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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richard's

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shoes crazys. Just watch him as
things to set crazy again. Not a

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sign gas. So good Sunday morning. I want to wish each of you

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are really nice Sunday morning. It
is a nice day outside. Glad to

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have you with us today. You're
listening to Garden Line and what are we

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doing. We're here to help you
have a more bountiful garden and a more

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beautiful landscape. That's our goal.
So all you got to do is give

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a call if you'd like to talk
about something regarding your garden. Maybe you've

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never done a garden before, let's
talk about that. There are a lot

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of ways to get into growing things
without having to just dive in full force.

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For example, there's containers. If
you've never grown vegetables before, there

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is a great opportunity to grow them. Just a really nice large container.

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For example, if you're going to
do vegetables like a tomato, then I

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would say five gallons minimum absolute minimum, more like ten gallons to do really

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well with it. And why does
that matter? Well, it matters because

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the plant has to be able to
get water and nutrients, and everything it

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gets has to come out of the
container. So I don't care whether you're

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growing a petunia or a tomato or
an herb in a container, that whole

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root system is abnormally confined for that
plant. Okay, if you were looking

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at a tomato growing out in the
garden, it have roots going down pretty

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deep actually, and pretty far in
all different directions, drawing from moisture and

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nutrients that are in the soil.
In a container, it's limited to that

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amount of soil. So the more
soil you have, the better you are.

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That means you water less often.
That means you have less drought stress.

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That means the nutrient availability is greater
because there's a bigger volume, a

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bigger bank account for them to draw
from. So why not try garden and

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a container this year? If you
haven't done it before, give it a

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try. Now. It's not tomato
planting season, that's for sure, But

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you can plant herbs. There are
other vegetables you can grow in summer.

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You can grow flowers, beautiful container
gardens of flowers. Oh and by the

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way, there's no rule that you
have to keep your flowers and your food

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apart. There are flowers that are
edible. There are ways to mix both

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blooming beauty and bounty in the same
garden, and I would encourage you to

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do that. For example, what's
the Swiss charred bright lights. It's got

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all these beautiful colors of ribbed leaves
and Swiss charred. Of course it's an

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edible charred, but my goodness,
that is gorgeous and a colorful container at

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the right time of the year when
it's happy. So consider some of that.

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What are you gonna do different this
year? What are you gonna try

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new that you haven't done before.
We're gonna head straight out to the phones

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and we're gonna go to Montgomery and
talk to Albert. Hello, Albert,

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Hello, skip make show you have. I love the patience you have with

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the callers. Thank you. Are
you gonna try my patients now? Albert?

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Oh, I think it's I think
this is a pretty simple question.

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I just I've bought a ten gallon
a red oak tree, and uh,

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I've been struggling with how to dig
the hole. Can you give me some

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pointers on how to dig the hole
so I can get this tree to grow.

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Please. Yeah, well, you
know we don't want to dig a

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hole deeper than the root cylinder that
you're about to pull out of the container

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and plant. Okay, because you
know you've probably dug trenches or holes before

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where you thought you filled them up
level, and then later you came and

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they were all sunking in because it
swell settles over time, and you want

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the plant to be at the right
level. And the right level for a

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tree is so the topmost root is
right at about the soil line. So

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now you know, if you bought
the tree, it may have been re

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potted several times as it grew,
and it may not be that the topmost

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root is at the top of the
container anymore. But just dig down wherever

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the topmost root is that is at
the level of the soil, and then

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you just measure down and that's how
deep you dig your hole. From the

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topmost root to the bottom of the
container cylinder. That's how deep the hole

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is. And people talk about digging
holes that are two and a half times

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as wide as the root cylinder.
That's fine, that's a good rule of

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thumb you can do that. I've
gotten to where I just don't like bending

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and stooping and lifting dirt, and
I pay for it the next day if

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I do too much of that.
So what I'll do is dig a hole

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big enough to get the thing in, but then use a spading fork go

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around the plant. Like imagine your
tree is sitting in the hole at the

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right level, uh, and it's
not a huge hole. But then you

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take your spading fork and you're going
around in the soil around that hole,

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and you're sort of pushing the fork
down and pulling it back to crack it

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open. So you're basically loosening the
soil with ever having a stoop and pick

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it up, and you know,
hurts your back on that, and it

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accomplishes the same thing, whether you
dig out the soil and then put the

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soil back in or whether you just
loosen it up really good. Either way

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you can help that tree get established
and then always water really really good to

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settle all the soil in as best
you can. Well, when you pull

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it out of the container, the
root, you're like in a circular circular

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do you cut those or loosen them
up? Or yeah, you need to

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they don't unwind underground, and if
it's a small enough circle, like let's

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say if it was in a one
gallon pot. Well, that little one,

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that little spaghetti sized root going around
a one gallon pot. In about

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eight years, it's going to be
big enough and the trunk's going to be

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big enough to where they're going to
come together, and that root's going to

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end up being a strangling route.
We call them a girdling root around the

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trunk, which is a bad thing. That's why, that's why we cut

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them. All right, you have
a great Father's day, Skip, Thank

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you, good to talk to you. You as well. Thank you very

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much for the call over. Take
care, Thank you, Bye bye bye

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bye. Plants for All Seasons is
a is a wonderful garden center. It's

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up it's up on Tomball Parkway Highway
two forty nine, which if you're going

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from Houston to Tomball you exit Louetta
a crossover Luetta and a trade there on

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the right hand side. They've been
around for a long time, the Flowery

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family, I think is about nineteen
seventy three they began Plants for All Seasons

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and they've been going strong ever since. You know, the expertise not only

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within the family members but and it
is family operation, but within the staff

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as well, the other staff as
well. It's excellent. And so when

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you go in there, you get
good advice, you get good direction.

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They will help you. But let's
say you want to do one of those

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beautiful color containers I was talking about. They could kind of walk you through

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and go here, these are some
plants would be good for maybe the center

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of your container. Here's some ideas
from the others. What do you like?

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In other words, they make sure
you have success. You know,

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you come back in later. You
got a bug on your plant, you

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bring in in a bag and they
identify it, Yeah, don't worry about

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it, or well, yeah you
need to control it, and here's what

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you use, and they have that
on hand. And it's that kind of

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service. It's that kind of walking
along with you as you're learning to garden

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and as you're you know, trying
to create that beautiful homescape that eden around

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your house. That's what Plants for
All Seasons does. You can go to

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the website Plants for All Seasons dot
com, Plunts for All Seasons dot com,

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or you can go to the phone
and just call them up seven or

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not seven two eight one three seven
six sixteen forty six. Let me do

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that again. Two eight one three
seven six, sixteen forty six. Plunts

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for all seasons. Right there at
two forty nine and Lueta, it's starting

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to warm up outside. I know
you guys realize this. I had a

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week last week out in the landscape
where I'm doing a lot of different kinds

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of work. I started talking about
it yesterday. We have a bed that

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just had the worst clay soil I've
ever seen in my life in it.

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I mean it was, it just
is a sticky mess. And so we've

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done several things. I've done a
drainage pipe away from there, kind of

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an underground French strain to get the
excess water out of that area. And

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i even excavated a little bit of
the clay out and put a whole bunch

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of expanded shale in, mixed it
into the soil, and then I've got

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a whole bunch of organic materials,
bed mixes, compost that kind of thing,

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mixing that into the soil as well, getting my nutrient levels up,

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putting some fertilizer down. And this
next week will be time to be planting.

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But that was a lot of preparation. But it's more fun, isn't

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it, just to get flowers and
put them in the bed and then hopefully

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enjoy them. But I'll tell you, if you want to be able to

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enjoy them, to realize that enjoyment, you got to get the right first.

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That's really important. That bed has
been there for about a year.

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In fact's been there longer than that. When we moved into the particular house

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that we're in right now, that
bed it's just never been right. It's

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never been right. And I finally
just bit the bullet and went in and

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redid it. And now we're gonna
have a nice bed with nice flowers,

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and I don't have to worry about
it going forward. Just some swell amending

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here and there as we go.
But if you think about it that way,

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you can take your garden areas just
one at a time and get the

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swill right. That is so important
to get it right, And part of

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that is getting the nutrient levels right. And I know, normally when I'm

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talking about fertilizers and things, I'm
talking about for your lawn, because that's

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kind of the elephant in the room
around our Landscapes's got to get that lawn

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care, but there are a lot
of other ways that we can enhance our

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garden success with fertilizers, even sometimes
ones that are with the lawn. I'm

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going to talk about that a little
bit when I come back. Right now,

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we're going to take a quick break
and I'll be right back. Our

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number is seven three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back.

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Good to have you here with us
on Garden Line. What kind of gardening

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questions can we assist you with today? That's what we're here for. Give

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us a call when you're when you've
got something you'd like to discuss, such

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as maybe it's vegetables or flowers or
fruit. Certainly lawns and trees. Lawns

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and trees are the big ones.
That's what the phone rings about most of

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the time. So I was talking
about lawn care and lawn care, fertilizers

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and other things. You know.
Microlife they have some excellent products for the

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lawn, their Humantes Plus it's a
purple bag that works really well. It's

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concentrated compost in a bag. That's
what it amounts to. It provides benefits

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that help not only with the microbial
activity in your soil, but also with

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the physical characteristics of the soil.
Humus is something that does assist in developing

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a good friable structure to the soil, meaning it breaks apart. It's not

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just a mass of clay with poor
drainage compaction. It listens it up and

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over time, as you improve your
soil with organic matter, including with humans

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like microlife humates plus, you're going
to see those benefits. I would also

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say that if you were doing any
kind of vegetable gardening that these kinds of

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products are also very effective because it's
it's plants with roots growing in soil,

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and so you need to follow the
kind of the design that nature created out

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there that has a wonderful, loose, open soil that builds better and better

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over time. That's kind of how
it works. We tend to tear soil

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up by not taking care of it, and if you just look at how

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nature functions, soil gets better and
better each year. That's what that's what

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we're aiming for, and micro life
fertilizers can help you with that. The

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green bag that we would put on
our lawns, the six to four good

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Summer fertilizer good fertilizer throughout the year. It is also one that I would

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use in my vegetable garden. I
would use it in a flower garden.

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We use it in a bed that
you are growing herbs in. It's a

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good all purpose fertilizer. The six
to four green bag. There's a lot

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of other products. I like Microlifs. They have a number of things such

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as the seaweed product, fish emulsion
type product, and other general fertilizers.

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The orange bottle, the seven percent
nitrogen liquid is an excellent I use it

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for houseplants. I use it for
a lot of other things. You're not

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going to go wrong with these.
Just take one look. If you want

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to give us a call talk about
a particular kind of plant, we can

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be a little more specific. I
can be a little more specific on recommending

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these, but in general, you're
going to find success with all of them.

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And I know I say this because
you know we put on bags or

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bottles or whatever. We say this
is a biscus food, or this is

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a tomato food, or this is
a whatever rose food, and those are

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all true in their guidelines. Excuse
me, Ben. In general, plants

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need the nutrients that they're lacking,
and so if you were to have a

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soil let's say that the phosphorus was
already through the roof high, just for

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example, well, then a high
phosphorus fertilizer that might otherwise be a good

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one wouldn't be the one for you
for that particular situation because you were supplementing

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what your soil needs. That's why
we often go with a three one two

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kind of ratio, because in general
that's kind of what plants tend to take

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up in terms of the ratio for
especially a leafy green growth on plants.

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Anyway, just some thoughts on it. One of the things that is difficult

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to encourage people to do or difficult
to talk people into doing, is soil

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testing. And you know it's just
you'd rather go take your money and go

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buy a plant, right, or
fertilizer or something. And when you say,

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well, go spend a little on
soil testing, you know it's not

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that expensive. But what soil testing
does is it gives you your snapshot in

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time, so you know exactly what's
already in your soil. Is it balanced,

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is it imbalanced? Is something excessive? Is something deficient? All the

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above? You know, all of
that and you know the pH of your

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soil as well, and then you
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a more targeted way. So if
not, we go with these general guides

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like use a three one two on
your lawn and put it out and put

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it out so that you're putting a
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Those are all guidelines, and there
most of the time they're just fine.

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They're just fine, they work fine. But the ultimate is periodically test your

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soil and find out what you need. It may be that my standard recommendations

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for you at your yard are not
the best choice and that we would need

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to adjust that based on a soil
test result. Does that make sense?

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Analogy I like to use is if
I walked into a kitchen and somebody was

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in the process of putting together a
cake. You know, they had the

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mixing bowl and had some flour in
there and other things, and I walk

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in the room and they go,
hey, do I need to add more

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sugar, more salt? Do I
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How would I answer that question?
Because I, number one, I don't

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have the recipe, but I don't
know what's already in the bowl. And

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if they've already added all those well
then no, you don't need to add

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those. And so I use that
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soil needs a certain thing is it's
a good guess, but it's better to

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know exactly what's already in the soil
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Hopefully that wasn't too too dry and
nerdy. But it's a simple, simple

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point, but it sure will help
you have success. Our phone number is

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one

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two five eight seven four. I
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to thank the folks at the wall
Birds Unlimited in bel Air for having me

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out after the show. We were
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Wadbirds because they're fun. I got
to meet some nice folks while we are

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out there too, give aways some
nice products. And thanks to Products for

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donating some really cool stuff that we're
able to give away yesterday for folks that

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came by. You know, Wildbirds
is an ideal spot if you're looking for

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a great gift for Dad. And
guess what today is For those of you

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who have let it sneak up this
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They have wonderful feeders, they have
wonderful bird houses. They have all

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kinds of accessories for birds. I
was visiting with them about some of the

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bird watering devices and the little they
have a little gadget that drips water and

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that makes the water and the bird
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and as a result, mosquitoes don't
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moving and that little dripping movement.
It's a little simple gadget, but that's

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really a great idea. But we
were looking at bird They have excellent books

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on birds. It's easy to find
something for dad. And Wildbirds Unlimited.

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It just is. And the quality
feed that they have is outstanding. I

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picked up some myself. I'm doing
kind of a blend of two of their

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feeds myself right now. And I
just enjoy Wilbird Unlimited quality feeds because when

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you buy a pound of it,
you get a pound of stuff that's bird

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food, not the stuff birds kick
on the ground because they don't like to

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eat it. And I think that's
important. And if you've been dealing with

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squirrels and you're all frustrated with that. Go into Wilbirds and say, hey,

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what are the options, and they're
going to give you four or five

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ways where you can help avoid problems
with squirrels getting in and stealing everything that

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you're wanting to feed the birds with. I know some of you are out

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there feeding squirrels, but that's a
whole other thing. Wilberd, Hey,

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how do you find one? There's
six of them WBU dot com forward slash

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Houston WBU dot com forward slash Houston
that will help you find the wildbirds near

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you. Excuse me, I'm having
a time of it this morning. If

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you have never tried growing and grafting
different kinds of fruit, you ought to

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consider that. There's just something to
try out. It's not something you would

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necessarily do right now, but there
it is not that difficult to learn how

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to graft, or that difficult to
learn how to bud to attach a bud.

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There's a lot of good for information
online. I know the Agrolife Extension

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Service, the Horticulture Department has some
publications that teach you how to graft.

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There's good videos online to learn how
to do it. But it's really a

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cool hobby. And if you let's
say you had a citrus tree and a

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freeze killed it back, and now
the rootstock sprots up and you got this

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thorny rootstock. What do you do. Well, you can dig it up,

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you can buy another one, put
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Or you can try your hand grafting
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from somebody who has a particular let's
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a lemon, something you're mere lemon, something you're interested in, and

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just graft it on yourself. And
it's not that difficult. And if you

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mess up and it doesn't work,
well, you get another you to try

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it again, because you're not killing
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It pretty easy to do. Well, It's time for me to take a

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little break here and let the news
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be probably, I'll tell you what. Let's do this. We're gonna take

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a little break. When I come
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a little bit about some general tree
care and we're going to go to the

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phones, and Charles you'll be there
first. Stup, Welcome to garden line

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this morning. Good have you with
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about? That would be your call. So we're going to start and let

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Charles answer that question. Up in
Huntsville. How are you doing, Charles,

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Good morning. I am forty miles
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southern Tennessee. Oh that yeah.
I've got fifty four sweet cord plants in

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my in my garden, and I
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them, and then once they sprouted, I used as a mic. They're

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about four tall, but they haven't
tasseled yet. They haven't got that little

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brown spike yet. Okay, they're
about four feet. Does it do any

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good to fertilize them at this point? As far as the quality of the

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corn, the sweet corn usually usually
how fertilized trails the corn. I'll get

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the soil right for I even plant, and I think that's what you said

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you did, you put some ten
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it gets about knee high, I
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nitrogen. I mean, you can
use more than just nitrogen, but it's

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primarily the nitrogen that you're needing.
So a turf type fertilizer that's hiering nitrogen

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would be fine, or even just
something that is just nitrogen would be fine

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too, and then that gives them
the boost. Corn is a heavy feeder,

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and in order to keep it growing
and producing well, just making sure

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it has plenty of nitrogen is important. Okay, yeah, So the thing

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about it, though, you know, it depends on what's already in your

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soil. So if you ever have
a soil test, that will be educational

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because it may be usually over time, we don't need to keep using something

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like a ten ten ten usually that
that's going to change a little bit,

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because that mental number tends to build
up. Well, I was using the

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information that I shouldn't plant until the
ground temperature was sixty degrees, but I

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noticed the real farmer across the road
has a huge, big field of field

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corn, and he put his when
it was fifty and now his is already

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starting to tassele out. But right, well, if field corn does better

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germinating in cooler soil, if you're
going to do like a sweet corn,

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then and especially if you're going to
do a super sweet that so one needs

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to build a considerably warmer to do
equally well, so you're not necessarily too

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late. Well, I know it's
about four foot tall. Now, I

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just noticed when I drive by the
other farmer's field, his is way ahead

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of month. Okay, all right, well may well have sweet corn by

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the fourth of July. Well,
I appreciate the information. Thank you,

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sir, thanks for listening up there. I appreciate it. Good luck with

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that corn. You know, one
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is somehow the raccoons know the day
you're gonna pick it. I have more

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than once been ready to go out
the next morning and pick my corn,

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and that night the coons got in
it and chewed it all up. So

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when we hunted in South Dakota,
you could get out and you could go

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drive around and there'd be corn field
corn growing, and there was just a

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line you could draw a rumor on
it. It was so straight where the

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deer had eaten. They down the
line, whole line of corn. There

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you go. We don't have any
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Raccoons away from it. All right, there you go. We'll good

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to talk to you. Take care
of Thank you, bye bye. Yeah,

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that is that you talk about frustrating
in the morning, is like,

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what were they doing, like sitting
off in the edge of the woods,

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listening to me say I'm gonna pick
it tomorrow, and they go, we

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got to get in there tonight.
We're won't get any corn out of this

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deal. It almost feels like that. So I wanted I told you a

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while ago, I wanted to talk
about trees a little bit. Our trees

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are the most valuable single plants in
our landscape. They provide incredible benefits.

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Number one, a shade when it's
summer. Having shade, whether it's shade

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on the roof of your house or
the side west wall of your house,

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or just shade for you sitting out
in a patio. It's a valuable thing

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to have those trees. We need
to pick trees carefully before we plant them

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because we're going to be living with
them for a long time, right or

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somebody will. And to pick a
quality tree species, one that's going to

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last. It's going to be strong
wooded, that has a great structure,

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that just has a reputation for being
long lived. That's important. It may

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be a flowering tree, though,
and that again, picking one that is

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going to perform well and do well. Here is important. Once you have

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a tree, you need to take
care of it, and that involves a

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number of things. From the time
it's young, it needs to be pruned

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properly. We start off we say
train the tree, meaning you're pruning it

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in a way that develops a good, strong st structure. And this is

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something that you can learn by getting
out and doing some reading and studying about

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it. And there's a lot of
good information out there online, or you

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can hire somebody to come do it
for you. But whatever you do,

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you need to have it done right. And that's important because when you mistrain

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a tree, you can end up
creating problems that down the line you just

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never really overcome. And when you
butcher a tree by printing it wrong,

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you do damage that is a lifetime
And I see a lot of this from

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so called professional tree prunters. And
we have some very reputable folks through the

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Houston area that know how to print
trees. And then we have a lot

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of people that own a chainsaw a
pickup and that's kind of their level of

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expertise. And I see the work
they do driving down the streets. I

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see really bad prunting jobs. Affordable
Tree Service Martin spoon Moore. The reason

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we talk about Martin is he knows
how to do this. He's been doing

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it for many years now. He's
got the expertise to do it. He

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knows Houston, he knows our trees. He understands what it means to live

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in storm Alley here where we get
the hurricanes and all the other kinds of

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storms that come through like the one
that did the other day. If you

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have a tree that hadn't been looked
at and examined by a professional in a

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while, you ought to give Martin
a call. Let me give you a

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phone number. It's seven one three
six nine nine twenty six sixty three.

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Martin knows exactly how to take care
of your trees. And whether you call

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him at seven one three sixty nine
nine twenty six sixty three, or go

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to the website Afftree Service dot com, have him come out. Schedule for

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him to come out. Tell him
your guardline listener that puts you at the

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front of the line for Affordable tree
In Martin spoon Moore. But have him

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come out and look what is needed. Is there some deadwood? Are there

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some narrow branch angles that need to
be pruned and removed. What need What

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does your tree need? He will
tell you and he'll do the job right.

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And that's the bottom line. And
so don't wait until after the storm

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and you're looking for somebody to come
chainsaw the limbs and throw them in the

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back of a truck that fell out
of the tree. Get ahead of it

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and get your trees in the best
condition because again, very valuable parts.

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They're valuable to if you ever resell
your home. One of the most important

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things in terms of a nice home
resale is a beautiful landscape with beautiful trees

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around it. That is a very
important thing. And you can have that,

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but you got to take care of
them. Don't trust your trees with

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is somebody who owns a chainsaw.
That's the bottom line for that. I

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wanted to point out. Next.
Let's see schedule here in front of me.

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Next June the twenty ninth, it's
two weeks from today, June the

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twenty ninth. I'm going to be
at Langham Creek Ace Hardware. That's over

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kind of in the Copperfield neighborhood.
For those of you sort of West Houston

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know the Copperfield area. Langham Creek's
over in that area, and I'll be

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at the Ace Hardware there on Saturday
after the show, two weeks from yesterday,

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and I hope you go ahead and
put that on your calendar. That'll

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be my last appearance of the season. So here's your chance, one last

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chance if you want to bring some
samples by or just come by and meet.

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I'd always love to meet people that
are listeners to Garden Line, So

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make that note Langham Creek Ace Hardware. I'll tell you more about it as

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we get closer, but it's two
weeks out from right now, eleven thirty

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to one thirty on that Saturday.
We're going to take a break, get

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some information here, and come right
back. Our phone number if you want

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to get on the board with Chris. Seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four. Welcome back to
the garden Line. Good to have you

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with us. If you'd like to
give us a call and talk gardening,

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here's the number you want to write
this down. Seven one three two one

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two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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We're gonna go out to Brenham and
talk to Mike. Hello, Mike,

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Hello, sir, how are you? I'm well, thank you.

408
00:27:56.519 --> 00:28:02.200
How can we help today? I
have two apple trees. One of them

409
00:28:02.240 --> 00:28:04.279
is a pink lady, and I
think the other is uh kalla, I

410
00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:11.160
don't remember what. They had a
lot of growth this year and I did

411
00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:15.880
some hand of pollinating and it worked
really well good, probably too well.

412
00:28:17.160 --> 00:28:22.480
I've got clusters of apples on little
limbs that are I don't know, half

413
00:28:22.559 --> 00:28:26.640
the size of a diameter of a
pencil. Yeah. So anyway, so

414
00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:32.920
first off is that should I find
those apples out? I mean, I've

415
00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:36.160
got clusters of five apples on a
little limbs like that. Yeah, you

416
00:28:36.559 --> 00:28:41.039
need to. It's how big are
the apples right now? Right now they're

417
00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:45.680
golf ball are a little bit bigger. Yeah, So going forward in future

418
00:28:45.759 --> 00:28:51.519
years, go try to get them
thinned before they certainly reached the size of

419
00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:55.799
your thumb the end of your thumb, okay, last joint of your thumb.

