WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:04.839 Ktr H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any of the products or services advertised 2 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:18.519 on this program. Welcome to ktr H Garden Line with Skip rictor Smiling Trip. 3 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:35.320 Just watch him as woo us so many feast to zeus clubs chicken, 4 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:52.119 but not a sign the sun beaming. Well, good Sunday morning. You 5 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:54.640 are listening to the Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and 6 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.280 we're here to talk about gardening. I see we got some folks on the 7 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.759 board there. It looks like we're gonna hit the ground running on this one. 8 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:03.400 But first I want to introduce our special guest of the hour, and 9 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:07.480 that is Sherry Harra from Plants for All Seasons. Good morning, Good morning 10 00:01:07.879 --> 00:01:11.879 to be here on this beautiful Saturday morning, Sunday morning. There you go. 11 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:14.959 It's always a good day when I get to visit with you and pick 12 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:17.879 your brain. I always learned something about plants. I think you've been doing 13 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:19.480 this for lall. Just a little bit, maybe talk to a person or 14 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:23.200 two about plant problems. Yeah, yeah, all day long, every day. 15 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:27.599 Sometimes I feel like the Statue of Liberty, the horticultural Statue of Liberty, 16 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:32.840 where it says bring me you're tired, you're weary, your huddled masses 17 00:01:32.920 --> 00:01:36.640 yearning to breathe free or something like that. People bring me they're sick, 18 00:01:36.719 --> 00:01:41.519 they're tired, they're insect infested. There, yes, yearning to be green 19 00:01:41.599 --> 00:01:44.920 again. Absolutely, yeah, I know you and I love it. And 20 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:48.000 it's not even when I'm at work. Yeah, it's it's all the time. 21 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:52.680 It is all the time, all the time. True story. Years 22 00:01:52.719 --> 00:01:56.239 ago in Conro, Texas, we were in church and it was one of 23 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:59.200 those kind of a little bit of an auditorium kind of thing with a platform. 24 00:01:59.280 --> 00:02:00.760 Yeah. I was actually going to read something to start the service, 25 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:04.519 and I was standing there and I looked at the back of the room and 26 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:07.800 somebody met eyes with me from coming in the back back of the auditorium. 27 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:12.080 I don't know why I noticed it, but they walked all the way down 28 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.840 up on the platform. This is like one or two minutes before we were 29 00:02:15.879 --> 00:02:19.599 starting, and they reached in their pocket and pulled out a baggy fas and 30 00:02:19.639 --> 00:02:23.120 I said, could we do this at another talk. That's not the right 31 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:25.719 time. That tops all my other stories, but I thought, oh Jesus 32 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.960 trumps the plant. There is never you're never gigging anywhere away from the mill. 33 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:34.039 That's funny. Well, I'll tell you what. We got some folks 34 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:36.599 waiting here on the line, So let's go and talk to some folks. 35 00:02:36.599 --> 00:02:39.840 We're gonna go out to Forest West and talk to Jerry. Hey, Jerry, 36 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:46.360 good morning, Welcome to garden Line. Good morning, ship. I 37 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:53.840 have a small garden and I have planted a single watermelon vine and it is 38 00:02:53.879 --> 00:02:59.639 pretty well spread out and over most of the garden. When I water it, 39 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:05.520 do I water just where I planted the single wine, or do our 40 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:09.199 water than whole area? Well, you don't have to water the whole area 41 00:03:09.280 --> 00:03:13.639 necessarily, but you certainly want to water where the vine comes out of ground. 42 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:16.360 That you need to water a much larger area than that. So that 43 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:22.159 watermelon's got roots reaching pretty far out in a lot of directions, and the 44 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.199 soil. Think of the soil as a bank account. So every bit of 45 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:29.080 soil that's moist is where roots can go get water. So if you water 46 00:03:29.159 --> 00:03:31.479 a little one foot, let's say you water at a cubic foot of soil 47 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:35.879 at the base, that's the only place that roots can get water. And 48 00:03:35.960 --> 00:03:39.319 that's not enough for them to supply the whole vine. So the wider you 49 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:42.560 water, the better. I just don't know that you need to, you 50 00:03:42.560 --> 00:03:46.639 know, like do a twenty foot wide area for one vine. All right, 51 00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:50.159 thank you very much. Now, you know the rule on garden Line 52 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:53.479 is we're happy to get free advice, but I expect to see a watermelon 53 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:59.439 at the studio when this is all over with. Okay, Jerry, I 54 00:03:59.479 --> 00:04:01.520 don't think you wants to share his water and on Yeah, I think I 55 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:08.080 left him speechless or something like that. Boy, vegetables are fun cherry, 56 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:12.400 oh yeah, being able to grow your own fresh produce and eat healthy. 57 00:04:12.479 --> 00:04:17.720 And you know lately the crucifer's vegetables cold crops like broccoling cabbage called maracle robbie, 58 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:23.279 those are nutrient packed and they have all those things other than nutrients that 59 00:04:23.319 --> 00:04:27.360 are compounds. It helps our body fight cancer, stay healthy. And people 60 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.680 are really in to grow in edibles. I bet, I bet you guys 61 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:33.160 have seen a little bit of evidence, huge uptick in the past several years. 