WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.320 Kat r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:11.160 advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's 3 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:35.079 crazy trim. Just watch him as we may give teas the suprasy gas bag 4 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:43.600 not a sign India gas You well, good Sunday morning, and I'd like 5 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:46.799 to be the first to wish you happy Daisy Day. Yes, today is 6 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:52.439 National Daisy Day. Well, uh, that's a cause for celebration. I 7 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:56.200 hope you're planning a party at your house and gathering all your gardening friends. 8 00:00:56.679 --> 00:00:59.759 Hey, you're listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, 9 00:00:59.880 --> 00:01:03.920 and we're here to answer gardening questions. That's what this is all about. 10 00:01:03.159 --> 00:01:06.920 If you would like to ask a question, give us a call. Seven 11 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.719 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two 12 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:17.359 five eight seven four. Boy, the elephant in the room this week has 13 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:21.200 been the rain. It has rained, and it has rained and has range. 14 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:23.400 It's rained a lot. I was telling yesterday, I was talking to 15 00:01:23.439 --> 00:01:27.200 folks up at Anti grosing Forium up north, just north of Brunham and Independence, 16 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:30.480 and they had fourteen inches a lot of folks around. Even as you 17 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.519 go a little south of Houston, we're in the five six some some places 18 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:38.680 four inches of rain. That's a lot of rain. It's a lot of 19 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:42.599 rain. And whenever we have a lot of rain, well, we have 20 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:48.239 a problem with standing water. Plants don't like wet feet. Now, there 21 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:53.560 are a few plants that can take soggy soil conditions, but most plants want 22 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:57.079 good drainage, or they do best with good drainage. And so when that 23 00:01:57.200 --> 00:01:59.400 happens, you got to do something to fix it. And I put a 24 00:01:59.400 --> 00:02:02.200 Facebook post on garden Line Facebook if you if you haven't, if you don't 25 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:07.120 follow garden Line on Facebook, you ought to just just go hun us down 26 00:02:07.200 --> 00:02:10.560 at garden Line and put a post up about five things that you can do 27 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:15.919 when you have poor drainage in an area, and one of them is to 28 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:22.199 have somebody come in and re route that water fix the problem. There's a 29 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:25.639 number of ways we can do that. You might have down spouts that are 30 00:02:27.319 --> 00:02:30.159 pouring all the water into this one spot where it tends to stand, and 31 00:02:30.199 --> 00:02:34.960 you can look up things at the bottom of the down spout to redirect that 32 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:38.080 water. You can move the water directly from the down spout into an underground 33 00:02:38.479 --> 00:02:44.240 drainage pipe. Something like a French drain can also be used where you have 34 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:49.439 perforated pipe in a wet area and it works opposite. Some of you remember 35 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:55.199 how the old septic systems worked, where you know, the sewer the equivalent 36 00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:59.439 of the sewer went out into what they call a drain field or a leech 37 00:02:59.479 --> 00:03:02.319 field, and there were pipes with holes in it and it leaks out into 38 00:03:02.360 --> 00:03:07.080 the soil out in that area. So you're moving the water from inside the 39 00:03:07.080 --> 00:03:12.360 house out into the soil in the field or in the area around the home. 40 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.039 Well. A French drain works the opposite of that same setup. You've 41 00:03:16.039 --> 00:03:20.400 got pipes with holes in them, but this time it's taking the water that's 42 00:03:20.400 --> 00:03:23.439 standing there and it seeps down into the drain and then drains out to a 43 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:28.240 lower spot. And pierce scapes can do that for you. Pear scapes can 44 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:30.639 do pretty much anything you need to do in your landscape, but they're very 45 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:36.159 good at taking an area that's wet and finding a way to drain that water 46 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:38.759 away. You can redirect water, or you can drain the water that's gathering 47 00:03:38.840 --> 00:03:43.919 there, and pier scapes can do exactly that. Some of your properties, 48 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:47.800 though you have a low area and there's no area that's lower to drain it 49 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.199 to, you know, to have it go into a pipe in the ground, 50 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.159 it's got to go off somewhere where gravity can take it to a lower 51 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:57.879 area. And if you don't have that, pier Scapes can come in. 52 00:03:57.919 --> 00:04:00.319 They put in a little box with a pump that whenever water. When that 53 00:04:00.360 --> 00:04:04.479 box fills with water, physically pumps it out even uphill off to another area 54 00:04:04.520 --> 00:04:08.960 where it gets it off your property. And however you want to go about 55 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.759 it, just let them come in. Don't delay on this. I guarantee 56 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.120 you right now, a lot of people are going, hey, folks, 57 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.839 help me with the drainage. Get an appointment. Call them up at two 58 00:04:17.920 --> 00:04:21.680 eight one, three, seven fifty sixty. While they're out there, you 59 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:27.399 can also ask them take a look at irrigation systems to set up a time 60 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:31.839 to come do that. You probably have some broken irrigation heads here and there, 61 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:36.360 misaligned heads, just systems that aren't designed well. Unfortunately, way too 62 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:43.360 many irrigation systems are really inefficiently designed, and Pierce Caapes can fix that. 63 00:04:43.519 --> 00:04:46.879 Of course, they do a lot of other things go on the website Piercescapes 64 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:51.399 dot com. Piercescapes dot com. I want you to take a look at 65 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:57.519 some of the jobs that they've done on outdoor patios and barbecue areas and outdoor 66 00:04:57.600 --> 00:05:00.720 lighting. It's an outdoor water feature. They can do it all there at 67 00:05:00.720 --> 00:05:04.360 Puerscapes. Right now, the name of the game is how do you get 68 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:10.000 rid of water? All right? Well, you know, in agriculture, 69 00:05:10.000 --> 00:05:14.519 if you're farmer, rancher, and certainly in gardening too, it seems like 70 00:05:14.560 --> 00:05:16.639 we're either complaining about too much water or not enough water. You know, 71 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:19.879 it's like, oh, it's so dry and rained in ages. And then 72 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:24.839 now we're going really, I mean, are we going to have fourteen inches 73 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:27.639 of rainfall? What are we going to do with that? I would like 74 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:32.800 to put thirteen of them in a big bucket and draw from that in July 75 00:05:32.879 --> 00:05:38.399 and August when we definitely will need it. But unfortunately we don't have that 76 00:05:38.480 --> 00:05:43.120 option to be able to be able to do just that. Oh well, 77 00:05:43.240 --> 00:05:46.000 look at this weekend, we've been talking about all the rain. But did 78 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:50.800 you see yesterday I was out at the in for Ben County at their Bresis 79 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:55.560 home and garden show out there, and thanks to everybody that came out. 80 00:05:55.639 --> 00:05:59.759 Boy, you guys wore me out. That a lot of questions and we 81 00:05:59.800 --> 00:06:04.000 had a really good time out there. But you know, you're out and 82 00:06:04.079 --> 00:06:08.800 about and the gardening fever is starting to hit people because we had a good 83 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:10.480 day out there. By the way, it's a little bit of cloudy, 84 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:14.560 but it wasn't rainy today. The sun is going to shine and that is 85 00:06:14.600 --> 00:06:17.839 the day to get outside and enjoy the garden. I hope this afternoon you'll 86 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:24.199 consider getting out and getting just enjoys. Maybe just a walk through initially, 87 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:28.959 walk through the landscape, look at things. What do you want to change, 88 00:06:29.040 --> 00:06:31.399 Where do you need more color? This is a good thing to do 89 00:06:31.959 --> 00:06:38.040 sooner rather than later. What beds have just not performed. Maybe you need 90 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:42.759 to spruce up the soil with some additional bed mix to raise that level up 91 00:06:42.839 --> 00:06:46.920 for better drainage, and to add all that additional composted material in the soil. 92 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:51.199 You know, compost goes away, it eventually heads down toward humus, 93 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.000 so you can have a nice let's say, have a bed a foot high. 94 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.920 It's not going to be a foot high two years from now or three 95 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:01.759 years from now, it's just going to continue to oxidize down, so we're 96 00:07:01.759 --> 00:07:10.120 always sprucing it up. Maybe you've got areas where plants struggle in soggy conditions, 97 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:14.319 and so the question to ask there is, well, why not some 98 00:07:14.399 --> 00:07:16.720 different plants? Why not something that likes to grow in a bog or a 99 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:21.800 swamp. There are plants like that. That's another option. Maybe you have 100 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:27.040 thought about gardening in terms of a vegetable garden, but you've never done it 101 00:07:27.040 --> 00:07:30.759 before and you just kind of put it off. Why not this year, 102 00:07:30.879 --> 00:07:32.399 get you a bed like a vago bed or something, put it on the 103 00:07:32.399 --> 00:07:36.720 ground, fill a full of quality mix, and literally in a few hours 104 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:42.000 you were ready to go in garden. I mean that is like quick turnkey 105 00:07:42.120 --> 00:07:46.800 right there. What new are you going to grow this year? What new 106 00:07:46.879 --> 00:07:50.000 plant? What new kind of gardening? Have you had a garden that you've 107 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:55.199 never had trellises in and you'd like to bring things up vertically? What are 108 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:57.879 you going to do different this year? Let's talk about that some today. 109 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:00.839 Hey, we're going to take a break right now and i'll be back, 110 00:08:00.879 --> 00:08:03.480 and our phone number in the meantime if you'd like to get on the boards 111 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:09.600 is seven to one to three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Welcome 112 00:08:09.639 --> 00:08:13.519 back to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter. Let's talk gardening. 113 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:16.360 What's of interest to you? Give us? Call it seven one three 114 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:22.079 two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was just talking before break about 115 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:26.800 trying some new things, and uh, at our house, whether we have 116 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:31.879 been watching a lot of cooking shows. I don't know if you've I normally 117 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:35.240 and not a watch cooking shows guy, but uh uh, you know, 118 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:41.399 my wife and daughters and stuff are all into watching these various cooking shows, 119 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:43.000 and some of them are quite amusing. But one thing, the reason I'm 120 00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:48.879 bringing this up is it was a show that I won't mention specific shows, 121 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:52.240 but where they were talking about decorating a plate and that you know, they 122 00:08:52.320 --> 00:08:56.960 use a little drizzles swinging back and forth across the plate and setting a little 123 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:03.320 tiny flower pedal in a certain spot. It was quite amusing. Anyway, 124 00:09:03.200 --> 00:09:07.480 they're using flower petals and doing some decorating with it, and it just reminded 125 00:09:07.519 --> 00:09:11.399 me that a lot of flower petals are edible. And so when you think 126 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:15.720 about a salad, you know, do you want to just have iceberg lettuce, 127 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:22.080 slice of cucumbers, slices of cucumbers, and maybe some chunks of tomato. 128 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.240 Is that a salad? That's that's the salad I grew up with, 129 00:09:24.320 --> 00:09:30.279 But that's not the salad I eat now. Lots of wonderful, flavorful greens 130 00:09:30.799 --> 00:09:35.320 that can really flavor up that salad. And then you add things like edible 131 00:09:35.320 --> 00:09:39.600 flowers that have a really real beauty to them in it. It really stands 132 00:09:39.600 --> 00:09:43.159 out. You can do, you know, pansies or an edible flour. 133 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:48.279 There are squash blossoms from the vegetable gardener, an edible flour, there's a 134 00:09:48.320 --> 00:09:52.559 lot of them out there. But always when you're going to use a flour 135 00:09:52.720 --> 00:09:54.919 for a salad or for food, always make sure it hadn't been sprayed with 136 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.480 a pesticide. You don't want to eat something that just got sprayed with a 137 00:09:58.519 --> 00:10:03.720 pesta side and so just kind of be a little careful with that. But 138 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:09.000 colendula is another one. Plants for all seasons had a bunch of colendulas out 139 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:13.600 showing off there on their tables and it just reminded me about colndila. Colondila 140 00:10:13.639 --> 00:10:15.960 grows through the cool season. You can use it in fall, winter, 141 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.039 and spring here, and it's primarily it's kind of like marigolds, and that 142 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:22.720 it comes. By the way, Miragoles is another edible flower. It comes 143 00:10:22.759 --> 00:10:28.679 in orange and yellow blooms, and they're very attractive, but it really is. 144 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:33.600 In fact, I believe pop marigold is one of the names for colendula, 145 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:35.960 and I think about it, but it would it'd be very attractive. 146 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:39.320 So imagine you're creating a beautiful old flower. You're having a dinner at your 147 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:43.919 house or something. You're creating a beautiful salad and adding a little bit of 148 00:10:43.279 --> 00:10:48.840 edible unusual things like that. How about making sure your garden always has some 149 00:10:50.519 --> 00:10:54.600 herbs and flowers and things that can be used for decoration. I enjoy doing 150 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:58.919 that myself. I think it adds flavored, adds interest, and yeah, 151 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:03.720 so speaking of plants for all seasons. It's one of those garden centers. 152 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.320 They're there just north of Luetta on Highway two forty nine. If you're going 153 00:11:07.559 --> 00:11:09.080 let's say you're heading up toward tom Ball, it's on the right hand side. 154 00:11:09.159 --> 00:11:13.639 You cross over Luetta and it's right there, and it's one of those 155 00:11:13.679 --> 00:11:18.039 garden centers that you go in and you know you're going to get service, 156 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.399 and you know you're going to have knowledgeable folks, and you know you're going 157 00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:26.080 to get plants that belong here. Now, that combination, as I like 158 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:28.120 to say, that's worth the price of admission. I mean that to not 159 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.440 go home with some plant that hasn't been taken care of, that it shouldn't 160 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:35.639 need to be planted here. And then people that don't know what to tell 161 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:37.279 you other than green side up. You know, there's a lot of these 162 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.960 box stores and whatnot that are not really mom and pop garden centers, and 163 00:11:43.279 --> 00:11:48.120 sometimes the best advice you can get is well, put the green side up 164 00:11:48.120 --> 00:11:50.960 when you plant it. Well, that's not going to happen. At Plants 165 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:52.960 for All Seasons, they know what they're talking about. You can take pictures 166 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.399 in there, say what's wrong with this plant? Or hey, I saw 167 00:11:56.440 --> 00:11:58.440 this in a neighbor's yard. Do you have any of these here? And 168 00:11:58.440 --> 00:12:01.559 they'll tell you. And they're going to carry a wide variety of things. 169 00:12:01.600 --> 00:12:05.320 It's just as easy as that. Go to Plants for All Seasons dot com 170 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:11.399 or call them two eight one three seven six one six four six, and 171 00:12:11.440 --> 00:12:15.960 while you're out there, grab some of those edible colendulars. Do a little 172 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:20.639 search learn about some of the other flowers that are there. Today's theme is 173 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:26.399 try something new. This is an exciting gardening season. I'm really pumped. 174 00:12:26.440 --> 00:12:28.919 I'm telling you. I'm sitting there and it's been raining all week, and 175 00:12:30.120 --> 00:12:33.320 I am on my computer. I'm looking at stuff, you know, just 176 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:37.200 checking out this new thing here, or make a list of edible flowers to 177 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:41.120 grow in the garden this year. I'm working on the plants that I have 178 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:46.600 indoors, and I'm starting from seed a little. Tomato plants are up doing 179 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:48.120 pretty good right now. I've got some of about four inches high. I 180 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:52.000 got leaves on them, and they're doing well. By the way, here's 181 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:58.639 a tip. If you're going to grow vegetables indoors in a still air environment, 182 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:03.559 you need to move them around to strengthen the stems. In nature, 183 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:09.639 wind moves plants, and the bending and stretching and twisting makes the stems, 184 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:15.639 whether it's a young tree's trunk or whether it is a new seedling, makes 185 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:20.360 them stronger. And so my tomatoes and my peppers and other things that I'm 186 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:24.600 growing indoors about twice a day. However, many times I walk by. 187 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:28.799 I'll just take my hands and with my fingers just sort of I don't know 188 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:31.279 how to describe it, tickle the tops of the plants. Just wiggle them 189 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.440 around. Brush your hands over the top and just bend them around a little 190 00:13:33.440 --> 00:13:35.960 bit. I mean, you don't have to, you know, manhandle them, 191 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:41.720 just move them around. Some people one of my daughters uses a little 192 00:13:41.720 --> 00:13:46.679 fan that oscillates, and as it goes by the plants, it moves the 193 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:50.960 stem and then goes on and comes back as an oscillating fan, and that's 194 00:13:50.960 --> 00:13:54.080 what she uses to strengthen her stems. I just like to go out and 195 00:13:54.120 --> 00:13:58.639 pet the plants. So think about maybe growing some transplants yourself. But that's 196 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:03.639 one way. Good life is absolutely first importance. But just moving the stems 197 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.840 is one way you can do that. And if you want to be, 198 00:14:09.360 --> 00:14:13.759 let's say, the horticultural cliff claven remember that guy from Cheers. If you're 199 00:14:13.759 --> 00:14:18.960 going to be the horticultural cliff Clavern of your neighborhood and among all your friends, 200 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:22.720 write this down. Big mo morphogenesis, that's your nerd alert for the 201 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:28.480 day. Big moo morphogenesis is a slow developmental change in a plant subjected to 202 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:33.480 continuous mechanical stress. That's a fancy way to say when the plant, when 203 00:14:33.519 --> 00:14:39.360 the plant bends, it gets stronger. Like we go work our muscles out 204 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:41.399 right, you wear them out at the gym, and what happens, They 205 00:14:41.440 --> 00:14:48.480 get stronger and stronger plants the same mechanism in life, big mo morphogenesis. 206 00:14:48.480 --> 00:14:52.120 You can thank me later. Your friends will not appreciate me later, that's 207 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:58.039 for sure. I was out by a Spring Creek feed store which is up 208 00:14:58.039 --> 00:15:03.679 in Magnolia on FM eight, stopping in and visiting with the folks there and 209 00:15:05.200 --> 00:15:09.480 Kelly and the others, and they have a great stock of all the fertilizers 210 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:13.799 I talk about they have. They also have a little bulk seed area where 211 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:18.039 you can get scoops of seed, and those scoops of seed are the most 212 00:15:18.120 --> 00:15:20.759 economical way to buy seed. Seed packets are great. I buy seed package 213 00:15:20.799 --> 00:15:26.000 all the time. But if you're just looking for what is the most economical 214 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.000 way to get seed, it's to go to a place a feedstore place like 215 00:15:28.399 --> 00:15:33.879 Sprint Creek Feed that has these little bulk containers and they have little tiny scoops 216 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.080 you buy hard money seed you want. It's very economical, and they've got 217 00:15:37.120 --> 00:15:41.919 it there. They've got the products that control weeds and diseases and insects and 218 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:46.600 so on. Of course, they've got pet food and livestock food, hay 219 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:50.759 and shaving and bedding and all kinds of things like that. Sprint Creek Feed 220 00:15:50.840 --> 00:15:54.279 is on FM twenty nine seventy eight, just minutes away really from Graham Parkway 221 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:58.759 Highway to forty nine, and they will deliver. So give them a call, 222 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:02.919 come out, say hi when you go by there, And boy, 223 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:07.360 they are just about to get a lot of new plants and supplies in. 224 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.559 Really, this is a season where our great garden centers and feed stores and 225 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:15.360 others like that are just on the verge of some big shipments. Everywhere I've 226 00:16:15.399 --> 00:16:21.320 gone and talked to our sponsors, it's like, yeah, the trucks are 227 00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:23.679 about to be crawling all over this place. So I'm excited about that. 228 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:27.840 I can't wait to get pick out and see that kind of thing. I 229 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:33.200 love going out and seeing new things. That's one of the things that I 230 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:40.039 think is just the best, the coolest about gardening is the learning process is 231 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:44.639 the wonder process. You know, you get in there and you learn something 232 00:16:44.679 --> 00:16:48.279 new, you try something new. That's the motto for today, try something 233 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:53.799 new, and there is so much to see, and sometimes it's just stopping 234 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:59.759 and smelling the roses. Have you ever grown a passion buying there's several types 235 00:16:59.799 --> 00:17:03.320 of row really well here and then studied the flower. I mean, just 236 00:17:03.360 --> 00:17:07.880 sit there a minute and just look at it and look at the intricacies that 237 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:15.400 the incredible beauty and design and order and everything in creation is just amazing and 238 00:17:15.680 --> 00:17:18.599 something like a passion flower. If you really are observant, you could literally 239 00:17:18.599 --> 00:17:23.480 sit there for fifteen minutes just looking at it and learning and just being amazed 240 00:17:23.559 --> 00:17:26.839 more and more at how intricate it is. You know, we get busy 241 00:17:26.839 --> 00:17:30.440 in life and we just zip by things and we kind of half see them, 242 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:33.480 and we sort of become blind even to our own landscapes. You know, 243 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:37.359 you're going in and going out each day and have the driveway, and 244 00:17:37.759 --> 00:17:41.680 you're just not noticing things that are out there. I think it's good to 245 00:17:41.880 --> 00:17:45.920 whether they say stop and smell the ros isn't it? Yes? Indeed, 246 00:17:45.960 --> 00:17:49.480 to stop and smell and observe the roses too. You can learn a lot 247 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:53.599 from that. So that's what we're talking about, learning or trying something new, 248 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:56.720 that's the theme of the show today. I normally don't have themes. 