WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:04.320 Katie r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:11.000 advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Richter. 3 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:28.640 It's crazy Trim. Just watch him as well. The seat blots, 4 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:44.679 the clubs ticking, they're not a sign sun. Welcome back to Garden Line. 5 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:47.320 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and boy are we looking forward to 6 00:00:47.359 --> 00:00:51.079 talking to you today. We got Kat here on the phone so already waiting 7 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:55.759 to visit with us about trees. By the way, we are entering into 8 00:00:56.200 --> 00:00:59.439 some time where we're just going to focus on trees, one of the most 9 00:00:59.520 --> 00:01:02.920 valuable plants in your landscape, and you want to get it right. From 10 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:07.400 picking the tree that will do well in this soil and then this climate, 11 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.879 to choosing trees that fit what you want them to be. Do you want 12 00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:12.799 a blooming tree, do you want a big tree? Do you want a 13 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:17.760 small tree? And so on planting trees, taking care of trees. And 14 00:01:17.799 --> 00:01:22.159 we got the expert in here, David Williamson from Williamson Tree Farm and RCW 15 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:23.719 Nursery. Welcome David, Hey, good morning. It is great to have 16 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:26.400 you. That is me. I'm excited, I'm looking forward to this. 17 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:30.000 You know at the Extension office we say that the thing that makes the phone 18 00:01:30.079 --> 00:01:34.120 ring, or the three t's trees, turf and tomatoes. You know, 19 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:38.120 nobody calls me about their co Robbie. If it's a vegetable question, it's 20 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.120 tomatoes, of course. Why is my lawn dying? And you know what's 21 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:46.760 wrong with my tree? Those are the big ones. Everybody. Everybody's concerned 22 00:01:46.799 --> 00:01:49.239 and for good reason when they have problems with their tree. I'd like you 23 00:01:49.319 --> 00:01:53.760 to start off just tell us a little bit about RCW and Williamson Tree Farm. 24 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:59.560 And these are two different but connected elements that you're right, you're the 25 00:01:59.599 --> 00:02:05.439 pariah, yeah, the our co proprietor well site. Yeah, my dad, 26 00:02:05.840 --> 00:02:09.520 my family started, yes, and RCW started in seventy nine with two 27 00:02:10.759 --> 00:02:15.439 two gentlemen from Shell Oil. My dad worked for Shell for thirty two years 28 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:19.960 and and the R sat W stands for Robinson, Cox and Williamson. And 29 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:23.479 they all worked together, lived in the same neighborhood and they did, you 30 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:27.439 know, landscaping on the side and then started the nursery in seventy nine. 31 00:02:27.919 --> 00:02:30.599 Uh one got I was pretty young, but one got out early because he 32 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:38.240 got transferred and the other one got remarried and was working five days for show 33 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:42.000 and then too much. It was just too much for him, so he 34 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:45.120 got out. And then my dad took an earlier time in eighty three. 35 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:49.360 I think he bought the land for the tree farm in eighty three and that 36 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:53.120 really started going probably in the mid eighties, late eighties he farm did, 37 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:59.560 and then Plannersville. Right, it's amazing. We've got about fifty acres and 38 00:02:59.599 --> 00:03:05.039 we grow fifteen gallon to two hundred gallon shrubs, ornament trees, large shade 39 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:09.000 trees, quite a variety. Yeah, and we are starting to you know, 40 00:03:09.039 --> 00:03:15.759 we we were mainly up there just strictly wholesale and selling to nurseries throughout 41 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:20.159 Texas and landscapers, and but the last year or so we've been opening to 42 00:03:20.240 --> 00:03:28.159 the public. Yeah, mainly on you know, Friday Saturdays, but anytime. 43 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:30.919 But anybody can make an appointment through the website and make an appointment up 44 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:36.520 there to go visit at the RCW website or Williamson Tree Farm website. Williamson 45 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:38.039 Tree Farm, you want to go ahead and give that RL out. Yeah, 46 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:45.280 it's Williamsontreefarm dot com. Okay, well that's simple our wtfarm dot com 47 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.560 either one. Okay, well good? Uh So over the years, you 48 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:54.240 know, you I can remember back in I think I came back to Texas 49 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:59.680 in oh gosh, it was eighty eight, December of eighty eight, and 50 00:03:59.719 --> 00:04:02.360 I was conro and we had a big we have a big Southeast Texas Mercier 51 00:04:02.400 --> 00:04:06.400 Growers Association. Oh yeah, I remember that going strong and lots of growers 52 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:11.479 and just watching the industry change over the years, you know, and you've 53 00:04:11.479 --> 00:04:15.400 probably seen some changes. What are some of the things you look back at, 54 00:04:15.560 --> 00:04:20.759 kind of from a thirty thousand foot level of changes in that, I 55 00:04:20.759 --> 00:04:27.279 guess most recently, I guess I'm seeing the trees we planted in the eighties 56 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:30.439 and the nineties. You know, we're some of the faster going. Some 57 00:04:30.560 --> 00:04:33.079 were maples, ash trees. Those trees are not you don't see as much. 58 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:38.600 They they're giving to their end of life now because there's just short lived 59 00:04:38.600 --> 00:04:43.519 trees and we're trying to you know, over the years, we've just gone 60 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:46.279 to heartier oak trees and maype you know, the drum and red maple, 61 00:04:47.600 --> 00:04:51.040 different magnolia trees with different species like that. I just those things seem to 62 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:57.600 be the oak trees especially yea been more popular as a shade tree than then. 63 00:04:58.319 --> 00:05:00.800 Yeah, some of the trash trees that we to grow in the eighties, 64 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:02.160 right, well, we need to come back to that dash trees and 65 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.720 then here, yeah, and even cottonwoods. We sold cottonwoods. Yeah, 66 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:11.600 yeah, I know, we'll talk about that. But I've also noticed that 67 00:05:11.680 --> 00:05:15.079 some quality things that used to not exist now are available in the trade and 68 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:18.480 that's encouraging. Right, visit about those a little bit. Let's go to 69 00:05:18.519 --> 00:05:21.160 the phone right quick. We got Kay out here in Parland, Ka. 70 00:05:21.839 --> 00:05:26.639 Welcome to Garden Line. You're here with me and David waitingson. How can 71 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:28.920 we help? Oh, I mean, this is a perfect time for me 72 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:35.800 to call it is I had three three trees planted this week and they recommended 73 00:05:35.879 --> 00:05:40.879 that I water them three or four times a week. I've watered them, 74 00:05:41.240 --> 00:05:45.120 but then I heard you this morning say to put do them medina has to 75 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:49.680 grow. I will do that also. And is there anything else that you 76 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:57.000 recommend to do or to watch for. And with your tree expert, he 77 00:05:57.120 --> 00:06:02.040 can maybe chime in on this to give me some Absolutely, that's a good 78 00:06:02.120 --> 00:06:04.600 question. So we planted some trees. They told them to us some adina 79 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:08.560 hash to grow on them. She wants to know, you know, what 80 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:11.240 do I do? Where do we go from here? How do we make 81 00:06:11.240 --> 00:06:15.199 sure we have success? Yeah? So when did the trees get planted? 82 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:20.959 Tuesday? Tuesday? Okay, So you know adina, anything organic like root 83 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:29.959 activator or medina has to grow our ocean over microlife ocean harvest or microlife seaweed, 84 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.720 any of those things are great. Once a month for the first year 85 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:39.120 to get the roots established. And then make sure you don't rely on an 86 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.800 irrigation system to water the tree. You know, this time of the year, 87 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:46.000 once or twice a week, when we're not raining with a hose, 88 00:06:46.079 --> 00:06:48.399 let soak on the tree. You know, slow soaking depends on how big 89 00:06:48.439 --> 00:06:53.360 the tree is. And then unless you have an irrigation system, has a 90 00:06:54.439 --> 00:07:00.920 designated bubbler for that tree that's zoned for that No, no, and they're 91 00:07:00.959 --> 00:07:04.199 about nine or ten feet tall. There's two iecs and a great myrtle. 92 00:07:04.360 --> 00:07:08.920 Good good choices. Yeah, they so, I would say, you know, 93 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:12.480 probably fifteen to twenty minutes slow soaking on those probably once a week when 94 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:15.000 it is dry this time of year, and then up to three times a 95 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:18.720 week. When they when we get the heat, would the tree hugger be 96 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:24.360 a good thing? Just put on them to for for ten to fifteen minutes. 97 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:27.079 That's a great way to water because it distributes the water throughout the root 98 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:30.600 ball. Yes, that's a great okay, great, great item, especially 99 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:34.600 true as that tree grows. Yeah, first five ten years, being able 100 00:07:34.600 --> 00:07:39.759 to water that hole zone underneath the bread spread as it goes bigger and bigger. 101 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:43.199 I like that versatility of that product. And you can we also uh 102 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.759 at our nursery, we recommend the reductivator and also microlife every three and we 103 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:50.399 install with with Microlife that we can. You can put micro life every three 104 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:54.720 months. It won't burn. It's just a great fertilizer. Are you looking 105 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:57.879 at the ultimate the blue bag? We use the green bag, the green 106 00:07:57.879 --> 00:08:01.279 bag. Okay, that's a standard one used for by the way, that 107 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.680 kay, that liquid product he was talking about is in a blue bottle, 108 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:09.399 the Ocean Harvest, right, yes, ocean Hart. I think I have 109 00:08:09.480 --> 00:08:13.759 some. Yeah, it's the blue micro Life color codes. Hey, we're 110 00:08:13.759 --> 00:08:16.120 going to have to take a break if you want to hang on with great 111 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:20.240 Thank you so much. No, okay, that's great, thanks all right, 112 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:22.240 thank you. I appreciate that. Call our phone number seven one three 113 00:08:24.040 --> 00:08:28.120 fifty eight seventy four. We're visiting with David Williamson and we're talking all things 114 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:33.080 trees and we'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your 115 00:08:33.080 --> 00:08:37.919 host, Skip Richter. We're here to answer your gardening questions and today we're 116 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:43.240 talking trees with David Williamson from Williamson Tree Farm and RCW Nursery. David, 117 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:48.000 welcome back again. You glad you're willing to come in today and talk about 118 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:52.240 this please. You mentioned the term trash trees before, and uh, boy, 119 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:54.559 we went through a lot of those over the years, I know, 120 00:08:54.200 --> 00:09:00.679 from the sixties and seventies and unfortunately even beyond then, Uh arizon the ash 121 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.720 was being planted and great when it's young, and boy did it ever fall 122 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.840 apart. And uh, you know Bradford pear. I know the benefits of 123 00:09:07.879 --> 00:09:11.360 them when they're young, they're beautiful, but my goodness, that tree is 124 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:16.759 trouble. I jokingly say that if you want advice on printing a Bradford pear, 125 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:20.039 I suggest about an inch above the ground and then have the stump ground 126 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:24.200 and plant something that wants to do well here does have good fall color though 127 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:30.440 it does well. And here's another example. Another point is the best fall 128 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:35.279 color you shouldn't plant here? You know what is it? Chinese tallifant you 129 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:39.519 can even grow that, just sell it really yeah, Tese tallo Bradford pair. 130 00:09:39.879 --> 00:09:43.840 And for some soil sweet gum can be a problem. You know, 131 00:09:43.000 --> 00:09:46.759 they don't want to They want to be in an eastern forest, not not 132 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:50.600 you know, high pH black. And it's really unusual because we grow we 133 00:09:50.639 --> 00:09:54.399 grow most of our soil, our trees in a pine bart medium, right. 