420
00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:59.200
That that would be kind of a
goal to get them done. Now,

421
00:28:59.279 --> 00:29:03.000
on an apple looms, it has
a cluster of blooms and there's one

422
00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:07.839
in the middle that's called a king
blossom, and it's bigger, and that

423
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:10.880
would be the one that's most important. If you get that pollinated, it'll

424
00:29:10.920 --> 00:29:15.480
make the best, biggest apple on
the cluster. But the others are there

425
00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.559
too, and sometimes something happens to
the main one, and it's good to

426
00:29:18.599 --> 00:29:22.720
have some others around, But you
thin them to one per cluster, So

427
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:26.559
that's pulling a lot of apples off. But yeah, one per cluster is

428
00:29:26.599 --> 00:29:32.839
all you should have on an apple
tree. Okay, okay. Additionally,

429
00:29:33.079 --> 00:29:37.359
the there's been a lot of above
ground growth, but with the storms and

430
00:29:37.480 --> 00:29:42.000
whatnot, those both those apple trees
have have and I took off their supports.

431
00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:48.599
They were about three years old.
They're leaning, they've they've had they've

432
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:52.240
been leaning over. I had to
put supports back on. Yeah, to

433
00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:55.279
keep them, to keep them upright. Is there something I can do?

434
00:29:56.000 --> 00:30:00.200
And I had been using root activator
and stuff like that. There's something I

435
00:30:00.240 --> 00:30:07.000
can do to help strengthen the strengthen
truth just mainly the thing that strengthens would

436
00:30:07.440 --> 00:30:11.079
on whether it's a fruit tree or
a shade tree or whatever, is movement

437
00:30:11.480 --> 00:30:15.759
and stretching of those tissues. And
they get stronger if you do that.

438
00:30:15.039 --> 00:30:18.079
And so if you were to take
a tree trunk when it's a little skinny

439
00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:22.559
trunk and tie it to a post
tight. It would never develop the strength

440
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:26.119
if you took the post away to
snap off. But when it moves in

441
00:30:26.200 --> 00:30:30.200
the wind, that slight movement,
that stretching, it gets stronger and stronger.

442
00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:33.519
It's kind of like our muscles working
out getting stronger. It's the same

443
00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:38.599
principle in nature. And so if
you can allow it some movement, you

444
00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:41.400
got to stick it out, but
a little bit of movement in time it

445
00:30:41.480 --> 00:30:47.880
will get stronger. Do you know
offhand what rootstock your apples are on?

446
00:30:48.400 --> 00:30:52.440
Usually? Okay, that's fine,
that's fine. That affects sometimes tree growth

447
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:59.160
too. I see, should I
trim the canopy if you will? I

448
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:03.759
mean, they're not twelve foot tall
now, But should I trim it out

449
00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:08.000
just kind of limit the sale effect? I would. I would trim it

450
00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:14.720
only to take away things that don't
have a long term purpose in the canopy.

451
00:31:15.160 --> 00:31:19.640
Everywhere you have foliage, it's producing
carbohydrates, which is setting fruit buds

452
00:31:19.680 --> 00:31:23.640
when we get into mid to late
summer. That's so you need that and

453
00:31:23.759 --> 00:31:27.680
for next year. And it also
is strengthening the plant, helping it grow

454
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:33.240
bigger. And better root system,
cutter top growth. So I wouldn't prune

455
00:31:33.359 --> 00:31:37.720
just to prune. But if you
go online, there's a website called Aggie

456
00:31:37.759 --> 00:31:41.079
Horticulture and they have free publications on
there. There's one in the fruit section

457
00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:45.680
on apple trees, and it shows
you how to prine and apple. It's

458
00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.200
a little different approach than when we're
pruning peaches. It's hard to describe on

459
00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:52.640
the air, but the bottom line
is you want branches that are spaced apart

460
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:57.119
enough so that you get good air
movement through there and good light down into

461
00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:00.599
that. We say, into the
canopy of the tree. You don't want

462
00:32:00.599 --> 00:32:02.920
your treat to become an umbrella with
all the foliage and fruit around the top

463
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:07.799
and outside. Okay, yes,
sir, Yes, sir, okay,

464
00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.640
awesome, awesome. I appreciate your
time. All right, well, good

465
00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:14.039
luck with that. Thanks, Mike, appreciate the call, Yes sir,

466
00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:19.400
take care. Nelson Plant Food has
a wide variety of quality plant foods.

467
00:32:19.440 --> 00:32:21.359
You know, have the turf Star
line. And by the way, if

468
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:25.119
you haven't done summer fertilizing Slow and
Easy by Nelson Plant Food, part of

469
00:32:25.160 --> 00:32:30.640
their turf Star line of products gives
you a very very nice smooth, gradual

470
00:32:30.759 --> 00:32:34.839
release on from the time you put
it down. You get a little nutrient

471
00:32:34.920 --> 00:32:37.200
release then, and then it just
continues to do that and all the way

472
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:40.480
up to like three months, four
months, even a little further out in

473
00:32:40.640 --> 00:32:45.160
time, it's still releasing that nutrient. So when you're fertilized with slow and

474
00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:47.680
Easy in the summer, you're done
until fall. It's got a little bit

475
00:32:47.720 --> 00:32:52.359
of an acidifying effect, which is
a good thing also, but it's high

476
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:54.759
quality fertilizer, very important to do
that. Now. There's a lot of

477
00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:00.480
different kinds of products from Nelson Plant
Food. They're nutrius Star line is especially

478
00:33:01.200 --> 00:33:05.039
interesting. You know, for example, if you got any kind of vines

479
00:33:05.039 --> 00:33:09.279
from bougainvillias to wisteria to you know, trumpet buyes and caroline adjustment, all

480
00:33:09.279 --> 00:33:15.680
of boog and villa plant food by
Nutristar, the Nelson product is an excellent

481
00:33:15.759 --> 00:33:19.759
choice. They have a crape myrtle
fertilizer that's also a very good blend,

482
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.799
works well. And the Plumeria which
works with all your flowering tropicals, is

483
00:33:24.039 --> 00:33:30.039
just another example of a quality product
in the nutri Star line from Nelson Plant

484
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:32.480
Food, and they're widely available,
easy to find them easy to come by.

485
00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:37.640
While we're talking about taking care of
the soil, the importance of making

486
00:33:37.720 --> 00:33:43.960
sure that we have prepared the soil
well with good quality organic matter is important.

487
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:45.799
Now you can go out to the
soil you have and you put composts

488
00:33:45.880 --> 00:33:50.319
and things down and mix it in
and create a nice soil. You can

489
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:52.279
also just buy a soil that you
put in a box, put it in

490
00:33:52.359 --> 00:33:55.000
a container, put it in a
raised bedgarden, put it on top of

491
00:33:55.039 --> 00:34:00.160
the ground and grow in that.
Things like the fruit berry and or excellent

492
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:04.519
for that. The veggie and herb
mix would be excellent for that. For

493
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:09.000
succulents, the cacti and succulent mix. Airlom soils has a wide variety and

494
00:34:09.039 --> 00:34:13.880
they're widely available. It's really easy
to find heirloom soils no matter where you

495
00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.519
live because they're sold by the bag. You can also bat by the bulk.

496
00:34:16.800 --> 00:34:22.800
You can go to Heirloom Soilsoftexas dot
com, Heirloomsoils off Texas dot Com

497
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:25.039
and find out you can go get
it. You can have them deliver it

498
00:34:25.119 --> 00:34:28.960
to you. You can have them
bring a supersack, which is a qbcard

499
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:34.559
sack that's set on your driveway.
Real easy to do and very high quality

500
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:37.000
products. I've used in myself.
They work very very well. And remember

501
00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:42.079
round stuff before green stuff, the
fertilizers, the soil amendments, all of

502
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:45.159
that. It's very very important.
We know. Now out to conro and

503
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:49.039
talk to Archie. Hey, Archie, we got about a minute. If

504
00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:52.519
it takes longer, I'll just hold
you over the break. Okay. Hey,

505
00:34:52.639 --> 00:34:58.920
Well we spoke last year and had
some little volunteer elm trees come out

506
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:05.039
and I replanted them, and they're
they're doing awesome, really are I think

507
00:35:05.079 --> 00:35:07.800
they're going to be fine? My
question is should I trim them up?

508
00:35:07.920 --> 00:35:13.920
And what should I fertilize them with? Uh? You know I would?

509
00:35:15.239 --> 00:35:19.599
Are you gonna are they containers right
now? Are they already where they're going

510
00:35:19.639 --> 00:35:22.360
to finally be? Yeah? No, they're they're where they're going to be.

511
00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:28.159
Okay. I I went straight from
a wheelbarrow where they volunteerily come up

512
00:35:28.519 --> 00:35:30.519
straight to the ground. Okay,
So what you what you want to do

513
00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:35.880
with a young tree like that is
as it grows, you're not going to

514
00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:39.199
see the first long term limb for
a good while, because that first limb

515
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:43.440
that is a long term limb is
going to be a way above your head

516
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:45.519
high, right. I mean,
if you go out to a big tree

517
00:35:45.519 --> 00:35:47.719
in the yard, you don't have
limbs done at your waist on that tree.

518
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:52.400
Uh. And so the branches that
are growing out, now, I

519
00:35:52.400 --> 00:35:55.159
would take my prunters and I would
just cut the last couple of inches out

520
00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:59.719
of them, just tip them.
And what that does is it leaves the

521
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:04.559
foe on them to make carbohydrates and
move down into the plant to help that

522
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.360
plant get bigger and stronger, get
more root system, and do better and

523
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:12.920
better. And then once they hit
the stage where they're about the size of

524
00:36:12.920 --> 00:36:15.159
the end of your thumb, let's
say, about an engine diameter, then

525
00:36:15.239 --> 00:36:19.559
you can cut them off where they
attached to the branch. But by tipping

526
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.639
them, you dwarf them and you
prevent them from taking over and using all

527
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:25.679
the energy of the tree. Instead, they're more of an energy producer than

528
00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:30.719
an energy user. Uh. And
just continue to work it up there until

529
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:32.199
you finally get to a height where
you're going to have a permanent branch.

530
00:36:32.679 --> 00:36:37.519
And at that stage you wouldn't be
tipping those Does that make sense? So

531
00:36:40.119 --> 00:36:44.960
blowing on all of them all about
an inch from the bait. No,

532
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:47.639
no, no, let me do
the music is playing here. I'm going

533
00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:50.440
to have to come back to you
on it. No, I'm talking about

534
00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:53.639
taking the inch, final inch out
of the end of the branch. Let

535
00:36:53.679 --> 00:37:04.000
me come back and oh god,
I'll explain it. Just saying welcome to

536
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:31.440
kt r H garden line with skimp
Rictor. It's just watch him as a

537
00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:40.400
sign welcome back to the garden line. Good to have you with us.

538
00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:45.719
Look outside, will you take a
look at that sky. It is beautiful.

539
00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:49.519
It's going to be a beautiful day. I love it. I love

540
00:37:49.599 --> 00:37:52.719
it, love it, love it. Hey, this is an opportunity this

541
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:54.920
afternoon for you to get outside to
get a little couple of things done.

542
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:58.079
If you want to put around the
art a little better, just go buy

543
00:37:58.119 --> 00:38:01.360
a garden center and pick up some
applies and get ready to go for taking

544
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:05.280
your lawn and landscape to the next
level. Remember it is time to be

545
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:08.599
planting all kinds of things in the
vegetable garden and in the flower beds.

546
00:38:08.599 --> 00:38:13.079
We got a lot of good heat
tolerant plants that we can we can use

547
00:38:13.280 --> 00:38:17.400
and so there's no reason even when
summer heat hits to lose the beauty and

548
00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:21.119
the color that we can have around
the landscape. We're going to go back

549
00:38:21.119 --> 00:38:23.400
to the phones now. We were
talking with Archie up in Conroe and Archie

550
00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:28.440
we were discussing elm pruning. And
I'm gonna take another kind of stab at

551
00:38:28.639 --> 00:38:30.239
at what I'm trying to describe.
I wish I wish you could see me

552
00:38:30.280 --> 00:38:34.639
wave my hands in the air.
And you know how I can't talk without

553
00:38:34.679 --> 00:38:37.920
my hands. Well anyway, Uh
So, you've got this little trunk coming

554
00:38:38.000 --> 00:38:40.960
up out of the Ground's a young
little tree and it's going to have sight

555
00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:45.639
and a half foot and a half
foot tall right now, huh. And

556
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:47.519
you want that trunk to come on
up. It's going to keep growing bigger

557
00:38:47.559 --> 00:38:52.159
and bigger. But rather than cutting
off all the branches where they attached to

558
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:54.559
the trunk and just living leaving you
with a little bamboo pole coming up out

559
00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:58.880
of the ground, We're we're going
to take the tips of those and just

560
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:02.119
snip the tips out so they stop
growing, but they stay there with the

561
00:39:02.239 --> 00:39:08.719
leaves that are on them. And
that we call that a trashy trunk because

562
00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:14.920
what we're doing is we're leaving them
as to serve like they would be nurse

563
00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:19.880
limbs, meaning they're they're they've got
leaves or producing carbohydrates, but they're not.

564
00:39:20.559 --> 00:39:23.920
The tree is not putting its energy
into growing those branches. It's putting

565
00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:30.519
its energy into growing that upright trunk
you're building and eventually the true scaffold branches

566
00:39:30.559 --> 00:39:34.840
that will appear way above your head
and time. So rather than just cut

567
00:39:34.880 --> 00:39:37.039
them off, let's take advantage of
the leaves on them, and you can

568
00:39:37.079 --> 00:39:42.119
get more of a response in terms
of tree growth. Rapid tree growth is

569
00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:44.960
a result to that. So just
just you're what you're saying is just just

570
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:47.960
clip the ones that are there about
an inch and that'll kind of go dormant.

571
00:39:49.159 --> 00:39:52.039
Yeah, sometimes you get even a
tree comes up and it has two

572
00:39:52.119 --> 00:39:54.880
trunks and they want to compete with
each other who's going to be boss,

573
00:39:55.360 --> 00:39:59.119
And if you let them do that, they just get bigger and it just

574
00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:01.920
ends up being a mess and time. It's a very weak union. But

575
00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:07.480
if you anytime you snip the tips
out of a branch, it dwarfs it

576
00:40:07.760 --> 00:40:10.320
and it may try growing again and
you can do another trimming on it later

577
00:40:10.400 --> 00:40:14.639
if you need to, meaning trimming
meaning just cutting the tips out, But

578
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:17.519
at the end of the season,
those that you tipped will just be a

579
00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:22.280
fraction of the diameter of the ones
you let just grow, in this case

580
00:40:22.360 --> 00:40:29.800
the trunk. So where will they
start growing after you tip them? Yes,

581
00:40:30.360 --> 00:40:31.960
well, anytime you cut a branch
off, you may get two or

582
00:40:31.960 --> 00:40:38.079
three buds at break and and and
grow out in response to that. Do

583
00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:40.159
you see what I'm saying? Like, if you cut the top out of

584
00:40:40.239 --> 00:40:45.119
your little trees you got, they
would have buds at form and try to

585
00:40:45.199 --> 00:40:47.840
replace that trunk and go back up
in there. Okay, okay, okay,

586
00:40:49.039 --> 00:40:52.480
gotcha? Gotcha? All right?
And should I should I fertilize it

587
00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:58.800
now? Or moderate amounts in general, as yours is pretty small. But

588
00:40:59.239 --> 00:41:01.320
in general, what I say is, on these young trees, go up

589
00:41:01.360 --> 00:41:06.239
to the trunk with your thumb.
That's my one inch measure close enough?

590
00:41:07.039 --> 00:41:08.920
And how many thumb wits across is
it? You know? So let's just

591
00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:13.199
say the tree was the size of
a typical broom handle, you know,

592
00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:16.519
that may be what inch inch and
a half whatever across, And and so

593
00:41:16.679 --> 00:41:21.320
you would give it a cup or
two of fertilizer for every inch of trunk

594
00:41:21.400 --> 00:41:23.480
diameter. So if you had,
if you had a broom handle, it'd

595
00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:28.480
get a it'd get a cup or
two or three of fertilizer. And if

596
00:41:28.519 --> 00:41:31.000
it was the size of a Coca
Cola can, that's about three inches,

597
00:41:31.039 --> 00:41:34.880
so that's going to be about three
or six cups. And that makes it

598
00:41:35.000 --> 00:41:37.480
real easy, really easy to know. And you just sprinkle it around all

599
00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:42.480
around. It watered in really good. Okay, okay. And what what

600
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:46.239
what? What type of fertilized is? I would no, I would use

601
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:51.119
lawn fertilizer whatever you use for your
lawn. You hear me talk about fertilizers

602
00:41:51.119 --> 00:41:54.079
all the time. And just get
one for your lawn and then just scoop

603
00:41:54.119 --> 00:41:59.719
a scoop some cups out of it
for your for your trees. Yeah,

604
00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:02.320
okay, okay, he's doing us
perfect, all right, man, Thank

605
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:05.599
you appreciate it, buddy. Thank
you. You have a good day you

606
00:42:05.719 --> 00:42:09.800
too. Take care of you.
You know, the Father's Day is today.

607
00:42:10.119 --> 00:42:13.800
First of all, for those of
you who aren't aware, If for

608
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:17.599
any reason you are still in need
of a really good quality Father's Day gift,

609
00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:21.440
I've got a perfect idea. In
fact, just take dead with you.

610
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:28.119
Go to an Ace hardware store there's
so many things that we dads would

611
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:30.800
love to have from an ACE hardware
store. I mean, you can go

612
00:42:30.840 --> 00:42:34.199
to the barbecue section and look in
there. You can go to some of

613
00:42:34.239 --> 00:42:37.000
the tools and equipment and whatnot.
We always have a need for some other

614
00:42:37.159 --> 00:42:40.119
kinds of tools, or some better
things for taking care of the lawn and

615
00:42:40.199 --> 00:42:46.360
the landscape outside, something to make
the outdoor area more beautiful. There's just

616
00:42:46.440 --> 00:42:49.719
a lot of opportunities. I don't
know what your dad's interested in it,

617
00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:52.400
but I guarantee you Ace has got
it whatever it is. There's a lot

618
00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:57.159
of different things, and they have
some really cool stuff at the ACE Hardware

619
00:42:57.159 --> 00:43:00.000
stores go way beyond just what you
would think of from a hardware store.

620
00:43:00.639 --> 00:43:04.320
You can find ACE Hardware all over
town, all over the region really and

621
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:07.239
in the Greater Houston area. We
have forty of them. So just go

622
00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:10.920
to Acehardware dot com. Ace Hardware
dot Com, find the store locator in

623
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:15.199
there. You go, takes you
right in there where you can find exactly

624
00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:19.280
the nearest stores to you, and
they're gonna be some close to you.

625
00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:22.119
We're going to head back now to
Spring Branch and talk to Herta. Hello,

626
00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:31.760
Herta, good morning, morning,
I have a kalily that I got

627
00:43:31.880 --> 00:43:39.679
for mothers today. Okay, but
they're at least I counted ten or twelve

628
00:43:39.920 --> 00:43:46.599
stems in that pot. It's about
a five inch pot. I think there

629
00:43:46.639 --> 00:43:53.559
are too many in there. There's
a leaf that's yellow and another leaf that's

630
00:43:54.920 --> 00:43:59.920
like a yellow brown. Okay,
okay, well they do they do that,

631
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:02.239
some heard it. I would just
mainly if I'd worry about is it

632
00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:07.679
getting a good amount of light but
not direct sun that they want a bright

633
00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:13.519
area? Okay? And is it
getting they don't have to be in full

634
00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:17.840
sun? In fact, they shouldn't. That's the price they're in full sun.

635
00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:22.039
Yeah, that's that's probably a little
too much for them, especially with

636
00:44:22.159 --> 00:44:24.920
the sun with the temperatures we're about
to get into here. But anyway,

637
00:44:25.199 --> 00:44:30.320
the uh so you could you could
do that and then make sure you keep

638
00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:35.920
the soil moist but not drenched soggy. They don't like, they don't like

639
00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:38.159
to be in a swamp, but
they do want moisture, I see,

640
00:44:38.519 --> 00:44:45.519
okay, And I have some athemite. Should I give them that? Oh?

641
00:44:45.639 --> 00:44:47.079
You can put a little on them, but I wouldn't be careful because

642
00:44:47.079 --> 00:44:51.440
you could end up overdoing it by, you know, asthmight we put down

643
00:44:51.960 --> 00:44:55.719
like a ten pound bag over a
thousand square feet easy and so I mean

644
00:44:55.800 --> 00:45:00.199
you would maybe a quarter teaspoon of
asthmite in a little container would be enough.

645
00:45:01.039 --> 00:45:07.280
Okay, but they're not too crammed. Well they might be, but

646
00:45:07.679 --> 00:45:10.559
they grow like that, and they
can grow like that. I would for

647
00:45:10.679 --> 00:45:15.239
now, since they're kind of new
from Mother's Day, I would just leave

648
00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:19.920
them alone and see how they do
for you. Oh okay, okay,

649
00:45:20.159 --> 00:45:22.320
thank you very much. Take care
all right, heardy, you take care

650
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:28.559
too. Thanks for the call.
Appreciate that if you have not put your

651
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:31.480
summer turf fertilizers out, you still
can do it. You know. We

652
00:45:31.639 --> 00:45:36.760
put things on a schedule as a
guideline for when you ought to do things,

653
00:45:36.920 --> 00:45:38.559
and if you miss that date,
that's okay, it's not the end

654
00:45:38.559 --> 00:45:42.119
of the world. Just go ahead
and do it later. Get it done

655
00:45:42.199 --> 00:45:49.199
though. Summer fertilizing helps build turf
density and nitrophoss superturf. That's the silver

656
00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:52.599
bag. That's the silver bag nineteen
four ten. Those are the three numbers

657
00:45:52.679 --> 00:45:58.679
on the bag that is designed to
gradually release at least half of the nitrogen

658
00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:02.159
over the next two or three four
months. It's a very gradual release product.

659
00:46:02.559 --> 00:46:06.840
And the nice thing about that is
it gives you a nice green lawn,

660
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:09.679
good density, but not overdoing it. You know, anytime we overdo

661
00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:15.320
nutrition, it's not a good thing. And this idea that if a tea

662
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:19.239
spoons good at tablespoons better, I
don't care if it's pest control, fertilizing

663
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.280
or whatever. Don't operate by that
principle. Do what the plant needs.

664
00:46:22.320 --> 00:46:24.760
And what the plant needs in the
case of a lawn is about a pound

665
00:46:24.840 --> 00:46:29.280
of nitrogen per thousand square feet.
That's that's kind of what it amounts to.

666
00:46:29.800 --> 00:46:32.519
So when you use superturf and you
apply it and follow the label,

667
00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:36.639
follow the instructions, get it down
on there, get it watered in,

668
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:38.800
you're going to see that gradual release
over time. You're going to see the

669
00:46:38.800 --> 00:46:44.960
benefit in terms of your lawn that
along with some moderate applications of water here

670
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:49.199
and there in the absence of rain
and then regular mowing will create the most

671
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:52.039
beautiful lawn that you can have.
And that is I know what you're going

672
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:55.559
after there. If you go out
to Ace Hardware at Sincle Ranch, you're

673
00:46:55.599 --> 00:47:00.800
going to find nitrophost products like the
superturf a task Asida Ace also has some

674
00:47:00.239 --> 00:47:05.679
Lake hardware done in Clue Lake Jackson
Lake Hardware. Clue in Lake Jackson is

675
00:47:05.719 --> 00:47:08.800
going to have Jem's Hardware up in
Montgomery also another place where you're gonna find

676
00:47:08.840 --> 00:47:16.079
super turk and other nitrofos products as
well. So we were we were discussing

677
00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:22.400
earlier about fruit trees and little gosh
I'm looking at the time. I better

678
00:47:22.519 --> 00:47:24.199
take a little break here. I'll
come back to that thought in just a

679
00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:28.960
moment. Hang on our phone number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

680
00:47:29.159 --> 00:47:32.519
seventy four. I'll be right back. Welcome back to Garden Line. May

681
00:47:32.880 --> 00:47:37.320
you with us this morning? A
little Brian White for those of you who

682
00:47:37.400 --> 00:47:42.599
may remember that. You know I
was talking about fruit while ago, and

683
00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:46.639
the fruit is such an enjoyable thing
to add to the landscape. You know,

684
00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:51.440
you may not have room for orchard. Maybe you're looking at in the

685
00:47:51.519 --> 00:47:53.079
back like I don't. I don't
have a back forty to put an orchard

686
00:47:53.119 --> 00:47:58.079
in. But you can grow fruit
in a lot of places. Citrus trees

687
00:47:58.199 --> 00:48:01.840
do well in containers, large container. That is, when we're talking about

688
00:48:01.880 --> 00:48:06.760
things like when I say citrus tree, I guess it's say trees and shrubs.

