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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

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on this program. Welcome to ktr
H Garden Line with Skip Rector, so

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pleazy just watch him as who tell
us so many tissicking not a sign the

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sun beaming. Well, good Saturday
morning. You are listening to garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Rector,
and we're here to answer your gardening

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questions. Give us call it seven
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KTRH and Josh, we'll get you on

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the board. We can we can
talk about the things that are of interest

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to you. First of all,
glad you're here this morning. I see

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you with a cup of coffee in
your hand. Kind of one and a

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half eyes open maybe at this point
in the game. That's good. We'll

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take that one and a half eyes. Look next door. If if the

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lights are off at your neighbor's house, bang on the door, tell them

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that they're missing garden Line. They
will thank you later, maybe a long

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time later, but they will thank
you. I appreciate that. Hey,

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there's a lot going on right now, you know, this heat is it?

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I mean, it's like a broken
record talking about the heat all the

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time, complaining about the heat.
But that's what we do. And agriculture

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is a lot of times you know, it's too dry, too hot,

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too cold, to wet, you
name it. We've always got something to

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have to deal with. But that's
okay, that's part of the challenge of

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it. This heat is no reason
that we can't continue to be gardening.

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The heat tolerant plants options that we
have, just that there's a lot of

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them. There's plenty if you do
want flowers, doant vegetables, shrubs and

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trees and vines and perennials, just
all kinds of things that we can grow

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and take care of and enjoy.
And in fact, one of the things

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I encourage people to do when they're
considering, what can I do to make

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the house landscape look better? Sometimes
we call it homescape, or the whole

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area around your your house, not
just the landscape of gardens and everything else.

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What can I make it do to
make it better? Get out there

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with a cup of coffee early in
the morning while it's cool, and you

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won't you know, faint in the
yard from the heat. Just get out

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and walk around, take a look
at things, does it look like Typically

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in spring, there are so many
things that want to bloom that our landscapes

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look great in spring, and then
summer comes and summer turns our landscape into

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the sea of green that I talk
about green grass, green shrubs, green

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groundcovers, green trees. Maybe different
shades of green, but all green.

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And that's fine. Green's a pretty
color. But what about other colors?

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What about colors for summer? Well, we have those kinds of colors that

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we can enjoy. I'll talk about
a few of those in a little bit

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here. And then there's the fall
season. And fall is also a good

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blooming season. We don't have the
number of flowers that we do in the

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spring, but we have a lot
a lot of things we can do.

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The annual color that we do going
into fall, I'll talk about that is

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we probably get torn further into August. Some of the things we could be

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planning at the end of August or
least September for good fall color. But

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we have fall blooming plants, the
plants that they wait for fall. Things

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that are gonna make your fall garden
look great. Copper canyon daisies, a

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little yellow blooms waits till fall to
bloom. A lot of our gingers,

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well some of our gingers. The
head Ditium is a white butterfly ginger for

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example. It's typically a late summer
or fall blooming plant. It looks beautiful

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Mexican bush sage Savia lucantha with its
kind of purple and white bloom stalks.

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Beautiful beautiful plant. But it waits
till fall and fall blooming plants bloom then

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because the nights are getting longer.
Long nights means the triggers the plant into

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the bloom response. Plants use day
length for a lot of things as in

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fact, the day cycle, that
diurnal cycle affects a lot of things in

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plants. And for some plants they
bloom in the fall based on the long

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nights. There's other plants that bloom
in spring based on short nights. As

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the nights begin to get get shorter
and shorter as we're going from like winter

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into the summer season. As in
that transition, as those nights get shorter

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than you find some of our vegetables
like onions or a arugula, you know,

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just beats and carrots, and I
think they send up a bloomstalk and

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because it's time for them to bloom. So a lot of things are guided

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by that. So when you're looking
at a landscape, you want to be

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able to choose plants that are gonna
bloom through the year or they're going to

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give color of some sort through different
times of the year. And that's part

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of the planning. That's why I
like getting out with a cup of coffee

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or tea or what a chocolate,
whatever you want throughout the year. Kind

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of walk around, take a look
at things. As you drive around town,

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notice what's blooming and what's not.
As you go to our garden centers,

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I mean there's the easy one.
I mean they just look around.

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You can see what's blooming. That
typically is what's selling because people want to

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buy plants when they have blooms on
them, although that's not really the always

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the best thing to do. Sometimes
when I go buy plant, I'll buy

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the strongest, most robust, good
looking plant there's there without looking at doesn't

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have a bloom right now on it, Because if I get a good,

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strong plant and get it growing,
I'm gonna have a better bloom than someone

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who buys a scrawny plant that has
one bloom on it that it's trying to

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support, and it just kind of
takes it a little longer to hit the

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ground running. That didn't mean a
blooming plant shouldn't be planted. I'm just

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saying, don't demand that there'll be
a bloom on it. In fact,

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some of our some really good plants
of the past have just not made it

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because they don't look good in a
garden center, you know. I remember

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Salvia indigo spires was slow to come
into the market, never really took over.

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And it's because in a in a
six inch pot, even a gallon

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pot, it's kind of hard to
make it look really good because it just

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kind of gets big and grows and
floppy, and at that stage it doesn't

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always look its best. So don't
let that fool you. Figure out the

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plants you want. Go out and
garden center knows what they're talking about,

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and let them point you to the
things that are going to be dependable.

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Weekend, still enjoy our blooms.
It's a good time of day too to

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get out there and be doing any
kind of watering you need to do.

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This time of the day tends to
be better pressure. But also when you

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water. Let's say you're water in
a lawn. You give it a good

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soaking like it should have on an
infrequent basis, and it dries up pretty

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quick because the sun is going to
be up here in a little bit and

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things are going to warm up.
That water will go away. So you

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minimize diseases to some degree by watering
super early in the morning. You can

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also save on your water because it's
not evaporating away as fast as it would

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be if you tried to water during
the heat a day. In fact,

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i'd say a certainly after ten am, I maybe put a little earlier than

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that. I wouldn't be watering anymore. I would make sure that all the

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watering gets done by then, because
otherwise it's just it's just wasteful. You

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know, you're spending money buying drinking
water to evaporate and make Houston are humid,

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like we need that, right,
Well, you get the idea.

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Hey, we're gonna take a break
our phone number seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. Okay, you're good morning. You're listening to

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garden line. We are here to
visit with you, a boy. Whatever

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you're interested in regarding gardening. Give
us a call seven one three, two

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one two five eight seven four and
we can talk about the topics that you

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might be wondered about. I tell
you one thing, when you have a

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question, you know that somebody else
does. Especially in an area as big

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as Houston, you lot a lot
of somebody else's do have the same question.

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So feel free to ask away and
we can discuss it. I want

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to you know, what would you
consider to be a components that make up

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a good community to live in?
You know, a from a home and

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hobby and everything standpoint. Well,
I would say that having a beautiful home,

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having a comfortable place, a place
where the whole community is designed around

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the residents and around active lifestyles would
be that. Now, as a gardener,

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I would also say I'd want a
community garden in the community because I'm

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a gardener, right. I garden
at home, but I never have enough

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room. I don't know if you
feel that way, but it is never

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enough room to grow all the things
I want to grow. So maybe you

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don't want to dig up the backyard, just go have a community garden.

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Well, I know about a community
like that, and that is the New

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Dell Web Community It is out on
it's actually pretty close to Fullshure about two

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miles from downtown Fullshure on FM three
fifty nine. This new Dell Web community

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has a community garden that I'm working
with them on getting set up so you

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can enjoy the beauty of Delweb as
well as having a community that has a

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lifestyle program built around you. And
that's what Dell Web's all about for adults

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age fifty five and better that are
active. That is a Dell Web community.

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So I can't imagine a better combination
of things than something like that.

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Go on line to dellweb dot com
slash Houston. You can find out more

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information there. Just give him a
call. It's two eight one four five

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nine zero six zero nine. It
was discussing the different plants and things that

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really look good in the summer heat. And one of my favorite ones is

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red Bird of Paradise. It's a
Saycilpinia pool kirima. Why do I say

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pool kirama because I want you to
point out that the Latin says it's a

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pretty plant. That's what that means. It is a beautiful, beautiful plant.

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Sometimes we call it pride to Barbados. It's got beautiful orange red,

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bright orange red and yellow blooms.
There are other forms that have slightly different

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bloom color, but that's the one
you see pretty much everywhere. It takes

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heat like nobody's business. In fact, prior to May, it doesn't even

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really want to grow. I mean, it's slow to wake up. But

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once it gets going, it just
goes and goes and goes through the heat.

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Driving around Houston yesterday, I saw
one out by the street in a

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little parking lot, kind of a
rundown shopping mini shopping center kind of parking

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lot. Obviously, the weeds were
struggling to stay. Nobody's water in that,

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nobody's fertilizing it. And here it
is just blooming away, attracting by

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the way, swallowtail butterflies. And
so that's a cool reason to have a

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plant like that. That's a good
one. See when you plant something like

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that, it makes it look like
you have a green thumb. Because you've

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chosen the right plant for the area. It's going to do well. So

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many other good plants, you know, the yellow bells esperanza, the one

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we called gold star, is an
outstanding plant. There's a lot of different

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kinds of Esperanza, and they're all, okay, they look they're pretty.

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But gold Star it'll start blooming when
it's like just above knee high, like

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pocket high, and it just blooms
and blooms. It doesn't get so terribly

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huge compared to some of the ones
that can, so it can be managed.

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Most people don't print it enough,
but it can be managed. Gold

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gold Star Speranza blooms all through the
year. Another one that just blooms and

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blooms and blooms. I would say
it blooms any day. It's not freezing.

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Just about that I really number one. Okay, let me put it

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this way. They're each plant typically
has its seasons, and that's okay.

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We have some wonderful bulbs pop out
of the ground, put on their show

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and disappear and they're gone for the
year. There's nothing wrong with that.

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That's part of the cast of characters. You know. It's like a giant

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stage your landscape, and there's a
play going on, and there's actors entering

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stage right and leaving stage left,
and those are the that would be the

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bulbs. They walk onto the screen, they smile at you for a while,

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they do their thing, and then
they walk off the screen and there's

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other actors that are sitting there all
the time. They're almost part of every

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scene right there. They're there.
And our plants are that way too,

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and that is that is important to
have plants that are in a mix that

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provide us with something all the all
the year round, we have those those

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kind of plants. And when when
you have that kind of plant mix,

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you're able to just anytime you walk
out, it's pretty to be outside.

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It's beautiful out there. You're enjoying
being out there, and it just I

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just think it's the way to go, makes makes it so much much better.

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Oh, the one I was I
was about to talk about while ago

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is Thryalis. Thryllis sometimes called shower
of gold because it literally is a shower

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of gold and yellow blooms and once
it kicks in blooming in spring, it

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just blooms and blooms and blooms.
I've seen it blooming in late fall,

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just continuing on. It's a resistant
deer. Do not love this plant.

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Now, don't tell your dear that, or they will eat it just to

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spite me. But that's how deer
are. But it is a good magnet

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for your butterflies gets about five to
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wide, but if you shear it, you can keep it smaller than that.

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And it always is good to shear
plants that bloom on the terminals the

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ends. And here's why. Every
time you shear a branch back, it

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sends out several shoots. Well,
each of those shoots will then have a

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terminal that can bloom. So you
increase the number of blooms by sharing appropriately

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those plants. If you're putting anything
out in the ground right now, it's

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touching go and you want to make
sure you keep that original root area watered

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so that it survives and established.
You can still plant. You can do

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that. It's just a little bit
of a challenge. But if you're going

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to do that, I would ascid
you get you some has to grow.

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The six twelve six six twelve six
has to grow is just an awesome product

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for a number of things. It's
got the the good combination of nutrients,

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and it's got medinas oil activator for
biological activity. It's got hu humic acid

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seaweed extracts. You can use it
for all kinds of fertilizing. I like

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to use it for watering in new
transplants, just because it got that high

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phosphorus content and the other things that
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new plant get established that's has to
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get it in a hose in spray
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area, but I like to get
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built in cup for measuring, so
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and watering in those new plants.
It's just one of the ways to use

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it. But that's the way I
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head out to a test acita and
we're going to talk to Cheryl. Hello,

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Cheryl, good morning, Hi,
good morning. Could you hear me?

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Okay? I can okay. I
put last night about seven o'clock it

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was still ninety three degrees, but
I put thirty percent vinegar. I mixed

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like I have a gallon's prayer,
and I mixed like half a gallon of

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the thirty percent and maybe a fourth
of a gallon of water. And I

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put epps and salts and dawn in
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it says like twenty four hours before
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that? Well, yeah, that's
that's pretty good. It shouldn't even take

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that long. If vinegar is gonna
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gonna work. I had I guess
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results yet, right, because it
was so late when you put Yeah,

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I went. I went out just
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and some of the weeds looked like
they're gone. But I don't know what

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this weed is. It's just like
a big stick, you know it.

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It's just a fun It just comes
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two big leaves, and they don't
seen the one and die. Okay,

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Well, I when you were saying
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and then it sounded like you're maybe
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like three parts of one part water. Okay, right, so that's going

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to take your thirty percent vinegar down
to uh not ten percent, but lass

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may eight. So you're getting it
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effective. But I wouldn't go much
lower than eight. If you really want

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to do a good job, thirty
percent is a lot. And be very

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very carefully don't splash it in your
eyes for sure. No, yeah,

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because I wore a mask and the
glasses and I was I was covered up.

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But should I not put any water
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it again? Just to if you're
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do a hosen sprayer. I would
get a low pump up. I know

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it's a little more work, but
you want to make sure and get it

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right on the weeds you don't like. You don't want it to drift over

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to other areas. You don't need
to put so much on that it's running

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off the weed. All you have
to do is what the foliage and then

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move on. You don't want to
drink some soil and stuff. So I

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think you just have more control with
a little pump up sprayer. But if

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you use a hose in gosh,
you just got to make sure you're getting

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it concentrated enough. That may be
a bit of a chop. All right,

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Okay, thank you, hey,
thank you for the call. Appreciate

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that. Cheryl our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four. If you live up in
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that's the county that Nevasota is in. Up there toward College Station. Grimes

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County Feed and Farm is your hometown
feed store. They're about two miles west

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of FM two forty four. The
Roy family is the local family owning and

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operating. They've been around the community
for a good while now and they know

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that community. They know the producers
in that community, and they supply what

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they need where. They carry the
fertilizers we talk about here on garden Line.

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You can find things like tree hugger
sprinklers and the mosquito dunks and other

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things there as well. Quality dog
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but certainly all your livestock feeds are
available. They stock fish twice a

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year. You can go in there
and sign up for all the things you

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need for a farm pond. Maybe
you need fish food or some aquatic herbicide

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to keep the weeds down. They
got it all Grimes County Feed. I

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love going in and visiting with Chris
and the family out there. If you

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live in king Oaks, if you
live in Mirwood, they are your hometown

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feed store. In fact, they
are just a skipping a jump from College

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Station Room's prairie beat Eyes, Iola, Anderson Richards, all those communities out

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there. I love going in to
Grimes County. Feed we are. We're

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gonna be talking when we come back
a little bit u more about some of

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the summer planting and success with summer
planting. Our phone number, by the

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way, is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Give

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Josh a call, he'll get you
on the board. When we come back,

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we will talk gardening with you.
I would like to hear from some

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folks today about what some of your
favorite summer flowers are. If you've got

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some ones that have just proven to
be dependable for you, then let's hear

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about it. I'd like to hear
the things that you find most interesting.

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I'm certainly talking about some of the
ones that I do. But here comes

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the news. Good morning, you're
listening to garden Line, and we're here

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to talk about things that you're interested
in gardening. Gardening. That would be

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the phone number you need to write
down. That's seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. We're
gonna head out to your valley and visit

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with Mike. Hello, Mike,
Hello, how are you listening? Excuse

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me, how are you listening to
us in your valley? Is this?

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Are you listening online? Um?
Well on my phone? Okay, I

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just pull you up on the radio
and and I usually you listen to it

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on the in my trunk also,
okay, so good good. Now,

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I used to live in sugar Land. I just got used to it,

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and uh, you know I like
listening to that station. All right,

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Well, how are things out in
the land of Garner John Knacks, Barner

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and Garner Park and Dolph Risco.
Right, that's right, hot and dry?

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Hot and dry? Okay, well, hot and dry. That was

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I probably would have guessed that one. But how can we help you today?

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We we this year. It's the
first time I've ever noticed them.

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M we have some type of a
I guess a beetle or almost looks like

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a blister bug, but it has
an orange ring around the outside of the

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shell. They're about a half an
inch long, and they're crawling everywhere.

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They're paring off. They're on the
tree trunks, they're on the walls.

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Uh, you can't walk ten feet
without seeing some run across the sidewalk.

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And my neighbor doesn't have them.
They've just seemed to come wild around our

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property. Well, I'm trying to
figure out which beetle you're talking about based

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on a Are you pretty sure it's
a beetle and not just a little bug.

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Well it's not. It's not a
little but uh and and I was

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more concerned. They talked a lot
about that kissing beetle. Yes, kissing

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bug, kissing bug. Kissing bug. Yeah, right, that causes chaga

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in the animals. Yes, I
do not think it's that. Okay,

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Well, I tell you what.
It sounds like a bug to me as

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opposed to a beetle, Believe it
or not, there's a difference. The

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beetles are going to have a hard
shell like you're from me with jim bugs,

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right and lady beetles. Right,
we shouldn't say Jim bug. We

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should say Jim beetle. But they've
got a hard shell on the back that

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splits in the middle, kind of
lifts up so they can fly a bug

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its wings full like across each other, across the back. And it sounds

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like you're describing. Oh gosh,
I'm gonna say the name of it in

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just a minute. But it attacks
trees that let's see, what would it

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attack out in your area. Well, anyway, it feeds on trees and

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okay, I have a lot of
pecan trees pecans, Yeah, okay,

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Well, um, so when you're
seeing them, they're not eating plants.

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They're just there, is that right, right, They're just moving around.

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Yeah. I think they're an amazing
ritual, right, Okay, Yeah,

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Well, I you know a couple
of things that usually those are not anything

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we treat for because the damage is
not significant, even though there are a

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lot of them. I would if
it's what I think it is, and

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probably we ought to put you on
hold. If you got a picture of

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one, send it to me.
And I'm talking about later on the show

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when I see the picture, because
I want to make sure I'm talking about

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the right thing. But a general
purpose insecticide is gonna be effective. You

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know, they get it on them, they crawl through it, things like

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that, It'll be effective in controlling
them. So that would be something like

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a bifentthren type product would would provide
a little bit of residual if you want

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to spray the surfaces where you find
these bugs crawling or gathering or whatever.

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The fact that they can fly means
you're you're just not going to nuke your

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whole environment to try to kill them, and so I might lean toward ignoring

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them if you can, but that
would be the way to control them,

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because no, I haven't I haven't
seen them fly. I don't think they

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have wings. Okay, all right, well you know what, they do

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have a hard shell. We need
to step on them and tell there you

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know, it has a pretty tough
shell. All right. That is sounded

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more like a beatle again. So
I was leaning toward something called a boxelder

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bug or one like that. In
fact, you might want to when we

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get off the call, jump on
online and see if it looks like a

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boxelder bug. If not, send
me a picture of it. I'm gonna

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put you on hold. Mike and
Josh will give you a way that you

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can email me a photo if you'd
like to do that. All right,

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Thank you very much, hey,
and thanks for Colin. Thanks for listening

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out there. This is good weather
to go get your enter tube and go

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play at Garner Park, you know
that, right, that's right? All

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right, we're about eight we're about
eight miles south of Garners. Oh my

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gosh. There are a lot of
college students that would love to live there.

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Yeah, are here right now.
I bet they are. Well.

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You take care of Mike, thanks
for the call. Got you on hold

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and Josh, we'll pick it up
now and make sure and get a hold

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of you. One of my favorite
places to go visit to get plants is

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Buchanans and and it's because there's always
something new going on there. Number one,

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it's a great place to shop.
You got the big trees around and

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stuff it. You know, it's
kind of cooler, especially in warm weather.

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It's nice to be able to just
kind of walk the nursing and enjoy

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that they're gingers or cocumas. The
house plant selection they have, especially natives,

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native shrubs, and then like herbs, like how many kinds of rosemary

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do you need? I mean they've
got probably five or more kinds of rosemary

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there Buchanans Plants. I mean,
it's a it's just a great place to

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find a lot of good things.
A new shipment is citrus in not too

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long ago. Buchanans Plants is on
Eleventh Street and the Heights. If you

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haven't been there before, it's eleventh
Street, go up in the Heights,

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six to eleven East, eleventh if
you want to put it into your map

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app, but just go online goog
buchanans Plants dot com. Buchanans Plants dot

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com. Friendly service people that will
help you. They walk through the help

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you shop if you need help with
that. What's a plant for this area?

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Take them a picture. They can
kind of guide you to the things

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you need. That's that's that's our
mom and pop garden center. That's Buchanans

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Plants. That kind of service.
Let's let's see, We're gonna head out

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now to Austin and talk to Tommy. Tommy, is this the city of

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Austin or where are we? Yea
sir Austin. I'm from Houston. I

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just moved up here about a year
ago. All right, so I still

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listen. Good? Thank you.
Got a question on parsley when it bolts,

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I know it supposedly gets bitter.
Is that for starters? You know?

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I have not tried eating partially after
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with some plants that is the case, but I wouldn't. I would try

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it. Just taste a little bit
and see. Okay, just want to

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I don't want it to seed.
I mean, is it something I can

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cut back and yes, let it
start growing. Okay, you can't what

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I what I would do because I'm
always interested in in promoting beneficial insects,

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because they're out there helping you do
your job, or they're doing the job

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in the garden for you. I
will let mine bloom partially. Arugula beats.

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A lot of things bolt and bloom, and just leave those blooms for

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a little while and it'll help beneficial
insects. And then as they fade,

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you just cut that bloomstock off and
take it out of the garden. And

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that way it doesn't have time to
ripen and mature and cast its seeds.

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Okay, And then a quick question
another one if you had a chance to

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grass. I've got like two or
three dry spots, you know, probably

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three by three out in the backyard
that are looked like I know they're getting

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water from the sprinklers. Um,
it just seems like maybe the swool is

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not in a good condition as something
I can do to them in that well,

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Tommy, can you hang on.
We're in a hard line for a

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break here, and I will answer
that when I come back. Thank you

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for that call. By the way, if you'd like to get on the

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board seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Like Moses,

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sleepies out of your eyes and let's
get going with garden line. It's seven

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one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. By the way, I

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was in the yard the other day
and taking a filling up a feeder.

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I've got one of those, a
Lemonator squirrel proof bird feed from Wall Birds

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Unlimited. That is a Cadillac And
the fun part of it is watching squirrels

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try to get in there. I
mean they if you follow the instructions on

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how to set it up, you're
gonna have a lot of frustrated squirrels,

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which makes me very happy. When
I'm buying bird feed, I want to

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buy the feed for my birds.
By the way, now is an important

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time for your birds. It's hot
and dry. You need to have water.

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Always have water out there for the
birds. That is a significant thing

406
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for them, and besides you want
to bring them in. Also, what

407
00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:37.240
is it called nesting super blend that
they sell there That is an excellent one

408
00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.279
for summer feeding because things like bluebirds, cardinals, chickeneese, wrens, they're

409
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.599
still nesting and they need feed,
food to supply and nourish and whatnot.

410
00:30:45.759 --> 00:30:48.920
They're going to be your birds are
molting soon. That comes a little later

411
00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:52.920
in the summer. But when they
mold, they need a good quality feed

412
00:30:52.920 --> 00:30:56.039
as well, and so Nesting super
Blend is the one you need. But

413
00:30:56.160 --> 00:31:00.960
if you want to know more about
wall birds unlimited and see this eliminator Cadillac

414
00:31:02.039 --> 00:31:07.160
of bird feeders, squirrelproof feeder,
go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston.

415
00:31:07.359 --> 00:31:11.799
There's seven of them, seven wild
birds around the Greater Houston area.

416
00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:15.519
There's Katie and Kingwood and Cyprus,
West Houston, Belair, Pearland and clear

417
00:31:15.640 --> 00:31:18.839
Lake. It's easy to find one
near you. And birding is such a

418
00:31:18.880 --> 00:31:23.319
great backyard hab hobby goes really well
with gardening, or at least I sure

419
00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:29.319
enjoy being out with the birds.
Well, let's go back to Tommy and

420
00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:32.480
Austin and Tommy, we were going
to switch over and talk lawns. Right,

421
00:31:33.519 --> 00:31:37.400
Yes, sir, I got burbuna
grass. Just for the record,

422
00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:41.039
I've got three spots in my backyard. Everything is great, except for those

423
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:45.240
spots are drying out, okay,
And I know that they're getting water from

424
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:52.200
the sprinklers. But I'm trying to
figure out they're evidently a soul problem there,

425
00:31:52.559 --> 00:31:57.079
and I'm trying to think company to
probably benefited or amend it, you

426
00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:01.319
know, make it a better source
so it will hold a little bit moisture

427
00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:05.319
better than what it's doing. All
right, Well, it's hard. It's

428
00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:07.400
hard to you know, improve the
soil once you got the lawn in.

429
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:13.359
But you can do things like deep
tie narration and also the top dressing of

430
00:32:13.400 --> 00:32:16.240
composts to gradually build the soil.
I would do something first. I would

431
00:32:16.279 --> 00:32:20.200
set out some little straight sided containers. I mean, it could be a

432
00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:22.960
bean can, it could be a
rain gage, it could be a coffee

433
00:32:22.279 --> 00:32:25.279
can, it could be a tuna, fish can, cat food can.