134 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:58.559 And so we had some swinter slowet sweet come to the farm and this 135 00:09:58.639 --> 00:10:03.159 is one you We shipped them to the nursery probably about a month before it 136 00:10:03.200 --> 00:10:07.080 got cold. And when it got after it got cold, the ones at 137 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:09.720 the nursery we turned red. The ones at the nurse the farm were yellow. 138 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:13.799 And you know, forty five miles north. I just I don't know 139 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:16.399 if it's the water of the pH or ye who knows? Who knows? 140 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.000 Who knew? Why one changes from the other. Slender silhouettes A real cool 141 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:24.360 tree farm form, right, I really like that and it's popular you drive 142 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:28.639 through your rever oaks and areas, you know, where they'll just a lot 143 00:10:28.679 --> 00:10:31.559 of those things they put for a little short row. You know, they're 144 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:35.960 very slender, they grow upright. Yeah. The only the only disadvantage of 145 00:10:35.000 --> 00:10:39.919 them is as they're not evergreen. So yep, that's true. Hey, 146 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.519 let's go out to Fresno and talk to herman. Hello, Herman, how 147 00:10:43.559 --> 00:10:50.159 can we help today? Yell? Hello? I bought a small kum quat 148 00:10:50.200 --> 00:10:56.200 tree years ago costco and after a couple of years I got some small cum 149 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:00.519 quats and everything like that. This year they're huge. They're like three be 150 00:11:00.960 --> 00:11:05.240 They look like small oranges. What happened? It froze. It's coming back 151 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.480 from the roots. It's not a kumquat anymore. Oh it did freeze. 152 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:15.159 Yeah, the threems happened, and then every should have been like that, 153 00:11:15.960 --> 00:11:20.200 Wow, well there you go, come quiet. That's a hard one to 154 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.039 freeze. I mean, it's one of our heartier centrists that you've got. 155 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:26.720 So but that twenty one freeze that killed everything. Yeah, the twenty two 156 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:31.320 is not bad. It's easy. Yeah. So do I need to cut 157 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:35.279 it down or what do I do? Well? Wait it out. You 158 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:37.480 only have two options. My suggestion would be digging up and put it put 159 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:41.799 something in you want there. It could be another kumquat or something else. 160 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:46.200 If you're really handy and want to play around with grafting, you could graft 161 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:50.480 it into something else. But that's gonna be a long term thing, more 162 00:11:50.519 --> 00:11:54.840 for a hobbyist to play with than than a general recommendation. Okay, So 163 00:11:56.480 --> 00:11:58.320 I'll just wait to cut it down alrighty, thank you, you bet, 164 00:11:58.519 --> 00:12:01.039 thank you. And when it when you get a new one in and it 165 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:05.240 starts fruiting, just bring me about a gallon of kumquats each winter and we'll 166 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:11.080 call it even okay, my favorite fruit. Thank you, herman. I 167 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:13.879 appreciate that. You know, when it comes to citrus, the fragrance alone 168 00:12:15.039 --> 00:12:18.440 is worth growing the things. We had a kumquat bush, he said, 169 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:20.320 he called it a tree. I think of him more of as a bush 170 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:24.279 just in the habit, but oh my gosh, when the wind wafts through 171 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:30.279 that thing, it is that in guardenas And I know those they smell great, 172 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:33.360 and if you get them to get big enough and then fruit, they're 173 00:12:33.559 --> 00:12:37.799 they're awesome. Yeah. Just you know, with our weather, I don't 174 00:12:37.840 --> 00:12:39.159 know where we're going to have in the future, but you just have to 175 00:12:39.200 --> 00:12:43.200 protect them. And you guys carry a lot of citrus out two thumquats one 176 00:12:43.240 --> 00:12:46.919 of the one of the hardest to get really the last two or three years, 177 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:52.159 they've been very limited from from our vendors. Is it like nagami and 178 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:54.600 my ware or what kinds of varieties are typical? Now? War? I 179 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:00.679 think war? Is it a worry? I can't you know the coqu I 180 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:03.519 don't know all. I don't remember all the ride now there is. They've 181 00:13:03.519 --> 00:13:05.039 been the hardest to get. For those of you who don't know what a 182 00:13:05.080 --> 00:13:07.879 come quite is, just think of a thumb, the end of your thumb 183 00:13:07.919 --> 00:13:13.080 sized centris that the rhine probably tastes better than the inside. You eat the 184 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:16.559 whole fruit, you meet the whole thing. That the rhine itself is good 185 00:13:16.559 --> 00:13:20.399 for marmalade and whatnot. Let's go out now, we're going to go to 186 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:24.519 Kingwood and talk to Linda. Hello, Linda, welcome to garden Line. 187 00:13:24.559 --> 00:13:28.639 Well, Hi, it's a pleasure to speak with you. And I desperately 188 00:13:28.679 --> 00:13:33.919 need the information. I'm on a trailed on the trails board in Kingwood and 189 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:39.559 a school has approached us on trying to plant some trees. Well, we 190 00:13:39.639 --> 00:13:43.000 need to be very careful that we get the right ones because we don't want 191 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.279 it to lift the concrete. We don't want it to be planted in the 192 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.000 shade when it needs sun. Where can I get a list of the trees 193 00:13:50.039 --> 00:13:54.679 that we should plant and the ones we should not, And don't tell me, 194 00:13:54.720 --> 00:13:58.360 please do not tell me to go to a master gardener. I've gone. 195 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:01.720 Okay, terrible situation. All right, Well, for one, let's 196 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.519 let me make sure I understand you're wanting trees in a natural area kind of 197 00:14:05.519 --> 00:14:09.879 a native area, a forested area or or not. Yes, it's forest 198 00:14:09.960 --> 00:14:15.600 where we have a trail that goes through the forest and it goes from miles 199 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:18.519 and there's all kinds of stuff on it, like a trice, cams, 200 00:14:18.519 --> 00:14:22.960 blah blah blah. Dogs, people walk there all the time. Gotchas a 201 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:26.480 lovely place. So as far as watering, is there any kind of watering 202 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:31.039 system near those No, there is not, and that is another major problem 203 00:14:31.080 --> 00:14:33.759 because we don't want to Yeah, well, those parameters. I'm gonna let 204 00:14:33.840 --> 00:14:39.039 David maybe suggest some ideas for you of what he might recommend. Sounds to 205 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:41.960 me like you get away with some nice forest blooms, like a redwood, 206 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:48.559 red budd red buds for the shady areas. Even even like ball cypress be 207 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:52.080 good in those areas too, because they don't they seem to be tougher through 208 00:14:52.120 --> 00:14:56.519 the through the strips, the heat stress. Well, she mentioned the sidewalks 209 00:14:56.519 --> 00:15:01.320 and things that I think one thing to remember, Linda, is the closer 210 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:05.120 you put a tree to anything that's a hardscape like that, it is gonna 211 00:15:05.120 --> 00:15:07.480 lift it up. I mean it's not like, you know, you can 212 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:11.240 just put any tree in there. You get too close to that sidewalk and 213 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:13.120 you're gonna have problems over time. It may take a while, but you're 214 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:18.399 gonna have problems. Okay, Yeah, the lace park and the drake elm, 215 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:22.559 there's several species of those, almost partafolio. But those trees, Uh, 216 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:28.440 they're good street trees and they don't have a they they don't have an 217 00:15:28.480 --> 00:15:31.559 invasive root system. You see them a lot around, you know, yeah, 218 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:35.600 driveways and parking lots and do better. They don't. They do better 219 00:15:35.679 --> 00:15:39.759 without messing with the foundation. Yeah, those are in supermarket parking lot islands 220 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:43.159 and places like that. Yeah, they do get They can get you know, 221 00:15:43.200 --> 00:15:46.519 forty fifty feet tall and you get big, but it is a good 222 00:15:46.559 --> 00:15:50.039 tree that doesn't affect the foundation is bad. Well, we're offline. We're 223 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:52.919 visiting about Chinese fringe while ago, but there is a native fringe, a 224 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:56.559 grancy gray beard that grows in the forest of the East Texas and has a 225 00:15:56.559 --> 00:15:58.960 little bit of a not a showy but has a little bit of bloom. 226 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:03.120 American friends is a great tree and not show you, but it does well 227 00:16:03.159 --> 00:16:07.240 in our in our souls. The Chinese French another great one. Play the 228 00:16:07.399 --> 00:16:12.960 name of it again, please, American fringe tree fringe R f R I 229 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:18.919 n g E. Yes, ma'am. I'm thinking that maybe in that area, 230 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:22.240 because it is woods, you know, some native things might be, 231 00:16:22.279 --> 00:16:23.919 you know, part of the natural mix. It doesn't mean you couldn't put 232 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:26.960 something not native in there. But Texas Mountain Moral is another good one you 233 00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:30.879 could plant in there. Yeah. If the drainage is good, good, 234 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:33.399 good drainage, that's the key. You can put them in any soil I 235 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:38.240 found out, but you can't water them. Okay, and that's Texas what 236 00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:45.240 mountain morel Mountain Laura, Oh, okay, I love bud. It's not 237 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:48.919 a super long lived tree, but it's a very good native tree with beautiful 238 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:53.440 blooms. Mexican plumbs. Another one, Mexican plumb. Yeah. Yeah, 239 00:16:56.240 --> 00:17:00.480 I can't thank you all enough because we really needed this resource. So thank 240 00:17:00.519 --> 00:17:03.279 you for being there today, all right now, before I'll let you go. 241 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:06.680 Though, it doesn't matter what you put in there, it's got to 242 00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:07.880 have water the first year. And we're going to talk about that in a 243 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:11.680 minute, about how to planet a tree right and how to care for them 244 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:15.759 after planting. But you're going to need, since you don't have an irrigation 245 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.359 system, probably to use something like those gator bags or something you can fill 246 00:17:19.440 --> 00:17:23.519 up with water and they slowly leak out because when the next if you did 247 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:26.559 it now, when next summer comes, that's going to be a time when 248 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.119 you're gonna have to have some way to get some water in there for those 249 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.640 trees. If you want them to survive and to thrive. Yes, that's 250 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:37.680 a source of worry and whine. Go to the expense. If it's not 251 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:41.240 going to survive. There you go, that's it. Thank you. You 252 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:45.480 also do a burm around them? Yeah, okay, thanks? Yeah. 253 00:17:45.480 --> 00:17:49.119 A burm is just a raised, soiled doughnut. Maybe I don't know, 254 00:17:49.200 --> 00:17:52.160 three or four feet in diameter around the tree, so two feet out in 255 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:56.720 all directions. You fill it up with water and all the water has to 256 00:17:56.720 --> 00:18:00.839 go straight down, it can't run off to some of the place. Good 257 00:18:00.880 --> 00:18:04.480 information, all right, Linda, thank you, appreciate appreciate that call very 258 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:07.960 much. Yeah, we were we were talking about some of the trash trees, 259 00:18:08.119 --> 00:18:11.319 but there are some trees that have fall color. When I was out 260 00:18:11.480 --> 00:18:18.000 at RCW visiting with you guys not too long ago, you were talking about 261 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:21.480 a white oak that got out there, and I was I was very impressed 262 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:23.480 with the amount of color that thing was putting. It is. It is 263 00:18:25.640 --> 00:18:27.359 maroon right now. It's really it's lost a lot of its foliage, but 264 00:18:27.400 --> 00:18:32.599 it's the quickest out of white oak. It's probably one of my favorite trees. 