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

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advertised on this program. Welcome to
kt r H Garden Line with Scared Rictor.

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It's Trim. You just watch him
as well. Good morning on a

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what is going to be a beautiful
Saturday. I am going to be heading

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out to Ciene Moltz this morning after
the show. I'll tell you more about

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that later, but it is going
to be chamber of commerce weather and a

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great day to get out and about. Great day to garden, great day

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to get out and buy some supplies
to get your garden ready to roll.

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Well, we went through a little
cold snap here and some people in the

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listening area had a pretty good coal
snap, others very mild. But it

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just reminded me that, you know, we have a lot of things that

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we can do to protect our plants
when things that get cold, and I

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realize, you know, there's a
little bit of time between the next one

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at least have to look pretty far
in the future to see what a good

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hard cole front's coming through. But
it's always a good time as we're entering

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the late fall and of course winter
season to make sure that we have prepared

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properly all the supplies we need,
because how many times have you run to

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the store to buy some I don't
know, a tarp to cover a plant

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or something, or maybe a heat
lamp or something like that, And yeah,

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they're none because everybody else had the
same idea. And then you're sitting

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outside, it's already turned dark and
you're trying to with freezing hands cover up

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a plant. I think you get
the idea of what I'm talking about.

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Well, there, we can avoid
all of that. And I've put together

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some information that I think you will
find very useful. If you go to

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my website, it's Gardening with Skip
dot com. The newest publication on there

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is I call it TISS the Season
to Be Freezing, And it has a

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link to a publication that I wrote
with one of the TEXA and M horticulture

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specialists up there, and it's called
Protecting Landscapes and horticulture crops from frosts and

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Freezes. And it is nine pages
of info and photos and everything else.

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And you know, if you're an
if you're a garden winter cut protection nerd,

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this will go into the science of
everything that you need to know.

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If you just want to know,
Hey, quick, show me what to

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do. Yep, there's a picture
in there that shows you that. But

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we go in explaining the difference between
frosts and freezes and the different kinds of

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freezes that you can have, even
different kinds of frost. Really, and

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so how do we know how to
protect a plant? Well, it's all

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in this publication. It's free.
It's a PDF again, I believe it's

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nine paid long with some really really
good information. So if you've thought about

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you know, what are the things
that I can do? Like should I

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water before a freeze or not?
What kinds of cover do I use?

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How do you put a cover on
properly so it actually works? Do I

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put lights and heat underneath the cover? By the way, I have a

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picture of what happens if you do
not safely protect electrical cords and things that

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are sitting in dry grass underneath the
cover. It ain't a pretty sight.

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But anyway, there's a lot that
we can do. And you know,

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do I spray my plants with water? There's a good one. Does that

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work? Why does it work?
Or how does it work? And what

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can go wrong with that? It's
all in that publication. So I know

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I'm talking a lot about it right
now, but that's important. That is

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very very important to be able to
do that. And I'm going to come

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back and we'll talk about frosts and
freezes a little bit more as we go

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through the morning. If you are
thinking about putting any kind of a new

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roof on, When I say any
kind, I mean do you want a

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composite roof? Would you like to
have a standing seam metal roof? The

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metal roofs are really cool. They're
very very long long lived. If you

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will on, you're up on top
of your house. Well, the people

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you need to talk to are Brinkman's. And the reason I say that is

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Brinkman's been here for fifty years.
Fifty years, and they warrant they warrant

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either work for twenty five years.
That's basically the life of some roofs right

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Well, this is a full service
company. They do residential, they do

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commercial. And being around fifty years
and winning in twenty twenty two the Better

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Business Bureau Pinnacle Award. You got
to be treating your customer's right to do

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that, you got to be offering
a quality product, and you have to

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be offering customer service. That's what
keeps you around. It's very different than

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the guy that sticks a business card
in your door because there was a hailstorm

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in the community, saying hey,
let me get your insurance, and now

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that guy's going to fly off to
the next hailstorm as soon as he's done

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with your roof. Brinkman Brinkman Quality. You can go to Brinkman Quality dot

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com two eight one four eight oho
seven six six three learn about what they

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do. Check them out on their
website and you'll see why we love to

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talk about Brinkman when it comes to
roofing. The Uh. The garden centers

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at this time of the year are
having a lot of new things coming in.

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There's a lot of new features.
There's even some really really good deals

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going on at a lot of our
garden centers. Out of Kingwood Garden Center

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and Warren Southern Garden, they are
offering twenty five percent off all their fall

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declore and accessories and if you would
like, if you've been wanting to plant

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bulbs but you haven't gotten around to
it, there's still time. It's okay.

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You can still plan them now and
they have their packaged bulbs. You

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know where you get a group of
bulbs, you buy two of those and

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you get one free. So and
you don't want to just plant one bulb

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or two bulbs or three bulbs.
You want to create a little setting where

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it makes a bigger impact. And
that is exactly your opportunity right now to

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do that out at Kingwoock Gardens and
Warren Southern Gardens. Now that excludes Amarillis

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bolts. Another thing they got going
on out there is heirloom soils aged leaf

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compost three bags for thirty bucks.
Now. Their native plant of the month

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is Texas beauty berry and beauty berry. This is kind of the season where

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it shines as the leaves fall off
and you're left with those beautiful berries on

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the plant. Maybe you have a
shady area that's got bright light but quite

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a bit of shade. Beauty berried'd
be fine for that area and it would

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really add to the landscape. And
the thing we like about the beauty berry

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is it helps us remember, hey, there are four seasons here. Springs

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an easy season to get blooms.
Summer, Yeah, there's some blooms we

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can do for summer and fall.
There's things that bloom in the fall,

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and then there's winter, So what
are you doing for all four seasons of

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your landscape? When you buy and
purchase plants, think about that. And

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beauty berry is just an example,
but it's a plant that is going to

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shine when the leaves have fallen off
of everything else and all plants, including

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beauty berry, and you have those
beautiful berries. They're great by the way,

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for cutting and bringing in for arrangements
as well. Also, there is

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an event on November eighteenth. It's
a festive container planting with d Now.

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The folks out at Warren's they absolutely
know how to create a beautiful container planting

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and this is a class where you
can learn what they know, learn the

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art of creating a stunning festive container
planting. They're going to walk you through

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the whole thing and you can add
that burst of color that you just you

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created in a container. You put
it out there wherever you want, a

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patio of porch, you name it, and it just shines for you.

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And then when it's time to rejuvenate
that, come up with maybe something for

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the spring or the summer. You
already know how to go about it,

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and I would highly recommend you get
that on your calendar on November the eighteenth.

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Well, we are hitting a hard
break here. If you would like

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to give us a call. I
think it would help if I gave out

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the phone number, wouldn't it seven
one three two one two fifty eight seventy

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four, will be right back.
Well, good Saturday morning. You are

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listening to garden Line and I'm your
host, Skip Richter. Our phone number

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

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or if you'd rather do numbers fifty
eight seventy four seven one three two one

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two fifty eight seventy four. Let's
talk about the things that you are interested

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in today, and here's something you
ought to be interested in today. I'm

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going to be out at Santa Maltz
today after the show. I'm going to

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be there from eleven thirty to one
thirty, and we have one heck of

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a shin dig going on out there. They're gonna have a little food truck

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out there. There's gonna be a
lot of different giveaways going on that you

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can go out and visit with the
folks from Microlife or Heirloom Soils or Nilson

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plant Food. They're going to all
be there set up, you can learn

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more about their products, and in
fact, I'm going to be giving away

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a product from each of those companies
to the first twenty six people that show

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up out at cienamultch today. Twenty
six people. These are great prizes,

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you know. I mean the seven
pound jar, a micro Life six two

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four or seven pound jar, the
brown Patch five to one to three airloom

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soil is going to have, and
there's several other Microlife products We're given away.

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The court bags eight court bags of
the works potting soil, as well

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as the cactus and succulent potting soil. I'm going to be giving away several

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of those. I'm going to be
giving away twelve two pound jars of Nelson

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plant food, the vegetable food,
the rose food, the indoor plants,

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the tree and trump. So this
is your opportunity to get a really cool

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gift, a really cool prize if
you will. First twenty six people that

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come out and see me, just
bring your plant samples in a bag.

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If you want me to identify or
diagnose, bring photos on your phone.

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Once the light comes on outside,
we'll go outside. You can take some

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photos. I'll take a look at
those. But Ciena Maltch is down there

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near Highway six and two eighty eight. They're north of Rose sharing on FM

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five twenty one. You can go
to their website Cienamultch dot com. And

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when you're out there today, you're
going to see why I'm always bragging on

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them, because the supplies, whether
it's mult or composts in bulk or in

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bags, and all the fertilizers they
offer out there, it is really really

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cool. So I'm looking forward to
that one today and I hope if you

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live anywhere down that direction you will
come by and say hi and enjoy the

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festivities that they have going on.
Those folks know how to how to have

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fun, that is for sure.
Well. Our phone number is seven one

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three two one two fifty eight seventy
four, and I'm going to go up

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to beat Diyes and talk to Lance. Lance. I actually know where beat

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Eyes is, and I bet not
many people do outside of beat Dies.

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You're absolutely correct. Good morning,
Skip, Harry, you good morning.

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I'm doing well. What's up?
Well? I'm doing much better than my

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juniper, is it? So it's
a bit one. It's probably fifty foot

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and once we got rain, that's
when it started turning brown, okay,

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And it turned brown all up one
side, and then it's spread and I've

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got a couple limbs, small limbs
scattered throughout it that are still green.

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Yes, And my thought is that
if it's dead, I want to take

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it down and get something started because
it shades the house. But if there's

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hope for it, my wife will
kill me if I take it down.

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Well, when a juniper turns brown, that branch is gone. Unlike other

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trees, they can only resprout from
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or needle like leaves that they have, they can only re sprout from there.

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So if you cut all the green
off one, it's a dead plant.

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That's kind of weird because any other
tree you can saw it off with

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a chainsaw at the base and it
re sprouts from the ground. Not a

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juniper. So those branches are gone. And what that's going to mean is

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you have to kind of look at
it and go, so, am I

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esthetically okay with what that's going to
look like? Assuming it doesn't die more.

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The rain didn't have anything to do
with it dying. It just was

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coincidental. This summer was brutal and
all in that area up there, you

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know, out west of kind of
west of College Station Brian, that whole

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region up there. I just see
a lot of junipers turning brown. I

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see a lot of post oaks that
have turned brown from the brutal summer we

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had. And what happens is these
plants are resilient. I mean they live

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in a rough, rough climate up
there where we have a lot of stresses.

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But when a resilient plant gets weakened
and weakened and weakened, it hits

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a tipping point. When that happens, the functional systems you know from photosynthesis,

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do you name it? In the
plant, they start shutting down and

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the plant just just dies. It's
like you can't stop it. At that

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point, I think there's a fifty
to fifty chance that you will be left

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with some green, But I also
think there's a chance that you may see

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additional loss on that plant. Yeah. I mean the green that's on there

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is I mean it's just really really
sparse. Yeah, And I mean I

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think that I just need to take
it down and get something planted there that

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I'll get a little bit of shade
from. In a year or two well,

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I would do that. You know, I like the junipers. I

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think they are great plants. They
have a lot of great features. But

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I think in this case going with
something else would be the best bet.

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Do you have a recommendation for an
evergreen that would actually survive this harsh climate

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up here? Well, that would
have been my number one evergreen. The

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juniper that you have actually it's an
eastern red ceedar up in your area,

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yes, sir, oh gosh,
you can. Do you have a piece

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of property or just a typical lot
around the house. I've got five acres.

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Okay, Well, you can buy
landscape bundles of those junipers and they're

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three foot long. They got roots
and they got tops on them. They

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ship them bundled up in a box. And the reason I'm bringing this up

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is a lot of people out in
that country will want to plant something like

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that along the roadside, you know, to keep the noise and dust and

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make a visual block. And that's
very, very inexpensive. And so you

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could put one over four feet and
cut down the ones you don't want if

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more than you want live. I
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get going on a plant. You
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send you a list of some of
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far as going out and buying one, I don't see the junipers for sale

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a lot, the eastern red seedar
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be able to find one that you
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know, think about your countryside in
the winter. The what's green? Well,

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the yopon is green, of course, the eastern red cedars green.

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trying to think of one that i'd
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as resilient as that plant that you
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brutal times. I mean it was
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hundred degrees over every day, and
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porch. Yeah, and it wasn't
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you know all it started in June
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it just quit raining. It got
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have had forty forty five to days
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know that's just asking too much a
plant. So what you could do in

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the future, you know, with
hindsight, would be to go out to

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the price plants and give them just
a good deep soaking, you know,

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water the whole area under the branch
spread and with a good soaking. You're

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not doing that every week, even
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continues. We're just trying to help
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I did, and I wasn't trying
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theater. There's a post next to
see that's another one man. Yeah,

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it dropped its leaves. I'm counting
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Well, I appreciate the call.
Hey, do you ever go to

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Grimes County feed up there and Carlos. Yeah, we'll say hi to him

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that that is a great place and
you guys are fortunate to have them in

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the neighborhood. So thanks for the
call, Lance, I appreciate it.

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Thank you. Having a wonderful day
you too, our phone number seven one

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

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seven four. You know, talking
about trees, reminds me of the tree

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hugger sprinkler. You know that is
one where let's say you go back into

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the summer and you're trying to water
a tree and you don't want to I

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talk about giving them a good deep
soaking. You don't want to waste water

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doing your whole lawn with more water
than the grass needs. Uh. When

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you water a tree, put a
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to a hose, turn it up
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can water the entire area beneath the
branch spread of most trees except the huge

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ones, but it would be that
rescue treatments that we're talking about. You

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can go to tree Hugger sprinkler dot
com find out more about them. They

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work well. I have all three
sizes seven inch, eleven inch, and

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fifteen inch. I think it's a
pretty cool invention that they came up with

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with that tree hugger sprinkler. We
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and things, and do you know
that you can have a frost when it's

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above thirty two? Think about that. Okay, this is a nerd warning.

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I'm gonna get a little nerdy here. Horticulturally nerdy. How can you

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have ice on a plant when the
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here's how you have it. During
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heats up the soil and warms up
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that heat that's in the tissues of
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it radiates outward and it loses heat. Even though the air is not below

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freezing, maybe the air is around
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high, it actually drops the temperature
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of that radiant loss of the heat. That's why have you ever noticed when

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you look under maybe underneath a live
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frost all over the grass, underneath
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And it's because the leaves are literally
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radiating heat waves that are going up
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a frost at forty degrees. It
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it will happen because the tissues get
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That's why we cover our plants.
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covering. And you know, just
as an example, folks out of RCW,

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they've got a product called Insulate.
Insulate is like the letter in and

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then sealate and it's a frost blanket. It's twelve by ten. You should

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pick those up. You remember how
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of the freeze to protect your plants. We'll go ahead and pick them up.

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And RCW Nurseries you can go to
the website RCW Nursery dot com.

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They're on Tombo Park where it comes
into belt Way eight and they have a

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wide variety of things. In fact, they've got some really cool sales going

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on on some of the trees.
And we've got an event coming up next

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Sunday, next Saturday rather November eleventh, that I want to tell you about.

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I'll be there from eleven thirty to
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a barbecue sandwich lunch. They're going
to have a sale and select trees and

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shrubs fifteen percent off. They're going
to be giving away frostcloth, Microlife fertilizer,

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flowers, Nelson fertilizer, nitrophosphungicide,
all that giveaway through the course of

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that event, and even tree seedlings
of lake spark elm Mexican white oak which

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is also called montereyoak, and live
oaks seedlings and there when I say a

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seedling, I'm talking about something that's
got some heights to it and a good

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root system. But we'll talk more
about that later, but just wanted you

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to know about RCW. Well,
I think it's time for the Nicky News

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Network, and so we are going
to give you our phone number and go

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away seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Oh good Saturday

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morning. You are listening to garden
Line and we are going to have I

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think one of the best days we've
seen in a while today. You know,

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temperatures getting up in the upper seventies
I believe somewhere around there. No

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rain, but gosh, it's just
it's great being outside doing things in that

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kind of weather. I mean,
we've been through the heat, that's for

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sure this summer, and we just
had some real chili weather came through.

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But my goodness, today, if
you've got one drop of gardening blood in

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you. It is time to be
doing something outside as you get out and

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about, and this is a time
to fertilize. Now. If you look

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at my lawn care schedule that's at
gardeningwith Skip dot com. If you look

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at the lawn care schedule, we
talk about applying a fall fertilizer and if

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you notice on the schedule it says
do that in October. Well, you

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know we're past October, so we
do not fertilize. No, if you

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have not fertilized yet, go ahead
and do it. If you haven't done

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a fall fertilization, go ahead and
do it. It is still a good

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time to get that done. We
just like to aim for you to get

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done in October, but you know
how things are. You get busy,

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you miss out. Don't make it
like okay, it doesn't say November,

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I can't fertilate now. If you
miss it, just go ahead and go

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ahead and get that done. And
Microlife fertilizer, they've got their brown patch

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fertilizer. That brown patch is a
really good quality material that will help your

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lawn prepare for winter. It'll help
strengthen the lawn and that's what we do

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in our fall fertilization. It also
has a lot of microbial content in it

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that helps with avoiding the brown patch. You know, as you build your

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lawn and get it healthier and healthier
over time, you can grow yourself out

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of a plague of brown patch.
Some people just every year they get it.

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Other people fertilizing their lawn properly and
taking good care of it, it's

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just not as much of a deal. That's a five to one to three

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fertilizer that Microlife has. By the
way, I'm going to today when I'm

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out at Siena Mulch after the show, I'm going to be giving away six

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different Microlife products and including a sample
of the brown Past seven pound jar of

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the brown Patch, as well as
the liquid fertilizers, the Ocean Harvest that

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is a fish based fertilizer, and
the Biomatrix, which is the one I

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use on my houseplants. It's a
really good, good quality fertilizer. It's

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a seven to one to three so
it supports that foliage growth, which is

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basically what our houseplants are. But
all available for Microlife go to Microlifefertilizer dot

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com and that's where you can find
out about these products and find out more,

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or just come out today to Sienna
and let me give you one of

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those samples. First twenty six people
in line get samples of some of our

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cool products that we're going to have
on hand out there today. Going back

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to the frost and freezes, I
keep talking about that because you know,

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unfortunately the show doesn't always fall right
before a frost or freeze. If it

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was, well, I could talk
about, hey, it's going frost tomorrow,

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here's what you need to know.
But I'm going to get you ready

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to go so that when it does
come back, you are ready and don't

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forget that free publication is on my
website, Gardening of skip dot com.

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It's called protecting Plants from Protecting landscape
and hork crops from frosts and freezes.

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So whatever it is, is it
a vegetable, is it a shrub,

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or any kind of plant, a
flower, it'll tell you how to do

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it. Certainly your fruit trees and
other plants. It can be a little

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bit coal tender tells you the details
of how to do that. But I

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was just talking about the fact that
you can actually have a frost when the

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air temperature is above freezing and why
that happens and how that works. That

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advice that helps us understand that when
you put a cover over a plant,

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that the radiant from the plant,
the radiant release will often bounce off that

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cover and stay inside underneath the cover, and if a frost forms, it's

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going to form on that cover on
the outside above it. And so that

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protects our plants in all but the
coldest of freezes. And when you have

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a really cold freeze, especially with
a wind, you know, we have

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to take other measures in hand,
and that that free publication goes into what

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you can do as a result of
that. But just keep in mind,

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get those supplies you need, and
when you read the publication, you're going

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to see there's a use for heat
lamps that you can use or just tho

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it doesn't even have to be a
heat lamp. It could could just be

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you know, one hundred hundred and
fifty WoT bulb providing a little bit of

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heat underneath the cover, and how
to use those and what to avoid.

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

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one three two one two KTRH.
Give us a call. Let's talk about

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the things that you are interested in. Now. Something you need to be

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aware of right now is that our
trees, we're entering the time for doing

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pruning. We we can do little, minor pruning all through the year on

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a tree, but we're coming into
that winter season when we think about pruning.

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And Martin spoon Moore and affordable tree
services who you should think about when

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you think about pruning. It's because
they know what they're doing. And you

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know, somebody driving by again,
here's a business card in your door.

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I own a pickup and a chainsaw. Therefore, on a tree service,

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those kind of folks don't do it. It what the damage that can be

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done and is done. When I
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Oh my gosh, the hat rack. You know, what was once a

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beautiful tree now looks like a hat
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you can work toward getting back to
a decent tree, but the damage done

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there will live on and that is
something you want to avoid. So Martin

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spoon Moore his phone number seven one
three six nine nine twenty six sixty three.

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Either Martin or his wife Joe answer
the phone at seven three six twenty

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six sixty three. But get on
his schedule. He does a good job

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and therefore he stays busy, and
so make sure tell them you're a guarden

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line customer gets the front of the
line, or you can go to their

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website afftree Service dot com and anything
going on. I'm talking about pruning,

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but maybe you're going to do some
work, put in a concrete slab,

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or have to do some trenching.
Don't do it until you call him to

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come out and look and advise you. He can advise you on how to

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minimize the damage and make sure your
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most valuable plant in your landscape to
the value of your home are your trees,

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and you need to take good care
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when I drive around town and I
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do it to all kinds of plants. We do it to our crpe myrtles.

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We call it crape murder. But
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it's winter, there are not a
lot of loans to mo so hand

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them a pair of pruning looppers and
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Or that's basically what's happening there as
high as you can reach with the pruning

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lappers, and that just effaces the
plans. But that's just another example of

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pruning and not knowing what you're doing. It is so important to know what

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you're doing. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

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seventy four. Seven one three two
one two five eight seven four. We're

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going to take a little break here
in a moment. I just wanted to

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remind you that after the show today
I will be out there at Ciena Multi,

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and I hope you'll make plans to
come out and see me. I

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always like to meet folks that are
part of the listening audience for garden Line.

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Thank you for that. By the
way, we're glad to have you

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today. So we're going to take
a break right now for the little bit

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of information I think you've probably need, and then we'll be right back if

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you want to give us a call
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seventy four. Well, good Saturday
morning, and welcome to garden Line.

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We're glad you're listening today and looking
forward to talking with you about the kind

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of questions that you might have.
John Ferguson out in nature's way. I

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was out there a while back visiting
with John and Ian about some of the

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products that they have and also give
them a little bit of information on how

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some of these things are made.
And you know, they've been an innovator

407
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in the compost world for a very
long time. They're the first to ever

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introduce a true compost back in nineteen
ninety five, that's almost thirty years ago.

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They introduced the original leaf mold compost. They're first to introduce the native

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molts back in ninety four. They
they know how to make these materials right.

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And it's like, well, how
do you have to know how to

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meet Well, there's a lot to
it. You want to get them blended

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right, you want to take the
time to get it done right. You

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need to understand the decomposition process,
and they do. They John is a

415
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student of soil. He really is
walking encyclopedia. And they also when you're

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out there, they've got their native
plant nursery, which has more than just

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nateve plants in it, by the
way, but that is an amazing thing.

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They keep expanding it as they grow, and I think it's it's pretty

419
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cool. Their phone number if you'd
like to give them a call. Is

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nine three six three two one sixty
nine ninety nine three six six nine three

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six three two one sixty nine ninety
Fall is the time to get your soil

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right. It's very important to do
that if you're going to create a new

423
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flower bed or renovate an old one
to get better results out of it.

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Now's the time, and Nature's Way
is a place to call. They're up

425
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on Interstate forty five. If you're
going north toward Conroe, on the right

426
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hand side across the railroad tracks,
right where fourteen eighty eight comes in.

427
00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:53.200
You can find them really easy.
We're going to now head out to friends

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Wood and talk to Stan. Hello. Stan, howdy. You've been talking.

429
00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:04.640
You've been talking about coverings for plants
this morning. And I've always had

430
00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:11.799
a problem with my azaleas, which
I have about one hundred square feet under

431
00:31:11.799 --> 00:31:18.039
a very large maple, and they've
reached a height of about seven feet seventh

432
00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:22.480
feed. Yeah, and I'm trying
to figure out how do I cover something

433
00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:29.960
of that footage at that height.
Yep, you have a recommendation that that

434
00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:33.799
is a challenge because these little individual
covers. I was talking about a twelve

435
00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:37.920
x ten cover a while ago.
You know that'll get you over a plant,

436
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:41.480
but it doesn't, like you're saying, you just have a mass of

437
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.599
them out there, and the best
thing you can do you can shop around

438
00:31:45.640 --> 00:31:49.519
and find covers or even bigger that
you pull over the entire thing. But

439
00:31:49.640 --> 00:31:53.960
even that is very difficult. You
end up having to use like PVC pipes

440
00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:57.519
to kind of lift it over to
get it to go over the tops of

441
00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:01.359
the plants because they're so tall.
But that's going to be about your only

442
00:32:01.440 --> 00:32:06.119
option if you need to cover,
either that or just buying a lot of

443
00:32:06.119 --> 00:32:10.079
smaller covers, and that can be
an issue, as you can imagine.

444
00:32:13.519 --> 00:32:15.319
Yeah, thanks, they're kind of
a price possession. I don't want to

445
00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:22.640
lose them. Yeah, I understand. Our weather here doesn't get cold enough

446
00:32:22.680 --> 00:32:25.759
to kill azelias typically. Now,
if you've got any tender new growth that

447
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:30.240
would be susceptible, you can get
some leaf burn and stuff, but you

448
00:32:30.279 --> 00:32:35.839
shouldn't lose the whole plant, even
if you lose foliage and twigs and whatnot.