434
00:32:25.599 --> 00:32:30.200
Put them all around, turn on
your sprinklers for twenty minutes or fifteen minutes,

435
00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:34.599
and then see how much you catch
and look at the difference in the

436
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:38.240
amount between containers. That may just
be a spot that isn't receiving the volume

437
00:32:38.279 --> 00:32:43.240
of water that other spots are,
as you said, could also be the

438
00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.759
soil's a little different there. A
number of things could be going on,

439
00:32:46.119 --> 00:32:52.319
and so it's hard to you know, have here's one answer as to what's

440
00:32:52.319 --> 00:32:59.519
happening in that situation. I'd first
check sprinkler uniformity though that is that's one

441
00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.240
thing to consider, and then secondly, if you've if you're going to do

442
00:33:02.319 --> 00:33:06.599
something to try to help it.
I think the deep tin narration and compost

443
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:10.920
top dressing is probably in the best
bed. But you can't really do that,

444
00:33:12.160 --> 00:33:15.000
Uh, compost dressing this time of
the year. Is that correct?

445
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:17.839
Well, you could, you know, it's just compost and and it's you

446
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:22.200
need to and your way over there
in Austin and I don't know, I

447
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:25.359
used trying to think of who the
suppliers where I used to live there years

448
00:33:25.359 --> 00:33:31.200
ago. But you need a good
quality, well screened leaf mold compost if

449
00:33:31.200 --> 00:33:35.599
you can find all of that in
that area, not just not something that's

450
00:33:35.640 --> 00:33:38.680
woody and chunky that your more is
going to knock around, but yeah,

451
00:33:39.079 --> 00:33:44.680
high quality. Well I can say
I kind of know it's the soil because

452
00:33:44.680 --> 00:33:49.839
I'm I haven't did the water.
Okay, that's just forth how much?

453
00:33:49.920 --> 00:33:52.839
Yeah, But I get out there
weekly and give it extra water just to

454
00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:55.400
you know, help it out because
it's in those spots there. You're like

455
00:33:55.480 --> 00:33:59.519
that that's it. So it leads
me to believe it's a soil. I

456
00:33:59.640 --> 00:34:02.440
was trying to figure out a best
way to kind of condition it. That

457
00:34:02.440 --> 00:34:06.079
would kind of be a you know, make it. Putting the holes in

458
00:34:06.160 --> 00:34:07.400
so you can get some air in, so you can get some compost in

459
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:14.000
and everything like that is probably the
long term that's gonna be a gradual improvement.

460
00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:16.320
But I think that's what i'd suggest
based on what I'm hearing from you.

461
00:34:16.360 --> 00:34:20.880
Okay, I appreciate you. Op
Hey, thank you for the call.

462
00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:22.719
Tommy. I appreciate that. And
he's talking about the soil. If

463
00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:27.679
you live in the Houston area,
your soil moves, especially if it's a

464
00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:29.679
glay soil. And what do I
mean by that, Well, when it

465
00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:32.119
gets dry, shrinks, When it
gets wet, it swells, and that's

466
00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:36.960
what causes our foundation problems. It
could be the foundation of your house.

467
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.360
It may be a driveway, it
may be a sidewalk. You need to

468
00:34:39.360 --> 00:34:45.440
talk to the folks that fix my
slab foundation repair. Ty Strickland, the

469
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:47.880
owner of the plays. They know
what they're doing. They've been doing this

470
00:34:47.920 --> 00:34:52.760
for twenty three years. They know
what's happening. So are your door sticking?

471
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:55.039
Do you see some cracks in the
exterior brick or maybe in the sheet

472
00:34:55.119 --> 00:35:00.639
rock in the house. Sooner rather
than later. Call now. If you're

473
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:04.199
telling them you're from you're listening to
garden Line, they'll go give you a

474
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free estimate. They always show up
on time. I love that about a

475
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service place. That's a rare thing. They show up on time, they've

476
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got on time, they have a
fair price, and they fix it right.

477
00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:19.400
Go to fix my slab dot com, or just give Tie and folks

478
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a call at two eighty one two
five five forty nine forty nine. Well,

479
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:29.239
I have a little bit of a
crack in one of the back closets

480
00:35:29.320 --> 00:35:34.519
in our house. And it's just
it appeared when we had that horrendous drought

481
00:35:34.920 --> 00:35:38.559
of last year. And I tell
you it just I know better. I

482
00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:43.920
should have been keeping the foundation moist
around the outsides to prevent that. But

483
00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:49.960
anyway, it's what happens. It
is definitely what happens. If you're gonna

484
00:35:49.960 --> 00:35:52.960
be out and about today. I've
got an idea, why don't you go

485
00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:57.880
by Arbergate. Arburgate Nursery and tom
Ball is always a pleasure to visit.

486
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:00.400
I mean, there's always something going
on. Now you've got all kinds of

487
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:06.960
beautiful tropicals like the hidden gingers and
things like that that just looks so very

488
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:12.199
good. But they have plants for
butterflies right now. They have plants that

489
00:36:12.239 --> 00:36:15.559
they sell fruit plants year around,
which is amazing. Their gift shops are

490
00:36:15.639 --> 00:36:20.519
unbelievable. While you're there, though, ask them about their one two three

491
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completely easy system that is a food
on organic food, a four four three

492
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plus ten percent calcium organic food that
feeds pretty much anything that has roots.

493
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:34.639
Right, they have a soil for
any application, and that soil has some

494
00:36:34.719 --> 00:36:37.480
shale included in it, which is
important. And then they have a compost.

495
00:36:37.519 --> 00:36:43.400
And the compost is just another case
where you've had two different kinds of

496
00:36:43.400 --> 00:36:45.519
composts, but you also have that
shale in there. And with the shale

497
00:36:45.639 --> 00:36:49.880
mixed in you get the benefits of
the organic matter, which is important.

498
00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:54.199
But organic matter it oxidizes away over
time, sale stays behind, and it

499
00:36:54.239 --> 00:37:00.760
helps keep that soil open. And
when you're dealing with a difficult, difficult

500
00:37:01.159 --> 00:37:06.400
soil situation, that you're not going
to do better than one of their one

501
00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:10.039
two three products, especially that compost
complete in the case of improving the soil

502
00:37:10.119 --> 00:37:16.559
internally, we're in the season where
we do get a lot of storms,

503
00:37:16.639 --> 00:37:20.880
and here comes hurricane season. We're
in the big middle of it. You

504
00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:23.639
need to call Affordable Tree about something. Do you have any limbs that are

505
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dead? Do you have any weak
limbs, their limbs hanging over your house

506
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.599
or something else of value, maybe
the power lines coming into your house.

507
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Don't wait until now you have no
power. Call Affordable Tree now talk to

508
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Martin Spoon Moore and his wife Joe. It is worth calling a professional.

509
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It's seven one three, six,
nine nine twenty six sixty three. Or

510
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just go to aff Tree Service dot
com. They will do everything you need

511
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from the standpoint of maintaining your trees, including stomp grinding, deep root feeding,

512
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consulting. Affordable Tree. We've been
listening to garden Line. We're gonna

513
00:38:02.239 --> 00:38:07.679
take a little break here. When
we come back, we will talk about

514
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number one, the things that are
of interest to you. I've got a

515
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:15.039
few topics in mine I'd like to
visit about as well. Our phone number

516
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seven one three, two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

517
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Gift shash your call and you'll get on

518
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the boards when we come back from
break. I believe we're gonna start with

519
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Sandy and then whoever calls in next. It's a good time to get on

520
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the board. Right now, we
can get to you pretty quick. Appreciate

521
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you listening to Guarden Line. Hey, tell your neighbors about it too.

522
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In the meantime, we'll take our
little break here. We will soon be

523
00:38:42.559 --> 00:39:00.480
back KATRH Garden Line. It's not
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524
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services advertised on this program. Welcome
to KTRH Garden Line with Scared Rictord.

525
00:39:16.320 --> 00:39:30.280
Just watching this Saturday morning. This
is gonna be a great day for gardening.

526
00:39:30.320 --> 00:39:31.440
I can look outside and I'll see
it right now. In fact,

527
00:39:31.440 --> 00:39:35.159
now be a good time to be
out gardening. Got enough light to get

528
00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:37.920
outside. It's still kind of cool
as far as as far as we call

529
00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:43.719
cool in the summertime. If you
haven't done your lawn fertilization, it's time

530
00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:46.599
to get that done. Something to
carry you through the summer, so don't

531
00:39:46.599 --> 00:39:52.559
delay. I would pick up product
that's going to be gradual release over time.

532
00:39:52.599 --> 00:39:54.519
That's the way to feed lawns,
because that's the way lawns eat.

533
00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:58.440
They're kind of like us. We
don't eat our whole month's supply at one

534
00:39:58.519 --> 00:40:01.159
time. We eat by day by
day by day, and that's how our

535
00:40:01.360 --> 00:40:05.920
plants feed as well. That's why
I like Nelson Slow and Easy. It's

536
00:40:05.920 --> 00:40:12.639
a twenty two to ten ratio fertilizer. Slow and Easy is designed to release

537
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:16.480
gradually over time. Just the you
know, the chemistry of it, the

538
00:40:16.519 --> 00:40:22.039
way that they put it together gives
you that gradual release, and that is

539
00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:25.199
so important. When you get a
flush of growth on your lawn, you're

540
00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:29.519
gonna get top growth at the expense
of root growth. You're gonna make chinch

541
00:40:29.599 --> 00:40:32.440
bugs happier, You're gonna make a
lot of the diseases that can come into

542
00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:37.039
our lawns happier. We just want
to gradually feed it over time, and

543
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:39.880
that's what Slow and Easy does.
That's why it's called slow and Easy or

544
00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:45.320
slow and easy. The Nelson Plant
Food folks, Dean and the whole team

545
00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:50.159
out there make a lot of quality
fertilizers and for the lawns in the summertime,

546
00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:53.039
slow and Easy is the one I
think you need to be extra aware

547
00:40:53.039 --> 00:40:54.960
of. And if you haven't gotten
it done yet, go ahead and get

548
00:40:54.960 --> 00:41:00.519
it done, because again, fall
is coming someday soon. Hopefully we're going

549
00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:05.480
to end up doing our fall fertilization
and other issues, but for now we

550
00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:08.480
want that gradual feed over summer.
Let's head out to Cypress and talk to

551
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:14.000
Sindy. Good morning, Sindy,
good morning. If how are you well?

552
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:16.840
I'm well? How can we help
today? Um? I was wondering

553
00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:23.679
if I don't know what's going on
here? Okay? Um, I was

554
00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:28.719
wondering. I have some plants I
love. One is in the croton family

555
00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:32.400
and m but it's not It's not
my croton, but it's in that family.

556
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:39.639
It's got large um red lines in
it my room, and it's just

557
00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:45.079
going tall. I want to know
how I can train that. Is this

558
00:41:45.119 --> 00:41:52.360
plant growing indoors or outdoors indoors?
Okay? Um? Some plants are difficult

559
00:41:52.559 --> 00:41:55.199
to make bushy by pruning. You
know. The fiddly fig, for example,

560
00:41:55.360 --> 00:41:59.639
loves to make long, straight,
tall stems, and you just can't

561
00:41:59.639 --> 00:42:02.840
make it make a bush out of
that one. I don't know specifically the

562
00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:07.280
plant you have, if it's like
a croton, probably not going to do

563
00:42:07.400 --> 00:42:12.119
real good at making it bushy.
You could try. The other thing you

564
00:42:12.239 --> 00:42:16.440
might try is doing something called an
air layer. It's where you put moist

565
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:22.960
sphagnum moss or even potting soil around
the stem in an area where you've wound

566
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:27.400
the stem and cover it with plastic. I know that sounds like what is

567
00:42:27.440 --> 00:42:31.679
he talking about. We'll just go
go do a search online for air layering.

568
00:42:32.280 --> 00:42:37.000
Air layering laying. It's easy to
do. And so when I've had

569
00:42:37.039 --> 00:42:39.719
tall things, like for example,
a drassina, a corn plant gets real

570
00:42:39.760 --> 00:42:44.199
tall, you just go up and
do an air layer on it, and

571
00:42:44.280 --> 00:42:46.760
once you got roots in that,
you cut it off and then you can

572
00:42:46.840 --> 00:42:50.480
drop that down and put it in
a pot. So you may have more

573
00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:52.400
than one plant in the pot,
or maybe you create you another plant.

574
00:42:53.039 --> 00:42:58.360
But if you've ever noticed the corn
plant, the drassinas that have like a

575
00:42:58.360 --> 00:43:01.719
little stump that's cut off and two
sprouts coming out below that stump, some

576
00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:06.280
plants will do that, and it
would be worth giving your plan a chance,

577
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:09.000
and at least if not, you
would end up with the new plant

578
00:43:09.079 --> 00:43:15.719
you created being something shorter that you
could plant in a new pot. Also,

579
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:22.840
um I have the outside the Hawaiian
something or another um. They're light

580
00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:28.880
green and like a maroon, and
they grow tall and they have to grow

581
00:43:28.880 --> 00:43:34.280
in three and I'm China. I
don't want it. But we've tried digging

582
00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:39.239
it up. The roots are so
um big. It's an outside, yes,

583
00:43:42.039 --> 00:43:46.840
but I don't know how to how
to I'm not trying to be mean,

584
00:43:46.880 --> 00:43:52.800
but I want to get rid of
it. Oh okay, uh,

585
00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:55.360
I gave them away when they were
a baby. But so it's in a

586
00:43:55.440 --> 00:43:59.800
pot. It's not in the ground. No, it's in a pot.

587
00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:04.920
Okay. You just kind of have
to dump the pot over and shake all

588
00:44:04.960 --> 00:44:07.079
the soil off of it to get
rid of it. You may hack it

589
00:44:07.159 --> 00:44:12.880
back so it's easier to work with, but that would be my suggestion the

590
00:44:12.880 --> 00:44:16.199
whole. I think you're talking about
Hawaiian tea plant and based on your color

591
00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:22.920
description of it there and those are
beautiful foliage plants. But I think just

592
00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:24.199
kind of shaking all the soil off, I'm getting it out of the pots

593
00:44:24.199 --> 00:44:29.039
so you can reuse that pot.
Maybe you don't even can't even get the

594
00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:32.400
soil off because there's so many roots
in it. Yeah, I was helping

595
00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:40.039
when it froze that it would not
come back up. Okay, that sounds

596
00:44:40.079 --> 00:44:43.960
like a plant you might want to
keep around saying, if you can't kill

597
00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:50.559
it, I understand it grows some
beans and stuff in it, and I

598
00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:54.800
don't want to My patio is already
pots in it. Yeah, I would

599
00:44:54.840 --> 00:44:58.840
just I would just slip it out
there. You know who knows you put

600
00:44:58.840 --> 00:45:02.079
it on a curbside, somebody they
decide to take it home with them.

601
00:45:02.159 --> 00:45:06.440
Do you think I can send you
some pictures of the plants that I don't

602
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:09.079
know the names of. Yes,
yeah, let me put you on home

603
00:45:09.159 --> 00:45:12.920
that's your email, Okay, yeah, go ahead and do that, and

604
00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:16.960
then if you don't mind, maybe
following up with a phone call maybe tomorrow,

605
00:45:17.599 --> 00:45:22.360
and we can talk about the ones
that you send pictures up. All

606
00:45:22.440 --> 00:45:27.400
right, sure, absolutely, all
right, you take care and Josh will

607
00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.320
get that call and we will we
will go from there. You know.

608
00:45:30.480 --> 00:45:37.119
Up in Dayton, Texas, the
Bee Supply is the go to place for

609
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:42.800
anyone interested in keeping bees learning about
bees. They have their beginner classes once

610
00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:46.119
a month now during this season out
in Dayton. You just learn everything you

611
00:45:46.159 --> 00:45:50.719
need to know, and they've got
every supply you could need there and they

612
00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:55.239
walk through it with you. They
understand what it's like to try to start

613
00:45:55.320 --> 00:46:00.559
keeping bees from scratch. They can
help you have success, and they will.

614
00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:04.400
They're so good at that. Paul
and the folks that at b Supply.

615
00:46:04.679 --> 00:46:08.400
Just go on line to the b
supply dot com. Also, if

616
00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:10.639
you just want to go on a
honey tour, call them up about that.

617
00:46:10.719 --> 00:46:14.519
They have free honey tours they do
about once a month out there,

618
00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:20.480
and oh my gosh, it is
so very fascinating. I just love love

619
00:46:20.559 --> 00:46:22.760
that. It's good to get out
and enjoy that. By the way,

620
00:46:23.079 --> 00:46:29.559
I was talking about watering the other
day and the importance of watering properly,

621
00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:32.320
and a little sprinkling here and there
is not the way you water. The

622
00:46:32.360 --> 00:46:36.559
way you water is you give your
plants a good deep soaking and then you

623
00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:39.119
wait and let the swell dry out
a bit, bring oxygen back in,

624
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:44.000
and then you give it a good
soaking again. And if you've been squirting

625
00:46:44.039 --> 00:46:46.760
your plants every other day, especially
your lawn, that's too often and you're

626
00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:52.920
promoting disease, you're promoting shallow rooting. Go to water my yard dot org.

627
00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:57.639
They have an app on the Apple
Store and at Google Play. Water

628
00:46:57.920 --> 00:47:00.760
my yard dot org. You can
get a free email that it comes right

629
00:47:00.800 --> 00:47:05.719
to your box and it tells you
exactly how much to water and when you

630
00:47:05.800 --> 00:47:08.480
need watering, and it just doesn't
get any easier than water my yard dot

631
00:47:08.599 --> 00:47:13.400
org. Let's take a break our
number seven one three two one two fifty

632
00:47:13.480 --> 00:47:15.239
eight seventy four. David. When
we come back, you'll be first up.

633
00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:36.800
A little bit of a flash back
to our conversation about partially a little

634
00:47:36.840 --> 00:47:43.760
bit earlier. Let's see. You
know I've been talking about watering and the

635
00:47:43.800 --> 00:47:49.760
importance of proper watering in the heat, and also of equal importance is soil

636
00:47:49.840 --> 00:47:53.679
preparation. And it's so easy to
get excited about plants and just come home

637
00:47:53.719 --> 00:47:59.280
and PLoP them down and the unprepared
soil that is in the spot where you're

638
00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:04.480
going to plant them. Take time, put composts in the ground, amend

639
00:48:04.519 --> 00:48:07.239
that soil. If you need some
expanded shail and a heavy clay, a

640
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:12.719
considerable amount of expanded shil will help
a heavy clay, get that done.

641
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:15.320
Do you need raised beds for drainage, get that done. When you do

642
00:48:15.360 --> 00:48:19.480
all of that, your plants have
a better root system, so when it

643
00:48:19.559 --> 00:48:22.679
rains too much, the water drains
away and they don't drown. When it

644
00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:27.960
doesn't rain enough, it's got good
water holding capacity and has good aeration as

645
00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:30.960
well, and one place where you
can find the quality soil that you need

646
00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:34.920
to do all that would be Nature's
Way. They're up in Conra. If

647
00:48:34.920 --> 00:48:38.159
you go up Interstate forty five about
that where fourteen eighty eight comes in,

648
00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:43.119
you just turn right and go across
the railroad tracks and you're a Nature's way.

649
00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:45.880
Now. There's summer hours Monday through
Friday eight to five, Saturdays eight

650
00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:49.760
to two, and closed on Sunday. So hey, you got time today

651
00:48:49.800 --> 00:48:53.199
to get out there. They have
a great variety of lots of native plants

652
00:48:53.239 --> 00:48:58.199
and they just keep improving it.
I was visiting with the folks out there

653
00:48:58.440 --> 00:49:01.280
the other day and they were talking
about some plants are bringing in and just

654
00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:05.760
kind of renovating that whole area and
it's going to be really, really cool.

655
00:49:06.079 --> 00:49:10.199
Every Friday is Fungal Friday. Ten
percent off bag mulch bag products rather

656
00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:15.760
and twenty percent off bulk products.
They got like two to three thousand yards

657
00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:19.559
of fungal composts out there. I
mean, it's there's not a higher quality

658
00:49:19.599 --> 00:49:22.119
they I'll say it this way.
They kind of invented the finely screened fungal

659
00:49:22.239 --> 00:49:27.599
compost. That is the top quality
of anything you can use for top dressing

660
00:49:27.599 --> 00:49:32.199
a lawn or amending the soil.
Nature's way resources well worth a visit,

661
00:49:32.480 --> 00:49:37.760
and you're not going to do better
when it comes to a quality quality soil,

662
00:49:37.800 --> 00:49:42.159
amending, mulch product, all those
types of things. Let's go out

663
00:49:42.239 --> 00:49:45.360
to Tumball and we are going to
visit with David. Hey, David,

664
00:49:45.360 --> 00:49:50.639
good morning, Good morning, sir
Hey. In a previous house I had,

665
00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:54.280
I had I think they called it
a climbing big This thing attached itself

666
00:49:54.320 --> 00:50:00.159
to brick and it attack itself.
Anything, yes, is on the house

667
00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:06.480
I'm I have Now I was considering
putting that where I have an open space

668
00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:12.559
of a brick on the house.
And my question is is there any other

669
00:50:12.599 --> 00:50:19.559
type of fig or climbing, type
of attaching buying that blooms that you're aware

670
00:50:19.559 --> 00:50:23.079
of? Well, I should be
able to name something right off the top

671
00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:25.559
of my head. Do give me
just a minute as we're talking, maybe

672
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:30.440
I'll think of one. You know
the thing about another? Go ahead?

673
00:50:30.480 --> 00:50:35.280
Oh, I'm sorry. Another issue
is if I do plant something like that,

674
00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:39.920
are there any known hazards over long
term to the house since you're kind

675
00:50:39.920 --> 00:50:44.719
of covering up where the brick and
the lab meet. Yeah, you want

676
00:50:44.719 --> 00:50:46.159
to be real careful with that.
It's not going to hurt the bricks at

677
00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:51.679
all. The whole fast that the
climbing fig and other those kind of plants

678
00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:57.400
have will not damage the brick.
They may leave some kind of organic matter

679
00:50:57.480 --> 00:51:00.239
behind where they stuck, and eventually
that little piece of organic matter would ride

680
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:04.639
away or something. But that's not
a problem for patried surface because it is

681
00:51:04.679 --> 00:51:08.639
a problem. Um well then is
why is there anyone you might research it?

682
00:51:08.679 --> 00:51:12.480
But I'm looking now, is there
any type of one that blooms?

683
00:51:13.440 --> 00:51:16.000
Yeah? I am I am sitting
here in my head trying to think.

684
00:51:16.039 --> 00:51:21.960
I may have to ponder that one
a little bit. Um appropriate. The

685
00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:25.079
other thing about all these climbers on
your house like that is just no,

686
00:51:25.199 --> 00:51:28.960
they're going to try to encroach other
areas, so there's gonna be a pruning

687
00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:32.719
job up there to keep them in
place. Secondly, what almost almost almost

688
00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:36.559
weakly, you had to prune that
crazy thing that could be true to do

689
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:42.159
it. And the Yeah, the
climbing fig on some surfaces, it doesn't

690
00:51:42.159 --> 00:51:45.119
hold real good, and you'll just
get this whole sheet of it that's just

691
00:51:45.360 --> 00:51:49.480
peeling back from the wall, you
know, as gravity kind of pulls it

692
00:51:49.519 --> 00:51:52.119
down. That happened when we were
out a Bear Creek park at the Extension

693
00:51:52.159 --> 00:51:57.000
office. We had some that was
falling off the surface doing that. It's

694
00:51:57.000 --> 00:51:59.679
not real common, but that can
happen. Also, it's a little bit

695
00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:05.000
cold tender. That's the other thing
about climbing fig that we would worry about.

696
00:52:05.400 --> 00:52:07.719
You know, I'm not sure I'm
going to come up with a good

697
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:13.320
plan. I was thinking about trumpet
creeper, trumpet vine, and boy,

698
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:16.039
that is just a monster, vigorous
mess. I don't think I would want

699
00:52:16.039 --> 00:52:23.559
to attach that to the house.
So I'll yeah, and I'll be listening

700
00:52:23.599 --> 00:52:27.239
if you come up one let me
know, all right. You know,

701
00:52:27.280 --> 00:52:31.320
another another thing that my solve some
problems is to put a big climbing structure

702
00:52:31.400 --> 00:52:36.639
up there of some sort that it
could grab onto twine in, grow in.

703
00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:38.280
You don't have to have the whole
fast that way, but that would

704
00:52:38.320 --> 00:52:43.559
just be another thing to consider.
All right, all right, thank you

705
00:52:43.960 --> 00:52:49.599
appreciate that call. Thank you very
much. Kingwood Garden Center. I don't

706
00:52:49.599 --> 00:52:51.639
know if you've been there before,
but you need it. You need to

707
00:52:51.679 --> 00:52:55.719
go if you haven't it. It
is an amazing place that the plants,

708
00:52:55.840 --> 00:53:00.639
the people that help you, you
get the kindness that you expect. And

709
00:53:00.719 --> 00:53:06.159
they have a they have a blue
butterfly bush plant in it. I don't

710
00:53:06.199 --> 00:53:09.079
know if you've seen this. It's
a clardendrom. I believe it's claridendum ugen

711
00:53:09.159 --> 00:53:14.800
dns is the name of it.
But it's light blue flowers. There's a

712
00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:20.280
very pale blue and then a darker
blue, five paddles and with anthers curling

713
00:53:20.360 --> 00:53:22.679
up. It literally looks just like
a little blue butterflies all over the plant.

714
00:53:22.760 --> 00:53:27.519
Really cool, kind of fun.
It also attracts butterflies, by the

715
00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:30.000
way, but if you haven't seen
one of those, you need to check

716
00:53:30.000 --> 00:53:32.440
it out. And Kingwood Plants has
them. That's an especially cool plant.