265 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:36.000 Not a fast growing tree, but it's a it's a great shade tree, 266 00:18:36.000 --> 00:18:37.039 for it can get up to sixty eighty feet tall. It's a big 267 00:18:37.079 --> 00:18:41.559 tree, but they excellent shade tree, pretty pretty folish in the spring and 268 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:45.079 summer, and then the great fall color. Yeah, that's good. Any 269 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:49.119 anything else we got about a minut and a half here, anything else like 270 00:18:49.240 --> 00:18:55.559 fall color that since we were kind of dissing how many bad fall colors there 271 00:18:55.599 --> 00:18:57.440 are? What are some ones that you might suggest to something? Well, 272 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:00.400 the schumar not all, the schummart for oak and the nut already oak both 273 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:07.640 good good fall color. The Chinese pistachio gets another good fall yellow. Yellow 274 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:11.559 just depends and you have it from yellow orange from red actually, but it 275 00:19:11.920 --> 00:19:17.519 just depends on where it's at. You know. Crape myrtles are real popular, 276 00:19:17.960 --> 00:19:19.880 and we have crape myrtles that people just think, I'm gonna buy a 277 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:22.799 crape myrtle, and I always say, well, how big do you want 278 00:19:22.799 --> 00:19:25.480 it to get? Make sure if you can, it has some powder and 279 00:19:25.480 --> 00:19:29.440 mildew resistance if you don't have to brace them. Uh, And what color 280 00:19:29.480 --> 00:19:32.519 do you want the blooms to be? What bark do you want? You 281 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:36.359 know, something like a natchez it has that beautiful cinnamon exfoliating bark versus the 282 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:40.119 typical putty colored bark of crape myrtles. And then the fall color. They 283 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:45.119 get surprised that the difference in fall color between some of the different culture bars 284 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:48.759 that are out there. Muscogee seems like the Indian variety names get the better 285 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:56.759 fall color. The Natchez Muscogee soo yeah, uh, the Tusker world, 286 00:19:56.960 --> 00:20:00.319 you'll get some fall color on all those varieties. Yeah. Well, and 287 00:20:00.359 --> 00:20:02.960 if you if you live in a household where one of you is a long 288 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:04.960 hard, one of you's an aggie, this is a great tree for mixed 289 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:10.039 marriages like that because you get both orange and maron on the same tree. 290 00:20:10.079 --> 00:20:12.119 So everybody said happy exactly. We want to take a break here, it's 291 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:15.799 time for Nicky in the News. We'll be right back to enter your calls. 292 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:19.079 Mark you'll be first up. Our phone number is seven one three two 293 00:20:19.160 --> 00:20:26.759 one two five eight seven four. Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your 294 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:29.680 host, Skip Richter, and our phone number if you'd like to give us 295 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:33.599 a call, is seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 296 00:20:33.880 --> 00:20:37.680 Now, I was talking earlier about Christmas gifts and ideas, and I'll tell 297 00:20:37.680 --> 00:20:40.640 you one of the best ones I can think of it, and that is 298 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:45.119 a Vego modular metal bed. Vego's originator of these modular metal beds here in 299 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:49.519 America. I just think of a corrugated type of metal, but it's specially 300 00:20:49.559 --> 00:20:53.119 treated so it doesn't rust and doesn't corrode, and then it's painted with the 301 00:20:53.240 --> 00:20:59.599 USDA certified paint and beautiful colors that are muted, kind of earthy tones, 302 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:03.519 green and tans and things like that. They're gorgeous. 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You will not go wrong with these. 319 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:07.480 It is, in my opinion, the best possible bed of all time. 320 00:22:07.559 --> 00:22:11.359 I've tried cinder block beds, I've tried mounds of soil beds, I've 321 00:22:11.359 --> 00:22:15.680 tried beds lined with treated wood, and you're dealing with the warping and things 322 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:18.920 like that. No Vego Garden beds is just the easiest, cleanest, most 323 00:22:18.920 --> 00:22:23.440 beautiful way to grow a really really productive garden. Vegogarden dot com. Oh 324 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:29.079 did I mention they are a Houston company, a local company to it. 325 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:33.039 David Mark's been waiting a while. Let's go check on Mark and Brenham Mark. 326 00:22:33.079 --> 00:22:37.480 How can we help today? Well, gentlemen, I have a question. 327 00:22:37.720 --> 00:22:41.000 I have some acreage out in Washington County and it's got a lot of 328 00:22:41.160 --> 00:22:48.079 native Pecans trees on it, and I'm wanting to know what I can do. 329 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:52.240 Some of them are extremely mature and heedless, say just my natural regrowth. 330 00:22:52.720 --> 00:22:57.799 There's some smaller ones. What can I do to increase nut production on 331 00:22:57.880 --> 00:23:02.400 those trees? Well, I'll take a stab at that, and if you 332 00:23:02.559 --> 00:23:07.400 won't add anything, feel free to Pecan nut production is based on the health 333 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.960 of the tree and the growth of the tree. Pecans put a lot of 334 00:23:11.079 --> 00:23:17.720 energy into setting buds that will be blooms, which is the little pollen catkins 335 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:21.319 and the nutlets themselves. And when you have a heavy crop one year, 336 00:23:21.480 --> 00:23:26.240 so much carbohydrate goes into that crop that because it's an end of the year 337 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:32.279 ripening nut, there's not time for that tree to set buds for the following 338 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:34.079 spring, like all our fruit trees do. They set buds in late summer 339 00:23:34.160 --> 00:23:38.640 and early fall for the following year, so you get an alternating crop. 340 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:41.920 One year it's a heavy crop, one year it's not so heavy. And 341 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:45.599 so with pecans, our goal is to put as much healthy foliage out there 342 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:49.480 as we can, to capture as much sunlight to make as much carbohydrates. 343 00:23:49.920 --> 00:23:55.960 So that would be number one. Is the tree your quality printing job, 344 00:23:56.039 --> 00:24:00.799 and then providing the nitrogen necessary to get some bigger and those tree that would 345 00:24:00.839 --> 00:24:04.279 be these are all natives, right correct, Okay? Yeah? So with 346 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:08.000 the natives, yeah, go ahead, No, I just can say, 347 00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:14.720 and the nuts are extremely small, and just so what I was wondering is 348 00:24:14.720 --> 00:24:21.400 is there a natural and organic kind of supplement that I could put around the 349 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:25.960 root bay or the you know, the flare of the tree to try and 350 00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:29.599 increase size and quality of the nut. Well. I mean you could use 351 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:33.400 a microlife fertilizer. David was talking about the green bag while ago. That's 352 00:24:33.400 --> 00:24:34.920 the one we recommend for lawns. And to be honest, a three to 353 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:40.640 one to two ratio is excellent for pecans. It's got a good boost of 354 00:24:40.720 --> 00:24:45.000 nitrogen. You're just gonna want to give it in more than one dose through 355 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.200 the year to keep that vigor. I'd start you could start very early, 356 00:24:48.240 --> 00:24:52.480 early in the spring, late winter, put some down so that it's releasing 357 00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:56.480 as the tree is beginning growth. Having said that pecans are one of the 358 00:24:56.519 --> 00:24:59.440 slowest ones to wake up in the spring, they're smart. They know a 359 00:24:59.519 --> 00:25:03.519 late fraud can come, and so they crawl out of winter a little slowly 360 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:07.599 and then do it again for your young trees about I would put probably a 361 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:12.319 pint or two for every inch of trunk diameter. That'd be a good starting 362 00:25:12.319 --> 00:25:15.799 point. So if you've got a little let's say it's a pecond tree the 363 00:25:15.839 --> 00:25:18.440 size of a broom handle, we're going to call that a one inch tree, 364 00:25:18.640 --> 00:25:21.480 that would be a pint or two a fertilizer if it was the size 365 00:25:21.519 --> 00:25:25.119 of the steeringwheel of your car. I don't know how many inches across that 366 00:25:25.279 --> 00:25:27.839 is. That's probably going to be a whole bag of fertilizer to put down 367 00:25:29.240 --> 00:25:33.319 every time you fertilize. Gotcha, Well, there's I mean, there's certainly 368 00:25:33.319 --> 00:25:37.480 trees out there with a forty eight inch caliber, right, there's some huge 369 00:25:37.519 --> 00:25:40.680 trees. Yeah, at that stage, I think you're more fertilizing, you 370 00:25:40.680 --> 00:25:44.200 know, per thousand square feet than around each tree like you would on the 371 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:47.920 little broomstick sized tree. But you can do it either way. The main 372 00:25:48.000 --> 00:25:52.359 thing, though, is keep the weeds down and low, whether it's grasses 373 00:25:52.519 --> 00:25:56.640 or other weeds. If you let a meadow grow up around those trees, 374 00:25:56.920 --> 00:26:02.559 that will inhibit growth more more than just about anything that in a lack of 375 00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:06.759 water. Now, the longhorns do a great job of keeping that stuff down, 376 00:26:07.039 --> 00:26:10.440 Okay, But I I just, like I said, there is no 377 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:14.839 practical way to get water to them other than what the Good Lord provides. 378 00:26:15.000 --> 00:26:19.920 Okay. So I just was hoping that I might be able to put some 379 00:26:21.000 --> 00:26:23.200 kind of a natural supplement on there. That would when we do get rain, 380 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:30.200 it would help to increase the uptake if you will all right well out 381 00:26:30.200 --> 00:26:33.559 in the wild like that. You kind of have to take what you can 382 00:26:33.599 --> 00:26:37.319 get. You may have to have a committee meeting with the squirrels because they're 383 00:26:37.319 --> 00:26:38.359 going to have an opinion about that. But I can tell you this, 384 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:42.039 the con fed squirrel is some of the best eating you can have. So 385 00:26:42.799 --> 00:26:48.359 that is also a way to make lemonade out of lemons. Thank true, 386 00:26:48.359 --> 00:26:52.359 well, thank you my German shepherd, My German shepherds, enjoy the squirrels 387 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:55.160 for the case you guys have. You guys, have a great day, 388 00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:57.319 and thanks for the info. Thank you, Mark. I appreciate that very 389 00:26:57.400 --> 00:27:00.640 much. David, we're talking about, you know, quality trees, and 390 00:27:00.680 --> 00:27:04.119 I'd like to talk a little bit about some blooming trees. What are some 391 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:08.920 species that you think people should consider, even cultivars if you want to go 392 00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:15.720 that far varieties, if people want to have beautiful blooms. As far as 393 00:27:15.759 --> 00:27:18.160 like evergreen trees, I think the Magnoia little gym is probably the best blooming 394 00:27:18.279 --> 00:27:23.559 small medium Magnoia trees For a good evergreen tree, I like the Jaine magnoias. 395 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:26.519 They do Okay, in the sun they leaves burn up. Even in 396 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:30.559 the parts shade they get more established. They the leafs are not as bad. 397 00:27:30.640 --> 00:27:33.200 But there you're talking about a deciduous. Yeah, it's a jain like 398 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:37.160 a saucer, magnolia saucer. And they get the pinkish purples blooms in the 399 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:41.480 early spring and then they get their leaves on after that. It's a great 400 00:27:41.519 --> 00:27:45.000 tree for one of the first bloomers of the year. Right. And then 401 00:27:45.039 --> 00:27:48.960 the Mexican plums another great bloomer. Not the most prettiest foliage in the summertime, 402 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:52.160 but it's something you can get some good. It's also good food for 403 00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:56.359 wildlife because the little plums. Yeah, and we can make good jam too. 404 00:27:56.440 --> 00:28:02.559 It's it's a nice little tree. Right. The any crate merdle, 405 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:07.720 the cratermndles, they keep on coming up with more varieties, uh of cratemurdles. 