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Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with
Skip Richards smell crazy. Just watch him

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as Wood, so many good things
to see. Bouts come back, ticket

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but sell. Good morning, Funday, good Sunday morning for gardening. That's

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what we're here for us to talk
about gardening. And for those of you

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who have got one eye opened,
a cup of coffee on the couch trying

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to come to for the day,
Welcome to garden Line. I'm glad you're

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listening. Hope you have a good
time today. We're gonna We're gonna visit

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with you about a lot of different
things related to gardening and hopefully talk to

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you about some of your calls.
I know, if you've got a question,

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other people have it too. Yesterday
I was out at the Margaritaville Resort

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up in Lake Conro. We were
doing the Home and Garden show up there

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and got to meet a lot of
folks. Thank you for everybody that came

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out. I hope you had a
good time. I sure did. I've

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never I don't know if I've ever
heard that many questions from a crowd before,

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but you guys had a lot of
questions, which is good. I

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mean, that's that's why we're here. That's part of the fun of it

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all. But you know, being
out and talking with people, I can't

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tell you. Several people came up
and said, I just wanted to tell

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you I love listening to Guardline,
but I never call. And I it's

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like, okay, call. I
realize it's just a it's worse than the

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tip of the iceberg when it comes
to you know, lots very few people

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who listen call, And I encourage
you to give it a call if you

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if you are a little bit shy, you know, you don't be in

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the air. That's okay, it's
just showing me nobody's listening, especially you

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know this hour there Actually we know
different than that. A lot of folks

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waking up out there. But I
hope you will give us a call.

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The number if you would like to
call will and get on the board this

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morning is seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

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two one two fifty eight seventy four. It is as simple as that.

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So I was telling you guys yesterday
that our new lawn care schedule is out.

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Some of you already seen it.
I've had a number of comments on

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Facebook and Instagram regarding that this is
a guide that is a PDF fill.

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In other words, it's full color
and you can print it out, put

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it on your refrigerator or in the
garage where you keep your fertilizer, or

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wherever you want to put it.
But it basically takes you January through December

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with the major cultural practices of Karen
for a lawn, what does that mean?

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What it means fertilizing. So there's
a row across the calendar if you

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will for synthetic fertilizing, and if
you would rather fertilizing or game nick way,

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there is a row that gives you
a list of the times and options

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for that as well. We got
trace minerals on there. We've got aeration

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on how to do it, and
then the other cultural practices that are critically

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important for a good lawn or proper
mowing and proper watering, and so we

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guide you through the year on that. I've got a little bar across there

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that says each month of the year, what is the typical need for a

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lawn in Houston area in the absence
of rainfall? And so per week,

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So like if you go across to
where are we now We're still in August

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barely, but in August, our
lawns need in Houston based on sunlight,

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solar intensity, intensity, humidity,
wind speed, you know, all the

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factors that make a lawn used water. They need one inch of water a

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week. In September it goes down
to three quarter inch a week, and

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October it's a half inch a week. So you get the idea. It

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kind of guides us as we go
through the year on how to water and

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then to the bottom of course,
and it's all color coded. So let's

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say you chose to do fertilizing organically, Well, there's a section at the

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bottom, same color and it lists
all the products that are organic that you

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can use on there. I appreciate
those of you who have given us some

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feedback on it. Have made a
couple of updates. You know, sometimes

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I look at something and it's like, yeah, that makes sense, and

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then several people say I don't understand
this part of it or what about that,

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And we made some tweaks on it. And it's probably going to evolve

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just a little bit here in the
early days as as we get things where

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they're easily understood. Because the goal
for this is for you to look at

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it and think through it and then
go, I got it and I know.

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And we've had some folks that have
looked at it initially and go,

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there's a lot of information on there
is that I don't know if I can

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absorb all that. Well, yes
you can if you just take it a

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step at a time, like,
Okay, I want to fertilize, When

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do I fertilize? And what does
it say there and what are the best

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options for that. It's as simple
as that. I'm also working on the

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lawn pest, disease and weed management
schedule and that will be coming out soon

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and that is the partner for the
lawn care schedules. So the insects and

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the diseases and the weeds that we
deal with, when do we typically see

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them, and why didn't we put
it all on one schedule? There's absolutely

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nowhere close to enough room because we
explain to you when did chinch bugs and

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sode web worms typically occur? When
do you treat for grubs? When is

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take all root rot typically occurring?
When do you treat for large patch if

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you've had a lawn with the history
of that, And then the same for

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weeds, and that's going to be
up there pretty soon. We're I'm still

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working on that. One's a little
more complicated because there's just a lot of

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moving parts on it. Well,
I think that kind of gives you an

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idea what we're talking about. If
you are planning on doing any kind of

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transplanting, and I hope you are, Fall's the best season in the world

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for it. I'm still transplanting things
now. I know a lot of our

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gardens center have peppers and tomatoes out
there, and a lot of other plants

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that can be planted, in fact
need to be planted right now. If

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you're going to plant them, consider
using has to Grow six twelve six.

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The has to Grow twelve six is
a high phosphorus fertilizer that you mix in

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water, and I use it to
water in transplants because it just helps those

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roots get going, those plants establish, because you don't want them to be

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transplanted in pout for a week or
two. You want them to hit the

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ground running. And so it's got
the soil activator in it to stimulate biological

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activity. It's got humic acid,
it's got seaweed extracts. Has to Grow

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six twelve six. Give it a
shot. I just mixed mine in a

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little bit of water and a watering
can, and when the plant goes in

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the ground, I watered in without
has to grow six twelve six, and

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then a week later again, and
then a week later again. In those

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three waterings in with the has to
grow product really gets that plant off to

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a good start. Well, let's
we are going to I'll tell you what.

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I'm going to head out to k
and Missouri City. Good morning,

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k Good morning, Hi. I
just wanted to tell you I took your

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call and we got about under a
minute. So let's get started and we'll

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finish after we come back. Okay, it's it's fast. It's two.

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It's two questions. I bought asamite
yesterday. What do I put my spreader

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setting on and do I water it
in? It depends on the spreader setting.

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But it's well, I mean the
settings each like brands of rotors,

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brands of rotors, brands of spreaders
and stuff, are a little different.

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Azamite comes in more than one product
form, and so one is finer textured

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than the other. You're just gonna
have to kind of look at it.

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I would go with less open than
you think you need because that way,

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if you if you didn't get the
right amount on per thousand square feet,

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you could just come back and do
it again. If you if you make

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it too open, you know,
you get ten steps down the yard and

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you're done. That's a problem.
So that's that's what I would recommend.

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Alright, Okay, in Uh,
it's it's okay to watered in. It's

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not required like it is with a
salt based fertilizer or you know, an

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organic product you want to activate.
Uh, you can watered in. It

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will get watered in eventually with rain
and stuff. But it's not an emergency.

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It's not gonna burn your Okay,
your your plants, all right,

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Okay, thank you very much.
Hey, thank you. Kay. I

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appreciate that call. We're gonna take
a break right now. Give Will a

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call at seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. This US.

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Good morning. You're listening to guardline
on a what is gonna be a

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full Sunday morning. Look outside right
now, it's dark. If you see

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the neighbors and the lights aren't on, go bang on the door. Tell

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them they're missing garden line. They
need to know about this, by the

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way, especially they're the ones that
don't take care of their yard. Right,

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Well, go tell them they're missing
garden line. They will. They

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will rise up and call you something
eventually, blessed. But maybe this morning

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they'll rise up and call you something
else. Oh gosh, let's let's talk

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about mosquitoes. Hit. Mosquitoes are
having hard time right now because they can't

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find water anywhere. Well, in
the Houston area, you can always find

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water somewhere, but whenever it rains
here they come. Do you know it

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takes mosquitoes just a matter of days
from an egg to be able to hatch

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out and have a larva and then
an adult flying around, and it takes

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about about a bottle cap or a
teaspoonful of water. Believe it or not.

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If you want to ask mosquito,
what's heaven for the larva? Stagnant

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water with decaying organic matter. So
would that describe the catch basins under your

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plant? Yes, the saggy gutters
that aren't draining right. Yes, whenever

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you have water, you have to
deal with the mosquitoes. And one of

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the best ways to do it is
mosquito dunks. If it's a large pond

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of water or you know large like
a fish, not a fishman, you

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know on a mccoypine kind of thing. Well, if you have a little

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area of water like that, you
can put a whole mosquito dunk in it.

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It'll float around for about a month, releasing a disease at mosquitoes.

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It does not hurt birds, does
not hurt pets, does not hurt fish,

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does not hurt any wildlife. Very
easy to use. They also have

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granules that you can put out there. For a larger area. You just

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toss a bunch of granules across it, and basically you were spreading the bubonic

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plague among mosquitos, which is a
wonderful thing to happen to a mosquito.

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You're gonna find mosquito dunks all over
the place wherever you shop. Our garden

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centers, are feed stores, are
hardware stores. They all have mosquito dunks

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in them. Let's head out now
to Camp Logan and we're gonna talk to

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Ron this morning. Good morning Ron, thanks for waiting. Hey, thank

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you Skip, thanks for taking my
call. I had two questions, if

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I could. One is regarding the
new Houston mandatory water restrictions start for me

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this afternoon this evening, okay,
And I was curious about the yard watering

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strategy. Should I just do multiple
runs on the same zones? And also

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curious about yard mowing. Hut,
you know, right now I mow it

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about three and a half. Should
I not mow for a while? Go

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to five inches? Yeah? What
are you? I'm assuming you're talking about

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Saint Augustine at those Yeah. So
I would leave it at three and a

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half and I would mow it as
often as you can. But ultimately,

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you want to mow. When you're
mowing, cuts off a third of the

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height of the grass. So let's
say you're at three and a half and

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a half, it's going to grow
to almost four and a half before you'd

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have to mow at that height.
But that is the goal of mowing,

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is to not do major pruning back, but cut off about a third of

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the leaf when you mow, so
that that's not going to be very often

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if you're not pushing them with fertilizer
and water a lot. As far as

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how to water, think of it
this way. You'd like to put an

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inch of water down on the day
you water, so you're not. You're

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not going to be able with most
sprinkler heads to apply an inch all at

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one time without it running off.
So what we do is we water until

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it's about to run off, and
you just have to get out there and

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figure out how long that is and
then let it go off for about forty

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five minutes to so it soaks down
in the soil aways and then water again,

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and that way, with that cycle
and soak, you can get an

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inch down in the soil. That's
that's what we're aiming for. Okay,

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right, okay, And let me
give you a tip for a way that

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makes it so easy to know how
much the water. There's something called water

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my Yard and it's it's The website
is water myyard dot org. You can

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find an app for your iPhone.
You can find an app for your Android,

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and it's all free. And what
it does is there's a whole bunch

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of little weather stations people don't even
know about all over the greater Houston area,

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and they measure all the things that
make grass use water faster or slower,

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and like sunlight and wind speed and
temperature and humidity and so on,

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and they crunch it together and they
send you a free email each week saying

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your lawn has used point seven five
inches of water this week. And that

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way when I say you put on
an inch when you water, well,

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if you if if you've only used
a half inch this week, then either

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weight to water or go ahead and
put a half inch down. But that

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that guide will take you all through
the air. I mean, it could

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be October and you're wondering, you
know how much is what my lawn used?

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It'll tell you. And it's fast, it's easy, and it's free.

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Best of all. All right,
great, thanks slot skip Hey one

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more quick question, if I could
more curiosity. I grew up in northeast

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Texas. Incinipede was a popular grass
and I don't hear much of it being

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used around the Houston area. Any
reasons why why we don't see that couple

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centipede. It doesn't achieve a dark
emerald green color very well at all.

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In fact, if you over fertilize
it, it will really hurt it.

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Centipede therefore, is kind of a
shark cruise screen, which is not as

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appealing to people. It likes acid
soil as opposed to high pH soil.

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It can grow and higher pH to
a degree, but it prefers kind of

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an East Texas acid sand kind of
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when it gets cool, it turns
straw colored. Saint Augustine will hold onto

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a little color, especially this far
south. But centipede, I mean it

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looks like the lawn died, especially
as you get up further north. You

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may have noticed that when you were
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those are the reasons it can be
planted from seed. You can't hardly find

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sod of it around. But just
because it's not a cellar, so they're

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not going to waste time growing and
carrying it. Great, that's why.

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That's the simple reason into your answer. All right, thank you for taking

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my call, you bet, I
appreciate that call. Ron, thank you

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very much. Hey, for those
of yat in Kingwood, you know how

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I always say this, but Warrens
and Kingwood Garden Center to awesome garden centers

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right at your back door. I
mean, I don't know another place that

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has two garden centers so close together
that are so awesome, but those they

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are right now. They're featuring azamite. You okay, called earlier about azamite

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settings and things on the spreaders.
Well you Azamite is available Warren's and Kingwood

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and it is their product spotlight right
now and this would be a good time

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to get that down. If you've
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now it's a fine time to put
it down. The other thing to

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know about Warren's Garden Centers and Kingwood
both as they got fresh vibrant tomatoes and

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pepper plants at both places. Now's
the time to go ahead and get those

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in. Don't delay anymore. You
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time to grow set fruit before it
cools off so much that they just slow

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down and are not developing fast enough. So that that is something that is

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very timely advice. They also have
their composts sale. If you buy three

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bags of heirloom soils leaf aged leaf
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That's that's a really good deal.
It's like buy three, get one free,

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and then don't forget when you're at
at ones by the way to sign

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up for their lawn Care Club.
They send you tips, they send you

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coupons, and it just helps you
take your lawn up to the next level.

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At a discounted price. You can
sign up. When you check out,

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you can email them, you can
message them on social media, or

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just give them a call at either
locations. Now at Kingwood Garden Center coming

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out and this a little ways out
but not too far. You need to

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get on your calendar in September twenty
first at six pm in the evening September

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twenty first, six pm, they
are going to have their urban Fused Falled

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into Prosecco event. And this is
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class. How about how about that
for a name? You can learn how

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to craft exquisite cocktails with prosecco using
herbs right out of your garden. They'll

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tell you how to grow the herbs, how to harvest them, and how

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to infuse them into spirits to create
that kind of cocktail. They call that

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their gartending class. Go to the
website Kingwood Garden Center dot com and you

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can find out more about that there. That's a creative idea. Let's go

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to Bear Creek. Now we're going
to talk to Bill. Hello, Bill,

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Oh, I've been monk going skip. I've got a little problem with

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tree roots. I think I need
to saw to replace the lawn and I

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think maybe I've waited too long,
and I've had some foundation problems. I've

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put in a root barrier, but
on one side of the lawn the roots

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are like three inch roots three inch
in diameter roots, you know, cover

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go out to the entire lawn edge
wo And on the other side it's got

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it's a lesser problem, but a
lot of large roots. Okay, So

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what happens when I try to after
I kill and when I try to till,

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is that going to be a problem. Yeah, You're just not gonna

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be able to till when there's tree
roots like that. I mean you'll be

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banging around with the tiller and nicking
the roots and all kinds of stuff.

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And it's in that situation about the
best you can do is just some light

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tilling here and there a little bit, and maybe breaking it up a little

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bit with a fork. I don't
mean like a whole spading fork where you

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turn over a big chunk of soil, but you're just loosening up the surface

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a little bit. If those roots
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grass gonna sitting sitting on top of
them. So you're gonna either that to

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put a little soil in to bring
the level up to the top of the

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root, or come up with a
different plan for those areas. Now it

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sounds like they're so much of a
tree root area that me suggesting a groundcover

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would basically turn your whole lawn into
a ground cover. But that's one way

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we hide tree roots. But just
bringing a little soil in here and there

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between the roots to kind of bring
the soil level up, that that would

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be the other option. If you
have to do that over a huge part

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of the tree's roots system, that
can be stressful to the trees, But

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just an inch or two kind of
in certain areas that that's fine. And

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ground what's a good ground cover to
cover a major portion of a fun lawn?

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Yeah, bright shady areas. Asian
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Boy, there's a lot of them, and it depends on your esthetics

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for sure. There are a number
of different sedges that do real well,

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especially in shade, and so their
native sedges and non native sedges. But

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they form a little tufted plant that
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to get up about you know,
six inches to ten just depending on which

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said you pick. But it's just
like a little meadow underneath. You keep

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us to keep that down. Oh
yeah, yeah you could, but you

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wouldn't have to. You don't want
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it would just be uh, you
know, maybe coming out of winner,

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cut it back so you can get
some fresh new growth. And perhaps is

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Mondo grass one of those? It's
not Mando would be fine, and there's

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a dwarf Mondo. The thing with
Mondo number one it can take tons of

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shade but not a whole lot of
sun, but it grows really really slow.

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Hey Bill, I need to break
for a for our next new spot,

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but if you want to hang on, we can continue this when we

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come back. Answer my question,
Thank you, skip yes or thank you

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well. You're listening to the guard
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he got attack on his amposite data
he got did you see heydon afternoon?

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I know we've got to show that
you're here, but I could just listen

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to Jim. You're listening to garden
Line and we are glad you are.

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two one two fifty eight seventy four. We are gonna now go out to

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Magnolia and talk to Tim. Hello, Tim, Hey, don't skip.

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I'm well, thank you. I
sent some pictures yesterday. I've got some

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groundcover on the side of my garage. We've had the house for about nineteen

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years. I don't know when they
planted it, but it's always grown perfect.

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I've never really watered it or fertilized, and he just always stays nice,

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thick and green and so. But
just the last I guess two or

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three weeks, you can see on
those pictures it's just dye in the middle.

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Some of it on one side green, but most of it's just dying.

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And yeah, I didn't know what
I need to do. I don't

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know if you've got those pictures.
I did, Yeah, I did?

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Uh tended? Did you cut down
a tree that might have shaded that area

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before? By any chance? Uh
not recently? Make me like four years

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ago? Oh okay, Well,
yeah, that's that's pretty far back.

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It looks like drought injury to me, And I don't know. It could

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be a lot of things. It
could be that the water isn't reaching that

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area due to some foliage block in
the sprayer. It could be that when

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you water, it's not soaking in
deep enough. It looks it looks like

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it might be a little bit of
a slope. Is that right or not?

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No, it's pretty preable, and
we're you know, our property has

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a lot of trees right there on
that side. It does get some sun,

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but we're predominantly tree. A matter
of fact, that my grass hardly

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ever grows because I got so much
shades, even in the last drought,

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and I don't have water sprinklers or
whatever. Even the last drought, I

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didn't even watered at all, and
it stayed just like that. I was

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interesting it, really, but then
just like it just all of a sudden,

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that started even doing like that.
Yeah, and well, here here's

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what I'm saying. I mean,
there there are root diseases that can affect

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that Asian jasmine and kill it.
Cotton root rod and some other things can

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affect it. But they wouldn't just
show up overnight. That would have been

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a gradual development in that area over
time. The other thing I'm seeing is

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a grass doesn't look good either.
Right there, It looked like it's dying

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out, and so that's what.
There's not a disease that Asian jasmine shares

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with turf grass, and so that's
making me think something like like a water

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or I don't know what it's going
on. It has been so hot for

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so long, just almost to point
of a record here that I don't know.

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I would go into the jasmine.
I would take a little hand trawled

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dig down about four or five inches
and feel the soil. And if it's

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moist then I unless you just watered, then maybe we can eliminate the water

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is being the cause. But I
don't know a disease it would cause what

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you're seeing right there. So that
looks to me. When I see that,

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my first thing I think about is
what was in the shade now is

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getting blasted by the sun, which
you've you've said no, uh. And

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and I see the lawn and I
think, man, that is that's got

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to be water, a water thing
unless herbicide was put on it, a

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weed killer to kill weeds in it
or in the lawn, and it got

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over there or something different like that. Uh. Those are the only things

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I see in the photo. You
know, over there on the left side

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of the water where the water hose
is it's it's looking good. But I

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noticed just a few little tiny leaves
to turn brown way over there on that

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left side. Okay, you know, well it's only kind of really hit

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hard on that right side, you
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if you want to pursue it,
would be to take a sample of

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that plant. You would just take
a shovel and dig out about a one

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foot square chunk. You don't have
to get a whole lot of soil with

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it, but just get the roots. If you can shake a little of

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the soil off and send it up
to the State Plant Clinic at A and

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M. They do a charge for
diagnostics, but they'll get it in there,

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cultured out in a petri dish,
look at it under a microscope,

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and they can tell you exactly if
there's a disease, what that disease is,

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and then that would guide us on
Therefore, what do you do.

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So if we eliminate chemical damage,
if we eliminate drought damage, if we

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eliminate you know, the sudden sun
exposure, then I guess it's worth taking

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a look at a disease. But
that would be that's a little unusual,

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but unusual happens, so that if
you wanted to do that, It's called

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plant Clinic dot TAMU dot d U. Plant Clinic dot TAMU dot edu.

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And that's how you take a sample
to send it in needs to be fresh.

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You can drive it up to the
college stations an hour away, or

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you can mail it up there,
you know whatever. Okay, all right,

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well I appreciate your help. All
right, thank you, sir.

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I appreciate the call. Good luck
with appreciate you were listening to garden Line

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and I'm your host, Skip Ricter. We're here to talk all kinds of

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things gardening with you today, you
know, talking talking with Tim and seeing

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that lawn. I see a lot
of lawns that are struggling. You know,

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they have dead areas in them.
They lack that color, kind of

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a shark cruise color rather than a
normal color. And our plants are distressed.

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I mean it number one, it's
dry and hot, right, so

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you got a water and I don't
know. Sometimes we think we watered and

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we didn't. But also just the
intense heat is taking its toll on a

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lot of plants, and that's the
time when we want to make sure that

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they have the nutrients that they have
active there's a good soil moisture and active

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microbial content in the soil because that's
part of protecting the roots. That's part

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of making the roots more efficient.
And a product like Microlife. You know,

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they've got their six two four for
example, that's their fertilizer. They've

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got the Humates plus that's a purple
bag. Six two four is a green

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bag. Humates plus, which is
concentrated compost in a bag, is the

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purple bag. Those are helpful.
I talk about here the product that they

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have that we spray on plants as
a folder feet or we can drench it

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onto the soil, and that is
their fish based product. Now the fish

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based product, that one is in
a blue bottle. It's called Ocean Harvest,

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and just follow the label. You're
not going to burn with Ocean Harvest.

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It provides when you do all these
things, you're providing minerals for the

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soil, you are fighting micro microbs
plus, helping the microbs that are there.

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Of course, you're providing some of
the sugars and things that help them

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really proliferate. And there's just a
lot of other plants stimulating things that go

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on when you treat your long like
that, and at this point in time,

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as someone said, it's almost like
a gatorade for plants with that,

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with that blue labeled ocean harvest.
Get them there equivalent of human electrolytes.

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I guess if you will, just
to provide some things to stimulate them and

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keep those things going. And you
can find microlife everywhere. If you go

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to Microlife Fertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer
dot com, you can learn out about

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these products that I'm talking about.
You can also learn different places you can

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get it, and it's widely available
here in the Houston area. Well,

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we're going to take a break here. Our number is seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
Give Will a call, he'll get you

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on the board and we'll be right
back with you. Bring into a million

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pieces like you always do. Good
morning, it's gonna be a beautiful Sunday

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morning. By the way, that
movie, if that came out of that

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thing you do, that impressed me
more by Tom Hanks than he's an awesome

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actor. If he's going to be
in a movie, I'm gonna watch the

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movie because it's always good. But
the fact that he wrote music for that

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show, like that thing you do. By the way, if you're out

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there listening and you think you know
something about that thing you do, why

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don't you let me know what the
name of the band is on them in

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the movie that sang that song?
How about that? Can you give me

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that? Give me a call,
let me hear about that. I'd be

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curiously if there's any any that thing
you do fans out there, or you

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could call about a gardening question,
which is why we're here. Seven one

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three, two, one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. Buchanan's
Plants in the Heights is another one of

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those what I call destination garden centers, and Houston is rich with them.

419
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I know, those of you who've
lived here a long time, probably you

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know I mean, familiar with something. You sort of take it for granted.

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But let me tell you this,
you are really fortunate to live in

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the greater Houston area, because I
mean, they're like a half dozen awesome

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garden centers, north, south,
east, west, central, anywhere you

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want to go around here. We
are fortunate to have some and Central Buchanons

425
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is exactly that. It's an eleventh
street in the Heights. And again it's

426
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one of those places where if you're
a non gardener, or if you have

427
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a family member that's a non gardener, have them tag along at big beautiful

428
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shade trees. So even on a
hot day, it's pleasant to go out

429
00:31:00.279 --> 00:31:03.759
there, walk around and do some
shopping. The gift shops are unbelievable.

