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Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily
endorse any of the products or services advertised

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on this program. Welcome to KTRH
Garden Line with Skip rictor Trip just watching

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many rick s. Good morning.
It is a good day to be talking

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about gardening. Good day to be
gardening inside. We'll talked about that a

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little bit today. Nice to be
able to look out and see a little

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bit of rain coming. You know, we need that every now and then.

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If we can only control it how
much and when that would be nice.

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Wouldn't it be able to say,
Okay, that's enough, we're gonna

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turn spick it off, but we
want to save that we were about to

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get and apply it to July or
something like that. That would be nice.

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Well, we can't, but we
learn how to deal with it.

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You're listening to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and we're

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here to talk about whatever is of
interest to you. And when it comes

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to your gardening questions, might be
a plant identification, maybe some sort of

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a solution to this problem, this
bug, this disease. We could talk

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about anything. I'm going to talk
a little bit this morning. First thing

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about some indoor activities for gardening.
If you'd like to give us a call,

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our phone number is seven one three, two, one two five eight

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seven four seven one, three,
two and two fifty eight seventy four.

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Give Josh call, tell him your
name, where you live, and a

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word or two that describes your question. That's all he needs to know,

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and we will get you on the
board and who knows next thing you will

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be here, will be visiting.
By the way, if you are one

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of the many people, I can't
tell you how many times I've heard this

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people say, yeah, I want
to call in, but I don't know.

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I can't. It's just the thought
of being on the air. Listen.

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It's just me. I think there's
one or two other people that's listening.

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It's just me, you and one
or two other people. Don't worry

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about it. We will treat you
kindly, and we will help you with

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your question. And I can tell
you something. If you have a question,

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somebody else has a question, and
you may feel like it's a stupid

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question, but you know, we
all are stupid at what we don't know,

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right I am, And so the
only way we learned something is to

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ask questions or observe and read and
things like that. Let's go for it,

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Let's learn something, because there are
other people that need to know too.

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We don't. We do not consider
questions stupid. We consider answers stupid.

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So the pressure is on me.
I will avoid the stupid answers if

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at all possible. Seven one three, two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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Well, today's a good houseplant,
right, it's a little rainy outside.

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I think we would get a break
or two here and there, so

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it's not like the you know,
you can't get out and do anything,

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but in general, when it raining, we tend to stay inside. And

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ever since COVID, houseplants have been
a hot item when it comes to gardens

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and our garden centers and plant sales
and things like that. And I'll tell

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you the whole houseplant thing. Well, COVID caught all of us off guard,

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but the surgeon houseplants caught me off
guard. You know, when I

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went through getting a horticulture degree,
I don't believe that I took a single

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class on house plants. I might
have had some in one, but basically

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it's just like, yeah, those
are there too. Now there are people

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who focused on flora culture and foliage, and the other whole thing dealt with

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flowers, cut flowers, houseplants and
different things. But anyway, it was

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a new thing. Now I picked
up house plants knowledge here and there all

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through life, as you have.
Of course, everybody's had a pathos ivy.

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I guess that's kind of like house
plant one oh one, the first

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thing people tend to get. But
now we have so many new kinds of

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house plants, and some really cool
ones and a group that well, a

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type of houseplant that I have become
very fond of, or house plants that

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have color in the foliage. You
know, it used to be that aglionemo,

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which is also called Chinese evergreen,
is was just kind of green,

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maybe with some grayish in it.
Well, now we have all kinds of

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beautiful pinkish coral looking colors in the
leaves, and there's there's some various patterns.

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Now you just have all kinds of
color options. There are many of

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The Miranta, a prayer plant,
is another one that just with one I

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hadn't redalt with much before, But
now with the new colors, I'm getting

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really interested in all those plants Miranta
and the and the mini plants, that

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are related to it, and I
just think it's a beautiful, a beautiful

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way to really turn the inside into
something interesting. You know, there is

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a psychological connection to how we feel
and being around plants. It's just noted.

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It's It's why there's such a thing
as called forest bathing. Have you

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ever heard of that one? Just
taking a walk in the forest, taking

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a bath if you will, in
just plants and the beauty of nature and

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all of that, it has an
effect on you. And studies that show

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people that are recovering from surgery in
a hospital with and without plants in the

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room, they actually measure a difference
in terms of hownd of pain meds they

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need, in terms of how fast
they heal. And it's all driven by

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the mental state that plants put us
in. And so having you can have

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a very sterile indoor environment if you
like, but why not fill it with

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plants and just even subconsciously make it
a very inviting place for you and for

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guests that come to your house.
And we'll maybe talk a little more house

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plants in a moment. Right now, we're going to run out to Cypress

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and talk to Ruth. Good morning, Ruth, Hello, I'm uh,

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I have a question about my roses. I have about one, two,

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three, four, five, six
knockout roses that are doing well, getting

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lots of blooms. My leaves look
good. That I have one rose bush

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right and it's out in the sun
all the time, and I'm getting a

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bunch of peak beautiful roses on it. But my leaves are are yellow and

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have black spots. Okay, do
you have my mock out roses just on

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the peak bush, just one bush. So you're saying it's a knockout and

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it's getting spots on the leaves.
Well, the one, the one that

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has the peak roses, is not
a knockout. It's like a hybrid rose.

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Okay. Well, that's the way
it is with a lot of roses.

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There there are several diseases that will
attack our rose foliage. Black spot

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is probably the most well known.
Powdery mildew is right there alongside it in

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terms of being well known. There's
things like circosper leaf spot and whatnot.

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I would but the other ones have
a lot of foliage on it, all

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the other roses. But it's one
row's worse, which is tall given me

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the beautiful roses has not got a
lot of lead on the bottom. Okay,

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Well, knockout is very disease resistant. You just don't see black spot

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and powdery mildew hardly at all on
a knockout rose. And that's one of

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the reasons it's so popular is because
unlike roses through the through the decades that

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we've all been exposed to roses,
you know, those were often prima donnas

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that just you just were spraying them
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And you know, you go back
far enough and you've got the old

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antique roses that had to survive without
any sprays, and the ones, the

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varieties of those that manage through the
years. They you know, they were

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ones that were a little more resistant. But I'll tell you what, Ruth,

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I want to take a break.
I've got to go to a break.

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But when I come, I'm gonna
hold on. If you will hang

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on through break and we will continue
this discussion on roses. Our phone number

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is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four. Give Josh a

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call and we'll talk to you when
we come back. Good morning, Good

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Sunday morning. You're listening to garden
Line. I'm your host. Skip Richter

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and our phone number if you'd like
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two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was was it driving past some

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palm trees yesterday and just it kind
of reminded me that summertime is palm planting

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prime time. I mean, it's
the time when you really can have just

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the best results with getting a palm
tree in the ground. And Verdant Tree

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Farm. When I think of palms, I think of Verdant Tree Farm.

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They're like the leaders when it comes
to palms here in the Houston area.

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And you can go in with Verdant
and they'll give you a free in office

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design consultation, you know, maybe
take a picture of your place. And

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so I need a palm for here. I want something for their and what

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will be a good choice because they
have so many options that they just all

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do really, really well. You
can hand pick your tree too while you're

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there by the way, and you
can tag it and they'll bring it out

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and planet for you. They know
how to do it right, and you

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need to plant a palm correctly in
order to have good success with it.

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Now, they don't just sell palms. They have all kinds of trees.

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I mean things up to seven hundred
gallons. If you want the instant wow,

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they can do it. Verdant is
now fortunately not just on the West

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Side. They still have the west
Side location over on Barker Cypress, but

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they've got a location down in Parlin
on Broadway and they have a location on

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Yale Street. Why where it comes
into ten Verdant Tree Farm in the Heights

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location and you can pick the trees
you want. They can help advise you

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on it, they'll planet right and
you can have good success. A tree

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is a long term investment in your
property and it does pay off in time

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and the value of your home.
Not to mention the fact that you just

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get out there and you get to
enjoy the shade of a tree. You

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get to enjoy the beauty of a
tree. But if you're looking for a

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tree, now's a good time and
Verdant is the place you need to go.

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We're visiting with this with Rose Ruth
about roses this morning, and Ruth

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I wanted to make a couple more
comments that because the knockout is probably one

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of our most disease resistant roses.
It's been planted a lot, but a

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lot of the other roses that you
have, they they're just prone to various

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foliage diseases. And I think what
you're going to have to do on that

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one that is giving you trouble is
you're just gonna have to get on a

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schedule of spraying it pretty frequently with
a fungicide to protect it against the things

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that are causing the leaves to fall
off. Okay, that'll make up.

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Yeah, and you can well you
know what I heard that if you take

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oil um horticultural oil and baking powder
are soda together you could spry it.

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Have you ever heard of it?
Well? There it is one of many

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home remedies that has some validity to
it. But I tell you with a

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home remedy, you're not gonna usually
have as good a results as you do

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with a product that's been designed and
labeled for dealing with the designes. Ice

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Hardware is close mad that you think
they would have something for the roses.

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You can fill up a shopping cart
with all the things for roses that ACE

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hardware, So yes, it is. They have everything you look for a

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good disease. Look, it'll say
roses and the label too. If it's

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specifically as a product that works well
for without but things that There's a number

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of different chemistries out there, but
they're fungicides, and you want one that

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moves into the rose. What I
usually do if I'm having to spray roses

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or ruth is, I'll have more
than one product that are different because if

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you just use the same thing over
and over again, week after week,

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year after year or whatever, you
can build up some resistance to some of

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there. And all my other roses
are lushed, they're having beautiful leaves on

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it, they're full. But this
one rose that gives me the most beautiful

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road. They know it's a lot. I'm having a problem with the leaves.

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I know that's how it often is. And we've been working on doing

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some testing, worked with Gahammon in
the Eastern Rose Society a number of years

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ago, doing some studies here trying
to find good hybrid t roses a big

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beautiful cut from our roses that we're
also disease resistant, because that combination is

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becoming more and more available now than
it used to be. But when you

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have a rose to use one brand
over and over, how often do you

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do there? What I'm saying is
like, for example, there is let's

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see, there is a product called
propoconazole that's a fungicide ingredient, and if

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you just spray that same ingredient all
the time, the chances of building up

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resistance are greater. And so what
you want to do is you want to

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alternate between that and between a different
kind of fungicide. So when you get

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into ace, they're going to be
able to direct you to the ones they

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carry there. But just remember,
don't just pick one and it works and

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I'm going to use it for the
next five years. Do the alternating and

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that just helps avoid the problem of
resistance, because once resistance happen, then

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that great fungicide is no longer of
any use to you because the design one

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of the question. I have two
bridle reaths in my front yard underneath the

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tree, and they give me the
most beautiful blooms in the spring, the

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gorgeous to fight. But the shots
are getting really big. Can I now

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trim them back? You can anything
that blooms early in the spring, you

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can get it trimmed, but get
it done soon because you when you trim

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it, it's going to regrow and
those new growth branches are going to have

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to reach you know, slow down
reach kind of a woody, mature stage,

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not a succulent stage. So they
can set bloom buds in midsummer,

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in late summer for next year's bridle
wreaths show in the spring. It's okay

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to go ahead and trim them now, not a lot, but I need

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to trim on. It is okay
in the future. I'd rather you do

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your trimming right after the blooms fade, but if you go ahead and get

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it, thank you, okay,
thank you, Ruther. I appreciate all

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right, thank you for the call. I appreciate that. Our phone number

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is seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four seven one three two

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Yes, yes, with roses. There

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are some good fungicides out there that
work, but just do some rotating with

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them. Uh. They're the folks
that plepithologists and you know, the folks

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that deal with the chemicals that fight
fungicides or fight fungus diseases. They've divided

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fungal sprays into classes, and so
there may be two or three sprays that

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operate the same way. They fight
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so you would only want to use
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use the ones that all do the
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Ruth mentioned using horticultural oil or using
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old home remedies you know for fighting
rose diseases. But I tell you the

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oil is more especially for like a
powdery mildew. If you if you do

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that, it will it will do
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there's a risk of burning a plant
also, that just kills what's trying to

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happen on the plant. When you
spray that oil, there's not any long

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term control. With some of the
good fungicides you can get, they soak

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into the tissue and they're help fighting
the disease going forward for a period of

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time. Each one lasts a different
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to constantly spray something topical to just
kill the powdery mildew, you're just gonna

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be spray and spray and spraying,
and that isn't a good treadmill to be

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on with your roses. So anyway, take some time, get the kind

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of products you need, and you
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good job. I'll tell you about
a project that I've picked up this summer,

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and it is a project working on
a community garden for a Dellweb community,

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a new Dellweb community that's out near
Fulsher. In fact, it's less

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than two miles from downtown Fullsher on
FM three fifty nine. Now, those

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of you who are familiar with Dellweb
know what Dellweb means. Dellweb means inspired

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designs, and it means communities with
lifestyle programs that are designed around you for

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age for adults age fifty five and
better. And the new community out at

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Fullsher I'm working with them to develop
a community garden for residents. So if

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you are a gardener or want to
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A world class community and a spot
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spot where you can do your own
gardening. Now dellweb dot com slash Houston,

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you can go there and get more
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eight one four five nine zero six
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eight one four to five nine zero
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check them out and find out that
Dell Web difference for yourself. I was

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talking about house plants a moment ago, and one of the newer house plants

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that I got that I just I
really like. It's a It's a variegated

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type of rubber tree. Everybody knows
what rubber trees are, at least I

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think you do. The variegated types, though, offer the interest of something

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other than just green. Now there's
nothing wrong with green, but when you

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can have house plants that have silvery
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color in the foliage, it just
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the table look at it and enjoy
it, I think it's it's good to

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group our house plants so when you're
putting together you're a little setting. You

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may have a tall plant in the
background and some other plants around it,

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and you just sort of create that
that jungle feel, that indoor environment that

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I know and research has proved really
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in the presence of plants like that. So I hope that if you haven't

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tried house plants, or if you
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them again. There's some really good
ones out there. When we come back

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from break, I'll mention some of
the ones that I would say are more

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full proof. But speaking of full
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I got a question for you.
Um, natural rain is opposed to

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what comes out of the hose?
Yes, don't plants just love that?

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They do? They absolutely do.
You know what comes out of the hose

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is it's got a lot of cads. You know, it's treated, it's

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a bacteria don't grow in and whatnot. That's a little effect there. But

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when rainfall comes, it often brings
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There is of nitrogen in the rain, so it's almost like fertilizer water

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in a very deluted sense, coming
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happy plants, absolutely happy plants.
We do that. In fact, I

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heard some screaming and dancing down the
street a moment ago when I was driving

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in everything. Well, good morning, I'm looking outside actually seen a little

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bit of blue sky. Maybe that
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through the day, and you have
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always telling you it's a good day
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And it is, it really is. There's so many wonderful garden centers here

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in the Greater Houston area. And
every time I go to one, I'm

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just amazed at them on of color
that they have, the amount of the

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plant options. You know, it
just it doesn't. You do not have

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to be into anyone kind of plant
because there are so many options. Maybe

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you're just a lawn ranger and you
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that is that's your extent of horticulture
right there. Well, you're gonna go

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to our garden centers. You're gonna
find the products we talk about here to

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keep your lawn looking as good as
it gets. Maybe you like color flower

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beds. You want just flower beds
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have that. We have a lot
of great plants at the garden centers around

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here. It seems like every time
I go to one, well that seems

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like it's true. Every time I
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something else that I just can't live
without. And I have discovered some really

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cool plants over the years just by
checking them out visiting with folks at garden

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centers. It's a new one to
me. Oh well, all right,

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I'll try it out, and here
we go. Now it's one of my

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favorite plants. That's how it goes
often. I've been talking about house plants

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this morning and how to have success. So if you feel like you can

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kill every plant there is on earth, and you're ready to just buy silk

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plants for the house, let me
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silk plants get dust mites. Okay, you may have to think about

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that one a little bit, but
they do. But it didn't hurt the

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plant. But you know what I'm
saying. I was in a I don't

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know it's a doctor or Dennis's office
or something. They had some silk plants

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and I don't know how this was, but there were yellow areas on the

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leaf, as if someone dropped something
on the leaf that faded the green out.

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And I just thought that that's classic
right there, that even a silk

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plant looks sick. So anyway,
what we want is living plants. And

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if you've killed everything you can think
of, I've got some that are foolproof.

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In fact, let's start with motherin
lawst tongue. Mother in lawst tongue

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is properly called sense of area and
it has the long sword shaped leaves coming

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up out of the ground. Typically
they're green, usually with some maybe grayish

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markings on them, and often with
a wide yellow strip on both sides.

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So do you know which one I'm
talking about? They come in many forms.

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Now, there's some that almost look
like a starfish, and they have

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rounded leaves in just a fan shape
that are really different. There's some that

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are very short and wide leaved,
very unusual for that species of plants.

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They're easy to grow. They will
put up with low light, and they

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will put up with highlight. They
will put up with adequate water, and

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they will put up with being forgotten
for a while because they're almost a succulent

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and that they have very fleshy leaves
ability to hold moisture. So if you

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can't grow a mother in lost tongue, I can't help you. I mean

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because literally I have had them and
just put them somewhere and forgot about them,

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and then it could be weeks later
and I go, oh my gosh,

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I get to that plant and it
still looks okay. I mean it's

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not very happy with me. It
will speak to me for a while,

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but they survived mother and lost tongue. Is an easy one, easy one

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to grow, so I would try
that. Another one that I like is

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the ZZ plant. ZZ is short
for its long fancy name, but ZZ

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that's good enough. They are a
dark green plant, kind of a glossy

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looking leaf, very unusual. They're
easy to grow. They put up with

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low light to get a little bit
leggy and low light, but they put

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up with it. They put up
with high light, of course. And

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it's another one where if you forget
to water it, it's okay, it's

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gonna be all right now. I
mean eventually, of course, you gotta

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water plants. But ZZ plant is
an easy one and it's a fun one

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to grow. There's one that's kind
of has a chocolate e color to the

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growth as it ages, and ZZ
is. I would put it as number

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two in the list of ones that
you ought to look at if you're a

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plant killer. Let's see what some
others. One of the really a lot

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of the philodendrons are pretty easy to
grow. They just they're not that difficult

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to keep them alive and keep them
growing. It just depends on which one.

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They vary a little bit, but
a lot of philodendrons can be easy.

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I like the Chinese evergreen also called
Aglionema. I find that they put

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up with moderately low light, and
that they are also pretty easy to grow.

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And now if you don't water them, they're going to pout and the

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old leaves will turn yellow and fall
off, but they keep going. So

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I wouldn't say that they're foolproof in
terms of watering, but they're an easy

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one. And here we got all
those beautiful colors that you can grow,

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and they do so well. Now
everybody's familiar with pathos, I mean,

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the pathos ivy is just all over
the place. My daughter has some pathos

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ivy and she has these little things. You're attached to the wall and then

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you hook the pathas vine on it. So it's just like this sprawling ivy

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crawling all over the walls. People
do that across the ceiling of their house

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to the key there is can you
get enough light up there? For the

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plants? They put up with pretty
low light and they're easy to grow.

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Now when you forget to water them. And then you water them, the

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old leaves turn yellow and then fall
off, so that you can get these

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long string of vine that don't have
any leaves on them if you don't give

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a moderate amount of watering to take
care of them. But that's an easy

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one. There's so many others.
Closet plant. It's called Chinese evergreen.

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It's a very dark green leaves and
it has these white bloom like stalks coming

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up. That's another easy one.
But looking outside today, I've seen all

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the moisture and stuffing. It reminds
me, you know, whenever it rains,

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we get mosquitoes. In fact,
I've asked the folks from mosquito dunks

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to be on the show here a
little bit later today. We're gonna talk

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to them around the eight o'clock hour. And but mosquito dunks are a product

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that kills mosquitoes, and naturally,
when they're in water, it doesn't kill

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the adults, it kills the larva. And so you put a mosquito dunk

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in stagnant water wherever it is.
Maybe it's in a hollow tree that's holding

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water, maybe it's in a pond
where you know, you got mosquitoes that

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are going to breed there, and
so you want to prevent it. A

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mosquito dunk will work for thirty days. It releases a natural disease of mosquitoes.

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It's one organic. It will not
hurt harm people that if your dogs

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drink out of the pond, it
won't hurt hurt them. If they're fishing

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the pond, they're fine. Birds. Land and get a drink. It's

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all okay. Mosquito dunks just goes
after the mosquito larva and they work really

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really well. You're going to find
them everywhere. All the Ace hardware stores

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carry them. I know that a
lot of fact. Pretty much every one

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of the nurseries you here is talk
about here on Gardenline are going to have

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them, and the feed stores we
talk about as well. Mosquito dunks are

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simple, they're easy and help avoid
all the mosquitoes that ruin your outdoor setting

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by getting a handful of mosquito dunks
keeping them on hand. So when we

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do have these rainy periods where we're
ready to go, we are here to

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talk to you about whatever is of
interest to you when it comes to gardening

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and plants, and I hope you'll
give us a call. I talk to

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Josh seven months three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. He'll get you

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on the board and when we come
back from break, we will be happy

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to visit with you about whatever your
questions are. If you can listen to

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that and not be tapping your foot. I check my pulse. I don't.

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I don't think there is love foot
links. You're listening to garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter Our
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two fifty eight seventy four. Listen
if you we've been talking too different kinds

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of products and things today. If
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all the things we talk about on
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Fertilizer, their selection of the herbicides, insecticides, the fungicides, it's like

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none other. If you're an organic
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of organic products as well. I
actually love to go in there just to

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walk down the aisles and see what's
new on the market, because I find

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stuff that I've been notified of this
one, yet here's a new product.

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What's the chemistry? Oh, that's
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If it's out Southwest has it,
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folks on staff like Bob and his
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you bring in and say, oh, here's what's wrong, and here's the

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product you need, and they won't
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One stop shopping Southwest Fertilizer dot Com. Love going in that place. It's

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going to go out. Let's head
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Mike this morning. Morning. Mike, what's up are you doing? I'm

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good, Thank you good, good. Quick question. I have one and

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I mow the whole thing. It's
an easy yard, but I would like

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you improve my soil structure, but
I can't afford lead whole compost for the

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whole thing is there an alternative you
would recommend for that. Well, um,

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if you if you're gonna use,
are you just saying you don't want

407
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to put it even a compost over
the whole thing? Or is it just

408
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if it's leaf willing to do a
compost but the leaf bol compost for an

409
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entire acre's fairly expective. Yeah,
that that is expensive, and really to

410
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do compost over an acre is expensive. Now if you if you go with

411
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a different kind of composts, you
at least need to make sure it's very

412
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finely screened so that uh, it's
down in you don't have wood chips at

413
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your lawnmowers knocking all over the place
for example. Finally screen compost you can

414
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do that. It's still going to
be a charge for a whole acre.

415
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So what I would do kind of
need to see your lawn to know really

416
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for sure what to suggest to you. If you've got that much area and

417
00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:22.839
you're just putting the top dressing on, it's going to be a problem.

418
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Number One, return your grass clippings
every time you mow. That is like

419
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one oh one. Do that I
would get I would get a good quality

420
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fertilizer, and I would fertilize according
to the schedule at the at the rates

421
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that are recommended, and keep that
grass growing. And as you grow grass

422
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and you return the clippings, you
are slowly adding organic matter back into the

423
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soil. And the roots of the
grass are growing and root. A grass

424
00:31:48.680 --> 00:31:51.559
root lives about a year and then
dies, and so all of that organic

425
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matter that was in the grass root
is going to decompose back into the soil.

426
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Two and so I think you can
do. I think you can do

427
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at a large area like that with
the compost being cost prohibited for you just

428
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by putting quality fertilizer out, keeping
that grass growing, watering it is needed

429
00:32:07.799 --> 00:32:14.400
to keep it healthy when we go
into dry weather, and just recycling those

430
00:32:14.440 --> 00:32:20.319
clippings, and I think you're going
to see a big difference. So,

431
00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:24.079
for example, maybe the most afforable
compost I've ever seen, it's mushroom in

432
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:30.200
the compost. I have heard that
there's a lot of salt. That's the

433
00:32:29.359 --> 00:32:35.079
case. There is and probably sodium
and salt. I believe it's a wonderfully

434
00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:40.640
rich compost, but I would just
I would use it sparingly because you don't

435
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:46.000
want to move the pH up as
much as it can, and once you

436
00:32:46.039 --> 00:32:51.720
put it down, a good rain
on it or a good irrigation can wash

437
00:32:51.759 --> 00:32:55.279
a lot of the salts out.
But I wouldn't make mushroom compost an annual

438
00:32:55.319 --> 00:33:00.640
application for a lot. Okay,
when you first time you put it down,

439
00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:05.759
lawn is gonna look green and wonderful, but just realize that you can

440
00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:07.519
get a build up of some things
if you if you're not careful there.

441
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:15.079
I appreciate Thank you, sir.
All right, I appreciate that call.

442
00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:19.640
Thank you very much. For those
of you who are wondering about the compost

443
00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:22.440
on the soil. If if you
don't have an acre, you have a

444
00:33:22.440 --> 00:33:24.920
smaller area and you would like to
do something like that, you need to

445
00:33:24.920 --> 00:33:30.559
call the folks at Greenpro. Green
Pro will use a quality leafmo compost on

446
00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:34.359
your lawn. And not only will
they do that, but they will first

447
00:33:34.599 --> 00:33:38.720
aerate your lawn to create openings down
in the soil to get oxygen down to

448
00:33:38.759 --> 00:33:44.240
the roots. And that's what roots
need, especially if your soil is compacted,

449
00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:46.400
and if your soil is a heavy
clay, that aeration is essential.

450
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Then with a compost top dressing,
they put a very fine texture compost on

451
00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:53.960
it falls down in the holes and
you're just building that soil over time.

452
00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:58.359
And you know that's what that's what
Mike, you know, was referring to,

453
00:33:58.440 --> 00:34:00.480
is how do we how do we
do that? So we went a

454
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:04.720
different route with such a large area. But if you've got a moderately sizedline,

455
00:34:04.720 --> 00:34:07.159
Greenpro, go to Greenpro Texas dot
com or give them a call to

456
00:34:07.360 --> 00:34:13.119
eight one three five one forty seven
thirty three and they can get you set

457
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.840
up and ready to go. Let's
head out to Magnolia and now we're gonna

458
00:34:15.920 --> 00:34:21.159
talk to Tim. Good morning,
Tim, Good Marskip, how you done

459
00:34:21.400 --> 00:34:24.760
him? Well? Thank you?
Hey. I've got a oak tree and

460
00:34:25.760 --> 00:34:30.679
it's about four foot up. It's
very hollowed, you know, had just

461
00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:35.079
I guess it rotted out there.
It's good and green, it's beautiful.