449
00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:40.440
But the only other thing is if
you look at that publication it's online

450
00:32:40.480 --> 00:32:45.559
at gardening with skip dot com,
it gives you a lot of other information

451
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:51.599
about protecting those plants, and maybe
that would be helpful. You'll find some

452
00:32:51.720 --> 00:32:57.960
other tips and ideas from watering before
a freeze, you know, to use

453
00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:04.160
of warming, arming things underneath the
plants and so on. You may need

454
00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.720
to come up with some sort of
a big arched hoops of PBC pipe to

455
00:33:07.799 --> 00:33:13.200
go over sections. Are creating some
sort of a little frame that you can

456
00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:15.200
take down and put up as needed
and store it in the garage during the

457
00:33:15.240 --> 00:33:19.799
off season for anything that you want
to protect. That would be one other,

458
00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:22.000
one other option. That'll be a
bit of a feed of engineering.

459
00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:28.440
That's all right. I'm an engineer. I like the idea. Thank you

460
00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:30.559
there you go, well check out
that publication. It just has some photos

461
00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:36.079
of that as well. I appreciate
the call our phone number seven one three

462
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:40.359
two one two fifty eight seventy four. Seven one three two one two fifty

463
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:45.279
eight seventy four. Now, if
you've if you have downloaded or printed out

464
00:33:45.640 --> 00:33:51.480
my lawn care schedule at gardening with
Skip dot com, you will see that

465
00:33:51.559 --> 00:33:57.279
we are still at the end of
that fall fertilization time. And I would

466
00:33:57.279 --> 00:34:00.720
say it's still time to fertilize.
If you did you need to furtilize twice

467
00:34:00.720 --> 00:34:07.279
in the fall, just once.
But Nelson Plant Food they have a quality

468
00:34:07.319 --> 00:34:12.400
product called carbel Load and it's got
the right ratio of nutrients really for going

469
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:15.960
into fall for your lawn. And
it also has a pre emergent herbicide.

470
00:34:15.000 --> 00:34:21.719
And they give away two dollars for
every bag they sell to the Randy Lemon

471
00:34:21.880 --> 00:34:25.119
Memorial Scholarship. I say giveaway,
there's a donation they make to that scholarship

472
00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:30.400
fund for horticulture students at TEXA,
A and M. And the carbol Load

473
00:34:30.719 --> 00:34:34.519
is a Again, it is a
quality product. And even though we're just

474
00:34:34.599 --> 00:34:38.199
outside the prime time when I would
suggest you do your fall fertilization, if

475
00:34:38.199 --> 00:34:40.679
you didn't get it done, go
ahead and do it. It's okay to

476
00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:44.000
go ahead and do it now.
And by the way, I'm going to

477
00:34:44.039 --> 00:34:49.880
be giving away Nelson products twelve two
pound jars of Nelson's vegetable rose, indoor

478
00:34:49.920 --> 00:34:53.039
plant and tree and shrub foods out
at Ciena Mulch today from eleven thirty to

479
00:34:53.079 --> 00:34:57.639
one thirty while I'm there, and
Nelson's will be there with a booth as

480
00:34:57.679 --> 00:35:01.039
well, And I hope you come
out meet the folks that make the stuff

481
00:35:01.239 --> 00:35:09.000
that makes our gardens grow and succeed
do so well. The schedules are always

482
00:35:09.000 --> 00:35:15.079
a challenge for me to make a
schedule because you give things a certain time

483
00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:19.280
frame and you know how it is
in life. It's like, for example,

484
00:35:19.360 --> 00:35:23.360
the October fall fertilization, we do
the organic a little earlier than the

485
00:35:23.400 --> 00:35:28.239
synthetic just to give a little bit
of time for the microbial activity to fully

486
00:35:28.760 --> 00:35:31.400
get the things done that we want
them to do. But it basically is

487
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:35.199
ending at the end of October.
Well, that doesn't mean you can't fertilize

488
00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:37.880
November first, but you can't October
first. That's not how nature works,

489
00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:45.079
right, It's a gradual slowing down
of the plant growth. And so when

490
00:35:45.079 --> 00:35:49.079
we create these schedules, I'm always
like, oh man, when do I

491
00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:52.119
say stop this or start this?
It's a little bit of a challenge to

492
00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:57.239
do that. But we've gone to
great links to try to create the best

493
00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:01.280
schedule we can possibly create for the
plant that you have here. In both

494
00:36:01.639 --> 00:36:07.760
both cases, let's see, I'm
going to head to Sugarland now and talk

495
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:09.440
to John. Hey, John,
I got about a minute left, But

496
00:36:09.519 --> 00:36:14.559
let's see what we can get accomplished. Great skip. I appreciate your time.

497
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:21.000
I've put down a couple of weeks
ago the fall fertilizer for Microlife,

498
00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:27.519
and I'm seeing early signs of brown
patch. So I'm wondering if I need

499
00:36:27.559 --> 00:36:34.880
to put down a separate control for
that or go to the Microlife brown patch.

500
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:38.480
But my understanding that that's a fertilizer
as well, so I don't want

501
00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:42.079
to put down too much nitrogen at
this time. Well, now, the

502
00:36:42.760 --> 00:36:47.239
brown patch is the fall fertilizer from
Microlife, and or at least the one.

503
00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:51.599
It's the one that I would recommend
of their products in the fall.

504
00:36:52.079 --> 00:36:53.199
If you're very fertilized. Of course, you don't need to do that.

505
00:36:53.280 --> 00:36:58.760
Again. We like to, as
I've talked before, we like to grow

506
00:36:58.920 --> 00:37:04.280
our way out of so many disease
and insect problems by proper plant care and

507
00:37:04.280 --> 00:37:09.239
whatnot. If you've still got brown
patch plaguing your lawn, consider don't water

508
00:37:09.400 --> 00:37:15.199
as often, minimize as much as
you can, and also you want to

509
00:37:15.800 --> 00:37:20.599
avoid mowing really low. Now you
could put a brown patch funge aside out

510
00:37:20.639 --> 00:37:23.360
there and try to shut it down
now, but if you're going to an

511
00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:28.280
organic system, we're going to work
your way out of that and depend more

512
00:37:28.360 --> 00:37:30.800
on the plant growth development. I
hear the music, I'm going to have

513
00:37:30.880 --> 00:37:35.960
to run. But that is I
think the most concise I can do in

514
00:37:36.239 --> 00:37:39.360
answering your questions. Thank you John
very much for that. Call our phone

515
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:44.679
number seven one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four or seven one three

516
00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:47.719
two one two KTRH. When we
come back, we'll be taking your calls.

517
00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:52.360
Just another reminder. I'm going to
be at Sanamulch today from eleven thirty

518
00:37:52.400 --> 00:37:54.760
to one thirty. It is going
to be a gorgeous day weather up in

519
00:37:54.760 --> 00:37:59.880
the high seventies. First twenty six
people to come by the boot, bring

520
00:38:00.199 --> 00:38:05.639
plant samples to identify, bring me
photos to advise. On verse twenty six

521
00:38:05.719 --> 00:38:12.239
people get a free product, a
gift. I couldn't even come up with

522
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:15.719
a word. There. You're right
back. Kat r H. Garden Line

523
00:38:15.760 --> 00:38:22.159
does not necessarily endorse any of the
products or services advertised on this program.

524
00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:35.440
Welcome to kt r H Garden Line
with Skip Richter's crazy trim. Just watch

525
00:38:35.519 --> 00:38:55.119
him as we please. Septasyas not
a sign. Thank you, well,

526
00:38:55.159 --> 00:39:00.280
good morning, and welcome to Gardenline. I'm your host, Skip Rictor We're

527
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:04.960
here to answer gardening questions and just
offer a little bit of advice as you're

528
00:39:04.960 --> 00:39:07.880
going about your gardening to get you
off to a good start. You know,

529
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:10.840
gardening is the best hobby that there
is. I know some of you

530
00:39:10.920 --> 00:39:15.320
were thinking, well, my favorite
hobby is such as such. Well,

531
00:39:15.400 --> 00:39:20.039
let me just say it this way. Gardening contributes to your health, your

532
00:39:20.039 --> 00:39:23.920
well being, and in so many
many different ways. One of these days

533
00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:30.360
I'm going to talk a little bit
more in detail about the research that has

534
00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:36.440
pointed to incredible and unexpected benefits of
people that are out in nature, that

535
00:39:36.480 --> 00:39:40.480
are working with plants, that are
just enjoying enjoying themselves. And it really

536
00:39:40.480 --> 00:39:45.480
does for all ages too. By
the way, all ages well our phone

537
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:51.039
number again seven one three two one
two fifty eight seventy four. I've been

538
00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:54.719
talking frost this morning because we just
got through a pretty good cold snap that

539
00:39:54.760 --> 00:39:59.920
came through the area, and it's
time to make sure you have the supply

540
00:40:00.199 --> 00:40:04.559
on hand you need to protect your
plants. There is a lot that we

541
00:40:04.599 --> 00:40:08.119
can do to make sure that our
plants survive. You know, there's one

542
00:40:08.480 --> 00:40:13.239
stage is just like I don't want
the plant to have burned leaves or anything.

543
00:40:13.519 --> 00:40:15.119
And the other one is I just
want to at least keep the plant

544
00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:19.280
alive even if it freezes it back. You know, how do I protect

545
00:40:19.760 --> 00:40:23.719
it overall? And you know with
citrus trees for example, Now we can

546
00:40:23.760 --> 00:40:27.559
do a lot to protect a citrus
tree when we have a hard, hard

547
00:40:27.599 --> 00:40:32.079
freeze, but sometimes, and this
is done in commercial orchards as well,

548
00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:37.239
they'll just mount soil up around the
trunk. I know that we keep saying,

549
00:40:37.320 --> 00:40:42.400
don't create multi volcanoes, but for
the short time we're doing this,

550
00:40:42.519 --> 00:40:45.039
it's valuable. Here's what happens.
You get the soil up above the graft,

551
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:49.679
and so you have some of the
trunk of that variety of species of

552
00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:53.920
fruit of citrus above the graft,
and that soil protects it. So even

553
00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:59.360
if the plant freezes down to the
soil, at least you have buds that

554
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:02.639
can reach spread and very quickly they'll
grow by the way, and you'll be

555
00:41:02.719 --> 00:41:07.719
back in business with your tree.
Now, of course we'd rather not have

556
00:41:07.880 --> 00:41:12.119
that amount of loss, but it's
better than having a total loss. And

557
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:15.079
so just that little trick of putting
the soil around the base and then you

558
00:41:15.119 --> 00:41:19.000
pull it away when the freeze is
gone. Pull that soil away. Don't

559
00:41:19.039 --> 00:41:22.480
leave soil piled up against the trunk. I was out looking at some trees

560
00:41:23.159 --> 00:41:28.960
yesterday and here in the Houston area, and they had been planted down too

561
00:41:29.000 --> 00:41:32.280
deep. And so how do you
know a tree has been planted too deep?

562
00:41:32.440 --> 00:41:37.679
Well, when it goes into the
ground instead of having that natural flare.

563
00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:39.719
You know, where the trunk is
a certain diameter, and then as

564
00:41:39.719 --> 00:41:43.960
you get close to the soil,
it gets wider as it flares out.

565
00:41:44.280 --> 00:41:47.400
That is natural. That's what it
should look like when a tree goes in

566
00:41:47.440 --> 00:41:51.400
the ground. If you look at
it and it looks like a telephone pole,

567
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:54.000
same diameter all the way down to
the ground, that tree has been

568
00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:58.159
planted too deep. And these trees
had and I don't know how deep.

569
00:41:58.199 --> 00:42:01.440
I didn't have a little trial to
dig out far enough to find out how.

570
00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:05.920
But I talk some folks about it, and they're don't get that fixed,

571
00:42:06.199 --> 00:42:09.800
because planting too deep is one of
the worst things you can do when

572
00:42:09.800 --> 00:42:15.119
you're planting a tree. It just
trees are not made for their trunks to

573
00:42:15.159 --> 00:42:20.119
be covered with soil and molts.
Molts too, by the way, So

574
00:42:20.320 --> 00:42:27.360
yes, I know almost every commercial
moltzed site does the little volcanoes of molts.

575
00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:30.320
It's a bad practice. Talk to
any good certified arborist and they'll tell

576
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:34.800
you don't do that. And I
don't know why people do it, but

577
00:42:35.519 --> 00:42:39.159
they shouldn't. And especially with a
brand new tree you plant it, you

578
00:42:39.199 --> 00:42:43.199
can kill a tree that way when
it's a very young tree. Another thing

579
00:42:43.280 --> 00:42:46.320
that happens is that new tree has
a root system that's basically the size and

580
00:42:46.320 --> 00:42:50.480
shape of the pot that it came
out of, right, And when you

581
00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:53.719
put a multi volcano above it and
it rains, it just sheds water off

582
00:42:53.800 --> 00:42:58.760
or soaks water up in the one
area that you most need water going into

583
00:42:58.760 --> 00:43:02.679
the ground where those confined roots still
are. So a lot of reasons not

584
00:43:04.199 --> 00:43:07.760
to do that. You know,
the ACE Hardware Group. I used to

585
00:43:07.760 --> 00:43:12.760
always say they're thirty nine stores in
the ACE Hardware Group, and now it's

586
00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:16.840
hit the number forty. Now if
you think they got Orange Texas and Bay

587
00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:21.800
City, Texas are the new locations. But ACE is the place for everything

588
00:43:21.800 --> 00:43:25.159
you need for your lawn and garden. It just is it. Absolutely They

589
00:43:25.199 --> 00:43:30.840
carry everything that I talk about and
then some here. But it's also the

590
00:43:30.840 --> 00:43:35.400
place for Christmas lighting and decoration that's
both indoor and outdoor. They have all

591
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:39.480
the accessories to make the installation fast
and easy. They even have accustom lights

592
00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:44.639
by the foot and as well as
in box sets like you probably are used

593
00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:49.960
to buying lights in all kinds of
configurations, multiple colors and sizes. They

594
00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:53.400
have wreaths and garlands to decorating inside
and again outside. Do you need a

595
00:43:53.400 --> 00:43:58.559
wreath for the front door? Ace
is a place and how do you find

596
00:43:58.599 --> 00:44:02.920
ACE near You? Go to ACE
Hardware dot com store locator and just find

597
00:44:04.079 --> 00:44:07.320
the aceys that are near you,
because there's gonna be more than one.

598
00:44:07.400 --> 00:44:10.360
They are all over the place.
Our phone number is seven one three two

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00:44:10.440 --> 00:44:15.840
one two five eight seven four.
You can give us a call and we

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00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:19.480
can talk to you about the things
that are of most interests to you.

601
00:44:20.119 --> 00:44:23.719
If you haven't had vegetable garden or
vegetables and containers, and I highly recommend

602
00:44:23.800 --> 00:44:30.039
you have one or the other.
This is a primetime season for planting things

603
00:44:30.079 --> 00:44:36.360
like lettuce and other cool season greens
or regular or rocket or roquette, the

604
00:44:37.519 --> 00:44:42.960
cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, co
robbie, all the I call them blue

605
00:44:43.039 --> 00:44:45.800
leaf vegetables because the leaf has a
sort of bluish tent to the green.

606
00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:51.239
Those coal crops, all of them. That would include kale and collars as

607
00:44:51.280 --> 00:44:54.639
well. Now's the time to plant
those spinach. Spinach likes colder weather,

608
00:44:54.800 --> 00:45:00.000
cooler weather, and it's a time
to plant spinach out in the garden.

609
00:45:00.159 --> 00:45:02.519
There's a lot of other things that
we can be planting in our cool season

610
00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:07.079
gardens. So if you don't have
a garden, go get a container.

611
00:45:07.480 --> 00:45:12.280
I would say for vegetables in the
cool season. If you can get something

612
00:45:12.360 --> 00:45:15.800
that's anywhere from three to five gallons
in size, you can grow vegetables in

613
00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:20.360
that. You can grow carrots,
and now's the time to plant carrots too,

614
00:45:20.400 --> 00:45:23.800
by the way, can I one
time had a I think it's about

615
00:45:23.800 --> 00:45:28.039
a two and a half gallon container. I had three kale plants in it.

616
00:45:28.159 --> 00:45:30.000
Now, they were a little crowded
and they weren't as big as normal

617
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:35.559
kale would be. But I was
harvesting kale leaves just right and left through

618
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:39.320
the cool season. It's easy to
keep a container moist during the cool season

619
00:45:39.320 --> 00:45:43.400
because the demands aren't so high.
Yeah, you need to water and more

620
00:45:43.440 --> 00:45:46.719
often than plants in the ground though, But cool season. Gardening is a

621
00:45:46.760 --> 00:45:52.880
great time. Lots of good and
extremely nutritious vegetables that you can grow.

622
00:45:52.960 --> 00:45:59.079
Plus it's just fun. And remember
that edibles can also be ornamental. I

623
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:02.400
call that orna medabals. There's there's
a word for you, homemade, made

624
00:46:02.480 --> 00:46:07.599
up word. But Swiss chart for
example. Now it's not going to take

625
00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:10.960
the coldest weather we have, but
Swiss chart can come in various colors as

626
00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:15.519
well. Some of the varieties have
been released over recent years have beautiful coloration

627
00:46:15.880 --> 00:46:22.119
to it. Salad burnette. Salad
burnett is a little mounding plant that has

628
00:46:22.159 --> 00:46:25.440
a cucumber like flavor to the leaves. It makes a good border around your

629
00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:28.960
beds as well. Well. We're
going to take a little break here our

630
00:46:29.039 --> 00:46:32.400
number seven one three two one two
KTRH and we'll be right back with your

631
00:46:32.440 --> 00:46:38.400
calls. Welcome back to Garden Line. We're here talking gardening. That's a

632
00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:43.000
surprise, right show like this.
Hey, if you haven't been out to

633
00:46:43.039 --> 00:46:45.039
the bee supply, you need to
go and check it out. It is.

634
00:46:45.159 --> 00:46:49.320
It is really cool. Now if
you want to be a beekeeper or

635
00:46:49.360 --> 00:46:52.000
you are a beekeeper, they've got
classes out there all the time that are

636
00:46:52.159 --> 00:46:57.239
very very helpful. If you want
to order bees for spring, you need

637
00:46:57.280 --> 00:47:01.280
to get that done. Go to
the website and make sure that you get

638
00:47:01.280 --> 00:47:06.519
that done because they're going to be
delivering or you come out and pick up

639
00:47:06.639 --> 00:47:09.119
rather from April eleventh, I believe
through the end of May, and they

640
00:47:09.119 --> 00:47:13.280
have two different kinds of bees to
choose from, so don't delight you know

641
00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:19.880
have the best options. The website
is thebesupply dot com thebesupply dot com.

642
00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:23.719
Ask them about their classes and sign
up for some. And if you are

643
00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:27.840
not a bee keeper and don't want
to be, you still ought to go

644
00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:31.039
to see the observation hive. Over
seven feet tall. It's got bees inside

645
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:35.199
it. You can watch them come
in in and out from outside the building

646
00:47:35.280 --> 00:47:38.199
through this tube and just see them
doing what they're doing. It is so

647
00:47:38.400 --> 00:47:43.320
fascinating and absolutely something. If you've
got kiddos, you need to take them

648
00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:45.800
out there to see that. Super
cool. We're going to head now to

649
00:47:46.480 --> 00:47:52.000
the Woodlands and talk to Matt.
Hello, Matt, Hey, good morning,

650
00:47:52.079 --> 00:47:57.400
Skip, thanks for taking my call. I've got a quick question about

651
00:47:57.400 --> 00:48:00.519
a mar lemon. I've got a
marl women and it can Painter did really

652
00:48:00.519 --> 00:48:07.800
well surviving summer, all right,
it has it's loaded with fruit. They

653
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:12.280
are they look full size, but
they've been green for about two months.

654
00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:16.360
They're not yellowing up. And I
wondered if I should pull them and let

655
00:48:16.440 --> 00:48:21.440
them break in off of the plant, or what should I be. They

656
00:48:21.480 --> 00:48:23.320
won't ripen off the plant, so
I think you're just going to need to

657
00:48:23.320 --> 00:48:29.360
wait and watch. Hopefully they'll they'll
do the color change. Remember though,

658
00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:31.480
that with citrus, you know when
you go to the store, you buy

659
00:48:31.480 --> 00:48:35.480
a lemon and it is bright yellow, and you buy an orange and it

660
00:48:35.559 --> 00:48:40.599
is bright orange. With with our
citrus here, we can pick those citrus

661
00:48:40.679 --> 00:48:45.039
a little before they turn their full
color. And so if you get a

662
00:48:45.039 --> 00:48:47.440
little bit of a tinge of some
color on those lemons, I would I

663
00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:52.159
would pick one and see see what
you think. Letting trying to let it

664
00:48:52.239 --> 00:48:54.519
go to full yellow, you may
end up with something that's a little meaalier

665
00:48:54.760 --> 00:48:59.519
than you want. I know that's
especially true with septsum oranges. We picked

666
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:04.320
those on still have green on the
fruit. Should I just put it in

667
00:49:04.320 --> 00:49:07.360
a refrigerator? Should I leave it
on a window sill where it gets hitd

668
00:49:07.840 --> 00:49:12.480
No, No, you're not gonna
you're not gonna make it's not going to

669
00:49:12.599 --> 00:49:15.559
ripen any further than the day you
pick it. So do with it whatever

670
00:49:15.639 --> 00:49:20.000
you would do with a store bought
lemon or orange or whatever. Okay,

671
00:49:20.159 --> 00:49:22.599
excellent, Hey, thank you very
much. I appreciate it. All right,

672
00:49:22.639 --> 00:49:28.519
Matt, thank you. I appreciate
your call. Chenet Gardens in Richmond

673
00:49:28.880 --> 00:49:31.639
is one of those garden centers.
It's just a destination place. You can

674
00:49:31.679 --> 00:49:37.000
go to their website and Chanted Gardens
Richmond dot com and find out more about

675
00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:40.239
it. But the Lindermann family,
I believe they opened that up in nineteen

676
00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:47.800
ninety five, and that independent nursery
is just it's everything that we brag about

677
00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:52.360
about our garden centers in the Houston
area that are they just stand out and

678
00:49:52.360 --> 00:49:58.400
in Chanted Gardens, the quality of
the educational training of the folks that work

679
00:49:58.440 --> 00:50:00.320
there is unbelievable. When you walk
in and you go, you know,

680
00:50:00.400 --> 00:50:04.440
I don't know plants that well,
but I need something for a shady spot

681
00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:07.320
and I would like it to be
a bloom and they'll just take you right

682
00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:09.280
to it. They know what they're
doing. They carry all the products we

683
00:50:09.320 --> 00:50:14.320
talk about here on Garden Line,
and they always are changing. If you

684
00:50:14.360 --> 00:50:16.280
went to Enchanted Gardens two weeks ago
and you go back today, it's going

685
00:50:16.320 --> 00:50:21.639
to be a little different. It's
always evolving. There's new shipments coming in,

686
00:50:21.880 --> 00:50:25.519
there's new products coming in, and
they do carry everything we brag on

687
00:50:25.559 --> 00:50:29.920
here, including the soils and the
fertilizers. By the way, they're open

688
00:50:29.960 --> 00:50:32.920
Monday through Saturday eight to five and
Sunday from ten am to four pm.

689
00:50:34.280 --> 00:50:38.920
It's always an enchanting visit to go
to Ingented Gardens. We are going to

690
00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:43.440
go out to Missouri City and we're
going to talk to Kelly. Hello.

691
00:50:43.559 --> 00:50:46.760
Kelly. Hey, if I met
you a couple of weekends ago at the

692
00:50:47.760 --> 00:50:52.960
Magnolia eighth Hardware with my husband.
Great. Yeah, So I just I

693
00:50:53.039 --> 00:50:58.480
was calling because I just finished,
well I'm almost finished with my chicken coop

694
00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:05.760
area that I have by and so
I was you mentioned about that. I

695
00:51:05.760 --> 00:51:07.920
don't know, it was two or
three weekends ago about a place in Houston

696
00:51:07.960 --> 00:51:12.360
that I could get some really good
lay in hens, but I can't remember

697
00:51:12.360 --> 00:51:15.039
where it is and TSB Trectors supply
they don't have them. Okay, So

698
00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:19.320
I'm wondering what was the name of
the place, because I didn't get a

699
00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:22.679
chance to write it down because I
had my hands in the dirt. Not

700
00:51:22.800 --> 00:51:25.920
a problem. The name of the
place I was talking about was one of

701
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:34.039
two places. Actually, you're in
Missouri City, right, so probably,

702
00:51:34.559 --> 00:51:37.320
but yeah, I can. I
don't mind traveling. All of my family

703
00:51:37.320 --> 00:51:42.639
gets them from need Bill feed Supply. I don't even know that they have

704
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.079
them right now, like every it's
kind of seasonal. Everybody buys them at

705
00:51:45.079 --> 00:51:49.599
Easter. All right, I can
get you closer than that, but it's

706
00:51:49.599 --> 00:51:53.840
gonna be chicks that you're purchasing,
and it's quality feed and garden, and

707
00:51:53.880 --> 00:52:00.679
they're on They are at eighteen thirteen
Luzon Street and they have ships of chicks.

708
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:02.280
I don't know what they'll lose on
for me, honey, ell you,

709
00:52:02.400 --> 00:52:07.440
thank you for that. L u
z o n okay, I'm like,

710
00:52:07.519 --> 00:52:10.000
what, here's a fild so many
ways. We're in southeast Texas.

711
00:52:10.119 --> 00:52:14.280
Yeah, I know, and then
I probably have some sort of an accent.

712
00:52:14.400 --> 00:52:16.519
But you you can also call them. Write this number down seven to

713
00:52:16.559 --> 00:52:21.599
one to three, eight six two, twenty three, twenty three. Just

714
00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:24.239
make sure that they haven't sold out. But they get chicks. I believe

715
00:52:24.239 --> 00:52:28.239
it's like ever two weeks at least. Well, I'm kind of happened for

716
00:52:28.280 --> 00:52:32.400
some actual like some semi established lay
in him just because the winter's coming up.