689
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:12.719
So something like the kumquats that make
more of a bush or a shrub.

690
00:48:12.760 --> 00:48:15.320
They do well. A lime,
various types of limes, a mere

691
00:48:15.440 --> 00:48:20.440
lemon, even a satsuma orange could
be put in a very large container,

692
00:48:20.519 --> 00:48:22.880
something that is the equivalent of a
half whiskey barrow, but definitely made us

693
00:48:22.920 --> 00:48:27.719
something that won't rote out like a
whiskey barrow will rote out, but something

694
00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:30.760
about that volume. You can grow
even a satsumn. If you just have

695
00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:34.519
room for a tree or two,
why not make it part of your landscape.

696
00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:37.320
I used to have a peach tree
that was I just used it like

697
00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:40.960
I would a small tree in the
landscape, and it just happened to produce

698
00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:46.320
fruit for me. Also beautiful blooms. Peaches do not require pollinators. Plums

699
00:48:46.559 --> 00:48:50.599
generally do, but not always.
And if you don't know, you can

700
00:48:50.639 --> 00:48:54.719
always go online and find out.
The Aggie Horticulture website. Aggie Horticulture has

701
00:48:54.960 --> 00:49:01.679
a fruit section and every single plant
that species you can imagine is on there.

702
00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:07.320
I mean, if you want a
publication on peaches and plums, there's

703
00:49:07.400 --> 00:49:10.639
one on apples on pears. There's
one on avocados, there's one on several

704
00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:15.440
more than one on citrus that they
have. I'm just saying it's free advice,

705
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:20.119
and it's very good advice. They'll
suggest varieties for you. They'll tay

706
00:49:20.119 --> 00:49:23.760
hot a parnum and things make it
easier on yourself. But try something like

707
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:28.599
a fruit. Maybe you have an
arbor area, how about some grapes on

708
00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:30.480
an arbor. If you're going to
do that and you want to grow some

709
00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:37.679
grapes on an arbor, I would
recommend one called Southern Sensation Seedless SSS.

710
00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:45.239
Southern Sensation Seedless. That is one
of the newest grapes that we have.

711
00:49:45.519 --> 00:49:50.039
It's actually comes out of the breeding
program up in Arkansas, but it is

712
00:49:50.119 --> 00:49:52.360
one that doesn't do well for them
there, but it sure does for us

713
00:49:52.519 --> 00:49:59.639
down here. That's the same breeding
program that produced a lot of the blackberries

714
00:49:59.679 --> 00:50:02.760
that we like so much down in
this area. The blackberries, if they

715
00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:07.960
have a Native American name like Navajo
or rappa hoo, those kind of names,

716
00:50:08.519 --> 00:50:14.800
they came out of the Arkansas breeding
program and they also produced Southern Sensation

717
00:50:15.079 --> 00:50:19.519
Seedless, which is an excellent I
believe Arkansas breed is that great pretty sure.

718
00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:22.199
Anyway, it's a good one,
So it'd be a good one for

719
00:50:22.239 --> 00:50:23.599
an arbor if you'd like to do
that. I think it would be an

720
00:50:23.639 --> 00:50:29.000
excellent way to add something of interest
and yummy at the same time to your

721
00:50:29.079 --> 00:50:31.679
landscape. And just with a little
good advice you can you can get off

722
00:50:31.760 --> 00:50:37.840
to a good start on that.
Quality Home Products of Texas is a company

723
00:50:38.159 --> 00:50:44.480
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when it comes to taking care of the

724
00:50:44.519 --> 00:50:49.119
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them for just a minute. Eight times

725
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they have won the Pinnacle Award by
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726
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727
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728
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729
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:10.119
say, hey, I need a
let's say, a generator, a generaic

730
00:51:10.239 --> 00:51:14.079
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the way, three hundred and fifty dollars

731
00:51:14.199 --> 00:51:17.679
off all their generators right now and
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732
00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:22.480
cooled units. The generators that they
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733
00:51:22.559 --> 00:51:23.880
they find the generator that it fits
you. It's going to be a Generaic

734
00:51:23.920 --> 00:51:29.599
because that's a super high quality generator. They're gonna do all the work of

735
00:51:29.840 --> 00:51:32.840
getting you through the process of having
that thing set up, and that includes

736
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:39.119
everything from getting permission from Hoa's or
whoever is part of that process. They

737
00:51:39.239 --> 00:51:42.480
do this, They know how to
do all that. They'll take care of

738
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.400
all that for you. They will
also put the pad down, create the

739
00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:47.280
pad to put it on, they'll
set it up and once you once they

740
00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:51.519
walk away, power goes out,
the thing comes on, and you're in

741
00:51:51.599 --> 00:51:54.039
good shape because you've gotten a good
generator from a good company that knows how

742
00:51:54.079 --> 00:51:58.559
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743
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744
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745
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746
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747
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quality product like Generak and a quality

748
00:52:22.599 --> 00:52:28.119
company like quality home Products, you're
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749
00:52:28.599 --> 00:52:34.639
is easy, it's QUALITYTX dot com
QUALITYTX dot com. The phone number is

750
00:52:34.760 --> 00:52:38.480
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And so if you've even thought about doing

751
00:52:38.519 --> 00:52:43.920
a generator, because here we are
again in a big, long hurricane season,

752
00:52:44.280 --> 00:52:46.559
well you should give them a call, sit down, start the process.

753
00:52:46.719 --> 00:52:51.239
Just get some information, get sit
down with them, give them a

754
00:52:51.320 --> 00:52:52.960
call and check it out, because
it takes a while to get the whole

755
00:52:53.000 --> 00:52:55.960
thing done and you don't want to
delay. So now it'd be a great

756
00:52:57.039 --> 00:53:00.199
time to go ahead and do that. And you know, we don't don't

757
00:53:00.199 --> 00:53:02.760
have to have a hurricane to lose
power. We learned that the other day

758
00:53:02.840 --> 00:53:12.599
again, didn't we That is for
sure. I enjoy houseplants that have color

759
00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:15.440
in the foliage. I don't know, you know, it used to be

760
00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:16.719
I don't know, maybe it seems
to me like it used to be that

761
00:53:16.760 --> 00:53:20.559
all houseplants were just green. You
know, you had a green ivy,

762
00:53:20.880 --> 00:53:25.360
maybe splotches of yellow and apothos or
something, but it's basically green on green.

763
00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:30.280
And now there are so many other
colors and patterns and things. And

764
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:34.559
it's not like they weren't there before. It's just that we have so many

765
00:53:34.639 --> 00:53:37.039
more options now. When COVID came
along and we were all shoved inside the

766
00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:42.599
house for a while. Houseplants became
popular, and boy did that whole world

767
00:53:42.679 --> 00:53:45.280
ever go crazy in terms of all
these new kinds of plants. And I

768
00:53:45.360 --> 00:53:51.159
think they're beautiful. And I like
uglionima that's Chinese evergreen. There are some

769
00:53:51.320 --> 00:53:53.679
types of it that have kind of
a coral and a pink and a reddish

770
00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:59.920
color in the foliage that is just
beautiful. There's various kinds of variegated houseplants.

771
00:54:00.440 --> 00:54:04.840
Why not do some different colors in
the house just by choosing plants that

772
00:54:05.280 --> 00:54:07.519
you know can do that. And
we have a lot of good new ones

773
00:54:07.559 --> 00:54:13.400
now. Morana prayer plant is an
excellent one for providing a very interesting pattern

774
00:54:13.639 --> 00:54:19.239
of color to the to the foliage. So I would encourage you to do

775
00:54:19.320 --> 00:54:22.159
that. You know, the summertime
is maybe you don't want to be outside

776
00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:24.719
when it's hundred degrees outside, But
there's always things you can be doing indoors,

777
00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:30.360
including with your houseplants, doing some
cuttings, starting some new things,

778
00:54:30.480 --> 00:54:34.440
giving them a little fertilizer is needed. Just to remember that the number one

779
00:54:34.519 --> 00:54:37.039
problem we make with houseplants is we
overwater them. Number two, as we

780
00:54:37.199 --> 00:54:43.719
underwater them. So it's like you're
walking down the line here, you're going

781
00:54:43.760 --> 00:54:45.199
to go to the left, to
the right, one of the other vis

782
00:54:45.239 --> 00:54:50.239
really not that hard. You want
a really good, well drained mix.

783
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:52.760
That's number one, because if you
overwater, you want it to run out.

784
00:54:52.840 --> 00:54:55.760
You don't want it to turn into
a soggy swamp that doesn't drain.

785
00:54:55.880 --> 00:55:00.400
So a good pot that has holes
that drain away. You give it a

786
00:55:00.480 --> 00:55:02.400
good drenching, set it and sink, let it all drain out, and

787
00:55:02.480 --> 00:55:06.280
then you're good for a while.
Don't water again until it dries out.

788
00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:09.599
Now, for some tricks, there's
two tricks that you can use. One

789
00:55:10.119 --> 00:55:14.639
of them the most basic one.
And I was talking with someone yesterday when

790
00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:21.119
I was at Wabird's Unlimited in bel
Air. We were talking about testing plants

791
00:55:21.239 --> 00:55:24.840
for water and discussing the idea that
if you take a pencil and you sharpen

792
00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:30.119
it, that fresh cut would end
as you've sharpened it. You stick that

793
00:55:30.199 --> 00:55:35.519
pencil down into the soil and just
go ahead and stick it. I usually

794
00:55:35.599 --> 00:55:37.960
go like two inches in and pull
it out and look at it, and

795
00:55:37.039 --> 00:55:39.280
go another two inches, pull it
out and look at it. And you're

796
00:55:39.400 --> 00:55:44.119
testing for moisture at different levels,
because when you have moisture, either you'll

797
00:55:44.159 --> 00:55:47.960
see actual moisture soaked into that wood
because instead of having you know, like

798
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:52.800
it's real slick with the oils of
your fingers and stuff, you've sharpened it

799
00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:55.119
fresh and now you have a fresh
cut on there, moisture shows up real

800
00:55:55.239 --> 00:56:00.639
easy, or kind of like when
you're baking a cake and you put a

801
00:56:00.679 --> 00:56:04.360
little toothpick in it and you pull
it out, and that's one way you

802
00:56:04.480 --> 00:56:07.639
tell of like a pound cakes ready, you know, is there stuff clinging

803
00:56:07.719 --> 00:56:09.960
to the toothpick or not. Well, soil will also cling to that fresh

804
00:56:10.079 --> 00:56:15.639
cut pencil edge or surface that you
did, and so you can do a

805
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:19.760
real quick test that way. I
also test just by picking them up.

806
00:56:19.920 --> 00:56:21.960
You know, once you have a
plant for a while and you kind of

807
00:56:22.079 --> 00:56:25.239
know how heavy it is, you
pick it up when it's full of moisture.

808
00:56:27.360 --> 00:56:29.920
Almost all the weight of a plant
is the water you put in the

809
00:56:29.960 --> 00:56:31.199
pot. I mean, that's a
huge, huge part of the weight.

810
00:56:31.639 --> 00:56:34.960
And so you can pick it up
right away and ooh, this is really

811
00:56:35.039 --> 00:56:37.400
light. This is going to need
water, and you kind of get better

812
00:56:37.480 --> 00:56:38.800
at that. But that pencil is
a great way to go, or the

813
00:56:38.880 --> 00:56:43.400
toothpick. You can use a toothpick. My wife has some little succulents and

814
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:46.320
very tiny containers, and she uses
a little toothpick because a pencil would just

815
00:56:46.880 --> 00:56:51.480
kind of push the whole thing out
of the pot. But a toothpick works

816
00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:53.679
well just for testing. For that, We're going to take a little break

817
00:56:53.679 --> 00:56:58.639
here. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two KTRH. I'll

818
00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:01.519
be right back. We got some
bright sun coming outside. It's going to

819
00:57:01.559 --> 00:57:07.960
be a beautiful day. Take a
look look outside. Wow, what do

820
00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:10.920
they call that Chamber of Commas?
Weather? A good day to get out

821
00:57:10.960 --> 00:57:14.599
there. Hey, you've got any
Father's Day shopping left to do? I

822
00:57:14.719 --> 00:57:16.599
tell you a lot of our garden
centers are all chocked up and ready to

823
00:57:16.679 --> 00:57:21.360
go. I've got some really good
deals going on various things. I was

824
00:57:21.840 --> 00:57:24.360
checking out some of the things going
on online, and oh my gosh,

825
00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:29.440
it'd be a good time to get
out and purchase some things, even if

826
00:57:29.480 --> 00:57:32.599
it wasn't for a Father's Day gift. This is good sales going on all

827
00:57:32.639 --> 00:57:38.800
around in our garden centers. Landscaper's
Pride is a company that is, first

828
00:57:38.840 --> 00:57:42.239
of all, it's a local company. It's been around here in our region

829
00:57:42.360 --> 00:57:46.280
for a good while now, providing
quality products. And they have a wide

830
00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:51.159
variety of blends of soils and composts
and all kinds of things, so twenty

831
00:57:51.239 --> 00:57:54.119
something different products that they produce.
But right now I want to talk about

832
00:57:54.119 --> 00:58:00.199
the mulches because mulch is very important
for summer, and I know it's I'll

833
00:58:00.239 --> 00:58:02.360
be thinking, Okay, how exciting
can you get putting bronze stuff on top

834
00:58:02.400 --> 00:58:06.480
of the ground. Well, I'll
tell you how exciting I get. As

835
00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:08.320
excited as I get when I know
I'm not going to be pulling weeds by

836
00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:12.400
hand in one hundred degree heat with
fire ants biting me in the middle of

837
00:58:12.480 --> 00:58:16.840
summer because I maltched. But for
summertime arrived, That's how excited I get.

838
00:58:17.679 --> 00:58:21.480
My plants are going to do better. Do you know how hot the

839
00:58:21.599 --> 00:58:24.119
soil gets when the surface is unmulched, He gets very hot. I mean,

840
00:58:24.239 --> 00:58:28.599
go put your hand, Go put
your hand on bear dirt sometime on

841
00:58:28.719 --> 00:58:31.039
a hot summer summer day, and
then think about how would a root that

842
00:58:31.199 --> 00:58:35.559
needs to be operating probably would like
to be in the seventy degree range,

843
00:58:35.599 --> 00:58:38.639
if not fifty degree range somewhere in
there. They do pretty well all through

844
00:58:38.719 --> 00:58:42.400
that range, and then we're going
to take them up to over one hundred

845
00:58:42.400 --> 00:58:45.400
degrees up near the surface. And
yes, it does get that hot.

846
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:50.039
Well, mulch helps avoid that.
So meanwhile, back at the comments about

847
00:58:50.119 --> 00:58:53.800
Landscaper's Pride, they've got a cypress
moultz that is locally sourced. Cypress logs

848
00:58:54.440 --> 00:58:59.719
cyper smults is really good about kind
of when it gets wet, it sits

849
00:58:59.800 --> 00:59:01.880
in, stays in place really well. It's got a nice light color to

850
00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:06.480
it, and it doesn't tend to
just float away and move around it it

851
00:59:06.639 --> 00:59:10.320
really kind of honkers down. Cedar
mulch is nice because it has an aroma

852
00:59:10.400 --> 00:59:14.320
to it. I think it's really
nice and it goes away in time as

853
00:59:14.360 --> 00:59:17.000
it ages, but it's just a
beautiful natural red streaking. It's a very

854
00:59:17.039 --> 00:59:21.639
attractive kind of melt. Pine bark
multch is the most popular. It's the

855
00:59:21.719 --> 00:59:24.199
one. It's again beautiful colored,
a little slow to decompose, which is

856
00:59:24.280 --> 00:59:29.039
good, which is also true of
the cedar and the cypers. And then

857
00:59:29.119 --> 00:59:35.119
hardwood malts hardwood materials ground up and
they are put into a moltch that holds

858
00:59:35.199 --> 00:59:37.960
well in its place. It's good
for walkways too, by the way,

859
00:59:37.480 --> 00:59:42.960
and then of course Landscapers Pride has
their black velvet. Black velvet is not

860
00:59:43.280 --> 00:59:47.760
dyed. It is naturally velvety,
dense, beautiful moults and it just it

861
00:59:47.880 --> 00:59:52.599
just works well whatever you use.
Get some bags of it. You can

862
00:59:52.639 --> 00:59:55.119
find Landscapers Pride all over the place. You can go to Landscaperspride dot com

863
00:59:55.280 --> 00:59:59.639
the website find out where to get
it. But it's widely available. But

864
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:01.559
whatever you do, get some and
get it out there and get it down

865
01:00:01.559 --> 01:00:06.960
about three inches thick. Put it
over the beds, keep the soil cool,

866
01:00:07.159 --> 01:00:12.679
protect the soil from erosion, stop
weed seeds from getting started. And

867
01:00:12.840 --> 01:00:15.920
it's just a win win. And
always remember this when you're adding more malts.

868
01:00:16.320 --> 01:00:20.119
Don't take the ol malt away.
Throw the new mulch on top of

869
01:00:20.199 --> 01:00:23.119
it. Let the ol malt slowly
decompose. That's what nature does in the

870
01:00:23.199 --> 01:00:27.880
forest. No need to take the
old out just when it's getting pretty good

871
01:00:28.719 --> 01:00:31.639
in terms of releasing its nutrients back
into the soil. So give the n

872
01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:36.079
skippers Pride to a shot. I
think you think you'll be impressed with the

873
01:00:36.159 --> 01:00:40.719
kinds of products that they that they
carry I have. Let's see all.

874
01:00:40.760 --> 01:00:44.119
I want to give you a phone
number again, our phone number if you'd

875
01:00:44.159 --> 01:00:45.800
like to give us a call if
you have a question. Uh seven to

876
01:00:45.840 --> 01:00:51.960
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two one two

877
01:00:52.119 --> 01:00:55.880
five eight seven four. Don't forget
my website, Gardening with skip dot com.

878
01:00:55.960 --> 01:00:59.960
It's a new site. I haven't
had it that long and we're slowly

879
01:01:00.440 --> 01:01:02.960
building it out right now. The
main thing you're going to find there are

880
01:01:04.039 --> 01:01:07.760
my two schedules. The lawn care
schedule, which is how to grow a

881
01:01:07.840 --> 01:01:12.639
lawn. It talks about mowing,
watering, fertilizing, errating, doing the

882
01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:17.159
micronutrient top dressing, talks about all
that. The other schedule lawn Pest,

883
01:01:17.239 --> 01:01:22.000
Disease and weed management schedule. That's
about what goes wrong with the lawn insects,

884
01:01:22.320 --> 01:01:24.880
when do they occur and what do
you do about them? Diseases,

885
01:01:25.360 --> 01:01:29.400
weeds, How do you prevent them
with premurden, how do you kill them

886
01:01:29.440 --> 01:01:32.360
with a post emergent, How do
you grow your lawn so you don't have

887
01:01:32.639 --> 01:01:37.239
so much of a weed problem.
It's all on there. Whether you're interested

888
01:01:37.360 --> 01:01:40.840
in organic or synthetic options, they're
both on both of those schedules, and

889
01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:45.440
the schedules are free, so you
know you can't beat that. Just print

890
01:01:45.480 --> 01:01:49.079
them out and there you go.
You're ready to go for for it.

891
01:01:49.400 --> 01:01:52.760
I have a beautiful, beautiful lawn. Makes it takes all the guesswork out

892
01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:58.960
in the wondering, makes that simple. All right, let's see here I

893
01:01:59.079 --> 01:02:01.440
wanted to We're going to go the
phones here in just a second. I

894
01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:08.039
wanted I did want to make one
quick comment though about this, the whole

895
01:02:08.159 --> 01:02:15.239
lawn care thing. Just remember that
whenever you're going for the best lawn you

896
01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:19.360
can have, it is important to
fertilize, It is important to water as

897
01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:22.320
you need to. But the most
single most important thing is a good sharp

898
01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:27.280
mower and mowing regularly. That is
the single most important thing. It's not

899
01:02:27.360 --> 01:02:32.239
the only by any means. But
the more often you hedge your lawn,

900
01:02:32.519 --> 01:02:37.559
think of it that way. A
lawnmower hedges your lawn. The more you

901
01:02:37.800 --> 01:02:40.239
trim a hedge, the dentsuer the
hedge gets, the prettier the hedge gets.

902
01:02:40.280 --> 01:02:43.960
If you let a hedge grow two
feet out into the walkway and you

903
01:02:44.079 --> 01:02:46.519
cut it back two feet, it
won't kill it, but it's your will

904
01:02:46.599 --> 01:02:50.519
look bad and it'll be thin,
and you'll be able to see right into

905
01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:54.199
the hedge right. You trim regularly
to keep it dense. The same is

906
01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:59.320
true with your lawn moh regularly get
a good sharp more for good clean cuts,

907
01:02:59.360 --> 01:03:01.440
not a whole bunch of big old
brown tips on the ends of every

908
01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:06.519
grass blade. A good sharp mower
on a regular basis, that's important.

909
01:03:06.800 --> 01:03:09.039
We're going to head now out to
sugar Land and talk to June. Hello,

910
01:03:09.199 --> 01:03:15.639
June, Hi. I was calling
to see about what kind of mulch

911
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:22.880
to use on hydraineas and I have. I was questioning if pine mulch is

912
01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:28.880
good or which mulch is the best
I have Limelight hydrainus. You know,

913
01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:30.840
they don't care what kind of mult
you put on them. They'll be happy

914
01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:36.639
with They'll just be excited that you
Molted pine bark is fine. Pine needles,

915
01:03:36.719 --> 01:03:38.679
pine straw as we call it,
is fry. You can do that.

916
01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:44.880
You can use, you know,
shredded hardwoodmulch if you like. Generally,

917
01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:47.239
with hedrangs, we go with something
a little more on the acidic side.

918
01:03:47.320 --> 01:03:52.239
We generally go with the pine needles
and pine bark kinds of things.

919
01:03:52.679 --> 01:03:57.079
But listen, you can just melting. Ajdranga is doing the right thing.

920
01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:00.880
Okay, that's all I need get
to know. That's okay, all right,

921
01:04:01.199 --> 01:04:04.320
thank you so much. I appreciate
it. Thank you. I have

922
01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:10.039
a great day you too. You
take care. Appreciate that. Let's see

923
01:04:10.039 --> 01:04:14.119
here we're going to go now to
k in Paarland. Hello. Okay,

924
01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:17.079
good morning, Skid, good morning. Thank you for taking my call.

925
01:04:18.000 --> 01:04:21.880
I have a couple of questions.
One is about round up. I have

926
01:04:23.039 --> 01:04:28.679
a bed that has a variegated hibiscus
in the middle and amarilla is all around.

927
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:30.960
It's kind of round, but the
weeds have taken over in it.

928
01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:39.440
Can I use round up at all
in there with a protective cardboard barrier?

929
01:04:39.679 --> 01:04:43.199
You know? Next you can.
You can use it if you don't get

930
01:04:43.239 --> 01:04:47.280
in on anything desirable. So however
you go about doing that, you can

931
01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:50.440
do that. Now, if the
weeds are grassy weeds, you have other

932
01:04:50.519 --> 01:04:55.840
options. There are some grass killers
that don't kill broad leaf plants. So

933
01:04:56.159 --> 01:04:59.920
the plants you describe that are your
good plants, these grass killers wouldn't ca

934
01:05:00.039 --> 01:05:03.159
kill them. If you actually,
I don't think these are not grassy weeds.