717
00:53:32.960 --> 00:53:37.519
They're going to have those filling stations
for microlife and Nelson plant food. You

718
00:53:37.559 --> 00:53:40.360
bring your plastic jars back in,
save a little money on fertilizer and avoid

719
00:53:40.480 --> 00:53:45.519
adding plastic to the environment. Kingwood
Humble, a Tascas seed, a Porter

720
00:53:45.719 --> 00:53:50.920
Lake Valley, New Caney or Skinam
Valley ranch. Not like what am I

721
00:53:50.960 --> 00:53:54.039
thinking? New Caney. Those are
all places that this is your Hometown Garden

722
00:53:54.119 --> 00:53:58.679
Center, the Kingwood Garden Center,
and Warren Southern Garden Center. Warren is

723
00:53:58.679 --> 00:54:01.320
over on North Park, Kingwood on
Stone Hollow. Pretty cool. But checkout

724
00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:07.239
king Would when you go in there. Ask them to see their blue butterfly

725
00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:12.679
plant, the clarodendron. That is
just really cool looking stuff. You're listening

726
00:54:12.719 --> 00:54:15.519
to Guardline. Our phone number if
you'd like to give us a call is

727
00:54:15.559 --> 00:54:22.559
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

728
00:54:22.599 --> 00:54:31.320
two fifty eight seventy four. If
you are looking for some projects to do

729
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:35.320
on the inside of the house right
now, this is a good time plant

730
00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:39.760
wise to start doing some of that
summer propagation. For example, I've mentioned

731
00:54:39.800 --> 00:54:45.400
earlier doing an air layer on a
very upright plant, something like a decina,

732
00:54:45.599 --> 00:54:47.800
something like a corn plant. I
do it with some of the ficus

733
00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:52.039
varieties as well, getting creating a
rooting up there on the stem so that

734
00:54:52.039 --> 00:54:55.320
you can cut it off and drop
it down, and something that's long and

735
00:54:55.400 --> 00:55:00.119
lanky and really getting above the windows
where it can get good light. You

736
00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:02.599
can lower it that way. I
just go online you can learn about air

737
00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:06.559
layering. It's not hard to do, It's easy to do. But this

738
00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:10.239
would be a good time too to
begin thinking about the fall garden if you

739
00:55:10.239 --> 00:55:15.599
want to do some transplants of warm
season crops. So maybe you want to

740
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:20.400
grow some peppers for transplant, or
you want to grow some tomatoes to transplant

741
00:55:20.440 --> 00:55:23.239
out those kinds of things. Now
it's a good time. Start those indoors

742
00:55:23.239 --> 00:55:28.719
in a very bright area, best
yet to give them a good quality indoor

743
00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:34.079
lighting to get those seeds started.
Move them right out into the brightest shade

744
00:55:34.159 --> 00:55:37.199
you can find. After they get
up and going, don't leave them indoors

745
00:55:37.199 --> 00:55:42.159
too long, and they will really
make a beautiful plant. So when it's

746
00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:45.039
time to put them out a little
bit later, when they're ready to go,

747
00:55:45.320 --> 00:55:49.239
you have a good start and you
can just transplant them right out there

748
00:55:49.239 --> 00:55:55.920
in the garden. If you are
looking for a source of all kinds of

749
00:55:57.039 --> 00:56:00.400
supplies for gardening, and I would
by that, i'm you need fungicides,

750
00:56:00.480 --> 00:56:06.679
Do you need fertilizers, insecticides,
herbicides. Do you need tools for your

751
00:56:06.719 --> 00:56:09.320
gardening? Do you need to buy
the fertilizer we talk about here on garden

752
00:56:09.360 --> 00:56:14.559
Line. Maybe you need molts or
compost or soil amendments from the companies that

753
00:56:14.599 --> 00:56:17.639
we talk about here on Guard Line. Well, Southwest Fertilizer is your one

754
00:56:17.639 --> 00:56:23.760
stop shop. Southwest has been a
Houston lawn and tradition since nineteen eighty five,

755
00:56:23.840 --> 00:56:28.960
I believe you know, and Bob
Patterson and his team there first rate,

756
00:56:29.239 --> 00:56:31.679
knowledgeable, friendly, helpful. When
you walk in there, they know

757
00:56:31.719 --> 00:56:36.280
what they're talking about. So take
them a sample, take them a picture,

758
00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:39.039
let them look at it, and
they can direct you to the solution

759
00:56:39.360 --> 00:56:43.760
that you need for that. And
they'll tell you if that's fine, that's

760
00:56:43.800 --> 00:56:46.760
not a problem, that's good,
or you know, they won't guide you

761
00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:51.360
wrong, and that is so important. You want to be able to when

762
00:56:51.360 --> 00:56:53.159
I walk into a store, I
want to trust the people that are answering

763
00:56:53.199 --> 00:56:59.719
a question that I ask and know
that I'm not going home with something that

764
00:56:59.800 --> 00:57:02.119
won't fix it. They just sell
me something that they think might work.

765
00:57:02.679 --> 00:57:07.440
That's not what happens at Southwest.
This is like our mom and Popton garden

766
00:57:07.480 --> 00:57:12.199
centers we talk about. These are
knowledgeable folks. They they're local, they

767
00:57:12.360 --> 00:57:15.199
know what works here and how to
get the job done. And by the

768
00:57:15.239 --> 00:57:19.000
way, also you need to get
that more blade sharpened so it makes a

769
00:57:19.039 --> 00:57:22.360
cleaner cut, looks better and overall
in your in your yard, they can

770
00:57:22.400 --> 00:57:25.280
do that. They also have a
little small engine repair where they can do

771
00:57:25.320 --> 00:57:29.079
some of that as well. So, hey, one stop shop for a

772
00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:32.119
whole lot of good things. Let's
that out to Conro and we're gonna talk

773
00:57:32.239 --> 00:57:36.960
talk to Turker. Hello, Tuker, Is that Turker? Hello? Yeah?

774
00:57:37.119 --> 00:57:44.760
It tum So. I'm calling in. I'm visiting my family Don Conro

775
00:57:44.840 --> 00:57:47.760
and I was just listening to your
radio show. I do live in mid

776
00:57:47.800 --> 00:57:52.440
Lothian, Texas, down by Dallas
up forward there, okay, Um,

777
00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:58.199
I have a bermuda grass on my
yard. Um, it's a brand new

778
00:57:58.199 --> 00:58:01.239
home. It's about the year older, year old, and I keep having

779
00:58:01.599 --> 00:58:07.159
brown patches on my yard. I
can't seem to get it all the way,

780
00:58:07.239 --> 00:58:12.880
even when it comes to the grass
color and and about like how thick

781
00:58:12.960 --> 00:58:16.920
the grass is? Do you know
any a good places to go over there?

782
00:58:17.039 --> 00:58:21.239
We're up in the area, a
good store or something that will be

783
00:58:21.320 --> 00:58:24.519
a good resource for me or what
I should just how do I approach the

784
00:58:24.599 --> 00:58:30.719
problem? Yeah? So is the
discoloration like year around or is it more

785
00:58:30.760 --> 00:58:37.079
in the summer or the winter or
it is uh pretty much year around.

786
00:58:37.079 --> 00:58:40.880
It just gets worse in the summer. Okay, worse in the summer.

787
00:58:42.760 --> 00:58:45.440
Yeah, you know, I could
make guesses and stuff, but I tell

788
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:49.840
you that you've got a very knowledgeable
garden center up there. It's called Rigsby's

789
00:58:50.079 --> 00:58:55.199
Garden Center. It's in Missilothia,
and Um, the owner and I went

790
00:58:55.199 --> 00:58:59.760
to college together. I lived the
same bit. In fact. Interesting this

791
00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:01.159
may not mean something to you,
but it will in the Houston folks.

792
00:59:02.239 --> 00:59:07.440
Randy Lemon, Scotty Rigsby and I
all lived in the same dorm at A

793
00:59:07.480 --> 00:59:12.840
and M at the same time.
And Scotty is he's like very you know

794
00:59:13.079 --> 00:59:16.159
up there with the Turk Texas Nursery
and Landscape Association leadership, and he knows

795
00:59:16.199 --> 00:59:21.880
what he's talking about. That's Rigsby's
Gardens. They're over on oh my gosh,

796
00:59:21.960 --> 00:59:27.599
trying to remember. It's a shady
grove road in miss Lothika. If

797
00:59:27.599 --> 00:59:29.760
you go there, asked to talk
to Scotty, tell him you talk to

798
00:59:29.800 --> 00:59:32.760
Skip and and just he'll get you
set up. All right. Awesome,

799
00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:37.000
thank you, thank you, all
right, Turker, thank you very much.

800
00:59:37.079 --> 00:59:39.840
I appreciate that. Hey, if
you're looking for a quality landscape job,

801
00:59:40.159 --> 00:59:45.079
you need to call the folks at
Peerscapes, Jason Garretty and his team,

802
00:59:45.320 --> 00:59:50.440
they know what they are talking about. They very very skilled, very

803
00:59:50.519 --> 00:59:54.360
knowledgeable. Their designers can create the
beautiful home place that you want. Do

804
00:59:54.400 --> 00:59:58.960
you need some irrigation repairs done?
Do you want some lighting put in?

805
00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:01.960
Do you need to improve drainage?
They'll do it two eight one three seven

806
01:00:02.039 --> 01:00:16.360
zero fifty sixty or Piercescapes dot com. I'd like to be gone, shade

807
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:28.639
know its where we've been and he's
gone. Good morning, you're listening to

808
01:00:28.679 --> 01:00:34.079
guard Line on a good day,
gardener. Our phone number is seven one

809
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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. If you would like to give

810
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us skle, we would love to
talk to you about the things that are

811
01:00:42.000 --> 01:00:45.000
of interest to you. Hey,
if you're thinking about retiring and you want

812
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a community for active adults age fifty
five and better active adults, we're talking

813
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Well down in Fulscher, in fact,

814
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two miles from downtown Fulcher on FM
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815
01:01:00.039 --> 01:01:02.360
just that and this community on top
of it all. This is important for

816
01:01:02.400 --> 01:01:07.000
garden Line listeners. They've got a
community garden going on that I'm helping them

817
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with. So I can't imagine a
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818
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construction, than the amenities the Dellweb
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819
01:01:16.079 --> 01:01:21.119
it is a community. It's not
just a house share buying and also having

820
01:01:21.159 --> 01:01:23.400
a community garden. Hey, go
online if you want more information, check

821
01:01:23.440 --> 01:01:29.960
them out, discover that Dellweb difference
at delweb dot com, slash Houston or

822
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call them two eight one four five
nine zero six zero nine, easy to

823
01:01:37.320 --> 01:01:40.599
remember. Let's head out to Spring
and we're going to talk to Peggy this

824
01:01:40.679 --> 01:01:45.519
morning. Hello Peggy, good morning. I've got a problem. I've got

825
01:01:45.559 --> 01:01:52.599
it in my vegetables. All right? Are they ants that bite you?

826
01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:57.920
Yes? They do? I like
fire ants or do you think, well

827
01:01:57.920 --> 01:02:00.920
they're hurt pretty bad? Well that
would probably be a fire ant then here.

828
01:02:02.000 --> 01:02:07.159
So in a vegetable garden, it's
hard to find things that are labeled

829
01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:14.000
for fire ant control, that are
labeled for using in an edible crop garden

830
01:02:14.039 --> 01:02:17.440
like vegetables. There is one product
that I know of, only one that

831
01:02:17.559 --> 01:02:22.440
I know of, and I'm pretty
sure that's the case, and that is

832
01:02:22.440 --> 01:02:27.039
called come and get It. Come
and get It. It's a fire ant

833
01:02:27.039 --> 01:02:30.199
bait, I believe for a loam
makes it. You're gonna find it a

834
01:02:30.199 --> 01:02:35.280
lot of garden centers, and it's
actually organic. It uses an ingredient called

835
01:02:35.320 --> 01:02:39.400
spinosaid as the natural insecticide that's put
on this bait. So the ants pick

836
01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:44.800
it up and it gets them.
I would scatter that. Just sprinkle it,

837
01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:46.360
not don't pile it up, don't
dump it on a mound, and

838
01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:51.760
just sprinkle it everywhere because ants need
to go find it. Do it early

839
01:02:51.840 --> 01:02:55.280
in the morning, are very late
in the day when the ants are foraging,

840
01:02:55.280 --> 01:02:59.119
because you don't want the sun to
bake down on it for two days

841
01:02:59.159 --> 01:03:02.639
and start to turn it rants that
you want it to be fresh. Okay,

842
01:03:02.880 --> 01:03:07.440
okay, okay, I appreciate it. Yeah. Oh and Peggy to

843
01:03:07.480 --> 01:03:13.599
find out when the answer foraging,
Just take anything that's oily and put it

844
01:03:13.599 --> 01:03:15.880
out there. It could be like
a little section of a hot dog.

845
01:03:15.920 --> 01:03:20.440
It could be potato chips. It
could be a tuna can packed in oil,

846
01:03:20.559 --> 01:03:22.760
you know, the empty can that
fire ants will go to that and

847
01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:28.639
within fifteen minutes they will be on
it if they are actively foraging. So

848
01:03:28.679 --> 01:03:31.559
I like to use potato chips because
that's just they're easy to see. But

849
01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:37.760
that that tells you when to apply
your product. That sounds good. Thank

850
01:03:37.760 --> 01:03:42.480
you for the call. We are
gonna let's see. I'll tell you what.

851
01:03:42.559 --> 01:03:45.239
Let me give your phone number seven
one three two one two five eight

852
01:03:45.639 --> 01:03:52.159
seven four. I was gonna wanted
to discuss soils and nutrients a little bit.

853
01:03:52.199 --> 01:03:58.800
There is a there's a concept called
the Lee Biggs barrel. Lee Big,

854
01:03:59.199 --> 01:04:03.800
I think justicely big Leave. Long
time ago a fellow discovered and they

855
01:04:03.840 --> 01:04:10.639
didn't discover. He determined and used
the example of a barrel to explain soil

856
01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:14.679
nutrients and the importance. And here's
what it means. So if you imagine

857
01:04:14.679 --> 01:04:16.480
a barrel, it's got all these
slats going top to bottom, you know

858
01:04:16.519 --> 01:04:20.000
the old wine barrels. And if
you were to cut off one of those

859
01:04:20.000 --> 01:04:25.079
slats, I think they call them
staves. You cut one off maybe six

860
01:04:25.079 --> 01:04:28.239
inches from the top, another one
you cut off about ten inches from the

861
01:04:28.280 --> 01:04:30.480
top. Another you cut off two
feet from the top. And then you

862
01:04:30.519 --> 01:04:35.000
try to fill that bucket or that
barrel with water. It's only the water

863
01:04:35.079 --> 01:04:38.719
is only going to go up as
high as the lowest stave, right,

864
01:04:38.760 --> 01:04:42.760
it just runs out there. Well, the concept just to say that whatever

865
01:04:42.800 --> 01:04:47.320
that nutrient is represented by the lowest
stave, that's what the limit to your

866
01:04:47.320 --> 01:04:50.760
plant growth is. So if you
want your plants to thrive, they have

867
01:04:50.800 --> 01:04:54.400
to have everything. They have to
have every nutrient that they need, not

868
01:04:54.679 --> 01:04:58.639
just the big three nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, but if it's an

869
01:04:58.880 --> 01:05:03.800
essential nutrient, even trace animal elements
are often essential nutrients. It's got to

870
01:05:03.840 --> 01:05:06.079
have that. And so how do
you know you have that in the soil?

871
01:05:06.119 --> 01:05:10.440
Well Number one, do a very
extensive soil test and no, but

872
01:05:10.599 --> 01:05:14.760
number two use a product like azamite. Azamite is a mind product comes out

873
01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:18.480
of the ground up in Utah and
it is sold, it's created into it's

874
01:05:18.480 --> 01:05:24.559
created, it's developed into a granular
that you can put out with a fertilizer

875
01:05:24.599 --> 01:05:29.639
spreader. And if you will follow
the instructions and apply that about once a

876
01:05:29.719 --> 01:05:33.519
year, you can make sure and
have a good stock of all those nutrients.

877
01:05:33.599 --> 01:05:36.719
Because you remember, it didn't matter
what the nutrient is, It doesn't

878
01:05:36.719 --> 01:05:42.280
matter if it only needs a minuscule
amount for plants in the soil. If

879
01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:45.800
you don't have it, if you
don't have enough of that, then that's

880
01:05:45.800 --> 01:05:47.960
going to be the limit on your
plant growth. I use it in lawns

881
01:05:48.039 --> 01:05:50.559
for sure, but I would use
it in gardens as well. Go online

882
01:05:50.559 --> 01:05:56.559
to azamite Texas dot com. They'll
have a lot more information online, and

883
01:05:56.599 --> 01:06:00.000
it's available pretty much everywhere. We
talk about here on on garden Line.

884
01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:08.400
We are looking at that time of
year when getting out and gardening. You

885
01:06:08.440 --> 01:06:11.480
know, the heat is somewhat stifling, and so we get out in the

886
01:06:11.480 --> 01:06:15.880
mornings. But I just want to
say a couple of things regarding your health

887
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:23.280
my health out in the garden.
Heat stroke, keat stress, heat exhaustion,

888
01:06:23.400 --> 01:06:26.639
those kinds of things they can sneak
up on you. Of course,

889
01:06:26.639 --> 01:06:30.599
heat strokes the worst, but even
heat exhaustion is a significant problem. And

890
01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:34.760
you know, when I was young
and invincible, I would just do things

891
01:06:34.800 --> 01:06:40.559
that physically will probably kill me now
because I was invincible, at least in

892
01:06:40.599 --> 01:06:43.440
my own mind. I was.
But I remember the first time I had

893
01:06:43.480 --> 01:06:47.599
heat exhaustion, and it was a
mild or a moderate case, but it

894
01:06:47.760 --> 01:06:51.159
scared me, and it made me
realize the stuff sneaks up on you.

895
01:06:51.159 --> 01:06:54.559
You know, you're going along doing
what you've always done, and all of

896
01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:58.840
a sudden we're talking about a life
and death kind of situation that can creep

897
01:06:58.920 --> 01:07:00.480
up on you. Take care of
yourself, don't do that. Take care

898
01:07:00.519 --> 01:07:04.679
of your skin too. I know
I'm your mom preaching to you about all

899
01:07:04.679 --> 01:07:09.000
this stuff, but just trust me. We want to keep you around as

900
01:07:09.039 --> 01:07:11.760
listeners. We won't juda have a
good, happy life and lots of years

901
01:07:11.760 --> 01:07:16.519
of gardening. And there's a reason
people wear lung sleeve absorbent like a cotton

902
01:07:16.559 --> 01:07:21.079
type shirt out there in the sun. It's to predict their skin. There's

903
01:07:21.079 --> 01:07:24.400
a reason we were a big hats, a reason where I always wear a

904
01:07:24.440 --> 01:07:26.440
hat. You know, I got
my straw hat all when I'm out in

905
01:07:26.480 --> 01:07:30.199
the sun. And you want to
protect your skin because skin damage is cumulative,

906
01:07:30.840 --> 01:07:38.360
and it just just makes sense use
those SPF through the roof products that

907
01:07:38.400 --> 01:07:43.440
will keep you from from burning.
Nice, long, happy, pleasant life

908
01:07:43.440 --> 01:07:45.159
of gardening. That's what we're aiming
for. Hey, let's head out to

909
01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:49.920
Mont Bellevue and we're gonna talk to
Jess. Good morning, Jess, Hey,

910
01:07:49.960 --> 01:07:54.239
good morning. I just had an
answer for that girl's problem with the

911
01:07:54.320 --> 01:08:00.440
fire ants in the garden. Okay, Viper, it's labeled for vegules and

912
01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:04.320
it will kill fire ants, just
like any fire ant killer will. I've

913
01:08:04.320 --> 01:08:10.760
had a horrible time with they going
from a marsh from my oakra and you

914
01:08:10.840 --> 01:08:14.519
just sprinkle that viper out there and
it'll kill them. And it has a

915
01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:19.159
vegetable gardening label. Yeah, it's
label for vegetables. You can even put

916
01:08:19.199 --> 01:08:25.319
it in when the ants getting your
chicken feed. You can even sprinkle viper

917
01:08:25.640 --> 01:08:29.000
in the chicken feed and it will
kill the ants. Not heard to check

918
01:08:29.039 --> 01:08:30.479
it. Well, that's very interriting. I'm gonna have to check that out.

919
01:08:30.680 --> 01:08:33.039
Yeah, now that's gonna be one
of those contact killers. And what

920
01:08:33.079 --> 01:08:36.640
I was recommending was a bait,
but you can use both. I like

921
01:08:36.720 --> 01:08:41.199
the baits because they suppress all the
ants, even the ones that don't have

922
01:08:41.319 --> 01:08:44.000
mounds. You can find to treat
with your In this case, you're talking

923
01:08:44.039 --> 01:08:46.600
about viper. But I'm gonna look
into that. That's interesting. I did

924
01:08:46.680 --> 01:08:50.439
not know that it's a whole it's
a whole lot more fun to kill them

925
01:08:50.479 --> 01:08:55.279
than to bate them. Though.
Hey, thanks for the call. I

926
01:08:55.319 --> 01:08:59.000
gotta take a break, Jess.
I appreciate that information very much. Yeah,

927
01:08:59.039 --> 01:09:01.079
it is fun to it is fun
to kill him. Our phone number

928
01:09:01.079 --> 01:09:04.800
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. We'll be right back.

929
01:09:23.359 --> 01:09:26.359
Good morning. You are listening to
Garden Line. I'm your host,

930
01:09:26.520 --> 01:09:29.800
Skip Richter, and we're here to
answer your gardening questions. Our phone number

931
01:09:29.960 --> 01:09:34.680
is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. We had a

932
01:09:34.720 --> 01:09:41.640
caller last segment there, Jess called
about viper as for friance in a vegetable

933
01:09:41.640 --> 01:09:45.600
garden, and I just I was
going checking that label out because I'm familiar

934
01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:47.880
with the viper that's the liquid,
and I just want to I want to

935
01:09:47.920 --> 01:09:53.680
point out for anyone listening that there
is a liquid viper that you cannot using

936
01:09:53.760 --> 01:09:57.840
a vegetable garden. But the dust
form that he was talking about is labeled

937
01:09:57.920 --> 01:10:01.399
for vegetable gardens. That was news
to me. It is a synthetic perirethroid

938
01:10:01.760 --> 01:10:05.680
man And interesting enough, those two
products with the same name, one dust

939
01:10:05.720 --> 01:10:11.000
when liquid, they're not the same
ingredient. And that happens a lot,

940
01:10:11.239 --> 01:10:14.520
and it drives me nuts. It
really drives me nuts. You know,

941
01:10:14.960 --> 01:10:17.520
everybody knows that roundup is glypha sate, right, it's the spray it on.

942
01:10:17.600 --> 01:10:21.000
It kills pretty much anything you spray
it on. There is a roundup

943
01:10:21.039 --> 01:10:27.159
for lawns that they sell, and
you thinking, or what were they thinking?

944
01:10:27.279 --> 01:10:30.600
It's used for weeds and lawns and
it doesn't kill your grass because it's

945
01:10:30.640 --> 01:10:34.399
not the same ingredient. Is what
everybody knows of is roundup? Image does

946
01:10:34.439 --> 01:10:36.960
that same thing too? By the
way, I'm I'm ranting. By the

947
01:10:38.000 --> 01:10:42.439
way, just give me a little
room here. Image. There's the image

948
01:10:42.439 --> 01:10:45.399
for nuts edge, but there's an
image for broadly I feed control on your

949
01:10:45.479 --> 01:10:48.600
lawn. But they keep that same
name, and it's very confusing. I'm

950
01:10:48.600 --> 01:10:54.079
surprised the company lawyers allow that.
I mean, can you imagine if someone

951
01:10:54.239 --> 01:10:58.479
was told you can use roundup for
lawns and your lawn and someone went and

952
01:10:58.560 --> 01:11:02.720
bought regular roundup and their lawn,
well, that would kill all the weeds

953
01:11:02.720 --> 01:11:06.840
in the lawn. Of course the
lawn itself would be gone to. But

954
01:11:06.920 --> 01:11:10.960
anyway, viper, Yeah, the
dust type. Make sure it's the dust

955
01:11:10.960 --> 01:11:14.680
type, not the liquid type.
If you wanted to follow that with a

956
01:11:15.520 --> 01:11:18.439
just a treatment of the mound itself. Again, for Ferrance, I generally

957
01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:21.800
leaned toward the baits because they work. It takes them a little will to

958
01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:27.720
work, not too long. But
the mounds you don't see the bait's control

959
01:11:28.279 --> 01:11:30.199
that you can do it. On
the mounds you do see, but sometimes

960
01:11:30.199 --> 01:11:32.279
there's ones you don't. In that
way, you just kind of get ahead

961
01:11:32.279 --> 01:11:36.279
of it. Well's head out to
Greg and pair Land. Hello, Greg,

962
01:11:38.600 --> 01:11:43.399
Hey, Skip. A couple of
months ago, I had a company

963
01:11:43.439 --> 01:11:47.600
put in some new San Augustine soil
about five hundred square foot, just kind

964
01:11:47.600 --> 01:11:55.199
of in different areas. One main
area though, And when I watered it,

965
01:11:55.239 --> 01:11:58.479
I tried to go buy instructions.
I watered it two times a day

966
01:11:58.640 --> 01:12:01.760
for ten days, and then one
time a day for a week after that.

967
01:12:02.600 --> 01:12:05.359
And then after that, of course, is the weather's been really hot.

968
01:12:05.399 --> 01:12:10.000
But after that, after a few
days, it would kind of it

969
01:12:10.000 --> 01:12:15.159
would start turning brown and I'd have
to water it again, and and I'm

970
01:12:15.279 --> 01:12:19.520
kind of I'm just sort of at
a loss as to what to do.

