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

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

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It's crazy he shrim Just watch him
as so many things to sup that

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crazy gas. They're not a side
side. Well, good morning, good

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Sunday morning. Did you enjoy that
extra hour of sleep? I sure did,

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that is for sure. Hey,
if you look outside it's dark,

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if your neighbor's lights aren't on,
go bang on the door, tell him

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they're missing Garden Line and they will
sew. So appreciate that reminder. We're

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here today to talk about the gardening
questions that interest you most. What do

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you what are you interested in?
What do you what do you grow?

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What do you you know? What
are your hobbies? When it comes to

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gardening. You know the world of
gardening, it's a it's really an unending

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world. I was talking to somebody
yesterday when I was out at Siena Maltch

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and by the way, thank thank
you guys out there for having me come

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in. I appreciated that. Got
to meet some really cool folks and give

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away a lot of really cool product
too. But anyway, I was talking

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to somebody and said they were I
can't remember what the plant was, but

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they were starting to get interested in
that kind of plant. And I just

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said, you know, gardening is
an addictive hobby and there are so many

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things. You know, maybe you're
a vegetable gardener and suddenly you discover,

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oh it was bones eye, that
was that was what it was. They

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were getting interested in bones eye.
Maybe it's orchids, maybe it's roses.

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It's go crazy on roses. And
it doesn't matter what it is. There

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is a group of people that are
really enthusiastic about it, a lot of

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good information out there on it.
And I think that's the fun thing about

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gardening. You know, I've kind
of wandered through. I'm supposed to be

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knowledgeable about all the areas, but
there's areas that each year it's like some

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new area that I take on.
For example, bones I haven't. I'm

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not a bones eye person. I've
never done that. I guess one day

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that's going to be the thing I
pick up and actually learn. But as

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you do that, you just get
to choose the hobbies that interest you and

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that fit you. You know,
Let's say you weren't able to get up

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and be out in the outside a
lot and things well bones eye is a

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is a nice little hobby that you
could do. Uh. And when it

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comes to what what is your reason
for gardening? Is it health? Do

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you want do you want healthy food? Do you want to grow your own

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vegetables and herbs and fruits for example? Do you just want to have a

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beautiful showplace? You can? You
can do it all with gardening. That

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is one of the things I love
most. Hey, our phone number is

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seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

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two kt r A. I was
at at Cena Maltz yesterday and you know,

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Sienna is it's just a I always
like to go there because the quality

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of products they have are are unmatched. And if you live down south of

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the Houston area maybe Highway six and
two eighty eight that area, they're on

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FM five twenty one by the way, and their their website is Ciena multch

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dot com, so it's really easy
to find them. But they have quality

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hardwood mulches. You know, they
have the screened mult they have the black

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velvet as one they were talking to
me about yesterday. They started getting in

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there's a there is a quality composhing
by bulk. You can buy it in

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the bag if you're twenty miles within
about twenty miles of them, they'll even

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deliver for a small fee, of
course. And then all the fertilizers.

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I was just looking over all the
quality for it's like the stuff I talk

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about here, They've got it there, tools and everything else you need.

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Ciana Multch they I would say that
anyone who lives anywhere in that whole region

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south down that direction is so fortunate
to have seen amultch in your backyard because

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of the quality products and and because
of the fact that you can go there

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and get your own you can get
the bags or you can actually just you

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know, delivered, have it delivered
bulk, very convenient. What do you

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need? They can do it?
And you know, I keep saying,

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the brown stuff before the green stuff. If you are planning on planting a

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garden, or if you're planning on
putting some shrubs in or anything you're going

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to do, you want to take
care of the soil first. And that's

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that's what they're all about. Uh. The last was it last week or

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the week before, may have been
the week before, but I was I

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was out and actually still have an
okra patch going out in the backyard because

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I do okra breeding, crossing different
types and I'm trying to develop more compact

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okra that are also more attractive so
that you could use them. You could

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plan them along a privacy fence and
have almost a shrub row through the summer

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that has beautiful color in the foliage
and whatnot, and beautiful color in the

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pods, but it is also very
productive and quality okay that you're eating.

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And as I go through, it's
always interesting to see the different crosses and

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what comes from them. Sometimes you
kind of can predict where it's going to

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go. Sometimes it's like, wow, where did that come from? And

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I was out looking at one of
the one of the plantings and just an

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overloaded bush with lots of beautiful burgundy
pods on it, and I looked at

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its brothers and sisters that were around
it, and nothing matched it. This

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was really an exceptional plant. And
that's kind of fun and a lot of

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people get into that. There are
people that breed day lilies. They really

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into day lilies, and they cross
their day lilies hibiscus. That's another one

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the people, you know, amateurs, not professional breeders, but amateurs play

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with and so what are you interested
in in gardening? We're pretty soon going

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to be getting into the end or
seed starting. We're still a couple of

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months away, but when we begin
the indoor seed starting, that's a whole

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other world, the indoor propagating and
whatnot. Well, our phone number is

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

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to give us a call, we'll
be happy to visit with you about that.

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For those of you up there in
Tomball, I'm gonna brag on D

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and D Feed a little bit.
D and D Feed is your hometown feed

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store. They're about three miles west
of Highway to forty nine on twenty nine

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to twenty and I was out the
other day visiting with them, and you

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know, the Dover family just keeps
making it better. There was a whole

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new section that I hadn't even noticed, well I hadn't. It wasn't there

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the previous time i'd been out where
they had a lot of different kinds of

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seeds and bulk seeds. So if
you're a gardener and you want to just

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you know, get the little scoops
a very economical bulk seed. Maybe you're

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going to put in some I don't
know, mustard or radishes or whatever you

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wanted to plant. They have that
there as well. They carry all the

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fertilizers that we talk about on garden
Line. They have a very good selection

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of all the things that manage the
things that go after your plants, so

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that would be insects and diseases,
and I'll just throw weeds in there as

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well. I was surprised at the
diversity and the amount of options that they

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had, so pretty much if you've
got something bugging your plants, they can

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take care of that. I always
when I'm at D and D Feed,

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I always grab a couple of the
bones from the doggy deli, and my

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dogs thoroughly enjoyed those. That was
that was for sure. But go check

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them out at D and D Feed, I think you'll be surprising. And

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very high quality pet foods too,
by the way, and of course it's

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a feed start. They've got livestock
feed and all the other things like that

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that you might need. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four, and I'm
going to go take a break here,

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give Josh a call and get on
the boards, and we will visit with

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you when we come back. Well, good Sunday morning. You're listening to

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garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and we're talking all kinds

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of things gardening. Today. We're
going to go straight to the phone,

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by the way, the number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four. We're going to start off
with Phil in Spring. Hello Phil,

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hie, Skip, good morning.
I want to ask you about a critter.

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This burrowed up under a bush in
a flower bed. Okay, and

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uh, he's burrowed up about I
guess about two feet made about a six

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inch hole. My guess this is
the armadilla. But I'm not sure.

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I wonder if you had any idea
how to tell. Well, that's a

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good that's a good likelihood that it
is. But I'm not a wildlife specialist,

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that's for sure. I am true. You said how wide was a

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hole? It's about six inches in
diameter. It could be an armadilla.

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I guess. I'm just not sure
what else would do that. You know,

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you could put a live trap in
front of it and maybe try some

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different kinds of baits. If it's
an armadilla. The recipe for the bayes

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take elbow macaroni, boil it and
beef boy on and then drop the little

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macaronis around there. It's almost like
they're eating grubs, and you can try

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take them right into the trap.
They're bumbling little creatures, so you kind

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of have to lead them into a
trap. But once you have them live

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trap, then you can, you
know, take them out and release them

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in the wild. Yeah. Would
raccoon do that? I know, I

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know what I should. I've never
heard of a raccoon doing that. Okay,

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I don't think so. Okay,
Well, he certainly made himself home

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at home. He was down way
into the roots. Oh wow, so

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interesting. I've never seen one.
Yeah, telling me that, there's no

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telling. Uh. I've seen him
in the woods a lot and shot him

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and everything, but I've never seen
where they where they nest, you know.

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Okay, Well, all right,
thank you, good luck dealing with

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it. Maybe you need a wildlife
cam and you can watch it. You

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can watch it and see what that
was. We're going to head out now

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to Bill and Cypress. Hello,
Bill, whoa, how you? Good

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morning? I'm well, I'm well, how are you doing? I'm well

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on a Sunday morning. All right, Well, let's talk gardening. Uh.

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Well, I've got a grass situation. Okay, backyard had a little

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bit of Saint Augustine with a heat, we got a lot of drought,

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a lot of weeds, and I've
got behaved. I believe it might be

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behave coast. I don't think it's
coastal, but I want to get rid

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of every grass weed that I can. And a friend of mine said to

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use agrolong, but I wanted to
check with somebody such as yourself. Are

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you talking about the cinema product?
The product? I don't know. Okay,

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he just said agrolong, But I
want to I want my Saint Augustine

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to grow and everything else die.
And I don't have any trees in the

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back. Well, so yeah,
let me let me direct you. I'm

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going to direct you to my schedule
online because your question really is a bunch

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of questions in one. If you
go to gardening with Skip dot com,

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you can find the lawn, pest, Disease and weed management schedule. And

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in the weed management part it has
the weed prevention January through December and when

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you apply and what you apply,
and then it has the weed killing existing

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weeds. That's the post emergent and
it would also go January through the end

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of the year and it lists everything. There's organic and synthetic options if they're

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available, and I would just refer
you to that because this is going to

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be a multi stage process. You
know, right now our winter weeds are

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germinating, so to prevent winter broad
leaf and grassy weeds, you would put

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on a product like barricade for example, to prevent those. And then in

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the spring you're preventing warm season weeds. And if you have weeds that escape,

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then you use the post emergent product
on those. So it's more complicated

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than just a radio call. But
go to that schedule. That's why I

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put it together and you can find
everything you need. Again, it's gardening,

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and that is gardeningwi Skip dot com. That's it, Yes, sir,

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that is. And having said that, and this is also on this

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schedule, I'll read it to you. The first and most important step in

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weed control is to build a dense, healthy turf over time through proper fertilizing,

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mowing, and watering wherever sunlight hits
the soil. Nature plants a weed.

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So you just don't want to be
on a treadmill where you have a

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thin lawn and it's just constantly fighting
weeds. For now, there's the things

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we do to prevent them and kill
them. But get your lawn in a

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dense shape and you're going to have
very very reduced weed issues. I've got

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one weed that is a hearty looking
grain stam. It comes up as about

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six eight and it goes taller six
eight inches tall, but it's got a

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little yellow flower on the end of
it. And when you pull it up

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and you get an opportunity, it's
real strong root, okay or stamp,

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but when you pull it up it
looks like a carrot. So what type

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of weed is that? Well,
I can put you on hold and you

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send me a photo that's the best
type. But I can tell you it's

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a broad leaf weed that you would
use a post emergent product on for broad

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leaf and that's on my schedule.
All right, I'm gonna put you on

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hold. You can either hang up
or you can get an email from Josh

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your choice. Thank you, sir
for calling. Yeah. That Southwest Fertilizer,

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By the way, is where everybody
can find whatever they need. Like

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I said before, I go in
there just to walk the aisles and say,

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okay, what's new on the market, because there's always new things coming

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on the market. And if it's
new or if it's old, Bob's going

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to have it. Southwest Fertilizer.
I mean, if they don't have it,

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you don't need it. That's how
it works. Herbicides and sexticides,

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fundersides. Maybe you're an organic gardener
and you want our products. They've got

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that too. Any kind of tool
you could possibly need for gardening is there

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at Southwest Fertilizer. They will sharpen
your mower blades. It's a good time

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to do that, by the way, because you're going to start mowing again

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here in the spring, and that's
when there's a little bit of a line

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to get more blades sharpened and to
get your two cycle engine things, you

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know, fired up and working after
the wintertime. So go to Southwest Fertilizer

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dot com or just drive over there
there abissinut and runwick and you will find

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that no matter what it is you
need to have a beautiful on to bountiful

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landscape, you're going to find it
there at Southwest. Absolutely. I'm going

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to head now out to Katie and
talk to Jim. Hello, Jim Skip

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morning. Yeah. I got a
question about lot lolly pines and dam is

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done through the drought, you know, yeah, please, I mean the

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needles are help around now on a
number of trees. So I'm just wondering,

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well, is there any chance of
a coming back or Okay, what

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my something I can do? You
know? Yeah. So so just to

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be clear, there's not They're not
green needles left anywhere on the trees,

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right, I mean a lot of
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last. Yeah, So that's a
dead pine. It cannot come back,

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it has to. It can only
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sooner you get them out the better. If they're in a place where they

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can just drop them, that's less
expensive, and you can just go ahead

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and do that. But if they're
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it down from the top down,
then that that gets expensive and that pine

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bark starts sloughing off pretty quick after
they're dead, and so you need to

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get that done if they're gonna have
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as soon as possible. Okay,
that's what I was afraid of. Yeah,

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okay, all right, so and
let's see you're out and Katie.

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that for you. Have you ever
have you ever written that down or call

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them before? No, that I
will, all right, I'll give you

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the phone number right now, just
in case you go ahead and get that

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done. Seven one, three,
six nine nine twenty six sixty three.

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take care. I appreciate the call. Yeah. I tell you, trees,

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uh, you know a lot of
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know the non pine types of trees. They you have a little more time

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to get those down. You still
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you have a little more time.
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I wouldn't. And pines are are
weird. They twist as they grow up

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like a barber pole. And so
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sometimes you kind of don't know where
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if you don't know what you're doing
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tree, and the closer it is
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absolutely need to not try that one
yourself. For sure. You know,

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Nelson still has this special thing going
on with their carbo load, and that

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is that they donate two dollars for
every bag of carbo load sold this fall

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to the Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship for
horticulture students at Texas A and M.

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And I know nothing could make Randy
prouder than to know that in his legacy

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that has been created. And I
know we would love that, but two

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dollars forever bag of carbo load,
and carbo load is great. It's designed

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for fall, it's designed with that
high potassium amount in it that helps your

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lawn get stronger going into winter,
which means it comes out stronger in the

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spring. Remember, the earliest growth
of your lawn in the spring is from

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stored energy, not from the roots. And so you got to get that

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thing strong the October fertilization, which
we still can get it on in November,

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but you need to hurry up and
do it because the longer you wait,

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the less effect that is going to
be able to have. So go

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ahead and get that done. And
also it has a pre emergent which prevents

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weeds. And again if the weeds
are all sprouted and growing, it's a

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little late to do that. So
don't delay on these things. But uh,

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two dollars on every bag to Randy
Scholarship. We appreciate Nelson's being willing

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to do that. I know that
was very important to Dean to do.

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Uh, and something they really they
really should be proud of because it is

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also just a quality product. All
right, let's see my phone number seven

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

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five eight seven four. Folks out
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they have their native plant of the
month is Texas beauty berry. If

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you've not seen a beauty berry,
it's a it's a plant that grows wild

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in the woods, but the leaves
fall off in the fall and it leaves

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these clusters of kind of a I'm
color challenged, but the people call them

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purple, but I think more of
a purple a light purple color is I

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guess lavender is not quite the right
word for the color. But anyway,

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very beautiful, nice for arrangements against
an eighty plant. It just does so

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so well. Here you get it
in a droughty situation and it's one of

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those plants that can survive despite that. They also have the airloom soils and

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age leaf composts three bags for thirty
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All the packaged bulbs, you buy
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It is still a good time to
plant bulbs. And then everything else onion

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sets, garlic bulbs, amorillis,
cycloman pansies for your fall color or winter

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color. Everything's there at Kingwoo Garden
Center and Warren's Southern Garden And on November

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eighteenth, just coming up here,
they're going to have an opportunity to learn

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the art of creating stunning festive container
planting. Say have you ever committ to

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somebody's house and that a container that
was just, oh my gosh, that's

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perfect, it's gorgeous. How'd you
do it? We'll go. It's a

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free event. You can learn how
to do it, simple as that it

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warrens Southern Gardens on November eighteenth.
Well, it's time for us to take

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a little break, if you would
like to give us a call and get

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on the boards with Josh. The
number is seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four. Well,
good morning on a Sunday morning. That's

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going to turn out to be a
really nice day. Be a good day

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to get out this afternoon, get
some things done, maybe go around to

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a little bit of gardening shopping.
We're in the big middle of fall season.

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And I know you know here in
our area when when is fall.

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We're supposed to be September, but
not really right, and it goes on

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into November. And I think winter
is two or three days, but they

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vary every year what two or three
days winter is here in the Crater Houston

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area. But this is the time, this is the prime time for planting.

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It is if you're planning a woody
ornamental, a tree or shrub or

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woody vine. If you get it
in now, roots can grow in our

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soil temperatures all through the winter and
not super fast, but grow and so

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by the time next summer comes,
you've got a big head start on that

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tree, having an established root system
that can deal with heat and drought,

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and so it's very valuable to get
that done very important to remember to do

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that. And the folks at RCW, they've got they have a wide variety

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of trees, all kinds of different
trees. They've grown themselves up Plannersville and

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right now they've got some tree deals. By the way, the spring fling

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that they're having is next Saturday,
and it's from eleven thirty to one thirty,

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and I'm going to be there.
I don't want to forget to mention

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that they're going to have barbecue sandwich
lunch. They're going to have fifteen percent

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off on select trees. They'll be
giving away frost cloth, remember we talked

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about that yesterday, Microlife, fertilizer, Nelson fertilizer, flowers, nitrophoss,

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fungicides, all out there. They're
going to give away tree seedlings, lace

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spark elm Mexican white oak and live
oak and these are nice, little well

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grown seedlings and special containers that make
for a great root system. They've got

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other tree deals live oaks and San
Philippi red maples on sale. And so

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it's a good time to get out
there. It's a good time to select

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a tree or a shrub. And
while you're out there, you're going to

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find a lot of other plants at
our Sew nursery. Now if you have

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not been before, it's easy to
find. It's the nursery that is right

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there where Tambo Parkway two forty nine
comes into Beltwegh eight And if you just

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want to go to the website and
find it that way RCW nurseries dot com.

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But remember fall is for planting,
and that doesn't just just mean woody

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ornamentals. Do you want to put
in a perennial Do you want to put

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in a perennial grass? This is
the prime time to plant them. How

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about herbs? You know, not
a warm season annual herb like basil,

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but pretty much all the other herbs
can be planted in the fall of the

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perennial herbs a regano and time and
rosemary and on and on down the line.

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Prime time to do it. I
can't stress that enough. And it

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just you will find that a plant
you put in in the fall and get

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established when things are easy. It
just hits the ground running when spring comes,

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versus a plant that you drop in
the ground right at that time.

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We can plant twelve months out of
the year here that that's fine. Plant

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any month you want to, but
you're sitting in the big middle of the

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best season in the world. If
you want a little help making sure those

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plants survive and thrive, That's what
I'm trying to say. Our phone number

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is seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four.
Give Josh a call, get you on

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the boards, and we'll visit with
you here in just a bit. I

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want to remind you that our lawn
and schedules are on my website at Gardening

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with Skip dot com gardeningwiskip dot com. The lawn Care schedule talks about fertilizing

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and it also gives an aeration and
trace minerals the It also gives information on

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mowing and watering, which you think
I know how to mow and water,

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well, you need to read this
because there's a lot of information on here

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that is very helpful for that.
The second schedule is the long Pest,

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Disease and Weed Management schedule. Insects, diseases and weeds. What happens when,

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like when do we start looking for
chinchabugs? When do we start looking

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for when's the best time to treat
grubs, and there is a best time

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and what do you use? You
just drop down to the bottom of the

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schedule. You can go organic or
synthetic, and the options are all down

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there for you. It's really easy. I would encourage you to go ahead

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and bookmark these. You can print
them out, but just know that I

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am adding and enhancing those as we
go through and new things come along,

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so it's always a good idea to
check back for those originals. But boy,

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that makes it really easy. While
you're there on the website, check

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out the brand new publication that I
put up on dealing with frosts and freezes

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in your landscape and in your gardens. It goes through the whole nine yards.

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A little bit of the nerdy stuff
about the different types of frost freeze

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and you know how they happen and
why they happen, but a lot of

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information on what can you do to
protect your plants, like should you sprinkle

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the leaves with water so ice forms
because you've seen people in citrus orchards do

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that, right, maybe pictures on
the news. Well there's a huge con

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and also a little pro and the
bottom answer is probably not In most cases,

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probably not, But what about does
it important to water the soil first?

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How do you cover a tree?
How do you what if it's going

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to get really cold and just the
cover isn't enough, what do you do?

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It's all in their nine pages,
color pictures and everything, and we're

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entering that season and you're going to
need it, so go ahead and get

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it, print it out. I
co authored it with one of our horticulture

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specialists from Texas A and M,
and it is. It is a very

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extensive publication, one that I think
every gardener should have because everybody someday is

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going to be heading out to get
the things you need to protect your plants.

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By the way, if you haven't
already purchased things like clamp on lights

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or covers for plants, or some
of the other things you're going to want

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to use, you better go get
them, because on the day that the

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blue northers blowing in, everybody has
already cleaned out wherever you're shopping to get

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all those things, and you're kind
of left up a creek. And I've

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just true confessions. I've been the
guy that you know it's dark already on

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the night the wind is blowing,
it's frigid cold. My hands are stiff,

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and I'm trying to cover up a
plant to say that. Don't be

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that guy. Hopefully I learned my
lesson about that. Hey, if you

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thought about having a little tractor for
your property, I say little, I

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don't know. It's kind of the
way it came out. I would recommend

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the L twenty five two from Kboda. That's their workhorse, and they've got

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a really good deal now that you
can go. When they call it the

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pick click Go Orange. The pick
is pick out that tractor in Caboda you

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want. I like that eltim two
click on the package deal at tractor package

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dot com. So that allows you
to put a package together, like maybe

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you want a box blade, maybe
you want a front end loader or a

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postal dig or a rotary cutter.
You pick out what you want to go

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with it for the package deal,
and then you get the best finance plan

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I've seen. That's the go Orange
part. Lansdown and Caboda now have extended

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that deal for up to eighty four
months. And what the deal is,

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no money down, no interest for
eighty four months now Landsdown it's a local

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Houston company. Lansdown's from here.
It's been here since nineteen thirty six,

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nine locations on the Texas golf Coast. You're not going to have trouble finding

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a Lansdown Moody lmtractor dot com.
Go buy and just sit on one.

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Just check it out and get a
feel for the thing. Let them tell

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you a little bit about it.
I think you will really enjoy that because

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they're one sweet ride, absolutely one
sweet ride if you're interested in and some

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fall color. In winter color,
it's still a good time. In fact,

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now that it's really cooling off a
little bit more, and I know

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we're about to go into a warm
week, but we're entering that season.

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This is a good time to plant
pansies and viola's, for example, they

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like it a little bit cooler.
Snap dragons or a beautiful plant. You

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can get the tall types that are
good for cut flowers if you want a

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cut flower garden, or you can
get the more compact types that are good

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for betting plants. And they're just
a riot of color. Every color you

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can imagine in the snap dragons,
the dianthus or the sweet Williams. There's

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a compact type that are betting plants, real beautiful and then there's the tall

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types that have long stems that can
be used also for cut flowers. So

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those are just a couple options.
Maybe I'll talk about a few more when

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we come back. But by the
way, on the Dianthus, if you

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can find the real tall types like
Amazon and I can think of the Jolts

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as the other series, those are
unbelievably stunning neon colors. Well, let's

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take a break our phone number seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four. Well, good morning,
and you are listening to Garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and it's gonna be a nice Sunday today.

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I love this kind of weather.
I know it's gonna warm up a

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little bit as we go into the
week, but hey, anybody who survived

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the summer, you know you're gonna
do fine. It's not gonna get nearer

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that hot. And that is a
good thing. One advantage actually of having

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a little bit warmer weather. When
I say warmer, i'm talking about you

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know in that lower eighties. Lord
a mid even is that the plants are

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gonna grow rapidly. So let's say
you put broccoli in the ground. You

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got a little bit of a late
start on it or something. You gotch

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the broccoli in the ground, and
if we went down to you know,

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the forties, that broccoli is gonna
grow slower. I mean, can take

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cold weather, it's gonna grow slower. But right now it's gonna move fast.

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And that is a good thing because
eventually things are gonna cool off and

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we want to get the most out
of whatever we're growing that we can.

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I want to brag about something you've
heard me talk about. McGrath Pest Control,

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a Scott's company that just absolutely when
you talk about a company that has

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years of experience, when you talk
about a company that is a kind of

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service company that you can depend on. If they say I'm going to show

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up, they show up at that
time. They don't make you block half

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your day just in case they might
come by. They cover the whole Houston

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area. Well, they again have
won. It's amazing. They're always whether

436
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it's customer ratings and reviews, but
right now we've got the McGrath Pest Control

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Services one the Curator's pick for serving
the Greater Houston area and it's just a

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it's just amazing that. Well.
I appreciate the fact that they're getting recognized

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for the kind of quality that they
provide. Now that includes whatever you need.

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I mean, is it termites,
or is it fire ants, or

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is it mosquitoes or is it you
know, roaches in the house, varmints

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in the attic. I mean,
they cover it all at McGrath pest Control.

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It's easy to get a hold of
them mechgrath pestcontrol dot com or two

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eight one four six nine eighty two
forty simple as that. Congratulations, Scott.

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00:31:12.400 --> 00:31:15.160
Let's see We're gonna go to ro
Sharon now and talk to Dennis.

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00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:19.240
Hello, Dennis, Hello, how
are you there? I'm well, thank

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you. My question is about using
surf factor when you're using a liquid herbicide,

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00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:33.799
and if you dilute with softened water, does that make any difference whether

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00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:38.480
you still need surffected or not.
Well, the softened water helps the droplets

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spread out a little bit, but
the surfactant does a much better job.

451
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:48.640
Now you could use them both and
that that's fine. The thing with the

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herbicides is, you know, when
you purchase them, talk to the people

453
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and ask. But a lot of
our products now come with a surfactan in

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it. Now you can add additional
if you want. But some products they

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00:32:00.319 --> 00:32:04.400
are made to do that. I
mean, you know, for example,

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you're gonna spray like image on your
nut's edge. Well, nut's edge has

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00:32:08.920 --> 00:32:13.440
leaves that point straight up in the
air and they are slick and glossy.

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00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:15.960
Who could make a product and not
put a surfactant in it, you know,

459
00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:20.000
for for a weed like that.
So that's just an example. But

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00:32:20.440 --> 00:32:22.599
a lot of them already have it. But if you ad a little more,

461
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:27.119
it doesn't hurt anything. Would there
What words would they be if they

462
00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:30.880
didn't use the words a fact that
What words would they be that would indicate

463
00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:35.839
they have some in its already?
It should it should say surfactant or if

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00:32:35.839 --> 00:32:38.079
it doesn't, just talk to the
people that are selling you the product.

