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KATRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
any of the products or services advertised on

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this program. Welcome to KATRH Garden
Line with Skip Rictor. Just watch him

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as well. Good Saturday morning,
on a good day for gardening. You're

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listening to garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Rictor, and we are

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going to be here until ten am
today. Be back tomorrow also same time.

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So look over next door. If
the lights aren't on, go over

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and knock on the door until the
neighbors are missing Garden Line. They will

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thank you later, probably not today, but eventually, we hope. Oh

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gosh. We're here to answer your
guard questions. You feel free to give

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us a call on garden Line.
I'm gonna give you number just a second

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here. But first thing I wanted
to mention is when you're thinking about calling

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into garden Line, if there is
i don't know, some hesitancy on your

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part. You know, maybe it's
like I've never been on the radio before.

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I don't don't want my voice out
there like that. I don't be

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afraid that I might mess up or
ask a stupid question or anything like that.

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Well, I'm here to tell you
don't worry about it. We will

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handle that. The way I like
to look at it is, don't worry

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about the stupid questions. I'll worry
about the stupid answers, and then I

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think we'll be all good. How
does that sound? Is that a good

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deal? Well, let's let's get
to the calls here as soon as you

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are ready to go seven one three, two, one two five eight seven

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

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ktrh. Just spell it out like
that will also work. You know,

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I was working out in the yard
this past week and just noticing the fact

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that our winter weeds are they are
loaded with seeds. They are on their

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way out. And as I and
when I have a situation like you know,

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there's some weeds over in this area, and they've already hit reproductive stage.

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In other words, they've got blooms
or they got seeds even worse already

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on them. The best thing you
can do is get them out of there

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by hand or mechanically, meaning run
a lawn mower over it as low as

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you can, set them more and
capture ever weed seeds you can. It's

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even better to just hand pull them
at that stage. If the soul's moist,

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it's not too hard enough. If
you've got an acre of lawn and

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it's solid weeds, okay, forget
that. We're gonna have to go with

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a different strategy. But just some
here and there. You know, if

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you think about it, a lot
of our weeds can make one hundred thousand

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seeds per per plan, and so
just that one plant not getting out of

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there when it's already too late to
spray them is a significant consequence. It

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sentences you. The way I like
to put it is it sentences you to

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twenty years of weeding. Now that
may be an exaggeration in some situations,

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but I guarantee you though not too
much. So do what you can to

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get them out of there. When
we want to prevent weeds, we have

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products it'll do that. And when
we want to kill existing broad leaf weeds

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in the lawn, there are products
that can do that. But those things

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that came out of winter and are
now about to die, they're doing their

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last two raw and throwing seed everywhere, those are the ones that are the

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concern right now. Now. Next
September October, we'll be talking about a

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pre emergent to stop next year's cool
season weeds from coming. But for right

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now, we are in the big
middle of dealing of course with our warm

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season weeds. And everybody has a
different tolerance for weeds. There are some

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people who if that lawn does not
look like to go back in time AstroTurf,

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I mean, if it's not just
perfect, nothing uneven, nothing unusual,

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all of these things are like the
other, then they want to get

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rid. They want to spray and
get rid of the weed. There are

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other people whose tolerance is really high, and it's like, look, weeds

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are green, crasses green. I'm
willing to mow, water and fertilize and

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get myself into a situation where I
don't have as many weeds to deal with,

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And you can take that approach to
it's up to you. We have

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a wide range of folks listeners,
your abilities to get out and do things,

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your willingness to use chemical products on
your plants. I understand there's a

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range out there, But that's something
you might want to think about and something

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that we are going to be dealing
with here all right. Our phone number

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again is seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four and We're going

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to start by going to Alvin and
talking to Danny Well. Good morning,

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Danny Well, Good morning, Skip, Good morning Nikki. Of first,

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I'd like to thank you for helping
me make the change in plans on selection

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of the grass. I'm going to
switch from my plan to use Coastermanuta by

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springing it and just go to Bermuda
Graphs, which I think would be better

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to smother what I'm wanting to do. And I'm wanting to smother some of

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these things, mainly the three poisons. So today I'm asking your opinion to

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help me perfect my dreamed up technique
of eradication of the three poisons, you

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know. And so I've got this
idea if I would dig a hole with

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a postal bigger right next to one
of these fresh stems coming up with the

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leaves on it, which would be
a good time, I think, to

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try to poison and just try to
bend it over and call it up and

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pack it down there in that hole. That about maybe ten or where events

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with a post o there and then
possibly put some rocks soft in there,

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and maybe something else that you might
know would be good to add to it.

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Then here you're talking about poison ivy. Oh yes, poison ivy,

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poison oak and poisons in max.
Okay, Well, there's a lot.

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There's a lot of it here,
and it's just it's just unbelievable how much

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I've tried, uh to do it
above the ground. I'm thinking if I

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would get this below the ground bended
over where it's stay stay alive instead of

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trying to shear it off, shave
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in a little hole and then fill
that hole up with some some clay and

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then also mixed like I do my
post holes, uh p's post hole with

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uh. Okay, I got I
think, you know, I get,

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I get the idea. I think
you're making it much harder than it needs

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to be. And I don't I
don't think that is necessarily a tribe chuse.

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It's just it just seems like it's
it's impossible. Here. Here's here's

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what I do, and here's what
a lot of people have had success with,

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and that is to get a product
that has the ingredient triclopier tri I

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clo p y R. And it's
in a lot of different things on the

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home, you know, garden market. It may be called poison ivy or

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poison oak. If the plants are
small, you can spram with it.

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If they're larger, you cut the
stem and you paint the cut surface,

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meaning just dab some of the triclopier
product on there and it'll translocate down and

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that will do the best job you
can. And I hope that's help.

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I'm gonna have to take a break
here, Danny and go to go to

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commercial. But yeah, I have
always had success with that approach to it.

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I hope I hope that you you
would too. You're listening to garden

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Line. I'm your host, Skip
Richter, and if you'd like to get

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on the boards seven one three two
one two fifty eight seventy four, then

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to see you and walk away from
me. All right, good Saturday morning.

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You are listening to garden Line.
I'm your host, Skip Richter,

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and our phone number is seven one
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Let's head on out to sugar Land
and we're gonna talk to Carl this

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morning. Good morning, Carl,
Good morning. How can I help today?

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Well, I've got a prob We
just moved into a house I've got

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I think was called flat iron plant
it's your brown and oak tree, okay,

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and apparently you're in the winter,
it had some damage. If it's

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look very green when we moved in, it's looks all ragged. Now I

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got a bunch of LEAs or wilton
and brown and whatever. I don't know

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if it's better to cut it all
down and let it go back. Well,

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that's a good question. Yeah,
that's a very good question, because

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a lot of people have That plan
is called cast iron, by the way,

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because it is as tough as cast
iron. And you got two options.

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You can go in on your hands
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bad leaves and the new growth will
is probably already coming up well, is

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already coming up through it, and
you can kind of selectively take out the

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bad that way, or if you
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thing off at the ground and it
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that if it were a late winter, I would say do the second one.

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Make it simple and easy. Right
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good new growth in there already,
So I kind of hate to cut the

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whole thing back, but that is
an option if you don't want to.

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If it's a little too tedious to
cut out just the ugly ones. Yeah,

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it would be if it's one.
I've got so much debt in it.

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Okay, Yeah, well then you
know, cut it, cut it

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back down and get all that debris
out of there. And it's a tough

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plan. It'll be back fantastic.
That's what I was thinking about, confirmation.

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Well, I'm glad you called,
Thank you, and you have a

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good rest of your day. You
are listening to Garden Line. I'm your

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host, Skip Richter Our number seven
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four seven one three two one two
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I'm going to be out next Saturday
at k and m Ace Hardburn,

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Kingwood. I'll be there from eleven
thirty to one thirty. I hope you'll

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come out. All of the folks
living up you know, Porter New Knee,

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Kingwood, anywhere up north in east
and by the way, if you

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live anywhere in the listening here and
you want to come over there, please

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do. I want to see you. We love to visit with the folks

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that are listening to the show,
and it gives you a chance to have

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some one on one time with me. You can bring in a plant sample

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and a bag. You can bring
in pictures on your phone, and we

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can just kind of have the time
to sit down and figure out what's going

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on, identify things, diagnose things, or even make some suggestions for improving

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on your landscape. That's next Saturday. K and m Ason Kingwood by the

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way, that's forty five forty Kingwood
Drive. Look forward to seeing you.

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I hope you can. You will
join us there. Let's head out now

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to talk to Mark and Willis.
Hello, Mark, Hey, good morning

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Skip. I have a question about
my yard. I have a zois ey

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yard. Okay, and do some
Two summers ago, I've been fighting Virginia

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button week for two years and I
sprayed the right chemicals on it. That's

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the wrong time of year, okay, and I think I didn't the heat

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of the summer skill Okay, two
summers ago. So I got dead grass

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in my yard. And last year
I thought, maybe it's not dead,

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it just needs to green up.
It's not greening up. What do I

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do in a small areas maybe a
twelve but twelve area? Okay? Well,

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Mark, do you do you happen
to know what variety of Zoisia you

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have? Okay, I think we
think, Mark, we've lost your audio.

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So I'm just going to keep going
here. Basically, you can cut

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zosia back to almost the ground and
it'll come back out again. So all

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the dead material, you know,
use a bagger, use a rake afterwards,

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and get that up out of there, kind of clean it up a

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little bit so that it doesn't just
get even more thatchy, and cut it

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back. And then if you've got
some zoisia that's living, that's not too

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far apart, Like maybe you've got
a ten foot area where there's a problem,

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but there's living zoisia through it,
it should fill back in. If

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not, you may need to take
some plugs from your lawn to put over

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there, or to go buy some
more zoysia. And if you know,

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if you don't know the name of
the variety of you got, it's gonna

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be a little hard to match it
up. There's a narrow leaf type and

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there is a also a it's a
broad leaf type and it's not broad at

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Saint Augustine, but it's the broader
leaf type of that. All right,

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Mark, I think we got your
back. Okay, Yes, I'm sort

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okay. So you said to cut
it down to the dirt, cut it

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down to the ground. Well well
I thought about that, yeah, but

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low, not to the dirt,
but but low, Okay, got the

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dinner is down. A little bit
of newl over that area, or just

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let the over, No, I
just I would let it grow over.

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And if it's too big of a
gap, you know, once you get

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past about you know, a foot
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long that it's probably worth just putting
new grass into those spots. Uh.

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And you can do it by if
you know your variety, buying that variety

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and getting some side pieces to fill
in. Or you can take plugs from

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your lawn and plug them in.
That's a lot more tedious, a lot

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more work, but it saves you
a little bit of money. Not a

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whole lot, but a little bit. All right. I appreciate it,

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all right, I appreciate I appreciate
your call. Uh. Yeah. You

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know, when we're dealing with problems
that are grass killing problems, and we

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don't have a lot of things that
kill grass. We can in Saint Augustine,

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We've about to take all root rot
and that that is significant. Others

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things like chinch bugs and grubs that
can do some damage, but take all

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the biggie when it comes to other
things. Every grass has its diseases,

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Bermuda grass, the asio grass,
they all have diseases that can affect them.

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Where we get in trouble is,
you know, with the broad leaf

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weed killer applications when temperatures get warm. Now I'm painting with a big brush

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when I say all broad leaf weed
killer applications right, because there's a lot

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of different products and there's a few
that are a little less harmful. When

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the temperature, let's say, gets
up about ninety two right in there,

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that most of the ones that we
would have used are no longer recommended because

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in the heat. And when I
say heat, and I'm talking about herbicides

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on turf, broad leaf post emergent
herbicides that is mid eighties, certainly upper

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eighties, that's where we start getting
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out to kill the weeds is making
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that's why we avoid those at that
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We're still in a pretty good time
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control done. So if you need
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earlier you get it done, the
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some of them are perennial. They've
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and kept going. Summer annuals.
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when the weather warms up in the
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easy to get rid of them.
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a little more difficult, but there's
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need to know what the weed is
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for managing that. You know,
I was talking about being out in the

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lawns and looking at weeds, and
I've got some areas in my lawn that

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do have weeds. By the way, that's true confessions right here on the

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air for everybody to hear. My
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kids go barefoot. So if I'm
if I'm running around doing every kind of

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thing in the world connected to the
radio show or agrilive extension, things like

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that, it's kind of hard to
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But we're working on it. But
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fertilizer out this past week on the
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a couple of different things. For
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you know, I'll try a little
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little of that one over there,
and see how they do, and you

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know, just make notes of the
difference, and they all perform well.

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The ones we talk about here on
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it's because they've been tested and we've
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realize that some things are a little
slower release than others. Some things or

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of course faster release than others,
and trying to get the right nutrients down

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at the right time is a big
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to happen is you're going to get
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mentioned Nitrofoss's Superturf nineteen four ten that
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release. A lot of the organic
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soil, they have an extended release
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when you do that, it spreads
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time. And so that is what
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dump all of a fast release and
expect the whole year's supply to be put

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down at one time, you're going
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then it's gonna wane off. And
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least two applications to gradually release,
or even better yet get something that's going

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to gradually over time feed that lawn, and that way you don't have the

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severe mowing pressure it seems like the
runout every day because it's grown in another

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six inches while you slept overnight.
We'd like to spread that out a little

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bit. It sounds like, do
I sound like someone who is speaking from

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experience, You go, indeed,
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you know, if from an environmental
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washes off and bodies of water and
it's gonna volatilize away when it rains and

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stuff. So there's just a lot
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or to get a product that'll do
that for you. Well, good

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Saturday morning. You are listening to
garden Line and I'm your host, Skip

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Richter. We are here to answer
your gardening questions. Our phone number.

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Write it down, and by the
way, I always listen to garden Line

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with a pen and a piece of
paper in hand, because we give out

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URLs, we give our product names, we talk about all kinds of resources,

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and you don't want to be like, oh my gosh, I missed

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it. What did he say earlier? Well, that's that's the way to

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avoid it. And so write this
down our phone number seven one three two

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one two five eight seven four.
Let's head out to Seabrook and we're going

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to visit with Sarah. Good morning, Sarah, Good morning, Skip,

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Thank you for taking my call.
Sure, I wanted to just plug our

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Earth Day fair at Unity Spirit Center
today from ten to two. It's on

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nineteen eleven Highway three South. All
right, and the public is welcome and

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the free food. All right.
Well, I appreciate that. Any gardening

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questions to go with that, or
are we just talking about the fair?

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Well, we're going to plant a
tree, And I wanted to ask you

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what's a good native tree that would
be hardy and not die back when we

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have a little freeze. Oh boy, Yeah, we have a bunch of

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them that do well. You know, I like them, some of the

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red oaks, specifically the nutall nutt
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or too many few els or anyway, nuttall is a good red oak for

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area, and it's tolerant of wet
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to the general area around Houston,
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All right, all right, okay, Well, we have a pond,

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and so we'll plant it close to
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you got a pond, cypress is
good. You need to get one that

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doesn't produce knees unless you just want
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it comes to planting in the yard, I've got us some cypress in the

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house. We bought that we're there
already, and oh my gosh, I

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can tell you each one produces ten
thousand knees. And I'm not a big

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fan of that. I didn't know
you could you could find them without the

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knees. Yeah, there are if
if you check out you know where you

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purchase your plants. There's one called
Montezuma cypress that is that is doesn't produce

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the knee, so but there may
they may have some other lines depending on

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where you purchase your trees. Alrighty, all right, thank thank you so

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much. I appreciate you. Alrighty, let's head out to Lakeside Estates and

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we're going to talk to Maureen.
Hello, Marine, good morning. I

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had great success with your suggestion on
my Okra seeds, and so now I

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have thirty eight little plants ready to
go, and I'm thinking, oh,

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what would you suggest? I have
large metal trellises which I can move anywhere

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in the yard, So about how
many should I plant? Thirty eight seems

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to be a lot. Now I
do have some pots so I can get

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some started, but I wanted to
get a rough idea since I've never planted

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Okrah before. I do like Okra. I'd be happy. And I do

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know some people if I get overwhelmed
with my harvest. Okay, so what

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is your thought in terms of it
will get bulls on. It isn't a

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rose soil mix, so it's got
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I think I'm off to a good
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come in. Okay, well,
I'll tell you I would. I would

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plant more rather than less. And
here's why. Let's say I'll make an

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extreme. You have three ochre plants
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saying, let's say you just planted
yea. My example is planting eight.

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Right. My example is if you
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you have three plants, you're going
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of those three plants. And ochre
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if you're trying to get enough to
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and you like fried okra or gumbo
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You can always drop pods on the
ground. If you can't, I

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mean, that's fine, just keep
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So I would look at your space
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need a trellis It sounds like with
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they should do well. So I
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for okra. No, Okrah is
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All right, all right, thank
you for your aformation. Well, good

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luck. I hear about how it
does. You're listening to garden Line.

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I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we are available if you call nine

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excuse me seven one three two one
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two one two five eight seven fours
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as this wild to see, well, good Saturday morning. I see a

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glow in the eastern horizon and I
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That means this is a good day
for gardening. It's also a good day

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to visit garden centers. I was
out and about yesterday, went to a

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bunch of different garden centers. You
know, we talk about a garden center

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for that part of town. Well, when you become a plant attic like

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me, every garden center within a
hundred mile one hundred miles is when you

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got to check out and see.
But there we guysh we are just we

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are filthy rich with garden centers around
the Houston area. I'm telling you,

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I've lived in lived in Austin,
lived in the San Antonio area, been

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up to Dallas, a lot of
different spots. There's good garden centers in

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every town, no question about that. In fact, I do garden center

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tourism' when I'm traveling, just seeing
some of the cool places that are out

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there. But Houston, no matter
where you live in town, north,

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northeast, northwest, southwest, southeast, a central town, that there's an

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awesome garden center. And if a
friend called me up and said, hey,

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I'm coming to Houston, and what
are some good garden centers, I

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would say, well, well,
get out a long piece of paper.

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But no matter where they're where they're
going to be staying, there are some

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places they absolutely have to visit.
And I'm telling you this, this isn't

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like an ad for a garden center. I'm just saying we've got a lot

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of them, and we talk about
a lot of them here on Garden Line.