971
01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:24.079
They put down, they said they
put down some fertilizer. Don't know when

972
01:12:24.119 --> 01:12:27.319
they put it down, don't know
what time, but they went to home

973
01:12:27.399 --> 01:12:32.039
depot to get it. So but
in places it looks pretty good. In

974
01:12:32.079 --> 01:12:38.720
some places it's pretty sparse, and
I didn't I didn't know quite quite what

975
01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:44.720
to do at this point. Hm
that's interesting. Um I would get a

976
01:12:44.720 --> 01:12:47.960
hold of whoever put it down and
find out exactly what they put down.

977
01:12:48.520 --> 01:12:51.159
My questions would be, well,
number one, what was it? But

978
01:12:51.680 --> 01:12:55.960
it was there weed control products in
it? Was it a weed and feed?

979
01:12:56.319 --> 01:13:00.520
Because those kin have some issues,
the broad leaf types, and when

980
01:13:00.560 --> 01:13:08.399
it's hot can burn the some some
of the pre emergent weed prevention. If

981
01:13:08.399 --> 01:13:14.960
they overdo it can cause inhibition of
the grass roots. They're not able to

982
01:13:15.039 --> 01:13:18.119
root. And for a new side
being pretty young still, that would be

983
01:13:18.159 --> 01:13:23.800
a bad move on that especially.
Yeah, I ask them to put down

984
01:13:23.880 --> 01:13:29.079
good top soil underneath it, okay, And I wasn't here when they did

985
01:13:29.119 --> 01:13:31.399
it. Some of the edges,
you know, are kind of coming up

986
01:13:31.439 --> 01:13:34.479
like a carpet. Most of it's
good. You know, where it's green,

987
01:13:34.600 --> 01:13:39.159
it's it's fine. But the dark
areas, it's kind of loose on

988
01:13:39.199 --> 01:13:42.680
the edges in some spots. Okay, Well, some of that may happen.

989
01:13:43.319 --> 01:13:45.800
It there's it's a process. You
got to get the soil prepared underneath.

990
01:13:45.840 --> 01:13:50.079
You got to get the side down. I also water the soil before

991
01:13:50.079 --> 01:13:54.439
I put the sod down, because
you want to be able to get roots.

992
01:13:54.560 --> 01:13:58.920
You want that side sitting on top
of already moist soil, not dry

993
01:13:58.960 --> 01:14:01.720
soil. It's hard from the top
to get that moisture all the way down.

994
01:14:01.720 --> 01:14:03.840
I mean, you can do it. But yeah, they didn't do

995
01:14:03.880 --> 01:14:06.439
that. Yeah, I'm sure that. Yeah, and that helps. But

996
01:14:06.760 --> 01:14:10.920
you know, just here and brown, I don't know really what else to

997
01:14:10.960 --> 01:14:14.840
say on that. It sounded like
you did a good job with the transition

998
01:14:14.880 --> 01:14:17.640
of getting it, giving it time
to get roots down out of that side

999
01:14:17.680 --> 01:14:23.720
into the soil. And yeah,
that's the secret to being able to We

1000
01:14:23.760 --> 01:14:27.359
just keep weaning it back and you
know, eventually you're looking at twice a

1001
01:14:27.399 --> 01:14:30.880
week and then eventually once a week
as you get it well established. But

1002
01:14:30.479 --> 01:14:34.720
okay, now, assuming they didn't
put down anything that was harmful, you

1003
01:14:34.760 --> 01:14:39.000
know, just maybe a regular kind
of fertilizer. And again two months ago.

1004
01:14:40.359 --> 01:14:44.000
If that is the case and it
was just some sort of regular fertilizer,

1005
01:14:44.039 --> 01:14:46.479
it's time for me to fertilize again. Would it be okay to go

1006
01:14:46.520 --> 01:14:51.239
ahead and fertilize or use azamite two
or so? How long ago did you

1007
01:14:51.960 --> 01:14:57.119
did? Two months? Two months? Yeah, it would be okay to

1008
01:14:57.199 --> 01:15:01.439
do that again. I would use
the slow type stuff though, that's what

1009
01:15:01.439 --> 01:15:04.600
we're talking about, you know.
Yeah, and you talked about Nelson earlier.

1010
01:15:04.960 --> 01:15:10.279
Nelson they make that a slow and
easy it's a twenty two percent nitrogen,

1011
01:15:10.319 --> 01:15:13.479
but you put it out at five
pounds per thousand square feet so it

1012
01:15:13.520 --> 01:15:17.840
does not burn, but it graduate
okay, And now I always use nitrofoss.

1013
01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:23.640
Does Nitrofosse makes something slow release like
that? Absolutely, the Imperial.

1014
01:15:23.880 --> 01:15:28.439
It's the silver bag, Nitrofoss Imperial. It's a ninth Oh good, and

1015
01:15:28.560 --> 01:15:30.720
that's what That's what I've used before. Yeah, okay, silver bag.

1016
01:15:30.880 --> 01:15:35.359
If you're buying nitrofoss, that's what
you're looking for. That's that's good.

1017
01:15:35.399 --> 01:15:39.319
Well I'll give him a call and
try to try to figure it out.

1018
01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:42.880
All right, Thanks a lot,
good luck with it, Thank you,

1019
01:15:42.239 --> 01:15:45.119
Thank you, great show, Skip, Thanks well. I appreciate that.

1020
01:15:45.199 --> 01:15:48.520
Thank you, sir. Our phone
number seven one three, two one two

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five eight seven four. Been time
back. Some creepy crawleys today about those

1022
01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:59.600
fire ends and things. If you
want the expert on the creepy crawleys,

1023
01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:04.039
that would be Scott McGrath McGrath Pest
Control. You can give McCall to eight

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one, four six nine eighty two
forty. Or just go to mecgrath pest

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01:16:10.319 --> 01:16:14.560
control dot com. They've been doing
this they you know, started by Scott's

1026
01:16:14.640 --> 01:16:17.640
dad in nineteen seventy four, but
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1027
01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:21.199
know, still family run. They
take care of all pest control needs.

1028
01:16:21.239 --> 01:16:25.880
I'm not just talking about insects.
They do that for sure, But you

1029
01:16:25.920 --> 01:16:30.800
know, do you need rodin and
raccoons and squirrels excluded from getting up in

1030
01:16:30.840 --> 01:16:34.039
the roof. You're dealing with mosquitoes
around the outside of the property, termites

1031
01:16:34.039 --> 01:16:38.279
in the house and so on.
They don't require you to sign a contract,

1032
01:16:38.640 --> 01:16:41.600
you you know, and they don't
give you this five hour window like

1033
01:16:41.640 --> 01:16:45.560
we'll show up sometime Thursday and then
you're lucky if a company shows up at

1034
01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:49.560
all. No, they tell you
the time and they're there at that time.

1035
01:16:50.239 --> 01:16:54.800
It's that old fashioned service. It's
it's only a company and running it

1036
01:16:54.920 --> 01:16:59.840
right. That's Scott McGrath and McGrath
pest Control. It's it's old time service

1037
01:17:00.359 --> 01:17:04.439
with today's technology again two eight,
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forty or just go to MacGrath pest
control dot com and you can find out

1039
01:17:10.560 --> 01:17:16.119
all that you need lots of good
information. Well, we're about to take

1040
01:17:16.159 --> 01:17:20.239
another break here, so go ahead
and hold off on taking another call,

1041
01:17:20.279 --> 01:17:25.359
But if you would like to give
us a call seven one three two one

1042
01:17:25.439 --> 01:17:30.439
two fifty eight seventy four seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

1043
01:17:30.680 --> 01:17:33.319
If you have a question, I
ask you earlier, what is your favorite

1044
01:17:33.640 --> 01:17:39.439
kind of warm season flower? Like? What kinds of things are looking good

1045
01:17:40.079 --> 01:17:43.279
this time of the year that you're
like, Maybe it's something you grew up

1046
01:17:43.319 --> 01:17:45.439
with, maybe it's something you use
all the time, or maybe a neighbor

1047
01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:48.960
as it and you just admire it
every time this time of the year.

1048
01:17:49.159 --> 01:17:53.239
I'm gonna talk about some warm season
flowers as you come back, but I

1049
01:17:53.239 --> 01:17:55.680
would like to hear from you.
What are your favorites? What do you

1050
01:17:55.720 --> 01:17:58.119
like? And we talk about those
a little bit. I bet it you

1051
01:17:58.159 --> 01:18:00.840
may even think of some that don't
come to mind, and I'm trying to

1052
01:18:00.880 --> 01:18:03.760
come up with a list. That's
what we're here for. Garden Line is

1053
01:18:04.319 --> 01:18:09.479
your calling, Garden Show here in
the Great Houston area we are We're here

1054
01:18:09.520 --> 01:18:12.560
to answer your questions. We're here
to guide you and direct you. My

1055
01:18:12.640 --> 01:18:16.399
goal is for you to have success
in your garden. I want you to

1056
01:18:16.439 --> 01:18:20.479
not say you have a brown thumb
because you don't trust me. You may

1057
01:18:20.520 --> 01:18:25.319
have an uninformed thumb. We can
fix that. You don't have a brown

1058
01:18:25.359 --> 01:18:28.680
thumb. You just need the right
processes, the right plants, the right

1059
01:18:28.720 --> 01:18:32.319
planting and time and you can have
success. And that's what we'll start up

1060
01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:41.439
again the next hour. KTRH Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

1061
01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:47.840
products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip

1062
01:18:47.960 --> 01:19:17.119
Rictors. Just what well, good
morning, good Saturday morning. It is

1063
01:19:17.359 --> 01:19:23.079
beautiful out there, and this as
all days, it's a good day for

1064
01:19:23.119 --> 01:19:26.960
gardening. We are here on guarden
Line to talk about things that you are

1065
01:19:27.000 --> 01:19:29.880
interested in. And our phone number
if you'd like to give us a call

1066
01:19:29.960 --> 01:19:33.680
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four. Now, we love

1067
01:19:33.800 --> 01:19:38.600
our feed stores here on garden Line, and if you live in the Magnolia

1068
01:19:38.680 --> 01:19:43.880
area, Spring Creek Feed that's your
hometown feed store. They're just they're in

1069
01:19:44.000 --> 01:19:47.399
Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight, so just minutes away from Graham Parkway

1070
01:19:47.520 --> 01:19:53.000
Highway two forty nine. They carry
the fertilizers that we talk about here and

1071
01:19:53.039 --> 01:19:57.239
they carry the supplies that you need
to have a successful garden. Not just

1072
01:19:57.600 --> 01:20:00.720
garden supplies. I mean that's the
herbicides, funge sides, pesticides, fertilizers

1073
01:20:00.720 --> 01:20:06.439
and whatnot. The pond supplies that
you may need. Friendly staff is always

1074
01:20:06.680 --> 01:20:11.680
available there at Spring Creek Feed And
it's just nice to walk into a place

1075
01:20:12.399 --> 01:20:15.079
you remember at the show Cheers where
everybody knows your name, the little place.

1076
01:20:15.560 --> 01:20:18.039
It's kind of a place you walk
in and you're greeting and it's a

1077
01:20:18.079 --> 01:20:20.800
friendly face and you just feel like
you're you know, you're part of the

1078
01:20:20.840 --> 01:20:26.560
group. There at Spring Creek Feed
Center. They have all the livestock feed

1079
01:20:26.600 --> 01:20:30.079
you need, all the pet feeds
that you will need, quality pet foods

1080
01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:32.760
like you know Victor Purina, all
kinds of good things for your pet.

1081
01:20:33.319 --> 01:20:36.600
If you need hay shavings, betting, if you need delivery, they do

1082
01:20:36.680 --> 01:20:41.159
have a delivery service as well,
and if they have to special order something,

1083
01:20:41.520 --> 01:20:44.800
they will do that at Spring Creek
Feed Again. They're in Magnolia on

1084
01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:48.279
FM twenty nine seventy eight, just
minutes away from Graham Parkway and Highway to

1085
01:20:48.560 --> 01:20:53.520
forty nine. We're gonna head to
the phones this morning, and we're gonna

1086
01:20:53.600 --> 01:20:59.600
now go to Friendswood and talk to
Charlotte. Hello, Charlotte, high skip,

1087
01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:03.840
good morning. I have two questions
for you. The first one is

1088
01:21:04.000 --> 01:21:15.239
on azalias and I have formosa azaleas. They're very old, probably about thirty

1089
01:21:15.319 --> 01:21:21.720
years or even older, and I
haven't been having any problems with them in

1090
01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:29.279
recent years. But this year,
on two of them, they have developed

1091
01:21:29.520 --> 01:21:34.439
a like one branch that is wilting
and will die. So I cut it

1092
01:21:34.520 --> 01:21:40.000
out. And I remember this happening
long ago, but I can't remember what

1093
01:21:40.079 --> 01:21:45.600
to do. But now a second
branch on each of them is going through

1094
01:21:45.640 --> 01:21:49.720
that same process. Okay, well
it could be different things. You know.

1095
01:21:49.720 --> 01:21:54.000
The first thing we think about azalias
will be watering. If there's a

1096
01:21:54.039 --> 01:21:58.560
spot that's not getting adequately watered.
Maybe you know, you have a little

1097
01:21:58.560 --> 01:22:02.479
spray or sprinkler and some olda just
blocking it from reaching some area or you

1098
01:22:02.479 --> 01:22:09.039
know what, how however that's happening, if water in that certain section could

1099
01:22:09.039 --> 01:22:13.359
be a reason for that. Another
thing or root rights. Root rids typically

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01:22:13.359 --> 01:22:16.520
on azaleas are going to happen when
the area can stay a little on the

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01:22:16.560 --> 01:22:19.640
two moist side. You know,
it could be from irrigation, could be

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01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:23.359
from rainfall. It doesn't matter.
But it gives a root ride a chance

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01:22:23.399 --> 01:22:26.399
to move in to the root system, and then you would just have to

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01:22:26.479 --> 01:22:30.920
use a drench to manage that root
rot within the plant. But I hate

1105
01:22:30.920 --> 01:22:33.640
to go right to a drench when
we don't know for sure that that's what's

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01:22:33.680 --> 01:22:44.199
causing the die back. So I
am. I usually only water once a

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01:22:44.279 --> 01:22:48.600
week. We've been getting enough rain
lately that I haven't had to water,

1108
01:22:48.800 --> 01:22:56.960
but maybe three weeks ago we weren't
getting enough rain, okay, And so

1109
01:22:57.439 --> 01:23:00.279
I have to hand waters, so
I don't have a sprinkler system only.

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01:23:00.880 --> 01:23:03.960
Okay, Well, if you're handwater, and I'm sure you're doing a good

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01:23:04.039 --> 01:23:10.439
job putting the water everywhere around the
area. So I guess the only thing

1112
01:23:10.439 --> 01:23:13.439
I would say about handwatering is sometimes
we can feel like we gave it a

1113
01:23:13.439 --> 01:23:18.079
good soaking when we didn't. And
so just make sure that when I handwater,

1114
01:23:18.680 --> 01:23:21.560
I will come back to the spot
three times. You know, I'll

1115
01:23:21.560 --> 01:23:26.079
water and all around and it starts
to run off, and I move down

1116
01:23:26.159 --> 01:23:28.680
to water something else, and I
come back and water it again. And

1117
01:23:28.880 --> 01:23:32.359
you know what I'm saying, it's
you always think you've put a lot on

1118
01:23:32.479 --> 01:23:36.039
and then after handwatering, dig down
you've wetted about a half inch deep.

1119
01:23:36.359 --> 01:23:41.640
It's amazing how it takes a while
to soak it. And with the demands

1120
01:23:41.680 --> 01:23:46.119
of this temperature that these temperatures we're
having now, I guess it's possible that

1121
01:23:46.199 --> 01:23:50.439
it's a little low on the watering. Other than the root rot or the

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01:23:50.479 --> 01:23:56.760
watering, I guess you might just
check some branches that are dying to see

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01:23:56.800 --> 01:24:00.000
if they're splits in the bark.
And if you see vertical splits going the

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01:24:00.079 --> 01:24:04.479
length of the like the direction is
the branch, that is a sign of

1125
01:24:04.640 --> 01:24:09.600
cold damage from last December, which
caught some of our plants. But I

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01:24:09.600 --> 01:24:14.039
would throw that in the mix.
It's probably not what's causing this on azaleas.

1127
01:24:14.239 --> 01:24:16.800
But if you get that kind of
damage, often as we get into

1128
01:24:16.840 --> 01:24:21.399
the heat of summer and the demands
are high, those branches just aren't going

1129
01:24:21.479 --> 01:24:26.520
to be able to move the moisture
up into the foliage like it needs to

1130
01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:29.560
at the rate it needs to.
So that would be another thing maybe to

1131
01:24:29.640 --> 01:24:34.439
check for. What um okay,
I will do that. What about if

1132
01:24:34.479 --> 01:24:40.479
it is root rot? What is
this strench that you're talking about, you

1133
01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:47.920
would look for something called Subdue sub
Due Subdue. It's a root rot fungicide.

1134
01:24:49.239 --> 01:24:54.000
There are there are some others out
there, but I think Subdue may

1135
01:24:54.000 --> 01:24:57.960
be the easier one to find.
It's going to be a little difficult to

1136
01:24:58.000 --> 01:25:00.039
find a product as specific as that. If you don't find it, like

1137
01:25:00.079 --> 01:25:03.199
your local ace hardware stores around you, you got several of them down there

1138
01:25:03.199 --> 01:25:06.800
in the great you know, greater
Friendswood area, you may have to call

1139
01:25:08.079 --> 01:25:13.439
go ahead, yes, go ahead. You may have to call Southwest Fertilizer,

1140
01:25:13.800 --> 01:25:18.079
which is in southwest Austin over by
Bessonette And because they carry a wide

1141
01:25:18.159 --> 01:25:23.279
variety and it's probably worth a drive
over to just go and get that.

1142
01:25:23.960 --> 01:25:28.479
But check check around your area and
see if they If they carry us Subdue,

1143
01:25:28.479 --> 01:25:30.279
it's just not going to be as
common. But explain to them you're

1144
01:25:30.279 --> 01:25:35.319
looking for a root rot product.
Okay, okay, thank you. And

1145
01:25:35.520 --> 01:25:43.000
my other question is on roses.
So I had a rose bush that I'd

1146
01:25:43.039 --> 01:25:49.880
had for about seven years, a
shrub type rose and um litter, and

1147
01:25:50.039 --> 01:25:59.560
it bloomed beautifully. This spring went
through a second um real big flush and

1148
01:25:59.640 --> 01:26:08.399
then um in um late June.
It just suddenly literally one day was fine,

1149
01:26:08.479 --> 01:26:12.760
the next day started looking terrible,
and it was dead in a couple

1150
01:26:12.800 --> 01:26:15.720
of days. I've dug it,
my yard men have dug it up,

1151
01:26:15.800 --> 01:26:23.000
but I don't know whether it's all
right. Well yeah, yeah, yeah,

1152
01:26:23.039 --> 01:26:27.960
you can replant Charlotte in that area. It roses again when the demander

1153
01:26:27.960 --> 01:26:30.680
as high as they are. Little
things being wrong can take a plant down.

1154
01:26:31.279 --> 01:26:33.960
Uh, you know, it could
be a drench or something like that.

1155
01:26:34.039 --> 01:26:39.600
It could be a it could be
that the sole moisture is too high,

1156
01:26:39.680 --> 01:26:43.359
too low. There's just a lot
of things. These plants are just

1157
01:26:43.439 --> 01:26:46.680
pumping water as fast as they can
to keep cool on these hundred degree days

1158
01:26:46.760 --> 01:26:51.720
and anywhere near that, and that's
probably what happened with your rose. But

1159
01:26:51.800 --> 01:26:55.760
you know, I'm kind of looking
back in time without seeing the plant,

1160
01:26:55.800 --> 01:27:00.199
so it's it's my best guess on
it. But hopefully I would go ahead

1161
01:27:00.239 --> 01:27:02.279
and replant that same area. I
don't know any reason why you wouldn't.

1162
01:27:02.399 --> 01:27:05.479
I think that'll be just funny.
I'm gonna have to head to a break

1163
01:27:05.479 --> 01:27:10.560
our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Sean

1164
01:27:10.640 --> 01:27:15.680
when we come back you'll be the
first up. Now, there are men

1165
01:27:15.720 --> 01:27:18.119
who make history, there are men
who change the world, and there are

1166
01:27:18.159 --> 01:27:23.840
men like me to simply find the
ride girl. In that very moment,

1167
01:27:24.119 --> 01:27:29.399
it all that comes clear what I'm
meant to do, the reason I'm here

1168
01:27:29.720 --> 01:27:33.640
out every night, I thank the
Lord I found you, and every time

1169
01:27:33.720 --> 01:27:42.920
I'm put my arms around you,
I feel like free gets to hole Lisa.

1170
01:27:44.199 --> 01:27:48.600
Good morning on a beautiful Saturday morning. We're talking gardening today. Good

1171
01:27:48.600 --> 01:27:51.560
thing to do on a show called
garden Line. Right, I'm your host,

1172
01:27:51.600 --> 01:27:57.279
Skip Richter our phone number seven one
three two one two five eight seven

1173
01:27:57.399 --> 01:28:00.000
four. I was thinking the other
day about, you know, this hot

1174
01:28:00.039 --> 01:28:05.640
weather and trying to how do people
just have success with their plants and things.

1175
01:28:05.880 --> 01:28:09.720
I'm watering some stuff on my patio
quite a bit because I got it

1176
01:28:09.760 --> 01:28:14.399
in slightly smaller containers than I probably
should. It's time to bump those things

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01:28:14.520 --> 01:28:16.199
up. As a result, I'm
having to water them more often. But

1178
01:28:16.720 --> 01:28:20.199
what I was thinking about is the
succulents that are so popular. Now,

1179
01:28:21.000 --> 01:28:25.199
that's a great way to go because
if you forget to water them. These

1180
01:28:25.199 --> 01:28:28.800
things they're from arid regions, right, they know how to survive. They've

1181
01:28:28.840 --> 01:28:31.760
got leaves that are succulent that whole
moisture. Just think of cactus. I

1182
01:28:31.800 --> 01:28:38.239
mean that that would be in poster
example. Well, the folks at Enchanted

1183
01:28:38.239 --> 01:28:42.079
Gardens at in Richmond, they have
the awesome selection of succulents. I mean,

1184
01:28:42.079 --> 01:28:44.560
they have every other kind of plant
you can imagine right now, but

1185
01:28:44.720 --> 01:28:47.479
they're succulents. Check out the hanging
baskets and some of the other forms of

1186
01:28:47.479 --> 01:28:51.880
the succulents. They have really beautiful
things. And these are things you know,

1187
01:28:51.880 --> 01:28:55.560
you get a little hanging basket up
there. If you had petunias in

1188
01:28:55.600 --> 01:28:59.720
it and you forgot to water it
once or twice during the day, you'd

1189
01:28:59.720 --> 01:29:02.279
probably be in big trouble. But
with succulents, they're more forgiving and it

1190
01:29:02.319 --> 01:29:06.159
just makes it easier. So if
you haven't gotten into succulents yet, and

1191
01:29:06.199 --> 01:29:10.840
by the way, they are a
really popular high item these days in the

1192
01:29:10.920 --> 01:29:15.840
gardening world, check them out at
Enchanted Gardens and Richmond. That's Enchanted Gardens

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01:29:16.079 --> 01:29:21.199
Richmond dot com. The Lenderman family
has been part of the community since nineteen

1194
01:29:21.319 --> 01:29:26.920
ninety five. Out there. They
have the knowledge, they've got the educated

1195
01:29:27.000 --> 01:29:30.359
staff, they've got the products you
need, some of the fertilizers we talk

1196
01:29:30.399 --> 01:29:32.279
about, and on and on.
They've got it. They're open Monday through

1197
01:29:32.279 --> 01:29:38.039
Saturday eight to five thirty and on
Sunday from ten am to four pm.

1198
01:29:38.079 --> 01:29:41.600
A good day to get out and
visit enchanted gardens out there in Richmond.

1199
01:29:41.640 --> 01:29:45.279
By the way, they're out on
FM three fifty nine on the Katie Fulscher

1200
01:29:45.520 --> 01:29:51.199
side of Richmond. Let's head over
to Pinehurst now if I can find the

1201
01:29:51.239 --> 01:29:56.439
button and we're going to talk to
Sean. Good morning, Sean, good

1202
01:29:56.439 --> 01:29:59.760
morning. How are you? I'm
well? How can we help today?

1203
01:30:00.640 --> 01:30:04.159
I'm having a problem with my Saint
Augustine yard lawn. I feel like I

1204
01:30:04.239 --> 01:30:10.520
may have a shake all patch,
but I'm not sure. Okay, the

1205
01:30:10.680 --> 01:30:15.039
grass is standing out, dying,
turning yellow inside. You can once it

1206
01:30:15.159 --> 01:30:16.199
dies, of course, you can
just rip it right out. And it

1207
01:30:16.319 --> 01:30:21.600
seems to be approaching moving across the
lawn. Okay, if you're very irregular

1208
01:30:21.720 --> 01:30:26.720
area, you know, not like
clearly defined lines or strips or circles or

1209
01:30:26.760 --> 01:30:29.720
anything like that. Weah, it's
kind of a triangle area, kind of

1210
01:30:29.720 --> 01:30:34.119
where the yard meets the sidewalk in
the driveway, and it's almost like a

1211
01:30:34.159 --> 01:30:38.840
straight line, kind of moving on
along the yard. Okay, well,

1212
01:30:39.359 --> 01:30:43.119
my first guess is that you may
have chinch bugs. And you can go

1213
01:30:43.119 --> 01:30:47.039
online and do a search for chinch
bugs and image search and see what the

1214
01:30:47.079 --> 01:30:49.720
little critters look like. They're about
an eighth of an inch long. The

1215
01:30:49.720 --> 01:30:55.199
adults are black with some white on
their back. The young are kind of

1216
01:30:55.239 --> 01:31:00.439
a bronzy orange red with a white
band across their back. But when you

1217
01:31:00.479 --> 01:31:01.960
get on your hands and knees and
get right down there and pull back and

1218
01:31:02.000 --> 01:31:05.159
look at the thatch, just look
around, you're going to see these little

1219
01:31:05.159 --> 01:31:08.720
tiny things. If if it's chinch
bugs, they're gonna be a lot of

1220
01:31:08.720 --> 01:31:13.279
them. And look in the area
between healthy and dead. If the dead

1221
01:31:13.319 --> 01:31:15.880
they've killed, you know, maybe
they're moving into the healthy. They're sucking

1222
01:31:15.880 --> 01:31:18.319
the juices out of the plants.
And we're singing. Seeing a lot of

1223
01:31:18.359 --> 01:31:23.840
problems with chinch bugs right now,
and so I would check for that.