717
00:52:32.440 --> 00:52:35.519
Do you think I'll be okay as
long as I put a heater in

718
00:52:35.559 --> 00:52:37.159
there? Oh yeah, yeah,
you still do. You Just dangle one

719
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:42.760
of those little heat lamps with an
aluminum shield over at one spot, and

720
00:52:42.840 --> 00:52:45.920
if they're cold, they can move
over there and stay warm. And if

721
00:52:45.920 --> 00:52:47.159
they don't want to be that warm, they can move a little away from

722
00:52:47.199 --> 00:52:51.280
it. And yeah, quality feed. I have to I'm sorry. Go

723
00:52:51.280 --> 00:52:53.119
ahead, Oh so I apologize.
I have to share with you. I

724
00:52:53.159 --> 00:53:00.559
got my American It's like the rotary
mower in Okay. I think I was

725
00:53:00.559 --> 00:53:02.599
telling you I was getting it in
that Tuesday after I came to Steel and

726
00:53:02.639 --> 00:53:07.199
I'm top dressed with the airlinb Fools
of Texas. Yeah, and my yard

727
00:53:07.320 --> 00:53:10.960
looks amazing. Like I been sick
for the last two weeks, so I

728
00:53:10.960 --> 00:53:15.079
haven't been able to mow, but
I fired my lawn guys, and I

729
00:53:15.199 --> 00:53:19.320
was actually mowing with my feet in
the grass, like not wearing any shoes,

730
00:53:19.400 --> 00:53:22.199
with my rotary mower. And I'm
going to tell you I haven't been

731
00:53:22.199 --> 00:53:24.000
able to post pictures because I've been
sick. But as soon as I cut

732
00:53:24.000 --> 00:53:27.679
it this time, I'm going to
tag you in them. Yeah, because

733
00:53:27.800 --> 00:53:30.079
I will tell you that rotary mower
not only do you get your exercise in

734
00:53:30.760 --> 00:53:36.880
therapeutic, but oh my gosh,
my yard looks amazing. I want to

735
00:53:36.920 --> 00:53:39.239
thank you, thank you for the
call. Just remember to call Quality Feed

736
00:53:39.559 --> 00:53:43.320
before you go. Make sure they've
got in stock what you're looking for.

737
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:46.639
And if you're looking for an older
chicken, they could probably direct you somewhere.

738
00:53:47.039 --> 00:53:52.039
But okay, I don't know anybody
that sells us. All right,

739
00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:57.079
Wow, that's interesting, pretty cool
stuff. You know. Nitrofis has their

740
00:53:57.199 --> 00:54:00.800
three step program, and the three
step program basically, what it amounts to

741
00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:07.039
is a fertilizer, a weed control, and a fungicide, just like that

742
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:10.440
one two three. Now the fertilizer
and again, if you didn't fertilize this

743
00:54:10.559 --> 00:54:14.920
fall, it's still okay, get
it done, but get it done soon.

744
00:54:15.039 --> 00:54:19.519
The sooner the better. But that's
their fall special. It's a winter

745
00:54:19.599 --> 00:54:24.239
riser fertilizer and it just makes your
lawn stronger going into winter and therefore coming

746
00:54:24.320 --> 00:54:29.800
out of winter. Secondly, is
a weed control that would be the barricade

747
00:54:29.800 --> 00:54:32.920
product. It controls broad leaf and
grassy weeds by not letting them ever get

748
00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:37.320
started. When they try to sprout, it shuts them down. And if

749
00:54:37.360 --> 00:54:42.280
your lawn is thin from this brutal
summer we just went through and sunlight is

750
00:54:42.320 --> 00:54:45.880
hitting the soil, you're going to
show up. That's just how it works.

751
00:54:45.920 --> 00:54:47.079
So we need to work to get
our lawn thick again. But in

752
00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:51.840
the meantime, an application of that
barricade watered in with a half inch of

753
00:54:51.920 --> 00:54:54.480
rain will do it. Now,
they also have nitroposs egle fungicide, a

754
00:54:54.519 --> 00:55:00.599
systemic fungicide that when you put that
down it soaks into the tissue. And

755
00:55:00.679 --> 00:55:05.599
we're dealing with issues like brown patch
or large patch or the take all root

756
00:55:05.679 --> 00:55:09.280
right in the fall. It can
help you to prevent that from happening.

757
00:55:09.599 --> 00:55:15.800
We'd love to grow ourselves out of
these disease issues that as the grass gets

758
00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:20.000
stressed or weakened in different ways,
we end up with them. And I

759
00:55:20.079 --> 00:55:22.960
keep reminding you of those cultural practices, But when you've got along that's plagued

760
00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.400
with that, you just need to
deal with it and then in the meantime

761
00:55:27.440 --> 00:55:30.840
get your grass strong. Let's go
to northwest Houston. Now we're going to

762
00:55:30.880 --> 00:55:34.599
talk to Debbie. Hello, Debbie, Hi, good morning. I have

763
00:55:34.639 --> 00:55:37.079
a question. I'm i to send
a picture. I have a young tree.

764
00:55:37.119 --> 00:55:42.320
It's probably about twelve feet tall.
It's an oak, and the bark

765
00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:47.760
at the bottom is falling off.
Just one thing. Oh wow? How

766
00:55:47.800 --> 00:55:54.440
big around is the base of the
trunk? Probably about four inches in diameter?

767
00:55:54.519 --> 00:55:59.960
Four inches? Okay, And let
me think when you say the barks

768
00:56:00.039 --> 00:56:05.639
falling off, when it falls off
underneath that, are you seeing the actual

769
00:56:05.760 --> 00:56:09.199
wood interior of the tree or could
it be that it's outer bark falling off

770
00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:15.039
and there's still an inner bark that's
visible, you know, I don't know.

771
00:56:15.119 --> 00:56:21.440
It just looks like about I don't
know, about eight to ten inches

772
00:56:21.800 --> 00:56:24.840
of the bark that is, you
know, and I can pull it off

773
00:56:25.000 --> 00:56:30.039
very easily. Okay, that's probably
you're losing probably your whole bark there.

774
00:56:30.320 --> 00:56:34.360
I don't know what did it we
you know, there are different things that

775
00:56:34.960 --> 00:56:37.280
could have contributed to it. But
as far as what do you do now,

776
00:56:37.320 --> 00:56:42.079
there's really nothing. If it is
truly loose bark, you can pull

777
00:56:42.079 --> 00:56:45.760
that back to expose the interior just
it helps it dry out. In there

778
00:56:45.800 --> 00:56:51.400
after a rain and minimizes that decay
of the wood, and you'll start to

779
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:57.360
see the callous forming from around that
area where the bark has been lost,

780
00:56:57.880 --> 00:57:00.440
and callous looks like a lava flow
coming in from the sides. You know,

781
00:57:00.599 --> 00:57:06.079
just gradually the tree is trying to
close over and protect that inner wood

782
00:57:06.840 --> 00:57:13.599
inner wood rather so that the only
thing that's in your control is to make

783
00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:16.159
sure the tree stays healthy. And
so if we go back into next summer

784
00:57:16.239 --> 00:57:20.400
and you know, all these days
of heat and no rain, just give

785
00:57:20.440 --> 00:57:23.119
it a good soaking. You pretend
ten to fourteen days when we're in that.

786
00:57:23.400 --> 00:57:28.960
But right now, there's nothing that
you need to immediately do. So

787
00:57:29.039 --> 00:57:32.199
don't pull the bark off. Just
let it fall off naturally. And no,

788
00:57:32.280 --> 00:57:36.880
you you can if it's loose and
comes off when you pull on it,

789
00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:38.639
go ahead and pull it off.
That's okay, okay, But you

790
00:57:38.760 --> 00:57:42.880
just want to you want to find
what's what you're going to find is the

791
00:57:43.039 --> 00:57:46.320
edge of that area that died,
and so you can pull that back.

792
00:57:46.480 --> 00:57:51.039
Yeah, that's fine, Okay.
Otherwise the tree looks healthy, but it's

793
00:57:51.039 --> 00:57:54.360
just very worsome. Yeah, well, a young tree like that, if

794
00:57:54.400 --> 00:58:00.760
it's in good health, it'll close
over pretty rapidly. Okay. A little

795
00:58:00.800 --> 00:58:05.280
fertilizer in the spring wouldn't hurt,
you know, and so that would help

796
00:58:05.360 --> 00:58:08.320
boost its growth rate just a little
bit. But the main thing is water,

797
00:58:10.199 --> 00:58:15.599
all right, Devin, thank you
very much. I appreciate appreciate your

798
00:58:15.639 --> 00:58:20.599
call. If you live up in
the Magnolia area, your hometown feed store,

799
00:58:20.679 --> 00:58:23.960
Spring Creek Feed. They are on
FM twenty nine seventy eight, just

800
00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:29.519
minutes away from Grand Parkway and Highway
to forty nine. They carry the fertilizers

801
00:58:29.559 --> 00:58:32.440
you hear on garden line. You
hear me talk about. They carry all

802
00:58:32.559 --> 00:58:37.800
kinds of lawn and garden supplies,
herbicide, fungicides, pesticides, all of

803
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:42.400
that. Friendly, courteous staff.
That's one of the main reasons I like

804
00:58:42.480 --> 00:58:46.920
going in there. If you are
in FFA or four h kiddos, raising

805
00:58:46.960 --> 00:58:52.719
stock, animals, military and senior
citizens, all of those get discounts and

806
00:58:52.760 --> 00:58:57.199
they even will special order products and
deliver for you at Spring Creek Feed.

807
00:58:57.280 --> 00:59:05.559
On FM twenty nine seventy eight.
The topic of the day has been frosts

808
00:59:05.559 --> 00:59:07.960
and freezes, and we may wander
from that a little bit here in a

809
00:59:07.960 --> 00:59:14.000
bit, but just want you to
be prepared, get the supplies you need,

810
00:59:14.280 --> 00:59:16.679
understand what you're going after. So
again, if you go to gardening

811
00:59:16.719 --> 00:59:22.360
with Skip dot com, the top
thing in my new added items is a

812
00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:29.199
publication nine pages free, full color
on everything you need to know about protecting

813
00:59:29.199 --> 00:59:31.719
your plants against frosts and freezes.
Well, it's time for the news and

814
00:59:31.960 --> 00:59:36.039
I'm going to go away, But
in the meantime right down seven one three

815
00:59:36.119 --> 00:59:40.599
two one two ktrh so you can
give us a call. Welcome back to

816
00:59:40.639 --> 00:59:45.760
the garden Line. We are talking
gardening and uh, you know, today's

817
00:59:45.880 --> 00:59:52.519
topics seems to be primarily talking about
cold protection. How do we take care

818
00:59:52.519 --> 00:59:54.440
of our plants? How do we
protect them from cold? I mentioned the

819
00:59:54.639 --> 01:00:01.039
insulate a blanket just one example of
a very dense, spun down polyestra product

820
01:00:01.119 --> 01:00:05.320
you put over your plants and it
protects them. There's another product called the

821
01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:08.800
planket and that's kind of cool too. Where do you find these Well,

822
01:00:08.920 --> 01:00:14.360
you can find them at Arburgate.
Arbrogate is always going to have the products

823
01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:16.480
that you need that fit the season
that they're in. I mean, the

824
01:00:16.639 --> 01:00:21.119
Arbigate is the Gardener's garden Center so
what season are we in now, we're

825
01:00:21.159 --> 01:00:27.880
in color season two. Oh my
gosh. Their collection of the Cyclement.

826
01:00:27.960 --> 01:00:30.800
I couldn't even save the plant for
a minute. Their collection cyclement is just

827
01:00:31.159 --> 01:00:37.719
gorgeous. And if you want to
really brighten up a bright shady spot around

828
01:00:37.719 --> 01:00:39.960
the garden, oh it'll do it. And they have everything else. I

829
01:00:39.960 --> 01:00:44.039
mean, do you need pansies and
viola's. You know, Arburgate's always going

830
01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:47.400
to have everything you need at that
point in the season. And let me

831
01:00:47.440 --> 01:00:51.360
just say this too, when you
go there and buy plants, remember brown

832
01:00:51.400 --> 01:00:57.000
stuff before green stuff. So pick
up their food their complete one two three

833
01:00:57.079 --> 01:01:02.079
completely easy system, the organic food
come that's an organic fertilizer four four three

834
01:01:02.119 --> 01:01:07.679
plus calcium, their organic soil complete, and their organic compost complete. All

835
01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:12.320
three of those are part of making
your soil the best that it can be

836
01:01:12.400 --> 01:01:15.159
so your plants can thrive. It's
as simple as that. What you do

837
01:01:15.239 --> 01:01:20.559
before you plant is even more important
than what you do after you plant.

838
01:01:20.800 --> 01:01:23.159
So stop by Arbrogate, grab some
of those supplies to go along with your

839
01:01:23.199 --> 01:01:30.000
plants, and also grab your cold
cover protection. Very important because another one's

840
01:01:30.039 --> 01:01:31.840
coming. We know that, so
let's go ahead and get ready for it.

841
01:01:34.920 --> 01:01:39.440
I'm going to be today out at
the Ciena Multch and I'm looking forward

842
01:01:39.519 --> 01:01:43.960
to visiting with some of you.
I know, it's always good when people

843
01:01:44.000 --> 01:01:47.519
that listen to the show come out, but yet a little extra incentives out

844
01:01:47.519 --> 01:01:53.039
at there at a Sienamultch, they
just have so many things going on that

845
01:01:53.960 --> 01:01:58.880
you know, it's like a party, that's really what it is. There's

846
01:01:58.920 --> 01:02:00.360
going to be giveaways. The folks
at Siena are going to be doing the

847
01:02:00.360 --> 01:02:06.599
giveaways. I'm also given away.
I'm giving away a number of different products.

848
01:02:06.639 --> 01:02:09.280
In fact, the first twenty six
people that come up to my table

849
01:02:09.320 --> 01:02:14.440
are going to get either a product
from Microlife or heirloom soils, or know,

850
01:02:14.559 --> 01:02:17.480
some plant food. We're just going
to be given away right and left

851
01:02:17.920 --> 01:02:22.360
out there. While you're out there, check out the food truck. They

852
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:25.559
have a little food truck and it
is pretty cool. I think it's pretty

853
01:02:25.559 --> 01:02:31.280
fun. The food truck is just
a little added benefit to coming out and

854
01:02:31.320 --> 01:02:35.239
having fun with the party. Meet
the reps from these companies too, by

855
01:02:35.239 --> 01:02:37.840
the way, they can tell you
all about that kind of product. And

856
01:02:37.880 --> 01:02:40.639
there's going to be a number of
other people that are going to be part

857
01:02:40.719 --> 01:02:45.079
of the shindig. I'll talk about
that in a little bit when we come

858
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:47.880
back to it, but well,
let me just do it now. In

859
01:02:47.920 --> 01:02:53.239
addition to those fertilizer and soil folks
that I mentioned, and in addition to

860
01:02:53.320 --> 01:02:57.079
Mary had a little party food truck. That's a good name for it,

861
01:02:57.599 --> 01:03:00.920
Texas Garden Guy is going to be
out there. Jes Gardens is going to

862
01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:05.400
be out there and gardening with Bemo
some other personalities that you can also visit

863
01:03:05.440 --> 01:03:07.639
with. So come out and see
us. We're going to have a heck

864
01:03:07.679 --> 01:03:12.480
of a good time and I look
forward to visiting with you. If you

865
01:03:12.519 --> 01:03:15.760
are in the market for a roof
Brinkman is the company that you need to

866
01:03:15.800 --> 01:03:21.000
call. And here's why they are
fly by night roofers. You'll find them

867
01:03:21.000 --> 01:03:23.719
all the time. But can you
find a roofer who's been doing it here

868
01:03:23.719 --> 01:03:30.199
in Houston for fifty years? I
can. It's Brinkman Quality roofing, who

869
01:03:30.280 --> 01:03:35.119
has a the highest award the Better
Business bro gives way It's or Pinnacle Award

870
01:03:35.639 --> 01:03:38.039
at twenty two. They want it. And you don't get stuff like that

871
01:03:38.119 --> 01:03:42.679
without taking care of your customers.
Let them come out. Do you want

872
01:03:42.679 --> 01:03:45.119
a composite roof. Do you want
a metal roof? Do you want their

873
01:03:45.159 --> 01:03:52.320
new Brinkman's timberline solar shingle roof.
Yeah, your roof is the solar panel,

874
01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:54.280
not a panel on your roof,
But your roof is a solar panel.

875
01:03:54.480 --> 01:03:59.400
Warrant it for twenty five years.
Go to Brinkman Quality dot com learn

876
01:03:59.440 --> 01:04:03.039
more or call them two eight one
four eight zero seventy six sixty three.

877
01:04:04.679 --> 01:04:11.320
It is as simple as that.
You know, anytime we talk about different

878
01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:15.320
service type companies around the on the
show here, but anytime you can find

879
01:04:15.360 --> 01:04:19.480
one that takes care of their customers, isn't that worth isn't I mean,

880
01:04:19.559 --> 01:04:24.400
isn't that worth the price of admission? You think about it? And have

881
01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:26.639
you ever had somebody tell you,
yeah, we'll be there on Saturday,

882
01:04:26.679 --> 01:04:30.760
block half your day and then they
may not even show up. Do you

883
01:04:30.800 --> 01:04:35.440
get customer service after the sale?
Do they honestly help direct you to the

884
01:04:35.480 --> 01:04:40.800
product that's best for you as they
listen to what your questions are? Do

885
01:04:40.880 --> 01:04:44.519
they show up on time? I
don't care if it's a plumber, you

886
01:04:44.559 --> 01:04:47.079
know, if it's a yard care
company. I mean, you want all

887
01:04:47.119 --> 01:04:51.800
of those kinds of things as part
of your service. And that's the kind

888
01:04:51.800 --> 01:04:55.639
of folks we talk about on the
show. We're going to go out now

889
01:04:55.679 --> 01:05:00.519
to Cyprus and talk to Sandy.
Morning Sandy, Good morning, Skip.

890
01:05:00.559 --> 01:05:09.800
How are you. I'm well,
thank you? So my blueberries you talk

891
01:05:09.880 --> 01:05:12.639
to a lot of people, so
you won't remember, but they it's like

892
01:05:12.719 --> 01:05:17.119
almost a shrub. It's gotten kind
of big and tall. When and how

893
01:05:17.159 --> 01:05:21.280
can I prune it? Is this
the time to print it? I would

894
01:05:21.320 --> 01:05:26.679
wait until the end of winter to
prune it. You don't have to,

895
01:05:27.199 --> 01:05:30.920
but generally I do my pruning at
that time. Pruning when the weather can

896
01:05:30.960 --> 01:05:35.800
be a little warm will stimulate regrowth, and we don't want that because those

897
01:05:35.840 --> 01:05:40.159
little new shoots are going to just
get frozen. They're not hardy like the

898
01:05:40.159 --> 01:05:43.320
rest of the plant, and so
I would wait to the end of winter

899
01:05:43.719 --> 01:05:47.079
to do the pruning. Do you
happen to know the type of blueberry or

900
01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:56.559
the name of the varieties that you
have? I usually put the little thing

901
01:05:56.599 --> 01:06:00.320
in the pot, but okay,
I can't even search. Fine, that's

902
01:06:00.920 --> 01:06:03.719
I just was gonna give a little
more direction based on the type. There's

903
01:06:03.719 --> 01:06:09.199
several types that we can grow here. You're describing it as a pretty big

904
01:06:09.239 --> 01:06:13.760
plant. Have you had it for
five years? No? I just planted

905
01:06:13.800 --> 01:06:18.679
it rush. Oh I'm sorry,
Well I just last year. If it's

906
01:06:18.719 --> 01:06:23.760
If it's one year old, then
then you shouldn't have to do much pruning

907
01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:27.800
other than removing a lot of the
little twiggy growth that's not going to have

908
01:06:27.840 --> 01:06:31.079
buds on it. Another advantage as
you come out into later winter is you're

909
01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:35.400
going to see the little fat buds
that'll be blooms versus the little tiny buds

910
01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:40.320
that are just not gonna they're not
a bloom bud, and that helps you

911
01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:45.079
know how to prune. The bloom
blooming wood is about an eighth of an

912
01:06:45.079 --> 01:06:49.000
inch in diameter, and it typically
has kind of a burgundy reddish color to

913
01:06:49.079 --> 01:06:54.280
it, and that that's a sign
that that's going to bear fruit for you.

914
01:06:54.360 --> 01:06:58.400
So that also guides you in your
early pruning. When you get about

915
01:06:58.440 --> 01:07:02.199
five years into it, we'll tell
talk about a different kind of pruning regimen

916
01:07:02.360 --> 01:07:06.760
that you'll want to start. Okay, and one more quick question on my

917
01:07:06.920 --> 01:07:13.360
okra. When the leaves turn all
spotted with brown spots and stuff on it,

918
01:07:13.559 --> 01:07:15.280
yep, is it time to pull
it? It is? If you're

919
01:07:15.320 --> 01:07:18.599
not getting any more oprah off of
it, and at this stage Okra is

920
01:07:18.960 --> 01:07:24.320
barely moving, so don't expect to
bloom and then more fruit. Probably I'm

921
01:07:24.320 --> 01:07:29.239
only getting what two three a day? Maybe. Yeah, there's probably time

922
01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:30.760
to get it out of there.
It gets so ready for your next planting.

923
01:07:32.119 --> 01:07:35.800
Okay, all right, thank you, appreciate, appreciate your call.

924
01:07:36.239 --> 01:07:40.559
Well, time for another quick break
here. Our phone number is seven one

925
01:07:40.639 --> 01:07:45.239
three two two fifty eight seventy four. We'll be right back. Well,

926
01:07:45.280 --> 01:07:48.800
it's light outside. Finally we can
get outside and do a little bit of

927
01:07:48.880 --> 01:07:53.960
gardening activities. And boy, is
this ever going to be a great day.

928
01:07:54.039 --> 01:07:57.440
I mean we're going to get up
in the upper seventies today, no

929
01:07:57.599 --> 01:08:01.239
rain in sight, and you just
can't get better weather than that for working

930
01:08:01.320 --> 01:08:04.480
out in the yard and in the
garden. And while you're out there,

931
01:08:04.679 --> 01:08:09.079
one thing you might want to do
is go ahead and get that fall fertilization

932
01:08:09.199 --> 01:08:12.760
done if you haven't already, and
this is something you need to do asap.

933
01:08:12.960 --> 01:08:16.279
If you missed the fall fertilization from
my lawn care schedule at gardening with

934
01:08:16.479 --> 01:08:21.760
Skip dot com, you can still
do the fall fertilization and Nelson plant food.

935
01:08:21.800 --> 01:08:26.680
They make a product called carbo load
that's designed for that. Why don't

936
01:08:26.680 --> 01:08:30.199
they call it carbo load? Here's
why. When a grass plant goes into

937
01:08:30.279 --> 01:08:35.239
winter, it needs a store of
carbohydrates. And in order to have carbohydrates,

938
01:08:35.279 --> 01:08:40.640
the grass needs sunlight and nutrients to
build those in the plant. And

939
01:08:40.720 --> 01:08:45.199
this provides the mix of nutrients nitrophos
or the Nelson plant food carbo load.

940
01:08:45.600 --> 01:08:50.159
It provides that mix of nutrients that
helps the plant because it's especially high in

941
01:08:50.279 --> 01:08:54.840
potassium the third number. But it's
got a little nitrogen, which is also

942
01:08:54.960 --> 01:08:57.640
necessary. Not a lot of nitrogen. You just want a little bit in

943
01:08:57.680 --> 01:09:01.520
the fall and forever. Bag you
buy going to give way two dollars to

944
01:09:01.680 --> 01:09:06.920
the Randy Memorial Scholarship Randy Lemon's Memorial
Scholarship by the Texas A and M.

945
01:09:08.199 --> 01:09:13.399
That is another really good cause and
another good reason to purchase a bag of

946
01:09:13.439 --> 01:09:16.560
the carboload. Carboload also has the
pre emergent herbicide in it, and so

947
01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:19.399
another reason why we don't want to
delay. Go ahead and get it down

948
01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:27.920
again. If you've not already used
fertilizer or a pre emergent herbicide on your

949
01:09:28.000 --> 01:09:30.960
lawn. Go ahead and do the
carbo load now, because that will get

950
01:09:31.039 --> 01:09:35.319
you set up. And I'm going
to be given away twelve jars of Nelson

951
01:09:35.359 --> 01:09:40.920
plant food out at the Ciena Mulch
event from I'll be there from eleven thirty

952
01:09:40.920 --> 01:09:45.880
to one thirty and part of my
giveaways is twelve jars. That's cool stuff.

953
01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:49.279
That's their vegetable rows, indoor plants, and tree and shrub foods all

954
01:09:49.399 --> 01:09:54.600
together. Well. Our phone number
is seven to one three two one two

955
01:09:55.199 --> 01:10:00.159
fifty eight seventy four seven one three
two one two five eight seven to four.

