1192
01:25:46.319 --> 01:25:51.560
you can go. You take your
plants, weeds, or examples in a

1193
01:25:51.720 --> 01:25:57.159
zip lock bag, take a picture
of something. They can help diagnose it

1194
01:25:57.279 --> 01:26:00.399
and they can take you to the
right solution. And they have plenty of

1195
01:26:00.479 --> 01:26:04.199
solutions there. Plants for All Seasons
dot com. That's the website, Plants

1196
01:26:04.279 --> 01:26:09.640
for All Seasons dot com. The
phone number two eight one three seven six

1197
01:26:09.920 --> 01:26:15.520
sixteen forty six to eight one three
seven six sixteen forty six. Listen.

1198
01:26:15.840 --> 01:26:17.840
If you've got a green thumb,
you probably already know about Plants for All

1199
01:26:17.880 --> 01:26:20.560
Seasons. If you got a brown
thumb, go buy there. They will

1200
01:26:20.600 --> 01:26:26.960
turn it green for you. Plants
for all Seasons. Let's see. Let's

1201
01:26:27.000 --> 01:26:31.119
go now out to Brenham and talk
to Mike. Hello Mike, Hello sir,

1202
01:26:32.039 --> 01:26:36.399
thank you for taking my call.
Yes, I have a couple of

1203
01:26:36.520 --> 01:26:44.720
peach trees that have been struggling the
last couple summers. They're about I guess

1204
01:26:44.760 --> 01:26:50.079
this is I guess this is their
third season they've been surviving. Last spring

1205
01:26:50.399 --> 01:26:55.840
they actually looked pretty good. I
had plenty of water on them. They

1206
01:26:55.920 --> 01:26:59.680
are somewhat elevated. They're not too
deep in the ground, I hope,

1207
01:27:00.720 --> 01:27:03.840
But I'd overheard you say something about
using nitrogen if they're not getting growth.

1208
01:27:04.600 --> 01:27:12.760
Yes, So, there can be
various reasons a peach doesn't get good growth.

1209
01:27:13.199 --> 01:27:17.159
Really bad soil conditions like a heavy
heavy clay, soggy wet soil conditions.

1210
01:27:18.079 --> 01:27:23.239
Put in a hole where the roots
and the pot were circling, and

1211
01:27:23.359 --> 01:27:27.600
now the whole is a clay hole
with slick sides, and the roots don't

1212
01:27:27.640 --> 01:27:30.680
want to establish, so it's easily
stressed because it's not getting the good root

1213
01:27:30.760 --> 01:27:35.039
system. Those are among many reasons
of peach could be struggling, But in

1214
01:27:35.159 --> 01:27:41.079
general, nitrogen pushes growth in green
color, and a healthy peach tree,

1215
01:27:41.359 --> 01:27:46.520
once it's kind of established, should
put on about eighteen inches of growth on

1216
01:27:46.640 --> 01:27:50.479
the ends of each terminal shoot through
the course of the season, it could

1217
01:27:50.520 --> 01:27:54.439
be a little more than that,
but if it's a lot more than that,

1218
01:27:54.720 --> 01:27:57.760
you may be overfertilizing. And when
it's young, you're putting on a

1219
01:27:57.920 --> 01:28:00.800
lot of new growth. So that
thing I said before about how much new

1220
01:28:00.880 --> 01:28:05.840
growth that doesn't apply to a one
or a two year old peach tree really

1221
01:28:06.000 --> 01:28:10.960
not so much even a three year
old peach tree. But you can kind

1222
01:28:11.000 --> 01:28:13.720
of use that as a guide.
Do I need to up the fertilizer,

1223
01:28:14.119 --> 01:28:17.039
Mike. One thing that I use
as a rolothon number one, I fertilize

1224
01:28:17.119 --> 01:28:21.760
my fruit trees with a lawn type
fertilizer. I'm going to take a break

1225
01:28:21.840 --> 01:28:25.439
right now. I want to come
back and give a little more information,

1226
01:28:25.560 --> 01:28:30.880
but I have to take a hard
break here. I'll be right back alrighty,

1227
01:28:30.920 --> 01:28:32.800
welcome back to guarden Line. We're
glad you're listening, of course,

1228
01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:36.119
as always, Hey, I want
to tell you about a product that I

1229
01:28:36.199 --> 01:28:39.920
haven't been talking about for a long
time because it's brand new out there on

1230
01:28:40.000 --> 01:28:44.560
the market. That's the three sixty
tree stabilizer. Now, what this is.

1231
01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:48.960
It's a bar that attaches to a
post and attaches to the tree,

1232
01:28:49.600 --> 01:28:55.279
and it has soft rubber straps to
do that when it attaches to the tree,

1233
01:28:55.319 --> 01:28:58.840
so it's not going to damage your
tree like wires will do. It

1234
01:28:59.359 --> 01:29:02.560
holds because it's a solid bar with
a wire. If you put if the

1235
01:29:02.600 --> 01:29:06.279
wind's blown away from where the wire's
anchored, if the wire's holding it,

1236
01:29:06.359 --> 01:29:11.760
if it blows toward where it's anchored, well you know, the wire gives

1237
01:29:11.840 --> 01:29:15.840
its slack with a stabilizer. Either
way the wind blows, it's going to

1238
01:29:15.880 --> 01:29:18.159
hold it. Will You can put
in a t post and it'll attach to

1239
01:29:18.279 --> 01:29:21.880
that with a very it's designed to
hold onto that. Or you can put

1240
01:29:21.960 --> 01:29:27.199
in just a round post post and
it'll attach to that as well. Because

1241
01:29:27.239 --> 01:29:30.880
of those traps, it allows some
movement. And movement is very important because

1242
01:29:31.159 --> 01:29:36.159
if you take any plant and you
do not allow it to move the stem

1243
01:29:36.279 --> 01:29:40.039
of that plant. In the case
of a tree, the trunk will not

1244
01:29:40.239 --> 01:29:46.720
get stronger when it moves and stretches. It strengthens the stem. That that's

1245
01:29:46.840 --> 01:29:50.119
true. If you're growing little tomato
seedlings in the house and you brush your

1246
01:29:50.159 --> 01:29:54.079
hand over them, they get stronger
if you move them two or three times

1247
01:29:54.079 --> 01:29:57.039
a day. Just move them gently
like the wind was blown, they get

1248
01:29:57.079 --> 01:30:00.640
stronger. It happens to tree trunks
too. More. By the way,

1249
01:30:00.880 --> 01:30:05.239
if you want a fun word to
impress your friends, that's called big momorphogenesis.

1250
01:30:05.680 --> 01:30:12.239
That's worth the price of admission.
Bigmomorphogenesis just mean the plant developing strength

1251
01:30:12.319 --> 01:30:15.680
and response to moving. Just like
our muscle stew go lift weights over and

1252
01:30:15.720 --> 01:30:18.600
over and over again, you get
stronger. That is why I like the

1253
01:30:18.760 --> 01:30:24.000
three sixty tree Stabilizer. It's a
quality product. I've seen them at RCW

1254
01:30:24.199 --> 01:30:29.680
Nurseries, Buchanans Arborgate plants for all
seasons. Jorges Hidden Gardens down South has

1255
01:30:29.800 --> 01:30:35.680
those as well. Three sixty Tree
Stabilize. Oh also Verdant Tree Farm has

1256
01:30:35.760 --> 01:30:40.319
those as well. Let's head back
to Mike. Now, Mike, we

1257
01:30:40.439 --> 01:30:45.239
were talking about peach trees and I
wanted to add one more comment, and

1258
01:30:45.359 --> 01:30:48.760
that is I use a lawn fertilizer. That ratio is really good for getting

1259
01:30:48.800 --> 01:30:55.399
a tree growing. And I put
one or two cups of fertilizer per inch

1260
01:30:55.600 --> 01:30:59.640
of trunk diameter. So using your
thumb is pretty close to an inch.

1261
01:31:00.279 --> 01:31:03.880
Just how many thumb wits wide is
that trunk? So if it's let's say

1262
01:31:04.000 --> 01:31:09.279
it's a coc cola can. Well, that's about three inches across, so

1263
01:31:09.439 --> 01:31:14.640
you would get three to six cups
of fertilizer spread evenly underneath the tree.

1264
01:31:15.319 --> 01:31:20.800
Now I use a lot of organic
fertilizers, which obviously the nitrogen contents a

1265
01:31:20.920 --> 01:31:25.239
lot less. Yeah, Is that
still the amount you would get? No,

1266
01:31:25.359 --> 01:31:27.159
I would. I would up it
for that. I should have made

1267
01:31:27.199 --> 01:31:30.560
that point. I would up it, probably double it, depending on the

1268
01:31:30.640 --> 01:31:35.039
fertilizer you choose, Like let's say
it's a Microlife six two four the green

1269
01:31:35.119 --> 01:31:39.399
bag for example. I would say, then on that one, you could

1270
01:31:39.399 --> 01:31:42.079
double it or even triple it.
You're not going to burn the plants with

1271
01:31:42.159 --> 01:31:46.239
that fertilizer. Or I would double
it and then maybe a month or two

1272
01:31:46.319 --> 01:31:51.039
in, maybe two months in I
would do it again and spread it out,

1273
01:31:51.119 --> 01:31:55.600
spread it out a little bit.
Okay, okay, excellent, all

1274
01:31:55.680 --> 01:31:58.319
right time, sir, Yes,
sir, thank you. I appreciate your

1275
01:31:58.359 --> 01:32:02.960
call very much. The let's see
we want to go now out to spring

1276
01:32:03.159 --> 01:32:09.039
and talk to Scott. Hello,
Scott, Laurie Skiff, I have a

1277
01:32:09.159 --> 01:32:15.199
question about a vegetable garden. The
soil built a six by twelve foot tenions

1278
01:32:15.359 --> 01:32:20.439
deep guard last year. Fill it
with roast soil and just wondering what I

1279
01:32:20.520 --> 01:32:25.560
need to do this year to enhance
the soil, or what do I add

1280
01:32:25.640 --> 01:32:28.880
to it. If you built it
out of roast soil, you've got a

1281
01:32:29.039 --> 01:32:31.880
lot of organic matter still there,
so you don't need to add more compost.

1282
01:32:32.199 --> 01:32:35.239
If you want to mix you know, half inch into the surface or

1283
01:32:35.279 --> 01:32:40.199
something for your next planting, you
can do that, but there's not a

1284
01:32:40.640 --> 01:32:45.039
need to add a lot more.
But occasionally you're going to want to do

1285
01:32:45.159 --> 01:32:50.079
that or add more roast soil and
mix it in and just continue to continue

1286
01:32:50.159 --> 01:32:56.000
to maintain the depth because any organic
matter is going to decompose the way over

1287
01:32:56.159 --> 01:32:59.840
time, and so the level those
beds, if they're start off ten,

1288
01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:02.199
which is high, they're going to
you know, in time, be eight

1289
01:33:02.279 --> 01:33:05.119
inches six inches. You know,
they're going to settle in. So just

1290
01:33:05.279 --> 01:33:11.079
keep topping it off with the product
that you started with. Yeah, it's

1291
01:33:11.520 --> 01:33:15.520
settle about three inches so far,
so I just kip some more and to

1292
01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:17.279
add to it. Yeah, some
of that settling too, is just the

1293
01:33:17.359 --> 01:33:20.520
initial settling. I mean, you
could pile up dirt and it's going to

1294
01:33:20.600 --> 01:33:25.880
settle, you know, after you
loosen it up and pile it up and

1295
01:33:26.039 --> 01:33:30.359
some of it is that gradual decomposition. All right, Okay, thank you

1296
01:33:30.479 --> 01:33:33.279
sir. You bet good luck with
that. I wish you well. Hey,

1297
01:33:33.279 --> 01:33:39.319
you've heard me talk about Landscaper's Pride
before. Landscaper's Pride is local New

1298
01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:46.000
Waverley company, top quality resources.
Really they take basically green material from wood

1299
01:33:46.119 --> 01:33:50.000
to leaves, to all kinds of
things that come through that industry and they

1300
01:33:50.079 --> 01:33:54.279
basically turn it into some of the
best stuff that you can put on your

1301
01:33:54.319 --> 01:33:57.600
ground. That twenty seven different bag
products. Do you need a rose mix?

1302
01:33:58.319 --> 01:34:01.119
They've got that. They sell a
row mix. It's composted and it

1303
01:34:01.239 --> 01:34:06.319
also includes a slow release fertilizer added
to it. The forty pound potting soil

1304
01:34:06.520 --> 01:34:10.840
is good for a potting soil.
I use it for seeds starting as well,

1305
01:34:11.680 --> 01:34:16.039
and it's easy. The black velvet
most beautiful, naturally dark black product

1306
01:34:16.119 --> 01:34:21.479
that is beautiful to go to Landscaperspride
dot com. Landscaperspride dot com, look

1307
01:34:21.520 --> 01:34:25.840
at all the products they have widely
available, and when you're on the website,

1308
01:34:25.880 --> 01:34:28.399
you can find every place that you
can get it, and it is

1309
01:34:29.199 --> 01:34:34.399
very widely available. That really incredibly
broad line of quality products. From Landscaper's

1310
01:34:34.439 --> 01:34:39.239
Pride. Let's go back to Lake
Conro now and we're going to talk to

1311
01:34:39.359 --> 01:34:45.199
Joanne. Hey, Joanne, Yes, good morning morning. I think I

1312
01:34:45.359 --> 01:34:47.640
know the answer, but I'm going
to ask the question anyway. Okay,

1313
01:34:48.439 --> 01:34:53.359
was a beautiful day last week and
I got the urge to put some seeds,

1314
01:34:53.920 --> 01:34:59.279
tomato, seeds, bean and beat
in a few containers. Well,

1315
01:34:59.319 --> 01:35:02.680
then the turned ugly. We lost
the sunshine, it got cool and blah

1316
01:35:02.800 --> 01:35:09.680
blah. So my seeds were outside
covered, but I'm afraid I'm not going

1317
01:35:09.760 --> 01:35:16.600
to see anything grow. Correct.
Did seedlings come up and then they got

1318
01:35:16.680 --> 01:35:20.600
covered? No, No, nothing
happened. I just put the seeds.

