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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 Richter.

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It's so crazy trip. Just watch
him as well us. So many

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good things to Zeppazya not a sign. Well, good Sunday morning. Glad

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you're tuning in for garden Line this
morning. We're going to be here from

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six a m. To ten a
m. Answering your gardening questions and I

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don't know, just talking general tips
for gardening. I'm your host, Skip

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Richter, and you if you'd like
to call in and talk about something,

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we can give you a phone number
right here. Seven three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. Seven one
three two one two KTRH is the way

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to get in. We can we
can talk all kinds of things guarding.

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I'm just going to start off this
morning with a few comments and thoughts things

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that are going on right now.
I think yesterday I talked a little bit,

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and if you weren't able to tune
in, I talked a little bit

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about the new us DA Heartiness Map
that's out and starting to up here.

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You've probably seen notices of it if
you were any kind of gardening social media.

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I put something up the other day
myself. Uh. In fact,

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if you if you go to my
website gardening with Skip dot com, the

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latest entry up there is my thoughts
about the twenty twenty three USDA Plant Hardiness

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Zone Map. And it's been what
ten over ten years, about eleven years

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since they last put out a map, And in this new one, our

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zones have, as a general guide, have shifted about a half zone warmer.

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So what was once an AB is
now on eight A. And that's

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not across the board, it's like
the whole zone change, but it moved

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up enough to where most people are
experiencing about a half a zone change throughout

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the country. And here in Texas
in our area, now well we're we're

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well into a zone nine we have
In fact, zone nine A is now

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a lot further I think a lot
further north than it was before, and

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then we have nine B. So
what does all this mean? And I

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think that's the important thing to notice
about the zone map, and that is

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that the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone map
only is a measure of how cold it

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will get on the average in winter
in your location. So you know a

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few years ago twenty eleven that was
a very unusually cold year. Of twenty

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eleven February twenty one, that was
a very very cold year, and then

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we've had years that were very,
very mild. And so when someone looks

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at a zone and they go,
well, I'm in zone such and such

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and it's not supposed to get colder
than whatever temperature here, well, yeah,

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that's on the average of thirty years. So if you think back the

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past thirty years of all the ups
and downs of you know, the lowest

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temperature it got all year. When
they do this oone map, they take

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thirty years and they average all those
those numbers of how cold did it get

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in twenty twenty, how cold it
get in twenty twenty one, and so

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on, and so it's an average, and an average is almost always inaccurate,

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because you know, things are very
seldom right in the middle. They

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swing from one end to the other. And so if you look at your

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zone and think, oh, it's
not going to get colder than this zone,

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says, well, you're wrong,
it absolutely will. In fact,

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about half the time it will,
about half the time it won't. And

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so that's what it's all about when
it comes to average, and it is

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weighted toward you know, going back
thirty years, it's quite a while.

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If they'd done one over just ten
years, it'd probably be a little warmer

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than it is right now. But
there are a number of reasons that the

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zone is changing. One one thing
that's in effect on this is they used

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to use like eight thousand weather stations
across the country to create this map.

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They've increased that to thirteen thousand,
four hundred actually more than that, thirteen

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thousand, four hundred stations. So
what did that mean, Well, it

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means where you may have been getting
your zone designation because you are X miles

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from a station. Now there's more
stations, so you're probably getting your zone

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data from a station a little closer
to where you live. And that way,

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you know, there's not a weather
station every mile all the way across

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the state, and so they have
to estimate in between those, and now

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the estimation is a little more accurate. So the only thing I want to

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end saying about that is when it
comes to the zone, remember that because

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all it's measuring is what is the
lowest cold temperature in your area? That

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would be on average would be expected. Well, that's what it's measuring.

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So what it doesn't measure is how
hot summer gets. It doesn't meture measure

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whether you're in a very dry climate
or a very sultry humid climate. And

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it doesn't measure other things that are
part of what make a plant succeed or

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fail in a location. So to
measure rainfall, doesn't measure celar radiation,

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just a lot of things. So
here's why all this matters. We in

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this listening area, most of you
are in somewhere between zone mostly Zone nine

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A and B, but there's some
of you that be an eight and B

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that can hear the show. There
is a zone nine A and B on

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the western coast of Washington State,
way up in the Pacific northwest. Can

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you believe that that means that in
that location, on average, it doesn't

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get any colder in the winter as
the lowest temperature than it does here.

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But I guarantee you the winter stays
cold all winter up there, and we

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may have days in the upper seventies
or even lower eighties in the winter.

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So that's a very different zone nine, right, And so when you look

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at plants, and I always think, you know, when I see a

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plant and it'll have the zones it's
listed in zones four through nine, well

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I get skeptical on the bottom end
of that. That would have to be

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a very mild or a very cool
climate nine probably for that. So it's

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just something to add to the decision
we make when we choose what kind of

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plants we want to have. Are
they drought resist or are they resistant to

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deer damage? And so on?
Lots of other factories, And I'm not

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trying to downplay the zone map.
It is important. It is the best

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guide we can get to what we
might expect on average for our bottom line

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cold to be. You know,
you're protecting citrus, you're protecting maybe an

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avocado tree or even you know,
even fig trees can be susceptible to cold

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damage. It's affecting you know it. It's part of that decision. But

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there's a lot more to the decision. So I just thought i'd throw a

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few ideas out there. If you've
ever thought about getting a generator, you

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really ought to consider doing that now. And the reason is, uh,

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there's a special promotion the Quality Home
Products is doing and it's now through the

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end of this year, December thirty
first ten percent off your purchase up to

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twenty five hundred dollars off. So
depending on the size of the generator you

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need, you're going to get ten
percent off up to that twenty five hundred

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dollars. Only new generator customers are
eligible for this, and you can't combine

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it with other professional or promotional offerings. But if you will contact Quality TX

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dot com that's the website or seven
one three Quality for the phone number and

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talk to the folks at Quality Home, they have super quality generating generators they

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can set up for you, and
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they take care of all of it
from you coming in and talking about

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you know, what kind of house
do I have, how much do I

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want to do I need to have
constant electricity for the whole house for internet

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and things, or am I just
trying to keep the food in the freezer

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from going bad? And they can
set you up like that and then they

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take care of every step of the
way. The main thing about this is

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you can buy a generator a lot
of places. Sometimes you can buy the

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same brand generator in other places,
but it's the service. It is the

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service before the sale and after,
you know, after they've come and done

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everything and gotten you set up and
you're rolling. They're coming back a couple

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of times a year and they can
check on that and make sure that always

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when things go wrong, you have
power. Well, we're going to take

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a break right now. Our phone
number is seven one three two one two

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fifty eight seventy four. Well,
good morning, glad you're listening this morning.

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If you look outside and your neighbor's
lights aren't on, go bang on

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the door, tell them they're missing
garden Line and they will so be appreciative

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to you. Maybe not this morning, but someday, someday you are listening

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to garden Line. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two fifty

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eight seventy four. I was just
visiting about with you about the heartingess own

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map and what that means. It
is important when we are picking plants,

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to pick plants that want to be
here. That's just really simple. And

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you may have noticed this summer that
your landscape really took a hit on some

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things that just were not quite tolerant
of what we went through. And very

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few plants could be tolerant of what
we went through. That was brutal.

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But you know, if you're looking
to redo some of that, this would

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be a good time to give Piercecapes
a call. Maybe you've got some dead

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shrubs and it's like, hey,
I need to redesign this area. I'd

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like it to look better, look
different. It was kind of getting I

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don't know, drab, just didn't
renotice it or didn't look good, just

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flat ugly. Well, Pierce Caapes
can fix that. They can come in

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with the designs, they can do
all the things that go with putting together

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a beautiful, beautiful landscape. They're
outstanding at it as a matter of fact.

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You can give Adjason and his team
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three seven zero fifty sixty, or
you can go online to Piercescapes dot com.

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You may just want to have them
come out. If your irrigation system

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is giving you trouble, maybe it's
not getting good coverage and that's part of

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the problem from this summer heat and
drought. Maybe you need better drainage.

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Maybe you'd like to add outdoor lighting
to an area. Pierce Caapes can do

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all of that. Just go in, take some pictures, sit down with

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them and have a discussion, see
what it is that they can do.

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They certainly are the best at what
they do. And when it comes to

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creating a beautiful landscape, you want
somebody that knows what they're doing that not

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only in design, but in plant
selection and so on. And that's Piercecapes.

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You are listening to Garden Line.
Our phone number is seven to one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four if you'd like to give us a

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call talk about something gardening this morning. We are in the fall season when

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it is very important. First of
all, I just again to get that

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fall fertilization down. If you have
not done it yet, do it asap.

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Fortunately, this far south in Texas, our winters are milder and sometimes

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the first freeze doesn't come for a
pretty good while compared to other parts of

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the state. It gives us a
little bigger of window in the fall to

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get our fall fertilization down on the
lawn. And why is fall fertilization important.

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Well, it's important because it makes
a plant stronger going into winter,

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more cold heartiness, and it comes
out stronger and earlier and better looking in

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the spring. That's just the fact
of what fall fertilization can do. Now,

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the question is what are you fertilized
with. Well, you want a

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fertilizer. You don't need an excessive
amount of nitrogen, but you'd like a

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moderate amount, and then you'd also
like some potassium in there. And I

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want to give you a combo that
Microlife has put together that I think is

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just excellent, and that is number
one. You're using what they call brown

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Patch. That's an orange bag and
it is a five one three fertilizer,

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and so the brown Patch is just
an excellent choice for that fall fertilizer application.

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So if you haven't done it,
go ahead and get that done.

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The other thing I would do on
the Microlife fertilizers, I've put out some

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of their humates. The humantes have
about four percent potassium and them, plus

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you get all the benefits that come
with humate products, the organic materials,

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the increase in microbial activity and so
on. So the combination of the orange

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bag for you know, the standard
fertilization infall and then adding the humates to

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it, I think will give you
a really really beautiful on set up for

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going into winter strong and coming out
strong. And it's all for Microlife.

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You can find microlife and a lot
of places just go online Microlife, fertilizer

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dot com. They've got it there. You can find out where you can

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get it. But I can just
tell you this, most of the places

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we talk about you're going to find
microlife there. I'm your host, Skip

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Richter, and this is garden Line, and we're here to help you have

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a more beautiful garden, a more
bountiful garden, and certainly a more beautiful

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landscape as well. Our goal is
to provide education, maybe with a little

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bit of entertainment mixed in, and
to just make gardening the fun hobby that

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it needs to be. You know, talk to someone yesterday, by the

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way, I was out at RCW
Nurseries. Thank you guys for hosting us

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with that fall Fling. Was really
fun, and thank you to everybody that

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came out. That was great getting
to meet everybody, see some plant samples,

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and just talk gardening in general.
But I was talking to somebody and

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they were saying that they didn't have
a brown thumb or they didn't have a

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green thumb, and their I think
their mom did, but they don't.

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And it's just it always kind of
makes me sad when people feel like they

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failed at gardening, like they can't
do that, because you can. You

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can. You just need information.
I like to say, there's no brown

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thumbs, there's uninformed thumbs. And
that's why we're here, is to inform

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your thumb. And if you live
out there in the Kingwood area, you're

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fortunate because you got a couple of
great nurseries that will inform your thumb as

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well. And that's Kingwood Garden Center
and Warren's Southern Garden right now. This

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month, the Texas Beauty Berry is
their native plan of the month. Beauty

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beerry is a beautiful plant, beautiful
clusters of purple light purplish colored berries that

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are just beautiful in the landscape,
but they're also beautiful in arrangements if you

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want to do that. Also,
out at these garden centers, Kingwood and

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Warrens, you're going to find airloom
souls aged leaf compost three bags for thirty

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dollars this whole month, So this
is the time to stock up on that'd

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be really really good to do.
They've got the Christmas cactus and the Christmas

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trees and the beautiful fall color in
your escapes. You know, the pansies,

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petunia's viola, snapdragons, everything dianthus. That's one of my favorite ones.

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They're all there at the garden center
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out. And when you go there, you're going to have employees that know

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what they're talking about, so they
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that thing a little more green.
That's the value of going to a quality

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garden center like those two. I
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we were talking about fruit trees,
and they were expressing some frustration in having

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success with their fruit trees, and
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while and I would just we're kind
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ones need a pollinator and which ones
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soil and everything, and pretty much
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need very well drained soil in a
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in the sun. There are a
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those areas. I've seen figs doing
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citrus in some shade. But in
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a sweet fruit to eat and that
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make carbohydrates, and that's why we
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example. But we were discussing all
the tips that you can find on having

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success with your fruit ever your fruit
endeavors that you're trying to plant, and

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now's a good time to plant fruit
too. By the way, if you

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would like to get a container grown
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now. I was visiting with one
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Do you know Ace Hardware independently owned? We have forty in the ACE Hardware

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group here in the Greater Houston area. Now, welcome Orange and Bay City

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with your ACE Hardware stores. We're
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team. When I think of ACE, I think of backyards. But I'm

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a horticulturist. I mean I think
of the landscape and the fertilizers for your

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lawn and the products for your lawn
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Do you know ACE is a place
for Curse's lighting and decoration too, Now,

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whether it's indoor decoration or outdoor decoration. They got you covered. Do

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you need a wreath? Do you
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it Christmas swag to go on.
They've got that. They've got the lights

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in a multitude of configurations, and
they even have something called lights custom lights

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by the foot and you just have
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and explain how that works. Pretty
cool stuff. But anyway, no matter

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what colors you want, no matter
you know the patterns of shapes, they've

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got everything. Ace is the place. You just know this when you go

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into Ace. Whenever you go in, they're going to have what you need

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in a wide, wide, wide
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may go in there for a light
bulb and you come out with one of

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the best fertilizers for your lawn,
or with some of that Christmas wag.

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You get the idea. It's a
wide variety. It's kind of a one

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stop shop. But allow yourself a
little time because once you get in and

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start looking around, it'll be like, oh my gosh, I didn't know

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they had that, And next thing
you know, an hour's gone. Trust

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me, I've been been there,
done that. You're listening to Garden Line

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our phone number seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four. Give

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Josh a call and we'll get you
on the boards so that we can talk

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about whatever you're interested in. You
guys have probably heard me talk about McGrath

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Pest Control many times because I have, and it's because Mike McGrath has created

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a company that it just excels in
every way. You know, this company's

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been around, started by by Mike
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It was started by Scott McGrath's dad, Scott's current owner, and uh,

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Scott is a whot. I don't
know if you've ever met Scott, but

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he has a lot of fun.
But boy, when it comes to insects

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and pass like rhodents, he knows
his stuff. And that's shown by did

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you realize McGrath Pest Control was chosen
as a curator's pick for the best pest

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control companies in Houston. That's quite
an honor. That is quite an honor.

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It's because of the way they do
business. They schedule a time,

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they show up at that time.
They give you the old fashioned customer service,

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but they bring modern technology and modern
techniques in to deal with the pests.

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They serve the whole Houstonnario. Hey
give them a call two eight one

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four six nine eighty two forty or
Mecgrathpestcontrol dot com. Just remember this.

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You got the holidays coming up.
You don't want Grandma over there when a

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roach runs across the floor, So
call Mike for crying out loud. Don't

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do that to your poor grandmother.
Our phone number is seven one three two

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one two fifty eight seventy four seven
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H H. Josh will get you
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little break here in just a moment. I just want to remind you that

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if you are still thinking about doing
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ahead and do it, and in
fact do it today if you can,

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or at asap. That way,
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the ground, you get your barricade
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weed control. And I would do
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ahead and do the barricade, and
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both into the ground. That's how
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supposed to do. The last one
is Nitrofoss Eagle. That's a terf fungder

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side. It's systemic, uh and
it is able to protect your lawn against

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things like brown patch or take all
root rots, some of the things we

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have. Now you can find Nitrofoss
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and Laporte or even Plantation Ace Hardware
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we're going to take a break here
for Nicky and the news and we'll

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be right back. Welcome back to
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I think they're singing your song there. It was time to get somebody

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over to the house and take care
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do that. You're listening to garden
Line, and I'm glad you are.

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We're looking forward to talking to you
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call. Seven one three two one
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two and two fifty eight seventy four. Hey, if you're out in the

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Richmond area and you haven't been to
Enchanted Gardens, you need to go.

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I mean, really, you really
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a good name Enchanted. It is
absolutely beautiful and right now when you go,

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you are going to see color galore. Like all the time you go.

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I mean anytime. It didn't matter
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could be the most horrible, hot
blazing month. They got stuff ready to

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go to make your garden more beautiful, more bountiful. That's just how they

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do it there. Combine that with
very knowledgeable staff, people that have been

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in the area, that have gardened
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and you just know you're going to
have success. It's as simple as that.

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Lenderman family has been part of that
community since nineteen ninety five when the

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Enchanted Gardens originally opened. If you
want more information, just go to their

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website. It's awesome. It's a
very good one. Lots of good information

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on there. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot
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Monday through Saturday, you can go
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they're open from ten am to four
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to get out and check out in
Chende Gardens. We're going to head to

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the phones now and uh, I'm
to see you go to Katie and talk

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to Hank. Hello, Hank,
good morning, sir. I've got some

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mosaias that are just not quite the
brilliant color they need to be. They're

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a little faded, little yellowless.
I think it's time to give them some

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trace elements or something. I just
didn't know what you recommended. You know,

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it's kind of hard without actually seeing
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its toll on a lot of plants. But as the soil gets hot,

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as the plants get hot, as
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to try to keep them watered and
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and oftentimes we just see sort of
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the foliage. And so if you
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like it is consistently moist not too
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be the first thing I would want
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them. As far as as nutrients, you could put some trace on it,

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but without a specific nutrient deficiency symptom, it's kind of hard for me

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to know whether that is going to
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The problem The problem with fertilizing with
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we're entering into a cool season and
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new growth. But a moderate application
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about the microlife I say, acid
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good one. It's a gradual release. It's microbially released, and so as

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the weather cools down, the release
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just helps spread it out even better. So you're not going to do any

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damage at all with that. It's
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of the other nutrients with that nitrogen. And so I would do that.

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I would give that a try and
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may not see a lot of changes
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and they begin to grow again.
Can you put something like that on,

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say once a year, on almost
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on the ground doesn't mean your pH
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It's just it helps maintain an acidic
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not tolerate getting up above acidic conditions. You take care. Thank you,

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Hank, appreciate that call very much. That yeap, that is the case.

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We well, goodness, we'll go
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see now we're going to head to
Baycliffe and talk to Sue. Hello,

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Sue, good morning. Hell are
you? I'm well? Thank you?

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How can I help today? I
have a thornless BlackBerry that you know,

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like a half barrel plastic container,
and I don't know what to do with

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it. I don't know anything about
blackberries, but it did produce some really

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pretty nice fruit this year. Okay, So here, here's about all these

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leggy runners. You know, they're
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of give you the whole process and
then within that is what you do right

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now when blackberries, when a shoot
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winter, and the next season it
bears, and after bearing, it starts

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to decline and die. That's the
normal BlackBerry cycle. So typically what I

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would say do is once the fruit
harvest is done, those old canes coming

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out of the ground can be cut
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But the new canes that are coming
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so they branch more, and then
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you get something that's more of a
multi branch bush, and ever branch,

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ever branch you add, adds more
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the next season. Now, if
yours is one of those that is kind

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of a day neutral type of BlackBerry
that can bear on the first year's canes,

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then that would be a primate cane
bearing and in that case you would

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actually get two seasons. You'd get
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fruit, and then you would get
the next season if you kept them around

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for that long. But after that
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fruited, then you just take it
out. So do I like to spring

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to take it out? Yeah?
At this point, Well, if you

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know that one had fruit and blue
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bloom again, unless do you know
the do you know the variety of a

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BlackBerry? I don't. I wish
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out and let us know if it
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that cane can bear twice the year. It grows in the next year too,

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and then it's gone. If it
doesn't say primo caine bearing type,

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then once it's fruited, just cut
it out. That's all you're going to

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get from it, Okay, Because
I do see a bunch of like woodies

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sticks, you know, yeah,
don't have any leaves on them. Yeah,

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well that's how. That's how the
old wild blue blackberries just became briar

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patches and just a mess you couldn't
walk through. But that that's it.

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You just take out the old stuff
and let the new stuff come up.

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I'd say, when it gets about
head high or so, go ahead and

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tip it about head high, tip
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Therefore it's the plants raised up about
head high. Tip it off and it'll

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form side branches and that'll give you
more fruit next year. Okay, all

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right, all right, see,
thank you, I appreciate appreciate your call.

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Well, it looks like it's time
for us to take a little break.

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Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

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When we come back from break,
Charles and Marine, you'll be the

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first two up, good Sunday morning. We're getting a glow in the sky,

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so the day is on its way. I'm happy you're listening to garden

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Line because I like to talk to
you about what's going on with gardening.

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If your lawn has has taken a
brutal hit this summer, you probably need

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to think about giving the folks at
Green Pear call. And here's why.

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Number One, they you know them
as a company that can not only do

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deep time core aeration, but also
compost top dressing of top quality compost on

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your lawn. That's just an important
step, especially when you're dealing with a

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compacted clay soil and helping that grass
to thrive there. But they're also a

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company. It can come out and
it can spread some soil for leveling out

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the lawn. And if you're looking
at potentially doing some replanting of grass and

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everything, well, you know,
the first thing we need to do is

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to get that get any low spots
leveled. If you're dealing with some roots

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that your lawn mowers banging over the
top of, we you know they can

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take care of that. They can
bring some soil in and kind of spread

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00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:22.880
it out a little bit and provide
you with a nice level surface for that

407
00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:26.799
replanting. But also with the compost
top dressing, you're talking about putting a

408
00:29:26.839 --> 00:29:30.599
product out that is not only good
for the soil, but also sits on

409
00:29:30.680 --> 00:29:36.920
the soil surface and to some degree
does reduce the amount of sunlight that actually

410
00:29:36.920 --> 00:29:40.000
reaches the soil. And when sun
hits the soil, nature plants, a

411
00:29:40.039 --> 00:29:44.160
weed and thin lawns are gonna have
sun hitting the soil. So just a

412
00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:48.599
good compost top dressing in and of
itself is something that would be worthwhile doing

413
00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:51.599
at any time of the year,
but especially right now as we go into

414
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this cool season. All you need
to do is go to greenpro dot net,

415
00:29:56.640 --> 00:30:00.400
greenpro dot net, give them a
call, talk to them and find

416
00:30:00.400 --> 00:30:04.000
out the services they offer and how
that might match what you want to get

417
00:30:04.039 --> 00:30:07.599
done at your place. We're going
to head out now to Huntsville and talk

418
00:30:07.640 --> 00:30:11.200
to Charles. Hello, Charles,
good morning. It was a little cool

419
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:15.119
here this morning. When I let
the dogs out at six it was thirty

420
00:30:15.160 --> 00:30:18.960
degrees. Are you kidding? Wow? No, We're in a drought area

421
00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:23.119
and it's going to schedule to rain
sometime later this week. And I was

422
00:30:23.160 --> 00:30:29.519
wondering about fertilizing my apple and my
pear tree. Which fertilizer should I use

423
00:30:29.559 --> 00:30:33.799
on them? And timing? Do
you have a particular type of fertilizer you

424
00:30:33.880 --> 00:30:37.039
generally use? You know, do
you do organic gardening or not? Or

425
00:30:37.079 --> 00:30:41.240
what is there anything that you normally
use for your lawn? For example,

426
00:30:42.920 --> 00:30:48.680
I'm out here in the moondogs in
Tennessee and they sort up your adult treat.

427
00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:52.359
They don't carry all the things that
you advertised. I have to get

428
00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:56.920
them. I have to get them
from Amazon through the mail. I thought

429
00:30:56.920 --> 00:30:59.319
you were in Huntsville, Texas.
Well, I didn't. I had to

430
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.160
talk louder if I know is having
to yell all the way to Tennessee.

431
00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:07.440
I'm forty north. I'm forty miles
north of Huntsville, Alabama. Oh,

432
00:31:07.480 --> 00:31:10.720
Alabama. Okay, so here,
here's here's what we need. We need

433
00:31:10.759 --> 00:31:15.200
to get out with a product that
has a balance. You want to have

434
00:31:15.240 --> 00:31:18.519
some of all the three numbers on
the bag for most of the time.

435
00:31:18.680 --> 00:31:22.640
Unless your soil is just phosphorus deficient
and I don't know your soil in that

436
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:27.720
area, you would use something kind
of similar to a lawn fertilizer and normally,

437
00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:33.119
I would apply that in the spring
when growth begins. Your fruit trees

438
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:37.200
are not taking up a lot of
nutrients right now, and you're in your

439
00:31:37.240 --> 00:31:41.000
climate, they're they're going losing their
leaves, going dormant, and it's just

440
00:31:41.119 --> 00:31:45.920
not a big time to do lawn
or tree fertilization. So I would wait

441
00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:51.240
until spring to do it. Now, if you happen to know because of

442
00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:55.559
a soil test you're really low in
this or that nutrient, well then that

443
00:31:55.599 --> 00:32:00.359
would what I just said would change
a little bit according to your testy up

444
00:32:00.400 --> 00:32:05.039
here. Yeah, yeah, well
that's okay. I don't know, you

445
00:32:05.079 --> 00:32:08.079
know, it depends on the exact
level for things like you're describing, like

446
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:15.279
the apples, but they're they're fairly
tolerant of a range. So you might

447
00:32:15.319 --> 00:32:19.920
talk to your county extension office up
there too. In Tennessee, the UNIVERSITYANITY

448
00:32:19.960 --> 00:32:23.839
has a good extension service, and
just see what they're They may have like

449
00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:30.319
a lime recommendation in general that they
make for folks in your area. But

450
00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:36.119
I wouldn't jump to making pH attempt
attempt pH changes unless you know you have

451
00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:40.240
a problem. I appreciate the information. Yeah, yeah, hey, Charles,

452
00:32:40.279 --> 00:32:45.160
let me ad one thing, are
these trees pretty young? I miss

453
00:32:45.240 --> 00:32:47.640
that if you said the age.
Now, they've been here on the property,

454
00:32:49.480 --> 00:32:53.039
they were here when we when we
bought it, and they're probably ten

455
00:32:53.279 --> 00:32:58.160
fifteen years old. All right,
So I'm gonna give you a good rule

456
00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:00.119
of thumb. If you'll take your
thumb, go out to the trunk of

457
00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:04.400
the tree at the at the where
the trunk, you know, down low

458
00:33:04.440 --> 00:33:07.480
on the tree, and how how
many thumbwits across is it? In other

459
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:12.480
words, how many inches is it
across the trunk? And forever inch?