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But it is that it is amazing
the quality of plants, the knowledge

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of the staff in these places.
You know, you can you can always

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go someplace to try to find a
cheap plant somewhere. But I want to

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tell you something. When you go
and all you're thinking about is what's the

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cheapest plant I can find, I'm
going to say you're wasting money and here's

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why. I've seen the way that
a lot of the big chains, national

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chains and whatnot take care of their
plants, and basically they don't. The

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plant comes off the truck looking good. Two days later it's wilted. They're

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not getting it. It's not getting
watered. The selection isn't good. You

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know, the stuff that they carry
often shouldn't be grown here. And I'm

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going to avoid using specific names,
but I bet you can think of three

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or four or and when you have
that kind of situation, like, for

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example, a red raspberry for sale
for Houston. In Houston, a concord

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grape. Everybody knows Welch's grape.
Use that's conquered grapes, Mogen David wine

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if you want, if you will, conquered grapes here. They don't do

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well, prone to diseases like crazy. The berries ripen in a cluster about

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one at a time practically, and
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When you go to an independent guard
I know I'm on a soapbox, but

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bear with me a minute, because
I feel really strong about this. When

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you go an independent garden center.
Oh, the last thing is they don't

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some of these places. If you
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they don't know what they're talking about. And I've tested it out several times.

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One time I was in one of
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places, national places, and I
was going to do a training for the

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staff, because trust me, any
training, and the guy who I raised

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it with, by the time I
got there, a different guard center manager

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was there and it was a guy
who was managing the jewelry counter the day

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before. So how much is that
guy going to know about gardening. I've

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been to a place like this and
standing there looking at the wall of products

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best besides herbicides, all that stuff, and a person came up and said

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can I help you? And we
began talking and I found out well,

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they were new, they'd just been
this was our first week, and before

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this their job was working in a
beauty shop cutting hair. Now is that

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the person you want to point you
to the best herbicide, to tell you

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which herbicide you need to tell you
how to apply it? Of course not

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when you go to an independent garden
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I've been to them. I know
the families that run them, I know

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a lot of the people that work
there, and they're trained, they know

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what they're talking about. Number One, they greet you at the door and

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they will walk through with you,
helping you select plants. You know,

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say, man, I don't know, really, I want a beautiful flower

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bed, but I don't know which, And they go follow me and they

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take you to the products that will
best meet your needs and they tell you

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how to plant them. If you
buy products, they tell you how to

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use them. They will tell you
if you don't need a product. You

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know, you think I need a
weed. I've got all these winter weeds,

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and they'll say, no, don't. Now is not the time.

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It's too late. Let's focus on
summer. And they avoid that. And

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I'm telling you when I started off
talking about saving money, it saves money

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to buy a quality product. It
may cost a little more, but you

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have expert advice. And when you
come back in and you've got a problem

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with it, you have expert advice
versus a plant that hasn't been taken care

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of, that is probably not the
right plant for your area, and that

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you're going to be replacing anyway.
Along with the disappointment of watching it not

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perform. Do you see what I'm
saying. Do you see why this is

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a soapbox for me. We're fortunate
to have these garden centers here, talk

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about a lot of them on garden
Line, and you need to take advantage

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of that, so that whole mindset
of I bet I can get a cheaper

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whatever over here, it costs you
money. It's like cheap pruners you may

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have. I could fill a five
gallon bucket with the worthless pruners over my

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lifetime that I have had, have
gotten given to me or something. A

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quality set of pruners last year,
almost your whole life, replaceable, blade

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sharpenable. That's just a poster example
of what I'm talking about when I talk

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about our independent garden centers. When
you think about how do I save money,

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think about quality plants, quality advice, and enjoying those for years and

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years to come. That's what we're
talking about here. We are here to

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steer you toward that. You're listening
to garden Line by the way, as

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I rant this morning, but that's
okay. Seven one three two one two

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five eight seven four KTRH. Garden
Line does not necessarily endorse any of the

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products services advertised on this program.
Welcome to KTRH Garden Line with Skip Rictords.

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Just watching a good Saturday morning,
on a good day for gardening,

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as ever day is. I see
the sun shining through hitting some tree tops

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over here at the station. Oh
my gosh, what a day. What

419
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a day to be outside, What
a day to visit a garden center,

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to get some stuff done in the
yard. Oh man, I can't wait.

421
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So but we got to stay here
till ten ten am and talk to

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you about your gardening questions. I
say, got to. We get to.

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Actually, my two happy places are
sitting out in the garden doing anything

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in the garden, landscape and garden
so on, and talking to gardeners.

425
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I love talking to people who are
interested in gardening. It's what I've done

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00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:07.119
my whole career, and I just
I just find number one, I always

427
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learned something. I mean, there
are folks that know things that I hadn't

428
00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:15.400
even heard before that often come out
as you as your garden visiting with a

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gardener. I love being able to
help people with their gardening questions. There's

430
00:32:20.759 --> 00:32:24.240
a satisfaction in that and steering somebody
in the right way. I wanted to

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mention something this morning yesterday was Aggie
Muster. An Aggie Muster is something's been

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done at A and M for over
one hundred years, and it is a

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remembrance of the students, former students
at Texas and M that have passed away

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in the last year. And these
names are read. Aggie Musters are held

435
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now all over the world. There
you know, back you go back to

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World War two times. There was
a nineteen forty two a Carregador must where

437
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a bunch of Aggie's on the island
of Gador and the Philippines got together during

438
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during the time they were being under
a shelling attack. That's just an example.

439
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But the reason I bring it up
today, Number one, it was

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yesterday, But yesterday Randy's name was
read, and that, you know,

441
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every time we think about that,
it's a it's a sad, sad thought

442
00:33:17.680 --> 00:33:22.559
about losing Randy and just all that
he meant to not only the listeners,

443
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but for the many many years that
he was host here of Garden Line.

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And at the same time, I
just know that Randy would be very,

445
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very proud to know that his name
is being remembered in some special ways.

446
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One way is a scholarship and I've
talked about this before, but Dan Nelson

447
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helped set up through the A and
M hort Department, a scholarship on Randy's

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00:33:50.039 --> 00:33:54.400
name for a horticulture student. These
are the folks like myself that keep gardening

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going in a modern world. It's
called the Randy Lemon Class eighty four Memorial

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Scholarship, and it'll be used to
provide support for future horticulture students. Now

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you can go online to give and
let me. Let me give you the

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I'm gonna give you a website in
just a minute, so time to grab

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a pen and paper. But I
ask you at least write this down and

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consider it. And that's give dot
am slash Randy Lemon with two ms.

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By the way, give dot am
slash Randy Lemon, Ellie M M O

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N. I know Randy would be
thrilled at the thought of his legacy continuing

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to educate horticulture students at the university, and that is just I guess that's

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one of the simplest ways to honor
his memory in terms of all the help

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that he's provided to all of you
in this listening area over the many many

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years. By the way, I
mentioned I was talking about Bruce's Brew,

461
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the eighteen forty nine that Nelson's produces. If you get a bag this weekend,

462
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we're about to come. I think
the first May is about the time

463
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of this wind's up, so you
need to not delay get it done right

464
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now. But if you get a
bag of Bruce's Brew this weekend, two

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dollars for each bag purchased will be
donated by Turf Star to Camp Hope in

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the name of Randy Lemon. A
Camp Hope is it was a cause that

467
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was near and dear to Randy,
and it just a wonderful resource for veterans.

468
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But if you're thinking about buying a
Bruce's Brew, go ahead and get

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that done this weekend, because in
addition to getting a good fertilizer, you're

470
00:35:37.480 --> 00:35:43.599
gonna be providing two dollars toward a
donation to a good cause and Camp Hope,

471
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and that is in the name of
Randy Lemon. Let's go to the

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phones now. Our number is seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four, and we're going to head
out to northwest Houston and talk to Ralph.

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Hello, Ralph, well, good
morning, they're good. Just have

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you home. Stir you do a
good job. Oh, yes, I'm

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my vital would north Maine. He
doesn't. Yeah, I can't find me

477
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:19.920
any butter beans. I've got a
big bored I talked to you before,

478
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well big garden, and I need
I need some butter bean. They did

479
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for some reason. Okay, So
you're looking for where to get seeds,

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yes, man, Yes, if
you're if you're in northwest Houston, you

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ought to be able to find seeds
at a place like Plants for All Seasons

482
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or harbor Gate. There ought to
be some seeds available there. Uh,

483
00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:46.360
it's a little bit of a drive
into town. But I know that UM

484
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Quality Feed, for example, does
carry seeds, and they I believe they're

485
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:57.119
they're um Old seed rack where you
just buy them by the scoop. They

486
00:36:57.239 --> 00:36:59.760
probably have got butterbeans in there.
You might want to give him a call

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to be sure. But they're they're
pretty available. Oh, I've been around.

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But of nor North Maine, they
move that place. Do you know

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00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:10.639
what they moved off of Nord Maine. Yes, and I'm gonna I'll tell

490
00:37:10.639 --> 00:37:14.440
you what. I'm gonna have to
grab that address. I don't have it

491
00:37:14.480 --> 00:37:17.119
in my head, but I will. I will announce that on the air.

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00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:22.880
Yeah sometimes this morning. Well,
Ralph, I appreciate that call.

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I also appreciate that you know how
to say butterbeans. Butterbeans. Yeah,

494
00:37:29.559 --> 00:37:32.679
well they better than what they're trying
to sell me. Okay, oh,

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00:37:32.719 --> 00:37:36.760
I appreciate it. Thank you,
hey, good, thank you so much

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for the call of the kind words. You know. I uh, you

497
00:37:39.320 --> 00:37:44.039
can tell where someone is from by
by how they say. And I'm gonna

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sound it out. Butter bean.
Uh. If they're from the North,

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they're called lima beans. If they're
from the South, they're called butterbeans.

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If they're from the Deep South,
they're butterbeans instead of two teas two d's

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00:37:55.119 --> 00:38:01.760
butterbeans. And if you've ever had
fresh grown quality butter beans, there are

502
00:38:01.800 --> 00:38:05.360
a few things like it. I
you know, some of the black eyed

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00:38:05.679 --> 00:38:08.559
pea, purple whole things that they
come close. But when you cook up

504
00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:12.760
a fresh batch of that, the
little bacon, little onions in there,

505
00:38:12.960 --> 00:38:15.679
oh my gosh, that's a whole
meal. And really I could just sit

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00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:21.000
down and eat a bowl of butter
beans, and oh my gosh, go

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00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:27.800
into a butterbean coma from enjoying the
wonderful, wonderful flavors of that well,

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you're listening to garden Line and our
phone number if you'd like to give us

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00:38:30.239 --> 00:38:35.480
a call seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. I just

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00:38:35.480 --> 00:38:39.079
want to remind you next Saturday,
I'll be at k and m Ace Hardware

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and Kingwood that's on Kingwood Drive from
eleven thirty to one thirty PM. I

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hope you'll come out and see us. I believe that Josh is feeling soulful

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00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:14.519
this morning. We are getting some
smooth stuff for our Saturday in the garden.

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00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:19.119
By gosh, look at the weather. Look outside. You need to

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00:39:19.159 --> 00:39:22.440
not be indoors all day to day, that's for sure. My gosh,

516
00:39:22.480 --> 00:39:25.880
it's a good time to get out
in garden. I love you know.

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00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:31.440
There is something therapeutic about just being
outside in the garden. And I've talked

518
00:39:31.480 --> 00:39:36.960
about this before, but they're literally
a scientific research on the benefits of just

519
00:39:37.199 --> 00:39:42.840
being in nature around plants, and
it's significant. It's you know, it's

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00:39:42.840 --> 00:39:47.199
not just exercise and fresh air.
It's it's the mental benefits that occur if

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00:39:47.239 --> 00:39:51.400
you're young, if you're old,
if you're dealing with add if you're dealing

522
00:39:51.400 --> 00:39:55.559
with depression, plants or your medicine
and I encourage those of you who are

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00:39:55.559 --> 00:40:00.400
listening, who maybe aren't gardeners,
but you just love to listen the garden

524
00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:02.519
line, or maybe you tune in
because you don't know what crazy song or

525
00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:07.920
stupid thing I'm gonna say the next
time, But seriously, give it a

526
00:40:07.960 --> 00:40:12.519
try for your own sake. And
if you've got kiddos, get them involved

527
00:40:12.559 --> 00:40:16.519
in the garden. That this is
a lifetime benefit for them. When they

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00:40:16.559 --> 00:40:21.480
grow things and they learn to eat
fresh vegetables because they grow in themselves,

529
00:40:21.480 --> 00:40:25.320
they're more willing to It could change
their health for the rest of their life,

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00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:29.440
because we all know that our main
health problem is what we put in

531
00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:34.440
our mouths, right, And so
I would encourage that it's a wonderful hobby

532
00:40:34.480 --> 00:40:38.360
too, just an absolute wonderful hobby. I obviously am biased, but I'm

533
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:44.559
telling you I'm pointing to research you
could make. In fact, one time,

534
00:40:44.599 --> 00:40:47.960
I start printing out research on the
benefits of gardening, the many different

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types of benefits, and on and
on, and the stack just kept getting

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hired. Here. I bet,
I bet you could make a foot high

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00:40:53.880 --> 00:41:00.760
stack of just the stuff that has
been studied in a replicated trial established as

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00:41:00.760 --> 00:41:05.679
a fact that these are ways that
gardening helped you. So congratulations for listening

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00:41:05.719 --> 00:41:08.239
to Garden Line. If you are
in any way interested in gardening, you

540
00:41:08.320 --> 00:41:13.280
are on the right path for many
many reasons. Hey, our phone number

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if you'd like to give us a
call is seven to one three two one

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

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I was mentioning heirloom soils a little
bit earlier, and I have had

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in over the years. I have
had I purchased soil by bags. I

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00:41:32.320 --> 00:41:37.599
have had a dump truck dump soil
in my driveway. I have gone in

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00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:42.360
a flatbed trailer to pick up a
big bucket full of soil to bring home,

547
00:41:42.480 --> 00:41:44.880
try to strap it down and keep
it from all blowing out and going

548
00:41:44.880 --> 00:41:51.800
down the highway. But then the
innovation that I think is just remarkable are

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the large super sacks. We're talking
about a one cubic yard supersac, and

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00:41:57.199 --> 00:42:01.079
Heirloom Soil provides those. They have
a lot of the products, so some

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00:42:01.119 --> 00:42:05.159
of their select products, not everything
they sell, but a lot of them

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00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.159
are available in bulk and in the
one yard supersack. So you can go

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to the porter location and by the
way, go to Airloom Soils of Texas

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00:42:13.760 --> 00:42:19.159
dot com Airlooms Soils of Texas dot
com and you can find out where they're

555
00:42:19.159 --> 00:42:22.960
located. You can drive up there
with your big your big trailer and have

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00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:27.880
them set some supersacks on it for
you, or you can have them deliver

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00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:30.239
it. You just need to call. And you know there's a delivery fee

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00:42:30.239 --> 00:42:34.280
to get them out. Of course, that's that's always the case when you're

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00:42:34.320 --> 00:42:37.519
hauling things around town. But they
can deliver it to you, so give

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00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:43.280
them a call. Check out that
website and if you've not tried supersacks before,

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00:42:43.519 --> 00:42:46.559
you should. It is neat and
clean. You're not sweeping and blowing

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00:42:46.599 --> 00:42:52.280
off and washing off your driveway afterwards. Supersacks, I think are the way

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to go. Well, you're listening
to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip

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00:42:55.320 --> 00:43:01.199
Wrecter, and we are here to
answer your gardening questions. We you know,

565
00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:07.239
try to be as as informative as
we can. We try to give

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00:43:07.280 --> 00:43:14.159
you the options that you have.
I always have to balance between going nerdy

567
00:43:14.320 --> 00:43:19.159
and giving all the facts about a
question versus the caller who wants to know

568
00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:22.079
just tell me what to get and
where to get it. Just tell me

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00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:24.920
how to kill it. Just tell
me you know what to do. And

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00:43:25.440 --> 00:43:29.920
so we try to walk between that
line here because I think there's a benefit

571
00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:35.000
in knowing some of the why,
some of the why would you do this?

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00:43:35.239 --> 00:43:37.679
Behind the how do you do this? And when you when you learn

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00:43:37.800 --> 00:43:43.480
that, it helps you make more
informed, informed decisions and helps you understand

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00:43:43.719 --> 00:43:47.119
why what you're doing is helpful and
why it's going to be successful. Well,

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let's take a moment and go back
to the phones. And by the

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00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:54.000
way, the number seven one three
two one two five eight seven four.

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00:43:54.400 --> 00:44:00.119
We're going to Lisa in Seabrook.
Hello, Lisa, warning. I have

578
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:06.760
a question about thornless blackberries. Can
they be grown in containers? And do

579
00:44:06.840 --> 00:44:08.719
they produce well? Because I'm just
used to the one, the wow one.

580
00:44:09.119 --> 00:44:15.599
Yeah, thornless blackberries will do well
if the container is large enough.

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00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:19.400
So I'm thinking, oh, picture
a half whiskey barrel. You know,

582
00:44:19.440 --> 00:44:22.440
you may want to get a plastic
or a pottery version of it. So,

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00:44:22.760 --> 00:44:27.880
because the whiskey barrels rot out over
time, they're not treated wood.

584
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:32.880
And but about that volume of soil, I grew some blackberries and I grew

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00:44:32.920 --> 00:44:37.400
one called punk up Eo NCA.
It probably can find. It's a little

586
00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:43.440
hard to find, but there are
a couple of one called Traveler Arkansas Traveler,

587
00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:47.039
and then let's see what's the other
one. The couple of their thornless

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and they're newer varieties from Arkansas.
Think of it in just a moment,

589
00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:57.679
but they're they're prime primo cane bearing. Now the blackberries you've been used to

590
00:44:57.719 --> 00:45:01.679
picking, Lisa, they grow a
one year, or grow a cane upwards

591
00:45:01.920 --> 00:45:05.840
one year, and then the next
year, after it's gone through winter,

592
00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:08.760
that's when it blooms in fruits and
then it dies. So you've got a

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00:45:08.880 --> 00:45:12.800
cycle going on. Eat at any
point in time, like right now,

594
00:45:12.840 --> 00:45:16.360
if you had a BlackBerry patch,
you would have blackberries that were setting on

595
00:45:16.480 --> 00:45:21.079
last year's growth, and then you
would have new shoots coming way up for

596
00:45:21.199 --> 00:45:25.000
next year. And with the prima
cane bearers, they bear the first year

597
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:29.440
as well as the second year.
So that's a really unique thing, and

598
00:45:29.480 --> 00:45:34.599
i'd encourage you if you're looking for
a thornless a couple of names. There

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00:45:34.840 --> 00:45:37.280
are other good varieties out there,
but two that come to mind. The

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00:45:37.280 --> 00:45:43.320
one I was trying to think of
is prime Arc pr I m r K

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like Prima Cane Bearing from Arkansas.
Primark Freedom and Primark Traveler are two good

602
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:52.960
ones and where depending on where you
shop, you're going to find some other

603
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:54.679
good options. But if you go
to a good quality nursery, they won't

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00:45:54.679 --> 00:46:00.320
steer your Can you use road soil? I would use rose soil. You

605
00:46:00.320 --> 00:46:04.840
can use a lot of different soils. But this is a long term planting.