1224
01:31:24.039 --> 01:31:27.520
If you don't find chinch bugs,
then maybe the take all root rode as

1225
01:31:27.560 --> 01:31:31.159
a possibility. The way to diagnose
that for sure is to have the lab

1226
01:31:31.239 --> 01:31:38.359
the State Plant Clinic take a look
and determine if that's what it is visually

1227
01:31:38.399 --> 01:31:44.359
what you described sounds a little bit
like take all as well. But my

1228
01:31:44.439 --> 01:31:46.319
first guess is going to be chinch
bugs, and then take all is what

1229
01:31:46.399 --> 01:31:50.479
it is if it's not chinch bugs, assuming that area is already getting adequate

1230
01:31:50.520 --> 01:31:56.960
water. Yeah, I was afraid
I was maybe over watering, but okay,

1231
01:31:57.239 --> 01:32:00.079
well then it's gonna be one of
the us too. But let's start

1232
01:32:00.119 --> 01:32:02.279
with the chinch bugs. Go online
and look it up, see what they

1233
01:32:02.279 --> 01:32:04.399
look like. It's really easy.
Just once you look at them and you

1234
01:32:04.439 --> 01:32:08.600
see what you're looking for, you
just get down there and again go to

1235
01:32:08.640 --> 01:32:12.960
the area where it's starting to decline, because that's where the most bugs sucking

1236
01:32:13.000 --> 01:32:15.880
on the grass are going to be. That's why it's declining. And if

1237
01:32:15.920 --> 01:32:20.199
you don't find chinch bugs, then
let's move toward a takeall patch assumption.

1238
01:32:23.079 --> 01:32:26.560
Okay, okaykay, Well, thank
you very much, sty you bet you

1239
01:32:26.760 --> 01:32:30.680
good luck with that lawn. Yeah, you know that as I was visiting.

1240
01:32:31.000 --> 01:32:33.239
In fact, just the other day
this week, I was visiting with

1241
01:32:33.319 --> 01:32:39.119
Sherry Sherry Harrow from Plants for All
Seasons, and we were just talking about,

1242
01:32:39.239 --> 01:32:42.279
you know, the chinch bug samples
they've been getting in and some of

1243
01:32:42.279 --> 01:32:45.720
the things we're seeing, and yeah, it's pretty significant. It's been going

1244
01:32:45.760 --> 01:32:46.880
on for a while now. Chinch
Bugs normally, you know, we have

1245
01:32:46.960 --> 01:32:54.079
a spring, late spring, early
summer population, but it's usually not too

1246
01:32:54.079 --> 01:32:57.600
bad and then later in the summers
when they're really bad. Well, they're

1247
01:32:57.600 --> 01:33:00.479
really bad now. They're they got
a head start, I guess. By

1248
01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:05.239
the way, the Plants for All
Seasons that is, you know, it's

1249
01:33:05.279 --> 01:33:10.039
just one of those nurseries. You
have to visit the selection. They have

1250
01:33:10.119 --> 01:33:13.840
the knowledgeable staff, folks like Sherry
and he whole family. You know,

1251
01:33:13.880 --> 01:33:17.640
the Plants for All Seasons. Folks
know what they're talking about. It's been

1252
01:33:17.680 --> 01:33:23.840
family owned and operated since nineteen seventy
three, the Flowerty family. You can

1253
01:33:23.880 --> 01:33:28.600
bring them samples of a plant.
You can bring them pictures for diagnosis.

1254
01:33:28.640 --> 01:33:30.039
By the way, if you're going
to take a lawn sample in, you

1255
01:33:30.119 --> 01:33:33.399
might want to take a section out
of that area where I talked about between

1256
01:33:33.399 --> 01:33:36.159
healthy and Dad. Just cut it
out with a little butcher knife, a

1257
01:33:36.159 --> 01:33:40.479
little four by four four by six
inch plugs, slip it into a ziplock

1258
01:33:40.520 --> 01:33:43.840
and zip it up and get it
over to the garden center. They're gonna

1259
01:33:43.840 --> 01:33:45.119
be able to identify it and if
chinch bugs are in it, they'll find

1260
01:33:45.199 --> 01:33:47.720
them and they'll tell you what you
need to do for it. Go online

1261
01:33:47.760 --> 01:33:50.680
Plants for All Seasons dot com,
or just give them a call two eight

1262
01:33:50.760 --> 01:33:56.800
one three seven six sixteen forty six. And while you're there, check out

1263
01:33:56.840 --> 01:34:00.000
all of the amazing beautiful plants that
they have. They got a great selection

1264
01:34:00.000 --> 01:34:03.039
of booga villas right now, and
oh my gosh, if you want those

1265
01:34:03.079 --> 01:34:08.319
beautiful southern perennial hibiscus, they are
loaded up. I know they have the

1266
01:34:08.399 --> 01:34:12.840
Lunar series, which is kind of
a semicompact series. But you're not gonna

1267
01:34:12.880 --> 01:34:16.399
have trouble finding some great stuff at
Plants for All Seasons. Our phone number

1268
01:34:16.479 --> 01:34:20.880
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four you'd like to give us

1269
01:34:20.880 --> 01:34:28.319
a call seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Yesterday we

1270
01:34:28.399 --> 01:34:31.520
kind of I kind of living in
two different places right now. And when

1271
01:34:31.560 --> 01:34:34.840
we're down here in the Houston area, I greet my plants who've said where

1272
01:34:34.840 --> 01:34:40.560
you've been for the last four or
five days, And I was greeting them

1273
01:34:40.560 --> 01:34:46.079
and watering my house plants and just
you know, enjoying that indoor gardening aspect

1274
01:34:46.199 --> 01:34:49.840
and what I do with my plants, my house plants, it's a constant

1275
01:34:50.000 --> 01:34:58.079
application. It's a Biomatrix orange label
for Microlife now Microlife Biomatrix, the orange

1276
01:34:58.159 --> 01:35:00.039
label. It's a seven one three, so it's out a decent amount of

1277
01:35:00.119 --> 01:35:04.640
nitrogen in it to support the foliage
growth. It's also got beneficial microbes,

1278
01:35:04.720 --> 01:35:09.840
which that's what it's all about in
the root system, is the interaction between

1279
01:35:09.880 --> 01:35:14.359
beneficial microbes and the roots and the
soil, and that is how nature works.

1280
01:35:14.439 --> 01:35:17.159
And if we can recreate that even
in a houseplant is a good idea.

1281
01:35:17.319 --> 01:35:21.600
Now, outdoors the blue label,
the Ocean Harvest Microlife Ocean Harvest Blue

1282
01:35:21.680 --> 01:35:29.279
label. It's a four two three
fish based product. Excellent for drenching your

1283
01:35:29.479 --> 01:35:32.000
outdoor house plants. Now it's not
going to burn, it's not going to

1284
01:35:32.039 --> 01:35:35.279
burn at all, and you can
even dilute it down and use it as

1285
01:35:35.319 --> 01:35:40.760
a folior spray if you'd like to. But indoors the blue light the orange

1286
01:35:40.840 --> 01:35:46.319
label seven one three Biomatrix. Outdoors
the blue label, which is Ocean Harvest

1287
01:35:46.880 --> 01:35:53.680
see see excuse me, fish based
product. Be kind of Mother Nature with

1288
01:35:53.720 --> 01:35:58.920
your microlife. Go to Microlife Fertilizer
dot com online Microlife Fertiliser dot Com.

1289
01:35:58.960 --> 01:36:01.119
You can learn about these ducts I'm
talking about. See what I'm talking about.

1290
01:36:01.279 --> 01:36:06.119
Believe me, they're gonna give you
really excellent results. We're gonna go

1291
01:36:06.239 --> 01:36:12.479
now to let's go to Austin County
and we're gonna talk to Doris. Hello,

1292
01:36:12.560 --> 01:36:15.680
Doris, Hi, how are you
this morning? Well? I'm well,

1293
01:36:15.760 --> 01:36:21.399
how are things in Austin County?
All right? Well, all right,

1294
01:36:21.520 --> 01:36:25.359
just just hang on, it'll change. It just may take about six

1295
01:36:25.439 --> 01:36:29.159
months. Yeah, then we'll complain
about that too. Yeah, that's right.

1296
01:36:29.760 --> 01:36:33.640
What's up? I need some information
on where I can find some Billy

1297
01:36:33.920 --> 01:36:44.119
Stevens Hollies in either three to five
gallon containers. Okay, I do not

1298
01:36:44.359 --> 01:36:49.079
know Austin County garden centers. I
know, you know, I'm they'll be

1299
01:36:49.199 --> 01:36:53.319
in Houston. We don't have any
here, sail one or two? All

1300
01:36:53.399 --> 01:36:57.159
right, Well, Nellie Stevens Holly, I you know, I'll tell you

1301
01:36:57.159 --> 01:37:01.840
what I would do. I would
call um. Let me think where you're

1302
01:37:01.840 --> 01:37:05.439
gonna You're gonna find those, probably
at garden centers. You know, like

1303
01:37:05.479 --> 01:37:09.560
you come in from your direction,
you come in, you're gonna you can

1304
01:37:09.560 --> 01:37:14.600
easily get over to uh u Arbigate
up there in tom Ball, you know,

1305
01:37:14.640 --> 01:37:17.479
coming across, if you're heading across
that way, they're gonna probably have

1306
01:37:17.600 --> 01:37:23.479
I'd give them a call make sure
for sure, uh that okay, they're

1307
01:37:23.800 --> 01:37:26.479
you know that they're gonna have it. I think they will. Verdant Tree

1308
01:37:26.479 --> 01:37:30.079
Farm also is on um Let's see, it's on the west side of town,

1309
01:37:30.479 --> 01:37:34.520
over by Bear Creek Park where Highway
six and ten come together up in

1310
01:37:34.520 --> 01:37:39.800
that general neighborhood. They carry a
lot of very large hollis too, and

1311
01:37:39.840 --> 01:37:43.920
so if you're looking for a larger
version of that, they're probably gonna have

1312
01:37:43.920 --> 01:37:45.800
it there. But again I would
give them a call before you know,

1313
01:37:45.880 --> 01:37:53.239
you just drive over. Oh okay, I will do that, Thank you

1314
01:37:53.279 --> 01:37:58.199
so very much. Yeo. And
do you know have for party plan them?

1315
01:37:58.359 --> 01:38:02.159
Oh? Nellie Stevens would probably put
them about eight foot It depends.

1316
01:38:02.279 --> 01:38:06.119
Here's the trade off. The closer
you put them, the more money costs

1317
01:38:06.119 --> 01:38:09.760
to plant them. You're right,
because you're putting more plants in down the

1318
01:38:09.840 --> 01:38:13.840
row. The further apart, the
longer it takes for them to fill in

1319
01:38:13.880 --> 01:38:15.640
and be solid. So we try
to kind of end up in a medium

1320
01:38:15.680 --> 01:38:18.680
there you know where it will make
a solid row. But if you want

1321
01:38:18.720 --> 01:38:24.680
individual plants that you just see them
separated like a row of soldiers, then

1322
01:38:24.680 --> 01:38:27.800
I would put them a little further
in eight feet apart for sure. Now

1323
01:38:27.960 --> 01:38:31.000
this is gonna be for a privacy
screen. Ah. Yes, you definitely

1324
01:38:31.039 --> 01:38:34.920
won't get them close. I mean
you could, gosh know, e Stevens,

1325
01:38:36.239 --> 01:38:39.800
you might could go as close as
six foot apart, but I think

1326
01:38:39.880 --> 01:38:45.000
eight foot would be adequate. Yeah, it just just gonna take a little

1327
01:38:45.039 --> 01:38:49.800
longer to give you the clothes between
the two plants that a six foot spacing

1328
01:38:49.840 --> 01:38:53.800
would do. But also talk to
talk to when you go get them.

1329
01:38:53.880 --> 01:38:56.880
You may end up going to one
of these places and there's another Holly that

1330
01:38:56.960 --> 01:39:00.840
they suggest you consider instead, and
so, but they'll be able to tell

1331
01:39:00.880 --> 01:39:04.279
you the wepth on the plant too, all right, Okay, Arbi Gate

1332
01:39:05.199 --> 01:39:09.039
arbur Gate would be the closest to
you coming in. Yeah, I think

1333
01:39:09.079 --> 01:39:12.920
so. Thank you for the call, Doris. I appreciate that very much.

1334
01:39:12.960 --> 01:39:15.079
We're gonna take a break our number
seven one three, two one two

1335
01:39:15.439 --> 01:39:19.239
fifty eight seventy four. When we
come back, Jackie and David, you'll

1336
01:39:19.279 --> 01:39:29.119
be the first two up. I'm
gone, hard working combine driver hoking up

1337
01:39:29.119 --> 01:39:35.000
the road, looking five miles an
hour on my internet, you know,

1338
01:39:35.199 --> 01:39:44.479
harvest three mile car playing all their
home. Hey, good morning, it

1339
01:39:44.680 --> 01:39:48.479
is a beautiful Saturday morning. You're
listening to garden Line and we are here

1340
01:39:48.520 --> 01:39:54.560
to talk about gardening with you.
I hope you enjoy yourself this afternoon and

1341
01:39:54.720 --> 01:39:58.199
rest of the day tomorrow as well. These are just you know, these

1342
01:39:58.199 --> 01:40:00.520
aren't days that are lost to gardeners. There's always things that we can do

1343
01:40:01.119 --> 01:40:04.640
if you I've got a shrub.
Actually it's been in a pot for a

1344
01:40:04.680 --> 01:40:08.720
long time and I need to get
it planted, and I just keep putting

1345
01:40:08.760 --> 01:40:11.840
it off. But I think I'm
gonna go ahead and just get it done.

1346
01:40:11.920 --> 01:40:15.000
The best time to plant shrubs is
in the fall and in the winter,

1347
01:40:15.159 --> 01:40:16.720
and trees as well. But you
can plant them twelve months off of

1348
01:40:16.720 --> 01:40:19.479
a year if you take care of
them. And here's what I'm gonna do

1349
01:40:19.800 --> 01:40:25.319
when I get it planted, I'm
gonna put a tree hugger sprinkler around it.

1350
01:40:25.439 --> 01:40:27.840
Treegger sprinkler. You'll get to the
end of the host. Got a

1351
01:40:27.840 --> 01:40:30.000
little valve and so you turn on
the water, and with a valve you

1352
01:40:30.000 --> 01:40:33.479
can control how much water it's gonna
put out, so I mean you can

1353
01:40:33.560 --> 01:40:38.600
have it. These are little rings
that go around the trees like seven inches,

1354
01:40:38.640 --> 01:40:41.840
eleven inches, fifteen inches. They
have different sizes, and you can

1355
01:40:41.920 --> 01:40:45.119
turn it on just like two inches
high and it's just watering that root ball

1356
01:40:45.159 --> 01:40:47.960
of the new pot that you just
put in, because that is where you

1357
01:40:47.960 --> 01:40:50.920
need the water when you're doing the
summer watering, trying to get that thing

1358
01:40:51.039 --> 01:40:55.359
established. And then you turn it
on more as the plant grows, and

1359
01:40:55.760 --> 01:40:58.600
I mean you can eventually water a
very large area. Maybe the plant's been

1360
01:40:58.600 --> 01:41:00.520
in the ground five years and you're
still helping it along. You can do

1361
01:41:00.600 --> 01:41:05.520
that. Go to tree hucker sprinkler
dot com. Tree Hugger sprinkler dot com.

1362
01:41:05.600 --> 01:41:09.520
You're gonna find him at ace Hardburg, our local mom and pop garden

1363
01:41:09.560 --> 01:41:13.439
centers we talk about. You're going
to find them feedstores that we talk about

1364
01:41:13.760 --> 01:41:17.800
tree huggers all over Houston. But
it is a great investment in terms of

1365
01:41:17.800 --> 01:41:23.159
protective I would not put this shrub
in the ground without a tree Hugger sprinkler,

1366
01:41:23.199 --> 01:41:26.640
so I know that it's gonna get
taken care of and I don't just

1367
01:41:26.680 --> 01:41:29.960
get busy and forget about it.
It'll be all right, It'll take care

1368
01:41:29.960 --> 01:41:32.760
of it. Let's head out to
Santa Fe, New Mexico and talk to

1369
01:41:32.840 --> 01:41:36.039
Jackie. Jackie, are you listening
to us online or what's up out there?

1370
01:41:38.439 --> 01:41:43.199
Good morning. My family lives in
Houston. So my brother was listening

1371
01:41:43.239 --> 01:41:47.119
to you, okay, and I
have a gardening question, and he said,

1372
01:41:47.520 --> 01:41:50.319
why don't you try to call in? He said, this is a

1373
01:41:50.359 --> 01:41:56.640
good question for Rick. So good
morning, Rick, I've got my live.

1374
01:41:56.720 --> 01:41:59.319
Here's the deal. I know we're
on radio. Sill make it short.

1375
01:42:00.039 --> 01:42:04.159
I've grown a avocado seed in a
jar of water for about six months

1376
01:42:04.720 --> 01:42:09.359
and it's about ten or eleven inches
tall. And now with all the heat

1377
01:42:09.479 --> 01:42:13.640
still in the jar, still in
the water, it's even sprouting more.

1378
01:42:14.359 --> 01:42:18.119
Now. You know, I have
to empty that water about every week or

1379
01:42:18.119 --> 01:42:21.800
so and clean it out, you
know, and put it back in fresh

1380
01:42:21.840 --> 01:42:26.880
water. Well, what's happened is
it's getting tall now is the seed is

1381
01:42:26.920 --> 01:42:31.279
slowly disintegrating. Yes, so I
have to more toothpicks in. I googled

1382
01:42:31.279 --> 01:42:36.279
it and Google said I can grow
it in water. Well, never wrong.

1383
01:42:39.800 --> 01:42:43.439
But now I'm asking you for your
opinion. I'm so excited I found

1384
01:42:43.479 --> 01:42:48.119
your tree lover thing. Okay,
let me ask what you're talking about.

1385
01:42:48.159 --> 01:42:53.119
The tree hugver thing. You have
to put those around the trees when you

1386
01:42:53.199 --> 01:42:56.479
first plan a mite. No,
no, no, it's not a complete

1387
01:42:56.479 --> 01:43:02.079
circle. It is like it's like
if you put your two thumbs together and

1388
01:43:02.680 --> 01:43:06.800
like you make a circle with your
hands and instead of touching your fingertips,

1389
01:43:06.880 --> 01:43:10.640
just open it up a little bit. That's a tree hugger sprinkler, like

1390
01:43:10.720 --> 01:43:14.319
the thumbs or the hinge, and
it just you push it around the tree

1391
01:43:14.359 --> 01:43:16.720
and it closes, and now you've
got your circle. And then you open

1392
01:43:16.760 --> 01:43:19.159
it up to just pull it back
and take it off the trunk. You

1393
01:43:19.239 --> 01:43:21.920
put it on a tree that's gotta
you know, you put a large tree

1394
01:43:21.960 --> 01:43:28.000
hugger on a tree that's gottah.
Yeah, okay, what do you think

1395
01:43:28.039 --> 01:43:30.399
about my avocados? Seed? All
right? Well, yes, seeds have

1396
01:43:30.560 --> 01:43:33.760
a storage organ that like a little
pinto bean. When you plant it,

1397
01:43:33.840 --> 01:43:36.319
you come up and you see the
little two halves of your pinto bean when

1398
01:43:36.319 --> 01:43:39.960
it sprouts out of the ground,
they shrivel away. That's what happens to

1399
01:43:40.000 --> 01:43:43.359
an avocado too. You're gonna have
to probably if you want to keep it

1400
01:43:43.359 --> 01:43:45.039
in water, you can do that. You're going to just figure out how

1401
01:43:45.039 --> 01:43:48.319
to suspend it in there, which
not too hard to figure out. You

1402
01:43:48.319 --> 01:43:50.920
could also plant it up. But
you know, Santa Fe, I believe

1403
01:43:50.960 --> 01:43:55.520
you're in a six B hardiness zone. So what do you get down to

1404
01:43:55.640 --> 01:44:00.920
zero or below as a typical winter
low. That avocado needs to not be

1405
01:44:00.000 --> 01:44:05.199
anywhere near the outside when it starts. No, no, no, no,

1406
01:44:05.439 --> 01:44:09.439
I can't plan it outside or I'll
lose it. That is true.

1407
01:44:09.560 --> 01:44:15.159
So if I were one of my
questions, my brother said, start slowly

1408
01:44:15.319 --> 01:44:20.079
adding dirt to the jar of water, which would make it like mud,

1409
01:44:20.640 --> 01:44:25.000
wouldn't. I just get you a
good quality potting so I'll put it out

1410
01:44:25.039 --> 01:44:27.239
of the water and pot it up. And if you want to keep it

1411
01:44:27.239 --> 01:44:29.479
in water, that's fine. I
mean, you get a big old giant

1412
01:44:29.560 --> 01:44:33.960
vase to you know, you just
have to how you're going to suspend it.

1413
01:44:33.960 --> 01:44:36.840
It's what you said. Eventually,
I'm gonna have trouble suspending it all

1414
01:44:36.880 --> 01:44:42.600
right, last question in that regard. So then once I transplant it into

1415
01:44:42.640 --> 01:44:45.640
the pod, it says to me, I guess I need to put it

1416
01:44:45.680 --> 01:44:51.399
back where it is because it's happy
in that location. I'm having trouble determining

1417
01:44:51.439 --> 01:44:56.960
the location once I transplant it.
So what do you think once I put

1418
01:44:57.000 --> 01:45:00.319
it at a pot of dirt,
just put it back where it's growing right

1419
01:45:00.399 --> 01:45:02.439
now in the jar of water.
If it's happy, but leave it there.

1420
01:45:02.640 --> 01:45:06.159
It's a full sun plant. But
if you get it in a really

1421
01:45:06.239 --> 01:45:10.640
bright indoor place, you can keep
them for a while and they'll do okay.

1422
01:45:11.199 --> 01:45:15.319
They just most of our indoor spots
are not adequately bright. But the

1423
01:45:15.319 --> 01:45:19.039
brightest spot you can give it would
be good. Once it's in a pot,

1424
01:45:19.119 --> 01:45:25.239
I mean you could set it out
during the summertime days and once you

1425
01:45:25.359 --> 01:45:28.319
get down where your nighttimes you're going
to be around, you know, in

1426
01:45:28.359 --> 01:45:32.880
the low fifties, then I would
I would bring it in all right.

1427
01:45:32.920 --> 01:45:35.760
Well, it's lovely to talk to
you. Thank you very much. I'm

1428
01:45:35.760 --> 01:45:40.039
hope sick for you, so thank
you for your help and I'll be listening

1429
01:45:40.079 --> 01:45:43.000
to you. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Tell all your

1430
01:45:43.039 --> 01:45:47.640
friends in Santa Fe listen to garden. Oh well, thank god, this

1431
01:45:47.760 --> 01:45:51.880
is like out of Texas day.
We haven't had any international callers. I

1432
01:45:51.880 --> 01:45:56.840
would love to have an international caller. If anybody's listening. Oh gosh,

1433
01:45:56.880 --> 01:46:00.319
you know, if you need supplies, if you need the fertilized where we

1434
01:46:00.359 --> 01:46:02.840
talk about, if you need you
know, the soil type products we talk

1435
01:46:02.880 --> 01:46:09.119
about, if you need pesticides,
herbicides, fungicides, if you need grilling

1436
01:46:09.119 --> 01:46:13.159
equipment, paint, plumbing. We're
talking about a hardware store here, aren't

1437
01:46:13.159 --> 01:46:15.239
we Yes, we are. We're
talking about ACE Hardware. Ace Hardware dot

1438
01:46:15.239 --> 01:46:18.359
Com. Go to ACE hardware dot
Com. Look at their store locator.

1439
01:46:18.479 --> 01:46:21.720
There's only thirty nine of them in
the Greater Houston area. You're going to

1440
01:46:21.800 --> 01:46:25.840
find one. And when you walk
in there, I can't think of much

1441
01:46:26.000 --> 01:46:27.920
you need to buy. This is
not going to be there in the ACE

1442
01:46:27.960 --> 01:46:30.199
Hardware store for you. They have
things for your indoor your home, they

1443
01:46:30.199 --> 01:46:33.720
have for your outdoor patio, you're
grilling, you know, they have power

1444
01:46:33.760 --> 01:46:39.159
equipment, all kinds of stuff that's
available for you through ACE Hardware. And

1445
01:46:39.439 --> 01:46:43.479
you're just not going to find more
fun shopping experience. I love to go

1446
01:46:43.520 --> 01:46:46.159
in there. I end up wandering
off and I don't know all these different

1447
01:46:46.159 --> 01:46:50.239
sections. You know, each ACE
is independently owned and operated, and so

1448
01:46:50.319 --> 01:46:54.880
each one's a little bit different,
but there's going to be at least one

1449
01:46:54.920 --> 01:46:59.840
ace near you. And if you
need supplies for your gardening efforts and just

1450
01:47:00.000 --> 01:47:03.560
your outdoor living enjoyment as well as
indoor living, that's a hardware. We're

1451
01:47:03.560 --> 01:47:08.119
gonna go over to Friendswood now and
talk to David. Hello, David,

1452
01:47:09.039 --> 01:47:11.479
good morning. How are you.
I'm well, thank you? What's up?