406 00:28:07.720 --> 00:28:11.279 Like the Rumbling Red series is a really good series with the red leafs 407 00:28:11.279 --> 00:28:15.359 and the Okay, they have a coral called one Coral Boom, one called 408 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:21.160 Thunderstruck Red that's really pretty. The Rumbling Red is probably my favorite. It's 409 00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:22.839 called Thunderstruck series. Excuse me. And then the Rumbling reds is one of 410 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:29.880 my favorite ones. Thunderstruck good and then the Uh of course. The Chinese 411 00:28:29.880 --> 00:28:33.160 friench tree is probably one of my favorite trees. For blooming, that's my 412 00:28:33.359 --> 00:28:37.119 favorite. Yeah, it just gets solid white in the springtime. It's beautiful 413 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:40.480 when you get enough blooms on it and smell of honey like fragrance exactly. 414 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:44.720 I even like sweet ollars if you put those in a small area and they're 415 00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:47.119 not the prettiest plan of the time, but the bloom, they just they'll 416 00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:49.039 smell up your whole yard. Let's talk about that in a minute. We're 417 00:28:49.039 --> 00:28:52.759 gonna have to take a break here. Mario and Glenn, you're the first 418 00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:55.279 two up when we come back. Thanks for holding. We had so much 419 00:28:55.319 --> 00:29:00.319 to talk about today. Seven fifty seventy four. Our number will be right 420 00:29:00.359 --> 00:29:06.839 back. Welcome back to Garden Line. We are glad you are listening to 421 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:11.759 us today. I've got David Williamson here from Williams Williamson Tree Farm in RCW 422 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:15.519 Nursery and we're talking trees today. Everything you might want to know about trees. 423 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:18.160 You're welcome to give us a call. Seven one three two one two 424 00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:23.079 five eight seven four right now we're going to go to Channel View and talk 425 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:29.759 to Mario. Hello, Mario, Hello, good morning morning. My question 426 00:29:29.880 --> 00:29:33.200 is about a little jam magnola. They're planning about six years ago and he 427 00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:38.960 just hasn't grown hardly at all, and I'm wondering there's some natural substance that 428 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:45.359 I can put in it to get it to grow faster. So a couple 429 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:48.839 of things. How big was the tree when they planted? I want to 430 00:29:48.839 --> 00:29:53.640 say five feet it's probably no more than six seven tops Okay. Was it 431 00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:59.640 in a far better in the grass area? Uh? Right now you mean 432 00:29:59.799 --> 00:30:03.519 yeah? Uh? Okay, it's uh it's in the front yard front of 433 00:30:03.559 --> 00:30:07.839 the house, Okay, in a flower bed or in the long Okay, 434 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:12.640 So do you remember what size tree it was like container wise for the fifteen 435 00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:17.839 to five thirty g one tree, Well, when I bought it, it 436 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:22.920 was the biggest pot they had the garness that lit of butter from Yeah, 437 00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:26.000 because sometimes you remember if they don't break up the root, did you plant 438 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.839 yourself? Right? It was installed professionally by somebody. Uh, we did 439 00:30:30.880 --> 00:30:33.400 it, but we did cut, you know, kind of cut the ball 440 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:37.079 of the roots that way they get spread out. Okay, you did do 441 00:30:37.119 --> 00:30:40.599 that, then that was because sometimes root bound we treating get root bound, 442 00:30:40.640 --> 00:30:45.480 it will stunt its growth. It doesn't get broken up at planning. But 443 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:48.160 h yeah, what you know, what you can do is you know you 444 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:52.200 can take it like a like an arth auger or small auger. You can 445 00:30:52.240 --> 00:30:55.559 buy and drill with a drill bit and drew outside that root zone or out 446 00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:59.440 the drip line and then mix up like composts and micro life and put that 447 00:30:59.480 --> 00:31:02.599 as in the whole to help break up that clay if there's any if it's 448 00:31:02.599 --> 00:31:04.480 a heavy clay area. Talking about like about a two inch auger, yeah, 449 00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:07.920 two inch auger that that you can drill around the trip line outside the 450 00:31:07.920 --> 00:31:11.960 hole that was dug and see if you can break down or you know, 451 00:31:12.039 --> 00:31:15.039 just get the roots growing that way. And Mario, the more holes the 452 00:31:15.119 --> 00:31:18.160 better, I mean, you know, if you can do a hole ever 453 00:31:18.240 --> 00:31:21.599 one foot or you I mean you do more than that if you want. 454 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:25.640 But you need a lot of holes to amend a lot of soil because there's 455 00:31:25.640 --> 00:31:27.440 not just one or two little spots where all the roots are drawing from. 456 00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:32.279 And you can probably go inside the root the drip line a little bit to 457 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:34.359 see if you know, you can disturb the roots little bit to get them 458 00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:37.519 growing. This is the time to do it. The roots are still growing 459 00:31:37.519 --> 00:31:41.640 this time of year. And I would hit it heavy with some ocean harvest 460 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:45.400 and after you do that and repeat that about every two or three weeks to 461 00:31:45.400 --> 00:31:52.119 every month. Uh yeah, that's micro Life's blue label liquid. You might 462 00:31:52.160 --> 00:31:56.920 buy the gallon if you want, or there's other sizes, but micro Life 463 00:31:57.039 --> 00:32:00.720 blue label liquid, okay. Ocean hole, Yeah, you just say blue 464 00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:04.559 label. There's only one product that's okay. And how big is that augur 465 00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.599 that I need to get. It's about it's about two inch round augur that 466 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:12.640 you can you can buy them at home home depot ace hardware and you just 467 00:32:12.640 --> 00:32:15.279 put them on your drill bit and you can draw around, drill around and 468 00:32:15.279 --> 00:32:17.680 then just fill it up with composts and micro Life and granulars in that hole 469 00:32:17.960 --> 00:32:22.519 and the whole cost micro Life okay. Yeah, and also heavy feed, 470 00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:29.359 heavy feed in the springtime. I like the Marcrot Life. I would just 471 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:31.039 hit with more micro Life as well. You're talking about the green bag, 472 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:35.519 green bag or the all the blue bags. I'm gonna go act. Let's 473 00:32:35.519 --> 00:32:38.799 spend a lot more ultimate ble extra money, So I'll try that, all 474 00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:43.839 right, Mario, good good luck with it, you bet you take care. 475 00:32:44.200 --> 00:32:47.440 Glad to glad to hear that. Uh you were you were discussing, 476 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:52.480 you know, providing some nutrients and things in the planting hole. Then you 477 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:55.519 mentioned that circular root problem and would you just talk a little bit about that 478 00:32:55.599 --> 00:32:59.960 issue because that you know, almost all the plant pots on the market are 479 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:04.319 around, right, and some of them have designs of various types to help 480 00:33:04.720 --> 00:33:07.160 the roots not just go in circles. Right, There's definitely been a new 481 00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:12.119 technology, but that helps keep the roots from circling. Is bad. But 482 00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:15.480 still if you get you get a three inch caliber tree and a fifteen gallon 483 00:33:15.519 --> 00:33:20.240 pot, there's gonna be circling roots. And and the reason for those folks 484 00:33:20.279 --> 00:33:23.559 listening is if that fifteen gallo fifty what did you say, the three inch 485 00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:28.960 caliper tree was growing in the ground, it would have roots, you know, 486 00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:31.319 way out in all directions. And now it's all wound up in a 487 00:33:31.319 --> 00:33:34.720 little pot. Right, So what do we do about that? Well, 488 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:37.720 the best thing you do for that tree to survive is to just really hack 489 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:42.720 the roots. And and you only want to do that really probably when something 490 00:33:42.759 --> 00:33:47.160 that big the planet, and to install it is in the wintertime because that's 491 00:33:47.559 --> 00:33:50.720 it's going to give it. You can do in the summertime, but it's 492 00:33:50.720 --> 00:33:53.880 gonna it's gonna struggle and the roots being cut that bunch. When you say 493 00:33:53.880 --> 00:33:57.920 hacking them, you're talking about literally severing the roots. Yeah, just taking 494 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:00.440 a you know, even taking like a like a not or like a sharpshooter 495 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:04.720 to got those roots around the side. I've used a box cutter knife for 496 00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:06.920 smaller plants, even things like I say, oh yes, yeah, and 497 00:34:06.920 --> 00:34:08.920 they get a little pot bound. It helps always break them up a lot. 498 00:34:09.280 --> 00:34:13.719 A little box cutter knife can cut in easily, but sometimes you need 499 00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:16.159 prunters. Yeah, and occasionally I found you may need to go inside and 500 00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:19.679 do a little bit of surgery. So you can have a plant that was 501 00:34:19.719 --> 00:34:22.800 in a one gallon pot that has a circling root and then as it gets 502 00:34:22.840 --> 00:34:24.519 bumped up, you don't see that route, right, it's not maybe there's 503 00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:28.320 something on the outside, but there's also that one on the inside. And 504 00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:32.760 so I've talked to treat people that talk about washing the root system. That's 505 00:34:32.800 --> 00:34:37.360 a lot, but you know, the whole idea is to prevent those circling 506 00:34:37.400 --> 00:34:43.199 roots because they inhibit it from establishing well, and I guess in time they 507 00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:45.320 can strangle it. Okay, it can kill a tree if it starts off 508 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:51.400 as a small circle. R I one time went out to where a group 509 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:53.719 of this happened to be an Afghan pine. It was central Texas. They 510 00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:58.639 planted a whole row along the roadway to block the dust and the view, 511 00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:01.440 and the trees just looking like they needed watering, and you look at the 512 00:35:01.480 --> 00:35:06.039 grass around them and it was fine. And we went in there and everyone 513 00:35:06.239 --> 00:35:08.239 had been grown in a little pot and it was a pine and the root 514 00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:12.599 was around it and it was embedded into it so far that you couldn't take 515 00:35:12.599 --> 00:35:15.400 a hammer and chisel to get it out. And these things are twelve feet 516 00:35:15.480 --> 00:35:17.679 high. And now you're going back to replant some little thing. You know, 517 00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:22.880 that's tough. What you're recommending, and planning time can really save a 518 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:27.840 lot of money, down right. Yeah, that's good advice. I think. 519 00:35:28.320 --> 00:35:30.559 I think in any tree, well, you know, whether it's overgrown 520 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:34.880 or if it's just right, you just make sure you break up that roots 521 00:35:34.880 --> 00:35:37.880 isn't when it's going to a new hole. Okay, So loosen it up, 522 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.280 right, Some trees seem more tolerant of that. I've watched live oaks 523 00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:45.760 sometimes they can have roots that are just kind of climbing over each other, 524 00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:50.920 and they just don't seem to be as inhibited or impacted by that as a 525 00:35:50.920 --> 00:35:53.280 certain other species. Yeah, I think definitely things certain trees stress out. 526 00:35:53.280 --> 00:35:57.199 The oaks seem to be a little bit tougher. Had issues where about cut 527 00:35:57.199 --> 00:36:01.280 red papils, roots want and they really stressed out. Yeah, is that 528 00:36:01.360 --> 00:36:05.559 right? Yeah, Well, spend time of year you mentioned doing it, 529 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:08.559 and especially in the summertime. I mean we plant year round. They're all 530 00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:13.880 continued to growing trees, but you do have to make sure they're properly planted 531 00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:17.159 and watered. So all right, that's that's a good, very good point. 