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00:46:05.239 --> 00:46:07.599
So you know a lot of times
with potting soil you got something really

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00:46:07.639 --> 00:46:14.000
fine textured and it it just oxidizes
away. You want something that's going to

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00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:16.760
hold up in that container for a
period of time, so something a little

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00:46:16.760 --> 00:46:21.079
bit chunkier can be helpful. Now
I'm not talking about you know, big

610
00:46:21.119 --> 00:46:24.880
wood junks that like mulch, but
for a longer term like that, I

611
00:46:24.920 --> 00:46:28.719
think that would be a good choice. And rose soil certainly would would be

612
00:46:28.719 --> 00:46:34.320
fine for that. Thank you,
all right, good luck. I love

613
00:46:34.880 --> 00:46:38.199
thornless blackberries. They are super.
Hey. Let's run out to Richmond now

614
00:46:38.320 --> 00:46:43.519
and we're going to talk to Betty. Hello, Betty, good morning.

615
00:46:43.559 --> 00:46:46.639
How are you this morning? Well? I'm doing absolutely wonderful, and it's

616
00:46:46.639 --> 00:46:52.440
because I keep looking outside thinking about
what all I'm going to enjoy outdoors after

617
00:46:52.559 --> 00:46:58.440
ten am me too. All right, I'm calling this morning because I have

618
00:46:58.559 --> 00:47:04.119
been overcome with nails. They're brown, they're sticky, They're everywhere. I've

619
00:47:04.920 --> 00:47:08.719
put soap on and I've tried salt
on them. They just keep eating everything

620
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:14.119
in my garden. I've tried coffee
grounds, which I've seen on the internet,

621
00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:16.119
and I just I'm inundated with them. I don't know where they come

622
00:47:16.119 --> 00:47:19.679
from and how to get rid of
them. Help me, Betty, I'm

623
00:47:19.679 --> 00:47:22.639
gonna tell you how to do it. You need to go and buy what's

624
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:25.840
called a snail bait, and there's
several brands in the market, so I'm

625
00:47:25.840 --> 00:47:30.039
not going to get into specific brands
again. A good garden center will take

626
00:47:30.079 --> 00:47:31.679
you to the one they sell,
and they will sell the ones at work.

627
00:47:32.280 --> 00:47:37.440
But it's it's the snail killer ingredient
that's mixed into a bait that they

628
00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:40.480
want to eat. You want to
use it when it's fresh. Don't store

629
00:47:40.480 --> 00:47:45.840
it in a garage or in a
building all summer outside because if it doesn't

630
00:47:45.920 --> 00:47:50.159
if it's not appealing for the snails
to eat, they're not going to eat

631
00:47:50.199 --> 00:47:52.559
it. And so you want to
put them out. Don't just dribble a

632
00:47:52.559 --> 00:47:57.480
little here and there, follow the
label because you want them to eat it,

633
00:47:57.599 --> 00:48:00.079
get sick and die, and snail
bait is probably the simplest, least

634
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:05.559
toxic way to get that done.
So we can go around my vegetables,

635
00:48:05.679 --> 00:48:07.440
no problem. Yes, what I
do is I'll put it out in a

636
00:48:07.440 --> 00:48:10.840
little flat trays on the ground and
the snails will find it. Put it

637
00:48:10.920 --> 00:48:15.519
near the plants that they're going up. Okay, okay, thank you,

638
00:48:15.559 --> 00:48:21.199
so you bad good luck with that. And I guess another option would be,

639
00:48:21.679 --> 00:48:24.840
you know they say, when life
gives you lemons, make an Maybe

640
00:48:24.840 --> 00:48:30.280
we just need an s cargo recipe, Oh, garlic, a little butter.

641
00:48:30.320 --> 00:48:31.440
I don't want to infer you can
eat all the snails out there.

642
00:48:31.519 --> 00:48:37.280
So this is a disclaimer. It
was a joke. It was those are

643
00:48:37.320 --> 00:48:40.000
not the ones that you want to
have when life gives you snails, make

644
00:48:40.159 --> 00:48:58.039
s cargo. Indeed, it's not
It's not unusual to see, well,

645
00:48:58.119 --> 00:49:01.039
good morning on a good day for
gardening, as I always say, because

646
00:49:01.079 --> 00:49:04.719
every day is a good day for
gardening. If you're wondering, well,

647
00:49:04.719 --> 00:49:07.400
how can you say that? What
if it's freezing outside? What if it's

648
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:10.880
raining outside and a hurricane is blowing
through. It's a good day for gardening

649
00:49:10.920 --> 00:49:15.880
because you have houseplants, you have
seeds to start indoors. You've got catalogs

650
00:49:15.920 --> 00:49:20.960
to peruse or things to check out
online that will make you a better gardener.

651
00:49:21.239 --> 00:49:23.960
Every day is a good day for
gardening. And you're listening to garden

652
00:49:24.000 --> 00:49:28.679
Line, I'm your host, Skip
Richter our phone number. Write this down

653
00:49:29.000 --> 00:49:35.239
seven one three two one two five
eight seven four seven one three two one

654
00:49:35.360 --> 00:49:42.320
two fifty eight seventy four. I
was mentioning earlier talking about lawns and different

655
00:49:42.320 --> 00:49:47.239
things in the vegetable garden. In
my vegetable garden, I've got some vegetables

656
00:49:47.280 --> 00:49:50.760
that I haven't grown before, and
I do that all the time. I

657
00:49:51.440 --> 00:49:57.360
just my policy when I plant a
garden is to start with the species and

658
00:49:57.480 --> 00:50:00.639
varieties that I know will do well
here. So something just an example,

659
00:50:01.039 --> 00:50:05.920
celebrity tomato. It's an old time
tomato, been around a long time,

660
00:50:06.800 --> 00:50:10.320
resistance and nematodes, which is rare
in tomatoes, and it's just a good

661
00:50:10.320 --> 00:50:15.599
one. But then I always add
two or three others to just try out.

662
00:50:15.760 --> 00:50:17.880
That's how you end up finding your
favorites just by exploring a little bit.

663
00:50:19.400 --> 00:50:24.159
This past two winters, I've tried
a vegetable called chi jim assai and

664
00:50:24.719 --> 00:50:29.559
that is what one seed company calls
it. I believe it's Baker Creek calls

665
00:50:29.599 --> 00:50:32.800
there. There's chie jim Assi.
There are other companies that offer this same

666
00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:38.559
cross between tutsi and another Asian vegetable
that's not coming to me right now.

667
00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:45.199
But chi jim assi hi ji m
i s Ai, I believe, and

668
00:50:45.239 --> 00:50:51.000
that are spelling. It has dark
green leaves and it's mild. It's in

669
00:50:51.039 --> 00:50:54.000
that Cabot family of vegetables that some
things can be very mild and then when

670
00:50:54.039 --> 00:50:59.320
you get over on the mustard end
it gets it gets pretty strong flavored.

671
00:50:59.440 --> 00:51:01.760
This one is a mild flavored,
so I can eat it fresh. I

672
00:51:01.760 --> 00:51:05.039
don't you know. I don't need
to cook it or mix it with other

673
00:51:05.079 --> 00:51:07.800
things. You can use it in
a stir fry or whatnot. But it's

674
00:51:07.840 --> 00:51:10.679
just an unusual one, and I
don't know. I'm not here to promote

675
00:51:10.719 --> 00:51:14.760
chi Gennosia. I'm just saying that
that's a new one that I tried.

676
00:51:14.800 --> 00:51:16.199
And if you haven't tried it before, and you're a vegetable gardener. You

677
00:51:16.199 --> 00:51:19.639
ought to give that a try.
I think you'll find it interesting. But

678
00:51:19.760 --> 00:51:22.880
most of all, when you plant
your garden, maybe it's time for a

679
00:51:22.920 --> 00:51:29.119
summer garden. There's some greens that
are for warm season, and let me

680
00:51:29.159 --> 00:51:31.280
talk about those a little bit more
in a moment. Right now, I'm

681
00:51:31.320 --> 00:51:35.719
going to go to the phones and
we're heading to Cyprus and we're going to

682
00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:38.639
talk to John. Good morning,
John, Hey, Skip, how are

683
00:51:38.679 --> 00:51:44.880
you going? I'm well, thank
you, good hey. I've been usually

684
00:51:44.880 --> 00:51:50.280
trying to follow Randy's fertilizer schedule,
but this year I'm a little late.

685
00:51:50.639 --> 00:51:53.760
I put the fifteen five ten down
last weekend. Okay, I know I

686
00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:59.320
should be putting what's that? I
just said? Okay, I'm sorry in

687
00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:04.559
a rust, And then I want
to put the nineteen four ten down.

688
00:52:04.719 --> 00:52:07.280
But would it be all right to
put that down this weekend? I would

689
00:52:07.280 --> 00:52:10.599
not do that. Go ahead and
get it and have it, but give

690
00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:15.320
that give that fifteen five ten about
six weeks or so and then come back.

691
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:20.679
Otherwise you're just really loading the lawn
up with nitrogen, because the fifteen

692
00:52:20.719 --> 00:52:23.639
five ten is going to be a
quick release and the other will be a

693
00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:28.800
slower release over time, so I'd
give them a little space. Both good

694
00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:32.840
fertile. Yeah, so about six
weeks then you say about six weeks.

695
00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:36.239
Yeah, I watch your lawn and
it'll tell you. I mean, if

696
00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:38.599
you're if it's growing so fast you
can't keep up mowing it, hold off,

697
00:52:38.679 --> 00:52:42.800
give it a little more time.
There's nothing wrong with fertilizing at other

698
00:52:42.880 --> 00:52:46.840
times, but we fertilize to build
lawn density and good lawn color. And

699
00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:52.519
so look at your lawn and if
it's like I'm not, really it's not

700
00:52:52.559 --> 00:52:55.480
what I want it to be,
well, then it's probably time to go

701
00:52:55.480 --> 00:53:01.840
ahead and fertilize again as well as
equent mowing, and just don't overdo the

702
00:53:01.880 --> 00:53:07.519
watering and you can have a beautiful
lawn. Okay, great now. My

703
00:53:07.719 --> 00:53:10.760
other question I had was, for
some reason we have a problem with moss

704
00:53:10.760 --> 00:53:15.599
in my yard. Is there anything
that attracts those things more than anything else.

705
00:53:15.760 --> 00:53:22.239
Well, people in the Greater Houston
area are very skittish because of the

706
00:53:22.280 --> 00:53:24.800
side web worm that was so bad
a few years ago. In fact,

707
00:53:24.800 --> 00:53:28.920
it's been bad more than one year, but it's a very hit and miss.

708
00:53:29.280 --> 00:53:31.599
And if you're seeing moths now,
I do not think you're seeing sideweb

709
00:53:31.639 --> 00:53:37.119
worms. That's going to come later
in the summer. So there are a

710
00:53:37.239 --> 00:53:42.639
million types of moths flying around.
And just because we've become moths skittish since

711
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:46.280
the side web worm, Now every
moth is a concern, but you don't

712
00:53:46.280 --> 00:53:49.920
have to worry about that. I
would not worry about the moths at all.

713
00:53:50.000 --> 00:53:53.039
Right now, okay, all right, all right, hey John,

714
00:53:53.079 --> 00:53:57.239
I appreciate that call. We're going
to go to break, Linda. We

715
00:53:57.280 --> 00:54:00.079
will come to you first thing after
break. You were listening to garden Line.

716
00:54:00.119 --> 00:54:02.880
I'm your host, skip Rictor.
Give us a call seven one three

717
00:54:02.960 --> 00:54:29.760
two one two fifty eight seventy four
pocket. Well, good Saturday morning on

718
00:54:29.840 --> 00:54:32.000
a good day for gardening. I'm
your host, skip Rictor. This is

719
00:54:32.039 --> 00:54:35.480
garden Line, and if you would
like to give us a call, our

720
00:54:35.599 --> 00:54:39.480
number is seven one three two one
two five eight seven four. And let's

721
00:54:39.519 --> 00:54:43.280
head right back out. We've got
some calls on the board here. We're

722
00:54:43.280 --> 00:54:47.519
gonna talk to Linda out in Dickinson. Hello, Linda, Hi, thank

723
00:54:47.559 --> 00:54:55.960
you for taking a call. I
replaced someone cors with regulars about two months

724
00:54:55.960 --> 00:55:01.679
ago. The plants look very healthy. I have new growth this week.

725
00:55:02.679 --> 00:55:07.119
I know this yellow leaves appearing home, and it's really odd because I have

726
00:55:07.280 --> 00:55:13.639
some dwarf once planted in front of
them and two regulars behind them, and

727
00:55:13.719 --> 00:55:17.239
they don't have any yellow leaves.
Okay, flow row. How long ago

728
00:55:17.280 --> 00:55:23.320
were they planted? About two months? Two months? And are the yellow

729
00:55:23.400 --> 00:55:28.760
leaves the new growth out at the
end of the shoot or is it some

730
00:55:28.840 --> 00:55:32.519
of the bigger leaves further back on
the shoot? Do you know, some

731
00:55:32.760 --> 00:55:37.679
further back to further back. Okay, that that is going to be some

732
00:55:37.719 --> 00:55:43.360
sort of a root water or damage
kind of situation. If they've been in

733
00:55:43.400 --> 00:55:46.960
the ground two months, I'm sure
they're rooting in pretty well. But the

734
00:55:47.000 --> 00:55:52.119
whole plant root system is in that
little cylinder you pulled out of the pod.

735
00:55:52.760 --> 00:55:55.199
So any plant that's been in the
ground a while has an extensive root

736
00:55:55.239 --> 00:55:59.480
system and it gets a little dry, and it's okay because it can it

737
00:55:59.519 --> 00:56:01.960
can reach out into more soil to
get moisture from. But a new plant

738
00:56:02.280 --> 00:56:07.920
for really the first six months or
year is still developing that root system,

739
00:56:07.960 --> 00:56:09.880
and I think that's what's happened.
I think they got a little bit dry

740
00:56:10.519 --> 00:56:15.920
and so they just need a little
bit more regular water, especially in that

741
00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:21.719
area where the cylinder of soil went
into the ground, because the soil around

742
00:56:21.719 --> 00:56:24.840
it may be moist, but the
root system pumps that little cylinder of soil

743
00:56:24.960 --> 00:56:29.440
dry, and until it gets roots
established, you just need to give it

744
00:56:29.480 --> 00:56:32.639
a little more pamprike. Okay,
thank you so much. All right,

745
00:56:32.639 --> 00:56:35.840
thank you, Linda. I appreciate
that. And hey, by the way,

746
00:56:35.880 --> 00:56:39.719
when you're when you're out and about
down there, you are fortunate that

747
00:56:39.760 --> 00:56:45.679
you have a league League City Feed
because they're going to carry the products.

748
00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:49.800
They're going to carry stuff for zaleas, that's for acid loving plant. They're

749
00:56:49.800 --> 00:56:52.119
going to have if you need an
iron key late, which on yours right

750
00:56:52.159 --> 00:56:55.400
now it doesn't sound like it.
They're gonna have stuff like that. And

751
00:56:55.440 --> 00:57:00.360
they're so close by that you're really
fortunate to not have to go far.

752
00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:04.239
Yes, I do go there.
Oh good good. We'll say hi.

753
00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:08.159
Tell them folks that garden line said
Hi. I thank you for the calling.

754
00:57:08.199 --> 00:57:13.440
You look forward to talking to you
again. Sometime in the meantime.

755
00:57:13.480 --> 00:57:16.480
We're gonna go to Andy up in
North Shore. Hey, Andy, good

756
00:57:16.519 --> 00:57:22.679
morning, good morning, and thank
you for taking my call. I wanted

757
00:57:22.719 --> 00:57:27.519
to talk to you about my my
friend yard my lawn. I have somewhat

758
00:57:27.519 --> 00:57:31.239
of a situation happening where my lawn
has you know, historically been uh,

759
00:57:31.239 --> 00:57:36.760
Saint Augustine. But when we had
the freeze a couple of years ago,

760
00:57:37.360 --> 00:57:40.239
and then somewhat of a drought we
had last year, we're dried things up

761
00:57:40.280 --> 00:57:45.079
pretty much. Uh. Now in
the wintertime, I have winter rized and

762
00:57:45.199 --> 00:57:51.679
in early early March, I put
the fertilizer down on the grass and it

763
00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:54.800
brings it up nice and pretty.
But however, there's a new grass that

764
00:57:54.840 --> 00:58:00.840
has has kind of infiltrated in the
lawn and it's I don't know what kind

765
00:58:00.840 --> 00:58:04.679
of the grass it is, but
it's very thin, very spring like,

766
00:58:06.639 --> 00:58:09.559
very light. It's bluffy, but
it's not Saint Augustine. So I have

767
00:58:09.639 --> 00:58:14.199
someone of a battle going on in
my front yard. Okay, I wanted

768
00:58:14.239 --> 00:58:19.039
to see what could that possible be? How can I really? All Right,

769
00:58:19.280 --> 00:58:22.199
Well, Andy, we've got a
real rough connection with you. So

770
00:58:22.519 --> 00:58:25.599
I'm gone, I'm gonna do that's
okay. I'm gonna close down and I'm

771
00:58:25.639 --> 00:58:34.280
gonna just answer your question then off
off the conversation with you. So what

772
00:58:34.360 --> 00:58:37.559
I would like to see is a
sample a picture of that grass, and

773
00:58:37.599 --> 00:58:42.719
if you can get up close to
it, maybe pull one up the kind

774
00:58:42.719 --> 00:58:46.679
of grass you're talking about that's invading
and put it down on a table or

775
00:58:46.760 --> 00:58:52.280
sidewalk where we can get good quality
close up photos. I'd like to look

776
00:58:52.320 --> 00:58:54.440
at it and see what it is. I think you're looking at a winter

777
00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:59.440
grass that's left over and like rye. One of the types of rye,

778
00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:02.559
for example, is a possibility.
You said it was fine textured, so

779
00:59:02.599 --> 00:59:07.639
it may be annual bluegrass that you're
looking at. But depending on which of

780
00:59:07.679 --> 00:59:09.079
those two you have, what I'm
gonna recommend it's gonna be a little bit

781
00:59:09.119 --> 00:59:13.360
different. And so I'm going to
put you on hold. It looks like

782
00:59:13.400 --> 00:59:17.000
we lost him there, so if
you want to call back, and when

783
00:59:17.000 --> 00:59:21.840
you talk to Josh, he will
get you information on how to get that

784
00:59:21.880 --> 00:59:24.679
picture to me and be glad to
take a look at it. I suspect,

785
00:59:24.760 --> 00:59:28.679
based on what you're describing, that
this is a grass that's going to

786
00:59:28.719 --> 00:59:30.559
go away as it gets warm,
but I want to be sure about that.