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They should know they should be.
Yeah, and if you have specific products,

466
00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:45.000
I can I can check into it
and look into them for you.

467
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But I was talking to somebody the
other day about that, and you know,

468
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they were explaining to me that,
uh, a lot of the products

469
00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:55.960
now they just went ahead and put
those in there. Oh good, you

470
00:32:57.000 --> 00:33:00.519
know, Okay, Hey, thanks
for the call. I appreciate that very

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00:33:00.599 --> 00:33:07.079
much. Dennis. If you live
in the Central Houston area, especially North

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00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:13.559
direction. Quality Feed and Garden Center
that's your hometown feed store and Ken and

473
00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:15.880
Cress. They've been running this for
a long time. They've been running for

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00:33:15.920 --> 00:33:19.799
thirty two years, been around since
nineteen twenty eight. I used to go

475
00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:22.880
to the old location. Now they're
on Luzon Street that's near the intersection of

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00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:28.880
Equipment and Alesion. It's eighteen thirteen
louson Monday through Friday nine to six,

477
00:33:28.960 --> 00:33:31.680
Saturday nine to four, Sunday eleven
to four. I mean, it's not

478
00:33:31.759 --> 00:33:36.559
hard to find a time when they're
open and they carry everything that we brag

479
00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:39.960
on here on Garden Line. I
saw a notice recently on their Facebook that

480
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they got in a whole new shipment
of chicks and if you're interested in backyard

481
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:49.240
chickens, just call them. I
mean it's about every two weeks they get

482
00:33:49.240 --> 00:33:51.680
some of those in. It seems
like they even have some ducks that came

483
00:33:51.720 --> 00:33:54.720
in this last time. That's pretty
neat. If you want some coal weather

484
00:33:54.799 --> 00:34:00.200
vegetables, yep. They also have
some plants there and all the products need

485
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:04.799
to take care of them. Inside
Quality Feed and Garden Center, it's a

486
00:34:04.839 --> 00:34:07.519
fun place. You get that old
time field. They even have an antique

487
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:14.000
seed rack from nineteen twenty eight that
they stock with bulk seeds. So another

488
00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:17.239
good reason to go to Quality Feed
and Garden as if you needed another one,

489
00:34:17.599 --> 00:34:22.719
which uh, there's there's plenty.
You're listening to garden Line and our

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00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:28.519
phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four or seven

491
00:34:28.559 --> 00:34:32.360
one three two one two ktrh.
If that is easier to just go about

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00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:37.519
it that way. I do want
to remind you that I'm going to be

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at RCW Nurseries next Saturday at rcw's
next Saturday. Now, RCW is having

494
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:49.159
one heck of a shindig out there. I'll be there from eleven thirty to

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00:34:49.280 --> 00:34:52.119
one thirty, and they're gonna have
food, They're gonna have a lot of

496
00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.920
fun things going on at the event. Uh. And they they've got some

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00:34:55.039 --> 00:35:00.599
special sales, especially on trees and
things that are amazing. They're giving away

498
00:35:00.639 --> 00:35:05.239
some little seedlings of trees. Like
if if you want a quality seedling grown

499
00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:08.800
properly in a special container that has
a great root system, you're gonna be

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00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:12.719
amazed at these. I know they're
small. Put them in the ground,

501
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:16.079
they hit the ground running. Put
them in the ground now falls for planting

502
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:21.000
and they will grow fast and you'll
be amazed how fast you have a tree.

503
00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:23.400
And they're all good species if they've
selected for that. But again,

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00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:29.239
that's RCW Nursery's next Saturday from eleven
thirty to one thirty, So block your

505
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:31.239
calendar police come out there. I
want to meet the folks that listen to

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00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:35.440
Garden Line. I want to get
to visit with you. And as always

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00:35:35.440 --> 00:35:39.239
when I do these appearances, if
you have photos or maybe you have plant

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00:35:39.280 --> 00:35:45.719
samples, you want something identified.
You want something a problem diagnosed. If

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00:35:45.800 --> 00:35:49.760
you have a landscape area and it's
like, look at this, what do

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00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:52.960
I do here? What do you
suggest for an area like this, we'll

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00:35:52.960 --> 00:35:54.880
sit down and talk about it.
This is an eye to eye opportunity with

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00:35:54.960 --> 00:35:59.000
me and I just love doing that. It's one of my favorite things to

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00:35:59.039 --> 00:36:02.440
do is to visit with guards and
so please make a note on your calendar

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00:36:02.559 --> 00:36:09.800
for next Saturday, eleven thirty to
one thirty at RCW Nurseries. I say

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00:36:09.880 --> 00:36:15.239
followers for planting and what else do
I say? Brown stuff before the green

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00:36:15.320 --> 00:36:19.880
stuff? What does that mean?
That means get your soil ready, you

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00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:22.199
get it ready with composts. You
get it ready with fertilizers if needed.

518
00:36:22.800 --> 00:36:27.960
You know, you moltz on the
top. That's all brown stuff. The

519
00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:30.119
green stuff is a plants. That's
a fun part, and we're going to

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00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:34.159
do that. We like quality plants
and get them in the ground. But

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00:36:34.280 --> 00:36:37.880
first comes to brown stuff and Nature's
Way Resources, they absolutely know how to

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00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:42.840
do that. They've been doing this. John Ferguson's been doing this. I

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00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:44.960
don't know how long. I need
to ask him one of these days.

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00:36:44.960 --> 00:36:47.360
But Audis know this that a lot
of the products that are now famous and

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00:36:47.400 --> 00:36:51.719
you see all around town, like
rose soil and leaf moow composts and so

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00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:53.960
on, they were the first.
In fact, there's a line of probably

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00:36:54.360 --> 00:37:00.719
oh two dozen things that they were
the first at at Nature's Way Resources.

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00:37:00.880 --> 00:37:05.599
And now they have a wonderful little
garden center there, a nursery and lots

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00:37:05.599 --> 00:37:08.159
of trees. They really are aiming
toward a native direction. They have other

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00:37:08.239 --> 00:37:12.440
things not native, but you need
to go buy and check it out.

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You can buy bags, you can
buy bulk, you can have them delivered.

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00:37:15.239 --> 00:37:20.480
It everything you need with a quality
product that's very important. Every Friday

533
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:25.519
is Fungal Friday. That means ten
dollars off bag products and twenty ten dollars

534
00:37:27.079 --> 00:37:31.800
ten percent off bag products and twenty
percent off their bulk products. So what

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00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:36.480
a great deal. That's a good
opportunity, and especially if you're buying a

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00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:39.920
fungal product, to say their phone
number nine three six three two one sixty

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00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:46.960
nine ninety nine three six sixty one
sixty nine ninety as simple as that.

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00:37:47.760 --> 00:37:51.480
Well, hey, we're running out
of time here for this hour. We

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00:37:51.599 --> 00:37:53.679
will be back though. You want
to give Josh a call and get on

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00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:58.599
the boards, you can be first
up. Our phone number is seven to

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00:37:58.599 --> 00:38:04.039
one three. Thank you, fifty
eight seventy four. Give us a call.

542
00:38:05.280 --> 00:38:08.039
Remember just I know I keep saying
this, but I still run into

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00:38:08.079 --> 00:38:10.960
a lot of people that they listen
to the show, but they just haven't

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00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:16.440
heard. I have a website,
gardeningwiskip dot com. That's where I put

545
00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:22.239
everything that's educational for you, that
has my lawn care schedule, my lawn

546
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:25.920
pest disease and weed management schedule,
a brand new publication I just put up

547
00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:30.320
on dealing with frosts and freezers.
Whether it's a vegetable garden or a prize

548
00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:35.639
shrub or whatever you have I tell
you all about how to protect those plants

549
00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:40.239
and basically the science behind it so
you can understand how to do it successfully.

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Well, we'll be right back.
Thanks for being a Gardenline listener.

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Ktrhgarden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on this

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00:38:52.400 --> 00:39:07.519
program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line
with Skip. It's so crazy, Trim,

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00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:22.679
just watching as many. Good morning
on a beautiful Sunday day. It's

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00:39:22.719 --> 00:39:25.719
a great day to get outside and
get some things planted. I was mentioning

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00:39:25.760 --> 00:39:30.480
earlier that if you want to see
plants grow fast, this is a good

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00:39:30.519 --> 00:39:35.239
time for that because we got a
little mild week going on here, temperatures

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00:39:35.280 --> 00:39:37.760
warming up a little bit, and
that just speeds things up even for our

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00:39:37.760 --> 00:39:42.239
cool season. Remember, something that
can survive the cold, whether it's a

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00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:46.239
pansy or a broccoli plant, doesn't
mean they want it thirty degrees out there.

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00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:51.679
They grow best in mild temperatures.
That's the fastest and they grow now,

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00:39:52.199 --> 00:39:55.880
especially with the pansy that I was
talking about, and violis, they

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00:39:55.880 --> 00:39:59.719
don't like it to get very warm, and they're not they're not happy with

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00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:01.840
a like you put them in out
in the uper eighties and ninety degrees,

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00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:06.159
they're not going to be that happy
about it. But in milder temperatures they

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do well. So it's time to
plant. It's time to get that done.

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I was visiting out the Quality Home
Products of Texas the other day because

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I always like to go buy and
see the kinds of products people have,

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00:40:17.840 --> 00:40:22.760
learn more about them, and find
out about, you know, the company

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00:40:22.760 --> 00:40:25.039
itself a little more. I always
learned something when I do that. I'm

570
00:40:25.039 --> 00:40:30.039
telling you they sell the generatic generator
and it's a quality generator, absolutely.

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00:40:30.519 --> 00:40:34.760
But when I talk about Quality Home, I just want to spend my time

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00:40:34.800 --> 00:40:38.039
talking about their customer service, their
highlights, call them the brag points.

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Over seventy seven thousand established satisfied customers. And why are they satisfied Because when

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you sit down with Quality they take
time to listen to what do you need

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00:40:49.719 --> 00:40:52.159
to protect? How big is your
house? All of that, and they

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00:40:52.159 --> 00:40:54.719
put you in the generator you need. They don't overseell, and you know

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00:40:54.760 --> 00:40:59.599
they don't, you know, just
try to get something else out of you.

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00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:02.480
They they make sure they're giving you
what you need and then they take

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00:41:02.519 --> 00:41:07.840
care of everything. Is your HOA
or your electric company. There's certain things.

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00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:09.719
They hoops you got to jump through. They jump the hoops for you.

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00:41:10.039 --> 00:41:14.079
They put out a they pour the
concrete pad, they bring the generator

582
00:41:14.119 --> 00:41:17.280
out by the way. Those generator
generators are sitting outside, and they come

583
00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:22.920
on automatically, so anytime something goes
wrong, if you need if you need

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00:41:23.599 --> 00:41:28.719
electricity, it automatically comes on.
You have to run out there and turn

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00:41:28.760 --> 00:41:32.400
the thing on. And it's just
so dependable. It is absolutely dependable.

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00:41:32.639 --> 00:41:38.880
And when you have customer service like
quality, it makes everything easy. They

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00:41:38.880 --> 00:41:43.599
even come back out and service the
thing two times a year. Eight times

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00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:47.360
now. They've won the Better Business
Bureaus Pinnacle Award for reasons just like this.

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00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:51.960
And I could talk for thirty minutes
on the awards they win and the

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00:41:51.960 --> 00:41:55.639
customer comments and things. When you
hire a service company, when you have

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00:41:55.760 --> 00:42:00.400
something installed, you want people who
do it right, who treat you right,

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00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:06.920
who absolutely provide service after the sale. And that's quality absolutely. I

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00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:08.679
mean, you can buy generators are
a lot of places, but you cannot

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00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:15.199
get that kind of service with a
quality generator and from Generat and the service

595
00:42:15.320 --> 00:42:20.199
that's the package that is just unheard
of and By the way, we're in

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00:42:20.239 --> 00:42:24.599
this time of the year where generator
the interest in generators is a little lower,

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00:42:24.639 --> 00:42:28.639
and I bet you've been thinking about
getting one. Now's the time.

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00:42:29.039 --> 00:42:32.920
It's kind of like driving in Houston
traffic during rush hour versus not rush hour.

599
00:42:34.559 --> 00:42:37.960
You get there faster, things happen
faster. So if you would like

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00:42:37.000 --> 00:42:39.880
to get that thing set up and
get all the hoops jump through, go

601
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:44.599
ahead and get that done. Now
it's time to pull the trigger on that

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00:42:44.719 --> 00:42:46.960
decision. Let's head off to Spring
Branch and we're going to talk to Sally.

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00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:52.519
Hello, Sally, is it too
late? Is it too late to

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00:42:52.559 --> 00:42:58.639
put out this the fal for Lazar
and the pre emergent. No, it's

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00:42:58.719 --> 00:43:01.239
not too late. There may have
been a few weeds that have germinated,

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00:43:01.519 --> 00:43:07.199
but there's a lot of weed germination
season that's still to come. And so

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00:43:07.800 --> 00:43:10.760
that's true. As far as the
fall fertilizer, we've still got mild temperatures

608
00:43:10.760 --> 00:43:14.639
where the grass can take it up. So don't delay. I do it

609
00:43:14.679 --> 00:43:19.199
today as a matter of fact,
because we got a week here where when

610
00:43:19.199 --> 00:43:22.079
you put it down, watered in
real good and then those roots are going

611
00:43:22.159 --> 00:43:25.639
to do what they do to make
sure that plant gets strong before winter.

612
00:43:27.920 --> 00:43:30.880
Great, thank you, yes,
thank you for the call. Appreciate that

613
00:43:31.119 --> 00:43:37.599
very much. It's speaking of fall
fertilizers. Nitrofoss has their Texas three step

614
00:43:37.920 --> 00:43:43.559
which has a fall fertilizer quality Nitrofoss
Fall Special Winter Riser Fertilizer. It's got

615
00:43:43.559 --> 00:43:46.320
the right ratios. You know.
It loads up in that potassium, drops

616
00:43:46.320 --> 00:43:50.719
the nitrogen down a little bit.
That's exactly what grass needs going into the

617
00:43:50.719 --> 00:43:53.119
winter, and it'll make your grass
stronger than the spring. Then they've got

618
00:43:53.119 --> 00:44:00.280
the Nitrofoss barricade that is a pre
emergent that prevents weeds. The Nitrofoss barricade

619
00:44:00.400 --> 00:44:04.480
works on grassy weeds and broad leaf
weeds. It too needs to be put

620
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:07.559
down soon and you need to water
it in about a half inch of water

621
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:09.679
just to get it down in the
soil surface. That's where it goes to

622
00:44:09.719 --> 00:44:15.360
work. And then finally the Nitrofoss
Eagle funge aside for turf well that is

623
00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:20.519
a systemic meaning it soaks into the
plant tissues. So when brown patch comes

624
00:44:20.559 --> 00:44:23.119
along or when take all root rot
tries to infect, which that would be

625
00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:29.559
typically nighttime temperatures around fifty five makes
take all really happy. It is there

626
00:44:29.639 --> 00:44:32.760
already waiting for them. Now you're
going to find Nitrofoss products at Gym's Hardware

627
00:44:32.760 --> 00:44:37.800
and Montgomery Ace Hardware City and Memorial
Lake Hardware out there in Clute. I

628
00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:43.159
mean just all over the place where
there's an Ace Hardware are a lot of

629
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:47.039
other kinds of stores. Nitrofoss is
going to be there. Let's now go

630
00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:52.280
to Ben in Tomball. Hello,
Ben, Hey, how you doing.

631
00:44:52.519 --> 00:44:57.960
I'm well, what's up? Hey? I had a question for you.

632
00:44:58.800 --> 00:45:01.440
I think I would listen to your
show yesterday. You play on Saturday,

633
00:45:01.519 --> 00:45:07.360
right, Yes, sir, okay. I heard something about spinach and it

634
00:45:07.519 --> 00:45:13.920
got a bug in me. I
love spinach, and so I was thinking,

635
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:20.920
can you grow spinach like in a
like a pot? Absolutely would even

636
00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:22.800
be worth doing it? Oh?
It is where it is worth doing it.

637
00:45:23.400 --> 00:45:25.280
You know. Now in a pot, you're only going to get so

638
00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:30.280
much spinach leaves, so you may
won't have more than one pot. But

639
00:45:30.440 --> 00:45:34.199
yes, if the pots, if
the pot's even three gallons, you can

640
00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:37.840
grow spinach very very well. In
that I like to make the containers a

641
00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:40.360
little larger just to be on the
safe side. So the plants really do

642
00:45:40.480 --> 00:45:44.639
thrive well. I've grown spinach in
a two and a half gallon pot and

643
00:45:44.679 --> 00:45:47.719
it did okay. But get a
good quality saw mix. That is very

644
00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:52.320
important to go in that container and
plant your spinach seeds. You can soak

645
00:45:52.320 --> 00:45:57.519
them overnight in warm water before you
plant them. That may speed things up

646
00:45:57.519 --> 00:46:00.000
a little bit, okay, but
then them out there. Okay, So

647
00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:04.800
you soak them overnight and then you
can't and then put them out there and

648
00:46:04.840 --> 00:46:07.639
then yeah, that starts the water
moves in the seed and that initiates the

649
00:46:07.760 --> 00:46:13.960
germination series of events that ends up
with the plant sprouting and coming up.

650
00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:19.239
So soaking them overnight is just a
good quick way to make sure they're moist

651
00:46:19.360 --> 00:46:22.960
and in warm water. That movement
into the seed is a little faster than

652
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:27.599
it's going to be out there in
the cold soil. But to make it

653
00:46:27.639 --> 00:46:30.880
worth it eating how many pots do
you think I should have? It depends

654
00:46:30.880 --> 00:46:35.360
on how much spinach you like.
You know, just picture of the picture

655
00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:38.960
the surface surface area of your pot, and you're going to put a spinach

656
00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:45.280
plant about every six inches across that
pot and just figured it out, and

657
00:46:45.519 --> 00:46:49.760
you know, stagger your rows so
kind of like they lay bricks. You

658
00:46:49.800 --> 00:46:52.639
know, they put two bricks side
by side and then one in the middle

659
00:46:52.679 --> 00:46:57.599
on top, plant spinach like that
and every six inches and you figure out

660
00:46:57.639 --> 00:47:00.239
how much you need. But yeah, it's good, good, good.

661
00:47:00.960 --> 00:47:04.119
I appreciate it, all right,
you take care. I appreciate your call

662
00:47:04.840 --> 00:47:07.800
very much. Well, you know, the folks at the arbor gate they

663
00:47:08.079 --> 00:47:10.760
have everything you need right now.
By the way, they have frost protection.

664
00:47:10.920 --> 00:47:16.119
I saw some frost protection blankets out
there. They have the cool seasoned

665
00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:22.679
plants like vegetables and herbs and beautiful
color. But when you're out there,

666
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:25.599
make sure and go home with the
one two three completely easy system. That's

667
00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:29.920
the organic food. That's a four
to four to three plus calcium, organic

668
00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:35.760
fertilizer. Organic soil complete that is
the basic soil you're growing in organic compost

669
00:47:35.760 --> 00:47:38.679
complete, which is an enhancement to
the soil that just builds it. And

670
00:47:38.719 --> 00:47:42.480
when you put all that in a
bed and then put your plants in it,

671
00:47:42.519 --> 00:47:44.760
they take off. That's the way
it is. By the way,

672
00:47:44.760 --> 00:47:49.519
both soil complete and compost complete have
expanded shale in them, and expanded shale

673
00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:54.559
in a clay soil will really gradually
over time do a number on that clay

674
00:47:54.559 --> 00:47:59.159
and open it up and allow you
to have more success with growing. And

675
00:47:59.199 --> 00:48:04.119
it's all at the arbor Gate Arborgate
dot com in Tomball. Well, we're

676
00:48:04.119 --> 00:48:07.199
gonna take a break. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four.

677
00:48:08.400 --> 00:48:13.480
Good Sunday morning. I am happy
you're listening to garden Line and let's

678
00:48:13.480 --> 00:48:16.440
talk about what you're interested in.
We are here to answer gardening questions and

679
00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:22.440
our number is seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. Now,

680
00:48:22.519 --> 00:48:27.719
if you live out in the Montbellevue
area and you are looking for a

681
00:48:27.880 --> 00:48:32.320
quality hometown feed store, that's Texas
Feed Stop now, I said Mott Bellevue,

682
00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:37.159
Baytown as well. I mean that's
just your backyard. Uh. They're

683
00:48:37.159 --> 00:48:40.320
on Highway one forty six, just
a few minutes north of I ten in

684
00:48:40.440 --> 00:48:43.960
Baytown. So let's go north on
one forty six. Are on the right

685
00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:46.840
hand side. You're not going to
find better customer service. In fact,

686
00:48:47.159 --> 00:48:52.440
Texas Feed Stop Brian and Hope Roads. They want you to be part of

687
00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:54.320
the family and that's how they treat
you when you come in there. You

688
00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:58.239
know, they carry the bags out
for you. Got teenagers they hire from

689
00:48:58.280 --> 00:49:01.519
the community that work there. The
thirtious. It's just it's just a good

690
00:49:01.519 --> 00:49:05.599
feeling. You walk in and you
feel like you're part of the family.

691
00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:08.800
They carry everything that I'm recommending on
garden line and then some I mean,

692
00:49:08.800 --> 00:49:12.119
do you need to deal with pests
and weeds, and do you need to

693
00:49:12.119 --> 00:49:15.400
deal with diseases? Do you need
fertilizer? They have all of that seasonally.

694
00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:19.320
They have some plants that they bring
in as well. You're not going

695
00:49:19.360 --> 00:49:23.360
to do better than Texas Feed Stop
Highway one forty six in mont Bellevue.

696
00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:28.719
I'm going to head out now to
bell Air and talk to Greg. If

697
00:49:28.760 --> 00:49:31.239
I can find the button there we
go. Hey Greg, good morning,

698
00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:36.719
Skip, thank you for taking my
call. I a couple of questions.

699
00:49:36.760 --> 00:49:39.159
The first one, no garlic.
I've tried garlic the last two or three

700
00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:43.239
years and it's grown fine and all. You know, plant in the fall

701
00:49:43.280 --> 00:49:45.679
and goes through into the spring the
end of the summer. But I don't

702
00:49:45.719 --> 00:49:51.519
get any bulbs. I use the
you know, microlife as a fertilizer.

703
00:49:51.519 --> 00:49:53.639
But I wonder if there's something else
I need to do, or you suggest

704
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:57.119
that I add to it to get
it to really make develop a bulb.

705
00:49:57.400 --> 00:50:04.360
No, it should do that it's
a it's a day length related response for

706
00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:07.559
them to bulb. Maybe you need
to try a different type of garlic.

707
00:50:07.599 --> 00:50:12.440
There's hard neck and soft necks,
and they don't perform equally well. Here.

708
00:50:12.920 --> 00:50:15.199
Uh, if you when you're fertilizing
with microlife, you're not going to

709
00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:20.679
get this sudden dump of a lot
of nutrients. So there's not an issue

710
00:50:20.719 --> 00:50:23.840
like that that may be a play
at all. I don't know. It

711
00:50:23.880 --> 00:50:30.239
should be bulbing for you when the
day length starts to get longer, okay,

712
00:50:30.320 --> 00:50:34.480
and falls the time to plant them. Yeah, it's it's up about

713
00:50:34.480 --> 00:50:37.960
a foot now, so okay,
we'll see how it goes. Yeah,

714
00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.920
I'm trying to think what else could
be a play if it has good foliage

715
00:50:40.960 --> 00:50:44.239
and it's in the oh, is
it in the sun or is it in

716
00:50:44.320 --> 00:50:50.360
some shade? Well, it gets
well right now, it's more shade than

717
00:50:50.400 --> 00:50:52.639
it is sun because of the okay, time of year. But as we

718
00:50:52.679 --> 00:50:57.360
get into the warmer months, it'll
definitely get a lot of sun. The

719
00:50:57.400 --> 00:51:01.519
cooler in the wintertime, the warmer
you know when we get in when the

720
00:51:01.559 --> 00:51:07.199
sun starts changing direction. Okay,
yeah, well for the spring, maybe

721
00:51:07.440 --> 00:51:13.280
the lack of six to eight hours
of you know, good full sunlight is

722
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:16.320
a factor in this. Okay,
that's the only thing that I can think

723
00:51:16.360 --> 00:51:22.280
of that may be affecting. But
give them another try. I try switching

724
00:51:22.519 --> 00:51:25.039
the type of garlic you're you're planting
as well. Maybe you'll find better results

725
00:51:25.039 --> 00:51:30.199
with that. Yeah, okay,
thank you. Another question. I have

726
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:35.039
a bonanza peach tree. I've had
it for several years and I can't get

727
00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:37.719
it. It may only have a
few blooms each year, and you know,

728
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:44.400
no peaches and uh. And I
think it's related to the certain things

729
00:51:44.440 --> 00:51:51.679
go get enough sun and I want
and I want to transplant it to an

730
00:51:51.679 --> 00:51:55.800
area that gets more a lot of
sun. So these trees, they don't

731
00:51:55.800 --> 00:52:00.480
lose their leaves like a normal deciduous
tree would early. And is it possible

732
00:52:00.519 --> 00:52:05.280
to transplant it with the leaves on
or what's your suggestion? That's interesting?

733
00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:07.400
They should, they should go bear
here in the winter. They do,

734
00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:10.960
but it's late, it's late in
the season when it loses it. Okay,

735
00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:16.920
boy, I tell you transplanting it
with leaves, wait until we get

736
00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:22.159
some cool weather. Cooler weather which
is going to arrive later in the week.

737
00:52:22.199 --> 00:52:24.679
I believe you might try it.
Then make sure where you're putting it

738
00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:30.800
has optimum drainage. Peaches, among
all the plants, they are absolutely intolerant

739
00:52:30.840 --> 00:52:34.679
of wet feet, and so make
sure it's got a well drained spot.

740
00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:37.199
If you have to make a little
pictures mound or make a box on the

741
00:52:37.199 --> 00:52:40.039
ground and you bring it up a
few inches or so ten inches if you

742
00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:44.199
can, but that's going to help
it a lot. And then when you

743
00:52:44.239 --> 00:52:47.119
dig it right away, replant it, set it at the same stage.

744
00:52:47.159 --> 00:52:52.679
Don't let those roots dry out.
And this is the least stressful time.

745
00:52:52.280 --> 00:52:55.599
It may make the leaves fall off
the tree when you do it, but

746
00:52:57.159 --> 00:53:00.480
I would I would get it done
because if you wait till as you're describing

747
00:53:00.519 --> 00:53:04.159
it much later, you know,
a month or two from now, maybe

748
00:53:04.159 --> 00:53:07.440
when it would drop leaves for you, then that's getting too close to spring.