249 00:17:56.759 --> 00:18:00.279 That's the thing that we have a theme trying something new? Yep. Have 250 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:04.400 you never grown roses out? Roses, herbs in a windowsill? Have you 251 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:08.759 never grown roses in your landscape? Have you ever tried a climbing rose over 252 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:14.680 an arborer? A something new this year? There's a bizillion things out there 253 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:17.160 that you can do. Yeah, yeah, And it doesn't matter what you 254 00:18:17.319 --> 00:18:18.640 like or some people are like I don't care for herbs. I don't like 255 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.759 herbs. Other people live for herbs, right, whatever it is, Try 256 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.440 something new, yes, because not only will they grow, so will you? 257 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.319 There you go? How about planting things that bring in butterflies and birds? 258 00:18:30.400 --> 00:18:33.960 Oh? Yeah, wouldn't that be cool? You got an outdoor, 259 00:18:33.000 --> 00:18:37.640 you're sitting on your patio and looking around and just a whole new thing to 260 00:18:37.799 --> 00:18:40.079 enjoy. You got it? All? Right? Well, there we go. 261 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:42.680 We're about to take a break here and turn the microphone over to Nikki 262 00:18:42.759 --> 00:18:48.240 for the news. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty 263 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:51.599 eight seventy four. When we come back, Tracy, you're gonna be our 264 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:53.680 first up. But we invite you to call get on the board with Josh 265 00:18:53.680 --> 00:19:00.359 and we'll talk to you after that. Yeah, there we go. There's 266 00:19:00.400 --> 00:19:03.799 the horticultural Cliff Cliffing of the neighborhood. I always got to kick out of 267 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:08.759 out of Cliff. He was the expert on everything, a legend in his 268 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:12.400 own mind. As they say. Anyway, you're listening to garden Line. 269 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:18.119 Welcome to the show. Seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 270 00:19:18.279 --> 00:19:21.279 We're going to now go out to Liberty and I'm going to talk to 271 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:23.599 Tracy if I can find the button. There we go, Hey Tracy, 272 00:19:25.880 --> 00:19:30.759 good morning Skip. I've got a quick question about booginvillias. Is it gonna 273 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:33.799 hurt to hit him with the Nelson's plant food this time of year. No, 274 00:19:34.119 --> 00:19:37.119 it won't hurt at all. I bet they won't accomplish a lot immediately. 275 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:41.440 They're not going to want to grow till it warms up. But the 276 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:45.599 fertilizers my question. Yeah, the fertilizer in the soil is not going to 277 00:19:45.680 --> 00:19:49.079 make the boogainvillia grow in winter. You see what I'm saying. When the 278 00:19:49.119 --> 00:19:53.160 temperature is right, it'll start growing and you'll you'll have the nutrients there. 279 00:19:53.680 --> 00:19:56.319 So it's up to you, and they're going to fertilized an hour later. 280 00:19:56.759 --> 00:20:03.079 But I just don't overdo it. Don't overdo it. I don't normally do 281 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:06.519 it until it warms up. But you know, after our little cool snap, 282 00:20:06.599 --> 00:20:11.400 they lost all their little pretty pretty color and I was trying to get 283 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:14.880 them to maybe do a little bit. But you say it's not going to 284 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:18.480 until it gets warm. Yeah, it's it's not now. The temperature controls 285 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:23.599 a lot of biological processes, including up taking nutrients and movement through the plant 286 00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:29.200 and growth and all that. So yeah, either way, but it's not 287 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:33.039 gonna it's not going to speed it up a lot. Okay, all right, 288 00:20:33.200 --> 00:20:34.160 you have a good day, Ski. Well, enjoy those moving. 289 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:37.160 Hey, by the way, these in containers that you have since you're up 290 00:20:37.200 --> 00:20:41.279 in Liberty, I suspect they are, Yes, sir, they're in container 291 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:45.599 excuse me, and containers where I can move them in and out dearing the 292 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.480 cold. Good are very good. Well, glad to hear it. Enjoy 293 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:53.359 those, Tracy, and thank you for calling. Thank you you have you 294 00:20:53.440 --> 00:21:00.119 as well. Well. We are we are here today talking about well, 295 00:21:00.160 --> 00:21:03.680 let's see, the theme today is try something new. The theme today is 296 00:21:03.720 --> 00:21:10.039 try something new. So what does that mean. That means I encourage you. 297 00:21:10.079 --> 00:21:12.000 I'd say I challenge you, but that's corny. I encourage you this 298 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:18.160 year to do something you've not done before in gardening, because gardening is a 299 00:21:18.359 --> 00:21:22.720 world of wonder. I'm telling you there are literally a bazillion that's an actual 300 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:26.759 number. It's even more than a trillion, by the way. They're literally 301 00:21:26.799 --> 00:21:33.599 a bazillion things that you can do in gardening to try something new. Okay, 302 00:21:33.440 --> 00:21:37.839 let me give you an example. Have you ever tried planting herbs and 303 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:41.000 containers? Have you ever put herbs at the end of your vegetable garden rows? 304 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.839 You can do that. Have you ever used trailing herbs like time and 305 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:49.799 oregano and marjoram? Have you ever used those as a groundcover around plants? 306 00:21:51.200 --> 00:21:55.240 Have you ever done a row of like chives as a border around a bed? 307 00:21:55.480 --> 00:21:59.079 Yeah, you can do that absolutely. Why not try six new flowers 308 00:21:59.079 --> 00:22:03.240 that attract butterfly and hummingbirds this year. It's easy. There's lots of beautiful 309 00:22:03.279 --> 00:22:10.160 options. Add some butterfly attracting flowers to your landscape out where you can sit 310 00:22:10.240 --> 00:22:14.160 and enjoy them by the patio or something like that. How about putting in 311 00:22:14.240 --> 00:22:18.359 drip irrigation and a faucet timer to make watering easier. You know, remember 312 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.519 last summer, Yeah, we do, well, how about this summer having 313 00:22:22.519 --> 00:22:25.119 a timer? Then you can tell it. I want you to come on 314 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:26.160 three days a week. I want you to come on every day. I 315 00:22:26.160 --> 00:22:29.039 want you to come on twice a day. I want you to water for 316 00:22:29.079 --> 00:22:30.680 this long. You got a little faucet timers you can buy that, do 317 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:33.519 that and it just takes care of it. I have to have that for 318 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:38.200 my containers because I just forget to water them or I'm gone for a day 319 00:22:38.279 --> 00:22:41.920 and they don't get watered and it's one hundred degrees and you know what I'm 320 00:22:41.960 --> 00:22:48.039 talking about. Why not try that this year? How about three new vegetables 321 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:52.920 you've never grown before or even tasted before. I talked yesterday about a green 322 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:55.880 and that. You know, there's a thousand options. I just use as 323 00:22:55.920 --> 00:23:00.960 an example something called chi jemsi. It's a brassica. It's a coal crop 324 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:04.960 like broccoli and cabbage, cauliflower, mustard. It's in that group and it's 325 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:11.160 a new thing, new in the last few years, and it's very nice. 326 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:14.359 It's very different. Have you ever grown bakchoi before. It's fast, 327 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:18.480 it's easy, it's fun. How about grape tomatoes? Have you ever grown 328 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:22.720 a grape tomato? Maybe you don't even have a garden. Get you something 329 00:23:22.720 --> 00:23:26.519 that holds about ten gallons of soil and try a grape tomato this year. 330 00:23:26.640 --> 00:23:32.759 They are really tasty, they're very productive, and they even set better in 331 00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:36.759 the heat than slicer types of tomatoes. How about a different kind of pepper. 332 00:23:37.319 --> 00:23:41.240 I tried last year some really large jalapenos found I had to grow them 333 00:23:41.240 --> 00:23:45.839 from seed because these are you know, there's only ten billion varieties out there, 334 00:23:45.880 --> 00:23:48.839 and any garden center it's not going to have all of them. But 335 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:52.200 try something new, something different that you haven't done before. How about a 336 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:56.640 house plant? What is your favorite house plant? Have you ever grown a 337 00:23:56.799 --> 00:24:03.359 zz plant? Z z plant? It is one of the most tolerant houseplants 338 00:24:03.519 --> 00:24:07.359 of our mismanagement that there is out there. It likes a lot of light, 339 00:24:07.400 --> 00:24:11.720 but it'll put up with lower light. It doesn't want to be soggy. 340 00:24:11.799 --> 00:24:15.119 But you can have it a little wet or you can have it a 341 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:18.319 little dry, and it's okay with both of those. And it's very different, 342 00:24:18.440 --> 00:24:21.519 very unusual. Looking, and there's a lot of houseplants like that, 343 00:24:22.079 --> 00:24:25.559 try something new. What are you going to try new this year? If 344 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:26.400 you like, give us a call. I'd like to hear about it. 345 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:30.440 What are you going to try that's new this year? Maybe you need some 346 00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:33.319 suggestions, give me a call on that. We'll talk about that as well. 347 00:24:33.960 --> 00:24:37.759 But every gardening season is a world of wonder and there's no reason to 348 00:24:38.079 --> 00:24:41.720 just do meat and potatoes year after year after year. You can always try 349 00:24:41.759 --> 00:24:47.039 something new. In fact, I think it's a good policy and I do 350 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:52.680 this in my vegetable garden is always have the main stays that are proven, 351 00:24:52.279 --> 00:24:56.799 but also have some things that you've never tried before that are experiments, because 352 00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:02.200 what you're going to find is that new tomato that you try may become your 353 00:25:02.200 --> 00:25:07.440 favorite after this years of trying it out. Celebrity is my standby. It's 354 00:25:07.519 --> 00:25:11.119 the one that has lots of disease resistance. It's got nematode resistance, which 355 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:17.039 almost no tomato hardly does. And Celebrity is one I always grow, but 356 00:25:18.039 --> 00:25:21.480 always in try and three or four other new ones. And I think that's 357 00:25:21.480 --> 00:25:23.519 a great way to grow because you learn things, you find out new things 358 00:25:23.559 --> 00:25:26.920 you discover new things when you go to our mom and pop garden centers, 359 00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:30.119 they're going to tell you. And when you say, hey, look, 360 00:25:30.160 --> 00:25:33.200 I want to try something kind of new and different, what do you got? 361 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:34.680 What would you suggest? It's a flower, it's an herb, it's 362 00:25:34.680 --> 00:25:37.559 a vegetable, it's you know, maybe a new kind of rose that you've 363 00:25:37.599 --> 00:25:41.799 never grown before. I encourage you this year, why not try something new? 364 00:25:45.079 --> 00:25:47.559 You know, if you're going to start your own seed for example, 365 00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:51.039 that would be something new. You've never grown your own seedlings. Well, 366 00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:55.599 just grab you some of the forty pound potting soil that Landscaper's Pride has. 367 00:25:55.640 --> 00:25:57.440 That's a good one for all kinds of things. It's very budget friendly, 368 00:25:57.519 --> 00:26:02.920 fully customizable, meaning that you can mix it however you want. It's got 369 00:26:02.920 --> 00:26:06.920 age, pine bark and sand and blended organics and so on. You can 370 00:26:06.920 --> 00:26:10.119 mix it in into your soil to improve your soil. You can use it 371 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:12.359 as a standalone potting soil if you want. You can use it as a 372 00:26:12.400 --> 00:26:15.319 seed starting mix. It works really well for that. So what are you 373 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:21.400 going to start indoors from seed this year that you haven't tried before? New? 374 00:26:21.680 --> 00:26:25.640 So grab a holes and that Landscaper's Pride, that forty pound potting soil. 375 00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:26.799 They've also got a rose mix. By the way, they've also got 376 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:30.359 a black velvet mulch. It's not dyed, it's just a beautiful color. 377 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:34.880 So how about that front bed that's really the show bed. Why not try 378 00:26:34.920 --> 00:26:40.839 it the black velvet as a mulch in that It just for a real visual 379 00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:44.680 impact. It's a high quality material. You know. Landscaper's Pride has been 380 00:26:44.720 --> 00:26:48.359 around for twenty years, since two thousand and two, actually over twenty years, 381 00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:52.119 and they had twenty seven different products and bags. They also have bulk 382 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:56.759 available. All you need to do is go to this website Landscaperspride dot com 383 00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:00.119 and you can find out where all the stores are carry their products. They're 384 00:27:00.160 --> 00:27:06.599 widely available, easy, easy to find with Landscaper's Pride. So try something 385 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:10.279 new. We're going to take a break and that's not new. Just to 386 00:27:10.400 --> 00:27:14.039 have to do that. Our phone number is seven one three two one two 387 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:19.319 five eight seven four. I'll be right back. Welcome back to garden Line. 388 00:27:19.559 --> 00:27:22.640 We are going to have a beautiful Sunday. I'm telling you it's on 389 00:27:22.680 --> 00:27:26.920 the way right now. It's side it's dark still dark. I haven't made 390 00:27:26.960 --> 00:27:29.039 the light yet. By the way, if you look over and see your 391 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:32.440 neighbor's house and the lights are off, it's all dark, and they're go 392 00:27:32.559 --> 00:27:34.440 bang on the door. Tell them they're missing garden line. They will rise 393 00:27:34.519 --> 00:27:38.640 up and call you blessed. Maybe not today, they'll call you something else 394 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:42.559 today, I bet, but in time they will thank you for turning them 395 00:27:42.559 --> 00:27:47.680 on the garden line. We we love to answer your gardening questions. We'd 396 00:27:47.680 --> 00:27:49.359 love to talk to you about ways to have success. Because here's the deal. 397 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:52.559 Gardening is the best hobby that there is. In my opinion, I 398 00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:56.720 am biased, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. Gardening is the best hobby. 399 00:27:56.759 --> 00:28:00.839 It gives you physical health, it gives you mental health. It just 400 00:28:02.079 --> 00:28:04.920 gives you a sense of well being. There's so many ways to do it. 401 00:28:06.079 --> 00:28:07.720 Maybe you don't want to go outside and plow up the back party and 402 00:28:08.839 --> 00:28:12.279 you know, work and sweat and dig and whatnot. Okay, that's fine. 403 00:28:12.640 --> 00:28:15.400 Do you have a houseplant? Do you want to start some seeds indoors? 404 00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:19.200 Do you love herbs and you just want some containers of her There's a 405 00:28:19.319 --> 00:28:22.599 thousand ways to go about gardening. Have you ever have you ever planted a 406 00:28:22.599 --> 00:28:26.160 fruit tree. Now there's something new. Are there any fruit trees you'd like 407 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:32.160 to grow? Maybe a citrus? Maybe something gets you a container with a 408 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:36.480 lot of soil, something the equivalent of a half whiskey barrel. And I 409 00:28:36.519 --> 00:28:40.599 don't use a whiskey barrel because the wood rots out, but something that holds 410 00:28:40.640 --> 00:28:44.240 quite a bit of soil, and put a little citrus tree in it and 411 00:28:44.440 --> 00:28:48.839 enjoy that. And oh, my gosh, when citrus blooms, the flowers 412 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:52.640 are heavenly. Oh, such a nice fragrance. Absolutely a nice fragrance. 413 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:56.960 When I try that this year. If you've got a sunny spot on a 414 00:28:56.000 --> 00:29:00.759 patio, all you need is a little doll where you put a strap around 415 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:03.880 the pot and you can move that plant anywhere you want to put it. 416 00:29:03.880 --> 00:29:07.400 We're their son, and you don't have to bend over and break you back 417 00:29:07.559 --> 00:29:10.880 doing it. Why not try that this year? I think that'd be fun. 418 00:29:11.400 --> 00:29:14.039 Well, well that's our theme today. By the way, try something 419 00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:15.359 new. We're going to give you some other ideas. If you have ideas 420 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:18.880 of some things new that you would like to try, or that you have 421 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:22.559 tried recently that really have become now part of how you garden. I'd like 422 00:29:22.599 --> 00:29:26.000 to hear about it. We're going to start off by going to the Woodlands 423 00:29:26.039 --> 00:29:30.359 and talking to Paul. Hello, Paul, Hi, how you doing ski? 424 00:29:32.119 --> 00:29:37.519 Want to try something new? Yeah? The Nelson Turf Store. We 425 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:41.519 made it. Yes, where can you find it? Oh, it's widely 426 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:45.039 available. There are a number of different places that have it, you know, 427 00:29:45.119 --> 00:29:48.000 off the top of my head in the Woodlands. I'm not sure. 428 00:29:48.039 --> 00:29:52.640 You might try an ACE hardware store check down. You don't have it. 429 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:56.279 They don't have it, Okay, up there, Yeah, a lot of 430 00:29:56.319 --> 00:30:02.160 our aces will I would I would go to the Nelson's, go to their 431 00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:06.079 website and just see where you know where you can find it there. You 432 00:30:06.119 --> 00:30:08.000 may just need to give them a call directly to get to the to the 433 00:30:08.079 --> 00:30:11.839 bottom line. I'm going to look and see if I have a listing of 434 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:15.160 available places, and if I do, I'll say it on the air for 435 00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:19.960 you here in a little bit. Yeah, tell me a little bit to 436 00:30:21.359 --> 00:30:23.960 hunt that down. Maybe during a break or something like that. Okay, 437 00:30:25.160 --> 00:30:30.160 thank you're looking at the Turf Star right the weed Nader. All right, 438 00:30:30.240 --> 00:30:33.400 Yeah, you need to get that done. If you're going to do that, 439 00:30:33.480 --> 00:30:37.319 you need to do it, you know, in the next definitely in 440 00:30:37.359 --> 00:30:41.920 the next four weeks. I would probably get it done in the next three 441 00:30:41.119 --> 00:30:45.440 weeks or so if I could, because you want to catch those weeds before 442 00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:51.160 they get too big. That's important. Good enough, all right, sir, 443 00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:55.160 thank you, thank you. I appreciate the call. Yep, I 444 00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:59.640 need to hunt that down. In fact, if somebody from Nelson's happens to 445 00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:03.839 be listed, let me know exactly where to get that word out because people 446 00:31:03.880 --> 00:31:07.519 won't know where to get those things. I was giving away some of their 447 00:31:07.599 --> 00:31:12.839 new product out there. They've got a new product that you mix into putting 448 00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:15.680 mix. So let's say you're going to repot a plant. You know, 449 00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:21.720 you're going to go in and take what you know, a plant moving into 450 00:31:21.759 --> 00:31:26.079 a larger pot, and you need to provide some nutrition in that soil. 451 00:31:26.480 --> 00:31:32.759 Well, that is exactly what their Nutristar Genesis Transplant Mix does. It's a 452 00:31:32.759 --> 00:31:36.799 six to one three fertilizer granular and this is brand new, absolutely brand new. 453 00:31:36.839 --> 00:31:40.119 I saw it for the first time last week. I've already got some 454 00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:41.640 I'm already messing with it, trying it out. I always like to play 455 00:31:41.680 --> 00:31:45.640 with these products, get experience with them, so I understand how they work 456 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:52.519 really even better. It has beneficial bacteria. It's got endo microiza ectomycuriza. 457 00:31:52.599 --> 00:31:56.480 Those are two fungi that live with the root and make the root do better, 458 00:31:56.559 --> 00:32:00.559 take up nutrients better. It's got humates and it's got other nutrients to 459 00:32:00.680 --> 00:32:07.720 encourage enzymatic production, and it just enhances overall the biological activity of the soil. 460 00:32:07.039 --> 00:32:12.319 And that is the nutri star genesis. It's in a little jar like 461 00:32:12.359 --> 00:32:15.279 other Nelson products are. They have the bags and they have the jars Nutrishar 462 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:20.519 genesis transplant mix. And again, when you're going to bump up, let's 463 00:32:20.519 --> 00:32:22.119 see, buy some four inch pots and you're gonna put them in gallon pots, 464 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:25.920 or let's say you're going to plant that citrus in that half whiskey barrel 465 00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:30.799 sized container I just was talking about. You just mix the nutristar genesis into 466 00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:36.319 the mix as you're doing the transplanting, and it's there. It's going to 467 00:32:36.359 --> 00:32:40.559 release over time and be available to enhance that root system. Because there's a 468 00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:44.839 lot that we do for roots. It goes beyond just the nutrients too. 469 00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:50.759 By the way, that microbial activity is really important and anything we do to 470 00:32:50.839 --> 00:32:54.759 help with that is going to help a plant to survive even better. I 471 00:32:54.839 --> 00:32:59.559 was pretty excited about that. Peive they got it done in Fort Benn did 472 00:32:59.559 --> 00:33:02.400 some give They were pretty excited about it too. We were trying to figure 473 00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:05.880 out how to give it away, you know, like, okay, who 474 00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:09.160 drove the furthest Someone said, you know, well, who's the oldest here? 475 00:33:09.160 --> 00:33:13.519 And I said, I learned long ago not to go into that territory. 476 00:33:13.839 --> 00:33:19.240 So we came up with other ways, other ways of doing the giveaway. 477 00:33:19.279 --> 00:33:22.480 But we had a good time the Fort Bend. By the way, 478 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:28.160 Fort Ben County, if you go to Fort Man County's website, the Extension 479 00:33:28.200 --> 00:33:32.599 office website, they you can find information on the Regional Vegetable Conference they have 480 00:33:32.680 --> 00:33:37.960 going on down there, and that's Fortbend dot Agrolife dot org. It's on 481 00:33:38.079 --> 00:33:42.519 Thursday, February eighth. It's an all day deal. You just need to 482 00:33:42.559 --> 00:33:49.559 go check it out. Lots of good information that's coming on that Buchanans. 