787
00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:36.039
Well, you're listening to garden Line. I'm your host skip rictor,

788
00:59:36.320 --> 00:59:39.480
and we're here to answer your gardening
questions. It's a good day for gardening,

789
00:59:39.519 --> 00:59:44.760
and there ought to be a lot
of different activities that you can do

790
00:59:44.840 --> 00:59:47.400
when you're out and about in the
garden. Our phone number, if you'd

791
00:59:47.400 --> 00:59:52.960
like to give us a call is
seven one three two one two five eight

792
00:59:52.280 --> 01:00:00.039
seven four seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. I was

793
01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:05.280
talking about some new vegetables that I
was trying out a little bit earlier.

794
01:00:05.880 --> 01:00:10.480
There is there is just an unbelievable
amount of new varieties every year, and

795
01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:15.960
in some cases new species that come
in. I mentioned a few of the

796
01:00:15.960 --> 01:00:21.119
Asian vegetables that and I've been working
my way through a bunch of different Asian

797
01:00:21.199 --> 01:00:24.000
vegetables which are predominantly cool season,
but not all. There's some that can

798
01:00:24.039 --> 01:00:28.400
go in the heat too. But
one of the interests that I've had lately

799
01:00:28.519 --> 01:00:31.920
is is summer gardening options. You
know, if I were to tell you

800
01:00:32.119 --> 01:00:37.840
name five greens for the garden,
I bet all five you name. If

801
01:00:37.840 --> 01:00:40.960
you can think of five would be
cool season greens. You might think about

802
01:00:42.599 --> 01:00:46.360
collars or kale, or lettuce,
or spinach or arugula. You get the

803
01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:52.119
idea. There are summer greens that
also do well. If you've not tried

804
01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:57.159
malibar before. People call it malibar
spinach. It's not spinach, but malibar

805
01:00:57.239 --> 01:01:01.320
is a good one for that.
There's one that's called mulochia, and it

806
01:01:01.480 --> 01:01:06.960
is very popular in throughout the Middle
Eastern region, but other areas as well.

807
01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:12.719
It's absolutely summer proof. There is
summer amaranth, the vegetable amaranth.

808
01:01:13.480 --> 01:01:16.159
It's wild version is the pigweed that
grows in the farmer's fields. But this

809
01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:21.800
is a type with big green,
succulent leaves. It's good and it can

810
01:01:21.840 --> 01:01:24.639
take the summer. And I can
name others. There's a lot of good,

811
01:01:24.800 --> 01:01:29.599
warm season greens to keep you producing
good, healthy food all through the

812
01:01:29.639 --> 01:01:31.280
summertime. When you might think,
well, if it's not oak or black

813
01:01:31.280 --> 01:01:35.679
eyed peas or sweep potatoes, there's
nothing to grow. Well, there is,

814
01:01:35.880 --> 01:01:38.679
and so get out there and try
out some new things this year.

815
01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:44.239
We'll be right back seven one three, two, one two fifty eight seventy

816
01:01:44.239 --> 01:01:49.559
four KTRH Garden Line. It's not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

817
01:01:49.559 --> 01:02:05.480
advertised on this program. Welcome to
KTRH Garden Line with skin Ricord. Just

818
01:02:05.800 --> 01:02:17.320
watch you well. Good Saturday morning
on a good day for gardening, not

819
01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:21.119
necessarily a good day for my throat. I tell you, I don't know

820
01:02:21.159 --> 01:02:23.400
what's going on back there, but
we're gonna we're gonna try to keep it

821
01:02:23.440 --> 01:02:28.360
going long enough. We got another
two hours of garden line this morning,

822
01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:31.840
so give us a call. Let's
talk about what you're interested in. That

823
01:02:31.880 --> 01:02:37.559
would be seven one three two one
two five eight seven four seven one three

824
01:02:37.599 --> 01:02:43.159
two one two. Katrh and Josh
will get you on the board and we

825
01:02:43.239 --> 01:02:49.840
can talk gardening with the topics that
are of interest to you. I have

826
01:02:49.920 --> 01:02:52.559
been mentioning some things I'm doing out
in the lawn, in the landscape and

827
01:02:52.639 --> 01:02:57.639
in the garden. This time of
year, we know, with the passing

828
01:02:57.760 --> 01:03:00.719
of leaf season. A leaf seasons
one my favorite seasons of the year because

829
01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:07.440
it's when I can get lots of
good material for mulching and composting and making

830
01:03:07.719 --> 01:03:12.679
all weather pathways through my garden beds
and things like that. But it's about

831
01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:17.079
gone, so I've got my stuff
stockpiled now. Generally when I will gather

832
01:03:17.239 --> 01:03:21.559
leaves, well, first of all, I let my neighbors gather leaves.

833
01:03:21.559 --> 01:03:25.480
Typically mine, I either just you
know, use a mower to kind of

834
01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:29.440
gather them in a bag and then
go put them immediately in a garden,

835
01:03:29.639 --> 01:03:31.119
in a garden bed, a shrub
bed, or some of the place where

836
01:03:31.159 --> 01:03:35.519
I'm using them, or just with
a multing more multim right back into the

837
01:03:35.599 --> 01:03:38.639
lawn. I mean, you can
do that too. But my neighbors they

838
01:03:38.639 --> 01:03:42.559
are so kind, and yours are
too. You may have noticed this,

839
01:03:42.760 --> 01:03:45.519
but when you drive out of your
driveway and you're heading to work or someplace

840
01:03:46.079 --> 01:03:50.280
out there on the curb, they
have been thinking about you, and they

841
01:03:50.280 --> 01:03:52.079
put their bags and leaves they gather
it. You don't even have to rake

842
01:03:52.119 --> 01:03:55.280
them. They raked them for you. They put them on a bag at

843
01:03:55.280 --> 01:04:00.280
the curb for you to enjoy.
Now that's being a little facetious, but

844
01:04:00.679 --> 01:04:05.760
it's it's a point to be made
that the leaves that fall off your trees,

845
01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:13.039
the leaves that you clip off your
lawn, are stocked with nutrients.

846
01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:15.840
About seventy percent of the nutrients that
a tree takes up during the year or

847
01:04:15.880 --> 01:04:18.559
in its leaves. Now the wood, you know, it's got a lot

848
01:04:18.599 --> 01:04:21.480
of carbon in it, and it's
got some mineral and nutrient in it.

849
01:04:21.880 --> 01:04:25.960
But most of the nutrients in a
tree or in the new growth, the

850
01:04:26.000 --> 01:04:30.559
twigs and the leaves of the green
stuff basically, and it's packed with that.

851
01:04:30.679 --> 01:04:33.760
So when that falls to the ground, here's what's happened. Your soil

852
01:04:33.960 --> 01:04:40.039
has given the tree nutrients, the
tree has grown leaves with those nutrients,

853
01:04:40.440 --> 01:04:45.760
and now the tree is dropping organic
free slow release mulchion fertilizer in your lawn.

854
01:04:46.159 --> 01:04:49.119
And I've talked about this back,
you know, during leaf season,

855
01:04:49.519 --> 01:04:53.400
a little bit more toward the end
of it, but I just want to

856
01:04:53.440 --> 01:04:57.519
stress that don't let that go,
don't let that get away, don't pay

857
01:04:57.559 --> 01:05:00.800
somebody to haul it away. And
now we're in mowings season. So what's

858
01:05:00.840 --> 01:05:05.920
going on there. You put quality
fertilizers down on the ground to grow a

859
01:05:06.039 --> 01:05:13.320
deep green, beautiful, dense lawn, and then you mow those leaves off.

860
01:05:14.280 --> 01:05:17.599
You could collect them in a bagger
and put the bag at the curb,

861
01:05:18.119 --> 01:05:24.559
but then you're renting fertilizer. You've
bought a quality fertilizer product, You've

862
01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:29.920
watched the grass plant move those nutrients
into grass blades, and now you're going

863
01:05:29.960 --> 01:05:32.440
to clip off free organics low release
fertilizer and put it in a bag and

864
01:05:33.039 --> 01:05:38.760
pay somebody to haul it off.
Don't do that. Return your grass clippings

865
01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:41.679
to the lawn. Now, if
it's rained for eight days and you haven't

866
01:05:41.719 --> 01:05:44.119
been able to get out there and
the grasses near high, of course,

867
01:05:44.199 --> 01:05:46.400
no, you gotta bag that and
get it out of there. But when

868
01:05:46.480 --> 01:05:50.519
you mow regularly and you're only cutting
off about one third of the leaf blade,

869
01:05:51.440 --> 01:05:56.679
that can easily drop down in your
lawn and they decompose fast. And

870
01:05:56.719 --> 01:06:00.880
if you're worried about thatch, here, don't worry about that. Here is

871
01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:05.400
what causes that. That is caused
by excessive amounts of nitrogen that cause a

872
01:06:05.480 --> 01:06:11.239
lot of runner growth. And the
runners break down slowly and not fast enough

873
01:06:11.239 --> 01:06:15.960
for us. That's why we do
corroboration and compost top dressings. But the

874
01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:20.119
leaves they break down fast. So
we'll come back to that maybe a little

875
01:06:20.119 --> 01:06:24.440
bit later. Right now, I
want to head out and we're gonna talk.

876
01:06:24.639 --> 01:06:27.239
Let's see who do we got it. We're gonna talk to Charlie out

877
01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:34.800
in spring. Hello Charlie, good
morning. He can we help my wife?

878
01:06:35.239 --> 01:06:42.239
I had bought her a lemon tree
and it had fruit the size of

879
01:06:42.400 --> 01:06:48.159
grapefruits. Okay, many people came
to the house and thought we had a

880
01:06:48.199 --> 01:06:57.559
grapefruit tree. Now it was destroyed
in the flood of Harvey. It died,

881
01:06:57.800 --> 01:07:03.920
and I'd like to replace it.
I don't know watch it particular tree

882
01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:08.800
I had, and I was hoping
you could tell me. You call the

883
01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:12.199
right place. And thanks for that
question, because other people may have it

884
01:07:12.280 --> 01:07:18.760
too. That is a ponderosa lemon. Ponderosa lemons are grapefruit size. They're

885
01:07:18.920 --> 01:07:25.440
huge, and they're not the heartiest
of trees. They have some decent heartiness,

886
01:07:25.480 --> 01:07:29.599
but not with the kind of weather
we can have. But you just

887
01:07:30.000 --> 01:07:34.079
need to go looking for a ponder
rosa lemon tree, and you are up

888
01:07:34.119 --> 01:07:40.639
in the Cleveland area, would I
would call Kingwood Garden Center or Warren Southern

889
01:07:40.639 --> 01:07:44.920
Gardens in Kingwood, that's pretty close
to you and see if they have a

890
01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:49.280
ponderosa that is not a variety that
is normally just carried widespread, but it

891
01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:54.039
can be found locally. But that's
the one you're looking for, if you

892
01:07:54.079 --> 01:08:00.920
want that kind of lemon. Okay, I will follow up then. Thank

893
01:08:00.920 --> 01:08:03.719
you all right, Bruce, thank
you or Steven me Charlie, thank you

894
01:08:04.000 --> 01:08:10.800
very much for the call. Bruce. Let's see we've got just a little

895
01:08:10.800 --> 01:08:14.559
bit of time here, and if
you want to start the question, we

896
01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:18.840
may have to finish it after break. That's okay. My question is about

897
01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:25.920
aeroponics. There's a couple of companies
around that make these hydroponics and aeroponic grow

898
01:08:26.000 --> 01:08:29.880
towers, one of which is Eden. What are you te knew much about

899
01:08:29.920 --> 01:08:33.319
about the aeroponics and you know it
tends to grow tubers better because it won't

900
01:08:33.399 --> 01:08:40.640
rods well. Like any system,
there are quality products and they're not quality

901
01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:45.159
products. And I haven't studied all
the different systems of aeroponics, but if

902
01:08:45.159 --> 01:08:47.079
it's if they did it right,
you can grow things that way. You

903
01:08:47.119 --> 01:08:50.239
just need to make sure you've got
lots of light and a quality light.

904
01:08:50.479 --> 01:08:54.920
Okay, if you'd like to follow
up with any questions on that, Bruce,

905
01:08:55.000 --> 01:08:57.479
just hang on. We're about to
go to break. Our number seven

906
01:08:57.560 --> 01:09:17.359
one three, two one two fifty
eight seventy four. One of those two

907
01:09:18.439 --> 01:09:23.760
six and two is eight Come home, Josh. I don't know who that

908
01:09:23.960 --> 01:09:26.960
is, but when I hear that
music, I picture, and it's not

909
01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:30.880
Chuck Berry, but a picture like
Chuck Berry bent over with his knees bent

910
01:09:30.079 --> 01:09:33.720
kind of skipping across the stage,
jamming on a guitar. It just sort

911
01:09:33.720 --> 01:09:39.920
of has that that feel and oh
the Blues Brothers, Man, how did

912
01:09:40.479 --> 01:09:44.560
okay? I'm gonna have to hand
in my man music card because if I

913
01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:48.600
don't know the Blues Brothers when I
hear it, oh gosh, we take

914
01:09:48.640 --> 01:09:53.159
you back in time. Sometimes you're
on Garden Line our phone number if you'd

915
01:09:53.199 --> 01:09:56.199
like to give us a call and
be on the air. Seven one three

916
01:09:56.720 --> 01:10:02.359
two one two five eight seven four
seven one three two one two fifty eight

917
01:10:02.880 --> 01:10:08.359
seventy four. We were what was
I talking about a minute ago? Returning

918
01:10:08.359 --> 01:10:12.760
your clippings to the lawn and taking
care of your lawn, and I just

919
01:10:13.159 --> 01:10:15.359
just know this. I wanted to
add some more information to that. They

920
01:10:15.399 --> 01:10:21.279
did a study up at Texas and
Research Center in Dallas many years ago and

921
01:10:21.319 --> 01:10:27.279
they looked at the content of grass
clippings. So, in other words,

922
01:10:27.439 --> 01:10:30.399
you mow a lawn, you send
those clippings to the lab and say what's

923
01:10:30.439 --> 01:10:33.640
in this? And number one,
you find out that they're about a three

924
01:10:33.680 --> 01:10:39.039
one two or four one two ratio
of nutrients. That's that's the ratio that

925
01:10:39.119 --> 01:10:42.520
the grass needs and takes it up
in it's a little more nitrogen and nitrogen

926
01:10:42.560 --> 01:10:45.359
a little more often. But when
they totaled it, When you think of

927
01:10:45.439 --> 01:10:49.880
how many times you mow your lawn
over the course of the year, and

928
01:10:50.000 --> 01:10:55.119
you add up the content of the
clippings the weight of the clippings for the

929
01:10:55.159 --> 01:11:00.359
whole year, you put more nutrient
on with your lawn more than you do

930
01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:05.039
your fertilizer spreader. So can you
bag clippings, Absolutely, you can bag

931
01:11:05.039 --> 01:11:08.119
clippings. You can do it all
day. We did it for years.

932
01:11:08.600 --> 01:11:12.239
But when you do that, you're
given away free nutrients and you have to

933
01:11:12.439 --> 01:11:15.880
up your fertilization to make up for
it. Also, the clippings, when

934
01:11:15.880 --> 01:11:20.199
they fall to the surface and they
start to decompose, they're blocking a little

935
01:11:20.199 --> 01:11:24.960
bit of light from the surface,
and whenever sunlight hits the surface, nature

936
01:11:24.960 --> 01:11:28.600
plants of weeds. So I'm not
saying you return your clippings and you don't

937
01:11:28.600 --> 01:11:31.520
have weeds by any means, but
it does help. It does help,

938
01:11:31.560 --> 01:11:36.439
and so it just makes sense to
return those clippings. And now returning clippings

939
01:11:36.479 --> 01:11:41.159
does not mean you don't need to
fertilize. You still do need to fertilize,

940
01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:46.279
but at least you're stopping a lot
of the nutrient from leaving your property

941
01:11:46.439 --> 01:11:51.319
when you do so, don't bag
it. I remember years ago when Aggerlife

942
01:11:51.359 --> 01:11:57.720
Extension created the Don't Bag it lawn
care plan and a guy named doctor Noop

943
01:11:57.880 --> 01:12:02.399
Canoop in Dallas area. He designed
that plan along. I believe Bob Whitney

944
01:12:02.439 --> 01:12:05.479
was part of that problem. He
was a kind of extension agent at the

945
01:12:05.520 --> 01:12:12.000
time that designed that plan for not
bagging the clippings. And after that we

946
01:12:12.159 --> 01:12:15.319
created a don't bag at composting and
a don't bag at leaf management plan.