460
00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:16.400
Give it one to two cups of
a lawn type fertilizer in the spring in

461
00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:20.839
your area. So that would mean
if you had something, let's say the

462
00:33:20.880 --> 00:33:23.480
trunk was just the size of a
soft drink can coke can, that's about

463
00:33:23.480 --> 00:33:29.200
three inches across, so you'd give
it three to six cups of fertilizer spread

464
00:33:29.240 --> 00:33:35.920
evenly all around underneath the branches.
Okay, lawn type. Okay, all

465
00:33:36.039 --> 00:33:39.039
right, well good luck with that. Thanks for thank you, bye boye,

466
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:43.720
you take care all the way from
Tennessee. That's kind of cool.

467
00:33:44.640 --> 00:33:47.319
Let's see, you know, hey, those of you in Tomball D and

468
00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:51.799
D feed has opened up a new
area of him and out there in a

469
00:33:51.799 --> 00:33:54.640
while you need to check. It's
another room. It's got bulk seeds,

470
00:33:54.960 --> 00:33:59.319
which is very inexpensive way to buy
seeds as opposed to a packet. You

471
00:33:59.359 --> 00:34:01.559
just get your little scoop and put
it in an envelope and you pay by

472
00:34:01.599 --> 00:34:04.759
the bull. They have a wide
variety of that. They have a lot

473
00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:07.640
of other things everything you need for
your lawn and garden. They've got all

474
00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:12.559
the fertilizers and pest control, disease
control products and things like that. So

475
00:34:12.599 --> 00:34:15.119
it's just a it's an easy one
stop shop. And they always have plants

476
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:20.159
coming in. I saw some cool
season plants the other day that they had

477
00:34:20.199 --> 00:34:22.519
when I stopped by. D and
D Feed is a place to go.

478
00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.400
It's it's handy, it's easy to
get to for all of you out there,

479
00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:30.880
and if you need anything from your
livestock to your pets around the house,

480
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:35.039
they've got the feed for everything,
including things for your lawn at D

481
00:34:35.079 --> 00:34:37.440
and D Feed out there in Tumbol. They're about three miles west of two

482
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:43.559
forty nine out twenty nine to twenty
to the west of Tombul. We're going

483
00:34:43.639 --> 00:34:49.880
to head now to Marine in Lakeside
Estates. Hello marine. Hey, I'm

484
00:34:49.880 --> 00:34:52.840
glad you're here today to answer my
questions. Team's a question a day for

485
00:34:52.960 --> 00:34:58.239
you on Saturday and Sunday. Okay, let me get going. The basic

486
00:34:58.320 --> 00:35:01.880
one is cycloment usually have good luck, but this year I'm going to put

487
00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:06.960
it into the ground, so I'm
going to be using medina has to grow

488
00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.320
to get it going, and hopefully
as it moves along, I'll come back

489
00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:14.840
and get it more for food.
But a friend asked me, can I

490
00:35:14.920 --> 00:35:19.679
plant it in a partial shade?
Well, that's the only thing I know

491
00:35:19.800 --> 00:35:22.760
how to plant in for the cyclomen
Yeah, is there anything else I need

492
00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:28.599
to know? Can it get morning
shade and then not the afternoon? Yes,

493
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:32.000
it can in this cool season,
you know, if it's been cyclemen.

494
00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:35.599
In general, I think of as
something in a very bright, bright

495
00:35:35.679 --> 00:35:39.199
shade or a morning sign after this
part day sun, let's say, And

496
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:44.840
they'll do fine. You just don't
want to put them suddenly in this really

497
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:49.239
really bright sunlight. You can get
some foliage burn on that when you do.

498
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:52.039
And I would say if they were
gradually adapted, they probably could take

499
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:55.519
the full brunt of the sun.
But in general, we think of them

500
00:35:55.519 --> 00:36:00.119
in an area that at least is
somewhat protected. Good enough, all right,

501
00:36:00.159 --> 00:36:06.320
The real important question to me is
to understand how to help my oak

502
00:36:06.360 --> 00:36:09.880
trees. Now, what they need
help in is just naturally growing. So

503
00:36:10.079 --> 00:36:16.280
a basic understanding for you is they're
over fifty years old. They're very large.

504
00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:22.199
The one I'm most concerned about is
just twelve foot away from the house.

505
00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:28.039
That means that I have foundation problems. I re mediated that about every

506
00:36:28.119 --> 00:36:32.679
two to three years I call in
someone to trim the trees. Okay,

507
00:36:34.199 --> 00:36:38.440
someone had said to me that maybe
I should marine I'm at I'm sorry,

508
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:42.639
I need to interrupt you. I'm
running up to the end of the time.

509
00:36:43.000 --> 00:36:45.320
I will wait for you. Just
hang on. When we come back

510
00:36:45.360 --> 00:36:50.119
from the hour of I will wait
for a long time. Okay, Well,

511
00:36:50.159 --> 00:36:52.920
I hope it's not a long time. John and Katie, you will

512
00:36:52.920 --> 00:36:57.079
be right after Maureene when we come
back. Our phone number is seven one,

513
00:36:57.119 --> 00:37:01.440
three, two and two fifty eight
seventy four. Wow, this hour

514
00:37:01.519 --> 00:37:06.000
went fast. I don't know what. As they say, time flies when

515
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:08.280
you're having fun, well, having
funds. The timesline, by the way,

516
00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:13.480
kermitth Frogs has times fun when you're
having flies. That's neither here nor

517
00:37:13.519 --> 00:37:16.280
there. Hey, don't forget.
If you haven't gone to my website,

518
00:37:16.320 --> 00:37:22.719
Gardening with Skip dot com, you
need to check it out. My last

519
00:37:22.840 --> 00:37:27.559
thoughts and comments on the hardiness zone
not changer there. The lawn care schedule

520
00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:30.320
for fertilizing is there. The lawng
care schedule for disease, insect and red

521
00:37:30.400 --> 00:37:36.400
management is there. I was talking
to someone out at RCW yesterday about the

522
00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:40.119
nine page free publication that's on the
website, and it's how to take care

523
00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:44.599
of your plants to protect them with
frosts and freezes. And it's got a

524
00:37:44.880 --> 00:37:49.079
lot of good information, full color
pictures, beautiful diagrams. It is just

525
00:37:49.119 --> 00:37:51.800
a really cool thing. And here
we are on the doorstep of winter.

526
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:53.599
Hey, we'll be right back.
Look forward to talking to you when we

527
00:37:53.679 --> 00:38:01.599
come back. KTRH Garden Light does
not necessarily endorse any of the products or

528
00:38:01.639 --> 00:38:08.440
services advertised on this program. Welcome
to Katy r H Garden Line with Skip

529
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:29.000
Rictor. It's m crazy watch it
trim, just watching as so many Good

530
00:38:29.119 --> 00:38:32.559
morning on a beautiful Sunday. I
mean, gosh, look outside, it

531
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:36.760
is going to be a great one. I love it. This kind of

532
00:38:36.800 --> 00:38:39.639
weather just makes you happy to be
outside, and certainly if you're a gardener,

533
00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:43.840
it's a good time to be outside
and doing things. We're going to

534
00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:46.559
head back to the lake side of
States and Marine. Let's wind things up

535
00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:51.599
on your tree question. We didn't
quite have enough time for break right.

536
00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:54.480
Okay, tree is fifty years old, too close to the house, but

537
00:38:54.559 --> 00:38:59.960
it is a gigantic, beautiful tree. So over the years, better reach

538
00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:06.920
two years. I have the canopy
trimmed and try to back any big limbs

539
00:39:06.960 --> 00:39:12.440
off the roof. It's gone through
Love hurricane, so it's doing well from

540
00:39:12.440 --> 00:39:15.679
that point of view, but it's
still growing. And with it being so

541
00:39:15.840 --> 00:39:22.719
close to the house twelve foot the
root is really tremendous. So I someone

542
00:39:22.760 --> 00:39:27.320
had mentioned to me, just a
neighbor, that the good thing that's the

543
00:39:27.320 --> 00:39:30.960
whey they expressed it is that I've
been cutting down the canopy or trimming the

544
00:39:31.039 --> 00:39:38.239
canopy so that the roots are usually
when you draw a line straight down pretty

545
00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:45.079
much just cover the area from the
tree trunk out to maybe the width.

546
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:47.320
Is that a correct statement, No, that's not. Roots go two and

547
00:39:47.360 --> 00:39:51.000
a half times or more of the
height of the width of the tree.

548
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:54.599
In all directions, but can you
get to the actual question part? So

549
00:39:54.679 --> 00:39:58.679
okay, so what do I do? What do I do? So?

550
00:39:58.840 --> 00:40:02.480
I usually trim, So now should
I try that? He's a metal that

551
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:06.960
you put in the ground to stop
the tree roots. It looks like they're

552
00:40:07.079 --> 00:40:09.599
already. Yeah. Well, if
I were you, what i'd do is

553
00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:15.320
I would I would call Affordable Tree
Service Martin spin Moore and have them come

554
00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:17.159
look at it. Because here's why, I can suggest some things to you,

555
00:40:17.199 --> 00:40:21.280
but I'm not there looking at the
tree and seeing the exact sitt.

556
00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:22.880
It may be that you don't need
to do anything. And on the other

557
00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:28.159
hand, it may be that some
sort of a root barrier would be appropriate.

558
00:40:28.800 --> 00:40:31.519
I'm thinking you probably don't need a
root barrier. But again, I

559
00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:36.880
can't make that call without release.
I understand that. And do you have

560
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.679
their number available at my pen?
I do, Yeah, I do.

561
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:43.840
I will pull it for you.
Here, give me just a second on

562
00:40:43.920 --> 00:40:47.800
that. Sure. Uh yeah.
The the in general, it's the trees.

563
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:52.760
Roots are always going to be around
the foundation, and when they are

564
00:40:52.800 --> 00:40:58.320
around the foundation, then they pump
water out and that's how they cause problems.

565
00:40:58.599 --> 00:41:02.280
Okay, So when whenever you see
uh, you know, people talking

566
00:41:02.320 --> 00:41:07.039
about trees and foundation issues and stuff. It's the shrinking and swelling of the

567
00:41:07.079 --> 00:41:13.639
soil from the getting wet and getting
dry on the soil that causes the causes

568
00:41:13.679 --> 00:41:16.440
that problem. Does that make sense? Yeah, I don't know it does.

569
00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:20.559
Yeah, so you're it's not It's
not just like a route going up

570
00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:23.320
and lifting the foundation up so much. But anyway, I'm gonna I got

571
00:41:23.360 --> 00:41:27.360
his number right there, we go, finally found it. Okay, I'm

572
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:32.719
ready the number seven one three,
six nine nine, twenty six sixty three.

573
00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:37.119
And you can also go to six
six three. Make sure telling me

574
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:42.320
listen to garden line so you get
up in the line there because he stays

575
00:41:42.320 --> 00:41:45.159
busy. I hope that works.
But when they're busy, they're busy,

576
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:47.920
and they're busy for good for a
reason, because they do a good job.

577
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:52.679
Oh yeah. Aff Tree Service dot
com is the website, Marien.

578
00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:54.639
Thank you for that. I'm gonna
run. Thank you. You take care.

579
00:41:55.480 --> 00:41:59.800
If you hadn't done azebiite on your
lawn yet, you might want to

580
00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:04.920
think about doing that this year.
Asmite provides the trace alements. Many of

581
00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:07.880
those trace elements that they're essential for
plant growth. They're just needed in small

582
00:42:07.920 --> 00:42:13.039
amounts. That's why just a regular
forty four pound bag of as might cover

583
00:42:13.159 --> 00:42:15.880
six to twelve thousand square feet goes
a long way. I put it in

584
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:20.760
my vegetable garden as well, just
because why not beef up all the nutrients

585
00:42:20.840 --> 00:42:23.000
in the soil because your body needs
them as well. So if I'm going

586
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:27.119
to be eating produce, I want
to make sure I'm eating produce that's that's

587
00:42:27.159 --> 00:42:30.480
been grown in a way that makes
it extra extra nutritious. You can go

588
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:36.719
to azimite Texas dot com to find
out more about it, and it's widely

589
00:42:36.719 --> 00:42:39.400
available. I just see it just
about everywhere I go. We're going to

590
00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:45.960
now head to John and Katie.
Go Hello, John, how are you

591
00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:49.519
this morning. I'm doing great,
scipt good morning, thanks for taking my

592
00:42:49.639 --> 00:42:52.679
call. Yes, I have what
I call a six sycamore. I've got

593
00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:57.760
a sycamore tree in my front yard. I think it's a sycamore sweet gum

594
00:42:57.880 --> 00:43:00.519
if you're the same thing, so
about fIF feet tall, about a forty

595
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:05.119
foot canopy on it. It's always
done really well, but with the drought

596
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:08.559
this summer, I started losing a
lot of bark on the top, and

597
00:43:08.840 --> 00:43:13.199
I noticed the bark, and the
tree is full of holes, like okay,

598
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:19.119
horizontal holes about an eighth of an
inch around, And now all the

599
00:43:19.239 --> 00:43:22.079
leaves are starting to really get spotted
and turn and I'm afraid I'm gonna lose

600
00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:23.880
it. I don't know if I
can say it or not. Okay,

601
00:43:24.039 --> 00:43:29.679
So the holes you're seeing are are
around, they're not oval like a racetrack,

602
00:43:29.880 --> 00:43:36.159
right, Okay, Well that's probably
a borer based on what you're describing.

603
00:43:36.719 --> 00:43:40.199
Uh if the holes just go deep
in and disappear, if they're not

604
00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:45.719
just like the depth of a pencil, eraser or anything. So that's about

605
00:43:45.719 --> 00:43:52.480
all they are. And they're a
straight lines a bird almost. That is

606
00:43:52.519 --> 00:43:55.400
a sapsucker bird doing that, that's
not a borer. That's a sapsucker.

607
00:43:55.599 --> 00:43:59.719
Nothing to worry about. Uh.
As far as the tree, you know,

608
00:43:59.760 --> 00:44:02.800
all of things a stress trees,
including drought conditions, excessive heat,

609
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:08.400
unexpected cold, heart snaps and things
they weaken a tree. And after what

610
00:44:08.440 --> 00:44:13.199
we went through last year, I
would expect some stress right now. What's

611
00:44:13.199 --> 00:44:16.920
in your power is don't let it
go without soil moisture, which you shouldn't

612
00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:22.920
have to fertilize the sycamore in the
Greater Houston area in the wintertime. I

613
00:44:22.920 --> 00:44:27.480
mean it's dormant and everything. But
if that when we get into next year,

614
00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:30.920
that is going to be in your
control to do. That's important.

615
00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:35.119
And then moderate amounts of fertilization.
You're not going to overcome drought stress with

616
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:39.280
fertilizer only, but you do need
a little bit just to support healthy growth.

617
00:44:39.400 --> 00:44:45.599
Okay, And so I would use
when if you have a lawn around

618
00:44:45.719 --> 00:44:50.559
the tree, then your lawn fertilization
should take care of the tree too.

619
00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:53.239
On a tree that's as large and
old as what you're describing, if it

620
00:44:53.239 --> 00:44:57.199
were a little young one we were
trying to get moving, that would be

621
00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:00.159
different. But an established tree,
those roots are every were so everywhere you

622
00:45:00.199 --> 00:45:04.360
have grass, their tree roots are
going to take out nutrients as well.

623
00:45:04.400 --> 00:45:07.000
All right, Okay, how long
do those trees last? I mean,

624
00:45:07.280 --> 00:45:10.000
this one's about twenty four years old. Now, yeah, they'll last longer

625
00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:15.000
than that. I don't you know, know, there's like this date of

626
00:45:15.039 --> 00:45:17.880
how long they last. But you
should get decades and decades and decades out

627
00:45:17.880 --> 00:45:22.280
of a out of a sycamore aside
for many issues happening to it, all

628
00:45:22.360 --> 00:45:25.719
right, okay, because it lasts
quite a few branches over the summer.

629
00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:29.880
Well, they tend to do the
drought. Yeah, they tend to do

630
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:31.639
that. There can be some branch
dropping here and there, but that's just

631
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:36.480
part of the package with them.
But they're very, very beautiful with a

632
00:45:36.559 --> 00:45:39.880
nice white bark, especially in the
winter time. Yeah, it's a very

633
00:45:39.960 --> 00:45:43.400
very much part of the shade of
our house too. All right, John,

634
00:45:43.800 --> 00:45:45.840
Hey, well, I got a
run and take a break, but

635
00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:49.360
thank you for the call. I
appreciate that very much. We will be

636
00:45:49.440 --> 00:45:52.119
back justin and Montgomery. You will
be the first up when we come back.

637
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:57.639
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

638
00:45:58.880 --> 00:46:01.480
Well, good morning on a beautiful
Sunday morning. You're listening to garden

639
00:46:01.480 --> 00:46:05.679
Line and I'm your host, Skip
Richter. We are here to answer your

640
00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:10.519
gardening questions. For those of you
up in the Montgomery area, your hometown

641
00:46:10.840 --> 00:46:15.320
garden center is A and A Plants
and Produce. It's as simple as that,

642
00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:17.360
and you probably already knew that,
because my gosh, it's been there

643
00:46:17.360 --> 00:46:22.199
over thirty years now, and it's
right there on the side of Highway one

644
00:46:22.199 --> 00:46:27.360
oh five and you're heading toward Conroad, direction from Montgomery. It's just like

645
00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:32.559
three acres, I believe, and
plants and plants and plants and landscape blank

646
00:46:32.639 --> 00:46:37.119
all over the place. When I
talk about fertilizers, they're going to have

647
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:42.199
them. You know, we've been
talking about nitrophosphall Special and Nelson's carbo Loade

648
00:46:42.280 --> 00:46:45.079
and the micro life front. They
carry all that. They carry all those

649
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:49.280
things plus everything else you need for
your lawn and your landscape. Now we're

650
00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:52.719
entering the holiday season and there's some
cool stuff going on up there too.

651
00:46:52.760 --> 00:46:54.960
By the way, I just want
to mention this. On Sunday, December

652
00:46:55.079 --> 00:46:59.880
third, from twelve noon to four
pm, they're going to have their annual

653
00:47:00.199 --> 00:47:04.079
free Christmas Festival. They're at A
and A Plants in Montgomery. They're kind

654
00:47:04.079 --> 00:47:07.480
to Eggnog the Juggler. That's a
good name for a juggler, Elf the

655
00:47:07.559 --> 00:47:12.880
face painter, and let's see,
we got balloon artists and kids music with

656
00:47:12.960 --> 00:47:16.239
the DJ, crafts and snacks and
a visit with Santa and Missus Clause.

657
00:47:16.320 --> 00:47:21.039
Of course, free photos are going
to be taken there by Shannon Maddock,

658
00:47:21.239 --> 00:47:23.840
the owner of Airhead Photography. So
it's it's just a great thing. Grab

659
00:47:23.920 --> 00:47:28.920
the kids, making make a note
Sunday, December third, from twelve noon

660
00:47:28.920 --> 00:47:31.559
to four thirty pm out of A
and A plants and produce. We are

661
00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:36.760
going to now go to Montgomery.
Here we go, fink if I can

662
00:47:36.800 --> 00:47:39.559
actually drive a mouse here for just
for some there. It is all right,

663
00:47:40.239 --> 00:47:44.480
justin how we doing? I finally
got myself all the way to your

664
00:47:44.599 --> 00:47:47.079
call. I appreciate it. Skip, I'm good. How are you?

665
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:52.800
I'm good? What's up? Good? I have We have a money tree.

666
00:47:52.159 --> 00:47:55.239
My wife does most of the maintaining
on it. It's we've had it

667
00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:59.360
since April. It's in the I
guess a four inch wide pot. Keep

668
00:47:59.400 --> 00:48:04.559
it indoors. It gets pretty good
light and here so but the issue is

669
00:48:04.639 --> 00:48:08.960
the leaves are kind of starting to
turn brown. Now we're getting new growth

670
00:48:09.039 --> 00:48:14.119
and it looks looks pretty good.
There's no sponginess on any of the you

671
00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:17.519
know, any of the trunks there
are. It's made of about four different

672
00:48:17.559 --> 00:48:22.320
little trunks kind of like you know, wound together, right, and they're

673
00:48:22.360 --> 00:48:27.159
all about an inch wide. And
she waters it like once every few weeks.

674
00:48:27.159 --> 00:48:29.480
I mean, once the soil gets
dry, you know, that's when

675
00:48:29.519 --> 00:48:32.599
she waters it. Maybe a little
bit before then. So but yeah,

676
00:48:32.599 --> 00:48:37.599
it's just the leaves are starting to
get kind of turned brown, like in

677
00:48:37.960 --> 00:48:40.519
kind of big spots, if that
makes sense. So, so like you

678
00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:45.079
have a green leaf and it's not
like the tips or margins of the leaf

679
00:48:45.119 --> 00:48:47.280
for turning brown. It's like areas
of the leaf turn brown. Is that

680
00:48:47.320 --> 00:48:51.000
what you're saying? Yeah, yeah, that's that's Yeah, that's a good

681
00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:53.960
way to describe it. Interesting,
Well that I was. I was leaning

682
00:48:54.000 --> 00:48:59.000
toward a soil moisture issue, because
both to utter or too dry for a

683
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:04.079
period of time can cause problems.
The too dry the plant cake at moisture

684
00:49:04.119 --> 00:49:07.159
and the roots brown. But the
two wet you end up at the root

685
00:49:07.239 --> 00:49:10.760
rot. That then leads to a
similar kind of end result with those kind

686
00:49:10.760 --> 00:49:19.880
of spots. That sounds more like
a bacterial disease or maybe a fungal disease,

687
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:28.000
or possibly has a plant been moved
from one location to another previous to

688
00:49:28.039 --> 00:49:31.000
this, Well not really, like
we kept it in the same spot for

689
00:49:31.039 --> 00:49:35.159
a while and then we noticed the
leaser turn round, so we just moved

690
00:49:35.199 --> 00:49:37.639
it to a place where we thought
it would get more sun. Okay,

691
00:49:37.760 --> 00:49:40.000
kind of well, yeah, there
is a kind of spot that comes from

692
00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:45.159
kind of a sunburn, and often
it will happen in the thinner areas of

693
00:49:45.199 --> 00:49:47.440
the leave. Not always, but
it can be if it's marginal problem.

694
00:49:49.840 --> 00:49:53.280
So I wouldn't move it again necessarily, it's going to adjust to its new

695
00:49:53.320 --> 00:49:58.719
spot. But that may be going
on there. That's just kind of a

696
00:49:58.760 --> 00:50:04.440
speculation other than seeing a photo where
I might get some more clues. That

697
00:50:04.599 --> 00:50:08.079
is what I would suggest is going
on right now. Okay, I'm happy

698
00:50:08.119 --> 00:50:10.800
to send some to you if you
like. Yeah, if you'd like to

699
00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:15.599
do that, I'm going to put
you on hold and Josh, we'll make

700
00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:20.320
sure and give you the email to
send those. Just make sure the photos

701
00:50:20.320 --> 00:50:22.840
are in good sharp focus. Okay, thanks, thanks you, yes,

702
00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:29.800
thank you. Justin appreciate that call
very much. Dean Nelson. Nelson Plant

703
00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:36.119
Food. They are donating two dollars
on every bag of carbo load sold this

704
00:50:36.239 --> 00:50:42.239
fall. That's potential for a significant
contribution. That money is going to Randy

705
00:50:42.320 --> 00:50:47.079
Lemon's memorial Scholarship, So a very
good cause for a very good product as

706
00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:52.400
well. Carbo Load is designed for
our soils and for the fall application.

707
00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:57.880
It's a different when we move into
fall, we don't use the same fertilizer

708
00:50:57.920 --> 00:51:00.239
that we used in spring and summer. We have a better approach, and

709
00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:05.719
that's to drop the nitrogen a little
bit. Get that potassium the third number

710
00:51:05.800 --> 00:51:08.760
up there, and carboload does that. Plus carboload has a product in it

711
00:51:08.800 --> 00:51:14.320
that prevents weed seeds from germinating.
That's a pre emergent herbicide. So those

712
00:51:14.320 --> 00:51:17.719
are two reasons you need to do
it now. First of all, the

713
00:51:17.760 --> 00:51:22.000
weather gets cooler and cooler each week
as we go into winter, and when

714
00:51:22.400 --> 00:51:27.199
that happens, the grass growth slows
to a crawl. So you can do

715
00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:30.159
the most good by getting it done
sooner rather than later. Also, the

716
00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:35.199
weed seed germination is going to continue
to go on, and the sooner you

717
00:51:35.239 --> 00:51:37.119
get the pre emergent down the better. So when you put carboload down,

718
00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:42.639
put about a half inch of water
on your lawn and that will help move

719
00:51:42.679 --> 00:51:45.079
it down into the soil where it
can do the two things it does,

720
00:51:45.199 --> 00:51:50.000
feed the roots and protect against weeds. We're going to now go out to

721
00:51:50.199 --> 00:51:53.920
Glenn and Katie. Hello, Glenn, Hi, how you doing Skip,

722
00:51:54.039 --> 00:51:58.639
I'm good? What's up today?
Well? I had two questions. One

723
00:51:58.800 --> 00:52:07.679
is it seems like we have a
proliteration of of acorns this year? Is

724
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:10.840
there a reason for that? And
the second question is when is a good

725
00:52:10.840 --> 00:52:16.199
time to trim an oak tree?
Okay, so the acorn thing, are

726
00:52:16.199 --> 00:52:21.639
you gonna hang up? Okay,
that's good than you you bet? So

727
00:52:21.960 --> 00:52:28.159
the acorn deal. Different types of
oaks produce acrons on a different schedule.