956
01:10:01.079 --> 01:10:08.520
The season that we've entered now,
I mentioned earlier the importance of getting

957
01:10:08.560 --> 01:10:13.680
your vegetables planted, and the reason
for that is because as cold weather arrives,

958
01:10:14.079 --> 01:10:16.479
things slow down. Now we have
vegetables that will go right through winter

959
01:10:16.600 --> 01:10:21.359
here they can do it, but
the best growth is in milder temperatures in

960
01:10:21.439 --> 01:10:25.960
the cool season. Take broccoli,
for example. The soon as you get

961
01:10:25.960 --> 01:10:29.520
that in, the better off it's
going to be, and it'll just produce

962
01:10:29.600 --> 01:10:32.319
a little faster, make a bigger, more robust plant a little faster as

963
01:10:32.399 --> 01:10:35.479
well. The same is true for
our flowers. Now is the time to

964
01:10:35.520 --> 01:10:41.319
get those flowers planted, all kinds
of cool season color plants. There's no

965
01:10:41.479 --> 01:10:45.479
reason for winter to be a drab
season. We have lots of great color

966
01:10:45.600 --> 01:10:53.079
options. And you know I mentioned
the pansies and the violas earlier. Those

967
01:10:53.119 --> 01:10:57.840
are about as hardy as you can
get. The dusty miller is a gray

968
01:10:57.920 --> 01:11:01.840
leafed foliage plant that does well here
in the winter. We've got snap dragons,

969
01:11:01.880 --> 01:11:06.760
we have Dianthus sweet william, the
little compact types and the tall beautiful

970
01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:12.079
types as well. Stock is another
cool seasoned plant, has a little nice

971
01:11:12.119 --> 01:11:15.079
fragrance to it as well. And
then of course I'll listen that that little

972
01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:20.960
mound of tiny white flowers attracts beneficial
insects, certain types of beneficials, and

973
01:11:21.039 --> 01:11:25.199
it even has a little bit of
a honey like fragrance, which I think

974
01:11:25.239 --> 01:11:27.760
is kind of cool. But if
you're going to do that, let's go

975
01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:30.439
ahead and do it. Let's get
it done, get them growing, get

976
01:11:30.479 --> 01:11:35.760
them planted, water to unfertilized,
and ready to go. Last week I

977
01:11:35.800 --> 01:11:42.000
talked to Felder Rushing on the air
here. Felter is out at the Anti

978
01:11:42.079 --> 01:11:46.640
Grozenport in this weekend part of their
big shindig. They are and boy,

979
01:11:46.640 --> 01:11:50.640
are they ever having a big shin
dig It's called the Fall Festival of Roses.

980
01:11:51.239 --> 01:11:55.159
It's going on today and it'll be
going on tomorrow as well, and

981
01:11:55.199 --> 01:11:58.399
Felder speaking on both days. And
if you've never heard him speak, you

982
01:11:58.520 --> 01:12:01.079
got to hear this guy speak.
There's gonna be a lot of great information.

983
01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:04.239
They've got lunch with food trucks and
a social hour at the end of

984
01:12:04.239 --> 01:12:09.199
the day to day. You know, antiq Rosenporium is more than just roses.

985
01:12:09.279 --> 01:12:15.920
They have perennials galore out there,
lots of quality plants, and they

986
01:12:15.560 --> 01:12:20.800
always are having educational workshops like this, this event, the Fall Festival Roses,

987
01:12:20.800 --> 01:12:25.760
and I'm talking about it's just a
great place to go visit. You

988
01:12:25.760 --> 01:12:30.479
can give them a call at ninety
seven nine eight three six fifty five forty

989
01:12:30.479 --> 01:12:33.760
eight and find out how to get
up there to Independence, Texas for this

990
01:12:33.840 --> 01:12:39.359
event. It's a great outing antiqu
Rosenporium dot com. Simple as that.

991
01:12:40.159 --> 01:12:45.000
Let's go to Mike and Lake Jackson. Hello, Mike, Skip, I

992
01:12:45.039 --> 01:12:48.920
got it. I'm a my lemon
trees. Just all of a sudden,

993
01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:56.119
put ballooms out haul over it and
you know it's been blooming sporadically during the

994
01:12:56.159 --> 01:13:01.039
summer. But yeah, it is
this tree. The time it suffered,

995
01:13:02.119 --> 01:13:08.840
Yeah, during this last freeze and
it came back really well. But I

996
01:13:08.840 --> 01:13:11.920
don't know if there's a time and
issue with a blooming or no, it

997
01:13:12.239 --> 01:13:15.960
can they can they can bloom in
phases through the year. That that's not

998
01:13:16.039 --> 01:13:23.079
an unusual thing for your plant.
Yeah, it's just interesting how just all

999
01:13:23.119 --> 01:13:27.239
of a sudden there's blooms just all
yeah, yeah, you have it in

1000
01:13:27.279 --> 01:13:30.560
a container, Mike, No,
it's in the ground, okay. And

1001
01:13:30.720 --> 01:13:36.399
the it's just I don't know.
It's kind of took me a surprise and

1002
01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:41.279
just to peru it out out of
nowhere. Yeah. Yeah, plant plants

1003
01:13:41.319 --> 01:13:45.520
get weird. We have other plants
that the summer drought sent them into,

1004
01:13:45.640 --> 01:13:51.159
uh summer drought induced in heat induced
dormancy, that are blooming with their spring

1005
01:13:51.239 --> 01:13:56.960
bloom crop. Now that's not a
good thing, but it happens. Uh.

1006
01:13:57.239 --> 01:14:00.600
And I don't know. Did you
hear me talk about the publication nine

1007
01:14:00.640 --> 01:14:04.239
pages publication on dealing with frosts and
freezes on your Plants? Yeah, no,

1008
01:14:04.399 --> 01:14:09.439
I haven't. I just okay,
Well, my website is gardening with

1009
01:14:09.680 --> 01:14:14.840
skip dot com and there's a free
publication up there on everything you need to

1010
01:14:14.880 --> 01:14:17.840
know about frosts and freezes, and
certainly with this lemon tree, there's gonna

1011
01:14:17.840 --> 01:14:23.479
be a ton of good information to
help you plan your cold protection from it.

1012
01:14:23.520 --> 01:14:27.199
Because we have another freeze, you
know, it's just right for things

1013
01:14:27.239 --> 01:14:30.079
to start going and then you wiped
up by another freeze. Although I do

1014
01:14:30.560 --> 01:14:35.039
protected with tarts and lights and that
sort of thing, sometimes it gets past

1015
01:14:35.119 --> 01:14:40.039
that too. Yeah. Yeah,
you just gotta The goal is to keep

1016
01:14:40.399 --> 01:14:44.319
the temperature above freezing underneath there,
and sometimes you have to add a little

1017
01:14:44.319 --> 01:14:46.119
bit of heat to do that.
Yeah, But I think your lemons,

1018
01:14:46.199 --> 01:14:50.479
okay, they're not going to grow
very fast right now because it's so cold.

1019
01:14:50.920 --> 01:14:57.079
But that I wouldn't I wouldn't worry
a lot about it. When's the

1020
01:14:57.119 --> 01:15:01.760
best time to I got fairly pecan
tree, I'd say about ten years old

1021
01:15:01.760 --> 01:15:06.199
that I've grafted went on too.
When is it time to start preening back

1022
01:15:06.399 --> 01:15:12.880
the old wood to give the grafts? Yeah, yeah, your pecan tree.

1023
01:15:13.239 --> 01:15:19.640
Yeah, I would do that kind
of pruning of a deciduous trees and

1024
01:15:19.680 --> 01:15:24.239
shrubs. I would do that at
the end of winter, and that would

1025
01:15:24.359 --> 01:15:27.560
that would for us. I would
say if you can get to about maybe

1026
01:15:28.159 --> 01:15:30.399
mid to late January would be fine. You can do it anytime in January

1027
01:15:30.439 --> 01:15:34.039
actually, uh, And we just
want to want to do it before they

1028
01:15:34.119 --> 01:15:38.359
leave out. But pecans are slow
to leaf out in the spring. They

1029
01:15:38.359 --> 01:15:43.359
are very conservative about putting their growth
out there when there might be another frost,

1030
01:15:43.439 --> 01:15:47.000
so they're a little slow to come
out, right, Okay, good,

1031
01:15:47.039 --> 01:15:50.119
I appreciate you, bet, thank
you very much for the call.

1032
01:15:50.640 --> 01:15:57.039
Appreciate that very much. Yeah,
pecans are they're smart. They've lived in

1033
01:15:57.079 --> 01:16:00.560
Texas a long time and so they
get it. They know how that goes.

1034
01:16:00.960 --> 01:16:03.800
And you know, just some of
our fruit trees, uh, peaches

1035
01:16:03.840 --> 01:16:08.800
and plums and pears and apples,
in the spring comes and they take off

1036
01:16:08.800 --> 01:16:11.840
blooming, especially the ones that are
very low chill, they bloom a little

1037
01:16:11.880 --> 01:16:15.279
bit early. Uh. But when
it comes to pecans, it's like,

1038
01:16:15.439 --> 01:16:16.760
yeah, I'm just gonna hang on
a little bit here. We got plenty

1039
01:16:16.760 --> 01:16:20.000
of time for a growing season,
and they're slow to come out. And

1040
01:16:20.039 --> 01:16:25.760
as a result, we typically don't
see that kind of cold damage on pecans

1041
01:16:25.800 --> 01:16:30.119
because they're they're just careful the way
that they go about it well, uh.

1042
01:16:30.279 --> 01:16:35.199
The uh. I'm always humored by
by pecans. Uh. And and

1043
01:16:35.279 --> 01:16:41.960
some a story about pecans. You
know, pecans set a bloom or they

1044
01:16:42.239 --> 01:16:45.359
actually have the little catkins that send
a dust through the air. They're wind

1045
01:16:45.439 --> 01:16:49.640
pollinated. And then they also have
the little nutlets that receive that pollen and

1046
01:16:49.680 --> 01:16:57.479
become a pecan nut. And that
the tree tends to bear a really heavy

1047
01:16:57.520 --> 01:17:00.159
crop one year, and then it
buries a very light crop the next year

1048
01:17:00.199 --> 01:17:03.960
because all those carbohydrates went into the
pecans, and the next year there's no

1049
01:17:04.159 --> 01:17:09.199
not much of a fruit load.
So they set a lot of buds.

1050
01:17:09.199 --> 01:17:12.720
They alternate bear like that. And
an old timer one time I heard a

1051
01:17:12.760 --> 01:17:15.640
story that he would go when his
pecans weren't bearing. He would take a

1052
01:17:15.640 --> 01:17:18.279
hatchet and walk around the tree,
hitting the tree with a hatchet, saying,

1053
01:17:18.319 --> 01:17:21.039
I'm coming back to cut you down
if you don't have a good crop

1054
01:17:21.119 --> 01:17:24.920
next year. And it always had
a good crop next year, which of

1055
01:17:24.960 --> 01:17:29.439
course made him think that his hatchet
had made the difference. That's just alternate

1056
01:17:29.439 --> 01:17:34.399
bearing. Now, I'm sure hitting
the trunk with a hatchet was probably disrupting

1057
01:17:34.399 --> 01:17:39.359
the flow of carbohydrates down into the
roots. So I don't know. Maybe

1058
01:17:39.359 --> 01:17:44.640
that helped a little bit too,
But just a funny story. Correlation does

1059
01:17:44.680 --> 01:17:48.840
not equal causation. What does that
mean. What it means is that just

1060
01:17:48.840 --> 01:17:54.039
because two things occur at the same
time are connected to each other, doesn't

1061
01:17:54.039 --> 01:17:58.880
mean one cause the other one.
That can just happen. Well, that

1062
01:17:59.039 --> 01:18:02.359
is a little bit of horticultural wisdom. I guess to end this hour,

1063
01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:08.279
seven one three two one two fifty
eight seventy four is our number. Get

1064
01:18:08.359 --> 01:18:10.880
on the board with Josh and we'll
talk to you when we come back.

1065
01:18:15.000 --> 01:18:19.000
Kat r H Garden Line does not
necessarily endorse any of the products or services

1066
01:18:19.039 --> 01:18:26.760
advertised on this program. Welcome to
kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rictor

1067
01:18:26.880 --> 01:18:43.079
It's crazy gas. Watch a trim, Just watch him as so many girl,

1068
01:18:43.159 --> 01:18:54.720
Thanks to Sup that crazy gas.
Good Saturday morning. Look outside,

1069
01:18:55.119 --> 01:18:58.840
you're not going to get a better
day than this one. You're not highs

1070
01:18:58.840 --> 01:19:03.560
in the upper seventies. Oh my
gosh, that is gardening weather for sure.

1071
01:19:03.920 --> 01:19:08.279
For sure. Hey, when you're
out and about today, why not

1072
01:19:08.439 --> 01:19:11.520
stop by the enchanted forest, Donna
Richmond. I mean, that is a

1073
01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:15.880
place worth going to if you if
you live downe in that area, and

1074
01:19:15.920 --> 01:19:17.520
haven't been there before. You really
ought to check it out. It's on

1075
01:19:18.039 --> 01:19:23.000
FM twenty seven fifty nine. If
you don't live in that area, then

1076
01:19:23.119 --> 01:19:27.399
you need to check it out.
It's on FM twenty seven fifty nine.

1077
01:19:27.720 --> 01:19:31.840
Phone numbers two eight one three nine
three seven ninety four forty nine, two

1078
01:19:31.880 --> 01:19:35.840
eight one nine three seven ninety four
forty nine. Why would you go?

1079
01:19:36.039 --> 01:19:40.880
Well, they have everything that you
need, everything you would want to grow.

1080
01:19:40.960 --> 01:19:45.880
They've got incredibly knowledgeable staff, and
you know, it's just it's a

1081
01:19:45.960 --> 01:19:50.079
pleasant place to be if you want
house plants, and we're entering house plants

1082
01:19:50.079 --> 01:19:53.840
season right and the cool season.
Oh my gosh, they're loaded up.

1083
01:19:53.920 --> 01:19:57.560
They've got a lot of great supply
and if you're looking to you know that

1084
01:19:57.720 --> 01:20:00.800
after the season sales well, seventy
five percent off all their Halloween and Fall

1085
01:20:00.880 --> 01:20:04.840
de corps and even fifty percent off
a pumpkin. You know, pumpkins aren't

1086
01:20:04.880 --> 01:20:09.239
just for Halloween, they're for Thanksgiving
too, Right, Well, there's your

1087
01:20:09.359 --> 01:20:13.039
chance out at the Enchanted for us. But while you're out there, check

1088
01:20:13.079 --> 01:20:17.359
out their new rose house and the
vegetable house. Oh my, you got

1089
01:20:17.399 --> 01:20:19.960
to go home with some of that
stuff. Fall is the best season for

1090
01:20:20.079 --> 01:20:26.079
planting perennial herbs, and they have
a great selection of that too, just

1091
01:20:26.199 --> 01:20:30.680
like everything else that you possibly could
want it enchanted for us. Let's see,

1092
01:20:30.680 --> 01:20:34.119
I'm going to head out now to
Bruno in Magnolia. Good morning,

1093
01:20:34.159 --> 01:20:41.199
Bruno, Good morning. I had
called in a few months ago, and

1094
01:20:41.640 --> 01:20:46.520
I've got a construction site in Magnolia
where most of the grass and stuff has

1095
01:20:46.520 --> 01:20:50.920
been scraped away and I need to
get some erosion control down, and seems

1096
01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:57.159
to be the best thing to do
is put down some rye grass in Bermuda

1097
01:20:57.239 --> 01:21:00.760
for a long term. But when
I called in last time, you told

1098
01:21:00.840 --> 01:21:03.079
me that it was what at the
one hundred degree plus weather and drought,

1099
01:21:03.199 --> 01:21:06.359
so you said, don't don't bother
trying, wait until the weather moderates.

1100
01:21:06.520 --> 01:21:10.439
Yeah, And I didn't know if
I'd missed the opportunity or if it's a

1101
01:21:10.479 --> 01:21:13.920
good time to plant both of those
seeds. I would plant the rye grass

1102
01:21:13.960 --> 01:21:16.319
now, hold off on the bermuda. We needed to warm up. Bermuda's

1103
01:21:16.399 --> 01:21:20.119
seed is knocking to do anything until
it warms up a lot more a lot,

1104
01:21:20.640 --> 01:21:24.760
and so in fact, you wouldn't
want it to sprout and then be

1105
01:21:24.880 --> 01:21:29.720
killed by hard freeze rye grass.
There's perennial types of rye, there's annual

1106
01:21:29.760 --> 01:21:33.279
types of rye. Usually a blend
of those is better. The annual rise

1107
01:21:33.359 --> 01:21:36.479
is going to give you a little
bit faster lawn, but doesn't develop the

1108
01:21:36.640 --> 01:21:41.039
as beautiful. I think of a
green color as the perennial does. So

1109
01:21:41.119 --> 01:21:44.960
we usually put those on in a
blend, but you could do either or

1110
01:21:45.199 --> 01:21:48.680
either way, and it those both
like cold weather, and so if you

1111
01:21:48.840 --> 01:21:53.920
even planning them in early October,
mid October, it's a little early,

1112
01:21:54.479 --> 01:21:59.119
and so you're in the prime time
right now for planting them. Well,

1113
01:21:59.119 --> 01:22:02.000
thank you very much. All right, have fun out there protecting that soil

1114
01:22:02.039 --> 01:22:05.880
cover. That's a that's a good
idea, A good idea, you know.

1115
01:22:05.960 --> 01:22:11.279
That's why. That's why we have
weeds. Uh. Nature abhors a

1116
01:22:11.359 --> 01:22:16.239
vacuum. And when you have unprotected
soil that can crust in a road away

1117
01:22:16.319 --> 01:22:20.319
with rainfall, you got to take
care of that soil. You don't want

1118
01:22:20.319 --> 01:22:25.319
your top washing away. So what
does nature do. It just throws weed

1119
01:22:25.399 --> 01:22:30.520
seeds all over the place and they
sprout when the sunlight hits the soil where

1120
01:22:30.640 --> 01:22:33.800
I like to say, whatever wherever
sunlight hits the soil. Nature plants a

1121
01:22:33.840 --> 01:22:39.520
weed. I know you don't like
weeds, but that is their purpose.

1122
01:22:39.560 --> 01:22:43.399
That's why they're there. Let's head
out now to Joe in Beach City.

1123
01:22:43.560 --> 01:22:50.239
Hello, Joe, good mornings,
Bitskip. The freeze took out a lot

1124
01:22:50.279 --> 01:22:58.560
of my Bermuda august team, and
in the meantime a rag weed has come

1125
01:22:58.640 --> 01:23:03.520
in and just overed it. I've
put out a pre emergent herbicide and I've

1126
01:23:03.720 --> 01:23:13.199
put out the winner fall stuff.
But I'm wondering should I go out there

1127
01:23:13.399 --> 01:23:17.359
and just go ahead and put out
a herbicide and try to kill that ragweed.

1128
01:23:17.399 --> 01:23:24.520
Now, yes, there's some other
plants that look like ragweed that are

1129
01:23:24.560 --> 01:23:30.960
perennial, and so if if we
knew that it was an annual, it's

1130
01:23:30.000 --> 01:23:33.359
going to phraeze with the first phrase, and you don't, there's no real

1131
01:23:33.399 --> 01:23:38.119
gain in trying to spray it.
If it's more of a perennial type weed,

1132
01:23:38.279 --> 01:23:41.840
then yes, absolutely, now is
a good time to do it.

1133
01:23:42.600 --> 01:23:46.039
And you would just need a broad
leaf post emergent weed control product to do

1134
01:23:46.079 --> 01:23:50.399
that, and there's a number of
them out there on the market. Okay,

1135
01:23:51.439 --> 01:23:57.079
well, that would that kill off
any graph that I might have growing

1136
01:23:57.359 --> 01:24:01.079
underneath it. No, No,
it wouldn't, especially this cool time of

1137
01:24:01.119 --> 01:24:04.960
the year. Those are designed to
kill broad leaf weeds, not grasses.

1138
01:24:06.239 --> 01:24:11.199
Okay. The other question is,
well, let's Saint Augustine come back.

1139
01:24:13.239 --> 01:24:15.119
Well, if it has green runners, it could come back. If the

1140
01:24:15.199 --> 01:24:19.800
runners are totally brown dead, ten
brown dead, then no, it's it

1141
01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:24.039
doesn't have an ability to come back
out of the ground like bermuda grass does.

1142
01:24:25.000 --> 01:24:28.880
Okay, then in the in the
spring, I plan on going in

1143
01:24:28.920 --> 01:24:34.520
there and putting bermuda down. Well, the bermuda takeover, yes, if

1144
01:24:34.600 --> 01:24:40.800
there's takeover from of course, if
the Saint Augustine's gone, then you're then

1145
01:24:40.960 --> 01:24:43.560
there's no problem. But if the
Saint Augustine is still alive, you're gonna

1146
01:24:43.560 --> 01:24:46.319
have a mix in your lawn.
And if you want a bermuda lawn,

1147
01:24:46.439 --> 01:24:50.640
I would make sure there's nothing growing
there when you plant your bermuda. That

1148
01:24:50.760 --> 01:24:57.840
way, you start with a clean
slate. Okay. Variety of bermuda,

1149
01:24:58.279 --> 01:25:01.560
there's a number of different ones that
that do well. If you're going to

1150
01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:04.680
do from seed, that's a limited
list. If you're going to do from

1151
01:25:05.039 --> 01:25:09.680
a sod, that's a much larger
list. Let me give you a quick

1152
01:25:09.720 --> 01:25:15.359
answer. If you go to Aggie
Turf Aggie Turf dot t A m U

1153
01:25:15.479 --> 01:25:20.279
Texas A and M University dot e
e U Aggie Turf dot TAMU dot e

1154
01:25:20.399 --> 01:25:25.239
du go to the bottom left when
you come to that page and there's a

1155
01:25:25.319 --> 01:25:29.159
Texas turf grasses. Click on that
the click on Bermuda. It will give

1156
01:25:29.199 --> 01:25:32.000
you long list of the varieties and
describe them and it'll tell you how to

1157
01:25:32.119 --> 01:25:35.840
establish and everything else. And that's
much better not I can do in a

1158
01:25:35.960 --> 01:25:41.159
few minutes, a few seconds on
a radio show. That's fine. I'm

1159
01:25:41.199 --> 01:25:43.840
just some where I know if how
where to look. All. I appreciate

1160
01:25:44.000 --> 01:25:46.119
Skip, you, bet, I
appreciate your call. Thank you very much

1161
01:25:46.960 --> 01:25:50.840
for that. You know, we're
hitting up another break, so we're gonna

1162
01:25:50.840 --> 01:25:53.880
go ahead and go away for a
minute. But when we come back,

1163
01:25:53.920 --> 01:25:56.159
if you'd like to get on the
board for a call, seven to one

1164
01:25:56.239 --> 01:26:01.920
three two one two k t r
H. That's an old salt, it's

1165
01:26:01.960 --> 01:26:05.479
been around a long time. You're
listening to garden Line. I'm your host,

1166
01:26:05.600 --> 01:26:09.880
Skip Richter, and our phone number
is seven to one three two one

1167
01:26:09.960 --> 01:26:15.079
two KTRH. Now it is fall, and it is time to get your

1168
01:26:15.159 --> 01:26:19.640
fall fertilization down if you have not
already. Microlife makes something called brown Patch

1169
01:26:19.800 --> 01:26:24.199
and that is a five to one
three. It's an excellent blend for fall

1170
01:26:24.239 --> 01:26:30.760
fertilization. Just a quality fertilizer,
gradually releases with microbial content. Is loaded

1171
01:26:30.760 --> 01:26:33.319
with microbes, by the way,
and just get it down if you haven't

1172
01:26:33.319 --> 01:26:38.239
fertilized already, do that. I
know we're getting toward the end of the

1173
01:26:38.239 --> 01:26:40.520
schedule, but you know, if
you miss something, go ahead and get

1174
01:26:40.560 --> 01:26:44.880
it down as soon as you can. Microlife fertilizer is a quality product.

1175
01:26:44.920 --> 01:26:48.560
They also have their bioinoculant. Bioinoculant
is just what it says. It's like,

1176
01:26:49.039 --> 01:26:53.720
you know you're going to make bread
with a yeast starter dough. Well,

1177
01:26:53.800 --> 01:26:56.319
it's the same kind of thing.
You put it out there. Loaded

1178
01:26:56.319 --> 01:27:00.439
with microbes helps inoculate this soil and
the plant surfaces too, as the rain

1179
01:27:00.479 --> 01:27:04.680
splashes it up onto the plants and
helps fight against a lot of the issues,

1180
01:27:04.720 --> 01:27:09.800
a lot of the diseases. But
anytime you're enhancing the microbe content of

1181
01:27:09.840 --> 01:27:12.720
your soul, you're doing well.
So where do you get microlife well?

1182
01:27:13.479 --> 01:27:15.399
Where do you get Where do you
shop? I mean, they're pretty much

1183
01:27:15.439 --> 01:27:23.319
everywhere. I personally would suggest you
consider Southwest Fertilizer. Southwest Fertilizers down on

1184
01:27:23.359 --> 01:27:26.960
the southwest side of town, as
the name implies, it's on the corner

1185
01:27:27.039 --> 01:27:30.720
of bisin Nutt and Runwick and they
have everything you need. The websites Southwest

1186
01:27:30.720 --> 01:27:35.640
Fertilizer dot com. But I go
in there because if I'm looking at what

1187
01:27:35.800 --> 01:27:39.560
are the new products that are on
the market, I'm gonna know. But

1188
01:27:39.720 --> 01:27:43.720
just go into that one stop because
they have everything. If they don't have

1189
01:27:43.760 --> 01:27:46.239
it, you don't need it.
And that includes herbicides and s exicides,

1190
01:27:46.239 --> 01:27:53.760
fungicides, fertilizers, it includes organic
and synthetic both. They've got every kind

1191
01:27:53.800 --> 01:27:58.880
of option and certainly cover all the
things we talk about here on garden Line.

1192
01:27:58.920 --> 01:28:02.319
While you're in there, asked to
see their kneeling benches, just just

1193
01:28:02.600 --> 01:28:08.479
folding kneeling bench. It'll change your
life. Best tool I've ever purchased in

1194
01:28:08.479 --> 01:28:11.560
the light, well, certainly the
last five years, my favorite tool.

