WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.200 --> 00:00:04.679 Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 2 00:00:04.719 --> 00:00:20.239 on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with Scared dirictor just watch 3 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:41.960 him as you did Clubs Back Chicken. I'm not a sign. The sun 4 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:55.159 beams starting. Well. Good morning. You are listening to Garden Line and 5 00:00:55.159 --> 00:00:58.000 we're here to talk about all kinds of things gardening. At this hour. 6 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:00.960 We have a special guest, Dean Nelson from Nelson Plant Food is going to 7 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:06.120 be here and we're gonna talk about the Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship. We will 8 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:08.799 get to that in just a moment. Right now, I've got a callers 9 00:01:10.040 --> 00:01:12.200 holding over for the hour, and that is run out in the League city 10 00:01:12.319 --> 00:01:15.640 run. We're gonna see if we can help you out before we move on 11 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:23.480 to talking about Randy Scholarship. How are you this morning. I'm doing fine, 12 00:01:23.560 --> 00:01:26.920 skill Thank you much for taking my call. Yes, sir, I've 13 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:30.480 got an issue with my lawn and I was listening to you last week, 14 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.560 and I know that there was some other people that were kind of a dressing 15 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:37.000 some things, but I don't know if mine similar to that. But I 16 00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:41.680 thought i'd been able to do you know what you've kind of priesched, and 17 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:46.519 and that's you know, following the schedule, and and I kind of keep 18 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.359 a diary off when I apply all of the products to the lawn. But 19 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:55.480 I've got some kind of diseased area in the front lawn. And it's not 20 00:01:55.599 --> 00:01:59.319 by you know, by the curve where the sidewalk is kind of in the 21 00:01:59.359 --> 00:02:05.000 middle, and you were stating last week that it could be from over watering. 22 00:02:05.079 --> 00:02:08.039 So I've I've kind of stopped that. But I do have some flower 23 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:13.599 beds with a lot of flowers and they demand a lot of water. So 24 00:02:14.800 --> 00:02:16.960 anyway, I've got taken some pictures and I didn't know if it might help 25 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:21.599 because if you took a look at them. But you know, I've a 26 00:02:21.639 --> 00:02:27.639 couple of months ago I put out the doctoral false of super super Turf nineteen 27 00:02:27.759 --> 00:02:30.560 four ten, put on a merchant, put on the Haze of Might, 28 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:35.439 and then a month later I put the bug out. And anyway, I 29 00:02:35.479 --> 00:02:39.080 thought I was doing all the right things, and and and just this week 30 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:43.599 I started putting the content twenty out. So okay, well, yeah, 31 00:02:43.719 --> 00:02:46.400 let's as we hang up here in a minute. I'm gonna put you on 32 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:50.879 hold and Joshua, get your get you my email address so you can send 33 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:53.000 me those photos. Just make sure they're in good sharp focus. Let me 34 00:02:53.039 --> 00:02:55.800 see the lawn from a distance, maybe an angle or two, and then 35 00:02:57.000 --> 00:03:00.360 get up real close to a problem area and let me see the grass. 36 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:04.319 But just check the focus before you send them, because it's the fazy. 37 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:07.080 I can't help, but yeah, it sounds like you're doing a lot of 38 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:09.479 good things. I don't know. It could be a disease problem if it's 39 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:13.400 too If it was too wet when you walk on it, you would know, 40 00:03:13.479 --> 00:03:16.159 I mean it would be you could just tell it was wet, but 41 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:22.120 too wet or too dry, you know, either way. It's everybody's sprinkler 42 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:25.400 system puts water out at a different rate. Everybody has different kinds of soil 43 00:03:25.479 --> 00:03:30.159 type, different slope, and it's just really hard to you know, generalize 44 00:03:30.199 --> 00:03:35.240 too much. But about an inch a week should be enough. An inch 45 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:38.919 of irrigation a week should be about right us as to kind of shoot for 46 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:45.439 on average, considering all those things I just said, Okay, Well, 47 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:50.360 in order to keep it anyway out was a sprinkler system for the whole front 48 00:03:50.439 --> 00:03:53.360 yard, and that includes a flower bed so well, I did once or 49 00:03:53.400 --> 00:03:58.560 twice a week. My flowers wouldn't make it. Okay, Well, do 50 00:03:58.680 --> 00:04:02.080 what you gotta do what you got Josh damn if I can get the photos 51 00:04:02.080 --> 00:04:05.080 to you. All right, I'm putting you on hover right now. Thank 52 00:04:05.120 --> 00:04:09.759 you for the call. Well, Dean, welcome at glad to have you 53 00:04:09.840 --> 00:04:12.560 here. Thanks going to be here. Well be a big city here, 54 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:16.560 that's it, the big city. Uh so. Uh. First of all, 55 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:23.759 Dean is is the owner and the creator of the Nelson Plant Food Program. 56 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:27.720 And you you got how long has your company been? Around? October 57 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:30.319 fourteenth this year will be forty years. Forty years. Yeah, we incorporated 58 00:04:30.319 --> 00:04:33.480 on my mom's birthday. Oh wow, okay, yeah, Julie and I 59 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.720 started it a long time ago. Yeah, no kidding. Well, I 60 00:04:36.759 --> 00:04:41.879 know you guys are you make a lot of good quality products that are available 61 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:44.480 in a lot of places and used by a lot of folks, especially the 62 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:48.199 professional industry has recognized that. Yeah, that's most of our business is actually 63 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:54.879 the growers, uh you know green Leaf Creekside, Verdi Huge Treetown that you 64 00:04:54.920 --> 00:04:58.560 know they changed names Hind's Nurseries that may may remember that I've made all their 65 00:04:58.560 --> 00:05:01.720 pre plant from a eighty six until they closed. And so that's our big 66 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.480 part. And then landscapers do a lot of h oas you know, I 67 00:05:05.480 --> 00:05:11.319 could name fifty HLAs around Houston, First Colonies and Shadow Creek just on and 68 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:15.560 on. Well, and then we do the homeowner size products. We take 69 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.480 a lot of our grore and landscape products and put it in the jars in 70 00:05:18.480 --> 00:05:21.079 the small backs for homeowners. Yeah, we were just talking about that. 71 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:26.720 The folks