532 00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:20.760 Don't be afraid to do it. One time I pulled a tree out 533 00:36:20.800 --> 00:36:22.800 of a pot in a garden center. I got permission, I snipped the 534 00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:25.920 roots that were going around, put it back in the pot. Came back 535 00:36:25.960 --> 00:36:30.639 two weeks later, and there were little white roots already coming out, yeah, 536 00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:34.119 going into the pot. So that's exactly what will happened in the planting 537 00:36:34.159 --> 00:36:37.480 hole. It's it's worth worth doing. We do that a lot sometimes on 538 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:39.480 certain trees at the farm, to pick them up and the cut the roots. 539 00:36:39.639 --> 00:36:43.119 Yeah, so they don't get so root bound. That's good. We 540 00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:45.599 can shift them or whatever to the next pot or sell them. Yeah, 541 00:36:45.679 --> 00:36:47.880 that's good. Well, we're going to take a break here. We're about 542 00:36:47.880 --> 00:36:52.760 out of time. Glenn. I thank you for holding this long. I'm 543 00:36:52.760 --> 00:36:54.639 gonna promise you will be the first one up when we come back from our 544 00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:59.440 next break. Thanks for listening to the garden Line. We're looking forward to 545 00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:02.880 entering your gardening questions. I'm here with David Williamson from Williamson Tree Farm and 546 00:37:04.039 --> 00:37:07.159 RCW Nursery, and we're picking his brain about all things trees. How do 547 00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:10.880 you plant a tree, what trees do you choose after you've planted it, 548 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:15.519 How do you take care of it so that you have success? Those are 549 00:37:15.559 --> 00:37:20.400 all important questions and we're going to continue that discussion when we come back from 550 00:37:20.400 --> 00:37:22.360 break. Right now, you're listening to Garden Line. I'm going to remind 551 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:28.320 you our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 552 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:32.880 If you have not gone online and checked out my two garden schedules. I 553 00:37:32.880 --> 00:37:37.960 would like for you to do that, you just simply go to Gardening with 554 00:37:37.239 --> 00:37:42.840 Skip dot com. Simple that gardening with Skip dot Com. And there's the 555 00:37:42.920 --> 00:37:46.840 lawn care schedule that talks about the fertilizing that gives organic and synthetic options for 556 00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:50.599 every month of the year what you do. And then there's the Disease, 557 00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:54.679 weed and Pest Management schedule which offers the same thing both in organic and synthetic 558 00:37:54.719 --> 00:38:00.280 form. KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 559 00:38:00.280 --> 00:38:07.880 advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor. 560 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:24.199 It's shoes crazy trim. Just watch him as so many things to sept 561 00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:39.519 das gas back again not a sound gas. Thank you the sun beamons of 562 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:44.679 the tweet movie. Welcome back to garden Line. I am glad you're listening 563 00:38:44.719 --> 00:38:47.800 today. We're here to talk about trees specifically today as well as other things. 564 00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:52.079 If you want to give us a call and talk about trees our shrubs. 565 00:38:52.280 --> 00:38:57.440 Uh. We got David Williamson from Moyston Williamson Tree Farm and RCW Nursery 566 00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:00.719 Share and we were picking his brain about all kinds of topics. Glenn out 567 00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:05.079 in full shure. We're heading to you now, and I think you get 568 00:39:05.119 --> 00:39:07.639 the award for the most patient caller today, So thank you for that. 569 00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:13.800 All good? All right? So yeah, quick question. I have my 570 00:39:13.880 --> 00:39:17.440 peach trees, my plum trees, and then it just goes to blackberries. 571 00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:22.039 I have a problem with cutter ants and I cannot get rid of them. 572 00:39:22.159 --> 00:39:30.840 Any suggestions, Well, that's a challenge. There's not good solutions for those. 573 00:39:30.920 --> 00:39:35.880 There is a form of andro bait called ant block. It's different than 574 00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:42.559 regular andro which is hydromethylon and I can't remember what the ingredient and andro ant 575 00:39:42.599 --> 00:39:45.320 block is, but that is supposed to be pretty effective. See, the 576 00:39:45.360 --> 00:39:51.280 problem is what leaf cutters are interested in as food is different than what like 577 00:39:51.320 --> 00:39:55.079 fire ants are interested in as food. But if you will email me, 578 00:39:55.119 --> 00:40:00.440 I'm I'm not going to go through the concoction on the air, but I 579 00:40:00.519 --> 00:40:05.360 will. I will let you know that there's something. You mix that product 580 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:09.480 with something and you let it sept for a period of time and then you 581 00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:14.480 put it out and use it and it's quite effective. And I've actually had 582 00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:19.159 a number of entomologists who've done research on fire ants talk to me about it, 583 00:40:19.199 --> 00:40:22.360 and so I feel pretty confident, and normally I don't like home remedy 584 00:40:22.400 --> 00:40:28.039 and things, but this one with the store bought product that it'll work pretty 585 00:40:28.079 --> 00:40:32.480 good. Okay, So I'm gonna I'm gonna if you may have more questions 586 00:40:32.480 --> 00:40:36.079 to follow up, but at the end make sure let me know. I'll 587 00:40:36.079 --> 00:40:38.039 put you on hold so you can you can send me that question. I 588 00:40:38.079 --> 00:40:40.840 can go out into more stuff than I can on the air right now. 589 00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:47.079 Sounds good? Okay? Is that it just the answer? What did your 590 00:40:47.119 --> 00:40:51.840 email? Okay? I'm putting you on hole right now and Josh is going 591 00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:54.599 to pick it up and he will take it from there. We want to 592 00:40:54.639 --> 00:40:59.639 go now out to Marcia in Austin County. Marcia, how can we help? 593 00:41:00.599 --> 00:41:05.440 Good morning? In the spring, we planted ten I believe the Eagleston 594 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:09.519 Holly's. I'd say we a professional company planted them. They're about three to 595 00:41:09.599 --> 00:41:14.719 four feet tall. I was not watching to find out if they broke up 596 00:41:14.800 --> 00:41:20.199 roots, if they were root bound or anything through the drought. Because they're 597 00:41:20.239 --> 00:41:24.960 not all on irrigation, we obviously worked really hard to keep them watered. 598 00:41:25.440 --> 00:41:32.480 We even put out some of the arbor Gate fertilizer on them and worked that 599 00:41:32.559 --> 00:41:37.280 into the soil. Through the course of the summer, every single one of 600 00:41:37.320 --> 00:41:44.559 them started turning brown, dropping their leaves. So is it a lost cause 601 00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:51.320 any idea? Of course, that's very sandy soil down there. If they're 602 00:41:51.320 --> 00:41:53.440 scratching green on the bark at all, they can still come back and strip 603 00:41:53.440 --> 00:41:58.119 the foliage and then you make sure there's green at the green that they can 604 00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:01.639 come back when they're that young there about three foot tall. Yes, okay, 605 00:42:02.800 --> 00:42:07.719 I would check everyone and most nine percent sure it was water. I 606 00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:10.519 know it is because I too much water, No, not enough, not 607 00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:14.719 enough, not enough, and not distributed. Well, you know, when 608 00:42:14.760 --> 00:42:17.679 you get a sprinkler that's spraying and some foliage is blocking the spray, you 609 00:42:17.719 --> 00:42:22.280 have a whole section out from that where that sprinkler should be watering that's not 610 00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:27.000 getting watered. So that can be a factor too. We actually went we 611 00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:30.880 actually went around because it's a farm property with one of the big tanks that 612 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:37.639 we carry around on on a ATV and handwater these things. Every single one. 613 00:42:37.719 --> 00:42:40.800 My husband was diligent, so we were just at a loss, as 614 00:42:42.199 --> 00:42:45.800 you know, do we do something wrong? Is there something we can do 615 00:42:45.840 --> 00:42:50.719 to say to save them? Yeah? That plan is pretty tough, but 616 00:42:50.800 --> 00:42:52.760 it does. I did see it in the summer. We've lost we had 617 00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:59.400 some of the people lost some and it was most ninety because of the watering 618 00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:05.280 not not enough. Yeah, okay, consistent moist, right right, I'll 619 00:43:05.360 --> 00:43:10.480 check the bark and if I see green, will wait till spring and keep 620 00:43:10.480 --> 00:43:14.679 our hopes up. If not, time for those to go, I guess. 621 00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:16.199 Yeah. And they're heavy, heavy feeders, so you need to make 622 00:43:16.199 --> 00:43:20.360 sure you fly a lot of micro life on them every three months at least. 623 00:43:21.159 --> 00:43:23.480 Okay, good to know, Thank you so much. All right, 624 00:43:23.519 --> 00:43:27.440 good, thank you for the call. Appreciate that. Marsha. Yeah. 625 00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:30.920 I run into those holly questions all the time, and this year it went 626 00:43:30.960 --> 00:43:35.800 further than that. The Southern Magnolias, which are pretty darn top planets, 627 00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:38.719 Boy, they took hammer and they took a beating. Yeah. And the 628 00:43:38.840 --> 00:43:44.320 same thing. Esplanades drying out. I think some of the esplanes got shut 629 00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:46.440 off. I mean they had to. I mean I saw these masses of 630 00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:52.800 them just die. Yeah. But then I see some in the yards that 631 00:43:52.800 --> 00:43:53.719 that are pretty, and then I see you want to know the yard that's 632 00:43:53.719 --> 00:43:59.119 completely brown? Yeah, yeah, well you know Marsha was talking about going 633 00:43:59.119 --> 00:44:04.280 around with a water tank and one water and one problem with watering and standing 634 00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:07.199 there is you think you're putting on a lot of water and it's not getting 635 00:44:07.639 --> 00:44:10.920 very deep. And that's a tough situation. But playing it slowly or putting 636 00:44:10.960 --> 00:44:15.079 a berm around it to hold the water and let it soak in, that 637 00:44:15.119 --> 00:44:16.760 would probably help. If you have that kind of run through a way to 638 00:44:16.800 --> 00:44:22.039 connect a soaker hose going around each one, yeah, would be a better 639 00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:25.519 way to water, nice, gradual, But sounds like to me they're limited 640 00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:31.239 on yeah, you know distance, I mean yeah, yeah. Sometimes sometimes 641 00:44:31.239 --> 00:44:36.719 the colors will throw me eight curves and I can't quite solve this challenge. 642 00:44:36.760 --> 00:44:38.840 It's like, I need a plant. I need a plant that grows fast, 643 00:44:38.920 --> 00:44:44.719 quickly fills its space, stops grewing, doesn't invade uh ballooms a lot, 644 00:44:44.880 --> 00:44:49.039 but you know, twelve months out of the year and is evergreen. 645 00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:53.400 And yeah, it's like, okay, what silk if silk flowers will do 646 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:58.400 that all that? Yeah, We're kind to go now to Ganel View and 647 00:44:58.440 --> 00:45:04.760 talk to Oliver. Hey, Oliver, how do you I'm well, thanks, 648 00:45:05.880 --> 00:45:12.840 how can we help? I planted a Texas olive tree. The beginning 649 00:45:12.880 --> 00:45:17.679 of this year, it was about two to three feet in height and now 650 00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:25.079 it's over five feet tall and I water it as often as I can, 651 00:45:27.079 --> 00:45:32.360 but the leaves are turning brown and falling off, and I put a footstick 652 00:45:32.440 --> 00:45:40.119 in that my wife bought online, and it still appears to be not thriving. 653 00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:44.840 Well, so what can I do? That's a good question. Well, 654 00:45:44.840 --> 00:45:46.800 I can tell you the leaves falling off and stuff. It's not a 655 00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:51.800 matter of not fertilizing it enough. It's probably a water again, wouldn't you 656 00:45:51.800 --> 00:45:55.440 say? Yeah, most likely it could be a result of the heat stress, 657 00:45:55.440 --> 00:46:00.400 and it's just now showing its signs because sometimes you you can a tree 658 00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:05.119 can stress out through the summer and it really especially something like that, it's 659 00:46:05.159 --> 00:46:08.639 not going to start showing signs till later. So if the soil is adequately 660 00:46:08.679 --> 00:46:13.480 moist, which it probably is right now, just because of the we've gotten 661 00:46:13.480 --> 00:46:16.039 some rains here and the temperatures drop down a little bit, you ought to 662 00:46:16.079 --> 00:46:21.400 be Okay, it's deciduous. Those trees are deciduous, so during the winter 663 00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:25.480 you don't have to worry about them so much. But yeah, it means 664 00:46:25.480 --> 00:46:29.639 the leaves fall off in the winter as opposed to evergreen. You know, 665 00:46:29.679 --> 00:46:32.519 without any leaves on the tree, it's not pumping much water through the system 666 00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:37.639 because it doesn't have leaves. So that's a good thing for a tree that's 667 00:46:37.679 --> 00:46:42.679 been struggling with lack of moisture. Okay, I would watch that. Maybe 668 00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:45.280 dig down, get a little hand trowel and dig down, oh four six 669 00:46:45.320 --> 00:46:50.559 inches down and feel the soil and on different places, and that'll tell you 670 00:46:50.960 --> 00:46:54.840 whether you're watering is enough or not. It ought to soak it pretty good. 671 00:46:55.000 --> 00:47:00.039 You don't want to keep it soggy. That's not a swamp dwelling species. 