1319
01:35:20.880 --> 01:35:25.279
They'll come up. They'll come up. What I would do, and they've

1320
01:35:25.279 --> 01:35:28.920
been outside in this weather, yeah, they'll be fine. What I would

1321
01:35:28.960 --> 01:35:33.520
do is I'd bring those containers in
and put them somewhere where you will look

1322
01:35:33.560 --> 01:35:35.680
at them all the time. You
know, I don't know. If you

1323
01:35:35.720 --> 01:35:39.720
got a kitchen counter thing, put
a little towel on it or something.

1324
01:35:40.119 --> 01:35:44.399
Set them on that and just watch
them because in the warmer indoor temperatures,

1325
01:35:44.439 --> 01:35:48.079
they're going to sprout better and they'll
get going. Once they start to sprout,

1326
01:35:48.520 --> 01:35:51.479
then go ahead and move them out
into a really good light. Don't

1327
01:35:51.520 --> 01:35:56.840
give them like three days of after
sprouting, or they'll get real lanky.

1328
01:35:57.760 --> 01:36:00.279
How about watering? Can I just
splash some water on each one, Just

1329
01:36:00.439 --> 01:36:05.560
make sure while make sure the soil
surface surface stays moist. You don't need

1330
01:36:05.680 --> 01:36:10.239
to drench the whole pot over and
over and over again. Just just a

1331
01:36:10.319 --> 01:36:15.760
little water to keep where that seed
is moist. Okay. Another question I

1332
01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:23.880
did see on Facebook or somewhere people
were using boxes, cardboard boxes like Amazon

1333
01:36:24.680 --> 01:36:30.039
or whatever packaging box, putting dirt
and putting seeds and setting them out on

1334
01:36:30.199 --> 01:36:33.439
the ground as a raised bed.
I guess, yeah, is that going

1335
01:36:33.479 --> 01:36:38.920
to work? People love novelty?
Can you do that? Yeah? You

1336
01:36:39.000 --> 01:36:43.079
could pole a shovel full of dirt
on your five gallon bucket of dirt,

1337
01:36:43.239 --> 01:36:45.039
dump it on your driveway and plant
in it and you can grow stuff.

1338
01:36:45.439 --> 01:36:48.199
But that's not a very great way
to do it, and those boxes will

1339
01:36:48.239 --> 01:36:53.600
fall apart. It'll just be a
big mess, right, Okay, All

1340
01:36:53.720 --> 01:36:58.880
right, Well I'll concentrate on bringing
my keats inside work few days there you

1341
01:36:59.000 --> 01:37:01.880
go, all right, thank thank
you. I appreciate appreciate your call.

1342
01:37:02.000 --> 01:37:06.600
Very much. You know the folks
at Pierscapes, we talk about them all

1343
01:37:06.640 --> 01:37:11.520
the time. But if your landscape
is looking worse for the wear after last

1344
01:37:11.560 --> 01:37:18.279
summer, Pierscapes can help. If
your irrigation system isn't providing a nice even

1345
01:37:18.399 --> 01:37:23.199
application of water. That's what happened
last summer for a lot of folks is

1346
01:37:23.560 --> 01:37:28.119
the system was not very uniform and
some areas just didn't get enough water.

1347
01:37:29.399 --> 01:37:32.279
Maybe you got to run overhead out
there and it needs to be replaced.

1348
01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:36.880
Maybe you want to redo the backyard
and create a beautiful rock patio. Maybe

1349
01:37:36.920 --> 01:37:40.640
you want to put a water feature
in. Do you see what I'm saying?

1350
01:37:40.760 --> 01:37:44.000
Landscape lighting Pierce Scapes can do at
all. They can do all of

1351
01:37:44.039 --> 01:37:45.680
it, and if you go to
their website you will see the kind of

1352
01:37:45.760 --> 01:37:50.359
work they can do. It's unbelievable. Piercescapes dot com. Now, if

1353
01:37:50.399 --> 01:37:55.439
you see a taj Mahal with all
of this work they've done, don't think

1354
01:37:55.520 --> 01:38:00.520
they can't also turn your small little
spot into a beautiful et as well.

1355
01:38:00.640 --> 01:38:03.800
Give them a call at two eight
one three seven oh fifty sixty two eight

1356
01:38:03.840 --> 01:38:10.880
one three seven fifty sixty are Pierce
Scapes dot com and let them turn your

1357
01:38:10.920 --> 01:38:14.039
home into a beautiful place. You
want to have people over, you want

1358
01:38:14.039 --> 01:38:16.159
to get out and enjoy it.
Pierce Scapes can do that. We're going

1359
01:38:16.199 --> 01:38:19.479
to head out now to Brownsville and
talk to Bob. Hello, Bob,

1360
01:38:20.439 --> 01:38:27.319
Hi, I have a question for
you, Skip. I have some live

1361
01:38:27.399 --> 01:38:31.119
oak trees in my yard and I've
heard that they are subject to oak wilt?

1362
01:38:31.239 --> 01:38:35.600
Is that true? Yes? Yes, oh yes. But here's what

1363
01:38:35.720 --> 01:38:40.279
you need to do, Bob.
I don't know Brownsville area very well.

1364
01:38:40.680 --> 01:38:46.720
If you go to Texas Oakwilt dot
RG, they have maps of where oak

1365
01:38:46.720 --> 01:38:50.239
wilt's been seen. It may have
never occurred in your county. It may

1366
01:38:50.279 --> 01:38:54.840
have been only seen once or twice, and so there's probably not any near

1367
01:38:54.960 --> 01:38:57.880
you where it's going to be a
big deal. Would you just if you

1368
01:38:57.920 --> 01:39:01.000
have any questions, anytime you make
a ringing cut on the tree, you

1369
01:39:01.079 --> 01:39:04.520
want to immediately don't go inside and
take an out and come back out.

1370
01:39:04.800 --> 01:39:11.359
Immediately paint it with a pruning paint
and that will seal that wound and prevent

1371
01:39:11.479 --> 01:39:15.880
the entry of oak wilt through the
wound. Okay, but text then it's

1372
01:39:15.920 --> 01:39:20.560
an air born tape of disease.
I was told that the roots tend to

1373
01:39:20.680 --> 01:39:25.399
pick it up air near other oak
trees. If you have an oak tree

1374
01:39:25.439 --> 01:39:29.399
that has oak wuilt nearby, the
roots do join and it can travel that

1375
01:39:29.520 --> 01:39:33.000
way to the tree. If the
wound occurs, a little beetle goes and

1376
01:39:33.079 --> 01:39:38.680
feeds on spores and flies in and
feeds on your wound. It's not airborne.

1377
01:39:38.840 --> 01:39:42.680
It's brought in by a beadle.
All right, Okay, thanks sir,

1378
01:39:43.079 --> 01:39:46.760
Ye take care much. Yep.
Anybody listening texasoak Quilt dot org.

1379
01:39:47.039 --> 01:39:50.640
That is important. We've been talking
about weeds today and I talked about barricade

1380
01:39:50.680 --> 01:39:54.479
earlier. I'm going to tell you
about it again. Barricade is a pre

1381
01:39:54.600 --> 01:40:00.800
emergent. It prevents weed seeds from
successfully germinating and established a plant. Barricade

1382
01:40:00.880 --> 01:40:04.079
works very very well. You need
to put it down. You need to

1383
01:40:04.239 --> 01:40:08.039
follow the label. I don't care
whether it's a sex side of fung,

1384
01:40:08.159 --> 01:40:12.359
side of herbicide. Always follow the
label. Stick with the label. That

1385
01:40:12.560 --> 01:40:16.000
is the safe way to apply something, to avoid issues and to get the

1386
01:40:16.199 --> 01:40:20.319
proper product effect that you're putting it
out for. Now, where do you

1387
01:40:20.359 --> 01:40:25.920
find barricade well, nitro foss is
available all over the area. Where do

1388
01:40:26.000 --> 01:40:29.600
you live? I mean, do
you live up in Montgomery, Jim's Hardware's

1389
01:40:29.600 --> 01:40:31.600
got it? Do you live over
in Alvin Stanton Shopping Center's got it?

1390
01:40:31.680 --> 01:40:34.800
Do you live northwest? Up at
Plants for all Seasons on two forty nine?

1391
01:40:35.000 --> 01:40:39.720
Yep, they've got barricade two.
Not hard to find, very very

1392
01:40:39.800 --> 01:40:43.920
easy. We're going to take a
little break here, let the news and

1393
01:40:44.079 --> 01:40:48.079
weather do its thing, and then
we'll be right back. Welcome back to

1394
01:40:48.159 --> 01:40:51.399
Guardline. Hey, thanks for listening
today. We are glad you're tuning in.

1395
01:40:51.520 --> 01:40:56.359
I hope it's a valuable show for
you where you get lots of tips

1396
01:40:56.399 --> 01:40:59.760
and ideas help you save money,
but also at the same time have a

1397
01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:02.800
beautiful, beautiful landscape. A lot
of people waste money buying plants and won't

1398
01:41:02.840 --> 01:41:06.560
grow here. A lot of way
people waste money buying products that don't work

1399
01:41:08.119 --> 01:41:10.960
or applying them in a way or
a time that doesn't work, and we're

1400
01:41:11.000 --> 01:41:15.720
going to help you avoid that in
the process. Let's head out to Galveston,

1401
01:41:15.760 --> 01:41:17.560
Texas, and we're going to talk
to Steven this morning. Hey Stephen,

1402
01:41:18.560 --> 01:41:23.039
Hey, good morning, Thanks for
taking my call. You bet Yeah,

1403
01:41:23.279 --> 01:41:28.159
So two quick questions. Can I
go ahead and cut back my crate

1404
01:41:28.199 --> 01:41:31.479
myrtles and to do the spring pruning
on that is? The second question is

1405
01:41:32.079 --> 01:41:34.560
I had a high biscus that even
though I put a heater in it and

1406
01:41:34.720 --> 01:41:38.760
wrapped it, it got hammered.
Can I go ahead and cut that back

1407
01:41:38.800 --> 01:41:41.800
as well? Yeah, the crate
myrtles. Yes, it's a good time

1408
01:41:42.000 --> 01:41:45.840
to prune. Crp myrtles. Just
remember when you print it that you you

1409
01:41:45.000 --> 01:41:49.119
don't butcher it. Don't drive around
looking at landscapes and prune like that.

1410
01:41:49.439 --> 01:41:54.680
Ninety percent of the crate myrtles out
there are mispruned by far. You want

1411
01:41:54.720 --> 01:41:59.680
to let the natural, beautiful branching
of the plant be enhanced. Don't stub

1412
01:41:59.760 --> 01:42:02.239
them off like the top of a
broom handle, just you know wherever.

1413
01:42:02.840 --> 01:42:09.520
Just create a beautiful shape without creating
those knobs that everybody else does. As

1414
01:42:09.560 --> 01:42:15.159
far as the sorry remind me of
the other plants. Yes, buscus,

1415
01:42:15.840 --> 01:42:17.159
if it's dead, it's not going
to come back to life. You can

1416
01:42:17.199 --> 01:42:21.520
cut it off. I avoid pruning
down into living wood because pruning is a

1417
01:42:21.640 --> 01:42:26.479
stimulating process. And you know,
we still got a little cool weather and

1418
01:42:26.560 --> 01:42:30.520
hibiscus doesn't like cool weather, and
so I would just if you scratch it

1419
01:42:30.560 --> 01:42:33.920
with your little fingernail thumbnail, a
little planet knife, and it's brown underneath,

1420
01:42:34.000 --> 01:42:39.079
it can come off. If it's
greenish underneath, don't prune back into

1421
01:42:39.159 --> 01:42:43.199
that. Okay. So a third
of it turned out perfectly where the heater

1422
01:42:43.439 --> 01:42:46.560
was, and the other two thirds
is not dead, but it's the tits

1423
01:42:46.600 --> 01:42:49.359
are dead. So you're telling me
actual wait on the whole thing. Yeah,

1424
01:42:50.560 --> 01:42:54.079
well you could. I like to
wait. The plant will tell you

1425
01:42:54.119 --> 01:42:58.000
where to prune if you wait.
But if you want to use your thumbnail

1426
01:42:58.079 --> 01:43:01.119
or a knife just to scrape back
and make sure that those branches are dead

1427
01:43:01.239 --> 01:43:05.079
it didn't just burn the leaves off
of them, then you could prone back.

1428
01:43:05.520 --> 01:43:10.079
If you see paper sack brown color
underneath the bark, then it's not

1429
01:43:10.199 --> 01:43:15.600
gonna come back to life in that
spot. Great. I appreciate that very

1430
01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:20.560
much. Thank you very much.
So it's good to get advice before you

1431
01:43:20.680 --> 01:43:25.960
go pruning, because there is a
lot of a lot of things that you

1432
01:43:26.039 --> 01:43:30.600
know we can we can cause problem
and pruning is a stimulating process. So

1433
01:43:30.439 --> 01:43:34.199
everybody, you know, when I
answer questions, I realized that I'm talking

1434
01:43:34.239 --> 01:43:36.960
to a lot of different people.
With a lot of different preferences and a

1435
01:43:38.039 --> 01:43:41.920
lot of different abilities and whatnot.
And there's no one way to skin a

1436
01:43:42.000 --> 01:43:45.399
cat. You know, tomatoes was
our topic earlier, and so here here's

1437
01:43:45.600 --> 01:43:49.199
that's an example. Do I buy
it tomato today? Well, one answer

1438
01:43:49.279 --> 01:43:53.479
is no, wait until it's not
gonna frost anymore and buy it. Another

1439
01:43:53.640 --> 01:43:57.199
answer is yes, put it in
the ground and be ready to cover it

1440
01:43:57.319 --> 01:44:01.840
up tonight with a cover that's playtic, that holds all the dead airspace underneath

1441
01:44:01.880 --> 01:44:06.479
it. Another answer is yes,
buy it, bring it in, Pot

1442
01:44:06.560 --> 01:44:10.439
it up, and you can bring
it in at night, put it back

1443
01:44:10.520 --> 01:44:14.119
out during the day, and when
the danger of frost is passed, then

1444
01:44:14.199 --> 01:44:15.399
you can put it out and you
have a bigger plant to show for it.

