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Katie r h. Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

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services advertised on this program. Welcome
to Katie r h Garden Line with Skip

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rictor It's Crazy Trim. Just watch
him as so many sept Crazy was backing,

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not a sad good morning, Good
Saturday morning. We're glad you're listening

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to Garden Line this morning. Welcome. I uh, you know today we

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got some rain this morning, and
I know you've probably heard that. In

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fact, you probably heard that by
listening what's going on outside your winder right

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now. But guess what, I
think that's gonna blow over. I believe

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this afternoon is gonna turn out really
nice. I am excited. I'm looking

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forward to it. I got to
tell you this, I am so excited

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about this spring gardening season. It
is time. And you know, I

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know we've liable to have another frost
or freeze. It's just where we are

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in the season. Depending on where
you live. Some of you listening way

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up in Huntsville or someplace. Others
are way down in Galveston and then east

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and west as well, and you
know, depending on where you live,

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the last frost date varies a little
bit. I should say the last average

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frost date. The average is important
to clarify. Let me tell you why.

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One year I wrote one of the
newspapers where I lived, had called

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and wanted an interview on gardening,
and I made the statement that the last

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average frost date was such and such
date, which was about two weeks away,

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and the paper printed that I said
the last frost date this year would

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be on such and such a date, which I did not say. I

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spent two weeks trying to tell everybody
I knew I did not say that.

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I did not say that that was
an average thrust date. Well, lo

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and behold, that date came and
we had a frost on that day,

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and then we never had a frost
again. And if I just kept my

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mouth shut, I would have seemed
like I was I don't know, I

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had a crystal ball or chlairvoyant or
something. Anyway, I should should have

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just let it be. That's what
average means. It means most or half

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the time. If you take the
last ten twenty years, when did the

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last frost date occur? Well,
what's the average in all those? Yeah,

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that's that's the date. And pretty
much I can guarantee you that the

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last average frost or freeze will not
be on the last average trust date because

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it varies every year. It may
land there a few years, but some

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earlier, some later. We'll hope
that this year it was earlier, and

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that way we don't have such a
late frost, which would be kind of

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nice. Well, you're listening to
garden Line. Our phone number is seven

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to one to three two one two
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You'd like to be on the air to

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ask a question, please do join
us. We're going to head right now

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out to Kingwood and talk to Charles. Hello, Charles, Hey, good

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morning, sir. I called you
last week about some varieties and blueberries and

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gave me rabbit Eye and Southern high
Bush and a couple others. I don't

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have the list in front of me. I went to the Texas A and

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M website and they said the frieze
hours were four to five hundred hours.

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How many? What is our average
freeze hours down here? I always thought

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it was in the high twenty earth
two hundreds. No up in Kingwood.

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I'd have to get a map in
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in kingwood. You're probably in the
five hundred maybe four probably four hundred range,

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but that that's on the average.
So what variety would be kind of

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good for that because, like I
said, I couldn't believe it was that

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high. I didn't think we got
that high. Yeah, well most of

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them will do. Okay, you
just have to each of the varieties is

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going to have a chill hour.
If you went to see the blueberry publication

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on Aggie Horticulture, you're saying,
yes they did. Yeah, So that

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that gives you a lot of information. It goes into both types, and

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the two general types are that you
were referring to, or the rabbit eye

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and the southern high bush. This
also mentioned a true fly. I can't

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remember t r I fly or something
that was a variety they mentioned. That's

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a rabbit eye. That's yeah.
I think you're referring to one of the

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rabbit eye types. Tribute. There's
a tribute anyway. Just remember when you

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get those, you want to get
two varieties of that type of blueberry,

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two rabbit eyes or to southern high
bush. So you can't get let's say

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one rabbit eye and one high bush. That would work, you know,

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you're throwing me a curve on that, Charles. I'm gonna have to look

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I don't know if they're cross pollinating
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that, but i'll look into that. And the one I just told you,

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I can't remember the name. I
don't know why true fly trifly it

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was self pollinator. They didn't need
it. It said, well, there

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are a lot of the blueberries will
pollinate themselves, but they don't set as

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many seeds and so the berries are
going to be as large. So my

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best bet is get two of the
same Friday. I think you should head

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your bet. I definitely do.
Thank you again. I appreciate it all

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right, Charles. Thanks. I'm
going to look into that. Cross pollination

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great, thank you? You take
it by bye. Yeah, that's a

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good question. I'm gonna I should
know that, But off the top of

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my head, I don't think i've
ever thought about that before. You know,

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for those of you who live in
northwest Houston area and actually much further

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area than that, you know about
plants for all seasons. That's the nursery

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that is on Tomball Parkway, which
is highway to forty nine. Uh,

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it's just if you're heading from Houston
out toward Tomball, it would be on

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the right hand side you exit Luata, cross over Luata and try it there.

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If you're driven by, you've probably
seen it. Plants for All Seasons

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is a destination ursay. It's one
of the places a lot of people go

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because they know they're gonna get only
the plants that will do well here.

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They don't say your stuff, you
know that's not for here. They just

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don't. And when you go in, you're gonna get good information. You're

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gonna get help. You know,
you can find education there. In other

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words, you can find the expertise
to not only select the right plants,

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but help plant them correctly and then
deal with problems that may be occurring in

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your landscape. Take them a picture, bring in a sample. They'll be

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happy to do that. Plants for
All Seasons dot Com. Just go there

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Plants for All Seasons dot Com.
You're gonna find out a lot of stuff

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there. By the way, they
just started getting in a lot of peppers

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and tomatoes. I think over fifteen
types of tomatoes and peppers as well.

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The vegetables are flowing in and all
those cool season vegetables, you can still

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plant them. They got the transplants
about things like lettuce and kale and all

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the other cool season things. Go
check it out Plants for All Seasons dot

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com or call them two eight one, three seven six sixteen forty six.

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Speaking of vegetables, I'm going to
head up to Tomball now and talk to

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David. Hello, David, good
morning, sir. Hey uh. Speaking

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of tomatoes, I'm gonna go ahead
and probably plant mine, and I'll probably

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growing them in five gallon buckets.
Huh. But about a couple of weeks

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ago, you spoke of all the
different flavors they have of them, and

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I can't remember which one you said
was a real good one. I'm looking

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for one that's going to be about
size of a tennis ball. Celebrity,

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celebrity, labor celebrity may have been
one that I was talking about. They

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it's dependable. The thing about celebrity
is for gardeners who are growing in sandy

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soil, we tend to have problems
with root. Right. Well, that's

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it that Tomball soil is real sandy
and real easy to stick a shovel in.

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I mean it's real easy. Yeah, the wrong word just came out

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of my If I said root,
right, I meant in nematodes, and

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nematodes love that kind of soil.
Now, when you're doing it in a

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bucket, you can do special soil
blends, quality soil blends, and you

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don't have to use garden soil in
the bucket. But you know, plants

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for all seasons just down the street, and they do have celebrity. But

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just remember you're planting a tomato this
early in five gallons, that's fine.

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You can pick them up and carry
them in the garage. When we do

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have a frost or freeze later on, you're gonna have to cover them up

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and a good cover over them with
a little light under them. We'll get

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them through it just fine. But
just remember, either you plant them or

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you bump them up to a larger
pot than you purchase them in and keep

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them growing where you can bring them
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the soil until after the last average
frostate. That just another way to go

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about it. Hey, David,
I'm up against a hard break here.

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I'm going to put you on hold. If you want to hang on,

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we'll continue coming back. Otherwise,
Thank you. All right, thank you,

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thank you for the call. Appreciate
that you're listening to guarden Line.

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We'll be right back. Good morning, Welcome back to garden Line. I'm

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your host, Skip Richter, and
we are going to discuss all kinds of

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things related to gardening today. You
know, it is it is. Let's

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say that. Let me put this. We are on the doorstep of spring,

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and I always every year, you
know, I get anxious. I

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get ready to go anxious, not
in a bad way, but just like

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I'm just beside myself ready to get
out there, aren't you. I mean,

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this is this is going to be
a good spring. I can just

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tell you it is. And we
need to be thinking about the things we

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want to plant, the things we
want to try. And I would encourage

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you this year, what are you
going to do new? Think about what

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am I going to try that's new? What have you never done before?

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Maybe it's a new variety of tomato, Maybe it is a new type of

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flower. Maybe it's a new way
of planting, a new kind of container.

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You know, add some have you
ever grown vegetables and containers before?

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Or flowers? That's our herbs?
Oh my gosh, that that works.

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Really really well, a new type
of rose bush. Do you see what

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I'm saying? Something new? Maybe
put in a new garden area, a

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nice raised bed where you can grow
all kinds of things. What are you

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going to do this year? I
mean it is time to start getting excited

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about it because we're there and you
know, every spring, the thing where

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we're rolling the dice is on the
weather. You know, that's where we

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kind of go. Okay, when's
the last freeze or frost going to be

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this year? Well, I would
say, heads your bet, head your

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bet, and how do you head
your bet? Well, for example,

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if you right now the garden centers
are starting to get in tomatoes and peppers

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and all kinds of things, and
it's a little early to just put them

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out in the ground. But I
do. And here's what I do.

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I put them out in the ground. I get them growing, and I

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just have a cover that goes over
them. The nicher, a little chili,

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a little cool. I'll sometimes put
them under it. If I in

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the garden beds where I have a
long bed, I'll create PBC hoops down

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the bed by just bending a piece
of PBC sticking in the ground on each

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side. And then put a plastic
over it and open it up during the

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day to let the heat get out
because it gets too hot. Undo there

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on a sunny day, and then
close it down in the evenings if it's

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going to get kind of chili and
you just get a head start. Get

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a head start that way. And
I've seen one year I had had that,

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and I put a milk jug full
of water, you know what I'm

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talking about, Just a milk jug
filled with water, one on each side

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of the tamato plant. It was
like it was almost sandwiched right in there

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between them. And we dropped down
in the mid I said, was it

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the mid maybe twenty seven something like
that degrees? And with that plastic covered

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and sealed and the milk jug there
is just a source of a little bit

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of warmth to protect it from getting
cooler. It came through just fine.

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And now twenty seven degrees and tomatoes
don't go well together. But they did

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a second way to head your bet. If you buy a little plant and

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four inch pot or whatever container size
it's in, bump it up to the

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next size when you get it home. Go up to six inch, or

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go up to a gallum pot.
And keep it growing, keep it going,

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put it outside during the day,
keep it going. So when you

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feel like it's safe to plant,
you've got a much larger plant. Plus,

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you shopped early and you got your
varieties that you were looking for,

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because some of the best varieties tend
to disappear. People know about them and

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they love them and they grow them. Just a tip for another way to

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get a head start. But listen, the excitement of spring is here.

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If you're not feeling it yet,
you need to start thinking about it.

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Do a little perusing online of plants
and things. Go visit our Garden Center's

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websites, subscribe to them, follow
them on Facebook and Instagram, for example,

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subscribe to their newsletters, and find
out what's going on. Because we

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are about to hit a big time
gardening season. We get some sunny days

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in here, get a little further
into the month, and that garden fever

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just grows and grows. Well,
I'm telling you, for me, it's

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already here. It is absolutely already
here. Lawns, you know, our

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lawns are still kind of sleepy heads. They're not moving yet. They will

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be. They'll get going. They'll
get you know, waking up as time

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goes on, but right now in
your lawn, especially if you suffered from

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last summer's drought, you've got some
thin areas and where sunlight hits the soil

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nature plants of weed, and if
you're dealing with things like hind bit and

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chick weed and carpetweed or cleavers a
belcrow plant, those kinds of weeds,

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they're small still, and when spring
gets here, just like our blue bonnets,

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our state flower, they take off
growing bloom and set seeds. And

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when when they are blooming and setting
seed, it's a little late to accomplish

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anything with a weed killer on those
weeds. And so now would be the

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time. If you have a weed
problem, a broad leaf weed problem,

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now would be a time to apply
a product to deal with those weeds.

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And there's different ways you can go
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the weeds themselves. Nelson's has a
product called Weedonator. Weedenator basically is a

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broad leaf post emergent weed control that
has a very slow release fertilizer with it,

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and so it's not like you all
fertilizers release now and in fact quickly

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you know it's going to last oh
six weeks there's one, and going further

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there's past six weeks there's another type
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released. It's really really easy to
do just one thing. Two things to

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remember. Number One, the weeds
need to be wet, so when you

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put it out, the granule stick
to the wheat. That's very important,

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so that they can soak in and
kill that wheat. Secondly, always when

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you're using any kind of a pesticide, especially with a weed control in your

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lawn, follow the label carefully.
If a teaspoon's good, a tablespoon is

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not better. Period. There's a
reason the label says what it says.

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Think about it. If it was
better to put more, wouldn't a company

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making that product want you to use
more? Well, of course, of

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course, but there's a label level
that works well and does not do any

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secondary damages that you might be concerned
about. And always follow the label.

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I don't care if it's insecticide,
a fungicide, a herbicide, very important.

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Well, anyway, weed nedor by
Nelson, you can get it down.

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Now it's going to provide feeding.
As your grass starts to wake up,

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it's beginning to release those nutrients for
it, and it's something that you

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may want to consider, especially if
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yep, I've got those weeds coming
up. That is definitely a problem.

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That's for sure. You're listening to
Guardenline. Our phone number is seven to

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t r H. Feel free to
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visit with you about, you know, whatever is of interest to you and

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your garden. For those of you
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Creek Feed is your hometown feed store. We love feed stores here on guard

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Line, absolutely do. They are
just minutes away from Graham Parkway Highway to

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forty nine. I was up there
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boy, they are the shipments of
all kinds of things. Soils and fertilizers

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and whatnot are all coming in.
They're gonna be getting some plants in too.

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I need to it. Just if
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to look at this year because it's
it's even more coming in this year.

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They got all the fertilizers that I
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all the products to control weeds.
And diseases and pests and things like that.

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you've got pets at home, if
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up for that. It's Spring Creek
Feet again, just minutes away from Grand

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Parkway and two forty nine on FM
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I'm going to head up to North
Houston. Now we're going to talk

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to Barbara. Hello, Barbara,
good morning. How are you today.

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Well, I'm excited about spring.
Let's just say I'm beside myself. Me

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too, I'm ready. Hey,
I do have a question. With all

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of the freeze, you know,
in the weather that we've had. I

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have some annuals that I planted sweet
Alyssum verbinum. You know they look a

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wet, soggy mess. Is that
something I can cut back and hope it

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comes back? Or are they done? If there's no green leaves on them,

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probably they're done because they're annuals.
They're not but you know, I

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can't see the plants, but if
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probably done. Now there are a
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be thinking. Okay, look,
let's let's just move into the warm season

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planting a little bit later this month, okay. And then the other one

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I had is an asparagus fern.
They looked like they did okay, but

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they lost a lot of leaves.
Yep, that one share the porky,

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you know, sharp little needles.
They've lost a lot of them there.

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But can I cut that one back
right? You can? Asparagus fern should

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re sprout from the base on all
those kind of plants like that in the

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future, just you know, come
put a mulch over the surface and even

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right up against especially the crown the
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That way, if you do get
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save the base, and you want
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for that. But I think they're
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And then one more on Boston ferns
that I haven't pots outside. They've done

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well. I brought them in the
garage. Can I separate those You can

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take them out of the pot and
separate them and make them smaller. Is

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it kind of out grown that pot? All right? Take them out of

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the pot, get them at chetti
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you can cut them into I typically
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know, just north south east west. Just slice down through it and cut

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off all the dead debris on the
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and then pot them back up in
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off going again. Okay, And
can you cut them back or just leave

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the fronds up? You can do
either one. The fronds aren't that attractive,

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probably at this point, but if
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Otherwise I would let them begin to
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old fronds. That'll be a little
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think I would leave them with some
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all right, well, good deal. Thank you so much. I

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appreciate it, you bet, Barbara. Thank you for the call. I

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appreciate that. We're going to take
a break. If you would like to

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give me a call seven one three
two one two kt r H, we'll

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be right back. Welcome back to
guard Line. Glad you're in today listening

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a good day to be inside this
morning, but outside this afternoon. We're

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going to get a break in this
and it is a wonderful day. By

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the way, tomorrow is gonna be
unbelievable. It's gonna be sunny, wonderful

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day to get out. Hey,
it's time start stocking up and getting ready.

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Are you excited about spring? I
tell you I am. I'm ready

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to go, raring and ready to
go. In fact, today, when

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this show is over, I'm going
to head out to a couple of garden

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centers just to visit and check things
out. I love going out to garden

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centers visiting, watching customer shop too. That's kind of a fun thing,

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you know, people watching that kind
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to go see what kind of new
plants they have and whatnot. By the

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way, while ago, Charles call
from Kingwood and was asking about blueberries and

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pollinating, and I just checked it
out. The RABBITI blueberry is one that

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we've had here for a very long
time in the South, and I've grown

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on myself, tried to grow them
once and containers. I'll come in on

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that in just a minute. But
Florida developed a thing called the Southern high

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bush, and the Southern High Bush
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Rabbit eye can get huge. I
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blueberry farm up in the Porter area, just north and east of Houston,

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or mostly north, and the rabbit
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They were huge, huge, huge
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little smaller. And according to the
University of Florida that you do most of

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the cultivars of both Southern High Bush
and rabbit I need cross pollination. And

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I always say they even if they
don't have to have it, they needed

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to do their best, the best
size of berries and whatnot. But they

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say that Southern high Bush pollinates Southern
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So just keep that in mind when
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there's no exceptions to that rule.
I'm just saying, in general, you

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go with one or the other.
Now about the container. My rabbit eyes

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in half whiskey barrels. They got
big and it was hard keeping them adequately

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watered. It was a big plant, a confined thing. Blueberries are not

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prone to be so tough and drought
resilient. They need moisture, and so

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that was a challenge. Southern high
Bush would be a better one for the

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container. And you do want again
to varieties. You know, the chilling

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requirement is going it's gonna vary a
little bit, usually around in the four

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hundred range and so on, but
you can just just check it out see

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how they do. Remember that for
blueberries, And I realize there are people

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listening in a lot of areas,
including places where water quality isn't so good.

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You get up in College station and
there's so much sodium in the water

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that azaleas and blueberries just turned a
toast. But if you want to grow

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blueberries, do it in a container
in those areas. A good high high

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acidic and high high organic matter soil
mix in the container and then use rainwater,

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use rainmar captured. Everybody needs a
rain barrel, at least a rain

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barrel, if not a system,
because that gives you the top quality water,

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especially for things that are a little
bit sensitive, and especially for those

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of you who live in areas where
water quality is not ideal. You know,

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occasionally using that not so great water
is fine, but in general,

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especially in summer when they're really pumping
water. You want a good quality water

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farm to do their best. And
speaking of College Station, we're going to

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go talk to Denise up in College
Station right now. Hello, Denise,

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good morning, good morning. It's
good to hear your voys. Well,

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good to hear your voice. How
can we help today? I have a

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yard that looks it's absolutely embarrassing,
and the weeds are trying to take over,

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and we are going to have somebody
come in and put new saw down.

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And I know what Randy used to
always say, but uh, I

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want to get your input as far
as do I go ahead and kill it

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first so I know I'm finished with
the weeds. Yeah, okay, Well

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there's two kinds of we can group
the weeds in two categories. One is

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the annual weeds. They come and
die and stuff there. When you chop

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them off, when you even cover
them up WITHSD, you've you've killed them.

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Then there's the perennial weeds that will
pop back through over and over.

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Things like bermuda grass in the Saint
Augustine lawn is a perennial weed. Yes,

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and there are many other perennials.
If you've got perennials, you need

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to kill those before you plant.
Now, if there's any unevenness to your

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yard, that would be a good
time to either a light rototelling or just

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bring in some soil mix a quality
moves and fill in the holes, you

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know, level it out a little
bit. Do you have any uh,

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do you have any uh cypress trees
in your yard? A lot of sun?

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Okay, goodness, we'll avoid that. Okay, So in that case,

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I would just level it out and
then bring in the new sid if

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you can stand to wait a little
bit. You know, the more it

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warms up, the better the sod
is going to hit the ground root in

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quickly. But you don't want to
wait so long that it's real hot.

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You can plant grass in July,
there's no problem with that, but you're

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just having to water water water regularly
to give it time to get those roots

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in so it can make it so
I'd I like to plant in that area.

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I'd probably plant in April. Plant
my grass in April April, Okay,

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yeah, And people plant earlier and
people plant later, So that's not

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I have to. It's just my
preference. He says, he's gonna level

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it out. We've got some foggy
swats. So it's what he explained to

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us was that he was going to
take like off the top four inches,

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okay, and then bring back in
good soil. Okay. If you got

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trees, they're taking the top four
inches is gonna that's gonna Unfortunately we don't.

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Oh, you don't, okay,
all right, Fortunately, I guess

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Well, I don't know that you
need to do that. I mean,

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down in the coast of Texas,
they plant grass in black, sticky clay

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the sowd fields. If you look
at the grass that comes in the sod

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on it is heavy clay, and
so I don't know why they're taking away

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soil. I can see am mending
it a little bit or certainly leving it

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out, leveling it out, but
there may be another reason they're doing that.

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But I'm okay, okay, yeah, I don't know either. All

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right, Well that sounds good.
And what products should I use for what

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for killing the perennial the perennial weeds. If they're grasses, you can use

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a grass only killer. If they're
broad leaves and grasses, you would need

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to use some thing like a glife
to say product to get everything or digging

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them out which is a lot of
work, so I would I would probably

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just do that. Just remember that
any weed killer that's post emergent, if

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the weeds are actively growing, it
works well. If they're in droughtstress or

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just dormant because of cold, it's
not going to work well. So that

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would be the only other thing.
Okay, Hey, I got to run

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against a hard break here, Denise, thanks for the call. Appreciate that.

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Our phone number is seven one three
two one two kt r H and

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we'll be right back. Good morning, Welcome to garden Line. We are

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having a good time today and we're
excited about what's going on out and about

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and the weather. We're gonna have
some good break in the weather today,

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so it's a good time to get
out today. Make plans this afternoon.

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You on't get out there, pick
up some supplies and things while you're out

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and about. Here's a couple.
I guess this is your public service announcement

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out at the China Gardens. I
don't rich. My friend destin Texas garden

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Guy is going to be given a
talk on vegetable gardening. It starts at

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ten am, right when this show
ends. What a coincidence. That's good

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but Destin will be out there talking
about all kinds of things vegetable gardening.

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Hey, when you're at Enchanted and
by the way, those of you who

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don't know where it is, it's
on FM three fifty nine. It's on

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the Katie Folscher side of Richmond on
FM three fifty nine. Go to the

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website Enchanted Garden Gardens Plural Richmond dot
com. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.

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While you're there, check out their
Valentine's Day succulent planters. It's a heart

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shaped stone looking container that is just
loaded with succulents. And what a cool

408
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gift. And you know, succulents
are tough, they're not hard to grow.

409
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Give them a little sunlight and don't
overwater them. They do just fine.

410
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But those are gorgeous and they got
them out there at Enchanted Gardens in

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Richmond. We're going to go now
to Bay City and talk to Hello,

412
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Mike, Hello, ALiR Skip Hey, Yeah, we just got the front

413
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come very cool off a little bit, got some more rain. The reason

414
00:29:10.480 --> 00:29:15.000
I'm calling is I have an asparagus
bed and it's kind of difficult to get

415
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in around the crowns and pull weeds, right so, and I get little

416
00:29:19.599 --> 00:29:25.039
weed seeds all the time in there
and sprout. And then I was wondering

417
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if I could put a pre emergence
in the asparagus bed. You could,

418
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You need to find one that's labeled
for that, and off the top of

419
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my head, I don't know a
pre emergent brand that has vegetable gardens on

420
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the label. There are those out. I've seen them before, and I

421
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think I know what's in them,
but I'm not gonna say out loud on

422
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the air because I'm not sure.
But in asparagus that works generally. In

423
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vegetable gardens, I don't recommend them
at all, because we have mults that

424
00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:03.039
works just fine, and we can
just use mulch. But with asparagus,

425
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you're not disturbing the soil, which
is another plus for using a pre emergent,

426
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because if you're going to put a
pre emergent down in your tomato patch

427
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and then you're moving the soil around
rototilling, you just broke it. Broke

428
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up the thing. And if you're
planting seeds and you viewed a pre emergent,

429
00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:26.000
it'll affect those seeds just like it
affects wheats. So in general,

430
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I don't. If you can't get
by with a good multch, like maybe

431
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you've got some other issue that mulch
is not handling, then you may need

432
00:30:33.799 --> 00:30:38.559
to go with a post emergent product
aimed for that like bermudagrass always gets into

433
00:30:38.599 --> 00:30:44.480
asparagus plantings and that's the pain in
the day. Well, I think I

434
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might go just with the malts man
because I didn't realize. I just thought,

435
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well, it's not a seed.
We're coming from the roots, you

436
00:30:49.880 --> 00:30:53.880
know, so it wouldn't bother yeah
plants, But I wasn't thinking about the

437
00:30:55.039 --> 00:30:59.279
edible part of it. Well,
you know, and it's kind of complicated.

