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KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

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this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden
Line with Skip rictor so just watch him

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as so many buck s. Good
morning, Good Sunday morning. You're listening

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to Garden Line. We're here to
talk to you about things that interest you.

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Maybe you got questions about a vegetable
garden or herb garden. You want

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to do some hanging baskets to kind
of spruce up the place, and containers

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on the patio. Maybe you got
a bug crawling around eating stuff you don't

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like that. We've had a few
questions about that. I had a number

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of them yesterday when I was out
at the wild Birds Unlimited in Kingwood,

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had a lot of folks come by. Thank you for come by. It's

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good to meet you. Appreciate that, and appreciate wild Birds hosting us too.

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Out there, number of baggies came
through with things chewed on it and

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weeds and you know you name it. I guess it's it's the horticultural version

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of mm Elazarus. Bring me.
You're tired, you're weary, your insect

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infested, disease ridden masses yearning to
not be sick and have a beautiful landscape

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or something like that. I'm gonna
have to work on that. My apologies

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to Ama Lazarus the butchering of the
poem. Anyway, you get the idea.

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That's what we're here for. If
you would like to give us a

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call, the number is seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

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seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. A little bit later

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this morning, I'm going to be
visiting with Patrick from Verdant Tree Farm is

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going to come in and we're going
to talk about everything palms. You know,

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this is the this is the time
of the year when he gets into

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warm weather. That's palm planting season
for sure. I mean not that you

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can't plant a palm when you want
to plant a palm, but it's the

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best time to do it. And
Patrick is going to help me drill down

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to some of the facts about the
palms that are available to us, the

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best ones to choose, some of
the things that you need to know when

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you're caring for a palm, to
have success with a palm, which palms

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are hardier than other palms, all
that kind of stuff. We'll pick around

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and come up with a number of
different things that I think will be of

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interest. He is a wealth of
knowledge on palms. In fact, if

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you're looking for a palm source that
it is verdant tree farm. They they

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just they specialize in that never Dance
carries all kinds of trees. I mean

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they have trees all the way up
to seven hundred gallons in size. I

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mean, if you if you want
to drop something for interesting, why right

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into the landscape. Not have to
wait too long to hang a hammock.

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If you will, they can do
that. You know, you can go

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in there and you pick a tree, so I want that one, put

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a tag on it. They'll bring
it, they'll install it right. And

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planting a tree right is important.
There's a lot of problems that happen because

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someone who doesn't know how to plant
a tree plants it incorrectly. And I

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mean it can mean you lose the
tree, or it can mean that the

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tree just really struggles for a long
time trying to get its feet under and

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get going. And trees are a
big investment. You want to do it

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right, and when you do it
right, it's one of the best things

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you can do to your landscape,
because when you've added a tree and you've

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done it right, a few things
have happened. Number one, you've put

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it in a spot where it has
room to grow and do what it needs

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to do. Maybe it's a small
tree like a medium sized crape myrtle.

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Maybe it's a giant tree like a
live oak that's going to someday cover your

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end, both your neighbor's properties.
You want to give it a place whereas

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to grow. Do you want to
planet the right distance? Had a friend

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one time when I lived up in
Conro, and he showed me a picture

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of his yard. He had just
planted a bunch of trees. And I'm

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not kidding you. The trees were
like twelve fifteen feet apart, and they

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all look like broomsticks out there in
the yard, which is fine, that

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was the age they were. But
I was just thinking, in two years

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that place is going to be crowded. You know, how can you how

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can you plant them so close?
Because these are species that want to get

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large, and if you want to
create some sort of a forest environment where

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nothing grows underneath the trees, and
it just is this big, random bunch

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of tree trunks all over the front
or backyard. Well, I guess that's

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fine, it's your place. But
think about how big a tree gets and

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pick a tree that gets the size
that you want. And that's why I

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like a place like Burdepne because you
can go and you can visit with them.

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They know what they're talking about.
You can walk in the office.

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You know, it's a free visit
in the office for a design consultation.

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They'll talk to you about you know, what tree would fit. Bring them

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some pictures, definitely, some pictures
things. See what's going on, and

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let them direct you to the right
tree because this is a hopefully for that

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spot. It's it's a once in
a lifetime decision. Now we have trees

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that grow fast and die young,
call them woody weeds. They're not worth

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having. But then we have some
wonderful species that when you're long gone,

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that tree will be the most valuable
thing in that property, the single plant

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that has the most value to your
home. Maybe it's planted properly so it's

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shading from the western sun, cutting
down your air conditioner bills, or giving

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you a place on the patio to
set in the shade and enjoy that you

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want it to be an evergreen.
Do you want it to be a deciduous

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so that it allows sun through in
the wintertime. That is a little bit

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easier on the grass trying to grow
underneath the tree to have a little bit

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of a break from the full shade. Maybe you want a tree with flowers.

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What season do you want flowers?
You know, we got our trees

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that bloom in the spring, lots
of those, and then when you get

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into summer we got crape myrtles and
bitechs and things like that. There's there's

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a lot of wonderful options out there. But anyway, go to the talk

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to the folks at Verdant verdantreefarm dot
com. They have locations now. Pretty

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much as you go across town,
there's some place for you. If you're

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on the west side, you can
go out to the Barker Cypress location.

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If you're way down south in Parland, there's a Broadway at West Broadway location,

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and then up in the heights Yale
Street at ten another location. So

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it's not hard to find a Verdant
Tree farm nearby. But stay tuned because

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we're gonna talk to Patrick, And
as I said, we're gonna focus on

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palm trees and have him teach us
a little bit about the best choices for

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palms, the best way to plant
palm, take care of a palm,

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and all of that kind of thing. I'm actually looking forward to that.

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That would be kind of cool.
If your lawn is kind of struggling along.

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I have seen a number of samples. I saw some lawn samples yesterday,

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lines that are just struggling. You
know, maybe it's a disease.

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Last summer's drought was hard on lawns. A lot of things happen to the

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lawns, soil compaction, whatnot,
and maybe you just want to give it

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a boost, you know, kind
of give it a quick boost. I

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want it to get growing here and
fill in, because the faster you fill

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in, the more you cover that
ground, you know, with leaves or

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with grass leaves. That is,
so that the soil can't be a source

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for a new weed problem because the
sunlight is hitting it. Well. Has

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to grow twelve for eight. It's
a liquid. You hook it up to

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a garden hose, a quart bottle
sprayed around. Takes about ten minutes to

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do your lawn, and you got
the nutrients right there. It's got Medina

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soil activator and it's got liquid or
humates liquid plus in it, and it'll

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give you a nice green boost to
get things up and growing. You know

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you can. You can do that
several times a year if you like.

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I recommend returning the clippings. If
you do that, you can cut down

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on the amount of fertilizer of any
type that you apply, because the clippings

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are providing some nutrition as well.
But the Hashtragrow twelve four eight, it's

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a good quick way to get in
there and get things done and get a

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good, good response, especially for
a loan that's struggling along at this time

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and just needs a little bit of
a boost. Well, we're hitting on

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a hard break here. Our phone
number seven one three two one two five

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eight seven four called Josh. You'll
get you on the board. We'll talk

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to you when we come back.
Mama ST. There will be days like

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this. There'll be days like this, mamasef mamase, Mama, Mama ST.

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There will be days like this.
There'll be days like this, my

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mamasemazad Mama. When walking the other
day, good morning, A little bit

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of lighting going on outside. You
see you a little bit. It's gonna

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be a good Sunday. Looking forward
to sitting with some folks today about what's

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going on in your garden. What
are your questions that you might have our

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phone number seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. If you

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have not had the chance to be
part of a community garden, maybe you

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don't have space for gardens? Something
you ought to think about, because it

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is it's a great way to garden. You know, your backyard. Maybe

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it's too shady, maybe so small. You don't want to dig up the

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back forty for a garden. You
have other plans, you know, for

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that area. Community gardens are a
great way to go, and we have

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a lot of opportunities to do that
here. Urban Harvest has a nice network

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of community gardens around town. I
would consider that to be something well worth

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pursuing if you fit into the categories, especially that I was just talking about

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out in full share. The Dell
Web folks are putting in a new community

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out there. It's one of their
typical inspired designs, lifestyle programs designed around

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you communities. That's what Dell Web's
all about. But this one has got

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a community garden in it. I'm
helping them with it, helping plan put

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that thing together. This will be
in full Sure, just actually about two

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miles outside of downtown full Shure on
FM three fifty nine. I think you

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ought to check it out. If
you want more information, give him a

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call. It's two eight one four
or five nine zero six zero nine or

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Dell Web d e lwebb dot com
slash Houston for more information. So you

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can discover that dell Weeb difference for
yourself. And what a better deal all

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the stuff that you get in a
community like that, plus a nice place

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to garden, and you know it's
always going to be beautiful and neat and

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just wonderful to walk through and be
part of a Dell Web community. Now

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that it's starting to heat up,
by the way, we're about to end

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of the season where we're watering our
lawns more and when we I've lived,

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when I lived in Cyprus, I
had a neighbor that his whole system was

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kind of messed up. The heads
were misaligned. In fact, one of

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the spray heads spray on my car
in the driveway instead of on his lawn,

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and so I'd turned my car on
backwards about two times a week,

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just so I could wash the other
side, because he watered every day of

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the week, just about one or
two days, once every day or two,

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I think it was going on.
It rains in Houston, water stays

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in the soil of wall. We
don't have to water that much. But

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how much do you need to water? Well, I was really excited when

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the folks at the A and M. Egg Engineering Department came up with the

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systems for determining how much you need
to water. And it's called the Evapo

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transpiration system. What does that mean, Well, it means how much water

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evaporations from the soil, how much
water transpires out through the openings and the

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plant leaves. Just like we perspire, plants transpire. And by taking the

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science of all the weather factors and
crunching them in a computer, they can

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tell you exactly how much water your
lawn used this week. I remember years

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ago there were some fires in Mexico
and a cloud of smoke way high came

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over across Texas. It actually changed
by one tenth of an inch a week

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how much water our lawns were using. And that was just that one factor.

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But these computers, these little weather
stations that are all over the place.

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They measure solar intensity, they measure
wind speed, they measure temperature,

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humidity, they crunch it all together
and they can they know through science and

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research and checking turf grass how much
water it's used. And they have a

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system now and it's free. It's
called water my Yard and you can go

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online to water my yard dot org. You can find an app on the

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Apple App Store or on Google Play. You can sign up if you want

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for email reminders. And I've signed
up to it, been using it for

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years now, and basically each week
I get an email and it says,

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you know, you're don't need to
water the rainfall in your area has been

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sufficient this week. Or it'll say
you need to do one half inch of

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water this week, or it'll say
you need an inch of water this week.

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So my old recommendation of how much
water does the law need, well

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an inch a week. Well that's
a good gas, but it's never perfectly

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right because was it cloudy, was
it sunny? Is it May? Is

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it July? You see what I'm
saying. Water my Yard cuts all of

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that out and you avoid the waste
because you know when you put drinking water

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on your law, and you get
to pay for it as sewer services too,

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because they look at the water use
of the house, and in a

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lot of water systems, the sewage
rate is based on how much water you

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use. Now, the fact that
it went on the yard, not down

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in the sewer, that's beside the
point. So it's like a double way

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to save on your water. Plus, is Houston humid enough? Can we

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just go say we don't need to
be sprayed more water out there and the

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air than we have to to keep
our plants healthy. And then there's a

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whole thing about water conservation here in
Texas, and we're not finding new water

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supplies as fast as our population is
growing, and so we got to conserve

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what we have. And when you
waste water, it just has several levels

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beyond just an environmental feel good.
Yeah, I shouldn't waste water. There's

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a lot of practical reasons not to, so I think, you know,

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if you've got a yard, I
don't know why you wouldn't have the Water

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my Yard app on your phone.
It's it's simple. You sign up and

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you get the emails. You can
follow them or not. That's yours.

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It costs you nothing, but it'll
inform you and you'll understand how to run

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your water system. And I would
highly recommend that I'd like to get those

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guys in here sometime for an interview
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it than I did. But uh, it's it's a really really good,

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good system. By the way,
this is National Rosemonth, so we are

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in we are in the middle,
big middle of National Rosemonth. Now it's

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a good time. We think about
planting roses in February, and of course

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that's a great time to plan a
roso's fall. But you can plant roses

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year round, and there's no reason
if you don't, if you will take

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care of the plant, that you
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You just when we plant in hotter
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keep that cylinder of roots moist so
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into stress and it can get those
roots out in the soil. So you

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can plant them now. But if
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good time to I typically a little
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share my roses back. We get
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a wider band than that of bloom. That's kind of the big spring show.

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all through the summer. I'll share
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a nice October show as well.
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Roses are just a wonderful plant.
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the queen of the vegetable garden,
the rose. I said vegetable for

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roses, it's a queen of the
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get into the fruit trees, yeah, it seems like the peach is the

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queen of the fruit trees. And
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anyway, everybody loves a rose.
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It's just beautiful. And we have
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mean, can you can find roses
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the drifts and other types other series
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even if they're not blooming. I
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those two reasons. They're they're just
a pretty shrub. And in addition to

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that, you get the benefit of
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a win win and you don't have
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With a shrub rose. You can
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and they just come back out again
and they look good. By the

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way, if you're looking for a
place to get roses, you're not going

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to do better than Arburgate. Arburgate
up in Tomball. They have a nice

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selection of roses. They have all
the earth kind roses that we talk about.

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Agrilife Extension has selected roses by testing
them around the state in conditions where

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they get no spray. They either
they look good or they don't. And

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you know, maybe they were a
rose found in an old cemetery, surviving

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on their own. That's a good
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mentor, doctor Bill Weltsch used to
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people can grow it, you can
too, And I think that's a pretty

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good full proof thing. But Arburgate's
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lot of other types of roses.
And while you're out there, you can

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grab their one two three system the
food for all kinds of plants. It's

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a four four two plus calcium one
organic. They've got a soil for soil

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ads for your rosebed that'll do well, very well. And then they have

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an organic compost that you can enrich
the soil that you have in. But

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you can go to arburgate dot com. If you haven't been to Arburgate.

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First of all, welcome to Houston, because if you've lived here more than

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a month I and you're a gardener, I would expect you've been to Arburgate.

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They're on FM twenty nine twenty just
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of two forty nine up there in
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place to stop and check out.
You'll find that they have certainly roses and

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a bazillion other other wonderful things.
We're gonna we're gonna talk about a couple

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of common problems when we come back
from break here in just a minute.

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And I'm going to talk about some
of the things that I'm hearing questions about

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right now on a guardline. In
my work as agrilife extension horticulturist, we

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get questions all the time. It's
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week, seven days a week,
is just answering gardening questions and I couldn't

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be happier than any what do they
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absolutely that right then, so we'll
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facts. What's happening around town?
To the incomparable Nicky Courtney, we have

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a C side is solved. I'm
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Hey, you're listening to garden Line. You're looking forward to talking to you

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about whatever is of interest to your
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number you need is seven one three
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on the board and we'll visit with
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about some of the things that we
get questions about this time of year.

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One of the common questions that I
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they don't always know what it is. They just say, my lawn.

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It's like it's shriveling and drying up. And so when I look at

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a picture of it, which is
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it is gray leaf spot. And
gray leaf spot loves warm, humid,

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very humid, shady conditions, and
it loves when we overapply nitrogen, when

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we apply more pounds per thousand square
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over a given period of time.
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leaves of the grass. You know, if you get on your hands and

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knees and you're looking at the grass, you see the grass blades and there's

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the spot on them that are brown, and eventually, I mean, it

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can cause the whole thing to kind
of shrivel up and die, just because

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there's so much of a disease on
that grass blade. And great leaf spot

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is something like any fungus. You
can spray fungicides to prevent it or to

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shut it down. You're never going
to bring a dead leaf back to life,

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but you can prevent the expansion of
it. But whenever we're doing that

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is here's a perspective on plant health
that I'd kind of like you to consider,

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and I'm going to compare it to
human health. And I do that

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a lot, and I realize there's
eight hundred billion differences between plants and people

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when it comes to health. But
there are some principles that are true.

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When we don't take care of our
bodies, when we don't sleep enough,

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when we don't eat right, when
we don't get any exercise, we live

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on a couture in a chair at
the office, or you know what I'm

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talking about, bad diets, and
all of that combined as well as other

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things we do to our bodies that
leads us to being more likely to get

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sick. It doesn't make you sick, but it leads to things that are

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problems. And with plants, the
same thing is true if you don't water

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them enough, if you water them
too much, if you don't fertilize them

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at all and you're trying to get
production out of them, if you over

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fertilize them, if you water frequently
and keep the leaves wet, you're going

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to get disease problems. And so
there's a lot of cultural practices and environmental

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situations that cause us to have problems
that lead to the problem. Now,

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you wouldn't want to spend your life
just taking a thousand medicines every day to

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try to fend off every disease that
might be there, right, I mean,

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that's not the way we go about
it. We'd rather avoid the disease.

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And so the same thing is true
with your lawn. So if you

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have an issue with gray leaf spot
on your San Augustine grass, that's a

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sign of some things. Now,
some things are in your control and some

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things are not. You can't control
how much it rains and how wet it

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states. You can't control the temperature
outside, and those are all contributing factors

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to many types of diseases. But
you can control where you would plant grass

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and in deep shade. I know, we want grass and shade, And

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one of the main turf questions I
get is how do I get grass to

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grow into the trees, because because
we want them both, they don't like

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each other, but we want them
to grow together. But when you go

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into shade, you're going to have
more problems with it than you do in

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sun It can occur in both places. By the way, it's not just

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a shade disease. But another thing
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and all the time, misaligned heads, all that kind of stuff. The

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more often you water, the more
disease problems you have. That's why we

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have more diseases in Houston than they
do in Opasso. It's a dry climate

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out there. It's a very different
climate, and they just don't have the

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same number of diseases. So when
when we over water, or when we

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water too frequently, especially, we
create those kind of diseases. So if

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you've never seen gray leaf spot,
take a piece of plywood, go throw

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it on a section or your lawn
you don't care about, and leave it

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there for about a week and come
back, pick it up and take a

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look underneath, and you will learn
what gray leaf spot looks like. So

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what have you done. You've You've
created a very high humid environment around those

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grass plates by throwing the polywood on
top. You know, the air doesn't

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blow through and move the water the
wet air out if you will. Uh,

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and it's shady underneath that plywood,
you create the disease. And that's

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the example of what I'm talking about. We can predispose plants to problems,

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or we can predispose them to less
problems. It's you know, not one.

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But why create a problem and then
have to go spray for it when

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you can avoid that? And that
would be my thing on gray leaf spot.

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If you have it and you need
to spray, their number of fund

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sides out there that will shut it
down and as new grass comes on,

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help protect that new grass. But
that would be something I would do when

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we're getting into a period where it's
raining off and on for a long time

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it's overcast and cloudy, which is
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And so that would just be one
where you would periodically after a rain do

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some sprain for it. But we
try to avoid that when we don't have

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to. Speaking of rain, and
on the roof, have you ever had

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somebody come by and put a business
card in your door and say, hey,

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you need a new roof and I
can help you get insurance to fix

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that roof and blah blah blah.
Well, throw the cards away. Those

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just like Tree Services, throw those
cards away and call somebody that knows what

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they're doing. And Brinkman Roofing is
that kind of company. They've been in

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business for fifty years and fifty years
your roof is a major investment in your

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house, and you need a professional
that you can trust with that investment that'll

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do a good job. Not somebody
that flies through when a storm hits and

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then they fly off somewhere in the
country where the next storm is hit and

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they're gone. You own a company
that's lived here and that stands behind their

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work. In the case of Brinkman, up to twenty five years now there

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are full service commercial residential roof If
you want a metal roof, they can

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custom to manufacture a standing seam roof
right there on your property that fits perfectly.

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I talk about him being a good
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Bureau Pinnacle Award winner go to Brinkman
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Roofing, It's a company you need
to know about and while you're there,

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ask them about their timberline solar shingles. I'll talk about those again sometime,

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and I it's a pretty cool idea. You're listening to garden Line our phone

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number seven one three two one two
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fifty eight seventy four. Another one
of the problems that I see a lot

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is something called slime flux. Doesn't
that sound fun? It sounds like something

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that's said in a ghost Ghostbusters movie
slime flux. So with slime flux,

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what happens is the bark on your
trunk cracks a little bit and it allows

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bacteria in, and in that sugary
sap, they ferment it, and now

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you've got this ooze coming out.
Sometimes it's white and frothy. Oftentimes you'll

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see butterflies and wasps there because it's
fermented. It's like a little insect beer

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joint right on the side of your
trunk. And there's nothing you can do

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about it. Just keep the plant
healthy so that it'll create a callous and

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try to close that over. There's
no spray for it or anything. People

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get very alarmed. Sometimes it'll leak
for a long time, usually with a

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healthy plant. It kind of takes
care of itself and it goes away.

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With an old tree that doesn't have
a lot of bigger it can hang around

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for a while, but people get
very alarmed at what's the stuff coming down

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the side of my trunk. That's
what it is, Just a butterfly beer

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joint on the side. Well,
we're gonna go to a break. Got

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some calls coming in if you would
like to be on the board. Seven

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one three two one two five eight
seven four. They read stretcher, they

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pass the play. We're both preaed. He don't preach late. But he's

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getting nam and that's just starling.
He ain't eighty five degrees outside. He

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just getting mine. Good Sunday morning, on a beautiful Sunday morning outside,

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you're listening to Garden Line. We're
looking forward to visiting with you about questions

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kinds of issues that I deal with
sometimes. Well, the wide variety of

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options with all those kinds of ways
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basis. It saves a little bit
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Com. We're going to head out
to talk to David this morning. Good

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morning, David, good morning.
Can you hear yes, sir? Okay,

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I have a problem. I had
a lot of work done on my

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house and they threw all the debris
on the front lawn. I knew they

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was going to do it. What
it did is I killed all the grass.

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It was a bear and waste land. Now. I thought they were

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going to do something to the soil
before they laid the sawd but they just

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laid the sawd on pop of it. So I've been watering it but and

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there's no problem. But I wondered, is there any fertilization I should do

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or is anything I could put on
top of the grass to make that soil

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under their better? Now, how
long ago did you lay the side?

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I would say possibly a month ago. Okay, yeah, you absolutely can

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be fertilizing. Now I would grab
something that's going to give you a gradual,

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slow release. You want something that
is gonna, you know, feed

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your lawn over time, not just
be an immediate release. And I think

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one of the things you might want
to consider. Nelson's has a line called

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turf Star that one of their turf
Star products is called Slow and Easy.

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It's a twenty two two ten that
gives you that gradual feeding that you're looking

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for. It'll go for months,
literally giving a little bit at a time.

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The chemistries of the nitrogen and everything
in there. It's beautiful, the

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wet it releases very gradually. You
don't want to just push them with a

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blast a fertilizer at one time.
So you can put this down not have

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to worry about it. You can
put about five pounds per thousand square feet.

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That's about the rate you want to
put it down. And now that

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that turf has been there that long, it should have roots down. I

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don't. There's nothing you can do
now to fix soil underneath it in time.

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If it's a compacted clay, you
can certainly do core aeration and a

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compost top dressing. But for right
now, let's get some good nutrient on

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it. You as needed water.
When it's not rained for a week,

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go ahead and give it a little
water, but just be careful not to

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overdo it, because then you add
the disease issues to the fact that you're

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already trying to get this grass on
its feet. Now it's having to deal

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with disease is because of being you
know, over overwatered. So so can

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I use liquid or granule? This
is a granular and you want to put

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that down now if you if you
want to do a liquid you know I

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was mentioning earlier. The Medina Hastegrow
twelve four eight is just a quick response.

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So if you needed something, just
real quick. But I think with

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what you're looking at here, you
can go either way. But if you

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do the Medina you're going to need
to come back and fertilize again sooner.

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If you do this slow and easy, you're gonna put it down now and

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you're kind of done for the summer. Okay, that'll do it better.

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Thank you very much. All right, David, thank you for the call.

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I appreciate that very much. Our
phone number seven one three two one

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

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I should have mentioned to to David
when we're talking to him that down

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in Southwest Houston is South Fertilizer,
and if you have not been there before,

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you need to check them out.
They are going to carry a wide

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variety of fertilizer. Everything you hear
us talk about on garden Line is at

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Southwest and then some they even have
their own line, the Southwest Premium Gold,

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a slow release that they make as
well. But they're gonna have the

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nelsons I just talked about. They're
gonna have microlife, they're gonna have nitrofosts,

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and on and on. When it
comes to any kind of insecticide,

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fungicide, herbicide that you need,
it's there, including organic. If you

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are an organic gardener, organic landscape
person All the products you need are at

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Southwest Fertilizer. Why are there?
You can pick up some really quality tools.

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You're gonna have all the soil amendance
we talked about. Go to Southwest

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Fertilizer dot com. That's that is
probably the fastest and easiest way to find

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out. You know, where are
they and everything they're They're on the corner

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of Bissonette and Renwick and Southwest Houston. But Southwest Fertilizer dot Com is just

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a great resource. I was in
there the other day taking a lot of

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pictures into the news products that are
out there, and every time I go,

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I'm impressed with You know, if
you need a grass killer, they

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don't have one. They have several
obsens to choose from if you need and

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on and on. You see what
I'm saying. It's just it's the place

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where everything you need you for your
lawn, your garden, You're going to

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find it there. I love going
into that place. While I was talking

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about the slime flux and the pressure
that builds up underneath the bark, and

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we typically get calls on that in
the summertime. You know, that's a

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that is a common thing that we
deal with and the gray leaf spot is

483
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a common problem that we deal with
in summer on our roses. Now we're

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seeing quite a bit of the black
spot if it's not a resistant type of

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rose, and this be a national
rose month. With the black spot again,

486
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you crowd your bushes together, you
have a pop up sprinkler that sprays

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them every other day, and you
just get a lot more black spot diseases.