1445
01:44:15.800 --> 01:44:19.279
That's just an example. There's not
one right answer. Oftentimes, by

1446
01:44:19.319 --> 01:44:24.840
the way, there is a right
place to get plants. And if you

1447
01:44:24.960 --> 01:44:30.039
live down in the Heights area or
anywhere run Houston, really Buchanan's native plants

1448
01:44:30.319 --> 01:44:33.359
they always have a great selection.
They just got in a bunch of boogainvillias.

1449
01:44:33.520 --> 01:44:35.840
And now that's an example. When
you know it's going to be in

1450
01:44:35.880 --> 01:44:40.279
the thirties outside, you don't need
a booga and villa outside. Buy it

1451
01:44:40.399 --> 01:44:43.920
while you got selection, bringing in
the house, bringing in the garage.

1452
01:44:43.920 --> 01:44:45.760
If you don't want it in your
house, they look good enough to bring

1453
01:44:45.840 --> 01:44:48.880
in the house and just put them
out on sunny days. Hibiscus is the

1454
01:44:48.920 --> 01:44:51.119
same way, and yeah, they
got a new shipment of those in.

1455
01:44:51.520 --> 01:44:57.640
Buchanans is on East eleventh Street and
the Heights and the website you need to

1456
01:44:57.720 --> 01:45:03.159
know Buchanan's Plants Buchanan's Plants dot com. You need to sign up for their

1457
01:45:03.279 --> 01:45:08.560
free newsletter to get ongoing information.
And boy do they have a lot of

1458
01:45:08.640 --> 01:45:13.079
helpful things on that website to guide
you as well. Buchanan's Plant's always fun

1459
01:45:13.119 --> 01:45:15.199
to go. I'm'll be there this
spring. I'll tell you more about it

1460
01:45:15.239 --> 01:45:17.039
as we get closer to it,
but I'm going to visit the folks and

1461
01:45:17.399 --> 01:45:23.760
be out there answering questions of Buchanan's
plants. Let's now head out to Lake

1462
01:45:23.880 --> 01:45:28.760
Jackson and talk to Ronnie. Hello, Ronnie, appreciate you taking the call.

1463
01:45:29.560 --> 01:45:35.079
Quick question. I grow summer gardens
more, not do anything but my

1464
01:45:35.239 --> 01:45:41.239
wife. I usually plant cauliflower in
the fall. Let it go, Yes,

1465
01:45:41.720 --> 01:45:45.079
my wife asked me the other day
and she evidently likes the cauliflower fresh.

1466
01:45:45.560 --> 01:45:50.720
If I could plant cauliflower during the
summer, and so I'm asking you

1467
01:45:51.439 --> 01:45:56.520
not during the summer, you could
probably talk me into getting into late planting

1468
01:45:56.680 --> 01:46:01.079
right now for spring. But cauliflower
is not like heat, and it stresses.

1469
01:46:01.159 --> 01:46:05.039
And if cauliflower anywhere along the way
gets stressed, you're not going to

1470
01:46:05.079 --> 01:46:10.000
get those nice, big, beautiful
coliflower heads that you hoped for. You'll

1471
01:46:10.039 --> 01:46:13.319
get something about the size of a
golf ball, yes, sir, and

1472
01:46:13.439 --> 01:46:15.560
I will try it. I appreciate
it, all right, sir, you

1473
01:46:15.680 --> 01:46:19.439
take care. Thanks for the call. Appreciate that as well. We are

1474
01:46:19.520 --> 01:46:24.000
now going to run out to Seabrook
and talk to Rob. Hey. Rob,

1475
01:46:25.079 --> 01:46:27.159
Hey, how you doing, buddy. I'm good, sir. How

1476
01:46:27.199 --> 01:46:30.239
can we help excellent? Yeah,
So I got two issues going on.

1477
01:46:30.399 --> 01:46:32.880
Number one, I've got some citrus
in the backyard, and I've had white

1478
01:46:32.920 --> 01:46:36.039
flies and leaf miners on that.
Right now, I've got a lot of

1479
01:46:36.079 --> 01:46:40.359
blossoms, and I want to take
care I'm already starting to see some white

1480
01:46:40.399 --> 01:46:44.960
flies. So I was wanting to
understand or know if it's okay for me

1481
01:46:45.079 --> 01:46:49.039
to go ahead and put any kind
of insectidle soap or maybe some knee oil

1482
01:46:49.119 --> 01:46:53.600
on those while the blossoms are there, you can do a horticultural oil.

1483
01:46:54.319 --> 01:46:58.720
I would do that. Bees come
to those blossoms. And I really like

1484
01:46:58.760 --> 01:47:02.800
to avoid and insecticide on cetrus when
it's blooming. That that is a I'll

1485
01:47:02.840 --> 01:47:09.800
say a poison and texticidal soap spray
upward from underneath the plant and get as

1486
01:47:09.880 --> 01:47:14.239
many of the bottoms of the leaves
coated as you can. White Flies have

1487
01:47:14.359 --> 01:47:16.840
a pupil stage. It looks like
a little tiny fish scale underneath the leaf,

1488
01:47:17.279 --> 01:47:21.760
and oil coats that and kills it
by smothering it. And so make

1489
01:47:21.880 --> 01:47:27.720
sure you direct your oil sprays upward
on a citrus plant to get the white

1490
01:47:27.720 --> 01:47:32.199
flies under the leaves. Scale also
good coverage. All these all these pests,

1491
01:47:32.359 --> 01:47:36.000
white flies and scale you mentioned you
need to smother them with oil.

1492
01:47:36.199 --> 01:47:43.079
So the degree of your coverage is
the degree of your control. Gotcha,

1493
01:47:43.359 --> 01:47:47.680
Okay, thanks. My second issue
is wild violet in my backyard. Okay,

1494
01:47:48.359 --> 01:47:51.720
so I've been battling that for about
three years. I've tried manual removal,

1495
01:47:53.359 --> 01:47:58.680
tried the two four D amy I've
also tried another another one that was

1496
01:47:58.720 --> 01:48:02.720
recommended. I forget that of it, but including the uh, the spreadersticker.

1497
01:48:02.720 --> 01:48:05.159
I seemed to be able to kill
my grass really well, but never

1498
01:48:05.239 --> 01:48:11.840
really fully eradicate the wild violet.
So anyway to get that out, well,

1499
01:48:11.840 --> 01:48:15.439
I'm surprised the two four D amine
didn't form didn't work on it.

1500
01:48:15.840 --> 01:48:18.439
It's pretty good for all kinds of
broad leaf issues, even brushy types of

1501
01:48:18.560 --> 01:48:25.720
issues. I would not killing your
grass is a challenge. There's a product

1502
01:48:25.800 --> 01:48:29.560
that contains triclope here that works really
well, but if you get it on

1503
01:48:29.640 --> 01:48:31.479
the grass, it's going to do
damage to your Saint Augustine. So that

1504
01:48:31.600 --> 01:48:35.239
would be more of a spot spray, you know, just try to or

1505
01:48:35.359 --> 01:48:43.680
dab it on the leaves with a
sponge type applicator. But other than that,

1506
01:48:45.279 --> 01:48:48.039
trying to think of what else you
might try. The problem is the

1507
01:48:48.119 --> 01:48:53.319
Saint Augustine being in the in the
same spot. That really limits Well.

1508
01:48:53.319 --> 01:48:57.840
I'm okay, I'm okay killing off
my Saint Augustine returfing, but I've actually

1509
01:48:57.920 --> 01:49:01.920
done that in one spot. What
the wild violet comes back? I can't

1510
01:49:01.960 --> 01:49:10.079
ever seem to actually kill the roots. Okay, good question. I'm hitting

1511
01:49:10.159 --> 01:49:14.199
a hard break here, Rob let
me think about that. When I come

1512
01:49:14.279 --> 01:49:17.199
back, I'll make a couple of
comments on it, but I need to

1513
01:49:17.399 --> 01:49:20.279
need to run to a break right
now. There's not gonna be a lot

1514
01:49:20.279 --> 01:49:23.479
of great answers, but I'll give
you something when I come right back.

1515
01:49:23.520 --> 01:49:27.479
Okay, thank you for appreciate you
a you can if you wish, all

1516
01:49:27.560 --> 01:49:30.079
right, we'll be right back seven
one three two one two kt r H.

1517
01:49:32.359 --> 01:49:35.359
Well, welcome back to garden Line. We're glad you're listening in today.

1518
01:49:35.760 --> 01:49:41.000
Hey, we had a question right
before we took break and it was

1519
01:49:41.079 --> 01:49:44.920
regarding wild violets in the lawn and
Rob from Don and Seabrook asked about that.

1520
01:49:45.039 --> 01:49:49.039
The problem is finding stuff that's strong
enough to kill them and not kill

1521
01:49:49.039 --> 01:49:51.680
your Saint Augustine is a problem.
He was saying, Well, he's willing

1522
01:49:51.760 --> 01:49:56.960
to lose some Saint Augustine to get
rid of him. I would say again

1523
01:49:57.039 --> 01:50:00.159
that I still think that a broad
leaf weed CA that has two four D

1524
01:50:00.439 --> 01:50:08.000
and di camba is probably your best
bets using those now. If you use

1525
01:50:08.079 --> 01:50:12.840
them now, then there's not going
to be as much damage to Saint Augustine

1526
01:50:12.920 --> 01:50:15.520
as when the weather heats up and
you're in the nineties. Then you get

1527
01:50:15.520 --> 01:50:17.439
a lot of you can get a
lot of damage from some of those products.

1528
01:50:17.920 --> 01:50:24.680
So two for d or dikemba,
either one of those ingredients put on

1529
01:50:24.800 --> 01:50:29.520
the violet will give you pretty good
control of them. The alternative I mentioned

1530
01:50:29.680 --> 01:50:34.319
was using Triclopeer Tricolo peer products or
label for some types of turf grass,

1531
01:50:34.399 --> 01:50:41.399
but not the Saint Augustine. They
kill broad leaves, brushy weeds, poison

1532
01:50:41.439 --> 01:50:44.399
ivy and things like that. So
a spot spray on a wild violet that's

1533
01:50:44.439 --> 01:50:46.800
going to kill it too. But
I think the two for d DA kembas

1534
01:50:46.880 --> 01:50:53.079
are your two options probably that are
the best way to go for dealing with

1535
01:50:53.199 --> 01:50:56.560
that. I want to run by
the way, where do you get products

1536
01:50:56.640 --> 01:50:59.399
like these that I'm talking about?
Like, who's ever heard of triclop heer,

1537
01:50:59.479 --> 01:51:02.359
Right, it's in brush control,
poison ivy control, and it's in

1538
01:51:02.439 --> 01:51:08.960
places primarily I would look at ACE
Hardware. Ace Hardware stores or there's forty

1539
01:51:08.960 --> 01:51:11.560
of them all over the Houston area, so you always are going to have

1540
01:51:11.600 --> 01:51:14.920
one nearby. And yes, I've
seen those kind of products in there.

1541
01:51:15.159 --> 01:51:18.920
They do carry those kind of products, and so just make sure that when

1542
01:51:19.000 --> 01:51:21.439
you go in. You tell them
the weeds you're looking for, tell them

1543
01:51:21.479 --> 01:51:24.920
the product you're looking for, and
they're going to set you up. You

1544
01:51:25.000 --> 01:51:30.439
can go to Acehardware dot com and
find the store locator and find the one

1545
01:51:30.720 --> 01:51:33.239
near you. They're going to have
the fertilizers. They are stocked up.