483 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:53.640 I mentioned talking about Buchanans yesterday, and Buchanans is just it's the kind of 484 00:33:53.640 --> 00:34:00.839 place where there's always something new and cool going on. It just Buchanans, 485 00:34:00.960 --> 00:34:06.799 there's always a new plant, there's always some new like a native plant. 486 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:09.079 That's what they specialize in. There's some new houseplants. They have one of 487 00:34:09.079 --> 00:34:13.920 the best house plants selections I've ever seen. They're on the eleven Street in 488 00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:15.199 the Heights. Most of you probably been there, but if you haven't, 489 00:34:15.480 --> 00:34:17.960 you need to go in This afternoon be a good time to do that. 490 00:34:19.440 --> 00:34:23.079 East eleventh Street in the Heights. You just go to Buchanansplants dot Com. 491 00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:27.840 So I was talking earlier about you got a soggy area that doesn't drain, 492 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.760 well, go to Buchanans and ask them if they have a button bush or 493 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:35.519 Louisian iris or anything. Say I've got a wet area and I'd like to 494 00:34:35.559 --> 00:34:39.639 know what native plants do you sell that thrive in spots sometimes that don't drain 495 00:34:39.719 --> 00:34:45.079 that well, why not turn lemons into lemonade with the native plants for Buchanans. 496 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:50.119 That's just one example of the many reasons you would want to go to 497 00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:53.400 Buchanans Plants. I always love it to go by there and a visit. 498 00:34:55.079 --> 00:34:58.719 Well let's see here, I believe we just ran out of another hour. 499 00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:04.000 That kind of went fast. Our theme today is try something new. I'd 500 00:35:04.039 --> 00:35:07.440 like to hear from you. What have you tried new recently that has just 501 00:35:07.519 --> 00:35:10.559 been a new addition now for your gardening? Is like I tried that, 502 00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:14.800 I love it? And what do you want to try this year? What 503 00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:17.920 have you never done before? There's a lot of new things out there to 504 00:35:19.000 --> 00:35:21.960 do in the garden. Do you want to try a new kind of product? 505 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:23.599 Do you want to try a new kind of a bed? Do you 506 00:35:23.599 --> 00:35:27.119 want of those eggo beds that they have? Do you want to try one 507 00:35:27.159 --> 00:35:31.920 of the Perhaps a new irrigation method like grip irrigation make it easier for yourself. 508 00:35:32.440 --> 00:35:36.679 I bet there's a plant that you've never grown before. I can come 509 00:35:36.760 --> 00:35:39.880 up with some suggestions if you don't, if you need some lots of great 510 00:35:40.000 --> 00:35:45.760 plants that we can try. New gardening is always hopeful, it's always new, 511 00:35:45.920 --> 00:35:51.000 and next year's garden is always going to be the best ever. We'll 512 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:59.599 be right back. Katrh Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products 513 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:05.639 or service is advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r H Garden Line 514 00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:22.400 with Skimp Rickard shraya trim just watch him as well. Give it peace. 515 00:36:22.480 --> 00:36:37.760 The seabot Bazy again not a sor Welcome to garden Line. Welcome to garden 516 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:44.519 Line on what is going to be a gorgeous, gorgeous sunday. I can 517 00:36:44.559 --> 00:36:46.320 see the glow in the sky. Here we go. Day is on the 518 00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:50.840 way. It is time to make your plans for this afternoon. What are 519 00:36:50.840 --> 00:36:52.920 you gonna get out and do? You're gonna go by and pick up some 520 00:36:53.039 --> 00:36:59.239 supplies from one of our local garden centers or other product suppliers to be ready 521 00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:04.199 to go. Remember, we're going to be fertilizing the lawns coming up here, 522 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:07.239 and no need to wait until that day to try to go find fertilizer. 523 00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:10.519 If you're out and about, grab some, pick it up, bring 524 00:37:10.559 --> 00:37:15.440 it home, be ready to go. So whatever day occurs, plans change, 525 00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:16.800 or whatever, you got some time, you can just go right out 526 00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:22.920 there and fertilize your lawns. Simple as that. Well, I uh, 527 00:37:22.400 --> 00:37:25.760 the theme today is try something new? What are you going to try new? 528 00:37:25.880 --> 00:37:29.320 I'd like to know what you are going to try and do, and 529 00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:32.280 I'll give you some suggestions for things that you may want to try that you 530 00:37:32.360 --> 00:37:38.119 haven't tried before. Have you ever planted a flowering vine? I'm talking about 531 00:37:38.320 --> 00:37:42.239 it could be a perennial vine. It could be something like you know, 532 00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:45.880 Wisteria is a common flowering vine people plant. There's several different types of whysteria. 533 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:49.199 Some of them are a bit of a challenge, so I'm just using 534 00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:53.360 that as an example. But a flowering rose, a vining rose, for 535 00:37:53.400 --> 00:37:59.639 example, something like a Lady Banks. That's a very vigorous ning rose, 536 00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:02.880 very beautiful. It's either white or yellow. Yellow form is more common. 537 00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:07.199 The white form is more fragrant. So both of those they're almost thornless. 538 00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:10.800 In fact, they are, I would say they are thornless, very easy 539 00:38:10.800 --> 00:38:15.559 to grow. Make a really good plant to put over a large arbor, 540 00:38:15.800 --> 00:38:16.920 you know, don't put this over a little thing. This thing wants to 541 00:38:16.960 --> 00:38:20.480 take over the world. It's a very big, vigorous plant, so give 542 00:38:20.480 --> 00:38:22.960 it some room to grow. That would be a good one. How about 543 00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:30.800 a perennial flowering vine. The coral vine has the clusters of pink blooms that 544 00:38:30.840 --> 00:38:35.559 are really popular with pollinators. It blooms really heavily in the late summer fall 545 00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:38.719 season, and it is also one that wants to run, so you need 546 00:38:38.760 --> 00:38:43.639 to give it a confined area. In other words, if you put it 547 00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:45.480 on a fence that'll run down the fence, that'll climb up a pole and 548 00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:49.840 it'll head across the power line. It just it has something to grab onto. 549 00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:52.760 It's going to keep going, so that's a catch on it. It's 550 00:38:52.760 --> 00:38:55.519 a perennial dies back to the ground each year. But oh my gosh, 551 00:38:55.800 --> 00:39:00.079 it's a great vine. It's an absolutely great vine, really pretty. Then 552 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:05.280 there's annual vines like hycinth bean that likes the warm weather. You wait a 553 00:39:05.320 --> 00:39:08.840 little bit to plant it, it grows really well. We can just go 554 00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:13.239 on and on lots and lots and lots of vine options. Do you have 555 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:17.559 a western wall where the brick heats up when the hot late day sun shines 556 00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:21.760 on it, why not put a little trellis on that. It could be 557 00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:25.920 something as simple as a cattle panel that you put up on iron posts, 558 00:39:27.360 --> 00:39:31.480 the little fence posts that you drop hammer into the ground, and you put 559 00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:36.559 that vine on it, and it makes a wall of foliage that shades the 560 00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:40.199 brick and it will make a difference in your utility bills because all night that 561 00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:45.800 hot brick wall is going to be radiating heat on summer nights into your house. 562 00:39:45.320 --> 00:39:50.000 Why not try that this year? Have you ever had an arbor before, 563 00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:54.000 A little pergola something like that. You can build one. You can 564 00:39:54.119 --> 00:39:58.719 hire somebody like Fier Scapes to come into a professional job building you want, 565 00:39:59.239 --> 00:40:02.639 but create some sort of a covering over a patio area and then put a 566 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:07.880 vine on it. Something beautiful. I've got a oh gosh, I can't 567 00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:14.559 even say the name of the rosebush Martin, Peggy Martin Rose that is on 568 00:40:15.039 --> 00:40:17.800 my pergola. I put it in there. Peggy Martin's a tough lady. 569 00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:22.280 And here's why I put it in Like two years ago. My golden retrievers 570 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:28.000 have chewed it, chewed it to the ground like a foot high twice. 571 00:40:29.000 --> 00:40:30.960 I don't know what possesses them. They let it grow a wild and then 572 00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:35.039 they become demon dogs and chew it to the ground. So I put a 573 00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:38.599 little wire cylinder around it, and now they can't chew it to the ground, 574 00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:40.880 and it is up it. Last year it grew up, it went 575 00:40:40.920 --> 00:40:45.079 ope on the trellis. It's got little vine. You know, shoots hanging 576 00:40:45.119 --> 00:40:49.920 down everywhere in this spring. Just wait, it's going to be beautiful as 577 00:40:49.960 --> 00:40:52.840 those clusters of blooms are hanging off the top of that arbor where we sit 578 00:40:52.920 --> 00:40:59.880 underneath in the summertime and the springtime is when it does most of it's blooming. 579 00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:04.039 So try something new like that. What have you not tried before? 580 00:41:04.639 --> 00:41:08.199 Again, if you've never grown citrus, at least have a container with some 581 00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:13.800 type of citrus in it that you can enjoy the ballooms of and of course 582 00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:17.559 the fruit and time as well. Whether it's a Meyer lemon, whether it's 583 00:41:17.639 --> 00:41:23.639 one of the limes that are so easy to grow and somewhat smaller stature, 584 00:41:23.800 --> 00:41:28.880 easier to grow in a container. I had a satsuma orange and a container 585 00:41:28.960 --> 00:41:34.039 that Satsuma is a really nice mandarin type orange. You know when you go 586 00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:37.280 in the store and you buy the box of those things but called qts, 587 00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:39.800 you know, the little real easy baggy scan, real easy to peel. 588 00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:45.320 Well, satsuma is like that. They actually get larger than that, but 589 00:41:45.639 --> 00:41:49.719 it's easy to do and it's just a fun addition. Easy. What's new 590 00:41:49.800 --> 00:41:52.320 for you this year? Try something new? That's what I would suggest. 591 00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:58.719 Now. What is the rule on garden line for the number one tip for 592 00:41:58.800 --> 00:42:02.960 success with plants. Take care of the soil and your plants will thrive. 593 00:42:04.119 --> 00:42:07.880 That's it. Brown stuff before green stuff. Well, if you have bought 594 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:12.119 into that, you're going to see the results of it, because when the 595 00:42:12.159 --> 00:42:17.039 soil is right, plants thrive and Nature's Way resources they were a leader historically 596 00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:22.719 have been a leader when it comes to building good soils. They invented roast 597 00:42:22.719 --> 00:42:27.039 soil, They invented leaf mold compost for example. They have got a great 598 00:42:27.079 --> 00:42:30.840 supply. In fact, they have a thing called Fungal Friday's where on Fridays 599 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:36.800 you can get ten percent off the bagged fungal compost and twenty percent off the 600 00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:40.159 bulk fungal compost. They've got a two acre nursery and garden center there with 601 00:42:40.239 --> 00:42:45.159 fruit trees, native perennials and all kinds of things. It is really a 602 00:42:45.199 --> 00:42:49.119 great place to visit. Their products are sold by the bag in various locations 603 00:42:49.159 --> 00:42:52.239 as well, or you can order them by bulk. But you know this, 604 00:42:52.400 --> 00:42:53.800 when you go in Nature's Way, you're going to get a product that's 605 00:42:53.840 --> 00:42:59.000 made right. They take the time to do it right. That you can 606 00:42:59.079 --> 00:43:04.800 find what I would say would be a cheap mulch out there and it is 607 00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:07.679 not even worth what you pay for it because they rush it through the process. 608 00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:10.599 They leave it there long enough to turn brown, so it looks like 609 00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:15.199 compost or whatever, and it's just not good. It's not going to work 610 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:20.800 like a product that's they've taken time with, like Nature's Way does. And 611 00:43:20.880 --> 00:43:23.400 so I would encourage you if you're gonna take care. If you want a 612 00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:27.440 half plant, if you want a vegetable garden, flower, garden herbs, 613 00:43:27.800 --> 00:43:31.000 if you want to create a beautiful shrub bed, start with getting the soil 614 00:43:31.079 --> 00:43:35.920 right. Call them at Nature's Way, Talk to John, talk to Ian 615 00:43:36.519 --> 00:43:40.800 nine three six three two one sixty nine ninety nine three six three two one 616 00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:47.280 sixty nine ninety A quality product for long, long, long term quality results. 617 00:43:47.440 --> 00:43:51.559 That's the way to go. The brown stuff comes before the green stuff, 618 00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:55.960 and Nature's Way knows how to make the brown stuff. You're listening to 619 00:43:55.960 --> 00:43:59.159 the guard Line and we're going to take a low break here. Our phone 620 00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:02.639 number is seven three two one two five eight seven four. I'll be right 621 00:44:02.679 --> 00:44:09.480 back. Welcome back to garden Line. Today's theme is try something new. 622 00:44:09.599 --> 00:44:14.960 What are you going to try new that you've never done before? If you're 623 00:44:15.000 --> 00:44:17.960 looking for for example, if you're looking for a place to find something new, 624 00:44:19.360 --> 00:44:22.280 well, how about enchanted gardens in Richmond. Have you ever been out 625 00:44:22.320 --> 00:44:25.519 there. It's on FM three fifty nine. It's on the Katie Foolscher side 626 00:44:25.519 --> 00:44:30.320 of Richmond. I just head north from Richmond. Enchanted Gardens Richmond is the 627 00:44:30.320 --> 00:44:36.239 Website's really easy to find. Enchanted Gardens Richmond. They're open by the way. 628 00:44:36.239 --> 00:44:38.519 They're open today from ten am to four Monday through Saturday, eight am 629 00:44:38.559 --> 00:44:43.440 to five pm. And they have something new. I guarantee you in any 630 00:44:43.480 --> 00:44:47.400 category of plant, you know, roses when you took it, vegetables and 631 00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:52.480 herbs and flowers and shrubs, they're gonna have something new you've never tried before. 632 00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:54.719 The Lendermans have been part of that community since nineteen ninety five when they 633 00:44:54.719 --> 00:45:00.480 first opened Enchanted Gardens, and it's one of those mom and pop into dependence 634 00:45:00.639 --> 00:45:07.280 where you get quality plants, quality advice, and really really good guidance when 635 00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:10.880 it comes to picking a plant or when it comes to solving a problem like 636 00:45:10.920 --> 00:45:15.360 a pest or disease or whatever. They've got all of that, and they 637 00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:17.079 have a lot of really new and cool things. For example, have you 638 00:45:17.119 --> 00:45:20.679 ever tried a fairy garden? You know? A little ferry gardens are little 639 00:45:20.719 --> 00:45:23.360 containers that have like a miniature scene in them. Well, they've got those 640 00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:27.360 and then tell you how to put one together, find the plants and the 641 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.360 pots and everything. That would be something new that you could drive with. 642 00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:32.599 This year, they've got all the fertilizers I talk about on garden Line and 643 00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:37.400 the soil products that you need to have success with your garden at Enchented Gardens 644 00:45:37.400 --> 00:45:42.519 that's out there in Richmond. That would be something new if you've never been 645 00:45:42.559 --> 00:45:45.840 there, there's another new you gotta go. You got to see it. 646 00:45:45.840 --> 00:45:49.000 It's pretty cool. Let's head out to south West Houston. We're going to 647 00:45:49.039 --> 00:45:52.719 talk to Jeff. Hello Jeff, good morning, Skip. I love your 648 00:45:52.800 --> 00:45:59.719 theme. This is that you're doing great. I tried a couple of new 649 00:45:59.760 --> 00:46:04.840 things last year and there were game changers for me. Speaking of the brown 650 00:46:04.880 --> 00:46:08.760 stuff, I'll do a plug for airloom soils, all right. I tried 651 00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:15.360 there the works it's called in all my container plants. Huh, And I'll 652 00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:20.159 never go back. I invested in that in that last year and I'm already 653 00:46:20.199 --> 00:46:22.559 buying more this year. Well, that's a quality product, there's no question 654 00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:27.239 about it. It is very it's the best for container plants. I mean 655 00:46:27.360 --> 00:46:30.719 my peppers. I grew in containers last year, and I never had so 656 00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:35.039 many peppers. For those of you aren't familiar with that, he's talking about 657 00:46:35.039 --> 00:46:40.360 the work grows, yeah, potting soil. Yeah, And and I do 658 00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:45.920 a lot of growth. I grow stuff in grow bags and containers. And 659 00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:49.360 it's easier for me. I can move it around when it needs more sun 660 00:46:49.480 --> 00:46:52.039 or less sun. It just helps me out a lot better that way. 661 00:46:52.360 --> 00:46:59.239 Yeah. Well good. Uh. And that's the fabric grow bags yeah, 662 00:46:59.360 --> 00:47:05.719 actually Walmart bags. Yeah, well those don't hold up very long, but 663 00:47:05.760 --> 00:47:08.280 they'll work for a season or something. They'll last for a season, and 664 00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:14.960 they're fifty cents in there. They're very Just cut the handles off of them 665 00:47:15.000 --> 00:47:19.320 and fill them up with the works and and grow all kinds of even grow 666 00:47:19.360 --> 00:47:23.159 tomatoes in them. All right. So one other new thing I did last 667 00:47:23.239 --> 00:47:30.199 year. If you're trying to find a variety of beans, stream beans that 668 00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:34.719 I had never had much. I was never happy with the green beans that 669 00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:39.320 I was growing, and I tried a new variety I saw online called Contender. 670 00:47:39.679 --> 00:47:44.840 Oh yeah, I got I got in the bulk seeds that Southwest fertilizer. 671 00:47:45.039 --> 00:47:47.599 Yeah. And if if you don't want to be picking green beans every 672 00:47:47.679 --> 00:47:54.039 day. Don't plant Contender beans. I mean they I had more beans than 673 00:47:54.119 --> 00:48:00.440 I've ever had in my three little ten foot rows, and I had for 674 00:48:00.559 --> 00:48:02.079 four months. Well, you know, Jeffy, you referred to it as 675 00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:06.039 a new bean. Actually, Contender's been around a long time. Earlier I 676 00:48:06.119 --> 00:48:07.920 was talking about, Oh it was new for me. Yeah, celebrity Yeah, 677 00:48:07.960 --> 00:48:10.320 good, well there, that's all that counts, is what's new to 678 00:48:10.400 --> 00:48:15.679 us. But Contender, I was talking earlier about celebrity tomato being an old 679 00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:19.800 main statement around a long time. Contender is the same way. If I'm 680 00:48:19.800 --> 00:48:22.639 going to try any kind of green bean, I always compare it to Contender 681 00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:27.480 because that is the that is the standard. It is an excellent, excellent 682 00:48:27.519 --> 00:48:30.480 bean. Well, good, thanks for sharing that. You spoke about one 683 00:48:30.559 --> 00:48:35.679 other thing, if I may go ahead. You spoke about grape tomatoes. 684 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:38.280 I was. I bought some grape tomatoes at a dollar store in there were 685 00:48:38.320 --> 00:48:43.239 the most tasty tomatoes ever had. So I saved some of the seeds and 686 00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:45.480 planted them last year, and it's my new favorite tomatoes. All right. 687 00:48:45.559 --> 00:48:49.679 Yeah, I like grapes a lot. I don't know why I like them 688 00:48:49.719 --> 00:48:52.679 more than cherry I mean they're both good tomatoes, you know, but I 689 00:48:52.760 --> 00:48:54.239 like grapes a lot. Hey, Jeff, thank you for that call. 690 00:48:54.360 --> 00:49:00.480 I appreciate that you take care. Yeah, Southwest Fertilizer, he mentioned it, 691 00:49:00.519 --> 00:49:04.920 and boy, you know they have that. In fact, I posted 692 00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:09.280 something to Facebook about the bins. It's Southwest Fertilizer. For seed. You 693 00:49:09.320 --> 00:49:12.960 know, you can buy seed in packets, and I do. Seed packets 694 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:15.719 are wonderful lots of very unusual things. But if you're looking for just an 695 00:49:15.760 --> 00:49:21.960 economical way to buy seeds and you go to a place that has bins where 696 00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:23.920 there's bulk seed and you just take a little scoop scoop them out, put 697 00:49:23.920 --> 00:49:28.639 them in an envelope, that is the most economical waiting buy seeds period. 698 00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:30.920 And you're not going to find the newest, latest, brand, new this 699 00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:36.199 year varieties in bins. You're going to find the old standbys, which are 700 00:49:36.239 --> 00:49:39.199 a good way to go, and Southwest Fertilizer has those. I've taken a 701 00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:44.920 picture over there. It was visiting Bob the other day, and that's just 702 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:46.679 fun, that's just cool. It's a good way to do it. And 703 00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:50.639 as with anything, you know, it's Southwest If they don't have it, 704 00:49:51.159 --> 00:49:54.400 you don't need it, because they have it. They have everything fertilizers and 705 00:49:54.800 --> 00:50:00.400 pests and disease control. They're about to get a lot of shipments in of 706 00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:02.360 all kinds of new products. We're talking about some of the new things on 707 00:50:02.400 --> 00:50:07.960 the market coming out this year. And so if you need things to control 708 00:50:07.960 --> 00:50:09.960 best disease and weeds and whatnot, Bob's gonna have it. He's gonna have 709 00:50:09.960 --> 00:50:13.559 the organic stuff, he's gonna have the synthetic stuff. He's got all of 710 00:50:13.599 --> 00:50:15.280 it. There. Again, if they don't have it, you don't need 711 00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:19.480 it. Southwest Fertilizer, by the way, for those of you who haven't 712 00:50:19.480 --> 00:50:22.519 been, you need to go. It's we're driving across town just to see 713 00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:25.480 the thing. But Southwest Fertilizer dot com. That's the website there on the 714 00:50:25.480 --> 00:50:32.840 corner of Bissinet and Renwick and Renwick and Southwest Houston. Let's head now up 715 00:50:32.880 --> 00:50:38.159 to Montgomery and we're gonna talk to Richard. Hello, Richard, good morning. 716 00:50:38.280 --> 00:50:45.920 I hope you're doing well. Thank you. I've got a three three 717 00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:52.000 roses and four doco roses in pots and if a new house, I want 718 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:55.760 to put those in the ground this year. Could you tell me how I 719 00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:00.639 do it? What location you played? Question? Man? And good sunlight. 720 00:51:00.960 --> 00:51:06.599 Those are the two most important things, sunlight being even more important sunlight. 