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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
Katie r H Garden Line with Scared Ricter.

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It's crazy gas Trim. Just watch
him as stas not a sad credit

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gas. Well, good morning on
a Saturday that I think it's going to

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turn out to be a decent day. We got a little bit of rain

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here and there in the forecast,
so you know, I don't know,

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I actually like cooler and rainier weather. I think after suffering through this summer,

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it's like, yes, give me
that next will be here and plenty

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of times, so let's just go
ahead and enjoy something different. And that's

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the kind of day we're having today. So if it's a little raining,

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stay inside, get some gardening work
done inside. You've certainly got seeds you

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can start for transplants. You have
your house plants and other things. And

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then my favorite activity is armchair gardening, where you're reading the book about gardening,

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or you're reading a magazine, or
maybe going online and perusing some information

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just to kind of sharpen the skills. Yeah. Hey, by the way,

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today I was Toja. Last week
I was gonna be at RCW Nursery

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after the show today. Well,
due to some of the weather changes that

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we've had, we're going to bump
that until next Saturday, that's November eighteenth.

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November eighteenth, from eleven thirty to
one thirty, that's when I'll be

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at RCW for their Fall Fling.
And boy is that ever gonna be a

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fun time. They're going to have. First of all, they've got barbecue

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sandwich lunch. They're gonna have a
sale on select trees. In fact,

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all the shrubs fifteen percent off.
We're going to be given away, you

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know, Nelson fertilizer, nitropost fungicide, microlife fertilizer, they're gonna give me

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away, flowers and of course frostcloth. You definitely want to have some of

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that on hand. And some seedlings
like lace bark elm Mexican white oak and

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live oak. And when I say
seedlings, these are robust seedlings that they

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will hit the ground run and they're
grown in the right kinds of containers,

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which is what RCW News how to
do. For example, they have their

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own tree farm up there in Plantersville, and when it comes to trees,

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they have got a great selection of
trees that you know are going to thrive

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and do well here. That is
important to plant the right kind of tree.

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They can come out and plant them
for you too, but just go

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by there and check it out.
You know, the Wimso family has been

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doing RCW since what nineteen seventy nine, it's a long time. They've been

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with Garden Line since back in the
Bill Zach and John Burrow days and certainly

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through Randy Lemon's time here behind the
Microphone. So RCW is just a great

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place to stop. It's the nursery
that's where Tumball Parkway two forty nine comes

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into about way eight. You can
go to the website RCW Nurseries dot com,

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but first go to your calendar.
Next Saturday, November eighteenth, from

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eleven thirty to one thirty, I'll
be there and they're going to have a

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really cool shind It's called the Fall
Fling, and it's a good time to

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come out. Plus we get a
chance to visit, which I always enjoyed

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doing with folks that listen to the
show. You know, the rain reminds

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me of the soil that we have
around here, and when it's dry,

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it shrinks and when it's wet,
it swells, and that movement is a

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mess for our foundations, for our
sidewalks or driveways. Someone's asking me the

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other day about tree roots going unto
the foundation and cracking it, and I

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was explaining to them that the real
problem with tree roots is they go all

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around the foundation. Some go under
it as well. But it's not that

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they're getting big and lifting up and
cracking your foundation as much as it is

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they're drawing water from the soil,
and so where it should be staying moderately

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moist, it just dries out even
extra fast because the trees are pumping water.

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They need it. When it gets
dry and hot, they need water,

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they pump it out, and so
the soil around the foundation dries out

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and then it rains and it swells
up and that causes the cracks. That

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is why we have fixed my Slab
foundation repair. Ty Strickland has been doing

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this for twenty three years and they
are experts when it comes to fixing your

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foundation. Tell them your guardline listener. You get a free estimate from them.

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And one thing I like about fix
my Slab TI is committed to number

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one a fair price and number two
showing up on time. And anytime you

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are hiring anyone to come out and
do anything at your house, you want

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them to tell you when they're going
to be there and then actually show up.

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And that's what they do. And
they can fix driveways and they can

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fix sidewalks too. But if you
see some cracks on your brick outside or

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certainly sheet rock cracks inside, you
need to have them come out and look

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at it. Don't wait until a
small problem becomes a big problem. You

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can go to fix myslab dot com
or call Tie at two eight one two

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five five forty nine forty nine.
Yeah, boy, foundation issues. That

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is just such a mess. You
know, some people live in areas with

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sandy soil, it's just not much
of an issue for them, but boy,

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it is for the Gulf Coast.
In fact, if you're listening to

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this this radio show, you probably
live in an area that's got some clay

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soils and it's just something to watch
out for. Definitely, definitely. Well,

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we I want to just give you
a little teaser right here in the

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eight o'clock hour, we're gonna have
Chris Weisinger from Southern Bulb Company come by.

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He's gonna visit with us about all
things bulbs. You know, fall

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is for bulbs, and there are
the one shot wonders. You know,

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you go to the store and buy
a bunch of tulips or hyacinth or crocus

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and things like that. Those are
fine, they're pretty bulbs, but you

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plan, I mean, they're not
going to naturalize. They're like buying annuals.

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That's what it amounts to. They'll
do their thing and then season's gone

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and they're kind of done. But
Chris has got a number, a multitude

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of really cool bulbs that naturalize.
So instead of being like an annual for

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you, they're an investment. You
buy them, you put them in,

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and year after year after year they
come back and they pay dividends in terms

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of beauty and blooms for your landscape. So I'm looking forward to talking to

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Chris at eight o'clock. Make sure
and stay tuned for that. By the

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way, if you have any bulb
questions during the eight o'clock hour eight to

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nine, we are going to be
taking bulb questions only We're not going to

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wander around on a lot of other
topics. Those topics we can do in

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the other three hours. But we're
going to focus on bulb questions. So

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if you got some, be ready
to call in the eight o'clock hour.

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And it would help if I gave
you the number, wouldn't it seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
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eight seven four Simple as that call
us in on guardenline. Josh will get

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you on the boards and we will
visit with you. But the kind of

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questions that you might have, and
this is a good time to talk about

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a lot of things, including planning
for the future. You know, we're

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hitting the end of our fall season
here now. Of course, you know

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the months of fall and on the
calendar September, October, November. Well,

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September is a summer month here and
fall goes all the way into just

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about December, really it actually does. And Nitrofis has their Texas three Step

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and that is a fall application that
you want to make if you want to

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help your lawn and prevent weeds and
deal with diseases. And the three steps

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are the fall special winter riser designed
specifically for our climate, our soils.

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When we say winterriser here, we
don't need something that's a winteriser in Minnesota

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or someplace. We need something that
you would use for our southern turf grasses,

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and that's what they've designed it for. It's rich in potassium and absolutely

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helps that plant gets stronger going into
winter, and if it goes into winter

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stronger, it comes out stronger.
It's as simple as that. Number two

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nitrofoss barricade is a pre emergent.
You put it down watered in about a

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half inch of water. In fact, I'd recommend you put on the fall

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special and then the barricade and water
them in together with about a half inch

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of water. You don't mix them
in the hopper, just put them separately

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and then water both in with a
half inch and then put down your nitrofoss

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eagle turf funge aside. If you
have been plagued by large patch or brown

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patch in your lawn, take all
root rot is also effectively managed with the

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nitrofoss eagle funge aside, and that
is a protective. It's a systemic.

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It moves in and you can find
nitrofas at all kinds of places. You're

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going to find it at plants for
all seasons. Two for nine enchanted in

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Richmond and Lake Hardware in Angleton.
Well, we're going to take a break

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and we'll come right back to your
calls. Seven to one, three to

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fifty eight seventy four. All right, a little kiss there. They're on

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their final tour. That's kind of
unusual. Those of you who are children

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of the seventies, I guess can
really appreciate appreciate that in eighties as well,

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they're kind of timeless. Well,
I tell you what. We are

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going to go straight to the phones, our phone number seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four,
and we're going to talk to Toby.

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Hello, Toby, is Toby there? All right, put Toby on hold

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and see if we can find Toby
and come back to that. You know,

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I was talking about ago about the
Nitroviss and A stores and places where

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it's available. You know, A
stores. They're up to forty now in

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the greater Houston area. Orange,
congratulations. Orange and Bay City you're the

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two new locations. And you know
when we think about ACE, well we

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think about anything you need for your
yard. Do you need fertilizer? Do

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you need pest weed disease control?
Do you need tools? Do you need

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hoses to and sprinklers and all everything
you need for your yard. But ACE

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is also the place for your Christmas
lighting and decoration needs, and that includes

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both things inside the house and outside
the house. They've got all the accessories

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that you need to make it fast
and easy to get all set up.

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They have box sets of various kinds
of lighting, all kinds of multitude of

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colors and sizes. They've got wreaths
and garlands. They've got something called custom

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lights by the foot, and you
just have to go by there and let

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them tell you about that. But
basically it's kind of what you would expect

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it to be. So go buy
Ace and let them get you set up.

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It is a kind of a wonderland
to go in there. Now they're

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all set up for Christmas and when
you want to get ahead of the game

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and get ready to go for Christmas
lighting, Christmas decorations, any of your

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holiday decorations in general. Ace is
the place, that's for sure. We're

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gonna go back and see if we
can find Toby. Now, hey,

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Toby there, Well, gosh,
let's try that again. I'm gonna put

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them back on hold. We'll eventually
figure out how to get to you.

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We always have some gremlins crawling through
the wires here and there. Just give

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us a call back. Let's try
it. Let's start over and try that

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again. Well, you know,
I was talking about the weather and how

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much I enjoy actually having some cool
and rainy weather, and I know that's

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some people are like, I don't
like that, But you know, going

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through summer is just it makes it
tough. And this is an important thing

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for our plants. You know how
I always say the best time to plant

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woody ornamentals and perennials is in the
fall. Well, this is an example

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of why I mean the amount of
stress on a new transplant. Right now,

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when we got cool weather, we
got some rain, and the soil's

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moist, it's like almost zero and
it's so easy to get it established compared

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to trying to do that next July, for example. And the closer you

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get to summer, the more challenging
it is to get that plant growing.

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You can plant twelve months out of
the year here, but in the hot

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season you got to do a little
more touch and go stuff to try to

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keep it from getting too wet or
too dry. Because of the demands on

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the plant. Are high. It's
pumping water fast. The whole root system

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is still in that cylinder that you
put in the ground that you pulled out

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of the container. And keeping that
little thing wet without keeping it too wet

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is a challenge. So now's the
time, and this weather is exactly the

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reason why we love this kind of
weather. It's a good time to plant

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all kinds of things to your annuals, annual color plants, you know,

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things like pansies and violas and stock
and snap dragons and a lissome What am

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I leaving now, Dusty Miller is
a good one I like to include,

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especially with blue flowering of violas and
pansies, all kinds of color like that.

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Is a good time. All your
vegetables, This is a good time.

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All your perennial herbs. This is
a good time. And this weather

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is setting us up for success.
All right. Three is going to be

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the charm. I hope, Toby, are you there? All right?

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How can we help today? Skip? I'm looking for some fast growing,

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fast spreading bamboo that I can create
some privacy between my neighbors and myself on

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a large piece of land. Okay, well you want to you wanna avoid

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a running bamboo. Bamboo comes in
two types, just like our grasses do.

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There's the type that runs that would
be like bermuda grass, for example,

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and it takes over the world unless
you have an underground barrier to contain

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it, and that's quite an operation
to put in. But otherwise we go

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with clumping bamboos because they spread but
gradually slowly outward, you know, like

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some of our ornamental grasses that just
grow in clumps and uh, those kind

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of there's a lot of different ones
on the market. Go talk to your

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your garden center and you know,
ask them what do you carry, what

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can you get and they can give
you the details. Some don't get really

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tall, uh. Some get huge, very huge. Uh. And as

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far as fast growing, here's the
thing with manamboo. Bamboo, Folks say

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the first year at sleeps, the
second year at creeps, the third year

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at leaps. And what that means
is you're going to plan it and it's

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just going to kind of sit there
and then it's going to start growing a

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little bit and once it gets its
feet under it after a couple of seasons,

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then it just takes off really fast. So fast, after a little

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bit of time to get established is
going to be how that goes. That's

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fantastic. Thank you, yes,
sir, you take care. I appreciate

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the call. Thanks for being persistent
to getting in making it through. If

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you live anywhere near the north central
part of Houston, in fact, I

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know people that drive a little bit
of a distance actually to go to Quality

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Feed and Garden Company now Quality Feed. The address is eighteen thirteen Luzon Street.

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That's near the intersection Equipment and Allsion
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Monday through Friday nine to six.
So after working swing by their Saturday

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today nine am to four pm and
tomorrow Sunday eleven thirty am to four pm.

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They've been a tradition here in Houston
since nineteen twenty eight and it has

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that old time feel that I just
love going in there. You know,

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they got that eighteen excuse me,
nineteen twenty eight seed racks stocked with their

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heirloom seeds. And here's the thing, though, every soil product, every

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fertilizer product that we talk about is
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insecticides. They're there. Of course, they have their feed story.

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They got livestock feed, they got
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chickens. In about ever two weeks, it seems like Ken and Chris are

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getting in another shipment of chicks out
there. And so if you've thought about

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doing, you know, backyard chickens, well, this is the place Quality

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feed qualityfeedco dot Com. They'll get
you set up with those chickens and everything

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you need to have success with them, from feeders to lights to keep them

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warm in the wintertime. They got
it all right there, Quality feed.

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Our phone number is seven one three
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one three two one two five eight
seven four are some people like the daw

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By letters, So just ktr H
makes it really simple. In the garden,

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I was talking about the things that
we're planting right now, the importance

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of getting those trees and shrubs in, and you know, we get a

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lot of a lot of our places
are having nice deals on trees and shrubs

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as well. Uh. You know, I'm going to be out at RCW

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coming up here next weekend. I
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Every single mom and pop garden center
we've got has got a good selection.

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Right now. It's a good time
to do that. If you've thought about

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putting in a vegetable garden but you
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you don't want to plow up the
back forty you know, turn your backyard

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over with a rototiller. Here,
well, here's here's what you need to

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do. You need to get you
a Vego garden bed, Vego gardenbed.

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It's vee g o garden dot com, vegogarden dot com. It's really simple

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these beds. The metal is top
quality and it's treated in a way that

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prevents rust and corrosion. Beyond just
galvanizing kind of stuff. They go a

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higher level than that. Then they
paint it with a beautiful paint that really

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fits into the garden. It's muted
colors, you know, the greens and

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tans and things. They give you
an option. They're modular. You put

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them together in whatever shape you want. Do you want a long, skinny

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bed, Do you want a big
square bed? Do you want a C

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shaped bed to go or maybe an
L shaped beed to go around the corner

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of that patio. These are gonna
last. They're in fact, they're going

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to outlast any treated wood that you
would put out there. These are high

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quality, high level beds that just
work. They have rolling beds as well.

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I mean, go to the website
you'll see what I'm talking about.

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They're a Houston company. Don't be
fooled by all the wannabe metal beds on

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the market. They're a bunch of
them out there. Vego is the one

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with quality. Vego is our local
Houston company and they have the best selection

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and all the accessories to go with
it. Vegogarden dot com. Go check

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it out and you'll see what I'm
talking about. I love my Vego bit,

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that is for sure. In addition
to the things that I was mentioning

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about planting, this isn't a bad
time to go ahead and have your soil

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tested. Now. If you just
fertilize your lawn, then don't test now,

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wait until about January maybe February to
get that test done. But if

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it's a garden area and you know
things just aren't looking as good as they

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should, they're not growing right,
or any do a soil test. You

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can go to soil testing dot T
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In fact, if you just if
you just soil testing dot TAMU dot

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E DU, look for the urban
soil test. Now you may be listening

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to me from some Timbuktu out in
the middle of nowhere place. Urban soil

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test. What that means, I
wish I hadn't use that term. But

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what that means is it's for your
yard. It's for your garden if you're

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going to grow it to eat,
or look at urban soil test if you're

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going to grow anything to eat,
or look at urban soil test form.

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When you get the results in,
then you'll know this winter, when things

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are a little more dormant, what
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in to get ready for spring.
So don't wait until you know. Here

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it is spring, it's time to
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and now you're trying to fix your
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It's ever months a good month to
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just remember if you just fertilized,
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that'll that'll be a little bit misleading. So give it a little time to

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mellow out and it'll do just fine. Hey, have you've been to the

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Arborgate lately? The Arborgate now has
a wonderful little parking lot behind it.

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You can turn in before the arbor
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the arbor gate on a little road
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as I pronounced it. I need
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But it doesn't matter how you pronounce
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all weather parking lot and shopping is
easy. And Beverly's got a bunch of

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cool camellias. Have you ever tried
a camellia. There's some beautiful camellias that

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we can grow here for color in
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and while you're there pick up their one

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two three completely easy system. That
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roots. That's good for your lawn too,

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fall fertilization where we need to get
that nitrogen a little lower and a

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potassium a little higher. That's an
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anything you need in anything you're going
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in it and then the compost complete. That's the third part, also expanded

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shale and high quality composts. You
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ground and you're going to have success
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We're going to take a break.
The number is seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. Well, good morning on a Saturday morning,

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and we are talking gardening today here
on guard Line of course, seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. If you would like to be

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on the air, we'd be happy
to visit with you. Hey, uh,

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I've talked to you about green pro
right. I've talked about them before.

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They are the ones that will come
out and they will do a corroration

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and a compost top dressing on your
lawn. They will also come out and

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they will do a leveling. If
you've got some areas that are kind of

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low and you need to spread a
little bit dirt out. Maybe you've got

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an area where your grass just flat
died and now you want now's your chance

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to get out there and kind of
level things off. They will come out

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and they'll bring a quality soul mix
in and make sure that lawn is level.

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It's part of that kill till and
phill that Randy talked about all the

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time, where you know, you
get rid of what's there, you fill

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in what like you need it,
or till it up if you loosen the

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soil and fill it in as you
need it, and then you plant again

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and Greenpro can take care of that
now. Their price is start at five

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ninety nine plus sales tax depending on
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is for the aeration and the compost
top dressing. The filling in that's a

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different thing, and of course each
yard is going to need a little bit

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different mount and whatnot on that.
But you can go to greenpro dot net.

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Greenpro dot net they have high quality
equipment that does an excellent job at

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pulling a very good core out of
the ground and then they put a super

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high quality screen compost down and it
it just makes it easier. And believe

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me, Rhuan could probably use a
little bit of benefits right now. Even

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just having a little bit of compost
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getting sunlight and probably helps you with
a little bit of weed sprouting as well.

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But greenpro dot net that's who you
need to call or need to go

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check out. We're going to go
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Now. Hello, Resa, good
morning, Thank you for taking my call.