947
01:12:15.399 --> 01:12:18.680
I helped. I helped with the
Don't bag it leaf management plan to design

948
01:12:18.760 --> 01:12:25.199
that. But as you know,
I'm really into returning leaves, so think

949
01:12:25.239 --> 01:12:29.439
of it as a way of recycling
like nature does. Well, let's head

950
01:12:29.479 --> 01:12:31.880
out to clear Lake. We're going
to talk to Mark this morning. Hello

951
01:12:32.000 --> 01:12:35.399
Mark, good morning, Sir.
Said to hear that your throat is given

952
01:12:35.399 --> 01:12:41.720
you trouble. Thank you. Do
you having to have any manua lossenges?

953
01:12:41.840 --> 01:12:45.239
They're really good for that. I
don't. I have some lukewarm coffee that's

954
01:12:45.279 --> 01:12:49.239
getting me by, but I'll have
to try your maluca idea. It's manuka

955
01:12:49.279 --> 01:12:55.479
and uka Manuka okay, yeah,
Manuka honey is some real expensive honey.

956
01:12:55.479 --> 01:12:59.640
And they formed him minute. Some
lossenges. I'm calling on behalf of my

957
01:12:59.680 --> 01:13:03.159
sign if it canother. She doesn't
usually like to call on things. She's

958
01:13:03.199 --> 01:13:08.600
got some tomatoes where the new growth
leaves are curling. About an hour ago,

959
01:13:08.640 --> 01:13:12.119
I sent you a picture. I
don't expect that you've seen it yet,

960
01:13:12.159 --> 01:13:17.159
but it's there. Okay, I'm
seeing if I can find the photo

961
01:13:17.159 --> 01:13:23.039
as we talk here. Is it
primarily on the new growth or is it

962
01:13:23.279 --> 01:13:27.760
These are determinants and it's on new
growth. Okay. So when new growth

963
01:13:28.279 --> 01:13:32.720
starts twisting up, okay, curling
and curling, okay. When you see

964
01:13:32.760 --> 01:13:38.279
that, it usually is related.
Oh yeah, see the picture. It's

965
01:13:38.279 --> 01:13:43.960
related to either a herbicide contamination or
a virus. And this is definitely one

966
01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:47.319
of those two. It's it's difficult
from a photo to be able to tell

967
01:13:47.880 --> 01:13:51.199
if it is one or the other. But well, I can tell you

968
01:13:51.239 --> 01:13:56.640
it's not herbicide. So you have
strictly organic Okay, So nothing was used

969
01:13:56.640 --> 01:13:59.760
in the lawn nearby? Let me
know, law, And it's her back

970
01:14:00.039 --> 01:14:03.720
hard. It's small, it's the
townhouse and lush with growth. All right.

971
01:14:04.039 --> 01:14:06.880
I don't think there's a blade of
grass. Let me keep playing Sherlock

972
01:14:06.920 --> 01:14:12.439
Holmes share with you. Did you
mulch them with any hay or straw?

973
01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:16.600
Neither of the above mulches. But
I think she tries us the hardwood.

974
01:14:16.840 --> 01:14:25.760
All right, final question, any
cow or horse based manure on them?

975
01:14:26.000 --> 01:14:30.399
She used the black cow. I
don't know exactly what's in there. I

976
01:14:30.439 --> 01:14:32.319
don't think it's horse based, all
right, I'm gonna eliminate. I'm gonna

977
01:14:32.319 --> 01:14:36.359
eliminate the herbicide. Then, and
this is a virus, and so what

978
01:14:36.479 --> 01:14:41.119
happens is the virus goes to the
new growth and as it develops, it

979
01:14:41.159 --> 01:14:44.960
doesn't let it develop normally. That's
why your old leaves look good because they're

980
01:14:44.960 --> 01:14:47.920
already developed. The new growth is
where you see the virus, and you

981
01:14:48.000 --> 01:14:51.000
need to You don't want to hear
this, but grab him and pull them

982
01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:55.800
out because there is no curing it. It will not get better. And

983
01:14:55.880 --> 01:14:59.800
if an insect feeds on that affected
plant, it will get the virus.

984
01:14:59.840 --> 01:15:02.560
Just like a mosquito that carries malaria
from one person to another, it will

985
01:15:02.640 --> 01:15:06.079
carry the virus to the next tomato. And so you need to rogue it

986
01:15:06.119 --> 01:15:10.399
out, get rid of the ones
that are affected as soon as you can.

987
01:15:10.960 --> 01:15:14.439
Well are you talking about cutting the
leaves that are bad or pulling the

988
01:15:14.479 --> 01:15:16.479
whole plant out. I'm sorry to
say pulling the whole plant. It's a

989
01:15:16.640 --> 01:15:20.359
man that's going to hurt because I've
already got some tomatoes on them, I

990
01:15:20.479 --> 01:15:25.039
know, I mean, you know, and if ever plants affected, I

991
01:15:25.079 --> 01:15:27.880
guess you could leave them and just
see if you can get some tomatoes out

992
01:15:27.920 --> 01:15:30.439
of it. But this is going
to shut down all the new bloom development,

993
01:15:30.560 --> 01:15:34.319
the new growth and everything. And
I hate to be the bearer of

994
01:15:34.359 --> 01:15:38.880
bad news, but I have to
be the bearer of truth and that that

995
01:15:39.079 --> 01:15:42.119
is exactly what's happening with those tomato
plants. Well, you know, it's

996
01:15:42.119 --> 01:15:45.720
a good thing that they've out lauged
shooting the messenger, because I think she'd

997
01:15:45.760 --> 01:15:50.720
can find you. Yeah, oh
my gosh, I would have a lot

998
01:15:50.720 --> 01:15:58.680
of bullet holes if that was over
the shirts or something. Yeah, there's

999
01:15:58.920 --> 01:16:00.760
there's nothing you can spray on them. I mean, you know, it's

1000
01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:09.399
a viruses. Uh. Viruses are
a problem because they they typically exist with

1001
01:16:09.439 --> 01:16:14.039
a living host. Uh. They
seem to understand that it behooves them not

1002
01:16:14.079 --> 01:16:16.880
to kill. To kill the host, the virus has to be in that

1003
01:16:16.960 --> 01:16:21.119
host. But it just it just
ruins things, and there's there's no cure

1004
01:16:21.119 --> 01:16:24.640
in it. We get viruses on
a lot of other kinds of plants.

1005
01:16:26.479 --> 01:16:29.199
All right, Mark, Well it's
not all right, but I mean I

1006
01:16:29.239 --> 01:16:32.239
appreciate you're being honest with us.
Well, I don't know if you,

1007
01:16:32.359 --> 01:16:38.079
being the secondary messenger is also free
from bullets, but you might want to

1008
01:16:38.079 --> 01:16:40.760
bear that news out a little bit
carefully as you go. Yeah, I

1009
01:16:40.760 --> 01:16:44.359
think we're gonna communication today will be
via text and phone. There, there

1010
01:16:44.399 --> 01:16:46.079
you go, there you go.
Well, as a married man, I

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01:16:46.079 --> 01:16:50.520
can tell you that is a wise
approach. Thank you very much for the

1012
01:16:50.560 --> 01:16:56.880
call. Oh my gosh, you're
listening to garden Line and I'm your host,

1013
01:16:57.000 --> 01:17:00.479
Skip Richter and our phone number.
Write this down, put it on

1014
01:17:00.520 --> 01:17:02.960
the refrigerator door. Maybe put it
in speed dial on your phone. How

1015
01:17:03.000 --> 01:17:08.479
about that in case you have a
plan emergency between six am and ten am

1016
01:17:08.560 --> 01:17:14.960
on Saturday and Sunday mornings seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

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01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:19.720
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. You know, that's

1018
01:17:19.720 --> 01:17:25.680
a nice thing about occasionally seeing photos
of things, because you know, had

1019
01:17:26.039 --> 01:17:29.479
Mark just called and described it to
me and I'm sitting here trying to picture

1020
01:17:29.520 --> 01:17:30.840
what he's saying. But well,
when I saw the photo, it's like,

1021
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:34.760
oh yeah, I got it.
I got it just right. By

1022
01:17:34.800 --> 01:17:39.800
the way. Another way that you
can get me a photo is to come

1023
01:17:39.920 --> 01:17:45.159
next Saturday, Kay and m Ace
Hardware and Kingwood. I'll be there from

1024
01:17:45.239 --> 01:17:48.439
one thirty or excuse me, from
eleven thirty. I'll head out right after

1025
01:17:48.479 --> 01:17:53.920
the show to one thirty PM,
and I'll be there at a table.

1026
01:17:54.159 --> 01:17:58.159
You can bring me stamples of plants
and bags. You can bring me photos

1027
01:17:58.359 --> 01:18:00.600
on the phone, maybe just a
photo of the landscape. You don't talk

1028
01:18:00.600 --> 01:18:03.760
about. Hey, what kind of
flower might go good here? That K

1029
01:18:03.960 --> 01:18:09.840
and m Ace Hardware in Kingwood.
That is the place to be next Saturday.

1030
01:18:09.840 --> 01:18:13.159
So I hope you'll come out.
We're really looking forward to being out

1031
01:18:13.199 --> 01:18:15.239
there. I have not been.
It's been a while since I was back

1032
01:18:15.239 --> 01:18:19.520
out in the Kingwood area. I
was out We're in Southern Gardens a good

1033
01:18:19.520 --> 01:18:24.159
while back. But I'm looking forward
to getting out and seeing K and m

1034
01:18:24.199 --> 01:18:29.279
Ace out in the Kingwood area.
This is a I like to say that

1035
01:18:29.439 --> 01:18:32.279
this way, but you know,
a on a garden day, a garden

1036
01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:36.760
line morning You've got me for four
hours, but a lot of other people

1037
01:18:36.800 --> 01:18:41.960
are calling. When you come out
to a live appearance, we're eye to

1038
01:18:42.039 --> 01:18:45.520
eye and we can talk and go
back and forth, and I have all

1039
01:18:45.600 --> 01:18:48.560
kinds of fun out there a live
appearance. Well, you're listening to Garden

1040
01:18:48.600 --> 01:18:51.840
Line. I am your host,
Skip Richter. We're going to come back

1041
01:18:51.880 --> 01:18:56.079
from break, Jonathan, I see
you, and I see some other people

1042
01:18:56.119 --> 01:18:59.560
hopping up on the boards, So
we will get to you after break.

1043
01:18:59.600 --> 01:19:01.800
And Nick, I don't know you
have a fan club. You want to

1044
01:19:01.800 --> 01:19:06.159
have T shirts made. I had
another call today, hello Nikki, and

1045
01:19:06.239 --> 01:19:12.359
it's like Nikki just comes in with
bad news and the traffic and stuff.

1046
01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:15.720
Why not you know, I'm kidding, No, not everybody. I have

1047
01:19:15.920 --> 01:19:20.119
to tell you that what I did. We were talking last week. What

1048
01:19:20.239 --> 01:19:27.159
was it called soak and cycle?
Yes, so I took a bath and

1049
01:19:27.439 --> 01:19:32.039
first um BEV from arbor Gate had
given me a candle. There you go.

1050
01:19:32.279 --> 01:19:38.800
So then I soaked and I cycled, took another bask had some green

1051
01:19:38.960 --> 01:19:42.520
tea and I soaked an I cycled. Boy, I'm in a good mood

1052
01:19:42.520 --> 01:19:45.520
today. I'm happy to hear that, and I'm sorry about telling you you

1053
01:19:45.560 --> 01:19:48.439
bring bad news. It is that
seems to be what makes the news right.

1054
01:19:48.880 --> 01:20:10.279
It's so often does That's what I
sit down. Well, good morning

1055
01:20:10.319 --> 01:20:15.920
on a good Saturday morning for gardening. You are listening to garden Line.

1056
01:20:15.359 --> 01:20:18.840
Garden Line is a show that's here, so you can call in and we

1057
01:20:19.159 --> 01:20:25.079
can talk about gardening. Seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

1058
01:20:25.119 --> 01:20:27.800
if you want Josh to get you
on the boards. Right now, we

1059
01:20:27.840 --> 01:20:30.760
are going to go out here and
start taking some calls, beginning with Jonathan

1060
01:20:30.840 --> 01:20:35.359
in Cyprus. Hello Jonathan, good
morning, Good morning Skip, thanks for

1061
01:20:35.359 --> 01:20:42.039
taking my call. Yes, sir, um, I'm calling about uh freshly

1062
01:20:42.119 --> 01:20:46.279
laid sod M. We have to
replace a couple of patches in our backyard,

1063
01:20:48.239 --> 01:20:53.800
had a tree removed and just some
other things that have happened that's killed

1064
01:20:53.800 --> 01:20:58.079
off all the grass. Not police, the witches, two large puppies.

1065
01:20:58.720 --> 01:21:01.920
Um, so I gotta blocked off. We got the grass laid in nicely.

1066
01:21:02.720 --> 01:21:08.159
My question is when is it?
When do you mow it? I

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01:21:08.199 --> 01:21:11.479
mean it's starting to get pretty,
it looks pretty thick, nice and green

1068
01:21:11.520 --> 01:21:14.680
and plush. When do you mow
it? When is it okay to mow

1069
01:21:14.760 --> 01:21:18.159
it? And fertilize it. Now. Now is a good time. Yes,

1070
01:21:18.560 --> 01:21:24.319
Now if once when you lay new
side, I'm saying, now is

1071
01:21:24.359 --> 01:21:27.119
it time to mow the lawn?
When you lay new side, I would

1072
01:21:27.199 --> 01:21:30.279
give it at least two or three
weeks before you would mow it, because

1073
01:21:30.319 --> 01:21:34.000
you want it to get some roots
down. So those pieces, you know,

1074
01:21:34.039 --> 01:21:36.359
are sticking to the ground good,
and you need to give it a

1075
01:21:36.399 --> 01:21:41.000
little bit of time for that.
So don't worry about that thing. I

1076
01:21:41.039 --> 01:21:43.239
say, where a mow you know, every week, cut off a third

1077
01:21:43.239 --> 01:21:45.760
of the blade initially. Let's just
let that side get some roots down.

1078
01:21:45.840 --> 01:21:49.159
And depending on the season when you
lay the side, you know, that

1079
01:21:49.199 --> 01:21:51.800
could be pretty quickly, or it
could if you do it in a cool

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01:21:51.800 --> 01:21:55.279
season, it can take quite a
while to get those roots down in the

1081
01:21:55.319 --> 01:21:59.399
ground. Right. Well, yeah, we just laid it about three weeks

1082
01:21:59.439 --> 01:22:00.960
ago. Yeah, well you probably
are okay to mow it. You know,

1083
01:22:01.000 --> 01:22:03.239
if you want to check, you
could go out and kind of put

1084
01:22:03.319 --> 01:22:06.279
a little bit on one of the
pieces and just see it is it pegged

1085
01:22:06.319 --> 01:22:12.520
down real good or not? Okay? All right, thanks, thank you,

1086
01:22:13.119 --> 01:22:15.920
all right, appreciate it, you
bet, thank you. I appreciate

1087
01:22:15.960 --> 01:22:19.600
the call. We're gonna now head
out to Baytown and talk to Misty.

1088
01:22:19.680 --> 01:22:24.840
Hello Misty, Hey, guys,
thanks for having me, you beat.

1089
01:22:24.920 --> 01:22:29.199
How can we help? Well?
I planned a rose bush in my backyard

1090
01:22:29.479 --> 01:22:35.239
years ago now, and it's been
giving me these velvety, beautiful red aromatic

1091
01:22:35.359 --> 01:22:41.640
roses just like long stem like.
They're beautiful, all right, And the

1092
01:22:41.680 --> 01:22:48.119
other dick came out here and my
little rosebush has produced some pink roses with

1093
01:22:48.199 --> 01:22:54.520
white that are like barrigaated, I
think it is. I've never seen those

1094
01:22:54.560 --> 01:22:58.119
before ever. They are coming straight
off the stock of one of the red

1095
01:22:58.119 --> 01:23:00.880
ones, okay, And I'm like, where are these and what's happening?

1096
01:23:01.279 --> 01:23:04.920
All right? So, based on
what you've said, assuming that is one

1097
01:23:04.960 --> 01:23:11.279
plant and not another one coming up
beside it, there's a thing called sports

1098
01:23:11.600 --> 01:23:16.960
spoort, and that's when a plant
genetically changes and that new shoot is genetically

1099
01:23:17.000 --> 01:23:20.680
different than the other one, And
so I think that's what you're seeing.

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01:23:20.760 --> 01:23:27.239
We have varieties. There's an old
antique rows called Marie Pavier, and fellow

1101
01:23:27.279 --> 01:23:30.680
named Greg Grant found a sport that's
very pink compared to Marie Pavier, and

1102
01:23:30.760 --> 01:23:33.920
he named it Marie Daily. And
that happens a lot on roses, and

1103
01:23:33.960 --> 01:23:36.439
I think that's what you see.
I'm going to put you on hold,

1104
01:23:36.439 --> 01:23:40.359
though, Misty, I would like
you to talk to Josh and let me

1105
01:23:40.359 --> 01:23:42.800
see he'll tell you how to get
some pictures to me, because I would

1106
01:23:42.840 --> 01:23:45.319
like to see that, just to
make sure what I'm telling you is what

1107
01:23:45.600 --> 01:23:49.960
is correct. Well, let's see, we've got Tommy out there and Jim

1108
01:23:50.039 --> 01:23:53.800
out there. Guys. I'm gonna
have to take a break, but I

1109
01:23:53.840 --> 01:23:57.079
will put you guys first up.
When I come back, we'll talk to

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01:23:57.119 --> 01:24:00.920
you Tommy and then Jim. Let's
see you're talking. You're talking this Prictor

1111
01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:04.279
and you're listening to Garden Line.
Here's a number. Write it down.

1112
01:24:04.399 --> 01:24:10.560
Seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. We look forward to

1113
01:24:10.600 --> 01:24:15.119
talking to you. We got one
more segment left in this hour and we're

1114
01:24:15.119 --> 01:24:17.239
gonna be here till ten am today. But we're looking forward to visiting with

1115
01:24:17.279 --> 01:24:32.279
you about your questions. Maybe crazy, but it's just baby y'all shown down

1116
01:24:32.560 --> 01:24:39.680
the line, good Saturday morning,
on a good morning for gardening. We

1117
01:24:39.720 --> 01:24:43.000
are looking forward to talking to a
couple of collars we got on the board.