721 00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:12.719 Roses need sun to really be beautiful. The more they lack, the 722 00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:15.480 more shade you move them toward, the less blooms you're going to have. 723 00:51:15.880 --> 00:51:20.559 And then drainage, building up a raised bed. If the area doesn't rain 724 00:51:20.599 --> 00:51:22.760 well, and boy, today'd be a good day. Go outside and look, 725 00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:25.039 I mean if you've got standing water, that there's your queue because it's 726 00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:30.679 been raining like crazy. And so a good rose mix, you can get 727 00:51:30.719 --> 00:51:35.159 a quality quality rose mix. You're up there, you know, in the 728 00:51:35.159 --> 00:51:37.920 Montgomery area, you're not that far away from nature's way resources and they have 729 00:51:38.079 --> 00:51:42.639 they were the ones that created roase soil. They can deliver it out to 730 00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:45.440 you or you can go buy and pick up bags of it. But a 731 00:51:45.480 --> 00:51:51.199 good quality, a good quality rose mix to grow them in and sunlight, 732 00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:53.559 that's the key. How big are the containers and how long have they been 733 00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:59.480 in them? The true roses have been in them probably three years and they're 734 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:06.280 ten gallon containers. Okay, then knockle roses there one year? Okay, 735 00:52:06.599 --> 00:52:09.239 Well just move them right from the container, and Richard, I'd do it 736 00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:15.320 now. Right now. In garden centers, they're bringing in bare root roses. 737 00:52:15.480 --> 00:52:17.440 They just they hardly have, you know, just big old stubbed off 738 00:52:17.519 --> 00:52:22.039 roots on them. That's how bare root roses are. And they'll hit the 739 00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:24.119 ground and they'll get roots down and they'll do well. So if you're going 740 00:52:24.199 --> 00:52:27.960 to pull these out of containers, you got some circling roots, you want 741 00:52:27.960 --> 00:52:30.519 to cut them and everything, get them ready. You can do that and 742 00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:32.440 it won't hurt them. And then you put them in the ground. Maybe 743 00:52:32.480 --> 00:52:37.400 do a little top pruning on them. If you've got some small branches, 744 00:52:37.519 --> 00:52:42.440 twiggy broken branches, you know whatever, do that and then get them in 745 00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:45.719 the ground. Do the any pruning you're gonna do. Water them in really 746 00:52:45.719 --> 00:52:50.039 well, and you should be off to a good start. Do you trim 747 00:52:50.079 --> 00:52:52.679 the roots in the pots of all when you take the pot sauce? I 748 00:52:53.119 --> 00:52:58.079 do. I don't like circling roots going around and circles in a pot, 749 00:52:58.119 --> 00:53:00.480 and so I'll cut those and remove them. And again it's not going to 750 00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:04.159 hurt him, because like I said, there are roots. There are bare 751 00:53:04.239 --> 00:53:07.719 root roses coming in that have much less roots than you're going to have even 752 00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:12.679 if you prune your roots and so your trees or rose bushes, the tree 753 00:53:12.719 --> 00:53:15.559 form in the bush form are both going to be fine. Okay. Would 754 00:53:15.559 --> 00:53:20.079 you put any potty soil into the hole before you put no, I wouldn't. 755 00:53:20.519 --> 00:53:24.039 I would try to improve the soil in a large area. So let's 756 00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:29.159 say you don't have a bed mix that you're growing them in. Put some 757 00:53:29.400 --> 00:53:35.400 down and spade or rototail or mix it into the bed area and then dig 758 00:53:35.440 --> 00:53:37.599 the hole, put the rose in and use the soil you dug out of 759 00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:42.239 the hole to go back in. Don't just dig a hole, because then 760 00:53:42.280 --> 00:53:45.679 it's an underground bathtub and you put potting soil in it and it just begins. 761 00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:50.440 When it rains too much, it's going to start decomposing without oxygen, 762 00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:54.880 and that is a nasty mess. Okay, very good, all right, 763 00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:58.880 sir, Thank you, Thank you, sir. Yes, I appreciate your 764 00:53:58.920 --> 00:54:02.519 call. Let's see we're going to go to Cypress now and talk to John. 765 00:54:02.639 --> 00:54:07.280 Hello, John, good morning, sir. How are you. I'm 766 00:54:07.360 --> 00:54:12.320 doing well? Thank you? Hey, I heard you guys touch on planting 767 00:54:12.360 --> 00:54:16.639 potatoes. Yes, And I ran across these guys on the internet that are 768 00:54:16.679 --> 00:54:23.159 planting potatoes and hay. Yes, in rate beds. Yes. And I've 769 00:54:23.239 --> 00:54:30.360 been using a mushroom soil for my compost okay, and I thought about putting 770 00:54:30.400 --> 00:54:35.599 that down and then planting the sprouts and then covering them with Hey, is 771 00:54:35.639 --> 00:54:38.119 that correct? Yes, you can do that. So when when you put 772 00:54:38.119 --> 00:54:42.599 a potato seed piece, we call it a seed piece, what it is 773 00:54:42.719 --> 00:54:45.119 is a chunk of potato that you've cut. It's got an I or two 774 00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:50.559 on it, and it's it's allowed to kind of the cut surfaces need time 775 00:54:50.599 --> 00:54:53.920 to dry before you put them out there. Uh. And then when you 776 00:54:54.039 --> 00:54:58.400 plant it, the roots go down and the stems come up, and the 777 00:54:58.400 --> 00:55:02.480 potatoes come off of the stems. They're not like sweet potatoes that are roots. 778 00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:07.480 And so you the more you pile up around that stem, whether it's 779 00:55:07.559 --> 00:55:10.960 soil, whether it's hay, whether it's compost, you can do a lot 780 00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:15.760 of things. The potatoes will grow in that, and then at harvest time 781 00:55:15.159 --> 00:55:21.320 you will have a nice, clean potato that's not malformed because it's growing in 782 00:55:21.360 --> 00:55:24.320 like a rocky soil or something. It's gonna be very very nice potato. 783 00:55:24.400 --> 00:55:29.519 But you can use old spent hay just make sure that that hay is not 784 00:55:29.639 --> 00:55:35.320 from a pasture where they use brush control in because that will see potatoes. 785 00:55:36.239 --> 00:55:38.239 At the end of the season, I'll probably end up with a bed full 786 00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:45.119 of nice green coastal Okay, well, well, if it's dry hay, 787 00:55:45.280 --> 00:55:49.559 it should not survive. But we'll see. But anyway, Yeah, that's 788 00:55:49.599 --> 00:55:52.559 a great way to do potatoes. Yeah, I'm gonna give it a try 789 00:55:52.719 --> 00:55:58.960 and see what happens. And also you had mentioned to think about using a 790 00:55:59.000 --> 00:56:05.679 long fertilizer on them. Yes, I do you mean there's fertilizer correct, 791 00:56:06.320 --> 00:56:09.440 hier nitrogen, because because the goal is to grow shoots and leaves so that 792 00:56:09.480 --> 00:56:13.199 you can make a lot of carbohydrates, which is what a potato is. 793 00:56:13.440 --> 00:56:15.360 Hey, I've got twenty seconds before my break here, but John, thank 794 00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:20.119 you for that call. Uh, and just just follow the guidelines. If 795 00:56:20.119 --> 00:56:25.320 you go to Aggie Horticulture website Aggie Horticulture, there's a vegetable section and a 796 00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:29.719 whole publication on how to grow potatoes. I'd encourage you. It's free, 797 00:56:29.760 --> 00:56:31.400 you just go look at it or print it out. I'd encourage you to 798 00:56:31.400 --> 00:56:35.679 go buy and do that. And again, thank you for the call. 799 00:56:35.920 --> 00:56:37.079 Well, it's time for Nicky and the News. If you'd like to get 800 00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:40.960 on the board with Josh, it's seven one three two one two fifty eight 801 00:56:42.119 --> 00:56:47.800 seventy four. Welcome back to guard Line. We are glad you're listening in 802 00:56:47.840 --> 00:56:51.760 today. We're tired of all kinds of things. Whatever's of interest to you 803 00:56:51.920 --> 00:56:53.239 is actually what we talk about. You can give us a call. It 804 00:56:53.639 --> 00:56:58.360 seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. And of course I 805 00:56:58.360 --> 00:57:00.719 always bring some things I would like to talk about. Today. What I 806 00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:06.719 want to talk about is trying things new. What's new? Maybe you've been 807 00:57:06.719 --> 00:57:08.760 gardening for years. May we kind of get in a rut. You know, 808 00:57:08.880 --> 00:57:13.199 you mow the lawn, you trim the shrubs, you plant the same 809 00:57:13.320 --> 00:57:16.159 vegetables or flowers or whatever, and that's all fine, that's fun, But 810 00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:20.719 what about something new? You're missing out. I'm telling you, I don't 811 00:57:20.719 --> 00:57:24.119 care if you're growing one hundred different things, there's ten thousand things that you're 812 00:57:24.159 --> 00:57:28.679 not growing that you could try. They just are. That's how it is 813 00:57:28.679 --> 00:57:31.400 for gardening. Have you ever done a cut flower garden? That's a new 814 00:57:31.440 --> 00:57:35.920 thing for a lot of people. It doesn't have to be a huge area 815 00:57:36.079 --> 00:57:37.239 I could just be a small bed. I've got a little bed in my 816 00:57:37.320 --> 00:57:42.760 garden that's on one side where we're going to be putting some brand new cuts. 817 00:57:42.800 --> 00:57:45.519 I'm trying some new cut flowers this year in my garden. If you 818 00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:52.320 want like the simplest, easiest in and out cut flower you can grow, 819 00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:55.440 I would say it's probably zendias. Zennias grow fast, they're easy. You 820 00:57:55.480 --> 00:58:00.719 can start them from transplant or you can just scatter seeds out there. They 821 00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:04.679 do have their problems. They get a little pottery mildew, a little leaf 822 00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:07.599 spot in things, but you know, they just live with it. You 823 00:58:07.599 --> 00:58:10.400 don't really have to spraym or anything. And zennias are fast, they're easy, 824 00:58:10.400 --> 00:58:14.440 they're easy to do. There's lots of other good cut flowers that you 825 00:58:14.519 --> 00:58:17.239 can grow. I would encourage you to give that a try. Why not 826 00:58:17.360 --> 00:58:21.880 try that this year? That would be a great, a great new thing 827 00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:24.199 to try in your garden. But what are you going to try new? 828 00:58:24.280 --> 00:58:30.800 Or what have you tried new in recent years that has become like your go 829 00:58:30.880 --> 00:58:32.880 to now? You know, just a little bit ago, we're talking about 830 00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:39.400 Jeff in Southwest Houston about a new green bean he knew to him the contender 831 00:58:39.599 --> 00:58:43.559 being such a standard, and boy, I agree, that's an awesome, 832 00:58:43.760 --> 00:58:46.920 awesome green bean and some other new things that he's tried. Fell in love 833 00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:52.760 with the potting soil. He just tried some growing in some bags that he 834 00:58:52.000 --> 00:58:59.280 sort of repurposed himself that wealth soiled to grow things in. You can try 835 00:58:59.320 --> 00:59:04.159 all kinds of things. It's up to you. Listen. A garden is 836 00:59:04.159 --> 00:59:07.320 your playground. A garden is your sandbox. A garden is your plant palette. 837 00:59:08.079 --> 00:59:10.599 What do you want? What do you want to look at? You 838 00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:15.639 can do that. We have rules in gardening. You know, there's a 839 00:59:15.760 --> 00:59:19.440 color wheel where you're supposed to choose colors on opposite sides of the wheel, 840 00:59:19.559 --> 00:59:22.840 or you can do what they call tertiary, which is like a triangle across 841 00:59:22.880 --> 00:59:25.800 the wheel. Choose those three colors to put together. There's a lot of 842 00:59:25.880 --> 00:59:30.400 rules, there's a lot of things. That's all fine. Those are good 843 00:59:30.440 --> 00:59:35.239 guidelines, and yes they do help make things esthetically more pleasing. But it's 844 00:59:35.280 --> 00:59:37.719 your garden. I've usted your whole backyard to be a zeny apache you could 845 00:59:37.719 --> 00:59:40.840 do that. I wouldn't recommend it, but it's your yard. You can 846 00:59:40.880 --> 00:59:44.159 do that. What do you want. What do you want to grow? 847 00:59:44.599 --> 00:59:46.559 Look at that patio, you got chairs on it. Maybe you got a 848 00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:51.400 little fire table. I don't know, chimney out there? Why not some 849 00:59:51.480 --> 00:59:57.480 plants. Last year we added some new hanging black baskets around the edges of 850 00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:01.800 a little overhang that we have a little kind of an arbor area out in 851 01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:07.079 a sitting area. And boy, that was cool just hanging baskets. Or 852 01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:12.280 it's a vast way to come in with some really nice color. So are 853 01:00:12.360 --> 01:00:15.360 containers. By the way, what do you want to try that you haven't 854 01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:19.440 tried before? I encourage you to do that. So I think that's fun. 855 01:00:19.719 --> 01:00:23.239 It makes gardening fun. And listen, a lot of people are worried 856 01:00:23.280 --> 01:00:27.400 about trying to garden because they're afraid they're going to fail. I don't know 857 01:00:27.400 --> 01:00:30.320 how to do that. Well, it's probably not going to work. Everything 858 01:00:30.360 --> 01:00:35.679 I plant dies. Don't think that way. Gardening is for experimenting. It's 859 01:00:35.719 --> 01:00:38.840 for trying. Yes, get good advice, choose good plants. Go to 860 01:00:38.880 --> 01:00:43.199 a mom and pop nursery that knows what they're talking about, so they can 861 01:00:43.239 --> 01:00:45.400 sell you things that will grow here, and they can tell you how to 862 01:00:45.440 --> 01:00:47.400 do it and when you if you have any problems, you can go in 863 01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:50.760 and they'll help you with it. Give us a call on garden line. 864 01:00:50.840 --> 01:00:53.320 Let's help you. Let's help you have success. Don't worry about failing. 865 01:00:54.000 --> 01:00:57.599 Doctor J. C. Ralston. I believe he is the one that said 866 01:00:58.000 --> 01:01:00.960 to be a good horticulture, she got to kill a lot of and that's 867 01:01:00.079 --> 01:01:05.280 true. Don't be afraid of failing. When you fail, you learn from 868 01:01:05.320 --> 01:01:08.360 it and you try again. And the analogy I use that dates me is 869 01:01:08.440 --> 01:01:13.639 the etcha sketch. I like that analogy. When some of you who grew 870 01:01:13.719 --> 01:01:16.199 up with etches sketches knew this a little thing. You have two knobs. 871 01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:20.519 One goes up and down, one goes sideways, and you draw stuff. 872 01:01:20.599 --> 01:01:24.840 And invariable, invariably, when you're trying to go left, you accidentally go 873 01:01:25.000 --> 01:01:29.400 right and you mess up your sketch. What did you do? You hold 874 01:01:29.400 --> 01:01:32.440 it upside down and you shake it and everything goes away and you get drawing 875 01:01:32.559 --> 01:01:37.679 again. That's how it is. The gardening. Did stink bugs take over 876 01:01:37.719 --> 01:01:42.920 your tomatoes last year and just really disappoint you? Okay, grow tomatoes again 877 01:01:43.119 --> 01:01:45.639 this year. We're going to put some mesh netting over them. There's a 878 01:01:45.679 --> 01:01:51.159 thing called garden mesh, and think of it as a window screen. But 879 01:01:51.280 --> 01:01:54.599 that's very small squares and very soft like it's almost like a bed sheet soft 880 01:01:55.000 --> 01:01:59.000 and you just it's super lightweight. Air goes through, light goes through. 881 01:01:59.039 --> 01:02:00.920 You put it over your plan to let them go all the way to the 882 01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:05.840 ground. Tomatoes do not need bees to pollinate them. They just moving in 883 01:02:05.880 --> 01:02:08.320 the wind will pollinate them. And then lift it up when you want to 884 01:02:08.320 --> 01:02:13.079 harvest, and you just create a screen ports keeps out stink bugs. That's 885 01:02:13.199 --> 01:02:16.039 one example. One idea you learned from it. You got something new. 886 01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:21.599 Talk to your friends, talk to your your neighbors at garden learn stuff. 887 01:02:22.119 --> 01:02:25.679 Go to boy our nurseries and garden centers. They are having programs all the 888 01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:30.559 time, educational programs and it's just learn, learn, learn, have fun, 889 01:02:30.639 --> 01:02:35.639 meet people and try something new. That's what it's all about. I 890 01:02:35.679 --> 01:02:40.159 wanted to just mention something about especially it's been a Sunday morning start off. 891 01:02:40.199 --> 01:02:45.760 Hope has been around for a very very long time here in Houston, changing 892 01:02:45.800 --> 01:02:49.599 lives. And for those of you who are compassionate, and I would say 893 01:02:49.599 --> 01:02:52.440 that all of you have compassion and you want you want to help people that 894 01:02:52.559 --> 01:02:54.719 are in need of help, but you want to help in a way that 895 01:02:54.880 --> 01:03:01.880 makes a difference, not that's just something that helps for a day and then 896 01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:06.719 it didn't do much else other than that. 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That's 912 01:04:13.920 --> 01:04:17.199 why I so strongly recommend that. By the way, if you'd like to 913 01:04:17.199 --> 01:04:21.199 give us a call, our phone number is seven to one three two one 914 01:04:21.239 --> 01:04:28.000 two fifty eight seventy four seven one three two one two five eight seven four. 915 01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:30.559 Listen. If you're out in Kingwood, you've got Warren's and Kingwood Garden 916 01:04:30.599 --> 01:04:34.360 Center right out there on your doorstep, and they are stocked up with all 917 01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:39.280 the things you need to help your plants recover that just got hammered in the 918 01:04:39.280 --> 01:04:42.440 freeze we had. As they begin to grow, you're going to want to 919 01:04:42.480 --> 01:04:46.239 do things like drench an ocean harvest, drench over for microlife on those plant 920 01:04:46.320 --> 01:04:49.320 roots, or maybe add a six two four, which is the green bag 921 01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:54.079 of microlife on around the plants. Well, they out of Kingwood and Warren's 922 01:04:54.119 --> 01:04:57.920 Garden Center, they've got that set up all ready to go. They're stocked 923 01:04:58.000 --> 01:05:00.880 up and they're ready for you to get your plan that's going again. They've 924 01:05:00.920 --> 01:05:03.159 got seeds for the spring garden. I was just talking about that, all 925 01:05:03.199 --> 01:05:09.000 of them at Warren's Garden Center and Kingwood Garden Center out in the Kingwood area. 926 01:05:09.440 --> 01:05:12.119 If you haven't been by there recently, you need to check it out 927 01:05:12.119 --> 01:05:15.760 because there's always something cool and new going on there. We're going to take 928 01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:18.119 a break right now. Our phone number again seven one three two one two 929 01:05:18.440 --> 01:05:21.199 fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh a call. He'll get you on the 930 01:05:21.199 --> 01:05:27.719 board and you'll be first when we come back. Welcome back to Garden Line. 931 01:05:27.760 --> 01:05:30.679 We're glad you're here today, and we're talking about whatever you're interested in. 932 01:05:30.760 --> 01:05:33.199 That's kind of how it works here. Of course, I've got my 933 01:05:33.280 --> 01:05:38.400 topics I like to toss out there. But what's your question? Seven one 934 01:05:38.440 --> 01:05:42.440 three two one two five eight seven four. We're going to talk to John. 935 01:05:42.559 --> 01:05:45.199 John. Are you in Colorado or Colorado County? No, I'm I'm 936 01:05:45.239 --> 01:05:51.159 at my Myerland home and I had a three removed and the stump ground down 937 01:05:51.239 --> 01:05:56.239 and to the ground as far as I could go, and it's formed this 938 01:05:56.559 --> 01:06:01.840 lovely maple syrup lake. Boy, that's not good. That's not no, 939 01:06:01.960 --> 01:06:10.760 it's not so. What are some remedies or ideas? How big is the 940 01:06:10.840 --> 01:06:15.440 area? How far across is it? It's six foot by ten foot. 941 01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:18.719 Yeah, I think I would. I would bring soil in and bring it 942 01:06:18.800 --> 01:06:24.199 up to the level of the soil where there isn't a lake around it. 943 01:06:24.840 --> 01:06:30.679 Uh. Just just need to put anything, put anything in to neutralize the 944 01:06:30.719 --> 01:06:34.440 tannins. No, don't worry about that. They'll decompose, uh and it'll 945 01:06:34.599 --> 01:06:40.719 it won't last long that. That unfortunately, is just the case. And 946 01:06:40.840 --> 01:06:45.840 also when you get organic matter decaying in in anaerobic conditions, sometimes you'll get 947 01:06:45.840 --> 01:06:48.800 that kind of color too. But I would, I would bring the soil 948 01:06:48.880 --> 01:06:51.719 level up. I think that's your real solution. I would mound it up 949 01:06:51.800 --> 01:06:55.800 a little bit because it's going to settle more. How long ago did you 950 01:06:55.840 --> 01:07:00.599 grind the stump? Uh? Two? We okay? Yeah? Yeah, 951 01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:04.000 So when you when you put this in, don't just make it level. 952 01:07:04.599 --> 01:07:09.400 Mound it a little bit there because it will settle down kind of like you 953 01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:11.760 know, if you ever dug a trench and filled it with soil and then 954 01:07:11.840 --> 01:07:15.280 later it was sunken in you know, as you're still settled, and that's 955 01:07:15.280 --> 01:07:18.840 what's going to happen, is that how long before I put a citrus in 956 01:07:20.360 --> 01:07:28.360 in the very same spot do it? I would, you know, there's 957 01:07:28.360 --> 01:07:30.440 no rush in getting a citrus out there. Once it warms up, you 958 01:07:30.440 --> 01:07:33.000 can plant a citrus. So I would give it if you could. Let's 959 01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:35.920 just say today you got all the soil in there and leveled it out. 960 01:07:36.480 --> 01:07:44.239 I would say probably about a month from now then you would you would probably 961 01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:47.519 have some of the settling going on, especially as if you kind of tamping 962 01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:51.960 it down, a little bit of settling in so it's going to continue to 963 01:07:53.000 --> 01:07:56.559 settle over time. So I still would have that mound, and with the 964 01:07:56.599 --> 01:07:59.800 citrus, even more reason to have the mound, because if it's sunk down 965 01:07:59.840 --> 01:08:03.079 and it still was a low spot, that citrus would be really unhappy in 966 01:08:03.119 --> 01:08:09.800 what you're describing right there. Yeah, I had orange that I set too 967 01:08:09.840 --> 01:08:15.719 low, and the orange is just I talked to Randy about this years ago. 968 01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:21.359 The oranges just had this funny smell to the juice. Oh okay, 969 01:08:23.000 --> 01:08:28.239 Well, create a mound. I might even go you know, since that 970 01:08:28.359 --> 01:08:31.359 area is prone to standing water, you could even have a mound that goes 971 01:08:31.439 --> 01:08:34.760 up, you know, ten inches high above the soil around it, or 972 01:08:34.760 --> 01:08:41.960 twelve. And there was the tree mound was up about sixteen inches. Okay, 973 01:08:43.199 --> 01:08:47.079 yeah, so I mean we tear us down so the machine could get 974 01:08:47.399 --> 01:08:53.039 as low as possible. But it was a really big live Okay, well, 975 01:08:53.119 --> 01:08:55.279 I'm sorry you lost that tree. That sounded like a good one, 976 01:08:55.319 --> 01:09:00.439 but I would Yeah, And you could also put in the soil to level 977 01:09:00.479 --> 01:09:02.720 it out, considering you're going higher than level for now, and then you 978 01:09:02.760 --> 01:09:08.159 could put a ring in around the ground and plant your put soil in it 979 01:09:08.239 --> 01:09:11.399 and plant your ceterrus in that. That could bring it up another foot. 980 01:09:11.880 --> 01:09:14.760 And that way, when you're mowing around it and weed eating, you know 981 01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:18.560 you're staying away from that ceterus. Thank you much, sir, Thank you 982 01:09:18.640 --> 01:09:23.920 John. Good luck with that. Appreciate that call very much for sure. 983 01:09:24.560 --> 01:09:27.680 Yeah, and you know, when you're looking for a quality mix like that, 984 01:09:27.880 --> 01:09:30.920 I know John's down, You're done. South. I should have mentioned 985 01:09:30.960 --> 01:09:33.840 this Genrele you're on the phone. But Ciena Maltch is down there north of 986 01:09:33.920 --> 01:09:39.279 Rose Sharon. They're on FM five twenty one near where Highway six and two 987 01:09:39.319 --> 01:09:43.600 eighty eight come together, South Houston, and they have all kinds of things 988 01:09:43.800 --> 01:09:46.119 that yes, they do have soil blends, they've got compost blends, they've 989 01:09:46.159 --> 01:09:50.600 got multch blends, and they do delivery within about twenty miles of their location 990 01:09:50.760 --> 01:09:56.640 down there. It's ninety six fifteen FM five twenty one. Or do this. 991 01:09:56.880 --> 01:10:01.279 Just go to the website Sienna Mulch and when you're there, you're going 992 01:10:01.319 --> 01:10:04.399 to find the fertilizers that I recommend on garden line. You're going to find 993 01:10:04.439 --> 01:10:10.359 products to control weeds and diseases and insects and other things. Cienamltch just keeps 994 01:10:10.359 --> 01:10:14.560 everything in stock so for all of you down through that whole region near Brasispin 995 01:10:14.680 --> 01:10:17.279 State Park. You know, Meridian, Pomona, Manville, Iowa, Colony, 996 01:10:17.760 --> 01:10:23.119 Quil Valley, Riverstone, all those areas down there, Paarland, Cienamulch, 997 01:10:23.279 --> 01:10:26.159 cinamultch dot com. That's where you're going to find it. And they 998 01:10:26.279 --> 01:10:30.399 carry again a wide variety of things moltz, soil, compost, sand, 999 01:10:30.560 --> 01:10:38.279 gravel stone, it's all there at CNMLS. I love to go visit there 1000 01:10:38.560 --> 01:10:42.760 that It's just always fun. They I'm always impressed with the rocks too. 1001 01:10:43.439 --> 01:10:48.039 This year I think I'm going to add a rock patio area outside my patio. 