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Yes, sir, I have an
indoor plant, banana tree. It's

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turning and I was wondering how we
take care of it, waterings, do

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we need to put it in the
balcony every now and then, or how

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to prevent the plant turning yellow?
Okay? Now is the yellow starting mostly

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on the older lower leaves and the
yubber ones are greener, so that could

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be. It could be a drought
condition that causes that. If it gets

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a little dry, that can be
a response. If it stays too wet

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and roots are are damaged by soggy
lack of water conditions, it can do

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that. And sometimes leaves just get
older and they start to turn yellow,

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and we see that. But the
fluctuation of moisture is one of the things

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I notice. Now. Banana wants
a lot of light, so if you

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can give it some time outside,
that's good. It also doesn't like cold

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weather, so putting it out when
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be very happy with that either.
So that's one of the reasons why people

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purchase a quality light to put over
them artificially light them when they're going to

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try to keep them indoors. Most
people just let them go dormant and then

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you know, give them a little
bit of light to keep them alive,

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but don't try to keep them lush
and growing now. And that's kind of

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the range of options that I would
say, you have reasons, Okay,

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Also when should we change the pot? So when they grow bigger and bigger,

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do we need to put them in
bigger pots? Yeah, it will

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if you want them to keep if
you want them to keep growing bigger,

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yes, and if you want to
make it a little easier to take care

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of them. You know, if
you have a big plant in a small

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pot, no matter what the plant
is, you're having to water really regularly

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and fertilize because the root zone is
so confined where it can take up water

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and nutrients. So you move it
too a bigger pot and it's a little

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easier for the plant. As far
as when I don't I don't know how

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to tell you like a black and
white answer to well, when the pot

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when the plant gets as tall and
whatever, but just kind of look at

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it and if you see that it's
the pot is small. Another thing that

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happens is when when the pot's small, it's easier for it to tip over.

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at that and occasionally bump them up. I wouldn't probably bump them up now.

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I'd wait until you get ready for
spring and growth is going to take

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off a little. You can move
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to get some sunlight. That's when
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that, Should we trim the yellow
part of the leaves with the scissors or

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something? Yeah, you can trim
them off if you'd like, because they're

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not They're just going to keep dying
and turn brown. Okay, thank you

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very much. All right, reason, thank you for the call. I

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appreciate that. Let's see, we're
going to go now out to Tim and

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clearly Hello, Tim, Hey,
skip, how you knowing? Well?

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I'm doing well. I have a
few winding junipers that's been established for a

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few years, and a couple of
those junipers are turning completely brown at the

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top. Okay, beautiful, but
it's all like I researched a little bit

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of that and they said something I
tiplight, but I don't know if I'm

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doing something wrong or what's the problem. It could be. There are a

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number of things that can cause browning
on the junipers. That particular description you

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gave me makes me think they got
a little dry. There's also the possibility

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that there is a stem canker,
and if you go down from the brown,

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going down toward where green is on
the stem, and you see any

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like sores, wounds, cracks on
the bark, that would be the canker,

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and you would print it out below
that. But I think it's probably

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a soule moisture content issue. And
once a juniper turns brown, that branch

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is never going to regreen. So
you just have to take it out.

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It's not I have to cut the
So I basically have to cut the top

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ball. Yeah, J Wines And
yeah, I know, I know it's

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it's but it just it is what
it is. It's not going to get

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green again. So yeah, you
just have to bite the bullet on that

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particular one. You probably figure out
a way to get another shoot from below

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that's coming up and maybe somewhat reform
the plant or just get creative. And

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now it's a winding juniper with a
round ball on top. You know,

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go read a doctor Seuss book and
get some ideas for what you can do

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with that juniper. Awesome, Thank
you for that information. Skip all right,

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Tim, I appreciate your call very
much. You know, the folks

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at Microlife have got their fall package
ready to go for you, and it's

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available all over the place. And
that is the Microlife Brown Patch. That's

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a five one three fertilizer and it's
loaded with microbes like all Microlife products are

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you put it down. Is not
only adding that the benefit of the microbes,

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it's adding the benefit of the organic
matter being an organic fertilizer, and

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you get those nutrients, and those
nutrients are important on keeping your turf strong

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going into the wintertime. You can
combine that with a bioinoculant if you'd like.

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This time of year is also time
to plant and Microlife has the blue

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plus blue deal and what is that. Well, the first blue is a

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fertilizer called Ultimate and if you're going
to put plants in the ground, you

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can put this around them. Normally, I say, don't put fertilizer in

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the planting all well, with an
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You're not going to burn them.
It's going to be fine. You

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can do that. You can also
get their seaweed product, which is called

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the Microlife Ocean Harvest. That's a
liquid. Anytime you spray plants folli or

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drench them in the roots, you're
going to benefit. And just go to

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Microlifefertilizer dot com and you're going to
find out where you can purchase it.

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We're going to need to take a
little break here. Our number is seven

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one three two one two five eight
seven four. Karen from Richmond, you

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will be first when we come back. Well, good Saturday morning. You're

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listening to garden Line. It's a
good day to be on listening to garden

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Line right now. Got a little
still dark outside, but a little chili

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and some rainy weather coming through here. I just love it. I was

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00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:18.640
talking earlier about I actually love that. It's a good day to hold up

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00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.960
inside. I don't know, you
know here we don't have what's called winter.

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We do, but it's one or
two days a year, and we

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never know which two days, but
we just make any excuse we can.

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00:29:29.279 --> 00:29:30.799
It's time to I guess I brew
up a pot of chili. That's what

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we do at our house in cold
weather or when cool weather arrives, just

422
00:29:34.519 --> 00:29:37.960
for a good excuse to eat some
chili. Maybe make some hot chocolate.

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00:29:38.039 --> 00:29:41.319
That'd be a good good thing to
do today. I know it's not freezing

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outside, but hey, we got
to take every chance we can to enjoy

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that. We're going to go now
out to Richmond and talk to Karen.

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Hello, Karen, good morning,
Skip. How are you. I'm well,

427
00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:57.480
thank you. What's up with you
today? Okay, So, back

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in the spring, I planted an
eggplant and it did quite well. I

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harvested some nice fruit. As the
summer heat and drought came along and you

430
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just pull everything out of the garden, I just left it there and really

431
00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:22.440
ignored it. But anyway, it
as the weather got better and I got

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back in the garden, it has
flourished again, okay, and I probably

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have ten or twelve eggplant on it. I'm a little concerned that it'll freeze

434
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before they get ready, but then
I don't really know. I don't know

435
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how to tell when they are ready. Right now, they're about the size

436
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:52.119
of a large orange, and I
don't don't really know what variety I have.

437
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.480
Maybe these are not supposed to get
huge like the ones you see in

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the grocery store. Well, here
here's the thing. They don't ripen per

439
00:31:03.440 --> 00:31:07.920
se like like a tomato would ripen. So what we do is eggplant starts

440
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.599
off with a glossy skin. When
that skin turns dull, you know,

441
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kind of a if you're looking at
photos, there's the glossy versus the matt

442
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.920
photo. When it starts having that
matte look, that means it's probably a

443
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little past. So you can pick
it at any point in time now and

444
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.680
it'll be fine in the weather we're
having and we'll continue to have. It

445
00:31:26.839 --> 00:31:30.039
is not going to grow much.
I mean, it's slowed down. It

446
00:31:30.160 --> 00:31:33.759
does not like the weather. And
so I would go ahead and just pick

447
00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:37.240
it and be done with it.
If you feel like it's got a good

448
00:31:37.319 --> 00:31:40.400
size on it, then I would
do that, because you believe it too

449
00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:44.759
long, skin gets a little tougher
and it's just not the quality that you

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would get with the younger one.
Well, I was a little surprised it

451
00:31:48.599 --> 00:31:55.920
even you know, made anything anything
right, I get it. If you're

452
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going to live, go ahead,
But so okay, well, I'll try

453
00:32:00.720 --> 00:32:02.960
to keep an eye on it.
Yeah, so let me ask you what

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what what do you do with an
eggplant? Do you make like baba ganouche

455
00:32:08.359 --> 00:32:12.960
or what kinds of dishes do you
like? Well, okay, I'm not

456
00:32:13.119 --> 00:32:21.279
a cook, and I've had friends
suggest that you use it kind of like

457
00:32:21.359 --> 00:32:25.839
in a lasagna dish and place of
newd and so we've enjoyed that, okay.

458
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And my mother wants everything fried,
so we have fried a couple Okay.

459
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So I'm not a real creative cook. All right. I'm always curious.

460
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:45.400
I'm always curious about how people use
eggplant. But it's a versatile vegetable

461
00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:47.200
that we don't use enough. Karen, thank you so much for the call.

462
00:32:47.319 --> 00:32:52.640
And have fun with their eggplant,
I hope. So all right,

463
00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:55.319
you take care. Earlier I was
talking about the veggo beds and I said

464
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I had a roller I don't know
if I said I had a rolling bed,

465
00:32:58.480 --> 00:33:00.559
but I have a rolling bed of
vega. And I just noticed that

466
00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:06.400
Buchanans native plants down in the Heights. They're on Eleventh Street, six eleven

467
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East eleventh Street in the Heights.
They've got the vego beds too, and

468
00:33:09.359 --> 00:33:14.880
they've got the big rolling bed.
It's a it's a big oval bed on

469
00:33:15.200 --> 00:33:19.920
rollers and so it sits up in
the air and it has little The floor

470
00:33:20.000 --> 00:33:22.440
of the bed, if you will, is such that it becomes a self

471
00:33:22.519 --> 00:33:27.359
watering bed. It'll wick moisture,
it'll whole moisture and then wick it back

472
00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:30.319
up into the bed, so you're
not having to water as often. But

473
00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:34.119
really cool. They've got them in
gray and light green and the tan color.

474
00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:37.599
I just love those beds and you
can get them right there at Buchanans.

475
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:43.839
While you're there, check out their
Christmas cactus, the holiday cactus is

476
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:46.720
that they have. Oh my gosh. They are loaded with buds and beautiful.

477
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Ready to turn your home into something
for the holidays something. Also put

478
00:33:52.240 --> 00:33:55.200
this on your calendar. They are
having one heck of an event. It's

479
00:33:55.200 --> 00:34:00.240
called a Holiday open house a Buchanans. They're gonna have live music, They're

480
00:34:00.240 --> 00:34:04.000
going to beer and wine and food. Santa will be there with kids,

481
00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:08.039
crafts and local vendors everything. It's
a free event. Saturday, December second,

482
00:34:08.400 --> 00:34:14.880
from ten am to three pm.
Saturday December second, from ten am

483
00:34:15.320 --> 00:34:19.159
to three pm. So right after
garden Line's over head, right over there

484
00:34:19.239 --> 00:34:22.760
to the Buchanan's open house on December
second. It will be a very cool

485
00:34:22.800 --> 00:34:27.000
event. They put on a lot
of great stuff over there at Buchanans.

486
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If you need a feed store and
you are out east of Houston, your

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00:34:31.639 --> 00:34:36.599
hometown feed store is Texas Feed Stop. They're in Mont Bellevue, So if

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you're in Baytown, I mean this
is just minutes away. In fact,

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if you want to know how to
get there, you're on iten. You

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go north on Highway one forty six
in Mont Bellevue, Highway one forty six,

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00:34:46.000 --> 00:34:50.920
just a few minutes north and there
you are. They'll be right there

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00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:54.079
on the right. Brian and Hope
Rhodes have created a store. It's kind

493
00:34:54.079 --> 00:34:58.679
of like they do everything. It's
about the community. It's about family and

494
00:34:58.719 --> 00:35:01.039
the community, and they treat your
lif family. There the hard kidtos from

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00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:05.960
the community that carry the bags out
for you. They carry every product I'm

496
00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:09.000
talking about to fertilizing your lawn,
do you have insects, disease and weeds.

497
00:35:09.119 --> 00:35:13.199
Their selection is really outstanding. I
was surprised last time I was in

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00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:16.880
there just the amount of things that
they do carry. So anything that you

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00:35:17.079 --> 00:35:22.199
need have a beautiful lawn and a
bountiful landscape that's there right there at Texas

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00:35:22.280 --> 00:35:28.559
feed Stop Highway one forty six,
just north of Interstate ten in Mount Bellevue.

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Well we are. We're talking about
a lot of different things regarding gardening

502
00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:37.239
this morning, and one thing I
hadn't talked about yet is fruit trees,

503
00:35:37.239 --> 00:35:42.480
and I wanted to mention that a
little bit now. There's fruit trees can

504
00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:46.679
be planted pretty much anytime of the
year. When it comes to dormant bear

505
00:35:46.880 --> 00:35:52.199
root fruit trees, that's going to
be a January thing, maybe early February,

506
00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:55.199
but go ahead and get them in
early rather than later because they're coming

507
00:35:55.239 --> 00:35:59.039
in bear root, there's no leaves
on them you put them in. But

508
00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:02.119
most people are just buying container grown
trees these days, and our garden centers

509
00:36:02.159 --> 00:36:07.360
are stocked up with all kinds of
trees, and no matter what kind of

510
00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:09.079
fruit trees you wanting to plant,
you're going to be able to find them

511
00:36:09.119 --> 00:36:13.719
and get them in the ground.
Everything I said about fall being the time

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00:36:13.800 --> 00:36:16.039
to plant, that's true with fruit
trees too, for container grown plants,

513
00:36:16.039 --> 00:36:20.639
and you can plant a container fruit
anytime of the year. Falls a good

514
00:36:20.719 --> 00:36:24.079
time fall and winter, So go
ahead and pick them up while they still

515
00:36:24.320 --> 00:36:29.239
have a supply. And I say
while they have a supply, because people

516
00:36:29.239 --> 00:36:31.199
are going to be out there going
and getting their fruit trees. You want

517
00:36:31.239 --> 00:36:35.079
to plant fruit trees in an area
that drains well. If you got a

518
00:36:35.119 --> 00:36:37.320
heavy clay soil, you may need
to build up or raise bed with a

519
00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:42.840
quality mix. You know something that
a good bed mix from one of our

520
00:36:43.079 --> 00:36:46.280
vendors that we talk about here on
garden Line and make a raised area so

521
00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:51.519
the roots are a little bit above
that low lying heavy clay area. And

522
00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:55.480
good drainage is very important for fruit
trees. They need sunlight. It takes

523
00:36:55.559 --> 00:37:01.400
sunlight to make carbohydrates and it takes
a carbohydrate to make the fruit. So

524
00:37:01.559 --> 00:37:04.840
it's as simple as that. Can
you grow a peach in the shade?

525
00:37:05.079 --> 00:37:07.679
Yes? Will you get peaches?
No? And it'll be a sparse tree

526
00:37:07.800 --> 00:37:14.760
struggling to stay alive sun son son
So sun and drainage are the two of

527
00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:19.119
the most important things. The third
thing is the number of chilling hours.

528
00:37:19.800 --> 00:37:23.239
Now, there are peaches that grow
well in far North Sexes and peaches that

529
00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:27.400
grow well almost down to the valley, but they're not the same peaches.

530
00:37:28.199 --> 00:37:32.599
Each area has a certain amount of
temperatures in the winter around forty five degrees

531
00:37:34.199 --> 00:37:37.320
and each hour around that temperature counts
as a chilling hour. And so no

532
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:39.719
matter where you live, and I
realize I have people all the way up

533
00:37:39.719 --> 00:37:45.280
in Buffalo listening to this and way
down south of here too, But wherever

534
00:37:45.400 --> 00:37:47.159
you live, you have a certain
amount of chilling hours, and you want

535
00:37:47.159 --> 00:37:52.280
to choose varieties that match that.
That's important. And if you go to

536
00:37:52.320 --> 00:37:55.400
a good quality nursery, a mom
and pop, local garden center, independent

537
00:37:55.480 --> 00:38:00.639
garden center, they're going to have
staff on hand that know how to direct

538
00:38:00.679 --> 00:38:01.519
you to the right one. First
of all, they're only going to grow

539
00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:06.320
the right one, and so you
know when they're only growing the when they're

540
00:38:06.519 --> 00:38:09.679
say growing selling, when they're only
selling stuff that grows in your area,

541
00:38:09.840 --> 00:38:14.719
well that's a plus, right,
And then having educated staff, which our

542
00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:16.639
mom and pops do, to direct
you to the one. They may go,

543
00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:20.000
oh, if you're going to buy
one of these apples or whatever,

544
00:38:20.119 --> 00:38:22.360
you need to buy a pollinator for
it, or if you're going to get

545
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:24.079
a peach you don't need to buy. They help you like that, They

546
00:38:24.239 --> 00:38:29.400
get you off to a good start, and that is so important. Because

547
00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:32.079
you're investing in that tree. I
keep picking on peaches, but you buy

548
00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:37.360
that peach tree and you know you're
just tasting that luscious peach. We want

549
00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:40.280
you to get to taste that peach
a few years down the line. Do

550
00:38:40.400 --> 00:38:45.280
it right to begin with, because
if you don't do those three things good

551
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:52.199
drainage, good sunlight, and an
adapted variety of fruit, you're not going

552
00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:53.880
to have success. And we want
you to. So there's your tip of

553
00:38:53.920 --> 00:38:59.480
the day. Make sure that when
you are picking out your fruit, you

554
00:38:59.559 --> 00:39:06.599
get a quality plant from a quality
place. Kat r H Garden Line does

555
00:39:06.639 --> 00:39:12.440
not necessarily endorse any of the products
or services advertised on this program. Welcome

556
00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:21.960
to kt r H Garden Line with
Skip Richter's Shoesmill, the Crazy Gas can

557
00:39:22.000 --> 00:39:32.519
trim, just watch him at Woods, so many Tea, the Sea botasy

558
00:39:34.280 --> 00:39:51.079
gas not a sad credits gas.
You s well, good morning. We're

559
00:39:51.559 --> 00:39:53.320
We're happy you're listening to garden Line
this morning, and we look forward to

560
00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:58.239
talking to you. You'd like to
give us a call seven one three two

561
00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:01.480
one two fifty eight seventy four.
That's the number that you call. We

562
00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:05.760
are going to talk about a number
of other things. But I've been kind

563
00:40:05.800 --> 00:40:09.079
of going around the I guess the
hard landscape and garden talking about some of

564
00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:14.440
the things that are timely for this
time of the year and just things that

565
00:40:14.599 --> 00:40:21.199
you might want, you know,
to keep in mind the mowing and lawn

566
00:40:21.360 --> 00:40:23.360
care, you know, in terms
of mowing and edging and all that.

567
00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:27.920
That season is kind of winding down, and if there's ever a good time

568
00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:32.199
to get your plant or your equipment
ready to go into the winter season,

569
00:40:32.360 --> 00:40:38.000
now would be it. And we
do things like make sure that the underneath

570
00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:42.719
carriage, underneath the lawnmowers cleaned out. You don't have a bunch of wet

571
00:40:42.800 --> 00:40:45.079
grass stuck up under there. Get
all that cleaned out. If you want

572
00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:49.400
to take your blade off and get
them sharpened, this is the off season

573
00:40:49.480 --> 00:40:52.239
and a good time to do it. You know, places that sharpen your

574
00:40:52.280 --> 00:40:55.559
blade, they get kind of busy
when we're about to start mowing. Everybody

575
00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:59.400
wants their blade sharpened at that time, So now'd be a good time to

576
00:40:59.480 --> 00:41:02.400
do that. Drain the drain the
gas out, run the engine until let's

577
00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:09.039
dry. Just talk to your local
equipment maintenance folks, you know, wherever

578
00:41:09.199 --> 00:41:13.519
the shop is where you get maintenance
done. They'll tell you what to do.

579
00:41:13.639 --> 00:41:15.559
They've got different ways that they you
know, we used to to do.

580
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:19.199
Just drain it, run it until
it went dry, and leave it

581
00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:22.079
like that for for winter. I
think they may have doing some other things

582
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:24.000
right now, but they can get
you set up. That's not my expertise

583
00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:27.920
for sure, but now's the time
to go ahead and get that done.