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So going back to what I was
talking about earlier, I'm gonna be

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a broken record on this, and
if you listen to guard DeLine cultural first.

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Cultural first, buy a rose that's
resistant naturally so you don't have to

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spray it. Plant them with space
so the air can move through them and

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dry them out faster, and cut
down on diseases. Prune them in a

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00:35:15.679 --> 00:35:19.920
way that opens the bush up if
it's a type that's susceptible among the hybrid

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tease typically or that way. But
fortunately we have some nice resistance now coming

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00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:29.719
on hybrid tease. But all of
those things help out with that black spot

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00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:32.079
disease on roses. And of course
they get the powdery mildew and they have

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00:35:32.159 --> 00:35:37.119
some other diseases they can get too, But by and by, as time

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00:35:37.159 --> 00:35:39.599
has gone on, we are getting
more and more disease resistant roses. I

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think that's a wonderful, wonderful thing. That's one of the things with the

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Earth kind. That's that's where it's
not a rose breeding program. It's an

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00:35:47.159 --> 00:35:54.719
aggridife extension evaluates roses under really poor
care conditions. And so when you when

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you have that kind of thing,
you're going to find that, you know,

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you just don't deal with problems as
much. If you happen to live

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out southwest of Houston Enchanted Gardens,
which is just it's north of Richmond toward

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Katie. Go to Enchanted Gardens Richmond
dot com or hunt them down on Facebook.

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Got a wonderful Facebook page as well. The Lenderman family has been doing

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this since nineteen ninety five. When
Enchanted Garden opens, I don't even know

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00:36:22.840 --> 00:36:27.400
where to begin. They have everything
you're going to find herbs, vegetables,

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00:36:27.519 --> 00:36:30.760
the antique roses, the hybrid roses, trees, they have a nice seed

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00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:36.000
selection. Every product I talk about, you're gonna find it an antique at

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the Enchanted Gardens. Now. They're
open on Monday through Saturday eight to five

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thirty. On Sunday from ten am
to four pm. I always love going

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to Enchanted Gardens. They have some
beautiful mixed containers now right now, and

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it just reminds me that there's no
reason you cannot put like the sage,

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00:36:55.719 --> 00:37:00.039
the herbs sage end with some vincas
or some other things. You can mix

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rosemary with other things. Go there
just for inspiration, and why are you

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there? Go ahead and pick up
some of those things, because they've already

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planted them for you if you would
like to just take one home. June

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00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:15.119
is national perennial month, and boy
do they have perennials. And the nice

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00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:21.760
thing about perennials and got too enchanted
is it's you spend the money once and

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00:37:21.880 --> 00:37:27.400
you enjoy the annual returns on your
investment. They've got that meadow sage that

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I've talked about before. They've got
all kinds of Salvia's. One of my

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00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:37.360
favorite perennials that are out there,
Redbeccia's the Southern hibiscus. That is a

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00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:42.199
perennial that comes back year after your
big dinner plate blooms. You will be

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wowed. In fact, they would
be a great day's afternoon run out there

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to Enchanted Gardens in on the Katie
side of Richmond. They are at six

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four twenty FM three fifty nine.
Were you listening to garden Line. We're

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gonna be back here after break.
Our number is seven one three two one

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

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We'll be glad to answer your questions. Give Josh a call and get

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on the boards. I just want
to again thank the folks at wild Birds

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Unlimited, Kingwood. It was a
wonderful time we had out there yesterday.

533
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I always like going into places like
wild Birds because I learned something. You

534
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know, I've been doing this thirty
four years professionally thirty four years, and

535
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you would think, well, I've
heard it all. No, no,

536
00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:38.239
I haven't. I learned so much
about birds just visiting with the experts at

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Wildbirds that day, and you know, there's wildbirds all over the place here

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in the Houston area. But it
is amazing the word the world of backyard

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bird feeding. KTRH Garden Line.
It's not necessarily endorse any of the products

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or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to k DRH Garden Line with Skip

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00:39:01.360 --> 00:39:22.199
Rector just watching as any well,
good Sunday morning. It is a beautiful

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day outside. You're listening to garden
line. I'm your host, Skip Ricor,

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00:39:27.239 --> 00:39:30.639
and we are here to answer your
gardening questions. Our number seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seven
four. Now I'll bet that you consider

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yourself to be a compassionate person.
I know I do. If you're looking

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for a way to put your compassion
into action, maybe you drive past people

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in street corner and there have a
sign. You're wondering, Okay, it's

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this legit is it's not legit.
I want to help people, but I

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don't want to throw money away.
I don't want to cause I don't want

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to make a problem worse. Even
with the way I choose to get of

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Star of Hope Mission, I cannot
more highly recommend a way to help people

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truly and directly. We're talking about
folks who, for sometimes no fault to

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their own, have just run on
very hard straits. But now they are

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wanting to make a life for themselves. Star Hopes gives them that chance.

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It allows them to have education,
to learn how to get a job,

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to learn how to hold a job, to recover from substance abuse, to

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grow spiritually in their life in a
Christ centered environment to learn all the life

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management skills in some cases that I
guess many of us just kind of picked

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up growing up, but they didn't
have that opportunity to do that. This

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is a Christ centered community that's been
in Houston for over one hundred years.

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They have facilities for serving meals more
than six thousand meals a week, So

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for like two dollars and eighty cents, you can provide a meal. I

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mean, it's that simple, and
they have additional needs because of all the

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Mull Institute of Services Star of Hope
offers. Go to shmission dot org.

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Shmission dot org. You can find
more information there, specifically, way more

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than I can talk about today,
and I'd love to just spend the whole

567
00:41:12.639 --> 00:41:16.159
show talking about it because I believe
that much in what Star of Hope is

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doing. You can also donate there, and you can find other ways that

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you can even volunteer there if you
would like to be a part of directly

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00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:30.719
putting your hands onto the important merciful
act of helping someone get back on their

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feet and make a life for them
and for their children as well. I

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00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:39.519
want to head out on the phones
now We're gonna go to Cyprus and talk

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00:41:39.559 --> 00:41:46.000
to Sandy this morning. Good morning, Sandy, high Skip. I spoke

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00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:51.639
with you yesterday about my weed that
are growing, and then I put that

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00:41:51.679 --> 00:41:55.079
weed data on about five to six
weeks ago. Okay, well, I'm

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00:41:55.079 --> 00:41:59.800
not sure if you had a chance
to look at the pictures and the email

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I sent yesterday, Joe, would
it have come from Joe? No,

578
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:10.719
it would have come from Swatty.
But I told you, Um the subject

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00:42:10.719 --> 00:42:15.000
title says weeds in the grass or
something. They did not come through,

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00:42:15.599 --> 00:42:21.679
Um, Swatty Gallier at SBC Global. No, I'm sorry, I did.

581
00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:24.159
I did not. I did not
get them. I'll I could check,

582
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possibly in a spam file or something
like that, but I don't.

583
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No, I don't have them there
either. I'm sorry. If you would

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00:42:32.159 --> 00:42:36.199
you try let me. We could
either talk about it now, or I

585
00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:37.760
could put you on hold and you
could resend them and we could come back

586
00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:42.719
later in the show and talk about
it either way. Okay, I'll try

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00:42:42.719 --> 00:42:46.920
and resend them again, okay,
Um, and and see. But if

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00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:52.480
you have a chance, can I
ask you about my oh chuz, Sure,

589
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:55.800
I've got them in a pot and
they're getting big. Enough to it

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00:42:55.920 --> 00:43:00.440
where the pot's about maybe twenty gallon. I'm a female. I'm a girl,

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00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:05.239
so you know, my my gallons
might be up. It's a huge

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00:43:05.239 --> 00:43:12.559
pot. Um and I've thought about
twelve siblings that I that came up and

593
00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:15.480
now they're getting real big. It's
been about a month. Should I pull

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00:43:15.559 --> 00:43:19.920
some of them out so that they
get I'll get some light, and um,

595
00:43:20.199 --> 00:43:22.280
where can I leave them all?
Yeah? You said about twenty gallons

596
00:43:22.320 --> 00:43:30.480
and it's okrah right, yeah,
and so I would probably leave. I'd

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00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:34.000
probably leave three or four in there, and four is probably pushing it a

598
00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:38.920
little bit. Okay. Okrew gets
really big, and you can if you

599
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:43.480
get too much in there, it
really crowds it, and it just does

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00:43:43.639 --> 00:43:46.800
it's not as robust and it's just
not going to be as productive. Make

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sure also in that pot sandy,
that you fertilize it with something that's going

602
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:55.039
to either release slowly over time,
or that you do your fertilizations and small

603
00:43:55.079 --> 00:44:00.599
amounts over time regularly to keep it, keep it vigorous in health and growing.

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And then finally just watch the drying
out. Don't let it dry out.

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Okay, And I see a ladybug
on here, So is that good

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or is that not good? Well, that's a good thing. Sometimes it's

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00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.400
a sign you may have afids on
it. That's not a big problem with

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00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:19.639
okrah, So I think the ladybug
may just be checking out looking for something.

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But I don't think it's a sign
you have a problem. But it

610
00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:27.000
definitely is good to have them around. Primarily primarily afids is what they like

611
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:30.239
to eat. They do eat some
other things. Oh, okay, okay,

612
00:44:30.360 --> 00:44:37.199
I have a Microlife sixty four and
the green container that says for all

613
00:44:37.280 --> 00:44:40.079
plants that's multi purpose. That's the
one I should put it in there.

614
00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:45.000
Yes, I would put two cups
of that mixed. Now you've already got

615
00:44:45.039 --> 00:44:46.840
it planted pre planting. I would
have put two cups and mixed them into

616
00:44:46.840 --> 00:44:51.079
the soil in a twenty gallon container. Just sprinkle about a couple in the

617
00:44:51.079 --> 00:44:53.119
ground, kind of scratch it down
around the plants and watered in. Really

618
00:44:53.119 --> 00:44:55.920
good you kind of like to get
if you get a little under the surface,

619
00:44:57.039 --> 00:45:00.079
it's a little bit better, stays
moist and because it has to a

620
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:05.840
moist and microbes break it down.
Okay, I put mulch on it.

621
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:08.639
I did when I originally planted the
seedling. I did what she said,

622
00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:15.760
which I used the job tomato and
vegetable plant feet food okay, and then

623
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:22.880
I used asa mite and warm castings
when I had planted it originally. But

624
00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:27.679
now I have mult on it.
Can I put the microlife on top of

625
00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:29.880
the MULTA? Should I move it
away? Well, you can move it

626
00:45:29.880 --> 00:45:30.800
away, or you could just put
it on the mults and then kind of

627
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:34.960
scratch it in with your fingers and
watered and really good at cough fall down

628
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:37.880
in there. But it sounds like
your ocres living the life. O'Reilly if

629
00:45:37.880 --> 00:45:39.440
you've done all that, so you're
off to a good start. Sandy,

630
00:45:40.039 --> 00:45:43.920
Yeah, thank you, thank you
so much, and I'll try to refend

631
00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:46.119
both pictures, all right, Thank
you very much. Appreciate that call.

632
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:50.840
You know, if you live up
in the Carloss area, if you're around

633
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:54.480
Iola or anywhere up in that part
of the country, it's basically, you

634
00:45:54.519 --> 00:45:59.840
know, to the east of Navasota, a little bit outside of town from

635
00:46:00.000 --> 00:46:01.400
all the station in Bryan. Even
folks up in that area. No,

636
00:46:01.519 --> 00:46:04.960
we have a lot of listeners up
in that area. I will tell you

637
00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:09.079
about Grimes County Feed Grimes County Feed
and Farm is one of those family owned

638
00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:14.360
feed stores. That's the kind of
feed stores we just love to talk about.

639
00:46:14.440 --> 00:46:16.440
You know, they're full service.
They've got everything you need. They're

640
00:46:16.480 --> 00:46:20.719
going to carry these fertilizers you're hearing
me talk about all the time, and

641
00:46:20.760 --> 00:46:22.800
then some They got the tree hugger
sprinklers too, by the way, on

642
00:46:22.840 --> 00:46:28.079
hand, their garden tools and sprayers. You're gonna get your quality dog and

643
00:46:28.280 --> 00:46:31.239
cat feeds. There the mosquito dunks
I talk about, are there? The

644
00:46:31.440 --> 00:46:37.320
pond supplies if you need aquatic herbicides
or fish food twice a quarter. They

645
00:46:37.360 --> 00:46:42.079
even are part of a fish stocking
opportunity that you would have, hey,

646
00:46:42.159 --> 00:46:45.920
and know everything else that you would
expect from a quality feed store. That's

647
00:46:45.960 --> 00:46:51.039
the folks at Grimes County on State
Highway thirty. That's two miles west of

648
00:46:51.119 --> 00:46:55.360
FM twenty two forty four, two
miles west of two forty four. Stop

649
00:46:55.400 --> 00:47:00.079
by and become part of their family. You're listening into guard Line our phone

650
00:47:00.159 --> 00:47:06.079
number seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

651
00:47:06.119 --> 00:47:22.960
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Well it's all right, please please well,

652
00:47:24.280 --> 00:47:30.039
well, good Sunday morning. Beautiful
dayni Wow Chamber of Commerce, weather

653
00:47:30.159 --> 00:47:34.800
going on out there right now.
You're listening to Guarden Line. I'm your

654
00:47:34.840 --> 00:47:37.119
host, Skipper Richter, and we
are here to answer your gardening questions.

655
00:47:37.199 --> 00:47:42.719
It's seven one three two one two
five eight seven four if you'd like to

656
00:47:42.760 --> 00:47:45.400
call and be on the air.
Now. You may have heard of Dell

657
00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:49.119
Web. I guess if you've been
living under a rock, you might have

658
00:47:49.239 --> 00:47:52.480
been able to miss him over the
years. I remember, long time ago

659
00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:58.000
dell Web community. I visited out
in Phoenix, Arizona, kiddo out there

660
00:47:58.039 --> 00:48:01.280
with family and friends, just seeing
this new wonderful place. Well, dell

661
00:48:01.320 --> 00:48:06.239
Web has been doing that now for
seventy years. They build communities for active

662
00:48:06.239 --> 00:48:09.800
adults age fifty five and better.
And their newest is in Fullscher two Moss

663
00:48:09.880 --> 00:48:15.760
from downtown Fullscher on FM three fifty
nine. Now, Dellweb programs and communities

664
00:48:15.800 --> 00:48:21.360
are just unmatched. It's the inspired
design. It's those lifestyle programs that are

665
00:48:21.400 --> 00:48:24.039
designed around you. It's a community. It's not just a house to live

666
00:48:24.039 --> 00:48:28.880
in. Now. The cool thing
about this new community is they've contacted me

667
00:48:29.280 --> 00:48:34.280
to work with them on creating a
community garden on site for residents. So

668
00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:37.639
in addition to all the reasons,
I live in a Dellweb community, now,

669
00:48:37.679 --> 00:48:39.159
as a gardener, you've got a
space to guarden. You don't have

670
00:48:39.199 --> 00:48:43.320
to dig up the backyard, and
you can still go to a really beautiful

671
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:46.079
place and enjoy that garden. Give
him a call at two eight one four

672
00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:52.880
five nine zero six zero nine or
go to Dellweb dot com slash Houston for

673
00:48:52.000 --> 00:48:59.880
more information than to discover that Dellweb
difference for yourself. I can't wait to

674
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:04.559
see that come and you know,
to be completed the whole thing. I

675
00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:07.079
just I know what kind of stuff
Dell Web does, and for them to

676
00:49:07.159 --> 00:49:10.519
do a community garden, that's going
to be one heck of a cool community

677
00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:15.519
guarden. I can just tell you
that that for sure. You know,

678
00:49:15.559 --> 00:49:21.159
we're entering that season where a storms
come and they're often a concern for roofs.

679
00:49:21.400 --> 00:49:24.079
People to summer, hail, storms
and all kinds of other things really

680
00:49:24.119 --> 00:49:28.840
take their toll in our roof.
If you need roofing services, do not

681
00:49:30.079 --> 00:49:36.079
do not hire the people that go
like gypsies from town to town following storms

682
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:38.840
to fix your roof, because then
after that storm they're gone. Talk to

683
00:49:38.880 --> 00:49:43.119
somebody who's been here for years and
who will stay here for years, and

684
00:49:43.159 --> 00:49:46.760
who has to build and maintain a
reputation to stay in business, and that

685
00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:52.639
is Brinkman Roofing. Brinkman Roofing warrants
or roofs for twenty five years of service.

686
00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:57.199
They've been doing this for fifty years
here in the community. Twenty twenty

687
00:49:57.199 --> 00:50:02.320
two Better Business Bureau Pinnacle Word Winner. You can go to Brinkman Quality dot

688
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:07.000
com. That's Brinkman with two ends
quality dot com or give them a call

689
00:50:07.039 --> 00:50:10.760
to eight one four eight zero seventy
six sixty three. By the way,

690
00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:16.239
they're they're Timberline solar shingles. This
isn't a panel that's on your roof.

691
00:50:16.280 --> 00:50:22.280
They can get you a solar shingle
that is your roof. How cool can

692
00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:24.800
you get? I mean that that
is really, really nice, and I

693
00:50:24.840 --> 00:50:28.480
believe the sunshines are on here a
little bit so you can make a little

694
00:50:28.480 --> 00:50:34.519
extra electricity and the process of doing
that without having those panels sitting on top

695
00:50:34.559 --> 00:50:39.360
of your roof. Brinkman Roofing well
worth a call. You're listening to guard

696
00:50:39.440 --> 00:50:44.400
Line. We're here to answer questions, and one of the common questions that

697
00:50:44.480 --> 00:50:47.800
I get at this time of year
is well, it's starting to get hot,

698
00:50:47.920 --> 00:50:52.079
and here in the next month or
so, our tomatoes are gonna quit

699
00:50:52.559 --> 00:50:57.639
having fruit because they quit setting when
temperatures get up in the nineties, and

700
00:50:57.719 --> 00:51:00.679
then the daytime or the daytime and
then the night times you're in the upper

701
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:05.719
even upper seventies, it just it
messes them up, and being able to

702
00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:09.960
pollinate, they don't successfully pollinate.
Then the little cherries and grapes they pollinate

703
00:51:10.039 --> 00:51:15.000
okay in the heat, but the
slicers especially, they just kind of quit

704
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:17.280
production. And so here you've got
these plants. What do we do well,

705
00:51:17.280 --> 00:51:22.719
we transition to a summer garden.
Now, you can keep plants around

706
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:25.480
until try to get them to go
again in the fall. But I would

707
00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:31.079
recommend that when something stops producing,
or when let's say, foliage diseases attack

708
00:51:31.119 --> 00:51:35.920
your squash or your cucumbers and get
the better of them, transitioned to some

709
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:37.599
summer vegetables. We've got a lot
of good things. You know. Just

710
00:51:37.639 --> 00:51:42.800
a minute ago we talked to Sandy
about okra okra. Gosh, you can't

711
00:51:42.800 --> 00:51:47.159
get more summer vegetable than okra,
black eyed peas and southern peas do really

712
00:51:47.400 --> 00:51:52.639
really well. And then we have
greens, a lot of great greens for

713
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:57.679
summer weather. If you've never grown
malabar before, they call it malabar spinach.

714
00:51:58.000 --> 00:52:00.440
Again, I have my horticle t
pep peeves, and one of them

715
00:52:00.519 --> 00:52:05.519
is, why does every vegetable that's
a leafy green that's not spinach have to

716
00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:08.920
be called spinach. We got Malabar
spinach. We got Egyptian spinach. We've

717
00:52:08.960 --> 00:52:13.960
got oh there's another one. I'm
the New Zealand spinach. None of those

718
00:52:14.000 --> 00:52:17.119
are spinaches, but they all take
hot weather, so hey, I'm good

719
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:21.639
with them. Molochia is another good
one that does well in the summer.

720
00:52:21.760 --> 00:52:25.480
We've got some good vegetables for the
summer time. Eggplants go through the summer

721
00:52:25.519 --> 00:52:30.519
pretty well. They don't set as
well in the summer as like I mentioned

722
00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:34.639
for tomatoes, and even peppers don't
set well in the heat. But keep

723
00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:37.760
those plants because you make a bigger
plant as you take care of it through

724
00:52:37.760 --> 00:52:43.679
the summer. When fall comes,
you're going to have the highest volume of

725
00:52:43.760 --> 00:52:46.679
production on a pepper or an eggplant
that you have all year because you have

726
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:51.320
a bigger plant. I like to
compare it. Think of a Christmas tree.

727
00:52:51.519 --> 00:52:53.679
Can you hang more ornaments on a
small tree or a big tree?

728
00:52:53.800 --> 00:52:58.880
On a big tree? Well?
Can you hang more peppers and eggplants on

729
00:52:58.960 --> 00:53:02.519
a small egg plant or a pepper
plant, well, a big one.

730
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:07.599
So take care of those through the
summer and it will be a really successful

731
00:53:07.679 --> 00:53:10.519
fall season for you. There's a
lot of things we do in the summer

732
00:53:10.519 --> 00:53:14.400
garden. You know you own a
malt because wherever sunlight hits the soil,

733
00:53:14.519 --> 00:53:17.000
nature plants a weed. I don't
want to be pulling weeds in the summer,

734
00:53:17.119 --> 00:53:21.760
neither do you or hoeing weeds.
So keep that soil surface most,

735
00:53:21.960 --> 00:53:25.119
keep it cooler. The plants will
do better, these summer tough vegetables.

736
00:53:25.159 --> 00:53:30.760
All they need is adequate soul moisture
and they'll do really well. You'll speaking

737
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:35.079
of adequate soul moisture. I was
talking about roses earlier, and you could

738
00:53:35.079 --> 00:53:38.920
still plant roses, but I would
not try that without a tree hugger sprinkler.

739
00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:42.199
Now, if you want to go
out every day with a little hose

740
00:53:42.239 --> 00:53:45.320
and do it yourself, that's fine. But when you put a tree hugger

741
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:47.400
around a plant, whether it's a
rose, a shrub, or a tree.

742
00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:51.880
They have the seven inch size,
the eleven inch diameter, and then

743
00:53:51.880 --> 00:53:54.320
the fifteen inch. You can turn
it on just a little bit and you

744
00:53:54.360 --> 00:53:58.920
water that root cylinder that went in
the ground because that's where all the roots

745
00:53:58.920 --> 00:54:01.679
are for a little while. Gradually
the roots start moving out into the soil

746
00:54:01.719 --> 00:54:05.400
and you turn up the sprinkler.
You water on a little larger area.

747
00:54:05.440 --> 00:54:07.239
In a little larger area, you
never have to move the hose of the

748
00:54:07.239 --> 00:54:10.000
sprinkler. I mean, you just
go turn it on. It's really really

749
00:54:10.039 --> 00:54:15.039
simple. You can go to tree
Hugger sprinklers dot com find a retailer.

750
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:19.639
But all our independent nurseries, garden
centers, we talk about the hardware stores

751
00:54:19.639 --> 00:54:23.079
like Ace for example, they're gonna
have it. They absolutely are going to

752
00:54:23.119 --> 00:54:25.719
carry, as well as all the
feed stores we love to talk about on

753
00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:30.119
garden Line. Treere sprinklers are one
of the easiest things in town that you

754
00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:34.199
can find. Well, let's head
out to Richmond and we're gonna talk to

755
00:54:34.320 --> 00:54:38.440
Joe. Good morning, Joe,
good morning. How can we help today?

756
00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:47.199
Okay, I have Saint Augustine like
everyone else in my backyard. So

757
00:54:47.280 --> 00:54:52.760
I used the back half of my
yard which gets the most sun every year.

758
00:54:52.559 --> 00:54:57.440
Along about August, well prior to
augusty greens up. It's beautiful,

759
00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:00.960
it's healthy, you know, when
I've fertile, is it? Everything's fine?

760
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:08.079
Along about August I start getting what
looks like brown patch, but it

761
00:55:08.119 --> 00:55:14.559
could be something else. It's not
the classic circle. But and so I

762
00:55:14.639 --> 00:55:19.599
put down a fungicide, a dry
funder side, and then I start spraying

763
00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:22.800
it with the wet and I cannot. Every year it just beats me.

764
00:55:22.880 --> 00:55:27.599
It doesn't matter how much fung de
side I put down there, it just

765
00:55:28.199 --> 00:55:34.840
gradually spreads, and by September October, just about half my yard is dead.

766
00:55:35.320 --> 00:55:37.480
It's not dead, it's just the
grass blades are dead, you know,

767
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:43.480
and kill the roots. And what
is my best way to conquer this

768
00:55:43.519 --> 00:55:46.239
thing? I mean, I spent
one hundreds and hundreds of dollars on fungicides

769
00:55:46.280 --> 00:55:50.079
and I can't seem to beat it. Yeah, Well, you need to

770
00:55:50.119 --> 00:55:52.920
identify what it is. When you
say it's like a brown patch, is

771
00:55:52.920 --> 00:56:00.599
it circular or is it a regular? It's more a regular than circles.

772
00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:02.920
I've seen brown patch and it's a
pretty distinct circle, is right. It

773
00:56:04.119 --> 00:56:07.000
is? Yeah, And you wouldn't
have brown patch at the season you're talking

774
00:56:07.039 --> 00:56:10.960
about. So I think if it's
a fungus, Yeah, if it's a

775
00:56:12.000 --> 00:56:16.119
fungus, it's it's probably take all
root rot and putting the disease control on.