1002 01:10:48.119 --> 01:10:51.720 And this is not like concrete. This is just stone that is set 1003 01:10:51.800 --> 01:10:58.479 down in a decomposed granite kind of base and get the stones out there, 1004 01:10:58.720 --> 01:11:01.800 just to have a hard scale area where we can do some additional things outside. 1005 01:11:02.439 --> 01:11:05.880 Let's head out now to Cyprus and we're going to talk to Bruce. 1006 01:11:05.960 --> 01:11:10.760 Hello, Bruce, how are you there? Thanks for taking the call here. 1007 01:11:11.720 --> 01:11:16.600 Hey, I've got i'd call them pot bellied Mexican ceramic type pots about 1008 01:11:16.640 --> 01:11:20.640 putting half high and foot and half wide. They belly out in the middle. 1009 01:11:20.960 --> 01:11:24.960 Yes, And I don't know what's been in those for years, Probably 1010 01:11:25.000 --> 01:11:28.119 a lot of potty soil, don't know anything about it. I thought I 1011 01:11:28.159 --> 01:11:30.640 need to clear that out and start fresh, and I'd like to get some 1012 01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:34.520 dreams started in there. Yeah, and looking for what I ought to put 1013 01:11:34.560 --> 01:11:38.640 in those, the hole was quite a bit of soil. Whatever you put 1014 01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:43.039 it would have drains at the bottom. So do you think they hold about 1015 01:11:43.039 --> 01:11:46.279 five five gallons soiled? What do you mean by quite a bit? Well, 1016 01:11:46.279 --> 01:11:48.479 they're foot and a half high and the foot and a half across, 1017 01:11:48.920 --> 01:11:53.720 belly out in the middle, we would hold close to gallons. Yeah. 1018 01:11:53.760 --> 01:11:58.439 Well, uh, the folks at Airloom have something called the works. It's 1019 01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:00.640 a potting soil that you could put in there with a pot that size. 1020 01:12:01.439 --> 01:12:04.920 Sorry, what was the name of that place you just mentioned. Oh, 1021 01:12:05.039 --> 01:12:10.279 Heirloom is the company that produces that out in Porter. But the bags of 1022 01:12:10.319 --> 01:12:13.960 potting soil are sold all over up there in Cyprus. You're going to find 1023 01:12:14.000 --> 01:12:16.359 them. You got a couple of great two or three great Ace Hardware stores. 1024 01:12:17.119 --> 01:12:20.920 Langham Creek's far from there, the one up on Jones Road. There's 1025 01:12:20.960 --> 01:12:25.239 an M and D up a little further north than that. There are lots 1026 01:12:25.279 --> 01:12:28.119 of good Ace hardware is just go to Ace Hardware dot com you can find 1027 01:12:28.119 --> 01:12:33.119 them. But they carry those soils. Isloom the name of the body soil. 1028 01:12:33.479 --> 01:12:39.600 It's the name of the company. The specific soil that I was first 1029 01:12:39.600 --> 01:12:45.359 saying was called the works and it's a potting soil by Heirloom. They also 1030 01:12:45.800 --> 01:12:48.079 make something called a veggie and irbex that you know. I know it says 1031 01:12:48.119 --> 01:12:51.159 veggie and herb, but you could even mix it in a little bit too, 1032 01:12:51.760 --> 01:12:56.000 especially when you're getting a large volume of soil like that, because you 1033 01:12:56.159 --> 01:13:00.359 kind of you're going from a little container of potting soil to a large tiner. 1034 01:13:00.479 --> 01:13:03.319 You know that's going to have a little bit more chunkier mission. You 1035 01:13:03.359 --> 01:13:06.800 put just all potting soil that one type in here? Do you put any 1036 01:13:09.520 --> 01:13:12.640 I just know, just use that potting soil. You want every square inch 1037 01:13:12.720 --> 01:13:15.560 of that pot to have stuff the roots to live in. That's important. 1038 01:13:15.840 --> 01:13:19.720 Now, uh, pig geraniums look good to me. Do you have to 1039 01:13:19.760 --> 01:13:23.800 buy plants or do you start those from seeds? How do you get would 1040 01:13:23.880 --> 01:13:26.760 I would just go, I would just go buy the plants. You're up 1041 01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:30.720 close, you could. You're not far away from Arborgate and plants for all 1042 01:13:30.760 --> 01:13:35.079 seasons, and they will have a wonderful selection of geraniums that do really really 1043 01:13:35.119 --> 01:13:42.680 well for you. Just just go and very good tip for me. I 1044 01:13:42.680 --> 01:13:45.680 appreciate the information. All right, thank you very much. I appreciate your 1045 01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:48.680 call very much. By the way, when you're doing any of these kind 1046 01:13:48.680 --> 01:13:54.159 of plantings, you want to get you some Medina plus and Medina seaweed because 1047 01:13:54.159 --> 01:13:57.399 you're going to drench it in around the plants when you plant them, and 1048 01:13:57.439 --> 01:14:00.520 then as the as they begin to grow, you're going to spray the seaweed 1049 01:14:00.560 --> 01:14:03.399 on the foliage. Medina products a lot of them out there, But that's 1050 01:14:03.399 --> 01:14:09.920 what we've been telling people about the way for freeze recovery and given those plants 1051 01:14:09.920 --> 01:14:14.319 a boost. That's certainly putting in new geraniums that John was talking about. 1052 01:14:14.399 --> 01:14:18.560 I would highly recommend that Medina Plus and Medina seaweed a good combination. I'll 1053 01:14:18.560 --> 01:14:23.239 tell about more Medina products if we go through the spring that they have a 1054 01:14:23.319 --> 01:14:28.079 really good, good selection. Well, you're listening to garden Line. We're 1055 01:14:28.079 --> 01:14:30.159 about to take a break for the news at the top of the hour. 1056 01:14:30.640 --> 01:14:36.800 Our theme today is try something new. What have you tried new that you 1057 01:14:36.960 --> 01:14:42.520 just found outstanding and now it's become a staple part of Haya garden. Is 1058 01:14:42.560 --> 01:14:45.399 it a plant, is it a technique of gardening? Is it a particular 1059 01:14:45.479 --> 01:14:49.439 variety or a particular type of soil, or you name it. We want 1060 01:14:49.479 --> 01:14:53.359 to hear about it, and we'll be right back at seven one three, 1061 01:14:53.520 --> 01:15:00.560 two, one two, five eight seven four katrh Garden. It does not 1062 01:15:00.640 --> 01:15:05.399 necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to 1063 01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:25.760 Katy r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's just watch him as so many good 1064 01:15:25.840 --> 01:15:34.239 things to supposing. Welcome back to guard Line. We're glad you have tuned 1065 01:15:34.239 --> 01:15:39.800 in today. We're going to give you some inspiration that that is one of 1066 01:15:39.800 --> 01:15:45.680 my goals on garden line is to encourage you to try things in gardening and 1067 01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:51.039 to enjoy your garden. Gardening is not rocket science. It is It is 1068 01:15:51.119 --> 01:15:57.319 not something that only the talented and elite can do. It is not something 1069 01:15:57.359 --> 01:16:01.159 that only people with green thumbs can do. Gardening is simple. It is 1070 01:16:01.279 --> 01:16:08.239 life science and their principles. Sunshines on leaves and makes carbohydrates and fuels everything 1071 01:16:08.279 --> 01:16:12.920 that happens in a plant. Roots take up water and nutrients, but need 1072 01:16:12.960 --> 01:16:16.560 oxygen in order to thrive. Soil is the most important thing you do to 1073 01:16:16.600 --> 01:16:19.920 have success in gardening, making the best soil. You can see what I'm 1074 01:16:19.920 --> 01:16:24.760 talking about. It's really not that difficult. And we can help you do 1075 01:16:24.800 --> 01:16:27.000 that. And I want you to be encouraged. I don't want you to 1076 01:16:27.039 --> 01:16:30.880 feel like, you know, I can't grow things. Other people go you 1077 01:16:30.960 --> 01:16:33.479 can grow things. I promise you you can't. Let's help you do that. 1078 01:16:33.720 --> 01:16:39.279 We're going to start off by going out to Conroe and talking to Jim. 1079 01:16:39.560 --> 01:16:44.239 Hello, Jim, Hello, Skip, could you hear me? Yes, 1080 01:16:44.279 --> 01:16:49.439 sir? Okay, Hey, yeah, I had that shutgun leaf disease 1081 01:16:49.479 --> 01:16:53.960 on my peach this year and it just kind of decimated it. Okay, 1082 01:16:53.960 --> 01:16:58.039 wondering if it's worth saving or if I can go do something now to spray 1083 01:16:58.079 --> 01:17:02.159 it with either a copper fund a side or something. Yes, what that's 1084 01:17:02.199 --> 01:17:06.439 called is that's called shothole, and it is a fungus that for those who 1085 01:17:06.479 --> 01:17:10.760 are not familiar with it, it causes spots on your peach leaves and as 1086 01:17:10.800 --> 01:17:14.159 the leaf moves around in the wind, those spots have dried and they fall 1087 01:17:14.199 --> 01:17:16.600 out and it looks like you shot a leave with a shotgun, as you 1088 01:17:16.680 --> 01:17:23.319 know, Jim, And that is a fungus. And copper sprays are one 1089 01:17:23.359 --> 01:17:26.760 way we control it, but we put them on before the peach starts to 1090 01:17:26.840 --> 01:17:32.119 grow, so you're applying them to the dormant tree. If you will contact 1091 01:17:32.279 --> 01:17:38.119 your Montgomery County Extension office, talk to the master gardeners or Michael Potter, 1092 01:17:38.199 --> 01:17:44.399 the horticulture agent there, they can get you pointed to a publication on the 1093 01:17:44.399 --> 01:17:47.520 Homeowner's Guide to peach spraying. It kind of tells you what to use and 1094 01:17:47.560 --> 01:17:53.199 when. And one of those is dealing with that fungus by putting on a 1095 01:17:53.239 --> 01:17:59.119 dormant copper spray and so that as the buds are coming out. The particular 1096 01:17:59.199 --> 01:18:02.159 problem that's a ocurring. It takes care of them and it minimizes them. 1097 01:18:02.199 --> 01:18:08.760 Some varieties are really bad about that disease. The old Sam Houston peach is 1098 01:18:08.800 --> 01:18:16.920 really prone to that problem, But in general it's it's mainly something that's a 1099 01:18:17.000 --> 01:18:21.319 nuisance and not a big deal. Now, if your tree is just hammered 1100 01:18:21.359 --> 01:18:26.520 by it and struggling, I would think about maybe doing a little extra fertilizing 1101 01:18:26.600 --> 01:18:30.479 and getting a little more vigor in the tree so that it kind of outgrows 1102 01:18:30.479 --> 01:18:32.560 the problem. You know, you're going to lose some spots here and there, 1103 01:18:32.640 --> 01:18:36.279 but overall you're building a lot of good, healthy foliage and it sort 1104 01:18:36.319 --> 01:18:46.239 of overcomes the problem. You there, did I lose Jim? Okay, 1105 01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:55.199 yes, I got some backwash here. I had white flies all over my 1106 01:18:55.760 --> 01:18:59.079 hearty at biscus this year, and it just kind of beat them up really 1107 01:18:59.119 --> 01:19:00.840 bad. I was wondering ifre's anything I do to prevent it this year. 1108 01:19:01.880 --> 01:19:05.920 There's not a great prevention. Here's the deal on white flies. When we 1109 01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:11.920 go after them with insecticides, we kill things that keep white flies in check, 1110 01:19:12.479 --> 01:19:16.000 and then it becomes us and our spray wand versus the white flies, 1111 01:19:16.039 --> 01:19:18.880 and we're having a spray and spray and spray to try to stay ahead of 1112 01:19:18.960 --> 01:19:27.319 them. I would instead try to do this the white flies that they create 1113 01:19:27.359 --> 01:19:30.359 eggs underneath the leaf with little pupa that form underneath the leaf, and they 1114 01:19:30.359 --> 01:19:34.039 look like a little tiny fish scales if you will. They're a little round, 1115 01:19:34.279 --> 01:19:38.039 but they're like stuck to the top of the leaf. Round and flat, 1116 01:19:38.119 --> 01:19:40.439 as if you had a fish scale that was dried on the leaf. 1117 01:19:40.880 --> 01:19:45.159 But the size of like a little lowercase typed zero. I'm very small. 1118 01:19:45.399 --> 01:19:49.920 I'm sorry, I say no. Can you hear me? Can you hear 1119 01:19:49.960 --> 01:19:55.039 me? Yes? I can hear you. Okay. So what I would 1120 01:19:55.079 --> 01:20:00.439 do is I would get horticultural oil and insecticidal soap those kind of spray and 1121 01:20:00.439 --> 01:20:04.680 spray them upward from under the plant to coat the bottom of the leaf and 1122 01:20:05.119 --> 01:20:10.960 try to use that as your management technique and realize that the natural enemies will 1123 01:20:10.960 --> 01:20:15.119 come in and bring the white flies under control. But you got to not 1124 01:20:15.760 --> 01:20:20.600 use the I don't want to say toxic, but the poison type insecticide. 1125 01:20:20.680 --> 01:20:25.920 You know, the oil and soap smother and they dissolve waxy coatings and things 1126 01:20:25.920 --> 01:20:30.279 they don't poison, And so they're going to be the safest thing to use 1127 01:20:30.560 --> 01:20:32.560 to try to get them under control. But it's going to be a process 1128 01:20:32.840 --> 01:20:39.960 and they won't always be as bad as they are now, Okay, well, 1129 01:20:40.000 --> 01:20:42.560 appreciate it all right, Thank you, Jim. I appreciate that. 1130 01:20:42.600 --> 01:20:47.439 I appreciate your call very much. Let's go out to Greg now and northwest 1131 01:20:47.439 --> 01:20:53.840 Eastern Hey, Greg? Hello? Greg? Yes, sir? Can you 1132 01:20:53.880 --> 01:20:56.720 hear me? Yes, sir? Okay, sorry, I set the phone 1133 01:20:56.760 --> 01:21:02.199 down. Well, ago, I caught a little bit of a lecture you 1134 01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:06.520 gave. I think it was when you weren't getting so many calls on how 1135 01:21:06.640 --> 01:21:14.000 you like to use some variety of hose to weed a garden, and uh, 1136 01:21:14.479 --> 01:21:16.800 it just sounded like a sharp idea that you know, the concept I've 1137 01:21:16.800 --> 01:21:20.119 been following for a while has been, you know, using a trowel and 1138 01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:25.880 digging up the weeds. So I got the roots and uh uh, you 1139 01:21:25.920 --> 01:21:28.319 know, with a knee pad and just working my way around. But it's 1140 01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:30.760 so time consuming that seems like by the time I get to one end, 1141 01:21:31.319 --> 01:21:36.560 the others have already started spouting weeds again. So yeah, uh, what 1142 01:21:36.720 --> 01:21:40.680 you mentioned sounded a whole lot more efficient. But I just want to understand 1143 01:21:41.399 --> 01:21:44.880 strategy a little better, right, So if you could refer me to where 1144 01:21:44.880 --> 01:21:45.960 you where you did that before, and I could look it up, or 1145 01:21:46.239 --> 01:21:49.720 I'll just I'll just there are people that didn't hear it, and I'll just 1146 01:21:49.760 --> 01:21:55.039 say it again so people can can hear that. I grew up with the 1147 01:21:55.119 --> 01:21:59.439 old standard type of garden hoe. It's someone if you say picture of garden 1148 01:21:59.439 --> 01:22:04.079 ho it's what everybody pictures. And those, yeah, a flat edge at 1149 01:22:04.119 --> 01:22:11.359 a ninety degree angle to the handle, And so those are great for moving 1150 01:22:11.479 --> 01:22:15.199 soil, like if you're healing up your potatoes, are good for chopping out 1151 01:22:15.319 --> 01:22:17.680 big weeds that are already an established big weed, getting it out of the 1152 01:22:17.720 --> 01:22:21.920 ground. But they're not the kind of hoe that I use now. I 1153 01:22:21.960 --> 01:22:27.119 mean, I have some, and I'll use them for those purposes. But 1154 01:22:27.199 --> 01:22:32.600 the key to making weeding easier with a hoe is to get a hoe that 1155 01:22:33.239 --> 01:22:41.319 has a more Let's see, it's designed to slice just under the soil surface 1156 01:22:41.439 --> 01:22:46.199 horizontally. So imagine this flat, sharp blade that you're skimming like a half 1157 01:22:46.239 --> 01:22:50.600 inch under the soil surface horizontally, and you're severing the roots, but you're 1158 01:22:50.600 --> 01:22:55.359 not turning new soil over to bring new seeds to the surface and just start 1159 01:22:55.359 --> 01:22:59.760 the process again. And the one I like best is called a diamond, 1160 01:23:00.680 --> 01:23:05.720 and it's like a real long, narrow diamond. It's about four or five 1161 01:23:05.760 --> 01:23:12.119 inch maybe five inches or so wide across and about maybe an inch and a 1162 01:23:12.119 --> 01:23:15.079 half two inches maybe two inches deep, and all four sides are sharp. 1163 01:23:15.119 --> 01:23:19.319 It's got those corner points. And when you're using it, instead of chopping 1164 01:23:19.439 --> 01:23:24.199 like you picture the regular hoe where you're bent over chopping, this one, 1165 01:23:24.239 --> 01:23:31.199 you're standing up and it's almost like you're almost like you're either sweeping or mopping 1166 01:23:31.479 --> 01:23:35.439 kind of thing with it. It's like you're sliding it under the surface and 1167 01:23:35.479 --> 01:23:39.960 you don't stoop to use it, and you can get all around. It's 1168 01:23:40.039 --> 01:23:43.840 very precision, and again it doesn't disturb the swid a lot. But you 1169 01:23:43.920 --> 01:23:45.920 got to do that before the weeds are big, because once you've got a 1170 01:23:46.000 --> 01:23:49.840 really thick, strong, woody stemmed weed, you're not gonna be able to 1171 01:23:49.880 --> 01:23:53.680 chop it. Greg, I'm going to need to take a break here. 1172 01:23:53.840 --> 01:23:57.399 Let me finish that, sent that answer when we come back. Just hang 1173 01:23:57.439 --> 01:24:00.279 on sure, all right. Our phone number is seven three two one two 1174 01:24:00.359 --> 01:24:05.720 fifty eight seventy four. Hello, and welcome to garden Line. We're glad 1175 01:24:05.760 --> 01:24:09.680 you're listening. I'm your host, Skip Richter. And right now we are 1176 01:24:09.760 --> 01:24:15.439 on the phone with Greg talking about some of the more advanced type of garden 1177 01:24:15.520 --> 01:24:18.159 hoe. So what we were talking about is the diamond hoe, Greg, 1178 01:24:18.399 --> 01:24:25.640 and I like it because I'm standing up straight instead of holding the like a 1179 01:24:25.680 --> 01:24:28.840 hoe shovel, where I don't know how to describe this, where your thumbs 1180 01:24:28.840 --> 01:24:31.560 are pointing down toward the handle, toward the hoe, your thumbs are pointing 1181 01:24:31.640 --> 01:24:34.279 upward toward the end of the handle, and it's like you would hold a 1182 01:24:34.279 --> 01:24:38.680 broom to sweep, and you're just kind of you're going through there and doing 1183 01:24:38.760 --> 01:24:43.479 some some brushing through like that. It works really well when when they're small. 1184 01:24:43.560 --> 01:24:45.439 The most important thing though, for weed control is to have a mulch 1185 01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:49.319 on the soil. So the minute you get through chopping out the weeds, 1186 01:24:50.079 --> 01:24:54.359 I like to refer to it as almost brushing them out the way you're using 1187 01:24:54.399 --> 01:24:58.199 the hoe, then you throw a mulch over the surface. Because if the 1188 01:24:58.239 --> 01:25:00.640 sunlight hits the soil, weeds we'll come back up. We're going to have 1189 01:25:00.680 --> 01:25:05.199 new seeds coming in, and that dis plagues you to more work. Do 1190 01:25:05.319 --> 01:25:09.640 you use a pre emergent before the molt or on top of the molt. 1191 01:25:09.720 --> 01:25:13.079 I wouldn't use a pre emergent if I'm using a mulch. Is this a 1192 01:25:13.159 --> 01:25:16.319 vegetable garden or what are we talking about? If it's flower garden, flower 1193 01:25:16.359 --> 01:25:21.239 garden. There are some pre emergents that you can use. Here's the problem. 1194 01:25:21.680 --> 01:25:26.920 You can't disturb the soil after you use a pre emergent because it creates 1195 01:25:27.039 --> 01:25:30.239 like a barrier, a force field if you will over the top of the 1196 01:25:30.279 --> 01:25:33.720 soil that stops weeds from coming through. But when you want to go in 1197 01:25:33.800 --> 01:25:39.319 later and plant weeds or flower seeds like zendias or something, it'll stop them 1198 01:25:39.359 --> 01:25:44.239 from growing too. So I generally don't use a pre emergent in flower beds. 1199 01:25:44.960 --> 01:25:47.119 If you were going to get it all planted and everything and then put 1200 01:25:47.159 --> 01:25:50.199 a pre emergent down, that would be fine. But I just think it's 1201 01:25:50.199 --> 01:25:56.039 better to mulch because there's other reasons to mulch. You prevent soil from crusting, 1202 01:25:56.119 --> 01:25:59.720 from washing away, from splashing on your plants, and if you just 1203 01:25:59.760 --> 01:26:03.640 put enough to block the sunlight and don't let the soil surface receive sunlight. 1204 01:26:04.640 --> 01:26:09.319 All the weed sieeds you've got them under control. Now. Perennial weed like 1205 01:26:09.399 --> 01:26:12.720 nut grass or bermuda grass, Yeah, that'll come through mulch, but weed 1206 01:26:12.760 --> 01:26:17.600 seeds won't. Hi, I'm with you. What dimensions on that diamond holl 1207 01:26:18.159 --> 01:26:23.560 Oh? I don't know, you know, I think it's about five inches 1208 01:26:23.680 --> 01:26:29.319 across and maybe a couple of inches high. We're Europe in northwest Houston. 1209 01:26:29.760 --> 01:26:33.560 Well, either the Langham Creek or Jones Road where the hardwarees I might go 1210 01:26:33.600 --> 01:26:36.600 to, or yeah, you know, they they may well have it. 1211 01:26:36.640 --> 01:26:40.840 I have not looked for that particular hoe there. I didn't think about that, 1212 01:26:41.199 --> 01:26:43.720 but I would talk to them and see see what they have it. 1213 01:26:45.359 --> 01:26:49.199 Do you have a different place you directly on? Well, I'm trying to 1214 01:26:49.199 --> 01:26:55.399 think of where I saw. I saw some at Southwest Fertilizer, which is 1215 01:26:55.720 --> 01:27:01.399 you know, down Bissonett and Runwick Way south of you. I don't know 1216 01:27:01.439 --> 01:27:05.079 where else they carry them, but diamond. Do this first, go online, 1217 01:27:05.159 --> 01:27:10.159 do a search for diamond hoe and you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. 1218 01:27:10.239 --> 01:27:12.920 Then you know what you're looking for. You just want to keep it 1219 01:27:12.960 --> 01:27:15.720 sharp. But if you've if you've got an area of soil that you're trying 1220 01:27:15.720 --> 01:27:18.640 to keep weed free. It's just easy because I don't know, if you've 1221 01:27:18.720 --> 01:27:23.359 used a regular hoe very long, your back starts to hurt from that stooping. 1222 01:27:23.960 --> 01:27:27.159 Yes, and I would much rather stand up right and do it. 1223 01:27:27.199 --> 01:27:30.520 And it works good. And there's there's also versions of it on a little 1224 01:27:30.520 --> 01:27:32.199 handle, so if you're on your hands and knees and you just you know, 1225 01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:35.960 kind of just brushing through there, cleaning it all out, it works 1226 01:27:36.000 --> 01:27:42.600 really well for that. All right, Okay, I'll give it a try. 1227 01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:45.640 Thanks, sir. I appreciate that call very much. Our phone number 1228 01:27:45.680 --> 01:27:49.000 is seven to one three two one two fifty eight seventy four seven one three 1229 01:27:49.079 --> 01:27:55.560 two one two five eight seven four. Give us a call. We'll talk 1230 01:27:55.600 --> 01:28:00.319 about the things that interest You've ran by our c of you nurse the other 1231 01:28:00.399 --> 01:28:02.039 day just to you know, stop in, say hi, check on things 1232 01:28:02.119 --> 01:28:06.319 going there, and they're stocked up on all the things you need to deal 1233 01:28:06.359 --> 01:28:10.239 with the cold that we just had. Do you need you know, do 1234 01:28:10.279 --> 01:28:13.119 you need some of that ocean harvest, You need some hummates to put down? 1235 01:28:13.600 --> 01:28:16.039 Do you need to buy some frostcloth for the next freezer? Frost that 1236 01:28:16.119 --> 01:28:19.159 shows up. It's always good to have it on hand because listen, when 1237 01:28:19.479 --> 01:28:24.079 when freezes and frosts are forecast, that is not the time to be out 1238 01:28:24.159 --> 01:28:28.520 trying to find supplies while everybody else is out trying to find supplies. Boy, 1239 01:28:28.520 --> 01:28:31.880 do they ever have roses at RCW. By the way, for those 1240 01:28:31.920 --> 01:28:36.000 of you who don't know RCW, that's the nursery where Tombol Parkway, which 1241 01:28:36.039 --> 01:28:40.640 is Highway two forty nine comes into belt Way eight. It's right there, 1242 01:28:40.680 --> 01:28:44.119 real easy to get to, very very easy to get to. RCW Nursries 1243 01:28:44.119 --> 01:28:47.560 dot com. They're rose List. I think it's probably four or six pages 1244 01:28:47.600 --> 01:28:51.800 long, single space. I mean, it is a ton of roses. 1245 01:28:51.800 --> 01:28:57.800 And boy I was out and looking and they had to just containers and containers 1246 01:28:57.800 --> 01:29:01.640 of roses, all potted up and ready to go. If you are interested 1247 01:29:01.720 --> 01:29:08.079 in a good quality rose bush, or really any any of the woody ornamentals 1248 01:29:08.079 --> 01:29:11.920 you know, crape, myrtles and trees and whatnot. RCW Nursery grows their 1249 01:29:11.960 --> 01:29:17.079 own trees here locally and out in the oh gosh, Plantersville area, and 1250 01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:21.279 so they have a good selection and they plant things that you should plant here, 1251 01:29:21.479 --> 01:29:25.119 not things that don't belong here, so you can trust what they have 1252 01:29:25.560 --> 01:29:30.720 that it's going to do well here at RCW Nurseries. Go to RCW Nurseries 1253 01:29:30.760 --> 01:29:32.520 dot com. You can find out more. See what I'm talking about. 1254 01:29:33.000 --> 01:29:35.680 I always like to do that. You know I've been talking. I mentioned 1255 01:29:35.680 --> 01:29:39.920 that RCW had the Ocean Harvest. You know, Microlife has a lot of 1256 01:29:39.920 --> 01:29:45.680 different products that are helpful in our plants coming out of a freeze. The 1257 01:29:45.760 --> 01:29:49.119 Ocean Harvest is one. That's one that's a fish based material. We drench 1258 01:29:49.199 --> 01:29:55.159 it into the soil right now and get it down the root system. Put 1259 01:29:55.159 --> 01:29:58.840 down their green bag, which is what we think of as the lawn fertilizer, 1260 01:29:59.319 --> 01:30:00.800 but it's good for anything you're going to grow. Really, it's a 1261 01:30:00.800 --> 01:30:04.279 green bag. It's a six two four and that gives a longer term feeding, 1262 01:30:04.560 --> 01:30:08.680 you know. So it's the liquids are going to be available immediately. 