1546
01:51:33.279 --> 01:51:36.159
They was telling me that they had
a whole bunch of nitroposs products that had

1547
01:51:36.199 --> 01:51:40.920
come in. We're talking about those
today. They have every kind of fertilizer

1548
01:51:41.119 --> 01:51:44.800
you're going to need, the organic, synthetic, they've got them. They've

1549
01:51:44.800 --> 01:51:48.359
got the products to control everything to
have a beautiful, successful lawn. And

1550
01:51:48.479 --> 01:51:51.399
now's the time to get out there, get ahead of things, and get

1551
01:51:51.439 --> 01:51:56.000
on it. And ACE Hardware can
help you do just that. I'm going

1552
01:51:56.039 --> 01:51:59.119
to run out to Seabrook now and
talk to Rob. Hey, Rob,

1553
01:52:00.800 --> 01:52:02.680
Hey, Chips, Sorry, you
already got me on the last call,

1554
01:52:02.840 --> 01:52:06.760
so so I hung on to Oh
I'm sorry, I was thinking we had

1555
01:52:06.760 --> 01:52:11.239
another Rob. Yeah, so you
heard what I just said about the violets,

1556
01:52:11.439 --> 01:52:13.520
then, right, yes, sir, yeah, yeah, yeah,

1557
01:52:13.560 --> 01:52:16.279
thank you very much. Okay,
you take care. Well there that was

1558
01:52:16.399 --> 01:52:19.760
that was smooth and easy on that
last week. Hey, we got a

1559
01:52:21.319 --> 01:52:25.279
new sponsor that I want to tell
you about here on garden Line. And

1560
01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:30.840
you've heard me brag about our garden
centers here in the greater Houston area that

1561
01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:33.680
when you're in Houston, it can
be north, south, east, west,

1562
01:52:33.960 --> 01:52:38.600
central, everywhere you got a good
garden center, we'll do south of

1563
01:52:38.680 --> 01:52:43.359
Houston. Jorges Hidden Gardens, they've
been open a while. They've been they

1564
01:52:43.520 --> 01:52:46.880
just keep growing and improving and getting
more stock, and it just it just

1565
01:52:47.279 --> 01:52:49.479
it's really cool. I was by
the way of the other day, spent

1566
01:52:49.560 --> 01:52:54.399
some time visiting with Jorge uh and
boy did they ever have a good selection

1567
01:52:54.479 --> 01:52:58.439
of fruit trees. And I think
nine different rites of peaches, including those

1568
01:52:58.560 --> 01:53:00.800
low chill peaches. So this this
is way south. So if you're down

1569
01:53:01.239 --> 01:53:05.560
in areas like Dickinson, Santa Fe, Alvin, Algoa, Arcadia, Alta,

1570
01:53:05.600 --> 01:53:12.720
Loma, Hillcrest, even done Galveston
direction, they're gonna have those low,

1571
01:53:12.880 --> 01:53:15.359
low chills that you need because you
don't get a lot of chilling hours

1572
01:53:15.399 --> 01:53:19.039
down there. They've got apple varieties, they have plums and pairs and avocados

1573
01:53:19.159 --> 01:53:25.439
too, and right now their stock
of veggies and tomato plants is outstanding and

1574
01:53:25.479 --> 01:53:29.560
they're really good stock of those.
I saw some beautiful Peggy Martin roses on

1575
01:53:29.680 --> 01:53:32.680
little lattice panels that Jorge had potted
up and they were just wound up on

1576
01:53:32.760 --> 01:53:39.399
the panel looking looking really good.
They are on Elizabeth Street and Alvin,

1577
01:53:39.640 --> 01:53:43.720
south of Highway six, So this
is Alvin, Texas. It's seventeen seven

1578
01:53:43.720 --> 01:53:47.399
to twenty one Elizabeth Street, and
they're open on weekend, so Friday,

1579
01:53:47.479 --> 01:53:53.119
Saturday, and Sunday all the all
three days from eight to four. Friday,

1580
01:53:53.359 --> 01:53:56.920
Saturday, Sunday, all three days, eight to four. Joges Hidden

1581
01:53:56.960 --> 01:54:01.199
Gardens down on Elizabeth Street and just
south of Highway six. And by the

1582
01:54:01.239 --> 01:54:06.439
way, they also carry that three
sixty tree stabilizer that I was bragging about

1583
01:54:06.520 --> 01:54:10.520
earlier. Yep. I was down
there the other day and I was looking

1584
01:54:10.600 --> 01:54:13.720
at hoorray, you got some of
those three sixty tree stabilizer. Yep,

1585
01:54:13.800 --> 01:54:16.319
they got them on hand there.
Go by, say hi to them,

1586
01:54:16.680 --> 01:54:19.520
wander through, take a look at
what they got. For those of you

1587
01:54:19.640 --> 01:54:24.760
living way down south. Now you
have a nursery right down there in the

1588
01:54:24.840 --> 01:54:30.000
far south of Houston in your area. Kind of nice, real beautiful.

1589
01:54:30.159 --> 01:54:31.199
By the way, don't delay.
They got a lot of fruit trees.

1590
01:54:31.279 --> 01:54:35.479
But I don't know how long that's
gonna last because they do carry those varieties

1591
01:54:35.520 --> 01:54:41.800
that do well so far south down
there. By the way, if you

1592
01:54:41.880 --> 01:54:49.199
wondered what a chilling hour is,
a chilling hour is one hour around forty

1593
01:54:50.239 --> 01:54:54.920
degrees in temperature. Now it could
be thirty five, it could be forty

1594
01:54:55.000 --> 01:54:59.800
five. And as you get warmer
and cooler, one hour of time does

1595
01:55:00.079 --> 01:55:02.399
not give you one hour of chilling. But right around the forty forty five

1596
01:55:02.520 --> 01:55:06.479
degrees, an hour of time is
an hour of chilling. And so you

1597
01:55:06.560 --> 01:55:12.680
could have like zero degrees for a
week solid that would not be chilling hours.

1598
01:55:13.399 --> 01:55:16.960
It's cold, it's chilling outside,
but it's not chilling hours. And

1599
01:55:17.319 --> 01:55:21.680
what fun factor right before we go
to another break coming up pretty soon,

1600
01:55:24.039 --> 01:55:28.760
when we're talking about chilling hours,
why does that matter? Well, when

1601
01:55:28.800 --> 01:55:31.199
a peach tree or a plum tree, or an apple tree or a pear

1602
01:55:31.279 --> 01:55:38.039
tree goes dormant, there is a
chemical inhibitor in the buds that keep it

1603
01:55:38.199 --> 01:55:41.760
from growing. And that's nice because
what happens when we have a week of

1604
01:55:41.880 --> 01:55:45.680
seventy degree weather in early January.
You don't want your peach trees blooming because

1605
01:55:45.720 --> 01:55:48.520
you know how that's going to end
up. We will have another freeze and

1606
01:55:48.640 --> 01:55:56.159
that you'll lose your crop. So
over time, at the chilling hour range,

1607
01:55:56.680 --> 01:56:01.239
that chemical breaks down. Think of
it as a enclosed bodyguard around the

1608
01:56:01.279 --> 01:56:03.920
bud. That's not how it is, but think of it as that.

1609
01:56:04.399 --> 01:56:10.000
And as it breaks down. Now
the bud is able to grow, it's

1610
01:56:10.039 --> 01:56:14.439
able to get loose and grow.
And so when you have chilling hours and

1611
01:56:14.600 --> 01:56:19.680
you reach the number of hours for
the species variety you planted, then when

1612
01:56:19.720 --> 01:56:24.199
the weather warms up, it can
take off and grow. So what happens

1613
01:56:24.319 --> 01:56:28.279
if you live way down in Galveston
and you plant a seven hundred chilling hour

1614
01:56:28.399 --> 01:56:34.920
peach, it never breaks all the
chilling chemicals down, the inhibiting chemicals down.

1615
01:56:35.199 --> 01:56:39.479
You don't get enough chilling hours,
and so in the spring it's like

1616
01:56:39.600 --> 01:56:42.760
your tree doesn't wake up and grow. And then finally some leaves come out

1617
01:56:42.760 --> 01:56:45.439
at the very end of the branches, or maybe sporadically. By the time

1618
01:56:45.520 --> 01:56:49.439
we're into May or even June,
you're seeing some new growth finally start again.

1619
01:56:49.920 --> 01:56:53.039
Well, you don't want to do
that. What happens if you plant

1620
01:56:53.159 --> 01:56:59.800
a two or three hundred hour peach
and you're up in Huntsville, you're gonna

1621
01:56:59.800 --> 01:57:04.000
haves in January for sure, December
maybe even depending on that, because it's

1622
01:57:04.079 --> 01:57:08.439
gotten all the chilling hours it needs
and now we get warm weather and it

1623
01:57:08.520 --> 01:57:14.039
grows. It's important to match the
variety you buy to the area you live

1624
01:57:14.159 --> 01:57:18.640
in. And if you go online
to Aggie Horticulture website, Aggie Horticulture is

1625
01:57:18.640 --> 01:57:23.720
a great website. They have a
fruit tree section and you can click on

1626
01:57:23.920 --> 01:57:27.520
any particular fruit you want to grow, from avocados to peaches, to plums

1627
01:57:27.600 --> 01:57:30.960
to you name it. Jujubi's I
mean, they have everything on there.

1628
01:57:30.199 --> 01:57:33.119
You click on let's say the peach
one, and it'll give you examples of

1629
01:57:33.239 --> 01:57:38.439
chilling hour peaches. Allow map of
Texas and it shows the range and that's

1630
01:57:38.520 --> 01:57:41.159
what you want to aim for.
That's what that's all about. So that's

1631
01:57:41.199 --> 01:57:44.439
a little extra info there. But
I think it's important to understand. Some

1632
01:57:44.560 --> 01:57:46.239
people think, well, if it's
cold, I'm getting chilling hours. Well

1633
01:57:46.520 --> 01:57:49.680
if it's too cold, no you're
not. No you're not. And so

1634
01:57:49.800 --> 01:57:57.319
the best chilling occurs on days that
are cloudy, overcast in the wintertime and

1635
01:57:57.560 --> 01:58:00.680
it's you know, forty forty five
degrees maybe a little drizzly that that also

1636
01:58:00.760 --> 01:58:04.560
helps keep that temperature right at the
right level down there. We get a

1637
01:58:04.680 --> 01:58:09.680
lot of tilling hours when we're having
that kind of weather. But anyway,

1638
01:58:10.439 --> 01:58:15.279
wherever you live, make sure you
match your variety to the location that you're

1639
01:58:15.319 --> 01:58:18.720
living in. Again the AGGI Horticulture, go to the fruit page, click

1640
01:58:18.800 --> 01:58:24.000
on the type of fruit you're growing, and it'll tell you exactly the varieties

1641
01:58:24.039 --> 01:58:27.560
you need to do. It's not
a complete list of ever possible variety,

1642
01:58:27.600 --> 01:58:34.199
but it is the ones that do
really really well in your area. So

1643
01:58:35.000 --> 01:58:38.600
I would I'm going to take a
break here. It's time for lunch.

1644
01:58:39.039 --> 01:58:42.319
We're going to some not lunch,
it's not for a break, but it's

1645
01:58:42.319 --> 01:58:45.079
time for lunch for me. I
gotta get a snack. More energy here

1646
01:58:45.119 --> 01:58:47.880
today, kind of running on empty
today. I think got a little early

1647
01:58:48.000 --> 01:58:53.960
start. When we come back,
we will answer your questions at seven to

1648
01:58:54.000 --> 01:58:58.880
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. If you'd like to die

1649
01:58:58.960 --> 01:59:02.520
by the letters one three two one
two kt rh as simple as that,

1650
01:59:02.840 --> 01:59:06.800
don't forget. Next Saturday, from
twelve to two I will be at Ana

1651
01:59:06.920 --> 01:59:13.399
Plants and produce my first Garden Center
Appearance of the Spring at an A Plants

1652
01:59:13.439 --> 01:59:16.960
and Produce up in Montgomery. I'll
be giving away every fifteen minutes a bag

1653
01:59:17.079 --> 01:59:21.640
of turf Star Weedinator. You can
get one of those yourself. That's the

1654
01:59:21.720 --> 01:59:27.520
product we put down for post emergent
control of weeds. Those little winter weeds

1655
01:59:27.560 --> 01:59:30.880
that are about to bloom and set
seed. You nail them right now with

1656
01:59:30.039 --> 01:59:34.159
the Weedenedor. I hope you'll come
out the Ana Plants and Produce next Saturday.

1657
01:59:36.640 --> 01:59:42.119
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised

1658
01:59:42.159 --> 01:59:47.680
on this program. Welcome to kt
RH Garden Line with Skip Rictor. It's

1659
01:59:49.600 --> 02:00:14.239
crazy. Just watch him as word
so many Welcome back to garden Line.

1660
02:00:15.319 --> 02:00:19.319
Welcome back. What a beautiful,
beautiful weekend. It's gonna be got some

1661
02:00:19.439 --> 02:00:23.680
clouds in the sky today. That's
okay, they're not going to rain on

1662
02:00:23.800 --> 02:00:26.359
us. It's a good day to
get out and get some gardening done.

1663
02:00:27.000 --> 02:00:30.800
And boy, I am excited about
spring gardening. I mean the flowers,

1664
02:00:30.880 --> 02:00:33.239
the vegetables, the herbs. We're
talking about fruit trees a minute ago.

1665
02:00:33.479 --> 02:00:38.920
Certainly getting your lawn and top quality
shape. We're in the big middle of

1666
02:00:38.960 --> 02:00:41.920
all of it right now. Well, we better hit the ground running here.

1667
02:00:41.960 --> 02:00:45.920
We got some calls on the board. We're gonna head out to Ronnie

1668
02:00:45.159 --> 02:00:49.239
and Lake Jackson. If I can
get a hold of Ronnie right here.

1669
02:00:49.399 --> 02:00:54.840
Nope, lots that. Let me
let me do that different. I have

1670
02:00:54.960 --> 02:00:58.520
the wrong Runnie, Ronnie and Deer
Park. Let's let's give that one a

1671
02:00:58.640 --> 02:01:02.119
try. Ronnie. How are you
doing today? Doing great? About you?

1672
02:01:02.560 --> 02:01:08.239
Good? Good? How could we
help? Well? I have a

1673
02:01:08.359 --> 02:01:13.239
magnou tree. It's about twenty five
feet tall. All the leaves turned brown

1674
02:01:13.399 --> 02:01:17.319
from the heat last year. Yes, I'm getting a few sprouts in different

1675
02:01:17.399 --> 02:01:23.319
lambs along the tree. Okay,
dead or do I need to leave alone?

1676
02:01:23.399 --> 02:01:26.279
Let's see what happens. I would
leave alone. Let's see what happens

1677
02:01:26.399 --> 02:01:30.159
if you if you absolutely want to
get it prone, Now, scratch the

1678
02:01:30.239 --> 02:01:33.960
bark, look for life underneath it. If it's alive, it's from a

1679
02:01:34.119 --> 02:01:39.720
white, creamy color to a greenish
color. If it's dead, it's paper

1680
02:01:39.840 --> 02:01:45.039
sacked color of brown or even grayish
brown. And it can be pruned out.