776
00:56:16.199 --> 00:56:20.320
At that time, it's probably already
done. It's damage. So even

777
00:56:20.400 --> 00:56:23.079
if you stopped the fungus, which
you're probably not going to completely stop it

778
00:56:23.119 --> 00:56:28.400
at that point of the season,
it still has done is damage. The

779
00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:30.519
grass doesn't have roots, so it
just keeps going downhill despite the fact that

780
00:56:30.519 --> 00:56:37.519
you've been spraying. So it could
be that that go ahead, it doesn't

781
00:56:37.559 --> 00:56:40.000
have roots. How does it come
back so strong in the spring, Well,

782
00:56:40.280 --> 00:56:44.960
it grows as the runners go out, they put new roots down in

783
00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:50.800
the ground, and so that when
the I'm just I'm having to guess here

784
00:56:50.840 --> 00:56:52.760
because the symptom I'm getting as the
grass is dying, right, And so

785
00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:54.679
there could be a lot of things. I mean, it could be that

786
00:56:54.719 --> 00:56:59.320
the water sprinklers not reaching that area. It could be that the soil is

787
00:56:59.360 --> 00:57:00.559
more compact it right out there.
I mean, it could be a lot

788
00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:06.920
of things, but I think take
all is a likely possibility. That's also

789
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:10.000
chinch bug season that you're describing,
So it's a possibility that it could be

790
00:57:10.039 --> 00:57:16.199
chinch bugs, but I think a
good diagnosis may be the best, the

791
00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:21.039
best thing when we get to that
season. Take all root rot is better

792
00:57:21.079 --> 00:57:25.360
fought in the fall and in the
springtime. You can still spray now for

793
00:57:25.480 --> 00:57:29.960
it, and you may want to
try that and see if that helps,

794
00:57:30.320 --> 00:57:32.880
But we would rather hit it when
it's most active, and that's in the

795
00:57:32.920 --> 00:57:37.880
fall in spring. But we often
see the dieback in summer because the demands

796
00:57:37.960 --> 00:57:44.679
are so great that the lack of
root system plus I gotta have more water

797
00:57:44.760 --> 00:57:47.719
but I can't get it. That
combination causes the grass to start going downhill

798
00:57:49.039 --> 00:57:55.760
as the summer wears on. Yeah, it's just pretty much confines itself to

799
00:57:55.840 --> 00:58:00.920
the back half of my yard.
Okay, any well, you know,

800
00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:05.159
I'm kind of grabbing a straws.
Why don't you take some pictures of it.

801
00:58:05.440 --> 00:58:07.639
I'm gonna I'm gonna put you on
hold and have Josh give it an

802
00:58:07.639 --> 00:58:12.000
email to send that to If it's
not doing it now, that's fine that

803
00:58:12.079 --> 00:58:15.440
you'll have the email. As you
start into that, let me see some

804
00:58:15.480 --> 00:58:17.880
pictures from a distance so I can
see the whole scene you're talking about.

805
00:58:19.239 --> 00:58:22.000
And then some up close and good
sharp focus. I'll try to take it

806
00:58:22.039 --> 00:58:25.880
another step forward. Other than that, you probably need to send a sample

807
00:58:25.920 --> 00:58:30.400
into the plant clinic at A and
M for them. They'll get it in

808
00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:34.440
there, they'll culture it out on
a peat tradition, look at it under

809
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.880
a microscope and really give you the
actual answer that just a visual a visual

810
00:58:37.960 --> 00:58:42.320
could it could be several things,
but when you get into a plant clinic

811
00:58:42.320 --> 00:58:46.280
they're gonna be able to give more
specific Okay, all right, hang on,

812
00:58:46.400 --> 00:58:50.960
don't don't go away. We'll put
you put you on hold. You

813
00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:53.320
know, if you have a little
piece of property and you would love to

814
00:58:53.440 --> 00:58:58.760
have a nice tractor to take care
of it, you need to consider the

815
00:58:58.880 --> 00:59:02.559
Landsdown moved. They have a Caboda
L twenty five O one. It's their

816
00:59:02.559 --> 00:59:07.280
Texas edition hydrostatic transmission. You can
add things like a rotary cutter, a

817
00:59:07.320 --> 00:59:10.760
box blade, or front endloader to
it. If you're thinking about it,

818
00:59:10.880 --> 00:59:15.920
now's the time to do it.
Zero down, zero interest for eighty four

819
00:59:15.920 --> 00:59:20.719
months, seven years. Landsdown in
Comoda is a great combination. In this

820
00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:23.679
only lasts through June thirtieth, so
now's the time to get the best deal.

821
00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:28.719
You're going to find on a Caboda
tractor. Go to LM tractor dot

822
00:59:28.719 --> 00:59:32.559
com Lansdown Moody, LM tractor dot
com to find the place near you,

823
00:59:32.800 --> 00:59:37.920
the landsdown near you where you can
get this deal. Well our phone number

824
00:59:37.960 --> 00:59:42.559
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Give Josh a call.

825
00:59:42.760 --> 00:59:45.920
You'll be first up, actually,
Joe, unless you know Donnie in

826
00:59:46.119 --> 00:59:50.280
north Shore, you'll be first up, and then whoever else calls and the

827
00:59:50.360 --> 01:00:15.440
meantime first up is Nikki. Good
morning, beautiful Sunday morning. This afternoon,

828
01:00:15.519 --> 01:00:19.960
I hope to get outside and do
a little visiting in some garden centers

829
01:00:20.000 --> 01:00:23.559
and maybe a little landscape work as
well, or maybe house plants. My

830
01:00:23.599 --> 01:00:25.960
house plants are kind of needing a
little bit of help from me. But

831
01:00:27.119 --> 01:00:29.760
such a beautiful day, it's hard
to be inside working on the house plants.

832
01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:34.039
You know, if you have not
put down an azamite application on your

833
01:00:34.119 --> 01:00:36.960
lawner garden this year, this would
be a good time to do it.

834
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:40.360
You only need to do it once, but you get those once in the

835
01:00:40.480 --> 01:00:46.320
season. You do that application and
you get those minor nutrients, the trace

836
01:00:46.559 --> 01:00:52.679
minerals, the micronutrients down and that
provides everything that that plant is going to

837
01:00:52.760 --> 01:00:57.280
need for the complete nutrient package.
You know, most of our fertilizers are

838
01:00:57.280 --> 01:01:00.840
a nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium,
base are some that all also have micro's

839
01:01:00.880 --> 01:01:04.719
in them as well. But those
micros, even though they're needed in tiny

840
01:01:04.760 --> 01:01:08.440
trace amounts, are essential for good
plant health, and that's what azamite can

841
01:01:08.519 --> 01:01:13.159
supply. Now. You can find
out more information if you go to Azamite

842
01:01:13.159 --> 01:01:15.599
Texas dot com. But you're going
to find asmite everywhere that you know.

843
01:01:15.679 --> 01:01:20.039
You find the fertilizers and things that
we talk about here. So when you

844
01:01:20.039 --> 01:01:22.840
put a fertilizer application on in the
spring, I always say that's a good

845
01:01:22.840 --> 01:01:24.440
time put an asmite down. But
if you haven't, now's a good time

846
01:01:24.440 --> 01:01:28.360
to put an asmite down. I
actually have some that I'm going to be

847
01:01:28.400 --> 01:01:30.440
putting them off vegetable garden this summer. I haven't gotten around to it yet,

848
01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:34.400
and I need to. But I
want to make sure that the vegetables

849
01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:38.760
that I eat have all the different
elements that my body needs as well,

850
01:01:38.880 --> 01:01:44.599
not just a few things. We
can deplete our soil over time, we

851
01:01:44.639 --> 01:01:47.119
need to make sure and beef it
back up. And a product like azamite

852
01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:52.639
can help make that a nice complete
package of nutrients for plant health as well

853
01:01:52.679 --> 01:01:55.960
as for people health. Let's head
out to north Shore and we are going

854
01:01:57.039 --> 01:02:00.559
to talk to Donnie. Hello,
Donnie, Hello there, George, good

855
01:02:00.599 --> 01:02:05.800
morning, Good morning. I want
to discuss a couple of things with you.

856
01:02:06.159 --> 01:02:10.039
Yes, I've got a sprinkler system
and I bought some petunias. There

857
01:02:10.039 --> 01:02:16.719
are annuals and I'm planning about four
four or five inches deep about three four

858
01:02:16.760 --> 01:02:22.840
inches wide, and seem like they're
having a hard time when the heavy rain

859
01:02:22.960 --> 01:02:30.440
come and the sun come up the
face and uh eats. Okay, when

860
01:02:30.440 --> 01:02:34.239
you say four or five inches deep, you don't mean that the plant is

861
01:02:34.280 --> 01:02:37.559
buried underground. You just mean the
bottom of the holes that you dug it

862
01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:39.320
about that deep. Is that what
you're saying? Right? Okay, right,

863
01:02:39.400 --> 01:02:44.079
right? Yeah? I you know, making sure they stay moist but

864
01:02:44.159 --> 01:02:46.639
not too saggy wet, And depending
on your soil and the amount of sun

865
01:02:46.679 --> 01:02:50.840
and the temperatures are having that that
varies on how much you have to water

866
01:02:50.920 --> 01:02:52.440
to achieve that. But that's what
you're aiming for. Keep them moist,

867
01:02:52.480 --> 01:02:59.599
but just moist, a little fertilizer
watering them in is a good idea.

868
01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:02.360
Usually after I plant something like that, I'll use some sort of a liquid

869
01:03:02.400 --> 01:03:07.159
plant food for a period of time. There's a number of good ones out

870
01:03:07.159 --> 01:03:09.760
there on the market. One of
the ones I've been using for my plants

871
01:03:09.800 --> 01:03:14.960
is one of the microlife products.
They have more than one liquid. You

872
01:03:15.000 --> 01:03:16.440
put in a little water and you
water them in with it, and that

873
01:03:16.480 --> 01:03:22.039
gives them an immediate access to those
nutrients so they can you know, they

874
01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:23.679
take them up. That's not a
long term slow release. That's just hey,

875
01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:27.960
we're trying to get these things happy
and get some roots down. It's

876
01:03:28.000 --> 01:03:30.760
not too hot yet for petunias.
It will get too hot as we get

877
01:03:30.800 --> 01:03:34.920
into the heat of summer. You
may see them struggling a little, but

878
01:03:34.960 --> 01:03:37.920
it sounds like the location you've got
them in is pretty good. So I

879
01:03:37.920 --> 01:03:43.159
would just say moderate water and a
little boost of nutrients. Maybe watering with

880
01:03:43.239 --> 01:03:49.320
the nutrient solution would be what I
would recommend. What was the name of

881
01:03:49.360 --> 01:03:53.519
the liquid I'm a listening. I'm
listening to your show. You've mentioned you

882
01:03:53.559 --> 01:03:58.519
can get a lot of things that
a's hardware. Yeah, and in nor

883
01:03:58.559 --> 01:04:01.719
Shore, you're the norse shore there
on. I ten just to the east

884
01:04:01.719 --> 01:04:05.719
of six ten. Right, okay, yeah, you've cut an Ace hardware

885
01:04:05.760 --> 01:04:11.039
down the street. It's you Valdi
hardware on your Valdi Road just right.

886
01:04:11.639 --> 01:04:15.079
Yeah, that that would be a
good one. And they're gonna have they're

887
01:04:15.119 --> 01:04:17.480
gonna have these kind of liquid microlife
products. You can go down the line

888
01:04:17.880 --> 01:04:20.400
and you know, look at the
different ones and pick the one out you

889
01:04:20.440 --> 01:04:25.360
want, you want for your situation
there. But that would be that would

890
01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:27.800
be a good source. I think
I would. I would do that because

891
01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:30.039
that gives you a quick way,
you know, put it in a watering

892
01:04:30.119 --> 01:04:33.480
can, water the petunias with it. You've got other plants like that,

893
01:04:33.559 --> 01:04:39.039
you can do the same, uh
you know it. Microlife has the drys

894
01:04:39.079 --> 01:04:43.880
for a longer term, the dry
application like the sixty four and the humates

895
01:04:43.920 --> 01:04:46.639
plus and all those other kind of
things as well. But for this we're

896
01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:54.000
wanting to get a good immediate release, okay, okay. And also planets

897
01:04:54.000 --> 01:05:01.360
some I think they're called lili yes, uh huh. And when I bought

898
01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:08.360
them at the store, they was
beautiful with the colored flowers at the top.

899
01:05:08.719 --> 01:05:15.239
When I planted them, the flower
part fell off, and now the

900
01:05:15.239 --> 01:05:21.119
perennials did not get any bloom.
So are they seasonal? No, you

901
01:05:21.320 --> 01:05:26.320
keep them, but just take care
of them because they need that foliage to

902
01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:31.159
replenish the bulb underground so that when
they come into another bloom season, they're

903
01:05:31.159 --> 01:05:34.559
good and strong and they've got all
that energy to send up a stalk with

904
01:05:34.719 --> 01:05:38.599
full of flowers and that that's what
we want to do. So take good

905
01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:42.000
care of those things. Even though
they're not in their bloom season, they're

906
01:05:42.039 --> 01:05:45.480
in the season where they're preparing for
it. So you don't want them to

907
01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:50.119
get stressed this summer. Okay,
oh, okay, all right, all

908
01:05:50.199 --> 01:05:54.360
right, thank you sir, Yes, sir, Donnie, thank you for

909
01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:58.159
that call. I appreciate that.
Yeah, you're going to find Microlife fertilizers

910
01:05:58.159 --> 01:06:00.880
out there, you know, all
over the place. But you can go

911
01:06:00.880 --> 01:06:04.000
to Microlife Fertilizer dot com and find
out more about that. And I mentioned

912
01:06:04.039 --> 01:06:09.000
I mentioned the ACE to Donnie.
Go to ACE Hardware dot com, go

913
01:06:09.119 --> 01:06:13.079
online, and there's thirty nine ACE
stores around the Greater Houston area. And

914
01:06:13.280 --> 01:06:15.599
if you go to ACE Hardware dot
com, cook on the store locator and

915
01:06:15.679 --> 01:06:18.039
you can find the one right near
you. In fact, there's going to

916
01:06:18.079 --> 01:06:21.639
be more than one right near you. They've got everything you can imagine,

917
01:06:21.679 --> 01:06:26.559
of course, all the gardening products
that we talk about, and way way

918
01:06:26.599 --> 01:06:30.719
more. I mean, the selection
is wonderful. They're good, friendly associates.

919
01:06:30.760 --> 01:06:34.079
I love going into ACE because I
love being treated like that. I

920
01:06:34.159 --> 01:06:38.360
love talking to people who know what
they're talking about and can help me,

921
01:06:38.840 --> 01:06:42.599
not someone who gives you this blank
stare because you know they just got hired

922
01:06:42.679 --> 01:06:46.159
to sell gardening products and they don't
know what a gardening product is. ACE

923
01:06:46.239 --> 01:06:50.039
Hardware is not that way, and
you will not be disappointed in your experience

924
01:06:50.079 --> 01:06:55.119
with ACE Hardware's join their reward program
while you're on there. You can earn

925
01:06:55.199 --> 01:06:59.719
money on what you buy. I'm
part of the Roared program myself, and

926
01:07:00.079 --> 01:07:03.559
enjoy that you're listening to garden Line. We are here to answer your gardening

927
01:07:03.920 --> 01:07:08.119
questions. We're gonna take a little
break here before you do. I just

928
01:07:08.119 --> 01:07:12.079
want to tell you that Buchanans Plants
and the Heights. You go to Buchanants

929
01:07:12.159 --> 01:07:16.199
Plants dot Com in the Heights,
They've got everything that you could possibly want.

930
01:07:16.239 --> 01:07:18.480
I mean, if you want to
Plemaria, they've got some of those

931
01:07:18.519 --> 01:07:23.440
in look beautiful by the way they
specialize in natives, but they go way

932
01:07:23.519 --> 01:07:28.559
beyond natives as well pretty much.
I love their houseplants selection. Oh my

933
01:07:28.639 --> 01:07:32.039
gosh, that place is stocked like
none I've seen. Buchanans Plants and the

934
01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:38.280
Heights buchanans Plants dot Com. That's
on East eleven Street. Beautiful place to

935
01:07:38.320 --> 01:07:41.440
stroll through. Just a wonderful experience. Check it out and you'll know what

936
01:07:41.480 --> 01:07:45.039
I'm talking about. We're gonna take
a quick break here. We'll be back

937
01:07:45.199 --> 01:07:48.800
to answer your gardening question. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

938
01:07:48.800 --> 01:08:11.599
four. Good Sunday morning. I
love looking outside and seeing a day like

939
01:08:11.679 --> 01:08:15.039
this. It just tells me that
I know what I'm gonna be doing this

940
01:08:15.119 --> 01:08:19.119
afternoon. That is going to be
enjoying the outdoors in the garden, maybe

941
01:08:19.159 --> 01:08:24.279
getting some inspiration from a garden center. You know. Whenever I've talked about

942
01:08:24.319 --> 01:08:28.720
this before, here goes one of
my many broken record phases where I just

943
01:08:28.760 --> 01:08:31.039
say the same thing over and over
again, because that's important. It's most

944
01:08:31.079 --> 01:08:36.239
important, and that is, do
not plant a plant without preparing the soil

945
01:08:36.319 --> 01:08:42.600
first. It is a recipe for
disaster. To do that. If you

946
01:08:42.640 --> 01:08:46.079
want success, give that plant a
place that it wants to be in,

947
01:08:46.239 --> 01:08:49.880
a soil that's got a lot of
organic matter in it, a site that

948
01:08:49.960 --> 01:08:54.720
has sun, a soil that has
good drainage internally and maybe a raised bed

949
01:08:54.840 --> 01:08:59.840
for the surface drainage as well.
Where can you find good so well Nature's

950
01:09:00.119 --> 01:09:03.159
resources, I mean, you know, historically that has been the place here

951
01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:06.760
in the greater Houston area, Nature's
Ways up there on I forty five,

952
01:09:08.720 --> 01:09:13.640
just south of Conrow about where fourteen
eighty eight comes in, and Nature's Way

953
01:09:13.760 --> 01:09:15.960
has got you know, they're the
originator of the rose soil and the leaf

954
01:09:16.039 --> 01:09:20.840
mold compost and those things we talk
about so often. On Fungal Fridays,

955
01:09:20.840 --> 01:09:26.840
they have ten percent off their bag
products and twenty percent off their book products,

956
01:09:26.840 --> 01:09:30.279
and they have a lot of good
quality fungal compost on hand. That's

957
01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:33.720
the only kind of product they make
is quality product. At Nature's Way,

958
01:09:33.960 --> 01:09:38.359
one of the largest varieties of native
plants in the Houston area. They've got

959
01:09:38.399 --> 01:09:43.039
two acre nursery garden center. They've
got lots of native perennials and many many

960
01:09:43.159 --> 01:09:45.560
other kinds of plants there at the
garden center. In this summer, their

961
01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:50.399
new hours in the summer or Monday
through Friday eight to five and Saturdays from

962
01:09:50.439 --> 01:09:56.119
eight to two, and on Sundays
they're close. That's Nature's Way Resources.

963
01:09:56.119 --> 01:09:59.920
You can find their bag products and
many of our garden top line garden centers.

964
01:10:00.279 --> 01:10:03.039
Uh, Nature's Way Resources. You're
not gonna go wrong when you prepare

965
01:10:03.079 --> 01:10:08.399
yourself first with something from Nature's Way. We're gonna head it out to Katie

966
01:10:08.479 --> 01:10:12.479
and now we're gonna talk to John. Hello, John Well. I had

967
01:10:12.520 --> 01:10:15.000
good morning Skip. I have a
question for you on a couple of colias

968
01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:19.840
that I have. Um they're beautiful, uh, and I've grown them before,

969
01:10:19.880 --> 01:10:24.199
but then they die in the fall. But right now I have two

970
01:10:24.239 --> 01:10:27.439
that I'm looking at them right now
out in my backyard and they're they're in

971
01:10:27.520 --> 01:10:31.680
pots. Um one is it's really
good looking now, but it's got these

972
01:10:31.800 --> 01:10:38.640
uh like sprouts coming out of the
top, was little bluish purple. Yes.

973
01:10:40.119 --> 01:10:42.880
Should I cut those blooms? Okay? Thank you? Should I cut

974
01:10:42.880 --> 01:10:45.880
those off? Or keep those?
You can leave them? I cut them

975
01:10:45.880 --> 01:10:49.760
off, and there's not it's not
gonna kill the plant to leave them.

976
01:10:49.800 --> 01:10:56.159
But once they start blooming, production
of those big beautiful leaves, you know,

977
01:10:56.560 --> 01:10:59.359
starts to go down. How you
start to get a little smaller leaves

978
01:10:59.359 --> 01:11:02.039
of any growth at all. So
I will cut not just the bloomstock off,

979
01:11:02.039 --> 01:11:05.199
but i'll cut you know, a
node or two below that is you

980
01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:09.000
go up a coleus stem, You've
got what we call a node and that's

981
01:11:09.000 --> 01:11:12.039
where two leaves come out. And
then you go up to stem and there's

982
01:11:12.039 --> 01:11:15.199
another node. So go a node
or two below that bloom and cut them

983
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:19.000
off there. What's going to happen
is at the base of the leaves that

984
01:11:19.079 --> 01:11:24.239
are below where you cut, you're
gonna get two shoots that's s brought out.

985
01:11:24.479 --> 01:11:27.640
And now colius, once it gets
its head to bloom, it's gonna

986
01:11:27.680 --> 01:11:30.319
try to keep blooming. And so
you're gonna have to keep doing some trimming.

987
01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:34.880
But I think that keeps it.
It's freshest and every time you cut

988
01:11:35.199 --> 01:11:39.479
where you had one shoot, now
you have two or more, and it

989
01:11:39.520 --> 01:11:44.840
just makes it a fuller, more
beautiful plant. Can I replant their like?

990
01:11:45.479 --> 01:11:51.359
Put the blooms in water, absolutely
propagate though Okay, right, there's

991
01:11:51.479 --> 01:11:57.399
nothing easier to root than a colius. Tell them well maybe, but no,

992
01:11:57.479 --> 01:12:00.960
I'm serious. You can have a
thumb so black that you know,

993
01:12:01.119 --> 01:12:09.359
but it's well purple thumb. People
can root a colias the colias at What

994
01:12:09.399 --> 01:12:13.520
you want to do is cut I
would say probably two or three nodes,

995
01:12:14.239 --> 01:12:18.520
and the cut just below the lowest
node. So take the leaves off the

996
01:12:18.520 --> 01:12:21.520
bottom two nodes, so you've got
a node at the bottom of the cutting,

997
01:12:21.880 --> 01:12:25.479
you got a node midway, and
then at the top. You leave

998
01:12:25.520 --> 01:12:29.520
the leaves there and put it in
any kind of glass of water, just

999
01:12:29.680 --> 01:12:33.479
water, water, and it will
root quickly. You'll see the roots coming.

1000
01:12:33.560 --> 01:12:35.640
Once you get some good roots on
it, you can put it in

1001
01:12:35.640 --> 01:12:39.920
in the ground. You can also
just stick them in soil to root,

1002
01:12:40.600 --> 01:12:43.279
potting soil or something. But I
like to do it in water because you

1003
01:12:43.279 --> 01:12:45.560
can kind of see it happening and
oh yeah, cut a bunch of them

1004
01:12:45.600 --> 01:12:50.079
so you can plan them together,
you know, make another container with maybe

1005
01:12:50.079 --> 01:12:55.760
four or five rooted cuttings starting off. Okay, I appreciate it. Thank

1006
01:12:55.760 --> 01:12:59.920
you, you bet, thank you
appreciate that call. Hey, do you

1007
01:13:00.079 --> 01:13:02.800
live out in the Kingwood area.
If you do, you are rich with

1008
01:13:02.920 --> 01:13:08.560
garden centers, the Warrens Garden Center
and the Kingwood Garden Center to wonderful places

1009
01:13:08.600 --> 01:13:13.199
to visit. Kingwood Garden Centers on
Stone Hollow Drive, Warrens Garden Centers in

1010
01:13:13.399 --> 01:13:15.199
North Park driving Kingwood by the way, I said, if you live in

1011
01:13:15.279 --> 01:13:18.000
Kingwood, if you live in Humble, a Tasca Seed, a Porter or

1012
01:13:18.079 --> 01:13:23.319
Valley Ranch, New Caney, anywhere
out in that direction, those are places

1013
01:13:23.520 --> 01:13:29.319
well well worth visiting. They have
some beautiful combo planters. That's one of

1014
01:13:29.359 --> 01:13:31.239
my favorite things that they have.
Also saw the other day they got a

1015
01:13:31.239 --> 01:13:35.600
bunch of citrus in too, and
so if you want a citrus tree,

1016
01:13:35.880 --> 01:13:39.840
now's a good time to get one. And while are you there, pick

1017
01:13:39.960 --> 01:13:44.439
up their heirloom soils citrus soil to
go with it. So bring them both

1018
01:13:44.479 --> 01:13:46.000
home. Maybe you're going to put
them in a big container, you know,

1019
01:13:46.119 --> 01:13:50.640
grow a myer lemon or a type
of lime tree for example, or

1020
01:13:50.680 --> 01:13:55.520
even a satsuma orange can be grown
in a very large container. Or you

1021
01:13:55.640 --> 01:13:58.039
going to grow them in the ground. You can use thatt cent soil to

1022
01:13:58.119 --> 01:14:01.640
amend the soil and create a good
spot for them. Warrens and Kingwood Garden

1023
01:14:01.720 --> 01:14:05.359
Centers out in Kingwood is a place
you definitely needed to visit. They're both

1024
01:14:05.399 --> 01:14:09.439
open seven days a week, so
today be a good day to go out

1025
01:14:09.479 --> 01:14:13.640
there, take a look love going
out to Warren's Garden Center. Really cool

1026
01:14:13.680 --> 01:14:16.439
stuff. Well, you're listening to
Garden Line. Our phone number is seven

1027
01:14:16.520 --> 01:14:21.039
one three, two one, two
five eight, seven four fifty eight seventy

1028
01:14:21.039 --> 01:14:26.119
four or two one two KTRH.
If that makes it a little easier for

1029
01:14:26.159 --> 01:14:30.199
you to remember, we soon coming
up here for too long. You're going

1030
01:14:30.239 --> 01:14:34.079
to have Patrick from Verdant Tree Farms
talk to us about palm species. And

1031
01:14:34.119 --> 01:14:39.279
if you've got a palm question,
I hope during the eight o'clock hour you

1032
01:14:39.319 --> 01:14:42.760
will give us a call and I
would like to get Patrick here to help

1033
01:14:42.880 --> 01:14:46.000
answer your questions. He is the
palm expert, definitely more so than I

1034
01:14:46.039 --> 01:14:49.600
am. And any kind of palm
questions, you have any issues going on,

1035
01:14:49.640 --> 01:14:51.560
maybe you want to put a palm
in, what's a good one,

1036
01:14:53.159 --> 01:14:57.600
what's a hearty palm? And so
on, Let's talk to Patrick about palm

1037
01:14:57.640 --> 01:15:03.119
trees, because here's our opportunity to
learn from someone who really knows what he

1038
01:15:03.239 --> 01:15:08.439
is talking about. I uh,
you know, when I'm doing the radio

1039
01:15:08.479 --> 01:15:13.319
show down here and then I'm working
as Agrolife extension up into College station during

1040
01:15:13.319 --> 01:15:16.880
the week, I find that it's
hard to get around to making my landscape

1041
01:15:17.119 --> 01:15:21.000
like I wanted to look. In
fact, the term the cobbler's kids go

1042
01:15:21.159 --> 01:15:29.239
barefoot is applies horticulturally sometimes at my
house and when when I was looking at

1043
01:15:29.239 --> 01:15:31.920
my landscape there that I was thinking, you know, I need help here.