462
00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:39.039
We've had it for eighteen least week. It's probably eighteen plus years as we've

463
00:34:39.079 --> 00:34:44.119
lived there, eighteen years. It
keeps going and it keeps bill But is

464
00:34:44.119 --> 00:34:46.800
there something I can feel? I
mean, it's probably some places looks like

465
00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:53.920
eight hollowed. Is there any way
to help with that with some filler in

466
00:34:54.000 --> 00:35:00.039
there or just the only kind of
filler that you might consider is if you

467
00:35:00.119 --> 00:35:02.760
put some sort of a little wall
in there, like a hardware cloth or

468
00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:07.119
something, and then you spray that
expandable foam on it and kind of smooth

469
00:35:07.119 --> 00:35:12.480
it out to create the look,
you know, of of of a wall

470
00:35:12.519 --> 00:35:15.800
of wood. You can paint it
a little bit if you want. We're

471
00:35:15.840 --> 00:35:19.760
just doing that for aesthetics. Though
the rot that's in there will continue no

472
00:35:19.760 --> 00:35:23.119
matter what you do. It's just
you don't want a hollow that you know,

473
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:27.960
catches water, mosquitoes are going in. Well, that would have avoid

474
00:35:28.039 --> 00:35:34.760
that. That's not a normal arboriculturally
recommended practice, but it does visually close

475
00:35:34.840 --> 00:35:38.519
up that hole for you, if
you're a little careful and somewhat artistic with

476
00:35:38.599 --> 00:35:43.760
the way you go about doing it. Yeah. I was really not concerned

477
00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:45.880
so much, just that we've got
an acre and a half, so we've

478
00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:49.840
got plenty of trees for you know, in its way out there in the

479
00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:52.320
back of the Okay, lose it. And I thought, was there anything

480
00:35:52.360 --> 00:35:57.199
I could do preventitively to try to
Yeah? Hell, but yet it looks

481
00:35:57.239 --> 00:36:00.920
as healthy as and it's again it's
had that hollowed deal. I'm just thinking

482
00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:06.639
that, gosh, I'm surprised how
much it's lived this long. Yeah,

483
00:36:06.719 --> 00:36:12.360
yeah, I get it. Yeah, no, the yeah, the interior

484
00:36:12.360 --> 00:36:15.559
of a tree is deadwood, and
so it can rot and it's of no

485
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:20.199
threat to the light, to the
health of the tree. It affects the

486
00:36:20.199 --> 00:36:22.480
structural strength of the tree for sure, to lose all that wood, but

487
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:27.639
healthwise, you know, the tree's
not gonna get sick because it has interior

488
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:31.280
hollowing going on. Okay, all
right, all right, thanks, hey,

489
00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:35.800
thanks for the call, Tim,
appreciate it. If you are looking

490
00:36:35.800 --> 00:36:39.199
to do your summer fertilizing on your
lawn, now would be an excellent time

491
00:36:39.320 --> 00:36:43.679
to put down some microlife fertilizer,
you know, microlife. I think the

492
00:36:43.760 --> 00:36:47.199
best combo for summer, really for
most of the year is to use the

493
00:36:47.280 --> 00:36:52.440
sixty four, which is the green
bag, the green sixty four bag with

494
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:55.639
the purple bag. So think green
plus purple purple is the humans plus and

495
00:36:55.719 --> 00:37:00.360
we call that concentrated compost. And
a bag you're gonna get not just the

496
00:37:01.039 --> 00:37:05.920
big three numbers on a fertilizer bag, the sixty four nitrogen, phosphorus,

497
00:37:05.960 --> 00:37:10.360
potassium, You're going to get a
hundred different kinds of a central minerals,

498
00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:14.880
micronutrients, all kinds of things like
that that are in it, as well

499
00:37:14.880 --> 00:37:19.800
as all the microbes that are in
it to release stimulate your plant root growth,

500
00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:22.920
and that is important for a successful
lawn. The sixty four and the

501
00:37:23.320 --> 00:37:27.960
humates, they're going to release very
slowly over time, so you're gonna get

502
00:37:27.960 --> 00:37:30.760
a gradual feed, but you're just
not going to see better results with your

503
00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:35.519
lawn than that combo. If you
go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com, you

504
00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:39.840
can find out where you can get
your fertilizer your Microlife products around town and

505
00:37:39.880 --> 00:37:44.000
by the way, Microlife is sold
just about anywhere that you're going to go

506
00:37:44.079 --> 00:37:47.079
looking. If it's a quality nursery, hardware store, feed store, you're

507
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:52.760
going to find the Microlife products and
they will definitely turn your lawn into a

508
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:58.000
beautiful green show place. We're listening
to garden Line. I am your host,

509
00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:00.599
Skip Ricter, and we're here to
talk to you about whatever's of interest

510
00:38:00.599 --> 00:38:06.000
to your gardening. Wise give Josh
you call at seven one three two one

511
00:38:06.079 --> 00:38:08.880
two five eight seven four. All
you need to tell them is your name,

512
00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:13.880
where you live, a couple of
words about your question. That's all

513
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:15.800
he needs to know who getting on
the board, and we will look forward

514
00:38:15.840 --> 00:38:20.119
to talking to you when we come
back from break. I want to remind

515
00:38:20.159 --> 00:38:23.960
you that next Saturday, June tenth, I will be at Lawbird's Unlimited out

516
00:38:23.960 --> 00:38:29.519
in Kingwood. That's from eleven thirty
to one thirty, So put that on

517
00:38:29.559 --> 00:38:35.159
your calendar. If you live anywhere
out in that northeast region, I hope

518
00:38:35.199 --> 00:38:37.760
that you would come out let me
meet you. I'd love to visit.

519
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:40.320
I always like to meet people that
listen to the show. And if you've

520
00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:44.920
got any questions, you can bring
samples or maybe some photos. Let me

521
00:38:44.960 --> 00:38:46.440
take a look at them. We
have plenty of time to sit down and

522
00:38:46.519 --> 00:38:50.519
visit about them and see if we
can help you have a better lawn and

523
00:38:50.639 --> 00:38:54.760
landscape. KTRH Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

524
00:38:54.760 --> 00:39:01.239
advertised on this program. Welcome to
ktr H Garden Line with Skip Richter.

525
00:39:10.000 --> 00:39:27.880
Just watch him as well. Good
morning on a really really good Sunday morning.

526
00:39:28.159 --> 00:39:30.679
I see some clouds, but I
see some blue and that is that

527
00:39:30.880 --> 00:39:35.840
is the license to get outside and
garden right there. I love that you're

528
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:38.000
listening to Garden Line. I'm your
host, skip Richter and if you would

529
00:39:38.039 --> 00:39:42.920
like to ask a question, give
Josh a call seven one three two one

530
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:49.840
two five eight seven four seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

531
00:39:50.559 --> 00:39:52.760
You know, the rain reminds me
of another thing too, and that

532
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:59.880
is that our roofs are an important
part of our house. You know when

533
00:40:00.280 --> 00:40:04.239
remember the song Manyana Manyana where it's
like, well, I'm not gonna fix

534
00:40:04.280 --> 00:40:07.239
a roof because it's not raining.
And then when a training I can't fix

535
00:40:07.239 --> 00:40:09.800
a roof because the training will.
Now's a good time to make sure your

536
00:40:09.880 --> 00:40:15.079
roofs in good shape. And Brian
Roofing is the people you need. They

537
00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:17.199
are the people that you need to
talk to you. They are warranted for

538
00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:20.840
twenty five years of service when they
do a roof. Now, if you

539
00:40:20.880 --> 00:40:23.480
want, if you want a solar
panel roof, don't put those panels on

540
00:40:23.559 --> 00:40:29.360
top of the house. Have Brinkman
come in and do their timberline solar shingles.

541
00:40:29.360 --> 00:40:32.000
That's not above the roof. That
is the roof, the timberline solar

542
00:40:32.039 --> 00:40:37.239
shingles. Now they've Brigman has been
in the Houston area doing roofing for fifty

543
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.920
years. This year this is the
anniversary for them, and you know what

544
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:45.320
it's like. When we have a
storm come through, they knock. Companies

545
00:40:45.400 --> 00:40:47.840
knock on your door, they leave
a business card in the door because they're

546
00:40:47.880 --> 00:40:52.280
trying to get you to file a
claim. Instead of that, have a

547
00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:57.039
professional from here, someone who's been
in business, who does the kind of

548
00:40:57.079 --> 00:41:01.239
service that keeps them in business,
that builds a reputation. That's Brinkman.

549
00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:07.880
There are twenty twenty two Better Business
Bureau Pinnacle Award winner. Go to Brinkman

550
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:15.159
Quality dot com or Dial two eight
one four eighty seventy six sixty three for

551
00:41:15.239 --> 00:41:19.159
a quality roof. If you need
a metal roof, one of those standing

552
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:22.159
seam metal roofs, They'll they'll put
it together right on site for your home,

553
00:41:22.199 --> 00:41:29.599
whether residential or commercial. Brinkman Roof
for a full service roofing company that

554
00:41:29.679 --> 00:41:37.159
you can trust. I was taking
care of some plants at the house the

555
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:38.840
other day. I've got we purchased
a bunch. My wife and I were

556
00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:43.119
actually out at a garden center and
we were purchasing some plants to put together

557
00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:49.639
in combo containers. I love combo
containers and they've been sitting on my porch

558
00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:53.480
and I've had to put them in
little like rubber made things because I'm running

559
00:41:53.480 --> 00:41:57.000
all over the I'll be gone for
two or three days. I'll put them

560
00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:59.639
in the rubber made things, put
some water in the bottom, you know,

561
00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:02.280
to keep them watered while I'm gone, because containers can't wait for four

562
00:42:02.360 --> 00:42:06.400
days for me to show back up
again. And I finally got around to

563
00:42:06.440 --> 00:42:08.280
getting those things in containers, and
oh my gosh, they look so good.

564
00:42:08.519 --> 00:42:12.880
Now with this rain, they are
going to pop. And with a

565
00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:21.000
quality mixed container of different kinds of
flowers, you can really beautify whether it's

566
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:24.440
a patio or a porch or a
driveway or whatever. You need to get

567
00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:30.400
some inspiration like that for a color
container. And you know, when it

568
00:42:30.440 --> 00:42:35.239
comes to inspiration, you're not going
to do better than a place like Warren's

569
00:42:35.400 --> 00:42:39.480
Southern Gardens. If you're if you're
out anywhere near the Kingwood, anywhere that

570
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:45.480
direction, Warren's Southern Gardens is a
place for you to have that kind of

571
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:49.079
inspiration. Now, we were walking
through there a while back, and oh

572
00:42:49.119 --> 00:42:52.159
my gosh, the color containers they
have are just beautiful. You'll see that

573
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:57.880
thriller filler Spiller design. You'll see
the combinations of things that they do.

574
00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:01.159
Maybe you've got a windy area where
the you know, the wind is coming

575
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:06.400
in and it tends to blow over
containers. They can actually choose plants that

576
00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:08.440
are going to allow the wind to
blow through and not be like a sail

577
00:43:08.519 --> 00:43:12.199
out there that'll fall over when the
wind blows on it. If you want

578
00:43:12.199 --> 00:43:16.440
the combination of colors of whatever you're
looking for, Warren's Southern Gardens is going

579
00:43:16.480 --> 00:43:21.199
to have it. And they also
have the Microlife and Nelson Plant Food filling

580
00:43:21.239 --> 00:43:23.920
station, so you can go back
and get you more of those fertilizers at

581
00:43:23.960 --> 00:43:28.760
a very reasonable cost that way,
and you're not throwing extra plastic into the

582
00:43:28.760 --> 00:43:31.760
wastetring, whether Kingwood, umbled a, Taska, Ceda, anywhere. Up

583
00:43:31.760 --> 00:43:36.400
that directions. Check out Warren's Southern
Gardens by the way. They're on North

584
00:43:36.440 --> 00:43:40.360
Park Driving, Kingwood, and their
sister company is Kingwood Garden Center on Stone

585
00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:45.440
Hollow Drive out in Kingwood, and
both of them are open seven days a

586
00:43:45.480 --> 00:43:49.400
week. We are going to head
now, let's see, we're going to

587
00:43:49.480 --> 00:43:55.800
go out to Edmund and talk to
Steve. Good morning, Steve, Hello,

588
00:43:57.119 --> 00:44:00.599
Hello, how you doing well?
I'm well? Oh how can we

589
00:44:00.679 --> 00:44:05.360
help Hey? I just want to
ask a few questions about the spraying herbsides.

590
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:09.840
I've had roseheads problems uh for years, like a lot of people,

591
00:44:10.400 --> 00:44:16.039
and I want there's any new information
out about uh, you know spraying because

592
00:44:16.079 --> 00:44:23.679
I've used uh ur cords fall out. It's son of you and it's been

593
00:44:23.679 --> 00:44:27.039
out for a while. But you
don't have to have a herbicide license to

594
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:31.960
buy it. Uh. I just
keep seeing rose and the McCartney rose is

595
00:44:32.000 --> 00:44:37.800
what I'm talking about, and it's
blooming and whatever I read A and M

596
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:42.239
saying is you know you want to
have a seventy five degree ground temperature and

597
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:45.840
you don't want But I mean,
I've got to get this book. It's

598
00:44:45.119 --> 00:44:47.480
about to go up to a little
bit of a drought and I don't want

599
00:44:47.480 --> 00:44:52.199
to get that waxy, you know, so use acting. Yes, but

600
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:57.639
do you know anything that uh?
Uh? And and next sage is another

601
00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:00.320
problem but us two boar deal.
Yeah, you spill be on that with

602
00:45:00.719 --> 00:45:06.840
maximizer sur factor. But can you
tell me is anything else out there that's

603
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:12.440
come out? Anything? Okay?
Yeah, Hey, Steve, what county

604
00:45:12.519 --> 00:45:17.199
are you in? Victoria County?
Victoria County. You've got a really good

605
00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:22.320
Extension office there in Victoria County,
and I am familiar. I know the

606
00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:27.079
McCartney Rose. We've had landin in
de Wit County that was covered up with

607
00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:30.119
McCartney Rose. But the products I'm
familiar with that was from a little while

608
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:34.639
back. And I could give you, you know, names of products,

609
00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:37.639
remedy and different things, but I
think it would be better for you to

610
00:45:37.679 --> 00:45:42.679
get a very up to date answer
from an agriculture agent and the Victoria County

611
00:45:42.719 --> 00:45:45.039
Extension Office, folks, they're going
to be up to date on it because

612
00:45:45.079 --> 00:45:51.679
as you can attest, McCartney Rose
is all over Victoria County too, And

613
00:45:51.760 --> 00:45:54.880
so you you do want to you're
right about surfactant, you're right about the

614
00:45:54.960 --> 00:46:00.280
timing being very important. Uh.
And so rather than me shooting from the

615
00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:05.239
help I would, I'm gonna punt
that time to an agriculture agent with Texas

616
00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:07.800
and m Agrilife Extension. And you've
got a really good one there in Victoria

617
00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:14.360
County. You know where the location
is, They're um, yeah, at

618
00:46:14.400 --> 00:46:17.239
the airport. Yes, they're out
out near the airport. So when you're

619
00:46:17.239 --> 00:46:22.159
coming in from Houston direction, Uh
yeah, you turn off to the right

620
00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:24.719
and go back in there. That's
it. Okay, okay, all right,

621
00:46:24.800 --> 00:46:27.880
I know what you're talking about.
I think I've been over that way

622
00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:32.000
before. But you know, I've
just wanted anybody to do anything besides besides,

623
00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:36.320
I mean not gardening. I've got
a farmer son in law and they

624
00:46:36.599 --> 00:46:39.960
they got a big plant farming.
My daughter's mother in laws. They have

625
00:46:40.079 --> 00:46:44.440
a green thumb bigger than my fam. So yeah, okay, all right,

626
00:46:45.599 --> 00:46:49.840
But well I was just warning about
that. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm

627
00:46:49.840 --> 00:46:52.960
gonna give you a better answer by
sending you to people that have a better

628
00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:55.199
answer. How about that. Okay, well, that's fine. I know

629
00:46:55.360 --> 00:46:58.639
enough about I just want to think
there's anything you out here. But you

630
00:46:58.679 --> 00:47:01.960
know, like, well there,
I used remedy, a callow trees remedy

631
00:47:01.960 --> 00:47:07.400
and diesel. Yeah, turned it
into court. Yeah yeah. Hey,

632
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:09.320
that's another way to get rid of
it. Another another way to check it

633
00:47:09.480 --> 00:47:16.079
is go online and do a search
for brush Busters and then McCartney Rose put

634
00:47:16.159 --> 00:47:21.719
those two together in a search.
There's a brushbusters website that deals specifically with

635
00:47:21.880 --> 00:47:24.239
McCartney's Rose and that's also from Agrilife
Extension. Hey, I'm gonna have to

636
00:47:24.360 --> 00:47:28.320
run for a break. Thank you
for the calling. Good luck handling that

637
00:47:28.400 --> 00:47:31.119
one that is the difficult one to
do. Our phone number seven one three

638
00:47:31.199 --> 00:47:35.559
two one two fifty eight seventy four. And when we come back, Sandy

639
00:47:35.639 --> 00:47:53.239
and John, you will be the
first two up the good morning and a

640
00:47:53.360 --> 00:47:58.320
good Sunday morning. You're listening to
Garden Line and we're here to talk about

641
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:02.760
the horticulture topics that you're interested in. You want a more bountiful garden and

642
00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:07.320
a beautiful landscape, Well let's talk
about it. And speaking of talking about

643
00:48:07.360 --> 00:48:12.840
it, we're going to head out
to Cyprus and talk to Sandy. Good

644
00:48:12.880 --> 00:48:19.199
morning, Sandy, high Skip.
I have a question, good morning.

645
00:48:19.320 --> 00:48:24.960
I wanted to see which eggplant is
the best eggplant to grow out here and

646
00:48:25.800 --> 00:48:34.199
in a container? And how many
gallen's should the container be for the eggplant?

647
00:48:34.280 --> 00:48:37.880
And is this the right time to
plant. Well, that's a lot

648
00:48:37.920 --> 00:48:40.800
of good questions right there. So
as far as the best eggplant, that's

649
00:48:40.880 --> 00:48:44.360
kind of like saying the best tomato. You're going to get an argument out

650
00:48:44.360 --> 00:48:46.079
of everybody when you start doing that. But I'll tell you what I think

651
00:48:46.239 --> 00:48:51.000
is a good one. I'm not
a big fan of the big giant like

652
00:48:51.159 --> 00:48:54.440
black Beauty, eggplants, the big
large oval ones we used to always see.

653
00:48:54.920 --> 00:49:00.079
I like the smaller ones a little
smaller diameter, and to the I

654
00:49:00.239 --> 00:49:04.679
like for containers. One is called
fairy Tale and the other one is called

655
00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:07.559
Hansel, as in Hansel and grattle. So they obviously they're out of the

656
00:49:07.679 --> 00:49:10.840
same breeding line. I've grown both
of them, and they do really,

657
00:49:12.039 --> 00:49:15.159
really well. They're very productive.
Now. I've grown a lot of eggplants

658
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:17.880
and sandy. To be honest,
there's a lot of good ones. I

659
00:49:17.960 --> 00:49:21.199
mean, it's not like if you
don't get those two, you're not gonna

660
00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:22.280
have any eggplant. I mean,
there's a lot of good ones out there.

661
00:49:22.320 --> 00:49:24.320
So, but those are two that
I kind of like. I've grown

662
00:49:24.360 --> 00:49:29.679
them in containers. I grew them
in something probably held about half the volume

663
00:49:29.760 --> 00:49:35.079
of a half whiskey barrel. I
would say eggplant would I wouldn't go under

664
00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:39.360
seven gallons probably in an eggplant unless
you just have an automatic system that can

665
00:49:39.440 --> 00:49:43.800
water them twice a day, because
you don't want them to dry out.

666
00:49:44.599 --> 00:49:46.920
Now, they're not gonna want to
set in the super hot weather. You

667
00:49:47.039 --> 00:49:51.400
can plant them now and they will
grow. You may get some eggplant,

668
00:49:51.719 --> 00:49:53.960
but when it cools off a little
bit, they'll start producing again really well,

669
00:49:55.599 --> 00:50:00.559
so I can plant it from seedling. You could start seeds now if

670
00:50:00.599 --> 00:50:02.440
you wanted to. I wouldn't put
the seed out in the full brunt of

671
00:50:02.480 --> 00:50:05.920
the sun just right off the bat. I'd kind of start them in a

672
00:50:06.559 --> 00:50:09.400
very bright, shady spot, maybe
some morning sun or something like that.

673
00:50:09.679 --> 00:50:15.199
Get them up and growing. But
just because they dry out so fast,

674
00:50:15.320 --> 00:50:20.000
and your little seedling containers, I
mean that just turns dry in a few

675
00:50:20.079 --> 00:50:23.400
hours in the heat of a summer
sun. And should I should I plant

676
00:50:23.480 --> 00:50:30.400
them in the container that they're gonna
be in for their life. You could

677
00:50:30.639 --> 00:50:32.519
should start them off in something you
can You can do it either way,

678
00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:36.960
you know, if it's a container
you can move around. I would just

679
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:39.079
plant them directly in there. In
fact, that way you could put more

680
00:50:39.159 --> 00:50:44.000
than you want in that container in
terms of seeds, and then when they

681
00:50:44.079 --> 00:50:46.519
come up, you might lose one
or something could happen, and that way

682
00:50:46.800 --> 00:50:51.119
then you can thin them out to
the number you actually want. That's one

683
00:50:51.159 --> 00:50:53.920
of the nice things about starting them
directly in that container. You sort of

684
00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:58.440
hedge your bat by planting extras,
knowing you're gonna pull some out but you

685
00:50:58.519 --> 00:51:01.760
got to you gotta promise to pull
them out because it's hard to pull up

686
00:51:01.800 --> 00:51:07.320
a little baby seedling you just created, right. Yeah. So the other

687
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:12.599
thing is, do are they like
ochra where one might shade over the other,

688
00:51:12.760 --> 00:51:15.840
so you have to pull them out
in the sense that each one needs

689
00:51:16.480 --> 00:51:22.679
the same amount of sunlight. Well, yes, and they do need sunlight,

690
00:51:22.960 --> 00:51:25.039
but if you have a container that's
large enough, they're going to lean

691
00:51:25.119 --> 00:51:29.039
out a little to the sides and
they'll make sure they get the sunlight.

692
00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:32.280
The only thing to remember is,
you know, you know we talk about

693
00:51:32.320 --> 00:51:37.960
weeds, is if weeds or some
bad plant that gets in our good plants,

694
00:51:37.039 --> 00:51:40.440
Well, when we plant too many
good plants, they are essentially weeds

695
00:51:40.519 --> 00:51:44.920
to each other, you know what
I'm saying. So we talk about weeds

696
00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:47.519
choking out the plants. They take
up the nutrients, they take up the

697
00:51:47.559 --> 00:51:51.320
water, they shade out the light. Well, if you put too many

698
00:51:51.320 --> 00:51:55.119
eggplant in a container or anything in
a container, you've it's like they're weeds

699
00:51:55.159 --> 00:51:59.199
to each other. Does that make
sense? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,

700
00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:00.880
yeah, So that's why you want
to absolutely. Yeah, if I had

701
00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:05.199
I had a little container that was
it looked like a whiskey barrel. But

702
00:52:05.239 --> 00:52:09.199
it was plastic. But it was
only probably about I don't know, twenty

703
00:52:09.280 --> 00:52:14.800
inches eighteen inches across or something,
and I had three eggplant in it and

704
00:52:14.920 --> 00:52:20.400
it did okay, but it probably
held about twelve twelve gallons of soil.

705
00:52:21.760 --> 00:52:25.199
Oh, okay, okay, well, I appreciate it. With all the

706
00:52:25.360 --> 00:52:32.760
rain that we had last night,
um my three and a half weekum Oqua

707
00:52:32.920 --> 00:52:37.360
seedlings are kind of leaning over.
Should I fit additional soil to stand them

708
00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:40.800
back up there? Like? Yeah, you could. You could straighten them

709
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:44.840
out a little bit, that would
be fine. You could lean anything up

710
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:45.880
against them, just to get them
to hold on for a little bit.

711
00:52:46.239 --> 00:52:50.719
If they don't, what will happen
is that stalk will turn upward anyway,

712
00:52:51.159 --> 00:52:53.199
but it won't be as well anchored
as you know as if you could get

713
00:52:53.199 --> 00:52:55.679
them, get them going back up
the street. A little soil around it

714
00:52:55.719 --> 00:53:00.760
wouldn't hurt. Just don't pile it
real deep against the seedling. Okay.

715
00:53:00.960 --> 00:53:02.800
Multiple multon accomplished the same thing too, by the way, for you,

716
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:08.239
Sandy, Oh well, yes,
I fertilize it right now. Oh yes,

717
00:53:08.400 --> 00:53:13.360
you do want to old, absolutely, you do want to fertilize it.

718
00:53:14.360 --> 00:53:16.280
Okay, thank you so much.
Good you bet, thank you for

719
00:53:16.400 --> 00:53:22.039
the call. All right, appreciate
that very much. I'm going to be

720
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:25.599
out at Wilbirds Unlimited next Saturday,
the twenty seventh, from eleven thirty to

721
00:53:25.679 --> 00:53:30.119
one thirty. Now, I'll be
at the one in Kingwood, the Kingwood

722
00:53:30.119 --> 00:53:34.360
Wallbirds June tenth, and wild Birds. If you haven't been to one,

723
00:53:34.400 --> 00:53:36.199
by the way, I hope you
can come out and see me. But

724
00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:39.800
there are seven wallbirds all over the
Houston area. Now. That would be

725
00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:45.719
Katie, Kingwood, Cyprus, Pearland, Belair, West Houston, and the

726
00:53:45.840 --> 00:53:49.199
newest one is Kerr Lake where I
was out recently. If you go online

727
00:53:49.239 --> 00:53:53.679
to WBU dot com forward slash Houston
you can find the wild birds near you,

728
00:53:54.159 --> 00:53:58.480
and if you've not been to one, you need to go. It

729
00:53:58.719 --> 00:54:01.760
is inspirational. It is a great
place for anyone interested in birding. But

730
00:54:01.840 --> 00:54:05.760
if you're not, if you don't
know yet that you're interested in birding,

731
00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:07.840
And that's how I was. I
didn't realize that how interested I would be

732
00:54:08.199 --> 00:54:13.840
until I walked into a place like
Wahbirds that just has everything you need.