1453
01:47:12.399 --> 01:47:15.920
I've got an interesting problem. I
had a well established Japanese blueberry bushes

1454
01:47:16.239 --> 01:47:20.960
either side of my door entrance.
One froze bad, the other one relived,

1455
01:47:21.199 --> 01:47:25.119
and so I couldn't keep it in
balance. So I took them both

1456
01:47:25.159 --> 01:47:29.079
out. They were established, and
I was tired of fighting the freezed bushes,

1457
01:47:29.800 --> 01:47:32.119
so I put in some Japanese use
and they look great. They were

1458
01:47:32.119 --> 01:47:35.640
five gallon. They look beautiful,
and all of a sudden, one looks

1459
01:47:35.800 --> 01:47:40.359
thriving, green, dark, beautiful, with little light blueberries. The other

1460
01:47:40.359 --> 01:47:45.840
one looks pale, puked and brown
leaves everywhere. Is it a clay soil

1461
01:47:45.920 --> 01:47:49.720
that they're in. It's it's it's
a clay soil, but it's landscape.

1462
01:47:49.720 --> 01:47:54.520
It's a front of my house,
got pretty good soil. How much sun

1463
01:47:54.920 --> 01:48:00.479
do you think they get well morning
sun directly and in the afternoon no fun.

1464
01:48:00.720 --> 01:48:02.920
And that's a good spot for those
us. Why the one is not

1465
01:48:03.039 --> 01:48:06.079
doing good, I don't know.
I would dig down with my hands and

1466
01:48:06.359 --> 01:48:11.359
right where the root ball is,
feel about maybe three inches deep or four

1467
01:48:11.399 --> 01:48:14.880
inches deep. Filth the soil.
If it's at all dry, give it

1468
01:48:14.920 --> 01:48:17.560
a good soaking. If it's soggy, wet, or you know, you

1469
01:48:17.600 --> 01:48:21.399
almost squeeze water out of it,
then definitely back off. I think it's

1470
01:48:21.399 --> 01:48:25.920
going to be one or the other
that's going on. You planted these again,

1471
01:48:26.079 --> 01:48:32.439
how long ago? February February.
Yeah, they should be getting established

1472
01:48:32.479 --> 01:48:36.279
well. So I would just watch
that soil moisture. I don't know what

1473
01:48:36.279 --> 01:48:40.960
else would be doing what you're describing. I know the demands are high on

1474
01:48:40.960 --> 01:48:45.239
our plants, and so any little
issues with too much water not enough water

1475
01:48:45.439 --> 01:48:50.000
become worse when the demands are supply. The other interesting thing is there's a

1476
01:48:50.079 --> 01:48:55.000
dwarf rosebush right in front of each
of these, on either side of this

1477
01:48:55.119 --> 01:48:59.079
walkway, and again the same thing. The dwarf rosebush is not doing well.

1478
01:48:59.239 --> 01:49:00.880
Everyone's doing that. They both have
irrigation, both have it, you

1479
01:49:00.920 --> 01:49:03.840
know, constant, same programming.
All right, David, not no,

1480
01:49:04.239 --> 01:49:08.800
let me, let me let me
stop you a minute. Let's if you

1481
01:49:08.840 --> 01:49:11.840
hang on through break and we'll continue
this discussion. We need to take a

1482
01:49:11.840 --> 01:49:15.720
hard break here seven one three two
one two five, eight seventy four.

1483
01:49:15.760 --> 01:49:19.439
And I'll continue with you, David
right when we come back. Yeah,

1484
01:49:39.760 --> 01:49:44.439
good, Marnen. We are talking
gardening, and I hope you will give

1485
01:49:44.520 --> 01:49:47.279
us a call if you are at
all interested in asking a question about something

1486
01:49:47.359 --> 01:49:53.199
related to your gardening efforts. Seven
one three two one two five eight seven

1487
01:49:53.279 --> 01:49:56.439
four. We're gonna go right back
to David out in Friendswood And David,

1488
01:49:56.479 --> 01:49:59.720
I think you were describing that around
the plant that is not doing good,

1489
01:49:59.760 --> 01:50:02.000
the you plant you also had problems
with roses? Did I catch that right?

1490
01:50:02.880 --> 01:50:06.760
That's correct? You know it's making
me wonder what's going on in that

1491
01:50:06.840 --> 01:50:13.640
area. Um, I don't go
ahead. I know the same thing I've

1492
01:50:13.640 --> 01:50:16.159
actually poked around. It doesn't seem
like it's too dry, it doesn't seem

1493
01:50:16.159 --> 01:50:20.520
like it's too wet. Everything seems
to be normal in comparison to the other

1494
01:50:20.600 --> 01:50:27.560
side, exactly shorter, maybe some
nutrient additional uh, you know, minerals

1495
01:50:27.560 --> 01:50:30.439
and stuff to try and add and
fertilize that. I'm trying to aerate it

1496
01:50:30.479 --> 01:50:32.319
to make sure I could get some
stuff in there. Okay, And maybe

1497
01:50:32.359 --> 01:50:35.520
it's just has to run its course
and keen a bit more time. Well

1498
01:50:35.520 --> 01:50:39.680
that's possible, um, you know, but it would be nice to be

1499
01:50:39.680 --> 01:50:43.239
able to drill down and figure out
what's causing it. I mean, we

1500
01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:45.119
we're left to speculation. You know. It could be too wet, could

1501
01:50:45.119 --> 01:50:49.840
be too dry, you know,
right exactly, And that's that's not It

1502
01:50:49.880 --> 01:50:53.840
helps you think through it, but
it doesn't get it doesn't tell you what's

1503
01:50:53.880 --> 01:50:59.439
wrong. When the roses died,
what were the symptoms of them going out?

1504
01:51:00.520 --> 01:51:04.520
How did they decline? They decline
by just having leaves be less full

1505
01:51:04.600 --> 01:51:10.600
and thriving. Everything kind of got
shaken down, almost like a windstorm hit

1506
01:51:10.640 --> 01:51:14.159
it, and everything just fell off
the roses. Everything, all the leaves

1507
01:51:14.159 --> 01:51:18.319
fell off the roses. Everything just
looks really really sparse comparison to the other

1508
01:51:18.359 --> 01:51:24.640
side, which is full and vibrant
and lots of leaves and green. Well,

1509
01:51:24.680 --> 01:51:27.159
I tell you don't know if it's
the soil issue or not. Yeah,

1510
01:51:27.199 --> 01:51:29.479
I'm not going to be able to
give you a definitive answer, but

1511
01:51:29.720 --> 01:51:31.760
I would. If it were my
area, I would I would take a

1512
01:51:31.800 --> 01:51:35.199
soul test in the problem area if
you want it, to take test in

1513
01:51:35.239 --> 01:51:40.199
both areas so you can compare the
two, see what's the devil. You

1514
01:51:40.319 --> 01:51:47.439
go to soil testing one word soil
testing dot TAMU dot edu. That's a

1515
01:51:47.520 --> 01:51:53.359
state soil AaB at a M.
Soul testing dot TAMU dot edu. Click

1516
01:51:53.520 --> 01:51:58.119
on the sample forms and click on
the urban soul test form. That urban

1517
01:51:58.239 --> 01:52:01.439
means it's for yards, guard things
like that, as opposed to a posture

1518
01:52:01.520 --> 01:52:05.359
or a field. But fill that
out, send it down, and let's

1519
01:52:05.399 --> 01:52:10.039
see what the results say. And
it may be that there's something way out

1520
01:52:10.039 --> 01:52:15.359
of whack that you could fix,
but that that would be one diagnostic effort.

1521
01:52:15.439 --> 01:52:16.800
On the other hand, it may
turn out that you know everything's in

1522
01:52:16.960 --> 01:52:21.520
order there, it's not that,
but something's different and I just don't know

1523
01:52:21.560 --> 01:52:25.560
what it is. And if you
just keep thinking about what's been done different

1524
01:52:25.600 --> 01:52:30.600
here? Did you use I don't
know, certain kind of products or whatever,

1525
01:52:30.119 --> 01:52:32.560
you just kind of have to historically
think through it. And if you

1526
01:52:32.600 --> 01:52:36.359
can't come up with anything, let's
try the salt test. Kind of dig

1527
01:52:36.399 --> 01:52:40.319
deeper and get some diagnosis. There
you go, we'll get to the bottom.

1528
01:52:42.760 --> 01:52:46.079
Yes, sir, I appreciate that
goal. You know, Nitrofis products

1529
01:52:46.119 --> 01:52:49.119
are available everywhere, I mean anywhere
you go. I was talking to someone

1530
01:52:49.119 --> 01:52:55.239
earlier. We were discussing the Nitrofossu
Super the super turf, you know,

1531
01:52:55.319 --> 01:53:00.800
the one that just has the exact
kinds of nutrients we need for summer that

1532
01:53:00.840 --> 01:53:03.560
are released slowly, which is what
we need for summer. Superturf is a

1533
01:53:03.600 --> 01:53:09.039
silver bag. It's nineteen four ten, nineteen four ten. It's going to

1534
01:53:09.199 --> 01:53:12.640
release for you know, several months. Really, you do it now and

1535
01:53:12.680 --> 01:53:15.680
it will carry all the way through
it's time for a fall fertilization. And

1536
01:53:16.039 --> 01:53:20.000
super Turf is just one of those
products. It's designed it the science behind

1537
01:53:20.039 --> 01:53:24.279
it is such it it's going to
give you that gradual release. You're going

1538
01:53:24.359 --> 01:53:28.279
to not cause a flush of mowing
needs and top growth at the expense of

1539
01:53:28.359 --> 01:53:32.119
root growth and predisposing it toward ginch
bugs or large patch in the fall or

1540
01:53:32.119 --> 01:53:36.039
anything like that. That is why
we like a gradual relief. And the

1541
01:53:36.119 --> 01:53:41.560
silver bag super Turf is the product
from nitro Fosts that will do just that.

1542
01:53:41.640 --> 01:53:44.520
And you're going to find nitrofosts all
over the place. Are ace hardware

1543
01:53:44.560 --> 01:53:46.279
stores carry it, a lot of
the feed stores, a lot of our

1544
01:53:46.479 --> 01:53:51.119
home and garden centers carry nitro FoST
products as well. Not difficult to find

1545
01:53:51.239 --> 01:53:56.079
in the greater Houston area, and
a quality product that will really really work

1546
01:53:56.119 --> 01:54:00.359
well for you. I love that, Love the products that are designed for

1547
01:54:00.439 --> 01:54:03.600
the soils we have here, for
the conditions we have here, and even

1548
01:54:03.640 --> 01:54:05.840
for the time of year that we
use them. You know, that's a

1549
01:54:06.239 --> 01:54:12.520
that's an important factor for sure,
something that we need to do. You

1550
01:54:12.520 --> 01:54:15.520
know, I become a broken record
when it comes to soil, and I

1551
01:54:15.840 --> 01:54:18.079
always say that, I admit that, and I will continue to do that

1552
01:54:18.279 --> 01:54:26.199
because soil is where it all happens
success and the soil is a foundation for

1553
01:54:26.239 --> 01:54:30.399
success with a plant. If you
put a plant in unprepared soil, unless

1554
01:54:30.439 --> 01:54:33.359
you just get really lucky and happen
to buy a plant that likes that kind

1555
01:54:33.399 --> 01:54:38.560
of soil, you're going to struggle
along trying to keep it going and all

1556
01:54:38.640 --> 01:54:43.520
kinds of problems. And the folks
that heirloom soil create a quality blend of

1557
01:54:43.560 --> 01:54:45.800
soils. You know, they got
a veggie herb mix, they got a

1558
01:54:45.840 --> 01:54:48.199
fruit berry in citrus mix. You're
going to be able to buy a leaf

1559
01:54:48.279 --> 01:54:53.479
mold compost or something that's a compost
shale blend. They're going to have a

1560
01:54:53.560 --> 01:54:56.760
rose soil and on and on and
on. I mean, you know for

1561
01:54:56.840 --> 01:54:59.720
potting soils, they've got that kind
of stuff. They just have a wide

1562
01:54:59.760 --> 01:55:04.039
for you. Go to Airloom Soils
of Texas dot Com and if you're looking

1563
01:55:04.359 --> 01:55:08.000
for a large amount, maybe you
want to leave more compost, You're going

1564
01:55:08.079 --> 01:55:12.439
to do some aeration and compost top
dressing if you want, you know,

1565
01:55:12.600 --> 01:55:15.560
just a good quality bed mix.
See if they can deliver their one qbic

1566
01:55:15.640 --> 01:55:20.359
yard supersack to your place. They
just dropped the sack on the driveway.

1567
01:55:20.680 --> 01:55:24.479
You empty it out. I mean, it's real simple, easy to do.

1568
01:55:24.560 --> 01:55:28.560
Airloom Soils of Texas dot Com.
They also have a really good online

1569
01:55:28.600 --> 01:55:31.600
calculator. Their soil calculators the best
I've ever seen. I mean, if

1570
01:55:31.640 --> 01:55:35.840
you need to know how many five
gallon buckets or soil or in a qbyard,

1571
01:55:36.239 --> 01:55:40.079
you can figure it out with that
calculator. That's what I'm talking about.

1572
01:55:40.239 --> 01:55:44.880
Really versatile, really helpful, and
a good quality product there with the

1573
01:55:44.920 --> 01:55:48.159
heirloom soils. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1574
01:55:48.239 --> 01:55:51.600
seventy four. If you'd like to
give us a call. We're going to

1575
01:55:51.680 --> 01:55:56.560
be hitting a break here in a
little bit and we'll come back after that

1576
01:55:56.640 --> 01:56:00.199
and be glad to take your call
at that time. Listen, if you

1577
01:56:00.279 --> 01:56:05.000
are looking for a place to retire, a home, a community for retiring,

1578
01:56:05.319 --> 01:56:10.520
you're not going to do better than
a Dellweb community. Dollweb they build

1579
01:56:10.560 --> 01:56:15.319
their community, they design them around
you. This is a community designed for

1580
01:56:15.439 --> 01:56:19.079
active adults age fifty five and better. They've got those lifestyle programs that are

1581
01:56:19.119 --> 01:56:21.800
part of the community. Yes you
get a beautiful house, of course,

1582
01:56:21.920 --> 01:56:27.319
yes you get an awesome community,
but it's the programs and it's the Dellweb

1583
01:56:27.359 --> 01:56:30.399
difference. And this particular community going
in in Fulshure on three fifty nine,

1584
01:56:30.479 --> 01:56:33.920
it's less than two miles from downtown
full Sure. They have a community garden

1585
01:56:33.960 --> 01:56:38.000
going in that I'm helping them with, and that is kind of cool.

1586
01:56:38.079 --> 01:56:42.520
I mean, to be able to
have all of the Dellweb plus a community

1587
01:56:42.520 --> 01:56:46.239
garden as an additional I can't think
anything better. Go to Dellweb Houston dot

1588
01:56:46.279 --> 01:56:51.359
com for more information or just give
McCall two eight one four five nine zero

1589
01:56:51.479 --> 01:56:55.920
six zero nine. Well, we're
going to be taking a break here.

1590
01:56:56.640 --> 01:57:00.199
We will be back after the break
again the number seven one three, two

1591
01:57:00.199 --> 01:57:13.279
one two fifty eight seventy four Josh
will get you on the boards. Still

1592
01:57:13.319 --> 01:57:17.359
waiting for somebody to tell me what
their favorite warm season flowers are. Surely

1593
01:57:17.359 --> 01:57:19.560
we've got some favorites out there.
I mean, I can tell you mine.

1594
01:57:19.760 --> 01:57:21.560
Be glad to do that. Maybe
that's what we'll do when we come

1595
01:57:21.600 --> 01:57:26.319
back from break. Talk about that
a little bit, as well as getting

1596
01:57:26.319 --> 01:57:29.840
to your calls. Hope you're enjoying
listening to garden Line. For those of

1597
01:57:29.880 --> 01:57:32.880
you listening outside of the state,
Wow, that's pretty cool. I haven't

1598
01:57:32.920 --> 01:57:36.960
had any outside the country listeners yet. Maybe someone from Hollow. How's the

1599
01:57:38.039 --> 01:57:41.920
two look question? I don't know. I bet you have a two look

1600
01:57:41.960 --> 01:57:45.800
expert in Holland you don't need to
go leave of that. Thanks for listening

1601
01:57:45.840 --> 01:57:47.000
to garden Line. We look forward
to talking to you when we come back

1602
01:57:47.000 --> 01:58:06.760
from break. Ktr H Garden Line
does not necessarily endorse any of the products

1603
01:58:06.840 --> 01:58:14.960
or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with Skip

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Rictord. It's so smellyp just watch
him as wound was the club's back ticket.

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01:58:39.960 --> 01:58:48.319
But they're not an All right,
we're entering our last hour of this

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01:58:48.399 --> 01:58:53.319
Saturday morning here on Garden Line.
I'm your host, Skip Ricord. If

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you'd like to give us a call, the number is seven one three two

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01:58:56.159 --> 01:59:00.720
one two five eight seven four seven
one three two one two k t r

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H. If you live up in
the Montgomery area, and when I say

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Montgomery area, I'm talking about Montgomery, l Conro Walden, bent Water,

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01:59:09.399 --> 01:59:14.239
De Lago, April Sound, you
know, even the Woodlands and Huntsville.

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01:59:14.279 --> 01:59:18.119
Willis direction. Your hometown garden center
is Ana Plants and Produce. They're right

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01:59:18.159 --> 01:59:21.520
on the east side of Montgomery there, right on Highway one oh five.

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01:59:24.079 --> 01:59:27.720
Ana Plants. They've been around for
over thirty years and it just keeps getting

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01:59:27.920 --> 01:59:30.760
better and better there. They're open
seven days a week, nine am to

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01:59:30.840 --> 01:59:35.640
five pm. They have knowledgeable staff
that can help direct you right over three

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01:59:35.680 --> 01:59:40.720
acres of every kind of plant you
can imagine, shade trees, nut trees,

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01:59:40.720 --> 01:59:43.840
fruit trees, citrus. Do you
need vegetable and herb plants? How

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01:59:43.840 --> 01:59:47.800
about perennial annual color. They can
sell you stuff that will blaze through the

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01:59:47.880 --> 01:59:50.920
summer, no matter the temperatures.
Just give them a little water, they'll

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01:59:50.960 --> 01:59:56.399
be fine. Palm trees, succulents, bougainville Is, roses, I mean,

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01:59:57.000 --> 02:00:01.800
on and on, and an excellent
selection of things to decorate around the

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02:00:01.880 --> 02:00:05.119
deck, the patio or out in
the gardens. Maybe you need a gazebo

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02:00:05.760 --> 02:00:11.199
cover, maybe a trellis or a
topiary, some yard art, concrete statuere

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02:00:11.239 --> 02:00:14.319
you see what I'm talking about.
They carry the products we talk about here

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02:00:14.319 --> 02:00:18.439
too, the fertilizers and the different
kinds of soil blends and bags that you

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02:00:18.520 --> 02:00:23.479
need. A and A plants in
Produce is your hometown nursery up in that

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02:00:23.560 --> 02:00:27.359
area, and they do such a
wonderful job. It's a pleasure to visit

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02:00:27.399 --> 02:00:30.159
there and just see what they have
now because they're always coming up with some

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02:00:30.239 --> 02:00:35.840
new and cool stuff. Let's now
go out to a task acita. We're

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02:00:35.840 --> 02:00:41.640
gonna talk to Shane this morning.
Hello Shane, good Morning's hid morning.

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02:00:43.880 --> 02:00:46.800
I have a question. I've been
living in my hall now for a couple

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02:00:46.840 --> 02:00:54.399
of years here in Tatsa Cita,
and the previous owners they planet it's suite

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02:00:54.479 --> 02:00:59.920
gum tree. There's things about man, I don't know. Fifty foot.

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02:01:00.479 --> 02:01:02.880
I think the thing is massively okay, and it covers minority, it covers

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02:01:02.880 --> 02:01:06.760
the majority of my yard. Of
course, it's dropping those little little seed

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02:01:06.800 --> 02:01:13.000
pod balls all over my yard.
Um, I'm just curious. Is there

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02:01:13.039 --> 02:01:15.920
any sort of like a hormonal treatment
or anything that I can do, like

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02:01:16.000 --> 02:01:19.800
before those things start popping out,
that maybe I could prevent them from coming

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02:01:19.800 --> 02:01:24.840
out. That is a good question, and I'm gonna entern off the top

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02:01:24.840 --> 02:01:29.199
of my head here, but there's
a there's a product called Florel Flo r

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02:01:29.239 --> 02:01:34.159
e L that is a natural plant
growth regulator kind of product, and it's

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02:01:34.279 --> 02:01:39.159
used for different things, and in
the back of my mind, I think

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02:01:39.319 --> 02:01:45.960
that it can be used for causing
the sweet gums to not develop those balls.

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02:01:45.560 --> 02:01:48.960
Um. Yeah, it's a it's
called a fruit eliminator. It's kind

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02:01:49.000 --> 02:01:51.880
of a growth regulator kind of product. And I'm gonna pull it up here

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02:01:51.920 --> 02:01:56.000
as we're as we're talking about it, see if I can give a little

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02:01:56.039 --> 02:01:59.319
quick look to it. But I
believe Florel would do that. I think

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02:01:59.319 --> 02:02:06.039
it's labeled for that for that purpose
exactly. H prevents new new since I

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02:02:06.079 --> 02:02:14.560
can't even talk. Present prevents nuisance
fruit on ornamental trees and shrubs. They

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02:02:14.640 --> 02:02:17.960
use it from knocking mistletoe out of
a tree. It doesn't kill the mistletoe,

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02:02:17.960 --> 02:02:20.560
it just kind of knocks it out. But anyway, h yeah,

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02:02:20.600 --> 02:02:24.119
I think that I think that would
work. You just have to follow the

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02:02:24.199 --> 02:02:29.119
label instruction on how to do it. In fact, the brand is by

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02:02:29.199 --> 02:02:31.920
Monterey Chemical and they even have a
little street right, yeah, they have

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02:02:31.960 --> 02:02:34.760
a little picture of a sweet gumball
on the label. The boy, when

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02:02:34.800 --> 02:02:39.800
I look at that, I feel
the pain as a child running through those

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02:02:39.840 --> 02:02:45.119
barefoot is not a happy thought.
So it's not. And of course,

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02:02:45.159 --> 02:02:47.119
you know, we're you know,
my wallets and I were trying to keep

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02:02:47.159 --> 02:02:51.399
our beds on nice and treaty,
you know, and it's like, you

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02:02:51.439 --> 02:02:55.439
know, you get rid of layers
of malts because you're getting rid of all

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02:02:55.439 --> 02:02:58.600
these you know, sweet gumballs at
the time. And of course, like

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02:02:58.640 --> 02:03:01.960
you said, you know you're walking
through the barefoot all right there you good?

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Okay, Well, well I appreciate
it, Thank you so very much.

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You bet there is your solution,
at least for now, and that

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if you are looking for a good, good deal, on a tree Verdant,

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02:03:15.479 --> 02:03:19.840
which is they quality trees, quality
growth, excellent choice of selection of

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02:03:20.039 --> 02:03:24.720
species. By the way, for
our area, Verdan is having their Christmas

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02:03:24.760 --> 02:03:27.840
in July sale. Now that this
discount is on the trees, not on

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02:03:27.960 --> 02:03:32.359
installation, but it's ten to fifty
percent off the tree when you purchase it

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02:03:32.399 --> 02:03:36.560
with the installation. So you purchase
the tree, get your discount, and

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02:03:36.600 --> 02:03:41.880
then they will come and install it
for you for your normal installation costs that

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02:03:41.920 --> 02:03:44.680
you would have for planting a tree. You can go on line to Verdant

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02:03:44.720 --> 02:03:49.000
Treefarm dot com. They've got the
location out in West Houston on Barker Cypress.