62 00:04:33.240 --> 00:04:38.519 Really, it's it seems like gardening used to be trendy, like oh, 63 00:04:38.560 --> 00:04:42.759 everybody's going to do this this year. Well now it's everybody's growing food. 64 00:04:42.920 --> 00:04:46.079 Yeah, so anything they can eat and if they lose a plant in 65 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:48.959 their yard, they want something edible. So there you go. Ya, 66 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:53.439 that is a good point. And you know, when you grow food yourself, 67 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:56.639 it's fifteen hundred miles fresher in many cases, right, hasn't been hauled 68 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:00.879 from California, or hasn't been gassed or treated for anything. Yeah, let's 69 00:05:00.920 --> 00:05:03.360 make this turn orange. Yeah, well that is true. And I don't 70 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:09.519 want to date myself, but I can remember through the decades watching gardening kind 71 00:05:09.519 --> 00:05:13.000 of ebb and flow come and go. I remember in the nineteen seventies it 72 00:05:13.079 --> 00:05:16.759 was like everybody was into getting back to the land, nature, growing things 73 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.160 and stuff, and then it kind of went away for a while, and 74 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:24.360 then it came back. And I've seen several ebbs and flows of the interest 75 00:05:24.439 --> 00:05:28.920 and edibles. But right now it's kind of like a perfect storm because number 76 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:32.720 one, the amount of science research that's built up to show us that this 77 00:05:32.759 --> 00:05:35.759 stuff is saving our lives, it's changing our future. If you want to 78 00:05:35.800 --> 00:05:41.079 be healthy and active in old age, eat right through your life, and 79 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:45.759 it's so important. Secondly, economic times can be challenging, and you can 80 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:47.480 grow your own groceries, you know you can. I mean, you can 81 00:05:47.480 --> 00:05:50.319 put a lot of money into a vegetable garden if you invest in a big 82 00:05:50.399 --> 00:05:56.720 red Troy built tiller. And you know, I don't know that the groceries 83 00:05:56.759 --> 00:06:00.360 pay for themselves, but you can also do it very economically and help in 84 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:06.800 that way. And so I guess just that perfect storm of all those things 85 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:11.040 coming together for the kind of cool. Oh, it's super cool, you 86 00:06:11.079 --> 00:06:14.319 know. And we were talking to my daughter. My daughter's a little bit 87 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:17.240 of a world traveler lately. She just got back from Brazil yesterday from a 88 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:23.639 month's day. But she went to Italy for spring break. And one thing 89 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:27.759 she noticed is I ate a lot while I was there, and I didn't 90 00:06:27.800 --> 00:06:31.800 feel loaded or yucky. And so you know, in Europe they have different 91 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:38.600 regulations on different different kind of eating, and there in a little bit more 92 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:42.040 fresh and yeah, yeah, so I think a lot of people are noticing 93 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:45.480 that too. That's cool and they and they only way to control that is 94 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:47.839 to grow your own yea, And you sure can. It gives you lots 95 00:06:47.839 --> 00:06:51.240 of options. We're gonna we're gonna head out to Huffman now and talk to 96 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:54.920 Cooper. Hey, Cooper, we got about a minute. How can we 97 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:58.920 help today? Well, I'm going through the task of big and five holes 98 00:06:58.959 --> 00:07:01.000 for five palm trees. I've done it before, but it was a long 99 00:07:01.040 --> 00:07:03.319 time. So give me a hint of what I need to do other than 100 00:07:03.360 --> 00:07:06.560 dig a hole and stick them in there. Okay, so we put shales 101 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:09.879 on the bottom, but you said earlier do not do that, and I 102 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:13.079 didn't think that was right. So shell in the bottom of the palm tree 103 00:07:13.079 --> 00:07:15.839 hole. Shale not shale. Yeah, shale not shell. Why don't you 104 00:07:15.839 --> 00:07:20.360 address up? Yeah, so I do like to use the expanded shale when 105 00:07:20.399 --> 00:07:25.240 I'm planting, But you want to mix it in to the bottom of the 106 00:07:25.279 --> 00:07:28.839 hole and level your whole. Now, dig an ugly hole. I always 107 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:32.319 say, dig an ugly hole, don't dig a pretty nice smooth hole, 108 00:07:32.439 --> 00:07:36.519 because with our clay content and our soil, I'm assuming you live in the 109 00:07:36.519 --> 00:07:41.680 area. So well, this has been done before. Actually, the frieze 110 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:46.519 killed all my other palms, so the dirt is good from Okay, So, 111 00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:48.920 yeah, I do put shale in mixing the bottom. Yeah. I 112 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:54.040 do like to use the shale with with any of my tropicals and anything with 113 00:07:54.079 --> 00:07:57.759 a decent sized rootball. It just is like an insurance policy, and it's 114 00:07:57.759 --> 00:08:00.639 good to put it all through the bed too, not us in the hole, 115 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:03.319 right, but all through the bed because it helps that drainage. I 116 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:07.680 don't know what I had said that you heard before, but sometime sometimes people 117 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.759 think if you put gravel in the bottom of a hole, it makes it. 118 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:11.839 That's what it was. Well, that's like think of your aquarium. 119 00:08:11.879 --> 00:08:16.199 You've got gravel in the aquarium. The aquarium holds water. What good did 120 00:08:16.240 --> 00:08:18.959 that gravel do? Right? And so what we're trying to do is, 121 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.079 okay, I got John alligator turtles, all right, Well, forget my 122 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:28.879 analogy, then for crying all seriously, amend the whole soil, like Sherry 123 00:08:28.959 --> 00:08:31.799 was saying, get that quality shale, and it takes quite a bit of 124 00:08:31.840 --> 00:08:35.799 it to really make a big difference, maybe several inches if you can. 125 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:39.200 Yeah, okay, all right, thanks guys, I'm gonna start digging. 126 00:08:39.399 --> 00:08:43.320 All right, thank you very much, very good. We're gonna take a 127 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:46.600 break here. Let's see, we've got Jerry and al on. Hold Jerry, 128 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:50.440 will you'll be first when we come back, and then aw, hang 129 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:52.879 on just a minute. We're gonna take a break. We're visiting with Sherry. 