733
00:54:13.960 --> 00:54:17.079
The houses, the feeders, the
quality feed not the junk feed the birds

734
00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:21.519
kick all of it on the ground, but the feed that they're gonna need

735
00:54:21.559 --> 00:54:24.679
all of it. It's a better
quality feed. And they can direct you

736
00:54:24.840 --> 00:54:29.360
that. They can tell you each
season what you need because during the spring,

737
00:54:29.440 --> 00:54:31.400
when they're raising young, they need, like the dried meal worms,

738
00:54:31.440 --> 00:54:36.599
a high protein, high oil content
for to be able to do that.

739
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:40.039
But each bird species a little different
feed, even different kinds of feeders.

740
00:54:40.159 --> 00:54:45.519
Wilbirds can get you set up.
If you've got anyone in your life who

741
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:50.760
at all likes birds. Wahbirds is
a perfect place for a gift. I

742
00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:54.440
mean, they just how about a
beautiful hummingbird feeder. That's just one example

743
00:54:54.519 --> 00:55:00.440
out of a hundred that you'll find
it. Wilbirds Unlimited. Going to head

744
00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:05.239
out now to West Houston and visit
with John. Hello John, Hello,

745
00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:08.480
Skip, good morning, first time
listener. Well, I'm glad you're here.

746
00:55:09.519 --> 00:55:14.719
Thank you. Hey, listen,
A couple questions regarding Saint Augustine grass.

747
00:55:15.480 --> 00:55:19.159
So a couple of issues going on. One is that during this summer

748
00:55:19.280 --> 00:55:22.960
heat, how high should one cut
safe from, you know, now through

749
00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:25.760
the beginning of fall. How many
inches? Yeah, roughly, that's a

750
00:55:25.760 --> 00:55:30.840
good question. I generally aim for
about three to three and a half inches

751
00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:35.079
for Saint Augustine if you mow it. If you mow it lower, you're

752
00:55:35.119 --> 00:55:37.280
gonna have to mow it more often
to keep it at the right heights without

753
00:55:37.320 --> 00:55:39.760
cutting too much off, because you
want to cut about a third of the

754
00:55:39.840 --> 00:55:44.440
blade off each time you mow,
so you don't want to cut fifty percent

755
00:55:44.519 --> 00:55:46.599
of the height of the grass every
time you mow. So so the shorter

756
00:55:46.679 --> 00:55:50.639
its more often you have to mow. If it's in shade, John,

757
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:52.599
I would even go up through and
a half four inches as high as that.

758
00:55:53.320 --> 00:55:59.360
Mostly mostly it's not in the shade, and so what happens my tradition

759
00:55:59.440 --> 00:56:02.360
has been is that I end up
having the yard giant cut the grass every

760
00:56:02.400 --> 00:56:06.800
two weeks as opposed to weekly.
And I'm guessing that weekly is a better

761
00:56:07.480 --> 00:56:12.000
avenue to take versus the base twice
a month. Yes, So the more

762
00:56:12.039 --> 00:56:15.639
often you know, the better the
density is going to be. And I

763
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:19.000
know people that mother Saint Augustine at
two and a half inches. I just

764
00:56:19.400 --> 00:56:22.719
am not able to get out there
enough to take care of mine that often,

765
00:56:22.840 --> 00:56:24.679
and so I go up to a
little higher than that. But okay,

766
00:56:24.800 --> 00:56:29.440
it's not an exact number that you
have to set the mower blade at.

767
00:56:30.559 --> 00:56:35.599
Okay, and then also areas of
the lawn mainly well, I should

768
00:56:35.599 --> 00:56:38.800
say in the shade end in the
sunny areas, it has these open patches

769
00:56:38.840 --> 00:56:44.119
where there isn't grass growing. So
what I've done in the past I put

770
00:56:44.199 --> 00:56:46.079
down to a peat moss beg mat
peat moss, kind of a d area.

771
00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:51.159
But I think it was listening this
morning and you mentioned to put down

772
00:56:51.280 --> 00:56:54.079
and enrich the compost. Is that
was something that you would apply in those

773
00:56:54.119 --> 00:57:00.519
areas that are kind of bear or
vacant grass. Yeah, it's a compost

774
00:57:00.559 --> 00:57:04.639
because it's a renewable resource, which
pete moss in the short term is definitely

775
00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:07.559
not just play it in there,
I guess, just handle it in there

776
00:57:07.760 --> 00:57:12.599
and let it do its thing.
Yeah, and get a good quality leaf

777
00:57:12.679 --> 00:57:15.639
mold compost. When you have a
leaf game compost, it's very fine textured,

778
00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:19.719
it's screen down and you can put
it in there. It settles into

779
00:57:19.760 --> 00:57:22.719
the soil surface. It helps block
some of the lights, so you will

780
00:57:22.800 --> 00:57:29.599
reduce somewhat your weed seed germination issues
and bare areas of the lawn. And

781
00:57:29.760 --> 00:57:31.599
so you're gonna have good luck with
that if you do it, and if

782
00:57:31.639 --> 00:57:35.960
you want to if it's a little
compacted, and that's why, if it's

783
00:57:35.960 --> 00:57:38.039
a heavy clay and it's not getting
good aeration done in the soil, then

784
00:57:38.079 --> 00:57:43.760
you can also do the core aeration
where they pop the little plugs out of

785
00:57:43.800 --> 00:57:45.880
the soil and you have these little, you know, five eighth inch holes

786
00:57:45.880 --> 00:57:50.719
that go down about four inches and
then the compost even falls into those and

787
00:57:50.880 --> 00:57:55.800
that creates a very nice oxygen enriched
root system, which makes a grass even

788
00:57:55.880 --> 00:58:00.480
happier. So I guess one thing
I do. I can hands fall and

789
00:58:00.880 --> 00:58:05.239
kind of work up some of that
clay soil and then just put over it,

790
00:58:05.400 --> 00:58:07.960
I guess, or working with the
remaining clay soil working in some of

791
00:58:08.000 --> 00:58:10.679
this compost with it. Yeah,
you could. There are devices you can

792
00:58:10.760 --> 00:58:13.880
buy. You step on them and
they punch a hole in the ground.

793
00:58:14.400 --> 00:58:16.679
If you meet one that will pop
out a core, that's even better because

794
00:58:16.719 --> 00:58:20.960
otherwise you're just sort of squeezing the
sides of the hole apart, like with

795
00:58:21.079 --> 00:58:23.559
a with a spading fork time,
you know, going straight down. But

796
00:58:23.719 --> 00:58:28.280
anything you do that helps break up
an aerate, open up the soil and

797
00:58:28.440 --> 00:58:32.119
then adding the organic matter. That
that's the key er, all right.

798
00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:37.559
I appreciate the advice and great show. I appreciate that, Thank you very

799
00:58:37.639 --> 00:58:44.119
much. Appreciate. If you live
out in the Mont Bellevue area, if

800
00:58:44.159 --> 00:58:47.119
you love over, maybe you know
Baytown area, anywhere like that, you

801
00:58:47.239 --> 00:58:52.559
need to know about Texas Feedstop.
Texas Feedstop is on Highway one forty six,

802
00:58:52.679 --> 00:58:55.679
just a few minutes north of it
ten. Now, like we love

803
00:58:55.760 --> 00:59:00.400
feed stores here and we love our
feed stores, and we talk talk about

804
00:59:00.400 --> 00:59:04.320
the ones that give you great customer
service. You don't have to deal with

805
00:59:04.400 --> 00:59:07.679
poor service at a place like Texas
Feedstop. Brian and Hope Roads have made

806
00:59:07.719 --> 00:59:13.119
sure you don't. They will greet
you. They will make sure that someone

807
00:59:13.199 --> 00:59:15.599
carries your food or your food,
your pets food or whatever out to the

808
00:59:15.679 --> 00:59:19.840
car for you. All the products
we talk about, you know, the

809
00:59:20.000 --> 00:59:22.599
night FoST, Microlife, turf Star, Nelson's, Medina, Landscaper's Pride,

810
00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:27.760
heirloom soils, even the Mosquito dunks
I was talking about before. You're going

811
00:59:27.840 --> 00:59:30.639
to find them at Texas Feedstop.
It's a one stop shop. They also

812
00:59:30.719 --> 00:59:35.639
have plants out front occasionally, and
I think when you go by Texas feedstop.

813
00:59:35.719 --> 00:59:37.880
You're gonna love it. You're gonna
find that it is a place that

814
00:59:38.079 --> 00:59:44.199
becomes your hometown shop for everything,
for your plants and for your animals.

815
01:00:00.199 --> 01:00:07.679
Well, good Sunday morning. My
goodness, it's looking like a good day.

816
01:00:07.800 --> 01:00:09.400
We went through that rain last night
and I was kind of wondering where

817
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:14.360
we're going because weather forecast talks about
rain this week. But wow, we

818
01:00:14.440 --> 01:00:16.400
got a break. It's a good
day to get outside. Good day to

819
01:00:16.440 --> 01:00:21.760
get outside and do some shopping too. Out in the garden centers. I

820
01:00:22.039 --> 01:00:24.280
love. I love to go to
our garden centers. Now, I've said

821
01:00:24.320 --> 01:00:28.280
this before been in case you haven't
heard me. If you live in the

822
01:00:28.360 --> 01:00:34.400
greater Houston area, you are very
fortunate to be rich with garden centers.

823
01:00:35.000 --> 01:00:38.559
I've been. I've been all the
big cities in Texas visiting garden centers,

824
01:00:38.639 --> 01:00:43.559
and I've been to a lot of
cities in other part of other states as

825
01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:46.639
well. We're fortunate here. I
mean it. You go north southeast,

826
01:00:46.719 --> 01:00:52.440
West, are Central and you have
got state of the art, classic garden

827
01:00:52.519 --> 01:00:54.960
centers. I think the I think
that the Chamber of Commerce ought to ought

828
01:00:55.000 --> 01:00:59.639
to put together some sort of like
a garden center tour. You know,

829
01:00:59.719 --> 01:01:02.920
fly in from wherever you are in
the country and we'll do the multi day

830
01:01:02.960 --> 01:01:08.679
garden center tour of Houston. Because
if you're a gardener, it's wonderful and

831
01:01:08.760 --> 01:01:12.800
they're each unique in their own way. That's that is what is cool.

832
01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:16.039
I know people that drive across town
to go to a garden center because of

833
01:01:16.159 --> 01:01:21.400
some uniqueness of it. And even
people that live near a great garden center

834
01:01:21.440 --> 01:01:23.239
and go there all the time,
they go to other ones too, just

835
01:01:23.360 --> 01:01:28.679
to see what's going on. And
it's a it is an amazing thing to

836
01:01:28.800 --> 01:01:31.119
have so much And if you grew
up or you've been around here a long

837
01:01:31.199 --> 01:01:35.360
time and you kind of don't know
any different, I'm telling you this.

838
01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:39.400
It is not like this in most
cities, that is for sure. I'll

839
01:01:39.400 --> 01:01:44.199
spend time in Austin, spent time
in Santonio, certainly, many visits up

840
01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:46.760
to the Dallas Fort Worth area and
so on. This is a unique place,

841
01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:52.360
really really fortunate and really cool.
You're listening to garden Line and I'm

842
01:01:52.400 --> 01:01:55.239
your host, Skip Richter, and
we're here to answer your gardening questions.

843
01:01:55.440 --> 01:02:00.159
So if you want to give Josh
a call, the number is seven one

844
01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:06.400
two one two five eight seven four
seven one two one two ktr h.

845
01:02:06.599 --> 01:02:09.119
Another way to look at it,
Josh, give him your name, tell

846
01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:12.320
him where you live, give him
a word or two so we can get

847
01:02:12.360 --> 01:02:14.599
it on the board. You don't
need to explain the problem to him.

848
01:02:14.639 --> 01:02:15.599
He is not going to help peop
with the problem. He is just going

849
01:02:15.639 --> 01:02:21.599
to make sure your call gets to
me. Speaking of being rich with garden

850
01:02:21.639 --> 01:02:25.199
centers, we are also fortunate to
be rich with Ace hardware stores around here.

851
01:02:27.320 --> 01:02:29.599
When I grew up, we had
a little Ace hardware store in the

852
01:02:29.679 --> 01:02:31.519
hometown and it was a great place. You know, it was fun,

853
01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:37.480
but I had this image of what
Ace was. Get to Houston. Time

854
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:43.840
forward, Ace has changed a lot. They still have that hometown hardware feel.

855
01:02:44.280 --> 01:02:46.559
You walk in, you're greeted,
The people that you talk to know

856
01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:52.760
what you're asking about, and they
can advise you and not sell you the

857
01:02:52.840 --> 01:02:54.239
wrong products. So you go all
the way home and then you come back

858
01:02:54.320 --> 01:02:57.320
and have to go, well,
this piece of pipe isn't the one I

859
01:02:57.440 --> 01:03:01.280
needed. No. So all the
hardware stuff, electrical plumbing and so on,

860
01:03:01.559 --> 01:03:07.480
they've got that, of course,
But the garden supplies unbelievable. When

861
01:03:07.559 --> 01:03:09.760
you hear me talk about fertilizer on
garden line, ACE is going to have

862
01:03:09.880 --> 01:03:14.320
it. When we talk about mulchus
and things like that, they're gonna have

863
01:03:14.480 --> 01:03:19.800
it. If you're looking for a
funicide, an insecticide, an herbicide,

864
01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:22.119
or some other kind of product,
they're gonna have it. They're gonna have

865
01:03:22.199 --> 01:03:25.599
it, and then some but then
all the other things that ACE has.

866
01:03:25.800 --> 01:03:30.599
Of course, paint like hardware stores
have, But what about barbecue supplies,

867
01:03:30.880 --> 01:03:36.519
what about home decor, what about
outdoor furniture decor, power equipment? Ace

868
01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:40.159
Hardware. Go to ACE hardware dot
com and find one of the thirty nine

869
01:03:40.239 --> 01:03:45.519
ACE Hardware stores closest to you.
It's really easy to do. And once

870
01:03:45.599 --> 01:03:49.800
you go into an ACE you will
have a home a home shopping place that

871
01:03:49.920 --> 01:03:52.119
you will go to again and again
because you will be impressed and you'll see

872
01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:55.559
what I'm talking about, Well,
how special it is to have an ACE

873
01:03:55.599 --> 01:04:00.480
Hardware store near you. I'm going
to head out to the phone right now,

874
01:04:00.559 --> 01:04:03.320
and we are going to start off
by going up to Hockley and talking

875
01:04:03.599 --> 01:04:10.840
to Elizabeth. Good morning, Elizabeth, good morn. So I have two

876
01:04:11.039 --> 01:04:14.920
apple trees. Is a dwarf pink
lady and the other one is in Nanna

877
01:04:15.440 --> 01:04:18.360
and the dwarf Pink Lady came out
really late this year, and so they

878
01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:24.039
weren't in the bombs to be able
to make apples that they didn't bloom at

879
01:04:24.079 --> 01:04:27.599
the same time. Okay, so
I need to know what my I have

880
01:04:27.639 --> 01:04:30.559
another pople in the backyard that now
is ready for a tripe, and I

881
01:04:30.639 --> 01:04:34.840
need to know what apple tree can
I stick in it? It'll help you

882
01:04:35.119 --> 01:04:39.199
both are one. Yeah, that's
it. That's a good question. First

883
01:04:39.239 --> 01:04:44.199
of all, let me let me
make a comment. Until you, let's

884
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:45.639
say you pick the perfect trees to
put in there, it's going to take

885
01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:49.039
them a while to grow up and
start start producing for you, right and

886
01:04:49.239 --> 01:04:54.159
so right, what you want to
do is, if you've got any friends,

887
01:04:54.239 --> 01:04:57.480
family, neighbors, whatever that have
apple trees that bloom at the same

888
01:04:57.599 --> 01:05:00.039
time for the next couple of years, while you're waiting on getting a new

889
01:05:00.119 --> 01:05:04.000
tree going, if they will allow
you to clipt just one little branch with

890
01:05:04.159 --> 01:05:08.360
some blooms on it and put it
in a loan I usually use like a

891
01:05:08.519 --> 01:05:10.920
coke can kind of thing, and
hang it in the tree. Put some

892
01:05:11.000 --> 01:05:14.519
water in the coke can, hanging
in the tree that the bees will visit

893
01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:17.920
that bloom and they'll visit your blooms
and you can get some pollination in a

894
01:05:18.039 --> 01:05:23.400
pinch that way. So that is
one thing that I would recommend. Now

895
01:05:23.519 --> 01:05:27.679
you're you are outside of town a
little distance there, but you're not that

896
01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:31.320
fall from far from Tumball. I
would head over to the arbour Gate Garden

897
01:05:31.400 --> 01:05:36.199
Center because Arburgate carries fruit trees.
You're round and they're going to have a

898
01:05:36.320 --> 01:05:41.880
variety of apple options for you,
and I can suggest some that you might

899
01:05:42.000 --> 01:05:45.119
try, But I would go there
and see what they have on hand,

900
01:05:45.000 --> 01:05:48.280
because they'll be able to match that
up for you. Usually we put anna

901
01:05:48.360 --> 01:05:53.159
with Dorset golden. That's kind of
the traditional way we've done it. I

902
01:05:53.280 --> 01:05:56.480
am not familiar with the bloom time
on Pink Lady. I'm thinking it was

903
01:05:56.639 --> 01:06:00.719
later than the anna. Is that
correct is? And the end of the

904
01:06:00.800 --> 01:06:02.679
problem is the chill hours. I
think that we picked the wrong tree.

905
01:06:02.800 --> 01:06:05.280
It doesn't have enough chill hours.
We're down here, but it's still a

906
01:06:05.320 --> 01:06:09.239
pretty tree and it still blooms.
It just doesn't It's not any fruit,

907
01:06:09.320 --> 01:06:12.519
which is cool. I'm okay with
that, okay, but I do have

908
01:06:13.239 --> 01:06:17.559
two what's crazy because it's they went
in last summer and I have two apples

909
01:06:18.159 --> 01:06:21.639
and I would have had three,
but I have two apples on the Anta

910
01:06:21.760 --> 01:06:27.320
this year, which you're just huge. And so if the Pink Lady had

911
01:06:27.360 --> 01:06:30.239
a couple of blooms on it,
and so a couple of bees got over

912
01:06:30.320 --> 01:06:31.880
to that one, Okay, So
I know it'll work. Okay, it's

913
01:06:31.880 --> 01:06:36.400
just a matter of a better a
better crop, and I know it's going

914
01:06:36.440 --> 01:06:40.599
to take me at like two three, maybe four years before I can get

915
01:06:40.679 --> 01:06:46.800
like like real substantial produce off of
it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm just

916
01:06:46.920 --> 01:06:51.159
not sure, you know, Elizabeth
on the Pink Lady, what to suggest

917
01:06:51.239 --> 01:06:54.639
for a second variety on that?
I would have to actually go look that

918
01:06:54.800 --> 01:06:58.480
up and see. Yeah, I
don't think there is none other than it's

919
01:06:58.480 --> 01:07:00.320
just going to be a pretty tree, which is which is fine, well,

920
01:07:00.360 --> 01:07:02.480
which is I'm cool with that too. Yeah, Dorset would be a

921
01:07:02.519 --> 01:07:05.679
good combo for the for the anna. But I really would talk to the

922
01:07:05.719 --> 01:07:09.880
folks up at Arburgate. They know
what they're talking about. They do carry

923
01:07:09.920 --> 01:07:13.320
fruit year round and so they're going
to be able to match you better.

924
01:07:14.800 --> 01:07:17.679
Okay, all right, cool,
that's what I needed. Thank you,

925
01:07:17.880 --> 01:07:21.360
bet you bet, thank you very
much. I appreciate I appreciate that call.

926
01:07:21.800 --> 01:07:27.559
Yeah, the Beverly and the team
up there at Arburgate, they they

927
01:07:27.639 --> 01:07:31.239
know what they're talking about. They
have plants that do well here. They've

928
01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:35.599
chosen them that way. Their staff
is knowledgeable. I think of them as

929
01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:38.960
kind of like a walk and talk
kind of deal where you go in,

930
01:07:39.519 --> 01:07:43.719
someone greets you and you ask a
question and they say follow me, and

931
01:07:43.880 --> 01:07:45.880
you know, they almost shop with
you. If you need that, they

932
01:07:45.960 --> 01:07:49.559
shop with you and help you find
the kinds of things that you need.

933
01:07:49.840 --> 01:07:53.679
And while you're at Arbogate, you
need check out their one two three completely

934
01:07:53.760 --> 01:07:58.079
easy system. That's a food that
feeds anything with roots, so that would

935
01:07:58.079 --> 01:08:02.239
be an organic food. It's four
four three plus ten percent calcium. It's

936
01:08:02.280 --> 01:08:06.559
got the microbes in it that we
want to see in a fertilizer like that.

937
01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:10.320
It's going to be good for vegetables. You can put it in trees

938
01:08:10.360 --> 01:08:13.039
and shrubs, even lungs and groundcovers. It can be used for that.

939
01:08:13.840 --> 01:08:17.479
The organic Food Complete is part of
that one two three that you really need

940
01:08:17.560 --> 01:08:21.159
to have when you're up there picking
up products. Grab some of that as

941
01:08:21.199 --> 01:08:25.600
well, we're gonna take a break
right now. I see Jerry out there.

942
01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:28.600
Jerry, We're going to come to
you a leather apple tree question when

943
01:08:28.640 --> 01:08:31.840
we get back from break. Seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

944
01:08:31.880 --> 01:08:55.239
four. I celebrate the fact that
those clouds are pulling away and giving us

945
01:08:55.239 --> 01:08:58.199
a little bit of sunshine. This
morning, you're listening to garden Line.

946
01:08:58.239 --> 01:09:00.560
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we are here to answer your gardening

947
01:09:00.680 --> 01:09:05.479
questions. Seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. If you

948
01:09:05.600 --> 01:09:12.720
would like to be on the show. I was visiting with the folks at

949
01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:15.319
Dell Web. Now, if you're
familiar with Dell Web, this is a

950
01:09:15.399 --> 01:09:19.479
while back. Dell Web is one
of those that standouts in the building industry.

951
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I mean, they have made a
name for themselves building quality communities with

952
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inspired designs for active adults fifty five
and better for over seventy years. And

953
01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:33.800
the best part of Bellweb communities is
they have lifestyle programs designed around you.

954
01:09:34.479 --> 01:09:38.319
And so when you've become part of
a Dell Web community, you're not just

955
01:09:38.399 --> 01:09:42.680
buying a house or property, You're
buying the whole experience that comes with it.

956
01:09:43.159 --> 01:09:46.680
And visiting with them. We were
talking about me helping with them designing

957
01:09:47.319 --> 01:09:53.119
a community garden on site for the
residents. I having community gardens are a

958
01:09:53.159 --> 01:09:55.640
great thing, so to me,
to have a Dell Web home in a

959
01:09:55.720 --> 01:09:59.600
dell Weeb community and access to a
community garden, I don't know how it

960
01:09:59.600 --> 01:10:01.800
gets the better than that. Well, the new community is in Fullsher on

961
01:10:01.920 --> 01:10:05.800
FM three fifty nine, about two
miles from downtown Fulsher. Go to dellweb

962
01:10:05.880 --> 01:10:11.960
dot com, slash Houston or give
McCall two eight one four five nine six

963
01:10:12.359 --> 01:10:16.880
o nine to discover the Dellweb difference
for yourself. I'm gonna head out to

964
01:10:17.399 --> 01:10:21.199
Huffman and we're gonna talk with Jerry
this morning. Jerry, we're gonna talk

965
01:10:21.199 --> 01:10:27.199
apple trees again. Yeah, and
I believe. Good morning, and thank

966
01:10:27.239 --> 01:10:30.279
you for taking McCall. I believe
you answered my questions. I need to

967
01:10:30.399 --> 01:10:38.159
call Albergate. But I planted two
apple trees and two pair of trees about

968
01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:43.319
five years ago. Okay, this
year the only one one apple tree survived.

969
01:10:43.359 --> 01:10:45.640
And don't ask me what kind it
is. It's an apple tree.

970
01:10:45.880 --> 01:10:51.239
Okay. In this year it gave
blooms. I watched it daily it's lots

971
01:10:51.319 --> 01:10:56.159
of blooms and then they all fail, okay, except for a few.

972
01:10:57.199 --> 01:11:03.239
Then I had four apples that survived. Okay, they grew and they grew,

973
01:11:03.319 --> 01:11:08.119
and I watched them daily, and
they started disappearing. And my question

974
01:11:08.359 --> 01:11:12.000
is, what in the heck is
eating them my apple? So I can

975
01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:15.560
take them out? Yeah, well, probably a varmint. You know,

976
01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:17.000
you're not looking at a peck out
of an apple like a bird, but

977
01:11:17.159 --> 01:11:20.359
they're probably looking. There's a number
of varmints out there that would like to

978
01:11:20.439 --> 01:11:27.359
grab an apple and steal it,
so that what do it? Squirrels would,

979
01:11:27.479 --> 01:11:30.600
Yeah, they could chump on them. I don't know what all would

980
01:11:30.640 --> 01:11:31.840
chew an apple. I don't know
if the you know, rats a lot

981
01:11:31.920 --> 01:11:34.560
of times at night will come out
and mess with our stuff. I don't

982
01:11:34.600 --> 01:11:39.439
think they they might mess with it
too. You know, they were huge

983
01:11:39.640 --> 01:11:44.640
and it disappeared overnight. Oh um, yeah, you need one of them

984
01:11:44.720 --> 01:11:48.079
wild game camera so you can catch
who knows it, Maybe a neighbor neighborhood

985
01:11:48.159 --> 01:11:55.359
kid coming by that apple from no, because my backyard is fit standing and

986
01:11:55.560 --> 01:12:01.079
locked. I got well, but
I watched them, and this joker started

987
01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:08.319
disappearing and I'm looking on the ground
for a or or something. Nothing,

988
01:12:08.720 --> 01:12:13.479
okay, and I'll feed squirrels and
the wall dog. Yeah, so I'm

989
01:12:13.560 --> 01:12:16.319
think it is probably the damn squirrels
because the coons couldn't get up there the

990
01:12:16.439 --> 01:12:19.960
branches or tooth. Well, brother, call a brigade and talk with them,

991
01:12:20.079 --> 01:12:24.479
folks. But I appreciate your program. Well, let me and yeah,

992
01:12:24.560 --> 01:12:26.920
hey Jed, let me let me
make a cup of the comments about

993
01:12:26.920 --> 01:12:30.239
it. You can. There's a
thing called an organ's bag. It's like

994
01:12:31.119 --> 01:12:36.840
it's like a little mesh bag that
you can buy them online and the buy

995
01:12:36.880 --> 01:12:40.880
them in bulk. They're really inexpensive. They have a little draw string on

996
01:12:41.000 --> 01:12:44.520
them and you can buy them different
sizes. So people that have like an

997
01:12:44.520 --> 01:12:46.560
apple tree, you know, it's
not like five acres of apples. If

998
01:12:46.560 --> 01:12:49.600
you have an apple tree or two, you can slip a bag over each

999
01:12:49.640 --> 01:12:54.279
apple and and protect the apples from
a lot of dogs. Now, I

1000
01:12:54.319 --> 01:12:58.000
don't know if that would eliminate everything, but I think based on what you're

1001
01:12:58.079 --> 01:13:00.960
describing, it might work. You
may want to try that and see next

1002
01:13:01.039 --> 01:13:04.560
year if that works on your apple
just as a way I'll protect them.