749
00:53:07.599 --> 00:53:12.880
So I would get that done.
Let's get past these eighty four degree

750
00:53:12.960 --> 00:53:16.039
days or whatever we're about to have
and then get that done. Okay,

751
00:53:16.440 --> 00:53:21.639
okay, right, go wider when
you dig rather than deeper, you know,

752
00:53:21.760 --> 00:53:23.320
so in other words, don't try
to dig down two feet and move

753
00:53:23.360 --> 00:53:27.559
that much soil, but get as
wide out as you can. I slide

754
00:53:27.559 --> 00:53:30.679
a tarp underneath one side when I
cut the roots, then I cut the

755
00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:34.280
roots on the other side and slide
the tree with its soil on the tarp.

756
00:53:34.360 --> 00:53:37.559
It's easy to drag to the new
location and put back in the ground

757
00:53:37.599 --> 00:53:39.719
at the right depth. Gotcha.
Yeah, there's things as tall as I

758
00:53:39.760 --> 00:53:44.920
am. So oh wow, right, good good luck with that. Yeah,

759
00:53:45.039 --> 00:53:47.559
okay, all right, Greg,
thanks for the coming bye bye.

760
00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:52.800
I appreciate that very much. You
know, Ace Hardware, I was talking

761
00:53:52.840 --> 00:53:55.599
about night Fus fertilizers and all the
Ace hard roads are and they now are

762
00:53:55.679 --> 00:53:59.880
up to forty stores. For those
of you out in Orange and Base.

763
00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:05.559
Congratulations, you're the new locations for
Ace and ACE. You know they If

764
00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:07.639
you need it for your lawn,
they have all the things. If you

765
00:54:07.679 --> 00:54:10.199
need it for your garden, they've
got all the things. If you want

766
00:54:10.199 --> 00:54:15.199
to create a beautiful outdoor seating area, they can do that. But we're

767
00:54:15.360 --> 00:54:19.760
entering the holiday season, and did
you know that they're your place for Christmas

768
00:54:19.840 --> 00:54:22.960
lighting and decoration. Needs to both
your outdoor lights and your indoor lights.

769
00:54:23.000 --> 00:54:28.039
They have the box sets and all
kinds of configurations, many colors, many

770
00:54:28.119 --> 00:54:30.960
sizes of bulbs. They even have
a thing called custom lights by the foot

771
00:54:30.960 --> 00:54:34.199
and you have to go by there
and ask them about that. It's really

772
00:54:34.239 --> 00:54:37.400
cool. Do you need a wreath
for the front door, maybe some garland

773
00:54:37.480 --> 00:54:39.559
to put along the front porch or
or I have mine. I hang it

774
00:54:39.639 --> 00:54:43.840
over right where you enter, kind
of walk into the front porch area.

775
00:54:43.880 --> 00:54:46.480
Have some garland with lights on it
up there. ACE can get you set

776
00:54:46.599 --> 00:54:51.199
up on all of that stuff.
They're easy to find. Acehardware dot Com.

777
00:54:51.239 --> 00:54:53.920
Go to the store locator and put
in put in your location, and

778
00:54:54.000 --> 00:54:57.880
oh my gosh, you're going to
find out that there's more than one ACE

779
00:54:58.440 --> 00:55:02.360
near you, which makes it so
convenient. Well, you're listening to garden

780
00:55:02.400 --> 00:55:06.719
Line. I'm your host, Skip
Richter, and I am here to answer

781
00:55:06.800 --> 00:55:08.800
gardening questions. If you'd like to
give us a call. Our phone number

782
00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:15.039
is seven one three two to one
two KTRH seven one three two one two

783
00:55:15.440 --> 00:55:20.840
kt RH. Hey, don't forget
that this next Saturday. I mean we're

784
00:55:20.920 --> 00:55:25.360
just just a hop skipping a jump
away November eleventh, from eleven thirty to

785
00:55:25.400 --> 00:55:30.519
one thirty. I'm going to be
at RCW Nurseries. That's the nurseries up

786
00:55:30.519 --> 00:55:34.519
there where Tambo Parkway two forty nine
comes into bet Wag eighth. They're going

787
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:38.079
to have barbecue sandwich lunch out there. They're gonna have sale on select trees

788
00:55:38.159 --> 00:55:43.719
and all the shrubs fifteen percent off. And boy do they ever have a

789
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:46.400
quality selection. They grow their own
trees. You're gonna get trees that the

790
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:50.760
species of the variety, whatever it
is, they're going to do well here.

791
00:55:50.920 --> 00:55:53.960
That's what RCW does now. Of
course they are a full nursery.

792
00:55:53.960 --> 00:55:59.679
They've got flowers and vegetables and herbs
and shrubs and everything else that you need.

793
00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.960
They're also going to do a tree
giveaway lace park elms Mexican white oak

794
00:56:02.960 --> 00:56:07.320
also called montereyoak and live oaks by
tree seedlings, And I just saw a

795
00:56:07.360 --> 00:56:12.400
picture of what they're growing in and
that is exactly how you grow a tree

796
00:56:12.480 --> 00:56:15.280
seedling. With a quality root system, you can take that thing home planet

797
00:56:15.360 --> 00:56:19.519
right away. You start taking care
of it, making sure it has moisture

798
00:56:19.559 --> 00:56:22.800
as we go into the summer,
and making sure that you put a little

799
00:56:22.800 --> 00:56:25.079
bit of fertilizer on it as you
go. That thing's going to jump out

800
00:56:25.119 --> 00:56:30.079
of the ground and really take off. But come see me November eleventh,

801
00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:34.360
the next Saturday, eleven thirty to
one thirty at RCW Nurseries. As always,

802
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:37.280
you can bring some plant samples put
them in a plastic bags on the

803
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:42.199
way. If you want to bring
photos look at things, help you maybe

804
00:56:42.199 --> 00:56:45.360
make some suggestions for a landscape,
or identify a plant or a bug,

805
00:56:45.559 --> 00:56:50.719
or diagnose a disease problem. It's
eye to eye time, So I hope

806
00:56:50.719 --> 00:56:55.039
you will come out and join me
for that very very cool stuff. Do

807
00:56:55.039 --> 00:57:01.199
you know that has to grow?
Is the fertile I use for transplanting.

808
00:57:01.320 --> 00:57:04.480
Now you can use haster to grow
for a lot of things, but this

809
00:57:04.960 --> 00:57:08.079
six twelve six has to grow.
It's good for vegetable gardens. It's good

810
00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:12.159
for flower beds. But anytime I
put a plant in the ground, and

811
00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:16.880
I've been talking all morning, perennial
plants, ornamental grasses, trees, shrubs,

812
00:57:16.880 --> 00:57:21.679
whatever you're planting vegetables. Little has
to grow. Mixed in water.

813
00:57:22.000 --> 00:57:27.679
It adds the NPK of the six
twelve six. It also stimulates biological activity.

814
00:57:27.679 --> 00:57:30.000
It's got humic acid in it and
seaweed extracts. You can use it

815
00:57:30.000 --> 00:57:35.320
as a folio spray. Will not
burn. Plants has to grow six twelve

816
00:57:35.480 --> 00:57:39.400
six. Don't plant a plant without
it. Let's see, we're going to

817
00:57:39.480 --> 00:57:46.199
go out to Santa Fe and talk
to Lotti. Hello, Lotti, mister

818
00:57:46.280 --> 00:57:50.400
Rict. She'd had them walk over
to get away from this truck phone.

819
00:57:51.000 --> 00:57:58.079
Okay, do we want to call
back or yeah, I tell you just

820
00:57:58.599 --> 00:58:00.400
give it. I'm gonna put you
on hold, give us a call back,

821
00:58:00.480 --> 00:58:02.599
or we'll come back to you a
little bit. Here, let's go

822
00:58:02.639 --> 00:58:10.320
to Sweeney and talk to Jason.
Jason, are you there, Well,

823
00:58:10.320 --> 00:58:15.760
this is an interesting technology day here
on garden Line. We got gremlins running

824
00:58:15.800 --> 00:58:20.119
through the wires. Well, Jason, let's see, I'm going to have

825
00:58:20.159 --> 00:58:23.440
to put you on hold and we
will come back to you. Just hang

826
00:58:23.519 --> 00:58:27.800
on, Josh, we'll get back
to you. He's dealing with another caller

827
00:58:27.880 --> 00:58:31.159
right now, and we'll see if
we can figure out what exactly was happening

828
00:58:31.239 --> 00:58:37.719
there in the system. Buchanan's Native
Plants in the Heights is a destination garden

829
00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:40.880
center. And those of you that
are anywhere near that north central Houston area,

830
00:58:40.920 --> 00:58:45.280
you know what I'm talking about.
If you need a native plant,

831
00:58:45.480 --> 00:58:47.000
you're not going to find a better
place in Buchannan's Plants. I mean,

832
00:58:47.039 --> 00:58:52.079
they have their natives even drilled down
to the point of a Houston area native

833
00:58:52.159 --> 00:58:55.800
like the Harrison County area native.
You know, we have native plants that

834
00:58:55.840 --> 00:59:00.760
are from all around the region,
but you can actually get something actually here

835
00:59:00.800 --> 00:59:06.159
in Houston from Buchanan's Native plants.
They have a full line of all the

836
00:59:06.199 --> 00:59:09.599
fertilizers and all the soils, the
quality soils that you need to go with

837
00:59:09.639 --> 00:59:13.639
your plants. And you know that's
important to have a quality soil when you

838
00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:15.920
get your plants in the ground.
Brown stuff before green stuff. Right.

839
00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:28.639
They are going to be providing also
unbelievable selection of houseplants, a unbelievable go

840
00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:30.920
in and look at their houseplants,
and we're entering houseplants season, right,

841
00:59:31.119 --> 00:59:35.280
We're cooped up inside a little more
in the winter, and so we just

842
00:59:36.199 --> 00:59:38.159
you know, it's nice having some
houseplants inside. You're going to find houseplants

843
00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:42.760
you've never seen before at Buchanans.
And you're going to find plants for shade.

844
00:59:43.119 --> 00:59:45.840
Those are challenging when you live in
an older neighborhood and got big trees,

845
00:59:45.920 --> 00:59:50.119
got a lot of shade, not
a problem. Go buy Buchanans,

846
00:59:50.239 --> 00:59:52.840
say hey, I need stuff for
the shade. They'll take your right to

847
00:59:52.880 --> 00:59:58.079
it, good quality service. Buchanansplants
dot Com. East eleventh Street in the

848
00:59:58.119 --> 01:00:00.159
Heights. We are now going to
go. I'm gonna go try here,

849
01:00:00.400 --> 01:00:06.400
Jason, Are you there? Jason? All right, Josh, I'm having

850
01:00:06.480 --> 01:00:10.360
trouble with that one. Let's go
to Steve in downtown Houston. Hello,

851
01:00:10.519 --> 01:00:16.719
Steve, Hello, Hello, Yeah, I'm here. Okay, I got

852
01:00:16.719 --> 01:00:22.159
it. Okay, I got the
Texas live oaks. They were planted in

853
01:00:22.719 --> 01:00:28.559
in like in May June. Yes, and uh, well the drops you

854
01:00:28.599 --> 01:00:30.760
know that drive dried out. I
didn't water it enough, you know,

855
01:00:30.840 --> 01:00:35.760
And okay, there one of them. Uh well, the one that I'm

856
01:00:35.800 --> 01:00:39.679
calling about is uh the top of
everything on top is dried out. Okay,

857
01:00:39.719 --> 01:00:44.119
then the bottom You've got new shoots
coming out coming out at the bottom,

858
01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:49.159
one on the one on the main
route, and uh the coming out

859
01:00:49.159 --> 01:00:52.400
alongside of it. Yeah, and
you know, I'm wondering if I should

860
01:00:52.440 --> 01:00:55.280
cut it off or just wait till
let's see if it's not dry that there's

861
01:00:55.280 --> 01:01:00.519
still is today it's still uh,
there's still live you know, so wonderflus

862
01:01:00.519 --> 01:01:06.400
you're dog cut Steve? How big
is the trunk about knee high? You

863
01:01:06.400 --> 01:01:08.159
know? How many. How far
far across? Is it like the size

864
01:01:08.159 --> 01:01:14.360
of a broomstick or a coke can
or you know diameter? The diameter,

865
01:01:14.519 --> 01:01:17.679
yes, sir, yeah, I
guess it's about uh I guess about two

866
01:01:19.039 --> 01:01:22.199
two and a half inches. Okay, uh So that's not going to be

867
01:01:22.239 --> 01:01:24.280
a huge one to cut the trunk
off. You ultimately you're you're going to

868
01:01:24.360 --> 01:01:29.159
probably cut the trunk off and take
one of the best shoots that you've got

869
01:01:29.599 --> 01:01:32.440
and make it the trunk. But
when you do that, take the other

870
01:01:32.519 --> 01:01:37.519
shoots and just cut the end three
inches or so off of them, just

871
01:01:37.599 --> 01:01:42.639
tip them, and that way you
keep those leaves to help feed the plant,

872
01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:45.360
because you know it's lost a lot
of leaves in that in that drought,

873
01:01:45.719 --> 01:01:49.440
and you need leaves to make carbohydrates, to make roots, to make

874
01:01:49.480 --> 01:01:52.639
growth and everything. So just tip
them and leave them there. Though when

875
01:01:52.639 --> 01:01:54.639
they're about the size of your thumb, then you cut them off where they

876
01:01:54.639 --> 01:01:58.719
were attached, but leave them for
now. Pick the one you want,

877
01:01:59.000 --> 01:02:02.320
and then carefully cut that trunk off
at just a slight slope, not a

878
01:02:02.360 --> 01:02:07.360
lot, not a forty five degree
angle, but just a slight slope away

879
01:02:07.639 --> 01:02:12.119
from just above where the branch that's
going to be the new trunk is attached.

880
01:02:13.920 --> 01:02:16.760
Okay, so but I guess about
just about how high? Did you

881
01:02:16.800 --> 01:02:23.440
say how high? Well, don't
think for a shoot for the top.

882
01:02:23.719 --> 01:02:29.559
I mean they gotta leave a little
bit of a on the top of it,

883
01:02:29.639 --> 01:02:31.320
right, So I'm thinking the top
is all dead and we have to

884
01:02:31.400 --> 01:02:35.360
drop down lower on the planet to
find a living shoot. Is that right?

885
01:02:36.480 --> 01:02:37.760
No, I don't think I not
dead. I don't think they're dead,

886
01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:42.639
you know, because there's still if
there were data, they've been They've

887
01:02:42.679 --> 01:02:46.440
been easy, you know. Yeah, I'd like to I want to help

888
01:02:46.440 --> 01:02:50.119
you on this, but I'm not
picturing it, and I don't want to

889
01:02:50.159 --> 01:02:54.039
mislead you with my answer. I
am gonna put you on hold, and

890
01:02:54.199 --> 01:03:00.280
if you can hang on just a
little bit, Josh is going to pick

891
01:03:00.360 --> 01:03:04.480
up. He is he is working
with our electronic gremlins right now, but

892
01:03:04.559 --> 01:03:07.079
he will pick it up and give
you an email. And would you send

893
01:03:07.079 --> 01:03:10.239
me a photo couple of photos of
that. Once I see what you're describing,

894
01:03:10.320 --> 01:03:14.440
because I'm not picturing it right now, I will be glad to give

895
01:03:14.480 --> 01:03:17.800
you an answer. Okay, So
just just just hang on. Hey,

896
01:03:17.800 --> 01:03:22.719
it's time for us to go to
break and so our number seven one three

897
01:03:22.920 --> 01:03:28.400
two one two fifty eight seventy four, we're gonna have an exorcism of the

898
01:03:29.079 --> 01:03:32.639
wires and gremlins of our of our
network here and hopefully come back to you

899
01:03:32.639 --> 01:03:38.559
in full swing. Take care,
Welcome back to garden Line. We are

900
01:03:38.599 --> 01:03:42.880
happy to answer gardening questions today.
We've got some folks on the board we're

901
01:03:42.880 --> 01:03:46.760
gonna get back with here. I'm
gonna let's see head out. Uh.

902
01:03:47.239 --> 01:03:51.800
I believe we lost Lottie out there. Is that correct? I think that

903
01:03:51.960 --> 01:03:55.000
was what they what they said.
So well, we're going to work on

904
01:03:55.440 --> 01:04:02.760
some of the callers here. Hey, what let me go talk about I

905
01:04:02.760 --> 01:04:06.199
want to talk about green Pro.
Green Pro. These are the folks that

906
01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:12.000
do the compost top dressing with the
aeration. And some people are thinking,

907
01:04:12.039 --> 01:04:14.639
well, why do you air rate, why do you punch holes in the

908
01:04:14.639 --> 01:04:18.280
ground and stuff. Well, the
reason is this our heavy clay soils that

909
01:04:18.320 --> 01:04:23.280
are just predominant here on the Greater
Houston Golf close, Houston black clay.

910
01:04:24.039 --> 01:04:28.400
They get very dense and very tight
and they don't take in water rapidly at

911
01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:31.599
all. In fact, Houston black
clay without any organic matter and roots and

912
01:04:31.639 --> 01:04:34.840
all that in. It takes water
in at about one eighth of an inch

913
01:04:34.880 --> 01:04:38.880
an hour. Can you imagine that, well, that it's hard to get

914
01:04:38.880 --> 01:04:42.519
a good soaking with that. Now, Fortunately we have our grass plants and

915
01:04:43.239 --> 01:04:45.199
the roots that go down and other
things that open it up a little bit

916
01:04:45.199 --> 01:04:49.320
that start doing what organic matter does
done in the soil. But when you

917
01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:55.320
bring in an air rator that does
a job right and does a job bright,

918
01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:58.239
means it goes down in the soil
and it pulls the plug out and

919
01:04:58.320 --> 01:05:02.039
drops it on the surface, just
mashing a hole in the soil, squeezing

920
01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:05.679
the sides of the hole apart to
make that hole. That then you just

921
01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:11.639
have now a compacted edge to the
hole where air can't get into the soil

922
01:05:11.679 --> 01:05:14.559
as well as it would have.
And so you do that, and then

923
01:05:14.599 --> 01:05:17.480
you do a compost top dressing with
a finely screened compost. Not chunky wood

924
01:05:17.519 --> 01:05:21.039
stuff that's going to go flying everywhere
when you mow, but a finely screen

925
01:05:21.119 --> 01:05:26.360
compost. Green pro can do that. They have the equipment that does it

926
01:05:26.519 --> 01:05:31.159
right, and they choose a quality
compost top dressing a screen compost to do

927
01:05:31.199 --> 01:05:35.280
that. And when you do this, your root system of your grass is

928
01:05:35.360 --> 01:05:40.199
going to be able to thrive even
better. The organic matter is going to

929
01:05:40.199 --> 01:05:44.039
get in the soil in those holes, compaction can be alleviated. If you've

930
01:05:44.039 --> 01:05:45.760
got a really bad situation, you
may have to do it several times.

931
01:05:45.760 --> 01:05:48.639
You do one in the fall,
doing a spring, or do one in

932
01:05:48.639 --> 01:05:54.719
the summer. You know, you
get the idea. But for most situations,

933
01:05:54.760 --> 01:05:57.280
just a good once a year if
you're dealing with a little bit of

934
01:05:57.320 --> 01:06:00.599
soil compaction or just the grass isn't
doing what you think it should do.

935
01:06:00.039 --> 01:06:03.440
Now, at Greenpro, their prices
start at five ninety nine plus sales tax,

936
01:06:03.760 --> 01:06:06.840
but it depends a lot on how
far they have to go to you

937
01:06:08.039 --> 01:06:11.239
and the size. You know,
do you have a one thousand square feet

938
01:06:11.320 --> 01:06:14.920
or ten thousand square feet ord?
Obviously that would change change that a little

939
01:06:14.920 --> 01:06:18.519
bit. But they know what they're
doing and this is a quality step that

940
01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:21.920
sets you up. Your fertilizer moves
down in the soil. Well, it's

941
01:06:21.960 --> 01:06:26.960
just all around a good thing for
your soil, and the folks at green

942
01:06:27.000 --> 01:06:30.880
Pro they know how to do it. You can go to greenpro dot net,

943
01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:35.440
greenpro dot net and get a hold
of them, talk to them about

944
01:06:35.440 --> 01:06:42.679
coming out and doing that for your
lawn. See this morning, I wanted

945
01:06:42.719 --> 01:06:49.119
to talk a little bit about some
shade loving groundcovers people that live well.

946
01:06:49.199 --> 01:06:53.960
Houston is a livestock is a live
oak forest. You ever noticed that?

947
01:06:54.039 --> 01:06:58.719
I mean, it really is.
There are live oaks everywhere and it's just

948
01:06:58.760 --> 01:07:01.400
a live oak forest. Reason for
that. Live oaks are a very well

949
01:07:01.400 --> 01:07:05.719
adapted tree to this area. But
when you have a beautiful live oak and

950
01:07:05.800 --> 01:07:12.440
it gets wider and wider and wider, older neighborhoods would be the prime example.

951
01:07:13.159 --> 01:07:16.079
Not enough sunlight hits the soil to
grow grass, and grass needs quite

952
01:07:16.119 --> 01:07:19.840
a bit of sunlight to do well. Saint Augustine takes the most shade of

953
01:07:19.840 --> 01:07:27.000
any grass but for the South,
any grass for the South. But what

954
01:07:27.039 --> 01:07:30.559
do you do well, you switch
to a groundcover, a shade loving groundcover.

955
01:07:30.079 --> 01:07:34.719
And you know, we have things
like loriope and monkey grass or mondo

956
01:07:34.920 --> 01:07:40.400
turf, whatever you want to call
it. Those can be used to make

957
01:07:40.800 --> 01:07:44.760
essentially a groundcover over the lawn.
In fact, the dwarf types of mondo

958
01:07:44.840 --> 01:07:47.800
grass, it's almost like a little
lawn, a low cut lawn, but

959
01:07:47.880 --> 01:07:50.880
it takes a lot of plants to
do that. So you divide them and

960
01:07:50.920 --> 01:07:55.559
you put them different places, and
you just keep adding to them, and

961
01:07:55.599 --> 01:08:00.320
you can create small areas around trees
and shrubs and out in the lands cape.

962
01:08:00.679 --> 01:08:02.639
Where you do that, you can
throw in something like ASTech grass.

963
01:08:02.719 --> 01:08:10.679
ASTech grass is related to mondo grass
and loriopy, but it is more white

964
01:08:10.760 --> 01:08:14.360
than green, but it has green
stripes through a white leaf. And when

965
01:08:14.400 --> 01:08:16.840
you put in a dark area astet
grass, it lights it up. Maybe

966
01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:20.359
you've got a pathway going around to
a I don't know, a gate or

967
01:08:20.399 --> 01:08:24.520
a door or something, and it's
all shaded and it's just dark, and

968
01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:28.199
you drive by and you look at
it and dark green in the shade.

969
01:08:28.319 --> 01:08:32.079
It just it's just dark. But
if you line that pathway or go around

970
01:08:32.119 --> 01:08:36.800
a bed with loriope, it lights
it up. It's like you turned on

971
01:08:36.920 --> 01:08:41.520
a little light in that area and
it draws your eye to that and it's

972
01:08:41.560 --> 01:08:45.800
good. A juga is another good
groundcover for areas. You just need to

973
01:08:45.880 --> 01:08:48.279
keep it a little on the moist
side. It does very well, makes

974
01:08:48.319 --> 01:08:53.640
a really nice groundcover. And I'm
talking about shade now, we could switch

975
01:08:53.640 --> 01:08:57.840
over and talk about groundcovers for sunny
areas. And droughty areas and whatnot.

976
01:08:58.239 --> 01:09:00.199
But we'll just talk about shade.
There's a lot of other things that do

977
01:09:00.279 --> 01:09:03.079
well. There's a number of ferns
that do very well. They're going to

978
01:09:03.119 --> 01:09:09.439
need some moisture, but just beautiful, absolutely beautiful ferns that you can add

979
01:09:09.479 --> 01:09:12.840
in those areas. And we you
know, we have the ivys that generally

980
01:09:12.880 --> 01:09:15.680
stay away a little bit from the
English ivy type plants. I mean,

981
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:18.239
you can use them. They grow
well, but just get ready. They

982
01:09:18.279 --> 01:09:23.600
have high aspirations to take over the
world, and so they're going to be

983
01:09:23.600 --> 01:09:27.399
going up your tree trunks and eventually
up in the top of the canopy if

984
01:09:27.439 --> 01:09:29.960
you let them. So with ivy
you just got to do a lot of

985
01:09:30.479 --> 01:09:33.159
you know, maintaining and saying nope, nope, nope, can't go there

986
01:09:33.680 --> 01:09:38.720
to it, to keep it in
bounds. Those are just a few of

987
01:09:38.840 --> 01:09:42.479
the groundcovers that do well in a
dark, shady area. We have many

988
01:09:42.479 --> 01:09:46.039
other options that you can choose from. But you know, when life gives

989
01:09:46.039 --> 01:09:50.239
you lemonade, lemons make lemonade,
they say, right, Well, when

990
01:09:50.359 --> 01:09:57.279
time gives your landscape shade, we
can we can make a beautiful groundcover area

991
01:09:57.319 --> 01:10:01.000
out of that no reason we don't
be able to go on Verdant Tree Farm.

992
01:10:01.479 --> 01:10:04.640
You know three locations here in Houston. I've talked about them before.

993
01:10:05.159 --> 01:10:10.920
There's a location down south in pair
Land, they're on Broadway Street. There's

994
01:10:10.920 --> 01:10:14.279
a location in West Houston Barker Cypress, and then the one in the Heights

995
01:10:14.279 --> 01:10:17.880
where you all comes into I ten
And they're always having some new things there

996
01:10:17.960 --> 01:10:23.279
at Verdant Tree Farm. It's very
interesting to stop in and take a look

997
01:10:23.359 --> 01:10:27.760
see what they got. The trees
they have are trees that grow well here

998
01:10:28.159 --> 01:10:31.800
and they can sell you a huge
tree if you want, I mean even

999
01:10:31.880 --> 01:10:35.359
up to seven hundred gallons. I
believe as a side of that is that's

1000
01:10:35.479 --> 01:10:41.319
instant tree right there. They'll beat
any advertised price. And they have palms

1001
01:10:41.319 --> 01:10:45.119
too, the right palm for whatever
your budget is. They specialize and they're

1002
01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:48.000
really a leader implanting palms. But
when it comes to cold hardy trees,

1003
01:10:48.439 --> 01:10:53.000
drought resistant trees, they can fix
you up. They give a one year

1004
01:10:53.079 --> 01:10:58.199
warranty included with them installing it,
and you do want them to install it.

1005
01:10:58.199 --> 01:11:01.199
It's very important to plant a tree
properly. So Vernon Tree Farm is

1006
01:11:01.399 --> 01:11:05.159
also a place where you can just
walk in, take a picture and say,

1007
01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:09.000
you know what, look at this
area, what what kind of tree?