728
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:31.000
For example. That doesn't mean there's
one hundred different schedule. I'm just saying

729
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:35.599
some will produce like acrons only every
other year or something, and some produce

730
00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:40.280
more often. And also it's affected
by weather conditions. And we just see

731
00:52:40.320 --> 00:52:44.920
these years where it's a we call
it a heavy masked year. It means

732
00:52:44.920 --> 00:52:49.360
there's just a lot of acorn production. And this has won, especially for

733
00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:52.119
the live oaks. Even that I
was in Santonio last week and oh my

734
00:52:52.159 --> 00:52:55.039
gosh, the house I drove up
into, there were so many acrons on

735
00:52:55.079 --> 00:52:59.480
the driveway you couldn't see the driveway. It was just crazy. That's just

736
00:52:59.519 --> 00:53:01.199
a year where it Now. As
far as the best time to trim trees,

737
00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:04.840
if you were just to go and
go, okay, I just want

738
00:53:04.880 --> 00:53:07.360
to know the best time to make
this happen, it would be mid to

739
00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:12.760
late winter. Now there's nothing wrong
with trimming. At other times you can

740
00:53:12.800 --> 00:53:15.480
get some trimming done, but if
you need to do a lot of work,

741
00:53:15.880 --> 00:53:19.159
quite a better trimming especially, I
would try to get that done in

742
00:53:19.199 --> 00:53:22.840
mid to late winter. The springtime
is when wounds heal the fastest of all

743
00:53:22.880 --> 00:53:27.559
twelve months. The springtime is the
fastest period of wound healing, and so

744
00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:31.159
pruning right prior to that just makes
sense. Plus there, depending on what

745
00:53:31.239 --> 00:53:37.199
area I know, we have people
listening for well this morning Tennessee all over

746
00:53:37.480 --> 00:53:42.519
the state, and there are some
yeah butts. For example, if you're

747
00:53:42.519 --> 00:53:45.679
an oak wilt area like Central Texas
is, then that would be that would

748
00:53:46.000 --> 00:53:52.719
make midwinter pruning even more important because
the likelihood of beatle activities to spread the

749
00:53:52.760 --> 00:53:57.000
disease is less. But anyway,
for here, I would aim for mid

750
00:53:57.119 --> 00:54:02.480
to late winter. If you're just
looking for a time this time of the

751
00:54:02.559 --> 00:54:07.400
year. It seems like every conversation
just about I'm having with gardeners is about

752
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:10.400
what can I plant? How do
I plant? You know, what would

753
00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:15.440
you recommend? People are replacing landscapes, they are you know, renovating flower

754
00:54:15.480 --> 00:54:21.440
beds. They're creating that flower and
vegetable beds and herb beds. And that's

755
00:54:21.440 --> 00:54:23.440
exciting because this is a time to
do it. But what's the rule.

756
00:54:23.719 --> 00:54:29.400
The rule is bronze stuff before green
stuff, brown stuff before green stuff.

757
00:54:29.599 --> 00:54:32.920
Meaning the bronze stuff is the soil
of the compost, the multch all that

758
00:54:34.039 --> 00:54:37.079
kind of thing. The green stuff
is the plants we plant. By the

759
00:54:37.079 --> 00:54:43.079
way, we always jokingly say planting
tip green side up. Always put the

760
00:54:43.119 --> 00:54:45.840
green part of the plant out of
the ground. Anyway, you get the

761
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:50.199
idea. But when we're taking care
of making or when we're trying to create

762
00:54:50.199 --> 00:54:53.480
that kind of beautiful landscape, beautiful
garden, productive garden, get the soil

763
00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:57.239
right first, and then put the
plants in. Now, you may go

764
00:54:57.280 --> 00:55:00.719
to a garden center and you buy
plants and you buy back soil. That's

765
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:04.320
good. But when you go home, fix the soil and then put those

766
00:55:04.320 --> 00:55:07.559
plants in and they'll thrive and they'll
make it. They'll make you look good,

767
00:55:07.599 --> 00:55:09.440
if you know what I mean.
Now, Airloom Soils has got an

768
00:55:09.639 --> 00:55:15.519
incredible deal, a big fall special
on bulk soils of the veggie and herb

769
00:55:15.760 --> 00:55:19.280
and the rose soil both You can
purchase them bulk. Of course, those

770
00:55:19.320 --> 00:55:22.159
are available as sacks as well.
But the bulk deal for those of you

771
00:55:22.239 --> 00:55:27.920
planning on any landscape renovation, any
bed creation, bed renovation. Maybe you

772
00:55:27.960 --> 00:55:30.280
bought a vego garden bed, you
want to fill it up with a good

773
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:34.000
mix, Well, this is it. Heirloom soil is a veggie and herb

774
00:55:34.039 --> 00:55:37.840
mix is on fall special for one
hundred and nineteen dollars yard bulk, or

775
00:55:37.960 --> 00:55:42.639
if you want them to deliver it
in a cubic yard supersac, it's one

776
00:55:42.679 --> 00:55:46.280
hundred and forty eight for that.
The rose soil is seventy dollars bulk and

777
00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:51.280
ninety nine for a supersack. You're
not going to find a better deal than

778
00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:53.960
that. That is excellent price.
And how do you find out more?

779
00:55:54.239 --> 00:56:00.960
Just go to Heirlooms Soilsoftexas dot com
and there you can learn a lot more

780
00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:05.360
about it. And that is super
high quality soil that they sell. No

781
00:56:05.480 --> 00:56:09.199
hesitation in recommending it to anybody that
is trying to have success with their garden.

782
00:56:12.039 --> 00:56:14.760
Our phone number if you would like
to give us a call is seven

783
00:56:14.800 --> 00:56:20.480
to one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two and

784
00:56:20.639 --> 00:56:25.480
two fifty eight seventy four. If
you live up in the Grimes County area

785
00:56:25.599 --> 00:56:30.920
or even Bras's County Brian College Station
area. You got a hometown feed store

786
00:56:30.159 --> 00:56:36.920
there just near Carlos Real close to
Carlos and that's Grimes County Feed And I've

787
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:39.559
talked about him before, but all
of you that are out throughout that whole

788
00:56:39.559 --> 00:56:45.559
region, this is your hometown feed
store. They're on State Highway thirty just

789
00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:50.039
outside Carlos Texts, about two miles
west of FM two forty four. And

790
00:56:50.079 --> 00:56:53.320
by the way, congratulations to Chris
and the ol Roy family. This is

791
00:56:53.360 --> 00:56:59.000
their fifth year anniversary that they've hit
and that that says something. They are

792
00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:04.199
part of the community when it comes
to supporting local schools, FFA four h

793
00:57:04.360 --> 00:57:08.679
the local Volunteer Fire Department, even
the Grimes County True Blue Foundation. That's

794
00:57:08.760 --> 00:57:12.599
the kind of folks they are.
Service is a way of life. I

795
00:57:12.599 --> 00:57:15.400
mean, if you look at the
family, we've got folks from the Houston

796
00:57:15.440 --> 00:57:20.760
Fire Department, career law enforcement,
Houston Police Department, career public service is

797
00:57:20.760 --> 00:57:24.480
what their family was founded on a
long long time ago. And so reinvesting

798
00:57:24.559 --> 00:57:29.000
in Grimes County future is what they
do. But what do they carry,

799
00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:31.039
Well, they carry everything you'd expect
to feed stort to carry. When it

800
00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:35.440
comes to fertilizers, I'm bragging on
fertilizers. Just drive over there, you're

801
00:57:35.440 --> 00:57:37.199
going to find them. They carry
you know, the tree hugger sprinkler I'm

802
00:57:37.199 --> 00:57:40.599
talking about all the time and so
on down the line. Say hi to

803
00:57:40.679 --> 00:57:45.000
Chris and the family when you're in
there. But Grimes County feed is a

804
00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:49.079
place you definitely need to go visit. If you're anywhere up near that region.

805
00:57:50.840 --> 00:57:52.480
You're listening to Garden Line, I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and

806
00:57:52.599 --> 00:57:58.800
our phone number is seven to one
three two one two five eight seven four

807
00:58:00.440 --> 00:58:05.639
two one two fifty eight seventy four. I was talking with Bob over at

808
00:58:05.679 --> 00:58:08.719
Southwest Fertilizer a little while back,
and we were just going through a lot

809
00:58:08.719 --> 00:58:13.440
of the changes and the new chemicals
and pesticides and whatnot that are out there.

810
00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:16.719
It's always changing, there's always something
new, and if you want to

811
00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:22.360
go someplace that has it, always
has it. That's Bob at Southwest Fertilizer.

812
00:58:22.559 --> 00:58:25.400
They're in the corner of Bissina and
Renwick down in Southwest Houston, and

813
00:58:25.480 --> 00:58:36.039
I'm telling you they have the broadest
selection of insecticide, pesticide herbicides and fertilizers,

814
00:58:36.079 --> 00:58:38.519
and they even have a great selection
of tools. Anybody in the whole

815
00:58:38.559 --> 00:58:43.280
county when you go by there,
tell Bob you need to see the kneeling

816
00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:45.840
bench. And I'm telling you,
if you have anyone in your life the

817
00:58:45.920 --> 00:58:51.079
gardens that's somewhere north of the age
forty or even south of forty, they

818
00:58:51.119 --> 00:58:52.840
need a kneeling bench and you need
to check out the ones Bob has there.

819
00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:55.480
They're excellent. I have have the
exact same model at my house.

820
00:58:55.480 --> 00:59:00.000
It's a folding knealing bench. You
can go to Southwest Fertilizer to find out

821
00:59:00.039 --> 00:59:05.719
more information and when you go in
take your plant samples, they'll help identify

822
00:59:05.760 --> 00:59:08.079
it and send you in the right
direction with a product that's going to work.

823
00:59:08.440 --> 00:59:10.960
Well. It's time to take a
break. Our phone number seven one

824
00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:15.280
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four. We're going to turn it over

825
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:20.840
to Nikki for the news. Good
morning on a beautiful Sunday, and welcome

826
00:59:20.880 --> 00:59:23.239
back to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we're here to

827
00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:27.440
talk gardening, hopefully to give you
some good advice. And I'll tell you

828
00:59:27.519 --> 00:59:30.760
one piece of good advice if you
live down south of Houston, you always

829
00:59:30.800 --> 00:59:35.280
start with the soil, right,
bronz stuff before green stuff. Well,

830
00:59:35.440 --> 00:59:39.119
Cienamultch can get you set up there
down there on FM five twenty one just

831
00:59:39.159 --> 00:59:43.719
north of Roa Sharon FM five twenty
one. You can go to the website

832
00:59:43.760 --> 00:59:46.840
Cienamolts dot com find out more about
it. But all the folks throughout that

833
00:59:46.920 --> 00:59:52.559
whole region we're talking about Sienna Plantation, Riverstone, Manvil, Meridian, Pomona

834
00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:57.679
Lake, Olympia, Pearland. You
get the idea that whole area is served

835
00:59:57.800 --> 01:00:02.039
by a wonderful multi supplier and full
soil and compost and rock supplier, and

836
01:00:02.079 --> 01:00:07.280
that's Cienamalts. They carry all the
fertilizers that I talk about on guarden line.

837
01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:09.400
Just when you're in there to take
care of the brown stuff, buy

838
01:00:09.440 --> 01:00:14.960
the compost, get some soil mixed, grab the fertilizer. You are ready

839
01:00:15.000 --> 01:00:19.280
to go. You've set the foundation
for a successful garden because they have quality

840
01:00:19.280 --> 01:00:22.000
products in bulk and also by the
back. If you'd like to do that

841
01:00:22.119 --> 01:00:25.440
now, if you need it and
delivered, they can do that within about

842
01:00:25.480 --> 01:00:30.000
twenty miles of their location down there. Just talk to them about that how

843
01:00:30.039 --> 01:00:32.480
that's done. But cienamals, yeah, you can't go wrong with that.

844
01:00:32.599 --> 01:00:37.360
And I'm telling you something. By
preparing the soil with the kind of quality

845
01:00:37.360 --> 01:00:40.000
products they carry, it just makes
you. It makes you look like you

846
01:00:40.079 --> 01:00:45.119
have the greenest thumb on the planet. Because remember, it's just knowing how

847
01:00:45.159 --> 01:00:51.320
to prepare the site that makes seventy
five percent of the success to having a

848
01:00:51.360 --> 01:00:54.360
good success with your plant. We
are going to go now to the phones

849
01:00:54.440 --> 01:01:00.559
to bel Air and talk to Joe. Hello, Joe, Helloa to morning

850
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:07.679
morning. I am planting some evergreens
and I want to know should I fertilize

851
01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:12.039
them now? And if so,
with what or do I wait? Okay,

852
01:01:12.159 --> 01:01:15.559
Joe, I need you to turn
that radio in the background down so

853
01:01:15.599 --> 01:01:20.519
we can talk clear here. Evergreens
can be fertilized at various times of the

854
01:01:20.559 --> 01:01:24.440
year. If you were looking at
a plant that obviously needed some nutrient and

855
01:01:24.480 --> 01:01:29.760
boost, now you could go ahead
and do that. Otherwise I'd probably wait

856
01:01:29.880 --> 01:01:32.119
and as we get into the early
spring, go ahead and do the application.

857
01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:36.000
Then you can do it again,
you know, one or two or

858
01:01:36.039 --> 01:01:42.840
three times going through the year.
But sometimes right now the burying hollies can

859
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:45.440
tend to get a little bit of
an iron chlorosis, and they would be

860
01:01:46.119 --> 01:01:51.639
they would be helped by an application
of like a keylated iron or something right

861
01:01:51.679 --> 01:01:53.760
now. But in general, yeah, it's not like you got to get

862
01:01:53.760 --> 01:01:59.320
it down right now. Think they're
in the pine family and they're being replanted,

863
01:01:59.400 --> 01:02:05.960
being dug up and replant it.
Oh okay, Well, hopefully they're

864
01:02:05.960 --> 01:02:10.400
small plants. And I don't know
exactly which species six sceptven feet. I

865
01:02:10.440 --> 01:02:14.440
don't know to speakers either, Yeah, no, I wouldn't fertilize that.

866
01:02:14.440 --> 01:02:16.559
Their problem is going to be they're
going to have a lot of roots cut

867
01:02:16.599 --> 01:02:21.159
off. The vast majority of the
roots will be lost. You'll have the

868
01:02:21.159 --> 01:02:22.800
big old roots, but not the
little feeder roots that do the work.

869
01:02:23.639 --> 01:02:27.840
And so I would just get them
moved without letting those roots are dry.

870
01:02:27.920 --> 01:02:30.360
I would get them watered in very
very well. I would use, you

871
01:02:30.360 --> 01:02:35.719
know, a product like the Medina
product that we talk about all the time

872
01:02:35.760 --> 01:02:40.119
when it comes to transplanting your plants. Medina has some hash to grow products

873
01:02:40.159 --> 01:02:45.840
that do excellent for that. And
just make sure that that you water those

874
01:02:45.079 --> 01:02:51.519
roots in really well, settle soil
around them, hold off on a granular

875
01:02:51.599 --> 01:02:55.360
fertilizer application, unless you're going to
use an organic product. You know,

876
01:02:55.519 --> 01:03:00.199
the microlife has a couple of good
organics. It can be mixed into the

877
01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:05.840
soil. But it's not that the
plant needs nutrients right now. It's that

878
01:03:05.840 --> 01:03:08.639
it needs to settle in and start
to grow roots and then it can benefit

879
01:03:08.679 --> 01:03:14.400
from the nutrients. Sounds good,
all right, Joe, Thank you very

880
01:03:14.480 --> 01:03:17.519
much, Yes, sir, good
luck with that. Do you wish you

881
01:03:17.559 --> 01:03:21.840
well? Hey, have you been
out to in Channed Forest lately? And

882
01:03:21.840 --> 01:03:24.440
that's in Richmond. If you're in
Richmond, you're heading up toward sugar Land

883
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:30.039
Way on fifty nine. Enchanted Forest
is off to the right. That's kind

884
01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:34.119
of the general location of where they
are. They have. Of course,

885
01:03:34.159 --> 01:03:37.159
the first group of Christmas trees came
in out there. I think they have

886
01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:39.360
some frasier first. They got some
other stuff coming in as well. Of

887
01:03:39.360 --> 01:03:45.119
course they got all the cool seasoned
color that you need. But Enchanted Forest

888
01:03:45.880 --> 01:03:50.639
is I guess. I enjoy going
just because I love the location, the

889
01:03:50.679 --> 01:03:53.480
whole setting, the whole scene is
just cool. But when it comes to

890
01:03:53.559 --> 01:03:58.119
plants, they've got it all.
They're going to beginning by the way,

891
01:03:58.239 --> 01:04:03.480
Noble fur Grand Nordman and silvertip firs
all coming in over the weekend, and

892
01:04:03.559 --> 01:04:08.039
so they'll be ready to go with
those points sets are going to be arriving.

893
01:04:08.920 --> 01:04:12.880
Everything else that you would need.
Is there their selection of winter vegetables

894
01:04:12.920 --> 01:04:18.039
and herbs for planting now? Is
it's excellence outstanding. They're on FM twenty

895
01:04:18.159 --> 01:04:23.360
seven fifty nine if you want to
go looking for them. But I just

896
01:04:23.559 --> 01:04:29.239
you know, what I generally recommend
that people would just do is just go

897
01:04:29.280 --> 01:04:33.920
ahead and go to the website enchanted
Forest Richmond dot com or Richmond, TX

898
01:04:33.960 --> 01:04:41.159
dot com enchanted Forest Richmond, TX
dot com. You're going to find a

899
01:04:41.480 --> 01:04:45.719
really really good wealth of information at
that website. It's a new one they

900
01:04:45.800 --> 01:04:47.800
put together, and boy did they
ever do an excellent job of it.

901
01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:54.000
Let's see we are we are looking
here? I mean, go ahead.

902
01:04:54.039 --> 01:04:58.639
I want to make a couple of
comments about fall vegetables right now. Some

903
01:04:58.679 --> 01:05:01.800
things you might want to to mention
or you might want to be thinking about.

904
01:05:03.159 --> 01:05:06.719
This is a time for all those
cool season crops, like the coal

905
01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:13.360
crops, that's the blue leaf vegetables
also called cruciferous crops. I can't even

906
01:05:13.360 --> 01:05:15.159
say the word cruciferous crops. By
the way, do you know why they

907
01:05:15.199 --> 01:05:19.199
call coke? Fun fact? Do
you know why they call coal crops cruciferous

908
01:05:19.280 --> 01:05:24.719
crops? Cruciferus is a cross like
shape. And if you look at the

909
01:05:24.719 --> 01:05:29.880
blooms on broccoli, on kale,
you know, cauliflower, cabbage, the

910
01:05:30.159 --> 01:05:34.360
actual flower itself on those is the
blooms is in a low cross shape,

911
01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:39.519
little tiny four petals in a cross
shape. That's a fun fact. Now

912
01:05:39.559 --> 01:05:42.199
you can share that with all your
friends that will be happy to know how

913
01:05:42.280 --> 01:05:45.960
much you know about things that or
whatever. Well, now's the time to

914
01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:51.000
plant them. Now's the time to
plant your cool season leafy greens like spinach

915
01:05:51.320 --> 01:05:57.400
and lettuce and a arugula and a
ygene plant a charge still, just be

916
01:05:57.440 --> 01:06:00.880
ready to cover it up when it
gets real cold. A lot of good

917
01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:03.679
sirels and other good green to go
in at that time. So just some

918
01:06:03.719 --> 01:06:09.119
things to think about for the vegetable
garden. If you've never vegetable garden before,

919
01:06:09.840 --> 01:06:13.440
let me ask you this. At
least get a container about five gallons

920
01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:15.599
in size, could be larger,
and try some things. You can plant

921
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:18.519
carrots now too, by the way, that would be fun, especially if

922
01:06:18.559 --> 01:06:23.920
you got kids. Just follow the
instructions and it's not that difficult to do.

923
01:06:24.920 --> 01:06:28.000
If you haven't fertilized your lawn,
now's the time to get that done.

924
01:06:28.039 --> 01:06:31.800
And Nitrofossis Texas three step is really
set up for the three things that

925
01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:35.239
happen in the fall and our lawns. What is that Well, number one,

926
01:06:35.320 --> 01:06:41.679
we fertilize with a fertilizer designed for
fall, and nitrofoss falls special winter

927
01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:48.679
riser is just that it absolutely has
the exact ratios of nutrients designed for our

928
01:06:48.760 --> 01:06:54.639
soils in the fall season to help
your lawn go into fall stronger and therefore

929
01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:58.599
come out of fall stronger. The
nitro fross barricades a second step that's a

930
01:06:58.599 --> 01:07:02.719
pre emergent its weed seeds from germinating. Now, when you put those two

931
01:07:02.800 --> 01:07:09.400
down, then go ahead and follow
those two different applications with half inch of

932
01:07:09.519 --> 01:07:13.400
water irrigation that moves the fertilizer down
where the roots can get it, and

933
01:07:13.440 --> 01:07:16.960
it moves the barricade down where it
forms the barricade over the soil surface.

934
01:07:17.239 --> 01:07:21.280
And then finally eagle tar fungicide.
Well, that's a systemic funge aside to

935
01:07:21.400 --> 01:07:27.199
sprown your lawn or apply to your
lawn, and it deals with issues that

936
01:07:27.239 --> 01:07:30.239
are going to show up like brown
patch for example, especially if you've been

937
01:07:30.239 --> 01:07:34.360
plagued with the year after year and
the take off root ruts. Another example

938
01:07:34.400 --> 01:07:38.920
of what the eagle toar fungicide can
do. You're gonna find nitroposs products at

939
01:07:38.960 --> 01:07:42.719
KDE Hardware up at RCW where I
was yesterday, and even out at the

940
01:07:42.800 --> 01:07:45.920
arbor Gate in Tomball. Well,
let's take a break our number seven one

941
01:07:46.039 --> 01:07:53.760
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four and we'll be right back. Welcome

942
01:07:53.800 --> 01:07:57.280
back to Garden Line. We're glad
you're listening. Our phone number if you'd

943
01:07:57.280 --> 01:08:00.679
like to give us a call is
seven to one three two one two fifty

944
01:08:00.719 --> 01:08:05.079
eight seventy four. You know,
a while back I had Scott from Starhope

945
01:08:05.159 --> 01:08:09.519
here on the show and we just
had a really nice interview and learned a

946
01:08:09.559 --> 01:08:12.719
lot about all the things Star Hope
does. Do you know that with your

947
01:08:12.719 --> 01:08:17.680
support, hundreds and hundreds of Houstons
homeless people will be calling Star home for

948
01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:23.279
Thanksgiving. In addition to their long
term recovery programs, as Star of Hope

949
01:08:23.279 --> 01:08:26.439
offers, they and first of all, they help you with employment. They

950
01:08:26.439 --> 01:08:30.760
help you with education with life skills. They serve more than five thousand meals

951
01:08:30.760 --> 01:08:34.319
a week to their residents. You
can provide a person with the Thanksgiving meal

952
01:08:34.399 --> 01:08:40.159
for two dollars and eighty cents.
That is minimal, So what a great

953
01:08:40.199 --> 01:08:45.760
way to provide us and to celebrate
the season of Thanksgiving. We're certainly thankful

954
01:08:45.800 --> 01:08:48.520
for all the things that we enjoy, and two dollars and eighty cents for

955
01:08:48.560 --> 01:08:53.279
a meal is not much. How
many meals will you provide if you want?

956
01:08:54.119 --> 01:08:56.840
If you'd like to donate, want
you just go to the website and

957
01:08:56.920 --> 01:09:01.800
check it out. It's sohmission dot
org s o h mission dot. Are

958
01:09:01.920 --> 01:09:05.199
you know. One of the things
that I really like about Star of Hope

959
01:09:05.279 --> 01:09:09.600
is it's great to bring people in
to give them a place to stay.

960
01:09:09.600 --> 01:09:13.399
It's great to give people food,
but to go beyond and to commit to

961
01:09:13.439 --> 01:09:18.920
those folks and to walk them through
the changes that go from homelessness to an

962
01:09:19.079 --> 01:09:24.359
established citizen of the community with a
job, a place to live, transportation.

963
01:09:24.840 --> 01:09:29.399
That is a huge jump. And
Star of Hope makes it so easy

964
01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:32.800
for people to come in if they
will commit and be part of the program

965
01:09:32.920 --> 01:09:36.640
to change their lives and the lives
of their children as well. We're going

966
01:09:36.720 --> 01:09:40.119
to go to Branham now and we're
going to talk to Mark. Hello,

967
01:09:40.239 --> 01:09:45.680
Mark, good morning morning. Quick
quick question for you. Kind of new

968
01:09:45.720 --> 01:09:53.560
to the area from South Texas and
have some acreage in between Burnham and Avinesota

969
01:09:53.640 --> 01:09:59.760
where there were some the little roses, knockout roses planted that have long since

970
01:09:59.800 --> 01:10:03.319
been gone. But wanting to put
some primrose jasmine in its kind of a

971
01:10:03.760 --> 01:10:09.199
just a shrub and privacy and curious
how it does up here and where I

972
01:10:09.279 --> 01:10:12.520
might be able to buy it in
three to five gallon containers. Yeah,

973
01:10:12.600 --> 01:10:15.720
you'd have to call around on the
where. You know, we talk about

974
01:10:15.720 --> 01:10:18.560
our garden centers and stuff. I
know you've got some garden center out there

975
01:10:18.680 --> 01:10:25.039
and Brenham. You might check there
as you come in into town from out

976
01:10:25.039 --> 01:10:28.720
in the Brenham area. You're going
to be coming in two ninety, so

977
01:10:29.439 --> 01:10:34.479
you're going to come through into I
think the best gardening city in the country

978
01:10:34.479 --> 01:10:38.560
in that Houston. But we have
a lot of garden centers out north and

979
01:10:38.960 --> 01:10:42.840
to the west, like our Brigade
Plants forll Seasons is certainly out that way,

980
01:10:43.560 --> 01:10:45.319
and you ought to be able to
find it. It does okay.

981
01:10:45.359 --> 01:10:50.760
Here it is. It's a pretty
tolerant plant of some rough conditions. You

982
01:10:50.760 --> 01:10:53.640
know, it gets a little dry, it's okay. It gets a little

983
01:10:53.640 --> 01:10:58.399
hot, it's okay. Uh.
And sometimes the bloom we get on them

984
01:10:58.520 --> 01:11:01.239
is not what I would like to
see. It's it's kind of a spotty

985
01:11:01.399 --> 01:11:06.920
yellow flowering going on. But in
the right conditions they can really load up

986
01:11:06.960 --> 01:11:13.039
and be quite beautiful. Yeah,
And what I'm like, what I liked

987
01:11:13.039 --> 01:11:15.880
about the plant was the clumping aspect
of it. Yeah, and the greenery

988
01:11:15.960 --> 01:11:19.359
really more so than the flowering.
Yes, down I live down near the

989
01:11:19.359 --> 01:11:25.279
George West area and some highly it
got very dry quite all this, but

990
01:11:25.319 --> 01:11:28.319
the plant did fantastic, So that's
what I like about it. Yeah,

991
01:11:28.359 --> 01:11:30.920
well I'm sure, yeah, Jearge
West and three Rivers and all down in

992
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:34.000
that area that that can get a
little on the dry side. But yeah,

993
01:11:34.000 --> 01:11:39.760
it's good. It's everybringer. It's
hardy enough for here and so we

994
01:11:40.199 --> 01:11:43.319
you know, we generally do pretty
good. It's especially good when you put

995
01:11:43.319 --> 01:11:46.319
it over, like if you have
a wall, that's where you need something

996
01:11:46.319 --> 01:11:49.479
to spill over the wall, or
maybe a slope that you know, those

997
01:11:49.560 --> 01:11:55.399
long arching canes of primrose jasmine are
really good for sort of covering and hiding

998
01:11:55.479 --> 01:12:00.279
and spilling over too. Yeah,
and I have exactly that. I have

999
01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:06.079
a fence on the property line that
is kind of sloped down toward the home,

1000
01:12:06.319 --> 01:12:11.079
and so I am looking for something
that will utilize that fence as some

1001
01:12:11.119 --> 01:12:14.399
structure as well, as I said, fill out and give me some additional

1002
01:12:14.399 --> 01:12:17.680
privacy. So good, that's great, and I enjoy your show, and

1003
01:12:17.840 --> 01:12:20.680
thank you very much for the information. All right, thanks for listening.