1263 01:30:09.039 --> 01:30:13.439 They're not going to continue for weeks and weeks on, whereas the Microlife green 1264 01:30:13.479 --> 01:30:15.600 bag will and then you just come back a couple of weeks later do the 1265 01:30:15.640 --> 01:30:19.680 ocean harvest again to do it. But Microlife has a wide variety of products 1266 01:30:19.720 --> 01:30:26.359 are widely available. You can go to Microlifefertilizer dot com Microlife Fertilizer dot com. 1267 01:30:26.439 --> 01:30:28.760 You can find out where you can get them and see all the different 1268 01:30:28.760 --> 01:30:34.720 ones. I was down at the Fort Bend the Brass Home and Garden Show 1269 01:30:34.720 --> 01:30:40.840 in Fort Benk County, and someone was asking me about fertilizing a blueberry and 1270 01:30:41.000 --> 01:30:45.000 zaleas and things, and Microlife has an acidic fertilizer too, for acid loving 1271 01:30:45.079 --> 01:30:48.680 plants. So I think this person actually had a camellia that they were wanted 1272 01:30:48.720 --> 01:30:54.319 to fertilize. But whatever you're needing, they're going to have a product for. 1273 01:30:54.439 --> 01:30:57.159 It makes it real easy, really easy to take care of. By 1274 01:30:57.199 --> 01:31:00.199 the way, all those plants you have out there that have been suffering from 1275 01:31:00.239 --> 01:31:05.000 the cold, people are continuing to ask me do I cut it back? 1276 01:31:05.039 --> 01:31:09.319 Do I cut it back? And there's two answers to it. My first 1277 01:31:09.359 --> 01:31:13.560 answer is what I do, and that is leave it alone. When new 1278 01:31:13.560 --> 01:31:16.600 growth starts, the plant will tell you how far back to prune it because 1279 01:31:16.600 --> 01:31:21.439 you'll see buds coming out. The second answer for the impatient folks out there 1280 01:31:21.840 --> 01:31:26.640 is take your thumbnail or a knife and scrape the edge of the bark back 1281 01:31:27.000 --> 01:31:31.039 and look for creamy white or green underneath, that's healthy. If it's paper 1282 01:31:31.079 --> 01:31:35.880 sack brown or a grayish brown, that's dead. And just go back a 1283 01:31:35.920 --> 01:31:40.319 little further and scrape again, and go back and just cut out deadwood. 1284 01:31:40.359 --> 01:31:47.760 Don't prune into living wood yet. Pruning is stimulating process. And if this 1285 01:31:47.840 --> 01:31:53.800 is an average year, we should have another frost freeze coming, and so 1286 01:31:53.880 --> 01:31:57.800 we want to be ready for that. So that's why I'm not recommending that 1287 01:31:57.840 --> 01:32:00.399 you prune it at this time. If you got little annuals and perennials, 1288 01:32:00.399 --> 01:32:06.279 it sort of melted into just a mush. If you can stand to accept 1289 01:32:06.319 --> 01:32:11.079 the ugly for a while, just leave it. That's a protective cover over 1290 01:32:11.119 --> 01:32:14.439 the crown of the plant. When we have our next freeze. If you 1291 01:32:14.560 --> 01:32:16.800 can't look at that, take it off, clean it out, but be 1292 01:32:16.880 --> 01:32:20.600 ready with some composts to put over as a mulch over the crown of that 1293 01:32:20.640 --> 01:32:25.000 plant to protect it again. For the same reason, you can just scratch 1294 01:32:25.039 --> 01:32:27.560 it back when the new growth begins, move it out of the way. 1295 01:32:27.600 --> 01:32:30.640 A little bit accomplist is always a good thing to have. Let's go now, 1296 01:32:30.720 --> 01:32:34.159 we're going to go to Liverpool and talk to Chuck. Chuck, are 1297 01:32:34.159 --> 01:32:38.760 you and where are you, Yes, sir, are you doing this morning? 1298 01:32:39.159 --> 01:32:43.239 I'm good? Where are you located? I am down here by CHOKULD 1299 01:32:43.239 --> 01:32:49.079 buy you Okay? How can we help? Yes, I'm trying to trigger 1300 01:32:49.119 --> 01:32:55.159 out a good avocado tree that we can possibly grow and maybe keep outside around 1301 01:32:55.159 --> 01:33:00.840 here. But last year i'd purchased two of them. One of them was 1302 01:33:00.880 --> 01:33:03.920 called the Grande and the other one was called a Poncho, and they supposedly 1303 01:33:03.920 --> 01:33:08.920 had good tolerance, and when we had that hard freeze, i'd put them 1304 01:33:08.920 --> 01:33:13.600 inside the garage. But there's some air got into I guess some air got 1305 01:33:13.640 --> 01:33:15.760 into it. And when we took that bit down and the teens that killed 1306 01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:19.960 them both better the hammer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Avocado is not 1307 01:33:20.199 --> 01:33:25.399 dependably hardy here, but we do have avocados that are hardier than most, 1308 01:33:25.479 --> 01:33:29.359 and that's what you were talking about, and those are good varieties. There 1309 01:33:29.399 --> 01:33:32.079 are a number of other good varieties that are so locally in the area that 1310 01:33:32.319 --> 01:33:38.399 have more heartiness than normal. But two things that they can't handle. One 1311 01:33:38.600 --> 01:33:44.279 is we're having mild weather and they're not getting slowed down and ready for cold, 1312 01:33:44.319 --> 01:33:47.159 and then we have a hard spell that hammers them. The second thing 1313 01:33:47.359 --> 01:33:50.439 is just getting flat too cold, and it just was way too cold. 1314 01:33:50.680 --> 01:33:54.640 It's way too cold. I mean, it's one thing if it's twenty five 1315 01:33:54.680 --> 01:33:57.760 degrees, you know, it's another thing if it's twenty or below. I 1316 01:33:57.800 --> 01:34:00.319 mean that none of them are going to be able to take that without severe 1317 01:34:00.399 --> 01:34:04.159 damage. But they should re sprout and you should be back in a tree. 1318 01:34:04.159 --> 01:34:08.880 You can select one of the sprouts to be the new trunk coming up 1319 01:34:08.880 --> 01:34:13.239 out of the base. Okay, So if it kills down and then it's 1320 01:34:13.359 --> 01:34:16.439 three sprouts back out of the base below the dirt, well, then you'd 1321 01:34:16.479 --> 01:34:20.720 have to regraft again, wouldn't you if it's a grafted one, And a 1322 01:34:20.760 --> 01:34:24.560 lot of them are yes, if it comes below. But here's what we 1323 01:34:24.640 --> 01:34:27.680 do. And I know this doesn't help you after the fact, but going 1324 01:34:27.720 --> 01:34:31.479 forward, when you have an avocado like that, or any plant that has 1325 01:34:31.520 --> 01:34:36.119 a graft that may be col susceptible, you want to mound up a big 1326 01:34:36.119 --> 01:34:41.520 old cone of soil around the base for the freezing nights, for the freezing 1327 01:34:41.600 --> 01:34:45.399 knights, and then pull it back. And what that does is it keeps 1328 01:34:45.479 --> 01:34:50.159 the stem just above the graft from completely being killed and it dies back to 1329 01:34:50.199 --> 01:34:54.920 the top of the mound, but then you still have a bud. That's 1330 01:34:55.279 --> 01:34:59.239 the desired variety, see what I'm saying. Yeah, don't leave those mounds. 1331 01:34:59.399 --> 01:35:01.560 Landscapers do that around town. They put mounds up because people think they're 1332 01:35:01.560 --> 01:35:05.199 aesthetic. That is a bad practice. But just for a week or so 1333 01:35:05.439 --> 01:35:09.760 during freezing weather, you can have a mound and then just pull it back 1334 01:35:09.800 --> 01:35:15.319 away from the trunk. Right, Okay, So any as far as a 1335 01:35:15.319 --> 01:35:17.479 particular one that you would recommend yourself, or just either one of the ones 1336 01:35:17.479 --> 01:35:20.680 that I had before, you know, the ones you had before, or 1337 01:35:20.760 --> 01:35:24.920 find there's some others. I'm trying to let me do this. If you 1338 01:35:24.920 --> 01:35:30.600 will go to Aggie Horticulture website Aggie Horticulture, there's when you get there, 1339 01:35:30.600 --> 01:35:32.800 there's a fruit and nuts section, and then there's a list of a bazillion 1340 01:35:32.920 --> 01:35:38.119 different fruit plants, and there's a whole publication just on avocado that gives you 1341 01:35:38.159 --> 01:35:42.079 a bunch of additional varieties. Let's do it that way. It's free and 1342 01:35:42.239 --> 01:35:44.640 print it. You can look at it. It's real easy to do. 1343 01:35:44.720 --> 01:35:47.279 But yeah, they're fun to grow. We just have to realize that. 1344 01:35:47.520 --> 01:35:50.840 Of course you're fore, you're far enough south that where you get away with 1345 01:35:50.960 --> 01:35:54.840 what a lot of other folks around here can't get away with. All right, 1346 01:35:55.000 --> 01:35:57.399 right, all right, well, thank you. I appreciate the call. 1347 01:35:57.439 --> 01:36:00.319 I'm gonna run to break here and turn it over to NICKI if you'd 1348 01:36:00.319 --> 01:36:04.359 like to give us a call five five seven one three two one two fifty 1349 01:36:04.399 --> 01:36:10.720 eight seventy four. It helps when I give you the right number. We're 1350 01:36:10.760 --> 01:36:13.920 having a good time on the garden line, and we are glad you're listening, 1351 01:36:14.039 --> 01:36:16.760 and we're going to go straight to the calls. Right now. We're 1352 01:36:16.800 --> 01:36:19.439 going to head out to Cyprus and talk to Tigue. Hello, Tig, 1353 01:36:20.600 --> 01:36:28.760 Hello there, Skip. I have a lot of semi tropical perennials, and 1354 01:36:28.840 --> 01:36:32.800 I love them because they bloom most of the year. But in these hard 1355 01:36:32.880 --> 01:36:38.399 freezes, now four in a row, they die to the ground. You 1356 01:36:38.439 --> 01:36:40.600 know, you have to cut them to the ground. They come back. 1357 01:36:40.720 --> 01:36:45.479 But I think I want to mix in some things that will not die to 1358 01:36:45.560 --> 01:36:48.359 the ground. I just don't know what they are. You got any suggestions. 1359 01:36:48.640 --> 01:36:51.920 Oh, now, tell me a little bit more about what you're looking 1360 01:36:53.000 --> 01:37:00.119 for in a plant other than doesn't die the ground, something that flowers for 1361 01:37:00.159 --> 01:37:03.039 a long period of time. Okay, So most of the ones that I 1362 01:37:03.079 --> 01:37:10.399 have will flower. Some of them will flower literally all year and unless it 1363 01:37:10.439 --> 01:37:14.279 gets really cold. Okay, so you must have like esperanza yellow bells, 1364 01:37:14.520 --> 01:37:20.479 or the yep analia, yeah, Amelia, huh, Douranta there's another one. 1365 01:37:20.560 --> 01:37:26.600 Yep. They're wonderful. They're wonderful. Except yeah, so you're gonna 1366 01:37:26.600 --> 01:37:29.479 have to go to a shrub. And there are a number of different kinds 1367 01:37:29.520 --> 01:37:33.359 of shrubs. Uh, it just depends on you know, what you're looking 1368 01:37:33.399 --> 01:37:39.199 for. Probably evergreen would be a good one if you want to have something 1369 01:37:39.239 --> 01:37:42.279 that you can see all through the year. There are shrubs that they go 1370 01:37:42.439 --> 01:37:45.439 dormant and then they begin to bloom again and the like the spring. For 1371 01:37:45.479 --> 01:37:48.479 example, things like sparea will bloom in the spring with it's called bridal wreath 1372 01:37:48.520 --> 01:37:53.119 that has clusters of little tiny white flowers all up and down it. But 1373 01:37:53.199 --> 01:37:57.199 that's a spring bloomer, a spring only bloomer. Oleanders are going to carry 1374 01:37:57.199 --> 01:38:00.000 you through unless we have really bad cold where they can get killed back. 1375 01:38:00.039 --> 01:38:03.680 But it'll bloom in the summertime. Itex is a pretty large plant though, 1376 01:38:03.720 --> 01:38:08.920 but that's a summer bloomer. Also, that's not a little shrub. It 1377 01:38:09.039 --> 01:38:11.520 kind of depends on what you like, though. You know, in terms 1378 01:38:11.520 --> 01:38:15.479 of lots of blooms, I don't mind if they go dormant. I just 1379 01:38:15.520 --> 01:38:18.159 would rather not have to cut them to the ground. As much as I 1380 01:38:18.239 --> 01:38:20.880 do, I won't give up on what I've got. I just want to 1381 01:38:20.880 --> 01:38:26.359 mix something else in that doesn't require that. Yeah. Yeah, and this 1382 01:38:26.520 --> 01:38:30.680 is sun or shade. I didn't catch that if you said it mostly sun 1383 01:38:30.880 --> 01:38:35.159 mostly, some part part sun, part shade. Yeah. Oh boy, 1384 01:38:35.359 --> 01:38:40.079 I'm I'm drawing a blank right now. Coming up with other ideas off the 1385 01:38:40.079 --> 01:38:46.119 top of my head. Blooms Okay, well yeah, if there were more 1386 01:38:46.159 --> 01:38:49.600 of them, I probably would know them too. Yeah, well, they're 1387 01:38:49.640 --> 01:38:54.039 there. It's just there's only ten thousand plants in my brain right now. 1388 01:38:54.079 --> 01:38:59.960 The search function is not working my Google search on the brain. I've got 1389 01:39:00.079 --> 01:39:03.039 one of those hard drives too. Listen to have another question again. Earlier 1390 01:39:03.079 --> 01:39:09.760 today you were talking about putting a trellis on a west wall, which I 1391 01:39:09.920 --> 01:39:14.439 have, and I had some I had some shade there. It was becoming 1392 01:39:14.479 --> 01:39:17.920 problematic in terms of the closeness to the foundation, so I took those down. 1393 01:39:18.600 --> 01:39:23.880 And I want to I really want something that goes up for two stories, 1394 01:39:24.680 --> 01:39:29.680 and I'm I also want a vine that flowers because I like that but 1395 01:39:30.239 --> 01:39:36.199 won't freeze back. And I wanted to get your suggestions on that. Well, 1396 01:39:36.279 --> 01:39:42.720 well you're you're a mister challenging questions today for sure. So when you 1397 01:39:42.760 --> 01:39:45.039 want vines that go up like that, a lot of people will use. 1398 01:39:45.119 --> 01:39:49.920 Like the fig vine. You see that even on roadside overpass kind of walls 1399 01:39:50.000 --> 01:39:55.479 around Houston. That is pretty cul tender, though we've lost fig vine off 1400 01:39:55.479 --> 01:40:00.079 the side several times. Ivy is another one. The problem with ivy's are 1401 01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:04.239 that they are very kind of almost invasive. They'll grab onto your wood parts 1402 01:40:04.319 --> 01:40:08.960 and that's not good for the wood, the painted wood and stuff. But 1403 01:40:09.000 --> 01:40:14.520 that is an option that does that sort of thing. There are other vines 1404 01:40:14.560 --> 01:40:18.119 that I like, but they're not they don't always fill in as well, 1405 01:40:18.520 --> 01:40:25.960 like coral vine. I'm sorry, not coral vine. Oh my gosh, 1406 01:40:26.039 --> 01:40:29.079 I just went blank on it. It's one of them that I'm thinking about. 1407 01:40:29.239 --> 01:40:34.600 Is the native text and honeysuckles. Yeah, some scarlet honeysuckle. Yeah, 1408 01:40:35.039 --> 01:40:41.119 they're just not that vigorous. If you had something to grow on, 1409 01:40:41.239 --> 01:40:44.600 you could, but even get I don't think you're gonna get two stories out 1410 01:40:44.680 --> 01:40:46.880 of those. Crossvine is the one I was trying to think of. Yeah, 1411 01:40:46.920 --> 01:40:49.720 tangerine beauty, crossbine is the one I was trying to think of. 1412 01:40:50.159 --> 01:40:55.039 It's good. It tends to kind of run in a line rather than spread 1413 01:40:55.079 --> 01:41:00.319 out like an ivy would cover a wall. But crossbine is deciduous and then 1414 01:41:00.479 --> 01:41:04.960 it blooms beautifully in the spring. But it is a runner, and so 1415 01:41:05.159 --> 01:41:09.760 you, I don't know how up to a story high you're gonna you know, 1416 01:41:09.840 --> 01:41:13.880 control those vines and manage them and stuff. That's an option. There 1417 01:41:13.920 --> 01:41:16.800 are climbing roses that will do pretty good, but again you're going to have 1418 01:41:16.840 --> 01:41:21.720 to attach them to the trellis and there is some after pruning seasonally that you're 1419 01:41:21.720 --> 01:41:25.279 going to need to be doing to those. By the way, for a 1420 01:41:25.359 --> 01:41:31.000 flowering shrub rose roses beautiful. They have lots of shrub roses that are breed 1421 01:41:31.079 --> 01:41:35.319 disease resistant and they will bloom and bloom and bloom for you. That would 1422 01:41:35.319 --> 01:41:40.760 be another good option for you to consider. Good thought. Yeah, talk 1423 01:41:40.840 --> 01:41:44.159 to your where you are. You're in Cyprus, so you can go over 1424 01:41:44.199 --> 01:41:48.520 to RCW Nursery. They've got an excellent selection right where two forty nine comes 1425 01:41:48.520 --> 01:41:51.720 in to about way eight. They're not too fun. Do you like to 1426 01:41:51.720 --> 01:41:56.159 shop there? In? A rose selection is great? They have an unbelievable 1427 01:41:56.159 --> 01:41:58.880 I mean, and you've got a number of great nurseries up there with good 1428 01:41:58.960 --> 01:42:02.000 roses. But that that would be an option for you on the vine, 1429 01:42:02.960 --> 01:42:05.600 you know, without just taking up a lot of airtime for me trying to 1430 01:42:05.640 --> 01:42:10.640 think. Nothing is coming to mind else off the top of my head. 1431 01:42:10.680 --> 01:42:14.840 But I'll think about it. Maybe something comes to mind, I'll mention it. 1432 01:42:15.520 --> 01:42:17.039 All right, Okay, thanks a lot, all right, thank you 1433 01:42:17.119 --> 01:42:21.199 appreciate. I appreciate your call very much. Today's theme has been try something 1434 01:42:21.279 --> 01:42:25.000 new. What are some things that are new? Well, here's an idea. 1435 01:42:25.159 --> 01:42:28.399 Have you ever had purple Martin houses before? You know, purple Martins 1436 01:42:28.520 --> 01:42:32.960 are actually out there eating pests and they're a benefit to our gardens, and 1437 01:42:33.000 --> 01:42:36.279 plus they're really cool. They're beautiful. And you get a purple Martin house 1438 01:42:36.359 --> 01:42:42.159 up on a pole and they once they find it, they set up shop 1439 01:42:42.199 --> 01:42:45.720 and they'll be back. You'll have an year after year, and you can 1440 01:42:45.760 --> 01:42:47.720 go to a place like wild Birds. That's probably the best place I can 1441 01:42:47.760 --> 01:42:50.119 think I have to get a purple Martin house. It's the best place I 1442 01:42:50.159 --> 01:42:54.039 can think of to get a bird feeder or bird house of any kind and 1443 01:42:54.119 --> 01:42:58.479 bird seed of any kind. By the way, bluebirds if you especially if 1444 01:42:58.479 --> 01:43:00.319 you have a property where maybe there's like a little bit of a field or 1445 01:43:00.319 --> 01:43:05.079 an open area on the edge of the woods, that is bluebird heaven. 1446 01:43:05.399 --> 01:43:09.159 And if you put a little bluebird house up there, they're gonna find it. 1447 01:43:09.560 --> 01:43:12.039 And when they do, you have one of the most beautiful birds we 1448 01:43:12.119 --> 01:43:15.960 have here in this area right there. And wildbirds can get you fixed up 1449 01:43:15.960 --> 01:43:19.359 on that as well as the feeds like the super Blend I've been recommending very 1450 01:43:19.359 --> 01:43:23.680 important during the cool season to provide those birds, you know, some extra 1451 01:43:23.720 --> 01:43:28.479 protein and fats to sustain them through this season when it's kind of bleak out 1452 01:43:28.520 --> 01:43:31.840 there. Wilbirds will get you fixed up. There's a I think six wildbirds 1453 01:43:31.960 --> 01:43:39.520 all over town WBU dot com forward slash Houston, but WBU dot com forward 1454 01:43:39.520 --> 01:43:42.960 slash Houston to find of wildbirds near you. We're going to take a little 1455 01:43:42.960 --> 01:43:45.520 break here. When we come back, Jeanette and Seabrook, you'll be the 1456 01:43:45.560 --> 01:43:49.039 first up our phone number seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 1457 01:43:51.880 --> 01:43:56.039 Welcome back to garden Line. Glad you're listening today. The theme of 1458 01:43:56.079 --> 01:43:58.880 the day try something new. What are you going to try that's new, 1459 01:43:59.319 --> 01:44:01.960 something different, something you haven't tried before. You know, if you're up 1460 01:44:02.039 --> 01:44:05.279 in the Montgomery area, a place you can go to try something new is 1461 01:44:05.319 --> 01:44:10.640 Ana Plants and Produce. They have a wide variety of all kinds of plants, 1462 01:44:10.760 --> 01:44:14.680 and they have lots of bling for the landscape too. I mean, 1463 01:44:14.720 --> 01:44:17.520 maybe right now, you know a little cooler weather chiminea out there on the 1464 01:44:17.520 --> 01:44:21.279 patio. That'd be kind of cool. They have all kinds of things like 1465 01:44:21.319 --> 01:44:27.119 that, whether it's an iron trellis that you might want for the garden or 1466 01:44:27.159 --> 01:44:30.359 other things. Of course, they've got folks that know what they're talking about. 1467 01:44:30.520 --> 01:44:33.119 That's always helpful. That's why we like our Mama Pop Nursery share on 1468 01:44:33.199 --> 01:44:36.159 garden Line. They're open seven days a week from nine to five, so 1469 01:44:36.199 --> 01:44:42.119 today they're open up there in that area. Find something new that you haven't 1470 01:44:42.159 --> 01:44:45.159 done before. What do you need to decorate that patio? What kind of 1471 01:44:45.199 --> 01:44:47.119 plants you want? Do you want to do someone a hanging basket? Try 1472 01:44:47.159 --> 01:44:51.239 something new at A and A Plants and Produce up there in the Montgomery area. 1473 01:44:51.279 --> 01:44:57.039 They're on the east side of Montgomery, like you're heading toward Conroe, 1474 01:44:57.079 --> 01:44:59.439 just on the edge of town there. If you've been by that area, 1475 01:44:59.439 --> 01:45:02.520 if you live out among many like neighborhoods up around Lake Conroe, you already 1476 01:45:02.560 --> 01:45:06.039 know about A and A Plants and Produce. We're going to go now down 1477 01:45:06.119 --> 01:45:11.880 to Seabrook and talk to Jeanette. Hey, Jeanette, Hi, Hi. 1478 01:45:13.640 --> 01:45:19.039 We have just a recurring problem every year with our yard we have the leaves 1479 01:45:19.079 --> 01:45:25.479 are really really bad even though we treat them, and we want to know. 1480 01:45:25.680 --> 01:45:32.159 My husband has bought nitrofoss barricade and is ready to treat this weekend, 1481 01:45:32.239 --> 01:45:42.159 but we're wondering these treating according to a schedule, but we're wondering, if 1482 01:45:42.159 --> 01:45:49.039 we have a particularly bad problem, can we treat more often for a little 1483 01:45:49.079 --> 01:45:54.359 while. You don't want to do that, You don't want to do that. 1484 01:45:54.439 --> 01:45:58.239 I want to do that night. Flash barricade is a very good product 1485 01:45:58.319 --> 01:46:01.640 for preventing weed seeds from germinating. And when you put it down, you 1486 01:46:01.680 --> 01:46:05.960 follow the label uh, and that will do as good as it's going to 1487 01:46:06.039 --> 01:46:10.479 do. You can. If you doubled it up, you would not get 1488 01:46:10.479 --> 01:46:15.119 better weed control. You would you would be the potential for damaging other plants. 1489 01:46:15.159 --> 01:46:17.159 And you don't want to do that. That's true of an insecticide. 1490 01:46:17.199 --> 01:46:21.600 That's true fungicide, that's true of herbicides. The label's there for a reason, 1491 01:46:21.680 --> 01:46:25.800 and so go with the label. And that will do one hundred percent 1492 01:46:25.800 --> 01:46:28.840 of what you need it to do. Uh. And so with barricade, 1493 01:46:28.880 --> 01:46:30.640 you're gonna put it down. You're going to water it down just a little 1494 01:46:30.680 --> 01:46:33.800 bit, like a third of an inch half an inch of water just to 1495 01:46:33.840 --> 01:46:36.840 move it into the soil surface. That's all you got to do. Just 1496 01:46:36.840 --> 01:46:42.000 just get those granules to release the chemical down in the sole surface. When 1497 01:46:42.000 --> 01:46:45.439 the weed seeds try to germinate, it's already there and it'll shut them down. 1498 01:46:46.560 --> 01:46:56.359 Okay, And it's if we already have weeds out there, then is 1499 01:46:56.399 --> 01:47:00.920 there, you know, and we'll pull as much as we can. But 1500 01:47:00.119 --> 01:47:08.600 if they're already going to be producing seed, is the barricade going to prevent 1501 01:47:08.880 --> 01:47:12.960 those seeds from germinating? No? No, it's a pre emergent. So 1502 01:47:13.159 --> 01:47:16.560 is this in your lawn right? Yes? Okay, so there's a product. 1503 01:47:18.000 --> 01:47:24.039 I was talking about a product earlier that Nelson's puts out that is designed 1504 01:47:24.640 --> 01:47:29.720 for managing existing weeds, and it would be something you would put on. 1505 01:47:29.760 --> 01:47:34.680 Now those weeds you're seeing right now, those weeds are going to be blooming 1506 01:47:34.720 --> 01:47:40.520 and setting seed here in the next couple of months, and we have got 1507 01:47:40.520 --> 01:47:44.840 to stop that from happening, because once that happens, then you got a 1508 01:47:44.880 --> 01:47:48.680 problem and you're trying to kill It's too late. You've already killed the weeds, 1509 01:47:48.680 --> 01:47:54.119 have already made their seed. It's called turf star we Donator and it 1510 01:47:55.039 --> 01:47:59.359 star we Donator Donator, huh. And it's a fertilizer. And so you 1511 01:47:59.399 --> 01:48:02.119 put it down and you want your weeds to be wet, So turn on 1512 01:48:02.159 --> 01:48:05.760 the sprinkler just enough to get the surface of the weeds wet, and then 1513 01:48:05.880 --> 01:48:10.119 you put the weed nator down. It sticks to the weeds, and the 1514 01:48:10.199 --> 01:48:15.119 chemical moves in and kills existing weeds. Okay, you need with it. 1515 01:48:15.479 --> 01:48:18.640 No, not on this. No, it's granules that you put out, 1516 01:48:19.239 --> 01:48:23.319 and it again if the weeds have to be wet, because you want it 1517 01:48:23.359 --> 01:48:27.479 to stick to the weeds surfaces, and it moves down, it kills the 1518 01:48:27.520 --> 01:48:30.079 weeds and then the fertilizers there to feed over a period of time. It 1519 01:48:30.079 --> 01:48:34.239 has more than one kind of nutrient form of nitrogen, so it can over 1520 01:48:34.279 --> 01:48:38.239 a period of time it's continuing to feed. So that would be a good 1521 01:48:38.239 --> 01:48:41.720 option, and you know that that is what you would do for now. 1522 01:48:41.760 --> 01:48:45.359 The only other thing you might do for now would be to, you know, 1523 01:48:45.520 --> 01:48:48.479 just get a spray that you spray just to kill broadly feeds in your 1524 01:48:48.560 --> 01:48:53.279 lawn. That would be an option if you don't want to fertilize right now. 1525 01:48:53.560 --> 01:48:56.039 If you wanted to just spray, you could, you could go that 1526 01:48:56.199 --> 01:48:58.800 route. But the weed nator will do what I just messed. Okay, 1527 01:48:59.359 --> 01:49:04.319 So if we put down the barricade, would we also then use the turf 1528 01:49:04.359 --> 01:49:11.359 star at the same time, you could, because they're working in different ways. 1529 01:49:12.239 --> 01:49:15.640 Okay, but let's see, let me think about this. So what 1530 01:49:15.760 --> 01:49:18.239 I would do if you were going to do that, I'd put down the 1531 01:49:18.279 --> 01:49:24.600 barricade and then I'd water with about a third of an inch of irrigation to 1532 01:49:24.760 --> 01:49:32.159 move the barricade down in the soil surface. Then immediately put the terfinator out 1533 01:49:32.359 --> 01:49:38.880 the weed nader and make sure that it's sticking to those wet leaves. Therefore, 1534 01:49:38.920 --> 01:49:42.279 because you just watered and then just walk away, you've done it, 1535 01:49:43.039 --> 01:49:48.359 okay, and you've accomplished both that way okay. And the weed Nator. 1536 01:49:48.399 --> 01:49:54.319 Where can we find it? It's pretty widely available. So you are in 1537 01:49:54.680 --> 01:49:59.880 down in Seabrook area trying to think who might downe that. I would, 1538 01:50:00.880 --> 01:50:02.720 you know, if you can find an ACE Hardware pretty close, they're probably 1539 01:50:02.760 --> 01:50:05.439 going to have it. A lot of the ACE Hardware will carry things like 1540 01:50:05.479 --> 01:50:12.840 that, and I would call them and ask them if you go to Acehardware 1541 01:50:12.880 --> 01:50:16.319 dot com and do their store locator, that ought to do pretty good. 1542 01:50:16.399 --> 01:50:26.199 I don't know if Moss Nursery down there in Seabrook, Carrey's, Nelson's weed 1543 01:50:26.279 --> 01:50:30.880 Nator or not. They might, but I just don't know. I was 1544 01:50:30.920 --> 01:50:33.439 down there the other day and I just didn't check. But you know, 1545 01:50:33.520 --> 01:50:35.880 if you head in, you know, toward town just a little bit, 1546 01:50:35.920 --> 01:50:40.399 you've got M and D and Claire Lake on Bay Area Boulevard. That's an 1547 01:50:40.439 --> 01:50:44.079 ACE Hardware that's probably going to have it. The next close one to you 1548 01:50:44.159 --> 01:50:47.399 is going to be kill Gores down in League City on main Streeam. I 1549 01:50:47.439 --> 01:50:50.199 would try those two and see if they have it. There's plenty of other 1550 01:50:50.239 --> 01:50:54.760 aces around, but those are the two closest to you. Okay, great, 1551 01:50:54.960 --> 01:50:59.279 all right, thank you very much. Thank you appreciate that call very 1552 01:50:59.359 --> 01:51:02.319 much. You are listening to guard Line. Bye bye. You're listening to 1553 01:51:02.399 --> 01:51:05.039 guard Line, and we're here to answer your gardening questions. What do you 1554 01:51:05.039 --> 01:51:11.479 wanna talk about? Today's theme is try something new? What new have you 1555 01:51:11.600 --> 01:51:15.279 tried this year? What have you tried that you have not done before? 