130 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:54.679 Hair for plants for all seasons. Our phone number seven one, three, 131 00:08:54.919 --> 00:09:09.960 two and two fifty eight seventy four. Just good morning. You are 132 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:15.559 listening to garden line. It is a beautiful Sunday morning, and every day 133 00:09:15.600 --> 00:09:18.360 is a good day for gardening, right We talked about that, you know, 134 00:09:18.480 --> 00:09:22.440 I mean, if it right now, if there was lightning and hail 135 00:09:22.559 --> 00:09:28.360 storms and it was two degrees outside and I don't know, we'll make it 136 00:09:28.399 --> 00:09:31.440 the worst day in the world. You could still go inside and start your 137 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:33.919 broccoli transfer. You certainly could could take care of your house plants. You 138 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:39.120 could start planning your gardening and start you know, there's always something to do. 139 00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:41.799 Always a good day for gardening. I don't care what kind of day 140 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:43.480 it is, but today is a good day for gardening anyway, because especially 141 00:09:43.559 --> 00:09:48.240 right now it is it's not so hot, no, not so hot, 142 00:09:48.879 --> 00:09:50.879 and I realize, you know, the middle part of the day, you 143 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.039 don't want to be out there dying in the heat. By now's the time 144 00:09:54.080 --> 00:10:00.480 to get stuff done. Falls coming and you wait until the weather is comfortable 145 00:10:00.519 --> 00:10:03.480 to get outside. It's too late. It's too late to plant tomato. 146 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:05.399 Yeah, we were talking about that. You know, we have the store 147 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:11.200 loaded up with with tomatoes and peppers especially, and this will be the year 148 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:15.440 I was telling you in October. People will come in just as the it's 149 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:18.200 cooled and they're like, I need my fall tomatoes. And we'll be like, 150 00:10:18.240 --> 00:10:20.480 well, we were selling those in August and they'll be like, but 151 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.120 they're fall tomatoes and they look at you like you're so stupid. It's like, 152 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:26.879 I know, but you have to start early. Well, and people 153 00:10:26.919 --> 00:10:28.879 move here from other parts of the country. I get calls in May from 154 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:33.039 people that came from the Midwest. Yeah, plant their tomatoes in May. 155 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:37.679 And we had a big population of people that came late. You know, 156 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:41.879 they come after Memorial Day because like I'm North, That's that's when they would 157 00:10:41.919 --> 00:10:45.600 start because you could have a late frost. So we had a lot of 158 00:10:46.360 --> 00:10:50.039 teaching to do this year. Well, you can grow tomatoes even if you 159 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:52.600 plant them in June. You just don't get any fruit, right exactly, 160 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.879 I don't think we're growing people be like they'll be like I didn't have success 161 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:00.320 with my tomatoes this year, and I'm like, well, you started late, 162 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:03.519 so just give it some time. Wait till the end of September. 163 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:05.639 There you go. We're visiting with Sherry Harrow from plants for all seasons and 164 00:11:05.679 --> 00:11:09.679 answering your gardening questions. This morning we're gonna head out to East Texas and 165 00:11:09.720 --> 00:11:15.519 talk to Jerry. Good morning, Jerry, good morning. How can we 166 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:20.879 help? Well, I'm on a couple of acres and I have three quacks 167 00:11:22.360 --> 00:11:28.440 of the old asas that are six seven feet tall. I have one that's 168 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:35.919 probably three hundred square feet that is unfortunately in the sun. The pine tree 169 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:41.559 died with Hurricane Reader, and so about a foot on the end is getting 170 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:46.679 scorched. We're having one hundred and five, so the asa is in the 171 00:11:46.759 --> 00:11:54.240 sun are probably getting one hundred eight hundred and nine and they are literally about 172 00:11:54.240 --> 00:12:00.000 a foot are gonna die. Now you can see on the interior that they're 173 00:12:00.279 --> 00:12:07.759 some greens. Okay, Now, these we had summer till mid December, 174 00:12:09.080 --> 00:12:15.480 and then we had a frost and they got they were bloomed, and so 175 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:22.840 they got knocked back in December. Yeah, Nardinius demilius. Everything we're booming 176 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:28.080 in mid December. So they were stressed all year and they did bloom in 177 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:31.799 December, then they boomed in March. Now what do I do with this 178 00:12:33.639 --> 00:12:41.600 twelve to eighteen inches on the six foot of zaius that are literally dead. 179 00:12:41.080 --> 00:12:45.440 Well, I think the answer is really clear. You need to you need 180 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.039 to call Sherry to make a free trip up to these Texas just to look 181 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:52.200 at this plant to fix it for you. Sherry, what would you tell 182 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.159 somebody you understand it? I mean, yeah, this shade loving plant has 183 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.799 just been given the full brunners. Yeah, and it's been doing okay, 184 00:12:58.799 --> 00:13:03.799 so rita in that full sun. Yeah yeah, yeah. Man, these 185 00:13:03.840 --> 00:13:09.000 are all these are all fifty sixty years old. Yeah, they're well most 186 00:13:09.080 --> 00:13:16.720 I actually put another thirty let's see, uh okay, gall a mulch on 187 00:13:16.799 --> 00:13:20.440 them in the last few days. Yeah, all right, sounds like you're 188 00:13:20.440 --> 00:13:22.440 doing a lot of good things for him there. But let's just go. 189 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.039 We'll cut to the chase area. I guess you got to get water on 190 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:28.559 the roots. You gotta get water to the roots. Things like liquid seaweed 191 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.080 would be beneficial, kind of take the stress off of that plant. We 192 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:37.679 just have to get it through this stressful time. Basically. Yeah, it 193 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:41.279 sounds like you're doing you know, good things by the malch and Okay, 194 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:50.600 but do I wait till say September October and cut that one foot eighteen inches 195 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:52.919 off with prone in shares. It'd be fine if you want to do that. 196 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.480 I would, you know, if you don't like the look of it, 197 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:58.519 you can get it out of there. You can wait till late winter 198 00:13:58.559 --> 00:14:01.840 and do printing on them if you want. But I just remember that if 199 00:14:01.840 --> 00:14:05.919 anything's alive and you prune it and it's a nazella, those branches can't have 200 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.960 blooms this spring. Could you just cut off all their buds? Right? 