1044
01:15:32.039 --> 01:15:35.920
I mean it just it needs number
one, it needs some redesign,

1045
01:15:36.479 --> 01:15:40.960
just so it has that asthetic beauty. Uh. The analogy I like to

1046
01:15:41.359 --> 01:15:45.000
use is um, if you gave
me Rembrandt's paint and Rembrandt's canvas, you

1047
01:15:45.039 --> 01:15:49.359
would get something that looked like a
four year old finger painted on paper.

1048
01:15:49.720 --> 01:15:55.359
Right. I am not a Rembrandt
when it comes to design. But Peerscapes

1049
01:15:55.520 --> 01:16:00.159
is Jason Garrity and his team there. You know that they know they know

1050
01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:02.960
how to design, they know how
to beautify. Maybe you got a little

1051
01:16:02.960 --> 01:16:05.600
simple thing like I just want some
friar beds in front of the house.

1052
01:16:05.920 --> 01:16:10.760
Maybe you want a total renovation.
Maybe you want hardscapes or walkways. You

1053
01:16:10.880 --> 01:16:15.840
got a poorly drained area, they
can fix that for you. Peerscapes dot

1054
01:16:15.880 --> 01:16:20.199
com, peerscapes dot com or two
eight one three seven zero five zero six

1055
01:16:20.399 --> 01:16:27.319
zero give them a call and let
your beautiful be turned into amazing. They

1056
01:16:27.359 --> 01:16:30.920
can do that for sure. Let's
head out to Sugarland. We are going

1057
01:16:31.000 --> 01:16:33.720
to talk to Prayful. How are
you this morning, Prayful and how can

1058
01:16:33.760 --> 01:16:38.399
we help? Oh? I'm I
appreciate you taking my call. Sure,

1059
01:16:38.520 --> 01:16:42.319
I have a two three questions.
Actually I was trying last weekend. I

1060
01:16:42.319 --> 01:16:45.199
couldn't get a hold of you.
Anyway. I'm looking for some kind of

1061
01:16:45.319 --> 01:16:49.359
organic viticulo my garden. You know, I pull out the weed and they

1062
01:16:49.439 --> 01:16:55.399
just keeps coming back right of way. Okay, if it is an annual

1063
01:16:55.479 --> 01:16:59.720
weed, not a perennial, you
can use. There's a number of different

1064
01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:06.800
ds. Some have vinegar as the
ingredient. Some have something called herbicidal soap.

1065
01:17:06.920 --> 01:17:11.560
You know, we have insecticidal soap
that kills bugs but doesn't hurt plants.

1066
01:17:12.039 --> 01:17:15.600
There's other types of fatty acid chain
soaps that will fry the heck out

1067
01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:19.479
of a plant, and those are
herbicidal soaps. That's another option. We

1068
01:17:19.600 --> 01:17:25.600
have soaps that are made from a
number of other compounds that are considered organic.

1069
01:17:26.399 --> 01:17:30.159
And if you if you're out in
the Sugarland area, if you'll go

1070
01:17:30.359 --> 01:17:35.560
to one of our enchanted Our enchanted
nursery, enchanted gardens CHENDI forms that that

1071
01:17:35.680 --> 01:17:40.800
you're you're going to be able to
find those products here. Also in Sugarland

1072
01:17:41.159 --> 01:17:44.960
out the plantation ace is out there
pretty close to you. There's some other

1073
01:17:45.000 --> 01:17:49.039
aces and they are going to have
a wide variety of products, including the

1074
01:17:49.880 --> 01:17:55.359
kinds of soap that I'm talking about. You just you just want to make

1075
01:17:55.399 --> 01:17:58.760
sure that just tell them what I
want is organic, and they're going to

1076
01:17:58.880 --> 01:18:01.640
be able to lead you to that. But you're you're not very far from

1077
01:18:01.640 --> 01:18:06.640
the plantation ace. I'd probably i'd
give that one start. No, definitely,

1078
01:18:06.880 --> 01:18:12.039
we're's a plantation, yes, and
I'm here in music, so I'll

1079
01:18:12.039 --> 01:18:14.279
tell you white. If you want
to hang on, I'll try to finish

1080
01:18:14.319 --> 01:18:16.359
up your call when we come back
from break, or if you'd like to

1081
01:18:16.359 --> 01:18:20.319
give us a call back, we
can do that during the eight o'clock pardon

1082
01:18:20.760 --> 01:18:25.800
I'd wait for you, all right, all right, take care our phone

1083
01:18:25.840 --> 01:18:30.640
number seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

1084
01:18:30.680 --> 01:18:33.960
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Just want to remind you we're gonna have

1085
01:18:34.000 --> 01:18:38.319
the palm expert on in the next
hour, so if you got any palm

1086
01:18:38.640 --> 01:18:42.479
questions. Then we'll be the time
to give us a call. We're going

1087
01:18:42.520 --> 01:18:45.760
to spend the whole hour visiting with
Patrick from Verdant Tree, so we'll hope

1088
01:18:45.760 --> 01:19:04.680
you hang around and be here for
that. Ktr H Garden Line does not

1089
01:19:04.800 --> 01:19:11.720
necessarily endorse any of the products or
services advertised on this program. Welcome to

1090
01:19:11.840 --> 01:19:39.000
ktr H Garden Line with Skip rictor
Trip. Just watch him as woolsack ticking,

1091
01:19:39.800 --> 01:19:46.560
not a SI. Well, good
morning, Wow, what a morning,

1092
01:19:47.800 --> 01:19:51.079
beautiful, beautiful outside. You're listening
to the Garden Line. I hope

1093
01:19:51.079 --> 01:19:55.239
you're having a good Sunday morning.
I'm your host, Skip Richter, and

1094
01:19:55.319 --> 01:19:58.239
our phone number if you'd like to
give us a call is seven one three

1095
01:19:58.319 --> 01:20:02.159
two one two five eight seventy four. Now I've got my own little loose

1096
01:20:02.239 --> 01:20:09.960
flash here. We I've had to
move Patrick to a future hour coming up

1097
01:20:10.000 --> 01:20:14.720
this morning, probably next hour.
And so all these palm questions that I

1098
01:20:14.800 --> 01:20:16.319
was inviting you to call in with, well just hang on to them one

1099
01:20:16.359 --> 01:20:19.600
second. We're gonna we're gonna come
to come to that. But I'd rather

1100
01:20:19.720 --> 01:20:24.119
I'd rather have Patrick here when we
when we deal with the palm questions.

1101
01:20:24.119 --> 01:20:28.000
But he'll he'll he'll be available to
do that. We just had to make

1102
01:20:28.039 --> 01:20:30.760
that move. Sorry for that inconvenience
for all of you. So, if

1103
01:20:30.800 --> 01:20:40.520
you live up in let's say the
Magnolia FM twenty nine seventy eight area,

1104
01:20:40.560 --> 01:20:44.359
you know, north North Houston up
there near just minutes away from Graham Parkway

1105
01:20:44.359 --> 01:20:47.279
and Highway to forty nine, Spring
Creek Feed Center is a place you need

1106
01:20:47.319 --> 01:20:50.239
to visit Spring Creek Feed Well,
I'm going to need your drive up.

1107
01:20:50.279 --> 01:20:54.560
It's like, Wow, that's cool. I wish I had that place that

1108
01:20:54.760 --> 01:20:57.920
of structure at my house. It
looks like it just a what do they

1109
01:20:57.920 --> 01:21:00.520
call them barn dominiums, I mean, beautiful place. They've got all the

1110
01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:04.399
fertilizers we're talking about, you know, all the different lines. They've got

1111
01:21:04.439 --> 01:21:10.640
all the garden and lawn supplies and
pond supplies that you might need, including

1112
01:21:10.640 --> 01:21:15.600
herbicides, fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, its exticides. You get the idea

1113
01:21:15.079 --> 01:21:17.920
friendly, courteous staff to greet you. When I walked in there, I

1114
01:21:17.960 --> 01:21:21.039
mean I felt like I was getting
the grand welcome and they did not know

1115
01:21:21.119 --> 01:21:25.760
who I was walking on me.
Wasn't like you're some radio hos. I

1116
01:21:25.800 --> 01:21:29.800
mean I was just a person coming
off the street and they greeted me in

1117
01:21:29.840 --> 01:21:31.319
that way. And that's the kind
of experience you're going to get when you

1118
01:21:31.359 --> 01:21:34.560
go to Spring Creek Feed. Now, Okay, that's nice to be greeted,

1119
01:21:34.680 --> 01:21:36.760
But what else do they have?
Well, they got pet foods,

1120
01:21:36.920 --> 01:21:42.000
They've got Victor Purina, all the
pet foods. Are gonna want livestock feeding

1121
01:21:42.079 --> 01:21:45.239
products, wildlife feed if you're feeding
wildlife. They also have their own frequent

1122
01:21:45.279 --> 01:21:49.199
buyer program on select brands of pet
foods. So if you're going to buy

1123
01:21:49.199 --> 01:21:51.840
some pet foods, sign up for
that. You can get that kind of

1124
01:21:51.880 --> 01:21:56.359
discount. Dean, Hey, do
you need shavings? Do you need betting

1125
01:21:56.399 --> 01:22:00.680
materials for your plants? Are you
a FA or four H member? Are

1126
01:22:00.680 --> 01:22:03.079
you military? Are you senior citizen? Well, there's a discount for all

1127
01:22:03.119 --> 01:22:08.239
those groups there. They'll leaven special
order things if you if you need them,

1128
01:22:08.279 --> 01:22:11.119
they don't have them, they'll special
order them for you, and so

1129
01:22:11.159 --> 01:22:14.279
you can do that. They also
have a delivery service. I mean,

1130
01:22:14.319 --> 01:22:17.600
what more could you want. This
is Spring Cree Feed Center. It's in

1131
01:22:17.760 --> 01:22:24.079
Magnolia on FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away again from Graham Parkway

1132
01:22:24.079 --> 01:22:28.560
in Highway to forty nine. If
you live anywhere near that area. This

1133
01:22:28.800 --> 01:22:32.640
is your feed store. Well,
our phone number if you'd like to give

1134
01:22:32.680 --> 01:22:36.079
us a call seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. We're

1135
01:22:36.119 --> 01:22:42.920
going to head back out here to
sugar Land and continue our conversation with Preyful.

1136
01:22:43.520 --> 01:22:45.800
Preyful, where were we when we
dropped off there? Okay? Yeah,

1137
01:22:45.800 --> 01:22:50.319
I was asking about the vehiculer typically
to control the weeds that pull them

1138
01:22:50.319 --> 01:22:55.279
out. I put a big plot
February and then I add some pine bark

1139
01:22:55.520 --> 01:23:00.119
multies that typically good or is it? I'm bark mulch is fine? What

1140
01:23:00.520 --> 01:23:04.920
kind of garden is this? Is
this flowers, vegetables? What it's mostly

1141
01:23:05.000 --> 01:23:09.800
shrubs? Oh? Okay, okay, good, Well a shrub area,

1142
01:23:09.880 --> 01:23:13.399
yeah, any kind of a course
mulch. I like the shredded hardwood mulches

1143
01:23:13.520 --> 01:23:16.720
myself. Are those work really well? They lock in well together, They

1144
01:23:16.720 --> 01:23:20.680
don't tend to float as much if
you do get excess water moving across.

1145
01:23:20.760 --> 01:23:27.199
But any kind of an organic matter
on the surface is blocking the sunlight from

1146
01:23:27.239 --> 01:23:30.479
hitting the soil. It's protecting the
soil from crusting from rain. It's protecting

1147
01:23:30.520 --> 01:23:35.600
it from erosion. It's keeping the
temperature moderated. All the mini mini mini

1148
01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:39.680
benefits of mulch. And by the
way, when you mulch preyful, don't

1149
01:23:39.680 --> 01:23:42.239
take the old mulch out. Just
throw a new mulch on top of it

1150
01:23:42.279 --> 01:23:45.199
if you need more. You just
want to maintain it thick enough to where

1151
01:23:45.439 --> 01:23:48.840
it does all the things I was
talking about. Sun can't hit the soil

1152
01:23:48.920 --> 01:23:55.479
and you out the old one flushed. Do you say that again? Pick

1153
01:23:55.520 --> 01:23:58.920
out the old must do not take
out the old one. You put the

1154
01:23:59.039 --> 01:24:01.840
new mult Think about the forest,
you know the forest, Nobody rakes the

1155
01:24:01.840 --> 01:24:06.399
old leaves off before the new leaves
drop. You want the new leaves on

1156
01:24:06.439 --> 01:24:11.199
top of the old leaves because those
old leaves are decomposing and making the soil

1157
01:24:11.359 --> 01:24:14.880
better and better. And that's how
it is in your shrub beds. Just

1158
01:24:14.960 --> 01:24:17.159
let that old malts rot. That's
it's a good thing that it's rotting.

1159
01:24:17.159 --> 01:24:20.960
It's turning the compost for you,
and you just have to add more on

1160
01:24:21.000 --> 01:24:26.119
top. Yeah. I don't like
the fabrics. For a little while they

1161
01:24:26.159 --> 01:24:29.680
work, but then they don't.
And when you get dirt on top of

1162
01:24:29.720 --> 01:24:31.319
them, and we'd start to come
through, then they're a pain in the

1163
01:24:31.399 --> 01:24:34.880
neck. And so I would just
I would just do what they do and

1164
01:24:35.359 --> 01:24:40.439
what the forest does when you go
about your mulching, and I think it'll

1165
01:24:40.600 --> 01:24:44.920
it'll do really well. Yeah,
okay, good. And that question is,

1166
01:24:44.960 --> 01:24:49.119
and I lost you shrubs you know
doing the freeze? Yes, So

1167
01:24:49.279 --> 01:24:55.079
what do you recommend for outdoor shrubs
you know which normally survived the freeze like

1168
01:24:55.199 --> 01:24:59.439
what we normally get now lately?
Let me ask what do you tell me

1169
01:24:59.479 --> 01:25:01.399
about what you want out of a
shrub? Do you want it evergreen?

1170
01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:06.119
How big do you want it to
be? Do you need very big?

1171
01:25:08.279 --> 01:25:11.439
In the backyard? So I don't
want too big? Okay? Do do

1172
01:25:11.520 --> 01:25:15.199
you? Is it a sunny area
or is it kind of shady? Well?

1173
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:18.800
Half of the garden is sunny and
half of them is covered by the

1174
01:25:18.800 --> 01:25:24.239
oak tree from the neighbor. Okay, Well, as you get into as

1175
01:25:24.279 --> 01:25:29.560
you get into a little shadier areas, sometimes people will use the Japanese you

1176
01:25:30.000 --> 01:25:33.319
in that area. It's yew,
but they get a little taller. You

1177
01:25:33.359 --> 01:25:35.800
can trim them and keep them a
little smaller, but it is going to

1178
01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:39.800
get a little taller. But it's
one of our more shade tolerant. Then

1179
01:25:40.000 --> 01:25:44.479
then we have um gotten you were
saying that you want it to be cold

1180
01:25:44.479 --> 01:25:47.880
hearty, right, not not to
die back. So so that takes out

1181
01:25:47.880 --> 01:25:53.399
a couple of the other good shrubs
for shady areas and the sun. You

1182
01:25:53.479 --> 01:25:57.079
just have a lot of a lot
of opportunities, a lot of good shrubs

1183
01:25:57.079 --> 01:26:00.720
that can do there. There's a
number of shorter types of holes that can

1184
01:26:00.760 --> 01:26:03.560
do well in a shade. Here. Boxwoods do well in a in a

1185
01:26:03.680 --> 01:26:09.239
sunny area. They need sun.
The hollies in the sun are in a

1186
01:26:09.319 --> 01:26:13.560
partial shade, a partial shade area
for them. You know, it's hard

1187
01:26:13.600 --> 01:26:16.520
to pick out plants for people because
there's so many that it's kind of like,

1188
01:26:16.600 --> 01:26:18.680
I don't, I don't. I
can say a plant and then you

1189
01:26:18.680 --> 01:26:23.079
would go look at it and go
I don't like that, and so I

1190
01:26:23.560 --> 01:26:27.159
you know, it's kind of hard
to pick out. But let's see where

1191
01:26:27.199 --> 01:26:32.039
are you. You're in Sugarland.
You know you are so close to enchanted

1192
01:26:32.119 --> 01:26:38.319
gardens just north of Richmond, up
in Katie direction from Richmond. I would

1193
01:26:38.319 --> 01:26:41.600
go there because there you can walk
through, you can see them. They

1194
01:26:41.600 --> 01:26:44.279
know what they're talking about, so
you tell them like I need it for

1195
01:26:44.319 --> 01:26:46.199
this, I need it for that. And they're going to have a number

1196
01:26:46.199 --> 01:26:49.800
of shrubs that will do really well
for you. And I would totally trust

1197
01:26:49.920 --> 01:26:53.760
if they tell you this is a
good shrub, it is a good shrub.

1198
01:26:53.880 --> 01:26:58.479
And because that's all they carry as
plants that do well here and so

1199
01:26:58.560 --> 01:27:01.319
that that is probably the easiest.
If you want a real dwarf shrub.

1200
01:27:01.600 --> 01:27:06.159
The dwarf your pans are really nice. They don't go in too much shade.

1201
01:27:06.279 --> 01:27:11.159
They do, but they lose their
density. But in the sun they

1202
01:27:11.159 --> 01:27:13.560
would do just fine. Hey,
I'm gonna have to go to another break,

1203
01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:15.840
but I hope that was helpful for
you, and I do really appreciate

1204
01:27:16.119 --> 01:27:18.439
you. Give them me a call
today, prayful. Thank you very much,

1205
01:27:18.720 --> 01:27:23.760
our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four.

1206
01:27:28.439 --> 01:27:51.520
Please the feet dence in the twist. That's okay, I'm blowing you one

1207
01:27:51.600 --> 01:27:58.520
bit. Well, you're listening to
Garden Line and we are here to answer

1208
01:27:58.560 --> 01:28:00.159
your gardening questions. Let me give
you your phone number and give us a

1209
01:28:00.159 --> 01:28:04.359
call if you're interested in talking about
whatever related to the garden. That's seven

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

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fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna
start now by going out to Katie and

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01:28:15.039 --> 01:28:18.600
talking with Joseph. Good morning,
Joseph, good morning. How are you

1213
01:28:18.640 --> 01:28:21.640
doing well? I'm well, thank
you. What's up today? Good?

1214
01:28:23.279 --> 01:28:31.159
So, I am considering starting a
vegetable garden in my backyard and out where

1215
01:28:31.159 --> 01:28:39.079
I'm at, I have probably like
a an inch level of grass, an

1216
01:28:39.119 --> 01:28:44.960
inch level of dirt, and then
it is clay hard clay till to the

1217
01:28:45.399 --> 01:28:49.359
core of the earth. And I
know that I'm going to have to dig

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01:28:49.520 --> 01:28:55.920
into the clay to put down dirt
so I can do this, but I

1219
01:28:55.920 --> 01:29:00.800
don't know how far down I need
to dig in order to create eight this

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01:29:00.079 --> 01:29:04.199
garden. So I wanted to see
if you had any thoughts on that.

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01:29:05.479 --> 01:29:12.560
Well, you can, you can
improve the soil you have and put a

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01:29:12.600 --> 01:29:17.000
garden in by using compost, and
I would also consider maybe something like the

1223
01:29:17.119 --> 01:29:21.159
heirloom soils, veggie and herb bed
mix. That's a that's a very good

1224
01:29:21.199 --> 01:29:26.079
mix for that as well. If
it were me, and pretty much you

1225
01:29:26.079 --> 01:29:28.439
know, I used to build gardens
in the soil all the time, and

1226
01:29:28.479 --> 01:29:30.560
there's nothing wrong with that. It's
a lot of work. Um, but

1227
01:29:30.720 --> 01:29:34.880
I like putting a raised box down
on the ground and gardening in that.

1228
01:29:34.880 --> 01:29:38.439
That gets a garden up a little
higher. It's easier to deal with.

1229
01:29:38.680 --> 01:29:43.279
You can use mulches in between the
walkways to keep it weed free. Uh.

1230
01:29:43.279 --> 01:29:46.359
And if you've heard this show for
long, you know that we love

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01:29:46.479 --> 01:29:51.560
vego beds. The Vigo vego beds. They're a metal bed that's that's treated

1232
01:29:51.640 --> 01:29:56.359
to prevent the metal from from corroding
and then they've got the pain on them.

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01:29:56.479 --> 01:30:00.760
They're they're beautiful. The color options
are nice. They're bgeler so if

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01:30:00.760 --> 01:30:01.960
you want to make a long,
skinny one, if you want to make

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01:30:01.960 --> 01:30:05.199
a square, if you want to
make a C shape, you build it

1236
01:30:05.239 --> 01:30:09.159
like you want to build it.
They're they're easy to put together, very

1237
01:30:09.159 --> 01:30:12.840
fast too to put together, so
I would probably sorry, go ahead,

1238
01:30:13.119 --> 01:30:18.680
Sorry that was echo as an e
Charlie. No no v ego as in

1239
01:30:18.880 --> 01:30:25.520
like saying lego, but with a
v vego v ego. And they're here

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01:30:25.520 --> 01:30:28.479
in Houston. You can go to
I think it's a vegogarden dot com.

1241
01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:32.800
Some of our garden centers will sell
them. I know you're in Katie.

1242
01:30:32.800 --> 01:30:38.199
I've seen them down it in chanted
gardens before down that way they carry them

1243
01:30:38.239 --> 01:30:41.359
as well. But you can go
to vegogarden dot com and when you see

1244
01:30:41.359 --> 01:30:44.760
what I'm talking about, I think
you'll be as impressed as as I am

1245
01:30:44.840 --> 01:30:46.600
with them. But to take a
look you kind of get the idea of

1246
01:30:46.640 --> 01:30:49.399
what I'm talking about. You can
get them eleven inches high. I think

1247
01:30:49.399 --> 01:30:53.520
they have a seventeen and you can
go up up above that even if you

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01:30:53.600 --> 01:30:58.319
want to if they're sitting on soil, even the soil you describe to me,

1249
01:30:58.640 --> 01:31:01.800
if they're sitting on it, eleven
inches is deep enough to have success

1250
01:31:01.920 --> 01:31:05.039
gardening. You can go deeper.
It brings a garden up a little bit

1251
01:31:05.119 --> 01:31:11.119
higher and whatnot. But that's just
the option. The other thing I like

1252
01:31:11.199 --> 01:31:14.880
about them, Joseph, is they
they last forever. I mean, it's

1253
01:31:14.920 --> 01:31:19.199
like twenty years plus that they'll be
there, guaranteed to las. And you

1254
01:31:19.239 --> 01:31:23.760
know with wood and whatnot, you
know, you can use cinder blocks and

1255
01:31:23.800 --> 01:31:27.000
other things that center blocks will last. But oh my gosh, that's the

1256
01:31:27.439 --> 01:31:30.840
visual of it. And then the
fact that they take up so much to

1257
01:31:30.920 --> 01:31:32.960
your garden for the sides of the
bed. When you have an adien center

1258
01:31:33.000 --> 01:31:38.359
block. I like Vego for that
reason, So check them out and see.

1259
01:31:38.479 --> 01:31:41.800
I mean, you can go right
in the garden and just mix a

1260
01:31:41.800 --> 01:31:44.800
lot of stuff in the ground and
build up a raised bed. But again

1261
01:31:45.479 --> 01:31:47.399
it's a lot of work. It's
usually to put together a box, set

1262
01:31:47.439 --> 01:31:49.920
it on the ground, and then
just fill it up and then you're done.

1263
01:31:50.079 --> 01:31:54.359
You know, occasionally, anytime you
have a garden, you were using

1264
01:31:54.399 --> 01:31:58.279
a lot of composts, and when
you use organic matter, it decomposes a

1265
01:31:58.319 --> 01:32:01.760
way. You may have noticed a
pot on the patio was full of soil,

1266
01:32:01.840 --> 01:32:04.920
and a year or two later it's
like half full of soil because that

1267
01:32:05.079 --> 01:32:10.880
soil has oxidized or decomposed away.
And that's going to happen in any bed

1268
01:32:10.920 --> 01:32:15.680
too. So you're you're you're adding
soil over time to keep a bed at

1269
01:32:15.720 --> 01:32:17.359
the level you want it. But
that would be true whether you had a

1270
01:32:17.439 --> 01:32:24.079
box around it or not. So
I go through a lot of coffee.