1556 01:51:15.319 --> 01:51:20.920 I would recommend that you consider that. How about sprucing up that patio and 1557 01:51:21.000 --> 01:51:28.039 making it a better place to enjoy just you know, we have a lot 1558 01:51:28.079 --> 01:51:30.880 of months of the year here that are just good to be outside, especially 1559 01:51:30.880 --> 01:51:32.119 if you got a little bit of a cover over it, maybe a vine 1560 01:51:32.159 --> 01:51:34.560 over the top, or a covering over the top of an area where you 1561 01:51:34.560 --> 01:51:38.199 have shade, and you get out there and enjoy it. You know, 1562 01:51:38.239 --> 01:51:42.279 a little barbecue pit going by the way. Summer is coming, barbecue season 1563 01:51:42.399 --> 01:51:47.000 is coming. So something to think about. Well, you've listened to another 1564 01:51:47.039 --> 01:51:50.840 hour of garden Line, another hour in the books. We are about to 1565 01:51:51.159 --> 01:51:55.039 take a break here for the top of the hour in the news, I 1566 01:51:55.079 --> 01:51:57.479 want to remind you of a couple of things. I should have mentioned this 1567 01:51:57.920 --> 01:52:01.039 just on the phone with Jeanette out there and seek. My lawn care schedules 1568 01:52:01.119 --> 01:52:08.520 are online if you go to Gardening with Skip, that's me gardeningwith Skip dot 1569 01:52:08.560 --> 01:52:12.680 com and that's my website, and the lawn care schedules are on there. 1570 01:52:12.840 --> 01:52:17.279 The first one lawn care schedule, fertilizing, organic and synthetic options, air 1571 01:52:17.359 --> 01:52:20.560 raiding, mowing, and watering. It tells you all about all of that. 1572 01:52:21.319 --> 01:52:27.880 Second one, the pest disease and weed management schedule. When do chinchbugs 1573 01:52:27.880 --> 01:52:31.199 occur here, wind soid webworms typically attack? When do you treat for grubs? 1574 01:52:31.520 --> 01:52:35.000 What diseases? What weeds? And when? What are organic options? 1575 01:52:35.039 --> 01:52:42.479 What are synthetic It's all on that sheet, simple as that. Kt RH 1576 01:52:42.600 --> 01:52:45.439 Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised on this 1577 01:52:45.520 --> 01:53:00.960 program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Richter's just watch him 1578 01:53:01.000 --> 01:53:19.479 as work. Things not a side. Welcome back to garden Line. Welcome 1579 01:53:19.479 --> 01:53:24.439 back to garden Line. On a beautiful Sunday morning, take a look outside. 1580 01:53:24.680 --> 01:53:28.319 Oh my goodness, this is the day. Listen if you've got one 1581 01:53:28.399 --> 01:53:31.199 drop of gardening blood in it ought to be your heart ought to be beating 1582 01:53:31.239 --> 01:53:34.640 today because this is a This is a great day to get outside and do 1583 01:53:34.760 --> 01:53:39.279 things in the garden. Uh. This is also a good day for me 1584 01:53:39.319 --> 01:53:42.600 to talk about star Hope mission. You know, I've I've talked about Star 1585 01:53:42.640 --> 01:53:45.239 Hope many times. My wife and I have supported Starve Hope from way back 1586 01:53:45.279 --> 01:53:50.039 when because we believe in the mission of it. Star Hope brings hope. 1587 01:53:50.680 --> 01:53:56.479 They bring a chance for a new life, a spiritual training. They bring 1588 01:53:56.880 --> 01:54:00.119 for people that are just in a down and out situation, maybe for no 1589 01:54:00.199 --> 01:54:03.960 cause of their own, it doesn't matter why, people that need a new 1590 01:54:04.000 --> 01:54:08.640 hope. A mom living in a car with their kids, where do you 1591 01:54:08.680 --> 01:54:11.039 go from here? You know, handing them five bucks even going to change 1592 01:54:11.039 --> 01:54:15.920 their life, but bringing them in, providing housing, providing care for the 1593 01:54:15.000 --> 01:54:20.600 kids while mom learns a new job, skill providing helps with substance abuse, 1594 01:54:20.720 --> 01:54:26.119 providing whatever they need to get back on their feet. That's what Star Hope 1595 01:54:26.119 --> 01:54:29.840 does. They walk them through a process so that when you give a dollar 1596 01:54:29.880 --> 01:54:33.239 to Star Hope, it's a dollar that changes lives. It doesn't just feed 1597 01:54:33.279 --> 01:54:36.239 for a day, It changes a life. And that's what they're all about. 1598 01:54:36.319 --> 01:54:42.000 Go to sohmission dot org learn more about it, and I think you'll 1599 01:54:42.039 --> 01:54:45.079 agree with me that it is. It is money well spent. It is 1600 01:54:45.119 --> 01:54:49.079 putting your compassion to work in a very very meaningful way. I've been there. 1601 01:54:49.279 --> 01:54:55.239 I've seen the changes that occur, the stories of life, change that 1602 01:54:55.359 --> 01:54:59.199 change people, that change the future of their children, and that changes our 1603 01:54:59.239 --> 01:55:03.479 community to for the better. That's Star Star Hoop Mission. I want to 1604 01:55:03.479 --> 01:55:06.640 go out now to Tom and Cyprus. Hey, Tom, how are you 1605 01:55:06.640 --> 01:55:12.960 today? Morn and Skip? I just wanted to thank you for a new 1606 01:55:13.039 --> 01:55:18.319 idea that you gave me early last year about keeping the spring tomatoes through the 1607 01:55:18.359 --> 01:55:23.960 summer and growing on bigger in the fall, and so I did that. 1608 01:55:24.039 --> 01:55:28.960 I had never tried that before, and it struggled during the summer because it 1609 01:55:29.039 --> 01:55:33.720 was just a brutal summer and I originally had five tomatoes plants, and they 1610 01:55:33.880 --> 01:55:38.920 just started dying one at a time. I realized finally that the ones that 1611 01:55:38.960 --> 01:55:43.439 were dying first were the ones further to the south, which didn't get any 1612 01:55:43.439 --> 01:55:48.199 shade from a tree late in the afternoon, so I put a tarp up. 1613 01:55:48.239 --> 01:55:54.640 I just made a little shade so that that last surviving one would get 1614 01:55:54.800 --> 01:55:59.479 shade about maybe two or three hours earlier in the afternoon, and that seemed 1615 01:56:00.319 --> 01:56:03.479 enable it to pull through that hot, hot Augusta. Right, So that's 1616 01:56:03.479 --> 01:56:06.920 just an idea somebody else might be able to use, you know, if 1617 01:56:06.960 --> 01:56:12.199 one when summer like that and it's so hot, just give it a few 1618 01:56:12.199 --> 01:56:15.560 hours of shade late in the afternoon. And that that in this case made 1619 01:56:15.600 --> 01:56:18.840 the difference, and that that tomato plant turned into a monster. It was 1620 01:56:18.880 --> 01:56:24.199 like probably a six foot by six foot footprint, and I bet you I 1621 01:56:24.239 --> 01:56:28.039 got probably sixty seventy tomatoes out of it. Do you remember what kind of 1622 01:56:28.079 --> 01:56:32.279 it was? Off hand? That one I don't remember because i'd bought the 1623 01:56:32.399 --> 01:56:39.239 seedling from I think from D and D feed store, and uh, you 1624 01:56:39.239 --> 01:56:41.800 know, I planted in the spring then by fall. I don't remember what 1625 01:56:41.920 --> 01:56:45.760 kind it was. But anyway, so that was that was an interesting thing. 1626 01:56:45.479 --> 01:56:49.439 Maybe some other people could take that little hint. And then another one. 1627 01:56:49.720 --> 01:56:55.000 I had called you about my squashes in November, and I was worried 1628 01:56:55.000 --> 01:56:59.680 because they had too many buds. I don't know if you recall that, 1629 01:56:59.720 --> 01:57:03.640 but it was like acorn squashes, and there was a squash about every six 1630 01:57:03.680 --> 01:57:06.479 inches along the vine. I said, well, with that many, there's 1631 01:57:06.520 --> 01:57:10.520 no way they're going to grow full size, and you said, well, 1632 01:57:10.600 --> 01:57:15.439 don't worry about it. So yeah, sure enough. A lot of those 1633 01:57:15.520 --> 01:57:18.600 sort of self aborted when they're about as big as a walnut. They just 1634 01:57:19.920 --> 01:57:23.840 you know, turned yellow and then the stem just severed and they fell off. 1635 01:57:24.039 --> 01:57:27.520 Yeah. So I ended up with a few, so that all worked 1636 01:57:27.520 --> 01:57:31.920 out. Okay. Yeah, but that sometimes it just the pollination just doesn't 1637 01:57:31.960 --> 01:57:36.000 happen. It doesn't work. But that's good. So did you raise some 1638 01:57:36.039 --> 01:57:42.000 good acorns squash? Yeah? I had a pretty good I didn't plant the 1639 01:57:42.039 --> 01:57:45.319 seeds until like September twenty eighth, I think, which was kind of late, 1640 01:57:45.359 --> 01:57:48.000 but that was because of the heat. So some of them didn't get 1641 01:57:48.000 --> 01:57:50.680 as big as I wish they would. And that's what I was worried about 1642 01:57:50.760 --> 01:57:54.720 when I had so many little ones started all right, you know, there 1643 01:57:54.840 --> 01:57:57.840 wasn't going to be time. Yeah. Every year's new, every years different, 1644 01:57:57.920 --> 01:58:00.880 and every year's fun. That's good. I appreciate that information. Tom, 1645 01:58:00.000 --> 01:58:03.760 Thanks for kind of reporting back on that. Is that is true. 1646 01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:06.720 We got to be patient as gardeners because I tay you think you get things 1647 01:58:06.760 --> 01:58:10.399 figured out. You think I know how to grow it tomato, for example, 1648 01:58:10.439 --> 01:58:13.479 and then all of a sudden, this year nature throws you occur. 1649 01:58:13.760 --> 01:58:15.720 That can happen. That's all right, Hey, One thing I wanted to 1650 01:58:15.760 --> 01:58:20.159 mention to you talking about nutrients and things. I'm going to be really talking 1651 01:58:20.159 --> 01:58:25.000 a lot about fertilizing here and a little bit, but right now I want 1652 01:58:25.000 --> 01:58:29.279 to mention something and there's a little confusion about this, and that's azamite. 1653 01:58:29.920 --> 01:58:33.119 Azamite has nutrients, but don't think of it as a fertilizer, if that 1654 01:58:33.159 --> 01:58:36.760 would be helpful, because when I talk about fertilizing your lawn, we're talking 1655 01:58:36.760 --> 01:58:41.159 about putting out the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, the thing that they 1656 01:58:41.199 --> 01:58:45.720 need the most of That helps, especially the nitrogen push new growth. But 1657 01:58:45.960 --> 01:58:50.279 they also need a lot of micros, a lot of trace minerals. Plants 1658 01:58:50.319 --> 01:58:55.319 in general need that that are essential. The plant could not grow without them, 1659 01:58:55.560 --> 01:58:58.880 and azemite provides that. And you can do that anytime of the year. 1660 01:58:59.000 --> 01:59:01.079 It doesn't have to be you know, at certain times when you would 1661 01:59:01.119 --> 01:59:03.479 do your other fertilizing. You can do it at anytime. You can do 1662 01:59:03.479 --> 01:59:08.000 it right now. Azmi I would also encourage you to think about using it 1663 01:59:08.000 --> 01:59:11.439 in your vegetable garden. You know, it doesn't take much. I mean, 1664 01:59:11.640 --> 01:59:14.880 it's really really simple. Ten pounds will cover a thousand square feet of 1665 01:59:14.960 --> 01:59:17.800 vegetable garden. That is simple, and you don't have to just over and 1666 01:59:17.840 --> 01:59:21.079 over and over and over and over do it just at least once a year. 1667 01:59:21.199 --> 01:59:25.239 Just get that down, put it down, work it under the soil, 1668 01:59:25.359 --> 01:59:30.359 and that way the produce you grow will be even more nutritious in terms 1669 01:59:30.359 --> 01:59:32.800 of having a lot of different minerals and things in it. Sometimes our soils 1670 01:59:32.840 --> 01:59:38.159 can get depleted and it just helps to always keep things beefed up. And 1671 01:59:38.199 --> 01:59:41.239 azemite is a good way. So you can go by doing that. We're 1672 01:59:41.239 --> 01:59:45.680 going to head out now to Kingwood and talk to Charles. Charles, I 1673 01:59:45.680 --> 01:59:47.000 got about a minute. We may get it done for a break here, 1674 01:59:47.000 --> 01:59:50.319 but let's see what we can do, okay, guy. Keeping with the 1675 01:59:50.319 --> 01:59:54.960 theme, I'm so tired of losing all my citrus to the freezes. I 1676 01:59:54.960 --> 02:00:00.479 wonder if you can give me some names on blueberries. The trees had a 1677 02:00:00.479 --> 02:00:04.359 neighbor in Pennsylvania who grew blueberry, so I take it the cold won't affect 1678 02:00:04.359 --> 02:00:09.159 them down here. I just wanted to know the brand name or whatever they're 1679 02:00:09.199 --> 02:00:13.079 called, the species or whatever. Okay, well, the common blueberry we 1680 02:00:13.119 --> 02:00:16.560 grow down here is called rabbit eye, the rabbit blueberry. And there's many 1681 02:00:16.640 --> 02:00:23.039 varieties of rabbit eye blueberries out there. Some common names or Woodard and Climax 1682 02:00:23.159 --> 02:00:28.159 and Premiere and tiff blue and things like that are all common rabbit eye names. 1683 02:00:28.159 --> 02:00:30.520 Not all of those varieties I just named, or for this far south 1684 02:00:30.640 --> 02:00:34.720 up down here, if we got down into the high teens and low twenties, 1685 02:00:34.800 --> 02:00:40.079 those will not be affected, correct, right. But any plant that 1686 02:00:40.239 --> 02:00:45.520 is living the life of riley in warm weather conditions and then suddenly has a 1687 02:00:45.560 --> 02:00:48.239 hard hard phrase is going to have big problems, even if it's a hardy 1688 02:00:48.239 --> 02:00:53.159 plant. So we can't control that weather change. But in general, we 1689 02:00:53.159 --> 02:00:57.039 don't worry about cold damage on our blueberries down here. How do they control 1690 02:00:57.119 --> 02:01:00.399 that up north? When you know it's cold six months out of the year, 1691 02:01:00.439 --> 02:01:02.399 they're they're blooming like crazy. He had trees out just you know, 1692 02:01:02.439 --> 02:01:06.399 well, yeah, yeah, it's the it's the the way the weather cools 1693 02:01:06.439 --> 02:01:11.920 off. Because we warm up so much in winter here, we can pull 1694 02:01:11.960 --> 02:01:15.000 plants kind of out of a dormancy and then a cold front hits and really 1695 02:01:15.079 --> 02:01:18.520 damages them. So thank you very much for the information. I'm going to 1696 02:01:18.600 --> 02:01:20.600 keep an eye off, I'm gonna talk. I'm gonna toss out a real 1697 02:01:20.680 --> 02:01:25.439 quick final thought and that is there's also Southern high Bush. So when you're 1698 02:01:25.479 --> 02:01:30.159 out there shopping Kingwood Garden Center, Warren Southern Gardens, ask them about Southern 1699 02:01:30.239 --> 02:01:32.399 high Bush. That's a different kind of blueberry, a bigger blotberry, a 1700 02:01:32.439 --> 02:01:36.640 smaller plant, a little more personicity on water quality. But it's a very 1701 02:01:36.640 --> 02:01:40.359 good one to choose too. And Charles, thank you, thank you very 1702 02:01:40.439 --> 02:01:43.000 much for that and for hanging on. We're going to take a break seven 1703 02:01:43.039 --> 02:01:45.199 one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'll be right back. 1704 02:01:47.920 --> 02:01:53.560 Welcome back to garden Line. We are talking about all kinds of things gardening 1705 02:01:53.560 --> 02:01:57.199 today, including the theme of the day. Try something new. What are 1706 02:01:57.199 --> 02:02:00.399 you going to try new? What have you never done before? Get out 1707 02:02:00.399 --> 02:02:03.800 of the rut man, I mean, we're talking about lots of opportunities to 1708 02:02:03.880 --> 02:02:06.760 grow all kinds of new things. What do you want to grow? What 1709 02:02:06.800 --> 02:02:10.359 do you want to try? Is there a new tool that you want to 1710 02:02:10.399 --> 02:02:12.960 get. There are some really cool tools out there. By the way, 1711 02:02:13.000 --> 02:02:16.079 if you've never done a soil knife, they call it a hoary hoary knife. 1712 02:02:16.119 --> 02:02:24.319 It's a very special large knife that goes in the soil that cuts roots, 1713 02:02:24.119 --> 02:02:27.800 it helps dig I use it for transplanting, you know, dig a 1714 02:02:27.800 --> 02:02:30.840 little hole for a transplant. It's just got a lot of uses, really 1715 02:02:30.840 --> 02:02:34.800 cool. I love those things. That's just an example one of the tools 1716 02:02:35.119 --> 02:02:40.640 that you might want to try out in the gardens. There's always a new 1717 02:02:40.680 --> 02:02:44.119 thing to try when it comes to gardening. That's the fun stuff. Always 1718 02:02:44.119 --> 02:02:45.800 something new. What do you want to try new? Hey, give us 1719 02:02:45.840 --> 02:02:50.039 a call seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Speaking of 1720 02:02:50.079 --> 02:02:54.359 trying some things new, have you been out to Ingended Forest? I was 1721 02:02:54.479 --> 02:02:59.800 just yesterday down at the Brasses Home and Garden Show and Intended Forest was there. 1722 02:03:00.000 --> 02:03:02.239 In fact, they are there. They're still there today visiting with Clay 1723 02:03:02.279 --> 02:03:05.920 about things going on out at the Enchanted Forest. And there's always stuff going 1724 02:03:05.920 --> 02:03:10.560 on. They got talks going on every weekend where you can learn stuff. 1725 02:03:10.800 --> 02:03:15.319 Did you know that they also do a gardening consultations as you come out, 1726 02:03:15.359 --> 02:03:18.560 like do you have questions about getting a bug identified, or what's the best 1727 02:03:18.560 --> 02:03:21.960 fertilizer, or I want to do a project, can you advise me on 1728 02:03:23.039 --> 02:03:27.000 that? Just visit their store. They've got knowledgeable staff that can help you 1729 02:03:27.079 --> 02:03:30.560 have a thriving garden. Maybe bring out some schematics. So here's my yard, 1730 02:03:30.600 --> 02:03:33.279 and here's some pictures of this stuff, and what would be a good 1731 02:03:33.319 --> 02:03:38.319 flower for here? Let them direct you to that. That's why we love 1732 02:03:38.439 --> 02:03:42.079 our mom and pop garden centers here on guard Line because that's the kind of 1733 02:03:42.119 --> 02:03:45.560 service you get, that's kind of knowledge you get. That's the kind of 1734 02:03:45.039 --> 02:03:51.279 insurance so that your gardening dollars equal success in the end. That's what we're 1735 02:03:51.279 --> 02:03:54.520 here for. That's why we're here on garden Line. As a matter of 1736 02:03:54.560 --> 02:03:57.520 fact, Hey, they got seeds out there. If you want to plant 1737 02:03:57.520 --> 02:04:01.439 some tomatoes and eggplant and peppers for transplants and all other kinds of airloom seeds. 1738 02:04:01.720 --> 02:04:05.199 They've got the equipment you needed, some trays, some starting mix for 1739 02:04:05.239 --> 02:04:10.439 your seeds. Do you want to plant seed potatoes in your garden this year? 1740 02:04:10.479 --> 02:04:12.920 And by the way, they're not seeds or potatoes. We cut them 1741 02:04:12.920 --> 02:04:15.520 into chunks with an ie or two on each chunk to start potatoes. Do 1742 02:04:15.560 --> 02:04:18.199 you want to grow some potatoes. They've got the red, they've got the 1743 02:04:18.239 --> 02:04:20.720 white, they've got the yellow. Out there, they've got the supplies. 1744 02:04:20.720 --> 02:04:25.079 You know, earlier I was talking about using the micro life ocean harvest as 1745 02:04:25.079 --> 02:04:28.800 a drench over plants to help them get started. They've got all of that 1746 02:04:28.920 --> 02:04:32.199 kind of thing. Your plants that were frozen back need a little boost. 1747 02:04:32.479 --> 02:04:35.800 When the weather begins to warm, they're going to begin to grow and they're 1748 02:04:35.840 --> 02:04:40.439 going to have to do a lot of regrowing of what they lost. And 1749 02:04:40.840 --> 02:04:43.920 the folks that enchended for us can get you all set up. You know, 1750 02:04:43.920 --> 02:04:47.920 they're easy to find. I love going out there. They enchanted in 1751 02:04:48.000 --> 02:04:50.600 the name is a good a good name for them because they really are an 1752 02:04:50.680 --> 02:04:55.560 enchanted place. But they're on FM twenty seven fifty nine. So if you're 1753 02:04:55.560 --> 02:04:59.199 in Richmond, Texas and you're going to head up, let's say Sugarlane direction, 1754 02:04:59.479 --> 02:05:02.880 they're oft the right FM twenty seven fifty nine in Chamton Forests. You 1755 02:05:03.039 --> 02:05:06.600 need to go visit them. And I tell you when when weather warms up 1756 02:05:06.680 --> 02:05:11.760 a bit more and the coast is clear to getting all those warm seasoned vegetables 1757 02:05:11.800 --> 02:05:15.960 and flowers out. They are going to have a stock that is like no 1758 02:05:15.079 --> 02:05:19.359 other ready to go for you to take home to your garden and chant it 1759 02:05:19.399 --> 02:05:26.279 forest. Our phone number is seven one three two one two five eight seven 1760 02:05:26.359 --> 02:05:29.880 four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. This is our 1761 02:05:30.000 --> 02:05:33.119 last hour of the weekend. We're here from six am to ten am on 1762 02:05:33.239 --> 02:05:38.479 Saturdays and on Sundays to answer your gardening questions. Well, we're in the 1763 02:05:38.560 --> 02:05:41.960 last almost the last half hour. Just a little bit here, we'll turn 1764 02:05:42.039 --> 02:05:45.720 the corner and be there, and so this is your chance to call in. 1765 02:05:45.760 --> 02:05:47.199 We usually see a lot of calls as we get toward the end of 1766 02:05:47.279 --> 02:05:49.840 the show because people think, oh, I forgot I was going to ask 1767 02:05:49.880 --> 02:05:54.199 this. Well, now's the time to remember. It gets a little bit 1768 02:05:54.239 --> 02:05:59.560 busier usually later on as we go uh okay, garden line quiz, same 1769 02:05:59.560 --> 02:06:03.119 oquiz every time. What is the most important thing to do to have success 1770 02:06:03.159 --> 02:06:08.199 with plants? And the answered? Ding? Ding, ding, Build the 1771 02:06:08.279 --> 02:06:13.399 soil, brown stuff before green stuff. That's the way it works. Once 1772 02:06:13.640 --> 02:06:19.720 you create a beautiful root zone where we've got nutrients and we've got good water 1773 02:06:19.800 --> 02:06:27.439 holding capacity, but excellent drainage of excess water where we've got the biological activity 1774 02:06:27.600 --> 02:06:30.880 that is what makes roots thrive. Where all that's happening, you drop a 1775 02:06:30.920 --> 02:06:34.279 plan in and it's going to hit the ground running on the way to success. 1776 02:06:34.479 --> 02:06:39.479 And that's why Airloom Soil makes the special blends that they make to help 1777 02:06:39.520 --> 02:06:44.159 you have success. For example, Airloom Soils, Rose Soil, Airloom Soils, 1778 02:06:44.279 --> 02:06:48.039 Vegetable and Herb Mix. I've got a bed raised, a planting bed 1779 02:06:48.119 --> 02:06:51.479 on rollers that I'm going to be filling with that vegetable and nerb mix. 1780 02:06:51.520 --> 02:06:55.159 I'm about to once I get off the radio and have some time to go 1781 02:06:55.199 --> 02:06:58.960 home and actually do gardening myself, I'm going to go do some of that 1782 02:06:59.000 --> 02:07:01.479 and get that radio leaf mold compost. There's another one they produce. They 1783 02:07:01.560 --> 02:07:05.000 got plenty of that on hand. They sell about the bag. A lot 1784 02:07:05.000 --> 02:07:10.399 of these products you can get purchased by bulk if you want to have them 1785 02:07:10.399 --> 02:07:14.439 delivered. There's different options there. You just have to contact them. Go 1786 02:07:14.479 --> 02:07:19.800 to Airloomsoilsoftexas dot com, Heirloomsoilsftexas dot com. There you're going to find a 1787 02:07:19.840 --> 02:07:25.159 calculator so you know exactly like in my case, to fill that bed, 1788 02:07:25.640 --> 02:07:29.159 how much soil do I need? Use a calculator. It'll tell you exactly 1789 02:07:29.199 --> 02:07:31.399 what you need. And where do I buy heirloom soils? Go to the 1790 02:07:31.439 --> 02:07:34.640 website. I want to make a bulk order. Go to the website. 1791 02:07:34.840 --> 02:07:40.600 Find out there's plenty of good stuff out there. They just are all set 1792 02:07:40.680 --> 02:07:46.439 up for helping you have success by giving you that foundation brown stuff that comes 1793 02:07:46.479 --> 02:07:50.079 before the green stuff. If you want pretty green stuff, you need to 1794 02:07:50.079 --> 02:07:56.199 get quality brown stuff. There's another one. Maybe I'll trademark that if you 1795 02:07:56.199 --> 02:07:59.479 want pretty green stuff, you got to have quality brown stuff. That's another 1796 02:07:59.520 --> 02:08:03.680 good way to think about it. It is something that I do harp on, 1797 02:08:03.760 --> 02:08:07.960 and it's because you know, it's easy for people to get excited about. 1798 02:08:07.000 --> 02:08:09.840 Like if I told you there's this new tomato and it's wonderful and you 1799 02:08:09.840 --> 02:08:13.199 got to have it, you know everybody's running. I got to have that 1800 02:08:13.279 --> 02:08:16.479 tomato. If I told you that there's this hibiscus and the flowers are bigger 1801 02:08:16.520 --> 02:08:20.680 than a dinner plate and it blooms and blooms, everybody wants that. But 1802 02:08:20.760 --> 02:08:26.880 both the tomato and the hibiscus have got to have quality soil. In order 1803 02:08:26.079 --> 02:08:30.840 to do what they can do. Otherwise they're not they're not going to do 1804 02:08:30.880 --> 02:08:35.359 well. And so that's why we've got to have good brown stuff, quality 1805 02:08:35.399 --> 02:08:39.880 brown stuff in order to have the beautiful, productive, bountiful and in the 1806 02:08:39.920 --> 02:08:43.760 case of a vegetable garden, tasty green stuff that we want to have. 1807 02:08:43.159 --> 02:08:46.239 Hey, I want to remind you that we are in the big middle of 1808 02:08:46.520 --> 02:08:54.720 pruning season. Now's the time to get your dormant pruning done. Those deciduous 1809 02:08:54.800 --> 02:08:58.800 trees that are dormant, even like oak trees that are not deciduous, if 1810 02:08:58.840 --> 02:09:01.600 they need some pruning, now is the time to get it done. And 1811 02:09:03.399 --> 02:09:07.520 the place I would tell you to go is Affordable Tree Service Martin spoon More 1812 02:09:07.079 --> 02:09:11.680 Affordable Tree Service. We're talking about a place with thirty years of experience. 1813 02:09:11.760 --> 02:09:16.880 They've been a garden line supporter for a long time UH and gardenline listeners know 1814 02:09:18.119 --> 02:09:20.520 that they have good results. When they talk to Martin, he comes out, 1815 02:09:20.520 --> 02:09:24.560 he's knowledgeable. You need to call him and get on the schedule. 1816 02:09:24.560 --> 02:09:30.520 Though he stays busy. That's what happens when you treat your customers right and 1817 02:09:30.560 --> 02:09:33.119 you do a good job and you know what you're doing. You're going to 1818 02:09:33.199 --> 02:09:35.079 be busy. That's a good thing. Tell him you're a gardenline listener, 1819 02:09:35.119 --> 02:09:39.359 so you go to the front of the line when you tell him that it's 1820 02:09:39.399 --> 02:09:43.960 seven one three, six nine nine twenty six sixty three seven one three six 1821 02:09:45.159 --> 02:09:50.600 nine nine two six six three. Or go to afftree Service dot com. 1822 02:09:50.680 --> 02:09:56.640 Afftree Service dot com. Anything you're going to do around a tree, don't 1823 02:09:56.640 --> 02:10:00.479 do it until you talk to Martin. Do you need to do trenching? 