1008
01:11:09.079 --> 01:11:11.760
I want a blooming tree. I
want a tree you know that only

1009
01:11:11.760 --> 01:11:14.840
gets so high or whatever here in
this spot, and that will advise you

1010
01:11:14.920 --> 01:11:16.439
on it. You walk out in
the lot, walk through your trees,

1011
01:11:16.479 --> 01:11:19.359
like picking out a Christmas tree,
and you say that's mine. They put

1012
01:11:19.359 --> 01:11:21.560
a tag on it, they bring
it to your house and they plant it.

1013
01:11:23.039 --> 01:11:27.359
That is simple. Verdant Tree Farm
Verdant Treefarm dot com. Well,

1014
01:11:27.359 --> 01:11:30.199
we're going to take a break.
Our number is seven one three two one

1015
01:11:30.279 --> 01:11:34.880
two fifty eight seventy four. Be
right back. Well, good morning on

1016
01:11:34.920 --> 01:11:39.000
a beautiful Sunday morning. You're listening
to garden Line. I'm your host,

1017
01:11:39.039 --> 01:11:43.119
Skip Richter, and we're here to
answer your gardening questions. Our phone number

1018
01:11:43.159 --> 01:11:46.760
is seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. If you'd like

1019
01:11:46.800 --> 01:11:51.680
to give us a call. Uh
you know the the uh Nelson plant Food

1020
01:11:51.800 --> 01:11:56.640
Dean Nelson, the Nelson plant Food
folks I call them. They have done

1021
01:11:56.680 --> 01:12:00.760
a really special thing for their carbo
load product this far, and that is

1022
01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:05.039
every bag that sells they send two
dollars to the Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship.

1023
01:12:05.199 --> 01:12:09.159
And I know a lot of you've
listened to the show for a long time.

1024
01:12:09.199 --> 01:12:11.640
In fact, I was talking to
some of the other day that listened

1025
01:12:12.319 --> 01:12:15.880
just after the Dewey Compton era of
the show. And those of you who

1026
01:12:15.960 --> 01:12:19.680
knew Randy, I mean this what
twenty six years or seventy seven years of

1027
01:12:19.720 --> 01:12:25.720
being on the air. He would
have been so proud to know there's a

1028
01:12:25.760 --> 01:12:30.359
scholarship in his name. And this
is a way that you can really do

1029
01:12:30.680 --> 01:12:32.840
two good things. It's or three. Let's make it three. You can

1030
01:12:32.880 --> 01:12:38.640
honor his memory. Number one,
you can provide a horticulture student with a

1031
01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:43.520
way to make it through college and
have success in their career. And then

1032
01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:48.399
thirdly, you get a quality product. Carbo Load has the blend that is

1033
01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:54.760
designed for fall applications a little we
want that potassium the third number, a

1034
01:12:54.760 --> 01:12:58.199
little lower on the nitrogen than we've
been talking about all spring and summer.

1035
01:12:59.119 --> 01:13:01.720
It goes in the ground and it
helps the plant get stronger when the roots

1036
01:13:01.720 --> 01:13:04.319
take it up. You need to
do it soon for that reason. Do

1037
01:13:04.319 --> 01:13:10.520
you want time for that grass plant
to capture sunlight to make carbol carbohydrates That's

1038
01:13:10.520 --> 01:13:14.600
why they call it carbo load,
and you know, to provide that growth

1039
01:13:14.680 --> 01:13:17.359
that gets it ready for winter.
The other thing it has in it is

1040
01:13:17.479 --> 01:13:24.960
a weed control prevention product, a
pre emergent product, so another reason to

1041
01:13:25.000 --> 01:13:27.640
get it on soon. Don't delay, go ahead and do that, and

1042
01:13:27.720 --> 01:13:30.800
again, in the process of doing
so, you send two dollars for each

1043
01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:35.439
bag to Randy's memorial scholarship up at
Texas A and M. We are now

1044
01:13:35.479 --> 01:13:39.439
going to go to the phones and
we're going to see how this works.

1045
01:13:39.680 --> 01:13:44.000
I'm going to go to Chris in
Memorial. Hello, Chris, Hey,

1046
01:13:44.039 --> 01:13:46.279
how are you good morning? I'm
so happy that someone's on the other end.

1047
01:13:48.239 --> 01:13:51.560
How can we help the dout man. I've got about a five year

1048
01:13:51.600 --> 01:13:58.000
old elm in my backyard and I've
got tiny little brown spots on my leaves.

1049
01:13:58.199 --> 01:14:02.800
Yeah, and I'm not sure what
to do, okay, finding to

1050
01:14:02.840 --> 01:14:08.760
sit it out or what might be
the cause of it elms. Elms will

1051
01:14:08.800 --> 01:14:14.039
do that. These leaves are they're
old, they're tired, They've been through

1052
01:14:15.239 --> 01:14:19.960
essentially hades of a summer with no
rain and incredible temperatures, and they're getting

1053
01:14:19.960 --> 01:14:24.319
ready to fall. And when that
happens, leaves do that, you start

1054
01:14:24.359 --> 01:14:28.640
to see disease spots and just the
wear and tear of summer on them.

1055
01:14:28.960 --> 01:14:30.880
And I wouldn't worry about it all. There's no need to treat it for

1056
01:14:30.960 --> 01:14:34.079
anything. Okay, great, yeah, well, thank you very much.

1057
01:14:34.119 --> 01:14:38.079
Yeah. I had someone some of
the I'm just saying this because I've got

1058
01:14:38.119 --> 01:14:41.159
a lot of people listening with different
kinds of trees. But someone was showing

1059
01:14:41.159 --> 01:14:44.359
me some live oak leaves the other
day and they had a little tar spots

1060
01:14:44.359 --> 01:14:46.439
on them, and that's a disease
they get. But they're just casting the

1061
01:14:46.479 --> 01:14:51.279
leaves off. Magnolia's get these algyl
leaf spots when they drop their foliage in

1062
01:14:51.319 --> 01:14:57.279
the spring, and everybody panics that
something's happening. Now, just nature appreciate

1063
01:14:57.399 --> 01:14:59.800
that call, though, Chris.
Thank you all right, thank you very

1064
01:14:59.880 --> 01:15:02.640
much. You bet you take care. Let's see, let's now go to

1065
01:15:03.199 --> 01:15:09.359
Scott in spring. Hello, Scott, Hey, I have a lot,

1066
01:15:09.399 --> 01:15:13.039
well have some more gust rooms and
they were stressed out by the trout and

1067
01:15:13.119 --> 01:15:15.720
they're have sectional die back. Is
there any help for them? And I

1068
01:15:15.720 --> 01:15:21.159
can't see it in my Japanese use
and my magnolience. So just like you

1069
01:15:21.199 --> 01:15:26.239
were saying the spots that you're seeing, Yeah, okay, well those are

1070
01:15:26.680 --> 01:15:30.319
let's take those one at a time. The lagustrum, does it have spots

1071
01:15:30.359 --> 01:15:34.880
on the leaves or it's just dying
and browning certain branches and certain branches,

1072
01:15:34.920 --> 01:15:40.439
and there are some spots. The
spots are a disease, and picking those

1073
01:15:40.520 --> 01:15:45.560
leaves off helps. And there's also
some funderside spray you can put on them,

1074
01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:48.000
but that's a very difficult disease to
manage if you don't want to be

1075
01:15:48.039 --> 01:15:53.279
out spring after it rains through the
year, So that's a little bit of

1076
01:15:53.279 --> 01:15:57.000
a challenge for lagustrum. The dead
areas, just follow them down, take

1077
01:15:57.000 --> 01:16:00.640
your fingernail or a knife if it's
a thicker bar, and scratch back and

1078
01:16:00.680 --> 01:16:06.239
look for is it a creamy malila
folder color or white or light green or

1079
01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:10.960
is it pecan brown, paper sack
brown, and go all the way down

1080
01:16:11.000 --> 01:16:14.119
to you have green, and then
cut it off there and it will reach

1081
01:16:14.119 --> 01:16:17.119
sprout. Now, when you get
a taller plant and you cut some branches

1082
01:16:17.199 --> 01:16:21.520
back, there's no light reaching down
there where you cut those branches off,

1083
01:16:21.560 --> 01:16:26.079
so the sprouts that want to come
out are not going to have good sunlight

1084
01:16:26.560 --> 01:16:30.319
and I can't see your plants,
but if this is severe enough, I'd

1085
01:16:30.399 --> 01:16:33.760
consider bringing all of them way down
and way you know, bring them halfway

1086
01:16:33.800 --> 01:16:38.520
down or depends on how you want
the plant, how tall you want the

1087
01:16:38.520 --> 01:16:41.960
plant be ultimately, uh, and
then just let the whole thing reach sprout.

1088
01:16:42.039 --> 01:16:45.159
But I'd wait to do that pruning
until we get to spring, because

1089
01:16:45.159 --> 01:16:48.000
we don't want succulent new shoots coming
out and then here comes that where it

1090
01:16:48.039 --> 01:16:54.199
drops into the low twenties or something, so I wouldn't I wouldn't prune living

1091
01:16:54.279 --> 01:16:57.239
tissues now. But if you prune
the whole thing back a little, you

1092
01:16:57.279 --> 01:17:00.800
get a lot of new sprouts and
then everything is bad lunch and you can

1093
01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:04.239
keep the light to the bottom areas
as well as the top. Okay,

1094
01:17:04.520 --> 01:17:10.239
okay, all right. And then
the magnolia, there's got a lot of

1095
01:17:10.279 --> 01:17:15.000
brown leaves. I'm not sure that
the heat is killed destroyed them or yeah,

1096
01:17:15.079 --> 01:17:20.920
they go ahead, they saw green
on them. Okay, but there

1097
01:17:21.000 --> 01:17:29.720
is a lot of brown so with
that so I'm done. Okay, Well,

1098
01:17:30.199 --> 01:17:32.680
on the magnolia, I stand back
and look at it and picture if

1099
01:17:32.720 --> 01:17:36.600
you pruned off all the brown limbs, what would it look like? And

1100
01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:42.239
that may be a disfigured tree.
That's not acceptable. Uh. You could

1101
01:17:42.239 --> 01:17:45.840
wait a little bit and maybe some
of those limbs where the leaves brown but

1102
01:17:45.880 --> 01:17:47.319
there's a little green in the leaves, maybe they're still alive. Or you

1103
01:17:47.359 --> 01:17:50.199
can do the scrape test that I
was just talking about. Uh, and

1104
01:17:50.239 --> 01:17:54.239
if you've got green tissues, well
it's probably going to come back in the

1105
01:17:54.279 --> 01:17:58.439
spring. But in general, with
Magnolia's we say, if it's brown,

1106
01:17:58.479 --> 01:18:03.039
cut it down, because that that
is often the case. I'm glad,

1107
01:18:03.920 --> 01:18:06.399
all right, all right, all
right, sorry to be the bearer of

1108
01:18:06.439 --> 01:18:14.399
bad news. Yeah, it's been
a bad, bad news summer, that's

1109
01:18:14.399 --> 01:18:15.680
for sure. Right boy, if
you could see my lawn, you'd quit

1110
01:18:15.760 --> 01:18:20.279
listening to garden line. I left
for two weeks and the sprinkler system didn't

1111
01:18:20.279 --> 01:18:24.720
come on. I don't know what
happened. Uh. And then chinchbugs and

1112
01:18:24.720 --> 01:18:27.560
take our root I both infected it. I think that's because they knew how

1113
01:18:27.600 --> 01:18:30.840
to radio show, so they walked
across town to come to my yard.

1114
01:18:30.199 --> 01:18:33.800
But I'm dealing with a lot of
things at home as well. Hey,

1115
01:18:33.920 --> 01:18:39.399
let's go to David in Nadville.
Hello David, Hello, good morning,

1116
01:18:39.399 --> 01:18:41.800
how are you doing today. I'm
well today, How are you doing?

1117
01:18:42.479 --> 01:18:45.079
I'm doing excellent, outstanding, drinking
coffee and looking at my left green Saint

1118
01:18:45.119 --> 01:18:49.479
Augustine line with the exception of a
few brown spots. Okay, Can I

1119
01:18:49.479 --> 01:18:54.960
give you a little backstory on the
yard? Sure? I planned a complete

1120
01:18:55.399 --> 01:19:00.680
truckload eighteen pallets Easter weekend, and
then I left home. I was gone

1121
01:19:00.680 --> 01:19:02.119
for six months. I had a
yard guy coming in and taking care of

1122
01:19:02.199 --> 01:19:05.720
it and letting me know when it
was starting to look brown, and I'd

1123
01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:09.920
up the sprinkleer, hear the sprinkler
system, give it a little more water.

1124
01:19:10.079 --> 01:19:15.680
So long story short, Based on
the recommend recommendation of the side farmer,

1125
01:19:15.000 --> 01:19:18.359
I gave the grass a shot of
triple thirteen. I'm going to say

1126
01:19:18.439 --> 01:19:24.319
June, June, June, maybe
July, and I continued watering all summer

1127
01:19:24.359 --> 01:19:28.119
long. I got home late September
to a beautiful, well established yard.

1128
01:19:28.319 --> 01:19:30.479
The grass was looking really good.
Well, I got excited. I wanted

1129
01:19:30.520 --> 01:19:32.119
to say, all right, well, I want it to look better.

1130
01:19:32.159 --> 01:19:38.119
So I gave it a shot of
twenty one percent late September and watered profusely,

1131
01:19:39.039 --> 01:19:42.600
and in anticipation of the fungus issues, I put a shot of a

1132
01:19:42.800 --> 01:19:46.760
granular fungicide down at the same time. Well, three weeks later, I've

1133
01:19:46.760 --> 01:19:50.680
got this lush green. It seemed
like it was growing two inches a day

1134
01:19:50.880 --> 01:19:55.720
lawn and from one day to the
next, even after the application of the

1135
01:19:55.760 --> 01:19:59.079
fungicide. I walk out one morning
and I see spots. I'll walk over

1136
01:19:59.079 --> 01:20:01.760
to the spots, reach down and
grab a fist full and the grass just

1137
01:20:01.800 --> 01:20:04.840
comes out by the root. So
did a mad dash scramble to the hardware

1138
01:20:04.840 --> 01:20:10.479
store, got some liquid fundicide,
treated the grass with the liquid funder side

1139
01:20:11.239 --> 01:20:15.399
and it stopped the funderside. But
my to get long story short, Okay,

1140
01:20:16.239 --> 01:20:24.319
I obviously overfertilize, overwatered. Should
I still do the winteriser fertilizer after

1141
01:20:24.359 --> 01:20:28.359
giving it that heavy dose of nitrogen
in September? September, No, No,

1142
01:20:28.560 --> 01:20:30.920
you don't. At this point,
you probably don't need to the triple

1143
01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:35.000
thirteen. If you ended up with
a lot of nitrogen. You also applied

1144
01:20:35.039 --> 01:20:39.479
a lot of phosphors and potassium at
that time, and I think you'll be

1145
01:20:39.520 --> 01:20:44.840
okay on it. And in general, don't use the Triple thirteen. Turf

1146
01:20:44.880 --> 01:20:49.840
grass, Saint Augustine grass just does
not benefit from phosphorus applications unless the phosphorus

1147
01:20:49.880 --> 01:20:54.159
is already super low. I'm going
to have to put you on hold to

1148
01:20:54.239 --> 01:20:58.239
come back after the hour. We're
going to the news here and I want

1149
01:20:58.279 --> 01:21:02.079
to continue with the discussion about the
spot. Say you said a couple of

1150
01:21:02.119 --> 01:21:04.760
things in there that I'd like to
drill down on a little bit, David,

1151
01:21:05.000 --> 01:21:08.800
If you can hang around, we'll
talk to you first when we come

1152
01:21:08.840 --> 01:21:12.800
back after the break. All right, you're listening to garden Line and our

1153
01:21:12.880 --> 01:21:16.520
number seven one three, two one
two five eight seven four. Don't forget

1154
01:21:16.680 --> 01:21:21.159
Next Saturday, I'm gonna be at
RCW Nurseries for their Fall Fling. They're

1155
01:21:21.159 --> 01:21:25.479
gonna have a barbecue sandwich lunch.
You're gonna have a sale on select trees

1156
01:21:25.520 --> 01:21:28.920
and all the shrubs fifteen percent off. They're gonna give away all kinds of

1157
01:21:29.000 --> 01:21:31.840
things, so the fertilizers we brag
about on guarden Line and frost cloth.

1158
01:21:31.920 --> 01:21:35.439
Hey, that's a handy thing to
have going into the winter. And they're

1159
01:21:35.479 --> 01:21:40.720
also giving away tree seedlings of lace
park elm, Mexican white oak, and

1160
01:21:40.800 --> 01:21:45.119
live oak. And I'll be there
to answer your question, Katrh garden Line

1161
01:21:45.159 --> 01:21:50.439
does not necessarily endorse any of the
products or services advertised on this program.

1162
01:21:50.720 --> 01:22:04.079
Welcome to kt RH Garden Line with
Skip Richt. It's so crazy just watching

1163
01:22:04.479 --> 01:22:17.399
as so many things spots well.
Good Sunday morning. You are listening to

1164
01:22:17.479 --> 01:22:20.720
Garden Line. I'm your host,
Skip Richter, and our phone number is

1165
01:22:20.760 --> 01:22:25.760
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. And now I think

1166
01:22:25.800 --> 01:22:30.119
we know where all the gremlins went
after Eloween. Has been an interesting morning.

1167
01:22:31.479 --> 01:22:35.600
I brag about Vego gardens all the
time. The Vego garden beds are

1168
01:22:36.079 --> 01:22:41.720
really the best bed that you can
you can plant, and I know what

1169
01:22:41.760 --> 01:22:44.680
I'm talking about. I've made beds
out of wood. I've made beds with

1170
01:22:44.720 --> 01:22:47.920
outsides treated wood. I've made beds
out of cinder blocks and all kinds of

1171
01:22:47.960 --> 01:22:51.399
things, and Vego has got it
figured out. Here's why it's a metal

1172
01:22:51.399 --> 01:22:57.760
bed. It's been coated in a
way that prevents it from resting and also

1173
01:22:57.920 --> 01:23:03.159
from corrosion. Paint it with a
quality paint and really muted, very organic

1174
01:23:03.239 --> 01:23:08.680
looking colors, you know, nat
nature looking colors, and then you bolt

1175
01:23:08.680 --> 01:23:12.640
them together. They're modular. It
really simple to do, and you can

1176
01:23:12.640 --> 01:23:15.520
make whatever shape you want. Maybe
you got a patio and you just need

1177
01:23:15.560 --> 01:23:17.840
a big L shape that so long
on this side and so long on that

1178
01:23:17.920 --> 01:23:21.279
side. You can design it that
way with Vego beds. It's as simple

1179
01:23:21.319 --> 01:23:25.800
as out there a Houston company.
You're gonna find other metal beds out there,

1180
01:23:25.920 --> 01:23:30.119
the impostors trying to supplant Vego,
but Vego is the one. It

1181
01:23:30.159 --> 01:23:35.359
is absolutely is again our Houston owned
company right here, and quality products.

1182
01:23:35.359 --> 01:23:40.279
When you go to vegogarden dot com, you're going to find out all the

1183
01:23:40.279 --> 01:23:43.680
different things they offer. They have
rolling beds Yep, that's right. Bed

1184
01:23:43.720 --> 01:23:46.439
that's up in the air that rolls
around, all kinds of beds, just

1185
01:23:46.479 --> 01:23:49.760
go look at it. Go check
out vegogarden dot com and you're gonna find

1186
01:23:49.800 --> 01:23:55.399
Vego beds at some of our local
garden centers as well. Vego Garden,

1187
01:23:56.039 --> 01:24:00.119
I love the one that I have. We're going to head back out now

1188
01:24:00.119 --> 01:24:02.119
to Nadville and talk to David.
Hey, David, let's start off with

1189
01:24:02.159 --> 01:24:06.039
a little rapid fire Q and a
here. Okay, you said you grabbed

1190
01:24:06.039 --> 01:24:10.039
it and pulled up the grass.
Did you pull the leaves came off the

1191
01:24:10.119 --> 01:24:14.239
runners or did the runners and everything
come up off the ground. Yeah,

1192
01:24:14.319 --> 01:24:17.239
the runners came out and the roots
were black. Okay, About how big

1193
01:24:17.239 --> 01:24:25.239
are these spots that you're seeing?
I would say the largest spot would be

1194
01:24:25.279 --> 01:24:30.119
about the size of let's say a
king size pillow okay, okay, and

1195
01:24:30.479 --> 01:24:34.239
five gallon bucket? Yeah, sure, Okay. So as you go from

1196
01:24:34.239 --> 01:24:39.239
green grass to the spot, is
it very sudden or is there a gradual

1197
01:24:39.279 --> 01:24:43.039
decline and yellowing of the grass.
It's very sudden. In fact, when

1198
01:24:43.079 --> 01:24:47.199
I noticed the unhealthy grass, I
flagged the edge with some orange flags,

1199
01:24:47.840 --> 01:24:55.079
and then I applied the liquid herbicide
and that stopped it. It never expanded

1200
01:24:55.319 --> 01:25:00.279
beyond the orange flags. You meant
to say liquid fung aside? Yeah?

1201
01:25:00.319 --> 01:25:01.520
Did? I said? Yeah?
I just want to make sure, because

1202
01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:06.760
otherwise I could get real quick to
your problem, no doubt. Round up

1203
01:25:06.800 --> 01:25:11.600
on your grass, you crazy?
You grade circles or whatever color or whatever

1204
01:25:11.640 --> 01:25:15.439
size you want. Uh So,
uh, okay, that description does not

1205
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:19.800
fit chinch bugs. It's a gradual
bleeding out as they move out into the

1206
01:25:19.840 --> 01:25:24.880
grass. It doesn't. It's not
sideweb worms. Uh, it doesn't really

1207
01:25:24.960 --> 01:25:30.399
fit. Take a root rod either, and you know with large patch interrupt

1208
01:25:30.399 --> 01:25:33.760
you for a second. Sure this
may I did when I applied the twenty

1209
01:25:33.800 --> 01:25:38.920
one percent in late September. I
also went across the grass with like I

1210
01:25:38.960 --> 01:25:44.600
said, granular fungdicide, and I
hit the lawn with triadicide, the insecticide.

1211
01:25:45.399 --> 01:25:47.039
Well, but that shouldn't cost spots. I mean, if it's if

1212
01:25:47.079 --> 01:25:49.880
anything you put on the lawn is
going to affect it, it'll affect everything

1213
01:25:49.920 --> 01:25:54.199
you put it on. So I'm
right right out, real sure on that,

1214
01:25:54.920 --> 01:25:58.239
wondering if maybe the fungicide, uh, you know, paid off because

1215
01:25:58.359 --> 01:26:00.880
the spots hit about three weeks after
the application of fung just hiding on the

1216
01:26:00.880 --> 01:26:03.119
bag. It says it's good for
thirty days, but maybe it's not.

1217
01:26:03.359 --> 01:26:08.159
Well, but the two fungi that
attacks Saint Augustine the primary ones we deal

1218
01:26:08.199 --> 01:26:13.439
with. There are some others but
that cause large ear areas or take all

1219
01:26:13.520 --> 01:26:16.399
root rot, and I eliminated that
one and brown Patch in the fall.

1220
01:26:16.840 --> 01:26:21.119
But brown Patch, the runners stay
alive. It just rots the leaves off

1221
01:26:21.119 --> 01:26:25.560
the runners. That's why I asked
my first question. So you pretty much

1222
01:26:25.560 --> 01:26:30.239
are eliminating everything, and I'm not
sure why that would have appeared based on

1223
01:26:30.279 --> 01:26:33.960
what you're describing. I would just
say continue with good long care. Get

1224
01:26:34.000 --> 01:26:39.720
my long cair scheduled at gardening with
Skip dot com and just follow that in

1225
01:26:39.800 --> 01:26:45.079
terms of fertilizing and watering and you
know, mowing and all that. I

1226
01:26:45.079 --> 01:26:48.800
think you've done what you can do
for this fall. And I'm flummoxed at

1227
01:26:49.680 --> 01:26:55.039
your description just doesn't fit some of
the problems that should have caused it.

1228
01:26:55.960 --> 01:26:59.239
Yeah, yeah, gotcha, all
right, David. Interesting, Well,

1229
01:26:59.279 --> 01:27:03.239
thank you so much for your time, all right dot com Yes, uh

1230
01:27:03.319 --> 01:27:06.960
yeah, And and definitely just keep
taking care of the lawn. It's going

1231
01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:13.000
to grow back over those areas.
I'm pretty confident we are now gonna go

1232
01:27:13.119 --> 01:27:16.600
to Lotty and Santa Fe. Hello, Lotti, Hi, good morning,

1233
01:27:16.680 --> 01:27:21.640
Good morning. I have problems with
my fire bushes. I have three in

1234
01:27:21.720 --> 01:27:27.680
pots and one in the ground.
The ones in pots are yellow. Okay,

1235
01:27:27.640 --> 01:27:30.680
ye, all right, Uh well, it could be lack of water.

1236
01:27:31.079 --> 01:27:34.880
That's one thing that that you can
get some is you get root death

1237
01:27:34.920 --> 01:27:39.520
that you can see some things on
the top. And fire bush is a

1238
01:27:39.520 --> 01:27:43.359
pretty tough plant, but it does
not like to go dry in a container.

1239
01:27:43.680 --> 01:27:45.520
I tried it once in a container
and it's just like I can't water

1240
01:27:45.640 --> 01:27:50.920
that that regularly because of my life
schedule. But it's a beautiful plant,

1241
01:27:50.960 --> 01:27:56.520
a beautiful one. It could be
a root rot from overwatering and uh,

1242
01:27:56.960 --> 01:28:01.039
oversaturated soil. The roots can't get
oxygen. They could cause that. I'm

1243
01:28:01.119 --> 01:28:04.840
not sure what else on it.
I doubt it's a nutrient deficiency, but

1244
01:28:04.920 --> 01:28:09.319
it also could be that. But
at this point in the season for fire

1245
01:28:09.359 --> 01:28:12.760
bush, you don't need to fertilize
it because it's fixing to go into the

1246
01:28:12.960 --> 01:28:15.520
cool season and depending on the winter
we have, it may kill it back

1247
01:28:15.560 --> 01:28:19.520
pretty far. It may not.
Okay, all right, the one in

1248
01:28:19.520 --> 01:28:24.000
the ground is doing great, but
that every one of them in the pots

1249
01:28:24.439 --> 01:28:26.920
just or not make They're not pretty. We'll put it that way. Okay,

1250
01:28:26.960 --> 01:28:30.960
Well, I'm going to attribute that
to a confined root system and one

1251
01:28:30.960 --> 01:28:33.199
of the things I just mentioned as
a result of that, And the one

1252
01:28:33.239 --> 01:28:38.159
in the ground doesn't it doesn't have
a confined root system and it doesn't dry

1253
01:28:38.199 --> 01:28:43.159
out as fast or yeah, okay, all right. So should it take

1254
01:28:43.199 --> 01:28:45.760
them out of the pots? Well
you can't. I mean, you can

1255
01:28:45.800 --> 01:28:48.960
grow it in a pot. It
may need a bigger pot. But if

1256
01:28:48.960 --> 01:28:51.640
it were mine, I would take
them out of the pots because, like

1257
01:28:51.680 --> 01:28:55.479
I said, I when I was
growing them in pots. They can grow

1258
01:28:55.520 --> 01:29:00.319
in pots, but I'm just not
able to water pots regularly, and so

1259
01:29:00.600 --> 01:29:05.279
I just went and put mine in
the ground. Can we can we transplant

1260
01:29:05.319 --> 01:29:11.199
it right now? Oh yeah,
Primetime? OK yeah, just find it

1261
01:29:11.680 --> 01:29:15.159
now the top. The top's gonna
really brown back when you do, but

1262
01:29:15.439 --> 01:29:18.319
you could if it's still alive.
But when you pull it out, look

1263
01:29:18.319 --> 01:29:21.680
at the roots. And if you
see brown water sok, gray brown looking

1264
01:29:21.760 --> 01:29:26.960
roots, those are dead. And
I wouldn't try transplanting it. Okay,

1265
01:29:27.079 --> 01:29:29.720
I think these are all good.
They're just yellow. Hey, thank you.