1118
01:24:43.039 --> 01:24:45.560
If you would like to get on
the board seven one three, two

1119
01:24:45.680 --> 01:24:50.840
one two fifty eight seventy four.
Well, let's start off. We're gonna

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01:24:50.880 --> 01:24:56.199
go out to northwest Houston and we're
gonna talk to Tommy. Good morning,

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01:24:56.239 --> 01:25:00.760
Tommy, good morning, thank you. My first question, I've got two

1122
01:25:00.880 --> 01:25:04.880
of them. My first one is
we've got what I'm calling a rather big

1123
01:25:05.039 --> 01:25:12.399
front yard area and the past two
freezes did its damage on it, and

1124
01:25:12.760 --> 01:25:18.159
it wasn't great as far as the
Saint Augustine before that, I don't have

1125
01:25:18.199 --> 01:25:21.159
a lot of money to spend on
it. It would there be a good

1126
01:25:21.199 --> 01:25:30.680
weed and feed that we could apply
to that. There is grass throughout the

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01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:35.399
area, but it's not very thick. It's it's very low in spots.

1128
01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:41.880
Okay, well, I tell you
in your situation there, I'm gonna say,

1129
01:25:42.199 --> 01:25:45.239
do not do the weed and feed
combo. I would What I would

1130
01:25:45.279 --> 01:25:48.960
suggest is do a good quality fertilizer. And we talk about a lot of

1131
01:25:49.000 --> 01:25:51.479
them. Here. Do it at
the right rate, which is about up

1132
01:25:51.560 --> 01:25:57.000
one pound of nitrogen per thousand square
feet. And here's how you know how

1133
01:25:57.079 --> 01:26:00.880
much to apply. Whatever fertilizer you
buy, take the first number on the

1134
01:26:00.960 --> 01:26:06.399
bag and divide it into one hundred, and that's how many pounds you apply

1135
01:26:06.560 --> 01:26:11.000
per thousand square feet. So here's
just an example that's easy. If the

1136
01:26:11.039 --> 01:26:15.279
first number was twenty, twenty goes
into one hundred five times. So for

1137
01:26:15.319 --> 01:26:20.399
a twenty percent nitrogen product, you
put on five pounds per thousand square feet.

1138
01:26:20.520 --> 01:26:24.000
And you can do that with the
different you know, different types of

1139
01:26:24.039 --> 01:26:28.079
fertilizers. Take that first number.
As far as weed control, I'd say,

1140
01:26:28.199 --> 01:26:31.079
let's find out what the weeds are
and go after them. If it's

1141
01:26:31.119 --> 01:26:36.479
a broad leaf weed, then you
can use a post emergent broad leaf product

1142
01:26:36.760 --> 01:26:41.439
separately. And there's a number of
good products out there. But rather than

1143
01:26:41.439 --> 01:26:45.359
trying to combine these two and get
the timing right for feeding and the timing

1144
01:26:45.439 --> 01:26:47.760
right and the right product and the
weed and feed for weeding. Some are

1145
01:26:47.800 --> 01:26:51.640
pre emergent, some are post emergent, let's separate those two out and buy

1146
01:26:51.640 --> 01:26:55.880
the two different products. And I
think that will work. Now, if

1147
01:26:55.880 --> 01:26:58.640
you want to save some money and
you're trying to get your loan back going,

1148
01:26:59.239 --> 01:27:02.239
you can just do good mowing,
watering, and fertilizing. Let the

1149
01:27:02.279 --> 01:27:05.159
weeds be in there for a while. Let's get your lawn good and downs.

1150
01:27:05.439 --> 01:27:09.159
Most of the weeds are going to
get choked out by that over the

1151
01:27:09.159 --> 01:27:13.800
course of the season. With good
mow water fertilized, and then the persistent

1152
01:27:13.840 --> 01:27:17.439
weeds we could go in later and
kind of take those out individually based on

1153
01:27:17.560 --> 01:27:23.760
what the weed is. Yes,
sir, okay, thank you very much.

1154
01:27:24.359 --> 01:27:27.880
I appreciate that. Now. My
second question is we've got a really

1155
01:27:27.880 --> 01:27:32.079
good garden going. We went to
arbur Gate and got a ton of their

1156
01:27:32.279 --> 01:27:41.079
compost. But anyway we're having a
problem with I'm thinking it's birds pecking holes

1157
01:27:41.359 --> 01:27:46.880
in our tomatoes and they've gotten to
them before we can grab them off the

1158
01:27:46.920 --> 01:27:54.439
bush. And also they've been flying
around the bean of plants. What can

1159
01:27:54.479 --> 01:27:57.359
we do. I don't know what
to think about the beans and the birds

1160
01:27:57.479 --> 01:28:01.279
there, but the tomato pecking.
The thing I would suggest is you need

1161
01:28:01.319 --> 01:28:08.680
to go online and buy something called
an Organza draw string bag. These are

1162
01:28:08.840 --> 01:28:12.640
used, as you know, brides
will buy them as little favors for the

1163
01:28:12.680 --> 01:28:15.439
bridesmaids at the party or whatever.
But it's it's a it's a mesh type

1164
01:28:15.439 --> 01:28:20.399
bag Organza or ga n Za and
it has a draw string. You buy

1165
01:28:20.439 --> 01:28:24.880
them in different sizes. Get a
size for your tomatoes. Slip them over

1166
01:28:24.920 --> 01:28:28.800
the new tomatoes and pull them tight, and that will keep the birds from

1167
01:28:28.800 --> 01:28:31.000
pecking on them. Now, if
you have eight hundred acres of tomatoes,

1168
01:28:31.399 --> 01:28:34.880
it's not practical. But for a
home garden, I think you can get

1169
01:28:34.920 --> 01:28:39.039
you a bunch of good tomatoes and
keep those dead gum mocking birds, our

1170
01:28:39.079 --> 01:28:43.399
state bird and whoever else is doing
it from doing that damage. Tommy,

1171
01:28:43.439 --> 01:28:47.800
I appreciate that question. Let's see
Jim out in Montgomery. Let's see what's

1172
01:28:47.840 --> 01:28:50.199
going on. I've got just little
time here, but we'll see if we

1173
01:28:50.239 --> 01:28:56.079
can get you done before break.
Okay, soil, I do a lot

1174
01:28:56.119 --> 01:29:02.159
of cuttings and seed germination and find
really decent soil. It's real smooth,

1175
01:29:02.359 --> 01:29:05.399
didn't have wood chips in and all
that kind of stuff. Yeah, and

1176
01:29:05.560 --> 01:29:10.880
I use it just to germinate and
once they develop a good root system and

1177
01:29:11.000 --> 01:29:15.119
I transplant them into a road soil. But I was wondering where I could

1178
01:29:15.119 --> 01:29:18.840
get something. I live in Montgomery, but I'm kind of closer to magnolia,

1179
01:29:18.960 --> 01:29:23.920
the old magnolia. All right.
Well, there's a number of good

1180
01:29:23.960 --> 01:29:27.720
products out there, but I would
suggest you consider jungle land. Jungle Land

1181
01:29:27.840 --> 01:29:31.039
is made by Nitrofoss. They have
quality soil for out on the patio,

1182
01:29:31.239 --> 01:29:34.680
but they also have the type with
crystals inside that you can use on your

1183
01:29:34.680 --> 01:29:40.399
houseplants. It's got the micro rhizal
fungi in it and aged organic matter in

1184
01:29:40.479 --> 01:29:43.239
it. It would be a good
place to start. And you're going to

1185
01:29:43.319 --> 01:29:46.880
find jungle land pretty much everywhere because
nitrofoss is everywhere. Okay, tract and

1186
01:29:47.000 --> 01:29:50.520
a regular oil for your throat that
works real well. Hey, thank you,

1187
01:29:50.640 --> 01:29:54.199
I appreciate that. Man. I'm
getting a lot of good advice here

1188
01:29:54.880 --> 01:30:00.239
in addition to hopefully giving out some
good advice myself. Paula, we see

1189
01:30:00.239 --> 01:30:02.359
you on the board and when we
come back from break, I will put

1190
01:30:02.439 --> 01:30:06.920
you as first in line for the
rest of you. Seven one three two

1191
01:30:06.960 --> 01:30:12.479
one two five eight seven four.
Just another reminder, I'm going to be

1192
01:30:12.479 --> 01:30:16.439
a K and MS Hardware in Kingwood. That is forty five forty Kingwood Drive

1193
01:30:16.840 --> 01:30:21.359
next Saturday. Next Saturday, eleven
thirty in the morning to one thirty.

1194
01:30:21.359 --> 01:30:24.720
Come out and see me. I'd
love to meet you. And if you've

1195
01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:28.960
got plans to bring, if you've
got photos of the yard and you want

1196
01:30:29.000 --> 01:30:32.279
to ask questions about it just good
quality focused photos. We'll have some time

1197
01:30:32.319 --> 01:30:35.199
to talk and have a good time. And while you're there, they're gonna

1198
01:30:35.199 --> 01:30:45.039
have every product you might need.
KTRH Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any

1199
01:30:45.039 --> 01:30:50.520
of the products or services advertised on
this program. Welcome to KTRH Garden Line

1200
01:30:50.800 --> 01:31:10.840
with Skip rictor just watch Good Morning
on a good morning for gardening. There,

1201
01:31:10.960 --> 01:31:14.760
good Saturday morning, great weather out
there. For now, it's a

1202
01:31:14.760 --> 01:31:16.800
good time to be inside. We
got an hour left to garden Line today.

1203
01:31:17.000 --> 01:31:20.279
That means we have an hour we
can take your gardening questions if you

1204
01:31:20.319 --> 01:31:27.520
will write down our number seven one
three two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1205
01:31:28.840 --> 01:31:31.399
Do you have a little piece of
property that maybe an acre or even

1206
01:31:31.439 --> 01:31:36.000
more a lot more if you want
where you just need some power equipment to

1207
01:31:36.000 --> 01:31:40.680
be able to get things done well, I would suggest you go check out

1208
01:31:40.720 --> 01:31:46.239
the folks at lands Down Muty Moody. Lansdown Moody has the Caboda line of

1209
01:31:46.319 --> 01:31:54.319
tractors and there are some really good
spring deals available. You can perhaps consider

1210
01:31:54.359 --> 01:31:59.199
the Caboda L twenty five O one
with hydrostatic transmission. That's that means no

1211
01:31:59.279 --> 01:32:01.880
more mind in your gears. Trying
to go from one gear to another.

1212
01:32:02.159 --> 01:32:06.640
You can throw a front end loader
on it, perhaps a rotary cutter behind

1213
01:32:06.680 --> 01:32:10.199
it, a box blade in front
of it. You see what I'm talking

1214
01:32:10.199 --> 01:32:12.359
about. I mean, you know, when you order malt, you got

1215
01:32:12.439 --> 01:32:15.119
to be able to move that stuff
around, right, You got to mow

1216
01:32:15.199 --> 01:32:18.720
a big area, bigger than your
lawn. There you go the Caboda products

1217
01:32:18.880 --> 01:32:25.079
or quality in their their design for
hard working Texans. Now you can also

1218
01:32:25.159 --> 01:32:30.960
get this zero down, zero percent
APR for seventy two months. In fact,

1219
01:32:30.039 --> 01:32:32.760
you know what, they have increased
that to eighty months. I've never

1220
01:32:32.760 --> 01:32:38.880
heard of such a thing. Zero
down zero APR for eighty months. All

1221
01:32:38.920 --> 01:32:44.159
you gotta do LM tractor dot com
at Lansdown Moody folks, and this is

1222
01:32:44.159 --> 01:32:46.279
going to go on through June thirtieth, but don't delay. You can also

1223
01:32:46.439 --> 01:32:54.119
go to Cuboda USA dot com to
get more information Lansdown Moody, Caboda Tractors.

1224
01:32:56.760 --> 01:33:00.319
I used to have a little farm
up in the Willis area, and

1225
01:33:00.479 --> 01:33:03.600
I loved getting out and messing around
on the tractor. You know when I

1226
01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:09.199
say farm, it's small farm,
right, But my old tractor I can

1227
01:33:09.279 --> 01:33:12.680
relate to the grinding years this year, and I can relate to having to

1228
01:33:12.720 --> 01:33:15.600
squirt stuff up in there trying to
get the thing to start, you know.

1229
01:33:15.680 --> 01:33:20.479
And and it's so nice to have
a quality new product. And those

1230
01:33:20.520 --> 01:33:24.880
cabodas come in all sizes. I
mean, there is all the way down

1231
01:33:24.880 --> 01:33:27.560
to you know, just a bigger
and a lawnmower size, to all the

1232
01:33:27.560 --> 01:33:30.000
way up to you name it.
And so there's a caboda for you.

1233
01:33:30.560 --> 01:33:34.479
And it is a lot of fun
to get out there and to get your

1234
01:33:34.520 --> 01:33:39.399
work done. Plus it saves you
a lot of time and money. You're

1235
01:33:39.439 --> 01:33:42.920
listening to garden Line. I'm your
host, Skip Richter, and we are

1236
01:33:43.000 --> 01:33:45.560
here to talk to you. Our
number is seven one three two one two

1237
01:33:46.000 --> 01:33:50.319
five eight seven four and we're going
to start off by going to Charlie in

1238
01:33:50.520 --> 01:33:57.680
Friendswood. Hello, Charlie, good
morning. Question for you here. Okay,

1239
01:33:59.159 --> 01:34:01.039
we have a little right escape area
in the front yard, maybe four

1240
01:34:01.119 --> 01:34:05.920
or five hundred square feet, about
a half dozen tall trees, primarily pines,

1241
01:34:05.960 --> 01:34:11.199
and its kind of what my wife
calls English ivy, which is thick

1242
01:34:11.239 --> 01:34:16.760
and full and it's growing up the
trees. Is that detrimental to them and

1243
01:34:17.840 --> 01:34:21.239
shall I get rid of it?
And if so, householo. Okay.

1244
01:34:21.319 --> 01:34:28.079
So it's detrimental when it gets up
in the tree and the ivy covers over

1245
01:34:28.119 --> 01:34:31.600
the foliage of the tree, meaning
it's like putting an umbrella shade cover over

1246
01:34:31.680 --> 01:34:35.199
your tree. That will kill trees, okay, because they can't get light

1247
01:34:35.840 --> 01:34:41.640
and the ivy grows at such a
fast rate. If you just that it's

1248
01:34:41.760 --> 01:34:44.880
on the tree is no problem.
And I know some people that will come

1249
01:34:44.960 --> 01:34:46.920
up, you know, head higher
or whatever and just trim off the ivy

1250
01:34:46.960 --> 01:34:50.680
and kind of keep it as a
green tree trunk covering down low, or

1251
01:34:50.800 --> 01:34:54.039
you can just get rid of the
whole thing, keep it off the trunk.

1252
01:34:54.119 --> 01:34:59.119
But those are your options. Okay, Well that sounds pretty good because

1253
01:34:59.119 --> 01:35:02.840
it's no where near the trees are
tall, probably fifty seven to seventy five.

1254
01:35:03.399 --> 01:35:08.560
They're pine trees. Yeah, totally. Well that that English ivy has

1255
01:35:08.640 --> 01:35:13.199
great aspirations and so probably better to
deal with it before it starts to become

1256
01:35:13.199 --> 01:35:15.439
a problem. You know, keep
it whatever level you want, whether it's

1257
01:35:15.479 --> 01:35:18.520
not on the trunk at all,
or whether it's let's have a green trunk

1258
01:35:18.600 --> 01:35:23.479
up six feet high and it stops
there. That's your call. Just just

1259
01:35:23.640 --> 01:35:27.239
cutting its mottom or just pull it
off as where you can reach it.

1260
01:35:27.319 --> 01:35:29.880
You can cut it off at the
bottom and then you know, pull it

1261
01:35:29.920 --> 01:35:31.399
off special. You can just gone
dry and leave. You're gonna fall off

1262
01:35:31.439 --> 01:35:35.279
anyway. But again that aesthetically that
that's a call for you to make.

1263
01:35:35.920 --> 01:35:42.439
I appreciate, appreciate that gig.
I'm charting good, Thanks so much for

1264
01:35:42.479 --> 01:35:46.439
the call. Let's now go to
John in southwest Houston. Hello, John,

1265
01:35:47.520 --> 01:35:50.560
Hey, how are you. I'm
a longtime listener, first time caller.

1266
01:35:50.840 --> 01:35:56.159
Good. Hey, I've got a
problem. I'm so tired of my

1267
01:35:56.279 --> 01:36:00.760
trees freezing. And so what I
did is, I've decided that you know,

1268
01:36:00.960 --> 01:36:03.880
put for simmons in some things that
won't freeze. But one tree that

1269
01:36:03.920 --> 01:36:08.119
I'd like to have some help with
is on a papia tree. Okay,

1270
01:36:08.920 --> 01:36:15.159
I've kind of you know, I've
done really well with self pollinating dwarf papayas,

1271
01:36:15.319 --> 01:36:18.439
and I usually would get them from
a nursery from that brought them in

1272
01:36:18.520 --> 01:36:23.319
from you know, somewhere's in Asia, and they were phenomenal. I can't

1273
01:36:23.359 --> 01:36:27.720
seem find anybody that might have a
good tree that I could purchase. You

1274
01:36:27.720 --> 01:36:32.000
know, I wanted a dwarf self
pollinating small fruit, okay, and could

1275
01:36:32.000 --> 01:36:35.840
you give me a suggestion on where
I can purchase one ant? And second

1276
01:36:35.840 --> 01:36:41.079
of all, you know this,
I think I had probably about forty fruit

1277
01:36:41.119 --> 01:36:45.000
on mine before the last freeze came
in and I tried to save the tree,

1278
01:36:45.079 --> 01:36:46.800
and uh, you know, in
this year, I'm going to build

1279
01:36:46.800 --> 01:36:50.239
a temporary greenhouse around it and try
to eat it. But I got to

1280
01:36:50.279 --> 01:36:54.319
find a tree first. All right, Well, you're in Southwest I would

1281
01:36:54.359 --> 01:36:58.640
suggest you consider enchanted gardens or enchanted
forest. Call the folks out there towards

1282
01:36:58.720 --> 01:37:02.079
Richard Rosenberg. They carry a wide
variety of things, and I would start

1283
01:37:02.079 --> 01:37:04.560
with a phone call out there.
I mean, you could drive out.