672 00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:04.400 But when we get into the kind of weather, water, yeah, 673 00:47:04.440 --> 00:47:10.960 go ahead. Also water outside of the area rather than water and say two 674 00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:15.039 feet around the tree, all right, the water outside of that area. 675 00:47:15.119 --> 00:47:20.159 Yeah, the whole area, Oliver, the whole area beneath and beyond the 676 00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:22.519 branch. Bred. Hey, we got to take a break here our phone 677 00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:25.440 number seven one three, two, two fifty eight seventy four. Chet and 678 00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:31.159 Bob, you'll be first up. Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your 679 00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:36.599 host, Skip Richter, and today we're sitting here visiting with David Williamson from 680 00:47:36.639 --> 00:47:40.679 Williamson Tree Farm and RCW Nurseres and we're talking about all kinds of things related 681 00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:45.920 to trees. I do want to mention I've been talking about Christmas gifts today 682 00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:50.840 and I do want to mention that it is time to choose some things for 683 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.199 the gardeners on your list. But maybe you've got somebody that's not a gardener. 684 00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:57.599 For example, my mother in law, she has one plant. It 685 00:47:57.679 --> 00:48:00.519 is a crown of thorns and it looks great because she has it. And 686 00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:04.159 that's how chronathorns are. They put up with that. But she's not a 687 00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:07.079 gardener. But I tell you what she loved. We got our beautiful little 688 00:48:07.719 --> 00:48:12.599 hummingbird feeder from Wildbirds Unlimited, and it just it's just, you know, 689 00:48:12.719 --> 00:48:15.079 hours in enjoyment. You get to look out the window and see the little 690 00:48:15.119 --> 00:48:21.039 flying flying things coming around and enjoy their antics and things. Wild Birds is 691 00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:24.000 a perfect place to get Christmas gifts. Maybe it's a feeder. They have 692 00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:28.159 every kind. Do you need a platform feeder, a fifth stle feeder. 693 00:48:28.400 --> 00:48:30.119 Do you want some bark butter to smear on the bark for certain birds that 694 00:48:30.280 --> 00:48:34.360 like to come do that? Do you want one that sticks with suction cups 695 00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:37.360 onto your window or one that hangs outside. I've got their squirrel proof feeder, 696 00:48:37.440 --> 00:48:40.239 and that is fun. It gives me a lot of pleasure. Part 697 00:48:40.280 --> 00:48:45.320 of the pleasure is just knowing I'm frustrating squirrels because they can't get into the 698 00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:47.519 thing to steal the feed like they do on some of my others. You 699 00:48:47.559 --> 00:48:54.400 can go to WBU dot com forward Slash Houston WBU dot com forward Slash Houston. 700 00:48:54.559 --> 00:49:00.400 There's seven Wallbirds Unlimited stores here in the Greater Houston area Cyprus. There's 701 00:49:00.440 --> 00:49:02.840 the bell Air Store, the Memorial Store, There's Clare Lake, There's Katie 702 00:49:02.960 --> 00:49:07.280 Kingwood, Paarland. It's easy to find one near you. And when you 703 00:49:07.320 --> 00:49:09.400 get in there, you're going to find gifts for people, even people that 704 00:49:09.480 --> 00:49:14.400 don't garden at Wadbird's Unlimited. Well, I think we're going to head out 705 00:49:14.400 --> 00:49:20.679 now to Tombaugh and talk to chat Hello Chet, Hello. I have a 706 00:49:20.760 --> 00:49:27.880 question. I'm raising several hundred halfghan pines. I have the seeds, and 707 00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:31.800 I don't know the best way for the starting soul and the best way for 708 00:49:31.960 --> 00:49:36.800 potting. Like I've always heard a pine tree as a long, straight tap 709 00:49:36.920 --> 00:49:40.679 root. Is that true? Well from a seed they do. Yeah, 710 00:49:40.840 --> 00:49:44.719 a pine tre a little bit of a challenge. I remember back in the 711 00:49:44.800 --> 00:49:46.400 day when I was in Montgomery County is the agent there. We used to 712 00:49:46.400 --> 00:49:51.840 do Christmas tree grower field days and just putting those little seedlings in the hole 713 00:49:51.960 --> 00:49:53.360 if it had a jay root, if you didn't get it down in the 714 00:49:53.360 --> 00:49:55.639 hole and then kind of shake it and pull it up. Sometimes you dip 715 00:49:55.679 --> 00:50:00.920 them in the the Yeah, the stuff that make well, I can't even 716 00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:05.119 say the word I'm looking for, like jello, you know that sticks to 717 00:50:05.119 --> 00:50:08.079 the roots just to kind of help those roots hold down so when you're bumping 718 00:50:08.079 --> 00:50:12.519 them up. As far as do you guys grow pines, we grow lob 719 00:50:12.559 --> 00:50:15.079 all these We don't have my AFCN Yeah, I dofcan Is more Central Texas, 720 00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:19.559 but yes, I don't know how well. I'm not sure if we 721 00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:23.360 sold them at the nursery the Afghan pines, but we plan everything in a 722 00:50:23.440 --> 00:50:29.960 soil less mixes A pine bark prepare pretty much my pine bark mix is what 723 00:50:30.000 --> 00:50:31.920 we plan in. Yeah, you know, if you're doing it on a 724 00:50:32.000 --> 00:50:37.159 home level there chat, you might want to find some They make containers for 725 00:50:37.199 --> 00:50:40.840 growing tree seedlings that have a hole in the bottom and then when the when 726 00:50:40.880 --> 00:50:45.079 the root hits it at air prunes it and then it branches more. Well, 727 00:50:45.079 --> 00:50:47.679 I've already started playing the seedlings and a lot of the people to come 728 00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:52.880 up. I'm grooming them and growl like and some pots. But I was 729 00:50:52.880 --> 00:50:58.280 trying to get the correct soul preparation. And I just want to know because 730 00:50:58.280 --> 00:51:00.840 I spind them buying some land out in West Texas and I wanted to get 731 00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:04.960 all prepared before a bottle land. Well, I would I would go ahead. 732 00:51:05.920 --> 00:51:08.039 I was saying about auguring a hole in the ground in West Texas when 733 00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:14.599 the trees got big enough, finding a watering system, and I was wondering 734 00:51:14.599 --> 00:51:17.880 if the auger system would be sufficient for the tree route. You just want 735 00:51:17.920 --> 00:51:22.280 to watch the sides of that hole, especially if it's like a callechi, 736 00:51:22.320 --> 00:51:25.599 which is common out there clay type soil. That augur can create a real 737 00:51:25.679 --> 00:51:30.199 slick sided hole, especially if it's a little on the wet side. Uh, 738 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:34.159 and you you want to break that those sides up a little bit on 739 00:51:34.199 --> 00:51:37.360 that. But other than that, Yeah, a lot of trees get planted 740 00:51:37.559 --> 00:51:40.960 with the augur. I know, use a pine mark mulch and and you 741 00:51:42.039 --> 00:51:45.440 might want to. You might want to call a nursery out there, see 742 00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:49.639 what they grow the af campines in. I just we don't grow them at 743 00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:52.960 our farm, and I'm not sure how well they'll do in them. Yeah, 744 00:51:52.039 --> 00:51:57.199 I think they they'll grow fine. The Forest Service closed its West Texas 745 00:51:57.280 --> 00:51:59.679 nursery, but they still have the one at Indian Mound, Yeah, if 746 00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:02.440 they could. I don't think it's going to be as picky as you might 747 00:52:02.480 --> 00:52:07.400 be thinking. Just a good well, if it drains very very well, 748 00:52:07.960 --> 00:52:10.519 if it's got your providing the nutrients that it needs, I think you're going 749 00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:15.960 to probably be okay. Just don't want something that's real mucky, like a 750 00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:21.440 very fine textured potting soil that packs down and stays soggy and mucky on you. 751 00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:24.920 I'd probably avoid that, But yeah, I don't know other than that 752 00:52:25.679 --> 00:52:29.119 as far as the auger, I knew a guy one time that welded a 753 00:52:29.159 --> 00:52:34.440 little piece of rebar onto his augur so that as it dug, it kind 754 00:52:34.440 --> 00:52:37.679 of ripped the sides of the whole a little bit, just to avoid that 755 00:52:37.800 --> 00:52:43.239 glazed, round sided hole like we were talking about. So your roots still 756 00:52:43.239 --> 00:52:45.960 go sideways, you still have a lot of roots going sideways. You don't 757 00:52:45.960 --> 00:52:50.920 want to just conctret on the taper it right, Yeah, that is true, 758 00:52:51.400 --> 00:52:53.920 you know, you know east and west. So all right, well, 759 00:52:53.960 --> 00:52:58.039 good luck with that. Just watch watch on those afghans. The diseases 760 00:52:58.079 --> 00:53:01.440 in our climate over here. They they're not as tolerant as some of our 761 00:53:01.639 --> 00:53:06.840 more native pines are over here. All right, thank you, all right, 762 00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:09.840 you take care. Good good question. Uh yeah, we've got a 763 00:53:09.880 --> 00:53:14.280 lot of things we're talking about. We see, I was wanting to ask 764 00:53:14.320 --> 00:53:16.320 you a little bit about oh, I know, on the post planning here 765 00:53:16.360 --> 00:53:21.960 we talked about the importance of taking those roots. And you're saying roughing up 766 00:53:22.000 --> 00:53:24.559 the root system. What about the whole the whole depth and the whole width. 767 00:53:24.840 --> 00:53:29.039 So what do you recommend. We've been doing this about forty some years. 768 00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:31.079 We've been digging the whole about six inches wider than the container. So 769 00:53:31.719 --> 00:53:35.480 and then we mix up and we dig it the whole a little bit shallow, 770 00:53:35.840 --> 00:53:37.760 break up the bottom a little bit. Then we mix up native soil 771 00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:43.039 with black music decomposed black humans from lands. Oh really, landscape is prize 772 00:53:43.039 --> 00:53:45.639 and the one we use, and we mix that up with the native soil 773 00:53:46.199 --> 00:53:51.840 packed that down in micro life about midway and then fill back up up to 774 00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:53.480 the with the root balls exposed about two inches, and then we make a 775 00:53:53.519 --> 00:53:59.519 little moat around that and cover up the exposed root ball and then do a 776 00:53:59.559 --> 00:54:01.679 fine molts or black humous mulch on top. Are we talking about about three 777 00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:05.920 or four inches high than? Yeah, we go about two inches and not 778 00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:08.159 two inches two inches root all, but the most usually about three inches on 779 00:54:08.159 --> 00:54:10.800 the outside, and then goes back even with the rootball because we don't want 780 00:54:10.800 --> 00:54:15.159 to cover up the base. The base are too much higher than where the 781 00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:17.280 thirties on the tree. Now, yeah, getting that top route pretty close 782 00:54:17.320 --> 00:54:22.119 to the soil line is important. People sometimes really bury him too deep. 783 00:54:22.159 --> 00:54:25.199 And that's that's right, a good thing. That's good advice. Something I've 784 00:54:25.199 --> 00:54:29.920 done too is you know the old advice if you look at the technical you 785 00:54:29.960 --> 00:54:34.400 know poster, how do you plant a tree? My chiropractor's kids would be 786 00:54:34.440 --> 00:54:38.000 put through college with my dollars if I dug a hole the kind they're talking 787 00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:43.920 twice the size, twice the size and everything. So I have other uses 788 00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:45.519 for more money than putting his kids. See if you have the energy to 789 00:54:45.559 --> 00:54:49.079 do that it's not going to hurt. No, it's a good thing. 