1681
02:01:45.279 --> 02:01:47.560
I like to let plants tell me
where to prune, because you can

1682
02:01:47.640 --> 02:01:50.800
get damage that's here but not there, and there but not here, and

1683
02:01:51.319 --> 02:01:56.680
it's just better. And when you
see growth beginning, that means it's alive

1684
02:01:56.760 --> 02:01:59.920
there. Now, occasionally you have
some damage and what'll start to grow,

1685
02:02:00.000 --> 02:02:03.520
oh, will end up dying because
the connection is not strong enough. It

1686
02:02:03.600 --> 02:02:08.960
doesn't have enough let's just say the
plumbing to get the nutrients and stuff and

1687
02:02:09.079 --> 02:02:13.399
water it needs. But I would
wait for the plant and prune it back

1688
02:02:13.479 --> 02:02:18.319
to just outside of where the new
growth is, okay, all the way

1689
02:02:18.359 --> 02:02:23.960
up to the top of the tree. Yes. Yeah. We lost a

1690
02:02:24.079 --> 02:02:31.359
lot of magnolias this past summer,
and we also had some that were severely

1691
02:02:31.520 --> 02:02:34.119
damaged. And when you get through
pruning them, you look at it and

1692
02:02:34.239 --> 02:02:38.720
you go, that's so ugly.
I'm gonna pull it out and put some

1693
02:02:38.960 --> 02:02:42.079
put a new one in or something. Of course, I can't predict what

1694
02:02:42.159 --> 02:02:45.079
your tree is gonna look like,
but I would wait at the plants.

1695
02:02:45.039 --> 02:02:48.640
So you try to tream it where
it's attractive looking tree, or just cut

1696
02:02:48.760 --> 02:02:53.399
it as needy. Yeah, it's
cut it is needed, unfortunately, uh,

1697
02:02:53.479 --> 02:02:56.560
and if if it's severe damage,
you may end up with a magnolia

1698
02:02:56.640 --> 02:03:00.119
bush rather than a tree, meaning
you got branches lower coming out that have

1699
02:03:00.199 --> 02:03:03.159
growth in them, but the branches
at the top dome or who knows that

1700
02:03:03.479 --> 02:03:09.640
the pattern can be often lopsided that
the die back is occurring on. So

1701
02:03:10.319 --> 02:03:14.199
unfortunately, it's a wait and see. If you don't see green leaves on

1702
02:03:14.279 --> 02:03:16.880
a Yeah, if you don't see
green leaves on a branch, more than

1703
02:03:17.119 --> 02:03:21.079
likely it's dead. There could be
some re sprouting that might occur. That's

1704
02:03:21.119 --> 02:03:27.399
why I like to wait. Okay, should have water continually? Now to

1705
02:03:27.680 --> 02:03:32.000
wait a month or so. I'm
going to amend that question to say water

1706
02:03:32.119 --> 02:03:40.880
it enough to keep the soil moist
People over water oftentimes trying to help a

1707
02:03:41.000 --> 02:03:45.479
plant, and when the roots do
not get oxygen because they're essentially in a

1708
02:03:45.640 --> 02:03:49.520
swamp of soggy soil, that will
kill them too. So be careful with

1709
02:03:49.640 --> 02:03:54.399
the overwatering. But you can take
a little hand trail or something out there,

1710
02:03:54.640 --> 02:03:58.920
dig down about six inches and just
feel the soil and you'll know whether

1711
02:03:59.039 --> 02:04:01.880
it's moisture or not. Okay,
great, thank you very much, Yes,

1712
02:04:01.960 --> 02:04:08.039
Sarah, good luck with that wish. I certainly do wish you well.

1713
02:04:08.439 --> 02:04:10.560
Well, now we're going to go
while we're in Deer Park, why

1714
02:04:10.560 --> 02:04:14.439
don't we just go back and talk
to Richard. Hey Richard, good morning,

1715
02:04:14.560 --> 02:04:17.479
Skip. I'll listen to your show
every weekend. And what it is.

1716
02:04:17.640 --> 02:04:23.760
I have some baby tomato. They're
little sprouts. I started by seed.

1717
02:04:23.840 --> 02:04:27.800
They're about it. They're just about
an ants tall. Okay, what

1718
02:04:28.520 --> 02:04:32.840
kind of plant food can I safely
feed them? They're in just cups.

1719
02:04:33.159 --> 02:04:38.479
Yeah, uh, and without hurting
the plant or the roots, o'kay.

1720
02:04:38.560 --> 02:04:43.279
Safe. What you want to do
is get fishing motion and seaweed and mix

1721
02:04:43.399 --> 02:04:46.319
them together at the label rate and
they'll be okay. They will not burn

1722
02:04:46.399 --> 02:04:50.439
your seedlings. You don't need to
mix it strong. It can be dilute.

1723
02:04:50.720 --> 02:04:55.199
I like to do it a little
more dilute than it even says on

1724
02:04:55.319 --> 02:04:59.000
the label. And then every time
I water them, I water with that,

1725
02:05:00.000 --> 02:05:03.640
so you're as you need to water. You're providing a very dilute nutrient

1726
02:05:03.800 --> 02:05:08.319
solution to them to help them grow. The most important thing though, for

1727
02:05:08.399 --> 02:05:12.880
those tomato seedlings of sunlight. The
closer to full sun you can give them,

1728
02:05:12.920 --> 02:05:15.279
the happier they're going to be.
Yes, sir, I'll bring them

1729
02:05:15.359 --> 02:05:19.039
outside during the day, and I
bring them inside. I keep they're in

1730
02:05:19.199 --> 02:05:26.279
trays. I've got I got about
almost thirty plants, and well, I

1731
02:05:26.399 --> 02:05:29.840
know it, but I let them
stay inside my kitchen at night and I

1732
02:05:29.960 --> 02:05:32.880
bring them outside in the day,
so they are they're getting sunshine. So

1733
02:05:33.159 --> 02:05:36.319
hey, hey Jackie. If my
wife heard me laugh right then, she'd

1734
02:05:36.399 --> 02:05:41.000
be saying, why are you laughing
at him? You've got I'm sorry,

1735
02:05:42.000 --> 02:05:45.640
I'm talking to Jackie next, Richard. If my wife heard me laughing,

1736
02:05:45.720 --> 02:05:47.159
she'd say, why are you laughing
at him? You got some dead getting

1737
02:05:47.439 --> 02:05:51.600
many tomato plants we can't even get
in the living room right now. I

1738
02:05:51.800 --> 02:05:57.840
know it. It's but well I
planted them by save the price of the

1739
02:05:58.159 --> 02:06:02.439
price of plants went up. OHI
at the different anyway. I just started

1740
02:06:02.520 --> 02:06:09.680
them by say, but okay,
they're going they're going good, but I

1741
02:06:09.800 --> 02:06:13.960
need I add some to the soldiant. Okay, thank you, listen ever

1742
02:06:14.079 --> 02:06:15.840
wake into your show. Thank you
well, thank you. I appreciate that.

1743
02:06:16.119 --> 02:06:18.439
Thank you very much, sir,
Thank you. I had to talk

1744
02:06:18.439 --> 02:06:21.600
to you all right, yes,
sir, And now we are actually going

1745
02:06:21.680 --> 02:06:25.960
to go talk to Jackie in League
City. Hey, Jackie, Hey,

1746
02:06:26.079 --> 02:06:28.720
how are you doing this morning?
I'm good? How can I help?

1747
02:06:30.399 --> 02:06:34.000
Last year in the fall I was
having or actually all summer, I was

1748
02:06:34.039 --> 02:06:41.119
having quite a bit of a snail
problem, and I was trying to find

1749
02:06:41.159 --> 02:06:44.640
out if there's a way or something
I can do this year to kind of

1750
02:06:44.680 --> 02:06:47.760
get a jump on it so they
won't be so bad. I've used Corri's

1751
02:06:48.479 --> 02:06:55.239
that snail or like pellets, but
it's like I was still seeing them,

1752
02:06:55.279 --> 02:06:59.239
and I was pretty I was pretty
good about using it about every two weeks

1753
02:06:59.319 --> 02:07:01.880
last year. Yeap, okay,
but I never could get rid of them.

1754
02:07:01.920 --> 02:07:05.359
And then I've repotted some stuff this
year and I've seen you maybe they

1755
02:07:05.399 --> 02:07:09.039
were dorm it down in the gravel
or here's what you need to do,

1756
02:07:09.840 --> 02:07:11.920
and I have about thirty seconds.
I'm going to give you the quick,

1757
02:07:11.960 --> 02:07:15.640
fast answer. But snail baits come
in many forms. You can purchase something

1758
02:07:15.720 --> 02:07:19.000
called slug o. You can purchase
something called deadline. There's a lot of

1759
02:07:19.039 --> 02:07:25.920
them out there. You put them
out fresh, and you just get them

1760
02:07:25.960 --> 02:07:29.279
out and let the snails find them
and feed on them. And then I

1761
02:07:29.359 --> 02:07:33.520
would put fresh ones out periodically because
if they get a little bit and get

1762
02:07:33.640 --> 02:07:38.279
sick, they end up not wanting
to eat more bait. You want them

1763
02:07:38.319 --> 02:07:40.880
to eat enough that it kills them. But there's a lot of good snail

1764
02:07:40.920 --> 02:07:44.560
baits like those that I mentioned.
Slugo is one of the most common brands

1765
02:07:44.640 --> 02:07:48.239
areas. It's an iron based bait
and it will work, but you just

1766
02:07:48.279 --> 02:07:50.920
want to avoid the thing. I
said, Jackie, I've got to run

1767
02:07:50.960 --> 02:07:53.960
to a break. If you need
to stick around, we can talk to

1768
02:07:54.000 --> 02:07:59.119
you after the break, but we'll
be right back. Welcome back to garden

1769
02:07:59.159 --> 02:08:01.640
Line. Glad you're listening to us
today. Hey, I was talking earlier

1770
02:08:01.640 --> 02:08:07.560
about fruit trees and things and chilling
hours and that is really important. And

1771
02:08:07.600 --> 02:08:11.880
it just reminded me that down at
Moss Nursery, which is in Seabrook.

1772
02:08:11.520 --> 02:08:15.640
You've probably been there before. If
you have it, you absolutely have to

1773
02:08:15.760 --> 02:08:20.680
go. I mean, it's like
eight acres of wandering through paradise down there,

1774
02:08:20.640 --> 02:08:26.279
water fountains and beautiful plants and all
kinds of pottery and one sick of

1775
02:08:26.399 --> 02:08:30.840
items. It's cool. But they
have a wide variety of fruit and they

1776
02:08:30.920 --> 02:08:33.880
will sell you the things that have
the right amount of chilling hours for the

1777
02:08:33.000 --> 02:08:35.319
area. You can talk to them
about that, like an apple and a

1778
02:08:35.359 --> 02:08:39.359
peach, for example. But do
you want some unusual fruit Maybe something like

1779
02:08:39.960 --> 02:08:43.520
that you might need to cover.
But it's tropical, okay, Guava,

1780
02:08:43.640 --> 02:08:48.880
papaya, dragon fruit, nepalas,
the old punch of prickly pear nepalis I

1781
02:08:50.039 --> 02:08:52.000
used to I remember the first time
I made some of those in a scrambled

1782
02:08:52.039 --> 02:08:56.920
egg dish. Kind of cool.
Anyway, Berry plants, I've got blackberries

1783
02:08:56.960 --> 02:09:00.399
without thorns. When it comes to
edibles, oh my god, they have

1784
02:09:00.479 --> 02:09:03.239
everything. When it comes to everything
else, yeah, they have everything too.

1785
02:09:03.279 --> 02:09:07.760
They got a nice selection right now
of everything from snap dragons, petunias

1786
02:09:07.800 --> 02:09:11.760
and patients, geraniums, gerber daisies, which or gorgeous. If you haven't

1787
02:09:11.800 --> 02:09:15.560
seen it, go buy and say
show me your gerber daisies, begonias,

1788
02:09:16.319 --> 02:09:18.399
and then those acid loving plants that
we'd love to grow in this part of

1789
02:09:18.439 --> 02:09:22.880
Texas, camillias and azaleas. They've
got that. Pretty much anything you can

1790
02:09:22.960 --> 02:09:26.439
think of, they're going to have
it. Listen at Moss. They are

1791
02:09:26.560 --> 02:09:31.479
real gardeners. They are people that
have experienced years of experience in their own

1792
02:09:31.079 --> 02:09:35.439
gardens. They'll hope you get it
right the first time. They'll they know

1793
02:09:35.600 --> 02:09:39.680
about the soil and watering and fertilizing. You can depend on them to steer

1794
02:09:41.079 --> 02:09:46.560
you right. Lots of vegetables,
beautiful hanging I saw some beautiful a lissome,

1795
02:09:46.079 --> 02:09:52.239
kind of a pinkish rose colored lissm
that was just stunning and hanging baskets

1796
02:09:52.640 --> 02:09:54.920
down at Moss Nursery, by the
way, They are in Seabrook, if

1797
02:09:54.960 --> 02:10:00.279
you'd like to give them a call. Two eight one four seven four twenty

1798
02:10:00.279 --> 02:10:07.439
four forty four two eight one four
twenty four twenty four eighty eight Moss Nursery

1799
02:10:07.119 --> 02:10:11.359
dot com. Moss Nursery dot com. You really need to go if you

1800
02:10:11.399 --> 02:10:15.199
haven't been. It is. It
is a showplace, definitely a destination.

1801
02:10:16.279 --> 02:10:18.119
We are going to now head to
Spring and talk to Kevin. Hey,

1802
02:10:18.199 --> 02:10:26.000
Kevin, Kevin, it sounds like
you're in a tornado. I just got

1803
02:10:26.119 --> 02:10:30.359
back in the car. I was
putting gases, all right, what's up?

1804
02:10:31.319 --> 02:10:35.359
Hey? I had two quick questions. First, is I heard you

1805
02:10:35.560 --> 02:10:41.880
talk to somebody a while ago about
switching grass from Saint Augustine to either bluegrass

1806
02:10:41.159 --> 02:10:46.399
or bermuda and how you cut it
differently, and I wanted to know which

1807
02:10:46.479 --> 02:10:48.840
that was again? All right,
Well, first of all, I never

1808
02:10:48.920 --> 02:10:54.319
would have recommended bluegrass for down here. Bluegrass and bscue were too far south

1809
02:10:54.399 --> 02:11:00.079
for those two bermuda grass you can. If you're looking for an alternative of

1810
02:11:00.199 --> 02:11:03.680
to Saint Augustine, you got two
good options, Zoisier grass and bermuda grass.