out at you know Warrens and Kingwood that got the little things where 72 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:29.959 you fill up your dug over to spinsters. Well that is good. Well, 73 00:05:29.959 --> 00:05:32.000 folks, if you have a story about Randy, I would like for 74 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:34.759 you to give me a call. That's what we're gonna do this hour, 75 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:39.839 is we're gonna hold off on calls about what's wrong with you know, this 76 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:43.639 or that plan or whatever, and I would like to focus on stuff about 77 00:05:43.720 --> 00:05:46.560 Randy. And if you have a technical question about fertilizer, we can also 78 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:50.000 talk about that. In fact, I hope we have some time here to 79 00:05:50.120 --> 00:05:55.120 be able to get into a little bit about some of the stuff you probably 80 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:59.079 don't know about nutrients and how they work and how fertilizers work in the line. 81 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:02.079 But right now, I just want to talk about the scholarship. You 82 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:05.519 guys got this set up, and I would like you to tell us a 83 00:06:05.560 --> 00:06:09.639 little bit about that scholarship. Okay, yeah, this is this is a 84 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:13.199 permanently endowed scholarship, which means it will be once it's fun that it will 85 00:06:13.279 --> 00:06:19.879 give a a this I'm gonna get a little emotional probably this whole thing. 86 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:27.079 It'll be a money for a student forever. And we got with doctor Dinga. 87 00:06:27.160 --> 00:06:30.319 He'll be on here later ahead of the department up there and the than 88 00:06:30.480 --> 00:06:35.800 M Foundation and they manage it and they will pick And I asked doctor Dana, 89 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:38.720 I said, when he set this up, I said, you want 90 00:06:38.720 --> 00:06:41.560 to use this for recruiting or to pay a current student? That there he 91 00:06:41.560 --> 00:06:46.439 said recruiting. He said, you would be amazed how much a scholarship will 92 00:06:46.519 --> 00:06:50.759 do to bring in good, solid students in the horticulture industry. And our 93 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:56.519 concern is we really do need young some younger people coming in. Yeah, 94 00:06:56.519 --> 00:07:00.759 absolutely, absolutely the field of horticulture. There's a wonderful field. But a 95 00:07:00.800 --> 00:07:03.160 lot of people you know that are out there in high school and stuff, 96 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:09.040 it may not be on their radar and being aware of the quality education they 97 00:07:09.040 --> 00:07:13.439 can get in horticulture and the career opportunities in horticulture. That is an important 98 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.759 thing, and this scholarship will go a long way toward that. Man, 99 00:07:15.800 --> 00:07:18.360 I hate that we just get started talking. We are you gotta go to 100 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:21.519 another break, but we gotta we gotta do that. But we will be 101 00:07:21.560 --> 00:07:26.319 coming back quick here. If you would like to give us a call again. 102 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:29.800 I would love to hear some things about Randy, some advice he gave 103 00:07:29.879 --> 00:07:32.959 you, some things you just enjoyed. However you want to talk about it. 104 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:36.839 It's seven one three, two one two five eight seven four. We'll 105 00:07:36.879 --> 00:07:41.120 be right back with Dean Nelson and we're going to continue to talk about that 106 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:48.120 scholarship. I could be handy manning a few when your lights have gone, 107 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:54.199 you can in this way to buy the fireside Sunday morning, go for a 108 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:58.519 ride, doing the garden, digging the wheels. So good, that's one 109 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:05.920 more. I'm sixty four. Well, good Sunday morning. You were listening 110 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:07.079 to Guardline And by the way, do you know how hard it is to 111 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.959 find a barbershop song that talks about gardening? It takes a while. That 112 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:15.279 was actually skipping me singing there. That's that's it. Actually, we had 113 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:18.079 two other people that will go on names that were part of the core town. 114 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:22.199 Oh my gosh, we're here talking to Dean Nelson and we're talking about 115 00:08:22.199 --> 00:08:26.240 the Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship. And again, I would invite you if you 116 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.839 got any kind of a Randy story, some of you lemon heads out there, 117 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.519 I'm sure you got a lot of Randy stories how he helped you, 118 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.960 some of the influence that he had helping you have a more bountiful garden and 119 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:41.279 a beautiful landscape. Please give us a call at seven one three, two, 120 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:46.200 one two five eight seven four. Well, Dean, let's talk a 121 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:50.679 little bit more about getting that scholarship set up. I think it's a wonderful 122 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:54.600 idea. And you mentioned the fact that it's in perpetuity, right. It 123 00:08:54.759 --> 00:09:00.200 is an endowment, so that that will just continue. It's not just like 124 00:09:00.200 --> 00:09:03.440 one student gets a scholarship. It just goes every year, ever semester, 125 00:09:03.480 --> 00:09:09.360 they'll get a check. That is a good thing. Well, having been 126 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:13.080 a student, I can tell you how important that is. Every little bit 127 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:18.399 really does help and supporting the horticulture industry. It's just it's important we need 128 00:09:18.600 --> 00:09:22.799 quality trained folks. You know, there's a lot of people out giving gardening 129 00:09:22.799 --> 00:09:26.720 advice that maybe didn't have that training, and sometimes you end up with some 130 00:09:28.279 --> 00:09:31.000 interesting advice as a result of that. And of course I'm biased toward n 131 00:09:31.159 --> 00:09:35.879 M because I went there, I made two laps through the place myself. 132 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:41.480 But I just when I think back on the things I learned in college and 133 00:09:41.519 --> 00:09:48.559 those principles and how they today continue to inform me helping people with things, 134 00:09:48.679 --> 00:09:52.039 I know how important that is. And I can tell you this, Randy 135 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:56.879 loved NM and I he would he could not be prouder than if he knew 136 00:09:56.919 --> 00:10:01.440 about what's going on right now. Yeah, you you never know when you 137 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:05.840 get a student in there, that's what that kid is going to end up 138 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:07.720 doing, you know, like what you're doing, what I'm doing. You 139 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:11.559 know, we're making I think a pretty get big impact. Stuart Frankie, 140 00:10:11.559 --> 00:10:13.399 I just talked to him on the phone ten minutes ago, owns a medina. 