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02:03:49.039 --> 02:03:54.199
I was, you know, talking
about that earlier when somebody had called

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02:03:54.199 --> 02:03:57.279
in from uh, you know,
outside the area, Austin County, I

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02:03:57.279 --> 02:04:00.199
think Doris and she was looking for
a plant. They also have a location

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02:04:00.279 --> 02:04:03.319
in the Heights in the Woodlands area, that's right where Yale Street and I

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02:04:03.479 --> 02:04:09.119
ten come together, and down in
Parland on Broadway. You can find Verdant

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02:04:09.119 --> 02:04:13.159
Tree Farm as well. Go to
Verdant tree Farm dot com and learn more

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02:04:13.560 --> 02:04:16.119
and don't delay. I mean,
this is a unique opportunity. The Christmas

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02:04:16.159 --> 02:04:20.880
in July stale going on at all
three of their locations. We're going to

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02:04:20.960 --> 02:04:26.720
head out now to League City and
talk to Merble. Hello, Myrtle,

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02:04:27.840 --> 02:04:32.439
Hell, Hello, good morning,
good morning. I have a question about

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02:04:32.560 --> 02:04:39.079
my yard, so I can spring. There were spots in there that were

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02:04:39.159 --> 02:04:44.520
dying, shying augustine grass, and
so my grandson takes care of my yard

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02:04:44.680 --> 02:04:49.039
and he fertilized and it seemed to
be filling in pretty well. I didn't

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02:04:49.079 --> 02:04:53.960
pay much attention to it until recently, and all of a sunny, the

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02:04:54.159 --> 02:04:59.279
part it filled in was a lot
darker and growing faster. It's not saying

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02:04:59.319 --> 02:05:02.960
Augustine. Something else. Oh,
do you have any idea what it could

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02:05:03.000 --> 02:05:09.239
be? It's yeah, it could
be a lot of things. Is it

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02:05:09.279 --> 02:05:14.239
a grass or is it not a
grass? It looks sort of like a

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02:05:14.319 --> 02:05:18.319
grass. But he's taking over the
Saint Augustine. It's killing out the Saint

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02:05:18.359 --> 02:05:23.960
Augustine. I'll tell you, Myrtle. Our herbicides to kill that stuff are

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02:05:24.079 --> 02:05:27.920
very specific in many cases. And
so what I'm going to need you to

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02:05:27.960 --> 02:05:30.199
do is take a photo and get
up. Okay, show me the whole

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02:05:30.239 --> 02:05:33.680
yard in one photo, and then
come up real close close as you can

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02:05:34.399 --> 02:05:38.119
and take a photo. But make
sure before you send it that it's in

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02:05:38.239 --> 02:05:41.359
really sharp focus. And I'm going
to put you on hold in a minute,

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02:05:41.359 --> 02:05:44.520
and Josh will get online and he'll
give you the address to send me

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02:05:44.560 --> 02:05:46.359
the photos and if you can get
them, if you get them to me,

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02:05:47.000 --> 02:05:50.000
you know, within the next thirty
minutes or so, I'll answer it

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02:05:50.039 --> 02:05:53.720
today. If not, I'll pick
it up and talk about it tomorrow.

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02:05:54.319 --> 02:05:57.840
If you want to call back in
then, but just make sure and send

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02:05:57.880 --> 02:06:00.960
that photo. And when you do, if you will attach it to the

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02:06:01.039 --> 02:06:05.560
email. Not Sometimes people will embed
a photo in the text, you know,

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02:06:05.680 --> 02:06:09.760
to paste it in the text,
but attach it to your email.

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02:06:10.159 --> 02:06:13.720
Use the little paper clip on your
you know, the little paper clip for

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02:06:13.760 --> 02:06:16.239
attachments, and uh, that way
I can zoom in and get a much

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02:06:16.279 --> 02:06:19.920
better look. Okay, Okay,
I don't know. I'm not sure I

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02:06:19.960 --> 02:06:23.680
know how to do that. Okay, Well, if you get it to

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02:06:23.760 --> 02:06:26.199
me, can you email? Can
you email me a photo? Or do

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02:06:26.199 --> 02:06:30.840
you have someone maybe your grandson that
could help with that. He's not here

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02:06:30.920 --> 02:06:35.239
right now? Do that maybe next
week? Next week? I can't I'm

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02:06:35.680 --> 02:06:40.159
getting ready to go to church.
Yeah, I get that. I get

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02:06:40.199 --> 02:06:43.199
that. Well, So it just
it's it's just hard. I mean,

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02:06:43.239 --> 02:06:45.640
you may you may have basket grass, which is very different. It's not

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02:06:45.720 --> 02:06:49.159
a grass, and just call it
that. You may have doveweed, you

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02:06:49.199 --> 02:06:53.159
may have a broad leaf weed.
You may have you know, a grassy

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02:06:53.199 --> 02:06:56.319
weed, and I just can't suggest
something to kill it until I know for

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02:06:56.359 --> 02:07:00.600
sure what you got. Okay,
if they can bet bet, Thank you,

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02:07:00.800 --> 02:07:02.680
Thank you so much for the call. I'm gonna have to run to

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02:07:02.680 --> 02:07:06.079
go to break but seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four,

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02:07:06.119 --> 02:07:25.239
if you'd like to get on the
board, we'll be right back. Hey,

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02:07:25.279 --> 02:07:28.279
good morning. You're listening to garden
Line. We are in our last

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02:07:28.319 --> 02:07:30.840
hour on this Saturday morning. And
our phone number if you'd like to call

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02:07:30.920 --> 02:07:36.159
in seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Did you know

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02:07:36.199 --> 02:07:43.239
that Microlife fertilizer is the number one
selling organic fertilizer in the Greater Houston area

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02:07:43.359 --> 02:07:47.359
and Microlife is there's a reason for
that. It's a quality product. What

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02:07:47.520 --> 02:07:51.199
I would do and my lawn this
time of year is used the green bag

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02:07:51.279 --> 02:07:56.880
sixteen oh four or sixteen oh oh
my gosh, six two four. I'm

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02:07:56.880 --> 02:08:01.039
talking about a highway now. Microlife
six two four or in the green bag

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02:08:01.399 --> 02:08:05.039
is kind of the standard for all
kinds of fertilizing, but it's especially good

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02:08:05.079 --> 02:08:11.359
for lawns. You know, sixty
three essential nutrients pushing natural good root growth.

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02:08:11.119 --> 02:08:15.039
I like to use it with the
humates plus. That's a purple bag.

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02:08:15.359 --> 02:08:20.720
That's like concentrated compost and a bag. I mean imagine concentrating composts down

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02:08:20.760 --> 02:08:26.560
into a granular form you can apply
through your fertilizer spreader. That's the purple

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02:08:26.560 --> 02:08:30.720
bag humates plus. So the sixty
four green and the purple humates plus.

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02:08:30.800 --> 02:08:33.319
It's a good idea to use.
Hey, you know, I would buy

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02:08:33.359 --> 02:08:35.479
some extra of the green too,
because that's not just a lawn fertilizer.

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02:08:35.520 --> 02:08:37.960
Do you want to use it in
flower beds? Do I use in vegetable

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02:08:39.000 --> 02:08:41.520
gardens too? That is a really
good blend for a lot of the vegetables

1743
02:08:41.560 --> 02:08:46.239
that we grow. Go online Microlife
Fertilizer dot com. You can find out

1744
02:08:46.279 --> 02:08:48.640
about these products, learn a little
bit more about them if you like,

1745
02:08:48.920 --> 02:08:50.840
but also find out where you can
get them and the inswer to that is

1746
02:08:50.840 --> 02:08:56.439
going to be pretty much everywhere if
it's a good quality nursery and ace hardware

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02:08:56.479 --> 02:08:58.079
store. You know, some of
our feed stores and things. They're gonna

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02:08:58.079 --> 02:09:03.880
have microlife product. Let's go now
to West Houston and we're gonna talk to

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02:09:03.960 --> 02:09:07.560
Larry A Good morning, Larry,
Good morning, sir. How are you

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02:09:07.640 --> 02:09:11.079
doing? I'm well, thank you. What's up with you today? I

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02:09:11.199 --> 02:09:16.159
have some great myrtles that when about
a month ago, the bark was exfoliating.

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02:09:16.640 --> 02:09:20.720
I didn't notice it until I kind
of pulled it away and there were

1753
02:09:20.760 --> 02:09:26.159
some white looking very small. I
could could just take a cotton swab and

1754
02:09:26.720 --> 02:09:28.840
took a little of it off and
made it into a real little ball and

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02:09:28.880 --> 02:09:35.920
stuck it on there. And it
has immensely disfigured the bark. Okay,

1756
02:09:37.800 --> 02:09:41.039
so I tell you, I'm ready
to tell you what it is and what

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02:09:41.119 --> 02:09:45.920
to do about it. If you're
ready to cut to the chase on it.

1758
02:09:46.119 --> 02:09:50.880
That is you sure? That's great
myrtle bark scale and it has invaded

1759
02:09:50.960 --> 02:09:54.279
here from another country. It's an
invasive pest. Of course, great myrtles

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02:09:54.279 --> 02:10:00.399
are from another country too, so
but that often happens. So y myrtle

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02:10:00.439 --> 02:10:03.760
bark scale loads up. You get
this little white things you're describing. You

1762
02:10:03.880 --> 02:10:07.239
also get a lot of city mold. There's a lot of black city material.

1763
02:10:07.319 --> 02:10:11.760
When the crepe myrtle bark scale builds
up, it just creates a lot

1764
02:10:11.760 --> 02:10:16.079
of sugary water that gets on the
surface and things turn black. It's a

1765
02:10:16.119 --> 02:10:20.279
trick to get rid of. Now
here's the thing. You can use oils,

1766
02:10:20.520 --> 02:10:24.159
but in summertime you gotta be real
careful with oils when you spray,

1767
02:10:24.520 --> 02:10:31.079
so you're primarily using those. In
the cooler season. There are systemic insecticides.

1768
02:10:31.119 --> 02:10:33.199
It will go up in the roots
and kill the bark scale, but

1769
02:10:35.119 --> 02:10:41.600
honey bees will receive those and other
bees receive those insecticides from the blooms they're

1770
02:10:41.640 --> 02:10:45.319
they're in the plumbing of the plant, so the nectar can be affected by

1771
02:10:45.359 --> 02:10:50.920
that. And we hate to hammer
honeybees anymore than they're already being hammered honey

1772
02:10:50.920 --> 02:10:56.640
bees and native bees as well.
So I'm really cautious about using a malifion.

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02:10:56.880 --> 02:11:01.640
Plus what can I use directly onto
the crepe myrtle bark scale. Well,

1774
02:11:01.920 --> 02:11:07.479
the malithion would be fine when you
in the spring, when the crawlers

1775
02:11:07.520 --> 02:11:11.279
are coming out. So the old
bark scales you're describing, they're honkered down.

1776
02:11:11.359 --> 02:11:15.399
They got their mouth part in sucking
the juices out of your crape myrtle

1777
02:11:15.680 --> 02:11:18.279
and a malifyon spray with the top's
not going to work. But they have

1778
02:11:18.399 --> 02:11:24.000
babies that little babies that hatch out
and they go crawling around to set up

1779
02:11:24.039 --> 02:11:28.039
shop like mom did. And that's
the stage where malothion works, even a

1780
02:11:28.079 --> 02:11:33.520
good insecticidal soap, where a horticultural
oil works very well. But you got

1781
02:11:33.520 --> 02:11:37.880
to catch them at that stage.
And for that stage, there's one little

1782
02:11:37.880 --> 02:11:41.880
trick you can use, and it's
to use double sided sticky tape. And

1783
02:11:41.920 --> 02:11:45.720
so if you will put some double
sided sticky tape around the branch here and

1784
02:11:45.720 --> 02:11:48.640
there in different places where the crape
myrtles are, and then in the spring,

1785
02:11:48.720 --> 02:11:52.840
just kind of every few days,
watch it and check it and you'll

1786
02:11:52.880 --> 02:11:56.239
see the little crawlers that get up
there and get stuck on that sticky tape

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02:11:56.239 --> 02:12:00.840
as they're trying to move out for
mom to other parts of the branch.

1788
02:12:01.319 --> 02:12:03.640
And that's your queue that now I
need to hit it hard because all those

1789
02:12:03.680 --> 02:12:09.199
surface killer things we're talking about they
work. Otherwise you're gonna have to go

1790
02:12:09.239 --> 02:12:13.439
to the systemic which which again has
those challenges. Okay, Yeah, the

1791
02:12:13.479 --> 02:12:18.239
dormanto oils and things of that nature. You you can't really use them above

1792
02:12:18.279 --> 02:12:20.640
eighty to eighty five degrees and it
gets really hot, right, And that's

1793
02:12:20.640 --> 02:12:26.920
a proactive measure that I'll apply in
the fall, in the spring, pre

1794
02:12:26.039 --> 02:12:31.119
winter, and then you know,
post wind spring. Well, but as

1795
02:12:31.159 --> 02:12:33.760
far as now, is there anything, sir, that I can bring on?

1796
02:12:33.880 --> 02:12:37.640
I mean, are they so locked
into the bark? If there's nothing

1797
02:12:37.720 --> 02:12:41.920
you can do that will permeate them? If they're locked in, not really

1798
02:12:41.960 --> 02:12:45.199
other than a systemic you're not going
to accomplish much. I mean, if

1799
02:12:45.199 --> 02:12:46.640
you just had one or two crape
myrtles, there are people get out there

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02:12:46.640 --> 02:12:50.079
with soapy water and a brush and
scrub and clean it up and clean up

1801
02:12:50.079 --> 02:12:54.199
the black city and stuff on the
main parts, the main branch, the

1802
02:12:54.239 --> 02:12:58.600
main trunk and stuff. But that's
pretty What about a lot have a power

1803
02:12:58.640 --> 02:13:01.399
wash? What if I backed off
the pressure on it and hit them that

1804
02:13:01.520 --> 02:13:05.079
way? They're be worth a try. I've never tried that, but just

1805
02:13:05.159 --> 02:13:09.800
be careful with the pressure. Yeah, that'd be interesting. I don't know

1806
02:13:09.800 --> 02:13:11.359
how many you'll dislodge, but you
ought to be able to do a decent

1807
02:13:11.439 --> 02:13:13.359
job with it. I don't know. I'd have to look into that and

1808
02:13:13.479 --> 02:13:16.960
haven't tried that. By the way, on the oil you were talking about,

1809
02:13:16.079 --> 02:13:20.279
dormano, you want to use when
it's completely dormant, no leaves on

1810
02:13:20.319 --> 02:13:24.119
the plant, And if you could
wait until the latest part of the dormant

1811
02:13:24.159 --> 02:13:28.760
season to do that, right before
growth begins, that would be the time

1812
02:13:28.800 --> 02:13:31.319
to use it. After that we
have to switch to a lighter weight summer

1813
02:13:31.399 --> 02:13:35.760
oil. They evaporate a lot faster. They're not as good at killing insects

1814
02:13:37.119 --> 02:13:41.520
scales, but they are good at
young scales. So that's kind of a

1815
02:13:41.520 --> 02:13:45.600
combination of options that you kind of
need to put together there, Larry all

1816
02:13:45.640 --> 02:13:48.760
Right. On the systemic side,
it's they're short enough, but I could

1817
02:13:48.760 --> 02:13:54.560
cut all the blossoms off and hit
it systemically so there would be no attraction

1818
02:13:56.039 --> 02:13:58.720
to the pollinator. So I'm definitely
looking out for them. There you go

1819
02:14:00.000 --> 02:14:05.399
there, what's the best systemic um
the active ingredient that you would recommend.

1820
02:14:05.600 --> 02:14:11.199
So the first one I would use
is called dino teferon. Dino is in

1821
02:14:11.359 --> 02:14:16.159
dinosaur d I n O, and
then okay t e f u r A

1822
02:14:16.520 --> 02:14:26.880
n taf you'r ron ron iran,
And the other one is called um in

1823
02:14:26.039 --> 02:14:31.560
meadow clod bread. I am I
D O C L O P R I

1824
02:14:31.720 --> 02:14:35.279
D. But look, try to
find the Dino tef ron if you can.

1825
02:14:35.960 --> 02:14:39.039
Uh, if you're let's see uh
in West Teastern, you're not that

1826
02:14:39.159 --> 02:14:41.560
far away from Southwest Fertilizer. There. You're gonna have probably both of those

1827
02:14:41.800 --> 02:14:46.159
there at Southwest Fertilizer. Okay,
great, well not just any price would

1828
02:14:46.159 --> 02:14:50.760
have those on the counters, but
Southwest. Okay, all right, well,

1829
02:14:52.000 --> 02:14:54.039
thank you very much for your time, sir, I appreciate you have

1830
02:14:54.119 --> 02:14:56.319
a good day. All right,
good luck with that. Yeah, you're

1831
02:14:56.319 --> 02:14:58.279
gonna be in that for a little
bit of a battle, but you can

1832
02:14:58.359 --> 02:15:01.199
get it done. Hey, you
have a listen, little piece of property

1833
02:15:01.319 --> 02:15:03.479
and you would love to get a
little tractor to help you out. Maybe

1834
02:15:03.520 --> 02:15:07.439
you're carrying sex of feed for the
animals, or maybe you're you know,

1835
02:15:07.600 --> 02:15:13.039
malt, you're hauling some garden soil
in some quality rose soil or something like

1836
02:15:13.199 --> 02:15:16.199
that, and you know a front
end bucket you kneel a tractor, and

1837
02:15:16.359 --> 02:15:20.880
the tractor you need is a Caboda. That's the original orange tractor. You

1838
02:15:20.920 --> 02:15:24.159
can go to Lansdown Moody and they
have a special deal on select Caboda Tractors.

1839
02:15:24.600 --> 02:15:28.640
You know, there's one price and
one package and a whole lot of

1840
02:15:28.720 --> 02:15:33.319
that original orange color. For example, they're Caboda L twenty five oh one.

1841
02:15:33.920 --> 02:15:37.520
Now the folks at Caboda have told
me that they are extending that deal

1842
02:15:37.600 --> 02:15:39.720
I've been talking about. We thought
I was going to end at the end

1843
02:15:39.720 --> 02:15:43.960
of the month into June. I
believe no, it's continuing on. They're

1844
02:15:43.960 --> 02:15:48.600
going to keep going with it.
And that's zero down, zero percent interest

1845
02:15:48.760 --> 02:15:52.560
for eighty four months, seven years. That is a You're not gonna find

1846
02:15:52.600 --> 02:15:58.039
a better time to buy a Caboda
right now than from Lansdown Moody. Versatility

1847
02:15:58.079 --> 02:16:03.359
and performance from two brand you can
count on every time. Caboda and Landstown

1848
02:16:03.439 --> 02:16:07.000
Moody hands down. It's Lennon's doown. Go to LM tractor dot com.

1849
02:16:07.399 --> 02:16:11.960
LM tractor dot com. The steal
is going to carry on into the fall.

1850
02:16:11.560 --> 02:16:16.640
But in the meantime, don't delay, take advantage of it and take

1851
02:16:16.720 --> 02:16:20.760
home one of those sweet rides for
yourself. There's nothing more fun than getting

1852
02:16:20.760 --> 02:16:24.880
out there and getting stuff done,
from mowing to to box blades to front

1853
02:16:24.960 --> 02:16:26.960
endloaders, all the things that your
local Cabota tractor will do for you.

1854
02:16:28.399 --> 02:16:31.959
Let's go to Kingwood and we're gonna
talk to Michelle. Good morning, Michelle,

1855
02:16:33.920 --> 02:16:37.959
good morning. How can I help? Yes, um, I have

1856
02:16:39.079 --> 02:16:46.040
a sago palm that survived the freeze. Um, but then in the middle

1857
02:16:46.280 --> 02:16:52.639
has been like a light brown color
forever. It never never blossomed, okay,

1858
02:16:52.639 --> 02:16:58.879
and lately the palms have been turning
brown. Um. So, but

1859
02:16:58.879 --> 02:17:01.639
at Shirley and I've been having to
clip off the dead ones. There is

1860
02:17:01.680 --> 02:17:05.239
this normal. Is there anything I
could do to help? It? Is

1861
02:17:05.280 --> 02:17:09.239
the browning coming from the lower ones
on the trunk primarily and then working its

1862
02:17:09.280 --> 02:17:15.680
way up. Yes, uh huh. You know, I don't think there's

1863
02:17:15.680 --> 02:17:18.360
anything really that you're going to do
about as far as the center is that

1864
02:17:20.040 --> 02:17:24.319
tree has some vigor or plant has
some vigor and begins to grow, It's

1865
02:17:24.399 --> 02:17:28.200
gonna you're gonna have new leaves unfolding
from that center, and eventually you will

1866
02:17:28.239 --> 02:17:33.000
have either a male pollen cone or
a female kind of a almost like a

1867
02:17:33.040 --> 02:17:37.680
little basketball or volleyball nub coming in
the middle of it. That is the

1868
02:17:37.760 --> 02:17:39.680
female version of the flower that has
all the seeds on it. Depending on

1869
02:17:39.760 --> 02:17:43.200
whether you're you're sego as a male
or female. Believe it or not.

1870
02:17:43.319 --> 02:17:48.479
There they're separate male and female plants
on that on that palm, I would

1871
02:17:48.479 --> 02:17:50.799
give it a little fertilizer, a
good lawn fertilizer. We've been talking about

1872
02:17:50.840 --> 02:17:54.799
LWN fertizers all morning. That'll do
a really good job for you. You

1873
02:17:54.959 --> 02:18:00.120
might want to consider that. And
just a little water, a little fur

1874
02:18:00.200 --> 02:18:03.120
lives receiving can get a little more
vigor in it so you get a lot

1875
02:18:03.159 --> 02:18:07.559
of fresh new growth coming on it. Okay, And just be careful using

1876
02:18:07.639 --> 02:18:11.920
herbicides around those and any other plants. Misuse of them can cause problems for

1877
02:18:13.000 --> 02:18:16.559
the plant. It's not a common
thing on sagoes, but just something to

1878
02:18:16.600 --> 02:18:20.760
be aware of. Okay, all
right, thank you, thank you very

1879
02:18:20.840 --> 02:18:22.760
much. Yeah, thank you very
much. I appreciate your call very much.

1880
02:18:24.079 --> 02:18:28.280
Good to talk to you. If
you need mulch and you are down

1881
02:18:28.399 --> 02:18:33.120
south of Houston, that whole area
around Manville, Rochcharon, Pomona, Iowa

1882
02:18:33.479 --> 02:18:39.000
Colony, Siena Plantation pair Land anywhere
through there Bras has been state Park Sani

1883
02:18:39.040 --> 02:18:43.520
mulch is your place, that is
your backyard place for quality mulch. You

1884
02:18:43.559 --> 02:18:48.719
can go online to sanimuls dot com. They're just north of Roch Sharon on

1885
02:18:48.959 --> 02:18:52.639
FM five twenty one, near where
Highway six and two eighty eight come together.

1886
02:18:52.120 --> 02:18:56.760
They've got bulk mulches, they got
bag mulches. They got the quality

1887
02:18:56.879 --> 02:19:01.079
soil mixes in bulk and in bags. They carry the fertilizers we talk about

1888
02:19:01.120 --> 02:19:03.559
meat and drive in there and you
get it all done at one time.

1889
02:19:03.879 --> 02:19:09.319
They'll deliver within twenty miles of the
area. Just a little extra delivery charge

1890
02:19:09.399 --> 02:19:11.440
for that. And if you need
any kind of a rock or stone,

1891
02:19:11.799 --> 02:19:15.479
you will not believe the selection.
That's a reason to go. Buy by

1892
02:19:15.559 --> 02:19:18.879
the way on FM five twenty one. They are open Monday through Friday five

1893
02:19:20.639 --> 02:19:24.120
seven thirty in the morning to five
pm and on Saturdays today from seven thirty

1894
02:19:24.159 --> 02:19:28.079
to two closed on Sunday. So
get out there today, check it out

1895
02:19:28.120 --> 02:19:31.000
and you'll see what I'm talking about. Beautiful products. We're gonna take our

1896
02:19:31.040 --> 02:19:37.239
break seven one three, two one
two, five eight seven four. Devil

1897
02:19:37.399 --> 02:19:50.159
danced, He'd have a ball.
We're the nine good Grands race in the

1898
02:19:50.280 --> 02:20:01.079
Green Dance. He'd have a ball
in mine. We got a new steps.

1899
02:20:03.719 --> 02:20:05.360
Did your little country swing to I
don't know. We need some expert

1900
02:20:05.399 --> 02:20:09.319
advice on that one. You're listening
to garden Line. I'm your host,

1901
02:20:09.399 --> 02:20:13.840
Skip Richter and our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1902
02:20:13.879 --> 02:20:18.719
four. We are going to visit
with you about the things you're interested in

1903
02:20:18.840 --> 02:20:20.399
today. But I do want to
talk a little more about the flowers,

1904
02:20:20.479 --> 02:20:26.840
the things that you know can survive
the summertime. Take that temperature. I

1905
02:20:26.000 --> 02:20:30.399
love angelonia. I've talked about that
as a betting plant flower. It just

1906
02:20:30.520 --> 02:20:35.680
does well in the heat. It's
amazingly well in the heat. The different

1907
02:20:35.920 --> 02:20:39.159
kinds of vinca, the mat what
I call them Madagascar periwinkle to separate them

1908
02:20:39.239 --> 02:20:43.280
from the vinca that's the groundcover,
but generally people refer to it as a

1909
02:20:43.360 --> 02:20:48.840
vinca. H Those are super heat
tolerant. I mean they can just take

1910
02:20:48.879 --> 02:20:52.520
it through the blazing. We have
so many colors now, some types of

1911
02:20:52.760 --> 02:20:56.319
trail, uh some you know,
instead of being like more upright, they

1912
02:20:56.479 --> 02:21:00.799
just sort of trail over a hanging
basket. Really good day stuff there.

1913
02:21:00.879 --> 02:21:03.559
When we're talking about those and you
know, those kind of plants and a

1914
02:21:03.680 --> 02:21:07.360
lot more, you're gonna find it
a place like RCW Nursery. In fact,

1915
02:21:07.440 --> 02:21:11.719
there is no place like RCW Nursery. That's the nursery that's up there

1916
02:21:11.879 --> 02:21:18.079
where two forty nine Tumball Parkway comes
into belt Way eight r CW is They

1917
02:21:18.159 --> 02:21:20.280
get it got at nursery. If
they don't have it, they're gonna get

1918
02:21:20.319 --> 02:21:24.319
it for you. I mean they
The Williamson family has run this since nineteen

1919
02:21:24.399 --> 02:21:26.520
seventy nine. I mean they have. They have been a support or garden

1920
02:21:26.600 --> 02:21:31.840
line really for a very very long
time through you know, Bill's Ac John

1921
02:21:31.879 --> 02:21:35.959
Burrow, of course, Randy Lemons
years and they still are. They have

1922
02:21:35.159 --> 02:21:39.200
herbs, perennials, annuals and shrubs. Roses are one of the specialties.