1811
02:11:05.319 --> 02:11:11.600
Both of them you can mow lower
and have a denser I'll say golf

1812
02:11:11.720 --> 02:11:16.279
course green, not that short,
but beautiful lawn like that. With those

1813
02:11:16.439 --> 02:11:20.359
two zoysia will put up with some
shade. Bermuda needs full sun. The

1814
02:11:20.520 --> 02:11:26.079
more often you mow, the denser
and more beautiful they are, and that

1815
02:11:26.239 --> 02:11:33.640
crowd out the St. Augustine eventually
then well it depends on the growing conditions.

1816
02:11:33.239 --> 02:11:39.960
Uh, the bermuda in shade Saint
Augustine wins, for example. So

1817
02:11:39.319 --> 02:11:45.199
it just it just I would get
rid of the Saint Augustine before you plant

1818
02:11:45.319 --> 02:11:48.760
something else, and that way you
get a fresh start. It gives you

1819
02:11:48.840 --> 02:11:52.600
a chance to level out the soil
if you got any lower areas to you

1820
02:11:52.640 --> 02:11:54.920
know, cover up roots sticking up
out of the ground a little bit,

1821
02:11:54.119 --> 02:11:58.880
to smooth it out and just get
a good fresh start. I wouldn't I

1822
02:11:58.880 --> 02:12:03.159
wouldn't co mingle THEO. Okay,
And then the other thing you just kind

1823
02:12:03.159 --> 02:12:09.000
of hit on it. Is there
any way to cheat these live oak roots

1824
02:12:09.039 --> 02:12:11.920
from coming up to the surface.
I'm not from taxes, no. Now,

1825
02:12:13.439 --> 02:12:16.880
any true route will come to the
surface for two reasons. One is

1826
02:12:18.000 --> 02:12:22.359
the root gets bigger. And if
it was only let's say three inches underground

1827
02:12:22.439 --> 02:12:24.560
when it grew, and now it's
the size of your arm, Well,

1828
02:12:24.600 --> 02:12:28.520
that's going to be a root that's
pushed up to the surface. If you

1829
02:12:28.640 --> 02:12:33.039
have erosion, like sheet erosion,
with water going across an area, it's

1830
02:12:33.079 --> 02:12:37.439
going to take away surface soil over
time and expose the roots as well.

1831
02:12:37.800 --> 02:12:41.520
All you can do is add some
soil around them or plant a ground cover

1832
02:12:41.840 --> 02:12:46.359
that will just cover it all up
and hide that area. Okay, okay,

1833
02:12:46.640 --> 02:12:50.079
I appreciate it. Sure you have
a great rest of the day.

1834
02:12:50.119 --> 02:12:52.079
Okay, Kevin, thank you for
the call. I appreciate that very much.

1835
02:12:54.520 --> 02:12:56.119
This is the time if you want
to do a green up, to

1836
02:12:56.159 --> 02:13:00.760
get out there and do it.
We're talking about the end of February and

1837
02:13:00.920 --> 02:13:03.239
especially the first three weeks of March. If you're further south, I would

1838
02:13:03.279 --> 02:13:07.920
say into February, first week of
March. If you're a little further north,

1839
02:13:07.960 --> 02:13:11.319
maybe you're listening from up in Conro, well, then you can wait

1840
02:13:11.439 --> 02:13:13.840
until second or third week of March
to do it. But what you want

1841
02:13:13.920 --> 02:13:18.560
to use as a product that's immediate
release, and that would be Nitropos Imperial

1842
02:13:20.039 --> 02:13:24.560
fifteen five ten. That's a red
bag. Makes it real easy. Nitropos

1843
02:13:24.800 --> 02:13:28.159
is red bag. The Imperial is
going to release those nutrients and provide you

1844
02:13:28.239 --> 02:13:31.880
an early green up. And you
don't want to, don't over apply,

1845
02:13:33.079 --> 02:13:35.119
you don't a whole lot of it. Just follow the label. Apply it

1846
02:13:35.199 --> 02:13:39.520
according to the label, and it's
going to give you a really nice cover

1847
02:13:39.680 --> 02:13:43.840
and be just it's just going to
give you the green that you're looking for

1848
02:13:43.039 --> 02:13:46.359
early on. We'll talk about other
fertilizers as we go on the season,

1849
02:13:46.399 --> 02:13:48.760
but early on in the green that's
a good way to do it. And

1850
02:13:48.800 --> 02:13:52.079
where do you get it, Well, if you're in Richmond Rosenberg and can

1851
02:13:52.079 --> 02:13:56.119
get it in chanted gardens for example. If you are southwest of town,

1852
02:13:56.319 --> 02:14:00.159
southwest side of town, Bearings has
a hardware on this and that and on

1853
02:14:01.000 --> 02:14:05.840
Westheimer also, both of those places
are going to carry that night Fast Imperial.

1854
02:14:05.119 --> 02:14:09.039
If you happen to be done in
a Taska see today's hardware. There's

1855
02:14:09.119 --> 02:14:13.920
got it Stanton Shopping Center and Alvin's
got it and Jim's hardware and Montgomery plants

1856
02:14:13.960 --> 02:14:18.319
and things up in Brenham. Lots
of places you can find Nitrofoss products,

1857
02:14:18.399 --> 02:14:24.520
including the Imperial fifteen five ten.
Check out my schedule online Gardening with Skip

1858
02:14:24.920 --> 02:14:31.000
dot com Gardening with Skip dot Com. That schedule will list products like this

1859
02:14:31.479 --> 02:14:37.800
Nitrofoss Imperial red bag for fast acting
early greenup fertilization. We're going to now

1860
02:14:37.960 --> 02:14:43.640
head to uh Charlie and friends.
Would hello Charlie, Good morning to you,

1861
02:14:43.800 --> 02:14:48.279
sir. Morning. Last week.
Last week, my wife says she

1862
02:14:48.479 --> 02:14:54.039
had heard something about leaf willed on
our peach trees. Terms sounds like plum

1863
02:14:54.159 --> 02:15:01.840
circular and something about copper. How
brand or how did how attack that problem?

1864
02:15:01.199 --> 02:15:07.319
Okay, I think in what you
said, there's kind of a mix

1865
02:15:07.399 --> 02:15:11.439
of different, very different items there. If copper was recommended, it was

1866
02:15:11.640 --> 02:15:20.960
for controlling bacterial spot of the leaves
of peaches that causes a hole to fall

1867
02:15:20.039 --> 02:15:26.199
out like you shot it with a
shotgun, and that occurs. It develops

1868
02:15:26.239 --> 02:15:31.720
over time. But we typically will
hit our peaches with the copper spray early

1869
02:15:31.840 --> 02:15:35.319
on before they begin to push new
growth. Spray the buds and things and

1870
02:15:35.920 --> 02:15:43.760
help manage that bacterial spot of the
peach leaves. If they're wilting, that

1871
02:15:43.840 --> 02:15:48.279
could be due to different things from
root rot to root damage to lack of

1872
02:15:48.319 --> 02:15:52.520
water, which isn't the case right
now for sure. Yes, her us

1873
02:15:52.680 --> 02:15:58.880
is plumb cucula, Oh, plump
curculio. Okay, yeah, Now we're

1874
02:15:58.920 --> 02:16:03.359
talking about little insect And when you
get when the about three fourths of the

1875
02:16:03.439 --> 02:16:07.600
petals have fallen off all your blooms
right toward the end of the bloom time,

1876
02:16:07.640 --> 02:16:09.760
you don't want to hit all the
bees with an insecticide. At that

1877
02:16:09.920 --> 02:16:15.239
end of the bloom time, you're
going to spray an insecticide that as their

1878
02:16:15.319 --> 02:16:18.880
first spray for Cculia, you're going
to repeat it about two weeks later,

1879
02:16:18.960 --> 02:16:22.680
and about two weeks after that.
There's a little insect that cuts a flap

1880
02:16:22.199 --> 02:16:26.159
in the tiny peach. It can
attack even when they're larger, and it

1881
02:16:26.319 --> 02:16:30.479
lays an egg and the egg burrows
to the seed. And that's the worm

1882
02:16:30.560 --> 02:16:35.239
in the peach that people often encounter. That's plumb curculio. But if what

1883
02:16:35.399 --> 02:16:39.000
kind of insecticide do you recommend on
that, I would go where are you

1884
02:16:39.120 --> 02:16:41.520
Europe? And you're done in French
with I would I would go to an

1885
02:16:41.520 --> 02:16:50.200
ace hardware store and ask them what
insecticides they carry that are labeled for peaches.

1886
02:16:50.600 --> 02:16:54.360
That's going to be that's going to
be the important thing is what what

1887
02:16:54.440 --> 02:16:58.079
do they carry that's that's labeled for
peaches. So, for example, Don

1888
02:16:58.200 --> 02:17:01.319
and friends with You've got Ace Heart, we're on Edgewood Drive. There gonna

1889
02:17:01.440 --> 02:17:05.879
they're gonna have those kind of products. And I don't always know what every

1890
02:17:05.000 --> 02:17:09.799
store is carrying specifically, So rather
than sending you out for a particular thing,

1891
02:17:11.639 --> 02:17:16.000
just tell them you need an insecticide
labeled for fruit trees. But timing

1892
02:17:16.159 --> 02:17:20.639
is what's important. At the end
of bloom two weeks later, and two

1893
02:17:20.639 --> 02:17:26.479
weeks again after that. Okay,
thank you so much. We enjoy your

1894
02:17:26.520 --> 02:17:30.760
show every week. Thank you,
Charlie, appreciate you listening that that is

1895
02:17:30.840 --> 02:17:37.200
helpful. Uh, you've heard me
brag about heirloom soils many times before heirlooms.

1896
02:17:37.600 --> 02:17:41.319
I was just repotting some houseplants the
other day and I was using heirlooms,

1897
02:17:41.879 --> 02:17:46.000
the works potting soil. It's called
the works potting soil. It's available

1898
02:17:46.040 --> 02:17:48.600
all kinds of places, you know, Kingwick Garden Center, Ace Hardware,

1899
02:17:48.760 --> 02:17:52.639
Memorial Drive, Ace, Harbor City. That is Joe's Country Store in Santa

1900
02:17:52.719 --> 02:17:58.360
Fe mid mid County feet up in
Nederland. That's some ways out. And

1901
02:17:58.559 --> 02:18:01.840
plaster seasons, of course, came
Hardware's got it. The works. Potting

1902
02:18:01.879 --> 02:18:07.840
soil is just an excellent, excellent
choice. Now there's also from Heirloom Soils.

1903
02:18:07.319 --> 02:18:09.440
You're going to be able to get
rosol, You're going to be able

1904
02:18:09.479 --> 02:18:13.399
to get leaf, more composts,
You're going to be able to get every

1905
02:18:13.479 --> 02:18:16.879
kind of blend that they produce,
and there's a lot of different products.

1906
02:18:16.959 --> 02:18:24.680
You need to go online to Heirloom
Soils of Texas Soils is plural Heirloomssoilsoftexas dot

1907
02:18:24.760 --> 02:18:28.120
com and look at the product line
they carry. Airloom cells are widely available

1908
02:18:28.159 --> 02:18:33.079
in garden centers, ace hardware stores. You know down at southwist Feeding.

1909
02:18:33.360 --> 02:18:37.799
Southwest Fertilizer for example, has them
easy to find quality soils. And what

1910
02:18:37.879 --> 02:18:43.000
do we say on guardline, take
care of the brown stuff and then the

1911
02:18:43.079 --> 02:18:48.360
green stuff, the brown stuff,
the soil, the fertilizer, making sure

1912
02:18:48.399 --> 02:18:52.120
the roots are happy. Then when
you put your plant in, it looks

1913
02:18:52.159 --> 02:18:54.799
like you have a green thumb because
you do, because you did the right

1914
02:18:54.879 --> 02:19:01.879
thing. We are now going to
go to Austin County and talk to Doris.

1915
02:19:01.000 --> 02:19:05.319
Hello, Doris, Hi, how
are you? I'm well, ma'am.

1916
02:19:07.319 --> 02:19:18.159
Can you explain the three two four
ratio and fertilized Okay, it's three

1917
02:19:18.760 --> 02:19:22.920
one two. The middle numbers phosphorus. You don't want much of that.

1918
02:19:24.920 --> 02:19:28.120
The first number is nitrogen. You
want a lot of that. Three one

1919
02:19:28.200 --> 02:19:31.559
two. What that is is a
ratio. So if I said fifteen five

1920
02:19:31.879 --> 02:19:37.600
ten, that is an example of
a ratio that has three times as much

1921
02:19:37.639 --> 02:19:43.239
of the first number as this first
second number and twice as much of the

1922
02:19:43.680 --> 02:19:48.639
third number. Is the middle,
it's three one two ratio. So microlife

1923
02:19:48.719 --> 02:19:54.879
makes us six two four. That's
a three one two ratio fertilizer, right,

1924
02:19:54.239 --> 02:20:01.399
okay, okay, what's the last
one? The last one is potassium

1925
02:20:01.559 --> 02:20:07.079
potassium. Those are the three nutrients
that plants use the most. They need

1926
02:20:07.159 --> 02:20:11.280
the most quantity. A lot of
nutrients are essential, but those we need

1927
02:20:11.360 --> 02:20:16.040
the most volume of it. If
you will, okay, can I ask

1928
02:20:16.079 --> 02:20:24.000
you another question? I have about
half a minute. Yes, what should

1929
02:20:24.040 --> 02:20:28.040
I set my spread around to put
out the barricade? Uh foot number?

