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Just watch him as woo us so many feast to zeus clubs chicken,
but not a sign the sun beaming. Well, good Sunday morning. You
are listening to the Garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and
we're here to talk about gardening. I see we got some folks on the
board there. It looks like we're gonna hit the ground running on this one.
But first I want to introduce our special guest of the hour, and
that is Sherry Harra from Plants for All Seasons. Good morning, Good morning
to be here on this beautiful Saturday morning, Sunday morning. There you go.
It's always a good day when I get to visit with you and pick
your brain. I always learned something about plants. I think you've been doing
this for lall. Just a little bit, maybe talk to a person or
two about plant problems. Yeah, yeah, all day long, every day.
Sometimes I feel like the Statue of Liberty, the horticultural Statue of Liberty,
where it says bring me you're tired, you're weary, your huddled masses
yearning to breathe free or something like that. People bring me they're sick,
they're tired, they're insect infested. There, yes, yearning to be green
again. Absolutely, yeah, I know you and I love it. And
it's not even when I'm at work. Yeah, it's it's all the time.
It is all the time, all the time. True story. Years
ago in Conro, Texas, we were in church and it was one of
those kind of a little bit of an auditorium kind of thing with a platform.
Yeah. I was actually going to read something to start the service,
and I was standing there and I looked at the back of the room and
somebody met eyes with me from coming in the back back of the auditorium.
I don't know why I noticed it, but they walked all the way down
up on the platform. This is like one or two minutes before we were
starting, and they reached in their pocket and pulled out a baggy fas and
I said, could we do this at another talk. That's not the right
time. That tops all my other stories, but I thought, oh Jesus
trumps the plant. There is never you're never gigging anywhere away from the mill.
That's funny. Well, I'll tell you what. We got some folks
waiting here on the line, So let's go and talk to some folks.
We're gonna go out to Forest West and talk to Jerry. Hey, Jerry,
good morning, Welcome to garden Line. Good morning, ship. I
have a small garden and I have planted a single watermelon vine and it is
pretty well spread out and over most of the garden. When I water it,
do I water just where I planted the single wine, or do our
water than whole area? Well, you don't have to water the whole area
necessarily, but you certainly want to water where the vine comes out of ground.
That you need to water a much larger area than that. So that
watermelon's got roots reaching pretty far out in a lot of directions, and the
soil. Think of the soil as a bank account. So every bit of
soil that's moist is where roots can go get water. So if you water
a little one foot, let's say you water at a cubic foot of soil
at the base, that's the only place that roots can get water. And
that's not enough for them to supply the whole vine. So the wider you
water, the better. I just don't know that you need to, you
know, like do a twenty foot wide area for one vine. All right,
thank you very much. Now, you know the rule on garden Line
is we're happy to get free advice, but I expect to see a watermelon
at the studio when this is all over with. Okay, Jerry, I
don't think you wants to share his water and on Yeah, I think I
left him speechless or something like that. Boy, vegetables are fun cherry,
oh yeah, being able to grow your own fresh produce and eat healthy.
And you know lately the crucifer's vegetables cold crops like broccoling cabbage called maracle robbie,
those are nutrient packed and they have all those things other than nutrients that
are compounds. It helps our body fight cancer, stay healthy. And people
are really in to grow in edibles. I bet, I bet you guys
have seen a little bit of evidence, huge uptick in the past several years.
Really, it's it seems like gardening used to be trendy, like oh,
everybody's going to do this this year. Well now it's everybody's growing food.