1266
01:29:29.760 --> 01:29:31.760
We love your show. Thank you. Appreciate that, appreciate the call.

1267
01:29:32.479 --> 01:29:35.760
If you live up in the top
of the if you live up in

1268
01:29:35.800 --> 01:29:41.680
the Montgomery area, An A Plants
is your hometown garden center. And A

1269
01:29:41.760 --> 01:29:45.079
and A Plants has been around for
thirty years up there, and you've watched

1270
01:29:45.079 --> 01:29:48.079
them grow, those of you driving
up down one oh five. They're on

1271
01:29:48.119 --> 01:29:51.199
the east side of Montgomery, and
so all of you out there at the

1272
01:29:51.279 --> 01:29:55.920
Lake Conroe, my Gosh, Waterstone
to a Lago, Grand Harbor, Bentwater,

1273
01:29:56.000 --> 01:30:00.600
all of those neighborhoods, this is
your hometown garden center. They everything

1274
01:30:00.640 --> 01:30:03.199
we need. I mean all the
fertilizers I talk about. They have products

1275
01:30:03.199 --> 01:30:08.000
to control pests and manage weeds and
things like that as well. They do

1276
01:30:08.119 --> 01:30:11.520
delivery in the region and do a
little bit of landscaping up there in that

1277
01:30:11.640 --> 01:30:14.760
area as well. Seven days a
week, nine to five, so it's

1278
01:30:14.800 --> 01:30:16.880
always easy to find a time when
you can stop in at A and A

1279
01:30:17.039 --> 01:30:21.239
plants. And for those of you
who likes a decorade for Halloween and Thanksgiving

1280
01:30:21.239 --> 01:30:28.319
and the holidays, boy are they
ever loaded up with really cool stuff including

1281
01:30:28.600 --> 01:30:31.920
Hey, but maybe you need a
chiminea for those frosty evenings where you're sitting

1282
01:30:32.000 --> 01:30:36.079
out and enjoying that as you sit
on the patio, Well, they can

1283
01:30:36.119 --> 01:30:39.600
get you set up. We're going
to take a break. Our phone number

1284
01:30:39.640 --> 01:30:45.119
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Good morning. You're

1285
01:30:45.159 --> 01:30:49.199
listening to Garden Line and we are
here to answer gardening questions. That's what

1286
01:30:49.239 --> 01:30:54.560
we do now. I've been talking
about the importance of not delaying any longer

1287
01:30:54.640 --> 01:30:58.359
when it comes to doing your fertilization. If you need a weed control product,

1288
01:30:58.399 --> 01:31:01.880
a pre emerging you don't lay because
our grass is going to be slowing

1289
01:31:01.960 --> 01:31:04.640
down here. We got a nice
week. This week, it'd be a

1290
01:31:04.680 --> 01:31:10.439
great time to put down a product
like, for example, the nitrofoss Fall

1291
01:31:10.520 --> 01:31:15.520
Special Nitrophosphall Specials designed for your lawn. Put it down, do it today,

1292
01:31:15.720 --> 01:31:18.760
Put it down, get it watered
in, and all this week those

1293
01:31:18.880 --> 01:31:23.239
roots are taking it up, and
the plant is going to get stronger and

1294
01:31:23.319 --> 01:31:27.920
stronger going into winter and therefore come
out stronger in the spring. It's also

1295
01:31:27.960 --> 01:31:32.640
the time for nitrofuss barricade, and
nitrous barricade prevents broad leaving and grassy weeds.

1296
01:31:32.720 --> 01:31:35.640
You got to put it down and
watered in with about about a quarter

1297
01:31:35.640 --> 01:31:38.720
of an inch of water, and
I mean a half inch of water.

1298
01:31:39.119 --> 01:31:41.279
And oh, by the way,
people ask me all the time, can

1299
01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:43.560
I have to do this one day
and that the next day. No,

1300
01:31:43.920 --> 01:31:46.239
don't put them in the same hopper
on your on your fertilizer. Fertilize and

1301
01:31:46.239 --> 01:31:51.640
then come right back and then put
out the barricade and then put a half

1302
01:31:51.680 --> 01:31:55.720
inch of water down and you take
care of both the fertilizer and the barricade

1303
01:31:55.760 --> 01:31:58.680
and you get them moving down.
Third part, and by the way,

1304
01:31:58.720 --> 01:32:01.840
this is Nitrofossis tech is three step
system third part is eagle turf funge,

1305
01:32:01.840 --> 01:32:06.079
a side systemic soaks into the tissues
and when you get it in the tissues

1306
01:32:06.079 --> 01:32:10.359
and here comes brown patch or here
comes take all root run. It helps

1307
01:32:10.399 --> 01:32:14.520
fight against those diseases. Now you
can find this at all kinds of places,

1308
01:32:14.560 --> 01:32:17.239
Warren Southern Gardens, Ace Hardware,
and Sinco Ranch Growers Outlet, and

1309
01:32:17.279 --> 01:32:20.560
Willis. You can find it in
League City Feed. And those of you

1310
01:32:20.600 --> 01:32:25.560
in League City, you're fortunate to
have your hometown feed store, which is

1311
01:32:25.640 --> 01:32:30.079
League City Feed. It's out there
on Highway three, so you just go

1312
01:32:30.199 --> 01:32:33.039
a few blocks south of Highway ninety
six. So that whole region, you

1313
01:32:33.079 --> 01:32:36.279
know, Webster and Baycliff, El
Kamina, Reale, Dickinson, Sandley,

1314
01:32:36.640 --> 01:32:41.439
all that area League City is your
hometown feed store. They are open Monday

1315
01:32:41.439 --> 01:32:45.199
through Saturday, nine to six,
closed on Sunday. But that nine to

1316
01:32:45.279 --> 01:32:47.079
six is good because on the way
home from work you can stop in and

1317
01:32:47.159 --> 01:32:51.119
pick up the fertilizers I'm talking about
and all of the things that control pests

1318
01:32:51.159 --> 01:32:55.960
and weeds and diseases and stuff like
that on your lawn. Hey, here's

1319
01:32:55.960 --> 01:32:58.960
a phone number if you'd like to
call them. Two eight one three three

1320
01:32:59.079 --> 01:33:03.039
two Steam twelve League City Feed.
I am now going to go out to

1321
01:33:03.720 --> 01:33:10.000
Kingwood and talk to Pamela. Hello, Pamela, Hi, thanks for taking

1322
01:33:10.039 --> 01:33:14.079
my call. I've met you several
times at Warren's in the Bird Place.

1323
01:33:14.239 --> 01:33:18.399
Okay, Yeah, I'm the one
that raises money for the agg kids.

1324
01:33:19.119 --> 01:33:25.960
Yeah, and garden Club. You
know, we give money to scholarships for

1325
01:33:26.479 --> 01:33:31.680
A and M. Anyway, I
have a question about composting. I want

1326
01:33:31.720 --> 01:33:35.920
to do some leaf mold and I
want to do I have an area with

1327
01:33:36.039 --> 01:33:43.000
like twenty seven trees in front of
my house, and so what can I

1328
01:33:43.119 --> 01:33:46.680
do to make the composting faster?
Could I use some of that purple bag

1329
01:33:46.800 --> 01:33:54.960
stuff? Well, that means that
wouldn't hurt at all. What to have

1330
01:33:55.119 --> 01:33:58.840
fast composts? There's two things you
can do. You can put down.

1331
01:33:59.319 --> 01:34:01.079
First of all, you to mix
your brown and your green stuff. The

1332
01:34:01.119 --> 01:34:05.600
green stuff has nitrogen more so,
the brown stuff has carbon more so,

1333
01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:10.720
and you got to get that ratio
about right. So putting grass cuppings in

1334
01:34:10.800 --> 01:34:13.640
with the dead leaves and things that
would be a good thing. Or you

1335
01:34:13.640 --> 01:34:18.800
can get a fertilizer. You were
talking about microlife, the purple get the

1336
01:34:18.840 --> 01:34:24.079
microlife sixty four. That would be
a really good one to use, and

1337
01:34:24.760 --> 01:34:29.399
to sprinkle a little bit and that'll
give you the nitrogen. Also that'll make

1338
01:34:29.439 --> 01:34:32.319
the compost go faster. And then
having a big pile so it can stay

1339
01:34:32.359 --> 01:34:38.399
a little warm in the center as
it's composting and turning periodically, all of

1340
01:34:38.439 --> 01:34:42.760
that speeds up composting. All right, okay, because it's very shady because

1341
01:34:42.760 --> 01:34:45.680
of all the trees in the summertime. Yeah. And by the way,

1342
01:34:45.960 --> 01:34:50.680
you told me to go see your
power point with the kids. Yes,

1343
01:34:50.840 --> 01:34:55.880
composting, Yeah, I did.
Are those your kids when they were younger?

1344
01:34:56.000 --> 01:34:59.239
Oh? Yes, they are living
all over the country right now.

1345
01:35:00.199 --> 01:35:04.880
They grew up dad, gummt they're
darling. Well, thank you anyway,

1346
01:35:05.079 --> 01:35:12.560
all right. The trench thing that
you have the kids doing, yes,

1347
01:35:14.119 --> 01:35:16.680
I mean that's phenomenal. I mean, what kid wouldn't love to go out

1348
01:35:16.680 --> 01:35:21.880
there and dig with their parents?
There you go. What she's talking about

1349
01:35:21.920 --> 01:35:26.279
is digging a trench, putting your
food scraps and things in it, and

1350
01:35:26.359 --> 01:35:29.560
then just covering it up and in
the roots they'll get down there, they'll

1351
01:35:29.600 --> 01:35:32.279
find it and it's just a it's
called compost holding or trench composting however you

1352
01:35:32.319 --> 01:35:34.479
want to do it. Hey,
Pam, I got to run, but

1353
01:35:34.600 --> 01:35:40.319
thank you so much for the call. I appreciate that you take care.

1354
01:35:41.279 --> 01:35:45.319
Bye bye. You know the the
micro life products, they have a wide

1355
01:35:45.399 --> 01:35:50.520
range of Pamela's just talking about those. Uh, the fall fertilization for me

1356
01:35:50.720 --> 01:35:55.720
would be the five to one three. That's the brown Patch product, and

1357
01:35:55.880 --> 01:35:58.720
it's just got a good ratio.
It's going to gradually release over time.

1358
01:35:58.760 --> 01:36:02.319
It's going to help your plan do
better. I like to use bioinoculant.

1359
01:36:02.760 --> 01:36:06.640
That is their their purple bag.
I'll do that at all kinds of times.

1360
01:36:06.680 --> 01:36:12.000
And I should have mentioned when Pam
mentioned that bioinoculant would be a great

1361
01:36:12.039 --> 01:36:15.199
thing to add to a compost pile, because that's exactly what it is.

1362
01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:19.239
You're inoculating with even more microbes to
help it speed up and do well.

1363
01:36:19.319 --> 01:36:24.359
But those two go together well on
any kind of you know, your lawn.

1364
01:36:24.760 --> 01:36:30.079
In fact, I would use those
in any bed that I'm redoing.

1365
01:36:30.159 --> 01:36:32.119
I mean any bed that i'm you
know, pulling out some flowers and putting

1366
01:36:32.119 --> 01:36:35.279
some new ones in, or vegetables
or whatever. That's just a good combo

1367
01:36:35.319 --> 01:36:40.039
of products for Microlife. Let's head
out to Katie now and we're going to

1368
01:36:40.079 --> 01:36:44.199
talk to Rick. Hello, Rick, Hey, how you doing? Skip

1369
01:36:45.279 --> 01:36:50.880
got a quick quest employee over the
hot, hot summer. While I managed

1370
01:36:50.880 --> 01:36:55.720
to save my front yard, I
did not move my backyard, and I

1371
01:36:55.800 --> 01:37:00.840
would assume that most of the grass
back there is now okay, I did.

1372
01:37:01.720 --> 01:37:05.119
Now, what my question is,
what would you think would be the

1373
01:37:05.239 --> 01:37:12.079
easiest and probably most cost effective way
to redo my lawn? And we're talking

1374
01:37:12.079 --> 01:37:17.600
about an area of about oh four
thousands worth feat probably thirty thirty five by

1375
01:37:17.600 --> 01:37:23.760
one hundred, Okay, and this
is Saint Augustine. It was, yeah,

1376
01:37:24.039 --> 01:37:27.720
but that's what you want. So
the only way to do Saint Augustine

1377
01:37:27.840 --> 01:37:32.199
is by sod, and so you
can the sodding wall to wall is fast

1378
01:37:32.279 --> 01:37:35.800
and easy, just like you're laying
bricks on the ground. Uh. And

1379
01:37:36.399 --> 01:37:40.199
that is going to cost more money
because you're going to buy more sod.

1380
01:37:40.359 --> 01:37:45.079
But what that saves you is dealing
with all the weed issues because I put

1381
01:37:45.119 --> 01:37:49.119
sod down before where I cut the
blocks into strips and I planted those about

1382
01:37:49.119 --> 01:37:53.880
a foot apart, and that makes
that block of sod go further. So

1383
01:37:54.039 --> 01:37:59.279
it's economically cheaper at the beginning,
but in that bread that dead, I

1384
01:37:59.279 --> 01:38:02.319
mean the bear soil place in between, weeds are going to come up and

1385
01:38:02.920 --> 01:38:05.720
that is another issue, and then
you're going to be buying something to kill

1386
01:38:05.720 --> 01:38:10.119
the weeds and so on. So
it's kind of a trade off there as

1387
01:38:10.119 --> 01:38:13.520
to which way you go. Maybe
another economical approach is, hey, let's

1388
01:38:13.560 --> 01:38:16.760
take a certain amount of it and
do that this in the spring, and

1389
01:38:16.800 --> 01:38:20.600
then come back later and go a
lo further out into the area and do

1390
01:38:20.680 --> 01:38:26.880
that. That's my suggestions for you. What about another type of grass that

1391
01:38:27.319 --> 01:38:33.520
comes up a little bit more quickly
are to seed well? Really, Zeezia

1392
01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:36.840
is another one. I would just
sowed it the best varieties the ones we

1393
01:38:36.880 --> 01:38:41.560
want, or sowed bermuda grass.
There are some seeds, but it has

1394
01:38:41.600 --> 01:38:44.640
to be lots of sun for it
to do well. And then when you

1395
01:38:44.680 --> 01:38:47.600
have bermuda, you got bermuda,
and so flower beds and other things can

1396
01:38:47.640 --> 01:38:51.359
get invaded from that. So that's
the trade off. But yeah, bermuda

1397
01:38:51.439 --> 01:38:56.439
seed would be a very inexpensive way
to put the lawn out. And if

1398
01:38:56.439 --> 01:39:03.119
you go to Aggie Turf Aggie Turf
dot tamou dot edu click down on the

1399
01:39:03.159 --> 01:39:08.199
Park Texas turf grasses. Click on
bermuda and it'll list all the varieties that

1400
01:39:08.399 --> 01:39:13.479
are best buy seed that you can
plant. Okay, and I was thinking

1401
01:39:13.479 --> 01:39:15.760
about doing kind of a mix of
that in a cent would that would that

1402
01:39:15.800 --> 01:39:20.720
work? Well, that's kind of
a mess. I mean everybody's calling me

1403
01:39:20.760 --> 01:39:25.399
asking how to get bermuda out of
Saint Augustine, so to purposefully put them

1404
01:39:25.399 --> 01:39:28.680
together. I think you're the first
rick. You win the award on that

1405
01:39:28.720 --> 01:39:30.800
one. Hey, I got to
run, but thank you so much.

1406
01:39:30.880 --> 01:39:35.920
I appreciate it, appreciates the call. That is a first. You know,

1407
01:39:35.960 --> 01:39:40.560
when you're when you're fertilizing, it's
a good idea to put out some

1408
01:39:40.640 --> 01:39:43.479
as mite. You don't have to
do it a bunch of times a year.

1409
01:39:43.520 --> 01:39:46.439
But asmite is a trace mineral and
so you just need a little bit

1410
01:39:46.439 --> 01:39:49.199
of it and addition need to be
a little in the soil. But it's

1411
01:39:49.199 --> 01:39:55.760
an it's essential nutrients. So when
when it's trace but essential, what that

1412
01:39:55.880 --> 01:39:59.159
means is if you don't have it, the plants can't grow. But you

1413
01:39:59.199 --> 01:40:00.760
don't need a lot of it,
and amite goes a long way. You

1414
01:40:00.760 --> 01:40:04.039
can go to azimite, Texas dot
Com and find out more about it.

1415
01:40:04.079 --> 01:40:10.239
Again, apply it separately from your
fertilizer because particle size is different, so

1416
01:40:10.279 --> 01:40:13.840
your setting is going to be different
than your spreader. But it is a

1417
01:40:13.840 --> 01:40:18.600
great way to add trace elements to
your turf. Let's head out now to

1418
01:40:18.680 --> 01:40:24.359
Sharpstown and talk to Rebecca. Hello, Rebecca, Hey, how are you

1419
01:40:24.399 --> 01:40:30.039
today? I'm good? What's up
in Sharpstown? Okay? I recently lost

1420
01:40:30.079 --> 01:40:31.640
my trees in my yard and I'm
going to put a new one the in

1421
01:40:31.880 --> 01:40:40.279
for shade. The arborist recommended a
lie boat because they grow fast and they're

1422
01:40:40.319 --> 01:40:44.640
good shade breathese. I held,
the other hand, am not crazy about

1423
01:40:44.680 --> 01:40:49.039
having nuts or acorns. Okay,
is there anything else I can do of

1424
01:40:49.079 --> 01:40:54.800
a tree that'll grow fast and give
me good shade that I can plant?

1425
01:40:55.319 --> 01:40:59.840
Well, all the oaks are going
to have acorns. They have different cycles.

1426
01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:03.239
Not all oaks, you know,
somewherre every two years and Whatnotuh,

1427
01:41:03.359 --> 01:41:05.880
the I don't. I wouldn't call
a live oak a fast growing tree.

1428
01:41:05.920 --> 01:41:10.680
It's a it's a medium, fast
growing tree, but maybe one that you

1429
01:41:10.720 --> 01:41:13.079
would want to try. And I'm
gonna have to go to break here.

1430
01:41:13.319 --> 01:41:16.640
But the Chinese elm is a pretty
fast growing tree. It casts a light

1431
01:41:16.680 --> 01:41:21.880
shade so you can grow other things
underneath it, and it has beautiful exfoliating

1432
01:41:21.960 --> 01:41:28.239
bark. Go online and google Chinese
elm and then drake like the duck and

1433
01:41:28.279 --> 01:41:30.560
you'll see a picture of what I'm
talking about. All right, Rebecca,

1434
01:41:30.680 --> 01:41:33.720
thank you so much. I appreciate
that and hate to have to run so

1435
01:41:33.840 --> 01:41:36.640
fast, but we're going to take
a break here and let Nikki take it

1436
01:41:36.680 --> 01:41:43.079
over and hopefully the gremlins are out
of Nikki's system. Let's hope. HEO.

1437
01:41:43.199 --> 01:41:45.039
Good Sunday morning. You're listening to
garden Line. I'm your host,

1438
01:41:45.119 --> 01:41:48.119
Skip Richter, and we're here to
answer gardening questions. And the way we

1439
01:41:48.159 --> 01:41:54.000
do that is for you to call
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1440
01:41:54.399 --> 01:41:59.119
seventy four seven one three two one
two KTRH. If you want to just

1441
01:41:59.159 --> 01:42:01.439
make it a little simpler, you
can do it that way. Someone was

1442
01:42:01.479 --> 01:42:05.479
asking me about what is the best
type of lumber to use for making a

1443
01:42:05.560 --> 01:42:13.800
raised bed, and you know,
I am totally sold now on vego beds

1444
01:42:13.840 --> 01:42:17.680
and not doing it with lumber,
a lumber warps, a lumber ken rot.

1445
01:42:17.760 --> 01:42:21.920
In fact, all lumber is gonna
rot eventually, even treated. But

1446
01:42:24.239 --> 01:42:27.800
you know, if you if you
choose to go with lumber, I would

1447
01:42:27.800 --> 01:42:30.439
go. Here's three options. I'll
just put it this way. You could

1448
01:42:30.439 --> 01:42:34.319
do a treated wood, but if
you do a ground contact treated wood,

1449
01:42:34.600 --> 01:42:39.760
it's a different It's it's treated,
but it's treated knowing that it's going to

1450
01:42:39.800 --> 01:42:43.319
be in contact with the soil and
so it definitely needs to be more rot

1451
01:42:43.399 --> 01:42:46.439
resistant so it lasts longer. Okay, So the ground contact would be an

1452
01:42:46.479 --> 01:42:53.279
option there if you do if you
want to go with lumber. Another choice

1453
01:42:53.439 --> 01:42:58.520
is and this gets expensive, but
a naturally rot resistant wood. You know,

1454
01:42:58.600 --> 01:43:02.000
things like wood or cedar or whatnot. Those can be helpful, but

1455
01:43:02.119 --> 01:43:08.880
they're going to rot to especially you
know, the cedar will and the redwood

1456
01:43:08.880 --> 01:43:13.399
will. So those would be your
options. Just go online and learn a

1457
01:43:13.399 --> 01:43:15.119
bit a little bit about how to
put the beds together, because there's a

1458
01:43:15.159 --> 01:43:18.760
little bit of a trick to making
sure that you minimize the wharping and how

1459
01:43:18.760 --> 01:43:23.239
far can you run and with a
bed before you need some support for the

1460
01:43:23.279 --> 01:43:26.279
sides of that bed. But that's
what I would do. But again,

1461
01:43:26.399 --> 01:43:30.680
I just can't leave this alone.
I would do a vego bed. It

1462
01:43:30.000 --> 01:43:34.479
lasts way at last year treated would, and it's just simple, it's easy,

1463
01:43:34.520 --> 01:43:40.039
and it's pretty. It's downright pretty. That's another reason why I like

1464
01:43:40.119 --> 01:43:44.199
to do those. We get all
kinds of questions on guard line and as

1465
01:43:44.239 --> 01:43:49.520
a County agro Life Extension horticulturists for
thirty four years, I get a lot

1466
01:43:49.520 --> 01:43:54.439
of questions from gardeners and I pretty
much have heard everything in the world there

1467
01:43:54.520 --> 01:43:59.279
is to hear. But every time
somebody surprises me and ask a question like,

1468
01:43:59.319 --> 01:44:01.520
well, I haven't heard that one
before, Like should I plant?

1469
01:44:01.600 --> 01:44:06.199
Can I plant Bermuda grass in Saint
Augustine in the same place? That was

1470
01:44:06.239 --> 01:44:11.680
a first for me. Those of
you enjoy birds in the backyard, and

1471
01:44:11.800 --> 01:44:15.000
I am one of them. You
need to remember that as we move in

1472
01:44:15.039 --> 01:44:18.960
these fall months, the daytime link
is getting shorter and shorter, longer night,

1473
01:44:19.000 --> 01:44:23.039
shorter days, and birds have a
little less time to feed and we're

1474
01:44:23.079 --> 01:44:27.199
going into a cool season where they
need to have the reserves in their bodies

1475
01:44:27.640 --> 01:44:32.359
to do well going through that season. That's why wildbirds put together their winter

1476
01:44:32.800 --> 01:44:36.039
super blend. It's got a little
extra fat and protein in it, which

1477
01:44:36.079 --> 01:44:40.479
is really good for birds going into
this season. Now, when you're at

1478
01:44:40.520 --> 01:44:45.199
Wildbirds, I mean they have feeders
galore of that, bird houses, everything

1479
01:44:45.239 --> 01:44:49.239
you can imagine for birds. Just
go into a place their seed supplies is

1480
01:44:49.319 --> 01:44:53.920
probably in and of itself. If
that's the only thing they had, it'd

1481
01:44:53.920 --> 01:44:57.560
be worth going there for that.
And here's why when you buy cheap bird

1482
01:44:57.640 --> 01:45:01.039
seed, and you can buy cheap
bird seed, a huge amount of that

1483
01:45:01.159 --> 01:45:04.119
is those little red bebies that birds
won't eat and they kick it off on

1484
01:45:04.159 --> 01:45:09.199
the ground. And so your cheap
bird seed just got kind of expensive because

1485
01:45:09.239 --> 01:45:13.079
you didn't get as much bird seed
as you thought you were getting. Wild

1486
01:45:13.159 --> 01:45:17.520
Birds designs blends for each type of
bird or each group of types of birds,

1487
01:45:17.800 --> 01:45:21.720
and for different seasons of the year. And they even have a holeless

1488
01:45:21.720 --> 01:45:27.239
blend where there's no waste. I
mean, there's nothing to be like a

1489
01:45:27.239 --> 01:45:30.399
sunflower seed to be shelled and dropped
on the ground. They'll give you a

1490
01:45:30.439 --> 01:45:34.640
holeless sunflower a blend with sunflower in
it. It's just worth it. And

1491
01:45:34.720 --> 01:45:38.920
I've been using it on my own
feeders. And by the way, I

1492
01:45:38.960 --> 01:45:41.760
have the squirrel proof feeder, and
boy is that ever a cool one.

1493
01:45:41.880 --> 01:45:44.239
Check it out when you go buy
one of them. Hey, wild birds,

1494
01:45:44.319 --> 01:45:46.520
there's a bunch of them all over
the Houston area. Just go to

1495
01:45:46.600 --> 01:45:54.840
wild Birds Unlimited excuse me, WBU
dot com forward slash Houston and when you

1496
01:45:54.920 --> 01:45:58.680
do that, you're going to find
seven wild Birds Unlimited. So wherever you

1497
01:45:58.720 --> 01:46:03.840
live, there's one close by by
the way I bird feeders, bird supplies,

1498
01:46:04.399 --> 01:46:09.359
all that kind of stuff. That's
a great gift for the holidays.