141 00:10:13.240 --> 00:10:16.720 Yeah, you know, he's an aggy and just you just never know 142 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:20.879 what impact that's going to have on the whole state of Texas. Really, 143 00:10:22.519 --> 00:10:24.919 and uh so we if we need to keep the supply, because you go 144 00:10:24.960 --> 00:10:28.840 to these trade shows. A lot of gray hairs out there, you know, 145 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:31.840 a lot of gray hairs, and it's it's we need to get some 146 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.600 of these younger kids involved. And Randy, like you said, he he 147 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.320 was always fired up. I don't know, he was always not happy. 148 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:43.440 He couldn't attend the football games because he has on the radio all the time, 149 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:46.639 but he just he uh. He always talked about his experience at A 150 00:10:46.639 --> 00:10:50.519 and M. And he when he was working for the publications Department and doing 151 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:54.480 all the radio shows and he did the Jackie Sheryl Show. I think, 152 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.360 yeah, he was worked with that com Yeah, did a lot of a 153 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:00.759 lot of stuff with them. And then you know, if anybody was made 154 00:11:00.759 --> 00:11:03.320 for the job he had, it was him. I mean that guy he 155 00:11:03.440 --> 00:11:05.600 was. He was. He was a big personality, which you have to 156 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:11.679 have, I think, uh to to do what he did, what he 157 00:11:11.919 --> 00:11:16.080 was trying to do when you're writing the books and meeting all the people out 158 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:18.799 there, and just really I think a lot. And you know I've talked 159 00:11:18.840 --> 00:11:22.000 about this. You know if you go around to other and you used to 160 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:24.080 mentioned it on the radio the other day that you go to other cities and 161 00:11:24.200 --> 00:11:28.320 they don't have the independent garden centers that we have here. I mean, 162 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:31.519 you could just name a fifty sixty, you know, you go down the 163 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:35.399 list, and these people have been in it for a long time, you 164 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:39.559 know, second third generations now. And I think a lot of the reason 165 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:43.840 is is Randy promoted the industry. Of course, being in Houston, will 166 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:46.840 you have all the problems with the landscape, you know, you got to 167 00:11:46.879 --> 00:11:50.559 go to these stores and then gets supplies to help take care of the yard. 168 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:54.559 But there's also you can grow plants, you know, I grow in 169 00:11:54.639 --> 00:12:00.600 season basically as ten months, maybe maybe even longer, and lots of water 170 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:05.559 normally yea. And so it's a great area to be involved in horticulture. 171 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:07.879 And Randy was just a huge, huge part of that. And I know 172 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.639 he I know he made a difference in the lives of a lot of callers. 173 00:12:11.759 --> 00:12:16.440 I mean people they worshiped Randy. He was he was just an icon 174 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:20.000 for them. I know that same is true for those of you who are 175 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:24.480 sponsors of the show through the years. That Randy just he was connected, 176 00:12:24.919 --> 00:12:30.519 He understood, he understood products, he understood supplies, he understood the garden 177 00:12:30.600 --> 00:12:33.080 centers and the places that we have, and that connection. When you put 178 00:12:33.120 --> 00:12:39.240 all that together, it just it just really created a unique environment. And 179 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:43.879 Houston is I do say this that San Antonio's got a couple of really good 180 00:12:43.879 --> 00:12:50.039 garden centers, Austin's got one and a half really good garden centers. Dallas 181 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:52.519 Fort Worth has one or two up there, but not like Houston. I 182 00:12:52.559 --> 00:13:00.679 mean, it is just unbelievable here. And the enthusiasm you know for garden 183 00:13:00.759 --> 00:13:03.720 line. Uh, you go back in the history, back Bill Zac, 184 00:13:03.799 --> 00:13:07.759 John Burrows, all the folks that Dewey Compton go back that far and all 185 00:13:07.759 --> 00:13:09.639 the people that held that chair. I don't know that anybody did anybody hold 186 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:15.039 it as long as ran twenty seven years, I believe, I mean it 187 00:13:15.279 --> 00:13:18.879 in recent history, it's all. It's been all about him, the personality 188 00:13:18.919 --> 00:13:24.200 and the way that he uh he just was a natural came to things. 189 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:26.200 Yeah. Yeah, I remember listening to Due Compton when I was a little 190 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:31.039 kid out on the rice farm in Tomorrow. Yeah. Medina always Aboudina. 191 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:35.240 In fact, my brother and I bought our show steers from him run up 192 00:13:35.240 --> 00:13:37.360 in Paris, Texas. He had a ranch up there, and mean we 193 00:13:37.440 --> 00:13:41.519 bought our show steers and I won the Grand champion and my brother won reserve 194 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.120 in nineteen seventy three. Katie fa Liftock show. Wow, Okay, well 195 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:50.360 that's entry. I was reading one of his u almanacs the other day. 196 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:52.759 I got a little stack of a few of them, and someone just gave 197 00:13:52.799 --> 00:13:56.559 me one the other day. And a matter of fact, uh and just 198 00:13:56.720 --> 00:13:58.840 going back to look at what people said back then, and you know how 199 00:13:58.840 --> 00:14:05.279 they how they approach things. Well on this scholarship, people can if you're 200 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:09.480 interested in giving towards this scholarship, it's really simple. I've gone online, 201 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:11.759 done it myself. You can give. You can do a phone call. 202 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:16.879 It's nine seven nine eight four to five eight one six one. That's nine 203 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:20.720 seven nine eight four five eight one six one. Talk to the AMM Foundation 204 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:24.879 there. They're the one that coordinate all these endowed scholarships. Or if you 205 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:28.120 want to make it even simpler, just get a pen. You know you're 206 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.600 supposed to listen to Guardenline with a pen and paper in hand. I keep 207 00:14:31.639 --> 00:14:33.519 telling you that, get a pen, piece of paper, write down, 208 00:14:33.720 --> 00:14:41.720 give dot am, give dot am slash Randy Lemon with two ms Randy l 209 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:46.000 em m m o N give dot am slash Randy lemon and it'll get you 210 