1003
01:13:05.520 --> 01:13:11.000
Yeah, I'm hoping next year to
have more apples and move some bees in

1004
01:13:11.960 --> 01:13:15.840
and protect them a little bit better, set that game cam like you said,

1005
01:13:16.319 --> 01:13:20.199
and then I'm gonna eliminate my rodents. All right, there you go

1006
01:13:20.720 --> 01:13:25.600
sounds like thank you, yes,
sir, thank you. You take care,

1007
01:13:25.720 --> 01:13:30.439
appreciate the call. Yeah, I'll
tell you, there's nothing more disappointing

1008
01:13:30.520 --> 01:13:32.920
than you know, you've got this
uh, you've got this beautiful fruit.

1009
01:13:32.960 --> 01:13:35.439
I mean it could be a tomato
or whatever, and you get ready to

1010
01:13:35.520 --> 01:13:39.520
go out there and get it.
And oh, my gosh, it happens

1011
01:13:39.560 --> 01:13:42.560
to me with corn. Number of
years ago, and I was living up

1012
01:13:42.600 --> 01:13:45.279
in Cyprus. I had a corn
patch and I was watching that corn day

1013
01:13:45.359 --> 01:13:48.920
by day, and if finally ahead
of day was like tomorrow I'm going out

1014
01:13:49.399 --> 01:13:55.079
and tomorrow I'm starting harvesting. I
came out the next morning and raccoons had

1015
01:13:55.159 --> 01:14:00.279
come in and they had stripped that
corn patch like you wouldn't believe. And

1016
01:14:00.399 --> 01:14:02.039
it's like, Dad, Gummett,
did they hear me? Were they out

1017
01:14:02.079 --> 01:14:04.800
there on the other side of the
fence and they speak English or something?

1018
01:14:04.880 --> 01:14:09.359
How did they know that the next
day I was going to pick that cord?

1019
01:14:12.239 --> 01:14:15.680
I just about went Caddyshack on a
bunch of raccoons. After that experience,

1020
01:14:17.600 --> 01:14:21.560
that's funny. Well, you know, trees are a valuable part of

1021
01:14:21.600 --> 01:14:25.119
your landscape. In fact, all
your woody ornamentals are, you know,

1022
01:14:25.239 --> 01:14:29.479
the beautiful shrubs that you have rosebushes. Were talking about roses earlier. A

1023
01:14:29.680 --> 01:14:32.680
rose is just a showstopper in your
landscape. And when you buy these woody

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01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:35.960
ornamentals, they're not inexpensive. I
mean, it's not like you're spending ten

1025
01:14:36.039 --> 01:14:42.600
cents on one. You're you're putting
out some investment money to have that decades

1026
01:14:42.920 --> 01:14:45.640
of beauty and pleasure. And that's
why I say when you buy a woody

1027
01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:50.239
ornamental, go ahead and buy a
tree hugger sprinkler. It's a small investment

1028
01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:56.119
in that thing. Surviving the first
summer a woody ornamentals in the ground is

1029
01:14:56.199 --> 01:15:00.640
touching go because the roots have to
go for that little container where in a

1030
01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:04.279
pot that cylinder of soil was getting
watered in the hot weather, is getting

1031
01:15:04.319 --> 01:15:09.079
water twice a day to keep that
thing healthy and alive, not just alive,

1032
01:15:09.199 --> 01:15:12.279
but healthy and growing. And so
when you put it in the ground,

1033
01:15:12.680 --> 01:15:15.000
it pumps that cylinder drive Before the
end of the day and you're hoping

1034
01:15:15.039 --> 01:15:18.800
a little water is wicking in from
the sides from the soil, but that

1035
01:15:18.960 --> 01:15:25.079
takes time, and the tree hugger
will water that area for you. You

1036
01:15:25.159 --> 01:15:28.279
can buy them in different sizes seven
inch or eleven inch, fifteen inch so

1037
01:15:28.439 --> 01:15:32.319
on, but it will help that
thing survive. Then as it begins to

1038
01:15:32.439 --> 01:15:35.840
grow and you need to water a
little larger area, you just turn it

1039
01:15:35.960 --> 01:15:39.359
up a little bit more, and
then up a little bit more until where

1040
01:15:39.640 --> 01:15:43.399
you could have a decent sized little
tree that you're using your tree hugger to

1041
01:15:43.560 --> 01:15:46.880
give you that rescue watering from a
fairly large area. Then if you go

1042
01:15:47.000 --> 01:15:49.720
up to a fifteen inch and really
crank it up, you've got a large

1043
01:15:49.760 --> 01:15:54.319
area that you're watering, and that
gets you through the summer. You know,

1044
01:15:54.439 --> 01:15:57.800
we can't provide every drop of water
or tree needs, but we can

1045
01:15:57.960 --> 01:16:01.600
rescue them during summer drought and heat. So it's not just a matter of

1046
01:16:01.800 --> 01:16:06.399
am I gonna lose that rosebush or
lose that tree? Is it gonna thrive?

1047
01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:11.399
Is it gonna survive and thrive and
grow? So I can hang a

1048
01:16:11.439 --> 01:16:15.199
hammock in the tree, for example, tree hugger sprinkler. It's a small

1049
01:16:15.319 --> 01:16:19.560
cost that is in my eyes insurance. Tree Hugger Sprinkler dot com. If

1050
01:16:19.600 --> 01:16:21.880
you want to find out more,
you're going to find them. You know,

1051
01:16:21.960 --> 01:16:26.359
all over the place. The hardware
stores carry them. Our feed stores

1052
01:16:26.399 --> 01:16:30.039
that we talk about on garden Line, the independent nurseries, garden centers we

1053
01:16:30.119 --> 01:16:34.199
talk about, they're going to have
them. When you buy a plant that's

1054
01:16:34.199 --> 01:16:38.560
a woody ornamental, for sure,
get a tree hugger sprinkler. At the

1055
01:16:38.640 --> 01:16:42.960
same time you're listening to garden Line, we are here to answer your gardening

1056
01:16:43.079 --> 01:16:46.840
questions. We love visiting with you
guys about what's going on in the garden

1057
01:16:47.760 --> 01:16:51.399
and we want you to have success. That that is our goal is for

1058
01:16:51.600 --> 01:16:56.119
you to have success. And we
know when it comes to your lawn.

1059
01:16:56.159 --> 01:17:00.159
Everybody has a lawn. Everybody wants
to have a beautiful lawn. And one

1060
01:17:00.199 --> 01:17:03.119
of the ways to ensure that is
to apply a slow release fertilizer that will

1061
01:17:03.119 --> 01:17:08.840
carry you through summer. And Nitrofossis
Summer Essentials is just that we're talking about

1062
01:17:08.880 --> 01:17:14.479
the nitro superturf nineteen four ten.
That is the kind of fertilizer that gradually

1063
01:17:14.560 --> 01:17:18.359
feeds and It is going to give
you the nutrients you need over time,

1064
01:17:18.479 --> 01:17:23.560
so you're you're going to reduce your
mowing up to twenty five percent disease and

1065
01:17:23.680 --> 01:17:29.880
insects like brown patch that love and
over fertilized lawn with eight. With the

1066
01:17:30.079 --> 01:17:32.239
nineteen four ten, you get a
gradual release. You don't have to worry

1067
01:17:32.279 --> 01:17:36.119
about that. You can find nitrofoss
products like the Superturf that's a silver bag

1068
01:17:36.239 --> 01:17:41.000
by the way, all over the
play Enchanted for Us and Chanted Gardens have

1069
01:17:41.079 --> 01:17:45.640
them down in the Richmond Rosenberg Growers
outlet and Willis or maybe Ace Hardware in

1070
01:17:45.800 --> 01:17:49.840
city down in Memorial that is one
of many places where you're going to find

1071
01:17:50.119 --> 01:17:56.600
Superturf nineteen four ten in the silver
bag. If you'd like to give us

1072
01:17:56.600 --> 01:18:00.520
a call, get on the phones
and give Josh. Your call is seven

1073
01:18:00.640 --> 01:18:05.279
one three two one two five eight
seven four. If McCall seven one,

1074
01:18:05.359 --> 01:18:09.000
three, two and two fifty eight
seventy four, tell him your name,

1075
01:18:09.880 --> 01:18:13.560
tell him where you're from. We'll
part of town and tell him what you

1076
01:18:13.600 --> 01:18:15.079
want to talk about. In a
couple of words. That's all it takes.

1077
01:18:15.199 --> 01:18:18.640
We'll be back. We'll be answering
your gardening questions. Got a special

1078
01:18:18.760 --> 01:18:21.680
guest that will be coming up in
the next hour. We're gonna visit with

1079
01:18:23.199 --> 01:18:27.800
the fellow from mosquito Dunks. We've
been talking about those for a long time

1080
01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:30.800
and we're gonna drill down and kind
of get a little nerdy about, well,

1081
01:18:30.800 --> 01:18:34.239
how does a mosquito dunk work?
What is what is the secret to

1082
01:18:34.359 --> 01:18:38.840
mosquito dunks? Why are they so
effective? Why are they so safe?

1083
01:18:39.560 --> 01:18:43.640
And I think you'll enjoy it.
We'll learn a lot about those little critters

1084
01:18:44.079 --> 01:18:46.720
that can make us measurable in the
summer if we don't deal with them.

1085
01:18:46.760 --> 01:18:48.760
And you know, all you need
is a little bit of rain. You've

1086
01:18:48.760 --> 01:18:53.319
got mosquitoes, and I'm pretty sure
that Southeast Texas gets a little bit of

1087
01:18:53.439 --> 01:18:57.600
rain over the course of a summer. Well, we'll be back a short

1088
01:18:57.640 --> 01:19:00.479
time here. Hope to have you
on the board, But in the meantime,

1089
01:19:01.000 --> 01:19:06.760
hang on. KTRH Garden Line does
not necessarily endorse any of the products

1090
01:19:06.880 --> 01:19:14.960
or services advertised on this program.
Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictor

1091
01:19:15.279 --> 01:19:45.520
So just watch him as Nick.
Good morning on a good Sunday morning.

1092
01:19:45.840 --> 01:19:47.760
Like I say all the time,
every day, is a good day for

1093
01:19:47.880 --> 01:19:50.920
gardening, and so is this one. I thought we were gonna have a

1094
01:19:50.960 --> 01:19:55.000
lot more rain than we did during
the day, right, we had plenty

1095
01:19:55.039 --> 01:19:59.800
at night, especially in some areas. But I expected gardening would be indorsed

1096
01:19:59.840 --> 01:20:01.640
to day. But it doesn't look
like it, at least not for now.

1097
01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:06.000
Good time to get out and enjoy
things. Say, if you've ever

1098
01:20:06.960 --> 01:20:13.079
had trouble with like healthy sleep and
relaxation. Maybe you've got muscle aches and

1099
01:20:13.239 --> 01:20:19.000
joints and skin issues or dealing with
mood well as things like that, CBD

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01:20:19.279 --> 01:20:24.199
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1102
01:20:29.600 --> 01:20:33.880
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1103
01:20:33.960 --> 01:20:38.119
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1104
01:20:38.880 --> 01:20:43.039
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1105
01:20:43.079 --> 01:20:46.239
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1106
01:20:46.279 --> 01:20:49.520
Now they have a wide variety of
options. There's oils, there's soft

1107
01:20:49.600 --> 01:20:54.199
jails, there's goomies, there's creams, By the way, is it goomies

1108
01:20:54.279 --> 01:20:57.199
or gummies? My kids and I
go back and forth on that all the

1109
01:20:57.279 --> 01:21:00.279
time. It's a proud Texas company. You can go to the Trusted Lab

1110
01:21:00.399 --> 01:21:03.479
dot com and find out a lot
more. I was just using some cream

1111
01:21:03.920 --> 01:21:08.479
for muscle joints aches that I had
the other night, kind of my upper

1112
01:21:08.560 --> 01:21:12.359
back, an area where I often
deal with a little stiffness. I find

1113
01:21:12.399 --> 01:21:15.319
it to be very effective. The
Trusted Lab dot com check them out.

1114
01:21:17.000 --> 01:21:19.720
We're gonna head out to the phones
now. In fact, we're gonna start

1115
01:21:19.760 --> 01:21:25.079
off by going to Pinehurst and talking
with Greg Well, Hello, Greg,

1116
01:21:25.119 --> 01:21:30.640
good morning, Thanks, good morning. Um. Just a clarification question on

1117
01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:36.600
some fertilization. I put down Nicer
Foss Super Turf sixteen four ten, nineteen

1118
01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:40.079
four ten back. I think it
was about the first week of April,

1119
01:21:40.159 --> 01:21:44.479
so call it two months ago,
okay, am I okay. I bought

1120
01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:50.279
some of the low and Slow from
Nelson's Plant Food yesterday. Can I Can

1121
01:21:50.319 --> 01:21:54.199
I put that down or should I
wait a couple more weeks for my second

1122
01:21:54.399 --> 01:21:57.720
summer application. I would wait a
little bit later that night. Fuss gonna

1123
01:21:57.760 --> 01:22:00.439
last year at least twelve weeks and
so that'd be a April May June.

1124
01:22:00.520 --> 01:22:06.039
You could you could go into the
end of June or early early July if

1125
01:22:06.079 --> 01:22:10.119
you wanted to do the slow and
easy as a follow up on it,

1126
01:22:10.720 --> 01:22:14.159
just watch how your lawn is doing
too. You know, if your lawn

1127
01:22:14.359 --> 01:22:16.239
is growing at a good clip and
things are looking good, we'll hold off.

1128
01:22:16.319 --> 01:22:19.079
I mean, the reason we use
those two kinds of products, and

1129
01:22:19.159 --> 01:22:24.279
those both excellent products, is they
gradually release over time because we don't want

1130
01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:26.760
to get that flush of green growth. You know, we're having a mow

1131
01:22:26.880 --> 01:22:31.199
more and your issues with diseases could
be increased by overdoing the nitrogen. That's

1132
01:22:31.199 --> 01:22:34.720
a nice thing about slow release.
So the other thing about slow release is

1133
01:22:34.760 --> 01:22:39.159
you're not going to reapply very fast, very soon because it's gonna last a

1134
01:22:39.199 --> 01:22:43.960
while, right right, okay,
And putting it down saying like May July

1135
01:22:44.239 --> 01:22:45.760
or whatever, early July, it's
not too hot for it? Is it

1136
01:22:45.880 --> 01:22:50.800
necessarily? No, not at all. And you know your lawn is fine

1137
01:22:50.920 --> 01:22:55.000
in the summer. He is this
is Saint Augustine. Did you say,

1138
01:22:55.199 --> 01:22:57.640
yes, sir? Okay, yes, your lawn is fine in the summer.

1139
01:22:57.640 --> 01:23:00.960
He as long as has moisture.
It needs solow more to be able

1140
01:23:01.079 --> 01:23:04.960
to go. Because here's the deal. In the summer, Saint Augustine can

1141
01:23:05.039 --> 01:23:10.199
handle the heat, but it is
pumping water to cool itself. Water,

1142
01:23:10.399 --> 01:23:14.439
it's it's it's a way of cooling
itself. And so when you run out

1143
01:23:14.479 --> 01:23:17.840
of solm moisture, it starts to
heat up too much and it goes into

1144
01:23:17.960 --> 01:23:21.880
drought stress. And that's the problem. But fertilizer is not an issue.

1145
01:23:21.960 --> 01:23:26.800
You get nutrients on the grape,
don't overapply it. Follow the label.

1146
01:23:27.239 --> 01:23:30.600
Follow the label on how much If
you were you're talking about I think you

1147
01:23:30.680 --> 01:23:33.960
said the slow and easy, So
that'd be about five pounds of that product

1148
01:23:34.119 --> 01:23:40.279
per thousand square feet. Five pounds
per thousand square feet in that summer application,

1149
01:23:40.720 --> 01:23:43.239
that would be about right. That'll
give you about a pound of nitrogen

1150
01:23:43.319 --> 01:23:46.199
per thousand Very good, Okay,
very helpful. And yeah, my yard

1151
01:23:46.319 --> 01:23:51.119
it looks really, really good.
Thanks to the schedule and then also due

1152
01:23:51.159 --> 01:23:56.359
to your advice, I change my
watering. I just do once a week

1153
01:23:56.479 --> 01:24:00.560
now for really deep heavy watering.
I feel like it's really help the versus

1154
01:24:00.600 --> 01:24:02.159
they know every other day. So
yeah, it really is. I mean,

1155
01:24:02.279 --> 01:24:06.359
you know, think about think about
watering this way to Greg. When

1156
01:24:06.760 --> 01:24:12.560
you turn your sprinklers on the first
drops that are going out number one,

1157
01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:15.079
as they fly out there evaporating that
we know that's happening in the air.

1158
01:24:15.319 --> 01:24:18.159
Very little bit, a little bit
is happening. That's why water early in

1159
01:24:18.199 --> 01:24:21.760
the morning. But then those drops
hit your grass, and then as more

1160
01:24:21.840 --> 01:24:26.560
drops come, it goes down and
it is wetting your thatch. And then

1161
01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:30.880
as more drops come, it's rolling
past all that wet material and finally getting

1162
01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:33.439
into your soil. So theoretically,
if we say apply an inch a week,

1163
01:24:33.560 --> 01:24:38.079
but you applied one tenth of an
inch a day, you would essentially

1164
01:24:38.159 --> 01:24:42.520
not wet your soil at all because
you would wet the thatch, you would

1165
01:24:42.520 --> 01:24:44.920
have bet the grass, and then
it would all evaporate away. No one

1166
01:24:45.000 --> 01:24:48.159
squeegees off the grass blades to get
it in the sam or in the grade.

1167
01:24:48.520 --> 01:24:55.399
So that's why we would rather put
more on as fast as we can,

1168
01:24:55.600 --> 01:25:00.680
but in that cycle and soak style
so that we get the the water

1169
01:25:00.880 --> 01:25:02.800
in the ground. That's that's where
we need the water, not on the

1170
01:25:02.920 --> 01:25:06.279
grass. And that's why I liked
the more we can move towards once a

1171
01:25:06.359 --> 01:25:09.720
week. And I'm saying this to
you. Of course you already know this,

1172
01:25:09.840 --> 01:25:14.279
but others that are listening, and
most twice a week and most twice

1173
01:25:14.279 --> 01:25:15.760
a week, but if you can
move toward it once a week, you're

1174
01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:19.680
going to have a much better lawn
because you get oxygen down in the soil

1175
01:25:19.720 --> 01:25:24.680
as it dries out. But I
totally agree. It drives me crazy when

1176
01:25:24.720 --> 01:25:27.640
I see my neighbors watering, you
know, every other day in the middle

1177
01:25:27.680 --> 01:25:30.079
of the day. It's like just
wasting water. Well, and it's not

1178
01:25:30.239 --> 01:25:33.640
quite it's not quite humid enough in
the Houston area, so we need to

1179
01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:39.079
all contribute to them, right,
Yeah, exactly, all right, thanks

1180
01:25:39.199 --> 01:25:42.039
if I really appreciate it, Thank
you, sir. I appreciate that very

1181
01:25:42.119 --> 01:25:45.159
much. Let's see, we're gonna
go talk to Rich in Spring, Texas.

1182
01:25:45.239 --> 01:25:51.239
Good morning, Rich, Good morning
Skip. I'm involved with the board

1183
01:25:51.640 --> 01:25:59.640
in a subdivision. We have a
landscaper that put in marigolds and the little

1184
01:26:00.000 --> 01:26:03.000
at Salvia's at the end of March. Okay, and now they're saying,

1185
01:26:03.199 --> 01:26:08.079
is hey, we got to change
that out for summer color. Okay.

1186
01:26:08.319 --> 01:26:13.720
Everything I know about merrigoals and Salvia's
seems to think that they would make it

1187
01:26:14.079 --> 01:26:17.680
through the uston summer. Yes,
online, I checked. It seems like

1188
01:26:18.000 --> 01:26:21.439
that's what they're saying that your opinion
is a yes. Also right, they

1189
01:26:21.520 --> 01:26:27.079
take the heat. But marigoles or
spider might magnets, So what can happen

1190
01:26:27.239 --> 01:26:30.000
in the summer If spider might show
up, they're going to turn them to

1191
01:26:30.079 --> 01:26:32.680
toast. So that would be one
reason at some point to switch them out.

1192
01:26:33.239 --> 01:26:36.359
But just the fact that it's summer
is not a reason to not have

1193
01:26:36.479 --> 01:26:40.279
mirigals. They can they can take
heat. There are other good summer color

1194
01:26:40.399 --> 01:26:43.760
plants, so maybe they just want
to change the color up a little bit.

1195
01:26:43.880 --> 01:26:45.399
But yes, they can take the
heat. No, they probably want

1196
01:26:45.399 --> 01:26:51.000
to make a thousand dollars. Ah
okay, well, I'm just telling you.

1197
01:26:51.239 --> 01:26:54.880
I mean, I'm telling your horticulturally
what it is, and then people

1198
01:26:54.960 --> 01:26:58.840
make the decision they want to make. I understand. I appreciate your opinion,

1199
01:26:58.920 --> 01:27:01.399
and we're going to keep the merry
goals till something happens bad then we'll

1200
01:27:01.479 --> 01:27:03.880
change him out, all right,
sir. And by the way, miracles

1201
01:27:04.600 --> 01:27:09.720
Miracles are a good one to come
back to in late August for a beautiful

1202
01:27:09.800 --> 01:27:13.840
fall show. Once we get into
fall, the spider might season goes down

1203
01:27:13.960 --> 01:27:16.079
and the miracles take off. So
good luck with that. I appreciate that

1204
01:27:16.199 --> 01:27:19.079
call very much. Hey, our
phone number seven one three two one two

1205
01:27:19.399 --> 01:27:23.159
fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh
a call. We'll talk to you after

1206
01:27:23.239 --> 01:27:42.119
break, remember, right and right, Well, good morning on a beautiful

1207
01:27:42.159 --> 01:27:45.000
Sunday morning outside. We are glad
you're listening to garden Line and looking forward

1208
01:27:45.039 --> 01:27:48.960
to talking to you. By the
way, if you are in the Tumball

1209
01:27:49.079 --> 01:27:53.760
area and haven't been by D and
D feed Supply, that's about three miles

1210
01:27:53.840 --> 01:27:57.399
west of Tumball on Highway two forty
ninths on the left there, you need

1211
01:27:57.520 --> 01:28:00.159
check it out. The Dover family
open D and D back in nineteen eighty

1212
01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:03.640
nine, and this summer they expanded
it got a lot more area. As

1213
01:28:03.640 --> 01:28:06.119
if they didn't already have enough great
product, they have a lot more.

1214
01:28:06.239 --> 01:28:10.680
Now. They're going to carry the
fertilizers that we talk about. They're going

1215
01:28:10.720 --> 01:28:15.720
to carry the soil type materials that
we talk about here. They even have

1216
01:28:15.840 --> 01:28:20.720
flats of vegetables and vegetable seed and
fruit trees and things like that quality dog

1217
01:28:20.800 --> 01:28:26.720
food Origin Diamond, Victor Star Pro. They're gonna you're gonna find the mosquito

1218
01:28:26.800 --> 01:28:30.800
dunks that we talk about here,
pest and road and control sections, and

1219
01:28:30.920 --> 01:28:34.239
of course all the stuff that you
would need and expect from a hardware storm.

1220
01:28:34.279 --> 01:28:38.439
Excuse me, a feed store that
is D and D feed and Supply

1221
01:28:38.640 --> 01:28:43.119
on FM twenty nine, twenty three
miles west of tom Ball on Highway Are

1222
01:28:43.319 --> 01:28:45.560
on Highway twenty nine, twenty three
miles west of two forty nine. There

1223
01:28:45.640 --> 01:28:48.600
we go. Well, you're listening
to garden Line. We have a special

1224
01:28:48.680 --> 01:28:53.199
gas coming up here. We have
been talking about mosquito dunks today, but

1225
01:28:53.239 --> 01:28:56.319
we weren't talk about a little bit
more. Now we are fortunate to have

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01:28:56.520 --> 01:29:01.479
Bill. Bill is from the Mosquito
Dunks from Responsible Solutions, and we're going

1227
01:29:01.520 --> 01:29:05.840
to discuss with Bill some of the
intricacies of the Mosquito dunks themselves. Hey

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01:29:05.960 --> 01:29:11.039
Bill, welcome to garden Line.
Hey, good morning, it's great to

1229
01:29:11.119 --> 01:29:15.000
have you here. It's great to
be here. Well, good I'm looking

1230
01:29:15.039 --> 01:29:18.720
forward to picking your brain a little
bit. So it's pretty exciting to have

1231
01:29:18.840 --> 01:29:24.279
a product that is just a win
win win without a downside to it.