430
00:31:03.039 --> 00:31:07.160
So I'm back to your non gardening
friend here, and you know, our

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00:31:07.240 --> 00:31:10.880
goal for all this is to get
them in there. It's going into a

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00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:14.839
quality garden center. Is the gateway
drug to gardening. I mean, that's

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what happens. You see these plants
and suddenly you go, I would love

434
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to grow that. And next thing
you know, now you've got a gardening

435
00:31:21.720 --> 00:31:23.720
friend, and so you can go
hang out together, load up the suburbans

436
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:29.440
and run all over town. Anyway. Buchanans has native plants, that is

437
00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:36.720
their specialty. They have unbelievably wonderful
selection of not just Texas natives, but

438
00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:38.680
natives just here to the Houston area. They have a whole table just for

439
00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:44.440
Houston area natives. Buchanans has got
everything else. Though, If do you

440
00:31:44.519 --> 00:31:47.319
need herbs, do you need vegetables, do you need house plants? Their

441
00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:52.680
house plant collection is unbelievable and it
a lot of quality and things that aren't

442
00:31:52.759 --> 00:31:55.640
easy to find. Stuff. I
walk in there sometimes and it's like,

443
00:31:56.119 --> 00:31:59.000
no, I've never seen that house
plant? What is that? Because they're

444
00:31:59.039 --> 00:32:02.440
always coming up a new things in
the houseplant world. Buchanans carries the fertilizers

445
00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:07.400
I talk about. Buchanans carries the
soils that we talk about here. Anything

446
00:32:07.440 --> 00:32:13.240
you need for your garden, from
products to plants, to quality advice to

447
00:32:13.480 --> 00:32:16.640
accurate advice. You're going to find
a Buchanans Plants and the Heights that's East

448
00:32:16.680 --> 00:32:22.519
eleventh Street, or go online to
Buchanans Plants dot com and find out more

449
00:32:22.599 --> 00:32:28.319
about that. Here on Guarden Line, we talk about a lot of different

450
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:32.759
topics and right now the elephants in
the room, there's two of them.

451
00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:38.319
Is lawns and trees, and why
are they dying under this extreme drought stress,

452
00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:43.960
extreme heat stress. Plants are just
having a hard time making it.

453
00:32:44.119 --> 00:32:46.359
And I was talking with some folks
out there at the Home and Garden show

454
00:32:46.559 --> 00:32:51.480
up on like Conro yesterday, and
we were just just kind of thinking through

455
00:32:51.559 --> 00:32:53.119
what's going on here. I mean
we think about, well, plants need

456
00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:57.319
water, I water them. They
should be okay, Well they need water

457
00:32:57.480 --> 00:33:00.079
that's in a good soaking, and
then they need the soil to dry out

458
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:05.920
a bit between waterings. So what
most people do is they squirt the lawn

459
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:08.839
with a little bit of water frequently
every other day, hopefully not every day,

460
00:33:08.920 --> 00:33:13.079
hopefully not every other day. But
they do that and it wets the

461
00:33:13.160 --> 00:33:15.839
soil in a very shallow way.
It keeps the grass wet, which increases

462
00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:22.759
disease problems, and it doesn't create
a resilient, deep rooted grass. A

463
00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:27.160
good soaking wets the soil deeply and
then let it dry out. And as

464
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:30.720
the water moves out from between those
soil particles, as it begins to dry

465
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:37.799
out from gravity from plants taking it
up from evaporating, the soil gets oxygen

466
00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:42.920
back down into the soil. The
spaces that were once filled with water now

467
00:33:43.000 --> 00:33:46.119
are filled with air, and roots
need oxygen. They have to breathe.

468
00:33:46.160 --> 00:33:50.480
They need a certain amount of oxygen
to be able to perform well. You

469
00:33:50.640 --> 00:33:53.839
keep a plant completely water logged and
you'll kill it, especially in the stress

470
00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:57.799
of heat. The other thing going
on in our plants right now. I

471
00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:01.160
see this on roses especially, but
it's on a lot of plants. Is

472
00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:07.079
it is just so blasted hot for
so long that it's like they're wearing out.

473
00:34:07.320 --> 00:34:13.440
When the temperature goes up into the
upper nineties and above a hundred especially,

474
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there are certain processes in the plant
that starts to shut down photosynthesis,

475
00:34:17.760 --> 00:34:22.639
for example, in many plants,
when it gets too hot, it starts

476
00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:28.599
to shut down another biological burst,
I should say, biochemical processes. The

477
00:34:29.480 --> 00:34:34.199
little factories begin to malfunction. And
when that happens the plants, like in

478
00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:37.760
the case of photosynthesis, that helps
produce food for the plant. So you're

479
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:44.199
weakening the plant just due to the
excessive heat, just because it can't get

480
00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:47.559
that food production done. At nighttime, the little holes on the bottom of

481
00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:52.159
the leaf open up and allow gas
out, and that's the time, you

482
00:34:52.239 --> 00:34:55.079
know, plants breathe, breathe in
carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen. We

483
00:34:55.159 --> 00:34:58.400
all know that. That's why we
like to hang out with them, because

484
00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:01.840
we were good partners in that way. But they also have to have oxygen

485
00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:07.360
at night where they burn some of
the processes in their respiration, and when

486
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:12.119
it's so hot that the plants close
the holes up so it doesn't lose any

487
00:35:12.159 --> 00:35:15.000
more water. That process can't keep
going on. That's like shutting to the

488
00:35:15.079 --> 00:35:19.599
door to the auto factory and no
cars can get out. That you're not

489
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:23.360
going to produce the things the plant
needs if the door's not open. And

490
00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:29.039
that's a simplified analogy, but that's
part of what's going on with our plants

491
00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:30.920
right now. So we can water, I'm gonna be careful not to overwater.

492
00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:35.519
We want to water properly. But
we just need to get this heat

493
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to move on out. And our
plants here are used to heat. I

494
00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:43.840
mean, welcome to Texas period much
less Southeast Texas. We you know,

495
00:35:43.920 --> 00:35:45.960
we're used to the heat, or
they're used to the heat. But days

496
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and days and days on end,
and then here comes the kicker. When

497
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something goes a little wrong, maybe
a root rot, like take all root

498
00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:58.920
rot on your grass. Maybe something
going a little wrong, is it gets

499
00:35:58.960 --> 00:36:02.159
a little too dry, or maybe
you're using a certain kind of product that

500
00:36:02.280 --> 00:36:07.519
damages the plant. Any of those
things. It's like it tips it over

501
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:12.960
the edge. It's hanging on,
it's doing okay, but at some point

502
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:16.079
it's just too much and that's when
we start to see decline and you see

503
00:36:16.079 --> 00:36:20.119
it on crape myrtles now in different
places where the tips of the leaves and

504
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:22.440
margins of the leaves are browning and
the leaves are beginning to fall off.

505
00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:30.119
It just we need to get out
of one hundred degrees. That's the bottom

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00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:31.880
line. In the meantime, we
need to water write. I already just

507
00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:37.360
describe that, so I don't know, I hope that's helpful for you if

508
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:40.480
you have not been out to Southwest
Fertilizer. I'm gonna talk about them in

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00:36:40.480 --> 00:36:45.320
a little bit, but they've got
some they a product out there that you're

510
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:47.920
going to want to hear about.
I've mentioned it before, but it's one

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00:36:49.000 --> 00:36:52.519
of my absolute favorite new products.
And I'm always falling in love with a

512
00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:55.440
new tool. And that the way
it is. Whether you're into woodworking or

513
00:36:55.519 --> 00:37:00.119
gardening, or you name it,
or sewing even there's always some cool new

514
00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:05.920
tool that helps you do your craft
a little bit better. And that's I

515
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:08.639
don't know, that's part of the
fun of it. You know, Gardening

516
00:37:08.760 --> 00:37:13.239
is one of the less expensive hobbies
that there are out there. I mean,

517
00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:15.880
that's true, right, you don't
have to have a deer lease.

518
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:19.559
You don't have to have a four
wheeler. You don't have to uh you

519
00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:21.920
know, the rifles and all the
stuff it takes to be a hunter.

520
00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:25.800
Bass fisherman. Yeah, you catch
fish to save some money, provide fish

521
00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:30.320
for the family food budget. But
after you pay for a bass boat,

522
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:34.559
let's let's talk about gardening. When
you come back, we'll be right high.

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Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with
Skip Richard's so smell crazy. Just

524
00:37:52.159 --> 00:38:07.079
watch him as a wools You well, good Sunday morning, starting to lighten

525
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:10.840
up outside on what is going to
be a beautiful day. You're listening to

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00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:15.679
garden Line and we're here to answer
your gardening questions. I was talking about

527
00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:21.000
before we went to break about a
new favorite tool, and that what I'm

528
00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:23.880
talking about is a kneeling bench.
Now, I don't know if you've seen

529
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:28.000
those before, but a folding knee. There's a lot of versions of it.

530
00:38:28.119 --> 00:38:30.840
Some are all solid hard plastic.
You flip them up to sit on,

531
00:38:30.960 --> 00:38:35.639
you flip them down to kneel on. The folding kneeling bench is a

532
00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:39.280
little metal bench, got nice soft
pads on it, and you can set

533
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:42.360
it up where you can sit down. So if you're down, you know,

534
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.119
maybe you got to raise bed.
You're done at that level, and

535
00:38:45.119 --> 00:38:49.239
you're wanting to work on some plants
or anything along those lines, it's really

536
00:38:49.320 --> 00:38:52.239
easy to do. And then if
you want to flip it upside down and

537
00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:57.199
kneel on it, what was legs
now or handles? And I don't know

538
00:38:57.239 --> 00:39:00.719
about you, but somewhere north of
forty years old, i'd woke up one

539
00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:06.079
morning wondering why I was sore because
I couldn't remember doing anything the day before

540
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:10.039
that cost it. And what happens
to me is I get out on a

541
00:39:10.119 --> 00:39:14.199
Saturday years I'm you know, I'm
working, getting getting stuff done in the

542
00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:16.599
yard, and I don't realize how
many times I go up and down and

543
00:39:16.760 --> 00:39:20.400
up and down, you know,
planting seeds and I don't know, just

544
00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:23.000
whatever. And with those of little
handles on there, I mean, it's

545
00:39:23.079 --> 00:39:27.519
easy to get up and down.
And I used to think, you know,

546
00:39:27.880 --> 00:39:30.599
in fact, about one for my
sister who's much older than me,

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00:39:30.800 --> 00:39:34.639
a point which I love to point
out to her. But and then after

548
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:36.840
a while I thought, you know, I need one of those, and

549
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:38.360
I got one. It's wonderful.
It's one of my favorite tools that I

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00:39:38.440 --> 00:39:40.960
have. And it's as simple as
that. And you just think, well,

551
00:39:40.960 --> 00:39:44.719
I don't need to carry a chair
around in the guard. Yes you

552
00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:47.639
do, and bob at it.
Southwest Fertilizer. I got some of those

553
00:39:47.679 --> 00:39:50.760
in. I told him about him. He got a bunch of those in

554
00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:53.719
and I've seen him. You know, you've seen him around and stuff.

555
00:39:53.800 --> 00:39:57.880
They're just not as common as they
need to be though, in terms of

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00:39:57.920 --> 00:40:00.800
availability. But I'll tell you this. Southwest does carry those. They also

557
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:04.559
have a soil probe that you can
borrow to take out to do a soil

558
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.519
sample, and I would recommend you
do that now. I recommend fertilizers all

559
00:40:07.599 --> 00:40:13.239
day here on garden Line because there's
standards that we use three one two four

560
00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:19.519
one two ratio fertilizers. That's a
good general guide for grass. But everybody's

561
00:40:19.599 --> 00:40:22.760
lawns a little different. You know, maybe your phosphorus is through the roof,

562
00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:27.920
maybe it's unusually rare, are unusually
low in your yard. A soil

563
00:40:27.960 --> 00:40:30.159
test tells you that, so you
can fertilize accordingly and bobble lown you the

564
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:32.719
probe. You put a little deposit
down, get your money, get your

565
00:40:32.760 --> 00:40:37.039
deposit back. When you bring the
probe back. That's to make sure you

566
00:40:37.159 --> 00:40:40.639
bring the probe back. But that's
just another service Southwest has. I mean

567
00:40:42.760 --> 00:40:46.079
every You're not going to find a
place anywhere in Houston that has more products

568
00:40:46.480 --> 00:40:52.400
for your garden than Southwest Fertilizers.
That's fertilizers, that's pesticides and sex sides,

569
00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:55.239
fungicides are besides on and on and
on. I mean, down to

570
00:40:55.360 --> 00:40:59.639
getting your mower blade sharpened is going
to be there at Southwest. Go to

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00:40:59.719 --> 00:41:01.639
south West Fertilizer dot com if you
want to find out more. If you

572
00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:05.159
haven't been there, take some time
and go out and check it out.

573
00:41:05.480 --> 00:41:08.039
You'll see what I'm talking about there. If they don't have it at Southwest

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00:41:08.079 --> 00:41:12.880
Fertilizer, you don't need it.
It's a corner of Bissonette and Renwick down

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in southwest Houston. Let's head out
now to Montgomery and we're going to talk

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00:41:16.199 --> 00:41:21.320
to Deborah. Good morning, Deborah, Good morning, Skip. How are

577
00:41:21.320 --> 00:41:24.280
you this morning? I'm good this
morning. How are you right? Just

578
00:41:24.519 --> 00:41:31.119
watered that beautiful indigenous magnolia tree of
my neighbors that are in Iceland. Ah,

579
00:41:31.320 --> 00:41:36.559
oh yeah, yeah, I just
got a quick question about that tree.

580
00:41:37.800 --> 00:41:43.079
It has looks. It looks so
much better since I've been watering it

581
00:41:43.199 --> 00:41:51.159
regularly while they've been gone, and
I was wondering about putting up getting some

582
00:41:52.440 --> 00:41:58.639
nutrients to the roots of the tree. Is that a shallow root tree or

583
00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:02.800
deep or is that something I should
tackle. It's pretty it's it's medium,

584
00:42:04.039 --> 00:42:07.679
and you don't need to fertilize a
deciduous magnolia a lot, but you do

585
00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:12.119
want to support good growth. It
doesn't grow super fast and you don't want

586
00:42:12.119 --> 00:42:15.920
it to be all lanky and floppy
everywhere. It has a nice medium growth

587
00:42:16.039 --> 00:42:21.920
rate, and so you can use
a number of different things. I mean,

588
00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:24.320
if it's in anywhere near the lawn, you could just when you're fertilizing

589
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:29.519
the lawn fertilize that tree a little
bit extra and that would be fine if

590
00:42:29.559 --> 00:42:34.320
you depending on how big the trunk
is. Typically those are or can be

591
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:38.280
multi trunks, sometimes single trunk.
Just for every inch of trunk diameter,

592
00:42:38.400 --> 00:42:44.599
give it a cup of lawn fertilizer. That's one one simple fast way to

593
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:49.039
do it. Watered in really well, but in general they do pretty good.

594
00:42:49.079 --> 00:42:52.719
The only problem they have nutrient wise
here is if the soil pH is

595
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:59.159
really high. They can be chlorotic. So I think that's happening with that

596
00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:01.519
tree. It is thirty years old. Oh well, okay, well you

597
00:43:01.599 --> 00:43:06.880
know thirty years it should have settled
in pretty well. I would consider taking

598
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:12.039
a little pitchfork spading fork, you
know, like you would turn the soil

599
00:43:12.159 --> 00:43:15.800
over with and just push it straight
down in the soil and wiggle it really

600
00:43:15.880 --> 00:43:19.280
good to kind of create some little
vertical holes and do that in a whole

601
00:43:19.320 --> 00:43:22.800
bunch of places around it, and
then top dress it with a high quality

602
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:27.199
compost like us a well screened leaf
mole compost. And if you do that

603
00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:30.840
about once a year or twice a
year, you will gradually get more and

604
00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:36.119
more organic matter down into the soil. You'll aerate the soil better, and

605
00:43:36.480 --> 00:43:38.559
it'll feel like it's in a forest, which is what it wants to feel

606
00:43:38.639 --> 00:43:42.800
like. It's a tree. It
wants to be in a forest with rotting

607
00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:46.840
leaves everywhere around it. And that
would help create over time that environment.

608
00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:55.440
Oh that's beautiful suggestion. And bloom
booster would be no, no, not

609
00:43:55.599 --> 00:44:00.159
really not necessary. And here's why. The bloom boosters tipic clear hid phosphorus.

610
00:44:00.599 --> 00:44:05.360
And when you have high pH and
high phosphorus. Around a plant that

611
00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:08.840
likes a little more acidic soil,
you can often get tie up of iron

612
00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:13.880
and so the new growth comes out
not as green as the old growth is,

613
00:44:14.960 --> 00:44:16.960
even even to the yet point of
being yellow. That's a sign of

614
00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:22.480
one of the signs of iron deficiency. So bloom Booster's fine for what it's

615
00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:28.880
for. But on this it's basically
a tree, and and yes it'll bloom.

616
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:34.119
And unless your soil is way out
of whack nutrient wise, it should

617
00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:38.760
be fine with just a turf type
fertilizer. Right, Well, I'm looking

618
00:44:38.840 --> 00:44:46.079
forward to seeing you in College station
for more information about the soil testing.

619
00:44:46.440 --> 00:44:50.000
Yeah, yeah, good, Well, hey, thanks for you were out

620
00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:53.559
at Margaritaville, right yeah, okay, Well we had a great time out

621
00:44:53.599 --> 00:44:57.920
there. Thanks for coming out.
Oh it was great. I'm so glad

622
00:44:57.960 --> 00:45:00.239
I got to meet you. So
knowledgeable. Well that's not the good work,

623
00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:05.360
that's kind. I hope, I
hope you were worn out today because

624
00:45:05.400 --> 00:45:12.119
y'all share the heck wore me out
with questions yesterday. All right, this

625
00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:15.199
is a Jeff that came up with
Debbie and I wanted to tell you that

626
00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:19.800
it seemed like it just automatically turned
into a radio show. I don't know

627
00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:22.639
if you had anything planned to say, but the question is, as soon

628
00:45:22.719 --> 00:45:27.360
as you introduced to yourself, you
started getting questions. Yes, we did

629
00:45:27.480 --> 00:45:29.880
we did well, we had a
good time. Hey, thank you guys.

630
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.360
I appreciate the call. Good luck
up there by. Bye all right,

631
00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:37.719
bye bye. That was good.
Speaking of going out to places.

632
00:45:37.760 --> 00:45:40.920
Next week is Labor Day, so
I'm not gonna be anywhere on Labor Day.

633
00:45:42.280 --> 00:45:44.480
And you wouldn't want to come out
on Labor Day. You probably got

634
00:45:44.519 --> 00:45:47.960
other things going on. But on
the ninth of September, that's Saturday.

635
00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:52.719
That's two saturdays from yesterday, so
two weeks essentially, two weeks from now.

636
00:45:52.039 --> 00:45:55.119
On Saturday, from eleven am to
one thirty pm, I'm going to

637
00:45:55.159 --> 00:46:02.559
be at Plantation Ace Hardware out in
Richmond. Now Plantation, I've been there

638
00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:07.719
before. It's a wonderful place.
Lots of stock of all kinds of things

639
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:10.159
that you need, you know,
for your yard. Especially that that's what

640
00:46:10.320 --> 00:46:14.400
people are number one focusing on.
If I need to fertilize them a law

641
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:19.119
and I've got disease or insect or
weed or other issues. There's nothing along

642
00:46:19.159 --> 00:46:22.719
those lines that they don't have at
Plantation as Hardware. Everything you need is

643
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:23.960
going to be out there. But
I'm gonna be out there for two hours

644
00:46:24.000 --> 00:46:29.039
for an appearance Saturday, September ninth, and I'll be there from eleven thirty

645
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:32.280
to one thirty. So if you
got some plant issues, be ready to

646
00:46:32.599 --> 00:46:37.519
dig up some plant or pick some
leaves, put them in a ziploc bag.

647
00:46:37.599 --> 00:46:39.199
Let's take a look at them.
We can identify, we can diagnose,

648
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:43.840
or if you just want to take
some pictures of the place and bring

649
00:46:43.920 --> 00:46:46.239
those photos in, make sure they're
in good sharp focus. If I'm trying

650
00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:51.119
to dig, if you want me
to diagnose something, the closer you get

651
00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:53.800
to the problem the better. But
that's where you got to really watch to

652
00:46:53.880 --> 00:46:58.079
make sure it's in focus. But
I'll be happy to do that and I'm

653
00:46:58.119 --> 00:47:00.400
looking forward to that. I know
that's two weeks away, but I just

654
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:01.840
wanted to give you a head starts. You can get that on your calendar

655
00:47:02.599 --> 00:47:08.960
add apt Plantation as Hardware during that
time. If you are interested in a

656
00:47:09.280 --> 00:47:15.119
high nitrogen content organic fertilizer, you're
not going to find one with a better

657
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:20.920
nitrogen content than Sweet Green eleven percent
on the nitrogen and it is a molassa

658
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:27.800
space product and through microbial activity,
it has chock full of the nutrients that

659
00:47:27.880 --> 00:47:30.719
plants need. It's an eleven zero
four fertilizer. It's a good blend for

660
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:35.960
lawns. It smells good. So
I don't know if you've ever hauled fertilizer

661
00:47:36.039 --> 00:47:37.719
home in a hot car, but
if it's a it's got a little manure

662
00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:40.760
in it kind of gets interesting there
in the car. This one has a

663
00:47:40.800 --> 00:47:45.760
real sweet smell. You'll really enjoy
that sweet green. It's going to release

664
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:50.159
and provide the nutrients your plant needs. If you put it on right now,

665
00:47:50.800 --> 00:47:53.239
it will it will not burn your
plants, and it will carry you

666
00:47:53.400 --> 00:47:58.519
right up until when we need to
put the fall fertilization on. So nitrofisle

667
00:47:58.559 --> 00:48:01.079
sweet green. Every where you find
n fast, which is pretty much everywhere

668
00:48:01.440 --> 00:48:06.920
that we shop around town with garden
centers, feed stores, he's hardware stores,

669
00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:12.880
they're all going to have that that
kind of sweet green material. Excuse

670
00:48:12.960 --> 00:48:15.360
me, my throat is give me
trouble today. Well, I'm gonna take

671
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:45.239
a break here seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Well,

672
00:48:45.440 --> 00:48:49.000
good morning. You are listening to
garden Line and we're here going to

673
00:48:49.039 --> 00:48:53.119
talk about gardening. What a coincidence. Our phone number is seven one three

674
00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:58.119
two one two fifty eight seventy four
tib will a call, get you on

675
00:48:58.199 --> 00:49:02.880
the board and we'll talk about whatever
you're interested in talking about. Regarding gardening,

676
00:49:06.920 --> 00:49:09.320
gardening is one of those hobbies.
Now I'm biased, but that doesn't

677
00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:15.599
mean I'm wrong. It's one of
those hobbies that I just see it as

678
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:19.119
a we talk about when when this
is a win win win, win win.

679
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:22.039
And here's what I'm talking about,
it's enjoyable. I believe we were

680
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:24.519
made to garden. I you know
there is a reason that there is this

681
00:49:24.599 --> 00:49:28.920
thing called the Garden of Eden.
Right, It's like we are made to

682
00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:35.039
be in a garden and it calms
us, it provides. And this is

683
00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:38.639
all I'm not just saying personal experience
here. I'm talking about research based stuff.

684
00:49:39.079 --> 00:49:44.119
We can record a drop and blood
level when someone just walks into a

685
00:49:44.239 --> 00:49:50.519
forest, When someone goes out among
their plants and just enjoys the natural world.

686
00:49:50.800 --> 00:49:55.320
I think that is that's our natural
habitat. It affects us cognitively.

687
00:49:57.119 --> 00:50:02.559
Their kids with add actually makes a
difference in classroom studies where there are plants

688
00:50:02.599 --> 00:50:06.880
around, or a view of nature
outside versus a view of a parking lot

689
00:50:06.960 --> 00:50:12.400
in a brick wall. Hospitals where
people are recovering from surgery. That makes

690
00:50:12.480 --> 00:50:15.719
a difference. It absolutely does.
As folks get older and deal with things

691
00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:22.559
like a dementia. There is actually
a cognitive benefit to gardening, and so

692
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:25.719
I just can't brag on that aspect
of it enough. I personally think it's

693
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:29.360
fun. Now some of you may
think, well, and by the way,

694
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:31.039
I know we have non gardeners that
listen to garden Line. You may

695
00:50:31.119 --> 00:50:35.119
think, well, that's you know, maybe for people that love gardening but

696
00:50:35.239 --> 00:50:37.360
not me, well go out and
just take a walk through the forest.

697
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:43.239
Then I mean there is there is
so many benefits to being able to enjoy

698
00:50:43.360 --> 00:50:47.199
gardening at Plus, I saw a
T shirt once it said gardening is better

699
00:50:47.280 --> 00:50:52.480
than therapy. Plus you get tomatoes. That's true. That is true.