584
00:41:27.960 --> 00:41:31.119
If you've got garden tools that you're
not going to be using over the cool

585
00:41:31.199 --> 00:41:35.920
season, uh, you know,
knock the dirt off of them, take

586
00:41:35.960 --> 00:41:37.400
a wire brush, clean them off, get any rust off, and then

587
00:41:37.480 --> 00:41:42.960
coat the surfaces with metal. A
good spray to coat the surfaces and protect

588
00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:46.280
against rust for the storage time.
You know, a tool can last a

589
00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:50.400
long time if it's a quality tool. That's true, especially with pruners,

590
00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:52.760
but it's true with a lot of
things. Uh, just take care of

591
00:41:52.840 --> 00:41:55.800
them, don't let them get all
rusted up. Take care of the metal,

592
00:41:55.880 --> 00:41:59.960
take care of the wooden parts,
you know, putting some linseed oil

593
00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:01.920
or something along those lines. On
the handles. I usually will take a

594
00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:06.199
sandpaper and kind of rub over the
handles if they're getting a little rough,

595
00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:08.199
kind of smooth them out, and
then put the oil on them to soak

596
00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:13.719
in. And it's amazing how long
a tool will last again when it's a

597
00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:19.119
quality tool and you take care of
it before you put your lawn to bed

598
00:42:19.199 --> 00:42:22.320
for winter. If you hadn't done
your fertilization, now's the time to go

599
00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:25.239
ahead and get that done. Nitrofoss's
three step is a good way to do

600
00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:29.599
it. Here's what happens with the
three step. First is a fertilizer.

601
00:42:29.920 --> 00:42:32.880
You put the fertilizer down and they
have the Fall special and it's designed for

602
00:42:34.000 --> 00:42:37.000
fall. The numbers are different from
what we'd put in the spring and summer.

603
00:42:37.519 --> 00:42:42.719
It is an excellent product that works
well. Then the barricade that is

604
00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:46.039
a pre emergent weed control product.
Now you follow the label and put it

605
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:50.280
out. Once you've put those two
out, that's going to take one application

606
00:42:50.400 --> 00:42:52.880
for fertilizer, one for barricade,
watered in with a half inch of water,

607
00:42:53.079 --> 00:42:57.079
and that moves both of them down
into the root system. And don't

608
00:42:57.159 --> 00:43:00.000
let it just sit there, because
the pre emergent doesn't work until you move

609
00:43:00.079 --> 00:43:05.360
it down in the soil where the
weed seed you're germinating. The fertilizer can't

610
00:43:05.400 --> 00:43:07.719
work until it gets down in the
root zone so the plants can take it

611
00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:13.159
up. The third step is Eagle
turf fungicide. It's a systemic It soaks

612
00:43:13.199 --> 00:43:16.039
in so when large patch or brown
patches as we used to call it,

613
00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:21.840
or take all root rot occurs,
you've already got something soaked into the turf

614
00:43:21.920 --> 00:43:23.960
tissues to protect them. Now you're
going to find the three step and other

615
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:30.119
nitrofosh products at Gym's Hardware and Montgomery
Ace Hardware and Memorial or Lake Hardware out

616
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:35.239
there in Clute. We're going to
go to the phones now and we're going

617
00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:38.719
to talk to David out in fullsher
Hello, David Lauren Scarp, how are

618
00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:44.159
you today? I'm well. Thanks. A few minutes ago, I was

619
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:46.519
stopped somewhere and I jumped in the
truck and I heard you talking about peach

620
00:43:46.599 --> 00:43:52.000
trees and chill hours and where to
buy them. Yes, and RCW Nurseres

621
00:43:52.119 --> 00:43:58.719
got some really really good ones.
And I bought a tangerine tree from there,

622
00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:02.239
maybe fifteen years ago. And planet
of that planet of that thing,

623
00:44:02.360 --> 00:44:09.480
it got about twenty feet tall and
about fourteen feet wide, produced eight hundred

624
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:14.239
more than that tangerines a year,
and that bad freeze got it, even

625
00:44:14.320 --> 00:44:17.119
though I tried my best to protect
it. Yeah, yeah, but yeah,

626
00:44:17.239 --> 00:44:21.400
and I got another one now that's
about five and a half feet tall,

627
00:44:21.599 --> 00:44:25.559
and I protected it somehow. It
stay protected and it's got about one

628
00:44:25.639 --> 00:44:29.480
hundred and twenty on them this year. Okay, now that's is that a

629
00:44:29.599 --> 00:44:34.199
tangerine? That also? Yes,
sir, it's you know, I'm sixty

630
00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:37.199
nine years old and growing up,
and I grew up in San Anton and

631
00:44:37.320 --> 00:44:40.719
for our Christmas stockings every year,
we would get these tangerines and they have

632
00:44:40.840 --> 00:44:44.480
had lots of seeds in them,
but they were really really good. Right,

633
00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:51.440
It's the same exact tangerine and just
really really great flavor. Sounds a

634
00:44:51.480 --> 00:44:54.239
little bit like it may be a
chain shot tangerine. Those are pretty seedy,

635
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:59.360
but yeah, there's a lot of
them out there. I have three

636
00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:02.880
different time right now and they're growing
and starting to produce a little bit.

637
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:09.199
But when I planted those things,
I built a sixty two by forty metal

638
00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:13.719
building and it's twenty two feet tall, and I had a friend of mine

639
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:16.519
come in with a dozer and he
dug down eight feet and about twenty five

640
00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:22.400
feet wide, and we stacked that
dirt up about fifteen feet higher than it

641
00:45:22.639 --> 00:45:25.559
was and let it rain on it
for five years and it brought it back

642
00:45:25.599 --> 00:45:30.320
down to about two feet of where
it naturally was, and everything I plant

643
00:45:30.400 --> 00:45:37.159
it there, My goodness it was. And now now whenever I pull like

644
00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:40.519
oak trees. My son lives around
the corner front of me. He's got

645
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:45.159
five acres. I only got six
and a half. But I ran a

646
00:45:45.239 --> 00:45:49.920
small back hole mans a hole.
You go off, you go all out,

647
00:45:50.400 --> 00:45:52.360
sounds like, yes, go ahead
of you ought to see You want

648
00:45:52.360 --> 00:45:55.119
to see these trees? You know? When I do that, I believe

649
00:45:55.199 --> 00:46:00.719
they just, my goodness, I
believe. Well, Hey, I got

650
00:46:00.840 --> 00:46:02.320
to run to some other callers,
but thank you for the call and the

651
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:06.960
information. And next time you're planting
a citru show to try a satsuma.

652
00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:10.719
They're also a good choice. I
have one, sir, and it's very

653
00:46:10.760 --> 00:46:14.039
good. But I thank you for
the info and you're doing a great job.

654
00:46:14.159 --> 00:46:16.159
Thank you, sir. I appreciate
your call very much. You know

655
00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:19.920
he was out in full share area. If you're out in a fulsher area,

656
00:46:19.960 --> 00:46:22.239
another great place to go is in
Channi Gardens. In Chenni Gardens is

657
00:46:22.719 --> 00:46:29.639
right there on the Cadi full share
side of Richmond. It is on three

658
00:46:29.639 --> 00:46:31.199
point fifty nine, so it's really
easy to get to. You just head

659
00:46:31.320 --> 00:46:36.960
north out of Richmond and you're there. It's Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.

660
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:39.199
And they've got every kind of plant
you could possibly want, you know,

661
00:46:39.320 --> 00:46:43.920
from fruit to vegetables, to herbs, to annual flowers, perennial flowers,

662
00:46:44.079 --> 00:46:47.599
ornamental grasses, shrubs, trees,
on and on and on down the line.

663
00:46:47.840 --> 00:46:51.320
And it's a fun place to visit
too. I always like to go

664
00:46:51.400 --> 00:46:53.199
by there, and if you need
the fertilizer I'm talking about on garden Line,

665
00:46:53.480 --> 00:46:57.519
the soil I'm talking about on Guardenline, go by there. They're going

666
00:46:57.559 --> 00:47:00.039
to have it Monday through Saturday,
eight to five. Sunday from ten am

667
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:04.199
to four pm, we're going to
take a break. Our phone number is

668
00:47:04.239 --> 00:47:07.880
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. If you'd like to

669
00:47:07.920 --> 00:47:09.960
get on the board, and when
we come back, Stewart and Sandy,

670
00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:15.199
you'll be the first two up.
All right, well you're back on Guardenline.

671
00:47:15.360 --> 00:47:19.599
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and our phone number is seven one

672
00:47:19.719 --> 00:47:24.000
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. I was talking earlier about if

673
00:47:24.000 --> 00:47:28.480
you want to plant fruit trees,
the soil drainage is really important and one

674
00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:30.440
of the ways we do that if
we bring in soil in a lower area

675
00:47:30.440 --> 00:47:34.639
and raise up the level. It's
simple to do. And if you down

676
00:47:34.719 --> 00:47:38.360
south of the Houston area, Ciena
Moltz is your soil place now. They're

677
00:47:38.559 --> 00:47:44.000
north of Roach Sharon on FM five
twenty one, near where Highway six and

678
00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:46.639
two eighty eight come together. They're
open Monday through Friday, seven thirty to

679
00:47:46.800 --> 00:47:52.480
five today seven thirty to two pm, So after show today'd be a great

680
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:55.440
time to run down there. They're
closed on Sunday. But cenamultch dot com.

681
00:47:55.599 --> 00:48:00.639
That's a website just right down cienamultch
dot com. They specialize in quality

682
00:48:00.719 --> 00:48:07.239
soils, quality compost, quality mulches. They've got bulk, they've got bagged,

683
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:08.400
they have everything you need. While
you're there, you can pick up

684
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:14.360
all the fertilizers I talk about here
on garden line. And if you are

685
00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:17.320
going to plant this fall anything,
take care of the soil. First.

686
00:48:17.599 --> 00:48:22.679
Brown stuff comes before green stuff.
Remember that brown before green and Ciena Multch

687
00:48:22.800 --> 00:48:27.280
can make sure you get set up
so that when you drop that plant in

688
00:48:27.360 --> 00:48:30.639
the ground. It hits the ground
running. We're going to now head out

689
00:48:30.760 --> 00:48:36.400
to Stuart and Katie. Hello Katie, Hello Stuart, Hi Ski, good

690
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:40.760
morning. Had a question. We've
got a magnolia tree and we have bricks

691
00:48:40.800 --> 00:48:45.280
around an area that you know,
kind of a bat around it, and

692
00:48:45.400 --> 00:48:49.400
it keeps getting invested. It looks
like nut grass or some kind of grass,

693
00:48:49.440 --> 00:48:52.360
and I keep repeatedly clean it out
every three months or two months.

694
00:48:52.400 --> 00:48:59.400
Whatever I heard that vinegar and water
sprayed on the grass would take care of

695
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:02.719
that, not harm the magnolia tree. Is at any accuracy to that,

696
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:07.440
Well, what would you recommend?
Vinegar burns the tops of weeds, but

697
00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:12.719
it works best in hot, sunny
weather, but it does not burn the

698
00:49:12.760 --> 00:49:15.639
bottoms. And if this is nutsedge
or any perennial grass, is not going

699
00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:17.559
to get rid of it. It's
just going to fry the top and then

700
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:22.079
it'll come right back off the ground. So on that particular thing, you're

701
00:49:22.119 --> 00:49:28.039
going to need to go to a
product made for use on nutsedge. And

702
00:49:28.239 --> 00:49:31.039
if it's a sedge, the nuts
edge is leaves are shiny, they're slick,

703
00:49:31.400 --> 00:49:37.000
unlike most grasses. That's one way
to tell the stems are triangular.

704
00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:39.159
If you got onto the bottom and
cut it off and look at the stem,

705
00:49:39.360 --> 00:49:43.639
it's going to have a triangular shape. That also tells you you probably

706
00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:47.320
have a sedge like nutsedge and those
kind of products. There's a sedge ender.

707
00:49:47.960 --> 00:49:52.880
There's one called image, there's one
called Manage. But you have to

708
00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:59.639
look at the label to see you
know which plant location it's labeled for summer,

709
00:49:59.719 --> 00:50:02.199
label for lawns. Some are labeled
for flower beds also, and you

710
00:50:02.320 --> 00:50:06.679
just want to grab one that's going
to work on that. But but something

711
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:10.239
for just sedges, you know,
go to a place that knows what they're

712
00:50:10.280 --> 00:50:15.079
talking about and ask them about that. You probably got some ACE hardware is

713
00:50:15.119 --> 00:50:16.159
out there in the Kady area.
In fact, I know you do.

714
00:50:16.559 --> 00:50:20.119
You have a good number of yeah
out there. Go to ACE and just

715
00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:22.719
say, hey, I need a
sedge product. But before you do that,

716
00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:27.000
go check what I just described and
make sure you have sedge. Otherwise

717
00:50:27.079 --> 00:50:30.760
you're you're probably using the wrong product
for the week. Would be good to

718
00:50:30.840 --> 00:50:34.280
bring a sample skip? Would it
be good to bring a sample of the

719
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:37.880
grass and then tell them and then
they can give me something that wouldn't harm

720
00:50:37.960 --> 00:50:39.719
the tree as well. Right,
yeah, well, and using it right,

721
00:50:40.119 --> 00:50:44.159
most sedge products are not going to
harm your tree. But using it

722
00:50:44.360 --> 00:50:46.159
right, all you have to do
is we the foliage. You don't have

723
00:50:46.360 --> 00:50:51.480
to you know, drench the soil
afoot deep. I mean that, get

724
00:50:51.519 --> 00:50:54.840
it on the foliage. The other
thing that I would suggest is if you

725
00:50:54.840 --> 00:50:58.679
can get a little shovel or a
weed and fork or something, get down

726
00:50:58.719 --> 00:51:02.000
there and try to get below the
plant. If it's got long, wiry,

727
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:07.039
stringy things, not roots, but
just dark brown stringy things, that's

728
00:51:07.199 --> 00:51:10.239
probably nuts edge. And if you
try to pull it up in one of

729
00:51:10.280 --> 00:51:15.559
those pops loose, it's because the
nut on the other end wouldn't slide through

730
00:51:15.599 --> 00:51:17.559
the soil and you just broke it. And that's another sign you probably have

731
00:51:17.719 --> 00:51:22.960
nut sets. Gotcha, I appreciate
it. Enjoy yourself. Thank you.

732
00:51:22.360 --> 00:51:27.199
I'm glad you listen. I was
talking earlier about fertilizing, and you know,

733
00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:30.920
when it comes to nutrients, the
big three nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium,

734
00:51:30.960 --> 00:51:32.760
those are important. We need them
in the largest amounts, but we

735
00:51:32.880 --> 00:51:38.159
need trace elements and very small amounts
also, and that's what azemite provides.

736
00:51:38.599 --> 00:51:45.719
Azimite's a mind product that is ground
up into various forms for applying into various

737
00:51:45.760 --> 00:51:49.519
plants and various situations, and it
works very well. It works well on

738
00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:53.159
your lawn. You just follow up
your fertilization with an azomite application, and

739
00:51:53.239 --> 00:51:57.039
you can do that anytime of year. You know, we talk about fertilizing

740
00:51:57.079 --> 00:51:59.920
at certain times, certain times of
the year because those are things that make

741
00:52:00.079 --> 00:52:02.960
the plant grow. As a mite, you're just stocking up your bank account

742
00:52:04.000 --> 00:52:06.800
in the soil. So you can
do that anytime you want. And if

743
00:52:06.840 --> 00:52:07.880
you haven't done it this year,
and that'd be a good time to go

744
00:52:07.880 --> 00:52:10.719
ahead and get it done, you
can go to as and Mite Texas find

745
00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:15.880
out more information about the product.
But pretty much everybody I talk about here

746
00:52:15.920 --> 00:52:20.239
on Garden Line they're going to carry
amite just it's widely available here in the

747
00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:24.199
Houston area from our better Garden centers. We're gonna head out now to Sandy

748
00:52:24.320 --> 00:52:30.159
and Cyprus. Hello Sandy, Good
morning, Skip. I have a little

749
00:52:30.199 --> 00:52:38.639
complicated problem. I have a pool
in my backyard and I put the the

750
00:52:38.760 --> 00:52:45.320
Texas three thing, three step thing, yes back in the end of in

751
00:52:45.480 --> 00:52:52.719
October. Okay, good, that's
a good time. And found out I've

752
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:57.360
got so many weeds back here,
and I thought, what's going on?

753
00:52:57.920 --> 00:53:04.800
And my grass kept staying wet,
so my pool pipe busted and yeah,

754
00:53:04.920 --> 00:53:08.639
so everything whenever the sprinklers, I
mean whenever the waterfall would come on,

755
00:53:09.320 --> 00:53:14.159
all the water would come out of
the pipe and get the grass on the

756
00:53:14.239 --> 00:53:20.519
side of my house wet. Okay, well, I didn't realize that until

757
00:53:20.599 --> 00:53:27.039
this past week, and the weeds
are everywhere. Can I put some more

758
00:53:27.199 --> 00:53:30.679
stuff down or no? Well,
if you see growing weeds, you've missed

759
00:53:30.719 --> 00:53:37.760
the window to use a pre emergent. It depends on what the weeds are.

760
00:53:37.840 --> 00:53:44.119
If they're cool season weeds, you
know, then it's worth controlling them

761
00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:49.440
now. But if they're one season, yes you can let me. I'm

762
00:53:49.480 --> 00:53:52.199
going to put you on hold.
Josh will get you the email to send

763
00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:57.079
me some photos and make sure the
photos are up closed. I can really

764
00:53:57.159 --> 00:54:00.880
see the weed in clear detail,
and I'll be glad to take a look

765
00:54:00.920 --> 00:54:06.360
at them, and then either I'll
answer you there or just have you call

766
00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:09.559
me back on the show. I
get way more emails than I can answer

767
00:54:09.599 --> 00:54:13.400
the questions too, and so I've
been asking people, you know, give

768
00:54:13.440 --> 00:54:15.159
me the information, give me the
photos, and then call in and let's

769
00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:20.239
just talk about it, because trying
to type out extensive answers I just did

770
00:54:20.360 --> 00:54:22.920
not able. Yes, yes,
absolutely, I'll do that. Thank you

771
00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:25.599
so much, Thank you, Sandy. I appreciate your call very much.

772
00:54:25.960 --> 00:54:29.400
Hey, if you're out in the
Kingwood area, you know you got Kingwood

773
00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:34.280
Garden Center and you got Warren's Southern
Gardens both right there. Their native plan

774
00:54:34.400 --> 00:54:37.719
of the month is Texas Beauty Berry. And boy, when those things that's

775
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:42.440
a native plant, when it loses
its leaves, those clusters of purplish berries

776
00:54:42.519 --> 00:54:45.920
are just beautiful. They make good
arrangements for indoors too. By the way,

777
00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:51.559
Now out at Kingwood Garden Center Warren
Southern Gardens, you know they have

778
00:54:51.880 --> 00:54:55.159
airloom souls age leaf composts. Three
bags for thirty bucks. That's good for

779
00:54:55.239 --> 00:55:00.360
the month of November, so only
the month of November. Airloom sALS age

780
00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:06.119
leaf compos high quality. Remember brown
stuff before green stuff, Grab that before

781
00:55:06.199 --> 00:55:08.760
and when you grab your plants,
so you can get the soil ready for

782
00:55:08.960 --> 00:55:13.639
the plants that you're pulling in.
Now, package bulbs are on sale by

783
00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:16.440
two get one free, except for
emerialist bulbs. It's still time. By

784
00:55:16.440 --> 00:55:20.320
the way, in the eight o'clock
hour a little ower thirty minutes from now,

785
00:55:20.360 --> 00:55:23.480
we're going to have Chris Weisinger from
the Southern Bulb Company talking to us

786
00:55:23.519 --> 00:55:30.280
about bulbs twenty five percent off all
fall decre They've got Christmas cactus in Christmas

787
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:34.320
trees are coming just around the corner. They'll probably arrive sometime next week.