Yeah, so anything they can eat and if they lose a plant in
their yard, they want something edible. So there you go. Ya,
that is a good point. And you know, when you grow food yourself,
it's fifteen hundred miles fresher in many cases, right, hasn't been hauled
from California, or hasn't been gassed or treated for anything. Yeah, let's
make this turn orange. Yeah, well that is true. And I don't
want to date myself, but I can remember through the decades watching gardening kind
of ebb and flow come and go. I remember in the nineteen seventies it
was like everybody was into getting back to the land, nature, growing things
and stuff, and then it kind of went away for a while, and
then it came back. And I've seen several ebbs and flows of the interest
and edibles. But right now it's kind of like a perfect storm because number
one, the amount of science research that's built up to show us that this
stuff is saving our lives, it's changing our future. If you want to
be healthy and active in old age, eat right through your life, and
it's so important. Secondly, economic times can be challenging, and you can
grow your own groceries, you know you can. I mean, you can
put a lot of money into a vegetable garden if you invest in a big
red Troy built tiller. And you know, I don't know that the groceries
pay for themselves, but you can also do it very economically and help in
that way. And so I guess just that perfect storm of all those things
coming together for the kind of cool. Oh, it's super cool, you
know. And we were talking to my daughter. My daughter's a little bit
of a world traveler lately. She just got back from Brazil yesterday from a
month's day. But she went to Italy for spring break. And one thing
she noticed is I ate a lot while I was there, and I didn't
feel loaded or yucky. And so you know, in Europe they have different
regulations on different different kind of eating, and there in a little bit more
fresh and yeah, yeah, so I think a lot of people are noticing
that too. That's cool and they and they only way to control that is
to grow your own yea, And you sure can. It gives you lots
of options. We're gonna we're gonna head out to Huffman now and talk to
Cooper. Hey, Cooper, we got about a minute. How can we
help today? Well, I'm going through the task of big and five holes
for five palm trees. I've done it before, but it was a long
time. So give me a hint of what I need to do other than
dig a hole and stick them in there. Okay, so we put shales
on the bottom, but you said earlier do not do that, and I
didn't think that was right. So shell in the bottom of the palm tree
hole. Shale not shale. Yeah, shale not shell. Why don't you
address up? Yeah, so I do like to use the expanded shale when
I'm planting, But you want to mix it in to the bottom of the
hole and level your whole. Now, dig an ugly hole. I always
say, dig an ugly hole, don't dig a pretty nice smooth hole,
because with our clay content and our soil, I'm assuming you live in the
area. So well, this has been done before. Actually, the frieze
killed all my other palms, so the dirt is good from Okay, So,
yeah, I do put shale in mixing the bottom. Yeah. I
do like to use the shale with with any of my tropicals and anything with
a decent sized rootball. It just is like an insurance policy, and it's
good to put it all through the bed too, not us in the hole,
right, but all through the bed because it helps that drainage. I
don't know what I had said that you heard before, but sometime sometimes people
think if you put gravel in the bottom of a hole, it makes it.
That's what it was. Well, that's like think of your aquarium.
You've got gravel in the aquarium. The aquarium holds water. What good did
that gravel do? Right? And so what we're trying to do is,
okay, I got John alligator turtles, all right, Well, forget my
analogy, then for crying all seriously, amend the whole soil, like Sherry
was saying, get that quality shale, and it takes quite a bit of
it to really make a big difference, maybe several inches if you can.
Yeah, okay, all right, thanks guys, I'm gonna start digging.
All right, thank you very much, very good. We're gonna take a
break here. Let's see, we've got Jerry and al on. Hold Jerry,
will you'll be first when we come back, and then aw, hang
on just a minute. We're gonna take a break. We're visiting with Sherry.
Hair for plants for all seasons. Our phone number seven one, three,
two and two fifty eight seventy four. Just good morning. You are
listening to garden line. It is a beautiful Sunday morning, and every day
is a good day for gardening, right We talked about that, you know,
I mean, if it right now, if there was lightning and hail
storms and it was two degrees outside and I don't know, we'll make it
the worst day in the world. You could still go inside and start your
broccoli transfer. You certainly could could take care of your house plants. You
could start planning your gardening and start you know, there's always something to do.