700
00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:54.679
I get a lot of thinking done
some days, you know, coming home

701
00:50:54.760 --> 00:50:59.880
from work, I'll just go out
in the backyard and put my thumb on

702
00:50:59.920 --> 00:51:01.239
the end of a garden hose,
which is not how you water, but

703
00:51:01.440 --> 00:51:07.280
it's how I think. And so
I can go d program just by going

704
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:12.559
around watering, being outside, having
some mindlessness stuff going on. I can

705
00:51:12.639 --> 00:51:15.960
get a lot of thinking done out
on the end of a garden hose or

706
00:51:15.000 --> 00:51:19.719
even pulling some weeds. That's therapy
because there's not many things in life where

707
00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:22.480
you know, you apply yourself to
something and stand up a few minutes later

708
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:27.559
and look back and you can see
what you've accomplished. But that's true when

709
00:51:27.599 --> 00:51:32.280
you're when you're gardening oh Man seven
one three two one two five eight seven

710
00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:36.840
four. Hey, if you are
dealing with any kind of pests, you

711
00:51:37.000 --> 00:51:42.679
need to know about McGrath pest Control. Scott McGrath. The business started by

712
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:45.840
Scott's dad back in nineteen seventy four, so I was at forty eight forty

713
00:51:45.920 --> 00:51:49.760
nine years they've been doing this mcgrathh
pest control. They're easy to reach.

714
00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:53.599
It's two eight one four six nine
eighty two forty and I don't care what

715
00:51:53.880 --> 00:51:58.639
kind of pest control needs you have. Maybe it is termites, maybe it

716
00:51:58.840 --> 00:52:01.159
is fire ends in the law on. Maybe it's rodents. You got the

717
00:52:01.320 --> 00:52:06.880
rats coming around and doing the things
they do, or critters getting up in

718
00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:12.039
the attic. They can handle all
of this mosquito management McGrath pest Control knows

719
00:52:12.079 --> 00:52:15.280
what they're doing. One of my
favorite things about McGrath is they got that

720
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:19.320
old fashioned service. Number one,
you don't have to sign a contract.

721
00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:22.320
So now you're locked in for a
year them treating your house. You call

722
00:52:22.400 --> 00:52:24.599
them when you need help. They'll
make suggestions, here's a good time for

723
00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:30.840
us to come back, you know, to to continue this treatment. But

724
00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:32.800
you don't have to sign a contract. They tell you when they're going to

725
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:37.159
show up, not like we'll block
off your whole Saturday afternoon. I may

726
00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:38.360
or may not be there. No, they tell you and they show up

727
00:52:38.440 --> 00:52:44.639
that time, and they serve the
whole Houston area. So with modern technology

728
00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:47.360
and techniques and old fashioned service,
you're just not going to do better than

729
00:52:49.280 --> 00:52:53.559
Metgraph pest Control. Go online,
it's McGrath pest Control dot com. You

730
00:52:53.599 --> 00:52:59.000
can find out a lot more about
it. Then I had a cockroach crawler

731
00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:01.480
across the floor of the on the
night, which had our two Golden retrievers

732
00:53:01.719 --> 00:53:06.559
very interested. It kind of kept
them occupied for a while. I wish

733
00:53:06.599 --> 00:53:10.159
they would have done something about it, but they didn't. But I probably

734
00:53:10.239 --> 00:53:15.800
need to call Scott myself. I
bragged on ACE a little bit earlier.

735
00:53:15.960 --> 00:53:20.760
I'm going to be out at the
plantation ACE next two weeks from this weekend,

736
00:53:20.920 --> 00:53:24.320
next two saturdays from now. And
you know, the thing I like

737
00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:28.679
about ACES is number one, They're
thirty nine of them in the Greater Houston

738
00:53:28.719 --> 00:53:30.519
area. So wherever you live,
you've got an ACE near you. Actually

739
00:53:30.639 --> 00:53:35.000
you have two or three ACES near
you no matter where you live. If

740
00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:37.679
I talk about a fertilizer, it's
going to be an ACE. If you

741
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:40.360
need a pest control product for your
lawn or any of your plants, it's

742
00:53:40.400 --> 00:53:45.039
going to be at ACE Hardware.
They've got tools, they've got pretty much

743
00:53:45.159 --> 00:53:50.559
everything you need to get outside and
have a beautiful lawn, a bountiful garden,

744
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:53.519
beautiful landscape. You're going to find
all those kind of products there at

745
00:53:53.559 --> 00:53:59.599
ACE, with friendly employees that greet
you, that take you to the products

746
00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:00.679
you need, help you with it. That way. By the way,

747
00:54:00.719 --> 00:54:05.599
when you're in ICE, make sure
and sign up for the ACE Rewards program.

748
00:54:06.079 --> 00:54:08.320
I belong to it and I earn
money every time I make a purchase.

749
00:54:08.679 --> 00:54:13.760
Get I begin to get those points
where I get money back on the

750
00:54:13.840 --> 00:54:19.239
purchases. That is ACE Hardware.
Another as if we needed another reason to

751
00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:22.599
shop at ice. Let's go to
Clare Lake and we're gonna talk to Lane.

752
00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:31.360
Hello, Lane, Hi, I
have a question. My Saint Augustine

753
00:54:31.679 --> 00:54:37.199
grass has looks brown and I think
they may have died because I can water

754
00:54:37.320 --> 00:54:40.280
it enough because of the drought.
I've only said it for like ten minutes

755
00:54:40.320 --> 00:54:44.719
on my sprinkler system. I guess
it's not enough. Okay. I was

756
00:54:44.840 --> 00:54:51.280
wondering if I can put Saint Augustine
seeds down, would help it? Or

757
00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:55.599
okay, all right, Well,
there's not a Saint Augustine seed product.

758
00:54:57.119 --> 00:54:59.800
I don't think there's one on the
market. Years ago there was one,

759
00:55:00.079 --> 00:55:02.559
but even if it was, you
don't want to use them. It never

760
00:55:02.840 --> 00:55:07.599
was good. It's better to pick
a quality Saint Augustine variety and buy pieces

761
00:55:07.639 --> 00:55:12.239
of sade and put those down.
It's a little more than seeds. But

762
00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:16.519
starting Saint Augustine seed and getting a
good, attractive, dense lawn that is

763
00:55:16.679 --> 00:55:22.199
a long shot. And so I
do not recommend even looking for seeds.

764
00:55:22.360 --> 00:55:25.719
I don't think they're any on the
market anymore. So when you've when you've

765
00:55:25.800 --> 00:55:30.519
lost your your grass due to you
know, drought. Uh, First of

766
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:34.440
all, i'd give it a little
bit of time. Sometimes it burns back

767
00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:38.039
and some of it still comes back, but you would just get some little

768
00:55:38.079 --> 00:55:44.039
pieces of sade. You know.
It's like the little uh right doormat at

769
00:55:44.079 --> 00:55:47.079
the front door, and you can
make it. You can lay the whole

770
00:55:47.159 --> 00:55:53.360
side pieces down or lane. You
can cut it into sections and so let's

771
00:55:55.480 --> 00:56:01.719
is like you know, okay,
Well, so with everything and gardening,

772
00:56:01.760 --> 00:56:07.079
there's a tradeoff between time and money. And so since you're asking about seed,

773
00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:08.920
I was thinking, well, if
you don't want to pay to have

774
00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:13.920
the whole thing sotted at once,
if you can put if someone can put

775
00:56:13.920 --> 00:56:16.199
a little more time into it.
You can take each of those sections and

776
00:56:16.400 --> 00:56:22.239
cut them into six or eight little
plug sections and space those about a foot

777
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:27.320
apart. So you're not buying enough
sod to cover the whole area. You're

778
00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:30.679
putting in plugs about a foot apart
and getting them watered in and they will

779
00:56:30.800 --> 00:56:34.039
fill in. So that'd be a
way to save money. But it is

780
00:56:34.119 --> 00:56:37.559
work in time. But that's the
tradeoffs have to face. Well, luckily

781
00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:42.119
it's in my backyard, so it's
not seen. Okay, all right,

782
00:56:42.440 --> 00:56:45.480
Well, in the meantime, don't
break all the dead grass out at least

783
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:50.960
it's covering the soil and blocking sunlight
so that weed seeds don't go crazy because

784
00:56:51.000 --> 00:56:55.719
they love a bare area. Oh
yeah, I noticed that bermu. The

785
00:56:55.800 --> 00:57:00.639
grass grows really well. And these
weeds, I don't know what they're called,

786
00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:05.400
but they love they thried. I
don't know why. Yeah, that's

787
00:57:05.559 --> 00:57:09.880
well, that's what weeds do.
That's what well. I'm sorry to hear

788
00:57:09.920 --> 00:57:14.119
about that drought. Hopefully that'll help
you get off to a little bit better

789
00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:16.679
start. But yeah, in time, you're gonna just have to put some

790
00:57:16.800 --> 00:57:21.320
new sod in there. Either.
I have one more question, may I

791
00:57:21.679 --> 00:57:24.920
Okay, I have about thirty seconds? Okay, my American holly. It

792
00:57:25.079 --> 00:57:30.159
looks all brown. Okay, I
think it may have died to leave.

793
00:57:30.480 --> 00:57:34.519
If yeah, if it's all brown, probably how long ago was it planted?

794
00:57:36.000 --> 00:57:39.880
It's a it's an old okay hollies. Hollies don't have a way of

795
00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:44.840
wilting and saying we need water.
They just they they're stiff leaved and they

796
00:57:44.960 --> 00:57:46.760
just sit there and all of a
sudden they start turning chocolate brown. And

797
00:57:46.840 --> 00:57:51.599
when that happens, I'm not saying
the whole plant is dead, but at

798
00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:54.840
least major sections of it are,
and so try to get a good soaking

799
00:57:55.199 --> 00:57:59.760
on it, just just once a
week. A good soaking would be plenty

800
00:58:00.159 --> 00:58:02.039
to keep that holly alive. That's
a valuable plant. It's been around that

801
00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:07.480
long. Yeah, it looks like
a Christmas tree base all all the leave

802
00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:10.360
brown. All right, Well,
I don't give it great hope in that.

803
00:58:10.480 --> 00:58:14.559
Hey, thank you though for the
calling. I appreciate that. We're

804
00:58:14.599 --> 00:58:17.639
gonna go to a break here news
with the Nikki News Network in an N

805
00:58:19.599 --> 00:58:22.519
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four is the number. If

806
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:24.119
you'd like to give Will a call
and we'll come to you. I'll after

807
00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:51.440
John V right when we get back
from break sky. Good morning, Good

808
00:58:51.519 --> 00:58:54.400
Sunday morning. I hope you're having
a nice one so far, this this

809
00:58:54.920 --> 00:58:59.239
beautiful Sunday day. You know,
if we could change the temperature, I

810
00:58:59.360 --> 00:59:02.159
think we we would have perfection right
here. We got a beautiful, beautiful

811
00:59:02.199 --> 00:59:07.119
sky, and it's always good to
get outside be around. I hope this

812
00:59:07.239 --> 00:59:10.159
afternoon you will get around and take
some time to visit some of our home

813
00:59:10.280 --> 00:59:14.880
garden centers here. We have so
many wonderful ones. It's a good time

814
00:59:14.920 --> 00:59:16.480
to pick things up. You need
to get your tomato plants in, need

815
00:59:16.480 --> 00:59:21.679
to get your pepper plants in.
If you were going to plant squash or

816
00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:25.440
cucumbers, green beans, things like
that for your fall vegetable garden, better

817
00:59:25.519 --> 00:59:29.239
get those in. They need to
come up. I know it's hot outside.

818
00:59:29.480 --> 00:59:31.920
Just keep them watered, maybe put
a little shade over the row initially,

819
00:59:32.039 --> 00:59:35.760
just to keep the soul temperature down. Dust a little bit till they

820
00:59:35.800 --> 00:59:39.280
get up and going, and you'll
be well on your way and when it's

821
00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:43.079
time to enjoy those in the cool
days of fall. By the way,

822
00:59:43.119 --> 00:59:47.159
did you know that the best vegetable
gardening quality that you can have with green

823
00:59:47.239 --> 00:59:52.320
beans and squash and cucumbers is in
the fall season when it's cooling off,

824
00:59:52.400 --> 00:59:57.079
as these ripen and the days are
cooling a little more moderate. It's just

825
00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:00.599
high quality. In the spring.
It's the so that you know, we

826
01:00:00.719 --> 01:00:04.320
plan them in mild temperatures, but
then by the time they start to ripe

827
01:00:04.360 --> 01:00:07.320
and it's getting kind of hot,
and that affects the quality and how fast

828
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:10.079
the quality holds up or how long
the quality holds up on greens and things.

829
01:00:10.159 --> 01:00:14.880
So just another reason to be out
and about today. We got plenty

830
01:00:14.920 --> 01:00:19.679
of others too. Even though it's
hot now, now is when and if

831
01:00:19.719 --> 01:00:23.679
you've been in Texas long, you
just realize as a gardener it's you don't

832
01:00:23.840 --> 01:00:28.079
You're thinking, no plant or person
wants to be out there. But you've

833
01:00:28.079 --> 01:00:30.679
got to do these things now so
that you can enjoy them later, because

834
01:00:30.719 --> 01:00:34.400
if you wait too long, it's
too late. Like if you wait until

835
01:00:34.760 --> 01:00:37.000
October to planet tomato plant, you're
not going to get any tomatoes. So

836
01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:40.239
we need to get all that kind
of stuff done. We're gonna go out

837
01:00:40.239 --> 01:00:44.760
to the League City now and talk
to John V. Good Morning, John

838
01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:50.280
V. Good Mornings, Gives and
garden Line. My question this morning is

839
01:00:50.719 --> 01:00:58.440
the species name is Antaharium, the
snap dragon or dragon flowers. One's the

840
01:00:58.519 --> 01:01:01.239
best time to plant them? Is
it better to go ahead and put them

841
01:01:01.280 --> 01:01:06.960
in planters and put them around the
garden instead of in the ground. You

842
01:01:07.039 --> 01:01:09.760
could do it either way if you're
buying them, are you talking about buying

843
01:01:09.760 --> 01:01:15.360
them as transplants, yes? Or
seats? Okay? Yeah, they need

844
01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:20.239
a little bit of a break from
this brunt of the heat, and so

845
01:01:20.360 --> 01:01:23.039
we're gonna plant those a little bit
later, but not much later, because

846
01:01:23.079 --> 01:01:29.159
they're also not one that you're gonna
be planting so late in the season that

847
01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:31.960
maybe a hard freeze is going to
come. But I would I would be

848
01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:36.719
getting ready for that, getting the
bed ready, mixing composts in so that

849
01:01:36.760 --> 01:01:38.519
when you do plant them after you
have a little bit of a break.

850
01:01:38.599 --> 01:01:44.159
Maybe I think I'd probably put mine
in at the end of September, maybe

851
01:01:44.360 --> 01:01:50.159
in sometime in October. You could
probably get away with that. Okay,

852
01:01:50.559 --> 01:01:53.920
And the composts I use in rose
soil again, ross would be fine if

853
01:01:54.000 --> 01:01:59.239
your rose soil is like kind of
the whole bed mix ready to go in

854
01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:02.039
a way. Compost would just be
something you add to the soul that you

855
01:02:02.199 --> 01:02:08.519
have to make it better. So
either one is good. All right,

856
01:02:08.559 --> 01:02:13.280
wonderful. Well, y'all have a
wonderful Sunday. Thank you. All right,

857
01:02:13.320 --> 01:02:15.639
Well you've picked a good plant.
Snap Dragons are really cool. Thank

858
01:02:15.679 --> 01:02:19.360
you for that call, John Vy. I appreciate that. Yeah, you

859
01:02:19.400 --> 01:02:22.400
know, snap dragons are cool.
I don't know how many of you are

860
01:02:22.440 --> 01:02:25.239
familiar with them, but they little
stalks of flowers, very beautiful. They

861
01:02:25.320 --> 01:02:29.880
come in many types. Some get
really tall, I mean like waist high.

862
01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:34.960
Even that are nice for long cut
flowers. Others stay real short and

863
01:02:35.039 --> 01:02:39.119
compact like a betting plant. But
they all have this little double It's like

864
01:02:39.199 --> 01:02:44.360
a two part flower that's got the
top part and the bottom part that opens

865
01:02:44.480 --> 01:02:46.480
up like the jaw of a dragon. That's kind of where it gets its

866
01:02:46.599 --> 01:02:50.559
name. You can grab the lip
on the bottom and pull it open and

867
01:02:50.639 --> 01:02:53.639
it'll snap right back up. Or
you can squeeze the cheeks on the side

868
01:02:53.719 --> 01:02:55.960
and you just kind of have to
get to the flower and mess with it.

869
01:02:57.000 --> 01:02:59.639
I can't describe it on the air, but as you squeeze the sides

870
01:02:59.679 --> 01:03:02.000
of it, the jaw just drops
open, which if you've got little edge

871
01:03:02.000 --> 01:03:05.760
around, that is the coolest thing. You got to show them that.

872
01:03:06.239 --> 01:03:08.800
There are a lot of cool things
to show kids out in the garden that

873
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:14.119
I just think are part of that
wonder of nature. I don't know.

874
01:03:14.239 --> 01:03:17.159
Plumbago, You know blue plumbago.
We have that in our gardens. It

875
01:03:17.280 --> 01:03:20.920
takes the heat really well if you
give it a little bit of water.

876
01:03:21.519 --> 01:03:28.079
And the blue plumbago has sticky substances
at the bottom of each floral tube.

877
01:03:28.159 --> 01:03:32.159
So plumbago flowers a cluster. They
can be white or sky blue. Sky

878
01:03:32.239 --> 01:03:37.840
blue is a more common one.
But that cluster of flowers is like a

879
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:40.480
little bloom with a long tube going
back to where it attaches, and where

880
01:03:40.480 --> 01:03:45.559
it attaches, it's sticky, and
so you can make really cool botanical ear

881
01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:49.920
rings for the grandkids with these.
You just show them how you stick them

882
01:03:49.960 --> 01:03:52.599
on your earlobe and they hang down
there, and I mean, hey,

883
01:03:52.840 --> 01:03:54.840
it's a simple pleasure, right,
it's a deal. But if you've got

884
01:03:54.960 --> 01:04:00.239
kids, those kinds of things are
fun out in the garden. Our kids

885
01:04:00.360 --> 01:04:05.039
need to be around nature more.
Our kids need to be eating things that

886
01:04:05.119 --> 01:04:10.119
are healthy. I mean, I
sound like I don't know somebody lecturing you

887
01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:14.239
here, but you know what I'm
talking about. But our number one health

888
01:04:14.320 --> 01:04:18.719
problems in this country, or primarily
not all of course, but primarily driven

889
01:04:18.800 --> 01:04:24.840
by our diet and our lack of
exercise. And gardening fixes both of those.

890
01:04:25.440 --> 01:04:29.320
And when you grow, when you're
a little kid and you grow something,

891
01:04:29.639 --> 01:04:31.440
you are probably going to at least
give it a try eating it,

892
01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:36.559
And so it just kind of introduces
them to the fact that vegetables are cool.

893
01:04:36.559 --> 01:04:41.159
I've got a granddaughter and since she
was little, salads were part of

894
01:04:41.239 --> 01:04:44.360
the deal. And I mean it, you know, there's not hostess twinkies

895
01:04:44.480 --> 01:04:49.559
on the menu at the house,
thank goodness. And she actually loves you

896
01:04:49.599 --> 01:04:51.239
know. She'll come and say,
hey, can I have an apple?

897
01:04:51.480 --> 01:04:56.119
Or she literally likes to eat salads
and other things just because that's how she

898
01:04:56.199 --> 01:05:00.199
grew up eating them. When you
grow stuff you as a kiddo, you'll

899
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:03.599
tend to eat it, and so
health, exercise, love of nature,

900
01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:08.440
et cetera, et cetera. Lots
of rooms to get kids out there in

901
01:05:08.599 --> 01:05:12.719
the garden. And where can you
get all kinds of supplies like that,

902
01:05:12.800 --> 01:05:15.599
Well, Arburgate Nursery and Tomball is
one place. Those of you live up

903
01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:19.239
in that direction, or even those
that don't, you go out to Tomball,

904
01:05:19.599 --> 01:05:24.119
go up to forty nine and turn
left and go out twenty nine twenty

905
01:05:24.440 --> 01:05:28.400
about a mile and a half and
it's Arbourgate and they have every kind of

906
01:05:28.440 --> 01:05:31.760
plant you would want a plant.
They have beautiful garden centers, gift shops

907
01:05:31.800 --> 01:05:36.360
that are just amazing, more yard
art than you know what to do with,

908
01:05:36.599 --> 01:05:41.159
really cool yard art and stuff like
that as well. They have the

909
01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:46.199
Triple the food Soil Compost one two
three easy system A four four three plus

910
01:05:46.320 --> 01:05:53.840
calcium organic food for plants on organic
soil for plants that includes expanded shale and

911
01:05:53.920 --> 01:05:58.280
an organic compost with a blend of
two types of compost and expanded shale.

912
01:05:58.639 --> 01:06:01.760
Those three together. Each time you
use them, your slow gets better and

913
01:06:01.880 --> 01:06:05.920
better, and therefore your plants get
more and more productive. Well, we're

914
01:06:05.960 --> 01:06:09.639
gonna take a break right now,
Marcus. You'll be first when we come

915
01:06:09.679 --> 01:06:13.920
back. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

916
01:06:14.000 --> 01:06:17.800
four. I could be handy many
a few when your lights have gone.

917
01:06:18.800 --> 01:06:24.360
You can eat this weather, buy
the fireside Sunday morning, golfer a ride,

918
01:06:24.719 --> 01:06:29.960
do in the garden digging the wheels. Could ask for more? Pleased

919
01:06:30.480 --> 01:06:34.239
me? Feed me when I'm sixty
four. Right there you go a little

920
01:06:34.280 --> 01:06:39.320
barbershop with gardening. That's not a
combination that tc to find out there.

921
01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:42.880
I hope you enjoy it. You're
listening to Garden Line. We're having some

922
01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:45.800
fun with music and fun with callers
as well. This morning. Hey,

923
01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:50.119
if you live up in the League
City Feed area, I should say maybe

924
01:06:50.199 --> 01:06:54.000
down in the League sit I feed
a little south of Houston there. The

925
01:06:54.119 --> 01:06:59.000
Thunderbergs at League City Feed have one
of those great old time feed stores,

926
01:06:59.079 --> 01:07:01.480
you know, it began years and
years ago, forty years ago to be

927
01:07:01.599 --> 01:07:05.280
exact in an ochre patch. Now
nothing that starts in an ochre patch could

928
01:07:05.320 --> 01:07:09.159
be bad. I mean, that
is just that's a great start on life.

929
01:07:09.639 --> 01:07:13.199
That's my opinion. League City Feed
has got all the fertilizers we talk

930
01:07:13.239 --> 01:07:15.639
about. So all of you down
there in League City, Webster Bay Cliff,

931
01:07:16.280 --> 01:07:19.639
Clear Lake City, San Leone,
El Comino Real, this is your

932
01:07:19.679 --> 01:07:24.280
hometown feed store. It's on Highway
three, a few blocks south of Highway

933
01:07:24.400 --> 01:07:29.119
ninety six. And you're gonna find
the fertilizers. You're gonna find all kinds

934
01:07:29.199 --> 01:07:32.440
of things for your garden, like
pesticide, herbicide, fungicide. Do you

935
01:07:32.559 --> 01:07:36.800
want quality pet food? They've got
it at League City Feed. Even if

936
01:07:36.840 --> 01:07:41.000
you're one of the folks that's into
the backyard chickens, that's kind of a

937
01:07:41.039 --> 01:07:45.519
popular thing again. Now they've got
plenty of everything you need to supply your

938
01:07:45.559 --> 01:07:50.280
backyard chickens as well. Monday through
Saturday nine to six. Closed on Sunday.