1195
01:28:11.600 --> 01:28:15.159
Absolutely. Let's go to Manville and
we're going to talk to Adolf. Hello,

1196
01:28:15.239 --> 01:28:19.159
aidof you, sir, Good morning
morning. Yeah, I've been trying

1197
01:28:19.199 --> 01:28:26.880
to find some seed for Dial.
Yes, not that I'm going to use

1198
01:28:26.920 --> 01:28:30.039
it, but I just love the
plant itself. Oh my gosh. I

1199
01:28:30.079 --> 01:28:35.840
did find a couple of plants finally
at one of the box stores. Huh,

1200
01:28:36.399 --> 01:28:41.520
they're pretty expensive. So if I
was to find the seed, would

1201
01:28:41.520 --> 01:28:45.159
it be too late to Planet?
It's a little it's a little late for

1202
01:28:45.239 --> 01:28:49.880
Dial Dial. It doesn't like hot
hot weather, but it's not gonna take

1203
01:28:49.920 --> 01:28:56.680
the freezes. And you're you're probably
not gonna have good results planting those seeds

1204
01:28:56.760 --> 01:29:01.199
right now. Okay, yeah,
all right, so but but those seeds

1205
01:29:01.199 --> 01:29:03.479
are easy to find. You know, there are a lot a lot of

1206
01:29:03.600 --> 01:29:08.880
locations are going to have them.
Uh you're let's see, you're pretty far

1207
01:29:09.119 --> 01:29:12.720
south. So any garden center you're
going to shop that down there ought to

1208
01:29:12.720 --> 01:29:17.159
have some deal seed on it.
Well, I've been looking for for the

1209
01:29:17.239 --> 01:29:24.720
last three weeks. And for example, Yeah, and if I can mention

1210
01:29:24.840 --> 01:29:29.560
the names home Depot and Walmart,
they do have any seeds at all.

1211
01:29:29.840 --> 01:29:33.119
Okay, well, I wouldn't recommend
those at all. You need to go

1212
01:29:33.159 --> 01:29:36.840
to a full service mom and pop
that knows what they're talking about. You're

1213
01:29:36.880 --> 01:29:41.439
not too far away from enchanted forest. It's a little bit of a uh

1214
01:29:41.520 --> 01:29:43.800
you know, kind of have to
figure out how to get across the river

1215
01:29:44.439 --> 01:29:47.279
with the highways, but that that's
a fun place to go. I would

1216
01:29:47.319 --> 01:29:51.479
give them a call. I bet
they have deal seeds and I don't know,

1217
01:29:51.520 --> 01:29:56.239
they may even have a few plants
left over, but chenned Forest would

1218
01:29:56.279 --> 01:30:00.279
be the one that I would suggest
that you do. U. They are

1219
01:30:00.319 --> 01:30:04.920
pretty close to you, and I
think I think that they're going to probably

1220
01:30:05.000 --> 01:30:11.760
have that product in stock. Their
number is two eight one nine, three

1221
01:30:11.840 --> 01:30:18.199
seven four forty nine to eight one
seven where they locate. They are over

1222
01:30:18.520 --> 01:30:24.600
toward Richmond from you, so they're
due they're due west of you, but

1223
01:30:24.720 --> 01:30:27.439
you have to take a road that
will get you across the river. So

1224
01:30:27.479 --> 01:30:30.159
you have to go a little north
or a little south to get over to

1225
01:30:30.239 --> 01:30:31.640
on it. It sounds like you're
willing to drive a little bit for it,

1226
01:30:32.199 --> 01:30:38.640
but you may want to check that
out. Okay, Thank you appreciate

1227
01:30:38.720 --> 01:30:45.800
your call very much. You know, the it's always interesting seeing the different

1228
01:30:45.880 --> 01:30:48.199
kinds of questions that we get,
the different kinds of seeds and working plant

1229
01:30:48.279 --> 01:30:54.119
now and and uh, timing is
everything when it comes to plants. Every

1230
01:30:54.159 --> 01:30:58.600
plant has its opinion about what kind
of temperatures that it wants in order for

1231
01:30:58.680 --> 01:31:04.479
germination. So well, that's that's
pretty pretty clear. The if your landscape

1232
01:31:04.520 --> 01:31:10.680
is looking like it was just about
beat to death by this past heat and

1233
01:31:11.159 --> 01:31:15.520
drought in the summer, you got
to call Pierscapes and just maybe take some

1234
01:31:15.560 --> 01:31:17.000
pictures, go in and talk to
them, say what what can we do

1235
01:31:17.079 --> 01:31:21.399
here? What can you do?
They can design beds, they can recommend

1236
01:31:21.439 --> 01:31:26.720
plants. They can take care of
your irrigation system. That's the problem with

1237
01:31:26.760 --> 01:31:30.960
a lot of lawns is a poorly
designed irrigation system. They can do drainage

1238
01:31:30.960 --> 01:31:35.000
repairs. You know when it rains
at poors and then you got soggy spots

1239
01:31:35.039 --> 01:31:38.359
and most plants don't like that.
Well, they can fix that. Pier

1240
01:31:38.399 --> 01:31:42.279
Scapes can fix that. You can
go to pierscapes dot com and find out

1241
01:31:42.319 --> 01:31:44.760
more information. By the way,
look at some of the work they've done

1242
01:31:44.760 --> 01:31:48.319
online. Ark m a call two
eight one, three, seven oh fifty

1243
01:31:48.479 --> 01:31:53.479
sixty. Fall is an excellent time
to do sail prep, to do bed

1244
01:31:53.560 --> 01:31:58.239
design, to do plant establishment.
Best time in the world. So now

1245
01:31:58.239 --> 01:32:01.399
it would be a great time to
call the of peerscapes and see what they

1246
01:32:01.399 --> 01:32:05.119
can do for you. They'll be
happy to take a look at your pictures

1247
01:32:05.159 --> 01:32:09.640
and try to come up with something
that'll do well, maybe some better drought

1248
01:32:09.680 --> 01:32:14.359
resilience in the plant choices that we're
making. Let's go out to El Campbell

1249
01:32:14.399 --> 01:32:16.720
now and talk to Jim. Hey, Jim, Hey, how are you

1250
01:32:16.800 --> 01:32:19.560
doing today? Well, I'm doing
well. I'm doing very well. How

1251
01:32:19.600 --> 01:32:26.079
are you. I've got a new
house and it's got some very tall box

1252
01:32:26.119 --> 01:32:30.920
woods right in front of the front
porch. They're probably a good three feet

1253
01:32:30.079 --> 01:32:35.159
tall. How much can I whack
those back and expect them to come back

1254
01:32:35.239 --> 01:32:39.319
up? It's obscure in the front
of the house. Well, I mean,

1255
01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:42.359
you could cut them way back and
they're going to send out sprouts,

1256
01:32:42.359 --> 01:32:45.439
but it's gonna take a long time
to come out. I think I would

1257
01:32:45.960 --> 01:32:50.039
recommend you wait to do that whacking
back until the end of winter, because

1258
01:32:50.039 --> 01:32:54.239
that's when they're warming up and you
want new growths to come on out.

1259
01:32:54.239 --> 01:32:56.960
And you don't want it to come
out because we have a few warm days

1260
01:32:57.000 --> 01:33:00.359
and then get killed by a freeze
onto a foot or something like that.

1261
01:33:00.319 --> 01:33:04.319
Well, yeah, you could,
you know, if if if it were

1262
01:33:04.359 --> 01:33:09.000
me, I think I would try
to leave some green leaves on it rather

1263
01:33:09.000 --> 01:33:11.800
than take out all the green growth. And if you go to a foot

1264
01:33:11.800 --> 01:33:15.680
there's probably nothing green left, but
you can cut them back. I'm not

1265
01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:18.880
really worried about that, and I'll
probably put some planning. I want to

1266
01:33:18.880 --> 01:33:24.039
put some planing in there to decorate
the front instead of just as giant green

1267
01:33:24.079 --> 01:33:26.600
obscured hedge. I got you,
you know what I mean? Yeah,

1268
01:33:26.680 --> 01:33:29.960
I got you. That That makes
I'm not real worried about about the time

1269
01:33:30.079 --> 01:33:32.439
to make it green again. I
wouldn't really be concerned about that. Okay,

1270
01:33:32.640 --> 01:33:36.439
well, uh they should do okay
with that, you know, unless

1271
01:33:36.479 --> 01:33:41.880
the plants are weakened or some other
thing is going on there with them.

1272
01:33:41.880 --> 01:33:45.399
But you know there are more dwarf
types of box would too. If you

1273
01:33:45.439 --> 01:33:49.880
want that that that go ahead.
This would be a good time to plan

1274
01:33:49.960 --> 01:33:54.880
them. Absolutely. The best time
to plant them is in the late fall

1275
01:33:55.680 --> 01:33:58.600
and winter two or spring. I
mean, you can do that, but

1276
01:33:59.119 --> 01:34:01.119
you know, you want to get
their roots out in the bed so they're

1277
01:34:01.119 --> 01:34:05.279
resilient when drought and heat come.
And by planting now, you have the

1278
01:34:05.359 --> 01:34:09.560
most time for those routes to move
out and the roots will grow. It

1279
01:34:09.680 --> 01:34:14.479
during the wintertime a little slower,
but they'll grow. And where might I

1280
01:34:14.520 --> 01:34:17.399
find some of those box woods?
Now you're in El Campbell by the way.

1281
01:34:17.439 --> 01:34:21.560
I was just down there, see
yesterday, day before, day before

1282
01:34:21.600 --> 01:34:27.760
yesterday or yesterday did well? I
you know, I knew you were there,

1283
01:34:28.000 --> 01:34:30.560
but I didn't know where you lived, so I didn't stop. But

1284
01:34:31.000 --> 01:34:35.600
we were there at your nice little
events center. I just don't know.

1285
01:34:35.680 --> 01:34:41.479
I would call my County Agrolife Extension
office and talk to the YAG agent.

1286
01:34:41.800 --> 01:34:45.560
He's going to be able to tell
you where the nearest nurseries that would be

1287
01:34:45.640 --> 01:34:49.039
considered a good nursery would be found. Okay, if you want to drive

1288
01:34:49.079 --> 01:34:53.640
over to Houston, I can tell
you something over here. Oh I have

1289
01:34:53.720 --> 01:34:56.720
no problem driving into Houston at all. Okay, I was thinking, what

1290
01:34:56.840 --> 01:35:00.720
was it enchanted forest in Richmond.
Yeah. In fact, if you're if

1291
01:35:00.720 --> 01:35:04.520
you're willing to do that, we
got enchanted gardens and enchanted forest both there

1292
01:35:04.520 --> 01:35:09.079
in the Richmond area. And if
you're willing to make the little drive,

1293
01:35:09.159 --> 01:35:13.760
then hey, come on up.
They will definitely have a good supply of

1294
01:35:13.840 --> 01:35:17.079
good quality plants. Yeah. I'm
not bashful about driving into Houston. Well,

1295
01:35:17.079 --> 01:35:20.680
plus you get to see a real
cool nursery, and that's that.

1296
01:35:20.760 --> 01:35:28.159
They are very cool nurseries, all
right, Jim, Hey, yes,

1297
01:35:28.399 --> 01:35:33.159
the I know enchanted gardens is let
me get enchanted forest here. I'm sorry,

1298
01:35:33.159 --> 01:35:36.079
I should have this in the top
of my head. But before I

1299
01:35:36.199 --> 01:35:40.640
before I tell you, I want
to make sure that I'm telling you the

1300
01:35:40.800 --> 01:35:46.600
truth here. Come on, well, trying to find their hours on the

1301
01:35:46.800 --> 01:35:50.880
webs all right, I tell you
what I'm going to find it and I'll

1302
01:35:50.920 --> 01:35:54.079
just say it on the air here
in just a minute. I should know

1303
01:35:54.119 --> 01:35:58.399
that. Thank you, Jim,
I appreciate you. Appreciate the call.

1304
01:35:58.760 --> 01:36:03.640
Our phone number is seven one three
two one two fifty eight seventy four.

1305
01:36:03.880 --> 01:36:11.640
Seven to one three two one two
fifty eight seventy four. Enchended Forest,

1306
01:36:11.680 --> 01:36:15.560
by the way, has a really
cool new website. I don't know if

1307
01:36:15.600 --> 01:36:18.239
you've if you've seen it or not, but oh my gosh, it is.

1308
01:36:18.399 --> 01:36:24.399
It is outstanding and I'm kind of
learning to find my way around around

1309
01:36:24.479 --> 01:36:29.439
the website itself. Real cool stuff. You need to go check that out,

1310
01:36:29.479 --> 01:36:32.680
by the way, really really nice, you know, plants for all

1311
01:36:32.720 --> 01:36:40.199
seasons up on the Tambail Parkway two
forty nine. They've been around for a

1312
01:36:40.199 --> 01:36:45.920
long time since the Since nineteen seventy
three, the Flowery family has been growing

1313
01:36:45.680 --> 01:36:51.319
or selling and advising gardeners on the
best plants in the world. And they

1314
01:36:51.720 --> 01:36:58.239
have an amazing supply. By the
way, if you haven't purchased your Thanksgiving

1315
01:36:58.279 --> 01:37:00.239
and Christmas cactus, you need to
go do that. And they've got them

1316
01:37:00.239 --> 01:37:03.800
on stock there all the color for
your landscape beds. You're going to find

1317
01:37:04.000 --> 01:37:08.159
vegetables, shrubs, and trees.
And we're just talking about the boxwoods.

1318
01:37:08.159 --> 01:37:11.760
Oh yeah, they got plenty of
those. But you know, the main

1319
01:37:12.039 --> 01:37:14.840
reason to go there, and I
know all those things are a reason to

1320
01:37:14.880 --> 01:37:16.960
go, it's it's the people that
work there. It's people that own it.

1321
01:37:17.159 --> 01:37:19.840
They know their stuff. You bring
them a plant, sample them,

1322
01:37:19.880 --> 01:37:23.960
bring them a question in try to
stump them. You're not going to do

1323
01:37:24.039 --> 01:37:29.119
it. They are professionals quality advice
and they will not steer you wrong,

1324
01:37:29.239 --> 01:37:33.279
and that is very important when you're
purchasing plants. We want to have success

1325
01:37:33.359 --> 01:37:36.720
with our plants. We want someone
to sell us a plant that grows in

1326
01:37:36.840 --> 01:37:40.880
the in the area. We want
us to tell us we want them to

1327
01:37:40.880 --> 01:37:45.520
tell us how to care for those
plants so we have success. Go you'll

1328
01:37:45.560 --> 01:37:50.800
find out what I'm talking about.
The super super knowledgeable folks right there on

1329
01:37:51.000 --> 01:37:56.800
hand. And you just don't you
just don't find a more inviting, beautiful

1330
01:37:56.840 --> 01:38:00.560
place. You know. The location
is on to forty nine, but it's

1331
01:38:00.640 --> 01:38:03.960
just north of where Luetta Road comes
in. Now you can go to the

1332
01:38:03.960 --> 01:38:11.920
website planterrellseeasons dot com or the phone
number two eight one three seven six sixteen

1333
01:38:12.319 --> 01:38:15.319
forty six. Check it out.
You know why we like to brag about

1334
01:38:15.479 --> 01:38:18.640
them. We're going to take a
break here. Our number is seven one

1335
01:38:18.720 --> 01:38:25.000
three two one two fifty eight seventy
four, and Chris and Dickinson you will

1336
01:38:25.039 --> 01:38:30.560
be the first up when we come
back. Remember the days when you could

1337
01:38:30.560 --> 01:38:33.119
harmonize to the songs on the radio. Boy, that's a good one.

1338
01:38:33.439 --> 01:38:36.640
If you are a singer in the
shower, that is a great one too.

1339
01:38:36.760 --> 01:38:42.159
For that love coda chrome. Oh
my. You know. Ace hardware

1340
01:38:42.199 --> 01:38:45.760
stores are all over town. There's
now forty of them. The newest stores

1341
01:38:45.800 --> 01:38:49.560
are in Orange and Bay City.
The new locations in the Greater Houston area

1342
01:38:50.039 --> 01:38:55.880
and they carry everything you need.
They absolutely do. They certainly have all

1343
01:38:55.880 --> 01:38:59.720
the fertilizers that we talk about right
now, you need to think about ACE

1344
01:38:59.760 --> 01:39:03.279
as a place for your Christmas lighting
and decoration needs. That's both inside the

1345
01:39:03.319 --> 01:39:08.560
house and outside the house. So
for example, you want custom lights on

1346
01:39:08.640 --> 01:39:12.920
the outside of the house, they'll
make custom lights by the foot or on

1347
01:39:12.960 --> 01:39:15.960
the inside of the house by the
custom lights. They have wreaths and garlands.

1348
01:39:15.960 --> 01:39:19.560
Do you need to decorate the mantle
or a Christmas tree or whatever use

1349
01:39:19.640 --> 01:39:24.439
you have, They've got plenty for
it. A new wreath for the door,

1350
01:39:24.520 --> 01:39:28.720
that'd be another good one. But
remember anything for your yard is going

1351
01:39:28.760 --> 01:39:31.800
to be there at ACE. Talking
about fall and if you haven't fertilized,

1352
01:39:31.840 --> 01:39:35.279
you need to get that done.
And a good example of that would be

1353
01:39:35.479 --> 01:39:40.840
Nitrovoss's three step which you can find
at every ACE hardware store. Now.

1354
01:39:40.920 --> 01:39:45.359
The three steps are the fall fertilizer. If you haven't fertilized yet, go

1355
01:39:45.359 --> 01:39:48.199
ahead and do that. Do it
as soon as possible, though the earlier

1356
01:39:48.279 --> 01:39:53.079
you do it, the better off
your grass will be. And it is

1357
01:39:53.319 --> 01:39:57.680
designed for our soils, for our
climate, to make the grass go into

1358
01:39:57.720 --> 01:40:00.199
winter as strong as possible. They
also have the barricade. That's step two.

1359
01:40:00.479 --> 01:40:05.279
Now, the barricade is a pre
emergent herbicide to prevent grass and broad

1360
01:40:05.359 --> 01:40:10.760
leaf weeds from germinating in your lawn. Now, you got to get it

1361
01:40:10.800 --> 01:40:13.439
down, you gotta water it in. And the sooner you do it the

1362
01:40:13.479 --> 01:40:15.960
better, because once the weeds are
up and growing, you don't get the

1363
01:40:16.039 --> 01:40:20.279
effect of the pre emergent that you
want to get. Finally, nitrofoss turf

1364
01:40:20.399 --> 01:40:27.119
eagle fungicide soaks into the grass tissues
and helps prevent diseases like brown patch and

1365
01:40:27.560 --> 01:40:30.399
take all root rot. As a
matter of fact, so where do you

1366
01:40:30.439 --> 01:40:32.239
get these kinds of products? Well, you can get them. I've just

1367
01:40:32.279 --> 01:40:35.399
talked about plants for all seasons.
I'm talking about in Channey Garden and Richmond.

1368
01:40:35.399 --> 01:40:40.239
I'm talking about Lake Hardware and Angleton. You're going to find these at

1369
01:40:40.279 --> 01:40:45.319
all your ace hardwares. The nitroposs
three step is just a good cover all

1370
01:40:45.359 --> 01:40:50.279
the issues of fall product. I
want to head out to Dickinson and I

1371
01:40:50.359 --> 01:40:54.520
want to talk to Chris. There
we go, Chris, how are you

1372
01:40:54.520 --> 01:40:59.880
doing this morning? There are you? We just move into a new property.

1373
01:41:00.000 --> 01:41:02.319
I have a fig tree that we've
had in a large pot for about

1374
01:41:02.359 --> 01:41:05.920
three years. And I'm wondering if
it's okay to plant that in the ground

1375
01:41:05.960 --> 01:41:11.920
now or should I wait until Spain? I would wait. Figs are margin

1376
01:41:12.119 --> 01:41:15.279
I must say, marginally hardy,
meaning that they can suffer coal damage here

1377
01:41:15.600 --> 01:41:19.520
and so you know, a brand
new plant just set out there. I

1378
01:41:19.560 --> 01:41:23.880
would wait. Let's let's let the
weather warm up and all the frosts go

1379
01:41:23.960 --> 01:41:27.119
away, and then get it in
the ground and it'll hit the ground running.

1380
01:41:27.399 --> 01:41:30.520
Figs are so willing to grow roots. I have before cut off a

1381
01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:35.920
fig branch in the winter, stuck
it in the ground up against the house,

1382
01:41:36.000 --> 01:41:39.600
behind a shrub, kind of just
stuck it in the ground, put

1383
01:41:39.640 --> 01:41:43.960
a quart mason jar over the top
of it, like a little mini greenhouse,

1384
01:41:44.000 --> 01:41:47.920
but out of the sunlight, and
that little bogger rooted it started growing.

1385
01:41:47.960 --> 01:41:55.840
Yeah, figs are easy, easy
to get them established. Thanks for

1386
01:41:55.880 --> 01:41:59.520
the call. I appreciate that,
Chris. Yeah, boy, figs Figs

1387
01:41:59.520 --> 01:42:05.800
are are easy. Easy as mite
is designed to provide the trace minerals that

1388
01:42:05.840 --> 01:42:11.079
I say, it's designed. It
wasn't created, it was mine. It

1389
01:42:11.119 --> 01:42:13.680
comes out of hole in the ground. Yep, that's right. They mine

1390
01:42:13.720 --> 01:42:16.119
it out of the ground. So
it's a very natural product, and they

1391
01:42:16.359 --> 01:42:21.520
grind it into various sizes of particles
just to fit whatever use you're using for

1392
01:42:21.560 --> 01:42:25.720
it. And we put it down
on our lawns because we want to make

1393
01:42:25.760 --> 01:42:30.960
sure we have plenty of micro nutrients
there in the lawn, and that you

1394
01:42:30.960 --> 01:42:33.359
should do that once a year.
It will make sure. Unless you just

1395
01:42:33.399 --> 01:42:39.600
have a really bad micronutrient level,
you may have to do it twice,

1396
01:42:39.840 --> 01:42:43.079
but in general that's enough to get
it done. I use it in my

1397
01:42:43.199 --> 01:42:46.880
vegetable garden because it provides nutrients and
makes the things that I am growing to

1398
01:42:46.960 --> 01:42:51.319
eat even more nutritious. You want
to make sure that they have everything that

1399
01:42:51.359 --> 01:42:55.000
they need. Now, you just
need a little bit of it. It's

1400
01:42:55.039 --> 01:42:59.119
a trace mineral, so a forty
four pound bag will cover sixy twelve thousand

1401
01:42:59.159 --> 01:43:03.119
square feet. Go to Azamite Texas
dot com. There you're going to find

1402
01:43:03.159 --> 01:43:10.720
out a lot more information that will
help you as you try to keep your

1403
01:43:10.800 --> 01:43:13.920
lawn as healthy as you can,
as as you try to make your garden

1404
01:43:14.359 --> 01:43:17.239
as healthy as you can as well. Let's go out to Magnolia now and

1405
01:43:17.279 --> 01:43:21.039
we're going to talk to Victor.
Hello, Victor, thank skip, how's

1406
01:43:21.079 --> 01:43:25.600
it going. I'm doing well.
What's up, hey man? Well,

1407
01:43:25.640 --> 01:43:30.760
I got a couple of things for
you. Just recently built my first enclosed,

1408
01:43:30.920 --> 01:43:35.920
fenced thirty forty garden with the raised
beds with the help of Beverly out

1409
01:43:35.960 --> 01:43:41.760
at arburgate her advice. So the
question I have is, I've got the

1410
01:43:41.840 --> 01:43:47.000
raised beds around the interior, interior, the perimeter. It's circumforts. I've

1411
01:43:47.239 --> 01:43:51.840
planted grapes that I bought from Beverly
and there may be a foot and a

1412
01:43:51.840 --> 01:43:56.399
half two foot talls. My first
question is how tall do I let them

1413
01:43:56.520 --> 01:44:00.079
grow to where I start making them
go? And right? Does that make

1414
01:44:00.119 --> 01:44:04.720
sense? Yeah? What I would
do is I would drive either plant post

1415
01:44:04.760 --> 01:44:10.640
in the ground or drive a iron
post into the ground beside the grape.

1416
01:44:10.720 --> 01:44:13.920
And what you're going to do is
it's going to grow all these vines out

1417
01:44:13.920 --> 01:44:16.359
in all directions. You pick one
the best one if in your opinion,

1418
01:44:16.439 --> 01:44:20.319
put it on the steak and loosely
tie it to the steak. Then it

1419
01:44:20.359 --> 01:44:25.439
gets to a certain level, you're
going to top it and start producing the

1420
01:44:25.479 --> 01:44:30.319
side branches that we're talking about.
And there's information on the Aggi Horticulture website

1421
01:44:30.319 --> 01:44:34.159
about how to train grapes and that
would be one option for you. Of

1422
01:44:34.159 --> 01:44:38.279
course, you can always do a
grape arbor as well. But it sounds

1423
01:44:38.359 --> 01:44:40.239
like you're off to a good start. Did you get some of the arbor

1424
01:44:40.279 --> 01:44:43.920
gate one, two, three,
completely easy system? Oh? Completely yes?