Always a good day for gardening. I don't care what kind of day
it is, but today is a good day for gardening anyway, because especially
right now it is it's not so hot, no, not so hot,
and I realize, you know, the middle part of the day, you
don't want to be out there dying in the heat. By now's the time
to get stuff done. Falls coming and you wait until the weather is comfortable
to get outside. It's too late. It's too late to plant tomato.
Yeah, we were talking about that. You know, we have the store
loaded up with with tomatoes and peppers especially, and this will be the year
I was telling you in October. People will come in just as the it's
cooled and they're like, I need my fall tomatoes. And we'll be like,
well, we were selling those in August and they'll be like, but
they're fall tomatoes and they look at you like you're so stupid. It's like,
I know, but you have to start early. Well, and people
move here from other parts of the country. I get calls in May from
people that came from the Midwest. Yeah, plant their tomatoes in May.
And we had a big population of people that came late. You know,
they come after Memorial Day because like I'm North, That's that's when they would
start because you could have a late frost. So we had a lot of
teaching to do this year. Well, you can grow tomatoes even if you
plant them in June. You just don't get any fruit, right exactly,
I don't think we're growing people be like they'll be like I didn't have success
with my tomatoes this year, and I'm like, well, you started late,
so just give it some time. Wait till the end of September.
There you go. We're visiting with Sherry Harrow from plants for all seasons and
answering your gardening questions. This morning we're gonna head out to East Texas and
talk to Jerry. Good morning, Jerry, good morning. How can we
help? Well, I'm on a couple of acres and I have three quacks
of the old asas that are six seven feet tall. I have one that's
probably three hundred square feet that is unfortunately in the sun. The pine tree
died with Hurricane Reader, and so about a foot on the end is getting
scorched. We're having one hundred and five, so the asa is in the
sun are probably getting one hundred eight hundred and nine and they are literally about
a foot are gonna die. Now you can see on the interior that they're
some greens. Okay, Now, these we had summer till mid December,
and then we had a frost and they got they were bloomed, and so
they got knocked back in December. Yeah, Nardinius demilius. Everything we're booming
in mid December. So they were stressed all year and they did bloom in
December, then they boomed in March. Now what do I do with this
twelve to eighteen inches on the six foot of zaius that are literally dead.
Well, I think the answer is really clear. You need to you need
to call Sherry to make a free trip up to these Texas just to look
at this plant to fix it for you. Sherry, what would you tell
somebody you understand it? I mean, yeah, this shade loving plant has
just been given the full brunners. Yeah, and it's been doing okay,
so rita in that full sun. Yeah yeah, yeah. Man, these
are all these are all fifty sixty years old. Yeah, they're well most
I actually put another thirty let's see, uh okay, gall a mulch on
them in the last few days. Yeah, all right, sounds like you're
doing a lot of good things for him there. But let's just go.
We'll cut to the chase area. I guess you got to get water on
the roots. You gotta get water to the roots. Things like liquid seaweed
would be beneficial, kind of take the stress off of that plant. We
just have to get it through this stressful time. Basically. Yeah, it
sounds like you're doing you know, good things by the malch and Okay,
but do I wait till say September October and cut that one foot eighteen inches
off with prone in shares. It'd be fine if you want to do that.
I would, you know, if you don't like the look of it,
you can get it out of there. You can wait till late winter
and do printing on them if you want. But I just remember that if
anything's alive and you prune it and it's a nazella, those branches can't have
blooms this spring. Could you just cut off all their buds? Right?
Anything that dooms in the spring is that way. But if it's dead,
it's dead. It doesn't really matter. Yeah, So snip the ends and
if they're if they're dead, cutting back. If they're not, I would
leave them on there. Okay, Hey, Jerry, I appreciate your call.
I gotta run and get some other calls, but thank you very much.
I hope I hope that helps. And hey, where are you calling
from? In East Texas? It's hot? Yeah? Where are you calling
from? Uh? Do you know where a wood bowl? Okay? We
got sandy loam down to four five? Okay, don't tell us that here.