939
01:07:50.559 --> 01:07:54.920
Here's the phone number. Give them
a call when they've opened back up

940
01:07:55.000 --> 01:08:00.320
on Monday. Two eight one three
three two one six one two two eight

941
01:08:00.440 --> 01:08:02.920
one three three two one, six, one two. Remember they're open until

942
01:08:02.960 --> 01:08:06.840
six Monday through Saturday, so after
work you can swing by there and get

943
01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:12.079
everything that you need for your lawn, your garden, and also for the

944
01:08:12.199 --> 01:08:15.600
pets and the livestock that you've got
around the property. We're going to head

945
01:08:15.640 --> 01:08:20.960
out now to Spring and talk to
Marcus. Hello, Marcus, Yes,

946
01:08:21.439 --> 01:08:28.920
Skip, this is Marcus. Live
just on the very northern part of Harris

947
01:08:29.000 --> 01:08:33.720
County near Spring Creek and our homeowners
association in June, probably not the best

948
01:08:33.800 --> 01:08:39.199
time to plant, but they planted
like one hundred and thirty twenty to thirty

949
01:08:39.279 --> 01:08:45.399
gallon plants fines yo ponds myrtles,
and I think they call them chestnut oaks,

950
01:08:46.079 --> 01:08:54.640
okay. And the plants are probably
about six feet, you know,

951
01:08:55.119 --> 01:09:00.560
apart from each other. Okay,
and probably about thirty scent of them have

952
01:09:00.720 --> 01:09:08.199
died. And I'm just at calling
for some advices to what you would recommend,

953
01:09:09.279 --> 01:09:13.359
just try to keep them alive here, you know, during this extreme

954
01:09:13.439 --> 01:09:18.479
heat and the next couple of months. Well it might be soil water the

955
01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:23.399
time we will water them. I
don't know, whatever you suggest, Okay,

956
01:09:23.680 --> 01:09:27.000
Well, I mean there's there's a
lot going on, and what you

957
01:09:27.119 --> 01:09:30.720
just described. First of all,
when things start hitting a point where they're

958
01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:34.319
actually dying, it's a challenge to
turn it around and stop. Yeah,

959
01:09:34.479 --> 01:09:39.800
stop that. But they need water
where the roots are, and the roots

960
01:09:39.840 --> 01:09:44.359
are basically where they were when they
put them in the ground. Since June,

961
01:09:45.079 --> 01:09:49.399
the amount of root movement from the
original cylinder that went in the ground

962
01:09:49.960 --> 01:09:56.239
out into the soil around it is
still very minimal. So if you were

963
01:09:56.319 --> 01:10:00.880
to picture those plants, let's say
you put the whole in the ground,

964
01:10:00.279 --> 01:10:02.800
which you wouldn't want to do,
but you put the whole pot in the

965
01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:06.840
ground, you would know that all
your roots are still right there. They

966
01:10:06.880 --> 01:10:11.680
can't go anywhere right because the pot, well, that's kind of what's happening

967
01:10:11.680 --> 01:10:15.119
in anyway. In the soil.
They're gradually moving out if the soil is

968
01:10:15.199 --> 01:10:17.520
moist, but when the soil is
dry, when it's hot and stressful,

969
01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:23.159
they're just not growing much. So
that area the picture how big the container

970
01:10:23.319 --> 01:10:26.720
was when it went in the ground, and water that area plus about fifty

971
01:10:26.800 --> 01:10:30.800
percent of that width beyond it,
and focus all your watering on there for

972
01:10:30.920 --> 01:10:34.680
now. After we go through fall
and winter, and you know next year

973
01:10:34.720 --> 01:10:39.039
it'll be a little lot much a
larger area and eventually it becomes a well

974
01:10:39.159 --> 01:10:42.760
established plant. But right now it
might as well have just come out of

975
01:10:42.800 --> 01:10:45.479
the pot in terms of the extent
of the root system. So just focus

976
01:10:45.680 --> 01:10:50.439
your care on that. Keep it
moist with deep and frequent soakings, but

977
01:10:50.600 --> 01:10:58.640
don't don't water it so much that
it stays soggy. Okay, Okay,

978
01:10:58.800 --> 01:11:04.880
roots need oxygen? Is there in
this in this heat? Is there an

979
01:11:04.960 --> 01:11:10.039
optimum timing to water the plant?
No, it does not matter at all

980
01:11:10.159 --> 01:11:15.319
for watering the soil underneath a tree
like that. Any anytime you can get

981
01:11:15.359 --> 01:11:17.479
out there and get it watered,
that's fine. If you're sprinkling water all

982
01:11:17.520 --> 01:11:21.680
over the lawn grasses, yes that
would matter, But you're just putting water

983
01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:26.920
on mulch and dart, and so
just do it when you can do it.

984
01:11:27.479 --> 01:11:31.359
That's what's im Okay, all right, and skip this one final question

985
01:11:31.399 --> 01:11:34.600
if you've got a moment. I've
heard a lot of talk about the soil.

986
01:11:34.680 --> 01:11:41.199
I noticed that the around several of
them it's either very very sandy or

987
01:11:42.119 --> 01:11:46.520
very very high clay. After we
keep them alive. Is there something that

988
01:11:46.600 --> 01:11:53.119
we should do to no, give
the best chance on the oil, you

989
01:11:53.159 --> 01:11:55.199
know, there's not. For a
tree. A tree is can have a

990
01:11:55.319 --> 01:11:59.159
root system reaching two and a half
times the tree and height in all directions,

991
01:11:59.399 --> 01:12:02.960
so little amendments around the base that
that doesn't help, and and just

992
01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:08.000
just help them be happy in the
soil they're in. If you picked a

993
01:12:08.079 --> 01:12:12.039
species it does well in the soil
you have, then it will be successful.

994
01:12:12.119 --> 01:12:14.399
And if not, then it's going
to be an uphill for a long

995
01:12:14.479 --> 01:12:19.960
time. Yeah. A primarily are
yo pons and myrtles, and yeah,

996
01:12:20.199 --> 01:12:24.960
and pines. Well, okay,
especially the yo pons and myrtles. They're

997
01:12:25.000 --> 01:12:29.279
happy about anything. The pines as
long as it's decently drained, they'll be

998
01:12:29.359 --> 01:12:33.359
happy too. Okay, thank you, Marcus. I appreciate that call very

999
01:12:33.479 --> 01:12:42.520
much. I just got a new
Vego garden bed that is on rollers.

1000
01:12:42.720 --> 01:12:46.880
It's a petio bed, and like
the Vego beds that go on the ground,

1001
01:12:47.039 --> 01:12:54.119
it's made of that quality thick metal
that's been treated so that it won't

1002
01:12:54.199 --> 01:12:56.960
rust and corrode. You know,
have a galvanized tin. Well, this

1003
01:12:57.079 --> 01:13:01.079
isn't galvanizing, but it's like that
to prevent corrosion and rust. And then

1004
01:13:01.159 --> 01:13:04.640
they paint it with a USDA certified
paint and this stuff lasts forever. I

1005
01:13:04.720 --> 01:13:09.239
mean it'll weigh out last treated wood
in your garden. Now I have the

1006
01:13:09.880 --> 01:13:13.720
bed that's now on rollers. They
have tons of different types of beds,

1007
01:13:14.119 --> 01:13:16.520
different heights, different weds, different
colors. You pick what you want.

1008
01:13:16.640 --> 01:13:19.319
You can make a long, skinny
bed, you can be a big square

1009
01:13:19.399 --> 01:13:25.000
on the ground. You make a
C shaped bed, very versatile, easy

1010
01:13:25.119 --> 01:13:29.479
to put together. These modular beds
are very simple. If you're an organic

1011
01:13:29.560 --> 01:13:31.600
gardener and you don't want to use
treated wood, well, this is the

1012
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:36.079
absolute best option. If you're not
an organic gardener, I still think this

1013
01:13:36.279 --> 01:13:40.399
is the best option for a bed. I've got some treated wood beds at

1014
01:13:40.439 --> 01:13:43.680
my house. The next bed that
I put in in the ground will be

1015
01:13:43.800 --> 01:13:46.039
a Vego bed, because I'm convinced
that's the way to go. You don't

1016
01:13:46.079 --> 01:13:49.560
have warping boards, you don't have
to deal with the fact that it is

1017
01:13:49.680 --> 01:13:54.039
treated wood out there. Now,
there's a lot of impostors Vegos from here

1018
01:13:54.079 --> 01:13:58.239
in Houston. Go to vegogarden dot
com and you will find Vego at some

1019
01:13:58.359 --> 01:14:01.039
of our garden centers out there out
and about. I know I've seen them

1020
01:14:01.079 --> 01:14:05.479
at the two enchanteds down you know
in the Richmond area. I know they've

1021
01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:10.319
got them there at the Buchanan's Plants. I've seen them out there. I'm

1022
01:14:10.319 --> 01:14:12.920
trying to think, where's the other
place that I saw. I'm gonna come

1023
01:14:12.920 --> 01:14:15.279
back and tell you later. But
another place I just saw they put up

1024
01:14:15.319 --> 01:14:19.279
a nice display of these beds.
Vego garden beds. You can't get simpler,

1025
01:14:19.439 --> 01:14:21.760
and you can't get better, you
can't get easier, you can't get

1026
01:14:21.840 --> 01:14:27.680
safer than Vego garden beds. Let's
now go out to Walter in Cyprus.

1027
01:14:28.039 --> 01:14:30.359
Good morning, Walter, hire you
this morning. By the way, I

1028
01:14:30.399 --> 01:14:32.439
just want to let you know we
got just under a minute, so if

1029
01:14:32.479 --> 01:14:34.920
we can get it done. If
not, we'll hold you after break.

1030
01:14:35.680 --> 01:14:42.560
What's your long range forecast shows for
chances of a fall garden or just wait

1031
01:14:42.640 --> 01:14:45.199
on spring. No, I would
absolutely do it. Now. You got

1032
01:14:45.279 --> 01:14:48.279
a water hose and you can get
the plants in. You can keep the

1033
01:14:48.359 --> 01:14:51.840
still moist so that they get going, because when fall comes, we're going

1034
01:14:51.880 --> 01:14:56.520
to forget about this hundred degree weather
and we're just going to be enjoying it.

1035
01:14:56.960 --> 01:15:00.359
And so you want vegetables and flowers
and herbs and whatever you want,

1036
01:15:00.439 --> 01:15:02.640
whatever you like to grow. You
want to get those going at the right

1037
01:15:02.760 --> 01:15:05.880
time so you can enjoy them.
Yep, don't let this weather throw you

1038
01:15:08.560 --> 01:15:12.399
you. You bet. Thanks for
the call, Walter. Appreciate that you

1039
01:15:12.479 --> 01:15:15.319
used to live up in Cyprus myself. I love it up there. That

1040
01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:19.319
is really cool. Well, you're
listening to garden Line. Gosh, it

1041
01:15:19.600 --> 01:15:24.119
seems like just a minute ago that
we went to our last break. I

1042
01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:27.840
think, what do they say,
time flies when you're having fun. Hermit

1043
01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:30.920
the frog says time's fun when you're
having flies. But that's neither here nor

1044
01:15:31.000 --> 01:15:35.319
there. I'm your host, Skip
Richter. We're gonna take a break here

1045
01:15:35.359 --> 01:15:39.760
and we're gonna come back and talk
to you about all kinds of things gardening.

1046
01:15:39.840 --> 01:15:43.000
If you would like to give us
a call, the phone number is

1047
01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:46.840
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

1048
01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:51.720
two fifty eight seventy four, or
you can simply just say hey, will

1049
01:15:51.880 --> 01:15:55.760
put me on the board. I
need to talk the Skip. We've got

1050
01:15:55.800 --> 01:16:06.079
some high level questions you need to
get asked. Welcome to ktr H Garden

1051
01:16:06.159 --> 01:16:25.319
Line with Skip Richards, Smell the
Crazy Tree. Just watching as wold goods

1052
01:16:25.399 --> 01:16:34.479
to say, well, good morning
on a good Sunday morning for gardening.

1053
01:16:34.600 --> 01:16:44.479
We are looking outside and it's pretty
and Nikki's talking about that high winds coming

1054
01:16:44.560 --> 01:16:46.640
through, and you know, we
get the successive heat and rising air and

1055
01:16:46.680 --> 01:16:49.359
stuff. It can bring high winds
well, so okay in hurricanes, and

1056
01:16:49.399 --> 01:16:54.199
we're in a hurricane season now,
and this would be a good time to

1057
01:16:54.319 --> 01:16:57.840
get out and make sure your trees
are ready for that kind of weather.

1058
01:16:58.720 --> 01:17:02.640
Your trees are valuable. I mean
it credibly valuable, monetarily of course to

1059
01:17:02.720 --> 01:17:06.800
the value your home and landscape,
but also just to be able to enjoy

1060
01:17:06.920 --> 01:17:11.039
the shade. Maybe they're shading a
brick wall and cutting it down on air

1061
01:17:11.159 --> 01:17:14.880
conditioning in your home. Maybe they're
shading you so you can actually enjoy being

1062
01:17:14.920 --> 01:17:17.880
outside on a hot day. They're
valuable, and it makes sense to take

1063
01:17:17.960 --> 01:17:23.880
care of them. With trees,
preventative is the most important thing you can

1064
01:17:23.960 --> 01:17:28.840
do. So that would mean a
deep root watering right now, making sure

1065
01:17:29.079 --> 01:17:31.720
there is a huge volume of water
in the soil for them to draw on,

1066
01:17:31.800 --> 01:17:35.560
because they need a lot just to
stay cool on hot days. Well,

1067
01:17:35.600 --> 01:17:40.159
affordable tree folks, they know how
to do that. Martin spoon More

1068
01:17:40.560 --> 01:17:45.039
and affordable tree care. They can
come out. They can do that watering

1069
01:17:45.159 --> 01:17:48.399
that gets the water down deep all
through the soil volume, not like putting

1070
01:17:48.439 --> 01:17:51.000
it way under the soil where it's
not up on top too. No,

1071
01:17:51.119 --> 01:17:57.239
that it wets the volume where the
most roots are. And that's exactly what's

1072
01:17:57.279 --> 01:18:00.479
important right now. If you are
concerned about storm damage, they can look

1073
01:18:00.520 --> 01:18:04.680
at your trees decide this slimb may
need to come out. If it doesn't,

1074
01:18:04.680 --> 01:18:08.640
they'll tell you it doesn't, but
they will take a good look at

1075
01:18:08.680 --> 01:18:12.319
it and make sure you're ready so
that when a storm comes, you don't

1076
01:18:12.359 --> 01:18:15.520
come out the next morning and you
have a split tree. Half of it's

1077
01:18:15.560 --> 01:18:17.960
on your house, half of it's
on your car, and now you've lost

1078
01:18:18.000 --> 01:18:20.600
all your shade on top of it
all. You want to take care of

1079
01:18:20.680 --> 01:18:24.800
your trees. And that's why having
someone that knows what they're talking about,

1080
01:18:24.880 --> 01:18:29.079
like Martin spoon More is important.
The phone number there is seven one three

1081
01:18:29.680 --> 01:18:34.279
six nine nine twenty six sixty three
seven one three, six nine nine twenty

1082
01:18:34.359 --> 01:18:39.479
six sixty three. They have employees
that have been them for fifteen to twenty

1083
01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:42.359
years. I mean they you're talking
about people that know what they're doing.

1084
01:18:42.439 --> 01:18:45.159
If you're about to build a house, you need to have somebody come out

1085
01:18:45.560 --> 01:18:49.079
before you do the damage to the
tree roots that a house building will cause,

1086
01:18:49.760 --> 01:18:51.479
and you need to take care of
it. If you're going to do

1087
01:18:51.520 --> 01:18:57.000
anything around the landscape that's going to
affect the roots system, let Martin come

1088
01:18:57.039 --> 01:19:00.760
out, take a look, talk
about what may need to be done to

1089
01:19:00.880 --> 01:19:03.239
protect the trees, because once the
damage is done, it's kind of hard

1090
01:19:03.279 --> 01:19:06.880
to just fix it. You know, there's not an overnight fix to a

1091
01:19:08.039 --> 01:19:14.159
serious damage to your trees. Really
important, consider that a public service announcement.

1092
01:19:15.439 --> 01:19:18.960
These are incredibly value it. There's
a reason why dying trees and dying

1093
01:19:19.039 --> 01:19:23.479
turf make the phone ring. It's
because they are a cause for big concern

1094
01:19:24.119 --> 01:19:27.520
and we're here to try to help
you avoid that, you know it.

1095
01:19:28.319 --> 01:19:31.199
I always tell people when I'm working
with a county agrilife Extension office as a

1096
01:19:31.279 --> 01:19:35.840
horticulturist, people will send me plant
samples and I'll say, we'll make sure

1097
01:19:35.880 --> 01:19:41.039
it's alive, but sick don't.
A healthy plant there's nothing wrong with it

1098
01:19:41.159 --> 01:19:45.880
for me to diagnose, and a
dead plant. The way I put it

1099
01:19:45.119 --> 01:19:51.319
is, I can do diagnosis,
but I can't do autopsies, so make

1100
01:19:51.399 --> 01:19:56.600
sure you're dealing with it at a
diagnostic stage and that way we can kind

1101
01:19:56.640 --> 01:20:00.720
of figure out what's going on.
So we try to prevent your lawn in

1102
01:20:00.800 --> 01:20:03.800
your trees from becoming autopsies. As
long as they're a little stressed, we

1103
01:20:03.880 --> 01:20:08.720
can work with that. But once
you know, once they're heading downhill and

1104
01:20:08.800 --> 01:20:11.960
trees, once they start heading downhill, it's hard to turn around. We

1105
01:20:12.039 --> 01:20:15.159
want to avoid that by good care. For those of you up in the

1106
01:20:15.239 --> 01:20:19.359
Tomball area, your hometown feed store
is D and D Feed. They are

1107
01:20:19.560 --> 01:20:25.159
on Highway twenty nine twenty west,
so if you're at two forty nine in

1108
01:20:25.239 --> 01:20:29.800
Tomball, you go three miles west
on twenty nine twenty they're They're on the

1109
01:20:29.880 --> 01:20:32.800
left hand side. The Dover family
has been operating D and D Feed since

1110
01:20:32.840 --> 01:20:36.840
they opened it in nineteen eighty nine. They have a nice expanded store.

1111
01:20:36.920 --> 01:20:40.960
Nab and looking at pictures of some
of the new stock and stuff they have

1112
01:20:41.039 --> 01:20:44.960
coming in, wow, they are
loaded up. If you want a high

1113
01:20:45.159 --> 01:20:48.640
end quality dog food like Origin,
Diamond, Victor Star Pro those, they're

1114
01:20:48.680 --> 01:20:53.039
going to have them. Livestock feed
products, take care of your horses.

1115
01:20:54.640 --> 01:20:58.800
They even have plants outside from time
to time at D and D Feed,

1116
01:20:59.119 --> 01:21:01.600
So while you're in, they're picking
up some of the fertilizers we recommend here

1117
01:21:01.640 --> 01:21:05.760
on garden Line or the soil blends
we recommend here on garden Line. You

1118
01:21:05.920 --> 01:21:10.159
can also pick up some plants out
there at D and D Feed. It's

1119
01:21:10.199 --> 01:21:14.680
your full time service feed store.
I mean when you walk in, you

1120
01:21:14.800 --> 01:21:16.880
are their priority, and they take
care of you and make sure you get

1121
01:21:16.920 --> 01:21:20.359
the product you needed. That's at
D and D Feed out there in Dumble.

1122
01:21:23.000 --> 01:21:26.479
I'd like to head out to Lakewood
Estates now and we're going to talk

1123
01:21:26.520 --> 01:21:31.760
to Maureen. Hello, Marie,
good morning. I have I think two

1124
01:21:32.159 --> 01:21:36.239
brief questions. I don't want said
getting a lot of calls this morning.

1125
01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:43.600
Okay, so I always checked my
oak grap and I was surprised by small

1126
01:21:43.880 --> 01:21:49.279
tiny I don't know if it's mite
or what. So I need to solve

1127
01:21:49.399 --> 01:21:55.119
that I can wash them off of
the hose or because they're edible. I

1128
01:21:55.199 --> 01:22:00.079
don't want to just put anything on
there. So what would you suggests t

1129
01:22:00.279 --> 01:22:02.439
to me? When you look at
it, does okrah leaf look normal it

1130
01:22:02.560 --> 01:22:06.479
just has things on it? Or
does okra leaf look like it's curling?

1131
01:22:06.520 --> 01:22:13.520
A little bit cupping. Okay,
I think I have both. But my

1132
01:22:13.680 --> 01:22:17.199
okra is quite mature and it went
into the garden in May, so I

1133
01:22:17.319 --> 01:22:21.079
think it could be a natural occurrence. You know, I've just worked hard

1134
01:22:21.199 --> 01:22:27.479
for you, Okay, But what
really were my concern is on the okra

1135
01:22:27.760 --> 01:22:34.319
itself. My new okrah shoots sort
of have something that I would call a

1136
01:22:34.439 --> 01:22:39.079
might that I've seen on other things, and I know that it's critical to

1137
01:22:39.159 --> 01:22:43.039
get them off now because it's so
early. I haven't seen it no other

1138
01:22:43.159 --> 01:22:46.239
spot, just on this one little
area, so I don't want it to

1139
01:22:46.359 --> 01:22:48.600
spread. All right, we can
do We can do this two ways.

1140
01:22:48.720 --> 01:22:55.720
I can give you my best shot
based on myself, or you could send

1141
01:22:55.760 --> 01:22:59.359
me some photos and I could up
close and as good a focus as you

1142
01:22:59.399 --> 01:23:00.920
can get, and I can look
at them and then and then I know

1143
01:23:01.119 --> 01:23:05.760
exactly for sure what you're dealing with. It's probably aphids on okra. Now,

1144
01:23:05.840 --> 01:23:11.920
aphids typically are underneath the leaf on
an ochrah leaf, but they they

1145
01:23:12.600 --> 01:23:15.840
shed their skin just like a snake
does, and you end up with these

1146
01:23:15.880 --> 01:23:18.920
little white things all over the plant
that are the shed skins of the aphid.

1147
01:23:19.119 --> 01:23:24.399
And so if you do what I
would do is I would get a

1148
01:23:24.479 --> 01:23:28.000
strong blast of water and go out
there and from the bottom side up,

1149
01:23:28.520 --> 01:23:32.800
just blast the bottom as of the
leaves as with as stiff as spray dream

1150
01:23:32.880 --> 01:23:35.920
as you can. I don't mean
a stream like a mist, but it's

1151
01:23:36.279 --> 01:23:40.479
blasting past them to knock all the
apids you can off. If you do

1152
01:23:40.600 --> 01:23:43.960
that about once a week, you
will get it back under control. There

1153
01:23:44.039 --> 01:23:47.000
are sprays, but it's so blazing
hot that soaps and oils that kill aphids

1154
01:23:47.000 --> 01:23:51.279
will also burn your plants if you
don't do it just in the super super

1155
01:23:51.359 --> 01:23:55.640
earliest time of the day. So
that's what I would do if it were

1156
01:23:55.680 --> 01:23:58.159
mine, I would just blast them
off. Ochre is a tough plant.

1157
01:23:58.239 --> 01:24:01.000
It's resilient and a few aids aren't
a problem. A ton of afids are

1158
01:24:01.199 --> 01:24:06.079
good. Okay, okay. Second
question has to do I was paid,

1159
01:24:06.760 --> 01:24:10.920
Marie. I'm sorry to interrupt you. I'm gonna I'm gonna take a break

1160
01:24:11.000 --> 01:24:14.319
and hang on and we'll come to
the second question right when we get back.

1161
01:24:14.399 --> 01:24:16.000
And Eidolf, when we come back, you'll be first up two our

1162
01:24:16.000 --> 01:24:20.840
phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Because you

1163
01:24:21.000 --> 01:24:29.039
know I'm alobab Va Davis now Chebel. I'm Alumba Davis Va Davis now Chabel.

1164
01:24:29.319 --> 01:24:34.479
I'm Alumba Da Das no Chabel.
I'm Maloba Davis. Well. Good

1165
01:24:35.039 --> 01:24:40.359
Sunday morning. You're listening to garden
Line and we are here ready to talk

1166
01:24:40.439 --> 01:24:43.359
to you about whatever kinds of questions
you might have. Hey, if you

1167
01:24:43.439 --> 01:24:47.800
are still wanting to do a fertilization
on your lawn, you ought to consider

1168
01:24:47.920 --> 01:24:55.800
the silver bag. The silver bag
is nitrofoss A nineteen four ten Nitrofus nineteen

1169
01:24:55.880 --> 01:25:00.760
four ten. That is called super
turf for a reason. It is nutrients

1170
01:25:00.880 --> 01:25:04.720
and it releases those gradually to create
a super turf if you will on your

1171
01:25:04.800 --> 01:25:10.880
lawn. You know, grass like
we takes in nutrients every day. That's

1172
01:25:10.960 --> 01:25:15.439
called good health. You don't just
dump something on and it washes away,

1173
01:25:15.600 --> 01:25:18.680
volatilizes away, and then it's gone
for a long period of time, and

1174
01:25:18.760 --> 01:25:23.079
in the meantime you get to initially
mow a lot and you have more chinch

1175
01:25:23.159 --> 01:25:28.359
bugs and more disease issues because of
the excessive amounts of nitrogen. No superturf

1176
01:25:28.560 --> 01:25:31.840
is designed to release that nitrogen very
slowly over a very long period of time,

1177
01:25:32.279 --> 01:25:34.840
and that's the silver bag. It
makes it easy to find when you

1178
01:25:34.920 --> 01:25:40.000
walk into an ace hardware store or
a feed store or one of our home

1179
01:25:40.119 --> 01:25:44.520
garden centers. It carries nitrofost products, which of course are happening all over

1180
01:25:44.640 --> 01:25:47.399
town all the time. They're very
very easy to find nitrofosts here in the

1181
01:25:47.479 --> 01:25:51.319
Granter, Houston area Superturf nineteen four
ten. It only takes about five pounds

1182
01:25:51.359 --> 01:25:58.399
per thousand square feet to give it
a good application of nitrogen and quality product

1183
01:25:58.720 --> 01:26:02.239
you get. You definitely get the
money that you paid for in terms of

1184
01:26:02.319 --> 01:26:08.399
a gradual release. That makes it
very very inefficient, inefficient, very very

1185
01:26:08.520 --> 01:26:12.880
efficient. I think my brain's about
fried today between the two radio shows and

1186
01:26:13.880 --> 01:26:17.039
answering questions for a good while back
at the at the Home and Garden show

1187
01:26:17.119 --> 01:26:20.199
yesterday, I'm kind of running out
of thoughts here. Let's go back to

1188
01:26:20.279 --> 01:26:24.239
Maureen Marine. We did, okrah, I think you may want to talk

1189
01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:30.520
about hydrangees. Correct. In May, I received a bouquet of flowers and

1190
01:26:30.640 --> 01:26:34.840
the several hydrangeas were in there.
And I always take care of my flower

1191
01:26:34.920 --> 01:26:42.960
arrangements, which translated into I have
a stalk from the hydrangea which has burst

1192
01:26:43.399 --> 01:26:47.920
on the sides of the stalk,
and I have a lot of growth coming

1193
01:26:48.319 --> 01:26:53.680
and I thought maybe I should call
you. I took a grafting class a

1194
01:26:53.760 --> 01:26:57.760
different plant, but the point being, I have hormone powder and I have

1195
01:26:58.000 --> 01:27:01.319
some spagnum moss, and I thought
I'll just run it by you. Do

1196
01:27:01.479 --> 01:27:04.920
you think it's worth the effort.
I mean, there's nothing else I can

1197
01:27:05.000 --> 01:27:10.319
do other than water. What I
haven't looking to run? Yeah, well,

1198
01:27:10.399 --> 01:27:12.479
I mean it's fun. I mean, you know, to be a

1199
01:27:12.560 --> 01:27:14.840
good gardener, you've got to kill
a lot of plants. That's what I

1200
01:27:14.920 --> 01:27:17.880
always say. And so that's how
we learn. And I would give it

1201
01:27:17.960 --> 01:27:21.920
a shot. Normally we don't try
to root bloom shoots. Like if you

1202
01:27:23.000 --> 01:27:26.560
wanted to root a rose, I
wouldn't take the rose, cutting of the

1203
01:27:26.920 --> 01:27:29.960
long stem rows and try to root
that. I would take a shoot that

1204
01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:32.239
doesn't have a bloom on it to
root. But it's worth a try.