1271
01:32:24.600 --> 01:32:30.479
Our coffee grounds good for mulch as
well or for mixing in with the soil.

1272
01:32:30.680 --> 01:32:33.800
They are they are I hear different
things, yes and no and maybe

1273
01:32:33.840 --> 01:32:38.000
and no. They're good. They're
just good. I mean, I wouldn't

1274
01:32:38.000 --> 01:32:41.079
put them eight inches deep in the
garden, of course, but I would

1275
01:32:41.479 --> 01:32:45.079
I would always add coffee grounds.
They are a source of nitrogen. They

1276
01:32:45.079 --> 01:32:47.960
are a source of organic matter.
They are a little acidic, which is

1277
01:32:48.000 --> 01:32:51.399
actually a good thing. A lot
of our soils you get out on these

1278
01:32:51.439 --> 01:32:56.279
clay prairies around here, and they
can be a little high on the pH

1279
01:32:56.319 --> 01:32:59.239
But they're not going to make your
soil to acidic, that's for sure.

1280
01:32:59.359 --> 01:33:01.520
But if anything that may help a
little bit. Yeah, they're a good

1281
01:33:01.520 --> 01:33:04.880
thing. And I like to get
around and say your plants will grow faster

1282
01:33:04.920 --> 01:33:10.640
because the caffeine will keep them up
all night. They just grow and grow

1283
01:33:10.680 --> 01:33:15.680
and grow. I doubt it you
buy that, but anyway, it's well.

1284
01:33:16.239 --> 01:33:20.039
It at least gave me a chuckle. I need a drum and a

1285
01:33:20.079 --> 01:33:25.279
single. I need Josh to play
a drum and a symbol sound effect for

1286
01:33:25.319 --> 01:33:31.720
those super super shot. Yeah,
it's a corny joke. There's a collective,

1287
01:33:31.880 --> 01:33:39.880
very much collective. Take care of
Joseph. You take care. Hey.

1288
01:33:41.039 --> 01:33:44.439
If you have any interest in bee
keeping, you need to go check

1289
01:33:44.479 --> 01:33:47.199
out the bee supply out in Dayton, that's north and east of Houston.

1290
01:33:47.760 --> 01:33:54.399
It is it is the source of
everything you need to know about keeping bees.

1291
01:33:54.600 --> 01:33:57.039
Maybe you decide you know, bees
are not for you, but I

1292
01:33:57.079 --> 01:34:00.520
think you'll like them. If you're
a gardener, your garden will be more

1293
01:34:00.560 --> 01:34:02.680
productive when you have your own hives. You just have more bees right there.

1294
01:34:03.239 --> 01:34:08.560
And when you get pollination, the
fruit set is better and that's why

1295
01:34:08.600 --> 01:34:11.880
we get more production from them.
And you know, every time there's a

1296
01:34:11.920 --> 01:34:16.000
seed pollinated in any fruit that would
include things like a squash, the growth

1297
01:34:16.039 --> 01:34:20.199
of that thing is plump and normal. When they don't go pollination, you

1298
01:34:20.239 --> 01:34:24.600
get misshapen fruit and so on.
Lots of reason have bees. But if

1299
01:34:24.640 --> 01:34:28.239
the Bee Supply you can get beginner
classes and they're held twice a month out

1300
01:34:28.239 --> 01:34:31.199
there in Dayton. You can it's
kind of hands on. You get some

1301
01:34:31.239 --> 01:34:34.600
classroom and instruction. But they have
hives, or you can go out and

1302
01:34:34.640 --> 01:34:38.640
look at them and you can learn
from them. If you don't want to

1303
01:34:38.680 --> 01:34:42.000
have bees, go on one of
their honey tours. Those are free and

1304
01:34:42.119 --> 01:34:45.960
they have them let's see once a
month. I believe, And I said

1305
01:34:45.960 --> 01:34:48.880
there free. I believe that's right. If there's a charge, it's a

1306
01:34:48.960 --> 01:34:54.560
very minor charge. Go to the
Bee Supply dot com and know those honey

1307
01:34:54.640 --> 01:34:57.960
tours. Take kids along, you
know, take a group, a Scout

1308
01:34:58.000 --> 01:35:00.680
group, a homeschool group, whatever. You'll get to taste a bunch of

1309
01:35:00.680 --> 01:35:05.239
different kinds of honey and experience the
difference and different kinds of honey. You'll

1310
01:35:05.239 --> 01:35:09.199
get to take the tour. You'll
get a little little bit of a lecture

1311
01:35:09.279 --> 01:35:13.239
or short presentation in the classroom to
learn about bees. I went. I

1312
01:35:13.279 --> 01:35:17.520
did it myself. It is absolutely
fascinating what you can learn out there.

1313
01:35:18.079 --> 01:35:21.960
Let's head out to Southwest Houston.
We're going to talk to Caroline. Wello,

1314
01:35:23.079 --> 01:35:28.520
Caroline, good morning, Good morning. You had mentioned earlier that there

1315
01:35:28.520 --> 01:35:32.000
are several different kinds of climbing spinach, or several different kinds of malabar.

1316
01:35:32.319 --> 01:35:36.640
Yes, and a year or so
ago I had the red stem malabar,

1317
01:35:36.840 --> 01:35:42.399
which I loved, Yes, but
I couldn't find that at Southwest Fertilizer.

1318
01:35:42.479 --> 01:35:49.039
This year all I had was listed
as big round leaf climbing spinach. Okay,

1319
01:35:49.159 --> 01:35:54.600
didn't say it was malabar, So
I understand that it'll be different,

1320
01:35:55.199 --> 01:36:00.239
Yes, but it doesn't seem to
have any of the little tendrils that line

1321
01:36:00.239 --> 01:36:03.880
around as they're as they're climbing.
Okay, And I wondered if you're familiar

1322
01:36:03.920 --> 01:36:10.960
with the big, big round leaf. I am. It's a malabar.

1323
01:36:11.520 --> 01:36:15.119
It's one of the bread There's the
red leaf malabar, the red stem actually

1324
01:36:15.520 --> 01:36:19.520
malabar, and then there's the green
stemmed malabar, and then there's other there's

1325
01:36:19.560 --> 01:36:25.000
other cultivars or varieties of it,
and one is big round leaf and the

1326
01:36:25.079 --> 01:36:28.159
leaves are a little bigger and they're
a low rounder, but it also are.

1327
01:36:28.439 --> 01:36:30.880
Yeah. Once malibar starts off almost
like a little bush sort of thing,

1328
01:36:31.000 --> 01:36:34.600
and then it just begins to vine. And when it vines, the

1329
01:36:35.399 --> 01:36:41.159
vines themselves circle and climb. They
don't have like a tendril or something reaching

1330
01:36:41.199 --> 01:36:44.439
out like some plants to do.
It. Just the vine goes around things

1331
01:36:44.439 --> 01:36:46.800
and it works well. It never
gets too hot and humid for malabar.

1332
01:36:47.840 --> 01:36:51.640
Right. Well. I tried to
look it up online and I couldn't find

1333
01:36:51.680 --> 01:36:58.840
any information. So I'm just being
It's just it's almost like it's just growing

1334
01:36:58.880 --> 01:37:02.319
in the ground. It's not reaching
out to climb anywhere. But maybe I'm

1335
01:37:02.399 --> 01:37:05.520
just wait, I need to wait. It will and you know, with

1336
01:37:05.640 --> 01:37:09.920
mine I will often. You know, it's fine to have them climb,

1337
01:37:10.279 --> 01:37:13.560
but I will often just pinch mine, like when shoe comes out, I

1338
01:37:13.680 --> 01:37:15.600
pinch it. It's part of harvesting
it. Take the tender end of the

1339
01:37:15.600 --> 01:37:18.920
shoot with the leaves on it,
and it makes more shoots and more,

1340
01:37:18.960 --> 01:37:23.680
and you almost like you make it
a little bushy plant by pinching it.

1341
01:37:24.000 --> 01:37:27.840
And that way if you want to
control how big it gets, that's one

1342
01:37:27.880 --> 01:37:30.960
way you can do that. There. It's just two different options. Both

1343
01:37:30.000 --> 01:37:35.239
are great to do. Oh good, because the red stem that I had

1344
01:37:35.319 --> 01:37:41.159
before said to you, pinch it
off and it makes it grow more.

1345
01:37:41.439 --> 01:37:45.800
Yes. So so with this little
round leaf, I'll just start I'll just

1346
01:37:45.840 --> 01:37:49.279
start harvesting a few that are coming
out because they're real big. Yeah they

1347
01:37:49.279 --> 01:37:53.840
are. And you're gonna see it's
going to hit a point where it starts

1348
01:37:53.880 --> 01:37:56.680
to send out a shoot and you
realize, okay, it's ready to get

1349
01:37:56.760 --> 01:38:00.119
going here, and that's when I
would do the pinching of it it.

1350
01:38:00.000 --> 01:38:03.680
Oh okay, if you want to
wait till then, yeah, wonderful.

1351
01:38:03.960 --> 01:38:11.479
And I really like the way you
answer my questions before I even have them.

1352
01:38:11.880 --> 01:38:16.920
Okay, well, because you mentioned
earlier, if you've got I have

1353
01:38:17.000 --> 01:38:26.039
bell peppers and I have that that
are not doing too well right now,

1354
01:38:26.119 --> 01:38:30.000
but so you've already said go ahead
and take care of them, keep them

1355
01:38:30.000 --> 01:38:32.520
through the hot summer and they'll be
good for the fall. Absolutely, Yes,

1356
01:38:33.159 --> 01:38:38.239
the best bet bepper season is in
the fall. I've had halopenias at

1357
01:38:38.279 --> 01:38:42.000
Christmas, and I mean it looked
literally like a Christmas tree of the red

1358
01:38:42.000 --> 01:38:44.680
HELIPI was sinking, Oliver, Yeah, do you got to do that?

1359
01:38:44.920 --> 01:38:48.359
Hey, Carolyn, thank you so
much. Uh huh bye bye, all

1360
01:38:48.399 --> 01:38:54.600
right, I appreciate that. Answering
questions. Oh my gosh. Well,

1361
01:38:54.640 --> 01:38:59.479
if you are interested in a community
for active adults age fifty five and better,

1362
01:38:59.600 --> 01:39:02.399
that is Dellweb. Now there's a
Dellweb community two miles from downtown full

1363
01:39:02.439 --> 01:39:06.119
show on FM three fifty nine,
and I'm helping them build a community garden

1364
01:39:06.159 --> 01:39:11.479
out there, helping design and create
it. I cannot imagine anything better than

1365
01:39:11.520 --> 01:39:15.479
a Dellweb community with all the good
stuff it has. In addition to that,

1366
01:39:15.520 --> 01:39:17.119
you get a community garden with the
deal. Wow, you need to

1367
01:39:17.199 --> 01:39:21.840
check him out. Dellweb dot com, slash Houston or two eight one four

1368
01:39:23.000 --> 01:39:28.920
five nine zero six zero nine.
Nikki, that lady said that, I

1369
01:39:28.960 --> 01:39:33.680
answer her questions before she asks him. Remember remember the amazing carnal for Johnny

1370
01:39:33.760 --> 01:39:39.079
Carson. He'd put a I've talked
to you about this before, helped himself,

1371
01:39:39.199 --> 01:39:43.279
and he'd say something like mild,
you know. Or he'd say something

1372
01:39:43.399 --> 01:39:46.520
like he named three presidents one time. There was George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,

1373
01:39:46.560 --> 01:39:48.920
and Jimmy Carter. And he opens
the envelope. He says, name

1374
01:39:49.000 --> 01:39:55.600
three presidents that I've done anything lately. It bless his heart. But anyway,

1375
01:39:56.000 --> 01:40:00.279
he was hilarious. Oh he was
his jaif well a gift. And

1376
01:40:00.319 --> 01:40:04.159
then when people would uh at his
joke, he would say something like,

1377
01:40:04.880 --> 01:40:10.800
may the fleas of a thousand camels
infest your armpits? And he boy,

1378
01:40:10.840 --> 01:40:15.399
he could do a deadpan look back
at like nobody else. Oh my goodness,

1379
01:40:15.439 --> 01:40:18.600
what a talent. All right,
what's happening. We're going to talk

1380
01:40:18.680 --> 01:40:39.199
about a new candidate for mayor.
Well, good Sunday morning. You are

1381
01:40:39.239 --> 01:40:42.039
listening to Garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Prictor, and we're here

1382
01:40:42.119 --> 01:40:45.279
to talk to you about whatever you're
interested in. We're about to have we

1383
01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:49.880
are about to have the opportunity talked
with Patrick from Verdant Tree Farm and we're

1384
01:40:49.880 --> 01:40:54.000
gonna talk palm trees today. We've
got a lot of questions about palms.

1385
01:40:54.319 --> 01:40:59.000
If you have a question about palms, give us a call. Be patient.

1386
01:40:59.079 --> 01:41:02.000
Josh will may ring a bit,
but Josh will get your phone call

1387
01:41:02.239 --> 01:41:05.359
and to get you on the board
so you can ask your question. We

1388
01:41:05.399 --> 01:41:11.560
want to take advantage of the opportunity
to visit with Patrick about all kinds of

1389
01:41:11.600 --> 01:41:15.560
things. Palms. Really cool to
be living in an area where we can

1390
01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:21.560
grow palms, and that is exactly
where we are. If you're interesting fertilizing

1391
01:41:21.720 --> 01:41:26.920
your lawn for summer, you're not
going to do better than a product called

1392
01:41:27.039 --> 01:41:30.720
nitrofosst Summer Essentials. Now, there's
a number of different things that are part

1393
01:41:31.119 --> 01:41:38.920
of the Nitrofoss package, but certainly
the summer essentials fertilizers are and past control

1394
01:41:39.159 --> 01:41:41.960
is what you need. Now when
we do that, we're talking about a

1395
01:41:42.000 --> 01:41:45.199
fertilizer like the silver bag. You
know, the Nitrofoss Silver bag is the

1396
01:41:45.239 --> 01:41:49.319
one. We've talked about it a
number of different times before. But when

1397
01:41:49.359 --> 01:41:54.960
we put down a superturf product like
that, you are going to get there's

1398
01:41:55.039 --> 01:42:00.199
slow release of nutrients over time,
slow release of nutrients over time. That's

1399
01:42:00.239 --> 01:42:03.439
the super turf. That silver bag, it's going to feed for weeks and

1400
01:42:03.479 --> 01:42:08.960
weeks up to twelve weeks or more
depending on you put it down and you

1401
01:42:09.000 --> 01:42:12.880
get a gradual release. So it's
not just like immediately here at grows real

1402
01:42:12.880 --> 01:42:15.199
fast. Now we've got a mo
more. Now we have a more shallow

1403
01:42:15.279 --> 01:42:19.479
root system that's going to be require
more watering. Now we have a plant

1404
01:42:19.520 --> 01:42:24.520
that is so lush that it's more
attractive to the gray leaf spot problems,

1405
01:42:24.520 --> 01:42:28.000
to the chinch bug problems. Now
you're spreading it out. This will take

1406
01:42:28.039 --> 01:42:30.880
care of you through the summer.
And you can get it anywhere you find

1407
01:42:30.960 --> 01:42:33.880
nitro FoST products which are all over
the place. Maybe Fisher's Hardware if you're

1408
01:42:33.920 --> 01:42:39.000
out in Laport, if you're over
in Lake Jackson there's lug Jackson Hardware and

1409
01:42:39.119 --> 01:42:43.479
Clute. Go out to Montgomery to
Gem's Hardware. Maybe up in the woodlands

1410
01:42:43.560 --> 01:42:47.640
to Shades of Texas for example,
even growers outlets and Willis. You're not

1411
01:42:47.640 --> 01:42:53.119
gonna have trouble finding nitrofost products.
And that summer Essentials program is a good

1412
01:42:53.119 --> 01:42:56.239
one. You know the other things
included in it, or an insect control

1413
01:42:56.319 --> 01:43:00.640
and a fire act control. But
we want to focus on those utilizers.

1414
01:43:00.000 --> 01:43:06.319
They will provide the green lawn you
want without overdoing all the nitrogen just at

1415
01:43:06.359 --> 01:43:13.319
one point in time. Nitrofiles,
Summer Essentials. I really had a good

1416
01:43:13.319 --> 01:43:17.720
time out at Wilberg's Unlimited yesterday.
We were visiting with a lot of you

1417
01:43:17.720 --> 01:43:21.199
guys who are listening. Thank you
all for stopping by and answering your questions.

1418
01:43:21.600 --> 01:43:26.119
If you are a gardener, you
also need to be interested in backyard

1419
01:43:26.119 --> 01:43:30.319
birding. You know that we do
gardening for the beauty and for the ambiance

1420
01:43:30.800 --> 01:43:34.680
in the outdoor environment, whether it's
a vegetable garden, a herb garden,

1421
01:43:34.720 --> 01:43:40.239
a flower garden, just taking care
of the yard. But with backyard birding

1422
01:43:40.399 --> 01:43:44.039
there are so many opportunities. I
was visiting with the folks out in Kingwood

1423
01:43:44.039 --> 01:43:46.359
at the wild Birds there by the
way. You can get wallbirds seven different

1424
01:43:46.399 --> 01:43:51.840
locations here in town. Go to
WBU dot com forward slash Houston and you

1425
01:43:51.840 --> 01:43:55.520
can find the one near you.
There's one out in Katie, there's one

1426
01:43:55.560 --> 01:44:00.039
over in Kingwood, Cypress, Pearland, bel Air, West Houston, and

1427
01:44:00.159 --> 01:44:03.399
the one in clear Lake is the
newest story that they have visiting with them,

1428
01:44:03.439 --> 01:44:08.600
I learned so much about birds,
the different kinds of seeds and what

1429
01:44:08.840 --> 01:44:11.960
different kinds of birds eat and what
you're gonna find. I'm gonna put this

1430
01:44:12.039 --> 01:44:15.600
on our Facebook page. What you're
gonna find is a lot of the cheap

1431
01:44:15.640 --> 01:44:18.279
bird seeds around are filled with those
I call them red beebies. That's the

1432
01:44:18.439 --> 01:44:25.159
milo. It's a type of sorghum, and they just don't do The birds

1433
01:44:25.159 --> 01:44:27.520
don't like them. They kick them
off on the ground. I mean they'll

1434
01:44:27.600 --> 01:44:30.479
eat them eventually, but you want
to go with the feed for the birds

1435
01:44:30.520 --> 01:44:33.760
that you want. And they have
a no mess feed too. You don't

1436
01:44:33.800 --> 01:44:38.560
get all the debris on the ground. You just everything in the bag is

1437
01:44:38.560 --> 01:44:41.680
stuff that the birds eat, and
that is a way to go when you're

1438
01:44:41.680 --> 01:44:45.319
in wild birds. Check out their
feeders, check out their birdhouses, check

1439
01:44:45.359 --> 01:44:49.159
out their books, and especially visit
with the folks there because what you're gonna

1440
01:44:49.199 --> 01:44:55.319
find is they know a lot about
birding. Well, we're fortunate this morning

1441
01:44:55.359 --> 01:44:59.640
to have Patrick on the phone from
verdap Tree Farm. Patrick, welcome,

1442
01:45:00.039 --> 01:45:03.399
good to have you. Good morning
we are we are looking forward to picking

1443
01:45:03.479 --> 01:45:08.159
your brain on palm. Now.
If you were to pick my brain on

1444
01:45:08.199 --> 01:45:11.600
palm trees, that would be called
slim pickings. But I know that that

1445
01:45:11.680 --> 01:45:15.479
you absolutely can tell us all kinds
of things. And you guys at verdont

1446
01:45:15.560 --> 01:45:20.840
I mean you're kind of like the
the primary most what is it palm?

1447
01:45:20.960 --> 01:45:25.479
I was gonna say floriferous, that's
flowers. But you have more options with

1448
01:45:25.600 --> 01:45:29.199
palms than just about any place you
can find. We do, we do.

1449
01:45:30.199 --> 01:45:32.520
And then when you start talking about
we have twenty acres inside Houston,

1450
01:45:32.640 --> 01:45:36.119
Yeah, at our Barker Cypress location, that's a lot of palm trees.

1451
01:45:36.319 --> 01:45:39.600
That is a lot of palm trees
you got. And by the way,

1452
01:45:39.640 --> 01:45:42.960
before I forget to say this,
you've got Barker Cypress, and down in

1453
01:45:42.960 --> 01:45:45.039
Appareland you got the place on Broadway, and up in the Heights you've got

1454
01:45:45.079 --> 01:45:47.640
the place on Yellow at Eye ten. Yes, sir, So there's more

1455
01:45:47.640 --> 01:45:50.520
than one location where you can get
them. And you know when we talk

1456
01:45:50.560 --> 01:45:54.000
about ver down all the time,
we talk about that you can go pick

1457
01:45:54.039 --> 01:45:56.560
your tree out and you can tag
it. You guys come and you know

1458
01:45:56.600 --> 01:46:00.319
how to plant it. Could let's
just start off what is different about,

1459
01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:03.600
you know, planting a palm tree
than just planting any kind of tree.

1460
01:46:03.640 --> 01:46:06.119
I mean, they all go in
a hole in the ground. But there's

1461
01:46:06.199 --> 01:46:10.880
there's times of the year that are
better for palm planting. There's the ways

1462
01:46:10.920 --> 01:46:15.039
that you make sure the palm tree
stays there. Can you elaborate on that?

1463
01:46:15.479 --> 01:46:19.800
We can now, So palm trees
are a little bit different than a

1464
01:46:19.840 --> 01:46:25.600
regular tree. While a regular tree
and there I say it this way is

1465
01:46:26.079 --> 01:46:30.159
everything has a better time right in
the year. You can really plant them

1466
01:46:30.239 --> 01:46:35.680
year round trees, palms, flowers. Yes, it's just the water and

1467
01:46:35.760 --> 01:46:40.479
maintenance care that goes into them that
depicts weather, putting it in the middle

1468
01:46:40.479 --> 01:46:43.840
of summer versus putting it in the
fall. Right, Okay, you know

1469
01:46:43.920 --> 01:46:46.840
I ask you this long question right
before we have to go to break.

1470
01:46:47.119 --> 01:46:49.920
I'm hearing in my ear that I've
got to take a break, so let's

1471
01:46:49.960 --> 01:46:53.920
come back to that. But I
also want to talk about the difference in

1472
01:46:53.960 --> 01:46:57.079
hardiness. And we've asked folks.
If any of you are listening and you've

1473
01:46:57.079 --> 01:47:00.439
got a palm question, please call
in seven one three, two, one

1474
01:47:00.520 --> 01:47:25.640
two fifty eight seventy four. Well, good morning, you are listening to

1475
01:47:25.720 --> 01:47:30.000
garden Line on a beautiful morning to
be outside We are fortunate here to have

1476
01:47:30.319 --> 01:47:33.720
Patrick from Verdant Tree Farms, and
we're talking initially about palm, so we're

1477
01:47:33.720 --> 01:47:38.039
gonna talk about all kinds of trees
here before we're done. But i'd ask

1478
01:47:38.119 --> 01:47:41.279
you this, you know, wide
open question before we had to go to

1479
01:47:41.359 --> 01:47:44.840
break but talking about times to plant, and I think you were kind of

1480
01:47:44.920 --> 01:47:47.000
leading to that, you can plant
any tree at any time if you do

1481
01:47:47.039 --> 01:47:54.760
it right. I've always found it
interesting that with trees you want a good

1482
01:47:54.800 --> 01:47:57.880
sized root system to kind of match
the top to some degree, a bigger

1483
01:47:57.920 --> 01:48:00.359
container for a bigger tree. But
I seem's going out there and there's just

1484
01:48:00.399 --> 01:48:03.560
a little tiny box and a giant
palm. Talk to me about that.

1485
01:48:04.479 --> 01:48:09.000
So with palm trees, Palm trees
are a little bit different than a regular

1486
01:48:09.079 --> 01:48:13.439
tree. They don't need to have
their root systems out to the drip line

1487
01:48:14.000 --> 01:48:16.319
or what we would consider the drip
line of the palm tree the drip line

1488
01:48:16.319 --> 01:48:21.920
of a regular tree. While that's
great for a regular tree, that's not

1489
01:48:23.000 --> 01:48:28.920
necessarily the case with a palm.
Palm roots systems usually are gonna be anywhere

1490
01:48:29.039 --> 01:48:31.520
from three and a half, depending
on the sides of the tree, three

1491
01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:38.159
and a half feet to maybe four
four and a half feet and then likewise

1492
01:48:38.199 --> 01:48:44.359
deep, so they kind of stay
in this big ball. So one of

1493
01:48:44.359 --> 01:48:47.800
the things that when we dig up
palm trees, there's a couple ways to

1494
01:48:47.880 --> 01:48:50.920
do it, but like like a
madule or a sylvester, when we dig

1495
01:48:51.000 --> 01:48:57.399
up a madule or a sylvester,
we use a trencher, So we trench

1496
01:48:57.520 --> 01:49:00.560
the four corners of the tree and
we the tree out. So now we

1497
01:49:00.640 --> 01:49:06.399
have this really nice route ball that
is significantly smaller than what you would think

1498
01:49:06.520 --> 01:49:14.319
needs to support that tree. So
now you've got a couple of different size

1499
01:49:14.399 --> 01:49:17.359
rutballs. You've got some people and
we don't. We don't grow everything,

1500
01:49:17.439 --> 01:49:20.560
so we have to branch out and
we have to bring in palms from other

1501
01:49:20.560 --> 01:49:25.880
people. So while we grow a
lot of trees, Sylvester's, madules,

1502
01:49:26.079 --> 01:49:31.239
mediterraneans, Mexican fans, you know, we can't grow everything. Some people

1503
01:49:31.399 --> 01:49:33.720
when they go to dig up a
tree, they'll dig them up and they

1504
01:49:33.800 --> 01:49:39.000
do smaller trees. Well, when
you do or smaller ruble, when you

1505
01:49:39.039 --> 01:49:43.479
do that really small route ball,
if you look at the top of the

1506
01:49:43.520 --> 01:49:46.720
head, you have a small head. Okay, so that a lot or

1507
01:49:46.880 --> 01:49:51.039
like say balls and Mexican fans.
You crop the head, so you trim

1508
01:49:51.079 --> 01:49:57.479
it way down where it's very very
close knitted to the center maristem, and

1509
01:49:57.520 --> 01:50:00.880
then you come across the top and
you chop off the top of that tree.