788
00:55:35.199 --> 00:55:38.840
And I don't tell you about an
event on November eighteenth, at ten am,

789
00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:45.079
they're going to have the Festive Container
Planting Class with d Out at Warren's

790
00:55:45.159 --> 00:55:50.079
Garden Center. That's at ten am
November eighteenth. They will show you how

791
00:55:50.280 --> 00:55:53.079
to create a beautiful, cool season
planner. You know, it's got the

792
00:55:53.159 --> 00:55:57.360
blend, it's got the balance,
it's got that look. They've got the

793
00:55:57.559 --> 00:56:00.280
artistic hand Deecon show you how to
do that. And that's going to happen

794
00:56:00.320 --> 00:56:07.840
on the eighteenth. On Thursday the
sixteenth is Ladies Thursday the sixteenth through Sunday

795
00:56:07.159 --> 00:56:14.119
the nineteenth is Ladies Weekend at Kingwood
Garden Center. You can sip, shop

796
00:56:14.280 --> 00:56:16.960
and sparkle at the Kingwood Garden Center. They're gonna have door prizes and giveaways

797
00:56:17.039 --> 00:56:22.039
and really really deep discounts. They're
going to special sale some things up to

798
00:56:22.159 --> 00:56:28.280
forty percent off at Kingwood Garden Center. And again that's November sixteenth through the

799
00:56:28.480 --> 00:56:31.440
nineteenth. You don't want to miss
out on that. We're going to go

800
00:56:31.519 --> 00:56:37.400
now to Spring Branch and talk to
Herda. Hello, Herda, mid morning,

801
00:56:37.639 --> 00:56:49.360
Skip. I have a Saint Augustine. But I would say for every

802
00:56:49.880 --> 00:56:58.400
four three to five blades of grass, there's one yellow blade all over the

803
00:56:58.599 --> 00:57:00.880
yard, all right? That what
is that? Well, that can be

804
00:57:00.920 --> 00:57:04.960
a number of things. It can
be a little damage to roots, you

805
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:07.960
know, the drought can do that. As things cool off, grass will

806
00:57:07.039 --> 00:57:10.039
just start to do that some too. And I've seen that and they're bright

807
00:57:10.239 --> 00:57:15.199
yellow, right, I mean they're
not just yell. I've seen that.

808
00:57:15.360 --> 00:57:19.960
It could be the early start of
some brown patch or large patch too.

809
00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:23.480
The ones I've seen around though they're
not in circular areas. It's just all

810
00:57:23.679 --> 00:57:28.920
over. And so I'm thinking that
it's just a change of seasons and some

811
00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:32.400
old tired grass that's casting off its
older leaves. Those will be the oldest

812
00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:37.719
leaves on the little shoot of grass, and so I would not worry about

813
00:57:37.760 --> 00:57:42.159
that at this time. All right, Thank you very much, all right,

814
00:57:42.199 --> 00:57:44.760
thank you for your show. Thank
you, Thank you, Herd.

815
00:57:44.800 --> 00:57:47.760
I appreciate appreciate that call. Hey, if you're doing fall planting, what

816
00:57:49.159 --> 00:57:52.599
what's the rule brown stuff before green? Right? First you take care of

817
00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:54.440
the brown stuff, Then you take
care of the green stuff. You put

818
00:57:54.480 --> 00:57:59.480
the green stuff in the well prepared
brown stuff, and you're on your way

819
00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:02.039
to success. But there's one more
step and that is has to grow six

820
00:58:02.159 --> 00:58:07.079
twelve six. You mix it in
water and you drench it on the soil

821
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:10.239
right after your plant. You water
the plant in with a solution of has

822
00:58:10.360 --> 00:58:15.960
to grow six twelve six. You're
adding seaweed extracts and humic acid and Medina

823
00:58:15.000 --> 00:58:21.760
soil activator plus the six twelve six
the nutrients and that hyphosphorus is good for

824
00:58:21.920 --> 00:58:24.880
establishing a root system. Do it
five days, five to seven days later,

825
00:58:24.960 --> 00:58:28.400
do it five to seven days later, three times, about a week

826
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:30.000
apart. Has to grow six to
twelve six. Now, there's a lot

827
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:32.360
of the ways to use has to
grow. I mean there's a hose in

828
00:58:32.440 --> 00:58:35.920
spray or type you can put all
over your lawn and other things. There's

829
00:58:36.440 --> 00:58:40.000
there's you know, the ability to
foldier feed with it. It's not going

830
00:58:40.079 --> 00:58:44.239
to burn. There's a lot of
ways, but I like to use it

831
00:58:44.400 --> 00:58:46.159
as a way to water in I
just think you should have some on the

832
00:58:46.239 --> 00:58:51.559
shelf so that every time you plant
anything from a broccoli plant to an herb

833
00:58:51.639 --> 00:58:55.000
plant to a shade tree in the
lawn water an in row with a has

834
00:58:55.079 --> 00:59:00.639
to grow six twelve six. It's
another quality product from the DIA. Well,

835
00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:02.360
let's see, we are give you
a phone number if you'd like to

836
00:59:02.400 --> 00:59:07.599
give us a call seven one three
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837
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839
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Maybe it's a tree limb comes down
and it takes out a power line.

840
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Maybe it's just an undependable grid.
You know, we go through the super

841
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hot weather, super cold weather.
Uh, and the last thing you want

842
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is number one, to be uncomfortable
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843
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the food and your freezer and your
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844
00:59:38.400 --> 00:59:42.800
if, what if your livelihood depends
on being able to get on the internet.

845
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850
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even pouring the pad. They set
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851
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only sell you what you need.
They don't over sell on products. And

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857
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them a call seven to one to
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858
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Quality products, quality service for a
quality life. Well, we are

859
01:00:43.800 --> 01:00:47.320
bumping up against another break and Nicky's
going to be coming in here for the

860
01:00:47.400 --> 01:00:51.760
news and just a bit. If
you happen to live up in the Montgomery

861
01:00:51.840 --> 01:00:55.480
area, A and A Plants and
Produce is your home town garden center.

862
01:00:55.840 --> 01:01:00.760
They're in Montgomery on the right side
of Montgomery, east side of Montgomery Highway

863
01:01:00.760 --> 01:01:04.840
one O five heading toward conrou and
they serve that whole area, Lake Conroe

864
01:01:04.920 --> 01:01:07.159
area. What do you need?
Do you need fruit trees, shade trees?

865
01:01:07.239 --> 01:01:14.079
Do you need vegetable plants or flour
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866
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867
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to five pm. Knowledgeable staff,
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868
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Check them out, tell them skip said

869
01:01:27.960 --> 01:01:30.519
high when you go in there,
and you will find everything to make your

870
01:01:30.599 --> 01:01:35.320
lawn and your garden more beautiful and
more bountiful. Well, we're going to

871
01:01:35.400 --> 01:01:37.840
turn it over to Nikki. Our
phone number if you'd like to give Josh

872
01:01:37.880 --> 01:01:43.320
your call is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. If

873
01:01:43.400 --> 01:01:46.599
your toes not tapping, I don't
think you have a pulse. That is

874
01:01:46.679 --> 01:01:51.719
a great song. I love that, love that song. Hey, you've

875
01:01:51.760 --> 01:01:53.760
been to Plants for All Seasons before, I mean everybody has. It's it's

876
01:01:53.800 --> 01:01:59.079
easy to find. It's right there
on Highway to forty nine, just about

877
01:01:59.079 --> 01:02:01.679
where Louetta comes at, just north
of there, and Plants for All Seasons

878
01:02:01.760 --> 01:02:06.440
is one of those hometown garden centers. That has staff that knows what they're

879
01:02:06.480 --> 01:02:10.599
talking about. And that is so
important because they direct you to the plants

880
01:02:10.639 --> 01:02:14.199
you need. They'll listen to the
question, here's what I need. I

881
01:02:14.280 --> 01:02:16.079
want this? What can you suggest? They'll direct you to the plant,

882
01:02:16.400 --> 01:02:19.800
They'll tell you how to plant it. Maybe, if it's a product,

883
01:02:19.880 --> 01:02:22.480
they'll tell you how to use it. Bring them a sample of something.

884
01:02:22.559 --> 01:02:24.440
What do I do about this?
They'll direct you to the product, and

885
01:02:24.519 --> 01:02:28.760
then afterwards, when you have questions, you come back in and they take

886
01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:31.159
time to help you. That is
service like you just don't get from a

887
01:02:31.239 --> 01:02:37.000
big box store. That is why
Plants for All Seasons is so popular now.

888
01:02:37.039 --> 01:02:39.360
They've been around since nineteen seventy three. You can go to the website

889
01:02:39.440 --> 01:02:43.519
Plants for All Seasons dot com.
You can call them two eight, one,

890
01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:47.079
three, seven six, sixteen forty
six. However you go about it,

891
01:02:47.719 --> 01:02:52.320
go buy. Whether your thumb is
brown or green, it's a place

892
01:02:52.400 --> 01:02:54.519
you want to go. We're going
to head out to Katie now and talk

893
01:02:54.599 --> 01:03:00.679
to Kay. Oh I like that. Hey k from Katie morning, Good

894
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:07.119
morning. I have a question about
I'm looking for a shrub that will take

895
01:03:07.239 --> 01:03:13.360
center shade, and my problem is
in the summer, I get the total

896
01:03:14.039 --> 01:03:19.519
hot blazing afternoon sun, and in
the winter I get total shade. So

897
01:03:19.639 --> 01:03:23.119
it faces north, but it gets
the in the summer, it gets the

898
01:03:24.320 --> 01:03:30.800
sun from the west. Okay,
Katie, Kay, what what other aspects

899
01:03:30.840 --> 01:03:32.079
of the shrub do you want?
You know? Evergreen? Yes? No

900
01:03:32.280 --> 01:03:37.360
flowers yes? Know those yes?
And evergreen evergreen about three or four feet

901
01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:42.320
tall and the space is small,
it's about five by four by four.

902
01:03:43.920 --> 01:03:46.280
Okay. Well, you have a
number of hot options. There's some hollies

903
01:03:46.320 --> 01:03:51.480
that stay a little shorter. Chinese
holly will stay short, has very sharp

904
01:03:51.880 --> 01:03:55.159
spines on it, very very perfectly, but it will take quite a bit

905
01:03:55.199 --> 01:04:00.760
of shade and it will take sun
as well. That would be an option.

906
01:04:00.960 --> 01:04:03.000
You want to make sure the soil
is well grained for that. Upine's

907
01:04:03.000 --> 01:04:06.360
going to be a little on the
short side, yopine holly. The dwarf

908
01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:10.199
types are good for that, but
they're a little on the short side.

909
01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:15.280
But they can take kind of the
mix of the two, let's say,

910
01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:18.639
shades sun shrubs. Sometimes the plants
don't come to my head at that very

911
01:04:18.719 --> 01:04:24.400
moment, like it gets like total
shade in the wintertime, so very very

912
01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:28.079
mean in area. You mean in
the summertime. In the winter it gets

913
01:04:28.159 --> 01:04:30.679
total shade, and in the summer
it gets the blaring hot afternoon sun.

914
01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:35.679
You know. Yeah, yeah,
I think I would go with one of

915
01:04:35.719 --> 01:04:40.599
those. You're going to find that
a lot of the other plants that I

916
01:04:40.719 --> 01:04:44.000
might suggest, they're just not going
to be real happy with one or the

917
01:04:44.079 --> 01:04:46.760
other. Uh. And so that
would be the first, the first thing

918
01:04:46.880 --> 01:04:51.800
that I think about in that kind
of environment. Ye, I just keep

919
01:04:51.840 --> 01:04:55.679
thinking of plants and one or the
other is not going to be good.

920
01:04:56.760 --> 01:05:00.760
Yeah, I'll grow a deterre there, growd detur there. This which has

921
01:05:00.800 --> 01:05:03.039
done beautifully, But I want something
ever grain, you know. Yeah,

922
01:05:03.960 --> 01:05:08.320
let me think about that a minute. I may say something on the air

923
01:05:08.400 --> 01:05:11.559
here in a little bit when one
and suddenly something comes into my mind that

924
01:05:11.559 --> 01:05:14.119
I should have thought of while I
was talking to you. All Right,

925
01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:17.480
one it suggested a sunshine lagustrum,
but I don't think that would work.

926
01:05:18.760 --> 01:05:25.079
Well. Sunshine lagustrum is fine,
it'll it'll take some shade, I think

927
01:05:25.119 --> 01:05:28.719
it ought to do. Okay.
The problem with the total shade, yeah,

928
01:05:28.760 --> 01:05:30.880
I know. Well, you're saying
total shade, and then the winter

929
01:05:30.400 --> 01:05:33.280
the light levels are less than the
winter too, which adds a little bit

930
01:05:33.360 --> 01:05:38.800
to that. But sunshine La Gustrum
is a beautiful plant. I would need

931
01:05:38.840 --> 01:05:41.719
to check how deep in the shade
it can go. We always use it

932
01:05:41.800 --> 01:05:45.679
in the sun. And yeah,
yeah, but where do you normally shop

933
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:51.400
for your plants? Now? Since
water Garden is close to me, I

934
01:05:51.480 --> 01:05:54.760
go to them. Oh good,
okay, yeah, they're a good place.

935
01:05:54.920 --> 01:05:57.800
And I go to Enchanted Gardens.
I go all over really okay,

936
01:05:57.880 --> 01:06:01.119
Well, you know, I last
time I was down at in Jennet,

937
01:06:01.239 --> 01:06:04.519
they just had a ton of options, and I would I would talk to

938
01:06:04.599 --> 01:06:08.679
them. You can't even give them
a call and talk to them and just

939
01:06:08.719 --> 01:06:10.880
say what do you have? You
know, what do you what do you

940
01:06:11.000 --> 01:06:14.079
have that might fit this bill?
They're going to think of something that's not

941
01:06:14.199 --> 01:06:16.280
coming in my mind right now.
So that's that's where I would go,

942
01:06:16.599 --> 01:06:19.440
beyond the suggestion I gave you.
All right, all right, well,

943
01:06:19.480 --> 01:06:24.920
thank you very much, thank you. I appreciate appreciate that call. If

944
01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:29.920
you've not done your fall fertilization,
I can give you a suggestion here that

945
01:06:30.119 --> 01:06:34.400
is going to give you an excellent
fertilizer and a good secondary benefit. And

946
01:06:34.559 --> 01:06:41.800
that is Nelson's carbo load. Carbo
Load by Nelson is designed for fall application.

947
01:06:41.960 --> 01:06:45.360
Don't delay, go ahead and get
it down. It has actually has

948
01:06:45.440 --> 01:06:48.639
two benefits. One is that it
has a pre emergent in it as well

949
01:06:48.679 --> 01:06:54.519
as a fertilizer that helps prevent weeds
from coming up. But the second benefit

950
01:06:54.880 --> 01:06:59.679
is every bag that's sold this fall, Dan Nelson is donating two dollars to

951
01:07:00.559 --> 01:07:04.079
memorial scholarship for horticulture students at A
and M. And that's just a win

952
01:07:04.199 --> 01:07:08.599
win. But you can only get
that benefit by going ahead and doing it

953
01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:13.079
this fall now, and don't delay. Get that down. It's a quality

954
01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:15.760
product. Again, it's designed for
fall, and it's got the pre emerging

955
01:07:15.800 --> 01:07:20.639
in it as well to help with
those winterweeds sprouting and becoming a problem,

956
01:07:20.880 --> 01:07:24.679
especially when they take off in the
spring. Just shut them down before they

957
01:07:24.719 --> 01:07:29.199
get started. But two dollars a
bag for Randy's memorial scholarship. That's I

958
01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:32.400
thank you, Dean. I appreciate
you doing that as well. Let's head

959
01:07:32.440 --> 01:07:36.000
out now to Montgomery and we're going
to talk to John. Hello, John,

960
01:07:36.960 --> 01:07:44.159
good morning. We have a family
farm up here in Montgomery and during

961
01:07:44.280 --> 01:07:47.960
the summer when we had the one
hundred degree weather days and no rain with

962
01:07:48.119 --> 01:07:55.519
our sandy soil, our Saint Augustine
and a mixture with centipede grass is what

963
01:07:55.679 --> 01:08:01.119
my dad calls it is just almost
been a limiting and now it's being replaced

964
01:08:01.239 --> 01:08:06.320
by a bunch of weeds what I
call them little circular flower. I'm just

965
01:08:06.400 --> 01:08:11.679
wondering what be the best way to
get rid of those and hopefully get this

966
01:08:11.840 --> 01:08:16.640
Saint Augustine back to going again.
It's uh, we're at a loss.

967
01:08:16.920 --> 01:08:21.560
Okay, now you say circular weeds? Is this? The leaves are round,

968
01:08:21.760 --> 01:08:26.119
right, is what you're saying?
Yes? And does the does the

969
01:08:26.279 --> 01:08:30.880
stem attach in the middle of the
leaf kind of like an umbrella stalk attaches

970
01:08:30.920 --> 01:08:34.439
to the umbrella? Does Okay?
That's that's called dollar weed. You may

971
01:08:34.560 --> 01:08:40.000
also have a dichondra. It's a
similar leaf. Is a leaf shiny?

972
01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:45.399
Uh? Yeah? Okay, that's
dollar weed. And a post emergent product

973
01:08:45.560 --> 01:08:50.640
done right away to it. Apply
it, It'll soak in and it'll affect

974
01:08:50.680 --> 01:08:54.640
it. Those products in the summertime
can be a little some of them can

975
01:08:54.680 --> 01:08:58.119
be a little hard on Saint Augustine. But a post emergent broad leaf weed

976
01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:00.680
control product can take care of that. And if you go over to Ana

977
01:09:01.760 --> 01:09:05.920
Nursery on the east side of Montgomery, they're going to be able to direct

978
01:09:05.960 --> 01:09:10.960
you to the right one. But
tell them you need a post emergent broadleaf

979
01:09:11.039 --> 01:09:14.319
product that can be used in a
Saint Augustine lawn, and go ahead and

980
01:09:14.359 --> 01:09:16.520
hit it now, and then you're
probably gonna have to do it again later,

981
01:09:16.800 --> 01:09:20.319
like next spring. And just try
to get most of that done before

982
01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:25.039
it gets really hot once a days
are up ninety degrees and you're going to

983
01:09:25.079 --> 01:09:29.159
have some issue with some of those
products. Okay, got you much,

984
01:09:29.279 --> 01:09:30.960
Black. I appreciate you, you
bet, thank you very much. I

985
01:09:31.039 --> 01:09:35.039
appreciate that. Uh, we're going
to have to take a little break here.