201 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:11.840 Anything that dooms in the spring is that way. But if it's dead, 202 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:15.200 it's dead. It doesn't really matter. Yeah, So snip the ends and 203 00:14:15.279 --> 00:14:16.799 if they're if they're dead, cutting back. If they're not, I would 204 00:14:16.840 --> 00:14:20.480 leave them on there. Okay, Hey, Jerry, I appreciate your call. 205 00:14:20.519 --> 00:14:24.039 I gotta run and get some other calls, but thank you very much. 206 00:14:24.159 --> 00:14:26.679 I hope I hope that helps. And hey, where are you calling 207 00:14:26.759 --> 00:14:30.799 from? In East Texas? It's hot? Yeah? Where are you calling 208 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:37.720 from? Uh? Do you know where a wood bowl? Okay? We 209 00:14:37.919 --> 00:14:43.120 got sandy loam down to four five? Okay, don't tell us that here. 210 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.519 People here don't want to hear about your wonderful soil. Hey, Uh, 211 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:48.559 do you listen on the radio or do you listen online up there, 212 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:56.159 I have to listen online. We can't get each other. Oh the internet 213 00:14:56.320 --> 00:14:58.799 and dolled up. Yeah, so I enjoyed that way. All right, 214 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.840 Hey, thank you. I appreciate that call very much. You know, 215 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:05.360 Sherry, it's interesting. I know. I believe your dad was telling me 216 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.120 that you guys can hear it in Arkansas. Yes, almost like northwest Arkansas 217 00:15:09.279 --> 00:15:13.759 Missouri border. Our producer Josh was to me as a friend that lives in 218 00:15:13.840 --> 00:15:16.080 Arkansas, and actually here's garden Line. And so you go through this period. 219 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:18.240 It's not like you can hear all the way to ark You can't hear 220 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:22.279 it in Oklahoma and even in North Texas. Maybe they block it out. 221 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:26.480 Maybe it's a radio for Europe and they don't want garden Line, and I 222 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:30.159 could be okay, all this good information. There we go. They can't 223 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:35.399 have that pirate radio. Thank you. Just all right, we're gonna go 224 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:37.080 to let's see, we're gonna go to Katie and we're gonna talk to Al. 225 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:41.840 Hello, Al, how are you today? Good morning, Sherry, 226 00:15:41.919 --> 00:15:48.240 and Skip, good morning. I have a question about varieties of crape myrtle. 227 00:15:50.519 --> 00:15:56.879 I have a friend in northern Kentucky who admires our crape myrtle Florida down 228 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:03.879 here in the Houston area, and I've given him several plants to try up 229 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:07.759 in his area. They survive, but they don't thrive. Are there different 230 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:15.159 varieties that do better in different hardiness zones? There is some variation, but 231 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:18.879 you know, the best crape myrtle breeding program in the country is in Beltsville, 232 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.919 Maryland. That's way up there. Now. I know Maryland is not 233 00:16:22.200 --> 00:16:27.080 like Minnesota by any means, but there are crepe myrtles that can be quite 234 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:30.440 hardy. There is a little variation, but the biggest variation al is in 235 00:16:30.480 --> 00:16:34.679 the way we take care of them. And here's the prime example if you. 236 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:37.879 I don't see it as much in Houston, but in the College Station 237 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:42.960 area this past December freeze hits so fast and sudden. They weren't ready, 238 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:45.759 and all over town they are crepe myrtles. Some them are killed all the 239 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:48.639 way the ground. They're resprouting out of the base right. Some of them 240 00:16:48.679 --> 00:16:52.320 just have fifty percent of the branches are dead and there's new growth up there. 241 00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:56.840 But that's all because they weren't ready for the cold. So that December 242 00:16:56.879 --> 00:17:00.320 cold was not too cold for a crepe myrtle, but it was too cold 243 00:17:00.320 --> 00:17:03.240 for an unprepared crep myrtle, right, and so fertilizing late in the season 244 00:17:03.799 --> 00:17:08.039 encouraging a lot of late season growth on anything that's marginally hardy. And I 245 00:17:08.039 --> 00:17:11.680 wouldn't have called craip myrtle marginally hardy, but anything like that, like a 246 00:17:11.720 --> 00:17:15.279 fig tree for example. You know, you want them a citrus. You 247 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:18.960 want them to get ready for winter, not to go in thinking that you 248 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:22.880 know, good days or ahead, when really it's hey, I better slow 249 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:26.119 down and get ready. Yeah. Yeah, And that has a lot to 250 00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:30.119 do with the year. And you know, if if we had a gradual 251 00:17:30.160 --> 00:17:33.200 which in Kentucky, they'll have a little bit more of a season, right, 252 00:17:33.319 --> 00:17:37.880 they'll have a slow down and then a freeze yea. And that would 253 00:17:37.920 --> 00:17:41.640 be fine for a crep myrtle. They should do well in Kentucky. Yeah, 254 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:44.279 And I mean I've seen them in Tennessee. Yeah, there you go. 255 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.640 Yeah, they are do well. There are varieties up there. Yeah, 256 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:52.200 they're not as many as we have here, yes, but I have. 257 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:57.400 I've just given him some samples of what I have around the house. 258 00:17:57.839 --> 00:18:04.599 Yeah, mine, well here, but he don't bloom much okay, and 259 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:08.400 it could be a matter of fertilizing I suppose. I'm not sure how he 260 00:18:08.440 --> 00:18:12.880 handles all that, but well, good if there was a better variety, 261 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:18.599 if I had to go to i am Arilla or somewhere and try to find 262 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:22.720 craip myrtles up there, you know, that's a good question. University Kentucky 263 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.279 has some really good information online, and I haven't gone there to look at 264 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.079 their crape myrtle information, but if there were some superior, hardy ones, 265 00:18:30.119 --> 00:18:33.000 I would start there and look. I could go look myself. There's some 266 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:37.319 good variety lists out there, and in fact I have one myself on the 267 00:18:37.359 --> 00:18:42.559 web, but I don't list heartiness because that's just not something we generally read 268 00:18:42.640 --> 00:18:45.640 about down here. Yeah, hey, thank you for that call, al. 269 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:52.160 I appreciate that very much. It's interesting that someone is sending a crape 270 00:18:52.160 --> 00:18:56.000 myrtle up to the Midwest, because typically people from the Midwest go, I 271 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.599 want to grow lilacs down here, right, we call crape myrtle the lilac 272 00:18:59.640 --> 00:19:02.640 of the su which is one heck of a stretch. If you've ever smelled 273 00:19:02.720 --> 00:19:04.960 lilacs before I got to smell him for the first time. The spring. 