1232
01:29:24.359 --> 01:29:28.720
And I think that's what you got
when you got Mosquito Dunks. Yeah,

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01:29:28.800 --> 01:29:34.199
I mean, that's nobody likes mosquitos, so hopefully we help everybody reduce their

1234
01:29:34.239 --> 01:29:40.840
mosquito population make things a little more
bearable outside of these humid, hot summer

1235
01:29:40.920 --> 01:29:44.319
days. Well, and you know, of course, we're down here in

1236
01:29:44.479 --> 01:29:48.119
Houston and Southeast Texas, and I'm
pretty sure that this is where mosquito is

1237
01:29:48.159 --> 01:29:51.640
even vacation. I bet they're mosquitoes
from Calcutta, India that get on the

1238
01:29:51.720 --> 01:29:56.000
plane to come to Houston for the
summer because it's such a lovely place to

1239
01:29:56.159 --> 01:30:00.920
be for them. But mosquitoes can
sure spoil the show. I was,

1240
01:30:00.079 --> 01:30:06.039
you know, noticing how many different
species of mosquitoes aren't can you can you

1241
01:30:06.079 --> 01:30:10.039
just kind of give us a little
bit of information on the foe that we're

1242
01:30:10.119 --> 01:30:15.520
up against and maybe how the mosquito
dunks work effectively to manage them. Sure,

1243
01:30:16.039 --> 01:30:21.119
well, I mean you're right about
Houston being one of the mosquito capitals

1244
01:30:21.119 --> 01:30:25.720
of the world. I mean that
the conditions are just perfect there. You

1245
01:30:26.199 --> 01:30:32.760
have the water, you have the
temperature, and mosquitos really don't need certain

1246
01:30:32.840 --> 01:30:38.760
species of mosquitos really don't need much
more than a thimbolful of water to be

1247
01:30:38.800 --> 01:30:44.039
able to reproduce that female laser eggs
and that little tiny capful of water,

1248
01:30:44.239 --> 01:30:48.479
and five or seven days later,
all of a sudden, you have hundreds

1249
01:30:48.600 --> 01:30:55.840
more adult mosquitos that are out looking
for a meal. Yeah. That's you

1250
01:30:55.920 --> 01:30:59.439
know, we from a gardening standpoint, we talk about the catch basins under

1251
01:30:59.479 --> 01:31:01.640
your plan, and I don't think
people realize. You know, when you

1252
01:31:01.960 --> 01:31:04.479
get a lot of rain or just
water a plant and someone runs out in

1253
01:31:04.479 --> 01:31:10.359
the catch basin, you I'll dump
that out this weekend or something. Well,

1254
01:31:10.640 --> 01:31:13.520
by this weekend, there's going to
be an egg has been laid,

1255
01:31:13.800 --> 01:31:16.239
a larva that's hatched out, and
probably a pupa and maybe when you go

1256
01:31:16.319 --> 01:31:19.399
to dump it out you get bent
by mosquito you didn't deal with right up

1257
01:31:19.479 --> 01:31:26.560
front. Yeah, and it really
the warmer, It is the faster that

1258
01:31:26.840 --> 01:31:32.000
life cycle will go. So four
to seven days from laying the eggs to

1259
01:31:32.079 --> 01:31:36.359
all of a sudden there's adult mosquitos. Yeah, it's easy to overlook.

1260
01:31:36.399 --> 01:31:41.760
You forget to empty that catch basin, and all of a sudden you have

1261
01:31:41.840 --> 01:31:45.960
a lot more unintended visitors. That
is true. And you know I'm aware

1262
01:31:45.000 --> 01:31:48.800
of this, I know better,
But just the other day I was out

1263
01:31:49.199 --> 01:31:55.760
in my garden and I walked past
a wheelbarrow and I had set a glass

1264
01:31:55.880 --> 01:31:59.199
that I was, you know,
red solo cup kind of thing that I've

1265
01:31:59.199 --> 01:32:01.359
been drinking out of it in there
and just't forgot it. It was sitting

1266
01:32:01.399 --> 01:32:04.279
in among some plants, and I
walk by and I look down in it

1267
01:32:04.439 --> 01:32:06.800
and there was standing water. And
I don't know how long that water had

1268
01:32:06.840 --> 01:32:11.479
been there, but even you know, I know better. You gotta go

1269
01:32:11.600 --> 01:32:14.399
around your yard. You gotta dump
out all the water that you can.

1270
01:32:14.479 --> 01:32:15.600
If you got a bird bath,
you wanted to get it out of there.

1271
01:32:15.960 --> 01:32:18.600
But when you don't, when you
have standing water, maybe a pond

1272
01:32:18.720 --> 01:32:21.399
or even a bird bath, your
mosquito dunks. And then you have the

1273
01:32:21.479 --> 01:32:28.279
other product to the granules, right
correct, Mosquito bits those little bits that

1274
01:32:28.920 --> 01:32:31.039
can cover a pretty big area,
like you a little swampy area. You

1275
01:32:31.079 --> 01:32:34.800
can scatter those out and they may
not last as long as a dunk,

1276
01:32:34.840 --> 01:32:39.399
I believe, but they will give
you a real quick when you're inundated with

1277
01:32:39.560 --> 01:32:43.680
larva. That's a real quick way
to get caught up right. Yeah,

1278
01:32:43.840 --> 01:32:47.079
Mosquito bits are like a quick kill. I mean we equate it to almost

1279
01:32:47.199 --> 01:32:50.920
using shock in a swimming pool.
You know, if you have all that

1280
01:32:51.079 --> 01:32:54.720
algae in a pool and you need
to get rid of it fast, you

1281
01:32:55.680 --> 01:33:00.119
throw the shock into the pool and
it takes care of it. Mosquito bits.

1282
01:33:00.159 --> 01:33:04.439
You throw that into the standing water
and all the mosquito larva in there

1283
01:33:04.520 --> 01:33:10.439
will be dead within twenty four hours. There you go. And the dunks,

1284
01:33:10.520 --> 01:33:13.319
now they think of that as a
little doughnut, for example, that

1285
01:33:13.399 --> 01:33:15.520
you would put out. But it
takes a while to fully dissolve away.

1286
01:33:15.560 --> 01:33:18.880
So what do you get about a
month out of that? Yeah, you'll

1287
01:33:18.920 --> 01:33:25.000
get thirty days or maybe even a
little longer depending on your weather, because

1288
01:33:25.119 --> 01:33:30.760
you're right, it does. It
does just slowly dissolve. So great for

1289
01:33:30.920 --> 01:33:34.319
ponds, Great for those areas of
standing water, rain barrels where you want

1290
01:33:34.319 --> 01:33:39.680
to keep the water but you still
don't want to deal with the mosquitoes.

1291
01:33:41.279 --> 01:33:45.199
Stock tanks, you know, animal
watering trough those are all great areas for

1292
01:33:45.319 --> 01:33:49.560
mosquito dunks. Because mosquito dunks won't
affect the animals, won't affect the pets,

1293
01:33:49.640 --> 01:33:56.119
won't affect the livestock. It's only
going to affect the mosquito larva well,

1294
01:33:56.159 --> 01:33:59.880
and and let's talk about why that
is. Because we're not talking about

1295
01:34:00.000 --> 01:34:04.640
out like a chemical pesticide here that
we're killing insects with. We're talking about

1296
01:34:04.680 --> 01:34:09.279
something different. So to get a
little nerdy here with us on what exactly

1297
01:34:09.520 --> 01:34:14.119
is in a mosquito dunk, okay, mosquito dunk. The active ingredient in

1298
01:34:14.199 --> 01:34:20.640
a mosquito dunk is a bacteria commonly
referred to as BTI. BTI stands for

1299
01:34:21.199 --> 01:34:29.199
the Pillus Denzi israeliensius, all right, and it's a natural, naturally occurring

1300
01:34:29.520 --> 01:34:35.439
soil borne bacteria that was actually discovered
a number of years ago in the desert

1301
01:34:35.520 --> 01:34:45.960
in Israel, which is it's reliansius
exactly exactly. An entomologist was doing some

1302
01:34:45.119 --> 01:34:50.239
research out there and happened to discover
a couple of little ponds of water,

1303
01:34:51.439 --> 01:34:55.920
shallow water out in the desert.
One of them was full of mosquito larva

1304
01:34:55.920 --> 01:35:00.560
and the other one wasn't. So
he piqued his curiosity and he he did

1305
01:35:00.680 --> 01:35:08.520
some testing and some analysis and discovered
this bacteria a bt and bts are fairly

1306
01:35:08.640 --> 01:35:12.800
common. I mean, there's another
common bt that most people know about,

1307
01:35:12.880 --> 01:35:17.079
bt K, which is used to
treat caterpillar insects. Yeah, so the

1308
01:35:17.199 --> 01:35:24.399
bts affect the larval stages of certain
insects, and they're really specific. So

1309
01:35:24.600 --> 01:35:29.960
in the case of BTI, it's
specific to an insect class called Diptera,

1310
01:35:30.640 --> 01:35:35.640
and that class includes mosquito larva,
fungus nat larva, black fly larva.

1311
01:35:36.840 --> 01:35:41.920
Well that is that is a good
description there. Yeah, we talk about

1312
01:35:41.960 --> 01:35:45.000
BT all the time in gardening,
and most time we just say BT for

1313
01:35:45.119 --> 01:35:46.880
caterpillars, and you know, that's
how people think of it. But as

1314
01:35:46.920 --> 01:35:51.479
you pointed out, the strains of
it, the israeliensis for your mosquitoes and

1315
01:35:51.560 --> 01:35:57.199
your fungal gnats for example, the
BTK, which is the caterpillar type,

1316
01:35:57.199 --> 01:36:00.039
and then we even have a BT
San Diego that we're on some beetles,

1317
01:36:00.119 --> 01:36:04.960
which is a very different, different
family of BT. But but your mosquito

1318
01:36:05.039 --> 01:36:11.039
dunks. The BTI really effective,
really natural. So I mean a ladybug

1319
01:36:11.159 --> 01:36:14.119
could go there and drink some water
and it wouldn't affect them at all.

1320
01:36:14.199 --> 01:36:17.439
I mean, it's very specific for
this past Yeah, yeah, honey bees,

1321
01:36:17.640 --> 01:36:21.920
all your beneficial insects, it's it's
harmless to them. That's great.

1322
01:36:23.239 --> 01:36:26.119
That is great. Well, I
was reading in some material that there are

1323
01:36:26.119 --> 01:36:30.600
about two thousand, five hundred species
of mosquitoes. That species. I know

1324
01:36:30.680 --> 01:36:32.760
I have two thousand, five hundred
mosquitoes when I walk out and sit down

1325
01:36:32.840 --> 01:36:39.199
on my patio. So it's nice
to know there's something to use to help

1326
01:36:39.319 --> 01:36:44.479
fight them so well. And it
does. It handles every single species of

1327
01:36:44.560 --> 01:36:47.960
mosquito. Everyone that is yep.
I mean when I said it's a win

1328
01:36:48.039 --> 01:36:51.439
win win. There are very few
times that I can say, well,

1329
01:36:51.479 --> 01:36:57.880
here's a product. It absolutely works
on in this case, every kind of

1330
01:36:57.920 --> 01:37:01.079
mosquito that you would have at this
marvel state. And it's not going to

1331
01:37:01.159 --> 01:37:05.000
hurt anything else. Kills mosquitoes,
don't kill anything else that you know that

1332
01:37:05.079 --> 01:37:08.680
you're out there. Of course we're
not, I know, fungal nuts,

1333
01:37:08.760 --> 01:37:11.119
but you know, basically all the
good bugs that are out there, and

1334
01:37:11.199 --> 01:37:14.600
the family pat drinking and the birds
stopping to get a little water out of

1335
01:37:14.640 --> 01:37:17.279
the bird bouth, it won't hurt
any of them. It's very rare to

1336
01:37:17.399 --> 01:37:24.399
find something that is pretty much all
upside, no downside. Oh absolutely,

1337
01:37:24.520 --> 01:37:29.560
I mean if there's a downside that
and some people don't quite understand. It

1338
01:37:29.680 --> 01:37:34.159
does not affect adult mosquitoes. Unfortunately, we don't. We don't have a

1339
01:37:34.319 --> 01:37:40.479
natural solution like the mosquito dunk for
the mosquito larva that kills the adults.

1340
01:37:40.560 --> 01:37:45.279
So you get out there and get
that adult or get that larval stage.

1341
01:37:45.960 --> 01:37:48.800
And we tell everybody, you know, before you treat anything, just like

1342
01:37:49.119 --> 01:37:54.159
you walk down and notice that that
cup of water in your wheelbarrow, take

1343
01:37:54.199 --> 01:37:58.000
an inventory of your yard. Look
around for any kind of area where there

1344
01:37:58.039 --> 01:38:02.079
could be any standing water whatsoever.
And you don't just look around on the

1345
01:38:02.199 --> 01:38:06.279
ground. You know. One of
the biggest culprits is rain gutters. Yes,

1346
01:38:08.239 --> 01:38:12.520
if you have a slightly plowed rain
gutter, you have a mosquito condominium.

1347
01:38:12.720 --> 01:38:15.319
And they love it. They love
stagnant water that's not moving, that

1348
01:38:15.439 --> 01:38:19.399
has decaying organic matter, and that
is just like mosquito heaven right there.

1349
01:38:19.920 --> 01:38:24.680
Yes, absolutely, that is true. That's good. Yeah, you're just

1350
01:38:24.800 --> 01:38:28.960
talking about another time, looking out
around and speaking to gardeners here, I

1351
01:38:29.119 --> 01:38:30.920
had had some putting sail, a
bag of potting soil, and I'd used

1352
01:38:30.920 --> 01:38:33.960
about two thirds of it and I
just sort of folded it over and you

1353
01:38:34.039 --> 01:38:39.039
know, pushed it down to come
back and work later. Walking through the

1354
01:38:39.119 --> 01:38:42.720
yard after a rain, there was
all this water that was sitting there in

1355
01:38:42.800 --> 01:38:45.359
the plastic, you know, caught
in the plastic of that bag of potting

1356
01:38:45.399 --> 01:38:49.159
soil up on top, and there's
another mosquito place for them to breed.

1357
01:38:49.239 --> 01:38:54.640
And I just pay attention to those
kind of things. He's easy to easy

1358
01:38:54.720 --> 01:38:57.520
to miss, isn't it. They
are definitely opportunities. Well, you know,

1359
01:38:57.640 --> 01:39:00.119
mosquitoes aren't just irritating us. I
mean they're they're one of the most

1360
01:39:00.159 --> 01:39:06.159
deadly insects that we have in the
world. Right well, there are more

1361
01:39:06.359 --> 01:39:12.880
deaths in the world caused by mosquitos
than any other animal. Well, now,

1362
01:39:12.960 --> 01:39:15.640
I just want that to soak in
for a minute. And you're thinking,

1363
01:39:15.680 --> 01:39:18.319
well, wall, non mosquito never
killed me. Well, malaria,

1364
01:39:18.880 --> 01:39:23.560
denga fever, yellow fever, westnell
virus. I mean there's probably more to

1365
01:39:23.680 --> 01:39:27.359
it than that. But I mean
those right there alone, that's a serious

1366
01:39:27.479 --> 01:39:31.520
thing. Oh it is. Yeah. Yeah, We're we're fortunate in the

1367
01:39:31.640 --> 01:39:39.239
United States where we have most homes
have air conditioning or at least windows screens,

1368
01:39:40.119 --> 01:39:45.319
things that we take for granted that
in other areas of the world they

1369
01:39:45.399 --> 01:39:48.640
don't have things like that, and
so they have mosquitoes in the house they

1370
01:39:48.680 --> 01:39:54.800
have mosquitoes everywhere it's and they don't
have mosquito dunks in a lot of cases.

1371
01:39:54.920 --> 01:40:00.439
So yeah, well that when you
think about historic the different you know,

1372
01:40:00.520 --> 01:40:04.680
like the when the Panama Canal was
dug, the amount of desks that

1373
01:40:04.800 --> 01:40:10.760
occurred just in that process because of
mosquitoes and the diseases they carry. It.

1374
01:40:11.239 --> 01:40:15.119
A product like this, I mean, it could literally change history.

1375
01:40:15.199 --> 01:40:17.720
And I'm not trying to say use
it in your backyard and it changes history.

1376
01:40:17.760 --> 01:40:21.680
I'm just saying that I wish we
had this. Well, it'll it'll

1377
01:40:21.760 --> 01:40:26.800
change the history of your patio gatherings. Friends will actually want to come over

1378
01:40:27.439 --> 01:40:30.720
instead. But you know, you
know what I'm saying. You know.

1379
01:40:30.800 --> 01:40:32.640
One of the interesting things though,
this is just a fun fact of mosquitoes

1380
01:40:32.680 --> 01:40:36.680
that that I heard the other day. Uh, it's the female mosquito that

1381
01:40:36.960 --> 01:40:42.399
causes us the trouble that the male
actually like drinks a little bit of nectar

1382
01:40:42.560 --> 01:40:45.279
or something like that and is not
the one that wights us. Is that

1383
01:40:45.399 --> 01:40:51.079
correct? Well, both both males
and females are nectar feeders and um and

1384
01:40:51.760 --> 01:40:57.600
believe it or not, they are
pollinators. You know. They go from

1385
01:40:57.680 --> 01:41:02.239
flower to flower just like a honeybeed. Okay, but but, but,

1386
01:41:03.079 --> 01:41:10.640
but the female mosquito in order to
reproduce, in order to have eggs,

1387
01:41:10.880 --> 01:41:14.279
to be able to drop eggs,
she must take a blood meal. So

1388
01:41:14.439 --> 01:41:17.119
a blood meal can be from you
and me, or your dog or your

1389
01:41:17.199 --> 01:41:23.119
horse or you know, a bird. Yeah, but they need that protein

1390
01:41:23.319 --> 01:41:28.479
from the blood as part of the
whole reproductive process of mosquitoes. So the

1391
01:41:28.560 --> 01:41:32.319
males don't bite, are females bite
and they do that to get the blood

1392
01:41:32.359 --> 01:41:34.920
meal. Well, hey, Bill, thank you so much for being on.

1393
01:41:35.000 --> 01:41:38.319
I'm against a hard break here.
I'm gonna put you on holes so

1394
01:41:38.479 --> 01:41:41.039
Josh can get you back on.
But thank you so much. I really

1395
01:41:41.079 --> 01:41:59.640
appreciate you coming on. We welcome
back to garden Line. You are listening

1396
01:41:59.760 --> 01:42:04.119
to the Gardening Show for your gardening
questions, and we are visiting with Bill

1397
01:42:04.640 --> 01:42:11.079
from the Mosquito Dunks Company actually summit
responsible solutions this morning. Bill, thanks

1398
01:42:11.119 --> 01:42:13.600
for coming back just a little bit. I just wanted to see if if

1399
01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:17.359
you had any additional thoughts or comments
or anything we didn't cover that you know

1400
01:42:17.520 --> 01:42:27.039
that you think is worth also mentioning
um. Well again, I would suggest

1401
01:42:27.159 --> 01:42:30.159
that your audience, you know we're
talking about standing water, and you know

1402
01:42:30.199 --> 01:42:35.479
we talked about areas of standing water, and you know, those mosquitoes are

1403
01:42:35.520 --> 01:42:40.680
tricky. I mean they will find
the smallest little bit of standing water.

1404
01:42:42.600 --> 01:42:47.520
You only need a symbolful and out
of sight, out of mind rain gutters,

1405
01:42:49.279 --> 01:42:55.439
drainage from a house. I see
it frequently where people use those corrugated

1406
01:42:55.479 --> 01:43:00.560
black pipes to draw water away from
their house. But those cor asians are

1407
01:43:00.600 --> 01:43:03.680
all about a half in steep if
you look on the interior of the pipe,

1408
01:43:03.720 --> 01:43:08.039
and that's just a great place at
the end of the pipe for those

1409
01:43:08.159 --> 01:43:14.079
mosquitoes to breed. It is they
are. They are very resourceful, unfortunately,

1410
01:43:14.119 --> 01:43:16.359
aren't they. Yeah, you're you're
right about that. It takes an

1411
01:43:16.439 --> 01:43:20.680
effort to not be a mosquito breeder. Uh you know in this kind of

1412
01:43:21.039 --> 01:43:25.319
well if we say skeeter breeder,
uh done in this is part of the

1413
01:43:25.399 --> 01:43:28.880
country. Well, I can tell
you this, in the greater Houston area,

1414
01:43:29.199 --> 01:43:31.920
you would be hard pressed to throw
a rock and not hit a business

1415
01:43:32.000 --> 01:43:36.079
that carries mosquito dunks. I mean, our our favorite feet stores that we

1416
01:43:36.159 --> 01:43:41.199
talk about here are Ace Hardware Stores, thirty nine up mo Runtown, all

1417
01:43:41.239 --> 01:43:44.600
our home and garden centers that we
talk about, the mom and pops that

1418
01:43:44.800 --> 01:43:47.359
really know what they're doing. Everybody's
got mosquito dunks in them, so people

1419
01:43:47.399 --> 01:43:53.000
will not have trouble finding those products, that's for sure. Well, we

1420
01:43:53.079 --> 01:43:58.199
appreciate that. Well, I I
appreciate you coming on and being able to

1421
01:43:58.600 --> 01:44:01.840
visit with you a little bit about
my You know, I think that we

1422
01:44:01.960 --> 01:44:05.720
sort of take mosquitoes for granted as
is just well, they're here and you've

1423
01:44:05.720 --> 01:44:10.399
got to you know, you just
have to put on deet or something to

1424
01:44:10.479 --> 01:44:14.159
keep them off of you. But
really there is a lot that we can

1425
01:44:14.239 --> 01:44:17.800
do too to avoid that kind of
problem. And you know, it would

1426
01:44:17.840 --> 01:44:23.119
make me really happy to know that
I'm breaking a lot of mosquito hearts by

1427
01:44:23.199 --> 01:44:28.399
not giving them a free blood meal, for sure. Well it's it's it's

1428
01:44:28.479 --> 01:44:31.279
important too to get your neighbors involved, because you can, you can be

1429
01:44:31.479 --> 01:44:36.800
as diligent as possible in your own
property, but if the selling nextor is

1430
01:44:38.359 --> 01:44:44.159
not doing his part, those mosquitoes
will fly. They don't recognize borders.

1431
01:44:44.399 --> 01:44:47.600
No, that's true. And you
know one thing we haven't talked about here

1432
01:44:47.680 --> 01:44:54.600
on the Gulf Coast heartworms, which
literally are deadly for our pets. Our

1433
01:44:54.680 --> 01:45:00.720
dogs are very prevalent and heartworms come
through mosquito bites, and so it's not

1434
01:45:00.920 --> 01:45:04.640
just a matter of your convenience sitting
on the patio. It's it's a life

1435
01:45:04.680 --> 01:45:09.159
and death thing for dogs too.
We have to we have to give our

1436
01:45:09.199 --> 01:45:13.520
dogs constant treatments for heartworms on the
Gulf Coast because they're so so bad and

1437
01:45:13.640 --> 01:45:16.960
so deadly. And again, just
another reason to have a few less mosquitoes

1438
01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:21.039
around. Oh absolutely, yeah.
Well good, Well, hey Bill,

1439
01:45:21.079 --> 01:45:24.880
thanks so much. I appreciate you
coming on taking time out of your day.

1440
01:45:25.439 --> 01:45:28.399
It's been good to talk to you
and enlightening. Uh, and I

1441
01:45:28.800 --> 01:45:30.000
think we got a lot of folks
that are ready to go out there and

1442
01:45:31.199 --> 01:45:35.279
make this summer a very disappointing one
for the mosquitoes the greater Houston area.

1443
01:45:36.399 --> 01:45:40.840
Well, Skip, it's been a
pleasure. And if any of your listeners

1444
01:45:41.039 --> 01:45:45.079
want further information, they can always
email us or call us or go to

1445
01:45:45.159 --> 01:45:49.600
our website and pick up some more
information there. Okay, and that is

1446
01:45:50.199 --> 01:45:56.359
uh, Summit Responsible Solutions, Am
I right? Responsible solutions dot Com?

1447
01:45:56.800 --> 01:46:00.960
Is that that correct? Yes?
Okay, Summit Responsible Solutions dot Com.

1448
01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:04.680
Well, thanks again, met a
pleasure speaking with you and wish you the

1449
01:46:04.720 --> 01:46:11.039
best. Well, thanks so much, skid all right bye bye. Oh

1450
01:46:11.119 --> 01:46:15.199
my goodness, mosquitoes. Wow,
what a topic, what an issue to

1451
01:46:15.279 --> 01:46:18.640
be dealing with. You know,
yesterday I was visiting with Paula from the

1452
01:46:18.760 --> 01:46:24.560
Plumaria Society, and we were talking
about plumarius, of course, and I

1453
01:46:24.760 --> 01:46:30.720
was looking at Buchanans newsletter. They
Buchanans Native Plants, which is on East

1454
01:46:30.800 --> 01:46:33.279
eleven Street in the Heights. If
you if you want to see their newsletter,

1455
01:46:33.319 --> 01:46:36.439
you can go to Buchanans Plants dot
com and sign up for it.

1456
01:46:36.880 --> 01:46:43.520
But in their weekly newsletter they have
some plumarias and they have one called jungle

1457
01:46:43.680 --> 01:46:46.920
Jack's Plumaria And when I look at
it, it looks like you ought to

1458
01:46:47.000 --> 01:46:49.760
be able to eat the thing.
I mean, it's like sherbet ice creams,

1459
01:46:49.800 --> 01:46:55.800
like pink and coral and yellow and
cream colored, and it is just

1460
01:46:56.239 --> 01:47:00.199
gorgeous as our most plumarias. But
that's one that they have on stock right

1461
01:47:00.239 --> 01:47:03.079
now. So if you were interested
in the plume areas that we talked about,

1462
01:47:03.159 --> 01:47:06.039
well, Buchanan's among all the other
things they carry. You know,

1463
01:47:06.119 --> 01:47:11.359
they're a leader in carrying native plants. That's one thing they specialize in.

1464
01:47:11.640 --> 01:47:15.000
They even have a table where,
you know, not just Texas native plants,

1465
01:47:15.000 --> 01:47:19.399
they have one table or more that
is just Houston slash Harris County natives.