438
00:30:59.319 --> 00:31:02.759
There are plays where they can be
used. In general, I don't

439
00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:06.359
just use mulch. Uh And well, I think I'll go for the malt

440
00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:10.000
then sound like a winter there you
go? All right? Well, all

441
00:31:10.039 --> 00:31:14.079
we ask when we help you with
questions is that you bring half your asparagus

442
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:18.240
harvest KTRH Studio because I'm hungry for
Okay, Yeah, I'm sure you just

443
00:31:18.319 --> 00:31:22.480
keep looking for me. I'm not
going to hold my breath. I like

444
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:26.160
you, Mike, but I I
don't think I should hold my breath on

445
00:31:26.279 --> 00:31:30.160
there. You have a good day, you too. That's funny. That

446
00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:34.279
is funny. Oh my. You
know it's it's time to be getting your

447
00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:40.480
fertilizers together and ready to plant.
And you know you can wait until the

448
00:31:40.559 --> 00:31:44.319
day you're going fertilize whenever that is, and go get some and bring it

449
00:31:44.319 --> 00:31:45.440
home fertilizer. But well, why
not just go ahead and buy it now?

450
00:31:45.519 --> 00:31:48.599
Have it sitting there so I don't
know, you get a break in

451
00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:51.799
the weather and you want to run
out and put some fertilizer out, you

452
00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:53.720
can do that. You're ready to
go. Well, micro Life has got

453
00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:57.839
you covered on all kinds of things, especially your plants that are bouncing back

454
00:31:57.880 --> 00:32:04.599
from what the cold damage did a
little bit earlier on this winter. Now,

455
00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:08.039
Microlife has their Ocean Harvest that is
a fish based fertilizer. You can

456
00:32:08.079 --> 00:32:12.559
do a drench over the crown of
the plant, the base of the plant

457
00:32:12.599 --> 00:32:15.039
as it's coming through. You can
use it as a foll of your feet

458
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.640
as well. And then they have
the Microlife Green Bag that we normally talk

459
00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:22.359
about as a lawn fertilizer. Well, it fertilizes everything. I use it

460
00:32:22.400 --> 00:32:28.200
for all kinds of things beyond lawns. But the Microlife green bag will provide

461
00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:30.640
a little bit longer term feeding for
it, and then you can come back

462
00:32:30.680 --> 00:32:36.759
with another drench as it's putting on
the new growth with that Microlife the ocean

463
00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:39.079
harvest that you've already purchased. There, those are products that are three of

464
00:32:39.119 --> 00:32:43.839
the products that Microlife has. You
can find Microlife all over the place.

465
00:32:44.079 --> 00:32:47.319
Go to Microlifefertilizer dot com if you
want to find locations. But I can

466
00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:52.599
tell you this when we're talking about
garden centers and ace hardware stores and beach

467
00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:57.240
stores and stuff, you can probably
find Microlife at any of those that you

468
00:32:57.319 --> 00:33:00.160
shop at. Widely, widely available, and excellent product too. By the

469
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:05.559
way, for sure you're listening to
garden Line. I'm your host Skip Richter,

470
00:33:05.680 --> 00:33:08.079
and we're here to talk about all
kinds of things that are of interest

471
00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:12.200
to you on gardening. What do
you want to talk about today? I've

472
00:33:12.200 --> 00:33:15.279
got my things, but I bet
you have some of your own. This

473
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:20.319
is a time to plant trees.
It is go ahead and get your trees

474
00:33:20.359 --> 00:33:24.279
and shrubs in the ground now.
It is important to get that done now.

475
00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:29.799
There's a product out there on the
market, and I watched as they

476
00:33:29.839 --> 00:33:36.880
developed this product it's very unique and
it's for staking trees. It's called the

477
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:44.319
three sixty Tree Stabilizer. Now,
this product is it attaches to whatever the

478
00:33:44.359 --> 00:33:47.279
post is that you're using, and
it attaches to the tree. And it

479
00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:52.759
is a rigid product. You know, with wires, the wind if it's

480
00:33:52.759 --> 00:33:54.519
blown away, the wire holes that
if it's blown toward it. The wire

481
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:59.559
doesn't push. Wires only pull.
They don't push. And so this tree

482
00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:02.559
stable is one that will not damage
your tree. It's got a soft strap

483
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:07.639
that goes around it that's better than
wires, and it holds it, i'll

484
00:34:07.639 --> 00:34:12.480
say firmly, but it allows a
little movement, and that is important.

485
00:34:12.559 --> 00:34:15.639
You want your tree trunks to move
just a little bit because that bending and

486
00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:21.639
stretching strengthens the tree trunk. That's
true of plants in general. It's even

487
00:34:21.679 --> 00:34:23.280
true of our muscles. You get
out there, you work them, you

488
00:34:23.320 --> 00:34:27.760
stretch them, you stress them,
and they come back and they're stronger.

489
00:34:27.800 --> 00:34:30.159
And the more times you go to
the gym, the better it gets.

490
00:34:30.239 --> 00:34:34.119
Right, Well, leave your trees
a little bit loose, just allow a

491
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:36.559
little bit of movement, not a
lot, just a little bit. And

492
00:34:36.880 --> 00:34:42.039
this new product, the three sixty
Tree stabilizer. You can use it over

493
00:34:42.199 --> 00:34:45.840
and over and over again. You
can find it at RCW Nurseries. I

494
00:34:45.880 --> 00:34:49.880
know they got them at Buchanans Neded
Plants. Arbrigade has them. Plants for

495
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:52.400
all seasons have them, and there's
more places they are going to be carrying

496
00:34:52.480 --> 00:34:58.119
this that are coming. Three sixty
tree stabilizer. You need to check that

497
00:34:58.280 --> 00:35:01.599
out. I think you will be
very very impressed. I was when I

498
00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:05.760
first saw the prototypes of it.
I'm kind of excited to get to talk

499
00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:10.800
about it right now. But it
works very very well. I did.

500
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I wanted to mention while Ago I
was talking about vegetables and vegetable classes and

501
00:35:16.159 --> 00:35:22.920
whatnot, Buchanans today at ten o'clock
is going to have a spring veggie garden

502
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:27.119
class Spring Veggie Garden class free at
Buchanans. You need to check that out.

503
00:35:27.320 --> 00:35:30.719
If you don't know where Buchanans is, it's on East eleventh Street in

504
00:35:30.760 --> 00:35:36.159
the Heights. You can go to
Buchanansplants dot com and while you're there check

505
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:40.639
out the native plants that they have. They have got an unbelievable selection of

506
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:45.480
milkweed, the kinds of milkweed that
are native that come come back over and

507
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:49.239
over again each year, and they
can really help you out. I was

508
00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:52.800
looking at some of those beautiful things. For example, the swamp milk weed

509
00:35:52.840 --> 00:36:00.519
does very well here, the native
perennial milkweed Asclepias tuberosa. They've got a

510
00:36:00.599 --> 00:36:04.320
yellow version of it. That's pretty
cool. So get out there, go

511
00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:07.960
by and take tend the class.
Check it out, and why you're there,

512
00:36:07.119 --> 00:36:12.119
check out, ask them about the
milkweeds and the other native plants that

513
00:36:12.159 --> 00:36:15.159
they have out of Buchanans. I
always love going by there. In fact,

514
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:17.960
I may run by there today myself. That's something I probably need to

515
00:36:17.960 --> 00:36:21.519
do. Hey, we're going to
take a break here and we'll be right

516
00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:28.280
back. Kat r H Garden Line
does not necessarily endorse any of the products

517
00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:34.599
or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with

518
00:36:34.840 --> 00:36:55.400
Skip Rictor. It's crazy Trim.
Just watch him as the sept Welcome back

519
00:36:55.400 --> 00:37:00.119
to the garden Line. What are
we going to talk about today? Can

520
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you tell me? Give us a
call? It's seven one three two one

521
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two k t R eight seven one
three two one two k TRH. I

522
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sign about Buchanons before we went to
break and the native milkweeds and stuff that

523
00:37:13.039 --> 00:37:15.320
they have up there. I wanted
to also mention they have a plant called

524
00:37:15.440 --> 00:37:22.960
Lnton Lenton Rose, Lenton Rose lent
as in the season lent Easter season,

525
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:28.559
lent well Linden rose. If you've
never seen it before, it's a beautiful

526
00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:31.000
little flower. It kind of reminds
me a little bit like a dog wood

527
00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:36.840
with the big flat petals sticking out
in all directions. But Linton rose colors

528
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:40.679
have it's a rosy look. They're
white to a rosy look and they are

529
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:45.280
beautiful little perennials that you can have
go year after year after year. They

530
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:50.119
like partial shade, they like rich
soil that drains well. You want to

531
00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:52.199
make sure it trains well. But
they have those and if they're also called

532
00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:57.360
Heli bores. If you have not
had one before, you ought to check

533
00:37:57.400 --> 00:38:00.000
them out. If you're over there, you do need to check them out.

534
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:02.639
They are really really unique kind of
plant. For those folks that,

535
00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:06.840
yeah, I've got one of everything, well probably not one of those.

536
00:38:06.880 --> 00:38:09.519
You need to check those out.
I love Lenton Roads very beautiful blooms during

537
00:38:09.760 --> 00:38:15.280
the lent season, so that's one
reason it has that name. That's one

538
00:38:15.320 --> 00:38:21.280
of the times you typically will see
blooms on a lent and rose. Well,

539
00:38:21.320 --> 00:38:23.320
the news today is we got some
rainy weather this morning, but it

540
00:38:23.440 --> 00:38:27.039
is going to clear up and we're
going to have a good day and boy

541
00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:31.800
tomorrow awesome day sunshine. And so
if you're not excited about spring gardening,

542
00:38:34.000 --> 00:38:37.599
let's check your pulse. It's it
is time to be excited about spring gardening.

543
00:38:37.960 --> 00:38:44.599
The vegetable gardens are busy right now, the flower gardens, color beds

544
00:38:44.599 --> 00:38:51.920
are busy right now. Our lawns. If you are planning on doing preventative

545
00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:54.440
weak control in your lawn, now's
the time that you need to do that.

546
00:38:55.320 --> 00:39:00.400
Because here's how this works. You
put a product down that's a pre

547
00:39:00.440 --> 00:39:06.199
emergent and it moves into the soil
surface when you watered in with a half

548
00:39:06.280 --> 00:39:09.199
inch of water, and it protects
against weeds at that surface. So when

549
00:39:09.199 --> 00:39:14.559
a weed seed tries to sprout,
it stops it. You never really even

550
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:17.199
see the weed. It shuts it
down right at the start. And you

551
00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:21.880
have to do that though, ahead
of the weed germination. So if you

552
00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:25.440
waited until let's say April to put
that down, well all the weeds that

553
00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:30.559
are going to start germinating in sol
temperatures of fifty five sixty sixty five in

554
00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:34.880
that range, they're going to already
have sprouted. And it's the analogy I

555
00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:37.599
like to use is like you're playing
baseball. By the way, last night

556
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:42.840
I watched the documentary on Yogi Bear. Oh my gosh, if you haven't

557
00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:47.599
seen it, it's great, But
anyway, I digress, it's like baseball

558
00:39:47.639 --> 00:39:52.719
analogy, and that if you wait
to swing until the ball's in the catcher's

559
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:54.719
mit, it's a little late right
to hit the ball. That's how it

560
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:59.800
works with pre emergence, and we
start putting those down. The best time

561
00:40:00.039 --> 00:40:04.719
really is about the beginning of February
to mid February. You can you can

562
00:40:04.760 --> 00:40:08.519
stretch that out to the end of
February something. Not all weeds eats germinate

563
00:40:08.559 --> 00:40:13.760
as early as others. And on
some years way south you can even go

564
00:40:13.800 --> 00:40:16.719
a little bit below that. We're
on waste South, you know, Galveston.

565
00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:21.480
It just depends on sol temperature.
That's really the thing that's functioning.

566
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And it's not like you try to
get it down the day before. Get

567
00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:28.840
it down well ahead of time so
that when we have those days, a

568
00:40:28.840 --> 00:40:31.920
certain temperature for a certain number of
days, and here comes, here comes

569
00:40:32.000 --> 00:40:36.800
the crabgrass, Here comes the grassburgers, here comes you know, all the

570
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:40.480
weeds that are germinating for the warm
season. So if you need more information

571
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:47.239
on that, if you go to
my online my website skip gardening with skip

572
00:40:47.400 --> 00:40:52.960
dot com Gardening with Skip dot Com. My lawn pest, disease and weed

573
00:40:52.039 --> 00:40:55.280
management schedule is there. And by
the way, I just updated it just

574
00:40:55.400 --> 00:41:00.320
yesterday. We put up a version, not not any big changes, just

575
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:04.079
a little couple of tweaks or two. And I'm going to continue to do

576
00:41:04.159 --> 00:41:07.039
that over time as we get more
information and come up with new products or

577
00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:12.000
new options for dealing with things.
Also, the lawn care schedules on the

578
00:41:12.039 --> 00:41:17.159
same website. They're free. You
can download them for free. Let's go

579
00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:21.400
out now to Tomball and we're going
to talk to Ben. Hello, Ben,

580
00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:23.960
Hey, this is Ben. How
you doing? But good morning,

581
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:31.719
Good morning, Hey. I had
a question for you. I don't want

582
00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:37.360
to make this a long story,
but I planted an asparagus plant. And

583
00:41:37.400 --> 00:41:40.440
the reason why I'm asking is because
I was listening to one of your callers

584
00:41:40.480 --> 00:41:51.000
earliest and they said so there's something
called an asparagus ferns completely and it got

585
00:41:51.039 --> 00:41:54.800
me thinking about Yeah, it got
me thinking about my asparagus plant, because

586
00:41:54.840 --> 00:41:59.400
when I was a kid, asparagus
used to grow wild all over the place

587
00:41:59.400 --> 00:42:00.719
and we'd go out up there and
my dad would get so mad at us

588
00:42:00.719 --> 00:42:05.159
because we just plucked the whole thing
out of the ground. And he was

589
00:42:05.199 --> 00:42:07.760
like, no, you snap them
off. He's you know, did you

590
00:42:07.760 --> 00:42:09.519
grow up in did you grow up
in the Midwest or where'd you grow up?

591
00:42:10.599 --> 00:42:14.840
Uh? At the time, we
were living up in Washington State.

592
00:42:14.920 --> 00:42:17.559
My dad had you know, he
went up to Washington State and you know,

593
00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:22.760
we we would go out and but
you know, I was a kid.

594
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:24.559
I didn't know any better or anything
like that. So he got onto

595
00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:29.000
us and said, you so fucked
the whole thing out of the ground.

596
00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:31.760
You snap it off. Yeah,
So how can I help with asparagus?

597
00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:37.760
Well, my plant doesn't seem to
produce. I mean one year, one

598
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:42.920
year it actually grew, it grew
a little piece of asparagus. I broke

599
00:42:42.920 --> 00:42:45.400
it off and I ate it.
My dad would be rolling in his grave.

600
00:42:45.639 --> 00:42:49.360
Well let me let me cut right
to vententer on that one, because

601
00:42:49.400 --> 00:42:51.639
I know what I know what's about. That's why I ask if you grew

602
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:55.480
up in the Midwest further north,
asparagus when it gets cold, it goes

603
00:42:55.679 --> 00:43:00.480
fully dormant and it shuts down,
and then in spring it's got all that

604
00:43:00.599 --> 00:43:06.239
stored energy to come out. In
the South, asparagus continues to about half

605
00:43:06.360 --> 00:43:12.400
grow through our cool seasons, and
it's not storing the carbohydrates. It's actually

606
00:43:12.519 --> 00:43:16.000
using carbohydrates during the season, and
then in the spring we just don't have

607
00:43:16.079 --> 00:43:22.280
the same stored energy to produce lots
of large spears for a long time.

608
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:29.960
So some people will cut their asparagus
back when the first frost hits. That's

609
00:43:30.039 --> 00:43:34.599
one strategy there. Some varieties do
a little better than others, but you're

610
00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:37.760
never going to see the yields that
you saw up in Washington down here with

611
00:43:37.840 --> 00:43:43.320
asparagus. So is there anything I
can do to make it work better down

612
00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:49.519
here? Yeah? Getting varieties,
some of the Rutgers released varieties I can't

613
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.559
name them off the top of my
head, do pretty good. And then

614
00:43:52.599 --> 00:43:55.599
cutting it back when we get our
first freeze, go ahead and cut it

615
00:43:55.639 --> 00:44:00.159
back to the ground, and then
just help we don't have too much warm

616
00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:06.719
weather in the wintertime and that'll help
out. Cut it down to the ground,

617
00:44:06.760 --> 00:44:08.960
like to the roots. Yeah,
produced a few inches above the ground,

618
00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:13.719
Ben, But hey, I'm up
against a hard break, but I

619
00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:17.480
got it. That's the best thing. If you go to Aggie Horticulture website

620
00:44:17.599 --> 00:44:23.519
Aggie Horticulture, there's a vegetable section
and a whole publication on asparagus for Texas.

621
00:44:23.960 --> 00:44:29.280
Asparagus for Texas Aggie Horticulture website,
you're going to get a lot more

622
00:44:29.320 --> 00:44:32.119
help there. And thank you for
that call. Our phone number is seven

623
00:44:32.159 --> 00:44:38.920
one three two one two kt RH. Don't let the weather bring you down

624
00:44:38.960 --> 00:44:44.079
because at noon today it's almost like
a switch goes off. I'm checking different

625
00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:49.119
weather you know, prediction sites and
whatnot, and it's like twelve o'clock,

626
00:44:49.320 --> 00:44:52.320
the rain's gonna go away. We've
got some part clouds, but it like

627
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:57.400
percent goes down to four percent or
something this afternoon. If your is excited

628
00:44:57.400 --> 00:45:00.480
about spring as I am, this
afternoon is the time to get out,

629
00:45:00.679 --> 00:45:04.719
get out and enjoy yourself. If
you live out there in a Richmond area,

630
00:45:04.719 --> 00:45:07.079
for example, you got enchanted forest
also, you know enchanted forest.

631
00:45:07.760 --> 00:45:10.440
I don't know how many of you've
been there. I know a lot of

632
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:14.639
people go there. It's a very
popular place. But if you have not

633
00:45:14.760 --> 00:45:16.679
been, you've got to go see
it. It is incredible. They've got

634
00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:22.840
a good stock of the vegetables in
and their herbs. Their herbs selection is

635
00:45:23.320 --> 00:45:27.559
incredible. Right now, I'm just
looking at some pictures of the herb area.

636
00:45:27.639 --> 00:45:30.320
It's a huge new area for herbs
and vegetables and whatnot that they built

637
00:45:30.320 --> 00:45:36.320
out there, and oh my gosh, it is wall to wall cool and

638
00:45:36.440 --> 00:45:40.679
every kind of thing like from the
traditional herbs you're familiar with down to I

639
00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:45.320
like the little dwarf times. I
think they're really cute. You can put

640
00:45:45.360 --> 00:45:47.719
them in a container. It's almost
like you're putting a ground cover in the

641
00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:52.800
container. The little time is growing
around some other plant that's coming up.

642
00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:55.719
Just another tip for doing it.
But they've got the seed potatoes, you

643
00:45:55.719 --> 00:46:00.280
know, for example, they've got
peppers and tomatoes, egg plants, all

644
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:02.199
that kind of stuff. If you're
going to do any seed starting, you

645
00:46:02.239 --> 00:46:06.000
still can do that for some of
the things that are a little later coming

646
00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:10.480
on. They've got the selection of
the supplies that you need. So and

647
00:46:10.519 --> 00:46:14.159
by the way, if you're going
to do potatoes, don't delay. Now's

648
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:17.800
the time get those we call them
seed potatoes. You cut them into sections

649
00:46:17.840 --> 00:46:22.880
with a couple of eyes on each
section, and then just let them sit

650
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:27.119
for two days, maybe three,
but the most. And that gives them

651
00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:29.559
time to dry off that cut surface. You can put them in the ground

652
00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:31.920
and get them growing. It's just
real easy to do. All that's an

653
00:46:31.960 --> 00:46:37.639
enchented forest. Go check them out
today. Listen. At noon, we're

654
00:46:37.639 --> 00:46:40.880
going to get a break. Wonderful
time to get out and get some inspiration

655
00:46:42.239 --> 00:46:45.079
because you can find it out there
at enchanted forest. For sure. We're

656
00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:51.360
going to go now to Northwest Houston
and talk about Chris talked about Chris.

657
00:46:51.360 --> 00:46:53.159
We're going to talk to Chris.
How about that? Chris? How you

658
00:46:53.159 --> 00:46:58.599
doing? That's fine? I'm doing
well, sir. How can we helpe

659
00:46:58.599 --> 00:47:04.320
today? Well, I'm fulfilling a
promise this year to my wife to make

660
00:47:04.400 --> 00:47:10.840
our front yard into something. And
the basic problem we've had all the years

661
00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:17.480
we've had the place is the soil
is practically concrete. It is light gray

662
00:47:17.679 --> 00:47:22.920
to it's actually dingy white in places
and rock hard. Wow, So how

663
00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:27.519
do I how do I fix that? All? Right? Well, first

664
00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:34.519
of all, smart man on promising
your wife and following through. You know,

665
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:38.519
if the lawn is in such bad
shape that you just need to replace

666
00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:43.280
it, renovate, that's that's one. Are you at that point or are

667
00:47:43.360 --> 00:47:46.199
you just trying to fix what you
have? Just raise it and start over.

668
00:47:46.639 --> 00:47:52.199
Get you a good quality mix.
You can buy a good quality mix

669
00:47:52.239 --> 00:47:54.840
to come in, put a few
inches over the ground and kind of mix

670
00:47:54.880 --> 00:48:00.000
it in with the soil you have. You don't want to have like concrete

671
00:48:00.159 --> 00:48:02.960
and on top of it is potting
soil if you just to use an extreme

672
00:48:04.159 --> 00:48:07.639
example, but you want to blend
them together because the grass roots are going

673
00:48:07.679 --> 00:48:10.840
to have to go down in that, and grass is pretty tolerant of a

674
00:48:10.880 --> 00:48:16.559
wide variety of soils. You want
to do that. When you have a

675
00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:22.280
lawn growing, you want to do
deep tine aeration as often as needed.

676
00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:27.159
It just depends. But when soil
gets hard, when you're not good drainage

677
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:30.960
and you're not getting oxygen in the
soil, having someone come out and do

678
00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:36.679
deep tinne aeration can also help.
Top dressing your lawn with a leaf more

679
00:48:36.760 --> 00:48:43.920
compost seasonally or annually rather, that
can also help. But start by getting

680
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.639
a good mix in there. Spreading
it out, mixing it in as best

681
00:48:46.679 --> 00:48:51.079
you can do. You have a
lot of trees, no just one,

682
00:48:51.440 --> 00:48:52.840
okay, good, Well, then
you're not going to have all the roots

683
00:48:52.840 --> 00:48:55.400
in the way like you would if
you had a yard full of old trees.