274 00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:10.559 I think we should sell you know, welcome Midwesterners, come into Appliance for 275 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:12.200 All Season. We're going to sell you a crape myrtle and a bottle of 276 00:19:12.240 --> 00:19:15.400 perfume with RGE one, and you can spray it and have your love Roman 277 00:19:15.440 --> 00:19:18.720 thepy. You can have your Lilac of the South. That's funny. Yeah. 278 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:22.440 My mother in law's from Ohio and she comes into town and she's like, 279 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:25.279 oh, the lilacs are so beautiful here, and I'm like, they're 280 00:19:25.279 --> 00:19:27.920 crepe myrtles. That is true, that is true. Oh gosh, we're 281 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:32.359 talking all kinds of things planting today. We're gonna take a break here in 282 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:34.359 just a bit. Warren and Ben, you are on hold. You'll be 283 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:37.240 the first up when we come back. If anybody like to give us a 284 00:19:37.240 --> 00:19:41.799 call, it's seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm 285 00:19:41.880 --> 00:19:45.960 visiting with Sherry Harra from Plants for All Seasons, and we are talking about 286 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:48.480 all kinds of things plants. So if you have some questions you'd like to 287 00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:52.920 ask Sherry, let's pick her brain and let's find out what she knows, 288 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:56.799 which is a lot. All right now, NICKI, I think we're gonna 289 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.000 go to the Nicki News Network and talk about all things happening in the greater 290 00:20:00.039 --> 00:20:03.640 Houston area. Right, yeah, more or less any breaking plant news. 291 00:20:04.960 --> 00:20:10.599 Pant Craig birtles are breaking out all over on East Alabama Street. A plant 292 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:14.359 died yesterday of lack of water. I think that may be breaking news. 293 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:18.599 Or stop the presses there you go. Okay, all right, guys, 294 00:20:18.759 --> 00:20:22.079 we'll be right back. I hope you are enjoying listening to guarden Line. 295 00:20:22.079 --> 00:20:25.559 We're sure having a good time being here and visiting with you. So give 296 00:20:25.640 --> 00:20:29.200 us call. Let's talk about your questions. And in the meantime, here's 297 00:20:29.240 --> 00:20:37.079 some news, and that's for sure, but there's nothing of home grown Tomatown. 298 00:20:37.160 --> 00:20:40.759 Cut in a salad and put him in a stew. You can make 299 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:45.039 your old everyone. You can eat him with eggs and eat him with the 300 00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:48.640 gravy. You can eat the beans over Nay, put him on the side, 301 00:20:48.920 --> 00:20:55.480 put him in the middle of the home grown und All right, you're 302 00:20:55.480 --> 00:20:57.200 listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are 303 00:20:57.279 --> 00:21:02.359 with share here from Plants for all seasons today, answer some of your gardening 304 00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:04.839 questions. We got a few folks on the board here, So let's run 305 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:08.079 right out to Richmond and we're going to talk to Warren. Hey, Warren, 306 00:21:08.119 --> 00:21:11.559 how can we help today? Good morning Skip and good morning Sharn. 307 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:18.799 I'm going two different blueberry plants in containers. One is an emerald, one 308 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:23.400 is a jewel, and I think I am their own, you know, 309 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:29.359 grim reaper. I think I may have overwatered them, and I'm hoping that 310 00:21:29.400 --> 00:21:33.279 maybe you guys can give you some guides them into how to maybe get them 311 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:38.240 backups in alive again. The leaves have turned brown, and I've got my 312 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:44.319 jewel. It's leaves are coming back. But they're very very light in color. 313 00:21:45.680 --> 00:21:48.559 Okay, so they're not their normal vibrant green, they're they're very pre 314 00:21:48.720 --> 00:21:52.920 light, almost almost pale white. Well, let me answer that from a 315 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.880 longer term perspective, and then shure, I'd like to get your thoughts on 316 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:00.279 it. You need to always have a good quality mix drains super super well, 317 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:04.279 and a container especially if rose soil okay, well good, and then 318 00:22:04.319 --> 00:22:08.079 you need a container that has lots of good drainage holes. Is this a 319 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:14.160 what kind of container? Is it a pottery or yeah, it's a plastic. 320 00:22:14.279 --> 00:22:18.160 It's a plastic container. White colored plastic container. And is it sitting 321 00:22:18.160 --> 00:22:22.039 on the soil or on a patio. It's on the patio, Okay, 322 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:25.119 good, Well, if it has a good drainage hole, it ought to 323 00:22:25.160 --> 00:22:26.920 not let you over water. I mean it ought to drain out well. 324 00:22:27.160 --> 00:22:30.960 Sometimes we have to add some holes, but I would look at the long 325 00:22:32.079 --> 00:22:33.559 term fix in the meantime. But Sherry, do you want to comment on 326 00:22:33.599 --> 00:22:37.119 some of the things. Yeah, I mean it would be hard with this 327 00:22:37.200 --> 00:22:41.119 extreme heat that we're having. Two overwater because we're watering the blueberries at the 328 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:47.000 nursery right now at least once a day, if not twice a day. 329 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:49.759 Yeah, just based on how they look. And we're seeing a lot of 330 00:22:49.839 --> 00:22:53.680 leaf scorch on them. Even ones that have been sufficiently watered are getting some 331 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:59.079 brown leaves. They're just done. I think they're they're over this summer already 332 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:03.440 like the rest. And you know that happens to plants. They have a 333 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:07.440 lot of physiological process. It's like photosynthesis, for example. Everybody knows what 334 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:10.960 that is, but when the temperature gets up. I was here in one 335 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:14.880 time. I can't remember, it's like ninety four or five degrees. Tomatoes 336 00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:19.079 they start photosynthesis starts to fail on them. Well, right, we get 337 00:23:19.119 --> 00:23:22.680 that every day here, you know. And I was looking at some roses 338 00:23:22.680 --> 00:23:26.440 the other day, Sherry, and they were just losing their green colors, 339 00:23:26.519 --> 00:23:30.000 