1466
01:47:19.479 --> 01:47:23.920
Things that are native. Right here
is that we have a lot of

1467
01:47:23.960 --> 01:47:28.680
other great native plants around the region. But this just shows you how committed

1468
01:47:28.720 --> 01:47:30.239
they are to native plants. But
boy, if you need you need a

1469
01:47:30.279 --> 01:47:34.560
beautiful plume area, go by there
and tell them you heard about the jungle

1470
01:47:34.720 --> 01:47:39.279
Jack's plumeria on Garden Line and you
got to see that thing, and I

1471
01:47:39.359 --> 01:47:42.199
think you'll see what I'm talking about. Oh my gosh, it is just

1472
01:47:42.520 --> 01:47:47.359
absolutely beautiful. That's Buchanan's Plants dot
Com. Our phone number seven one three

1473
01:47:47.479 --> 01:47:50.680
two one two five eight seven four. If you want to give Josh a

1474
01:47:50.760 --> 01:47:54.920
call, he'll get you on the
board. I'm glad to visit with you

1475
01:47:55.119 --> 01:47:59.760
about the things that are of interest
to you. You know, we're inning

1476
01:47:59.800 --> 01:48:02.840
that summer season, and certainly it's
mosquito season, but it's also coming up

1477
01:48:02.960 --> 01:48:06.680
on hurricane season, and when we
think about the value of a tree to

1478
01:48:06.760 --> 01:48:12.680
the landscape, hurricane preparedness is very
important in our landscapes. Do you need

1479
01:48:12.760 --> 01:48:15.159
tree limbs removed, do you need
the roofline cleaned, Or there's some dead

1480
01:48:15.159 --> 01:48:18.319
trees that just need to come down
because they are going to fall apart when

1481
01:48:18.319 --> 01:48:21.720
the next storm hits, or their
limbs over your roof or in your neighbor's

1482
01:48:21.840 --> 01:48:24.800
roof, or maybe you've got a
power line, you know, one of

1483
01:48:24.840 --> 01:48:28.680
those lines coming into your property to
your house where the trees are overhanging.

1484
01:48:29.239 --> 01:48:35.640
Affordable Tree Service Afftree Service dot com
is a professional worth calling. They know

1485
01:48:35.760 --> 01:48:39.279
what they're talking about. You can
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1486
01:48:39.720 --> 01:48:44.439
six nine nine two six sixty three. Seven one three six nine nine two

1487
01:48:44.600 --> 01:48:47.920
six sixty three. Martin or his
wife will answer. They will come out,

1488
01:48:47.960 --> 01:48:51.800
they'll do consultations. They'll do every
kind of treecare you might need,

1489
01:48:51.880 --> 01:48:58.640
including preparing for hurricane season. Affordable
Tree Service we'll be right back after break

1490
01:48:58.960 --> 01:49:01.600
mo see out there on The calls
are on the on the board. Anyone

1491
01:49:01.680 --> 01:49:05.640
else wants to get online seven one
three, two one two five eight seven

1492
01:49:05.760 --> 01:49:28.079
four for well, welcome back to
garden Line. You are listening to Skip

1493
01:49:28.199 --> 01:49:31.199
Richter on garden Line and we are
here to answer your gardening questions. Seven

1494
01:49:31.279 --> 01:49:34.560
one three, two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Let's start off by

1495
01:49:34.600 --> 01:49:38.960
going to Missouri City and we are
going to talk to Paul. Hello,

1496
01:49:39.079 --> 01:49:43.359
Paul, Yeah, yeah, good
morning. Ask it. Hey. I've

1497
01:49:43.399 --> 01:49:49.720
got a question regarding a loan fertilization. I'm looking at the early summer feeding

1498
01:49:50.319 --> 01:49:58.000
and my concern is putting down a
synthetic fertilizer where possibly we may have ninety

1499
01:49:58.359 --> 01:50:04.119
plus degree temperatures, strong sun,
not to burn the lawn. If you

1500
01:50:04.479 --> 01:50:08.359
put them down at the recommended rate, you're not going to burn the lawn.

1501
01:50:08.960 --> 01:50:12.640
Uh. Some of those products,
you know we were talking earlier about

1502
01:50:13.680 --> 01:50:16.279
the Nelson's products twenty two percent nitrogen. Well, that's only five pounds per

1503
01:50:16.439 --> 01:50:20.520
thousand square feet that you're putting out. So I mean you dump a whole

1504
01:50:20.520 --> 01:50:24.239
bunch of salt based fertilizer in one
spot, Yes, you will burn the

1505
01:50:24.319 --> 01:50:27.479
lawn. But now yeah, okay, well not when you use it at

1506
01:50:27.479 --> 01:50:30.159
the right rate. Now, if
you want to use synthetic of units organic,

1507
01:50:30.239 --> 01:50:31.920
that's your choice. You can.
You can go either way. But

1508
01:50:32.159 --> 01:50:34.359
at the rate when you put out
at the right rate, you're not going

1509
01:50:34.439 --> 01:50:42.840
to burn. All right, great, Well, and another question regarding asamite

1510
01:50:43.279 --> 01:50:46.279
or as amite, yes, um
can I can I put that down at

1511
01:50:46.560 --> 01:50:50.359
any time like in August on one
hundred degree day or yes you can.

1512
01:50:50.720 --> 01:50:56.199
It is not salt based at all. And with asamite, Uh, what

1513
01:50:56.439 --> 01:51:00.000
we're doing is we're adding those micros, those those things that are essential,

1514
01:51:00.079 --> 01:51:03.720
but they're needing very very small amounts, but they are essential to have.

1515
01:51:04.399 --> 01:51:09.479
And so anytime you want to supplement
your soil with that, whether it's a

1516
01:51:09.560 --> 01:51:13.800
lawn or a vegetable garden or whatever, it's okay. I like to think

1517
01:51:13.880 --> 01:51:17.199
of it not as fertilizer, although
yes, it's nutrients that plants take up,

1518
01:51:17.640 --> 01:51:21.279
but when we think of fertilizer,
we're usually thinking about things with those

1519
01:51:21.359 --> 01:51:26.359
three numbers on the bag that you
need in large amounts. This is more

1520
01:51:26.520 --> 01:51:30.039
of a think of it as a
soil building product. Again, yes,

1521
01:51:30.159 --> 01:51:34.560
it is nutrients and many of which
are essential for the plant, but so

1522
01:51:34.760 --> 01:51:40.119
you can do it at any time. With the regular quote fertilizers, we're

1523
01:51:40.159 --> 01:51:44.560
putting them on with plenty of nitrogen
and them usually to boost growth to get

1524
01:51:44.600 --> 01:51:48.840
that grass growing and green and pretty. And this is more to support that

1525
01:51:49.039 --> 01:51:54.000
growth, to make sure that the
plant is not lacking for anything that it

1526
01:51:54.119 --> 01:52:01.079
needs. Okay, is a natural
force edic or an organic fertilize? They

1527
01:52:01.119 --> 01:52:05.520
sell both. They had both,
they had both types of fertilizer. Yeah,

1528
01:52:06.399 --> 01:52:10.079
yeah, okay, okay, Well
listen, thank you so much.

1529
01:52:10.119 --> 01:52:13.840
I really appreciate your your knowledge.
Yeah, okay. Are you interested and

1530
01:52:14.000 --> 01:52:15.640
more of an organic? It sounds
like you might be. Is that is

1531
01:52:15.680 --> 01:52:18.199
that where you're going? Well,
you know, honestly, I tried to

1532
01:52:18.239 --> 01:52:21.520
go go organic a couple of years
ago, and then I got hit with

1533
01:52:21.720 --> 01:52:27.760
a dollar spot in brown Patch,
and and I guess I didn't want to

1534
01:52:27.840 --> 01:52:35.039
pay the fief to have the whole
yard with composts, Okay, so I

1535
01:52:35.199 --> 01:52:41.760
just killed it with you know,
a synthetic okay killer. Yeah. Well,

1536
01:52:41.880 --> 01:52:45.279
when it comes to fertilizers, uh, it's not whether it's synthetic organic

1537
01:52:45.359 --> 01:52:48.680
that's going to create a disease problem. It's how fast is it releasing?

1538
01:52:48.920 --> 01:52:53.680
How much are you putting out there? That's that would be the thing where

1539
01:52:53.720 --> 01:52:57.039
the large patch we used to call
it brown patch and the winner, Yes,

1540
01:52:57.399 --> 01:53:00.520
extra nitrogen more than you should be
applying and can contribute to that.

1541
01:53:00.800 --> 01:53:04.960
But a good synthetic, a good
organic used at the right rate at the

1542
01:53:05.079 --> 01:53:09.279
right timing. You know, not
too much at one time that you're not

1543
01:53:09.359 --> 01:53:12.199
going to have that problem. But
if you're into you know, if you're

1544
01:53:12.239 --> 01:53:15.319
interested, like in an organic something
that would give you a quicker green up,

1545
01:53:15.479 --> 01:53:16.800
you could go with something like a
has to Grow. The has to

1546
01:53:16.880 --> 01:53:20.399
Grow has the twelve for eight.
I use that on my lawn this spring

1547
01:53:20.520 --> 01:53:24.720
to get a good quick green up, and you just hook it up to

1548
01:53:24.800 --> 01:53:27.079
a little it's a court jar.
You hook it up to your hose.

1549
01:53:27.399 --> 01:53:30.119
It takes about ten minutes to do
the lawn, most average sized lawns,

1550
01:53:30.800 --> 01:53:34.880
and it gives you the medina cell
activator and the nutrients in it certainly,

1551
01:53:34.960 --> 01:53:39.800
and then the humate liquid humus is
also in there, and I found it

1552
01:53:40.000 --> 01:53:43.399
gave a good quick greenup. Typically
when we get into the summer season,

1553
01:53:43.600 --> 01:53:45.880
we're starting to think about a longer
term, a gradual and that's where we

1554
01:53:45.960 --> 01:53:50.439
go to the slow releases. So
you have options out here, but I

1555
01:53:50.840 --> 01:53:56.000
you know that if you if you
need a little quick boost on your lawn,

1556
01:53:56.359 --> 01:54:00.520
I would consider the has to Grow
liquid also is another good option for

1557
01:54:00.640 --> 01:54:03.039
that, Okay, but it has
to Grow is more like early spring.

1558
01:54:03.199 --> 01:54:06.960
It wouldn't be now, normally we
use that an early spring is a quick

1559
01:54:08.039 --> 01:54:12.560
green up, but you can use
it at any point in time that you

1560
01:54:12.680 --> 01:54:16.000
want a good quick response. Okay, okay, there are a lot of

1561
01:54:16.079 --> 01:54:19.840
quality fertilizers out there that we just
have to understand how they work and with

1562
01:54:19.960 --> 01:54:24.640
a has to grow that's a liquid
feed, and liquid feeds give you a

1563
01:54:24.720 --> 01:54:28.600
quick response. They're not going to
go for months and months and months.

1564
01:54:28.800 --> 01:54:32.239
Now. Returning your clippings takes what
you just put on in a liquid feed

1565
01:54:32.359 --> 01:54:38.319
that's now grown and become grass clippings, and it returns them and they recycle

1566
01:54:38.399 --> 01:54:42.119
and they'll feed over time. But
that's true with any fertilizer, your clippings.

1567
01:54:42.600 --> 01:54:45.399
When you have grown clippings with fertilizer
you purchased, you need to put

1568
01:54:45.439 --> 01:54:49.439
those clippings back in the lawn.
Otherwise you're just renting the fertilizer you just

1569
01:54:50.079 --> 01:54:56.319
applied. If you even get rid
of them, that's just renting fertilizer.

1570
01:54:57.159 --> 01:55:02.199
Yeah. I just started doing that
multiing business myself. Always for years a

1571
01:55:02.359 --> 01:55:06.760
bad yeah, but you mentioned,
you mentioned it back weeks ago, and

1572
01:55:08.039 --> 01:55:10.159
now I'm doing it. Well.
Good glad to hear that. Well,

1573
01:55:10.199 --> 01:55:12.760
Hey, thank you so much for
the call. I appreciate that. Paul.

1574
01:55:13.760 --> 01:55:15.560
Okay, thank you. Take care. We're going to head out to

1575
01:55:15.680 --> 01:55:20.079
Spring now and talk to Mo.
Hello, Mo, Hi, how you

1576
01:55:20.199 --> 01:55:24.239
do? I'm well, I'm well, what can we do today? The

1577
01:55:24.319 --> 01:55:30.520
mosquito dunks? Can I put them
around my organic beds where I have my

1578
01:55:30.760 --> 01:55:33.720
vegetables and stuff? Well, you
can, but you're putting the mosquito dunks

1579
01:55:34.039 --> 01:55:39.760
where there's standing water. You're not
just putting them in the soil there around

1580
01:55:39.920 --> 01:55:44.880
the base those big beds. Yeah, so I could do that a way

1581
01:55:45.039 --> 01:55:47.239
where you have standing water, you
can use mosquito dunks, or you can

1582
01:55:47.399 --> 01:55:53.520
use the granule the form that they
have, the small granules and that you

1583
01:55:53.600 --> 01:55:57.039
know, if that the granules we
typically would use, Like if I had

1584
01:55:57.159 --> 01:56:00.920
some maybe a catch basin under some
plants and I'm going to get able to

1585
01:56:00.119 --> 01:56:03.520
empty it, I might throw a
few granules in there. Uh, you

1586
01:56:03.560 --> 01:56:06.479
know, getting a big, a
big donut dunk in there might not be

1587
01:56:06.600 --> 01:56:11.479
practical. So the granules would work
for that. But the dunksters where if

1588
01:56:11.520 --> 01:56:15.840
you have water standing, you know, some sort of quantity of water standing.

1589
01:56:16.159 --> 01:56:21.680
What but my neighbor next door is
a big quality is standing. Yeah,

1590
01:56:21.960 --> 01:56:25.399
well, maybe you just need to
chunk one over the fence at night

1591
01:56:25.479 --> 01:56:27.760
if you can. If you hear
a splash and land in the water,

1592
01:56:27.920 --> 01:56:32.840
you know you've done some good.
Well the way his wife changed his plants

1593
01:56:32.880 --> 01:56:36.560
and trees around so much, I
don't know. Oh yeah, you're the

1594
01:56:36.600 --> 01:56:39.720
one. They're the ones that put
out the free plants for you at the

1595
01:56:39.760 --> 01:56:45.880
curbside, right, oh fourteen the
pine tree she just bought and she didn't

1596
01:56:45.880 --> 01:56:55.399
like them. I'm speechless, speechless, but we had fun put all right,

1597
01:56:55.439 --> 01:57:00.880
well, all right, well,
continue didn't have fun with that.

1598
01:57:00.000 --> 01:57:02.840
Well, I'm just trying to make
him laugh a little today, But thank

1599
01:57:02.880 --> 01:57:06.880
you Sam. If it's standing water, real bad standing, where I can

1600
01:57:06.960 --> 01:57:11.520
put the big dunks and bigger dunks. Yes, If it's just like a

1601
01:57:11.560 --> 01:57:15.399
little around like a party plant,
ye put off. If it's yeah,

1602
01:57:15.560 --> 01:57:18.439
that's that's what That's how I would
do it down in the in the catch

1603
01:57:18.520 --> 01:57:21.479
basin. If if there's going to
be standing water there, Now that one

1604
01:57:21.600 --> 01:57:26.640
dunk covers about a ten by ten
area, that's all you need is one

1605
01:57:26.720 --> 01:57:28.960
dunk for a ten by ten.
If it's bigger than that, put another

1606
01:57:29.039 --> 01:57:31.439
dunk in. But spread them out
a little bit because they dissolve and the

1607
01:57:31.960 --> 01:57:38.319
the bacteria in them is what goes
out in the water and kills those mosquito

1608
01:57:38.439 --> 01:57:42.159
larva. Yeah, and she has
her dog. It likes to sleep up

1609
01:57:42.199 --> 01:57:45.640
there by hers, so I'm afraid
with dog getting heart worms. So there

1610
01:57:45.720 --> 01:57:48.880
you go. I'll put some around
on her, a little dishes up there.

1611
01:57:51.079 --> 01:57:55.760
That sounds good. Thank you so
much for that call. Good morning,

1612
01:57:55.880 --> 01:57:59.039
Steed, and have a good afternoon
you too, and a good rest

1613
01:57:59.079 --> 01:58:03.600
of next week as well. I
tell you, it's always fun talking to

1614
01:58:03.680 --> 01:58:06.279
people. I'm amazed at people that
you know, like buy a plant and

1615
01:58:06.319 --> 01:58:09.359
don't like it and put it at
the curb that I don't get that.

1616
01:58:09.840 --> 01:58:13.039
It seems like that there's a way
to avoid that one. But anyway,

1617
01:58:13.119 --> 01:58:17.359
that's what happens. If you're looking
at your landscape and you just are feeling

1618
01:58:17.479 --> 01:58:20.239
like I need to do something new, I need to do something different,

1619
01:58:20.279 --> 01:58:24.119
and need some advice, that's why
we're here. If you're looking at your

1620
01:58:24.159 --> 01:58:27.039
garden and you're wondering about what would
be some good vegetables for the heat,

1621
01:58:27.399 --> 01:58:30.640
that's why we're here. You can
give us a call seven one three two

1622
01:58:30.720 --> 01:58:35.039
one two five eight seven, four
seven one three two one two KTRH Josh,

1623
01:58:35.039 --> 01:58:36.840
You'll get you on the board.
All you need to tell them is

1624
01:58:36.840 --> 01:58:41.079
your name, where you live,
and a word or two about what your

1625
01:58:41.159 --> 01:58:45.199
questions about. Don't go into get
great detail that he's not going to answer

1626
01:58:45.239 --> 01:58:46.920
your questions. Just tell them what
you need. He'll get it on the

1627
01:58:46.960 --> 01:58:50.319
board. And when we come back
from break, you'll be the first stop

1628
01:58:50.520 --> 01:58:56.000
as we begin to enter hour now
last hour for the weekend. Just want

1629
01:58:56.000 --> 01:58:59.600
to remind you next Saturday, June
tenth, I will be at the wild

1630
01:58:59.680 --> 01:59:04.640
Bird It's unlimited in Kingwood in Kingwood
from eleven thirty to one thirty. We

1631
01:59:04.720 --> 01:59:11.479
got some great giveaways. They're giving
away some really good quality products and I'll

1632
01:59:11.520 --> 01:59:14.760
be giving away some fertilizers as well
out there, So I hope you can

1633
01:59:14.840 --> 01:59:17.960
make it out and see us.
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

1634
01:59:18.000 --> 01:59:25.560
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to KTRH Guarden Line

1635
01:59:25.840 --> 01:59:44.359
with Scarre Rictord. Just watching well, good morning, have a good Sunday

1636
01:59:44.439 --> 01:59:46.600
today going on today. I'm looking
at the weather. I'm enjoying it out

1637
01:59:46.640 --> 01:59:49.880
there and I think you will too. Starting to cloud up just a little

1638
01:59:49.920 --> 01:59:54.760
bit more, but still nice temperatures. By the way, that's a good

1639
01:59:54.760 --> 01:59:57.920
thing about clouds is it kind of
gives a little bit of break from the

1640
01:59:58.000 --> 02:00:02.720
heat as we start to enter that
hot summer season. I'm going to head

1641
02:00:02.760 --> 02:00:08.039
out to Tumble and we're going to
talk to Emily this morning. Good morning,

1642
02:00:08.079 --> 02:00:13.840
Emily, Good morning. How can
we help? I have bermuda that

1643
02:00:14.000 --> 02:00:19.680
has invaded my Saint Augustine, and
I'm wondering if poisoning the whole yard versus

1644
02:00:19.760 --> 02:00:25.760
putting a tarp over it, or
what would be the best way to approach

1645
02:00:25.880 --> 02:00:29.640
that. You know, I think
you're going to have to use something that

1646
02:00:29.760 --> 02:00:33.000
kills grass on the whole yard.
If you do the tarp will it will

1647
02:00:33.079 --> 02:00:36.359
kill it back? And you can
kill bermuda by keeping it tarped for a

1648
02:00:36.640 --> 02:00:42.000
very long time, but that's not
practical for your home lawn, and the

1649
02:00:42.079 --> 02:00:45.880
homeowners association might not be happy with
that if you have one on edition.

1650
02:00:45.279 --> 02:00:49.079
But the Saint Augustine will be killed, but the bermuda underground will have some

1651
02:00:49.279 --> 02:00:53.600
ability to reach sprout, so I
think you'd probably have the opposite effect to

1652
02:00:53.680 --> 02:00:58.680
tarp it. But if you can
target the areas where the bermuda is hopefully

1653
02:00:58.720 --> 02:01:03.279
it's not everywhere, but in anyway
the grass killer and then give it a

1654
02:01:03.399 --> 02:01:06.520
couple of weeks and just kind of
watch because you won't get at all in

1655
02:01:06.600 --> 02:01:10.840
the first treatment. You will get
all the Saint Augustine, but you won't

1656
02:01:10.840 --> 02:01:14.119
get all the bermuda, and when
it reached sprouts, you may have to

1657
02:01:14.199 --> 02:01:16.239
hit it again. And then once
you've knocked it out, then you can

1658
02:01:16.279 --> 02:01:20.760
go back in with your Saint Augustine. Okay, I was wondering about the

1659
02:01:20.880 --> 02:01:26.479
timing of it with a hot summer
coming up. In the Saint Augustine replanting,

1660
02:01:27.560 --> 02:01:30.920
you can replant Saint Augustine all through
the summer, and so if you

1661
02:01:30.960 --> 02:01:32.319
want to go ahead and get it
done now, that would probably be good.

1662
02:01:33.439 --> 02:01:39.039
The Bermuda and Saint Augustine are very
actively growing, and when you're going

1663
02:01:39.119 --> 02:01:45.079
to use any kind of a grass
killer on that lawn, it's best if

1664
02:01:45.119 --> 02:01:47.960
it's actively growing. Yeah. I
mean, you know you've you've heard of

1665
02:01:48.000 --> 02:01:53.239
products like roundup to kill everything.
Well, you golf courses sometimes will spray

1666
02:01:53.800 --> 02:01:58.239
the equivalent of Roundup on the grass
in the winter time to kill the winter

1667
02:01:58.359 --> 02:02:02.039
weeds and the bermuda so mormant that
it doesn't really kill it. And so

1668
02:02:02.399 --> 02:02:06.039
that's why we want to use those
products when it's actively growing, if we

1669
02:02:06.119 --> 02:02:10.720
want to have effect. And there's
there's that, and then there's the grass

1670
02:02:10.920 --> 02:02:15.199
only killers. There's more than one
ingredient that just kills grass and didn't kill

1671
02:02:15.239 --> 02:02:17.640
broad leaves, and so you just
have to kind of look at what you

1672
02:02:17.720 --> 02:02:19.840
got. I've got a bunch of
broad leaf weeds. You may want something

1673
02:02:19.880 --> 02:02:26.640
that gets at all. Okay,
what about soil remediation. After putting down

1674
02:02:26.680 --> 02:02:30.760
all that poises, there's no need
to You can spray those things. Let

1675
02:02:30.840 --> 02:02:35.279
them give them at least a week
or two to get in there and get

1676
02:02:35.640 --> 02:02:40.359
get their work going and done before
you mess with anything. Like I said,

1677
02:02:40.479 --> 02:02:43.399
in this case, because you really
want to know you got rid of

1678
02:02:43.479 --> 02:02:45.920
it, I would give them longer. See if you can get some re

1679
02:02:46.039 --> 02:02:51.199
sprouting and then hit it again.
But once you've done that, it contacts

1680
02:02:51.239 --> 02:02:55.279
the soil. The soil breaks them
down, and you can put grass and

1681
02:02:55.399 --> 02:02:58.000
things down and you're not going to
be bothered. It's not going to be

1682
02:02:58.119 --> 02:03:04.640
hanging around. There are products that
you know they kill vegetation and they keep

1683
02:03:04.760 --> 02:03:09.840
killing vegetation. You can't plant something
there. Again, that's not the case

1684
02:03:09.960 --> 02:03:15.520
with the grass only killers. Okay, what about the use of asamite?

1685
02:03:15.640 --> 02:03:18.199
Would I wait until the grass is
plant the new grass is planted, or

1686
02:03:18.319 --> 02:03:21.920
do that previous? You know it's
even better to do it previous because you

1687
02:03:23.000 --> 02:03:25.319
get it more down in the ground. You can scratch it down to the

1688
02:03:25.399 --> 02:03:28.399
surface a little bit. But there's
not a right or wrong on it.

1689
02:03:28.520 --> 02:03:31.479
You can go either way. Okay, thank you so much. All right,

1690
02:03:32.039 --> 02:03:34.359
good luck and have fun out there
in time. All getting that all

1691
02:03:34.399 --> 02:03:36.720
cleaned up. I know that's a
mouse. I've had to deal with that.

1692
02:03:39.479 --> 02:03:43.479
Now, let's see, I want
to head out to Laport and we're

1693
02:03:43.520 --> 02:03:46.199
gonna visit with Mike a little bit. Good morning, Mike, Good morning.