1205
01:27:32.239 --> 01:27:35.159
If you've got some rooting powder,
obviously you know how to go about that.

1206
01:27:35.760 --> 01:27:41.000
Uh yeah, cut the bloom off
though, and and and see how

1207
01:27:41.079 --> 01:27:45.399
it does. Oh right. It's
a little bit of a long shot,

1208
01:27:45.520 --> 01:27:47.399
you know, because a cut flower
has been sitting there a while already.

1209
01:27:47.520 --> 01:27:53.760
So but if it works, if
it works on its own for Mother's Day,

1210
01:27:53.840 --> 01:27:58.560
Remember is all the way back in
May Wow, and it was it

1211
01:27:58.720 --> 01:28:02.920
was a cut flower and a Yes, there's a beautiful floral display with like

1212
01:28:03.079 --> 01:28:06.560
four or five hydranges and whatever else. You know, you get all the

1213
01:28:06.880 --> 01:28:12.119
different arrangements. Do you see roots
on the stems? No? I do

1214
01:28:12.319 --> 01:28:14.800
not see. That's where the question
was. But I thought, you know,

1215
01:28:14.840 --> 01:28:18.000
I've got the products in the house, but I could experiment, so

1216
01:28:18.279 --> 01:28:23.359
I just thought I would call you
in case there was something I needed to

1217
01:28:23.479 --> 01:28:27.399
do. I'm thinking, do I
also need to put a little slash in

1218
01:28:27.520 --> 01:28:31.199
the stem, and if so,
just below and put a toothpick in there

1219
01:28:31.279 --> 01:28:34.199
so it will allow the route to
come out. No, do you know

1220
01:28:34.199 --> 01:28:38.000
I need a toothpick? But when
you I would make a fresh cut in

1221
01:28:38.079 --> 01:28:42.920
the stem below it and then do
the rooting. And don't I wouldn't root

1222
01:28:42.960 --> 01:28:45.600
it in water. I would root
it in a moist saw mix with that

1223
01:28:45.760 --> 01:28:47.680
rooting powder first on it that you
were talking about. Well, that was

1224
01:28:47.760 --> 01:28:53.399
what the Spagnan loss. Was there
anything else that I can support that'll work

1225
01:28:53.479 --> 01:28:57.239
just fine? That'll work just fine, good well, good luck than all

1226
01:28:57.359 --> 01:29:01.760
right, you let us know if
that works. Trees are important, They're

1227
01:29:01.840 --> 01:29:04.960
valuable to the landscape. I was
just talking about taking care of your trees,

1228
01:29:05.079 --> 01:29:09.159
making sure they get deep roof,
watering and all that. But picking

1229
01:29:09.199 --> 01:29:14.039
a quality tree is also important.
And Verdant Treefarm grows quality trees. They

1230
01:29:14.079 --> 01:29:17.359
don't grow species that shouldn't be planted
here. They grows species that do well

1231
01:29:17.479 --> 01:29:20.479
here. When it comes to palms, and no one does it better than

1232
01:29:20.560 --> 01:29:24.319
Verdant Tree Farm. But when it
comes to all the other kinds of trees

1233
01:29:24.399 --> 01:29:27.680
that you want, various kinds of
oaks, and we could just go on

1234
01:29:27.800 --> 01:29:30.479
and on with all the different species
they grow, they know how to do

1235
01:29:30.600 --> 01:29:32.760
it. You drive up to a
Verdant Tree Farm, by the way,

1236
01:29:32.800 --> 01:29:38.119
there's three locations. You can go
down in Paarland on Broadway Streets. You

1237
01:29:38.159 --> 01:29:41.279
can go up in the heights where
Yale comes into it ten or you can

1238
01:29:41.359 --> 01:29:45.560
go out in West Easton on bark
or Cypress and find a Verdant Tree Farm

1239
01:29:45.640 --> 01:29:48.880
by the way. The website is
Verdant Treefarm dot com. I know it's

1240
01:29:48.880 --> 01:29:54.920
pronounced Verdant. I just can't quit
san Verdant Verdant Treefarm dot com v er

1241
01:29:55.000 --> 01:29:58.960
da nt Treefarm. You pick out
your plant there, you say I want

1242
01:29:59.000 --> 01:30:00.279
that tree, They put a tag
on it, they bring it to your

1243
01:30:00.319 --> 01:30:04.800
house, they plant it right,
so it's survival chances are as high as

1244
01:30:04.880 --> 01:30:10.279
they can be, right from the
start, and then they tell you how

1245
01:30:10.319 --> 01:30:13.880
to take care of it and you
can enjoy that beautiful tree. The best

1246
01:30:13.920 --> 01:30:15.680
time to plant a tree is fifty
years ago. The next best time is

1247
01:30:15.800 --> 01:30:19.000
today. So if you want to
get to where you can hang a hammock

1248
01:30:19.039 --> 01:30:23.920
in it, don't delay. Let's
get that thing planted at for Dant Tree

1249
01:30:23.960 --> 01:30:27.960
Farm. We're gonna go out to
Manville now and talk to Adolf. Hello

1250
01:30:28.039 --> 01:30:35.479
Adolph, Yes, good morning,
Skip. You mentioned a magazine, garden

1251
01:30:35.560 --> 01:30:40.439
magazine I don't know, a couple
of months ago. Yes, and I

1252
01:30:40.520 --> 01:30:47.159
can't remember the name of it.
Texas Gardener the only magazine in Texas for

1253
01:30:47.319 --> 01:30:53.640
gardening, and in fact, it's
one of the very few state magazines for

1254
01:30:53.760 --> 01:31:01.840
gardening across the whole country. Okay, and are they well? I can

1255
01:31:01.880 --> 01:31:05.760
find it online, yes, if
you go to Texas Gardener dot com.

1256
01:31:06.239 --> 01:31:09.920
It's real easy. I mean,
if you search for Texas and Gardener.

1257
01:31:10.000 --> 01:31:14.079
You're going to find it. And
they have the subscription, which of course

1258
01:31:14.239 --> 01:31:17.960
is the you know, handheld magazine. They also have a digital subscription or

1259
01:31:18.039 --> 01:31:20.720
you can get it both ways.
So people that like to be able to

1260
01:31:20.800 --> 01:31:25.600
read stuff on the computer, well
you can also have that, all right.

1261
01:31:26.680 --> 01:31:30.439
Also, I just just to add
real quick, I love your show.

1262
01:31:30.079 --> 01:31:34.560
I love the humor that you could
lend there. It's it's funny,

1263
01:31:35.319 --> 01:31:39.760
you're being serious and they all all
of a sudden you throw something in its

1264
01:31:39.880 --> 01:31:43.239
spacing. That okay, okay,
well, thank you. Well that's kind

1265
01:31:43.319 --> 01:31:46.319
of you to say that. I
appreciate that. I always wonder sometimes I

1266
01:31:46.359 --> 01:31:51.199
think my sense of humor is a
little bit off off kilter. So I'm

1267
01:31:51.279 --> 01:31:55.560
glad you like it. No,
I love it. I think you you

1268
01:31:55.880 --> 01:32:00.319
you you connect with people. Okay, we'll good read your live live person.

1269
01:32:00.479 --> 01:32:01.439
We try to have fun. I
know, if I said everybody that

1270
01:32:01.479 --> 01:32:04.600
likes barbershop music, raise your hand, I wouldn't need any hands go up

1271
01:32:04.640 --> 01:32:09.199
out there, but I'm going to
subject it to it. Anyways. Thanks.

1272
01:32:09.239 --> 01:32:15.079
I don't appreciate that. You take
care if you live in in Houston,

1273
01:32:15.119 --> 01:32:18.159
if you're in the north central Houston
area, I want to tell you

1274
01:32:18.239 --> 01:32:23.199
who your hometown feed store is,
and that's Quality Feed and Garden Company.

1275
01:32:23.720 --> 01:32:28.800
Ken and Chris have been operating for
the last thirty two years this wonderful old

1276
01:32:28.880 --> 01:32:30.600
time feed store. And when I
say old time feed store, I mean

1277
01:32:30.640 --> 01:32:34.159
you can go in there and you
can find that they have a seed rack

1278
01:32:34.760 --> 01:32:39.279
that is from Oh my gosh,
the nineteen twenty eight. I think it's

1279
01:32:39.319 --> 01:32:44.239
stocked with heirloom seeds. And then
when it comes to products, if I

1280
01:32:44.319 --> 01:32:47.319
talk about fertilizer, if I talk
about swill mixes, composts, and things

1281
01:32:47.399 --> 01:32:50.560
like that that on garden line,
they're going to have it. A quality

1282
01:32:50.600 --> 01:32:54.479
feed store. You just know you're
gonna get it there. If you need

1283
01:32:54.560 --> 01:32:58.439
pesticide, herbicide, fun decide,
they've got it. Premium pet food.

1284
01:32:58.760 --> 01:33:00.760
They specialize in chicken. It's about
over two weeks they get a new shipment

1285
01:33:00.800 --> 01:33:03.600
of chicksins. For those of you
who want to try your hand at backyard

1286
01:33:03.680 --> 01:33:06.520
chickens, this is a place where
you can always go in. They're always

1287
01:33:06.560 --> 01:33:10.359
going to have them coming up.
Gimmcall first just to make sure when and

1288
01:33:10.439 --> 01:33:14.920
what's coming in. They're on Luzon
Street eighteen thirteen, Luzon which is near

1289
01:33:15.000 --> 01:33:19.520
the intersection of equipment and a lesion
there in north central Houston. Monday through

1290
01:33:19.560 --> 01:33:25.359
Friday nine to six, Saturday nine
to four, and today Sunday eleven thirty

1291
01:33:25.720 --> 01:33:30.880
to four pm. Quality feed coo
dot com. Check it out and you'll

1292
01:33:30.920 --> 01:33:35.880
see why we like to brag on
quality feed. I think now we're going

1293
01:33:35.920 --> 01:33:39.960
to head out to pair Land and
talk to Howard. Hello, Howard,

1294
01:33:41.079 --> 01:33:43.000
Hey, good morning, Skip.
How are you doing. I'm well,

1295
01:33:43.119 --> 01:33:47.760
thank you. Yeah, I had
a question. I grow what some people

1296
01:33:47.920 --> 01:33:51.079
refer to as super hoots as far
as hot peppers go. Yes, I

1297
01:33:51.199 --> 01:33:58.279
grow trinida at scorpions. I grow
Carolina reapers, grow ghost peppers. Do

1298
01:33:58.399 --> 01:34:00.279
you have to do you have to
water or the mulch every day to keep

1299
01:34:00.319 --> 01:34:08.680
it from catching on fire? I'm
sorry, I do one of them almost

1300
01:34:08.800 --> 01:34:13.399
daily. Those peppers. Those peppers
are like there's probably ought to be some

1301
01:34:13.560 --> 01:34:16.399
sort of a law, you know, like there is on other deadly items

1302
01:34:16.479 --> 01:34:21.399
like guns and whatnot. You can
kill someone with the Carolina reaper pepper.

1303
01:34:23.720 --> 01:34:26.680
Oh, I love them. I'll
put one into a big old batch of

1304
01:34:26.800 --> 01:34:30.720
chili and it just gives it that
get up and go and that kick.

1305
01:34:30.880 --> 01:34:34.359
That's just fantastic. Yeah, you're
a better man than I am. I

1306
01:34:34.439 --> 01:34:40.680
would get up and go if someone
stuck a go ahead. How can we

1307
01:34:40.800 --> 01:34:45.279
help today? Anyway, in the
spring, before we started getting into this

1308
01:34:45.520 --> 01:34:49.960
weather of eighties, I had a
pretty good crop. I had, you

1309
01:34:50.000 --> 01:34:55.279
know, a fair number of ghost
peppers, a lot of scorpions and a

1310
01:34:55.319 --> 01:34:59.880
few reapers. And once we started
getting into the successive heat, you know,

1311
01:35:00.119 --> 01:35:03.760
ninety five are better. My plants
are doing well. There are plenty

1312
01:35:03.800 --> 01:35:09.479
of green, lot very leafy,
an abundance of flowers, but I'm not

1313
01:35:09.560 --> 01:35:13.640
getting any peppers. And I'm just
kind of curious if that's going to reverse

1314
01:35:13.720 --> 01:35:16.359
itself. It is, once it
starts to cool down a bit, it

1315
01:35:16.439 --> 01:35:20.239
will, it will. I've got
uh and I my garden, you know,

1316
01:35:20.359 --> 01:35:24.960
they it hadn't gotten watered like it
should have. I'm gone too much

1317
01:35:25.079 --> 01:35:28.560
to take care of it like I
should. But my peppers have quit producing

1318
01:35:28.600 --> 01:35:31.439
as well. I even have hobb
and arrows. That's my my hottest pepper

1319
01:35:31.560 --> 01:35:34.800
that I've got, which doesn't hold
a candle to the ones you mentioned,

1320
01:35:35.479 --> 01:35:40.319
but they're not setting. But just
take care of those bushes. The bigger

1321
01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:43.399
the bush, the more ornaments you
can hang on it and then the case

1322
01:35:43.479 --> 01:35:47.039
of ornaments. We're talking about peppers
and so yeah, I mean it'll come

1323
01:35:47.239 --> 01:35:56.560
my My Carolina reapers are they're probably
gamed me a five foot tall wow and

1324
01:35:57.479 --> 01:36:01.920
very very thick, you know,
and I'm growing these in thirty five gallon

1325
01:36:02.079 --> 01:36:08.279
mesh bags on the patio. That's
cool. Hey, if you don't mind

1326
01:36:08.760 --> 01:36:11.680
if I put you on hold,
would you send me some pictures of that?

1327
01:36:14.399 --> 01:36:16.600
Well, I don't if you don't
want to. Oh no, I

1328
01:36:16.680 --> 01:36:19.079
have no problem with that. I
just I'm in my vehicle right now.

1329
01:36:19.359 --> 01:36:21.840
Oh no, no, no,
not right now. I'm just saying,

1330
01:36:23.560 --> 01:36:27.800
yeah, okay, Well, sometime, uh get calling into Garden Line.

1331
01:36:27.800 --> 01:36:30.079
Talk to their producer. I would
love to see that size pepper and the

1332
01:36:30.159 --> 01:36:34.039
thirty It sounds like you're doing everything
right. So I would just say,

1333
01:36:34.079 --> 01:36:36.880
wait for a break in the weather
and you ought to be okay, and

1334
01:36:38.359 --> 01:36:42.199
this fall when they load with peppers. I definitely would love to see see

1335
01:36:42.239 --> 01:36:45.600
that. That's got to be quite
a sight. Okay, very good,

1336
01:36:45.640 --> 01:36:49.560
sir, Thank you, Howard.
Appreciate your call very much. All right,

1337
01:36:49.600 --> 01:36:51.880
you're listening to Garden Line, Bob, you're first up. When we

1338
01:36:51.960 --> 01:36:55.880
come back, We're gonna take a
break right now for the Nicki News Network

1339
01:36:56.039 --> 01:37:15.840
our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Good

1340
01:37:15.920 --> 01:37:18.920
Sunday morning. You are listening to
guard Line and here we are. We're

1341
01:37:18.960 --> 01:37:24.800
ready to talk about anything gardening you're
interested in. If you are looking at

1342
01:37:24.840 --> 01:37:30.079
a lawn that is struggling, and
pretty much everybody's looking at a lawn that's

1343
01:37:30.079 --> 01:37:34.680
struggling right now, I would suggest
that it would do your lawn some benefit

1344
01:37:35.079 --> 01:37:41.279
to put on a product that adds
the microbial activity, that has the human

1345
01:37:41.560 --> 01:37:46.000
materials in it, that has the
fertilizer ingredients that will release at a slow

1346
01:37:46.119 --> 01:37:51.600
rate organically naturally over time, and
Microlife Fertilizer has a package of products just

1347
01:37:51.760 --> 01:37:57.119
like that. We're talking about the
green bag six two four that's a standard

1348
01:37:57.439 --> 01:38:01.720
three one two ratio fertilizer, the
number one Ferti organic fertilizer sold in the

1349
01:38:01.760 --> 01:38:06.000
Greater Houston area, and just and
for a reason, the purple bag is

1350
01:38:06.319 --> 01:38:11.760
the Humates Plus and that's like a
concentrated compost in a bag. I was

1351
01:38:11.800 --> 01:38:15.119
talking to some folks out at the
lake yesterday and we were talking about Humates

1352
01:38:15.119 --> 01:38:19.600
plus and different in humates and composts, and basically compost still has a way

1353
01:38:19.640 --> 01:38:25.479
to go. Humates by the time
you have decomposed to the point where you

1354
01:38:25.560 --> 01:38:28.920
know you're kind of at the end
there, that is when the organic matter

1355
01:38:29.039 --> 01:38:32.439
has hit that stage where we would
refer to it as humus. In the

1356
01:38:32.520 --> 01:38:38.279
humates. There is a ton of
good stuff in humates for plants. It

1357
01:38:38.439 --> 01:38:43.079
benefits in many, many different ways. I would throw in with that mix

1358
01:38:43.439 --> 01:38:47.520
the Ocean Harvest blue label that is
a seaweed based or a fish emulsion excuse

1359
01:38:47.600 --> 01:38:54.359
me, fish emulsion based fertilizer.
Buy Microlife and it's in a blue quart

1360
01:38:54.520 --> 01:38:58.399
bottle. You mix it with water. You can use as a fullier spray

1361
01:38:58.560 --> 01:39:01.479
to provide some of those material directly
to the leaves. You can also use

1362
01:39:01.600 --> 01:39:04.359
it as a drench. Now,
Microlife's easy to find. It's all over

1363
01:39:04.439 --> 01:39:10.159
town. Just go to Microlife Fertilizer
dot com. But if you got plants

1364
01:39:10.239 --> 01:39:13.560
that are struggling, maybe a rosebush, they seem to be really taking this

1365
01:39:13.720 --> 01:39:18.000
heat hard, consider doing a full
of your spray with the sea or the

1366
01:39:18.479 --> 01:39:21.960
fish emulsion based product that I'm talking
about, the blue level Ocean Harvest.

1367
01:39:23.600 --> 01:39:26.920
I think that it can't do any
harm, and in fact, it will

1368
01:39:27.000 --> 01:39:30.479
do good because what you're doing is
you're providing those plants things they need to

1369
01:39:30.640 --> 01:39:36.039
deal with the stresses that they're already
struggling with. Don't wait too long by

1370
01:39:36.079 --> 01:39:40.159
the time the plant's dead. I
don't know a product that helps, but

1371
01:39:40.319 --> 01:39:44.119
as long as there is still life
in it, there's a hope of bringing

1372
01:39:44.199 --> 01:39:46.439
it back around and getting it through
this stress. Because someday it's going to

1373
01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:49.239
rain again and the temperature is going
to go down. I know that,

1374
01:39:49.479 --> 01:39:54.359
I believe it. I've lived a
few years and it happens. Let's go

1375
01:39:54.479 --> 01:39:58.079
out to Conro now and talk to
Bob. Hello, Bob, Yes there,

1376
01:39:58.760 --> 01:40:04.319
good morning, Good morning. I
have a a citrus tree question.

1377
01:40:04.760 --> 01:40:15.119
Okay. We have a mayor lemon
that I was planted in maybe late April,

1378
01:40:15.239 --> 01:40:20.960
early May, and I was curious
as to how often I should feed

1379
01:40:21.079 --> 01:40:27.520
it and how much? Okay,
is it in the ground or a container?

1380
01:40:28.239 --> 01:40:30.079
No, it is in the ground, Okay. I would I would

1381
01:40:30.079 --> 01:40:39.319
get a quality fertilizer for citrus type
plants, and there there are some great

1382
01:40:39.399 --> 01:40:42.720
examples here in the Greater Houston area. One that I would direct you to

1383
01:40:42.960 --> 01:40:45.319
is Nelson Plant Food makes a number
of products. They have the Color Star

1384
01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:48.640
line, the Nutrous Star line,
the Turf Star line, the Nature Star

1385
01:40:48.720 --> 01:40:53.840
line, and they do have a
plant food for citrus and for other fruit

1386
01:40:53.960 --> 01:40:57.600
type trees that it comes in little
canister. I guess you can bite in

1387
01:40:57.640 --> 01:41:00.680
the bag too, but I think
of it in these cannish and you just

1388
01:41:00.840 --> 01:41:03.479
take it out, you know,
get a couple of tablespoon, sprinkle it

1389
01:41:03.520 --> 01:41:06.600
around the plant, water it in. Well. You can do that as

1390
01:41:06.720 --> 01:41:13.479
often as you like. The goal
is to provide enough nutrient without just overdoing

1391
01:41:13.560 --> 01:41:17.239
it, and depending on the plant
size and the time of the year how

1392
01:41:17.319 --> 01:41:23.199
much it's growing, you fertilize accordingly. So we want to be careful with

1393
01:41:23.319 --> 01:41:27.840
citrus going into the cold weather because
yours is in the ground and you can't

1394
01:41:27.920 --> 01:41:30.760
pick it up and take it into
the garage. So I would avoid pushing

1395
01:41:30.840 --> 01:41:35.439
it with too much fertilizer from now
through the rest of the fall, because

1396
01:41:35.560 --> 01:41:40.279
we're hitting a point where those plants
need to slow down a little bit.

1397
01:41:40.680 --> 01:41:44.039
If you look, if you're looking
at it and it looks deficient, then

1398
01:41:44.079 --> 01:41:46.239
I would give it some now just
to kind of get it healthy. But

1399
01:41:46.399 --> 01:41:50.279
otherwise, once we warm up in
the spring. That's when we begin to

1400
01:41:50.399 --> 01:41:55.920
push along with the fertilizers on our
citrus plants. I'm not saying don't do

1401
01:41:56.000 --> 01:41:59.960
any now, I'm just saying don't
overdo it, because to create succulent growth

1402
01:42:00.640 --> 01:42:04.000
heading into the first freeze is not
a good idea. Yeah. What was

1403
01:42:04.079 --> 01:42:09.880
then that canister? What was the
name of that? Well? Nelson.

1404
01:42:09.960 --> 01:42:13.680
It's one of Nelson Plant Foods products. I believe it's in their nutriustar line

1405
01:42:13.960 --> 01:42:17.319
if I'm not mistaken, h and
it They have one for citrus and it

1406
01:42:17.479 --> 01:42:23.680
comes in the little little clear jugs. In fact, once you have one

1407
01:42:23.680 --> 01:42:26.600
of those jugs, you can take
it into certain nurseries and you can just

1408
01:42:27.159 --> 01:42:30.520
pull the lever down and refill your
jug. And it saves on waste and

1409
01:42:30.560 --> 01:42:33.039
plastic. It's a little cheaper to
buy it that way bulk than have to

1410
01:42:33.119 --> 01:42:36.680
buy a new plastic canister. Yeah, okay, all right, sir,

1411
01:42:36.840 --> 01:42:40.119
thank you very much. You have
a great day and stay cool. All

1412
01:42:40.199 --> 01:42:42.520
right, good luck with the citterest. All we ask when we help you

1413
01:42:42.640 --> 01:42:45.319
with a plant, is you bring
us half the produce and drop it off

1414
01:42:45.399 --> 01:42:50.119
at the at the station. Okay, okay, maybe a while. It's

1415
01:42:50.159 --> 01:42:56.720
a small request. That's funny.
Yeah, talking about plants and trees and

1416
01:42:56.880 --> 01:43:00.159
things. With the drought we're having, you got to keep them well watered.