790 00:54:49.239 --> 00:54:52.519 But but what I've done is, and I learned this from doctor ed Gilman, 791 00:54:52.599 --> 00:54:57.880 who is an excellent arborous Florida professor and freda, uh, just take 792 00:54:57.960 --> 00:55:00.679 us spading for it and goes straight into the ground outside the hole and just 793 00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:04.559 lean back. We're not turning over the shop. We're just cracking it loose 794 00:55:04.639 --> 00:55:07.079 right and go around a few circles around it. You never stoop over. 795 00:55:07.159 --> 00:55:10.199 You just work it into the ground and crack it open. And that makes 796 00:55:10.239 --> 00:55:15.280 sense because you're sort of loosening that up a little bit, yeah, without 797 00:55:15.320 --> 00:55:16.719 digging it out and then putting it right back in. That's why I try 798 00:55:16.719 --> 00:55:21.679 to telling people to take the earth auger after the first year and then go 799 00:55:22.079 --> 00:55:24.760 around the outside that through hole that exists, doing those holes all hold to 800 00:55:24.760 --> 00:55:28.920 help break down that soil, especially if you're gonna heavy gumbo clay area, 801 00:55:28.960 --> 00:55:31.440 which most of use is yes, it is. How far apart do you 802 00:55:31.480 --> 00:55:36.400 recommend people everything every twelve to eighteen inches or twelve to eighteen Okay, yeah, 803 00:55:36.639 --> 00:55:38.760 good well, We're going to head out now to talk to Bob in 804 00:55:38.840 --> 00:55:44.039 Jersey Village. Hey, Bob, Hey, how y'all are today? We 805 00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:50.320 are well? How are you? I'm well as well. The yeah, 806 00:55:50.360 --> 00:55:54.920 I want to take take just a little different tact on your repairs and your 807 00:55:55.440 --> 00:56:02.800 other little trees that you call crass trees earlier, the Chinese tallow or to 808 00:56:02.800 --> 00:56:07.760 a bee keeper is an important point. That's a good point. It does 809 00:56:07.840 --> 00:56:14.559 produce pollen and nectar for the bees. It sure does not so much for 810 00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:19.519 the crape myrtles. It's just more just a pretty than about all link you 811 00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:24.039 think for them things now, Bradford pears. I like bread red pairs, 812 00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:30.239 And the reason I like bad repairs is because I love to cook over natural 813 00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:37.800 wood, you know, instead of using charcoal natural wood. And you take 814 00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:43.000 a limb that's falling off of a off of a brad repair, or your 815 00:56:43.039 --> 00:56:46.719 trimmings off of bread repair, and you prepare them, you know, enough 816 00:56:46.760 --> 00:56:52.079 to go on your grill, and it makes just a nice sweet smoke for 817 00:56:52.199 --> 00:56:55.880 your meats. That it's just it's just good. Well, Bob, what 818 00:56:55.920 --> 00:57:00.400 you need to do is get your neighbors to plant Bradford pears and then offered 819 00:57:00.440 --> 00:57:02.320 a primum for them, and that way you get the best of both worlds. 820 00:57:04.400 --> 00:57:07.039 I have them in the neighborhood, and when they do fall and I 821 00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:12.159 can get hold of the branch before somebody else does. I do that. 822 00:57:13.159 --> 00:57:15.840 I've never heard that as a compliment of bread repair, but I believe what 823 00:57:15.880 --> 00:57:21.719 you're saying. I one time read Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Diaries over at 824 00:57:21.719 --> 00:57:24.719 Monticello that a peach tree can keep you in firewood all year. Now, 825 00:57:24.719 --> 00:57:30.239 I think that was a reflection on what kind of peach orchard can keep you 826 00:57:30.280 --> 00:57:32.760 in firewood all I think that's a reflection on what kind of a peachquerry was 827 00:57:32.840 --> 00:57:40.679 more than any tree that produces a fruit in apple, peach, oranges, 828 00:57:40.719 --> 00:57:49.440 I guess, even and nut trees such as hickory and walnut and the con 829 00:57:49.880 --> 00:57:53.199 those woods make some of the best smoke for cooking over I'm not so from 830 00:57:53.360 --> 00:57:57.880 an oak, but it does too. But I just wanted to, all 831 00:57:57.960 --> 00:58:00.079 right, let you know, well, thank you. I appreciate that. 832 00:58:00.199 --> 00:58:05.360 And yeah, we I can, and I know David would agree. There's 833 00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:08.400 some advantages to Bradford when they're young. They're beautiful, they have a beautiful 834 00:58:08.400 --> 00:58:10.840 shape, they have beautiful blooms and stuff. But boy, I tell you, 835 00:58:10.920 --> 00:58:15.440 we just know that we're trying to recommend things that long term people are 836 00:58:15.440 --> 00:58:17.320 going to be real happy with. And I know, boy, you go 837 00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:22.079 up in the Northeast and Midwest and Bradford Pear is like the Chinese tallow of 838 00:58:22.079 --> 00:58:25.679 the South in terms of being invasive and stuff. All right, well, 839 00:58:25.719 --> 00:58:30.440 here we go. It's time for Nicky News Network and I'm gonna turn it 840 00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:34.239 over to her. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty 841 00:58:34.239 --> 00:58:38.119 eight seventy four. Welcome back to garden Line. Glad you're listening today. 842 00:58:38.159 --> 00:58:43.320 I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're talking with David Williamson from Williamson 843 00:58:43.360 --> 00:58:46.280 Tree Farm and r c W Nursher're talking all kinds of things about trees. 844 00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:52.360 You probably have seen a lot of ads for generators. There's a number of 845 00:58:52.400 --> 00:58:57.960 places that will sell you a generator, but there is no place like quality 846 00:58:58.000 --> 00:59:01.199 home products when it comes to taking care. And here's what I'm talking about. 847 00:59:01.360 --> 00:59:05.440 When you go in, they match you to the generator size you need. 848 00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:09.360 That's important. They don't oversell. They handle all of the stuff that 849 00:59:09.480 --> 00:59:14.559 is involved in putting a generator outside your home. You've got hoa, you've 850 00:59:14.599 --> 00:59:17.000 got city regulations, there's a lot of things to jump through. 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But remember like 866 01:00:21.519 --> 01:00:24.840 anything you purchase, it's the knowledge, the knowledge of the people selling it 867 01:00:24.840 --> 01:00:28.280 to you, the quality of the product they have, and then the fact 868 01:00:28.360 --> 01:00:31.719 that after the sale they still take care of you. That is important. 869 01:00:31.760 --> 01:00:35.760 I know you'll agree with that. We are going to now go out to 870 01:00:36.039 --> 01:00:40.440 Gerald in Conroe. Hello. Gerald, Yes, Sair, how you doing 871 01:00:40.440 --> 01:00:44.559 this morning? I'm good, sir. How can we help? Okay? 872 01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:50.960 I just purchased a home and I had four trees installed into my new lot. 873 01:00:51.239 --> 01:00:54.760 And uh, I notice in my front yard that they still got the 874 01:00:54.800 --> 01:00:59.880 burlet bag on it, and they still got the it's like a wire, 875 01:01:00.400 --> 01:01:02.800 a wire thing around it. And when they put it in the ground, 876 01:01:02.800 --> 01:01:07.480 I went on a head on the outskirts of the ring of the tree. 877 01:01:07.199 --> 01:01:12.039 I dug with a post hole there and put some plastic pipes in there would 878 01:01:12.119 --> 01:01:15.079 drill a bunch of hose to kind of keep the water where I can feed 879 01:01:15.159 --> 01:01:17.800 it to the you know, get water to the trees, because I'm trying 880 01:01:17.800 --> 01:01:22.679 to prevent from the roots coming up out of the ground real bad like in 881 01:01:22.800 --> 01:01:25.039 my old house. I had real bad roots system, all right, And 882 01:01:25.039 --> 01:01:30.920 and then the roots are probably about not even four flood away from the sidewalk, 883 01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:35.159 got you, Bronard. I'm trying to prevent that. Uh okay, 884 01:01:36.320 --> 01:01:39.360 well I'm gonna have David tackle that one. On the pur lap trees. 885 01:01:39.360 --> 01:01:44.559 If they make sure the wires cut, let's cut around the trunk that's got 886 01:01:44.559 --> 01:01:46.519 to be off. Uh the wire it is the wire in the ground could 887 01:01:46.559 --> 01:01:50.239 be rust away. The burl apple will be fine. It won't want that 888 01:01:50.320 --> 01:01:54.079 something's restricting the trunk the burl apple rot the Uh. The PBC pipes are 889 01:01:54.079 --> 01:01:59.719 not really necessarily you know, a good deep soaking you know this time of 890 01:01:59.760 --> 01:02:01.599 year or twice a week to three times a week when it gets to hot, 891 01:02:02.599 --> 01:02:06.440 A good deep soaking is good enough to keep your roots, you know. 892 01:02:06.880 --> 01:02:09.199 Uh you know blow a ground. I mean roots come up over time 893 01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:16.480 as they they're searching for water. But uh, the sometimes if you with 894 01:02:16.519 --> 01:02:21.440 the pipe down, it goes to the bottle. Is it pipe perforated or 895 01:02:21.480 --> 01:02:25.639 is it Is it just solid PVC going to their bottom? Uh? It's 896 01:02:25.880 --> 01:02:30.360 it's kind of like what you use on a drain system off your off your 897 01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:31.880 gutter. Okay, and I just drowed a bunch of hose in it. 898 01:02:32.039 --> 01:02:36.760 You know, it's it's not it's not real strong PVC just in case if 899 01:02:36.760 --> 01:02:38.599 I did something wrong, I could pull it back up. Okay, yeah, 900 01:02:38.599 --> 01:02:42.079 that's fine. Just make sure you not you can overwater doing that too, 901 01:02:42.159 --> 01:02:45.119 So just be careful when water in the trees. But you know, 902 01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:49.119 digging down on checking the trees, you know, twelve to forty inches. 903 01:02:49.239 --> 01:02:52.400 How big are these caliper these trees that sound big? Uh? They just 904 01:02:52.519 --> 01:02:59.840 they probably probably in a fifteen gallon jug or a gallon or something like that. 905 01:02:59.519 --> 01:03:04.079 They planned them for me in a new home. So I'm not really 906 01:03:04.119 --> 01:03:07.199 for sure. I can't remember if it's twenty five gallon or what it is. 907 01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:09.400 I can't remember. I'm so sorry. That's okay. How big is 908 01:03:09.400 --> 01:03:15.880 a trunk trump? Probably about an inch and a half okay, yeah, 909 01:03:16.360 --> 01:03:20.800 yeah, so water and you know, probably fifteen twenty minutes, maybe once 910 01:03:20.880 --> 01:03:22.039 or twice a week this time of year when to dry, and then probably 911 01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:27.840 three times a week when it gets hot. Is enough slow soaking? All 912 01:03:27.920 --> 01:03:30.440 right? Gerald, thank you for that call. I hope that helps. 913 01:03:30.440 --> 01:03:32.280 It sounds like you at least got some tips. I know. David Is 914 01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:36.840 also recommended, you know, the fertilizing as it goes into next year. 915 01:03:37.199 --> 01:03:43.039 He was suggesting the green micro life product that they carry, so hopefully that'll 916 01:03:43.039 --> 01:03:45.760 get you off to a good start. We're going to now head out to 917 01:03:45.960 --> 01:03:51.639 Jersey Village and talk to Chris. Hello Chris, Hello, sir, how 918 01:03:51.639 --> 01:03:57.960 are you doing well? Okay, here's my question. Oh, by the 919 01:03:58.000 --> 01:04:00.039 way, the thing about the reach, I wish I had heard that long 920 01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:06.280 time ago. I got two big oak trees up front, and my wife 921 01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:11.199 planted stuff around them, and like you said, the roots go up the 922 01:04:11.239 --> 01:04:15.239 water. We got roots everywhere in the front yard. So I wish i'd 923 01:04:15.280 --> 01:04:20.880 known about that. Anyhow, the reason that I actually called was we had 924 01:04:21.239 --> 01:04:26.800 some wax leaf la gustrooms in the front yard I'm sorry, next to the 925 01:04:26.880 --> 01:04:30.000 house, you know, the flower next to the house, and they all 926 01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:31.639 died and I pulled them up, and now we've got a big gap there. 927 01:04:31.679 --> 01:04:36.119 Well, my wife doesn't want wax leaf la gustrooms there. I like 928 01:04:36.199 --> 01:04:42.360 them, but she doesn't want them. And so I'm wondering, what's some 929 01:04:42.639 --> 01:04:47.119 kind of hedge or privet or whatever that we can stick in there that'll you 930 01:04:47.159 --> 01:04:51.320 know, grow fast and you know, fill in that space. What do 931 01:04:51.320 --> 01:04:56.079 you recommend? Did I I'm a miss Did you talk about it being too 932 01:04:56.119 --> 01:05:01.280 wet there. Oh no, not nothing. It's nothing to do with the 933 01:05:01.360 --> 01:05:05.400 hydration. I mean, okay, it was it was fine. They died 934 01:05:05.480 --> 01:05:10.039 from the heat, okay, all right, Well they might have died from 935 01:05:10.239 --> 01:05:12.880 Yeah, they might have died from me not watering them. I don't know. 936 01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:15.079 Just real quick, Chris, do you want evergreen? And do you 937 01:05:15.079 --> 01:05:21.840 want flowers? No? Flowers? Uh? I don't garden, okay, 938 01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:27.599 I mean that's why, like the wax sleep lagustrooms, we put those in 939 01:05:27.679 --> 01:05:30.239 there, and you know, you leave them alone. You just got to 940 01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:33.400 water them. Their chap is out and and you know, and they do 941 01:05:33.519 --> 01:05:36.039 great. But like I say, we can't. She didn't want toy in 942 01:05:36.079 --> 01:05:41.360 the front yard. So what's an alternative? How tall do you let those? 943 01:05:41.800 --> 01:05:47.559 Did you let the wax mak gushtrom get They're four feet five feet something 944 01:05:47.639 --> 01:05:50.719 like that. You kids them puck a hedge? Then? Yeah, yes, 945 01:05:50.760 --> 01:05:56.039 sir? Yeah. So. Cleara Japonica is another good one. Dwarf 946 01:05:56.039 --> 01:06:01.199 Burford need to point hollies or really good hollies and make good heads. The 947 01:06:01.199 --> 01:06:05.239 ili Agnus is another great one, very low maintenance, real pretty silvery foliage 948 01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:13.199 that'll get pretty good size. Yeah. The uh I was just trying to 949 01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:15.360 think something that's gonna stay sort of the medium height. Yeah, you'll boys 950 01:06:15.360 --> 01:06:18.679 get about ten foot tall. It can grow higher because I mean I can 951 01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:23.280 always trim it. Yeah. Waxbird is another one they plant in lieu of 952 01:06:23.320 --> 01:06:28.360 waxmortl wax augustrum. That's a native and it does really well. All right, 953 01:06:28.800 --> 01:06:30.840 Hey, Chris, we're gonna have to take a break, but hopefully 954 01:06:30.920 --> 01:06:33.159 those are a few that will get you off to a good start for that 955 01:06:33.320 --> 01:06:38.280 area. I think so outstanding. Thank you, sir. Yeah, and 956 01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:41.280 you're up in You're up in Jersey Village, so you're not that far away 957 01:06:41.280 --> 01:06:44.760 from Marshy w You can just run over there and get some more ideas and 958 01:06:44.880 --> 01:06:47.960 see somebody here. I bet you don't maybe know what that one is, 959 01:06:48.000 --> 01:06:51.199 but you could go see one and get an idea if that's what you're looking 960 01:06:51.199 --> 01:06:55.480 about. But before you do that, make sure you take your wife with 961 01:06:55.559 --> 01:06:59.159 you, because I don't know how long you've been married, but it is 962 01:06:59.280 --> 01:07:01.679 very important that you get that right. All right, thank you for the 963 01:07:01.719 --> 01:07:04.519 call. We're going to go to break our number seven one three, two, 964 01:07:04.599 --> 01:07:11.400 one two five eight seven four. Welcome back to Gardenline. I'm your 965 01:07:11.440 --> 01:07:15.440 host, Skip Richtor, and we're here with David Williamson from Williamson Tree Farm 966 01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:19.639 and RCW Nurseries, and we're talking about all kinds of things trees today. 