935
01:05:03.239 --> 01:05:10.480
They're they're feathery little yeah. Okay. The other question was I have

936
01:05:10.599 --> 01:05:15.000
a couple I've just received a couple
of small trellises that I ordered. I

937
01:05:15.159 --> 01:05:20.079
was wondering about something that is heat
and preest tolerant both. Who doesn't want

938
01:05:20.159 --> 01:05:26.119
that? You know you're looking for
a vine. You're looking for a vine?

939
01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:31.000
Okay, a vine? Yeah?
Buy anything like like what am I

940
01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:38.920
trying to say? Passion flower or
okay? Uh, let me, let's

941
01:05:38.960 --> 01:05:41.840
come back. I'm gonna run to
a break right here, and let's come

942
01:05:41.920 --> 01:05:45.960
back to that. But but uh
and be thinking about how big of an

943
01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:49.840
area of this can encompass, and
then we'll recommend a vine based on that.

944
01:05:50.000 --> 01:05:53.440
But hang on, Calby, right
back with you when we get on

945
01:05:53.519 --> 01:05:56.440
the other side. And then Bob
and Kingwood you'll be the next up.

946
01:05:57.440 --> 01:06:00.639
All right, time for a little
break. Seven kt r h. All

947
01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:06.519
right, welcome back to gardenine.
Let's get back into gardening. We're gonna

948
01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:11.559
go back to the phones and talk
to Kay in pairland. Ka, how

949
01:06:11.679 --> 01:06:15.280
big of a vine area do you
want to have? I mean, is

950
01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:18.000
this something like ten feet long or
what? What dimensions? Well? I

951
01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:24.519
have I have a bed that's full
forty feet forty feet long. Oh wow,

952
01:06:24.599 --> 01:06:28.599
okay, so you got room for
a vine it's you know, three

953
01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:34.840
three to four feet deep, three
feet deep probably, okay, I don't

954
01:06:36.639 --> 01:06:41.519
it can go out on the ground
too in something that big, because I

955
01:06:41.639 --> 01:06:45.000
have two trellises, and I would
separate them, okay, and I would

956
01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:49.800
like to put two different things on
them. Actually, okay, Well,

957
01:06:49.920 --> 01:06:55.360
there there's so many vine options.
There's some things that are woody vines that

958
01:06:55.440 --> 01:07:02.719
would be something like westeria, for
example. There is another when we say

959
01:07:02.760 --> 01:07:05.760
woody. When I say woody,
I don't necessarily mean in the sense of

960
01:07:06.440 --> 01:07:11.519
like tree trunk wood. I mean
like for example, the coral vine is

961
01:07:11.599 --> 01:07:15.559
a vine that grows above ground,
but it last year after year. It's

962
01:07:15.559 --> 01:07:17.760
like a shrub, you know,
it doesn't die back to the ground.

963
01:07:18.360 --> 01:07:26.920
Coral vine has beautiful little coral reddish
color, pink, tubular blossoms that hummingbirds

964
01:07:27.079 --> 01:07:31.639
like. It is a I'm sorry
coral honeysuckle does. Coral vine comes out

965
01:07:31.679 --> 01:07:35.039
of a sweet potato out of the
ground, and it will run for a

966
01:07:35.199 --> 01:07:40.159
long it'll take over the world.
But it has beautiful blooms, especially late

967
01:07:40.199 --> 01:07:45.719
summer and fall in clusters. They
look like little pink clusters of flowers.

968
01:07:45.320 --> 01:07:50.079
That's a good one. I like. Let's see, butterfly pee is a

969
01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:55.480
good one that has very small,
deep, deep blue, beautiful blooms.

970
01:07:55.519 --> 01:07:59.119
It's very tame, but it's an
annual vine that comes back from a seed

971
01:07:59.159 --> 01:08:04.760
each year. So there's so many
options. Confederate jasmine or are star jasmine

972
01:08:05.320 --> 01:08:12.320
is an evergreen that has wonderfully fragrant
blooms that are white. That is another

973
01:08:12.440 --> 01:08:16.640
one you might be interested in.
Soot does it die back? Men to

974
01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:20.920
be an almanda. Both are tropicals, and they're beautiful, little kind of

975
01:08:21.000 --> 01:08:28.960
a morning glory looking bloom that is
gorgeous. But they don't take hard freezes.

976
01:08:29.800 --> 01:08:34.800
Okay, okay, I know passion
flower can be very invasive. You

977
01:08:34.880 --> 01:08:40.840
can, yeah, sometimes all of
them probably can. Well, but it'll

978
01:08:40.920 --> 01:08:43.159
come out, it'll go out in
the yard and pop up in the yard

979
01:08:43.279 --> 01:08:45.880
somewhere. A lot of the types
of passion vine will and so you have

980
01:08:45.960 --> 01:08:49.079
to be a little careful with that. But it's a beautiful flower, one

981
01:08:49.079 --> 01:08:53.000
of the most beautiful. That's a
great list, and I do appreciate it

982
01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:58.000
so very much, and I enjoy
your program every every weekday. All right,

983
01:08:58.720 --> 01:09:02.039
Thanks appreciate you listening. Have a
blessed day. Well, thank you,

984
01:09:02.159 --> 01:09:05.359
kay, I appreciate that. Thank
you very much. Bye bye bye

985
01:09:05.399 --> 01:09:12.680
bye, all right our phone number
seven one three two one two fifty eight

986
01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:17.439
seventy four seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. If you

987
01:09:17.800 --> 01:09:21.479
are looking for a little bit of
help keeping your flower beds looking their best,

988
01:09:21.800 --> 01:09:27.399
your landscape beds, then you ought
to give Pierscapes a call. Pierscapes

989
01:09:27.479 --> 01:09:30.439
does something called quarterly maintenance. Now, normally, when I think of pair

990
01:09:30.520 --> 01:09:35.760
scapes, and you too, probably
you think about just gorgeous landscape renovations.

991
01:09:35.840 --> 01:09:43.000
I mean we're talking about hard scapes
and outdoor lighting and improved drainage and just

992
01:09:43.159 --> 01:09:45.399
on and on. I mean,
they all kinds of features. They they

993
01:09:45.479 --> 01:09:49.159
can create whatever kind of thing up
to the taj Mahal you are looking for.

994
01:09:49.840 --> 01:09:54.439
But they also come out and they
do things like check your irrigation system.

995
01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:58.840
If you need a summer's coming,
it's pretty much already here. You

996
01:09:58.960 --> 01:10:00.399
need to get out there and have
I have this system checked, make sure

997
01:10:00.439 --> 01:10:04.479
it's efficient, make sure it's working, there's there's everything's aligned, it's you

998
01:10:04.560 --> 01:10:10.319
know, it's in good shape.
That is important because when you provide a

999
01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:15.520
good even distribution of water, you
save water because you're going to end up

1000
01:10:15.680 --> 01:10:19.600
watering enough to keep the dry spots
wet, and it wastes water when you

1001
01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:24.039
have an air inefficient system as a
result of that. But talk to Pierce

1002
01:10:24.039 --> 01:10:27.199
Scapes about their their quarterly maintenance too. By the way, they come out

1003
01:10:27.239 --> 01:10:30.319
once a quarter they will do weeding
and fertilizing and mulching. They'll change out

1004
01:10:30.479 --> 01:10:34.119
color if you want it. Two
times a year, three times a year,

1005
01:10:34.199 --> 01:10:38.159
four times a year to have them
take out a set of plants and

1006
01:10:38.199 --> 01:10:41.199
put in a new set of color
plants for the next season that's coming on,

1007
01:10:41.359 --> 01:10:45.000
they can do that. They'll inspect
the irrigation in those beds. It's

1008
01:10:45.079 --> 01:10:49.359
really easy. Piercescapes dot com,
Pierce scapes dot com. If you want

1009
01:10:49.399 --> 01:10:55.239
to give them a call, write
this number down two eight one three seven

1010
01:10:55.319 --> 01:10:59.760
oh fifty sixty two eight one three
seven oh fifty sixty and do go to

1011
01:10:59.760 --> 01:11:01.840
the website perscapes dot com and see
the kinds of works that they do.

1012
01:11:01.960 --> 01:11:08.319
It's pretty amazing, very in fact, it's very amazing, very impressed with

1013
01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:13.000
that. Let's see here. We
are going to now go back to the

1014
01:11:13.079 --> 01:11:16.600
phones and head to Kingwood and talk
to Bob. Hello Bob, Yes,

1015
01:11:16.680 --> 01:11:23.039
hello Skip. I have a Asian
orange that I bought in the pot about

1016
01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:28.079
six inches wide maybe six inches high. I bought about two months ago,

1017
01:11:28.119 --> 01:11:32.520
and I didn't replant it though it
was about maybe three foot tall. You

1018
01:11:32.600 --> 01:11:35.800
know how in the store they were
already starting a flower on top, big

1019
01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:40.359
long, skinny thing. Asian orange. You're talking about, like I said,

1020
01:11:42.640 --> 01:11:45.760
an edible orange. Okay, yes, they call them CALAMANSI they're only

1021
01:11:45.760 --> 01:11:50.079
about the size of a big,
big marble. Oh, a klamandon,

1022
01:11:50.279 --> 01:11:55.560
yes, I then, yeah,
you got it, now gotcha. The

1023
01:11:55.720 --> 01:12:00.560
last two I planned died is there
is what's the smallest pot or I guess

1024
01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:03.119
that's the way to ask it.
The smallest sized pot I could put it

1025
01:12:03.239 --> 01:12:08.840
in. Yeah, you know,
here's the deal. The smaller the pot

1026
01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:13.199
is, the more touching go taking
care of it is. So you could

1027
01:12:13.279 --> 01:12:16.560
grow a kalamandan and a little pot
that was like two or three gallons,

1028
01:12:17.119 --> 01:12:20.159
but you're going to be watering it
all the time, and if you forget

1029
01:12:20.279 --> 01:12:23.760
it, you're going to get in
trouble because it's going to redamage it to

1030
01:12:23.840 --> 01:12:27.680
set it back like that I would
if I had a kalamandan, I would

1031
01:12:27.680 --> 01:12:31.960
try to get it into something that
had about at least ten gallons, maybe

1032
01:12:32.039 --> 01:12:38.119
fifteen, so that it does better
and you can move those. Even though

1033
01:12:38.119 --> 01:12:41.079
that's a heavy container. You can
put a little dolly underneath it and a

1034
01:12:41.119 --> 01:12:44.399
strap around it and take it in
when we're going to have really bad cold

1035
01:12:44.439 --> 01:12:48.159
weather too. Right, So you
were scaring me with the two or three

1036
01:12:48.239 --> 01:12:54.600
gallon. Obviously ten gallon I can
water it once every couple of days.

1037
01:12:54.800 --> 01:12:59.880
Yeah, yeah, well yeah,
the bigger the container, the more water

1038
01:13:00.239 --> 01:13:02.159
it can hold, the less often
you have to worry, the less likely

1039
01:13:02.239 --> 01:13:06.640
it is to have. So really
it's only the watering part, the roots

1040
01:13:06.680 --> 01:13:12.119
and all that, and the bearing
fruit will be okay, Yes, it's

1041
01:13:12.680 --> 01:13:17.880
the thing is it's the root system
that's the confining factor that only nutrients are

1042
01:13:17.880 --> 01:13:21.560
available from that pot. The only
water is available from what's in that pot.

1043
01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:26.039
So the bigger the pot, the
more of a bank account that you

1044
01:13:26.199 --> 01:13:29.039
have, and that makes it a
little more resilient, a little more forgiving

1045
01:13:29.119 --> 01:13:32.159
if you forget to water. For
example, I had one that went about

1046
01:13:32.279 --> 01:13:38.239
fifteen foot tall and about eight foot
wide. Now, question, you're gonna

1047
01:13:38.239 --> 01:13:41.039
have to have a bigger You have
to a much bigger pot than the little

1048
01:13:41.079 --> 01:13:43.640
ones I'm talking about to get a
plant that size. Yeah, oh for

1049
01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:46.840
sure. Sure. But my question
meaning that analogy was how big do a

1050
01:13:46.960 --> 01:13:50.239
root system go out on something like
that? Is that a rule of thumb

1051
01:13:50.319 --> 01:13:55.039
that the wider the plant is what
you see above the ground, the roots

1052
01:13:55.159 --> 01:14:00.119
or underground? Yeah, just in
general. Yeah, if it was in

1053
01:14:00.199 --> 01:14:02.079
the ground, your roots will be
about twice the height of the tree in

1054
01:14:02.119 --> 01:14:09.399
all directions about Oh really, yeah, yeah, twice the height of the

1055
01:14:09.479 --> 01:14:15.119
tree in general directly, And that's
a generalization. And so last question.

1056
01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:20.600
On the internet, I see these
pictures of people that got like plants in

1057
01:14:20.720 --> 01:14:28.640
a little small two gallon container.
They're only about the plants only maybe about

1058
01:14:28.640 --> 01:14:31.720
two foot tall. And you see
papayas on there. Yeah, mango,

1059
01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:35.279
do that fake pictures or they really
do it like that? That's mostly blooney.

1060
01:14:35.520 --> 01:14:38.960
Hey Bob, we got to we've
got to run here for the top

1061
01:14:39.039 --> 01:14:41.840
there. If you want to continue
the discussion, hang on, keep you

1062
01:14:41.880 --> 01:14:45.199
through the hour and then we'll come
back to you. But i'll later occupacture.

1063
01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:53.159
Take care, all right, man, we're putting an hour in the

1064
01:14:53.239 --> 01:14:59.319
books there. It was beautiful,
beautiful weather outside. Folks, this afternoon

1065
01:14:59.399 --> 01:15:01.800
would be a good time to get
out and about. If you don't want

1066
01:15:01.840 --> 01:15:05.479
to you don't want to do any
planting or puttering like that around the yard,

1067
01:15:05.479 --> 01:15:09.520
at least go out and visit one
of our garden centers. Take take

1068
01:15:09.600 --> 01:15:13.119
Dad with you. There are some
really cool stuff out there that I think

1069
01:15:13.199 --> 01:15:15.640
you would like. A lot of
our folks are still selling fruit trees,

1070
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:18.760
and some of them even have some
really good deals on fruit trees. And

1071
01:15:18.840 --> 01:15:27.479
here there's plenty of good things.
Get outside and enjoy with Dad. I'm

1072
01:15:27.520 --> 01:15:30.039
gonna take a little break here.
I will be back. Just a reminder

1073
01:15:30.119 --> 01:15:33.680
two weeks from yesterday, I will
be at the Langham Creek Langcumbe Creek Ace

1074
01:15:33.880 --> 01:15:38.840
Hardware that's in West Houston, kind
of in the old Copperfield neighborhood area.

1075
01:15:39.600 --> 01:15:43.439
Hope you'll come out and see me
two weeks from yesterday Langham Creek Ace.

1076
01:15:43.960 --> 01:16:01.479
Are welcome to kt r H Garden
Line with Scared Ricter. It's just watch

1077
01:16:01.600 --> 01:16:23.239
him as many things to welcome back
to the guard line. Good to have

1078
01:16:23.399 --> 01:16:27.920
you. It's good to have you
with us today. We uh talking about

1079
01:16:28.000 --> 01:16:30.000
all kinds of things. Gardening wants
you to have success, a more beautiful

1080
01:16:30.039 --> 01:16:35.720
garden, a more bountiful garden.
The goal is to enjoy it. You

1081
01:16:35.800 --> 01:16:41.079
know that. That's the thing a
lot of people. I've heard this many

1082
01:16:41.159 --> 01:16:43.960
times over my career, as people
saying, you know, I'd like to

1083
01:16:44.039 --> 01:16:46.239
garden, but I just don't know
how. Or I tried growing something and

1084
01:16:46.359 --> 01:16:50.199
it died, and it's like,
well, okay, that's okay. We

1085
01:16:50.319 --> 01:16:54.239
can walk you through that. But
first of all, let's just take the

1086
01:16:54.319 --> 01:16:57.840
pressure off. In order to be
a good gardener, you got to kill

1087
01:16:57.840 --> 01:17:00.720
a lot of plants. Can I
just tell you that, Go ahead and

1088
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:03.159
get out of your system. Don't
be afraid you plant something, you try

1089
01:17:03.239 --> 01:17:08.560
it, it doesn't work, that's
okay. We can put you know,

1090
01:17:08.680 --> 01:17:12.560
a whole vegetable gardens and flower gardens
and all kinds of things out there,

1091
01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:15.880
and sometimes things thrive, sometimes things
don't. That we can't control the weather,

1092
01:17:17.000 --> 01:17:20.000
you know, insects have their own
opinion about how things are going to

1093
01:17:20.039 --> 01:17:23.800
go, and we have to deal
with that. It's okay, though,

1094
01:17:24.119 --> 01:17:27.520
It's okay to not have things do
well. We can always start over.

1095
01:17:27.640 --> 01:17:30.760
A garden is never finished. Did
you know that. You know, we

1096
01:17:30.800 --> 01:17:32.560
think about, well, I'm gonna
landscape my home, this beautiful thing,

1097
01:17:32.680 --> 01:17:36.600
and I'm done. No, it's
never done. Things grow up. There's

1098
01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:42.479
always a time when it's time to
pull that out and plant something else there.

1099
01:17:42.560 --> 01:17:45.880
Maybe shrubs get overgrown and you're just
having trouble keeping control of them.

1100
01:17:45.159 --> 01:17:48.760
Maybe an area that was really beautiful
and sunny and everything was doing good,

1101
01:17:48.960 --> 01:17:54.079
and now the trees years down the
line have gotten bigger and it's too shady.

1102
01:17:54.279 --> 01:17:56.640
Pull them out, redo it.
It's a shade garden. Now,

1103
01:17:56.720 --> 01:18:00.439
let's do some of that. It's
okay to do that. There is a

1104
01:18:00.239 --> 01:18:03.399
there's a little toy from years ago
some of you remember, called an etch

1105
01:18:03.439 --> 01:18:08.399
a sketch, and you would draw
with two knobs, and one knob goes

1106
01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:13.359
left right, one knob goes up
down, and inevitably it is impossible to

1107
01:18:13.439 --> 01:18:16.079
draw, especially a circle with an
edge of sketch, because your brain goes

1108
01:18:16.119 --> 01:18:19.279
backwards and you end up going left
when you meant to go right or whatever.

1109
01:18:19.760 --> 01:18:21.760
And it's like, oh man,
I messed it up. What do

1110
01:18:21.840 --> 01:18:25.039
you do? What did you do
with your etcher sketch? You turned it

1111
01:18:25.159 --> 01:18:28.399
upside down? You shook it and
then you brought it back down again.

1112
01:18:28.479 --> 01:18:32.039
You had a blank slate. You
got to start over. Rototillers or the

1113
01:18:32.119 --> 01:18:36.239
equivalent of shaking an etch of sketch. In other words, I'm sort of

1114
01:18:36.319 --> 01:18:41.359
joking. But if you plant something
and it doesn't do good, pull it

1115
01:18:41.439 --> 01:18:45.800
out, put something else in.
That is okay. You know. Part

1116
01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:48.600
of the fun of gardening is knowing
that nature is forever changing. It's forever

1117
01:18:50.640 --> 01:18:55.600
it's just evolving out there in front
of us. We may have a planting

1118
01:18:55.840 --> 01:18:59.560
that grows up and it fills in
nicely, or we may find that this

1119
01:18:59.720 --> 01:19:02.319
plant is struggling there, pull it
up, put it somewhere else, or

1120
01:19:02.359 --> 01:19:05.359
get rid of it and put a
new plant in that spot. Will figure

1121
01:19:05.399 --> 01:19:08.960
it out, and that's part of
the fun of it. Part of the

1122
01:19:09.000 --> 01:19:11.520
fun of it is just getting out
there and doing it, and don't worry

1123
01:19:11.520 --> 01:19:14.439
about failing. You're not going to
fail. All you can do is quit.

1124
01:19:15.199 --> 01:19:16.840
Okay, you're not going to fail, So don't quit. Just keep

1125
01:19:16.920 --> 01:19:20.039
trying. There's a lot of fun
things we can do. And you know,

1126
01:19:20.159 --> 01:19:24.920
there's some people that they want everything. They want to hire it done,

1127
01:19:25.079 --> 01:19:28.800
and that's okay. Somebody comes in
they do the landscaping for them.

1128
01:19:28.840 --> 01:19:31.039
They take care of the landscaping for
them. That's all okay. There's other

1129
01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:34.399
people on the other end of the
spectrum that are all do it yourselfers and

1130
01:19:34.680 --> 01:19:36.880
they don't even want to buy a
plant. They want to buy a seed

1131
01:19:36.960 --> 01:19:41.880
and grow their own plant to plant. Well, whatever, whatever you like,

1132
01:19:42.239 --> 01:19:45.439
our garden centers can help you have
success. We've got all these great

1133
01:19:45.520 --> 01:19:50.600
feed stores, these hardware stores,
places like Southwest Fertilizers that have the supplies

1134
01:19:50.640 --> 01:19:55.159
you need to have success with it. And we have so much expertise here

1135
01:19:55.239 --> 01:19:59.439
in the Houston area to kind of
guide you so that you can find exactly

1136
01:20:00.279 --> 01:20:03.520
the types of plants that you want
to have the kind of garden that you

1137
01:20:03.640 --> 01:20:09.800
want. And I'll tell you this
more than once I have had a bunch

1138
01:20:09.840 --> 01:20:12.640
of plants in and they look good, and I just at a point where

1139
01:20:12.640 --> 01:20:15.520
it's like, yeah, I'm gonna
try something different. I'm gonna try something

1140
01:20:15.600 --> 01:20:18.199
else a little bit different there,
and that's okay to do. Think about

1141
01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:24.960
your wardrobe. Do you only get
rid of a item of clothing when it

1142
01:20:25.159 --> 01:20:30.680
is completely worn out you practically see
through it? Or is there such a

1143
01:20:30.760 --> 01:20:32.039
thing as you know what I'd like
to change my style a little bit.

1144
01:20:32.119 --> 01:20:35.800
I would like to try some different
things. And that's kind of how gardening

1145
01:20:35.960 --> 01:20:40.439
is. By the way, on
the item of clothing thing, if I

1146
01:20:40.479 --> 01:20:44.119
were asking myself that, the answer
would probably be, yeah, he only

1147
01:20:44.159 --> 01:20:47.800
gets rid of it when it's completely
worn out. By one of my daughters

1148
01:20:48.159 --> 01:20:54.039
one time posted to I think it
was Facebook account or whatever. She says,

1149
01:20:54.079 --> 01:20:56.960
Well, I see old pictures of
mom and dad, I think she

1150
01:20:57.079 --> 01:21:01.000
sure looks pretty in that dress.
And when I see pictures of mom and

1151
01:21:01.159 --> 01:21:06.600
dad, I think he still wears
that shirt. That's the truth. Guilty

1152
01:21:06.680 --> 01:21:12.439
at charge. But when it comes
to my garden, I changed things out

1153
01:21:12.720 --> 01:21:15.640
a little bit more. All right, enough of that nonsense. Let's go

1154
01:21:15.720 --> 01:21:17.479
back to the phones. We're going
to head to Northwest Euston and talk to

1155
01:21:17.600 --> 01:21:21.640
Donald. Hello, Donald, oh
boy, thank you for answering. I'm

1156
01:21:21.680 --> 01:21:25.439
back again. Happy Father's Day.
This is my Father's Day gift, by

1157
01:21:25.479 --> 01:21:28.680
the way, talking to somebody who
actually knows what they're talking about. All

1158
01:21:28.760 --> 01:21:32.039
right, well, I'll pretend to
at least. Well, Okay, the

1159
01:21:32.359 --> 01:21:36.119
pine tree issue in the front lawn
that has the roots that grow above the

1160
01:21:36.279 --> 01:21:40.239
grass, well, okay, that
has to just stay as it is.

1161
01:21:40.760 --> 01:21:45.560
I measured it. It's about thirty
inches wide as the yardstick goes, and

1162
01:21:45.680 --> 01:21:49.520
it's thirty years old, thirty or
thirty two years old. Now the issue

1163
01:21:49.640 --> 01:21:54.239
is with the little pine bark holes
that I saw in it. We talked

1164
01:21:54.279 --> 01:21:58.920
about what was actually the name of
that blight that happened is some years ago.