1417
01:43:00.239 --> 01:43:03.239
And when it comes to shrubs and
trees, rose bushes, good example,

1418
01:43:03.439 --> 01:43:08.600
just talking about those. Get you
a tree hugger sprinkler there. It's

1419
01:43:08.640 --> 01:43:12.600
a little sprinkler that it's hinged and
you sort it sort of is like a

1420
01:43:12.680 --> 01:43:15.479
circle that goes around the plant.
I think of it as a C shaped

1421
01:43:15.880 --> 01:43:18.439
sprinkler that has a hinge, so
it closes around the trunk. You can

1422
01:43:18.520 --> 01:43:21.880
turn it on a little to water
new plants to get that root ball wet.

1423
01:43:23.199 --> 01:43:25.720
You can turn it on more if
you've got a plant that maybe it's

1424
01:43:25.720 --> 01:43:28.399
been in the ground for a year
or two. You can turn it on

1425
01:43:28.479 --> 01:43:30.800
a lot, if you've got a
bigger tree, shrub, whatever, and

1426
01:43:31.000 --> 01:43:35.560
water a large area. But the
nice thing about it is without dragon hoses

1427
01:43:35.560 --> 01:43:40.640
all over the place, or without
turning on a sprinkler system and watering everywhere,

1428
01:43:41.119 --> 01:43:44.920
you can get that rescue treatment.
You can get that life sustaining treatment

1429
01:43:45.319 --> 01:43:48.399
to the plant that you have with
a TreeHugger sprinkler. It is the least

1430
01:43:48.520 --> 01:43:53.479
expensive insurance policy you ever buy in
your life, and this one is for

1431
01:43:53.600 --> 01:43:56.960
your plants, and that's called a
treehars sprinkler. I'm going to head out

1432
01:43:57.000 --> 01:44:00.319
now to Spring Branch and we're going
to talk to Daisy. Morning day,

1433
01:44:01.079 --> 01:44:06.520
Hi, good morning. How can
we help him? Was giving you a

1434
01:44:06.640 --> 01:44:16.760
coal? I have trees, probably
eleven of sixteen Eagleston holly trees that have

1435
01:44:17.079 --> 01:44:24.279
seemed to have just very fastly gone
down in the last six weeks. And

1436
01:44:24.520 --> 01:44:28.359
obviously we're looking at the weather and
I think about the water, but I

1437
01:44:28.399 --> 01:44:33.000
didn't know if there was something else
that might be causing them to go down

1438
01:44:33.199 --> 01:44:36.800
right now, and if there was
any suggestions you had to kind of bringing

1439
01:44:36.880 --> 01:44:43.079
them back to a healthy state.
Well, the number one problem with Holly's

1440
01:44:43.239 --> 01:44:49.119
fitting the description you gave is a
water stress. And Hollies, whether they're

1441
01:44:49.239 --> 01:44:56.359
Eagle Stun's or Nelly or Stevens Burford
holly or even our native Yopon holly,

1442
01:44:56.880 --> 01:45:00.880
they don't wilt. And so one
day they have pretty green leaves like they've

1443
01:45:00.920 --> 01:45:04.279
always had, and then within a
week the leaves are turning brown and hanging

1444
01:45:04.359 --> 01:45:10.000
on the plant, and the whole
branch is dying and there's no warning there.

1445
01:45:10.119 --> 01:45:14.720
So we've got to keep the roots
system well hydrated. Usually once they're

1446
01:45:14.880 --> 01:45:18.119
established, they're a little more resilient, but especially early on the first couple

1447
01:45:18.119 --> 01:45:21.920
of years, maybe three years,
you want to make sure and give them

1448
01:45:23.079 --> 01:45:27.399
good soakings, enough to keep the
saw moist, not soggy, but moist.

1449
01:45:28.000 --> 01:45:32.439
And it's a beautiful holly Eagleston.
But once it starts down, hurry

1450
01:45:32.560 --> 01:45:36.000
up, get the water on them, because it doesn't there's not a long

1451
01:45:36.119 --> 01:45:45.399
distance between it struggling and it dying. Okay, for this, we have

1452
01:45:45.479 --> 01:45:49.119
about six that are all like a
golden brown out of the eleven that have

1453
01:45:49.239 --> 01:45:55.000
gone, you know that are really
struggling. Okay, are those savable?

1454
01:45:55.359 --> 01:45:59.199
The ones that are all brown,
there's nothing you can do except keep the

1455
01:45:59.279 --> 01:46:02.199
saw moist. And it's going to
be wait and see if they're all brown.

1456
01:46:02.920 --> 01:46:09.039
I'm worried about I'm bouncing back,
but I don't want to make predictions

1457
01:46:10.000 --> 01:46:12.840
without knowing for sure. I mean, I'm not there looking at your plants

1458
01:46:12.880 --> 01:46:16.640
and looking at the soil and stuff. But I'm very concerned about the ones

1459
01:46:16.680 --> 01:46:21.600
that are all brown to say the
least. Okay, so just keep giving

1460
01:46:21.640 --> 01:46:26.520
them as much water as we can. Yeah, dig down daisy. Dig

1461
01:46:26.600 --> 01:46:29.600
down about with a trial, dig
down about four or five inches, feel

1462
01:46:29.640 --> 01:46:33.439
the soil and if it's moist at
you know, nice and moist that's good.

1463
01:46:34.000 --> 01:46:38.560
You don't want it's soggy, so, you know, saying as much

1464
01:46:38.600 --> 01:46:41.359
as we can, I just I
just want to put a caveat on that.

1465
01:46:41.479 --> 01:46:46.520
It's like, well, not not
oversaturated, but always available water.

1466
01:46:46.760 --> 01:46:54.479
That's what you're going for. Okay, what are your thoughts on the super

1467
01:46:54.600 --> 01:46:57.880
thrive? Would that help them come
back a little? You know, I

1468
01:46:58.000 --> 01:47:00.800
have not studied that one a lot. I think I think that it won't

1469
01:47:00.880 --> 01:47:04.920
hurt to use it, let me
put it that way, but we have

1470
01:47:05.039 --> 01:47:09.640
to remember that, you know,
if something is putting vitamins and hormones and

1471
01:47:09.760 --> 01:47:13.439
nutrients and stuff down, if the
problem is lack of water, where you

1472
01:47:13.520 --> 01:47:17.279
can't fix lack of water with extra
nutrient and vitamin and hormone, but anything

1473
01:47:17.359 --> 01:47:21.479
you do that helps the plant be
as healthy as it can as a good

1474
01:47:21.560 --> 01:47:27.479
idea. Just just know that the
reason that they're going down is because of

1475
01:47:27.560 --> 01:47:30.920
a period where it was too hot. They couldn't pump enough water fast enough

1476
01:47:30.920 --> 01:47:35.720
because the soil got a little on
the dry side. Okay, Yeah,

1477
01:47:36.159 --> 01:47:40.000
it's if you want to use the
super thrive, they'll go for it.

1478
01:47:40.640 --> 01:47:45.239
It won't hurt. Okay, thank
you. So when when if they come

1479
01:47:45.279 --> 01:47:47.399
back, should we kind of look
for that? Would that be next spring

1480
01:47:47.560 --> 01:47:51.000
when we see, well, you
might see some sprouting this fall, if

1481
01:47:51.039 --> 01:47:55.720
they're not too far back. If
they if you get to next spring and

1482
01:47:55.840 --> 01:48:00.239
they still don't have a leaf on
them, I'm thinking they're probably gone.

1483
01:48:00.279 --> 01:48:02.479
You can take your thumbnail or a
knife, scratch the bark and see if

1484
01:48:02.520 --> 01:48:09.159
it's creamy colored or light green underneath. If it's pecan brown or papersack brown

1485
01:48:09.319 --> 01:48:15.439
underneath, it's gone. Okay,
thank you, you bet, thank you

1486
01:48:15.560 --> 01:48:19.439
for the call. I appreciate that
very much. Now we're gonna run out

1487
01:48:19.600 --> 01:48:26.760
to Pleasantville and talk to Deborah.
Hello, Deborah, tell you what,

1488
01:48:26.840 --> 01:48:29.319
Deborah, I'm gonna put you on
hole one second. We're gonna go ahead

1489
01:48:29.319 --> 01:48:30.680
and take a break. Deborah will
come to you first when we get back.

1490
01:48:31.079 --> 01:48:35.119
Then Tammy and Denise you'll be right
after that. We'll be right back.

1491
01:48:38.960 --> 01:48:47.239
Favorite scriptures they've passed play. We're
both praying he don't preach late,

1492
01:48:48.479 --> 01:48:58.800
but he's getting MS. And that's
your Starling's eighty five degrees outside, he's

1493
01:48:58.920 --> 01:49:05.760
just getting more. We getting well. Good Sunday morning to you. I

1494
01:49:05.920 --> 01:49:11.000
hope you are enjoying today already.
It's gonna be a beautiful day outside.

1495
01:49:11.880 --> 01:49:15.239
Let's get a little bit of the
storm winds coming through here. At some

1496
01:49:15.399 --> 01:49:18.159
point we'll actually how that turns out. Hopefully that won't be too bad.

1497
01:49:18.239 --> 01:49:24.920
We'll be able to just continue on
with that. We're gonna go back out

1498
01:49:25.079 --> 01:49:29.439
and try Deborah in Pleasantville again.
Debora, are you there? Yes?

1499
01:49:29.520 --> 01:49:34.520
I am alrighty. How can we
help? I sent you an email titled

1500
01:49:34.600 --> 01:49:42.079
Azilius and Colius. How long ago
was that? Just? Oh about five

1501
01:49:42.119 --> 01:49:44.600
minutes before I went all hold oh, okay, okay, hang on,

1502
01:49:44.760 --> 01:49:47.239
just say I'll find it. If
I can find it here, we'll talk

1503
01:49:47.239 --> 01:49:49.960
about it. Tell me go ahead
and start telling me about the thing,

1504
01:49:50.039 --> 01:49:53.039
and I'll hunt it down. You
can tell you this, guys, some

1505
01:49:53.119 --> 01:49:55.880
sort of brown spy. Some I
thought maybe it was from the heat,

1506
01:49:55.880 --> 01:50:00.119
because here in the west side of
the house. And but only two two

1507
01:50:00.239 --> 01:50:01.920
of the plants of the three that
are out there have those brown spots.

1508
01:50:01.920 --> 01:50:06.840
The other one does not, huh, the other the other a colias of

1509
01:50:06.880 --> 01:50:11.640
the flower bear that always has ants. I'm always have problems with any things

1510
01:50:11.640 --> 01:50:15.319
that put there. Okay, So
I put I put some bug out and

1511
01:50:15.439 --> 01:50:18.239
other things there so I could try
to patrol the ants there in that flower

1512
01:50:18.239 --> 01:50:23.000
will be at all the time.
Interesting, Debra, you're for some reason

1513
01:50:23.079 --> 01:50:25.600
your email didn't come through, but
I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and answer

1514
01:50:25.600 --> 01:50:30.439
it any anyway, the azaleas are
the spots are on the leaves. You're

1515
01:50:30.479 --> 01:50:35.199
saying they're on the leaves and the
leaves are dropping. Okay, Uh,

1516
01:50:36.039 --> 01:50:42.520
there aren't any big time leaf spot
fungal issues that we generally deal with on

1517
01:50:42.600 --> 01:50:46.319
azaleas, but we do. We
do have the issues of dry conditions,

1518
01:50:46.560 --> 01:50:53.119
and it can be that the water
demands have just gone up higher than the

1519
01:50:53.199 --> 01:50:56.399
plant is able to keep up with. Probably that the soil could use a

1520
01:50:56.479 --> 01:51:00.720
little more of a good deep soaking
on an infrequent basis, Zell, your

1521
01:51:00.840 --> 01:51:03.640
roots are not that efficient. There's
a reason they don't live in the desert.

1522
01:51:03.960 --> 01:51:08.720
They like to be in a forest
where it tends to stay real composte

1523
01:51:08.920 --> 01:51:14.399
and and moist and whatnot, and
so they hit drought stress faster than most

1524
01:51:14.479 --> 01:51:17.319
plants would. As far as spots
on the leaves. That could just be

1525
01:51:17.520 --> 01:51:21.960
due to the die back from the
stress from the lack of water. Uh.

1526
01:51:24.119 --> 01:51:30.000
I can't think of another cause unless
you sprayed something above them or on

1527
01:51:30.199 --> 01:51:34.840
them that could have caused those spots. No, I have not sprayed anything

1528
01:51:34.920 --> 01:51:39.560
in that area. Okay, uh, I don't know what. I really

1529
01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:43.439
need to see that photo, So
maybe try resending it. Let me take

1530
01:51:43.439 --> 01:51:45.800
a look. If I get it
for the end here of the day,

1531
01:51:45.840 --> 01:51:48.039
I'll take a look and see.
I'm just not seeing it right now.

1532
01:51:48.319 --> 01:51:51.239
Now. The other thing you were
talking to me, what was your your

1533
01:51:51.279 --> 01:52:00.239
second question? Go ahead and stay
that napolius seems to have a maybe silver

1534
01:52:00.319 --> 01:52:04.520
watering. It's black around them,
it's around the stem towards the ground.

1535
01:52:05.039 --> 01:52:09.039
Uh huh. It could be that
it could be a fungled or a bacterial

1536
01:52:09.159 --> 01:52:13.520
problem going on there. Typically colius
is pretty darn tough and we don't have

1537
01:52:13.600 --> 01:52:17.359
to worry about those things. If
it did lack water, you should see

1538
01:52:17.439 --> 01:52:20.560
that as wilting on a colius.
I mean, it'll wilt and show you

1539
01:52:20.720 --> 01:52:25.520
right away when it gets thirsty.
So I'm assuming you're not seeing that because

1540
01:52:25.520 --> 01:52:29.560
you didn't mention it. Is that
right, I'm not seeing that. Wow,

1541
01:52:30.880 --> 01:52:33.199
let me see a picture of that
too, something close up and as

1542
01:52:33.279 --> 01:52:38.199
sharp a focus as you can.
I don't want to just start guessing at

1543
01:52:38.239 --> 01:52:42.600
it, but that okay, I'll
reseand I'll call back in with probably next

1544
01:52:42.640 --> 01:52:45.479
week at a game. But oh
okay, all right, well, thank

1545
01:52:45.520 --> 01:52:47.399
you. I look forward to seeing
that and being able to help you a

1546
01:52:47.439 --> 01:52:54.560
little further. Thank you very much. You bat you take care. If

1547
01:52:54.600 --> 01:52:58.399
you are out in the mot Bellevue
area, your hometown feed store is Texas

1548
01:52:58.439 --> 01:53:01.479
Feedstop. It's as simple as I
mean. They are out on Highway one

1549
01:53:01.720 --> 01:53:05.119
forty six and Mont Bellevue, So
if you're on I ten, you go

1550
01:53:05.319 --> 01:53:09.079
north on one forty six just a
few minutes and they'll be there on the

1551
01:53:09.199 --> 01:53:12.880
right hand side. Brian Hope Rhoades
have one of those great old time feed

1552
01:53:12.920 --> 01:53:15.199
stores. It's the kind we love
to brag about because I know when you

1553
01:53:15.319 --> 01:53:18.840
go there, you're gonna get treated
by family. There's gonna be some teenager

1554
01:53:18.920 --> 01:53:24.800
from the community that carries your bags
out for you to the car. It's

1555
01:53:24.960 --> 01:53:28.279
just that kind of thing. You
walk in and you feel like you're there

1556
01:53:28.359 --> 01:53:31.319
with family. They are the typical
feed store that sells corn and feed.

1557
01:53:31.640 --> 01:53:36.039
They also have hunting supplies, you
know, for deer and whatnot, feeders

1558
01:53:36.119 --> 01:53:40.239
and feed and stuff like that.
But they have all the stuff we talk

1559
01:53:40.239 --> 01:53:43.399
about here on garden Line. When
I mentioned fertilizers, they've got them,

1560
01:53:43.680 --> 01:53:45.319
Mosquito dunks, they've got them,
I believe them. Even have the tree

1561
01:53:45.399 --> 01:53:48.079
hugger sprinklers. Trying to remember the
last time I was out there. But

1562
01:53:48.359 --> 01:53:51.199
they're the kind of place that would
carry that and all of that kind of

1563
01:53:51.239 --> 01:53:55.640
stuff. Now, Texas Feed Stop. They're just minutes away from Baytown,

1564
01:53:55.720 --> 01:54:00.439
so they're your hometown feed store for
Baytown as well. But go see what

1565
01:54:00.479 --> 01:54:04.319
I'm talking about you you will be
impressed. They truly treat you like family.

1566
01:54:04.479 --> 01:54:08.760
They have the products you need.
I didn't even mention all the pest

1567
01:54:08.840 --> 01:54:13.119
control, disease control, weed control, things like that. Not going to

1568
01:54:13.199 --> 01:54:15.560
do better in Texas Feet Stop.
And if you haven't METAM yet, you

1569
01:54:15.600 --> 01:54:17.960
need to get out there and meet
them. It's just you'll see what I'm

1570
01:54:18.000 --> 01:54:20.159
talking about. I mean, it's
one thing to say it's a fat storm,

1571
01:54:20.239 --> 01:54:25.560
but no, this is difficult.
Well, here we are another end

1572
01:54:25.600 --> 01:54:29.520
of the hour, Timmy, You've
been hanging on a long time. If

1573
01:54:29.560 --> 01:54:31.000
you can hang on a little longer, you'll be first when we come up.

1574
01:54:31.119 --> 01:54:35.319
Denise, you're next our phone number
seven one three two one two fifty

1575
01:54:35.399 --> 01:54:40.600
eight seventy four. We're going to
be coming back to put the last hour

1576
01:54:40.880 --> 01:54:45.800
in the books here and we will
take those callers that are on hold and

1577
01:54:45.880 --> 01:54:51.000
then any new ones that come in. If if you have a calendar nearby,

1578
01:54:51.079 --> 01:54:57.279
I want you to write down Saturday, September ninth in Richmond, Texas

1579
01:54:57.439 --> 01:55:00.359
at Plantation Ace Hardware. That's where
I'll be. I'm gonna be out there

1580
01:55:00.399 --> 01:55:05.199
answering your gardening questions, identifying plants. I hope you will make plans to

1581
01:55:05.279 --> 01:55:13.319
come out and seeing two weeks from
yesterday. Welcome to ktr H garden Line

1582
01:55:13.600 --> 01:55:31.479
with Skip Ricords, so just watch
him as wol. Good morning, nice

1583
01:55:31.520 --> 01:55:34.680
Sunday morning. You are listening to
the garden Line and we're here to talk

1584
01:55:34.840 --> 01:55:40.359
gardening. And without any further ado, I'm going to head out to Hitchcock

1585
01:55:40.520 --> 01:55:44.279
and talk to Tammy. Tammy,
if I had a great door prize,

1586
01:55:44.359 --> 01:55:46.279
I would give it to you for
waiting so patiently for so long. My

1587
01:55:46.359 --> 01:55:50.960
apologies and welcome to garden Line.
Oh that's Okay, I've enjoyed listening.

1588
01:55:51.399 --> 01:55:58.039
Okay. I have two avocado trees
that I've bought in the spring. They're

1589
01:55:58.119 --> 01:56:03.000
in twelve inch pots, once a
joey and once a poncho, and I

1590
01:56:03.720 --> 01:56:11.359
feed them with a Nelson plant food. But they're the leaves and it's not

1591
01:56:11.560 --> 01:56:14.720
all of the leaves, because I
still see new growth, but not a

1592
01:56:14.800 --> 01:56:18.279
lot of new growth, and a
lot of the leaves are turning brown on

1593
01:56:18.359 --> 01:56:21.880
the edges. I don't have any
yellow leaves, but they're turning brown.

1594
01:56:23.119 --> 01:56:29.840
And I use a moisture meter and
it seems like the soil is like really

1595
01:56:29.960 --> 01:56:32.880
wet, you know, or moist
but I don't want to give it wet

1596
01:56:33.039 --> 01:56:35.640
feet all, you know, or
soggy feet either. So I'm not really

1597
01:56:35.720 --> 01:56:40.920
sure what's going on. Good point. Hey, so how big are these

1598
01:56:41.000 --> 01:56:45.199
pots? Again? Uh? They're
like probably twelve inches at the top and

1599
01:56:45.279 --> 01:56:50.520
maybe eight inches at the bottom.
Okay, so they're pretty small for an

1600
01:56:50.560 --> 01:56:57.479
avocado. Okay. The containers,
how tall is avocado tree in them?

1601
01:56:57.680 --> 01:57:03.359
About three feet? I would say
about maybe probably four feet Okay. Yeah,

1602
01:57:03.560 --> 01:57:08.319
that's a that is a pretty confined
system. Now, if you water

1603
01:57:08.479 --> 01:57:14.000
it often, you can keep them
adequately moist and they can grow for a

1604
01:57:14.079 --> 01:57:18.399
while in that you need to bump
them up at some point, but it's

1605
01:57:18.640 --> 01:57:20.960
it's hard to say how often that
is. I mean, you know,

1606
01:57:21.079 --> 01:57:25.479
maybe twice a day, maybe every
other day, but I doubt it's every

1607
01:57:25.560 --> 01:57:30.840
other day in that size container.
I would dig down. The moisture meters

1608
01:57:30.840 --> 01:57:32.800
are okay, but sometimes they're just
not real accurate. If there was a

1609
01:57:32.840 --> 01:57:36.800
way to kind of you know,
dig in about a few inches and feel

1610
01:57:36.880 --> 01:57:41.600
the soil and to your touch and
see what you think, you'll pull it

1611
01:57:41.680 --> 01:57:45.960
out. It's still may be that
it's not giving getting enough water, but

1612
01:57:46.119 --> 01:57:50.039
it also can be when plants are
having to pump water really fast. If

1613
01:57:50.079 --> 01:57:57.840
it gets even marginally scarce, they
start showing symptoms of tip and margin burn.

1614
01:57:58.560 --> 01:58:02.600
You can overdo for fertilizer in a
confined roots system like that UH and

1615
01:58:02.920 --> 01:58:11.279
fertilizers UH synthetic based fertilizers are salt
based, and so you can burn plants

1616
01:58:11.560 --> 01:58:17.119
by an excessive fertilizer application so that
the moisture content of the soil just has

1617
01:58:17.159 --> 01:58:21.600
a lot of salt based fertilizer in
it. Now, if okay, that's

1618
01:58:21.640 --> 01:58:25.560
easy to fix. You just drench
it really good, and it washes the

1619
01:58:25.680 --> 01:58:29.800
excess out. So just when you
fertilize that is a high quality fertilizer that

1620
01:58:29.840 --> 01:58:33.199
you mentioned Nelson's, and just make
sure you don't overdo it. Uh,

1621
01:58:34.399 --> 01:58:39.159
I've they gave me a schedule,
okay, So I've I've been following the

1622
01:58:39.199 --> 01:58:44.800
schedule and I have dug you know, probably like three inches deep or whatever

1623
01:58:44.920 --> 01:58:48.039
to just steel the soil. And
it's and it's damp, but it's not

1624
01:58:48.239 --> 01:58:53.960
really wet, Okay, so maybe
a little more water. I don't know,

1625
01:58:54.199 --> 01:58:57.560
I you know, it me kind
of over the radio trying to assess

1626
01:58:57.640 --> 01:59:01.159
whether too dry or too wet.
It's kind difficult, but I would I

1627
01:59:01.199 --> 01:59:03.960
would try giving them a little more
water. It has good drain holes on

1628
01:59:04.039 --> 01:59:08.800
the pot, I assume, yeah, it's got really good drain holes,

1629
01:59:08.840 --> 01:59:12.199
and I had got like a couple
inches of rock in the bottom just to

1630
01:59:12.319 --> 01:59:15.439
make sure that it's, you know, would drain properly. Well. If

1631
01:59:15.479 --> 01:59:17.680
it has good drain holes, it's
going to be hard to overwater it because

1632
01:59:17.920 --> 01:59:23.079
if it's a quality saw mix,
which I assume is the case that came

1633
01:59:23.800 --> 01:59:30.159
with the plant, it's gonna drain
excess away and so I would probably kick

1634
01:59:30.239 --> 01:59:33.560
up the water in a little bit
maybe and see if that helps. Another

1635
01:59:33.680 --> 01:59:38.039
thing you can do. And I
have several plants that's this way. I've

1636
01:59:38.159 --> 01:59:42.600
kind of moved them where they get
morning sun but not afternoon sun, and

1637
01:59:43.039 --> 01:59:45.479
that's where they are too. Okay, well, sounds like you're doing.