1930
02:20:30.120 --> 02:20:35.159
What I would recommend is take your
spreader and do it about at one fourth

1931
02:20:35.479 --> 02:20:39.639
of fully open. So let's just
say that your spreader the highest number was

1932
02:20:39.680 --> 02:20:43.239
a ten, you would do a
two or a three, a one fourth

1933
02:20:43.479 --> 02:20:48.360
or a little above that. So
whatever the highest number on your spreader is,

1934
02:20:48.479 --> 02:20:52.000
take that number and about it.
One fourth of that are a little

1935
02:20:52.040 --> 02:20:56.639
more is where you put the barricade
setting. Okay, I've got to run.

1936
02:20:56.799 --> 02:20:58.440
Thank you, Thank you very much. I appreciate that call. We'll

1937
02:20:58.440 --> 02:21:01.440
be right back here. We're gonna
take a little break for the news.

1938
02:21:01.520 --> 02:21:05.040
The phone number if you'd like to
give us a call seven one three two

1939
02:21:05.120 --> 02:21:11.520
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Welcome back to garden Line. I could

1940
02:21:11.559 --> 02:21:13.520
just sit there and listen to that
song for I love that song. Hey,

1941
02:21:13.959 --> 02:21:16.760
you are listening to garden Line and
I'm your host, Skip Prictor,

1942
02:21:16.799 --> 02:21:20.159
and we're here to talk about gardening. We got some folks on the line.

1943
02:21:20.200 --> 02:21:22.520
We're going to do just that.
Before I do, I want to

1944
02:21:22.559 --> 02:21:26.600
tell you that the Antique rosing for
them. If you've never been there,

1945
02:21:26.040 --> 02:21:30.600
it is the kind of show place
that you really need to go. You

1946
02:21:30.680 --> 02:21:31.639
need to grab your friends, you
know. I don't know if you have

1947
02:21:31.719 --> 02:21:37.000
a club you belong to a garden
club or a group, Native herb Society

1948
02:21:37.120 --> 02:21:39.479
or Native Plant Society or Herb City, those kind of places and head out

1949
02:21:39.520 --> 02:21:43.760
there, make a day of it
because it is. It's beautiful, and

1950
02:21:45.319 --> 02:21:50.840
the stock that they have on Antique
Roses is unmatched. Also it's not just

1951
02:21:52.000 --> 02:21:54.840
roses. I mean they've got a
really really good selection of other things.

1952
02:21:56.000 --> 02:21:58.200
Like right now, they've got a
lot of ferns and other shade loving plants

1953
02:21:58.200 --> 02:22:01.319
available. They got boom and booias, they got dahlias, they got gerber

1954
02:22:01.440 --> 02:22:05.879
daisies. What do you need some
perennial. Maybe you need a native plant

1955
02:22:07.000 --> 02:22:11.079
perennial like a purple cone flower,
a white lintena, the pink skull cap

1956
02:22:11.200 --> 02:22:16.200
coral, honeysuckle yarrow Salvius salvius,
my favorite genus of plants. They've got

1957
02:22:16.280 --> 02:22:20.600
them at Anti Crosing for him.
The website Antique roseanporim dot com, the

1958
02:22:20.639 --> 02:22:26.680
phone number nine seven nine eight three
six fifty five forty eight. They're gonna

1959
02:22:26.680 --> 02:22:31.559
have their spring celebration on March ninth
and March tenth, and I'll be out

1960
02:22:31.600 --> 02:22:33.280
there for that. You need to
get that on your calendar. There's gonna

1961
02:22:33.280 --> 02:22:37.079
be food trucks and plants galore.
There's gonna be an artists in market and

1962
02:22:37.200 --> 02:22:43.680
various speakers like myself given programs,
Anti crows, poorium. They're roses,

1963
02:22:43.719 --> 02:22:48.280
but they are they are so so
much more and you need to check them

1964
02:22:48.319 --> 02:22:50.639
out. If you've never been,
you need to go, and like I

1965
02:22:50.719 --> 02:22:54.559
said, take a group of friends
with you because it is an outing,

1966
02:22:54.760 --> 02:22:58.920
it is a destination. Let's head
now to Jersey Village and talk to Claire.

1967
02:23:00.280 --> 02:23:05.280
Hello, Clara, Hi, Skip. It's all of the question.

1968
02:23:05.840 --> 02:23:11.200
If your inkal is to have the
bulb rebloom next year, yes, on

1969
02:23:11.399 --> 02:23:18.120
your amarilla's vaults, do you take
them out of the pottings medium therein and

1970
02:23:18.440 --> 02:23:22.000
cut them back or do you leave
them in the pot? You can do

1971
02:23:22.079 --> 02:23:26.760
either one. Pots tend to the
soil, and pots tends to go away

1972
02:23:26.840 --> 02:23:31.840
over time, and so the rose
are the rose. The amarillas doesn't have

1973
02:23:31.879 --> 02:23:35.280
a lot of soil to grow in, so repotting them with a bunch of

1974
02:23:35.360 --> 02:23:39.280
fresh new soil is typically helpful.
And you could do that at this time.

1975
02:23:39.399 --> 02:23:43.760
You can do it pretty much anytime, but you could go ahead and

1976
02:23:43.840 --> 02:23:46.479
do that at the end. As
we get toward the end of summer.

1977
02:23:48.399 --> 02:23:52.319
Probably go ahead and lay those down
on their side so they don't get water.

1978
02:23:52.559 --> 02:23:56.280
The pots don't get water, let
them go dry, let the foliage

1979
02:23:56.319 --> 02:23:58.879
weather, and then after a couple
of two or three weeks of that,

1980
02:24:00.639 --> 02:24:03.840
then you can set them back up
again and you can start watering them.

1981
02:24:03.879 --> 02:24:11.399
And that simulates the rainfall pattern in
their native native home area, and as

1982
02:24:11.440 --> 02:24:16.399
a result, you'll get a really
nice bloom coming out of that. Okay,

1983
02:24:16.639 --> 02:24:20.000
well, thank you for now.
I've trimmed off all the leaves and

1984
02:24:20.120 --> 02:24:24.799
they're sending up new leaves. That's
normal. Just leave it. Those leaves

1985
02:24:24.879 --> 02:24:30.719
are capturing sunlight and making carbohydrates and
putting a bloom in that bulb, and

1986
02:24:30.840 --> 02:24:35.239
so you need to leave those alone
right now. All right, Well,

1987
02:24:35.319 --> 02:24:39.079
thank you Skip again. Thank you
for keeping us screen. Thank you appreciate

1988
02:24:39.159 --> 02:24:46.159
that. Clara appreciate that very much. Let's see here we are gonna ego

1989
02:24:46.719 --> 02:24:52.079
to trying to get my there we
go, finally got the right spot.

1990
02:24:52.200 --> 02:24:56.600
We're going to head out to Magnolia
and talk to Todd. Hello, Todd,

1991
02:24:58.079 --> 02:25:03.799
Hi, I'm good sir. Hey, Listen, we took a beating

1992
02:25:03.879 --> 02:25:07.200
on our Saint Augustine. Like I
think a lot of people did this past

1993
02:25:07.239 --> 02:25:11.559
summer, and me and my wife
are trying to get away from it,

1994
02:25:11.879 --> 02:25:16.479
okay of a better term, and
so we're thinking about putting micro clover in

1995
02:25:16.600 --> 02:25:20.159
the backyard, okay, And I
just wanted to get your thoughts on that.

1996
02:25:20.559 --> 02:25:26.559
And one of the concerns I had
about it is I've read different things

1997
02:25:26.639 --> 02:25:31.079
that they do attract a lot of
bees, or they don't attract a lot

1998
02:25:31.120 --> 02:25:33.680
of bees. We have a couple
of little small dogs too, and I

1999
02:25:33.719 --> 02:25:35.760
don't want them getting, you know, putting them in a position of getting

2000
02:25:37.440 --> 02:25:41.639
you know, stung and having any
type of problems that way. So I

2001
02:25:41.760 --> 02:25:43.799
just want to kind of get your
thoughts on it, or if you had

2002
02:25:43.840 --> 02:25:48.000
any kind of suggestions for a good
fast spreading ground cover. YEA, for

2003
02:25:48.120 --> 02:25:52.239
the backyard, I wouldn't do the
micro clover and our landscape here, that's

2004
02:25:52.319 --> 02:25:58.360
it's a small variety of clover,
and clover has its season for us,

2005
02:25:58.719 --> 02:26:03.239
and so it's going to be around, but it's not going to make a

2006
02:26:03.280 --> 02:26:07.479
good lawn year round for sure.
I just don't think you're going to be

2007
02:26:07.600 --> 02:26:11.879
happy with the results of that.
There are various types of groundcovers that you

2008
02:26:11.000 --> 02:26:16.840
can use if you've got decent amount
of sun. Did you say you had

2009
02:26:16.040 --> 02:26:22.360
a lots under shade? I didn't
catch that. It's there's an area of

2010
02:26:22.559 --> 02:26:26.440
the yard that gets a lot of
that, and then but the majority of

2011
02:26:26.479 --> 02:26:30.760
it's really shaded. And we have
a lot of big pines and oaks and

2012
02:26:30.799 --> 02:26:35.000
stuff like that in the backyard,
so the majority of it is shaded.

2013
02:26:35.680 --> 02:26:41.719
There's a couple of native groundcover plants
in shade. One called horse herb does

2014
02:26:41.799 --> 02:26:43.760
good. It has a little yellow
flower on it that is attractive to bees

2015
02:26:45.479 --> 02:26:50.280
and some of you a horse herb. Horse herb, Now you have to

2016
02:26:50.360 --> 02:26:52.000
look at a picture of it and
see if you're going to like it,

2017
02:26:52.079 --> 02:26:54.399
because these are some people would say
they're weeds, you know, because but

2018
02:26:54.520 --> 02:27:00.600
they are native plants and they do
well, and horseharb as well in a

2019
02:27:00.920 --> 02:27:05.959
bright shade area. There's one called
frog fruit that does well in the sun

2020
02:27:05.200 --> 02:27:11.520
and it also has little tiny white
blooms on match stick stalks, match stick

2021
02:27:11.639 --> 02:27:16.680
size stalks that attract bees as well, and it is probably the best of

2022
02:27:16.760 --> 02:27:24.600
the groundcovers, especially the natives,
for a sunny area like that. Okay,

2023
02:27:24.760 --> 02:27:26.760
cool, we'll definitely take a look
at those. Yeah. The clover.

2024
02:27:28.559 --> 02:27:31.719
The clover seasonally is going to look
good at times, but at times

2025
02:27:31.760 --> 02:27:35.159
it will not look good at all. Yeah, I've done it like brown

2026
02:27:35.239 --> 02:27:39.559
out during the winter. Yeah,
and then you've what you got. You

2027
02:27:39.680 --> 02:27:43.520
got dirt, and so that's why
I would not go with that. Hey,

2028
02:27:43.559 --> 02:27:46.120
thanks Todd. I appreciate your question. I hope that. I hope

2029
02:27:46.159 --> 02:27:48.319
that helps a lot. It's funny, you know, on Guardline, one

2030
02:27:48.399 --> 02:27:52.479
minute I'm talking about weeds, and
the next and how to kill them.

2031
02:27:52.479 --> 02:27:54.680
In the next minute, I'm talking
about how to plant them. Turf sar

2032
02:27:54.760 --> 02:27:58.319
weedon eight is the one we had
recommended earlier as a post emergent to get

2033
02:27:58.399 --> 02:28:01.159
rid of weeds. That's from the
folks that know Nelson's but also don't forget.

2034
02:28:01.200 --> 02:28:07.120
They've got this new Genesis transplant mix. A New Genesis transplant mix is

2035
02:28:07.159 --> 02:28:11.520
a six one three fertilizer. So
I just used it the other day.

2036
02:28:11.600 --> 02:28:15.680
I was bumping some plants up from
one size container to another. I mixed

2037
02:28:15.719 --> 02:28:18.440
the transplant mix into a new potting
mix and planted the plants, and it

2038
02:28:18.559 --> 02:28:22.719
gets them off to a great start. It's got humaid's got my microbial activity

2039
02:28:22.799 --> 02:28:28.120
going on in there. Nutrastar genesis
transplant mix. You need to try it

2040
02:28:28.200 --> 02:28:30.840
out this year. Hey, we're
going to take a quick break seven one

2041
02:28:30.920 --> 02:28:35.680
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. Welcome back to guarden Linem glad

2042
02:28:35.680 --> 02:28:39.479
you're listening today. Of course,
as always, we're going to head out

2043
02:28:39.520 --> 02:28:43.600
now to New Caney and talk to
Joe. Hello, Joe, hie Kip.

2044
02:28:43.639 --> 02:28:46.600
I just got a quick question.
What is the technique that has suggested

2045
02:28:46.760 --> 02:28:52.000
to transplant bamboo. I want to
transplant some wall bamboo for my perimeter,

2046
02:28:52.479 --> 02:28:56.600
okay. And if it's a running
bamboo, you may wish you hadn't because

2047
02:28:56.600 --> 02:29:01.200
that takes over the world. If
it's a clumping tepe, those are a

2048
02:29:01.239 --> 02:29:03.559
little more tame, and I would
consider it, but I'll leave that choice

2049
02:29:03.639 --> 02:29:07.239
up to you. The way you
transplant either bamboo is just dig it up,

2050
02:29:07.479 --> 02:29:11.120
dig up some some of the underground
rhizomes, the roots, the clump

2051
02:29:11.200 --> 02:29:16.479
if it's a clumping type, and
move it right to where you want it.

2052
02:29:16.920 --> 02:29:20.479
Put it in the ground, same
depth, watered in really good,

2053
02:29:20.159 --> 02:29:24.159
and just wait. It's gonna sit
there for a while. The bamboo growers

2054
02:29:24.200 --> 02:29:28.399
say, the first year it sleeps, the second year it creeps. The

2055
02:29:28.520 --> 02:29:33.760
third year it leaps, and that's
describing the growth. So don't be concerned

2056
02:29:33.799 --> 02:29:37.239
if it doesn't grow much the first
year. You want to water it in

2057
02:29:37.360 --> 02:29:39.559
really good. Bamboo is a grass, so just like if you had bermuda

2058
02:29:39.600 --> 02:29:43.760
grass somewhere, you just dig up
a scoop, move it over, put

2059
02:29:43.799 --> 02:29:46.559
it back in the ground, watered
in right away. It's gonna take off.