684
00:48:57.119 --> 00:49:00.880
But you can use a rototiller,
you know, that's probably the best

685
00:49:00.920 --> 00:49:05.000
way because it's a large area to
mix it up and just kind of you

686
00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:08.239
know, loosen it up and mix
that in and then by the sod,

687
00:49:08.519 --> 00:49:14.960
lay the sod down and watered in. I would probably wait a little bit

688
00:49:15.000 --> 00:49:16.960
to do the sod. You've got
time then to get all your other stuff

689
00:49:17.000 --> 00:49:22.840
done. If you've got any perennial
weeds. Maybe you've got bermuda grass that's

690
00:49:22.880 --> 00:49:27.480
growing in a Saint Augustine that that's
a weed, then perennial weeds, you

691
00:49:27.480 --> 00:49:30.960
would need to spray them, kill
them and make sure they're gone before you

692
00:49:30.960 --> 00:49:32.639
put the new grass in, or
it they'll just pop up through that too,

693
00:49:34.719 --> 00:49:37.239
right, okay. And then after
you've got it in, you're gonna

694
00:49:37.280 --> 00:49:40.800
water it daily. If it's a
cooler part of the season, you can

695
00:49:40.880 --> 00:49:45.519
get by with once a day as
we warm up, I would do I'm

696
00:49:45.559 --> 00:49:49.840
going to replace the section alawn this
spring. I'm going to do mine in

697
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:52.760
April, just because it's warmed up
and the grassroots will be growing faster and

698
00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:55.960
hitting the ground running if you will. I'm gonna have to water it probably

699
00:49:57.000 --> 00:50:00.320
once a day if it were summer, twice a day a week to help

700
00:50:00.360 --> 00:50:04.599
it get those roots established, because
that grass is coming in with a half

701
00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:08.000
inch of clay soil at the bottom, and that's all the root system that

702
00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:13.559
sod has, and so you've got
to really keep that tiny bit of root

703
00:50:13.880 --> 00:50:16.360
moist. And after about a week, you know, you can go to

704
00:50:16.920 --> 00:50:21.000
once a day or once every other
day, and then you know, work

705
00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:23.880
your way over about three weeks into
just watering it once or twice a week.

706
00:50:25.199 --> 00:50:30.400
And so then after it's been in
long enough to get established and you

707
00:50:30.440 --> 00:50:32.960
can reach done and grab a SOD
piece. If you tug on it a

708
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.719
little bit, you can tell if
it's rooted or if it's just wiggling around

709
00:50:37.760 --> 00:50:42.000
like a throw rug. And once
it's established, then it's time to start

710
00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:45.360
fertilizing. And to make it simpler
for you, I'm just going to say

711
00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:51.119
go to my website. It's gardening
with Skip dot com, and there is

712
00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:57.159
a lawn care publication. It's a
one page sheet from January to December what

713
00:50:57.280 --> 00:50:59.960
you need to do for your launch. There's also one for weeds and pass

714
00:51:00.039 --> 00:51:01.320
us. But right now we're going
to focus on how do you get your

715
00:51:01.400 --> 00:51:07.000
long growing and that's the long care
schedule. Okay, do you have any

716
00:51:07.039 --> 00:51:12.679
recommendation for where to get this good
top soil? Yeah? You're in northwest

717
00:51:12.719 --> 00:51:16.239
Houston, Yes, sir, Okay, we got two great places really here.

718
00:51:16.639 --> 00:51:22.760
The Nature's Way is up in the
Conroe area on forty five. Heirloom

719
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:27.480
Soils is over in a porter direction
not too far away, and both of

720
00:51:27.519 --> 00:51:31.840
those can bring you bulk loads of
equality topsoil type mix. Explain to them

721
00:51:31.840 --> 00:51:36.480
what you're wanting to do and they
can point you toward the product that will

722
00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:40.039
do the best for what you're trying
to accomplish. Okay, excellent, and

723
00:51:40.079 --> 00:51:44.119
they'll do bulk delivery, which you're
going to want to do that for sure.

724
00:51:45.039 --> 00:51:49.320
Nice. Okay, all right,
thanks Chris, good luck with it.

725
00:51:50.360 --> 00:51:53.960
Oh just is your wife listening right
now? She is not? Okay,

726
00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:59.239
good Valentine's Day's coming up. Valentine's
Day's coming up. That's my last

727
00:51:59.280 --> 00:52:04.639
tip. Thanks a lot man.
Appreciate the call. You take care.

728
00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:07.119
Yeah, I do appreciate the call. By the way, all you guys

729
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:13.280
out there, Valentine's Days come in
and I'm just saying, you know what

730
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:15.920
about a rose bush? You ever
thought about that? That would be a

731
00:52:15.960 --> 00:52:21.760
really really good deal. Hey,
I was talking about Nature's Way Up and

732
00:52:21.880 --> 00:52:24.719
they're having it's coming up way off
in March. I'm just telling you about

733
00:52:24.760 --> 00:52:30.079
it. Get on your calendar.
March ninth, it's their Spring Garden Festival.

734
00:52:30.079 --> 00:52:31.840
I'll tell you a lot more about
that, but just you don't want

735
00:52:31.840 --> 00:52:35.679
to miss this one. It's going
to have all kinds of cool stuff going

736
00:52:35.719 --> 00:52:37.360
on. We'll talk about it more
as we get to it, but March

737
00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:43.480
ninth is there Spring Garden Festival.
Nature's Way Resources, they originated a lot

738
00:52:43.519 --> 00:52:46.840
of the things we talk about all
the time, like leaf mole compost,

739
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:52.920
like rose soil that they're the ones
that created it, quality products, have

740
00:52:52.039 --> 00:52:55.880
been doing it for a long time. If you're up there picking things up,

741
00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:59.239
you can go out and buy bulk
or buy the bag up there,

742
00:52:59.840 --> 00:53:05.880
and it's nine three six three two
one sixty nine ninety nine three six three

743
00:53:05.960 --> 00:53:08.639
two one sixty nine ninety leave a
little room in the car because they've got

744
00:53:08.639 --> 00:53:13.320
a great selection of native plants,
and you're going to want to check out

745
00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:19.000
their expanding and growing a nursery area
that they have there on site at Nature's

746
00:53:19.320 --> 00:53:22.559
Way Resources, along with all the
quality products that have. A while ago,

747
00:53:22.599 --> 00:53:25.360
I was talking to somebody about blueberries. Well, Nature's Way has a

748
00:53:25.400 --> 00:53:30.079
blueberry mix. It's for acid loving
plants. That's really what it is.

749
00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:35.960
Uh. And so azaleas, blueberries, camellias, gardenias, gardenias, hydrangeas

750
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:39.400
blueberry mix for all of that just
an example of one of the great products

751
00:53:39.400 --> 00:53:44.639
from Nature's Way. Uh. You're
listening to Guardline. Our phone number is

752
00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:49.760
seven one three two one two kt
r H seven one three two one two

753
00:53:50.280 --> 00:53:54.239
k t RH. I look forward
to visiting with you about the things that

754
00:53:54.320 --> 00:53:59.840
you are curious about. I was
out at the Antiqurosingporium just a while,

755
00:54:00.679 --> 00:54:05.519
and you know it's wintertime and wintertime
things are a little slow. I want

756
00:54:05.519 --> 00:54:09.320
to tell you that place explodes when
spring explodes. And I'm you know,

757
00:54:09.599 --> 00:54:13.960
March and April. You got to
go drive by just to see it.

758
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:19.079
Go go just see it. The
location is up there. It's just north

759
00:54:19.079 --> 00:54:22.719
of Branham and not hard to find
if you want to find them. If

760
00:54:22.719 --> 00:54:30.239
you want more information, go to
Antique Roseemporium dot com. Antique Roseemporium dot

761
00:54:30.519 --> 00:54:36.480
com. The phone number is nine
seventy nine eight three six fifty five seventy

762
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:40.400
eight. Listen, there's your tip
for the best Valentine's Gay gift I can

763
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:45.840
think of is a rose We think
of roses on Valentine's Day. How about

764
00:54:45.119 --> 00:54:49.639
a rosebush? And you can even
do that for a friend or maybe Grandma

765
00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:52.639
or someone else in the family.
When you give a gift like that,

766
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:55.559
year after year after year, every
time they see that bush, they see

767
00:54:55.559 --> 00:55:00.320
those roses, they smell the roses, they enjoy them. We're going to

768
00:55:00.360 --> 00:55:02.199
think about you. That's why I
make I think it's just a wonderful,

769
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:06.639
wonderful gift. Out at the antiqu
Rosing Porum. By the way, they're

770
00:55:06.679 --> 00:55:09.679
not just roses. There are roses
and much much more. They got pansies

771
00:55:09.679 --> 00:55:14.920
and Biola's and dianthus, they got
all kinds of perennial plants. Just a

772
00:55:15.119 --> 00:55:19.800
wonderful selection of those. Again,
give them a call nine seventy nine eight

773
00:55:19.840 --> 00:55:23.199
three six five five four eight,
But definitely plan a trip up there this

774
00:55:23.360 --> 00:55:28.639
spring. I love to go.
Also during bluebonnet season another good time to

775
00:55:28.679 --> 00:55:32.159
go, and the Roses are doing
their biggest show of the spring during that

776
00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:37.400
time as well. Just a tip, hey that there's another Valentine's Day gift.

777
00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:42.760
Take them out to an antigu rose
Impirum, oh yonder Jop that'd be

778
00:55:42.800 --> 00:55:45.880
cool, and then throwing a lunch
along the way, run lunch or some

779
00:55:45.960 --> 00:55:50.960
nice little cafes up there, the
Brennam Maria that we're getting a plan here,

780
00:55:50.760 --> 00:55:52.880
We're getting a plan here. You
can thank me later. You can

781
00:55:52.920 --> 00:55:58.280
thank me later. But anyway,
Antique Roses is always fun. I love

782
00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:00.920
to go out there. And they
got new owners be I'm not totally new.

783
00:56:01.039 --> 00:56:06.960
I mean they've been a little while
now, but it is just you

784
00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:09.039
know, when at first I heard
they were under going to be under new

785
00:56:09.079 --> 00:56:13.039
ownership, I thought, oh man, I hope this place. I hope

786
00:56:13.079 --> 00:56:15.599
this place sticks around. And boy
did not only to stick around, it

787
00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:21.000
is taking off. It's getting better
and better and better out there. I

788
00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:24.159
always love, love to go.
I want to remind you for those of

789
00:56:24.159 --> 00:56:30.719
you who are interested in vegetables,
Fort ben County Vegetable Conference Thursday Next Thursday,

790
00:56:30.920 --> 00:56:35.960
February eighth, forty bucks is a
registration for a day full of training

791
00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:42.079
and meal. Wow that I don't
know how they afford to do it for

792
00:56:42.159 --> 00:56:45.079
that reasonable of a fee, but
they do, absolutely do. If you

793
00:56:45.079 --> 00:56:50.719
want more information, you can go
to Fort Bend dot Agrolife dot org,

794
00:56:50.800 --> 00:56:59.400
Fort Bend dot Agrolife dot o ARCHI. Welcome back to Gardenline. We are

795
00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:05.000
excited. We are officially excited about
spring. We've been through the winter.

796
00:57:06.079 --> 00:57:08.639
I've had enough winter. I know
those of you who've moved here from further

797
00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:13.519
northern areas going we never had winter. Well, I've had enough winter.

798
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:16.559
So here's the deal. Spring is
coming, ready or not. Here it

799
00:57:16.559 --> 00:57:21.559
comes. It's time to get excited. Our vegetable gardens are going to explode.

800
00:57:21.639 --> 00:57:24.800
Our floral beds, our bedding,
plant beds are just going to be

801
00:57:24.920 --> 00:57:30.480
gorgeous. And you can make that
happen. It takes what is first?

802
00:57:30.519 --> 00:57:34.119
What is the first thing? If
you've listened to Guardenline even one show,

803
00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:37.760
you should know the answer to this. What is the first key to success

804
00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:45.320
on anything that you want to grow? The soil bronze stuff before green stuff,

805
00:57:45.440 --> 00:57:51.159
meaning you get the spot ready and
then you plant the good plant.

806
00:57:51.719 --> 00:57:54.400
That's the combo. But it starts
with the soil. You can do a

807
00:57:54.440 --> 00:57:59.519
lot to improve your show. We're
talking about putting in a new lawn area,

808
00:57:59.599 --> 00:58:01.360
Chris in the Northwest Seaston, putting
in a new lawn area, What

809
00:58:01.440 --> 00:58:06.519
did you start with It started fixing
that soil. Whether it's a vegetable garden,

810
00:58:06.559 --> 00:58:08.639
a flower bed, lawn, it
doesn't matter. Soil comes first.

811
00:58:08.840 --> 00:58:13.840
That's very very important to remember.
And when you get a good quality soil

812
00:58:13.840 --> 00:58:17.440
mix, you're gonna just find that
it's everything goes much much better. Makes

813
00:58:17.440 --> 00:58:22.440
it look like you've got a green
thumb. That's what That's what we're talking

814
00:58:22.480 --> 00:58:27.440
about. So at noon today we
have scheduled the rain to end. This

815
00:58:27.559 --> 00:58:30.320
afternoon is going to be wonderful and
a good time to get out and get

816
00:58:30.360 --> 00:58:35.960
some inspiration one of our local garden
centers or pick up supplies. Pick up

817
00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:38.079
the supplies we need. We're gonna
go to sugar Land now and talk to

818
00:58:38.119 --> 00:58:44.639
Greg. Hello. Greg, Yes, So when should I put my barricade

819
00:58:44.679 --> 00:58:49.639
down at my fertilizer for the York
Yeah? Done? In sugar Land,

820
00:58:49.679 --> 00:58:53.280
I would do the barricade. Let's
say the first week of February would be

821
00:58:53.320 --> 00:58:58.119
a good time. You could do
the second week probably, but go ahead

822
00:58:58.159 --> 00:59:01.719
and go ahead first second week and
they may be a little or we want

823
00:59:01.760 --> 00:59:05.400
to get ahead of the sprouting.
And you never know in a given year

824
00:59:05.480 --> 00:59:09.480
when the soil warms enough because we
don't know the weather specifically. But I'd

825
00:59:09.519 --> 00:59:14.840
say the first or second week of
February would be my ideal time for your

826
00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:20.599
location. So it would be okay, like next Saturday, Friday something like

827
00:59:20.679 --> 00:59:24.760
that. Oh yeah, that'd be
fine, yeap. Just when you put

828
00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:28.800
it down, Greg, Greg,
two things to remember. Number one,

829
00:59:28.840 --> 00:59:31.440
you need to apply about a third
of an inch half inch of water somewhere

830
00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:37.400
in there just to move the new
the product off the crystals or the crystals

831
00:59:37.400 --> 00:59:40.960
the granules into the soil surface.
That's very important for it to work.

832
00:59:42.000 --> 00:59:45.480
And then secondly, follow the label
on how much you apply. That's important,

833
00:59:45.800 --> 00:59:50.679
right. And then do I come
back maybe a week later and put

834
00:59:50.719 --> 00:59:53.480
my fertilizer down for the lawn or
you know, you can do on my

835
00:59:53.599 --> 00:59:57.880
schedule. We've got a couple of
we've got a couple of options. There

836
00:59:57.960 --> 01:00:02.880
is an fertilizing. It's done early, early, early in the season,

837
01:00:04.320 --> 01:00:07.480
and that is something typically we're going
to do at the end of February.

838
01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:12.960
It could it could be on into
March, mid March. H for a

839
01:00:13.039 --> 01:00:16.960
quick green up. Now that's a
that's a visual for you that we do

840
01:00:17.079 --> 01:00:22.440
that when it comes to actually the
grass is growing fast and it takes a

841
01:00:22.440 --> 01:00:25.559
fertilizer and goes and goes through the
season. That would be something we do

842
01:00:25.679 --> 01:00:30.920
starting in the first Papril. Okay, okay, yeah, it's up to

843
01:00:30.960 --> 01:00:35.599
you, up to you. Yeah, yeah, so make sure when I

844
01:00:35.679 --> 01:00:39.559
put the barricade down next week's Saturday
or whatever, make sure I water it

845
01:00:39.639 --> 01:00:44.039
then. Yeah, just a little
bit different there. Yeah, you don't

846
01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:46.480
need much. It's not like your
water in your lawn to soak the sweat

847
01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:51.000
deep. We just need about a
third half an in something like that.

848
01:00:51.400 --> 01:00:53.559
And yeah, and go ahead and
buy the fertilizer so you're ready to go

849
01:00:53.760 --> 01:00:59.199
as well. But if you go
on into my website it's gardening with skip

850
01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:01.760
dot com, you can download that, print it out and then just take

851
01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:06.519
it with you and that way whatever
you're buying. In fact, go ahead

852
01:01:06.519 --> 01:01:09.320
and download the lawn pest Disease and
we'd management schedule too. That's what the

853
01:01:09.320 --> 01:01:14.639
barricades on. Uh, and you
can go right in and point at it

854
01:01:14.679 --> 01:01:20.360
and say this is what I need. Okay, then hey, thanks Greg,

855
01:01:20.440 --> 01:01:24.079
I appreciate your call very much.
Yeah, it's it's it's important to

856
01:01:24.199 --> 01:01:29.280
do things in a timely way,
and it is time. We are now

857
01:01:29.360 --> 01:01:31.239
in the time where if you're going
to prevent weeds, this will be the

858
01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:35.559
time to get that done. It's
also the time to get planting done.

859
01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:43.119
We have a lot of different shrubs
and trees and woody vines and perennials,

860
01:01:43.159 --> 01:01:45.199
all kinds of things can be planted
now, and the sooner you do it,

861
01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:50.079
the better. Folks out at Verdant
Tree Farm v E r d a

862
01:01:50.280 --> 01:01:54.840
Nttreefarm dot com Verdant Tree Farm the
first of all, they got two locations.

863
01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:59.480
There's one out on Barker, Cyprus
and West Houston one down in Pearland

864
01:01:59.519 --> 01:02:04.760
on Broad just a few blocks from
Killing Steakhouse down there in Periland. They

865
01:02:04.840 --> 01:02:08.400
have a wonderful selection of tree options. You know, they're known for just

866
01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:13.079
having an incredible selection of the best
palm trees you'd want to grow here,

867
01:02:13.079 --> 01:02:15.119
but it goes way beyond palms.
I mean, they have all the deciduous

868
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:20.599
trees that we're talking about. They
absolutely can get you set up on that,

869
01:02:21.000 --> 01:02:23.960
even some large shrubs as well.
It's a turnkey service. You go

870
01:02:24.039 --> 01:02:28.119
there, you pick your tree,
you get to say I want that one,

871
01:02:28.679 --> 01:02:30.760
and they bring it to your house
and they plant it correctly, which

872
01:02:30.800 --> 01:02:35.039
is important. You can go in, sit down in the office, take

873
01:02:35.039 --> 01:02:37.960
a picture of your place and say
hey, I need something for here,

874
01:02:37.239 --> 01:02:40.440
and they kind of consult with you
a little bit of a design consultation,

875
01:02:40.519 --> 01:02:43.920
if you will, like, here's
a good place to plant it. And

876
01:02:43.960 --> 01:02:46.119
that way you know you're getting when
you go to Verden. You know you're

877
01:02:46.119 --> 01:02:51.639
getting a plant that is going to
survive here and thrive here. That is

878
01:02:51.719 --> 01:02:54.320
important. And you know you're going
to get it planted right too, and

879
01:02:54.360 --> 01:03:02.039
that is very important. Verdantreefarm dot
com. We're going to go out to

880
01:03:04.920 --> 01:03:09.880
South Houston and we're going to talk
to Parker. Parker, Hey, how

881
01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:13.360
are you? Yeah, Hey,
I'm good, sir. Hey, I

882
01:03:13.400 --> 01:03:20.800
got a question about pine needles used
as a weed barrier around the trees or

883
01:03:20.840 --> 01:03:22.679
maybe even in the garden. Is
that the pros and cons of that?

884
01:03:22.800 --> 01:03:27.840
Could you discuss that? And then
also I'd like to report that the Crape

885
01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:38.159
myrtle massacre is ongoing. I've used
pine needles for years right now. I

886
01:03:38.159 --> 01:03:40.880
don't live in a place where there
are a lot of pines, but I

887
01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:45.639
have in the past lived up in
Conroe Willis area, and pine needles are

888
01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:51.639
just fine. I may run over
them with a mower just to break them

889
01:03:51.719 --> 01:03:55.079
up a little bit kind of holding
place. But they make a nice moltz.

890
01:03:55.119 --> 01:03:59.719
People. There's this old rumor that
it makes your soul to acid.

891
01:03:59.760 --> 01:04:04.079
It's not. Study In Penn State
years ago they mult of pine needles for

892
01:04:04.880 --> 01:04:09.800
years and years and it barely moved
the pH one tenth of a pH point

893
01:04:09.920 --> 01:04:13.079
after all that time. So and
you could fix that with a handful of

894
01:04:13.159 --> 01:04:15.840
lime. If that happened, it's
not going to happen to you. Well,

895
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:20.440
the neighbor kid has about they get
fifteen or twenty pine trees on their

896
01:04:20.519 --> 01:04:27.519
lot and they're selling He is selling
one dollar bag of pine needles a garbage

897
01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:30.039
bag, pretty good size, and
it's pretty well packed. But it's a

898
01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:32.559
dollar a bag, Man, Parker. You can't beat that with a wet

899
01:04:32.639 --> 01:04:36.119
rope. I would jump over there
and grab some of those. That's about

900
01:04:36.159 --> 01:04:41.159
the most economical mults you're you're going
to find. Yeah, it's fine to

901
01:04:41.239 --> 01:04:43.639
use them. I like the look
of them. I kind of like that

902
01:04:43.719 --> 01:04:47.920
bronze color you know that they have, especially when they're fresh. But just

903
01:04:47.960 --> 01:04:50.960
high up the trees. How high
up the tree should you go with that?

904
01:04:54.159 --> 01:04:57.639
You mean how high up on the
trunk? Yeah, on the trunk

905
01:04:57.639 --> 01:05:00.199
of the tree. Yeah. I
wouldn't pile them against the trunk. I'd

906
01:05:00.239 --> 01:05:04.000
go right up just to the trunk. But make sure that trunk is not

907
01:05:04.239 --> 01:05:08.280
mulched on the trunk to keep them. You want that to dry out.

908
01:05:08.280 --> 01:05:12.719
You don't want that to stay wet. But I I want to track the

909
01:05:12.760 --> 01:05:15.599
ants well and just the moisture up
against the trunk. People that do these

910
01:05:15.719 --> 01:05:20.000
volcanoes, that's a bad practice.
Hey, I've got to I'm up against

911
01:05:20.039 --> 01:05:24.639
a hard break on it. But
thank you for your question. And what

912
01:05:24.800 --> 01:05:27.760
a deal? What a deal?
Okay, we're going to take a break.

913
01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:30.960
We'll be right back seven one three, two, one two fifty eight

914
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:35.360
seventy four. Welcome back to garden
Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter.

915
01:05:35.880 --> 01:05:40.159
What do you want to talk about
today? It is the time to

916
01:05:40.159 --> 01:05:43.719
get excited about spring. That's what
I want to talk about today. I

917
01:05:43.800 --> 01:05:48.800
am excited about spring. Listen,
the best garden I've ever planted is always

918
01:05:48.880 --> 01:05:53.159
my next one. That's how I
like to look at it. The next

919
01:05:53.480 --> 01:05:57.800
garden is my best ever. My
vegetable garden this year is going to be

920
01:05:58.880 --> 01:06:01.800
unbelievable. I'm trying some new vegetables, some things I've never grown before.

921
01:06:02.760 --> 01:06:05.840
You know, the more fresh vegetables
we eat, the better off we are

922
01:06:05.920 --> 01:06:10.320
health wise. That's that's a known
fact. Well, I've got some new

923
01:06:10.360 --> 01:06:13.639
things to enhance, you know.
I'm always looking for new things for salads,

924
01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:16.400
new flavors and things like that.
Things that can take the summer.

925
01:06:16.440 --> 01:06:18.920
We got vegetables for that. I'll
talk about those and we get into the

926
01:06:18.920 --> 01:06:23.960
warmer weather. But I'm excited about
that. And flowers, Oh my gosh,

927
01:06:24.280 --> 01:06:28.519
ready to go when it comes to
flowers as well. Well. If

928
01:06:28.559 --> 01:06:30.559
you would like to talk about some
of these things seven to one three,

929
01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:35.559
two, one two, five eight
seven four seven one three two one two

930
01:06:35.960 --> 01:06:41.199
fifty eight seventy four, give us
a call and we'll talk about what you're

931
01:06:41.320 --> 01:06:44.360
interested in. By the way,
something I want to tell you, here's

932
01:06:44.400 --> 01:06:46.239
a tip. Are you listening.
I need you, I need your attention

933
01:06:46.360 --> 01:06:54.400
just for a minute. Heirloom Soils
has released their cocktail mix. Now what

934
01:06:54.440 --> 01:06:59.480
the cocktail mix is. It's a
special blend of a number of different high

935
01:06:59.599 --> 01:07:02.280
quality so let's put together. We
got leafmo compost, we got h pine

936
01:07:02.320 --> 01:07:05.440
bark, we got cocoa koar,
it's got shale pearl like humates, sand

937
01:07:05.480 --> 01:07:10.920
worm castings, molasses, Michael rise
a biotrap. I mean this is like

938
01:07:11.800 --> 01:07:17.039
this is like soil on steroids.
The cocktail mix superquality. Only seventy five

939
01:07:17.079 --> 01:07:21.440
dollars a yard. Now that is
it's a limited quantity, by the way,

940
01:07:21.519 --> 01:07:24.960
So if you're thinking about it,
don't delay. You need to do

941
01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:28.280
it. You need to do it
now. Now you only can get it

942
01:07:28.719 --> 01:07:32.679
when you go pick it up or
from delivery out at the Warren's Rock and

943
01:07:32.760 --> 01:07:35.280
Mulch Yard importer. So you got
to go out there and get it or

944
01:07:35.320 --> 01:07:39.719
call them have a delivery of it. But here's where you need to listen.