People here don't want to hear about your wonderful soil. Hey, Uh,
do you listen on the radio or do you listen online up there,
I have to listen online. We can't get each other. Oh the internet
and dolled up. Yeah, so I enjoyed that way. All right,
Hey, thank you. I appreciate that call very much. You know,
Sherry, it's interesting. I know. I believe your dad was telling me
that you guys can hear it in Arkansas. Yes, almost like northwest Arkansas
Missouri border. Our producer Josh was to me as a friend that lives in
Arkansas, and actually here's garden Line. And so you go through this period.
It's not like you can hear all the way to ark You can't hear
it in Oklahoma and even in North Texas. Maybe they block it out.
Maybe it's a radio for Europe and they don't want garden Line, and I
could be okay, all this good information. There we go. They can't
have that pirate radio. Thank you. Just all right, we're gonna go
to let's see, we're gonna go to Katie and we're gonna talk to Al.
Hello, Al, how are you today? Good morning, Sherry,
and Skip, good morning. I have a question about varieties of crape myrtle.
I have a friend in northern Kentucky who admires our crape myrtle Florida down
here in the Houston area, and I've given him several plants to try up
in his area. They survive, but they don't thrive. Are there different
varieties that do better in different hardiness zones? There is some variation, but
you know, the best crape myrtle breeding program in the country is in Beltsville,
Maryland. That's way up there. Now. I know Maryland is not
like Minnesota by any means, but there are crepe myrtles that can be quite
hardy. There is a little variation, but the biggest variation al is in
the way we take care of them. And here's the prime example if you.
I don't see it as much in Houston, but in the College Station
area this past December freeze hits so fast and sudden. They weren't ready,
and all over town they are crepe myrtles. Some them are killed all the
way the ground. They're resprouting out of the base right. Some of them
just have fifty percent of the branches are dead and there's new growth up there.
But that's all because they weren't ready for the cold. So that December
cold was not too cold for a crepe myrtle, but it was too cold
for an unprepared crep myrtle, right, and so fertilizing late in the season
encouraging a lot of late season growth on anything that's marginally hardy. And I
wouldn't have called craip myrtle marginally hardy, but anything like that, like a
fig tree for example. You know, you want them a citrus. You
want them to get ready for winter, not to go in thinking that you
know, good days or ahead, when really it's hey, I better slow
down and get ready. Yeah. Yeah, And that has a lot to
do with the year. And you know, if if we had a gradual
which in Kentucky, they'll have a little bit more of a season, right,
they'll have a slow down and then a freeze yea. And that would
be fine for a crep myrtle. They should do well in Kentucky. Yeah,
And I mean I've seen them in Tennessee. Yeah, there you go.
Yeah, they are do well. There are varieties up there. Yeah,
they're not as many as we have here, yes, but I have.
I've just given him some samples of what I have around the house.
Yeah, mine, well here, but he don't bloom much okay, and
it could be a matter of fertilizing I suppose. I'm not sure how he
handles all that, but well, good if there was a better variety,
if I had to go to i am Arilla or somewhere and try to find
craip myrtles up there, you know, that's a good question. University Kentucky
has some really good information online, and I haven't gone there to look at
their crape myrtle information, but if there were some superior, hardy ones,
I would start there and look. I could go look myself. There's some
good variety lists out there, and in fact I have one myself on the
web, but I don't list heartiness because that's just not something we generally read
about down here. Yeah, hey, thank you for that call, al.
I appreciate that very much. It's interesting that someone is sending a crape
myrtle up to the Midwest, because typically people from the Midwest go, I
want to grow lilacs down here, right, we call crape myrtle the lilac
of the su which is one heck of a stretch. If you've ever smelled
lilacs before I got to smell him for the first time. The spring.