00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:50.480 right there where you can do. It's really simple, really easy to do. 211 00:14:50.759 --> 00:14:56.080 And you know, when we think about I know that thousands of you 212 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:58.720 listening, Randy had a big impact on your life. It's just a small 213 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:03.639 way to say thank you. And as you were sending, to support the 214 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:09.559 future of the industry too, which is really important because we need to continue 215 00:15:09.639 --> 00:15:15.600 having good accurate information available, you know, to the industry. Folks that 216 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:18.840 have a nursery need to be able to hire somebody that's been trained, Folks 217 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:20.879 like yourself. I mean you've you've hired a few aggies yourself. I believe 218 00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:26.519 I've met a future and you know, it helps to have someone coming in 219 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:28.360 and they kind of know what's going on, they know what they're doing and 220 00:15:28.519 --> 00:15:31.519 being able to move forward on that and the show. Excuse me, the 221 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:35.559 show sponsors, you know, we need it and I'm calling, like I 222 00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:41.159 said, I just talked to Stuart, excuse me and us show sponsors need 223 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:43.840 to really step up because like when I started Carboload, I knew if I 224 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:48.919 didn't get our turf star, I knew if I didn't get Randy on board, 225 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:52.559 the stores wouldn't carry me and so I involved him from the very beginning 226 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:56.759 when I first started coming up with it, and explained to him what we 227 00:15:56.759 --> 00:16:00.120 were trying to do and how it was going to work. And because if 228 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.720 you go into the store, first thing they say, are y'all on garden 229 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:04.759 Line? Yeah? Yeah, you know, And you know I was talking 230 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:10.679 to Ryan at Michael Life. Michael wasn't there. He was at the show 231 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:15.360 with you the next day. And Dan Snyder at Nitro Foss and uh Medina. 232 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:19.960 Garden Line built those guys. I mean, they got great products, 233 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:23.960 great marketing, great people. But Garden Line put them on the map, 234 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:26.919 I think, and me too, my color Star it put it on the 235 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:30.960 map. So we we have an obligation there. I think. Well, 236 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:36.480 that's that's well said. I do want to invite you if you'd like to 237 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:41.639 call in. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight 238 00:16:41.840 --> 00:16:45.960 seventy four seven one three two one two five h seven four r KTRH. 239 00:16:47.000 --> 00:16:51.000 If that makes it easier for you to remember if you would like to don 240 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:53.919 it, you can also just write a check and mail it to the Texas 241 00:16:53.919 --> 00:17:00.000 A and M Foundation. Again, get that penhandy four oh one. George 242 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:06.240 Bush Drive College station seven seven eight four zero. That's another way that you 243 00:17:06.240 --> 00:17:10.200 can do that. Uh. You know, Randy, Uh, I can 244 00:17:10.240 --> 00:17:12.519 always remember the few times that I came in and was actually on the on 245 00:17:12.559 --> 00:17:17.640 the show when he was doing the show. Uh. He just he had 246 00:17:17.720 --> 00:17:21.599 a larger than lifness about him. You know, he just had a way 247 00:17:21.640 --> 00:17:26.200 of Uh I don't know, he owned the room, you know what I'm 248 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:32.079 saying, and people really respected and looked up to him and depended on his 249 00:17:32.240 --> 00:17:37.680 expertise. I was at Hins Nursery, I you know, thirty years ago, 250 00:17:37.720 --> 00:17:41.000 and they had their head pH D guy come out from California helping him 251 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:44.599 with some problems. And I went in there and they called me and I 252 00:17:44.599 --> 00:17:45.599 went in. I was talking to him about you know, for lager and 253 00:17:45.640 --> 00:17:48.559 fertility and everything. And he called me the next day out of the blue. 254 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:51.920 I didn't know the guy, and he says, you're famous. I 255 00:17:51.920 --> 00:17:53.400 said, what what? Hey? Yeah, I just hurt you. On 256 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:56.200 Garden Line Randy Limb was talking about you, and I thought, what in 257 00:17:56.279 --> 00:18:00.680 the heck is a PhD guy? Yeah, into the radio a garden Line 258 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:04.559 show on a Saturday morning. But everybody does, and everybody everybody like you 259 00:18:04.559 --> 00:18:07.559 said while ago we could all learn something. A lot of people listen. 260 00:18:07.640 --> 00:18:15.319 I'm always surprised, always surprised by that. Uh we uh you know, 261 00:18:15.400 --> 00:18:19.759 it's it's it's just I don't know it. For a lot of people just 262 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:22.799 over the years, like you're talking about, even back to dey Compton days, 263 00:18:22.839 --> 00:18:26.559 people just it was just part of light to get up and listen to 264 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:30.039 Garden Line. And that's something that you know, I mean with where Garden 265 00:18:30.039 --> 00:18:34.119 Line was taken by all of the giant Sue shoulders, I stand on in 266 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:38.880 this seat. Uh you know my goals and I dropped that ball because they 267 00:18:40.440 --> 00:18:44.880 really created a beautiful institution and Randy, I just would say, was the 268 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:48.960 culmination of it all. He really took it to the next level. Well, 269 00:18:48.960 --> 00:18:52.680 and you brought you your horticultural experience into it too, of all these 270 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:55.839 years, so you're adding a whole lot to it because you you've been out 271 00:18:55.880 --> 00:18:57.559 there in the field and this is what you do for a living, you 272 00:18:57.599 --> 00:19:02.200 know, and you're bringing that to the radio. No. I appreciate that. 273 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:07.759 After I have a call here that was from Tumball, is Lee is 274 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:10.039 going to call in here and talk to us a little bit about some melons. 