986
01:09:35.079 --> 01:09:40.119
Our number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four.

987
01:09:40.199 --> 01:09:45.359
Will be right back. Well,
hello, and welcome back to Garden Line.

988
01:09:45.680 --> 01:09:49.159
Our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four.

989
01:09:49.600 --> 01:09:54.199
Remember how I keep talking about fall
is for planting, and what do you

990
01:09:54.279 --> 01:09:57.159
do when you're going to plant something? First the brown stuff, then the

991
01:09:57.239 --> 01:10:00.439
green stuff. Heirloom soils has got
a deal. Now, if you're doing

992
01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:04.560
any kind of a landscape bed,
maybe filling up a vego bed. You

993
01:10:04.720 --> 01:10:09.039
need to think about this because you're
not gonna find a better deal than this.

994
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They're veggie and herb mixes on fall
special. It's one hundred and nineteen

995
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dollars bulk. Or if you want
the supersack, which is a cubic yard

996
01:10:15.840 --> 01:10:19.199
set on your driveway in a sack, that's one hundred and forty eight bucks.

997
01:10:19.520 --> 01:10:23.359
If you want roast soil, that's
an excellent one for building beds and

998
01:10:23.399 --> 01:10:28.279
all kinds of things. Seventy dollars
bulk or ninety nine dollars for a supersack.

999
01:10:28.760 --> 01:10:32.680
They're both available on a special for
this fall for Heirloom Soils, so

1000
01:10:32.920 --> 01:10:38.439
you don't want to miss out.
Go to Heirloomsoilsoftexas dot com and you can

1001
01:10:38.479 --> 01:10:44.000
find out more about them right there. That's just super high quality product and

1002
01:10:44.079 --> 01:10:46.000
a deal you're not gonna You're not
gonna do better than that. We're gonna

1003
01:10:46.000 --> 01:10:49.880
go now to Jersey Village and talk
to Andy. Hello, Andy, Well,

1004
01:10:49.920 --> 01:10:53.359
good morning, Thank you very much
for taking my call. Yes,

1005
01:10:53.359 --> 01:10:59.319
sir, my question is I have
lime sizzler fire bush, which I have

1006
01:10:59.479 --> 01:11:02.960
for hummingbirds in the backyard, but
freezes back every winter. Okay, is

1007
01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:12.439
there another hummingbird bush that won't freeze
back in the winter. Well, I

1008
01:11:12.520 --> 01:11:15.479
don't know of anything that will give
the hummingbirds flowers in the winter, so

1009
01:11:15.640 --> 01:11:17.880
I'm not sure on the freeze.
No, no, no, I want

1010
01:11:18.279 --> 01:11:26.479
I want the bush to survive the
winter, to survive. Yes, Well,

1011
01:11:26.560 --> 01:11:28.640
let's see. I was going to
say Turk's cap would be a good

1012
01:11:28.680 --> 01:11:31.319
one, but it loses its foliage
a lot. It keeps some foliage,

1013
01:11:31.359 --> 01:11:36.119
so it's somewhat evergreen as a shrub. That would be a good will stay.

1014
01:11:38.159 --> 01:11:41.960
It'll stay at four feet or three
feet or whatever it is. Actually

1015
01:11:43.000 --> 01:11:45.239
it gets a little bigger than that. That's a little bit of a challenge.

1016
01:11:45.279 --> 01:11:46.760
Oh good. What I need is
I need to get I need to

1017
01:11:46.800 --> 01:11:53.479
get one of our hummingbird people to
call in and give me some ideas on

1018
01:11:53.640 --> 01:11:57.199
that. I'm trying to think of
hummingbirds and wintertime. You know, our

1019
01:11:57.279 --> 01:12:00.640
salvius can be attractive to them,
but they're going to die back Turk's cap.

1020
01:12:01.239 --> 01:12:04.199
Geez, I'm running out of ideas
right here. Off the top of

1021
01:12:04.279 --> 01:12:08.960
my head. Andy, I love
that lime sizzler farbush, so that is

1022
01:12:09.000 --> 01:12:12.680
a beautiful plant, but it does
done yes, it is. It's tone

1023
01:12:12.760 --> 01:12:15.279
like a going to the ground and
it doesn't come back, you know,

1024
01:12:15.359 --> 01:12:18.079
the four feet anymore. I mean, let me by the end of the

1025
01:12:18.239 --> 01:12:20.600
season. But let me see if
I can find something out, or maybe

1026
01:12:20.640 --> 01:12:25.760
we'll have someone call in that's a
hummingbird enthusiast and we'll go from there.

1027
01:12:25.800 --> 01:12:29.439
All right, I'll be listening,
all right, thank you, thank you

1028
01:12:29.520 --> 01:12:31.279
for taking my call. Yes,
sir, I appreciate I appreciate that very

1029
01:12:31.359 --> 01:12:35.520
much. If you're in Tombol and
you need your hometown feed store effective you're

1030
01:12:35.520 --> 01:12:40.640
anywhere near the region of Tomball,
D and D feed is who you need

1031
01:12:40.720 --> 01:12:43.760
to know about. D and D
feed is on twenty nine to twenty west

1032
01:12:43.800 --> 01:12:47.439
of Tomball, about three miles west
on two forty nine west of two forty

1033
01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:51.199
nine. The Dover family has expanded
it again. I went in the other

1034
01:12:51.319 --> 01:12:55.680
day and there was this new little
section back there that had bulk seeds where

1035
01:12:55.720 --> 01:12:58.680
you know, just fill up your
sacks. A great economical way to buy

1036
01:12:59.039 --> 01:13:02.319
seeds for your garden. They carry
the quality dog foods like Origin, Diamond,

1037
01:13:02.520 --> 01:13:06.279
Victor Star Pro. They've got things
to control pests and rodents, and

1038
01:13:06.359 --> 01:13:11.159
boy, here comes the winter season. And those rats and other things like

1039
01:13:11.239 --> 01:13:14.279
to head up into the attic or
just hang out around the house. They

1040
01:13:14.319 --> 01:13:17.079
can take care of that for you. Anything you need to feed your animals,

1041
01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:20.840
to take care of your lawn.
The quality products, the nitrofoss,

1042
01:13:21.039 --> 01:13:28.119
the bone eye, the microlife,
the Medina products and Nelson plant food,

1043
01:13:28.359 --> 01:13:30.199
on and on. They got it
all. They have it all there,

1044
01:13:30.640 --> 01:13:34.560
plus all the products you need to
deal with pest, weeds and diseases at

1045
01:13:34.640 --> 01:13:39.000
D and D feed Again, they're
on twenty nine to twenty three miles west

1046
01:13:39.039 --> 01:13:43.479
of two forty nine in Tomball.
I was just talking about that heirloom product.

1047
01:13:43.560 --> 01:13:45.640
Yep, they have those at D
and D as well. Let's make

1048
01:13:45.640 --> 01:13:48.720
a quick run out to southwest Houston
and we're going to talk to Ed.

1049
01:13:49.000 --> 01:13:53.239
Hello. Ed, good, good
morning, sir, good morning, thank

1050
01:13:53.279 --> 01:13:57.079
you for taking the call this cool
day. All right, how can we

1051
01:13:57.159 --> 01:14:00.960
help so well? You know,
being the cheap skate I am, I'll

1052
01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:03.279
wait until I knew it was going
to rain to put down my winter fertilizer.

1053
01:14:03.840 --> 01:14:08.479
But have I has it washed it
all out or is it going to

1054
01:14:08.520 --> 01:14:12.119
be okay what you use? I'm
just curious, but not your fass.

1055
01:14:13.079 --> 01:14:16.199
Yeah, probably not we didn't get
the gully washer for days and days.

1056
01:14:16.279 --> 01:14:19.479
You know that that we would worry
about that. I think you're you're good

1057
01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:24.720
to go. I would not add
it again. I think you probably did

1058
01:14:24.800 --> 01:14:28.279
fine. Okay, thank you sir. Yes, sir, that's the toughest

1059
01:14:28.359 --> 01:14:31.920
question of the day. I doubt
it, but thank you byby. Yeah.

1060
01:14:32.359 --> 01:14:36.680
You know, if you're done in
the Richmond area, Enchanted Forest is

1061
01:14:36.920 --> 01:14:45.119
an enchanting place that you need to
go. They have a unbelievable selection of

1062
01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:48.439
winter vegetables and herbs by the way
they have loaded up. I mean,

1063
01:14:48.520 --> 01:14:51.880
and they carry stuff. You know, everybody's got some spinach and maybe some

1064
01:14:53.439 --> 01:14:56.680
broccoli and lettuce and things. No, they go way beyond that. I

1065
01:14:56.720 --> 01:15:00.800
mean they have things like bok choy
and all kinds of other vegeta and then

1066
01:15:00.840 --> 01:15:04.199
of course the herbs, so many
quality herbs. It's a good time to

1067
01:15:04.239 --> 01:15:08.560
plan them. You know. A
while ago I was talking about hummingbirds,

1068
01:15:08.600 --> 01:15:12.560
and I don't know that much about
hummingbirds specifically. Well, how about this

1069
01:15:13.039 --> 01:15:18.600
today November eleventh, today at ten
am, right after the show Martin hag

1070
01:15:19.000 --> 01:15:23.399
Hagney, I believe is how you
pronounce it from the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory

1071
01:15:23.600 --> 01:15:27.520
is going to be there at Enchented
Forests. They're going to have a pop

1072
01:15:27.640 --> 01:15:30.880
up sweet Bee's Baked Box too,
so you can get little munchies while you're

1073
01:15:30.920 --> 01:15:32.760
out there. But join Martin.
He's going to teach you all about the

1074
01:15:32.960 --> 01:15:38.079
extraordinary lives of hummingbirds and why you're
out there at Enchanted for As you can

1075
01:15:38.119 --> 01:15:41.680
say, hey, what is a
plant that's evergreen in the winter, but

1076
01:15:41.800 --> 01:15:45.239
that attracts humming birds during the season. They can probably fix you up because

1077
01:15:45.239 --> 01:15:48.319
they know a lot. They're experts
at all kinds of things out at Enchanted

1078
01:15:48.359 --> 01:15:55.239
Forest. And again that's twenty seven
to fifty nine FM twenty seven fifty nine

1079
01:15:55.399 --> 01:16:00.279
in Richmond, Texas. If you're
heading from Richmond toward Sugarland direction and it's

1080
01:16:00.319 --> 01:16:01.520
off to the right back in that
way, you can give a call two

1081
01:16:01.560 --> 01:16:09.319
eight one nine, three seven ninety
four forty nine. It is as simple

1082
01:16:09.560 --> 01:16:14.039
as that. Where you're listening to
garden Line, I'm your host, Skip

1083
01:16:14.119 --> 01:16:18.039
Richter, and next hour we're going
to be having Chris Weisinger come in from

1084
01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:23.159
the Southern Bulb Company and we're going
to talk bulbs. So if you have

1085
01:16:23.279 --> 01:16:27.399
a bulb question. Between eight and
nine, that's the time to call about

1086
01:16:27.439 --> 01:16:30.079
it. We're not going to take
calls on other things at that time because

1087
01:16:30.079 --> 01:16:33.039
we want to focus on that topic
and on people that have questions about bulbs.

1088
01:16:33.880 --> 01:16:38.600
Also, I just want to remind
you that it is the holiday season

1089
01:16:38.960 --> 01:16:43.680
and if you need Christmas lights,
if you need decorations, wreaths, if

1090
01:16:43.720 --> 01:16:45.720
you need you know, all the
different kinds of box sets and whatnot.

1091
01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:50.079
ACE is a place for your Christmas
lighting and decoration. Yes, they're the

1092
01:16:50.159 --> 01:16:54.840
place for everything you need to have
a beautiful lawn and a bountiful landscape,

1093
01:16:55.239 --> 01:17:00.680
but they are also the place that
you need for your holiday decorations of options,

1094
01:17:00.800 --> 01:17:04.199
box sets, various configurations, many
different colors and sizes and so on.

1095
01:17:04.640 --> 01:17:08.560
They even have something called custom lights
by the foot and you just need

1096
01:17:08.640 --> 01:17:11.000
to go by there. It's kind
of what you would imagine that it is,

1097
01:17:11.399 --> 01:17:15.880
but go by there and let someone
at your local ACE Hardware store tell

1098
01:17:15.920 --> 01:17:18.880
you more about it. There's now
forty stores in the Greater Houston area.

1099
01:17:19.439 --> 01:17:25.840
Acehardware dot Com. Look at the
store locator and find the ones that are

1100
01:17:25.920 --> 01:17:29.680
closest to you. So convenient.
It's nice to be able to go into

1101
01:17:29.720 --> 01:17:31.760
one place just kind of everything you
need is right there. Well, that's

1102
01:17:31.840 --> 01:17:36.399
what ACE is, that's what they're
all about. I want to remind you

1103
01:17:36.560 --> 01:17:44.399
that my lawn care schedule and my
lawn disease, pest and in weed management

1104
01:17:44.479 --> 01:17:50.000
schedule, they're both online at my
website Gardening with Skip dot com. Gardening

1105
01:17:50.239 --> 01:17:57.560
with Skip dot com. Also,
I've put up there a free publication you

1106
01:17:57.640 --> 01:18:00.720
can you go right to the web
page and it's the top thing. Now

1107
01:18:00.960 --> 01:18:04.680
that's the latest, if you will, And it is a nine page full

1108
01:18:04.760 --> 01:18:11.479
color guide PDF on everything you need
to know about protecting your plants in cold

1109
01:18:11.520 --> 01:18:15.720
weather. It talks about different kinds
of freezes and frost, how we go

1110
01:18:15.840 --> 01:18:19.560
about protecting, what works, what
doesn't work, and the things that can

1111
01:18:19.680 --> 01:18:24.560
work. But let's say like watering
or spraying your plants with water to have

1112
01:18:24.720 --> 01:18:28.600
ice on them, Well, that
can work. If you're a professional citrus

1113
01:18:28.600 --> 01:18:31.640
scorer, you know how to do
it. If you're in a backyard homeowner,

1114
01:18:31.840 --> 01:18:34.520
don't do it. It just has
all kinds of problems. But that

1115
01:18:34.720 --> 01:18:40.520
and more and explains why is all
there on that free publication and you can

1116
01:18:40.560 --> 01:18:45.279
find it at Gardening with Skip dot
com We'll be right back with Chris Weisinger

1117
01:18:45.359 --> 01:18:49.760
after the break. Look forward to
talking to you as well. KTRH Garden

1118
01:18:49.800 --> 01:18:54.720
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this program.

1119
01:18:57.079 --> 01:19:08.319
Welcome to KTRH Garden Lines with Scape
Richter. It's so crazy to trim.

1120
01:19:09.119 --> 01:19:18.880
You just watch him as works so
many gives the seas. Welcome back

1121
01:19:18.880 --> 01:19:24.920
to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter and our phone number if

1122
01:19:24.920 --> 01:19:29.439
you'd like to give us a call
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1123
01:19:29.640 --> 01:19:33.319
seventy four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. Uh.

1124
01:19:33.479 --> 01:19:40.640
If you want a place to purchase
a quality soil mix, quality maults,

1125
01:19:41.159 --> 01:19:45.840
those kinds of products, Nature's Way
Resources is the place you need to know.

1126
01:19:45.000 --> 01:19:49.039
You know Nature's Way. They're sort
of like the originator of a lot

1127
01:19:49.119 --> 01:19:53.399
of the things we talk about as
quality soiler when we say rose soil,

1128
01:19:53.680 --> 01:19:58.319
when we say you know leaf,
mo compost, and many many other products.

1129
01:19:58.319 --> 01:20:02.760
They were the first to create.
John Ferguson has done an outstanding job

1130
01:20:03.199 --> 01:20:10.000
really changing the success of Houston gardens
by creating the kinds of soil mixes that

1131
01:20:10.439 --> 01:20:15.039
ensure success. Because remember first comes
the soil. Second comes to plants.

1132
01:20:15.920 --> 01:20:18.159
You can fall in love with the
most beautiful flower, but go home with

1133
01:20:18.279 --> 01:20:23.720
soil to fix that bed that you
have and make it the best it can

1134
01:20:23.800 --> 01:20:27.600
be. And then that flower or
whatever you purchased is going to do well.

1135
01:20:27.640 --> 01:20:30.520
You can get them a call at
Nature's Way at nine three six three

1136
01:20:30.600 --> 01:20:33.880
two one sixty nine ninety. You
can go buy there up there on Interstate

1137
01:20:33.960 --> 01:20:38.640
forty five north as you go toward
Conroe, right where fourteen eighty eight comes

1138
01:20:38.680 --> 01:20:42.199
in, turn right, go across
the railroad tracks and you're there. Leave

1139
01:20:42.279 --> 01:20:44.399
them in the car, though,
because you're gonna also want to pick up

1140
01:20:44.399 --> 01:20:47.159
some of the plants from the nursery
that they've created. John and Ian have

1141
01:20:47.199 --> 01:20:53.399
a nice little nursery going out there
as well, all at Nature's Way Resources.

1142
01:20:54.800 --> 01:20:58.119
I want to go now to Kingwood
and we're going to talk to Charlie.

1143
01:20:58.199 --> 01:21:00.479
Hello, Charlie, please kip you
doing today? I'm doing well?

1144
01:21:00.880 --> 01:21:04.479
Thank you great Hey. Years ago, I used to watch my dad grow

1145
01:21:04.560 --> 01:21:09.600
garlic, but I never paid attention
to what he did he buy. You

1146
01:21:09.680 --> 01:21:13.319
know, can you buy the clothes
in the grocery store and plant those and

1147
01:21:13.600 --> 01:21:16.960
secondly, will garlic grow down here
through the winter. Well you could,

1148
01:21:17.479 --> 01:21:21.399
but I would go to a garden
center or a feed store and where you

1149
01:21:21.520 --> 01:21:25.560
shop, and they're probably going to
have garlic clothes. And yes, it

1150
01:21:25.680 --> 01:21:28.600
does grow through the winter. We
plant it in the fall, it grows

1151
01:21:28.680 --> 01:21:32.760
through the winter, and then in
spring, that single clove that you planted

1152
01:21:33.000 --> 01:21:40.640
is initiated to divide and make that
cluster of clothes that we're aiming for.