2060
02:29:46.120 --> 02:29:52.280
That's how bamboo is no special magic
to it real quick. Is there

2061
02:29:52.319 --> 02:29:54.280
a timeframe I have to get it
in the ground from where I transplant it.

2062
02:29:56.479 --> 02:29:58.079
There's not a time frame, but
you don't want it to dry out.

2063
02:29:58.280 --> 02:30:01.760
So if it's going to take a
while, I would If it's gonna

2064
02:30:01.760 --> 02:30:03.879
take a good while, i'd pot
it up in a potting mix and watered

2065
02:30:03.920 --> 02:30:07.719
in really good. Maybe set it
in a semi shady area with a break

2066
02:30:07.760 --> 02:30:11.920
from the western sun. You could
also set it down on the ground and

2067
02:30:13.079 --> 02:30:16.280
just cover it up with a mulch
and then kind of water that to keep

2068
02:30:16.319 --> 02:30:18.719
it moist. You just don't want
it to dry out. Awesome. Thank

2069
02:30:18.760 --> 02:30:22.399
you, yes, sir, thank
you. I appreciate the call very much.

2070
02:30:22.520 --> 02:30:28.360
I want to tell you about Nelson
Watergarden. Nelson Watergarden is. You

2071
02:30:28.399 --> 02:30:31.879
know, we keep saying we got
places north southeast and West Nelson Watergarden is

2072
02:30:33.079 --> 02:30:37.280
West Houston's full service local nursery.
They're just out there at Katie Katie Fort

2073
02:30:37.360 --> 02:30:41.959
Ben Road, north of the Katie
Freeway. You head out I ten Katie

2074
02:30:41.000 --> 02:30:46.280
Fort Ben Road head north and it's
a rocks throw from I ten Nelsonwatergarden dot

2075
02:30:46.440 --> 02:30:50.600
com. That's their website. But
I want to tell you it is a

2076
02:30:50.760 --> 02:30:56.520
showplace. I was out recently and
their selection of pottery pots you're not gonna

2077
02:30:56.520 --> 02:31:00.600
get anywhere else in the area.
From around the world, they've got it.

2078
02:31:01.040 --> 02:31:05.760
And they were the ones that originated
the disappearing fountain coming out of a

2079
02:31:05.879 --> 02:31:11.959
container. So imagine this big,
beautiful vase that's just a traffic stopper.

2080
02:31:11.040 --> 02:31:16.280
Beautiful water's coming out of it.
It goes to the base and it just

2081
02:31:16.399 --> 02:31:20.440
disappears because underneath there's a container holding
water that's pumping it back through. That's

2082
02:31:20.479 --> 02:31:24.120
called a disappearing fountain. And boy
do they get creative with it. I

2083
02:31:24.239 --> 02:31:28.000
mean, it really is amazing.
You know, when you have water,

2084
02:31:28.200 --> 02:31:31.479
you're going to have birds. When
you have water, there's a place for

2085
02:31:31.600 --> 02:31:35.879
beneficial insects to get moisture when you
have water. Most importantly, there's sound,

2086
02:31:37.280 --> 02:31:41.639
a comforting, beautiful sound that just
makes you want to be outside in

2087
02:31:41.680 --> 02:31:48.040
the garden. It's one of the
off forgotten features of a beautiful landscape and

2088
02:31:48.159 --> 02:31:52.879
garden, the beautiful sound of water. And when you go there you'll see

2089
02:31:52.920 --> 02:31:54.559
what I'm talking about. I've never
seen so many pots of my life.

2090
02:31:56.000 --> 02:32:00.600
They are everywhere, and they're all
gorgeous. By the way. Your place

2091
02:32:00.719 --> 02:32:03.840
for koy ponds there, your place
for any kind of a water garden with

2092
02:32:03.959 --> 02:32:09.520
water gardening plants like Levy pads for
example. They've got all of that now

2093
02:32:09.200 --> 02:32:13.799
it trust me on this one.
Just go out to Nelson Water Garden and

2094
02:32:13.879 --> 02:32:18.399
Nursery again. They're and Katie just
north of Iten just a rocks throw north.

2095
02:32:20.079 --> 02:32:22.200
Well. I hope you will go
out and check that out. It

2096
02:32:22.360 --> 02:32:26.079
is inspiring. Absolutely. Let's head
out to Beach City now and talk to

2097
02:32:26.239 --> 02:32:31.760
Joe. Hello, Joe, good
morning, Skip. Hey. I'm gonna

2098
02:32:33.360 --> 02:32:39.000
I've got Saint Augustine's and Johnson grass
and a whole bunch of weeds on two

2099
02:32:39.079 --> 02:32:46.639
acres and I'm going to plant bermuda. I'm wondering how I should do that,

2100
02:32:46.760 --> 02:32:54.680
should I go ahead and cut the
grass and scalp it and then kill

2101
02:32:54.760 --> 02:32:58.200
it up. If I if I
were doing it, Johnson, grass is

2102
02:32:58.239 --> 02:33:05.120
a booger. That's a mess,
and I would wait until it starts to

2103
02:33:05.239 --> 02:33:09.920
grow, until you have growth on
the whatever grasses or weeds you've got,

2104
02:33:09.520 --> 02:33:13.479
and then I would spray it with
something to kill the whole thing down to

2105
02:33:13.520 --> 02:33:18.239
the roots, and then I would
let it have about a week to move

2106
02:33:18.319 --> 02:33:22.600
in. Then I would do the
scalping and the rototilling that you need to

2107
02:33:22.680 --> 02:33:26.319
do. Wait another week or so. Just make sure it's not going to

2108
02:33:26.399 --> 02:33:28.600
re sprout, because you don't often
get it all on that first spray.

2109
02:33:30.239 --> 02:33:35.319
And then when it does resprout anything
that does, go ahead and spread one

2110
02:33:35.360 --> 02:33:39.239
more time, and then you're ready
to go. Randy used to say,

2111
02:33:39.280 --> 02:33:43.680
kill, till and fill. Well, that's the kill and then and the

2112
02:33:43.799 --> 02:33:48.159
till and filling means just bringing in
soil to level out the area. If

2113
02:33:48.159 --> 02:33:50.280
you got any divots or pockets or
whatever, you can do that. If

2114
02:33:50.280 --> 02:33:54.040
you've got roots sticking up, you
need to bring some soil up around them

2115
02:33:54.120 --> 02:33:56.879
so you don't have them sticking ab
above the ground. You can do all

2116
02:33:56.959 --> 02:34:01.200
that, but it starts with making
sure what's there is dead, because it

2117
02:34:01.319 --> 02:34:05.719
will plague you if you don't get
rid of it before you plant the new

2118
02:34:05.799 --> 02:34:09.799
grass. Okay, thank you,
all right. I hope that answered it.

2119
02:34:09.760 --> 02:34:16.280
But they very much for the call. I appreciate that. Sometimes when

2120
02:34:16.280 --> 02:34:18.399
people are kind of quiet, I
think, are they thinking, I am,

2121
02:34:18.680 --> 02:34:22.799
there is no way I'm going to
do that all that work. I

2122
02:34:22.879 --> 02:34:26.600
don't think that's the case with Joe
has to Grow six twelve six. That's

2123
02:34:26.639 --> 02:34:33.680
a Medina product. Medina products you've
heard if you've listened to Gardenline since Dewey

2124
02:34:33.799 --> 02:34:37.559
Compton did this show back in the
fifties, you've heard of Medina products the

2125
02:34:37.559 --> 02:34:45.600
whole time through Medina is a widely
popular brand of a wide variety of products.

2126
02:34:45.879 --> 02:34:50.000
They got a new thing that say
it's a microbe. It comes in

2127
02:34:50.079 --> 02:34:52.719
a little container like a spice jar. You just kind of put a little

2128
02:34:52.719 --> 02:34:56.040
bit out, very little, because
what you're doing is you're adding certain kinds

2129
02:34:56.079 --> 02:35:01.719
of certain kinds a bazillion different kinds
beneficial microbes to the oil. Medina products

2130
02:35:01.760 --> 02:35:07.079
would include like their seaweed products.
Medina products would include their fish emulsion products.

2131
02:35:07.200 --> 02:35:13.120
Medina products would include things like their
Growing Green line of products or they're

2132
02:35:13.120 --> 02:35:16.959
growing Green actually is a fertilizer.
I can use it on your lawns and

2133
02:35:16.040 --> 02:35:20.920
other things. Medina Soil Activator,
Medina Plus. They're all great products and

2134
02:35:22.000 --> 02:35:26.600
they're widely available here in the Greater
Houston area. And I can tell you

2135
02:35:26.719 --> 02:35:30.840
this that it's transplanting time. I'm
going to be transplanting a lot of stuff

2136
02:35:30.879 --> 02:35:35.000
out and when I do, I
water them in with some of the Medina

2137
02:35:35.120 --> 02:35:41.079
Plus. Medina Plus is just an
excellent product anytime you're starting plants and getting

2138
02:35:41.079 --> 02:35:43.920
them established, watering them in.
If you got plants that really suffered from

2139
02:35:43.959 --> 02:35:50.840
coal damage that are having to rebuild
again, drench that with Medina Plus when

2140
02:35:50.840 --> 02:35:54.520
it starts to grow again. Use
their seaweed product on it on the foliage.

2141
02:35:54.600 --> 02:35:56.840
It's a good FOLI your feed.
You're not going to burn with these

2142
02:35:56.920 --> 02:36:01.239
things. They're safe to use.
Their liquids mix all the label mixing up

2143
02:36:01.280 --> 02:36:05.920
in the water. But Menina products
are one that it's a wideline but bitter.

2144
02:36:07.319 --> 02:36:11.280
It is a variety of things that
people have sworn by for years because

2145
02:36:11.280 --> 02:36:15.040
they provide success. I love to
use that Medina Plus when I'm watering in

2146
02:36:15.680 --> 02:36:18.399
New things. In fact, I
believe I have a jug of it still

2147
02:36:18.440 --> 02:36:20.319
at the house. I mean you
may need to get me some more because

2148
02:36:20.440 --> 02:36:26.000
it is going to be time really
soon. Well, you've been listening to

2149
02:36:26.079 --> 02:36:30.120
Guardline today. Of course, we're
on every Saturday from six am to ten

2150
02:36:30.159 --> 02:36:33.159
am. I'll be back tomorrow morning, first thing, six am. For

2151
02:36:33.280 --> 02:36:37.159
those of you early birds, I
look forward to seeing you. For the

2152
02:36:37.239 --> 02:36:39.760
rest of you, all you got
to do is brew a pot of coffee

2153
02:36:39.840 --> 02:36:43.479
and you'll be ready to go.
Maybe I'll say something outrageous to help wake

2154
02:36:43.520 --> 02:36:48.520
you up for a thing in the
morning. Don't forget Next Saturday, February

2155
02:36:48.920 --> 02:36:54.680
twenty fourth, a and A Plants
and Produce in Montgomery. I'm going to

2156
02:36:54.719 --> 02:36:56.799
be there. I'll be giving away
eight bags a turf Star we'dn eater every

2157
02:36:56.840 --> 02:37:01.159
fifteen minutes. Given away a bag
of that. It'll give you a chance

2158
02:37:01.280 --> 02:37:03.959
to come up. Let's meet.
I always love to meet people that listen

2159
02:37:03.040 --> 02:37:07.319
to the show. Do you want
to bring a sample of a plant?

2160
02:37:07.399 --> 02:37:09.280
Do you want to bring a picture
of a plant? We can identify,

2161
02:37:09.440 --> 02:37:13.799
we can diagnose, we can just
help you. My goal is for you

2162
02:37:13.920 --> 02:37:18.159
to have a bountiful garden and a
beautiful landscape. So come by let's figure

2163
02:37:18.159 --> 02:37:22.760
out how to do that. While
you're there, make sure your vehicle has

2164
02:37:22.879 --> 02:37:26.959
plenty of space because A and A
is loaded up with cool stuff that you

2165
02:37:28.159 --> 02:37:31.959
need to take home if you want
to go from the drab gray brown of

2166
02:37:33.079 --> 02:37:37.920
winter to all the colors you can
imagine. Galore. Ana is going to

2167
02:37:37.000 --> 02:37:41.760
get you fixed up. So talk
to you next Saturday. Again, it's

2168
02:37:41.879 --> 02:37:46.000
twelve to two, so after the
show I'll have that way. In the

2169
02:37:46.079 --> 02:37:50.000
meantime, I have to say this
over and over again because I'm always surprised

2170
02:37:50.000 --> 02:37:54.600
there's people that don't even know these
exist on my website Gardening with Skip dot

2171
02:37:54.760 --> 02:38:01.120
com. Gardening with Skip, that's
meet dot com. Lawn care schedule,

2172
02:38:01.280 --> 02:38:05.200
it's free January to December. What
do you need to do when it comes

2173
02:38:05.239 --> 02:38:09.040
to moving, watering, fertilizing,
adding micronutrients, air core, aerating,

2174
02:38:09.159 --> 02:38:13.799
It's all on there. The lawn
pest, disease and weed management schedule.

2175
02:38:13.319 --> 02:38:16.520
What insects do you have and when
and what do you do about it?

2176
02:38:18.120 --> 02:38:22.520
Diseases, weeds, it's all on
there. If you're an organic gardener,

2177
02:38:22.440 --> 02:38:28.000
I've got the products on there.
If your synthetics are good, with you.

2178
02:38:28.280 --> 02:38:31.120
I've got the products on there on
both of those schedules. Hey,

2179
02:38:31.159 --> 02:38:35.159
we look forward to seeing you tomorrow
morning. Remember first thing, bright and early