275 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:11.000 I think I'm gonna see what Lee's Okay, Hey, Lee, how 276 00:19:11.039 --> 00:19:17.079 are you doing this morning? Just fine. I've been doing a little experimentation 277 00:19:17.160 --> 00:19:19.160 in my garden this year. So this is the first year I've had any 278 00:19:19.519 --> 00:19:26.720 cataloa for watermelon. But I am growing kiwano melon, a jelly melon, 279 00:19:27.160 --> 00:19:32.160 which is native to like I understand, I think Africa in the Middle East. 280 00:19:32.200 --> 00:19:34.440 You seem in the grocery store that these kind of orangey looking things as 281 00:19:34.440 --> 00:19:38.119 spikes. They're about the size I don't have a pair, a little bitter 282 00:19:38.559 --> 00:19:45.480 and so anyway I can. The thing is growing. It's my understanding is 283 00:19:45.519 --> 00:19:51.680 it's native to arid regions, but I can't get the thing to um to 284 00:19:52.880 --> 00:19:57.839 set fruit. It's it's blooming. And so I'm wondering if it's a pollination 285 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:03.960 issue or if it's the nutrition issue. I tried to hand pollinate some no 286 00:20:03.160 --> 00:20:07.960 go. So I'm just wondering what I'm doing wrong. All right, Lee, 287 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:10.799 Are you familiar with the difference between a male and a female blossom? 288 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:14.359 Do you know by looking at them? Okay, so you know, yes, 289 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:18.440 tonight. Yeah, I just want to make sure I'm pollinating the right 290 00:20:18.519 --> 00:20:22.400 thing there. Okay, yes, yes, I did do that right. 291 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:29.160 And by the way, they for whatever reason, unlike my other let my 292 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:33.400 squash and those things, rather they set a whole lot more female than male 293 00:20:33.799 --> 00:20:37.559 flowers, which is usually the opposite for me. But well that's just what 294 00:20:37.640 --> 00:20:40.440 they do. I got to confess, I have never grown that melon, 295 00:20:40.519 --> 00:20:42.240 the Kawana melon, and so I'm not an extra naunt it. But I 296 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:45.279 can tell you with melons, for each set, you don't want to overdo 297 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.720 the nitrogen. But you got to get the pollen from the male to the 298 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.319 female blooms. And why that isn't successful for you, I can't tell you. 299 00:20:52.680 --> 00:20:56.640 I would just see, be patient, be patient, keep trying. 300 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:00.759 I don't know that particular melon if there's some temperature issues that are not but 301 00:21:00.079 --> 00:21:03.839 I'm up against a hard break, so I'm gonna have to go. But 302 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:07.240 sorry, we can't provide more help for you on that one. Hey, 303 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:10.359 we're gonna take a break here for the NICKI News Network. In the meantime 304 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:12.599 seven one three, two, one two five eight, seven four, give 305 00:21:12.680 --> 00:21:17.640 us a call. We're with Dean Nelson talking about the Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship 306 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:36.480 today. Well, good morning. You are listening to Guardline on a good 307 00:21:36.480 --> 00:21:38.799 Sunday morning. It's beautiful outside, got a little sunshine now and breeze. 308 00:21:38.839 --> 00:21:44.440 Temperature is still decent to be outside, but we're inside. We're talking about 309 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:48.839 the Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship, and Dean Nelson is our guests this morning, 310 00:21:48.279 --> 00:21:52.640 Dean from Nelson Fertilizer, and we are gonna continue to talk a little bit 311 00:21:52.640 --> 00:21:56.079 about Randy again. I'd invite you if you have something you would like to 312 00:21:56.079 --> 00:22:00.400 tell a story. I bet there's some Randy stories out there. I have 313 00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.480 a few, but he bribed me never to tell the story from college, 314 00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:07.880 So leave those off. The off, the off, the off the air. 315 00:22:08.480 --> 00:22:11.119 Uh. You know, if you'd like to give towards the scholarship, 316 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:19.039 it's give dot am slash Randy Lemon. Give dot am slash Randy Lemon. 317 00:22:19.279 --> 00:22:22.359 Now, when you get there, it's going to ask you to select like 318 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:26.960 a unit or a college because this is for the Holy NM Foundation. Just 319 00:22:26.200 --> 00:22:32.359 select unlisted account. Unlisted account. It's a second item down on the dropdown 320 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:34.960 menu. I believe, uh, and you you should be able to go 321 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:38.359 right there and give to Randy. You may have to write in the account 322 00:22:38.440 --> 00:22:44.599 name it's Randy Lemon. Eighty four Class eighty four Memorial Scholarship. But it's 323 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:48.359 really easy to do, very easy to do, and any amount is helpful. 324 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:52.200 You know. Dean was sort of challenging some of the sponsors out there 325 00:22:52.240 --> 00:22:55.559 to give and I would challenge you as listeners to, uh, you know, 326 00:22:55.839 --> 00:23:00.839 do something that's a small thing that makes a long, long term difference 327 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.599 and people's lives, and certainly when it comes to horticulture, because you think 328 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:07.359 about this, you know, all the years that Randy was here given advice, 329 00:23:07.400 --> 00:23:11.480 the years that I'm here given advice, that's all thanks to the fact 330 00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:14.559 that we were able to go through college somewhere and we were able to you 331 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:17.720 know, get our feet under us and get started. The folks that the 332 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:22.640 nurseries we have, the garden centers, just certainly the green industry, landscape 333 00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:26.960 industry, the installation and everything else that goes on. It's important to have 334 00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:30.759 people that are trained and this opens the door for that. You know, 335 00:23:30.839 --> 00:23:36.480 college is getting crazy expensive. Yeah, I was in the band in the 336 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:38.799 core full seven day meal, playing in the dorm and all that, and 337 00:23:38.839 --> 00:23:45.559 my whole whole everything. Four years, eight thousand dollars. Oh my god. 338 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:49.079 Now it's probably eighty. I think it takes eight thousand dollars just to 339 00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:52.359 go get all your books together to start. Yeah, well, our goal 340 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.759 on this is one hundred thousand dollars to raise and that'll kick all four to 341 00:23:56.839 --> 00:24:02.720 five thousand dollars a year, So four two five per year per year because 342 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:04.440 it's in doubt. Yeah, that's the They got to hold back zone and 343 00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:08.480 I got to manage it. And okay, so that's our goal. And 344 00:24:08.720 --> 00:24:14.119 in fact, this past spring with our turf Star what we did, we 345 00:24:14.200 --> 00:24:17.720 did it last May and this year we did it all spring. Every bag 346 00:24:17.759 --> 00:24:21.519 of turf Star people bought, we donated two dollars to the Camp Hope that's 347 00:24:21.559 --> 00:24:26.119 the PTSD Foundation. So this fall we're gonna do carbo load and we're gonna 348 00:24:26.119 --> 00:24:30.119 give it to Raindy Scholarship. That is, so every bag will donate two 349 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:33.319 dollars. Okay, and last year we sold five thousand bags, so I 350 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:36.920 hope this year will double that. I don't know, Well, well, 351 00:24:36.960 --> 00:24:38.200 I hope so too. I mean, it's a good product, but it's 352 00:24:38.200 --> 00:24:42.079 also a good cause. That's that is that's really good to hear. We 353 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:45.559 got a call I'm gonna go to this is We're gonna talk to this morning. 