1510
01:50:00.079 --> 01:50:05.199
Okay, and then that allows that
new root system, which can't support

1511
01:50:05.199 --> 01:50:11.399
all that foliage to kind of get
in, give it some nutrients that it

1512
01:50:11.560 --> 01:50:15.079
needs, but still provide nutrients,
and then plant it and then it roots

1513
01:50:15.119 --> 01:50:19.079
itself out. Reason sometimes you see
people like tie up the palm tree and

1514
01:50:19.159 --> 01:50:24.000
keep the leaves together to cut down
on evaporate or loss of water through the

1515
01:50:24.079 --> 01:50:27.359
leaves or what's what's going on there? Nopes. What that is is so

1516
01:50:27.399 --> 01:50:30.319
the maristem in the center of the
tree, where the new fraunds grow out,

1517
01:50:31.119 --> 01:50:35.640
that gets very that'll go through like
shock. Okay, So when that

1518
01:50:35.680 --> 01:50:40.039
goes through shock, it gets very
weak. So when you have an open

1519
01:50:40.079 --> 01:50:45.319
head, that very center could start
to lean on you. Okay. If

1520
01:50:45.359 --> 01:50:48.439
that tree starts to lean too far
on you because it's going through shock,

1521
01:50:49.159 --> 01:50:54.640
it could break and damage the maristem, in which case you won't get new

1522
01:50:54.680 --> 01:50:58.880
fraunds. You'll only Yeah, because
for most palms, you have one living

1523
01:50:58.920 --> 01:51:01.880
bud and that's at the top of
the trunk, right, So it's four

1524
01:51:02.039 --> 01:51:06.960
to five on some of the bigger
trees. Okay, So it doesn't usually

1525
01:51:06.960 --> 01:51:11.600
only shoot one out at a time. Sometimes you'll have one six inches out

1526
01:51:11.600 --> 01:51:14.880
and you'll have another one start,
or you'll have one that's seven or eight

1527
01:51:14.960 --> 01:51:17.199
inches not fully opened, and you
have two or three more that starts.

1528
01:51:17.279 --> 01:51:23.720
So it really depends on the nutrients
the tree, whether the tree really needs

1529
01:51:23.760 --> 01:51:27.840
to produce a lot because it has
a small head, or whether the tree

1530
01:51:28.039 --> 01:51:31.239
is already big and fat and nice
and happy. It's not going to produce

1531
01:51:31.279 --> 01:51:35.680
a lot of fronds because it doesn't
need to really grow interesting. All right,

1532
01:51:35.720 --> 01:51:40.800
Well that is that is really interesting
stuff. And you guys have a

1533
01:51:40.800 --> 01:51:44.399
lot of different palms. What would
you say, are like two or three

1534
01:51:44.560 --> 01:51:48.000
of the heartier palms that you would
if someone was concerned about hardiness, Maybe

1535
01:51:48.039 --> 01:51:51.119
you're gonna take one up to Lake
Conra or something. Sure, what would

1536
01:51:51.159 --> 01:51:55.680
be the heartier palms that you would
recommend? Two or three? So we

1537
01:51:55.760 --> 01:51:59.960
can kind of go backwards. You've
got Texas say Ball, and Florida Sayball.

1538
01:52:00.199 --> 01:52:03.439
You're going to be in the lower
single single digits for cold weather.

1539
01:52:03.600 --> 01:52:08.560
Okay, your next one in line
with that that we sell is going to

1540
01:52:08.600 --> 01:52:12.359
be your Pindo that's going to be
somewhere between nine and twelve. Yeah.

1541
01:52:12.439 --> 01:52:15.720
I grew up with Pindo palms,
jelly palms, jelly palms, and then

1542
01:52:15.760 --> 01:52:19.359
your next cold heartiness one is going
to be that mule palm somewhere between twelve

1543
01:52:19.359 --> 01:52:25.359
and fifteen. Okay. Here's why
I say between twelve and fifteen with the

1544
01:52:25.439 --> 01:52:31.439
mule pumps specifically, because it's part
Queen and part Pindo, So each and

1545
01:52:31.520 --> 01:52:35.800
everyone is spliced together by him.
Okay, so they're not naturally occurring.

1546
01:52:35.880 --> 01:52:40.800
That's the reason why it's a mule
mules. You can't get seeds to raise

1547
01:52:40.880 --> 01:52:43.560
other mule palms. No, No, it's kind of like a donkey and

1548
01:52:43.640 --> 01:52:46.960
horse mule petic. It's kind of
like two parents having a bunch of kids.

1549
01:52:46.960 --> 01:52:51.000
The kids aren't exactly alike, are
they, right, So depending on

1550
01:52:51.039 --> 01:52:55.960
how much Queen or how much Pindo
is in it is going to depict how

1551
01:52:56.079 --> 01:53:00.359
cold hearty the window is. Okay, interesting, I wonder if they're ever

1552
01:53:00.399 --> 01:53:02.079
going to come up with tissue culture
for those palms. So you could pick

1553
01:53:02.079 --> 01:53:05.000
one that's just you know, whatever, and make them all they like.

1554
01:53:05.199 --> 01:53:10.680
That'd be nice cookie cutter. Well, that that is good information. Anything

1555
01:53:10.720 --> 01:53:14.520
on keeping a palm tree hardier.
I mean, is the way you fertilize

1556
01:53:14.640 --> 01:53:16.640
or care for it or anything have
anything to do with heartiness or is it

1557
01:53:16.680 --> 01:53:23.199
pretty much just species? No?
No? Um. So so let's step

1558
01:53:23.239 --> 01:53:27.439
back. Do you remember the freeze
three years ago? Okay? You remember

1559
01:53:27.479 --> 01:53:30.239
we were wet, yes, so
we had a lot of precipitation. Yes,

1560
01:53:31.239 --> 01:53:35.079
So what happened. Why did a
lot of those palm trees survive twelve

1561
01:53:35.319 --> 01:53:41.000
ten to twelve degrees? Okay,
and come back versus this last freeze that

1562
01:53:41.039 --> 01:53:47.199
we just had and trees didn't survive. Why is that precipitation is your difference

1563
01:53:47.239 --> 01:53:54.760
there? Okay, So when the
trees were wet that cold ice weather actually

1564
01:53:54.800 --> 01:54:00.800
created a barrier for the rest of
that cold. Interesting. So watering a

1565
01:54:00.880 --> 01:54:05.000
tree beforehand, um, spraying it
down before then covering it up, then

1566
01:54:05.039 --> 01:54:10.880
doing some extra work. Those are
those are good factors and things to know.

1567
01:54:11.560 --> 01:54:14.760
And then we have a whole thing
I've put I put it on Facebook

1568
01:54:15.039 --> 01:54:20.079
for wrap it, what to wrap
it with? Ink lights, how to

1569
01:54:20.159 --> 01:54:25.640
wrap it's cloth and then you can
come back and do some plastic. You

1570
01:54:25.640 --> 01:54:29.359
have that on face on your Facebook
pack that on Facebook tree good good too.

1571
01:54:29.760 --> 01:54:32.239
Yeah you mentioned the Texas SABLEU.
I spend a lot of time during

1572
01:54:32.239 --> 01:54:35.600
the week up in College Station and
there are a lot of problems up there.

1573
01:54:35.880 --> 01:54:41.239
And when we got to seven in
February twenty one in our area and

1574
01:54:41.479 --> 01:54:44.920
we saw the difference between hardy and
not hardy, and Texas Sables came through

1575
01:54:45.000 --> 01:54:47.239
like champions. I mean it was
it was really nice. Well, I'm

1576
01:54:47.279 --> 01:54:50.039
gonna stop and take a quick call. We got a couple of calls on

1577
01:54:50.159 --> 01:54:53.680
the line, not a palm call, so let's just see what we can

1578
01:54:53.720 --> 01:54:56.600
do. Okay, And folks,
if you do have palm questions, I

1579
01:54:56.680 --> 01:54:59.920
feel free to call in. We're
gonna take a call here from Jaim.

1580
01:55:00.000 --> 01:55:04.760
I'm in parallel. Hello, Jim. I've got two questions, kip okay.

1581
01:55:05.479 --> 01:55:14.000
Number one, I want to use
celsius uh herbicide. I've got a

1582
01:55:14.039 --> 01:55:18.920
brand new lawn that just put in
just like six weeks ago. It's uh

1583
01:55:19.560 --> 01:55:30.359
uh Zorasia Palisades got it and I
see it in various places. Some real

1584
01:55:30.439 --> 01:55:38.960
tall suggress coming up actually, hey, Jim, I need you to turn

1585
01:55:39.039 --> 01:55:42.640
that radio off because it's causing you
to cut out. I'm losing connection with

1586
01:55:42.720 --> 01:55:47.000
you here. Okay. One second, all right, I made the mistake

1587
01:55:47.039 --> 01:55:50.920
of I made the mistake of walking
outside without my phone. There you go.

1588
01:55:51.039 --> 01:55:55.800
All right, that's that's that may
have been why we were cutting out

1589
01:55:55.840 --> 01:56:00.600
there. It absolutely was. I
do that all the time. So what's

1590
01:56:00.600 --> 01:56:05.479
your what's your what's your Celsius question? The Celsius question is I see a

1591
01:56:05.479 --> 01:56:13.640
lot of very tall shoots of grass
that I suspect or weeds, Okay.

1592
01:56:13.840 --> 01:56:18.039
And it looks also like there may
be areas where some crab grass is trying

1593
01:56:18.079 --> 01:56:23.600
to come out. Okay. Celsius
is not gonna not gonna be your product

1594
01:56:23.600 --> 01:56:27.600
for that. It's better on the
broad leaves. The reason we Celsius is

1595
01:56:27.600 --> 01:56:32.159
because it's so helpful to go into
hot weather and have something that doesn't just

1596
01:56:32.279 --> 01:56:35.920
hammer your grass when the weather gets
hot. For broad leaf control, and

1597
01:56:36.000 --> 01:56:39.840
Celsius will do that, we can
get up in the lower nineties and not

1598
01:56:39.880 --> 01:56:44.439
worry about it. But as far
as grass control in grass, you're just

1599
01:56:44.640 --> 01:56:47.479
up a creek. Other than putting
a pre emerging out to prevent those grass

1600
01:56:47.479 --> 01:56:53.840
seeds that are weeds from having come
up in the first place. Okay,

1601
01:56:53.920 --> 01:56:56.479
all right, well it's too late
to do that. I have one other

1602
01:56:56.560 --> 01:57:00.600
question. I wipe for the commercial. All right, just a minute,

1603
01:57:00.640 --> 01:57:02.239
we'll be right back. Hey.
Our number is seven one three two one

1604
01:57:02.319 --> 01:57:06.720
two fifty eight seventy four. We're
visiting with Patrick from Verdant Tree Farms today

1605
01:57:08.000 --> 01:57:10.560
talking about trees in general. Have
been talking about palms a little bit.

1606
01:57:10.560 --> 01:57:13.760
I think we'll spread out and get
into some other tree questions. Have you

1607
01:57:13.840 --> 01:57:16.439
got any of those? Give us
a call seven one three two one two

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01:57:17.039 --> 01:57:21.960
five eight seven four. In the
meantime, those of you that are on

1609
01:57:23.039 --> 01:57:26.079
whole right now, Charlie will be
trying to get to you. It'll be

1610
01:57:26.119 --> 01:57:29.479
sometime into the next segment here,
so just be patient with us. We

1611
01:57:29.520 --> 01:57:32.399
have the opportunity to visit with a
very knowledgeable guest. We want to take

1612
01:57:32.439 --> 01:57:36.680
advantage of that time as best we
can. Appreciate you guys listening to Garden

1613
01:57:36.720 --> 01:57:41.479
Line. We look forward to coming
to you after our news break, So

1614
01:57:41.680 --> 01:57:45.319
hang on. In the meantime,
get ready with your palm questions and with

1615
01:57:45.439 --> 01:57:48.880
your general tree questions, and we
will hit Patrick with them. When we

1616
01:57:48.920 --> 01:57:57.119
come back. KTRH Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

1617
01:57:57.159 --> 01:58:13.000
services advertised on this program. Welcome
to KTRH Garden Line with Skip rictor just

1618
01:58:13.279 --> 01:58:24.920
watching as well. Good morning.
You are listening to garden Line on a

1619
01:58:24.960 --> 01:58:29.960
beautiful Sunday morning, and we are
fortunate this morning to have Patrick from Verdant

1620
01:58:30.079 --> 01:58:32.600
Tree Farms here to talk about things
trees. We were talking about palms for

1621
01:58:32.600 --> 01:58:36.199
a little bit here and Patrick,
I when I picture a palm tree,

1622
01:58:36.239 --> 01:58:39.720
and I think a lot of people
are like this. You picture this tropical

1623
01:58:39.760 --> 01:58:44.039
desert island and there's sand everywhere.
Now, welcome to Houston. When there's

1624
01:58:44.079 --> 01:58:48.279
black clay everywhere. How do palms
do here in our clay? And any

1625
01:58:48.359 --> 01:58:51.399
tips or anything's to be aware of
that, you would suggest people that are

1626
01:58:51.439 --> 01:58:57.560
considering a palm or that have a
palm. Sure, so a couple of

1627
01:58:57.600 --> 01:59:01.039
things. So when we go to
plant palm tree and we start digging for

1628
01:59:01.119 --> 01:59:05.119
the hole, you know, we
can't tell you that that clay is going

1629
01:59:05.199 --> 01:59:08.960
to drain or not. So one
of the things that we do when we

1630
01:59:09.000 --> 01:59:11.920
install the tree, we put a
two inch PBC pipe in the hole.

1631
01:59:12.319 --> 01:59:15.960
It's notched so that's not so you
can water the tree at least, don't

1632
01:59:15.960 --> 01:59:19.279
water the tree that way. That
so you can drop a stick down in

1633
01:59:19.279 --> 01:59:23.439
the tube and you can pull it
out and you can measure if the bottom

1634
01:59:23.439 --> 01:59:27.760
of that three sometimes three to four
foot hole and we have to dig for

1635
01:59:27.800 --> 01:59:30.239
some of these trees, you can
tell if there's any water. So that's

1636
01:59:30.239 --> 01:59:34.079
a good idea. Yeah, it's
it becomes an underground bathtub and a clay

1637
01:59:34.119 --> 01:59:36.720
hole, doesn't it. Right.
So a lot of people will look at

1638
01:59:36.720 --> 01:59:40.800
the tree and say, and my
tree looks sad, it doesn't look healthy.

1639
01:59:41.239 --> 01:59:44.399
Let's water the tree. That's the
go to. That's what everybody,

1640
01:59:44.680 --> 01:59:46.359
you know. And then they call
us two weeks later, Hey, my

1641
01:59:46.479 --> 01:59:49.159
tree, you know I've been watering
it every day. I've been doing this

1642
01:59:49.199 --> 01:59:54.039
and doing this. So that's the
first question out of my mouth is how

1643
01:59:54.119 --> 01:59:58.600
much water sitting in your tube?
And usually six to ten inches, if

1644
01:59:58.720 --> 02:00:04.000
not all the way full is the
answer. So we try to educate people

1645
02:00:04.079 --> 02:00:09.000
when we go in to dig that
hole that hey, look you're going to

1646
02:00:09.039 --> 02:00:14.000
be in clay. This tree right
here could be next to a tree five

1647
02:00:14.039 --> 02:00:17.119
feet away, whether it's a tree
or a pump five feet away. One

1648
02:00:17.399 --> 02:00:24.880
hole may hold water and the other
hole may drain just fine. So each

1649
02:00:25.079 --> 02:00:30.199
tree has to be monitored individually.
This is also the reason why we tell

1650
02:00:30.279 --> 02:00:35.159
everybody the best thing for watering the
tree is adjustable bubblers, okay, because

1651
02:00:35.159 --> 02:00:40.479
you can turn one tree down and
the other tree is still getting the same

1652
02:00:40.520 --> 02:00:43.960
amount of water that it needs because
it drains just fine. So that's a

1653
02:00:43.960 --> 02:00:46.119
little irrigation pipe that comes up has
a knob on it that you can do

1654
02:00:46.159 --> 02:00:48.920
that with. That's what you mean
by the adjustable boat. Yes, yes,

1655
02:00:49.319 --> 02:00:54.199
good, Well, that's good.
That's good advice, because yeah,

1656
02:00:54.199 --> 02:00:57.079
it isn't all the same. And
boy, when we submerge plant roots and

1657
02:00:57.119 --> 02:01:00.239
they can't get oxygen, they get
in big trouble. Palm trees are yeah.

1658
02:01:00.439 --> 02:01:02.239
True. Hey, I had Jim
on the line here, Jim,

1659
02:01:02.319 --> 02:01:04.760
I want to come back to you
in pair Land and see if we can

1660
02:01:04.800 --> 02:01:10.279
finish answering your question. Yes,
or the other question that I had was

1661
02:01:10.319 --> 02:01:15.039
that in various areas throughout where this
new side has been installed, there's little

1662
02:01:15.079 --> 02:01:20.479
areas that the grass appears to be
dead. Okay, I mean a real

1663
02:01:20.560 --> 02:01:30.000
light brown, almost like dead pine
branches are plant pine leaves Okay. I

1664
02:01:30.039 --> 02:01:40.600
did fertilize it six weeks after it
was laid with the Nelson's fertilizer, okay,

1665
02:01:40.720 --> 02:01:43.600
and I haven't done anything else to
it since. All right. Well,

1666
02:01:43.600 --> 02:01:45.520
it's good that you fertilized it that
and that's a good fertilizer. I

1667
02:01:46.079 --> 02:01:50.560
you know, Jim, there's just
too many possibilities when the symptom is dead.

1668
02:01:50.960 --> 02:01:54.239
You know, it's kind of hard. It could be a lack of

1669
02:01:54.279 --> 02:01:57.239
water. It could be when they
laid the side that didn't get good side

1670
02:01:57.279 --> 02:02:00.239
to soil contact in that area.
So there's just like an air gap in

1671
02:02:00.279 --> 02:02:05.039
there and the roots air can get
in, roots dry. I mean,

1672
02:02:05.079 --> 02:02:09.079
they're just a lot of possible.
It could be a disease as well.

1673
02:02:09.239 --> 02:02:12.520
So I don't know how to tell
you. If you wanted to hang on,

1674
02:02:12.680 --> 02:02:15.479
I can put you on hold.
Have Josh give you an email to

1675
02:02:15.640 --> 02:02:18.800
send me some pictures of it from
a distance and some good close up ones

1676
02:02:19.239 --> 02:02:24.479
showing the symptom as it goes from
living to dead. Not just dead grass,

1677
02:02:24.520 --> 02:02:27.640
but show me the sick grass.
And I'll do my best to give

1678
02:02:27.640 --> 02:02:31.239
you a better answer than just it
could be at I'll do that, all

1679
02:02:31.319 --> 02:02:34.600
right. I'm putting you on hold
right now and Josh will pick you up.

1680
02:02:35.479 --> 02:02:40.960
We are fortunate today talking with Patrick
about tree things. And you know

1681
02:02:41.000 --> 02:02:45.039
Patrick, the we talk about planting
trees all year, and you can and

1682
02:02:45.119 --> 02:02:48.439
do well that first summer, especially
the first few months even after planting,

1683
02:02:48.560 --> 02:02:53.000
is kind of a touch and go
time because that tree, all the roots

1684
02:02:53.000 --> 02:02:56.920
are still in that container and at
your place, you probably were watering them

1685
02:02:56.920 --> 02:03:00.399
pretty often to keep them happy and
healthy and growing. Now they go in

1686
02:03:00.439 --> 02:03:04.119
the ground and people think, well, the rain the Sowell's moist, but

1687
02:03:04.199 --> 02:03:10.760
that rootball gets pumped dry pretty quick. So any advice on success following the

1688
02:03:10.760 --> 02:03:15.359
planting keeping a tree healthy, alive, not just alive, but growing well,

1689
02:03:15.359 --> 02:03:19.760
the key factor is going to be
paying attention to your tree. The

1690
02:03:19.800 --> 02:03:25.119
tree is going to start the first
sign of it of not getting enough water,

1691
02:03:25.279 --> 02:03:29.119
the tree's going to start to wilt. And when that starts to wilt,

1692
02:03:29.600 --> 02:03:32.199
if you are paying attention, you
can go in and you can water

1693
02:03:32.279 --> 02:03:38.199
that tree again. So at that
point you can start to nail down a

1694
02:03:38.359 --> 02:03:43.279
schedule of how long and when you're
gonna water that tree. You can also

1695
02:03:43.399 --> 02:03:46.399
use that tube to make sure that
you're not overwatering that tree, and the

1696
02:03:46.439 --> 02:03:49.960
water is not sitting in that hole. If we planted the tree, y'all

1697
02:03:50.000 --> 02:03:54.680
do the tube on all the trees
your plant. Pretty much every tree thirty

1698
02:03:54.680 --> 02:03:57.600
gallon and above will do. We'll
do that. You do tube. And

1699
02:03:57.640 --> 02:04:00.000
that's how big is a PBC.
It's a two inch PBC pipe? Okay,

1700
02:04:00.039 --> 02:04:02.399
good, Now, there's a reason
why we use two inch so you

1701
02:04:02.439 --> 02:04:04.960
can get a stick in it.
So we can get a stick in it.

1702
02:04:05.239 --> 02:04:12.760
But two inches also big enough for
three foot hand pumps for hand pumping

1703
02:04:12.840 --> 02:04:15.119
water out. So it's big enough, just big enough to where you can

1704
02:04:15.159 --> 02:04:17.479
take some of them. You have
to take the tip off of it,

1705
02:04:17.800 --> 02:04:21.279
and you can get the very end
of it off. Some of them fit

1706
02:04:21.439 --> 02:04:25.920
right through, but you can slide
that right down. You can hand pump

1707
02:04:25.960 --> 02:04:30.640
and push water away if you find
a situation where you're holding a lot of

1708
02:04:30.640 --> 02:04:33.640
water. Good, all right.
Well, people often ask questions like,

1709
02:04:33.840 --> 02:04:38.119
well, how much do I water? Well, it's hard to answer that

1710
02:04:38.199 --> 02:04:41.479
question because how hot is it?
Is it a sunny days? Is it's

1711
02:04:41.520 --> 02:04:44.840
cloudy days? Has it rained recently? What kind of tree is it?

1712
02:04:44.920 --> 02:04:46.600
How big is a rootball? I
mean just a lot of a lot of

1713
02:04:46.640 --> 02:04:50.960
Yeah, butts. That is the
hardest question, and a lot of people

1714
02:04:51.039 --> 02:04:56.000
think we're dancing around that question,
and I'll be honest, we are.

1715
02:04:56.239 --> 02:05:00.479
It's I can't tell you, hey, you need to water that tree five

1716
02:05:00.560 --> 02:05:05.199
minutes every day so that it gets
fifteen gallons of water, because what will

1717
02:05:05.199 --> 02:05:10.560
happen is customers will hear that and
they won't check the tube, and then

1718
02:05:10.600 --> 02:05:14.880
they'll come back and call me up
three days or usually three weeks later,

1719
02:05:15.039 --> 02:05:17.800
Hey, Patrick, what's going on
with my tree? My trees turning you

1720
02:05:17.840 --> 02:05:20.600
know colors? And I'll ask them, do you have any water in the

1721
02:05:20.640 --> 02:05:23.720
tube? Oh, yeah, I
got water in the tube. Good,

1722
02:05:23.960 --> 02:05:29.600
well you're drowning your tree. Yeah, but you told me three, you

1723
02:05:29.640 --> 02:05:31.960
know, five minutes a day to
give it fifteen minutes of water, you

1724
02:05:32.000 --> 02:05:36.600
know. So we try to educate
customers. It's not a straightforward answer.