1004
01:12:20.840 --> 01:12:26.239
Welcome up to the area. Glad
to have you. I keep talking about

1005
01:12:26.239 --> 01:12:29.520
soil and the importance of soil,
and you know, there are so many

1006
01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:34.600
ways that organic matter enhances our plants. Organic matter. When we say organic

1007
01:12:34.600 --> 01:12:39.479
matter, we mean it was once
alive, now it's dead. And so

1008
01:12:39.520 --> 01:12:43.560
we're talking about compost we're talking about
mulchz, you know, but especially talking

1009
01:12:43.560 --> 01:12:48.920
about composted organic matter is just so
enriches. It releases the nutrients from the

1010
01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:54.960
plants that were composted back into the
soil. It spurs microbial activity. And

1011
01:12:55.039 --> 01:12:59.359
when you got good microbial activity,
roots are well taken care of. That's

1012
01:12:59.399 --> 01:13:04.920
important. And nature's way resources has
been leading when it comes to providing new

1013
01:13:05.239 --> 01:13:11.960
innovative quality blends and mixes for the
lawns and the landscapes here in the Greater

1014
01:13:12.039 --> 01:13:16.359
Houston area. Now they're up there
toward Conroe on Interstate forty five, right

1015
01:13:16.399 --> 01:13:19.960
where fourteen eighty eight comes in.
You just turn right if you're going north,

1016
01:13:20.039 --> 01:13:24.359
go across the railroad tracks. You're
right there. You can buy bulk.

1017
01:13:24.560 --> 01:13:29.319
You can buy them by the bag. They provide everything that you would

1018
01:13:29.399 --> 01:13:30.840
need in the way of a blend. For example. Do you just need

1019
01:13:30.880 --> 01:13:33.239
a good straight run compost, They
have that. Do you want a leaf

1020
01:13:33.279 --> 01:13:39.359
mole compost. Do you want a
shredded hardwood moltz for example? Do you

1021
01:13:39.399 --> 01:13:42.520
want a special blend like a rose
soil, Well, they have it.

1022
01:13:42.560 --> 01:13:45.319
I mean they actually were the first
to have it, and they're first in

1023
01:13:45.399 --> 01:13:50.039
a lot of things. John Ferguson
is. He's just an expert when it

1024
01:13:50.079 --> 01:13:55.960
comes to understanding how to create a
soil environment where plants thrive, and his

1025
01:13:56.079 --> 01:13:58.960
products do just that. They take
the time to do it right. While

1026
01:13:59.000 --> 01:14:00.119
you're out there, go see the
nursery too. By the way, they

1027
01:14:00.159 --> 01:14:04.520
got a wonderful nursery, lots of
native plants in it as well. Now

1028
01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:10.479
The phone number is nine three six
three two one sixty nine ninety nine three

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01:14:10.600 --> 01:14:15.479
six three two one sixty nine ninety
Give John or In a call and let

1030
01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:19.119
them help you create a plan for
building that bed. The brown stuff before

1031
01:14:19.159 --> 01:14:25.720
the green stuff, that just makes
your gardens thrive, be beautiful and bountiful.

1032
01:14:27.199 --> 01:14:30.199
Well, we're coming close here to
the end of another hour on Garden

1033
01:14:30.239 --> 01:14:33.840
Line. I had a number of
things I wanted to cover today and the

1034
01:14:33.920 --> 01:14:38.800
time just goes flying by. Hey, I just want to mention for those

1035
01:14:38.840 --> 01:14:42.920
of you who are interested the Organic
Horticulture Benefits Alliance. We call that OBA.

1036
01:14:43.520 --> 01:14:46.279
The OBA folks are putting on the
lone Star You'll Ball fundraiser. Now,

1037
01:14:46.359 --> 01:14:51.039
this is an evening with Sheik Russell, a legendary Texas singer songwriter.

1038
01:14:51.159 --> 01:14:56.520
Many of you know Shak Russell show
up in your Western attirety. You need

1039
01:14:56.560 --> 01:15:00.560
to buy tickets ahead of time.
You go to OBA online dot org slash

1040
01:15:00.720 --> 01:15:06.720
register, OHBA online dot org slash
register. It's going to be at the

1041
01:15:06.720 --> 01:15:13.000
ball room at Tanglewood on Thursday,
December seventh, from five thirty to nine

1042
01:15:13.119 --> 01:15:16.000
thirty pm. And they are going
to have everything from a delicious dinner they're

1043
01:15:16.039 --> 01:15:19.159
going to have a silent auction for
a good cause. By the way,

1044
01:15:19.520 --> 01:15:24.800
they'll be announcing the silent auction winners. They're going to have cocktails and magician

1045
01:15:24.960 --> 01:15:28.960
and fortune telling and also the VC
Strings will be there to perform as well.

1046
01:15:29.119 --> 01:15:32.079
And then finally it winds up with
the Sheik Russell performance at the OBA

1047
01:15:32.439 --> 01:15:38.840
yule Ball. The yule Ball fundraiser, good cause and a fun event.

1048
01:15:39.359 --> 01:15:43.159
OBA always puts on fun events.
Well, you're listening to garden Line and

1049
01:15:43.199 --> 01:15:45.920
here we are running out of time
in our last hour. I want to

1050
01:15:45.960 --> 01:15:50.239
remind you that if you haven't been
to my website, it's Gardening with Skip

1051
01:15:50.359 --> 01:15:55.600
dot Com, you need to go
there. That's where I put everything that

1052
01:15:55.680 --> 01:15:59.600
I put together that's timely. For
example, I just put up comments on

1053
01:15:59.640 --> 01:16:04.439
the new USDA Heartiness Zone map.
Also up there you'll find my lawn care

1054
01:16:04.439 --> 01:16:10.399
schedule for fertilizing and my laun care
schedule for dealing with insects, diseases and

1055
01:16:10.479 --> 01:16:15.359
weeds in your lawn. Lots of
products both organic and synthetic options. It

1056
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:19.680
tells you month by month January to
December what you need to do. Also

1057
01:16:19.840 --> 01:16:24.640
on that website is a publication I
stuck up there that I co authored with

1058
01:16:24.760 --> 01:16:30.119
an A and M horticulture specialist on
protecting your plants when it comes to frosts

1059
01:16:30.520 --> 01:16:35.880
and freezes, and it is nine
pages of color pictures and beautiful diagrams just

1060
01:16:35.920 --> 01:16:41.399
to make it really clear exactly what
you're doing. It addresses things like do

1061
01:16:41.520 --> 01:16:44.920
I water before freeze? Should I
spray so ice kits on the plant?

1062
01:16:45.279 --> 01:16:47.520
How do I cover them up?
What about putting heat underneath the cover and

1063
01:16:47.680 --> 01:16:51.119
on and on down the lines.
Very effective. So anyway, that's the

1064
01:16:51.199 --> 01:16:54.720
kind of stuff I keep putting on
the website. I'm going to keep adding

1065
01:16:54.760 --> 01:16:58.720
to it little by little. We've
got a big renovation coming up when we

1066
01:16:58.760 --> 01:17:01.000
get into the new year. I'm
going to add a lot of things to

1067
01:17:01.039 --> 01:17:05.039
it at that point in time.
But just keep checking back and you'll find

1068
01:17:05.279 --> 01:17:10.600
a lot of information that I think
will be very very helpful to you.

1069
01:17:10.680 --> 01:17:13.239
There. Well, we're going to
take a break here. Our phone number

1070
01:17:13.279 --> 01:17:16.720
is seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Give Josh a

1071
01:17:16.800 --> 01:17:19.600
call, get on the boards and
we'll talk to you when we come back.

1072
01:17:26.479 --> 01:17:29.560
Katie R. H. Garden Line
does not necessarily endorse any of the

1073
01:17:29.560 --> 01:17:33.920
products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Katie r. H.

1074
01:17:34.079 --> 01:17:45.520
Garden Line with scip Rictor. It's
crazy, yes, Trim, just watch

1075
01:17:45.600 --> 01:17:58.479
him as we got day. Well, good morning, and welcome back to

1076
01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:02.319
Garden Line. It is a beautiful
sunday. We are shaping up to enjoy

1077
01:18:02.399 --> 01:18:08.000
today. I'm going to be outside
later today, walking around my place doing

1078
01:18:08.079 --> 01:18:11.000
kind of an assessment of Hey,
what do I need to get done here?

1079
01:18:11.279 --> 01:18:15.119
I find myself run around telling other
people I have a garden. May

1080
01:18:15.399 --> 01:18:18.880
make time to go home and enjoy
mine that. It is such a I

1081
01:18:18.920 --> 01:18:23.720
don't know. Gardening is its therapy. I'm telling you. You just get

1082
01:18:23.760 --> 01:18:27.880
out. You enjoy creating beauty.
You enjoy the fact that every day is

1083
01:18:27.880 --> 01:18:30.399
a new day. Every season is
a new season, every year is a

1084
01:18:30.399 --> 01:18:34.880
new year. I mean literally,
it really is the fact that it's not

1085
01:18:35.000 --> 01:18:40.560
a rut. Everything changes and I
just think that makes it good and we

1086
01:18:40.680 --> 01:18:44.079
just kind of go with the flow. Hey, that's called nature. Nature

1087
01:18:44.159 --> 01:18:48.159
is constantly changing on us. If
you want to plant a tree or a

1088
01:18:48.199 --> 01:18:51.640
shrub this year, you know,
falls the best time to do it.

1089
01:18:53.039 --> 01:18:56.319
Winter is a great time too.
But we're in the big middle of an

1090
01:18:56.479 --> 01:19:01.960
excellent excellent time and Verdant Tree Farm
has got a selection that is just outstanding

1091
01:19:02.119 --> 01:19:06.720
of the particular species that do best
here. That is one thing that's very

1092
01:19:06.760 --> 01:19:11.520
important, picking a species that'll do
best here. You know, whether you're

1093
01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:15.880
looking at a palm tree, or
whether you're looking at a standard type of

1094
01:19:15.960 --> 01:19:17.640
tree, you know, one of
the many shade trees and blooming trees we

1095
01:19:17.720 --> 01:19:21.359
put around the landscape, or even
a very large you know, holly for

1096
01:19:21.399 --> 01:19:26.439
example. They can provide all of
that and it's turnkey. You pick your

1097
01:19:26.479 --> 01:19:29.479
tree, they tag it, they
bring it to your house, they plant

1098
01:19:29.479 --> 01:19:31.640
it, and they do it right. And that's very important. Planting a

1099
01:19:31.720 --> 01:19:36.560
tree incorrectly, Oh it's a disaster. Don't do it. Make sure somebody

1100
01:19:36.680 --> 01:19:40.720
knows what they're doing. Course,
Verdant knows how to do that. They

1101
01:19:40.760 --> 01:19:44.239
have the right palm, the right
tree for any budget that you have.

1102
01:19:44.960 --> 01:19:48.319
They even offer a ten percent discount
for military and first responders. There's several

1103
01:19:48.319 --> 01:19:51.720
locations. You can go out to
barker Cypress on the West Side and they

1104
01:19:51.800 --> 01:19:56.079
got a farm there. If you
go to paar Land on Broadway Street,

1105
01:19:56.239 --> 01:19:59.439
you can get Verdant Tree trees there
as well as well as up in the

1106
01:19:59.479 --> 01:20:04.560
heights where Yale comes into interstate ten
Verdant v E R D A N T.

1107
01:20:04.560 --> 01:20:10.640
Treefarm dot com Verdant Treefarm dot com. Don't delay. I mean again,

1108
01:20:10.880 --> 01:20:15.079
this is primetime, So go ahead
and make those moves now so that

1109
01:20:15.119 --> 01:20:18.159
when next summer comes, your trees
are already going to have a head start

1110
01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:23.800
in getting some roots established so that
they can do well. You're listening to

1111
01:20:23.840 --> 01:20:30.640
Guardline and our phone number is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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01:20:30.640 --> 01:20:34.399
four. Seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. You know,

1113
01:20:34.439 --> 01:20:40.800
I just thinking about planting trees.
I should also mention that if you

1114
01:20:40.840 --> 01:20:45.199
want the one tool that will help
you have success with your trees through the

1115
01:20:45.239 --> 01:20:47.560
summers to come, that is the
tree hugger sprinkler. And I always say

1116
01:20:47.600 --> 01:20:50.800
when you buy a tree or a
shrike, says tree hugger sprinkler, but

1117
01:20:50.840 --> 01:20:56.159
it could be called shrub hugger sprinkler, rose hugger sprinkler. I mean it

1118
01:20:57.119 --> 01:20:59.600
can water a small area or you
can turn it on and what are a

1119
01:20:59.680 --> 01:21:01.800
larger So as your tree grows,
when we get to next summer, it

1120
01:21:01.880 --> 01:21:05.600
will be hot and dry. It's
just what happens in the summer here and

1121
01:21:05.840 --> 01:21:10.239
when we get there. You can
put a tree hugger around a tree,

1122
01:21:10.319 --> 01:21:15.760
and when you turn the hose on, you water the primary most concentrated areas

1123
01:21:15.840 --> 01:21:19.680
of that tree's root zone and you
give them a good rescue treatment. You

1124
01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:24.479
don't have to turn on your whole
landscape irrigation system. You can go to

1125
01:21:24.520 --> 01:21:27.720
tree huggersprinkler dot com if you want
more information, but I can tell you

1126
01:21:28.039 --> 01:21:31.640
they carry them in a lot of
places here around the Greater Houston area.

1127
01:21:34.079 --> 01:21:43.479
Discussing general gardening types of things,
when we're planting perennials, that getting that

1128
01:21:43.640 --> 01:21:46.439
done in the fall gives you a
head start in a number of ways.

1129
01:21:46.520 --> 01:21:50.159
Well, of course, they're making
a root system, so when next summer

1130
01:21:50.199 --> 01:21:54.840
comes, the plants have a much
better root system and they're more ready to

1131
01:21:54.920 --> 01:22:00.720
go to be resilient and deal with
what nature throws at us. Another thing

1132
01:22:00.760 --> 01:22:06.199
to think about is that plant is
actually getting the head start that it needs

1133
01:22:06.680 --> 01:22:12.640
to actually compete with the same plant
and a larger sized planet in spring.

1134
01:22:12.720 --> 01:22:15.840
For example, let's say you bought
a four inch pot of a particular little

1135
01:22:15.880 --> 01:22:19.479
perennial that you had, and then
you compared that to getting maybe a six

1136
01:22:19.520 --> 01:22:23.279
inch pot in the spring. If
you plant the four inch and now the

1137
01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:26.199
six inch in spring, by next
summer, you're gonna have trouble telling any

1138
01:22:26.239 --> 01:22:29.399
difference at all in them. And
there's a difference in cost between a four

1139
01:22:29.399 --> 01:22:31.159
inch pot and a six inch pot. The same thing could be said,

1140
01:22:31.239 --> 01:22:35.079
you know, of any size of
plant. The fall planting of our perennials

1141
01:22:35.520 --> 01:22:39.680
gives them the head start, and
so if you want to make your dollar

1142
01:22:39.720 --> 01:22:42.520
go a little bit further, that's
one way you can do it. Just

1143
01:22:42.560 --> 01:22:44.920
go ahead and get them in now, take care of them, water them

1144
01:22:44.920 --> 01:22:48.479
in with medina has to grow six
twelve six or i'd say the right number.

1145
01:22:48.479 --> 01:22:54.199
They're medina hastger, you know what
I'm talking about. But the fact

1146
01:22:54.199 --> 01:22:58.960
that you're getting them started now and
getting the roots in good shape just sets

1147
01:22:59.000 --> 01:23:01.720
you off for six excess and in
spring you're gonna have the gardening fever.

1148
01:23:01.720 --> 01:23:04.359
There's gonna be a thousand things you
want to go out and get done.

1149
01:23:04.399 --> 01:23:08.359
That's fine, But why not go
ahead and get this stuff taken care of

1150
01:23:08.439 --> 01:23:11.520
now before we enter the holiday season. I mean, do it during the

1151
01:23:11.520 --> 01:23:15.000
holidays. I don't know how some
of you are, but sometimes relatives can

1152
01:23:15.039 --> 01:23:18.960
stay a little extra long, and
it helps to have an excuse like oop,

1153
01:23:19.000 --> 01:23:23.640
I've got to get those potatoes in
the ground or something like that.

1154
01:23:24.800 --> 01:23:29.079
Just an excuse to get outside for
a minute and hear the same stories.

1155
01:23:29.680 --> 01:23:33.279
Anyway, why not get it done
ahead of time or enjoy your time with

1156
01:23:33.399 --> 01:23:38.720
family during the holidays. So if
you're looking for gifts for people, by

1157
01:23:38.720 --> 01:23:42.119
the way, their plants are great
gifts. I mean they really are.

1158
01:23:42.359 --> 01:23:47.359
Think about Buchanan's plants and the Heights
for example. They have beautiful plants.

1159
01:23:47.399 --> 01:23:51.840
I mean, what about imagine going
to somebody's house for dinner or for some

1160
01:23:51.920 --> 01:23:59.479
gathering maybe Thanksgiving, and taking a
beautiful Christmas cactus or Thanksgiving cactus it's just

1161
01:23:59.520 --> 01:24:02.159
in bloom, or maybe a caliit. They have those at Buchanans plants to

1162
01:24:02.279 --> 01:24:06.600
They're just gorgeous inside the house.
Why do not do that? Pick up

1163
01:24:06.640 --> 01:24:10.079
a plant just as a gift.
But you know what, when you're there,

1164
01:24:10.399 --> 01:24:13.760
get ready at Buchanans because they've got
Noble fur and Frasier fur, and

1165
01:24:13.840 --> 01:24:16.159
Nordman for and con Koler fur.
I didn't even know what some of those

1166
01:24:16.199 --> 01:24:25.000
were before for sale. The plant
selection they have is just immense, as

1167
01:24:25.039 --> 01:24:28.279
well as the gift shops. Oh
my gosh, you got to go in

1168
01:24:28.319 --> 01:24:30.680
and check out the gift shops for
the holiday seasons. Just go to Buchanan's

1169
01:24:30.720 --> 01:24:35.039
Plants. They're on Eleventh Street than
the Heights. Buchanans Plants dot com,

1170
01:24:35.079 --> 01:24:41.399
Buchanans Plants dot com. It's as
simple as that. I enjoy anytime I

1171
01:24:41.399 --> 01:24:45.279
get to visit a good quality garden
center like Buchanans Plants. I always like

1172
01:24:45.279 --> 01:24:46.319
to visit with the staff too,
could you know. You kind of get

1173
01:24:46.359 --> 01:24:49.800
asking them questions and kind of feel
things out a little bit, and I've

1174
01:24:49.880 --> 01:24:55.920
just been so impressed with the knowledge
of the staff. Then not only are

1175
01:24:55.960 --> 01:25:00.560
they friendly and resourceful, but you
can walk in with just it's kind of

1176
01:25:00.199 --> 01:25:03.600
like, Okay, I have this
shady area, nothing wants to grow there,

1177
01:25:03.720 --> 01:25:06.319
and next thing you know, they're
giving you this pallet of plants that

1178
01:25:06.359 --> 01:25:12.079
will just thrive and make that shaded
area just light up in beauty. Well

1179
01:25:12.159 --> 01:25:14.800
that's what I'm talking about. Hey, we're gonna take a little break.

1180
01:25:14.920 --> 01:25:17.039
We will be back if you'd like
to get on the board with Josh seven

1181
01:25:17.079 --> 01:25:23.600
one three, two, one two
five eight seven four. Good morning,

1182
01:25:23.640 --> 01:25:29.520
and welcome back to garden Line on
a beautiful Sunday day. This afternoon.

1183
01:25:29.600 --> 01:25:33.319
I hope you get out and do
some plant shopping, do some yard prep,

1184
01:25:33.680 --> 01:25:38.439
do some gardening prep. This is
the season. It's a great time

1185
01:25:38.439 --> 01:25:40.720
to get out. The weather's nice. I mean, you want to be

1186
01:25:40.760 --> 01:25:45.199
outside in this kind of weather that
is that is really cool. I love

1187
01:25:45.439 --> 01:25:47.079
I love doing that. That's my
happy place when I'm out in the garden

1188
01:25:47.159 --> 01:25:51.239
messing with plants and soil and all
kinds of things. That's just that's the

1189
01:25:51.279 --> 01:25:55.760
good stuff. By the way,
when you're out in the garden taking care

1190
01:25:55.800 --> 01:25:59.760
of things, don't forget if you
haven't done your lawn fertilization. You got

1191
01:25:59.800 --> 01:26:03.439
to get that fall fertilizer application down
soon, sooner rather than never, right,

1192
01:26:04.319 --> 01:26:06.880
So don't delay get it down.
I know on the chart, I

1193
01:26:06.960 --> 01:26:11.159
give you the time on my long
care chart when I recommend you do the

1194
01:26:11.159 --> 01:26:14.159
fertilizing. If you miss that time, it's okay to do it later.

1195
01:26:14.279 --> 01:26:16.439
Just just get it done. If
you missed it, go ahead and get

1196
01:26:16.479 --> 01:26:21.359
it done. Microlife, for example, they've got the brown patch that is

1197
01:26:21.560 --> 01:26:28.319
a excellent fertilizer and excellent fertilizer for
fall application, and it does help in

1198
01:26:28.600 --> 01:26:33.119
terms of providing the microbial activity to
your soil and just helping the lawn get

1199
01:26:33.199 --> 01:26:38.239
stronger and healthier so it can fight
and prevent and deal with some of the

1200
01:26:38.239 --> 01:26:42.920
issues like brown patch that can happen
while you're doing that. I would also

1201
01:26:42.960 --> 01:26:46.359
put down a hummate's plus. The
humates is a concentrate. It has some

1202
01:26:46.640 --> 01:26:50.880
potassium in it as well as all
the benefits the humantes alone give your soil.

1203
01:26:51.319 --> 01:26:55.279
But when you do the brown patch
plus the humates, you really have

1204
01:26:55.359 --> 01:27:00.560
a good fall fertilizer mix there for
your lawn. For the organic application organic

1205
01:27:00.600 --> 01:27:05.039
products, in other words, to
make your lawn healthy and successful. You

1206
01:27:05.079 --> 01:27:09.960
can go to Microlife Fertilizer dot com. That's where you find out about all

1207
01:27:09.960 --> 01:27:14.079
of these products as well as where
you can purchase them. It's not hard

1208
01:27:14.159 --> 01:27:19.600
finding Microlife fertilizers here in the Greater
Houston area. I'm gonna go to the

1209
01:27:19.640 --> 01:27:25.359
phones here in just one second.
I wanted to mention that if you are

1210
01:27:25.479 --> 01:27:30.119
thinking, if you've been thinking about
maybe adding some houseplants into the house,

1211
01:27:30.199 --> 01:27:34.520
you know, cool season is a
wonderful time to have house plants because you

1212
01:27:34.560 --> 01:27:40.560
spend a little more time indoors than
we do when it's a little milder outside.

1213
01:27:41.199 --> 01:27:45.159
But houseplants just brighten up a space, and you want to pick plants

1214
01:27:45.199 --> 01:27:48.239
that fit the light levels of the
room that you're in. And we have

1215
01:27:48.319 --> 01:27:53.840
plants that take very low light levels, not not a dark closet, but

1216
01:27:54.560 --> 01:27:57.399
very low light levels. In fact, one of them is called closet plant.

1217
01:27:58.239 --> 01:28:01.479
Aboutophylum is a great plant for that. The I found that the mother

1218
01:28:01.560 --> 01:28:05.319
in law's tongue, the sense of
area is it does pretty well in fairly

1219
01:28:05.359 --> 01:28:10.359
low light conditions, as does a
ZZ plant. Isn't that an interesting name?

1220
01:28:10.800 --> 01:28:15.000
ZZ plant? Those are really unusual. They are tough as nails,

1221
01:28:15.039 --> 01:28:16.960
as are the sense of areas.
And so if you want to start with

1222
01:28:17.399 --> 01:28:20.880
trying new house plants, I would
do that ZZ and sense of aaria.

1223
01:28:21.600 --> 01:28:25.560
Those two. If you can't grow
them, I'm sorry, I cannot help

1224
01:28:25.600 --> 01:28:29.199
you. I'm pretty sure if you
set them out there and never looked at

1225
01:28:29.279 --> 01:28:31.199
them again, they would be Okay. They're that tough. No, they

1226
01:28:31.800 --> 01:28:36.039
can take drought. They you know, they're they're just a good tough plant.

1227
01:28:36.199 --> 01:28:40.520
And then there's gorgeous plants. One
of my favorite groups is the aglionemas,

1228
01:28:40.560 --> 01:28:44.760
the Chinese evergreens. Normally, we
used to just have aglionemas in the

1229
01:28:44.760 --> 01:28:48.239
past that were just basically silver or
green or some splotchy version of the two.

1230
01:28:48.680 --> 01:28:54.640
Now we got some beautiful colors that
are kind of a coral to reddish

1231
01:28:54.720 --> 01:28:58.720
pink all mixed in in the leaves, and that's kind of become the thing

1232
01:28:58.760 --> 01:29:01.399
that I begin to purchase and collect, and they just do so well,

1233
01:29:01.560 --> 01:29:06.279
and they'll put up with fairly low
light conditions as well. So that's another

1234
01:29:06.720 --> 01:29:11.640
good little tip in terms of decorating
for the holidays. And then of course

1235
01:29:11.680 --> 01:29:15.760
we have all the upright plants.
A Norfolk Island pine ours becomes a like

1236
01:29:15.079 --> 01:29:18.079
as if it were a Christmas tree, little stuff hanging on it, lights

1237
01:29:18.119 --> 01:29:21.439
and other things in the wintertime,
a lot of fun, a lot of

1238
01:29:21.479 --> 01:29:25.520
fun in the house. Plants.
Well, let's head out to Fairfield and

1239
01:29:25.560 --> 01:29:29.920
we're going to talk to Marty.
Hello, Marty morning, skip morning.