354 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:49.000 Uh John D out in League City. Hey, good morning, John 355 00:24:49.079 --> 00:24:56.119 v. D is giving guard in mine put a blush and wonderful Sunday morning 356 00:24:56.400 --> 00:25:03.680 with the sunshine out and sun eyes and and uh, just thoughts of mister 357 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:07.880 Randy Lemon. H gosh, what a joy and what an experience to be 358 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:11.839 able to talk to him online. I remember one time it was a ball 359 00:25:11.880 --> 00:25:15.640 game that was going on the night before and what have you. I don't 360 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:18.359 know which sports was going on, but a whole bunch of sports were going 361 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:22.640 on, and everyone was so excited of the winds and what have you used? 362 00:25:22.680 --> 00:25:27.920 And so I called in about the amillas that was red and white striped. 363 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:30.920 I didn't know the species of it. Had it fight for a while 364 00:25:30.920 --> 00:25:36.279 in the front yard, and so he's like, He's like, well, 365 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:38.079 I don't know, John V. And why don't we call it a clown 366 00:25:38.680 --> 00:25:42.720 clown flower armurillas. So I was like, oh man, I'm in so 367 00:25:42.839 --> 00:25:52.680 much trouble. And I was just like and then and then you know, 368 00:25:52.799 --> 00:25:57.079 he was in the process of co authoring another book, or he had asked 369 00:25:57.079 --> 00:26:00.920 me, He's like, would you like to co author this next book that 370 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:03.240 I'm getting out of Oh my god, I'm like, I'm going out of 371 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:07.720 my mind. I was like, whoa holy moth. Well, he was 372 00:26:07.759 --> 00:26:11.680 a character. I know that, Oh my gosh. And I missed us 373 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:17.000 on the services, and I just first, he's in blessings enormously out to 374 00:26:17.200 --> 00:26:21.960 his family, family, friends and friends, and I we still held him 375 00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:26.759 in memory as his presence is fault here with us today as every day, 376 00:26:26.920 --> 00:26:32.640 as who's in our hearts and our minds and our memories. And yes, 377 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:37.920 yeah, well good, I appreciate you sharing that that memory with us. 378 00:26:37.960 --> 00:26:44.079 I know a lot of people have our Randy memories to share. Yes, 379 00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:48.279 well, I'll be able to contribute to the memorial. Find I'm really excited 380 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:52.400 about helping to contribute to this and and and living in his memory and it 381 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:56.920 will live on for forever. That's absolutely true. Well, thank you, 382 00:26:57.000 --> 00:27:00.759 John V. I appreciate that call. Appreciate you you calling in uh Indean. 383 00:27:00.839 --> 00:27:06.359 Thank you guys for getting this set up just so there's an avenue for 384 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:08.880 people, makes it real simple. Well, especially for his kids. You 385 00:27:08.880 --> 00:27:12.839 know, they can go up there and meet the student every year and and 386 00:27:12.880 --> 00:27:17.680 that'll that'll be with him forever. Yeah, So that's that's special. And 387 00:27:17.759 --> 00:27:21.039 I just I know I've said this before, but it just I can just 388 00:27:21.079 --> 00:27:26.400 tell you. I know that Randy would have been prouder of this than about 389 00:27:26.400 --> 00:27:29.160 anything we could do. I mean, just the fact that he loved he 390 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:30.960 loved Daniel, loved the place he was. Of course, we all get 391 00:27:30.960 --> 00:27:36.200 dipped in purple or maroon kool a and we're up there and so uh but 392 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:41.559 uh, that is that would mean a whole lot to him. Well, 393 00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:44.720 and like you know, the money to the kid, you know, Julie 394 00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:45.799 and I had to we have to. Let I don't know, you don't 395 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:49.359 know this, but we had to leave graduate school from A and M. 396 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:52.640 Because I ran out of money, all right. I had to go to 397 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:56.039 work getting a job. I didn't get my degree. I had everything done 398 00:27:56.039 --> 00:27:57.839 but the thesis, and I had got I gotta feed my family. Oh 399 00:27:57.880 --> 00:28:03.240 well, so you know that. And I have stories of my buddies had 400 00:28:03.279 --> 00:28:07.640 taken their buddies into their house and helped them through school because they didn't have 401 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:10.359 any money. That's you know, so it's out there. You know, 402 00:28:10.680 --> 00:28:15.119 we need to do what we can. But Randy talks about generosity too. 403 00:28:15.200 --> 00:28:18.440 He had his service and then out at Brookwood when we planted the tree a 404 00:28:18.480 --> 00:28:22.119 couple of months ago. You know, they just kept talking about anytime anybody 405 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:23.759 needed it. Randy was away, he was he would find out about something 406 00:28:23.759 --> 00:28:27.400 in boot you know, like school needed needed uh, you know, backpacks. 407 00:28:27.400 --> 00:28:30.480 He bought everybody backpacks. You know, he was just so generous with 408 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:34.200 what he and Evan what all they supported. Yeah, that is that is 409 00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.920 really true. We're gonna head to the phones now. Uh and uh talk 410 00:28:38.000 --> 00:28:45.599 to doctor Dingra. Welcome to Garden Line, doctor Dingrad. Thank you. 411 00:28:47.599 --> 00:28:49.519 Oh well, we're we love to have you here. Uh. Doctor Dingra 412 00:28:49.880 --> 00:28:55.160 is the head of Horror Culture department at Texas and M University. And uh, 413 00:28:55.160 --> 00:28:57.599 we were glad you called in because we kind of would like to pick 414 00:28:57.640 --> 00:29:02.720 your brain a little bit about some of the importance of things like scholarships like 415 00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:07.359 this, the horticulture. You know what it's like in terms of recruiting students 416 00:29:07.440 --> 00:29:12.960 and students getting the things they need to have a successful college experience and then 417 00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:18.400 a career going out from that. We're we're about a minute away from a 418 00:29:18.440 --> 00:29:21.240 break, but if you'd like to give us some initial information and if you 419 00:29:21.240 --> 00:29:23.319 can hang on, then we'll continue more in depth. How about that? 420 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:30.319 Okay, I believe I just lost him. So we are going to pretty 421 00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.079 quick here go to a break. Please call back. We will get you 422 00:29:33.119 --> 00:29:37.359 back on here as soon