1725
02:05:38.079 --> 02:05:41.600
It's you really have to pay attention
to what's going on, and like you

1726
02:05:41.640 --> 02:05:45.359
said, the different soils and different
spots within your yard, it could vary

1727
02:05:45.399 --> 02:05:47.279
even the same species. Well that's
good. Well, we gotta take a

1728
02:05:47.279 --> 02:05:49.720
break right now. Hey, if
you'd like to give a call talk to

1729
02:05:49.720 --> 02:05:54.560
Patrick about something related to your trees. Palm trees, regular kinds of trees

1730
02:05:54.600 --> 02:05:57.800
will be happy to visit with you
our phone number seven one three two one

1731
02:05:57.840 --> 02:06:00.319
two fifty eight seventy four. When
we come back, Chris, you'll be

1732
02:06:00.399 --> 02:06:15.720
the first up when the day of
the ladder seemed impossible. All right,

1733
02:06:15.800 --> 02:06:19.760
you're listening to the garden Line and
we have with us today Patrick from Verdant

1734
02:06:19.800 --> 02:06:23.720
Tree. We're talking all kinds of
things trees. I'm going to start by

1735
02:06:23.760 --> 02:06:26.920
going out to Jersey Village. Chris, I believe you may have a tree

1736
02:06:27.000 --> 02:06:30.159
question. Yeah, Hi, good
morning, skipt people up the good word,

1737
02:06:30.199 --> 02:06:32.960
Good morning, Patrick. Thanks for
all the info you're giving us this

1738
02:06:33.000 --> 02:06:39.319
morning. Good morning, good morning. You know there's there's a everyone that

1739
02:06:39.439 --> 02:06:43.960
kind of has a different opinion on
this question. So I wanted I've never

1740
02:06:44.000 --> 02:06:47.199
heard your opinion, Skip. So
I have two oak trees in my front

1741
02:06:47.239 --> 02:06:54.840
yard, and I want to know
is it erosion that caused us the roots

1742
02:06:54.920 --> 02:07:00.720
to show at the surface or the
roots actually come up because there's not enough

1743
02:07:00.880 --> 02:07:02.840
moisture in the ground. That's it. That's a good question. Yeah,

1744
02:07:02.960 --> 02:07:10.439
Chris, I've heard I've heard that
before. Let you go. Is there

1745
02:07:10.479 --> 02:07:15.000
a best time of year to deep
root feed in march trees. All right,

1746
02:07:15.600 --> 02:07:18.399
well, let's take the first one. So what happens is tree roots

1747
02:07:18.680 --> 02:07:21.880
predominantly are in the top foot of
soil. You got roots down deep,

1748
02:07:21.920 --> 02:07:25.600
You've got tap roots and other things. But when you look at all the

1749
02:07:25.640 --> 02:07:29.520
feeding roots, where the oxygen is, whether the microbial activity is highest,

1750
02:07:29.920 --> 02:07:32.439
that's all basically in the top foot. Now sand, it's gonna be deeper

1751
02:07:32.479 --> 02:07:35.880
in a clay, maybe even shallower, especially if it's a tight water log

1752
02:07:35.960 --> 02:07:41.319
clay. But basically they're on top. So imagine a little spaghetti sized root

1753
02:07:41.439 --> 02:07:44.840
going a few inches under the surface, and then as that root grows in

1754
02:07:44.840 --> 02:07:48.479
diameter, it's pushing in all directions, but there's nothing much on top of

1755
02:07:48.479 --> 02:07:54.000
it, but there's a solid soil
below it. So as it gets bigger,

1756
02:07:54.920 --> 02:07:59.000
you remember the little balloons that they
make balloon animals out for kids.

1757
02:07:59.199 --> 02:08:03.039
Put one of those three inches underneath
some soil and blow it up. What's

1758
02:08:03.039 --> 02:08:05.119
going to happen. It's going to
push up. It's not that the root

1759
02:08:05.239 --> 02:08:09.279
is coming to the surface as much
as it's just expanding. And then you

1760
02:08:09.319 --> 02:08:13.479
get water sheeting across the top,
taking soil away from it. And now

1761
02:08:13.520 --> 02:08:16.079
you got a root that looks like
you're just sitting on top of the ground,

1762
02:08:16.119 --> 02:08:20.039
and people think, well, that
root came up. Well, it's

1763
02:08:20.039 --> 02:08:22.880
a physics thing and that's why the
roots are up there. So when you

1764
02:08:22.880 --> 02:08:26.880
get a point like that where you
got big roots up on the surface,

1765
02:08:26.000 --> 02:08:30.840
I think that's a good opportunity to
switch from grass to some other kind of

1766
02:08:30.960 --> 02:08:35.560
groundcover, a vinding groundcover or mulch
bed that can cover that area, rather

1767
02:08:35.600 --> 02:08:37.920
than just trying to cover them with
soil, because that runs into problems.

1768
02:08:37.960 --> 02:08:41.119
To the other question, I'm trying
to think, what was your other question

1769
02:08:41.239 --> 02:08:48.239
on the tree you had to follow
up? I think we think we lost

1770
02:08:48.279 --> 02:08:52.279
him. I can't remember what the
follow up question was right now, trees

1771
02:08:52.399 --> 02:08:54.760
question, trees. Sorry, it
may occur to me in just a minute.

1772
02:08:54.920 --> 02:08:58.720
Well, let's go back to Patrick. I want to talk about some

1773
02:09:00.039 --> 02:09:05.279
of the tree care kinds of things. We were visiting a little bit at

1774
02:09:05.319 --> 02:09:07.760
break, But I would like you
elaborate a little bit on some of the

1775
02:09:07.760 --> 02:09:11.720
stuff we were talking about. I
think it's really good information. Sure,

1776
02:09:13.479 --> 02:09:16.279
I actually have a thought on what
you're Oh yeah, yeah. So one

1777
02:09:16.319 --> 02:09:18.960
of the things that I always tell
people, with the roots coming up,

1778
02:09:20.319 --> 02:09:24.640
you're better off trying to do some
kind of a program for deep root feeding

1779
02:09:24.880 --> 02:09:28.319
because you want to entice with the
other question that was his other question.

1780
02:09:28.800 --> 02:09:31.720
Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
So you want to entice the roots to

1781
02:09:31.760 --> 02:09:35.039
really go down. Right, So
if you're going to do more deep root

1782
02:09:35.119 --> 02:09:41.640
feeding of the tree, you're gonna
get that tree root trying to come down

1783
02:09:41.680 --> 02:09:46.920
to get that feeding on the surface
roots. So you are correct. So

1784
02:09:46.960 --> 02:09:50.520
when the surface roots coming across and
it gets so big, it starts to

1785
02:09:50.600 --> 02:09:54.840
show. This is what I tell
people from there. At first moment you

1786
02:09:54.920 --> 02:09:58.199
think you feel it, dig around
and see if you really do feel it.

1787
02:10:00.000 --> 02:10:03.760
And so and Randy and I used
to talk about this, cut the

1788
02:10:03.880 --> 02:10:09.119
root. You can cut one big
root system. Randy says every eighteen to

1789
02:10:09.199 --> 02:10:11.680
two years. I usually say a
year, two year and a half.

1790
02:10:11.039 --> 02:10:15.600
Okay, if it's if it's not
too big, so you can cut you

1791
02:10:15.800 --> 02:10:18.920
follow follow that root back a little
ways where it's it's definitely below ground,

1792
02:10:20.119 --> 02:10:22.800
follow it, bag cut that tree, pull that root out right, um,

1793
02:10:24.000 --> 02:10:26.760
get it out of there, and
then replant everything around all back to

1794
02:10:26.880 --> 02:10:31.439
level. And you could actually prevent
to stay ahead of it. But but

1795
02:10:31.520 --> 02:10:33.560
you have to be on top of
it. Yeah, and and Paedrick did

1796
02:10:33.640 --> 02:10:37.520
say one route. I mean,
it's not like you don't cut six of

1797
02:10:37.680 --> 02:10:41.680
the tree in a single year.
You'd be Yeah, that's why you got

1798
02:10:41.680 --> 02:10:43.920
to pay attention. So when you
first see and feel that, you got

1799
02:10:43.920 --> 02:10:46.680
to be on top of it right
then and there. Okay, all right,

1800
02:10:46.680 --> 02:10:52.079
well that's good, good information.
I'm going to head out to Pleasantville.

1801
02:10:52.159 --> 02:10:54.680
Now. Deborah has a question about
trees. How can we help Deborah?

1802
02:10:56.680 --> 02:11:01.640
If my neighbor has these tint worms
bagworms in these weed trees. I

1803
02:11:01.680 --> 02:11:05.159
guess they call them a weed tree
because they just kind of sprout up.

1804
02:11:05.720 --> 02:11:09.359
How do I get rid of those
worms so keep the tree from ever getting

1805
02:11:09.359 --> 02:11:11.399
them? All right? Just so
I'm clear, is this a worm that

1806
02:11:11.600 --> 02:11:16.239
is making webs around the foliage or
is this a worm where you see the

1807
02:11:16.239 --> 02:11:20.079
webbing where there's like a branching and
a white branching in a tree, like

1808
02:11:20.159 --> 02:11:26.600
around that area. It's making the
why branching like big nests, big tents,

1809
02:11:26.600 --> 02:11:31.399
but the branches not out around the
leaves. Right, Oh, yes,

1810
02:11:31.479 --> 02:11:35.520
it's it's everywhere they are on the
branches. Okay, that sounds like

1811
02:11:35.560 --> 02:11:39.199
a web worm. And you know
they love pecans, they love we have

1812
02:11:39.239 --> 02:11:43.359
a native black cherry here. They
love they love mulberries. That's another one

1813
02:11:43.399 --> 02:11:46.279
they get in and it's a caterpillar. So if you can catch them early

1814
02:11:46.319 --> 02:11:50.039
and the tree's not too big,
you can spray with BT or with spinosaid,

1815
02:11:50.159 --> 02:11:54.680
and those are two organic products that
work very well against caterpillars. Spinosa

1816
02:11:54.720 --> 02:11:58.760
it'll last longer than BTBT lasts on
in a couple of days, but you

1817
02:11:58.800 --> 02:12:01.920
can catch them early on and do
that. If you break up the webs,

1818
02:12:03.000 --> 02:12:05.560
wasps will get in there and get
them. And then there's you can

1819
02:12:05.600 --> 02:12:09.439
certainly hire a tree service to come
in and do a professional spraying of those

1820
02:12:09.439 --> 02:12:11.920
trees as well. And they have
access to a lot of other kinds of

1821
02:12:11.960 --> 02:12:15.000
products for that. Well. Okay, yes, I've been trying. I've

1822
02:12:15.039 --> 02:12:18.960
tried BET. I didn't need more
max. Okay, I also spray on

1823
02:12:18.039 --> 02:12:22.880
my side of it. The yard
is where they're dropping. Okay, you

1824
02:12:22.960 --> 02:12:26.560
got you gotta cover the tree on
all those products. You're getting them on

1825
02:12:26.600 --> 02:12:31.239
the leaves so the caterpillars eat the
leaves and get sick. That's the two

1826
02:12:31.279 --> 02:12:35.960
I mentioned products that for example,
you know, BT is fine, it's

1827
02:12:37.000 --> 02:12:39.880
just if you got to run a
sprayer and you got to spray it ever

1828
02:12:39.000 --> 02:12:43.439
three days or something. Then you
know that's not going to be cost effective

1829
02:12:43.479 --> 02:12:46.760
and you're gonna get tired of that
real quick. But you know, send

1830
02:12:46.760 --> 02:12:50.159
me a picture of it too.
That's another option. I can look at

1831
02:12:50.159 --> 02:12:52.880
it, just to make sure,
because we have several different kinds of caterpillars

1832
02:12:52.880 --> 02:12:56.279
that can make a web, and
I just always want to not assume,

1833
02:12:56.439 --> 02:13:01.520
but actually make sure we're talking about
the same thing. All right, Okay,

1834
02:13:01.560 --> 02:13:03.960
I will send in the pictures and
get permission. All right, thank

1835
02:13:03.000 --> 02:13:07.720
you. I'm gonna put you on
hold here so we canad a bunch of

1836
02:13:07.720 --> 02:13:09.920
calls here. So I think it
was gonna keep going with the calls for

1837
02:13:09.960 --> 02:13:11.479
just a little while. I do
want to mention you're talking about pests and

1838
02:13:11.520 --> 02:13:18.199
things. Scott McGrath pest Control.
You can go online McGrath metgrath pest control

1839
02:13:18.319 --> 02:13:22.399
dot com. They've been in business
since seventy four. Scott's dad started it.

1840
02:13:22.399 --> 02:13:26.720
It's steel family run and it is
the kind of company that I guess,

1841
02:13:26.760 --> 02:13:28.920
you know, it's people always remember
how things used to be and stuff.

1842
02:13:28.920 --> 02:13:31.359
Someone told you they're gonna show up
at a certain time, they actually

1843
02:13:31.399 --> 02:13:35.000
showed you. They schedule a time, they don't tell you, you know,

1844
02:13:35.039 --> 02:13:37.840
I'll come sometime in the next five
hours, so you happen to have

1845
02:13:37.960 --> 02:13:41.399
to be there at the time when
McGrath schedules, they show up at that

1846
02:13:41.479 --> 02:13:46.159
time. They're very highly related rated
on all the review sites. They do

1847
02:13:46.279 --> 02:13:50.560
do contracts. You don't have to
sign up for a year with them.

1848
02:13:50.800 --> 02:13:52.279
You tell them what you need,
they show up and they do it.

1849
02:13:52.359 --> 02:13:58.279
They service the entire Houston area.
They know what they're talking about. And

1850
02:13:58.359 --> 02:14:01.600
here we are in the summer season. There's all kinds of things going on.

1851
02:14:01.720 --> 02:14:05.560
Each season has it's it's you know, particular pests and problem They do

1852
02:14:05.680 --> 02:14:11.199
not just insects, but they do
things like raccoons and termites and squirrels and

1853
02:14:11.319 --> 02:14:13.840
rats and other things like that.
McGrath Pest Control. You can get a

1854
02:14:13.840 --> 02:14:18.760
hold of them McGrath pest Control dot
com or two eight one four six nine

1855
02:14:18.800 --> 02:14:24.520
eighty two forty. Well, let's
see, we're gonna head out to Willis

1856
02:14:24.600 --> 02:14:26.880
and we're gonna talk to Mike.
Mike has a tallow tree problem. Mike,

1857
02:14:26.920 --> 02:14:30.760
I'd say a tallow tree is a
problem. But what are we gonna

1858
02:14:30.760 --> 02:14:35.399
talk about here today? Yeah,
Well, actually I raised the tall tallows

1859
02:14:35.399 --> 02:14:39.760
are good for bees. Oh yes
they are. That that is that in

1860
02:14:39.840 --> 02:14:43.119
fall color. The two good things
about a tallow tree, and we won't

1861
02:14:43.119 --> 02:14:48.920
get into all the other bad things
about a tallow Yeah. But I've got

1862
02:14:48.920 --> 02:14:52.479
about one hundred acres and I cleared
off about four or five acres, and

1863
02:14:52.560 --> 02:14:56.039
I've got one hundred and fifty year
old oaks, you know, pines,

1864
02:14:56.159 --> 02:15:01.479
and in that area I kept with
a bush. But I've got a problem

1865
02:15:01.479 --> 02:15:05.520
with tallow trees and stuff growing around
the trees where I can't get to you.

1866
02:15:05.119 --> 02:15:09.119
It take me weeks to go in
there with loppers, which I will

1867
02:15:09.199 --> 02:15:13.279
do to cut all that trash stuff
around the trees itself. How do you

1868
02:15:13.359 --> 02:15:18.600
what do you? Could you spray
around those trees to make them so there's

1869
02:15:18.640 --> 02:15:22.920
no more trash coming up around the
trees. Are you talking about suckers from

1870
02:15:22.920 --> 02:15:28.000
the tree or what what do you
mean by trash? Um? Taller trees

1871
02:15:28.880 --> 02:15:33.279
different types of weeds to um.
Now, I can spray around up around

1872
02:15:33.319 --> 02:15:37.520
them to kill the grass and most
of the weeds. But okay, they've

1873
02:15:37.560 --> 02:15:41.199
got they've got you know, actually
different types of trees that will sprout up

1874
02:15:41.239 --> 02:15:46.920
around Okay, I see what you're
talking about. Yeah, so you got

1875
02:15:46.920 --> 02:15:50.920
acreage. So what I'm gonna tell
you is probably not practical. But when

1876
02:15:50.960 --> 02:15:54.199
you have brush coming up around a
tree, or tree sprouts coming up around

1877
02:15:54.199 --> 02:15:58.359
a tree, you can treat those. You can treat the trunk at the

1878
02:15:58.399 --> 02:16:03.079
base, or you can cut them
off and treat the fresh cut stump with

1879
02:16:03.199 --> 02:16:07.319
something that contains triclopier. That's that's
what the ranchers used to keep brush out

1880
02:16:07.319 --> 02:16:11.119
of their grass pastures. But you
can buy it over the counter. It's

1881
02:16:11.159 --> 02:16:15.960
in a lot of different ingredients,
poison ivy killer and whatnot. Now,

1882
02:16:16.119 --> 02:16:20.920
so someone has, you know,
tallows or hackberries coming up along a fence

1883
02:16:20.960 --> 02:16:26.520
line or poison ivy, we used
tricolopaer for that. If you get out

1884
02:16:26.560 --> 02:16:28.479
there and you're going to get on
a bigger scale, there's a website.

1885
02:16:28.600 --> 02:16:35.440
Do a search for brush busters,
and then you know, you can type

1886
02:16:35.440 --> 02:16:37.959
in tallow or you can type in
something else and it'll tell you exactly how

1887
02:16:39.040 --> 02:16:41.559
much triclopier to use. And often
they mix it with diesel oil or you

1888
02:16:41.600 --> 02:16:45.959
can even use a cooking golf for
it to make it stick to the trunks,

1889
02:16:46.000 --> 02:16:48.200
which you gotta do it when they're
very very young and they don't have

1890
02:16:48.200 --> 02:16:50.959
a thick bark, and it'll work
pretty good. I can't go into the

1891
02:16:50.000 --> 02:16:54.399
details on all the aspects of it, but those websites will tell you what

1892
02:16:54.440 --> 02:17:00.280
to do. Just don't get it
on a tree you like, yeah,

1893
02:17:00.280 --> 02:17:01.639
okay, No, you don't want
to spread on the existing tree, just

1894
02:17:01.680 --> 02:17:05.000
around them, right, and you
don't want to drench the soil and all

1895
02:17:05.000 --> 02:17:07.479
that kind of You just need to
get like if you cut it off just

1896
02:17:07.520 --> 02:17:11.000
that fresh cut, I use a
little spongebrush and just just dab it right

1897
02:17:11.079 --> 02:17:13.959
on that fresh cut and it'll move
down and do a pretty good job.

1898
02:17:15.479 --> 02:17:20.120
Or yeah, so that that would
be my recommendation on those Okay, okay,

1899
02:17:20.120 --> 02:17:22.959
agreed. All right, Hey,
Mike, thank you very much for

1900
02:17:22.000 --> 02:17:26.680
the call. I appreciate that we've
been talking about all kinds of things related

1901
02:17:26.760 --> 02:17:31.120
to trees. And one of the
things you guys do it for down is

1902
02:17:31.159 --> 02:17:35.319
people can come in and they you
can advise them on what tree might do

1903
02:17:35.399 --> 02:17:37.920
well there. Maybe they bring a
picture of the whole place. I think

1904
02:17:39.000 --> 02:17:41.799
you'd like to show them some of
the trees on the property. Too,

1905
02:17:41.799 --> 02:17:43.959
So this isn't they have to come
in knowing what they want, you guys

1906
02:17:43.959 --> 02:17:48.360
can kind of help direct them to
something that's going to fit their knee.

1907
02:17:48.360 --> 02:17:50.000
Do you want to talk about that
a little bit, Patrick, Yes.

1908
02:17:50.239 --> 02:17:54.040
So one of the things that we
always suggest is bring a couple of pictures

1909
02:17:54.079 --> 02:17:58.680
far away, some a little close
so that we can see what we're working

1910
02:17:58.719 --> 02:18:01.920
with. And if you don't bring
one, a lot of times we can

1911
02:18:01.000 --> 02:18:05.840
get on Google and within a couple
of years usually it's, you know,

1912
02:18:05.920 --> 02:18:09.319
fairly close to what you've got going
on at your house. So not a

1913
02:18:09.360 --> 02:18:13.040
mandatory thing, it's just better it's
easier for us to see. But what

1914
02:18:13.079 --> 02:18:18.360
we like to do is we like
to walk around and point out things that

1915
02:18:18.399 --> 02:18:20.959
we think would work well in that
area, and a lot of customers will

1916
02:18:22.000 --> 02:18:22.840
say, yeah, no, I
don't like that yet, No I don't

1917
02:18:22.879 --> 02:18:26.319
like that, and then we'll get
to something else so oh yeah, wow,

1918
02:18:26.360 --> 02:18:30.600
I like that. That's great.
So that's one of the nice things

1919
02:18:30.639 --> 02:18:35.680
about having a lot of different trees
and then a lot of trees in the

1920
02:18:35.760 --> 02:18:41.600
same type of tree, to be
able to show you up close and personal,

1921
02:18:41.920 --> 02:18:46.360
what you know, what that would
be like in your in your yard.

1922
02:18:46.680 --> 02:18:52.440
Yeah, I think that's a great
idea. We've got a call.

1923
02:18:52.479 --> 02:18:56.399
We're gonna come David. We're gonna
come to you after break, San Francisco,

1924
02:18:56.479 --> 02:19:00.639
California. So how big of a
tree expert are you? We're gonna

1925
02:19:00.680 --> 02:19:03.680
go out to San Francisco. I
believe David will come to you after break

1926
02:19:03.079 --> 02:19:07.600
if you got a tree question,
A tree question seven one three, two,

1927
02:19:07.600 --> 02:19:09.920
one two, fifty eight seventy four. We are here with Patrick from

1928
02:19:09.920 --> 02:19:13.879
Burdent Tree and we're gonna be coming
back from break happy to answer those questions.

1929
02:19:13.879 --> 02:19:18.719
In the meantime, Nicki's gonna tell
us everything that's happening around town that

1930
02:19:18.760 --> 02:19:33.520
we need to know about. So
talk to you if you follow. Good

1931
02:19:33.520 --> 02:19:39.239
morning, Wow, what a good
day to be outside doing some gardening for

1932
02:19:39.440 --> 02:19:43.079
in this case, planning a tree. We've got Patrick from Verdant Tree Farm

1933
02:19:43.079 --> 02:19:46.000
with us today. We're doing some
tree questions. But I got a I

1934
02:19:46.079 --> 02:19:50.479
got my curiosity up. Now we
got David out there in San Francisco,

1935
02:19:50.520 --> 02:19:54.120
California. David, or you really
calling me from San Francisco? Good morning,

1936
02:19:54.280 --> 02:20:00.639
Good morning? Hey, you know
why your weather guy give uh?

1937
02:20:00.680 --> 02:20:05.639
He said he was from Alameda and
Burbank and we uh, we have a

1938
02:20:05.719 --> 02:20:09.120
very Short Street, Alameda, But
I don't see a burbank with it,

1939
02:20:09.239 --> 02:20:13.680
so I'm kind of stumped. I
don't know if that qualifies as a three.

1940
02:20:13.840 --> 02:20:16.840
Uh. I think that was Nikki. Uh. She was just saying

1941
02:20:16.879 --> 02:20:20.120
at one time. I think she
had lived out in that area. So's

1942
02:20:20.120 --> 02:20:22.760
she's talking about the palm trees and
how beautiful they are, right yeah,

1943
02:20:22.840 --> 02:20:26.959
yeah, yeah, we've got and
you know, your your tree guys probably

1944
02:20:26.000 --> 02:20:30.040
well aware of this. You know, as the earth is warming up,

1945
02:20:30.360 --> 02:20:35.000
you've got all these invasive cretters and
what used to be you know, normal

1946
02:20:35.040 --> 02:20:39.719
pest control for some cretters is now
added by what you know, the expanding

1947
02:20:39.879 --> 02:20:46.399
territory of migrating bugs and uh.
And trees are able to survive it.

1948
02:20:46.520 --> 02:20:50.520
Some trees are and some trees aren't. So you know, as climate change

1949
02:20:50.639 --> 02:20:54.600
is happening, those trees have got
to move fast because they're going to get

1950
02:20:54.600 --> 02:20:58.520
baked. And yeah, but what
I was wondering about. I was listening

1951
02:20:58.520 --> 02:21:01.760
to one of the Network garden shows
this morning, and they were claiming that

1952
02:21:03.120 --> 02:21:07.440
the trees seem to be in shock
this year and that some of them are

1953
02:21:07.520 --> 02:21:13.120
turning autumn colors, you know,
even before summer happens. They seem to

1954
02:21:13.159 --> 02:21:18.760
be in shock because of this really
changeable weather. And I'm wondering if you're

1955
02:21:18.959 --> 02:21:24.879
you're familiar with the ozone layer that
keeps the ultra violet rays from cookas you

1956
02:21:24.959 --> 02:21:30.600
know, like a microwave. The
ozone layer needs to be a certain amount

1957
02:21:30.639 --> 02:21:35.200
of I'm trying to remember the twenty
mile stick or something like that, and

1958
02:21:35.239 --> 02:21:41.959
so I'm just wondering if this these
tree the erratic behavior of trees right now

1959
02:21:41.559 --> 02:21:46.600
is because they're getting hit with too
much ultraviolet. Well, I tell you

1960
02:21:46.639 --> 02:21:50.000
what, David, you are outside
of Patrick's in my area of expertise at

1961
02:21:50.000 --> 02:21:52.200
that level. But you know,
when you talk about a national story and

1962
02:21:52.239 --> 02:21:56.639
stuff and trees turning colors and things, there's a lot of species, and

1963
02:21:56.719 --> 02:22:01.280
there's a lot of parts of the
country in different things. Here we can

1964
02:22:01.280 --> 02:22:05.040
get into some summer droughts where trees
start to de foliate a little earlier.

1965
02:22:05.280 --> 02:22:09.760
Our cypress are bad about that.
Here you can get some fall color from

1966
02:22:09.840 --> 02:22:13.000
stresses on trees, on trees that
are inclined to fall color, which we

1967
02:22:13.040 --> 02:22:16.879
have very few of here that do
a real great job of fall color.

1968
02:22:16.360 --> 02:22:20.600
But it's going to be a variety
of things, and I just don't know

1969
02:22:20.600 --> 02:22:24.520
how to give a specific answer.
But hey, one last thing you hit

1970
02:22:24.600 --> 02:22:28.559
the woman wondered about the bugs in
her trees. Yes, there's got to

1971
02:22:28.639 --> 02:22:31.959
be some kind of bird or critter
that will eat those things like crazy.

1972
02:22:33.079 --> 02:22:37.280
So just get on the bird hotline
and yeah, I appreciate that. Hey,

1973
02:22:37.319 --> 02:22:39.000
thank you for that. Called David. Yeah, I was out at

1974
02:22:37.959 --> 02:22:43.280
wah Birds the other day. We
were talking about caterpillars and there's actually a

1975
02:22:43.319 --> 02:22:48.280
movement to plant more native trees,
especially oaks, because they host caterpillars.