967 01:07:20.480 --> 01:07:25.239 While I'm talking about things today, I was mentioning earlier the importance of getting 968 01:07:25.840 --> 01:07:30.400 when you go with a company, especially a service company, finding someone who 969 01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:34.320 gives you the service that you need, that follows through, that keeps their 970 01:07:34.360 --> 01:07:39.320 word. I mean, my goodness, you've experienced that no matter what industry 971 01:07:39.320 --> 01:07:43.159 we're talking about. Well, McGrath pest Control is that kind of pest control 972 01:07:43.159 --> 01:07:46.199 company. Scott's been doing this. I guess that started over what forty nine, 973 01:07:46.280 --> 01:07:50.119 forty eight years ago, something like that, nineteen seventy four. Yeah, 974 01:07:50.159 --> 01:07:54.519 that's right. Well, Scott's dad started it. He keeps going on 975 01:07:54.559 --> 01:07:58.920 it, and he knows passed. I mean whether it's six legged pass or 976 01:07:59.159 --> 01:08:01.599 four legged paths. You know you got those I don't know, squirrels, 977 01:08:01.639 --> 01:08:04.679 And we used to have squirrels in our attic. The darn things we have 978 01:08:04.719 --> 01:08:09.079 had rats up there. Scott can take care of all that mosquitoes during the 979 01:08:09.119 --> 01:08:12.800 summertime. Now when Scott's schedules the time, it's not hey take half your 980 01:08:12.880 --> 01:08:15.519 day off. I may show up like a lot of companies, this is 981 01:08:15.639 --> 01:08:17.720 like I'll be there at four and they show up at four. That's how 982 01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:23.800 they work. That's why they're so highly related related reviewed. They serve the 983 01:08:23.840 --> 01:08:29.439 whole Houston area. And with Scott, it's modern technology and techniques with the 984 01:08:29.600 --> 01:08:33.880 old fashioned customer service that we like. Just go to macgrathpestcontrol dot com or 985 01:08:33.920 --> 01:08:41.239 call him two eight one four six' nine eighty two eighty two forty two 986 01:08:41.239 --> 01:08:44.760 eight one four sixt' nine eighty two forty. By the way, congratulations Scott 987 01:08:45.079 --> 01:08:49.479 on being selected with a curator's pick for the best pest control companies in Houston. 988 01:08:49.560 --> 01:08:53.319 They don't just give those away. You earn that, and he did. 989 01:08:53.800 --> 01:08:56.680 We're going to go out to northwest Houston now and talk to Debbie. 990 01:08:56.760 --> 01:09:00.199 Hello, Debbie, Hi, thank you for taking my call. I am 991 01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:06.159 looking for a Laurel oak tree and I can't find one anywhere. All right, 992 01:09:06.239 --> 01:09:09.800 Well, I'm gonna love David tandle that one. That's a that's a 993 01:09:09.840 --> 01:09:12.319 tough one, Debbie. I I used to grow that tree, and I 994 01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:16.399 don't know why we quit growing it for some reason, But I was looking 995 01:09:16.439 --> 01:09:18.600 for some about three or four weeks for a customer, and the only place 996 01:09:18.640 --> 01:09:24.800 I could find was in Florida. Yeah. Uh, it's a good tree. 997 01:09:25.000 --> 01:09:28.920 Upright green, up upright tree gets a makes a nice shade tree. 998 01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:31.600 And some other options that are similar. Water oaks grow similar to that, 999 01:09:33.600 --> 01:09:38.640 a little slower growing, bigger leaf. A white oak is another great tree. 1000 01:09:38.880 --> 01:09:42.479 And the nut all oak and the Schue mart both good red oaks, 1001 01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:45.439 a good good fall color. Yeah, yeah, I have, I have 1002 01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:50.199 tumar, but this is a great tree. And it's little leaves. You 1003 01:09:50.239 --> 01:09:55.680 can mow them into the grass. And why did you guys quit growing? 1004 01:09:55.680 --> 01:10:00.880 Then? I have a feeling he's going home to plant summer after the show 1005 01:10:00.960 --> 01:10:04.319 because you sort of reminded him of a good tree that maybe ought to carry. 1006 01:10:04.399 --> 01:10:08.359 Yeah, the water oak and will oak is probably similar as far as 1007 01:10:08.439 --> 01:10:11.279 leaf shape. You know one thing, Debbie, you know what I know 1008 01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:14.560 what a water oak does well, will oak does the smaller leaves. Yes, 1009 01:10:15.159 --> 01:10:18.560 okay, all right, okay, well okay, well, thank you 1010 01:10:18.600 --> 01:10:21.000 so much. I appreciate it. And grow those trees. Thank you. 1011 01:10:21.760 --> 01:10:25.359 Thank you for that call. And if you're determined to have a Laura oak, 1012 01:10:25.399 --> 01:10:29.000 I hear Boca Rattan is lovely this time of year. We just put 1013 01:10:29.039 --> 01:10:31.760 you a flatbed behind the car and kill two birds with one stone. Thanks 1014 01:10:31.760 --> 01:10:35.239 for the call, Debbie. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. There 1015 01:10:35.279 --> 01:10:39.479 I'll go to Yeah, you know, I talk about ACE Hardware all the 1016 01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:42.640 time. I mean ACE is a place for all the fertilizers that I recommend, 1017 01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:45.399 any kind of past control product. Do you need a garden host? 1018 01:10:45.479 --> 01:10:48.479 I mean they've got it all there at They're the place for your Christmas lighting. 1019 01:10:48.520 --> 01:10:51.159 Of course most of you probably got that set up for now. But 1020 01:10:51.319 --> 01:10:55.119 ACE is a place for gifts too. I mean, if you have a 1021 01:10:55.159 --> 01:10:59.680 handyman on the list, perhaps a sander, a drill, you know, 1022 01:10:59.720 --> 01:11:04.000 some other pieceable equipment like that would go well. There's houseware type gifts, 1023 01:11:04.039 --> 01:11:09.159 there's all kinds of home enhancing type gifts. Just do me a favor. 1024 01:11:09.279 --> 01:11:12.600 Go into an ACE Hardware and walk around. It will not be what you 1025 01:11:12.760 --> 01:11:15.880 think from past years of going into ACE from years ago. This is a 1026 01:11:15.880 --> 01:11:20.239 whole new deal and they carry all kinds of things. And I promise you, 1027 01:11:20.359 --> 01:11:24.279 for anyone on your list, you walk into an ACE and look around, 1028 01:11:24.600 --> 01:11:28.399 you're going to find some really good options. You can go to Acehardware 1029 01:11:28.439 --> 01:11:31.600 dot Com. That's the website. Just do the store locator and find the 1030 01:11:31.640 --> 01:11:35.439 Houston stores. There's forty of them in the Greater Houston area and with the 1031 01:11:35.439 --> 01:11:41.359 store locator, you find the ones closest to you. I would highly recommend 1032 01:11:41.399 --> 01:11:45.960 that you consider doing that. Well, we're talking today about trees with David 1033 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:51.560 Williamson from Williamson Tree Farm and RCW Nursery, and David, I wanted to 1034 01:11:51.600 --> 01:11:55.279 talk a little bit about shade trees. I don't think we've really mentioned. 1035 01:11:55.479 --> 01:11:59.199 You mentioned the nuthall oak, and I think that's a great oak. Schumart 1036 01:11:59.239 --> 01:12:01.920 is great, especially own real good soils nuts all. Even in some kind 1037 01:12:01.920 --> 01:12:05.319 of wet swampy areas. It holds up and does pretty good, does really 1038 01:12:05.359 --> 01:12:10.720 well. Yeah, and that's the tree that was planted you guys donated tree 1039 01:12:10.760 --> 01:12:16.039 that was planted out in memory of Randy out at Brookwood Community. And so 1040 01:12:16.079 --> 01:12:18.800 if you're ever out of Brookwood, you need to go find that tree and 1041 01:12:18.800 --> 01:12:23.159 take a look at it because that's a quality, quality red oak species, 1042 01:12:23.319 --> 01:12:27.079 very similar leaf shape as a schu Marty. You do have a little more 1043 01:12:27.159 --> 01:12:30.880 upright growth pattern to my when I grow up side by side. I can 1044 01:12:30.880 --> 01:12:32.680 tell the difference how they grow. They grow a little faster to me than 1045 01:12:32.680 --> 01:12:38.760 a smore maybe about you know, foot extra and more year. But it's 1046 01:12:38.800 --> 01:12:42.880 still a good, strong, structured lungle tree. Yeah, definitely. What 1047 01:12:42.920 --> 01:12:49.000 are some other shade trees that you might like? I like the the Mexican 1048 01:12:49.039 --> 01:12:57.520 white oak is another good show. Quirkos Polymorpha Polymorpha Mexican. The name I 1049 01:12:57.560 --> 01:13:00.159 was looking it's it's it's pretty much diver green. To get established the first 1050 01:13:00.199 --> 01:13:02.760 year or two and the cold, they'll drop leaves, but to get the 1051 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:06.960 roots established they stay every hold on pretty well. Sometimes they'll drop outer leaves 1052 01:13:06.960 --> 01:13:10.279 and yeah, some kind of toward the center, the center of it. 1053 01:13:10.520 --> 01:13:14.640 And yeah. Another favorite one of mine is the Doman red mapel one we 1054 01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:17.880 girls called San Felipe Drummond. So what's special about the San Philippe. The 1055 01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:21.560 San Felipe is one that was found by Lenn Lowry off of San Philippey Road. 1056 01:13:21.720 --> 01:13:27.159 Oh wow, And my dad got cuttings off that tree and we basically 1057 01:13:27.199 --> 01:13:30.359 cloned it. And they're all female. They put that little red seed that 1058 01:13:30.399 --> 01:13:31.760 comes down in the early spring. It's beautiful and then it gets a good 1059 01:13:31.800 --> 01:13:35.520 fall color. Well, Lynn Lowry was a native plant collector that spent more 1060 01:13:35.560 --> 01:13:42.000 time crawling around the mountains of Mexico than pretty incredible. I never met him, 1061 01:13:42.039 --> 01:13:45.920 my dad, my dad at home. But San Philippe red maple, 1062 01:13:46.039 --> 01:13:48.520 right, yeah, that's a good one. Don't plan a silver maple. 1063 01:13:48.600 --> 01:13:54.359 No, No, that's it. We don't have time for anybody to object 1064 01:13:54.359 --> 01:13:59.119 here. But silver maple is a trash tree. It I wouldn't even say 1065 01:13:59.119 --> 01:14:01.199 it makes good fire, but it's such cheap wood, worthless wood that it 1066 01:14:01.239 --> 01:14:04.560 burns like paper and is gone. Right, Okay, there, I trashed 1067 01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:09.720 it enough. But the one thing I have I have drum grown the drum 1068 01:14:09.720 --> 01:14:11.640 and red maple and the sand flipper right next to each other. And the 1069 01:14:11.640 --> 01:14:15.239 sand flippy does grow a little faster than the regular drummond, but it's it's 1070 01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:17.560 a really good shape tree. Another good reason. Yeah, and some decent 1071 01:14:17.560 --> 01:14:20.640 fall color right right. And of course we talked about the white oak is 1072 01:14:20.640 --> 01:14:24.720 another one of my favorite trees. Yes, and I like the Mexican sycamores 1073 01:14:24.720 --> 01:14:28.159 too. Uh. They got that real pretty stovery bark when they get old, 1074 01:14:28.199 --> 01:14:30.800 and they got a silvery leaf on the back. They're beautiful and they 1075 01:14:30.880 --> 01:14:33.640 get the tree, it gets you probably eighty ninety feet tall. Not not 1076 01:14:33.720 --> 01:14:39.600 as much problem with the anthracnose now that the regular American bar can get. 1077 01:14:40.199 --> 01:14:42.920 You're always gonna have a little bit of a lace bug with when it's a 1078 01:14:42.960 --> 01:14:46.800 sycamore can. Yeah, but you've got a tree that's growing so fast and 1079 01:14:46.800 --> 01:14:49.359 big that it's like, don't even worry about it. The bark is as 1080 01:14:49.359 --> 01:14:53.880 beautiful as as the tree matures. It is. I was when I was 1081 01:14:53.880 --> 01:14:57.479 a kid. We had a giant regular sycamore in the backyard and I would 1082 01:14:57.479 --> 01:15:01.119 climb to the top of it because I absolutely had no fear or sense, 1083 01:15:01.159 --> 01:15:04.399 and that's not a good combination for longevity. But I made it. One 1084 01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:08.720 time the neighbor I'd climbed up to where the trunk was the size of my 1085 01:15:08.760 --> 01:15:11.600 wrist. I was a kid, and it was moving in the wind, 1086 01:15:11.640 --> 01:15:16.760 and the neighbor lady from backyard across this call my mom and I was an 1087 01:15:16.760 --> 01:15:20.199 idiot, kime, I said, and I had to come down. But 1088 01:15:20.279 --> 01:15:23.640 I tried a lot of things. I took a bed sheet once and jumped 1089 01:15:23.640 --> 01:15:26.520 off the house, thinking I could work as a parashote. I didn't work 1090 01:15:26.560 --> 01:15:30.439 either, didn't break a leg. That's good. Okay, enough true confessions, 1091 01:15:30.520 --> 01:15:33.039 David, Thank you so much, buddy. Hey you guys RCW, 1092 01:15:33.239 --> 01:15:39.159 you're having Santa out tomorrow right from twelve to two and Friedo Chili piees Brino 1093 01:15:39.239 --> 01:15:42.199 Chili Pie. Why don't we say that first? I mean, I like 1094 01:15:42.319 --> 01:15:46.159 Santa be I love Freed me too, My favorite people come out and see 1095 01:15:46.159 --> 01:15:48.920 all things you guys got on the lot, all right, and if they're 1096 01:15:48.960 --> 01:15:51.560 interested in some of the trees you grow up there, you can they can 1097 01:15:51.640 --> 01:15:55.800 just talk to you guys at r W and you can help them out. 1098 01:15:56.079 --> 01:15:59.920 Glad to Thanks so much. We really enjoyed this and we're going to play 1099 01:15:59.920 --> 01:16:01.680 it again later on the holidays. Folks, if you want to re listen, thanks