1425
01:44:44.000 --> 01:44:45.760
Oh yeah, And then Calvin,
you're in addition to that. But

1426
01:44:46.159 --> 01:44:49.560
so let me ask you, because
this is fince. It's seven foot fence

1427
01:44:51.199 --> 01:44:55.960
three foot or two feet off the
ground is wood treated wood. And this

1428
01:44:57.119 --> 01:45:01.199
two by four fence two four wire
fence going up. Would I need a

1429
01:45:01.319 --> 01:45:05.000
post if I got the fence or
no? No, you could tie it

1430
01:45:05.039 --> 01:45:10.159
to the fence. You would just
however you want to rig something to attach

1431
01:45:10.199 --> 01:45:13.720
it. You just want to,
you know, keep that vine going vertical

1432
01:45:14.600 --> 01:45:18.000
and have it secure so that a
wind or storm whatever, grapes have to

1433
01:45:18.039 --> 01:45:21.479
be supported. You know, in
nature they would just trail along the ground

1434
01:45:21.760 --> 01:45:28.720
basically unless they could grab onto something
to climb. But yeah, that would

1435
01:45:28.800 --> 01:45:30.520
would need the support, but the
fence could do that. The only negative

1436
01:45:30.520 --> 01:45:34.439
of that is if you ever had
to replace the fence, you need to

1437
01:45:34.479 --> 01:45:38.640
then probably add that post to support
it until you got the new one in.

1438
01:45:39.920 --> 01:45:43.039
Gotcha, And then the next question, again, this is my first

1439
01:45:43.079 --> 01:45:47.680
time to do a closed garden.
I got burnt out on the rabbits and

1440
01:45:47.720 --> 01:45:53.560
DearS, deleting everything I had.
I did the raised beds. I did

1441
01:45:53.600 --> 01:45:56.479
some garlic, but I just bought
the garlic at the grocery stores. Read

1442
01:45:56.520 --> 01:46:00.119
online you can do that. And
it broke them up and took the skins

1443
01:46:00.159 --> 01:46:05.640
back and planted them six inches apart, two inches down with the heel down.

1444
01:46:06.319 --> 01:46:10.920
I've got a forty that I've planted. I've got two that popped up.

1445
01:46:11.239 --> 01:46:15.319
Nothing else is happening. What did
I do wrong? I don't know.

1446
01:46:15.319 --> 01:46:19.359
The only thing I can think of
is the garlic clove has a basal

1447
01:46:19.439 --> 01:46:24.760
plate from which the roots come,
and sometimes when you break a clove off,

1448
01:46:24.840 --> 01:46:27.720
you don't get a piece of that
plate, and it has to have

1449
01:46:27.800 --> 01:46:30.439
that, and that may have been
what happened. That's the only thing I

1450
01:46:30.439 --> 01:46:33.039
can think of. Yeah, I
just couldn't find them anywhere else. I

1451
01:46:33.079 --> 01:46:36.039
just want the grocery store and bought
them. Okay, Well again, two

1452
01:46:36.079 --> 01:46:39.840
of them has popped up, look
real strong, all right. The other

1453
01:46:39.880 --> 01:46:42.520
ones haven't done anything. But it's
only been three weeks, so I just

1454
01:46:42.680 --> 01:46:45.000
didn't know if I did something wrong. Yeah, Well, that's what I

1455
01:46:45.079 --> 01:46:48.760
what I think about that. Hey, I'm gonna have to run take a

1456
01:46:49.399 --> 01:46:54.520
little break here seven to one three
two one two k t r H to

1457
01:46:54.520 --> 01:46:57.760
get on the board and Lily in
Spring you'll be first when we come back.

1458
01:46:59.720 --> 01:47:01.479
Well, welcome back to garden Line. We are looking forward to talking

1459
01:47:01.520 --> 01:47:05.039
to you about gardening related items.
While to go, someone asked me about

1460
01:47:05.199 --> 01:47:09.520
Enchanted Forest and their hours, and
I wanted to come back to that.

1461
01:47:10.239 --> 01:47:15.039
They are open Monday to Thursday eight
to five and Monday to Friday actually eight

1462
01:47:15.079 --> 01:47:18.760
to five, Saturday eight to five, and Sunday ten am to four pm.

1463
01:47:18.800 --> 01:47:24.199
That's Enchanted Forest out there in Richmond. We are now going to go

1464
01:47:24.279 --> 01:47:30.159
talk to Lily in Spring. Hello
Lily, Hello, Hi, good morning.

1465
01:47:30.680 --> 01:47:34.600
I have a question. I have
a Chaffleer indoor schafflera that's been in

1466
01:47:34.640 --> 01:47:40.159
my inside for more than six years. It's quite big. It's a little

1467
01:47:40.159 --> 01:47:44.800
over five feet tall, and I
had no problems with it whatsoever. Ever,

1468
01:47:45.560 --> 01:47:48.399
and just recently, about a month
and a half ago, I guess

1469
01:47:49.079 --> 01:47:54.760
I started noticing the leaves were kind
of getting translucent a little bit. So

1470
01:47:54.960 --> 01:48:01.920
I checked it out and I noticed
that underneath the leaves it was getting like

1471
01:48:01.960 --> 01:48:05.520
a rash under some of the leaves, not all of them, and I

1472
01:48:05.520 --> 01:48:09.039
could feel it, and I thought, what in the world is that.

1473
01:48:09.359 --> 01:48:11.840
The only thing I could think of
was this some kind of an insect in

1474
01:48:11.880 --> 01:48:15.520
between the leaves, in the leaves, I guess, And I thought,

1475
01:48:15.600 --> 01:48:18.560
what is going on? What is
all this? And a lot of the

1476
01:48:18.640 --> 01:48:23.159
leaves are starting to get it.
So I decided to take it outside.

1477
01:48:23.199 --> 01:48:26.399
It had never been outside in quite
quite a while, so I hosed it

1478
01:48:26.439 --> 01:48:31.159
down real good, and then I
sprayed it with liquid seven on the leaves

1479
01:48:31.279 --> 01:48:35.399
underneath and pretty much all over.
And I waited a while, and I

1480
01:48:35.399 --> 01:48:39.399
thought, well, maybe this will
take care of it. Well, I

1481
01:48:39.439 --> 01:48:43.039
waited a few hours and went back
and looked at it. It didn't change

1482
01:48:43.079 --> 01:48:45.439
anything, but I thought, well, it's probably going to take some time.

1483
01:48:45.479 --> 01:48:48.640
But nothing happened. Okay, Lily, I don't think it's an insect.

1484
01:48:48.800 --> 01:48:50.880
But when we get through with the
call here in just a bit,

1485
01:48:51.000 --> 01:48:57.279
I want you to hold on and
Josh will give you an email address,

1486
01:48:57.399 --> 01:49:00.760
and if you will turn those leaves
over and as close as you can,

1487
01:49:00.800 --> 01:49:03.680
take a picture, take a picture, make sure it is in sharp focus,

1488
01:49:03.760 --> 01:49:06.520
and email it to me. I'll
look at it. What I think

1489
01:49:06.560 --> 01:49:12.399
you're dealing with is something called a
edema. And when plants stay too wet,

1490
01:49:12.800 --> 01:49:16.800
the little stoemates under the leaves will
start to get quirky. They they

1491
01:49:16.840 --> 01:49:21.079
swell up. And and when when
you're looking at the leaf it's like you

1492
01:49:21.159 --> 01:49:27.279
were describing on there, I think
it's go ahead. It's like it's like

1493
01:49:27.359 --> 01:49:31.800
a like a rash. They're real
close together. Okay, may so,

1494
01:49:31.960 --> 01:49:35.199
Okay, h Lily, that's that's
fine. Let me look at a picture

1495
01:49:35.239 --> 01:49:38.640
of it, because that's the way
I'm going to know for sure. And

1496
01:49:39.039 --> 01:49:41.640
you know I've heard your description.
But let's take a look at it.

1497
01:49:42.319 --> 01:49:45.239
One other thing, I also sprayed
it with rain. I thought this is

1498
01:49:45.279 --> 01:49:48.119
going to kill it for sure.
Okay, I want you, I want

1499
01:49:48.159 --> 01:49:54.840
you to put down the pesticides and
back away and don't spray with anything else.

1500
01:49:55.640 --> 01:49:58.920
Feel the soil and if it is
a little wet, a little soggy,

1501
01:49:59.600 --> 01:50:02.399
you're robby water in too much,
and so that would be the one

1502
01:50:02.399 --> 01:50:05.159
thing you can do now. But
let's look at the pictures and we'll take

1503
01:50:05.199 --> 01:50:11.479
it from there. Thank you very
much. I appreciate the call. Yeah,

1504
01:50:11.600 --> 01:50:15.560
you know, this is wildbird season, isn't it. I mean,

1505
01:50:15.039 --> 01:50:18.199
don't you like to see birds out
at the feeders during the cool season.

1506
01:50:18.560 --> 01:50:21.319
Well, as we're moving into these
months, the days are getting shorter,

1507
01:50:21.399 --> 01:50:26.720
the nights longer. There's less daytime
hours for birds to feed, to find

1508
01:50:26.760 --> 01:50:30.600
food and whatnot. Well, Wabirds
Unlimited has created a winter super blend.

1509
01:50:30.760 --> 01:50:35.359
It's packed with fat and protein.
You know, the animals need to have

1510
01:50:35.439 --> 01:50:39.880
a store of fat in protein to
make it through the winter when times are

1511
01:50:39.880 --> 01:50:43.960
a little bit leaner for them,
and Warbird's Unlimited Winter super Blend will do

1512
01:50:44.119 --> 01:50:47.279
just that. If you want,
you can leave out your humming bird feeder.

1513
01:50:47.439 --> 01:50:51.479
I'd leave one, and I think
you may find occasionally a rufous hummingbird

1514
01:50:51.520 --> 01:50:55.960
coming through. Some of those make
their home here in the winter time.

1515
01:50:56.399 --> 01:51:00.800
Always make sure you're giving plenty of
water to your birds. They always need

1516
01:51:00.840 --> 01:51:03.479
a source of water. I don't
care what time of the year it is.

1517
01:51:03.520 --> 01:51:06.800
They have to drink every day,
So make sure and provide that for

1518
01:51:06.880 --> 01:51:14.800
them now. Wilbird's Unlimited. The
website is WBU dot com forward slash Houston.

1519
01:51:15.159 --> 01:51:16.920
When you do that, you're going
to see all seven stores all across

1520
01:51:17.000 --> 01:51:20.479
Houston and you can click on the
one that's nearest you and get a lot

1521
01:51:20.520 --> 01:51:26.880
more information from them. We're going
to now head to Columbus and talk to

1522
01:51:26.960 --> 01:51:31.760
Susie. Hello, Susie, Hi. Yes, my question is we have

1523
01:51:31.880 --> 01:51:39.640
a lot of sticker birds this year. They're just so prolific and the dogs

1524
01:51:39.680 --> 01:51:42.800
get them in their fur, and
you know, you can't walk out there

1525
01:51:42.840 --> 01:51:45.119
without getting them all over your shoes. Okay, there's a lot of kinds

1526
01:51:45.159 --> 01:51:50.119
of burr weeds. There's grass burr, which is a grass plant that has

1527
01:51:50.159 --> 01:51:57.680
the big, long thorns on the
seed pods or seedheads. Is that what

1528
01:51:57.680 --> 01:52:02.319
you're talking about. They're not the
big ones, they're the little ones.

1529
01:52:02.359 --> 01:52:10.079
They're very sharp, and I call
them sticker birds that I've heard people call

1530
01:52:10.119 --> 01:52:14.520
them grassppers. They grow in the
sand mostly. That's that sounds like that

1531
01:52:14.960 --> 01:52:18.359
sounds like the technical or the proper
name would be sand burr or grasspber.

1532
01:52:19.680 --> 01:52:26.319
And those particular ones are going to
die when it's cold in the winter,

1533
01:52:27.279 --> 01:52:30.359
and then they will resprout as it
warms up in the spring, and so

1534
01:52:30.479 --> 01:52:34.239
you're going to want to use a
pre emergent herbicide, like a barricade type

1535
01:52:34.239 --> 01:52:41.039
product that you put down I would
probably put it down sometime in early March

1536
01:52:42.079 --> 01:52:45.760
in your area because the grasspers sprout
a little bit later than some other weeds,

1537
01:52:46.199 --> 01:52:48.960
and that will prevent them from coming
up. You have to water it

1538
01:52:48.960 --> 01:52:53.720
in with a half inch of water
and they'll and it'll do just fine.

1539
01:52:54.279 --> 01:52:57.439
But in the meantime, if you've
got a whole bunch and you want a

1540
01:52:57.520 --> 01:52:59.960
quick way to deal with it,
if you got a piece of carpet,

1541
01:53:00.560 --> 01:53:03.319
find an old piece of carpeting,
turn it where and drag it across the

1542
01:53:03.399 --> 01:53:06.439
lawn. Maybe puts a little bit
of a weight on it, you know,

1543
01:53:06.560 --> 01:53:09.880
not real heavy, but just something
to hold it down to the ground.

1544
01:53:10.199 --> 01:53:13.640
Drag that across the lawn and you
get a lot of grassbur seeds in

1545
01:53:13.720 --> 01:53:15.960
that carpet. And then okay,
then you throw it away. All right,

1546
01:53:16.079 --> 01:53:18.760
okay, and so do you do? You have to apply this pre

1547
01:53:18.840 --> 01:53:25.560
emergent like quarterly. Uh, well
the world for the grasspurs You're going to

1548
01:53:25.600 --> 01:53:29.520
do it in early March, and
then I would do it again about sixteen

1549
01:53:29.560 --> 01:53:33.119
to ninety days later, and that
will cover your grassbur sprouting season pretty well.

1550
01:53:33.319 --> 01:53:38.439
All right. Hey, what's it
called again? Uh? Barricade by

1551
01:53:38.520 --> 01:53:42.560
nitrofosst Okay, thank you, you
bet, thank you for the call.

1552
01:53:43.520 --> 01:53:45.079
Hey, do you have a little
piece of property and have been thinking about

1553
01:53:45.079 --> 01:53:48.359
getting a tractor. Well, there's
a deal going on that you do not

1554
01:53:48.600 --> 01:53:54.319
need to mess and that is the
pick, click and go Orange deal from

1555
01:53:54.359 --> 01:53:58.720
Lansdown Moody and Caboda Now Lansdown Moody. That is a Houston company. They've

1556
01:53:58.720 --> 01:54:01.720
been here since nineteen thirty. They
are hometown through and through. I mean

1557
01:54:01.760 --> 01:54:05.520
there's what nine locations along the Texas
golf coast. You can go to their

1558
01:54:05.560 --> 01:54:11.840
website lmtractor dot com and find out
more. But here's the deal. The

1559
01:54:12.159 --> 01:54:16.359
L twenty five oh two is the
Kubota Workhorse hydrostatic transmission. It is a

1560
01:54:16.399 --> 01:54:21.600
sweet ride. Then you go to
tractor package dot com and click on the

1561
01:54:21.640 --> 01:54:25.640
things you want to add to your
tractor. Do you need a mower,

1562
01:54:25.760 --> 01:54:28.720
rotary cutter? Do you need a
front endloader, a postal digger, a

1563
01:54:28.760 --> 01:54:31.600
box blade If you're going to be
hauling Moltz and sacks of feed and things

1564
01:54:31.680 --> 01:54:38.279
like that, that front endloader is
the one you really need to have.

1565
01:54:38.359 --> 01:54:42.039
And then finally go Orange with the
greatest finance plan. You're going to find.

1566
01:54:42.399 --> 01:54:45.520
Here's the deal, no money down, no interest from up to eighty

1567
01:54:45.720 --> 01:54:50.399
four months seven years now. You
can't beat that. Lansdown Moody our local

1568
01:54:50.479 --> 01:54:57.439
Houston company lmtractor dot com. We're
going to head now out to Sour Lake.

1569
01:54:57.880 --> 01:55:04.119
Hello Mary morning. I have two
questions. I have a greenhouse that

1570
01:55:04.279 --> 01:55:10.560
is twelve by twenty and last year
I lost basically everything I put in the

1571
01:55:10.600 --> 01:55:15.640
greenhouse, and I know it was
a weird winter season, but I'm wondering

1572
01:55:16.439 --> 01:55:20.520
if you could suggest a heater,
some type of heater that I should put

1573
01:55:20.520 --> 01:55:25.039
in there. I do have power, so I can plug it in.

1574
01:55:25.439 --> 01:55:30.119
I do not have gas, well
any any kind of a little space heater

1575
01:55:30.239 --> 01:55:32.439
if you can keep it out of
the wet wet conditions, will do it.

1576
01:55:32.880 --> 01:55:36.600
I would have it connected to some
type of a thermostat that turns the

1577
01:55:36.640 --> 01:55:42.000
power on and off, just so
you can moderate how warm it gets in

1578
01:55:42.039 --> 01:55:45.800
there, but you're not going to
have to run it very high. Depending

1579
01:55:45.800 --> 01:55:47.279
on the size of the heater and
the size of thermostat, you know,

1580
01:55:47.319 --> 01:55:51.359
there's gonna be some variation there,
but that is probably what I would do

1581
01:55:53.000 --> 01:55:57.760
in a standard type greenhouse. I'm
running against our end of the end of

1582
01:55:57.800 --> 01:56:00.039
the hour, break here. If
you'd like to continue this discussion, let's

1583
01:56:00.079 --> 01:56:03.399
do so. Uh. You know, at the beginning of the next hour,

1584
01:56:03.439 --> 01:56:06.199
I'll put you on hold and if
you want to go ahead and go

1585
01:56:06.279 --> 01:56:12.039
you you can hang up and do
that. All right, there you go

1586
01:56:12.399 --> 01:56:15.640
seven one three two one two k
T r H. That is our phone

1587
01:56:15.680 --> 01:56:21.079
number two day. Here here is
your outdoor exciting venture for the day,

1588
01:56:21.479 --> 01:56:28.199
Ciena Maltz. I'll be there giving
away a lot of quality products from Microlife

1589
01:56:28.199 --> 01:56:31.000
and Heirloom Soils and Nelson Plant for
twenty six people. The first twenty six

1590
01:56:31.079 --> 01:56:38.960
to show up at my table with
a question, we'll get one supply of

1591
01:56:38.960 --> 01:56:43.000
one of those quality products, one
jar, one small bag. Whatever it

1592
01:56:43.119 --> 01:56:46.640
is that there that we have at
that moment. Now, with the day

1593
01:56:46.680 --> 01:56:49.760
in the high seventies, what a
great day to get out there. And

1594
01:56:49.840 --> 01:56:54.720
you know when you're when you're out
at this place, you're going to find

1595
01:56:55.359 --> 01:57:00.439
that it just it's just a party
atmosphere, food trucks and all kinds of

1596
01:57:00.439 --> 01:57:03.359
things going on. I hope you
can make it. Katie r. H.

1597
01:57:03.479 --> 01:57:08.239
Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any
of the products or services advertised on

1598
01:57:08.279 --> 01:57:14.039
this program. Welcome to Katie r. H Garden Line with scip Rictor.

1599
01:57:14.159 --> 01:57:36.640
It's crazy trim. Just watch him
as many things to suit cleans. Good

1600
01:57:36.760 --> 01:57:43.439
Saturday morning on the most beautiful day
you have seen in a long long time.

1601
01:57:43.920 --> 01:57:45.920
Will get up in the mid seventy, upper seventies. Actually today,

1602
01:57:46.000 --> 01:57:50.079
it's gonna be perfect to be outside, out and about maybe getting some things

1603
01:57:50.119 --> 01:57:55.760
done around your garden as well.
I want to go back to Mary and

1604
01:57:55.800 --> 01:57:59.279
Sour. Like Mary, we were
talking about putting a heater in your greenhouse,

1605
01:57:59.319 --> 01:58:03.079
and yes I had a I forgot
to tell you that I did have

1606
01:58:03.159 --> 01:58:08.800
a small space heater in there last
winter. So I'm wondering if there is

1607
01:58:08.840 --> 01:58:14.039
a certain way to know what size
you need or how much heat it puts

1608
01:58:14.079 --> 01:58:18.840
out or oh boy, yeah,
that that gets kind of technical. Okay,

1609
01:58:18.840 --> 01:58:25.079
how big is your greenhouse? It
is twelve by twenty. Oh that's

1610
01:58:25.119 --> 01:58:30.159
a good size for a backyard greenhouse. You probably probably need more than one

1611
01:58:30.039 --> 01:58:34.119
heater in there, but I okay, it just depends on you know,

1612
01:58:34.199 --> 01:58:39.439
does it have air leaks and stuff
like that. Well, it's fairly new,

1613
01:58:39.720 --> 01:58:43.239
okay, so I would hope it
doesn't have any big major problems like

1614
01:58:43.279 --> 01:58:45.760
that. Yeah, you could do
that. I mean, if you wanted

1615
01:58:45.800 --> 01:58:49.279
to invest in more than one there
you know there are from specialty companies.

1616
01:58:49.319 --> 01:58:55.279
You can get a little greenhouse heater
that has a thermostadd on it and everything

1617
01:58:55.359 --> 01:58:58.399
like that. But then you're getting
up in the you know, two hundred

1618
01:58:59.039 --> 01:59:02.199
dollar ranthing along those lines. But
you can also get some type of a

1619
01:59:02.239 --> 01:59:06.680
thermostat to go with the one you
have, or just you know, set

1620
01:59:06.720 --> 01:59:10.520
it on whatever level you think you
need. You have to run out there

1621
01:59:10.520 --> 01:59:14.319
a few times, check the thermometer
and say, oh, I need to

1622
01:59:14.319 --> 01:59:16.800
crank it up. Just remember when
you put a heater on an extension cord.

1623
01:59:17.439 --> 01:59:20.239
H I don't do that. Oh
good, good, because you go

1624
01:59:20.359 --> 01:59:24.880
a lot all the way with the
typical extension cords we have and that's too

1625
01:59:24.920 --> 01:59:30.800
much of a power pool. Right, you can do I'm trying. My

1626
01:59:30.920 --> 01:59:36.840
question about basil is I grow a
lot of basil and I didn't cover I

1627
01:59:36.920 --> 01:59:42.359
wasn't able to cover all of it. The leaves that have turned brown.

1628
01:59:43.279 --> 01:59:46.359
Is there something I can do?
Can I Can I cut them up and

1629
01:59:46.640 --> 01:59:50.920
use them as a or is there
something you can do once they turn brown?

1630
01:59:51.479 --> 01:59:56.439
And does the plant totally die?
Does it reced Can you tell me

1631
01:59:56.479 --> 02:00:00.880
a little bit about basil? Okay, basils should totally die in our climate

1632
02:00:00.880 --> 02:00:04.319
here in the winter. I guess
protected with a maltz and a protected location

1633
02:00:04.520 --> 02:00:10.800
and a good winter temperatures, you
might might survive. But basically I would

1634
02:00:10.800 --> 02:00:14.520
say it's going to die. It
does recede, and it receeds profusely,

1635
02:00:14.720 --> 02:00:18.319
and so that that comes right after
the blooms, of course, But that

1636
02:00:18.359 --> 02:00:23.319
would be probably about all that you're
going to need to know about the basil

1637
02:00:23.399 --> 02:00:26.079
other than you know, I don't
know about a frozen leaf. I know

1638
02:00:26.119 --> 02:00:30.000
you can dry basil leaves and you
can buy the spice like that, and

1639
02:00:30.079 --> 02:00:35.119
so I don't know if freezing and
then drying would work. I just I've

1640
02:00:35.159 --> 02:00:39.039
never thought about that one before,
but I have dried basil and a food

1641
02:00:39.079 --> 02:00:43.520
dryer before. Okay, all right, okay, all right, thank you

1642
02:00:43.560 --> 02:00:45.560
so much. All right, thank
you. I appreciate appreciate your call.

1643
02:00:46.159 --> 02:00:49.720
You know, the folks at Nature's
Creation wide variety products, but they have

1644
02:00:49.760 --> 02:00:56.560
an all natural bedding plant food that
contains microhizal fungi. It's blended specifically for

1645
02:00:56.640 --> 02:01:00.079
your blooming plants. Inside you're going
to find aw falpha, cottonseed meal,

1646
02:01:00.199 --> 02:01:05.479
humates, molasses, composted poultry,
calmander, sulfate of potash, green sand,

1647
02:01:05.560 --> 02:01:10.760
granite sand, and then they add
those microhizal fungi in there, so

1648
02:01:10.880 --> 02:01:15.399
all those cool seasoned plants like pansies
and snap dragons and all lissam and on

1649
02:01:15.479 --> 02:01:18.560
and on cyclemens, it works really
well for that. You can buy it

1650
02:01:18.560 --> 02:01:23.439
a quality feed on Lozon right in
Central Texta where were talking about getting the

1651
02:01:23.520 --> 02:01:28.920
chickens earlier earlier today Moss Nursery and
Seabrook RCW Nursery on two forty nine,

1652
02:01:28.920 --> 02:01:32.479
and all the Houston garden centers are
going to carry the Nature's Creation all natural

1653
02:01:32.479 --> 02:01:39.159
bidding plant food with Micarayzon. Let's
head now up to northwest Houston and we're

1654
02:01:39.159 --> 02:01:44.319
going to visit with Robert. Hello, Robert, yes, hello, I

1655
02:01:44.359 --> 02:01:47.520
have a question. Boy. I
was eating grapefruit one day and when I

1656
02:01:47.760 --> 02:01:53.640
cut it open, I've seen a
little seed growing. So I took in

1657
02:01:53.680 --> 02:01:59.640
that planet that it's about six inches
long now in a pot, and I

1658
02:02:00.159 --> 02:02:03.399
to know what do you do over
the wintertime? I mean, I guess

1659
02:02:03.479 --> 02:02:12.760
you can't leave it out in the
freezing cold and well to have about watering

1660
02:02:12.800 --> 02:02:17.359
it in the winter time, well
water and enough to keep the soul moist,

1661
02:02:17.520 --> 02:02:20.199
not suggy, wet, but just
enough. And it depends on how

1662
02:02:20.279 --> 02:02:24.479
much sun light it's in, what
the temperatures are, and so on as

1663
02:02:24.479 --> 02:02:27.520
to how often that would be.
But I would get it out in the

1664
02:02:27.520 --> 02:02:30.840
sun on any days that you can
you know, if it's going to be

1665
02:02:30.479 --> 02:02:34.159
oh, I don't know, and
above forty degrees, I would get it

1666
02:02:34.199 --> 02:02:40.880
outside and let it have that light
because that's very important. And you need

1667
02:02:40.920 --> 02:02:44.800
to give it as much of that
as you can. And that ought to

1668
02:02:44.880 --> 02:02:47.840
get you through the cool season.
And then once we're past all the cold

1669
02:02:47.840 --> 02:02:51.439
and frost, get in the ground
and plant it or a container whatever you

1670
02:02:51.479 --> 02:02:57.319
want to do with it. Okay, And about how long is it take

1671
02:02:57.439 --> 02:03:00.520
for a tree to grow? Well, it takes a while. But here's

1672
02:03:00.560 --> 02:03:04.319
the problem. When you have a
seedling that came from a seed although with

1673
02:03:04.399 --> 02:03:10.760
citrus they do have some clone type
seeds, which is very unusual. Typically,

1674
02:03:10.840 --> 02:03:14.600
if it was a cross between two
different plants, then that seedling is

1675
02:03:14.640 --> 02:03:17.199
going to be different. But a
seedling has to grow up and become mature

1676
02:03:17.239 --> 02:03:21.039
before it can bear fruit. That's
true. Bad trees, peach trees,

1677
02:03:21.119 --> 02:03:25.319
the trustreet. They have to hit
a certain point if they're coming from a

1678
02:03:25.359 --> 02:03:29.640
seed, so that may take a
while that I can't predict how long that

1679
02:03:29.640 --> 02:03:31.439
that may take a while. Oh
yeah, well I'm an old man,

1680
02:03:31.560 --> 02:03:38.279
so I may not get a great
food is in the doing it? Hey,

1681
02:03:38.359 --> 02:03:43.359
Robert. One other questions. Do
I need to cover that to keep

1682
02:03:43.399 --> 02:03:46.840
it warm or something? No,
I would bring it in when we're gonna

1683
02:03:46.840 --> 02:03:51.920
have cold weather, because it's a
little tender seedling with a root system that's

1684
02:03:51.920 --> 02:03:56.079
above ground and a container. Yeah, don't take a chance on that.