1240
01:29:30.279 --> 01:29:35.279
Question. I'm just about on my
last stry for a Shitchers and I wondered

1241
01:29:35.319 --> 01:29:44.479
if there wasn't a native that would
like live through our cold winters, can

1242
01:29:44.520 --> 01:29:48.560
they come? Is your goal to
have something to eat or just the fragrance

1243
01:29:48.560 --> 01:29:54.079
of the blooms. Okay, now
I've tried the Meyer lemon, I've tried

1244
01:29:54.159 --> 01:29:59.560
the Mexican line. Do you have
one avocado? And that's about it.

1245
01:29:59.640 --> 01:30:02.520
Okay, there's not a native one
to speak of here. If you want,

1246
01:30:02.760 --> 01:30:08.199
if you want the hardiest cetrus,
it's probably going to be kumquats.

1247
01:30:08.319 --> 01:30:11.520
Those are the little fruit the size
of your thumb. They can be oblong

1248
01:30:11.680 --> 01:30:15.119
or they can be round, depending
on if you get not my Wa Nagami

1249
01:30:15.239 --> 01:30:18.680
cultivars. They can take really cool
weather, and I think the ballooms are

1250
01:30:18.720 --> 01:30:25.439
just absolutely awesome. The next step
would probably be there are a couple of

1251
01:30:25.640 --> 01:30:30.000
like a chain shaw tangerine. I
wouldn't recommend it because it is so seedy

1252
01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:33.880
that that just annoys me, but
it is cold, hardy. And then

1253
01:30:33.920 --> 01:30:40.159
there're satsuma oranges, satsumas. Once
you get a satsuma to about year three

1254
01:30:40.199 --> 01:30:45.279
and it's well established, I've seen
satsumas take temperatures down into the low twenties

1255
01:30:45.560 --> 01:30:48.880
and do just fine. And it's
not They're not huge cetris trees, so

1256
01:30:48.920 --> 01:30:53.359
it's easy to cover them if you
need to. But I would try a

1257
01:30:53.359 --> 01:30:57.840
satsuma orange. It's a mandarin type
orange, very easy to peel. I

1258
01:30:57.880 --> 01:31:00.920
need to lead it in the ground. You could do either way. I've

1259
01:31:00.920 --> 01:31:02.760
seen them in containers, but it
needs to be a really large container,

1260
01:31:02.920 --> 01:31:08.239
like the equivalent volume of a half
whiskey barrel kind of thing. And then

1261
01:31:08.319 --> 01:31:11.680
you just have to make sure they
don't lack for water because they fill that

1262
01:31:11.760 --> 01:31:16.319
root system in that confined space,
can fill the soil in the confined space

1263
01:31:17.039 --> 01:31:20.840
with roots, and so in summertime, you kind of might even need to

1264
01:31:20.840 --> 01:31:25.319
move them in a little bit of
shade if they're in a container, just

1265
01:31:25.399 --> 01:31:28.600
so you can keep them watered.
But I think they're great plants. They're

1266
01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:32.840
easy. And there's one called orange
frost. There is a Miho and a

1267
01:31:32.920 --> 01:31:41.239
sito. Those are all three excellent
varieties. There's another onetor Oh yeah,

1268
01:31:41.319 --> 01:31:43.239
yeah, those places are going to
carry them. I mean I was.

1269
01:31:43.279 --> 01:31:45.399
I was at the Arbrogate the other
day and they they always have fruit trees

1270
01:31:45.399 --> 01:31:47.880
there, but I was looking at
some of their citrus out there. But

1271
01:31:47.920 --> 01:31:51.359
yeah, it's gonna be easy to
find. And you're lucky, aren't you

1272
01:31:51.479 --> 01:31:57.680
lucky to have both those places?
In driving that's cheating that is cheap.

1273
01:31:58.720 --> 01:32:03.159
All right, sorry, thank you
for the goal. If you love birds,

1274
01:32:03.239 --> 01:32:06.760
if you love being outside and enjoying
the birds, or watching the birds,

1275
01:32:06.760 --> 01:32:12.119
hearing their songs and the antics,
Wildbirds Unlimited has got you covered.

1276
01:32:12.319 --> 01:32:15.159
I mean, anything that you need
for birds, they've got it, and

1277
01:32:15.159 --> 01:32:19.079
they have the quality stuff. For
example, right now, I'd recommend you

1278
01:32:19.119 --> 01:32:26.720
do their unlimited uh, the Wildbirds
Unlimited super blend, the winter super blend

1279
01:32:27.079 --> 01:32:30.920
that has the fat and protein that
the birds need to supply them as we

1280
01:32:30.000 --> 01:32:33.960
go into this season. And you
know, they have blends for all kinds

1281
01:32:34.000 --> 01:32:38.800
of different bird groups. You know, if you want to attract finches or

1282
01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:41.359
if you want to know, whatever
you want to tract, they're going to

1283
01:32:41.359 --> 01:32:44.800
have a blend for that. And
their blends are one bird food in other

1284
01:32:44.840 --> 01:32:47.520
words, not the red bebies.
The cheap bird seed has that you're going

1285
01:32:47.600 --> 01:32:50.159
to throw so much of that away. No, actually, the birds are

1286
01:32:50.199 --> 01:32:53.840
going to throw so much of that
on the ground because they don't want to

1287
01:32:53.880 --> 01:32:56.880
eat it. They don't like it. It's hard, it's hard to eat.

1288
01:32:57.039 --> 01:33:00.239
Instead, you end up paying more
for a cheap bird bird feed because

1289
01:33:00.239 --> 01:33:04.359
you don't get as much bird food
out of it. Wabirds, isn't that

1290
01:33:04.399 --> 01:33:10.079
way now? Wabirds again the perfect
place to buy gifts. You can go

1291
01:33:10.119 --> 01:33:15.199
see somebody for Thanksgiving or Christmas gifts. Who wouldn't love a beautiful bird feeder

1292
01:33:15.239 --> 01:33:17.760
that they can enjoy outside, maybe
a hummingbird feeder, But there's a lot

1293
01:33:17.800 --> 01:33:21.079
more for people that are into birds. There's books that they have there and

1294
01:33:21.319 --> 01:33:25.720
always excellent, excellent advice. By
the way, you go to one of

1295
01:33:25.720 --> 01:33:29.079
their mini stores here in the Houston
area. You can find them just by

1296
01:33:29.119 --> 01:33:34.880
going to WBU dot com forward slash
Houston. Simple as that. I'm going

1297
01:33:34.920 --> 01:33:39.399
to head now out to Beaumont and
we're going to talk to Nancy. Hello,

1298
01:33:39.479 --> 01:33:44.640
Nancy, good morning. I have
from top. Well, I've been

1299
01:33:44.680 --> 01:33:51.279
having quite a few these large brownish
orange mushrooms growing in my front yard with

1300
01:33:51.479 --> 01:33:57.399
scallops. There's scallops looking How concerned
should I be? Not at all?

1301
01:33:57.680 --> 01:34:01.920
Not at all? Those are those
are decaying organic matter under the ground.

1302
01:34:02.239 --> 01:34:09.880
Sometimes we have mushrooms that are actually
part of the microbial system that connects to

1303
01:34:10.039 --> 01:34:15.159
roots and like truffles. You've heard
of truffles for example, Well, truffles

1304
01:34:15.199 --> 01:34:18.880
are growing on tree roots in a
symbiotic relationship with the tree roots. We

1305
01:34:18.960 --> 01:34:24.920
have mushrooms that do that here,
but most mushrooms are just decaying organic matter,

1306
01:34:24.920 --> 01:34:26.760
and you don't need to worry about
them. If you get at the

1307
01:34:26.840 --> 01:34:30.000
very base of a tree and you
have a whole cluster of little honey colored

1308
01:34:30.039 --> 01:34:33.960
mushrooms, there's potential that that could
be a root disease of that tree.

1309
01:34:34.279 --> 01:34:38.840
But in general, the way you're
describing, I wouldn't worry about it.

1310
01:34:39.039 --> 01:34:42.119
Okay, great, thank you so
much. All right, Nancy, Hey,

1311
01:34:42.159 --> 01:34:45.600
and you guys, you guys have
some a shardwears in our group out

1312
01:34:45.640 --> 01:34:48.920
in that direction and an Orange Texas
and yeah, that's good. I'm glad

1313
01:34:49.159 --> 01:34:54.199
M and D supplies the one here
in Beaumont. Well they're a good one.

1314
01:34:54.439 --> 01:34:57.840
Ye, yes, thank you very
sorry, No, go ahead,

1315
01:34:57.840 --> 01:35:00.960
that's okay, We're done, but
thanks for the call. I appreciate it

1316
01:35:00.079 --> 01:35:04.960
very much. Bye bye, bye, take care. Let's seehere are we

1317
01:35:05.039 --> 01:35:08.960
going to go here? We're going
to go to Mark in clear Lake.

1318
01:35:09.239 --> 01:35:13.760
Hello Mark, good morning, sir. Actually I live in clear Lake right

1319
01:35:13.760 --> 01:35:16.640
now. I'm in Austin, Okay. Well, enjoy Austin and used to

1320
01:35:16.720 --> 01:35:23.760
live over there. Well, it's
pretty weird here you know, so thank

1321
01:35:23.800 --> 01:35:28.119
you to emails, one of them
yesterday at six in the morning and just

1322
01:35:28.199 --> 01:35:31.239
now a little bit ago this morning. So I have two different questions.

1323
01:35:31.319 --> 01:35:34.479
I don't know if you've seen the
first one, but it looks like there

1324
01:35:34.479 --> 01:35:41.880
are some dirt piles and they don't
appear to be from ants, because nothing

1325
01:35:41.920 --> 01:35:46.399
scatters, and the dirt itself is
like large chunks. I wondered if that

1326
01:35:46.520 --> 01:35:49.359
was crawfish or whatever. You know, what is it and how can I

1327
01:35:49.399 --> 01:35:51.960
deal with that? One? Those
are I saw that that's not crawfish.

1328
01:35:51.960 --> 01:35:56.800
You have some big old night crawler
earthworms that are coming to the surface and

1329
01:35:56.840 --> 01:36:00.159
depositing their castings there in those piles. That is not, my goodness,

1330
01:36:00.560 --> 01:36:06.920
that's not what night crawling. The
big large earthworms, like a nightcrawler type

1331
01:36:06.920 --> 01:36:13.760
earthworm. They just make bigger castings
than smaller. But that's nothing to worry

1332
01:36:13.760 --> 01:36:16.039
about. In fact, it's a
good thing happening in the lawn. Now,

1333
01:36:16.079 --> 01:36:19.520
as far as the plant you sent
me, that could be a honeyvine

1334
01:36:19.560 --> 01:36:25.239
milkweed, it looks a lot like
it. I'm not a milkweed expert,

1335
01:36:25.359 --> 01:36:29.079
but if I were to look at
the pictures you sent, and I would

1336
01:36:29.079 --> 01:36:32.159
be about eighty percent. Sure,
that's a honey vine milkweed. Okay,

1337
01:36:32.560 --> 01:36:36.880
well we hope for some monarchs.
Then that's good. We'll get you some

1338
01:36:36.920 --> 01:36:41.479
other kinds of milkweed. We've got
a number of great types, and I

1339
01:36:41.600 --> 01:36:44.439
like to hedge the bat. Plus
you get blooms at different times of the

1340
01:36:44.520 --> 01:36:48.600
year depending on what kinds you're growing. Yes, okay, well super well,

1341
01:36:48.640 --> 01:36:50.760
thank you very very much, sir. All right, thank you,

1342
01:36:50.840 --> 01:36:56.640
appreciate appreciate you following up on that
email very much. Yeah. I just

1343
01:36:56.760 --> 01:37:00.520
the nature of the job here,
I'm not able to type out replies to

1344
01:37:00.560 --> 01:37:05.000
each email. I just I wouldn't
even begin to get that done. And

1345
01:37:05.039 --> 01:37:10.079
so what I ask is if you
email me, I can give you permission

1346
01:37:10.079 --> 01:37:15.479
to send in a photo and then
call the show between six and ten on

1347
01:37:15.560 --> 01:37:19.199
Saturday or Sunday and we can talk
about it like that. But that is

1348
01:37:19.279 --> 01:37:23.199
just at least that's a way that
I can help you. But just being

1349
01:37:23.199 --> 01:37:28.680
able to type out the replies,
it just can't happen. That's not Unfortunately,

1350
01:37:28.720 --> 01:37:31.760
that's not going to be able to
happen. Someone mentioned earlier me recommending

1351
01:37:31.760 --> 01:37:35.159
the has to grow the six twelve
six for watering implants. They were going

1352
01:37:35.239 --> 01:37:39.359
to water some of their plants in. And it is a good it's a

1353
01:37:39.399 --> 01:37:41.920
good way to use. It's the
way I use it, and that is

1354
01:37:41.960 --> 01:37:45.840
to mix it in water water in
your transplant right when you plant it,

1355
01:37:45.000 --> 01:37:48.000
just with a good has to grow
water. It's got seaweed extract, it's

1356
01:37:48.039 --> 01:37:53.520
got Medina soil activator, and it
has a six twelve six fertilizer in it

1357
01:37:53.600 --> 01:37:58.199
as well. Now, the thing
I do after that is do it again

1358
01:37:58.199 --> 01:38:00.000
about a week later, and then
a third time I'm a week after that,

1359
01:38:00.479 --> 01:38:04.079
and that way for a good period
of time there those plant roots are

1360
01:38:04.119 --> 01:38:08.479
getting really good stuff to help them
get established and get off the ground to

1361
01:38:08.520 --> 01:38:11.039
a good start. You can use
has to grow for other things. You

1362
01:38:11.039 --> 01:38:13.479
can use as a fold your feed
if you want to do something like that,

1363
01:38:13.479 --> 01:38:16.279
that's fine. That's just the way
that I like to use the Medina

1364
01:38:16.319 --> 01:38:23.239
has to grow six twelve six.
Well, you're listening to garden Line today

1365
01:38:23.279 --> 01:38:27.119
and we're here to answer your gardening
questions. If you would like to give

1366
01:38:27.159 --> 01:38:30.640
me a call, a call Josh
it's seven one three two one two fifty

1367
01:38:30.680 --> 01:38:33.800
eight seventy four. He will get
you on the board and then when we

1368
01:38:33.880 --> 01:38:36.520
come back, we'll visit with you. And by the way, Scott,

1369
01:38:36.600 --> 01:38:42.159
when we come back, you will
be the very first up. Well,

1370
01:38:42.239 --> 01:38:45.760
there's a blast from the past.
You're listening to Garden Line. I'm your

1371
01:38:45.800 --> 01:38:48.960
host, Skip Richter, and we
are looking forward to visiting with you about

1372
01:38:49.000 --> 01:38:55.560
gardening. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

1373
01:38:55.600 --> 01:38:59.359
four. Now you know we love
feed stores here on the Garden Line,

1374
01:38:59.439 --> 01:39:03.560
and I'll favorede feed store out in
the Mott Bellevue region is Texas feed Stop.

1375
01:39:03.600 --> 01:39:06.800
I don't care if you live in
Baytown or Mont Bellevue or anywhere out

1376
01:39:06.840 --> 01:39:12.399
that way. This is a mom
and pop place that treats you like you

1377
01:39:12.479 --> 01:39:15.239
remember the old time feed stores always
treated you. I'm talking about service,

1378
01:39:15.279 --> 01:39:18.520
you know, carrying your bags out
for you, being a part of the

1379
01:39:18.520 --> 01:39:24.720
community, supporting the community, hiring
teams from the community to help and to

1380
01:39:24.760 --> 01:39:28.880
be part of the service, and
making you feel like family. That's what

1381
01:39:28.920 --> 01:39:31.399
Texas feed Stops all about. Now
they're on Highway one forty six, just

1382
01:39:31.439 --> 01:39:36.680
a few minutes north of Itan in
Mott Bellevue, so from Baytown. I

1383
01:39:36.680 --> 01:39:41.560
mean, that's just that's your next
door feed store right there, And not

1384
01:39:41.600 --> 01:39:44.680
only do they provide the customer service, but they have all the products.

1385
01:39:44.880 --> 01:39:48.079
If I talk about a fertilizer here
on guard Line, it's at Texas feed

1386
01:39:48.159 --> 01:39:51.560
Stop. And there's the soils that
we talk about here. You're going to

1387
01:39:51.600 --> 01:39:57.359
find bags of that also there.
So when you're trying to make your yard

1388
01:39:57.560 --> 01:40:00.439
or your garden more beautiful and bountiful, they're going to have what you need

1389
01:40:00.560 --> 01:40:04.640
to exactly make that happen. At
Texas Feeds Up Brian and Hope Rhodes.

1390
01:40:04.640 --> 01:40:09.960
It's a family owned operation, and
just go by there and you'll see what

1391
01:40:10.000 --> 01:40:13.319
I mean about. They make you
feel like family. I want to go

1392
01:40:13.359 --> 01:40:18.720
out to Scott in Kingwood now,
Hello, Scott, Hello, how are

1393
01:40:18.720 --> 01:40:21.600
you this morning? What's up?
I'm doing good, Skip. I like

1394
01:40:21.680 --> 01:40:25.920
your show. I really appreciate you. Well. I'm glad I knew someone

1395
01:40:25.920 --> 01:40:28.600
out there liked it, but I
hadn't heard them yet, So now I

1396
01:40:28.640 --> 01:40:31.199
knew who that one person is.
Thank you. I'm sure there's a lot

1397
01:40:31.239 --> 01:40:34.560
more than one person. I need
two questions. I need to get some

1398
01:40:34.640 --> 01:40:41.800
thirty gallon or forty five gallon Eagle
Hollies somewhere locally. Do you have any

1399
01:40:41.880 --> 01:40:45.520
ideas where I might look toward to
get those? Yeah, yeah, you're

1400
01:40:45.560 --> 01:40:48.479
in You're in Kingwood, so you
know Kingwood Garden and Warrens. Of the

1401
01:40:48.479 --> 01:40:51.039
first two places I would I would
call and say, do you haven't can

1402
01:40:51.079 --> 01:40:55.000
you get them? Well, I've
been there, they don't have them,

1403
01:40:55.079 --> 01:40:58.479
haven't been don't? Maybe they can
get them. I never thought about that

1404
01:40:58.600 --> 01:41:00.479
they might be able to. Are
you a to go get them or do

1405
01:41:00.520 --> 01:41:04.159
you need people to deliver them?
Okay, I can either have them delivered

1406
01:41:04.239 --> 01:41:08.039
or you put them in a truck
because I'm going to get somebody to plan.

1407
01:41:08.159 --> 01:41:11.840
I need somebody that'll plant them too. Yeah, okay, well if

1408
01:41:11.840 --> 01:41:15.640
you're going to do that. Uh, this is across town. But it's

1409
01:41:15.680 --> 01:41:17.960
the two that come to mind,
because I've seen the Eagleston at both places.

1410
01:41:18.279 --> 01:41:23.880
Uh. There's the oh my gosh
RCW Nursia. I was just out

1411
01:41:23.920 --> 01:41:29.039
there yesterday and looking at the eaglestons
that they had at RCW. Uh and

1412
01:41:29.319 --> 01:41:32.920
there were two forty nine comes into
belt Way eight and then Verdant Tree Farm.

1413
01:41:33.279 --> 01:41:38.159
Probably the closest one to you would
be the one at Yale and I

1414
01:41:38.359 --> 01:41:42.439
ten downtown, but I know they
carry eaglestons as well, and both of

1415
01:41:42.439 --> 01:41:46.479
those places v e r A win
no v e r d A n T.

1416
01:41:47.039 --> 01:41:54.359
It's just my accent mispronouncing verdant.
Verdant as ingredient as in green,

1417
01:41:55.439 --> 01:41:58.920
and verdant will also deliver and plant
for you. And so you could give

1418
01:41:59.000 --> 01:42:01.920
either one of those call and I
know they have angles eaglesom's if you can't

1419
01:42:01.920 --> 01:42:08.920
find them there nearby, Okay,
it wouldn't last quick question, Yes,

1420
01:42:09.159 --> 01:42:14.079
when I put when I plant color, you know, uh, stuff like

1421
01:42:14.119 --> 01:42:16.239
that. Am I supposed to put
fertilizer in the hole or do I plant

1422
01:42:16.319 --> 01:42:20.840
them and put fertilizer on top?
In general, I say don't put fertilizer

1423
01:42:20.840 --> 01:42:26.239
in the planting hole, especially if
it's a salt based fertilizer, a synthetic

1424
01:42:26.279 --> 01:42:30.840
salt blazed fertilizer that's not slow release, because people can burn roots doing that.

1425
01:42:31.319 --> 01:42:33.600
People think, well, I got
to put this all down there because

1426
01:42:33.640 --> 01:42:38.680
these are well, let the plant
get growing some roots and then put fertilizer

1427
01:42:38.720 --> 01:42:41.079
on top and wash it in.
You can do that now. And the

1428
01:42:41.159 --> 01:42:44.520
last question, wait, let me
let me add one thing to that.

1429
01:42:44.800 --> 01:42:47.760
When you put an organic product like
a microlife for example, in the hole

1430
01:42:47.800 --> 01:42:50.680
and mix it up. It's going
to be just fine. It's not going

1431
01:42:50.760 --> 01:42:57.279
to burn roots. It's it's microbialy
decomposed to release the nutrients that are in

1432
01:42:57.319 --> 01:43:00.680
there. And so you'll what number
do you use when you put it in

1433
01:43:00.720 --> 01:43:02.960
the hole. I would just use
this sick the green bag six two four.

1434
01:43:03.119 --> 01:43:09.199
That's a good one. Your goal
on getting those those kind of plants

1435
01:43:09.239 --> 01:43:12.840
going is you want to get some
good nitrogen in there to give them a

1436
01:43:12.840 --> 01:43:16.840
boost. But you can do it
either way. I just remember the main

1437
01:43:16.880 --> 01:43:19.680
way we fertilizer is putting it on
top of the ground, watering it in.

1438
01:43:20.560 --> 01:43:27.079
Okay, cool, Hey about these
eagles and dollars? Are you Is

1439
01:43:27.079 --> 01:43:29.840
it important to put shale in the
hull. I'm hearing more and more about

1440
01:43:30.199 --> 01:43:31.800
shale in the hull when you climb
the tree. No, not in the

1441
01:43:31.840 --> 01:43:35.920
hole. If you're going to use
shale and a heavy clay soil, that's

1442
01:43:36.000 --> 01:43:39.760
good, but you need to put
it about three inches thick and mix it

1443
01:43:39.800 --> 01:43:44.319
in as deeply as you can in
a wide area. Just putting a little

1444
01:43:44.319 --> 01:43:46.960
in the hole won't accomplish anything,
but you're trying to create a lot of

1445
01:43:46.960 --> 01:43:51.159
that little porous shell rock in the
soil to open up the clay a little

1446
01:43:51.199 --> 01:43:56.680
bit longer term. Now compost will
do that short term, and so mixing

1447
01:43:56.760 --> 01:44:00.319
composts in a large area is also
good, and your hollies will like just

1448
01:44:00.359 --> 01:44:05.760
remember with your holly the first two
or three years especially watch the watering because

1449
01:44:05.880 --> 01:44:11.399
they need to not get dry,
especially with the confined root system they start

1450
01:44:11.399 --> 01:44:15.520
out with. And so that's the
key on holly's. You should have told

1451
01:44:15.560 --> 01:44:19.159
me that about a year ago,
because I've already lost to this summer because

1452
01:44:19.159 --> 01:44:21.600
I didn't water. But enough,
I don't think, well there you go

1453
01:44:21.680 --> 01:44:26.239
now, you know, But it's
just make sure your watering system works.

1454
01:44:26.239 --> 01:44:29.439
You know, Hollys have stiff leaves
and you got a sprinkle of on one

1455
01:44:29.479 --> 01:44:31.600
side the bush, and the leaves
are deflecting the water. So you have

1456
01:44:31.760 --> 01:44:36.560
dry root areas around the plant.
Just make sure I would hand water the

1457
01:44:36.600 --> 01:44:41.960
first year. You could also have
an autosystem, but occasionally I'd go in

1458
01:44:42.000 --> 01:44:45.399
there with one of those watering ones
and just make sure all around the plant

1459
01:44:45.479 --> 01:44:53.039
that was given a good soaking.
Do you do that every year? The

1460
01:44:53.079 --> 01:44:56.680
hand watering heavy the heavy watering like
that, Well, you know, I

1461
01:44:56.760 --> 01:45:00.680
got an irrigation system, but they
didn't put out enough water, died because

1462
01:45:00.720 --> 01:45:02.560
of the drought. Well, didn't
do a good job. Well, it's

1463
01:45:03.119 --> 01:45:06.000
you want to wet the soil thoroughly
and then you want it to dry out

1464
01:45:06.039 --> 01:45:11.520
just a bit and then wet the
soil thoroughly again. And so whatever watering

1465
01:45:11.560 --> 01:45:14.960
system that takes, however long you
have to run it to accomplish that,

1466
01:45:14.960 --> 01:45:17.880
that's the goal. All right,
Hey, good luck with those Eagleston Scott.