1165
01:21:59.840 --> 01:22:02.479
You remember that was really terrible because
on my on my street, like

1166
01:22:02.600 --> 01:22:09.680
four or five big pine trees just
turn and com oh brown, and well,

1167
01:22:10.000 --> 01:22:12.840
I don't know a blight on pine
we deal with, of course,

1168
01:22:12.960 --> 01:22:16.880
lightning strikes or is an issue on
big pines especially, but we also have

1169
01:22:17.000 --> 01:22:21.359
some pine bark beetles that will underneath
the bark. Yeah, I guess that's

1170
01:22:21.399 --> 01:22:24.479
what they were called. Anyhow,
I saw what they did, you know,

1171
01:22:24.640 --> 01:22:28.000
years ago. It's like ten years
ago if that happened. However,

1172
01:22:28.319 --> 01:22:31.319
the reason I'm calling you, I'm
gonna I checked the holes and there's no

1173
01:22:31.479 --> 01:22:34.199
sap and told me that's great,
okay, But I want to take a

1174
01:22:34.279 --> 01:22:38.439
calking gun and stick a little nose
of a calking gun in there and put

1175
01:22:38.439 --> 01:22:41.079
a little plug of cock in there
to make sure nothing else gets in there?

1176
01:22:41.079 --> 01:22:45.279
Would that be okay? It wouldn't
be necessary, Donald, and I

1177
01:22:45.319 --> 01:22:47.039
don't think it would help a lot. These beetles, they drill in in

1178
01:22:47.119 --> 01:22:50.920
between the where the outer bark kind
of sticks out, and then you kind

1179
01:22:50.960 --> 01:22:56.079
of have a furrow in between where
it's it's a shorter distance to get inside.

1180
01:22:56.640 --> 01:23:00.439
They go in right there, and
so even if you cocked a hole,

1181
01:23:00.000 --> 01:23:03.119
something else isn't going to go in
that hole to cause damage, and

1182
01:23:03.239 --> 01:23:05.960
the beatle, if it were in
the hole, would just come out somewhere

1183
01:23:06.000 --> 01:23:12.239
else. Well, I might seem
overcritical here. What I'm going to do

1184
01:23:12.359 --> 01:23:15.439
is take straws and put straws in
the hole and take a picture of it

1185
01:23:15.520 --> 01:23:17.479
with my phone, so I know
which ones are there now, and that

1186
01:23:17.560 --> 01:23:20.800
way I can save that picture and
then if I see any kind of a

1187
01:23:20.880 --> 01:23:24.159
new hole, I can go look
at the picture. Oh that one wasn't

1188
01:23:24.159 --> 01:23:28.199
there before. Okay, here's the
main issue. My neighbor had a pine

1189
01:23:28.239 --> 01:23:31.319
tree cut down right next door,
was a nine hundred dollars cut down.

1190
01:23:31.479 --> 01:23:35.399
It was way smaller than mine,
and this one probably cost me twenty or

1191
01:23:35.439 --> 01:23:38.880
twenty five hundred dollars to have it
taken down the hole the way, So

1192
01:23:39.680 --> 01:23:42.640
it's a big issue. It's a
big issue, and you could always hire,

1193
01:23:43.079 --> 01:23:45.680
you know, somebody to come out
and take a look at it and

1194
01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:49.760
do an assessment to determine if there's
something else that maybe we're not even discussing

1195
01:23:49.840 --> 01:23:56.079
that they would see on the tree. And I have called Lewis Flurry before.

1196
01:23:56.279 --> 01:23:59.640
He said, you know, his
guys come out and they're very straightforward

1197
01:23:59.680 --> 01:24:00.920
and did what we had to do. This was a dip my older a

1198
01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:05.640
different house that I had. However, Okay, if you have trees that

1199
01:24:05.840 --> 01:24:11.039
big trees, you better be careful
because big trees equal big money whether they're

1200
01:24:11.119 --> 01:24:14.399
up there and they stay up there. This one made it through this tornado

1201
01:24:14.479 --> 01:24:16.800
that we had. Yeah, wonderful
because I had it thinned down and I

1202
01:24:16.880 --> 01:24:20.039
don't want to lose it because if
I if I lose it, there's no

1203
01:24:20.199 --> 01:24:25.560
possibility of putting another one. Yeah, you won't take care of the ones

1204
01:24:25.600 --> 01:24:29.239
you have. That's why what they're
talking about. Yeah, you're trees and

1205
01:24:29.279 --> 01:24:30.319
your kids, take care of the
ones you have. There you go,

1206
01:24:30.760 --> 01:24:34.199
that's good advice. Donald, Happy
Father's day, man, Thank you,

1207
01:24:34.359 --> 01:24:40.199
Thank you all right, you take
care. That is good advice. Absolutely,

1208
01:24:42.520 --> 01:24:45.800
we were I was talking about this
being Father's Day. And you know,

1209
01:24:45.880 --> 01:24:49.720
Ace Hardware Store is just an excellent
place to get a Father's Day gift.

1210
01:24:50.079 --> 01:24:53.520
You're not going to do better if
you've not already gotten some kind of

1211
01:24:53.600 --> 01:24:58.000
gift for Dad. Go to Ice
Hardware because there is so much there.

1212
01:24:58.039 --> 01:25:00.680
In fact, I if I I
would take Dad at this point, let's

1213
01:25:00.720 --> 01:25:03.640
go this afternoon, Dad, Let's
head out there. There is so many

1214
01:25:03.680 --> 01:25:09.000
cool tools. There's all kinds of
stuff for barbecuing, and I could just

1215
01:25:09.119 --> 01:25:13.880
go on and on and on.
Ace has so many cool things that your

1216
01:25:13.960 --> 01:25:19.359
dad would love, really he would. Speaking from a dad, it's always

1217
01:25:19.399 --> 01:25:23.000
a good idea to have another tool. It's always a good idea to have

1218
01:25:23.119 --> 01:25:28.119
some of the gadget for barbequing and
whatnot. Just go and check it out.

1219
01:25:28.279 --> 01:25:30.880
You're not gonna find a better place
for Father's Day shopping than a good

1220
01:25:30.920 --> 01:25:35.880
Ace Hardware store with all of the
things that they carry to make things just

1221
01:25:36.199 --> 01:25:41.720
beautiful in the backyard, make it
enjoyable in the backyard. Ace Hardware is

1222
01:25:42.119 --> 01:25:45.119
all over the place here in the
southeast Houston area or Southeast Texas area around

1223
01:25:45.119 --> 01:25:48.720
Houston. We got forty stores around
us here. You can go to Acehardware

1224
01:25:49.239 --> 01:25:55.359
dot com. Acehardware dot com find
the store locator and the stores nearest to

1225
01:25:55.520 --> 01:25:59.079
you, and they are stocked up
and they've got some really cool stuff.

1226
01:25:59.079 --> 01:26:02.159
I was in an ac of the
today walking through just looking at some of

1227
01:26:02.359 --> 01:26:05.600
the new kinds of things that they
have been bringing in. And it's always

1228
01:26:05.720 --> 01:26:11.119
changing. You know. ACE hard
restores are independently owned. The guy who

1229
01:26:11.640 --> 01:26:15.439
is the owner of the store where
you would go shop is going to be

1230
01:26:15.560 --> 01:26:17.760
some maybe you know, different than
some guy down the street that owns an

1231
01:26:17.760 --> 01:26:20.880
ACE Hardware store, and so they
can each do with their stores like they

1232
01:26:20.960 --> 01:26:25.800
want. And that's why no two
identical, although they are very very similar

1233
01:26:25.920 --> 01:26:28.520
in terms of you got all the
basics that are going to be there that

1234
01:26:28.600 --> 01:26:32.920
you would expect from ACE, but
there's also some cool new things that a

1235
01:26:33.000 --> 01:26:36.840
store owner may decide to bring in
and do, and I think that's kind

1236
01:26:36.840 --> 01:26:40.880
of kind of nice, kind of
fun too. As a matter of fact,

1237
01:26:43.159 --> 01:26:48.880
in the category of do it yourself
in and starting seeds and things,

1238
01:26:49.840 --> 01:26:56.079
now is a good time to be
collecting your supplies for what we're going to

1239
01:26:56.119 --> 01:26:59.600
be doing for a fall garden here
pretty soon. For example, tomatoes.

1240
01:27:00.159 --> 01:27:02.039
We can grow tomatoes in the fall, but you need to get those things

1241
01:27:02.079 --> 01:27:08.600
planted in July in order to have
time for the tomato plants to be able

1242
01:27:08.680 --> 01:27:13.840
to produce before the temperatures cool off
and growth slows to a stop. And

1243
01:27:14.000 --> 01:27:18.800
so planting the seeds and starting your
own seeds in an outdoor area is a

1244
01:27:18.840 --> 01:27:21.920
good idea. You can do it
indoors initially if you've got good light,

1245
01:27:23.119 --> 01:27:26.399
but since we're in the warm season
here, I would go outside to a

1246
01:27:26.600 --> 01:27:30.239
very bright spot underneath the tree where
there's no direct sun, but it's very

1247
01:27:30.279 --> 01:27:33.279
bright and get those things started and
growing. Do that in the next few

1248
01:27:33.319 --> 01:27:38.239
weeks here, and get ready to
go for fall planting. Later on.

1249
01:27:38.359 --> 01:27:42.840
We're going to be starting transplants for
things like broccoli and cabbage and cauliflower and

1250
01:27:42.920 --> 01:27:46.479
whatnot as we get further in to
the late part of summer. But right

1251
01:27:46.560 --> 01:27:48.600
now it would be a time to
begin to get started. If you want

1252
01:27:48.600 --> 01:27:54.359
to do peppers, maybe you want
some jlopenias or some eggplant starting from seed.

1253
01:27:55.359 --> 01:27:58.479
Just go to your garden centers,
go to your feed stores and things,

1254
01:27:58.640 --> 01:28:00.760
grab the supplies you need and start
some things yourself. Give it a

1255
01:28:00.800 --> 01:28:02.920
shot. All right. We got
to take a little break here. I

1256
01:28:02.960 --> 01:28:09.520
will be right back the number seven
three fifty eight seventy four. Welcome back.

1257
01:28:09.680 --> 01:28:14.840
We got some sunshine outside. Good
day to be outside today. I

1258
01:28:14.920 --> 01:28:16.560
know it's a little on the warm
side, but hey, it's okay.

1259
01:28:16.800 --> 01:28:19.840
We we live here, we can
we can deal with it. We can

1260
01:28:19.920 --> 01:28:23.199
deal with it, and there's plenty
to do. I hope you haven't a

1261
01:28:23.279 --> 01:28:27.079
good Father's Day. For all the
dads out there and family's out there in

1262
01:28:27.159 --> 01:28:30.479
general, we certainly do wish you
a very, very happy Father's day.

1263
01:28:31.239 --> 01:28:34.479
Let's head out to the woodlands and
we're going to talk to Katie. Hello

1264
01:28:34.720 --> 01:28:40.359
Katie, Well, good morning,
Master Skip. How are you this morning?

1265
01:28:40.520 --> 01:28:43.000
I'm good. Harr are you today? What? Thanks for that title.

1266
01:28:45.800 --> 01:28:48.279
I've been itching to do that for
ever since you got on this show.

1267
01:28:48.479 --> 01:28:51.560
Okay, so much all you do? Okay. So I was wondering

1268
01:28:51.560 --> 01:28:56.560
if I could add on to that
pine bark beetle conversation, that kind of

1269
01:28:56.640 --> 01:29:01.520
crazy town straws and plugging it.
So last summer noticed on the bottom of

1270
01:29:01.600 --> 01:29:04.760
one of our trees looked like a
bunch of sawdust, and I thought my

1271
01:29:04.840 --> 01:29:08.880
granddaughter was cutting and I asked her, I said, what are you doing

1272
01:29:08.920 --> 01:29:11.600
over here? To cause all this
sawdust. Well it turned out to be.

1273
01:29:12.079 --> 01:29:15.439
We called a tree service. They
came out and it was a pine

1274
01:29:15.520 --> 01:29:19.479
bark beetle infestation. And what he
told us was that the pine bark beetles

1275
01:29:19.479 --> 01:29:24.720
are always trying to get into your
trees, and when they find a weak

1276
01:29:24.800 --> 01:29:29.079
one, the female goes in and
she releases a pheromone and it tells all

1277
01:29:29.119 --> 01:29:31.880
the females to come and, you
know, totally masticate this tree. So

1278
01:29:32.119 --> 01:29:35.800
basically I looked around at all our
trees. Oh my gosh, probably about

1279
01:29:35.880 --> 01:29:41.760
ten of them had signs of this. It looked like little white lumps all

1280
01:29:41.840 --> 01:29:45.199
over the tree, which was the
beginning of the infestation. So he looked

1281
01:29:45.239 --> 01:29:47.039
up to the crown of our tree
and he said, you have a good

1282
01:29:47.159 --> 01:29:50.239
The good news is it's not yellowing
yet. He said, I think I

1283
01:29:50.319 --> 01:29:55.760
can save your trees. And so
they came out and they did three springs

1284
01:29:56.800 --> 01:30:00.560
two months in between. So bam
bam bam, and they rate all of

1285
01:30:00.640 --> 01:30:04.119
our trees for less than what it
would cost to cut one down. Let's

1286
01:30:04.159 --> 01:30:08.039
good, and totally save them all. Well good. They must have had

1287
01:30:08.079 --> 01:30:12.720
some good equipment to get up and
spray pretty high on the trunk. Yeah,

1288
01:30:12.800 --> 01:30:15.600
they came completely masked and with these
big sprayers, we watched the whole

1289
01:30:15.680 --> 01:30:19.840
thing and they went way up the
trunk and they did everyone. And they

1290
01:30:19.960 --> 01:30:26.640
recommend an annual spray. We have
not done that this year yet. We're

1291
01:30:26.720 --> 01:30:31.199
considering it. But it was a
fantastic three months or three treatment process.

1292
01:30:31.880 --> 01:30:36.479
And I'm really excited to announce because
the problem with those pine bark beetles he

1293
01:30:36.600 --> 01:30:40.039
was telling us, is they just
jumped from tree to tree to tree.

1294
01:30:40.560 --> 01:30:43.520
And I saw them a lot on
the path while I was out walking dogs.

1295
01:30:44.199 --> 01:30:46.159
And it can be devastating to all
of your trees. And like he

1296
01:30:46.279 --> 01:30:50.359
said, one tree, one of
those big pine trees could literally cost two

1297
01:30:50.439 --> 01:30:54.640
to three thousand to down. Yeah, they can get expensive. Well,

1298
01:30:54.720 --> 01:30:56.960
yeah, there's a lot of thing
to do if they get in ahead of

1299
01:30:57.000 --> 01:31:00.640
them, you know, once the
tree has severely infested did it, it's

1300
01:31:00.720 --> 01:31:03.039
usually too late to be able to
save them. But fortunately they were able

1301
01:31:03.079 --> 01:31:06.800
to catch her. There's a you
got to spray about eighty percent of the

1302
01:31:06.880 --> 01:31:11.439
height of the trunk to effectively do
it. For most of the beatles.

1303
01:31:11.479 --> 01:31:16.079
There's like five different about five different
beetles that attack pines. Here in our

1304
01:31:16.199 --> 01:31:20.359
area. One of them attacks down
low, about eight feet off the ground

1305
01:31:20.439 --> 01:31:24.319
and below, but the rest of
them go way way up the tree.

1306
01:31:25.560 --> 01:31:28.079
I think that might have been the
type that we had, the ones that

1307
01:31:28.159 --> 01:31:30.880
were eight feet in below, because
we didn't see it much higher than that.

1308
01:31:30.239 --> 01:31:33.880
Okay, but it was very effective. And I think that this guy

1309
01:31:34.039 --> 01:31:38.079
instead of doing the whole straws and
plugging it, which sounds to be a

1310
01:31:38.159 --> 01:31:43.399
little bit, if I could say
so, ridiculous, because they're just going

1311
01:31:43.439 --> 01:31:45.680
to keep on coming back. Like
you said, they're very they're very slender,

1312
01:31:45.920 --> 01:31:49.600
they can slip in anywhere, and
there's no way that he's going to

1313
01:31:49.640 --> 01:31:56.199
be able to Well, you're you're
correct about the tree being stressed and being

1314
01:31:57.079 --> 01:32:01.880
a magnet for those beetles. They
smell that, and I've been amazed.

1315
01:32:02.239 --> 01:32:05.600
And I've lived up in the Willis
Conroy area for a number of years,

1316
01:32:05.640 --> 01:32:12.239
and up there you would have a
let's say, a lightning strike hit a

1317
01:32:12.359 --> 01:32:14.600
tree and not be so bad that
it would kill the tree, but it

1318
01:32:14.600 --> 01:32:16.880
would it would knock the bark off
one side, and then all of a

1319
01:32:16.880 --> 01:32:20.119
sudden you'd find pine marked beetles in
it before too long. It's because that

1320
01:32:20.359 --> 01:32:25.760
that stress tree is just like sending
out a clarion call and the beetles head

1321
01:32:25.800 --> 01:32:29.079
that way. So yeah, And
he said it was based on the drought.

1322
01:32:29.199 --> 01:32:31.560
So thet before last we had a
very bad drought, and he said

1323
01:32:31.600 --> 01:32:36.279
those trees that were severely impacted by
the groat are now showing signs of weakness.

1324
01:32:36.479 --> 01:32:40.960
Yeah, that's true. So interesting
that that's true. All right,

1325
01:32:41.039 --> 01:32:43.560
Katie, Well good, I'm glad
you were able to turn yours around.

1326
01:32:43.600 --> 01:32:47.119
Thanks for calling filling in on that
Happy Father's Day. Bye bye. Take

1327
01:32:47.159 --> 01:32:51.720
care. If you are looking for
a organic product, there's a high level

1328
01:32:51.760 --> 01:32:57.840
of nitrogen in it for unorganic.
Naturally speaking, organic products tend to be

1329
01:32:57.960 --> 01:33:01.079
lower in concentration of nutrients. That's
on. Nature does things. But Sweet

1330
01:33:01.159 --> 01:33:06.720
Green is a molasses based product through
microbial activity, turned into an eleven percent

1331
01:33:08.359 --> 01:33:13.279
nitrogen fertilizer and it's a product that
is produced by Nitrofoss sold by Nitropos.

1332
01:33:14.199 --> 01:33:17.560
It is available widely, like all
Nitrofoss products are. You can find it

1333
01:33:17.600 --> 01:33:21.880
at places like Shades of Texas down
in South Houston a Fisher's Hardware, both

1334
01:33:21.920 --> 01:33:26.359
the one in South Houston on Southmore
and the one down in the port on

1335
01:33:26.479 --> 01:33:30.199
Broadway Street has it as well.
You're going to find it a King web

1336
01:33:30.239 --> 01:33:32.880
Ace hardware for example, and the
arburgate up in tombol. Sweet green is

1337
01:33:33.720 --> 01:33:40.399
the kind of product that you put
it down and when you water it in

1338
01:33:40.560 --> 01:33:43.560
or when rain waters it in,
it just dissolves away and moves in.

1339
01:33:43.800 --> 01:33:46.159
And it's a high carbon material.
Any kind of a sugar is a high

1340
01:33:46.199 --> 01:33:50.920
carbon material, molasses based, and
that really fires up the microbes. They

1341
01:33:51.119 --> 01:33:57.279
need carbon, and that's why organic
gardeners often will put molasses on the garden,

1342
01:33:57.439 --> 01:34:00.680
on the soil for that reason.
Provides that in addition to the fact

1343
01:34:00.720 --> 01:34:05.520
that it's just eleven percent nitrogen out
there, it takes about about ten pounds

1344
01:34:05.640 --> 01:34:11.039
of sweet green per thousand square feet
to cover an area and to provide that

1345
01:34:11.199 --> 01:34:13.760
nutrient to carry you on into summer. You can do it now, I

1346
01:34:13.800 --> 01:34:16.319
would probably if you do it now, do it again in about eight weeks,

1347
01:34:16.800 --> 01:34:20.960
and that ought to carry you into
the fall fertilization season. Those two

1348
01:34:21.000 --> 01:34:25.119
applications of this week green. And
by the way, did I mention this

1349
01:34:25.399 --> 01:34:29.800
It smells good. It smells wonderful
too. We're going to head out now

1350
01:34:30.319 --> 01:34:33.760
to the phones and just a moment. When we do, Luishi will be

1351
01:34:33.840 --> 01:34:38.399
our first up. In the meantime, it is time to get Jared in

1352
01:34:38.520 --> 01:34:42.520
here for the news and talk about
what else is going on out there,

1353
01:34:42.800 --> 01:34:46.520
out and about in the greater Houston
area. I'll be right back, says,

1354
01:34:46.560 --> 01:34:54.359
Your moment is you can thank me
later, all right, all right,

1355
01:34:55.159 --> 01:35:00.479
if we do nothing else on garden
Line, we stretch your musical experience

1356
01:35:00.800 --> 01:35:03.720
a little bit. How about that
cuckoo yodel. Let's go to the phones.

1357
01:35:03.760 --> 01:35:09.159
We're gonna talk to Luise. Louise, what's up. Well, I'm

1358
01:35:09.199 --> 01:35:12.520
in beautiful downtown a leaf and it's
a group to stay. But I have

1359
01:35:12.640 --> 01:35:15.560
a tiger little it's from sitting on
my porch for twenty six years, and

1360
01:35:15.800 --> 01:35:20.000
every once while there's some leaf damagines. So I put slogo in and I've

1361
01:35:20.039 --> 01:35:24.680
been doing that for the last month, and it's just getting destroyed on the

1362
01:35:25.039 --> 01:35:28.880
leaves, hole, eating and everything. So what could it possibly be besides

1363
01:35:28.920 --> 01:35:31.560
snails? So do you see trails
on the leaves, the slim trails,

1364
01:35:31.600 --> 01:35:39.000
the dried slime stuff? No,
yeah, ass just gaping holes. Oh

1365
01:35:39.239 --> 01:35:44.800
okay, so it's more like holes
in the leaf as opposed to being eaten

1366
01:35:44.920 --> 01:35:47.199
from the edges in like some chewing
from the edge of the leaf. In

1367
01:35:47.319 --> 01:35:54.279
it's more holes in the leaf.
It seems like it's more on the body

1368
01:35:54.600 --> 01:35:58.479
rather than the edges of each leave. Okay, all right, it could

1369
01:35:58.520 --> 01:36:01.159
be a beetle, it could be
a caterpillar either way. Some of those

1370
01:36:01.239 --> 01:36:03.960
critters are nocturnal, so you go
out in the day and you don't see

1371
01:36:04.000 --> 01:36:06.920
them, and then at night they're
doing their work. You might try going

1372
01:36:06.960 --> 01:36:12.760
out with a flashlight see what you
find, because there's some time a day

1373
01:36:12.800 --> 01:36:15.479
when it's going to be doing the
damage. And if you can find out

1374
01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:17.920
what it is doing it, then
it's easier to prescribe the right product to

1375
01:36:18.000 --> 01:36:23.520
control them. For example, if
it's a caterpillar BT or spinocid, either

1376
01:36:23.600 --> 01:36:30.600
one will control caterpillars quite well,
and it will and the spinocid will control

1377
01:36:30.720 --> 01:36:34.399
beetles in addition to caterpillars, So
it could be that you would want to

1378
01:36:34.439 --> 01:36:41.800
try that. There's also a product
called neme and it's not the name oil.

1379
01:36:42.119 --> 01:36:45.680
It's the name that has the chemical
in it. It's a natural chemical

1380
01:36:45.760 --> 01:36:51.239
in the plant. It's called acid
direct and it's just aza is the ingredient

1381
01:36:51.960 --> 01:36:58.920
start and either either name or spinocid
would probably be a better shotgun approach because

1382
01:36:58.960 --> 01:37:01.399
it's going to work on both caterpillars
and beetles. But if you found out

1383
01:37:01.439 --> 01:37:05.319
exactly what it is, we might
switch to a different recommended product if we

1384
01:37:05.399 --> 01:37:09.600
knew exactly what. All right,
Well, all TV I on it.

1385
01:37:10.119 --> 01:37:13.880
Yeah, I'll all your direction.
All right, you know, sounds good?

1386
01:37:13.920 --> 01:37:16.319
Okay, take care of thanks,
look all right, all right?