1976
02:22:48.280 --> 02:22:52.040
And when it comes to birds raising
young and nests a songbirds we love to

1977
02:22:52.040 --> 02:22:56.120
attract. They need caterpillars. They
need that protein and fat source. It's

1978
02:22:56.120 --> 02:23:01.040
not our bird seeds that are keeping
them alive out there. And so if

1979
02:23:01.079 --> 02:23:05.360
we could essentially new call properties throughout
every neighborhood and kill every caterpillar, we'd

1980
02:23:05.360 --> 02:23:09.479
have a big bird problem because that's
what they need. People panic when they

1981
02:23:09.479 --> 02:23:13.360
see a worm on a tree,
but you know, our trees are pretty

1982
02:23:13.399 --> 02:23:18.520
resilient and you don't just have to
have a worm free environment in order for

1983
02:23:18.559 --> 02:23:20.600
them to do. Just find they
especially the native trees. They've lived with

1984
02:23:20.680 --> 02:23:24.760
our native worms for a very long
time and they do well well, Patrick,

1985
02:23:24.840 --> 02:23:30.319
I want to want to We were
talking about some of the things that

1986
02:23:30.360 --> 02:23:33.799
you guys can do in terms of
a service, and you know, picking

1987
02:23:33.799 --> 02:23:37.920
out a beautiful tree and planning it
and things like that. I like one

1988
02:23:37.920 --> 02:23:39.799
of the things I like that you
guys do is you do allow people to

1989
02:23:39.840 --> 02:23:43.760
tag a tree, to pick the
tree they want. So talk about a

1990
02:23:43.799 --> 02:23:46.879
little bit about coming out and maybe
walking through where they can get a look

1991
02:23:46.920 --> 02:23:48.479
at a tree, because you may
say, well, this is a x

1992
02:23:48.600 --> 02:23:54.879
hundred gallon tree on the phone,
but they can't quite get a mindseye picture

1993
02:23:54.920 --> 02:23:58.159
of what an x hundred gallon tree
might actually look like. Sure, so

1994
02:24:00.079 --> 02:24:05.280
yeah, that's why we so perspective
is real hard to be to be transferred

1995
02:24:05.280 --> 02:24:07.760
in a picture. Right. You
can put a cope can or you can

1996
02:24:07.799 --> 02:24:13.879
put a person. But you standing
next to say thirty five foot tree,

1997
02:24:13.239 --> 02:24:18.120
seven hundred gallant tree which we have
on site, standing next to that,

1998
02:24:18.600 --> 02:24:24.479
understanding how big that tree is is. You know, there's nothing I can

1999
02:24:24.559 --> 02:24:28.200
send you a picture of it,
but you're you're not gonna understand that unto

2000
02:24:28.239 --> 02:24:33.959
you're standing underneath it, looking up
at thirty five feet tall. So that's

2001
02:24:35.000 --> 02:24:39.879
where a lot of what we try
to do is get people to the farm

2002
02:24:39.200 --> 02:24:43.200
or to one of our three locations, either in pair Land or in Yale.

2003
02:24:45.159 --> 02:24:46.840
Yale is the youngest out of all
of those, so we're still moving

2004
02:24:46.840 --> 02:24:50.639
a lot of big trees to that
location. But here in the next couple

2005
02:24:50.639 --> 02:24:54.719
of weeks, we'll start to have
a lot of the bigger trees over there,

2006
02:24:54.760 --> 02:24:58.120
a lot of big palms stuff like
that that people will be able to

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02:24:58.120 --> 02:25:03.000
see. But getting people to the
locations and actually getting hands on looking at

2008
02:25:03.040 --> 02:25:09.600
it is what we find the best
way to you know, let somebody understand

2009
02:25:09.680 --> 02:25:13.239
how big is a tree? Yeah, and see it. And you guys

2010
02:25:13.239 --> 02:25:16.559
have huge trees, I mean I
think you go up to seven hundred gallanting

2011
02:25:16.639 --> 02:25:20.840
even do larger than that in certain
situation. That's what you can have on

2012
02:25:20.840 --> 02:25:22.760
on the lot, right, Well, I can have bigger, but the

2013
02:25:24.639 --> 02:25:28.280
need to have a seven hundred gallon
tree. We we don't plant, you

2014
02:25:28.319 --> 02:25:31.479
know, larger than seven hundred gallon
trees very often, so there's no point

2015
02:25:31.479 --> 02:25:33.799
to keeping one on site. And
that's a huge tree. That's a big

2016
02:25:33.840 --> 02:25:37.319
tree. That's there's a lot that
goes into that. There's bracing all the

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02:25:37.360 --> 02:25:41.360
storms that have come in and stuff
like that. You know, we have

2018
02:25:41.479 --> 02:25:45.239
one seven hundred gallantree. We had
two and we just moved one of those

2019
02:25:46.079 --> 02:25:50.159
three weeks ago. It was sold, but it was sold. That tree

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02:25:50.280 --> 02:25:54.520
was sold almost six months ago.
Yeah, the guy wasn't ready for the

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02:25:54.559 --> 02:25:56.239
trees building a house. And that's
what he wanted in is from Wow,

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02:25:56.280 --> 02:26:01.159
what instant pizza? I mean,
he wants something fast. That's that's a

2023
02:26:01.200 --> 02:26:03.600
good way to do it. You
know, you're talking about storms and things

2024
02:26:03.639 --> 02:26:07.639
that we love Affordable Tree service around
here and I know you guys grow them

2025
02:26:07.639 --> 02:26:11.399
and get them planted and stuff,
and then there's the care of them and

2026
02:26:11.719 --> 02:26:13.680
here comes hurricane season. You know, do you got dead limbs in your

2027
02:26:13.680 --> 02:26:16.479
tree? Do you got a tree
limb hanging over your house or your neighbor's

2028
02:26:16.520 --> 02:26:20.799
fence, or or maybe the maserati
they park in the driveway. It might

2029
02:26:20.799 --> 02:26:24.159
be a good idea to have that
limb looked at. Right. Affordable Tree

2030
02:26:24.239 --> 02:26:28.440
does all that and then someone I
mean they do the deep root feeding that

2031
02:26:28.479 --> 02:26:31.959
Patrick was mentioning a little bit earlier. They will come out and they will

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02:26:31.000 --> 02:26:33.799
do that kind of pruning. If
you're going to build a house. If

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02:26:33.799 --> 02:26:37.639
you're going to put a trench in
across the yard, have the folks that

2034
02:26:37.760 --> 02:26:41.000
Affordable Tree Service come out and take
a look at it first, because once

2035
02:26:41.000 --> 02:26:46.600
the damage has been done, it's
often difficult, if not impossible, to

2036
02:26:46.680 --> 02:26:48.639
recover from some of the kinds of
things that can happen. You can go

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02:26:48.680 --> 02:26:52.840
to aff Tree Service dot com or
give Martin and Joe a call seven one

2038
02:26:52.920 --> 02:26:58.120
three, six nine nine twenty six
sixty three. Tell them you're from Garden

2039
02:26:58.159 --> 02:27:01.280
Line. That that get they say
business, and that puts you at the

2040
02:27:01.319 --> 02:27:05.479
front of the line when you're a
guardline customer checking in. If you call

2041
02:27:05.559 --> 02:27:09.280
and you don't hear Martin and Joe
that answer the phone, one of those

2042
02:27:09.280 --> 02:27:13.399
two you've called the wrong place with
Affordable in the name, you just hang

2043
02:27:13.440 --> 02:27:16.680
up. Call again. Seven one
three six nine nine two six six three.

2044
02:27:16.760 --> 02:27:20.920
Don't wait until a storm is bearing
down. Go ahead and get it

2045
02:27:20.959 --> 02:27:26.159
done now. The you know when
when it comes to fertilizing trees, and

2046
02:27:26.280 --> 02:27:30.959
we've got a lot of different things
we can use on planting and stuff.

2047
02:27:31.600 --> 02:27:37.760
Do you guys have any you know, particular regiment you use in terms of

2048
02:27:37.799 --> 02:27:41.440
fertilizing a trap by the way I'm
asking that question with about ten seconds left

2049
02:27:41.440 --> 02:27:46.440
to go. But yes, so
we do sell Nelson's My Food, so

2050
02:27:46.479 --> 02:27:52.120
we sell that. We do sell
a variety of other specific to palm tree

2051
02:27:52.840 --> 02:27:54.280
food. So we have our own
special blending and you just do a top

2052
02:27:54.360 --> 02:27:58.159
dress over the tree and water it
in. Good, we'll put it in,

2053
02:27:58.319 --> 02:28:01.879
and the roots underneath the hole as
well, so we'll put it down.

2054
02:28:01.959 --> 02:28:03.440
Then we'll cover it up with a
little bit of soil because we again

2055
02:28:03.520 --> 02:28:07.799
we talked about we want to entice
those roots. Good. That sounds great.

2056
02:28:07.879 --> 02:28:11.280
Hey, you're listening to garden Line
seven one three two one two fifty

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02:28:11.319 --> 02:28:31.840
eight seventy four. We will be
right back after this break. Well,

2058
02:28:31.920 --> 02:28:35.879
good morning. You're listening to garden
Line on a beautiful Sunday morning and we

2059
02:28:35.000 --> 02:28:41.000
are here talking trees. Now,
we got Patrick from Verdant Tree Farm here

2060
02:28:41.040 --> 02:28:45.719
answering some tree questions. I just
wanted to talk about a place that a

2061
02:28:46.440 --> 02:28:50.280
cause that is very important to me, and that is Star of Hope Mission.

2062
02:28:50.360 --> 02:28:52.600
You probably have heard of Star Hope
Mission. If you see people that

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02:28:52.639 --> 02:28:56.760
are homeless in town on the street
corner and you're thinking, maybe I should

2064
02:28:56.760 --> 02:28:58.760
give him a dollar, but will
that that work will that help them,

2065
02:28:58.760 --> 02:29:01.600
We'll hurt them. You know,
what do I need to do? You're

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02:29:01.680 --> 02:29:05.120
not going to find a better way
to help people in need who are willing

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02:29:05.799 --> 02:29:09.360
to put in the effort to make
a new life for themselves in Star of

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02:29:09.399 --> 02:29:13.319
Hope. Star of Hope has a
place for people to live, where they

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02:29:13.319 --> 02:29:16.680
get training, where they get food, they get education, how to get

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02:29:16.719 --> 02:29:18.879
a job, how to hold a
job. There's clothing available, so you

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02:29:18.920 --> 02:29:22.159
can, you know, get dressed
up and go interview for a job and

2072
02:29:22.200 --> 02:29:26.239
get a chance to get your feet
back under you. Maybe a mom living

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02:29:26.280 --> 02:29:30.399
in a car with your kids and
she just needs a way to get started.

2074
02:29:30.440 --> 02:29:33.280
And when you hit rock bottom,
you you know, there's no bootstraps

2075
02:29:33.319 --> 02:29:37.120
to pull yourself up with. You
need some help to do that. People

2076
02:29:37.159 --> 02:29:41.719
that are willing to put the time
into and to be part of Star of

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02:29:41.799 --> 02:29:46.159
Hope can get everything they need to
get back on their feet. They feed

2078
02:29:46.360 --> 02:29:50.559
six thousand meals a week. Two
dollars and eighty cents will provide a meal

2079
02:29:50.639 --> 02:29:56.319
for somebody. Go to shmission dot
org or if you want more information,

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02:29:56.040 --> 02:30:00.479
mission dot org. You cannot just
provide help for them, you can also

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02:30:00.600 --> 02:30:03.159
volunteer yourself and Star of Hope is
a good cause. I've my wife and

2082
02:30:03.200 --> 02:30:07.000
I've worked for Star of Hope.
Gosh, it's been decades ago since the

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02:30:07.040 --> 02:30:11.479
first time we were involved with Star
Hope. We believe in it and I

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02:30:11.719 --> 02:30:16.280
know the compassion in you wants to
see your money well spent. I promise

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02:30:16.360 --> 02:30:20.360
you it will be at Star of
Hope. We're here answering tree questions today

2086
02:30:20.479 --> 02:30:26.159
and we have a question coming in
Patrick from Jim out in Cyprus. How

2087
02:30:26.200 --> 02:30:28.920
are you doing, Jim, how
can we help? I'm fine, good

2088
02:30:28.959 --> 02:30:33.920
morning morning. Yeah. I've got
a couple of large live oaks and they

2089
02:30:33.959 --> 02:30:39.000
need trimmed pretty bad, and I'm
wondering if I can do that now or

2090
02:30:39.120 --> 02:30:41.520
ash your wait a couple of months
till they're more dormant. You know,

2091
02:30:43.200 --> 02:30:46.000
you can trim a tree anytime.
It's kind of like planning a tree.

2092
02:30:46.040 --> 02:30:48.680
You plant a tree at any time. There's better times and not so good

2093
02:30:48.680 --> 02:30:52.159
times. If they need trimming,
now is the time to get some trimming

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02:30:52.159 --> 02:30:54.239
done. But a good tree service, like the affordable I was talking about,

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02:30:54.600 --> 02:30:58.680
they are not going to just take
eighty percent of the foliage off of

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02:30:58.680 --> 02:31:01.040
a tree at this time. They
know that you can take a little bit,

2097
02:31:01.440 --> 02:31:07.280
you can make a cut here and
there. That's okay, but you

2098
02:31:07.319 --> 02:31:11.399
need somebody who is going to know
how much that you can prune and what

2099
02:31:11.600 --> 02:31:15.959
really needs to be pruned, because
you remember, pruning is permanent in terms

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02:31:16.000 --> 02:31:18.520
of if you screw a tree up
with poor pruning. You know the guy

2101
02:31:18.559 --> 02:31:22.319
that puts a business card in your
door and says I trimmed trees, don't

2102
02:31:22.399 --> 02:31:26.840
use that because when someone knows what
they're doing, the tree gets better and

2103
02:31:26.920 --> 02:31:31.639
more beautiful and stronger over time.
When they don't know what they're doing,

2104
02:31:31.680 --> 02:31:35.680
they actually can make things worse.
And so as far as can you trimm,

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02:31:35.799 --> 02:31:39.040
now, yes you can, but
in a minimal way and only what

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02:31:39.280 --> 02:31:45.200
needs to be trimmed. All right, that helps. I appreciate it,

2107
02:31:45.360 --> 02:31:48.840
all right, Jimp, thank you. I appreciate your call very much.

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02:31:50.840 --> 02:31:54.520
If you have a lawn and you
are looking for the number one organic fertilizer

2109
02:31:54.559 --> 02:32:00.280
in the Greater Houston market, that
would be Microlife Fertilizer. They there's a

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02:32:00.360 --> 02:32:03.639
kind of a double color. It
makes it easy to remember, and that's

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02:32:03.639 --> 02:32:07.159
the green bag and the purple bag. Green bag is a six two four,

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02:32:07.239 --> 02:32:09.280
it's got that three one two ratio, which is what grass needs.

2113
02:32:09.280 --> 02:32:13.479
That's how grass takes up nutrients.
And a three one two or four one

2114
02:32:13.520 --> 02:32:16.799
two ratio, it's got that in
it. The humates plus is the purple

2115
02:32:16.799 --> 02:32:20.639
bag and that is like a concentrated
compost in a bag. And you knew

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02:32:20.639 --> 02:32:24.040
both at the same time. If
you want to find microlife, go to

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02:32:24.200 --> 02:32:30.399
microlife Fertilizer dot com. Pretty much. You know, all the garden centers

2118
02:32:30.440 --> 02:32:33.440
and feed stores and stuff we talk
about here, the ace hardwares and stuff,

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02:32:33.440 --> 02:32:37.000
they all carry the microlife. It's
gonna make it real easy. Look

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02:32:37.040 --> 02:32:39.520
for the green and for the purple. And while you're there, there's a

2121
02:32:39.520 --> 02:32:43.479
whole long line of microlife products that
I don't even have time to mention right

2122
02:32:43.520 --> 02:32:48.680
now, but lots of good products
for feeding your plants, organic fertilizer,

2123
02:32:50.040 --> 02:32:54.159
for making sure that it's gradually released. That's what's going to happen when they

2124
02:32:54.159 --> 02:33:00.159
MICROBILLI can hardly say the word microbili
decompose over time to release those nutrients to

2125
02:33:00.280 --> 02:33:03.799
your plants. Well, that's we're
talking about. Patrick from for damp Tree

2126
02:33:03.559 --> 02:33:07.520
about all kinds of things related to
trees. Today, I've got about eight

2127
02:33:07.520 --> 02:33:11.959
and a half minutes left in this
segment. I'd like to talk to you

2128
02:33:11.000 --> 02:33:16.479
a little bit Patrick, if we
could about some of the tips that you

2129
02:33:16.479 --> 02:33:22.280
would give somebody if they are looking
at you know, are what are some

2130
02:33:22.319 --> 02:33:26.920
of the species I might want you
know? What? Fall colors hard to

2131
02:33:26.920 --> 02:33:30.840
come by here? It's really I
used to always say that the trees that

2132
02:33:30.920 --> 02:33:33.680
produced the best fall color or trees
that means you don't want to plant them,

2133
02:33:33.680 --> 02:33:37.159
And that would be like the Chinese
tallow tree, for example. The

2134
02:33:37.239 --> 02:33:41.840
sweet gum tree here in town is
a pretty tough one to have success with

2135
02:33:41.959 --> 02:33:46.239
unless you've got just the right kind
of soil for it. And and there

2136
02:33:46.239 --> 02:33:48.159
are of course other examples. But
do you have any tips, Like you

2137
02:33:48.239 --> 02:33:52.920
got some red oaks you particularly like
or that might give a little fall color

2138
02:33:52.000 --> 02:33:54.799
in the right kind of time,
or do you have some other kinds of

2139
02:33:54.840 --> 02:33:58.639
trees that you think, you know
what this ought to be planted more.

2140
02:33:58.799 --> 02:34:03.319
I kind of like this one.
Well, um, you know, one

2141
02:34:03.360 --> 02:34:09.000
of the trees that I kind I
enjoy I like is the Mexican sycamore.

2142
02:34:09.159 --> 02:34:13.319
I like that tree. It's a
little bit more hardy, you can stick

2143
02:34:13.319 --> 02:34:16.479
it in a little bit more of
a wetter environment too wet, but a

2144
02:34:16.520 --> 02:34:20.239
little bit more wetter, not quite
like a bald cypress. So, but

2145
02:34:20.360 --> 02:34:24.639
it's a it's a great tree.
Um. The red oaks are awesome.

2146
02:34:26.040 --> 02:34:30.440
They're great, um for the Houston
area. Um. You know, with

2147
02:34:30.520 --> 02:34:33.399
the weather change, you know,
we're kind of shifting from carrying a lot

2148
02:34:33.399 --> 02:34:37.920
of blueberries. I do carry blueberries, and I still carry bottlebrush, but

2149
02:34:37.959 --> 02:34:46.319
we're shifting to the hollies. Okay, the hollies are just becoming your go

2150
02:34:46.440 --> 02:34:48.600
too. Yeah. I was out
visiting with you about that a good while

2151
02:34:48.600 --> 02:34:52.920
back. And there's the Savannah holly, there's Oakland, all kinds of hollies.

2152
02:34:54.040 --> 02:34:56.680
What would you say, or two
or three of the hollies you think?

2153
02:34:56.799 --> 02:34:58.760
Or these are? You know,
if you're just gonna go with a

2154
02:34:58.760 --> 02:35:01.600
holly, you can't go wrong here. This is pretty good, pretty good

2155
02:35:01.600 --> 02:35:05.120
option. Any suggestions? Well,
uh, so the Eagleston Holly and then

2156
02:35:05.120 --> 02:35:11.280
Nellie Stevens hollies tend to be the
two trees that are really awesome. Okay,

2157
02:35:11.319 --> 02:35:16.120
Eagleson and Nellie Stevens. All right, and uh what's the difference between

2158
02:35:16.120 --> 02:35:20.040
those? Basically the same size,
basically the same features. Well, so

2159
02:35:20.079 --> 02:35:22.680
the Nellie Stevens is going to be
a harder leaf plant. Okay, So

2160
02:35:22.719 --> 02:35:26.120
if you tape your hand and you
kind of brush it in, you're gonna

2161
02:35:26.120 --> 02:35:28.360
poke yourself a little a little bit
when you do that, and it's gonna

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02:35:28.360 --> 02:35:33.479
be a darker green and it's gonna
be glossy. Okay. The eagleson Hollie

2163
02:35:33.520 --> 02:35:37.319
is going to be a little bit
lighter green to that, and you can

2164
02:35:37.360 --> 02:35:39.760
take your hand and throw it in
there. You can fall into it.

2165
02:35:39.760 --> 02:35:46.079
It's not gonna poke you or hurt
you. M The eagleson Hollie tends to

2166
02:35:46.079 --> 02:35:52.159
be a little bit of a faster
grower. M yeah. And it's both

2167
02:35:52.159 --> 02:35:56.639
are shapable, but if you accidentally
oops with the Nellie, it's gonna take

2168
02:35:56.639 --> 02:35:58.959
it a little bit longer for that
to recover. People can often call they

2169
02:36:00.079 --> 02:36:03.639
want a big screen, and hollies
are evergreen. You plant them at the

2170
02:36:03.719 --> 02:36:07.440
right spacing and you can make a
nice wall about how do you estimate,

2171
02:36:07.559 --> 02:36:11.639
you know, let's say you know
a holly, a particular variety your species

2172
02:36:11.719 --> 02:36:15.440
is gonna get you know, ten
feet wide or whatever. How far apart

2173
02:36:15.479 --> 02:36:18.520
would you plant those in order to
have a good screen. You plant them

2174
02:36:18.520 --> 02:36:20.680
close. You got a screen fast
plan them far. You got to wait

2175
02:36:20.680 --> 02:36:24.319
a little bit, but they'd rather
be a little further apart. So how

2176
02:36:24.319 --> 02:36:28.559
do you decide so well so that
the customer decides that. So we educate

2177
02:36:28.600 --> 02:36:33.280
the customer in these cases, we
educate them. Look, you could plant

2178
02:36:33.319 --> 02:36:37.559
them as close as four or five
six feet if you wanted to. That.

2179
02:36:37.600 --> 02:36:39.280
It's going to get you foliage closer. Okay, but you're going to

2180
02:36:39.319 --> 02:36:43.600
need to make sure that you're on
your maintenance with your fertilizer because one's going

2181
02:36:43.639 --> 02:36:45.959
to steal from the other. Yeah, they become weeds to each other,

2182
02:36:46.120 --> 02:36:50.319
right, so one could overtake the
other grow significantly bigger. So you've got

2183
02:36:50.319 --> 02:36:52.920
to be on top of that.
You've got to feed it. You got

2184
02:36:52.920 --> 02:36:56.120
to be there, you know,
as I tell customers, you got to

2185
02:36:56.120 --> 02:37:00.319
have your coffee, you know,
underneath it hugged before you go to bed,

2186
02:37:00.440 --> 02:37:03.200
tuck it in stuff, talk to
it. Yeah. So um,

2187
02:37:03.959 --> 02:37:09.360
but it's it's important to understand what
the customers trying to do, and so

2188
02:37:09.440 --> 02:37:13.000
we try to educate them on too
close, too far? What are you

2189
02:37:13.000 --> 02:37:16.479
going to get time? Right?
You're saving time? Yeah, and then

2190
02:37:16.479 --> 02:37:20.879
you have the quantity of tree,
so your price goes up costs more to

2191
02:37:20.920 --> 02:37:24.920
plant more. So you know,
we work with the customer on what what's

2192
02:37:24.920 --> 02:37:28.360
their budget, and then we give
them this is what we would think we

2193
02:37:28.399 --> 02:37:30.879
would you know, in those circumstances, this is what I would do.

2194
02:37:31.040 --> 02:37:33.879
And Holly's a tree that definitely needs
to be watered when they're young getting established,

2195
02:37:33.959 --> 02:37:37.239
but it also doesn't want to be
in a swamp like you're talking about

2196
02:37:37.280 --> 02:37:41.799
with palms earlier. That they are
not tolerant of very saggy, so either

2197
02:37:41.719 --> 02:37:46.479
kind of a raised mound area to
drain away some surface water, but just

2198
02:37:46.479 --> 02:37:50.040
just kind of be careful with those. I had one customer, yeah that

2199
02:37:50.920 --> 02:37:58.000
I love the Hollies, um the
real quick. I know we're running out

2200
02:37:58.040 --> 02:38:00.559
of time. One of the things
that I did want to just popped in

2201
02:38:00.600 --> 02:38:03.440
my head. I want to mention
to people, when you're removing these palm

2202
02:38:03.479 --> 02:38:11.120
trees, for us to come in, please please please call us, give

2203
02:38:11.200 --> 02:38:15.159
us the opportunity we do. We
can do removals, okay, on the

2204
02:38:15.200 --> 02:38:18.440
palms. I don't usually do a
lot of tree removals, but here's the

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reason why I like to do removals
on palm trees, because you're gonna you're

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gonna go talk to somebody. They're
canna say, oh yeah, we're gonna

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cut it down. We're gonna stump
grind it. Don't stump grind the palm

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tree. Leave me a stump so
I can pull it out because I can

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dig around and pull the whole rup
all out, versus and digging the whole

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four foot rup all out. And
so when you do that, would you

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can you put another tree right back
in if you take it out like you

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just said, not stump ground,
but pulled out. Absolutely, that's a

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good idea. That's a question we
often get about trees. Well, Patrick,

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it is so nice to have you
come in today, your wealth of

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information. It's good to hear from
me. I love to get, you

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know, callers, an opportunity to
be able to talk to somebody like yourself

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and just really appreciate it. Thank
you for thank you, Bye, Thanks

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for mine. Folks. You got
the location out there on Barker Cypress.

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By the way, I used to
be in the Bear Creek office when I

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worked in Houston for a while before
the second flood took that office out.

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You know what I'm talking about.
Y'all are down there in Paarland on Broadway

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West Broadway, and you were up
in the heights where Yale Streets comes into

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I tune. Thanks for being here, Thank you, Goodbye.