1467
01:45:18.720 --> 01:45:23.439
They're beautiful and I hope you enjoy
them. Thank you for listening to

1468
01:45:23.520 --> 01:45:26.640
garden Line. We are going to
be taking a break here in just a

1469
01:45:26.640 --> 01:45:29.359
bit. I did want to mention
those of you who haven't done your fall

1470
01:45:29.399 --> 01:45:34.119
fertilization, you ought to consider the
nitrofoss three step. The three step is

1471
01:45:34.159 --> 01:45:39.279
a fertilizer, a fungicide, and
a weed control product. So I'm gonna

1472
01:45:39.279 --> 01:45:42.640
go a little backwards here. I'm
gonna start with the fungicide. I normally

1473
01:45:42.680 --> 01:45:45.840
do it the other way around,
but nitrofoss egle fungicide is a systemic It

1474
01:45:45.920 --> 01:45:49.319
soaks into the grass tissues. You
want to get it in there ahead of

1475
01:45:49.359 --> 01:45:54.159
time. If you've had an ongoing
problem with brown patch the big circles in

1476
01:45:54.199 --> 01:45:59.880
the cool season because it will protect
the plant when that disease tries to hit

1477
01:46:00.079 --> 01:46:01.920
and create those circles. And boy, are we ever in good brown patch

1478
01:46:01.960 --> 01:46:05.800
weather right now. So if you've
got a problem traditionally whether you need to

1479
01:46:05.800 --> 01:46:09.640
take care of that. Number two
you want to make sure and put down

1480
01:46:09.680 --> 01:46:13.840
the barricade. That's a weed control
product. And number three, the Nitrofoss

1481
01:46:13.840 --> 01:46:16.760
Fall Special is the fertilizer for fall. Now, with the Fall Special in

1482
01:46:16.800 --> 01:46:20.319
the barricade, apply one, turn
right around, ply the other one and

1483
01:46:20.359 --> 01:46:24.920
then water with a half inch of
water and that'll move them into the soil

1484
01:46:25.000 --> 01:46:27.560
where they do what they're going to
do. And you're going to find Nitrofoss

1485
01:46:27.560 --> 01:46:30.239
out in Kingwood, Warren's Garden Center, Southern Gardens. You're going to find

1486
01:46:30.239 --> 01:46:34.319
it at A's Hardware and Sinkle Ranch
and the Grower's Outlet in Willis. We're

1487
01:46:34.319 --> 01:46:38.399
going to take a break. The
number seven one three, two one two

1488
01:46:38.439 --> 01:46:44.119
fifty eight seventy four will be right
back. Welcome back to garden Line on

1489
01:46:44.199 --> 01:46:47.119
a beautiful Sunday morning. We're glad
you're listening and looking forward to talking to

1490
01:46:47.159 --> 01:46:50.520
you about the things that interest you
when it comes to gardening. What kind

1491
01:46:50.560 --> 01:46:55.640
of questions do you have? Let's
help you with that, Like I enjoy

1492
01:46:55.720 --> 01:46:59.760
saying on the layer, it's no, there's no such thing as a brown

1493
01:46:59.800 --> 01:47:03.239
thought. There's only uninformed thumbs,
and we will help inform your thumb.

1494
01:47:03.560 --> 01:47:06.920
Now, some people seem to just
have a knack for growing plants. But

1495
01:47:08.279 --> 01:47:12.399
what's happening. There's not any kind
of aura of magic going on there.

1496
01:47:12.600 --> 01:47:15.479
They're just doing the things right that
need to be done. They kind of

1497
01:47:15.479 --> 01:47:18.680
have a natural sense of what to
do with the plants. And you can

1498
01:47:18.760 --> 01:47:23.880
learn, you can learn to take
care of plants. I stress and stress

1499
01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:29.560
and stress important, importance, importance, importance, soil, good soil,

1500
01:47:29.720 --> 01:47:34.560
good drainage, good nutrient content,
all the aspects of soil that just set

1501
01:47:34.560 --> 01:47:39.680
the plant up for success. That
one step right there, one step alone,

1502
01:47:40.039 --> 01:47:44.199
and you're way past halfway to success
just on that, and then picking

1503
01:47:44.239 --> 01:47:47.720
things that want to grow here,
variety species that do well here. That

1504
01:47:47.880 --> 01:47:51.119
is huge, very huge. I
mean, you could do everything else right,

1505
01:47:51.279 --> 01:47:55.760
and if it's a blue spruce in
Houston, Texas, it's going to

1506
01:47:55.800 --> 01:48:00.560
be in trouble. That beautiful forsythia. You brought it want to bring back

1507
01:48:00.600 --> 01:48:03.000
from the Midwest. Isn't going to
be in trouble here. They just don't

1508
01:48:03.000 --> 01:48:06.840
grow. Picking the right plant very
important. And then you know, general

1509
01:48:06.920 --> 01:48:13.560
care, making sure that the watering
and fertilizing and things we do is in

1510
01:48:13.560 --> 01:48:15.880
line with what the plant needs.
That's important too. But listen, this

1511
01:48:15.960 --> 01:48:20.920
is not that hard now. Learning
gardening is a learning process that lasts for

1512
01:48:20.920 --> 01:48:27.359
a lifetime. Every week, pretty
much every day, I learned something about

1513
01:48:27.359 --> 01:48:30.439
gardening because it's evolving, it's changing, there's always something new. There's only

1514
01:48:30.479 --> 01:48:35.159
ten bazillion plants and no one could
know them all. But learning is an

1515
01:48:35.199 --> 01:48:40.920
ongoing process and that makes it fun. You know, I know people a

1516
01:48:40.920 --> 01:48:43.359
lot of us that are hort of
cultures. We go through phases. You

1517
01:48:43.399 --> 01:48:46.600
know, I'm my latest, Okra
is my latest, and a long list

1518
01:48:46.680 --> 01:48:51.479
of obsessions, horticultural obsessions that I
have. But you know, I've gone

1519
01:48:51.520 --> 01:48:56.319
through times where I was re into
palms, studying about palm trees or hibiscuits

1520
01:48:56.479 --> 01:49:00.000
or something else. And it's always
something new, there's always something fun.

1521
01:49:00.079 --> 01:49:03.119
Like if you've never done bones eye
bones eye is a great fun little hobby.

1522
01:49:03.159 --> 01:49:06.319
It kind of cool, doesn't require
a lot in the way of tools

1523
01:49:06.319 --> 01:49:12.000
and equipment and all that simple to
do. By the way, the Quality

1524
01:49:12.000 --> 01:49:16.000
Feed Store downtown they do bones eye
there and they do occasionally they have some

1525
01:49:16.039 --> 01:49:19.159
meetings there and I think they do
some teaching too on how to do bones

1526
01:49:19.159 --> 01:49:23.520
eye. But if you're interested in
that particular hobby, that would be one

1527
01:49:23.560 --> 01:49:29.479
I would send you to Quality Feed
Downtown, Equipment and Alesion on Luzon Street.

1528
01:49:30.560 --> 01:49:33.439
But that's just an example of what
I'm talking about. Gardening is a

1529
01:49:33.520 --> 01:49:36.680
learning process that's fun. What do
you care about. Maybe all you want

1530
01:49:36.840 --> 01:49:41.800
is beautiful house plants, good,
go for it. Maybe you would like

1531
01:49:41.880 --> 01:49:45.880
to be able to actually produce things
inside like tomatoes. There's a light,

1532
01:49:45.960 --> 01:49:49.760
there are lighting systems, and there's
advice. I can give you the help

1533
01:49:49.840 --> 01:49:54.439
you have literally grow your tomatoes indoors. If you want to go to that

1534
01:49:55.199 --> 01:49:58.279
kind of trouble, you can do
that. That's the cool thing about gardening.

1535
01:49:58.399 --> 01:50:02.399
Always something new outside. I keep
saying, plant trees, plant woody

1536
01:50:02.439 --> 01:50:05.359
ornamentals. Now's the time, now's
the time. It's important. Well,

1537
01:50:05.560 --> 01:50:12.319
it's also time to start looking at
doing some winter care for those woody ornamentals.

1538
01:50:12.520 --> 01:50:15.079
And one of the things we do
in winter is we try to get

1539
01:50:15.079 --> 01:50:18.640
the majority of our pruning done in
the dormant season. There's things to be

1540
01:50:18.640 --> 01:50:23.960
pruned year round. There's always stuff
you can do, but especially for major

1541
01:50:24.079 --> 01:50:28.239
pruning jobs on a plant, on
a tree, it's better to get that

1542
01:50:28.319 --> 01:50:31.079
done in the cool season if you
can an Affordable tree service. They're the

1543
01:50:31.439 --> 01:50:36.199
tree service that we trust. You're
on garden Line. I'm visiting with Martin

1544
01:50:36.279 --> 01:50:40.920
and his wife Joe. They're just
great folks and they've been around a long

1545
01:50:40.960 --> 01:50:44.319
time. I mean they you know, they've been doing this for years and

1546
01:50:44.439 --> 01:50:46.880
years. In fact, I think
over thirty years now of experience for Martin,

1547
01:50:47.359 --> 01:50:50.119
and he knows what he's doing.
And when you turn someone loose on

1548
01:50:50.159 --> 01:50:55.000
your woody ornamentals with us SAW,
they better know what they're doing. And

1549
01:50:55.039 --> 01:50:58.600
Martin does. And you can call
them. You can have the phone numbers

1550
01:50:58.640 --> 01:51:02.079
seven to one to three, six
twenty six sixty three. Are you just

1551
01:51:02.119 --> 01:51:08.880
go to the website afftree Service dot
com. Aff Tree Service dot com.

1552
01:51:09.000 --> 01:51:12.000
Tell them you're from garden Line.
So you get up in the list and

1553
01:51:12.560 --> 01:51:15.520
do it soon because they're booking.
I know they're booking stuff out in January

1554
01:51:15.600 --> 01:51:18.840
and February now as someone called the
other day and said they they're going to

1555
01:51:18.880 --> 01:51:24.239
have them come out in December,
you need to get on the line because

1556
01:51:24.720 --> 01:51:28.760
Martin stay's busy. That's what happens
when you do work right, is word

1557
01:51:28.800 --> 01:51:31.640
gets around, Customers ask you to
come back, they tell their friends,

1558
01:51:31.880 --> 01:51:34.640
and you get busy. And that's
a good thing. So if you want

1559
01:51:34.640 --> 01:51:39.560
to hire a good person that can
do a good job, don't delay and

1560
01:51:39.600 --> 01:51:45.680
call Affordable Tree Service sooner rather than
later. Kind of a traffic jam for

1561
01:51:45.800 --> 01:51:47.880
pruning in the cool season, because
that's you know, we're getting a lot

1562
01:51:47.920 --> 01:51:51.600
of that kind of stuff done at
that time of the year. You know,

1563
01:51:51.880 --> 01:51:59.319
picking a really nice quality tree that
fits your site is important. I

1564
01:51:59.359 --> 01:52:04.840
remember the day back and this is
back like sixties and seventies when everybody had

1565
01:52:04.880 --> 01:52:08.840
an Arizona ash tree in the front
yard. It's like when they built your

1566
01:52:08.880 --> 01:52:13.199
house that you got an Arizona ash
And then when those things started falling apart

1567
01:52:13.199 --> 01:52:15.840
thirty forty years later, we kind
of realized, okay, we need to

1568
01:52:15.880 --> 01:52:19.239
not plant those trees, and they
went by the wayside, so you don't

1569
01:52:19.239 --> 01:52:25.439
see them much anymore. Silver leafed
maple as another one that it just doesn't

1570
01:52:25.439 --> 01:52:28.119
have a good long term future,
and there's some other trees. Unless the

1571
01:52:28.159 --> 01:52:30.359
conditions are just right, they don't. So you want to pick us species

1572
01:52:30.359 --> 01:52:32.279
that does well. And we have
a lot of new things, you know.

1573
01:52:32.319 --> 01:52:36.960
I was out at RCWA yesterday at
RCW Nursery. They have their spring

1574
01:52:38.000 --> 01:52:42.640
fling and I appreciate them having me
come out that that was enjoyable. But

1575
01:52:43.039 --> 01:52:45.520
while we're out there, I was
looking over the San Philipe red maple.

1576
01:52:45.600 --> 01:52:50.319
That is a really cool red maple
now that that's a strain that was discovered

1577
01:52:50.640 --> 01:52:55.720
that it has some really early you
know, maple has a little samaras,

1578
01:52:55.720 --> 01:53:00.680
a little reddish seed pod things that
come out in the spring. They came

1579
01:53:00.680 --> 01:53:03.119
out even earlier on those, and
they're really beautiful trees. And they have

1580
01:53:03.159 --> 01:53:08.439
a wide variety of trees out there
at RCW. I mean, if it

1581
01:53:08.479 --> 01:53:11.319
grows here and does well, they
probably grow it. And that includes large

1582
01:53:11.319 --> 01:53:15.600
shrubs like that Eagleston holly we were
talking about while ago. Now RCW Nursries

1583
01:53:15.600 --> 01:53:17.239
dot Com. That's the website.
I would say you just go ahead and

1584
01:53:17.239 --> 01:53:21.560
start there. Just go there.
The nursery itself is where Tombo Parkway comes

1585
01:53:21.600 --> 01:53:27.640
into Beltway eight and so it's really
easy to find. And again, thank

1586
01:53:27.680 --> 01:53:31.600
you folks RCW for hosting me out
there yesterday and for everybody that came out.

1587
01:53:31.640 --> 01:53:35.159
We had had a really good time. I when I got home I

1588
01:53:35.199 --> 01:53:39.960
could hardly talk. I've done so
much talking to all the gardeners and everything

1589
01:53:40.000 --> 01:53:43.520
coming by. We're gonna head out
now to Montgomery and talk to Erin.

1590
01:53:43.600 --> 01:53:45.640
Hello, Erin, Hey, how
you doing it? Eight? Sir?

1591
01:53:45.800 --> 01:53:50.479
I'm good? What's up? So? I've been thinking about planning an evergreen

1592
01:53:50.600 --> 01:53:57.199
privacy hedge along my fence line.
Most of the varieties that people would normally

1593
01:53:57.359 --> 01:54:02.600
use are not formed tolerant for our
climate. I was thinking to go with

1594
01:54:02.720 --> 01:54:06.680
Spartan junipers. Is there something else
that you might suggest? You know,

1595
01:54:06.800 --> 01:54:14.319
I am not familiar with Spartan in
terms of its performance here, so I'm

1596
01:54:14.319 --> 01:54:18.159
gonna have to just say I don't
know on that one. There are a

1597
01:54:18.199 --> 01:54:21.279
lot of things you can use.
How big of a length of area are

1598
01:54:21.319 --> 01:54:28.159
you going to try to do as
a run. I've got about eighty feet

1599
01:54:28.239 --> 01:54:32.600
on one fence line, probably about
two hundred total linear feet of me where

1600
01:54:32.640 --> 01:54:38.680
I will plan. That's a lot
well out in the countryside. I like

1601
01:54:38.840 --> 01:54:44.640
the Eastern red ceedar. They are
tough and you know they do we know

1602
01:54:44.720 --> 01:54:46.560
they do well. You see them
out in the wild and that makes a

1603
01:54:46.560 --> 01:54:49.680
good head. And now eventually it's
going to be a very large tree,

1604
01:54:50.119 --> 01:54:55.920
but that takes a long long time. Yeah, that was my concern with

1605
01:54:56.000 --> 01:54:58.720
the red seedar is that it was
going to outgrow the space that I had

1606
01:54:58.760 --> 01:55:01.000
for it, which is why I
was looking at spartan juniper. It grows

1607
01:55:01.039 --> 01:55:08.560
more bags. Yeah, junipers and
Arbividi's those kinds of plants are gonna they're

1608
01:55:08.600 --> 01:55:12.600
gonna make a good cover. My
hesitation on some of them. And again

1609
01:55:12.680 --> 01:55:16.600
I don't know spartan specifically, but
you do get some foliage blights that can

1610
01:55:16.640 --> 01:55:20.920
happen on them during wet years.
And then they get the bagworms, those

1611
01:55:20.960 --> 01:55:25.279
little things that hang like Christmas ornaments
in the tree that eat all the leaves

1612
01:55:25.319 --> 01:55:29.159
off. That's something we have to
deal with on them. Another option would

1613
01:55:29.159 --> 01:55:33.880
be to go with aypon and do
the hedging necessary to get a nice screen.

1614
01:55:34.000 --> 01:55:39.319
And you can do that, you
can make yopons do that. Is

1615
01:55:39.359 --> 01:55:46.119
this would with something that's like eight
feet high block the view adequately. No,

1616
01:55:46.680 --> 01:55:50.119
Yeah, something eight feet high would
be fun. Okay, So southern

1617
01:55:50.159 --> 01:55:55.359
wax myrtle is another native from the
region that would do real well. And

1618
01:55:55.520 --> 01:55:59.720
as you share it, it gets
denser and denser too. And then I

1619
01:55:59.720 --> 01:56:05.640
guess one other option might be Caroline
and cherry laurel. That one maybe a

1620
01:56:05.640 --> 01:56:09.840
little further east from you, would
be a little happier, but that would

1621
01:56:09.840 --> 01:56:13.399
be an option. But yeah,
I think southern wax medal would be a

1622
01:56:13.399 --> 01:56:18.079
good native to put out there.
Okays. Yes, And all those,

1623
01:56:18.119 --> 01:56:21.319
by the way, all those are
evergreens, which you want the screen year

1624
01:56:21.439 --> 01:56:26.760
round. So hey, erin,
thank you for the call, appreciate that.

1625
01:56:26.880 --> 01:56:29.159
Good to talk to you. Well, we're going to take a break

1626
01:56:29.159 --> 01:56:31.720
here. We've put another hour in
the book's got another one coming up,

1627
01:56:32.000 --> 01:56:34.880
in fact, our last one of
the day. Our phone number is seven

1628
01:56:34.920 --> 01:56:40.640
one three two one two fifty eight
seventy four seven one three two on two

1629
01:56:40.640 --> 01:56:43.800
five eight seven four. Give Josh
a call. I'm going to get you

1630
01:56:43.880 --> 01:56:53.800
on the boards and we'll talk to
you when we come back. KTRH Garden

1631
01:56:53.800 --> 01:56:59.920
Line does not necessarily endorse any of
the products or services advertised on this programme.

1632
01:57:00.039 --> 01:57:05.000
It's too casey rh Garden Line with
skip Richter. It's so crazy,

1633
01:57:10.560 --> 01:57:19.479
Trim. Just watch him as the
world. Well, good Sunday morning,

1634
01:57:19.640 --> 01:57:23.960
Welcome back to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter. We're here

1635
01:57:23.960 --> 01:57:29.239
to answer your gardening questions and just
generally talk gardening. I enjoy it when

1636
01:57:29.239 --> 01:57:31.039
folks call because I get to visit
with gardeners, and that is one of

1637
01:57:31.079 --> 01:57:34.880
the my favorite things to do.
It's always fun to hang out and be

1638
01:57:34.920 --> 01:57:38.800
with gardeners, talk about things,
help people with their projects, and so

1639
01:57:38.880 --> 01:57:42.600
on. That's what we're here about. That is for sure. Hey,

1640
01:57:42.600 --> 01:57:45.840
if you've thought about buying a tractor, you need to know about something that's

1641
01:57:45.880 --> 01:57:49.720
going on with Lansdown, Moody and
Caboda. Now you put those two together

1642
01:57:49.800 --> 01:57:54.840
and you've got a great team.
By the way, Lansdowne is a Houston

1643
01:57:55.000 --> 01:57:58.800
company. It's been here since nineteen
thirty six. Not some big ad corp

1644
01:57:58.880 --> 01:58:00.840
from out of town, some big
ownership group out of town. No,

1645
01:58:01.000 --> 01:58:04.800
this is hometown, through and through. There's nine Landsdown locations, by the

1646
01:58:04.800 --> 01:58:08.119
way, here on the Gulf Coast. And if you want to learn more

1647
01:58:08.159 --> 01:58:13.039
about Lansdown you need to go to
lmtractor dot com. And you also need

1648
01:58:13.079 --> 01:58:15.039
to go buy and sit on one
and check it out, and you'll see

1649
01:58:15.079 --> 01:58:18.760
what I'm talking about. Their deal
right now is you pick your tractor,

1650
01:58:18.800 --> 01:58:23.840
and I'd recommend the L twenty five
oh two. It's a Cabota Workhorse number

1651
01:58:23.880 --> 01:58:28.680
two. You click on tractor package
dot com or you go to tractor package

1652
01:58:28.680 --> 01:58:31.079
dot com and you click on the
package deal you want. Do you need

1653
01:58:31.119 --> 01:58:33.640
a box blade, do you need
a front end loader, post hole digger,

1654
01:58:33.760 --> 01:58:39.119
rotary cutter? You put together the
package you want and then you go

1655
01:58:39.159 --> 01:58:44.600
with their great finance plan that is
unheard of. Eighty four months without interest,

1656
01:58:44.680 --> 01:58:46.880
no money down, eighty four months
without interest. You're not going to

1657
01:58:46.960 --> 01:58:50.680
beat that. Go to lmtractor dot
com and check this all out, and

1658
01:58:50.720 --> 01:58:56.159
then swing by and sit on a
Komota tractor, and I think you'll see.

1659
01:58:56.279 --> 01:58:59.199
Like I like to put it,
it's a sweet ride, that is

1660
01:58:59.319 --> 01:59:01.840
for sure. We're going to head
out now to Clear Lake and talk to

1661
01:59:01.920 --> 01:59:10.760
Roger. Hello, Roger good Good. So I've got some crape myrtles and

1662
01:59:11.079 --> 01:59:15.680
they're black with white spots all over
them, on order how I could treat

1663
01:59:15.720 --> 01:59:18.560
dead. That's creat myrtle bark scale
and it's a difficult one to treat.

1664
01:59:19.119 --> 01:59:25.760
The black is the city mold that's
just growing on the sugary stuff the scale

1665
01:59:25.760 --> 01:59:29.239
puts out. So it'd be like
if you took sugar water and spray your

1666
01:59:29.239 --> 01:59:31.000
plants, you'd get kind of a
black city mold that grows on it.

1667
01:59:31.880 --> 01:59:36.079
So the scale, Uh, there's
a couple of approaches to dealing with them.

1668
01:59:36.119 --> 01:59:41.039
One is to use something systemic to
go up in the plant, and

1669
01:59:41.119 --> 01:59:44.239
when the scale sucks the juice out
of the plant, it kills it.

1670
01:59:45.279 --> 01:59:49.920
The problem with the systemics is in
the summertime, crape myrtles are a main

1671
01:59:50.079 --> 01:59:57.479
food source for honeybees in urban areas
or even rural areas, and so when

1672
01:59:57.520 --> 02:00:00.920
you put that in your plant,
you can affect be health and so we

1673
02:00:00.760 --> 02:00:03.920
tend to stay away from that unless
we just have to use it. The

1674
02:00:04.359 --> 02:00:09.479
other thing is in the spraying.
Probably around March or April, the little

1675
02:00:09.560 --> 02:00:13.399
crawlers will come out. Think of
them as a little baby scale without any

1676
02:00:13.399 --> 02:00:16.800
protection, and they're crawling around to
move over and set up shop on some

1677
02:00:16.960 --> 02:00:23.119
other part of the branch. At
that stage, an insecticide spray on those

1678
02:00:23.159 --> 02:00:29.600
branches all around those branches will work. An oil spray horticultural oil again perfect

1679
02:00:29.600 --> 02:00:32.399
coverage all around. Every branch area
will smother the scale too, and they're

1680
02:00:32.479 --> 02:00:36.119
easiest to kill at that stage,
and then they have some beneficial insects that

1681
02:00:36.199 --> 02:00:44.920
tend to help us out going through
the year. Are you there so likenme

1682
02:00:45.000 --> 02:00:50.079
oil or Niam oil would be fine, just any It'll say, like horticultural

1683
02:00:50.119 --> 02:00:55.399
oil, and it's just it's just
a very lightweight oil. It's lighter than

1684
02:00:55.439 --> 02:01:00.079
dormant oil. It's more think of
it as more watery than dorman. That

1685
02:01:00.119 --> 02:01:03.680
would be probably here. I would
It depends on the year because they're all

1686
02:01:03.680 --> 02:01:10.319
different, but typically you ought to
be applying that probably mid to late March,

1687
02:01:10.399 --> 02:01:13.760
maybe early April, depending on the
kind of year that we have.

1688
02:01:13.920 --> 02:01:16.039
But you're pretty far south, so
I'm going to say mid to late March

1689
02:01:16.359 --> 02:01:25.279
likely, okay, and just bush
away from the systemic n well I do

1690
02:01:25.439 --> 02:01:30.079
for the reasons I said, But
you know, I understand there are situations

1691
02:01:30.119 --> 02:01:34.399
where you need something that's going to
be within the plant to kill the scale

1692
02:01:34.439 --> 02:01:39.319
and and so on and not have
to wait each each March to do that.

1693
02:01:40.159 --> 02:01:43.760
The only the only other thing to
think about if you want to do

1694
02:01:43.800 --> 02:01:46.520
this is if you get some double
sided sticky tape and put it on branches,

1695
02:01:46.640 --> 02:01:50.760
around branches where you see scale and
just check it every few days.

1696
02:01:51.039 --> 02:01:56.399
If you see these little reddish tiny
things stuck on the tape, that means

1697
02:01:56.479 --> 02:01:59.560
it's time to spray, because that's
the crawlers. So that would be the

1698
02:01:59.600 --> 02:02:02.560
way to go for me. Giving
you a rough estimate of when to knowing

1699
02:02:02.560 --> 02:02:10.640
it at your house in twenty twenty
four when okay, great, perfect,

1700
02:02:10.680 --> 02:02:14.159
Thanks Ki, Thank you, Roger. I appreciate, appreciate the call very

1701
02:02:14.239 --> 02:02:17.239
much. You know, products like
that, you're going to find them at

1702
02:02:17.279 --> 02:02:21.239
ACE hardware stores all over the place. ACE carries when it comes to pest

1703
02:02:21.279 --> 02:02:27.439
control, disease control, weed control, and certainly fertilizing your plants, they

1704
02:02:27.640 --> 02:02:30.880
have got everything you need. They're
the place for that. But they're also

1705
02:02:30.920 --> 02:02:33.680
the place for Christmas lighting. And
you probably haven't thought about that with Ace,

1706
02:02:33.760 --> 02:02:38.560
but it sure is. Do you
need swag for indoors and outdoors?

1707
02:02:38.600 --> 02:02:42.439
I mean we're talking about Reese,
we're talking about Garland and oh my gosh,

1708
02:02:42.479 --> 02:02:47.039
do they ever have a selection of
Christmas light kits all kinds indoor outdoor,

1709
02:02:48.279 --> 02:02:51.840
various sizes and colors. And you
know how Christmas lights can vary.