1387
01:37:16.399 --> 01:37:21.600
Bye bye. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1388
01:37:21.760 --> 01:37:27.960
seventy four seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. Uh.

1389
01:37:28.199 --> 01:37:31.600
The Southwest Fertilizer Bob you know,
talk about Bob Patterson all the time here

1390
01:37:31.640 --> 01:37:35.359
in Southwest Fertilizer, because that is
a place where you're going to find any

1391
01:37:35.439 --> 01:37:40.600
supply you need to take care of
your garden and your landscape. And that

1392
01:37:40.640 --> 01:37:44.640
would include every fertilizer I talk about
on Guardline. It would include every kind

1393
01:37:44.680 --> 01:37:47.920
of pest control, whether it's disease
or insect or weeds that you're going after.

1394
01:37:48.359 --> 01:37:50.760
Bob's going to have a supply of
all the things you need for that.

1395
01:37:50.840 --> 01:37:55.119
They get a little shop in the
back for small engine repair. They

1396
01:37:55.279 --> 01:37:59.439
carry a lot of different tools an
eighty foot long wall of tools as a

1397
01:37:59.520 --> 01:38:01.960
matter of fact, and so no
matter what the tool is, some really

1398
01:38:02.079 --> 01:38:05.600
nice high quality ones too, by
the way, you can find them there.

1399
01:38:05.720 --> 01:38:09.560
Do you need a fertilizer spreader,
Do you need a little hand carriage

1400
01:38:09.560 --> 01:38:12.520
spreadder maybe that you put the fire
ant bait out with, or do you

1401
01:38:12.640 --> 01:38:15.840
need fireant bait? And the chancewer
is probably you do. This is fire

1402
01:38:15.880 --> 01:38:19.840
ant season and when we use baits, it's an easy way to put a

1403
01:38:20.199 --> 01:38:25.680
very low rate of a pesticide out
there that works really well because you're not

1404
01:38:25.840 --> 01:38:29.680
nuke in the whole yard to kill
everything in the yard. You're basically putting

1405
01:38:29.720 --> 01:38:31.720
out a little bait that they will
pick up, take back, feed to

1406
01:38:31.800 --> 01:38:34.319
the queen, feed to the colony, and it takes them out. That

1407
01:38:34.479 --> 01:38:36.920
way, it's much easier way to
do it. And of course Bob's got

1408
01:38:36.960 --> 01:38:41.439
plenty of that stuff on hand.
If I talk about a product on guardline,

1409
01:38:41.520 --> 01:38:44.680
it's at Southwest Fertilizer. Because if
they don't have it, you don't

1410
01:38:44.720 --> 01:38:46.520
need it. It's as simple as
that. They're in the corner of Bissinet

1411
01:38:46.600 --> 01:38:50.600
and Renwick. Bissonet and Renwick.
You can go to the website south West

1412
01:38:50.720 --> 01:38:58.119
Fertilizer dot com. Southwest Fertilizer dot
com. Let's go now to Spring Branch

1413
01:38:58.199 --> 01:39:01.239
and we're going to talk to Christine. Good morning. How are you.

1414
01:39:01.640 --> 01:39:08.239
I'm fine, what's up? I
just moved into a house and the front

1415
01:39:08.279 --> 01:39:14.159
yard has been pretty good shape.
But the backyard is just like full of

1416
01:39:14.479 --> 01:39:19.239
weeds. And when I say weeds, I mean like little bushes waist tie.

1417
01:39:21.239 --> 01:39:26.439
One of them is that jewel of
opar with the little pink flowers,

1418
01:39:27.239 --> 01:39:31.399
and the other one has little gold
flowers when it's wet. When it's wet,

1419
01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:36.600
I can pull them up out of
the dirt fairly easily. But I

1420
01:39:36.720 --> 01:39:42.319
mean this is an entire backyard of
these, so that's going to take forever.

1421
01:39:43.000 --> 01:39:47.399
Is there something I can just like
spray that will kill them? There's

1422
01:39:47.560 --> 01:39:51.199
no grass. There are a couple
of crape myrtles out there that I don't

1423
01:39:51.199 --> 01:39:57.640
want to harm, okay, and
there's a bush or two that are some

1424
01:39:57.880 --> 01:40:01.439
sort of hedge or something that I
wouldn't want to kill. But other than

1425
01:40:01.520 --> 01:40:09.159
that, well, there's different ways
to go about it. I think were

1426
01:40:09.319 --> 01:40:13.840
at mine, I would probably I
think the better thing to do would be,

1427
01:40:14.760 --> 01:40:18.359
can you just mow it all down
to the ground just about as a

1428
01:40:18.560 --> 01:40:24.359
as a first step. Well,
I mean these things are like waist high,

1429
01:40:24.760 --> 01:40:30.560
and some of the little trunks are
fairly thick, I mean, like

1430
01:40:30.720 --> 01:40:33.000
okay, the thickness of my little
finger. Okay, okay. Well,

1431
01:40:34.720 --> 01:40:39.800
other than mowing it, you know
down, If you mow it down,

1432
01:40:39.840 --> 01:40:43.079
you get to start there, and
then as weed seeds come up, or

1433
01:40:43.119 --> 01:40:46.239
as these trunks as you described,
start to re sprout, then you can

1434
01:40:46.279 --> 01:40:49.520
put a spray down and it's easy
to control everything. When you got things

1435
01:40:49.560 --> 01:40:53.439
waist high, you're blowing a lot
of spray up all over the place trying

1436
01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:56.239
to spray all these things. You
want to be real careful with it.

1437
01:40:56.399 --> 01:40:59.199
If the breeze is blowing at all
and you have a little bit of a

1438
01:40:59.319 --> 01:41:02.319
mist from your spray that drifts and
it gets on something desirable, you're going

1439
01:41:02.399 --> 01:41:05.439
to hurt it. The advantage of
being able to start down at the dirt

1440
01:41:05.520 --> 01:41:10.479
level almost is that you know you're
you're putting a course spray right down.

1441
01:41:10.600 --> 01:41:15.359
It's just a different type and amount
of application. So if you whether you

1442
01:41:15.439 --> 01:41:17.279
hand pull them, whether you mow
them with whatever you do, I would

1443
01:41:17.319 --> 01:41:20.680
do that because even if you sprayed
and killed everything. You still have waste

1444
01:41:20.720 --> 01:41:24.720
high weeds that are now dead.
You got to get out of there somehow,

1445
01:41:24.840 --> 01:41:28.600
either by pulling or mowing. So
that's that's how I would approach it.

1446
01:41:28.680 --> 01:41:32.800
Be real careful with the glycas because
anything desirable that you get it on,

1447
01:41:32.920 --> 01:41:38.279
it'll kill it. So a low, low pressure spray, don't pump

1448
01:41:38.319 --> 01:41:41.600
it up so much that you get
a fine mist drifting around, just a

1449
01:41:41.680 --> 01:41:45.000
real course drop. Okay, Okay, Well, and I can also I

1450
01:41:45.039 --> 01:41:47.159
mean, I don't know how much
I'm going to get done in this heat,

1451
01:41:47.560 --> 01:41:50.680
but I can also wait and see
what happens during the winter, if

1452
01:41:50.760 --> 01:41:56.600
things die back or what happens,
you know, because there's a lot of

1453
01:41:56.640 --> 01:42:00.439
other work that still needs to be
done too. Well. Yeah, and

1454
01:42:00.840 --> 01:42:02.199
it may even be better just to
you know, have somebody come in with

1455
01:42:02.319 --> 01:42:05.479
a big lit a weed eater or
whatever it takes to knock it all down.

1456
01:42:06.359 --> 01:42:09.880
But once you get ahead of it, then as it starts to reach

1457
01:42:09.960 --> 01:42:13.159
brought out, you can you can
spray and kill the things and plant the

1458
01:42:13.239 --> 01:42:16.880
things you wanted with something like a
round up or something like that. Like

1459
01:42:17.000 --> 01:42:20.880
that, that only because that is
a broad spectrum. So if it's a

1460
01:42:20.960 --> 01:42:25.840
grass or a broadly if it's going
to kill it either way, depending on

1461
01:42:26.000 --> 01:42:28.960
specifically, if I saw the exact
layout and all this, I may have

1462
01:42:29.039 --> 01:42:31.880
a different opinion on it, But
I think in general that that's a good

1463
01:42:31.920 --> 01:42:34.520
way to get started. Just take
your time, get ahead of it.

1464
01:42:34.760 --> 01:42:41.199
But the more you can when it
sprouts, spray those weeds, get ahead

1465
01:42:41.199 --> 01:42:44.720
of all the You got a really
good supply of weed seed that's sitting there,

1466
01:42:44.800 --> 01:42:48.039
that's been building up for years in
that place, probably right right,

1467
01:42:48.680 --> 01:42:53.720
All right, christ thank you,
take care, appreciate the call. We're

1468
01:42:53.720 --> 01:42:56.439
gonna have to run for a break
here. When we come back. Georgie

1469
01:42:56.439 --> 01:43:00.279
will be first up. Dennis Marene
you will be right after that. All

1470
01:43:00.359 --> 01:43:01.920
right. Now, all of you
Beach Boys fans out there, how many

1471
01:43:01.960 --> 01:43:06.520
of you knew that the Beach Boys
sang a song named Vegetables about vegetables.

1472
01:43:06.640 --> 01:43:12.439
I did not listened to Beach Boys
my whole life. That was a surprise

1473
01:43:12.479 --> 01:43:15.039
to me. As we're gonna head
out now to Jersey Village and talk to

1474
01:43:15.119 --> 01:43:18.520
George. Hello, George, Hey, Skip, that's a horrible song,

1475
01:43:18.600 --> 01:43:24.560
by the way, horror I mean, aren't you disappointed? I like the

1476
01:43:24.640 --> 01:43:29.239
beach boys too, but no,
that's pretty terrible. Anyhow, I want

1477
01:43:29.279 --> 01:43:32.159
to grow on apricot tree, but
we're not. I'm not encumbered by poor

1478
01:43:32.279 --> 01:43:36.000
quality music. I'm happy to play
it. Yeah yeah, right, who

1479
01:43:36.079 --> 01:43:40.840
put that on for you? You
gotta manager that doesn't know. Unfortunately,

1480
01:43:40.960 --> 01:43:46.199
that's all on me. Anyhow,
I want to grow an apricot tree.

1481
01:43:46.600 --> 01:43:51.359
So do you know anything about those
that which one you recommend them? We

1482
01:43:51.479 --> 01:43:55.640
don't have a good apricot for this
area. There are a few out there.

1483
01:43:55.800 --> 01:44:00.159
The problem with apricot here is our
winter fluctuations and tempered or such that

1484
01:44:00.840 --> 01:44:04.159
we just have a hard time with
them. They the tree will grow,

1485
01:44:04.479 --> 01:44:09.439
the tree grows, but we just
don't get good fruit set. And then

1486
01:44:09.479 --> 01:44:11.920
you'll have a year where you have
great fruit set, and then you'll go

1487
01:44:12.039 --> 01:44:15.800
several years without. And it's a
combination of chilling hours being right. So

1488
01:44:16.039 --> 01:44:20.279
there's an overiety called Blenheim that used
to be tried a lot. But I'm

1489
01:44:20.399 --> 01:44:24.439
just telling you, unless you just
have a lot of space and want to

1490
01:44:24.560 --> 01:44:30.199
try, I wouldn't give you great
hopes of getting to eat apricots as a

1491
01:44:30.279 --> 01:44:32.960
result. Okay, the ones in
the supermarcers are horrible. They're mushy and

1492
01:44:33.000 --> 01:44:38.479
they have no flavor. So anyhow, yeah, all right, well so

1493
01:44:38.680 --> 01:44:43.720
far the text and M was looking
at a couple of newer cultivars a while

1494
01:44:43.800 --> 01:44:45.840
back, and I don't know that
anything ever came out of that, but

1495
01:44:45.960 --> 01:44:48.920
we're just trying to find some that, you know, they grow well in

1496
01:44:49.000 --> 01:44:54.279
other climates, but for something,
it's about our winter fluctuations. I'm told

1497
01:44:54.399 --> 01:44:57.800
that they just have a hard time
with that. Yeah, my brother had

1498
01:44:57.840 --> 01:45:00.640
one that was delicious, So I
called him yesterday, the one that lives

1499
01:45:00.720 --> 01:45:02.279
in California, and now he said, give me, give me some of

1500
01:45:02.359 --> 01:45:05.840
that. He says, well,
it got hit by lightning and they had

1501
01:45:05.880 --> 01:45:09.760
to take it out and he doesn't
what it was. So yeah, I

1502
01:45:09.880 --> 01:45:12.800
know, so all right, thanks. Any how, when you have to

1503
01:45:12.880 --> 01:45:15.319
come up with one, let me
know. Okay, yeah, when you

1504
01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:17.359
you know, I was, let
me go right here while we're sitting here,

1505
01:45:17.840 --> 01:45:20.319
Well, I'm going to check on
this and see if there's any update

1506
01:45:20.439 --> 01:45:24.640
up there on the Eggy Horticulture website
on those, but I don't think there

1507
01:45:24.760 --> 01:45:27.640
is at this point. Is that
where I would look to check on that?

1508
01:45:27.920 --> 01:45:30.640
Yeah, Horticulture, how they have
a free section of the website,

1509
01:45:30.680 --> 01:45:33.920
and there's a publication on all kinds
of fruit. It would probably go.

1510
01:45:34.119 --> 01:45:38.960
It probably be in the stone Fruit
publication, which includes peaches and plums.

1511
01:45:39.279 --> 01:45:42.680
So yeah, all right, I'll
go look right, George, you bet,

1512
01:45:43.000 --> 01:45:45.720
Thank you appreciate it, sir.
Let's go to Marine now. Hello

1513
01:45:45.840 --> 01:45:50.680
Marine, Oh, good morning,
good morning. I called to you yesterday

1514
01:45:50.680 --> 01:45:57.279
about some leaf mold and on the
tree, and I sent some pictures Ken,

1515
01:45:57.600 --> 01:46:00.279
did you have to review those?
I did, and yes, that

1516
01:46:00.520 --> 01:46:04.720
was a water oak. That is
true a water oak. Yeah, And

1517
01:46:04.920 --> 01:46:11.359
what I see in the photos there
is a leaf spot that's most likely fungal

1518
01:46:11.640 --> 01:46:15.399
in nature. It could be back
to your involved in it too, but

1519
01:46:15.039 --> 01:46:19.319
mostly it looks like a fungal leaf
spot to me. There is not a

1520
01:46:19.479 --> 01:46:26.760
practical way to spray a whole water
oak tree. And these kind of spots

1521
01:46:26.840 --> 01:46:30.479
are not something that is going to
kill your tree. They're not doing it

1522
01:46:30.560 --> 01:46:34.079
any good. And apparently the weather
we've had have just really promoted the spot

1523
01:46:34.279 --> 01:46:38.359
growth. And I know you're losing
a lot of leaves from it, but

1524
01:46:38.520 --> 01:46:41.319
at this stage, like the pictures
you showed me, those leaves, even

1525
01:46:41.359 --> 01:46:44.960
if you spray them, they're they're
going to be cast off the tree is

1526
01:46:45.039 --> 01:46:49.680
not going to hold onto those leaves. So I guess the bottom line is

1527
01:46:49.720 --> 01:46:53.760
we just don't, as a general
rule, go out and spray our water

1528
01:46:53.840 --> 01:46:57.399
oaks or any of the oaks really
all the time, just because they might

1529
01:46:57.479 --> 01:47:00.239
get these diseases. I think it's
just kind of fluke that this year was

1530
01:47:00.279 --> 01:47:05.479
really bad for that one. Okay, my neighbor just ask can this sungus

1531
01:47:05.600 --> 01:47:11.199
travel from one tree to another?
A fungus can because they float through the

1532
01:47:11.279 --> 01:47:15.920
air, oh, on the spores, and they're present, and you just

1533
01:47:16.000 --> 01:47:20.720
don't see them because they haven't sprouted
in an infected the leaf yet. But

1534
01:47:20.840 --> 01:47:26.159
they're actually out there in nature,
and a lot of things are that way.

1535
01:47:26.199 --> 01:47:30.239
You don't take moss or algae for
example. You know, you look

1536
01:47:30.279 --> 01:47:31.960
at the side of your house and
there's maybe bricks on it, and you

1537
01:47:32.079 --> 01:47:35.600
think, well, there's no algae
there. We'll start spraying that brick with

1538
01:47:35.760 --> 01:47:40.359
water every day, with a constant
mist of water, and within a week

1539
01:47:40.479 --> 01:47:43.520
or two suddenly got algae growing on
the brick. Well where did it come

1540
01:47:43.600 --> 01:47:46.039
from? Well, it was there
all along. You just created the environment

1541
01:47:46.199 --> 01:47:49.640
where the algae could grow. That's
how it is with these leaf spots on

1542
01:47:49.720 --> 01:47:54.039
your trees and things. We get
some rain, we get the right conditions,

1543
01:47:54.520 --> 01:47:57.880
and now this disease attacks. But
it was always around, it just

1544
01:47:58.000 --> 01:48:02.760
wasn't a threat. Okay, So
I think I read online that if you

1545
01:48:02.880 --> 01:48:11.840
spray your water oak before it starts
budding, that it might keep the sungus

1546
01:48:11.880 --> 01:48:15.760
from coming on next year. Is
that true or not? Well, not

1547
01:48:15.039 --> 01:48:20.119
this fungus. But there is one
called oak leaf blister that causes the leaves

1548
01:48:20.239 --> 01:48:25.439
to be bumpy. They're more like
a spinach leaf than a normal leaf.

1549
01:48:25.600 --> 01:48:29.800
You know how spinach is bumpy.
Oak leaf blister does that. Of course,

1550
01:48:30.159 --> 01:48:33.520
those bumps turn brown and then the
leaves fall off and it attacks water

1551
01:48:33.640 --> 01:48:38.520
oak. It attacks I'll attack live
oak and other oaks too, And that's

1552
01:48:38.560 --> 01:48:41.920
a spring thing. So we can
do a copper spray early before the buds

1553
01:48:42.039 --> 01:48:46.079
come out to help cut down on
oak leaf blister. That's another one that

1554
01:48:46.279 --> 01:48:49.359
some years it's bad and some years
it's not. And so do you really

1555
01:48:49.399 --> 01:48:53.159
want to be on a schedule where
every year you're having to spray your trees

1556
01:48:53.640 --> 01:48:56.760
because when it, even when it
shows up, the leaves look bad,

1557
01:48:56.840 --> 01:49:00.119
they fall off and the tree puts
out new leaves and life goes on.

1558
01:49:00.000 --> 01:49:06.279
So unless you go ahead ahead,
we'll just continue the rest. We'll keep

1559
01:49:06.319 --> 01:49:11.039
falling and falling and falling all summer. Or do you think it'll stop.

1560
01:49:11.479 --> 01:49:15.520
I think at some point it's gonna
stop and and not do that anymore.

1561
01:49:15.640 --> 01:49:20.920
But there's a really serious a lot
of leaf spot on those leaves, and

1562
01:49:21.039 --> 01:49:27.479
so they're they're gone. Okay,
thank you? All right, I hear

1563
01:49:27.560 --> 01:49:29.960
the music, So either you and
I have to sing or we have to

1564
01:49:30.000 --> 01:49:34.079
hang up. I think we ought
to hang up. Day by good we

1565
01:49:34.239 --> 01:49:36.960
will be back, Dennis and Roy. You will be the first two up.

1566
01:49:36.960 --> 01:49:40.560
I know you've been waiting a bit. I appreciate that, but we

1567
01:49:40.840 --> 01:49:43.680
we will be our first two up
in that order, Dennis and Ryan when

1568
01:49:43.720 --> 01:49:47.119
we come back. Don't forget.
If you want more information on taking care

1569
01:49:47.159 --> 01:49:54.239
of your lawn, my lawn care
schedules are online at gardening with Skip dot

1570
01:49:54.359 --> 01:49:59.800
com. Gardening with Skip dot com, that's me. We'll be happy to

1571
01:49:59.840 --> 01:50:01.359
help you along. Give us a
call if you'd like to get on the

1572
01:50:01.399 --> 01:50:04.199
boards and be ready to go for
the next hour, which we have one

1573
01:50:04.319 --> 01:50:10.239
more of today. Seven one three
two one two k t r H seven

1574
01:50:10.279 --> 01:50:15.399
one three two one two. K
t r H. Wait right back with

1575
01:50:15.560 --> 01:50:25.960
your calls and with more from garden
Line. Welcome to k t r H.

1576
01:50:26.119 --> 01:50:38.279
Garden Line with Scamp Ricter. It's
crazy Trim. Just watch him as

1577
01:50:43.800 --> 01:50:50.279
many good things to say. Hey, welcome back to the garden lines.

1578
01:50:51.039 --> 01:50:55.640
Thank you, we're back. We're
here. Let's do this. We are

1579
01:50:55.720 --> 01:50:59.279
here to answer your gardening question.
Seven one three two one two fifty eight

1580
01:50:59.520 --> 01:51:04.159
seventy two five eight seven four.
We're going to go to Dennis out in

1581
01:51:04.319 --> 01:51:10.399
Memorial right off the boat here.
Hey Dennis, say good morning. Skip

1582
01:51:11.000 --> 01:51:15.520
quick question. I just recently moved
into a new home and trying to do

1583
01:51:15.680 --> 01:51:21.399
some early late late spring, early
summer re landscaping. So I've got some

1584
01:51:21.640 --> 01:51:26.960
roses underneath a tree that just aren't
doing well. They don't get any sun

1585
01:51:27.039 --> 01:51:31.479
and obviously they're competing with water with
the tree. What could I plant this

1586
01:51:31.640 --> 01:51:38.199
time of year for some some color, some flowers underneath a tree like that.

1587
01:51:39.359 --> 01:51:42.319
Uh So it's a lot of shade, is what you're telling me?

1588
01:51:42.439 --> 01:51:45.000
Right? Is there any sun?
Yeah, well enough shade. It's a

1589
01:51:45.079 --> 01:51:49.800
smallish backyard patio. But the tree
isn't huge, but it I looked one

1590
01:51:49.840 --> 01:51:54.439
of the rose bushes gets a bit
of there's rose bushes under there now.

1591
01:51:55.279 --> 01:51:58.760
The ones that don't get any sun
have no flowers. The one that gets

1592
01:51:58.840 --> 01:52:01.399
sun has flowers. And it makes
me think that they're just too much shade

1593
01:52:01.560 --> 01:52:05.960
or something like that. That's it. Roses need six hours of sun really

1594
01:52:06.119 --> 01:52:12.000
to begin to perform well. So
are you talking about replacing the roses?

1595
01:52:12.039 --> 01:52:14.680
When you say plant something under there, you mean pull the roses out there?

1596
01:52:14.920 --> 01:52:16.800
Yeah, okay, I would.
I don't think there's much hope of

1597
01:52:16.880 --> 01:52:20.720
ever getting a nice rose bush undernaate
that tree when you're when you're in a

1598
01:52:20.760 --> 01:52:26.960
bright area, that opens the door
for the hydranges, for example, is

1599
01:52:26.960 --> 01:52:30.199
an option. You need to keep
them adequately moist. They don't like to

1600
01:52:30.279 --> 01:52:33.279
dry out, but they like a
very very bright shade. A littled apple

1601
01:52:33.399 --> 01:52:36.800
sign here and there, but some
bright shade and they'll they'll put up with

1602
01:52:36.880 --> 01:52:40.720
that and do well for you.
You've got a lot of annual types of

1603
01:52:40.760 --> 01:52:44.199
flowers that you can put in an
area like that. Of course, impatients

1604
01:52:44.239 --> 01:52:48.000
and kalladiums do well in the shade
if it's a bright shade. Persian shield

1605
01:52:48.159 --> 01:52:54.640
is a foliage plant with purplish silver
foliage that's truly attractive that would do well

1606
01:52:55.119 --> 01:53:01.199
in an area like that. There
are some salvias Salvia garon nittka. It's

1607
01:53:01.279 --> 01:53:05.720
called it's blue, a niche sage
that does well in a very very bright

1608
01:53:06.079 --> 01:53:10.359
shade area and it gets up about
four feet high, has kind of a

1609
01:53:10.840 --> 01:53:15.520
bluish purple colored flowers that are attractive
hummingbirds. So that's another app option.