I think we should sell you know, welcome Midwesterners, come into Appliance for
All Season. We're going to sell you a crape myrtle and a bottle of
perfume with RGE one, and you can spray it and have your love Roman
thepy. You can have your Lilac of the South. That's funny. Yeah.
My mother in law's from Ohio and she comes into town and she's like,
oh, the lilacs are so beautiful here, and I'm like, they're
crepe myrtles. That is true, that is true. Oh gosh, we're
talking all kinds of things planting today. We're gonna take a break here in
just a bit. Warren and Ben, you are on hold. You'll be
the first up when we come back. If anybody like to give us a
call, it's seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. I'm
visiting with Sherry Harra from Plants for All Seasons, and we are talking about
all kinds of things plants. So if you have some questions you'd like to
ask Sherry, let's pick her brain and let's find out what she knows,
which is a lot. All right now, NICKI, I think we're gonna
go to the Nicki News Network and talk about all things happening in the greater
Houston area. Right, yeah, more or less any breaking plant news.
Pant Craig birtles are breaking out all over on East Alabama Street. A plant
died yesterday of lack of water. I think that may be breaking news.
Or stop the presses there you go. Okay, all right, guys,
we'll be right back. I hope you are enjoying listening to guarden Line.
We're sure having a good time being here and visiting with you. So give
us call. Let's talk about your questions. And in the meantime, here's
some news, and that's for sure, but there's nothing of home grown Tomatown.
Cut in a salad and put him in a stew. You can make
your old everyone. You can eat him with eggs and eat him with the
gravy. You can eat the beans over Nay, put him on the side,
put him in the middle of the home grown und All right, you're
listening to garden Line. I'm your host, Skip Richter, and we are
with share here from Plants for all seasons today, answer some of your gardening
questions. We got a few folks on the board here, So let's run
right out to Richmond and we're going to talk to Warren. Hey, Warren,
how can we help today? Good morning Skip and good morning Sharn.
I'm going two different blueberry plants in containers. One is an emerald, one
is a jewel, and I think I am their own, you know,
grim reaper. I think I may have overwatered them, and I'm hoping that
maybe you guys can give you some guides them into how to maybe get them
backups in alive again. The leaves have turned brown, and I've got my
jewel. It's leaves are coming back. But they're very very light in color.
Okay, so they're not their normal vibrant green, they're they're very pre
light, almost almost pale white. Well, let me answer that from a
longer term perspective, and then shure, I'd like to get your thoughts on
it. You need to always have a good quality mix drains super super well,
and a container especially if rose soil okay, well good, and then
you need a container that has lots of good drainage holes. Is this a
what kind of container? Is it a pottery or yeah, it's a plastic.
It's a plastic container. White colored plastic container. And is it sitting
on the soil or on a patio. It's on the patio, Okay,
good, Well, if it has a good drainage hole, it ought to
not let you over water. I mean it ought to drain out well.
Sometimes we have to add some holes, but I would look at the long
term fix in the meantime. But Sherry, do you want to comment on
some of the things. Yeah, I mean it would be hard with this
extreme heat that we're having. Two overwater because we're watering the blueberries at the
nursery right now at least once a day, if not twice a day.
Yeah, just based on how they look. And we're seeing a lot of
leaf scorch on them. Even ones that have been sufficiently watered are getting some
brown leaves. They're just done. I think they're they're over this summer already
like the rest. And you know that happens to plants. They have a
lot of physiological process. It's like photosynthesis, for example. Everybody knows what
that is, but when the temperature gets up. I was here in one
time. I can't remember, it's like ninety four or five degrees. Tomatoes
they start photosynthesis starts to fail on them. Well, right, we get
that every day here, you know. And I was looking at some roses
the other day, Sherry, and they were just losing their green colors,
kind of going shartruse and dull, and it's just I just think they're just
getting shut down. Yeah, I think they've just had it. They've they've
reached critical mass and they're like, okay, I'm done. If they survive
the summer, then they maybe they'll be okay, but if not, then
it may be time to replace them. At this point, you ought to
be able to keep them going. Yeah, in the water. And I've
noticed on our blueberries, if I can keep up with the fertilization because we
are having to water them so much, get a good acidic, loving fertile
lizer. You know a lot of people think, oh it's too hot to
fertilize, but nutrition is very important through a stressful time. I didn't even
think about the watering to louting out the fertilize. Yeah. And what what
part of town are you in? I'm in Richmond. Yeah, I'm sure
there's a nursery down there, Enchanted's that you could visit. There is a
product, Yeah, there's a product called that I like as a quick fix.