1638
01:59:45.560 --> 01:59:50.159
But I live on a point on
the water, and sometimes I feel like

1639
01:59:50.239 --> 01:59:57.000
they're getting wind whipped. Well,
that can show up as damage to the

1640
01:59:57.159 --> 02:00:00.399
leaves, but it shouldn't show up
as tip or more argin burn on the

1641
02:00:00.520 --> 02:00:06.520
leaves. Okay, I think you
can eliminate the wind there. You know,

1642
02:00:06.600 --> 02:00:10.600
we've kind of talked through everything.
I think what we've were left with

1643
02:00:10.800 --> 02:00:14.399
is given a little more of a
good soaking and see how that goes.

1644
02:00:15.000 --> 02:00:18.439
But just know that when when something
wants to be as big as an avocado

1645
02:00:18.600 --> 02:00:23.640
wants to be, which is about
thirty feet tall if it had its druthers,

1646
02:00:24.239 --> 02:00:28.000
when we put it in a container, you hit this point where they're

1647
02:00:28.079 --> 02:00:32.600
just not enough soil volume to take
the water and the nutrients and supply through

1648
02:00:32.680 --> 02:00:36.359
the day that the plant needs.
Okay, so how big of a container

1649
02:00:36.399 --> 02:00:40.479
do you think that I should go? Because I was also told you know,

1650
02:00:40.600 --> 02:00:44.079
since their stems are still green,
I really shouldn't put them in the

1651
02:00:44.119 --> 02:00:47.399
ground yet. Yeah, that's true. And because you can cheat and haul

1652
02:00:47.439 --> 02:00:51.720
them into the garage over in this
winter if we have a couple of hard

1653
02:00:51.800 --> 02:00:57.159
freezes. So there's nothing wrong with
carrying them a little longer in the container

1654
02:00:58.119 --> 02:01:02.000
you mentioned twelve inch top, probably
move them into something with maybe a fourteen

1655
02:01:02.159 --> 02:01:06.159
sixteen inch wide top at least.
Okay, i'd be more like sixteen somewhere

1656
02:01:06.199 --> 02:01:10.239
in there. You don't want to
go up too much on pot size at

1657
02:01:10.279 --> 02:01:15.520
one time, so you can incrementally
move it up. But when you pull

1658
02:01:15.600 --> 02:01:19.079
it out and get ready to move
it up, make sure that any circling

1659
02:01:19.239 --> 02:01:25.279
roots that you cut those so that
they can branch out and not just keep

1660
02:01:25.359 --> 02:01:27.960
circling around, because when it goes
in the ground, you don't want a

1661
02:01:28.039 --> 02:01:32.159
bunch of spiraling roots underground from from
the end and the container. Now,

1662
02:01:32.279 --> 02:01:39.800
I wouldn't cut roots today one hundred
degrees and you know expect the plant to

1663
02:01:39.920 --> 02:01:44.680
not really develop tip and margin burns, So just hold off until we cool

1664
02:01:44.720 --> 02:01:47.560
off a bit in the fall,
maybe late September, early October even it

1665
02:01:47.600 --> 02:01:54.000
would be even better and do the
repotting at that time. Okay, okay,

1666
02:01:54.079 --> 02:01:57.359
good Yeah, and there they're all
like on coasters too, so that

1667
02:01:57.800 --> 02:02:00.800
if it's too windy out I do
put it Grosge. I'm a baby in

1668
02:02:00.880 --> 02:02:04.880
these plans like you would not believe, because I've been trying to grow avocados

1669
02:02:05.000 --> 02:02:10.359
for years and something always seems to
happen. Yeah, yeah, I know.

1670
02:02:10.560 --> 02:02:14.800
Well there's a reason there's not avocado
orchards all around Hitchcock, Texas and

1671
02:02:15.159 --> 02:02:18.279
Houston. Right. They're fun for
backyard growers. We go to great links

1672
02:02:18.319 --> 02:02:23.640
to make them happy, but just
we realize we're trying to grow something that's

1673
02:02:23.720 --> 02:02:28.119
not from here. If you will
exactly, well, thank you so much,

1674
02:02:28.199 --> 02:02:31.199
Skip. I really appreciate all right, all the inputs you bet,

1675
02:02:31.399 --> 02:02:34.680
thank you very much. I really
appreciate that. Hey, if you haven't

1676
02:02:34.720 --> 02:02:38.439
been out to Enchanted for us,
they're done in Richmond, Texas. In

1677
02:02:38.520 --> 02:02:42.279
fact, if you're in Richmond and
you head up towards Sugarland direction off to

1678
02:02:42.359 --> 02:02:46.000
the right south of fifty nine,
that's where Enchanted Forest is. It is

1679
02:02:46.039 --> 02:02:49.279
the coolest place I feel like when
I go there, that I've walked into

1680
02:02:49.359 --> 02:02:54.039
like one of those old western towns. With all the wooden buildings, you

1681
02:02:54.119 --> 02:02:58.079
know, and stuff, and it
just has that look to it. In

1682
02:02:58.159 --> 02:03:02.680
fact, they've been working on updating
and kind of sprucing up their vegetable area.

1683
02:03:02.720 --> 02:03:06.760
They got a lot of construction that
they're doing to redo the whole vegetable

1684
02:03:06.840 --> 02:03:11.800
and herb area. But see what
I'm talking about, big trees, wonderful

1685
02:03:11.880 --> 02:03:16.199
to this afternoon. Wander around,
just enjoy the shade of the trees and

1686
02:03:16.960 --> 02:03:18.880
you'll be amazed at what they have. Why are you there? You need

1687
02:03:18.920 --> 02:03:24.800
to pick up one of their jasmines, the Arabian jasmines that they have.

1688
02:03:26.000 --> 02:03:29.079
You know, we garden for beauty, we garden for food, but we

1689
02:03:29.239 --> 02:03:33.000
also garden for fragrance. And oh
my gosh, if you have not smelled

1690
02:03:33.520 --> 02:03:38.319
an Arabian jasmine, you need to
smell that. Get it, bring it

1691
02:03:38.399 --> 02:03:40.920
home, put it in a container, have it by the back door,

1692
02:03:41.159 --> 02:03:44.520
or maybe you get a little patio
sitting area. Put it where the wind

1693
02:03:44.640 --> 02:03:48.640
blows across the plant towards you.
Oh my, heavenly, absolutely heavenly.

1694
02:03:49.079 --> 02:03:55.960
And by the way out at Enchended
Forests, they have a schedule of activities

1695
02:03:56.000 --> 02:04:00.199
and educational programs this fall that just
doesn't start, I mean, doesn't end.

1696
02:04:00.760 --> 02:04:05.600
I'm going to be out there on
October seventh for their Pumpkin Palloza,

1697
02:04:06.760 --> 02:04:11.000
the Pumpkin Peloza, and we'll be
doing all kinds of things like we do

1698
02:04:11.119 --> 02:04:15.079
when we go out to a garden
Line event appearance. But my gosh,

1699
02:04:15.159 --> 02:04:20.119
there's one September sixteenth coming around the
corner here on Beneficial Insects. Go to

1700
02:04:20.239 --> 02:04:25.600
their website, sign up, find
out about what's going on there, and

1701
02:04:25.800 --> 02:04:29.960
you definitely want to take advantage of
the wonderful opportunities to not only get out

1702
02:04:30.000 --> 02:04:32.079
there, but get educated and while
you're there, pick up some really cool

1703
02:04:32.159 --> 02:04:35.359
plants as well. Hey, I've
gone a little long here. We're gonna

1704
02:04:35.399 --> 02:04:39.720
take a break, Lisa. You
will be first when we come back.

1705
02:04:39.840 --> 02:04:43.800
Our phone number seven one, three, two and two fifty eight seventy four.

1706
02:04:50.840 --> 02:05:00.880
Crack, little get on board.
Were going all right, take it

1707
02:05:00.760 --> 02:05:05.680
well, good Sunday morning. You're
listening to garden Line and we're here to

1708
02:05:05.800 --> 02:05:11.640
talk whenever you are interested in when
it comes to gardens. I hope we

1709
02:05:11.720 --> 02:05:15.000
do that. That is our goal. We're gonna head out now to Lisa

1710
02:05:15.319 --> 02:05:19.159
in a task Asita as promised,
Lisa, Good morning, and welcome to

1711
02:05:19.239 --> 02:05:26.680
garden Line. Good morning. My
question is I have agapanthus and I have

1712
02:05:26.880 --> 02:05:31.600
amaryllis, and they're turning very white
and crunchy. When I pulled one up,

1713
02:05:31.800 --> 02:05:36.720
it's got the characteristic of what it
is just after a freeze. So

1714
02:05:36.880 --> 02:05:42.119
normally what I do is clip it
at the bottom and spray the copper fungicide.

1715
02:05:42.399 --> 02:05:46.880
But with the extreme heat, what
would I do When you say clip

1716
02:05:46.920 --> 02:05:50.039
it at the bottom, are you
talking about bloomstock or are you talking about

1717
02:05:50.279 --> 02:05:55.319
the whole planet in the foot?
I usually clip it all the way down

1718
02:05:55.399 --> 02:05:59.520
to the top of the bowl.
Then I spray copper fungicide. The leaves

1719
02:05:59.560 --> 02:06:01.800
are now taking on the same characteristics, and when I pulled one up,

1720
02:06:02.039 --> 02:06:06.920
it's mushy, just like after Are
you saying the bulb is mushy or the

1721
02:06:08.000 --> 02:06:12.840
leaf growth at the base the very
top top. I guess you could do

1722
02:06:13.000 --> 02:06:15.840
that again. I have not done
the copper before on those, but that

1723
02:06:16.119 --> 02:06:20.640
is a good bacteria side, and
it also is a good fungicide. It's

1724
02:06:20.680 --> 02:06:25.279
not going to get in the plant, so like if there's an interior decay,

1725
02:06:25.560 --> 02:06:29.159
the copper on the outside won't help
with that, but it will protect

1726
02:06:29.239 --> 02:06:34.079
the surfaces and the cut surfaces.
You feel like you're watering enough. Oh

1727
02:06:34.199 --> 02:06:36.800
yeah, we're watering every day.
I mean these have been here for years.

1728
02:06:36.840 --> 02:06:39.600
That's why I don't want to lose
them. They were my mother in

1729
02:06:39.680 --> 02:06:46.560
laws. But I think with the
excess of heat everything, I think I

1730
02:06:46.680 --> 02:06:50.119
lost you there, Lisa. I
believe I heard the question though, So

1731
02:06:50.199 --> 02:06:56.039
we're gonna we're gonna dive on into
answering it. Thank you. Oh there

1732
02:06:56.079 --> 02:07:00.279
you are, you're back. I'm
back. So yeah, I just that

1733
02:07:00.399 --> 02:07:02.520
with the excessive heat, I think
it's just taking a toll on all my

1734
02:07:02.640 --> 02:07:08.239
stuff. Yeah, my agapanthus look
the same way then, I look just

1735
02:07:08.399 --> 02:07:13.920
like after a freeze. Yeah,
well that's that's not unusual at all.

1736
02:07:14.439 --> 02:07:17.399
I mean we're going through those kind
of things. I wish I could see

1737
02:07:17.479 --> 02:07:20.159
it because I think I could picture
it a little bit better if I could

1738
02:07:20.199 --> 02:07:24.560
see it, But I would if
you're sure you got enough water. Also

1739
02:07:24.680 --> 02:07:28.479
make sure you're not too wet,
because if it stays soggy, wet,

1740
02:07:29.039 --> 02:07:32.560
roots die and it crashes in a
heartbeat. So just make sure you got

1741
02:07:32.640 --> 02:07:35.720
good drainage. And other than that, if you want to cut, if

1742
02:07:35.720 --> 02:07:39.560
it's dead and rot it. You
might as well cut it off and then

1743
02:07:39.600 --> 02:07:41.840
if you want to try the treatment, that would be fine. It's not

1744
02:07:41.920 --> 02:07:45.239
going to hurt anything for sure.
Hopefully it'll turn it around. I just

1745
02:07:45.760 --> 02:07:47.479
I just want to make sure there's
not a root, rod or some other

1746
02:07:47.600 --> 02:07:50.920
thing involved in there too. Yeah. No, we have all the airloom

1747
02:07:50.960 --> 02:07:56.520
soil in our beds, and we
have all the malts and everything is airloom.

1748
02:07:56.680 --> 02:08:01.800
So okay, well you're doing everything
right, So just call the weather

1749
02:08:01.920 --> 02:08:05.680
man and complain to him. It's
his fault that this is happening exactly,

1750
02:08:05.800 --> 02:08:09.359
all right, Well, thank you
so much. All right, thank you,

1751
02:08:09.439 --> 02:08:13.079
Lisa. I appreciate I appreciate that
call very much. Hey, if

1752
02:08:13.119 --> 02:08:16.199
you've got a little piece of property
and you would love to get out there

1753
02:08:16.239 --> 02:08:20.279
and have a nice little tractor to
run around on, you know, I

1754
02:08:20.359 --> 02:08:22.880
mean you need to explain to buy
in the family you need this. It's

1755
02:08:22.920 --> 02:08:26.960
a business expense, it's it's required. You can't get the work done.

1756
02:08:26.359 --> 02:08:31.039
But you and I both know that
when you jump on a Caboda L twenty

1757
02:08:31.119 --> 02:08:35.560
five oh one from Lansdowne Moody,
we're just having a blast. We call

1758
02:08:35.640 --> 02:08:39.840
that our sweet ride. Don't tell
anybody that it's just ting you and I.

1759
02:08:39.640 --> 02:08:43.359
It is a blast to operate one
of those hydrostatic transmission I grew up

1760
02:08:43.439 --> 02:08:50.479
grinding tractor gears driving around. No
not with this one. Absolutely great deal

1761
02:08:50.600 --> 02:08:56.039
too, zero down, zero interest
for eighty four months on the Caboda L

1762
02:08:56.159 --> 02:08:58.760
twenty five O one from Lansdone Moody. Now you can find Lansdowe Moody all

1763
02:08:58.800 --> 02:09:01.920
over the Houston area. Go to
one near you tell them I want to

1764
02:09:01.960 --> 02:09:05.800
see the Kimoda twenty five one.
I want to set on one of those

1765
02:09:05.880 --> 02:09:09.800
things and they will get you set
up. LM tractor dot com. That's

1766
02:09:09.840 --> 02:09:13.880
the website, LM tractor dot Com. Go check it out and you'll see

1767
02:09:13.880 --> 02:09:18.640
what I'm talking about. We're gonna
head out and nowt to Base City and

1768
02:09:18.680 --> 02:09:22.159
we're gonna talk to Terry. Hello, Terry, Hey, Okay, I

1769
02:09:22.279 --> 02:09:28.039
have a question about containers. I
have about seven different kinds of fruit trees,

1770
02:09:28.960 --> 02:09:33.439
and I have two avocado trees and
they haven't grown. They're in big

1771
02:09:33.520 --> 02:09:37.520
containers, but they're about like gosh, they're about like four years old,

1772
02:09:39.520 --> 02:09:43.760
and the trunks have been scaly and
stuff on them, so I know I've

1773
02:09:43.800 --> 02:09:45.760
had him in the sun. I
need to move them out of the sun.

1774
02:09:46.039 --> 02:09:48.760
But my question is about containers.
I'm going to keep everybody in a

1775
02:09:48.840 --> 02:09:54.600
container. They're in smaller containers,
maybe they're two two gallon or something,

1776
02:09:54.960 --> 02:10:00.479
Okay, but I have I have
bigger, bigger containers, and I've been

1777
02:10:00.520 --> 02:10:03.079
told you can't move them into bigger
container, but I fill up. I

1778
02:10:03.159 --> 02:10:07.239
can fill up the container with star
poe and take up some of the space.

1779
02:10:07.960 --> 02:10:11.600
So I'm finding that my problem is
they don't get watered enough and they're

1780
02:10:11.640 --> 02:10:16.439
in small containers, and if they're
in bigger containers, I had better luck

1781
02:10:16.479 --> 02:10:20.239
with them. So can I use
a bigger container and transfer them in bigger

1782
02:10:20.319 --> 02:10:22.600
containers? All right? Absolutely?
You put a whole lot of information out

1783
02:10:22.640 --> 02:10:28.439
there, so let me take a
dive into it. The container it determines

1784
02:10:28.840 --> 02:10:33.039
how much root volume you can have. And if you have a small container,

1785
02:10:33.439 --> 02:10:37.319
there's only so much water that's available. You can have it to completely

1786
02:10:37.399 --> 02:10:41.039
saturated and by the end of the
day it's completely dry if the containers too

1787
02:10:41.119 --> 02:10:46.239
small. So the bigger the container, the more forgiving it is, the

1788
02:10:46.720 --> 02:10:50.000
less you have to worry about drought
stress. Whenever we limit a root system,

1789
02:10:50.279 --> 02:10:54.720
we dwarf the plant. So think
about a bones eye. Everybody knows

1790
02:10:54.760 --> 02:10:58.439
what bones eye is. Well,
what they do to create this little mini

1791
02:10:58.640 --> 02:11:01.359
tree that wants to be eight hundred
feet tall and we got it eight inches

1792
02:11:01.439 --> 02:11:05.920
tall. Well, they trim the
roots, they put it in a soil

1793
02:11:05.000 --> 02:11:09.319
mix where they can control drainage.
But everything is kind of in a touching

1794
02:11:09.359 --> 02:11:13.479
go thing with bones eye, and
it creates a dwarf plant. And so

1795
02:11:15.640 --> 02:11:20.640
your avocados could be essentially a similar
thing happening. You're not trimming roots off

1796
02:11:20.720 --> 02:11:24.359
and everything, but they've got a
confined root system and they're not going to

1797
02:11:24.439 --> 02:11:28.039
get any They're not going to be
able to get bigger than that. And

1798
02:11:28.239 --> 02:11:31.399
so when you bump into a larger
container, it has more room for soil,

1799
02:11:31.520 --> 02:11:35.560
for water, nutrients, all that
kind of stuff, and it just

1800
02:11:35.720 --> 02:11:39.399
does better and just keep going.
Now you use the term starfoam peanuts.

1801
02:11:39.840 --> 02:11:43.800
We don't want to put anything in
a container that people have told you in

1802
02:11:43.840 --> 02:11:50.000
the past will help drainage. It
is mentally logical that if you put gravel

1803
02:11:50.159 --> 02:11:52.439
in the bottom, it's going to
make it drain better because water runs through

1804
02:11:52.479 --> 02:11:58.640
gravel. But what happens is you
decrease your soil volume by wasting soil space

1805
02:11:58.720 --> 02:12:03.560
by putting gravel or peanuts or pot
charge or whatever you got in there,

1806
02:12:03.159 --> 02:12:07.279
and as a result, you have
less soil volume. And gravel does not

1807
02:12:07.439 --> 02:12:11.960
pull water out of the soil.
The soil gets completely water logged and literally

1808
02:12:13.159 --> 02:12:16.960
drips out into the gravel. So
don't do the gravel have good drain holes,

1809
02:12:18.159 --> 02:12:22.399
but let the whole thing be soil. I could go into more details

1810
02:12:22.479 --> 02:12:24.800
on why that is, but just
trust me. Stuff in the bottom of

1811
02:12:24.840 --> 02:12:30.760
a pot does not help drainage.
It just doesn't. That. Oh okay,

1812
02:12:30.840 --> 02:12:37.600
so the physics and hydraulics of water
will not allow that to improve things.

1813
02:12:37.760 --> 02:12:41.199
It's it's just not. Well,
that'll be a whole different thing I'm

1814
02:12:41.199 --> 02:12:45.520
going to do now. I won't
step it with anything. It'll cost me

1815
02:12:45.680 --> 02:12:48.239
more money to use more potting soil
to fill up the dig pot. There

1816
02:12:48.319 --> 02:12:50.680
you will, there you go.
But hey, that's that's why you got

1817
02:12:50.800 --> 02:12:54.199
quality soil. And that's why you
got a big pot, you know,

1818
02:12:54.279 --> 02:12:58.520
because we're telling a plant that wants
to get big. And I avocado tree

1819
02:12:58.600 --> 02:13:01.680
thirty forty feet high. I guess
I've never seen one above forty around here,

1820
02:13:03.199 --> 02:13:05.319
but it wants to get that big, but we're telling it, no,

1821
02:13:05.439 --> 02:13:09.159
you got grown a little container.
So the bigger the container, the

1822
02:13:09.199 --> 02:13:13.079
bigger, better more productive plants you're
going to have. What about my little

1823
02:13:13.119 --> 02:13:16.279
fruit trees that are in you know, it's like orange. I've got orange

1824
02:13:16.359 --> 02:13:22.600
trees and a satsuma. Yeah,
can I bumped into a bigger pot too?

1825
02:13:22.760 --> 02:13:26.000
Because everyone says it's harmful if you
take a tree that's in a small

1826
02:13:26.039 --> 02:13:28.720
container and put it in a bigger
pot. If that's a no, no,

1827
02:13:28.880 --> 02:13:35.560
you have to graduate your pot size. Okay, here's what they're talking

1828
02:13:35.640 --> 02:13:37.680
about. If you have a little, tiny root ball and you put it

1829
02:13:37.760 --> 02:13:41.479
in this now big pot, you
have all this soil that has no roots

1830
02:13:41.520 --> 02:13:46.520
in it, so that soil stays
too wet. When you water the soil

1831
02:13:48.039 --> 02:13:52.199
that you the little root ball you
put in there pumps dry. And now

1832
02:13:52.279 --> 02:13:56.960
you've got soggy soil out here and
dry soil in here, and it takes

1833
02:13:56.000 --> 02:13:58.680
time for the root system get to
get out there and fill it. That's

1834
02:13:58.720 --> 02:14:05.520
why we move up incrementally on pots. But if you just watch how you

1835
02:14:05.680 --> 02:14:09.800
water, you can avoid that problem. But yeah, it's generally okay,

1836
02:14:09.319 --> 02:14:11.760
it's good to take a step at
a time. If I were growing a

1837
02:14:11.840 --> 02:14:16.159
satsuma, I'd have it in something
the size of a half whiskey barrel,

1838
02:14:16.319 --> 02:14:18.880
but not a half whiskey barrol because
those rot out. But something about that

1839
02:14:20.079 --> 02:14:24.600
size for a satsuma would be about
a good container size. Now not from

1840
02:14:24.640 --> 02:14:26.680
the day you buy it put it
in there, but that's the size you

1841
02:14:26.760 --> 02:14:33.159
probably are aiming for. Okay.
I'm thinking about putting some more drainage holes.

1842
02:14:33.479 --> 02:14:35.520
Should I put some drainage holes on
the side as well as the bottom?

1843
02:14:37.039 --> 02:14:39.520
I like, is it sitting on
concrete patio or is it sitting on

1844
02:14:39.640 --> 02:14:43.560
the soil. If it sits on
the soil, I'll get ants up in

1845
02:14:43.680 --> 02:14:46.079
the pots. We'll always put it
on a big tile or something, so

1846
02:14:46.199 --> 02:14:50.359
it's not directly on the soil.
Okay. If the water can escape the

1847
02:14:50.399 --> 02:14:54.399
hole at the bottom, that's okay. I like holes in the side because

1848
02:14:54.640 --> 02:14:56.840
in the case of sitting on the
soil, as an example, when it

1849
02:14:56.960 --> 02:15:01.920
sits down tight to a clay soil, that hole on the bottom is not

1850
02:15:01.119 --> 02:15:05.199
draining out very well at all.
But holes from the sides the excess can

1851
02:15:05.319 --> 02:15:09.079
run right out. And I like
side holes for that reason. On a

1852
02:15:09.159 --> 02:15:13.560
concrete patio, or if you've got
it kind of propped up on little those

1853
02:15:13.640 --> 02:15:16.199
little pot feet thing, then it's
not as important. It can get out

1854
02:15:16.279 --> 02:15:20.600
that bottom hole. And to keep
ants out of the pot. What should

1855
02:15:20.640 --> 02:15:26.600
I do? Put some put the
pot down. No, I don't worry

1856
02:15:26.600 --> 02:15:30.159
about it. There's not an ant
that's going to attack your plants. They're

1857
02:15:30.239 --> 02:15:33.079
in there, but they're not They
don't eat plant roots, they don't eat

1858
02:15:33.119 --> 02:15:37.720
plant leaves. I wouldn't worry about
them. If you want to treat for

1859
02:15:37.880 --> 02:15:41.439
them, you can use any kind
of an insecticide that'll kill the ants once

1860
02:15:41.479 --> 02:15:43.800
they get in the pot. But
oh, okay, I don't say I

1861
02:15:43.880 --> 02:15:48.079
don't. I can't think of a
good reason to do that. Okay,

1862
02:15:48.279 --> 02:15:50.279
Oh okay, great, thank you
so much. All right, thank you.