1610
01:53:15.479 --> 01:53:17.800
You know, a lot of ways
you can go in a spot like that.

1611
01:53:18.920 --> 01:53:24.000
Well great. A couple of quick
follow up questions and patients. I've

1612
01:53:24.079 --> 01:53:28.239
done the sun patients out in areas, you know in Houston, sun patients

1613
01:53:28.720 --> 01:53:32.399
out the sun. They're fantastic.
You're saying just regular patients. If I

1614
01:53:32.640 --> 01:53:35.640
use that, you could do regular
patients, or you could do sun patients.

1615
01:53:35.800 --> 01:53:40.039
Some patients will grow in less sun. They're just able to take more

1616
01:53:40.159 --> 01:53:44.600
sun than regular impatients are. And
so you know you can you could do

1617
01:53:44.680 --> 01:53:47.640
either one of them in an area. Wishbone flower does good, Terina,

1618
01:53:47.720 --> 01:53:53.720
it does good in an area like
that. There's there's just a number of

1619
01:53:53.800 --> 01:53:56.560
options, kind of depends on what
you want to look at, what you

1620
01:53:56.680 --> 01:54:02.319
find, what you find attractive.
Well, hydrangees tell me I've had hydranges

1621
01:54:02.800 --> 01:54:06.800
before in kind of a shady area
and they never did well. Okay,

1622
01:54:09.039 --> 01:54:13.760
well, do you really think that's
an option underneath a tree that gets a

1623
01:54:13.800 --> 01:54:15.600
lot of shade. Yeah, that's
an option. They're not an easy plant,

1624
01:54:15.960 --> 01:54:20.359
though, I'll acknowledge that getting the
water right on them, and you

1625
01:54:20.439 --> 01:54:25.600
know, keeping them adequately fertilized,
getting the water they need, never letting

1626
01:54:25.600 --> 01:54:28.920
them dry out. So if you
want to make it a little easier on

1627
01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:31.720
yourself, you know, we could
go a different direction than the than the

1628
01:54:32.000 --> 01:54:36.960
hydranges would be. But okay,
well, thanks so much. Another one

1629
01:54:38.119 --> 01:54:43.159
is a shrimp plant does well in
a in a bright, shady type area.

1630
01:54:43.279 --> 01:54:45.760
That would be another good choice for
that that you might say that one

1631
01:54:45.800 --> 01:54:53.039
again. Shrimp plant. It's very
unusual looking. It's blooms look sort of

1632
01:54:53.199 --> 01:54:57.119
like shrimp if you have to look
at a picture of it online to see

1633
01:54:57.159 --> 01:55:00.359
what they're talking about. But that's
that would be a pretty we for an

1634
01:55:00.359 --> 01:55:02.800
area like that. Okay, I've
never heard of that one. Well,

1635
01:55:02.840 --> 01:55:05.840
thanks so much. And you're in
the you're in the Memorial area, go

1636
01:55:06.000 --> 01:55:10.840
up to Buchanan's plants. They're just
down the road from you. Uh.

1637
01:55:11.159 --> 01:55:15.159
They have an excellent selection of shade
loving plants. So you could walk through

1638
01:55:15.199 --> 01:55:17.039
there and take a look at it
and you know, have them help you

1639
01:55:17.119 --> 01:55:21.800
pick something out because they're gonna have
an excellent selection. Okay, thanks a

1640
01:55:21.880 --> 01:55:26.640
lot. All right, Dennis,
thank you appreciate the call. Thanks a

1641
01:55:26.640 --> 01:55:29.119
lot. Let's go now to Richmond. We're going to talk to Roy.

1642
01:55:29.199 --> 01:55:32.359
Hello, Roy, thanks for waiting. Good morning, Skip. Happy Father's

1643
01:55:32.439 --> 01:55:35.159
Day to you and to all the
fathers out there. Thanks. I have

1644
01:55:35.439 --> 01:55:42.000
a poison ivy that I have put
chemicals on there from the box stores and

1645
01:55:42.079 --> 01:55:46.880
all that, and that that just
keeps growing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1646
01:55:47.479 --> 01:55:50.640
It's a Is it a vine that's
attached to a tree going up a

1647
01:55:50.720 --> 01:55:55.840
tree? Or how's it growing?
No, it's just on the it's just

1648
01:55:55.960 --> 01:56:00.199
on the on the grass. Oh
okay, so it's like coming up out

1649
01:56:00.239 --> 01:56:04.600
of your lawn. Some of you
on the fence line. Oh, on

1650
01:56:04.640 --> 01:56:08.640
the fence line. Okay. Roy. What you need to do is you

1651
01:56:08.760 --> 01:56:13.000
need to get a product that contains
an ingredient. Do you have a pin

1652
01:56:13.079 --> 01:56:20.039
or pencil handy there, it's triclo
peer t r I c l O p

1653
01:56:20.600 --> 01:56:26.640
y R. You will find it
in things that are called like poison ivy

1654
01:56:26.760 --> 01:56:32.680
killer or a brush killer or stump
killer. But triclo peer is the ingredient,

1655
01:56:33.439 --> 01:56:38.760
uh, And you can spray it
on the poison ivy, but don't

1656
01:56:38.760 --> 01:56:43.159
get the triclo peer on anything desirable
like your lawn or flowers or things like

1657
01:56:43.279 --> 01:56:47.479
that. Another way to approach it
is if your poison ivy is like little

1658
01:56:47.680 --> 01:56:51.840
trunks, little vines coming up that
you would cut off, you can dab

1659
01:56:51.960 --> 01:56:56.359
the triclo peer right on those cut
surfaces. So what I would do would

1660
01:56:56.399 --> 01:57:00.600
be go to a paint supply store
by those little wooden handled foam brushes,

1661
01:57:01.000 --> 01:57:03.760
you know the kind I'm talking about, and you dip it, dip it

1662
01:57:03.800 --> 01:57:06.319
in the tricle paer, and then
when you cut the poison ivy off,

1663
01:57:06.399 --> 01:57:10.239
you just dip it right on that
cut surface. Just dab it right on

1664
01:57:10.319 --> 01:57:13.159
the You have to spray it and
get on everything else. You can do

1665
01:57:13.279 --> 01:57:17.520
that, or you could, you
know, apply it anyway that's practical to

1666
01:57:17.600 --> 01:57:21.039
you along the vines of the poison
ivy and it'll work. So whether you

1667
01:57:21.079 --> 01:57:24.960
put it on the leaves, the
cut stump, or on the vine,

1668
01:57:25.399 --> 01:57:28.560
tricle a pear is pretty effective.
And I would I would give it a

1669
01:57:28.640 --> 01:57:31.159
shot at that it's going to die
back. Just remember that dead poison ivy

1670
01:57:31.239 --> 01:57:35.239
still has that oil in it,
so never burn it because that in the

1671
01:57:35.359 --> 01:57:40.840
smoke that oil will volatilize. It's
very dangerous. And be real careful,

1672
01:57:40.840 --> 01:57:44.760
you know, get it into a
bag because even dry dead poison ivy will

1673
01:57:44.960 --> 01:57:48.199
will cause skin irritation. Well,
great, thank you, skip all right,

1674
01:57:48.199 --> 01:57:51.840
good lucke o you right, take
care of good day you as well.

1675
01:57:53.000 --> 01:57:56.560
Thank you very much. Appreciate that
we're gonna take a little break here

1676
01:57:56.640 --> 01:58:00.960
in a second, Lily and James
or our first two up when we come

1677
01:58:00.039 --> 01:58:03.560
back. Thank you guys for hanging
on with us a little bit longer online.

1678
01:58:04.199 --> 01:58:08.199
I will be back shortly. We'll
continue garden Line. If you have

1679
01:58:08.239 --> 01:58:11.159
any questions, I would like to
give us a call. Seven one three

1680
01:58:11.359 --> 01:58:15.680
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven to one three two one two

1681
01:58:15.279 --> 01:58:18.720
fifty eight seventy four. Give us
a call. We'll talk about the things

1682
01:58:18.760 --> 01:58:23.279
that interest you. Welcome back to
Guarden Line. Good to have you with

1683
01:58:23.439 --> 01:58:28.600
us. We're rocking and rolling this
morning. Let's head out to Humble,

1684
01:58:28.720 --> 01:58:31.359
Texas. We're going to talk to
Lily. Hello, lily, Good morning.

1685
01:58:31.399 --> 01:58:35.079
How are you. I'm good,
I'm good. What's up. I

1686
01:58:35.239 --> 01:58:39.920
have a lot of different kind of
plants. I just want to know if

1687
01:58:39.920 --> 01:58:44.439
there's a staple fertilized that I can
put on them. You know I have,

1688
01:58:45.640 --> 01:58:47.680
Oh, go ahead. You're like
wanting one fertilizer for a whole bunch

1689
01:58:47.720 --> 01:58:53.560
of stuff, right, nice,
fair enough, fair enough. You know

1690
01:58:53.840 --> 01:58:58.000
I use lawn fertilizer for a lot
of things. I just do. And

1691
01:58:58.239 --> 01:59:00.920
you know, there's situations where I
would say, now, don't use that,

1692
01:59:00.039 --> 01:59:04.079
use something different because you need a
little extra phosphorus or some other thing.

1693
01:59:04.159 --> 01:59:09.800
But in general I find that a
good lawn fertilizer, if you got

1694
01:59:09.880 --> 01:59:13.399
it on hand, just use it
for whatever you need it for and it'll

1695
01:59:13.439 --> 01:59:15.039
work pretty good. I put it
on my fruit treeways, I put it

1696
01:59:15.079 --> 01:59:19.520
on my lawns. I put it
in vegetable gardens and so on. On

1697
01:59:19.680 --> 01:59:24.479
flowering plants. You can, you
sure can. And here's the thing.

1698
01:59:24.600 --> 01:59:28.319
You know, we know that like
phosphorus for examples, it plays a big

1699
01:59:28.399 --> 01:59:32.000
role in flowering. But a lot
of soils already have phosphorus in adequate amounts.

1700
01:59:32.039 --> 01:59:35.760
Not all do, but some do. But also a big thing about

1701
01:59:35.840 --> 01:59:42.680
flowering is having good vigor to produce
leaves, to catch sunlight to make sugars

1702
01:59:42.880 --> 01:59:45.840
that build flowers. That that's how
the plant is able to flower. And

1703
01:59:46.039 --> 01:59:51.479
so nitrogen is also an important part
of a flowering plant's success. And nitrogen

1704
01:59:51.600 --> 01:59:59.079
is the big number in the lawn
fertilizer. Okay, so is there a

1705
01:59:59.159 --> 02:00:02.960
certain number that you would suggest or
no, just like a three one to

1706
02:00:03.000 --> 02:00:06.279
two kind of ratio of nutrients.
We've got a lot of different ones.

1707
02:00:06.319 --> 02:00:10.439
I don't know. If you have
a particular lawn fertilizer you like, it'll

1708
02:00:10.439 --> 02:00:14.199
probably be okay to use on that. I use Natural Fuss. That's what

1709
02:00:14.279 --> 02:00:17.159
I then go with that one you
could use if you've got night Fuss,

1710
02:00:17.159 --> 02:00:20.880
if you've got some of the Imperial
the red bag, that's an immediately available

1711
02:00:20.920 --> 02:00:25.159
fertilizer, that would be a good
one for a lot of things. You

1712
02:00:25.239 --> 02:00:29.680
know, for our lawns, we're
thinking more slow release long term right now,

1713
02:00:30.079 --> 02:00:32.000
but if you had a little flower
bed and you're going to have plants

1714
02:00:32.039 --> 02:00:35.760
in it for a couple of months, just use a more immediate release,

1715
02:00:35.880 --> 02:00:39.479
or maybe a vegetable garden, you
know, a tomato plant. You could

1716
02:00:39.479 --> 02:00:43.279
put some of that imperial around a
tomato plant if you want. And I'm

1717
02:00:43.359 --> 02:00:45.680
answering this not to say that no
one should buy any other kinds of fertilizer.

1718
02:00:45.680 --> 02:00:49.399
I'm just saying your question was if
I could I buy one fertilizer and

1719
02:00:49.479 --> 02:00:51.760
just use it for a lot of
stuff in the answer is yes, And

1720
02:00:51.840 --> 02:00:55.199
if you're going to do that,
I would do it with a lawn fertilizer.

1721
02:00:56.600 --> 02:00:59.720
Okay. I have a list of
twenty different kinds of things that I

1722
02:00:59.800 --> 02:01:04.119
have. It's fertilized individually. Yeah, we'll just kind of okay, go

1723
02:01:04.239 --> 02:01:06.800
for it and see how they do. And all I ask is that whatever

1724
02:01:08.239 --> 02:01:12.319
produce and flowers you produce, you
bring half of them to the KTR studio

1725
02:01:12.319 --> 02:01:15.680
and drop them off for me and
we'll call it even I will do I

1726
02:01:15.760 --> 02:01:18.680
know where it's at. That's a
fair trade, isn't it. Free advice?

1727
02:01:18.800 --> 02:01:21.199
Thank you, free produce, Lily, you have fun out there and

1728
02:01:21.239 --> 02:01:25.359
Numble, thanks for your call,
appreciate that. Thank you, Bye bye

1729
02:01:25.399 --> 02:01:29.039
bye. All right, we're going
to keep moving here. Yeah, we're

1730
02:01:29.039 --> 02:01:31.760
talking about fertilizers. And one thing
I should have mentioned to Lily. Another

1731
02:01:31.840 --> 02:01:38.279
good one is astro grow. It's
a Supergrow Plus by Medina Medina Supergrow Plus,

1732
02:01:38.359 --> 02:01:41.840
it's a sixteen zero two. It's
a hoose end fertilizer. So that

1733
02:01:41.960 --> 02:01:45.359
one's kind of cool because you know, it takes what maybe ten minutes to

1734
02:01:45.399 --> 02:01:47.319
go over about four thousand square feet
along, which is what one of those

1735
02:01:47.399 --> 02:01:51.880
bottles will carry. It's got a
really good blend of nutrients, and it's

1736
02:01:51.880 --> 02:01:55.640
got a lot of extra things.
Got some keylated iron in it. It's

1737
02:01:55.680 --> 02:02:00.359
got molasses and humic acid. In
other words, it is low did with

1738
02:02:00.439 --> 02:02:03.000
things to make your plants happy.
And I saw a picture the other day

1739
02:02:03.079 --> 02:02:09.039
someone who used Supergrow Plus the lawn
fertilizer on their tomato plants, and I

1740
02:02:09.199 --> 02:02:14.319
mean they looked awesome. They were
in great shape. They're very happy to

1741
02:02:14.399 --> 02:02:16.520
have that. Plants can't read,
they don't know what is or is not

1742
02:02:16.640 --> 02:02:21.159
a lawn fertilizer. But anyway,
the Supergrow Plus from Medina is an excellent

1743
02:02:21.199 --> 02:02:26.239
product. It gave some away yesterday
when we were at at Wibird's Unlimited in

1744
02:02:26.319 --> 02:02:30.840
bel Air. So that is just
one of those new products on the market

1745
02:02:30.920 --> 02:02:35.119
that I'm really excited about. A
Medina super Grow Plus and it's a sixteen

1746
02:02:35.279 --> 02:02:39.960
zero too. It's got a hose
end hookup one court bottle, easy,

1747
02:02:40.039 --> 02:02:43.039
easy to use, and it works. It does work. I can tell

1748
02:02:43.039 --> 02:02:46.600
you that for sure. Let's head
to northeast Texas. We're going to talk

1749
02:02:46.640 --> 02:02:51.159
to James. Hey, James,
where is Northeast Texas? Up around Marshall.

1750
02:02:51.760 --> 02:02:56.600
I've got a house here that we've
remodeled and put in a driveway and

1751
02:02:56.640 --> 02:02:59.840
a new garage. Really tore up
the yard in the sprinkler system. So

1752
02:03:00.439 --> 02:03:03.720
we took all of that out and
put it back down and we put sant

1753
02:03:03.760 --> 02:03:08.760
augustine grass in about a month ago. And it's really looking great, really

1754
02:03:08.800 --> 02:03:13.239
looks sure good. But now,
what what kind of fertilizer should I put

1755
02:03:13.279 --> 02:03:16.079
on in the in the beginning of
summer here when it's about to get hot.

1756
02:03:17.520 --> 02:03:23.920
Yeah, we don't have the nitroplus
products up here. You don't do

1757
02:03:24.039 --> 02:03:29.159
that super green super green Okay,
I'm not familiar with that. I'm not

1758
02:03:29.239 --> 02:03:32.960
familiar. Well, well you just
mentioned product oh, a super supergrow plus.

1759
02:03:33.439 --> 02:03:36.119
You could do that. That that
is more. You know, it's

1760
02:03:36.159 --> 02:03:39.960
a hose end, so it's going
to give you a lot of immediate release

1761
02:03:40.079 --> 02:03:44.239
and about a fifth of the nitrogen
is slow release and supercrow plus. Uh.

1762
02:03:44.479 --> 02:03:45.960
And so it would be fine.
You would just do that in smaller

1763
02:03:46.039 --> 02:03:48.439
doses over time. So you may
do it now, you may do it

1764
02:03:48.720 --> 02:03:53.319
like two months from now, do
it again. But if you're going to

1765
02:03:53.399 --> 02:03:57.880
go with just a typical traditional lawn
fertilization, I would do something very slow

1766
02:03:57.960 --> 02:04:00.800
release. Uh. And if you
don't have like the nitrophiles up there,

1767
02:04:00.840 --> 02:04:04.760
do you have Nelson plant food products
up in that area? I haven't seen

1768
02:04:04.840 --> 02:04:10.279
that. Okay, it's mostly the
big box stores. Okay, yeah,

1769
02:04:10.520 --> 02:04:15.960
well let's see here. But I
can get to Houston sometime and describe some

1770
02:04:15.119 --> 02:04:20.399
bring it back with you when you
come the the Nelson plant food there is.

1771
02:04:20.680 --> 02:04:24.760
Let me think, I think they
may have one up in your area.

1772
02:04:24.880 --> 02:04:28.359
You said you were in Marshall.
Marshall, Marshall area. Yeah,

1773
02:04:28.720 --> 02:04:30.960
they've got a website where they have
all their their located. I know they're

1774
02:04:31.000 --> 02:04:38.159
in the df W area. I
don't know how far out they consider DFW

1775
02:04:38.319 --> 02:04:41.800
go, and I think Marshall's too
far from f W. But but but

1776
02:04:41.920 --> 02:04:45.479
if they do go pretty far out
from there, and what's the product?

1777
02:04:45.760 --> 02:04:51.560
Nelson's would be slow and easy.
That's their version, okay, Okay,

1778
02:04:51.960 --> 02:04:59.840
Nelson same. It's a you spread
it with a fertilizer spread walk behind fertilizers

1779
02:05:00.079 --> 02:05:03.199
udder, yeah, okay, yeah, So I'm just sitting here looking in

1780
02:05:03.359 --> 02:05:06.800
Houston stuff. Yeah, they might
have it. But next time you come

1781
02:05:06.880 --> 02:05:11.600
down this way, describe some if
you've got If you've got the super Girl

1782
02:05:11.640 --> 02:05:14.800
Plus, go ahead and get it
and do it for the next two fertilizations

1783
02:05:14.840 --> 02:05:18.079
this summer, and then you'll be
ready for the fall fertilization, which we

1784
02:05:18.119 --> 02:05:23.520
would put on you know when we
go back. Do you have you seen

1785
02:05:23.560 --> 02:05:27.199
my schedules online? Yes? Okay, all right, good, well then

1786
02:05:27.279 --> 02:05:31.000
that that lists them right there,
and yeah, makes it easy skip.

1787
02:05:31.079 --> 02:05:33.960
Thank you very much, and happy
Father's Day and you too, and have

1788
02:05:34.039 --> 02:05:39.960
a good time up there at your
place up in northeast Texas. All right,

1789
02:05:40.720 --> 02:05:43.079
we are. Let's see, I
got some room here, got a

1790
02:05:43.079 --> 02:05:46.479
little time here for some calls if
you'd like seven to one three two one

1791
02:05:46.600 --> 02:05:51.439
two k t r H. Seven
one three two one two k t r

1792
02:05:51.760 --> 02:05:56.319
H. If you are dealing with
bugs in the lawn, and I'm talking

1793
02:05:56.359 --> 02:06:00.640
about things like ants, of course, but also chinch bugs, webworms,

1794
02:06:00.680 --> 02:06:03.239
those are coming up. We're on
the verge of those seasons. In fact,

1795
02:06:03.319 --> 02:06:06.159
I thought I saw an area look
like chinchbugs other day, and I

1796
02:06:06.199 --> 02:06:09.880
got on my hands and knees and
crawled around in the grass for a while

1797
02:06:09.960 --> 02:06:14.039
and never found any. So dodge
that bullet. But they'll come, they'll

1798
02:06:14.079 --> 02:06:16.840
get here. Well. Nitrofoss bug
Out Max is a product that works well.

1799
02:06:17.079 --> 02:06:20.119
It's very persistent too. You put
it down and within forty eight hours

1800
02:06:20.159 --> 02:06:24.800
it's killed the bugs. But it's
going to continue to provide that for the

1801
02:06:24.840 --> 02:06:29.199
whole summer season. It stays with
it, so later when chinchbugs or side

1802
02:06:29.239 --> 02:06:32.159
web worms come along, you've already
got that product in place and that works

1803
02:06:32.199 --> 02:06:35.600
really well. You're going to find
bug out Max in a number of different

1804
02:06:35.640 --> 02:06:41.000
places. You know, nitrofos products
in general are widely available. You're going

1805
02:06:41.079 --> 02:06:44.720
to find them at places like the
Ace Hardware stores for example, the one

1806
02:06:45.680 --> 02:06:50.399
that is in the area just north
central m and d Ace Hardware is up

1807
02:06:50.439 --> 02:06:54.960
in the Houston area. Are going
to have those kinds of products. You're

1808
02:06:54.960 --> 02:06:58.920
going to find them at the plantation
Ace out there in Richmond, for example,

1809
02:06:59.039 --> 02:07:02.760
just another example places where you're going
to find nitropost products. Pretty much

1810
02:07:02.800 --> 02:07:05.319
when you say it is hardware you
know, they're going to have nitrofosts there,

1811
02:07:05.720 --> 02:07:11.239
including that bug out Max. See, we're going to go back to

1812
02:07:11.279 --> 02:07:14.159
the phones, and this time we're
going to Cyprus to talk to Linda.

1813
02:07:14.319 --> 02:07:20.319
Hello, Linda, Do I have
a Linda there? Okay, let's see.

1814
02:07:20.319 --> 02:07:23.760
I'm put you back on hold.
Linda. I think we may have

1815
02:07:23.880 --> 02:07:26.920
a get my producer involved. Here
we go. Do we have Linda?

1816
02:07:27.640 --> 02:07:32.079
Yeah? All right, I got
you back on hold. We may have

1817
02:07:32.239 --> 02:07:36.840
to see what's going on there to
get Linda connected back in with the call.

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02:07:40.079 --> 02:07:44.079
When we've had the questions about,
you know, fertilizers and whatnot,

1819
02:07:44.159 --> 02:07:50.239
and just remember fertilizers are supplemental nutrients. The soil has nutrients in it,

1820
02:07:50.560 --> 02:07:57.640
compost decomposing away has nutrients in it. And we don't have to apply and

1821
02:07:57.880 --> 02:08:01.960
supply everything that a plant needs in
order to survive, but we do supplement,

1822
02:08:03.199 --> 02:08:05.600
and when we supplement, we're able
to get more out of our plants.