1710
02:02:53.000 --> 02:02:56.079
They've got it all. They even
have custom lights by the foot and go

1711
02:02:56.119 --> 02:02:59.239
buy an ACE Hardware store and find
out about that. By the way,

1712
02:02:59.279 --> 02:03:02.880
you can go to a hardware dot
com, Acehardware dot com, Forward Slash

1713
02:03:02.920 --> 02:03:08.920
Houston, or just go to Acehardware
dot Com and look for the store locator,

1714
02:03:09.199 --> 02:03:11.960
put in your zip code and it'll
tell you. It'll give you a

1715
02:03:11.960 --> 02:03:14.479
little map of all the stores that
are close to you. To make it

1716
02:03:14.520 --> 02:03:18.319
even easier, we are going to
now go to a task Asda and talk

1717
02:03:18.359 --> 02:03:25.600
to Cheryl. Hello, Cheryl christ
Yes, I called you yesterday about my

1718
02:03:25.760 --> 02:03:30.279
lawn turning like straw in certain areas
not circul sent you for pictures. I've

1719
02:03:30.319 --> 02:03:34.039
got it. I've got it.
Okay. What that is? That is

1720
02:03:34.560 --> 02:03:39.159
one of the rhizoctonia diseases, and
the one we call brown patch. It

1721
02:03:39.159 --> 02:03:43.279
makes a big circles. That's a
riizoctonia disease. There's some of that here

1722
02:03:43.439 --> 02:03:46.760
sometimes that are a little bit of
regular, but as they progress you tend

1723
02:03:46.760 --> 02:03:50.800
to see the circular areas of them. But that's what it is. At

1724
02:03:50.800 --> 02:03:54.399
this point, you got quite a
bit of it out there. But if

1725
02:03:54.439 --> 02:04:00.960
you hurry up and got down a
nitroposs eagle fungicide spray. What helps shut

1726
02:04:00.000 --> 02:04:04.079
it down where it is, what's
already been lost, the leaves that have

1727
02:04:04.159 --> 02:04:09.399
been ritted off, the runner that's
going to sit there brown until next spring

1728
02:04:09.439 --> 02:04:13.600
when they could put new, fresh
green leaves on those runners. Okay,

1729
02:04:13.680 --> 02:04:17.560
skip about oh about a month ago. I already put the microflos three steps

1730
02:04:17.560 --> 02:04:21.479
down. Okay, Well, I
don't know about the application or the timing

1731
02:04:21.600 --> 02:04:26.840
or anything like that, but that's
the one that we recommend. There are

1732
02:04:27.000 --> 02:04:31.920
other fungicides that you can use for
controlling diseases in the lawn, but in

1733
02:04:32.039 --> 02:04:35.880
general, that should do the trick
for you. So, well, what

1734
02:04:36.000 --> 02:04:40.880
don't you think if I've already done
that and I'm seeing like more spots,

1735
02:04:41.199 --> 02:04:46.680
Yeah, you think, what type
of funch of side should I use something?

1736
02:04:46.800 --> 02:04:54.680
Look for something that has If you
can find something with the ingredient azoxystrobin

1737
02:04:54.840 --> 02:04:59.640
a zo x y, that would
be a different chemistry to try. It's

1738
02:04:59.680 --> 02:05:02.760
going to be a little hard to
find those products. They're they're they're difficult

1739
02:05:02.840 --> 02:05:06.199
to find. The bottom line,
you kind of have to go to a

1740
02:05:06.199 --> 02:05:13.159
place that just has a really wide
variety, like south southwest Houston. Uh.

1741
02:05:13.920 --> 02:05:18.359
The feed the fertilizer store Southwest Fertilized, they would happen. Hey,

1742
02:05:18.399 --> 02:05:21.119
I got a I gotta run for
a break, But I would. I

1743
02:05:21.119 --> 02:05:24.800
would if ever, you had called
Bob at Southwest and see if he has

1744
02:05:25.000 --> 02:05:28.960
a zoxystroban for the lawn that you
could try as an alternative to switch to.

1745
02:05:29.520 --> 02:05:31.560
Thank you very much for thank you
for that call. We're gonna take

1746
02:05:31.560 --> 02:05:34.279
a break. We'll be right back, Chris. You will be the first

1747
02:05:34.319 --> 02:05:38.680
up when we come back. If
your toe it didn't happen, you do

1748
02:05:38.760 --> 02:05:41.800
not have a pulse right now,
I'm telling all a foot loose. Hey,

1749
02:05:41.840 --> 02:05:44.239
welcome back to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and

1750
02:05:44.279 --> 02:05:47.720
we are here to talk gardening with
you. Now. If you've listened to

1751
02:05:47.760 --> 02:05:51.600
me for even one show, you
know what I think about Vego garden beds.

1752
02:05:53.039 --> 02:05:56.000
It's the best. It's absolutely the
best. I built beds out of

1753
02:05:56.000 --> 02:06:01.039
center blocks. I built beds that
were just soil sided them binding around the

1754
02:06:01.079 --> 02:06:05.880
so I built treated timber bed I
built a lot of kind of beds in

1755
02:06:05.920 --> 02:06:10.920
my life, and nothing is as
good as Vego. Vego beds. The

1756
02:06:10.960 --> 02:06:14.960
metal is protected in a way where
it will not rust and corrode. Then

1757
02:06:15.000 --> 02:06:17.199
they coat it with a what I
think is a beautiful paint, a very

1758
02:06:17.520 --> 02:06:23.039
quality, high quality, long lasting
paint that comes in some muted colors,

1759
02:06:23.119 --> 02:06:27.199
kind of earthy colors like the greenish
and the tan and things like that that

1760
02:06:27.600 --> 02:06:31.399
really are appropriate for a garden bed. They last forever, they'll weigh out

1761
02:06:31.439 --> 02:06:35.199
last or treated wood beds, and
they don't warp like treated wood beds do

1762
02:06:35.319 --> 02:06:39.720
either. Now, if you're an
organic gardener, this is your solution,

1763
02:06:39.920 --> 02:06:44.600
an alternative to treated wood. But
for all gardeners. Vego beds come in

1764
02:06:44.760 --> 02:06:46.800
every shape and size you can imagine. They're modular, so you put them

1765
02:06:46.840 --> 02:06:49.399
together. Do you want an L
shape? Do you want a see shape?

1766
02:06:49.840 --> 02:06:53.039
Do you want a rolling bed?
They've got those. Do you want

1767
02:06:53.039 --> 02:06:57.399
beds with self watering trays in the
bottom, They've got those. They have

1768
02:06:57.520 --> 02:07:01.760
all the kinds of accessories you need
to go with them to go online vegogarden

1769
02:07:02.119 --> 02:07:08.079
dot com, vegogarden dot com,
uh and you will find the beds that

1770
02:07:08.279 --> 02:07:12.239
you are looking for right there.
Lots of options are Many of our garden

1771
02:07:12.239 --> 02:07:15.439
centers too, are carrying Vego beds
now, so check out some of your

1772
02:07:15.439 --> 02:07:18.720
local garden centers. I think you'll
find Vego beds available there too. Well,

1773
02:07:18.800 --> 02:07:24.119
let's see, we are going to
now head to Chris in the Woodlands.

1774
02:07:24.159 --> 02:07:27.359
Hello Chris, Hi, good morning, Skip. How are you doing

1775
02:07:27.680 --> 02:07:30.319
well? Chris? How are you
today? All right? I have a

1776
02:07:30.399 --> 02:07:35.000
what I think is a cheffalle era
that has grown taller than my greenhouse.

1777
02:07:35.520 --> 02:07:39.800
Oh. I need to figure out
how to get it in there. You

1778
02:07:39.960 --> 02:07:43.199
can I lob off the top.
You can if you want to do that.

1779
02:07:44.680 --> 02:07:47.079
Yeah, you know, got a
couple of Yeah, you could.

1780
02:07:47.079 --> 02:07:50.319
You could print it anyway you want
to prune it. Sometimes pruning kind of

1781
02:07:50.359 --> 02:07:58.520
creates a esthetically unpleasing plant when you're
done, but that's what it is now,

1782
02:07:58.760 --> 02:08:01.199
Okay, well, then you can
do that. You can also do

1783
02:08:01.279 --> 02:08:05.720
something called an air layer, and
that is where you wound the stem.

1784
02:08:05.960 --> 02:08:11.119
You put some Sphagnum moss or potting
soil around it and rapid in plastic and

1785
02:08:11.079 --> 02:08:16.199
roots into that moss or soil,
and then you cut it off and that

1786
02:08:16.279 --> 02:08:22.079
plant then can be planted up as
an already rooted cutting. And you can

1787
02:08:22.119 --> 02:08:24.920
go online to learn how to do
air layering. But that would be another

1788
02:08:24.000 --> 02:08:28.319
option for anything that gets gangly.
Dracinas get tall and gangly like that corn

1789
02:08:28.399 --> 02:08:33.359
plant. So a lot of things, and air layering is a good option,

1790
02:08:33.720 --> 02:08:37.520
but there's nothing wrong with just thrown
it away and then moving the plant

1791
02:08:37.560 --> 02:08:39.720
where you need to move it.
Well, if I lop it off,

1792
02:08:39.800 --> 02:08:43.640
can I try to root it at
that point what I've taken off? Well,

1793
02:08:43.680 --> 02:08:48.439
you can. It's harder to root
because it has no connection. It

1794
02:08:48.520 --> 02:08:52.239
has to survive long enough to get
a root going, and so I would

1795
02:08:52.279 --> 02:08:56.439
use a rooting hormone on that stem
before you try to root it. But

1796
02:08:56.479 --> 02:09:01.479
with the air layering, it's still
connected to mom and so it has that

1797
02:09:01.560 --> 02:09:05.800
flow of water and nutrients and as
it gets roots established, it just it's

1798
02:09:05.840 --> 02:09:09.560
almost like a one success rate when
you have it connected to the mother plant.

1799
02:09:09.640 --> 02:09:13.039
Still okay, air laring, I
will check that check out. Thank

1800
02:09:13.079 --> 02:09:16.680
you all right, Chris, thank
you very much. I appreciate it.

1801
02:09:16.800 --> 02:09:20.279
Appreciate your call very much. We're
going to go now to Fred and sugar

1802
02:09:20.359 --> 02:09:24.439
Land. Hello Fred, good morning, Skip, and hey listen, thanks

1803
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for all educating you do. Thank
you really helpful. I wanted some information

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02:09:31.159 --> 02:09:33.720
about wish of the Medina products to
use. We started out using has to

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02:09:33.760 --> 02:09:39.960
grow and now they have Medina plus
and wondering what we use in addition to

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02:09:39.319 --> 02:09:43.359
things like color Store on betting plants. Do we use all of it?

1807
02:09:43.439 --> 02:09:46.960
Is it too much fertilizing or yeah, it's your recommendation. Yeah, it's

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02:09:46.000 --> 02:09:50.680
just a matter of what rate of
what nutrients are you applying. There are

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02:09:50.680 --> 02:09:52.159
a lot of good brands out there. Color Stars a great brand, Medina

1810
02:09:52.199 --> 02:09:56.600
is a great brand. They will
both of them will accomplish your results for

1811
02:09:56.640 --> 02:10:00.479
you. The Medina, there's there's
different ratios of nutrients. So what I've

1812
02:10:00.479 --> 02:10:03.399
been talking about is the six twelve
six that's the one I used to water

1813
02:10:03.479 --> 02:10:09.079
plants in. Then there's one that's
kind of a has to grow for lawns

1814
02:10:09.560 --> 02:10:13.399
that has a higher nitrogen content and
a lower phosphorus content, and for ongoing

1815
02:10:13.520 --> 02:10:18.239
feeding. I tend to use that
one, especially during the growing season more

1816
02:10:18.920 --> 02:10:22.159
and so you know, each each
fertilizer has its pros and consent, But

1817
02:10:22.199 --> 02:10:26.520
it's a matter of you know,
if you put excessive amounts of any one

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02:10:26.600 --> 02:10:30.199
thing on, that's not good.
Or if you use three different things when

1819
02:10:30.199 --> 02:10:35.640
you only need one application of fertilizer, then that's not good. So like

1820
02:10:35.800 --> 02:10:39.600
using color Store when we plant them, would we then also use a Medina

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02:10:39.600 --> 02:10:43.600
product on them as they start to
grow in the around. You could do

1822
02:10:43.680 --> 02:10:46.439
that, but you know, with
the color Star you're putting, you're putting

1823
02:10:46.520 --> 02:10:52.319
a similar nutrient group in the in
the in the soil around the plant,

1824
02:10:52.479 --> 02:10:58.000
so I kind of have to see
the specifics the plants you're going to plant.

1825
02:10:58.039 --> 02:10:58.920
You know, like color Star,
you can mix it in the soil

1826
02:11:00.399 --> 02:11:03.520
and then plant, or you can
just plant and then if it were me,

1827
02:11:03.640 --> 02:11:07.720
I generally use the color Store as
a surface application, scratch it into

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02:11:07.760 --> 02:11:11.880
the surface and watered in. So
you might want to use the Medina to

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02:11:11.920 --> 02:11:16.560
water the plant in is a liquid
and then move toward the Color Store fertilization

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02:11:16.079 --> 02:11:20.520
going forward for that color bed.
Okay, so we use both then,

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02:11:20.800 --> 02:11:24.399
oh yeah, you can use both. Okay, good, Thank you very

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02:11:24.479 --> 02:11:28.000
much, sir. All right,
thank you. I appreciate appreciate your call

1833
02:11:28.119 --> 02:11:31.479
very much. You know, we
love feed stores here on Garden Line,

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02:11:31.520 --> 02:11:37.399
and League City Feed is an outstanding
little feed store that has that old fashioned

1835
02:11:37.439 --> 02:11:41.640
field you know that's been I guess
they're in the third generation now Thunderbergs are

1836
02:11:41.720 --> 02:11:46.399
running that store. It started over
forty years ago and Leake City Feed is

1837
02:11:46.439 --> 02:11:48.760
easy to find. It's, you
know, on Highway three, just a

1838
02:11:48.800 --> 02:11:54.359
few blocks of Highway ninety six.
So everyone around League City, in Santa

1839
02:11:54.399 --> 02:11:56.920
Fe and Webster and Lamark and that
whole region. Oh, coming to reality.

1840
02:11:56.920 --> 02:12:01.520
This is your hometown feed store.
And it's one of those places that

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02:12:01.600 --> 02:12:03.920
when I say old fashion, I
mean you know, they carry the bags

1842
02:12:03.960 --> 02:12:07.600
out for you and they carry what
you need. If you need a fertilizer

1843
02:12:07.640 --> 02:12:11.039
that I talk about on Guardenline,
it's at League City Feed. If you

1844
02:12:11.119 --> 02:12:13.760
need a pesticide, a herbicide,
a fungicide, they've got that. Do

1845
02:12:13.800 --> 02:12:20.800
you need pet foods or certainly livestock
foods. Do you need perhaps backyard chicken

1846
02:12:20.880 --> 02:12:24.800
care things like maybe you need some
of the supplies for that or the foods.

1847
02:12:24.800 --> 02:12:28.359
But they got all of that everything
but the chickens, I guess is

1848
02:12:28.399 --> 02:12:31.840
the way you would put it now. League City Feed is open Monday through

1849
02:12:31.840 --> 02:12:35.279
Saturday, nine to six. It's
closed on Sunday. And here's the number.

1850
02:12:35.319 --> 02:12:37.359
You write this down if you live
in that area. Two eight one

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three three two one six one two
two eight one three three two one six

1852
02:12:43.960 --> 02:12:48.760
one two. We are now going
to go to Missouri City and talk to

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Leslie, Hello, Leslie, Hi, how are you today? I'm well

1854
02:12:54.840 --> 02:13:07.319
good. I have two sunshine laugustrum
hedges that managed to survive the freeze more

1855
02:13:07.399 --> 02:13:11.319
or less. They're looking kind of
stringy, and I'd really like to like

1856
02:13:11.640 --> 02:13:16.439
seriously cut them back, like fifty
percent, take the top half off and

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02:13:18.039 --> 02:13:22.159
kind of let them fill it in. My question is should I do that?

1858
02:13:24.520 --> 02:13:26.760
Is okay to do that this time
of year, first of all?

1859
02:13:26.800 --> 02:13:28.960
And then should I do it like
in stages, a little bit at a

1860
02:13:30.039 --> 02:13:31.760
time, or can I just whack
away at it? Okay? Well,

1861
02:13:31.800 --> 02:13:35.520
I would wait until we get towards
the end of winter to do that.

1862
02:13:35.520 --> 02:13:41.119
That pruning okay, but printing is
a stimulating process. When you prune and

1863
02:13:41.239 --> 02:13:45.119
the weather's right, plants try to
send out new, succulent, new growth.

1864
02:13:45.199 --> 02:13:46.239
And we don't want to do that
right before we're going to get a

1865
02:13:46.279 --> 02:13:50.399
good hardcore freeze here at some point. So I would wait until, you

1866
02:13:50.399 --> 02:13:52.359
know, toward the end of winter
to do it. And as far as

1867
02:13:52.359 --> 02:13:56.279
how much you can come back as
much as you want, and they will

1868
02:13:56.279 --> 02:13:58.439
regre, okay, just after you
cut them back, I sprinkle a little

1869
02:13:58.439 --> 02:14:03.840
fertilizer around them, watered in really
good. Scratch it into the soil surface.

1870
02:14:03.880 --> 02:14:07.039
If you got some molts, they're
watered in really good and they will

1871
02:14:07.039 --> 02:14:09.399
come right back. That's a good
plan. What type of fertilizer just a

1872
02:14:09.520 --> 02:14:15.600
general for a lot of things like
shrubs, because my goal is to grow

1873
02:14:15.720 --> 02:14:18.840
leaves, not fruit or anything else
like that. I just use lot fertilizer

1874
02:14:20.079 --> 02:14:24.359
on them. Land for Life just
fine to use on it. It's got

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02:14:24.399 --> 02:14:26.640
a lot of nitrogen in it.
The spring type of lawn fertilizer. You

1876
02:14:26.640 --> 02:14:30.960
could also go by there. There
are a number of our companies, Nitrophiles,

1877
02:14:31.039 --> 02:14:35.119
Nelson's and others make tree fertilizers.
Microlife makes a tree fertilizer. You

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02:14:35.119 --> 02:14:37.239
can use those as well. I
mean, you know it's not it has

1879
02:14:37.319 --> 02:14:41.479
to be exactly this, but all
of that will provide good nutrients. But

1880
02:14:41.560 --> 02:14:46.960
remember with a shrub, you're just
supporting good vegetative growth. That's the main

1881
02:14:46.159 --> 02:14:50.319
thing that you need to do,
right, all right, Okay, And

1882
02:14:50.359 --> 02:14:54.239
I heard you mentioned earlier carbo load
for lawns. What who makes that?

1883
02:14:54.000 --> 02:14:58.039
Nelson's. That's a Nelson's product.
They're the ones that are given the two

1884
02:14:58.119 --> 02:15:03.800
dollars for every bag of Randy Lemon's
scholarship. But remember the carbo load,

1885
02:15:05.279 --> 02:15:07.680
Leslie. If you're going to do
it, do it real soon, because

1886
02:15:07.039 --> 02:15:11.640
you need the fertilizer soon and you
need a weed control product that comes in

1887
02:15:11.760 --> 02:15:16.600
the carbo load. You need it
down soon because the longer you wait,

1888
02:15:16.680 --> 02:15:20.079
the less benefits you're going to get. Yeah, I figured i'd do it

1889
02:15:20.079 --> 02:15:24.239
this week. Well you're off,
so that'd be good. Okay, thanks

1890
02:15:24.359 --> 02:15:26.039
very much, all right, thank
you. Sounds like a good plan.

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02:15:26.760 --> 02:15:31.279
You know. Star of Hope is
an organization that my wife and I support.

1892
02:15:31.359 --> 02:15:35.640
We believe in it. Star of
Hope brings people in, it feeds

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02:15:35.720 --> 02:15:41.239
them and houses them. It provides
the kind of training on education, employment,

1894
02:15:41.279 --> 02:15:45.640
and life skills that make for a
change in life. Not just here's

1895
02:15:45.680 --> 02:15:48.199
a handout, but let us take
you in, walk alongside you, and

1896
02:15:48.319 --> 02:15:54.560
help you turn your life around so
that you become a contributing citizen to the

1897
02:15:54.720 --> 02:15:58.199
community, so that your kids have
a future, so that you have a

1898
02:15:58.239 --> 02:16:01.399
hope and don't live with the stress
of where you are right now. For

1899
02:16:01.479 --> 02:16:05.479
two dollars and eighty cents, you
can provide a Thanksgiving meal for people at

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02:16:05.520 --> 02:16:09.319
Star of Hope. So how many
meals are you going to provide this year.

1901
02:16:09.359 --> 02:16:11.760
I mean really two dollars and eighty
cents. That is simple and it

1902
02:16:11.840 --> 02:16:16.079
makes a difference. And I know
when I give a dollar to Star Hope,

1903
02:16:16.319 --> 02:16:18.399
that dollar is going to go into
life change. It's not going to

1904
02:16:18.399 --> 02:16:22.800
get wasted in any way, shape
or form. Go to sohmission dot org

1905
02:16:22.920 --> 02:16:28.279
to learn more. Sohmission dot org. We're going to go now to Bill

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02:16:28.359 --> 02:16:31.840
and Friends with Hey Bill, I've
got about a minute and a half.

1907
02:16:31.880 --> 02:16:33.440
If we need to hang past the
break, we can do that too.

1908
02:16:35.280 --> 02:16:39.399
How can we help today? Hey
Jeff, thanks taking my cap. Yes,

1909
02:16:39.440 --> 02:16:43.399
sir, I've heard you talk.
I've heard people already discussed brown patch.

1910
02:16:45.040 --> 02:16:48.959
I'm only concerned to vote my lawn. I typically say I want to

1911
02:16:48.440 --> 02:16:52.280
Mama, but that's one I'm going
to talk vote is Saint Augustine. I've

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02:16:52.280 --> 02:16:58.360
got brown patch. I've fertilized a
couple times a year, maybe three times

1913
02:16:58.600 --> 02:17:05.319
with a just that that's usually inside
the door on pallets of Scotts, Okay,

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02:17:05.600 --> 02:17:11.680
Scott's fertilizer, and yeah, I
use the turf and speed in the

1915
02:17:11.719 --> 02:17:16.159
winter and the regular whatever they have
on. Let's tell if they're the biggest

1916
02:17:16.159 --> 02:17:22.559
pilot that is going at that time
of the season. Any better suggestions for

1917
02:17:22.719 --> 02:17:28.120
me? Okay? Yeah, I
would go online to gardening with Skip dot

1918
02:17:28.159 --> 02:17:33.040
com, my website Gardening with Skip
dot Com. The lawn care schedules,

1919
02:17:33.079 --> 02:17:37.120
there's two of them are on there. One is fertilizer, the other is

1920
02:17:37.120 --> 02:17:39.959
all the pest and weeds and diseases
that you have. They tell you exactly

1921
02:17:41.000 --> 02:17:43.319
the products to use. I would
switch over to one of our local products

1922
02:17:43.319 --> 02:17:46.719
here that you'll find on that schedule
and it tells you when to use it.

1923
02:17:46.840 --> 02:17:50.159
If you want an organic product or
synthetic, they're all there on that

1924
02:17:50.239 --> 02:17:54.959
schedule, and if I were you, I would shift toward that. Okay,

1925
02:17:54.079 --> 02:17:56.280
If you want to talk a little
further on this, we can do

1926
02:17:56.319 --> 02:18:00.680
that. Just hang on if not. If that ent here's your question.

1927
02:18:01.040 --> 02:18:03.559
But I do thank you for calling, and we're going to take a little

1928
02:18:03.600 --> 02:18:07.440
break here. Turn things over to
Nicky for the news. Our number is

1929
02:18:07.440 --> 02:18:13.079
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. Welcome back to garden

1930
02:18:13.120 --> 02:18:16.520
Line. On a great Sunday.
Boy, it's a little cloud drilling in

1931
02:18:16.559 --> 02:18:20.760
here. Get a little cloudy,
is that's okay? Temperature is just perfect,

1932
02:18:20.799 --> 02:18:24.680
good time to be outside, you
know. We do love feed stores

1933
02:18:24.760 --> 02:18:30.239
on Garden Line, and I tell
you I love Quality Feed in Garden Company.

1934
02:18:30.360 --> 02:18:33.079
I've been going there since gosh,
I don't know when the last time.

1935
02:18:33.159 --> 02:18:35.079
First time I went into Quality Feed, well, I know they were

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02:18:35.120 --> 02:18:39.200
in the previous location, and they've
been in the new one, which is

1937
02:18:39.239 --> 02:18:43.040
on Luzon Street near the intersection of
Equipment and Allsion. They've been in the

1938
02:18:43.079 --> 02:18:46.239
new one for a while now.
Quality Feed's been around since nineteen twenty eight.

1939
02:18:46.440 --> 02:18:50.319
Ken and Chris have owned it for
the last thirty two years of that,

1940
02:18:50.920 --> 02:18:52.600
and it's just a cool place to
go. I mean they have everything

1941
02:18:52.639 --> 02:18:56.200
you need. I mean, if
I talk about a fertilizer, it's there.

1942
02:18:56.280 --> 02:19:00.760
Do you need insect disease and weed
control, it's there. They really

1943
02:19:00.799 --> 02:19:05.079
specialize in chickens. I mean they're
always getting new chicks in. So if

1944
02:19:05.079 --> 02:19:07.959
you had some backyard chickens and all
the things you need to take care of

1945
02:19:09.000 --> 02:19:13.399
them and get them going, Quality
feeds a place to go. Just give

1946
02:19:13.440 --> 02:19:16.520
them a call. They always have
something going on in terms of the new

1947
02:19:16.600 --> 02:19:20.440
shipments coming in of the chicks and
everything like that. Hey also you can

1948
02:19:20.479 --> 02:19:24.559
pick up a good quality potting soils. They're the ones we recommend, and

1949
02:19:24.639 --> 02:19:28.760
Ken even makes his own kin spotting
soil. They're experts on bonese. I

1950
02:19:28.799 --> 02:19:31.840
mentioned that earlier in the show today, that that is an area that they

1951
02:19:31.879 --> 02:19:35.520
know a lot about and they can
guide you on that as well, even

1952
02:19:35.559 --> 02:19:39.719
purchasing a boneseye tree from them to
get a good start and get going.