kind of going shartruse and dull, and it's just I just think they're just 340 00:23:30.039 --> 00:23:33.640 getting shut down. Yeah, I think they've just had it. They've they've 341 00:23:33.640 --> 00:23:40.359 reached critical mass and they're like, okay, I'm done. If they survive 342 00:23:40.519 --> 00:23:42.559 the summer, then they maybe they'll be okay, but if not, then 343 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:45.440 it may be time to replace them. At this point, you ought to 344 00:23:45.440 --> 00:23:48.359 be able to keep them going. Yeah, in the water. And I've 345 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:53.000 noticed on our blueberries, if I can keep up with the fertilization because we 346 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:59.960 are having to water them so much, get a good acidic, loving fertile 347 00:24:00.079 --> 00:24:03.400 lizer. You know a lot of people think, oh it's too hot to 348 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:07.680 fertilize, but nutrition is very important through a stressful time. I didn't even 349 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:14.119 think about the watering to louting out the fertilize. Yeah. And what what 350 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:18.720 part of town are you in? I'm in Richmond. Yeah, I'm sure 351 00:24:18.720 --> 00:24:22.400 there's a nursery down there, Enchanted's that you could visit. There is a 352 00:24:22.400 --> 00:24:27.680 product, Yeah, there's a product called that I like as a quick fix. 353 00:24:27.720 --> 00:24:33.440 It's called Fertile Home Acid Loving Plants. It's a water soluble. It's 354 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:37.200 a good quick fix for your blueberries. If not, then get the Microlife 355 00:24:37.359 --> 00:24:45.680 Ultimate. Okay, all rank you, thank you. I appreciates always you 356 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:48.559 bet All right, take care. Let's go up to Tomball and talk to 357 00:24:48.599 --> 00:24:56.400 Ben. Hey, Ben, good morning, I'm here. I'm sorry. 358 00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.319 Let me take care. Yeah, I kind of jumped real unexpected lee on 359 00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:04.200 you there, So welcome to garden. How can we help? I wasn't 360 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:07.400 paying attention. I was talking to my son on the tech my stag there. 361 00:25:07.720 --> 00:25:12.480 Okay, anyway, I had a question about well, I had two 362 00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:18.000 questions. One about the trees. I sold my house to my son and 363 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:22.559 daughter in law, and then I moved into my motor home here. And 364 00:25:22.599 --> 00:25:26.880 I've got four trees around my house that look like they're getting ready to probably 365 00:25:26.880 --> 00:25:32.119 fall in my house. I was getting wanting to see if I could get 366 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:36.359 some advice on how to water them since they're they're just drying up. Well, 367 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:40.319 a good soaking on an infrequent basis, and a good soaking means you're 368 00:25:40.359 --> 00:25:45.119 getting enough water down in there that it's wetting the soil deeply, not just 369 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:48.200 the little squirt that some people put on their lawns, but we're giving them 370 00:25:48.200 --> 00:25:52.519 a good soaking. You can also do deep root watering too, I know 371 00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:56.960 Martin Spoon Moore, the folks that Affordable Tree, they do the deep root 372 00:25:56.079 --> 00:26:00.039 feeding and deep root watering as well. That's one of the services that they 373 00:26:00.079 --> 00:26:04.119 offer. I don't know if you've ever contacted them before, but if you 374 00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:07.599 have it you ought to. Haven't come out. They know what they're talking 375 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:11.720 about, and when you're looking at a tree like that and the value to 376 00:26:11.759 --> 00:26:15.960 the property, you definitely, as you said, don't want something falling off 377 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:21.160 on your vehicles and other things. The seven one, three, six, 378 00:26:21.279 --> 00:26:22.799 nine, nine, twenty six sixty three is our number if you'd like to 379 00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:26.839 get him a call. But but they know everything there is to know about 380 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:29.640 trees, and if you're worried about them falling, they can come out and 381 00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:36.079 just do a consultation to ben. Maybe there's an it's an RV part. 382 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:37.400 I don't know nothing. Oh, you're not in charge of the tree, 383 00:26:37.519 --> 00:26:41.599 okay, Well no, no, I just wanted to Yeah, a good 384 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:45.240 as wide of an area as you can wet and put on at least an 385 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.960 inch of water. And you may have to do that in several waterings, 386 00:26:48.960 --> 00:26:52.319 giving it time to soak in and between each one. But if you can 387 00:26:52.359 --> 00:26:55.240 get a good amount done in the soil, that'll carry you through for a 388 00:26:55.240 --> 00:26:57.160 while. You know, this isn't like a little tomato plant in a container 389 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:03.039 where you're providing the only water at has. Trees have extensive root systems, 390 00:27:03.079 --> 00:27:07.359 but by now they've been pumping the soil for so long that they're running out 391 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:14.039 of water availability. Well, can I ask you another question? Yeah, 392 00:27:14.079 --> 00:27:18.039 so we got a real quick one. Okay, I got the ants and 393 00:27:18.480 --> 00:27:22.319 my neighbor came over and he put a bunch of poison around my trailer, 394 00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:27.279 around my motor home. Yes, but they're still getting in my bed. 395 00:27:27.359 --> 00:27:30.000 They chew me up right or now I have to sleep on the couch because 396 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:33.160 they're just yeah, and there's nothing in there. It's not like I keep 397 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:37.160 fluting my bed or anything like. Well, I can tell you, yeah, 398 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:41.119 I've dealt with that. I had an exterminator come out years and years 399 00:27:41.160 --> 00:27:45.640 ago and put insect aside all around my house and it trapped the ants inside 400 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:51.440 because they knew if they knew if they went outside, they were they were 401 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:55.359 dying off yeah, hot and drying, yeah, and so they're looking for 402 00:27:55.440 --> 00:27:57.720 moisture, they're looking for food, and they're like, well, we can't 403 00:27:57.720 --> 00:28:00.000 go out, so we're going to go in. So you need to get 404 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:03.759 a bait something. If they're fire ants, they're biting you, you need 405 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.759 to get a bait listed for the fire ants and that will pull them out. 406 00:28:07.079 --> 00:28:10.039 And there are a number of good baits out there. I had the 407 00:28:10.079 --> 00:28:14.680 same problem when I lived in Syprus. I'm sitting there with my feet on 408 