1685
02:03:56.159 --> 02:04:00.880
All right, Hey, I appreciate
that call. Thank you very much.

1686
02:04:00.119 --> 02:04:03.560
With a call. If you're up
in the Montgomery area. A and A

1687
02:04:03.680 --> 02:04:10.039
Plants and Produce, Well, that's
your hometown nursery. That's your garden center.

1688
02:04:10.079 --> 02:04:14.000
Family owned for over thirty years.
Adam and Alice Floor started it.

1689
02:04:14.079 --> 02:04:19.880
Now their daughter Kathy is running the
place. It's in Montgomery on the one

1690
02:04:19.960 --> 02:04:24.680
oh five toward Conroe direction, so
as you head toward Conroad, it's on

1691
02:04:24.720 --> 02:04:27.920
the north side or the left side
of the road going in that direction.

1692
02:04:28.279 --> 02:04:32.600
So all those Lake Montgomery neighborhoods,
you know, Lake Conroe Waldham, bent

1693
02:04:32.720 --> 02:04:36.439
Water, Waterstone eight percent. All
of those this is your hometown. I

1694
02:04:36.479 --> 02:04:41.279
mean, they have a wide stock
of everything. First of all, all

1695
02:04:41.279 --> 02:04:44.479
the fertilizers and products I recommend are
going to be there at A and A

1696
02:04:44.640 --> 02:04:49.520
Plants and Produce. They do deliver
and they also do landscaping around the Lake

1697
02:04:49.560 --> 02:04:55.520
Conroe area and woodlands as well.
You just have to call them and find

1698
02:04:55.520 --> 02:04:58.640
out. They're open seven days a
week, nine am to five pm.

1699
02:04:58.960 --> 02:05:03.119
Lots of knowledgeable staff on hand,
which is important. So whatever you need,

1700
02:05:03.199 --> 02:05:08.680
including various decorations for outdoors for the
holidays, you're going to find it

1701
02:05:08.760 --> 02:05:15.800
there at A and A Plants and
Produce. We are bumming right up against

1702
02:05:15.840 --> 02:05:19.279
a break, So our phone number
is seven to one three two one two

1703
02:05:19.399 --> 02:05:25.319
kt RH. We will be right
back. Well, welcome back to garden

1704
02:05:25.359 --> 02:05:29.800
Line. We are looking forward to
talking to We have quite a few people

1705
02:05:29.840 --> 02:05:32.680
here on the board talking about all
the gardening questions that you might have.

1706
02:05:33.039 --> 02:05:35.319
You know, I keep saying fall
is the best time to plant. What

1707
02:05:35.359 --> 02:05:40.279
are you ornamentals in any kind of
perennial Well, if you need a tree,

1708
02:05:40.520 --> 02:05:44.720
maybe you need a palm tree,
Verdant tree farm, Verdant treefarm dot

1709
02:05:44.760 --> 02:05:46.960
com. That's your website. They
got three locations. You can go out

1710
02:05:46.960 --> 02:05:50.640
to West Houston on Barker Cypress find
them there. You can go down in

1711
02:05:50.720 --> 02:05:57.479
the Heights area and where Yale comes
into the I ten that they're going to

1712
02:05:57.479 --> 02:06:00.680
be there as well. And then
down in Paarland just a few blocks from

1713
02:06:00.720 --> 02:06:03.920
Killing Steakhouse on Broadway Street, they're
going to be there now. They do

1714
02:06:04.039 --> 02:06:08.720
turnkey service. You go there,
you pick your tree and they come out

1715
02:06:08.760 --> 02:06:11.479
and they plant it and they plant
it right, which is very important.

1716
02:06:11.760 --> 02:06:14.279
Now, if you're looking for a
palm, maybe you want to decorate a

1717
02:06:14.319 --> 02:06:17.880
pool type area out there. They
specialize in that. But they have way

1718
02:06:17.920 --> 02:06:20.840
way more than palms. They have
every kind of tree you can imagine.

1719
02:06:21.800 --> 02:06:25.880
And when you go to Verdant,
you can sit down with them and say,

1720
02:06:25.880 --> 02:06:28.760
hey, what would you recommend for
this spot. You walk through and

1721
02:06:28.800 --> 02:06:31.800
pick your tree and they put a
tag on it. That's your tree now,

1722
02:06:32.039 --> 02:06:34.399
and they bring that tree to you. That's kind of fun to get

1723
02:06:34.399 --> 02:06:39.000
to go shopping like that. Pick
the one that you want again. Verdant

1724
02:06:39.119 --> 02:06:44.520
treefarm dot Com. We're going to
go now out all the way to the

1725
02:06:44.680 --> 02:06:49.640
far west part. Katie talk to
Teresa. Good morning, Skip. How

1726
02:06:49.640 --> 02:06:53.800
are you today? I'm doing good. How are you, Katie? I'm

1727
02:06:53.840 --> 02:06:58.640
good. I have playing moms in
our pots before when we moved here seventeen

1728
02:06:58.720 --> 02:07:01.439
years ago from Kansas, and I
was so disappointed. They didn't seem to

1729
02:07:01.479 --> 02:07:04.119
live and it was like on our
front porch, which we don't get a

1730
02:07:04.119 --> 02:07:08.880
lot of sun. Can they be
planted? We have like a three by

1731
02:07:08.880 --> 02:07:14.840
five circular bed in front that gets
mostly shade, but it gets like two

1732
02:07:14.880 --> 02:07:17.600
to three hours of sun later in
the day. Can they be planted in

1733
02:07:17.640 --> 02:07:23.039
that bed? They could? But
a lot of the florist moms, the

1734
02:07:23.119 --> 02:07:28.680
kinds you buy, just don't do
well here. It's worth giving them a

1735
02:07:28.720 --> 02:07:32.079
try to see some do. There's
a sprawling mom called country Girl, and

1736
02:07:32.159 --> 02:07:38.000
it has long branches that just flop
on the ground. It does very well

1737
02:07:38.039 --> 02:07:41.159
here. A country Girl. It's
got beautiful pink flowers. Is that too

1738
02:07:41.159 --> 02:07:45.079
big? I just don't like it
if it's going to hit the ground.

1739
02:07:45.119 --> 02:07:48.439
I want something that will stand up. And I've emptied my bed out now.

1740
02:07:49.439 --> 02:07:54.840
I usually have to buy things that
are shade tolerant and not so.

1741
02:07:55.279 --> 02:07:59.640
This past summer was tough. Even
my shade tolerant plants couldn't stand the heat

1742
02:07:59.680 --> 02:08:03.479
that they are getting late in the
day. So I was just hoping maybe

1743
02:08:03.520 --> 02:08:07.000
I could have a mom or two
this year. But yeah, well,

1744
02:08:07.800 --> 02:08:11.960
you know, I haven't planned them
since we moved here because they just didn't

1745
02:08:11.439 --> 02:08:16.680
tolerate much heat out in the front. You might ask around a garden center,

1746
02:08:16.760 --> 02:08:20.560
you know, you're not too far
drive up to our dry town.

1747
02:08:20.640 --> 02:08:26.920
We usually go to Enchanted Garden at
seven three, yes, exactly, Chandon

1748
02:08:26.960 --> 02:08:31.920
Gardens. Ask them say, do
you have any kind of these florest type

1749
02:08:31.920 --> 02:08:37.520
moms that you know naturalized pretty well
here and if there is, if they

1750
02:08:37.560 --> 02:08:41.159
have them, they can point you
to that. Okay, great, thank

1751
02:08:41.239 --> 02:08:43.199
you have a great day. Thanks
for the call. I appreciate that very

1752
02:08:43.279 --> 02:08:48.279
much. If you not fertilize your
lawn yet, well nitrofoss Texas three step

1753
02:08:48.640 --> 02:08:52.319
we'll get you covered. The three
steps are the fertilizer, which again,

1754
02:08:52.439 --> 02:08:56.000
if you haven't fertilized this fall,
then go ahead and do it. Get

1755
02:08:56.000 --> 02:09:01.199
it done as soon as possible.
Second step is barricade. That's a pre

1756
02:09:01.239 --> 02:09:03.680
emergent weed control. If you've not
put down a pre emergent in the fall

1757
02:09:03.760 --> 02:09:09.359
yet and you've got a lawn where
sunlight hits the soil, well, weeds

1758
02:09:09.359 --> 02:09:11.520
are going to come up there and
the pre emergent prevents that. And then

1759
02:09:11.560 --> 02:09:18.560
finally the third step is eagle turf
fungicide. Now that is a systemic fungicide

1760
02:09:18.600 --> 02:09:22.279
soaks into the grass tissues, but
you want to get ahead of the large

1761
02:09:22.279 --> 02:09:26.439
patch or brown patch circles. It
also works pretty well for take all root

1762
02:09:26.520 --> 02:09:33.079
rot, which germinates when our nighttime
temperatures with germinates, which attacks when our

1763
02:09:33.119 --> 02:09:35.840
nighttime temperatures are around fifty five.
It loves to attack at that time and

1764
02:09:37.079 --> 02:09:41.880
we're there now right, So you
need to get ahead of all of these

1765
02:09:41.920 --> 02:09:46.319
things, and that is why timeliness
is so important. Now you're going to

1766
02:09:46.359 --> 02:09:52.439
find nitrofoss Texas three step at places
like Bearings Hardware and Biscinet all Spas Hardware

1767
02:09:52.680 --> 02:09:56.279
down or up in the woodlands,
plants and things out in Brenham Warren,

1768
02:09:56.399 --> 02:10:01.279
Southern Gardens out in Kingwood, Ace
Hardware and Sinkle Growers Outlet and Willis get

1769
02:10:01.399 --> 02:10:07.920
the idea all over the place.
Nitrophoss Texas three step is available. We're

1770
02:10:07.960 --> 02:10:13.000
going to head now out to Hobby
and talk to Finesse Fenise finesse. Let

1771
02:10:13.000 --> 02:10:18.439
me get it right. Is it
finesse. It's actually pronounced like if you

1772
02:10:18.520 --> 02:10:28.000
were say f e n eess venus
Spanish name. Well, apologize for butcher

1773
02:10:28.079 --> 02:10:31.399
in the name. How can we
help the don I don't mind, like

1774
02:10:31.479 --> 02:10:33.840
the old saying, I don't care
what you call me as long as you

1775
02:10:33.840 --> 02:10:37.840
don't call me late to dinner.
There go, So even if you say

1776
02:10:37.880 --> 02:10:43.000
hey, I'm still all right.
But I have a pecandry which is probably

1777
02:10:43.159 --> 02:10:48.800
somewhere twenty feet tall somewhere in there. And I got my first crop this

1778
02:10:50.079 --> 02:10:52.920
year, and I was sure glad
when I first saw at first become here.

1779
02:10:54.279 --> 02:10:58.000
But what is the when is the
best time to fertilize the country?

1780
02:10:58.159 --> 02:11:01.399
I would do it in this ring
new growth begins, that's a good time.

1781
02:11:01.800 --> 02:11:05.119
Uh, maybe about the time you
fertilize your lawn. Now, if

1782
02:11:05.159 --> 02:11:07.479
you if it's growing in a lawn, it's going to benefit from the turf

1783
02:11:07.720 --> 02:11:13.319
fertilizer because it's going that ptrans are
going to move down and and it'll benefit

1784
02:11:13.359 --> 02:11:16.359
from that. Otherwise, you can
buy a special fertilizer for trees and shrubs.

1785
02:11:16.720 --> 02:11:22.479
Several of our folks make those.
I often will use the lawn fertilizer

1786
02:11:22.920 --> 02:11:28.560
that I purchased for the because I
could do that. H Well, I

1787
02:11:28.680 --> 02:11:33.800
was really proud when I first saw
the first bacon on the actually right out

1788
02:11:33.840 --> 02:11:37.840
side of the street. But wow, so I I think I got five

1789
02:11:37.920 --> 02:11:41.960
of the total bit okay, and
they're they're good side too. The and

1790
02:11:41.039 --> 02:11:46.640
I didn't grafted, but I think
God Almighty did. Yeah, I got

1791
02:11:46.640 --> 02:11:50.479
some decent good look at pecans.
Well, it sounds like you're doing something

1792
02:11:50.560 --> 02:11:54.439
right. Uh hey, I appreciate. I appreciate the call, and good

1793
02:11:54.520 --> 02:11:56.800
luck with your pecan trees. Thank
you, sir. You have a good

1794
02:11:56.880 --> 02:12:03.960
day. You have you thought about
getting a generator, but you just put

1795
02:12:03.000 --> 02:12:05.800
it off. You know, someday
I need to do that because you know,

1796
02:12:05.800 --> 02:12:11.640
our paragrid power goes off and you
have valuable things like a refrigerator and

1797
02:12:11.680 --> 02:12:15.399
freezer full of food that you need
to protect, or maybe you have other

1798
02:12:15.439 --> 02:12:18.640
reasons that you need the power not
to go off. Well, quality Home

1799
02:12:18.640 --> 02:12:24.600
Products of Texas can get you set
up with a generat automatic standby generator.

1800
02:12:24.680 --> 02:12:28.760
It sits outside and it waits for
when it's needed, and when it is

1801
02:12:28.960 --> 02:12:31.479
you don't have to go out and
turn it on. It comes on and

1802
02:12:31.520 --> 02:12:37.079
it takes care of the valuable things
that you have. Now the reason that

1803
02:12:37.159 --> 02:12:41.560
I like to talk about quality home. You can buy a quality generator,

1804
02:12:41.600 --> 02:12:45.560
but are you getting service and with
quality home you are. Let me prove

1805
02:12:45.600 --> 02:12:48.399
it to you. Now. I
used to say seven times. Now for

1806
02:12:48.479 --> 02:12:52.520
the eighth time, they've won the
Pinnacle Award from the Better Business Bureau.

1807
02:12:52.560 --> 02:12:56.880
That is the most prestigious customer service
award that they offer, and it's almost

1808
02:12:56.000 --> 02:13:00.800
unheard of that they would give it
that many times to a company. They've

1809
02:13:00.800 --> 02:13:05.079
got a twenty four to seven three
sixty five support team, very knowledgeable.

1810
02:13:05.439 --> 02:13:07.560
They walk you through the process.
They sit down with you and you tell

1811
02:13:07.600 --> 02:13:11.000
them what you're looking for. What
do you want to protect the whole house

1812
02:13:11.119 --> 02:13:16.000
or just the freezers, and they
can get you the right generator to match

1813
02:13:16.079 --> 02:13:20.560
with that. They do everything through
the steps. You've got to get a

1814
02:13:20.560 --> 02:13:24.640
hold of the city or the hoa
or something the power company, you know,

1815
02:13:26.039 --> 02:13:28.319
to make all the arrangements. They
do that. They take care of

1816
02:13:28.319 --> 02:13:31.680
that. They even pour the slab
to put the thing on, and then

1817
02:13:31.760 --> 02:13:37.119
afterwards they stay there. That twenty
four to seven three sixty five customer service.

1818
02:13:37.600 --> 02:13:41.680
They continue to reach out and they
come and maintain things. I think

1819
02:13:41.680 --> 02:13:46.600
it's about twice a year, so
quality home. I would say the fact

1820
02:13:46.640 --> 02:13:50.680
that it's coming from them is even
more important than the fact that it's a

1821
02:13:50.720 --> 02:13:54.560
super quality generator, because service after
the sale and before the sale is very,

1822
02:13:54.680 --> 02:13:58.479
very important. We're going to head
out now to Missouri City and talk

1823
02:13:58.520 --> 02:14:03.239
to Ray. Hello. Right,
hey, great show up. I just

1824
02:14:03.319 --> 02:14:09.920
have a quick question. Okay,
around my house, I have a different

1825
02:14:09.399 --> 02:14:20.239
mixture of shrubs, but under each
window I have shrubs that have little sticky

1826
02:14:20.399 --> 02:14:24.840
point of needles, have like seven
points on it that will stick you and

1827
02:14:24.880 --> 02:14:28.199
I use this kind of like a
security measure. Yes, well, back

1828
02:14:28.720 --> 02:14:33.239
when we had the drought, all
of those pointy things dry it up and

1829
02:14:33.319 --> 02:14:37.520
died. Have I lost them or
will they come back? Probably lost them.

1830
02:14:39.079 --> 02:14:43.760
I think you are the leaves very
stiff leaves. Yes, that's that's

1831
02:14:43.760 --> 02:14:48.600
a Chinese. That's a Chinese holly. And uh it's a great it's a

1832
02:14:48.640 --> 02:14:52.359
great security shrub because it hurts.
You can't get through it without hurting.

1833
02:14:52.239 --> 02:14:58.840
And right, but Holly's the first
two maybe three years. Getting them off

1834
02:14:58.840 --> 02:15:01.760
to a good start is very important
because a little bit of drought will cause

1835
02:15:01.760 --> 02:15:07.399
what you just described, and so
regular watering, making sure the soil doesn't

1836
02:15:07.439 --> 02:15:09.520
dry out. And sometimes with a
stiff bush like that, you may have

1837
02:15:09.560 --> 02:15:15.800
a sprinkler spraying, but it's being
blocked from reaching parts of the soil you

1838
02:15:15.880 --> 02:15:18.039
needed to reach. You want to
wet the whole bed, so shifting over

1839
02:15:18.119 --> 02:15:22.319
to a drip irrigation would be a
good idea, or just checking that out.

1840
02:15:22.359 --> 02:15:26.520
Doing some hand watering during hot summer
drought weather would also be helpful.

1841
02:15:28.039 --> 02:15:31.199
But if you want to go back
with a holly plant, okay, And

1842
02:15:31.239 --> 02:15:37.079
I think I heard you mentioned on
a previous show someone asked about the same

1843
02:15:37.159 --> 02:15:41.000
problem with a magnolia tree and you
said those are probably gone. Also,

1844
02:15:41.319 --> 02:15:45.760
yes, that's true. Yeah,
just my experience has been you know,

1845
02:15:45.840 --> 02:15:48.720
I don't know. Maybe you could
get a resprout, but that's going to

1846
02:15:48.760 --> 02:15:52.680
be the ugliest magnolia. If you
had a sprout come out somewhere, you

1847
02:15:52.720 --> 02:15:56.359
know, it'd be so defaced.
But I think they're pretty much gone.

1848
02:15:56.199 --> 02:16:00.199
Well what we say is what we
say is if it's brown, cut it

1849
02:16:00.239 --> 02:16:03.199
down. Okay, all right,
thank you for the call, right,

1850
02:16:03.399 --> 02:16:11.000
thank you, you bet take care. Heirloom Soils has a fall special going

1851
02:16:11.039 --> 02:16:15.239
on. That is it's a really
big deal. The veggie and herb mix

1852
02:16:15.399 --> 02:16:18.439
now veggiean herb is good for all
kinds of bedding, plants and things,

1853
02:16:18.439 --> 02:16:22.880
but especially designed for veggies and herbs. One hundred and nineteen dollars bulk or

1854
02:16:22.880 --> 02:16:26.520
one hundred and forty eight dollars supersack. That's a qbicyard that they drop on

1855
02:16:26.560 --> 02:16:30.880
your driveway. Real neat and clean
way to go about it. The rose

1856
02:16:30.920 --> 02:16:35.559
soil is seventy dollars bulk and ninety
nine for the supersack. And those two

1857
02:16:35.559 --> 02:16:39.600
soils are some of the best products
that you can buy anywhere in this region.

1858
02:16:39.040 --> 02:16:43.040
And you need to take advantage of
this because that is a huge,

1859
02:16:43.319 --> 02:16:48.280
huge sale, a very good deal
going on, and Heirloom Soils knows how

1860
02:16:48.319 --> 02:16:50.319
to make those. Hey, by
the way, Airloom Sauce is going to

1861
02:16:50.360 --> 02:16:54.840
be with me out there at the
Ciena Mulch Fall Back in Love with your

1862
02:16:54.920 --> 02:16:58.200
Yard event and I'm going to be
given away some eight court bags of the

1863
02:16:58.239 --> 02:17:03.760
works, which is a three court
bags of the cactus and succulent mix that

1864
02:17:03.840 --> 02:17:07.799
they make, and I come on
out and visit with the folks at Heirloom

1865
02:17:07.799 --> 02:17:11.639
Soils find out more about the many, many products that they carry, because

1866
02:17:11.680 --> 02:17:16.440
they really have a lot of quality
products out there. But if you've been

1867
02:17:16.479 --> 02:17:20.239
thinking about making a bed, or
rejuvenating a bed, or building it up

1868
02:17:20.239 --> 02:17:24.879
a little higher, with this deal
on the bulk purchase, you're not going

1869
02:17:24.920 --> 02:17:28.920
to find better than that. So
now's the time to go ahead and take

1870
02:17:28.959 --> 02:17:33.239
care of things. And remember,
first comes the brown stuff, then comes

1871
02:17:33.239 --> 02:17:39.040
the green stuff, well, soil
compost most that's the brown stuff. Well,

1872
02:17:39.120 --> 02:17:41.799
let's see, we are running a
little short on time. I did

1873
02:17:41.879 --> 02:17:43.840
want to mention to you though,
the folks at Medina have the hast Grow

1874
02:17:45.000 --> 02:17:48.719
product that's a six twelve six liquid
and I use it for watering in anything

1875
02:17:48.719 --> 02:17:54.639
I plant, from a little vegetable
transplant all the way up to a rosebush

1876
02:17:54.680 --> 02:17:58.879
or tree. Now six twelve six
hast Grow contains Medina soil activator, human

1877
02:18:00.159 --> 02:18:03.239
acid, and seaweed extracts. I'll
mix it in water, pour it on

1878
02:18:03.319 --> 02:18:07.719
the soil right around the plant right
when I plant, do it again about

1879
02:18:07.719 --> 02:18:09.879
a week later, and again about
a week after that, three times to

1880
02:18:09.920 --> 02:18:13.959
get that plant off to the best
start that you can get it off too.

1881
02:18:15.280 --> 02:18:18.639
And it's got a lot of biological
activity there. You can buy it

1882
02:18:18.120 --> 02:18:22.520
to mix up, or you can
just have a convenient kind of hose in

1883
02:18:22.600 --> 02:18:24.040
spray if you want to go that
route as well. We're going to take

1884
02:18:24.040 --> 02:18:31.040
a break seven one three two one
two. We'll be right back KTRH.

1885
02:18:31.120 --> 02:18:33.959
Well, good morning and welcome back
to garden Line. I'm your host,

1886
02:18:35.079 --> 02:18:39.440
Skip Richter. Our phone number is
seven one three two one two fifty eight

1887
02:18:39.719 --> 02:18:46.879
seventy four. Buchanan's Plants in the
Heights is another one of those destination garden

1888
02:18:46.920 --> 02:18:50.440
centers. You just you just have
to see it. It is. It

1889
02:18:50.520 --> 02:18:54.920
is a beautiful place to walk through. The selection they have is amazing.

1890
02:18:54.040 --> 02:18:58.000
I mean it is. They have
pretty much everything you could possibly want when

1891
02:18:58.000 --> 02:19:01.840
it comes to plants and products like
fertilizers and soils that I recommend here on

1892
02:19:01.920 --> 02:19:07.239
garden Line. They've got all that
kind of stuff covered. Always something great

1893
02:19:07.360 --> 02:19:11.680
going on at Buchanan's Plants as well. Hey, write this down on your

1894
02:19:11.680 --> 02:19:18.399
calendar. Harvest Floral Workshop Tuesday,
November twenty first, from twelve to one

1895
02:19:18.879 --> 02:19:22.159
now they will come in. Someone's
coming in from Ponrosa Blooms to teach how

1896
02:19:22.200 --> 02:19:26.479
to do the floral designs and that
is such a handy thing. I mean,

1897
02:19:26.719 --> 02:19:31.680
just in time for the holidays and
decorating your home and things, and

1898
02:19:31.719 --> 02:19:33.559
plus it's just a lot of fun
to see those kind of things. They

1899
02:19:33.639 --> 02:19:37.959
got a new shipment of gerber daisies, and if you've never grown a gerber

1900
02:19:37.040 --> 02:19:41.600
daisy, oh my gosh. The
colors are amazing, from coral to red,

1901
02:19:41.680 --> 02:19:46.959
to yellow to pink. It just
beautiful, beautiful plants that do well.