945
01:07:40.320 --> 01:07:45.440
The first ten people that text message
them are going to get another fifteen

946
01:07:45.480 --> 01:07:49.559
dollars discount if you go pick it
up. So if you have a truck

947
01:07:49.679 --> 01:07:53.400
or trailer and you can go out
there and get it, we're going they're

948
01:07:53.440 --> 01:07:57.280
going to take another fifteen bucks off
per yard. Now, don't call them.

949
01:07:57.800 --> 01:08:00.559
Only text messages and only people who
have a truck or trailer. You

950
01:08:00.559 --> 01:08:03.280
can go out there and get the
thing. Okay, here's the number.

951
01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:08.000
Ready. I'm gonna give you a
minute to get your pen ready. When

952
01:08:08.039 --> 01:08:11.679
you text them, they're going to
send a text back if you are one

953
01:08:11.679 --> 01:08:15.960
of the first ten uh and you
can just take that to the customer service

954
01:08:15.000 --> 01:08:18.600
staff when you go check out,
and that proves that, yep, you're

955
01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:24.920
one of the ones that won.
Eight three two two ten seventy nine oh

956
01:08:24.920 --> 01:08:30.960
eight eight three two two one zero
seven nine zero eight. Now Airlom Soils

957
01:08:30.960 --> 01:08:34.479
has a wide variety of quality soil
products. You know, I just got

958
01:08:34.479 --> 01:08:38.119
some of the works potting soil the
other day. I've used that before.

959
01:08:38.239 --> 01:08:43.600
It's an outstanding potting mix, really
really cool. There's a lot of new

960
01:08:43.760 --> 01:08:47.159
product going out in fact this week
or next week. Places like Plants for

961
01:08:47.159 --> 01:08:53.800
all seasons, Kata's Hardware, Nelson's
Water Gardens out in Brookshire, Texas,

962
01:08:54.279 --> 01:09:00.000
Mid County feed and Netherland Netherland Huntsville
Farm Supply. I'll spase as Woodland's Kingwood

963
01:09:00.039 --> 01:09:04.359
Garden Center, Ace Hardware, Memorial
Ace Hardware City, a Memorial Drive,

964
01:09:04.680 --> 01:09:08.880
Joe's Country Store in Santa Fe,
War in Southern Guards. All these are

965
01:09:08.920 --> 01:09:12.560
places you can get these heirloom soils, and boy are they ever And there's

966
01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:15.840
a lot more places than that,
by the way, are they ever about

967
01:09:15.880 --> 01:09:17.279
to send out a good quality group? Now? Again, if you miss

968
01:09:17.359 --> 01:09:23.359
the number for fifteen dollars off of
this special cocktail mix, if you go

969
01:09:23.439 --> 01:09:28.399
pick it up eight three to two
two ten seventy nine oh eight. And

970
01:09:28.399 --> 01:09:31.880
that's only the first text messages.
And I guarantee you other people have grabbed

971
01:09:31.880 --> 01:09:35.520
their phones already, so you better
hurry if you're interested in that. We're

972
01:09:35.520 --> 01:09:39.920
going to head out now to Spring
Branch and talk to Herda. Hello,

973
01:09:40.039 --> 01:09:47.920
Herda, good morning. How are
you? My question this morning is about

974
01:09:48.359 --> 01:09:57.560
can you hear me? I don't
hear you. Oh I'm sorry, I

975
01:09:57.640 --> 01:10:00.319
was pushing the wrong button. I
am here, I am excited, and

976
01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:05.079
I'm ready to answer whatever question you
got. Let's go all right. This

977
01:10:05.159 --> 01:10:12.800
is about a night blooming jasmine and
it's, oh, I guess, about

978
01:10:12.920 --> 01:10:20.800
ten feet tall, and it's five
or six stems of the plant, maybe

979
01:10:21.399 --> 01:10:27.479
not quite a quarter inch in diameter
at the bottom. But at any rate,

980
01:10:27.960 --> 01:10:33.800
I had a hard time covering it
for the freeze, and it's it's

981
01:10:33.880 --> 01:10:40.880
alive. The leaves are shriveled,
yeah, but they're still dark green,

982
01:10:41.279 --> 01:10:49.880
no problem. And when I scratched
the trunk, there's green. Now if

983
01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:55.000
I move it, well, I
guess maybe I'm wanting to know. Can

984
01:10:55.079 --> 01:11:00.760
it be divided if I move it
earth? I have to see the base

985
01:11:00.800 --> 01:11:03.920
of it to see Normally that's not
something we think about dividing. But if

986
01:11:03.920 --> 01:11:08.560
you've got stems and you can separate
it and get roots for each section,

987
01:11:08.680 --> 01:11:12.640
yes you could divide it, but
you need to do any moving or anything

988
01:11:12.680 --> 01:11:14.479
to it. If you're going to
do it, you need to do it

989
01:11:14.520 --> 01:11:17.119
real soon. And I would let
the plant tell you where to prone back.

990
01:11:17.199 --> 01:11:21.520
Wait until growth begins, and then
you know exactly where to print it

991
01:11:21.560 --> 01:11:27.119
back. Oh. I see.
That was my next question, because I

992
01:11:27.119 --> 01:11:31.439
thought, should I take maybe a
quarter of it off to let the rest

993
01:11:31.560 --> 01:11:35.119
have the nutrition? Yeah? I
get it. I get it all right.

994
01:11:35.279 --> 01:11:38.640
Hey, hurd it. Thank you
for the call. I appreciate that

995
01:11:38.720 --> 01:11:41.800
as always. Thank you, sir, Thank you for being there. You

996
01:11:41.840 --> 01:11:45.800
have a good weekend. Listen if
you if your plants like hurd us got

997
01:11:45.840 --> 01:11:49.880
hammered back, you need to be
ready as they come out to help them

998
01:11:49.880 --> 01:11:54.560
out. And Medina has their seaweed
and the Medina Plus. It's a combo

999
01:11:54.640 --> 01:11:59.880
product. Seaweed is what it's this
regular seaweed. Medina Plus is their standard

1000
01:12:00.159 --> 01:12:03.239
soil activator. Plus it has even
more in it. And I would give

1001
01:12:03.279 --> 01:12:06.520
them a good drench of the Medina
Plus. You could do that now as

1002
01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:10.920
a matter of fact, but especially
when they begin new growth, and then

1003
01:12:10.960 --> 01:12:14.640
as they begin to grow and get
foliage on them, some sprays, fullier

1004
01:12:14.680 --> 01:12:17.159
sprays, you can use the plus
and also the seaweed, especially the seaweed

1005
01:12:17.520 --> 01:12:21.119
at that point in time will be
very very helpful. Now Medina products are

1006
01:12:21.159 --> 01:12:25.880
widely available everywhere, many of them. You've heard them talk for Randy talked

1007
01:12:25.880 --> 01:12:28.720
about them for years here on Garden
Line. In fact, I think Medina

1008
01:12:28.720 --> 01:12:30.399
may go all the way back to
Dewey Compton days. I mean it was

1009
01:12:30.439 --> 01:12:35.079
one of the first advertisers on guarden
Line, and a lot of really quality

1010
01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:40.479
products. By the way, those
of you up in the Montgomery area A

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01:12:40.600 --> 01:12:43.760
and A Plants and Produce, you
got to go by there. That is

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01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:46.920
a family owned business, been around
thirty years. It gets better every year.

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01:12:47.079 --> 01:12:51.279
If you live out on the lake
one of those neighborhoods, Waterstone Lake,

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01:12:51.359 --> 01:12:55.840
Conroe area, I'm talking about Grand
Harbor, de Lago, all of

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01:12:55.880 --> 01:12:59.560
that. This is your backyard garden
center. They carry the fertilizers that I

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01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:02.880
talk about, they deliver. They
even do some landscaping around the lake area

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01:13:02.920 --> 01:13:08.239
there. Seven days a week is
always a good time to go buy an

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01:13:08.319 --> 01:13:12.880
a plants and produce, starting this
afternoon when that rain breaks, and all

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01:13:13.000 --> 01:13:15.479
day tomorrow is going to be a
great day as well, nine am to

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01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:21.279
five pm. Their selection of some
of the really cool stuff, you know,

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01:13:21.439 --> 01:13:29.319
the gazebos and arches and topiaries and
concrete statuary, whimsical yard are they'll

1022
01:13:29.319 --> 01:13:32.079
get you fixed up on all that
as well at Ana plants and produce.

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01:13:33.880 --> 01:13:39.359
Well, we're putting an hour in
the books here. This is today's going

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01:13:39.439 --> 01:13:42.800
fast. But I'm telling you I'm
excited. I hope you're as excited as

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01:13:42.840 --> 01:13:46.720
I am about this spring. We
are about to enter a wonderful season.

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01:13:46.960 --> 01:13:50.520
And this is the season where if
you're not excited about gardening, you don't

1027
01:13:50.520 --> 01:13:54.680
have a pulse, or you're not
a gardener. I'll just make it real

1028
01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:59.720
simple like that. Our garden centers
are more and more getting the stock in

1029
01:14:00.079 --> 01:14:02.279
and ready to go. Our suppliers, the folks we talk about here on

1030
01:14:02.359 --> 01:14:06.560
garden Line for buying your fertilizers and
your products to control disease, and past

1031
01:14:06.640 --> 01:14:11.960
and leads and whatnot, gardening tools, new hope, new garden hoses,

1032
01:14:12.079 --> 01:14:15.239
all those kinds of things. It's
time get out there and get ready for

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01:14:15.359 --> 01:14:18.880
spring. Get a little bit of
inspiration. So I hope you'll head out

1034
01:14:19.000 --> 01:14:23.159
this afternoon and do a little bit
of that. I am. I've got

1035
01:14:23.159 --> 01:14:26.039
a couple of garden centers in mind. I'm gonna stop by today because I

1036
01:14:26.079 --> 01:14:33.239
would love to do that. We'll
be back. Kt r H Garden Line

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01:14:33.319 --> 01:14:39.800
does not necessarily endorse any of the
products or services advertised on this program.

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01:14:39.840 --> 01:14:51.479
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line
with Skip Ricter. It's so he just

1039
01:14:51.720 --> 01:15:15.800
watch him as so many foods.
They're not a sad Welcome back to guarden

1040
01:15:15.800 --> 01:15:18.880
Line. We are glad you're with
us today. Of course we are love

1041
01:15:18.960 --> 01:15:23.039
talking to you about the things that
interest you. If you got a question,

1042
01:15:23.359 --> 01:15:27.319
we'd be happy to help. It
is seven to one three two one

1043
01:15:27.359 --> 01:15:30.359
two k t r H. You
want to give us a call seven one

1044
01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:35.680
three two one two kt r H. Yes, I am excited about spring.

1045
01:15:36.079 --> 01:15:39.960
What have you not grown before that
you want to grow this year?

1046
01:15:40.520 --> 01:15:44.960
Really think about that. Do you
grow vegetables? What is a vegetable you'd

1047
01:15:45.000 --> 01:15:47.760
never grown before? I can give
you some suggestions, really cool things.

1048
01:15:47.800 --> 01:15:51.000
There's always a new tomato. I
think the world would stop spinning on its

1049
01:15:51.039 --> 01:15:55.960
axis if there was a year where
there wasn't a new tomato that appeared on

1050
01:15:56.000 --> 01:16:00.479
the several new tomatoes that appeared on
the market. There's always like that.

1051
01:16:00.560 --> 01:16:03.960
But there's new things, things you've
never grown before. Try some things like

1052
01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:09.039
that out. How about flowers,
you know, do you maybe there's a

1053
01:16:09.199 --> 01:16:14.279
container around there or you need to
get one that you could fill with beautiful,

1054
01:16:14.520 --> 01:16:17.119
beautiful flowers. I'm going to do
that. There's some trailing types of

1055
01:16:17.159 --> 01:16:20.880
petunias that are just beautiful. One
of them is called bubblegum. There's a

1056
01:16:20.880 --> 01:16:26.000
bunch of other varieties. They just
they load up so many blooms. I

1057
01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:28.720
don't know how the leaves get sunlight. I mean, they're beautiful. They

1058
01:16:28.760 --> 01:16:30.199
kind of trail over. Put those
on the edge of a pot and let

1059
01:16:30.199 --> 01:16:35.640
them spill over. We're talking about
large container and then plant something else inside.

1060
01:16:35.880 --> 01:16:40.960
You know, when summertime comes,
angelonia does really well. It grows

1061
01:16:41.039 --> 01:16:44.600
very upright. So you got something
spilling, you got something upright. You

1062
01:16:44.640 --> 01:16:47.159
can put something in the middle that
blooms as well, like one of the

1063
01:16:47.199 --> 01:16:51.960
more compact types of zinias that makes
a little mound, a little short mounded

1064
01:16:53.199 --> 01:16:57.840
plant, unlike the big cut flower
types. How about combining something like that

1065
01:16:58.000 --> 01:17:01.680
and try that out this year.
Just get out, get outside, check

1066
01:17:01.720 --> 01:17:04.560
it out. This afternoon the rain's
gone, be a good day to go

1067
01:17:04.560 --> 01:17:11.079
out to RCW Nursery. For example. RCW has loaded up on roses.

1068
01:17:11.119 --> 01:17:15.279
You know we're talking about roses in
Valentine's Day. Well, RCW has one

1069
01:17:15.319 --> 01:17:19.640
of the largest selections I've seen,
all kinds of beautiful, beautiful roses and

1070
01:17:19.680 --> 01:17:23.039
all the supplies you need to get
them planted right. You know, they

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01:17:23.039 --> 01:17:26.960
carry the fertilizers I talk about,
and they carry much much more. They're

1072
01:17:27.000 --> 01:17:30.079
at RCW. They got all kinds
of plants and whatnot, but trees that

1073
01:17:30.560 --> 01:17:35.439
RCW has tree Farm Williamson Tree Farm
up in the Plannersville area, and they

1074
01:17:35.479 --> 01:17:40.960
grow their own trees, and so
they have an outstanding selection of container grown

1075
01:17:41.000 --> 01:17:44.159
trees as well. Remember, if
you're going to plant a tree, don't

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01:17:44.199 --> 01:17:46.239
delay, get it done now.
Now, RCW, where is it?

1077
01:17:46.279 --> 01:17:49.159
You've never been there? Where you
need to go? It's on Highway two

1078
01:17:49.159 --> 01:17:53.520
forty nine, right where it comes
into Beltway. A really easy to get

1079
01:17:53.520 --> 01:17:59.000
to there. RCW Nurseries dot com
just as simple as that Highway two forty

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01:17:59.079 --> 01:18:02.760
nine right where it comes into beltwegha
go to RCW nursery dot com, find

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01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:05.279
out they got a little map on
there, find out where they're located,

1082
01:18:05.399 --> 01:18:09.760
and go buy and see them.
Or maybe you're one of the many people

1083
01:18:10.079 --> 01:18:13.960
that already know about them and love
them. They have quite a following,

1084
01:18:14.199 --> 01:18:16.199
that is for sure, and for
good reason. We're going to go up

1085
01:18:16.199 --> 01:18:20.640
now to Burton, Texas and talk
to John. Hello, John Hey,

1086
01:18:20.680 --> 01:18:24.800
Top of the day, Keith Skip, Yes, sir, I have I

1087
01:18:24.840 --> 01:18:30.520
have some tropicals. It's called kolanchewi. I'm not sure about the pronunciation of

1088
01:18:30.560 --> 01:18:36.079
that. Okay, uh, people
you say klancho or kellancoe. I like

1089
01:18:36.159 --> 01:18:40.479
klancho, but but it doesn't matter
what you call it. I know what

1090
01:18:40.520 --> 01:18:46.760
you're talking about. Okay, My
Kolancho suffered some wilting freeze damage in the

1091
01:18:46.800 --> 01:18:51.000
garage next to the heater, and
I just wondered, should I cut him

1092
01:18:51.000 --> 01:18:56.399
back or just let him go?
They come back every year when this happens,

1093
01:18:56.479 --> 01:19:02.039
but they do. Uh, you
can if they're if they're in a

1094
01:19:02.079 --> 01:19:05.960
place where you can protect them.
Should another freeze come, you could go

1095
01:19:06.039 --> 01:19:11.960
ahead and take all the dead off, uh and and just kind of leave

1096
01:19:12.079 --> 01:19:15.199
leave it open to when it's ready
to re sprout to sprout, or you

1097
01:19:15.199 --> 01:19:17.479
could just leave it ugly and uh, you know, when it warms up

1098
01:19:17.479 --> 01:19:21.279
a little more, we feel like
we're past the freeze frost dates cut it

1099
01:19:21.319 --> 01:19:25.720
back then either way. But kaloncho
often will come back. And it also

1100
01:19:26.560 --> 01:19:30.680
produces little plantlets on its leaves that
drop to the ground and root, so

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01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:36.159
it propagates itself. Right. It's
they're great. They're beautiful when they're gloom.

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01:19:36.359 --> 01:19:40.760
They are. And also with your
theme, I was thinking about growing

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01:19:40.800 --> 01:19:45.279
some peas out here in this black
land soil. I didn't know you can

1104
01:19:45.319 --> 01:19:46.800
do it, good idea or not. No, you can do it.

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01:19:46.960 --> 01:19:50.159
You can do that. I maybe
mix a little bit of a compost in

1106
01:19:50.319 --> 01:19:55.720
not too much peas don't need a
lot of extra nitrogen. I just planted

1107
01:19:55.720 --> 01:19:59.079
some sugar snap type peas the other
day. I got them going in the

1108
01:19:59.119 --> 01:20:02.199
garden, and it's a good time
to do that with peas. We got

1109
01:20:02.199 --> 01:20:08.239
this little window where peas can't take
a hard freeze when they're very young,

1110
01:20:08.600 --> 01:20:12.840
and the blooms and the pods will
also be frozen even when the plant won't

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01:20:12.880 --> 01:20:15.399
be frozen, and so we kind
of get got to get them in early

1112
01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:18.279
because we don't want it to get
too hot when they're trying to produce.

1113
01:20:18.359 --> 01:20:24.000
But if you are, if you
haven't selected seeds yet, get a variety

1114
01:20:24.359 --> 01:20:30.319
that's somewhere between let's say fifty five
and sixty five days to harvest. Those

1115
01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:32.920
are the faster moving ones. There
are some that are seventy two or more

1116
01:20:33.039 --> 01:20:38.039
seventy five days or so. Go
with a faster one, you have better

1117
01:20:38.119 --> 01:20:41.920
luck. Okay, appreciate you tip, Thanks sir. All right, have

1118
01:20:42.000 --> 01:20:45.039
fun with those, you know.
I call peas garden food. Gardener food.

1119
01:20:45.079 --> 01:20:48.159
By the way, unless you plan
a lot, you're always going to

1120
01:20:48.239 --> 01:20:51.439
have about a handful every day and
not enough to take in and cook.

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01:20:53.039 --> 01:20:58.279
But while I'm working in the garden, that's my snack reward to just snack

1122
01:20:58.319 --> 01:21:02.159
on those sweet sweet peas. Sir, Thank you, thank you, bye

1123
01:21:02.199 --> 01:21:09.119
bye. That is good when you're
out shopping for supplies. I'm talking about

1124
01:21:09.399 --> 01:21:12.920
all kinds of things. ACE Hardware
is the place, you know. ACE

1125
01:21:13.039 --> 01:21:15.439
is the place for all kinds of
things. I was out at Jnr's ACE

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01:21:15.560 --> 01:21:20.760
up in the Porter area just yesterday, visiting with Jeff and looking at all

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01:21:20.760 --> 01:21:24.880
the stuff they had in the store
and talking about all the shipments that coming

1128
01:21:24.920 --> 01:21:28.000
in and everything. You know,
they're gonna have every kind of fertilizer that

1129
01:21:28.079 --> 01:21:30.560
you need for your garden that we
talk about here on guarden Line. They

1130
01:21:30.600 --> 01:21:32.479
got pest control products that we talk
about on guarden Line. They got the

1131
01:21:32.520 --> 01:21:36.479
tools and the hoses and all kinds
of things like that at ACE Hardware.

1132
01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:40.680
But ACE is more. If you
go to our Facebook page, i posted

1133
01:21:40.680 --> 01:21:45.399
something about ACE is a place for
barbecue supplies and pits. Oh my gosh,

1134
01:21:45.439 --> 01:21:47.920
they have some nice ones. And
the supply for home furnishings as well,

1135
01:21:48.000 --> 01:21:51.520
you know, the beautiful little decorations
to create your little farmhouse look or

1136
01:21:51.560 --> 01:21:56.600
whatever look you're going for. You'd
be surprised at what they have at ACE.

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01:21:56.600 --> 01:22:00.159
Hardware. You can go to Acehardware
dot com. Do this. You're

1138
01:22:00.159 --> 01:22:05.079
a locator, find the Houston area
and it is you pretty much can throw

1139
01:22:05.119 --> 01:22:11.680
a rock from wherever you live to
an ACE Hardware someone somewhere very very close

1140
01:22:11.720 --> 01:22:15.680
by. That's just how many they
have out there. Well, we're gonna

1141
01:22:15.680 --> 01:22:17.039
have to take a little break right
here. When we come back, Charlie,

1142
01:22:17.079 --> 01:22:19.720
you will be the first up for
the rest of you. If you'd

1143
01:22:19.760 --> 01:22:26.920
like to call seven to one three
two one two kat r H. Welcome

1144
01:22:26.960 --> 01:22:29.960
back to garden Line. What are
we going to talk about today? Well,

1145
01:22:30.079 --> 01:22:33.039
it looks like a few things here. Got several folks on on the

1146
01:22:33.119 --> 01:22:38.439
line ready to go. Let's just
jump right out there and find out what's

1147
01:22:38.439 --> 01:22:43.239
happening. We're going to start off
with the Charlie and Lake Jackson. Hello,

1148
01:22:43.399 --> 01:22:48.000
Charlie, Hey, thanks for taking
my call. You bet with my

1149
01:22:48.319 --> 01:22:55.279
granddaughter a bed to Roseberg my parents. But anyway, I was listening and

1150
01:22:55.399 --> 01:23:00.600
she loves listening to you. She
loves listening about good and anyway, my

1151
01:23:00.800 --> 01:23:06.439
question is with ground hooking for uh, you know, the prediction? Does

1152
01:23:06.479 --> 01:23:14.600
that change? I'm doing some flower
beds things down like tas. I'm just

1153
01:23:14.880 --> 01:23:19.720
curious about, you know, planting. Uh, it's just a different things.

1154
01:23:19.720 --> 01:23:25.680
But all right, hey Charlie,
you're you're cutting out a lout a

1155
01:23:25.720 --> 01:23:28.760
lot on me. But I think
I got the gist of it. So

1156
01:23:28.840 --> 01:23:34.680
basically, no, no groundhog does
not uh affect in any way what we're

1157
01:23:34.720 --> 01:23:40.520
doing down here. In fact,
I would say that's in Pennsylvania, right,

1158
01:23:40.560 --> 01:23:44.840
Puck Satani Pennsylvany. I don't know
wherever it is. It's north of

1159
01:23:44.920 --> 01:23:48.840
us, and so we're not going
to let those predictions affect what we're doing

1160
01:23:48.840 --> 01:23:53.760
here. We more go by our
average frustrates and things, and uh,

1161
01:23:53.920 --> 01:23:56.800
you know, in general, we
do a little cheating on the weather.

1162
01:23:56.920 --> 01:23:59.760
Sometimes we go as run out there
and cover something up if we planted a

1163
01:23:59.800 --> 01:24:04.279
little a little bit too early,
so that that's a better guide for us.

1164
01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:09.159
It's it's hard enough just based on
the looking at the averages each year,

1165
01:24:09.960 --> 01:24:12.279
you know, trying to predict what
this year is going to be.