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.640 the bath mat outside the shower and all of a sudden something was biting my 409 00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:22.920 feet and it was fireants coming for the water. But they has there's a 410 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.880 lot of good ones out. But you're up in Tomball, so you can 411 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:30.079 come see me at plants for all seasons on two forty nine. But as 412 00:28:30.079 --> 00:28:34.480 far as the product, yeah, would I would say the fertilome come and 413 00:28:34.519 --> 00:28:41.559 get at spinosad bait. I have Advan extinguished. Yeah, wish is a 414 00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:45.400 well known one. That one's really good. But the fertilam is an organic 415 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.480 product and so we use it around our vegetable gardens because it's label for that 416 00:28:48.519 --> 00:28:52.160 and a lot of fire products aren't. But yeah, the only thing go 417 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:56.200 ahead. Plants for all season. I didn't need to cut you off apologize, 418 00:28:56.240 --> 00:29:00.279 No, not at all. Plants for all seasons is where Leeuettic comes 419 00:29:00.279 --> 00:29:03.039 into Highway two forty nine. So if you're on two forty nine, just 420 00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:07.200 north of Louetta on the on the east side, there easy to find and 421 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:12.319 definitely worth the trip out anyway. Okay, I really appreciate you, all 422 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.039 right. You take care, You take care. Good to talk to you. 423 00:29:15.599 --> 00:29:18.079 Well, we are well into where we should have taken a break, 424 00:29:18.119 --> 00:29:22.160 so I'm gonna stop right here. When we come back. Don and Pearland, 425 00:29:22.200 --> 00:29:38.440 Sharon and Memorial, You'll be the first step. John. Good morning. 426 00:29:38.680 --> 00:29:42.279 You are listening to garden Line on a lovely Sunday morning. It's beautiful 427 00:29:42.319 --> 00:29:45.680 outside and we're talking about gardening. Isn't that a surprise. I'm here with 428 00:29:47.119 --> 00:29:51.880 Sherry Harrah Plants for all Seasons. She's helping give me the chance to kind 429 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:53.960 of pick her brain, and you as well. We're gonna head out now 430 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:59.680 to Pearland and talk to Don. Hey, Don, welcome to garden Line. 431 00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:02.960 How can hell? Good morning? High I'll doing this morning. We're 432 00:30:03.000 --> 00:30:07.880 well, thank you, good God. Yes, I planted some roses on 433 00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:12.359 maybe about two three months ago and they get eight out of overlef for sun 434 00:30:12.920 --> 00:30:18.680 and I will have been watering it with super thride and water. Okay, 435 00:30:19.079 --> 00:30:22.400 but I was wondering, king, I've stopped putting some food out, y 436 00:30:22.440 --> 00:30:27.599 ecko. They're not blooming at all and they stand maybe about fourteen to sixteen 437 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:33.079 inches high. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean I get out and fertilize and 438 00:30:33.240 --> 00:30:40.200 trim my roses in September, beginning of September because they love our fall and 439 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:44.480 winter if we have a mild winter. So yes, absolutely, and typically 440 00:30:44.519 --> 00:30:48.000 when I'll trim them at the end of summer like that, sprinkle a little 441 00:30:48.000 --> 00:30:51.319 fertilizer on the ground, scratch it in the ground if you want, but 442 00:30:51.519 --> 00:30:53.480 watered in really well and you'll get a flush of growth and you will have 443 00:30:53.559 --> 00:31:00.279 a beautiful October. And also because I guess because they get eight with the 444 00:31:00.359 --> 00:31:03.720 sun, some of the leaves are trained brown. I don't think it's because 445 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:06.240 I'm on the water and I'm thinking of it. Because it the heat, 446 00:31:06.480 --> 00:31:10.359 it is, it's everything. I mean, when you see the end of 447 00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:12.880 the leaf and it's like the mid vein dies and you get this little v 448 00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:17.480 of brown coming out the tip of the rose leaf. That is just a 449 00:31:17.559 --> 00:31:19.680 plant that's just struggling trying to get water out there. I mean, it 450 00:31:19.720 --> 00:31:23.160 could be moist soil and it just can't pump it fast enough. I think 451 00:31:23.240 --> 00:31:29.359 that physiological thing I was talking about where it's so hot that natural plant processes 452 00:31:29.400 --> 00:31:33.480 are just shutting down. Photos they're just done. Yeah, it's just but 453 00:31:33.599 --> 00:31:37.160 hang on, keep them adequately moist, not saggy, and give them a 454 00:31:37.160 --> 00:31:40.720 little fertilizer here, especially when we get you know, get through August, 455 00:31:40.880 --> 00:31:44.079 and then do that little trimdback shore he was talking about and fertilize so you 456 00:31:44.160 --> 00:31:48.319 have a really beautiful fall. All right, thank you. I appreciate you. 457 00:31:48.359 --> 00:31:51.359 Bet Don, thank you. I appreciate your call. Uh. You 458 00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:53.880 know, I've talked before about watering trees and plants, folks, and the 459 00:31:53.880 --> 00:31:59.640 tree hugger sprinkler is designed for watering woody ornamentals like a rosebush for example. 460 00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:01.359 Now I were to plan a rosebush, now number one, it's a tough 461 00:32:01.359 --> 00:32:04.519 time to get it started, but you can do it. You can plan 462 00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:07.640 any month of the year. But when you water the root ball, think 463 00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:10.680 about this you pull the plant out of the container, you've got this cylinder 464 00:32:10.720 --> 00:32:14.839 of roots that goes in the ground. So for a good while that's where 465 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:17.519 all the roots still are. And gradually roots are moving out and moving out 466 00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:22.799 and getting established. But during those early days, Sherry was talking about, 467 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:24.519 you know, water in a blueberry twice a day at the nursery, trying 468 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:27.720 to keep it alive. Well, when you put that in the ground, 469 00:32:27.839 --> 00:32:30.839 even if the soil is moist around it, it pumps that root system dry, 470 00:32:30.880 --> 00:32:35.279 and so you gotta almost pretend it's still in a container for a little 471 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:38.519 while. Just keep that moist, keep it moist. Eventually we're gonna water 472 00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:43.799 big areas or with trees not even worry at all because they have such extensive 473 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:46.359 roots systems. But tree Hugger does that. You can turn it on small 474 00:32:46.400 --> 00:32:51.559 to just water a little eight inch area. You can turn it on wide, 475 00:32:51.599 --> 00:32:53.720 and maybe you've got a five year old tree, maybe something the size 476 00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:59.640 of a soft drink can in the trunk. That tree also