1823
02:08:05.720 --> 02:08:09.560
See, it's one thing for a
plant just to survive out there in

1824
02:08:09.680 --> 02:08:13.680
nature. It's another one. You
want a lawn that's dense and keeps regrowing

1825
02:08:13.760 --> 02:08:16.760
back in and getting denser and denser
and better. Or you want a rose

1826
02:08:16.840 --> 02:08:20.520
bush and you want blooms and blooms
and blooms. That's where we come in

1827
02:08:20.600 --> 02:08:24.600
with our supplements and our fertilizers,
and that's where we do. You know,

1828
02:08:24.760 --> 02:08:28.680
that extra boost that provides what the
plants need. But never forget that

1829
02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:33.119
the number one thing that makes blooms
and fruit on any plant, whether it's

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02:08:33.359 --> 02:08:37.880
an annual flower, whether it's a
tomato, or whether it's a peach or

1831
02:08:37.960 --> 02:08:41.159
you name it, the number one
thing that makes blooms and fruit is sunshine

1832
02:08:41.479 --> 02:08:46.560
shining on leaves. That's what makes
blooms and fruit. Our fertilizer creates more

1833
02:08:46.640 --> 02:08:52.239
leafy growth. It can, the
nitrogen can, and it provides more ability

1834
02:08:52.720 --> 02:08:58.359
for the food factories that drive blooming
successful blooming. So always keeping a plant

1835
02:08:58.399 --> 02:09:01.359
healthy a is a bait thing you
can do. Now, all the other

1836
02:09:01.439 --> 02:09:05.000
nutrients, the phosphorus we know that
plays a big part in bloom production,

1837
02:09:05.960 --> 02:09:09.960
Potassium, magnesium, a lot of
other things like that, but ultimately,

1838
02:09:09.399 --> 02:09:13.520
what we're trying to do is create
a healthy leaf because when you have a

1839
02:09:13.600 --> 02:09:16.800
healthy leaf that the sun shines on, then that plant is capable of producing

1840
02:09:16.880 --> 02:09:20.359
and blooming like you would want it
to. Let's go back to cypress.

1841
02:09:20.399 --> 02:09:26.479
We're gonna talk to Linda. You
there, Linda, Hello, alrighty,

1842
02:09:28.039 --> 02:09:33.079
let's see maybe Chris, could you
check into that one for me. I'm

1843
02:09:33.119 --> 02:09:37.439
gonna go now to talk to Donna. Hello, Donna, Hi, good

1844
02:09:37.479 --> 02:09:39.960
morning. How are you? Thank
you for taking and we don't have a

1845
02:09:41.039 --> 02:09:43.359
Donna there? All right? I
tell you what, Linda, Donna and

1846
02:09:43.439 --> 02:09:46.239
Rachel. I'm gonna take a break
and when I come back, I will

1847
02:09:46.279 --> 02:09:48.239
give another try at it and we'll
see if we can get one of you

1848
02:09:48.319 --> 02:09:50.920
guys on on here. And we'll
be right up with that. We're gonna

1849
02:09:50.920 --> 02:09:54.159
take a little break for the news. Got Jared walking in the door,

1850
02:09:54.680 --> 02:09:58.000
tell us a little bit about what's
going on around the greater Houston area,

1851
02:09:58.720 --> 02:10:01.600
and I will be back. Remember
if you need my lawn care schedules,

1852
02:10:01.640 --> 02:10:07.439
which we keep talking about today,
gardening with skip dot com. They're free,

1853
02:10:07.800 --> 02:10:09.680
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1854
02:10:09.800 --> 02:10:13.880
can put your finger on them and
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1855
02:10:13.920 --> 02:10:16.199
the one I need right here,
This is the one, and they can

1856
02:10:16.279 --> 02:10:20.079
get you set up with that.
We'll be right back all right. We're

1857
02:10:20.159 --> 02:10:24.920
back. Welcome back to Garden Line. I'm your host, skip Rictor.

1858
02:10:24.920 --> 02:10:28.039
We're here to answer your gardening questions. We're going to start off by heading

1859
02:10:28.279 --> 02:10:31.560
to Donna. Hello, Donna,
how are you this morning? Hi?

1860
02:10:33.279 --> 02:10:35.399
Good morning, I'm great and you
I'm good. I'm good. What can

1861
02:10:35.439 --> 02:10:39.800
we do for you? Thank you
for taking my call. I have some

1862
02:10:41.000 --> 02:10:46.079
great myrtles that have this kind of
a dark, patchy look on the leaves.

1863
02:10:48.600 --> 02:10:52.600
They don't look healthy, but it's
still thriving, but they're not blooming,

1864
02:10:52.760 --> 02:10:56.399
and I'm wondering, is there what
can I treat that with? Okay,

1865
02:10:56.000 --> 02:11:01.720
you may be seeing city mold.
A city mold grow on sugary substances

1866
02:11:01.880 --> 02:11:07.800
produced by insects, and crape myrtles
have aphids that will produce city mold or

1867
02:11:07.880 --> 02:11:11.159
the honeydew that city mode grows on. Crape myrtles also have crept mertle bark

1868
02:11:11.239 --> 02:11:16.600
scale that can weaken the plant a
little bit. You'll notice on the trunks

1869
02:11:16.720 --> 02:11:20.039
little white flecks, a real small
white flex and kind of a black city

1870
02:11:20.159 --> 02:11:26.079
material when you have crepe myrtle bark
scale. So those are possibilities of what's

1871
02:11:26.119 --> 02:11:30.720
going on there. Crapes bloom they
need good sunlight, so if it's getting

1872
02:11:31.039 --> 02:11:33.000
at least six hours of sun,
then it ought to be blooming. If

1873
02:11:33.119 --> 02:11:37.640
not, part of the problem may
be a lack of sun to the leaves,

1874
02:11:39.079 --> 02:11:43.600
but it also could be these pests
that are sort of blocking the sun

1875
02:11:43.760 --> 02:11:46.439
by creating that city mold on the
leaves. You see what I'm saying.

1876
02:11:46.439 --> 02:11:50.000
It's almost like instead of having a
nice clear solar panel, now you've got

1877
02:11:50.079 --> 02:11:54.000
a dirty solar panel that the sun
can't get through. Right, they're in

1878
02:11:54.119 --> 02:11:58.199
full sun, okay, but you
know, the new growth doesn't seem to

1879
02:11:58.319 --> 02:12:01.560
have any of that on there.
It's the old growth, but they do.

1880
02:12:01.000 --> 02:12:05.319
They do look kind of a dirty, moldy. You can't really scrape

1881
02:12:05.319 --> 02:12:09.479
anything off, but well, usually
if you something is happening, Yeah,

1882
02:12:09.600 --> 02:12:11.520
usually if you kind of lick your
thumb and rub the top of the leaf,

1883
02:12:13.239 --> 02:12:16.920
if you're thumbs, you're wet,
it'll come right off. And it's

1884
02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:20.600
a it's a superficial, but think
of it as like a dried sugar with

1885
02:12:20.760 --> 02:12:24.760
a soot, moldy soot growing on
it. It's kind of what it amounts

1886
02:12:24.800 --> 02:12:28.720
to. But anyway, some people
will use like kind of a soapy spray

1887
02:12:28.840 --> 02:12:31.800
to spray on there, and a
lot of times it go dry and kind

1888
02:12:31.840 --> 02:12:35.760
of flake off. That's sort of
something you just have to try out and

1889
02:12:35.880 --> 02:12:39.600
see how that works for you.
If it's aphids, insecticidal soap sprays work

1890
02:12:39.720 --> 02:12:45.800
really well and blasting them off.
If it is the crape myrtle bark scale,

1891
02:12:45.840 --> 02:12:48.039
that's going to be a little bit
more of a job to try to

1892
02:12:48.079 --> 02:12:50.640
get it under control. But in
the meantime, I would fertilize it.

1893
02:12:50.720 --> 02:12:54.920
I would do whatever you can do
to get some vigor in that plant,

1894
02:12:54.079 --> 02:12:58.920
because for crapes to bloom, they
need good vigor and that's the best look

1895
02:13:00.079 --> 02:13:03.720
and crapes when you have good vigor. So cleaning up the leaves a little

1896
02:13:03.720 --> 02:13:07.000
bit if we can, but boosting
them with some lawn fertilizer to give them

1897
02:13:07.039 --> 02:13:13.119
get them stuck. And somebody's saying, name oil, Is that something that

1898
02:13:13.239 --> 02:13:16.720
I need to spray them with?
Name oil would help? If it was

1899
02:13:16.880 --> 02:13:20.079
aphids, it would work pretty good
on those. It's not going to help

1900
02:13:20.119 --> 02:13:24.680
with the scale much. Knem oil
is. It doesn't. It has a

1901
02:13:24.760 --> 02:13:28.039
little bit of an insecticide in it, but it mainly works by smothering insects

1902
02:13:28.159 --> 02:13:33.840
being because it's oil. Because it's
an oil. Okay, So Okay,

1903
02:13:33.000 --> 02:13:37.800
yeah, gosh, I love my
crape myrtles, but they're just they're not

1904
02:13:37.920 --> 02:13:41.039
blooming. Well, I think what's
going on. Yeah, I think getting

1905
02:13:41.079 --> 02:13:45.359
that vigor back in them is good. You may want to do a little

1906
02:13:45.399 --> 02:13:48.720
bit of a spring. You don't
want to be careful because crapes, honey

1907
02:13:48.800 --> 02:13:54.079
bees really need crepes in the summer. That's one of the sources of pollen

1908
02:13:54.199 --> 02:13:58.239
for them, a nectar. And
so when we start nuking our crapes to

1909
02:13:58.359 --> 02:14:00.720
kill all the bugs on them,
we can do a lot of damage to

1910
02:14:00.760 --> 02:14:05.159
the bees too, and we'd really
rather avoid that, of course. Okay,

1911
02:14:05.560 --> 02:14:07.640
fair enough. And then I have
a mandavilla that I've planted this year

1912
02:14:07.680 --> 02:14:13.039
that was beautiful, absolutely beautiful,
thriving divines were climbing, and then one

1913
02:14:13.119 --> 02:14:18.439
day it just started wilting and then
just completely died off, no matter how

1914
02:14:18.520 --> 02:14:22.039
much I've fed it. Are they
very very sensitive to heat? No,

1915
02:14:22.239 --> 02:14:26.640
they can take the heat. Is
it in a container or was it in

1916
02:14:26.720 --> 02:14:28.920
a container? No, it's in
the ground. It's in the ground.

1917
02:14:30.359 --> 02:14:35.720
I'm wondering about root rot or so
moisture levels, you know, of course

1918
02:14:35.880 --> 02:14:39.079
being too dry as bad, but
being soggy the roots can't get oxygen.

1919
02:14:39.239 --> 02:14:43.119
And we see a lot of root
right issues and plants like that when they

1920
02:14:43.199 --> 02:14:50.079
don't have good drainage. So a
water extreme would be one of the first

1921
02:14:50.119 --> 02:14:52.960
things that I would look to for
that. Mando Villa is a pretty pretty

1922
02:14:52.000 --> 02:14:54.880
good tough plant, doesn't have a
lot of problems, but like a lot

1923
02:14:54.960 --> 02:15:01.000
of plants, when the roots get
water logged, we into some long term

1924
02:15:01.079 --> 02:15:03.039
problems, especially in hot, hot
weather where the demands are so high.

1925
02:15:03.880 --> 02:15:07.439
Yeah, I suspect that's what it
was. I was heartbroke. It was

1926
02:15:07.479 --> 02:15:11.039
beautiful. But thank you again for
taking my call. I appreciate it.

1927
02:15:11.199 --> 02:15:13.640
All right, don I thank you, appreciate the call. Take care.

1928
02:15:13.520 --> 02:15:16.600
Let's see, we're going to go
now to Chapel Hill and talk to Rachel.

1929
02:15:16.680 --> 02:15:22.039
Hello, Rachel, are you there? Hello? Hi, how can

1930
02:15:22.079 --> 02:15:28.840
we help? Thanks for taking my
call. Just question about we planted a

1931
02:15:28.880 --> 02:15:33.920
bunch of new trees, not little
babies, but you know, maybe ninety

1932
02:15:33.000 --> 02:15:37.319
gallons okay, you know, and
I just want to know what to fertilize

1933
02:15:37.359 --> 02:15:43.239
them with. I use lawn fertilizer. There are some fertilizers that are just

1934
02:15:43.359 --> 02:15:46.840
for trees. They make them for
that. Nitrofoss makes one for woody plants

1935
02:15:48.199 --> 02:15:50.199
that's in little plastic canisters. You
can buy it by the bag too,

1936
02:15:50.279 --> 02:15:54.520
sometimes depending on where you're shopping.
But a lot of times I use land

1937
02:15:54.560 --> 02:15:58.560
fertilizer and I find that that works
just fine. And so here's what I

1938
02:15:58.600 --> 02:16:03.359
will do. Get you a loan
fertilizer that does not have weed control on

1939
02:16:03.479 --> 02:16:07.960
it, definitely not a weed control
product, just fertilizer, and then apply

1940
02:16:09.119 --> 02:16:13.119
it at a rate of one to
two cups per inch of trunk diameter.

1941
02:16:13.000 --> 02:16:18.119
So how long ago did you put
those trees in? Probably well when it

1942
02:16:18.239 --> 02:16:22.079
was still cool, okay, very
cool, so probably six months, six

1943
02:16:22.199 --> 02:16:28.000
months? Okay, Well, the
root system is still largely where that those

1944
02:16:28.079 --> 02:16:31.559
cylinders went into the ground, those
ninety gallon containers went in the ground.

1945
02:16:33.239 --> 02:16:37.000
It has begun reaching out, but
it's not like it's a full root system

1946
02:16:37.079 --> 02:16:41.159
that's reaching out in all directions.
So focus you're fertilizing on the area beneath

1947
02:16:41.200 --> 02:16:46.159
the branch spread of the tree.
Put most of that down. So let's

1948
02:16:46.159 --> 02:16:50.799
say on a ninety pounds, what
you are, your trunks are about what

1949
02:16:52.120 --> 02:16:56.799
almost the size of a coke can, or a little smaller, maybe a

1950
02:16:56.879 --> 02:17:01.319
little bit smaller not much, little
small. Well, let's just say that's

1951
02:17:01.319 --> 02:17:05.600
about a three inch diameter trunk.
Then you would put three to six cups

1952
02:17:05.760 --> 02:17:09.399
of lawn fertilizer all around it and
watered and really good. You could do

1953
02:17:09.440 --> 02:17:11.760
it again in six weeks and six
weeks later. Just stop by the time

1954
02:17:11.840 --> 02:17:16.639
you get about the beginning of August. Stop your your furtilyzation. Then okay,

1955
02:17:18.559 --> 02:17:24.520
okay, And I poured some medina
has to grow around him. Does

1956
02:17:24.559 --> 02:17:26.879
that help at all? I'm sorry, say that one more time. You

1957
02:17:26.959 --> 02:17:33.639
poured some what medina has to grow
around the us. That's helpful, that's

1958
02:17:33.680 --> 02:17:37.239
helpful. Yeah, okay. And
there's several different has to grow, some

1959
02:17:37.360 --> 02:17:41.200
of them different nutrient mix than others. But that that's nothing wrong with that.

1960
02:17:41.399 --> 02:17:46.319
That's fine. Okay, great,
thank you very much. All right,

1961
02:17:46.440 --> 02:17:48.680
Rachel, thank you. I appreciate
the call very much. We're gonna

1962
02:17:48.719 --> 02:17:52.920
take a little break here June in
sugar Land. You will be the first

1963
02:17:52.000 --> 02:17:56.280
up when we come back. Here
we go a little bit of break for

1964
02:17:56.360 --> 02:18:00.760
the news, and I'll be right
back. Welcome back, Welcome back to

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02:18:00.799 --> 02:18:05.639
guard Line, Little Lenyard skinnerd.
For those of you who remember that,

1966
02:18:05.280 --> 02:18:09.360
we're going to head out now to
sugar Land and talk to June. Hello,

1967
02:18:09.520 --> 02:18:13.440
June, Hi, I was wondering, do I need to fertilize or

1968
02:18:13.559 --> 02:18:20.639
feed my hydraene here? Yes,
you should use something for acid loving plants.

1969
02:18:20.719 --> 02:18:24.799
Ideally gets you a product that is
for acid loving plants, and follow

1970
02:18:24.840 --> 02:18:28.760
the label carefully, a little gradual
feeding over time. You can do it

1971
02:18:28.840 --> 02:18:33.799
more than once. Uh, just
to provide good nutrition so that they can

1972
02:18:33.879 --> 02:18:37.840
have the vigor necessary to grow foliage
and make a nice healthy plant that blooms

1973
02:18:37.879 --> 02:18:43.959
well. Okay, acid polish,
Okay, Yeah, I got you something

1974
02:18:45.000 --> 02:18:50.040
a little acidifying, so you know
you're down. You're in the sugar Land

1975
02:18:50.079 --> 02:18:52.319
area. You got a lot of
good places to get a good oh yeah

1976
02:18:54.360 --> 02:18:56.399
forest. Yeah, and they're gonna
they're gonna have it. Just tell them

1977
02:18:56.440 --> 02:19:01.079
I need I need something for kind
of an acidic a type plant like like

1978
02:19:01.239 --> 02:19:05.440
okay adranger for example. It's not
essential, okay, not essential for her

1979
02:19:05.479 --> 02:19:09.200
drangers, but I think they do
a little better with those. Well,

1980
02:19:09.360 --> 02:19:13.639
mina blooming beautiful right now. But
I thought my landscaper said, June,

1981
02:19:13.680 --> 02:19:18.719
I think you're supposed to be using
iron and stuff on them. You're on

1982
02:19:18.840 --> 02:19:20.559
the ground, And I said,
I have no idea. Well, June,

1983
02:19:20.600 --> 02:19:24.840
if you if you see the new
growth, the young leaves that are

1984
02:19:24.879 --> 02:19:28.799
forming at the end of the shoots, if you see it starting to look

1985
02:19:28.799 --> 02:19:33.440
a little yellowish, or maybe the
veins are green, but the in between

1986
02:19:33.479 --> 02:19:35.719
the veins is a yellowish. That's
a sign you do need to supplement with

1987
02:19:35.840 --> 02:19:41.680
some iron. But just in general, I wouldn't grab the iron and apply

1988
02:19:41.799 --> 02:19:46.879
it until the plant is okay,
I'll get the extent. Yeah, okay,

1989
02:19:46.399 --> 02:19:50.120
that's great. Thank you so much. You have a great day,

1990
02:19:50.319 --> 02:19:52.600
happy fall this day, well,
thank you, jin and you have a

1991
02:19:52.639 --> 02:19:58.399
wonderful rest of your weekend as well. Thank you. You're out in West

1992
02:19:58.440 --> 02:20:01.639
Houston. I want to tell you
about your home town nursery, your local

1993
02:20:01.760 --> 02:20:05.200
nursery. That is what you tell
me. You hear me talk about it

1994
02:20:05.200 --> 02:20:07.600
all the time. Nelson Water Garden. It's out there in Katie, Texas.

1995
02:20:07.680 --> 02:20:09.920
You just head out to Katie.
It's just right on the outside of

1996
02:20:09.959 --> 02:20:15.719
town. That's why I call it
our West Houston Garden Center. Nelson Nursery

1997
02:20:15.799 --> 02:20:18.760
and water Garden is it's a one
of a kind place. And because they

1998
02:20:18.840 --> 02:20:22.360
carry one of a kind things,
of course, they're a water garden.

1999
02:20:22.440 --> 02:20:24.799
Specialty. They've been doing that.
They're nationally known for that. So do

2000
02:20:24.920 --> 02:20:28.600
you need fish, do you need
fountains? Do you need water plants?

2001
02:20:28.959 --> 02:20:35.000
Plants that can survive submerged in water, or lily pads, those kind of

2002
02:20:35.000 --> 02:20:37.040
beautiful things that are just gorgeous to
have. They've got all of that,

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they've got the disappearing fountains, but
their nursery is chock full of all kinds

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of very very valuable things that you
just don't find everywhere. Last time I

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went out to Nelson's, I was
visiting a throut and I was really surprised.

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I mean, they had things like, for example, they have three

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different kinds three different varieties of elderberries. Did you know that? Did you

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know there are three? They're more
than that, but three different varieties of

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elderberries. That's pretty cool, that's
pretty amazing. They have got an excellent

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selection of fertilizers and things. You
know, you heard me earlier talking about

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Nelson Turf Star, Slow and Easy, Well it's out there at Nelson Water

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Garden nursery and water Garden. They
have clemitis that are just beautiful, very

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beautiful out there, and many many
other things plumerias and fruit trees and everything

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you can imagine. But one thing
I haven't mentioned much on Nelson Water Garden

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is their houseplants. Their indoor plant
selection. When you walk in from the

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parking lot, you walk into the
store, it is stunning. Remember how

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earlier I said a lot of houseplants, or just to see a green,

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it's like green this green, that
green that. Well, if you want

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to see some variegations, some colors, some really like you notice it from

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across the room. Houseplant, they've
got those there. They've got things like

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the money tree. They got the
allocacias of various types of calathea. I

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mentioned moranta, the prayer plant.
They also have the kalathias there that are

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just beautiful and so go buy and
check it out. The beautiful plants,

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excellent condition, beautiful health. I
was there the other day. I had

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to grab some particular things going into
that new flower bed we've been working on

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getting ready for that. But Nelson
Water Garden is always chuck full of what

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you need. And when it comes
to herbs, excellent excellent selections of herbs

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as well. They still are stocked
up on fruit trees, figs and blackberries

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and various kinds of citrus like grapefruit, lemon, lime, satsumas, mandarin,

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other mandarin types of orange, blood
orange. They've got it all there.

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Nelson Water Garden, the nursery and
water gardens specifically. Hey, here's

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the website, Nelsonwatergardens dot com.
Nelson Watergardens dot com. Stop by and

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check them out. But I have
to warn you that I don't say I

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didn't warn you. When you go
there and you walk out back, you

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will be enthralled by this water wonder
world they've created with the disappearing fountains and

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everything, and you're going to have
to have one to go home. I

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can tell you that you're going to
want one for your backyard. I do

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every time I go there, whether
it's a waterfall or a disappearing fountain,

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it is inspirational. Take some friends
with you and run out there and check

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out what it is that I keep
talking about for all of that. All

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right, Well, here we are. We're on guard line. We're running

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the end of it, toward the
end of the show here today. You

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know we're here every Friday, excuse
me, Saturday. I'm here on Friday

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too, But I'm not on the
air. We're every Saturday from six am

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to ten am and every Sunday from
six am to ten am. If you

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want to listen to us, you
don't just have to have a radio.

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You can listen on your phone.
Gets you an iHeartMedia app or some other

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app and just tune in to guarden
Line. You can listen to me live.

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You can listen to pass shows.
We basically turn those into a podcast

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where you can listen to pass shows. So if you hear me talk about

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something and you didn't get a chance
to write it down, you can just

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go on there and you can check
it out and find out more. That

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way makes it makes it easy to
keep track of I enjoy so much getting

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to talk to gardeners, getting to
help you to have success. That is

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one of the things that I most
enjoy it. I just find that gardeners

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are They're just a fun group of
people because they're out there trying to make

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the world a more beautiful, better
place. And you're also doing the hobby

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that I think is the best hobby
in the world. You know, I

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know it's hot outside, we're moving
into summertime, and you don't want to

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be out a lot in that but
make room early in the morning to get

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out and do a little bit,
because every time you're outside interacting with nature

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and plants, not only are you
getting the exercise, but you are getting

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a lot of mental therapy. I'm
telling you that all aspects of gardening I

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find to be pretty much therapeutic.
I joked about this once before, and

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although I'm kidding about it, I'm
also serious and that I feel this way,

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and that is that when I go
home and look at a bed full

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of guard of weeds and I kneel
down and start working through that bed,

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it is therapeutic in that you stand
up and you look at the work you've

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done, and you can see the
result of your hands right there. And

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a lot of things in life.
You know, if you've got a job

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where you go and you work all
day, you're doing stuff, you're working,

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but at the end of the day, it's like, what did I

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even get done today? Well,
gardening tells you right away what you got

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done, and then you get out
there. Take advantage of that, get

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out, get some kids involved,
to your kiddos. If you have never

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grown vegetables with your kids, today
this afternoon be a good day to get

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you a container, get some quality
potting mix to go in it, and

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let's grow something. Let's do something
with kids that help them be set up

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for a lifestyle of eating healthier and
just surviving better. And for those of

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us that are a little getting older
through the years here, gardening keeps you

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young. That's just one way to
put it. It keeps yea. All

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right, we will be back and
we will see you again next weekend here

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on Guardenline. Thanks for being a
listener. Don't forget to check out my

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website at gardening with Skip dot com. MHM.