It's called Fertile Home Acid Loving Plants. It's a water soluble. It's
a good quick fix for your blueberries. If not, then get the Microlife
Ultimate. Okay, all rank you, thank you. I appreciates always you
bet All right, take care. Let's go up to Tomball and talk to
Ben. Hey, Ben, good morning, I'm here. I'm sorry.
Let me take care. Yeah, I kind of jumped real unexpected lee on
you there, So welcome to garden. How can we help? I wasn't
paying attention. I was talking to my son on the tech my stag there.
Okay, anyway, I had a question about well, I had two
questions. One about the trees. I sold my house to my son and
daughter in law, and then I moved into my motor home here. And
I've got four trees around my house that look like they're getting ready to probably
fall in my house. I was getting wanting to see if I could get
some advice on how to water them since they're they're just drying up. Well,
a good soaking on an infrequent basis, and a good soaking means you're
getting enough water down in there that it's wetting the soil deeply, not just
the little squirt that some people put on their lawns, but we're giving them
a good soaking. You can also do deep root watering too, I know
Martin Spoon Moore, the folks that Affordable Tree, they do the deep root
feeding and deep root watering as well. That's one of the services that they
offer. I don't know if you've ever contacted them before, but if you
have it you ought to. Haven't come out. They know what they're talking
about, and when you're looking at a tree like that and the value to
the property, you definitely, as you said, don't want something falling off
on your vehicles and other things. The seven one, three, six,
nine, nine, twenty six sixty three is our number if you'd like to
get him a call. But but they know everything there is to know about
trees, and if you're worried about them falling, they can come out and
just do a consultation to ben. Maybe there's an it's an RV part.
I don't know nothing. Oh, you're not in charge of the tree,
okay, Well no, no, I just wanted to Yeah, a good
as wide of an area as you can wet and put on at least an
inch of water. And you may have to do that in several waterings,
giving it time to soak in and between each one. But if you can
get a good amount done in the soil, that'll carry you through for a
while. You know, this isn't like a little tomato plant in a container
where you're providing the only water at has. Trees have extensive root systems,
but by now they've been pumping the soil for so long that they're running out
of water availability. Well, can I ask you another question? Yeah,
so we got a real quick one. Okay, I got the ants and
my neighbor came over and he put a bunch of poison around my trailer,
around my motor home. Yes, but they're still getting in my bed.
They chew me up right or now I have to sleep on the couch because
they're just yeah, and there's nothing in there. It's not like I keep
fluting my bed or anything like. Well, I can tell you, yeah,
I've dealt with that. I had an exterminator come out years and years
ago and put insect aside all around my house and it trapped the ants inside
because they knew if they knew if they went outside, they were they were
dying off yeah, hot and drying, yeah, and so they're looking for
moisture, they're looking for food, and they're like, well, we can't
go out, so we're going to go in. So you need to get
a bait something. If they're fire ants, they're biting you, you need
to get a bait listed for the fire ants and that will pull them out.