1694
02:03:46.279 --> 02:03:49.680
Skip to to the point. I've
got out some really nice tomato plants,

1695
02:03:49.840 --> 02:03:54.359
nice big green bushy, lots of
blooms, setting lots of fruit,

1696
02:03:54.479 --> 02:03:57.840
and as quick as the fruit is
ripening, the bottom is turning mushy and

1697
02:03:57.960 --> 02:04:01.319
the fruit goes south. No insect
infestation that I can see. I've been

1698
02:04:01.399 --> 02:04:06.039
using this soap on the leaves also
some knem oil. Is just can't figure

1699
02:04:06.079 --> 02:04:10.640
it out what to say you,
Well, if a tomato is going mushy

1700
02:04:10.680 --> 02:04:14.079
on the bottom, we call that
blossom endrot. That's the end of the

1701
02:04:14.159 --> 02:04:18.199
tomato where the bloom originally was.
And blossom endrot is caused by a lack

1702
02:04:18.279 --> 02:04:24.119
of calcium to the growing tip of
the tomato. Now, you may have

1703
02:04:24.239 --> 02:04:27.239
plenty of calcium in your soil.
It may be that you need to add

1704
02:04:27.279 --> 02:04:31.119
calcium, but most likely you probably
don't have a deficiency, although a soil

1705
02:04:31.199 --> 02:04:35.560
test would help you answer that for
sure. What happens, though, is

1706
02:04:35.640 --> 02:04:40.359
even when calciums in the soil,
when we go from wet to dry,

1707
02:04:40.560 --> 02:04:43.880
which is especially bad in containers.
I don't know these are the ground or

1708
02:04:43.960 --> 02:04:47.840
in containers in the ground, in
the ground, okay, containers are especially

1709
02:04:48.039 --> 02:04:50.600
prone to drying out, and then
you water them and they get real wet

1710
02:04:50.640 --> 02:04:56.279
again. But even the soil,
when you have that fluctuation, the calcium

1711
02:04:56.319 --> 02:04:59.640
just doesn't make it to the end
of the tomato. It happens on watermelons

1712
02:04:59.680 --> 02:05:03.640
too, and it could happen on
squash. The fruit cells die right out

1713
02:05:03.680 --> 02:05:06.600
there, and then when they die, then here comes the rot and it

1714
02:05:06.760 --> 02:05:12.079
just works its way back in toward
the tomato. So I think that you're

1715
02:05:12.119 --> 02:05:15.079
looking at as blossom end rot.
So number one, try to get an

1716
02:05:15.159 --> 02:05:18.600
even moisture content in the soil,
not up and down, up and down

1717
02:05:18.720 --> 02:05:21.960
or anything like that. That would
be number one. If you haven't had

1718
02:05:23.000 --> 02:05:25.199
a soil test in a while,
you might want to have it tested just

1719
02:05:25.279 --> 02:05:27.640
to make sure. Maybe you do
need to add a little bit of calcium

1720
02:05:27.800 --> 02:05:31.119
to the soil because it just didn't
there to take up. And then other

1721
02:05:31.239 --> 02:05:34.279
than that, the only thing I
would say is maybe maybe cut one of

1722
02:05:34.279 --> 02:05:39.720
those tomatoes open and just make extra
sure that it wasn't like a little caterpillar

1723
02:05:39.800 --> 02:05:43.039
that chewed on it and went into
the fruit and left a wound. You'll

1724
02:05:43.079 --> 02:05:45.439
find the larva inside if that's the
case, But we just want to make

1725
02:05:45.479 --> 02:05:49.520
sure that it didn't start with some
sort of a wound, like a like

1726
02:05:49.640 --> 02:05:54.439
a cat chewing in Because I've actually
done that, I cut a couple of

1727
02:05:54.479 --> 02:05:57.640
them in half and look for little
guys in there. There's been no sign

1728
02:05:57.720 --> 02:06:00.840
of that. I think we're dealing
with blost end rot. Then, okay,

1729
02:06:00.960 --> 02:06:04.479
so more regular watering, I guess
for more even watering is that what

1730
02:06:04.560 --> 02:06:10.399
I'm here, trying to keep it
evenly moist try to avoid the fluctuation from

1731
02:06:10.560 --> 02:06:14.119
a little too dried or a little
too wet and so on. All right,

1732
02:06:14.239 --> 02:06:15.000
thank you very much. All right, sir, thank you. I

1733
02:06:15.079 --> 02:06:18.920
appreciate that call. You have tomato
blossom end rot. That can be a

1734
02:06:19.079 --> 02:06:23.399
problem something we have to deal with. If you're wanting to have your lawn

1735
02:06:23.520 --> 02:06:27.680
looking as good as it can look
all summer, I would suggest you consider

1736
02:06:28.079 --> 02:06:32.840
nitrophosts and the products that they carry, like the slow and easy the nineteen

1737
02:06:33.119 --> 02:06:38.439
four ten that gives you that gradual
feed over time. Now you're you know

1738
02:06:38.640 --> 02:06:41.680
nitrophost four ten. It's a silver
bag. It makes it real easy to

1739
02:06:41.760 --> 02:06:45.840
find. Go out and find that
and put it on your lawn and give

1740
02:06:45.840 --> 02:06:50.399
it a gradual feeding. It'll spread
that nitrogen application out so you don't mow

1741
02:06:50.479 --> 02:06:54.680
as much. They claim a twenty
five percent reduction in growth, which I

1742
02:06:54.760 --> 02:07:00.159
believe that just by giving a good
smooth feeding over time and by not over

1743
02:07:00.239 --> 02:07:02.920
doing the nitrogen. When chinch bug
season comes in late summer, when large

1744
02:07:02.960 --> 02:07:08.560
patch season comes in the fall,
again, you're gonna disappoint some disease and

1745
02:07:08.640 --> 02:07:13.319
some insects because you're not giving them
that tender over succulent grass that they like

1746
02:07:13.479 --> 02:07:18.399
so much, nitrofoss and the nineteen
four ten excellent product for gradual feeding.

1747
02:07:18.600 --> 02:07:21.279
You know, over time, we're
gonna take a break. Give Josh call

1748
02:07:21.319 --> 02:07:25.640
if you want to be online with
me and the number seven one three,

1749
02:07:25.760 --> 02:07:40.840
two one two five eight seven four
fell. All right, good morning,

1750
02:07:40.920 --> 02:07:44.159
on a good Sunday morning. We
are here to talk to you about whatever

1751
02:07:44.279 --> 02:07:47.560
you're interested in regarding gardening. Phone
numbers seven one three, two one two

1752
02:07:47.960 --> 02:07:51.159
five eight seven four. Give Josh
call, he'll get you on the board

1753
02:07:51.199 --> 02:07:55.600
and we can visit. Hey,
if you're looking at your landscape, and

1754
02:07:56.079 --> 02:07:58.720
you know, I'm a plant collector. I go places and I buy plants

1755
02:07:58.760 --> 02:08:01.640
and I put them in my landscape. But I'm not a landscape designer.

1756
02:08:01.800 --> 02:08:07.800
And let's just say that it shows. I think it's pretty, but you

1757
02:08:07.880 --> 02:08:11.079
know, sometimes my design skills aren't
there. That's why we have Peerscapes.

1758
02:08:11.560 --> 02:08:18.119
Peerscapes knows how to design and they
are a full service landscaper. I mean

1759
02:08:18.199 --> 02:08:20.159
they can do the rock borders,
they can do the hardscapes. Put in

1760
02:08:20.239 --> 02:08:24.720
a new garden. Welcome to Houston. Drainage problems. You need drainage prop

1761
02:08:24.800 --> 02:08:28.720
fixed plants don't like to live in
a swamp. Most of them don't.

1762
02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:33.760
They can fix that for you peerscapes
dot com. Go to piercescapes dot com

1763
02:08:33.159 --> 02:08:39.279
or Callumn two eight one three seven
zero five zero six zero. Let them

1764
02:08:39.359 --> 02:08:43.920
get their experience, professionally trained employees. They're designers on the job for you

1765
02:08:45.359 --> 02:08:50.439
and turn your place is into a
showplace, beautiful from the street or wonderful

1766
02:08:50.520 --> 02:08:54.720
backyard entertaining area. Peerscapes can do
just that. I want to head out

1767
02:08:54.720 --> 02:09:00.239
to the phones and we are going
to talk to Caroline in self, West

1768
02:09:00.279 --> 02:09:05.039
Houston. Hello Caroline, good morning, Good morning. I have a question

1769
02:09:05.119 --> 02:09:11.359
about my eggplant. This is my
first attempt to grow an eggplant. Are

1770
02:09:11.439 --> 02:09:16.079
you supposed to pull out the little
suckers to come up from where the leaf

1771
02:09:16.199 --> 02:09:22.079
comes off of the stem? You
know, I've never bothered with that before.

1772
02:09:22.159 --> 02:09:24.159
I guess if you had a whole
lot of them, you could.

1773
02:09:24.520 --> 02:09:28.840
Maybe you do want it to branch
some though, and so you know I

1774
02:09:28.960 --> 02:09:33.159
have most of my eggplan have three
to five branches on them going out in

1775
02:09:33.239 --> 02:09:37.479
all directions. I guess if you
were trying to no one stakes eggplant.

1776
02:09:37.520 --> 02:09:39.800
But if you were trying to do
that, you would remove all the suckers,

1777
02:09:39.840 --> 02:09:43.119
so you could have one going up. But I've just kind of tended

1778
02:09:43.159 --> 02:09:46.279
to leave mine. But I could
see a reason occasionally to take one off

1779
02:09:46.359 --> 02:09:48.000
here or there. That's just too
many year it's not where you want it

1780
02:09:48.039 --> 02:09:50.800
to be. Well, we have
one plant, so I think I'll just

1781
02:09:52.039 --> 02:09:54.199
leave them all right, sounds good. Now, with one plant, you're

1782
02:09:54.239 --> 02:09:56.399
not going to make a lot of
barb a ganoose. So I don't know

1783
02:09:56.520 --> 02:10:00.279
what your plan is out there,
Caroline. Well, there's nobody here but

1784
02:10:00.399 --> 02:10:03.560
the dog in me, and I
don't think the dog likesake plan. Well

1785
02:10:03.640 --> 02:10:05.079
that's good. I had a dog. In fact, I need to post

1786
02:10:05.159 --> 02:10:09.960
this star Facebook page. I have
a dog that steals cherry tomatoes. I

1787
02:10:09.039 --> 02:10:13.479
didn't know that, and talk caught
him in the ac one time. I'll

1788
02:10:13.520 --> 02:10:16.239
put that video up on Facebook.
Y'all keep an eye out for that.

1789
02:10:16.520 --> 02:10:24.159
Great wonderful thank you all right,
like your little extra things? Okay,

1790
02:10:24.199 --> 02:10:26.800
well good, you're a little comments. We live to serve. Thank you,

1791
02:10:26.920 --> 02:10:31.520
Caroline. I appreciate your call.
Oh gosh, hey, I was

1792
02:10:31.640 --> 02:10:35.279
driving through the country the other day
and I saw someone who has a little

1793
02:10:35.800 --> 02:10:39.479
like five acre piece of property and
I was just looking. It was pristine,

1794
02:10:39.159 --> 02:10:41.800
and it just made me remember it. We used to have a little

1795
02:10:41.800 --> 02:10:45.439
piece of property and a little tractor
on it. Right now, I'm living

1796
02:10:45.479 --> 02:10:46.680
in town. I don't have a
piece of problem. I wish I did,

1797
02:10:48.279 --> 02:10:50.680
But if I did, I'll tell
you what I would do right now,

1798
02:10:50.720 --> 02:10:54.760
and that is go to Lansdale Moody
and get their new deal with the

1799
02:10:54.880 --> 02:10:58.760
Caboda, the Caboda's big value tractor. This is the Texas edition Caboda el

1800
02:10:58.800 --> 02:11:03.880
Te Mild tractor. I ground the
transmission every time I shifted gears. This

1801
02:11:05.039 --> 02:11:09.079
one hydrostatic transmission and trick it out
with a front end loader, a landscape,

1802
02:11:09.319 --> 02:11:13.199
a box blade to move the soil
around, or maybe even a rotary

1803
02:11:13.279 --> 02:11:16.960
cutter. But here's why you need
to know this now until June thirtieth,

1804
02:11:16.119 --> 02:11:22.119
So this month only, that's all
that's left now, zero down, zero

1805
02:11:22.319 --> 02:11:26.479
interest, eighty four months. That's
seven years. I mean, where are

1806
02:11:26.479 --> 02:11:31.079
you going to find a deal If
there's ever a time to buy that tractor

1807
02:11:31.279 --> 02:11:35.439
you really want? This is it
Lansdown and Caboda. Go to LM tractor

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02:11:35.560 --> 02:11:41.079
dot com. You can find the
Lansdown near you and check out this l

1809
02:11:41.239 --> 02:11:46.319
twenty five O one Texas Edition Caboda. Oh my gosh. They say that

1810
02:11:46.439 --> 02:11:48.239
the differenceteen men and Boys is the
kind of toys that play with Right,

1811
02:11:48.520 --> 02:11:54.079
well, here we go. I
am you know. I have graduated from

1812
02:11:54.159 --> 02:11:58.199
Tonka trucks to running around on my
tractor, and that would be that would

1813
02:11:58.239 --> 02:12:01.279
be an ideal deal as far as
i'm sir. Hey, let's go out

1814
02:12:01.319 --> 02:12:03.359
to Katie. We're gonna talk to
Sydney this morning. Good morning, Sydney,

1815
02:12:05.600 --> 02:12:09.239
Good morning. I have a question
about the breeding grounds through mosquitoes,

1816
02:12:09.960 --> 02:12:16.359
and unfortunately unfortunate A first of all, in my little backyard in front of

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02:12:16.399 --> 02:12:18.840
yard, I don't have any breeding
grounds. I don't have any of those

1818
02:12:18.880 --> 02:12:24.600
situations for mosquitoes have larva. Here's
my problem. I think it's a problem.

1819
02:12:24.960 --> 02:12:31.159
My next one of my next door
neighbors last weekend put a huge above

1820
02:12:31.319 --> 02:12:37.399
ground swimming pool for their little grandson
in their backyard which is next to mine.

1821
02:12:37.680 --> 02:12:41.319
And it's it's big, and it's
got tons of water in it,

1822
02:12:41.439 --> 02:12:43.880
like right up to the top,
probably five or six feet of water in

1823
02:12:43.920 --> 02:12:46.680
there, and they leave it in
there. Okay, Now, I have

1824
02:12:46.760 --> 02:12:50.800
an elderly little dog and so I
worry about. I don't want mosquitos,

1825
02:12:50.880 --> 02:12:54.640
you know, a heart woman all
that. So what about that situation?

1826
02:12:54.760 --> 02:12:58.000
And these are not friendly neighbors.
They're people who don't even speak to me.

1827
02:12:58.079 --> 02:13:01.880
They're not friendly at Okay, Well, yeah, I hear you.

1828
02:13:01.960 --> 02:13:05.279
I hear your concerned, Sydney.
But I don't think you need to worry

1829
02:13:05.279 --> 02:13:09.279
about that. Mosquitoes like a little
small, stagnant water spot, and it

1830
02:13:09.359 --> 02:13:13.279
may be a pond, but over
by the you know, over by the

1831
02:13:13.359 --> 02:13:16.840
bank where it's real still and everything, there's some decomposing organic matter. That's

1832
02:13:16.880 --> 02:13:20.399
a mosquito heaven if the water moves. In fact, they make the little

1833
02:13:20.439 --> 02:13:22.960
devices you can put in a in
a bird bath that just causes ripples on

1834
02:13:24.039 --> 02:13:28.560
the water, and that in and
of itself prevents the mosquitoes from laying eggs

1835
02:13:28.600 --> 02:13:31.479
and raising larva in it. So
I don't think you're gonna need to worry

1836
02:13:31.520 --> 02:13:35.159
if they do any unless that thing
turns into algae. They ought to be

1837
02:13:35.560 --> 02:13:39.119
using some chlorine type products, you
know, to keep the water clean and

1838
02:13:39.199 --> 02:13:43.640
fresh, That too will take care
of the mosquitoes. So I don't think

1839
02:13:43.680 --> 02:13:50.560
that's going to be a concern for
you. Well, you're bad you're bad.

1840
02:13:50.680 --> 02:13:54.119
You can sleep at night now,
all right, thanks for the call.

1841
02:13:54.199 --> 02:14:00.760
I appreciate that very much. You
know, the folks down in League

1842
02:14:00.800 --> 02:14:03.439
City, the Funderbergs, they've got
that League City feed If you're anywhere down

1843
02:14:03.479 --> 02:14:07.079
in that area, Dickinson, Lamart, Baycliff, Webster, Clear Lake City,

1844
02:14:07.079 --> 02:14:11.159
Oh, come into reality, you
get the idea League City Feeds.

1845
02:14:11.439 --> 02:14:15.840
It's on Highway three, a few
blocks south of Highway ninety six, and

1846
02:14:16.000 --> 02:14:20.880
the Funderbergs have created of they've long
time had that feedstore. Their grandfather built

1847
02:14:20.920 --> 02:14:24.199
it forty years ago in an Ochre
patch. Now, anything that starts in

1848
02:14:24.279 --> 02:14:26.760
an Ochra patch, in my opinion, has kind to be a good deal.

1849
02:14:26.800 --> 02:14:33.640
I love patches. But now West
and his sister Madison are managing the

1850
02:14:33.720 --> 02:14:37.680
place and they have that old time
service and they carry the products we talk

1851
02:14:37.760 --> 02:14:41.279
about, you like the fertilizers and
the soils and things you hear me talk

1852
02:14:41.319 --> 02:14:45.880
about here, they've got them.
They also have a good selection of pesticides

1853
02:14:45.920 --> 02:14:50.800
and herbicides and fungicides, quality pet
food. If you're into the backyard chicken

1854
02:14:50.880 --> 02:14:54.720
thing, that's a popular deal.
Now they've got you set up there all

1855
02:14:54.760 --> 02:14:58.239
the things you would expect from a
feed store plus a really good selection of

1856
02:14:58.279 --> 02:15:01.880
gardening option. You can give them
a call. Two eight one three three

1857
02:15:01.960 --> 02:15:07.640
two sixteen twelve two eight one three
two sixteen twelve. Now they're clothes on

1858
02:15:07.720 --> 02:15:11.520
Sunday, but Monday through Saturday nine
am to six pm, so they're there

1859
02:15:11.560 --> 02:15:13.760
when you get off work and you're
head and buy. You can stop in

1860
02:15:13.880 --> 02:15:16.439
and grab something. Tell Wess or
Madison if she's there, Tell them hello,

1861
02:15:16.640 --> 02:15:20.039
you heard us on garden Line and
you heard that they are the place

1862
02:15:20.119 --> 02:15:24.079
it's going to have everything that they
need, that you need, and they

1863
02:15:24.159 --> 02:15:26.600
will prove that to be true.
Love to go by the League City Feeds.

1864
02:15:26.640 --> 02:15:28.279
Been awhile since I've been out there, and you need to hit back

1865
02:15:28.279 --> 02:15:31.039
out that way again. But it's
always always a lot of fun to get

1866
02:15:31.079 --> 02:15:35.720
by there and see them old time
feed store. Love that. I also

1867
02:15:35.800 --> 02:15:39.720
like the fact that their dalmatian is
named Rorshak. I think that is the

1868
02:15:39.840 --> 02:15:45.319
best best name for a Dalmatian.
Rorshak. Stare at the dog and what

1869
02:15:45.439 --> 02:15:48.159
do you see? Well, I
can analyze you based on what you think

1870
02:15:48.239 --> 02:15:52.079
you see looking at the dog.
You know, the folks at Dell Webb

1871
02:15:52.119 --> 02:15:56.800
gave me a call and ask me
about helping them with a community garden on

1872
02:15:56.920 --> 02:16:01.199
a new development. I was excited
because number one Dell Web. You know,

1873
02:16:01.239 --> 02:16:05.600
they've been building communities for active adults
age fifty five and better for over

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02:16:05.680 --> 02:16:09.279
seventy years. I mean, Dellweb
means inspired designs, and those communities have

1875
02:16:09.439 --> 02:16:15.359
the lifestyle programs designed around you.
That's why they've been so popular for a

1876
02:16:15.560 --> 02:16:18.159
long long time. I mean,
people know when you live in a Dellweb

1877
02:16:18.279 --> 02:16:22.039
community, that is a good life. Now less than two miles away from

1878
02:16:22.079 --> 02:16:28.399
downtown Fulshure on FM three fifty nine
is the latest Dellweb community, and if

1879
02:16:28.439 --> 02:16:31.639
you're a gardener, all the more
reason to be in that community. I

1880
02:16:31.680 --> 02:16:35.360
mean, we're getting that community garden
designed and set up now. If you

1881
02:16:35.440 --> 02:16:39.920
want to learn more about the Dellweb
difference for yourself, go to dellweb dot

1882
02:16:39.000 --> 02:16:46.479
com, slash Houston or give McCall
two eight one four five nine zero six

1883
02:16:46.200 --> 02:16:52.200
zero nine. I enjoy visiting with
gardeners all the time, and that's one

1884
02:16:52.200 --> 02:16:56.200
of the things I like about being
on garden Line and getting to talk to

1885
02:16:56.319 --> 02:16:58.319
people about things that are going on
in their garden. And it's always a

1886
02:16:58.399 --> 02:17:03.280
challenge, you know, and you
never know when the phone rings what the

1887
02:17:03.360 --> 02:17:05.719
question is going to be. But
we're about to find out again. Here

1888
02:17:05.799 --> 02:17:09.040
we're gonna head out to base City
and we're gonna talk to Terry. Good

1889
02:17:09.120 --> 02:17:13.440
morning, Terry. Oh hi,
okay, Well, I have a severe

1890
02:17:13.520 --> 02:17:16.479
problem with my palm trees in the
front yard. And I don't know what

1891
02:17:16.719 --> 02:17:20.319
tide these are. And I know
they're not called branches, but I'll call

1892
02:17:20.360 --> 02:17:24.600
them branches. They're coming out three
now, which is good, but they're

1893
02:17:24.760 --> 02:17:31.440
curling down. And also I left
the trunks of them super thick when I

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02:17:31.719 --> 02:17:33.959
when I cut them off, you
know, when they need to be cut

1895
02:17:33.040 --> 02:17:37.840
off, I cut them off not
real close to the trunk, so I

1896
02:17:37.920 --> 02:17:43.040
had my trunk is super fat.
So what's wrong with my palm trees?

1897
02:17:43.040 --> 02:17:46.479
I have three of them. They
were beautiful and now it's like I'm I'm

1898
02:17:46.520 --> 02:17:48.680
so sad to look at them because
I don't know what's wrong. They're just

1899
02:17:48.000 --> 02:17:52.639
coming out green, but they're bending
over. Um. Well, Terry,

1900
02:17:52.719 --> 02:17:56.600
some types of palms do that some
of the Now you are you talking about

1901
02:17:58.399 --> 02:18:03.840
the petiole which it attaches to the
trunk and holds the leaf part of the

1902
02:18:03.920 --> 02:18:07.319
palm, or is it the pettiles
that are hanging down, or when you

1903
02:18:07.399 --> 02:18:11.600
get out to the leaves, do
the leaves curled downward themselves? No,

1904
02:18:11.799 --> 02:18:16.600
the whole branch, Yeah, it
comes out and it curves down. And

1905
02:18:16.719 --> 02:18:20.559
then my trunks I've left that and
I think that's one reason they didn't freeze

1906
02:18:20.600 --> 02:18:24.760
when we had the horrible freeze,
because it had more insulation around the trunk.

1907
02:18:26.200 --> 02:18:28.799
But if I accidentally hit the bottom
of it with the shovel, you

1908
02:18:28.879 --> 02:18:33.319
know, it's like it wants to
come off. So if I trimmed the

1909
02:18:33.399 --> 02:18:37.600
trunk down, hit all the extra
where you used to cut off the branches,

1910
02:18:37.920 --> 02:18:41.079
if I hit all that off and
left the trunk skinny, would that

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02:18:41.399 --> 02:18:48.479
help the problem of the branches curving
down? You know, I'm not still

1912
02:18:48.559 --> 02:18:52.280
convinced that the branches curving down or
a problem. I'll tell you what.

1913
02:18:52.360 --> 02:18:56.879
I'm gonna put you on hold,
and I want you, Josh, get

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02:18:56.959 --> 02:18:58.879
you some information. I want you
to take some pictures. Take several,

1915
02:19:00.079 --> 02:19:03.120
love them, then good sharp focus
and let me see what you're talking about.

1916
02:19:03.840 --> 02:19:07.600
There are okay, there are palms
that the foliage looks like your hand.

1917
02:19:07.799 --> 02:19:11.120
There's palms the foliage looks like a
feather. Those are two different groups

1918
02:19:11.159 --> 02:19:13.120
of palms. But I need to
see exactly what palm you have and what

1919
02:19:13.319 --> 02:19:16.799
you're seeing, because I have a
feeling what I'm picturing in my mind is

1920
02:19:16.840 --> 02:19:22.319
not what you're seeing as you're describing
it to me. It's like a date

1921
02:19:22.399 --> 02:19:24.000
palm, you know, the long
branches, so it's not a fan palm,

1922
02:19:24.600 --> 02:19:28.840
queen palm. Okay, feathery feather
type of li Okay, still,

1923
02:19:28.879 --> 02:19:31.079
I want to see that picture.
Let's do that, and that way i'll

1924
02:19:31.120 --> 02:19:33.399
give you an accurate answer and seat
of my best guess. Okay, okay,

1925
02:19:33.680 --> 02:19:37.719
great, all right, well you
hang on then, will you listening

1926
02:19:37.719 --> 02:19:41.440
to Garden Line? We are here
to answer your gardening questions seven one three

1927
02:19:41.600 --> 02:19:43.959
two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're going to take a break and

1928
02:19:45.239 --> 02:19:48.719
learn all about the exciting news that
you can't live without from Nikki. And

1929
02:19:48.879 --> 02:19:50.120
when we come back, we'll talk
to you. Sarah, I see you,

1930
02:19:50.319 --> 02:20:03.360
and Kennedy, I see you.
You'll be the first step guitars.

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02:20:11.600 --> 02:20:16.639
Well, good Sunday morning, on
a beautiful day outside the storms. Last

1932
02:20:16.719 --> 02:20:20.040
night we were kind of wondering,
but oh boy, what a great day

1933
02:20:20.079 --> 02:20:24.319
to be gardening. Are talking about
gardening. We're gonna head out to Golfgate

1934
02:20:24.479 --> 02:20:26.799
and talk to Kennedy. First thing
this segment. How are you doing,

1935
02:20:26.920 --> 02:20:33.879
Kennedy? Fine morning. I'm wondering
if I should put sunshades over my tomatoes

1936
02:20:33.879 --> 02:20:41.040
because last year it was so hot
in June, and are we going to

1937
02:20:41.120 --> 02:20:43.239
have the same things. We'd had
ninety degree temperatures in May, and that's

1938
02:20:43.319 --> 02:20:48.120
unusual. Well, where the sun
shines directly on the fruit, you can

1939
02:20:48.200 --> 02:20:52.159
get sunburn. And so the number
one way we fight that is with the

1940
02:20:52.239 --> 02:20:56.799
foliage of the tomato itself blocking the
sun off of the tomato. As far

1941
02:20:56.879 --> 02:21:01.079
as you know them setting in the
heat, the sun shades are not going

1942
02:21:01.120 --> 02:21:03.760
to really help much. That's not
if that's what you're going after. But

1943
02:21:03.799 --> 02:21:07.520
if you're looking at sunburn, uh, you know, then a partial shade

1944
02:21:07.559 --> 02:21:11.200
can help a little bit with that. I'll often grow mine instead of using

1945
02:21:11.239 --> 02:21:16.879
tomadicages, I use livestock panels,
those those galvanized things. You can you

1946
02:21:16.959 --> 02:21:18.600
can cut them with a bolt cutter
into sections if you want. That's what

1947
02:21:18.680 --> 02:21:24.200
I have. Trellis good good.
Well, I will lean them, um

1948
02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:28.959
like toward the east a little bit
or whatever. In other words, so

1949
02:21:28.079 --> 02:21:31.760
the tomatoes are hanging down, but
the hot western sun has to hit the

1950
02:21:31.879 --> 02:21:35.040
foliage. The tomatoes are hanging kind
of on the back side a little bit.