1923
02:21:39.280 --> 02:21:43.079
You're not going to find a bigger
selection of roses. They've got a great

1924
02:21:43.120 --> 02:21:46.360
selection of trees fifteen gallons up to
two hundred gallons. They've grown theirselves on

1925
02:21:46.440 --> 02:21:52.600
the farm up there in Plantersville.
It's just when you buy something from there,

1926
02:21:52.680 --> 02:21:54.479
unit's can do well here. They
can tell you how to do it.

1927
02:21:54.600 --> 02:21:58.680
They have the expertise, which is
what we expect from our mom and

1928
02:21:58.719 --> 02:22:03.600
pop garden centers. Rc Debbs open
Monday through Saturday, eight to five and

1929
02:22:03.719 --> 02:22:05.440
Sundays from ten to five, So
you got a chance to get out there.

1930
02:22:05.799 --> 02:22:11.319
If you're looking for some blazing hot
summer color stuff that can laugh at

1931
02:22:11.360 --> 02:22:16.200
the weather we're having. Now,
go buy our CW nurseries and tell them

1932
02:22:16.280 --> 02:22:18.840
what you're looking for. Look for
those the Cajun hibiscus that I like so

1933
02:22:20.000 --> 02:22:22.840
much. They've got those things there. They just have a lot of stuff

1934
02:22:22.040 --> 02:22:26.920
bougainville is and everything else we would
want for summer heat. They've got it

1935
02:22:26.000 --> 02:22:31.399
at OURCW. Well, let's uh, let's go out. We're going to

1936
02:22:31.479 --> 02:22:35.719
head out to Buffalo, Texas and
talk to Terry. Well, hello,

1937
02:22:35.000 --> 02:22:41.520
Terry, how are things way up
in Buffalo? It's going great? Good?

1938
02:22:41.959 --> 02:22:46.799
Good? Do you do you live
up there? Or you just calling

1939
02:22:46.799 --> 02:22:56.799
them? Okay, no, I
live up Um, I'm calling my avocado

1940
02:22:56.559 --> 02:23:01.959
dropped every single avocado, I probably
fifty of them. The plant looks beautiful,

1941
02:23:03.639 --> 02:23:07.760
but the all the fruit dropped off
of it. Okay, how how

1942
02:23:07.840 --> 02:23:16.280
long has this been planted? Oh? Four maybe five years? Four or

1943
02:23:16.319 --> 02:23:20.159
five years? Okay, Yeah,
it's it's in a great big pot.

1944
02:23:20.360 --> 02:23:24.479
I can't leave it out, okay
because it gets too cold, but absolutely

1945
02:23:24.639 --> 02:23:28.159
yeah it does. You know,
put it during the winter. I put

1946
02:23:28.239 --> 02:23:33.159
it on a on a dolly and
roll it in and out right, you

1947
02:23:33.239 --> 02:23:35.680
know, so it can get fun. That's a good plan. That's a

1948
02:23:35.799 --> 02:23:39.159
very good plan. You know.
Any kind of a little stress can cause

1949
02:23:39.280 --> 02:23:41.559
the aborting of the fruit as it's
you know, as they bloom and are

1950
02:23:41.600 --> 02:23:46.280
trying to set fruit. Uh.
That's one thing that that could be a

1951
02:23:46.399 --> 02:23:48.280
cause for that. And being in
a container, it's easy for you know,

1952
02:23:48.319 --> 02:23:50.600
if you forget the water for a
day or two for it to kind

1953
02:23:50.639 --> 02:23:54.920
of go into a little bit of
a drought strouss. Uh. That's one

1954
02:23:54.040 --> 02:24:01.200
possibility. Um, you don't need
two varieties for cross pollination, so we'll

1955
02:24:01.239 --> 02:24:05.440
eliminate that. I uh, poof. I don't know what else that may

1956
02:24:05.520 --> 02:24:09.879
be going on with that avocado,
but that that would be my first estimate,

1957
02:24:11.799 --> 02:24:16.760
is probably being involved. I think
you had you had another question.

1958
02:24:16.840 --> 02:24:22.639
I believe. Yeah, my lavender
is really struggling. Okay, if the

1959
02:24:22.799 --> 02:24:28.760
heat did you tell it? Did
you tell it that it's in Texas because

1960
02:24:28.799 --> 02:24:31.959
it hates that. It hates to
hear that, So, you know,

1961
02:24:33.079 --> 02:24:37.159
we strugg I wish we could grow
lavender here if we had a Mediterranean more

1962
02:24:37.200 --> 02:24:39.879
of a Mediterranean kind of climate,
you know, where it just on a

1963
02:24:41.040 --> 02:24:45.559
really well drained area. They've tried
it pretty good success in the whole country,

1964
02:24:45.600 --> 02:24:50.079
but even there, the diseases just
hammer our lavender terry. It doesn't

1965
02:24:50.159 --> 02:24:54.879
like the humidity, it doesn't like
to be a little too wet. For

1966
02:24:54.120 --> 02:24:58.520
sure, in a heartbeat, it'll
die in soggy conditions. We just seem

1967
02:24:58.559 --> 02:25:03.239
to have problems, and we've tried
a lot of different ones. I was

1968
02:25:03.360 --> 02:25:09.479
visiting visiting with uh Beverly up at
Arburgate a while back about and you know,

1969
02:25:09.479 --> 02:25:11.000
I said, Beverly, you guys
have been trying new lavender as you

1970
02:25:11.079 --> 02:25:15.639
got any that are showing good promise, And it's like, yeah, not

1971
02:25:15.840 --> 02:25:18.879
great. We just don't have that
lavender that you put it out there and

1972
02:25:18.040 --> 02:25:22.360
say it's it does well here,
you know. I mean you can pamper

1973
02:25:22.399 --> 02:25:28.159
them along the container where you really
can control the drainage really well do okay

1974
02:25:28.319 --> 02:25:31.799
the Spanish lavender, you know,
Okay, but it's just a challenge,

1975
02:25:31.879 --> 02:25:37.680
and so there's a lot of issues
from cultural to disease that that affect it

1976
02:25:37.760 --> 02:25:41.760
and just make it hard. Okay, sorry, Ben, I'm not I'm

1977
02:25:41.799 --> 02:25:48.760
going to quit. Yeah, how
quick struggle one. It's that you know,

1978
02:25:48.879 --> 02:25:50.879
I hate silk plants, but I
don't know where. I was the

1979
02:25:50.920 --> 02:25:56.120
other day walking along as outside a
restaurant and they had plastic lavender uh in

1980
02:25:56.239 --> 02:26:01.799
a in a bud. It was
a defensive but I had to laugh because

1981
02:26:01.799 --> 02:26:03.840
I thought, well, that is
a lavender that'll do well here. That

1982
02:26:05.120 --> 02:26:07.079
is true. Hey, do you
ever go to Bobo's Nursery when you're up

1983
02:26:07.120 --> 02:26:11.840
there in Buffalo? If I do? I do? I go to Bobo's

1984
02:26:11.959 --> 02:26:13.600
all the time? Well tell him
skip. Richard said, Hi, that's

1985
02:26:13.639 --> 02:26:18.520
a You're fortunate to have a little
island up there in the in the area

1986
02:26:18.520 --> 02:26:20.440
of Buffalo. You don't have to
drive all the way to Houston. But

1987
02:26:20.520 --> 02:26:22.360
we do hope you'll run down here
and chop some because we got some awesome

1988
02:26:22.559 --> 02:26:26.399
I was. I was there this
past week and went to plans for all

1989
02:26:26.479 --> 02:26:30.600
seasons. Oh my gosh, Oh
my gosh, oh my gosh. So

1990
02:26:31.559 --> 02:26:35.760
that that's wonderful. Did you have
a did you bring a trailer or did

1991
02:26:35.799 --> 02:26:39.319
you have to fit it all in
your car? I have a truck,

1992
02:26:39.479 --> 02:26:43.760
so yeah, seasons plas row season
says to a truck won't hold on what

1993
02:26:43.879 --> 02:26:48.879
you need from Blanks Rawson. That's
true. All right, Well go ahead,

1994
02:26:48.040 --> 02:26:50.200
thanks for coming down shopping, Thanks
for the call, and say hi

1995
02:26:50.239 --> 02:26:54.520
to Bobos for me. We'll do. Thank you. Take care, Bob

1996
02:26:54.600 --> 02:27:00.520
Boyah. You know, this is
the summer season is when our law pick

1997
02:27:00.600 --> 02:27:03.000
up a lot of the insect issues
that we deal with. You don't have

1998
02:27:03.120 --> 02:27:07.639
many insects that problems our lawns.
Grubs and a chinch bugs will get in

1999
02:27:07.680 --> 02:27:09.719
there, of course, they get
the fire ants in there, and then

2000
02:27:09.799 --> 02:27:15.040
there's the side web worm that some
years just really hit us hard. Well,

2001
02:27:15.239 --> 02:27:18.840
right now chinch bugs are hitting us
hard. And Nitrofoss has a product

2002
02:27:18.879 --> 02:27:22.799
called bug out Max. It will
control up to one hundred and thirty different

2003
02:27:22.799 --> 02:27:28.479
species of insects. Now. Bug
Out Max is a really excellent consumer choice

2004
02:27:28.799 --> 02:27:33.920
here in Texas for your insect problems
in your lawn works really well. If

2005
02:27:33.920 --> 02:27:35.959
you got fire ants, they have
a nitro phost fire at killer. It

2006
02:27:37.079 --> 02:27:41.559
works quick, but it also kills
the colony to prevent new mounts from popping

2007
02:27:41.680 --> 02:27:43.840
up. Now everywhere nitro fosts is
sold, you know, pretty much,

2008
02:27:43.920 --> 02:27:48.479
the feed stores, the garden centers
we talk about, the ash hardware stores

2009
02:27:48.559 --> 02:27:52.360
we talk about the Southwest feed and
fertilizer. They all have nitrofous a.

2010
02:27:52.479 --> 02:27:56.959
Nitrofoss Southwest feed down there has it
as well. Not gonna have trouble finding

2011
02:27:58.040 --> 02:28:01.600
these two products. But if you
deal with insects in the lawn, and

2012
02:28:01.680 --> 02:28:03.959
if you live in Houston you do
with insects in the lawn, consider that

2013
02:28:05.159 --> 02:28:09.239
nitrofis bugout max. Pretty good option
for that works very well. We're gonna

2014
02:28:09.239 --> 02:28:13.079
head out to Crosby now. Oh, I'll tell you what. I just

2015
02:28:13.520 --> 02:28:16.719
took your call, Bob. Right
at the moment I looked at the clock

2016
02:28:16.799 --> 02:28:18.760
and saw I gotta go to break. Well, hang on for me and

2017
02:28:18.920 --> 02:28:24.040
we'll come back to you. Sorry
about that false alarm our phone number seven

2018
02:28:24.079 --> 02:28:43.520
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four. All right, you're listening

2019
02:28:43.520 --> 02:28:46.079
to the Garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Richter, and we are

2020
02:28:46.159 --> 02:28:48.680
in the last segment of the show. If you'd like to give us a

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02:28:48.719 --> 02:28:52.239
call seven one three two one two
five eight seven four, now's your chance.

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02:28:54.120 --> 02:28:56.920
In the meantime, Bob, we're
gonna come out to you now and

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02:28:56.000 --> 02:29:01.959
Crosby and this isn't a false alarm. How can we help today? Yeah,

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02:29:01.000 --> 02:29:09.040
I was curious about the possibility of
growing sego bombs from seed. Yes,

2025
02:29:09.159 --> 02:29:13.879
you can do it. Yeah,
it sounds very hard. I mean

2026
02:29:13.920 --> 02:29:18.319
I never have a big seed,
and it's hard. You have to score

2027
02:29:18.440 --> 02:29:20.959
the seed or you know, I
need to check on that. I know.

2028
02:29:22.120 --> 02:29:24.639
You plant them pretty much right up
near the surface. It's not that

2029
02:29:24.959 --> 02:29:28.600
not that difficult to do. But
you want to get them a you know,

2030
02:29:28.639 --> 02:29:37.559
a real organic content mix, lots
of organic matter and seed germination is

2031
02:29:37.639 --> 02:29:41.879
not a real big deal with sego
palm by How long does it take to

2032
02:29:43.000 --> 02:29:46.440
German night? Oh my gosh,
I have not. I spent a long

2033
02:29:46.520 --> 02:29:50.959
time since I played. I think
they're slow. I think it. I

2034
02:29:52.079 --> 02:29:54.719
think it can take like two or
three months to get them germal. I

2035
02:29:54.840 --> 02:29:58.680
just have to keep them moting.
What what I would do is put it

2036
02:29:58.760 --> 02:30:03.760
in a container, moisten the soil
well and put kind of a clear cover

2037
02:30:03.920 --> 02:30:05.399
over it to kind of hold the
moisture in so it just didn't dry out

2038
02:30:05.440 --> 02:30:11.479
some fast. Uh, and then
uh just give them time. Uh.

2039
02:30:11.600 --> 02:30:15.639
They they can germinate faster. And
if you go online, there's people that

2040
02:30:15.760 --> 02:30:18.360
give you tips and tricks for for
doing all the all the stuff like that.

2041
02:30:18.639 --> 02:30:22.799
But a sago is not a not
a difficult thing to get to grow

2042
02:30:22.879 --> 02:30:26.799
if you just you know, follow
this. Thank you, you bet all

2043
02:30:26.879 --> 02:30:30.360
right, beby grade day, Yes, sir, thank you for the call.

2044
02:30:30.360 --> 02:30:33.680
I appreciate that very much. Well, you're listening to Garden Line and

2045
02:30:33.959 --> 02:30:41.559
our phone number seven one three two
one two kat r H ktr H.

2046
02:30:43.319 --> 02:30:50.680
If you if you're looking for,
you know, some quality materials for enhancing

2047
02:30:50.760 --> 02:30:54.920
your home, and I'm talking about
you know, everything from the things you

2048
02:30:56.000 --> 02:30:58.840
need to beautify your home to some
things that are related to you know,

2049
02:31:00.000 --> 02:31:05.600
decoration or your home certainly things like
lighting and all the things we need to

2050
02:31:05.680 --> 02:31:07.440
repair our homes. Well, you're
going to find that, of course,

2051
02:31:07.639 --> 02:31:11.520
right at a hardware store, right
but not any You're going to find it

2052
02:31:11.559 --> 02:31:13.440
at Ace when you go into Ace
Hardware. You know, I grew up

2053
02:31:13.639 --> 02:31:16.079
with Ace Hardware's In a little town
I grew up in, there was an

2054
02:31:16.079 --> 02:31:20.440
Ace Hardware store. And I'm telling
you the Ace hard When I walked back

2055
02:31:20.479 --> 02:31:24.920
into Ace hard had been years since
I've been away. When I walked back

2056
02:31:24.959 --> 02:31:28.000
into Ace Hardware here in the Houston
area, I could not believe it.

2057
02:31:28.440 --> 02:31:31.959
It's almost like they need to take
the word hardware out Yes, it is

2058
02:31:31.079 --> 02:31:37.879
hardware and out these I mean it
awesome hardware selections, quality, but everything

2059
02:31:37.959 --> 02:31:43.680
else I mean it is that it's
like going into the ACE Hardware mall almost

2060
02:31:43.760 --> 02:31:46.799
if you went. When it comes
to gardening, all our fertilizers that we

2061
02:31:46.840 --> 02:31:48.680
talk about, the soil products we
talk about, they're there. If you

2062
02:31:48.799 --> 02:31:52.520
need pesticides, andsesecticides, fungicides,
herbicides, any of those kind of things.

2063
02:31:52.959 --> 02:31:58.879
Outstanding selection at ACE Hardware. You
need containers for your plants, even

2064
02:31:58.280 --> 02:32:01.799
plant lights, you can find it
in an ACE hard It's just everything you

2065
02:32:01.879 --> 02:32:07.239
can imagine. And then when we
move outside for outdoor living and all the

2066
02:32:07.360 --> 02:32:09.399
things that go with that, you're
not going to beat an ice. Here's

2067
02:32:09.440 --> 02:32:11.799
what you need to do. You
just need to go to one and see

2068
02:32:11.840 --> 02:32:15.600
what I'm talking about. Visit more
than one. You can go online to

2069
02:32:15.719 --> 02:32:20.280
ACE Hardware dot Com. There's thirty
nine in the Houston area, so there's

2070
02:32:20.319 --> 02:32:24.000
more than one near you check them
out to take a little time and wander

2071
02:32:24.079 --> 02:32:26.239
through, and you will be surprised. And I promise one hundred times you're

2072
02:32:26.239 --> 02:32:30.360
gonna say, oh, I didn't
know they had that here at ACE Hardware.

2073
02:32:30.680 --> 02:32:33.799
Because that's the kind of store it
is. The service, the old

2074
02:32:33.840 --> 02:32:37.879
time hardware service that I remember from
Ace and I grew up with is still

2075
02:32:37.920 --> 02:32:41.280
around because these locally owned thirty nine
here in Houston. They're locally owned,

2076
02:32:41.280 --> 02:32:46.280
they're locally operated operated. So you
got someone in the store there that isn't

2077
02:32:46.360 --> 02:32:50.040
just part of a big chain.
They care about the local community and supplying

2078
02:32:50.120 --> 02:32:54.239
what you need. And that's the
kind of service you get. That's why

2079
02:32:54.280 --> 02:32:58.360
I always talk about Ace and bragg
on Ace, because I mean, I

2080
02:32:58.799 --> 02:33:03.479
could just brag all day. It
is an outstanding, outstanding place to get

2081
02:33:03.520 --> 02:33:05.760
whatever you need. Let's head out
to the Woodlands. We're gonna go talk

2082
02:33:05.799 --> 02:33:11.040
to Frank in the Woodlands. What's
up to Frank? Now, good morning,

2083
02:33:11.200 --> 02:33:15.559
thanks for taking my call. Yes, sir, We've lived here Dame

2084
02:33:15.639 --> 02:33:20.479
House for fifteen years and I am
addicted to Bitsy mark Palms, its Ober

2085
02:33:22.319 --> 02:33:28.399
dis Ober front alrighty and every winner
that seems that I wrapped it from but

2086
02:33:28.239 --> 02:33:33.559
it seems it struggles to get well
again. And I'm gonna put on design

2087
02:33:33.600 --> 02:33:37.959
in the center and it's now just
coming back. But is there anything you

2088
02:33:37.040 --> 02:33:41.799
can suggest that I do to keep
it from getting stopped by the cold snaps.

2089
02:33:43.159 --> 02:33:46.200
Yeah, oh boy, we say
it's you know, it's it is

2090
02:33:46.360 --> 02:33:50.639
only hearty down to about freezing.
I mean, you can get to thirty

2091
02:33:50.680 --> 02:33:56.040
degrees and sometimes in a protected site
maybe twenty five, but you certainly don't

2092
02:33:56.040 --> 02:34:00.600
want to take advance, take a
chance on that. So really what you're

2093
02:34:00.680 --> 02:34:07.399
left with is protecting that top bud
at the very least. So if that

2094
02:34:07.760 --> 02:34:11.760
Bismarck palm, like most palms,
there's one living bud on the plant that

2095
02:34:11.920 --> 02:34:16.600
is at the top of the trunk, and if it dies that it cannot

2096
02:34:16.639 --> 02:34:20.600
reach brout the tree is the palm
tree is gone. So at least protecting

2097
02:34:20.680 --> 02:34:24.120
that top bulb. There's there's you
know, heating cables you can put around

2098
02:34:24.159 --> 02:34:28.639
and I'm just talking about the not
hot hot, but just a mild heating

2099
02:34:28.680 --> 02:34:31.399
cable like you'd put around your pipes
to protect them. You could put that

2100
02:34:31.520 --> 02:34:35.639
in there with a cover, you
know, over it to try to protect

2101
02:34:35.719 --> 02:34:37.639
it. But other than that,
you know, trying to cover the whole

2102
02:34:37.680 --> 02:34:41.559
thing with all those big, old, giant silver fronds out there, that's

2103
02:34:41.639 --> 02:34:43.719
quite a cover job. But if
it's short enough and you can do that,

2104
02:34:45.319 --> 02:34:48.040
that's fine. But you're still going
to need heat underneath the cover.

2105
02:34:48.159 --> 02:34:54.079
Yeah, when you talk about the
seed, the next frond that's coming out

2106
02:34:54.120 --> 02:35:00.840
of the dinner that protect that protect
the bud at the top, at the

2107
02:35:01.040 --> 02:35:05.840
very top of the palm tree is
the only living new growth bud on a

2108
02:35:05.920 --> 02:35:11.879
Bismarck palm, and so us a
leaf will come out and it'll expand and

2109
02:35:11.239 --> 02:35:15.520
you reach out and eventually it ends
up, you know, sagging down,

2110
02:35:15.639 --> 02:35:18.319
and that's about the time they turn
around. You're taking them off. But

2111
02:35:18.520 --> 02:35:20.959
constantly new leaves are coming out,
but they're only coming out right at that

2112
02:35:22.159 --> 02:35:26.000
top center, which is where the
living bud is that can create new growth,

2113
02:35:26.559 --> 02:35:31.280
and so that that's the key to
protecting. Of course it's important to

2114
02:35:31.319 --> 02:35:37.760
correct the trunk too, but that's
especially important. Okay, what about the

2115
02:35:37.040 --> 02:35:41.840
mule palm, the same thing.
Yeah, any kind of palm mules another

2116
02:35:41.959 --> 02:35:46.719
example, I say, any kind
mules a good example of another palm that

2117
02:35:46.840 --> 02:35:50.959
just has one bud. We have
a few palms that they will um,

2118
02:35:52.840 --> 02:35:54.879
they can sprout from the bottom.
They kind of form a thicket needle palm

2119
02:35:56.000 --> 02:35:58.760
can kind of do that. But
most of our palms is just that one

2120
02:35:58.799 --> 02:36:01.920
bud up at the top of the
trunk. Now, mules are really they're

2121
02:36:01.079 --> 02:36:05.120
they're pretty darn coal tolerant. They're
going to take it down to about fifteen

2122
02:36:05.159 --> 02:36:09.440
degrees if they're well established and they've
kind of cooled off slowly and are ready

2123
02:36:09.520 --> 02:36:13.959
to go for it. But a
mule, generally, you shouldn't have to

2124
02:36:13.000 --> 02:36:18.520
worry about those here in Houston.
Yeah, and I thank you for that

2125
02:36:18.639 --> 02:36:22.440
also, And I have both of
those along with a pindow. I'm a

2126
02:36:22.559 --> 02:36:26.879
transplant from Florida, Okay, and
we have a Mediterranean of Asiena, so

2127
02:36:28.079 --> 02:36:31.680
to say. And I really like
the palmlo. Yeah, but what kind

2128
02:36:31.719 --> 02:36:35.280
of a I mean, I'm outside
now, what am I actually? What

2129
02:36:35.399 --> 02:36:39.440
kind of a bud? Can I
see? You're not? You can't see

2130
02:36:39.479 --> 02:36:43.799
the bud. It's down in that
top center. So you can just see

2131
02:36:43.879 --> 02:36:46.959
when the bud sends out a new
leaf. You got this little thing poking

2132
02:36:48.040 --> 02:36:50.319
up out like a sword coming out
of there, and then it expands and

2133
02:36:50.440 --> 02:36:54.360
goes out. That's that's the We're
coming from the bud, but you can't

2134
02:36:54.360 --> 02:36:58.479
see it. Hey, have you
ever been to Verdant Tree Farm before?

2135
02:37:00.440 --> 02:37:03.600
You know, we talk we talk
about them a lot here. There's one

2136
02:37:03.760 --> 02:37:07.360
out in the probably the closest one
for you would be the one or the

2137
02:37:07.399 --> 02:37:11.040
easiest to get to. It would
be the one out Barker Cypress, which

2138
02:37:11.120 --> 02:37:16.600
is on the west side where Highway
six comes down toward ten. They specialize

2139
02:37:16.639 --> 02:37:20.319
in palms, and oh my gosh, their selection is unbelievable and they know

2140
02:37:20.559 --> 02:37:24.319
palms. So if you're you know, how hardy is this, or you

2141
02:37:24.440 --> 02:37:28.319
know any advice on growing it,
they're going to be able to set you

2142
02:37:28.479 --> 02:37:31.440
up. They really really thank you
so much. I'm gonna go do that.

2143
02:37:31.799 --> 02:37:35.399
And it's down on Cypress. Uh, well it's it's on Barker Cypress

2144
02:37:37.000 --> 02:37:41.000
in West Houston. Let me see
here we're going to we're running out of

2145
02:37:41.079 --> 02:37:43.440
show here, but if you hang
on just really quick, I'm I'll see

2146
02:37:43.440 --> 02:37:48.239
if I can find you the address
for Verdan. If not, you're gonna

2147
02:37:48.680 --> 02:37:50.799
just have to to go look it
up. I'll look them up. I'll

2148
02:37:50.840 --> 02:37:54.000
go to Verdan. Thank you so
much. Yeah, you bet, you

2149
02:37:54.079 --> 02:38:00.200
bet. It's Verdant Tree Farm dot
com Verdant Tree Farm. Okay, yes,

2150
02:38:00.879 --> 02:38:03.239
hey, thanks for the call.
Good to talk to you. Well,

2151
02:38:03.280 --> 02:38:07.239
we've had a good time talking to
everybody this this Saturday. I guess

2152
02:38:07.280 --> 02:38:09.200
this was kind of out of state. Saturday, several calls from out of

2153
02:38:09.239 --> 02:38:13.559
state. We'll be back again tomorrow
morning, six am. Every Saturday and

2154
02:38:13.600 --> 02:38:18.639
Sunday six am to ten am.
Tell your friends and neighbors that are interested

2155
02:38:18.680 --> 02:38:22.319
in gardening about garden Line. Hopefully
they'll tune in the meantime, we'll see you tomorrow