1499
01:46:09.520 --> 01:46:12.560
So if you're just kind of looking
for somebody on your list, maybe they're

1500
01:46:12.560 --> 01:46:15.000
not a gardener, but they just
like being outside. They got a pretty

1501
01:46:15.000 --> 01:46:17.439
patio, think about that. While
birds to get you all set up on

1502
01:46:17.520 --> 01:46:23.199
that as well. Well, you're
listening to garden Line. Our phone number

1503
01:46:23.319 --> 01:46:28.199
is seven to one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four if you would

1504
01:46:28.239 --> 01:46:33.359
like to give us a call up
in Grimes County, Grimes County feed is

1505
01:46:33.399 --> 01:46:41.319
celebrating their five year anniversary. Congratulations
Chris and the roy family. That is

1506
01:46:41.600 --> 01:46:45.159
it's so fortunate that people living out
in that area because that's a pretty rural

1507
01:46:45.199 --> 01:46:48.479
area. A lot of small towns, very small towns out through that area,

1508
01:46:48.760 --> 01:46:51.880
and you're so fortunate to have a
hometown feed store. That's so close

1509
01:46:51.920 --> 01:46:56.239
to you. Grimes County Feed is
two miles west of two forty four.

1510
01:46:56.279 --> 01:46:59.920
It's on State Highway thirty. It
says Carlos, Texas. It's a little

1511
01:47:00.079 --> 01:47:04.119
out of Carlos, Texas. But
Grimescanty Feed carries every fertilizer that I'm bragging

1512
01:47:04.159 --> 01:47:06.960
on and talking about here on garden
Line. In fact, you know,

1513
01:47:08.039 --> 01:47:12.199
earlier I was talking about the Microlife
fertilizer and the things you can put out,

1514
01:47:12.199 --> 01:47:15.399
and they carry that. They carry
each of the brands that we talk

1515
01:47:15.439 --> 01:47:19.359
about here on Guardenline. They have
vegetable seeds, some garden tools, and

1516
01:47:19.479 --> 01:47:24.680
anything that's going to go after your
plants, diseases and weeds and insects.

1517
01:47:25.000 --> 01:47:28.079
They've got the control measures for that. And of course they're a feed store.

1518
01:47:28.399 --> 01:47:32.000
They always have a quality stock of
feed for pets as well, and

1519
01:47:32.800 --> 01:47:35.560
if you need pond supplies, they
can take care of that. And they

1520
01:47:35.600 --> 01:47:40.960
even do fish stocking and so you
just have to go in and ask them

1521
01:47:40.960 --> 01:47:44.000
about that and get on the list. If you've got a little farm pond

1522
01:47:44.159 --> 01:47:46.960
in that area. Wow, that's
really convenient to have them come out and

1523
01:47:47.279 --> 01:47:51.119
work with them as they bring in
some stocker fish that you can get for

1524
01:47:51.199 --> 01:47:56.119
your pond. We're going to now
go out to Katie, Texas and talk

1525
01:47:56.159 --> 01:48:00.239
to Doug. Hello, Doug Chip, good morning. My question is I've

1526
01:48:00.239 --> 01:48:06.720
got a night blooming jasmine that took
a pretty good hit from the last freeze

1527
01:48:06.760 --> 01:48:13.840
we had, but it came back. And my question is it's in a

1528
01:48:13.920 --> 01:48:16.439
large pot, maybe by like an
eighteen inch pot, and practically the whole

1529
01:48:16.520 --> 01:48:24.520
surface of the pot is covered with
growth up shoots. It's not getting taller,

1530
01:48:24.680 --> 01:48:29.359
it's just filling out like a little
field of grass or something coming up

1531
01:48:29.399 --> 01:48:33.079
there exactly right, and it's healthy
and everything. But my question is I

1532
01:48:33.119 --> 01:48:39.560
want to thin out some of the
growth so that I can get more vertical

1533
01:48:39.600 --> 01:48:43.039
growth and not these shoots keep coming
up. Well, it's going to get

1534
01:48:43.119 --> 01:48:45.399
vertical. It's just going to need
a little time. And we're not going

1535
01:48:45.399 --> 01:48:48.479
into a season where night blooming jasmine
wants to do a lot of growing.

1536
01:48:48.640 --> 01:48:53.720
And that's part of the deal.
I would leave it because every little shoot

1537
01:48:53.720 --> 01:48:57.479
has leaves on it that are catching
sunlight, making carbohydrates, or keeping the

1538
01:48:57.560 --> 01:49:00.279
roots strong, and that way,
when you come out of you're going to

1539
01:49:00.319 --> 01:49:04.079
be able to have a stronger plant. And at that time, if you

1540
01:49:04.159 --> 01:49:08.560
want to do some selective pruning,
you could go ahead and do that.

1541
01:49:08.840 --> 01:49:13.680
I think i'd hold off when you
do the selective pruning. What's the criteria

1542
01:49:13.840 --> 01:49:17.279
for selecting what to cut out?
Just I would go with the most vigorous

1543
01:49:17.359 --> 01:49:19.960
upright shoots. It could be spacing. If you got two that are just

1544
01:49:20.039 --> 01:49:24.279
bumping against each other, I'll probably
take one of them out and space them

1545
01:49:24.319 --> 01:49:27.239
out just a little bit. But
it's not a big deal. You're not

1546
01:49:27.279 --> 01:49:30.960
gonna you can't go wrong on it, so don't don't sweat it. But

1547
01:49:30.199 --> 01:49:33.000
just esthetically, how many shoots do
you want? You know, you've grown

1548
01:49:33.039 --> 01:49:39.439
the plant before, and that's what
I would say, All right, oh

1549
01:49:39.520 --> 01:49:43.760
okay, yeah, because before the
freeze it was probably you know, pushing

1550
01:49:44.199 --> 01:49:47.479
five or six feet tall and now, okay, well that's that's a great

1551
01:49:47.479 --> 01:49:49.840
plan. Doug Hey, I got
to run to break but thank you very

1552
01:49:49.920 --> 01:49:54.279
much for that. Call our phone
number again seven one three two one two

1553
01:49:54.680 --> 01:49:57.560
fifty eight to seventy four Mike.
When we come back, we'll go up

1554
01:49:57.600 --> 01:50:00.680
to New Caney and talk to you. Well, welcome back to garden Line.

1555
01:50:00.720 --> 01:50:03.439
We're here to answer gardening questions and
if you'd like to give us A

1556
01:50:03.479 --> 01:50:09.640
call seven one three two one two
kt r H makes it easy to dial.

1557
01:50:09.840 --> 01:50:12.560
We're going to head now out to
New Caney and talk to Mike.

1558
01:50:12.760 --> 01:50:15.119
Hello, Mike, how you doing
the smart script? I'm doing well.

1559
01:50:15.960 --> 01:50:24.000
How do you get rid of elephantears? Well, they have big storage or

1560
01:50:24.279 --> 01:50:28.319
out dynamite and stuff. Yeah,
dynamite, back home, move color,

1561
01:50:28.399 --> 01:50:31.520
realtor those are all options. Now. They have big storage argons underground and

1562
01:50:31.560 --> 01:50:34.960
so you know, even a you
can put praise on them that will that

1563
01:50:35.039 --> 01:50:40.359
will kill them. Things that killed
big broad leaf weeds can work on those.

1564
01:50:41.800 --> 01:50:45.920
So that's an option, but you're
probably gonna have to retreat. Digging

1565
01:50:45.079 --> 01:50:49.199
is you know, a better way
to get in there and make sure you

1566
01:50:49.279 --> 01:50:51.399
get it out. But that's a
lot of work. Elephant ears, as

1567
01:50:51.439 --> 01:50:56.239
you know, can you probably made
an attempt at one or two and oh

1568
01:50:56.319 --> 01:50:58.960
yeah, I probably don't want to
fight that battle that way. But those

1569
01:50:59.039 --> 01:51:01.039
are the two two options you've got
there. As you spray them with a

1570
01:51:01.079 --> 01:51:06.159
broad leaf post emergent we control product
or something that kills everything, you know,

1571
01:51:06.359 --> 01:51:10.800
just one of those kind of things, and they'd be ready to do

1572
01:51:10.840 --> 01:51:13.439
it again. Be ready to do
it again. Don't let them up prayer

1573
01:51:14.159 --> 01:51:18.600
and you can get rid of them. Okay. You know what you ought

1574
01:51:18.640 --> 01:51:23.880
to do is put a sign at
the road free elephant ears. You know,

1575
01:51:23.920 --> 01:51:28.920
you go Tom Sawyer on this.
You know, let them for you

1576
01:51:29.279 --> 01:51:30.880
because a lot of people would like
them. And they're a beautiful plant.

1577
01:51:30.960 --> 01:51:35.720
I mean, gosh, y my
pond. Yeah. Oh they're in a

1578
01:51:35.840 --> 01:51:40.960
pond. Hey, I'm the edge
of a pond. Oh okay, digging

1579
01:51:41.119 --> 01:51:44.439
just got more interesting, didn't it. Oh my god. Well you don't

1580
01:51:44.439 --> 01:51:47.199
want to use dynamite that'll make all
the fish float. Yeah, that's true.

1581
01:51:47.760 --> 01:51:50.840
Okay, we're having some fun out
there. But Mike, I guess

1582
01:51:50.880 --> 01:51:57.119
that's it. There is a there
is a product called Rodeo, and it's

1583
01:51:57.279 --> 01:52:00.680
like round up, but it's made
for use in water around water. And

1584
01:52:01.199 --> 01:52:04.119
that might be a one you want
to look at, go to go to

1585
01:52:04.119 --> 01:52:08.800
a feed store, and and it
may be a little pricey. I haven't

1586
01:52:08.840 --> 01:52:12.439
ever purchased it myself, but I
just know that it's essentially a glaf to

1587
01:52:12.439 --> 01:52:17.159
say type product, but it's it's
made for use around ponds. Week talking

1588
01:52:17.199 --> 01:52:20.560
about Yeah, that would be an
option. Yeah. Some of the other

1589
01:52:20.600 --> 01:52:25.760
stuff I was picturing growing in a
landscape. A lot of those lawn things

1590
01:52:25.800 --> 01:52:29.439
are not going to be labeled for
use around water like that, so you

1591
01:52:29.520 --> 01:52:32.800
wouldn't know. Okay, all right, I appreciate it. Skip all right,

1592
01:52:33.319 --> 01:52:36.079
you take care. Good to talk
to you. You know, in

1593
01:52:36.159 --> 01:52:41.199
Chane Gardens, the Lenderman family,
they've been in business a lot, in

1594
01:52:41.239 --> 01:52:45.560
the nursery business a long time,
and they know how to do a nursery

1595
01:52:45.720 --> 01:52:48.760
and it shows up. Go to
in Chennick Gardens and check out. You'll

1596
01:52:48.760 --> 01:52:53.680
see what I'm talking about. Joey
has been part of that community for a

1597
01:52:53.680 --> 01:52:56.960
long time. He's been in the
business for a long time, and they

1598
01:52:57.159 --> 01:53:00.880
have created a little wonderland out there. Do you need roses? Do you

1599
01:53:00.920 --> 01:53:04.319
need herbs and vegetables? Do you
need trees and shrubs and flowers and perennials

1600
01:53:04.359 --> 01:53:09.079
and all things anything you're going to
grow as a gardener. They're going to

1601
01:53:09.119 --> 01:53:13.439
have that kind of plant out there
at Enchanted Gardens Richmond. And one of

1602
01:53:13.439 --> 01:53:15.239
the best reasons to go there.
First of all, they carry all the

1603
01:53:15.279 --> 01:53:18.560
products we talk about, soils and
fertilizers and things. They got it all

1604
01:53:18.640 --> 01:53:21.520
right there. One of the best
reasons to go out there is their team.

1605
01:53:23.079 --> 01:53:27.640
They have a helpful, enthusiastic team
that knows what they're talking about,

1606
01:53:27.800 --> 01:53:32.199
and that is worth everything. When
you're buying plants, you want someone who

1607
01:53:32.439 --> 01:53:36.239
number one carries the plants that'll do
well here and won't sell you something that

1608
01:53:36.319 --> 01:53:40.800
won't grow here, that knows what
they're talking about for crying out loud,

1609
01:53:41.239 --> 01:53:45.199
and also that can guide you after
the sale how to take care of it.

1610
01:53:45.319 --> 01:53:45.640
You know, what do you do? How do you plant it?

1611
01:53:45.680 --> 01:53:48.079
Hey, this plant's not doing good. Here's a picture I brought in.

1612
01:53:48.479 --> 01:53:51.359
They'll do that. They'll take time
to do that. In Enchanted Gardens,

1613
01:53:51.359 --> 01:53:56.520
they're on FM three point fifty nine, the Katie Fullscher Side of Richmond,

1614
01:53:56.560 --> 01:54:02.520
or just go to the website Enchanted
Gardens Richmond dot Chandigardens Richmond dot com.

1615
01:54:02.920 --> 01:54:06.319
Today'd be a good day to get
out there too. Oh let's see,

1616
01:54:06.319 --> 01:54:11.479
we're gonna go cypress now and talk
to Brandon. Hello Brandon, Hey,

1617
01:54:11.520 --> 01:54:14.600
Skiff, Hey, I need some
help with some hollies. I got like

1618
01:54:14.640 --> 01:54:18.359
a row of hollies across the entire
front of my house, and a couple

1619
01:54:18.319 --> 01:54:23.800
of years ago, one of them
started having like all the leaves like on

1620
01:54:23.880 --> 01:54:29.119
it on individual limbs would start just
turning brown until it finally lost the whole

1621
01:54:29.119 --> 01:54:32.359
bush. Yeah, And so I
dug that one up and then this is

1622
01:54:32.439 --> 01:54:36.359
probably maybe two three years ago.
And then now like an adjacent one is

1623
01:54:36.399 --> 01:54:39.399
doing the same thing, and I
just had to get that one out,

1624
01:54:39.720 --> 01:54:42.760
and the others next to it kind
of look a little sick. They get

1625
01:54:42.800 --> 01:54:45.920
like before the leaves turn totally brown, they get like some black spots on

1626
01:54:45.000 --> 01:54:50.000
the top of them, and then
they just go go down. Well,

1627
01:54:50.600 --> 01:54:54.520
Brandon, it could be several things, and it could be a combination too

1628
01:54:54.680 --> 01:54:59.800
of things. How long ago did
you plant them the I think they were

1629
01:55:00.000 --> 01:55:02.800
the old ones that are still alive. I think they were probably original with

1630
01:55:02.800 --> 01:55:05.840
the house, you know, twenty
three years ago. Oh really, okay,

1631
01:55:05.960 --> 01:55:11.039
well established, Well, the drought
we went through really took a toll

1632
01:55:11.079 --> 01:55:15.279
on Holly's. You don't find Holly's
in West Texas. They want to live

1633
01:55:15.279 --> 01:55:19.000
in the piny woods where it rains, and so that's one thing. And

1634
01:55:19.600 --> 01:55:24.319
making sure the water gets to the
whole root system that some plant is not

1635
01:55:24.479 --> 01:55:28.319
blocking the spray if you have a
spray irrigation, so you have sections of

1636
01:55:28.359 --> 01:55:31.119
the root system that are too dry
that could cause a branch up there to

1637
01:55:31.239 --> 01:55:34.199
die is like that they don't want
to be soggy wet, But I kind

1638
01:55:34.199 --> 01:55:38.600
of doubt that's the problem from the
year we just went through. That's another

1639
01:55:38.600 --> 01:55:42.119
thing that can cause issues. There
are some root rots that can attack them

1640
01:55:42.640 --> 01:55:45.800
and sort of the progression of a
root rot like that on a holly,

1641
01:55:45.840 --> 01:55:49.720
you should see a branch die and
then more branches die on that side,

1642
01:55:49.760 --> 01:55:54.359
and it's almost like it's working away
through the plant from left to right,

1643
01:55:54.520 --> 01:55:57.439
if you will. That would be
kind of a root right issue, and

1644
01:55:57.479 --> 01:56:00.000
that may be a bigger challenge.
That would require sending a plan into the

1645
01:56:00.039 --> 01:56:05.920
plant clinic State plant clinic and getting
the actual disease identified so you can target

1646
01:56:05.960 --> 01:56:11.439
it with the fungicide drench that would
fix that disease. That is unlikely,

1647
01:56:11.560 --> 01:56:14.720
but that's a possibility, and I'm
just throwing out all the things I could

1648
01:56:14.720 --> 01:56:18.199
see. This would be. Where
would I look that up? Who who

1649
01:56:18.279 --> 01:56:23.439
to contact for that plant clinic?
Go to plant plank Clinic, plant Clinic

1650
01:56:23.640 --> 01:56:29.279
dot t a m U dot edu. All the websites are TAMU dot edu,

1651
01:56:29.439 --> 01:56:32.680
plant Clinic dot TAMU dot edu.
There is a form that you fill

1652
01:56:32.680 --> 01:56:36.159
out. It's a diagnostic form.
Now you need to send them a sick

1653
01:56:36.199 --> 01:56:40.560
plant. If you send them a
dead plant. They don't do autopsies.

1654
01:56:40.880 --> 01:56:45.239
They just do diagnoses. So when
a plant is declining to the point where

1655
01:56:45.319 --> 01:56:48.680
okay, I'm gonna lose it anyway, go ahead and pull it up while

1656
01:56:48.680 --> 01:56:53.039
it still has some life in it
and follow the instructions. If I were

1657
01:56:53.079 --> 01:56:55.239
you, I would probably drive it
up there. It's not that far.

1658
01:56:55.319 --> 01:56:58.479
Probably an hour where are you say, Oh yeah, an hour and fifteen

1659
01:56:58.520 --> 01:57:00.960
minutes away from you, and it
just be simpler. You make sure you

1660
01:57:01.000 --> 01:57:03.680
get it there in good shape.
Take it early in the week that's best,

1661
01:57:03.720 --> 01:57:09.560
so it didn't sit there over the
weekend. All right, Brendon,

1662
01:57:10.640 --> 01:57:15.840
I appreciate it. I appreciate your
call very much. We'll see we are

1663
01:57:15.960 --> 01:57:18.439
going to let's see, I'm gonna
go to Janey and Missouri City. How

1664
01:57:18.479 --> 01:57:23.600
are you doing, Jenne? I
am great. I have a question about

1665
01:57:23.760 --> 01:57:29.159
fertilizer for my lawn. My lawn
survived with being watered during the summer and

1666
01:57:29.199 --> 01:57:32.439
I had fertilized in the spring,
and last year I bought I went to

1667
01:57:32.520 --> 01:57:40.680
Southwest Fertilizer and bought a lawn special
premium winter riser. Okay, and I

1668
01:57:40.760 --> 01:57:43.680
have that bag still. I'm not
sure why I didn't put that on,

1669
01:57:43.840 --> 01:57:48.399
other than I might have gotten the
nitrofass stuff. It's two percent iron point

1670
01:57:48.479 --> 01:57:55.239
four percent. I know that product. It's a good one. Use that.

1671
01:57:55.479 --> 01:57:58.840
I'm sorry, I'm running out of
time here. I want to help

1672
01:57:58.880 --> 01:58:01.720
you if I can. What's the
bottom line on it? Can I use

1673
01:58:01.760 --> 01:58:04.399
that? And then what other products
would I put with it? Nothing?

1674
01:58:04.439 --> 01:58:08.399
With it? I know, yes, the three step No, that's that

1675
01:58:08.520 --> 01:58:12.319
product is fine for fertilizer. If
you want to do a broad if you

1676
01:58:12.319 --> 01:58:15.239
want to control weeds, then the
barricade, which is a pre emergent.

1677
01:58:15.560 --> 01:58:18.800
All right, okay, thank you
very much. I appreciate that call.

1678
01:58:19.039 --> 01:58:23.399
Hey, you know me, I
keep right. I keep talking about falls

1679
01:58:23.399 --> 01:58:27.319
for planning woody ornamentals. Don't plan
a woody ornamental unless you buy a tree

1680
01:58:27.359 --> 01:58:30.920
hugger sprinkler because next summer is coming
and you're going to have to water where

1681
01:58:30.960 --> 01:58:34.720
the roots are, and that is
what tree hugger does. They're easy to

1682
01:58:34.760 --> 01:58:39.520
do. Treehuggersprinkler dot com. It's
as simple as that. I've got one

1683
01:58:39.560 --> 01:58:42.520
hanging in my garage. You should
too, because who knows what's next to

1684
01:58:42.640 --> 01:58:45.479
rosebush or something you're going to always
have use for a tree hugger sprinkler.

1685
01:58:45.880 --> 01:58:49.479
They work great. Well you've been
listening to garden Line. I just want

1686
01:58:49.520 --> 01:58:56.079
to remind you that I am heading
out next Saturday to r CW Nurseries where

1687
01:58:56.079 --> 01:59:00.199
they're going to be given away lay
spark elm Mexican white Oak, Monterey O's

1688
01:59:00.199 --> 01:59:04.279
another name Live O Seedlings. They're
gonna have barbecue sandwich lunch or fifty percent

1689
01:59:04.319 --> 01:59:09.399
off on all shrubs and some of
the trees, and giveaways of frost cloth

1690
01:59:09.479 --> 01:59:12.920
and fertilizers and all kinds of things. Put it on your calendar and come

1691
01:59:12.960 --> 01:59:16.279
see me. Kt r H Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

1692
01:59:16.279 --> 01:59:23.760
products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to kt r H Garden Line

1693
01:59:23.880 --> 01:59:45.359
with Skip Richter's so Trim just watch
him as well. Good morning and welcome

1694
01:59:45.399 --> 01:59:47.439
back to garden Line. You know, as we went into that last break,

1695
01:59:47.479 --> 01:59:54.560
I was talking about treehar sprinklers and
the reason I like them so much

1696
01:59:54.880 --> 01:59:58.439
is because you water the root zone
of the tree. So you got a

1697
01:59:58.479 --> 02:00:00.960
new tree, you put it around
it and you water that small confined rig

1698
02:00:01.039 --> 02:00:04.680
zone that just went into the ground
in a cylinder, and it gets bigger,

1699
02:00:04.680 --> 02:00:08.359
and it gets bigger in five years
from now, that tree is going

1700
02:00:08.439 --> 02:00:12.079
to have a nice little branch spread
and you can turn your tree hugger up

1701
02:00:12.239 --> 02:00:15.640
just water a larger area. They
have three sizes, seven inch, eleven

1702
02:00:15.640 --> 02:00:19.960
and fifteen inch, so I have
I own all three because sometimes I will

1703
02:00:20.000 --> 02:00:25.359
be using them at the same time
on different even different kind of plants.

1704
02:00:25.399 --> 02:00:29.000
Even but a tree hugger waters that
area. So you don't turn your whole

1705
02:00:29.079 --> 02:00:33.000
landscape watering system on and try to
run it so long that you soak deeply.

1706
02:00:33.079 --> 02:00:36.760
For trees. Now, just you
water right there. It saves water

1707
02:00:38.079 --> 02:00:40.720
to do it, but the main
thing it does is it saves your trees.

1708
02:00:40.960 --> 02:00:44.039
And I would say if there are, if there are two things that

1709
02:00:44.199 --> 02:00:47.600
if I had to take all treecare
and tree success and my trees alive,

1710
02:00:47.640 --> 02:00:50.560
and it's pretty if I were to
take them down to two things. One

1711
02:00:50.920 --> 02:00:56.840
would be watering in the summer when
it gets dry and it's an extended hot

1712
02:00:56.960 --> 02:01:00.000
drought. Trees don't need baby like
a little shallow rooted ends do. But

1713
02:01:00.119 --> 02:01:02.880
when it goes a long time and
it's dry, you know, a mature

1714
02:01:02.920 --> 02:01:05.760
tree can pup one hundred gallons of
water a day. That's a lot of

1715
02:01:05.800 --> 02:01:10.960
water, and it's coming from the
soil. And after what two weeks and

1716
02:01:11.000 --> 02:01:13.600
o rain, three weeks, four
weeks, five weeks. You see what

1717
02:01:13.640 --> 02:01:17.239
I'm saying, watering Number one.
Second thing is don't let anyone touch your

1718
02:01:17.279 --> 02:01:21.880
tree that doesn't know what they're doing. I see more trees that are mispruned

1719
02:01:23.199 --> 02:01:26.880
that I just see all kinds of
things done to trees that shouldn't be done.

1720
02:01:27.079 --> 02:01:30.800
This ridiculous volcano mulching that you see
all over town. That's another one.

1721
02:01:31.119 --> 02:01:36.079
Affordable Tree Service Martin Spoon Moore.
They're the ones we trust because they've

1722
02:01:36.079 --> 02:01:39.960
been doing this for a very long
time. They know what they're doing over

1723
02:01:40.039 --> 02:01:43.960
thirty years now taking care of Houston
trees. They serve the whole area.

1724
02:01:44.439 --> 02:01:45.760
You need to call them and get
on the schedule. Though, even if

1725
02:01:45.800 --> 02:01:49.680
you want pruning done, you know, back up in January or something seven

1726
02:01:49.680 --> 02:01:55.119
to one to three, six nine
nine twenty six sixty three. Get at

1727
02:01:55.119 --> 02:01:58.239
the front of the line by telling
them you heard it on guardline. But

1728
02:01:58.439 --> 02:02:02.119
aff Tree serves dot com. That's
another way you can reach them. Martin

1729
02:02:02.199 --> 02:02:05.680
or Joe's wife are the ones that
answer the phone. And when you have

1730
02:02:05.800 --> 02:02:09.399
somebody who knows what they're doing take
care of the tree. You had a

1731
02:02:09.399 --> 02:02:13.479
caller earlier, they're just it was
just bragging about how well they took care

1732
02:02:13.520 --> 02:02:15.960
of their trees. When you have
someone like that taking care of your trees

1733
02:02:16.399 --> 02:02:21.479
in even advising you, that is
the second key element to success. I

1734
02:02:21.479 --> 02:02:24.600
mean, there are other things we
can do for our trees, but those

1735
02:02:24.680 --> 02:02:29.560
two summer watering when needed during a
drought, and having someone who knows what

1736
02:02:29.600 --> 02:02:32.680
they're doing touch your trees and nobody
else gets to be around them because a

1737
02:02:32.720 --> 02:02:36.359
bad printing job is forever. And
if you're going to be putting in a

1738
02:02:36.399 --> 02:02:40.960
sidewalk or a driveway or anything around
the tree, call Martin, have him

1739
02:02:40.960 --> 02:02:44.279
come out and consult and tell you
what you need to do this or that.