And there are a number of good baits out there. I had the
same problem when I lived in Syprus. I'm sitting there with my feet on
the bath mat outside the shower and all of a sudden something was biting my
feet and it was fireants coming for the water. But they has there's a
lot of good ones out. But you're up in Tomball, so you can
come see me at plants for all seasons on two forty nine. But as
far as the product, yeah, would I would say the fertilome come and
get at spinosad bait. I have Advan extinguished. Yeah, wish is a
well known one. That one's really good. But the fertilam is an organic
product and so we use it around our vegetable gardens because it's label for that
and a lot of fire products aren't. But yeah, the only thing go
ahead. Plants for all season. I didn't need to cut you off apologize,
No, not at all. Plants for all seasons is where Leeuettic comes
into Highway two forty nine. So if you're on two forty nine, just
north of Louetta on the on the east side, there easy to find and
definitely worth the trip out anyway. Okay, I really appreciate you, all
right. You take care, You take care. Good to talk to you.
Well, we are well into where we should have taken a break,
so I'm gonna stop right here. When we come back. Don and Pearland,
Sharon and Memorial, You'll be the first step. John. Good morning.
You are listening to garden Line on a lovely Sunday morning. It's beautiful
outside and we're talking about gardening. Isn't that a surprise. I'm here with
Sherry Harrah Plants for all Seasons. She's helping give me the chance to kind
of pick her brain, and you as well. We're gonna head out now
to Pearland and talk to Don. Hey, Don, welcome to garden Line.
How can hell? Good morning? High I'll doing this morning. We're
well, thank you, good God. Yes, I planted some roses on
maybe about two three months ago and they get eight out of overlef for sun
and I will have been watering it with super thride and water. Okay,
but I was wondering, king, I've stopped putting some food out, y
ecko. They're not blooming at all and they stand maybe about fourteen to sixteen
inches high. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean I get out and fertilize and
trim my roses in September, beginning of September because they love our fall and
winter if we have a mild winter. So yes, absolutely, and typically
when I'll trim them at the end of summer like that, sprinkle a little
fertilizer on the ground, scratch it in the ground if you want, but
watered in really well and you'll get a flush of growth and you will have
a beautiful October. And also because I guess because they get eight with the
sun, some of the leaves are trained brown. I don't think it's because
I'm on the water and I'm thinking of it. Because it the heat,
it is, it's everything. I mean, when you see the end of
the leaf and it's like the mid vein dies and you get this little v
of brown coming out the tip of the rose leaf. That is just a
plant that's just struggling trying to get water out there. I mean, it
could be moist soil and it just can't pump it fast enough. I think
that physiological thing I was talking about where it's so hot that natural plant processes
are just shutting down. Photos they're just done. Yeah, it's just but
hang on, keep them adequately moist, not saggy, and give them a
little fertilizer here, especially when we get you know, get through August,
and then do that little trimdback shore he was talking about and fertilize so you
have a really beautiful fall. All right, thank you. I appreciate you.
Bet Don, thank you. I appreciate your call. Uh. You
know, I've talked before about watering trees and plants, folks, and the
tree hugger sprinkler is designed for watering woody ornamentals like a rosebush for example.