1951
02:21:35.280 --> 02:21:37.319
And when I say lean them,
I'm talking about you know, forty

1952
02:21:37.360 --> 02:21:41.159
five sixty degrees, not not even
forty five degrees, just a little bit.

1953
02:21:41.559 --> 02:21:45.479
And that's how I deal with the
sun scald. And it works pretty

1954
02:21:45.520 --> 02:21:50.559
good for me. Okay, And
next up, i've heard two weekends of

1955
02:21:50.639 --> 02:21:54.479
rows. Let me call them about
stink bugs. Yeah, well, they

1956
02:21:54.479 --> 02:21:58.399
don't have any natural enemies here.
And I start off by using a dustbuster

1957
02:21:58.559 --> 02:22:03.319
and vacuuming them off. Okay,
that was tough. So I stuck the

1958
02:22:03.520 --> 02:22:11.399
end of the role of a paper
towel the inner roll. Okay, cut

1959
02:22:11.479 --> 02:22:13.600
it down and take it in there
and stuck it right in there, and

1960
02:22:13.639 --> 02:22:15.920
said a little oval. And I
said, I can reach right in and

1961
02:22:16.000 --> 02:22:18.719
just stuck them right out. And
if they get that they hide, I'll

1962
02:22:18.760 --> 02:22:22.760
just wedge them out with my fingers. Where you go, Yeah, if

1963
02:22:22.840 --> 02:22:28.239
you go ahead of the pick and
grab. Yeah, Well, and I

1964
02:22:28.440 --> 02:22:31.159
use a vacuum two on them.
And by the way, it gives your

1965
02:22:31.159 --> 02:22:33.840
neighbors something to talk about. But
they talk about you already the guy's vacuum

1966
02:22:33.879 --> 02:22:39.959
is tomatoes mildred. Look at that, But anyway, the vacuum works good.

1967
02:22:39.079 --> 02:22:43.079
But learning what a stinkbug looks like
as a nymph before it's an adult,

1968
02:22:43.159 --> 02:22:46.719
and learning what the leaf of a
bug, which probably worse than the

1969
02:22:46.799 --> 02:22:50.680
stink bugs in our area, does
the same damage type of stink bug,

1970
02:22:50.120 --> 02:22:52.719
what they look like as nymps,
they're a little all kind of orange and

1971
02:22:52.760 --> 02:22:56.280
black leg things that gather in herds. At that stage, they can't fly

1972
02:22:56.440 --> 02:22:58.879
away. I mean, you can
vacuum them up easy. You can knock

1973
02:23:00.000 --> 02:23:03.440
them into pale of soapy water.
Once they're adults, you almost have to

1974
02:23:03.479 --> 02:23:05.360
go out early in the morning at
the coolest time of the day to try

1975
02:23:05.399 --> 02:23:09.879
to be able to sneak up on
them and catch them with a vacuum cleaner.

1976
02:23:09.239 --> 02:23:13.520
But once they have wings, you
know, pretty much nothing we're gonna

1977
02:23:13.520 --> 02:23:16.879
do is gonna make a big difference. Well, I usually get two or

1978
02:23:16.920 --> 02:23:20.280
three a day then, but that's
all you can do at that point.

1979
02:23:20.440 --> 02:23:24.159
Well, at least it makes you
feel better, and you know, I

1980
02:23:24.200 --> 02:23:26.760
mean, especially if you imagine hearing
them scream as they go back up that

1981
02:23:26.920 --> 02:23:31.120
vacuum tube and land in that dusty
darkness and just you know, kind of

1982
02:23:31.159 --> 02:23:35.920
take some sort of sick when they're
in there. They can't do anywhere days

1983
02:23:35.959 --> 02:23:37.680
to your tomatoes. No, they
can't. They can't. And it's I

1984
02:23:37.760 --> 02:23:43.799
mean, it's like all right,
all right, all right, well thanks,

1985
02:23:43.959 --> 02:23:46.360
thank you, Sarah, appreciate the
call very much. Let's head to

1986
02:23:46.559 --> 02:23:50.520
clear Lake and we're gonna talk to
Sarah. Good morning, Sarah, Good

1987
02:23:50.600 --> 02:23:56.920
morning Skip. I have a Japanese
red maple in a pot. Now this

1988
02:23:56.120 --> 02:24:00.719
isn't just a little a pot.
This pot's four feet wide four feet tall,

1989
02:24:01.360 --> 02:24:05.680
so it's a big pot. But
Japanese red maple starting to also get

1990
02:24:05.280 --> 02:24:09.559
really big. I don't think there's
any way to repot it. What do

1991
02:24:09.639 --> 02:24:13.319
I need to do to keep it
healthy in that pot? Just make sure

1992
02:24:13.360 --> 02:24:16.639
it doesn't ever lack for water.
They are not a drought tolerant plant.

1993
02:24:16.680 --> 02:24:20.680
You'll get little brown tips on all
the leaves of those Japanese maples, and

1994
02:24:20.879 --> 02:24:22.399
you don't want to do that.
That's the main thing you need to do.

1995
02:24:24.120 --> 02:24:28.440
Adequate moisture. I wouldn't push it
with fertilizer really because I mean,

1996
02:24:28.559 --> 02:24:31.040
it needs some nutrient, but you
don't want to push extra growth because it's

1997
02:24:31.079 --> 02:24:35.799
already I got a limited root,
useful and big. Yeah, it doesn't

1998
02:24:35.840 --> 02:24:39.159
need any it's it's the size it
needs to be. Well, you must

1999
02:24:39.200 --> 02:24:43.399
be doing something right. Yeah,
it's beautiful. It is. It's beautiful,

2000
02:24:43.440 --> 02:24:46.280
but I don't want it to die. And I was out jacking around

2001
02:24:46.280 --> 02:24:48.559
with it this morning because it was
such a nice day to get outside,

2002
02:24:48.600 --> 02:24:52.479
and I went, oh my god, this things so pot bound. So

2003
02:24:52.760 --> 02:24:54.680
I thought i'd just call it asking. All right, did you appreciate it?

2004
02:24:54.879 --> 02:24:58.200
Hey, I'm glad. I'm glad
you did. Thank you for the

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02:24:58.239 --> 02:25:01.879
call. Appreciate that very much,
Sarah. If you were looking for a

2006
02:25:03.360 --> 02:25:07.920
good quality fertilizer to carry your lawn
into the summer and through the summer in

2007
02:25:09.000 --> 02:25:13.719
fact, months and months of gradual
feeding, Nelson plant Fluds, plant food,

2008
02:25:13.840 --> 02:25:16.520
Slow and Easy, that's the one. That Slow and easy is the

2009
02:25:16.600 --> 02:25:20.399
one. It's got the twenty two
two ten on the label, so it's

2010
02:25:20.440 --> 02:25:24.799
got twenty two percent nitrites. You
need about five pounds per thousand square feet

2011
02:25:24.200 --> 02:25:28.799
and it will gradually feed, so
you're not going to have that flush of

2012
02:25:28.920 --> 02:25:31.680
growth. It causes you to mow
more. That causes thatched development. That's

2013
02:25:31.719 --> 02:25:35.920
where we get thatched, not from
returning clippings, but from over fertilizing and

2014
02:25:37.040 --> 02:25:39.639
getting a lot of runner growth,
and we want to avoid that. So

2015
02:25:41.000 --> 02:25:45.600
Slow and Easy does that. It
also avoids things that like succulent grass,

2016
02:25:45.760 --> 02:25:48.520
the problems like large patch in the
fall and we call it used to call

2017
02:25:48.520 --> 02:25:54.520
it brown patch and chinch bugs in
late summer. The Slow and Easy has

2018
02:25:54.879 --> 02:25:58.639
the main nutrients that you need,
but it also has the microbes, the

2019
02:25:58.719 --> 02:26:05.600
been official microorganisms that are gonna it's
gonna feed, those are gonna provide within

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02:26:05.680 --> 02:26:07.920
it. It's a little bit of
sulfur in it, so that helps balance

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02:26:07.959 --> 02:26:09.200
a pH. Some of our soils
are a little on the high end,

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02:26:09.600 --> 02:26:15.360
and that little extra sulfur is also
very beneficial. Try out Nelson's plant food

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02:26:15.399 --> 02:26:18.440
Slow and Easy if you haven't tried
it before, I think you will find

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02:26:18.479 --> 02:26:22.719
that it does just exactly as I
described that it would. We're gonna go

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02:26:22.120 --> 02:26:26.879
now to Tiki Island and talk to
s Lucas. Hello, how are you

2026
02:26:26.000 --> 02:26:30.719
this morning? He's good? How
are you, buddy? I'm glad to

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02:26:30.840 --> 02:26:35.280
talk to you again. Yes,
um, real quick, um. When

2028
02:26:35.319 --> 02:26:41.239
I bought my property, all my
trees were shorter than I I'm sixty one

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02:26:41.520 --> 02:26:48.920
and when um, I took good
care of them, and now the river

2030
02:26:48.000 --> 02:26:54.680
three oh boys, and I went
through all the freezes with everything. Um,

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02:26:54.959 --> 02:26:58.360
thank you to Randy Lemon, you
know, guiding me through everything.

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02:26:58.920 --> 02:27:03.719
And I had this date palm and
um, she went through both of the

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02:27:03.840 --> 02:27:09.360
major hardcore breezers and come out looking
great. I was like, well,

2034
02:27:09.959 --> 02:27:13.200
I'm a rock haul truck driver,
and they were getting overgrown, and my

2035
02:27:13.319 --> 02:27:18.680
wife had somebody to come out to
give them a haircut. Well ended up

2036
02:27:18.760 --> 02:27:22.639
giving them out out the and I
when I got my mom, I kind

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02:27:22.680 --> 02:27:26.879
of was like, well, sugardeed, Um, that's how I'm quite leather

2038
02:27:26.920 --> 02:27:31.360
would have done. But all right, everything seemed to look good. But

2039
02:27:31.479 --> 02:27:33.559
now all of a sudden, it
looks like my date palm died. Um

2040
02:27:35.079 --> 02:27:37.959
there's no green coming out the time. Now I can if I counted,

2041
02:27:39.920 --> 02:27:43.879
Uh, there's green in the park, but um, see any shoes coming

2042
02:27:45.000 --> 02:27:50.440
up now here? If I've got
this huge date palm up front. And

2043
02:27:50.399 --> 02:27:54.000
when I left, I didn't think
it was looking very good either, because

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02:27:54.319 --> 02:27:58.000
he rims everything down to like nothing. Hey, so Lucas, I'm gonna

2045
02:27:58.000 --> 02:28:01.319
have to jump in. We're eating
a hard break for a commercial. Will

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02:28:01.360 --> 02:28:05.520
you hang on and let's continue this
right after we come back. All right,

2047
02:28:05.920 --> 02:28:11.040
thank you very much, appreciate that
phone number seven one three two one

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02:28:11.120 --> 02:28:13.239
two fifty eight seventy four. We
got one segment left. If you want

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02:28:13.280 --> 02:28:16.719
to be on this weekend, now's
the time to give us a call.

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02:28:16.680 --> 02:28:24.520
Please done. Russian Russian for last
No fun already, gotta do this living

2051
02:28:24.719 --> 02:28:35.040
die no good. Sunday morning,
Look outside, What a day time to

2052
02:28:35.079 --> 02:28:39.959
get out in the yard. Maybe
go buy and buy some beautiful plants.

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02:28:39.040 --> 02:28:43.840
Get you a container and turn your
patio into something really really special. My

2054
02:28:43.920 --> 02:28:48.520
wife and I did that last weekend, and oh my gosh, it is

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02:28:48.600 --> 02:28:52.399
just it's exciting to put a mixture
plants together. And when you go out

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02:28:52.440 --> 02:28:54.040
to our independent garden centers and the
ones we talk about all the time here,

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02:28:54.079 --> 02:28:56.840
you're going to see examples of what
I'm talking about. And you can

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02:28:56.959 --> 02:29:01.159
cheat, you can steal their examples. Look at the plant suit and them.

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02:29:01.239 --> 02:29:03.440
Go buy those plants, get your
container, go home, make one

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02:29:03.479 --> 02:29:05.879
yourself, or buy one ready to
go. If you want a turnkey deal,

2061
02:29:07.319 --> 02:29:09.600
they'll have that for you too.
Hey, let's back, let's go

2062
02:29:09.719 --> 02:29:13.760
back to Tiki Island. We're going
to continue with Lucas. Lucas, it

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02:29:13.840 --> 02:29:18.959
sounds like your palm tree got very
very mispruned. So here's the bottom line

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02:29:18.000 --> 02:29:24.239
on those. If a palm like
you're describing has one living bud at the

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02:29:24.319 --> 02:29:26.959
top of the trunk, one bud, and so if you kill that bud,

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02:29:28.319 --> 02:29:31.639
you now have a telephone pole that
will never reach sprout from anywhere again.

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02:29:31.239 --> 02:29:35.200
That's it. And so if they
if damage was done to that bud

2068
02:29:35.239 --> 02:29:39.440
and it died for whatever reason from
pruning or whatever reason, then it's not

2069
02:29:39.520 --> 02:29:43.239
going to come back. If you
get new growth coming out of the center

2070
02:29:43.280 --> 02:29:46.600
of the top, then there's hope
for that tree. Now, that kind

2071
02:29:46.639 --> 02:29:50.319
of haircut you describe does not do
it any good because it removes all that

2072
02:29:50.479 --> 02:29:54.920
foliage area that makes carbohydrates that keeps
the tree growing and healthy. So it

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02:29:56.120 --> 02:30:01.079
really sets them back when we overprune
a palm tree. But the key,

2074
02:30:01.360 --> 02:30:05.280
the real question now is is that
top bud still going to be alive so

2075
02:30:05.479 --> 02:30:11.719
that it can keep going and come
back or not? Right? Um,

2076
02:30:11.479 --> 02:30:18.680
I guess what, like I said, And you know that's why I felt

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02:30:18.719 --> 02:30:22.280
that when I saw it and I
saw what was happening, that was my

2078
02:30:22.479 --> 02:30:26.760
fear. Um. My wife reached
up and she touched on the top.

2079
02:30:26.959 --> 02:30:31.280
She said, it felt munchy,
but like I said, on the Queen

2080
02:30:31.360 --> 02:30:35.200
palm, but there's still green in
the bar. And I'm thinking, what

2081
02:30:35.360 --> 02:30:39.399
am I gonna do about this?
And my second that is that date palm.

2082
02:30:39.920 --> 02:30:45.879
I can't lose that date palm.
That date palm is huge, and

2083
02:30:46.079 --> 02:30:48.200
now it looks like I may end
up losing that. Right, Well,

2084
02:30:48.399 --> 02:30:52.879
that's where I think on that one. You know, I can't be there,

2085
02:30:52.959 --> 02:30:54.639
can't see it, but just remember
the green bar, the green side

2086
02:30:54.680 --> 02:30:58.559
of the tree does not That is
not gonna help because you gotta have a

2087
02:30:58.600 --> 02:31:03.680
bud to grow from. So if
the top bud is dead green, green,

2088
02:31:03.760 --> 02:31:05.680
bark or whatever as you're describing it, that doesn't that's not going to

2089
02:31:05.760 --> 02:31:11.879
cut it. So I would I'd
probably hire a quality tree care person like

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02:31:11.959 --> 02:31:15.799
Affordable Tree, have them come out
take a look at it and make an

2091
02:31:15.799 --> 02:31:20.040
assessment, because that way you would
know and if there's something that you can

2092
02:31:20.120 --> 02:31:22.719
do that can be done, then
they can do it to try to save

2093
02:31:22.799 --> 02:31:26.120
it. Otherwise, you know they're
they're going to advise you or they're going

2094
02:31:26.200 --> 02:31:28.040
to tell you, well, here's
what you need to do, or here's

2095
02:31:28.040 --> 02:31:31.840
what I can do for you,
or I'm sorry, it's time to replace

2096
02:31:31.920 --> 02:31:35.879
it. And as bad as that
news is, I know y'all don't want

2097
02:31:35.920 --> 02:31:37.959
to hear that. You just got
to get the facts from somebody who's on

2098
02:31:39.079 --> 02:31:41.639
site and could take a look at
it and give you that answer so you

2099
02:31:41.719 --> 02:31:45.440
can exactly what I told him.
That is exactly what I told my wife.

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02:31:46.959 --> 02:31:50.440
The Tree service, And do they
come out to get your card,

2101
02:31:50.920 --> 02:31:54.040
islander, you know you're gonna have
to give him a call. I don't.

2102
02:31:54.840 --> 02:31:58.040
I don't know the exact range.
I know you you are pretty far

2103
02:31:58.159 --> 02:32:01.600
out there, but it's worth its
asking them. Give them a chance to

2104
02:32:01.639 --> 02:32:03.280
see if they can do that,
and if they can, they'll tell you

2105
02:32:03.680 --> 02:32:05.559
they'll be right out there. Do
you do you need it? You probably

2106
02:32:05.600 --> 02:32:07.280
need a phone number for them.
Let me go ahead and give you that

2107
02:32:07.799 --> 02:32:13.239
seven one three six nine nine two
six sixty three, or you can go

2108
02:32:13.440 --> 02:32:20.360
online to Afftree Service dot com.
If they can't help you, maybe they

2109
02:32:20.399 --> 02:32:22.639
can tell you somebody who's in that
area that can. But I would start

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02:32:22.719 --> 02:32:26.000
with him. I just I trust
Martin and his wife Joe. They know

2111
02:32:26.079 --> 02:32:28.799
what they're talking about and they're not
going to say something you don't need.

2112
02:32:31.239 --> 02:32:39.479
Yes, I'm in a nine one
one right now. Okay, all right,

2113
02:32:39.559 --> 02:32:41.639
well here we go. Good luck
with it. Let me know how

2114
02:32:41.639 --> 02:32:45.000
it turns out. All right,
thank you for that call. We're going

2115
02:32:45.040 --> 02:32:48.120
to head out now to Sharon in
West Chase. Hello, Sharon? How

2116
02:32:48.159 --> 02:32:54.360
are you hi? Skip? How
is moaning listening to Lucas? Because I've

2117
02:32:54.799 --> 02:32:58.920
had that experience of people who claim
to be tree tremors and they do a

2118
02:32:58.040 --> 02:33:03.079
hack job on your trees. And
I did call Affordable Tree Service this time,

2119
02:33:03.159 --> 02:33:07.079
and they did such a good job. But I had a myrtle tree

2120
02:33:07.840 --> 02:33:13.959
that was dying from the top down, and so they removed it, and

2121
02:33:15.120 --> 02:33:20.520
now it's growing runners up because you
know, down at the very base it

2122
02:33:22.600 --> 02:33:24.799
still looked like it had life,
and so they took it down to the

2123
02:33:24.840 --> 02:33:30.239
ground. But now the runners are
coming up. So is it possible that

2124
02:33:30.360 --> 02:33:33.680
I could grow a new myrtle tree
from those runners? Because I've done that

2125
02:33:33.840 --> 02:33:37.680
before. I stuck runners in the
ground in places that I just wanted a

2126
02:33:37.719 --> 02:33:41.799
myrtle tree because I love myrtle trees, and they grew into a tree.

2127
02:33:43.840 --> 02:33:46.799
And my neighbor one day came out
and he was mocking me and saying,

2128
02:33:48.200 --> 02:33:50.360
what do you think you're doing putting
those sticks in the ground. I said,

2129
02:33:50.360 --> 02:33:54.399
I'm growing a myrtle tree. And
it grew up and now it's twenty

2130
02:33:54.479 --> 02:33:58.959
years old, so I know they
they're very hearty. And I don't know

2131
02:33:58.040 --> 02:34:03.360
why that particular one died. It
died after the big freeze, and so

2132
02:34:03.559 --> 02:34:09.799
I don't know what hit it.
But it's like it was just right out

2133
02:34:09.840 --> 02:34:13.799
on my front curb where it's just
a beautiful over arching with the other myrtle

2134
02:34:13.840 --> 02:34:16.360
on the other side of the sidewalk, and it arched over. It was

2135
02:34:16.440 --> 02:34:22.120
like entrance to my front sidewalk.
It was so beautiful. Now I've lost

2136
02:34:22.200 --> 02:34:26.680
it. So could I Could I
grow a new tree from those runners?

2137
02:34:26.719 --> 02:34:31.559
I suppose. So when you say
myrtle, are you talking about creat myrtle

2138
02:34:31.639 --> 02:34:37.239
or southern wax myrtle? Great creatle? Uh? Well, yeah, apparently

2139
02:34:37.239 --> 02:34:39.319
you're pretty good at it. I'm
a little impressed that you were able to

2140
02:34:39.440 --> 02:34:43.319
root one and the way you described, but hey, you are runners.

2141
02:34:43.399 --> 02:34:48.000
I just pulled them off of one
of my giant myrtles, and and my

2142
02:34:48.159 --> 02:34:52.360
myrtles, some of them. Mirzld
is my house which is forty seven years

2143
02:34:52.360 --> 02:34:58.239
old. So there, you know, I have myrtles surrounding my property.

2144
02:34:58.280 --> 02:35:01.479
I love turtle fis. So should
I just try to grow a new tree

2145
02:35:01.520 --> 02:35:03.600
there? Maybe? Well, if
you want to, yeah, go for

2146
02:35:03.719 --> 02:35:07.520
it. Or or maybe you want
a different color bloom or a different sized

2147
02:35:07.600 --> 02:35:09.840
tree or something. I mean,
so you've got a lot of options.

2148
02:35:09.920 --> 02:35:15.319
But apparently you know what you're doing
on that, so trunk Okay. So

2149
02:35:16.239 --> 02:35:20.920
now it's just these runners coming up. So should I tell my yard crew

2150
02:35:20.000 --> 02:35:24.520
to just should the runners back or
let them? I think I'm gonna let

2151
02:35:24.520 --> 02:35:26.639
them grow and see if I can
grow a new tree. I think.

2152
02:35:26.639 --> 02:35:31.040
I wondered what you think? Yeah, I think you can. I would

2153
02:35:31.079 --> 02:35:33.959
I would narrow it down to one. But I appreciate that call sharing very

2154
02:35:35.040 --> 02:35:37.799
much and good luck with it.
Sounds like you know what you're doing on

2155
02:35:37.920 --> 02:35:41.520
that, you know. I talk
about ACE Hardware all the time because I

2156
02:35:41.760 --> 02:35:46.200
am so impressed with Ace Hardware,
with the products that carry, with the

2157
02:35:46.319 --> 02:35:50.360
kind of folks that you get in
there. I just it drives me nuts

2158
02:35:50.440 --> 02:35:54.520
to go into a business and the
minute you ask a question of some employee,

2159
02:35:54.840 --> 02:35:56.760
you can look in their eyes until
they're going to keep talking, but

2160
02:35:56.920 --> 02:36:01.680
they do not know what they're talking
about. And that is not the case

2161
02:36:01.760 --> 02:36:03.760
with Ace. You can go to
Ace Hardware dot com and find the ACE

2162
02:36:03.840 --> 02:36:07.559
stores near you. For crying out, lot of there's thirty nine of them

2163
02:36:07.559 --> 02:36:09.040
in the greater house scenario. I
mean, how hard is that to find

2164
02:36:09.120 --> 02:36:16.040
one? The selection of products,
the quality of employee and service is like

2165
02:36:16.239 --> 02:36:20.319
none other. If we recommend fertilizer
on our products, you know here on

2166
02:36:20.639 --> 02:36:24.559
garden Line, they're going to have
them at ACE. And that's nice.

2167
02:36:24.639 --> 02:36:28.479
It's a one stop shopping Go to
ACE Hardware dot com, find the one

2168
02:36:28.559 --> 02:36:33.159
near you and see what I'm talking
about when I start bragging again about Ace

2169
02:36:33.239 --> 02:36:37.600
Hardware. You know, garden Line
has been on a long time since the

2170
02:36:37.680 --> 02:36:41.760
fifties and the longest running host that
Gardenline has had, the guy who built

2171
02:36:41.840 --> 02:36:46.079
this show, is Randy Lemon.
Randy, of course, is no longer

2172
02:36:46.159 --> 02:36:50.639
with us, but it is in
his legacy. Dean Nelson has set up

2173
02:36:50.639 --> 02:36:56.760
a scholarship for Randy at Texas A
and M for horticulture students, so future

2174
02:36:56.799 --> 02:37:01.079
horticulture students, the memory, the
legacy of Randy Lemon will live on in

2175
02:37:01.120 --> 02:37:05.920
the Randy Lemon class of eighty four
Memorial Scholarship. If you go online,

2176
02:37:05.000 --> 02:37:09.680
and I ask you to do this, go online to give dot am slash

2177
02:37:11.159 --> 02:37:16.440
Randy Lemon and make a donation toward
that. This is a donation that lives

2178
02:37:16.479 --> 02:37:20.639
on and I can guarantee you this. Nothing could make Randy more proud than

2179
02:37:20.719 --> 02:37:26.760
to know that his legacy lives on
in that kind of way at the university

2180
02:37:26.840 --> 02:37:30.479
that he loved. By the way, also I want to thank the folks

2181
02:37:30.520 --> 02:37:35.440
at RCW Nursery donating a nutall oak
that's planted out at the Brookwood community.

2182
02:37:35.040 --> 02:37:37.719
Thanks Arburgate too, by the way, for putting out a bench out there.

2183
02:37:39.040 --> 02:37:41.920
This is a place where you can
go a nutall What a great choice

2184
02:37:41.959 --> 02:37:43.239
of an oak too, by the
way, where you can go, and

2185
02:37:43.360 --> 02:37:48.319
it's a memory that will live on
there as well. That was an important

2186
02:37:48.639 --> 02:37:52.040
place for Randy. Randy believed in
Brookwood and for good reason, and now

2187
02:37:52.120 --> 02:37:56.959
that memory lives on there as well. Thanks so much to those folks for

2188
02:37:58.479 --> 02:38:01.959
doing that. Thank you for listening
to Gardenline. We look forward to visiting

2189
02:38:03.079 --> 02:38:07.239
with you again next week six am
to ten am Saturday and Sunday,