1902
02:19:46.959 --> 02:19:52.159
I've had some that live several years
in a container on my patio and

1903
02:19:52.239 --> 02:19:56.639
it just I love gerber daisy And
Buchanans has those. Hey, it's Buchanansplants

1904
02:19:56.639 --> 02:20:03.239
dot Com and it's on East eleventh
Street in the Heights. It's as simple

1905
02:20:03.280 --> 02:20:07.239
as that. We're gonna head now, let's see, We're gonna go to

1906
02:20:07.440 --> 02:20:15.520
talk to Bess in Conro. Hello, Bess. Hi. I was able

1907
02:20:15.559 --> 02:20:20.159
to get some red clover seeds recently. I have no idea. It's just

1908
02:20:20.239 --> 02:20:22.840
a sack of them. When do
I plant them? Do they recede?

1909
02:20:24.479 --> 02:20:28.399
I guess they probably need full sun. I need to know something about red

1910
02:20:28.440 --> 02:20:31.280
clover. You need to plant them
right away. This is the time to

1911
02:20:31.280 --> 02:20:35.559
get it done. They're little,
tiny seeds and so you know, it's

1912
02:20:35.600 --> 02:20:37.840
not like you're digging a hole to
plant the seed down. I mean,

1913
02:20:37.920 --> 02:20:43.239
just scatter them and if you're able
to just kind of rush over the soil

1914
02:20:43.280 --> 02:20:46.040
surface a little bit, just kind
of rake them in just a little bit,

1915
02:20:46.680 --> 02:20:50.120
that is helpful. But they once
you water them in, they're gonna

1916
02:20:50.159 --> 02:20:54.760
sprout and they're gonna they're gonna do
fine. Do they reced every year?

1917
02:20:54.879 --> 02:21:01.600
Do you have to replant? Well, they will go to seed, and

1918
02:21:01.719 --> 02:21:05.760
you know as you kind of mow
that down, if you will, you're

1919
02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:09.559
going to scatter the seed and then
they should come up the next year for

1920
02:21:09.639 --> 02:21:16.760
you. Okay, But a lot
of that depends on go ahead, okay

1921
02:21:16.840 --> 02:21:20.799
and there and I guess full sun, yes, absolutely full sun for clover.

1922
02:21:22.120 --> 02:21:24.559
Are you growing it to put nitrogen
in the soil or just for the

1923
02:21:24.600 --> 02:21:31.840
beautiful blooms? No. I was
told by an arborist that it was her

1924
02:21:31.920 --> 02:21:35.920
husband planted some uh that came up
and uh oh, and when is it

1925
02:21:35.959 --> 02:21:41.360
going to come up? He planted
it for it to come up on Valentine's

1926
02:21:41.440 --> 02:21:43.600
Day? And she said, if
you could get some to spread it out,

1927
02:21:45.360 --> 02:21:48.399
like I have a pasture, like
a small pasture where we had a

1928
02:21:48.440 --> 02:21:52.559
horse said, be really pretty in
there. Okay, but you go ahead,

1929
02:21:52.559 --> 02:21:58.079
you can plan them now, that's
just fine. Okay, great,

1930
02:21:58.319 --> 02:22:01.079
all right, well thank you so
much. All right, thank you very

1931
02:22:01.159 --> 02:22:05.600
much. We're gonna go to Mark
in Deer Park now. Hello Mark,

1932
02:22:05.360 --> 02:22:09.760
Hey, how you doing good?
Okay? Hey, I got a question.

1933
02:22:11.159 --> 02:22:18.040
I have acquired an RV park and
it's completely it's like a parking lot,

1934
02:22:18.079 --> 02:22:20.760
okay. And what I want to
do I want to plant some trees.

1935
02:22:20.399 --> 02:22:24.680
But I gotta be careful about what
I plant because at some point the

1936
02:22:24.760 --> 02:22:28.040
limbs are going to be falling out
and hitting these RVs. Okay. And

1937
02:22:28.159 --> 02:22:33.239
so the question is what is the
best tree to plant to shed the less

1938
02:22:33.319 --> 02:22:35.879
limbs? Now I know they're all
going to shed, but what's the best

1939
02:22:35.879 --> 02:22:41.319
tree to plant to keep from losing
its limbs? Well, I would I'm

1940
02:22:41.360 --> 02:22:46.719
gonna answer kind of flip that upside
down. I would avoid like a pecan

1941
02:22:46.360 --> 02:22:52.079
there. They seem to be especially
bad about that. The Chinese pistache sometimes

1942
02:22:52.120 --> 02:22:56.479
can be a little bit problematic in
that way. So a good quality red

1943
02:22:56.520 --> 02:23:00.200
oak is what I would recommend.
It makes a big tree. You're going

1944
02:23:00.280 --> 02:23:03.479
to get some shade for the trailers. Out there in a pretty quick time.

1945
02:23:03.559 --> 02:23:07.719
They grow pretty rapidly. If your
area is a little soggy at times,

1946
02:23:07.760 --> 02:23:11.479
if it's a heavy clay and it
tends to stay a little wet,

1947
02:23:11.840 --> 02:23:18.079
you might want to get a particular
red oak called nuttall oak. N utt

1948
02:23:18.239 --> 02:23:22.600
Al I believe is a spelling nuttall. That would be the one I think

1949
02:23:22.639 --> 02:23:28.840
I would most recommend out there.
Okay, is that nut tall oak?

1950
02:23:28.959 --> 02:23:31.399
Is that a red oak? Yeah, it's a red oak. People usually

1951
02:23:31.440 --> 02:23:33.680
talk about Schumart oaks and schue Marts
are fine. If the soil is a

1952
02:23:33.760 --> 02:23:39.920
little better nut tall in heavier soil, it doesn't drain, well they do.

1953
02:23:39.680 --> 02:23:46.399
They can do that with the Schumart
can't. Okay, okay, okay,

1954
02:23:48.719 --> 02:23:50.520
all right, Well that kind of
answers my question. I knew something

1955
02:23:50.719 --> 02:23:54.840
like that that grows quick, kind
of like an Arizona ash that that would

1956
02:23:54.840 --> 02:23:58.840
be disaster. Yeah, it would
be a disaster. Just remember, grow

1957
02:23:58.879 --> 02:24:01.719
fast, die young when it comes
to trees and so but we can take

1958
02:24:01.799 --> 02:24:05.920
a moderate growth rate tree and we
can speed it up and accomplish what we

1959
02:24:05.959 --> 02:24:11.360
want to accomplish. Okay, the
nut tall someone that it is the right

1960
02:24:11.479 --> 02:24:15.920
soil, it's going to be out
toward the Annawhak area just east of Houston.

1961
02:24:16.079 --> 02:24:20.879
Okay, that what kind of growth
rate are we looking at? If

1962
02:24:20.879 --> 02:24:24.319
we start out with a tree,
say eight foot tall, yeah, six

1963
02:24:24.360 --> 02:24:28.959
to eight foot tall five years,
where are we going to be at five

1964
02:24:28.040 --> 02:24:33.559
years? Boy? This is there
are so many variables that no matter what

1965
02:24:33.600 --> 02:24:37.559
I tell you, it could be
wrong. But I would say a good

1966
02:24:37.680 --> 02:24:41.559
quality red oak and good good care, meaning don't let the grass grow up

1967
02:24:41.559 --> 02:24:45.639
to it. Give it a big
a mulched area as you can early on.

1968
02:24:45.840 --> 02:24:48.360
Especially, don't let it go through
drought in the summer. If it

1969
02:24:48.399 --> 02:24:52.200
doesn't rain for two or three weeks, give it a soaking and then moderate

1970
02:24:52.239 --> 02:25:00.399
fertilization. You should be in five
years probably up about somewhere in the fifteen

1971
02:25:00.440 --> 02:25:05.639
to twenty foot range. Oh really, yeah wow, but that's under that's

1972
02:25:05.719 --> 02:25:09.719
under ideal conditions. It's going to
sit there at first when you plant it,

1973
02:25:09.799 --> 02:25:11.799
you know it's going to sit there
because it's got to get a root

1974
02:25:11.840 --> 02:25:18.559
system established. So but I've seen
them grow pretty darn fast. Okay,

1975
02:25:18.719 --> 02:25:22.959
Now, this this area that what
I'm talking about, has they put this

1976
02:25:24.079 --> 02:25:26.559
crushed rock in there, so I
know I'm going to have to clear some

1977
02:25:26.680 --> 02:25:31.120
of that out. How much do
I need to clear out? And give

1978
02:25:31.159 --> 02:25:35.879
it soil around that tree? I
know, I know, you can't just

1979
02:25:37.120 --> 02:25:39.040
dig a hole in the middle of
that crush rocking planet because it's probably not

1980
02:25:39.079 --> 02:25:41.799
going to get the water that it
needs. Yeah, get all that,

1981
02:25:43.040 --> 02:25:45.239
all of that out of there,
and as wide of an area as you

1982
02:25:45.239 --> 02:25:48.559
can do it, but especially you
know, at least five foot area around

1983
02:25:48.559 --> 02:25:52.959
the tree. And then is this
a place where you're going to be able

1984
02:25:52.959 --> 02:25:58.600
to mulch the trees or not?
Probably not? Okay? All right,

1985
02:25:58.840 --> 02:26:01.040
Well that's what I would do,
U, And I think that gives it

1986
02:26:01.040 --> 02:26:05.200
its best shot. And as it's
growing, for every inch of trunk diameter

1987
02:26:05.360 --> 02:26:11.319
each spring and summer, give it
two cups of a lawn fertilizer and that'll

1988
02:26:11.319 --> 02:26:13.840
be the most that you can do. And Mark, I've got a got

1989
02:26:13.879 --> 02:26:18.000
to run for a break here,
but hopefully we got you off on a

1990
02:26:18.040 --> 02:26:22.239
good start there. Our phone number
is seven one three two one two kt

1991
02:26:22.559 --> 02:26:26.280
R H and Judy and Pat you'll
be the first up when we come back.

1992
02:26:28.360 --> 02:26:31.280
Well, come back to garden line. We are going to go right

1993
02:26:31.319 --> 02:26:33.879
to the phones here. We've got
a lot to talk about we'll go to

1994
02:26:33.920 --> 02:26:39.200
Spring Branch and talk to Judy.
Hello, Judy, Hi, my question

1995
02:26:39.360 --> 02:26:45.319
is about knocked out roses. I've
planned them all less March, and I

1996
02:26:45.360 --> 02:26:48.040
don't know should I be fertilizing them
now or what do I do with them?

1997
02:26:48.680 --> 02:26:52.799
You don't need to fertilize now.
Wait until you know, we get

1998
02:26:52.840 --> 02:26:56.639
into some spring growth and you can
start fertilizing them again at that time.

1999
02:26:58.760 --> 02:27:03.680
Okay. And I've read that you
proved them all like February. Is that

2000
02:27:03.760 --> 02:27:07.319
right? Yeah, that's a good
time in general, a little bit earlier

2001
02:27:07.360 --> 02:27:13.680
in February because they kind of do
pretty well and pretty cool temperatures, and

2002
02:27:13.760 --> 02:27:18.959
so I would get it done in
early February. Okay, that's it.

2003
02:27:18.200 --> 02:27:22.000
Thank you so much. Well,
that was fast and easy. Thanks for

2004
02:27:22.040 --> 02:27:26.559
the call. I appreciate that.
All right, bye bye bye bye.

2005
02:27:26.719 --> 02:27:31.719
I'm going to go now to Pat
in Paarland. Hello, Pat, Hey,

2006
02:27:31.799 --> 02:27:35.280
good morning. How are you.
I'm doing well? Thank you good.

2007
02:27:35.479 --> 02:27:39.719
I went three weeks ago and purchase
what you recommend. I went with

2008
02:27:39.840 --> 02:27:43.559
Microlife products in my front yard.
Okay, the you know this, and

2009
02:27:43.639 --> 02:27:48.239
so I put it down three weeks
ago. But then I realized that sometimes

2010
02:27:48.280 --> 02:27:52.079
I hear on the radio, people
talk even two months about carbo load.

2011
02:27:52.760 --> 02:27:58.799
So since I've already put down the
microlife recommendation, when could I maybe put

2012
02:27:58.840 --> 02:28:01.719
carbload in my grass? Well,
if you've done the micro life, there's

2013
02:28:01.760 --> 02:28:07.680
no need to fertilize again with anything
because you've already gotten that down. Now

2014
02:28:09.600 --> 02:28:13.120
are you? Are you looking for
the fertilizer aspect of carbon load or weed

2015
02:28:13.200 --> 02:28:18.520
prevention aspect? Well, I did
put down the barricade pre merchant as well.

2016
02:28:18.600 --> 02:28:22.520
Okay, well you're set up.
Then you're good to go along.

2017
02:28:22.639 --> 02:28:24.040
Though that's the only thing. I
don't know how long am I good for?

2018
02:28:24.079 --> 02:28:28.319
Now? Oh, you're good until
spring. So if you go online

2019
02:28:28.360 --> 02:28:33.760
to gardening with skip dot com,
my lawn care schedule is on there and

2020
02:28:33.840 --> 02:28:37.879
it tells you organic and synthetic fertilizers, It talks about trace minerals, it

2021
02:28:37.879 --> 02:28:43.440
talks about aeration and mowing and watering
and everything like that that makes your long

2022
02:28:43.520 --> 02:28:46.000
grow well. And then there's another
schedule for the problems of the lawn like

2023
02:28:46.079 --> 02:28:50.239
insects, diseases, weeds and so
on. But those are free, you

2024
02:28:50.239 --> 02:28:54.280
can just download them. It's a
real multicolor, easy to read and easy

2025
02:28:54.280 --> 02:28:58.360
to follow. So I'm good till
February or March. Oh yeah, yeah,

2026
02:28:58.360 --> 02:29:01.479
I would. In fact, if
you're going to do the microlife,

2027
02:29:01.559 --> 02:29:07.639
I would probably apply it the first
of April. Okay, So forget about

2028
02:29:07.680 --> 02:29:15.040
the carbolode, forget about adding it
to an already fertilized and already we prey

2029
02:29:15.040 --> 02:29:18.239
emergent treated lawn. Yes, you
don't need to double up on on on

2030
02:29:18.399 --> 02:29:24.799
things. You know they say if
a teaspoons good, a tablespoons better.

2031
02:29:24.879 --> 02:29:28.479
Well not when it comes to lawn
care. Okay, okay, On one

2032
02:29:28.600 --> 02:29:31.440
last question, I've got a front
flower bed area that gets a lot of

2033
02:29:31.479 --> 02:29:35.600
shade, especially in the winter.
But on the end, I have some

2034
02:29:35.600 --> 02:29:37.799
some plants that are doing well,
high biscuits and stuff like that because I

2035
02:29:37.879 --> 02:29:43.239
get afternoon sun. But I do
have some i think it's called hosta hosts

2036
02:29:43.719 --> 02:29:46.520
that survived. What would what would
be good to put in the front because

2037
02:29:46.559 --> 02:29:50.200
a lot of the other summer things
have died and I'm starting to plumb out

2038
02:29:50.440 --> 02:29:54.120
that looks so beautiful as I watered
this really well, that I don't know

2039
02:29:54.159 --> 02:29:58.479
what's good for fall and winter.
Well, uh, Hostas are perennials,

2040
02:29:58.520 --> 02:30:03.639
but they generally aren't very happy here. In this area, I would say

2041
02:30:03.680 --> 02:30:07.840
probably, uh. For you said
it's shady. How shady is it?

2042
02:30:09.639 --> 02:30:13.159
It really never gets direct sunlight?
Okay, maybe a little bit in the

2043
02:30:13.200 --> 02:30:16.840
morning. Juga makes a beautiful groundcover. We have things like loriape that's a

2044
02:30:16.879 --> 02:30:22.040
clumping plant that makes a good one
mass planted can make a groundcover area.

2045
02:30:22.159 --> 02:30:26.559
And then Aztec grass, which is
just think of it as white and green

2046
02:30:26.600 --> 02:30:33.479
striped loriope. It's similar to that
that makes a good brightening groundcover in the

2047
02:30:33.479 --> 02:30:39.159
shade because that white color really brings
the light out underneath it what's normally a

2048
02:30:39.239 --> 02:30:43.000
dark, shady area. All Right, thank you so much. All Right,

2049
02:30:43.120 --> 02:30:46.319
I hope that gets you off to
a good start. Pat We're going

2050
02:30:46.360 --> 02:30:50.399
to run to Paarland now and talk
to Jim. Hey, Jim, Hey,

2051
02:30:50.600 --> 02:30:56.200
good morning. I'm talking about that
Arizona ash tree. I have to

2052
02:30:56.239 --> 02:31:01.159
say I've got one in my front
yard, been there since nipeens. It's

2053
02:31:01.200 --> 02:31:07.000
got about a forty eight inch base
and a spread of over one hundred feet,

2054
02:31:07.120 --> 02:31:11.719
and Martin Spillmore has done a wonderful
job keeping track of it for me.

2055
02:31:11.879 --> 02:31:15.120
Well, I wouldn't expect any less. That's probably why it's still alive

2056
02:31:15.479 --> 02:31:18.959
because the Arizona ashes they do to
the grow fast and die young. I

2057
02:31:18.959 --> 02:31:24.920
can take you to neighborhood's planet in
the sixties and seventies, and I drove

2058
02:31:24.959 --> 02:31:28.799
past those neighborhoods twenty thirty years later, and I'm just like ever Tree just

2059
02:31:28.840 --> 02:31:33.079
about was. Yeah, that's what
I say. I give all the credit

2060
02:31:33.120 --> 02:31:35.840
to Martin on that. Well good. But I also wanted to ask you

2061
02:31:35.920 --> 02:31:41.760
about aerration and top dressing because I've
been trying to get a hold of orglone

2062
02:31:41.799 --> 02:31:46.440
and they don't seem to want to
answer. Do you have any other recommendations?

2063
02:31:46.879 --> 02:31:52.600
I'll tell you what. When we
were done here, would you hold

2064
02:31:52.639 --> 02:31:54.879
on. I'm going to get josh
to get your email or give you my

2065
02:31:56.079 --> 02:32:00.200
email. I need you to send
me that because that is not at all

2066
02:32:00.280 --> 02:32:01.959
like them. I don't know if
we have the wrong number, what's going

2067
02:32:03.000 --> 02:32:05.760
on, but we need to get
that fixed. And I don't have another

2068
02:32:05.799 --> 02:32:11.840
recommendation really for that. Okay,
okay, alrighty, Well, thank you

2069
02:32:11.840 --> 02:32:15.959
for the call putting you in hold
and Joshua, be alrighty. I need

2070
02:32:15.959 --> 02:32:18.159
an email from you and with some
detail on what happened. Thank you.

2071
02:32:20.000 --> 02:32:22.559
Yeah, it could be a lot
of reasons, but that is not how

2072
02:32:22.600 --> 02:32:26.799
they do business. I know that. Let's go up to the Woodlands.

2073
02:32:26.799 --> 02:32:30.399
We're going to talk to Steve.
Hello, Steve, Hi, thank you

2074
02:32:30.440 --> 02:32:33.680
for taking my call. Yeah,
this is just real quick. I've discovered

2075
02:32:33.600 --> 02:32:37.760
I have a bag of ncrofoss fifteen
five ten and it's been there for about

2076
02:32:37.760 --> 02:32:41.440
a year and a half, almost
two years, and it's never been opened.

2077
02:32:41.559 --> 02:32:43.159
Is it still good? Absolutely,
go ahead and use it. Yep,

2078
02:32:43.479 --> 02:32:46.600
you can still use it, okay, And can I use it now

2079
02:32:46.280 --> 02:32:48.479
for the fall? I haven't done
my fall yet. No. No,

2080
02:32:48.559 --> 02:32:52.000
it's not a fall fertilizer. It's
got a lot of nitrogen the first number

2081
02:32:52.120 --> 02:32:56.360
in it, and you just hold
on to it. And when we get

2082
02:32:56.399 --> 02:33:00.079
to I don't know, late February
or early March, if you want to

2083
02:33:00.120 --> 02:33:03.799
do a fast green up, you
can use that for a fast greenup.

2084
02:33:03.840 --> 02:33:09.319
That'd be a good application of it. Perfect. Okay, you're in the

2085
02:33:09.360 --> 02:33:11.159
Woodlands, I would say, since
you're in the Woodlands, I would say

2086
02:33:11.200 --> 02:33:16.319
early March as opposed to late February's
gotta work, all right, sir,

2087
02:33:16.600 --> 02:33:20.360
Thank you. Thanks, you appreciate
that call very much. We made it

2088
02:33:20.760 --> 02:33:24.840
through all the calls there that were
hanging on. I guess if you called

2089
02:33:24.879 --> 02:33:30.159
in the next thirty seconds, we
can take another call from you. Boy.

2090
02:33:30.280 --> 02:33:33.319
This was a kind of a Whirlwinday
talked about a lot of things,

2091
02:33:33.360 --> 02:33:37.159
of course, a lot about trees. People are always concerned about their trees.

2092
02:33:37.280 --> 02:33:39.040
Just remember, if you're going to
plant a tree, you're not going

2093
02:33:39.120 --> 02:33:43.239
to have a better time than right
now. Yes, we can plant a

2094
02:33:43.239 --> 02:33:46.360
tree twelve months out of the year. Here. The hotter it gets,

2095
02:33:46.399 --> 02:33:48.760
the more tricky it is to get
them established well. But this is a

2096
02:33:48.799 --> 02:33:52.040
time if you're going to do any
kind of pruning. Late winters the time.

2097
02:33:52.120 --> 02:33:56.920
Don't prune your trees, your fruit
trees, specifically fruit trees in the

2098
02:33:56.959 --> 02:34:01.200
fall. That affects how early species
of fruit blooms in the spring, and

2099
02:34:01.239 --> 02:34:05.680
we don't want them to bloom earlier, So just hold off until late winter

2100
02:34:05.840 --> 02:34:11.040
for that. A little minor trimming
on landscape trees now and then is fine.

2101
02:34:11.360 --> 02:34:16.639
Just remember on the pruning category that
any plant that blooms only in spring,

2102
02:34:16.360 --> 02:34:20.280
you don't prune until after it blooms. So that would be red bud,

2103
02:34:20.319 --> 02:34:24.639
that would be a dog, would
that would be what else? Forsythia

2104
02:34:24.799 --> 02:34:28.879
blooms in the spring. I'm trying
to think of other examples. There are

2105
02:34:28.879 --> 02:34:31.719
many other spring on oh. Once
blooming rose like Lady banktrose, it blooms

2106
02:34:31.719 --> 02:34:35.639
in the spring and never again.
A lot of roses just keep blooming in

2107
02:34:35.760 --> 02:34:39.479
cycles. But anything that blooms in
the spring, it's got its bloom buds

2108
02:34:39.479 --> 02:34:41.799
on it right now. And if
you're prune, you're just staying away for

2109
02:34:41.840 --> 02:34:46.799
spring flowers, so let them go
and after bloom, then prune them.

2110
02:34:46.920 --> 02:34:48.719
For all the other things that bloom
through the year, like a rose that

2111
02:34:48.760 --> 02:34:52.319
blooms in the spring but keeps blooming
through the year, you can do your

2112
02:34:52.360 --> 02:34:58.079
pruning in the wintertime. For those
that is just fine to do. Don't

2113
02:34:58.120 --> 02:35:01.719
worry about that at all. It'll
be good, good to go. Before

2114
02:35:01.760 --> 02:35:03.879
you go out and prune things,
learn how to do it. There's a

2115
02:35:05.000 --> 02:35:07.840
right way and a wrong way to
do it. I certainly can't explain the

2116
02:35:07.879 --> 02:35:11.040
whole thing on the radio. I
need to put something up on my website

2117
02:35:11.040 --> 02:35:15.680
about that. But anyway, that
is what I would recommend is learn,

2118
02:35:15.840 --> 02:35:18.079
learn, learn, so when you
do the job, you do it right

2119
02:35:18.159 --> 02:35:24.479
and your plants are enhanced not harmed
by the printing practices. Well, you've

2120
02:35:24.479 --> 02:35:28.600
been listening to Garden Line. We're
going to be back tomorrow six am to

2121
02:35:28.719 --> 02:35:31.680
ten am tomorrow. We'll be right
here where we are today, our phone

2122
02:35:31.760 --> 02:35:35.799
number seven one three two point two
fifty eight seventy four. Write that down

2123
02:35:35.799 --> 02:35:39.159
sticket on a refrigerator or something,
so you've got it there. I'm going

2124
02:35:39.239 --> 02:35:43.559
to be out at Ciena Mulch.
I'm fixing to jump into the car.

2125
02:35:45.000 --> 02:35:48.600
We are going to be out there
at a really cool shindig that they have

2126
02:35:48.760 --> 02:35:52.399
going out at Ciena Mulch. I'm
going to be given away, in fact,

2127
02:35:52.440 --> 02:35:58.239
that first twenty six people that come
to my booth at my table,

2128
02:35:58.799 --> 02:36:03.920
I'll be giving away a free product
from Microlife, from Heirloom Soils or from

2129
02:36:05.040 --> 02:36:07.840
Nelson Plummer. We're going to have
plenty of that on hand. Show up

2130
02:36:07.879 --> 02:36:13.559
by the way, Cienamultch FM five
point twenty one Row Sharon, Texas