as we come back from the break. So, 423 00:29:37.960 --> 00:29:42.880 Dean, the the scholarship, the things are set up where people can give 424 00:29:42.920 --> 00:29:48.160 to it there. It makes it really easy. And then I think it's 425 00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.640 a great thing that you guys are doing the what you're doing with the carbo 426 00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:56.400 load coming up this fall, you know, donating toward it. I would 427 00:29:56.440 --> 00:30:00.279 encourage other people to consider other sponsors can consider ways that they might be able 428 00:30:00.440 --> 00:30:06.559 to, uh, you know, promote this scholarship through through some of the 429 00:30:06.599 --> 00:30:08.359 product sales that they're doing as well. I think that'd be good. Yeah, 430 00:30:08.359 --> 00:30:11.200 it's good. Good. It helps everybody out, helps everybody out. 431 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:15.160 Now that is that is true? Well, we are up against a hard 432 00:30:15.200 --> 00:30:18.519 break. Our phone number is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy 433 00:30:18.519 --> 00:30:22.680 four. If you would like to call in some sort of a story about 434 00:30:22.720 --> 00:30:25.119 Randy, what he meant to you, what he uh, you know. 435 00:30:25.200 --> 00:30:29.319 The benefits are just the enjoyment of being able to talk to him and hear 436 00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:32.440 him on the radio. We when we come back, we will visit with 437 00:30:32.559 --> 00:30:34.720 doctor Dingra, the head of the horticulture department at Texas A and M, 438 00:30:34.759 --> 00:30:40.400 and drill down a little bit more about how these scholarships work and recruiting students 439 00:30:40.519 --> 00:30:42.640 for horticulture. Right now, we're heading to break and we'll talk to you 440 00:30:42.680 --> 00:31:07.119 in just a moment. They had to play. We're both prelate. Well, 441 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:11.319 good morning. You are listening to garden Line on a beautiful Sunday morning, 442 00:31:11.720 --> 00:31:15.880 and we're about to go take a call from doctor I'm at ding head 443 00:31:15.960 --> 00:31:19.880 of the horticulture department at Texas A and M. Doctor Dingrad's good to have 444 00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:23.039 you back, Glad, thanks for calling back on when we dropped you there. 445 00:31:25.519 --> 00:31:29.039 Don't worried hardly to you all as well as all the listeners. Thank 446 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:30.640 you for having me on. It's good to have you on. We're talking 447 00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:38.200 about Randy Lemon Memorial Scholarship this morning. Dean Nelson Nelson Plant Food has been 448 00:31:38.400 --> 00:31:42.640 here with us talking about the how to give towards the scholarship, and I'd 449 00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:47.000 like to just hear from you know, horticulture department head a little bit about 450 00:31:47.839 --> 00:31:51.240 the department. How many how many folks kiddos do you have going? I 451 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:53.680 sound like an old guy. Kiddos, how many students do you have going 452 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:59.079 through going through horticulture at A and M now and a little bit about recruiting 453 00:31:59.119 --> 00:32:04.920 students and looking at the future of horticulture education. Absolutely, thank you so 454 00:32:05.000 --> 00:32:08.720 much for this chance to discuss this very important and critical matter for our state. 455 00:32:09.799 --> 00:32:15.160 As you know that horticulture is a very important industry for our state. 456 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:20.640 Totally, it accounts to about sixty billion dollars in impact, and we have 457 00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:25.440 about one hundred and thirty students majors and almost the same amount of students who 458 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:30.960 are taking a minor in horticulture. And it seems like horticulture seems like a 459 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.200 forgotten word, but it's part of our lives, right we're talking about mister 460 00:32:34.279 --> 00:32:39.000 Lemon. You go to atub you can see fruits, vegetable nuts, flowers, 461 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:44.960 plants. I mean, that's all horticulture. It's seems like we've dissociated 462 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:50.519 the word with all these healthful products now. So one of the things we 463 00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:52.640 do with our scholarships and this, you know, I was hearing an earlier 464 00:32:52.640 --> 00:32:57.920 house scholarships changed lives, and you know, keeping in with the legacy and 465 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:04.440 the mission of mister Lemon. I think these scholarships can really change people's careers 466 00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:09.680 trajectories, and I believe that what we are now utilizing it is that we're 467 00:33:09.759 --> 00:33:15.960 utilizing these fellowships to find students from all parts of the Texas who have a 468 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:20.319 passion for horticulture and we want to continue doing that in their future as well. 469 00:33:20.640 --> 00:33:22.799 So we've kind of started focusing on that way to bring in more and 470 00:33:22.880 --> 00:33:27.400 more students. My goal is to really grow the undergraduate program major is to 471 00:33:27.440 --> 00:33:34.160 about two hundred and fifty and every ounce of support financial support allows us to 472 00:33:34.200 --> 00:33:37.759 reach that number. You might be wondering why we're not just trying to go 473 00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:43.200 after numbers. I have to the state for the last two years. I'm 474 00:33:43.240 --> 00:33:47.200 a recent transplant from Washington State. Sorry for upon there, but I guess 475 00:33:47.200 --> 00:33:53.680 it's a plant show I can use the word transplant. So the big piece 476 00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:59.680 is that all our industries are facing a crisis in some sense that the younger 477 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:05.680 general people are not coming in from proper training and horticulture. So this is 478 00:34:05.680 --> 00:34:09.880 where we are really focusing on meeting the needs of all of our horticulture industry 479 00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:16.760 members, be at nurseries, landscape or pecans or fruits and vegetables, you 480 00:34:16.840 --> 00:34:20.480 know, wine, grapes, nuts, anything, you call it. So 481 00:34:20.519 --> 00:34:22.880 that's what the emphasis is right now, and we are trying to provide them 482 00:34:22.920 --> 00:34:30.480 some experiential training that they are job ready and they can meet their desired goals 483 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:35.199 in life. Some of them want to pursue further education, research, become 484 00:34:35.320 --> 00:34:37.960 leaders. We all are working very hard to replace ourselves. We better do 485 00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:43.599 a good job bringing in smarter people. Well, that is an excellent point. 486 00:34:43.920 --> 00:34:46.079 You always have to be looking toward the future and where we're going with 487 00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:52.360 things. The nice thing about a memorial scholarship like this and an endowment is 488 00:34:52.400 --> 00:34:55.159 that once you get it set up, it just keeps giving. So the 489 00:34:55.199 --> 00:35:00.119 money that people would would donate and Randy's memory toward it. That's not just 490 00:35:00.159 --> 00:35:06.480 like one student gets a scholarship. That is an endowment that Dan Nelson is 491 00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:09.400 set up here, setting up here that we'll just go on for perpetuity. 