1284
01:37:04.600 --> 01:37:08.760
It's always worth coming out and seeing
what they have, but make sure that

1285
01:37:08.800 --> 01:37:12.560
they have it you might find.
And this is a little bit of a

1286
01:37:12.640 --> 01:37:15.079
drive for you, but arbour Gate
does a pretty good job of carrying a

1287
01:37:15.119 --> 01:37:18.279
lot of different fruit trees through the
season. I was out there recently.

1288
01:37:18.319 --> 01:37:21.840
I didn't see papaya, but it's
worth calling them to see if they have

1289
01:37:21.920 --> 01:37:27.920
it. If that strikes out again. Not exactly your area, but Moss

1290
01:37:28.000 --> 01:37:32.199
Nursery down south has always carried a
good variety of fruit as well, and

1291
01:37:32.279 --> 01:37:40.079
so moss moss in Seabrook. So
the other thing is if you start a

1292
01:37:40.079 --> 01:37:44.560
papaya seed inside, let's say in
the late wintertime, and you start it

1293
01:37:44.560 --> 01:37:45.680
in a four inch pot. This
is a seed that came out of a

1294
01:37:45.720 --> 01:37:51.359
papaya you bought at the store.
You can grow those and by the end

1295
01:37:51.880 --> 01:37:58.399
of the season you probably will have
a papaya that's fruiting. So you can

1296
01:37:58.520 --> 01:38:01.600
grow your own trees. Now with
that, you've got some papayas or male,

1297
01:38:01.800 --> 01:38:05.640
some papayas or female, and some
papayas have both male and female,

1298
01:38:05.880 --> 01:38:10.720
and you just don't know until it
starts to flour what you got, right.

1299
01:38:10.760 --> 01:38:13.319
And see that was my problem last
year. My kid came back from

1300
01:38:13.319 --> 01:38:16.119
Hawaii and had some great seeds.
I grew them, the plants for about

1301
01:38:16.159 --> 01:38:19.079
four or five foot tall, and
to find out, they never, never,

1302
01:38:19.439 --> 01:38:23.720
you know, brewed any fruit.
So I would assume that they were,

1303
01:38:24.039 --> 01:38:26.199
you know, a male or female, and I couldn't figure it out.

1304
01:38:26.279 --> 01:38:29.079
There you go, all right.
Now, one last thing is that

1305
01:38:29.159 --> 01:38:31.239
I have a papaya that I brought
in the spring and because of the water

1306
01:38:31.319 --> 01:38:36.760
that we had earlier because whatever they
it just didn't take. Okay, if

1307
01:38:36.760 --> 01:38:40.920
a papaya right now, I'm looking
at it and it's a stem which just

1308
01:38:41.039 --> 01:38:45.000
maybe a little growth on the top. Is it possible as long as it's

1309
01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:50.079
still, you know, looking alive, Is it still possible that I could

1310
01:38:50.119 --> 01:38:54.000
stimulate it enough to come back?
All right, I'm going to have to

1311
01:38:54.039 --> 01:38:56.600
go to break, Tom, But
the answer is yes, give it some

1312
01:38:56.640 --> 01:39:00.560
time, don't give up on it
just yet, and it may well sprouting.

1313
01:39:00.680 --> 01:39:01.880
So thank you for that call.
I'm going to head to break.

1314
01:39:01.920 --> 01:39:06.920
You're listening to garden line seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

1315
01:39:09.079 --> 01:39:21.119
speak you see dance for me?
Maybe? Don't you know? I love

1316
01:39:21.199 --> 01:39:29.359
you? So you feel it when
we touch? Well. Good morning on

1317
01:39:29.439 --> 01:39:32.680
a good Saturday morning for gardenings.
It's a good Saturday morning to talk about

1318
01:39:32.720 --> 01:39:35.119
gardening. Two. And we're gonna
be doing that for the next forty minutes.

1319
01:39:35.159 --> 01:39:38.479
We've got a little bit of an
hour left, a little less than

1320
01:39:38.520 --> 01:39:41.359
an hour left, and the first
thing we're gonna do. And by the

1321
01:39:41.439 --> 01:39:45.640
way, the phone number seven one
three two one two five eight seven four

1322
01:39:45.800 --> 01:39:49.520
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four. We're gonna go out

1323
01:39:49.600 --> 01:39:54.960
to Cyprus and talk to Tom.
Tom, thanks for patiently hanging on.

1324
01:39:55.199 --> 01:39:59.119
How can we help? Hey,
it's a good morning. So we've had

1325
01:39:59.159 --> 01:40:02.319
this above ground pool for about fifteen
years. We took it down last year

1326
01:40:02.640 --> 01:40:09.760
and it's decomposed granted underneath. Now
I want to throw some Saint Augustine sade

1327
01:40:09.880 --> 01:40:14.319
over it. Um, what would
you recommend I do on top of that

1328
01:40:14.439 --> 01:40:19.239
decomposed grantit. Well, if there's
any way to get that granite out,

1329
01:40:19.479 --> 01:40:24.600
I know that's probably some work,
but that stuff can really pack down and

1330
01:40:24.720 --> 01:40:29.399
be basically at concrete underneath there,
and you don't your side. If you

1331
01:40:29.479 --> 01:40:30.439
put it right on that, it
is going to have a very hard time

1332
01:40:30.520 --> 01:40:35.159
rooting in. In my opinion,
you could put enough soil over it to

1333
01:40:35.279 --> 01:40:40.000
bring the level up to get a
good, uh you know, root zone

1334
01:40:40.119 --> 01:40:44.079
for your side. If there's a
way to either do it or have someone

1335
01:40:44.199 --> 01:40:46.680
do it, or come in and
you know, listen it up and get

1336
01:40:46.720 --> 01:40:49.840
it out of there, I would
do that first. That would be my

1337
01:40:50.000 --> 01:40:55.000
suggestion. Okay, So number one
would be removed it. Number two would

1338
01:40:55.000 --> 01:40:58.680
be maybe to put two or three
inches some some top soil on top of

1339
01:40:58.760 --> 01:41:01.199
it. Now, I'm thinking about
six inches or so or more. Yeah,

1340
01:41:01.399 --> 01:41:05.560
and six inches would be minimum grass
roots. You know, we think

1341
01:41:05.600 --> 01:41:09.319
about grass me and shallow root,
isn't it is? But I mean you're

1342
01:41:09.319 --> 01:41:12.319
gonna find Saint Augustine roots, you
know, a foot down or more.

1343
01:41:12.439 --> 01:41:15.800
I mean, in a good quality
soil, they will be so yeah,

1344
01:41:15.000 --> 01:41:18.159
all right, all right. I
would rather not see you set yourself up

1345
01:41:18.239 --> 01:41:23.640
for ongoing issues, you know,
with that turf area, so that that's

1346
01:41:23.880 --> 01:41:26.000
hate to be the bear of bad
news. I've been doing that a little

1347
01:41:26.000 --> 01:41:29.079
bit today. But yeah, well
I was afraid of that, but I'm

1348
01:41:29.119 --> 01:41:30.279
glad. I'm glad I heard it
from you. So that's what's going to

1349
01:41:30.319 --> 01:41:32.800
have to happen. I'll just steal
it up and shovel it up. Now.

1350
01:41:33.039 --> 01:41:35.960
As an alternative, you could build
an arbor over that area and have

1351
01:41:36.039 --> 01:41:40.800
a nice place to put your lawn
chairs and sit out and enjoy the landscape.

1352
01:41:41.920 --> 01:41:44.319
Maybe just throw some stamp concrete on
it. All right, Thank you

1353
01:41:44.520 --> 01:41:46.760
appreciate your time. Thank you,
sir. I appreciate that call very much.

1354
01:41:47.479 --> 01:41:54.079
Oh my goodness, you know,
I was I was talking earlier about

1355
01:41:54.439 --> 01:42:00.479
jungle land and jungle Land is the
kind of product that you and put in

1356
01:42:00.560 --> 01:42:03.479
your containers and believe that you're going
to have good growth, good plant growth.

1357
01:42:03.520 --> 01:42:09.960
If you on a beautiful patio outdoor
potted plants jungle lound specifically blended Canadian

1358
01:42:10.000 --> 01:42:15.840
blonde peete with four sources of aged
organic material and micro rhizal fungi, you

1359
01:42:15.000 --> 01:42:18.760
will have beautiful color all year long. If you water those containers, give

1360
01:42:18.760 --> 01:42:23.920
me a little extra fertilizer as we
go. This is the quality substrate for

1361
01:42:24.079 --> 01:42:29.720
success on indoors. They've got the
jungle land with water saving crystals make it's

1362
01:42:29.720 --> 01:42:33.079
a little easier to water indoors.
Now everywhere that you find nitro FoST you're

1363
01:42:33.119 --> 01:42:38.119
gonna find things like jungle Land,
such as a Taska Ceda Ace hardware,

1364
01:42:38.520 --> 01:42:43.880
Lake Hardware and Anglet or Gym's hardware. Out in Montgomery, you are listening

1365
01:42:43.920 --> 01:42:47.560
to garden Line. We are here
to answer your gardening questions and so if

1366
01:42:47.600 --> 01:42:50.079
you would like to call in,
we got about half an hour left or

1367
01:42:50.119 --> 01:42:58.359
so seven one three two one two
five eight seven four seven one three two

1368
01:42:58.479 --> 01:43:03.199
one two five eight seven four and
Josh will get you on the boards and

1369
01:43:03.680 --> 01:43:08.319
you will be able to talk about
whatever you're interested in with me. We're

1370
01:43:08.319 --> 01:43:11.760
going to go out to Spring Branch
though right now, and we're going to

1371
01:43:11.880 --> 01:43:15.760
visit with Hurta. Good morning,
Hurta. Oh I think I lost Hurta

1372
01:43:15.840 --> 01:43:18.520
there. Well, if we can't
get her back up, hurt To,

1373
01:43:18.600 --> 01:43:23.680
please call in. We give us
a call back and we will we will

1374
01:43:23.720 --> 01:43:30.680
get you on the air. This
is the kind of weather where our plants

1375
01:43:30.800 --> 01:43:34.960
start growing like crazy. And when
plants are growing like crazy, you need

1376
01:43:35.079 --> 01:43:40.000
to be able to supply them with
what they need. And one of the

1377
01:43:40.159 --> 01:43:45.479
things that plants need, especially if
it's a lawn, would be high quality

1378
01:43:45.600 --> 01:43:50.359
nutrients and something like Nitrofoss Super Turf
nineteen four ten. That's one that I've

1379
01:43:50.399 --> 01:43:54.520
talked about before and you will hear
me talk about it again. It is

1380
01:43:54.560 --> 01:43:57.039
a quality product, and here's some
things I like about it. First of

1381
01:43:57.079 --> 01:44:01.520
all, it's the premium grass fertilizer
that's triple guaranteed. That means a they

1382
01:44:01.640 --> 01:44:05.880
guarantee that it will keep it greener
longer, that it will require less mowing.

1383
01:44:05.960 --> 01:44:10.119
Now, why would a fertilizer require
less mowing? Because it spreads and

1384
01:44:10.199 --> 01:44:14.079
nutrients out over time. You don't
get that peak of growth of immediate release

1385
01:44:14.159 --> 01:44:16.399
and then a valley following it.
You get a gradual feed over time,

1386
01:44:16.520 --> 01:44:20.520
which is how grass eats, if
you will, and how your fertilizer should

1387
01:44:20.880 --> 01:44:27.840
feed. And Nitrofoss superturf nineteen four
ten does that also reduced brown patch in

1388
01:44:27.960 --> 01:44:30.359
the Saint Augustine. Again, a
good part of that is due to the

1389
01:44:30.520 --> 01:44:35.359
spreading hour spreading out of the growth
over time. You know, nitro Fosh

1390
01:44:35.399 --> 01:44:40.119
products are sold all over town.
I mean, you can't find a place

1391
01:44:40.199 --> 01:44:43.960
here where there's not Nitrofoss near you. But maybe you're up I have forty

1392
01:44:44.000 --> 01:44:46.920
five North and you're looking at ourcwor
plants for all seasons, or hide and

1393
01:44:47.279 --> 01:44:51.359
feed and supply out on Stubner Airline, or K and m ace down in

1394
01:44:51.600 --> 01:44:59.279
Kingwood, and on and on the
list goes Nitrofoss Super ten nineteen four ten.

1395
01:45:00.199 --> 01:45:01.920
You're listening to garden Line. I'm
your host, Skip Richter, and

1396
01:45:02.000 --> 01:45:05.960
we're here to talk about gardening.
So let's do that. Our number seven

1397
01:45:06.039 --> 01:45:11.960
one three, two, one two
five eight seven four. We're going to

1398
01:45:12.039 --> 01:45:16.920
go to West University and talk to
Mark. Hello, Mark, say good

1399
01:45:16.960 --> 01:45:24.439
morning, good Morning's doing well?
I'm doing well today, what's happening in

1400
01:45:24.520 --> 01:45:27.840
your neck of the woods. The
kind of questions I got, Well,

1401
01:45:27.880 --> 01:45:32.239
I've noticed that the Italian cypress trees
wherever I go seem to be dying.

1402
01:45:32.640 --> 01:45:36.760
And about my neighbor one last year
and I noticed that it's almost gone.

1403
01:45:36.960 --> 01:45:43.279
So they're turning brown, you know, from the top down and really patches

1404
01:45:43.319 --> 01:45:45.399
a brown. So it's just trying
to figure out what's going on. Well,

1405
01:45:45.479 --> 01:45:49.159
you're an observant person, and yes, it's true that's happening, and

1406
01:45:49.479 --> 01:45:56.640
that is why I do not recommend
Italian cypress. They create that beautiful Mediterranean

1407
01:45:56.840 --> 01:46:00.560
villa. Look, these long,
tall, skinny trees. Inevitably, what's

1408
01:46:00.560 --> 01:46:05.000
going to happen is disease, cold
damage, spider mites, bagworms one of

1409
01:46:05.039 --> 01:46:10.239
those. And in this case we
had damage from the December freeze. They

1410
01:46:10.319 --> 01:46:14.119
were not ready for it and it
really burned a bunch of them back.

1411
01:46:14.760 --> 01:46:18.079
Also, a lot of them are
being infected by a foliage blight and that's

1412
01:46:18.119 --> 01:46:21.520
causing big brown areas also that you
see in those. So it's gonna be

1413
01:46:21.560 --> 01:46:25.560
one of those two things. But
you know, nobody is going to get

1414
01:46:25.600 --> 01:46:29.760
out there in spray an Italian cypress
every week to keep with a fun decide

1415
01:46:29.800 --> 01:46:32.920
to try to keep the blight off, so I just go with something else.

1416
01:46:33.039 --> 01:46:35.439
Go to a good quality of nursery. They can give you a thin

1417
01:46:35.680 --> 01:46:43.359
upright plant that's an alternative, but
no plant those Okay, that makes sense.

1418
01:46:43.479 --> 01:46:46.079
Appreciate it. And then just a
quick comment. I was heading over

1419
01:46:46.159 --> 01:46:49.560
to Tom Bass Park to try and
pick up a tree. You know,

1420
01:46:49.600 --> 01:46:55.319
they're given away a free tree whoever
comes up there today. And there is

1421
01:46:55.760 --> 01:46:59.479
a lot of gridlock, looks like
about a couple of miles of traffic just

1422
01:47:00.039 --> 01:47:03.520
standstill. So planning, I'm getting
getting a tree today. It just you

1423
01:47:03.600 --> 01:47:06.600
want to plan your your day out, all right, all right, appreciate

1424
01:47:06.960 --> 01:47:11.239
I appreciate that. I appreciate that
very much. Mark, thanks for the

1425
01:47:11.800 --> 01:47:16.560
information there. Let's head now out
to Spring Branch and we're gonna talk to

1426
01:47:17.239 --> 01:47:20.359
Hurta. Hello, Hurta, I'm
glad to have you back. Oh,

1427
01:47:20.600 --> 01:47:28.439
good morning. Thank you for being
there. You're doing a great job.

1428
01:47:29.439 --> 01:47:35.319
My question is, um I have
a call them sport. I have about

1429
01:47:36.079 --> 01:47:43.520
two foot or three foot a day
is who have grown out of the roots

1430
01:47:43.720 --> 01:47:47.880
of the parent plant. They're about
four feet away from the parent plant.

1431
01:47:48.600 --> 01:47:55.560
Now I want to transplant them,
but I want to divide them. I

1432
01:47:55.680 --> 01:48:03.680
don't want the whole plump at one
time would hurt them. The stands are

1433
01:48:03.880 --> 01:48:11.880
maybe four inches apart. One is
about six inches away. Early you can

1434
01:48:12.000 --> 01:48:15.560
dig those. Now you got to
be extra careful to keep them extra moist.

1435
01:48:15.800 --> 01:48:18.680
I don't think they're sports from the
roots. I don't think in azalea

1436
01:48:18.760 --> 01:48:21.039
can do that way out from the
plant. So I don't know how to

1437
01:48:21.159 --> 01:48:25.920
describe how they got there, but
they're there, and so I would dig

1438
01:48:26.000 --> 01:48:29.279
them. If you can wait until
November and do it, then you'll have

1439
01:48:29.399 --> 01:48:33.359
a much better chance of success.
And I'm sorry we're just flat running out

1440
01:48:33.399 --> 01:48:36.800
of time today, but I hope
that is helpful for you. Just remember

1441
01:48:36.840 --> 01:48:41.600
if you move them, water them
in really, really well, and then

1442
01:48:41.800 --> 01:48:45.279
small amounts of water regularly until they
have a chance to really get established.

1443
01:48:45.319 --> 01:48:48.199
Because we're fixing to get hot around
here and it's gonna put a lot of

1444
01:48:48.239 --> 01:48:53.359
demands on those plants. So hopefully
that'll help. You're listening to garden Line.

1445
01:48:53.359 --> 01:48:57.800
I'm your host, Skip Richter seven
one three two one two fifty eight

1446
01:48:58.039 --> 01:49:01.439
seventy four. When we come back
out break, we will talk to Doug

1447
01:49:01.800 --> 01:49:25.960
and Kevin and whoever else calls in
in the meantime. My well, good

1448
01:49:26.479 --> 01:49:30.800
morning on a good Saturday morning for
gardening. You're listening to garden Line.