1153
01:21:41.520 --> 01:21:45.279
There are hard neck and soft neck
type soft neck types of garlic, and

1154
01:21:45.520 --> 01:21:47.560
some types do better than others here. So could you do one from the

1155
01:21:47.600 --> 01:21:53.079
grocery store? Probably would it be
one that would do well here? Yeah,

1156
01:21:53.319 --> 01:21:56.439
it's a roll of the dice on
that. Okay, Well, if

1157
01:21:56.439 --> 01:21:59.840
anyone out there is growing garlic,
maybe they could chime in and see,

1158
01:22:00.039 --> 01:22:01.920
because you know, I just bought
some really big garlic clothes and I just

1159
01:22:02.000 --> 01:22:05.840
started thinking, so okay, well, hey, let me give you a

1160
01:22:05.880 --> 01:22:11.960
tip, Charlie. Go to the
AGI Horticulture website. Just just do a

1161
01:22:12.000 --> 01:22:15.960
search for Aggie Horticulture. I've been
there numerous times after I heard it on

1162
01:22:15.039 --> 01:22:18.359
your ear, So okay, and
yeah, their vegetable section has a publication

1163
01:22:18.560 --> 01:22:23.079
just on garlic. Okay, Okay, thank you as usual, sir,

1164
01:22:23.279 --> 01:22:27.000
Thank you, Charlie. Appreciate the
call very much. Uh. You know,

1165
01:22:27.239 --> 01:22:31.880
if you're up in Grimes County east
of Nevnesota direction, Grimes County Feed

1166
01:22:32.000 --> 01:22:36.560
is your hometown feed store. They're
they're celebrated their five year anniversary and the

1167
01:22:36.680 --> 01:22:42.840
Roy family they're all about public service. That means that you know from the

1168
01:22:42.960 --> 01:22:46.279
store, I mean there they're sponsoring
events with the local school district's f FA

1169
01:22:46.560 --> 01:22:51.399
four h volunteer fire Department, the
Grimes County True Blue Foundation. Now,

1170
01:22:51.520 --> 01:22:56.199
Grimes County Feed is going to have
the fertilizers I recommend, and everything else

1171
01:22:56.239 --> 01:23:00.760
you'd expect from a feed store.
But this this is a fam that you

1172
01:23:00.840 --> 01:23:04.399
know. Their past is in agriculture, their past is in the Houston Fire

1173
01:23:04.439 --> 01:23:09.560
Department, in Houston Police Department.
Service is what they're founded on a long

1174
01:23:09.640 --> 01:23:13.840
time ago, and that's how they
run their business at Grimes County Feed.

1175
01:23:14.199 --> 01:23:17.880
So anyone out in that direction,
we're talking about Carlos, Texas Highway thirty

1176
01:23:18.560 --> 01:23:24.439
two miles west of two forty four, you're just gonna when you go there,

1177
01:23:24.560 --> 01:23:27.840
you're going to see why I talk
about them being the place to go

1178
01:23:27.960 --> 01:23:30.720
in the area. So folks that
live in Kingwood and king Oak, excuse

1179
01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:34.520
me, king Oaks and mere Wood, Reliant, Steep Hollow, Iola,

1180
01:23:34.600 --> 01:23:40.000
beat Eyes, Rohnes, Prairie Shiro, all of that college station in Avasota.

1181
01:23:40.359 --> 01:23:45.039
They're your hometown feedstore at Grimes County
feed. Let's head to fullsher nowt

1182
01:23:45.079 --> 01:23:48.760
we're gonna talk to JD. Hello, JD? How did you get up?

1183
01:23:48.760 --> 01:23:50.680
How you doing this morning? I'm
well, thank you, sir?

1184
01:23:53.119 --> 01:23:57.399
Good good, Hey, quick question. I had called you over the summer.

1185
01:23:58.039 --> 01:24:00.600
We're in a newer house. It's
about a year year olds, so

1186
01:24:00.720 --> 01:24:05.039
our plants and everything are about that
about that young. I wanted to transplant

1187
01:24:05.119 --> 01:24:10.720
a crape myrtle from one bed to
another bed, and I ended up moving.

1188
01:24:10.960 --> 01:24:15.479
I think they're Texas sage around.
I sent you an email with some

1189
01:24:15.600 --> 01:24:19.239
pictures. It was already after you
had started your day this morning. But

1190
01:24:20.359 --> 01:24:24.840
they look pretty, they look pretty
peaked. I don't know if I've if

1191
01:24:24.880 --> 01:24:28.960
they're in shock, or if I've
killed them with my transplanting. I just

1192
01:24:29.039 --> 01:24:31.000
want to get your opinion on things
I could do to keep them from dying.

1193
01:24:31.039 --> 01:24:33.680
On them all right, A couple
of quick quick things that the crape

1194
01:24:33.720 --> 01:24:38.840
myrtles are fine for transplanting this time
of year. This is the time of

1195
01:24:38.920 --> 01:24:41.239
year if you got dig some up, move it to get it done.

1196
01:24:41.920 --> 01:24:45.359
The Snizo or Texas sage is not
very fond of that. And I see

1197
01:24:45.399 --> 01:24:49.119
what you're talking about whether or not
they'll come back. I'd say wait and

1198
01:24:49.239 --> 01:24:55.079
see, but that that's the issue
with them, is they're not real crazy

1199
01:24:55.119 --> 01:24:58.479
about it being transplanted. By the
way that those crape myrtles have some crape

1200
01:24:58.520 --> 01:25:01.359
myrtle bark scale on them, and
so you're gonna want to be dealing with

1201
01:25:01.520 --> 01:25:05.920
that, making sure you treat for
it, because it's what's turning the branches

1202
01:25:05.960 --> 01:25:12.640
all all black and city park scale. Okay, yeah, I had actually

1203
01:25:12.760 --> 01:25:15.319
emailed you. I was supposed to
call you a month or two ago because

1204
01:25:15.359 --> 01:25:19.760
I had the black sooty mold on
it and I had treated it with some

1205
01:25:19.920 --> 01:25:24.239
kind of testicide that I got from
one of the local stores. Okay,

1206
01:25:25.640 --> 01:25:30.119
but okay, so so alrighty,
so I'll treat that should I do any

1207
01:25:30.239 --> 01:25:32.199
kind of soil. I got to
be honest, I didn't do any soil

1208
01:25:32.319 --> 01:25:35.399
prep or at any potting soil or
anything. I just dug up the root

1209
01:25:35.479 --> 01:25:39.399
balls, and yeah, pretty much
just swapped them over and watered them.

1210
01:25:39.560 --> 01:25:43.319
That's fine. That that's fine.
You picked two species that are pretty darn

1211
01:25:43.399 --> 01:25:46.279
tough and don't have to be pimpered
like some do with all kinds of special

1212
01:25:46.359 --> 01:25:49.479
bed mixes and whatnot. They'll they'll
do okay with that, So I think

1213
01:25:49.479 --> 01:25:55.399
you're going to be okay there,
alrighty, all right, any recommendations on

1214
01:25:55.560 --> 01:26:01.079
that that black kind of bark city
mode. So in this in the spring,

1215
01:26:01.920 --> 01:26:06.159
probably in your area about some time
at the end of towards the end

1216
01:26:06.199 --> 01:26:11.039
of March, the create murder bark
scale crawlers are going to be coming out,

1217
01:26:11.199 --> 01:26:15.279
and that's when if you're going to
use an insecticide to spray the branches,

1218
01:26:15.359 --> 01:26:18.680
you should. If you're going to
use a horticultural oil, even in

1219
01:26:18.760 --> 01:26:23.840
inexidal soap when you catch them at
that baby crawler stage would be okay,

1220
01:26:24.680 --> 01:26:27.319
But a in sex I'd probably be
a better way to go at that time.

1221
01:26:28.039 --> 01:26:30.960
But it's when the crawlers are out, And I know most people aren't

1222
01:26:30.960 --> 01:26:33.800
gonna want to do this, but
if you put double sided sighted sticky tape

1223
01:26:33.880 --> 01:26:39.079
on a branch or two and check
it periodically, you'll know when the crawlers

1224
01:26:39.119 --> 01:26:42.359
are out, because there'll be these
little tiny red bugs stuck in the tape

1225
01:26:42.520 --> 01:26:45.800
and that's your signal to hit them
now, because once they've honkered down as

1226
01:26:45.840 --> 01:26:50.680
a scale, they're very hard to
control. Okay, So and of march

1227
01:26:51.399 --> 01:26:55.319
treat them, yes, sir,
and hey JD, I'm gonna have to.

1228
01:26:55.399 --> 01:26:57.720
I'm gonna have to run to a
break. But good luck with that.

1229
01:26:57.920 --> 01:27:00.880
And thank you for the email and
for the call. Our phone number

1230
01:27:00.960 --> 01:27:03.159
is seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. When we come

1231
01:27:03.279 --> 01:27:08.359
back, we will go to Rick
in Spring and Mark in Sugarland. You're

1232
01:27:08.399 --> 01:27:12.800
the first two up. Welcome back
to garden Line. I'm your host,

1233
01:27:12.840 --> 01:27:17.039
Skip Richter, and we're here to
answer your gardening questions. And one question

1234
01:27:17.119 --> 01:27:20.079
I get a lot is well,
where can I find such and such you

1235
01:27:20.159 --> 01:27:24.520
talk about this product or whatever?
Where where do I find that? Well?

1236
01:27:25.119 --> 01:27:29.199
One answer pretty much fits everything.
As a Southwest fertilizer, Southwest Fertilizer

1237
01:27:29.279 --> 01:27:34.800
has the best selection in town of
fertilizers of pesticides, that's insecticides, fungicides,

1238
01:27:35.319 --> 01:27:40.560
herbicides. Do you need tools?
They got an eighty foot wall loaded

1239
01:27:40.640 --> 01:27:43.319
with tools. Do you need to
get that lawnmower blade Sharpen I was talking

1240
01:27:43.319 --> 01:27:45.920
about that earlier, perhaps some small
engine repair. They even got a shop

1241
01:27:45.960 --> 01:27:49.239
in the back that can do that. You can go to Southwest Fertilizer dot

1242
01:27:49.319 --> 01:27:51.920
com. Or you can just go
by there on the corner of bissin Nut

1243
01:27:53.039 --> 01:27:57.159
and Runwick down there in Southwest Houston
and Bob and his folks. He has

1244
01:27:57.239 --> 01:28:00.760
trained staff. And you bring a
sample or a problem in a photo of

1245
01:28:00.880 --> 01:28:04.520
something in make sure it's in sharp
focus. They can direct the identify it

1246
01:28:04.520 --> 01:28:08.399
and then direct you to what you
need to take care of it. And

1247
01:28:08.640 --> 01:28:13.399
while you're in there, make sure
and ask about their soil probe or give

1248
01:28:13.439 --> 01:28:15.199
them a call ahead of time see
if they have it on hand. They'll

1249
01:28:15.239 --> 01:28:18.000
loan it out. Do you leave
a little deposit You can go do your

1250
01:28:18.079 --> 01:28:23.079
soil testing that I was recommending earlier. Find out what's in your soil so

1251
01:28:23.199 --> 01:28:30.800
you can fertilize even more intelligently based
on your specific property. Southwest Fertilizer dot

1252
01:28:30.920 --> 01:28:34.960
com. We are now going to
go to sugar Land and talk to Mark.

1253
01:28:35.239 --> 01:28:40.760
Hello Mark, Hi Skiv, thanks
for taking my call. The question

1254
01:28:40.840 --> 01:28:43.800
I have for you is we've got
to plant two trees in our front yard,

1255
01:28:44.560 --> 01:28:47.039
and most of the trees in our
neighborhood are live oaks, which are

1256
01:28:47.119 --> 01:28:51.760
beautiful. But I'm looking for something
that won't or I can still grow a

1257
01:28:51.840 --> 01:28:56.159
good front yard, so I don't
want to have to deal with the roots

1258
01:28:56.239 --> 01:29:00.520
and the shade that live oaks give. And I was wondering if Chinese pistache

1259
01:29:00.560 --> 01:29:04.119
trees would be a good option for
us in this area. Chinese stash is

1260
01:29:04.159 --> 01:29:06.279
fine. Now, any tree is
gonna have root issues. I mean,

1261
01:29:06.479 --> 01:29:10.239
you're try to digging the ground and
you're gonna have roots there. That's just

1262
01:29:10.359 --> 01:29:14.439
part of the deal. Chinese pistache
is good. It casts a medium shade.

1263
01:29:15.159 --> 01:29:17.399
Occasionally you get a little decent fall
color from it. It's kind of

1264
01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:26.560
touch and go depending on the season. Another choice is Chinese elm. One

1265
01:29:26.560 --> 01:29:29.680
of the varieties is called Drake elm. There are other varieties out there,

1266
01:29:29.720 --> 01:29:32.720
Athena and some others. It casts
a very light shade and has a very

1267
01:29:32.760 --> 01:29:41.680
attractive, almost muscular, smooth striated
type bark with gray and rusty patches on

1268
01:29:41.880 --> 01:29:44.800
it. You've seen these around town, whether you knew what they were or

1269
01:29:44.840 --> 01:29:46.439
not. But when you walk up
to a tree and you see this little

1270
01:29:46.520 --> 01:29:50.760
like an almost an alligator pattern on
the bark with gray and orange. That's

1271
01:29:50.800 --> 01:29:55.800
a Chinese elm. I like them
because of the fairly light shade that they

1272
01:29:55.960 --> 01:30:00.680
cast. So either one of those
would be okay on how you want it

1273
01:30:00.760 --> 01:30:03.279
to be. Chinese pistache probably is
not going to get quite as big as

1274
01:30:03.399 --> 01:30:08.159
Chinese elm will over time, but
both of them will make a good sized

1275
01:30:08.199 --> 01:30:12.560
tree. We saw them in well, what I believe is a Chinese pistache

1276
01:30:12.720 --> 01:30:15.359
in Costco parking lot and it was
in the fall last year, and they

1277
01:30:15.439 --> 01:30:18.680
had a beautiful red color to the
lead. Well, and they do they

1278
01:30:18.800 --> 01:30:23.439
do that, They can do that. And yes, a parking lot is

1279
01:30:23.560 --> 01:30:27.880
where you will encounter them because they
do. They grow fast, they do

1280
01:30:28.039 --> 01:30:31.920
well under those adverse conditions. Okay, So do you like the the the

1281
01:30:32.039 --> 01:30:38.239
Chinese and Drake elm better than those
or kind of either, or well,

1282
01:30:38.439 --> 01:30:43.960
I've got a Chinese pistache in my
yard, and but I've had the Chinese

1283
01:30:44.000 --> 01:30:46.760
elms before, and I guess I
lean a little bit toward Chinese elm.

1284
01:30:47.039 --> 01:30:50.600
But your fall color is going to
basically be kind of a dirty yellow color

1285
01:30:50.840 --> 01:30:55.279
rather than uh, you know,
the potential for fall color. By the

1286
01:30:55.319 --> 01:30:59.880
way, there's about three Chinese pistache
on my street. One of them mine

1287
01:31:00.079 --> 01:31:03.640
turns just yellow, another one turns
beautiful orange red, and another one.

1288
01:31:03.760 --> 01:31:06.600
It depends on the year as to
how it feels as to what it does.

1289
01:31:08.039 --> 01:31:10.199
So it's a little bit of a
roll of the dice on those.

1290
01:31:10.760 --> 01:31:15.119
Gotcha. And last lastly, do
you recommend Vernantry Farm for getting those?

1291
01:31:15.239 --> 01:31:18.800
Absolutely? I don't know specifically all
the species they carry, but they will.

1292
01:31:18.880 --> 01:31:23.960
They do a good job of whatever
they carry. One other, uh,

1293
01:31:24.279 --> 01:31:27.560
let's see what was oh one of
the comment about the Chinese pistache.

1294
01:31:28.079 --> 01:31:31.159
They're separate male and female plants,
and I don't know how you tell the

1295
01:31:31.640 --> 01:31:38.560
tell them apart until the fall comes. You get these very clusters on the

1296
01:31:38.640 --> 01:31:42.199
female plants. They're actually kind of
attracted. But when they start falling on

1297
01:31:42.279 --> 01:31:45.760
the yard, they're painting the neck
clean up. You know, it's constantly

1298
01:31:45.880 --> 01:31:47.560
cleaning them up. So I'd try
to go for a male tree if I

1299
01:31:47.680 --> 01:31:54.720
could, But that is one one
factor to consider. Okay, great,

1300
01:31:54.760 --> 01:31:57.439
I appreciate that. All right,
So thank you, thank you so much

1301
01:31:57.479 --> 01:31:59.800
for your time. I really appreciate
it. You met. Thank you for

1302
01:31:59.840 --> 01:32:02.880
the I appreciate that. Yeah,
if you have a piece of property and

1303
01:32:02.960 --> 01:32:09.039
are looking for a tractor, now's
the time to pull the plug and go

1304
01:32:09.239 --> 01:32:15.079
for it. And here's why,
Lansdown Moody has got Cabota tractor deal that

1305
01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:17.640
is unmatched, the L twenty five
oh two. First of all, that's

1306
01:32:17.680 --> 01:32:24.520
a Cobota Warhorse. It's an excellent
tractor with a hydrostatic transmission. After you

1307
01:32:24.680 --> 01:32:28.319
choose a tractor, you go to
tractorpackage dot com and you pick out the

1308
01:32:28.359 --> 01:32:30.720
package to go with it. You
know, do you need a roadary cutter,

1309
01:32:30.840 --> 01:32:32.880
front end loader, a box blader, a postthole digger. That's what

1310
01:32:32.960 --> 01:32:38.439
I'm talking about. You sort of
trick up the job there with some quality

1311
01:32:39.159 --> 01:32:44.199
add ons and then the finance plan. It's a no brainer, no money

1312
01:32:44.279 --> 01:32:46.760
down, no interest for eighty four
months. That's seven years according to my

1313
01:32:46.840 --> 01:32:51.159
Aggie math and Lansdown Moody. They're
a local company. They've been in Houston

1314
01:32:51.239 --> 01:32:56.600
since nineteen thirty six, their hometown
through and through. They got nine locations

1315
01:32:56.640 --> 01:32:59.239
on the Gulf coast, So you're
going to find one. Just go to

1316
01:32:59.520 --> 01:33:03.479
l M Tractor dot com and don't
delay. This deal is only through December

1317
01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:06.520
and then it's going to be gone. So if you're thinking about buying a

1318
01:33:06.640 --> 01:33:11.279
tractor, now's a good time.
And maybe even you could, you know,

1319
01:33:11.560 --> 01:33:14.560
drop a hint here or there that
you would like what for Christmas?

1320
01:33:15.039 --> 01:33:17.760
If you go for big Christmas gifts
that year would be a great surprise in

1321
01:33:17.840 --> 01:33:21.199
Dermitrie. I'll tell you that for
sure. Well, let's head out to

1322
01:33:21.600 --> 01:33:27.159
Sweeney and we are going to talk
to Mark. Hello, Mark, Hey,

1323
01:33:27.239 --> 01:33:30.000
good morning. I got a question
for you on my wife's plumaras.

1324
01:33:31.359 --> 01:33:35.239
Can you hear me? Yes,
sir, yeah, on my wife's plumias?

1325
01:33:35.760 --> 01:33:39.159
When do I pull them out of
the ground? Do I wait till

1326
01:33:39.159 --> 01:33:42.399
the leaves fall off? Or pull
up? Now? You know when it

1327
01:33:42.439 --> 01:33:45.520
starts to get chilly like this pretty
soon here, I would go ahead and

1328
01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:48.199
pull them up. You don't want
them being exposed to forty degree temperatures for

1329
01:33:48.319 --> 01:33:51.680
example. In fact, they're not
going to like lower fifty degree temperatures,

1330
01:33:53.319 --> 01:33:55.520
so you can go ahead and pull
them up. You're going to hang them

1331
01:33:55.560 --> 01:34:00.640
upside down in the garage or what's
your plan? I put them in the

1332
01:34:00.680 --> 01:34:03.319
garage it's not heated, or do
I need to put it in the closet?