1166
01:24:12.560 --> 01:24:16.119
Sometimes forecasters will give these long range
forecasts, which I think are a little

1167
01:24:16.119 --> 01:24:19.880
bit dubious of that kind of thing. But anyway, Yeah, now,

1168
01:24:20.079 --> 01:24:26.479
no no groundhog information for us,
don done here. And thanks Charlie.

1169
01:24:26.560 --> 01:24:30.640
I tell your daughter hello, and
we're glad you're listening to garden line.

1170
01:24:30.680 --> 01:24:33.760
Gardening is one of the best hobbies
and the most fun thing you can do.

1171
01:24:33.800 --> 01:24:36.680
And I know as a kid I
had a garden. In fact,

1172
01:24:38.840 --> 01:24:43.520
your daughter's fortunate. She probably doesn't
have this situation. But whenever I'm misbehaved,

1173
01:24:44.039 --> 01:24:47.079
I would be sent out to weed
the garden. Yeah, that's right,

1174
01:24:47.439 --> 01:24:53.880
And let me just say we had
the most weed free garden in Texas.

1175
01:24:54.039 --> 01:24:56.600
And I'll let you put two and
two together and figure out what that

1176
01:24:56.680 --> 01:24:59.720
meant. We're going to go back
out now on the phones to Sandy and

1177
01:24:59.800 --> 01:25:02.800
Side. Hello, Sandy, good
morning, Skip. How are you.

1178
01:25:03.000 --> 01:25:09.279
I'm well, thank you. I
have a question. I planted radish from

1179
01:25:09.359 --> 01:25:16.159
seed and unfortunately, once they sprouted, I kept them on my stove with

1180
01:25:16.319 --> 01:25:21.399
the lights that are on my stove
and they started legging. So I put

1181
01:25:21.439 --> 01:25:27.439
them by the sunlight by my windowsill. Right, And is there any way

1182
01:25:27.479 --> 01:25:30.920
I can fix that legging or Johnny
to pull them in we started, Well,

1183
01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:32.680
it depends on how bad. No, there's no fixing it other than

1184
01:25:32.720 --> 01:25:38.479
getting them in lots of sunlight and
letting them continue to develop and that they

1185
01:25:38.560 --> 01:25:42.720
should take off with better growth.
If they've been in that low of light.

1186
01:25:42.800 --> 01:25:45.359
I wouldn't put them in full sun
immediately. I'd give them a week

1187
01:25:45.479 --> 01:25:49.039
or so out in a bright shade
or maybe a little early morning sun,

1188
01:25:49.800 --> 01:25:57.680
and then move them into a more
full sun location. And then also my

1189
01:25:59.039 --> 01:26:06.720
cluster beans and my celebrity tomatoes.
My celebrity tomatoes sprouted up, but they

1190
01:26:06.760 --> 01:26:13.680
look very skinny and small. I've
got them by my window sill as well.

1191
01:26:14.359 --> 01:26:17.479
And but my cluster beans, how
long do you think that takes to

1192
01:26:17.520 --> 01:26:25.319
germinate? I don't know which bean
you're talking about when you say clusters,

1193
01:26:25.359 --> 01:26:30.800
those long green, like do you
eat the whole bean pod? Yes,

1194
01:26:30.880 --> 01:26:34.119
okay, yes, I know what
you're Yeah, well, those generally germinate

1195
01:26:34.239 --> 01:26:38.640
in just three days or something.
You should be seeing those. If the

1196
01:26:38.720 --> 01:26:44.920
temperatures are warm enough, they should
germinate it fast enough. On January twenty

1197
01:26:44.960 --> 01:26:47.760
eighth, so that's why I was
wondering, Like my okra came up,

1198
01:26:47.920 --> 01:26:53.880
my oh okra, Wow, Okay, Well tell you what you need to

1199
01:26:53.880 --> 01:26:57.199
get you one of those little plant
lights. And you know there's you can

1200
01:26:57.239 --> 01:26:59.720
spend a lot. You can spend
a little to get one. But I

1201
01:26:59.800 --> 01:27:04.039
used to to use a shop light
a little four foot shop lights. Put

1202
01:27:04.039 --> 01:27:09.039
a bulb that's more of a warm
white kind of bulb and one that's more

1203
01:27:09.039 --> 01:27:13.399
of a cool white. You can
get led versions, but it's really hard

1204
01:27:13.399 --> 01:27:16.880
to get good seedlings in a windowsill. It just is, you know there

1205
01:27:17.399 --> 01:27:21.479
the light seems like a lot,
but it's not compared to be in just

1206
01:27:21.520 --> 01:27:26.600
a couple of inches under a shop
light. That would be one thing maybe

1207
01:27:26.720 --> 01:27:30.159
think about for future. Do you
think I need a heating pad too to

1208
01:27:30.199 --> 01:27:34.880
put underneath? Well forgetting the seed
to germinate. That helps, But if

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01:27:34.880 --> 01:27:40.720
you're okrah germinated, then you ought
to be fine, because it's a little

1210
01:27:40.880 --> 01:27:45.800
picky about cold germination. But if
it germinated, you should be okay and

1211
01:27:45.840 --> 01:27:49.600
not need a heating pad. Okay, all right, well, thank you

1212
01:27:49.720 --> 01:27:53.399
very much. All right, good
luck with it. You take care all

1213
01:27:53.479 --> 01:27:57.920
right. Thank you. Appreciate your
code. You bet you bet. Hey.

1214
01:27:58.039 --> 01:28:01.640
If you look outside and you you
have got birds at your feeder,

1215
01:28:01.680 --> 01:28:03.600
and if you don't have a feeder, you need to have one. I

1216
01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:06.640
was just my wife and I were
watching the bird feeder the other day,

1217
01:28:06.680 --> 01:28:12.199
and oh my gosh, there are
so many kinds of birds that are coming.

1218
01:28:12.720 --> 01:28:15.199
You get a good quality blend.
And while birds unlimited, they have

1219
01:28:15.720 --> 01:28:20.199
the best, absolutely the best bird
blends that you're going to find. Here's

1220
01:28:20.199 --> 01:28:24.520
why I say that. Number one, they're not full of the little red

1221
01:28:24.560 --> 01:28:27.800
bebes that most birds are just not
going to eat. So when you buy

1222
01:28:27.840 --> 01:28:30.960
a pound of bird seed, you
get a pound of bird food, if

1223
01:28:30.000 --> 01:28:32.840
you know what I'm talking about.
So that's number one. Number two,

1224
01:28:33.159 --> 01:28:40.840
if you want a mess free blend
where there's no holes laying around like sunflower

1225
01:28:40.880 --> 01:28:44.439
seed holes and stuff underneath, they
even have those as well. They have

1226
01:28:44.479 --> 01:28:46.800
blends for every kind of bird that
you would want. You know, there

1227
01:28:46.880 --> 01:28:50.640
different birds eat different kinds of seed
or they prefer different kinds, and they

1228
01:28:50.640 --> 01:28:53.840
can get you set up on that. Right now, though, you need

1229
01:28:53.880 --> 01:28:56.920
to know bluebirds are looking for boxes, So if you want to put up

1230
01:28:56.920 --> 01:29:00.600
a bluebird house, now's the time
to go. Buy wilbirds, get one,

1231
01:29:00.760 --> 01:29:04.199
get it set up. Same with
purple martins. When we in fact

1232
01:29:04.239 --> 01:29:08.840
we're in the season now where we
look up at the sky and any time

1233
01:29:09.000 --> 01:29:12.199
now you're going to see purple martins
coming through. And if you got the

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01:29:12.279 --> 01:29:15.520
house and it's up and ready,
they'll stop and they'll live there. If

1235
01:29:15.560 --> 01:29:17.520
you don't have a house and you
wait too long, you're going to have

1236
01:29:17.520 --> 01:29:21.119
missed the season. It's still good
to put one up, but why not

1237
01:29:21.159 --> 01:29:27.479
get it done ahead of time.
There's six stores for wild birds all over

1238
01:29:27.520 --> 01:29:32.640
the Houston area. Just go to
wb U dot com, forward Slash Houston,

1239
01:29:33.000 --> 01:29:36.960
WBU dot com forward Slash Houston find
a wild Bird's near you, and

1240
01:29:38.000 --> 01:29:43.039
I would highly recommend that you consider
adding a bird feeder, a bird house,

1241
01:29:43.279 --> 01:29:45.920
birds, or just one of the
additional thing. The music from their

1242
01:29:45.960 --> 01:29:51.560
songs and the beauty of them just
adds to the garden as well as some

1243
01:29:53.119 --> 01:29:57.279
pest control. A lot of birds
love insects and that's what they're all about,

1244
01:29:57.720 --> 01:30:00.000
and we need some of that in
our gardens as well. Let's go

1245
01:30:00.039 --> 01:30:04.600
out to Baytown. Now we're going
to talk to Henry Hey. Henry Hey,

1246
01:30:04.680 --> 01:30:10.159
how you doing a great show?
Speaking of birds? Does the humming

1247
01:30:10.199 --> 01:30:15.920
birds they only come out certain certain
part of the year. There's times when

1248
01:30:15.960 --> 01:30:18.479
they're here and times when they're migrating. And we had a fall migration.

1249
01:30:18.640 --> 01:30:23.520
Most of them left. You have
a few sometimes that hang around, I've

1250
01:30:23.560 --> 01:30:27.680
noticed, but in general, you
know, they they passed through in the

1251
01:30:27.720 --> 01:30:30.239
fall on the way down, okay
south by the end of the Yeah,

1252
01:30:30.520 --> 01:30:33.680
the reason the mask? Could I
notice my hummingbird feed? I know it's

1253
01:30:33.680 --> 01:30:36.960
getting lower and lower, So that's
why I'm just curious. Well, here's

1254
01:30:38.039 --> 01:30:41.560
my call. Where reason I'm calling. Last summer when we had that big

1255
01:30:41.640 --> 01:30:44.520
draft, I had a lot of
big brown spots in my front yard,

1256
01:30:44.640 --> 01:30:47.039
et cetera. And I believe my
front yard is going to be okay because

1257
01:30:47.039 --> 01:30:51.279
I've been out there looking and I
know it's a lot of the grass is

1258
01:30:51.359 --> 01:30:56.359
starting with green that's growing up through
the brown, which, by the way,

1259
01:30:56.359 --> 01:30:59.840
I have Saint Augustine, Okay,
finally coming up. So I believe

1260
01:31:00.039 --> 01:31:02.640
I'm gonna be okay. On the
front lawn. Now I have a sidewalk,

1261
01:31:02.760 --> 01:31:09.439
then you have the little it's about
three feet by maybe fifteen feet of

1262
01:31:09.680 --> 01:31:14.279
area. Then you have the street. Well, that particular area is completely

1263
01:31:14.319 --> 01:31:17.720
still brown, and I have not
seen any of the green coming up.

1264
01:31:17.960 --> 01:31:23.359
What I have to replace that with
sod or just wait, you could wait

1265
01:31:23.399 --> 01:31:27.640
a little while, but either chinch
bugs or the heat and drought or a

1266
01:31:27.680 --> 01:31:31.479
combination probably took it out out there. But here's what I would do,

1267
01:31:31.560 --> 01:31:35.279
Henriette, I don't know what the
HOA rules are and everything. But that

1268
01:31:35.439 --> 01:31:41.039
is a hard spot to water without
wasting water, and it's hard to get

1269
01:31:41.039 --> 01:31:44.600
it on the grass and not on
the street and the sidewalk, and a

1270
01:31:44.640 --> 01:31:48.600
lot of people will go to more
of a groundcover type plant in that area

1271
01:31:48.680 --> 01:31:53.760
that's more drop tolerant. And there's
different options that you can do for that,

1272
01:31:54.600 --> 01:31:58.680
and so you might just kind of
stop and think about that. If

1273
01:31:58.720 --> 01:32:02.079
you do a search on line,
you can do a search for plants for

1274
01:32:02.279 --> 01:32:08.520
hell strips they call those the hell
strip yeah, hell strips or something,

1275
01:32:08.800 --> 01:32:12.640
and get some ideas on those.
Some people will use succulents in those areas.

1276
01:32:12.640 --> 01:32:15.560
Some just use a groundcover. Maybe
you have mulched area with some you

1277
01:32:15.600 --> 01:32:19.920
know, some plants that are a
little more deep rooted resilient than the grass

1278
01:32:19.960 --> 01:32:25.000
would be. Okay, well,
I appreciate it and you have a saving

1279
01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:29.119
happy day you as well. Thank
you appreciate that call. Appreciate it very

1280
01:32:29.159 --> 01:32:32.960
much. You know, when you're
looking to improve the soil, and we

1281
01:32:33.000 --> 01:32:38.960
do improve the soil first, that's
first. Landscaper's Pride has a wide variety

1282
01:32:39.000 --> 01:32:44.479
of options for you. In fact, they've got probably twenty seven now different

1283
01:32:44.560 --> 01:32:48.520
bag products from mulches and soil mixes
and whatnot. They've got a rose soil

1284
01:32:48.600 --> 01:32:51.760
mix. They've got the black velvet
mulch, which is just beautiful. It's

1285
01:32:51.800 --> 01:32:57.399
black, but it's not dyed.
We hate dyed mulches. Those are don't

1286
01:32:57.399 --> 01:33:01.119
do that. But black velvet is
naturally dark colored. Malts is really beautiful.

1287
01:33:01.199 --> 01:33:05.359
From Landscapers Pride, you can go
to Landscaperspride dot com. You can

1288
01:33:05.359 --> 01:33:09.680
buy them by the bag all over
the place. If you're to Landscaperspride dot

1289
01:33:09.720 --> 01:33:12.800
com, you can find out where
they sell in your area, and they've

1290
01:33:12.800 --> 01:33:15.079
got them. And by the way, we were just talking to Sandy about

1291
01:33:15.319 --> 01:33:20.039
starting seeds. Landscaper's Pride has a
forty pound bag of potting soil, the

1292
01:33:20.039 --> 01:33:25.520
most budget friendly, fully customizable.
So it's got the age, pine bark,

1293
01:33:25.640 --> 01:33:29.720
sand and different blended organics in it. But if you wanted to move

1294
01:33:29.760 --> 01:33:32.239
it, you know, with more
gritty material toward kind of a soil for

1295
01:33:32.359 --> 01:33:35.640
cactine succulent, you could do that
if you want to screen it out a

1296
01:33:35.680 --> 01:33:41.159
little bit and make sure find texture
to be a great soil for seed starting.

1297
01:33:41.199 --> 01:33:44.760
In fact, it's already quite fine
textured as well, and makes a

1298
01:33:44.760 --> 01:33:50.439
good seed starting mix as well.
Landscaper's Pride wide variety, widely available Landscaperspride

1299
01:33:50.439 --> 01:33:56.199
dot com. Find out more from
them. I love to I love to

1300
01:33:56.640 --> 01:34:00.720
always try out new things, and
I'm always trying out new soil mixes and

1301
01:34:00.760 --> 01:34:03.800
blends and different stuff like that.
In fact, you know talking about that

1302
01:34:05.039 --> 01:34:11.600
out at Ciena Maltz. They carry
a wide variety of soa mixes and blends

1303
01:34:11.600 --> 01:34:14.760
and multi They got Landscapers Pride by
the bag out there. For example.

1304
01:34:15.239 --> 01:34:17.800
They've got the products you heard me
today talking about Microlife. You're talking about

1305
01:34:17.880 --> 01:34:21.520
Medina product. They got all that, the fertilizers, I recommend you're going

1306
01:34:21.600 --> 01:34:26.840
to find it Ciena Maltz. They're
down in the north of Roe Sharon area

1307
01:34:27.000 --> 01:34:32.439
FM five twenty one. Just go
to Sienna Multch dot com cienamultch dot com.

1308
01:34:32.479 --> 01:34:35.079
There's a big shindig coming up out
there that I'm going to be at

1309
01:34:35.159 --> 01:34:39.159
later in the spring. I'll tell
you more about that later, but Ciena

1310
01:34:39.239 --> 01:34:43.000
Maultch is a great place to go
in to get set up and ready to

1311
01:34:43.039 --> 01:34:45.000
go for spring. They're open till
two o'clock today. If you'd like to

1312
01:34:45.079 --> 01:34:48.279
run out there and get an early
look. Maybe put your order in to

1313
01:34:48.319 --> 01:34:53.039
get ready for a delivery. They
deliver about twenty miles from the area,

1314
01:34:53.079 --> 01:34:58.199
and that down in that Ciena Maltch
area on five point twenty one near just

1315
01:34:58.279 --> 01:35:00.399
north of Ross Sharon. We're going
to a break for Nicky in the news

1316
01:35:00.800 --> 01:35:05.079
and that's the next thing, right
Nikki, you're you're ready to go.

1317
01:35:05.279 --> 01:35:08.640
I'm ready to go. Unless you
want to switch. You do gardening and

1318
01:35:08.680 --> 01:35:12.439
I'll make up stories about the news. I don't know. I don't have

1319
01:35:12.520 --> 01:35:15.520
my finger on the pulse like you
do. All right, we'll be back.

1320
01:35:15.960 --> 01:35:19.560
Welcome back to guarden Line. Glad
you're listening today. What do you

1321
01:35:19.560 --> 01:35:23.560
want to talk about. I want
to talk about spring. I want to

1322
01:35:23.560 --> 01:35:27.359
talk about the excitement of the gardening
season. And listen, it is time.

1323
01:35:27.439 --> 01:35:30.399
It is time to kick in the
gear. Don't wait until it's eighty

1324
01:35:30.439 --> 01:35:34.319
degrees outside and you know your garden
fever starts to wake up. No,

1325
01:35:34.399 --> 01:35:40.000
it's time now. If it hadn't
woken up, joshure yourself and you know,

1326
01:35:40.039 --> 01:35:42.159
I don't know, look at this, see catalog or something. Go

1327
01:35:42.199 --> 01:35:45.359
online, look at some of our
garden Center's websites. Get some inspiration.

1328
01:35:45.720 --> 01:35:48.920
Because we want to get out there
and get some gardening done. That is

1329
01:35:49.000 --> 01:35:51.920
for sure. We're going to go
to Fort ben County now and talk to

1330
01:35:53.000 --> 01:35:57.600
Scott. Hello, Scott, Okay, good morning, Thanks for taking my

1331
01:35:57.680 --> 01:36:01.479
call. I got a question.
I got two oak trees in my front

1332
01:36:01.520 --> 01:36:08.960
yard and one of them has brown
leaves and shed all of its leaves.

1333
01:36:09.000 --> 01:36:13.720
The other ones still green. I'm
wondering if that freeze didn't kill that oak

1334
01:36:13.760 --> 01:36:18.399
tree. Are they supposed to be
the same species of oak? They are,

1335
01:36:18.079 --> 01:36:26.159
They're similar, but I've never seen
them, you know, shed leaves

1336
01:36:26.199 --> 01:36:29.920
at different times like that. Yeah, so are the leaves closer to the

1337
01:36:29.960 --> 01:36:34.840
size of your thumb or your hand. They're a little bit bigger than the

1338
01:36:34.920 --> 01:36:40.840
thumb, not quite as big as
a hand. Okay, Well, without

1339
01:36:40.880 --> 01:36:44.600
seeing a picture of it, I
can't identify for sure which oak you have.

1340
01:36:45.479 --> 01:36:49.079
Some oaks hold their leaves like a
live oak. They hold them almost

1341
01:36:49.079 --> 01:36:55.640
all year. There's a transition in
the spring. Others go deciduous naturally,

1342
01:36:56.640 --> 01:37:00.920
So if one of them is green, this must not be one that's naturally

1343
01:37:00.399 --> 01:37:05.560
deciduous in the wintertime. The fact
that they're the same oak species and one

1344
01:37:05.600 --> 01:37:10.199
has leaves and the other doesn't tells
me there's probably something wrong with the one

1345
01:37:10.439 --> 01:37:15.840
that doesn't have leaves. It could
have been cold damage. I would think

1346
01:37:15.880 --> 01:37:20.560
that's a long shot this year,
but it's possible. Yeah, that freeze

1347
01:37:20.600 --> 01:37:25.720
a couple of years ago was a
lot worse. Yes, much more so,

1348
01:37:26.039 --> 01:37:31.399
Yeah, much worse. The December
freeze last winter was it hit when

1349
01:37:31.880 --> 01:37:34.800
a lot of plants weren't ready,
and that was rough. And then in

1350
01:37:34.840 --> 01:37:39.720
February of twenty one we had the
freeze where it just went in a polar

1351
01:37:39.840 --> 01:37:44.399
vortex for our area down here and
so but this year we did have a

1352
01:37:44.399 --> 01:37:47.119
little snap of a frieze, pretty
good one. But most of our oaks

1353
01:37:47.119 --> 01:37:49.760
and stuff should be just fine.
If you want to, I can put

1354
01:37:49.760 --> 01:37:54.000
you on hold. You can send
me some photos of the two trees,

1355
01:37:54.399 --> 01:37:57.880
preferably some close up of the leaves
as well, so I can identify what

1356
01:37:57.960 --> 01:38:00.800
kind of hook you have, but
one photo of them in their setting,

1357
01:38:00.920 --> 01:38:02.800
so I can come look for anything
else I might see. I'll put you

1358
01:38:02.840 --> 01:38:05.560
on hold here. I'll put you
on hold here, and if you'd like

1359
01:38:05.640 --> 01:38:09.199
to do that, just hang on
Josh. Josh will pick up and get

1360
01:38:09.279 --> 01:38:12.840
you an email. Thank you,
Scott. I appreciate, appreciate your call

1361
01:38:12.920 --> 01:38:19.159
a lot. Have you been to
the Arborgate recently? I know everybody knows

1362
01:38:19.199 --> 01:38:23.760
what Arbrogade he other. I mean, that's just one of those destination garden

1363
01:38:23.800 --> 01:38:27.720
centers that you really need to go
to. And you know what do we

1364
01:38:27.760 --> 01:38:30.520
mean by destination. We mean when
you bring people from out of town or

1365
01:38:30.560 --> 01:38:36.399
if you live across Texas, it's
worth thriving here to get to the Arborgate

1366
01:38:36.520 --> 01:38:40.159
to see the things that they have. Well, if you haven't been in

1367
01:38:40.199 --> 01:38:43.279
a while, they've got a new
parking lot. It's been a while around

1368
01:38:43.319 --> 01:38:45.640
a while now, but a lot
of people aren't aware of that. But

1369
01:38:45.720 --> 01:38:49.800
there's a really nice parking area behind
back. You turn on Trisher Road either

1370
01:38:49.920 --> 01:38:54.079
before or after Arburgate, whether you're
coming from the east or the west,

1371
01:38:54.159 --> 01:38:57.119
just go right behind it. There's
the parking lot in the back. You

1372
01:38:57.199 --> 01:39:01.119
just walk nice all weather path just
right back up into the garden center.

1373
01:39:01.199 --> 01:39:04.479
It is so easy, so easy
to get to and get out of it.

1374
01:39:04.560 --> 01:39:08.439
You know, the Arborgate, they're
going to have all kinds of things.

1375
01:39:08.479 --> 01:39:12.119
They got staff on hand that know
what they're talking about. They sell

1376
01:39:12.159 --> 01:39:15.760
things that grow here. That is
important. It is so important to have

1377
01:39:15.840 --> 01:39:19.920
a garden center where you know,
when you buy something, you're going to

1378
01:39:19.920 --> 01:39:24.800
get a good plant, you're going
to get good advice, and then after

1379
01:39:24.880 --> 01:39:27.960
the sale, if you need help, they help you with that as well.

1380
01:39:28.239 --> 01:39:30.840
While you're there pick up. They're
one, two, three, completely

1381
01:39:30.880 --> 01:39:34.039
easy system that's a food that feeds
anything with roots, that's a soil for

1382
01:39:34.159 --> 01:39:38.319
any application that you would want to
use, a high quality soil mix,

1383
01:39:38.760 --> 01:39:42.199
and a compost that improves any soil. And the last two the soil and

1384
01:39:42.239 --> 01:39:45.920
the compost have expanded shale in them, which is really important for our heavy,

1385
01:39:45.960 --> 01:39:50.520
heavy clay soils around here. Go
to Arborgate dot com. Arborgate dot

1386
01:39:50.560 --> 01:39:54.159
com. You can find out where
they are. You can find out the

1387
01:39:54.199 --> 01:39:57.960
phone numbers, you can find out
all kinds of things and follow them on

1388
01:39:58.000 --> 01:40:01.159
social media too. By the way, beautiful, beautiful selections, a lot

1389
01:40:01.159 --> 01:40:05.520
of stuff from Monrovia that's coming in
now that is just outstanding. At the

1390
01:40:05.600 --> 01:40:13.199
arbor Gate, I have talked about
spring and spring excitement and you know,

1391
01:40:13.319 --> 01:40:16.520
being ready to hit the ground running. I've already got my seeds started indoors.