Now I were to plan a rosebush, now number one, it's a tough
time to get it started, but you can do it. You can plan
any month of the year. But when you water the root ball, think
about this you pull the plant out of the container, you've got this cylinder
of roots that goes in the ground. So for a good while that's where
all the roots still are. And gradually roots are moving out and moving out
and getting established. But during those early days, Sherry was talking about,
you know, water in a blueberry twice a day at the nursery, trying
to keep it alive. Well, when you put that in the ground,
even if the soil is moist around it, it pumps that root system dry,
and so you gotta almost pretend it's still in a container for a little
while. Just keep that moist, keep it moist. Eventually we're gonna water
big areas or with trees not even worry at all because they have such extensive
roots systems. But tree Hugger does that. You can turn it on small
to just water a little eight inch area. You can turn it on wide,
and maybe you've got a five year old tree, maybe something the size
of a soft drink can in the trunk. That tree also needs water underneath
the brain spread of the tree, that area where the canopy casts a shade
at midday, that's tree hugger. And you can find tree Hugger pretty much
anywhere you go there all over town. Lots of our retailers carry them,
and it's just I think of it as insurance, okay. And when you
buy one, grab a little timer to go on the end of your outdoor
garden faucet. So if you want to just water for a couple of minutes,
you can do that. If you want to water for a longer period
of time, you can do that as well. That way you don't forget
it and you come back out and now your tree's floating down the street as
you over watered and it came out of the ground. Hey, let's go
to Memorial and we are going to now talk to Sharon. Hello, Sharon,
Hi, I'm so glad I've finally got to I'm glad you went got
thanks. I have two high discus plants. One's about fifteen years on the
other ones about probably eleven, and they have been out in the bright and
around the pool and they've started just getting real dull leaves and kind of yellow
and then stuff. So we moved them to place in the sun. Now
their impots pottery pots, and all of a sudden, after a week they
they've had like fifteen and maybe ten balloons put buds on it, and they
were blooming like two or three flowers a day. Well, now all the
buds just all of a sudden have just turned brown and they've staying a little.
They're not growing, and the leaves are not only dull, but they
are really yellow and bad starting from the outside, and then some of them
are completely yellow. So do the idea do you talk to do you talk
to your plant? Sharing? And I am about to chase my vocabulary.
Well, okay, well we're not going to do that on the air,
but it's okay to talk to your plants that way if they need it,
if they're if they're you know, misbehaving, you need to put your phone
on speaker and walk outside because Sherry's gonna tell your plant what it needs.
Well, and let's just are these the tropical hibiscus that you have to protect
in the winter. Are these the perennial hibiscus like the movie ground? Yeah,
they have to be protected in my greenhouse, okay, And they're in
pots. How often have you repotted them? Have you? Because they're very
old. Well, one of them has not been repotted in a while,
but the other one was repotted about three years ago. Okay, So on
my tropical hibiscus, I mean it sounds like it might be time for a
repot one too. How often are you feeding them? Well, we haven't
fed them in about three weeks because it got so hot. We were worried
that that might burn them up or something. Okay, so go ahead and
get them fed. I can tell you my more exotic tropical hibiscus. They
like vacation weather, and this is not vacation weather. They they want to
feel like it feels like when you go to a tropical destination where it's not
desert like hot. Yeah, And I think they're just kind of taking a
break, and so they have this little capability to slow down on their blooming
when they're stressed out. So I would feed them and let's get them through
the worst of this and hopefully this fall they will really perform for you.
So I don't need to cut them back or anything. I just need to
only if it has deadwood. Okay, yeah, okay, Well, I
thank y'all so much. All Right, thank you for that call. I
appreciate that you take care. Yeah. Well, we're about out of time.
It goes by fast. It's because we're having so much fun. That's
right. Time flies when you're having fun. I think Kermit the Frog said
time's fun when you're having flies. Right. That's another that's a whole another
thing. Sherry, thank you so much for being This is always a pleasure
to visit with always, and I always learned something. It was a wealth
of knowledge. So we've been talking to Sherry Hannah from Plants for all seasons.
Appreciate her stepping in today. Hey, we're gonna be back after the
hour. We'll be going again at phone calls. Our phone number is seven
one three two one two five eight seven four two one two ktr H.
Richard add in Waller. I will get to you first thing when we get
back for the rescue that call in. Just have Josh gets you on the
board. It would be glad to visit with you about all kinds of things,
gardening, things that are of interest to you. You know, it
is blazing hot outside. I know that. You know when it's one hundred
degrees and it's hard to get excited about gardening. But I'm telling you we're
in the big we're on the front steps of fall, and now's the time
to get out there. And now's the time to get out and buy products
to get your soul ready. Now's the time to buy fertilizers to be ready
for that. Now it's time about plants. We are. There are many
things that we're planning right now, so we'll be right back. In the
meantime, have fun,