1333
01:34:04.239 --> 01:34:06.840
Well, you need to put them
where they're not going to get cold

1334
01:34:06.920 --> 01:34:12.800
cold, you know, a little
cool sixties is okay, but you don't

1335
01:34:12.800 --> 01:34:16.119
want to get tend to get too
cold. So okay, well a let's

1336
01:34:16.159 --> 01:34:20.279
make room closet and you say,
hangle upside down? You can. You

1337
01:34:20.319 --> 01:34:23.760
can just shake the soil off and
hang them upside down. You can put

1338
01:34:23.800 --> 01:34:27.880
them in a container. But they
don't need water during the wintertime, They'll

1339
01:34:27.920 --> 01:34:30.840
be fine. Okay. And when
do I put them back in the ground,

1340
01:34:30.920 --> 01:34:34.319
though it's first time I've ever pulled
out of the grounds. I would

1341
01:34:34.399 --> 01:34:40.319
I would wait until it warms up
considerably where we're not anywhere near frost temperatures

1342
01:34:40.359 --> 01:34:44.880
where the night times or maybe in
the sixties or something. Uh, but

1343
01:34:45.039 --> 01:34:49.119
that that would be my suggestion on
on the plumb areas. Okay, Yeah,

1344
01:34:49.159 --> 01:34:51.760
it's the first time I've ever yanked
plants out of the ground, and

1345
01:34:54.720 --> 01:34:56.960
I'd like that. There are not
many plants that will put up with that,

1346
01:34:57.319 --> 01:35:00.560
but uh, we're just a little
far north for plumber, and so

1347
01:35:00.720 --> 01:35:03.359
that's what we have to do.
All right. Well, I really do

1348
01:35:03.439 --> 01:35:08.159
appreciate it. Okay, you take
care, bye bye. Thanks for the

1349
01:35:08.239 --> 01:35:13.520
call. I appreciate that if your
landscape's looking horrible and you would like somebody

1350
01:35:13.560 --> 01:35:18.199
to come in and help. Pierce
Scapes is that somebody professional designers. They

1351
01:35:19.039 --> 01:35:23.520
can do everything too. I mean, fix your irrigation system, put in

1352
01:35:23.720 --> 01:35:27.680
hardscapes, put in walkways, put
in a rock border, or maybe improved

1353
01:35:27.760 --> 01:35:30.560
drainage. Yeah, well a lot
of us have that area that's low and

1354
01:35:30.760 --> 01:35:33.960
drains poorly. Pierce Capes can come
in and fix that. If Summer has

1355
01:35:34.039 --> 01:35:39.199
taken his toll on your landscape,
callum, say let's look at some raised

1356
01:35:39.319 --> 01:35:43.560
beds or some redesign here. Let's
get some plants that are more drought resilient.

1357
01:35:43.640 --> 01:35:46.479
They can take care of all of
that. Go to piercescapes dot com

1358
01:35:46.840 --> 01:35:51.800
or give them a call at two
eight one three seven h five zero six

1359
01:35:53.079 --> 01:35:57.640
zero. They've got experience, they're
professionally trained employees. They do the job

1360
01:35:57.760 --> 01:36:01.520
right, and their designers know how
to turn whatever you have into that showplace

1361
01:36:01.680 --> 01:36:05.800
that you would love to have.
Perhaps that back patio design would be really

1362
01:36:05.880 --> 01:36:09.840
nice, maybe with a waterfall or
something like that. Hey, go to

1363
01:36:09.880 --> 01:36:13.720
pairscapes dot com. You can see
the work that they've done and get inspired

1364
01:36:13.800 --> 01:36:17.119
by that. As I have.
We're going to head out to Sugarland now

1365
01:36:17.279 --> 01:36:20.920
and talk to Susan. Hello,
Susan, Hi, Skip, how are

1366
01:36:20.960 --> 01:36:24.920
you doing well. I'm well this
morning. How are you? Thank you

1367
01:36:25.079 --> 01:36:27.720
well? You know, looking at
my yard thinking what in the world,

1368
01:36:28.079 --> 01:36:31.640
I'm asking you some questions about Amarilla's
bulbs. Okay, I have I don't

1369
01:36:31.680 --> 01:36:36.159
know, maybe twenty bulbs in my
front flower bed that bloomed beautifully for years,

1370
01:36:36.199 --> 01:36:40.000
and then it seems like when we
got the bad freeze, not this

1371
01:36:40.159 --> 01:36:44.119
last freeze, but the big freeze. Yeah, nothing happened, They just

1372
01:36:44.239 --> 01:36:48.359
kind of stopped. But also,
my oak trees have really grown, and

1373
01:36:48.520 --> 01:36:54.239
I'm thinking they're not getting enough sun. Are these are these live oaks Susan,

1374
01:36:55.119 --> 01:37:00.760
Yes, okay, So I'm thinking
about possibly buying one not shallow pot,

1375
01:37:00.840 --> 01:37:05.319
maybe twelve inch deep pot or less
big, and putting all the bolts

1376
01:37:05.359 --> 01:37:10.239
in the pot and moving it around
my yard to find out where they're happiest,

1377
01:37:10.399 --> 01:37:14.920
because obviously they're not happy right now. Well, they want they want

1378
01:37:14.960 --> 01:37:17.920
a little bit of sun on the
foliage so they can make the carbohydrates necessary

1379
01:37:18.319 --> 01:37:23.760
to produce the next cycle of blooms, the next year's blooms. So the

1380
01:37:24.560 --> 01:37:27.760
live oaks just don't give them a
break. I mean, it's always shade

1381
01:37:27.800 --> 01:37:30.399
over them. And so that's a
little challenge. I have grown them in

1382
01:37:30.439 --> 01:37:32.680
container sport. It's a little bit
of a challenge. But you can do

1383
01:37:32.800 --> 01:37:38.920
it. You just have to.
It depends on what kind of ameralis you

1384
01:37:39.000 --> 01:37:44.439
have. There's the hearty amarillis,
which is the john Sony I Johnson's amarillis,

1385
01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:47.760
and then there's the more florist types
that you see. But if you

1386
01:37:47.840 --> 01:37:51.680
can give them good sunlight, at
least a half day sun they should do

1387
01:37:51.760 --> 01:37:55.760
okay for you. All right,
Okay, I thought about putting them in

1388
01:37:55.800 --> 01:38:00.119
a pot and maybe bearing the pot
a couple of inches because it's hard in

1389
01:38:00.159 --> 01:38:03.000
the summer. We've had all this
drought and you can do Yeah, so

1390
01:38:03.720 --> 01:38:08.199
we've gotten this rain and all of
a sudden they're like standing up and all

1391
01:38:08.279 --> 01:38:11.079
happy, and I'm thinking, we've
just not had rain. That's a big

1392
01:38:11.159 --> 01:38:14.159
problem too. Well, that's right. And you say, if you can

1393
01:38:14.239 --> 01:38:19.640
put them through a late summer dormant
period by getting drowdy, they actually can

1394
01:38:19.760 --> 01:38:24.000
turn and put a bloom stock up
a little earlier than you might have expected

1395
01:38:24.079 --> 01:38:28.600
for you. So that's just another
option, all right, help you.

1396
01:38:28.720 --> 01:38:32.079
Bet. I appreciate your call very
much. Let's see, we've got a

1397
01:38:32.119 --> 01:38:34.079
bunch of folks on the board.
I'm trying to get to all of you

1398
01:38:34.159 --> 01:38:36.960
as fast as I can. Let's
go to Rick in spring. How are

1399
01:38:36.960 --> 01:38:41.680
you doing, Rick, Good morning, Thanks for taking the call. Yes,

1400
01:38:41.680 --> 01:38:46.800
sir, I had a really bad
out of crab grass this summer and

1401
01:38:47.840 --> 01:38:50.560
got rid of it all. But
now I have all these bear spots,

1402
01:38:50.800 --> 01:38:56.319
and I'm wondering if I should wait
to the spring to plant grass or to

1403
01:38:56.399 --> 01:38:59.800
put it down. Now. I
noticed just recently all the big box stores.

1404
01:38:59.800 --> 01:39:00.520
I'll, all of a sudden,
you have all this grass, So

1405
01:39:00.920 --> 01:39:05.279
yeah, I was curious. Well, don't make any decision based on what

1406
01:39:05.399 --> 01:39:09.920
a box store is doing. I'll
tell you right for sure, you can

1407
01:39:10.039 --> 01:39:14.760
put side down. Now we're entering
the time when grassroots are going to slow

1408
01:39:14.960 --> 01:39:18.159
to a stop, and so trying
to get it rooted in well before winter.

1409
01:39:18.960 --> 01:39:21.239
We're kind of on the line.
So if you want to get something

1410
01:39:21.279 --> 01:39:24.720
over the ground so you don't have
weeds coming up in the bear spot,

1411
01:39:25.199 --> 01:39:28.199
you can go ahead and try it. You may end up if we have

1412
01:39:28.319 --> 01:39:30.680
a rough winter or freeze comes early, you may end up having to redo

1413
01:39:30.800 --> 01:39:34.359
it. Otherwise you would wait until
the grass really starts growing. So let's

1414
01:39:34.359 --> 01:39:39.159
say I don't know, maybe early
April, and get the grass planted at

1415
01:39:39.159 --> 01:39:42.840
that time. You just have to
deal with whatever weeds were up at that

1416
01:39:43.000 --> 01:39:46.319
time. Don't put out a pre
emergent before you put the grass down,

1417
01:39:47.000 --> 01:39:51.279
because the grass has got to get
roots through there, and you don't want

1418
01:39:51.319 --> 01:39:55.439
a pre emergent doing what it does
to weed roots. It'll do that to

1419
01:39:55.560 --> 01:39:59.239
grassroots, especially if you overdo it. And so don't put a pre emergent

1420
01:39:59.279 --> 01:40:01.479
down. Then try to grass or
if you're going to lay it next spring,

1421
01:40:02.239 --> 01:40:04.760
you know, don't do one.
You know, within a month or

1422
01:40:04.800 --> 01:40:09.640
so of trying to get the grass
planted, got it? Got it.

1423
01:40:09.880 --> 01:40:14.600
And I also have a the Bermuda
seems to be in some places really be

1424
01:40:14.720 --> 01:40:18.000
taking over the Saint Augustine. So
I was just gonna also dig that up

1425
01:40:18.159 --> 01:40:24.039
and put Saint Augustine down. Is
that usually success? Well, you're gonna

1426
01:40:24.039 --> 01:40:28.039
probably you can probably want to spray
the Bermuda grass with something that kills kills

1427
01:40:28.079 --> 01:40:31.640
it because it's got underground runners and
if you don't spray it, you may

1428
01:40:31.720 --> 01:40:34.479
have to spread it more than once, but we're entering the cool season.

1429
01:40:34.560 --> 01:40:39.880
It's quitting growing and it's also not
responding to the sprays as it cools off.

1430
01:40:40.239 --> 01:40:43.000
Rick, I'm hitting a hard break
here and I'm gonna have to run.

1431
01:40:43.720 --> 01:40:47.079
But come back to that bermuda next
spring before you reside your grass too.

1432
01:40:47.640 --> 01:40:50.840
You're listening to garden Line, our
number seven one three two one two

1433
01:40:51.000 --> 01:40:56.119
fifty eight seventy four. Maria,
Nathan, Susan, you're the first three

1434
01:40:56.199 --> 01:41:00.479
up when we come back. Wellcome
back to garden Line. I'm your host,

1435
01:41:00.680 --> 01:41:04.439
Skiprechtor. We're here to talk about
gardening. Surprise price. We look

1436
01:41:04.520 --> 01:41:10.520
forward to you calling our number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1437
01:41:10.640 --> 01:41:13.399
four, and we got a few
calls here. We're going to jump right

1438
01:41:13.439 --> 01:41:17.000
in and talk to Maria and the
heights. Hello Maria, good morning,

1439
01:41:17.119 --> 01:41:21.079
Chip. Quick question. I have
a Chinese elm tree in the front and

1440
01:41:21.239 --> 01:41:29.079
every fall the squirrels love to just
chew on those little limbs and just defoliate

1441
01:41:29.159 --> 01:41:31.319
the whole thing. Yep. Is
there anything I can do? Like if

1442
01:41:31.399 --> 01:41:35.039
I put out food for them,
will they leave my tree alone? Now

1443
01:41:35.600 --> 01:41:40.279
they're not chewing to eat, they're
chewing to deal with their teeth. Their

1444
01:41:40.319 --> 01:41:44.800
teeth are constantly growing and they're always
needing to gnaw down to manage that,

1445
01:41:45.039 --> 01:41:50.119
and that's what it's about. There's
really not a good practical way that I

1446
01:41:50.279 --> 01:41:56.920
know of to deal with that.
Yeah, unfortunately not all right, yep,

1447
01:41:56.960 --> 01:42:00.279
they eat all my shade away,
so I know the darn things don't

1448
01:42:00.359 --> 01:42:02.079
do that. Pecans too, you
see that, we call them flags.

1449
01:42:02.119 --> 01:42:05.079
It's like you got a green tree
and these little brown branches here and there,

1450
01:42:05.159 --> 01:42:09.199
and it's where the squirrels have done
their thing. They typically will chew

1451
01:42:09.319 --> 01:42:13.199
right where a branch joins another branch, and that little yee uh, that's

1452
01:42:13.239 --> 01:42:15.680
where they mostly like to chew.
Yeah, I'm sorry. I don't have

1453
01:42:16.239 --> 01:42:23.119
a solution for you. The only
solutions I can't recommend because they're dolistic and

1454
01:42:23.199 --> 01:42:26.960
they're in the city limits. I
hear you, Ma, thank you so

1455
01:42:27.119 --> 01:42:30.720
much. You're bad. Thank you, Maria appreciate that call. Let's go

1456
01:42:30.920 --> 01:42:34.199
to Kingwood and we're going to talk
to Nathan. Hello, Nathan, Hi,

1457
01:42:34.319 --> 01:42:38.960
Skip, how you doing. I'm
well, thank you, good well.

1458
01:42:39.239 --> 01:42:42.560
I really let my art go during
the summer, and the drought killed

1459
01:42:42.600 --> 01:42:47.279
off very large sections of my grass
and it looks terrible. I don't I

1460
01:42:47.399 --> 01:42:50.479
really don't want to spend all the
money on side right now. It would

1461
01:42:50.479 --> 01:42:55.880
be quite a bit. Okay,
I'm thinking of just spreading some bermuda seed

1462
01:42:55.960 --> 01:42:59.399
when spring gets here and letting that
take over. What do you think,

1463
01:42:59.479 --> 01:43:02.319
there's your lung, Saint Augustine,
it is okay, I wouldn't. I

1464
01:43:02.359 --> 01:43:05.039
wouldn't do that. You're gonna end
up with a mix that you have forever,

1465
01:43:05.319 --> 01:43:10.239
and the two textures are different,
and it just doesn't look real great

1466
01:43:10.439 --> 01:43:14.680
growing together. What I would do
is, right now, i'd probably put

1467
01:43:14.760 --> 01:43:18.079
down a pre emergent to prevent weed
seeds from coming through all that dead grass,

1468
01:43:18.640 --> 01:43:23.119
so you just avoid that. Then
in the spring when it when we

1469
01:43:23.279 --> 01:43:28.279
really start to get some growth coming
on, I would reside with the Saint

1470
01:43:28.279 --> 01:43:31.600
Augustine, which is what you already
have probably some living in certain areas as

1471
01:43:31.680 --> 01:43:36.199
well still despite the drought, uh, and resided at that time, watered

1472
01:43:36.239 --> 01:43:40.840
in really well, and don't do
a pre emergent in the spring. Just

1473
01:43:40.920 --> 01:43:43.720
do it now for the winter weeds. Uh. And then because when you

1474
01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:45.880
when you lay the side down,
you want to don't want to lay it

1475
01:43:46.039 --> 01:43:49.840
right on top of soil that recently
was just treated with a with a pre

1476
01:43:49.920 --> 01:43:54.479
emergent. Uh. But do that, and I think that's going to be

1477
01:43:54.800 --> 01:44:00.359
probably your best bet for avoiding problems
through the winter. You could have seed

1478
01:44:00.439 --> 01:44:01.960
it to have grain during the winter, but then you're going to be mowing

1479
01:44:02.800 --> 01:44:06.199
all through the winter and then when
it comes time to plant, now you

1480
01:44:06.319 --> 01:44:12.680
got this overseated grass in the way. Okay, gotcha? All right,

1481
01:44:12.800 --> 01:44:15.000
Well, thank you very much,
sir. I appreciate your advice. All

1482
01:44:15.119 --> 01:44:17.239
right, you bet, thank you. I appreciate appreciate that call very much.

1483
01:44:17.600 --> 01:44:21.159
Yeah, Nitrophos has that pre emergent
called barricade. By the way,

1484
01:44:21.199 --> 01:44:25.640
it's part of their three step system. The barricade is, of course one

1485
01:44:25.680 --> 01:44:29.800
of the steps I was just talking
to that with that about to Nathan,

1486
01:44:30.640 --> 01:44:35.720
but it also includes the fungicide,
which is a protectant fungicide systemic that deals

1487
01:44:35.800 --> 01:44:40.640
with things like the brown patch that's
about to show up, if not already,

1488
01:44:41.399 --> 01:44:45.479
and the large patch or take all
patch rather is another issue that can

1489
01:44:45.560 --> 01:44:48.319
happen. When we get these nights
done in the fifties, it starts to

1490
01:44:48.760 --> 01:44:51.399
do its thing. You may not
notice it now, but you'll notice it

1491
01:44:51.479 --> 01:44:55.600
next summer. When the grass starts
dying out. And the third part of

1492
01:44:55.640 --> 01:44:59.600
that nitrophas, by the way,
is the fall special. It's just really

1493
01:44:59.680 --> 01:45:02.039
easy, easy to do the one, two three, the fall specials the

1494
01:45:02.119 --> 01:45:05.560
fertilizer that if you haven't done it
yet, you need to go ahead and

1495
01:45:05.560 --> 01:45:09.920
get it done. You can find
that at Cyprusise. You can find it

1496
01:45:10.000 --> 01:45:15.159
at Fisher's Hardware and Report, or
go out to King Richmond Area Plantation Hardware

1497
01:45:15.279 --> 01:45:20.720
Ace out there. They've got nitropost
products out there as well. Let's see,

1498
01:45:20.720 --> 01:45:24.960
We're going to go now to sugar
Land and talk to Susan. Hello,

1499
01:45:25.159 --> 01:45:30.159
Susan. Oh wait a minute,
I've already talked to you there.

1500
01:45:30.039 --> 01:45:33.279
Susan's still hanging on. I believe
we got the boord clear here, Josh,

1501
01:45:34.039 --> 01:45:40.880
if I am not mistaken. This
is a season when a lot of

1502
01:45:40.920 --> 01:45:43.680
people think about birds because you know, in the winter time, people think

1503
01:45:43.760 --> 01:45:49.239
wan need to feed the birds or
just enjoy watching the birds even and Wabird's

1504
01:45:49.279 --> 01:45:55.359
Unlimited is just your one stop shop
for everything. And when I say everything,

1505
01:45:55.399 --> 01:45:59.600
I mean to quality everything. When
you buy birds seed from Walbirds Unlimited,

1506
01:46:00.079 --> 01:46:03.199
you're getting quality seed that the birds
will eat, no waste. Some

1507
01:46:03.359 --> 01:46:10.479
of these blends, sixty percent or
more of the seed can be wasted because

1508
01:46:10.479 --> 01:46:14.239
it's stuffed. The bird isn't going
to eat those red bebes. That's junk.