1740
02:02:44.359 --> 02:02:47.479
Here's how we protect the tree in
the process. That alone is worth

1741
02:02:47.479 --> 02:02:51.640
a lot. Hey, our phone
number is seven one three two one two

1742
02:02:51.680 --> 02:02:59.159
fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

1743
02:03:00.119 --> 02:03:03.760
Will be glad to visit with you
about the topics that you are very interested

1744
02:03:03.800 --> 02:03:06.319
in this morning. And there are
a lot of things we could talk about

1745
02:03:08.840 --> 02:03:14.359
in my own landscape. We just
had some beds. We got them all

1746
02:03:14.399 --> 02:03:16.880
cleaned out and everything, and it's
time to put in some new color in

1747
02:03:16.960 --> 02:03:21.119
there. And I was just trying
to decide what are the flowering plants that

1748
02:03:21.159 --> 02:03:24.199
I want to do. And I
have my favorite. You know, I

1749
02:03:24.239 --> 02:03:29.039
love violas, and I love viola's
more than pansies. Actually they do really

1750
02:03:29.079 --> 02:03:32.119
well. And there are a lot
of other good color plants that you can

1751
02:03:32.159 --> 02:03:36.000
put in. And if you've never
been out to Enchanted Forest, you should

1752
02:03:36.000 --> 02:03:41.840
go because whether you need fall color
like I'm talking about, or do you

1753
02:03:41.880 --> 02:03:45.760
need shrubs or do you need trees, you know, they have a wide

1754
02:03:45.840 --> 02:03:48.279
variety of plants, perennials, everything, you name it. They've got it

1755
02:03:48.279 --> 02:03:53.279
out there and you can go to
their website. It is Oh, by

1756
02:03:53.279 --> 02:03:56.239
the way, it's a great new
website. They've done a good job.

1757
02:03:56.359 --> 02:04:02.479
Congratulations folks. Enchanted Forest Richmond TX
dot com. Enchanted Forest, Richmond,

1758
02:04:02.920 --> 02:04:06.960
TX dot com. Go check that
out. I was looking at social media

1759
02:04:08.079 --> 02:04:12.239
and they're getting a way two tickets
to see Doug Tallamy at the Houston Botanical

1760
02:04:12.279 --> 02:04:15.760
Garden. You have to go on
their Facebook page and you have to type

1761
02:04:15.760 --> 02:04:20.239
something in there and they'll draw on
Monday. I believe for those tomorrow,

1762
02:04:20.279 --> 02:04:26.279
so don't delay in doing that.
Doug Tallomy is unbelievable. I read his

1763
02:04:26.359 --> 02:04:30.159
book Bringing Nature Home, and it
changed my whole perspective on a lot of

1764
02:04:30.239 --> 02:04:34.199
things. If you were into birds, you have got to hear Doug Tellomy

1765
02:04:34.600 --> 02:04:40.000
because he talks about the things we
do in our landscapes that help enhance the

1766
02:04:40.039 --> 02:04:43.880
birds. But you can get two
free our chance the two free tickets out,

1767
02:04:44.000 --> 02:04:46.239
go to the Enchanted Forest Facebook page, and while you're there, just

1768
02:04:46.319 --> 02:04:50.239
check out all the plants that they
have, wide variety of really cool stuff.

1769
02:04:51.159 --> 02:04:55.079
Let's head out now to Cyprus and
we're going to talk to Bill.

1770
02:04:55.239 --> 02:05:00.600
Hello. Bill, Hey, good
morning, Good morning. I had a

1771
02:05:00.680 --> 02:05:03.880
quick question for you. So here
recently, I've lost a couple of palm

1772
02:05:03.920 --> 02:05:12.359
trees mature, probably twenty years old, so they're thirty foot tall to woodpeckers.

1773
02:05:12.840 --> 02:05:15.159
And so I've had another one cut
out a couple of weeks ago,

1774
02:05:15.239 --> 02:05:18.159
and I've got the woodpecker back on
one of the other good trees. Anything

1775
02:05:18.199 --> 02:05:21.079
I do about that other than shoot
them? What kind of tree? Did

1776
02:05:21.119 --> 02:05:27.640
you say? Palm trees? They're
the Mexican fan plants. Oh boy,

1777
02:05:27.960 --> 02:05:30.880
I don't know. Maybe some caller
has a good solution to that, but

1778
02:05:31.239 --> 02:05:36.239
I you know, the only things
that come to mind. Yeah, you're

1779
02:05:36.239 --> 02:05:39.680
talking about shooting them. Well that
that's not going to go well in the

1780
02:05:39.720 --> 02:05:44.760
city. No, the and they
serve a purpose in nature too, So

1781
02:05:45.720 --> 02:05:47.800
you know, going up there and
wrapping some kind of hardware cloth around it

1782
02:05:47.840 --> 02:05:49.800
to keep them out of it.
Boy, that would be a job,

1783
02:05:49.840 --> 02:05:54.319
a ridiculous attempt. I can't think
of what would do it. I think

1784
02:05:54.359 --> 02:05:58.920
it may just be it is what
it is, But maybe somebody else has

1785
02:05:58.960 --> 02:06:06.920
another idea. The Yeah, I'm
stumped on that one. Congratulations, Yeah,

1786
02:06:08.680 --> 02:06:13.279
stump the chump, you did it. Thanks, Bill, appreciate that,

1787
02:06:13.319 --> 02:06:16.359
all right, you bet. I
appreciate that call a lot. I

1788
02:06:16.399 --> 02:06:20.800
was talking about Microlife earlier and I
didn't mention their blue and blue combination.

1789
02:06:20.920 --> 02:06:26.319
That's one that I really like to
talk about. The first blue is the

1790
02:06:26.359 --> 02:06:30.000
Microlife Ultimate. Now that's an eight
four six fertilizer and you can use it

1791
02:06:30.039 --> 02:06:32.840
on anything. But right now,
I would you know, I'd use their

1792
02:06:32.880 --> 02:06:36.680
other their brown patch on the lawn, but you can use this on anything.

1793
02:06:36.680 --> 02:06:41.640
It'd be a good lawn fertilizer in
the summer, but if you're planting

1794
02:06:41.680 --> 02:06:44.920
trees and shrubs and things, Microlife's
not going to burn plants. You're not

1795
02:06:44.960 --> 02:06:46.880
going to burn your plants with Microlife, So if you're doing the backfill,

1796
02:06:46.920 --> 02:06:49.199
you can put a little of it
in there or sprinkle it around on the

1797
02:06:49.239 --> 02:06:54.199
surface before you cover the area with
mulch. That is a very good fertilizer

1798
02:06:54.239 --> 02:06:57.760
and it'll be around and ready to
go when that tree starts its growth.

1799
02:06:57.920 --> 02:07:00.680
Now, the Microlife Ocean Harvest is
the other the blue that is a jug

1800
02:07:00.840 --> 02:07:04.079
and it is a fish based fertilizer
that you can mix up. You can

1801
02:07:04.199 --> 02:07:09.800
use it as a foldier feed.
Remember microlife doesn't burn plants, or you

1802
02:07:09.840 --> 02:07:12.760
could use it as a drench.
You could drench your plants. I would

1803
02:07:12.800 --> 02:07:14.840
do it outside. It's got a
little bit of a fishiness to it,

1804
02:07:15.119 --> 02:07:16.800
so I wouldn't put it in on
the houseplants. They've got another good one,

1805
02:07:17.680 --> 02:07:20.920
the orange label that is good for
the houseplants, a seven to one,

1806
02:07:21.119 --> 02:07:26.600
three or four product. But the
fish fertilizer is just a good one

1807
02:07:26.640 --> 02:07:30.279
and a lot of people use it
as a folier to help strengthen plants as

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02:07:30.319 --> 02:07:33.560
well, so that's all available for
microlife, and you can find microlife all

1809
02:07:33.640 --> 02:07:39.359
kinds of places. You can just
go to Microlifefertilizer dot com find out where

1810
02:07:39.479 --> 02:07:43.520
you can get microlife. In fact, let's see, oh my gosh,

1811
02:07:43.560 --> 02:07:47.159
another break time seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four will be

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02:07:47.279 --> 02:07:53.920
right back. Well, good morning
and welcome back to garden Line. On

1813
02:07:54.079 --> 02:07:58.479
a beautiful Sunday. Absolutely chamber of
commerce. Weather going on out there.

1814
02:07:59.239 --> 02:08:03.479
If you have been thinking about redoing
your landscape, you need to call pier

1815
02:08:03.560 --> 02:08:07.359
Scapes. They know what they're talking
about, they know what they're doing,

1816
02:08:07.439 --> 02:08:11.000
and they can do it right.
The website is real simple, and I

1817
02:08:11.039 --> 02:08:15.000
want you to go to the website. It's pierscapes dot com. When you

1818
02:08:15.039 --> 02:08:18.439
go to the website, take a
look at the kinds of projects that they've

1819
02:08:18.439 --> 02:08:22.279
done. They also have a Facebook
page with all the projects on it and

1820
02:08:22.319 --> 02:08:26.399
you just get an idea. I
mean, they will turn your landscape your

1821
02:08:26.520 --> 02:08:30.560
maybe an outdoor sitting area, Maybe
you need a waterfall, you like to

1822
02:08:30.600 --> 02:08:33.199
do a waterfall, rego all out
in this they do that. Maybe this

1823
02:08:33.319 --> 02:08:37.800
summer your irrigation system was not having
good coverage and if you were having a

1824
02:08:37.840 --> 02:08:43.760
hard time keeping the grass green because
you're overwater in some areas while you're underwatering

1825
02:08:43.800 --> 02:08:46.760
others. Maybe it's broken, you
got broken heads. They can do all

1826
02:08:46.800 --> 02:08:50.479
that irrigation stuff. Do you need
a hardscape out and back, you know,

1827
02:08:50.600 --> 02:08:54.079
walkways things like that. They can
do that. Pierscapes can do it

1828
02:08:54.119 --> 02:08:56.520
all. And just go in and
talk to them. Bring pictures of your

1829
02:08:56.560 --> 02:09:00.560
yard, say what you'd like to
do. Let them give some suggest Maybe

1830
02:09:00.600 --> 02:09:03.640
you got a bed with some dead
plants that couldn't take the drought. You

1831
02:09:03.720 --> 02:09:07.079
need some good drought tolerant plants that
would look good there. Or maybe the

1832
02:09:07.119 --> 02:09:11.760
bed just needs a reworking. Uh. They have that artistic flare pierscapes dot

1833
02:09:11.800 --> 02:09:16.800
com. Two eight one, three, seven oh fifty sixty. Simple is

1834
02:09:16.840 --> 02:09:22.039
that Let's go to Cyprus now and
we're going to talk to Valerie. Hello,

1835
02:09:22.159 --> 02:09:24.439
Valerie, Oh hi, how are
you today? I'm well, thank

1836
02:09:24.479 --> 02:09:31.239
you? Good hey. I have
an acre of woods and I've got lots

1837
02:09:31.279 --> 02:09:35.319
of pine trees and they're all dying. I have fifteen that are dead and

1838
02:09:37.039 --> 02:09:41.960
because they have pine bart beetle in
them. Now, good boy. I

1839
02:09:41.000 --> 02:09:45.600
had somebody come out the other day
the only person I could get. He

1840
02:09:45.760 --> 02:09:52.159
said he's an arborist, and he
said he can inject the trees near the

1841
02:09:52.199 --> 02:09:56.920
base and it goes up and it
will kill the pine bart beetles and the

1842
02:09:56.920 --> 02:10:00.000
ones that are still alive. The
other ones I have to cut down,

1843
02:10:01.199 --> 02:10:05.439
supposedly, I don't. I mean, we had pine bark beetles like thirty

1844
02:10:05.520 --> 02:10:11.199
years ago. My husband sprayed all
the trees because I understand the beatles go

1845
02:10:11.239 --> 02:10:15.880
on the ground, they don't fly
through the air. So we saved lots

1846
02:10:15.920 --> 02:10:20.439
of trees that time. But I
can't I'm not able to do that myself.

1847
02:10:20.479 --> 02:10:22.640
Now. All right, Well,
there was a lot in there that

1848
02:10:22.720 --> 02:10:28.600
was a little fishy sounding. Yeah, and I'm not an arborus, but

1849
02:10:28.600 --> 02:10:31.359
I'm gonna tell you what I think. The pine bark beetle they love to

1850
02:10:31.359 --> 02:10:35.720
attack trees that are weakened. And
a drought streuss would be an example,

1851
02:10:35.800 --> 02:10:39.279
a lightning struck would be an example. The tree gives off a smell,

1852
02:10:39.319 --> 02:10:41.439
they smell it, they come in
and they can fly. They're not great

1853
02:10:41.479 --> 02:10:46.199
flyers, and that's one of the
reasons why the first sign of them cut

1854
02:10:46.199 --> 02:10:48.680
off the tree at the bottom drop
it to the ground. So it's a

1855
02:10:48.720 --> 02:10:52.720
log on the floor for his floor, and they're not going to fly up

1856
02:10:52.760 --> 02:10:56.000
to the tree. And I've not
heard, you know, as far as

1857
02:10:56.079 --> 02:10:58.399
I'm crawling up, I don't know. That sounds a little fishy to me

1858
02:10:58.439 --> 02:11:01.479
too. But pine bark beetles,
by the time they hit a tree,

1859
02:11:01.560 --> 02:11:05.600
there's usually not much you can do
about it, and putting a systemic down

1860
02:11:05.640 --> 02:11:09.479
in the tree to control them,
unless things have changed since the last time

1861
02:11:09.479 --> 02:11:11.000
I studied that, I don't think
that would be the way to go.

1862
02:11:11.119 --> 02:11:15.600
Typically, trees were sprayed about eighty
percent of the height of the tree,

1863
02:11:15.640 --> 02:11:20.359
sprayed with something that gets in there
between the bark chunks where they drill in.

1864
02:11:20.520 --> 02:11:22.720
That's where they like to drill in. And when they drill in,

1865
02:11:22.760 --> 02:11:26.199
it kills them. And you're treating
the trees around the tree that had it,

1866
02:11:26.359 --> 02:11:31.199
for example. But that is a
tough thing to do. I mean,

1867
02:11:31.239 --> 02:11:35.199
you're squirting pesticide up in the air. Some of the original ones they

1868
02:11:35.279 --> 02:11:37.880
usually read bad for your eyes.
So I would say dropping them to the

1869
02:11:37.920 --> 02:11:41.960
ground would be the best thing.
You could also talk to the folks of

1870
02:11:41.039 --> 02:11:45.840
the Texas Forest Service. They're here
in Houston and they're going to be more

1871
02:11:45.960 --> 02:11:48.760
up to speed on that than I
am. I don't have a phone number

1872
02:11:48.760 --> 02:11:52.439
for them, but it's a Texas
Forest Service here in town, and they

1873
02:11:52.520 --> 02:11:56.439
certainly they're urban foresters in there that
really know what they're talking about. So

1874
02:11:56.520 --> 02:12:01.119
that would be my final recommendation to
you. I've called so many people and

1875
02:12:01.720 --> 02:12:05.119
most of them can't come out for
a month anyway. I don't even know

1876
02:12:05.119 --> 02:12:07.479
who they are, but they still
can't come for a month, and the

1877
02:12:07.520 --> 02:12:13.239
trees will all be dead because every
one of these trees is close to eighty

1878
02:12:13.279 --> 02:12:18.359
two hundred feet tall, so it's
horribly expensive. I'm trying to figure out

1879
02:12:18.399 --> 02:12:24.199
how you're going to do that,
so if they could inject them and if

1880
02:12:24.199 --> 02:12:30.399
that works, I just had never
heard of that. So yeah, not

1881
02:12:30.479 --> 02:12:35.640
inclined to believe that one. But
again I'm admitting that I'm not the expert

1882
02:12:35.800 --> 02:12:39.560
on that, okay, but from
what I learned about them, you know

1883
02:12:39.600 --> 02:12:43.800
a while back, that was that
was not something that was done. That

1884
02:12:43.960 --> 02:12:48.000
wasn't how they went about it.
So okay, okay, all right,

1885
02:12:48.359 --> 02:12:52.279
all right, Well you take it
by the way the Forest Service office,

1886
02:12:52.319 --> 02:12:58.479
if they haven't moved, it was
on North Loop. Oh gosh. TC

1887
02:12:58.720 --> 02:13:03.880
Jester and I said, yeah,
somewhere in there up kind of north central

1888
02:13:03.920 --> 02:13:09.239
to actually northwest a little bit,
but north of where two ninety comes in.

1889
02:13:11.800 --> 02:13:13.960
That's just a rough idea where their
office is. All right, well,

1890
02:13:13.039 --> 02:13:16.359
Texas Forest Service, Yeah, the
Texas Forest Service, and they have

1891
02:13:16.399 --> 02:13:20.239
an urban forestry program. I'm trying
to find online. I'm actually looking here

1892
02:13:20.279 --> 02:13:26.239
for you about it. See where
somewhere they list all their regional offices and

1893
02:13:26.319 --> 02:13:30.319
I'm having trouble finding it just off
the you know, off the cuff here.

1894
02:13:30.439 --> 02:13:33.479
But you ought to double to hunt
that down and find that. Or

1895
02:13:33.520 --> 02:13:35.880
you can call A and M and
say, hey, who's the what's the

1896
02:13:35.920 --> 02:13:39.079
regional urban forester in the Houston area
and they can send you directly to them

1897
02:13:39.239 --> 02:13:43.920
Texas the Forest Service Department or Texas
Forest Service up at A and M as

1898
02:13:43.960 --> 02:13:46.680
well. Okay, okay, great, thank you all right, Valerie.

1899
02:13:46.720 --> 02:13:50.680
I hope that helps a little bit. Uh. Yeah. I was talking

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02:13:50.720 --> 02:13:56.960
about the Ace Hardware stores before,
and Ace Hardware it's the it's the kind

1901
02:13:56.000 --> 02:13:58.600
of store that if you haven't been
in in a while, you will be

1902
02:13:58.640 --> 02:14:03.319
sparring what's in there. I mean
when it comes to lawn and gardens,

1903
02:14:03.319 --> 02:14:07.119
that's what this show is it's a
gardening show. They have everything you need

1904
02:14:07.399 --> 02:14:13.079
herbicides and exercise, fungicides, the
fertilizers, the wide variety of everything.

1905
02:14:13.479 --> 02:14:16.319
They are really well stocked up and
tools and hoses and everything else for your

1906
02:14:16.359 --> 02:14:20.960
yard. But they have knowledgeable staff
too. And right now we're in the

1907
02:14:20.439 --> 02:14:26.119
holiday season and it's time to put
up lights. Right if you have outdoor

1908
02:14:26.159 --> 02:14:28.600
lights or indoor lights you want to
put up, that's the place. ACE

1909
02:14:28.720 --> 02:14:33.720
is the place for Christmas lighting.
They also have all the accessories to make

1910
02:14:33.760 --> 02:14:39.279
the installation go really fast. You
need a wreath or garland for your front

1911
02:14:39.279 --> 02:14:41.359
door. And by the way,
on the lights, they have so many

1912
02:14:41.399 --> 02:14:46.760
types of lights. There's various sizes, there's multiple colors and configurations, you

1913
02:14:46.760 --> 02:14:50.880
know, little icicle lights. And
you know what I'm talking about. ACE

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02:14:52.000 --> 02:14:56.319
is the place. ACE is easy
to find forty stores now, congratulations Orange

1915
02:14:56.319 --> 02:15:00.800
and Bay City. You got new
locations out there ACE Hardware. Look for

1916
02:15:00.840 --> 02:15:03.000
the store locator and you'll find all
of the ones and there'll be more than

1917
02:15:03.039 --> 02:15:07.960
one in your area. That is
convenient. You can't get any more convenient

1918
02:15:09.000 --> 02:15:11.479
than that. You know why you're
at ACE two. I was talking about

1919
02:15:11.479 --> 02:15:16.760
the nitropost three step today and yesterday
as a matter of fact, and ace

1920
02:15:16.840 --> 02:15:20.439
carries that a lot of aces.
You know, nit fross products are going

1921
02:15:20.479 --> 02:15:24.159
to be there, and that three
step again, it's the fall fertilizer that's

1922
02:15:24.279 --> 02:15:28.279
designed for fall. It's a different
fertilizer blend than you would use in spring

1923
02:15:28.319 --> 02:15:33.159
and summer. It's designed for fall
to make your lawns stronger going into winter,

1924
02:15:33.199 --> 02:15:35.520
and boy do our lawns ever need
that. Secondly, it's got the

1925
02:15:35.560 --> 02:15:41.760
barricade, which is a weed control
product by preventing weeds. Put down barricade,

1926
02:15:43.079 --> 02:15:46.239
Put down the fertilizer, separate application, same day, water them in

1927
02:15:46.359 --> 02:15:50.960
with one half inch of water and
it moves a barricade into the soil surface

1928
02:15:52.000 --> 02:15:54.880
and it dissolves some of the fertilizer
to go down to the plant roots.

1929
02:15:54.680 --> 02:15:58.279
And when it's in the surface,
it's going to go to work for you

1930
02:15:58.319 --> 02:16:01.560
and take care of you all the
way through winter. It's a very very

1931
02:16:01.800 --> 02:16:05.960
long lasting product. And the Egle
turfunge aicide is something that soaks into your

1932
02:16:05.960 --> 02:16:11.920
grass. You spray the grass with
it and or apply it is a graneur

1933
02:16:11.079 --> 02:16:20.119
to the grass. The product itself
will help the grass prevent disease. Infection

1934
02:16:20.439 --> 02:16:24.840
and preventative is key in fall diseases. Take our root rod a brown patch,

1935
02:16:24.359 --> 02:16:28.680
you it's much better to prevent than
to wait until you see them and

1936
02:16:28.720 --> 02:16:31.719
try to treat it at that time. And that's exactly what Eagle does.

1937
02:16:31.799 --> 02:16:35.680
Now, where do you find it? Well, Warren Southern Gardens has it

1938
02:16:35.719 --> 02:16:39.959
Ace Hardware and Sinkle Ranch all the
aces of it Growers Outlet and Willis Arbigate

1939
02:16:39.959 --> 02:16:46.399
and Tomball RCW Nursery and Katie Hardware. It's easy to find. The nitrofoss

1940
02:16:46.440 --> 02:16:50.799
texas three step and don't delay especially
well, actually all three steps. The

1941
02:16:50.840 --> 02:16:54.639
fertilizer, don't delay anymore. You
want to give it as much time as

1942
02:16:54.639 --> 02:16:58.159
you can. The weed control they're
germinating. Better get it out there if

1943
02:16:58.200 --> 02:17:01.520
you're going to prevent the and the
fung aside. Well, we've had some

1944
02:17:01.639 --> 02:17:05.799
cool weather and it's the little wetness
out there. The brown patch is going

1945
02:17:05.879 --> 02:17:09.719
to start appearing, and so once
once it's there, it's a little late

1946
02:17:09.760 --> 02:17:13.120
to do a lot of good with
it. Hey, our phone number is

1947
02:17:13.159 --> 02:17:20.120
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one

1948
02:17:20.159 --> 02:17:26.639
two five eight seven four uh the
folks at Texas Gardner Magazine are hosting the

1949
02:17:26.719 --> 02:17:31.760
Texas Tomato Lovers Conference. Now this
is in January, but you need a

1950
02:17:31.799 --> 02:17:37.399
head start. And here's why.
There's limited space available and people I spoke

1951
02:17:37.440 --> 02:17:39.159
at this, I'll speak of it
this year. I spoke it at the

1952
02:17:39.239 --> 02:17:43.440
last time they did it and they
filled the place up. Now it's going

1953
02:17:43.479 --> 02:17:46.440
to be held out at the Anti
Rosing Porium. If you want to sign

1954
02:17:46.520 --> 02:17:52.600
up for its Saturday January thirteenth.
Saturday January thirteenth, and it will be

1955
02:17:54.159 --> 02:17:58.920
at the Anti grows Iporium. Dial
two five four eight four eight ninety three

1956
02:17:58.079 --> 02:18:05.319
ninety three for eight four eight ninety
three ninety three are just emails Sally at

1957
02:18:05.440 --> 02:18:09.680
Texas Gardener dot com. They're going
to have a talk on growing tomatoes with

1958
02:18:09.760 --> 02:18:15.959
the young family, the kiddos talk
on mastering container grown tomatoes, the best

1959
02:18:16.079 --> 02:18:20.200
varieties and eight steps to grafting success. Do you know you graft the tomato?

1960
02:18:20.600 --> 02:18:24.239
Uh. They're going to be talk
on diseases of tomatoes. And the

1961
02:18:24.319 --> 02:18:28.120
talk I'm going to give is on
the ten Commandments of success with tomatoes.

1962
02:18:28.159 --> 02:18:33.600
So you don't want to miss the
Texas Tomato Lovers Conference. Just remember it's

1963
02:18:33.600 --> 02:18:39.799
a limited space. So if you're
interested, act soon. Tomatoes are the

1964
02:18:39.959 --> 02:18:43.520
we in extension service. We always
say, uh, the three things that

1965
02:18:43.559 --> 02:18:46.760
make the phone ring or treat the
three t's trees, turf, and tomatoes.