1449
01:49:30.800 --> 01:49:33.640
I'm your host, Skip Richter,
and we are entering our last segment of

1450
01:49:33.680 --> 01:49:38.359
the morning. By the way,
I'll be back tomorrow morning six am to

1451
01:49:38.479 --> 01:49:42.800
ten pm. Every Saturday and Sunday
six am to ten pm. You want

1452
01:49:42.800 --> 01:49:45.560
to listen to garden Line, Tell
your friends and family about it. That

1453
01:49:45.640 --> 01:49:47.279
neighbor that won't take care of their
yard, just give them a huddle,

1454
01:49:47.720 --> 01:49:51.479
subtle hint that maybe garden Line would
be a fun thing to listen to.

1455
01:49:51.800 --> 01:49:56.640
How's that well, let's go out
to the phones now, the number seven

1456
01:49:56.720 --> 01:50:00.359
one three, two one two five
eight seven four, and we're gonna go

1457
01:50:00.439 --> 01:50:05.359
out to Brenham and talk to Doug. Good morning, Doug, eld Skip.

1458
01:50:06.840 --> 01:50:12.520
How can we help it? Skip? Uh? When's the best time

1459
01:50:12.600 --> 01:50:17.000
to plant petunias? April or May? April would be better? Uh.

1460
01:50:17.199 --> 01:50:24.760
Petunias are some of our new varieties
of petunias are pretty summer hardy. Some

1461
01:50:24.920 --> 01:50:28.239
of the old types. We thought
of them as a spring flower and once

1462
01:50:28.319 --> 01:50:30.600
it heats up in June, certainly
in July, they're going to be whimping

1463
01:50:30.640 --> 01:50:34.880
out. Some of the new types
are pretty good. If you if you

1464
01:50:35.000 --> 01:50:39.960
are up, you know, and
shopping for petunias, if you can find

1465
01:50:40.039 --> 01:50:45.279
one called bubble gum, it's a
pink flowered one and it makes bubble gum,

1466
01:50:45.520 --> 01:50:50.079
just like remember the old super bubble
bubble gum. That's the that's the

1467
01:50:50.159 --> 01:50:54.800
color of the flowers and it will
bloom and bloom and keep going. For

1468
01:50:54.920 --> 01:51:00.680
you, what common color is It's
it's pink, right, bright pink.

1469
01:51:02.720 --> 01:51:05.920
Thanks Skip, you bet, thank
you for the call, Doug. I

1470
01:51:05.960 --> 01:51:12.399
appreciate that very much. Let's now
go to Pearland and we're gonna talk to

1471
01:51:12.520 --> 01:51:16.119
Kevin. Hello, Kevin, Kay, good morning, Skip. So I've

1472
01:51:16.159 --> 01:51:21.159
got a tree. It's an oak
tree I'm gonna established for probably about ten

1473
01:51:21.279 --> 01:51:28.640
years, Keith sprouting off the root
system, you know, little trees.

1474
01:51:30.319 --> 01:51:34.680
Had my guide take everything down,
scraped everything down, scrape the roots down.

1475
01:51:35.079 --> 01:51:41.520
We re saw it or not saught
it, but putting new h compost

1476
01:51:41.640 --> 01:51:45.800
down and then remulched it. Three
weeks later they're sprouting up again. I've

1477
01:51:46.159 --> 01:51:49.720
deep water root fed it. I
mean, I just don't know what else

1478
01:51:49.760 --> 01:51:53.880
I can do. The other tree
is not doing anything like that, and

1479
01:51:53.960 --> 01:52:00.520
they're fifteen feet apart. Any ideas
you know, you say it was a

1480
01:52:00.560 --> 01:52:06.039
live oak, yes, sir,
okay, live oaks they come from different

1481
01:52:06.960 --> 01:52:12.640
let's just say natural genetic lines.
The ones along the Gulf coast tend to

1482
01:52:12.760 --> 01:52:16.119
not create clumps or root sprout.
Is bad. When you get over in

1483
01:52:16.159 --> 01:52:20.119
the hill country, the live oaks
over that direction they form mots. When

1484
01:52:20.159 --> 01:52:23.520
you drive through the hill country,
you'll see just a whole bunch of tree

1485
01:52:23.520 --> 01:52:26.439
trunks coming out of the pasture in
one place, and that's a mot of

1486
01:52:26.560 --> 01:52:32.560
live oaks. If your source is
genetically from that area, then you're going

1487
01:52:32.600 --> 01:52:36.439
to just have problems with the root
sprouting period. But the other thing that

1488
01:52:36.640 --> 01:52:41.119
makes root sprout is disturbing the soil. You go around a live oak,

1489
01:52:41.159 --> 01:52:44.359
there aren't he really root sprouts.
You start rototilling, putting in a flower

1490
01:52:44.399 --> 01:52:46.319
bed, watering it a lot,
and now you've got an ongoing battle.

1491
01:52:46.840 --> 01:52:50.399
And having them dig down like they
did and cut them as close to the

1492
01:52:50.520 --> 01:52:55.800
root as they can is in your
control. Other than that, there is

1493
01:52:56.199 --> 01:52:58.880
there's not a lot you can do. And now there are things you can

1494
01:52:58.960 --> 01:53:01.720
spray on them. There's a product
I think it's called sucker stopper, and

1495
01:53:01.920 --> 01:53:05.640
those when those suckers come out,
it's a growth hormone that causes them to

1496
01:53:05.680 --> 01:53:09.319
shut down. You need to catch
them real early, but you're gonna have

1497
01:53:09.399 --> 01:53:13.319
to do that on and on through
time. To keep them down. You

1498
01:53:13.399 --> 01:53:18.159
can put a really dense, high
quality landscape fabric, not a cheapo type,

1499
01:53:18.199 --> 01:53:21.640
but one that is going to last
and do well, and that will

1500
01:53:21.720 --> 01:53:25.960
also work for you. But on
top of that, you're gonna want to

1501
01:53:26.039 --> 01:53:30.760
set something with a little weight,
like maybe some river rocks or something like

1502
01:53:30.920 --> 01:53:32.760
that, as as sort of a
multure on the base of the tree because

1503
01:53:32.800 --> 01:53:35.640
the sprouts you're going to come up, but that'll just keep them from pushing

1504
01:53:35.760 --> 01:53:39.680
up too high. But you gotta
have a weight on it to work that

1505
01:53:39.840 --> 01:53:43.520
way. All right, appreciate it, all right, thank you, Kevin.

1506
01:53:43.560 --> 01:53:45.600
Appreciate the call. You are listening
to garden Line. I'm your host,

1507
01:53:45.680 --> 01:53:48.680
Skip Rector. We will be back
after the break if you'd like to

1508
01:53:48.760 --> 01:53:53.159
be on the board. Seven one
three, two, one two five eight

1509
01:53:53.760 --> 01:54:15.119
seven four got any base any rollers
fans out there? You're listening to one.

1510
01:54:15.279 --> 01:54:17.800
You're listening to garden Line and we
are going to get right to the

1511
01:54:17.840 --> 01:54:20.039
calls. We've got a little time
left in the segment, and I'm gonna

1512
01:54:20.039 --> 01:54:24.279
see how many we can get off
the board here and help with the gardening

1513
01:54:24.399 --> 01:54:28.359
questions. Let's start by going to
Jay in Chambers County. Hello, Jay,

1514
01:54:29.760 --> 01:54:31.800
Yes, sir, how can we
have a question? What? What?

1515
01:54:32.399 --> 01:54:36.840
What herbicide would I use to spray
on ornamental fruit trees to kill liking?

1516
01:54:40.239 --> 01:54:43.680
You wouldn't use a herbicide and you
really don't need to spray it.

1517
01:54:43.800 --> 01:54:46.359
If you've got liking on a fruit
tree, it's a sign that they're not

1518
01:54:46.560 --> 01:54:51.319
growing really actively. The liking doesn't
hurt the tree, but it's a sign

1519
01:54:51.399 --> 01:54:55.880
that the tree is not doing well, and so I would I would go

1520
01:54:56.159 --> 01:55:00.960
that approach. There are some moss
type killers that will work on lichen.

1521
01:55:02.479 --> 01:55:05.880
Off the top of my head,
I won't say. I'm not gonna say

1522
01:55:05.920 --> 01:55:10.319
it online because I'm not certain,
but we go to a good garden center

1523
01:55:10.399 --> 01:55:13.840
and tell them you need something that'll
that will kill lichens and mosses, and

1524
01:55:14.119 --> 01:55:16.920
that probably is going to be the
way to deal with it. But again,

1525
01:55:17.760 --> 01:55:20.119
the problem is not to kill the
lichen. The problem is to get

1526
01:55:20.119 --> 01:55:24.560
the tree growing better and I think
I think that'll be fine. I've got

1527
01:55:24.640 --> 01:55:27.760
lichens on some of my trees and
I just ignore them. It just means

1528
01:55:27.800 --> 01:55:31.239
it's just a humid place or getting
pretty decent sunlight in there. Yes,

1529
01:55:31.279 --> 01:55:34.720
so we live close to the coast
and this tree is completely covered with it

1530
01:55:34.880 --> 01:55:40.439
and it just barely started blooming,
okay, and it looks like the likings

1531
01:55:40.479 --> 01:55:43.640
like choking it to death. So
you're saying that I need to fertilize the

1532
01:55:43.680 --> 01:55:46.439
tree. Yeah, fertilized tree,
get good growth, get those lichens shaded

1533
01:55:46.479 --> 01:55:50.199
where they're not going to be getting
as much sunlight, and they'll decline from

1534
01:55:50.239 --> 01:55:55.520
that. But again, you know
a good garden center, i'd in you

1535
01:55:55.600 --> 01:55:59.279
know, the Chambers County area there. You've got some good folks that you

1536
01:55:59.319 --> 01:56:01.119
don't have to go over far,
you know, to get to a good

1537
01:56:01.560 --> 01:56:05.880
good gardens there, like a quality
feed places like that. Yes, sorry,

1538
01:56:05.960 --> 01:56:11.079
all right, good luck with that. Appreciate the call. Now let's

1539
01:56:11.119 --> 01:56:15.800
go to the woodlands and talk to
Tim. Good morning, Tim, good

1540
01:56:15.880 --> 01:56:20.079
morning, thanks for taking my call. I put it. I replaced my

1541
01:56:20.239 --> 01:56:28.279
lawn about months ago. My Saint
Augustine grass that dies last year, and

1542
01:56:28.760 --> 01:56:35.359
so I piled it up and I'm
ended the soil with some composts and put

1543
01:56:35.439 --> 01:56:41.560
down some Empire zoysia thoughts okay,
And I wandered it pretty heavily for the

1544
01:56:41.640 --> 01:56:45.760
first three weeks and then kind of
cut back a little bit after that.

1545
01:56:45.920 --> 01:56:49.439
And it's a bit about four weeks
now, and I've noticed that some of

1546
01:56:49.600 --> 01:56:56.039
the there are a number of spots
that are turning brown. So a lot

1547
01:56:56.079 --> 01:56:58.800
of it is doing well, but
some spots of turning brown. I want

1548
01:56:58.840 --> 01:57:01.039
to see if you have any advice
for that. Well, you know,

1549
01:57:01.119 --> 01:57:05.960
the generic brown areas here and there
is kind of hard to diagnose. The

1550
01:57:06.039 --> 01:57:09.720
empires are good. It's a good
choice. It'll do well for you.

1551
01:57:10.279 --> 01:57:15.239
It probably is disease related, so
I would minimize the watering. I know

1552
01:57:15.399 --> 01:57:18.439
it's fairly new side, but you
can still give it us soaking and then

1553
01:57:18.560 --> 01:57:23.640
let it dry out really well.
And I think it's going to crawl back

1554
01:57:23.720 --> 01:57:27.199
in and get established, especially as
the weather heats up a little bit.

1555
01:57:28.279 --> 01:57:32.680
Provide adequate fertilizer, don't overdo the
nitrogen that can predispose plants to problems.

1556
01:57:32.760 --> 01:57:36.359
To have way too much nitrogen,
but an adequate amount to keep it healthy.

1557
01:57:36.800 --> 01:57:40.319
I think I'd wait and watch on
that. If you'd like to send

1558
01:57:40.359 --> 01:57:43.279
me some pictures of it, I
can put you on hold, but I'm

1559
01:57:43.319 --> 01:57:45.159
telling you from a picture, I'm
probably not going to be able to diagnose

1560
01:57:45.319 --> 01:57:49.680
that very well. Okay, Well, I think you may be right about

1561
01:57:49.720 --> 01:57:54.119
the overwatering. I think I think
I did too much. So look,

1562
01:57:54.239 --> 01:57:58.600
how often would you recommend watering at
this point? At this point once a

1563
01:57:58.680 --> 01:58:01.000
week with a decent king, if
you can apply about a half inch to

1564
01:58:01.079 --> 01:58:05.159
an inch once a week when it
heats up, definitely an inch, but

1565
01:58:05.640 --> 01:58:09.800
it's it's a good deep soaking and
frequently so if you have to have it

1566
01:58:09.920 --> 01:58:12.600
come on for a while in water, and if it's going to start to

1567
01:58:12.720 --> 01:58:15.319
run off your lawn, which it's
hard to put an inch down at one

1568
01:58:15.399 --> 01:58:17.119
time and most soils, then you
may have to have it go off for

1569
01:58:17.199 --> 01:58:21.000
like forty five minutes to an hour
and then cycle back on again and get

1570
01:58:21.079 --> 01:58:25.319
that one inch down. So you
soak it deep and then let it dry

1571
01:58:25.399 --> 01:58:29.159
out, let it bring oxygen back
into the soil, don't constantly keep that

1572
01:58:29.279 --> 01:58:31.119
surface soggy. And I think you're
going to grow your way out of this

1573
01:58:31.279 --> 01:58:35.800
one, Tim. I appreciate your
call very much. We're going to run

1574
01:58:35.920 --> 01:58:43.640
now over to Kingwood and talk to
Kenneth. Hello, Kenneth, good morning.

1575
01:58:43.680 --> 01:58:45.800
How are you doing. I'm well, what's up today? Okay?

1576
01:58:45.840 --> 01:58:51.479
I just got a question too.
Oh we lost our za is on a

1577
01:58:51.600 --> 01:58:56.920
little cold snap. We head going
through here, okay, and all my

1578
01:58:57.560 --> 01:59:02.119
question is between the rebloom versus the
encore a Ziah. What's the big difference

1579
01:59:02.159 --> 01:59:05.159
between the two or what is there
a more difference? All right, I'm

1580
01:59:05.159 --> 01:59:09.760
gonna be honest with you, Kenneth. I don't I wouldn't plan an encore

1581
01:59:09.760 --> 01:59:14.640
azalia And I realize they have that
promise of blooming again, you know,

1582
01:59:14.800 --> 01:59:19.079
on them, but over time I'm
just not seeing good performance on them here

1583
01:59:19.079 --> 01:59:23.359
in the greater Houston area. Now, maybe there's some people out there listening.

1584
01:59:23.439 --> 01:59:25.680
God, I've had mine five years
and they're great. Well, good

1585
01:59:25.720 --> 01:59:28.920
for you, you did well,
But in general I would go as standard

1586
01:59:29.000 --> 01:59:31.760
types of azaleas, and I think
long term you're going to be happiest with

1587
01:59:31.880 --> 01:59:35.159
that. Now you might talk to
you know, wherever you do your shopping.

1588
01:59:35.199 --> 01:59:39.279
You're in Kingwood, so you're super
lucky. You've got Kingwood Garden Center

1589
01:59:39.319 --> 01:59:42.640
and Warren's right there. Down the
street and they won't steer you wrong,

1590
01:59:42.840 --> 01:59:45.520
but go in and tell them you've
had some problems or you're trying to get

1591
01:59:45.560 --> 01:59:49.680
an Azalia established and you want them
to direct you to the good varieties that

1592
01:59:49.800 --> 01:59:54.960
they carry. And I think that'll
be the best you can do. But

1593
01:59:55.079 --> 02:00:01.560
then they need to replant about ten
of them. Okay, yeah, that's

1594
02:00:01.640 --> 02:00:04.960
right. Well, zilies are normally
hardy, but December through them for a

1595
02:00:05.079 --> 02:00:08.880
curve, and there may be something
else going on out there with them.

1596
02:00:08.960 --> 02:00:12.319
But I think I think that what
I've advised you on there is probably the

1597
02:00:12.399 --> 02:00:15.560
best, the best way forward.
By the way, I'm gonna be at

1598
02:00:15.680 --> 02:00:21.880
Kingwood Ace K and m Ace Hardware
in Kingwood on forty ft Kingwood Drive.

1599
02:00:23.399 --> 02:00:27.319
If you've got some that are still
alive but they're not dead, dig them

1600
02:00:27.399 --> 02:00:30.039
up, put them in a trash
bag and bring them. Let me take

1601
02:00:30.039 --> 02:00:31.399
a look at them. I may
see something else on them. I'd be

1602
02:00:31.479 --> 02:00:35.880
happy to take a look. That's
next Saturday from eleven thirty to one thirty

1603
02:00:36.039 --> 02:00:41.760
eleven thirty to one thirty k and
m acety Kingwood Drive. And I'd love

1604
02:00:41.800 --> 02:00:44.159
to meet you anyway, But if
you've got some other questions, you want

1605
02:00:44.159 --> 02:00:46.479
to bring them in. Maybe some
photos on the phone. Let's bring them

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and look at them. You take
care. I appreciate the call, Kenneth,

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and I wish a really good week
of gardening between now and next Saturday.

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You've been listening to garden Line.
We are here to answer your gardening

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questions and guess what. We're going
to be back tomorrow morning at six a

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m. By the way, just
a little tip. Six am on Sunday

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is a good time to call.
The boards are not full. First thing,

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I can't imagine, why can you. Anyway, that's a good time

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to call and get on the boards
and we can visit with you. Of

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course, when I say that,
and tomorrow i'll be one of those Sundays

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where you know it's all lit up. First thing, but in general,

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that's good advice. I appreciate you
listening to garden Line. I hope you're

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enjoying it. We are certainly having
a good time here doing it. We

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got a great day for gardening.
Hey, get out there, visit a

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garden center, get out on the
lawn and garden. Take care of your

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place. We're setting you up for
a great boubtable beautiful summer.