1392
01:40:16.560 --> 01:40:18.760
I'm going to be starting some more. By the way, we have

1393
01:40:18.840 --> 01:40:23.720
things that plant a little bit later
than others. We're starting those and getting

1394
01:40:23.720 --> 01:40:27.960
them ready to go outside. Have
been cleaning up the garden, just kind

1395
01:40:28.000 --> 01:40:30.960
of a leftover remains of the of
the last fall garden where we had some

1396
01:40:31.000 --> 01:40:35.600
freeze damage and stuff. Getting that
cleaned up. I'm about to fill up

1397
01:40:35.800 --> 01:40:40.119
a I've got a veggo rolling bed
that I'm about to fill up with saw

1398
01:40:40.239 --> 01:40:44.479
mix and get growing in that.
One of my fun things. I think

1399
01:40:44.520 --> 01:40:46.359
this is cool. I don't know. You may go not in my neighborhood,

1400
01:40:46.520 --> 01:40:50.000
but I think it's cool. I
plant in wheelbarrows. I've got two

1401
01:40:50.039 --> 01:40:54.960
or three wheelbarrows that have a quality
soil mix on them, and I planted

1402
01:40:54.960 --> 01:40:57.720
them. You can have flowers spilling
over the sides I was talking about,

1403
01:40:57.760 --> 01:41:01.479
like the trailing petunia. Oh my
gosh, that's awesome. In a wheelbarrow

1404
01:41:02.439 --> 01:41:06.960
less some spills over the side well
too, that would be another good choice

1405
01:41:08.560 --> 01:41:12.159
you can use. Just fill them
with flowers. It's like a bouquet in

1406
01:41:13.039 --> 01:41:17.439
the bed of a wheelbarrow. I
plant vegetables and wheelbarrows. If you want

1407
01:41:18.000 --> 01:41:24.279
greens planting. You know, we're
talking about lettuce and spinach and arugula and

1408
01:41:25.119 --> 01:41:28.760
kale and all the different things you
would eat as greens. Just feel a

1409
01:41:28.760 --> 01:41:31.439
wheelbarrow full of them and then just
go out there with their scissors and mow

1410
01:41:31.479 --> 01:41:36.000
your harvest and it's easy and easy. The nice thing about wheelbarrows is if

1411
01:41:36.000 --> 01:41:40.479
it's a really hard freeze like we
had, roll them into the garage.

1412
01:41:40.960 --> 01:41:45.119
If you need more sun, you
just move the wheelbarrow to there. You

1413
01:41:45.159 --> 01:41:46.560
can move it to mow around it
if you got it out in the yard.

1414
01:41:47.199 --> 01:41:49.840
But that's different, right, Why
don't you try that this year if

1415
01:41:49.880 --> 01:41:56.399
you think that esthetically would fit the
bill for you. It's just another way

1416
01:41:56.439 --> 01:42:00.720
to grow. And there's so many
cool and new fun things we can try

1417
01:42:00.079 --> 01:42:03.680
that it really really is worth giving
it a try. I think you should.

1418
01:42:04.439 --> 01:42:08.800
So what's new for you this year? Just let us know, or

1419
01:42:08.800 --> 01:42:11.359
what are you excited about after we
come back. We're going to take a

1420
01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:15.039
break here after we come back.
I'd like to know what are you excited

1421
01:42:15.079 --> 01:42:17.520
about growing this year? What if
you never tried before, or maybe there's

1422
01:42:17.520 --> 01:42:20.079
something you want to try, and
just ask us, hey, skip do

1423
01:42:20.119 --> 01:42:24.319
you think that'll grow here? I'll
tell you what I think. And I've

1424
01:42:24.359 --> 01:42:27.520
tried about everything under the sun.
As they say, to be a good

1425
01:42:27.560 --> 01:42:30.399
horticulture, she got to kill a
lot of plants. Don't be afraid to

1426
01:42:30.439 --> 01:42:33.079
try something new. It's all right. Our phone number when we come back

1427
01:42:33.199 --> 01:42:40.880
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Welcome back to guarden

1428
01:42:40.880 --> 01:42:45.239
Line. Glad you're listening today,
and we are talking about all kinds of

1429
01:42:45.319 --> 01:42:48.479
things, things that you might be
interested in. We are going to head

1430
01:42:48.560 --> 01:42:54.119
out to let's see Lake Jackson and
talk to Steve. Hello, Steve,

1431
01:42:55.439 --> 01:43:00.359
Yes, Hi, skip, Good
morning morning. So alrighty, I've got

1432
01:43:00.720 --> 01:43:04.720
an issue here. I want to
get proactive with some damage that was done

1433
01:43:04.720 --> 01:43:10.079
to my front yard. I've got
some Saint Augustine and I've got three or

1434
01:43:10.119 --> 01:43:15.119
four column crop circles, you know, just kind of anyway, that's the

1435
01:43:15.119 --> 01:43:17.319
way I think of it. But
they're about three or four or five feet

1436
01:43:17.399 --> 01:43:24.359
in diameter. The Saint Augustine has
gone brown. I don't know if it

1437
01:43:24.840 --> 01:43:29.640
was insect infestation, if it was
fungal infection, you know, towards the

1438
01:43:29.720 --> 01:43:32.640
end of the summer there. Okay, but but I am going to you

1439
01:43:32.680 --> 01:43:36.680
know, adopt your schedule. I
almost start taking over the long care myself.

1440
01:43:36.760 --> 01:43:43.319
I discharged long care company didn't seem
like, you know things, the

1441
01:43:43.359 --> 01:43:46.079
results weren't all that great. So
all right, what can I do proactively

1442
01:43:46.159 --> 01:43:50.399
to you know, repair those areas
that are brown? Right, So those

1443
01:43:50.439 --> 01:43:56.239
are due to a disease called brown
patch. It's now called large patch,

1444
01:43:56.279 --> 01:44:00.880
but we still call it brown patch
the whole name. And it is active

1445
01:44:00.039 --> 01:44:04.399
when it is cool and moist,
which is in the fall here and in

1446
01:44:04.439 --> 01:44:08.600
the spring as well. You can
get a little bit of it in the

1447
01:44:08.640 --> 01:44:12.199
winter, but typically in the winter
you're just left over with the brown circles

1448
01:44:12.199 --> 01:44:15.840
from fall. They're not going to
regreen until the weather warms up and the

1449
01:44:15.880 --> 01:44:19.319
grass wants to grow, so you
can't make it green now, just take

1450
01:44:19.319 --> 01:44:24.600
care of it. If you have
my long pest disease and weed management schedule,

1451
01:44:24.640 --> 01:44:30.560
you'll notice that from late January all
through mid March or times when brown

1452
01:44:30.600 --> 01:44:34.680
patch or large patch can still occur. And so if you were going to

1453
01:44:34.720 --> 01:44:40.800
put a preventative product on that schedule, it lists your options, both organic

1454
01:44:40.800 --> 01:44:45.199
and synthetic for dealing with disease like
that, and so you just I would

1455
01:44:45.239 --> 01:44:49.359
go ahead and do it sooner rather
than later. Let's get now that we're

1456
01:44:49.399 --> 01:44:56.560
through this rain, getting something down
to protect the grass from a reinfection of

1457
01:44:56.600 --> 01:45:00.880
it in the spring would be helpful. To avoid over watering. Can't control

1458
01:45:00.920 --> 01:45:04.479
the rain, but avoid over watering. And don't push it with a lot

1459
01:45:04.520 --> 01:45:11.680
of fertilizer when you're going into a
brown patch season, because it makes it

1460
01:45:11.760 --> 01:45:15.479
if it just makes it a little
bit worse when you push it too far

1461
01:45:15.560 --> 01:45:18.920
with nitrogen. Yeah, that that
section of the yard in context. About

1462
01:45:18.920 --> 01:45:23.000
a year a little over a year
ago, I had chinch bugs that just

1463
01:45:23.039 --> 01:45:26.119
wiped me out. Yeah, in
a good portion of the yard. So

1464
01:45:26.199 --> 01:45:29.960
I rested, and I'm just,
you know, eager to keep this keep

1465
01:45:30.000 --> 01:45:31.319
this starring thing healthy. Well there
you go. Well, good luck with

1466
01:45:31.399 --> 01:45:34.039
that. And you got those schedules, so they tell you everything you need

1467
01:45:34.079 --> 01:45:38.520
about making the grass happy and dealing
with the problems that try to attack it.

1468
01:45:39.359 --> 01:45:43.920
Okay, And your schedule is is
gardening by Skip, Gardening with Skip,

1469
01:45:44.119 --> 01:45:47.479
gardening with Skip dot com, Gardening
with Skip dot Com. I just

1470
01:45:47.520 --> 01:45:51.439
put a little updated version up last
night, and so you should be ready

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01:45:51.479 --> 01:45:56.239
to go. Thanks a lot,
appreciate the call. Thank you, Steve.

1472
01:45:56.560 --> 01:46:01.720
We're going to run out to uh
Missouria. BZ is it Randy yeah,

1473
01:46:01.840 --> 01:46:06.399
say, hey, thanks for taking
my call. Sure, I've been

1474
01:46:06.439 --> 01:46:10.640
trying to get blue bonnets to grow
along the fence line for a couple of

1475
01:46:10.680 --> 01:46:14.039
three years now, and I finally
got a good stand of them, uh

1476
01:46:14.920 --> 01:46:19.000
growing. The problem is frame clover
is coming up through the blue bonnets,

1477
01:46:19.039 --> 01:46:21.840
and I don't know what to do
with about it other than get down and

1478
01:46:21.880 --> 01:46:26.199
pull it out by hand. Yeah. Is this a big large area?

1479
01:46:27.279 --> 01:46:30.479
Well, it's not the size of
a pickup bed. It maybe a little

1480
01:46:30.479 --> 01:46:33.439
bit bigger than that. Yeah,
okay, Well, you know, hand

1481
01:46:33.479 --> 01:46:36.840
pulling is not a bad idea.
I mean, there are some gardening hose

1482
01:46:36.880 --> 01:46:40.279
that have a sharp corner. You
can get in there and just pop.

1483
01:46:40.359 --> 01:46:45.000
The clover comes out of one single
tap going underground, and so you can

1484
01:46:45.039 --> 01:46:47.600
pull out a big wide clover plant
with just a little hoeing, uh,

1485
01:46:48.159 --> 01:46:53.479
just barely slicing underneath it. You
could do some surgery like that or hand

1486
01:46:53.479 --> 01:46:56.279
pulling, or you could just ignore
it. Yes, it's a competitor.

1487
01:46:56.319 --> 01:47:00.520
It's a weed to the blue bonnets. It's competing. It's not the end

1488
01:47:00.560 --> 01:47:02.560
of the world. But if you
want your blue bonnets to perform a little

1489
01:47:02.560 --> 01:47:05.680
bit better, you could start taking
some of that out just here and there.

1490
01:47:06.760 --> 01:47:11.479
You can't. You can't put out
like a pre emergent back in the

1491
01:47:11.560 --> 01:47:15.840
in the wonder because that's right right. Yeah, I would prevent the blue

1492
01:47:15.840 --> 01:47:19.079
bonnets from germinating as well. Yeah, yeah, that that's one reason why

1493
01:47:19.159 --> 01:47:23.520
getting the clover out before it goes
to seed. Uh. You know,

1494
01:47:23.560 --> 01:47:27.479
it just avoids more problem next year
with it. It's not gonna It doesn't

1495
01:47:27.520 --> 01:47:30.119
mean you won't have any clover next
year. It just means you won't have

1496
01:47:30.399 --> 01:47:35.680
one hundred thousand more clover seeds.
Okay, thank you, all right,

1497
01:47:35.760 --> 01:47:41.600
Randy, I appreciate appreciate your call
very much. Yeah, you know,

1498
01:47:41.800 --> 01:47:46.800
the the uh products and stuff like
that. You're talking about pre emergence and

1499
01:47:46.800 --> 01:47:50.960
stuff. Southwest Fertilizer is going to
have every kind of product that you need.

1500
01:47:51.159 --> 01:47:56.479
I mean, Bob and the team
there, they know what they're talking

1501
01:47:56.520 --> 01:47:59.479
about. You can bring a problem
in a picture in they'll direct you the

1502
01:47:59.560 --> 01:48:04.359
right product and they have everything.
I've never seen the quantity and breadth of

1503
01:48:04.479 --> 01:48:10.840
selection like they have a Southwest Fertilizer
Organic synthetic, all the fertilizers, all

1504
01:48:10.920 --> 01:48:15.119
the insects that, all the furniture
sides, all the herbicides again, synthetic

1505
01:48:15.159 --> 01:48:17.600
and organic options. They've got you
covered. They got a new seed not

1506
01:48:17.720 --> 01:48:23.199
a new an old seed display rack
where you can go in and buy bulk

1507
01:48:23.239 --> 01:48:26.000
seeds, which is a very economical
way to go about it. They carry

1508
01:48:26.000 --> 01:48:30.560
the folding kneeling benches that I rave
about all the time. Southwest Fertilizer corner

1509
01:48:30.600 --> 01:48:36.159
Abyssinette and Renwick in Southwest Houston.
Here's a number seven one three six six

1510
01:48:36.399 --> 01:48:42.760
six seventeen forty four. And my
goodness, I was talking to some folks

1511
01:48:42.760 --> 01:48:48.319
that are suppliers of products, and
the Southwest has got an unbelievable selection about

1512
01:48:48.319 --> 01:48:51.760
to hit the store. I guess
there're gonna be trucks backed up down the

1513
01:48:51.800 --> 01:48:58.439
street. Just because they stock a
lot of everything makes it really really easy.

1514
01:48:58.760 --> 01:49:03.000
Let's go to dinner in Alvin.
Hello Dennis, Hi, good morning

1515
01:49:03.039 --> 01:49:09.640
to you. I need your wisdom
on growing u citrus trees, you know,

1516
01:49:09.760 --> 01:49:12.439
like orange trees. I have a
passion for them, and and I

1517
01:49:12.479 --> 01:49:16.319
live here in Alvin. And the
problem I'm running into is I've got clay

1518
01:49:16.560 --> 01:49:19.640
is a soil, you know,
I mean, hold on about put or

1519
01:49:19.680 --> 01:49:26.560
so? Now, is there any
kind of what in your wisdom, any

1520
01:49:26.640 --> 01:49:30.359
kind of a way to you know, produce orange trees, you know,

1521
01:49:30.399 --> 01:49:33.119
to grow them in this kind of
a soil, this kind of conditioner,

1522
01:49:33.279 --> 01:49:40.560
Yes you can. I would amend
it with a quality uh citrus and fruit

1523
01:49:40.560 --> 01:49:45.039
tree type mix. Heirloom soils has
that down for sale down in your area.

1524
01:49:45.079 --> 01:49:47.199
I know, ace hardware storers carry
heirlooms, and there's a lot of

1525
01:49:47.239 --> 01:49:50.319
places to get it done in that
area. I would amend it. And

1526
01:49:50.359 --> 01:49:55.119
I would also raise the bed,
uh so that when it rains too much

1527
01:49:55.319 --> 01:49:59.319
in that clay soil, the citrus
isn't sitting with its roots submerged in a

1528
01:49:59.439 --> 01:50:02.680
swamp. Uh So, so raised
bed, a quality mix like that,

1529
01:50:02.760 --> 01:50:06.199
you could even put you know,
a ring. They make little rings that

1530
01:50:06.239 --> 01:50:10.720
you put on the ground that ye
pile the soil in. I would I

1531
01:50:10.720 --> 01:50:13.720
would do something I would do.
Okay, Well, then you're you're you're

1532
01:50:13.760 --> 01:50:16.560
off to the right start. Okay. Maybe I'm just being a little bit

1533
01:50:16.560 --> 01:50:21.239
too impatient on the growing because I
purchased a couple of these, uh you

1534
01:50:21.279 --> 01:50:27.520
know, at a at a nurse
at a nursery or so, and well,

1535
01:50:27.560 --> 01:50:31.359
I mean they they produced leaves in
that, but I've never gotten any

1536
01:50:31.359 --> 01:50:35.439
flyers on and I guess this is
not the season for not yet. Yeah,

1537
01:50:35.600 --> 01:50:40.760
but okay, but just just keep
it growing. There's some quality citrus

1538
01:50:41.439 --> 01:50:46.079
uh fertilizer mixes on the market that
you could also choose from the organic kinds

1539
01:50:46.079 --> 01:50:51.279
of products, like Microlife has a
centris type product. The folks at Nitrofoss

1540
01:50:51.279 --> 01:50:57.279
and Nelson's both have citrus type fruit
tree type products. And wherever you shop,

1541
01:50:57.319 --> 01:51:00.840
whatever kind of thing you're looking for, are are supple, have got

1542
01:51:00.920 --> 01:51:04.159
you covered, and you want to
fertilize gradually over time to have good success

1543
01:51:04.640 --> 01:51:08.680
with that. That's the bottom line, Kate, all right, one other

1544
01:51:09.039 --> 01:51:14.119
one other questions to the miniature orange
trees, Okay, on the same on

1545
01:51:14.159 --> 01:51:17.960
the same basis, miniature orange trees, why are they not being sold on

1546
01:51:18.000 --> 01:51:23.239
the market in Texas. I'd have
to see what you're talking about on miniature

1547
01:51:23.239 --> 01:51:27.359
oranges, or you're talking about a
small tree or small flaps inside inside plan

1548
01:51:27.479 --> 01:51:30.920
not really outside. Oh, Kelimandan
is the main one people use for that,

1549
01:51:31.640 --> 01:51:35.239
And I would think you can find
Kalamandin's around here. I haven't gone

1550
01:51:35.279 --> 01:51:40.479
looking for them before, but that's
a little decorative kind of centris you enjoy

1551
01:51:40.560 --> 01:51:44.119
the bloom fragrance and you get some
fruit. But it does need light too,

1552
01:51:44.640 --> 01:51:47.439
so you know, it's not just
like a lot of house plants that

1553
01:51:47.520 --> 01:51:50.399
can put up with a lot of
low light. You're gonna have to get

1554
01:51:51.279 --> 01:51:56.560
go look for a klamandin for that
Telman. Okay, okay, most helpful,

1555
01:51:56.560 --> 01:52:00.920
sir, and I thank you for
all the input that wisdom that you've

1556
01:52:00.920 --> 01:52:02.159
given me. All right, done, very much, and have a great

1557
01:52:02.199 --> 01:52:05.239
day. Yeah, good luck with
et cris. If it's successful based on

1558
01:52:05.319 --> 01:52:09.359
my advice, just bring me half
the produce, drop it off at k

1559
01:52:09.479 --> 01:52:14.159
t r H and we'll call it
even. Appreciate that, all right,

1560
01:52:14.800 --> 01:52:17.159
seven one three two one two k
t r H. If you'd like to

1561
01:52:17.199 --> 01:52:21.920
get on the board with Josh,
we'll be right back. Kt r H

1562
01:52:23.039 --> 01:52:26.880
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on this

1563
01:52:26.960 --> 01:52:40.399
program. Welcome to kt r H
Garden Line with Escape Richter's so Crazy Trim

1564
01:52:41.720 --> 01:52:54.359
just watch him as well. So
many Petsy, Welcome back to garden Line.

1565
01:52:54.479 --> 01:52:59.880
We are glad you are listening today. It is always good to get

1566
01:52:59.880 --> 01:53:03.239
to talk to folks that you know
are part of the Garden Line audience.

1567
01:53:03.399 --> 01:53:06.520
I love meeting gardeners. That's one
of the things I've enjoyed for years,

1568
01:53:06.520 --> 01:53:11.640
thirty five years at Thiger Life Extension, answering gardening questions, and it just

1569
01:53:11.760 --> 01:53:16.319
keeps going now doing garden Line radio
show and trying to help out. I

1570
01:53:16.359 --> 01:53:20.159
want you to have a more beautiful
landscape and a more bountiful garden, and

1571
01:53:20.199 --> 01:53:23.640
I want to help you do it. That is what we're doing here.

1572
01:53:24.199 --> 01:53:30.479
Speaking of the landscape the lawn,
we talk about azamite because azimite has micro

1573
01:53:30.760 --> 01:53:34.840
nutrients, trace minerals. You just
need a little bit of them, but

1574
01:53:35.199 --> 01:53:42.079
they're absolutely essential you take. There
are over twenty different nutrients that plants have

1575
01:53:42.159 --> 01:53:45.319
to have to have to grow.
So if you were to take your soil

1576
01:53:45.439 --> 01:53:49.279
and remove all of the manganese out
of it or all of the zinc out

1577
01:53:49.279 --> 01:53:55.319
of it, there's not one molecular
zinc plants could not grow. That's called

1578
01:53:55.520 --> 01:54:01.399
essential. Azamite has trace minerals,
nutrients essential, and you don't need to

1579
01:54:01.399 --> 01:54:05.359
apply it every time you fertilize,
you just just I would do it about

1580
01:54:05.359 --> 01:54:08.760
once a year. If you have
a soul test, you may find that

1581
01:54:08.800 --> 01:54:12.359
you need to do more than that. But uh in general about once a

1582
01:54:12.439 --> 01:54:15.960
year is good. You don't have
to. You can fertilize with UH and

1583
01:54:15.000 --> 01:54:18.039
then put as mite down, or
you can just do it anytime. You

1584
01:54:18.039 --> 01:54:20.760
do it right now. It's a
little early to put nitrogen down on your

1585
01:54:20.880 --> 01:54:25.479
on your lawn, but you can
certainly put a mite down right now.

1586
01:54:25.520 --> 01:54:29.199
It's a good time to do that. As amite Texas dot com. That's

1587
01:54:29.199 --> 01:54:32.800
where you can find more information on
it. But do include that as part

1588
01:54:32.920 --> 01:54:38.600
of your lun care regiment. We're
gonna go now out to uh, let's

1589
01:54:38.600 --> 01:54:42.279
see where are we going. We're
going to Charlie and West University. Hey

1590
01:54:42.359 --> 01:54:47.279
Charlie, Hi, Hi, I
have I have a very large oak tree

1591
01:54:47.319 --> 01:54:57.000
that and uh, I'm more a
recommendation for who uh much service provider could

1592
01:54:57.359 --> 01:55:00.359
provide care for that as far as
fertilizing and trimming. Yeah, absolutely,

1593
01:55:00.680 --> 01:55:05.079
that's that is an easy one.
You want affordable tree service. Martin Spoon

1594
01:55:05.159 --> 01:55:09.960
Moore is the guy that runs it. Martin's been doing this. I didn't

1595
01:55:10.000 --> 01:55:14.279
take care of trees in Houston for
decades. Now Here, let me give

1596
01:55:14.279 --> 01:55:17.279
you there's a website in a and
a phone number. You got a pin

1597
01:55:17.399 --> 01:55:23.479
or pencil handy? I do okay. The phone number seven one three six

1598
01:55:23.840 --> 01:55:29.640
nine nine twenty six sixty three.
Seven one three sixty nine nine twenty six

1599
01:55:29.760 --> 01:55:36.000
sixty three. The website is a
FF tree Service dot com. A FF

1600
01:55:36.079 --> 01:55:39.920
tree Service dot com. Martin will
get you fixed up there. I don't

1601
01:55:39.920 --> 01:55:41.920
delay, though, if you want
some work done. I mean, he

1602
01:55:41.960 --> 01:55:45.680
stays busy. That's what happens when
you do a good job. People call

1603
01:55:45.720 --> 01:55:47.279
on you, but make sure and
get on the line. Tell me you

1604
01:55:47.880 --> 01:55:53.560
heard him on garden line because he
puts guardenline customers to the front of the

1605
01:55:53.600 --> 01:55:58.279
lost. Okay, cool, all
right, thank you, Thanks Charlie.

1606
01:55:58.319 --> 01:56:00.960
Good luck with the give them that
tree taking care of and congrats to you

1607
01:56:01.119 --> 01:56:05.319
for getting on that and taking care
of your trees. There is no single

1608
01:56:05.359 --> 01:56:12.279
plant as valuable in your whole landscape
or as your trees. And people do

1609
01:56:12.319 --> 01:56:15.479
a lot of things that damage trees
when they don't know what they're doing.