1966
02:18:46.799 --> 02:18:50.559
And if you listen to garden Line, very long, trees and turf,

1967
02:18:50.280 --> 02:18:54.000
by and large, that's what everybody's
calling about. That's what they care

1968
02:18:54.040 --> 02:18:58.840
about. Uh. And there's a
lot of other cool things to talk about,

1969
02:18:58.879 --> 02:19:01.000
and we get other calls, but
those are the biggies. Those are

1970
02:19:01.000 --> 02:19:03.079
the elephants in the room. And
once we get into the garden season,

1971
02:19:03.120 --> 02:19:07.040
nobody ever calls me about their Cole
Robbie. Tomatoes are the queen of the

1972
02:19:07.079 --> 02:19:11.719
garden and people care a lot about
that. Well, we're going to go

1973
02:19:11.840 --> 02:19:16.040
to talk to James in North Houston, and James, I think you have

1974
02:19:16.159 --> 02:19:22.239
some woodpecker information. I do.
I heard the call about the gentleman with

1975
02:19:22.319 --> 02:19:28.079
the palm trees. Yeah, I've
seen on some Amazon and some other websites

1976
02:19:28.120 --> 02:19:33.120
they have a little gizmo that has
a motion sensor on it and when they

1977
02:19:33.159 --> 02:19:39.440
see animals or birds, it flashes
and it sends a noise to their ears

1978
02:19:39.440 --> 02:19:43.479
that they can hear and it shoes
them away. I've had some of my

1979
02:19:43.559 --> 02:19:48.399
customers have used those products to get
rid of squirrels and annoying boat instead are

1980
02:19:48.440 --> 02:19:52.479
trying to shoot them. Well,
that's interesting. I don't know if that

1981
02:19:52.520 --> 02:19:56.639
would work. I'm just thinking if
you got neighbors, they may not appreciate

1982
02:19:56.639 --> 02:20:00.319
a lot of sound going on out
there. Well, they're not sound that

1983
02:20:00.520 --> 02:20:03.719
humans can hear their sounds that the
animals. Oh, I got you here,

1984
02:20:03.799 --> 02:20:05.840
okay, kind of like a dog
type. Then, oh, that's

1985
02:20:05.879 --> 02:20:09.799
interesting. My wife doesn't like it
because she thinks they, you know,

1986
02:20:11.040 --> 02:20:15.159
mess with pollinators and stuff. All
right, Hey, well James, thanks,

1987
02:20:15.399 --> 02:20:18.959
thanks for following up and calling in
with that. I appreciate that you

1988
02:20:18.040 --> 02:20:22.440
are listening to garden Line and we're
about to break for the news and turn

1989
02:20:22.479 --> 02:20:24.959
it over to Nikki. Uh.
She's got her gremlins out of the system

1990
02:20:26.040 --> 02:20:28.920
and she's so excited and raring to
go. Our phone number is seven one

1991
02:20:30.000 --> 02:20:33.079
three two one two kat r h
to give us a call, Josh,

1992
02:20:33.120 --> 02:20:39.319
we'll get you on the boards.
All right, we've got something a congo

1993
02:20:39.399 --> 02:20:43.680
line going there. H you're listening
to garden Line and I'm your host,

1994
02:20:43.719 --> 02:20:46.559
Skip Richter, and we are here
to answer gardening questions. We got one

1995
02:20:46.600 --> 02:20:50.639
of those rare moments where we got
to open board. If you would like

1996
02:20:50.680 --> 02:20:54.000
to call in and you've been you
know, tired to have to wait or

1997
02:20:54.040 --> 02:20:56.000
I don't know, I want to
now's the time. Now's your best chance

1998
02:20:56.040 --> 02:20:58.760
to get in to the garden line
if you'd like to give us a call.

1999
02:21:00.159 --> 02:21:01.520
So I'll just leave it at that, the phone number seven one three

2000
02:21:01.600 --> 02:21:05.920
two one two five eight seven four. And I like having a little bit

2001
02:21:05.920 --> 02:21:09.040
of a break here where I can
just talk about some things that I am

2002
02:21:09.040 --> 02:21:16.479
particularly interested in. Uh, the
vegetable garden in the cool season is actually

2003
02:21:16.639 --> 02:21:20.639
I think my favorite season at all. First of all, that you feel

2004
02:21:20.680 --> 02:21:26.120
comfortable going on working most days out
there, but there is so much nutritious

2005
02:21:26.159 --> 02:21:31.280
options when it comes to vegetables.
The whole group of cruciferous vegetables, those

2006
02:21:31.399 --> 02:21:37.040
are also called coal crops. They're
the kind that have the bluish green leaf.

2007
02:21:37.159 --> 02:21:41.920
Okay, here's what they are.
Cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts,

2008
02:21:41.000 --> 02:21:48.319
col Robbie collars, kale forgetting some
cauliflower. There we go. Those are

2009
02:21:48.360 --> 02:21:52.479
crucifer that very very healthy for it
easy to grow, super easy to grow

2010
02:21:52.719 --> 02:21:58.479
and they do so very well.
Here the leafy grains, the lettuces,

2011
02:21:58.520 --> 02:22:01.639
and by the way, if you
plant lettuce, choose a leaf type lettuce,

2012
02:22:01.799 --> 02:22:05.040
maybe a bid bib type, but
not a heading type of lettuce,

2013
02:22:05.559 --> 02:22:09.159
and they just do a lot better. I like to plant them and mix

2014
02:22:09.040 --> 02:22:11.399
them up. Different colors of lettuce, you know, the red and the

2015
02:22:11.440 --> 02:22:16.319
green and striped and everything else are
speckled. Uh. And then when you

2016
02:22:16.360 --> 02:22:18.079
harvest them, you just harvest them
with scissors like you're mowing the lawn,

2017
02:22:18.360 --> 02:22:22.040
and you get enough for your salad. And then that grows back because you're

2018
02:22:22.079 --> 02:22:26.600
not taking the plan out and you
can do that with it. Arugula is

2019
02:22:26.639 --> 02:22:28.559
another cool seasoned plant. And then
the root crops, you know, the

2020
02:22:28.639 --> 02:22:33.760
radishes and the carrots. The prime
time for planting carrots and all of this

2021
02:22:33.799 --> 02:22:35.399
stuff you can grow in containers too, you know, if you don't have

2022
02:22:35.440 --> 02:22:39.520
a garden, you can grow it
in a container. But it's it's fresh,

2023
02:22:39.639 --> 02:22:41.840
it's healthy. You're just not gonna
do any better than that. And

2024
02:22:41.920 --> 02:22:46.239
just remember when it gets cold,
and it's gonna get very very cold,

2025
02:22:46.360 --> 02:22:48.959
then you need to cover them up. And if you go on line to

2026
02:22:48.079 --> 02:22:54.239
gardening with skip dot com Gardening with
Skip dot com. The top thing I

2027
02:22:54.319 --> 02:23:00.239
just put it up last week is
the frost and Freeze Protection and it's for

2028
02:23:00.280 --> 02:23:03.840
gardens and landscapes and everything else,
and it walks you through the whole process

2029
02:23:03.879 --> 02:23:07.079
of what you need to do to
make sure that you protect your plants.

2030
02:23:07.239 --> 02:23:09.879
And it doesn't matter how cold it
gets. If it's gonna be a minor

2031
02:23:09.920 --> 02:23:13.559
cold, well just a little cover
does it. It's gonna get really cold,

2032
02:23:13.559 --> 02:23:16.360
you're gonna have to put heat underneath
it, like lights, and I'll

2033
02:23:16.399 --> 02:23:20.559
tell you how to do that in
that publication. So I hope you'll take

2034
02:23:20.559 --> 02:23:24.920
advantage of that, because there's no
reason to not have beautiful gardens all the

2035
02:23:24.920 --> 02:23:28.600
way through the winter season here in
the Greater Houston area. I mean we,

2036
02:23:30.280 --> 02:23:33.280
boy, do we ever have a
long growing season that transitions from one

2037
02:23:33.319 --> 02:23:37.959
to another and we just have a
few times when we get a really hard

2038
02:23:37.959 --> 02:23:41.360
cold spell and that's when we have
to step out. And by the way,

2039
02:23:41.000 --> 02:23:45.120
after you look at that publication,
figure out what supplies you're gonna need,

2040
02:23:45.479 --> 02:23:48.239
go out and get them purchased,
because when the freeze is forecast,

2041
02:23:48.959 --> 02:23:52.600
stores get cleaned out of the things
that you're going to want to put over

2042
02:23:52.639 --> 02:23:56.680
your plants. I'm gonna stop on
that for just a minute. We're going

2043
02:23:56.719 --> 02:24:00.760
to go to the phones and I'm
going to talk to Larry in Indiana.

2044
02:24:00.920 --> 02:24:05.600
Is that right, Larry? That
is right. I wanted to call and

2045
02:24:05.639 --> 02:24:11.840
tell you that I love your show. I listen every weekend. And I

2046
02:24:11.879 --> 02:24:16.840
know I'm not in the in the
Houston region, and our temperature and everything

2047
02:24:16.879 --> 02:24:24.040
here is completely different. But just
really I called to to I think,

2048
02:24:24.079 --> 02:24:31.360
if nothing else, to to ensure
that your listeners that the products that you

2049
02:24:31.479 --> 02:24:37.920
refer to on the radio. You
guys are blessed to have the places that

2050
02:24:37.000 --> 02:24:43.680
you have, the horticulture places of
stores, the soil amendments. We don't

2051
02:24:43.799 --> 02:24:46.479
have that in the areas I'm in. I'll tell you the reason I really

2052
02:24:46.479 --> 02:24:50.520
called, I know you get a
kick out of it, is what we

2053
02:24:50.639 --> 02:24:54.920
have here is triple twelve. That's
what we have. You can walk into

2054
02:24:56.000 --> 02:25:03.239
the nicest, nicest place if that
sells plants and things like that, and

2055
02:25:03.520 --> 02:25:07.879
uh, triple bags of triple twilves
toward Florida, Florida ceiling. Oh my

2056
02:25:07.959 --> 02:25:13.120
gosh. Well, you know,
I hear call up your state extension turf

2057
02:25:13.200 --> 02:25:18.600
specialists and ask them what the ratio
of soul nutrients should be, and all

2058
02:25:18.600 --> 02:25:20.200
the way through the growing season,
they're going to tell you three one two,

2059
02:25:20.399 --> 02:25:24.360
not one one one like triple twelve. But I know, I know,

2060
02:25:24.440 --> 02:25:26.239
it's a it's a it's crazy.
I hear some of the things you

2061
02:25:26.280 --> 02:25:31.360
talk about, and I'm just I'm
literally green with envy some of the some

2062
02:25:31.440 --> 02:25:33.079
of the props that you guys have, Well, you guys can grow some

2063
02:25:33.239 --> 02:25:39.120
nice soft turfs. It's our Saint
Augustine's very coarse textured. And you guys

2064
02:25:39.159 --> 02:25:45.319
can grow the the uh uh rescue
and the rye grass, I mean bluegrass

2065
02:25:45.360 --> 02:25:48.479
that that does as well. Yeah, yeah, we can. The only

2066
02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:52.920
question that I really had for you
today that I think may be applicable even

2067
02:25:52.920 --> 02:25:58.239
though we're in a different region,
is uh, I've got some just some

2068
02:25:58.319 --> 02:26:07.120
basic uh fur shrubs, not like
the gray owls or any I don't know

2069
02:26:07.120 --> 02:26:09.600
what they are, honestly, They're
just kind of a generic green shrub.

2070
02:26:11.840 --> 02:26:16.680
Do they have Do they have big
leaves or little tiny skinny leaves. They

2071
02:26:16.719 --> 02:26:22.559
are fairly thin leaves. They get
the big kind of the big frond,

2072
02:26:22.920 --> 02:26:28.239
the big the big limbs autumn,
the droom fairly large as shrubs. But

2073
02:26:28.479 --> 02:26:33.719
occasionally I'll get like one of the
one of the main branches coming out of

2074
02:26:33.760 --> 02:26:41.120
the base will just be completely dead
and all of the I call them needles.

2075
02:26:41.159 --> 02:26:45.719
They're really not needles, but feel
like they're just brown and tap it

2076
02:26:45.799 --> 02:26:48.040
they just completely fall off. It's
just dead on the door. Now.

2077
02:26:48.840 --> 02:26:52.440
And does the shrub progress with the
problem or does it just that branch dies

2078
02:26:52.520 --> 02:26:56.520
and then it goes on. Fine, I'll cut that branch off. And

2079
02:26:56.719 --> 02:27:01.239
I've i've uh, some some people
me they thought it was spider miight,

2080
02:27:01.680 --> 02:27:05.159
Okay, some people, so this
is that I've treated them an all sorts

2081
02:27:05.200 --> 02:27:09.559
of things for them, and and
it just seems to be progressing. Okay,

2082
02:27:11.520 --> 02:27:15.120
it's not spider miights that it sounds
like you're talking about a U Y

2083
02:27:15.200 --> 02:27:18.440
e W A type of you.
There are many types of views, but

2084
02:27:18.639 --> 02:27:22.680
I that's a wild guess. From
halfway across the country, I would I

2085
02:27:22.719 --> 02:27:26.440
would, I would talk to your
county extension office. You guys have Purdue

2086
02:27:26.600 --> 02:27:33.360
Purdue there right, Yeah, so
you've got a county extension system. Every

2087
02:27:33.440 --> 02:27:37.079
land grant every state has a lane
Grant college. Here it's Texas and m

2088
02:27:37.120 --> 02:27:41.360
there we Purdue and Uh, if
you go call them, they're going to

2089
02:27:41.399 --> 02:27:45.319
have a county extension office. Probably
they're gonna have specialists who you probably could

2090
02:27:45.319 --> 02:27:48.559
send a picture to and they can
identify. I don't think that's spider mites.

2091
02:27:48.680 --> 02:27:52.479
That that is not how spidermights work. That's something else. And by

2092
02:27:52.479 --> 02:27:56.000
the way, we're talking about lawns. Uh, you are flipped upside down

2093
02:27:56.000 --> 02:27:58.879
on lawns. Your grasses are cool
season grasses. Our grasses are warm season

2094
02:28:00.000 --> 02:28:03.399
grasses. So when I talk about
a fall fertilizer a winteriser, that's kind

2095
02:28:03.399 --> 02:28:09.239
of different. Your grasses survived through
summer and then they really do their growth

2096
02:28:09.239 --> 02:28:11.120
as it cools off a little bit. Uh. So you need to talk

2097
02:28:11.159 --> 02:28:15.879
to your local county extension of I
bet if you went to the Purdue Extension

2098
02:28:15.879 --> 02:28:20.959
website, I bet there's a free
publication on lawn care there. Probably is.

2099
02:28:20.479 --> 02:28:24.200
I didn't honestly didn't even think about
that. And I know there's an

2100
02:28:24.200 --> 02:28:28.520
extension agency extension office in the town
next to us here that I drive pass

2101
02:28:28.559 --> 02:28:33.520
all the time, and I've never
even thought about that. But yeah,

2102
02:28:33.559 --> 02:28:35.840
it's a lot. I'm sorry,
go ahead, I'm sorry, No,

2103
02:28:37.040 --> 02:28:39.760
go ahead. I just called to
tell you that I love your program.

2104
02:28:39.840 --> 02:28:43.680
Even though you guys talk about things
that don't apply here, I still love

2105
02:28:43.760 --> 02:28:50.840
listening to all the all the people
out there and how you're helping them and

2106
02:28:50.120 --> 02:28:54.600
the wild bird stuff and all right, well, hey man, I've learned.

2107
02:28:54.959 --> 02:28:56.200
I've learned a ton, so I
appreciate it. Thank you. Those

2108
02:28:56.200 --> 02:29:01.120
are good kind words. I appreciate
your call, and thank you very much.

2109
02:29:01.520 --> 02:29:03.639
We're going to go to a break. It's time for that. Our

2110
02:29:03.639 --> 02:29:07.079
phone number is seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Will

2111
02:29:07.079 --> 02:29:13.159
be right back. Well, welcome
back to garden Line for our last segment

2112
02:29:13.200 --> 02:29:16.879
of the day. We have been
going all morning. This morning we got

2113
02:29:16.879 --> 02:29:22.719
through the gremlins and they were back
rolling along again. Yesterday I was out

2114
02:29:22.760 --> 02:29:26.479
at Ciena Maltz and I was talking
to Luis from Heirloom Soils about some of

2115
02:29:26.520 --> 02:29:30.120
their products. We were helping a
fellow that needed to put in a raised

2116
02:29:30.120 --> 02:29:33.719
bed and whatnot. And I'm telling
you they have such a wide range of

2117
02:29:33.719 --> 02:29:35.920
products. Just you know, do
you need potting salt for indoor plants?

2118
02:29:35.920 --> 02:29:39.479
Do you need something to make a
bed? Do you need potting salt for

2119
02:29:39.559 --> 02:29:41.959
outdoor plants? And do you need
malts, do you need shlle just all

2120
02:29:43.040 --> 02:29:46.840
kinds of stuff. But right now, the thing you need to be thinking

2121
02:29:46.840 --> 02:29:50.000
about is if you are planning on
adding to a bed, building it up

2122
02:29:50.120 --> 02:29:54.840
or putting in a new bed.
They've got a bulk deal going on that

2123
02:29:54.920 --> 02:29:58.479
you don't want to miss. And
the Veggie and Herb Fall Special is for

2124
02:29:58.520 --> 02:30:03.680
one hundred nineteen dollars for bulk delivery
of a yard or one hundred and forty

2125
02:30:03.680 --> 02:30:07.280
eight for a supersac, which is
also a QB card. Now the Rose

2126
02:30:07.360 --> 02:30:11.639
Soil is seventy dollars bulk and ninety
nine for a supersac. Both of those

2127
02:30:11.760 --> 02:30:16.959
are super quality mixes and they take
the time to do it right. That's

2128
02:30:16.000 --> 02:30:20.200
the bottom line. So if you're
thinking, you know, next spring I

2129
02:30:20.280 --> 02:30:22.639
want to plant a garden, go
ahead and get the soil now and get

2130
02:30:22.639 --> 02:30:24.440
it out there, put it on
the ground so you're ready to go in

2131
02:30:24.559 --> 02:30:28.799
spring. Don't wait until then because
first of all, the prices are going

2132
02:30:28.879 --> 02:30:31.639
to change again and you know you're
not going to find a better deal than

2133
02:30:31.639 --> 02:30:37.600
these two deals right now. From
Airloom Soils, you can go to Airloomsoilsoftexes

2134
02:30:37.680 --> 02:30:39.719
dot com. If you're going to
order soil and you don't know how much.

2135
02:30:41.040 --> 02:30:45.319
Use their calculator on that website.
It is outstanding and it'll tell you

2136
02:30:45.399 --> 02:30:48.079
exactly what you need. We're going
to head out now to Brenham, Texas

2137
02:30:48.120 --> 02:30:54.319
and talk to Ed. Hello,
Ed, Hello scarp I have colorado grass

2138
02:30:54.399 --> 02:30:58.959
which is attacked my vegetable gard like
a fag kid on a chocolate cake.

2139
02:31:03.520 --> 02:31:07.559
All right, I don't know what
colorado grass is. What is colorado grass?

2140
02:31:09.000 --> 02:31:15.399
It's sort of like it's a taller
grass with a real fine seed.

2141
02:31:15.799 --> 02:31:20.399
Okay, well it's about three foot
tall, okay, and I mean it

2142
02:31:20.520 --> 02:31:26.200
is fi Okay, well without seeing
it, but I can tell you this

2143
02:31:26.280 --> 02:31:31.079
if it's a grass, and you
said it's in your vegetables in the vegetable

2144
02:31:31.120 --> 02:31:35.239
garden. Every time you pier,
after you plant all your stuff, yeah,

2145
02:31:35.440 --> 02:31:39.280
two weeks later it starts popping up. It just turns the whole rose

2146
02:31:39.440 --> 02:31:43.319
green. So you're talking about little
seedlings are popping up, right, Oh

2147
02:31:43.440 --> 02:31:48.000
yeah, Okay, you gotta malt. You just got to keep a thick

2148
02:31:48.079 --> 02:31:50.120
mulch on there. And when you
have to plant seeds, you live a

2149
02:31:50.159 --> 02:31:54.600
little space, but in the malt
to plant the seeds. But if sunlight

2150
02:31:54.680 --> 02:31:58.639
hits the soil, grass seeds and
all other seeds are going to pop up,

2151
02:31:58.719 --> 02:32:01.360
and you got to keep you know, you're keeping that, you're keeping

2152
02:32:01.399 --> 02:32:03.639
that bed moist, which is what
you need for your plants. So it

2153
02:32:03.719 --> 02:32:11.879
just makes the seedlings happier. One
thing you could do is before you plant,

2154
02:32:11.200 --> 02:32:18.040
you could put a well, just
let the seeds sprout up and then

2155
02:32:18.479 --> 02:32:22.879
do a very light, very shallow
weeding with a fine type of a hoe

2156
02:32:24.280 --> 02:32:28.319
to cut the roots just a half
inch under the ground on those seedlings,

2157
02:32:28.920 --> 02:32:33.399
but don't turn the soil over kill
it. Well, here's the problem with

2158
02:32:33.440 --> 02:32:37.079
tilling. You bring new weed seeds
to the surface, and just regular hoeing

2159
02:32:37.120 --> 02:32:39.440
you bring new weed seeds. So
you clean it all out and then here

2160
02:32:39.440 --> 02:32:43.559
comes a bunch more and I'm trying
to avoid that. You could just spray

2161
02:32:43.559 --> 02:32:48.159
when you say kill it, you
could kill it with a spray too,

2162
02:32:48.799 --> 02:32:52.479
and then you plant your seedlings.
But are your seeds or your transplants.

2163
02:32:52.920 --> 02:32:56.399
That'd be another option, But the
bottom line is Moltz. That's the easy

2164
02:32:56.399 --> 02:33:00.079
way. That's what nature does to
keep grass out of the forest. You

2165
02:33:00.159 --> 02:33:03.159
know, they just drop tree leaves
on it, and they do it that

2166
02:33:03.239 --> 02:33:05.520
way, So any kind of maltz. I'm lucky. I can get it

2167
02:33:05.559 --> 02:33:11.719
by the truckload for about fifty dollars. You are lucky. You are lucky.

2168
02:33:11.200 --> 02:33:16.159
But anyway, just keep a mulch
on it. That's the best you

2169
02:33:16.159 --> 02:33:18.000
can do. And when the weed
seeds are young, you know, deal

2170
02:33:18.000 --> 02:33:20.760
with them. I iced to use
newspaper on them. Newspaper will mulch on

2171
02:33:20.840 --> 02:33:24.600
top, but now newspaper is harder
to come by, not as me.

2172
02:33:24.680 --> 02:33:28.479
People, that's not that big of
a garden. That's thirty eight plus sixty

2173
02:33:28.680 --> 02:33:31.879
Okay, well it's still a good
size. Well, good luck with the

2174
02:33:31.920 --> 02:33:37.920
grass up there, and thanks for
the humor. I appreciate that. We're

2175
02:33:37.959 --> 02:33:41.479
going to go now to Conroe and
talk to Phillis. Hello, fill us,

2176
02:33:43.639 --> 02:33:48.360
Hello, Hey, how can we
help today? So I have a

2177
02:33:48.399 --> 02:33:54.760
property in Conroe that has lots of
pine trees, okay, and the pine

2178
02:33:54.760 --> 02:33:58.360
needles are constantly coming down. It's
not something that you can, you know,

2179
02:34:00.959 --> 02:34:03.559
rake it up and you're done.
It's like all the time. Okay,

2180
02:34:03.680 --> 02:34:07.000
So it's killed all the grass,
and so I'm trying to figure out

2181
02:34:07.159 --> 02:34:11.959
what I can do. Doesn't necessarily
have to be grass, but what I

2182
02:34:13.000 --> 02:34:18.760
can do for some kind of a
lawn under a pine tree that is tough.

2183
02:34:18.000 --> 02:34:22.559
Keeping them raked up is your first
step that helps. But underneath pines,

2184
02:34:24.319 --> 02:34:26.000
as a shade gets a little denser. Of course, there's a lot

2185
02:34:26.040 --> 02:34:28.639
of pine roots that are taking water
out of the soil too, make it

2186
02:34:28.639 --> 02:34:33.360
a little more tough for the grass. It can be difficult. At some

2187
02:34:33.440 --> 02:34:37.520
point you just have to switch to
something other than grass for that area.

2188
02:34:37.000 --> 02:34:43.399
But anything you can do to keep
the grass from getting shaded more like you're

2189
02:34:43.479 --> 02:34:46.680
raking up of the pine trees,
that's important. If you haven't fertilized,

2190
02:34:46.760 --> 02:34:50.920
it helps to fertilize enough the grass
is healthy. You're not going to make

2191
02:34:50.040 --> 02:34:54.879
grass grow in the shade by adding
extra fertilizer, but you can keep it

2192
02:34:54.920 --> 02:35:00.920
healthy so it has the best chance
of growing in the shade. Okay,

2193
02:35:00.959 --> 02:35:03.959
And if I don't do grass,
what would you recommend as something under the

2194
02:35:05.040 --> 02:35:07.639
pine trees? Yeah, you know, I was going to say a shade

2195
02:35:07.680 --> 02:35:11.959
loving groundcover, But then the needles
get dropped on that too, and you

2196
02:35:11.040 --> 02:35:15.079
got to get them out of there. But that's just part that's part of

2197
02:35:15.079 --> 02:35:18.479
the deal with pines. I mean, that's one of the negatives of those

2198
02:35:18.520 --> 02:35:22.319
trees. But you could do some
shrubs that are shade loving in that area,

2199
02:35:22.399 --> 02:35:26.639
or maybe I don't know, if
it's shady enough. Even some ferns,

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so give a little moisture to keep
them going. They're gonna take a

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little bit of moisture to get them
going. But those would be a couple

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of options there under the pines.
Or just leave a big mulched area,

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you know, and plants some color
plants in the summer impatients that would do

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well. Or you put in the
kalladiums in the summertime that do well,

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and then the cool season. Wishbone
flower does pretty good in shade and pine

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shade is year round because it's an
evergreen, that would be one you might

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try. I don't know. Those
are just a few ideas well. Thank

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you all right, Phyllis, thank
you for the call. I appreciate that

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very much. Yeah, well,
we're just going to close it down here.

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I'm going to continue what I was
talking about before, So I'm out

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vegetable gardens and some of the plants
that you could put in your fall garden,

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and then what you do about coal
protection. Go to my website Gardening

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with skip dot com where there's the
free publication nine pages color on coal protection.

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But I want to talk a little
bit about other things, the other

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aspects of the gardening. I see
people buy a package of lettuce seed and

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plant the whole thing. How many
lettuce, how many solids did you eat

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this week or last week or the
week before. That's how much lettuce you

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should plant. In other words,
just a small amount, and then two

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weeks later a small amount, then
two weeks later a small amount. And

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you see things called mescalin mixes that
are different kinds of greens that are grown

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together. That doesn't work well here. But what will work well is to

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take each of those greens and grow
the separately. That works well. So

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a little lettuce, a little arugula, a little bit of a sorel which

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has a lemony flavor to it.
That's really nice. You know, all

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of those different greens that we grow
in a mix. Just grow them separately

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02:37:09.840 --> 02:37:15.440
and then harvest them proportionately like you
want your salad to be. That's a

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simple, easy task, and it
works pretty well well. You've been listening

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to garden Line. Just one more
reminder. Next Saturday, I'm going to

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be out at r c W Nurseries. RCW Nursery is going to be in

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a barbecue sandwich going on out there. They got select trees and all their

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shrubs fifteen percent off. They're gonna
have giveaways of frost cloth and several good

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02:37:35.200 --> 02:37:39.559
fertilizers we talk about here, like
Microlife and Nelson microfoss. They're gonna have

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flowers to give away. They're gonna
give away free seedlings of lace park elm,

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Monterey oak also called Mexican white oak, and live oaks. And these

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are quality seedings. These aren't a
little, you know, a little four

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inch high. I mean, this
is a tall seedling with a robust root

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02:37:56.280 --> 02:38:00.840
system in the special tubes they grow
them in. And they just have all

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kinds of trees. And this is
tree planning season, so plan on while

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you're out there picking out some trees
and shrubs to put in your landscape.

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But mainly just come out and let's
have some fun. Bring me samples to

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identify, to diagnose, take pictures
on your phone, bring them by,

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let's take a look at them.
In the meantime, visit our website gardeningwiskip

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dot com.