1824 02:10:00.640 --> 02:10:03.520 You can do a lot of damage that way if you don't take certain steps 1825 02:10:03.560 --> 02:10:07.239 to protect your trees. Do you need pruning done? Don't let the guy 1826 02:10:07.279 --> 02:10:11.479 that drove up with a pickup of chains on a business card touch your trees. 1827 02:10:11.920 --> 02:10:16.279 Someone needs to know what they're doing, or the damage is forever on 1828 02:10:16.359 --> 02:10:20.439 a tree. They never recover from a really bad pruning job and a driver 1829 02:10:20.560 --> 02:10:24.039 on all day looking at the hat racks where someone thought they were getting a 1830 02:10:24.079 --> 02:10:30.279 good deal, well they weren't. Affordable Tree Service aff tree Service dot com. 1831 02:10:30.399 --> 02:10:33.000 I'm going to go out now to West Houston and talk to Lynn. 1832 02:10:33.119 --> 02:10:37.399 Hello, Lynn, Hi, how are you? I'm good? How are 1833 02:10:37.439 --> 02:10:43.920 you? I'm good? And I'm really really good because I managed to my 1834 02:10:43.039 --> 02:10:48.880 husband and I managed to save our one year old potted lemon tree that survived 1835 02:10:48.960 --> 02:10:52.159 last year's freeze, all right, and I did it a new way. 1836 02:10:54.199 --> 02:10:58.840 He went up to home depot and got me some C nine clear incandescent Christmas 1837 02:10:58.840 --> 02:11:05.439 tree and we wound those lights through the tree. It's about three feet tall 1838 02:11:05.479 --> 02:11:11.720 and three feet wide, and we covered it with a barbecue cover real good, 1839 02:11:13.479 --> 02:11:16.560 and put those lights on and left them on for four days. And 1840 02:11:16.680 --> 02:11:18.760 lordy, that tree, it just looks so happy now. I am so 1841 02:11:20.000 --> 02:11:24.760 thrilled. That's good. And I had never tried that before, and you 1842 02:11:24.760 --> 02:11:28.359 know, it was on one of my Facebook groups and I thought, darn 1843 02:11:28.399 --> 02:11:31.000 it, I don't want to lose that tree. So anybody who wants to 1844 02:11:31.199 --> 02:11:35.119 try that, I'd say go for it. It does work, you know. 1845 02:11:35.199 --> 02:11:37.920 C nine is one of the incandescent lights. A lot of our Christmas 1846 02:11:39.000 --> 02:11:41.640 lights, for those of you listening to this call, a lot of our 1847 02:11:41.720 --> 02:11:45.239 Christmas lights are LEDs and they don't put out hardy any heat at all. 1848 02:11:45.680 --> 02:11:48.199 CE night is like a light bulb, like the little hunter WoT bulb, 1849 02:11:48.279 --> 02:11:52.680 sixty WoT bub you put in your house in the lamp well SEA nine's or 1850 02:11:52.720 --> 02:11:56.239 that kind of Christmas light and they do produce heat. And like Lynn was 1851 02:11:56.239 --> 02:11:58.640 saying, you string them all through the tree and you got all these little 1852 02:11:58.680 --> 02:12:03.560 tiny heat sources all through that canopy. It works. And Lynn, you're 1853 02:12:03.600 --> 02:12:07.039 proofing and proofn Free is covered with blossoms right now, it is. And 1854 02:12:07.119 --> 02:12:11.600 you know what one extra thing, you may get a lemon one, you 1855 02:12:11.640 --> 02:12:16.920 may get a lemon. Well life, well, when life gives you cold 1856 02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:20.520 weather gets C nine bulbs and you'll get lemons that. I don't think that's 1857 02:12:20.560 --> 02:12:22.439 how that goes, right, but anyway, Yeah, and plus the best 1858 02:12:22.479 --> 02:12:26.479 part of all is now your neighbors have one other thing to talk about. 1859 02:12:26.560 --> 02:12:31.079 You know, Mildred Lynn has got Christmas lights. It's after Christmas. She's 1860 02:12:31.079 --> 02:12:35.039 hanging them outdoors. What's she's lost it? That's right. I love your 1861 02:12:35.039 --> 02:12:39.000 show. Thanks, thank you so much. Thanks for Colin. I appreciate 1862 02:12:39.000 --> 02:12:41.159 that. Hey, it's time for a break. It's time for Nicky in 1863 02:12:41.199 --> 02:12:43.600 the news. Our phone number if you'd like to give Josh a call seven 1864 02:12:43.680 --> 02:12:48.800 one three two one two five eight seven four, or I should tell you 1865 02:12:48.880 --> 02:12:52.760 this seven one three two one two kat r H Bunny You'll be first up 1866 02:12:52.760 --> 02:12:58.920 when we come back. Welcome back to garden Line. I'm your host, 1867 02:13:00.119 --> 02:13:03.920 Skip Richter, and we're answering gardening questions today at the phone number seven one 1868 02:13:05.039 --> 02:13:09.239 three two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two five 1869 02:13:09.279 --> 02:13:11.960 eight seven four. We're going to about to Spring, Texas and talk to 1870 02:13:13.000 --> 02:13:18.680 Bonnie. Now, Hello Bonnie. Hi Skip. I have a question about 1871 02:13:18.720 --> 02:13:22.800 sweet peas. I've been trying to go them like three years now, I 1872 02:13:22.840 --> 02:13:28.159 guess, and each year I started a little bit earlier. And I think 1873 02:13:28.199 --> 02:13:31.359 I first started like in May, and then I screwed it up the time 1874 02:13:31.439 --> 02:13:37.760 to start the seeds. Anyway, I'm thinking, is it time now to 1875 02:13:37.039 --> 02:13:41.520 start seeds for sweet peas. I haven't been able to get a blossom yet. 1876 02:13:41.680 --> 02:13:43.840 Oh yeah, you got it. You got to start early, early, 1877 02:13:43.920 --> 02:13:48.439 early, much earlier than May. You can plant them now. You 1878 02:13:48.479 --> 02:13:50.399 can do that, but I want to tell you next year, next year, 1879 02:13:50.399 --> 02:13:54.119 in the fall, go ahead and plant some and be ready to protect 1880 02:13:54.159 --> 02:13:58.319 them when we have a hard freeze. But I have found that planting sweet 1881 02:13:58.319 --> 02:14:05.720 peas in the fall gives you a better plant coming out into spring that actually 1882 02:14:05.039 --> 02:14:09.119 will even be better in terms of bloom production. But other than that, 1883 02:14:09.279 --> 02:14:13.800 yes, now is a good time to get those sweet peas in the ground. 1884 02:14:13.800 --> 02:14:18.720 I would soak them overnight in some warm water and give them even a 1885 02:14:18.760 --> 02:14:22.079 faster head start, and then get them out there ready to go. Does 1886 02:14:22.159 --> 02:14:30.560 it help to put them in the little like hex kit slots plants the seeds 1887 02:14:31.079 --> 02:14:33.840 and keep them inside for a while, or would it be better to put 1888 02:14:33.880 --> 02:14:37.960 it outside right away? I have always direct seed of mine outside, but 1889 02:14:37.159 --> 02:14:43.680 this year I started. I have two flats full of little sweet peas. 1890 02:14:43.159 --> 02:14:48.520 They're up. They're probably about three inches high right now, and I'm about 1891 02:14:48.560 --> 02:14:50.640 to put those out in the garden. But again, yes, if we 1892 02:14:50.680 --> 02:14:56.159 do have a nineteen degree day, we got a problem to cover them up. 1893 02:14:56.520 --> 02:14:58.399 But they're pretty cold hearty and they'll go through the winter just fine for 1894 02:14:58.479 --> 02:15:03.960 most of our conditions here. All right, sounds good, and I'll certainly 1895 02:15:03.960 --> 02:15:07.359 try again. All right, Bunny, enjoy those They are a wonderful flower 1896 02:15:07.399 --> 02:15:11.239 to grow. I love them. Thanks absolutely, all right, By bye. 1897 02:15:11.880 --> 02:15:15.119 We're going to now go to Montgomery and we're going to talk to Jen. 1898 02:15:15.279 --> 02:15:20.600 Hello, Jen, Hi jiff I. Last week a guy called in 1899 02:15:20.640 --> 02:15:26.199 and he was going to put down some kind of turf something or another, 1900 02:15:26.239 --> 02:15:33.640 and you said to wait until the rain was through some kind of a turf 1901 02:15:33.680 --> 02:15:37.640 builder or something like that. Okay, what was the name of it. 1902 02:15:37.600 --> 02:15:41.439 I don't know which one he was he was talking about. I would not 1903 02:15:41.520 --> 02:15:48.439 have been recommending something called turf builder. That's a different company thing that we 1904 02:15:48.479 --> 02:15:50.520 can go into details on any of They have a number of products, but 1905 02:15:52.560 --> 02:15:54.800 I don't have those on my list to recommend it at all. Okay, 1906 02:15:54.840 --> 02:15:58.840 but no, but it was something. It was something you recommended, so 1907 02:15:58.039 --> 02:16:01.039 maybe it wasn't terf. Well, here's the thing. If you put a 1908 02:16:01.039 --> 02:16:07.279 fertilizer out and it's going to release fairly quickly, then it's going to wash 1909 02:16:07.319 --> 02:16:13.479 away in all the spring rains before the grass is growing enough to actually take 1910 02:16:13.520 --> 02:16:16.000 it up, and so we don't want to do that. The other thing 1911 02:16:16.199 --> 02:16:22.439 is if you put there are products that if we're going to get a lot 1912 02:16:22.439 --> 02:16:24.840 of rain, they'll just literally wash off the lawn, you know, if 1913 02:16:24.840 --> 02:16:28.680 you're going to like we just had gully washers of rain inches and inches and 1914 02:16:28.720 --> 02:16:33.239 so you spend money on something, you put it out and then when you 1915 02:16:33.280 --> 02:16:37.040 have water sheeting across the lawn in this like flow, it can carry it 1916 02:16:37.079 --> 02:16:41.799 off site. And we don't want to do that. The thing we could 1917 02:16:41.840 --> 02:16:46.879 be doing now is with the pre emergent products getting them down. But with 1918 02:16:46.000 --> 02:16:50.639 those you just want a little bit of water, because all you want to 1919 02:16:50.680 --> 02:16:56.159 do is dissolve the particle and have it move into the surface of the soil, 1920 02:16:56.399 --> 02:16:58.959 just the top half inch of soil. That's where it does its work. 1921 02:17:00.159 --> 02:17:03.879 And so again you get this gully washer rain and you may not have 1922 02:17:03.959 --> 02:17:07.559 that turnout like you want it. Plus some of those, especially when people 1923 02:17:07.600 --> 02:17:11.159 overapply them, you get them washed down in the root system of trees. 1924 02:17:11.360 --> 02:17:15.760 You can have some problems from that as well. So I don't recommend putting 1925 02:17:15.760 --> 02:17:22.440 those down before a heavy rain. Okay, So the bottom line is right 1926 02:17:22.479 --> 02:17:26.399 now, I should not be putting any kind of fertilizer down in my yard 1927 02:17:26.799 --> 02:17:31.399 to get rid of weeds and all that stuff. The only exception to that 1928 02:17:31.760 --> 02:17:35.319 would be if you have a fertilizer that is going to relate, that has 1929 02:17:35.360 --> 02:17:41.680 the chemistries and where it will release gradually over time different kinds of nitrogen, 1930 02:17:41.840 --> 02:17:46.559 some release faster than others. Then you could put it down now and again 1931 02:17:46.639 --> 02:17:50.479 aside from fourteen inches of rain, you put it down now and it would 1932 02:17:50.520 --> 02:17:54.639 be releasing not all right now, but as the weather warms up, you're 1933 02:17:54.680 --> 02:17:56.479 going to get more and more of it releasing to the lawn. That would 1934 02:17:56.520 --> 02:18:01.760 be okay, but it's early to be doing our primary fertilizing for lawns. 1935 02:18:03.760 --> 02:18:07.319 If you don't, if you don't have the chemistries that can release over time, 1936 02:18:09.719 --> 02:18:13.200 well then I guess that must have heard it wrong, because I know 1937 02:18:13.280 --> 02:18:16.799 he was going to put it down, and then you said, don't wait 1938 02:18:16.000 --> 02:18:20.079 till next week, Yeah, which should do this week. So maybe it 1939 02:18:20.159 --> 02:18:26.479 wasn't. Maybe I'm just here not hearing it right, but I yeah, 1940 02:18:26.559 --> 02:18:30.879 the deficit in the details, Yeah, the deficit details Ghent. We have 1941 02:18:30.920 --> 02:18:33.760 a lot of different products that I talk about here. There's organic, there's 1942 02:18:33.760 --> 02:18:39.000 synthetic, there's fast release or slow release, and it just kind of depends 1943 02:18:39.040 --> 02:18:41.280 on the details. But primarily what I would have been talking about, and 1944 02:18:41.319 --> 02:18:46.120 I don't remember the exact call you're referring to, but is probably the fact 1945 02:18:46.120 --> 02:18:48.000 that we're about to get gully washer reins and we don't need to be doing 1946 02:18:48.000 --> 02:18:52.760 anything right ahead of that, all right, So I don't need to panic 1947 02:18:52.840 --> 02:18:56.360 and stop and pick anything up right now. No, although you've probably heard 1948 02:18:56.360 --> 02:19:01.440 me say more than once this weekend that if you're out shopping and you see 1949 02:19:01.479 --> 02:19:03.159 stuff you're going to want to do, go ahead and get it, because 1950 02:19:03.159 --> 02:19:07.600 then it's there and who knows where the opportunity arises. You've already got it, 1951 02:19:07.639 --> 02:19:09.520 you're ready to go. It's only going to be a month or two 1952 02:19:09.600 --> 02:19:13.280 or three however long until you do what you're going to do. And so 1953 02:19:13.319 --> 02:19:20.280 we're good, gotcha, Okay, well then I will. I will do 1954 02:19:20.360 --> 02:19:22.520 that, Thank you so much, all right, Jen, thank you a 1955 02:19:22.520 --> 02:19:24.600 lot. And by the way, Jen, if you haven't been online to 1956 02:19:24.680 --> 02:19:28.079 my website to get my schedules, you should do that because they're free up 1957 02:19:28.120 --> 02:19:35.159 there. It's gardening with Skip dot Com and all the kinds of questions you're 1958 02:19:35.200 --> 02:19:39.479 asking are going to be on that schedule. Oh, gardening with skip dot 1959 02:19:39.479 --> 02:19:45.399 com. That's the website. Okay, okay, I'll do that, thank 1960 02:19:45.440 --> 02:19:48.440 you, And that's where I add all kinds of new stuff that I'm creating. 1961 02:19:48.799 --> 02:19:50.760 I'm about to put something up that's about how to test your soil. 1962 02:19:52.520 --> 02:19:56.280 So anyway, okay, Well, I listened to you on my way to 1963 02:19:56.360 --> 02:19:58.719 church every Sunday, all right, and some of it it was kind of 1964 02:19:58.760 --> 02:20:03.959 a so I miss and so I don't so I need to think, all 1965 02:20:03.040 --> 02:20:07.399 right, garthing schedule. All right, thank you you bet and remember too, 1966 02:20:07.479 --> 02:20:11.440 and I'm saying this because you just said it, but anytime that you 1967 02:20:11.520 --> 02:20:15.600 want to listen to a past show, you can go listen on a podcast, 1968 02:20:15.959 --> 02:20:18.680 the iHeart Podcast for Garden's Success, So you can listen to that at 1969 02:20:18.680 --> 02:20:22.760 eleven o'clock tonight or on Wednesday morning at four if you want, if you 1970 02:20:22.799 --> 02:20:26.959 want to listen, it's always available there so you can always do that. 1971 02:20:28.159 --> 02:20:31.639 Great, all right, thank you, all right, thank you very much. 1972 02:20:31.760 --> 02:20:33.239 We're going to take a break the number of seven one three, two 1973 02:20:33.319 --> 02:20:37.120 one two fifty eight seventy four. When we come back, Paul and Crosby, 1974 02:20:37.200 --> 02:20:43.520 you will be the very first up. Welcome back to Garden Line. 1975 02:20:43.639 --> 02:20:46.559 We are glad you're listening, and we're about to wind things up here in 1976 02:20:46.600 --> 02:20:50.479 the next fifteen minutes. This weekend sure has been good day. Lots of 1977 02:20:50.520 --> 02:20:54.399 good things to talk about today. We're going to start off by going back 1978 02:20:54.440 --> 02:20:58.799 out now to Crosby to talk to Paul. Hello, Paul, Hi, 1979 02:20:58.000 --> 02:21:05.840 how are you doing well? Sir? That I live in Crosby on the 1980 02:21:05.920 --> 02:21:11.680 lake and uh, I don't know if you'd heard the lake went up pretty 1981 02:21:11.719 --> 02:21:20.040 high. Yeah. Anyways, I have five trees that were underwater, truit 1982 02:21:20.120 --> 02:21:24.479 trees that were underwater. Is there, I mean, are they gone? 1983 02:21:26.239 --> 02:21:33.680 Do I need to anything I can do to them to help them? No. 1984 02:21:35.280 --> 02:21:41.879 One was a peach, one was an apple, one was a citrus. 1985 02:21:43.000 --> 02:21:48.799 Okay, uh no, you don't, you don't. There's not much 1986 02:21:48.840 --> 02:21:50.600 you can do. You want to get the water out of the soil is 1987 02:21:50.639 --> 02:21:56.559 what it needs. So anything that helps drainage would help. But they can 1988 02:21:56.600 --> 02:22:03.879 put us well as the lake goes down. I mean, I think today 1989 02:22:03.200 --> 02:22:07.479 they will be out of the water. Some of them were out of the 1990 02:22:07.479 --> 02:22:13.799 water last night, but today they should all be out of the water. 1991 02:22:13.239 --> 02:22:16.920 Yeah yeah, that ought to be okay. But even if you don't see 1992 02:22:16.920 --> 02:22:22.559 water on the surface, there's water down below. Okay. Oh yeah yeah, 1993 02:22:22.600 --> 02:22:26.719 And so that's the thing with the roots can't get oxygen, then then 1994 02:22:26.799 --> 02:22:30.319 you have the problem, you know, with the water. So I would 1995 02:22:30.479 --> 02:22:33.959 that would be all that that. I would say, you know, a 1996 02:22:33.040 --> 02:22:39.000 week of water, they're probably not going to die from that ongoing soggy conditions. 1997 02:22:39.000 --> 02:22:45.959 You got problems now, It'll probably be just another day or two that 1998 02:22:46.040 --> 02:22:50.000 it should be. They should be okay. Well, yeah, as long 1999 02:22:50.040 --> 02:22:54.639 as four days isn't isn't too bad. That's that's about. Well, that 2000 02:22:54.639 --> 02:23:00.760 that's I think you. I think you're gonna be okay, so property and 2001 02:23:00.799 --> 02:23:05.879 have make my own compost. There you go. There you go very tricks 2002 02:23:05.920 --> 02:23:13.559 to that or making your yeah, uh to making your own compost. No, 2003 02:23:13.760 --> 02:23:16.360 it's just a matter of when you have brown stuff and when you have 2004 02:23:16.399 --> 02:23:22.760 green stuff and you put it together, that means there's nitrogen and there's carbon, 2005 02:23:22.000 --> 02:23:26.719 and that race got a good ratio mix. There they will compost faster 2006 02:23:26.879 --> 02:23:30.959 and you will get the job done. It works really well, so I 2007 02:23:31.000 --> 02:23:35.280 would, I would just you can go online if you want a real simple 2008 02:23:35.360 --> 02:23:41.000 version. If you go online and search for composting for kids and put my 2009 02:23:41.120 --> 02:23:46.879 name Skip Richter in there, I have a little online It was a slide 2010 02:23:46.920 --> 02:23:48.760 set at one time, but now you can go through the pictures and steps 2011 02:23:50.159 --> 02:23:52.639 of the basics of composting. I did it for kids, but it's the 2012 02:23:52.680 --> 02:23:58.799 information's good for anyone. Sunday Sunday, All right, sir, thank you 2013 02:23:58.159 --> 02:24:01.760 a pleasure. Yes, Sarah, you take care of good luck with those 2014 02:24:03.520 --> 02:24:07.159 drownding trees out there. Let's go to Jersey Village. Now we're going to 2015 02:24:07.200 --> 02:24:11.479 talk to Walter. Hey, Walter Hice skip, How you doing well? 2016 02:24:11.479 --> 02:24:18.040 Thank you well. I have a question about composting truly, as they have 2017 02:24:18.079 --> 02:24:22.680 a section in the back that has an oak tree and I just let the 2018 02:24:22.719 --> 02:24:33.520 leaves straw and is there Do they have too much tannin in the leaves to 2019 02:24:35.280 --> 02:24:37.760 compost them and then use them as a soil amendment. No, not at 2020 02:24:37.799 --> 02:24:43.639 all. Here's the thing. A lot of oak trees, an extreme example 2021 02:24:43.639 --> 02:24:46.920 would be live oaks. They've got a real kind of a waxy coating over 2022 02:24:46.959 --> 02:24:54.000 the leaf and that slows decomposition, but they still will decompose. Everything that 2023 02:24:54.200 --> 02:24:56.559 was once alive that hits the ground is going to rot back into the soil, 2024 02:24:56.719 --> 02:25:01.879 animals and plants included. Now, if you want to speed the composting, 2025 02:25:03.159 --> 02:25:05.159 you can break those leaves up. You can run over them with the 2026 02:25:05.239 --> 02:25:09.959 lawnmower, you can run them through a shredder. Anything that breaks the leaves 2027 02:25:09.040 --> 02:25:13.959 up creates more surface for the microbes to break them down, and so that 2028 02:25:15.200 --> 02:25:18.399 speeds it up. But just keeping it moist is the best thing. You 2029 02:25:18.399 --> 02:25:24.159 know. The forest floor has no special mixes and stuff for composting. It 2030 02:25:24.319 --> 02:25:26.600 just drops leaves, and it drops more leaves on top of them, and 2031 02:25:26.639 --> 02:25:31.600 the leaves underneath that stay wet start to decompose, and it's a real slow 2032 02:25:31.639 --> 02:25:35.719 gradual decomposition. But it ends up the same thing as if you put it 2033 02:25:35.719 --> 02:25:39.239 in a bin, mix it up, add nitrogen stuff and speed it up. 2034 02:25:39.879 --> 02:25:43.840 It all ends up the same, right. But I've read that there 2035 02:25:43.840 --> 02:25:48.840 are some trees that have stuff in their leaves and things that kind of suppresses 2036 02:25:50.399 --> 02:25:54.559 competing trees. Okay, yes, yes, yes, that's a concept. 2037 02:25:54.639 --> 02:26:00.959 It's called a lie lopathy, and what it basically means is one play creates 2038 02:26:00.959 --> 02:26:05.520 a herbicide to stop other plants, and that happens in a number of things. 2039 02:26:07.840 --> 02:26:13.239 Black walnut, the roots give off something called jew gloone, jewloone and 2040 02:26:13.360 --> 02:26:18.479 jew gloone. Not every plant is bothered by it. Grasses aren't, but 2041 02:26:18.200 --> 02:26:26.520 tomatoes and beans and grapevines are all troubled by jew gloone. So, but 2042 02:26:26.600 --> 02:26:30.920 that's produced by those I wouldn't worry about any of that when it comes to 2043 02:26:30.959 --> 02:26:33.399 a compost. When you go through the process of a compost and breaking down, 2044 02:26:33.399 --> 02:26:37.799 you're going to be okay, okay, I was just wondering about the 2045 02:26:37.399 --> 02:26:41.040 oaks because acorns and stuff I have a lot of Yeah, they do. 2046 02:26:41.360 --> 02:26:45.520 That's a good point, and they do. But just remember that in nature, 2047 02:26:46.120 --> 02:26:50.959 their entire forests covered with oak leaves and acorns, and plant life goes 2048 02:26:50.000 --> 02:26:54.000 on just fine. So it's it's okay, no sweat. Yeah, Hey, 2049 02:26:54.000 --> 02:26:58.239 thanks for the call. Good questions, Walter, I really appreciate that. 2050 02:26:58.319 --> 02:27:01.520 Very good. Wow, we're running out of our day here. This 2051 02:27:01.559 --> 02:27:03.600 has been too much fun. Let's just go back and do it again. 2052 02:27:05.760 --> 02:27:09.680 Listen, if you need supplies on anything to make a beautiful garden and a 2053 02:27:09.719 --> 02:27:13.559 bountiful garden and a beautiful landscape, Ace Hardware's got you covered. I mean, 2054 02:27:15.200 --> 02:27:18.000 we've been talking today about pre emergent and post emergent fertilizers. They've got 2055 02:27:18.079 --> 02:27:22.559 them at ACE. When you hear me mention a fertilizer for your lawn or 2056 02:27:22.639 --> 02:27:24.719 for your garden, they've got it at ACE. A's amie, they've got 2057 02:27:24.760 --> 02:27:28.600 it at ACE. They've got it all there, tools and supplies, everything 2058 02:27:28.639 --> 02:27:31.879 you need. Did you have some coal damage and maybe some plumbing you need 2059 02:27:31.920 --> 02:27:35.639 repaired? They got that. Got a sprinkler had been run over and broken, 2060 02:27:35.680 --> 02:27:39.120 and you got to get it fixed. You'll know it when you turn 2061 02:27:39.200 --> 02:27:41.319 the system on. By the way, Ace Hardware's got you set up for 2062 02:27:41.360 --> 02:27:48.040 anything you need to repair your sprinklers. They just absolutely have everything you need 2063 02:27:48.159 --> 02:27:52.760 and they're everywhere forty Ace Hardware stores in the Greater Houston area. Go to 2064 02:27:52.840 --> 02:27:56.639 Ace Hardware dot com. Acehardware dot com. They have a store locator if 2065 02:27:56.680 --> 02:28:01.639 you want to do the whole website. It's Acehardware dot Com slash store dash 2066 02:28:01.760 --> 02:28:03.879 locator. But you can find it and you can find the ones in near 2067 02:28:03.879 --> 02:28:07.040 your I'm sitting you're looking a map right now. They are all over Houston, 2068 02:28:07.159 --> 02:28:11.399 easy to find Ace Hardware and when you walk in, you're gonna have 2069 02:28:11.440 --> 02:28:15.200 knowledgeable folks there and you're gonna have the supplies you need to do everything in 2070 02:28:15.239 --> 02:28:18.559 the garden, and that includes decorating outside too. By the way, I 2071 02:28:18.680 --> 02:28:22.079 need a nice sweet barbecue it. I don't know if my wife is listening, 2072 02:28:22.079 --> 02:28:26.479 but there's this thing called the big Green egg at Ace Hardware's. They 2073 02:28:26.639 --> 02:28:33.639 have them there. They have all kinds of quality, wonderful supplies for barbecue 2074 02:28:33.680 --> 02:28:37.639 and an outdoor living and strings of lights to make that outdoor seating area so 2075 02:28:37.719 --> 02:28:41.920 beautiful. It just when you think about needing anything indoor, outdoor, in 2076 02:28:43.000 --> 02:28:46.600 the home. Ace Hardware's going to have you covered. That is what makes 2077 02:28:46.639 --> 02:28:50.799 it so much fun to go by and visit ACE Hardware's all over the Greater 2078 02:28:50.879 --> 02:28:54.719 Houston area. Well, believe it or not, they're win another show. 2079 02:28:54.920 --> 02:29:00.399 I mean, we just I don't know. Time flies when you're having fun, 2080 02:29:00.440 --> 02:29:03.319 they say. Okay, I guess they say, And so we're here 2081 02:29:03.440 --> 02:29:07.000 having fun today. By the way, happy again as we started the show, 2082 02:29:07.239 --> 02:29:11.040 Happy Daisy Day. January twenty eighth is National Daisy Day. By the 2083 02:29:11.079 --> 02:29:15.760 way, Tomorrow for those of you who like carnations, is National Carnation Day. 2084 02:29:16.239 --> 02:29:22.280 And my favorite January holiday is National Seed Swap Day on January the thirtieth. 2085 02:29:22.479 --> 02:29:26.079 What would that be? That would be Tuesday? Am I doing my 2086 02:29:26.159 --> 02:29:30.799 math right there? National Seed Swap Day. It's always fun, you know 2087 02:29:30.840 --> 02:29:33.120 when you collect your own seeds and share them with friends and stuff, and 2088 02:29:33.920 --> 02:29:37.719 I don't know, it's just a kind of another fun way. It's another 2089 02:29:37.760 --> 02:29:41.159 part of a social activity that is one of the many social things that makes 2090 02:29:41.200 --> 02:29:46.120 gardening so much fun. For those of you who are interested in vegetables, 2091 02:29:46.239 --> 02:29:52.079 do not forget the Fort Ben Regional Vegetable Conference Thursday, February eighth at the 2092 02:29:52.200 --> 02:29:58.319 Fort ben County Fairgrounds on Highway thirty six North Forty. Bucks gets you a 2093 02:29:58.360 --> 02:30:01.280 full day of training plus law. I don't know how they do that, 2094 02:30:01.120 --> 02:30:05.280 but anyway, if you want to find out more, go to the website 2095 02:30:05.280 --> 02:30:11.479 for the Extension Office. It's Fortbend dot agra life A g R I L 2096 02:30:11.520 --> 02:30:15.879 I f E dot org. There you can register. You can find out 2097 02:30:15.920 --> 02:30:18.719 about all the classes, like there's gonna be something a mushroom garden building, 2098 02:30:18.760 --> 02:30:24.840 better Soils Irrigation be and honey production. I mean, oh my gosh, 2099 02:30:24.079 --> 02:30:26.079 lots of good cool stuff at that event.