1863
02:15:50.399 --> 02:15:56.119
I appreciate that call very much.
Wow, Nikki, we're rolling here

1864
02:15:56.279 --> 02:16:00.119
on all kinds of questions today.
I think I don't know if somebody off

1865
02:16:00.159 --> 02:16:03.920
the gate open so so bees pollinate? What do ants do? What purpose

1866
02:16:05.000 --> 02:16:07.800
did they have? Well, they're
they're well, they're married to your uncle,

1867
02:16:09.000 --> 02:16:11.760
and they tend to be nicer than
your mom, I've found. I'm

1868
02:16:11.840 --> 02:16:16.479
sorry, but I'm very good.
That was uncalled for. That was uncalled

1869
02:16:16.520 --> 02:16:20.600
for. Ants. They they are
most ants are eating seeds or eating other

1870
02:16:20.720 --> 02:16:26.000
little insects or things like that.
Fire ants. Occasionally we'll get into like

1871
02:16:26.159 --> 02:16:28.960
ocra pods and things. But there's
only one kind of ant that eats plants,

1872
02:16:30.000 --> 02:16:31.840
and it's a leaf cutter ant,
and it's it has to have big

1873
02:16:31.959 --> 02:16:35.520
colonies out in the ground. It's
not going to get in your pots.

1874
02:16:35.719 --> 02:16:41.559
Okay, okay, all right,
I guess let's take a break seven one

1875
02:16:41.600 --> 02:16:48.200
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. You can dance if you dance

1876
02:16:48.319 --> 02:16:56.879
with the guy gives you a little
hole you take. You can smile if

1877
02:16:56.959 --> 02:17:00.680
you smile for the man to hell
in your hand. Leave the pail,

1878
02:17:01.520 --> 02:17:13.159
but don't forget those taking you home, and you're gonna be alrighty. You're

1879
02:17:13.239 --> 02:17:16.399
listening to Garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Ricter. We're here to

1880
02:17:16.399 --> 02:17:22.159
answer your questions at seven one three
two one two five eight seven. Now.

1881
02:17:22.200 --> 02:17:26.799
I talked earlier about you know,
gardens and landscapes or for the esthetic

1882
02:17:26.920 --> 02:17:31.159
beauty, and they're also for the
sense. I was talking about the the

1883
02:17:31.440 --> 02:17:37.040
Arabian jasmines out there at Enchanted Forest
and Richmond they're also for the sounds.

1884
02:17:37.399 --> 02:17:41.520
And I used to not be a
bird person at all. I mean,

1885
02:17:41.639 --> 02:17:46.280
I've had nothing against birds. I
just wasn't into that. But since I

1886
02:17:46.399 --> 02:17:50.319
have started feeding, providing bird watering, bird housing, those kinds of things,

1887
02:17:50.879 --> 02:17:54.360
I noticed now when I go out
in the morning enjoy a cup of

1888
02:17:54.399 --> 02:17:58.040
coffee on the back patio or something
like that, the music of the birds

1889
02:17:58.239 --> 02:18:03.959
is just yet another cool thing,
relaxing thing. Remember how I said about

1890
02:18:03.959 --> 02:18:07.879
gardening and nature so important to us. It's just another aspect of that.

1891
02:18:07.040 --> 02:18:11.719
And while Bird's Unlimited is the place
to go to get set up on all

1892
02:18:11.840 --> 02:18:16.319
things regarding birds. They have bird
feeders, they have bird waters. They

1893
02:18:16.319 --> 02:18:20.600
ain't gonna a little hummingbird misting waterers
that are really cool. You have to

1894
02:18:20.639 --> 02:18:24.319
go see those there. I can't
even describe them. They're pretty cool stuff.

1895
02:18:24.959 --> 02:18:28.040
They have quality bird feed. If
you buy inexpensive, I'm gonna call

1896
02:18:28.040 --> 02:18:31.159
it cheap. That's what it is
bird feed. You end up with a

1897
02:18:31.360 --> 02:18:35.319
lot of that feed being those little
red beebes that birds don't want to eat.

1898
02:18:35.360 --> 02:18:37.680
They kick them on the ground and
make the doves drop down there and

1899
02:18:37.760 --> 02:18:41.959
eat those things because they your songbirds
don't care about that, and so you

1900
02:18:43.120 --> 02:18:45.280
end up thinking, well, I
got a good deal on bird seed.

1901
02:18:45.360 --> 02:18:48.000
But what you really did is you
spend a lot of money on the seed

1902
02:18:48.040 --> 02:18:52.000
the birds actually are gonna eat.
The rest of it is just a mess

1903
02:18:52.120 --> 02:18:56.479
going to sprout and come up underneath
the feeder. Wahbirds has quality feeds that

1904
02:18:56.559 --> 02:19:01.079
the birds are gonna eat everything in
the bag you buy. Wilbirds has blends

1905
02:19:01.159 --> 02:19:03.840
for every kind of birds you're going
to talk about wanting to feed. I

1906
02:19:03.920 --> 02:19:07.479
mean, it doesn't matter nut that's
thick, chickadees, just all kinds of

1907
02:19:07.559 --> 02:19:13.360
beautiful, beautiful birds that you can
bring in with Wilberts. There's Wildbird's unlimited

1908
02:19:13.559 --> 02:19:16.319
everywhere near you. There's seven of
them run the Houston area Katie Kingwood,

1909
02:19:16.440 --> 02:19:20.040
Cypress, pear Land. There's one
in bel Air, one in West Houston,

1910
02:19:20.120 --> 02:19:24.479
one in Clear Lake. It's not
hard finding a wild birds near you.

1911
02:19:24.040 --> 02:19:31.559
Go to WBU dot com forward slash
Houston and find the wallbirds near YOUWBU

1912
02:19:31.639 --> 02:19:37.760
dot com forward slash Houston And now
is hummingbirds season. They're here and they're

1913
02:19:37.799 --> 02:19:41.840
gonna be here for a while,
stocking up for their migration across the Gulf

1914
02:19:41.879 --> 02:19:46.920
of Mexico. Get you a Wildbird's
unlimited high perch hummingbird feeder. I've got

1915
02:19:48.000 --> 02:19:50.680
one of those. They are cool
and they work well. That gets several

1916
02:19:50.760 --> 02:19:54.319
feeders. Because you know how hummingbirds
are, they're always chasing each other off

1917
02:19:54.399 --> 02:20:01.120
the feeder. That is yet another
enjoyable antic to watch those little guys running

1918
02:20:01.159 --> 02:20:07.440
around out they're chirping and fussing at
each other at Wallbirds Unlimited. Not difficult

1919
02:20:07.440 --> 02:20:09.639
to find those at all. Well, you're listening to Gardenline. Our phone

1920
02:20:09.719 --> 02:20:15.920
number is seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

1921
02:20:16.559 --> 02:20:22.239
two one two fifty eight seventy four. If you're looking for a high nitrogen

1922
02:20:22.440 --> 02:20:31.680
content organic fertilizer, that would be
en Nitrogen's excuse me, Nitrogen nitrofosts Sweet

1923
02:20:31.719 --> 02:20:35.840
Green. Sweet Green is a molasses
based fertilizer. What they do is they

1924
02:20:35.879 --> 02:20:37.959
have a process where they put microbes
in it and then it goes through a

1925
02:20:39.040 --> 02:20:43.079
process and it creates this nutrient rich
that's why they get That's how they get

1926
02:20:43.120 --> 02:20:48.440
the nitrogen up to like eleven percent
in this product. But being a molasses

1927
02:20:48.680 --> 02:20:54.200
or therefore sugar type based product,
microbes love it. I mean it's rocket

1928
02:20:54.280 --> 02:20:58.840
fuel for the beneficial bacteria in your
soil. Smells good too, by the

1929
02:20:58.879 --> 02:21:03.200
way, But nitro FoST Sweet Green
takes about, let's see, ten pounds

1930
02:21:03.280 --> 02:21:07.559
per thousand square feet for an eleven
percent nitrogen product. It's easy to find.

1931
02:21:07.639 --> 02:21:11.079
It's all over the place like nitrofoss. Our feed stores, our ace

1932
02:21:11.200 --> 02:21:16.680
hardware stores, our mom and pop
garden centers are going to have the nitrofoss

1933
02:21:16.879 --> 02:21:20.239
Sweet Green product. Now's a good
time to put it on, because here's

1934
02:21:20.239 --> 02:21:24.079
the deal. It's gonna work,
it's gonna do its job, and then

1935
02:21:24.280 --> 02:21:26.879
about the time you need to fertilize
again, we'll be when we put our

1936
02:21:28.440 --> 02:21:33.680
fall fertilizer application on. That's coming, you know, back over in October

1937
02:21:33.760 --> 02:21:37.479
time, when we put that fall
application on. By the way, I

1938
02:21:37.680 --> 02:21:45.479
just put on the internet and my
new website, the new lawn care schedule.

1939
02:21:45.600 --> 02:21:46.760
Did it a couple of days ago. I've already got a lot of

1940
02:21:46.760 --> 02:21:52.280
feedback from it, and I appreciate
that. By the way, constructive comments,

1941
02:21:52.479 --> 02:21:56.639
questions are always appreciated. And I've
already done a little tweaks and updates

1942
02:21:56.719 --> 02:22:00.559
to it. We're getting a new
version, slightly tweaked version of things that

1943
02:22:00.639 --> 02:22:03.399
didn't catch the first round. They're
going to be up there probably, if

1944
02:22:03.479 --> 02:22:07.680
not already up there, will be
up there by sometime tomorrow for sure,

1945
02:22:07.760 --> 02:22:11.639
if not sometime today. But that
is the Skipwacter lawn Care Schedule, and

1946
02:22:11.879 --> 02:22:16.000
it's beautiful, many colors, and
the reason for the colors is to make

1947
02:22:16.040 --> 02:22:20.719
it easy. So whether you're looking
for an organic or a synthetic fertilizer,

1948
02:22:22.079 --> 02:22:26.239
you just follow from January to December. It tells you when to apply the

1949
02:22:26.360 --> 02:22:31.280
fertilizers you need, and then there's
a list of fertilizers in the same color

1950
02:22:31.879 --> 02:22:35.719
for organic or for synthetic. You
pick your one and it's right there at

1951
02:22:35.719 --> 02:22:39.719
the bottom of the page. There's
information on trace minerals things like our azamide

1952
02:22:39.840 --> 02:22:43.520
and Nature's Way or mineralizer or important
for that category. Tells you how to

1953
02:22:43.600 --> 02:22:48.559
mow properly, how to water properly, and just a lot of good information.

1954
02:22:48.159 --> 02:22:54.280
Soon to follow behind that is going
to be the lawn pass Disease and

1955
02:22:54.399 --> 02:23:00.639
Weed Management schedule to control or for
information on insects, disease and weeds,

1956
02:23:00.959 --> 02:23:03.000
and it's going to be the same
kind of layout and it will also be

1957
02:23:03.120 --> 02:23:09.879
up on the website. So what's
the website gardening with Skip dot com.

1958
02:23:09.399 --> 02:23:16.040
Gardening with Skip dot com is a
website to get that free publication. You

1959
02:23:16.159 --> 02:23:18.239
can print it up and carry it
with you when you go into the garden

1960
02:23:18.360 --> 02:23:20.799
center. Say hey, this is
the feed I need, or the feed

1961
02:23:20.920 --> 02:23:24.000
store, the or the Ace hardware
store wherever you're going to buy your stuff.

1962
02:23:24.680 --> 02:23:28.040
Take that in with you and point
out the one you need and they'll

1963
02:23:28.120 --> 02:23:33.079
they'll make sure and direct you to
that product. We are now going to

1964
02:23:33.159 --> 02:23:37.120
go out to the phones again and
talk to Terry Sue out at the galleria.

1965
02:23:37.360 --> 02:23:43.440
Hello, Terry Sue, Hi,
I have a question about jumping worms.

1966
02:23:43.959 --> 02:23:50.159
Okay, now I haven't found them
recently, but when I find them

1967
02:23:50.479 --> 02:23:52.799
and I want can I if I
cut them in two? Is that going

1968
02:23:52.840 --> 02:23:56.680
to kill them? Or are they
going to have like eggs inside and not

1969
02:23:56.799 --> 02:24:01.200
going to be any good? That's
a good question. Can have eggs inside?

1970
02:24:01.079 --> 02:24:05.799
That's not how they how they work. The eggs actually an exterior structure

1971
02:24:05.959 --> 02:24:11.840
on the earthworms, including the jumping
worms. Okay, you know, if

1972
02:24:11.879 --> 02:24:15.600
you're concerned about that, I think
I would just grab and throw them in

1973
02:24:15.680 --> 02:24:18.559
a bucket and they'll dry up in
there and you'll be done. With it,

1974
02:24:18.639 --> 02:24:22.319
Yeah, and just not toss them
aside. Yeah, the old thing

1975
02:24:22.360 --> 02:24:24.879
about if you're cutting worm in half
you have two worms, No, that

1976
02:24:26.000 --> 02:24:28.959
doesn't work. One half may live, but the other half is going to

1977
02:24:28.079 --> 02:24:33.559
die. And so I knew that. I just I was just worried about

1978
02:24:33.600 --> 02:24:39.000
the possibility of egg casings or something. Sure, sure, Okay. The

1979
02:24:39.040 --> 02:24:43.760
other question I had was about that
horrible weed called chamber bitter that has all

1980
02:24:43.799 --> 02:24:46.840
the little seeds on it. Yes, now if I spray that with an

1981
02:24:46.959 --> 02:24:54.760
all purpose like glyphosate type of thing, are the seeds going to be viable

1982
02:24:56.319 --> 02:24:58.799
at some point? They are when
they first start to form, they haven't

1983
02:25:00.079 --> 02:25:03.319
cured enough to be viable. But
if you look down the little leaflets,

1984
02:25:03.360 --> 02:25:07.520
you'll see little tiny seeds or bloom
pods, and then all the way up

1985
02:25:07.559 --> 02:25:11.959
to the larger ones, and the
larger ones are going to be viable.

1986
02:25:11.799 --> 02:25:15.840
So the only way to deal with
that at this point would be to hand

1987
02:25:15.920 --> 02:25:18.280
pull them out. And that's going
to be one heck of a job,

1988
02:25:18.719 --> 02:25:22.680
because yeah, those things proliferate.
You you mentioned guy for say, you

1989
02:25:22.719 --> 02:25:26.559
could also if it's is it in
your lawn? Yes, yeah, I

1990
02:25:26.600 --> 02:25:33.600
would just use a broadleaf post emergent
weed control products something that kills broad leaf

1991
02:25:33.639 --> 02:25:37.680
weeds after they come up, and
there are several products out there that will

1992
02:25:37.719 --> 02:25:41.280
do a good job of that.
You just because we are in such blazing

1993
02:25:41.399 --> 02:25:45.000
hot weather, you got to be
real careful because those products will damage your

1994
02:25:45.000 --> 02:25:50.000
seeing augustine significantly. So I'm trying
to kill all that anyway. Oh you're

1995
02:25:50.040 --> 02:25:54.000
killing everything. Yes, there,
there you go, But but I still

1996
02:25:54.079 --> 02:26:00.520
need to hand pull the chamber bitter
probably if you if it's not too big

1997
02:26:00.559 --> 02:26:01.639
of an area, and you can
do that. And then the other thing

1998
02:26:01.719 --> 02:26:05.760
to remember is next spring. And
by the way, the schedule I was

1999
02:26:05.840 --> 02:26:09.040
just talking about that's not online yet, the lawn pest disease and weed.

2000
02:26:09.440 --> 02:26:13.719
It will tell you when to put
the pre emergent out for that weed,

2001
02:26:13.920 --> 02:26:16.920
for the warm season weeds, and
it'll tell you when to treat with post

2002
02:26:18.000 --> 02:26:20.479
emergent. If you've got a lawn
and you don't want to hurt the lawn,

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there's a time of year where we
treat to avoid that lawn damage too.

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So that's all going to be on
the schedule that's about to go up.

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That sounds great, all righty,
Thank you, thank you so much.

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Thank you, Terry Sue. I
appreciate that call. I was looking

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at my landscape the other day and
I've admitted this on the air before.

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But those of us who are plant
nuts, we often become plant collectors.

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02:26:43.360 --> 02:26:48.879
And here's the problem with a plant
collector. We don't design beautiful landscapes.

2010
02:26:48.000 --> 02:26:52.719
We collect plants. Every time you
go to the garden center. There's plants

2011
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you have to have. You can't
live without them. Trust me, I

2012
02:26:54.159 --> 02:26:58.920
know this, I'm there, I
feel your pain. So the bottom line

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being a plant collector is you need
somebody knows how to designed, and that

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would be pier scapes. If you
don't want your landscape to look like a

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02:27:07.399 --> 02:27:11.319
bomb went off in a garden center
and everything rooted where it landed, call

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02:27:11.440 --> 02:27:16.120
pier scapes. Let's have them get
in and get involved in creating a beautiful

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02:27:16.159 --> 02:27:20.360
design for you, and then you
can have all those plants you want and

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02:27:20.520 --> 02:27:24.399
plant them. D need irrigation work
done. Maybe your system isn't working right.

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02:27:24.559 --> 02:27:26.920
They do that. They do drainage
and a lot of our areas when

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it rains, remember when it used
to rain, it will again. Drainage

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02:27:31.680 --> 02:27:37.200
work is important. Rock gardens are
rock borders rather Hardscapes. Peer Scapes does

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02:27:37.239 --> 02:27:41.319
all that and much much more.
Three excuse me the phone number two eight

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02:27:41.399 --> 02:27:46.479
one three seven zero fifty sixty two
eight one three seven zero fifty sixty or

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02:27:46.920 --> 02:27:52.959
peerscapes dot com. We're gonna believe
it's time for a little Not quite,

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02:27:52.239 --> 02:27:54.719
are we time for a break?
Here? I believe I went a little

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02:27:54.799 --> 02:27:58.120
long. Okay, let's take a
break. Nancy and Dab. You will

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be next up when we come back
from break. In the meantime, have

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an get ready to go. I've
got one more bit of information I want

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to give you. By the way, when we come back from break on

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Gardening, we'll talk to you in
just a moment. I got this all

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02:28:15.120 --> 02:28:22.440
guitar, the strings are rusty buddies, all Anny bringing the kicktommick and back

2032
02:28:22.680 --> 02:28:31.040
to beat. Let's get around and
seeing this song. Hey, well,

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good morning. Wait, are in
our last segment This morning back, last

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segment of the weekend on garden Line. We're here every Saturday and Sunday from

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02:28:39.319 --> 02:28:43.920
six am to ten am. You
can also listen to past shows. Maybe

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02:28:43.959 --> 02:28:48.440
you heard me say something you didn't
get it written down. You can listen

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02:28:48.920 --> 02:28:52.879
go back and listen to the show
on podcast. If you have our Heart

2038
02:28:52.959 --> 02:28:56.479
Media podcast or whatever your podcast provider
is, look for garden Line, find

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02:28:56.520 --> 02:29:00.600
the one with the guy. There's
a lady garden Line show somewhere around the

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02:29:00.639 --> 02:29:03.840
country. We are the one with
the guy, a garden Line guy,

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02:29:03.000 --> 02:29:07.600
and so just look forward on your
podcast. You can listen to past shows.

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02:29:07.680 --> 02:29:11.719
It's kind of nice. If you've
got friends and neighbors that haven't listened,

2043
02:29:11.719 --> 02:29:13.319
they need to know about that.
If you've got friends in other areas,

2044
02:29:13.360 --> 02:29:18.319
we have people that call from all
across the Gulf Coast states and even

2045
02:29:18.399 --> 02:29:22.440
beyond that to garden Line, and
maybe they'd be interested in knowing about the

2046
02:29:22.520 --> 02:29:28.000
podcast availability if they're outside where they
can get the radio signal. I mentioned

2047
02:29:28.040 --> 02:29:30.440
there was some stuff I wanted to
talk about real quick, and I'm about

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02:29:30.440 --> 02:29:33.840
to head back to our two callers. We got on hold here. But

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02:29:33.200 --> 02:29:39.239
what that is is in October,
our cool season weeds will start to germinate.

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02:29:39.600 --> 02:29:43.920
That's typically when the soil temp hits
a point where they are going to

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02:29:45.000 --> 02:29:50.600
germinate, and that would be hin
bit and chickweed and annual bluegrass and carpetweed.

2052
02:29:52.040 --> 02:29:54.120
There's just a lot of different cool
season weeds. That we deal with.

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02:29:56.239 --> 02:30:00.319
You need to have a dense lawn
at that time and order to not

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02:30:00.559 --> 02:30:03.360
have a lot of weed problems.
So if your lawn has gotten thin from

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02:30:03.440 --> 02:30:07.799
drought, from strass, from disease, from whatever, putting a pre emergent

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02:30:07.879 --> 02:30:13.520
down at that time is going to
be important to avoid having to spray things

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02:30:13.760 --> 02:30:16.639
in the grass later that might be
harmful to your grass as well as trying

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02:30:16.639 --> 02:30:20.399
to kill the weed. And so
that's an important window. So why am

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02:30:20.440 --> 02:30:24.799
I mentioning it now, Well,
I'm mentioning it now because anything you do

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02:30:24.959 --> 02:30:28.600
to increase the density of your lawn
will help cut down on those weed problems

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02:30:28.840 --> 02:30:33.000
because they're going to be germinating starting
in October, also germinating in November.

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02:30:33.959 --> 02:30:39.600
And so if you can shut out
the sunlight by growing a denser, thicker,

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02:30:39.719 --> 02:30:45.040
denser lawn or beautiful lawn in the
process too, by the way,

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02:30:45.600 --> 02:30:48.520
you can cut down on weed problems
a lot. Just a little quick tip.

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02:30:48.920 --> 02:30:50.600
Let's go back to the phones now
and we're going to go to the

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woodlands and talk to deb. Hello, deb Hi scap how are you.

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02:30:56.879 --> 02:31:00.879
I'm good? How are you?
I'm good? Hey, I have a

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02:31:01.000 --> 02:31:05.959
question about our magnolia tree. The
tree is not very big around in trunk,

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02:31:07.719 --> 02:31:09.680
but it's probably twenty feet tall,
I want to say, not more

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than three inches in the trunk size. And one side of it faces the

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02:31:15.840 --> 02:31:22.840
afternoon sun pretty strongly, and I
have scorched leaves. Am I helping it

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02:31:22.959 --> 02:31:26.200
alone? If I give it more
water? Am I harming it? What

2073
02:31:26.639 --> 02:31:31.040
is there anything I could do to
protect it from getting further scorched? Right?

2074
02:31:31.079 --> 02:31:33.760
I'm going to give it. Yeah, I'm gonna give you the quick

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02:31:33.799 --> 02:31:37.799
answer because I've let things get to
the end of the show here and I'm

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02:31:37.799 --> 02:31:41.079
gonna have to wind it up.
But the answer is give it a good

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02:31:41.120 --> 02:31:46.040
soaking. If the soil is not
moist three or four inches down, that's

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02:31:46.079 --> 02:31:48.399
the bottom line. Depending on the
sal type, the sun exposure, the

2079
02:31:48.440 --> 02:31:52.799
plant, all that, it's going
to vary as to how often and how

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02:31:52.879 --> 02:31:56.399
much you need to water, But
keep the sal moist as the bottom line,

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02:31:56.440 --> 02:32:00.040
and that'll give it the best chance
of avoiding additional scorching down. I

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02:32:00.760 --> 02:32:03.000
I'm sorry to have to run so
fast on your deb Thank you for being

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02:32:03.040 --> 02:32:09.479
patient and waiting on the call.
But I hope that helps you. Bet

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02:32:09.040 --> 02:32:13.959
Hey, if you're looking for a
source of all kinds of gardening supplies.

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02:32:13.319 --> 02:32:16.959
That is ACE Hardware. ACE Hardware
has everything you need for your lawn.

2086
02:32:18.319 --> 02:32:22.200
The fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides,
fungicides, and secticides. All of that.

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02:32:22.440 --> 02:32:24.840
Ace Hardware's got it. Ace Hardware
has the tools, the hoses,

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02:32:24.920 --> 02:32:30.600
the sprinklers. If you want a
beautiful landscape and lawn. ACE Hardware is

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02:32:30.680 --> 02:32:33.319
a place to go. Go to
ACE hardware dot com and look for the

2090
02:32:33.399 --> 02:32:39.120
store locator to find the store near
you. Oh goodness, I was just

2091
02:32:39.319 --> 02:32:43.479
about to run over to Nancy and
Lake Palestine. My apologies, Nancy.

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02:32:43.520 --> 02:32:46.000
We were going to try to get
in a quick answer. Let me do

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02:32:46.040 --> 02:32:48.280
it this way in case you are
still listening. I got a picture of

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02:32:48.520 --> 02:32:52.799
all the plants, beautiful fruit trees
and things you have growing in containers.

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02:32:54.120 --> 02:32:58.360
I think they look pretty good if
you could move them up a container size.

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02:33:00.000 --> 02:33:03.000
Are about ready for that. The
tomato is okay in the container it's

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02:33:03.040 --> 02:33:07.319
in the citrus is okay. But
if you can move it up one size,

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02:33:07.719 --> 02:33:13.760
it's gonna just do a lot better. Let me go back to your

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02:33:13.479 --> 02:33:20.399
text on that scrolling through this here
that the cherry tomato isn't producing because it's

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02:33:20.399 --> 02:33:22.120
too hot. When it cools off, it will start setting fruit. So

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02:33:22.319 --> 02:33:26.000
just hang on. They're gonna be
just fine. Hey, thanks for listening

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to garden Line. We'll talk to
you next week.