492 00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:16.239 And that's also important. Absolutely, and I'm very grateful to mister Nelson to 493 00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:22.360 really remember mister Lemon and put this fellowship, memorial fellowship together, a scholarship 494 00:35:22.400 --> 00:35:28.960 together. You're absolutely right. Such endowments can really keep on providing this support 495 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:32.599 to students and perpetuity. And what happens also is that we can also reach 496 00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:37.920 out to other members. It inspires others because all we have as we all 497 00:35:37.960 --> 00:35:42.039 pass on, is leave a legacy. And what a great legacy this will 498 00:35:42.079 --> 00:35:46.599 be. Once we have this type of scholarship coming together, which will you 499 00:35:46.639 --> 00:35:51.159 know, and the name continues, right, we will obviously be able to 500 00:35:51.199 --> 00:35:55.800 recognize. And I never had the good fortune of meeting mister Lemon, but 501 00:35:55.960 --> 00:36:00.760 I've read about him, I've heard about his shows, actually tuned in and 502 00:36:00.800 --> 00:36:07.280 seen past past shows. Amazing. His impact is amazing. I even you 503 00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:09.400 know, yes, I'm head of a department, but there was so much 504 00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:15.000 to learn from what he was saying. Practical experience that he provided regarding holo 505 00:36:15.039 --> 00:36:19.719 growth plants in this area, Yes, that is true. And uh, 506 00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:23.880 you know, there are thousands and thousands and thousands of people through this listening 507 00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:30.119 area that were benefit that benefited from Randy's advice, that enjoyed, you know, 508 00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:32.960 just just tuning in and listening. Maybe they didn't call in, they 509 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:37.199 just listened and learned and had fun and uh, and it just it impacted 510 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:42.679 Houston in so many ways that Dean and I were just talking about how this 511 00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:47.960 city has I think one of the most unique collection of super quality garden centers 512 00:36:49.039 --> 00:36:51.639 any place I've ever been. You go north, south, east, West, 513 00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.360 or Central and Houston and you've got a garden center. We're traveling halfway 514 00:36:54.360 --> 00:36:59.159 across the state just to come see. And that kind of a support for 515 00:36:59.199 --> 00:37:05.159 an industry, that kind of support for the whole green industry really is absolutely 516 00:37:05.239 --> 00:37:07.960 so and it must have brought it must have brought joy to all of the 517 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:14.360 people who were able to listen to mister Lemon's advice grow those plants beautifully and 518 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:17.360 just enjoy a nature. Right. We know we learned through the pandemic how 519 00:37:17.480 --> 00:37:23.840 plants really impact our mental one less you know that is so true? Yeah, 520 00:37:23.920 --> 00:37:28.280 go ahead. I was going to say, I wanted to illustrate a 521 00:37:28.280 --> 00:37:34.000 couple of examples some undergraduates how it has really benefited them. There are numerous 522 00:37:34.039 --> 00:37:39.599 examples about such scholarships that can really impact people. But just for the benefits 523 00:37:39.599 --> 00:37:44.599 of benefit of all the people listening in, is it okay if I just 524 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:49.079 share two examples? Sure? Sure, We've got about a minute and a 525 00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:53.000 half left before this this segment breaks, so please go ahead. Well, 526 00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:57.719 I'll say that we have a student, Mason Marshall, came into an undergrad 527 00:37:57.920 --> 00:38:02.360 Fellowships help them go through school. Now he's pursuing his PhD, working with 528 00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:08.440 Leach Gardens and looking at some ornamental plants. And then also in another student, 529 00:38:08.639 --> 00:38:13.280 Dona Fernandez, who basically ran a flower shop to support our family, 530 00:38:13.280 --> 00:38:16.039 but fellowship is really helping her to pursue her undergrad. You are just two 531 00:38:16.039 --> 00:38:21.159 examples, very recent ones that I've encountered personally. Well, those are those 532 00:38:21.199 --> 00:38:23.119 are good stories, and there are a lot of those. Uh. You 533 00:38:23.159 --> 00:38:29.559 know, we're biased because we're all with the horticulture department and everything. But 534 00:38:29.599 --> 00:38:34.440 I can just tell you that horticulture it changes lives. Doctor Charlie Hall's research 535 00:38:34.519 --> 00:38:37.599 on the benefits of horticulture, the benefits of plants to people, just the 536 00:38:37.719 --> 00:38:42.000 joy of it all. I mean, the health benefits and mental benefits from 537 00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:45.440 kids with add to adults with dementia, to everything else. Horticulture saves the 538 00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:49.480 world. I really do believe that. I'm not just saying that. And 539 00:38:50.039 --> 00:38:53.719 this is this is important because having a good source of good quality information. 540 00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:57.760 I like to refer to A and M as a source of all earthly knowledge, 541 00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:01.880 and I think the Culture Department. That is really true, Doctor Dingra, 542 00:39:02.039 --> 00:39:05.119 thank you so much for being on today. Hey, I look forward. 543 00:39:05.159 --> 00:39:07.599 I hope I get to see you at the t NLA in San Antonio 544 00:39:07.679 --> 00:39:12.760 here before too long. Absolutely, I look forward to singing there all right. 545 00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:15.400 Thank you so much for being on and bringing that perspective. And Dean, 546 00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:20.239 thank you so much. I appreciate you being here today and just the 547 00:39:20.280 --> 00:39:24.719 fact that you guys got this set up and hopefully people will join in and 548 00:39:24.800 --> 00:39:30.480 will do something about this wonderful opportunity. Here it is again. If you'd 549 00:39:30.480 --> 00:39:32.719 like to call for the scholarship, you have to do this during the week 550 00:39:34.159 --> 00:39:38.400 nine seven nine, eight four five five six excuse me, eight four five 551 00:39:39.480 --> 00:39:45.480 eighty one sixty one. There we go, eight five eighty one sixty one. 552 00:39:45.719 --> 00:39:52.199 If you want to give online, give dot am forward slash Randy Lemon 553 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:58.119 l em m O N select unlisted account and you will be able to put 554 00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:01.639 in Randy Lemon eighty four Memorial Scholarship. I hope you will consider this again, 555 00:40:01.760 --> 00:40:06.800 even if it's just a small amount, Think about not only what Randy 556 00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:09.760 did for you for the community, think about what this kind of gift does 557 00:40:10.199 --> 00:40:14.679 for the future. For who knows who's host of Garden Line after me. 558 00:40:15.079 --> 00:40:16.960 Maybe that person is getting trained at A and M right now. I would 559 00:40:16.960 --> 00:40:19.079 certainly hope to think that