1953
02:19:39.319 --> 02:19:43.079
The antique seed rack from nineteen twenty
eight that is way way way cool to

1954
02:19:43.440 --> 02:19:48.200
hey. By the way, qualityfeed
coo dot com. That's the website,

1955
02:19:48.319 --> 02:19:52.360
qualityfeedco dot com. They're open today, by the way, from eleven thirty

1956
02:19:52.399 --> 02:19:56.040
am to four pm, so you
can still get by there and pick up

1957
02:19:56.079 --> 02:20:01.079
some supplies for maybe some afternoon activities
out in the yard. In the garden,

1958
02:20:01.040 --> 02:20:05.000
We're going to go to Tom in
Cyprus. Now, Hello Tom Warren

1959
02:20:05.079 --> 02:20:09.280
Skip. I got a fall garden
going. I have some squashes are just

1960
02:20:09.319 --> 02:20:16.360
growing like gangbusters, and I think
I've got too many squashes per foot that's

1961
02:20:16.399 --> 02:20:20.520
got like little a bunch of walnut
size. There may be six inches apart

1962
02:20:20.799 --> 02:20:24.079
on the vine. So I want
to know how far apart I should send

1963
02:20:24.079 --> 02:20:26.959
those in order to get a decent
size out of them. What kind of

1964
02:20:28.000 --> 02:20:33.719
squash did you say? Acorn?
Acorn. No, I've never sinned acorn

1965
02:20:33.719 --> 02:20:37.360
squashes before. I think that they
I don't think you need to. You

1966
02:20:37.840 --> 02:20:41.719
does your vine? Does your The
leaves look good and strong and green and

1967
02:20:41.760 --> 02:20:46.120
everything. Oh yeah, they're big
as a dinner plate and just dark green.

1968
02:20:46.479 --> 02:20:50.200
Everything looks good. Some of the
vines there's spaced to part, like

1969
02:20:50.440 --> 02:20:54.399
you know, eighteen inches apart or
something like that. But then there's one

1970
02:20:54.520 --> 02:20:58.079
vine. I guess the butterflies were
too busy there, and there's like every

1971
02:20:58.120 --> 02:21:01.799
six inches a little walnut size,
and I'm just worried that they're not going

1972
02:21:01.879 --> 02:21:07.319
to all grow to a good baking
size. Well they will, they'll grow.

1973
02:21:07.879 --> 02:21:11.959
The carbohydrates is what the leaves produce. That makes the squash an acron

1974
02:21:11.000 --> 02:21:15.520
squash what it is, and so
you just want to make sure the foliage

1975
02:21:15.520 --> 02:21:18.399
stays healthy. But if it's healthy
foliage, I've never thinned an acorn squash

1976
02:21:18.399 --> 02:21:22.239
in my life. Okay, Well, I just that was the thought that

1977
02:21:22.280 --> 02:21:24.879
I had, So I will defer
to your expertise on that. And I

1978
02:21:24.879 --> 02:21:28.319
guess I'll have to give some of
them away to the neighbors. Yeah,

1979
02:21:28.399 --> 02:21:31.159
and I call me back when we
get through this season. I'd like to

1980
02:21:31.159 --> 02:21:33.760
hear about how that did. Did
you notice they were a little smaller than

1981
02:21:33.799 --> 02:21:39.239
the other vines or anything like that. It sounds like you got one.

1982
02:21:39.559 --> 02:21:41.079
I don't wist, say ya to
save some seed from it, or hand

1983
02:21:41.120 --> 02:21:46.840
pollinate it and save some seed from
Maybe you have a super compact productive acron

1984
02:21:46.879 --> 02:21:52.479
squash variety that you just created there. Yeah, well that's another curious thing

1985
02:21:52.479 --> 02:21:54.440
I've got. I planted. I
plant these things in a little hill,

1986
02:21:54.879 --> 02:21:58.760
and I've got three hills growing,
so I guess I have a total of

1987
02:21:58.079 --> 02:22:03.360
six six lines. And then the
one hill is just not as strong as

1988
02:22:03.520 --> 02:22:07.680
the other two, but that strongest
one, it's just got so many of

1989
02:22:07.719 --> 02:22:11.719
them on there that that was my
That was my thought. You know,

1990
02:22:11.079 --> 02:22:13.319
there's too many of them. But
now I'll just see what happens, and

1991
02:22:15.079 --> 02:22:16.799
I'm probably gonna have more than I
can eat. Anyway, I was going

1992
02:22:16.879 --> 02:22:20.559
to say, if you got to
pick up, you might want to call

1993
02:22:20.600 --> 02:22:22.680
star a Hope and say, hey, I've got some I got some stuff

1994
02:22:22.680 --> 02:22:26.840
for you to use and feed and
families in here and haul them a load.

1995
02:22:26.959 --> 02:22:30.239
Yeah that's not a bad idea,
but I don't I don't know how

1996
02:22:30.399 --> 02:22:31.479
I appreciate it. Yeah, I
don't know how to handle that there.

1997
02:22:31.520 --> 02:22:35.719
I'm not telling nobody go all your
vegetables to star Hope, just a thought.

1998
02:22:35.879 --> 02:22:39.040
Hey, but dude, let me
know. I'm curious as to how

1999
02:22:39.079 --> 02:22:43.639
that how that turns out for you. You take care you're listening to garden

2000
02:22:43.639 --> 02:22:48.600
Line. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eight seven

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02:22:48.719 --> 02:22:54.600
four seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. I always love

2002
02:22:54.639 --> 02:22:58.120
to go to Arbigate. I was. I was at at Arbrogate the other

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02:22:58.200 --> 02:23:01.360
day, just visiting, visiting mckennell
little bit. And you know, Arbigate

2004
02:23:01.479 --> 02:23:05.399
is one of those gardeners, garden
centers, it's the destination places that you

2005
02:23:05.520 --> 02:23:11.639
love to go to. I just
find that this time of year it is

2006
02:23:11.719 --> 02:23:15.440
so festive. I mean the gift
shop, oh my gosh, it just

2007
02:23:15.719 --> 02:23:18.680
loaded with great gifts. And by
the way, do you want to give

2008
02:23:18.760 --> 02:23:22.360
for maybe a hostess at a party
you're going to or gathering, maybe Thanksgiving

2009
02:23:22.440 --> 02:23:26.440
or something in the holidays, why
not a cycleman? Why not take them

2010
02:23:26.479 --> 02:23:28.840
a cycle But that's a beautiful gift. You don't put setters or beautiful gifts.

2011
02:23:28.840 --> 02:23:33.319
There's a lot of great plants that
are good gifts. Many, many

2012
02:23:33.360 --> 02:23:35.559
options, and you're going to find
them all there at the Arborgate Nursery.

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02:23:37.000 --> 02:23:39.959
By the way, you want to
mark your calendar because Sunday, November twenty

2014
02:23:39.959 --> 02:23:46.239
six from one pm to five pm. Also on Thursday, November thirtieth,

2015
02:23:46.280 --> 02:23:48.319
from one to five they're going to
have Senna, mister and Missus Senate.

2016
02:23:48.360 --> 02:23:52.200
As a matter of fact, out
there at the Arburgate Nursery. It's a

2017
02:23:52.280 --> 02:23:54.799
chance to come, bring the kids
and bring your camera so you can take

2018
02:23:54.840 --> 02:23:58.520
pictures with them. That's kind of
a cool fun thing they do. They're

2019
02:23:58.600 --> 02:24:01.719
Christmas trees are looking great. When
I was by there, those trees they

2020
02:24:01.719 --> 02:24:07.040
brought in from the Blue Ridge Mountains
of North Carolina. They are just gorgeous

2021
02:24:07.040 --> 02:24:09.920
and like a good place would do. They put them right into little buckets

2022
02:24:09.920 --> 02:24:15.319
of water. They're not sitting dry
on a lot so that the needles don't

2023
02:24:15.360 --> 02:24:16.680
make it all the way to Christmas. When you put the tree up,

2024
02:24:18.319 --> 02:24:20.520
then they're taking good care of them
and they're beautiful tree. So check them

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02:24:20.520 --> 02:24:24.040
out at Arburgate Arbrogate dot com.
Why are you're there always? While you're

2026
02:24:24.040 --> 02:24:28.200
there, remember brown stuff before green
stuff. Their one two three system food

2027
02:24:28.559 --> 02:24:33.000
soil compost. Grab a bag of
each for planting, for preparing, for

2028
02:24:33.120 --> 02:24:37.079
making sure what you put in the
ground is successful, because that's a quality

2029
02:24:37.159 --> 02:24:41.840
set of products. We're going to
go now to Katie and talk to Sydney.

2030
02:24:41.959 --> 02:24:46.079
Hello, Sydney, Hi there,
I have a very quick question.

2031
02:24:46.200 --> 02:24:50.520
I need your expertise on this.
I just had some brand new Saint Augustine

2032
02:24:50.639 --> 02:24:56.000
sawd laid down in my yard yesterday
morning. Okay, in my backyard,

2033
02:24:56.479 --> 02:25:00.479
and the man who put it down
first they scraped everything away and put new

2034
02:25:00.520 --> 02:25:05.840
top soil then the side. But
he said that my sprinkler setting needs to

2035
02:25:05.879 --> 02:25:09.440
be Here's what he has it on. He insisted on this three times a

2036
02:25:09.520 --> 02:25:18.360
week, forty five minutes each time
at five am. And I'm really questioning

2037
02:25:18.520 --> 02:25:22.719
about that forty five minutes. I
want to know what you think. Well,

2038
02:25:22.840 --> 02:25:24.360
he doesn't know what he's talking about. I'm just going to be blunt.

2039
02:25:26.600 --> 02:25:30.200
Is your sprinkler Is it a pop
up solid spray head, is it

2040
02:25:30.239 --> 02:25:33.760
a rotor where streams go back and
forth across the lawn or what kind of

2041
02:25:33.959 --> 02:25:37.360
sprinkler heads do you It was laid
in by a sprinkler company that you recommend

2042
02:25:37.440 --> 02:25:41.600
it comes up like when it goes
on the heads pop up out of the

2043
02:25:41.639 --> 02:25:46.280
ground and spray. Well, I
was just asking because different kinds of heads

2044
02:25:46.639 --> 02:25:52.479
they produce water at different rates and
so that's a factor. But listen right

2045
02:25:52.520 --> 02:25:58.040
now, I have not watered my
lawn in three weeks and watered it at

2046
02:25:58.040 --> 02:26:01.319
all, and it could I have
watered it once probably, yes, in

2047
02:26:01.399 --> 02:26:05.399
there I could, but it's the
temperatures are cool, the demands are really

2048
02:26:05.520 --> 02:26:09.520
low, and we've had some rain, and the soil doesn't dry out as

2049
02:26:09.520 --> 02:26:15.600
fast as it was back in August, and so even under hot summer conditions,

2050
02:26:15.799 --> 02:26:18.319
you need to water once or at
the most twice a week and that's

2051
02:26:18.399 --> 02:26:22.520
it. A good soaking and let
it dry out. So I don't know

2052
02:26:22.520 --> 02:26:26.920
what to say other than he's absolutely
wrong. Your lawn does not need that.

2053
02:26:26.479 --> 02:26:30.799
What that will do is you will
see more brown patch on your lawn.

2054
02:26:30.920 --> 02:26:35.120
Well, he actually brought that up. I argued with him, and

2055
02:26:35.159 --> 02:26:39.399
he argued back, no, no, you're going to have brown patch and

2056
02:26:39.559 --> 02:26:43.760
you don't want that. He made
the spot in my front yard this summer

2057
02:26:43.840 --> 02:26:46.840
and when it was hot, droughout
high tenths. Yeah, he had it

2058
02:26:46.959 --> 02:26:50.239
watering like five times a week,
all right, well, hey, Katie,

2059
02:26:50.600 --> 02:26:52.639
I've got to run to a break. If you want to hang around,

2060
02:26:52.680 --> 02:26:56.639
we can continue the discussion after break. But he's wrong. It may

2061
02:26:56.680 --> 02:26:58.959
be time to get a new person
to do that. If they don't know

2062
02:26:58.000 --> 02:27:01.639
what they're doing. You think it's
to be turned off all together. The

2063
02:27:01.680 --> 02:27:05.840
sprinklers, well, I would run
it here and there as needed when we

2064
02:27:05.879 --> 02:27:09.239
have long dry periods. But I
really have to run. But no,

2065
02:27:09.479 --> 02:27:13.040
not necessarily all together. Forever.
We're going to go to break. We'll

2066
02:27:13.079 --> 02:27:18.040
be right back. Welcome back to
guard Line. We're glad you're listening today,

2067
02:27:18.280 --> 02:27:20.959
having a good time talking about all
kinds of things, gardening stuff that

2068
02:27:22.040 --> 02:27:26.239
you might be interested in. I
was just visiting with Sydney, and I

2069
02:27:26.239 --> 02:27:28.840
wish I had still had her on
the phone right now. I was understanding

2070
02:27:28.879 --> 02:27:33.000
that that grass had been in a
little bit longer now if it was a

2071
02:27:33.040 --> 02:27:35.440
brand new install, and I probably
misunderstood that, but anyway, if it

2072
02:27:35.479 --> 02:27:41.239
was a brand new install, yes, you do often. You water frequently.

2073
02:27:41.719 --> 02:27:46.159
In fact, in the summertime,
I would water every day. I

2074
02:27:46.280 --> 02:27:50.239
maybe have very light watering in the
morning or in the afternoon as well.

2075
02:27:50.879 --> 02:27:54.959
The first few days, the first
week or so, you're watering daily and

2076
02:27:54.000 --> 02:27:58.639
then you're backing off to maybe every
other day, and once it's established,

2077
02:27:58.680 --> 02:28:01.920
you're not watering very often. But
once once grass is established, and if

2078
02:28:01.920 --> 02:28:07.639
Sidney, if I'm not mistaken,
yours was, then that kind of three

2079
02:28:07.680 --> 02:28:09.239
times a week is wait wait,
wait, wait too much. Don't need

2080
02:28:09.280 --> 02:28:13.000
that. But if I misunderstood that, just know that, yes, for

2081
02:28:13.079 --> 02:28:18.079
the first couple of weeks, you
need to keep it moist because it doesn't

2082
02:28:18.079 --> 02:28:20.920
have any roots in the ground.
Once it has roots in the ground,

2083
02:28:20.000 --> 02:28:26.319
with our mild temperatures, then you're
going to be just fine. So want

2084
02:28:26.319 --> 02:28:28.840
to make sure we're clear on that. You are listening to garden Line and

2085
02:28:28.879 --> 02:28:31.600
our phone number if you'd like to
give us a call A seven one three

2086
02:28:31.760 --> 02:28:37.360
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

2087
02:28:37.799 --> 02:28:46.159
seventy four. Folks at Nelson Plant
Food make a very high quality fall fertilizer

2088
02:28:46.159 --> 02:28:48.879
and it's called carbo load. And
why don't they call it carbo load?

2089
02:28:48.040 --> 02:28:52.600
Here's why. When you put your
nutrients down in the right ratio for fall,

2090
02:28:52.639 --> 02:28:56.920
which is not a lot of nitrogen. It's a modern amount of nitrogen,

2091
02:28:56.959 --> 02:29:00.920
but a good amount of the last
number. The third number potassium.

2092
02:29:01.399 --> 02:29:05.639
You make that plant stronger. It
takes up the nutrients and it's able to

2093
02:29:05.680 --> 02:29:11.000
take the sunlight and it's able to
make carbohydrates and carbohydrates. Think of them

2094
02:29:11.040 --> 02:29:13.879
as anti freeze for your plant.
That's kind of what they are. They

2095
02:29:13.879 --> 02:29:18.559
do a lot of other things,
but it makes your plant go through winter

2096
02:29:18.639 --> 02:29:22.959
better. And then in the spring, the new growth that your grass has

2097
02:29:22.000 --> 02:29:26.120
when we first come out of winter, that's coming from stored energy, which

2098
02:29:26.159 --> 02:29:31.520
means carbohydrates, which means you fertilized
in the fall and you provided the plant

2099
02:29:31.559 --> 02:29:35.639
what it needed to go into winter
strong and come out strong. So Nelson's

2100
02:29:35.639 --> 02:29:39.360
carbo load is designed like that,
and it also has a pre emergent herbicide

2101
02:29:39.399 --> 02:29:43.799
in it so that any winter weeds
that germinate after you put it down and

2102
02:29:43.879 --> 02:29:46.639
water it in with about a half
inch of water, it's going to have

2103
02:29:46.680 --> 02:29:52.280
that force field over the surface,
if you will, that protective area right

2104
02:29:52.319 --> 02:29:54.520
at the surface of the soil that
a weed seed is just not able to

2105
02:29:54.559 --> 02:30:00.319
get established when it tries to sprout, and that's what it does. Don't

2106
02:30:00.360 --> 02:30:03.440
delay on it, go ahead and
get it done. Remember that Nelson's fall

2107
02:30:03.879 --> 02:30:07.799
Every bag of carbo load they say
that you buy, they're going to donate

2108
02:30:07.840 --> 02:30:13.479
two dollars to Randy's Memorial Scholarship.
And anyone who knows Randy know exactly how

2109
02:30:13.520 --> 02:30:16.360
much you love Texa and m and
how proud he would be to know his

2110
02:30:16.479 --> 02:30:22.120
legacy lives on in that way.
And thank you Dean and the folks at

2111
02:30:22.159 --> 02:30:26.399
Nelson's for doing that. Our phone
number is seven to one to three two

2112
02:30:26.479 --> 02:30:33.079
one two fifty eight seventy four seven
one three two one two five eight seven

2113
02:30:33.520 --> 02:30:35.559
four. We're running real short on
time, but I probably have time for

2114
02:30:35.559 --> 02:30:39.520
a one more call. If somebody
would like to call in, we'd be

2115
02:30:39.559 --> 02:30:41.559
glad to help you. But don't
delay because we're going to run on time

2116
02:30:41.600 --> 02:30:46.520
here in just about three minutes.
Uh. If you have not signed up

2117
02:30:46.559 --> 02:30:48.600
to go to the Texas Tomato Lovers
Conference, you got to consider doing that.

2118
02:30:48.760 --> 02:30:52.120
Now. I know tomatoes. It's
like the queen of the garden.

2119
02:30:52.440 --> 02:30:56.719
You know. People care about their
tomatoes and they want to grow tomatoes better,

2120
02:30:56.840 --> 02:31:01.360
and they're always looking for new ways, new verra and things. The

2121
02:31:01.680 --> 02:31:07.120
Texas Tomato Lovers Conference is put on
by Texas Gardener Magazine and it will be

2122
02:31:07.479 --> 02:31:11.319
in January. On January thirteenth,
that's a Saturday. It'll be at the

2123
02:31:11.319 --> 02:31:16.159
Anti Crows Emporium on an Independence,
Texas. So just another good reason to

2124
02:31:16.159 --> 02:31:18.120
go up there. That's always a
beautiful place to visit. That's one hundred

2125
02:31:18.120 --> 02:31:22.159
dollars for registration, but they have
very limited space available. Now what you're

2126
02:31:22.200 --> 02:31:26.040
going to get is a full day
of programs. I mean they're going to

2127
02:31:26.120 --> 02:31:31.079
start off with a light breakfast and
coffee there there. Rosanne Green's going to

2128
02:31:31.079 --> 02:31:35.479
talk about growing tomatoes with and for
a young family Destin Nook, the Texas

2129
02:31:35.479 --> 02:31:39.479
Garden Guy, a friend of mine, is going to be talking about mastering

2130
02:31:39.559 --> 02:31:43.479
container grown tomatoes. And Patti Leander, one of my master gardeners when I

2131
02:31:43.520 --> 02:31:48.200
was back in Travis County. A
boy, is she ever a vegetable expert.

2132
02:31:48.280 --> 02:31:50.920
She writes for Texas Gardener. By
the way, she's going to speak

2133
02:31:50.959 --> 02:31:56.719
on no before you grow the best
Varieties for twenty twenty four plus eight steps

2134
02:31:56.719 --> 02:32:00.799
for grafting success. Did you know
you can graft tomatoes? Pat you will

2135
02:32:00.799 --> 02:32:03.120
teach you how to do it.
Kevin og from the State Plant Clinic at

2136
02:32:03.159 --> 02:32:07.120
Texas A and M is going to
be talking about the beauty of disease tomatoes.

2137
02:32:07.200 --> 02:32:11.440
Now that sounds like a pathologist right
there, putting beauty and disease in

2138
02:32:11.479 --> 02:32:15.520
the same sentence. I'm going to
be talking about the ten commandments of Tomato

2139
02:32:15.920 --> 02:32:20.399
success, to Meida success, the
ten commandments of to Meida success. If

2140
02:32:20.440 --> 02:32:22.799
you're interested in coming, go ahead
and get signed up because those spaces are

2141
02:32:22.799 --> 02:32:26.639
going fast and all you have to
do to sign up, by the way,

2142
02:32:26.040 --> 02:32:31.840
is called two five four eight four
eight ninety three ninety three, or

2143
02:32:31.399 --> 02:32:37.280
you can email Sally at Texas Gardner
dot com. We're going to head now

2144
02:32:37.520 --> 02:32:39.920
out to spring. For some reason, I have the hardest time finding the

2145
02:32:41.000 --> 02:32:43.040
cursor. Hey, Carl, how
can we help today? We're running short

2146
02:32:43.079 --> 02:32:46.360
on time, but I bet we
can get it done, okay, real

2147
02:32:46.440 --> 02:32:52.040
quick. My yard was doing great, very healthy, and then brown pass

2148
02:32:52.239 --> 02:32:56.200
just like exploded, and I thought
I'd been doing everything fine. Is it

2149
02:32:56.239 --> 02:33:00.319
too late to put down the fungus
stuff? You can? And what that

2150
02:33:00.399 --> 02:33:03.920
will do is it will prevent additional
infections. But the areas that have been

2151
02:33:03.920 --> 02:33:09.079
affected. The brown patch rots the
leaves off the runner, but it doesn't

2152
02:33:09.200 --> 02:33:13.399
kill the runner. So you get
this brown area and it's going to stay

2153
02:33:13.440 --> 02:33:16.920
brown until the weather worms up in
spring and the grass actively begins putting out

2154
02:33:16.959 --> 02:33:22.559
new leaves, and so those spots
are not going to be cured by the

2155
02:33:22.600 --> 02:33:28.040
fungus. You're just going to protect
the other grass from getting the fungus rotting

2156
02:33:28.040 --> 02:33:31.719
the leaves off of its runners.
Okay, great, thank you. Yeah,

2157
02:33:31.719 --> 02:33:35.000
it's been it's been a rough year
for it. I'm seeing it pop

2158
02:33:35.079 --> 02:33:39.440
up everywhere. But I was warning
gardeners several weeks ago that this is the

2159
02:33:39.479 --> 02:33:43.440
temperature and when everything's right, brown
patch sure takes off. But good luck

2160
02:33:43.479 --> 02:33:46.120
with that. Yes, sir,
thank you for the call. Carl,

2161
02:33:46.159 --> 02:33:50.200
I appreciate that. Yeah, there
are things that you know. This is

2162
02:33:50.200 --> 02:33:56.319
true. Let's just end this with
a real quick philosophical understanding of how disease

2163
02:33:56.399 --> 02:34:01.120
and lawns work, and that is
that when the conditions are right for the

2164
02:34:01.159 --> 02:34:05.200
disease, it takes off and it
does what it does. And we could

2165
02:34:05.360 --> 02:34:07.479
use algae as an example. That's
not a disease. But you've got a

2166
02:34:07.520 --> 02:34:11.159
brick side on your house, there's
no algae on it. Starts springing it

2167
02:34:11.200 --> 02:34:13.879
with a mist of water all day
long for a few days and watch what

2168
02:34:15.000 --> 02:34:18.799
shows up algae you created the conditions
it showed up. When you take a

2169
02:34:18.879 --> 02:34:24.159
lawn and you push it with nitrogen, especially a lawn in stress state,

2170
02:34:24.200 --> 02:34:28.000
when you mow it too low,
and when you water water keeping it wet

2171
02:34:28.079 --> 02:34:31.600
a lot, you're going to have
brown patch. It's going to take off

2172
02:34:31.600 --> 02:34:37.120
and grow. Those are the conditions
that predispose the lawn to that disease as

2173
02:34:37.159 --> 02:34:41.719
infection. Each disease has conditions that
make it where that disease can proliferate,

2174
02:34:43.079 --> 02:34:46.559
and so part of our brown patch
management may be using a product to protect

2175
02:34:46.559 --> 02:34:50.719
against it when we have an area
that gets it all the time. But

2176
02:34:50.840 --> 02:34:54.559
a big part of it is just
watching the way you take care of your

2177
02:34:54.639 --> 02:34:58.440
lawn. We can't control the temperature. That's the last factor in brown patch.

2178
02:34:58.440 --> 02:35:01.639
When it cools off here it comes. But we can control keeping it

2179
02:35:01.639 --> 02:35:07.200
wet all the time. We can
control overdoing the nitrogen fertilizer. Notice our

2180
02:35:07.239 --> 02:35:11.760
fall fertilizers aren't super high in nitrogen. And finally we can control not mowing

2181
02:35:11.840 --> 02:35:15.079
the grass so short. Keep it
about two and a half inches high.

2182
02:35:15.120 --> 02:35:18.200
That's what Saint Augustine wants to be. You can go a little higher than

2183
02:35:18.239 --> 02:35:20.120
that if you want, but anyway, those are some tips, some things

2184
02:35:20.120 --> 02:35:24.399
that think about on brown Patch because
it's going to be appearing all week until

2185
02:35:24.440 --> 02:35:28.479
we come back again next Saturday.
By the way, you are listening to

2186
02:35:28.520 --> 02:35:33.120
garden Line, and we're here every
Saturday. We're here every Sunday from six

2187
02:35:33.200 --> 02:35:35.479
am to ten am. You can
listen to us of course on the air.

2188
02:35:35.520 --> 02:35:39.479
It covers a wide area, all
the way from Louisiana border. Someone's

2189
02:35:39.520 --> 02:35:41.200
telling me the other day they were
in Lake Charles listening to the guard Line.

2190
02:35:41.440 --> 02:35:45.879
I've heard people call from Buffalo Way
up I forty five and all the

2191
02:35:45.879 --> 02:35:50.239
way over in certainly in New Bronfels, Texas. We cover an area,

2192
02:35:50.280 --> 02:35:52.319
but maybe you live outside that area. You can listen to us online.

2193
02:35:52.520 --> 02:35:56.559
You go to my website gardening with
Skip dot com. There's now a listen

2194
02:35:56.799 --> 02:36:01.200
to garden Line button on there'll take
you to this page where you can listen

2195
02:36:01.239 --> 02:36:05.840
live or you can listen to past
shows. We're available by podcasts, so

2196
02:36:07.120 --> 02:36:11.520
just go to your podcast supplier,
maybe iHeartMedia or whoever you use, and

2197
02:36:11.799 --> 02:36:16.079
type in garden Line and you can
listen to pass shows that way as well.

2198
02:36:16.360 --> 02:36:18.799
Well. Thanks for listening. We're
glad you're with us today. Certainly

2199
02:36:18.840 --> 02:36:22.440
had a good weekend. I hope
you have a good rest of your weekend,

2200
02:36:22.799 --> 02:36:26.040
and we'll look forward to talking to
you again next weekend here on guarden Line.