1610
01:56:15.560 --> 01:56:18.720
That's why we like to go with
someone that knows exactly, you know,

1611
01:56:18.760 --> 01:56:24.520
what they're talking about. I have
not we have not talked about moss nursery

1612
01:56:24.520 --> 01:56:28.239
in a good while on Arborgate,
and I just wanted to tell you about

1613
01:56:28.279 --> 01:56:30.520
them. For those of you who
don't know. You know, I always

1614
01:56:30.520 --> 01:56:34.840
say, we've got a state of
the art, top notch destination nurseries in

1615
01:56:34.880 --> 01:56:40.720
the Greater Houston area in north south
east western Central. Moss Nursery is southeast

1616
01:56:40.760 --> 01:56:44.479
of town, down in Seabrook,
right down there in Seabrook, So you

1617
01:56:44.520 --> 01:56:46.479
know, swing by Chema, grab
a bite to eat, run over to

1618
01:56:46.520 --> 01:56:50.600
Moss Nursery. Mix for a good
day. The website is Moss Nursery dot

1619
01:56:50.600 --> 01:56:55.359
com. Now they're a destination nursery. They got people literally coming from all

1620
01:56:55.359 --> 01:56:59.439
over the state. They wander through. It's eight acres of gardening paradise,

1621
01:56:59.560 --> 01:57:03.720
eight anchors to one. Through you're
going to find it probably the biggest pottery

1622
01:57:03.760 --> 01:57:09.680
selection I've ever seen anywhere. Huge
pottery selection, every kind of plant you

1623
01:57:09.680 --> 01:57:13.319
can imagine, and it's just fun. You walk through. You see like

1624
01:57:13.439 --> 01:57:18.680
African wooden masks and mineral specimens and
taxidermy mounts. Oh there's even some little

1625
01:57:18.720 --> 01:57:24.560
swords. Every time you turn a
corner in Moss Nursery, it's something new.

1626
01:57:25.000 --> 01:57:28.960
They have houseplants. Let me just
focus on that right now. I've

1627
01:57:28.960 --> 01:57:31.159
been in that house plant greenhouse over
and over again, and I have never

1628
01:57:31.199 --> 01:57:38.199
seen it as stocked as it is
right now. Cacti, succulents, common

1629
01:57:38.279 --> 01:57:43.520
house plants, and unusual houseplants.
They've got more types of things like Aglinema

1630
01:57:43.680 --> 01:57:46.119
or the one we call rubber tree, the ficus or you know, everybody

1631
01:57:46.119 --> 01:57:48.640
knows those plants, but I bet
you haven't seen the kinds. They have

1632
01:57:48.720 --> 01:57:54.039
a Moss Nursery, huge, huge
selection. And here's another cool thing.

1633
01:57:54.319 --> 01:57:57.640
All the way down to four inch
pots, all the way up to six

1634
01:57:57.680 --> 01:58:00.720
foot tall plants. So if you
just want to get a little start and

1635
01:58:00.000 --> 01:58:03.880
maybe put together a little terrarium or
something, there you go four inch pots

1636
01:58:03.880 --> 01:58:08.479
at Moss Nursery. They have everything
else you can imagine. I mean,

1637
01:58:09.119 --> 01:58:11.960
you know, it's gonna take a
while to just talk about all the things

1638
01:58:12.279 --> 01:58:15.239
that are available at mossners. If
you're on Toddville Road in Seabrook, Moss

1639
01:58:15.319 --> 01:58:21.600
nurserymaas Nursery dot com. That's how
you get there. Alrighty, We're gonna

1640
01:58:21.640 --> 01:58:25.640
go out to Jersey Village now and
talk to Bill. Hey, Bill,

1641
01:58:26.920 --> 01:58:29.680
Hey, Bill, I mean,
hey, how you doing? I am

1642
01:58:29.800 --> 01:58:32.920
doing good today. It is about
spring and I'm a gardener and you can't

1643
01:58:32.920 --> 01:58:38.319
beat that. Oh that's perfect,
Hey, I got a neighbor who has

1644
01:58:38.359 --> 01:58:46.600
a hose coming out of his garage
draining something into my grass, well,

1645
01:58:46.640 --> 01:58:51.640
which was grass used to be grassed, and from that point everything from the

1646
01:58:51.680 --> 01:58:57.560
grass is dead. And then the
tree trunk, there's a tree there,

1647
01:58:57.560 --> 01:59:00.439
I think it's an acorn tree,
has a big at the trunk of it.

1648
01:59:02.239 --> 01:59:05.479
And I was just wondering if anybody
knows what this got can be draining?

1649
01:59:05.920 --> 01:59:10.520
I have no earth of the idea. Is it not a situation where

1650
01:59:10.560 --> 01:59:13.319
you could go knock on the door, ask about it, talk about it?

1651
01:59:14.520 --> 01:59:18.800
Yeah, And I did ask him
once and they weren't very come forward

1652
01:59:18.840 --> 01:59:24.399
coming. They didn't they weren't giving
any information. Well, could it be

1653
01:59:24.439 --> 01:59:30.159
at softener draining salt or something?
Well, if it were, that you

1654
01:59:30.199 --> 01:59:33.720
would see a lot of brown where
it's coming out. That's a lot of

1655
01:59:33.800 --> 01:59:39.640
sodium, a lot of salts,
and that that would do some damage directly

1656
01:59:39.760 --> 01:59:43.439
right there. But I mean that
would be though, like you know,

1657
01:59:43.560 --> 01:59:46.119
spraying salt water on them. I
mean a lot of plants can't tolerate that.

1658
01:59:47.199 --> 01:59:49.720
I don't know. I mean,
if you can, if you can

1659
01:59:49.760 --> 01:59:54.000
get where you can kind of see
the stuff coming out, kind of feel

1660
01:59:54.039 --> 01:59:56.920
it. And smell it, you
know, if it had a petroleum kind

1661
01:59:56.920 --> 02:00:00.520
of smell, or if it just
if it just felt a little slick,

1662
02:00:00.920 --> 02:00:03.239
like let you have a little soap
on your hands, or something that could

1663
02:00:03.239 --> 02:00:11.520
be the drainage out of a water
softener system. Uh, I don't know

1664
02:00:11.520 --> 02:00:15.279
what to tell you. It's a
mystery. Most people don't have hoses out

1665
02:00:15.319 --> 02:00:17.199
of the garage. So hey,
I've got to I've got to take a

1666
02:00:17.199 --> 02:00:20.680
little break just to close right quick
though. The holes in the tree,

1667
02:00:20.720 --> 02:00:25.159
that's just something that can occur naturally. But I want to ask some more

1668
02:00:25.159 --> 02:00:27.439
about it. So could you hold
on for just a little bit. We'll

1669
02:00:27.439 --> 02:00:31.000
be right back. All right.
We're our phone number seven one three two

1670
02:00:31.079 --> 02:00:36.479
one two kt r H. Welcome
back to the Garden Line. We're in

1671
02:00:36.560 --> 02:00:41.680
a conversation right now with Bill and
Jersey Village. I've been talking about lawns

1672
02:00:41.720 --> 02:00:45.960
and uh, we're gonna come back
here. Bill, you said about you

1673
02:00:45.039 --> 02:00:49.560
had a hole in the tree.
Are we talking about at the base of

1674
02:00:49.600 --> 02:00:54.479
the trunk or are these little holes
in the trunk up higher or at the

1675
02:00:54.600 --> 02:00:58.520
very at the very base of it
and it actually goes beneath the ground.

1676
02:00:58.760 --> 02:01:03.119
Okay, you know well, that
isn't necessarily a problem. That happens a

1677
02:01:03.159 --> 02:01:10.399
lot. Sometimes it's just you get
two roots that you know they're they're coming

1678
02:01:10.439 --> 02:01:13.760
out from the base of the trunk
in two directions, and sometimes an animal

1679
02:01:13.800 --> 02:01:16.399
will burrow under there. Sometimes it's
just the soil washing away under there.

1680
02:01:17.800 --> 02:01:21.880
You know, it can get into
inner wood if it's if the hole is

1681
02:01:21.960 --> 02:01:27.720
breaking through the bark part of creating
that hole, you get some decay,

1682
02:01:27.760 --> 02:01:30.800
but there's no fix in that,
so most people just ignore it. You

1683
02:01:30.800 --> 02:01:35.479
know, you can have somebody look
at it, but it basically, you

1684
02:01:35.520 --> 02:01:39.680
know, who knows. It could
have been old damage from something like a

1685
02:01:40.399 --> 02:01:44.279
lawnmower or a weed eat or whatever
when the tree was younger. That just

1686
02:01:44.359 --> 02:01:48.439
grew and grew over time. But
I think what I'm picturing, as you

1687
02:01:48.520 --> 02:01:53.359
describe it, as something I wouldn't
worry a lot about. Oh yeah,

1688
02:01:53.399 --> 02:01:56.680
sir, all right, I appreciate
that. All right, man, all

1689
02:01:56.760 --> 02:01:59.279
right, well good luck there in
Jersey Village. You get into the bottom

1690
02:01:59.279 --> 02:02:01.439
of that misty substance coming out of
it. Oh yeah, yeah, that's

1691
02:02:01.479 --> 02:02:04.520
the ongoing mystery. Thank you,
all right, sir, Thank you appreciate

1692
02:02:04.560 --> 02:02:11.520
the call. It's very good.
If you are interested in gardening organically,

1693
02:02:11.720 --> 02:02:15.039
or if you just would like to
look at nature and recognize the fact that

1694
02:02:15.119 --> 02:02:19.199
nature knows how to grow plants.
You know it does, doesn't it.

1695
02:02:19.359 --> 02:02:24.399
I mean, they do good out
there because nature knows how to build your

1696
02:02:24.399 --> 02:02:29.079
soil. It knows how to take
carry your soil well. Organic gardening and

1697
02:02:29.239 --> 02:02:33.439
organic lawn care is a process.
It's not just a one time thing.

1698
02:02:34.279 --> 02:02:41.239
But the folks at Microlife have developed
a wide variety of products that all point

1699
02:02:41.319 --> 02:02:48.479
to the same goal, and that
is helping enhance the natural system around plants

1700
02:02:48.760 --> 02:02:53.079
to help the plants to thrive.
And humates is one of the products.

1701
02:02:53.079 --> 02:02:56.880
Microlikes. Humates plus it's a zero
zero force. It's got a little bit

1702
02:02:56.920 --> 02:03:00.279
of potassium in it. But it's
not just for the potassium you're putting down.

1703
02:03:00.279 --> 02:03:03.760
You're putting it down for the fact
that a humate substance is a soil

1704
02:03:03.920 --> 02:03:12.119
building substance and it does that.
It's got over thirty different kinds of microbes

1705
02:03:12.800 --> 02:03:17.560
enhanced into that product to help your
plants. Those of those thirty, it's

1706
02:03:17.560 --> 02:03:21.760
got over ninety different strains of all
kinds of things. And I was just

1707
02:03:21.800 --> 02:03:26.880
reading research the other day about this
or that microbe and how it works with

1708
02:03:26.920 --> 02:03:29.399
the roots, and how it affects
the plants, and how it does all

1709
02:03:29.439 --> 02:03:34.800
that. It's packed into Microlife humtes
plus zero zero four. And by using

1710
02:03:34.840 --> 02:03:39.479
that product, you can do that
anytime of year you want. You could

1711
02:03:39.479 --> 02:03:43.079
do it following, you can do
your regular fertilization follow it up. You

1712
02:03:43.079 --> 02:03:45.600
can do it right now. In
fact, I would do it now ahead

1713
02:03:45.600 --> 02:03:48.840
of time because spring fertilizing season is
coming. But go ahead and get that

1714
02:03:48.960 --> 02:03:54.720
down and you will find that as
you do that, as you create soils

1715
02:03:54.720 --> 02:03:59.359
with organic matter, as you enhance
the microbial activity, your plants just get

1716
02:03:59.359 --> 02:04:01.359
better and better, and it just
gets better and better, and it grows

1717
02:04:01.399 --> 02:04:05.079
itself out of a lot of the
problems that occur because plints are just stressed.

1718
02:04:05.840 --> 02:04:12.039
Microlife products are available widespread microlifefertilizer dot
com. That's the website you can

1719
02:04:12.039 --> 02:04:15.560
find out where to get them in
your area that they're easy to find at

1720
02:04:15.600 --> 02:04:24.039
Microlife fertilizer dot com. We are
talking about being excited about spring today on

1721
02:04:24.199 --> 02:04:27.920
garden Line, and I just get
enthused, and I think it's cool that

1722
02:04:27.960 --> 02:04:30.760
we have four seasons. We almost
have four seasons here. Winter is two

1723
02:04:30.840 --> 02:04:33.760
days. We don't know which two
days each year, but it's two days.

1724
02:04:34.640 --> 02:04:40.520
But we get to go through those
transitions. And in the spring is

1725
02:04:40.560 --> 02:04:44.600
the time of new life. The
blooms burst out of the spring, blooming

1726
02:04:44.640 --> 02:04:50.880
trees and other things, just the
a rearrival of all the green, the

1727
02:04:50.920 --> 02:04:55.720
flush of green that comes up in
nature, in the woods and our landscapes.

1728
02:04:56.119 --> 02:04:59.039
It's just the time of hope.
It's a time of new life and

1729
02:04:59.079 --> 02:05:03.119
excitement. That is just, I
think, a really cool thing going through

1730
02:05:03.119 --> 02:05:05.520
those transitions. You know life that
way. I'm not going to get too

1731
02:05:05.520 --> 02:05:11.159
philosophical on you, but life has
its transitions, it has its seasons,

1732
02:05:11.279 --> 02:05:15.640
and out in nature we get that
annual cycle over and over again that I

1733
02:05:15.640 --> 02:05:18.960
think is pretty cool. We're going
to run up to Cypress now and talk

1734
02:05:19.000 --> 02:05:23.560
to Bob. Hey, Bob Skip, how are you. I'm well,

1735
02:05:23.600 --> 02:05:29.119
thank you, good good Hey.
I am an organic vegetable farmer and I'm

1736
02:05:29.279 --> 02:05:34.560
really feel defeated in that I mothballed
my garden last year because of the heat

1737
02:05:34.760 --> 02:05:36.640
and I just didn't want to get
out on the hunter of your weather.

1738
02:05:38.319 --> 02:05:44.159
And I had been battling a mulberry
tree that has been sprouted out in the

1739
02:05:44.199 --> 02:05:51.119
garden and those those guys they are
they're pretty pervasive. And you know,

1740
02:05:51.159 --> 02:05:55.239
again, maybe I want to make
sure you know what tree. It's basically

1741
02:05:55.319 --> 02:06:00.000
short tree. They're like bushes,
but they have pink ful hours and blue

1742
02:06:00.600 --> 02:06:04.720
berries. Is that a mulberry tree? No, that's not a mulberry.

1743
02:06:05.800 --> 02:06:10.960
That sounds like a type of lugustrum
to me. But okay, you know

1744
02:06:11.000 --> 02:06:13.840
what, if you want to send
me a picture of it, then I

1745
02:06:13.880 --> 02:06:16.359
can tell you for sure. But
okay, I would guess you're talking about

1746
02:06:16.359 --> 02:06:20.560
a lugustrum. Now when you say
blueberries, are they little round berries and

1747
02:06:20.640 --> 02:06:27.439
clusters or are they long and kind
of bumpy like? Well, would describe

1748
02:06:27.479 --> 02:06:30.760
it like a pencil sized diameter,
but maybe anywhere from an inch or so

1749
02:06:30.960 --> 02:06:34.399
long. No, o, they're
not in clusters though. All right,

1750
02:06:34.399 --> 02:06:36.920
well let's let's go straight to that. You want to get rid of it,

1751
02:06:38.039 --> 02:06:41.520
right, yeah, Well, basically
it's been spreading through the roots.

1752
02:06:41.800 --> 02:06:45.520
It's like it's like nutgrass. And
last year, before he got so bad,

1753
02:06:45.600 --> 02:06:48.119
I was I wanted to keep it
organic. I don't want to use

1754
02:06:48.159 --> 02:06:54.199
any herbicides or pesticides, And I
was basically digging, pulling out the few

1755
02:06:54.239 --> 02:06:58.199
that popped up, and I was
using boiling water to pour right on the

1756
02:06:58.279 --> 02:07:00.960
root, the tap root down below, okay, and that seemed to knock

1757
02:07:01.039 --> 02:07:03.359
it out. But then I covered
it up and I really didn't go back

1758
02:07:03.399 --> 02:07:08.239
there because it's off in the back
property. And all of a sudden,

1759
02:07:08.279 --> 02:07:12.319
I go out there this weekend,
getting ready to do the exactly what you're

1760
02:07:12.399 --> 02:07:15.039
preaching today. Get out and you
know, take care of things. Yeah,

1761
02:07:15.119 --> 02:07:18.199
and oh my gosh, there's there's
like forty of them popped up and

1762
02:07:18.279 --> 02:07:23.000
they're everywhere. Okay, let's do
this. I need you to send me

1763
02:07:23.039 --> 02:07:26.319
some pictures. Get as close as
you can. Make sure they're sharp focused.

1764
02:07:26.439 --> 02:07:29.720
I want to put your thumb or
a pencil or something in the picture

1765
02:07:29.760 --> 02:07:32.159
so I can see how big the
leaves are, have some sense of scale,

1766
02:07:33.000 --> 02:07:38.520
and let me look at them.
You're unfortunately I cut them all down.

1767
02:07:38.760 --> 02:07:41.439
Okay, Well, they'll be back, unfortunately, I know. But

1768
02:07:41.479 --> 02:07:43.680
I want to, like you said, you got to get going now.

1769
02:07:43.920 --> 02:07:47.640
Yeah, digging them out is the
organic option. That's that is what your

1770
02:07:47.720 --> 02:07:54.039
organic option is. Now. There
is a not organic option that is minimal

1771
02:07:54.279 --> 02:07:59.279
fertilizer application. That's the side application. And there's a product. The ingredient

1772
02:07:59.439 --> 02:08:03.119
is triy clop here t R I
C l O p y R. When

1773
02:08:03.159 --> 02:08:07.640
you cut them off, you dab
a tiny bit of trickle pier right on

1774
02:08:07.680 --> 02:08:11.439
the cut surface. You're not spraying
it. You're not using it all over

1775
02:08:11.479 --> 02:08:16.199
the garden. You're dabbing it on
the fresh cut surface. It moves,

1776
02:08:16.920 --> 02:08:22.279
it can be. Yeah, it's
used ivy, it's used on hackberries coming

1777
02:08:22.359 --> 02:08:24.600
up in the fence line. It's
used on you know, all kinds of

1778
02:08:24.640 --> 02:08:30.840
things. But it's not organic at
all. But we're not talking about treating

1779
02:08:30.840 --> 02:08:33.439
a large air. We're talking about
just dabbing a cut surface and that will

1780
02:08:33.439 --> 02:08:37.520
work. It's in a number of
products like poison, ivy killer like you

1781
02:08:37.560 --> 02:08:41.439
mentioned. But if you can wait
and get or when you do see it

1782
02:08:41.479 --> 02:08:45.760
again, send me some pictures.
All right, well, let's let's take

1783
02:08:45.800 --> 02:08:48.920
a look. Because I may go, oh, that's such and such,

1784
02:08:48.399 --> 02:08:52.000
but I don't think it's going to
change my answer either digging it or dabbing.

1785
02:08:54.079 --> 02:08:56.680
But let me. I'm gonna put
you on hold. If you care

1786
02:08:56.760 --> 02:09:00.720
to stick around, Josh will pick
up the phone and get you emails.

1787
02:09:00.760 --> 02:09:03.600
So when you have it, you
can you can send it all right,

1788
02:09:03.640 --> 02:09:07.760
Thank you very much, Bob,
appreciate that phone call a lot. Yeah,

1789
02:09:09.000 --> 02:09:11.439
So you know where do you get
kinds of products like that? Well,

1790
02:09:11.199 --> 02:09:13.279
I'll tell you one place you can
get them is Ace Hardware. You

1791
02:09:13.279 --> 02:09:18.000
know, Bob's up in Cyprus,
he's got Ace Hardware up on Jones Road.

1792
02:09:18.039 --> 02:09:20.520
He's got the M and Dace just
a little further north than that Langham

1793
02:09:20.520 --> 02:09:24.640
Creek down south of him. I
mean, no matter where you live,

1794
02:09:24.800 --> 02:09:28.399
there are Ace Hardware's everywhere, and
they're going to carry stuff like that very

1795
02:09:28.479 --> 02:09:31.920
unique product that has trauctal pairer for
example. They're going to have all kinds

1796
02:09:31.960 --> 02:09:35.039
of organic products, all the fertilizers. While I go also Microlife. Ace

1797
02:09:35.079 --> 02:09:41.199
Hardware got Microlife. You can find
anything that's a fertilizer that I recommend,

1798
02:09:41.279 --> 02:09:43.359
or products that I recommend, you
can find them in Ace Hardware because they

1799
02:09:43.439 --> 02:09:48.840
keep a stock like that. Go
to Ace Hardware dot Com and just do

1800
02:09:48.960 --> 02:09:52.640
the store locator and you can find
all the Ace Hardwares near you. Makes

1801
02:09:52.640 --> 02:09:56.199
it really really easy. If you
got any freezer pair you need to do,

1802
02:09:56.279 --> 02:10:00.880
they've got that. When you start
water, you're going to find out

1803
02:10:00.920 --> 02:10:03.279
if you got any breaks in the
line like where a sprinkler headers run over.

1804
02:10:03.640 --> 02:10:09.159
ACE Hardware has the plumbing repair parts
to repair sprinklers and any other kind

1805
02:10:09.199 --> 02:10:11.600
of plumbing problems that you might have. It's the one stop. ACE is

1806
02:10:11.640 --> 02:10:15.399
a place. There's a reason they
say that it's a way. ACE is

1807
02:10:15.439 --> 02:10:18.640
a place for you fell in the
blank. All right, We are going

1808
02:10:18.720 --> 02:10:26.159
to head out now to Katie,
Texas and talk to Deborah. You there,

1809
02:10:26.159 --> 02:10:33.800
Deborah, Yes, Hello, Hi. I have a firestick plant that

1810
02:10:33.960 --> 02:10:39.840
I've had for twenty three years.
It's in one of those old school cast

1811
02:10:39.880 --> 02:10:46.039
iron earns. It's lived in the
same pot the entire time. I have

1812
02:10:46.279 --> 02:10:50.640
never changed the soil. I will
admit that that could be part of what

1813
02:10:50.720 --> 02:10:54.640
I'm experiencing right now, But this
thing has always been so hearty. I

1814
02:10:54.920 --> 02:10:58.800
at one point, my family and
I we had to move. I left

1815
02:10:58.800 --> 02:11:01.880
it with a relative who didn't water
it at all for like four months,

1816
02:11:01.880 --> 02:11:07.279
and it was a hot summer.
It was outside, so it lost a

1817
02:11:07.279 --> 02:11:11.800
lot of height. Years ago,
when we had a freeze that had some

1818
02:11:13.039 --> 02:11:16.439
rain to it, I covered it, but then when the rain came and

1819
02:11:16.640 --> 02:11:20.199
refroze, I lost a lot of
height, went down almost to the soil

1820
02:11:20.199 --> 02:11:24.359
again. This thing always comes back
every year. I stick it in the

1821
02:11:24.399 --> 02:11:28.119
garage when we have our cold snaps
now and that kind of thing, and

1822
02:11:28.159 --> 02:11:31.119
it usually when I put it in
the garage, I'll usually see some new

1823
02:11:31.159 --> 02:11:35.840
growth, which is kind of interesting
to me. But right now, no

1824
02:11:35.840 --> 02:11:39.920
matter what I do, it just
seems to be shriveling more and more and

1825
02:11:41.000 --> 02:11:43.760
more. Like every little it's like
all the moisture is being removed from it.