needs water underneath 477 00:32:59.640 --> 00:33:04.079 the brain spread of the tree, that area where the canopy casts a shade 478 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:07.359 at midday, that's tree hugger. And you can find tree Hugger pretty much 479 00:33:07.359 --> 00:33:10.519 anywhere you go there all over town. Lots of our retailers carry them, 480 00:33:10.799 --> 00:33:15.599 and it's just I think of it as insurance, okay. And when you 481 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:19.799 buy one, grab a little timer to go on the end of your outdoor 482 00:33:19.839 --> 00:33:22.519 garden faucet. So if you want to just water for a couple of minutes, 483 00:33:22.559 --> 00:33:24.759 you can do that. If you want to water for a longer period 484 00:33:24.799 --> 00:33:28.319 of time, you can do that as well. That way you don't forget 485 00:33:28.319 --> 00:33:30.240 it and you come back out and now your tree's floating down the street as 486 00:33:30.279 --> 00:33:34.680 you over watered and it came out of the ground. Hey, let's go 487 00:33:34.799 --> 00:33:37.440 to Memorial and we are going to now talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon, 488 00:33:38.880 --> 00:33:44.799 Hi, I'm so glad I've finally got to I'm glad you went got 489 00:33:45.559 --> 00:33:51.920 thanks. I have two high discus plants. One's about fifteen years on the 490 00:33:51.960 --> 00:34:00.079 other ones about probably eleven, and they have been out in the bright and 491 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:08.159 around the pool and they've started just getting real dull leaves and kind of yellow 492 00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:12.800 and then stuff. So we moved them to place in the sun. Now 493 00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:20.360 their impots pottery pots, and all of a sudden, after a week they 494 00:34:20.800 --> 00:34:28.719 they've had like fifteen and maybe ten balloons put buds on it, and they 495 00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:31.880 were blooming like two or three flowers a day. Well, now all the 496 00:34:31.920 --> 00:34:39.159 buds just all of a sudden have just turned brown and they've staying a little. 497 00:34:39.199 --> 00:34:45.519 They're not growing, and the leaves are not only dull, but they 498 00:34:45.559 --> 00:34:50.440 are really yellow and bad starting from the outside, and then some of them 499 00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:55.719 are completely yellow. So do the idea do you talk to do you talk 500 00:34:55.760 --> 00:35:02.599 to your plant? Sharing? And I am about to chase my vocabulary. 501 00:35:02.599 --> 00:35:05.760 Well, okay, well we're not going to do that on the air, 502 00:35:05.840 --> 00:35:07.320 but it's okay to talk to your plants that way if they need it, 503 00:35:07.360 --> 00:35:10.719 if they're if they're you know, misbehaving, you need to put your phone 504 00:35:10.719 --> 00:35:14.760 on speaker and walk outside because Sherry's gonna tell your plant what it needs. 505 00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:19.760 Well, and let's just are these the tropical hibiscus that you have to protect 506 00:35:19.840 --> 00:35:23.400 in the winter. Are these the perennial hibiscus like the movie ground? Yeah, 507 00:35:23.519 --> 00:35:28.719 they have to be protected in my greenhouse, okay, And they're in 508 00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:31.400 pots. How often have you repotted them? Have you? Because they're very 509 00:35:31.480 --> 00:35:37.440 old. Well, one of them has not been repotted in a while, 510 00:35:37.519 --> 00:35:43.519 but the other one was repotted about three years ago. Okay, So on 511 00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:46.000 my tropical hibiscus, I mean it sounds like it might be time for a 512 00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:52.559 repot one too. How often are you feeding them? Well, we haven't 513 00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:58.760 fed them in about three weeks because it got so hot. We were worried 514 00:35:58.840 --> 00:36:00.920 that that might burn them up or something. Okay, so go ahead and 515 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:07.239 get them fed. I can tell you my more exotic tropical hibiscus. They 516 00:36:07.360 --> 00:36:13.599 like vacation weather, and this is not vacation weather. They they want to 517 00:36:13.719 --> 00:36:16.159 feel like it feels like when you go to a tropical destination where it's not 518 00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:21.840 desert like hot. Yeah, And I think they're just kind of taking a 519 00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:27.840 break, and so they have this little capability to slow down on their blooming 520 00:36:27.880 --> 00:36:30.280 when they're stressed out. So I would feed them and let's get them through 521 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:36.000 the worst of this and hopefully this fall they will really perform for you. 522 00:36:37.800 --> 00:36:40.199 So I don't need to cut them back or anything. I just need to 523 00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:45.960 only if it has deadwood. Okay, yeah, okay, Well, I 524 00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:50.880 thank y'all so much. All Right, thank you for that call. I 525 00:36:51.039 --> 00:36:55.360 appreciate that you take care. Yeah. Well, we're about out of time. 526 00:36:57.920 --> 00:37:00.880 It goes by fast. It's because we're having so much fun. That's 527 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:04.519 right. Time flies when you're having fun. I think Kermit the Frog said 528 00:37:04.599 --> 00:37:08.000 time's fun when you're having flies. Right. That's another that's a whole another 529 00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:12.440 thing. Sherry, thank you so much for being This is always a pleasure 530 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.599 to visit with always, and I always learned something. It was a wealth 531 00:37:15.679 --> 00:37:19.199 of knowledge. So we've been talking to Sherry Hannah from Plants for all seasons. 532 00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:22.679 Appreciate her stepping in today. Hey, we're gonna be back after the 533 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:25.719 hour. We'll be going again at phone calls. Our phone number is seven 534 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:30.679 one three two one two five eight seven four two one two ktr H. 535 00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:35.440 Richard add in Waller. I will get to you first thing when we get 536 00:37:35.519 --> 00:37:37.559 back for the rescue that call in. Just have Josh gets you on the 537 00:37:37.599 --> 00:37:40.800 board. It would be glad to visit with you about all kinds of things, 538 00:37:42.320 --> 00:37:45.280 gardening, things that are of interest to you. You know, it 539 00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:49.920 is blazing hot outside. I know that. You know when it's one hundred 540 00:37:49.920 --> 00:37:54.079 degrees and it's hard to get excited about gardening. But I'm telling you we're 541 00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:59.800 in the big we're on the front steps of fall, and now's the time 542 00:37:59.800 --> 00:38:01.239 to get out there. And now's the time to get out and buy products 543 00:38:01.320 --> 00:38:05.719 to get your soul ready. Now's the time to buy fertilizers to be ready 544 00:38:05.800 --> 00:38:08.840 for that. Now it's time about plants. We are. There are many 545 00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:12.719 things that we're planning right now, so we'll be right back. In the 546 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:14.480 meantime, have fun,