1509
01:46:14.600 --> 01:46:16.600
Birds don't want it. It's hard
shelled. They don't like it.

1510
01:46:16.720 --> 01:46:19.479
They kick it on the ground,
and now you just have the sprouts coming

1511
01:46:19.600 --> 01:46:24.720
up in your lawn down below wa
bird seeds. You can buy blends that

1512
01:46:24.840 --> 01:46:28.640
are absolutely litter free, meaning if
you like, if you want sunflower seeds

1513
01:46:28.920 --> 01:46:30.880
and you know on all the little
shells on the ground after the birds crack

1514
01:46:30.960 --> 01:46:35.680
them open, you can buy blends
that absolutely don't have any shelled. The

1515
01:46:35.760 --> 01:46:41.520
seeds are already shelled in the blend
right now. I recommend they're unlimited the

1516
01:46:41.640 --> 01:46:45.319
wabbirds unlimited rather their Winter Super Blend. It's got a lot of fat and

1517
01:46:45.399 --> 01:46:51.760
protein, which birds need in these
cold weather times. That's important for them.

1518
01:46:53.199 --> 01:46:56.039
The days are getting shorter, the
night's longer, there's less time to

1519
01:46:56.079 --> 01:46:59.640
be out finding feed, and you
know it's a bleak time out there,

1520
01:47:00.000 --> 01:47:04.239
and that Winter Super Blend is a
super choice for now. If you are

1521
01:47:04.319 --> 01:47:11.560
thinking about the holiday season, Wildbirds
is one of the best places a gardener

1522
01:47:11.640 --> 01:47:15.760
can go get gifts for other gardeners
or even non gardeners. How about a

1523
01:47:15.760 --> 01:47:19.880
beautiful bird feeder or some other thing. Wildbirds has a great selection of cool

1524
01:47:19.920 --> 01:47:25.760
stuff for gifts. You can go
to WBU dot com forward slash Houston to

1525
01:47:25.840 --> 01:47:30.880
find the Wildbirds stores near you.
We are going to take a break here,

1526
01:47:30.159 --> 01:47:32.640
Lisa. When we come back,
you will be first up. If

1527
01:47:32.680 --> 01:47:38.600
you'd like to call in seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

1528
01:47:38.720 --> 01:47:42.319
seven one three two one two kat
r h give Josh a call, He'll

1529
01:47:42.319 --> 01:47:46.840
get you on the boards and we'll
be right back al right back the nineteen

1530
01:47:46.920 --> 01:47:50.079
eighty five. Well, you're listening
to garden Line and we got a full

1531
01:47:50.119 --> 01:47:54.800
board, so we are going to
dive right into it. We're going to

1532
01:47:54.840 --> 01:47:58.439
start off by going to Northwest Houston
and talking to Lisa. Hello, Lisa

1533
01:47:59.520 --> 01:48:05.319
Hik, good morning. My question
is about fertilization. I purchased the barricade

1534
01:48:05.640 --> 01:48:12.159
and nitrofalls eight twelve sixteen and as
of MTE and I was hoping to get

1535
01:48:12.239 --> 01:48:15.720
him down you know this weekend.
This morning, you know, my lawn

1536
01:48:15.840 --> 01:48:18.960
is wet. Is it okay to
spread this stuff on wet lawn? And

1537
01:48:19.039 --> 01:48:23.520
would I still need to water it
in knowing it's going to rain in the

1538
01:48:23.600 --> 01:48:28.359
next couple of days, or what
would you do? You don't want a

1539
01:48:28.479 --> 01:48:32.079
synthetic type fertilizer, salt based fertilizer
sitting just on top, sticking to the

1540
01:48:32.159 --> 01:48:36.760
wet grass blades and just sticking there. But if you either, if you're

1541
01:48:36.760 --> 01:48:39.640
going to do it today, go
ahead and water it in a little bit.

1542
01:48:39.720 --> 01:48:42.079
Didn't take much, just by third
of an inch just to get it

1543
01:48:42.159 --> 01:48:45.119
off the blades and done in the
grass. Okay, okay, Or you

1544
01:48:45.159 --> 01:48:46.880
could just wait to before the rain. But I kind of like to water

1545
01:48:46.920 --> 01:48:51.399
it in myself, so that's what
I would recommend. But I could put

1546
01:48:51.439 --> 01:48:55.119
it down this morning as long as
I don't let it sit there. Yeah,

1547
01:48:55.199 --> 01:48:57.880
don't just let us set a whole
time. I didn't want to.

1548
01:48:57.960 --> 01:49:00.279
I didn't want to put it down, and you know, dam well,

1549
01:49:00.439 --> 01:49:03.399
I mean I wouldn't. It's not
going to be a big damaging thing.

1550
01:49:03.479 --> 01:49:06.920
It's just, yeah, you know, your sitting on a on a wet

1551
01:49:08.000 --> 01:49:11.760
leaf and not washing it off.
Yeah, well then I will head out

1552
01:49:11.800 --> 01:49:15.720
there and get that task done.
ALRIGHTY have fun doing that. Thank you

1553
01:49:15.479 --> 01:49:18.800
very much for the call. We're
going to go to Rick now. And

1554
01:49:19.159 --> 01:49:24.840
Alvin. Hello, Rick, Hello, thank you very much for taking card.

1555
01:49:24.840 --> 01:49:27.479
I think you may have just answered
your question. But I've got a

1556
01:49:28.159 --> 01:49:30.840
Saint Augustine grass been here twenty years, a big lot, and it's about

1557
01:49:31.079 --> 01:49:36.239
two ordered by a one hundred area
of Saint Augustine. They got taken out.

1558
01:49:36.640 --> 01:49:41.680
I guess it's take aff patch.
Okay, is there any other solution?

1559
01:49:41.840 --> 01:49:44.560
I uh, it took twenty years
for it to go out, you

1560
01:49:44.600 --> 01:49:47.039
know, work its way out there. Yeah. Yeah, what what's going

1561
01:49:47.079 --> 01:49:50.399
on here? Oh? Out?
Well? I mean, would you say

1562
01:49:50.479 --> 01:49:56.720
your lawn is more than half gone, three fourths gone or something? Yeah?

1563
01:49:57.000 --> 01:50:00.960
Okay, so you're patches. There's
a little patches around, but yeah,

1564
01:50:00.359 --> 01:50:02.920
yeah, pretty ugly. You're going
to need to replant it. I

1565
01:50:03.000 --> 01:50:06.800
think at this point i'd wait until, you know, sometime in April to

1566
01:50:06.800 --> 01:50:12.119
go ahead and get the new restting
done. Early April probably be good.

1567
01:50:13.359 --> 01:50:16.479
And when you do, just keep
in mind that getting it established well and

1568
01:50:16.600 --> 01:50:21.359
avoiding stress take all. We can
spray things that help fight take all,

1569
01:50:21.800 --> 01:50:26.640
but it is so much better to
prevent it rather than to try to treat

1570
01:50:26.720 --> 01:50:31.000
it once it's occurred. So anything
that stresses your lawn that could be misuse

1571
01:50:31.079 --> 01:50:34.000
of certain herbicides. It could be
drought, you know, it could be

1572
01:50:34.560 --> 01:50:40.640
excessive shade or soil compaction, and
anything that stresses it sets it up for

1573
01:50:40.720 --> 01:50:44.680
the take all infection. So for
now, you know it is what it

1574
01:50:44.880 --> 01:50:47.640
is. There's nothing you can do
to fix it overnight, and then when

1575
01:50:47.680 --> 01:50:50.680
we get into next spring, that's
when you can hit the ground run and

1576
01:50:51.199 --> 01:50:56.000
get some new grass in and get
it back going looking like it used to.

1577
01:50:56.119 --> 01:51:00.880
Look, what are your thoughts of
just for springing like every you know,

1578
01:51:00.720 --> 01:51:05.079
several feet patches of it, let
it grow over the next couple of

1579
01:51:05.159 --> 01:51:09.439
years. You could do that.
Yeah, you could do that. It's

1580
01:51:09.720 --> 01:51:12.640
we're entering a time you could try
it now, but we're ending a time

1581
01:51:12.720 --> 01:51:16.199
where grassroot growth is going to be
slowing. An establishment of anything you put

1582
01:51:16.199 --> 01:51:19.520
out, whether it's sold or springing
little plugs out, I think is the

1583
01:51:19.640 --> 01:51:24.680
term what you were trying to use. That is not going to hit the

1584
01:51:24.680 --> 01:51:28.079
ground running right now. You could
do it, but then you could also

1585
01:51:28.159 --> 01:51:30.600
do that next year. It saves
money because you buy a little piece of

1586
01:51:30.680 --> 01:51:34.520
grass and you cut it up into
sections and it goes further. But you've

1587
01:51:34.560 --> 01:51:38.880
got beare areas and weeds can be
a problem during that kind of thing,

1588
01:51:38.960 --> 01:51:42.760
all right, Yes, I know
that. All right, Hey, Rick,

1589
01:51:43.199 --> 01:51:45.479
I'm trying to get to your fellow
callers here, so I'm all run.

1590
01:51:45.640 --> 01:51:49.960
But good luck with getting that in
good shape, Cindy in spring.

1591
01:51:50.079 --> 01:51:54.680
How can we help today? Yes, sir, I am an organic gardener,

1592
01:51:54.920 --> 01:51:59.000
and I have weeds coming up of
course through my said Augustine, because

1593
01:51:59.000 --> 01:52:01.560
of stress and all that. Justf
is there anything I can use to help

1594
01:52:01.600 --> 01:52:09.239
with the weed problem and still stay
organic. It's a challenge. This is

1595
01:52:09.319 --> 01:52:13.920
in the lawn you're talking about.
Yes, Yes, a couple of options

1596
01:52:14.159 --> 01:52:17.439
to go. One of them is
existing weeds. You just mow them and

1597
01:52:17.560 --> 01:52:21.239
you do everything you can to build
your turf. And a good example for

1598
01:52:21.399 --> 01:52:26.600
organic will be microlife. Right now, you're putting down the brown patch.

1599
01:52:26.720 --> 01:52:30.000
That's the five to one three microlife. Oh, you've already done it.

1600
01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:32.640
Okay, good, And then coming
out in spring, you're going to go

1601
01:52:32.680 --> 01:52:38.840
to their green bag sixty four.
And as you mow, water and fertilize

1602
01:52:39.359 --> 01:52:42.800
properly through the season, you grow
outside of your weed problem. In the

1603
01:52:42.880 --> 01:52:46.039
meantime, you take your glasses off
and green weeds and green grass well mode

1604
01:52:46.079 --> 01:52:51.000
looks good. So in other words, I'm saying just be patient and tolerance.

1605
01:52:51.039 --> 01:52:54.760
That's part of organic gardening, is
not just looking for a real quick

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01:52:54.800 --> 01:52:57.880
fix on everything. But I would
do that. Now. There is a

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01:52:57.960 --> 01:53:04.960
product called corn glue meal that can
be used to suppress weeds as they try

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01:53:05.039 --> 01:53:11.079
to germinate. The problem with corn
gluten meal is it's certain conditions that it

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01:53:11.199 --> 01:53:15.640
works in and only against certain weeds. So you want to put it out

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01:53:15.000 --> 01:53:17.880
watered in with a third of an
inch half an inch at the most of

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01:53:18.039 --> 01:53:24.279
water, and then not have any
rain or irrigation for a period of time.

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01:53:24.439 --> 01:53:27.880
So the weeds that try to sprout, corn gluten mill keeps them from

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01:53:27.960 --> 01:53:30.520
growing roots and then they dry out
and die if it rains or if you

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01:53:30.640 --> 01:53:34.199
irrigate. All you did was fertilized
with corn glutenmeal, because it's also a

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01:53:34.239 --> 01:53:39.680
fertilizer as neutral pH in my swiler. No, it won't, but I

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01:53:39.960 --> 01:53:45.079
find most people don't have satisfactory results
with it, although it can work.

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01:53:45.199 --> 01:53:47.479
I need to put something on my
website about how to do that. But

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01:53:47.600 --> 01:53:50.720
that's what I would recommend. But
Microlife is your company, you know,

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01:53:50.960 --> 01:53:55.399
Microlife Fertilizer dot Com tells you all
the places that you can go on.

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01:53:56.439 --> 01:53:58.680
That's all I use. So thank
you so much. All right, thank

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01:53:58.720 --> 01:54:03.239
you. I appreciate your all very
much. Tell you what the fun Here

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01:54:03.279 --> 01:54:06.119
we go. We're going to go
to Waller and talk to Debbie. And

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01:54:06.399 --> 01:54:11.720
what's going on in Waller? Debbie? Oh, well, just a dismal,

1624
01:54:12.039 --> 01:54:15.159
chilly day as usual. All right, I'm heading to the quilt show.

1625
01:54:15.399 --> 01:54:21.640
But I heard the caller about the
problem with squirrels. Yes and years

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01:54:21.720 --> 01:54:28.079
ago, I was told and I've
used it ever since to put used kitty

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01:54:28.159 --> 01:54:33.800
litter around my trees and it keeps
the squirrels away from them. And if

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01:54:33.880 --> 01:54:40.239
you have a problem with deer,
use hair from the barber shop, all

1629
01:54:40.319 --> 01:54:44.920
right, human hair all right around
wherever you don't want the deer to come.

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01:54:45.640 --> 01:54:47.960
And I've had good luck with both
of those methods. Well, I

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01:54:48.000 --> 01:54:53.079
would say your good luck is probably
what they call correlation, not causation,

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01:54:53.279 --> 01:54:57.560
meaning it just they happened not to
come after you did that. But I

1633
01:54:57.680 --> 01:54:59.880
tell you, the squirrels can jump
in your tree. They don't have to

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01:55:00.159 --> 01:55:02.840
through the kitty litter to get up
into it and stuff. So I'm doubting

1635
01:55:03.000 --> 01:55:08.399
they can smell it. Okay,
they can smell the cats and they like

1636
01:55:08.720 --> 01:55:12.039
cat. Okay. Well, if
it's working for you, good good,

1637
01:55:12.119 --> 01:55:14.600
luckily it. Thank you for the
call. Hey have fun at the quote

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01:55:14.600 --> 01:55:18.399
show today. Okay, plan to
thank you. All right, you take

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01:55:18.439 --> 01:55:21.600
care. Oh boy, we're running
out of time here. We're going to

1640
01:55:21.640 --> 01:55:27.680
go Linda and Magnolia. Linda,
how can we help hi? I have

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01:55:27.800 --> 01:55:30.760
a question. I have pine trees
and sweet gum trees in my yard,

1642
01:55:31.439 --> 01:55:36.640
and over the summer the roots started
showing up in the lawn and it's hard

1643
01:55:36.680 --> 01:55:41.000
to cut my grass. Okay,
is there something like mulch that I can

1644
01:55:41.039 --> 01:55:44.520
put over the tree roots? All
right, I'm gonna I'm going to answer

1645
01:55:44.640 --> 01:55:45.880
that. I'm going to put your
go ahead and put you on hold,

1646
01:55:46.199 --> 01:55:50.199
but I'll answer that right right away. What you do when you have tree

1647
01:55:50.239 --> 01:55:55.720
roots sticking up is you can add
soil around them. You're not adding soil

1648
01:55:55.760 --> 01:55:58.239
to a huge area. You're just
kind of putting it to bring the soul

1649
01:55:58.359 --> 01:56:00.439
level up around the tops of the
root. You can do that. You

1650
01:56:00.560 --> 01:56:03.880
can turn it into a maltch bed
area where you just put in a lot

1651
01:56:03.960 --> 01:56:08.399
of mulch and let that be the
area. Because grass is not going to

1652
01:56:08.439 --> 01:56:11.359
grow there anyway with that much wood
in the ground, the tree roots and

1653
01:56:11.439 --> 01:56:15.399
everything. That would be your other
option. Or you can plant a groundcover

1654
01:56:15.760 --> 01:56:18.199
that just kind of winds over it
and hides the roots themselves. Those are

1655
01:56:18.640 --> 01:56:23.920
basically the three options. Greg and
spring branch or the last collar of the

1656
01:56:24.000 --> 01:56:28.079
day. I got about one minute. How can we help? I have

1657
01:56:28.760 --> 01:56:40.239
a pot of oakleaf point is that
I can't get the bloom oakleaf adreingches oak

1658
01:56:40.359 --> 01:56:46.640
leaf point SETI is, okay,
I don't know what that is? Is

1659
01:56:46.720 --> 01:56:53.359
it here about the Christmas riships?
Okay? Well, a point seta blooms

1660
01:56:53.520 --> 01:56:58.640
because the day length gets shorter,
really the night length gets longer, and

1661
01:56:58.760 --> 01:57:02.640
it initiates the bloom. So they
will bloom eventually. If you want them

1662
01:57:02.680 --> 01:57:06.239
to bloom earlier, like when you
would go bypoint set is if you want

1663
01:57:06.319 --> 01:57:10.960
your own that you've been keeping to
bloom, what you need to do is,

1664
01:57:11.119 --> 01:57:15.199
starting about six weeks before then,
cover them with a box to shade

1665
01:57:15.239 --> 01:57:18.159
out all the light. The way
I say it has set them out on

1666
01:57:18.199 --> 01:57:21.880
your front porch. When you go
to work, take the box off.

1667
01:57:23.079 --> 01:57:26.079
When you come back home from work
at five o'clock, put the box on

1668
01:57:26.279 --> 01:57:29.359
and if you can, if you
can from eight to five, give them

1669
01:57:29.680 --> 01:57:33.439
nighttime from five pm to eight am, give them darkness. You only have

1670
01:57:33.520 --> 01:57:36.199
to do that for a few weeks
and then take them off and they will

1671
01:57:36.239 --> 01:57:41.560
have initiated and those red bracts will
start to form. That It takes a

1672
01:57:41.600 --> 01:57:45.119
little time, but if you haven't
done that, the day links are getting

1673
01:57:45.119 --> 01:57:47.359
shorter anyway, and eventually you're going
to get some color out of those things,

1674
01:57:48.680 --> 01:57:56.640
the wall wills that have come up
from seed to I'm sorry, Greg,

1675
01:57:56.800 --> 01:58:00.399
I have run out of time.
We'reabout to go to break, so

1676
01:58:00.520 --> 01:58:03.039
I had to cut you off there. I just want to remind you all

1677
01:58:03.119 --> 01:58:08.000
that we're thinking. I was going
to RCW today because of the weather,

1678
01:58:08.119 --> 01:58:12.119
they had to make a call.
We're not doing it today. Next Saturday,

1679
01:58:12.199 --> 01:58:15.560
November eighteenth, from eleven thirty to
one thirty, I'll be at RCW

1680
01:58:15.760 --> 01:58:18.520
for their spring Fling, and you
want to be there for this. They're

1681
01:58:18.520 --> 01:58:23.159
gonna have barbecue sandwich lunch. They're
gonna have sale on all their shrubs and

1682
01:58:23.279 --> 01:58:27.199
on select trees. We'll be giving
away fertilizers. We're going to a frost

1683
01:58:27.279 --> 01:58:30.680
cloth giving them away tree seedlings,
lay spark elm Mexican white oak, and

1684
01:58:30.760 --> 01:58:35.439
live oak, all at RCW Nursery
next Saturday. Put that on your calendar

1685
01:58:35.520 --> 01:58:38.319
and we'll see at six am tomorrow