1826
02:11:43.760 --> 02:11:48.560
It's being watered. Okay, I'm
not sure if you have any advice

1827
02:11:48.600 --> 02:11:52.600
on that. Okay, So first
thing i'd check is make sure there's drainage

1828
02:11:52.680 --> 02:11:56.239
out of the bottom of the pot. As the soil decomposes and a container

1829
02:11:56.279 --> 02:12:03.279
of potting so grown a plant get
pretty mucky, and plug the drainage the

1830
02:12:03.399 --> 02:12:07.000
holes that you have. And when
that happens, when you water it,

1831
02:12:07.079 --> 02:12:09.880
you end up with a water table
under the surface, if you will,

1832
02:12:09.920 --> 02:12:13.960
where roots aren't getting oxygen, and
that causes problems for plants. I'd check

1833
02:12:15.000 --> 02:12:18.359
the drainage first, dig down the
soil, feel it, see if you

1834
02:12:18.520 --> 02:12:22.359
really need to water before you water
it again. Water use is very minimal

1835
02:12:22.439 --> 02:12:26.199
this time of the year. I
think you're talking about fire spike. Is

1836
02:12:26.239 --> 02:12:31.159
that sound right, or if not, will you describe the blooms to me?

1837
02:12:33.520 --> 02:12:37.880
It really doesn't have any blooms.
It literally just looks like once to

1838
02:12:37.920 --> 02:12:43.800
come off another. And what I
will get our little tiny I mean maybe

1839
02:12:43.840 --> 02:12:48.720
one inch long leaves looking things at
the top before it sprouts new sticks.

1840
02:12:50.119 --> 02:12:52.880
All right, I'll tell you what
I'm hitting a heartbreak for the news.

1841
02:12:52.960 --> 02:12:56.800
Hang on, let's come back and
talk about that a little bit more.

1842
02:12:58.079 --> 02:13:00.239
Well. Our phone number, if
you'd like to give us a call,

1843
02:13:00.279 --> 02:13:05.159
is seven one three two one two
KTRH. And here's Nicky in the news.

1844
02:13:07.760 --> 02:13:11.079
Welcome back to garden Line. We
are entering our last half out half

1845
02:13:11.199 --> 02:13:13.760
hour of the day, so if
you'd like to give us a call,

1846
02:13:13.880 --> 02:13:18.000
now's the time to do it.
Seven one three two one two five eight

1847
02:13:18.119 --> 02:13:24.079
seven four or seven one three two
one two ktrh. Just to make it

1848
02:13:24.119 --> 02:13:28.199
simple. I'll be back tomorrow from
six to ten am. If you would

1849
02:13:28.239 --> 02:13:31.680
like to ask a question tomorrow,
we can also do that as well.

1850
02:13:31.680 --> 02:13:37.159
We're herever Saturday and Sunday from six
to ten am. I am. You

1851
02:13:37.199 --> 02:13:41.760
know a lot of people have talked
to me in the last several weeks since

1852
02:13:41.760 --> 02:13:46.159
we had that bad freeze. About
problems in the landscape. Plants are dying

1853
02:13:46.239 --> 02:13:48.800
plants, It don't look good and
those kind of things. And a lot

1854
02:13:48.800 --> 02:13:54.039
of people also have discussed with me
their landscape from last summer's drought that was

1855
02:13:54.239 --> 02:13:58.880
so brutal it just fly kills stuff. I mean, you know, lawn

1856
02:14:00.239 --> 02:14:05.239
and plants. If you need a
renovation, your options. One of your

1857
02:14:05.279 --> 02:14:07.159
options that I think is if you're
going to hire somebody to do it,

1858
02:14:07.600 --> 02:14:11.760
you need to call the folks at
Peer Scapes because they know what they're doing.

1859
02:14:11.119 --> 02:14:15.800
They can do all kinds of things. Maybe you had damage to irrigation

1860
02:14:15.960 --> 02:14:20.079
system and the cold. Maybe that
was part of the problem. You had

1861
02:14:20.119 --> 02:14:24.760
a poorly designed system and the sprinkler
head reach was not uniform, and so

1862
02:14:26.039 --> 02:14:30.520
some areas stay too dry and died
out. Maybe you need some tougher plants

1863
02:14:30.560 --> 02:14:33.359
that are more cold tolerant, that
are more heat tolerant. Pier Scapes can

1864
02:14:33.399 --> 02:14:39.319
do that. They know how to
take care of the landscape and turn it

1865
02:14:39.359 --> 02:14:43.000
into a showplace. That's the bottom
line. If you want to get work

1866
02:14:43.079 --> 02:14:45.720
done, if you need to get
worked done, you need to schedule it

1867
02:14:45.800 --> 02:14:48.319
as soon as possible. Listen,
we're going to be watering again, believe

1868
02:14:48.359 --> 02:14:52.439
it or not. I know as
training and I know it's cool, summer's

1869
02:14:52.479 --> 02:14:56.560
coming and your water system needs to
be top notch. Peer scapes can do

1870
02:14:56.640 --> 02:14:58.760
that, but you got to call
them. You got to get them scheduled

1871
02:15:00.039 --> 02:15:03.760
soon as possible so they can come
out, so they can get that on

1872
02:15:03.800 --> 02:15:07.640
the schedule, get that to come
out and actually work on your system ahead

1873
02:15:07.640 --> 02:15:09.880
of the heat to get things fixed
up like they need to be. Maybe

1874
02:15:09.880 --> 02:15:13.880
you need a new timer, a
better timer, more efficient timer, or

1875
02:15:13.960 --> 02:15:18.960
timer that saves water more efficient like
that. Maybe you just have broken heads

1876
02:15:18.039 --> 02:15:22.359
or in my case, we moved
into a house where two different kinds of

1877
02:15:22.359 --> 02:15:26.560
sprinkler heads on the same zone.
That's a no no. Peerscapes can fix

1878
02:15:26.640 --> 02:15:31.159
that and they can turn your landscape
into a showplace too. It's a good

1879
02:15:31.199 --> 02:15:33.479
time to call them and get that
done at peer scapes. How do we

1880
02:15:33.520 --> 02:15:37.600
get a hold of pier scapes,
Well, go to piercescapes dot com or

1881
02:15:37.840 --> 02:15:45.319
two eight one three seven oh five
zero six zero. Let's see. We're

1882
02:15:45.319 --> 02:15:50.399
going to go now back to Katie, Texas and continue our conversation with Deborah.

1883
02:15:50.920 --> 02:15:56.640
Hey, Deborah, Hello, Yeah, we're trying to figure out what

1884
02:15:56.640 --> 02:16:01.159
plant you have, I believe so
is it's not a cactus? Is it

1885
02:16:01.159 --> 02:16:07.439
doesn't have thorns? No, it
has no thorns. Okay, it was

1886
02:16:07.479 --> 02:16:09.800
a hand me down plant. And
when I've looked it up, it does

1887
02:16:09.840 --> 02:16:11.439
how you know, if I break
a piece off, it has that white

1888
02:16:13.359 --> 02:16:16.680
liquid that really like irritates your skin. And from what I understand, that

1889
02:16:16.720 --> 02:16:20.439
would be a fire stick. But
I'll be honest, when I look at

1890
02:16:20.479 --> 02:16:24.079
pictures of fire sticks, mine is
has never been as large as some of

1891
02:16:24.119 --> 02:16:28.560
those. Okay, So what are
the leaves look like? Kind of a

1892
02:16:28.640 --> 02:16:33.520
quick description of size and color,
about one inch and normally they're like a

1893
02:16:33.600 --> 02:16:39.680
lime green and then they'll go sometimes
red, they'll go sometimes dark green.

1894
02:16:41.360 --> 02:16:46.879
Do a Google search for something called
a redbird plant and see if that looks

1895
02:16:48.040 --> 02:16:50.440
like what it is. It kind
of doesn't matter what it is, because

1896
02:16:50.559 --> 02:16:54.719
taking care of a plant, you
know, water and flies and things that

1897
02:16:54.920 --> 02:16:58.840
that's kind of standard. But I
just am not picturing it. And I

1898
02:17:00.040 --> 02:17:03.040
can put you on hold. You
can get my email from Josh and send

1899
02:17:03.040 --> 02:17:07.840
me a picture. Refer to this
as a phone call question, and yes,

1900
02:17:09.840 --> 02:17:11.440
yeah, okay, I'm gonna do
that, and and we will we

1901
02:17:11.479 --> 02:17:16.559
will get get to the bottom of
this one way or another. I'm not

1902
02:17:16.600 --> 02:17:18.840
talking about a red bird of paradise, but there's another name for that.

1903
02:17:20.319 --> 02:17:24.760
Oh gosh, what is the other
name for the red bird plant that that

1904
02:17:24.920 --> 02:17:26.680
name is? You're not going to
find what what we're looking for here?

1905
02:17:28.159 --> 02:17:33.079
Uh it's a Euphorbia and uh I
think that's what it is? Or do

1906
02:17:33.159 --> 02:17:37.639
it? Do you have a pin
or pencil handy? Okay, do a

1907
02:17:37.719 --> 02:17:46.719
search for something U four e U
p h O r b I A e

1908
02:17:46.799 --> 02:17:50.799
U p h O r b y
A and the other The species name is

1909
02:17:50.959 --> 02:17:58.280
t I t H y M O
L O I d E S. That's

1910
02:17:58.319 --> 02:18:05.239
a lot of I know, but
Euphorbia tithymiloides, and that I think is

1911
02:18:05.280 --> 02:18:07.840
what you're referring to. There.
Take a look at it. It has

1912
02:18:07.920 --> 02:18:11.920
the sticks, it has a balloom. It does have blooms on top though

1913
02:18:11.959 --> 02:18:15.319
if it's getting enough light. But
in the meantime, I'm put you on

1914
02:18:15.399 --> 02:18:18.319
hold here, get my email and
send me a picture. Thanks a lot.

1915
02:18:18.479 --> 02:18:20.959
I appreciate that. I hope we
can help further with that. You

1916
02:18:20.959 --> 02:18:24.360
know, there's so darn mini plants
out there. There are a lot of

1917
02:18:24.399 --> 02:18:30.639
different plants It isn't that the most
fun part of it all, you know,

1918
02:18:31.639 --> 02:18:35.000
I know, when you're growing things, you're probably not thinking of the

1919
02:18:35.000 --> 02:18:39.120
word horticulture. You're thinking of the
word gardening. But horticulture, the field

1920
02:18:39.159 --> 02:18:45.639
of horticulture is a fascinating, fascinating
field. It is one of the broadest

1921
02:18:45.639 --> 02:18:50.360
fields that there is. Because here's
why, there are things in You know,

1922
02:18:50.399 --> 02:18:54.159
if you're in the College of Life
Science, it's on the university.

1923
02:18:54.159 --> 02:18:58.280
There are things called disciplines. There's
entomology, and there's plant pathology, and

1924
02:18:58.319 --> 02:19:05.959
there's soul science, and there's botany, and on and on with soil and

1925
02:19:05.000 --> 02:19:09.520
crop science like weed management. When
you're a horticulturist, you kind of have

1926
02:19:09.600 --> 02:19:15.280
to put all that together into one
thing. So we need to know a

1927
02:19:15.319 --> 02:19:18.040
little bit about nutrition, we need
to know about insects and diseases. And

1928
02:19:18.079 --> 02:19:22.280
then when it comes to plants,
oh my gosh, we're talking about tropicals.

1929
02:19:22.280 --> 02:19:26.840
We're talking about cactus, We're talking
about lawn grasses, we're talking about

1930
02:19:26.879 --> 02:19:30.600
trees, we're talking about shrubs,
we're talking about houseplants. We're talking about

1931
02:19:30.639 --> 02:19:35.360
things like orchids. We're talking about
vegetables and fruit and herbs. You see

1932
02:19:35.360 --> 02:19:39.040
what I'm talking about. And then
when you look at a plant and it's

1933
02:19:39.040 --> 02:19:43.200
not looking good, you kind of
got a drawback from all the disciplines.

1934
02:19:43.280 --> 02:19:46.559
Is this an insect problem? Is
this a disease problem? Is this a

1935
02:19:46.639 --> 02:19:50.799
nutrition problem? Is this a lack
of drainage problem? Is this a temperature?

1936
02:19:52.440 --> 02:19:56.799
It's a lot. But that's what
makes it fun because it is it's

1937
02:19:56.840 --> 02:20:01.440
an art in addition to being a
science, it's an art and that is

1938
02:20:01.479 --> 02:20:03.639
the fun thing. You Know,
someone asked me the day, aren't you

1939
02:20:03.719 --> 02:20:07.040
afraid that you know somebody's going to
ask you a question you don't know the

1940
02:20:07.120 --> 02:20:13.399
answer to. No, I'm not. There are a billion things I don't

1941
02:20:13.399 --> 02:20:18.200
know the answer to. It's okay. Hopefully after thirty five years of this,

1942
02:20:18.319 --> 02:20:20.040
I figured out a few answers,
or at least a way to think

1943
02:20:20.120 --> 02:20:26.959
through them. But that's okay.
That's a fun thing about gardening. You

1944
02:20:26.079 --> 02:20:30.280
could be oh, thanks a lot, Josh, I'm not going to repeat

1945
02:20:30.280 --> 02:20:35.799
what my producer does. No,
seriously, It's part of the fun of

1946
02:20:35.799 --> 02:20:39.440
it all, and that's what makes
X Spring, for example, such an

1947
02:20:39.479 --> 02:20:45.680
exciting season. Listen, there are
house plans that you would die for,

1948
02:20:46.000 --> 02:20:48.920
but you don't know they exist until
you get to a great play. I'll

1949
02:20:48.920 --> 02:20:52.440
talk about moss nursery. While ago
all our garden centers have great, great

1950
02:20:52.479 --> 02:20:56.079
sections of house plants, moss has
an unbelievable section down there in Seabrook.

1951
02:20:56.879 --> 02:20:58.200
But you walk in and you'll go, oh, I know what a rubber

1952
02:20:58.239 --> 02:21:01.079
tree is, but I I've never
seen that pattern in the leaves, you

1953
02:21:01.120 --> 02:21:05.879
know, for example. And that's
a fun part of it all. And

1954
02:21:05.399 --> 02:21:09.879
no matter what you're growing, there
is a society built around it to find

1955
02:21:11.040 --> 02:21:13.920
a collection of ever possible type that
you can't live without. That's part of

1956
02:21:13.920 --> 02:21:16.639
the fun. Hey, we're gonna
take a break, phone number seven one

1957
02:21:16.719 --> 02:21:22.760
three two one two kt RH.
I'll be right back. Welcome back to

1958
02:21:22.840 --> 02:21:28.680
guarden Line. You are you are
here to learn more about gardening. I

1959
02:21:28.680 --> 02:21:33.520
hope you're here to enjoy the best
hobby that there is. I hope that

1960
02:21:33.680 --> 02:21:37.840
is maybe to get good answers too. I'll worry about that end of it.

1961
02:21:37.920 --> 02:21:39.920
Like we used to say, there's
no stupid questions, just stupid answers.

1962
02:21:39.959 --> 02:21:43.000
Well, I know, I know
there is such a thing as a

1963
02:21:43.040 --> 02:21:46.360
stupid question, but we don't treat
them that way. I'll worry about the

1964
02:21:46.399 --> 02:21:50.120
stupid answers call away, Let's talk. Let's have some fun and maybe learn

1965
02:21:50.200 --> 02:21:54.000
something in the process. Let's go
out now to Cleveland, Texas and talk

1966
02:21:54.040 --> 02:21:58.719
to Ron. Hello, Ron,
Hello scamp. I'm wanting to put in

1967
02:21:58.799 --> 02:22:03.680
so Silverado sage and I can find
Texas sage. Are they both the same?

1968
02:22:05.559 --> 02:22:11.200
Silverado is a cultivar of Texas sage. Texas age, also called sonizo,

1969
02:22:11.520 --> 02:22:15.159
is a native West Texas, usually
silvery leaf. Some of them have

1970
02:22:15.479 --> 02:22:18.840
a greenish more greenish than silvery leaf, but silverado is one that's more more

1971
02:22:20.040 --> 02:22:24.040
silvery and its color. Yeah,
that I'm looking for the silvery one,

1972
02:22:24.120 --> 02:22:28.799
So I guess they're It seems like
I look for them and nobody they are.

1973
02:22:28.920 --> 02:22:31.319
Well, we got the Texas sage
and I really like that silvery look,

1974
02:22:33.000 --> 02:22:37.000
so I guess I'll keep looking for
them. Yeah, Silverado, you

1975
02:22:37.000 --> 02:22:41.840
know, I just haven't noticed lately. It came out years and years ago

1976
02:22:41.280 --> 02:22:45.719
and it was a good one.
You might try. You know, you're

1977
02:22:45.719 --> 02:22:48.159
out in Cleveland area, not far
away from Kingwo Garden Center and more in

1978
02:22:48.200 --> 02:22:52.000
southern gardens. I probably would give
them a call and see if they have

1979
02:22:52.040 --> 02:22:56.079
it or if they have a very
silvery one. You can ask them what

1980
02:22:56.159 --> 02:22:58.520
varieties they have and go on line
look at them, and then if not,

1981
02:22:58.639 --> 02:23:01.639
then you have to drive a little
bit to find it. But I

1982
02:23:01.680 --> 02:23:07.319
bet there is either that or a
very close equivalent available here. And tell

1983
02:23:07.399 --> 02:23:09.920
you great, I appreciate it.
Well, listen to you next weekend,

1984
02:23:11.079 --> 02:23:13.799
all right, Ron, And just
remember with the Sonizos or the Texas sages,

1985
02:23:15.479 --> 02:23:20.079
very good drainage, they'll grow here, but they cannot tolerate with feet.

1986
02:23:20.079 --> 02:23:22.760
All right, you take care,
thank you, thank you for that

1987
02:23:22.799 --> 02:23:28.799
call. Yeah. Warren Southern Gardens
out there in Kingwood, they have a

1988
02:23:28.840 --> 02:23:33.120
wide variety of all kinds of things. Right now. They are loaded up

1989
02:23:33.440 --> 02:23:37.360
with heirloom soils. You know,
earlier I was saying heirloom made of fruit

1990
02:23:37.159 --> 02:23:41.319
fruit and ceentri soil. It's actually
fruit berry in cetrius soil. They've got

1991
02:23:41.360 --> 02:23:46.680
that. They also have a lot
of They have all the heirloom soil products

1992
02:23:46.760 --> 02:23:50.040
out there at Warren Southern Guards And
this is new, this is new to

1993
02:23:50.079 --> 02:23:58.280
me. They now have supersacks of
the heirloom aged leaf compost and veggie and

1994
02:23:58.360 --> 02:24:01.680
herb mix, both of those by
the super sack. That's a cubic yard

1995
02:24:01.879 --> 02:24:05.959
in a giant sack. Think of
one of those little, you know,

1996
02:24:05.079 --> 02:24:09.000
grocery sacks you get so you don't
have to get the paper bags and the

1997
02:24:09.000 --> 02:24:11.120
plastic all the time. Imagine one
of those big enough to hold a cubic

1998
02:24:11.200 --> 02:24:16.360
yard. That's what it is.
And it's at Warren's Southern Gardens right out

1999
02:24:16.360 --> 02:24:20.719
there, so you can get a
bulk, save some money on over,

2000
02:24:20.879 --> 02:24:22.399
you know, behind a whole lot
of bags to do the same thing.

2001
02:24:24.000 --> 02:24:26.639
Warrens has just gotten in all the
citrus trees, all the fruit trees,

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and boy do they ever have a
wide selection. We were talking about blueberries

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earlier. They got blueberries, they've
got peaches, they've got avocados. They've

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got a number of different varieties of
avocados thing all. And then in citrus,

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grapefruit, lemon, persian limes,
oranges, the Meyer lemon, the

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improved Meyer lemon that is good,
and other types of lemons and limes and

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whatnot. They'll get you set up
on all of that, as well as

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some of the fruit like blackberries,
for example, that you might want to

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grow. There's a wide variety of
nice blackberries and trees and on and on

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and on. All at Warren's Southern
Gardens and the sister shore over there Kingwood

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Garden Center, two garden centers real
close together out in the Kingwood area.

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It's easy to find, easy to
get to, and as always they're going

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to have good quality products. That's
a great thing to know. They got

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that supersack now available from Heirloom Soils. Let's go to Spring, Texas and

2015
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we're going to talk to Bill.
Hello. Bill, Hey, good morning

2016
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morning. We got a question for
you. I have a rubber tree.

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It's about ten fifteen. I covered
it with a light bulb hundred. What

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light bulb hundred if that al?
Yeah? So now the Leaves Group dam

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they had anything I can do for
that, Well, not at this point

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in the future. On a tree
that size, that's a huge volume of

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air that you're trapping underneath the cover. If indeed you got the cover all

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the way to the ground and sealed
it so the air couldn't escape from the

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wind blowing it out, but that
much area, you're gonna probably have to

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go with two or three one hundred
and fifty white bulbs and clamps down underneath

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it, shining down at the ground, and then so they rise up through

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the whole thing one other. I
know it's after the fact, but I

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just other people will have the question
you had mounding up a bunch of compost

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up against the base of the trunk
in a cone temporarily just through the freeze.

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If you did lose the whole top, it would re sprout like crazy

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from the bottom because you protect the
base of that trunk where there are also

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buds that can grow. At this
point, Bill, I think it's weight

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and see you could scrape the bark
with a thumbnail or knife work your way

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down. If it's paper sack brown, it's dead. If it's creamy to

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light green, it's alive. Or
I like to just wait and let the

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plant tell me where to print it. And when it warms up considerably,

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that tree will start to sprout out
some new shoots and then you know exactly

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where you stand. Okay, I
appreciate the help. All right, Sorry

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to hear about that. Boy.
Well, I know, I know.

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Hey, if you if you want
to have something, just bookmarkt on your

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computer. But if you go to
Gardening with Skip dot com, that's my

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website, Gardening with Skip. There's
a nine page full color publication with photos

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and diagrams on protecting plants and cold
and they have it. I wrote that

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with a specialist remain and there is
some diagrams that will tell you exactly what

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to do for that rubber tree next
time you run into this situation. Okay,

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great, certainly make a note of
that. Yes, sir, it's

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free to download. Thank you,
sir, I appreciate it very much.

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Good good to talk to you.
Uh well, it has been a busy

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day here on garden Line. I
want to remind you a couple of things.

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I did mention the website again,
Gardening with Skip dot com and the

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reason I talk about it and so
much. We got a lot of stuff

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on there that I want you to
have access to your call garden Line.

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02:28:05.200 --> 02:28:09.520
You have questions you want to see
the turf or the lawn care schedule or

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02:28:09.559 --> 02:28:11.840
the lawn pest disease and weed schedule, or I was just talking to Ron

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about the protecting plants and frosts and
freezes. I just put up a new

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thing on the website yesterday and it
is the Soil Testing made Simple. Soil

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Testing made Simple. It's an article. It tells you how to have your

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02:28:28.200 --> 02:28:33.000
soil tested, how to do it, It makes it really easy because what

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is the most important thing on success
with any plant, the brown stuff,

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02:28:37.639 --> 02:28:41.840
the soil, the compost, the
nutrients. That is the foundation soil testing

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made simple. It's on the website
for you to download, and the updated

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02:28:46.840 --> 02:28:50.280
schedules are also on there. And
I'm going to be having some other stuff

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going up really soon. We're just
going to continue to build it out,

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just a place for me to hang
things that will help you have a more

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beautiful garden and a more bountiful garden
as well. I want to remind you

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that the thirty ninth Annual Fort Bend
Regional Vegetable Conferences February eighth, next Thursday,

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February eighth. It's forty bucks.
That includes a meal and a day

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02:29:16.799 --> 02:29:18.879
full of awesome talks. I don't
know how they do it for that price,

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but they do. Fortbend dot Agrolife
dot org, Fort Bend dot a

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02:29:24.719 --> 02:29:30.559
g R I l i FE dot
org. That's how you find out about

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it and register. There are going
to be programs on bees and making honey

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02:29:33.799 --> 02:29:39.120
marketing produce. This is for both
commercial and backyard gardeners. There's backyard gardening

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and alternative gardening techniques. How to
build your soil, how to grow mushrooms.

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Isn't that cool? You ever thought
about that? That's a fun one.

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There's going to be integrated pest management
topics, how to control pasts with

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less toxicity to the landscape, all
at the Fort Bend Regional Vegetable con Also,

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I've been talking about roses and how
roses are the perfect Valentine's Day gift.

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Well, do you know that we
are celebrating National Rose Day on February

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seventh. That's not what day is
that? If I say say Saturday,

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Monday, Monday, Tuesday, I
think that's Wednesday. If I'm counting in

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my head, right, I can't
walk in chew gone, but I think

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that's right, February seventh Rose Day. So what a great day to go

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out there and get a rose.
You know, Valentine's Day is a fourteenth

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When we think Valentine's roses is the
picture plant that we think about. So

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enjoy National Rose Day on February seventh. I'll be back tomorrow morning at six

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am to answer your gardening questions.